Se et pe KO (ho % (: Mees EDWARDS'S ye e2- 3 es BOTANICAL. REGISTER: OR, ORNAMENTAL FLOWER-GARDEN AND SHRUBBERY: CONSISTING OF COLOURED FIGURES OF PLANTS AND SHRUBS, CULTIVATED IN BRITISH GARDENS ; ACCOMPANIED BY THEIR Vistorg, Best Method of Creatment in Cultivation, Propagation, Xe. a EDITED By JOHN LINDLEY, Ph.D. F.R.S. anp LS. PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON, AND THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN, VICE-SECRETARY OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, &c. &e. &e. NEW SERIES, COMPLETE IN TEN VOLUMES. VOL. IV:{2 MISSOURL ~ , BOTMMICAd, GARDEN, LONDON JAMES RIDGWAY AND SONS, PICCADILLY... MDCCCXLI, a. Us } Fe a d i 4 ef Y £44 » J G9 Forcy dilly J is 7, / sts LEPAMS TS dy } NALS, Y 4 te Vy - t 4 6 y yt tL /,f Lovley je ECHEVERIA lurida. Lurid Echeveria. DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Nat. Ord. CRASSULACES. ECHEVERIA. Botanica! Register, vol. 15. t. 1247. E. lurida; foliis rosulato-confertis oblongis concavis glaucis discoloribus, racemo apice nutante, floribus pedunculatis. This plant is in many respects similar to EZ. secunda, being like that species stemless, with the leaves collected into a circular patch, in the manner of a House-leek. It differs how- ever in having longer and more blunt leaves, which are deeply stained with dull purple. The flowers too are aricher scarlet. The genera Echeveria, Cotyledon, and another or two of the Crassulaceous order are truly monopetalous, that is to say, their petals are united by the edges into a single organ; and yet the Crassulaceous order is arranged in the Polypeta- lous division of the Natural System of Jussieu. What are we to infer from this? Is it that Echeveria and the others are not Crassulaceous ? or that the distinction between Mono- petalous and Polypetalous structure ought not to be taken as a fundamental character by which to classify plants ?— The latter is surely the inevitable conclusion; and there can be no doubt that the first step to be taken in arriving at a truly natural system of classification, is to discover some means of dispensing with modifications of so unimportant an organ as the corolla, in framing the distinctive characters of the higher systematic divisions under which the natural orders are to be grouped. A hardy greenhouse perennial, requiring about the same treatment as the various species of Fig Marygolds, and smaller Crassulas ; thaé is, it should be kept in small pots, well drained, and filled with a mixture of leaf-mould and brick-rubbish, covering the surface of the pot with silver sand. January, 1841. B The plant should be kept in the greenhouse during summer, for if placed out of doors it is liable to suffer from excess of moisture. It is increased freely, as every leaf with a bad at, the base will soon form a good plant, if treated in the ordinary way. The following characters of some Orchidacee will serve to occupy an empty space in our pages. MICROSTYLIS caulescens; caule elongato folioso, foliis lanceolatis basi angustatis, racemo laxo multifloro cernuo, pedicellis filiformibus bracteis longioribus, labello acuminato intra basin biaurito.——The only caules- cent species yet described. The stem is about four inches long, and is covered with ten or twelve distichous leaves. The flowers are very small, green, in a thin raceme, about three inches long. ‘ound by the late Colonel Hall in Peru, in the valley of Lloa, at the elevation of 8000 Jeet above the sea. (Herb. Hooker.) ISOCHILUS grandiflorum ; vaginis imbricatis, foliis distichis lineari-lanceolatis acutissimis, floribus solitariis axillaribus, bracteaé acuminata sepalorum dimidio zquali, sepalis acuminatissimis, petalis duplo brevioribus con- formibus, labello lineari-oblongo utrinque emarginato basi nudo, columna petalis parum breviore.———'This is very like I. graminifolium, but the flowers are four times as large, independently of the distinctions included in the foregoing character. Good specimens exist in the Royal Her- barium of Munich, collected in Peru by Henke ; but I find nothing like it in the Reliquiee Heenkeane. ISOCHILUS graminifolium (Humb. Bonpl. & Kunth, nov. g. et sp. pl. 1. 340. t. 78.) ; vaginis imbricatis foliis distichis lineari-lanceolatis acutis- simis, floribus solitariis axillaribus, bracted acuminat& pedunculo bre- viore, sepalis aristatis, petalis conformibus dupld brevioribus, labello lineari-oblongo utrinque emarginato basi callo magno duro oblongo, co- lumna petalis dupld breviore. When not in flower this is undistinguish- able from I. grandiforum. Itis well figured in Humboldt and Bonpland’s work, excepting the analysis, in which the form of the labellum is inac- curate, and the presence of a hard oblong callus, called a purple stain in the description by M. Kunth, is overlooked. Peru, Mathews, 1064 ; Trunks of trees near Lloa, Jameson. (Herb. propr. & Hooker.) LALIA caulescens ; folio coriaceo lineari-oblongo caule tereti longiore, seapo elongato tereti e spatha membranaced cylindraced erumpente, racemo subdecemfloro, bracteis squamzeformibus erectis rigidis striatis, sepalis petalisque subsequalibus lineari-lanceolatis acutis, labelli postici nudi lobo intermedio obtuso crispo lateralibus parim longiore. A species very near L. cinnabarina. The flowers are apparently purple, and about the size of L. rubescens. The lip is perfectly destitute of all elevations or inequalities. In the herbarium of von Martius is a smaller plant from the same locality, with a three-flowered raceme, and much shorter Jeaves; apparently it is a mere variety. From the Serra de Piedade in the province of Minas Geraes in Brazil (herb. Martius). AS Se Rh g ee ye ee oa eee Monae 9 GONGORA bufonia. Toad-skinned Grongora. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. Oncuipaces, § VANDER. GONGORA. Botanical Register, vol. 19. fol. 1616. G. bufonia; hypochilii convexi cornubus lateralibus obsoletis, aristis seta- ceis, epichilio acuminato paulo breviore, pedicellis columna tripld longioribus. In May, 1839, I received this plant from Mr. Rucker, with the following note :— “The accompanying flower of a Gongora, which was sent me last year from Hamburgh by a friend who had re- ceived it from the Brazils, appears to me different from any of the species I have seen. ‘The pseudo-bulbs are as large as in G'. maculata, and are almost white ; the leaves are also of apale whitish green colour, and the whole appearance of the plant is different from any I know.” Upon comparing it with the other species of the genus already in cultivation it is found to differ, not only in its sin- gular colour, which is a dull purple, like wine-lees, in the form of very irregular stains and spots, upon a dirty yellow ground, but also in the minuter parts of its structure. It may be distinguished from G. fulva, maculata, and atropurpurea, in wanting the lateral horns which project from the sides of the lower part of the lip in those species. From G. nigrita, which equally wants those horns, it differs in having much longer bristles, and a lip altogether longer, especially at the lower half. It should be cultivated with other Orchidaceous plants in the stove. The soil should consist of brown turfy peat well mixed with drainage. If the plant is kept a little above the surface of the pot, the roots will soon spread them- selves in all directions in the soil, and also in the atmosphere : sure signs of health and luxuriance; the flowers also will hang down over the soil and pot and have a curious appear- ance. Although it must not be kept too wet in. winter, yet extreme dryness is hurtful, and should be guarded against ; as the spring and summér advance it should be kept in the warmest and most moist part of the house. i acai teria a G Bencliig, #0 3 * KUTHALES macrophylla. Broad-leaved Euthales. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. GooDENIACE. _ HUTHALES. Calyx inferus, tubulosus, 5-fidus, ineequalis. Corolla tubo inferné ovario adherens, apice hince fisso; limbo bilabiato. Anthere distinctee. , Stylus indivisus. Stigmatis indusium bilabiatum. Capsula 4- valvis, basi biloculari. Semina imbricata, compressa. —— Herba acaulis, habitu et inflorescentia Vellei. R. Br. Prodr. 580. E. macrophylla ; caule erecto crasso ramoso, foliis oppositis petiolatis oblongis dentatis, floribus laxé dichotomé paniculatis. Bot. Reg. 1840. misc. 119. ‘‘ A half-superior corolla, joined with an inferior calyx, characters found both in this genus and in Velleia, is up to the present time without example.” Such were the words of Dr. Robert Brown, when he founded the genus in 1810, and they remain without example up to the present day. From Velleia, with which among Goodeniaceew Euthales agrees, that genus differs in its tubular not 5-leaved calyx, and in wanting an epigynous gland between the two anterior fila- ments. This is very different from Z. trinervis, the original spe- cies, in having a strong erect branched stem, with broad deep green leaves, as much as six inches long. It grows from three to four feet high, and is covered with gay yellow and brown flowers during all the summer. It is a greenhouse herbaceous plant. Fig. 1. represents the adherent base of the corolla, with the stamens and pistil; 2. shews a section of the ovary; 3. is a stamen. * From ev well, and Saddw to flower, in allusion to its gay and numerous flowers. The accompanying figure was made in the garden of the Horticultural Society in June last, where it had been raised from seeds sent to Captain James Mangles, R.N. from Port Augusta, by Mrs. Molloy, a lady enthusiastically attached to the Botany of this remote region. It is a greenhouse perennial of the easiest culture, and goes on producing a succession of flowers throughout the summer and autumn months. There is no doubt that it would succeed very well and flower freely if planted against a south wall in summer; but the severity of the winter, parti- cularly about London, would prove fatal to it, and therefore if treated in this manner it must be taken up and protected. It grows well in any rich free soil, and strikes readily from cuttings, 4, Z / Gu 2, LLLOL clilly fam? 1441 4 SPIRALA Kamtchatica, var. himalensis. Himalayan form of the Kamtchatha Meadow-sweet. ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. Rosacex. SPIRAA. Botanical Register, vol. 16. fol. 1365. Sect. VI. Ulmaria. DC. Prodr. 2.545. Torus obsoletus. Stylus clavatus retroflexus. Ovula 2, circa mediam ovarii suturam affixa, appensa. Carpella ovario vix dupld majora, erecta, rard contorta.——Flores hermaphroditi, cymoso-umbellati. Folia pinnati- secta, stipulata. Herbee. DC. Prodr. l.c. S. Kamtchatica ; foliis simpliciter palmatis, superioribus subhastatis y. lan- ceolatis, petiolis appendiculatis, floribus corymbosis, sepalis reflexis pilosis, carpellis hirsutissimis parallelis, stylo subcapitato. DC. J. ¢. B. himalensis ; foliis subtus tomentosis ; laciniis seepils acuminatis. So many European forms of vegetation occur in the Himalayan mountains, that to find there a plant very like our British “‘ Queen of the Meadows” (S. ulmaria) excites no surprise. The plant now figured is not however exactly that species, but is very nearly allied to it, apparently identical with a Kamtchatka species, from which it scarcely seems to differ except in having the leaves white with down under- neath ; a circumstance of no consequence, because SS. ulmaria itself varies with leaves both downy and smooth underneath. Upon comparing wild specimens from Dr. Royle and Dr. Wallich, with others from Kamtchatka, it is found that in addition to the smoothness of the latter the segments of the leaves are rather less acuminate. Our drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural Society. A hardy perennial, requiring no more care and about the same treatment as the common Spirza Filipendula, or Ulma- ria: like them it flowers best when planted in rather a damp situation, and partially screened from the rays of the sun. It was raised from seeds received from Dr. Royle in 1838, and said to have been collected in Cashmere, but it is in most collections of seeds from the north of India. s) VARIOUS SPECIES OF CATASETUM. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORcHIDACES, § VANDER. CATASETUM. Botanical Register, vol. 10, fol. 840. It happens in some genera of plants that the different species, or supposed species, present so great a similarity in their foliage and general appearance as, in those respects, to seem identical when figured. It is therefore my intention occasionally to occupy a plate with flowers only of such plants, and thus to present a better comparative view of species whose only distinctions reside in their blossoms. On the present occasion the genus Catasetum affords five illustrations. ; Fig. 1. CATASETUM callosum. The Tumour-lipped Catasetum. C. callosum ; petalis concoloribus lineari-lanceolatis sepalo dorsali conformi suppositis, labello ovato-oblongo obtuso basin versus saccato supra sac- cum callo magno (aurantiaco) instructo margine obsoleté crenato, co- lumnz acuminate cirrhis vix ultra callum extensis. Bot. Reg. 1840, mise. 183. Exactly like Catasetum tridentatum, var. floribundum in habit, but its flowers are different. The sepals and petals are of a dull reddish brown, without spots ; the column is of the same colour, which may perhaps be best compared to that of old spoilt port wine. The lip is green, flat, with a yellow tubercle near the base above the hollow, and a stain of the same colour near the apex. It was imported by Messrs. Loddiges from La Guayra.° Fig. 2. CATASETUM cornutum. Horned Catasetum. C. cornutum; petalis maculatis lineari-lanceolatis sepalo dorsali conformi suppositis, labello subcordato-ovato basin versus saccato sub sacco cornu valido inflexo instructo processibus teretibus rigidis fimbriato basi den- tato, columnee acuminate cirrhis cornu labelli attingentibus. Bot. Reg. 1840. mise. 182. A native of Demerara, with the habit of Catasetum bar- batum. There are sixteen or more flowers in a raceme, of a dull green, richly spotted with deep blackish purple. The January, 1841. c ip is light green, spotted with the same dark colour ; above he base it B hallowed out; above the hollow it is furnished with a strong inflexed white horn, which rises from a some- what rugged base ; and the margin is broken up into slender stiff processes, which are evidently an incomplete state of the fringes found on the lip of Catasetum cristatum, &c. It was imported by Messrs. Loddiges. Fig.8. CATASETU M barbatum, var. proboscideum. Long-beaked Catasetum. C. proboscideum ; labello deflexo multifido : laciniis filiformibus laceris, co- lumné apice proboscidiformi: cirrhis deflexis columna longioribus. Bot. Reg. 1839. mise. no. 140. I had unadvisedly supposed that this plant was a new species ; and it is perhaps as much entitled to such a cha- racter as some others about which no doubt has hitherto been raised. But I confess my inability, upon a formal examina- tion of it, to distinguish it specifically from C. barbatum. It is however a different looking plant, owing to the beard of the lip being green and not pmk. Mr. Wailes of Newcastle received it from Dr. Gardner, who found it growing on a small species of Palm near Sertao. I have also received it from the Hon. and Very Reverend the Dean of Manchester. Fig. 4. CATASETUM laminatum, var. eburneum. White-lipped Knife-blade Catasetum. C. laminatum. Sertum Orchidaceum, t. 30. B. eburneum; labello eburneo columné petalisque immaculatis. Ibid. The original C. laminatum, figured in the Sertum Orchi- daceum, had its lip and petals spotted with purple. This, which is a mere variety, is remarkable for a total absence of spots from those parts, and for its lip being a pure ivory white. Both varieties were sent from Mexico to the Horti- cultural Society by Mr. Hartweg. Fig. 5. CATASETUM lanciferum. Lance-bearing Catasetum. C. lanciferum ; petalis maculatis lineari-lanceolatis sepalo dorsali conformi suppositis, labello subcordato-ovato fimbriato basin versus saccato sub sacco cornu tripartito instructo, sub apice lamin lineari-lanceolat& aucto, columne cirrhis vix column longioribus. A Brazilian species, for which I am indebted to the Hon. and Very Reverend Wm. Herbert. It was collected by Dr. Gardner in Brazil, and is perhaps a variety of C. barbatum ; but it is very different in its lip. ; hy 1OY Peeccehld, COhMLALy u ? Guz Y Bigty 6 MARTYNIA fragrans. Fragrant Martynia. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. PEDALIACEZ. MARTYNIA., Botanical Register, vol. 11. fol. 934. M. fragrans ; foliis cordatis angulatis grossé dentatis suboppositis longé pe- tiolatis, racemo paucifloro, calycibus campanulatis obliquis plicatis, bracteo meena fungosis, floribus tetrandris. Bot. Reg. 1840. misc. no. . In the Miscellaneous notices of this work for 1840, the plant now figured was called ‘a half-hardy annual of very great beauty and delicious fragrance.” The accuracy of that statement will now be seen, for surely so remarkable a flower as that on the opposite page well deserves this eulogium. It is said to be a Mexican plant, from the vicinity of the Real del Monte Mines. For my knowledge of it 1 am in- debted to Mr. Marnock, of the nursery, Hackney, who has also supplied the following memoranda concerning it. “‘T received the plant about midsummer, it was at the time in bloom, and upwards of a foot in height. The first spike of flowers was then opening, being produced from the extremity of the branchless stem ; two lateral branches were then produced, and these also bloomed from the extremity, sending forth lateral opposite branches. In this way the plant continued to grow, and in a pot of light rich earth attained the height of three feet, and about the same extent in diameter. It was sent to me from a distance of upwards of two hundred miles, and was much injured by the journey; it may therefore be fairly inferred that under more favourable circumstances this plant might be had in much greater perfection. To grow it in a superior manner in pots, it will require the same treatment as the Balsam. “ It was at first placed in the stove, but the temperature being found too high for it, it was afterwards removed to an open frame, and remained exposed night and day throughout the summer. | “I may mention a peculiarity for which this plant is remarkable, with which you are no doubt familiar; like the Mimulus, the divided stigma collapses on the slightest touch. “‘ The full grown seed-pods contain about fifteen rough oval flattened black seeds.” : The curved downy figure, in outline, in the back-ground of iis annexed plate, represents one of the hard horned seed- vessels, F Barly be Fale? 7 VEU 7 i Litthy, po ap’? ALL, Opi 169 Cp / SHULL SCA G } 7 ‘ SOLANUM macrantherum. Large-anthered Bitter-sweet. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. SoLANACES. SOLANUM, Botanical Register, vol. 1. fol. 71. __8S. macrantherum; caule scandente lignoso fruticoso, foliis petiolatis ovatis "cal btus tomentosiusculis, racemis paniculatis laxis. Dunal, Solan. p. 16. n. 81. Rimer §& Schultes, 4.596. Bentham Pl. Hartweg. no. 367. S. dulcamaroides. Poir. encycl. meth. suppl. iii. 750. Suffrutex pilosus, subscandens, pluripedalis. Folia ovato-cordata, acuta, mollia, omnia reniformia et indivisa. Panicule terminales, lara, multifiore, pedunculis bisbifidis. Calyx 5-angularis.“ Corolla fere sesquiunciam lata, intus atropurpurea, extus violacea, annulo faucis pallelo. Antheree, ratione corolla magne, lutea, breves, obese: inferiore maore. A fine half-shrubby greenhouse plant, with large clusters of deep purple flowers, whose centre is occupied by a knot of large bright yellow anthers. It is nearly allied to the bitter- sweet of our hedgerows, but its flowers are very much larger, and handsomer. For its introduction we are indebted to Mr. Page, nursery- man, Southampton, who writes of it thus :— “Sept. 24, 1840. The Solanum is growing vigorously, and promises to be arborescent. It was kept during the last winter in a conservatory. I received the seeds in July, 1838, from Mexico, from Mr. Parkinson; they were sown late in the autumn, and many of the plants damped off. That which flowered is now about three feet high, with several branches, and fine large leaves. It is a very beautiful plant, and I expect will produce an abundance of flowers from its vigour- ously growing shoots. In Mexico the plant scrambles up any thing it may be near, just as happens to the English Bitter-sweet, and this February, 1841. D habit will make the species still more acceptable to cultivators. It would probably succeed well if trained over a trellis in a pot; and should in that state be highly ornamental. In common cultivation it doubtless requires the same treatment as Solanum crispum, and will strike freely from cuttings of the half-ripened wood. Mididliy “Feltig 7. F Barley # 8 CYRTOPODIUM Andersonii. « Anderson’s Curve-foot. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDACES, § VANDEZ. CYRTOPODIUM. R. Brown Hort. Kew. 5.216. Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orch. no. CXIVv. C. Andersonii ; bracteis oblongis patulis concavis, sepalis petalisque obovato- oblongis planis, labelli lobis rotundatis lateralibus erectis intermedio concavo basi sulcato apice crenulato : disco nudo. C. Andersonii. R.Br.l.c. Lindl.l. e. Bot. Mag. t. 1800. Cymbidium Andersonii. Bot. Rep. t. 651. : “8 oe Nees in verhandl. des vereins zu bef. des Gartenb. viii. Ae A Caules steriles (sew bulbi) fusiformes, compressi, alii pedales, alii bi-tri- pedales, pollicem sesquialterum in medio crass, striati, articulati, articulis brevibus, geniculis linea arcuata fusca notatis, neque contractis nec tumidis : iuniores dense vaginati, vetustiores denudati, virescentes. Vaginee arctissime imbricata, distiche, equitantes, scariose, nervoso-striate, grisee inferiores mucronate, superiores foliifere. Folia pedis unius vel duorem pedum longitu- dine, erecta, lanceolata, utrinque attenuata, acuta, glabra, nervosa, plicata, saturate viridia. Scapus ad basin caulis iunioris eiusdemque altitudine radi- calis, tri-quadripedalis, crassitie digiti minimi, teres, levis, glaber, articulatus, vaginis tribus aut quatuor aphyllis obtusis internodio brevioribus subventricosis lineatis pallide viridibus preditus. Racemus compositus terminalis, sesqui-aut bipedalis, multiflorus, speciosus. Rami patentes, subflexuosi, superiores Sasti- giati; singuli suffulti vagina singula, caulinis simili, sed tam in bracteam explicata, concava vel plana, ovata obtuse mucronata. Flores alterni, solita- rii pedicellati, flavi cum virore. Bractea sub pedicello proprio patens, ovata, acute mucronata, concava, subundulata, lutescenti-viridula, pedicello longior neque vero florem attingens. Pedicellus pollicaris, patens, teretiusculus, glaber, transiens in germen sexangulare viride, nullis limitibus conspicuis a pedicello discretum. Flos 06 pedicelli torsionem obliquus, labello infero, diametro pollicis. Perianthium patentissimum, sepalis subequalibus, basi liberis, apice inflexis, nervosis ; horum exteriora (tria) ovata, obtusa cum mu- crone subtilissimo acuto, dorso apiceque virescentia, basi intusque flava, mar- gine undulata; duo interiora paulo latiora et longiora, obovata, obtusa, infra apicem complicatum concava, reliquo ambitu aquali, flava, in doro medio virescentia. Labellum magnitudine sepalorum interiorum, cum processu brevi obliquo gynostemii articulo coniunctum et ab eo ad angulum rectum stigma versus inflexum, crassiusculum, staturate luteum, basi planum trisuleum, ambitu trilobum, lobis subequalibus ; lateralibus erectis obovatis rotundatis, medio latiori refleco subquadrato ex utroque latere emarginato, apice arcu rec- tave fere linea circumscripto subretuso levissimo, basi depresso sulcatoque. Callus guadricrenatus, utrinque litura aurantiaca amplexus, inter lobos late- rales, ubi medius ab tisdem deflectitur, situs est. Gynostemium germint tncum- bens, oblongum, antice planiusculum pallidum, prope labellt articulum, qui ipse fulvi coloris, brunneo irroratum ; pars superior gynostemi lobis lateralibus labelli brevior, dorso convexo obtuse curinato; apice trilobo viridi et pro an- there insertione mucronato. Clinanthium late trigonum, convecum. Rostellum tridentatum dentibus subequalibus, medio acuto. Stigma transversale, ovale, profunde excavatum, glutinosum, viride. Anthera opercularis, tri- angularis, mucrone brevi truncato terminata, unilocularis, utrinque ob- tuse auriculata margine infero rotundato membranaceo, area media pellucida pallida, lateralibus opacis rufescentibus. Glandula (Retinaculum seu potius, Proscolla) rostello incumbens, prominula, triangularis, plana, albida. Pol- linia quatuor, contigua, ceracea, duriuscula, fulva, bina ex utroque latere tam arcte, sibi incumbentia, ut unum corpus ovale, postice sulculo insculptum, constituere videantur ; quorum anterius maius ovale antice convexum postice. excavatum in cavum suum recipiens alterum seu posticum, minus angulosumque. Caudicula filiformis, bipartibilis, elastica, lutea, basi cruribus duobus glan- dule stigmatis imposita, constans e filis binis, ex angulo, quo pollinia utriusque lateris inter se coherent, proficiscentibus basique in crura illa, de quibus iam sermo fuit, rursus divergentibus. Gynizus, magna copia exsudans, peracta anthesi profluens, lutescens, odoris ingrati aciduli. . Nees ab Esenb. None of the published figures of this common plant con- vey a good representation of it. Both that im Andrews’ Repository and the Botanical Magazine represent the sepals and petals as being wavy, which is the case only after the plant begins to wither. The figure in the Prussian Horti- cultural Transactions, under the name of Z’ylochilus flavus, is dingy, and the flowers are too small. It is found wild in the tropical parts of America, where from the fleshy stems the shoemakers obtain a kind of paste or glue, which they use for the purposes of their art. The cultivator of Orchidaceous plants finds no difficulty in keeping this in a healthy condition by potting it in well drained turf, and treating it like any of the common Catase- tums; but the art of making it flower regularly and freely is not at present understood about London. It is probable that our houses for the cultivation of these plants are too uniform in temperature and moisture. There are two varieties in our collections; one which is that now figured, has a branched inflorescence ; the other has a perfectly simple one, with much larger flowers; the latter may possibly be the C. glutiniferum, a plant I am unacquainted with. C. Wilmorei of the Flora Cabinet is nothing but C. pune- tatum ill flowered. From Demerara I have an unpublished species collected by Mr. Schomburgk, with a simple raceme, small flowers, and a large fleshy oblong crest between the lateral lobes of the lip; this may be called Cyrtopodium cristatum and thus defined. C. cristatum; racemo simplici, bracteis concavis patulis setaceo-acuminatis, labelli lobis subzequalibus lateralibus erectis intermedio concavo integro’ disco nudo, crista oblonga carnos4 inter lobos laterales, appeal ists Ghee ee we x i ae toga eet : r ee ee lay 2 . HN ~ r HAW ORO RY, Ki ERG : ri I ye , — ‘Mas a OL ay ZZ LLB, GY . aw 164 Viceadilly Pell 74,7 J Fi wridgg J0 9 * BRACHYCOME iberidifolia. Large Swan Daisy. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. Nat. ord. Asterace& or Composit; Tubuliflore, Asteroidee, Bel- liew, DC. BRACHYCOME Cass. Capitulum multiflorum, heterogamum, floribus radii uniseriatis ligulatis foemineis, disci tubulosis hermaphroditis. Involueri campanulati squamz pauciseriales, margine membranacee. Receptacuium conicum, sub-alvyeolatum. Corolle radii ligulatee, disci tubulose limbo 5-den- tato. Anthere ecaudate. Achenia plano-compressa, erostria. Pappus bre- vissimus, setoso-coroniformis. Herbie Nove Hollandie perennes, erecte ; foliis alternis glabris parcé dentatis pinnatilobatis v. trifidis; capitulis solita- riis ramos apice terminantibus, disco luteo, radio albo. Endlich. gen. pl. no. 2349. B. iberidifolia ; glaberrima, caule erecto ramoso, foliis pinnatisectis: seg- matis lineari-subulatis distantibus integerrimis, pedunculis nudis mono- cephalis, involucri squamis oblongis acutiusculis apice membranaceis, achzeniis subteretibus elavatis levibus v. vix tuberculosis pilis paucis his- pidulis apice plicatis, pappo subnullo. Bentham in Hugel’s Enumerat. p- 59. no. 198. : Pappus sepius deficiens; nunc 1-2-setosus. Corolle tubus papilloso-glan- dulosus. Flores albi, lilacini, vel atro-violacei. The genus PBrachycome is nearly allied to the Daisy, and like it consists of small herbaceous plants, with a nearly flat involucre and radiant flower-heads. It is, however, techni- cally distinguished from the Daisy by the scales of the invo- lucre being membranous, not green and leafy, and by the pappus existing in the form of one or two bristles, and not being altogether deficient. Of this genus the greater part consists of little mean- looking flowers altogether unsuited to gardens; but that which is now figured is evidently one of the handsomest hardy * From fpayve short, and «xopy hair; in allusion to the shortness of the pappus. annuals in cultivation. Its large violet-coloured flower- heads, varying in the depth of colour according to their age, the youngest being palest, have no rival among annuals of the same dwarf habit; and it is not too much to say the Large Swan Daisy deserves to be placed in the same class as Nemophila insignis and Collinsia grandiflora. For the introduction of the species we are indebted to Mrs.Wray of Cheltenham ; and the accompanying figure has been made from a clever sketch by Miss Wray. It flowers freely in the open border, but is impatient of wet ; at the latter end of the season it may however be lifted and transferred to the greenhouse, where it will go on bloom- ing beautifully. It is however to be observed that there are many varieties, differig much in colour and size, and more particularly a lilac and a white sort. Mrs. Wray informs us that she has had numbers of plants of ‘“ every shade of blue and lustrous lilac, with considerable diversity in the size and shape of the flower-heads.” _ We understand that Mr. Lowe, of Clapton, has also raised the Large Swan Daisy. a / } vlee et ae ane Y CZ a St P 2 ; ee lcieer Vai ly A. Jiityuray (69 Precedelly eb 1 18h G Gereblouu bt fee” if ier 10 * SOWERB A laxiflora. Loose-flowered Sowerbea. TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Liviacez. SOWERBAA. Perigonium corollinum, sexpartitum, laciniis equali- bus, patentibus. Stamina 6, imo perigonio inserta: tria laciniis exterioribus opposita sterilia: filamenta filiformia, glabra. Ovarium triloculare. Ovula in loculis 2, peltata. Stylus filiformis, persistens ; stigma simplex. Capsula mem- branacea, bilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis. Semina in loculis subsolitaria peltata. Herba perennis, in Nova Hollandia orientali extratropica indigena ; radice Sasciculato-fibrosd, foliis radicalibus filiformibus, basibus dilatatis, scariosis, dis- tiché equitantibus, supra in stipulam intrafoliaceam solutam productis ; scapo simplicissimo, nudo, umbella congestd, capituliformi, bracteis membranaceis, exterioribus integris subsericeis interioribus lacero-multifidis ; pedicellis sensim erumpentibus, apice cum perigonio roseo articulatis. Endlicher genera plan- tarum, no. 1138. S. lazifora ; foliis triquetris scapo subsequalibus, pedicellis floribus dupld longioribus, sepalis petalisque ovatis, antherarum loculis elongatis. Swan River Plants, p. \viii. no. 276. A pretty little greenhouse herbaceous plant from Swan River, for which we are indebted to the Earl of Orkney. It differs from the old Sowerbea juncea in having paler and smaller flowers, the stalks of which are long and slender, and in the leaves being nearly as long as the scapes, and triangular not tapering. The plant has much the appearance of an Allium, but manifestly differs from that genus in having three of the stamens imperfect, scales only appearing in the place of fila- ments and anthers, a circumstance far from uncommon among the Liliaceous order of New Holland. * Named by Smith in honour of the late Mr. James Sowerby, whose English Botany and British Fungi are records of zeal and patience such as few have left behind them. Although so similar to an Allium in appearance, there is no smell of garlic, nor any tendency to produce a bulb. On the contrary the immediate affinity of Sowerbeea appears to be with Anthericum, Thysanotus, and other fibrous-rooted genera of the order, especially the latter and Zrichopetalum. Fig.1. represents a portion of a leaf, to shew its true form; fig. 2. is the stamens and pistil, the floral envelopes having been removed ; fig. 3. is a section of the ovary, showing that there are several ovules in each cell. 47 1] (ENOTHERA fruticosa, var. indica. . Indian Genothera. SSaaEIEEeeeenael OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. ONAGRACEE. GNOTHERA. Supra vol. 2, fol. 147. (CE. fruticosa. Linn. sp. pl. 1. 456. Among the numerous seeds obtained from India by the East India Company, have been received occasionally collec- tions of old European and American annuals and perennials, originally sent out to India from this country. If it seldom happens that such collections produce anything of interest, we nevertheless occasionally find varieties of well-known plants, whose novelty and beauty claim attention. In this manner was secured the great blue large-flowered Greek Valerian, whose blossoms are twice as large as those of the old shop-variety ; and the plant now figured has been procured in a similar way. On several occasions, and from different parts of India, has been received an CEnothera, with perennial roots, dwarf stems, rather dull and hairy leaves, and very handsome bright yellow flowers, which approaches very near to the Z. fruti- cosa of the United States, but is nevertheless distinct from all the varieties of that plant now cultivated. Its leaves are less shining than in that species, the corymbs of flowers are never elevated above the leaves on a long stalk, and the herbage forms a compact little bush about a foot and a half high. Sometimes its leaves are quite entire, occasionally they are toothed in a repand manner ; in outline they vary cai ovate to ovate-lanceolate. This variety is not identical with, nor indeed very similar February, 1841. E to, either 2. serotina, ambigua or canadensis, or incana, nor even to the common form of 2. fruticosa ; still less does it resemble those glaucous species called Gv. glauca and Frazert. On the contrary it would seem to be a peculiar variety, whose distinctive marks have been stamped upon it in consequence of long cultivation in the climate of India. It is very pretty, and well worth a place among a collec- tion of choice herbaceous plants. It is hardy, and grows about eighteen inches high, requiring the same treatment as Ciinothera Frazeri or glauca. It grows and flowers freely in any good common garden soil, and is easily increased by dividing the old plants either in the autumn or spring ; it flowers from June to August. It was raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society, from seeds given to the Society by Dr. Royle, said to be col- lected in Cashmere, but it is frequently amongst the collections from the north of India, and was once raised from seeds marked C¬hera Frazeri from Cashmere. 12 * ISMENE virescens. Stalk-flowered Ismene. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACES. ISMENE. Botanical Register, vol. 20. t. 1665. I. virescens ; foliis leeté viridibus erectiusculis acutis basi longé vaginantibus, scapo ancipiti, ovario brevi-pedunculato, tubo laciniis subsequali, coronze lobis petalis brevioribus rotundatis dentatis. This plant flowered last July in the garden of the Hor- ticultural Society, having been received among other bulbs from Cusco, where it was found by Mr. Pentland. It appears to be very nearly allied to Mr. Herbert’s I. pedunculata, but the tube is longer, there are no green stripes upon the coronet, and the leaves do not appear less sheathing at the base than in J. Amancaes. The flowers, although greenish white, have an agreeable lemon-like fragrance. The following are Mr. Herbert’s directions for the cultiva- tion of the species of Ismene ; ‘«‘ Absolute rest in winter is essential to this genus, which delights in very light sandy soil ; its cultivation is easy when those two requisites are observed. Amancaes seems to thrive best in pure white sand, at least in the vicinity of the bulb. I have flowered it in the open ground by putting a pot full of white sand with the bulbs into the border. Calathina is less particular as to soil, and pedunculata is hardier than either, vegetates in a lower temperature, and flags sooner in hot weather. They should be planted in a border of light compost in April, and the bulbs must be taken up when the leaf is cut by frost in November or sooner, without breaking * See folio 1665. off the thick fleshy fibres which will endure through the winter after the bulbs are taken off. They must be put in a box or large pot, and covered with dry sand or earth, and kept quite dry till the following April or May. If Amancaes be set in the stove at the beginning of May, and watered, it will flower immediately, and should be removed into a green- house as soon as the first bud js ready to expand. The sul- phur-coloured mule may be forced as easily. It is a beautiful plant, and has produced flowers in which the expansion of the cup was three and a half inches, and of the limb five and a half. Its ovules, three in a cell, are bold, and its pollen seems fertile. The seed of Ismene is large and round, and vegetates immediately in a remarkable manner, forming a bulb as big as itself (sometimes much bigger) far under ground without pushing any leaf. As soon as the seed rots, the young bulb must be left without water, till the next spring. A person unaware of the peculiarity of this genus and Cho- retis, when he found the seed rotten, would be likely to throw away the earth without suspecting the formation of the bulb— near the bottom of the pot. If the seedlings of Amancaes are grown in loam, I believe they will be twenty years before they attain size to flower; in pure white sand, or a very sandy compost, I think they may flower the third. I havea mule seedling from Amancaes, from seed of last year, which is now near two feet high with five leaves. The seedling bulbs raised this year from the mule, are larger than the natural Amancaes from seed that was sown at the same time.” The species now figured is a greenhouse bulb, grows well in a mixture of loam, peat, and sand, and flowers from June to August, The leaves wither soon after flowering, when it must be kept perfectly dry until spring. It will then begin to send forth young leaves, and remind the cultivator that it requires a plentiful supply of water to perfect its growth. It is easily multiplied by offsets which it produces in abundance. Ag , . 7 Maid, 1 1644 13 » viw IPOMQA ficifolia. Fig-leaved Ipomea. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CONVOLVULACE. IPOMCGA. Botanical Register, vol. 21. fol. 1794. 1. ficifoiia ; piloso-scabra, foliis trilobis: lobis lateralibus rotundatis inter- medio angustiore et productiore acuto, pedunculis subtrifloris, sepalis acutis nigro-hirsutis, tubo corolle limbo breviore. Bot. Reg. 1840. mise. no. 221. Tuberosa, volubilis, subpilosa. Foliorum loli laterales rotundati, nune in acumen producti. Calyx villosus. The native country of this beautiful plant is unknown. It was raised from seeds at Messrs. Salter and Wheeler’s Nur- sery, Weston Road, Bath, and by them communicated to us last November. Possibly it is one of the fine things for which we are indebted to residents at Buenos Ayres. Mr. Wood, the foreman in the plant department of the above mentioned Nursery, informs us, that when little more than twelve months old it produced nearly 500 flowers upon a cylindrical wire trellis two feet high. In fact its disposition to blossom to this unusual degree, is one of the circumstances that more particularly recommend it to the gardener’s atten- tion ; especially as it is said to be accompanied by a corre- sponding diminution of foliage. It is slightly shrubby, and has a tuberous root. Mr. Wood thinks it will succeed in the summer against a south wall, and he adds that it thrives under the commonest kind of cultivation. For ourselves, we can only testify to its being a beautiful climber, with rich purple flowers, and an unusually short tube, and that it is readily. known out of flower by the side lobes of its leaves being almost semicircular, and only occasionally produced into a point. March, 1841. F 14 SALVIA Regla. The Regla Sage. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. LAMIACE& or LABIATA. SALVIA. Botanical Register, vol. 14. fol. 1205. S. Regla ; caule fruticoso, ramis glabris vel sub axillis pubescentibus, foliis petiolatis rotundatis obtusis sinuato-crenatis basi lato-subcordatis coria- ceis rugosis supra hispidulis subtis nervosis pubescentibus, floralibus subconformibus, verticillastris terminalibus paucifloris, calycibus sub- sessilibus tubulosis coloratis, labio superiore integro dentibusque labii inferioris lato-ovatis acutiusculis, corolla calyce dupld longiore extis pubescente, tubo ventricoso, labio superiore erecto, inferiore vix longiore lobis lateralibus oblongis reflexis medio rotundato integro deflexo, con- nectivis posticé edentulis breviter productis deflexis obtusis longitudi- naliter connatis, stylo glabro exserto apice subulato bifido. Bentham gen. & sp. lab. p. 288. S. Regla, Cavanilles Icones, vol. 5. p. 33. t. 455. S. deltoidea. Pers. synops. 1. 28. For this fine Mexican sage we are indebted to Mr. Hart- weg, who found it at Aguas calientes, and sent it to the Hor- ticultural Society. It had previously been found by Spanish collectors at Vilalpando, and at a place called Regla, after which the species is named. Mr. Hartweg describes the wild plant as a shrub four or five feet high, and from his specimens it would appear that its shrubby habit is of a very decided character ; in our collections it has not however at present taken this on, except ina slight degree. The only specimens that have flowered were grown in a greenhouse in the garden of the Horticultural Society, and afterwards removed to the great iron conservatory, where they were certainly beautiful, although the number of flowers open at the same time was inconsiderable. As the specimens are older and the management of the species is better under- stood, the growth may be expected to be more compact, and the bloom proportionately abundant. No particular treatment is required. The plant seems to grow freely under common circumstances. We however fear it will not become an out of doors decoration, because, like many other Mexican plants, it flowers too late in the season.. In a greenhouse it is a charming plant. a i . se Viidr try 7 SUM Lif lq PK ccctihid ld - Ucrrche | (E44 15 CYNOGLOSSUM elochidiatum. Burry Houndstongue. inatebenteenn. _ctieataeeee PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. BoRAGINACE2. - CYNOGLOSSUM. Botanical Register, 1839. fol. 36. 0: glochidiatum ; (Wall. cat. no. 922.) pilosum, divaricato-ramosum, foliis oblongis acuminatis basi angustatis sessilibus, racemis elongatis tenui- bus, floribus subsessilibus, nucibus parvis marginatis aculeis brevibus uniserialibus paucisque sparsis. Bentham in Royle’s Illustr. p- 306. Herba diennis, canescens, diffusa, ramis intertectis. Folia. superiora sessilia. Racemi aphylli. Flores parvi, let? coerulei. Glochides nucwm mar- ginales, 1-3 seriales. Among the many forms of vegetation which give the aspect of Europe to the mountains of India, are several species of Cynoglossum, which remind the traveller of the Forget- me-Not of his western home. Of these one of the prettiest when gathered is the species now figured, whose bright and joyous looking flowers are exceedingly gay; unfortunately however the plant itself is a straggling dull green entangled herb, so that it can only be grown in the borders of a shrub- bery, or in some situation where the herbage may not offend the eye. Like all its order, the flowers will continue to open for a long time in a glass of water. fig. 1. represents a nut with the barbed bristles, called by botanists glochides, whence the name of the species. It is a hardy biennial, growing about one and a half or two feet high in any good soil, and flowering from July until destroyed by the effects of winter. The seeds should be sown about the end of May or begin- ning of June, in the open border, where they may remain without protection, if in rather a dry situation ; they suffer more from wet than from cold. The plant was raised by the Horticultural Society from seeds received from Dr. Royle, and appear to sport into two or three varieties. WAS 16 SPREKELIA glauca. Glaucous Jacobean Lily. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACE&. SPREKELIA. Botanical Register, 1840. t. 33. S. glauca ; foliis linearibus glaucis, floribus solitariis cernuis, sepalis medio albo-vittatis lateralibus parim convolutis petalisque lanceolatis apice recurvis subeequalibus. Botanical Register, 1840, misc. no. 104. This is evidently of the same genus as the old favourite Jacobean Lily, or Amaryllis formosissima, but it differs from it in having smaller and rather paler flowers, and a very glaucous foliage. Mexico and the neighbouring countries to the south, seem to be the haunt of the genus, for the old kind was ori- ginally obtained from Guatemala, and this comes to us from ~ Mexico, where Mr. Hartweg discovered it. It flowered in the garden of the Horticultural Society in May, 1840. In that establishment it is grown in turfy loam rendered free by a mixture of peat, leaf mould and sand. In autumn, after the leaves and flowers have decayed, it is either taken out of the pot and laid upon a dry shelf, or if suffered to remain, kept quite dry until the following spring. In the growing season the temperature in which it is placed is a little higher than a common greenhouse. It is propagated by offsets. Probably the treatment applicable to the common Spre- kelia would suit it as well. Of this Mr. Herbert writes as follows :—‘‘ The bulbs are perfectly hardy and appear to like a low temperature, but they will not flower willmgly unless they have a season of drought. ‘They succeed well against the wall of a stove in the open ground, flowering in the spring and sometimes again in the autumn, if the summer has been very dry. They rarely blossom if watered through the winter in a greenhouse ; but if kept dry and warm for a few months, they will flower as soon as they are watered in the spring. 17 * SOBRALIA sessilis. Sessile-flowered Sobralia. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER, § ARETHUSES. SOBRALIA. Fl. Peruv. Perianthium maximum, petaloideum, sube- quale; sepalis patentibus vel reflexis, petalis erectis. Ladellum cucullatum, columnam amplexans, basi angustatum, disco plicato-barbatum, apice bilo- bum. Columna elongata, marginata, clavata, apicis trifidi lobo medio cucul- lato antherifero. Stigma marginatum, basi gibbere gemino nectarifero. Anthera terminalis, stipitata, semiquadrilocularis. Pollinia farinacea, 4, com- pressa, posticé coherentia et contortuplicata, ecaudiculata. Herbea Ame- rice equinoctialis, terrestres, simplices, sepe triorgyales, foliosissime ; foliis plicatis ; floribus racemosis terminalibus, vel axillaribus geminis, niveis, roseis, sanguineis, violaceisve. Omnes fered species loca rupestria, sicca, aprica, cali- dissima eligunt, dumeta sepius ampla formantes. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 430. S. sessilis ; caule foliisque subttis nigro-pubescentibus, foliis sessilibus ob- longo-lanceolatis acuminatis 2 terminalibus squameeformibus acuminatis herbaceis, floribus sessilibus, labello rhombeo-oblongo glabro lamellis 2 intramarginalibus pone basin. Bot. Reg. misc. 1841. no. 11. Some of the finest Orchidacee known are species of this genus, which inhabits Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Demerara, and no doubt the intermediate districts. They are like Evelynas in their manner of growth, or to use a more familiar compa- rison, they resemble reeds loaded with large red, or white, and often fragrant flowers which always grow from the extre- mity of the reed among the large plaited grassy leaves. One species, S. Liliastrum, is figured in the Sertum Orchidaceum, from drawings made by Mr. Schomburgk, and has most lovely white or rosy blossoms, but it does not exist in our gardens. Another species with stems from twelve to twenty feet high is «Flower of Paradise” of the Peruvians, and bears large * So called by the authors of the Flora Peruviana, after Don Francisco Martin Sobral, a botanist of their acquaintance. March, 1841. sod flowers, white without and violet within, smelling of Wall- flowers. Another has the inflorescence of a Heliconia. They are all said to love dry sunny rocky places, where the heat is excessive, and where they often form large thickets. That now figured is the least pretty of any we know. It was flowered by Messrs. Loddiges last December, having been received from Mr. Schomburgk. I previously possessed wild.specimens of it, and they show that the garden plant is quite as perfect as in its native .meadows. Its stem is covered with small black hairs and stiff-ribbed taper-pointed leaves. From the summit of the stem there appears a single rose-coloured flower, which is very fugacious. The lip is many degrees darker than the other parts. Fig. 1. represents the columns and anther ; fig. 2. exhibits the inside of the lip. I had no opportunity of examining the former. Lh, LO / 4 ada a Jd Ch J PA collly JA. mak F TEL 1 Ops ITh s e GG 18 BRASSIA Lawrenceana. Mrs. Lawrence’s Brassia. a GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. OncH1IDACEs, § VANDE. BRASSIA. Botanical Register, vol. 21, fol. 1754. B. Lawrenceana ; sepalis lateralibus elongatis, labello oblongo apice lanceo- lato subundulato : callo baseos simplici canaliculato truncato pubescente. Perhaps no genus of the Orchidaceous order is more worth cultivation than Brassias, for, without a single exception, they are handsome, and very easy to manage; most of them too are sweet-scented. But they are difficult to distinguish from each other, especially those which, like the species now figured, have the lateral sepals much lengthened out. At first sight, in examining this, one would refer it to B. macrostachya ; but the sepals are not half so long, and the tumour at foot of the lip is simple and truncated, not sloping forward, and supported by three advanced tubercles. In like manner B. Zanceana, which agrees with it in the truncated tumour, has two tubercles in front of it, and its lateral sepals are much shorter. When dried the sepals of B. Lawrenceana become bright brown, while those of B. Lan- ceana remain pale yellow. Finally, B. caudata has the lip of quite a different form. We are informed by Mrs. Lawrence that the species is a native of Brazil. It has very sweet-scented flowers. Fig. 1. represents the hairy tumour at the base of the lip. Like the other species this requires the heat of the stove, and should be treated in the same manner as Brassia maculata. It requires a plentiful supply of water at its roots and over its leaves when they are fully formed, but great care must be taken in applying this when the leaves and pseudo-bulbs are young, otherwise they are sure to be damaged, and to decay. 19 * COLEA floribunda. The Yellow Rei rei. Sei SS DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. B1GNONIACER, § CRESCENTINA. COLEA Byer. Involucrum sub-flore nullum. Calyx subcampanulatus, 5-dentatus. Corolla infundibuliformis, tubo oblongo superné pariim ampliato ; limbi patentis 5-partiti lobis subeequalibus. Stylus (filiformis. Stigma bila- mellatum). Fructus carnosus, oblongus, stylo apiculatus, 2 locularis. Frutices v. arbusculee glabre, foliis oppositis v. verticillatis, impari-pinnatis, 2-00-foliolatis, cum v. absque stipulis ; floribus lateralibus fasciculatis vel spi- catis, vel terminalibus paniculatis. . Meisner genera, p. 301. C. floribunda ; foliis verticillatis 8-jugis, foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis acumi- natis, fasciculis florum multifloris subsessilibus. C. floribunda. Bojer hort. maurit. p. 220. Caulis ultra orgyalis, apice foliosus, simplex, in ligno vetusto floridus. Folia magna, pinnata cum impari, suboctojuga, verticillata; foliolis oblongo- lanceolatis, acuminatis, coriaceis, glabris, petiolulatis, sex pollices et ultra longis; terminali nunc bilobo. Flores in umbellas subsessiles supraazillares dispositi, pedicellati. Calyx campanulatus, obsoletd 5.dentatus, leviter pu- bescens, tubo corolle multd brevior. Corolla feré pollicaris, infundibularis, ochracea, limbo patulo, subregulari, sub sinubus elevato; laciniis emarginatis ciliatis ; tubo intus villoso. Stamina 5, tubo corolle duplo breviora ; dorsale sterile, fertilibus brevius ; par proximum incurvum, antheris approximatis pa- rallelis ; proximum omnino simile sed longius. Antheree uniloculares, longitu- dinater dehiscentes : loculo altero obsoleto ad basin fertilis. Ovarium an- nulo carnoso 5-lobo insertum, oblongum, cum stylo filiformi continuum ; stigma bilamellatum. A native of Madagascar, where, according to Bojer, it inhabits the forests all along the east coast, around Foul Point and in Anton Gil bay. It is a shrub, called by the Malgaches he Rei. It flowered in August last, probably for the first time in Europe, in the collection of his Grace the Duke of Northum- berland at Syon. It is a stove plant with a stately aspect, and singular habit, in consequence of the stem, which is seven or eight feet high, being perfectly simple, covered with the noble pinnated leaves at the upper end only, and bearing the flowers on the old wood from just above the places whence the leaves of previous years had fallen. ‘The flowers are of a bright * Named after General Sir G. Lowry Cole, Governor of the Mauritius. April, 1841, H yellow ochre colour with a very pale border, and produce a pretty effect. Fig. 1. represents the inside of a corolla, showing the very peculiar stamens ; 2. is the pistil, seated in the five-lobed cup; 3. is a piece of the old wood and flowers, natural size ; 4. is a reduced view of the entire plant. The Bignoniaceous order, although we know so little of it in this country, has, like almost every other old group of plants, grown up so as to have lost all resemblance to its former self, since it was first suggested. What was once scarcely more than a genus of 18 or 20 species has become a large natural order, in which nearly 400 species are arranged under 46 genera. Of these more than three-fourths are American, and none actually European ; Asia contains thirty or forty in the tropical districts, and Africa rather fewer. In a recent attempt at reducing this mass into order, M. DeCandolle has divided it into two parts, the Bignoniez and the Crescentine. “* Under the first of these tribes,” he says, ‘1 unite all the Bignoniaceze whose fruit splits into valves, and whose seeds are winged ; under the second are placed those whose fruit does not open, and whose seeds are wingless. ‘These charac- ters are important and natural. In fact, in the whole vege- table kingdom winged seeds are never found in a seed-vessel that does not burst. And this is a fresh instance of the neces- sity of those correspondences in organs of which we find so many instances in the animal kingdom. Wings, which are intended to assist the dispersion of seeds through the air, cannot exist in fruits which do not naturally burst, but which remain constantly closed, allowing their seeds to escape by the decay of the tissue, or even to germinate in the seed-vessel itself. This division of the Bignoniaceous order into two tribes, founded upon both anatomical and physiological cha- racters, appears then to be perfectly natural; it is indeed not im- probable that the Crescentine may be regarded as a family, when they shall be better known,——At present this division consists of but 21 species. Its fruit is fleshy, leathery or woody, indehiscent, and the species are very rarely climbers ; for out of the eight genera that compose the tribe, there is but one that has the latter habit. Perhaps also the Crescen- tine differ from Bignoniew by their fleshy, not leafy, coty- ledons ; at least this character is indicated by the younger Gertner in Crescentia cucurbitina, the onlv species of the tribe the seeds of which are well known.” li, KO 20 IMPATIENS candida. White Balsam. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. BALSAMINACEX. IMPATIENS. Botanical Register, 1840. ¢. 8. I. candida ; caule erecto, foliis verticillatis angusté lanceolatis acuminatis arguté serratis basi utrinque glandulosis, pedunculis terminalibus mul- tifloris, sepalo dorsali inermi emarginato, calcare brevi incurvo, petalo- rum biloborum lacinia alteri nana cirrhata alterd lanceolata acuminata crispa. Bot. Reg. 1840. mise. no. 204. Caulis orgyalis, strictus, ramosus, succosus, obtuse quadrangulus. Folia ternatim verticillata, lanceolata, acuminata, petiolata, denticulis roseis secus petiolum glandulosis fimbriata; glandulea quedam conformes sed majores etiam inter petiolos interjacent. Umbelle terminales, multiflore, nutantes. Invo- lucra sub-pentaphylla ; foliolis ovatis acuminatis pedicellis brevioribus. Flores magni, candid. A noble species, inhabiting the Himalayan mountains, whence it has been imported by the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company, who presented its seeds to the Horticultural Society. It forms a stately annual, with brittle succulent stems, about six feet high, bright green, obtusely quadrangular, and branched from the very ground. The leaves are narrow- lanceolate, tapered to a fine point, arranged in whorls of three and edged with very fine crimson teeth. Between each pair of leaves there stands a row of crimson glands, apparently in the place of stipules. The flowers are large, showy, white, a little speckled with crimson, and appear in loose terminal umbels. They are produced in succession during all the months of autumn. This fine plant, like all the others of the same genus, lately figured in this work, is, properly speaking, a tender annual, requiring to be kept during all the summer in a greenhouse, where it should be most abundantiy supplied with moisture ; it should indeed be placed in a pan of water. When it is cultivated as a hardy annual it grows indeed and flowers, but it loses all the delicacy and beauty which con- stitute its principal merit. Seeds of it have been abundantly distributed by the Hor- ticultural Society. 21 ARMERIA fasciculata Fascicled Thrift. PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. PuuMBAGINACE. ARMERIA. Capitulum involucratum, vagina revers4, receptaculo pa- leaceo. Calyx infundibuliformis, limbo quinque dentatus, quinque plicatus, margine scariosus. Corolla hypogyna, pentapetala; petalorum unguibus basi villis coheerentibus. Stamina 5, imis petalorum unguibus inserta. Ovarium uniloculare. Ovu/wm unicum, e placenta filiformi libera pendulum, anatropum. Styli terminales, 5, distincti, apice intus stigmatosi. U¢riculus membranaceus, monospermus, calyce inclusus, demum a basi multifida solutus, calyptreeformis. Semen inversum. Embryo inter albumen farinaceum parcum orthotropus ; radicula supera. Herbze perennes, acaules (rard frutices), in Europa medid et australi provenientes ; foliis radicalibus congestis linearibus v. lanceolatis, nervosis ; pedunculis scapiformibus monocephalis. Endlicher genera plantarum, no. 2171. A. fasciculata ; caule fruticoso ramoso, foliis linearibus canaliculatis acutis glabris, involucri foliolis obtusis, pedunculo foliis pluriés longiore. Statice pinifolia. Brot. fl. lus. 1. 486. Statice fasciculata. Vent. Hort. Cels. 38. Walld. enum. hort. Berol. 1. 334. DeCand. Fl. Fr. 3. 420. Armeria fasciculata. Rémer § Schultes, sp. pl. 6.773. Webb it. hispan. p- 18. This fine species is cultivated in some of the gardens near London, under the false name of A. scabra. It forms a pretty bush, looking like a young pine tree, and produces its head of pink flowers in the month of August. During summer it grows very well in the open air; but in winter it must be treated like a Cape plant. A shrubby Thrift appears at first sight a great anomaly ; but if we examine the common species with a little attention, we shall find it as much shrubby as the species now before us ; only the branches of its stem are so very short as to be com- pletely hidden by the leaves that overshadow them. > It is a native of the warmer parts of Europe. It has been found on rocks near Ajaccio in Corsica, from whence | have wild specimens ; Link and Brotero found it in Portugal on the banks of the Sadao, near Setubal, and Mr. Barker Webb on the sandy coast near the little town of Ericeira; the latter Botanist also gathered it at the Straits of Gibraltar and near Cadiz. DeCandolle gives the following account of it in his Flora Francaise. It resembles Armeria vulgaris, but its root is very thick, absolutely woody, brown, striking deep, and almost simple. From its collar rise three or four stems which become about four inches high, and which are entirely covered with straight, linear, firm leaves, a little channelled and entirely smooth, as well as the peduncles. The latter spring from among the leaves near the top of the stem, and bear a head of flowers similar to those of the common Thrift. In the gardens the plant is much larger than in a wild state. It most nearly approaches A. maderensis, which how- ever does not seem to be caulescent, and has broader, flatter and taper-pointed leaves. NOZ| > ‘ a ee, . = Ls AN i exh He = C) AN " nm I — ee ¢ / , +3 Soe as vn * Pe 4 2 Ok Mis Droke olet Pyle by £ Ridguray 64) Piocaidully ip Lf8¢7 > A farelay 4. 22 * TRIPTILION spinosum. Spiny Triptilion. SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA ZQUALIS. Nat. Ord. Astrracem vy. Composita.— Nassavviace®, DC. TRIPTILION. Botanical Register, vol. x. fol. 853. T. spinosum ; caule berbaceo ad apicem corymboso pubero, foliis pinnatilo- batis: lobis in mucronem spinosum desinentibus. DeCand. Prodr.7.51. T.spinosum. Ruiz §& Pavon syst. veg. 1. 185. T. laciniatum. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 1626. Nassauvia spinosa. .D. Don in trans. linn. soc. 16. p 220. This most beautiful herbaceous plant is a native of Chile, where it appears to be exceedingly common, and is called Siempreviva, on account of the permanence of its deep azure flowers. It has long been known to botanists conversant with the Chilian Flora as a most desirable species to introduce, and repeated attempts have been made to secure it, but in vain, till seeds came into the hands of Mr. Frost, the gardener to the Countess of Grenville, at Dropmore; from whom I re- ceived beautiful specimens last July. Mr. Frost has favoured me with the following memoranda concerning it. ‘The beautiful Triptilion I have now flowered three suc- cessive years; I have only been able to get two young plants from seed, as it seeds very sparingly. ‘The plant is herba- ceous, with a fleshy root like that of a Dahlia in miniature ; the radical leaves spring up in autumn as soon as the flowering stems are cut off, but as they grow in summer they will have died off: the stems rise two feet high, and produce their flowers in corymbs. ‘The plant has increased in size every year; but I have been too choice over it to make an attempt to divide the root, which I think might be done in spring, * From rpecc three, and zri\ov a feather, in allusion to the feathery pappus. (after I have nursed the young plants so as to make sure of not losing it). I hope it will seed more freely this year. I have kept the plant in a greenhouse while I have had it in my possession, but I think a cold pit would be sufficient pro- tection. After flowering, and when the stems are dead, I have generally reduced the ball of earth and put it in a smaller pot for winter, and have shifted it into larger as cir- cumstances required. I have used sandy loam with a small portion of rotten leaves ; and it grows beautifully till the time of flowering, when the leaves die off. Perhaps a colder situa- tion would be then more suitable for it.” 23 * CHYSIS bractescens. Bracteated Chysis. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat, ord. Oxcurpaces, § EprpENDRIZ. CHYSIS. Botanical Register, vol. 23. fol. 1937. C. bractescens ; bracteis cucullatis venosis foliaceis ovario longioribus, sepalis petalisque ovatis obtusis, labelli lobis lateralibus obtusis intermedio minore carnoso bilobo hypochilio plicato lamellis 5 carnosis subsequalibus ~ parallelis basi pubescentibus, columna latissim4 carnosi cymbiformi anticé pubescente. Bot. Rey. 1840. mise. no. 131. Caules fusiformes, carnosi, palmares. Folia ovato-lanceolata, basi cucullata, imbricantia, undulata, acuminata, subplicata. Racemus lateralis, horizontalis, foliis brevior, 4-5-florus. Bracteze magne, foliacee, reticulate, obtuse, con- cave, cucullate, laze, ovario longiores. Flores magni, cerei, candidi, coriacet. Sepala lateralia dorsali latiora, obtusa, margine incurva. Petala oblonga, erecta, obtusa, basi angustata. Labellum intis luteum, extis candidum ; hypochilii lobis lateralibus erectis rotundatis, cristis 5 levibus parallelis basi pubescentibus, epichilio bilobo nudo complicato. Columna Jatissima, cymbi- Sormis, carnosa, antice pubescens, in pedem producta. A fine epiphyte from Mexico, whence it was imported by George Barker, Esq. who flowered it in April 1840. It forms the third of the genus now known, and is readily dis- tinguished by its large white, not yellow, flowers, and great inflated leafy bracts. Its pollen-masses (fig. 1) show yet more strongly than those of the original species the singular struc- ture upon which the genus is founded. In this, as in most other Orchidacee, the most exact attention should be paid to the markings and elevations of the labellum, for they furnish the most constant and exact characters for distinguishing species. Figures or descriptions * See Botanical Register, vol. 23. fol. 1937. April, 1841. I in which these are neglected, or represented inexactly, are worthless in the present state of our knowledge. In the original Chysis aurea there are five principal ridges on the hypochilium, and three minor ones on each side, all downy, and diverging; in the whole nine. In C. bractescens there are five equal ridges only, all smooth and parallel; and in C. levis, there are three large somewhat confluent ridges, and one smaller on each side, the whole being smooth. The whole of those species of Orchidacee which stand in books without a precise description of the tubercles of the lip, require to be re-examined critically. 24 LA LIA acuminata. Tapering Lelia. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE, § EPIDENDRES. LALIA. Botanical Register, vol. 21. fol. 1751. L. acuminata ; pseudo-bulbis ovatis compressis rugosis, foliis solitariis emar- ginatis scapo erecto brevioribus, floribus corymbosis, bracteis linearibus acuminatis ovario dupld brevioribus sepalis linearibus petalisque lanceo- latis undulatis acuminatis, labelli lobis lateralibus rotundatis intermedio lanceolato undulato acuminato. When a short notice of this plant was published at p- 17 of the miscellaneous notices of this volume, nothing more was known of it than that it had produced a seape with two flowers upon it, in the collections of both Sir Charles Lemon and the Horticultural Society ; and that a supposed variety with violet flowers had blossomed in the same way with Messrs. Loddiges. It now appears, from a native specimen sent home by Mr. Hartweg, that it forms a fine corymb of eight flowers, and that it is in fact so very beautiful that the Guatemalese call it “ Flor de Jesus.” He found it on the trunk of Crescentia Cujete, the Calabash tree, a favourite haunt of Orchidacee, at a place called Retatulen, in the month of December. From ZL. rubescens, its nearest ally, it differs in its larger wrinkled pseudo-bulbs, larger and more corymbose flowers, and in the different form of the labellum. The following is Mr. Booth’s account of the plant as it flowered at Carclew. “This plant was received by Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. from the Horticultural Society in May, 1840, and flowered at Carclew in January, 1841. Although a weak specimen it produced two scapes with a couple of flowers on each, suffi- cient to shew that, like the others of this delightful genus, it is not only deserving attention but will amply repay with its truly delicate and fragrant flowers any extra trouble that may be taken in its cultivation. It has been hitherto grown in a pot of decayed vegetable lumps, but I suspect it would have May, 1841. K thriven better if it had been tied to a branch of such as the Cork tree, and suspended from the rafter of the stove. “* Pseudo-bulbs ovate oblong, of a pale yellowish green, covered with large brown scales when young, tapering, com- pressed, wrinkled and furrowed when old, about two inches and a half long, and rather more than an inch and a half broad, one-leaved. Leaves rigid, erect, slightly twisted and Keeled at the base, oblong lanceolate, oblique and emarginate at the point, varying from three to five inches long, and nearly an inch broad; of a deep shining green. Scape two- flowered, about eight or nine inches high, issuing from the crown of the pseudo-bulb and embraced by the keeled part of the leaf at its base, round and slender, nearly erect, of a pale green, with five or six joints, having to each a persistent brown ‘coloured, sheathing, acuminate bract, an inch long. Flowers of a very delicate semitransparent white, with a faint lilac tinge, excepting the centre of the labellum which is yellowish, and the inner part of the lateral lobes which is a deep purplish red. Pedicels round and slightly channelled, an inch and a half long, and of a pale green. Sepals spread- ing, oblong lanceolate acute, an inch and a half long, and a quarter of an inch broad, slightly recurved at the edges. Petals the same length as the sepals, but twice as broad, with the margin undulated and recurved. Labellum three-lobed, the middle one similar in size and form to the petals, but more undulated and contracted towards the base, where it is slightly tinged with yellow in the centre. The two lateral lobes are scarcely half the length of the middle one, and from being erect and arched with their edges meeting in a ridge above the column, they form a kind of wide-mouthed tube, the margin of which is recurved and undulated, and its inner surface of a deep purplish red beautifully veined. Column about two-thirds the length of the lateral lobes, rounded on the upper side, hollowed below, and somewhat triangular, nearly white, unless at the point which is a very pale pink. Anther case almost spherical, two-celled, the hollow part of the division between them deep pink on the outside. It seems to be held in its position, or cup, by means of a small hooked elongation of the upper ridge and the angular parts of the column, from which it is easily displaced by touching, and then displays the double series of pollen-masses arranged in the two cells, four in each, ovate, compressed and pointed, deep yellow.”’ iZ CID, / + bo et) 6, tt b 4 ft COB, 4c nits) uch det Cy fe by I Kis lyri 164 Prcicacilly Murry 4 I yf S Barclay Se 25 * COBAA stipularis. Changeable Cobea. ono PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. PoLEMONIACES. COB4A, Cav. Calyx foliaceus, campanulatus, quinquangulatus, ad suturas quinquealatus. Corolla hypogyna, campanulata, limbi quinquelobi lobis late rotundatis, sequalibus. Stamina 5, imo corolle tubo inserta, exserta, zequalia ; filamenta declinata, demum spiratim torta; anthere oblonge, in- cumbentes. Discus hypogynus carnosus, quinquangularis, quinquefoveolatus. Ovarium tri-v. rarius quinqueloculare. Ovula in loculoruam angulo centrali plurima, biseriata, amphitropa. Stylus terminalis, simplex ; stigma tri- quinquefidum. Capsula pyriformis, subcarnosa, tri-quinquelocularis, locu- licido tri-quinquevalvis, valvis columnam centralem placentiferam, tri-penta- gonam nudantibus. Semina in loculispauca, biseriata, imbricatim adscendentia, suborbiculata, compressa, testa spongiosa, undique in alam membranaceam angustam producta, umbilico propre basim ventrali, lineari. Hmbryo intra albumen parcum, carnosum rectus; cotyledonibus late cordatis, obtusis, planis ; radicula brevissima, infera. Frutex mexicanus, scandens; foliis alternis, sessilibus, paripinnatis, apice in cirrhum desinentibus, pedunculis azillaribus unifloris, medio bibracteolatis, floribus magnis speciosis Endlich. gen. no. 3825. C. stipularis ; folioram segmentis trijugis jugorum superiorum anguste ova- tis acuminatis basi obliquis, jugi infimi stipuleeformibus cauli approxi- matis reniformibus deorsum acuminatis, sepalis lanceolato-cordatis acu- tissimis, staminibus corollam squantibus. Bentham Pl. Hartweg. p. 45. no. 344*, A very handsome herbaceous plant, introduced from Mexico by the Horticultural Society. Mr. Hartweg found it near San Cornelio. It is a perennial, like the old Cobza scandens, or rather a half-shrubby plant, but it may be re- garded as an annual so far as English gardens are concerned. The best way to manage it is to raise it annually from seeds sown on a hot bed in March. It rapidly scrambles on any thing near it, and produces * So called by Cavanilles in compliment to a Spanish Jesuit, named Cobo, who wrote on Natural History about the middle of the 17th century. its curious large greenish yellow flowers at the latter end of the season. They are often dull purple when they first open, but they soon acquire the colour of the figure. As a conservatory plant this sort of Cobsea succeeds well, provided it is not too much exposed to bright light, which turns the foliage dull purple, and diminishes its beauty very much. It will strike freely from cuttings, if that method of pro- pagation is preferred. m Peretti Pk SL he 4 f a oe fy Ycenasbbly ug 26 - uv POSOQUERIA versicolor. Changeable Posoquery. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. CINCHONACES. POSOQUERIA, Aubl. Calyx tubo obovato, cum ovario connato, limbo supero, brevi, quinquedentato. Corolla supera, infundibuliformis, tubo tereti, longissimo, fauce vix dilatata, villosa, limbi quinquepartite laciniis patentibus, obtusis, subsequalibus, alabastro hine gibbo. Stamina 5, corolle fauci inserta, exserta; filamenta filiformia, brevissima, apice infracto-genicu- lata, antherz oblongze, acutse. Ovarium inferum, biloculare, disco epigyno carnoso. Ovula in placentis dissepimento utrinque adnates plurima ... . Stylus filiformis inclusus; stigma brevissime bifidum, lobis gracilibus. Bacca ovata, calycis limbo coronata, succulenta, bilocularis. Semina plurima . . Frutices v. arbuscule, guianenses et antillane, glabra ; ramis teretius- culis, foliis oppositis, breve petiolatis, coriaceis, stipulis oblongo-triangularibus demum deciduis, floribus terminalibus, albis, longissimis, corollis nutantibus. Endlich. gen. no. 3308. P. versicolor ; foliis ovali-lanceolatis utrinque acuminatis glabris, corollis de- curvis versicoloribus : laciniis linearibus staminibus parum longioribus ; fauce glabra, filamentis antheris subzequalibus. Oxyanthus versicolor. Bot. Reg. 1840. mise. no. 150. I referred this at first to the African genus Oxyanthus, and now I prefer the Posoquery of Guiana; the truth being that the plant does not belong exactly to either. With Oxyanthus it corresponds in the absence of hairs from the throat and in the long filaments, with Posoqueria in the oblique corolla; from Oxyanthus it differs in the latter circumstance, from Posoquery in its naked throat and very prominent an- thers. Upon full consideration of the differences between those genera, it appears that the essential points are the ob- lique corolla of one and the regular one of the other ; and in this point of view the plant before us is a Posoquery. __* Aymara Posoqueri is the native name among the Caribs of the original species. ¢ It is a very handsome stove shrub, with long pendulous fragrant flowers, changing from white to crimson through pink ; and must be regarded as quite an acquisition to the collections of plants requiring high temperature. It is a native of Cuba, whence Messrs. Loddiges imported it, and with whom it flowered in August, 1840. Fig. 1. shews the stigma, and 2. a transverse section of the ovary. It is propagated by either cuttings or layers, and likes such a soil as loam, peat, leaf-mould, and sand. , Lf, Ss 7 y a if | 4 lot a pencubihy Vices I. Ve yf S. 7 os 6; Sadlaguarey Siarcluy je 27 * IMPATIENS rosea. Small Pink Balsam. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. BaLsaM1nE& (Geraniacearum mera §). IMPATIENS. Linn. I. rosea; annua, caule pubescente, foliis lineari-lanceolatis serratis, pedun- culis unifloris aggregatis axillaribus foliis quadrupld brevioribus, sepalo dorsali mucronato inermi, calcare brevi ventricoso glabro apice constricto incurvo, petalorum biloborum lacinié nana rotundaté majore oblonga dimidiata obtusa planiuscula fructu lanato. Bot. Register, 1841. mise. p. 6. no. 22. A beautiful half-hardy annual from the Himalayas, intro- duced by the Court of Directors of the East India Company. It requires exactly the same treatment as the common garden Balsam, and grows to as large a size. The paper that con- tained the seed was marked “ Woolly-podded Balsam, found growing on old ruins.” The leaves are from six to eight inches long, linear-lanceo- late, more tapering to the base than to the point, bordered with fine saw-teeth, each of which is tipped with a minute sharp callosity. The flowers appear in clusters, from the axils of the leaves, all along the stem and branches. Their stalks are blood-red, and about as long as those of the leaves. The sepals are deep rose colour; the back one being simple and produced abruptly into a point, while the front one has a short green horn abruptly turned upwards. The petals are much larger and paler than the sepals, and of the two lobes of which they consist the smaller are rounded and erect, while the larger are half oblong, and hang down like a double lip in front of the flower. The pods are oblong, and covered with white wool. * See Botanical Register, 1840. t. 2. Upon comparing this with the Indian species already pub- lished we find nothing to which it can be considered referable, although it approaches closely to several. ‘The common garden Balsam itself for instance is not very distinct, except in the large size of the flowers, in the shorter and broader leaves, and in a longer spur. J. longifolia has quite the same foliage and habit, but its spur is long and straight, which, together with its small flowers, renders it incomprehensible how Wight and Arnott should have referred it to the common Balsam as a simple variety. Impatiens coccinea is much more like this than any of the others, but its leaves are shorter, and its sepals are clothed with dense downiness, of which there is no trace in the plant before us; its back sepal too is not so suddenly and finely tapered to a point. a ee Reg th aera 28 * ESCHYNANTHUS maculatus. Spotted Blush-wort. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. CyRTANDRACES. LESCHYNANTHUS, Jack. Calyx tubulosus, quinquefidus, equalis. Corolla hypogyna, tubo subincurvo, fauce dilatata, limbi bilabiati labio supe- riore erecto, bilobo, inferiore trifido, laciniis subequalibus. Stamina corollee tubo inserta, quatuor, didynama, exserta v. inclusa, filamentis filiformibus, antheris basifixis, bilocularibus, per paria cohzrentibus, quintum posticum inclusum, anantherum. Ovarium annulo hypogyno carnoso cinctum, pla- centis duabus, lamina parietali stipitatis, latis, ad axim contiguis ad margines revolutos multiovulatis pseudo-quadriloculare. Stylus simplex; stigma cla- vato-bilamellatum. Capsula basi calyce stipata, elongato-siliqueeformis, pseudo-quadrilocularis, bivalvis, valvis medio placentas, demum explanatas, margine seminiferas gerentibus. Semina plurima, cylindrica, funiculo fili- formi et chalaza incrassata in filum simplex vy. bifidum excurrente utrinque aristata. Hmbryonis exalbuminosi, orthotropi cotyledones breves, obtuse, radicula teretiuscula, umbilicum basilarem attingens. Frutices Asie tro- pice, volubiles v. scandentes, ad articuios tumidos radicantes ; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, coriaceo-subcarnosis, integerrimis, pedunculis azillaribus solitariis, bifloris, rarius terminalibus, umbellatis, pedicellis bibracteolatis, floribus spe- ciosis, aurantiaceo-coccineis, viscoso-pilosis. Endlicher genera, no. 4134. {R. maculatus; caule ramoso, foliis lanceolatis coriaceis petiolatis utrinque - acuminatis nunc obsoleté denticulatis, umbella subsessili terminali mul- tiflora, calycis pilosi laciniis linearibus pilosis, corollee clavatee subpube- scentis laciniis obtusissimis subeequalibus, antheris purpureis. Caulis erectus, teres, glaher, ad nodos tumescens. Folia fere 4-pollicaria, avenia, coriaceo-carnosa, petiolo tereti, costd medid subdiaphand. Bracteze subulate, decidua. Calycis pili glandulosi, lacinie tubo longiores, dorso obso- lete biecarinate. Corolla sanguinea, feré sesquipollicaris, nullo modo tumida, laciniis sub apice maculd atrosanguined notatis; labio inferiore intus eecus axin papiloso. Filamenta glabra ; quinti rudimento nullo ; antherze purpuree, ob- lique, apice tangentes nec coherentes, enithecio ab endothecio secus dehiscentie lineam solubili. Discus truncatus, cyathiformis, margine rosevs. Ovarium lineare, uniloculare, glabrum, placentis didymis parietalibus polyspermis mar- gine revolutis; stylus glandulosus ; stigma ovale, transversum, medio perforatum. In the hot damp sands of India, upon rocks and trees, where Orchidacee and Ferns delight to grow, are found many * So called from a:cyvvoya to blush, and av@oc a flower. May, 1841. L species of the beautiful genus Aischynanthus, whose stems cling to such surfaces, and are said to maintain themselves by aerial roots, like those of our ivy. In our gardens several have now been established, not however under the names that properly belong to them, but with such as error or caprice have dictated. This, for instance, that in the gardens rejoices in the name of the ‘‘branching,’”’ (ramosissimus) is not the species so named by Dr. Wallich, which has larger calyxes and smaller corollas; neither is it that which Dr. Roxburgh called ‘ the parasitical,” from the forests of the Garrow hills, as some will have it; for that species has flowers ‘‘ large, pendulous, crimson-yellow, approaching in shape and size to those of Digitalis purpurea,” our Foxglove. It appears, on the contrary, to be a well marked species, distinct from all enumerated by Dr. Wallich, of each of which I possess authentic specimens. No doubt it is a native of | India, but from what part, or when introduced does not appear. .The figure was made from a plant in the possession of Mrs. Lawrence, in June 1839. Since that time the colours have improved in richness, and much of the yellow has been replaced by deep and vivid crimson. The true Zschynanthus parasiticus is probably the Aisch. grandiflorus of the gardens. A stove plant, requiring a strong heat and damp atmo- sphere during the growing season. It is cultivated best when fastened to a large piece of rough stick, placed in the pot, the remaining space in the pot being filled up with a light mixture of leaf mould, sandy peat, and a small portion of loam. It strikes freely from cutting, and is one of those plants which seem to have no particular time of flowering, which depends more on the time the plants are rested than the season. Ara Vue er nN PDAS CASING 29 COELOGYNE Cumingii. Mr. Cuming’s Celogyne. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, Nat. ord. ORCHIDACES, § EpipENDRE. CELOGYNE. Botanical Register, vol. 11. fol. 868. C. Cumingii; pseudobulbis ovatis, foliis geminis lanceolatis 5-nerviis utrinque acuminatis racemo paucifloro longioribus, scapo basi nudo, bracteis con- volutis floribus longioribus, petalis lineari-lanceolatis patentibus, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus rotundatis intermedio ovato acuto revoluto basi crispo, lamellis 3 crispis continuis. Bot. Reg. 1840. mise. 178. Often as Sincapore has been visited, it still seems to abound in handsome unknown species of Orchidaceous plants, Among those collected by Mr. Cuming, and by him sold to Messrs. Loddiges, was the present, which, when in good flower, is a very pretty species, with fine white flowers, and a bright yellow blotch on the labellum. The elevated ridges which decorate it are three in number, the intermediate one being the shortest; they are terminated by a deep orange stain, and have a small outlying toothed appendage on each side of the outer ridges towards the termination. It is to these little peculiarities in the surface of the labellum that many tribes of Orchidaceous plants owe their varied aspect and much of their beauty; they also, as has been before observed, furnish the best characters for distinguishing the species. C. Cumingii is closely allied to C. trinervis, which is how- ever readily known by its very long narrow leaves, its shorter bracts, smaller flowers, and much shorter middle lobe to the lip, which also appears to want the outlying processes on either side of the ridges. It should be cultivated in a very warm and moist stove, such as suits Dendrobiums and plants of that kind. The pot must be well drained, and filled up with turfy peat or sphag- num, to which the creeping stem should be fastened with wooden pegs, and the pseudo-bulbs left uncovered. If water is allowed to lodge about the young shoots, they are very apt to be injured by it. 30 + BROWNA erandiceps. Large-headed Brownea. MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Nat. ord. LeGumrnosz CASALPINIES. BROWNZEA. Jacq. Calyx tubo elongato, persistente, limbi quinque- partiti, decidui laciniis longis, duabus v. quatuor per paria coheerentibus. Corolle petala 5, summo calycis tubo inserta, longissime unguiculata, sub- zequalia. Stamina 10-15, cum petalis inserta, in tubum hinc fissum coalita, omnia fertilia. Ovarium stipitatum, sex-septemovulatum. Stylus filiformis; stigma acinaciforme, compressum. Semina ovata, compressa, fibris fungosis obvoluta. Arbuscule Americe tropice inermes, speciose ; ligno flavescente, duro, foliis paripinnatis, foliolis integerrimis, inflorescentia terminali, floribus racemosis v. plus minus dense spicato-capitatis, bracteatis, coccineis v. albis, pedicellis apicem versus bibracteatis, bracteis in tubum infundibuliformem bilo- bum connatis. Endlicher genera, no. 6810. B. grandiceps ; foliolis sub-12-jugis lanceolato-oblongis longissimé cuspidato- acuminatis eglandulosis, staminibus longitudine corolle, ramis petiolis- que pubescentibus, floribus densé capitato-spicatis. DeCand. prodr. 2. 477. B. grandiceps. Jacg. coll. 3. 287. t. 22. f. a. t. fragm. t. 22 § 23. Humb. Bonpl. Kunth. nov. gen. & sp. amer. 6. 313. Lamarck. illustr. te 575. f. 2. Frutex in caldario strictus, orgyalis, trunco simplici, versus apicem tan- tum ramulosus. Folia densa, multijuga, sessilia. petiolo ramulisque tomentosis ; foliola infima cordata, superiora oblonga, omnia cuspidato-acuminata, undu- lata, ad costam pubescentia, nune opposita, nunc alterna. Bractese 2, tomen- tose, obtuse, convexe, basi in tubum connate, calyce breviores. Calyx tubu- losus, glaber, tripartitus, lacinid supremd oblongd emarginatd, inferioribus ob- longis obtusis indivisis. Petala 5, spathulata, rotundata, long? unguiculata, Stamina 11, petalorum longitudine, basi monadelpha, calycis fauce inserta ; antherse ovales subsagittate. Ovarium stipitatum, tomentosum, stylo filiformi ascendente, stigmate simplici ; stipite calycis tubo accreto. All the species of this genus are stove shrubs, inhabiting the hottest parts of America. ‘That before us was collected * So named by Jacquin in honour of Dr. Patrick B é .< of a Natural History of Jamaica, excellent in its day. middie ces. June, 1841. M in the mountain forests of Caraccas, and in woods near Cu- mana, whence it was sent to Europe many years ago. The plant itself is not uncommon, but to see it in flower is a rare occurrence. ‘The specimen now figured was sent me by * Richard Harrison, Esq. of Liverpool, with whom it opened its noble blossoms in March last. They are produced in a short spike, tier above tier; every day witnessed the expan- sion of a new tier above those of the former days, till at last the whole mass became a globe of living and glowing crimson. This brilliant head appeared on the side of the main-stem, among the leaves, which at that time presented a singular phenomenon. Every evening they rose up and lifted them- selves from the blossoms to expose them to the dew, so that each morning these beautiful objects were uncovered ; but as day advanced the leaves gradually drooped, and bent down over the flowers to guard them from the rays of the sun. Who can imagine the gorgeousness of an equinoctial forest at midnight with the veils thus lifted off myriads of flowers of every form and hue, which are hidden from our gaze in this or other ways during the hours of a tropical sunlit day, whose brilliancy would be death to their tender texture and delicate colours ? _ This noble tree must be grown in the damp stove. When its seeds are good they are easily raised if sown in light soil and plunged in a tan pit or hot-bed. A rich free soil that will not get hard or sour is the best for its after growth. It Is only in a large house that it can thrive well for any length of time, and be seen in its greatest beauty ; and if it is planted out in the border, or in a large tub with sufficient room all round for its leaves, it forms really a magnificent object. 31 CCELOGYNE flaccida. Drooping Celogyne. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. OncH1pDAce#, § EpipENDRE#& (nec MALAXIDE2#). CELOGYNE. Botanical Register, vol. 11. fol. 868. C. flaccida ; pseudo-bulbis oblongis angulatis squamis coriaceis acuminatis ustulatis vestitis, foliis lanceolatis v. oblongo-lanceolatis longé petiolatis, racemo flexuoso nutante, bracteis deciduis, petalis lineari-lanceolatis, labello ovato trilobo: lineis tribus elevatis flexuosis: lobo medio ovato dupld angustiore basi denticulato, columna apice dentata. Lindl. gen. & sp. Orch. p. . C. flaccida. Bot. Mag. t. 3318. Not an uncommon Epiphyte, having been in the country for several years. It is a native of Noakote, in Nepal, where Dr. Wallich found it growing on trees. Its long stalked nar- row leaves, and the stiff scales that surround the base of the scapes and pseudo- bulbs, mottled with pitch brown, as if they were scorched, readily point out this species, which is one of the least attractive of its genus. The flowers grow in long drooping racemes, and are originally enclosed’in bracts, which however are soon thrown off and leave the flowers naked. They have a peculiar dis- agreeable odour. The sepals are white, linear-oblong, scarcely acute. The petals are the same colour, but not more than one-third the breadth, and are curved backwards. The lip is channelled, ovate, three-lobed, with the middle lobe ovate, acute, wavy, toothed at the base, and turned back * the point. Near its base are several crimson veins ; towards the apex it is yellow in the centre; along the een three raised wavy lines which terminate abruptly a ns within the base of the middle lobe. The column is bordere with a toothed membrane, originally described by me as entire, in consequence of an error in Dr. Wallich’s Indian drawings. Fig. 1. shews the column, with the lip bent downwards and flattened ; fig. 2. is the pollen-masses, with their granular base. The species requires the same management as C. Cumingii t. 29 of this volume; namely, a very moist stove, and the pots well drained. Turfy peat or sphagnum is the best mate- rial for potting. Water must be liberally given during the growing season, but must not be allowed to lodge in the leaves of the young shoots when they are tender, as it is sure to rot them. ‘There is nothing worse for plants of this kind than allowing their leading shoot to damp off; it is some time before they form another, and then it is generally much weaker than the former one. 32 * STROBILANTHES scabra. hough-leaved Conehead. DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. ACANTHACES. STROBILANTHES, Nees. Calyx quinquepartitus, laciniis herbaceis. Corolla hypogyna, infundibuliformis, tubo sensim transeunte in limbum cam- panulatum, quinquefidum, laciniis equalibus v. subzequalibus, obtusis v. emarginatis. Stamina 4, corolle tubo inserta, inclusa, didynama; anthere biloculares, loculis parallelis. Stylus simplex ; stigma subulatum, incurvum v. involatum. Ovarium biloculare, loculis biovulatis. Capsu/a subunguicu- lata, tetragono-columnaris, bilocularis, tetrasperma, loculicide bivalvis, valvis medio septiferis v. dissepimento soluto. Semina discoidea, angulata, retina- culis uncinatis subtensa. Frutices v. rarius herbse, in Asia tropica cre- scentes ; foliis oppositis, spicis avillaribus v. terminalibus, plus minus densis, bracteis foliaceis v. foliaceo-membranaceis, persistentibus v. caducis, bracteolis parvis v. rarius nullis, floribus majusculis ceruleis v. albis. Endlicher genera plant. no. 4053. § Sclerostrobilanthes. Spicze rigide, dense, erectee, bracteis persistentibus. Nees in Wall. pl. as. rar. 3. p. 84. S. scabra ; fruticosa, caule hispido, foliis obovato-ellipticis dentato-crenatis supra lineolatis exasperatis setulisque dissitis hirtis subtis pallidis, spicis infraterminalibus oppositis, terminalibus ternis glandulosis. Nees l. c. This pretty stove plant has lately flowered in the collection of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, by whose permis- sion a drawing was made for this work. It is half shrubby, with a dark green foliage, and terminal clusters of gay yellow flowers. It appears to grow wild in various parts of India, as in Prome and Sillet, but no exact locality 1s given, nor 1s any further information to be found concerning it in Dr. Wallich’s great work, where only it has been hitherto pub- lished It is remarkable for being covered over with short stiff one and avSoc a flower, in allusion to the * From orpofidoc a pine ¢ ae ; f some species before the blossoms expand. appearance of the inflorescence 0 hairs, which form little points upon the leaves and stems. The President Nees v. Esenbeck, who examined Dr. Wallich’s specimens, distinguishes some varieties, one of which has a woolly inflorescence; he also states that the flowers are purplish ; but that must be a mistake, probably owing to his having had ill dried specimens to examine. Fig. 1. represents a calyx surrounded by three bracts, toge- ther with a style and stigma. Fig. 2. is a section of a por- tion of a corolla, shewing the position and length of the stamens, and the hairiness found in the interior of the tube. All the green parts of the inflorescence are covered with the glandular hairs shewn in fig. 1. It requires to be managed in much the same manner as an Eranthemum or Justicia. It strikes readily from cuttings, and grows luxuriantly in any free soil, but like some of the Justicias it is rather shy in producing an abundance of flowers. This may be overcome in two ways, either by planting it in the border of the stove and allowing it to become a large bush, or by growing it in rather small pots, keeping it very cool all the summer, and bringing it back to the stove in autumn. oFS: } 4 “ PS ¢a 4 ) on . = oo a” di ‘ A ~ . (wg m " * - > } y DK ren SF a» We Me} > cathy yN . + q Wi ~-4 J e » * a P Zi Pes. AY j — WP ims A Pe K4 r/ a _ : g se y | ihe Nr ae } ’ j y, BSNS e nf x A ay 4 Z i, J . . “EG 4 ‘ 7 1 i ¢ es KU N ~~ 4 ‘\ \ \ . \ ar ae, 7 tive hah tah 33 PIMELEA spectabilis. Showy Pimelea. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. THyMELACER. PIMELEA. Botanical Register, vol. 15. fol. 1268. P. spectabilis ; foliis oppositis lineari-oblongis acutis sessilibus glaucis ra- misque glaberrimis, capitulis spheericis sessilibus multifloris, calycis limbo sericeo tubo villosissimo, involucri foliolis ovatis acuminatis colo- ratis. Lindl. Append. Bot. Reg. t. xli. Frutex humilis, levis, glaucescens. Folia alterna et opposita, subdecus- sata, oblongo-linearia, acuta, ascendentia ; suprema pauld latiora, demium in Soliolis involucri mutata. Hee sex circiter, forma ovatd acuminatd, apice re- curva, margine sanguineo colorata, flores in cyathi formam ambeunt. Flores carnei, demum pallidi, jrumerosissimi, quoad tubum pilis longissimis scabridis vestiti, in limbum sericd tantum tecti, capitulum sphericum pugni infantis magnitudine efficiunt. This is one of the best Swan River shrubs yet intro- duced. It is in the way of P. hispida, but is much hand- somer, has heads of flowers twice as large at least, and is readily known when out of flower, by the smooth rather glaucous leaves, so arranged as to form four rows along the stem. ‘When the flowers first expand, they are like the accom- panying figure, but as the rest unfold the whole flower-head increases considerably in size, and the slender branches bend beneath its weight. “At the Swan River it appears that the bracts acquire a much brighter colour than with us, and thus give the plant a still gayer appearance. Among other good qualities the species of Pimelea possess that of living for a long time when cut and placed in water, and so become useful ornaments of bouquets. * See Botanical Register, fol. 1268. It is as easy cultivated as any of the commoner species. When seeds can be procured they should be sown any time in the spring or summer, but not late in autumn, as the young plants are apt to “damp off” in the following winter. The seedlings should be placed in a light situation, and regularly shifted into larger pots as they grow stronger. The best soil is a mixture of loam, peat, leaf-mould, and sand. It forms a beautiful plant in a pot when well grown, but like the other species it is most beautiful when planted in the border of the conservatory. There are several varieties in the garden of the Horticultural Society, some of which have the bracts of a deeper colour than others. rel Lby 34 CATASETUM Triulla. The Trowel-shaped Feeler-wort. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, Nat. ord. Orcutpaces, § VANDEX. CATASETUM. Richard. €. Trulla; sepalis petalisque patentibus ovalibus. planis, labello laté ovato acuminato obtuso subcordato concavo fimbriato apice levi, columnd brevi cirrhata. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840. mise. no. 176. No doubt a native of some of the tropical parts of Ame- rica, but I have been unable to learn from what country it was received. I am only acquainted with it indeed from a single specimen brought to me in September 1840, by Mr. James Rigby, of the Stanhope Nursery, Old Brompton. It ad the general appearance of Catasetum maculatum, and bore thirty such flowers as are here represented. They had a most singular appearance, but it must be confessed not a beautiful one; none of the colours being at all lively. The lip has much the form of a trowel, and is not at all hollowed out into a bag. It is merely concave like the bowl of a spoon. _ All the species of Catasetum require nearly the same cul- tivation. They must have a moist stove to grow in, should € kept nearly dry during their season of rest, and should ave plenty of water when growing. When the young shoots begin to grow, they are very apt to be injured by water lodging about them, and care must be taken to prevent this. As there is some confusion among the names of the various Species of this genus, the following catalogue of all that I at present know may be acceptable to the readers of the Botani- cal Register. June, 1841. N GMS SFB te oe Ae aCeOoa. Gg AMQAQAQAQARQAARAA @, § 1. Carasetum. Lip hooded, convex, placed at the back of the flower. . tridentatum. Hooker. Varieties.—C. macrocarpum, Rich. —Claveringi, Lindl. — floribun- dum, Hooker. Monster. Monachanthus viridis, Lindl. . maculatum, Kunth. Variety.—C. integerrimum, Hooker. . Hookeri, Lindl. . semiapertum, Hooker. . purum, Nees. . luridum, Lindl. (Anguloa lurida, Link.) . longifolium. Lendl. . discolor. (Monachanthus discolor, Lindl.) Variety.—Monachanthus Bushnani, Hooker. . roseo-album, Lind/. (Monachanthus roseo-albus, Hooker.) Probably a variety of the last. . atratum, Lindl. § 2. Myantuus. Lip flat, placed in front of the flower. . cristatum, Lindl. Varieties.—C. spinosum, Lindl. (Myanthus spinosus, Hooker.) C. proboscideum, Lind/.—C. barbatum, Lindl. . cornutum, Lindl: - lanciferum, Lindl. . deltoideum, Lindi, (Myanthus deltoideus, Lindl.) . trifidum, Hooker. (Myanthus cernuus, Lindl.) . saccatum, Lindl. . laminatum, Lindl. . Russellianum, Hooker. - Trulla, Lindl. . poriferum, Lindl. . callosum, Lindl. 35 ANGRACUM bilobum. Two-lobed Angurek. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. Oncuipacex, § VaNdEx. ANGRAECUM. Botanical Register, vol. 18. fol. 1522. A. bilobum; caule brevissimo, foliis cuneato-obovatis oblique bilobis reticu- latis racemo verrucoso pendulo multifloro multd. brevioribus, sepalis petalisque lanceolatis patentibus, labello conformi paulo majore calcare filiformi emarginato breviore. Bot. Reg. 1840. mise, no. 151. Anthera cristata, unilocularis. Pollinia dorso excavata, alba. Glandula alba. Rostellum trans stigma, quod antice in sinum recedit, arcte deflexum, marginique sinus attingens superficiem stigmaticam in duabus partibus dividere ordetur. A strikingly pretty epiphyte, with a very short stem, and a few distichous obovate leaves, deeply two-lobed at the apex, and streaked with firm veins from the apex to the base, which veins are connected by strong transverse bars. The flowers grow in pendulous simple racemes, and are slightly but sweetly perfumed; their colour is white, with a slight tinge of blush. The column is remarkable enough ; the anther (fig. 1.) is decorated by a glandular crest, like that of an ancient helmet. Below this is a broad shallow stigma. Over the stigma projects the beak of the column, which protrudes so far as to rest on the anterior edge of the stigma, which itself recedes in order to meet the gland; and thus the stigma seems to be divided into two parts. Messrs. Loddiges received this species from Mrs. Lee, the widow of the late Mr. Bowdich, who found it at Cape Coast Castle. July, 1841. re) To be cultivated successfully, it should be suspended from the rafters of the Orchidaceous house upon a block of wood. The block should be surrounded with a little turfy peat or sphagnum, to retain the moisture upon which the roots feed. If sphagnum is used, care must be taken that it does not come in contact with the more tender part of the — plant, as it is apt to rot them. In this condition it should be freely syringed during the growing season, and never at any time be kept too dry. 36 IPOMQA batatoides. The Male Jalap. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNJIA. Nat. ord. CONVOLVULACER. IPOMG A. Bot. Reg. vol. 4. fol. 270. I. Latatoides ; caule volubili pubescente, foliis profundé 3-5-lobis lacinié in- termedia subrhombea acuminata lateralibus angulatis integrisque supra ad venas et subtis sparsé piloso-pubescentibus, pedunculis 1-2-floris folio sublongioribus, sepalis ineequalibus uno alterove acuminato, corolle elongatze infundibuliformis tubo ampliato. Bentham plant. Hartw. p. 46. It was for many years uncertain what the plant is which furnishes the Jalap of the shops. The upright Marvel of Peru was at one time thought to produce it; then the Ipomoea macrochiza of North American Botanists was taken for its parent, and also Ipomcea pandurata. But it now turns out that Jalap comes from none of these. The drug derives its name from the town of Xalapa in Mexico, in the woods near which it is collected ; Deppe and Schiede being there, found the gatherers of it digging it up, and so possessed themselves of living roots, which, upon flowering in Munich, proved to be a species of Convolvulaceous plant before unknown, and received the name of Ipomeea Purga; under which it is now known in our gardens, although it is in reality a species of Exogonium. But it was also ascertained that other species supply the Jalap gatherers; and Mr. Hartweg has been so fortunate as to acquire at Mestitlan one of them, the Purga - Macho, of which he sent two roots to the Horticultural Society. They are larger and longer than those of Exogo- nium Purga, and have produced the beautiful flowers now represented. So beautiful indeed are they, that a rival to them can hardly be found in this most lovely race. The stems do not ramble so much as some do, nor are the leaves so abundant as to overshadow and conceal the flowers ; but the latter stand forward from before the foliage, and fully expand themselves in the early part of the day. At that time their brilliancy is far beyond any thing that we have the means of representing. Its management is of the easiest kind, and like all plants having a large tuberous root, it should be kept in a dry and warm situation during the wimter. As soon as it begins to start, it should be watered, sparingly at first and freely after- wards. The soil should consist of equal parts of loam, peat, and leaf-mould, with a little sand. It seems to require a higher temperature than the common greenhouse, but not so high as the damp stove. By growing it in the stove it may be had in flower early in spring, but its natural period of flowering in this country seems to be in the end of summer, and autumn. Its habit of growth is not so strong as many of the other species, and it continues to flower for a very long time. It is easily multiplied by cuttings. Cech iheuraty iA Q Lue coiliddy ply Ea Gy 7 F Ayatecheey be A a . 37 POTENTILLA insignis. Specious Cinquefoil. ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNLA. Nat. ord. Rosacex. POTENTILLA. Botanical Register, vol. 16. fol. 1387. P. insignis; caule ascendente multifloro, foliis ternatis (nunc quinatis) radi- calibus longé petiolatis : lobis ovalibus obovatisque crenato-serratis supra viridibus subtts incanis, stipulis ovatis obtusis integris multifidisque, laciniis calycinis ovatis acutis, petalis subrotundis emarginatis calyce duplo longioribus. P. insignis. Royle ined. The genus Potentilla abounds in species, or what are ealled so, of which there is no recent general enumeration, and concerning which there is the greatest difficulty in coming to any satisfactory conclusion. With respect to the plant now before us, which was raised from Indian seeds, presented to the Horticultural Society by the Court of Directors of the East India Company, I find it extremely difficult to come to any certain conclusion. It is undoubtedly the P. insignis of Dr. Royle’s mss. ; but how does that differ from P. argyrophylla? The latter has leaves more coarsely serrated, and much more strongly veined, and not so obtuse; otherwise it is extremely like it ; and it is difficult to suppose it really distinct. And then again is the latter distinct from the Altai P. macrantha, a smaller species indeed, and erect not ascending, but very like it? These enquiries lead to the further question of how far P. leucochroa deserves to be regarded as distinct ; that plant indeed has the leaves grey on the upper side with silken hairs, and seems to be quite erect; but it comes from Chinese ‘Tartary, and climate may cause the differences. Then, again, Dr. Lehmann says that P. leucochroa is the same as the Una- laschkan and Arctic American P. villosa, a plant I do not know. So that one cannot help suspecting that P. insignis, argyrophylla, macrantha, leucochroa, and villosa may be all one and the same thing, modified by soil and situation. In the meanwhile this is certainly P. insignis. It is a hardy perennial, requiring the same treatment as the old Potentilla atrosanguinea, flowering from June to September. It was raised from seeds received from the East India Company through Dr. Royle, and seems very common in the North of India, as it is in nearly every collection of seeds received from that part of the world. It may be the means of producing some beautiful hybrids, with either P. atrosanguinea or P. nepalensis ; and we should expect that they will some day rival the hybrid Calceolarias, now so common. 38 CYMBIDIUM pubescens. Downy-lipped Cymbidium. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. OncHIDACER, § VANDEZ. CYMBIDIUM. Botanical Register, vol. 7. fol. 529, C. pubescens ; foliis ensiformibus striatis apice obliqué bidentatis, racemo brevi pendulo, bracteis minimis squameeformibus, sepalis petalisque linearibus acutiusculis, labelli trilobi basi saccati intis pubescentis laciniis lateralibus acutis intermediaé oblongd subundulata obtusa, lamellis rectiusculis medio interruptis. Bot. Reg. 1840. misc. 177. hence Although the woods of Sincapore have been so often examined by Botanists it seems as if the forms of vegetation there were inexhaustible. The species now figured was met with by Mr. Cuming who sent it to Messrs. Loddiges. It is quite distinct from all the species previously published, although no doubt allied to C. Finlaysonianum and bicolor. From the former it differs in having short racemes, smaller flowers, and a hairy lip, with the lamelle nearest the end destitute of any appendage. From C. bicolor also the short racemes and hairy lip divide it ; but it corresponds with that species in the remarkable character of a shallow bag being present at the base of the lip. Although not very conspicuous, the rich crimson green and yellow markings give the flowers a gay appearance. Fig. 1. is a view of the lip magnified. _ It must’ be cultivated along with other orchidaceous plants in the moist stove. In potting it the roots need not be raised above the surface of the pot, as its habits appear to be rather of a terrestrial nature. The pots should be well drained, and water should be freely given during the growing season, and at no season must it be kept entirely dry. e, - rx N ore WAS \ ian) i A 4, alte & : } / IN a can itl Ki hi) hii as <2 MUS G Cade del, ae z a Ss Pe , 2 OD wanda M ; Ridgway $y BPieacrdilly Guly4 Abt G Bevrdtay KH. 39 SALVIA hians. Gaping Sage. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. LaMt1ace&, or LABIATZ. SALVIA. Botanical Register, vol. 4. fol. 347. § III. Drymosphace. Calyx tubulosus v. campanulatus, labio superiore subintegro truncato v. brevissime tridentato. Corolle tubus exsertus, intus piloso-annulatus ; labium superius falcato-compressum, inferioris lobi laterales patentes. Connectiva posticé porrecta, loculum difformem cassum ferentia, ex- tremitate subconnexa. Bentham Labiat. p. 218. S. hians ; caule herbaceo erecto villoso, foliis longé petiolatis lato-ovatis basi laté cordato-sagittatis, floralibus ovatis acuminatis calyce brevioribus, racemis subramosis verticillastris sexfloris, calycis campanulati striati colorati glutinosi labio superiore integro truncato inferiore longiore, den- tibus ovatis acutis, corollis calyce tripld longioribus, tubo exserto, fauce ampliata, limbo hiante, labio superiore falcato compresso, inferiore lato patente, connectivis posticé porrectis utrinque antheriferis, loculis poste- riortbus cassis subconnexis. Bentham l. c. 219. S.hians. Bentham in Hook. Bot. Misc. 3.373. Royle’s Illustrations, p. 305. t. 75. a. f. 2- This is a very ornamental hardy herbaceous plant, intro- duced from Cashmere, by the Court of Directors of the E. I. Company. It was first met with by Dr. Royle’s collectors, and afterwards by M. Jacquemont, in upland pastures. Cer- tainly it is one of the gayest of our perennials, in consequence of the striking contrast between the white and blue of its large flowers. As I have never seen an authentic specimen of the plant I cannot absolutely affirm that it is identical with what is figured in Dr. Royle’s illustrations ; and at first sight it even appears to be different; for the latter has no white in the corolla, and the stamens are coloured yellow, not blue as they are in the plant before us. Nevertheless I find no distinction except that of colour, and as Mr. Bentham states Jacquemont's July, 1841. P plant to have flowers variegated with violet and white, it is to be presumed that these differences are unimportant. This perennial grows about a foot high, and flowers in May and June. It is easily increased by dividing the old plant in the autumn or spring, is perfectly hardy, and was raised from seeds received in 1839. ‘The seedling plants will not flower before the second season. Fig. 1. represents the calyx all covered with viscid glan- dular hairs; 2. shews the stamens in their natural position, with two abortive ones at the sides, and the two ordinary ones in the centre; 3. is the four-lobed ovary. £O 7 , SLi. » ; f GA anal n sry Gp) 4) Cf)’ / Ot aD bf GF WY antl mM “nits Drake, deb Ye yy lp by Ls Reclegurey 76) Faceciaully ge ly 1. 13 je , 40 * SCHWEIGGERIA pauciflora. Few-flowered Prong-violet. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. VioLAcEz. SCHWEIGGERLIA. Spreng. Calyx profunde quinquepartitus, laciniis valde inzequalibus, tribus posticis multo majoribus, hastato-cordatis, in pe- dunculum subdecurrentibus, duobus anticis minimis, angustis. Corolle pe- tala 5, imo calyci inserta, valde inzequalia, persistentia, antica lateralibus breviora, posticum maximum, basi calcaratum. Stamina 5, subperigyna, pe- talis alterna, ineequalia; filamenta brevissima, anthere introrse, biloculares, complanatze, adnatz, apice in appendicem membranaceum producte, loculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, duarum anticarum connectivis in appendices subulatas, liberas, intra calcar reconditas productis. | Ovarium subglobosum, uniloculare, placentis parietalibus tribus. Ovula plurima, anatropa. Stylus terminalis, clavato-dilatatus, incurvus, apice trilobus, lobis intus stigmatosis. Capsula ovata, perigonio et genitalibus emarcidis tecta, unilocularis, trivalvis, valvis medio seminiferis. Semina plurima, ovato-subglobosa, testa erustacea, thaphe lineari elevata, ab umbilico prope basim sublaterali minute caruncu- lato ad chalazam terminalem producta. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi or- thotropus, ejusdem longitudine, radicula umbilico proxima, centrifuga.—— Frutices brasiliensis; foliis alternis, ovatis v. lanceolatis, denticulatis, stipulis lateralibus, geminis, minutis, pedunculis axillaribus, solitartis, unifloris, superne bibracteatis, supra bracteas articulatis. Endlicher genera, no. 5044. S. paueiflora; foliis e basi longé attenuata obovatis spathulatis obtusis cre- nato-serratis, pedunculis axillaribus (labello lineis duabus elevatis glan- dulosis). Martius nov. gen. § sp. pl. 1. p. 23; sub Glossarrhene. Glossarhen pauciflorus. DeCand. prodr. 1. 291. Frutex parvus, erectus, glaber ; ramulis compressis, lined elevatd alatd a basi foliorum utrinque decurrente. Folia oblonga v. obovata, in petiolum an- gustata, crenaturis glandulosis ; utrinque stipuld squamaformi, stipata. Pedi- celli axillares, pubescentes, bracteolati, nunc bracteolarum loco Soliosi ; brac- teolis basi et apice utrinque glandulosis. Sepala 5, basi haud producta ; quorum dorsale ovatum undulatum, pallide virens, anterioribus omnino albis paulo majore; duo interiora minima, alba, apice tridentata ; dente intermedio elongato glanduloso. Petalorum alborum inferius maximum, calearatum, cune- atum, bilobum, lineis duabus elevatis glandulosis luteis pone basim. Stamina sessilia, libera; antherarum appendice terminali rotundatd, membranaced, an- teriorum dorsali filiformi apice involutd. Stigmatis trilobi laciniis lateralibus lanceolatis ascendentibus, intermedid obsoletd dentiformi. ; * So named after Professor Schweigger, one of the authors of a Flora of Erlangen. The name Schweiggeria was originally given by Sprengel to a Brazilian shrub, of which he examined specimens in a dried state, and described in his usual unskilful manner. At a later period Von Martius, not recognizing the genus by the former author’s character, called it Glossarrhen, from yAooon, a tongue, and appev, a male, in allusion to the pro- cesses which proceed from the front anthers, see fig. 1. and which look very like the rolled up tongue of a butterfly. The right of priority, however, requires that the first name should be preserved. The only two species are bushes inhabiting Brazil; one of them in mountainous places, and woods in the province of St. Paul’s; the other, which is now figured, in wet shady stony places near the river Itahype in the province of Bahia. They are very nearly Violets; but differ in having a calyx whose divisions are extremely unequal, three being large and heart-shaped at the base, but not decurrent, the other two being very small and enclosed within the others. The stigma too has a different form from that of Viola. _ Our drawing was made in the nursery of Messrs. Lod- diges, who imported the species. It is a stove shrub, re- quiring the same kind of cultivation as Ixoras and plants of that description. Fig. 1. represents the apparatus in the interior of the flower ; that is to say, the stamens with their membranous appendages, and the two tongue-shaped processes, and the tip of the style surmounted by a two-pronged stigma. _ M. Auguste de St. Hilaire seems to doubt whether there is really more than one species of this genus ; but it is evident that the plant he has figured under the name of Schweiggeria floribunda in his Plantes remarquables du Brésil et du Para- guay must be different from this, if any dependence can be placed upon his drawing of the labellum. The species dis- tributed from the Vienna herbarium, under the number 192, appears to be the latter. 4] OXALIS fruticosa. The Shrubby Wood-sorrel. DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. Nat. ord. OxXaALipAcez. é OXALIS. Botanical Register, vol. 2. fol. 117, Sect. Phyllodoxys, Endl. ; caulescentes, suffruticose, caule folioso, petiolis sepissime aphyllis foliaceo-dilatatis. Endl. gen. no. 6058. O. fruticosa ; caule suffruticoso ramoso, petiolis dilatatis foliaceis lanceolato- Iinearibus utrinque acutis subaphyllis, pedunculis axillaribus valdé ab- breviatis 2-fidis, pedicellis subfasciculatis, staminibus omnibus pistillo longioribus, ovarii loculamentis monospermis. dug. St. Hilaire Flora Brasilia meridionalis, vol. 1. p. 116. O. fruticosa. Raddi in mem. ital. vol. 18. p. 401. DeCand. prodr. vol. 1. 690. Nothing in the Vegetable Kingdom is more curious than the way in which plants are enabled to alter one organ, so as to perform the office of another, when that other is from any cause destroyed, or undeveloped. Thus in Cactaceous and other succulent plants which have no leaves, the surface of the stem is greatly enlarged, and performs the office of breath- ing and digesting; in the Combretum, which has no tendrils to climb with, the stalks of the leaves hook back, and furnish the plant with claws of strength ; when, in the Wattle trees of our Australian colonies, nature refuses to command the appearance of leaves, straightway the leafstalks flatten and expand, and take their place; and so of multitudes of others. The plant before us is an illustration of this singular pro- perty. It is a Woodsorrel in every part of its organization, except indeed that it forms a woody stem and so becomes a shrub—and yet how entirely unlike a Woodsorrel is its ap- pearance! Instead of the pretty irritable trefoil foliage so universal among those plants, it has broad lanceolate blades, with almost the veins of a Grass-leaf. Upon looking, how- August, 1841. Q ever, with some care among the branches we detect here and there the triple foliage of the Woodsorrel at the ends of some of those blades, and so we learn that they too are flattened leafstalks, made into substitutes for the leaves which drop off. Other species of this singular race of Woodsorrels occur in Brazil, but I am not aware of their having been found elsewhere. That before us inhabits the woods about Rio Janeiro, where it is by no means uncommon. For the speci- men from which the accompanying drawing was taken | am indebted to His Grace the Duke of Northumberland. Fig. 1. represents the stamens, and stigmata of the ovary enclosed within the tube of the former. The habit is very different from the tuberous herbaceous kinds. It requires a higher temperature than the greenhouse, and is commonly grown in the moist stove. The soil should consist of equal parts of peat, leaf-mould, and loam. It is propagated by cuttings, or by a careful division of the roots. When seeds can be procured they should be sown in light soil on a gentle hot-bed. . 42 ERIA armeniaca. Apricot-coloured Eria. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. Oncuipace®, § MALAXIDES. ERIA. Botanical Register, vol. 9. fol. 904. E. armeniaca (Lanate) ; pseudobulbis ovalibus compressis triphyllis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis coriaceis levibus, racemo tomentoso radicali basi vaginato stricto foliis sequali v. longiore, foliis scapi bracteisque lanceo- latis acuminatis subcoriaceis (armeniacis), labelli lobis lateralibus denti- formibus intermedio rhombeo crispo; lamellis 5 rectis haud crispatis lateralibus abbreviatis divergentibus intermedia versus apicem labelli producta. Bot. Reg. 1841. mise. 70. es of this large Orchidaceous genus there is no great number handsome enough to claim the attention of the cultivator; for their flowers are either pale, or small, or dingy. That however now represented is a de- ' cided exception to the general character of the species, its gay apricot-coloured bracts amply compensating for the dull- ness of the flowers themselves. in which the bracts are always richly coloured; but no others of which have yet been seen in Europe. Dr. Blume enumerates several ; one with yellow, and another with red bracts changing to brilliant orange. Even here the interior of the flower will repay a careful examination, in consequence of the beautiful form and rich colouring of the lip, as shewn at fig. 1. und it in the Philippine islands, in the and sent it to Messrs. Loddiges, Its flowering stem is about a Of the many speci It belongs to a set Mr. Cuming fo I. dos Negros and elsewhere, with whom it has flowered. foot high. _It should be potted in turfy peat or sphagnum, and grown ~ in the warmest end of a damp stove. It does not require so much heat and moisture during the resting season; but the cultivator must not go to extremes with this, because it is very often injurious to the health and vigour of the plant. » tyne te 4 a ry / KP th ff 4 y ’ / Oc OS), Jy / £ Ff Gf uff YF ig i) fyy y. Oe f Bs é i / Mids /) rake Abt. Sy be by 7 Nadapuarety fou ocadilly Heep “/ Sog4 p TK er clttay 43 CONVOLVULUS scoparius. Canary Rosewood. PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. _ Nat. ord. CONVOLVULACE. CONVOLVULUS. Botanical Register, vol. 2. fol. 133. C. scoparius; erectus, fruticosus, ramosus, sericeus, foliis linearibus, cymis axillaribus multifloris erectis racemosis, corolle plicatze limbo 5-partito, staminibus limbo brevioribus, ovario villoso biloculari conico-acuminato, ovulis geminis, stylo nullo, stigmatibus linearibus. Convolvulus scoparius. Hortus Kewensis, 1.213. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 872. Ventenat choiv des plantes, t. 24. Rémer § Schultes syst. veg. 4. 299. Breweria? scoparia. Lindl. Flora Medica, p. 400. no. 821. For an opportunity of figuring this curious little plant I have to thank Mr.Young, Nurseryman, Milford, near Godal- ming, who received it from Mr. Barker Webb. Whether or not it is mentioned in that gentleman’s work on the Canaries Iam unable, from the irregular and confused way in which the book is published, to ascertain. It appears on other testi- mony to occur near Santa Cruz, and elsewhere in the Canary islands. Nothing can well be less like a Convolvulus than this, and I presume it will be removed from the genus when M. De Candolle revises the Convolvulaceous order. In the meantime I leave it there, partly from not wishing to interfere with the nomenclature about to be promulgated by M. DeCandolle, partly from not knowing what the fruit is, and in part from not being able to make up my mind in what of the modern genera it can be surely stationed. At one time I had placed it in Breweria, with a mark of doubt; and it may possibly belong there: but the narrow lobes of its style are not capl- tate, and are rather to be considered as stigmata sessile on the apex of a long-pointed ovary. Then there is a genus Seddera, proposed by Steudel and Hochstetter for an Arabian plant found by Schimper, but I am unacquainted with it, and Meisner reduces it to Breweria. At all events this is the plant that yields Lignum Rhodium, a wood smelling strongly of roses, yielding by distillation a bitter oil, and employed by perfumers for adulterating or altering Oil of Roses. The roots which accompany the stems, as they are imported, are said to be much stronger scented than the stems. The old writers on drugs, misled by the name, imagined that this product must come from Rhodes, translating the name Rhodeswood, and after hunting in vain in the writings of either ancients or moderns for the plant that yields it, arriving at the erroneous conclusion that it was the Aspalath of the Greeks. It is however certain that the name really signifies Wood smelling of Roses. Oil of Rhodium is the name given to the oil obtained from this plant. The wood when powdered has been recommended to promote sneezing, and forms an agreeable snuff. It is valued for fumigation, and when burned diffuses a most delightful fragrance. It is scarcely necessary to add that the Rosewood of cabinet-makers is quite different from this. It is a half-shrubby plant, requiring the protection of the greenhouse during winter. It is increased by seeds, and re- quires about the same treatment as most of the other half- hardy species ; namely, a rich loamy soil, and to be kept rather dry during the winter when in a dormant state. It flowers in September and October. SOROS ZR are save é +4 ri a, 133) AF Re he ) if ud 4 fay eo te ‘ x Dg ki eee On bis ay ht f 1444 CO DB rrpolwus i ty 49 G LO, k e del CPiif, Vy - Reclipurotdy 16g Fug LN MAY Th. Y / / Ot 7 A 44 SALVIA tubifera. Tube-flowered Salvia. DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. LastaTa&, or LAMIACER. SALVIA. Botanical Register, vol. 4. fol. 347. S. tubifera; caule herbaceo glabriusculo, foliis petiolatis lato-ovatis serrato- crenatis basi rotundato-truncatis vel subcuneatis glabriusculis v. subtis cano-pubescentibus: floralibus deciduis, racemis simplicibus, verticil- lastris subsexfloris secundis, calycibus subsessilibus tubulosis striatis glabriusculis, labio superiore integro inferiorisque dentibus ovatis acumi- natis, corollis calyce 3-4-pld longioribus extis glabris v. pubescentibus, tubo longé exserto quali subincurvo, labiis abbreviatis, superiore erecto integro inferiore breviore lobis rotundatis deflexis, medio integro, con- nectivis postice breviter productis deflexis linearibus subdilatatis longi- tudinaliter connatis, stylo barbato. Bentham gen. § sp. Labiatarum, p. 298. S. tubifera. Cavan. ic. 1. 23. ¢.25. Supra mise. no. 40. S. longiflora. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 141. One of Mr. Hartweg’s discoveries in Mexico, whence the Horticultural Society received the seed. It has much the habit of the old Salvia lamiifolia, otherwise called ameena, but is greatly superior in point of beauty. It forms a bush about three feet high, branching and well covered with leaves, and at the end of every one of the branches there appear the long | racemes of slender purple flowers which are so disposed as to form a drooping or curving ornament. In colour they resemble those of such plants as Justicia elegans, and are very different from any of the other Sages now in our gardens. Fig. 1. represents the curious stamens of this plant ; a is a filament, by which they adhere to the corolla; and the perpendicular part from } up to the anther is the enlarged connective, which directs itself upwards and downwards in a narrow line, adhering at its base to the part of the other stamen which stands at its side. One lobe only of the anther is formed ; in this instance the other lobe is indicated by a glandular dilatation seen on each side a little above b. ‘This singular organization is, as botanical readers know, the chief character of the genus Salvia. This pretty half shrubby species requires the same treat- ment as other Mexican ones, and strikes freely from cuttings . of the young wood, but like all the small flowered Mexican kinds is not fit for planting in the open border during summer, as it only flowers at the latter part of autumn, and in the winter months. * os pt aor ne i A ip “9 oy wee. ~ fi « “ah 4 Min I) cafee beh / Y Cf 111) Of ey y ‘4 CGA by T Kuclgguray Mh Frccxdilly Cug® f 6Ggh ™ § Bamlay Hy 45 CHOROZEMA spectabile. Showy Chorozema. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Legum1nos#, or FaBAcez. CHOROZEMA. Botanical Register, vol. 12. fol. 986. C. spectabile; caule volubili tereti, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis mucronulatis subtus glabriusculis, racemis multifloris laxis, calycibus semiquadrifidis ; laciniis tubo longioribus. Supra misc. no. 66. —__ A Swan River shrub of great beauty, in consequence of its long drooping clusters of orange-coloured flowers, which appear in profusion in the months of winter. It is far superior to both C. rhombeum and ovatum in all respects, and differs from them both in foliage and in its many flowered racemes, which however are not always so long as in the accompanying figure, although they often are so. C. ovatum has moreover winged branches and reticulated leaves, neither of which are found in this. Fig. 1. represents the stamens and the tube of the calyx, with a linear bract adhering to it; it will be observed that the tenth stamen is smaller than the others, flexuose, and more slender. Fig. 2. shews the appearance of the ovary when cut through ; it contains twenty-six ovules in two rows. The figure is from the Garden of the Horticultural Society ; I have also received the plant from Mr. Standish of Bagshot, and from Robert Mangles, Esq. of Sunning Hill. It is a greenhouse twiner of very easy cultivation. It grows best in a light free soil composed of peat and leaf mould with a little loam and sand. Seeds are produced from it in abundance, and therefore it may easily be increased in this way or by cuttings which strike readily in silver sand. August, 1841. R The red spider is very fond of its leaves and therefore its attacks must be carefully guarded against. It is well adapted for covering a small trellis in a pot, but it grows and flowers - er beauty if planted out in a light well drained order, ‘ 4 | a * PIe : fl, # 5 4 aA : Of / yy cd WGb 9. Ki wWUsly t GF Cp iy ask hae ly Yn neg “bhp TTAbG (Hlh Ynin Drake ool Pl ty I Reclyuray 169 Piisverditly Pug’ S 13 46 BERBERIS coriaria. The Tanner’s Berberry. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. BERBERACE&. BERBERIS. Botanical Register, vol. 6. fol. 487. B. coriaria ; spinis validis tripartitis, foliis sempervirentibus lanceolatis obo- vatisque integerrimis v. aristato-serratis utrinque viridibus, racemis pen- dulis cylindraceis multifloris, fructibus oblongis rubris glabris. B. coriaria. Royle ined. There are now several Nepal Berberries in our gardens, all handsome shrubs. The first that came over was B. asiatica, the Hill raisin of the Nepalese, with coarsely veined leaves, short racemes, and fruit remarkable for the thick bloom that overspreads its purple skin. Then we had B. aristata, a more slender plant, with glossy fine-veined leaves, and long half- corymbose racemes of flowers. Afterwards appeared the more rare B. floribunda, with narrow graceful racemes of small flowers, which clothe the axis of the inflorescence from the very base. To these we have a fourth to add, called by Dr. Royle B. coriaria, but as yet unpublished ; it has narrow lan- ceolate leaves, firmly netted, green on both sides, for the most part entire, but occasionally furnished with bristle-pointed teeth. From B. asiatica it differs in its finely veined leaves and larger flowers; from B. aristata in its more lanceolate leaves and shorter less corymbose racemes ; and from B. flori- bunda in its short racemes, large flowers, and much smaller foliage. Its red fruit, without bloom, affords another mark of recognition. How far it is to be distinguished from B. Lycium, the Avktov tvdixov of Dioscorides, according to Dr. Royle, I am less able to say, not possessing any authentic specimen of that species. It would appear, however, from the specific charac- ter in the Illustrations of the Botany of the Himalaya, that its pendulous racemes, short pedicels, and large flowers are sufficient points of difference. In the gardens it is a robust shrub, with much the ap- pearance of B. asiatica, and quite as hardy, flowering in June, and easily increased by seeds; which should be sown directly they are ripe, for if not sown till the following spring, they probably will remain twelve months before they vegetate ; whereas if sown directly they are ripe they come up the next spring. It may also be increased by layers, but they require two years before they are fit to separate from the mother plant. It was raised by the Horticultural Society from seeds received from Dr. Royle in 1835. 47 BORONIA triphylla; 8. latifolia. The Three-leaved Boronia. OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Ruracea. BORONIA. Botanical Register, vol. 8. fol. 615, B. triphylla; foliolis ternis margine revolutis subtus pilis stellatis incano- tomentosis. Sieb. Dietr. sp. plant. 2. 1268. a. foliolis linearibus. B. triphylla. Reichenbach iconogr. exot. 1. 52. t. 73. 8. foliolis ovalibus tripld latioribus. B. ledifolia. Paxton, Magaz. of Botany, t. 123. This is a very neat and pretty New Holland shrub ; it may indeed be regarded as one of the best of the Boronias ; partly on account of its good foliage, but more because of the deep rich ruby red of its numerous starry flowers. It is current in the nurseries under the erroneous name of B. ledifelia, and has been so figured by Mr. Paxton in the work above quoted. How the mistake originated I cannot imagine, for it has no resemblance to the true B. ledifolia, an old greenhouse shrub with simple leaves, figured years ago in Ventenat’s plants of Malmaison, under the name of Lasiope- talum ledifolium. That it is the B. triphylla of Sieber’s collections there is no doubt; but I am uncertain whether it is a variety or not. It differs from the wild plant now before me in having much broader leaves ; but that circumstance may be owing to culti- vation, and not to any real constitutional difference. The accompanying drawing was made in the Nursery of Messrs. Loddiges. | This requires nearly the same kind of treatment as the smaller kinds of Diosma, and like most hardy wooded plants should have a light sandy soil which is rather poor. The principal thing to be observed in growing such plants is always to drain the pots well, to keep them in a place where September, 1841. s there is plenty of light and air during the winter months, and never to suffer them to become too dry or too wet, for if once they become unhealthy they seldom recover or make hand- some plants. It should be preserved during summer either in pits or frames where the lights are removed during fine weather, but where they can be replaced in wet or cold weather. It strikes freely from cuttings of the young wood, if treated in the same manner as Heaths and other hard wooded plants. To the 17 species of this genus mentioned in Dietrich’s recent Synopsis plantarum, there are so many to add, that the enumeration there given offers a very inadequate idea of the extent of the genus, even as known through books. To those already published I have myself the following to add. 1. B. mollis (A. Cunningham); foliis simplicibus ternatis'pinnatisque : foliolis oblongis obtusis subtus ramisque hirsutis, pedunculis axillaribus aggre- gatis 2-plurifloris hirsutis, sepalis linearibus setaceo-acuminatis.—-— Nepean River, New Holland, 1825.--—This is allied to Boronia para- doxa, omitted by Dietrich, but has very narrow sepals, and the bracts upon its pedicels are setaceous not obovate. A noble species. - B. anethifolia (A. Cunn.); ramulis angulatis resinoso-scabris glabris, foliis bipinnatis, petiolis articulatis alatis, foliolis linearibus acutis punctato- seabris, paniculis axillaribus parvis corymbosis foliis multo brevioribus, sepalis subrotundis. — Interior of New Holland, lat. 282° §. 1827. The flowers are small and closely collected on the short panicles, which e not half the length of even the uppermost leaves. 3. B. falcifolia (A.Cunn.); glaberrima, ramulis angulatis, foliolis ternatis tere- tibus falcatis mucronatis, sepalis setaceis.— Moreton Bay.— A singular plant with tapering ter- nate leaflets, irregularly curved in one direction, so as to acquire a traly sickle-shaped figure. The flowers are solitary in the axils of the upper- most leaves, where they form small leafy racemes. bo — - & > § a S ee =e Dn bes = i¢-] 5 o S Q mn is" mn R 3. A gay pink herbaceous plant, which grows qnite on the water's edge, upwards of three feet high; its flower-stalks are fragrant and very viscid. Blooms October and November. Loam with a mixture of sand. The beautiful turn of the River Vasse. Mr. Molloy. Oo - B. ovata ; foliis ovatis sessilibus glabris, corymbis terminalibus laxis pau- cifloris glaberrimis, sepalis ovatis acutis petalis glabris pluriés breviori- bus. Swan River, on mountains.—— A beautiful dwarf shrub, with the habit of some species of Hypericum. The flowers are in loose ter- minal corymbs, with capillary peduncles, more than half an inch long ; they appear to be deep crimson. A ie Sf Lief Fj E 16 Y Cbd WPM j Z Y 48 ODONTOGLOSSUM pulchéllum. Pretty Tooth-tongue. anor pe enon GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Nat. ord. Oncuipacesz, § VANDER. ODONTOGLOSSUM. Botanical Register, vol. 48. fol. 1839. O. pulchellum (Bateman in litt.); pseudobulbis oblongis compressis ancipiti- bus diphyllis, foliis linearibus (vix semuncialibus pedalibus) apice ob- liqué emarginatis, scapo foliis eequali ancipiti debili apice racemifero 6-7-floro, sepalis ovatis acutis, petalis obovatis acutis subundulatis, labelli trilobi laciniis lateralibus triangularibus intermedia oblonga subquadrata apice recurva: callo baseos carnoso antrorsum hippocrepico retrorsim trilobo, columne alis et clinandrio laceris. { The first notice I received of the existence of this pretty epiphyte was from Mr. Bateman, who favoured me with a specimen in February last. It was afterwards sent from Chatsworth. It is a native of Guatemala. The more striking features in it are the long thin pseudo- bulbs, the very narrow grassy leaves, and the singular protu- berance at the base of the white lip. This protuberance is deep yellow spotted with crimson, very fleshy, firm and shining, and is almost horseshoe-shaped in front, while it is distinctly three-lobed behind, in consequence of two deep depressions. Fig. 1. shows this structure; 2.is the pollen-masses with a part of one of the masses cut off. It is now well known that many Orchidaceous plants*from Mexico and Guatemala require less heat than is generally kept in our moist stoves, and to many of them it is particularly injurious if applied at those seasons when the plants are in a resting state. This is a plant belonging to this class, and therefore there is nothing worse for it than over-excitement caused by the application of a high temperature and moisture at those seasons when it ought to be kept cool and dry: Ht grows either potted in turfy peat or suspended from the rafters of the house, and ig propagated like all other plants of this kind by division. 49 AESCHYNANTHUS erandifloras. Large-flowered Blushwort. . DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Nat. ord. CyRTANDRACER. + : _— —-—— maculatum ee Milleri . . —-—— poriferum : atratum . . ——-—— proboscideum . _ longifolium laminatum ~——-——- lanciferum ——-—— discolor . —-—— fuliginosum ——-—— roseo-album ——-—— spinosum SPECIES DESCRIBED. 1838 1838 1838 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1840 1840 1841 1838 1839 1839 1840 1839 1840 1840 1840 1841 1838 1840 1838 1838 1841 1840 1841 1838 1838 1839 1841 1839 1840 1838 1838 1838 1839 1841 1838 1840 1840 1838 1838 1840 1841 1840 1841 1840 1840 1840 1838 1838 1838 1839 1841 1839 1841 1841 1841 1841 1840 1840 pl. mise. 102 24 67 108 Catasetum Russellianum saccatum . ——_-——-. Trulla = r Cattleya Aclandie — bicolor —~—— Perrinii ——— Mossiz —-— Skinneri ~-— superba Ceanothus pallidus Centaurea pulchra . Centropogon cordifolius Cereus leucanthus Chenanthe Barkeri . Cheiranthus ochroleucus . Cheirostylis parvifolia < Chorozema cordatum — spectabile : — varium . Chysis levis . . . Ga Ox OPS) Or et ee Oe Oe, -'« bractescens Cirrhza saccata ‘ Cirrhopetalum cornutum -_ cespitosum —— Macrei s — maculosum —— Thouarsii . — nytans Wallichii . —— fimbriatum . picturatum . auratum . vaginatum Citrus deliciosa on < Cleisostoma latifolium — maculosum —— tridentatum roseum . - Clematis florida, var. bicolor lathyrifolia . montana . Cleome lutea . ° Clethra mexicana . Clerodendron fragrans — splendens Clianthus carneus . Clitanthus humilis Cobza stipularis j : Codonopsis lurida ; ; Ceelogyne fimbriata . . _ prolifera . . Wallichi . ovalis . : Cumingii . coronaria . ——-- flaccida . . cristata. . elata . . 1840 1840 1840 184] 1840 1838 1838 1840 1840 1839 1840 1839 1840 1841 1840 1838 1840 1839 1838 1841 1839 1840 1840 1841 1836 1838 1838 1841 1841 1838 1839 1839 1839 1840 1840 1840 1841 1840 1840 1838 1838 1838 1839 1840 1840 1841 1840 1838 1841 1844 1839 1840 1841 1839 1838 1838 1838 1840 1838 1840 1841 1841 1841 1841 1839 SPECIES DESCRIBED, I. misc. 1, misc, Ceelogyne oculata . . 1839 .. 25 | Dendrobium discolor » 1841 52 Colea floribunda ‘ Rept: C) cme} Wares —— secundum . 1841 ,. 169 Columnea Schiedeana . 1841 60... ——formosum . 1838 .. 86 Comparettia coccinea . 1838 68 .. . 1839 64... rosea ~ 1840 20.486 | stuposum . 1838 .. 94 Commelina orchioides . 1838 .. 96 | ———-—— sulcatum . 1838 65 .. Conostylis juncea. , 1839 .. 73 | ——————bicameratum . 1839 .. 85° Convolvulus floridus , 1840 .. 199 | ———-——Heyneanum . 1839 .. 41 thintamiiieoms werrpoipes — « -:4RAS 0.48. £ Seems macrophyllum 1839 .. 46 scoparius . 1841 43 152 —— Paxtoni . 1839 .. 56 Cornus grandis . 1840 .. 59 | —————aureum, palli- Goryanthes speciosa alba. 2840.02.75 | < ume -sute~, lividum . ————. ochraceum —— -—— variegatum glumaceum —_ _ _—, oe __. © 0. + Ot 6 ee al eee GR 8 We a Ca ee ee 6 ae EO O —_—_——, Candollei ——— — inversum ————_——. uniflorum —_——— Skinneri ————. incumbens ——— macrochilum ——_—— Stamfordianum rhizophorum _—_—_-— — ee . aromaticum , ——_—-—— bractescens , . densiflorum —_—-—— crispatum —_———— lancifolium falcatum ——_—-——— Parkinsonianum — —~—-—— glaucum ——— _—— SPECIES DESCRIBED. 1838 1838 1838 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 184] 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1838 1838 1838 1838 1838 1838 1838 1840 1838 1838 1838 1838 1838 1838 1838 1838 1838 1838 1838 1838 1838 1838 1838 1839 1839 1840 1839 1839 1839 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1838 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 pl. mise. 53 16 oa 44 wo 381 oe k08, oe 148 ee 145 -- 143 ee 127 ae eS ee 123 ee 122 -- 189 ee 20 sear ah oO oe 63 eercts >= 90 ee 98 e- 109 ee 120 oe 66 oor ee 9 Sree. sere ee 89 ee as os” 82 <7 86 Scaman ie Suoerseent ee 47 ea 28 ve 82 ee 163 «. 146 ee 76 SORT e- 87 -- 49 Fe18 s. 91 26 15 ils. ee 50 68 ewELTT Je 285 ee 13 ee 81 oe 84 ef 85 os ~=688 «. 91 ee 10 es §693 oer 22 - . 134 o. 35 - + 152 oO oa~<20 eG Epidendrum vitellinum —— stenepetalum Trinitatis viscidum Epimedium violaceum Epiphora pubescens Eria clavicaulis bipunctata ferruginea bractescens longilabris armeniaca pulchella — polyura convallarioides —~ nutans. : planicaulis . —— pumila . velutina . . Erica chloroloma . Erigeron squarrosum Erysimum Perofskianum —_—- Eucalyptus calophylla Eulophia squalida_. Euphorbia rigida ss veneta . Eurybia glutinosa. chrysotricha Euthales macrophylla Eysenhardtia amorphoides Fabiana imbricata . Fernandezia lunifera Fuchsia fulgens cylindracea cordifolia radicans corymbiflora . Standish’s Funkia Sieboldi Galbanum : Galeandra Baueri . Gardoquia betonicoides Garrya Jaurifolia . Genista bracteolata . Geranium rubifolium erianthum tuberosum Gesneria reflexa ‘ longifolia =. discolor ‘ Glaucium rubrum Godetia albescens grandiflora Gompholobium versicolor Gonatanthus sarmentosus Gongora fulva ° bufonia vitellina maculata nigrita Goodyera rubicunda Govenia Gardneri lagenophora . lihacea : a: Oe 5.6) 60 i 8 ae Oo 4 4e 4 OS a ae ea a Oe a aE .F 6 Gs: & @ & eo Ce eh €& Ge & € © €: & G2 0 € €. 6 Gee EGR se 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1841 1839 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1840 1840 1838 1840 1838 1841 1839 1841 1841 1838 1838 1839 1841 1840 1841 1839 1839 1839 1838 1838 1841 1841 1840 1840 1839 1839 1840 1838 1840 1840 1840 1841 1839 1840 1841 1841 1839 1841 1841 1839 © 1841 1839 1841 1841 1841 1839 1839 1839 1839 1838 . Grammatophyllum multiflo- rum . Grevillea Thielemanniana Grobya galeata . Guaiacum officinale . Gunnia picta . . Hemanthus magnificu Hakea ruscifolia : Hardenbergia digitata Hartwegia purpurea Heimia salicifolia Helichrysum scorpioides Helleborus lividus —- orientalis — olympicus Hemiandra siieeginkin Heteropteris undulata Hexopia crucigera Hibbertia perfoliata Hibiscus Cameroni — Wraye Higginsia mexicana . Hoitzia mexicana Hormidium. ° Hoteia japonica Houlletia vittata Hoveacrispa . . pungens Manglesir Hoya coriacea .° . Huntleya Meleagris : _— --—— — — violacea Hydrotenia Meleagris Hymenocallis Harrisiana — panamensis . — rotata . Impatiens candida. rosea . glanduligera: macrochila tricornis Inga Harrisii . Ionopsis teres . Tpomeea ficifolia —-—— longifolia See —— batatoides pendula ie —— tyrianthina ——— Schiedeana Tris deflexa ‘ Sng: ns . Ismene deflexa virescens Tsochilus lividum ——— grandiflorum ——— graminifolium Isotropis striata ‘ eee 62 ee ee Ce SG: Oe: SPECIES DESCRIBED. Juniperus tetragona . - 1839 flaccida . . 1839 mexicana . - 1839 ——- squamosa .._—«1839 Lelia furfuracea . . 1839 —— autumnalis ° - 1839 —— albida ° - 1839 — flava ° . 1839 — majalis " . 1939 —— caulescens ‘ - 1841 —— acuminata e . 1841 —— superbiens 1840 rubescens . 18940 Lalage hovewfolia - 1841 Lathyrus Armitageanus . 1840 Lavatera maritima . 1838 Lemonia spectabilis . - 1840 Leptodermis lanceolata . 1839 Leycesteria formosa . - 1839 Lilium Thunbergianum . 1839 Linaria delphinoides - 1840 glandulifera . ~* 1841 venosa . > - 1841 Lindenia rivalis é ° on Liparis pendula ° ; roathulata ° . 1840 Lissanthe stellata - 1840 F - 1840 verticillata . 1840 Lissochilus parviflorus . 1838 Loasa lateritia é . 1838 Lobelia pers ° : “red yramidalis F sabauds - 1840 fenestralis . 1838 multiflora 1840 Lopezia lineata . ° 1840 Luisia alpina 1838 Lupinus arboreus_- 1838 — Hartwegti 1839 — —- Barkeri F . 1839 ——— bilineatus (note) . 1839 ——— mexicanus (note) ion Lysimachia lobelicides . 1841 acradenia mutica . - 1839 Malachadenia clavata . 1839 Malaxis Parthoni é . 1840 Malva lucida . ° - 1839 —— mauritiana. - 1839 Mandevilla suaveolens . 1840 Manglesia glabrata . 1840 Marianthus corruleopunctatus 1841 Marlea begonifolia . 1838 Martynia fragrans oa Masdevallia infracta . - 1838 Mattbiola odoratissima . 1839 maderensis - 1841 Maxillaria Colleyi_ . . 1838 Rollissonii . 1838 vitellina . - 1838 ° é oo ~———. macrophylla. 1838 Maxillaria macrophylla costata ° variabilis Brockelhurstiana candida . - Harrisoniz placanthera . jugosa , barbata . purpurascens madida Boothiana . tenuifolia . stapelioides -——--— xanthina (note) . foveata : acutifolia . 3 lentiginosa aureofulva ° stenopetala ———— cucullata ——— rhombea . ‘ Macleei Skinneri Medicago clypeata . . Medinilla erythrophylla_. Megaclinium oxypterum Bufo Microstylis excavata . . -————— histionantha . —-— caulescens Miltonia candida Mimosa marginata . Mirbelia speciosa. Morina longifolia Mormodes buccinator buccinator, var. ——-——_ pardinum . ——-——lineatum , —— aromaticum . Morna nivea . ‘ ° Morrenia odorata. . Mucuna pruriens Mycaranthes obliqua Nemaconia gracilifolia Nemesia floribunda . Nepeta salviefolia . : Nicotiana rotundifolia ° Niphea oblonga ociice Notylia punctata aromatica . * —— incurva Barkeri tenuis . Micrantha . Oberonia cylindrica . recurva , Wightiana . Octomeria gracilis . diaphana . . tridentata . Odontoglossum Bictoniense stellatum . _—— SPECIES DESCRIBED. 1840 1838 1838 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1838 1838 1839 1839 1839 1839 1839 1839 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1839 1838 1839 1841 1838 1840 1841 1838 1838 1841 1840 1840 1841 1838 1839 1841 1841 1838 1838 1838 1840 1839 1838 1839 1838 1841 1838 1841 1838 1838 1838 1838 1840 1839 1839 1838 1839 1839 1840 1841 pl. mise. 191 Odontoglossum Ehrenbergii pulchellum —— Clowesii cordatum . ————-—— grande maculatum ———__ Rossii (Enothera fruticosa indica . Olinia capensis . . . —— acuminata a cymosa . . Oncidium tetrapetalum confragosum pulvinatum hians — —— raniferum . ‘ luridum guttatum ——— trulliferum c Forbesii —— excavatum = ———— sanguineum . —_——- unicorne . . ——— carinatum . : intermedium —— unicornutum Carthaginense pelicanum . macrantherum ——— Wraye —~—— monoceras . ———— Barkeri . ’ ———— nebulosum ~ ———. Huntianum : ———— pachyphyllum . . ee ———— Insleayi incurvum . ——— leucochilum — ornithorhynchum ampliatum . —— microchilum ——— Wentworthianum ———— pallidum . ’ ramosum . . — stramineum , Ophelia purpurascens . Opoidia galbanifera . . Ornithogalum geminiflorum — divaricatum . montanum . Oxalis Darvalliana . ’ Ottonis . . . fruticosa - ° Oxyanthus versicolor . Oxylobium capitatum . Peonia (Onzpia) Brownii Panetia fulva . . . Papaveramoenum . ° Passiflora hispidula . . ry . onychina . verrucifera . Patersonia sapphirina 1841 1841 1839 1838 1840 1840 1839 1841 1840 13841 1841 1838 1838 1838 1839 1838 1838 1839 1839 1839 1839 1839 1839 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1841 1841 1841 1841 1841 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1840 1838 1840 1839 1838 1841 1838 1840 1840 1841 1840 1841 1839 1838 1839 1840 1840 1838 1840 1840 1839 Paxtonia rosea . ° - 1838 Pedicularis pyramidata . 1841 Pentlandia miniata . + 1839 Pentstemon barbatum car- neum ° : 1839 — crassifolium 1838 ——————- gentianoides . 1838 Peristeria guttata. - 1840 Peristylus goodyeroides . 1840 Pernettya angustifolia 1840 Pesomeria tetragona . - 1838 Phacelia fimbriata . - 1841 Phaius grandifolius . 1839 bicolor . . 1839 —— Wallichii . 1839 albus. ° - 1838 Phalenopsis amabilis. . 1838 Pharbitis Learii : 1841 Philadelphus hirsutus 1838 ————— Gordonianus 1838 1839 triflorus . 1838 — laxus . - 1839 — mexicanus . 1840 . 1841 Phlomis simplex ote ROM Pholidota articulata , . 1839 undulata . . 1841 conchoidea . 1840 Phycella bifiora . 1838 Physinga prostrata . . 1838 Physosiphon carinatus. . 1838 Picris asperrima ° . 1838 barbarorum . 1838 Pimelia incana . . . 1838 —— crinita . . 1838 spectabilis . 1841 prostrata . - 1839. Pinus oocarpa . - 1839 Llaveana . ~ 1839 . H ii . - 1839. ——- Devoniana. . 1839 —- Russelliana . . 1839 ——- macrophylla . 1839 ——- pseudostrobus . 1839 apulcensis . ~- 1839 ——- filifolia . . . 1840 Coulteri . é . 1840 Pisonia Olfersiana . 1841 Placea ornaté . ‘ -* 1841 Plagianthus Lampenii 1838 Pleurothallis circumplexa . 1838 _ — marginata 1838 — aphthosa - 1838 ————-— vittata . . 1838 ———— ophiocephala 1838 —__—— stenopetala . 1838 ———-— muscoidea . peor ——_—_——— pectinata 3 —_———— linen - 1641 ——_—_——— luteola . . 1841 —— picta << « 1841 ees gelida . - 1841 ———_—— sicaria_. . 1841 Sep ereeenee fragilis . a 1841 SPECIES DESCRIBED. pl. misc. 60 113 es 155 Pleurothallis peduncularis . —~—— breviflora . strupifolia ————-— bicarinata ————— scabripes ———-—— pachyglossa . ——_———-— seriata . ———— villosa . -—— ciliata . . Podolepis contorta . ° Podolobium berberifolium . Pogonia plicata Polemonium ceruleum grandiflorum ° Polygonum amplexicaule molle Polystachya zeylanica —_—-— ramulosa ° —luteola . — reflexa . . — affinis . : — bracteosa ° — cerea ] . Ponera graminifolia . . Portulaca Thellusonii Posoqueria versicolor Potentilla insignis. Pothos podophyllus . Pronaya elegans Protea longiflora Psoralea cinerea . Pultenza obcordata . ———— brachytropis Puya Altensteinii —w— cerulea . ° . —-— heterophylla Quekettia microscopica Quercus auctifolia +reticulata . ———- glaucescens . ——- sideroxyla ——- lancifolia ———- petiolaris ———- mannifera ——- regi - Brantii Rhodorhiza Ribes Menziesii Rigidella flammea ———_——. immaculata Rivea tiliefolia ° Rodriguezia crispa ©. Og. OR ee Oe 8 Sie 8 o © € 6: eS TE eee Roepera aurantiaca . Roscoea purpurea + - lutea . Saccolabium tum ensifiorum SPECIES DESCRIBED.’ P pl. F - 115 | Spirea rotundifolia . -- 1840: 22959 . 139 —— laxiflora - - 1839 -..289 5 ——fissa . - 1840 . 5-170 Saecolabium Blumei . > 184k —————-— calceolare . 1838 bifidum . 1838 1841 Scutellaria splendens 139 Tanacetum longifolium . 1840 .. 78 um miserum ‘ 1838 122 Thalictrum cultratum 1840 -23.2..48 — compressum . 1840 .. 5 | Spiranthesdiuretica . - 1838.3. Hos ———~— micranthum . 1839 .. 52 | —————-Lindleyana - : 1841 38 Salvia Moorcroftii . - 1839 .. 127 | Spironema fragrans . - 1840 47 48 patens . . - 1839 23 48 | Sprekelia cybister e« 1840.: 33--<% excelsa . ° « 1041. .....185 glauca . - 1840 . 3,104 tubiformis —. - 1841 44 40 ‘ « 184) 16233 confertiflora . - 1839 29 .. | Stanhopea quadricornis . 1838 5 .. canescens . = ©1658 363 5 Lindleyi = 1038 35-2 @ —-—hians . - 7 CAO, 2 lo aurea - 1841" 2 SE — 3 : - 1841 39 .,. | ——— tigrina . - 1939. bee prunelloides . - 1840 .. 207 | ———— oculata . - 1839 +. .4H8 ——— Regla . - - 1840 .. 205 : - 1840-....:.80 _-—_—-_—— . . - 1841 14 .. | ———— graveolens - . 1840 2. 4-126 Saponaria perfoliata . - 1839 .. 83 | ———— maculosa . « 1840 4:52-28 Sarcanthus pallidus . - 1840 °.. 185 Martiana . - 1840 .... 109 —Oxyphyllus . 1840 ~~. 123 ‘ - 1841 -33:147 Sarcochilus olivaceus = 18397 27 —— Wardii . - 1840 -..-.-147 parviflorus . 1838 .. 50 | Statice arborea ° «: 1839 -- 6 unguiculatus . 1840 .. 143 pectinata x «1840 .65 Satyrium papillosum «1838.5... 154 monopetala . - 1841 54--, carneum . - 1838 .. 155 | Stelistristyla . . -. 1838... .-.. 69 _— candidum . - 1838 .. 153 | Stenia pallida . . - 18388 20--.. ———— pustulatum - 1840 18 .. | Stenochilus longifolius . 1839 .. 115 Scaphyglottis reflexa fee CES eee 2 | — incanus . - A939 2416 ————- ——_ stellata - 1839 .. 60 | Stevia fascicularis . » 1838 590 Schizonotus tomentosus . 1840 .. 156 Stigmaphyllon ciliatum . 1841 .. 121 Schomburgkia marginata . 1839 .. 12 | Strobilanthes scabra . « 1841 S222.3. tibicinis =. 1841 .. 119 | Stylidium proliferum «1841 35.5278 Schubertia graveolens Se cee oe ae pilosum . - 184 eee Schweiggeria pauciflora . 1841 40 ., Brunonianum . 1841 .. 95 Scilla pratensis. . . 1839 63 .. | Tabernemontana dichotoma 1841 53 .. —multicaule . - 1840 124 | Thomasia canescens - 1840 .. 203 Senecio populifolius, lacteus 1839 45 +, Thysanotus intricatus - 1838 .... 13 ———- cruentus e ree. \! egey peeeeees —_— .. 1840 eG odoratus E 1839 4-111 —tenuis . . 1838.50. 4 Severinia brevifolia . 1841... 62 proliferus « 1838.. 8-4 Sisyrinchium junceum a8) .. 12 ——isantherus . 1839 .. 75 - -majale . eel. = (37 Tigridia violacea : . 1841 .. 134 Sobralia sessilis 1S4E 172 11 Tradescantia iridescens . 1840 34 160 Solanum betaceum . E40)... 65 tomida > ..¢ 1640..42.-.- 1840 .. 61 | Trichinium alopecuroideum 1839 28 .. Cor SO ei a Th ee 8 8 lg 6 a ett Sowerbea laxiflora 1840 Specklinia orbicularis - 1838 .. 41 1841 10 .. | Triptilion spinosum candidum . 1839 .. 125 —— Manglesii (note) 1839 28 .. macrantherum 1840 .. 181 —— Stirlingii (note) 1839 28 .. ~ 1841 7 .. | Trichocentron iridifolium . 1838 .. 178 -————— Rossii ; 1840 .. 34 | Trifolium involucratum . 1840 .. 116 uncinellum 1840 15 .. | Trigonidium acuminatum . 1838 . . 136 — vernicatum 1838 .. 137 Egertonianum 1838 .. 135 Sollya linearis a 1839... . 182 oes ey 1840 .. 100 ee a 5 Ta By — ringens 1840 .. 121 Sophronitis violacea . 1840 .. 18 — tenue 1839........59 1841-32 «4 ciliaris ° 1838 .. 40 | Triteleia aurea « 141 ee —-— obovata 1839 - ... 137. | Tritonia fucata . 2 1838...-35- «5 - 1838 46 «(3839.66 20 fA B30 eee . 1840 .. 180 + ABB 5 Spirza barbata . 4 - 1838 .. 65 | Trymalium odoratissimum. 1838... 30: ——— Kamschatica . - 1841 - - | Tulipa Gesneriana . . -——— lanceolata . - 184] 4 olat : maleolens . ——— cuneifolia . - 18389 .. 87 | Urceolina pendula . ——- vacciniifolia . - 1839 ‘ é 7 . -+ 88 | Valeriana Napus ° - 1840 1 oe Vanilla bicolor . ~ SPECIES DESCRIBED. Vanda congesta : ¢ 5000 2 - violacea . ‘ «1844-25 232 ——-- lamellata ‘ < 3B8B8 ee 126 ‘Veronica diosmefolia a BOAO = S30 ———— formosa . ~ iden 2, 86 Victoria regia . , . 1896-33" 33 Weinmannia venosa . « 180-2 86 Xerotes longifolia. ¢ 4000 8 ie Zichya tricolor . . : . angustifolia (note) 1839 52 .. ———villosa . . ~ 4041 ,'. 81 Zigadenus glaucus . <7? Ape0. -O1, sc Zygopetalum africanum . 1840 .. 139 PART. II.—GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Agardh, Recensio generis Pteridis, no- ticed, 1840, misc. p. 13. Balsaminez, their affinities and structure, 1840, t.8. Bauer, his sale, 1841, misc. p. 85. Beet root, observations on, by M. Decaisne, 1839, misc. p. 28. Brown, Robt., a Copley medal awarded to him, 1840, misc. p. 3. Campanula, its collecting hairs, 1840, misc, p. 54, Cape of Good Hope, notes on its vegetation, 839, misc. p. 52. Circulation of the latex in plants, 1839, misc. p. 48. Clestines in plants, 1840, misc. p. 13. Cordage plants, some account of, 1839, misc. p. 5. Cunningham, Allan, his death, 1840, misc. p. 1, Endlicher’s Genera Plantarum, 1839, misc. p. 40. Genera Plantarum, noticed, 1840, misc. p. 31. theory of vegetable fertilization, 1839, mise. p. 4, Enchiridion Botanicum, 1841, misc. p. 85. Extracarpellary attachment of seeds, 1841, mise, p. 25. Flora de Filipinas, Blanco’s, 1839, misc. . 756 Pisnkinstiise tree of Sierra Leone, 1839, misc. p. 30. Frozen Potatoes, 1839, misc. p. 12. Gentianacee, Grisebach’s Monograph of, 1839, misc. p. 57. Glycine sinensis, 1840, misc. p. 41. Guatemala Orchidacez, 1840, misc. p. 43. Gum, its motion in plants, 1840, mise. p. 14. Hair-like roots of Cotyledon cristatum, 1839, mise. p. 84, Horse-chesnuts, poisonous, 1839, misc. p. 23. Horticultural Society’s Garden, 1839, misc. agg Ya Hymenocallis and Pancratium, the distinc- tion between, 1840, misc. p. 12. Koordistan oaks, 1841, misc. p. 24. Link, Klotzsch, and Otto, Icones plantarum, 1840, mise. p. 87. Leptotes bicolor, its fruit aromatic, 1840, misc. p. 14, —_ Lomandra, note upon, 1839, sub. t. 3. Moquin Tandon, Chenopodearum Mono- graphica enumeratio, 1840, misc. p. 78. Myrtle, derivation of the name, 1839, misc. p. 28, Oaks of Koordistan, 1840, mise. p. 39, Orchidacee of Brazil, their habits, 1839, misc. p. 42, 21. of Guatemala, 1840, mise. p. 43. Pancratium and Hymenocallis, the distinc- tion between, 1840, misc. p. 12. Perrine on acclimatising tropical plants in the United States, 1839, misc. p. 5. Physostegia virginiana, its catalepsy ex- plained, 1840, mise. p. 31. Pinetum Woburnense, 1839, misc. p. 23. Pisonai tree, 1839, mise. p. 18. Pollen covered with starch, 1839, mise. p. 74. Primary distribution of the Vegetable King- dom, 1839, misc. p. 76. Proceedings of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1839, misc. p. 24. Royle’s Illustrations of the Botany, &c. of the Himalayas, 1839, misc. p. 26. Salep roots, their anatomy, 1841, misc. p. 16. Schauer, Chamzlauciew, 1841, misc. p. 88. Seeds, extracarpellary attachment, 1841, misc. p- 25. Siebold’s Flora Japonica, noticed, 1840, misc. 4 Starch on the outside of pollen grains, 1839, misc. p. 74, Starch, new view concerning, 1841, mise. . 48, vuniiatiian lants, 1840, mise. p. 16. Torrey and Gray’s Flora of North America, 1839, misc. p. 42. 2. 1840, mise. p. 79. 1841, mise. p. 74. Tragacanth, source of the drug, 1840, misc. p. 38. Van Diemen’s Land plants, 1840, misc. p. 16. Vanilla, first produced in England, 1840, misc. p. 66, Victoria regia, note upon, 1840, misc. p. 62. Wight’s Illustrations of Indian Botany, 1839, misc. p. 29. Wistaria sinensis, 1840, misc. p. 41. oes < . ~ * * * + . a te 2" Py t RDEN. NORMAN AND SKEEN, PRINTERS, MAIDEN LANE, COVENT GA Sits poe $e | a, Supleot + vu: Me 2 Pala Bagta- lh « Oigrmridlne send tae yi. hiage * FG , Lambie tre of. 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