SERTUM
ORCHIDACEUM:
WREATH
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
ORCHIDACEOUS FLOWERS;
SELECTED.
BY JOHN LINDLEY, Pı.D. F.R.S.
LONDON
JAMES RIDGWAY AND SONS, PICCADILLY
THE MOST NOBLE
WILLIAM SP
ER CAVENDISH,
DUK
È OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G.
THE PRINCELY FRIEND OF SCIENCE
ESPECIALLY OF BOTANY
CHATSWORTH
THIS HISTORY
OF MIS FAVOURITE FLOWERS
ms GRACES
THE AUTHOR.
FRONTISPIECE.
A WREATH OF EAST INDIAN ORCHIDACEA.
The figures here given comprehend magnified views of the flowers employed in forming the wreath selected as a frontispiece to this
work. The numbers in both cases refer to those in the following descriptions.
I. MONOMERIA BARBATA,
Monomeria barbata. Genera & Species of Orchidacee, page 61.
Dendrobium tripetalum. Wallich mss.
All that is known of this rare and very curious plant is derived from a drawing and some
imperfect dried specimens brought from India by Dr. Wallich, who found the plant in Nepal in the
year 1821.
Its chief peculiarity consists in the absence of petals ; a very curious and unusual circumstance
in this natural order of plants. Dr. Wallich indeed represents them to be present in the form of a
Frontispiece. 8
Aline interposed on each side of the column between the uppor and lateral sepals, as is shown
in the accompanying figure, No. 1; but I have not been able to make out this fact in the few and
bad dried flowers brought under examination.
The plant has quite the habit of a large Bolbophyllum, From a largo creeping sealy nazwa
apra erabl intervals ovate pszvpo-nc1ns, at first covered with the ragged remains of the
cales out of which thoy originally proceeded: each ia about two inches Tong, and bears a single
leaf. Tho raza are rather less than a foot long; oblong, lathozy, doop green, veinles, obtuse, a
little downy beneath, with the channelled footstalk mearly as long as the blade, The nacre is
rather shorter than the lenf, erect, proceeding from the base of a pseudo-bulb, pale green spotted with
ull purple, with about two sheathing reales below the origin of the first flowers. Each riowen
m fully expanded is about an inch long, with the lip and upper sepal placed transversely with
respect to the axis of growth. Ofthe snrAzs the upper is triangular, acuminate; nearly plain, dull olive
green, much ahortor than the two lateral ones, which are placed below the lip, a little united with
each other at the base, where they are fixed upon the long fot of the column in such a way as
form a kind of blunt spurs on the outside thoy are very light green, smooth and dotted with ligh
Purple ; on the inside they are hairy, yellowish, and irregularly spotted with bright purple. "The
PETALS appear to me to be wholly absent; but in Dr. Wallicês figure they are represented as two
The anno is articulated with a very long foot of the column, horizontal, dull
lateral lobes being faento and emarginate, the intermediate one ovate, with
Tour continuous acute plates, united into pair, parallel with ts margin. The cotu is short, half
round, extended at the base into a long sl ‘on which the sepals and Jabellum are
the two upper angles in fr ced into short points. The axtunn is downy
ontscelled, with a Meshy even crest The rotiswotassss are four, on the same plane, the two.
interior being the smallest, and all consolidated into a roundish oval ball, without the slightest trace
fa candienla or gland,
Fig. 1. of the above dissections represents a flower of this plant much magnified, with th
epal ent of
ACCOLABIUM ACUTIFOLIUM.
Saccolabium acutifolium. Genera $ Species of Orchidaceous Plants, p.
Acrides umbellatum, Wallich mss
A pretty epiphyte inhabiting the East Indies, and at present known only from a drawing in the
possession of the East India Company, of which, with all the others forming the wreath before us,
I have been permitted t take copies
Tis srt are about six inches long, and are covered by numerous leaves, so disposed as to
arrange themselves in two rows. Each Lay is rather more than six inches long, sessile, slightly
amplexican, oblong-lanccolate, very acute, quite flat and even, and apparently fleshy. The rrowens
appear in small corymbs, placed on stiff peduncles, from two to three inches long, and springing
CHILOSCHISTA USNEOIDES.
Chiloschista usneoides. Genera & Species of Orchidaccous Plants, p. 219.
Epidendrum usneoides. D. Don Prodromus Flora À
spalensis, p. 37.
Aerides eonvallarioides. Wallich mss.
‘The lower part of the wreath, on the left hand,
p
sists entirely of this singular plant, whose
green entangled roots serve it in place of leave
not appear to possess a
trace. ‘This is one in
dition to the eountle
instances of the power with which nature a
ice of another, as if she delighted in display
lapts one
part of a plant to perform th
the endless variety
of her resources. Without ¢
green apparatus usually arranged upon the stem în the form of a
leaf, a plant can no more digest its food than an animal deprived of a stomach; without the pale and
succulent fibres which we call roots, a plant ean no more feed than an animal deprived of a mouth
but by combining what is most essential to both organs into one, the root is made both to feed
ding to its proper nature, and in addition to digest like a lea,
That this ia the caso in the
obvious; by what exact means the amalgamation of such di
‘and leaf is effeted, remains to b
scertained by some one who can examine the plant in a fresh
Dr. Wallich found it in 18
| growing on the trees în Nepal in many differe
places, and
described it to
the following effect. Roors consisting of numerous bundles of long, fleshy, glaucous,
simple fibres, OF eaves
re is no trace, Raceates numerous, aris
root; i.e. from the centre of the radical fibre
the crown of the
om six to eight inches long, erect, and downy
Pepuscra brownish, tap
slender, an inch
jg; furnished with a few alternate membranous bracts,
which
, amplexieaul, deciduous, and densely clothed with herbaceous soft semi
rent hairs; finally p
flexuose rachis, which
‚comes clavate when old.
stalked, alternate, the size and colour
£ Lily of the Valley, but scentless, drooping; placed on
stalks half an inch lo
lender, with a broad, ovate, subcordate, and semitransparent acute
deciduous bract at the base. SzGxttxrs of the rroweR oblo
spreading; the petals brouder
than the others, and with the lateral sep
adhering by their whole base toa long foot, which q
the base of the column almost at a right angl
Laneros standing at the back of the flower,
gibbous at the base and slightly saccate, very small, attached to the extreme point of the foot of the
sd with pink, bearded inside, thre
column ; slightly tin
bed at the apex; the lateral lobes linear,
he middle two-toothei and minute, or rather wanting, its place being sup
plied by two little revolute teeth, Cor
parallel, obtuse, that in
Mx very short, Axruer terminal, deciduous, ovate, two.
celled. Poruex-atassns two, rounded, two-lobed at the back, waxy, smooth. CAPSULE two inches
long, somewhat cylindrical, pink, curved. Os, The four lateral leaves
at the
the perianth being inserted
much elongated ascending base of the
umn, almost so that the sepals which
t the labellum cover very litle of the margins of the
id to bo placed all in
the labellum there only inserted.
tals, which occupy the middle of
the column, may be
line. The very base of the column is terminated by
OF No. 4. the left hand figure represents the labellum seen in front, and that on the right a sing
m on the side opposite a leaf; they are about three-quarters of am inch in diameter
reais and errs are obovate, acute, spreading, yellow, and nearly of ca
on each sido, and flat
Lamar is pale pink, concave at the base, where it has a rounded
pale p
beyond the lobes, enlarging into à somewhat triangular tre-lobed fringed plat
Fig.
represent the column and lip of this plant, copied from the drawing
III VANDA CRISTATA,
Vanda cristata. Genera $ Species of Orchidaccous Plants, p. 216.
This species has very much the manner of growth and appearance of Saccolabium gutta
but its flowers are totally diferent. Dr. Wallich found it in March, 1818, growing upon trees in
Nep
his manuscripts with the following add
+ Me also obtained it in April at Toka, near Sheopore, on which occasion it was described in
“ Flos exquisito pulchritudinis, sentia
crassissima, intas ubi etiàm holoserice
or atropurpureus precipuê is tho
translation of the more essential parts of the description referred to.
The suoors are about as thick as the little finger, nearly simple, emitting from the sides near
the bate thick taper fleshy fibres, adhering to the bark of trees like Vanda tessellata, to which plant
it bears much resemblance in habit and leaves, The naves wo-ranked, imbri-
p
are if, spreading,
cating each other alternately at the base, shining,
smelled, kecled on the under side, very
a
he macenes are axillary, generally threo or four on the same shoot, s
edged, from five to six inches long, and oncthird of an i
ch wide, truncated a
toothed at the ends, reely
Jong asthe leaves, and bearing but few flowers (in the figure and specimens before me the pedun:
les are threelowered). Tbe rEDUNeLES are fleshy, taper, two or three inches long, having at the
base a fow truncated bracts, together with one broad o
pedicel, Frowens large, fleshy, yellow purple lip. Serars fleshy
lanceolate, spreading, rather obtuse, about half an inch 1
n of the label,
nearly distinct; the lateral ones
extended a little beyond the origi
slightly exten
base of
the column. Prats nearly linear. Lanztaus very thick, saceate at the baso, and extended int
a very short broad sharpih horn, adhering to the fleshy base of the column ; with an ovate, obtuse
upwards extended into an oblong blade, which terminates below the point
in n solid short horn, and has ab
transverse border running into three or
ue irregular
cylindrical processes; on the vi
le of the upper su
mk
it is covered with warted lines; (on the
outside ta white inside it is stro
thick,
globose, two-lobed at the back, (with short clastic cuudicula, and a very lar
with purple broken lines). Cotuwx very short,
1. Arm termin
wo remote distinet celle. Pouts-at
rounded
and.)
Owa with six, keeled, project
Fig. 3. ts the column and Iabellum, from a drawing belong
to the East India
V, SUNIPIA BICOLOR,
Sunipia bicolor. Genera § Species of Orchidaceous Plants, p. 179.
Aorides? obcordatum. Wallich mss.
Known only from a drawing in the library of the
st India Company. It is a native of Nepal,
having been collected in that province by Dr. Wallich.
Te forms a small patch of ovate PSEUDO-BULES, about as large as marb
s, each of which is
terminated by a narroworal slightly stalked obtuse Lear, three inches in len
erect, rather longer than the leaves, and originate from the base of the pseudo-bulbs ; they hear about
nine small ringent flowers, arranged upon a flexnoso slender rachis
of which is subtended by
a lanceolate colourless pracr, larger than the short obovate ovary. ‘The sz
are white, slightly
streaked with purple, ovate-laneeolate ; the two lateral ones being narrower and. rather larger than
the others, placed parallel with each other below the lip, and slightly adhering by their margins.
The reais aro white, ovate, bluntish, rather more than twice as short as the sepals, with a fai
purple streak at their bas
LADELLUM is deep purple, and articulated with a very short foot of
the column; its general outline is cuneate; in the middle it is flat and fleshy, and traversed by a
sunken (?) line, at the margin it is serrated, at the apex rounded and emarginate ; just above the
base there is on cach side a small erect auricle. All these things are described from the Indian
drawing above referred to
5. represents a magnified view of the flower, after the sepals are cut off
VL
SACCOLABIUM CALCEOLARE,
Saccolabium ealeeolare. Genera $ Species of Orchidaccous Plants, p.
Register for 1838, miscellancous matter, no. 139.
Gastroci i
23. Botanical
ilus calecol:
D. Don Prodromus Flore Nepalensis, p. 32.
Aerides calceolare. Smith in the article Aerides, in the Supplement to Rees’ Cyclopedia.
Acrides leopardinum. Wallich ms.
A native of Nepal, where it was found by Dr. Wallich, growing upon trees at a place called
in March. It is not conspicuous for the sl
exceedingly pretty when closely examined ; its bl
Toka, and flowering
of its flowers, but it is
found to be elegantly spotted and
It exists in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devon:
fringed if observed with a lite care
Frontispiece.
shire, and lowered at Chatsworth a year or two since; having been colletod by Mr. Gibson at
‘Chitra, on the Klbosca hills, at an elevation of 400 fect, growing on toes.
‘The following is the substance of Dr, Wallich’sdeseription of the dried p
Roots tapering, thick, cylindrical, long, and smooth, as in Saccolabium guttatum. Stax short,
thick, e d, entirely concealed by the sheathing bases of the leaves, Leaves close together
arranged in two rows, lincar, corinccous, smooth, a foot and more long, obliquely one or two-toothed
at the point, generally rising upwards and curved to one side mo a somewhat filato
appearance, thick, slightly channelled, with a convex midrib on the under sido; their sheaths ar
short, compressed, and finely dotted with purple. Conrans shortstalked, solitary or twin, cach
Consisting of from ten to sixteen Rowers; with a very thick clavate peduncle an inch and half long
et or ascending, taper, spotted with purple, Frowens middle-sized, yellowish-green, most
gantly sprinkled with roundish purple spots. Serars spreading, distinct, fleshy and stiff, some-
what obovate, obtuse, a litle narrower at the base, bout four lines long. Perats rather narrower
and more round. LABELO larg, bag-shaped, twice as large as the sepals, smooth ; obtuse at th
bottom, truncated and almost circular at the mouth, pale yellow ; with a transverse plate, of a som
what reniform figure, inserted horizontally in front, a little below the orifice of the libellum, snow-
White, yellow and spotted with purple in the middle, and bearded above with white hairs. Cont
Sery short, conical. Asun ovate, short, obtuse, with two cells, themselves half divided into two
other cells, in front extended into a long double-tothed glandular process appli to
toothed apex of the stigma, Porrex-tasses two, globose, with a litle excavation on one sid
attached to a long slender camila
6, represents a single lower seen in front obliquely, and magi
VII. AERIDES DIFFORME.
Aerides difforme, Wallich in Genera $ Species of Orchidaccous Plants, p. 242.
Ornithochilus fuscus. Wallich mss.
Te inhabits d
Garden, Calcutta, where it flowered in the following May. No specimen of it has fillen in my way
but the Indian drawing made under Dr. Wallich’s superintendence sufficiently explains its struct
especially when assisted by so detailed a deseription as the following, chiefly translated from Dr
Wallich’s Latin manuscripts.
The plant has scarcely any stem, but of three or four very broad, oblong spread
aves, about six inches long by two and a half broad, o thick fleshy consistence, a rather glaucous
colours a very thin membranous margin, and am acute obliquely emarginato point, Prom the axils
ofthese lenses spring one or two sti rc, lux macias, about as long as the leaves themselves
their peduncles tape and somewhat fleshy, ‘The macrs are few, remote, lanceolate, small,
neute adnate at the base, Frowna scattered, rather small, sweetscented, yellow
tinged with green, and streaked with dull pur
forming an oblong raceme about the length of the
finger, seated upo us bracelet at the
der pedicels about an inch in length, with a small mémbra
base. Seria and Petars all turned towards the samo side, spreading fat; of the former the lateral
aro somewhat faleate, lanecolate, prominent on their outer margin, searcely extended beyond the
column, adnate to the base of the lips the lattor are linear, shorter,
the back of the flower, and har
use, LamBLLUM placed at
ng down upon it, divided in the middle into two parts; of these
the lower (or hypochilium) is inguiculate, and extended in front into a long greenish yellow spur
which curves upwards and is closed by numerous white hairs, while its margin, of a dull purple, is
‘curved inwards; the upper (or epichilium) is broad, kidney-shaped, retuse, slightly unguiculate, with
am intermediate point, dull purple, wit
a yellow border divided into fringe-tike teeth, and an acute
longitudinal erest through ita centro. The COLUNN is erect, thick, purplish, very short, tapering
upwards into a narrow space, and extended downwards into a short foot. The sriexa is largo,
oblique, and extended
o a large projection from the upper edge of the anther-bed. ‘The axa
is oblique, obtuse, not crested, and extended in front in
truncated plate which covers over the
caudicula and gland. Pouury-auassis two, round, hard, deeply two-lobed at the back, attached to
a lo
g broad caudicula—No
‘The structure of this singular flower is so very intrie
unusually difficult to describe it correctly. ‘The lateral sepals are united below the sl
foot of the column, and together with the
is of the hyp
'hilium form a very short spur; while
the more conspicuous horn-like spur is really the apex of the same part
Dr. Wallich
colum
ed the plant Onxernocnrius, or Bird-bil, in
lusion to the appearance of the
d anther, which together resemble very much a duck's head ; I have however
with Aerides, for the present at least
Fig. 7. is a complete flower, about three times the natural
e, copied from Dr. Wallich's
drawing.
VIII. SUNIPIA SCARIOSA.
Sunipia scariosa. Genera $ Species of Orchidaceous Plants, p. 179.
Ornithidium bracteatum. Wallich ms.
This, the bject in the wreath, was like all the others found by Dr. Wallich, who met with
it in May, 1818, growing upon the branches of trees nt Toka in Nepal, where such epiphytes arc
d Sunipiang, wh
ipiang, when
the name Sunipia was taken by Dr. Buchanan Hamilton ; all those how
d from that travellers papers by the late Sir James Smith în Ree
Cyclopedia, under the genus Stelis,
ever which were describ
ppear to have belonged to the genus Bolbophyllum.
A very long and minute Latin description of living specimens of this plant, by Dr. Wallich, is
before me, of whieh 1 avail my
riod low
dito
IE in part: with such y corrections as the examination of
in my herbarium re
as a foot long, and form an entan
A mass held down to
the ground by numerous perpendicular ro
inversely pear-shaped rseuno-nurps, which an
by a single leat Each rear is about four inches long, orablanccolate, fat, shining, firm, acute
doub lat the point, and nt tho base contracted into a short channelled petiole. ‘The scares
pring from the base ofthe pseudo-bulbs, and are very slender, erect, rigid, brownish dy
thicker than a piece of tine, and clothed with a fow long narrow sheathing scales. These are termi
nated by distichous seus, which are drooping, and about six inches long. ‘The rŁow zas are exactly
distichous manner, yellowish purple, nearly parallel with the fattened rac
alternate in his, which is
half surrounded below cach flower by a single pact, dry, ovate
on each side, The rrowens are two-lipped, much
sometimes expanded into an ovate obtuse
shorter than the bracts, and partially hidden by them, The strats are ovate, obtuse slightly tinged
at, and placed next the rachis, at the back of the labellum. Th
with pink; the lateral ones the lan
ranma is fleshy,
ras are roundish-ovate white, very obtuse, thrice as short as the sepals;
tinged with pink, tongue-shaped, blunt, much shorter than the sepals, and a litle dilated near the
base where the margins stand erect producing something the appearance ofa shoe. The coux is
very short, not at all extended atthe base into a foot, but quito continuous with the ovary; in front it
is hollowed dut into a stigma, and at the summit it bear the anther.
Ie is from the very unusual structure of tho anther that the genus derives ts principal distin-
guishing feature, Instead of being loose in the anther-bed, hinged by its back, and opening
under side so as to allow the pollen-masses to drop ont upon the anther-bed, it is xo fastened down by
face thatthe later operation becomes impossible, and in order to provide for the escape of th
pollen, the ells ly, so that when their sides are drawn asunder the pollen-masies ar at
‘once seen reposing in their places, The rozasx-atasens themselves are four adhering in two pairs, and
scconting to memoranda made by mo twenty years ago, for I have not seen them since, they are
attached to two cuudicule, the nature of whose connection with the stigma is not yet known.
In fig, & the left-hand figure represents a side view ofa flower much magnified ; while the right
fa front view showing the position of the pollen-masses and anthers when undisturbed.
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Piare I.
STANHOPEA DEVONIENSIS
S. Devoniensis ; foliis oblongis 5-nervi
labello medio quam maximé constricto, hypochilio subrotundo anticè basi gibboso
marginib
obsoletà
carnosis dilatatis replicatis, epichilio ovato subcanaliculato apice
ridentato cornubus duobus hypochilii incurvis «quali, columnie margi-
alelis.
Contzonte Coxochitl seu Lyncea. Hernand
nibus parùm dila
thesaur. rer. med. nov. hisp. p. 266.
Anguloa Hernandezi
Kunth synops. 1. 332.
L
Maxillaria Iyncen. Gen. et sp. orch. p. 15
This noble Mexican Orchidaceons plant flowered for the first time in this country, in the
epiphyte house at Chatsworth, in t
beginning of August, 1897, and certainly there never wa
more beautiful si ms, in all the
bt than when it expanded jts large rich leopand-spotted bl
f lar fi
n and deep soft colours, The fall b
wn flowers measured nearly four
inches and a half across, and
cable odour, resembling a combinatio
Chimonanthus, E
iotrope, and the perfume called Maréchal.
I cannot doubt that this was the famous Lynx flower of Hernandez, when his
iption ar
1
‘green the native place of the plant he d
ultiyated for the sake ofits beautiful owe
The flowers, he says, are of a
white and confusediy dot
es as rocks and the trunks of trees, but he adds that i
which are more striking than words can describe,
r the pencil imitate, with the fragrance of a lily: by which he probably meant the White Lily
a favourite Spanish flower.
From all the species of this striking genus hitherto observed, it diffe
as Mr. Paxton has
remarked to me, in the furrow which terminates the upper side of the leaf at th
running through to
pseudo-bulb, but losing
about halfway down the petiole. Independently
this
cumstance, it is distinguished from all the varieties of S, insignis, by its much larger flowers,
and by t
ad dilated margin, so conspicuous in that species; to say
wer half of the lip, which in $. Dev
ng drawn sharply and abruptly inwards. Tt approaches more
nearly to S. tigrina, another Mexican plant, the rival of this in beauty, which is about to appear în
Mr. Bat
nan's magnificent publication upon the “ Orehidacew of Mexico and Guatemala,” b
of the i
that
species has the middle lo
divided into three nearly equal portions, both the upper and
lower part of the same organ very much broader
the ba
and manner of flowering of this species there is nothing particular to notice
beyond the points
ady adverted to, The fo
ing is a description of one of the o
Seraas ovate, obtuse, a little undulated, the lateral on
united at the base under the lip, al
two inches and a bby an inch and a halfin width; their ground
ur a clear yellowish
range, richly spo vad, reddish-brown blotche
cially inthe middle where the
lanceolate, very wavy, acute, an inch and three-quarters
of an inch in breadth, turn
back at the point, ofthe same colour with the
bands. Lar white, very fleshy, with a few
base; the lower hal (hypochili
ad there, and an extremely deep purp
coluna, at the base, rather prominent at the front
ins; their anterior angle extended on each side into a long,
side, with excessively thick dilated m
a meet at che base in a broad Moshy tubercl
standing at the base of the epichilium, and los
need, obsoletely toothed, slightly artienlated with the
tho upper half (epekiiem) ovate, chann mer
conves, with tho margin so litle widened upwards that the two edges ar
„sx plan
ott with erim
N
recess with which epiphytes aro
4 to name this superb plant in compliment to the Noble Duke in
I am gratified by being allow
worth it first lowered. The
whose unrivalled collection at Ch
dr, and the climate in which this is
de peril as if one had to visit them in an
there cultivated by Mr, Paxton is wo
ants can only be seen with as mue
ira. As to lusuriance
lot and damp that the
growth, never
Tndian jungle is as mild and delightful as that of Ma
feet beauty. It, there
n to be enabled, by the permission of his Grace the Duke of Devon
h, drawn up by Mr. Paxton himself
affords me no little
have they been seen in their native woods in such
hire, to publish the fol-
Towing account of the management of Orchidacew at Chatewo
— Tan
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Piare II
BURLINGTONIA VENUSTA.
Burlingtonia venusta, Botanical Register under plate 1927.
present only known from a drawing made in Brazil by Mons J. Th
1 Orchidaccous plan
of their liberal
all have frequent oceasi
tile, and forming part of a manuseript description, with fiw
y of M. le Baron Benjamin De
cert. As I have the permis
such as are most remarkable in this collection, I
10 avail myself of its materials, in illustration of the present work.
There is no description of Burli
a venusta among M. Descourtilz’s manuseripts, which
terminate at the very plate which precedes this nothin
therefore is known of its habits, or of the
part of Brazil in which it was found, Tt is, however,
ith a somewhat
o much like another plant
difer
r
h
under the title
idee panduriforme,” and which T have formerly distingui
as Burlingtonia. frgra
x of flowers erect not pendulous, its bloss
always half closed with the labo
mm standing at the back, and the little cars at the end of the
obliterated, that an account of the one, these differences being kept in mind, will
nearly answer for the othe
M. De
scribes Burlingtonia fragrans to the following effect. The
d by dry scales out of which spring the
esEuDO-nULAS, which are fusiform, n
+h compressed, and each terminated by a lanceolate, stalkle
Lear; the latter is bright shinin
ns veinless, thick and brittle, and rounded at the point with
run is radical, taper, erect or reflexed, of a greenish vi
and furnished with a bract at each bend ; the flowers grow in racemes, and are always half closed
te, tinged externally with reddsh-ilue (rinlet-ias) ; the doul
is undivided ath
base triangular cavity into which the spur of the lip is inserted, ‘Tho rerats are broader, as white
1 with
and paral umn. The ui is larger than the other parts of the Rower, narrow
fered as it were ab
es ts colour is puro white, but atthe
narrow part in the centre ¢
front by three p
nts, and has at the margin two salient lines, within which are in
I, prolonged on each
stigma into a sh
The asuen s wards upon the end of the column,
is hemispherical, and divided internally into tw dicular partition ; at the apex
wing two deep yellow pollen m:
This beautiful species i remarkable for the delicious whieh its flowers exh
and near the city of Bom Jesus de Bananal, blossoming in October
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DENDROBIUM NOBILE.
Dendrobium nobile, Gen. et sp. Oreh. p. 80.
Tur first knowledge that we had of this charming plant was from a Chinese drawing in the
library of the Horticultural Society ; and from that drawing, made in China under t
Mr. Reeves, the short character above referred to was taken. A live plant brought home by Mr
Reeves was presented to Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it lowered for the first time, and in great
magnificence, in February, 1837.
mest of the Asiatie genera of thi
der, and T think
d the handaomest of all Dendrobis: Its very stems are so bright and
and. the effet of th
Dendrobium is one of the h
D. nobile must be
bright
ls seen through he semitransparent skin in very striking. ‘The flowers are unrivalled for
deliency of texture, and gracefulness of form; at first nodding as if their slender stalks. were
ht; and then, a they disenta
their ample folds, assuming u horizontal
Position, with the rich trumpet-shaped lip forming an apparently solid centre, they seem purposely
to raise themselves to the distinet view of the beholder
most nearly allied to D. moniliforme, figured in the Botanical Register, t 1314,
from which it differs în having termination, and much more obtuse as
well as larger
Tt is not known in what part of China this d. Mr. Reeves bought it in
the market at Maca
Sruus erect, clustered, light green, a foot and more high, rather compr
d, with deeply
furrowed joints about three-quarters of an inch long, Leaves rather distichous, narrow
obliquely emarginate, firm, fat, obtuse with thin semitransparent sheaths, which quite surround
the stem at the m the leaves themselves have dro
and permanently
23-Nowercd, bursting
Pepvnerzs ascendin ths at their back, about tro inches
with short, membranous, acuminate bracts at the base of the pedicels, Frowens when in bud
nodding, when expanded horizontal, quite spread open, two inches and three-quarters nere
ly linear, nearly equal, obtuse, the lateral a very litle length
od with rich b obtuse, rather wavy, very
nish yellow tip
and transparent, the same colour as the sepals, Lar rolled up, very sh
th inside and outside; in form obovate, with a deep notch
cure lobes, of which the lat
euspidate; in colour deep bi reenish yellow at th
red in the tube, pale
end; a linear downy space passes upwards along the centre from the unguis till
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CYMBIDIUM GIGANTEUM.
Cymbidium giganteum, Wadlicks Catalogue, no. 7355. Gen. et sp. Orch. p. 163.
“Tunis is the most striking of all the plants belonging to the true
mus Cymbidium, and was
“the gigantic” when compared with other known species, It is a native of Nepal
and Kemaon, where it was discovered by Dr. Wallich in
ho year 1821, The accompanying. plat
has been prepared after a drawing made at the time of its discovery, and liberally placed at my
Direct
Honourable Court
disposal for publication by u a of the
st India Company. The
o, if indeed it does not already exist
plant i
Tt will beo
ved. that the spike of flowers is erect in the drawin
and it appears from the
dried specimens distributed by the East India Company that this is the natural position. Other-
wise, as the lip stands above the colun
have been supposed that the flowers were pendulous,
as in Cymbidium aloifolium and others,
Tenerved, narro nd ton
Leaves upwards of two fet lon dilated at
the base, where they are pale, strongly ribbed, and closely imbricated in distichous manner ; these
bases romain permanently after the leaves have dropped of them, and form a hard fatt
own to the simple, creeping roo nts, and become
of the plant; eventually they split into fragm
warse ragged membranes. Scars erect, closely covered at the base with loose imbricated strated
scales, changing into a spike about a foot scales, Ovanızs an
la and half lon
Bracrs short, ovate, acu
ig. Frowens rather closed, dull purple, tesellated, very lange for the genus.
Serate oblong, ncute, erect, am inch and half N
d, obed : the lateral lobes entire
ppermost. Perats lincar-laneeolate, acute, spreading, rather shorter than the sepals. Lir o
fat, narrow, the intermediate cris, ciliate verging ciliated lamelle, ending
in a line of hairs that reach to the point of the lip,
red by two distant hairy lines on each
Corvsx clavate, edged sn
sth, with a terminal anther, which adheres firmly to the back
md hardly opens in front
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CATTLEYA BICOLOR.
Cattleya bicolor, Botanical Register, plate 1919 in the letter-press.
Epidendre iridée, Descourti
s drawings, pl. 49, p. 105.
A very distinct Brazilian species of this charming genus. It is for the present only known
of M. Des
“This beautiful plant g
ourtilz, who speaks of ita
m the trunks and branches of the largest
mous tuft. I have only found it in the neighbourhood of
Bananal, Its
r endures for a great while, opens in the month of April, and
sales the sweet smell of the garden pink,
Rurtzona reddish, cylindrical, articulated, with short ringed segments, which put forth thick,
white, shining, cylindrical, or very simple roots. Srexs r m p
feet long, green, simple, covered completely with sheaths which are long, dry, alternate, finely
late, obtuse, very thick, veinles, of a glaucous or blueish green. FLowER-staLxs proceedin
from a compressed, broad, greenish purple spathe; the summit of the common peduncle pal
n. Fiownn very large, lalFexpanded. Szata greenish brown, purple or reddish-brown, shining
inted, convex, the nding and of a similar
striated lengthwise: the upper ovallanecol
de. Lir narrow,
dle of the
form. Petars thinner, spathulate cris, of the same reddish-brown colour as the s
channelled at its base, which is pure white, forming a line which exten
level where this white line terminates dl
disk, where itis dotted lon
sinally with purple; at t
blade of a b
Conus very thick, broad, convex above, flat or alittle concave beneath,
violet, turned downwards and
disk entar
crenelled at the e
lear white, striated lengthwise with yellow at the base, Srieaa heart-shaped, acute at the point
È
and lodging in four celle of the anther, which is simply white and conves.
use ásars four, yellow, lenticular ted laterally on a curved gelatinous thread,
Piare Vio. 2.
SOPHRONITIS GRANDIFLORA.
Cattleya coccinea, Botanical Register, folio 1919, in the letter-press.
idendre ponceau, Descourtils's drawings, pl. 10, p. 27.
A most brilliant little epiphyte, found in Brazil by M. Descourtila, upon the high mountains
of Iha Grande, T
ows there in abundance
that separate the district of Bananal fron
fallen and decaying trees; its seentless flowers ap
At first I took it for a species of Cattleya, of which it has all the habit; but upon a more
tion of M. Descourtilz d re, T have satisfied myself that it is a
en lb rather than a
distinct genus, differing from Cattleya in havin seu
», und no spathaceous bract within which the flowers are engendered.
+ of pollen masses it agrees with Lai; but that genus is very different in it
nia nal species of Sopkroniis
flowers, pseudo-bulbs, and long equitant spathace
eos with 1 ur, habit, and many other particulars, but it has the petals smaller, n
i to a different order of developement ; T am,
than tho sep
Mr. Bateman in referring this to the genus
however, upon th
Sophronitia
M. DI
Roors encrusted together, long, flexuore
al like the Pe
nvLm, which are smooth but not sl
ypes called Tsis, having on the upper part fusiform, I
ing, and often enveloped in a dry, wrinkled, greyish viole
d, pointed, channelled
sheath, Lear solitary, terminal, thick, firm, tong
1 green, having at its base a broad sharp brac
Peouxcix simple, cylindrical, twisted, bri
a filiform
its upper end evo smaller rin
flaly expanded flower. Frowen with all its parts
violet ovary, terminated by a b
vermilion, red, or orange; the sepals narrow, ovate; the petals much broader, forming I
wings; all streaked with di longitudinal lines, and having a satiny violet cast externally
Lar something like the standard of a leguminous plant inverted, clear yellow, with a bro
tinm-eoloured border and dire
à, with the middle division ovate, obtuse, and much shorter than the sepals. There are many
ar-red, but in all of them the exterior ofthe
Ayrurn convex, greenish, divided
lateral white dilatations or wings, bordered by brig!
L
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Mana macioslachya.
Piare VI.
BRASSIA MACROSTACHYA.
B. macrostachya; pseudobulbis compressis margine obtusis 2-3-phylls, foliis ligulato-
oblongis striatis abruptò acutis, seapo mutante. multioro, sepalis linearibus
acuminatis lateralibus longissimis, labello oblos
longiori
Janceolato acuminato petalis
uty with this
> species of the genus Brassia hitherto discovered, can bo compared for b
most graceful and brilliant plant, whose long nodding racemes of flowers bend gently over the
rich and verdant foliagi o slender petals aro so long, so slight, and so delicate as to be
agitated by every impulse gi
lying in my portfolio since October 1836, when the flowers were first seen. Tho only species with
which it is necessary to compare it is B. caudata, figured in the Botanical Register, £ 832; which
ditos in th
represented by the sections at the lower right-hand e
lowing particulars. Tts pecudo-bolbs are cito at the ma
mer of the plate; its flowers ars smaller
greener, and much more mottled with deep brown; and its labellum is ovate, acuminate, and the
f be
same length as the petals instead
anceolate, and longer than the petal,
If it were pro ombine Odi
ossum with Brassia it would be dificult to point out
5
mn winged, or bordered by a thin margin. In
o. Their principal distincti
ls and petal
habit they are very similar, and if th
nus had not been proposed by M. Kunth, it may De
d whether it would be now distinguished.
A vigorous growing, rich but not d n, epiphyte. Parupo-nuias oblong, between four
d, blunt, and rather extended at the ©
of green, carinato, stria the uppermost of which have a foliaceous limb, Leaves two or
bulb, oblong-ligulate, about eight inches Ton
sometimes tumid at the base, Scare radical, a foot and a half lon
nodding, covered with flowers almost from the base. Bnacrs orate, scale-like, much shorter than
the ovary. Serats linear, acuminato
upper about two inches long, the k Prenat the same form
and colour as th
inches long, palo erean-colour, oblong-lanecolate, acute,
crisp a at the base, where it is furnished with two elevated
nt of which stand three horns, the lateral of which are erect and rather
recurved, the middle one much smaller and p
— — aes
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Prare VIL
CYRTOCHILUM STELLATUM.
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stellatum; pscudobulbis diphyllis ovalibus compressis striatis inter squamas
laneeolatas
tas axillaribus, foliis ligula
obtusis aveniis scapo multò
brevioribus, scapo tereti erecto basi icho multifloro, bracteis
inato, racemo
carinatis convolutis acuminatis glumaceis ovario longioribus, sepalis petalisque
lineari-obovatis acutis stellais, labello oblongo undulato acuto basi canaliculato
striato, alis columna: acinaciformibus integerrimis.
pidendre étoilée. Descourtilz drawings, plate 37. p. 81.
This noble species of the genus Cyrtochilum is nearly related to O. flavescens of the Botanical
Register, 1.16
differing in its much larger flowers, the sepals of which are by no means
acuminated, but only drawn to a sharp point; in the greater breadth of the pseudo-bulbs; in ite
and in the Tabellum being white instead of yellow. ‘The following
je the account
Brazil.
ven of the plant by M. Descourtlz in his manuseript work on the Orebiduce of
through the districts of Macahé and Bananal, Te
flowers in September and remains in that state til the end of January. Te diffuses but a weak
perfume, but the benutifal spikes, which seen at a distance make it resemble a mass. of verdure
irs, render it a most remarkable object,
strewed with large
cylindrical, whitish, shining
Rurzonca very thi provided at its lower part with numerous
upon the bark of the al
mt roots, which fix then st trees,
cylindrical succo
spreads to the extent of many feet, Panuno-nuuns oval, slightly compressed, bright green, sur-
shaped LEAVES, which are
int
rounded at dio ba
obtuso, channelled, compressed at their insertion, of a pure and
m above, yellowish
ow, moderately thick and not veiny. From among the dilated leaves proceeds a scaro
+ long, eglindrial, shining, whitish violet, jointed and furnished at each bend with a
sd
sharp-pointed brac, which is acute, hol it, violet and transparent, Frowens
e upon dull
very largo, spreading open, spiked, in tr
a
di spread from the spike and aln
entirely enclose them.
s, whi
proceeding from the axil of the b
udinal furrow, straw or lemon-coloured.
Spraus three, spathulate, very acute, with a mi
Prats of the same colour, b
articulated with the column, snow white, but marked internally at
ks of ye
d on cach side atthe
at the bose, crisp at the edi
ar. Conus straight, short, ofan ivory
nded
the base with Jonsitudinal str
curved, the inner bo
the outer dg
raked with transverse blood-coloured lines.
by a deep carmine line, otherwise bright yellow,
Axia convex, white, Portrx-wassrs oval, pale yellow, attached to an oblong carmine
gland.”
The genus Cyrtochilum was originally proposed by M. Kunth in Humboldt and Bonpland's
Nova Genera ot Species Plantarum as distinguished from Oncidium by its convex lip, in allusion to
Which the name was formed, This character is however by no means suficient to limit any g
which Y have knowledge, and consequently, in admitting Cyrtochilum int
» T have found it necessary to alter its defin
systematic arrangement of the o and to allow it
‘comprehend such Oreidacea as would have been referred to Oncidium if they ad had a lobed
labellum. Ta this view ofthe character, the genus becomes little more than an artificial dismember
mont of Oncidium, and Tam by no means sure that it ean be preserved in its present state, especially
is many of the species have all the habit of Oncidium proper. It is however impossible u
fixed opinion upon the subject in the present state of our information, and therefore I abstain
upon ihis occasion from doing more than deseribing the present very remarkable species,
Whose large spathaccous brats possibly afford a surer character for a genus than any thing in the
flower itse
‘Cyrtochilum pardinum and ixioides ought rather to be referred to Odontoglossum along with
Cyriochilum volubile of Póppig.
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ryfumana.
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1. Oberomia rufilabrıs.
OBERONIA RUFILABRIS.
O. rufilabris; foliis
aristatis floribus duplò longioribus, petalis lineari-lanceolatis acutis int
bfalcatis acutis, spicà sub-verticillatà completà, bracteis ovatis
Iateralibus setnceis
labello trilobo basi tuberculato sepalis longiore: laci
à bipartitä lobis acutis divergentibus.
it is not intended in this work to make a practice of figuri
& minute plants which
nly for their curious structure, yet the ex
mely remarkable forma of some species
render them even more worthy of illustration than the more striki
nts for which these plates are
chiefly destined. Such a ease is the present, where a page is oceupied by figures of throe micro
Orchidaceæ, each of whieh is still more strangely fashioned than the oth
and al so different from
other plants that one might almost doubt their even belonging to the v
a living evidence of animals tranamut plant
The genus Obe s principally
f small leshy-leaved epiphytes, inhabiting the branches
a iridifolin) has been seen alive
A having the most tiny of flowers, Fourteen
ing (0
described, of which one only, and that the least inte
in E
Orehidaceons pla
Man Orchis, Butterfly Ore
to insects and other animal forms which have heen perceived in th
uch names us Fly Orchis, Bee Orchi
may be traced so
sinly in the genus Oberonia.
s would furnish a magazine of now ideas! for the gr
que pencil of
German admirer of the wild and præternatural.
now figured were dis
The two sp overed in the Burmese empire, by Mr, Griffith; a botanist
of indefatigab
zeal and exertions the greatest discover
at reputation, feom whe
expected in the Flora of the British pe
by Mr. Grid him
pat A TEn pate oraria
since compared with dried specimens
collected a
Oberonia rußlabris is an almost stomfess plant, hanging down from the branches on which it
ows, and o which it clings by its slender thrend-like
ely along a slender simple axis, at the apex
they open first. Each flower is subtended by a thin transparent oval scr, which is lengthene
at the p
nt into a very long soft transparent bristle, ‘The siata are three, ovat
ly mottled with dull red ; they are of the same size, and
the latter are lincarlanceolate, and quite entire. The Labruna stands at tho back of the flowers
they hang, is of a b our, und firm fleshy con
mee; at its base it has a lang
granulate: ip against the column ; near the base on cach side i
slender setaceous lobo; the apex is split int
cuneate, with the anterior angles of the clinandrium lobed, red, and crystalline; th
ovate gland at the apex of the stigma, but it does not appear that the pollen.mi
ia two pai toi
This species is very nearly allied to Oberonia anthropophiora, whieh is also a Burmese plant
ni, not stemless, has no tubercle at the base of its lip, as the middle lobes of
broad, short, and half ovate; the spike is eva
lowers
are not so Ton
nt of its natural size. A, i a highly magnified view
hey are not verticillate. A2, represents
spike, wi er adhering to it, ata part wh
ate gland in front, and the anther, which i coste,
umn very highly magnified, with th
piedły at its back. A 3, ix a profile of a flower, showing the lo pointed bract, th
neck of the labellu. AA, shews the
+ maised up, and the great goitre at
column with the am
um has been eut off; tho anther raised up, the
front of a full-blown flower from which the lab
pollen-masses Tying below it and the stigmatic gland withored up. A 5, represento the tio pairs
of pollen-mas
OBERONIA GRIFFITHIANA.
, foliis linearibus subfalcatis apiculatis, spicà subvert
O. Grifithiana; subeaulescei
latà apice evanescente, bri
‘teis ovato-lanceolatis serrulatis flo
sepalis ovatis acutis, petalis obovatis obtusis laceris glandulosis, labello e
basi saccato apice bipartito utrinque multiido margine scabro, columná anticè
altogether the brilliant colouring of the last, but its form is not less
This singular plant w
extrnordinary, Figures B 3 and 4, represent this so perfectly that I may safely leave the imagination
tb reader to discover with what it can bo most justly comp
The manie of Obe
evident. The arrangement of the ruowens is also the same. ‘The
nia Grifithiana js very much that of the lst species, but the stem is mo
Dacta are ovale lanceolate
acuminate, minutely toothed at the edge, and not longer than the flower. The surat are like those
a dull greenish brown, obtuse, as long as the
O. rufilabris, but more dingy. The Petars
mher of coarse divisions, but covered with fleshy
the petals, except that it has more purple at the base, ts edge and surface are rough, with lite
a number of finger-like lobes, of which the two
raised papille, and it is deeply: divided in
central ones are the largest, and there are about fiv gradually diminishing to the base on
The fe
of which the abellum is joined. ‘The pollensmasses in this and som
Jarly excavated in
192,1 the same in a more advanced state, with the labellum just beginning to
nt this species of the natural sic. B 1, is a young flower-bud about to expand.
old, two of its lobes
other parto like a pair of horns, B3 and 4, are highly magnified views of
s in front of the
M
tho back (4) and front (3) of a full-blown flower, 15, exhibits a
of the front of a flower stil
of the petals are cut away, and
the eupeshape
base of the column is seen below the stigmatic surfac
these two new species of Oberonia, and the 14 previously kno
to add.
m. 1 have the following
O. anceps; canle elongato ancipiti, foliis distichis ovatis incurvis obtus
dem imbricatis
cylindraced. densissimè imbricat,
lo truncato subquadrato obscurè di
o: Inc subanqualibus acuti,
Burmese empire (No. 1097) Mr. Griffith; a plant with the foliage of Ay
O. brachystachys; acalis, foliis oblongis obtus
spicà densì verteilt : verticillis multifloris, bracteis ovatis acut
rovioribus, sepalis ovatis
obinsinscnh
petalis obovatis serrulatis, labelo cordato tripartito: Inciniiscuneatis subesqualibus
apice seralatis——Burmese empire (Nos. 697 am
8) Mr. Grifith.
DRYMODA.
Perianthium valdê inequale et irregulare. Sepalum supremum erectum, liberum ;
Interalia postica, cum pede longissimo y connata, subrhomboide
pede col
supremo plurids majora. Petala nana, libera. Label
e articulatum, trilobum, convexum, lobo medio deflexo. Columna.
teres, auricalà longń petaloideá utrinque porrectá, basi in pedem lon-
rem canaliculatum elongata. Anthera terminalis, opercularis,
cristata, bilocularis. — Pollinia 4, accumbentia, glanduke globose carnose
grumosee separabili adnascentia.—Herba minuta, epiphyta, pseudobulbos
(aphylla?) scapis radicalibus vaginatis unifloris.
Drymoda picta.
e by Mr. Grifith,
‘The only ku
from specimens discovered by him in February, 183
ge have of this most curious plant is from a sketch m
at Mergui, in the Burmese empire, Tt isso
entirely different from any other Orchiducen with which I am acquainted, that I am unable even to
ame a genus with which it may be compared. In the structure of th
itis so peculiar that Mr. Grili c
Vanden
ders the plant situated on the confines of Epidendres and
1 have seen no specimen, and it is not worth attempting to deseribe the plant from the sketches
in my possesion: those parts which are copied in the accompanying plate sufieiently illustrate the
aus. C. isa view of the whole plant in flower; no leaves are represented in Mr. Grifidr drawings,
and T presume the plant has nothing but tele lenticlar angular psoudo-balbs. Tt will be seen th
the ower is inverted, that is, that the alum i up md between the two erect lateral sepals,
© 1, shews the fover in its natural position, much magnified ; the column with its two long petaldiko
arms is undermost, and the Tong fot of the column stands over it, bearing at the apex a pair of pink
and white lateral sepals, between which hangs down the deep red, fleshy, hairy labllum. © 2,
represents the same flower in the position which is most frequent in plants of this onder; the back sepal
and the petals are brought distinetly nto view, and the upper part of the labellum is seen standing
between two red and yellow arms, formed by the lateral sepals. C3, i a highly magnified profile view
of the column, with its two petaloid arms; and just above them appears a round large yellow stigmatic
land standing in front of the anther. C4, are the four pllensmastes seen from below, together with
the large sügmatie gland to which they adhere, ‘This gland is stated by Mr. Griffith to be opaqu
clavate erating with the pollen masses, which, especially the inner, adhere to it
very firmly ; itis composed of soft grumous matter, and is easily broken down. C5, is a profile
view of the same parts, C 6, is an exterior view of an outer pollen mass. C 7, is an interior view
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Pre IX.
CALANTHE BREVICORNU
Calanthe brevicornu. Genera $ Species of Orchid. plants, p. 2
As yet we know ltl
in the Gardens of the beauty o
this extensive Indian genus, for neither
of the two species we possess is calculated to convey an id
the kinds. C. purpurea and Masuea have
and sylvatica they are Ia
of the striking appearance of some
o and purple, in C. s
oued, and im th
represented stained and neatly striped with brownish red.
©. brericornu is a mative of Nepal, where it was found by Dr. Wallich in the year 1821. F
à drawing executed und
m of that celebrated Botanist, the ace
been prepared by permission of the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company
Te varies in height from nine inches to one foot and a half and pr
oth, plaited zas, which gradually taper off in
externally by several sheathing scales. T
|, deep gre
o a sheathing foliaccous stalk, surrounded
me height asthe leaves, sm
und, and with a few distant scales, The ruovrma w
enerally arranged on om
side of the scape, and are subtended by ovate-lane
at, slightly downy bracts, rather longer than
the pedicels. The ovary is taper, clavate, and downy. ‘The spats and PETALS are linearlam
he light red. The zanznuw, which is three-obed, is no
very much united with the column, and has a very short smooth spur; its lateral lo
and much smaller than the middle one, which is obovate, and eman
inte, with two deep. vertical
plates, running down the middle towards the spur, and concealing a third, which is smaller, but rather
its colour i white, with a few reddish sp
capsule, opening at the angles into three r
Up to the prese
time we can scarcely b more than two Calanthes in the
d to p
gardens ofthis country; one the stately snow-white © veratrifolia, and th
rs well worth obtaining have been imported into Flanders and Holland; with flowers and
of which I was three years ago fa
red by M. Auguste Mechelynck, a distingui
mt they have
by
rare plants at Ghent. "1 presume they are natives of Java, where many species ex
not been noticed by Dr. Blume, One of these called Aml
tis lava, but not th
+ just mentioned, has large yellow flowers
alled Calanthe bi
its flowers and its manner of
Which account it may be or. The other resembles
p chocolate brown sepals
and petals; the Belgian gardeners eall it C, tricolor, but as it
not appear how the n
he liberty of changing it to that of C. discolo
The following technical characters will enab
C. bicolor; racemo I
uo acutis, Tabeli trilobi columna: omnino
si convexo pubescent bicori,
C. discolor; racemo
isque nentis, label trilobi columns
bil
N
~
N
na
yi
N
N
SN)
o
U
SS
+
"O
Y
>=
NI
N
I
N
NE
7)
y,
Piare X.
SCHOMBURGKIA CRISPA.
SCHOMBURGKIA,
Sepala et petala conformia, patentia, omnind libera, basi sequalia. Labellum difforme,
n, trilobum, cucullatum, basi cum margine colur
): venis Iamellatis.
m, annulatum, pseudobulbi
connatum,
supra b
n tumidum (int Colum iata, Pollinia
octo— Rhizoma repens, mud
api terminales vaginati. Bractew spathac
+ petalis sepalis labellique lobo medio transverso obtuso crispis.
This very handsome genus ma, wh
ms at present to be confined to British Guay
rered by the zealous naturalist Mr. Schomburgk, after whom they arc
Schomburgkia is nearly allied to Epidendrum, from which it is distinguished by jts Jar
spathaccous bracts, by its membranous labellum adhering to the column only at the base, and havi
below the middle a distinctly marked prominence, which co
sponds with an impression on the
under side, and by havi
ht pollensmasses. In the latter character I trust to a drawing sent
home hy Mr. Schomburgk, none of the specimens of either species being in a state to shew the
structure of the anther
of B
rentyn, but occurred more frequently afterwards near the river Berbice
The neo
and corrected from dried specimens in my herbarium.
Schomburg a inhabits the interi
da cris itish Guayana; it was first met with on the
npanying figure has been prepared from a drawing sent home by Mr. Schombu
Te has a stout round mutzoma, closely marked with annular scs
indicating. the place
of sales that have fillen off ‘The Pazobo-nvtas are from four to six inches long, fusiform, rather
angular from deep furrows, very har, and covere some time with firm, brownish, mem-
branons, sheath bulb bears two lanceolate, corinecons,
arp-pointed scales, Each pseud
Lwy, about nino inches long by two and a quarter broad. ‘The scan is terminal, erect, nearly
three fect long, hard, stif, completely covered with pale brown, dry, closely pressed, acuminate
ex, and gradually passing into spathaceons, spreading unacrs, whieh
are much narrower than the scales of the stem, brown, dry, spreading, about two inches long, but
shorter than the ovary, _ Frownns in a dense terminal raceme, spreading, about two and a half inches
ther about two inches long. Sneats and rerars bright
in diameter ; their stalks and ovary
1 yellow, not spotted, inear-bl
sute, exeessively erispod and undulated, of nearly the same
P
Size, texture, and colour. Lanetrox pink, with a deeper coloured apex, membranous, a little
round the column, and united to its edges at the base, oblong, cd, with a prominence
below the middle, and the veins erested at the junction of the middle lobe with the side ones; sido
lobes nearly flat, middle Tobe sessile, transverse, obtuse, very much crisped. Couvstx obovate
veins at its back,
‘The second species already alluded to has al e same peculiar habit, and was met
Mr. Schomburgk stats that it differs in the sma
a rich crimson bordered by bright yellow! Specimens
with inthe same country ler size of the pseudo:
bulbs, and in the sepals and petals bei
of this, which I have received from its discoverer, enable me to give the following speci
character
is sepalisque undulatis obtusis, label lobo medio ovato neuto plano:
yana it may be expected that these two nob
unknown in our
S. marginata s p
Considering the facility of intercourse with Gi
plants, by far the finest of the order in that part of America, will not be lor
gardens.
ccadıly Ju
kj OK MAS
—
LEPTOTES SERRULATA.
L. serrulata ; caule subdiphyllo, foliis gl
is maculosis, labelli lobo medio ob)
lanceolato acuminato lateralibus rotundatis serrulatis,
pidendre fiedide. — Descourtilz drawings, plate
This fine species is evidently distinguished from the rare Leptot
=, which often grow in pais, by its flowers which are three or four times as large, by the
labellum which is merely streaked with rays of purple, and by the auricles at its base being
following is a translat
M. Descourtilz's manuseipt account of the species.
This charming jally remarkable for the sweet odour of the Lilac which its flower
exhale. 1
ound in blossom, in the month of December, om the trunk of Cedrela tre
ancient Re Brazil, where, without any
destroy so many other plants, I also found it in plenty in the district of Upper Macabé, and
Tao
sre ANNI ora with e el of dy oo iene of tar |
RES Gibi ea
den, fusiform, deeply channelled on the upper side, glaucous green or bluish, dotted with
cially underneath. There is a variety with th
a
bracts, The ovantes are very long, united into a drooping raceme. The riowsn-nuns are of a
es twice us long, and
cares are cylindrical, both terminal and axillary, bi i covered wih ac alert
yellowish rose, protuberant at their base. The riowsn is very lange, stellate: the aspire
ribbon-shaped, rather broad, and white us the purest enamel; the PETALS narrower and thinner,
st brilliant
wands dilated into an ovate pointed or lanceolate limb of
(0 y vohode M fu MAMMA,
IL
CYRTOPODIUM PUNCTATUM.
Cyrtopodium punctatum. Lindl. Genera et Species Orchid. p. 188. Botanical
507.
Epidendrum punctatum. Linn. Sp. PL 1349. Willd, Sp. Pl 4. 116.
Helleborine ramosissima, cauliculis et floribus maculosis. Pium. Plant.
1.187.
ne, t
American.
Although this plant has been already figured twice before, it deserves a place in this collection,
ect likene
for the rep o of it; that in the
have been
azine seems m which
ken from a bleached specimen, The plant fi
the annexed drawing was prepared was sent me from Liverpool by Richard Harrison, E
about the same time T receive it à who had flowered
in the Botanical
Garden, Liverpool,
Ie is far more striking than th
ount of the bright, deep erimson
‘tains with whieh the br w well as the fl
foliage and general habit
and flo
so Tike
The species is extensively distributed th
da the tropieal parts of America, have wild
specimen
hered in St. Domingo by Mr. Charles Mackenzie, and others found by Deppe and
Schiede în Mexico, on baltic rocks at Malpayo de Nauling
April. Mr. Gardner found it in Brazil, whence Mr
in the tierra templada, flowering în
Dr. von Martin's Brazilian herbarium, under the n
of Oncidium palmophilum, palmis aliisque
arboribus parasiticum, syleæ Catingas, provincia Bahienss ad Rio de Contas; no. 1965;
In ste and Leaves this is extremely like Cyrtopodium Andersonii. The scare is from
two to three feet high, round, branched above the mi
and finely dotted with
M purple
with a few membranous green scales, which are erect and sheathing near the base, undulated,
n riehly spotted and banded with crimson
‘oblong-laneeolate,reflexed, acuminate, pale yellowish
wands and among the Howers. The rowna are regulary alternate upon the simple brane
my acute yellow, and blotched with crimson; the later are bright yellow, of nearly
but tess nated and rather b
hase. ‘The Lar is about half an inch lo fleshy than the other parts, sh niculate
with a bright yellow ground col 3 the two Interal lobe
r, deeply thre
le to
de is a lite spotte
sd, rather wavy, and deep crimson; the mi
and is © yellow granulations, which are collected into a cirele in the centre, and
red with pa
are also a little d over the unguis. The
a ee
chomiku kota MAGA MALK.
Prae XIII
SCHOMBURGKIA MARGINATA.
Schomburgkia marginata. Supra plate 10. in the text.
When Scho
sborgkia rispa was published afew months
ince in this work, mention was made
glo hay
this curious epiphyte, amor
a second species of the genus, of which I had received specimens from Mr. Schombu
since been so fortunate as to find a beautiful e
f Surinam plants, made by direction of my friend John Henry Lane
during his residence in that e
T
lony. rom these materials I have been allowed to prepare the
m specimens in my herbarium ; and T think it will bear ont th
Schombu
statement formerly made, that the two spee are among the most beautiful
Orchiidacem of tropical Am
Mr, Lance has favoured me with the following memoranda concern
his plane
bundantly near the town of Paramari
fF very fine trees of a species of Erythrina, ‘That tree las a very rough bark
nd. appears
particularly favourable for th
owth ofall sorts of epiphytieal plants, the trunk and branches being
Frequently covered with them, Tt rises rom G0 to 80 feet high, and is known by the name
the
Coffee Mamma, from bein
x of shade and shelter,
nted among the coffee for the pu
is epiphyte is generally found springing from the first or second fork of the tree, though
w and then itis somewh
x. To not recollect finding it in any other part of the colony
any other species of tree
in my garden, and it grow very tolerably on an old Mammea americana; but,
Tike m
ny others of the same class, would not fover in a pot filled with dead wood and mould
ro a living tree to support it, though L have more
than once branch which had be
n it growing vig n blown down and
come rotten.
The fower-stalk b
ns to appear about January or February, and is frequ
y four feet i
and when the whole of the flowers at its summit are blown, itis the largest and most si
ki
ho Orchidaces that I observed in Surinam,
prefer u situation moderately shady, though in the dry season it is capable of
ii which it grows loses nearly the whole of
heat, as the species of Erythrina.
Jand by Mr. La
the most skilfal cultivators of Orelidaceo
Plant
ms, and it is not improbable that that plant,
kia
Many living plants of this species were brought to upon his return
from Surinam; but although they were given
d. In general appearance they were very like what is called the “Spread Bag
of whose flowers nothing is known, may be a species of Schombur
y
p
( ymlid
PANA.
/
ry
f
(AMP tA
"BO
Cymbidium elegans, Lindl. in Wallich. Cat. no
4. Genera et Species Orch. 163.
A
has been copied from a draw
ho
red by Dr. Wallich in 1821. The a
of Nepal, where it w ‚panying figure
in the possession of the Honourable Court of Director of th
the Indian Cymbidia, as is evident from the figure. At present
nothing is known of its history or structure beyond what i here represented.
The rave are from one and a half to tw and not more than three-eighths or half an
h wide, acuminate and very obliquely emarginate at the point; in texture they are as st
each side of the mid-rib
an Typha, and when dry, have about threo principal vein
the base they combine into a broad, fleshy sort of bulb, The scarr arses from near the ba
hteen inches Tong, an
Tone with flowers for half its length, that it hangs
down in a pendulous manner; below the flowers it is loosely covered with long, inflated, acuminate
imbricated sales, which abruptly change into small, narrow, scale-like bracts, The name is from
six to ten or eleven inch
ingueplindrical.very c ured
Rowers, esch rather more than one inch and a half long, and greenish before they expand. The
Strats and petats form a kind of inverted cone
tte do they open: they are lin
acute, and of the same figure, but the petals are the shorter and narrower. The ue is parallel
with the column,
wate, straight, wedge-shaped at the hase, divided at the point in
i which the middle one is the broadest and longest; itis of the same colour as u
a little spotted with red. Along its centre there runs a double elevated line (fig 1.) which is
ated near the base into two spreading lamelle, The corun is very
with a convex plain anther, a litle prolonged in Font. (fig. 2) The PouLEN-MAssEs are two
pear-shaped, farromed out at the back, and planted separately upon a transversely oval gland, Tn
this respect the s differs somewhat from other true Cymbidi ently
RE
15
PL
Nerds affine
Piare XV.
AERIDES AFFINE.
des affine. Wallich Cat. no. 7316. Lindl. Genera et Spec. Orchid.
Roxburgh FÌ Ind. 3. 475.
A. multifloru
This very beautiful epiphyte was first discovered by Dr. Roxburgh in Sylhet, where it grows
and flowers during the hol season; that Botanit called it Aerides multiforem, bat as his Flora
Indica had not reac and in March 1833, when the third pa jenera and Species
“The last mentioned Botanist met with it on the sou
idacee was published, the name introduced into the later work was Dr. Wallich's A. afine.
n mountains of Nepal, near Sheopore
‘The accompanying figure kas been prepared from a drawing in the possession of the Honourable
isted by dried specimens. Since it was mado
„di
COR nei no
ll
The Lowes are scentless, deep rose-colour, spotted with purple, in
Court of Directors of the East India Company
ready for publication the species has flowered in the collection of Messrs.
aves, and int
Tn its habit,
A the whole more fleshy than the
ones being shorter than tlie othe
A very obtuse. The tar
tals,
slightly threclobed, wavy or erisp at the
à, channelled u
al spur, just below the base of the lamina, and is
coding, with a cur is, which is pro
red with a rounded membranon
margin. The cours is very sh floxed, bifid
rostellam, The carsvuns about three-quarters of an inch long, with three flat or
three intermediate elevated fleshy rid
‘This is one of the finest of the East Indian Vandeows Orehidacem: Unfortunately its flowers
have no smell
J hdowchilon
/
hycnoche
Piste XVI
CYCNOCHES CHLOROCHILON.
C. chlorochiton ; racemo subtrifloro suberecto, sepalis ovalibus, petalis paulo majoribus
faleatis, labello subsessili obovato acuto convexo basi concavo: callo elev
transverso obtuso triangular
chlorochilon, Kie
oh in Otto u. Dietricha Allgemeine Gartenzeitung July 21
1838. p. 225
This noble species of Cycnochcs has been introduced from Demerara by Messrs, Lodges,
in whose colle
by Mr. M
d figuro was taken; it was also sent to Berlin în 1836 from
Maracay
Klotzsch o
an
itz, a naturalist in that country, fro
the produc
of whose plante Dr
Roll
in the work above quoted: and I have seen
er of it in the Tooting, who received it from Mr, Jolm
Youell, Nurseryman, Great Yarmouth. In every e three flowers wore obtained
hat such may be sup
the number usually borne by each raceme
red in Mr. Bateman's princely
work
the Orehiduces of Mexico and Guatemala, but it differs in the flowers being much larg
de
which is nearly sessile, obovate and acute, not orate and acuminate,
saficienely differ from
bre a particular description. ‘The naczu2 spr
me dry, furrowed, ae
o, close-pressed scales, and usually bears three flowers, of a
en colour, neatly six inches in diameter, and by their weight bearing down
the pedunelo in a slight degree, so as to acquire a nodding, not a pendulous, position. OF th
strata tho lateral ones are oblong, narrowed to the point, but not acuminate, a little longer than
the Iabellum, at tho back of which they are placed almost parallel with each other; the intermediate
r tho end, where iis somewhat recurved. ‘The Petars are broader than the lateral
which they are turned,
1
erect at the back of the flower, is about two inches and a half lo
s its parts expanded in two opposite directi
ral sepals, petals, and lip upwards, and the intermediate sepal downwards. The zur stand
in the broadest part; in texture it is firm and fleshy ; in
ur it is deep
n every where else; in form itis widest and very convex a litle above the middle
which it is regularly ovate as far as
x, round,
thick fleshy unguis
below the middle it m
dat the bo
md across it is seated a thick,
and becom
with th
|, recurved ed
is contrate into a very short
but rounded callosity, scarcely a quarter of an inch deep. The Conus is about an inch and three
quarters long, very slender, green, wide at the base, tapering th
eater part of its length,
and flattene
mt at the apes, where it terminates in three narrow fe ved over the bu
fF the anther, the middle one being th
ho narrowest; it bends away fr gracefully, th
the two taken
the segment ofa eirl
The flowers are fr
n five to eight inches in diameter, and are deliciously fragrant,
Piave XVII
SACCOLABIUM AMPULLACEUM.
S. ampullaceum ; caule br
issimo, foliis crassissimis distichis lig
apice truncatis dentatis, racemis oblongis erectis foliis
ultô brevioribus, sepalis
petalisque ovatis patentibus subwqualibus, labe
jato concavo
calcare compresso pendu
S. ampullaceum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. no. 7307.
Aerides ampullaceum, Roxb, Fl. Ind. 3. 4
lo duplò breviore.
76.
native of trees in the forests of Sylhet, where it was long since discovered by Dr. Roxburgh's
lente. Tt was subsequently met with hy Dr. Wallich, near Bemplicdy, flowering in th
month of May
short and gene
It is described as hay
Achy’ contike
ly simple srt, whieh, from the lower part throws
x stro ots, by which the plant is bound to the tree it grows upon. Th
us, regulary spreading, remarkably thick, spotted with purple on bo
nearly parallel, carinate beneath, channelled
leaves. "Th
gether are about an inch long. ‘The strats and rerate spread fat
erect, oblong, sessile, axillary nacexzs, which are very much shorter than 0
and are ovate, beautifully vein ly equal. ‘Tho rir is lincar, Falete, twice a
int, with a compressed, sra
the flowerstalk ; at the base of the lip are two teeth pressed cl
column, and
Asma purplish, 2clled, ovate, obtuse, with a tooth transversely curved downwards beneath th
cach side, Potuzx-uAsszs_ two, globose, firrow
on is entirely taken from Dr. Wallich's MSS, no
ho H
npany. I formerly supposed it to be the same
imen of the plant
re is a copy from a drawing belo
the East India C
rubrum, to which I have elsewhere quoted it as a probable synonyme. I am however now x
that it is a perfectly distinct species, distinguished by its short erect racemes, by tho f
Tip, and by the leav
ing regularly distichous, not all curved to one side
Vendi ett MW COMME L¢ MI.
75
Prare XVII
DENDROBIUM CCERULESCENS.
D. corulescens; caule erecto carnoso tereti, foliis oblongis obtusis emarginatis subun-
loris foliis paulo brevioribus, perianthio
dulatis, racemis horizontalibus 2-
explanato, sepalis lineari-oblongis obtusis emarginatis late
libus basi paulo.
productis, petalis latioribus oblongis apice recurvis, labello ovali subundulato
utrinque pubescente apice constr
D. cærulescens, Wallich Mas.
to plano glabro recurvo, anther’ pubescente
has
“Th species now repr ther the habit of Dendrobium nobiles when out of
that it may be suppos
ame. In this respect
it accords with several others of the genus, such as the Dendrobin Pierardi, cucullatum, and
macrostachyum, which can searecly
distinguished by their foliage. When in flower it i
strikingly different from Dendrobium n
haps it is not quite so handsome, for it wants the
very rich purple of that species; but in other re
1
their form is more slender and graceful. Specific differen
si
ts it has beautiful feature
cially on their back, and
als and petals have a delicate tinge of very pale bluish lilac,
= between the two are furnished by
pe of the lip and sepals, both of which are much narrower than in Dendrobium no
figure, and that at plate
It was collected for His Gra
hie, by Mr. John Gib
the northern face of the Khoseea range of hills, where it
elevation of not Jess then’ 4000 feck. Tho specimen now figured is euficientiy boni wih only
nit; but Mr, Gibson stats that he found it loaded with fro
tem. T
Mr. Paxton from Chatsworth, wi
ompanying plate has hoon prepared fr
ned in April 1838.
The surare, which spread nearly at equal angles from each other, are about an inch and
long, and a quarter of an inch wide; they are of a delicate bluish lila
r purple at their ends, and slightly pitted all over between the veins
hat tess ance; they are all notched at the apex, and the lateral ones are slightly
at
a short blunt spur. The PETALS are coloured like the
‘extended on one side int xcept that
they are rather darker, and less tessellated they are oval, not emarginato, but undalated
eurod back at tcir ond. Thio nar is very exactly oval and concave; ezcept that Ju is ozten
into a narrow flat obtuse point, which is curved re rolled
undulated; it is ic crimson in the middle, yellow at
pubescen
wish purpl
at the base, and then curved outwan
the
deep rose colour at the a is covered with conspicuo
pet the point; as the lowers fade the yellow chan
with purple veins. The convats is very short, dat, and sloped forwards in f
ack it is
Fig. 1. n
minated by a peaked, purple, hairy anther.
ts the column and anther, with the bas
ls, the lip being
rather magnified, and
Ter nn
ba MAŁONA pu urca.
Prare XIX
CAMAROTIS PURPUR
A.
C. purpurea, Lindl, Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 219.
Aerides rostratum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. 3. 474.
is beautiful and graceful plant, a native of the for
nally obtained by
Dr. Wallich in April 1819, from Dr. Carey's Garden at Serampore, when a drawing was ma
by
the artists employed in the Botanie Garden, Calcutta, from which the principal part of the materials
for the
ccompanyin have been taken, by permission of the Honourable Court of Dir
of the East India Company
It has not yet been introduced into European cultivation, Dr. Wallich, wh
h
re, b
account i mo, describes it as a climbi
ant, with fragrant flowers; it must,
particularly well worth inquiring for in India.
‘The followin
description is partly translated from Dr. Wallich’
pers, but is altered in many
et after the examination of dried specimens.
Leaves linear,
ly curved, truncated, usually obliquely, at the point with two, th
the base s
nly sheathing the stem, which i tw
“god. Racers opposite the leaves, str
ter. Frowans purple, sprend
open. Prorcs1s half an inch long, including the ovary, Sarans pale purple, oval, obtuse, scarcely
half an inch Jong; the lateral united to the back ofthe lip, except at the point, where they diver
they form toget
a
wedge
tworlobed body. Perars of the same shape as th
1 sepal, but darker purple near the upper end. ‘The 1a is narrow, channelled at its b
united n the back for more than half th
length to the lateral sepals, furnished at the apex with a
hollow conica chamber having
narrow oval aperture, from the anterior
vcoeds, and lies down over the orifice
segments of the perianth; otherwise the lip may be deser
united by their faces except near the point, which is inflated and extended into a holl
which the intermediate subulate lobe is inf
couvaty is very short, round, with the rostellum prolonged into a conical subulate be
r than the column. Arien placed upon the back of his
almost inverted in p
direction of the beak, prolon
d at the pi
de
nt into a thin, narrow, sharp appendage, not qu
twowelled, Portex-tasses two,
chose, attached to the end of a lo
bato caudicula, which
and,
The extremely cur
structure of the lip, which is distinctly chambered at the point, is on
of the principal circumstances by which this genus is distinguished among its allies. Dr, Roxburgh
says, that before expansion the beak of the c À in this cavity of the lip.
ofthe dissections, representa the chamber, as the lip is viewed from above ; fig. 9
baek
pn of the lip and the lateral sepals to cach other
4 shews the column, with the
beak-likerostellum and pollen-masses, śe, the anther ha
pped off In this figure the gland is erroneously represented as ems
Pisre XX.
STANHOPEA WARDII.
racemo pendulo multiloro, sepalis lateralibus subrotundo-oblongis con-
cavis acutis basi alt? connatis, petalis lanceolatis undulatis revolutis, hypochilio
sessili angusto saceato intùs tubereulato medio angustiore marginibus approximatis
depressis complanatis basi connatis, mesochilio utrinque cornuto in medio sinu
cornuum foveato, epichilio cornuum longitudine subrotundo-ovato diviso
arginibus recurvis,
S. Wardii, Loddiges in lit.
their beautiful and singular ch great abundance, that every a
ayra by
Mr, Ward, after whom it has been named by Mr. Loddiges, to whom I am inde
hat furnished the accompanying figure: Te has ako been sent mo by Mr. Barker of Birmingham,
from Messrs. Low
„ło iui Y aks of its appearance
1 side; from S. oculata, inthe lip being sessile, not stipitate, nnd a great deal sh
proportion to the other parts; and from S. steeata, an unpublished species of Mr. Bateman's, in the
middle segment of the lip not being Slobed, in the sharpness of the petals, and in the form of the
d in amy other part except the flower, Ax is usual in this genus the distinctions between th
in variations of the form of the p rgan. ‘The seats are a clear
o than on the inside ngly dotted with small scattered
clearer and paler
d rolled back till their points overlap behind the inten
the lower half or hypochilium is very thick and fleshy
wod out at the bas esa an inch k
an inch vid depressed, as if they were pla touch each other
nd are actually united at the base; ts colour is a deep y with four
deep crimson blotches near the base; the middle or mesochilium i e into two,
curved ated, fleshy horns, between whose bases there is a little foramen with an elevat
fleshy border on one side; the upper end or fleshy, sharp-pointed,
d, concave in the centre, with the edg it and the middle are
yellow, delicately dotted with crimson
ling appearance
appear in the form of a fine downiness. An examination of the anatomical structure of this part
has revealed some facts which deserve to be described.
Let the dissections at the bottom of the plate represent very thin vertical slices of the thick
base of the lip, magnified about 500 times in diameter. A shews the appearance of the tubercular
lining, three of the glittering callosities being cut through ; they consist of cellular tissue arranged
with great regularity, and there is no distinct cuticle, but the thickness of the sides of the exterior
cells is greater than that of the interior; some of the cells are filled with yellow colouring matter
or chlorophyll of a granular nature, others contain a red fluid (1, 1); the yellow in the cells next
the surface (2,2) is paler and less granular than that in the inner cells (3, 3) ; cells still further
from the surface (4) gradually contain less granular matter, which appears to stick exclusively to
the sides, and not to float in the interior.——B represents a similar view of the tissue forming the
outer surface, at a part where the colour is uniformly yellow; the whole of the cells contain
exclusively yellow granular matter, which becomes less dense as you proceed from the surface (4)
towards the interior (5); here also there is no distinct cuticle, or layer of empty cells ; the surface
C is
a similar view of the same part, at a place where the colour is both yellow and purple ; it is more
is covered closely with conical cells, which form the almost invisible downiness of that part.
magnified ; in this case it is seen that the colouring matter is distinctly separated into separate cells,
and that the colour of one does not interfere with that of the other, but that the yellow is lodged
in one cell (1, 5) and the purple in others (4) ; the hairs themselves are sometimes filled with purple
fluid, as at 3; sometimes they are almost colourless, as at 4; or they are stained yellow, by the
addition of grumous matter of that colour to their interior, as at 1. At 3. it is seen that the hairs
occasionally grow together at the base.
Thus it appears that the varying tints of colour which are found in flowers are not produced by
colours proper to the tissue of which they are composed, or by a confused mixture of colouring
matter below the surface, but are caused by different colours, separately deposited in separate cells,
which are themselves uniformly colourless ; I could not perceive that any of the yellow was ever
developed in the purple cells, and certainly the reverse did not exist; now and then yellow colour
appeared to come from the interior of a purple cell, but this I believe was owing to a purple cell
being placed between the eye and a yellow cell. These facts are in accordance with what has
been observed by Botanists in other cases,
The yellow cells uniformly presented a grumous or granular appearance, in consequence of
their chlorophyll being collected into irregular spherules of various sizes, but I could not succeed
in detecting any amylaceous matter in the interior of the spherules. The effect of applying tincture
of iodine was to destroy the brilliant orange yellow, and to convert it into that dull olive brown which
usually follows the application of this agent to the resinous secretions of plants, but I sought in vain
for any sign of blue in the interior of the granules. In one case, however, I remarked a small portion
of the membrane of a cell stained blue, much in the same way as is represented in Link's Icones
Anatomice, tab. xvi. fig. 13. in the tubercle of Salep. The application of dilute sulphuric acid
coagulated the yellow granules into a ball in the middle of each cell, and changed their colour to an
olive green.
While the yellow colour appeared to be entirely produced by the presence of matter in a
granular state floating in colourless fluid, the purple was in many cells as uniformly caused by
a purple fluid without granules ; but in the deepest coloured cells, as at C 2, and 3, there was
evidently a tendency to granulation, although, when the contents were pressed out of such cells, no
distinct granules could be found. Iodine produces no other effect upon the purple than to render
its colour less brilliant ; but diluted sulphuric acid, without discharging the colour, renders it distinctly
grumous. I do not know whether this effect is produced by the acid coagulating the purple
chlorophyll, or whether it merely renders distinct and firm that which was previously semifluid and
undistinguishable. I am however persuaded that the amylaceous centres, round which Professor
Mohl conceives the chlorophyll to mould itself in the interior of vegetable tissue, do not exist in
this instance.
Te has
that is to sa
e is no distinct cuticle to be found in this part of the Stanhopen.
sed of empty cell, which can be dis
overed either by
tearing i off, or by a vertical section ; such indeed js a genera
in petals and potaloid parts, It
ns its place is supplied by a great thickening and developement of that
external homogeneous membrane, first noticed by M. Adolphe B
Professor H
nov, and subsequently de
ribed by myself and others, That it exists in a state of
nd
although I did not succeed in detaching it. In general it
cat toughness, in very delicate lowers, has lately been shewn by mo in Hyd
tenia Meleagris,
in this Stanbopea it is al
adhe:
ir thickness, as is shewn at A, B,
1 C, and cannot be distinguished. But it al
ises above tho surface in the form of hairs, and
adhesion to it, but appear
then the cell itself has n in the
a las, shrivelled, internal
membrancous sae, as at B 2, and elsewhere in
hat figure; the cell however, if filled with fuid,
as to fill the whole cavity of the hai
as at C 3, Tn this latter case the membrane
‘adapts itself to the surface of the cells, and may
distinctly seen at their angle
Possibly the hairs of plants are generally
med in this way; namely, of homogeneous cuticular
covering cells fre at the sides, and only adhering to the parenchyma at the base. Tam
Jed to this supp
ing the hairs of Stanhopea, Tradescantia, Campanula Rapunculus,
Polystachya lueola, and others of like nature, all of which are evidently fo
med upon u
Plan, and in whieh it is p
na of eitculation may be observed. In th
ways a nucleus (B 3), in the inside of a se or cel, which latter diste
forwards, or after death, then leaving a considerable space between its sides and hose
of the hair (B 1). Te is in this spa
tho mo
£ life, ia extremely small, that
f the Aids takes place, as is manifest in Tradescanin and Camp
nula Rapunculus
1 have not, indeed, sueceeded in sccing any circulation in the hairs of Stanhopen ; but when they
are killed by iodine the inner sac conti
the point of the hair, evident traces
reticulation, which may bo supposed capillary laticiferons vessels, whose content
are coagulated by the action of iodi
Fig. D. represent a portion of the mesochilium, with dhe horns and part of the epichilium cut
off; this figure i given for the purpose of
swing the foramen that exists between the bases of che
and the nature of which is
present unknown,
Voa candida
M.
way d
Piare XXI
MILTONIA CANDIDA.
M. candida ; pseudobulbis ovatis apice angustatis dip
ylis, fo
oribus, bracteis ovatis membranaceis concavis squamieformił
bus, sepalis
petalisque oblongis equalibus, labello s
ibrotundo crispo cirea columnam convo-
Tuto basi 5-lamellato, columná pubescente basi biauri, mbra-
clinandrio erispo m
:co-marginato utrinque in alam decurrente.
Miltonia cardida. Bot. Register, 1838. mise. no. 99.
This Brazilian epiphyte is one o
Dendn
the most noble of its race, and is scarcely rivalled by any of
the beautiful species
m or Cattleya. When it first lowered, it was out of health, the
quently the brief character assigned to it in the
Botanical Regi
Te differs in th
um and labellum in so many respeets from tho original
mi
mia, that if much experience had not taught me to judge more correctly of the value of auch
differences
d as a new genus, In the first placo, the
bed in which the anther lies is bordered by a fringed margin, which runs a little way down the f
of the column in the form of two flaps; in Miltonia spectabilis this is not the case, two auricles
only appearing on the front edge of the column; but in Oncidium eucullatum a species related
to O. Lanceanum, and about the genus of which there can be no doubt, the anther-bed js in ike
manner hooded by the thinning away of the margin. This ten
ney on the part of a body usually
us, is met with in various degrees in many well known
genera, especially in Cal
szyne, Calypso, and Pachyphyllum, and is always
systematist with some suspicion, with ro
rence to its affording a valid mark
unless it exists in excess, as in Centropetalum®, a Peruvian genus, in which tho column je no
only entirely pat the Nine which bears th
ut coloured like the
The eucullatecharaeter of the lip is another cireumstance in which this species is obviously at
inal Miltonia ; but the same diffrence is found between Cattleya bicolor and
neck, and are each terminated by a pair
uvas, which are narrow,
ter than the raceme, which springs from the axils of
orround the base of the psendo-bulb. Each nace
flowers, which are separated from cal
hang nearly horizontally. The ruowsns themselves are nearly three and a half inches in diam
their strata and petats are oblong, ather obtuse, spreading equally, much undulated, and mottled
with rich brown upon a dull yellowish ground. ‘The zar is white, very much undulate, rolled
round the column, when spread open almost orbicular, with a small downy tubercle at its very
and five elevated lines running from it towards the upper end ; of these lines the central and outs
nes are shorter than the intermediate ones the latter and the external lines ao slightly toothed, the
tral one is uninterrupted, The conway is short, downy, with two fleshy truncated cars at
the base, and a winged crisp anther bed, which rune down in front, on each side of the stigma, in
the form of two flaps, The awrnen itself is round and hairy. Fig. 1. represent the inside of a
lip, spread open: 2. is a front view of the column; 3, an anther; and 4, the pollen-masses, with
their caudicula and gland ; one of the pollnamasses being cut across to shew that i is excavated at
the back.
As a genus Miltonia need only be compared with Oncidium, Cyrtochilum, and Odonto
Ie differs from the first in its lateral sepals being not only distinet, but spreading equally from the
centre and not placed beneath the column in its lip being ether fat or convolute, undivided, not
lobed or indented at the sides; and finally in the elevations at the base ofthe lip not being tuberelex
e convexities, but simply plates following the course of the veins. With Cyrtochilam it
‘agrees in the latter character, but i differs in its lip not being tapered to the point or unguiculate,
and much more developed, From Odontoglossum i is known by its lip not being unguienlae, nor
furnished with a pair of parallel often confluent plates at the bae, and by ita short column.
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Prste XXII.
CATTLEYA SUPERBA.
C. superba; foliis ovato-oblongis obtusis corinceis marginatis caule elavato brevioribus,
is oblongis acutiusculis, petalis lanceolatis acutis membranaceis duplò lati-
„labelli trilobi encullati lobis lateralibus acutis intermedio t
denticulato emarginato subunguiculato basi venis elevatis rugoso ; callis duobus
pone basin.
Cattleya superba. Schomburgk in litt.
Cattleya Schomburgkii. Loddiges Orchid. no. 434.
cont sweetseented Cattleya has been found in
itish Guayana by Mr.
homburgk,
who
alive plant of it to Mesara. Lodge, and a drawing to the Linnean Society, by permission
of which am able to publish it în this work.
The pl
to me, the stem of the later
repre
ted by Mr, Schon
long, and stout in proportion, The flowers, if
lange as those of Cattleya Mossi, are, from the richn
thee ol
rs, inferior to none in beau
ng is taken from the account of this
lant communicated to the Linnean
ety by
Mr. Schomburg
The s
upwards it is however sel
an epiphyte, The sre is narrow at the bas
m more then two inches in cireumference
it is covered
with sheaths resembling the spathe, except in positio
appears to be rounds bat in
Ad specimens whence the sheaths have fallen, it is found to be com.
pressed and deeply channelled. From the apex of the stem spri
oriaccou, elliptical, acute
dunele me pearance from the midst of a lar
ves, between which the
EDUNOLE bears from three to six FLOWERS, each between five and six inches în
diameter, The surar are fleshy; the two lateral almost a
inaiform, the intermediate one lance.
Tate the whole termin
by a sharp greenish point, The Prats are somewhat larger, wavy, ovate
h
their lower surface being paler with a blush cast. The air is Slob
bleted towards tho upper end; b
sand petals are of à beaut
1 pink colour,
and encullate; the middle
lobe is rounded and saddle-backed, var
denticulate, of dark purple
ur, but yellow and striated in the middle the lateral lobes fold over the column and cach
p purple on the outside becoming paler downwards,
with pink atthe base
Th
in the Ess
plant appears to be peculiar to
Brd or 4th degree of N. Lat. itis not to
quibo north of
uth ofthe Rupununy from thenee it is found southward
ks and
which skirt the ban
rs which meander through the savannalis, I discovered
nly a fow
the Cayuwini, and none at the e
The Caribees call it Oponopodof, or Duckamont, tho Mucoo
es Masame. T venture to say that in
beauty, odour, and duration, i is nat
surpassod by any orehidaccous plant; the
ur in the
powerful in a confined place; is splendid flowers last
Although only now brought into notice, the species was many years sines discovered by
Dr. Von Martius, who found it near arom
de Rio Negro, and in
the banks of the Rio Negro, in woods atthe Barra
Tt is readily distinguished from all previously described species by its three-lbed lip with acuti
nction ofthe epichilium and bypoehilium.
The species of this beautiful genus have not been well defined. They are with difficulty pre
served as dried specimens: they have been described at various times from plants in dif
and for a small genus there is probably as much to
order, T therefore take this opportunity of making some observations upon this
sabjet
In the fist place it is necessary to remove from the genus Cattleya coccina, whieh is Sophro-
nits granditora; C. Grahami and maxima, which are Lalias; and C. domingensis, which is
possibly a species of Barkerin.
OF the genuine species th
n left there are two sections, the first of which Ins an undivided lip
and the other a lip with three deep distinct lobes,
The firat section consists o
C. Skinneri of Mr. Bateman, wh
OF the second section C. elati
crispa, labiata, bi
y, pumila, and Mossies, with the unpublished
dis nearly related to the last.
x las to be expunged, having been founded upon a bad tall
specimen of C. guttata; ©
rrini is readily known by the narrow middle lobe of its lip, and its
is yellow flowers, and is otherwise well marked; C. superba has
already been spoken of; the remainder consist of C. Forbesi, intermedio, Loddigesi, ova
m these C. Forb
middle lobe of the lip rounded and not emarginate, and tiro elevated lines ak
da very narrow, the
ii has the baek sepal and the pe
the middle of the
has small roundish ovate leaves, but its flowers have not been sufficiently
3 and C. intermedia, ovata, and. Harrisoni are probably varieties of C. Loddigosi ; at
least T am unal
o point out any positive marks of distinction between them,
3.
q
K
PL
Larus (colot
Prove XXIII
PHAIUS BICOLOR.
Phaius bicolor. Genera $ Species of Orchidaceous plants, p. 128,
It is in Ceylon, in dry pastures, on the sides of high bills near Poradenia, the village where
the Botanical garden is stationed, that this charming plant grows wild, and f
It was first made known to me by Mr. James Macrae, who unfortunately d
his arrival inthe island,
Wn. H
Tt is proba
nd 1 have since seen a drawing by Mrs. Wa
oker, from whieh th
accompanying plato has been prepared.
ly alive in the nursery of Me
the only Phajus found
in Coyl n their Catalogue th
M
and it appears eis specios from that island in their vast
From a fleshy knobby mutzoxta, like that of an Iris, the leaves and flowerstems +
pendently of each other a foot and a half long, do not taper into a distinct
but are rolled round each other at the base; they aro plaited and very sharp pointed ; at
the base on the outside they are invested with green scales,
fect high, naked at the lower part, but at the upper end covered by large, distant, yellow and crimon
flowers, which are nearly four inches in diameter. T ong,
concave, and are thrown off as the flowers expand. ‘The strats and Perata are linear lence,
spreading taper-pointe, and nearly of the same size, The utr is very much broader, oblong, rolled
round the column, much undulated at the edge,
uminated, and curved downwar
the upper
end, with a pink limb and a yellow tubo; at its base it is lengthened into a curved horn, which je
third the length of self, The lowers do not appear to be
It would seem that there are two varieties of this plant; viz, that now figured with crimson
sepals and petals, and a pink Tip; the other with every part yellow except the lip; the latter I
know only from a drawin
în my library executed in Ceylon by a native artist
a en
5
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Pare XXIV
CALANTHE PLANTAGINEA.
©. plam
m. Genera $ Species of Orehidaceous plants, p.
» of Calanthe are so very beautiful, and their cultivation
of regret that thero should not be more of them in our
dens. OF nt least twenty-two
a, inhabiting various parts of tro
al Asia, not more than fiv
or six have been seen alive in
untry, and these nre not the handsomest
‘That which forms the subject of the present notice was originally disc
ered by Dr, Wallich,
Whose manuscript notes are before me, and from o
of whose drawings the accompanying plate
has been prepared, by the permission of the Honourable
Comp
irt of Directors of the East India
It was found common about the roots of tres in v
Nipal, and in the forest on the summit of Mount Chan
translated from Dr. Wallich’s Latin description of the
plant
The noors are thick, white, and clustered, smooth when old, but originally covered with d
white hairs, The sret is a ereeping rhizc
with round knobs, whence the leaves are pre
‘The AVES are ovate, neute at each end, from six to
upper
the leaf; their sratx is about six inches
ced
i inches long, wavy, smooth, shining on the
Hai, with five principal and several smaller veins, which project on the underside of
deeply channelled, angular, g
ually widening
upwards. The sears springs from the
high, tap
from a fot to a foot and a half
Men tinged with purple at the b
it is enclosed in three or four sheathing scales,
sach from two to three inches long, striated, angul
and obliquely acute at the point
nes wider than the scape. The rLowens are arranged in an
h, and closely covered. with rather largo,
placed upon picia about half an inch long, and covered with short
sternal parts of the Rowe
The wnacrs aro linenr-lanccolt
E
jase of the Inbellum havi
the Pevats are linear, rather broudest in the mid
jud reflexed. The rir is naked, three-part
about four lines
arly white. The paniasrn is spread open, an
violet; the serans are
and about five
ths of an inch long, those at the
with euneate-obovate segments, of
e at the sido are more obtuse than that in the middle, which is apiculate; at the base în
and then becomes connate with the column, for the whole
fF the latter ; at a
pare it is compressed,
some reflexed hairs inside, and at the base
hich is notched at the end, pendulous, and as long or longer
The fragrance of the Rower
f this species is the more remarkable, because those which we
have in cultivation, or of which there is any particular
‘The figure at the bottom of the plate represents a lip, with the column to which it adhere, th
fl. 25.
Pad
Z yklochilu m maculatum
D REP pi er
Puare XXV
CYRTOCHILUM MACULATUM.
39. t. 44. Knowles
rtochilum maculatum. Botanical R
and Westeott, Floral Cabinet, t. 57.
gister, 1838, misc. no.
f which a figure has been previously
and the
Aw
published, yet the variable appearance of the
ds the plan of this work is not to admit any plan
ne al beauty of some of iés
species on a page the size of the monthly Botanical periodicals
‘The specimens which fst lowered had but Tittle beauty, the colour of their sepals and petals
inconsiderable: but there have Intly appeared, among
being green, and the number of flower
the plants sent from Vera Cruz to the Horticultural Society of London, by Mr. Hartweg, many
the flowers much
specimens in which arich yellowish brown is substituted for green, the size of
instead of a few flowered
increased, and the whole inflorescence arranged in a large nodding pani
raceme, Among the varieties one which is in the possession of John Rogers, Esq. Jun. of Sevenoaks,
as ben selected for illustration.
most delica
valuable; its fragrance is
merely its beanty that renders this spe
embling primroses; it is very easily cultivated, and it remains in lower a considerable tim
At Plate VIL. of this work some observations were made upon the dificulty of finding a good
distinction between Cyrtochilum and Oncidium. This, and some other plants now in cultivation,
dered it noce
ary that the question should be fully considered, I have been led into an
Odonto
extensivo examination of these two genera and ossam, also vaguely characterized, which
has led me to the following conclusions.
Cyrtochilum is not to be distinguished from Oncidium by any character derived from its
olumn, for in this respect they are essentially the same. M. Kunth assigned his species a column
suricled, as in Oncidium and Odontoglossum ; but the auricles are
winged at the margin, a
arcely in O. cordatum
Cy
two new Peruvian species
»
ot found în Oncidium corynephorum
of the ip
nearly allied to Oncidium macranthum. The convex
is found in many common Oncidia, and is much less than in O.excavatum®, in which the tuber
A of niche, the opening of which looks towards the apex of th
calar base is excavated into a ki
lip. Neither will the undivided margin of the lip aford a more valid mark of distinetion, for
independently of all other cases, I have not fewer than three unpublished species of Oncidium in
which the lip is perfectly entire, viz. O. aureum“, and
bilum and Oncidium, which 1 think may bo
distinguished. satisfactorily in tho following manner. Oncidium always has the two lateral sepals
ither more or less united or distinctly approximated at the base, Cyrtochilom has them equally
spreading ; on this account my C. Karwinskii must bo reduced to Oncidium, notwithstanding its
entire lip, with lamell in iu of tubercles at its concave base. In the second place, the lip of all
wards the apex, while in Oncidium, except in those species where it
is deeply hastate, ti dilated and rounded at d
With respect to Odontoglossum, it was first distinguished by an um
bula tubercles atthe base, and
half up the fee of the column, a reles lamina with th
a T have
character the first is not found in any spe
a column with two auricles. Of the
examined, and probably arose in some mistake: the others are inconstant, Thus the reflexed
lamina, although characteristic of some species is not of others; in Odontoglossum nebulosum °,
Jacerum”, Hali, cirhosum, Sc. it is a conspicuous feature, but it can hardly be observed in
cordatam of the Botanical Register), and it does not exist at a
O. Rossii”, and maculata (
in ©. Cervantes, which is very near O. nebulosum, ‘The mature of the tubercles is also I suspect
misunderstood in the species to which it is assigned; for while two teeth or se
not find the number three in any case except O. lacerum, and then it is accompanied by other
characters. The presence or absence of auricles upon the column is not to be taken as a generic
character, because it has already been shown that the character is inconstant in Oncidium; because
ause they are
which C. volubile is really a species; and b
it is equally variable in Cyrtochilium,
absent in Odontoglossum pardinom (Cyrtoclilum pardinum, Gen. e Sp. 210), nebulosum, Cervantesi
and. Rossi, while they are present in O. membranaceum ®”, which is hardly distinguishable from
‘the last, and in several other species,
‘The true characters of Odontoglossum, and those by which alone it çan be distinguished gene-
tically from Cyrtochilum and Oncidium, ar a long column, and an entire unguieulate lip, narrowing
ringed lamelle, in front of
tothe point, and furnished at the base with a pair of fishy, entire, or
which stand two, or rarely three, teeth or bristles, Tn this view of the question, Mr, Bateman
Cyrtoskilum bietoniense will belong to Odontoglossum; while my own Cyrtochilum ixioides, which
with Odon
una, will retain its original position.
I onee thought would best arrar
In conclusion, the diferential characters of Oncidium, Cyrtochilum, Miltonin, and Odonto-
glossum, may now be considered settled as follows;
Oscipiwx. Sepala lateralia labello supposita, nune connata. _Labellum planum, spits sessile, cor
datam, panduratom v. trilobum, apice dilatatum, beai seis vari tuberculata.
Cmpocmtru. Sopala lateral pato, libera. Labellum planum, oblongum, supiùs unguiculatum,
ig vel margine dnt pio ag basi erat la aut pi amo
Mrtmoxza. Sepala Jateralia patula, libera. Labellum sessile
apice rotumiatum, venis bascos plridstuberculao-lamel
Opovroosossus. Sepala ltrali patula, liberas Labelom planum, unguiculatum, ascendens,
limbo reflexo divito angastato ; basi concavum cristà bilamellatà raro fbrial
nen
ach
A
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Pronsod by F
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Piare XXVI,
NTLEYA VIOLACEA.
H. violacea ; sepalis petalisque oblong
s obtusis margin
crispis, labello reniformi
emarginato eristä nuda sulcatä, col
So beautiful a plant as this ie is rare to find è
or their form particularly strange, but beem
t, which varies from the de
Hh of the richest sapphire to the mild iridescenco
native of Demerara, whence it was received by Mr. G
iges, who has remarked
that th
mus itself seems very near some of the Zygopetala especially Z. mastlar. Ta fat there
is nothing to distinguish Huntle
y enlarged column of that
and the union of its lateral sepals at their base
and Zygs
afer the mann
i Maxillarin; between which
dum
p, Huntleya stands as it were inte
iginally established by Mo
Bateman upon a Demerara plant
flowers, but of which I know nothing; except that in
esemble the Huntleya Meleagris of the Botanical R.
ann. 1839. ‘The latter species has, at the base of
el from
Mr. Schomburgk, and said to have
ho lip, a la
its column is widest at the point and slightly u
aro stained with wine-purple veins and b
md. Tt is therefore evidently
nt and i fact not to be compared with it for be
In this plant there are n
visible rskuno-nuxns, but the plant cons
cach other at the base, with which they are very distinctly articulated at from too (o
xila of the lower leaves spr
d, and pendulous ; each h
at nearly equal distances, b
Which one is very small, at the bus
The prowans measure th
inches in diameter, and are of a thick leathery texture. T
y much erispe at the edges ; the two 1
are united by their bases into an inconspicuous pouch, as i
they are a pale soft violet fadin
nr the mid are of a n
à like th
ly. The paris united to
deeper and richer violet, but even this fds to white at the points “Th
back seal, and are coloured nearly the same, only mo
the pouch of the lateral sepals by a short narrow
ot, which curves upwards and dilates into 1
lamina; the latter is deep rich vi
t, kidney-shaped, with a little notch at the end, and slightly
toothed ; towards the base the e
is irregularly sinuous; in the midd
is brown ; between the excavation
nd the violet deep border there lies a brown ridge, fleshy, and deeply furrow
gradually slopes foru d boundary. The coruna is as large
which
lip, e
adest at the base, curved forwards at the apex, and probably ent
Below the
it looks like a portion of the head of a
umn stands the axu, containing four yello
apex of the pollen-masses, attached o « narrow
p
ular gland, which are of th
ame violet colour as the column i
Ar Sehombungk, since his return to this country, ha
vered the Huntleya violacea for the first timo in October, 1837, then on my ascent of
‘cataract Cumaka toto, or Silk Cotton fill, obliged us to unload o
mass of wate
soqibo. The
der to avoid the dangers which a
‘our ascent. While
corials and to transport the luggage overland, in
at once so powerful and rapid, and bounded by numerous rocks, might offer
the small islands, which the diverging arms
the Indians were thus occupied, I rambled about one
the river formed in their des
which is so characteristic in the vicinity of cataracts, where n humid ck
always hovers around them. Blocks of syenite were heaped together, and while their black shining
‚he torrent, and the early waves beating against
element
surface contrasted strongly with the whitish foam
the rocky barriers, as if angry at the boun
adorned with n vegetation at onee rich and interesting. Holiconas,
slum, Epidendrums, Peperomias, all appeared to
their dome-shaped summits we
‘Tillandsias, Bromelias, Ferns, Pothos, Cyrto
led to them, The lofty mountains Akay
which so small a surface al
struggle for the pl
ming an amphitheatre af
wanna, Comuti nari, and Twasinki, recede, and, f
‚hat part of the river Essequi
misbed me by their
£ Oncidium altissimum which covered one of the rocky piles, and
ion was moro powerfully attracted
ir of their lowers, when my at
A diffèrent fro
A to that interesting family the orehideous, The sp
Tong stems and the bright col
lie pse
boy a plant, the appearance of which, ld
nevertheless that it be
almost with their virid green the rugged and dark trunks of the gigantic
z before I discovered on
trees, which contributed to the majestic scene around me. Tt was
als of a rich
of tho plants in flower, Tt was as singular as it was new to me. The sepals and
P » »
purple and velvet the helmet, to which form the column bore the nearest resem-
appearano
the same colour; the labellum striated with al
Blanco
erally in the vicinity of cataracts, where a
“In the sequel of my expeditions I found it
is constantly suspended, and where the rays of the sun are searely admitted throug!
Ila
the thick eanopy of foliage. I traced the Huntleya from the sixth parallel of latitude to the shady
of
1 in its fullest splendour it appeared at on
mountains of the Acari chain near the equator
the small islands among the Christmas cataracts in the river Berbice: and there is a melancholy
rcumatanee connected with the plant, which ita appes
induced my friend Mr. Reiss, who accompanied me as volun
des
to He was
uring the unfortunate expedition up the river Berbice, to draw and paint it 0
yet oceupied with this task when the last of our canoes was to descend the dangerous cataract. Th
aros from his occupation, doirowa to descend with the Indians in the canoe, although against my
ich, but he persisted The canoe approached the fall—it upset—and of thirteen persons who were
tempt with his life. Mo is now buried
in it atthe time, ho was the only one who paid the rash at
opposite. that island, the richest vegetable productions of which î was his lst occupation to imitate
m paper and in colours
Ti appears easy of cultivation, although the first plants which T sent to England to Messrs
Lodges appear to have perished, I was more fortunate with former transports; and I saw lately
a Muntleya in
tions of my Kind friend, Mr. George Barker at Spring
f which could boldly vie with any in their naive country. À humid atmosphere
and shade distinguishing features of thoir habitat
Cose
sima”
w
s,
u I
y
(S NA IU DUAN GUM CUM
Piste XXVII
ONCIDIUM SANGUINEUM.
O. sanguineum; cbulbe, fo
oblongis corinceis dorso ea
dis,
capo longissimo
paniculato, sepalis subrotundis ung
ilatis Interalibus basi subeonnatis peta-
lisque erispis sublobatis, labelli trilobi suberispi vernicati lobis subseq
bus
intermedio retuso emento, cristã ovatá convexá corrugatá, column alis rotun-
datis sublobatis, antherà puborulà. Botanical Register, 1834
miscell no. 6
a country of whose vegetation but little is yet known, has furnished Messrs
Loddiges with this gaily painted plant, in which we find quit
being a deep br
ish yellow, it is hero
of a soft palo greon; and for purple, or violet, or chocolate-coloured blotches we have a rich
nt resembles O, carthaginense, with which it must be arranged i differs from
it in being smal ateral lobes of the lip nearly as h
as that in the middle, in the
lant, but the Leaves fold up at their b
fer a time produce from their axil the A
en inches long, very stil, sharp-pointed, with a sharp id
their back, The sears is about two feet hig
they are enveloped in rigid brown sheaths, and
it is smooth, and obscurely spotted with
simson; the nuore at the forks of th
Hn all that relates to the arran
A the form of the parts it
roundish,
Motehed w
rees with Oncidium carthaginense, The szeń
avo, very much erested and lobed nt the cdg
s and Tongestalked, pal
oblong, contracted like an hour.
it is separated into three lobes, of which the lateral are very much puekered and cur
d, and project
HT at the
sen from above ; in the middle it
as far as the sides of the middle lobe, which is much less card, w
haped, rounded
jate ; in form it is very much like a saddle
ibri
i crimson, and so smooth us to appear vara
herwise it is coloured like the other
parta; the crest is ovate, very much shrivelled, blunt at the end, with an oblong
ep erimson except on the ridges of the folds, which are much paler. The coxuwx lus a pair of
spreading cars; and an anther that is slightly covered with down which runs down over
la (ANN alarına
AA
L
Prove XXVIII
LALIA CINNABARINA.
cinnabarina (Bateman mes); psendobulbis eylindraceo-ampullaceis elo
fo
binis basi discretis oblongis subrecurvis et undulatis, scapo tenui ascen-
multò long aribus ob.
dente fol ore 4-5-floro, sepalis petalisque oblongo-l
belli convoluti recurvi lobis Iateralibus acutis intermedio
tusis sequalibus,
ovali crispato: lineis 3 elevatis in axin.
The colour of the flower and its graceful manner of growth, render it
of this brilliant spee
impossible to match exacly
That of E
drum vitelli-
appe
the peculiar tints of its b the race to which it belong
nom and cinnabarinum, two at beauty, of which the former is in eultivatior ach
the nearest; but their colours are really very diferent,
ies is a native of Brazil, whence it was introduced in the year 1836 by Mr. Yo
Nurseryman, Epsom; and in the spring of 183
of the Horticultural Society in Re 1 in other
ji Sreet. Subsequently i has appear
nnd Love the o
Mr, Batema
The panuno-nvuns are I
ure to materials supplied
wer fecly in the month of April.
m inches long, ereet, elustered, thickest atthe bas, and
tapering uprana, so ta to resemble è wice-Hask stretched lon
interval. The 1xaves are about as long as the preuo-bulbs,of a narrow tly five
or sevensnereed, and are curved downwards by their own weil
ht. From the apex of the p
springs the scars, a foot or more lo green, with about three withers
attached to it at nearly equal distances; itis unable to Dear the weight of four or five flowers that
u
spring from ita end, and consequently it is bowed downwards; and as it swings in the air from
among its dense foliage hanging from a bough of a tree, it must look like
many-hended reptile,
watching impatiently for its prey. The nnacts aro extremely small
pointed scales, Each
tow is seated on a stalk which, taken together with the ovary, measures about an inch and half
in length. The CALA and conorta ar
st brilliant yellow-searlet; their divisions are of
nearly the same size, linear, obtuse, the back
pal being straight, the two anterior and the petals
being falente in the direction of the nam, The latter (fig. 2) is of the same rich colour as the
her parts, but it is gay painted with numerous obli
ards th
umn, except at the upper end, where it cur
ight purple veins, which lose themselves
m of the middle lobes; it is closely wrapped round the
backwards ; alon
k the middle are three eleva
Tinea; nt ita base is a pass sing down the side the ovary, and indicating that the labellum i
really calenrate, but that its spur is adherent to the flower
bi pasenge is a. The pork-staszs are eight, ara
as in the accompanying
figure À
Wh
took it for a Cattleya, of which it has rather more th
tunity of examining its polen mo
he Lali at that time k
but recent discoveries have shewn that there may be Lali with the habit of Cattleya, us lu
caso, and Cattleyas with the habit o
Lelia, as in C. citrina. The difereno
of habit, but of structure; the pallen-masses of Cattleya being four, and those of Lelia e
‘Our gardens now contain all the known species of this most noble genus, with one exception
Ls anceps, albida,forfracca, and autunmalis have all been figured in the Botanical Register; the
lat autifully in Mr. Bateman's splendid work on the Orchilace of Mexico and Guatemala
L majalis, the Flor de Maio, has been sent alive by Mr. Hartweg from Mexico to the Horticultural
Society, and has been extensively distributed. The species still to procure is the real L grandiflora,
the Bletia grandiflora of De la Llave and Lexarza, and Flor de Corpus of the people of Mechoacan.
‘This late is too imperfectly described to enable us very correctly of ita appearance; it is
however said to have large flowers pale purple, elegant, and rather sweet to which is added, that
they are“ spithamed;” but whether by this expression the Mexican authors intended to say tht th
flowers are span high above the g
round, or a sp two very different things, there are
mo means of ascertaining, In the former caso they would resemble La majalis ; in the later they
Tanger than any thing yet discos r sense is to be attached to the
of spithameeus, it seems clear that L. grandiflora, with oblong or roundish pear-shaped
pscudo-bulbs, a scape occasionally dichotomous, and amplexicaul bracts, is a very different species
from any thing yet scen in our gardens or herbaria.
20
AeA.
PL.
)
: ii, Li. [ett M
Piare XXIX
SOBRALIA LILIASTRUM.
S. Liliastrum ; foliis lanceolatis acutissimis vaginisq
e stria
is glaberrimis, racemo
ltifloro disticho
bracteis ovatis acuminatis spathaceis distine
tibu
> sepalis patentibus angustis Ianceolatis acuminatis, petalis con
undulatis, labello undul
ormibus
lato crispo plicato emarginato nudo? venis flabellatis, alis
column maximis faleatis
S. Liliastrum. Gen. $ Sp. Orch. 177
of the most remarkable among Orchidac
ge ly like flowers, and stiff pl
Palm-tree, Te
w, with its ofi reedy
1 leaves, which resemble those of the smaller kinda
vd in Peru, in Brazil, and in Mexico, where the sp
by Poppig, who found
countries. They terrestrial perennial plants, with simple roots, and
times as high as a man, very rarely branched, thickly elothed
with leaves. Their infor
of terminal racemes, which are straight or flexuose
metimes axillary and bid, and loaded with snowwhite, pink, crimson, or Viole flowers I
it appears as if fannel-shaped, and
bordered by a lcernted fringed eg
unny, rocky, and very hot pla
where thoy oen form extensive thickets. A few are sweetacented ; and of aome the flowers ei
r only a short time, (Now. gen. et sp. 1.64.)
Can any thing bo conccved more beautiful than thickets of sich plants
in the
ompanying plate?
ly discovered at Bahia by Salzmann, a G
thickets in sandy places. More rec
marked Epido
rum iiastram 5 it Ind been found in
ily it has beon met with in British Guayana, ty Me
Scliomburgk, by whom the drawing from which the
m tem to twelve fet high. Mr
urgk
Afferent species, the former being distinguished
no specimens which will enable me t of the value of this distinction, and as the
1 have not separated them even as varieties
flat at that part; but as I
Should it appear hero
after that the red is a difer
1 species them the namo Liliastrum will bel
5 to the white species,
Which most certainly is that of Babin
For some reason unknown to me M
Póppig and Endlicher exclude this sp
gen. § gp. 1.583); but I cano
semus Sobran, (ee their No
njcture their reason for so doi
alia there is ot the smallest doubt. This
inion entertained by the
S. macrantha” of Mexi
ne The same plant w
Count Karwinski, with a Il
i July, om shady rocks near the I aguna by Schiede, who
senda de la
in lower in the month
reports the flower to be ros
yet have reached us alive
at ali these magnificent plants should n
tho Peruvian species over arriving here
Tt is much to be regrette
press purpose of proenring
dales. some nous patron of gardening will send a collector for the
4 des
ms of the Western Ani
probably the finest of them, with its
and shrubby summit of t
Tage flowers (four inches i diameter) of a beautiful pink
the Peruvians themselves, OF the la
ly on the more sterile mountaintops, where
or are separated by ln
but S. dichotoma seems the favourite of
und
jlowa: This perennial plant is f
x Pöppig speaks as
md in mighty
fung over the gr
ruins, are either assembled in heaps
‘rink of some dreadful precipice. They 0
trab thieket, rich in beautiful
¡Land
which is overrun by that dwar, prostrate, imp
ly be penetrated by the traveller with great t
due Peruvian calls
‘but spiny rigid branching shrubs, which can
dangers and which, ns it constitutes the highest limits of arborescent vegetation
Tn such placos the Sobralia dich
hat of the Ten-wevks
of the forest (a ja de la montaña) pars,
und a delicious fragrance Tike
loaded with violet blossoms, and seatterin
of the country regard it as a
rk, Became ofits surpassing but transitory beauty the peopl
Flower of Paradise (flor del paraiso)
Mr. Sehomburzk, Messrs Loddigos have at
wonder, and name it
Tom b
p; to add that through the exertions o
length a
E A =
JUNG UCU Ke FT
rude
Piare XXX.
AERIDES QUINQUEVULNERA.
A. quinguevuluera ; foliis ligulatis apice rotundatis oblique emarginatis apiculo
interjecto, racemis pendulis multifloris foliis longioribus, labelli encullati infan-
dibularis Incin infloxá denticulatà,
libus erectis intermedia oblonga
Coming, who has been pi
gated the Botany of those rich islands with
to Messrs, Lod it
It is one of the most showy
with whom it fowered in August last
that beautiful race which is confined to the tropical parts of
‘and which claims for itself mo
particularly the name of air plants, OF these a
inhabit the eastern parts of Asin; in the
as Acrides proper, (E
sixteen are Javanese; and of them very little is known to
botanists in this country. Lat us hope that
labours of Mr. Cuming will by degrees make them
familiar to us,
What is now represented
nearly allied to the delicious A. odoratum of Bengal, of which it
‘na all the habit; but it wants the delicate fragrance of that spocie, and yet it ha
aromatic odours it lowers have each five purple blotches, and the middle lobe of de lip is
serrate in all which eircums
n
The serazs and Perazs are fleshy, firm, n
node of growth aro altogether those of A. odor
purple speckles near the
base, and a rich crimson stain at the apex ; dl
E
which are white speckled with purple; the middl
lateral sepals aro much larger than the upper or the
The tario funnclshaped, curved inwards at the base of its spur, which is conical and
nst the column, which is embraced by its two lateral lobe
long, convex, serrated, deep crimson
with a white edge, and pressed close to the anther
Prati XXXI
CATASETUM LONGIFOLIUM.
©. longifolium ; foliis longissimis gramineis, racemo cylindracco pendulo multifloro,
sepalis ovatis subrotundis petalorum conformium dorso applicitis, labello ureco-
lari a tergo incurvo: limbo trun
to apiculato intis eereaceo
fimbrinto. Botanical Register for 1839, miscellaneous matter no. 15
a
s whose obliquely twisted column separate it from these, proves
mus Catasetum, including the suppressed and spurious genera Monachanthus
Myanthus, b Mormo
in tropical A jacent countries
st every I 10 tio race. None however of
d cam be compared for beauty with the species now fi;
sd, of which a sh
d in the Botanical Registe
Mortis,
Tt was imported from Demerara by Mr. Valen o Retreat, Battersea, to whom it
had been sent by his friend Mr. Henry Gloster, Attorney-General of the Co
Cultivator of Orchidaecous plants, Tt has also been received by several
persons, but no one
execpt Mr. Morris has succee
Retreat in October and November, 1839
sd in caus
to produce its beautiful lowers, Tt blossomed at the
other s)
ts genns, but its LEAVES are a foot and half
to support themselves, and hang down if the plant
upright ently sen, from Mr, Sehomburgk’s
erations that when growing naturally
the peeudo-bulbs clin to the limba of Palms, whence the leaves hang down gracefully. The macros
ulous they are so elosely covered by from twenty to thirty lowers, which nearly
ach other, that they have something
stalk, whieh
»
form, tapering to the point, where they are stained with purple, otherwise they
a cylindrical appearance. Each rLow is sented upon a
taken together with the
ny, is an inch and half long, with a small ovate herbaceous
ct at ita base. The seras and PE alike they are of roundish
us aro both shaped and c
o bodi shay
are twisted in such a manner as to be placed exactly at the back ofthe petals, and the whol
are placed above the horizontal lin of the flower. The rast is very fleshy,
and curved backwards at its end, frm, fleshy, about an inch in diameter at the
a deep rich orange running into crimson at the edge, a litle rugged on the outside, very
h and waxy in the inside; in font itis abraptly terminated by a rich deep crimson warte
cage thins away in The corvus is very short,
into two short horns, but quite destitute of ir at the back it terminates
forms me that this plant was first discovered by bim în 1896, and sent that
year to Mo üdiges. “We found it growing on the Ela-Palm (Mauritia flexnosa) where the
spadix generally developes itself; und in consequence of ht, andthe Titele resemblance whieh
its lon he genral appearance of Orehidaceous plants, it had been no doubt overlooked,
sd in the plate is unnatural. The rapid decomposition of
cars which have
been le where the fronda fell off. The place of lichens, the decomposition of which was the origi
of the scanty mould, has been taken by Tilandsie, Peperomie, and other succulent plants, and
among them thrives the Catasetum longifolium. The pseudo-bulbs adopt a pendulous
position, and the esy rots find in the store of black vegetable mould such abundant nourishment
that a thick tuft of long a is pushed ford di majestic Mauria, by
their bright green forming a strong contrast with the sombre hue of the large bunches of scaly fr
ofthis splendid palm, and so increasing its otherwise interesting appcarane
It was first discovered in the Camuni Creek, a tributary of the river Demerara; we found it
afterwards frequently at the low and marshy ground of the rivers Wironi and Wieki, tributaries of
the river Berbice, where the Mauritia Palm is so numerous, that it occupies largo tracts exclusively
Its leaves are sometimes from six to eight feet long, but T never observed in ita native elim
a bunch covered with such numerous flowers as the one here represented. The flowers which I saw
were of a brownish lake colour
The Macusi Indians call C. longifolium Massamu ; the Warraus Ohityo,
LLL
CA TILL
/
VALVE COMMIS
ra
A
)
accola
f,
ré seg
mica “E
Piar: XXXII
SACCOLABIUM COMPRESSUM.
S. compressum ; caule juniore
compresso ancipiti, foliis distichis amplexicaulibus
dent
undulatis obtusi
s, racemis eylindraceis pendulis, labelli cal-
care falento obtuso sepalis triplò longiore lamina carnosá minima dentiformi
Saccolabium compressum. — Botanical Register for 1840, miscelancous matter, no. 5
The f
Il its kindred, not only by
lated leave
The
of this plant is very handsome, when in health, and readily distin
tender bloom with which it is covered, bt by the bro thin unda-
Whose base is round the st mething like cara on each sido
neers, though individually small, nev al and pretty appearan
white spur and the party-coloured lobes of w
Te was sent from Manilla by Mr. Hi with whom it Rowered
in November, 1830
The erax when old is round and Hard, and pasties forth n
roots, by which the plant clings to the branches of trees; when young it is compressed, and, in
ner in which the bass of the leaves are rolled round it, appears quite thin
una pa siz to ben inches i ao,
wavy, obtuse, and very obliquely and unequally thoe-toothed at the end; at the base they surround
the stem, and uniting by their margins form a short compressed sheath, through which the racemes,
perco their appearance although not placed regular; ini two ine, the Tears kar
mer ro about thre, distant, ovate, acute, sheathing brown scales near their b
including the spur the flowers when unespanded are something more than half an inch log, wich
is about the length of the very slender pedicels on which they are support
rather acute, and e n upon a ground at frst white, but
und the labellum till their points touch ; that at the back forme an areh over
a, and is very prominent at the back. The perans are similar inf
ists of a long hollow, flee, obtuse dy feee from all
appendage or projection i the its rim i nearly cca bed, the side lobos
being rounded, that sute and fleshy. The conous i very short, wingless, lengthened
over the stigma into a narrow awl-shaped process (rostellum), to which the pollen-masses adhere by
means of a long, ascending, slender, subulat, channelled caudicula, and a minute gland. Th
ari is rounded, rather rugged, extended in font into a long awl whieh turns
upwards following the course of the rostellum. The vorus-nasers are two, obovate, slightly split
a the back.
Fig. Ler flower scen in front, the spur being cut away’: 2. is side view of the
7
(> SONOCAMEI MM aculatı 777
XXXIII.
| CYCNOCHES MACULATUM.
©. maculatum ; racemo longissimo multiftoro, labello lincari-lanceolato, hypochilio
lineari, metachilio apice cornuto glandul
que teretibus elongati
utrinque pinnatifidê marginato, epichilio lanceolato membra
¡ceo acuto mar-
neurvo. Botanical Register for 1840, miscollancous matter, no. 8.
Botanist, t. 156.
Had such a plant as this flowered near London twenty years ago, it would have afforded subject
of conversation among Botanists and the lovers of
any thing to retain its interest in London ; but now, so fami
piphytes of the tropics, it only
Surely it is on mood. Did any one
ever see such a flower before? Which is the top, which is the botto
p 2 What are we to call that long
club foot? which is cloven too; and what the crooked fn A with blood, which spread from
the middle of one of the leaves, as if about to
o fer? Sochi knotty points we commend most heartily to some of our German friends for
their solution; while we sink back into the accust
prose which so much better suits the
enquiries of scence
Cyenoches maculatum then is a Mexican plant, imported. by Mr. Bark
Te has long slender sre, from the sides of which spring forth
whom it lowered in November, 1839,
as many as fi race nodding r
mes, each having about thirty flowers, Ta their appear-
to distinguish the plant from a Catasetum, or other species
ita own genus, The micras are nearly a foot and hallo
sd at the base with numerous |
asma from the sides ofthe stems, Th
talks of the flowers are
re or less curved, and shorter than the sepals, Each rrowen when
fully expanded measures nearly thre inches from ti
tip of the divisions; they have a dll yellowish |
‘The seraxs and petats are alike in form, size and colour, I
wavy, and spreading in a starry
but rather one-sided ma
ner, The Lamzutvat is exactly continuous with the foot of the column, up
which it seoms as if inserted; its g
neral form is linear-lanecolate in the middle it is white, a
abont five round fleshy crooked fingers spotted with purple;
m the front pair of whi
it fleshy hora directed backwards, and greener than
any of the fing
the upper end is thin, lanceolate, acuminate, white, with three purple spot, of
Which one is near the point, and the two others lower down and nearly equidistant fom th
k knob at the
ia. The conos is very long, quite taper at the base, enlarged in
| apex, purple, spotted with a lighter shade of the same; at the back of the a
a tworlobed horn, below which the anthe
rs inserted upon a slender filament, "The enudicula is very
tong, and reste upon a large round fleshy gland,
This
Lowe and C
jes has also been found in La Guayra, by o
fc
the collector em
bon ta blaues?
XXXIV
Prin
MILTONIA CLOWESII.
M. Cloreesii; pseudobulbis ovalibus diphyllis, foliis ensiformibus angustis ercetis
scapo longioribus, racemo pancifloro laxo, bracteis min
sotaceis, sepalis
petalisque lanceolatis wqualibus, labelli cordati in medio constrieti apice sub-
rotundo acuto basi lamellis
inequalibus abruptis quincuncialibus auetà.
Odontoglossum Clowesti. Botanical Register for 183
miscellaneous matter, no.
Among the dried sp
ns of plants collected by Mr, George Gardner in his carly journeys
im Brazil was this
9 of his herbarium, found upon the O
naturalist afford
A supply sent
me by that indefatig
Miss M. A, Mears, of a p
calleetion of the Rev. John Clowes of
Broughton Hal, a most zealous and successful cultivator of these curions pro
actions. Tt lowered
in September, 1899, under the care of Mr. Wm, Hammond, the gardener to Mr, Clowes, from
whom I have received the following memora
dum concerning its habits.
‘The pscudo-bulbs are ovate, gradually tapering into a neck, glaucous and smooth, (the old
i furrowed), and are each terminated by a pair of corin
atthe point, slightly twisting, spreading
than the raceme, whieh springs from the axils of
the primary leaves that surround the base of the pseudo-bulbs, The latter stand er
out one inch in Length, covered with a few ye
autfal white, and afterwards changes as shewn in
At Mr. Hammond's wish it has been named after his master, than whom few persons can be
When I first received at the ti
Mr. Clowes’s specimen reached me I had not which account I
quently the name under which it was first
d has to be altered,
d ac bears from four to seven flowers, as much as three inches fom the tips ofthe petals
hat of the
om foostalks about an inch and a half lon
and disposed in
se manner, something in the way
fa corymb when the lower flowers are removed, but în a perfect
in che usual equidistant manner. The spats and Petars are lanceolate, distin
‘and uniform both in colour and form, richly spotted with brown up
sm is heart-shaped atthe base, oblo
point of contraction ; above this it expands into a roundish white rather acute extremity, which
nes dull yellow;
finally rolls up and bec
abruptly cut off at the end, of which the two lateral e
ior are the shortest, the tro intermedi
the longest, and that in the middle
x than any, but intermediate in length, Tho conunx is
wich a tall obtuse eap-like anther, beyond which the small
O;
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Prare XXXV.
DENDROBIUM MACROPHYLLUM.
D. macrophyllum. Botanical Register 1839, mise. no. 46.
ous plants of the Philippines have not proved handsome in many cases,
at this yields in magnifi ance to no species that hav
nee of appe
larger ; and a pair of them is produced from o
lowermost, upon all the drooping branches of the stout and numerous stems, In this respect it
nbles the well-known Dendrobin macrostachyum, Pierardi, cucullatum,
is far handsome than even the finest of them, Ts flowers indeed are more like t
and polehellum ; but it
D. nobile
but they are purple all over, the leaves are full four inches long by two in breadth, and the stems am
The species was sent from Manilla by Cuming, and dowered in the possession of the M
the channel that l
ity, whieh lies en
of Botanists that thi
At the base of the lip there is a thre-lob
al consideratio
from the apex to the unguis. Tt is worthy of the o
is absent in D. carulescens and nobile, two species to which D. macrophyllum
that the absence or presence of such projecto
nearly in many respects; for we le
tobe Itis observed that the hairy
is not of generic importance, as
Which runs down the middle of the lip in many allied specie
a o
Burtinglonti vegida
BURLINGTONIA RIGIDA.
Burlingtonia rigida, Botanical Register, under plate 1927
One of the many fine plants inhabiting the woods of Brazil, our knowledge of which was
dried specimens until the enterprise of British cultivators succeeded in transferring it to
confined
dons. Tt was originally found in Brazil, near Villa nova de Almeida, by the Prince
Maximilian of Wied Nouwic
it was afterwards gathered by Mr. Gardner near Rio Janeiro,
forming no. state by
the Messrs, Lodge
It is a beautiful species, with a habit unlike that of any other genus hitherto discovered. Je
of that traveller’ herbarium ; and i has been at length procured in iv
n whose stove it flowered some months
first forms a tuft of two or three Leaves, of an ovate lanceolate form and rigid texture, whose petiole
is thin, folded together in 12 articulated with the lami
a. Subsequently, in
the middle of these leaves appears a short branch, in the form of a rsevDO-nULO, oval, thin and
furrowed, on whose apex arise one or occasionally two leaves, like the first in form but without
the equitant petiole. The plant having advanced to this point, and succeeded in establishing itself
on the branch of a tree by means of numerous fine rather stiff roots, it next produces, from the axil
of one of the lower leaves, a rigid stax, slender and as thick as a crow quill, which rises ereet nto
the ir, forming two or three membranous sheaths upon its surface, and cea OW as soon as
it has acquired the length of eight or ten inches, At its apex it developes just such a tft of leaves
as that from which it sprang; and thus the plant continues to live till the period of flowering has
arrived. At that time it emits from the axils of one of its lower leaves a lower
six or eight inches long, having a few distant membranous scales ensheathing it, and bearing atthe
apex a very short umbel-like raceme of several large drooping white rzowrns, delicately tinged with
pink. The mnacrs are ovate, acuminate, membranous, and rather longer than the pedicels, OF the
strato, which are shorter than the petals, the uppermost is oblo and pressed close to
the back of the p
the lowermost are united into a single piece, corresponding in form with
the upper, slightly split nt the point, pressed close up to the lip, and extended at the base into a
short spur, whichis notched at the point, The rerats are obo
vary, parallel with the column
and lip, rounded and spreading at the point, The ar is considerably longer than the petals, broadly
„d, wavy, and narrowed atthe base into stalk, which is introduced within the spur
formed by the two lower sepals; near its base it has four short wary elevated plates, placed in
ly elevated Hines. The cow is parallel with the base of
unequal pairs on each side of two lg
the lip, clubalinped, tapering and hairy, and much shorter than the petals; at the upper end on cach
side stands a long membranous marrow car, guarded in font by a curved tooth of considerable size.
ined a glutinous cirealar excavation, which is the sriona. The arar
Within these teeth i
is rounded, uneresed, and abruptly cut off in font. The PonLEx-scassrs are two, excavated at the
back, and placed upon a long obovate strap or enudienla attached to a small oval gland.
‘When the column is deprived of all the parts that surrounded it, and so placed as to be seen in
head and neck than to any part of a flower.
but did not peresivo
Travellers in Brazil report this species to have a delicious scent of vic
I have since receive a
o the species of Durlingtonia already mentioned in the Botanical Re
8. maculata has been already added in the volume of that work for 1899,
obtuse, in its flowers being smaller, and in the inforescen
species may be distinguisho following ch
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Kyle and
Piume XXXVII
GALEANDRA DEVONIANA.
GALEANDRA. (Bauer's Illustrations of Orehidaceaus Plants; Genera, 1. 8.
Lindley's Genera & Species of Orchidaceous Plants, p. 18
for 1840, 1.49.)
Botanical Register
Perianthium patens, pet
is sepalisque subiequalibus ascenden:
tibus. Labellum infundibuliforme, indivisum v. obsole
intùs lamellis (4) auctum. Columna
declivi, Pollinia 2, posticè excavata, caudiculá brevi glandule brevi divergenti
biloba adnatà He
trilobum, calearatun
recta membranaceo-alata, clinandrio
bæ terrestres, et epiphyte, eaulibus fo
terminalibus,
G. Devoniana ; caule erecto simplici tereti polyphyllo, foliis lanceolatis
racemo sessili erecto multifloro, labelli laminá ovatá obtusń crenulatá lamellis
4 pone basin, anther cristã carnosń rotundatá pubescente,
G. Devoniana. Schomburgk in litteris.
Amon
the many interesti ont from British Guayana
burgk was that now represente
concerning which I have receive the following memorandum
thie distinguished traveller.
During our pe
inations we have scen this plant no where else but at the banks of the Ric
gro a tributary of the Amazon, where, in the neighbourhood of Barcellos, or Maria, we found it
go clusters on the trees which lined the river, sometimes on the Mauritia neule
the
round, where the soil consi
table mould. Te was so luxuriant in growth,
that some of tho lange clusters
Stems which sprouted from a common root might have been from
to twelve fect in circumference. When I first observed them on that pretty Palm
ho Mauritia
aculeata, I considered it to be an Epidendrum, allied in
ne me the honour to call after me. We did not find either buds,
the Rio N
dendrem. The stems were often from five to six feet
in April; and even on a closer inspection its appearance resembled
it is very abundant
Purple appearance, and changing into g er up. As already obser
about Barcellos, and equally in the vicinity of Ilarendata or Pedrero; I wonder therefore that it
Although the Rio Branco falls into the Rio Ne
specimen in that river, nor do T think that it is in U
As soon na I looked at it,
aped Spix, when he visited the Rio N
above Pedrero, we did not observo a singl
Amazon, as it is not likely that it would ha
rs. Loddi
much to you, who Ind not seen it as yi
t likewise hani
permission of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire that I might call it in honour of him, who n
om at M andra, and obsern
al larger than the generality of
ome, I availed myself the reader of this opportunity to r
is known as one of the most successful cult
monocotyledonous plants, but of whose urbanity and condescension I have personally experienced
numerous proof since my return to Europe”
That i is a Galeandra there is no doubt; but it renders it necessary to modify the essential
ming whose true marks of distinction the present ia a favourable
character of that genus, con
opportunity for a few observations
When Galcandra was frst propose. I had imagined thatthe original species, G.
Enlophia gracilis of the Botanical Register, and a third Sierra Leone plant,
‘the gland to which
Baueri, might
be combined with the
by the funnel-shaped undivided lip, tho crested anther, and the peculiar form
th pollenasies aro attached. But while experience shews that heso characters are în fiet essential
it also teaches us that they are also în part unimportant, and tha
to the genus Galeand itis
for them to be combined with other peculiarities in order to constitute
rested anther isthe principal; of those to be added,
requisite ‘a really good
genus. OF the characters to be rejected the ci
pon ho lip, and a terminal inflorescence,
Galeandra, and so perhaps will
appear essential.
the presence of four parallel plates
‘Tho Eulophia gracilis will in that case be excluded from the genus
G. oxtinetoria, both which require farther examination in order to determine whether or not they are
to be stationed definitively in the genus Eulophia
‘With regard to that genus, Zygopetalum, and some others nearly allied to Gales
involve somo very dificult enquiry, for which suficient materials have hardly be
dr
accumulated.
"To the genus Galeanda, in its restricted sense, T have one species to add ; a grassy plant about
two foet high, with long narrow leaves, small pink flowers and tubers in size and form resembling
the cormi of a Crocus. Mr, Schomburgk found it in abundance in, the S
River Berbice ; and Dr. von Martius met with it in Brazil, in fields near Almci
anal, adjacent to the
in the Province
of Para, Te may be distinguished thus
G. juncea ; tsberosa, caule stricto paucifolio, foliis linearibus acuminatis trinervis one
anita caso ero inalioro, lat aninà detida chile rat rotunda mes
4 pone basin contiguis juxta medium incurvis exinde în tribus serrulatis confluentibus.
Z (DAMMI:
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Darts tt?
Piare XXXVIII.
CATASETUM LAMIN.
(The Variety mith spotted flowers.)
TUM.
C. daminatum ; labello Innecolato basi saceato apice marginibusque incurvo basin
versus fimbriato per
n Inmellä unicà carnost alta integra v. denticulat basi
bilobá instructo, columná cirrhatà
©. laminatum. Lindl. in Ann. nat. hist. vol. 4. p. 384. Bentham, Plante Hart-
wegiana, p. 72.
Far. 1. maculatum; labello, colui
ná petalisque purpurco-fusco maculatis,
Tar. 2. eburneum ; labelto eburneo column’ petalisque immaculati.
In the general aspect of this plant before flowering there is lite to distinguish it fom Catasetum
tridentatum ; but its lowers are marked by many striking peculiarities,
The sso
scrxos is a nodding many-flowered raceme, proceeding from tho base of the
Preudo-bulbs, The as aro narrowly lanceolate and acuminate, of
senish purple colour, which
varies in intensity indifferent specimens ; the uppermost is pressed close o the petals, the two side
ones are turned back till they touch cach other, ‘The rerars are thin, pale pink, stained with dull
purple,
over the column, but not touch
rather broader than the upper sepa, with which they are para,
sto form a kind of arch
5 it; sometimes however they separate, and fall backwards towards
the lateral sepals or simply spread away from the column. Such was the ease i
the specimen that
furnished the accompanyi
drawing ; so that this plant has at one timo the arrangement of parta
found in the abolished genus Myanthus, and at another a disposition peculiar t itso
“The tar is altogether of a mew form in this genus, Tt has a lanceolate outline, and is hollowed
at its base into a deep pouch ; its edges and point are curved inwards, and along the margin, towards
the base it is bordered by a fine fringe of sender hairs. From the front edge of the pouch to nearly
the apex is carried a fleshy plate, plan
d perpendicularly upon the lip, and from four to five lines
roy
‘upper edge, which in some varieties is unequally toothed. In colour this part is variable; in the
iper odg a ?
deep, which, next the pouch, divides into two lobes, but otherwise is pe satiro execpt on the
specimen now figured it was pale greenish pink, spotted with dull but deep purple; and în a plant
that flowered in the
den of the Horticultural Society, at the time that this article was going
through the press, it was of the purest ivory whit, eventually cha
ing to cream colour. "The
conv is spotted in the variety with a spotted lip, and nearly plain în that wi
the white lip; in
structure it is like ©, maculatum,
‘The only Botanists who have found this plant wild wers Count Karwinski, whose specimens
exist in the Royal Herbarium of Munich, and Mr. Hartweg ; in both cases it was observed in the
hbourhood of Oaxaca. By the latter it was sent to the Horticultural Society, who have distri-
buted it extensively. The spocimen now represented was the first that flowered in this country, and
L
was drawn in the stove of Me higos
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Pare XXXIX
ONCIDIUM PECTORALE.
O. pectorale; pseudobulbis ovat
compressis suleatis diphyllis, foliis oblongis ob
tusis papyraceis seapo
lato brevioribus, sepalis Interalibus semi
“tis petalisque obovatis majoribus undulatis, labelli lobis Iatera
bus nanis
uminatá
atis circum
intermedio maximo convexo undulato bilobo, eristà ovat
dal
ne verrucosì tuberculisque n in frusti formá or
columna alis tr
“The woods of Brazil, teeming with plants of beautiful form, rich
ur, and singular structure,
mest of the yellow Oncidiums. T am indebted for my knowledge of
ntworth Buller, Esq. of Down
in April, 1840, with the following me
1 have ascertained that it was
urnished this, the hand
it to James Wo
near Exeter, ftom whom I received a specimen and
andum.
imported from Ric
in habit the O, Forbesi which I reccired at the same timi
de Janeiro, and it seems to
o to resemble
but in the structure of the leaves it
approaches elosely to O. flexuosum. Tho pecudo-bulbs are also furnished with leaves at their base
as well as at their point, which is thé caso with O. flexu
um, but T apprehend not uniformly the
ase with all Oncidiums, Tt seems to me also that the anther, which forms as it were the termination
ofthe column and surmounts the stigma, (in which there is a considerable sceretion of honey
fully developed than I have observed it to be in the flowers of other Oncidiums; and in this
respect the flowers remind me of an effect 1 formerly observed in that of Peris
a lata. My
em with a carpent
the flower drooped immediatly, and died in the cours of two days
other lowers aro as fresh as on the day in which they first xp
gardener accidentali bruised the anther of one of the flowers in measuring d
role, and I observed tha
nded, and I hope to preserve them
the plant in the shade.”
in full beauty for a month
ager by keeping
übereles at the base of tho lip is represented in the fig
hand corner of the plate. Te is dificult to de
atthe Ie
d may be compared for general appearance to
an olf
l ladies stomacher, studded with litle knots; hence the name,
The circumstance alluded to by Mr. Buller is a singular phono
m ia the whole
Orchidaceous order, He found that when the anther was disturbed the Rower quickly died, This
as not because the anther was removed, but because in removing the anther the pollen was br
into contac with the stigma, and thus the act of fe
dation was accomplish
the absence of insects, or of those other disturbing causes to whieh Ore
nativo place, the pollen canno
ntact with the stigma, and so long as this is prevented
tho flowers of many species will retain their freshness for weeks, as if in expe
ation of that ovent
Which they were created. But as soon as tho at of fecundation is accomplished, nt to can
from twelve to twenty-four hours after the pollen tou!
im, the ovary begins to calang
+ UE i
= SR LY cothonca nl cala
“AP Macibmia Armed
Pate XL.
No.l
DIOTHONEA IMBRICATA.
D. imbricata; caulis articulati internodiis fusiformibus sulcatis basi squamis
imbricatis, foliis linearibus apice retusis aut emarginatis denticulo interjecto,
js terminalibus
peduneu 3.floris paritör imbricatis, labello ovato acuminato
sepalis pe
disque conformi,
which form the subject of the accompanying plate are represented
brought home from Guayana by Mr, Schomburgk, who has favoured us with the
Diothonen was met with on the high mountain chain between the 65 and G6th meridian,
of lichen, the CI
and the 4th parallel of latitude, at an elevation of G abore the sea, The mumm
those elevations are thickly. e
rod with two spe
Jonia rangiferina and
reticulata, tho white colour of vi
ich convoys entirely the supposition that the ground is cover
„and this di
ur body, and communicated t the nose a reddish appearance
wis ease of heat
w. The thermometer stood frequently in the morni
became sensib his, connected
with the snow-white lichens, powerfully reminded us of a winter landscape, And, indeed, the
stunted trees, with grey tortuous branches and ther foliage, would have assisted to make the picture
more perfect, numerous Orchidacce,eonjointly with green mosses, had not clothed and
trunks of trees, Indeed it was the Orchidacem alone which gave the vegetation a tropical aspect
neither Palms nor Heliconias nor Uranias were to be seen. The Diothones, with its bright red
oms, looked beautiful among the tuts of mosses and white lichens, and Iv
no delighted with
w in such abundance at these he
gh I knew
and again, alt ow lil chance there was of b
for L bad yet 1,500 miles by water and land befo
the moss which clothes in such
1 have already observed that it grows in tufts and among
profusion the trunks and branches of trees in that situation, Mosses are generally found in humid
feio every thin and lichens
places and here pon kis pesto of ap
surprising. The former covered the ground to such a thickness that on sitting down one might
have fancied oneself reclining on the softest cushion, Among the moss on the ground I observed
alia Jiliastrum and Evelyne. Mosses it appears do not always requir
humid atmosphere, nor Sobralias a sandy soil and sunny situation, T need not say how surp
I was to meet tho Sobralia again at Esmeralda among the ridge of heaped up blocks at a short
T found nam
locks. Dida is, however
distance from the village rowing in
formation as Roraima, in the vicinity of which I found the first Sobral liliustrum in Guayana. We
discovered the Maxillaria near Mount Maravaca, which
Jongs to the same sandstone formation
grow in abundance on trunks and branches. of trees at a eight of abont 5 to 6,000 fect
above the sen, where a humid atmosphere was prevailing. Maravaen is about thirty miles în a
NN
p. direction from E
genus Diothonea differs from Isochilus only in having the lip united to the column, by an
intervening membrane, and it therefore bears the same relation to that genus, as is borne to Bpiden-
drum by Eneyclium. Tt may therefore be regarded as either a distinct genus, or a mere form of
Y Hall in the valley of Lion,
p very diffrent in form from the o
Isochilus.. The original species, however, collected by the late Co
om tho western face of the Cordillera of Peru, has a
divisione of the porinth, and both have a strong double eallosity at the base of the fore part of the
lip; in the true species of Isochilus, on the contrary, only at that
Tip has either one tu
par, or none at al
1, represents the column and lip of this plant
Neither this nor the following species have yet appeared in our gardens,
MAXILLARIA EBURNEA.
M. eburnea; pseudobulbis ov
in. petiolu
inato longioribus, vagi
is sulcatis monophyllis foliis lineari-oblongis acutis
subeoria iculatum angustatis seapo erecto unifloro
distantibus acı
vag isculis, sepalis explanatis late-
ralibus triangularibus elongatis supremo petalisque lanceolatis, labello ovato-
oblongo leviter crenulato callo unico acuto per medium et duobus lateralibus
sejunetis multò minoribus, columná apice uncatà cardine dentato.
This plant is one of the m genus that seems to require reconsideration ;
good marks of division have hitherto been found,
but among whose numerous forms
Te must be a plant of considerable beauty, for its lowers are nearly five inches from tip to tip of
the lower sepa
and of the purest white, Some of the leaves in my
fifteen inches long, and are remarkable forthe lo
y channelled stalk into which they taper at their
junction with the pseudo-bulbs; their textu
more papery than leathery
The near
lationship of dio plant. appears fo bo with M- grandiflors, which is ssid to
sed 2-leaved pseudo-bulbs, and a lip plaited transversely at the bas
mn, with its long foot, from whieh the
a represent the co pale and petals have been
cut away. Fig. 26 shews the lip with th three callosities upon its surfiee
MH. dl
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COAaDAMM SACCA UM
f
Puwre XLI
CATASETUM SACCATUM.
saccatum ; sepalis lanceolatis patentibus dorsali petalisque fornicatis, labello
subrotundo abrupt? acuminato fimbriato medio sacento: ostio contracto reni-
formi posticè dentato, columnä cirrhatà. Lindley in Botanical Register,
1840, mise. 179.
‘This species is one of the handsomest of the singular genus to which it belon
its large flowers being much
action to this
country we are indebted to the Moser. L dit from British Guayana,
Tn ron it is so Tule diferent from others that it cannot b
describablo
tinguished by any
marks, The riowsn-srans aro from a foot to fifteen inches high, and each bears seven or
acefully, as if beneath the weight of the flowers. Tho ats are lanceolate, equal, spr
inside deep purple, spotted with yellow, ouside tinged with yellow. The PETALS are of the samo
form and nearly the same size, but are thinner in texture, more spotted with yellow, and at first form
an arch over the column, but, after the flower has been for some time expanded, they spread back
tan the dorsal sepal. The sav is of a most irregular form, and rich yellow, thickly
with crimson dots; in form it is roundish ovate, with a contraction on each side, and
gradual t
point all round it is bondered by long frm fringes; in the middle is a
callous perforation, kidney-shaped in front, slig
d and warted at the back; this perfora-
tion opens into a small bag shaped chamber, which
ow the underside of the lip. At frst
the lip is flat; but it soon turns back at the point, so that at lst it is bent in the middle at almost a
right angle, and hides the conical chamber already described,
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CALANTHE VERSICOLOR.
versicolor; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis er
pubescente brevioribus, racemo denso pyramidato, labelli colamna brevi
acereti trilobi lobis lateralibus oval
nanis intermedio cuneato bilobo multò
majore basi trituberculato secus lineam mediam verrueoso, €
i pubescentis longitudine.
anu
species of Calanthe aro handsome, and well des
introduction to our gardens; none
among them however seems to excel in beauty the subject of the present figure, which flowered in
September 1840, in the collection of His Grace
Duke of Northumberland at Sion. Itis a
Indies, whence it has also buen sent from the Botanie Garden, Calcutta, to the
Horticultural Society
‘The plant has much th
bit of Calanthe veratrioia. The savas are very broad, rather
concave when in great
‘and as much ns a foot and a half long. Among them rise the sto
A there furnished with a sheathing seale, smooth near the ground, but
wny over all the upper portion. The ri
une aro quite smooth, of a deep rich violet, very
Beautiful
me time afier opening, but fading nt last into a dirty buf. The anrans are o
nte, spreading, and rather
than the perans, which have the same form, but are a litle curved
back atthe tips. The
the base to the whole edge of the column, which is unusually
short; itis threedobed ; the side lobes are half orate, obtuse, and much smaller than the middle
which is obovate, almost wedge-shaped, and d
ply split; along its middle runs a line of
warts, which terminate nest the column in three much larger
but little dicke
towards the end, an
about the same length as the downy ovary
on tho
s the lip and ovary, wi
t hand repre I the sepals and petals
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HOULLETIA BROCKLEHURSTIANA.
HOULLETIA. (Adolphe Brongniart in Annales des Sciences Naturelles, vol
nere series, p. 87. Lindley in Bot. Reg
1841, mise p.47.) Perianthium patens,
sepalis sub-liberis: petalis paulo mi
joribus, unguiculatis, Labellum cum basi
columnæ continuum, patens; hypochilio angusto, basi excavato quasi bilabiato,
ice utrinque in Inciniam producto, lobulo n
ntorjecto; metachilio nullo;
epichilio angulari dilat:
o cum hypochi
lio articulato. Columna erecta, arcuata,
clavata, semiteres, labello pauld brevior, Anthera
bilocularis depressa. Pol
lini
posticê fi
„ caudiculá lineari-lanecolatã in gl
andulam acutam elon-
gat, nee infixà Herbie epiphyte, pscudobulho
Americe sequinoctialis,
foliis solita
plicatis. Scapi radicales, erecti, apice racemosi. Flores spe-
ciosi, luteo-fusci, bracteis parvis nec spathaceis.
H. Brocklehurstiana ; foliis longipeduneulatis, racemo 6-7-foro, sepalis oblongis
petalisque apice rotundatis, hypochilii Iaciniis lincari-lanceolatis reflexis, epi-
chilio ova
Masi
o-triangulari subhastato angulis lateralibus acuminatis.
ia? Brocklehurst
Lindley in Botanical Register, 1841, mise, no. 2
ar plant has in many respects the character of Maxillaria, and so much resembles
M. Warreana in habit that I had intended to consider it one provisionally, until I could examine
with the ne e the whole of those genera which constitute a division of Vandes, to whieh I
assign the name of Masilarida For this reas plate, which has
a the aecompany
rave for some months, bears a different name from that at the head of this page
Recently, however, a plant has dowered in the Garden of Plants at Paris, which, if not the
Adolphe Brongniart hus given the
ame species as this, must be very near it, and to whieh MU
name of Houlleia, after Mons. Houllet, a zealous French Gardener, who found it on trees in the
Farther information.
Corcovado, 1 therefore at once adopt th
ASS pozna baszta e
In some respects no doubt it approaches Stabe
nd the hypochilium (lower half of the lip) is not concave, on the contrary it
totally different habit,
is fat, with a funnelshaped hollow at its base. Its ge
discusse till of the supposed
The prowrus are fall 3} inches in diameter, and spread out so as are
periant riehly spotted with brown upon a cin
ather obtuse; the lateral being very slightly united atthe bas
‘what larger than that at the buck. ‘The rats are rather shorter, much narrower, obo
the!
into nelaw, The tar consi cilium or lower, and an ep
‘or upper halt, with no interveni
narrow, Hat, spotted with brown, and hollowed
shorter than the lateral sepals. The nrrocnturun
in into a kind of two-lipped funnel from its anterior end spring
out next the foot of the co
which turn back towards the column, reach
Tong lincar-anceolate taperpointed append
um and epichiium, and between tho
almost half way up its just at the junetion of che hypoe
es is a minuto reflexed es: tooth, such asis found in the same situation in Stanhopea.
append:
deep rich
The
violet; in form itis somewhat triangular, with curved sides, and at the lower
has sometimes the form techni-
an the last, with which it is articulated; in colour it i
angles it is extended
excita is broader
a the whole
into a very narrow acuminate appendage, so that up
cave in front, thicker
bed at the back, and
cally called hastate. The corus is corved, rounded at the back, slightly co
the upper than the lower end. ‘The pollen-masses are two, deeply tw
and in such a manner
planted on the end of a long narrow eaudicula, which runs into an
ther, ‘The solitary withered flower, which alone 1 have had
y those parts more exactly
the opportunity of examining, provents my deser
Tt appears that the credit of first introducing this noble plant from the Brazil is due to J. H
Wanklyn,
Esq., of the Fen
lr, Te was first lowered by T. Brocklehurst
by Mrs, Powell. Mr.
x, of Crumpsill House, near Manche
1 am indebted for the drawin
to wh
near Macclesi
aliwated it in a basket
‘Thomas Appleby, the gardener at the Fenee, informs me that ho h
suspended in the Orchidaccons house; but he thinks it will suecced better in a pot treated like u
Maxillaria or a Peristeria-
Fig. L represents the column and lip, after the surrounding parts have been cut away
m from above; 3, is the samo viewed from
‘with their eaudicula and gland,
pair of pollen-mas
PI dd
(Lop tet Joiosa :
/
w £ >
Prati XLIV.
ORCHIS FOLIOSA.
Orchis foliosa, — Solamder's mss. in Mus. Brit. Lowe primiti Flora Maderensis p
13. Botanical Register, t. 1701. Lindley Genera and Species of Orchidaceons
plants, p. 264,
Although contrary to the practice I have hitherto observ
miti into the present work
no plants t
have been figured elsewhere, 1
present plate as a most noble example of the beauty of plants nearly approaching to the Orchises of
house plant
à thickets, It
It is a mative of Madeira, where, according to the Rev. Mr. Lowe, it inhabits woods
is usually no hand
under skilful man
er than the wild O. latifolia, to which it în fact app
cent pyramids o
Mowers ns are now represented William Wells, Esq. of Redleaf. I possess
a wild specimen from Madeira,
or which I am indebted to Dr. Leman, but it bears no kind of
He grows further to the southward than any species of Orchis properly so called, with the
ion of Orchis Canarien h occurs in the Canaries, on the rocky id
Organos, above the valley of Orotava, and is known by its shorter bruets, thicker spur, and truncate
lip.
Fig. I. gives a view of the general appearance ofthe pl
shows the lip, column and spur,
É
4
Z
(fad NAN van
Piave XLV.
EPIDENDRUM VITELLINUM.
Epidendrum vitellinum. Zind. gen. and sp. of orchidaceous plants, p.
Register, 1840. 1. 35.
Botanical
Botanical Ri
Birmingham. Yet I venture to
This plant has m a amall pallid specimen
ać to this
produced in the gard
Epidendrum vitellinum is un
could recognize the gorgeous species on the opp
ubtedly the bandsomest of its even such
a plantas E. Skinner, when it is in a state of perfect health a condition in which I regret to say
no one has seen it in this country. Let me hope that the accompanying fitful representation,
m the Cumbre of Totontepeque, at $000 fet
taken from specimens gathered by Mr. Hart
tod will
above the level of the sen, and in which nothing isin the smallest se
the possessors of it to exertion, and induce them to give it the eae its singular merits
abit in its native country the key to its proper management,
Tn what is known of
nation of any failure that h mitiaton up to the present ti
the exp accomp
an alpine plant; roo ens, Jungermannias, and other inhabitants
is, strietly speak
n 1 on the one band toa
f a cool moist climate; and never exp
on the other to one lower than 4%, but undoubtedly, in its season of rest, enduring as small an amount
nee, mentioned by Humboldt; that at the elevation of 9000
of heat as ht. Indec cho eireums
and Strawberries, mixed with
feet on the mountains of Mexico, there are found Dog R
rostemon platanoides), indicates with some accuracy the kind
(Peperomia) and the Manita (Ch
of climate enjoyed by Epidendrum vitellinum.
M. 46.
ALARMA fAanceam
7
Cite
Piare XLVI.
EPIDENDRUM PHCENICEUM.
Epidendrum pheniceum. Botanical Reg. for 1841, member 120 of the miscellaneous
matter.
“This is ono of the few Orchidaceous plants yet imported rom Cuba, where no doubt there
Te has be
are great numbers to reward the search of the col a introduced by. Messrs.
Beautiful as it is, it ap
hes very nearly to the dingy Epidendrum adenocarpon of La Llave
which isthe same as Mr. Dateman’s E. papillosum; and
difer principally in the
lip, which in this species
w two disinet elevated plates at its base, ending
abruptly, without th ‘runners into the main surface of the lip; whilein E. alenocarpon
w the column is thick and fleshy, whe
dick
there are no plates, jo baso of the lip be
the central of whi
The perunonnns roundish-ovate, 2-leaved. The Leaves are obl
somewhat twisted. ‘The scars is much longer than the leav et, all over rough with
m two to three fect high. The riowrns are scentless., The stekts and
greon speci OREW
et of Cattleya
ler, erect, oblong, ovate and wavy
ded with
y texture, deep purple, slightly
the clear bright
The av is money an inch and half ke
nt where they mackwanls; the middle lobe is nearly round, deeply emargi
nos
HER È
UA CCA alati ä TR
Pare XLVII
SACCOLABIUM BLL
Saccolabium Blumei. Lindley in Bot. Reg. 1841, miso, 115.
Although this plant has much resemblance to the common Saccolabium guttatum, it is in reality
very diferent. That species is a native, as it would seem, exclusively of the continent of Tadia, this
of Jara. That has lx
dor racemes, this short broad ones. “That leaf with the point irregularly
truncate this a leaf rather acute, and terminating in a Kind of muero. ‘That has a lip of an oblong
‘orate form, this has a lip broadest at the end
à deeply emarginate. Finally, the flowers of this
are twice as large as those of Se
abium guttatum, and differently coloured, there being no spot,
but the sepa
md petals having each a streak of violet below their point,
and the lip a broad ile
rywhere except at the point, which is white
At one time T thought this species might be the Rhyneostylis retusa of Blume, bocanso it is
the only Javanese plant I have seen which could
aken for Suceolabfam guttam ; but upon
examining the dried specimens b
g, Lind another sl more
gh from the Philippines by Cumi
like that species than the present, and with the “ folia api
fria retusa” which Blume assigns
to his plant, but which do not occur in the species before us
‘These thre plants, namely, the true Saccolabiom guttatum, the S. Blume, and the Manila
plant, which may be named S. macrostachyum, and which is E
thick as the barrel of a musket, and a raceme as long asa field officer's plume, may be distinguished
FC 48.
SER i Jj atki CM.
Pian: XLVIII
ONCIDIUM BARKERI.
Oncidium Barkeri. Lindley in Botanical Register for 1841, no. 174 of the
Miscellaneous matter
cat genus Oneidium most of the species have flowers saficiendl large and gaily
render them plants of striking beauty: but among them are a fow pre-eminent in this
respect, and of these the species now figured may be regarded as one of tho finest. Inthe size of
the lowers it is only equalled by O. Papilio, Insleayi, and a few Peruvian species inthe briliancy
of the yellow lip itis not inferior to O. bifolium, while the rich spotting of the sepals and petals is
‘only equalled by O. Papilio itself
At present the species is of the rarest occurrence, having only Mowered in the collections of
Mr. Barker, who imported it from Mexico, and of Mes. Lawrence of Ealing Park
Tes raxepo-nonns are exactly oval, compressed, blunt-edged, with a furrow or two passing down
each side, The Leaves aro small for the size of the plant, two to each pseudo:bal of an oblong
lanceolate form, with long sheathing striated footstalkk, which is distinctly articulated in the middi
The scars: in terminal, a very unusual circumstance în Oncidium, with about three sheaths on the
art which supporta the flowers, The Larsen are disposed in a simple curved nacre, and are
from five to seven in number. The szeats and PETALS are alike in form and colour, liner lanceolat
wary, spreading or turned back: the lateral very slightly adhering at the base; they are covered
with deep rich brown spots and bands on a pale cinnamon-coloured ground. The tar is pure yellow,
without a single spot, much paler on the under side, and longer than the sepals its middle lobe is
very lange, broader than long, slightly pointed at the apex, which nevertheless curves inwards in the
manner usual in this genus ; it is distinctly stalked ; the lateral lobos aro flat, oblong, truncated with
unded angles, and not more than a third the breadth of the middle lobe. ‘The curst (fg. 1.)
“consista of an anterior tubercle, which is slightly three-labed and hollowed out in front, and of a
depressed two-lobed elevation immediately behind it. The COLUMN is unusually short, pale yellow
with a pair of rounded oblong wit
At Plate XXV. of this work an attempt having been made to distinguish on more satisfe
grounds than before the genera Cyrtochilom and Oncidium, I now fel bound to state that u
examination of more species, and a very fll revision of these and the neighbouring genera, has
Satisfied mo that the reasons assigned in the place refered to are unsatisfactory, and that Cyrtochilum
Cannot be longer regarded as having a claim to stand as more thn an artificial section of Oncidium,
Te will be remembered that this genus was established by Messrs. Humboldt and Kunth, în their
Nova Genera et Species Plantarum, upon two species with stalked petals and an undivided lip,
characters certainly very striking in several Peruvian and other species, But there are so many
insensible gradations by which the form of the petals and labellum varies in the numerous forms of
Oncidium, that those distinctions cannot be maintained, and all others substituted in lieu of them
have equally filed when applied to practice
have been introduced which would be more properly stationed elsewhere
Tn the attempt, 10, to modify the character of Cyro
hilum, species
a, and C. flavescens and stellatum
Cyrtochilum isioides and pardinum which are rather Odontogl
whieh are better placed with Oncidium Russellianum in Miltonin.
or the purpose of putting this matter in as clear a
101 in 1842, together
increase of the genus Oncidium itself of ate years, from 38 species in 1832 u
with the many re J the same species under diferent names, now scattered through many
books a
which an opportunity has been taken of entirely rem
pr
to draw up the following abstract of the g
delling it
T have been tem
1d many pl
ONCIDIUM. Swartz. *L. p. 196.
EAN
O; O gun (Lil DA
PL. 49.
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4
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Piave XLIX.
DISA GRANDIFLORA
Disa grandiflora, Linn. Suppl. 406. Smarts, Act. Holm. 1800, p.210. Thunberg,
Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, p.7. Ker in Brandes Journal, ol. 4. p. 205. 1.5. f. 1
Botanical Register, t. 926, Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. Orch. p. BAT.
Thunb. prodr. fl capens. p. 4.
Bergii Plante: Capenses, p. 348. 1.4. fig. 7.
Orchis africana flore singulari herbacco. aii Historia Plantarum, vol. 3. p. 586.
1 trust I may be excused for closing this work with the noble plant now represented, even
although it is not figured for the fist time ; for all the previous delineations fail entirely in doing
finest Orehidaccous plant found at the Cape of Good Hope, and we may almost add in
whether we regard the large size of its regal flowers, or the brilliant colours by which
y are accompanied. ‘The magnificent specimens from which the accompanying dravi
made were sent in a dried state from the Cape by Mr. Harvey, who remarks thatthe specimen is
the largest he ever saw, the stem being two feet and a half high, and the lowers five inches and a
m tip to tip of the expanded sepals
Tt occurs in various parts of the Colony, but principally on Table Mountain, where it is so
common, according to Mr. Harvey, that every stream is literally bordered with it in March. Sir
John Herschel tells us, that the temperature of the situations where it is found ix oezaionały as
Tow as 314, and also occasionally as high as 06}, Is habitat is on the margin of pools of standing
mate, the drainage of the boggy slopes of the Mountain, wherein its roots are immersed. These
are dry or nearly so in summer. In such localities it of courte frequently involved in the dense
mist of the clouds, which, even in the hottest months, often cover its habitation for a week or a
‘t uninterroptedly
Alas! that T must add that it has hitherto proved uncultivable. It occasionali indeed is
imported, and i the year 1825 it even lowered at South Lambeth near London, ia the garden of
Mr, William Grifo, a zealous a
ish specimen seems to have been put on record.
well-known collector of bulbous and other plants, But it soon
disappeared, and no other Eng!
in the absence of all certainty as to the mode of cultivating this plant, some speculation may
be indulged in, Wo would then advise those who are in communication with the Cape, to proceed
as follows.
We should procure the er the leaves aro withered; we should pack them
ransport them to Europe. On their arrival ere, we should. preserve them in
in moist moss, and
use till the month of February, at which time we should plant them
p dy waldrdned peat and transfer thema t th sore. Aa won as the rots begin o grow we
O deco plate keeping them na bot damp atmosphere; Ther, nd under such circum
o be premi they would flower, During de whole of the growing season we sould
ke pats ithe sue hose until the leaves were fal formed and the Rovers expanded
thereupon we should immediately transfor them to an intermediate house, (half stove half greenhouse)
until the leaves were withered, Subsequently to that period we should keep them in a cold shaded
frame, just moist and no more, til the beginning of winter. Up to the beginning of February we
should just keep them from frost in a cold conservatory—and as soon as February arrived we should
begin again to treat the plant as at first, In addition to all this, we should Keep the pots in pans
fall of water during all tho timo that the plants are in rapid growth,
Is it not worth the while of some one of our great Amateurs to try this experiment?
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