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CURTIS’S 
BOTAN ICAL MAGAZINE; 


le add an 
Flower Garden Bisplaped: 


In which the most Ornamental Fore1en PuanTs cultivated in the Open Ground, 
the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented and coloured. 
To which are added, 

THEIR NAMES, CLASS, ORDER, GENERIC AND SPECIFIC CHARACTERS, 
ACCORDING TO THE SYSTEM OF LINNEUS; 

Their Places of Growth, Times of Flowering, and most approved 
Methods of Culture. 


By SAMUEL CURTIS, F. L. S. 


THE DESCRIPTIONS 


By Str WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K. H. 


LLD. F.R.A. and L.S. Director of the Royal Botanic Garden 
of Kew. 


VOL. XIV. [5 
OF THE NE W SERIES; 
Or Vol, txv11. of the whole Work. 


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Jun» Ist, 1841. 


( 3795 ) 
SoLANUM cRrisPpuM. Wavy SoLanum. 


KKK KKK KEKE KKK EE EEE 
Class and Order. 


PentranpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Sotanez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calyx monophyllus, persistens. Corolla monopetala, 
rotata. Anthere oblonge, apice poris duobus dehiscente. 
Bacca bi- tri- quadrilocularis. Spr. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


SoLanum crispum ; fruticosum, foliis petiolatis ovatis acutis 
vel acuminatis undulatis integerrimis, corymbis termi- 
nalibus, calycibus tomentosis lobis quinque brevibus, 
corolla rotata profunde quinqueloba lobis ovatis un- 
dulatis, antheris zqualibus. 

Sotanum crispum. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. v. 2. p. 31. 
Dunal, Solan. p. 159. Syn. p. 16. n. 78. Roem. et 
Sch. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 595. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 
p. iu Lodd. Bot. Cab, t: 1959. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 
Pp. ; 


Apparently a frequent inhabitant of Chili, growing in 
waste places ; as at Conception, Carcamo, and Palomares, 
and also in the island of Chiloe, whence it seems to have 
been introduced to our gardens by Mr. Anperson. It was 
suspected it would prove a hardy plant: and such is the 
case even as far north as the Highlands of Argyleshire, 
where, in the gardens of James Hunrer, Esq., of Hafton, a 
most indefatigable Horticulturist, there is a plant which 
has attained to a height of from twelve to fourteen feet 
upon a south wall. It has braved the unusually severe 
winters of 1837—8 and 1838—9, and it is hardly possible 
to conceive any thing more beautiful than the numerous 
purple corymbs, backed by the copious dark foliage, which 

the 

VOL. XIV. B 


the plant produces throughout the summer months. It 
strikes very freely from cuttings. Our drawing was made 
a few years ago from a comparatively small individual in the 
greenhouse of the Glasgow Botanic Garden. As an addi- 
tional recommendation to the cultivation of this plant, the 
flowers are fragrant ; though heavy if too strongly inhaled. 

Descr. Stem woody; young branches herbaceous, green, 
terete, glabrous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate, acute 
or acuminate, the base obtuse, rarely subcordate, the mar- 
gins entire, waved. Petiole from half an inch to an inch 
long. Corymbs on terminal, leafless branches ; large when 
cultivated successfully, handsome. Pedicels, at first, curved 
downwards, so that the buds are drooping. Calyx cup- 
shaped, cut into five short, acute, spreading lobes, downy 
on the outside. Corolla an inch or more in diameter, ro- 
tate, cut almost to the base into five horizontal, waved seg- 
ments, of a palish purple, marked with a central streak of 
red. Anthers connate, five, yellow, on short, white jila- 
ments, Style protruded beyond the anther-tube. 


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Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and Pistil :—magnified. 


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cod Essex May 1.28 40. 


( 3796 ) 


MOoNACHANTHUS ROSEO-ALBUS. WHITE AND 
RoseE-coLoreED Monk-F Lower. 


BEEK KEKE EEEKREEEEEREE EK 
Class and Order. 


GynanpriA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuiwea. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et petala equalia, 
deorsum versa. Labellum posticum, carnosum, indivisum, 
ventricosum, sepalis multo majus. Colwmna brevis, crassa, 
mutica. Anthere et pollinia Cataseti.—Epiphyte Cataseti 
habitu. Lindl. 


Specific Name and Character. 


\p 
Monacuantuus roseo-albus ; labello triangulari acutissimo 
concavo-hemisphezrico (non ventricoso) intus pubes- 
cente margine basi longissime ciliato. 


Several pseudo-bulbs of this remarkable and very pretty 
plant were sent from Para, in Brazil, to Mr. Murray of the 
Glasgow Botanic Garden in the early part of last year by 
_Mr. Campsext, and there is scarcely any period since, that 
some or other of them have not been throwing up the flow- 
ering-stems, and exhibiting their delicate blossoms of a 
white colour, the lip, tipped with red and banded with the 
same colour in the inside, while the margin at the base has 
a deep red fringe much longer than in any species I have 
ever seen. It will be seen that I have preserved the generic 
name of Monacuantuus, rather from consistency than a 
conviction of the soundness of the Genus. It might with 
greater propriety be called Caraserum, Sect. Monacuan- 
THUS, 

Pseudo-bulbs a span and more long, clustered, oblong, 
tapering at both ends, annulated. Leaves lanceolate, six 

to 


to eight inches long, thin, membranaceous, with numerous 
elevated striae, and tipped with a short acumen. 

Scape from the base of the bulb, erect, two feet high, if we 
include the long raceme of many (twenty to thirty) flowers. 
Sepals linear-lanceolate, white tinged with red, soon closely 
reflexed ; petals longer and broader, standing both of them 
erect over the column and parallel, their margins only 
reflexed, white. Lp deflexed, the smallest of the Genus; 
as viewed in front exactly triangular, with a very acute 
point, the margin near the column fringed with remarkably 
long, coarse hairs or bristles, the disk concave, so that seen 
on the underside it is hemispherical (not by any means ven- 
tricose) : within downy, the bands, the acute apex of the 
lip, and the fringe all red, the rest white. Column short 
and thick, much shorter than the lip. Anther-case hemi- 
spherical. Pollen-masses as in CatasEerum. Stigmatic sur- 


Jace of the column becoming black soon after the anther- 
case has fallen off. 


Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pollen-masses >—magnified. 


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( 3797 ) 


MANDEVILLA SUAVEOLENS. SWEET-SCENTED 
MANDEVILLA. 


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KEK KERR KEK KKK KEK KEKE 
Class and Order. 


Pentanpria Dieynta: 
( Nat. Ord.—Apocynez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calyx pentaphyllus, imbricatus, erectus, intus annulo 
pectinato auctus. Corolla hypogyna, campanulato-infundi- 
buliformis, fauce tuboque esquamatis, limbi 5-fidi laciniis 
subequilateris. Stamina 5, basi corolle tubi inserta: an- 
there in conum circa stigma conniventes, apice membra- 
nacee. Ovarium biloculare, polyspermum. Stylus unus; 
stigma conicum, a latere 5-foveatum, basi campanulatum 
5-lobum, apice bicuspidatum. Annulus hypogynus 5- 
lobus, carnosus. Fructus ..... —Frutex Bonariensis (7?) 
volubilis, foliis petiolatis membranaceis, stipulis pectinatis, 
racemis secundis axillaribus multifloris. Lindl. 


Specific Name and Synonym. 


MANDEVILLA suaveolens. 
Manvevitta suaveolens. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, ¢. 7. 


I had long possessed specimens of this plant in my Her- 
barium, where I had referred it to Ecurres ; and having 
received recent flowering ones from the Horticultural Society 
of Edinburgh, from which the accompanying figure was 
taken in October, 1839, I was on the point of publishing it 
as an Ecurres when the plate above quoted appeared, where 
Professor Linptey has constituted of it a new Genus, under 
the name of Manpevixna, in compliment to Henry Joun 
Manpevitze, Esq., H. B. M. Minister at Buenos Ayres, 
“ to whom we are indebted for the introduction of this and 
many other interesting plants.” He considers it to differ 
from 


from Ecuires, first, by the form of the corolla, which is 
more like that of Beaumontia, than of Ecurres ; and, se- 
condly, by the presence of a pectinated ring between the 
bases of the calyx and corolla.—This pectinated ring we 
had unfortunately omitted to observe.—Its native country 
is not yet certainly known, Mr. ‘T'weepie’s remarks on my 
specimens in the Herbarium are, “‘ This is one of our best 
climbers, only to be met with in gardens about Buenos 
Ayres, and called “ Chilian Jasmine.” Its seed-pods are a 
foot to a foot and a half long, generally two hanging 
together. The seeds are long and bearded like those of 
Kcurrgs.” From the name given to it at Buenos Ayres, it 
would appear to have been introduced from Chili ; but we 
have seen nothing of the kind from that country. It.is not 
considered to be hardy with us: and Dr. Lrypiey recom- 
mends that it should be cultivated in the conservatory, and 
observes that it is easily propagated by cuttings. 

Descr. Stem fruticose, long, terete, climbing, glabrous. 
Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovato-cordate, entire, with a 
rather slender acumen, membranaceous, entirely glabrous 
above, beneath pale, copiously marked with brown reticu- 
lated veins, and bearing tufts of hair in the axils of the 
principal nerves. Petioles one to three inches long: be- 
tween the opposite pairs on each side are several short, 
fleshy, filamentous stipules. Peduncles axillary, elongated, 

ring a corymb of large, white or somewhat cream- 
coloured, fragrant flowers. Calyx five-partite, the lacinie 
lanceolate and erect. Corolla funnel-shaped, the limb of 
five, broadly-ovate or subrotund, wavy, imbricated, spread- 
ing lobes. Within, the lower part of the tube is thickly 
clothed with hairs, above which the five nearly sessile, con- 
nate, linear-oblong, included, yellow anthers are inserted, 
covering and concealing the stigma. Ovaries two, sur- 
rounded by a five-lobed, hypogynous disk, and tapering 
into a single style, which bears a very large, green, fleshy, 
extinguisher-shaped séi . 


Fig. 1. Lower part of the Tube of the Corolla, with Stamens. 2. Pistils: 
magnified. 


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( 3798 ) 
GREVILLEA DUBIA. DupBtious GREVILLEA. 


KEK KEE EEK EKER EEE EK 
Class and Order. 


TrerranpriA Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—Proteacez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium irregulare ; foliolis laciniisve secundis : api- 
cibus cavis staminiferis. Anthere immerse. Glandula 
hypogyna unica, dimidiata. Ovarium dispermum. Stig- 
ma obliquum depressum (raro subverticale, conicum). Fol- 
liculus unilocularis, dispermus, loculo centrali. Semina 
marginata, v. apice brevissime alata. Br. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Grevittea dubia ; foliis ellipticis marginibus refractis, ra- 
mis ramulisque tomentosis, floriferis racemoque abbre- 
viato recurvis, pistillis uncia brevioribus. Br. 

Grevittea dubia. Brown in Linn. Trans. 10. 169. Ibid. 
Prodr. 1. 376. Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. 3. 410. 


Mr. Brown considers this plant scarcely specifically dis- 
tinct from his GrevitLea punicea; Ramer and Scuuttes 
repeat the doubt, and Spreneert unites them; but these 
writers have probably no additional information on the 
subject. A specimen which I received from New Holland 
without name in 1824, and which I considered G. punicea, 
is distinguished from this by its leaves being broader, larger, 
and minutely dotted, but otherwise glabrous on the upper 
surface, where also the marginal nerves are less conspi- 
cuous; the raceme too is less dense, and the style longer. 
Our plant was raised at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 
from seeds sent by Mr. CunnineHam as a new species, and 
has flowered freely in the end of the season, during several 
years. 

Descr. 


Descr. Shrub (five feet high) erect, with pendulous 
branches, twigs covered with brownish pubescence, hairs 
adpressed, attached by the middle. Leaves elliptical or 
obovato-elliptical, mucronulate, spreading, having adpress- 
ed pubescence, similar to that on ‘the twigs on both sides, 
but silky and chiefly abundant below, lateral nerves near 
the margins. Racemes short, dense, terminal, becoming 
lateral, and opposite to the leaves, from the prolongation of 
the branches. Bractee subulate, falling very early. Flowers 
rose-coloured, geminate, on recurved pedicels, the lowest 
expanding first ; perianth pubescent on the outside, four- 
_ phyllous, united in the throat by a dense tuft of white wool, 
less than half the length of the revolute limb, which on the 
inside is glabrous. Stamens small, white, sessile in the 
apices of the perianth. Pistil pedicellate, including the 
pedicel less than eight lines long, surrounded at its base on 
the lower side by a pale, semfunar disk, everywhere gla- 
brous except at the top of the style, where it is slightly 


pubescent: stigma oblique, flat ; germen green, obscurely 
furrowed above and below. Graham. 


( 3799 ) 


Verpascum Taurtcum. TaurtaN MULLEIN. 


KKK KEE KEK KEKE REE EK 
Class and Order. 


PentanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Scropuu.arin2. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla rotata, limbo inzqualiter lobato. 
Filamenta subbarbata. Anthere difformes. Capsula val- 
vis inflexis, dissepimentum formantibus in placentas incras- 
satis. Spr. 


Specific Name and Character. o 


Versascum Tauricum ; subpubescens, foliis cordato-ovatis 
rosse crenato-lobatis reticulatis submembranaceis in- 
erioribus petiolatis, petiolo brevi, superioribus multo 
minoribus magis cordatis sessilibus, racemis elongatis, 
pedicellis solitariis v. geminis bracteas equantibus, 
(floribus purpureis). 
Vergsascum Tauricum. AHortulan. 


If this very handsome Muttery, which was kindly com- 
municated from the open border of the Edinburgh Botanic 
Garden, by Dr. Granam, be anywhere described under the 
name with which it was received, I have no means of access 
to that description; nor will I, knowing how liable the 
Genus is to mix with other species, pronounce that the 
present is of a genuine stock. I publish it with the name 
which accompanied the specimen, and under which it was 
probably sent from the German gardens to Dr. Granam. 
Its nearest affinity with any acknowledged species is, per- 
haps, with V. pheniceum, Bot. Mag. t. 885 ; but the pedi- 
cels are very much shorter, in which respect it approaches 
V. cupreum (Bot. Mag. t. 1226), a supposed hybrid, from 
which again it differs in the colour and size and markings 
of the flower. It blossomed in August, 1839. 


Descr. 


Descr. Root probably biennial. Stem erect, terete, 
branched, downy, the branches upright. Lower leaves 
large, ovate, cordate at the base, rather thin and membra- 
naceous, reticulated, petiolated, with very large coarse 
serratures, they may almost be called lobes, at the margin. 
Petioles short and, except of the radical leaves, broad. The 
leaves gradually become smaller upwards, more cordate, 
and at length sessile. Raceme eight to ten inches, or a 
foot long. Flowers rather closely placed, solitary or two 
together. Pedicels two to three lines long, equal in length 
with the narrow almost subulate bracteas, reddish. Calyx 
hairy, of five deep, lanceolate, spreading segments. Corolla 
moderately large, rotate, the segments unequal, broad, and 
rounded, purple, deeper and almost blackish at the base, 
with a yellow ring. Stamens unequal. Filaments deep 
purple, with long purple, spreading hairs, yellow and naked 
at the base. Anther reniform, dark purple. Pollen deep 


golden colour. Style red, a little thickened upwards. j 
Stigma capitate, green. o 


Fig. 1. Calyx with Pistil. 2. Stamens :—magnified. 


( 3800 ) 


EPIDENDRUM PATENS. SPREADING-FLOWERED 
EPIDENDRUM. 


KKK EEE KEK KKK EERE EK 
Class and Order. 


GynanprRIA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuinez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Sepala patentia subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia vel 
angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia vel reflexa. Labellum 
cum marginibus column omnino vel parte connatum, lim- 
bo integro vel diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato vel 
tuberculato ; nunc in calcar productum, ovario accretum et 
cuniculum formans. Columna elongata ; clinandrio margi- 
nato, sepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis. 
Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe 
epiphyte (Americane ), caule nunc apice v. basi pseudo-bul- 

oso, nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, rarissime 
venis elevatis striata. Flores spicati, racemosi, corymbosi 
vel paniculati, terminales vel laterales. Lindl. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


EpripenpruM patens ; caule tereti, foliis distichis oblongo- 
lanceolatis, sepalis petalisque subequalibus oblongis 
acutis convexis patentibus, labello trilobo lobis de- 
flexis, lateralibus subrotundis, intermedio bifido. 

Epipenprum patens. Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. p. 1495. Spreng. 
Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 757. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1537. 
Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 108. 


From the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it flowered in 
ch 1839. It is a native of Jamaica and Trinidad, and 
probably of other of the West Indian islands. 

_ Descr. Stem a foot, or a foot and a half high, terete, 
jointed, bare of leaves below, leafy above. Leaves oblongo- 


lanceolate. 


lanceolate, somewhat coriaceous, distichous, and more or 
less reflexed, acute, exhibiting no nerves, sheathing the 
stem with the base. Peduncle from the apex of the stem, 
deflexed, rounded, bearing flowers almost from the base. 
These are moderately large, greenish-white when young, 
cream-coloured when fully expanded, and then soon be- 
coming tinged with reddish-brown, as shown in Lopp1cEs’ 
figure. Petals and Sepals nearly equal and uniform, ob- 
long, acute, spreading horizontally, the margins deflexed, 
so that the upper side is convex or semiterete. Column 
short, clavate. Free portion of the lip cut into three nearly 
equal lobes, the sides or margins deflexed, so as to be con- 
vex above, with two tubercles at the base, very concave 
beneath: the side lobes roundish, entire, the intermediate 
lobe bifid, the lacinie rather spreading, obtuse. 


Fig. 1. Upper side of the Column and Lip. 2. Under view of ditto:— _ | 
magnified. ge, 


IAS i] 


Miss Dally Del! 


Pub by S Cartes, (leary MWOOK, LS SEL: « June L. LS44) 


( 3801 +) - 
Fwucusta FULGENS. THe GLowiNG Fucusia. 


KEK KEKE EERE EEE EERE 
Class and Order. 


OcranpriA Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—Onagrarizz. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calycis tubus basi ovario adherens, superné productus in 
tubum cylindraceum 4-lobum post anthesin articulatim 
deciduum. Petala 4 summo tubo inserta, lobis alterna, 
rarius 0. Stamina8. Ovarium glandula urceolata coro- 
natum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum. Bacca ob- 
longa aut ovato-globosa, 4-loc., 4-valv., polysperma.—Fru- 
tices. Folia sepius opposita. Pediculi axillares 1-flori, 
interdum ad apices ramorum racemosi. Flores sepius nu- 
tantes, rubri rarius albi, interdum 5-fidi, 10-andrv. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Fucusia fulgens; ramis glabris, foliis oppositis cordato- 
ovatis acutis denticulatis glabris, pediculis axillaribus 
flore brevioribus superioribus racemosis, calycis lobis 
ovato-lanceolatis acutis petala acutiuscula superan- 
tibis. 8: ©. 

Fucusta fulgens. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 39. Landl. 
Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 1. Bent. Plant. Hartweg. 


A comparatively recent introduction to this country, from 
Mexico ;—now become common in our gardens, on ac- 
count of its easy culture and the great beauty of its grace- 
ful, pendent racemes of long, scarlet flowers. The leaves 
however, it must be confessed, are coarse and weedy look- 
ing, very different from the neat and glossy foliage of 
Fucustas in general, and detract somewhat from the charm 
of the plant. It is too delicate to bear the winters in our 
climate ;—but it may readily be raised by seeds or cuttings, 

and 

VOL. XIV. c 


and young plants placed in the open border in the early 
summer will continue to flower till the autumnal frosts come 
on. Mr. Curtis, at his extensive Nursery of Glazenwood, 
(where this very beautiful drawing was made by Miss 
Da ty, in the summer of 1839,) has succeeded in produc- 
ing a great number of hybrids, by means of other species, 
and flowers of all kinds are the result, from the balloon 
form of the Fucusta globosa, to the peculiarly elongated 
figure here represented. ; 

Descr. Stem rather herbaceous and succulent than 
woody, terete, glabrous, more or less tinged with red. 

aves large, ovate or cordato-ovate, soft and flaccid, 
toothed at the margin, glabrous ; petiole short, thick, tinged 
with red, as are the veins of the leaf, especially beneath. 


Flowers in long, terminal, pendulous, leafy racemes ; leaves — 


small, otherwise similar to those of the main branches. 


Pedicels slender. Ovary and young fruit elliptical, downy. — 
Calyx bright red tipped with greenish, infundibuliform : 
tube very long, slender; limb of four erect, acuminated — 
segments, Petals shorter than the calyx-segments, deep — 
scarlet. Stamens included. Style longer than the calyx. — 


Stigma capitate. 


We take this opportuni 
veolens, figured at Tab, 3797, 
Mr. James M‘Nas, at the Hor 
but by Mr. James Macintos 


H, gardener t : , at Arch- 
erfiell. ‘Teak TAhink and gardener to Mrs. Fercuson, a 


him it i uni to us 
through Mr. M‘Nas, y him it was kindly communicated 


ity of mentioning, that the MANDEVILLA sua- 
was not, as there intimated, raised by — 
ticultural Society’s Garden of Edinburgh; — 


Lub. by 5. Curtis, lata’, Essex: Funel 1940. 


WKuch Del? 


( 3802 ) 


MYANTHUsS sPINOsSUS. SPINE-BEARING 
FLy-wort. 


KKK KEK KKK KKK KEKE KESE 
Class and Order. 


GyNANDRIA MonanpriA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Onrcuipez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium explanatum. Sepala libera, equalia, late- 
ralibus paululum adscendentibus. Petala conformia, an- 
gustiora, sepalo supremo supposita. Labellum planum, 
obovatum, tridentatum, sepalis brevius. Columna erecta, 
teres, basi bicirrhosa, postice ad cardinem anthere longe 
producta, Anthere et pollinia Cataseti—Epiphyta, Cata- 
seti omnino vegetatione. Lindl. 


Specific Name and Character. 


Myanruus spinosus ; petalis versus apicem serratis, labelli 
_ Infra medium saccati margine pilis tenuibus succulentis 
albis pe as fimbriato apice anguste attenuato recurvo 
supra basin spina tripartita infra apicem spina 
magna dentata porrecta. 


This new Myanraus is one of the very few Orcuipex 
which rewarded Mr. Garpner’s researches in the Province 
of Ceara in the interior of Brazil. “Cacrez,” he says in 
his Journal, (see Ann. of Nat. Hist. v. 3. p. 334,) “ are 
very scarce here ; I have met with but four species, all of 
them similar to those that I had already despatched to 
England from the Rio San Francisco. Orcuwex are still 
more rare. T'wo kinds only can I find to send home alive, 
but of both you will receive an abundant supply ; they are 
the Onciprum already mentioned and the Errrnyre that 
grows on the Catolé. The latter of these I have not seen 
in flower, it being in a dormant leafless state at this season. 


The general appearance is that of a Caraserum, and I have 
no 


no doubt it will prove to be new. The place of the tropi- 
cal OrcuipEz of South Brazil, is in these regions occupied 
by Loranruea, which, in the shape of Viscum, occupy every 
tree, and being evergreen, give a remarkable appearance 
to the deciduous forests.”—The “ Carasretum-like Orcut- 
DEX,” proves to be this Myanruus, whose lip exhibits an 
exquisitely beautiful structure. It flowered with us, for 
the first time, in February, 1840. 

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong, striated and transversely 
marked with the scars of fallen leaves and scales. The 
foliage has not yet made its appearance on our plants. 
Scape from the base of a pseudo-bulb, about a foot high, 
erect, and terminated by an erect raceme of many slightly 
fragrant, resupinate (that is, the lip being superior) flowers. 
Sepals linear-lanceolate, spreading, pale yellowish-green 
with blood-coloured blotches, petals similar to them in 
shape, but slightly serrated towards the points, standing 
parallel over the back of the column, and thus connivent 
with the superior sepal. Lip spreading, linear, grooved, 
saccate near the middle, the apex much attenuated and re- 
curved, the margins beautifully fringed with white, flexuose, 
succulent hairs, greenish-white beneath, dotted with red, 
bearing on the upper side at the base an erect, three-partite 
spine or horn, and having a much larger, porrected one 
below the acumen, which is a little toothed or fimbriated. 
Column with a curved, much acuminated apex, and in front 
below the large stigma are two long, deflexed, and ap- 
pressed, coloured sete. Ovary purple, straight. 


Fig. 1. Column, Petals, and Lip: magnified, 


Lub. by S. Cartas, Slawnwoad, Fs sex 


June Ll 18S 


( 3803 ) 


STENOMESSON LATIFOLIUM. WiUIDE-LEAVED 
STEN OMESSON. 


KKK KKK KKK EKER EEE EEE 
Class and Order. 


Hexanpria Monoeynia. 


( Nat. Ord.—Amaryiiumacem. Subord. Pancrarirormes. 
§. 1. Semina testa nigra.) 


Generic Character. ° 


Perianthium tubo subrecto media parte constricto su- 
perne ventricoso, limbo brevi regulari, corona brevi ; folra 
margine in oriundo retroflexé compresso hysteranthia. 


Specific Character. 


Stenomesson latifolium ; foliis superficie subrugosa circiter 
sesquiunciam latis, scapo glaucescente 5-floré 4—5-un- 
ciali, spatha pallida ultra-unciali, pedunculis brevibus 
(cire. 3-unc.), perianthio sesquiunciali tubi parte infe- 
riore pallida, superiore cum limbo aurantiacd, fila- 
mentis limbo longioribus stylo interdum elongato 


plerumque semunciam brevioribus.—Ex Lim4& An- 
gliam allatum. W. H. 


This new species of Srenomesson was sent to Spoftorth 
by J. Macizan, Esq. from Lima, in November, 1837 ; and, 
having arrived in the spring of 1838, showed its leaves 
soon after, and flowered very early in the spring of 1839, 
aud again in 1840, or, rather, towards the close of the 
winter, during its season of rest. The plants.of this Genus 
like a pretty strong alluvial soil, with manure that is per- 
fectly rotten, being naturally inmates of rich pastures or 
meadows. Their leaves are produced at the first accession 
of moisture after rest and drought, and are impatient of 
sunshine, from which they should be screened when it is 

ardent. 


ardent. After their decay, the pot should be left dry, and 
the flower-scape will rise while it is yet unwatered. In 
their native country the leaves rise after the first rains, and 
decay when the heat becomes powerful, and the stems 
appear at uncertain periods during the season of rest. Mr. 
Mactean omitted to state the precise quarter from whence 
this species was obtained. They might be cultivated with 
us in any situation where their leaves were protected from 
snails and from scorching sun, and where the soil could be 
shielded from rain during the winter by some covering 
and kept perfectly dry. The same treatment, with a little 
more warmth, suits Urcroxina, but it is equally impatient 
of sunshine, and, indeed, almost ‘all petiolated Amaryt- 
LIDER are so. GrirrintA and Hymenocatus with fleshy 
seeds have the margin of the young leaf inflexly, Penr- 
tanpiA, Urceouina and Srenomesson with shelled seeds 
reflexly, compressed. W. H. 


Fig. 1. Portion of a Staminal Crown magnified. 


AMARYLLIDACEE; § HippeastTrRiFoRMEs. 


Sprexecia cybister ; scapo forti4d—5-fioro, flore basi rubro superne sub- 
virescente, perianthio laciniis basi latis superne longé angustatis 
teflexis, labio inferiore cum genitalibus basi comprehensis precipt- 
tato, sepalorum margine involuto, petalis duobus superioribus plani- 
oribus apice tortuosé demisso, imo scapum attingente. Hz Bolivia 
Solus hysteranthus, (Sprexei2.§2. Filamento sepalino supe- 
riore elongato, petalino imo abbreviato.) The Tumbler Sprekelia. 

HipPEastRum Organense ; scapo bifloro, perianthio nutante rubro stella 
interna sublutescente radiata, sepalis latioribus, calyptro in fauce 
tenui sepius lacero, foliis ortu suberectis (seepius glaucescentibus) 
bulbo substolonifero. Variat multiim (ex montibus Organ dictis 
Brazilie) colore, magnitudine, styli longitudine, et calyptri barbé. 
| lee potits ie Shale ioe supra 2983, certé non Aulici 

. in quo sepala petalis angustiora, color s é fulgidus, ma- 
cula interna non radiata, Gio artisin. W. H. ees 


38 04, 


Essex Sane I LE¢0 


Puh by S. Curtis Gla Len ood. 


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Laura ANcEPS. Two-EepGEeD LALIA. 


a Oe Os On OR OR Os On On Oe 
Class and Order. 


GynanpriA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuivez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Sepala explanata, lanceolata, equalia. Petala majora 
paulo difformia. Labellum (posticum) 3-partitum, lamella- 
tum, circa columnam convolutam. Columna aptera, car- 
nosa, antice canaliculata. Anthera 8-locularis. Pollima 
8; caudiculis 4 elasticis—Herbz epiphyte, rhizomate pseu- 
do-bulbifero. Scapiterminales pauci- 0. multiflori. Flores 
speciosi, odorati. Lindl. . 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Leuia anceps ; foliis binis aut solitariis lanceolatis, scapo 
ancipiti bi- trifloro squamis carinatis vestito, ovario 
viscoso, labelli disco lineari elevato apice trilobo, 
pseudo-bulbis ovatis distantibus tetraquetris. Lindl. 

Lazuia anceps. Bot. Reg. t. 1751. 

(8.) Barkeriana; sepalis petalisque subzqualibus, labelli 
lobo medio angusto acutissimo. Lindl. I. c. t. 1947. 


This is one of those beautiful purplish rose-coloured 
flowers, to which it is impossible for our artificial colours to 
do justice. _ The pseudo-bulbs were sent by Mr. PARKINSON 
from Mexico to his Grace the late Duke of Bedford, at 
Woburn Abbey, where they flower in great perfection, and 
where there is, during the winter season, a constant succes- 
sion of blossoms of this and of the allied species, also sent 
by Mr. Parxinson. It is, I believe, generally known that 
in two of the Orchideous houses at Woburn the plants are 
cultivated in moss, upon branches of trees placed against 
the sides of the building, and nothing can well exceed the 
vigour and beauty of the specimens. seis 


. 


Every Botanist and Cultivator is aware of the extensive 
“collections of Orcuipem and Cacrezx possessed by Mr. 
Harris of Kingsbury, and that they are under the care of 
one of the ablest and most scientific gardeners of this coun- 
try, Mr. D. Beaton. It is to Mr. Beaton I am indebted for 
the following very valuable information respecting the cul- 
tivation of some of the species of this Genus, and of other 
Orcuipe, which he received last year from the high moun- 
tainous districts of Mistica alta in Mexico, where they were 
gathered by M. Gateormr, at an elevation of from seven 
thousand five hundred to nine thousand feet above the level 
of the sea :—and concerning which he writes, that “ they 
may be cultivated in the greenhouse.” 

“A large importation of these plants,” Mr. Beaton further 
observes, “ arrived at Kingsbury at the close of last Septem- 
ber, an awkward time of the season to begin to grow plants, 
whose natural winter was fast approaching. I laid them on 
shelves in the seed-room, with a thin layer of damp moss 
under them. By the middle of December, they imbibed 
moisture sufficiently to swell their bulbs to the natural size ; 
but not wishing to risk them all in that cold place during 
winter, I removed the strongest sorts to the colder end of the 
Orchideous house, and the more tender, to a cool, dry place 
in the Cactus house, reserving some of éach kind (to be 
wholly wintered in the seed-room), to the amount of about 
a dozen species, among which were Lzuia autumnalis, 
L. albida, L. furfuracea, Carrirya citrina, and others, of 
similar habits, but which were strangers to me. The moss 
was kept a little moist all the winter ; and the temperature 
of the room was from 35° to 45°. Those did far better in 
the seed room than those of the same species put into heat 
in December. Carrieya citrina appeared to like this treat- 
ment better than the rest. A few of the new species began 
to dwindle away about the middle of January under this 
treatment, the place being too cold for them; but if I had 
kept them in the same dry state in which I received them, 
no cold above the freezing point would have injured them 
all the winter. 

“« When they made the first effort to grow in March and 
April, I removed them into a brick heat ; and now they have 
the advance of those which were in heat during the winter ; 
and, as soon as their leaves are fully formed, I shall remove 

em to ripen their growth to the warmest end of the 
greenhouse, 

“ After making-a season’s growth in this country I would 


not 


v2 


not of course recommend that they should be kept so cool _ 
next winter, but merely to give them from 40° to 45° of 
heat, and. about the end of the spring to have them started 
in a frame if there be no stove at hand. 

“You will thus see how desirable it is, for the extension 
of the cultivation of this family, that we should procure all 
the species that are to be found in the higher latitudes’ in 
Mexico and other places, to enable amateurs of limited 
means to cultivate a few beautiful plants of Orcuipez ; for 
hitherto this fine tribe of plants has only been enjoyed by 
the wealthier classes.” 

Mr. Bearon still further adds, in a subsequent letter, 
that, “from a collection of fine OrcuipEem, just received 
from Mr. Skinner of Guatamala, I am enabled to give 
a fuller list of the hardy Orcuipem mentioned in my 
former letter. I believe this will be the first notice 
of plants of this tribe having been subjected to a cold 
temperature in this country; and I have ample proof 
that these and many others will not do so well if they 
are subjected to a heat above 50° or 55° in winter. 
Nothing can be more difficult than to bring some of the 
plants in my list to any state of healthy growth in our ex- 
cessively-heated Orchideous houses; but, treated as green~ 
house plants, and with a little forcing for six weeks at the 
end of the spring, or whenever they show a disposition to 
new growth, they seem as easy to manage as the Stan-: 
hopeas, or any other free-growing sorts. It is only the 
expense of fuel and the disagreeableness of very hot and 
damp houses that could prevent every lover of plants from. 
indulging in this lovely tribe; and if they could be satis-. 
fied that there is even a portion of this lovely family that 
does not require such a treatment, it would be an induce- 
ment to their extensive cultivation. That such a portion 
does actually exist is clear from the following list of Or- 
cuivez, which lived last winter at Kingsbury, and began 
growing in spring without artificial heat. The same species 
in the stove did not do so well, and are now unwilling to 
yield to additional heat. : 


Lauia autumnalis. 

JSurfuracea. 

albida. 

CattTLeya citrina. 

Oncipium leuchochilum. 

Brassavota glauca (or grandiflora). 
Cyrrocuitum sp. (C. Russellii, SkiNNER. ) . 
EPIpENDRUM ; 


Epimpenprvo ; a species which looks very much like the 
Scnompurexia, or Spead-Eagle of the nurseries, 
but much stronger. Hartwee sent specimens of 
it from Chantla, in the State of Qucelieance 

Opontoctossum elatum. 

Hartwecia purpurea, &c., &c.”’ 

Descr. Root, or more properly, rhizoma, creeping, and 
bearing at uncertain Seiiesiler pseudo-bulbs, four to five 
inches long, which are compressed and two-edged, and which 
have also prominent angles on the two flattened sides, so as 
to render them tetraquetrous. These are clothed with large, 
keeled, membranaceous scales, Leaves generally two from 
each pseudo-bulb, sometimes one, varying much in size and 
length, from five to eight or nine inches, oblong-lanceolate, 
blunt, coriaceous, glossy, smooth and even on the surface. 
Scape from the top of the bulb in the axil of the leaves, a 
foot and a half to two feet long, two-edged, jointed, clothed 
with carinated scales, and bearing two or three large, ex- 
ceedingly showy flowers. Perianth delicate ssiecliah rose- 
colour, spreading : Sepals lanceolate ; petals nearly ovate, 
all much acuminated, and each with a greenish line or nerve 
on the back. It may be observed that the petals and 
sepals in our plant have an exactly intermediate character 
between the 2 and @ of Dr. Linp.ey. Lip large, three-lob- 
ed: the lateral lobes involute, so as to include the column, 
of a deep rose colour at the margin, within yellow with deep 
red lines : middle lobe oblong, acute, recurved, deep purple, 
the disk with the base within yellow, and the middle having 
an elevated, thickened, yellow line, terminatine in three 
ridges. Column semicylindrical. Pollen-masses eight. 


—— 


Fig. 1. Pollen: magnified. 


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( 3805 ) 
MACROPODIUM NIVALE. SiperrtAN MAcro- 
PODIUM. 


KEKE K EKER EREEREEEEEK 
Class and Order. 


TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Crucirerz. ) . 


Generic Character. 


Calyx laxus, basi equalis. Petala indivisa. Glandule 
hypogyne valvarie 4. Filamenta libera, edentula. Stigma 
punctiforme. Siliqgua supra torum longissime pedicellata, 
sublinearis, plana, bilocularis, polysperma, dehiscens ; val- 
vulis planis, nervosis; placentis dorso obtusis. Semina 
pendula, uniserialia, submarginata, plana, levia. Funiculi 
umbilicales subulati, liberi. Ledebour. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Macropopium* nivale ; foliis radicalibus ovali-lanceolatis 
obscure serratis longissime petiolatis, caulinis lanceo- 
latis sessilibus integerrimis, floribus sessilibus, petalis 
lineari-spathulatis. Hook. Bot. Misc. v. 1. p. 340. 

Macropopium nivale. Br. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 108. 
De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p:149. Ledeb. Fl. Alt. v. 3. p. 
32. Hook. l. c. t. 67. 

Seer nivalis. Pall. It. I. p. 568. et App. p. TAO. n. 

we fair 

Aranis nivalis. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 2. p. 893. 


This rare Cruciferous plant is more interesting to the 
Botanist than to the mere Florist. It was raised in the 


Glasgow Botanic Garden, from seeds sent by Professor 
LepeEgour, 


Tennent 


a 


. So named by Mr. Brown, from jaxpos, long, and ses, wodos, a foot ; from 
the long pedicel te stalk to the fruit, at once so characteristic of the Genus. 


Leprgour, who gives as its locality, alpine and subalpine 
situations of the Altai mountains at the verge of perpetual 
snow, never descending below four thousand feet above the 
level of the sea. The Genus was founded by Mr. Brown, 
on the Carpamine nivalis of Pautas ; and a second species, 
which is figured and described in Bot. Miscellany, (v. 1. p. 
341, tab. 68,) was detected by Mr. Davin Dovetas, about 
the Columbia and Wallawallah rivers, N. W. America. I 
am aware, indeed, that Mr. Nurratz has referred this latter 
to anew Genus, Pacnyroprum,* and he expressly says it 
differs from Macroropium “ in the very short stipe of the 
siliqua, and in the incumbent cotyledons.” But the young 
fruit on my specimens does not exhibit a very short stipes 
(the perfect fruit I have not seen), and the habit is so en- 
tirely that of Macroropium, that I should be very unwilling 
to separate it from that Genus on slender grounds. 

Descr. Root perennial, creeping. Plant herbaceous, 
glabrous. Stem simple. Root-leaves large, oval-lanceolate, 
obtusely serrated, on long petioles. Stem-leaves sessile, 
lanceolate, entire. Spike long, of copious horizontal, or, 
soon deflexed, nearly sessile flowers. The very short pedz- 
cel is thickened where it receives the calyx. Sepals four, 
equal, erect, oblong, pale-green. Petals much longer 
than the calyx, erect, white, linear-spathulate, long, nar- 
row. Stamens six, tetradynamous. Anthers oblong, green- 
ish-yellow. Pistil terete, tapering below into a long pedi- 
cel or stipes. Fruit, a pendent siliqua, flattened and slightly 
falcate, stipes from half to three-quarters of an inch long. 
Seeds orbicular, compressed, smooth. 


* See Torrey and Gray’s Fi. of N, Am. v. 1. p- 96. 


Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal. 3. Stamens and Pistil:—magnified. 4. 
Fruit :—nat. size. 5. Seed :—magnified. 


Curtis Glazenwood, Essec June? 784. 


C 3806 ) 


Oncipium HuntiAnum. Mr. Honv’s 
OnNcIDIUM, 


SE OE ae OO Oe OO OR 
Class and Order. 


GynanprRiA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata: late- 
ralibus nunc sublabello connatis. Petala conformia. -La- 
bellum maximum ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum, 
varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum vel cristatum. Coluwmna 
libera, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo- 
cularis, rostello nunc abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato. 
Pollinia 2, postice sulcata ; caudicula plana; glandula ob- 
longa.—Herbe epiphyte, nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia cori- 
acea, Scapi paniculati vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores 
speciosi, lutei, sepius maculati, raro albi. Lindl. 


Specific Name and Character. 


Oncip1um Huntianum ; pseudo-bulbo unico, folio solitario 
oblongo coriaceo crasso acutiusculo basi attenuato 
sessili, scapo longissimo, racemo composito elongato, 
pedicellis bi-trifloris, sepalis petalisque patentibus ob- 
longo-ovatis crispatis, labello trilobo basi supra sub- 
5-tuberculato, lobis lateralibus crassis acutiusculis, in- 
termedio subflabelliformi longiore medio emarginato, 
columna bialata. 


A new Oncipium, from the inexhaustible resources of 
Brazil, having been sent to the Woburn collection (where 
it flowered in October, 1839,) by Hunt, Esq. of Rio 
de Janeiro. Its affinity probably is with O. Carthaginense ; 
but the flowers are smaller, very much more beautifully 
marked and coloured, and the lip has a totally different 


structure. 


Descr. 


Descr. The leaf is solitary, large, oblong, somewhat 
acute, very thick and coriaceous, tapering at its base, which 
springs at once from the root, and is only surrounded by 
some brown scales. Scape from the base of the leaf, very 
long, and bearing a long, narrow, compound raceme, with 
distantly-placed short branches, each with from one to three 
flowers. These flowers are white, beautifully spotted and 
mottled with red. Sepals (all free) and petals equal, spread- 
ing, oblongo-ovate or obovate, somewhat clawed, waved. 
Lap rather longer than the sepals, pendent, three-lobed, 
with about five tubercles (two larger and three smaller) at 
the base: the lateral lobes standing out horizontally, and 
rather acute, the intermediate one much larger, fan-shaped, 
with a notch in the middle. Column short, white, orange 
at the base, bearing above on each side of the anthers a 
large rose-coloured wing. 


Fig. 1. Flower:—magnified. 


W Kitch Del! Pub. by 8. Curtis. Glavenwood, Lssex July L. 1840 


( 3807 ) 


ONCIDIUM PACHYPHYLLUM. THICK-LEAVED 
ONCIDIUM. 


Seka skakokobskokobcobaokeobeak sbeaksteote 
Class and Order. 


Gynanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcninez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata ; late- 
ralibus nune sub labello connatis. Petala conformia. La- 
bellum maximum ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum, 
varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum v. cristatum. Colwmna 
libera, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo- 
cularis, rostello nunc abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato. 
Pollinia 2, postice sulcata ; caudicula plana; glandula ob- 
longa.—Herbz epiphyte, nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia cori- 
acea. Scapi paniculati vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores 
Speciosi, lutei, sepius maculati, raro albi. Lindl. 


Specific Name and Character. 


Oncip1um pachyphyllum ; pseudo-bulbo nullo, folio ellip- 
tico-oblongo apice recurvo acuto crassissimo, panicula 
ampla, sepalis late obovato-spathulatis undulatis liberis, 
petalis similibus sed paulo angustioribus, labello tri- 
Partito disco basi tuberculis 4 cruciatim dispositis 
quinto in medio, laciniis lateralibus obovatis inter- 
media transversim oblonga emarginata, columna utrin- 


que ala oblonga deflexa. 


This is another extremely handsome Mexican Orchideous © 
plant, for which the Woburn Collection is indebted to 
JOHN Parkinson, Esq. It is remarkable for its large, thick, _ 
and very coriaceous leaf, its ample panicle loaded with — 
blossoms of a greenish yellow colour, spotted with orange _ 
and red purple, and not destitute of fragrance. It flowered — 
in January. 


Descr. . 
VOL. XIV, D 


Descr. There is no evident stem, no pseudo-bulb. Roots 
consisting of numerous thick, whitish, fleshy fibres, from 
the top of which springs the solitary leaf almost a foot long, 
singularly thick and coriaceous, keeled on the middle at 
the back, the point a little reflexed and acute : the base has 
three or four imbricated scales, of which the outer one is 
withered and membranaceous, the rest green and herba- 
ceous. From the base of this leaf, and from within one of the 
scales just mentioned, arises the peduncle, as thick as a 

goose-quill, bracteated, two feet and more long, terminated 
_ by a large, many-flowered panicle. Pedicel, including the 
cylindrical ovary, an inch and a half long. Flowers an inch 
across, the whole perianth waved. Sepals free to the base, 
broadly obovato-spathulate, greenish-yellow spotted with 
red-purple, concave : the petals similar to them in form and 
colour, but rather narrower. Lup yellow, deeply divided into 
three lobes, the lateral lobes obovate, the middle one trans- 
verse, broadly oblong, tapering at the base, the apex notched: 
the disk of the labellum at the base is considerably elevat- _ 
ed, spotted with orange, and bears four tubercles placed in 
a cross-shaped manner, and between them a larger and 
more prominent one. Column short, having on each side, © 


near the top, a curved wing or horn-like process pointing 
downwards. Anther-case very large. 


A 


Fig. 1. Column and Lip :~—magnified. 


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( 3808 ) 
SALVIA PATENS. SpREADING SAGE. 


KKK EK EKEKEKEKKEKK KKK 
Class and Order. 


Dianpria Monoeynta. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lasiataz. ) 


Generic Character. , 


Calyx subcampanulatus, bilabiatus, labio superiore 3- 
dentato, inferiore bifido. Corolla ringens. Filamenta duo 
fertilia bifida, lobo altero adscendenti anthera dimidiata, 
altero sterili, Br. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Saxvia patens ; radice tuberosa, foliis cordatis aut hastatis 
ovato-oblongis supra pilosis subtus pubescentibus flo- 
ralibus lanceolato-linearibus, verticillastris remotis 
subbifloris, floribus maximis, galea falcata, labelli tri- 
lobi lobis lateralibus minutis acutis intermedio trans- 
verso concavo subangulato emarginato. 

Satvia patens. Cav. Ic. v. 5. p. 33. t. 454. Spreng. Syst. 
Veget.. 1. p. 63. Benth. Lab. p. 395, in Hort. Trans. 
N. S. v. 2. p. 222. t. 10. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839, t. 23. 


This splendid species of Sage is said to have been first 
introduced to our gardens from Mexico by Mr. Pace of 
Southampton, and is now in very general cultivation. Like 
the bright scarlet-blossomed Mexican Saxvias it will only 
succeed in the open air during the summer months; and then 
in a warm sheltered situation in a South aspect it bears its 
large, handsome flowers of the richest dark ultramarine blue 
inclining to purple. Mr. Curtis, (at whose Nursery at Gla- 
<ausiiod this drawing was made by Miss Datty,) observes 
that there are many varieties in his Collection, varying in 
the foliage, which is sometimes wholly green, sometimes 
deeply stained with purple at the back like Crverarta 

cruenta, 


eruenta, and in the colour of the blossoms, which are of a 
more or less intense blue. The one here figured he con- 
siders the handsomest of them all, and certainly few plants 
can be more lovely. 

Descr. Stem from two to three feet high, square, pu- 
bescenti-hirsute. Leaves on long, grooved footstalks, large, 
hastate, serrated, downy and ciliated, reticulated, smaller 
upwards. Spikes of flowers elongated. Bracteas linear- 
lanceolate. _Pedicels_ solitary, opposite, one - flowered. 
Flower very large, perhaps the largest of the Genus. Calyx 
green, sometimes tinged with purple, two-lipped, upper lip 
bifid, lower trifid. Corolla as described in the specific 


character :—there are three white, transverse bands at the 
base of the lower lip. 


SwanSe 


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BSS 
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Ud LIS Fe. 


Pub by S Curtis Gh 


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( 3809 ) 


Marica numiis; var. 2, lutea. HumBe 
Marica; yellow var. 


KKK KKK KEKE EEE EKER 
Class and Order. 


TrianprRiA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Iripacez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium dispar, sepalorum lamina patente, petalorum 
minore incurvé revoluté ungue cymbiformi inferne solido 
angustiore ; stylus inferne gracilis superne incrassatus tri- 
gonus trilobus lobis acuté rigidé tricristatis crista antica 
stigmatis lobos interposita, posticis altioribus, stigmatibus 
mollibus transversis brevibus ; filamenta libera disco inserta ; 
anthere oblongo-ovales loculis lateralibus connectivo fila- 
mentum continuante dorso styli lobis agglutinato ; folia 
plana margine opposito alternantia; caulis alato-planus 
prolifer ; capsula crassé coriacea reflexé dehiscens ; semina 
testacea sub-oblongo-angulata et (quoad genera cognata) 
magna. Plante Americane tropice rhizomate brevi. sf 


Specific Name and Character. 


Marica humilis ; spatha communi foliaceé acuta recta pe- 
dunculos summos subzquante, pedunculo inferiore — 
bracteato, caule summo equifurcato, flore modico pur- 
pureo-lutescente, cristis tenuibus. 

V.1. princeps. Lod. Bot. Cab. 1081. Folia dodrantalia- 
sesquipedalia sesquiunciam lata acuta subarcuata ; 
caulis infra articulum 14-unc. ala inferne gradatim 
angustiore, superne vix unciam lata, 7-unc. articulum 
superans ; bractee cauline subfalcate 1,—14-unciales, 
ramuli ultraunciales, spathe subdecemflore valvis 2 
cymbiformibus pedunculos unciales subequantibus 
bracteis internis conformibus tenuioribus ; perianthium 
sepalorum ungue lato subpatulo pubescente lutescente 
transverse fusco-purpureo 4-striato, lamina recurvo- 

detlexa 


deflex& sordidé lutea medio intus lactescente, petalo- 
rum ungue lutescente obliqué biseriatim striato, lamina 
marginibus reflexis, gibbo medio et unguis marginibus 
pubescentibus, apice saturaté purpureo macula infra 
alba ceruleo-striata ad basim luted ; filamenta disci 
papillis tribus inserta linearia angusta plana incurvo- 
conniventia ; pollen pallidum ; stylus imferne filiformis, 
cristis tenuibus, antic apice subreflexo, posticis erec- 
tis; stigmata lobis discretis obtusis incurvis. Descrip- 
tio ex planta Loddigesiand Spofforthie floridé. ee. 
V. 2. lutea; (nisi per se M. lutea? quod ex tabula picta 
non affirmare ansim) foliis angustioribus erectioribus, 
obsoletorum basi bracteeformiter caulescente, bracteis 
longioribus rectioribus, perianthio sepalorum lamina 


saturaté lutea (ungue 5-striato?) petalorum apice albo 
viridi transversé striato? W. H. 


This plant, (a native of Brazil?) having flowered in the 
Glasgow Botanic Garden during the absence of Sir W. J. 
Hooker, its features can only be gathered from the sketch, 
which is too rude to enable reliance to be placed on some 
of the nice points in the structure and colour of the flower. 
It evidently approaches near to M. humilis, being distin- 
guished, if the drawing is quite correct, by narrower and 
straighter leaves, with a short bracteate stem, by longer 
and straighter bracts enclosing the ramules, and brighter 
yellow sepals, with five instead of four bars of a. redder 
colour, and the ends of the petals white with green bars 
instead of plain purple. If these features should be con- 
firmed by further observation, and should prove invariable, 
the plant may be distinguishable as M. lutea. 

The name Marica was most improperly substituted by 
Scureser for Creura of Auster, which belongs to palu- 
dosa, and must be restored. It was subsequently applied 
by Mr. Ker in 1803 to M. Northiana, which is, therefore, 
the type, and he proposed to add to the Genus the plant 
before called Iris Martinicensis (Trimezia Martinicensis of 
Saispury), with the Ixia Americana of Auster, under the 
name of M. plicata, and perhaps the Sisyrincuium palmifo- 
lium of Linnaus, the two last of which have no close affinity 
to the Genus Marica. The character was so loosely framed 
that other Genera were afterwards blended with it. Marica 
(confined, as it must be, to Northiana and the plants 
which truly conform with it) is distinguished by flat leaves 


placed 


laced edgeways, a flat winged proliferous stalk ending in 
a Td coarmon spathe or bract, sepals and petals very 
dissimilar, the former larger and deflexly patent, the latter 
boat-shaped, with an incurved central knob, and a revolute 
end, capsule hard, coriaceous, and reflexly dehiscent, seeds 
angularly oblong or nearly square, and much larger than 
in the plants Mr. Ker proposed to unite with it; the style 
slender below, triangularly enlarged upwards into three 
lobes, each bearing three, sharp, rigid crests, of which two 
are behind and one springs from between the lobes of the 
true stigma, which is soft, short, and transverse like that 
of Iris. W. H. 


Fig. (W. H.) 1. represents one Style-lobe of M. humilis princeps. 
(W. H.) 2. Two Style-lobes and Stamens of ditto. 


Maric# Species Note. 


- Northana ; spath’d communi foliacea circ. 3}-unc. subfalcata flores 
subzequante, caule supra articulum brevi crasso mox deflexo, peri- 
anthio unguibus luteis rubro maculosis, sepalorum lamina luteo- 
lactescente petalorum apice subceruleo. Supra 654. 

2. cerulea; spatha communi foliaced subdodrantali flores subeequante, 

ramulis subfasciculatis elongatis, perianthio unguibus luteis rubro 


maculosis, laminis ceruleo-purpurascentibus, cristis brevioribus 
latioribus. Bot. Reg. 713. 


. humilis. Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1081. 

. humilis, v. lutea, vel M. lutea ? 

. gracilis ; spatha foliacea ultrapedali flores longé superante, ramulis 
et spathe valvis gracilibus, perianthio unguibus luteis purpura 
maculosis sepalorum lamina alba petalorum apice purpureo, cristis 
tenuibus. Supra 3713. 

. Sabiniana ; spatha communi foliaceA ultrapedali 2-unc. lata flores 
superante, perianthii unguibus luteis rubro transversé biseriatim 


striatis, laminis (petalorum saturatiis) purpurascentibus. Hort. 
Soc. Tr. v. 6. p.l : 


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L#LIA FURFURACEA. ScURFY-STALKED 
LALIA. 


KEKE EK KEKE KK EEE EERE 
Class and Order. 


GyYNANDRIA MonanpriA. 
( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEz. ) 


Generic Character. 


Sepala_ explanata, lanceolata, equalia. Petala majora 
paulo difformia. Labellum (posticum) 3-partitum, lamella- 
tum, cirea columnam convolutum. Coluwmna aptera, car- 
nosa, antice canaliculata. Anthera 8-locularis. Pollinia 
8; caudiculis 4 elasticis—Herbex epiphyte, rhizomate pseu- 
do-bulbifero. Scapiterminales pauci v. multiflori. Flores 
speciosi, odorati. Lindl. 


Specific Character and Synonym. 


Laua furfuracea ; pseudobulbis ovatis striatis submono- 
phyllis, foliis anguste oblongis erectis acutis scapo 
unifloro (?) tereti, multo brevioribus, bracteis ob- 
longis membranaceis acutis, sepalis lanceolatis acu- 
tminatis patentissimis, petalis subrhombeis lanceolatis 
undulatis sublobatis, labelli trilobi bilamellati lobis 
lateralibus erectis rotundatis truncatis intermedio ob- 
longo revoluto, ovario glandulis nigris furfuraceo. 


Lindl. 
Lauia furfuracea. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839, t. 26. 


From the Woburn Gardens, where it was received from 
Mexico, through Mr. Parkinson. “It is,” as Professor 
Linpiey observes, « very like L. autumnalis (Tab. 27, vol. 
Jor 1839); but its pseudo-bulbs are merely ovate and 
slightly (in our old pseudo-bulbs very deeply) furrowed ; 
the leaves are solitary or in pairs, not in twos or threes : 


they 


they are erect and straight, not spreading and curved ; the 
flowers have little or no smell; the petals are so much 
undulated as to appear lobed, and they are distinctly rhom- 
boidal, and, finally, the ovary is closely covered with black, 
mealy glands. It would seem, moreover, that the scape 
does not bear more than one flower, instead of several.” 

Having the three species of Laia (L. anceps, L. autum- 
nalis, and L. furfuracea,) from Mr. Forses of the gardens 
at Woburn Abbey, I can bear testimony to the accuracy 
of Dr. Linptey’s specific distinctions ; and may state, with 
regard to the present species, in addition to what he has 
above remarked, that though its leaves are the smallest, 
they are the thickest and most coriaceous of any of the 
three, and that in our specimens at least the middle lobe 
of the labellum is not obtuse with a mucro, as in L. autum- 
nalis, but decidedly and rather suddenly acuminated. The 
pollen-masses are exactly like those of L. autwmnalis; 
but rather different from those of L. anceps. 


Fig. 1. Column. 2. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified. 


( 38114 


RuopopENDRoN Cavcasicum; hybridum. Hybrid 
var. of RuopopENDRON Caucasicum. 


KEKE KKK EK EEK EEK KEE EK 
Class and Order. 


DecanpriA Monoeynia. 


Generic Character. 


Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla infundibuliformis 5-lobus. 
Stamina 5—10, declinata: antheris apice biporosis. Cap- 
sula 5-locularis, 5-valvis, ab apice dehiscens valvarum 
marginibus inflexis dissepimenta formantibus : Recepta- 
culum centrale. Semina membrana involuta. 


Specific Name and Synonyms. 


Ruopopenpron Caucasicum ; hybridum. 

Ruopopenpron Caucasicum. Pall, Ross. 1. p. &..t. SI. 
(See Bot. Mag. t. 3422. ) 

Ruopopvenpron (Azatea) Pontica ; var. albiflora. (See Bot. 
Mag. t. 2383.) 


For this hybrid Ruopopenpron, the Botanic Garden of 
Glasgow is indebted to the kindness of Mr. James Verrcn, 
of Exeter, who informs us it was the offspring of the R. 
Caucasicum, and R. (Azatea) Ponticum, albiflorum: and 
though so far interesting, yet it cannot be considered an 
improvement upon either parent. Our plant from which. 
the figure was taken blossomed in May, 1838. 


( 3812 ) 


ZYGorPETALUM AFRICANUM. AFRICAN 
ZT.YGOPETALUM. 


KKK KKK KKK KEK KEKE K ERE 
Class and Order. 


GyNANDRIA MonanprIia. 
( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipE#. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium explanatum, sepalis petalisque ascendenti- 
bus, subequalibus, cum ungue producto columne connatis. 
Labellum muticum, indivisum, patens, ungue ascendente ; 
crista magna transversa carnosa. Columna brevis, arcuata, 
semiteres. Anthera subbilocularis. Pollinia2, bipartibilia, 
in glandulam transversam subsessilia.—Herbe terrestres, 
subacaules, foliis plicatis patentibus. Flores spectosi, la- 
bello ceruleo. Lindl. 


Specific Name and Character. 


ZYGOPETALUM Africanum ; foliis lanceolatis striatis, sca 
longissimo, racemo elongato laxo simplici, sepalis 
‘pomeee lineari-lanceolatis, labello stipitato basi 
amellis duabus carnosis oblongis acutis, lobo medio 
lato ovato acuminato undulato apice reflexo, columna 
cylindracea superne utrinque alata. _ 


I think there can be no question on the propriety of re- 
ferring this plant to Zyeorrratum, the first of the Genus 
that has been discovered inhabiting the old world. It was 
sent by Dr. Wurrrietp from Sierra Leone to the Woburn 
Collection, whence Mr. Forges has obligingly transmitted 
the present flowering specimen in December, 1839. _ 

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs five to six inches long, oblong, 
compressed, obscurely striated or furrowed ; the younger 
ones partially sheathed with large distichous, weer 

scales, 


scales, and terminated by a single leaf, about a foot long, 
lanceolate, striated. Scape from the base of a pseudo- 
bulb, full three feet long, as thick as a goose-quill near the 
base, terete, jointed, with sheathing scales, which gradually 
pass into subulate bracteas at the base of the pedicels. 
Flowers in a long, simple raceme, destitute of scent. Sepals 
united at their base, linear-lanceolate, the uppermost one 
the broadest ; petals similar to the lateral sepals in shape 
and size, and both sepals and petals greenish-yellow, 
blotched with brown. Lip moderately large, contracted at 
the base and tapering into a short stipes : lateral lobes ob- 
solete, unless the two large, upright, oblong, fleshy, la- 
mellz constituting a conspicuous crest near the base of the 
labellum can be so called, and which are yellow tinged 
with rose-colour and white :—middle lobe large, broadly 
ovate, acuminate, waved, especially at the margin, the apex 
reflexed : the colour is white, tinged with flesh colour and 
yellow, and it is faintly striated. Column elongated, cylin- 
drical, dingy yellow spotted with reddish colour, a little 
thickened upwards and there furnished with two conspi- 
cuous orange-coloured projecting wings, one on each side. 
Anther-case helmet-shaped Pollen-masses two, obovate, 
waxy, obscurely two-lobed behind : these are fixed upon a 


slender caudicle, at the base of which is a linear, brown 
gland. 


Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3. Pollen-masses. 


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CrREUS LATIFRONS. BROAD-STEMMED 
CEREUS. 


KKK KKK KKK KEK EKEKE EK 
Class and Order. 


Icosanpr1A Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Cactez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Sepala numerosissima imbricata, basi ovario adnata, in 
tubum elongatum concreta, exteriora breviora calycinalia, 
media longiora colorata, intima petaliformia. Stamina 
numerosissima cum tubo concreta. Stylus filiformis, apice 
multifidus. Bacca areolata, sepalorum reliquiis squamata 
aut tuberculosa. Cotyledones acuminate.—Frutices car- 
nosi, subglobosi vel elongati, stricti, articulati vel repentes, 
_axi ligneo interne medullifero donati, angulis verticalibus, 
spmarum fasciculos gerentibus vel inermibus, trregulariter 
sulcatt. Anguli seu ale nunc plurime, nunc paucissime, 
rarius due tantum et tune rami compresso-alati inermes. 
Flores ampli e spinarum fasciculis lateralibus trunet aut 
ramorum vetustiorum, aut crenis angulorum orti. Fructus 


oviformes, pleru 
Pheiffer. plerumque anno sequente maturescentes, edules. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Cereus latifrons 3 Yamis maximis planis foliaceis viridibus 
apice obtusis, marginibus repando-dentatis, deutibus 
truncatis. Pfeiff. 

CrErEus latifrons. ** Succ. in Act. Acad. Bavar. 1837. 2. p. 
735. Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. p. 125. Prfeiff. et Otto, 
Cactées, tab. 13. f. 2. 

Cereus oxypetalus. De Cand. Révue, tab. 14. 

Errpnyiium latifrons. Zuce. in Cat. Hort. Monae. 1836. 


From the collection of the Messrs. Mackie of Norwich, 
by whom I am favoured with the drawing, from which the 


annexed — 


VOL. XIV. E 


annexed engraving is made. This species was, I believe, 
one of Mr. Hrrcuin’s collection, who received it from the 
continent under the name of Epreaytium oxypetalum, 
(Cereus oxypetalus, D C.) which Dr. Preirrer, it appears, 
justly considers the same as the C. latifrons of Zuccarint, 
a much more appropriate name it must be confessed. It is 
certainly very nearly allied to our C. phyllanthus (Bot. 
Mag. t. 2692, the C. phyllanthus, var. flore majore of Dg 
Canp., C. Hookeri, Haw., and of Preirrer and Orto, Cac- 
tées, tab. 5.) These latter authors say, that it differs from 
C. Hookeri “ par la crénelure de ces rameaux et par la 
forme de sa fleur :” but these distinctions are not very evi- 
dent, even in their own figures. It flowers in August. 
Descr. A tall-growing plant, incapable of supporting 
itself, jointed and proliferously branched ; the branches and 
jomts elongated, very broad and compressed, with an ele- 


vated nerve or costa in the middle, and which sends out a 
branch where a flower arises, the margin crenulated, some-_ 


times tinged with purple. From a crenature of the mar- 
gin the flower arises, which is peculiarly large, solitary, and 
handsome. Tube very long and slender, tinged with pur 
ple, and beset with purple or reddish scales, which gradually 
pass into the calycine segments, and these almost impercept- 
ibly into petals : the latter are pure white, lanceolate, acu- 
minated. Stamens long, numerous, yellowish-white. Style 
red, longer than the stamens. Stigma of many yellow rays: 


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( 3814 ) 


MALVA PURPURATA. PurPLeE MALLow. 


Class and Order. 


MonapevpuiA PoLyAnprRia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Matvacez. ) 


- Generic Character. 


Calyx cinctus involucro 3-phyllo rarius 5—6- phyllo, 
bracteolis oblongis setaceisve. Carpella capsularia plu- 
rima in orbem disposita. DC. 


Specific Character and Synonym. 


Matva purpurata; herbacea pubescens, ascendens, foliis 
inferioribus 5—7-partitis superioribus 3-partitis, laci- 
niis pinnatifidis furcatisque segmentis oblongis, flori- 
bus axillaribus solitariis, pedunculis petiolo longio- 
fe involucro di- triphyllo foliolis linearibus deci- 

uis. 


Matva purpurata. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1362. 


A handsome perennial, drawn from the greenhouse of the 
Glasgow Botanic Garden. It is a native of the Cumbre, a 
pass in the Andes of Chili, and was introduced to the garden 
of the Horticultural Society by Mr. Macraz. In England 
it is treated as a hardy plant; but requires a dry season to 
bring it to perfection. I have seen no native specimens: 
but it is unquestionably very nearly related to the Marva 
tenuifolia (Arn. et Hook. in Bot. Miseell. v. 3. p. 150), and 
I cannot but feel doubtful as to the propriety of referring 
these plants to Maxva rather than to Sipa. The two or 
three bracteas, for they are not constant in number, do not 
form a whorl so as to constitute a real involucre ; but sprin 
from different heights, and so quickly do they wither and — 
fall away that even in the state of the bud, the calyx is _ 
often destitute of them, The flowering season of our plant 
is June and July. a 


Descr. Stems ascending, very downy and slightly canes- 
cent. Leaves alternate, petiolate, cordate in their circum- 
scription, downy, the lower ones 5—7-parted, the lobes 
pinnatifid, segments oblong, the apices acute, bi- or trifid: 
the upper leaves are mostly tripartite, with the segments 
narrower and less divided. Petiole one and a half or two 
inches long, with two broadly subulate, deciduous stipules 
at the base. Peduncles axillary, solitary, single-flowered, 
erect, longer than the petiole. Calyx deeply five-cleft, the 
segments acuminated, spreading, downy, with two or three 
deciduous linear or almost filiform bracteas. Corolla mo- 
derately large. Petals purple-lilac, obcordate. 


Fig. 1. Calyx: magnified, 


( 3815 ) 
GESNERIA MOLLIS. SoOFT-LEAVED GESNERIA. 


KK EEE EEREEER EEE ER 
Class and Order. 


DipynAmMiA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—GesneRiacea. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calyx ovarii basi adnatus, limbo subinequaliter 5-partito 
libero. Corolla tubulosa ima basi 5-gibberosa aut zqua- 
liter subtumida, limbo 5-fido, lobis nunc in labio duo dis- 
positis, nunc subequalibus. Stamina 4, ime corolle ad- 
nata, didynama cum quinti rudimento. Anthere juniores, 
coherentes. Stylus filiformis, stigmate capitato aut bilobo. 
Glandule perigyne 2—5 circa ovarii basin. Capsula cori- 
acea 1-locularis bivalvis, valvis convexis, placentis 2 parie- 
talibus polyspermis. Semina scobiformia.—Herbe peren- 
nes, radice tuberosa; rarius frutices. Caulis stmplex aut 
opposite ramosus. Folia opposita aut verticillata dentata. 
Pedunculi simplices uniflori aut ramosi multiflori, axillares 
aut in thyrsum racemumve terminalem dispositi. D C. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


GesveriA mollis ; foliis oppositis suboblique ovatis acumi- 
natis serratis supra dense velutino-pubescentibus subtus 
ramisque teretibus dense longeque sericeo-pilosis, pe- 
dicellis elongatis umbellatis (3—5), pedunculo brevis- 
simo, calycis lobis lineari-subulatis, corolle dense 
hirsute limbo subequali 5-lobo (maculato) lobis acu- 
tis reflexis, stylo exserto, stigmate bifido. 

GesneriA mollis. Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. Am. Merid. 


v.2.p. 317. t. 191. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 838. 
De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 5a “ Be 


I am indebted to Mr. Beaton, the very accomplished gar- - 
dener at Kingsbury, (already mentioned under tab. 3804 


of 


of this volume,) for the handsome Grsneria here represent- 
ed. “Seeds of this plant,” he says, “ were transmitted by Mr. 
Mackenzie, the collector at the Caraccas for Mr. Harris and 
Mr. Lowe of the Clapton Nursery, and sent to both these 
zealous cultivators in February, 1819 ; sothat the plant shows 
its flowers in fourteen months from the planting of the seeds. 
Mackenzie found it at the foot of St. Pedro, thirty miles 
from the city of Caraccas. This species does not produce 
tuberous roots like most of the Genus, yet the stems are 
herbaceous, and die down after producing seeds ; at least, I 
think so from a cluster of scaly, creeping stems now forming 
of the colour of the plant, and which are analogous to the 
roots of Trevirana coccinea. The plant having begun 
thus early to provide itself with these creeping stems for 
producing a succession of flowering-stems and for extending 
itself on all sides, may be taken in evidence that this species 
does not require much rest, like the large tuberous-rooted 
Gesnerie. The stems are about eighteen inches high ; but 
when the plant is older and stronger, we may expect them 
greatly to exceed that size. The seeds, like all of the 
Genus, are very small, and should be sown in sand previ- 
ously watered, and then pressed down gently in the wet 
sand, but not covered. The young plants will rise in a few 
days and ought to be kept in a shady place till they are fit 
to be transplanted.””—I think there can be no doubt of its 
being the G. mollis of Humsotpr and Kuntu, though there 
are some slight discrepancies, but not more than may be 
accounted for from the circumstance of Humgoxpr’s figure 
being made from dried specimens. 

Descr. The shrubby stems and whole underside of the 
leaves are clothed with long, dense, silky hairs. From the 
axils of the leaves the very short peduncles appear, solitary, 
searcely more than a line long, having at the top some 
small bracteal scales. Umbel of from three to five flowers, 
on long hairy pedicels. Calyx with long, subulate divi- 
sions; the éube incorporated with the lower half of the 
ovary. Corolla funnel-shaped, rather densely hairy, red ; 
—the throat moderately open ; the limb equal, of five short, 
reflexed, acute lobes, orange spotted with red. Stamens 
included. Style exserted. Ovary very hairy, with five, 
equal-sized, yellow glands at the base. Stigma bifid. 


Fig. 1. Pistil : magnified. 


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( 3816 ) 


SryLIDIUM FASCICULATUM. FAScICLED- 
LEAVED STYLIDIUM. 


eK KKK KEKE KEE EEE E 
Class and Order. 


GyYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Sryuipiez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calycis limbus bilabiatus. Corolla irregularis quinque- 
fida, lacinia quinta (labello) dissimili minore sepius de- 
flexa, reliquis patentibus interdum geminatim coherentibus. 
Columna genitalium reclinata duplici flexura. Anthere 
bilobe lobis divaricatissimis. Stigma obtusum indivisum. 
Capsula bilocularis septo superne interdum incompleto.— 
Herbe aut suffruticuli. Folia aut radicalia rosulata aut 
secus caulem sparsa, interdum basi attenuata. Pili sepius 
apice glandulost. De Cand. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


StTyLipium fasciculatum ; caulibus plurimis adscendentibus 
glaberrimis foliosis, foliis linearibus acutis summis fas- 
ciculato-subverticillatis, floribus in spicam subracemo- 
sam terminalem bracteatam ad rachin glabram digestis, 
capsula compressa lanceolata loculo superiore vacuo 
angustissimo. 

Styuiprum fasciculatum. Brown, Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 
572. De Cand. Prod. 7. p. 337? Spreng. Syst. Veg. 
3.p. 749? Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1459, certe. 


Professor Linptey has pointed out the only difference 
between the cultivated plant and Mr. Brown’s specific 
character ; but this difference, which lies in the ovarium and 


fruit having only one perfect cell, is certainly neither acci- a 
dental nor the effect of cultivation, as our figure of the ripe 
fruit, taken from a wild plant, will show. Native specimens 


were sent by Mr. Baxrer from King George’s Sound, and j 


they accord in every respect with that cultivated. M. Dr 
CanDoLLE appears to have seen only the latter, and yet he 
follows Mr. Brown in saying, that both cells of the capsule 
bear seed, while at the same time he refers to the Botanical 
Register, where the contrary is asserted. 

Descr. Stems several from the same root, from one to 
two feet high, glabrous, leafy, particularly on the upper 
portion, slightly branched. Leaves linear, acute, very 
slightly rough : the upper ones as well as the bracteas, calyx, 
and outside of the corolla furnished with a short, glandular 
pubescence ; lower ones scattered, upper ones fascicled, 
and forming a kind of verticel of several approximated rows. 
Spike from two and a half to six inches long, erect, shortly 
stalked, resembling a raceme on account of the attenuated 
base of the elongated ovaries: rachis glabrous. Bracteas 
subulate, incurved and slightly faleate. Calyx five-cleft, 
two-lipped, glandular, segments subulate. Corolla irregu- 
lar, five-cleft, one of the divisions resembling a lip, smaller 
than and of a different shape from the others, and deflexed: 
the other divisions oval, quite entire, white and spotted 
with red at the base. Stamens two : filaments united intoa 
column with the style. Anthers two-lobed, incumbent on 
the stigma, the lobes much divaricated. Style one, united 
with the column of stamens. Stigma blunt, undivided. 
Ovary inferior, or cohering with the tube of the calyx, 
narrow-linear, twice as long as the bractea, attenuated at 
each extremity, compressed, with a ridge along the upper 
side, two-celled, the lower or anterior cell bearing many 
ovules; the upper minute and empty, contained within the 
ridge. Capsule compressed, lanceolate, attenuated at the 
apex, two-celled, the upper cell a mere indurated, empty, 
very narrow tube, which is indehiscent : lower cell ventri- 


cose, bursting along the placenta which is attached to the 
upper margin. Seeds small, oval, slightly roughish, chest- 
nut-coloured. Albumen 


: between oily and fleshy, inclosing 
the minute embryo. y esny 5 


Professor Liyptey mentions the plant to be annual, and only three 
or four inches high : in the greenhouse of the Botanical Garden of Glas- 
gow its duration is more than annual, and it attains to about two feet- 
= is - very charming plant, no less deserving of cultivation for its beauty, 
‘an tor the singular property of the column of stamens being endow 


with a very active irritability, so that if wi : 
. . ? touched wi the out- 
side when curved, it bounds o ee with a pin ob 


: ver to the opposite si r and 
becomes inverted: this et pposite side of the flowe 


} erty is ob ‘ less 
degree, in the whole Genus. GA we. y iaue JR A BEE af 


Fig. 1. Flower, seen Boe and f. 2, ditto PREM Uy Eon 
of the Ovary. 3. Ovary, cut transversely about the ede en eote_seated on. the ape 
natural size. 5. Ditto, magnified. 6, pA apes amas all magnified. 4. Ripe fruit 


. 


Aug! 11 846 


if 
a 


qt Pub by 8. Curtis Glazenwoda. ESSEC 


Wh Pitched? 


( 3817 ) 


LALIA AUTUMNALIS. AUTUMNAL LALIA. 


Seok okskak 
Class and Order. 


GynanpriA MonanpRIiaA. 
( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipEz. ) 


Generic Character. 


Sepala explanata, lanceolata, equalia. Petala majora, 
paulo.difformia, carnosa, explanata. Labellum posticum, 
3-partitum, lamellatum, circa colaumnam convolutum. Co- 
lumna aptera, carnosa, antice canaliculata. Anthera— ? 
Pollinia 8, caudiculis quatuor elasticis—Herbe epiphyte, 
rhizomate pseudo-bulbifero. Folia carnosa. Scapi termi- 
nales, pauci vel multiflori. Flores speciosi, odoratt. Lindl. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Lz. autumnalis; pseudo-bulbis ovatis teretibus costatis 
apice attenuatis 2—3-phyllis, foliis oblongo-linearibus 
patentissimis scapo multo brevioribus, scapo tereti_ 
apice subsexfloro, bracteis oblongis membranaceis 
acutis, sepalis lanceolatis acuminatis patentissimis, pe- 
talis oblongo-lanceolatis undulatis, labelli trilobi bila-_ 
mellati lobis lateralibus erectis rotundatis truncatis in- 
termedio oblongo-lanceolato apice reflexo, ovario gl 
bro. Lindl. : See 

Lzu1a ng onary Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 115. Bate- : 
man, Orch, Mexic. et Guatemal. t.9. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 

Pe genre! em 

LETIA autumnalis. “La L p 
oe a» lave et Lexarx. 


_ Similar as the general appearance of this beaut ul 
is to Lzuia anceps (Botanical Register, tab. 1751 

nevertheless abundantly distinct, in its pseudo-bulbs, seapes, 
and flowers, as well as in its agreeable perfume. Our spe- 


Be ee 


cimen, here figured, is from the Woburn Collection, to 
which the plants were sent from Mr. Parktnson in July, 
1838. 

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong-lanceolate, obscurely fur- 
rowed, with two opposite, blunt edges, otherwise nearly 
terete, sheathed with large, imbricated, closely applied 
scales, and crowned with two leaves, which do not exceed 
five inches in length, oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, smooth. 
Scape from between the two leaves, a foot and a half to two 
feet high, terete, jointed, with sheathing scales at the joints, 
terminated with from two to four flowers, which are large, 
showy, and fragrant. Perianth very similar to that of 
L. anceps ; but destitute of the green rib. Lip with two 
large, erect, whitish side-lobes, and an obovate, obtuse, 
apiculated, deep purple intermediate one: in the disk are 
two very distinct, upright, membranous, long lamelle or 
plates. Colwmn semicylindrical. Pollen-masses, with the 


four superior lobes obcordate, the four lower ones smaller, 
semiobovate. 7 


————— 


Fig. 1. Column. 2. Pollen-masses. 3. Side view of ditto :—magnified. 


( 3818 ) 
BaTEMANNIA CoLuLevi. Mr. CoLiey’s 
BATEMANNIA. 


Class and Order. 


GynanpRiA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Flores ringentes. Sepala patentia, lateralia unguiculata 
basi equalia. Petala sepalis latiora, basi obliqua, pedi 
producto columne adnata. Labellwm cum columna articu- 
latum, trilobum, cucullatum. Columna_ semiteres, basi 
elongata, clinandrio marginato. Anthera parva, bilocu- 
laris, membranacea. Pollinia 2, postice biloba, glandula 
triangulari, caudicula nulla. Lendl. 


Specific Name and Synonym. 


Baremannta * Colleyi. : 
Baremannia Colleyi. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1714. 


The plant from which the accompanying drawing was 
taken, was sent by Dr. Fraser from Demerara to th 
Glasgow Botanic Garden, having been first detecte: 
Mr. Courter, Mr. Baremay’s collector, in the same c 
With us, its flowering season is February : the b 
yield a disagreeable odour, 


Descr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong, alin pieced, with , 
deep furrows and as many projecting and rather acut 
angles, of a dark purplish-green colour and scaly at 


ial 


* In compliment to James Bateman, Esq., of Knypersley, Ire, a. 
most + om, pie cultivator of Orchideous Epiphytes, and author of the 
most splendid work that has ever appeared on that subject. 


base. Leaf on the old bulbs solitary from the apex of the 
bulb, broadly-lanceolate, acute, attenuated at the base, 
between membranaceous and coriaceous, about seven-nery- 
ed. On the very young pseudo-bulbs, before these are 
fully formed, the leaves are two and three. Scape from the 
base of a young pseudo-bulb, pendent, flowering almost 
from the base. Flowers large, handsome, rather distant. 

each with a broad, concave, heart-shaped bractea at the 
base. Sepals oblong, concave, combined at the base, and 
decurrent with the column, erect at the back of the column. 

Petals linear-lanceolate, arising from the base of the united 

sepals, deflected, the lower (or interior) margin inflected, 

scarcely unguiculate. Colour of the petals and sepals green- 

ish, tinged with purplish-red. Lip erect, almost appressed 

to the column, whitish, oblong, grooved, three-lobed, mid- 

dle lobe notched ; all of them serrated : within the lip dotted 

with red, striated in the middle; near the base, and at the 

union of the lobes, is a bifid serrated scale. Column semi- 

terete, white, freckled with red. Round the anther is a 

broad, winged, crenated border (the clinandrium). Anther-— 
case somewhat rhomboid, membranaceous, with two small 
cells beneath. Pollen-masses 2, oblong-ovate, each two-— 
lobed at the back, united by an oblong-cuneated gland, 

destitute of caudicula. The germen is attached to the 

back of the sepals, considerably above their united base. 


Fig. 1. Inner view of the Labellum, 2 U . f 
Anthe - %. Upper, and 3, Underside of an 
eee Follen-masses, 5. Celia, with the lower combine 


Portion of the three Sepals decurrent with the back magnified. 


/ 


AM Morbury el’ Fuh by SGurtis Glazenwood Essex Sept? 11840 


( 3819 ) 


MonACHANTHUS LONGIFOLIUS. LONG-LEAVED 
MoNK-FLOWER. 


KKK KEK KEE KEE EEE 
Class and Order. 


GyYNANDRIA MOonaANDRIA. 
_( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipEz. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et petala equalia de- 
orsum versa. Labellum posticum, carnosum, indivisum, 
ventricosum, sepalis multo majus. Columna brevis, crassa, 
mutica. Anthera et pollinia Cataseti—Epiphyte Cataseti 
habitu. Lindl. 


Specific Character and Synonym. 


Monacuanraus longifolius ; foliis longissimis gramineis, ra- 
cemo cylindraceo pendulo multifloro, sepalis ovatis 
subrotundis petalorum conformium dorso applicitis, 
labello urceolari a tergo incurvo limbo truncato api- 
culato intus cereaceo glabro margine fimbriato, Lindl. 

Carasetum longifolium. Lindl. in Misc. of Bot. Reg., 1839, 
nm. 154. Lindl. Sert. Orchid. t. 31. : 


It is not from any opinion we entertain that the Genus 
Monacuantuus is really distinct from Cataserum, that we 
adopt the former name, in opposition to that given by Dr. 
Linpiey ; but for the sake of consistency in this work. 
There is a natural group of Caraserum, the species of 


which are destitute of the long sete on the column, and to— me 


which the name of Monacuanruus has been applied. 

The very fine species here represented was sent to us by 
Mr. Brocx.enurst, of the Fence, Macclesfield, in Septem- 
ber, 1839, a month before it flowered with Mr. Morris, 
who was supposed, as related in the “ Sertum Orchida- 
ceum,” to be the first who succeeded in bringing it to ‘ble 


VOL. XIV. oy 


som in this country. Nor was this the first time it blos- 
somed at the Fence. The able gardener there, Mr. Ap- 
pLeBy, had the gratification of seeing its flowers in high 
perfection three months previously. The pseudo-bulbs 
were obtained from Demerara, and the culture adopted by 
Mr. Apptery, he observes, was much the same as Is em- 
ployed by other cultivators for this interesting tribe of 
plants, with this difference, that he “‘ breaks the peaty turf 
into very small lumps, and puts these into the pot (previ- 
ously well drained) as lightly as possible; thus affording 
free egress to the roots, which run up and down amongst it 
surprisingly. No potsherds are employed at all, During 
the growing season water is used freely, but withheld in a 
great measure, though not entirely, during the dormant” 
season.’’— Mr. Scnomgurex found this plant in British 
Guiana, growing on the Ela-Palm, Maurrria flexuosa. 
~ Besides the rich golden colour of its flowers (which had 
induced us to give the species the MSS. name of chrysan- — 
thus,) the species is readily known from its congeners by 
e very long and narrow foliage. : 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs very long, oblong, tapering at 
both extremities, clothed with the very copious sheathing 
bases of the old foliage. Leaves several from the apex of 
the bulb, a foot and a half long, linear-ensiform, acuminat- 
ed, striated. Scape from the base of the bulb, pendent, — 
bearing many rich, golden Jlowers, each subtended by an — 
ovato-lanceolate, greenish bract. Petals and sepals unl- 
form, small, roundish-ovate, approximate, and all spreading 
to one side, almost reflex, purplish-green. zp inflated, 
semiglobose, rich orange-coloured without and dappled, 
the mouth shaped like that of a Hetrx, the edge spreading, 
on each side having a reddish fringe, and at the apex 4 
shorter one of a deep blood-color. Column very short and 


thick, yellowish as well as the anther-case. Pollen-masses 
as In Caraserum. : 


eernipeteer 


_* Fig 1. Column and Lip.< 2: 9. Pollen-masses :—magnified. . 


ie ll 


( 3820 ) 
PASSIFLORA ONYCHINA. lLiareutT. SULIVAN’S 
PASsION-FLOWER. 


KKK KEK ERK EEEEEE EERE 
- Class and Order. 


MonapetrHiA PENTANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—PassiFtorez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calycis tubus brevissimus, faux corona filamentosa multi- 
plici ornata. Bacca sepius pulposa, rarius submembra- 
nacea. DC. 


Specific Character and Synonym. 


PassiFLora onychina ; ebracteata, foliis trilobis cordatis gla- 
bris, laciniis oblongis obtusis subequalibus obscure 
serrulatis, petiolis 4—6-glandulosis, pedunculis folio- 
rum longitudine, corona margine inflexa, serie intima 
radiorum erecta conica intus supra basin dentifera, 
extima duplici filiformi patentissima, intermedia sub- 
triplici brevissima capitata, ovario tomentoso. Lindl. 

Passirtora onychina. Lindl. in Misc. of Bot. Reg. 1838, n. 
1. and Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 21. 


It appears that this pretty species of Passion-flower was 
first introduced to this country by B. J. Suzrvan, Esq., of 
H. M. S. Beagle, who brought seeds from the Botanic 
Garden of Rio de Janeiro to that of Sir Cuartes Lemon, 


Bart., at Carclew, Cornwall, in the year 1827. Our Glas- a 


gow Botanic Garden is indebted to Mr. Lowe of Clapton 


for the plant, and it is now not uncommon in our stoves, 
flowering in September and diffusing a very agreeable — 


fragrance. ee 
Descr. Climbing. Stems slender. Leaves deeply three- 
lobed, cordate at the base, the lobes oblong-obtuse, entire 


or very indistinctly serrated, dark green above, pale be- 
neath. Petiole shorter than the leaf, with three to five or 
six glands upon it. Stipules small, ovate, acuminate. Ten- 
drils simple. Peduncle axillary, one-flowered, much longer 
than the petiole. Flowers much smaller than those of the 
common blue Passion-flower. Sepals and petals about 
equal in length, palish-purple, the former greenish on the 
outside and with a curved hook below the point; all of 
them oblong, obtuse. Nectary exceedingly beautiful; the 
principal ray with a band of white at the middle of the 
filaments, blue-purple at the apex, at the base, as well as 


the inner rays, red-purple. Styles and stamens green, dotted 
with purple. 


SEAL 


= Pub bo SCarcis Glazenwoed Essex Sapt? 2.2890 


( 3821 ) 
HorriA BARBATA. Berarpep Horeia. 


KEKE KK KE KEKE REE EERE EK 
Class and Order. 


IcosanprIA Diaynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Rosacea. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calyx 5-partitus, lobis erectis obtusis, parte adherente 
subturbinata. Petala 5 spathulata. Stamina 10. Styli 2. 
Stigmata obtusa. Ovarium calyci semiadnatum vel subli- 
berum biloculare, loculis multi-ovulatis; ovula anatropa 
adscendentia. Carpella 2 calyci semiadnata vel sublibera, 
bilocularia apice bivalvia, valvis introflexis placentariis 
loculi fere ad mediam partem seminiferis. Semina scrobi- 
formia, abortu in quoque loculo solitaria vel duo, rarius 
tria, testa basi et apice ultra nucleum elongata cellulosa. 
Morr. et Dec. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Hore1a* Japonica; foliis tripinnatisectis, petiolis ad nodos 
pilosis coloratis, foliolo terminali ovato basi et apice 
attenuato, omnibus supra ad nervum hispidulis, flori- 
bus albis. Morr. et Decaisne. 2h eae 

Hore1a Japonica. Morr. et Decaisne in Ann. des Sc. Nat. 
2de Ser. p. 316. é. 11. = 


Sriza barbata. Wall. Cat. n. 705. Lindl. Bot. Reg.t. 


2011. 
S. Japonica. Hort. 


S. Aruncus. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 211? os —- 


* Dedicated to a Japanese Botanist, Ho-re1, whom M. SreBorp has 
mentioned in his notice of the Botanical Literature of Japan. sede oe 
Act. Nat. Cur. v. 14. Part II. p. 693.) This work, entitled “ Soo-t pole 
S’jua,” includes descriptions of more than three hundred and eg ompa ts 
natives of China and apan, cultivated in the gardens there, "he rich library — 
nied by eighty plates, elegantly designed by M. SIEBOLD. tanical anewings 
of M. De Lesser contains a collection of Japanese bo several of our 
eae With great accuracy, among which we recognised S¢v\l" 


adnate with the calyx. 


A Japanese plant, from whence the species was introduc- 
ed by M. von Sresoxp to the gardens in Belgium. From 
that country, Mr. M‘Koy kindly sent it to the Botanic 
Garden at Glascow. Dr. Wauuicn, however, appears to 
have the credit of first finding the species in Nepal, Gossain 
Than, and Kamaon, and applied to it the name of barbata, 
which on every account is to be preferred to that of Japo- 
nica. ‘The Genus, with the habit of Spir#za Aruncus, 18 
nearly allied to Astitse of Don, differing from this latter 
chiefly in the presence of petals. The Traretxa triternata 
of Venrenat, which Mr. Don refers to AstILzeE, is, by Messrs. 
Morren and Decaisne, considered rather to belong to 
Horeia. Our plant, though making little show on paper, 
is elegant and graceful in its foliage and feather-like flow- 
ers. It is hardy and flowers with us in May. 

Descr. Stem herbaceous, two to four feet high. Leaves 
alternate, bi-triternate ; leaflets ovate, acute, sharply serrat- 
ed. Petiole often tinged with purple, incrassated at the 
base, and where, at its point of union with the stem, are 3 
several spreading hairs, whence the specific name of Dr. _ 
Watticu. Stipules ovate, acute, entire, membranaceous, — 
deciduous. Panicle terminal, many-flowered. Peduncle 
and its branches downy, bracteated ; bracts numerous, — 
small, foliaceous. Flowers white. Calyx glabrous, deeply a 
five-cleft. Corolla of five spreading, spathulate petals. — 
Stamens ten, exserted. Ovaries two, their base united and 


Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Section of a F 


lower (from Morren and DECcAISNE’S 
figure). 3. Section of the Ovary, 


from ditto :—magnified. 


DS HIS YT POOMUPLAZD SYAND'S 2G ORI SALUT AA 


600 


( 3822 ) 


Cereus spEciosisstmus; hybridus. SpLenpip 
Cereus; hybrid var. 


KEKE EKER EEE REEREE EE 


The Crimson Creepine Cereus, garden variety. Lindl. Bot. 
Reg. t. 1565. : 

Cereus Smithii. “ Hort. Angl.”—Pfeiff. Enum. Cact. p. 
111. 

Cereus Mallisoni. Hort. 


Although this beautiful Cereus is distinctly stated by 
Dr. Linptey to be a hybrid production, raised by Mr. Mat- 
LIsoN, gardener to Sir Samuet Scott, from seed of Cereus 
speciosissimus, fertilized by C. flagelliformis, and although 
this circumstance is quoted by Dr. Preirrer, yet this 
author raises it to the rank of a species, and defines it as 
“« C, Smithii ; suberectus ramosus 6-angularis viridis, ramis 
junioribus purpureis sinubus latis angulatis, costis vertica- 
libus repandis, areolis subremotis convexis, aculeis e to- 
mento brevissimo albido centralibus 5—6 divergentibus 
rigidis fuscescentibus, exterioribus setaceis flavis deorsum 
spectantibus.” It is a ready flowerer, and a great ornament 
to the Cactus-house. 


Witch: del? 


2 


Pub. by S.Curtis Glazenivoed. Essex. Septtl L840, 4 


( 3823 ) 


CATASETUM INTEGERRIMUM. EWNTIRE-LIPPED 
CATASETUM. 


KKK KKK KEKE KEEREE 
Class and Order. 


GyNANDRIA Monanpria. 


( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipEz. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium sepius globosum, nunc explanatum. Sepala 
et petala subequalia. Labellum crassum, carnosum, nudum, 
ventricosum vel explanatum fimbriatum ; sub apice sacca- 
tum, obsolete trilobum. Coluwmna erecta, aptera, libera, 
apice utrinque cirrhosa. Anthera subbilocularis, antice 
truncata. Pollinia 2, postice biloba vel sulcata ; caudicula 
maxima nuda demum elastice contractili; glandula cartila- 
ginea subquadrata.—Herbe terrestres vel epiphyte ; cauli- 
bus brevibus fusiformibus vestigtis foliorum vestitis. Folia 
basi vaginantia, plicata. Scapi radicales. Flores speciosi, 
racemosi, virides, nunc purpureo-maculati. Lund. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Caraserum integerrimum ; foliis oblongis latissimis apice 
acuminatis, sepalis petalisque acuminatis, labello cu- 
cullato crassissime carnoso, ore contracto integerrimo. 

(«.) purpurascens ; floribus purpurascentibus, labello ma- 
jore subtus obtusissimo. 

(8.) viridiflorum ; floribus viridibus, labello minore subtus 
minus obtuso, (Fig. A.) . 


Sent from Guatemala by Mr. Skinner to the late Duke iS : 
of Bedford at Woburn Abbey, where it gives us inexpres- = 


sible pleasure to know that the princely gardens are fostered _ 
by the present noble proprietor. The species is a very — 
distinct one, having a lip with the mouth considerably con-— 
tracted, and quite entire. D foe 


Descr. The pseudo-bulbs I have not seen: they are 
probably not different from the other species of the Genus. 
‘The leaves are unusually large, four inches and more broad, 
thin and membranous, many-nerved, acuminated at the 
point. Scape much thicker than a swan’s quill, jointed, 
with a scale at each joint. Flowers large, secund, diffusing 
a peculiar and heavy smell. Perianth forming an arch over 
the column and pointing forward. Sepals and petals nearly 
equal, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, concave, green tinged 
with purple; the petals blotched with red purple, (in 6, 
green, with reddish spots within). Labellwm large, cucul- 
late, beneath very obtuse in 2; in B less so:—the mouth 
nearly circular, contracted, a little inflexed and quite entire; 
the substance very thick and fleshy, externally pale green 
tinged with purple, internally yellow, and blotched with 
very deep purple. Column and sete as in C. tridentatum. 


A. Flower of var. 8: nat. size. 


ISA. 


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( 3824 ) 


FrRANCOA RAMOSA. WHITE-FLOWERED 
FRANCOA. 


KEKE EEE EEE EEEERERE 


Class and Order. 


OcranpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord—Francoacem. Ad. de Juss. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calyx 4-partitus, persistens. Petala4. Stamina 8 fer- 
tilia, totidem sterilia minuta cum iis alternantia. Germen 
4-sulcatum. Stigma sessile 4-lobatum. Capsula 4-loba, 
4-locularis, polysperma. Semina angulo interiori loculo- 
rum imserta. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Francoa ramosa ; foliis sessilibus lyrato-pinnatifidis lobis_ 
lateralibus approximatis spe coadunatis, scapo ramo- 
so, floribus albis, stigmatibus obscure bilobis. 

Francoa appendiculata. Don, in Ed. N. Phil. Journ. 


1828, p. 52. Sw. Brit. Fl. Gard. N. S. t. 223. Hook. 
et Arn. in Bot. Misc. v. 3. p. 339. 


This white-flowered Francoa was found at Valparaiso by — 
Mr. Cuming, (n. 779 of his Collection), and at Quebrada de _ 
las Lacunas, near Valparaiso, by Mr. Bripexs (his n. 197) 
in 1832. Seeds were sent over about that time, and the 
plant has been raised in our gardens, and proves as hardy 
as the better known F. appendiculata. Although it iscon- 
sidered by many Botanists that there are three species of 
Francoa, namely, F. appendiculata (Cav.), F. sonchifolia 
(Cav.), and our present one, yet it appears to us very doubt-_ 
ful if it would not be more correct to consider them as varie- 
ties of the original « Luaupanxe amplissimo sonchifolio” of 


Fevttt., 


Feuitt., Chil. v. 2. t. 31. Our native plants exhibit con- 
siderable discrepancies, and, certainly, in a garden, the 
Francoas are liable to much variation, in their leaves, in the 


colour of the flowers, and in the more or less entire apex 
of the stigmas. 


Fig. 1. Stamens, Nectaries, and Pistil:—magnified. 


Caxvenwocd }.ssea Cte LISFO, 


( 3825 ) 


RHODODENDRON ARBOREUM; Cinnamomeum, floribus 
roseis. TREE RaopoDENDRON ; Cinnamon- 
leaved var., with rose-coloured flowers. 


Oe ee Se ee ee eo oe 
Class and Order. 


DecanpriaA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Enicez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calyx 4-partitus. Corolla infundibuliformis rarius cam- 
panulata aut rotata, nunc regularis nunc plus minus irregu- 
Jaris semper 5-loba. Stamina 10 (rarius abortu 6—9) 
corollz non adnata ante et inter lobos sita, sepius declinata 
exserta. Anthere poris 2 terminalibus dehiscentes. Cap- 
sula 5-locularis, 5-valvis, aut 10-locularis 10-valvis septi- 
cido-dehiscens. Semina axi columne angulo adnata, com- 
presso-scrobiformia subulata.—Frutices rarius arbores. 
Folia sempervirentia petiolata integerrima, Flores in co- 
rymbos terminales dispositi. Alabastra floralia squamosa. 
Corolle conspicue purpuree albe vel flave. DC. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


RuHoDopENDRON arboreum ; caule arboreo, foliis lanceolatis 
glabris subtus lepidotis micantibus, floribus conferte 
corymbosis, ovario pubescenti-tomentoso 8—10-locu- 
lari. DC. 

Ruopopenpron arboreum. Sm. Ex. Bot. t. 9. Wall. Cat. 
n.755. Hook. Ex. Fl. t. 890. 

(2) Cinnamomeum ; foliis subtus cinnamomeis, floribus 
candidis purpureo et flavo-maculatis. Wall. Cat. n. 
Sade Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1982. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 

Subvar. floribus magnis roseis (Tax. nostr. 3825.) 


The splendid specimen here represented of this rich vari- 


ety of the Tree Rhododendron was obligingly pon 
rom 


VOL, XIV. G 


from the Manchester Botanic Garden by Mr. Campsett, in _ 
March, 1840, with the following remarks. ‘‘ The plant 
from which it was taken has been in flower here about a 
fortnight, and has been much admired. We have flowerin 
bunches on it upwards of double the size of that herewi 
sent, one of which I would gladly forward, but for the 
damage it would occasion to our plant.” Itdiffers from the 
Ruopopenpron described and figured by Dr. Linptzy n 
Bot. Reg. vol. 10, t. 1982, (and our t. 3290 is the same — 
var.,) by its different colour, and larger size of the corollas, 
which are also more undulated. “ We measured one blos- 
som this morning, which was two inches and a half m 
diameter.”’ 

How far the R. campanulatum of Don in Sweet's Br. Fl. — 
Gard. t. 241. (and tab. 3759 of our Magazine) ought to be 
considered distinct from this, does with us admit of doubt. 
That species should have a five-, not a ten-celled ovary: 
but we have had no means of investigating that point. } 
comparing the figures, we find that our present species has- 
the largest flowers, the colour is more varied, more yello 


within the tube, and the deep sanguineous dots are muc 
more numerous. 


J0 %, 


Pub by S Curtis Gaconvved Essex Oct! J 1840. 


pL Pitch Def? 


( 3826 ) 
CysTANTHE SPRENGELIOIDES. SpPRENGELIA- 
LIKE CYSTANTHE. 


KKK KKK KKK KEE KEKE RKEKEE 
Class and Order. 


PentanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—EpacripEz. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calyx foliaceus. Corolla clausa, calyptreformis, trans- 
versim dehiscens, basi truncata persistenti. Stamina hypo- 
gyna, persistentia. Sguamule nulle hypogyne. Capsula 
placentis ab apice columne centralis pendulis, solutis.— 
Frutex habitu Sprengelie, Ponceletiz, et Cosmeliz, nisi 
quod rami dum denudati annulati sunt. Br. 


Specific Name and Synonym. 


CysTantuE * sprengelzoides. 
CystanTHE sprengelioides. Brown Prodr. 1, 555. 


This curious shrub was discovered by Mr. Brown in Van 
Diemen’s Land. The specimen described (now three feet 
and a half high, and growing freely) was raised in 1836 at 
the Botanical Garden, Edinburgh, from seeds obligingly 
communicated by N. B. Warp, Esq., London, in the au- 
tumn before. I have no means of ascertaining to which of 
the varieties mentioned by Mr. Brown it belongs. ae 

Descr. Shrub and its branches erect, glabrous, rigid. 
Leaves crowded, sessile, stem-clasping, ovate, acuminate, — 
rigid, mucronate, reflected, serrulate, shining, persisting, — 
many-nerved, nerves diaphanous. Flowers axillary, soli- 


. 


* From «ers, a bladder, and avbos a flower ; from the crn . 
appearance of the flower-bud , while the calypire-form corolla is still a : 


ed to it. 


tary, but crowded into capitula at the extremities of the 
branches. Bractee several, erect, distichous, in other re- 
spects resembling the leaves but smaller, and gradually 
passing into the submembranous sepals, which are still 
smaller. Corolla longer than the calyx, pale greenish- 
yellow, opening by circumscission about the middle, the 
upper portion crisped at its lower margin, and rising like a 
calyptra upon the summit of the elongated style, the lower — 
part marcescent, marked by brown nerves. Stamens 5, 
hypogynous; filaments as long as the corolla, approaching 
below ; somewhat spreading above, flattened, subspathulate 
but pinched laterally at the apex, crystalline upwards ; 
anthers erect, attached by their back near the base, ovate, 
yellow, bisaccate at the base, cleft at the apex and opening 
within the cleft ; pollen yellow, granules minute, spherical. 
Pistil longer than the stamens ; stigma with five minute 
points ; style colourless, tapering upwards ; germen green, 
5-lobular, 5-locular, loculaments with their apices surround- 
ing the base of the style; placenta suspended from the 
column at the apex of the loculaments, green and naked on 
their outer side, but covered with suspended ovules on the 
inner. Graham. 


Pub by 3. Curtis Glaxenwood: Essex Oot? 11900 


( 3827 ) 


Senecio HERITIERI; var. CYANOPHTHALMUS. 
Heritier’s GrounpseEt; blue-eyed var. 


KK KKK EEK KEE KEK EEERE 
Class and Order. 


SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composrrm.—SeEnecioneEg. ) 


Generic Character. 


Capitulum homogamum discoideum aut heterogamum, 
fl. radii ligulatis foemineis. Involucri 1-serialis nune nudi 
nunc squamellis accessoriis calyculati squame szpius apice 
sphacelate margine subscariose, dorso frequenter biner- 
vate. Receptaculum epaleaceum nudum alveolatumve. 
Styli fl. hermaphr. rami truncati apiceque solo penicillati ! 
Achenium erostre exalatum teretiusculum aut sulcato-angu- 
latum. Pappus pilosus pluriserialis caducus, setis rectis 
subequalibus tenuissimis vix scabris.—Herbe aut Frutices 
wnnumeri polymorphi. D C. 


Specific Chatatter and Synonyms. 


SENECIO Heritieri ; fruticosus, foliis petiolatis exauriculatis 
cordatis suborbiculatis 5—7-lobis supra araneosis de- 
mum glabris subtus albo-lanatis, pedunculis 1-cephalis 
glabriusculis, involucro elabro 15—20-phyllo. 

Senecio Heritieri. De Cand. Prodr. v. 6. p. 409. 

Cineraria lanata. L’Heérit. Sert. Angl: t. 25. Curt. Bot. 
Mag. t. 53. Jacq. Coll. v. 3. p. 177. t. 19. f. 3. 

(a.) Capituli radio pallide rubro-purpureo, disco intense 
rubro-purpureo. 

(8.) Capituli radio albo, disco intense ceruleo. 


This very remarkable and highly beautiful plant was sent 
fo me by Mr. Frreuson, the ‘able Curator of the Belfast 


Botanic Garden, from Mr. Morrison, gardener to 


CLELLAND, 


Ciettanp, Esq., of Rosemount, near Belfast, in whose 
greenhouse it flowered in May, 1839. Notwithstanding the 
very unusual colour of the flowers for one of the Natural 
Order Composir#, I have little hesitation in referring it to 
the well-known Canary plant, the Srnecto Heéritieri of 
De Canpvotte, the old Crverarta lanata of our gardens, and 
long ago figured in an early number of this Magazine. The 
foliage is the same and the structure of the flowers ; but the 
colour of the blossoms is very different, and in our variety of 
a most unusual character. Composirz, with a white ray 
and yellow eye or disk, are common, as every one knows, 
but I have never before met with any having a white ray 
and a blue disk. De Canpotze in his observations on 
the Composirz (Prodr. y. 6. p.7,) remarks on the colour 
of the flowers, “ Corolle nunc xanthice (yellow being 
the type, but liable to pass into red or white, but never 
to blue), nunc cyanice (where blue is the type, but 
which may pass into red or white, never into yellow), 10 
eodem capitulo, aut homochrome seu discolores ; ubi disco- 
lores ligula semper cyanice et tubuli xanthici! imo tubull 
xanthici cum ligulati monstrosi evadunt, cyanici fiunt”” 
Not only in our plant is the lilac-coloured ray of the 
flower changed to white, and the deep lilac, or blood-red 
purple, of the ray changed to a very bright blue ; but 
the stigmas, which are deep orange in the original stock, 
are all also intensely blue and the anthers are purple-black. 


——— 


Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray. 2. Floret of the Disk. 3, Stigmas:—mag- 
nified. 


| Ph Det oA ee 


C 3828 ) 


HymMeEnoxys CALIFORNICA. CALIFORNIAN 
HyMENOXYS. 


Class and Order. 


SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composirz.—SENECIONIDES. ) 


Generic Character. 


Capitulum multiflorum discoideum, homogamum seu 
ligulis 8—10 uniserialibus fcemineis, fl. disci hermaphro- 
ditis tubulosis 5-dentatis. Involucrum biseriale, squamis 
rigidulis adpressis, interioribus longioribus. Receptaculum 
conicum e paleaceum alveolatum, glandulis parvis subonus- 
tum. Stylus disci ramis apice truncatis barbellatis. Ache- 
nia conformia turbinata villis sericeis erectis villosissima. 
Pappus paleaceus, paleis 5—8 inzqualibus membranaceis 
ovali-lanceolatis aristato-acuminatis erectis.—Herbz Amer- 
cane erecta ramose glabriuscule, trite odorem Anthemi- 
dearum spirantes. Folia alterna aut in eodem caule rarius 
opposita, in lobos lineares multipartita et Schkuhrie aut 
Achyropappi e@mula. Rami apice nudi pedunculiformes. 
Corolle lutee. DC. 


Specific Name and Character 


Hymenoxys * Californica; annua erecta gracilis, foliis line- 
ari-pinnatifidis glaberrimis, pedunculis filiformibus mo- 
nocephalis, involucri squamis subuniserialibus, pappi 
squamis 5 subulatis ineequalibus serratis. _ 


z — 


For this pretty annual I am indebted to Mr. Moore, who 
raised it at the Glasnevin mS Garden, from Californian — 


* So called by Cassin1 from the nature of the scales of the POPP. 
vpur, a membrance, and cfvs, sharp. a 


seeds, given him by Mr. Burst. It belongs to the subdivi- 
sion Evnetenten, Div. Garttarpie®, Subtribe Hexentia, of 
the Senecronipez of De CanpoxE; a groupe which includes 
genera not easily distinguished by tangible characters ; but 
I think our plant may be referred, without any doubt, to the 
Genus Hymenoxys of Cassini, although the species hitherto 
described of it are natives only of Mexico, Peru, and Bue- 
nos Ayres. No doubt the species will prove a perfectly 
hardy annual; though Mr. Moore had the precaution to 
raise the present plants in a pot for the sake of affording 
them shelter. It flowered in September, 1839. 
Descr. Root small, annual, fibrous. Stem a foot high, 
erect, slender, glabrous, branched. Leaves opposite, eX- 
cept the upper ones, two inches or more long, deeply cut 
in a pinnatifid manner into from five to seven distant, narrow, 
linear, entire lobes, quite glabrous, flaccid : uppermost ones 
linear and entire. Peduncles terminal, elongated, slender, 
single-flowered. Involucre hemispherical, of about ten to 
twelve lanceolate, acute, downy scales, in one series, OF only 
slightly imbricated at the base. Corollas yellow. 
of the ray ligulate, one to each scale of the involucre, thre 
toothed at the apex. Achenium slender, between cyH! 
drical and fusiform, downy with five to six rather small, 
subulate, serrated scales. Florets of the disk tubular: the 
tube glandular below, enlarged upwards, five - tooth J; 
the teeth clothed with thickened hairs near the points. 
Branches of the style obtuse, tufted at the apex. Achenwum 
(sterile ?) similar to that of the ray, the scales of the papp¥S 
larger. Receptacle large, conical, pitted, slightly hairy. 


eS 8 


_ Fig. 1. Involucre. 2. Receptacle with a Scale of the Involucre and pot 
tion of a Floret of the Ray. 3. Floret of the Disk. 4, Anthers laid ope 


5. Scales of the Pa 2 ie oe Pappus: 
magnified. 4 os oret of the Ray. 7. Scales of the app 


( 3829 ) 


LiATRIS PROPINQUA. SHARP-SCALE SPIKED 
LiaTris. * 


KKK KKK KEKE EK EK REKEK 
Class and Order. 


SyNGENESIA AQUALIS. 
( Nat. Ord.—Compos.—VERNONIACEA, ) 


Generic Character. 


Capitulum multi (5—30) florum. Involucrum pauciseri- 
ale imbricatum. Receptaculum nudum. Corolla tubulosa 
ad faucem ampliata, lobis elongatis. Styli rami longe ex- 
serti cylindracei. Achenium circa 10-costatum subeylin- 
draceum. Pappus 1—3 serialis, setis plumosis barbella- 
tisve-—Herbe raré frutices. Species omnes genuine ex 
Amer. Bor. orte. Caules sepius simplices. Folia alterna 
integerrima aut in paucissimis dentata. Capitula spicata 
racemosa paniculata aut corymbosa. Corolle purpuree 
roseé rarius variantes albe. D C. 


Specific Name and Character. 


Liarris propingua ; radice tuberosa, caule erecto simplici 
glabro, foliis remotis linearibus utrinque impresso- 
punctatis acuminatis basi longe attenuatis ciliatis infe- 
rioribus longissimis superioribus sensim minoribus 
bracteiformibus, capitulis axillaribus sessilibus v. bre- 
vissime pedicellatis laxe spicatis, involucro cylindra- 
ceo subdecemfloro basi attenuato bibracteato, squamis 
20—24 erectis imbricatis herbaceis punctatis sensim 
brevi-acuminatis ciliatis superioribus ongioribus mar- 
gine tenui-membranaceis, ovario pubescente, pappi __ 
sete corolla brevioribus subuniserialibus piloso-scabris. 


Sent from the Horticultural Society’s garden of Edin- Pe 
burgh in the autumn of 1839, under the name of L. panies : 


lata. With that species it has no affinity ; nor can we find 
any described one, nor any in our extensive Herbarium of = 
North American species, that will correspond with it. Its 
nearest affinity is perhaps with L. spicata (Wu1xp.), or the 
variety called L. hirsuta (Bot. Reg. t. 595); but that is a 
much larger plant, the leaves are more numerous, the scales 
of the involucre fewer and remarkably obtuse. This and 
all the other species of Liarris are eminently deserving of 
cultivation in our gardens ; for they possess showy flowers, 
are perfectly hardy, and come to perfection at a season of 
the year when the summer flowers have disappeared. 


~ 


Fig. 1. Single Floret. 2. Bristle from the Pappus. 3. Involucre laid 
open. 4. Scales of ditto. 5. Portion of a Leaf :—magnified. 


ISO. 


W Fitch del” 


Fiuth by S Curtis Glazenwood Essex Oct? LIE 


C 3830 ) 


TAGETES CORYMBOSA. CORYMB-FLOWERED 
MARYGOLD. 


KKK EK KKK KEE KEKE ERE EEK 
Class and Order. 


SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Compositaz. Div. SENECIONIDEA. ) 


Generic Character. 


Capitulum radiatum aut rarissime subdiscoideum. IJnvo- 
lucri squame 1-seriales concrete in cupulam campanulatam 
cylindricamve apice dentatam. Receptaculum subalveola- 
tum. Achenia elongata basi attenuata, compresso-tetra- 
gona. Semen in achenio pedicellatum. Pappus simplex, 
paleis inequalibus, aliis obtusis subconcretis, aliis aristatis 
elongatis liberis—Herbe annue Americane sepius fetide 
raro suaveolentes, glandulis in foliorum laminis subrotundis 
pellucidis et in involucr. linearibus plus minus obsite. Folia 
opposita aut alterna, indivisa, serrata aut pinnatisecta, seg- 
mentis serratis integerrimisve. Capitula solitaria aut fasci- 
culata plus minus pedicellata. Corolle crocee seu flave. 
Ligule sepe (presertim in capitulis planis) bilabiate. DC._ 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Taceres* corymbosa ; caule erecto angulato apice corym- — 
-boso multifloro, foliis pinnatis, foliolis multijugis op- 
positis alternisque lanceolatis acutis basi ineequalibus 


angustatis argute serratis glanduloso-punctatis glabris, — 
involucro | 


* « A name which Fucusivs tells us is applied by APULEIUS to the Tansy, 


but which he himself adopts for a plant, not very dissimilar in foliage, now — e 
vulgarly called the Freud or African Marygold. He is followed by ae 


DiLLEN1vs, Linnazus, and every subsequent writer. DE Tus derives 


the word from Zages, an Etruscan deity, grandson of Jupiter, 
divination; and supposes the beauty of its flowers may have bate : 
plant this mythological appellation. Of this intention we can find no traces — 
in the above writers. : | oe: 


and teacher of 


involucro ovali-tubulaso pentagono, pappi squamis 
tribus unica triplo longiore subulata. 

Tacetes corymbosa. Sw. in Brit. Fl. Gard. v. 2. t. Lol. 
De Cand. Prodr. v. 5. p. 643? 

Tacetes tenuifolia. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. 4. p. 196. non 
Cav. (fide DC.) ? 


Sent from Manchester by Mr. Leeps, who received the 
seeds from Mexico. It flowered in the open border in 
September, 1839. We think there can be no doubt of this 
being the T. corymbosa of Sweet above quoted ; it agrees 
in every essential particular. There, however, the corollas 
of the ray are stained all over with purplish-brown blotches: 
our plant is rather referable to Sweer’s @. lutea, but there 
is a small deep-orange or blood-coloured spot near the base 
of the lamina in the present variety. We are doubtful 
about the synonym of De Canpotte ; because, though he 
refers to Sweet and adopts his name, he describes the ray 


as consisting of twenty large florets, and the entire flower 
of fifty florets. 


Fig.1. Involucre. 2. Floret fromthe Disk. 3. Ditto, fromthe Ray. 4 
bs gered ofthe Florets. 5. Portion ofa Leaf seen from beneath :—magnt- 


eo Se 


BSL. 


ry 


2 yricnra Publby Curtis Clarenwood hssex Nov" 11840 : Sivan. 


( 8881) 


BARRINGTONIA RACEMOSA. RACEME- 
FLOWERED BARRINGTONIA. 


KKK KKK KK KEKE KEE EEE EE 
Class and Order. 


IcosanpRIA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Barrineroniee. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calycis tubus ovatus ; limbus bi- rariis tri-partitus lobis 
ovatis obtusis concavis persistentibus. Petala 4 magna 
coriacea. Stamina oo, multiserialia, filamentis filiformibus 
longis liberis basi in annulum brevem, concretis, antheris 
subrotundis, Stylus filiformis longitudine staminum. Stig- 
ma simplex. Urceolus ex apice ovarii ortus styli basin 
vaginans, Ovarium 4-loculare, loculis biovulatis. Bacca 
grandis, basi ventricosa sursum pyramidata tetragona limbo 
calycis coronata, matura 1-locularis, loculo obpyriformi 
fibroso feré putamineo. Semen ovato-globosum pendulum 
sursum attenuatum ; embryo exalbuminosus (Blume) ellip- 
tico globosus; radicula supera confusa cum cotyledonibus 
arctissimé conferruminatis, et embryo ided pseudo-monoco- 
tyledoneus.—Arbor magna. Folia confertim opposita aut 
verticillata impunctata obovata. Flores ampli in thyrsum 
terminalem dispositi, pedicellis 1-bracteatis. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


o longissimo, foliis 


BARRINGTONIA racemosa ; racemo pendul ) , 
is, fructu obtusis- 


cuneato-oblongis acuminatis crenat 


sime tetragono pyramidato. D c. 
crcronin Teele e in De Cand. Prodr. 2. 3. 


Barrineronia racemosa. Blum 
p. 288. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ». 2. p. 634. Wight et Arn. 


Prodr. Fl. Penins. Ind. Or. v. 1. p. 333. Spreng. 
Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 127. Wall. Cat. n. 3634. 
Evcenta racemosa. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 673. 
Samsrravapi. Rheede, Hort. Malab. v. A. t. 6. 
Buronica sylvestris alba. Rumph. Amb. v, 3. t. 116. 


VOL, XIV. H 


Obligingly — s 


Obligingly sent in September, 1839, from the stove of 
Cuartes Horsratt, Esq., Liverpool, who received the 
young plant from Bombay when only a foot high. _ It was 
now, in three years’ time, eight feet, erect, simple, and then 
threw out a flowering raceme, twenty-eight inches long, 
and at the same time it began to branch. In its native 
countries, which are the Molucca Islands, the Delta of the 
Ganges, Malabar, &c., it grows to a “ stout timber.” Now 
that Mr. Horsratt’s plant has become branched, should it, 
as that gentleman observes, produce a raceme from each 
branch, it will, with its noble leaves, fifteen inches long and 
five broad, make a most splendid appearance. 

Descr. Trunk lofty and straight. Branches numerous 
and spreading. Leaves alternate, on short petioles, obovato- 
lanceolate, ample, acuminate, serrated, smooth sides, pen- 
ninerved, the nerves connected by transverse nervelets. 
Raceme in this instance terminal, pendulous, many-flowered : 
the rachis stout, everywhere perfectly glabrous, Flowers 
on short pedicels, with minute, caducous bracteas. Calyx- 
limb of two or three broadly-oval, obtuse, spreading, per 
sistent lobes. Petals four, ovate, concave, yellowish, com- 
bined with the united bases of the copious stamens, and 
falling off with them. Filaments longer than the petals, 
red: Anthers rounded, two-celled, yellow. Ovary small, 
inferior, turbinate, “ two-celled, with several ovules in each 
cell, attached to the middle of the partition.” Style longer 
than the stamens, red, filiform. Stigma obtuse. “‘ Fruit 
drupaceous, of the size of a large pullet’s egg, and not 
unlike one in shape, only somewhat four-sided, nearly 
smooth on the outside, olive-green within, flesh rather 


ed and brown, one-celled. Seed solitary, ovato-ob- 
ong.” 


Big oa Nh Sse ia TK 6 ee ke ag eS 


Fig. 1. Reduced figure of Mr. HorsFatt’s plant, from a sketch by Miss 


Horsratu. 2. Leafand part of a race ; d portion 
ofthe Stamens. 4. ened magnified, me, nat, size. 8. Petal and po | 


Cats Clasenmod ‘Essex Noy? 71940. 


ee 


Lub by S. 


TE Pitch Del? 


( 3832) 


MonacAntuus BusunAnt. Mr. BusHnan’s 
MOoONK-FLOWER. 


KEKE KK KEKE KEKE KEKE KEK REE 
Class and Order. 


GynanpriA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipEz. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et petala equalia de- 
orsum versa. Labellum posticum, carnosum, indivisum, 
ventricosum, sepalis multo majus. Columna brevis, crassa, 
mutica. Anthera et pollinia Catasetii—Epiphyte Cataseti 
habitu. Lindl. 


Specific Name and Character. 


Monacantuvs Bushnani; labello trilobo ventricoso, lobis « 
lateralibus reflexis longe ciliatis, intermedio nudo 
valde acuto. 

Monacanruus discolor. y. Bushnani. Hook. Bot. Mag. 


t. 3601. ihe 
(8.) labelli lobis lateralibus longius fimbriatis. 


Such as is well known to be the sportive nature of the 
epiphytal orchideous plants, and especially of the Cata- 
setum-group, that it is very difficult to recognise the penpre 
_ limits of species. A single blossom of a plant, which I 
consider to be specifically the same with the present, I had 
figured at letter A of the plate of Monacanruus discolor, as 
var.y of that species. A slight variety of that again is 
_ here represented, and the plant is elevated to the rank of a 
meg ; but whether justly or not may admit of a question. 

he original M. discolor (Linpt., Bot. Reg. t. 1735) has 
the middle lobe of the labellum remarkably obtuse, and 
fringed to the very point :—my var. viridiflorus (Bot. Mag. 
t. 3601) has the mdadle lobe obtuse, but obscurely fringed : 


in our present plant the middle lobe is very ot ae 


quite destitute of fringe. The colour of the flowers is 
strikingly different in all the three ; here ofa rich yellow 
green, the inside of the lip and the apex of the middle lobe 
of a deep golden brown colour. In a (Bot. Mag. |. c. fig. 
A.) the lateral lobes of the lip have a short fringe ; here it 1s 
very long and reddish. The Glasgow Botanic Garden is 
indebted for the possession of this plant to Mr. Hoste (?), 
who kindly sent pseudo-bulbs of it to Mr. Murray in 
1838. They flowered in November, 1839, in great perfec- 
tion. With the exception of the points above alluded to, 
our description of Monacanrnus discolor will be found 
characteristic of this. Had the Genus itself been founded 
upon the M. discolor, instead of the evidently abortive- 
flowered M. viridis (Lanvu. Bot. Reg. t. 1752), we should 
think more favorably of it as distinct from Caraserum : and 
of the species at present known we would wish to confine it 
to M. discolor (Bot. Reg. t. 1735 and Bot. Mag. t. 3601), 
M. jimbriatus (Bot. Mag. t. 3708), M. Bushnani (Tab. 


nostr. 3832), and to the very beautiful and very distinct 


M. roseo-albus. These have a decidedly marked charac- , 
ter distinct from Cataserum. Yet, strange to say, flowers 
of the two, and even of Myanruus also, have been found 
by Scuomsurek growing from one and the same root! 
(See Linpt. Bot. Reg. t. 1951, and Hooxer’s Icones 
Plantarum. 


Fig. 1. Column; and section of the Labellum :—magnified. 


3893. 


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Pub ly S-Curtis Glacenmood Rise Now. 1040. 


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C 3833 ) 
PIMELEA NANA. Dwarr PIMELEA. 


KKK KKK KEKE EEE EK EEE 
Class and Order. 


Dianpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Tuymetez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium infundibuliforme, limbo 4-fido, fauce esqua- 
mata. Stamina duo fauci inserta laciniis exterioribus op- 
posita. Stylus lateralis. Stigma capitatum. 

Frutices. Folia opposita, raro alterna. Flores capitati, 
terminales, foliis involucrantibus sepe dissimilibus, inter- 
dum connatis, rarius spicati v. axillares, quandoque dioict. 
Perianthii tubus in plerisque medio articulatus, articulo 
inferiore persistenti. Br. 


Specific Character and Synonym. 


Pimexea nana ; foliis alternis, rarius suboppositis, spathu- 
lato-linearibus, utrinque pilosis, uninervibus, floralibus 
rameis similibus ; capitulis terminalibus, multifloris ; 
stylo staminibusque limbo perianthii equantibus. 
Grah. 

Pimetea nana. Graham in Ed. Phil. Journ. for July, 
1840. 


We received this plant at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 
in 1839, from Mr. Low of Clapton. It is a native of the 
Swan River Settlement in Australia, and flowered abun- 
dantly in the greenhouse in the end of April, and in May 
and June. It is allied to P. longiflora (Bot. Mag., 3281) 
but is easily distinguished from this, by its much more 
humble growth, its single-nerved leaves, and its exserted 
stamens and style. It will probably be short-lived. 

Descr. Stem (eight inches high) woody, slender, erect, 


with alternate, ascending branches, its whole surface, (ex- 
cepting 


cepting the inside of the corolla, the stamens, and style,) 
covered with soft, white and spreading, simple hairs, mixed 
with others which are much shorter and more dense. Leaves 
(half an inch long, about one line broad) scattered, spathu- 
lato-linear, glaucous, rather paler and more hairy below 
than above, spreading, flat, with a conspicuous middle-rib, 
but no lateral nerves. Capitulum terminal, many-flowered ; 
involucre similar to the stem leaves. Perianth white ; tube 
green where it covers the germen, rather longer than the 
involucre, slender, having long, spreading hairs externally, 
and only short, dense, hairs within ; limb somewhat irre- 
gular, segments imbricated, the upper and lower outermost, 
ovato-lanceolate, glabrous on their upper surface, the two 
lateral ones deflected. Stamens as long as the perianth ; 
Jilaments glabrous, at first erect, afterwards spreading along 
the upper and lower segments of the limb, white ; anthers 
brown, rhomboideo-oblong ; attached by their back near 
the base, bursting along their sides : pollen granules spher- 
ical, of the same colour with the anthers. Stigma blunt. 
Style glabrous, subterminal, exserted, as long as the sta- 
mens. Germen pale green, ovato-oblong, with a small 
tuft of erect hairs on its apex, elsewhere glabrous. Ovule 
solitary, pendulous, filling the germen. Graham. 


5954. 


Pub by S Curtis Gacenwood. Essex: Nov LIS&O. 


Rich Del 


( 3834 ) 
CALECTASIA CYANEA. BRIGHT-BLUE 
CALECTASIA. 


KEKE KK ERK KER KEK KKK RK KE 
Class and Order. 


Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Juncez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium inferum, tubulosum, hypocrateriforme, lim- 
bo petaloideo, sexpartito. Stamina 6, fauci inserta. An- 
there conniventes, lineares, basi inserte. Ovarium 1-locu- 
lare 3-spermum : ovulis erectis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma 
simplex. Utriculus monospermus, tubo indurato perian- 
thii inclusus.—Fruticulus erectus, ramosissimus, icone ace- 
rosis bast vaginantibus vestitus. Flores ramulos breves ter- 
minantes, solitarii. Perianthii tubus foliorum vaginis inclu- 
sus. Limbus pulcherrimé stellatus (unde nomen) azureus, 
Seg lacintis 3 exterioribus disco extis pubescenti- 

us. Br. 


Specific Name and Synonyms. 


CALEcTASIA cyanea. 
Carecrasta cyanea. Br. Prodr. p. 264. Spreng. Syst. 


v. 2. p. 112. 
Hourria elegans. Preiss MSS. Herb. nostr. 


Among the most beautiful of the floral productions of the 
South-western coast of Australia may assuredly be reckoned 
the Carecrasta of Mr. Brown, which that distinguished 
Botanist calls ‘‘ pulcherrimum genus, nulli cognito arcte 
affine,” and which was first found by him between Cape 
Lewin and Bass Straits. We have lately received it, from 
King George’s Sound, gathered by Mr. Baxter, and from 


the Swan River by Mr. Drummonp and Mr. Preiss, a 
German 


German Botanist. This latter Botanist sent his specimens 
under the impression that it was a new Genus, but itis 
certainly in no way distinct from the only known species of 
Carecrasia. We figure it on account of its great beauty, 
a beauty which is scarcely altered by drying, for the form 
and colour in both leaves and flowers, is truly of that kind 
called everlasting ; and partly with the hope that our culti- 
vators may be induced to import this lovely plant, as an 
oriament to our greenhouses. Nothing can exceed the 
richness of the bright purple perianths and the contrasting 
deep orange-coloured anthers. It grows in sandy soil 
among shrubs. We shall copy from the description, kindly 
sent to us by Mr. Preiss, and made from the recent plant. 

Descr. Root-stalks scaly, fibrous: fibres very long, 
nearly perpendicular, yellowish, somewhat woody, rigid. 
Stem somewhat of a shrubby character, and especially at 
the base thickly clothed with the dry remains of the sheaths 
of fallen leaves, about a foot high, slightly pubescent up- 
wards. Branchlets opposite, rarely alternate, patent, an 
inch or more long, simple. Leaves acerose, channelled 
above, beneath convex, striated, scabrous, pungent at the 
point, articulated upon the sheathing base, and deciduous : 
those of the stem erect, of the younger branchlets more 
patent. Flowers from the apices of the branches, bright 
violet-blue, or, rarely, dirty-white. Bracteas ovato-lance- 
olate, sheathing, membranaceous, embracing the tube of 
the perianth, imbricated, concave. Tube of the perianth 
narrow, tapering below, yellow green; the segments (six) 
ovato-lanceolate, acute, nerved, quite glabrous above and 
concave, beneath silky. Filaments inserted near the mouth 
of the tube. Anthers erect, approximate, linear-oblong, - 
deep orange, apparently opening by pores at the apex. 
Ovary ovate, three-lobed, on a thickened, but below atten- 


uated stipes. Style longer than the stamens, flexuose 
filiform. Stigma obtuse. 


——————or 


Fig. 1. Outer view of a Flower. 2. Perianth laid open. 3. 4. Stamens- 
5. Pistil. 6. Leaf 7. Apex of ditto :—magnified. : 


ISH). 


0d Essex Nov’ 118 40. 


Puh ly S Getis Glazerar: 


( 3835 ) 
EXLZopDENDRON Capense. Cape Exxo- 
DENDRON. 


KEKE KEKE KEKE KER EERE 
Class and Order. 


TrrranpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—CerxastrineEg. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calyx minimus 4—5 lobus. Petala 4—5 patentia basi 
lata. Stamina 4—5 petalis alterna. Discus carnosus circa 
Ovarium.| Stylus brevissimus. ~ Drupa exsucca, nucleo 
lignoso 5-loculari, interdum abortu 2—4 locularis.  Semina 
in. Joculis bina, abortu solitaria, erecta, oblonga, albumine 
carnoso, embryone centrali recto, cotyledonibus foliaceis, 
radic./infera,—Arbores aut frutices; foliis glabris oppositis ; 
pedunculis,axillaribus subcorymbosis. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


ELzopenpron Capense ; erectum glabrum, ramis, scabro- 
punctatis, foliis suboppositis petiolatis latis inaqui- 
lateris coriaceis obtusiusculis margine subrevolutis 
utrinque reticulato-venosis ovato-oblongis acuminatis, 
_bicrenato-serratis y. ovalibus et ellipticis repando- 
serratis, serraturis inflexo-subaculeatis, paniculis axil- 
laribus simplicibus dichotomis. Ecklon et Seyher. _ 

Etzopenpron Capense. Ecklon et Seyher, Enumeratio 
Pl. Afric. MSS, 127. 


This, notwithstanding its insignificant flowers, is a hand- 
some evergreen, but will not endure our climate, even with 
the protection of a wall. We have three varieties, all free- 

owing, and differing chiefly in the breadth of the leafand 

epth of the serratures, but though raised in different de- 


grees of heat, not, 1 think, varying from this cause. We 
are 


are indebted for the possession of the plants to Capt. 
Macapam, R. N., who sent seeds from the Cape of Good 
Hope, to the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in Octo- 
ber, 1828. 

The plant in common cultivation as Exzopenpron Ca- 
pense, is nothing else than a narrow-leaved variety of the 
common Bay. How this blunder came to be made and 
diffused, I cannot conjecture. 

Descr. A tree, in the specimen described, eighteen feet 
high, and growing freely ; its trunk four inches in circum- 
ference near the base, and almost cylindrical fora consider- 
able height, perfectly straight, its bark pale brown and 
warted ; the branches spreading and pendulous. Leaves 
(two inches and a half long, one and a quarter broad) 
petiolate, subopposite, lanceolato-elliptical, the sides some-_ 
what unequal, coriaceous, distantly spinuloso-serrulate, 
slightly revolute in the edges, dark-green above, paler 
below, and often becoming rusty ; petiole about one-fifth of 
the length of the leaf, channelled above. Corymbs axillary, 
dichotomous, a single flower standing in the fork, and the 
branches supporting three flowers each; peduncle com- 
pressed. Bracteas lanceolate, opposite, resembling much 
diminished leaves. Flowers minute, green. Calyx four- 
partite, green, flat, segments oblong. Corolla four-parted, 
twice as long as, and more delicate than the calyx, but 10 
all other respects similar to, and its segments alternating 
with, it. Stamens four, opposite to the segments of the 
calyx, at first erect, shorter than the corolla, afterwards re- 
flected between its segments, as well as the corolla and 
calyx persisting ; filaments green; anthers oblong, yellow, 
bilobular, bursting along the face. Germen imbedded in a 
flat, green, fleshy drupe. Style single, shorter than the 
stamens, erect: stigma inconspicuous. Fruit yellow, oval, 
about the size of a hasel-nut, fleshy, and containing a hard 
nut with one to three cells. Seeds erect, compressed, 
almond-shaped, covered with a thick brown testa, having 4 
copious albumen, and a central embryo, which is slightly 
curved, and passes from side to side of the greatest breadth 
of the seed, and from one extremity to the other. Graham. 


Fig. 1. Flowering Branch. 2. 3. FI one ae 
Nut ici the Drupe. 6. Drupe laid op oo 4. Drupe laid ope 


W Fitch Dal® Tiueb by S. Curtis Curtis Glazenucod F< secc Nov 11820 


( 3836 ) 


CyRTOCHILUM MACULATUM; var. ecornutum. 
Spotrep Cyrtocuitum; hornless var. 


KEK EEK KE EE EEERERERE 
Class and Order. 


GynanprRiA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—OrcHweEz. ) 


Generic Character. 


Sepala \ateralia patula libera. Labellum planum, ob- 
longum, sepius unguiculatum, integrum vel margine den- 
tatum, apice angustatum, basi tuberculatum villosum aut 
pluries lamellatum. Landl. in Sert. Orchid. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Cyrrocuitum * maculatum ; pseudo-bulbis ovatis compres- 
sis subangulatis diphyllis basi foliosis, foliis late ligu-- 
latis acuminatis striatis apice oblique emarginatis, 

-scapo simplici, bracteis brevissimis squameeformibus, 
sepalis petalisque carnosis obovato-lanceolatis acutis- 
simis, labello membranaceo oblongo apiculato utrin- 
que dentato lamellis duabus ad basin et corniculo 
utrinque, alis columne falcatis integerrimis. a8 

Cyrrocnizum maculatum. Lindl. in Miscell. n. 39. April. 
Sert. Orchid. t. 25. Bot. Reg. t. 44. “ Knowles et 
Westcott Fl. Cat. t. 57.” 


e (8) foliis angustioribus, labello ad basi 4-lamellato, corni- 


culis nullis. (Tab. nostr. 3836.) — 


ia © Sent, to the Woburn Collection from Mexico by Joun 


‘ Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., where it flowered in March, poe 
4 Es | : 


in al- 


- * So named by HumBoLpT from xvprés, curved, and xswhes, a lip ; 
lusion to the form of the labellum. A 


The leaves are certainly broader in the original C. macu- 
latum ; and there the lip has, according to the figure and 
description, two lamelle at the base, and a short, distinct 
little horn on each side of those plates. Our plant has 
narrow leaves, and four plates on the labellum, united 
together at their base: and the two lateral ones represent 
the cornicula described by Dr. Linptey. In other respects 
the two plants sufficiently accord : and I can scarcely doubt 
but that they are slight varieties of one and the same spe- 
cies. The flowers are prettily marked but destitute of 
fragrance, and worthy of a place in every Orchideous 
collection. 

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, compressed, four-angled, 
green, smooth, more or less sheathed at the base with two 
leaves. ‘T'wo others spring from the apex of the bulb, five 
to six inches long, narrow-ligulate, striated, scarcely coria- 
ceous. Scape about ten inches high, arising from the base 
of the bulb within one of the leaves, and bearing a raceme 
of six to nine flowers. Petals and sepals nearly equal, 
spreading, rather fleshy, ovate acute, or somewhat acuinl- 
nated, yellow-green, with deep purple blotches. Lip ob- 
long-ovate apiculate, three-lobed, striated, the lateral lobes 
near the base small, the intermediate one ovate, the apex 
reflexed :—the colour is sulphur yellow, the margin on 
each side at the base marked with a red line: the disk at 
the base bearing four, parallel lamella or plates, edged 
with brown, of which the two lateral ones are the shortest. 
Column short, with two projecting wings above in front. 
Anther-case hemispherical, yellow. Pollen-masses tw0, 
with a minute gland. 


Fig. 1. Column and Lip. 


aD all 


Pub by S Custis Glazenwood Fssex Dec” 11840 


( 3887) 


DENDROBIUM MOSCHATUM. MuUSK-SMELLING 
DENDROBIUM. 


Class and Order. 


GyNANDRIA MOoNANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcnipe2. ) 


Generic Character. 


Sepala membranacea, erecta vel patentia, lateralibus ma- 
joribus obliquis cum basi producta columne connatis. Pe- 
tala sepalo supremo sepils majora, nunc minora, semper 
membranacea. Labellum cum pede columna articulatum 
vel connatum, semper sessile, indivisum vel trilobum, sepi- 
is, membranaceum, nunc appendiculatum, Columna semi- 
teres, basi longé producta. Anthera bilocularis. Pollima 
4, per paria collateralia—Herbe epiphyte, nunc _caules- 
centes nunc rhizomata repente pseudo-bulbifero. Folia plana 
sepius venosa. Flores solitarii fasciculatz, vel racemose spe- 


cost. Lindl. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Denprosium moschatum ; caulibus teretibus pendulis, foliis 
oblongis seu oblongo-ovatis subcoriaceis levissime 
striatis, racemis lateralibus Jaxis 6—8-floris, bracteis 
brevibus oblongis obtusis, sepalis oblongis obtusis pa- 
tentissimis petalisque late ovatis obsolete tessellatis, 
labello unguiculato cochleariformi obtusissimo extus 
villoso. 

Denprosium moschatum. Wall. in Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Or- 
chid. p. 82. Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 34. Wall. Pl. 
Ag Rar, 0.2. pee, E199. 

Epipenprum moschatum. Buchanan, apud Pymes, Ava, p- 
A78, cum Ic. Ses | 

Denprozium Calceolaria. Hook. Ex. Fl. v. 3. t. 184. 


first sight from the D. 
” above 


quoted, 


Different as this may appear at 
Calceolaria published by me in the “ Exotic Flora, 


VOL. XIV. I 


quoted, I am satisfied that they are but varieties of each 
other, and the name of moschatum, as undoubtedly thé old- 
est, should be preserved to it: although the odour of musk 
is rather problematical, Liypiey says, “ the blossoms ex- 
hale a faint smell resembling that of Rhubarb, as I learn 
from Dr. Waxuicn’s MSS.” We had compared the odour 
of a fine specimen which was flowering at Wentworth to 
that of the yellow Water-Lily (Nupuar lutea) ; while the 
perfume diffused by the individual plant now before us, 
reminds us of the sweet-scented Wood-ruff (AsPERULA odo- 
rata). The leaves are undoubtedly extremely variable m 
form ; linear-oblong in our specimen of the “‘ Exotic Flora;’ 
oblong in that represented by Waxuicu ; almost ovate 10 
the present plant. The perianth of the flower is also more 
or less distinctly reticulated, and the labellum extraordina- 
rily changed in colour, by age, when the whole, except the 
very downy apex, becomes suffused with a deep crimson 
lint. The plant is a native of Pegu, Ava, and Sylhet. 

Descr. The flowering-stem of this noble plant in Mr, 
Horsrauz’s Collection, measures five feet three inches high, 
the side shoots are still taller, one of them six feet three — 
inches, terete, striated, jointed, leafy to the top. Leaves 
alternate ; in our specimen ovato-oblong, glossy, distichous, 
obscurely nerved. Raceme from the side of the stem, eight 
to ten inches long, pendent, bearing six to eight or mine 
Jlowers. Bracteas oblong, much shorter than the germen. 
Flowers large, tawny, suffused with rose-colour. Sepals 
and petals reticulated ; the form oblong, the latter broadly- 
ovate, widely spreading. Lip slipper-shaped, tapering Int? 
a claw, the sides remarkably involute, outside and particu” 
larly above the middle from the base, pubescenti-hirsute, 
within at the base, are about six elevated lines, and at the 
sides of the base, on each side, a deep blood-coloured spot, 
the margin ciliated. Column very short, decurrent, so that 
the base of the labellum forms a kind of obtuse sp¥: 
Anther flattened at the top, purple. Pollen-masses of four 
glands, in two parallel pairs. 


eae 


Fig. 1. Column. 2. Lip: slightly magnified. 


a ted BH. 


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Mtehedel? Pub by SCartis Gi 2, 
: Pub by SCartis Glaxenwood EssexDec! LIS#O 


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( 3838 ) 
DruTziIA SCABRA. RovuGH-LEAVED DEuTzIA. 


eK KKK KKK EEK EERE 
Class and Order. 


DecanpriA TRIGYNIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—PuxinapELPued. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calycis tubus ovario adnatus turbinatus, limbus 5-, rarits 
6-, fidus. Petala 5—7 ovato-oblonga. Stamina 10, fila- 
mentis lineari-filiformibus apice tricuspidatis, antheris didy- 
mis cuspidi intermedia adfixis. Ovariwm apice concavum. 
Styli 3—4 filiformes. Capsula g\obosa truncata umbilicata, 
stylis persistentibus aristata, 3 cocca, basi trifariam dehis- 
cens. Carpella chartacea dorso convexa lateribus com- 
pressa in medio ventre cavitate (ex propria membrana facta) 
notata. Semina in quoque carpello 10—12 oblonga acumi- 
nata compressa. Albumen carnosum. Embryo inversis 
compressus, radicula longa.—Arbuscula ramosissuna, Ta- 
mulis ex icone oppositis. Folia opposita petiolata ovata acu- 
minata serrata, pilis stellatis scabra. Flores paniculati ter- 


minales. DC. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Deurzia* scabra ; foliis ovatis acutis argute serratis utrin- 
que pilosis, racemis terminalibus tomentosis basi sub- 
compositis, floribus seepius trigonis. Lindl. 

Devrzia scabra. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 10. et 185. t. 24. De 
Cand. Prodr. 4. p. 17. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1718. 


Joro vulgo Utsugi. Kempf. Amen. 5. p. 8d4. 


of that island, 
by JoHN © 


EEVE, 


A Japan Shrub ; native of the mountains 
and introduced, through the Horticultural Society, 


* So named by THUNBERG, in honour of Joun Deutz, a Simff of 
Amsterdam, and a patron of THUNBERG. 


Reeve, Esq. Its habit is that of Paitapexpnus ; its foliage 
and its flowers similar, and so hardy, that it bears the cli- 
mate of the West of Scotland, unharmed. T'Hunzere tells 
us, that the leaves are used for polishing hard substances, 
and Kzmrrerr, that the wood is employed in cabinet-work. 
Descr. Shrub four to six feet high, with copious, oppo- 
site, slender, branches, clothed with a pale brown bark, and 
leaves, which are also opposite, on short petioles, ovate, 
acute, or rather acuminate, roughish, serrated, veined ina 
pinnated manner, pale beneath. Flowers moderately large, 
white, in terminal racemes. Pedicels opposite, sometimes 
bearing two flowers. Calyx of five deep segments, the tube 
globose, adnate. with the ovary. Corolla of five, nearly 
erect, oblongo-lanceolate, acute petals. Stamens ten, I- 
serted at the base of the calycine segments, on the outside 
of an orange-coloured, fleshy disk or ring. Filaments erect, 
alternately shorter, all of them broad, linear, petaloid, 
three-toothed at the top, the middle tooth bearing the some- 
what globose, two-celled anther, the lateral ones spreading. 
Ovary three-celled; ovules upon large, central, globose, 
fleshy, receptacles or placente. Styles three, filiform, longet 
than the stamens. Stigmas club-shaped. ; 


—— 


Fig. 1. Calyx, Stamens, and Pistil. 2. Calyx and Pistil: the Ovary 
being cut through vertically :—magnified. 


IS 59, 


Bee 
sex Dee’ 1 1840 


a 


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Publy S. Curtas Glacenwood E: 


( 3839 ) 
Mono.topiA MAJor. LarGer MOonovopia. 
Jeb HEedebieiek 
Class and Order. 


SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composirz.—SenecionipEx. DC. ) 


Generic Character. 


Capitulum multiflorum heterogamum, fl. radi feemineis 
ligulatis interdim subbilabiatis, disci tubulosis hermaphro- 
ditis sterilibus aut masculis, tubo tenui hispidulo, fauce dila- 
lata. Invol. squama 8—10 uniserialz ad medium concretes. 
Recept, convexum aut subconicum epaleaceum. Anthere 
ecaudata. Styli radii rami cono brevi superati. Achenia 
calva glabra, radii obcompressa aut subtrigona, disci com- 
pressa.—Herbz Californice annua, erecte, albo-tomentose. 
Folia alterna, oblonga-linearia, integra aut parce dentata 
‘seu loculata. Capitula ad apicem caulis aut ramorum ter- 
minalia ebracteata. Flores lutez. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Monotor1a* major ; foliis ligulatis obscure dentatis obtusis 
basi latioribus semiamplexicaulibus, ligulis involucro 
triplo longioribus. 

Monotorr1a major. De Cand. Prodr. v. 6. p. 74. Hook. Ie. 
Pl. t. 4. t| 844. Hook. et Arn. in Bot. of Beech. Voy. 
p. 359. 


Few persons on first seeing this rampant plant, with its 
dark green foliage, as growing in our gardens, (under the 
name too of “ Hetentum Douglasii”) would suspect that it 


was the same with the small and hoary Monotoria major ths 
E 


* From the Greek word jovorowes, bearing a single tunic, oF garment, in 
usion to the structure of the Involucre. De Cand. 


De Canpotte ; yet such is really the case, and its fine large 
bright and deep yellow blossoms, continuing, as they do, in 
perfection for a great part of the summer months, render it 
really worthy a place in our gardens. It was introduced 
from California by Mr. Doveas, and has been extensively 
distributed by the Horticultural Society. 

Descr. Plant annual. Stems two to three feet long 
in our gardens, (scarcely one foot in our wild specimens, ) 
dichotomously branched and rather straggling. Branches 
terete, as thick as a goose-quill, green, covered with an 
arachnoid, woolly down. Leaves alternate, reflexed, three 
to five inches long, ligulate, or being broader below, ovato- 
ligulate, obsoletely toothed, spreading and more or less 
recurved, dark-green above, paler beneath, the base both 
above and below, more or less woolly. Peduncles terminal, 
solitary, one-flowered. Involucre broadly-campanulate, mo- 
nophyllus, the tube broad, turbinate, very woolly, the limb 
spreading, cut into about eight to ten acute, triangular, 
scarcely villous lobes. Receptacle conical, dotted, epalea- 
ceous. Ray of from eight to nine, large, ligulate fertze flo- 
rets. Corolla with the tube cylindrical (swollen at the base), 
clothed with spreading, glandular hairs. Lamina broadly- 
ovate, large, cut into three deep lobes: at the base isa 
small spathulate, fimbriated appendage, so that the corolla . 
may almost be called two-lipped. Style rather shorter than 
the tube. Stigmas slightly protruded. Achenium obovate, 
somewhat triquetrous. In the central florets, the achenium 
is similar, but a little broader ; the corolla tubular, deep 


orange, with five glandular teeth. Anthers slightly pro- 
truded, and the branches of the style still longer. 


Fig. 1. Section of the Involucre showing the Receptacle: nat. size. 2. 


Radial Floret with the appendage at the base of the Lamina. 3. Tubular 
Floret: magnified. 4. Lower Leaf > nat, size. 


3SF0. 


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SipA PICTA. PAINTED-FLOWERED SIDA. 


KKK EEK EKER EKEEEK KEKE 
Class and Order. 


MonapeELPHiA PoLyANDRIA. 


Generic Character. 


Calyx wudus, 5-fidus, sepé angulatus. Stylus apice mul- 
tifidus. Carpella capsularia 5—30 circa axim verticillata, 
plus mindsve interse coalita, l-locularia, mono aut oligo- 
sperma, apice mutica aut aristata.—Genus polymorphum, in 
posterum jam docente cl. Kunth, dividendum ex fructii semi- 
nisque structuré valde diversd, sed adhuc intactum huc reti- 
nut ob innumeris species non satis cognitas ut in ordine car- 
pologico locum obtineant. De Cand. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Siva (Sect. Anutiton) picta ; fruticosa ramis herbaceis gla- 
bris, foliis longé petiolatis cordatis 3—5-lobatis glabris 
grosse serratis, lobis acuminatis, pedunculo axillari 
longo gracillimo unifloro, calyce late, campanulato 
basi obtuso, petalis erectis calyce triplo longioribus 
venis ramosis pictis. 

Sipa picta. Gill. in Hook. et Arn. Bot. Misc. v. 3. p. 155. 
(1832.) 

Asutiton striatum. ‘“ Dichs. in Botanist ined.” Lindl. 
Miscell. Not. 1830, p. 39. 


A native of the banks of the Uraguay and of Buenos 
Ayres, whence specimens have been transmitted to us by 
Dr. Ginus and Mr. Tweepir. The latter, many years 
ago, sent home seeds, and plants have been raised of which 
flowering branches were communicated to us by Mr. 
Mackay, of the College Botanic Garden, Dublin, Mr. 
Moors, of the Glasnevin Garden, and from the Botanical 
Gardens of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Hitherto it has been” 


treated as a greenhouse plant; in all probability it will 
succeed 


succeed in the open air, especially in the summer months, 
and its gaily-painted flowers render it highly worthy ofa 
place in every Collection. It flowers during various months 
of the year, and is easily cultivated and propagated. 

Descr. Asmall shrub, with herbaceous, green, rounded, 
glabrous, straight branches. Leaves on long, slender peti- 
oles, glabrous, cordate, from three to five-lobed, the lobes 
acuminated, serrated with coarse teeth. Stipules subulate, 
caducous, one on each side of the petiole. Peduncles axil- 
lary, solitary, more elongated, and slenderer than the peti- 
oles, often as long as the leaves, one-flowered, glabrous. 
Flowers large, handsome. Calyx somewhat campanulate, 
obtuse, and even truncate, and slightly ventricose at the 
base, downy, cut about half-way down into five equal, 
erect, acute, triangular segments. Petals erect, or but 
slightly spreading, concave, obovate, with a short claw, 
orange colour, beautifully marked with blood-coloured, 
branching veins. Staminal tube long : Anthers numerous, 
yellow. Ovary obtuse, hairy. Style purple upwards, fili- 


form, dividing into five branches, each with a capitate 
stigma. 


Fig.1. Petal. 2. Pistil:—magnified. 


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GRABOWSKIA DUPLICATA. 'TooTHED 
GRABOWSKIA. 


EKER EK EKER KEK EK EK RKEK 
Class and Order. 


PentanpriaA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—So.anez, ) 


Generic Character. 


Calyx campanulatus regulariter 5-dentatus zxstivatione 
valvari. Corolla e tubo brevi infundibuliformis, limbo 5- 
partito, laciniis patentibus reflexisve, quatuor estivatione 
convolutiva, quinta externa marginibus suis vicinarum ‘mar- 
ges obtegens. Genitalia exserta. Stamina 5 equalia, 

lamentis paulo supra tubi basin liberis, medio dense villo- 
sis (villis basin versus decrescentibus). Stylus teres, stig- 
mate subcapitato aut leviter bifido. Germen 4-loculare, 
loculamentis 1-ovulatis? Bacca calyce persistente suffulta, 
globosa, dipyrena, pyrenis lignosis bilocularibus, loculis 
I-spermis. Embryo hamato-curvatus cylindricus.—Frutex 
habitu Lycii genuini ramosissimus, spinis axillaribus horri- 
dus ; foliis sparsis integerrimis. Flores axillares e. fasci- 
cults foliorum (ramulo non evoluto); aut subcorymbosi in 
ramulis summis (hinc in ultimis ramis quasi paniculati). 
Schlecht. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Grazowsk1a * duplicata ; foliis longiuscule petiolatis orbi- 
culari-ovatis undulatis basi attenuatis apice acuminula- 
tis calycis maturescentis ore intus dentibus 5-erectis 
instructo, laciniis lanceolatis acutis. 


Grapowsk1A duplicata. Arn. in Linnea, v. 11. p. 485. 
=. GRABOWSKIA © 


* So named in compliment toa very excellent and liberal Silesian Botanist — 
and Apothecary of Ohlaf, Mr. H. Grapows&l, author, in conjunction with - 
Mr. Wiuer, of a Flora of Silesia. ae 


Grasowsxia boerhaviefolia. Schlecht. in Linn. v. 7. p. 72. 
(quoad plant. Brasilianam) ? fide Arn. 
Eureria duplicata. Nees in Herb. Arn. 


The distinguishing characters of this Genus were pointed 
out by L’Hérrrier when he figured his Exreria halimifolia 
(the Lycium boerhaviefolium) ; for he says; ‘ ad Atropam 
‘ex corolla infundibuliformi et staminibus distantibus fere 
referenda est, sed calyx vesicarius baccam recondens Phy- 
salidem rectius declarat.”’ 

ScHLEcHTENDAL upon the same plant, a native of Peru, 


established the Genus Grasowskia ; and Mr. Arnotr has _ 


added two species in the “ Linnea” above quoted, the one, 
G. obtusa, from Mendoza, at the eastern foot of the Chilian 
Andes, and our present plant, from Buenos Ayres and South 
Brazil. We have received wild specimens from Mr. 'Twes- 
pig, and seeds were sent by the same meritorious Botanist 
to Mr. Moore at the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, whence 
we were favoured with the flowering specimens in July, 
1840. Mr. Moore informs us that it requires the moderate 
heat of a stove to bring the plant into flower, and that even 
then the blossoms are produced but sparingly. These flow- 
ers are different in form and in colour from the Gr. boer- 
haviefolia figured by Dr. Liyptey at tab. 1985 of the Bot. 
Register : but the specimen there figured seems to be from 
South Brazil, and is probably the Gr. obtusa of ARNoTT. 
The true Gr. boerhaviefolia has dense corymbs of white 
flowers. The essential character of our species is the sin- 
gular inflation at the base of the segments of the calyx, 
which rises into a tooth-like form. 

Descr. Stems shrubby, rambling, twelve feet high. Branches 
terete, bearing a straight spine from the axil of many of the upper 
leaves. Leaves alternate, very broadly ovate, or almost orbicular, 
exceedingly glaucous, waved, entire, slightly attenuated at the base into 
a moderately short petiole, and having a small acumen at the point. 
Flowers axillary, fascicled, from the upper leaves, which, sometimes 
becoming abortive, the inflorescence appears terminal and subcorym- 
bose. _ Calyx-tube short, hemispherical: the limb of five, spreading, 
ovato-lanceolate segments, each with the base inflated into an evident 
tooth. Corolla hypocrateriform, greenish-white ; the tube straight, very 
hairy within, the /imé of five, ovate, veined, spreading segments. Sta- 
mens five, exserted, arising from near the middle of the corolla. Base 
of the filaments (like the inner part of the tube of the corolla) villous 
with jointed hairs. Andthers oval, yellow. Germen ovate, four-celled. 
_ Style rather longer than the stamens, white. Stigma capitate, green. 


Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, with th i i the 
| ae phe e Corolla laid open. 3. Section of | 


from ditto :—magnified. 


( 3842 ) 
IsoOMERIS ARBOREA. ('TREE-LIKE ISOMERS. 


Class and Order. 


HexanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—CapparivEz. ) 


Generic Character. 


Sepala basi unita subpatens marcescens. Petala 4 ob- 
longa sessilia (sub-) regularis. Torus carnosus, subhemi- 
sphericus superne dilatatus. Stamina 6: filamenta equa- 
lia (estivatione inflexa) longe exserta. Capsula magna, 
obovato-elliptica, inflata, coriacea, indehiscens, stipitata, 
stylo perbrevi subulato terminata. Semina plurima magna, 
levia.—Arbor Californica humilis vertice patente. Radix 
longe fusiformis. Folia approximata 3-foliolata. Flores 
magni, flavi, terminales, racemoso.— Tota planta odore Po- 
linisie. Nutt.in Torr. et Gr. Fl. 


Specific Name and Synonyms. , 


Isomeris * arborea. Nutt. MSS. in Herb. Hook.— Torrey 
et Gray, Fl. N. Am. v. 1. p. 124. 


This curious plant, whose blossoms at first sight consid- 
erably resemble those of a small-flowered EpWwarDsIA, Was 
discovered by Mr. Nurratx in California, and sent both to the 
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and to that of the Cale- 
donian Horticultural Society, by Mr. Burst of Philadelphia 
in 1839. In the former establishment it has been kept in 
the greenhouse, and has not yet flowered ; in the second it 
was placed in the stove, and flowered in the beginning of 
May. Mr. James M‘Nas thinks that the flowering was 
promoted, by his having forcibly retained the top in a 


depending position. D 
ESCR. 


_* So named from icss, equal, and jspos part, in efiusion praheey: to the 
Tegular petals, and the equal length of the stamens and pistil. 


Descr. Shrub erect; branches hoary, covered with short, 
erect, blunt hairs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, trifoliate, 
without stipule ; or stipetticles ; leaflets ovato-elliptical ,con- 
cave, soft, glaucous, scaly, mucronulate, without pubes- 
cence, excepting a very few hairs like those on the branches 
along the middle rib, which is prominent behind, veins ob- 
lique and obscure, scarcely seen on the back: petioles (an 
inch to an inch and a half long) rather shorter than the 
leaflets, spreading wide, hoary and pubescent like the 
branches, slightly compressed laterally, and obscurely 
grooved above. Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves, 
but collected into terminal pseudo-racemes, pedunculate ; 
peduncles nearly as long as the petioles, more green than 
them, but equally pubescent. Calyx campanulate, rather 
more green and somewhat less pubescent than the peduncle, 
truncated at the base, four-cleft, segments ovate, acute, 
connivent at the apices. Corolla yellow, faintly but offen- 
sively perfumed ; petals four, imbricated, two approaching 
each other laterally in the upper part of the flower, two at 
the sides slightly removed from the upper ones and from 
each other below, ovato-elliptical, undulate, nearly without 
claws, more than twice as long as the calyx. Disk nectari- 
ferous, large and fleshy, shortly cylindrical, spreading and 
flat and pubescent on its upper surface, with a broad, conni- 
vent somewhat rugged tooth at its upper edge. Stamens 
Six, twice as long as the petals, free, declined a little, insert- 
ed upon the disk towards its centre; filaments tapering a 
little, yellow, slightly pubescent ; anthers erect, two-celled, 
bursting along the face, and while bursting, becoming gra- 
dually revolute ; pollen granules very minute, yellow. Pistil 
abortive in the upper flowers, in the others declined, pro- 
jected nearly twice as far as the stamens, on a rather stout, 
filiform, green, slightly pubescent footstalk, which is twice 
as long as the petals, or about as long as the stamens; 
Germen boat-shaped, inflated, concave above, unilocular, 
green, glabrous, nearly as long as the petals, apiculate from 
the persisting, short style ; ovules yery numerous, kidney- 
shaped, in two rows along each of the two sutures, both 


of which are prominent along the inside of the germen. 
Graham. 


ae 
————— 


_ Fig. 1. Flower, with part of the Calyx and the Petals removed. 2. Petal, 
3, Ovary laid open: magnified. 4. Fruit: nat size. 


Ee eee 


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( 3843 ) 


AESCHYNANTHUS GRANDIFLORUS. LARGE- 
FLOWERED AESCHINANTHUS. 


KEKE EEE EKER ERE EEE EEREK 
Class and Order. 


Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—CyrranprAcez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Cal. tubulosus, 5-fidus, equalis. Cor. hypogyna, tubo in- 
curvo, limbi bilabiati labio sup. bilobo, inf. trilobo, lobis 
subequalibus. Stam. 4, didynama, rudimentum quinti : 
Anthere biloculares, per paria coherentes. Ovarium elon- 
gatum annulo hypogyno carnoso cinctum. Stylus simplex ; 
stigma clavato-bilamellatum. Capsula basi calyce stipata, 
elongato-siliqueformis, pseudo-quadrilocularis, bivalvis, 
valvis medio placentas, demum explanatas, margine semini- 
feras, gerentibus. Semina plurima, cylindrica, funiculo 
filiformi et chalaza incrassata in filum simplex v. bifidum 
excurrente utrinque aristata. Albumen o. Radicula tereti- 
uscula, umbilicum basilarem attingens.—Frutices Asie tro- 
pice, volubiles v. scandentes, ad articulos tumidos radicantes ; 
foliis subcarnosis, pedunculis axillaribus terminalibusque ; 
floribus speciosis aurantiaceo-coccineis. Endlich. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Arscuynantuus* grandiflorus ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis 
acuminatis serratis obscure nervosis, umbella multi- 
flora, laciniis calycinis ovatis, corolla lobis omnibus 
rotundatis subequalibus, stylo exserto. 

Arscuynantuus grandiflorus. Don, in Gen. Syst. of Gard. 
and Bot. v. 4. p. 656. Paxt. Mag. of Bot. t. 241. 

gen ppiaen in grandiflorum. Don, in Ed. Phil. Journ. v. 
. p. 8d. 


INcarviLLEA parasitica. Roxb. Corom. t. 291. 7 


—_—_—_—_—_ 


* From the Greek words, asoxos, modesty, and avbos, a flower. 
VOL. xiv. K 


A native of Nepal, and lately introduced we believe by 
His Grace the Duke of Devonshire from India to the stoves 
of our Botanic Gardens. 

Weare indebted for the noble specimens here figured to 
Mr. Saneton, Nurseryman, Kirkaldy, in whose hothouse it 
flowered in great beauty in September, 1840. The stems 
were about two feet high, scarcely tall enough to exhibit 
the scandent character. It succeeds well if planted in pots, 
though in its native country it is an epiphyte. : 

Descr. Stems creeping, rounded, herbaceous, (at least n~ 
the younger ones and branches, ) succulent, nodose. Leaves 
opposite, four to five inches long, lanceolate, acuminated, 
rather obscurely serrated, of a texture between coriaceous 
and carnose, obsoletely penninerved, quite glabrous, petio- 
lated ; petiole short, rounded, thick. Flowers in lateral, or 
usually terminal, bracteated, umbels, drooping, very showy. 
Peduncles short. Calyx oblong, glabrous, rather fleshy, 
deeply five-lobed, the lobes ovate acute, nearly equal. 
Corolla two and a half to three inches long, rich orange- 
scarlet, clothed with fine, somewhat glandular down. Tube 
long, inflated upwards, curved, the mouth contracted ; the 
limb two-lipped, upper lip with two projecting lobes, lower 
with three patent lobes, each lobe with a deep line down the 
middle. Stamens four perfect, didynamous, and one minute, 
abortive one. Filaments much exserted. Anthers of the 
two pairs oblong, two-celled, each pair conjoined by their 
tips, eventually separating. Ovary linear, surrounded at 


the base by a glandular ring: style white, thick, filiform : 
stigma capitate, formed of two plates. 


‘ 


Fig. 1. Lower portion of the Corolla, with the Stamens, 2. Calyx laid 
open, showing the annular Disk and Pistil:—magnified. 


Pub bug JS Ceortig Glaxerres vod Esser’ Jan’ { PFT. 


Witch de® 


( 3844 ) 
TrorexoLtum Morirzianum. Mr. Moritz’ 
INDIAN CREssS. 


SEK KEK KKK KK KEKE KEKE 
Class and Order. 


OcranpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—TRopeo.ez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Cal. 5-partitus, lobo superiore calcarato. Petala 5, in- 
equalia, 3 inferiora minora aut evanida. Stam. 8 ab ipsa 
basi libera. Carpella 3, suberosa, reniformia, indehiscen- 
tia, hinc sulcata, rotundata. Semina magna, exalbuminosa, 
loculum secum implentia et hujus cavitati conformia. Hm- 
bryo magnus, cotyledonibus 2 rectis crassis, junioribus dis- 
tinctis, dein arcte conferruminatis et etiam cum spermo- 
dernate adherentibus, ima basi subdistinctis, radicula intra 
cotyledonum processus latente, tubercula 4 mox radicellas 
proferentia gerente. De Cand. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Trorxotum Moritzianum ; estipulata, foliis peltatis subor- 
biculatis leviter 7—9 lobatis basi transversim trunca- 
tis lobis apice callosis, petalis venoso-pictis subequi- 
longis calycem superantibus, 2 inferioribus cuneatis 
apice fimbriatis, 3 superioribus, spathulatis lamina fiin- 
briata ungue longe ciliata, calcare petala 3 excedente. 

Tropmotum Moritzianum. Klotzsck; in Ic. Pl. Rar. Hort. 
Berol. Fasc. 3. t. 17. 


The seeds of this new and very beautiful Tropzo.um 
were given to Mr. Murray at the Glasgow Botanic Garden 
by Mr. Locxuart of Trinidad, who received them from 
Cumana. They soon vegetated, and the plants blossomed 
in July, 1840, for the first time, in the greenhouse. Others 


placed in the open border grew more vigorously, but 
show 


showed no disposition to flower. At Berlin, and no doubt 
in England, and, probably, in more genial seasons, in Scot- 
land, it will blossom in the open air. The T. Smithi, De 
Canp., (T. peregrinum Sm., not Liny.,) answers to this 
somewhat in the general structure of the flowers, but is 
quite different in the foliage. It is a great acquisition to 
our collections. 

Descr. Stems long and twining, branched, terete, suc- 
culent, green, often tinged with purple. Leaves on more 
or less twisted petioles, peltate, nearly orbicular, but trun- 
cate at the base, with from seven to nine shallow lobes at 
the margin, each lobe obtuse, but with a callous point ofa 
dull orange colour. Stipules none. Peduncles much lon- 
ger than the petioles, often twisted and scandent. Flowers 
moderately large, exceedingly handsome. Calyx of five 
very deep, ovate, bright-red, acute sepals: the spur twice 
their length, tapering, but obtuse and slightly bifid at the 
very point. Petals longer than the calyx: the three lower 
ones spathulate, bright orange, marked with red veins, the 
lamina deeply cut all round into a bright-red fringe, the 
claw, long, narrow, with long, red ciliz : two upper petals 
scarcely longer than the lower, wedge-shaped, veined and 
coloured as the rest, deeply fringed at the broad apex, 
destitute of ciliz. Stamens eight, shorter than the petals. 
Anthers subglobose; pollen green. Ovary deeply three- 


lobed : Style shorter than the stamens: Stigma unequally 
three cleft. 


Fig. 1. Upper Petal. 2. Lower ditto. 3. Pistil :—magnified. 


eg me Lub by 5. Curtis Hlaconwood Bisse Tent 11S. a ro 


( 3845 ) 


ONCIDIUM MACRANTHERUM. LARGE- 
ANTHERED QONCIDIUM. 


SEK KKK KEK EEE EEE EREE 
Class and Order. 


GyNANDRIA MOonaAnDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipEz. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata late- 
ralibus nunc sub labello connatis. Petala conformia. La- 
bellum maximum, ecalcaratum cum columna continuum) 
varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum v. cristatum. Columna 
libera, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo- 
cularis rostello nune abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato. 
_ Pollinia 2, postice sulcata ; caudicula plana, glandula ob- 
longa:—Herbe epiphyte nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia cor?- 
acea. Scapi paniculati, vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores 
speciosi lutet sepius maculati, raro albi. 


Specific Name and Character. 


Oncipium macrantherum; pumilum, pseudo-bulbis ovatis 
compressis monophyllis, pedunculis subtrifloris folio 
brevioribus, petalis sepalisque ellipticis conformibus, 
labello ovali apice emarginato lateribus deflexis disco 
callo elevato pubescente basi bituberculato, columna 
brevi basi utrinque longe calcarata, rostello producto, 
anthera (magna) ovato-acuminata. - 


This is one of the many new Orchideous plants which 
along with still more interesting Cacrez have been collect- 
ed by Mr. Gateort: in the interior of Mexico, and sent by 
our late Consul there, Mr. Parkinson, to the princely col- 
lection at Woburn, where it flowered in April, 1840. It is 
quite unlike any other species of the Genus with which I 
am acquainted; but may, perhaps, rank near O. pumilum 


(Bot. Reg. t. 920). Descr 


Descr. Pseudo-bulb ovate, or oblong-ovate, an inch 
long, smooth, green, crowned with a single, oblong-lance- 
olate, rather rigid, but scarcely coriaceous leaf, acute, and 
very obscurely striated. On each side of the bulb, at the 
base, another similar leaf is produced, with a sheathing 
base, and these have two or three brown scales beneath 
them, from which the fibrous roots issue. Peduncle, or 
scape, from the bulb, one on each side, and shh 
from the axil of the radical leaf, slender, two-flowered, 
much shorter than the leaves. Perianth of an exceed- 
ingly delicate cellular structure. Sepals and petals spread- 
ing, uniform, elliptical, yellow-green tinged with red. Lip 
longer than the sepals, oval, lemon-colour, blotched with 
pale purple, the margins deflexed, waved, the apex bifid, 
the disk with a downy, oblong elevation or crest, having 
two yellow tubercles at the base. Column short, green, 
slightly downy upwards, rostellum elongated, bifid, fand 
there are two projecting spurs at the base, longer than the 
rostellum ; stigma witha deep purple border. -Anther-case 
ovate, acuminated, as long as the rostellum. Pollen-masses 


two, deep-yellow, on a white caudicula, with a brown, 
oblong, gland, at its base. 


Fig.1. Back view of a Flower. 2. Front view. 3. Column and Lip. 
4, Column from which the Anther is removed, exhibiting the rostellum. 


5. Inner view of an Anther-case. 6,7. Back and front view of the pollen- 
masses :—magnified, 


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( 3846 ) 


MALVA LATERITIA. Pate RED-FLOWERED 
MALLow. 


KERR ERE ERE KEKE KEKE REK 
Class and Order. 


MonapELPHIA POoLyANDRIA. 


( Nat. Ord.—Matvacez. ) 


Generic Character. *i 


Calyx cinctus involucro 3-phyllo, rarius 5—6-phyllo, 
bracteolis oblongis setaceisque. Carpella capsularia plurima 
in orbem disposita. D C. 


Specific Name and Character. 


Matva lateritia ; prostrata, pilis divaricato-bipartitis sim- 
plicibus stellatisque subhirsuta, foliis longe petiolatis 
3—5-lobis lobis oblongo-cuneatis inciso-dentatis, sti- 
pulis lato-ovatis herbaceis persistentibus, pedunculis 
axillaribus solitariis unifloris folio longioribus stamin- 
ibus numerosis, ovariis hirsutis sub-13. 


Our first knowledge of this plant is derived from Mr. 
Tweepiz, who sent us specimens in 1836 from Buenos- 
Ayres (?), and from Entro Rios. In September, 1840, Mr. 
Mackay favoured us with living specimens, which flowered 
in the open border in Dublin College Botanic Garden ; the 
seeds of which were derived from the same source. 

Descr. Stems prostrate, obtusely angled, herbaceous, 
branched. Leaves two to four inches long (rounded peti- 
oles about the same) cordate, deeply three- to five-lobed, 
truncate at the base, sparingly hairy, the lobes broadly- 
oblong, cuneate. Stipules broadly-ovate, herbaceous, per- 
sistent. Peduncles axillary, solitary, longer than the leaves, 
slightly hairy, single-flowered, nerved and ciliated. Calyx 


hairy, deeply five-cleft, the segments ovate, spreading. 
Involucre 


Involucre of three ovate, foliaceous bracteas. Corolla mode- 
rately large, of five spreading, rotundato-cuneate, unevenly 
truncated, pale red, somewhat roseate, oblique petals, the 
base with its short, ciliated claw, deep yellow, having a 
deep rose-coloured ray. Column of stamens short, hairy, 
deep yellow, conical ; free portion of the filaments nume- 
rous, spreading, moderately long, each terminated by a 
reniform, yellow, one-celled anther. Ovaries twelve to 
thirteen, united in a circle, clothed with long, upright hairs, 
each one-ovuled : Style dividing above the stamens into as 
many red branches as there are ovaries: Stigmas capi- 
tate, red. 


bad Fig. 1. Petal :—magnijfied. 


sex Sam ISEL 


LBS 


FUEL REIN HM 


Lab by Skurtie G: 


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(oem. 3. 
OrRTHOSIPHON INCURVUS. INCURVED 
ORTHOSIPHON. 


KEKE EK KEE EKEREEEEEE 
Class and Order. 


DipynamiA GyYMNOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lasguarz. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calyx ovato-tubulosus, 5-dentatus, dentis superioris ova- 
to-membranacei marginibus decurrentibus alatus, post an- 
thesin deflexus. Corolla tubo exserto recto vel incurvo 
nec gibboso nec defracto, fauce equali vel rarius inflato, 
bilabiata, labio superiore 3—4 fido, inferiore integerrimo 
concavo. Stamina 4, declinata. Filamenta \ibera, eden- 
tula. Anthere ovato-reniformes, loculis confluentibus. 
Stylus apice clavato-capitatus, subinteger vel breviter 
emarginatus, stigmatibus in emarginatura subconfluenti- 
bus, nunc minutis nunc incrassato-capitatis. Achenia mi- 
nutissima, punctulato-rugosa.—Herbe perennes, suffrutices- 
ve. Racemi simplices, sepius elongati, rarissime ovato-spi- 
ciformes. Verticillastri sexflori, distantes, laxi. Folia flo- 
ralia bracteeformia, ovata, acuminata, reflexa, pedicellis 
sepius breviora. Pedicelli fructiferi recurvi. (Benth. 
Labiat. 25.) 


Specific Character and Synonyms, 


OrtuosiPHon* incurvus; caule basi procumbente adscen- 
dente, foliis petiolatis oblongis crenatis utrinque an- 
gustatis tenuissime pubescentibus, verticillastris sub- 
secundis, corollis villosis incurvis calyce triplo longio- 
ribus, fauce subequali, staminibus corollam subequa- 
libus. Benth. 

Orrnosiruon incurvus. Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 2. 15. 


This plant, native of the mountains near to Silhet, was 
received at the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, from the 


collection of His Grace the Duke of Rarehamberans at 
ion 


* From ogbec, straight, and cvpwr, a tube, from the usually straight form of 
the tube of the corolla. 


Sion House, in October, 1839, and flowered in the stove 
in May and June following. Its structure is very curious, 
and the generic character, therefore, remarkably distinct. 

Descr. Stem suftruticose, erect, branched. Leaves (three 
inches long, an inch and three quarters broad) ovate, peti- 
olate, bright green, paler behind, rough on both surfaces. 
coarsely serrato-crenate, entire and wedge-shape at the 
base, middle-rib and oblique veins strong and very pro- 
minent behind, transverse reticulations distinct, though 
much more slender. Spike racemose, terminal, much elon- 
gated, many-flowered, unilateral; rachis furrowed, pubes- 
cent with dissimilar hairs, most of these being very short, 
others longer ; bracts ovate, acute, reflected, green, persist- 
ing. Whorls four-flowered ; flowers arising in pairs from 
one point, but having no common peduncle. Pedicels as 
long as the bracts. Calyx ten-nerved, bilabiate ; the upper 
lip three-nerved, rounded, reflexed, entire, mucronulate in 
the centre, decurrent along the sides of the tube, between 
which narrow wings the tube is flat above; lower lip of 
four slender, subulate teeth, of which the lateral ones are 
shorter than the others, and broader at the base; nearly the 
whole of the calyx, as well as the pedicels, has similar 
pubescence to that on the rachis, and is reddish-green, with 
a pink tinge of the upper lip, which alone is glabrous. 
Corolla pale pink ; tube greatly exserted, covered with 
dense, uniform, pubescence, equal to the longer hairs on 
the rachis, compressed laterally, dilated a little upwards, 
but contracted at the throat; limb bilabiate, the lower lip 
spoon-shaped, slightly undulate, entire, projecting forwards 
in a line with the lower side of the tube; the upper lip three- 
lobed, of which the central is notched, the lateral ones 
being entire and reflected. Stamens four, didynamous ; 
Jjilaments glabrous, adherent along the whole of the lower 
side of the corolla, in whose substance they seem to be 
lost, free in the throat and there divaricated after shedding 
the pollen, and scarcely exserted ; anther—lobes divaricated, 
reddish, and applied face to face before bursting. Pistil 
intermediate in length between the longer and shorter 
stamens ; stigma white, capitate, style recurved a little up- 
wards at the apex, glabrous, and lying with the filaments 
along the lower side of the tube. Germen of four small, 
erect lobes, rising from a white, fleshy disk, which is much 
enlarged on the lower side, and curved upwards, forming a 
large, blunt, fleshy covering to the germen, notched at the 
apex for the passage of the style. raham. 


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ANGELONIA CORNIGERA. HoRrN-BEARING 
ANGELONIA. 


Be ees Oe ony Oe a as Oe ss Oe os 
Class and Order. 


DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Scropuutarine. ) 


Generic Character. 


Cal. 5-fidus v. 5-partitus. Cor. tubo brevi, fauci forni- 
cata, limbi subbilabiati plani labio superiore obtusissimo 
bilobo, inferioris, trilobi lobo medio basi saccato longiore 
rotundato. Anthere loculi divergentes: capsula globosa 
~ vel ellipsoidea, bivalvis, valvulis integris medio septiferis, 
Semina membrana laxa inclusa.—Herbe Austro-Ameri- 
cane, erecte v. procumbentes. Folia opposita v. superiora 
alterna. Pedunculi uniflori, solitarn, axillares v. racemosi. 
Benth. 


Specific Character and Synonym. 


ANGELoNIA cornigera ; hirsutula, foliis lanceolatis ciliatis 
basin versus latioribus integerrimis, superioribus mi- 
noribus bracteiformibus, pedunculis solitariis gracili- 
bus pilosis, labii inferioris segmento intermedio longi- 


cornuto, cornu apice bidentato. 
Ancetonia ciliata, Gardn. MSS. in Herb. Brasil. n. 2271. 


Found in Brazil by Mr. Garpner, in 1839, growing 
commonly in sandy places about Oeiras, and from thence to 
the province of Ceara. I have taken the liberty of altering 
Mr. Garpner’s name (ciliata) derived from a very obscure 
mark in the foliage to that suggested by the large and 
conspicuous horn-like appendage arising from the middle 
segment of the lower lip, and directed towards the centre 
of the flower. The specimen here figured was raised in 


the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden from seeds = 
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by Mr. Garpver, and differs somewhat from the native 
samples, in having the leaves rather more attenuated at the 
base, and the floral ones longer, more remote, and less 
resembling bracteez. In the native specimens, the flowers 
may almost be said to be in bracteated racemes. The 
flowers are extremely rich in colour, and a beautiful object 
for the microscope. 

Descr. Root fibrous, annual. Stems a foot and more 
high, branched from the base, hirsute. Lower leaves oppo- 
site, lanceolate, the rest alternate but approximate, small 
and bracteiform, floriferous, almost cordate at the base, all 
of them slightly hairy, ciliate and entire. Peduncles single- 
flowered, solitary, slender, hairy, shorter than the floral 
leaves in our cultivated specimens ; longer than they in the 
native specimens. Calyx small, two-lipped, of five deep 
segments 3, segments linear-lanceolate, hairy. Corolla, as 
in the Genus, with an inflated, saccate tube, the limb plane, 
of five, deep, cuneate segments, two forming an upper lip, 
the other three a lower lip, the whole of a rich purple, 
deeper towards the mouth, the upper segments sprinkled 
with velvety dots, the intermediate one of the lower lip 
furnished at the base with a hornlike process, rounded and 
biaristate at the apex. Capsule elliptical, two-valved. 


Fig. 1. Flower.. 2. The horn from the lower Lip of the Corolla: magni 
fied. 3. Capsule: nat. size. 


HAIL TO CHRISTMAS. 


All hail to Christmas !—to that genial time, 

When skies are cold, but hearts within are warm; 
When Friendship bids defiance to the clime; 

And while rude winds the out-door scene deform, 

Calls those she loves and shields them from the storm; 
And bids them share in joys of holiest birth, 

And all the dear enjoyments known to swarm 

In rich abundance and in gentlest mirth, 

Around that blissful shrine—a happy Christmas hearth! 


All hail to Christmas !— tis a blessed season, 

To gentle joys and sweet emotions given; 

When ev’ry thought unkind appears a treason, 

And friends unite, and foes are all forgiven; 

And Love rules all the day, and then at even, 

Affection’s triumph is indeed complete, 

While joy and transport make this earth a heaven; 

And mirth and song unite in concord sweet, 

Around the social hearth where friends and kindred meet! 


All hail to Christmas!—give a hearty greeting, 

To him who gladdens each domestic sphere; 

And high and hallowed be the joy of meeting 

With one who brings us bliss, so lov’d, so dear! 

Who friends unites, that thro’ the bye gone year, 

Are widely parted on life’s stormy ocean; 

And bids them once more meet and mingle here, 

And share again with sweet, sublime emotion, 
Affection’s joys refined, and Friendship’s dear devotion! 


All hail to Christmas !—many a time like this, 

May we enjoy the blessings he bestows; 

For many a year partake as pure a bliss, 

And taste the joy the gentle spirit knows, 

In the sweet intereourse we hold with those, 

Who prize all home-born blessings, and confine 

Their hopes and wishes, but to taste repose 

In the dear circle of the hallowed shrine, 

Where love and feeling meet and make the hour divine ! 


All hail to Christmas! and to Row.anp, hail! 

To beanty’s self, who fairest bounty brings; 

Who comes with gift and song, and fairy tale, 

And at her feet, in rich profusion flings 

Charms of a worth untold, all brightest things, 

Meant to preserve her beauty from the tomb 

Of fell decay; to steal from Time his wings, 
And bid her fair, but fading charms assume ze 
A fresh immortal glow—a bright eternal bloom! 


All hail to Christmas! and to Rowan, hail! 
Who comes with gifts of strange and magic power, 
With spells all potent, never known to fail 

In guarding youthful Beauty’s fairy dower 

Of charms and graces safe from storm and shower, 
Macassar’s Oit; Kaxypor’s gentle balm; 

And last a charm to soothe Affliction’s hour, 
OponTo’s boon to shield from tooth-ache’s qualm, 
And o’er her being shed a sweet and heay'nly calm! 


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( 3849 3850 ) 

Musa SUPERBA. Supers PLANTAIN TREE. 
JHebbeHbebnnbebnisbbibk 

Class dua ‘Order: * 


Poryeamia Monamcia. 


( Nat. Ord.—Musacee. ) 


Generic Charac 


Perigonium epigynum, bilabiatum, labium inferius tubu- 
losum, postice usque ad basin fissum, apice quinquelobum, 
superius concavum, nanum, amplectens. Stamina 5, sexto 
postico abortivo. Ovarium inferum, triloculare. Ovula in 
loculorum angulo centrali plurima, biseriata, horizontalia,— 
anatropa. Stylus crassus; stigma infundibuliformi-clava-_ 
tum, breviter sexlobum. Bacea oblonga, angulata, trilo- 
cularis ; seminibus plurimis in pulpa nidulantibus, sepius 
effoetis farcta. Semina depressiuscula subglobosa, testa 
crustacea, atra, ad umbilicum impressa. Embryo ortho- 
tropus, fungiformis, in axi albuminis subfarinosi, extremitate 
radiculari umbilicum attingente, centripeta-——Herbe geron- 
togee tropice et subtropice, in Americam introducte, gt- 
gante ; trunco e petiolorum vaginis longissimis, scapum ra- 
dicalem, solo apice liberum, floriferum velantibus conflato, 
lamina foliorum amplissima, valde nervosa, floribus in axilla 
spatharum confertis, ebracteatis. Endl. hig: 


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Specific | Character and Synonyms. | 


Musa* superba ; subacaulis, spica nutante, bracteis corda- 
to-ovatis concavis obtusis inferioribus persistantibus, 
perianthii labio superiore 3-partito lateribus revolutis, 
labio inferiore multo breviore 3-lobo lobo intermedio 

’ subulato 


* “The word is corrupted, or rather refined from Mauz, the Egyptian 
appellation of this valuable plant, and is made classical in the works of 
Linnaus, by an allusion to Musa, a Muse; or with much greater propriety, 
to Antonius Musa, the physician to Aucustus, who, having written on 
some Botanical subjects, may justly be commemorated in the above name. 
Smith in Rees’ Cycl. 

VOL, XIV. mF 


subulato lateralibus multo longiore, filamentis 5 cy- 
lindraceis. Grah. : 

Musa superba. Roxb. Pl. Corom. v. 3. t. 223. Fl. Indie. 
v. 1. p.667. Ed. Car. et Wall. v. 2. p. 489. Roem. et 
Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 1294. Spreng. Syst. Ve- 
gel. v. 1. p. 833. 


I think there cannot be any reasonable doubt that the 
plant I have described is the M. superba of Roxpureu ; 
though the description of the size and form of the stem, as 
given by him, does not accord with our plant. His plant 
is described as thirteen feet high; ours, though remarkably 
vigorous, is only five; his has a most remarkable conical 
base, seven and a half feet in circumference close to the 
ground, and four and a half immediately under the leaves ; 
ours is hardly two feet and a half in circumference at the 
ground, and scarcely tapers at all. In almost every other 
respect the description of Roxsuren, where it does not 
contradict itself, is minutely applicable to our plant, very 
imperfectly indeed to his figure, which also differs greatly 
from the specimen I now describe. It is probable that the 
difference in the form of the stem arises from the age of the 
respective plants when they flowered. The figure in the 
Coromandel plants is perhaps taken from a plant which 
flowered in the Botanic Garden, Calcutta, thirty three 
months after the seeds from whence it sprung were sown ; 
our plant blossomed in the end of August, 1840, fourteen 
months after the seed from which it sprung was put into 
the ground. : 

Every one who has visited the Botanic Garden of Edin- 
burgh for some years past, has been struck with the brilliant 
success which has attended the cultivation of the many 
forms of Banana under the judicious management of Mr. 
M‘Nas, and the immence quantity of high-flavoured fruit 
which has been produced ; but nothing has afforded a 
Sreater triumph than the rapid perfection of this beautiful 
species from imported seed, though we are informed by Dr. 
Roxpuren that it does not yield a fruit which can be eaten, 
but one which resembles a dry capsule, rather than a berry. 
We learn from the same authority, that it is a native of the 
valleys in the southern parts of the Peninsula of India. In 
cultivation in the Botanic Garden, this, and all the varieties 
of fruit-bearing Bananas have been planted in large tubs 
containing extremely rich soil, have had much water, and 

been 


been kept in great heat. The flower-bud, as I have proved 
by cutting down full grown plants of Musa rosacea and 
Cavendishi, and I think also of M. paradisaica, remains at 
the root till a time after the plant has attained its full size 
varying according to its treatment, and then pushes its way 
upwards—its appearance at the top of the stem being 
preceded by the evolution of one or more leaves smaller 
than the rest. 

Descr. Stem scarcely any, the petioles spreading nearly 
from the root upwards on all sides, and forming a pseudo- 
stem of nine inches in diameter at the base of the specimen 
described. Flower-stalk (about five feet high from the 
ground) cernuous. Leaves (five feet long, by one foot 
seven inches. broad) lanceolato-elliptical, slightly unequal 
at the base, of a lively green on both sides, rather darker 
above, with a very narrow red edge, middle rib very strong, 
semicylindrical behind, with a deep rounded groove in 
front, transverse veins waved, especially near the base ; 
petioles of the lower leaves fully one-third of the length of 
these, and of the same shape as the middle rib, slightly 
stem-clasping at their origin; floral leaves gradually 
smaller till the petioles pass into large, ovate bracts, the 
lower of which only retain a small portion of the leafy 
expansion at the apex, but these, like the others, spread in 
a roseate manner, green without, red-brown within, forming 
after a few only have expanded, a large, elegant, cernuous, 
imbricated, circular basin, of a foot in diameter, in the 
centre of which is the cordato-ovate mass of unexpanded 
bracts, surrounded by the flowers, which are half concealed 
among the imbricated expanded bractee. These are 
persistent, and always concave forwards, never reflexed ; 
a few of the lower are empty, next are several with female 
flowers, the stamens being abortive, and then follow many, 
expanding in slow succession, deciduous, and covering 
flowers having the stamens fully developed, but with the 
pistil incomplete. Perianth single, superior, bilabiate ; the 
upper lip (an inch and a half long) coriaceous, linear, erect, 
revolute in the sides, reflected at the apex, ultimately 
three-partite, with two slender, linear, internal segments 
laid along the fissures, the segments usually twisted to- 
gether ; lower lip embraced by the base of the upper, less 
than half its length, membranous, diaphanous, colourless, 
deflected, three-lobed, the centre lobe subulate, and very 
slender, the lateral lobes scarcely half the length of the 


other, ovate, subacute, spreading. Filaments five, epigy- 
nous, 


nous, round, stout, erect, parallel to each other, and ranged 
in a row within the upper lip of the perianth. A large 
quantity of transparent, colourless, deliquescent jelly is 
discharged from the faux; between the style and the lower 
lip of the perianth. Male Flower. Anthers twice as long 
as the filaments, their apices reflexed, and projecting 
beyond the upper lip of the perianth, bilobular, the lobes 
narrow, red, laid along the face of the flat linear connechve, 
towards its edges, and bursting anteriorly ; pollen yellow, 
abundant, granules spherical. Pistil abortive, style subu- 
late, equal in length to the filaments, and having a small 
dry sitgma. Female Flower.—Filaments rather shorter 
than in the male flower, with scarcely any appearance of 
abortive anthers on their conical summits. Stigma large, 
white, slimy, capitate, irregularly and incompletely lobed. 
Style stout, erect, twice the length of the abortive stamens, 
and two-thirds of the length of the upper lip of the perianth. 
Germen angular, three-celled. Ovules very numerous, 
globular, shortly pedicellate, their attachment being in two 
rows to a central placenta in each cell. Graham. 


Tas. 3849. Musa superba, on a very reduced scale, from a sketch sent 
by Mr. James Macnas. Fig. 1. Female Flower, nat. size. 


Tap. 8850. Bractea, with its Male Flowers, nat. size, partially covered 


with the gelatinous fluid, which copiously exudes from the blossoms. Fig. 
1. Single Male Flower, nat. size. 


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TROPAHOLUM BRACHYCERAS. SHORT-SPURRED 
In DIAN-CRESS. 


Class and Order. 


OcranprRiA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Tropeo.ez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calyx 5-partitus coloratus, lacinia superiore basi calca- 
rata, calcare libero intra florem hinc hiante extra stamina, 
lobis nunc liberis, nunc inter se varie coalitis. Petala 5, 
calyci inserta, ejusdem lobis alterna, inequalia, irregularia, 
2 superiora sessilia remota, calcaris fauci infixa, 3 inferiora 
unguiculata minora interdim abortiva. Stamina 8, fila- 
mentis liberis ovarium arcté cingentibus, disco (perigyno ?) 
insertis, antheris terminalibus oblongis erectis bilocularibus 
rima duplici dehiscentibus. Carpella 3 arcté connata in 
ovarium 1 trigonum. Styli 3 in | tristriatum filiformem 
connexi. Stigmata 3 acuta. Carpella 3 imo stylo seu 
fructus axi adnata, l-locularia, l-sperma. Semina magna, 
exalbuminosa, loculum suum implentia et hujus cavitati 
conformia. Embryo magnus ; cotyledonibus 2, rectis, 
crassis, junioribus distinctis, dein arcté conferruminatis et 
etiam cum spermodermate adherentibus, ima basi subdis- 
ie : radicula intra cotyledonum processus latente. De 

and. | 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Tropmoivum brachyceras ; foliis peltatisectis segmentis 6—7 
oblongo-obovatis integris, caleare conico obtuso ca- 
lyce duplo breviore, petalis subconformibus emargt- 
natis 2 superioribus cuneatis basi venosis. 

Trorzoium brachyceras. Hook. et Arn. Bot. of Beech. 
Voy. p. 14. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.1926. Sweet Brit. Fil. 


Gard. t. 370. : 3 | 
Tropzouum tenellum. G. Don, Gen. Syst. Gard. and Bot. 


v. 1. p. TAT. a 


Our first knowledge of this delicate and dtiacate species 
of Indian Cress was derived from specimens gathered in 
the Chilian Andes, not far from Valparaiso, by Mr. Brivess, 
By the natives it is called Flor de Perdiz. Mr. Cumine 
introduced it to our gardens, and it is now cultivated in 
several greenhouses besides those of Woburn Abbey, whence 
our specimen here represented was sent in June, 1840, by 
Mr. Forses. It is a scandent plant ; and if the stems and 
branches are allowed to grow in a compact manner around 
some upright sticks in a pot, the copious bright yellow 
flowers are well relieved by the delicate green of the foliage, 
and the effect is exceedingly pretty. 

Descr. Stems very slender, filiform, herbaceous, pale 
green, scandent, much branched, a foot and a half to two 
feet long. Leaves peltate, petiolate, nearly orbicular in 
their circumscription, deeply six to seven-lobed, the lobes 
between oblong and obovate, very obtuse, entire, bright 
green above, somewhat glaucous and paler beneath. 
Petioles about an inch long, slender, wavy and often 
performing the functions of tendrils. Peduncles axillary, 
resembling the petioles, but longer, and a little stouter, 
single-flowered. Calyx bell-shaped, green, cut into five 
deep, ovate, rather acute, and moderately spreading 
segments ; prolonged at the base, above the insertion of 
the peduncle, into a conical, obtuse spur, about half the 
length of the calyx. Corolla of five spreading, yellow 
petals, twice or thrice as long as the calyx, two-lobed 
at the apex; the three lower ones obovate, and of an 
uniform yellow colour; the two upper rather smaller, more 
cuneate, marked with purple veins at the bottom. 


Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower. 2. Side view of the Calyx with 
Stamens :—magnified, 


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Aconitum CHINENSE. CHINESE MoNKS-HOOD. 


KKK KKK KEKE EE EEE ERE 
Class and Order. 


PoLyAnDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Ranuncutacez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calyx petaloideus irregularis deciduus vel marcescens, 
sepalo nempé superiore concayo cassideformi. Petala 
2 superiora (cuculli, nectaria) longé unguiculata apice in 
saccum expansa sub galea recondita——Folia palmatisecta. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Aconrrum Chinense ; elatum robustum, caule glabro, foliis 
inferioribus petiolatis amplis profunde tripartitis seg- 
mentis cuneatis incisis lateralibus profunde bifidis, su- 

_ perioribus sessilibus 3—5-fidis laciniis subintegerrimis, 
racemis compositis, pedicellis superne pilosis, calycis 
galea elevatim venosa vertice obtusissima apice acuta, 

_ Nectariis calcare brevissimo. =~ Si iis 

Aconrrum Chinense. ‘ Sieboldt.” ‘ Paxt. Mag. of Bot. 
Feb. 1838,” with a figure. me / 1 i 


Of the history of this fine, showy Aconitum, I know no- 
thing further than that the plant has been kindly commu- 
_nicated to me by Dr. Granam from the Edinburgh Botanic 
Garden, and that Srevper in his new ‘‘ Nomenclator Bota- 
nicus,” gives it as an inhabitant of China, and assigns Dr. 
Sirzotpt as the authority for the name. It is probably 
cultivated in China: but of its specific merits I am alto- 
gether incompetent to speak, in a Genus so liable to vary, 
and so apt to produce hybrids. This 1s a stately and a 
hardy species ; the blossoms co jous, large, and of a pecu- 
liarly deep and vivid purple colour. ~The species w! 1 be- 


long to De Canpouie’s Sect. IV. NapeLLus. 
i Descr. 


Descr. Root perennial, tuberous. Stem five to six feet 
high, stout, erect, branched, green, tinged with purple, gla- 
brous. Lower leaves large, and on moderately long, broad, 
and channelled petioles ;—deeply cut, indeed to the very 
petiole, into three, cuneate segments, tapering at the base, 
regularly toothed and cut towards the top, the side ones 
very broad and deeply divided, but not to the base, the 
whole is glabrous, strongly veined and reticulated : upper 
leaves sessile, gradually passing into more and more entire, 
small bracteas, among the upper flowers. Racemes large, 
compound, pedicels slightly hairy above. Flowers large, 
showy, of an intense and very bright blue colour. Galea 
semicircular, but moderately compressed at the sides, the 
apex acute. Nectaries on long, glabrous stalks, the saccate 
Spur very short. 


Fig. 1. Two of the Petals with the Nectaries, Stamens, and Pistils:— 
magnified, 


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PENTSTEMON HETEROPHYLLUS. VARIOUS= 
LEAVED PENTSTEMON. 


ERIS EES Ssksksbabookaakatoleak 
Class and Order. 


DipynAmiA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Scropuutarinz, ) 


Generic Character. 


Calyx pentaphyllus aut 5-partitus, bractea solitaria dis- 
tante. Cor. ventricosa, bilabiata. Stam. didynamia, rudi- 
mento quinti filiformi sepius barbato. Anthere sejuncte 
sepius glabre. Caps. ovata, bilocularis, bivalvis, poly- 
sperma. Semina angulata. Lind. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Pentstemon heterophyllus ; foliis glaucescentibus integerri- 
mis inferioribus lineari-lanceolatis superioribus linea- 
ribus, racemo virgato, sepalis ovatis acuminatis, corol- 
lis ventricosis imberbibus, stamine sterili glabro, an- 
theris sagittatis apice fimbriatis. Lindl. 

Pentstemon heterophyllus. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1899. 
Hook. et Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 376. 


As we have already observed in the work on the Botany 
of Capt. Beecury’s Voyage, above quoted, the name given 
to this plant is scarcely appropriate, seeing that there is no 
greater difference between lower and upper leaves than 
what is usually observable between the cauline and floral _ 
leaves of plants in general. The species is one of the 
inany handsome hardy herbaceous plants introduced by the 
late Mr. Dovetas to the gardens of the Horticultural Soci- 
ety, and by that valuable institution spread far and wide in 
the collections of this and other countries. Our specimens 
Were sent from Woburn Abbey, where they flowered in 


July of this year, and made a very pretty appearance Mes 


their large, showy, purple flowers. It may be increased 
either by seeds or cuttings. 

Descr. Plant from a foot to a foot and a half high, erect, 
branched, the branches slender and virgate, deeply tinged 
with purple. Leaves opposite, glabrous, narrow-lanceo- 
late, often curved downwards, entire, acute, sessile, the 
uppermost ones, among the flowers, more narrow and 
almost exactly linear. Peduncles an inch or more long, 
bearing, above the middle, two opposite leaves or bracteas, 
and generally one, sometimes two flowers. Calyx very 
small in proportion to the size of the corolla, deeply cut 
into five linear-subulate, narrow, spreading, or recurved 
segments. Corolla an inch and a half long, red-purple, 
much paler in bud. Tube narrow at the base, gradually 
expanding upwards ; limb two-lipped, upper lip two-, lower 
three-lobed ; lobes very obtuse, spreading. Stamens 1n- 
serted below the middle of the tube, four didynamous, and 
a fifth sterile filament, quite glabrous. Anthers cordate, 
deep purple. Style rather longer than the sterile filament. 


Fig. 1. Calyx and lower part of the Corolla, with the Stamens and Pistil, 
slightly magnified. 


( 3854 ) 
Oncipium Wrayva. Mrs. Wray’s 
ONCIDIUM. 


KEK KKK REE EE EERE 
Class and Order. 


GyNANDRIA MonaANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord —OnrcnipEz. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata: late- 
ralibus nune sub-labello connatis. Petala conformia. La- 
bellum maximum ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum, 
varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum vel cristatum. Columna 
libera, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. _Anthera semibilo- 
cularis, rostello nunc abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato. 
Pollinia 2, postice sulcata ; caudicula plana; glandula ob- 
longa.—Herbe epiphyte, nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia cori- 
acea. Scapi paniculati, vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores 
speciosi, lutei, sepius maculati, raro albi, Lindl. 


Specific Name and Character. 


Oncin1um Wraye ; pseudo-bulbis ovatis compressis sulcatis, 
foliis 2 terminalibus lineari-lanceolatis, scapo radicali 
elongato ramoso, floribus paniculatis, petalis sepalis- 
que conformibus ovato-acuminatis patentibus ferru- 
gineo-maculatis, labello unicolori late cuneato-obo- 
vato 3-lobo cristato, crista elevata acute triloba. 


A native of Mexico, whence it was introduced to the 
stove of the gardens at Oakfield, near Cheltenham, by one 
of the most intelligent and enthusiastic of cultivators, 


3 


Mrs. Wray of that place. ee ae 
_ Descr. Pseudo-bulbs clustered, scarcely three inches 
igh, ovate, furrowed, wrinkled and compressed. Tn the 


younger state of the bulb, itis accompanied by four leaves, 


two from the base and terminating a broad kind of sheathing 
scale, and two arising from the apex of the bulb, larger, 
but similar in shape to the radical ones, linear-lanceolate, 
somewhat coriaceous, and slightly spirally twisted. Scape 
from the base of a bulb and within the withered sheathing 
scale of a radical leaf, slender, tall, varying from three to 
five feet high, panicled above, and bearing copious bright 
coloured flowers, yellow, the sepals and petals alone 
blotched with deep rusty brown. These sepals and petals 
are alike in shape, ovate, acuminate, spreading. Lip \arge, 
broadly obovate, somewhat unguiculate, three-lobed, lobes 
rounded, entire, waved: at the base is an elevated, keeled 
ridge, or crest, presenting three acute lobes. Column 
short, yellow, in front at each side having a projecting, 
rounded wing. Anther-case hemispherical, yellow. Pol- 


len masses two, the caudicle arising from an oblong, deep 
red gland. 


Fig. 1. Germen, Column, and Anther. 2. Pollen-Masses:—mag- 
nified. 


Pub by S.Curtis Glaxeravood E ssea/Mar'l 1841 


Wi Bitchy dol’ 


( 3855 ) 


Cycnocues LoppiceEsi; var. leucochilum. 
Mr. Loppices’ Swanwort; white-lipped var. 


KKK KKK KEKE EE EEE EK 
Class and Order. 


GynanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipe. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium explanatum. Sepala lateralia lanceolata, 
basi paululum sub labello connata; supremo angustiore. 
Petala \atiora falcata decurva. Labellum liberum, ecalca- 
ratum, columna continuum, lanceolatum, integerrimum, 
ungue abrupto calloso. Columna elongata arcuata teres, 
apice clavata, auriculis 2 falcatis ad latera clinandrii. An- 
thera bilocularis. Pollinia 2, postice sulcata, subpedicel- 
lata; caudicula lineari; glandula grossa.— Habitus Cataseti 
(sed racemus lateralis). Land. 


Specific Name and Character. 


Crcnocues* Loddigesii; labello lanceolato planiusculo 
ungue -brevi_ calloso, columna sepalum supremum 


eequante. 
(B.) leucochilum ; \abello immaculato. 


It is to Mr. Moss of Otterspool, Liverpool, that I am in- 
debted for the noble specimen of a white-lipped variety of 
the Cycnocnes Loddigesit of Dr. Linptry. The species is 
a native of Guiana, and may certainly be numbered among 
the most remarkable of this very remarkable tribe of plants, 


the Orcuipes, produced its large, fragrant blossoms = the 
stove, 


* So called by Professor LINDLEY, from nuxvas, & swan, and auyny, og 
neck, in allusion to the column of this plant, which 1s gracefully curved, 


like the neck of a swan. 
VOL. XIV. “3 


stove, in the month of August, 1840. Two other species of 
this Genus are now known in our collections, the C. ventri- 
cosum of Mr. Bateman’s splendid “ Orchidaceze of Mexico 
and Guatemala,” Tab. V., characterized by its pale, yellow- 
green, sulphur-coloured, spotless flowers, ventricose lip, 
and short column; and C. maculatum of Dr. Linptey’s 
equally beautiful “* Sertum Orchidaceum,” readily known 
by its very long raceme of copious but comparatively small, 
yellow flowers, spotted with purple, and by the singularly 
fringed lip. : : 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs elongated, cylindrical, eight or 
ten inches to almost a foot in length, clustered, articulated 
and sheathed with the bases of former year’s leaves, pale 
ashy grey, at the apex terminated by a leafy crown, Leaves 
lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous, striated. Scape 
from near the top of the pseudo-bulb, long, drooping, aris- 
ing from the side of the pseudo-bulb, bearing many flowers, 
no less remarkable in their form than in their size, Sepals 
unequal, the uppermost one, (or that corresponding with 
the column,) very narrow, linear-lanceolate, brownish- 
green, the two lateral ones much broader, oblongo- 
lanceolate, acuminate, greenish with transverse, brown 
blotches. Petals similar to them, but rather larger, spot- 
less, and both of them falcate and decurved. Lip lanceo- 
late, thick, fleshy in our specimen, ivory white tipped with 
yellowish-green, the base, or claw, where it unites with the 
column, spotted with red. Column remarkably long and 
slender, gracefully curved, like aswan’s neck, as the generic 
name implies, semiterete, deep purple, above broader and 


somewhat winged, green, spotted with purple, just below 
which the small anther-case is placed. 


Witch iia® 


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( 3856 ) 


STEVIA TRACHELIOIDES. ‘'TRACHELIUM- 
LEAVED STEVIA. 


KKK REE EEE KEE E EERE E 
Class and Order. 


SyNnGENESIA AUQUALIS. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. ) 


Generic Character. 


Capitulum 5-florum. Invol. cylindricum, squamis 5—6 
acutis acuminatisve subequalibus. Recept.nudum. Ache- 
nium stricto-nervosum angulatumve elongatum. Pappus 
paleis 1-serialibus nunc in iisdem aut seepius in diversis indi- 
viduis omnibus scariosis planis parvis, nunc aliis scariosis, 
aliis (pler. alternis) in aristas 1—5 rigidas margine scabras 
abeuntibus, nunc omnibus (pler. 5—20) in aristas mutatis. 
—Suffrutices aut herbe omnes ex Americé presertim é Mex- 
ico, rarius ex Amer. Merid. Folia infer. opposita, super, 
opposita aut alterna, in omnia ternato-verticillata, linearia 
lanceolata aut ovata, sepius triplinervia integerrima serrata 
aut in unicé trifida. Capitula in corymbum densum laxum- 
ve disposita, rarius subsparsa longius pedicellata. Cor. 
albe, rosee aut purpuree, interdum subochroleuce. De 


Cand. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 


Srevia trachelioides ; caule herbaceo erecto dense pubes- 
centi-scabrido, ramis oppositis alternisque corymbosis, 
foliis plerisque oppositis basi cuneatis sessilibus me ett 
oribus lanceolatis sepe integerrimis inferioribus 4-plo 
majoribus late ovatis acutis trinervus grosse serratis 
subtus pallidis nervis precipue pubescentibus, involucri 
Sab Gaieh squainis acutis corollisque hispidulis, pappo 
coroniformi dentato. 

Srevia trachelioides. De Cand. Prodr. 5. p. 115. 


Communicated by Mr. Tuomas Grover, from the garden 


of Epwarp Lzeps, Esq., near Manchester, who received the 
seeds 


seeds from W. Hieson, Esq., of Mexico, and who cultivates 
it both in the greenhouse and open border. In the latter it 
attains a height of three feet, and bears the dense corymbs 
of flowers of a very deep and rich purple colour. They are 
paler in the greenhouse : and some of our native specimens 
in the Herbarium exhibit them white. 

Descr. Stem erect, two to three feet high, pubescenti- 
scabrous, tinged with purple, branched, the lower branches 
opposite, the upper ones alternate. Leaves, in like manner, 
opposite below, alternate above, the former broadly ovate, 
acute, on short, broad petioles, three-nerved ; upper ones 
gradually smaller and narrower, quite sessile, all of them 
coarsely serrated. The copious branches at the top of the 
stem reach nearly to the same level, thus forming a large, 
dense corymb, with the numerous bright red-purple flowers. 
Heads in clusters of three or four together. Involucre of 
five, erect, linear-oblong, hispid leaves, including the same 
number of florets. Corolla almost salver-shaped, the tube 
slightly enlarged upwards, the five spreading segments of 
the limb hispid on the outside. Style, with its very long 
downy branches, much protruded. Achenium furrowed, 
crowned with a short, irregular, cup-shaped pappus, desti- 
tute of awns or sete. : 


Fig. 1. Head of Flowers. 2, Single Floret :—magnified. 


Lub bu 8. Curtis: Glazenvoot EsseaMar™ 118. as 


( 3857 ) 


HELICHRYSUM NIVEUM. SNOWY-FLOWERED 
HELICHRYSUM. 


KR KK EEE EKER EEK EEE EE 
Class and Order. 


SynGenEsIA AZQUALIs. 


( Nat. Ord.—Composirm. Senecronipe2. ) 


Generic Character. 


Capitulum multiflorum, nune homogamum, fl. omnibus 
tubulosis hermaphr. 5-dentatis, nunc heterogamum fl. radii 
uniseriatis seepé paucissimis femineis gracilibus. Invol. im- 
bricatum, squamis scariosis, interioribus conniventibus aut 
radiantibus. Recepé. planum epaleaceum, nunc nudum, 
aut areolatum, nunc fimbrilliferum. Achenia erostria sessi- 
lia, areola terminali. Pappus uniserialis setis subscabris 
(nec plumosis), nunc liberis, nune equaliter basi subconcre- 
tis, nunc inzequaliter subcoadunatis seu ramosis.—Herbe aut 
Suffrutices. Species presertim Capenses, in omni orbe veteri 
et Australasid etiam crescentes, sed nunquam in Americé ob- 
servate. Folia alterna. Involucra alba purpurea aut flava. 
Cor. lutee aut purpuree. De Cand. 


Specific Name and Character. 


Heticurysum niveum; perenne caule erecto subsimplice 
scabro capitulis maximis solitariis terminalibus, squa- 
mis utrinque niveis conniventibus ovatis mucronula- 
tis, foliis oblongo-spathulatis utrinque viridibus pubes- 
centibus basi in petiolum angustatis semiamplexicau- 
libus. Graham. 


This large and extremely ornamental species, was raised 
by Mr. Low of Clapton, from seed sent from Swan River 
by Mr. Drummonp, late of Cork, and seedlings, sent to the 
garden of the Caledonian Horticultural Society in October, 


Bd 


1839, flowered very abundantly during July and August 
following, forming an exceedingly attractive border plant. 

The species has proved to be perennial, pushing, in the 
year after flowering, many branches from the lower part of | 
the stem. It has not ripened seed at Edinburgh. It has 
much affinity with the H. macranthum of Bentuam, but Is 
distinguished by its large capitula, pure white, cup-shaped 
involucre, and perennial root. It is in the highest degree 
worthy of cultivation. [Mrs. Wray of Cheltenham has also 
kindly communicated fine specimens of this plant.—Eb. ] 

Descr. Stem above three feet and a half high, some- 
what woody, erect, simple below, corymbose at the top, 
green. Leaves (seven inches long, nearly two broad) gradu- 
ally smaller upwards, scattered, as well as the stem, rough, 
without pubescence, sessile, the lower ones obovate and 
much attenuated at the base, the upper more nearly ellipti- 
cal, green on both sides, with a strong middle rib, and four 
to six principal veins extending nearly to the apex of the 
leaf, which is entire in the edges. Capitula terminal, on 
elongated, subsimple, corymbose branches. Involucre large, 
scariose, of snowy whiteness, spreading into a hemisphere ; 
scales elliptical, very numerous, imbricated, the outer and 
inner the smallest, concave, none of them radiating, the 
inner green at the base. Florets very numerous, yellow, 
cylindrical, all hermaphrodite, five-toothed. Stamens in- 
serted near the base of the corolla, the apices of the anthers 
subexserted. Stigmata revolute, truncated, hairy at the 
apices ; style colourless, filiform, its apex projecting above 
the stamens. Germen glabrous, crowned with a rough 
pappus, almost plumose, as long as the corolla. Receptacle 
naked, pitted. Graham. 


Fig. 1. Floret. 2. Ripe Achenium. 3. Pappus, separated from the 


Achenium. 4. Portion of the Pappus to show the union of the sete at 
their base :—magnified. : 


- 


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( 3858 ) 


ANCHUSA PETIOLATA. PETIOLATED-LEAVED 
ALKANET. 


KKK KKK KKK KEKE EEE EKRKEE 
Class and Order. 


PentanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—BoraaineEz. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla hypoygna, infundibuliformis v. 
hypocraterimorpha, fauce fornicibus clausa, limbo quinque- 
partito. Stamina 5, corolle tubo inserta, inclusa. va- 
rium quadrilobum. Stylus simplex; stigma indivisum. 
Nuces distincte, rugose, basi excavata margine tumido — 
cincta, receptaculo inserte.—Herbe im hemispherie borea- 
lis temperatis et calidioribus indigene, in regione Mediter- 
ranea imprimis copiose, inter tropicos Asie et America, nec 
non in Capite Bone Spet rare ; floribus axillaribus solitarius 
». racemosis, racemis bracteatis. Endlich. 


Specific Name and Character. 


Ancuusa petiolata ; foliis lanceolatis radicalibus longe peti- 
olatis caulinis sessilibus supremis bracteiformibus ova- 
to-acuminatis, floribus racemoso -paniculatis, corolle 


tubo calycis longitudine. 


A pretty showy perennial, raised by Mr. Murray, in the 
Glasgow Botanic Garden, from seeds sent from Nepal 
by Colonel Corvin, of the department of Engineers in 
the service of the Hon. the East India Company. It 
flowered in the greenhouse in October, 1840, but will, no 


doubt, be found to bear the open air unharmed during the 


summer and autumnal months, and will prove an interesting 
aa At first, I was disposed to 


addition to our flower borders. 
consider it the same as the CynoGLossuM longiflorum, from 
Cashmere, 


Cashmere, of Benruam in Royte’s Illustrations, p. 305, and 
of Liypt. in Botanical Register for 1840, Tab. 50, but 
the broader leaves, the long tube of the corolla, and the 
projecting nectaries and stamens, beyond the mouth of the 
corolla of that plant, forbid such an opinion, notwith- 
standing the resemblance in other respects. 

Descr. Stems herbaceous, erect, branched. Radical 
leaves five to six inches long, lanceolate, acuminate, 
tapering below, into a petiole, about equal in length with 
the blade. Cauline leaves gradually smaller upwards, and 
all of them sessile; the uppermost small, acuminated, and 
bracteiform. Racemes from the axils of the upper leaves, 
elongated, and thus giving a paniculated appearance to 
the upper part of the stem. The peduncles bear two or 
three small floral leaves, or bracteas. Pedicels short, at 
first drooping, afterwards, the corolla having fallen, erect. 
Calyx of five deep, erect, obtuse, lobes. Corolla with a very 
short tube, the limb much broader than the length of the 
tube, deep purple-blue, of five rounded segments, and with 
a dark, short ray in the centre of each. Scales of the 
nectary, scarcely protruded, white. 


Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified. 


ud! tu S Curtis GiaxtnwmoodEseee Mar L108 


( 3859 ) 


ToFIELDIA PUBENS. DoWNY-STALKED 
AMERICAN ASPHODEL. 


See sesso seoboteokabstestooke 
Class and Order. 


HexanpriaA TRIGYNIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—MeEtantuacez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Involucrum caliciforme, remotiusculum, trifidum, persis- 
tens. Perigonium coloratum, hexaphyllum, foliols sessili- 
bus, subeequalibus, persistentibus. Stamina 6, perigonii 
foliolis basi inserta : anthere versatiles. Ovarium trilocu- 
lare. Ovula in loculorum angulo centrali plurima, ana- 
tropa. Styli 3, brevissimi, loculos terminantes ; stigmata 
capitata. Capsula trilocularis tripartibilis, introrsum dehis- 
cens. Semina in placentis septa marginantibus plurima, 
cymbiformia. Embryo orthotropus, in basi albuminis car- 
nosi inclusus, extremitate radiculari umbilico proxima.— 
Herbe perennes, in Europa imprimis frigidiore obvie, sed in 
America Boreali copiosiores, etiam in summis Andium Peru- 
vie jugis observate ; radice tuberoso-fibrosa, foliis gramieis, 
plerisque radicalibus, floribus inconspicuis racemoso-sprcatis, 
alternis v. oppositis, terminatisve subverticillatis. Endlich. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Torterp1a* pubens; caule subnudo asperiusculo pulveru- 
lento-pubente, racemo multifloro e fasciculis subdis- 
tantibus, involucro acuto trifido, capsula vix perianthi- 
um superante. : ‘ . 

OFIELDIA nubaie Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. p. 
324. Ell. Bot. v. 1. p. 424. Sm. in Linn. Trans. v. 
12. p. 245. Torr. Fl. ». 1, p. 37 1. Spreng. Syst. sm 


oe 
x 


pee file: 


Pe 


* Sonamed by Hupson, in honor of Mr. ToFIELD, an English Botanist, 
who resided in Yorkshire, 


get. v. 2. p. 144. Roem. et Schult. v.7. p. 1570. Gray, 
Revis. Melanth. Am. Sept. p. 137. 
Torietp1a pubescens. Pers—Pursh, Fl. v. 1. p. 246. 
Nutt. Gen. Am. v. |. p. 236. 
Metantuium racemosum. Walt. Car. p. 126, non Mich. 
Narruecium pubens. Mich. Fl. v. 1. p. 209. 
Antuertcum calyculatum. Linn. Hort. Cliff. ; Gron. Vir- 
gin. (fide Smith.) 


A North American plant, but inhabiting chiefly the 
southern States, as Alabama and Florida, extending as far 
North as the Delaware, and delighting in grassy woods and 
moist Pine barrens. It is, we apprehend, very rare 10 the 
botanic gardens of Europe. Our present specimens were 
sent from that of Edinburgh, in July, 1840. It was, never- 
theless, introduced into the Royal Gardens at Kew, by 
Mr. Wittiam Matcou, so long ago as the year 1790. Its 
nearest affinity is with T. glutinosa, a much more northern 
plant, of which we have lately given a figure in the “ Flora 
Bor, Americana,” tab. 191; and we had even expressed an 
opinion, that the two were perhaps not really distinct. An 
examination, however, of the living plant of T. pubens, has 
satisfied us of their specific distinction. In our present 
plant, there are no glutinous glands, the raceme is very long, 
with more distant fasicles of flowers; and the little invo- 
lucre is deeply cut into three sharp segments, instead of 
being nearly entire, as it is in T. glutinosa. 

Descr. Root creeping, thickish, forming a rhizoma. 
Leaves mostly radical, distichous, linear, acute, striated, 
glabrous. Scape a foot to a foot and a half high, terete, 
glabrous below, above pubescenti- scabrous, especially 
among the flowers. Raceme terminal, four to five inches 
long. Pedicels in clusters of about three, equal in length 
with the flower, and subtended by small bracteas ; at their 
summit is a monophyllous, small, scabrous involucre, cut 
into three sharp, ovate segments, and immediately receiving 
the base of the perianth. Three outer sepals shorter, and 
downy on the outside; three inner, or petals, narrowe!, 
quite smooth. Stamens as long as the perianth. Anthers 


oblong, yellow, germen obovate, three lobed, crowned with 
three spreading styles. 


———— 


_Fig. 1 Unexpanded Flower. 2. Ditto, fully expanded. 9. Involuere 


Pub by S. Curtis Glarenwood Kissecc Math ls 7. 


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( 3860 ) 


GARDOQUIA BETONICOIDES. BETONY-LIKE 
GARDOQUIA. 


REE KE EEE KEK EERE KEKE EEKK 
Class and Order. 


DipynamiA GyYMNOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lasiars. ) 


Generic Character. 


Calyx tubulosus, 13-nervius, subincurvus, ore equali vel 
obliquo, dentibus brevibus rectis subequalibus vel subbila- 
biatis. Corolle tubus longe exsertus, rectus vel incurvus, 
intus nudus ; limbus bilabiatus, labium superius erectum 
subplanum emarginatum, inferius subpatens, lobis planis 
medio latiore. Stamina 4, subdidynama, inferioribus longio- 
ribus, laxe adscendentia, apice subdistantia, superiora sub- 
inde sterilia. Filamenta edeutata. Anthere biloculares, 
loculis distinctis parallelis vel subdivergentibus. Styli lobi 
subequales. Achenia sicca, levia.—Suftrutices fruticesve 
ramosissimi foliosi, sepe procumbentes, Flores pulchri, 
Sepius coccinei. Genus a Micromeria non nisi longitudine 
corollarum, limbique lobis suberectis, distinctum. Benth. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Garpoguia betonicoides; radice repente, caule erecto, co- 
rollis calyce subglabro triplo longioribus, foliis ovato- 
cordatis grosse crenatis utrinque subglabris subtus 
purpurascentibus, cymis pedunculatis erectis, floribus 


congestis. Graham. __ 


Garpvoguia betonicoides. Lindl. Bot. Reg. in Misc. n. 159. 


The plant was received at the gardens of the Caledonian 
Horticultural Society, from Mr. Low, of Clapton, in 
October, 1839, and flowered freely during the summer and 
autumn following, both in the greenhouse and open border, 


requiring no particular treatment. ee 


Descr. Root creeping. Stem (in the specimen described 
nearly three feet high). Leaves (an inch and a half to two 
and a half inches long, one and a quarter to one and three 
quarters broad) ovato-cordate, blunt, deeply crenate, glan- 
dular and subglabrous on both sides, at first green on both 
sides, soon becoming purplish below; middle rib and dis- 
tantly reticulated veins prominent below, channelled above; 
petiole nearly as long as the leaf, channelled above. Bracts 
resembling much diminished, subsessile, subentire leaves ; 
bracteoles linear, subulate. Cymes erect, distant at the lower 
part of the terminal pseudo-spikes, approaching higher 
up, with many crowded, erect flowers. Calyces densely 
adpressed, subglabrous, subequal. Corolla (an inch long) 
agreeably perfumed, somewhat spreading, thrice as long as 
the calyx ; tube clavate, compressed laterally, grooved and 
veined, shortly glanduloso - pubescent, limb oblique, five- 
cleft, the lowest lobe the largest, crenate, and revolute, the 
others subequal, the two uppermost the flattest. Stamens 
didynamous ; filaments adhering to the tube of the corolla 
to unequal heights, the two inner the farthest exserted, the 
others nearly as long as the upper lobes of the corolla ; 
anthers dark, lobes parallel, pollen white. Pistil rather 
longer than the shorter stamens ; style glabrous, and co- 
lourless, except at the apex, where it has a faint tinge, the 
same as the corolla, its lobes subulate, spreading, subequal. 


Disk small, round, fleshy, supporting the abortive acheenia. 
Graham. 


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Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Corolla, laid open. 3. Ovary :—magnified. 


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( 3861 ) ae 
Crocus speciosus. Snowy Crocus. 


KKK EK KK KEKE EEE KEKE 
Class and Order. 


TrranpRiA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—IripAceE®. ) 


Generic Character. 


Scapus latens 1- raro 2-florus ; tubus cylindricus fauce 
ampliat4, limbus regularis, filamenta ori vel infra faucem 
tubi inserta, anthere erecte, stylus gracilis. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Crocus speciosus ; autumnalis, tunicis membranaceis tenu- 


Var. 


ibus, lineis raris parallelis superne confluentibus, vagi- 
nacearum basi persistente laceré disrupta, foliacea ex- 
teriore infra medium cormum affixa, scapo nudo, spa- 
tha occulta tubata bracteé equali non tubaté tubum 
amplexa, tubi parte exserta nuda elongata fauce supra- 
staminea pilis albis minutis hispida, sepalis ceruleo- 
purpureis lineis tribus et basi saturatioribus, petalis 
pallidioribus conspicué venosis, filamentis circ. -unc. 
infra faucem insertis circ. #s-unc. liberis, stigmatibus 
multifidis, foliorum canaliculis non fortiter nervatis 
cost4 dorsali deflexé et densé ciliata multim latioribus, 
seminibus subangulatis obscure subpurpureo - rufo- 
brunneis. : 
1. Caucasicus, fig. 1. C. speciosus, M. von Bieb. non 
Wilson, neque Reichenbach ; cormo minore, gemma- 
florifera (in indigenis) unica uniflora (neque adhuc in 
cultis bifloram vidi), vagina extrafoliacea interne prox- 
im& apice integra, bractea tubum sinistrorsum imbri- 
cante prorsus involvente, germine albo, tubo tenuiore 
ee § parte vix purpura punctato fauce alba, limbo 
minore pallidiore laciniis acutioribus, filamentis albis, 


stigmatibus patulo-multifidis diluté aurantiacis lacinio- 


lis capillaribus apice crassiusculis antheras pera 


VOL, XIV. N 


bus. Variat flore maximo niveo stigmatibus saturate 
aurantiacis pluries et profundids fissis. Variat fig. 1 
etiam flore ceruleo-purpureo stigmatibus tenuioribus 
paucifidis, E Caucaso.—fig. 1+, corm. nudat. Variat 
fig. 1* stylo parvulo ex prov. Karabagh prope mare 
Casp. Herb. Hooker. 

Var. 2. Transylvanicus, fig. 2; (C. speciosus, Bot. Reg. 
25. 40. icone pro cerulescente perperam rubescente) 
cormo e majoribus (in cultis plurigemmato gemmis 
sepius bifloris) vagina interne proxima apice erosa, 
bracteé tubum marginibus non approximatis dimidio 
plus amplexa, germine flavescente, perianthio majore 
saturaté basin versis purpura-punctato, fauce flaves- 
cente, limbo obtusiore saturatiore, filamentis pallide 
flavescentibus subulatis, stigmatibus fasciculato-multi- 
fidis laciniolis superne sensim crassioribus.— Habitat m 
Transyloanid, unde Angliam advectus colitur. Specwm. 
ex Transylv. in Herb. Lindl. est. ¥ 

Var. 3. Laxior ; cormo modico gemma 1—2-flora, bractea 
tubum involvente, tubo confertids et saturatiis pur- 
pura-punctato limbo maximo, stigmatibus laxids effu- 
sis. Prostat venalis apud hortulanos Young et Pamp- 
lin.—Habitat ? Tauriam vel Caucasum ? 


The Genus Crocus extends between the Caspian and the 
Atlantic, as far North as 49° in S. Podolia, but Lam inform- 
ed that it does not cross the upper portion of the Danube in 
48°. I have not been able to learn what changes of soil or 
elevation arrest its progress northwards from Odessa and S. 
Podolia, and confine it to a much lower latitude in France; 
probably the want of drainage and of a dry subsoil ; for it 
usually affects high situations. Southward it reaches 35°, 
or thereabouts, in the line of Tangiers, Malta, Crete, Cyprus, 
and Syria near Aleppo. I find no trace of it further South, 
and I cannot conjecture Mr. Ker’s reason for naming C 


_ -reticulatus of the Danube and Caucasus, C. Susianus, Susa 


being near lat. 32, almost three degrees below the situa- 
tions in which Crocus has been yet found. The Russians 
have not met with it East of the Caspian or Volga. Des- 
FONTAINES described erroneously a Crocus vernus, yellow, 
purple, and white, in its varieties, as found on the ridge of 


_ Atlas, which will be within 35°; but his descriptions were 


taken from Parisian garden specimens, and I learn, that 
the only specimen in his Herbarium, which has the appeat- 
ance 


ance of having been gathered wild, though mu maged 
seems more like C. versicolor; but no Srodis ieee dis- 
covered in the French expeditions from Algiers. ‘The 
beautiful autumnal Crocus here represented belongs to the 
division with a naked scape, wanting the involucre; and 
none such have been found West of Italy. ReIcHENBAcH’s 
C. speciosus is C. Byzantinus Parkinson and Ker, Banna- 
ticus of Gay. Wiutson’s (Eng. Bot.) is C. Pyreneus, Par- 
KINSON, (nudiflorus of Smiru, and multzfidus of Ranow 1% 
very different plant, with an involucrate spathe and stoloni- 
ferous bulbs. The first variety, kindly sent to me by Mons 
Gay, is from Caucasus and the hills near Tifflis; the white 
subvariety is a dry specimen from Caucasus. The second 
more conspicuous, from Transylvania, may be obtained 
from Mr. Osporne’s Nursery at Fulham. The third is cul- 
tivated at Mr. Youne’s Nursery, at Milford, near Godalmin 
and at Mr. Pampetin’s, Lavender Hill, near Battersea. It is 
probably from Tauria, or Caucasus, unless it be the C. spe- 
ciosus said to be found on Mount Athos. The seeds of C. spe- 
ciosus are of a deep purplish rust colour, larger than those 
of C. longiflorus, which approach them in colour. W. H. 


CROCORUM SYNOPSIS. 


TRIDACER. Exspadicee, corolliformes, agynandre, hexapetaloidee, — 
epigyne, triandre. IRIDEZ. Stamina sepalina. se ie | 
CROCUS. Cormus annuus tunicarum vaginacearum et foliacea- 
rum basibus circumnotatus, folia sublinearia dorso bicanaliculato costa- 
to, scapt 1—5 involucrati vel involucro obsoleto nudi, trigoni uni- 
raré bi-flori vaginis inclusi, spatha tubata vel tubum amplexa intus 
bracteata vel bractei obsoleta ebracteata, germen subcylindrico-sub- 
ta, limbus regularis, filamenta ori 
connectivo subdorsali super- 
ate loculis a vertice sublateraliter scissis, stylus 
(lusu interdum 2—4-lobus) sti tibus sensim 


dilatatis, truncatis, vel fimbriato-plicatis, vel pauci- m ti-fidis, fe tems 
i -eista trivalvis trilocularis reflexé dehis- 


cens, semina raphe rugosa subsp 
pallescente vel rufescente vel purpurascente. 
subtruncate vaginarum 3— extrafoliacearum, foltacee s@pe longeé 
apiculate foliorum sub-12, bases sunt inflato-tubate ; foliac t 
et sepius vaginacea interior, exteriores sepe depereunt ; 20na radica- _ 
lis (t. e. fibras radicales emittens) unica 


sita ; gemme cormifere ex zonis omnibus oriri queunt, vel anno prece- 
dente inter bases foliorum recentiorum sub lente vidende ; gemme nas- 
centis vagine extrafoliacee cormo futuro fundum versis, folia gradatim 
altiis, diversis in diversis speciebus spatiis, bast inflato-tubata inserun- 
tur. Fibra radicalis crassa enormis e fundo cormi nascentis interdum, 
uti in gladiolo, enata incrementum inusitatum portendit. Crocorum 
cormis annuis auctorum seriits ociits generationis obsolescit facultas. 
Habitant intra mare Caspium et Atlanticum gradusque, quoad novimus, 
latitudinis terrestris 35 et 49. W. H. 


§. 1. Nudi; 7. ¢., scapi involucro obsoleto. (Vidi interdum in nudis 
involucri obsoleti rudimentum.) 


§§. 1. Membranacei; cormi tunicé precipua membranacea. 


1. Annulatus ; Herbert (vel, si mavis. §. Annulati. 1. Byflorus. 
2. Pusillus. 3. Adamicus. 4. Chrysanthus.). Flore verno; tuni- 
carum vaginacearum basi annulata tantim persistente, foliacea ex- 
teriore dura infra medium cormum affixa, spath4 bractea tubata. 
Osserv. Foliorum marginibus reflexis costa dorsali canaliculis 
angustiore, spathe bractea cylindraceé involuté (non cylindrica), 
perianthii fauce lutea, filamentis sub lente subpubescentibus, stig- 
matibus indivisis subtruncatis odoratis, seminibus pallescentibus 
spheericis raphe et chalaza conspicuis. ; 

A; foliorum et coste dorsalis margine ciliato, canaliculis dorsalibus 
binervibus, filamentis et fauce pubescentibus. 

Var. 1. Adamicus; C. Adami, Gay, Bull. Fer. 25. p. 219. 1831. 
Vaginis pallidis, limbo pallidé ceruleo-violaceo, sepalis extus satu- 
raté 5—7-plumeo-striatis, pube tenui hinc inde ad basim petalo- 
rum, filamentis sub lente minutissimé pubescentibus 4-unc. infra 
limbum tubo insertis, stigmatibus integris plicatis truncatis subtil- 
iter fimbriatis pallidé aurantiacis antheras (filamentis duplo longio- 
res) superantibus. Habitat, teste Gay, in Tauria et Iberia. 

Var.2. Biflorus; Miller. Vaginis lutescentibus, limbo subalbido 
sepalis extus stramineis 5-striatis, foliorum margine crasso recurvo, 
scapo interdum (vidi ipse) bifloro. s 

Subvar 1. Princeps. Supra 845; passim in hortis. Sp. 5-striatum 
orientale, Pallas Herb. Lambert. Sp. 5-striatum ex summis Cyprt 
bays jugis, Sibthorp. Oxon. perperam C. vernus, §, Smith, Prodr. 

eC 


Subvar. 2. Stigmatosus ; Sabine. Limbo subpurpurascente mox al- 
bescente, stylo elongato. 

B; foliis levibus, canaliculis dorsalibus enervibus, filamentis vix sub 
_____ lente pubescentibus. : 
Var. 3. Pusillus ; Tenore. Vaginis albescentibus, foliorum canalicu- 

lis vix nervatis, ciliis et pube feré obsoletis, styli lobis antheras 

superantibus. ‘ 
Subvar. 1. Tenorianus ; minimus limbo albo sepalis extus straminels 

3-striatis petala superantibus. S. Rocco prope Neapolim. 


— ~ Subvar. 2. argenteus ; C. minimus p 


eram supra » FG: pessime 
coloraté. C. argenteus, Sabine Hert. Soc. vie 7. 431, major limbo 
Vide infra ad calcem 3862. 


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HERBERTIA PULCHELLA, ET CERULEA. Pretty, 
AND Brust, HerepertTia. 


Class and Order. 


Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Iripacez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium rectum basi annulatum sepalorum Jaminis 
Magnis patentibus, petalis parvulis cymbiformibus, fila- 
menta monadelpha, anthere in cylindro sessiles subulate 
Styli lobis inter stigmatum lobos agglutinate, stylus rectus 
Sracilis lobis divaricantibus, stigmata lobis binis divarican- 
tibus, capsula oblonga operculo brevi dehiscens, semina 
parva angulata badia; folia plicata, bulbus ovatus. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Herzertia pulchella ; (fig. 1,2. a. b. c.) foliis 5-uncialibus 
vel ultra, seapo floribus pedunculatis successivis brac- 
teato, perianthi sepalis undulatis lilacinis ungue pal- 
lidé lutescente vel albicante Jilacino-punctato, petalis 
lilacinis medio saturatioribus, antheris subulatis stig- 
mata superantibus. 1. var. ungue albicante. 2. var. 
ungue lutescente. a. petalum, 6. sepalum. ¢, germen 
cum genitalibus. 
Hereervia pulchella. Sweet Br. Fl. Gard. 222, 
Herzertia cerulea, (fig. 3. d. e. f.) pedunculi bracteis brevi- 
oribus, sepalorum unguibus albis ceruleo-punctatis 
laminis ceruleis macula ad basin saturata triangular, 
petalis acutis ceruleis medio saturatioribus, antheris et 
stigmatibus brevibus, a. styli lobus cum stigmate bilo- 
_.. bo. e. idem cum anthera. /f. anthera. | 
Trirurcia cerulea. Herbert, supra 3779, p. 3. 
Herserrsa pulchella? Lod. Bot. Cab.—W. H. 


2 


Seeeeies 


of Hersertia pul- 
yle, and 
stamina: 


Fig. 1 and 2 represent two varieties 
chella, a. the petal, 6. the sepal, c. the germen, st 


stamina. The figure in the “ British Flower Garden” of 
Sweet, by whom it was named, is so indifferent, and the 
description of the stigmas so inaccurate, that H. c@rulea 
was supposed to be generically distinct, and Hersertia to 
have laminaformed stigmas, till an opportunity presented 
itself at Spofforth of examining H. pulchella. Pulchella 
was found in the neighbourhood of Buenos Ayres ; cerulea 
was sent by Drummonp from Texas. The plant figured in 
the “ Botanical Cabinet” as Herserria pulchella is evi- 
dently not that plant. The Genus Trirurcta merges In 
Hersertia. W. H. 


stbpurpurascente (variat pallidiore) sepali sextus stram. 3-str- 
petala superantibus.—Pisa ; variat aliquantulum in solo Romano. 
Specim. ex Caucaso, Prescott, Herb. Hooker. ; 

Subvar. 3. Cerulescens ; perianthio aliquantulum majore petalis sub- 
cerulescentibus. Ossolone in ditione Neapolitana. 

Subvar. 4. Lineatus ; Jan. (C. biflorus, Parkinsoni, perperam, Sa- 
bine). Major limbo albo sepalis 3-striatis. Prope Parmam ; wpsé 

_ non vidi. : 

Subvar. 5. striatus; Herbert. Biflorus, Bot. Reg. 1987. Lim- 
bo purpureo petalis sepala extus straminea non striata superantl- 
bus, bractea tenuiore lorata. Prope Florentiam.—Specim. prope 
“agg lect. Herb. Hooker. Spec. orientale, Pallas. Herb, Lam- 

ert. 

Subvar. 6. <Albidus ; Herbert. Foliis angustis, limbo albo (ni fallor 
in siccis) non striato, sepalis petala obtusiora, styli lobis antheras, 
superantibus. Specim. Pallas Herb. Lambert.—Sp. ex Taurid 
Herb. Hooker,—Sp. ex Sylvis Bononiensibus? %b. ; 

C. perianthio aureo; cormi tunicis foliaceis duris circumscissis superne 
cuspidatis. 

Var. 4. Chrysanthus ; Herbert ; .ex sicco (nisi sp. per se C. ch Ty- 
santhus) minimus, foliis angustis, spatha et bractea tubum aureum 
amplexis equantibus, limbo circ. 3-unc. aureo, petalis obtusiorbus 
sepala, styli lobis antheras, superantibus. Prope Byzantium : 
nomine C. aurei legit Fridvalsky, Herb. Hooker, foliorum marginé, 
canaliculis, et bast, ignotis. 

2. Speciosus. Flore autumnali. Vide supra 3861. 

3. Pulchellus ; Herbert ; ex sicco (nisi sit C. speciosus, pulchellus, 
Var). Flore autumnali, cormo minimo unigeminato unifloro, tu- 
Spee Rimmer basi feré circumscissis, spatha inclusi, bractes 
_ (ni fallor) tubata spatham vix equante, tubo gracili parte exser! 
_elongaté nuda 2 unc. circ. Epes superante, rey unciali (in 
____ Si¢co purpureo concolore) fauce saturaté ates; stigmatibus mequa- 
eee libus superne furcatis apice exasperaté fisso, foliis hysteranthus 
Pe Viton Lies, a autumn. prope Byzantium a Mont-Bret 
FL OE tee . Hooker. Vivum non vidi. fe 
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3863. 


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BomareaA SimpLex. Simpte Bomarea. 


Class and Order. 


Hexanpria Monoeynia. 


( Nat. Ord.—Amarytimpacex. Subord. Hypoxipes. 
§. ALSTRG:MIFORMEs. ) 


Generic Character. 


Caulis umbellatus tortus, sepala petalis diversa, filamenta 
petalina prestantiora, capsula obtusé trigona superne de- 


hiscens. | 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Bomarga simplex ; foliis acuté subcordatis subtis tomento- 
sis, pedunculis sub-5 infra medium minuté bracteis 
sepius simplicibus munitis, obvolucrz foliolis plerumque 
parvulis, germinis operculo canescente pubescente, pe- 
rianthio subequali unciali, sepalis rubris, petalis viridi- 
luteis rubro-punctatis. 

Var. 1. Herb. Amaryll. 15. f. 5. p. 119. 

Var. 2. Furcaté, pedunculis bifloris. . 

Var. 3. Acuminata, petalis acuminatiis productis. W. H. 


~ 


Seeds of three varieties of this plant were brought by 
Mr. Pentianp from different situations near Cusco, whic 

have all flowered in the open ground at Spofforth, in front 
of the greenhouses. Two of them are here represented. 
The third had simple peduncles, with the petals longer and 
more pointed. It was observed, Herb. Am. p. 119, that the 
bracts on the peduncles seemed to indicate a disposition to 
form a secondary one, and accordingly one of these vari- 
eties departs from the simple type. The species is very 
hardy, and appears to extend widely on the Andes, with 
much variability. The white down on the opercle of the 
germen is remarkable. I find my Spuzrine brevis amongst 


Mr. Marruews’s drawings, which enables me to add to its 
Pie description, 


description, Perianthium rubro-coccineum cornu viridi. 
Another of his drawings represents Bomarea dispar, which 
enables me to add to its description, Sepala rubro-purpurea, 
petala viridia margine punctato, anthere lilacine, caulis 
subpurpurascens. W. H. 


4. Sibthorpianus. Flore verno? (nisi sit revera var. C. Tournefortu 
autumnalis, Gay). Cormi tunicis tenuiter membranaceis nitidis 
demum inferne laceré circumscissis, scapis 1—2 vagina interlore 
unciam circiter brevioribus, spath4 lati-bracteata tubum subequan- 
te, limbo (albo et purpureo?) fauce levi (lutescente !) stylo trifido 
tenui antheras vix aut non equante. ‘“C. vernus, 7; orientalis 
flore subc@ruleo seu violaceo externe spadiceo rubente. Tourn. 
Cor, 25.” Smith, Prod. perperam C. vernus. Specimina ex sum- 
mis Crete et Cypri jugis, Sibthorp. Oxon. Cormum integrum non 
vidi. ‘ 
Var. 1. Jatifolius ; foliis medio latioribus. : inti 
Var. 2. angustifolius ; foliis angustioribus linearibus ; limbo mimore * 
5. Tournefortianus; Gay, Bull. Ferus. 25. 220. “ Flore autumnali 
_,  tunicis tenuissimis basi demum in fibras capillares liberas solutis 
. foliaceis continuis levissimis e superiore hemispherio ortis, brac- 
tea dimidiata (7. e. lorata) stigmatibus profundé multifidis levibus ; 
flores ceerulescentes violaceistriati; autumnalis. Habitat in Cycla- 
dibus insulis.” Gay ex sicco citat. Certé Sibthorpiano affinis. 


_ §§. 2. Squammati; tunici squammata. 

6. Levigatus ; Bory, V. du Mor, cum icone. Spec. Sibth. Oxon. 
Perperam C. vernus, Smith. Flore verno; cormi tunicis duris le- 
vibus enervibus infra squameeformiter laceris, scapis 4, germime fere 
exserto, spatha bracteique erosis tubum circiter uncialem superne 
luteum subequantibus, fauce perianthii levi saturaté aurantiaca, 
stylo tenui filamenta subequante petalis subalbidis sepalis purpura 
trilineatis, foliis angustis linea alba. Jn Erymantho nive Just 
statim exortus. Sp. Sibthorp. ex Creté aut Cypro certé est Levi- 
gati var. : 


§§. 3. Parallelo-fibrosi; tunicarum fibris parallelis. 


7. Boryanus ; flore autumnali, germine vaginas subeequante, folus an- 
is, spatha. bracteaque ssesetalstoan cei perianthii tubo et fauce 
uteis, limbo lacteo, stigmatibus exasperatis antheras superantibus. 
Var. 1. Cephalonensis ; C. Boryi, Gay, Bull. Ferus. 25. 220. Bory, 
V. du Mor. cum icone. Tunicis foliaceis levissimis petiolis (?. ¢ 
basi) liberis exteriore infra med. affixi in fibras complanatas de- 
mum solutis, bractea lorata, stigmatibus profundé multifidis exas- 
peratis ; flores lactei autumnales. Jn Peloponeso et Cep 
Gay ; prope Modon et Navarino, Bory ; in monte Nero Cephalo- 
nie, unio tter. Octobr. 
Var.2. Caspius. C. Caspius; Fischer MSS. Lenzovan. Herb. 
_ Hook, ; tubo longiore vix diversus, 
| 8. Lageneflorus. 


Vide infra ad calcem 3864. 


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Crocus SUAVEOLENS. SWEET-SCENTED 
Crocus. 


KEK KKK KEKE EEE ERE KEE 
Class and Order. 


TrianpriA Monoeyntia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Iripaces. ) 
Generic Character.—Vide supra N“” 3861. 


Specific Character and Synonym. 


Crocus suaveolens; vernus cormi tunica vaginacea interi- 
ore prope basim affixa fibris parallelis superne reticu- 
laté confluentibus, foliaceé exteriore supra medium 
cormum affixa pallidiore inciso-notata, imvolucro bi- 
floro spath& breviore tubato apiculato, spathé tubata 
acuta ebracteaté hyalina, tubo albicante ad faucem au- 
rantio-maculata, limbo purpureo fauce saturaté auranti- 
aco-maculata sepalis extus stramineis 3-striatis, petalis 
ad basim 5-striatis, stigmatibus truncatis odoratis anthe- 
ras prorsus superantibus, antheras filamenta duplo 
superantibus, foliis levibus canaliculatis enervibus 
costi dorsali latioribus, capsula (an semper ?) estriata. 
Habitat in Campagna di Roma et Valle d’Inferno 
Romam prope, Itri Neapolitano, et in collibus calcareis 
Fundos juxta. 

Crocus suaveolens. Bertoloni. W. H. 


This very pretty and sweet-scented Italian Crocus is suf- 
ficiently hardy to bear our climate. Some bulbs of it were 
brought to England by the Hon. Witiiam STRANGWAYS, 
and others have been sent to Spofforth from Naples by 
Professor Tenore. It varies a little in the streaks on the 
sepals and size and shape of the segments. It is distin- 
guished from C. Imperatonius, by the decided reticulation 


of the upper part of the inner vaginaceous coat, by the 
unvarying 


ee Var. 


unvarying absence of the conspicuous bracte within the 
spathe, which seems constant in the latter, and the absence 
of purple stripes on the immature capsule, and the stigmas 
are small and truncate, exceeding their anthers by their 
whole length, whereas those of Imperatonwus are usually 
more ragged, and scarcely exceeding them, ‘The mner 
vaginaceous coat is reticulated upwards, parallel-fibred be- 
low and attached near the base, the outer foliaceous coat 
attached on the brow above the middle of the corm, as It 1s 
in C. Imperatonius. W. H. 


Fig. 1. The neck of the Bulb, the two-flowered Involucre, and one of the 
Spathes cut open, showing the Germen and Tube. 2. Outside of a Sepal. 
3. Inside of a Petal. 4. Style and Stamens. 


8. Lageneflorus. Nobis 3869. Flore verno. 

9. Campestris ; Pallas MSS. Herb. Lambert,—* Serotinus!” perperam 
Ker in Synon. Bot. Mag. 1267. C. hybernus, Fridwalski, MSS. 
in herbariis ; in Roumelid lectus. Flore autummali, sero; cormo 
modico unigemmato 1- rarits 2-floro, tunic vaginacea interlore 
conferté subparallelo-fibros’ prope basim affix ; foliaceis fibris ten- 
uiter reticulatis superne setosis exteriore infra med. proxima paul- 
16 supra affixa, scapo brevi (}-unc.), spatha bracteata, bractea (ni 
fallor) tubat& (certé tubum amplex4), tubo vaginas extrafoliaceas 
unc. plis minus superante, limbo pallidé (in sicco) griseo-violaceo, 
interdum albo, sepalis petala longitudine et latitudime superantibus, 
stigmatibus simplicibus sensim majoribus truncatis antheras paullo 
superantibus, foliis 6—10 angustis hysteranthiis vere excrescenti- 


bus rariis apice synanthio. Hab. Tauriam et Roumeliam. Vivum 
non vidi. 


§§. 4. Reticulati; tunica precipua reticulata. 


10. Cancellatus ; Herbert. Flore autumnali vel estivo; cormo unl- 
gemmato 1—2-floro tunicis laté reticulatis demum cribrosis, folia- 
ceis superne setosis, scapo (ni fallor in sicco) nudo, spatha (ni 
fallor) bracteata bracted tubaté, tubo superne nudo flavescente, 
limbo purpureo ad basim extus saturatiis stricta, stigmatibus me- 
qualibus subsimplicibus antheras subequantibus saturate auran- 

Var. 1. Kotschianus ; minor limbo circ, 1}-unc. In Syrié legit @s- 
tate Th. Kotschy, Herb. Bentham ; in Taurid, Herb. Hooker. 

2. Naupliensis ; major limbo circ. 13-unc. Spec. Octobri 

_ Naupliam lect. perperam C. nudiflorus, Herb. Bentham. V2vos 

2 : ll. Reticulatus ; 
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CopurGia Coccinea. SCARLET CoBURGIA. 


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Class and Order. 


TyranpRiA Monoeynia. 


( Nat. Ord.—Amarytimaces. Subord. AMARYLLIDES. 
§. PANCRATIFORMEs. ) 


Generic Character. 


Tubus ampliato-cylindricus plis minis curvatus, limbus 
brevis regularis semipatens, corona subcylindrica dentibus 
interstamineis, filamenta vix conniventi, anthere recte, 
stylus gracilis, stigma obtusum. 


Specific Character. 


Cozpureia coccinea; bulbo bulbulifero depressé rotundo, 
scapo circ. 4-floro glauco subterete foliorum saturate 
viridium nitentium obtusorum semunciam latorum 
preecursore, spatha vix unciali viridi marcescente, pe- 
dunculis inequalibus subsesquiuncialibus, perianthio 
leté coccineo, tubo I4-unc. basi tenui curve pracipi- 
tato pendulo superne ultra -unc. lato, corona $-une. 
dentibus bilobis acutis, limbo cire. 3-unc. subovalibus, 
filamentis brevibus, antheris luteis limbum equantibus 
stylo 4-une. brevioribus, stigmate dilatato simplici palli- 
do.—Habitat Andes Peruvie prope Caxamarquillam. 
Hujus generis est fortasse Carpodetes recurvata (P, 
recurvatum, Ruiz) tubi parte sub limbi specie perperam 


depictd. W. Hl. 


This beautiful plant was discovered by Joun Maciean 
Esq., of Lima, in one of his excursions over the Cordillera, 
and two bulbs dug up by him were kindly sent to Spofforth. 
They were potted in rich alluvial soil, with a little rotten 
manure, and throve well, standing out all the summer and 
autumn of 1839, the season being unusually wet and cold, 


but appeared to dislike sunshine and fine weather. At the 
approach 


approach of winter the leaves perished, when the pots were 
set dry in the greenhouse. Early in the spring both the 
bulbs flowered, the spathe having appeared while the bulbs 
were dry. One of them flowered again at the end of Oc- 
tober, very shortly after the pot had been set dry. The 
plant has considerable affinity in the form of its flower, and 
the abrupt curvature of the tube, to Carpoperes recurvata, 
but the enlarged part of the flower of that plant is supposed 
to be a portion of the limb. It is, however, very probable 
that it will be found to conform with this plant, in which 
case it will form a section with this plant, if not a separate 
Genus. There is a race of plants, of which Mr. Macrean 
sent bulbs and dry specimens to Spofforth in 1840, which 
appear to form a link between Copureia and CLinANTHUS. 
By Mr. Martuews’s drawings it appears that the tube of 
C. variegata is little curved or attenuated, and more erect 
than usual in this Genus, while that of C. incarnata is very 
slender in the lower part, and exceedingly curved down- 
wards, approaching nearer to the form of coccinea than 
fulva, variegata, and trichroma, and the germen of varie- 
gata is somewhat triangular. Mr. Macrean has sent spe- 
cimens of another remarkable Copureia. Copureia acuta, 
Hersert ; foliis sensim attenuatis, umbellé decemflora spa- 
tha 24-unciali valvis 3-latis, pedunculis brevibus, perian- 
thio triunciali fulvo, filamentis semunciain stylo brevioribus 
corona longioribus, stylo limbum vix uncialem superante, 
limbi foliolis angustis acutis, corone dentibus, ni fallor in 
sicco, indivisis. Mr. Maciean has sent to Spofforth two 
bulbs, which have flowered, of a species of Eusrerusa, with 
long leaves, erect, with the upper part hanging down to the 
ground, Evusrerura Macleanica, Hersert. The singular 
construction of the filaments and the asserted pits under 
them had thrown discredit on the Genus. There are no pits 
in this, but the filaments are winged, and the wings termi- 
nate in long setiform teeth. W. H. 


ll. Reticulatus ; M. v. Bieb. Perperam Susianus, supra 652. Flore 
__Verno ; cormi tunica vaginacea interiore depereunte, foliaceis reticu- 
latis exteriore cribrosi prope basim affixi, basi inferne apiculate 
circumsciss4, proxima supra medium, ceteris gradatim altius, foliis 
costa dorsali ciliata canaliculis angustis latiore marginibus cras- 

sis reflexis, scapo elongato, spatham bractei tubati sub aequan- 

te, limbi fauce levi, filamentis dorso non canaliculatis Javibus orl 
ipsi insertis stigmatibus conduplicatis inzequalibus integris. . fs 4 

ar. 1. 

Vide infra ad calcem 3866. 


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CALLITHAUMA VIRIDIFLORUM, ET ANGUSTIFOLIUM. 
GREEN-FLOWERED, AND NARROW-LEAVED, 
CALLITHAUMA. 


SEK KKK KKK EK KKEEKEK 
Class and Order. 


( Hexanpria Monoeynia. ) 


( Nat. Ord.—Amarytupacez. Subord. AMARYLLIDEZ. 
§. PANCRATIFORMES. ) 


Generic Character. 


Tubus gracilis ampliato-cylindricus subhorizontalis. Co- 
rona subinfundibuliformis, limbus minimé patens, filamenta 
brevia conniventia corone lateribus inserta. Stigma obtu- 
sum. Plante bulbo subcylindrico, foliis lineartbus. Hab. 
Andes. Genus Coburgie affine. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Catuirnauma viridiflorum ; (fig. a.) bulbo sexunciali cylin- 
drico foliis cire. 3-latis viridibus subplanis scapo viridi 
ancipite, spatha marcescente decidua, pedunculis bre- 
vibus vix equalibus, germine oblongo trigono circ. 4- 
une. tubo 13—1-une. superne 4-une. lato pallidé viridi, 
limbo viridi subunciali, corona zquali pallidiore mar- 
gine 12-lobo, filamentis regioni corone superior! In- 
sertis conniventibus inclusis, antheris luteis versatili- 
bus, stylo corona breviore stigmate obtuso. 

Caturraauma viridiflorum. Herb. Amaryll. Pancratium 
viridiflorum. Ruiz, Flora Peruv. 

CauirHauma angustifolium; (fig. b.) foliis dimidio angustio- 
ribus, limbo coronam i-une. excedente, stylo perian- 
thium excedente stigmate trilobé dilatato. 

Habitant in Palce Peruviane versuris, et secundum Ruiz 
et Pav. in Huassahuassi nemoribus. W. H. 


This bulb, which is stated in the “ Flora Peruviana” to 


have large and beautiful emerald-green flowers on a — 


as tall as a man, has excited much curiosity, no specimen 
of it having been brought to Europe. Mr. Mactean in 
one of his interesting excursions undertook to seek for it on 
the headlands of the ploughed land in Palca, where he dis- 
covered it, having a stem scarcely three feet high and a 
triangular capsule, the bulb answering the description of 
Ruiz, but the natives denied its ever growing taller. The 
bulb sent to Spofforth showed blossom immediately, but 
having very little fibre, the scape did not grow above a 
foot high. It is very possible, that in the moist woods of 
Peru, it may reach a greater size than on the stony head- 
lands. The second species has a smaller bulb of the same 
form, much narrower leaves, a shorter tube, limb exceeding 
the cup, and style exceeding the limb, with a three-corner- 
ed dilated stigma, which is almost lobed. It was found in 
the same neighbourhood, I believe nearer to Vitoc, which 
is on the bounds of Peruvian civilization. CALLITHAUMA IS 
closely akin to Cosurara, of which it may perhaps ultimately 
be found to form a section. Its filaments are inserted into 
the side of the cup and dip into it. W. H. 


Var.1. Reflexus ; perperam Susianus Ker, Bot. Mag. 652. ; C. ful- 
vus; Pallas MSS. Herb. Lamb. Limbo aureo sepalis revolutis 
extus fusco-purpureo-striatis vel suffusis. Odessa, Caucasus. 

Var. 2. Rectilimbus ; similis precedenti sepalis non revolutis; sed 
sepalis depressis, petalis erectioribus. Jn hortis. 

Var. 3. Jmmaculatus ; flore aureo estriato ; C. fulvus, Pallas ap. Herb. 
Lamb.—Spec. Herb. Hooker ex Byzantio ; Lady Liston. 

Var. 4. Variegatus ; Hornsch et Hoppe ; foliis patentibus, scapo elon- 
gato, germine subalbido, limbo pallidé purpurascente, sepalis ex- 
tus striatis, tubo saturaté 6-lmeato. Istria, Sylva Lipiza dicta, 
Podolia Australis, Odessa, Caucasus ; Corcyra in collibus Cotony- 
chit teste pr. Tipaldo. 

12. Gargaricus ; Herbert. Specim. Crips et Yalden ex monte Gar- 
garo. Herb. Banks et Bentham.—Dr. Clark, Herb. Lambert. 

Flore verno, tunic vaginacea interiore fibris superne cribrosé reti- 

culatis inferne parallelis basi non circumscissa, spatha (nescio an 

bracteata) tubo aureo breviore, limbo $-unc. subcitrino rarlus sub 
aureo vel aureo petalis obtusis sepalis acutis longioribus, filamentis 

Z-uncialibus stylum antheris 4-uncialibus stigmata indivisa tenwia 

subequantibus, foliis 4 synanthiis. 

Sieberianus ; C. Sieberi, Gay, Bull. Fer. 25, 220, 1831. ©. 
nivalis ; Bory, V.du Mor. Flore verno, cormi tunicis tenuissimée 
sub-reticulato-fibrosis molliusculis (secundum Gay foliaceis demum 
cribrosis exteriore prope basim affixa) scapo ad apicem feré Nn: 

interio: 


13. 


Vide infra ad calcem 3867. 


3867 


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~CopurGia TrichromaA. ‘'THREE-COLOURED 
CopuRGIA. 


KEE KEKE KEKE KEE KEK EEK EEK 
Class and Order. 


HexanpriaA Monoeynta. 


( Nat. Ord.—Amarytiipacem. Subord. AMARYLLIDER. 
§. PANcRATIFORMEs. ) : 


Generic Character.—Vide supra Ne. 3865. 


Specific Character and Synonym. 


Cosureia trichroma ; bulbo ovato brunneo, foliis glaucis 
obtusis semunciam latis crassis suberectis, scapo glauco, 
spathé viridi pedunculos breves superante, germine 
viridi, tubo coccineo cire. 14-unc. infra 4-superne 7%- 
une. lato curvatulo, limbo 4-unc. laciniis margine pal- 
lido extus coccineis stria superne media viridi intus 
pallidiore, corond brevi dentibus 6 bilobis filamenta 
alternatim ;°;—75-unc. antheris luteis. W. H. 

Pancratium trichroma ; Llave et Llexarsa. 


The bulb of this species, which flowered at Spofforth in 
June, 1838, was sent by J. Mactan, Esq., from Lima, hav- 
ing been dug up on the Andes. It appears similar to the 
plant cultivated in Mexico ; and bulbs which seem to be of 
the same species have been received from Mechoacan. 
The true Cosuretas are shy flowerers with us, and also in 
their native country, having a great disposition to. waste 
their strength in producing offsets. They like strong allu-_ 
vial and manured soil, and are often found wild on inacces- 
sible rocks, on the edge of a precipice, and sometimes 
deeply imbedded in the drift soil. W. H. 


14. 


_ sus Cebenne pascua, in 


interioris elongato, spatha lati-bracteata tubum vaginas unc. supe- 
rantem feré equante, limbi uncialis violacei fauce, (levi, ni fallor) 
purpurascente in sicco Sibthorpiano, aurantiaco, Gay, stylo subal- 
bido antheras stigmatibus vix incisis paullum superantibus. Spec. 
Sibthorp. Oxon. In summis Crete et Cypri jugis—In T roadts et 
Crete montibus. Gay—Cormum integrum non vidi. 
Fleischerianus ; C. Fleischeri, Gay. Flore verno, cormi tunicis 
vaginaceis crassis demum meré fibrosis fibris tenacibus subtiliter 
intertextis, foliaceis reticulatim nervatis nunquam cribrosis exteri- 
ore medio affixa, bractea tubata, stigmatibus profundé multifidis, 
limbo albo sepalis extus violaceo-striatis. Specim. ex Smyrne 
montibus Herb. Hooker. 


§.2. Involucrati; 7. e. scapo involucrato. 


§§. 1. Membranacei. 


Parvulus ; Herbert. Flore autumnali? Cormo parvulo tunica 
badia levi membranacea basi lacer4, involucro, (ni fallor in sicco, 
quod vix puto) tubato apice brevi obtuso, spatha tubata (ebrac- 
teata ?) apice bifido, foliis tenuibus hysteranthiis, capsula parvula 
apiculaté, seminibus pallidé badiis apiculatis. Flos ignotus ; spe- 
cies e minimis ; ex Syrid capsulé maturé foliis angustis subuncia- 
libus mense Martio receptus pluviis estivis gravatus pertit. Spes 
seminum me fefellit. g Sens in Herb. Hooker deposui ; ic. pict. 
apud me est. 
§§. 2. Parallelo-fibrosi. 


eneus; Parkinson, Par. A. D, 1629. C. nudiflorus, Smith, 
. Bot. 1798, f. 491. C. multifidus, Ramon, Bull. des Sc. 
de la Soc. Philom. 1800. C. speciosus, Wilson, Eng. Bot. Suppl. 
2. 2752. Autumnalis, cormo modico tunicis parallelo -fibro- 
sis, ex basi et zonis omnibus stolonibus elongatis aucto, tunica 
foliaced exteriore supra rariis infra medium, proxima summo fere 
cormo affix4, gemma ascendente unica, vaginis circiter sex, inferio- 
ribus truncatis, dudbus intimis subacutis, proxima obtusa, foliis 
3—6 hysteranthiis canaliculis costa dorsali angustioribus margini- 
bus levibus crassis reflexis, involucro subterraneo tubato laxo unl- 
bi-floro, spatha ebracteata elongato-exserta superne subvirescente, 
tubo spatham superante fauce levi, limbo purpureo, filamentis levi- 
bus infra faucem insertis; stigmatibus subfaciculate multifidis 
aurantiacis antheras superantibus. Floret Septembri; vestit pas- 
cua Pyrenaica passim nine ad 6,000 pedum alt. Orientem ver- 
. ccidente colles Hispanie usque ad Gyon 
et Santander, Septentrionem versis Aquitaniam incolit. In An- 
ga, prope Warrington, Halifax, et Nottingham, in f 
dubio non est indigena. Pluviis apud nos immodicis vigentior 
tdeoque biflorus gaudet. 
§§. Subparalleli, fibris parallelis confluentibus. 
Serotinus ; Salisbury, Par. Lond. 30. A. D. 1805. Serotinus, 
Ker, a 1267, non verd C. Campestris, Herb. Pallas, tbi cit» 
neque C. serotinus, Bertoloni. Flore autumnali sero, cormo © 
Vide infra ad calcem 3868. 


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Crocus ANNULATUS ADAmicus. Mons. 
ApaAm’s var. of Crocus ANNULATUS. 


SEEKER EKER EEE EEE 
Class and Order. 


Trianpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—IripAcez. ) 
Generic Character.—Vide supra N“” 3861. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Vide Synop. supra N“” 3861, ad calcem. 


©. annulatus Adamicus flowers at Spofforth very early, 
having been kindly sent there by Mons. Gay, who named 
it C. Adami. It will be seen by the descriptions, that all 
the varieties enumerated conform with each other, and 
differ from other species in the bulb, and agree also in the 
naked scape and tubular bracte. I have named the group 
C. annulatus, from the persistent rings, which are the base 
of the vaginaceous extrafoliaceous coats. Those who like 
to multiply species may look upon Annulati as a section of 
the Genus, and the varieties as species ; they will be at least 
designated usually by the subordinate names for conveni- 
ence. Mr. Gay received it from Tauria. W. H. 


Fig. 1. Section of the Tube’s mouth below a Petal, showing the Tufts of 
Hair. 2, Ditto, below a Sepal, with the Stamen. 3. Naked Scape, with 
Spathe and Tubular Bracte. 4. The Inflorescence without Spathe, Bracte, 
or Limb. 5. Inside of a Petal. 6, The rings at the base of the bulb 


coats. 


a 


majoribus subrotundo tunici vaginac. interiore fibris parallelis su- 
perne confluentibus, foliacea exteriore membran. supra med. corm. 
is, gemme vaginis Circ. 5, duabus 


interioribus 3 gradatim altits affixis, ge if 
interior. inequal. acutis ceteris obtusis vel truncatis, scapo brevi, 
involucro 


VOL. XIV. N 


involucro tubato apice acuto vaginas vix superante ad pedem scapi 
interdum bracteato, spatha tubaté tubum non equante parte ex- 
__serta viridi-nervata, bracted acut& angust4 subeequali basi latiore 
tubum amplex4, germine subluteo, tubo violaceo-striato exserto 
fauce intus pallidissimé flavescente ad laciniarum basim pubescente, 
limbo griseo-violaceo sepalis extus striis sex pallidioribus intus 
macula ad basim ‘sublutea, filamentis a tergo canaliculatis summe 
feré fauci insertis subluteis antheras aureas non equantibus, stig- 
matibus limbum sepissimé subequantibus coccineis erecté breviter 
fasciculato-multifidis basi seepius antheras superantibus, foliis circ. 
5 synanthiis costa dorsali canaliculis enervibus latiore marginibus 
crassis scabris. Habitat in pinetis Gaditanis et in Alpibus Elibe- 
ritanis de la Sierra Nevada. P. Barker Webb, Iter Hisp. p. 9. 
Pie di borro, pes asini Lusitanis, Ker, nomen C. clusiano, s2 non 
potius colchico, proprium. Species celi Britannict patiens. Flor. 
Oct., Nov., et Decemb. 
Tingitanus; Herbert. Specim. autumnalia, Herb. Hooker, Ben- 
tham, et alibi, a Solyman prope Tingidem lecta. Flore autumnali, 
cormo e majoribus subrotundo tun. fibris parall. superne interdum 
confluentibus, foliaceis superne setosé apiculatis exteriore parum 
infra med: affixa, scapo elongato (4-unc.) involucro acuminaté api- 
culato apice tantim germen superante, spatha tubata subobtusa 
tubum non equante, ebracteataé limbo circ. 13-unc. longo, filam. 
antheras non equantibus, stigmatibus coccineis 5—6-fidis anthe- 
ras equantibus limbo longé brevioribus, foliis synanthiis circ. 7 an- 


gustis acutis, Serotino affinis, Vivum non vidi, viz a Salzman- 
niano secernendus. 


ignotus. Ex conjecturéd med C. Tingitani e¢ Clusiani jilamenta 
canaliculata et perianthii faux pubescens invenientur, qué st fiant, 
mihi erit C. canaliculatus, v. 1. Serotinus, v. 2. Tingitanus cum 

_  Salzmanniano, v. 3. Clusianus. 
7. Byzantinus ; Parkinson Par. 168. 4. D. 1629. Ker in Bot. Mag. 
1111. p. 2. 4. D. 1808. C. Banaticus, Gay Bull. de Fer. 25. p- 
990. A. D. 1831. C. speciosus, Reichenbach Iconog. Bot. Cent. 
10. C. Iridiflorus, Heuffel et Reichenb. Flore autumnali, cormo 
© majoribus et magis rotundis tunic’ obscuré rufescente, - 2 
Vide infra ad calcem 3870. 


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Crocus LAGENZFLoRUS; var. lacteus lutes- 
cens. PALE YELLow GourRD-SHAPED Crocus. 


SKK KKK KKK KEE KEE KEKE 
Class and Order. 


Trianpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Ir1pacez. ) 
Generic Character.—Vide supra N*” 3861. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Crocus lageneflorus ; tunicd vaginacea interiore fibris paral- 
lelis prope basim cormi affixa, non circumscissa, exte- 
rioribus tenuibus membranaceis basi tanttm persisten- 
tibus, foliacea interiore membranacea sepe obliqué, in- 
terioribus summo affixis, foliis margine et costa dorsali 
ciliatis, canaliculis dorsalibus vix nervatis costa dor- 
sali latioribus, margine reflexo, scapo nudo, spathé laxa 
lorato-bracteata (bracte4 in cultis sepe obsoleta) cap- 
sulam persistenter obvolvente, perianthio aureo inter- 
dum pallidissimo (colore in cultis maximé variabili), 
filamentis pubescentibus non sulcatis, antheris stylum 
brevem nequaquam multifidum sepiis superantibus, 
capsula oblongé apice purpurascente, seminibus pallidé 
purpureo-brunneis raphe et chalaza pallidioribus con- 
spicuis. eae 2 ‘ : 

Var. 1. Aureus; Smith; perianthio aureo, spatha in cultis 
sepe ebracteata. Supra 2986. Eng. Bot. 2646. Smith, 
Prod. Fl. Grac. 1. 24. C. lagenetlorus, y. Par, Lond. 
106. In arenosis Gracie supra argillam.—Flavus ? 
Su i colli di Chiefalo Ypso da Febbr. a tutto Aprile ; 
fiort gialli aranciati. Prof. Tipaldo Anthol. Ion. Cor- 
cyr@. | | 

Salar: 1. Trilineatus ; aureo similis lineis tribus externis 
cerulescentibus in summo tubo et sepalorum basi, spa- 
tha ebracteata. Variat lineis plus minus continuatis. 
Ex semine aurei prognatus. 


Subvar. 2. Sulphurascens ; sulphureo concolore pallidior, 
3 ta. Ex semine aurei 


fauce concolore, spatha ebracteati 


rognuatus, 
— Subvar. 


Subvar. 3, Albus; perianthio albo, spatha bracteata vel 
ebracteata. Ex semine aurei prognatus ? 

Var. 2. Lacteus; pube filam. fortiore, folior. feré obsoleta. 

Subvar. 1. Concolor. Sabine Hort. S. Tr. v.7. Meesi- 
acus, @. supra 1111. Perianthio lacteo, fauce luteo 
pallidé maculata, spatha ebracteata ; albo vix dissim- 
ilis. Hab. incert. An ex semine aurei prognatus 
nisi sit C. sulphureus, Seoxpws, Prof. Tipaldo Anthol. 
Ion. Corcyre, sopra il porto Collura (Kzaaspa) a S. 
Stephano e ne terreni inculti di Catu Garunna (Karw 
Tapsve) Febr., Mar., vel idem cum C. Boryano. 

Subvar. 2. Pennicillatus. Sabine, Hort. S. T. 0.7 ." Ker, 
supra 2645 ; per. lacteo lineis ad sepalorum basim tri- 
bus ceruleis, spatha ebracteaté. An ex semine aurel 
prognatus ? 

Subvar. 3. Lutescens ; tubo albescente pallidé czruleo- 
lineato, limbo pallidé luteo, fauce et Jimbi basi macula 
radiata saturaté luted, spatha ebracteata, foliis Jatiori- 
bus ; 4 vel 5 in agro Suffolciano, Barton Park dicto, 
inventi sunt, haud procul (circ. 70 pass.) a loco ubi C. 
aureus et annulatus argenteus sponte crescunt, 

Var. 3. Sulphureus, Subvar. concolor ; Ker, supra 1384 3 
perianthio aureo-sulphurascente fauce aurea, spatha 
bracteata foliis angustis strictis, antheris sterilibus. 
Senio effcetus ; ex aurei semine, puto, prognatus. 

Subvar. 1. Pallidus ; sulphureo similis flore sulphureo-al- 
bicante, spatha, antheris, foliis, ut in precedente. Pro- 
cul dubio sulphureo cognatus. Sabine Hort. S. Tr. v- ff 

Subvar. 2. Sériatus ; Ker, supra 938; per. aureo-sulphu- 
rascente sepalis extus striatis, spatha, antheris, follis, 
ut in precedente. : 

Var. 4. Stellaris, Haworth; tunici vagin. inter. fibris la- 
tis parallelis compacta basi demum liberis supra ba- 
sim longé infra medium, proxima tenuiter mem bra- 
naced basi crassa persistente, foliaced exteriore duriore 
nitida obliqué sulcata supra medium affixa, perianthio 
aureo, sepalis et tubo extus striatis, spatha, antheris, 
foliis, ut in precedente. Hab. incert. . 

Var. 5.? Syriacus ; tunicis pallidé Jeté badiis nitidis, vag! 
nacea interiore basi lacera superne leviter parallelo- 
fibros, foliaceis superne sulcatis exteriore cire. med- 
proxima prope med. affix. spathe bractea lorata, tubo 
purpura striato, limbo vix unciali aureo sepalis extus 
fusco-purpureo plumeo-tristriatis, foliis angustis, C®- 


tera ignotis, cum. ex Syria Aleppo, Russell, 
Herb. Banks. _ oe 
Var. 


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H&MANTHUS TENUIFLORUS; var. Mozambicensis. 
NARROW-FLOWERED Hamantuus; Mozambic var. 


KEK KE EKER KKK KEKE EK 
Class and Order. 


Trranpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord—Amaryiiipacez. §. AMARYLLIFORMES. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium tubo recto limbo regulari ; pericarpium e- 
valve integumento medio pulpaceo. §. 1. Bulbo subro- 
tundo foliis cylindraceo-vaginantibus undulatis. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Hamantuus tenuiflorus ; umbellaé sub-100-floré vel ultra 
demum spherica, scapo pallidé virente dodrantali, spa- 
tha 3—6-valvi viridi valvis acutis sesquiuncialibus 
bracteis filiformibus, pedunculis uncialibus rubris, ger- 
mine parvulo luteo-virente, tubo perianthio stylo et 
filamentis miniatis, tubo 3—3-unc. limbo unciali geni- 
talibus breviore pallidiore, antheris et polline luteis, . 
foliis latis undulatis, vaginis rabro obscuré maculosis. 

Var. 1. Mozambicensis tubo 3-unciali. 

Var. 2. Delagoensis tubo vix }-unciali. Herb. Amaryl. 


233. W. H. 


This fine plant flowered at the beginning of April, with 
upwards of a hundred flowers, the head becoming ultimately 
almost spherical, in the stove at Spofforth, where it had 
stood the whole year in a hot situation, having been left 
dry through the winter. The bulb had been received at 
Rio Janeiro from Mozambic, and was sent from thence to 
the Hon. W. Fox Srraneways, by whom it was forwarded 
to Spofforth. There appears nothing to distinguish it from _ 
Forres’s Delagoa specimen described H. Am. 233, except 


the tube being half as long again, but Mozambic peng 
within 


within the tropics, and Delagoa Bay eleven degrees to the 
South, it is probably different in constitution. A bulb sent 
to Spofforth by Messrs. Loppices, which has lately flow- 
ered, proves to be a scarlet-flowered variety of Hamanruus 
puniceus (v. magnifica) witha very crowded umbel. Ano- 
ther bulb in the stove at Spofforth, imported by Mr. Tare, 
of the Sloane Street nursery from Para, in Brazil, appears 
to be the Mozambic plant, but has not yet flowered. Hav- 
ing learned from my son that the bulbs of H. mudéiflorus 
which he had seen in the islands on the West coast of 
Africa grew chiefly on old crumbling walls, I have culti- 
vated these successfully by filling the pot to a considerable 
height with old bricks and pots pounded, putting light 
loam above, and keeping the round bulb above ground, 
with its prolonged base under gound. Hamanrnus Abysst- 
nicus, brought by a traveller from Abyssinia, flowered very 
beautifully at the garden of Mr. Lirriz in the King’s Road, 
Chelsea, two years ago ; but no drawing, or careful exami- 
nation, was made. A strong offset from it is thriving vigor- 
ously in the greenhouse at Spofforth, and may be expected 
to flower with its next shoot. W. H. 


aa, 


-1—2-flora, sepalis pallidé nigro-ceruleis feré albicantibus (i. €. 
griseo-ceruleis) petala alba superantibus, stigmatibus apice laceris 
seu plumeis, seminibus parvis rotundis obscuris, foliis 3—4 (in 
Anglia cultis autumno tarditis excrescentibus) ; teste Parkinson de 
C. Byzantino. Sepalis lilacinis, petalis albis minoribus lanceolatis ; 
teste Reichenb. de Specioso perperam dicto et prope Krassoviam 
(Krajova) in Banatu et Wallachia lecto. Tunicis paucis, vagina- 
ceis demum in fibras liberas solutis, foliaceis subtiliter reticulatm 
nervatis, foliis hysteranthiis omnibus supra medium tuber affixis, 
spatha ebracteata, stigmatibus multifidis, perianthio violaceo au- 
tumnali ; teste Gay, qui ex Banatu et Transylvania affinem Pyre- 
neo et medio esse monet. B. d. F. 25. 220. C. Banaticum eun- 
dem esse ac Speciosum Reich. et iridifolium R. et H. monet im 
literé. cl. Gay, ideoque ad Byzantinum proculdubio referendum 
censeo. Campestri affinis miht videtur. 

8. Versicolor ; Ker ; supra 1110. Flore verno, c. tun. vagin. duabus 
_ interioribus infra non circumscissis fibris duris confertis parallelis 
- acuté confluentibus prope basim, foliac. exter. nitida membranacea | 
_ infra medium affix, involucro apiculato spatha dimidio breviore, - 
o M Siga biflora exserta bracteam loratam angustam equante, perian- 
__ thii fauce levi seepius sublutescente, filamentis levibus non cana- 
~ liculatis t-unc. infra faucem insertis, antheris stigmata subtruncata _ 
_ feré equantibus, foliis canaliculis nervatis cost4 dorsali latiorib 
_ -Marginibus vix reflexis (seepe obsoleté) subscabris. 


Be vee? 
Vide infra ad calcem 3871. | 


Var. 6.2 Luteus, Lam. Enc. 6. 385; t. externis membrana- 
ceis tenuibus basi cireumsciss’ tantiim persistentibus, 
tun. vag. interiore parallelo-fibrosa prope basim affixa, 
foliacea exteriore dura nitida sulcata superne confluen- 
ter fibrosA apiculaté longé infra medium vel obliqué 
affixa, foliorum canaliculis fortis nervatis, spatha 
bracteat& perian. majore aureo fauce extus lineata.— 
C. vernus, perperam supra 45.—C. Moesiacus, Ker. 
Habitatio incerta, sed procul dubio inter Istrum et Pelo- 
ponesum sita. Valdé robustiorem, senio. tamen apud 
nos sterilem, ex semine aureo prognatum vix credo. 

Var. 7.?:. Olivierianus ; ipse non novi. C. Olivieri, Gay, 
Bull. de Ferus. 25. 219; tunica vag. ext. ut in aureo et 
luteo, foliaceis lavissimis supra medium affixis, folio- 
rum basibus (petiolis, Gay) liberis, bractea (dimidiata, 
Gay) lorata, stigmatibus 4—6-exasperatis. Habitat 
in insulé Chio; Gay. W. H. 


Four or five bulbs of this exceedingly pretty Crocus were 
discovered at different times fifty or seventy yards apart 
under trees, and within one hundred yards from the spot 
where C. lageneflorus aureus, and C. annulatus argenteus 
are naturalized under certain oak trees within a space 
about a quarter of a mile in circumference in Barton Park, 
Suffolk, by Mr. Turner, the intelligent gardener of the 
Bury Botanical establishment. I apprehend the reason 
why these bulbs are found only under the trees to be, that 
the grass is there less vigorous, and the shade of the 
branches and suction of the roots prevent their rotting dur- 
ing the season of rest in very wet autumns. Aureus is found 
to be established also under some trees in the gardens of 
Wentworth House in Yorkshire, and the seed collected 
from them having been sown by Mr. Cooper in a dug bor- 
der has produced much variety, many with the dark lines, 
which are peculiar to /uteus, more or less perfectly marked, 
some like sulphureus concolor, but with perfect anthers, 
some nearly as pale as /utescens, and one perfectly white, 
which is supposed to have sprung from that seed, is, with 
the other varieties, now at Spofforth. There is no variabi- 
lity amongst the Croci under the trees either in Suffolk or 
at Wentworth ; but one from Suffolk flowered one season 
semidouble with faint purple lines, and the next season 
single and without lines. Under the Suffolk trees they 
have the lorate bracte, but I have seen It short and small in 


one or two; and at Wentworth they are chiefly without the 
bracte ; 


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bracte ; and in one specimen of luteus growing with them in 
the seed bed it was wanting. The absence of the floral 
bracte constituted the only difference except colour between 
lageneflorus and lacteus of which no native situation is 
known, and the reason for dividing them fails. Mr. Youne 
of Milford nursery has a stock of lacteus concolor, sup- 
posed to have been raised from foreign seed, but the gen- 
tleman who introduced them is dead. C. Boryanus of 
Monte Nero in Cephalonia and the hills near Modon and 
Navarino is very like lacteus concolor, but it has the lorate 
bracte, and flowers in October. I have never seen it alive. 
In Greece, C. aureus grows in sand upon clay; and it 
seems that, cultivated in our country, it is so disposed to 
sport, that the sulphurei and luteus as well as the lactet may 
have proceeded from it; but I rather consider luteus to be 
a natural variety from some colder situation between the 
Danube and the Morea. I do not see sufficient cause for 
separating C. Syriacus without further examination of a live 
specimen ; nor C. Olivieri of Mons. Gay, from the very slight 
notice given of it by him from a dry specimen; but 1 think 
it doubtful whether the four last varieties should be looked 
upon as separate species, if the native country of C. luteus 
and stellaris could be ascertained. It is quite evident, that 
the Croc, which do not ripen their seed abundantly in our 
climate, become quite sterile from long reproduction by 
offsets. The history of lutescens is singular, for no variety 
appears on the spot where the aurei grow ; and if lutescens 
proceeded from them, why is it found at a distance? It is 
probably an old variety, and originally set where it has been 
found; and it may possibly be the sulphureus of Prof. 
Tipatpo from Corfu. No Crocus is indigenous in Great 
Britain. I remember seeing in 1809 Mr. Wuiuiams’s C. 
lacteus concolor (mesiacus, G., supra 111), and it was far 
from being white. He had but one bulb of it, and I have 
never seen exactly the like, though Mr. Ker speaks of hav- 
mg seen several. Mr. Srranaways possesses albus, but 
knows not where he obtained it. I have this spring observ- 
ed two bulbs of the Suffolk aureus, which I am satisfied 
were plain golden when sent from thence, of which one is 
now striped exactly like luteus, and the other, which is 
planted in eas with three fainter stripes the whole length 
Ss. 


of the sepa Luteus may be a remarkable seminal variety 
from aureus in cultivation. W. H. | 


ISFL. 


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( 3871 ) 


BoMAREA ACUTIFOLIA; var, punctata. SHarp- 
LEAVED Bomarea; speckled var. 


KKK KKK KK EEE EEE EK EEK 
Class and Order. 


Hexanpria Monoeynia. 


( Nat. Ord.—Amarytupacez. Subord. Hypoxwwez. 
§. ALSTROZMERIFORMEs. ) 


Generic Character.—Vide supra N“” 3863. 
Specific Name and Character. 


BomMArEA acutifolia, vy. maculata ; umbellé 10- vel ultra-flora, 
involucri valvis angustis viridi-rubescentibus, pedun- 
culis 1—2-floris minuté bracteatis cum germine rubro- 
pubescentibus, pertanthio subequali subunciali sepalis 
obovatis s-unc. latis aurantiaco-coccineis viridi-apicu- 
latis intus lutescentibus, petalis spathulatis extus palli- 
dioribus intus saturaté punctatis marginibus inferne 
approximatis, jfilamentis levibus, antheris purpureo- 
virentibus, operculo et styli basi pubescentibus, semznt- 
bus saturate aurantiaco-coccineis. Ex Caraccas. W. H. 


This showy Bomarea was imported by T. Harris, Esq., 
of Kingsbury Grove, from Caraccas, and having been kindly 
sent by him to Spofforth, it flowered at the end of several 
shoots in the latter part of the summer of 1840, and per- 
fected its seeds in December. It is not to be distinguished 
as a species from the Mexican acutifolia, but 1s more con- 
Spicuous. W. H. 


Fig. 1. represents a Stamen before and after inversion. 2. A Petal. 
3. The inside, and 4. the outside, of a Sepal. 


Var. 1. Princeps; supra 1110. C. insularis, var, major, Gay in 
literd, cum planté ipso teste ex Corsicd, que proculdulio C. versi- 
color Ker ipsissimus est. Scapo brevi perianthii fauce —— 
ubo 


tubo brevi, limbo pallidé purpurascente sepalis (et sepe petalis) 
extus plumeo-tristriatis, foliis suberectis canaliculis uninervibus 
vix subscabris. age, 

Var. 2. Gallicus ; C. meridionalis, Osborne Hortul. Cat. Germine 
involucrum superante, per. fauce lutescente, petalis extus plumeo- 
purpurascentibus, sepalis extus pallidé stramineis tristriatis, foliis 
depressis vix subscabris canaliculis binervibus. In confintis Galle 
et Italie circa Niceam. ° ee: 

Var. 3. Caucasicus. Spec. Herb. Hooker, ex montibus prope Ti iffim. 
Tunica exteriore fibris parallelis superne confluentibus, germine In 
fauce involucri sito, bractea ut in ceteris, limbo 1}-unc. (ut vide- 
tur in sicco) purpurascente ? 

Var.4. Dalmaticus. Spec. Herb. Hooker, et Herb. Bentham. ex Dal- 
matid. Caucasico similis minor foliis angustioribus. ee 

Var. 5. Lineatus; Sabine Hort. S. Tr. 7. 464; foliorum canaliculis 
binervibus margin. ciliatis; var. culta; huic tamen consimilis dici- 
tur in Sicilia indigena, nescio cujus Italici C. Siculus, MS. 

Varietates culte C. versicoloris permulte et perpulchre sunt. 

9. Insularis ; Gay, Bull. de Ferus. 15, 221. Flore verno, tun. vag. 
interiore fibris parallelis superne confluentibus infra demum liberis, 
foliaceA exter. laeviore paullum infra medium. affixa, spatha ebrac- 
teati, limbo purpurascente, sepalis extus plumeo-tristriatis, get- 
mine striato apice purpureo, “ seminibus teste Gay badiis raphe et 
chalaz4 pallidis,” foliis levibus cost& dorsali canaliculis enervibus 
parum latiore. Habit. Sardiniam et Corsicam. Species iter 
versicolorem et minimum ; variat, in speciminibus siccis que ex 
variis Corsice locis recepi, fibris plus minis reticulatim confluen- 
tibus, vic a minimo secernendus, spatha tamen in omnibus ebrac- 
teatd ; bulbi, tun. vix reticulatis, nondum apud me floruerunt. | 

‘10. Jmperatonianus. C. Imperati, Tenore. Flore verno, c. tun. vagi- 
nace interiore fibris parallelis superne et rarits inferne confluen- 

 tibus, externis tenuibus membranaceis, foliacea exteriore. crassa 

~~ intus glabra extus confertim confluenter parallelo-fibrosa circ. vel 

- infra med. affixi, involucro scapum infra arcté amplexo, spatha 

bractee tubate acuminate quali, perianthii fauce levi lutea, sug- 

matibus. croceo-coccineis incisis antheras_ superantibus, foliorum 

.. analiculis enervibus costa dorsali latioribus margine levi, capsula 

__ 6-striat&, seminibus pallidé badiis demum. brunneis raphe et cha- 
 laza rugosis. ' 

“Var. 1. Princeps ; limbo violaceo sepalis extus ‘stramineis plumeo-3- 

- 'striatis, foliis suberectis. Hab. colles humiliores siccos dumosos 

_ prope Neapolim. | | | 

Var. 2.  Rupestris, Tenore ; idem foliis depressioribus. 

Var. 3... Albus. Limbo albo sepalis extus albis 3-striatis. Hx Nea- 
_ poli acl. Tenore missus. Pe ee 
Var. 4. Montanus. Limbo albo, sepalis extus stramineis non striatis. 

Halvitat montes 2,000 vel 3,000 ped. altiores prope Neapolim ; m 
__ regione quédam intermedié nullus invenitur. 


_....__ §§. 3. Subreticulati, superne reticulati. 
Al. Suaveolens ; Bertoloni. Supra 3864. Flore verno. 

CRANE, tun. fibris superne reticulatis, spatha se 

Vide infra ad calcem 3873. 


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( 3872) 


SprEKELIA CyBisTeR. ‘THE TUMBLER 
SpPREKELIA. 


SEEKER EEE EEE EEE EEE 
Class and Order. 


HexanpriA Monoeynia. 


( Nat. Ord.—Amaryuiumpacez. Subord. AMARYLLIDER- 
§. HippEAsTRIFORMES. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium declinatum basi annulari inferne abbreviato 
Vix tubato ; filamenta fasciculata declinata labio inferiore 
prope basim comprehensa. 


Specific Character. 


Sprexenia cybister; scapo forti subterete ultrabipedali 
diam. ¢-unc. glaucescente inferne sanguineo 4-floro, 
spatha rubescente mox marcescente subbiunciali, pe- 
dunculis ultra uncialibus, germine cubante, perianthio 
inferne rubro superne subvirescente, laciniis inferne 
latis intus pallidé striatis superne Jongé angustatis, 
labio inferiore genitalia quinqueuncialia amplexo pre- 
cipitato apicibus reflexis, sepalis margine involuto re- 
flexis duobus inferioribus inferne obliqué latere su- 
periore dilatatis, petalis superioribus subplanis apice 
tortuosé demisso, petalo imo scapum attingente, mem- 
brana fauciali barbat&, stigmate trilobo parvo subru- 
bescente, filamentis cum stylo apice sub-assurgente 
precipitatis, e sepalinis superiore elongato, e petalinis 
inferiore abbreviato, foliis hysteranthiis viridibus apice 
obtuso rubro cire. ]14-uncie latis, bulbo ovato fusco 


diam, biunciali— Ex Bolivia. W. HL. 


This very remarkable plant flowered in the greenhouse 


at Spofforth in April, 1840, the bulb having heen, kindly 


sent to Spofforth from Boston in North America by J. W. 
Boorr, Esq., who had purchased it at Mr, Knieurt’s nursery 
on the King’s Road, Chelsea, and it is stated to be a native 
of Bolivia. It conforms very closely in structure with 
Sprexewia formosissima, and agrees with it in having pollen 
Narrower, and more acute than Hirreastrum. The two 
genera are closely allied, but no Hirreastrum has the 
filaments closely embraced by the lower lip, being enclosed 
by a dilatation of the lower part of the two inferior sepals. 
The nearest approximation is in H. Aulicum, of which the 
inferior petal compresses the filaments, (in which respect as 
well as in the non-radiation of the central colour, it differs 
from platypetalum and glaucophyllum, which can scarcely 
be considered of the same species,) but there is no dilatation 
or involution of the upper margiti of the sepals) as ‘in 
Sprexeria: The posture of the flower of S. cybister is very 
singular.’ ‘When the buds first break through the spathe, 
the germen is not distinguishable from the peduncle;and 
at that period, the most experienced eye examining it»with’ 
a magnifier; would think it had a sessile germen, and mis~ 
take the peduncle and germen for a tube. On the follow- 
ing day the germen marks itself and becomes horizontal ; 
on the next, the bud plunges down, and the point touches 
the scape, aud in that singular posture, the buds. look; like 
heads of a crane pecking its neck. After a day. or two,they 
rise from the scape, when the lower lip, with the filaments 
and style, falls perpendicularly. In its complete expansion 
the point of the lower petal touches the scape, the upper 
sepal has the end reflex, and the two upper petals become 
reflex, with the ends tortuously drooping ; the ends_of the 
style and filaments become more disengaged, aud, curve 
irregularly upwards. The leaves do not appear till after 
the flowers are passed, or if the point of a leaf appears, its 
progress is suspended. The plant likes rich alluvial loam, 
and should be left dry in the winter in the greenhouse. 
It is not ascertained whether it will bear an English winter 
in the open ground LF balan ited It forms a second 
section of Sprexexia, differing from formosissima, glauca, 
and cznnabarina lately flowered at Spofforth, in the elonga~ 
tion or abbreviation of the odd filaments in each lip. W.A- 


———— 


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pen Mickie Maat ate Mang aus lower, and ‘wo ldietat er ere 
a lag cay brane at their insertion. The two corresponding late- 
tals are omitted to avoid confusion. ; 999 pLiS oF 3 TBLeL Peres bivow a3 


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ELISENA LONGIPETALA. LONG-LIMB ED 
ELISENA. 


KKK KKK KEKE EEE EE EEE 
Class and Order. 


HexanpriA Monoeyni. 


( Nat. Ord.—Amaryiurpaces. Subord. AMARYLLIDER. 
§. Pancratirormes. §§. 2. SEMINIBUS CARNOSIS. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium tubatum tubo brevi subcylindrico decurvo 
limbo reflexé patulo corona cylindracea deflexa complanaté 
depressa, genitalia subfasciculate declinata recurvata, an- 
there breves incumbentes medio affixe, ovula margaritacea 
erecta, semina viridia rotunda, bulbus fibris crassis persis- 
tentibus. Plante Americane, arenis gaudentes. 


Specific Character and Synonym. 


Euisena longipetala ; scapo ancipiti tripedali viridi, spatha 
biunciali marcescente bracteata, floribus circ. sex, pe- 
dunculis -uncialibus, germine trigono 4-unc. tubo 
viridi 3-unc. limbo albo ultra-triunciali basi virente 
apice revoluto, corona concolore complanaté subcylin- 
dricA petalo imo adpressa, dentibus interstamineis revo- 
jutis irregulariter trifidis, genitalibus semifasciculaté 
assurgenter declinatis, stylo coronam 3-uncias _fila- 
menta unciam feré superante, polline pallidé flavo, 
ovulis binis in loculo singulo, seminibus magnis, foliis 
§ acutis lamina 1-unc. lata viridi 18—21-uncialibus 
columnaé cylindracea sub-16-unciali. W. H. nde 

Exisena longipetala, Bot. Reg. 24. Mise. 79. 


This plant was imported by Ricuarp Harrison, Esq., 
and having flowered with him at Aighburgh, near Liver- 
pool, was described in the Appendix to the Botanical Re- 
gister for 1838. Our specimen flowered at Spofforth in the 
greenhouse at the end of March ina six inch pot of white 
sand, with a very small admixture of loam, and produced 
eight leaves, with a scape aboye a yard high, and six flowers. 
It would undoubtedly succeed as well.as Ismene amancaes 


in a bed of white sand out of doors, if it can be kept a 
rom 


from shooting’ so early in the spring, which will probably 
be effected without difficulty. The bulbs of Ismene need 
not be set till May, and notwithstanding the want of 
warmth in the summer of 1839, I. amancaes had. ripened 
seed out of doors at the commencement of July, and,some 
of the bulbs continued flowering till August. _E. longv- 
petala has completely the aspect of an Ismene. The form 
of Ismene deflexa, which has the cup reclining on the lower 
petals, and the upper filaments too long to fall into the cup, 
and therefore lying like bars across its mouth, brings the 
two genera nearer together, and makes it a question. whe- 
ther Exisena may not be rather a section of Ismene. It 
differs in having the filaments long, almost fasciculate, 
declined with the points curved upwards, and the cup 
narrowly cylindrical, flattened as if by pressure from above, 
and the tube very short. If the bulb sent to Spofforth from 
Lima for E. ringens be correct, it has also a long column 
to the leaves, and the aspect of an Ismenr, and the figure in 
the Flora Peruv. is quite incorrect, but, as the plant has not 
flowered, it may perhaps not be correct. There seems to 
be a third species amongst Mr. Macrean’s specimens from 
Caxamarquilla on the East side of the Andes, (alt. 10,000 
feet,) which differs from ringens in having a longer spathe, 
and filaments only half the length. The leaves also differ 
in being blunt, if the right leaves, which are detached, have 
been placed with the flowers. It will be desirable that live 
specimens of the three species should be inspected before 
any decision is made as to the question, whether Ex1sena 
should be considered as a section of Ismenz, which seems 
robable. The cup of E. longipetala properly leans on the 
ower petal, but the flower is apt to takea little twist, which 
throws it on the lower petal and one of the lateral sepals. 
The three species agree in a similar short bent tube, unlike 
that of Ismzne. The fibres of both Ismenz and Extsena are 
very thick, fleshy, and permanent, continuing as sound as 
the bulb itself when kept through the winter in dry sand. 
The seed of E. longipetala is large, round, and green, like 
that of Ismene. 1. deflexa flowered finely in the open border 
at Spofforth at the end of July and in August, and bore 
the cold wet season of 1840 better than amancaes. W. H. 


AMARYLLIDACES. 


ELIsENnasublimis; scapo dodrantali, spatha triuncialisexflora pedunculis 
‘func. tubo $-unc., limbo albescente biunciali filamenta j-unc- 
oa mag C paone cire. 4-une. acuté pluridentata, stylo limbum sub- 

uante vel semunciam demum superante stigmate minuto. Spect- 
men in Andibus Caxamarquille a dom. J. Maclean lectum. W. H. 


, teata; stigmatibus integris pallidioribus odoratissimis ; quoad ceetera 


12. 


13. 


14, 


"~~ extus pallidioribus, filamentis antheras longit. superantibus palli 
~ flavis infra faucem insertis, stigmatibus aurantiaco-coccineis trin- 


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v. principi consimilis. Habit. Terracinam, montes d Itirt, prope 
Fundos, et Rome Valle d Inferno. vi ae e 
Minimus ; “Decandolle ; Redouté Lil. 2.81., non supra 2991. 
Flore verno, c. tun. vagin. interiore reticulata, spatha bracteata, 
perianthio violaceo sepalis extus striatis, stigmatibus brevibus ‘sub- 
integris aurantiacis. Habit. Corsicam: Ipse non vidi, et in dulbio 
mihi est an Insularis a Minimo secernendus sit. 5% 

Cambessedesianus ;. C..Cambessedesii, Gay, B. F. 165. 220. 
Flore autumnali, c, tun. vaginaceis basi persistentibus, foliaceis in- 
terioribus levissimis, exteriore basi demum in fibras liberas soluta 
imo cormo affixa, spathd bracteata, seminibus demum brunneis 
raphe et chalaza pallidis. Affinis C. minimo, secundum Gay ; 
habit: Majorcam, mihi ignotus. Descriptio prorsus insufficiens ; 
si minimo precipué affinis, tunicam precipuam reticulatam esse 
conjicio. . Forsan .Odoro affinis ? loeb 


$$. 4. Reticulati. : ak ee 
Odorus.: Zerapha, Flor. Melit. non Bico cum cujus a Zeraphd. con- 


fusus est, Flore autumnali cormo modico ovato tun. vagin. ad 
basim affixis fibris reticulatis non cribrosis, foliaceis nitidis vix 
nervatis infériore infra medium ceteris summo cormo affixis, ger- 
mine purpura striato vel superne maculato, scapo brevi, mvolucto 
brevi: germen acumine superante, spatha ebracteaté elongata ‘su- 
perne virescente acuminata, tubo albo purpura sex-striato exserto, 
fauce. luted intus ad _petalorum basim. subbarbata limbo circiter_un- 
ciali lilacino laciniis ad basim extus saturate. tristriatis, sep lis 


cato-dentatis antheras seepissime eequantibus odoris, foliis al 
proteranthiis marginibus dense ciliatis costa dorsali leviter sulcato 
Crescit in Monte Verdalé 


superne reticulatis imferne feré parallelis prope ‘asim, ‘foliacea 
exteriore réticulaté medio cormo vel infra affixa, gemme 


involucro germen superante, spa 4 ebracteata longé exserta sub- 


_ obtusa superne viridi, tubo flavescente spatham plis uncia supe- 


rante, fauce luted intus sub petaloram basim pubescente, limbo 
. lilacino ad basim intus saturate luteo, filamentis 


‘uteis Levibus intra faucem insertis, antheris luteis, sti t 


atirantiaco-coccineis trumcato-dentatis odoris, foliis levibus angus- 
tis synanthiis levibus costa leviter sulcaté. canaliculis enervibus 
vix latiore, seminibus subrotundis rufo-brunneis... Crescit passim 
in pratis maritimis. Sicitle; a , 
Panormitanis, (in Dalmatia, teste Bertolona) mn one ee 


00) Pestum, in pascuis montosis Calabria, Serra, et Morgiand. : 
A. Ovtobri: cal Britannict patiens. Si mavis C,odorus Bive: Var. 1. 


'-  Longiflorus, Rafinesque. Nar. 2. Melitensis, Odorus; Zerapha. 


16. Medius, Balbi. Bertol. Descr.9. Gay, Bull. Fer, 1827. p. 8. et 
29. Flore autumnali, cormo e majoribus, tunicis reticulato-can- 


cellatis, non stolonifero, spatha ebracteata, tubo prelongo exserto, 


perianthio grandi violaceo, stigmatibus profundé multifidis penni- 
cillato-effusis croceis, foliis hysteranthiis. Non vidi. Dzffert se- 
cundum Bertolont a Pyreneo cormo non stolonifero, tunicis cri- 
broso-cancellatis, spathé et vaginis magis acuminatis, pertanthi 
laciniis latioribus saturatioribus, stigmatibus non aurantiacts. 
Involucratum esse a comparatione cum C. Pyrenzeo censendum est ; 
st nudus, futilis est ista comparatio, et eodem pacto nomen medius 
(a medtatate quadam non verd, inter \ongiflorum et Pyrenzeum ) 
futile evadet, et C. Cancellati var. Balbisiana vel Italica ertt iste C. 
medius, Balbisianus. Crocus nudus ebracteatus indigena nullibi 
inventus est. In lagenzefloro culto bractea obsolescit. C. cancel- 
latum nudum bracteatum esse censeo ; st fallor in sicco, involucra- 
tus ebracteatus est, quo pacto C. medius erit var. 3. Balbisiana 
Croct cancellati. 

17. Pallasianus. C. Pallasii, M. a Bieb. Sup. Flore autumnali, c. 
modico tun. exteriore tenuiter reticulata foliaceis superne setosis, 
spatha bracteata, limbo purpurascente tubi parte exserta longiore 
fauce barbata, stizmatibus erectis truncatis limbo brevioribus anthe- 
ras subequantibus, foliis angustissimis laxis feré synanthiis serius 
excrescentibus. Habitat in collibus apricis Taurie florens Sept. 
Oct. C. Thomasiano affinis, minor tubo brevi, limbo pallidiore 
striato, foliis angustioribus; nescio an ciliatis. Vidisiccum cormo 
cum tunicis tenuiter reticulatis circ. semunciali, foliis 7 feré filifor- 
mibus circ. 3-unc. exsertis tubum pallidum involucro vix longio- 
rem equantibus, limbo unciali pallidé violaceo extus ad basim 
saturate striato ; de bracteis nihil novi. 

18. Thomasianus. C. Thomasii, Zenore. Flore autumnali, c. tun. 
fibris superne reticulatis inferne parallelis, foliaceis apice subsetosis, 
involucro (quoadvidi) ad basim scaporum singulorum bracteato, 
spatha (quoad in culto vidi) ebracteata sed (teste Flor. Ital.) in 
indigenis bracteata involucrum subequante vaginis breviore, tubi 
parte exserta nuda, limbo sesquiunciali saturaté purpureo estriato 
— basi minuté barbata, sepalorum levi, filamentis pallidé 

vescentibus circ. 4-unc. infra faucem tubo insertis, stigmatibus 
truncatis indivisis odoris antheras subequantibus limbo dimidio 
brevioribus, foliis angustis circ. ,1; latis synanthiis seriis excrescen- 
tibus costa dorsali vix nervata canaliculis enervibus latiore, capsu- 
la estriaté, seminibus (Flor. Ital.) intensé violaceis. ; 

Var. Princeps. Foliorum marginibus et coste angulis densé ciliatis. 
Vidi vivum. 

Var. Levis ; foliis non ciliatis. Flor. Ital. non vidi. Crescit in Cala- 
brie lois mont. La Serra, Thomas; Lucanie La terza, Potenza 
alle Faje, et Montocchio. 

19. Sativus, Linneus ; Red. Lil. 173. C. autumnalis, Engl. Bot. 
343. ; autumnalis, Lam. ; sativus, Royle. Flore autumnali, cor- 
moe majoribus valdé prolifero, tun. fibris stipatis reticulate conflu- 

entibus, foliaceis apice setosis exteriore infra med. c. affixa, vaginis 

8—9, interiore (raré tubati) basi tantim inflati integra, ceteris 

| tubatis 
Vide infra ad calcem 3874. 


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EuTeRPE: MONTANA. ~ MounTAIN EUTEerpPE. 


Class and Order. 


Monazcta Hexanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Paimz. ) 


Generic Character. 


Flores monoici in eodem spadice, spatha simplici, interi- 
ore minore cincto sessiles, bracteati, masculi plures in parte’ 
ramorum. superiore, v. bini juxta femineos singulos.— 
Mase. Calyx triphyllus, foliolis ovatis, carinato-concavis, 
estivatione imbricatis. Cor. tripetala, petalis ovatis v.lan- 
ceolatis, erectis, estivatione valvatis. Stamina 6,-e fando 
floris ; filamenta subulata, libera, v. basi confluentia; an- 
there \ineares, subsagittate, basifixe.—Fem. Calyx tri- 
phyllus et corolla tripetala, zestivatione convoluto-imbricata. 
Staminum rudimenta nulla. Ovarium triloculare, loculis 
duobus minimis. Stigmata 3, sessilia. Bacca unilocularis, 
monosperma, stigmatibus excentricis coronata, grumoso- 
fibrosa, endocarpio tenui membranaceo cum nucleo con- 
nato. “Albumen ruminatum. Embryo lateralis v. subbasi- 
laris.—Palma Brasilienses sylvicole, gregaria ; caudice 
elato, gracili, apice sepius flexuoso, annulato, levigato, in-— 
tus fibroso, molli, frondibus omnibus terminalibus, petiolis | 
basi longe vaginantibus, pectinato-pinnatis, pinnis acumina-— 
tis, spadicibus infra frondes simpliciter ramosis, ramis fruc- ; 
tiferis divaricato-patentibus, tomento granuloso aut Jurfu- pe 
raceo, fuscidulo v. albo inductis, spathis membranaceo-coria- : 
ceis, floribus imprimis inferioribus sive Semineis distincte, 
bracteatis bibracteolatisque, ochroleucis v. roseis, fructibus 
globosis, sordide violaceis. Endl. eek et 


| Specific Character and Synonym. po 


Evrerrr* montana; foliis elliptico-obovatis, pinnis integer- 
- rimis Janceolatis patulis apice attenuatis, 


Hk lal ‘ 4 


* So named from one of the Muses, who presided over wind instruments, 
YOR. xty. ae :  . 


petiolis iner- 


mibus subtus lepidotis, spathe valvula exteriore interi- 
oribus triplo breviore, spadicis ramis floriferis paten- 
tissimis, floribus laxis per pares (fl. mas. cum fl. fem.) 


scrobiculis ramorum dispositis, fructu subrotundo. 
Graham. 


Areca montana. Hort. Cantab. 


The plant here described was received at the Botanic 
Garden, Edinburgh, from Grenada, in 1815, through the 
kindness of Mr. Ross, and produced for the first time in 1837 
a spathe, which never attained its full size ; nor did it open, 
but remained above a year upon the tree. In 1838, one, 
somewhat more perfect, was formed, and, bursting, allowed 
the escape of a spadix, which, however, never unrolled, but 
remains still on the tree, imperfectly unfolded. Now, there 
are three spadices upon the plant, all perfect, and exposed 
by the falling of the leaves ; but from the lowest only the 
spathe has yet dropped. The outlines of others may also 
be perceived within the sheathing bases of leaves which are 
still on the tree. Mr. Loppiees writes to me, that a tree 
has been in flower with him for two years, and the succes- 
sion of spadices formed and forming upon one plant, shows 
that the same thing will occur with us. | 

The portion of the plant which is eaten, either as a fresh 
vegetable or as a pickle, is the terminal bud and the soft 
interior of the after part of the stem. Many of the palms 
may be used, or misused, for the same purpose. : 

Descr. Stem, in our plant, ten feet high, marked in its 
whole height with completely annular scars left by the 
fallen leaves, dilated at its base into a nearly globular 
swelling, subcylindrical from this upwards, till the dilated 

sheaths of the leaves near the top give the appearance of 
another enlargement, but much more elongated, and of 
much less considerable diameter than that below. Leaves 
_ (nine feet long) elliptico-obovate, pinnated ; petioles at their 
origin sheathing and embracing each other, unarmed, gla- 

- brous, without leafets (for about two feet) at the base; 
rachis rounded below, above, for some way, flat, and, towards 
the apex, keeled ; sides formed into a broad, oblique, and 
shallow groove, into which the leafets are inserted ; leafets 
lanceolate, entire, glabrous, alternate, spreading wide, con- 
cave on the lower side of their base, each having a strong 


__ middle rib and several smaller lateral ones, the former pro- 


minent with a sharp edge above, attenuated at their apices, 
where, for a time, they are connected to each other by an 
oe almost © 


almost filamentous prolongation. Spathes several upon 
the tree at a time, solitary in the axils of the lowest leaves, 
exposed only when the leaf falls, coriaceo-ligneous, bival- 
vular, brown externally, yellow within, glabrous, decid- 
uous; outer valve bifid and two edged, obliquely open at 
the apex, closed below, but afterwards splitting to its base 
along the lower side; znner valve narrow-lanceolate, acu- 
minate, subcompressed, without wings, attached to the 
spadix (about an inch and a half) above the outer, and 
thrice as long as it, everywhere closed, but afterwards 
splitting along the whole of the lower side to permit the 
escape of the spadix. Spadix as long as the inner valve, 
rising from a turgid, dark brown, and cracked base, which 
becomes slender as it passes round two-thirds of the stem, 
much branched and attenuated upwards, branches at the 
base subarticulate and swollen, spreading, both while in 
flower and fruit, at right angles, attenuated to their apices. 
Flowers very numerous, and as well as the whole spadix 
(except its dilated base) white and glabrous, scattered, 
generally in pairs, unisexual, a staminiferous and pistilli- 
ferous flower being generally together and indented into 
the spadix, the former opening freely and deciduous, the 
latter later and never fully. Perianth double, coriace- — 
ous ; calyx triphyllous ; corolla three-petaled, imbricated. 
Male flower, calyx small, segments keeled ; petals ovato- 
elliptical ; stamens six, equal in length to the corolla, fila- 
ments fleshy, slightly imbricated, dilated and cohering at 
the base, anthers ovato-oblong, pollen white ; pistil abortive, 
conical, three-dentate, teeth erect. _ Female flower sur- 
rounded by a small, membranous, persistent, monophyllous 
bractea ; calyx larger than in the male: petals broadly 
ovate, adpressed to the germen, even after the apex of this 
is thrust beyond them ; sfamens 10 by far the greater num- 
ber of flowers altogether wanting, or, two or more, more 
or less imperfect, and that as far as I have observed only 
towards the apex of the branches of the spadix, where the 
flowers are occasionally solitary ; germen ovate, its apex at 
length protruded a little beyond the adpressed petals, one — 
cell only develloped ; stagmata three, sessile, small, sub- 
acute, spreading ; ovulum rounded, single in the base of 
the ovary, but attached laterally. Graham. 


saint snammmsan ae 


Tab. 3874 represents a flowering plant of EuTERPE montana on a very 
Soden copie rom a drawing by ‘Dr. Grevitte. Fig. 1. Renne make. 
-. Spadix and inner Spathe. 3. Branch of the Spadix, with male and 
female Flowers; nat. size. 4. 9. Male Flowers. 6. Female ditto ; mag 
nified. 7. Portion of the Branch of a Spadix with Fruit; nat. size. 
Single Fruit; magnified. 


tubatis truncatis, involucro (raré tubato) acuté lorato scapum am- 
plexo bracted brevi obtus (interdum erosé) inter ipsud et scapum, 
bractei. longiore angust& acuta scapo elongato breviore opposita 
interdum obsoletis, spath tubat& apice acuminato exserto bracted 
lorat& acuminata equali in pedunculo brevi, bractea minuta oppo- 
sita in sinu spathe interdum obsoleta, germine cylindraceé ob- 
longo albo ultrasemunciali, tubo superne exserto purpureo-macu- 
lato, limbo saturaté purpureo petalorum basi minute barbata, sepa- 
lorum levi, filamentis ori ipsi tubi insertis, stigmatibus coccineis 
truncatis pendulis odoris antheras superantibus, foliis subundecem 
subsesquipedalibus marginibus et coste angulis ciliatis costa dor- 
sali fortiter nervati canaliculis enervibus latiore. Vidi semel vagi- 
nam interiorem tubatum et involucrum in eodem specimine con- 
forme ; bractee minores sepe deficiunt, exuberantia scilicet enate 
plante dudum cult, cujus patria ignota est; nisi ex C. Thomast- 
ano cultura mutatus, verisimiliter ex oriente; colitur in abruptis 
Italie ubi culture veteris vestigia faciliter indigenam mentiuntur. 
Apricis gaudet, alibi vix floret. 

An potius?§ C. truncatus, Herbert. Var. 1. Pallasianus ; var. 2. 
Thomasianus ; var. 3. Sativus. 

20. Vernus; Wildenow. Flore verno, tun. vaginaced interiore reticu- 
lat& infra medium cormum, proximé reticulata basi propius sed non 
approximata, (unde zona radicalis a basi distat) foliacea exteriore 
reticulata in fronte cormi affixd, involucro tubato scapum laxé am~ 
plexo vaginis breviore, scapo sepe elongato (triuncialem vidi) 
spatha tubata acut&é ebracteaté superne virescente tubum sube- 
quante tubi fauce barbata nunquam luted, limbo purpureo vel al- 
bescente, styli longitudine variabili, stigmatibus capitato-multifidis 
‘croceis interdum in cultis albescentibus, foliis 3—4 marginibus 
tenuibus levibus costA canaliculis vix nervatis angustiore. Cres- 
cit in montibus Gallie meridionalis, Helvetia, Italie, Vindelicie, 
Carinthie, Podolie meridionalis, et Hungarie septentrionalis. 
Non transit Istrum superiorem, aut mare Adriaticum,; non de- 
scendit in planities ; prope Cebennas crescit, in Pyreneis rartor ; 
a Brotero montes Beire habitare dicitur; si reverd, forsan et 
Hispanie montes incolit. In Anglié sponte crescit prope Notting- 
ham et alibi, sed non indigena. 

‘Var. 1. Neapolitanus, flore magno sepalis purpureis, petalis plumeo- 
purpureis; supra 860. Subvar. culta supra 9240. In monte 

 @alabro celsissimo Pollino nive tardits fusi vel mense Junio floret. 

Var.2. Albiflorus ; Schult. Mant. 1. 367 ; foliis 2—3, flore minore 

ss seeps albo, rarius subpurpurascente. : 
Subvar. 1. Obovatus ; laciniis obovatis. Habitat Alpes Vindelicre 
e Saltzburg, et montes circa Tergestem. In Herbaris. 
Subvar. 2. Acutior ; laciniis acutis. In montibus Carinthe, prope 
_ Cebennas et alibt. In Herbariis. 
‘Var. 3. Podolicus ; flore majore in sicco subpurpurascente. Spec. €” 
_  Podolid Merid. Herb. Hooker a Besser lect. . 
Var. — on eine Ex Helvetia, flore minore, in sicco subpurpuras- — 
Color et forma in cultis variat, sed vix ex stirpe violacea quoad vidi. = 
_ C. autumnalis, Loisel. Poir, Enc. 6. Sbe cronies ntemaiatale = 
~ : tC. 


Vide infra ad calcem 3875. 


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AnigozANTHus Manecxiesu. Mr. MAnGcLes’ 
ANIGOZANTHUS. 


Class and Order. 


Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Hzmoporacez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium superum, coloratum, tubulosum, lanatum, 
pilis ramulosis, limbo 6-fido, laciniis subequalibus sursum 
secundis ; tardius deciduum. Stamina 6, fauce inserta, ad- 
scendentia, Anthere erecte. Ovariwm triloculare, locu- 
lis polyspermis. Stylus filiformis, deciduus. Stigma sim- 
plex. “Capsula trilocularis apice dehiscens. Semina nume- 
rosa.—Herbe perennes. Radix fasciculato-fibrosa, fibris 
crassis. Caulis integer vel superne divisus. Folia ensi- 
formia, aversa, basibus semivaginantibus. Flores subcorym- 
bosi, e spicis brevibus, bracteis suboppositifloris. Br. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Anicozantuus * Manglesii ; foliis lineari-acutissimis sparse 
ciliatis pilis deciduis, caule lanato, racemo simplici, 
perianthio hine fisso limbo revoluto secundo, antheris 


muticis. Z : 
Anicozantuus Manglesii. Don, in Sweet's Brit. Fl. Gard. 


N.S. 3, t, 365." 
(6.) angustifolia ; foliis | 
Bot. Reg. t. 2012. 


inearibus acuminatissimis. Lindl. 


and beautiful productions that 
Specimens 
and 


One of the most curious | pro 
Australia has yet contributed to our gardens. 


‘ ie as 
Sic 


* From ancye, I raise up, and avbos, a flower. 


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and seeds have been sent from the Swan River, by favor of 
Mr. Manetes, after whom the species is named, and from 
Mr. Drummonp. For a specimen of the plant, and for the 
drawing here figured, we are indebted to Mrs. Wray of 
Oakfield, near Cheltenham. 

Descr. Root perennial, formed of thickish, fasciculated 
fibres. The rest of the plant is herbaceous. The leaves 
are mostly confined to the base of the stem, and are equi- 
tant at the base, distichous, linear, elongated, and gradu- 
ally acuminated, sometimes ciliated, but these hairs are 
deciduous, and when present inconspicuous : the leaves of 
the stem or scape, small, linear-acuminate. Scape, or stem, 
terete, simple, everywhere, as well as the pedicels and the 
ovarium, clothed with feathery hairs or long tomentum, 
below greenish, the rest a deep full red. Bracteas of the 
same colour, tinged with green. Perianth three to four 
inches long, velvety, rich green, tubular, split open on the 
underside for the whole length, pale green within: the 
limb cleft, the laciniz secund and reflexed, often more or 
less combined. Stamens six, inserted near the top of the 
tube. Anthers linear, yellowish. Ovary inferior, three- 


celled, cells many-seeded. Style exserted ; stigma clubbed, 
obscurely bifid. 


Fig. 1. Apex ofthe Tube of the Perianth, with the Stamens. 2. Section 
of the lower part of the Tube, with the Ovary. 3. Transverse section of 
the Ovary :—magnijied. 


ic. 138. eodem loco cit. circa Massiliam et alibi nullus est, neque 
autumnalem ullum prope Massiliam indigenam reperirl pro com~- 
perto habetur. Descr. ex sativo et Pyreneo conflata. 


Ozs. Croci ebracteati indigenze omnes involucrati. Bracteati 1. 
bractea lorataé. 2. bractea involvente. 3. bractedé tubaté. Bractea 
tubata aliquando casu in cultis dimidiata. C. dageneflorus cultus m- 
clementia coli septentrionalis sepe ebracteatus. Que de foliis Croco- 
rum predicantur, ad folia recentia, flore quoad vernos nondum effcto, 
pertinent. W. H. 


ERRATA. 


3864. 2. C. cancellatus, pro “ strictd,” lege “ striatd. 
3865. Pro “ conniventi,” lege “ conniventia.” 


—— Pro “ subovalibus,” lege “ laciniis subovalibus.” 


Pub by 8 Curtis Gazenvood Essex Junel 1944. 


( 3876 ) 


BraACHYCOME IBERIDIFOLIA. CANDY-TUFT- 
LEAVED BraAcnhYCOME. 


Class and Order. 


SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. ) 


Generic Character. 


Capitulum multiflorum heterogamum, fl. radii ligulatis 
feemineis uniseriatis, disci tubulosis 5-dentatis hermaphro- 
ditis. Recept. conicum subalyeolatum epaleaceum. Jnvol. 
campanulatum pauciseriale, squamis margine submembra- 
naceis. Achenium lateraliter plano-compressum erostre, 
Pappo subsetiformi brevissimo coronatum.—Herbe Novo- 
Hollandice. Folia alterna glabra parce dentata pinnati- 
lobata aut trifida. Discus luteus (nune atropurpureus). 
Radius albus (nunc ceruleus violaceusve.) D C. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Bracuycome* tberidifolia ; glaberrima, caule erecto ramoso, 
foliis pinnatisectis, segmentis lineari-subulatis distan- 
tibus integerrimis, pedunculis nudis monocephalis, in- 
volucri squamis oblongis acutiusculis apice membrana- 
ceis, acheniis subteretibus clavatis levibus v. pilis 
paucis hispidulis apice plicatis, pappo subnullo. Benth. 

Bracuycome iberidifolia. Benth. in Hugel, Enum. n. 198. 


Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841, t. 9. 


A beautiful annual raised from Swan River seeds by Mrs. 
Wray of Cheltenham, to whom we are indebted for speci- 
mens and a drawing. The variety of colours exhibited by 
flowers that obviously belong to one and the same species” 


of plant in the Swan River colony, is quite peice. 
an 


* So named by Cassine, from Fpayys, short, and xoun, hair; in allusion 
to the short pappus of some of the species. Hed 


and is a frequent subject of remark by Mr. Drummonp in 
his observations on the Botany of that district. Mrs. Wray 
observes, that she has herself raised the present Bracuy- 
comE, having blossoms of every shade of blue and lustrous 
lilac, with considerable diversity in the size and shape of 
the flower heads. Professor Linptey speaks of the violet- 
blue and lilac (both here represented) and of the white, of 
all which we have native specimens in our Herbarium. 
The white has the flowers so like those of the common 
Daisy of our pastures and banks, that, except in the single 
row of radiate florets and the more imbricated scales of the 
involucre with a membranous border at their apices, we can 
scarcely point to any tangible generic difference. In the 
specimens we examined, there is clearly no pappus. Dr. 
Linptey describes it as consisting of two deciduous hairs, 
but observes that it is often wanting. 

Descr. Root, in our native specimens, decidedly annual. 
Stems a foot high, erect, dichotomously branched, rounded. 
Leaves alternate, slender, pinnatifid, the segments narrow- 
linear, quite glabrous. Capitula solitary at the end of the 
numerous slender, terminal branches or peduncles, blue or 
purple-lilac. Florets of the ray and of the disk with a few, 
spreading, filamentous hairs on the tubular portion. Ache- 
nium obovate, moderately compressed and obscurely trique- 
trous, with a very slightly elevated rim at the top, but no 
pappus. 


Fig. 1, 2, 3. Radial Florets from different capitula. 4. Stigma of ditto. 
5. Floret from the disk. 6. Stigma from ditto. 7. Achenium. 8. Re- 
ceptacle :—all more or less magnified. 


AMARYLLIDACER. 
HIPPEASTRUM AULICUM; var. CARACCENSE. 


—— bulbo magno subrotundo, foliis nitidis arcuatis, scapo forti viridi, 
sepius bifloro, pedunculis biuncialibus viridibus, germine subunciali tri- 
goné oblongo viridi, perianthio quinqueunciali tubo circ. 3-unc. viridi, 
limbo colore carnis salmonis costis dorsalibus crassis viridibus intus 
prope basim viridi macula vix radiaté, marginibus inferne valdé undulatis, 
sepalis angustioribus acuminatioribus summa 13-unc. inferioribus 14- 
unc. latis, petalis acutis superioribus 14-unc. latis, ima 1-4;-unc. mar- 
ginibus genitalia undulaté ultra basim viridem amplexa, genitalibus 
ejusdem cum perianthio coloris assurgentibus, stigmate lobis longis re- 

-¢eurvis perianthium quante, filamenta vix superante. 
__ This distinct salmon-coloured variety of A. aulicum, embracing the 
_ filaments with the undulated margin of the lowest petal, was sent to 


‘Tuo. Harris, Esq., at Kingsbury, by Mr. Mackenzir, from Caraccas, — ; 


and flowered at Spofforth, in November, 1840. W. H. 


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MAXILLARIA STAPELIOIDES. STAPELIA-LIKE 
MAXILLARIA. 


Class and Order. | 


GynNAnprRiA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Onrcuipex. ) 


Generic Character. 


Perianthium connivens, raro patens. Sepala lateralia 
cum basi columne connata. Petala subconformia. La- 
bellum trilobum, cucullatum, sessile, cum basi producta 
column articulatum. Colwmna semiteres aptera. <Anthera 
subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia v. integra, caudi- 
cula brevi, glandula transversa.—Epiphyte (Americana) 
pseudo-bulbose, acaules v. caulescentes. Folia spicata v. 
coriacea. Pedunculi radicales, axillares v. terininales, uni- 


v. multiflort. Lindl. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Maxitiaria stapelioides ; pseudo-bulbis ovatis tetragonis 
1—2-phyllis, foliis tenuibus lanceolatis patentibus 
pallide glaucis reticulatis, pedunculo diffuso bifloro, 
sepalis petalisque subrotundo-ovatis acutis patulis sub- 
equalibus, labello oblongo trilobo, laciniis lateralibus 
erectis linearibus obliquis obtusis intermedia ovato- 
oblonga basi cucullata, crista flexuosa carnosa intus 
dente carnoso ovato aucta. Lindl. 

Maxitzaria stapelioides, Link et Otto, Abbild. 111. t. 52. 
Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 146. Bot. Reg. v. 25. 


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This species of Maxittaria well deserves the name of 
stapelioides given to it by Messrs. Livx and Orto : it is 
spotted very much after the same manner as many species 
of Carrion-flower, and the colours are also very peor 


It is a native of Brazil, and was found in the Organ Moun- 
tains by Mr. Garpner, from whose plants, sent to the 
Glasgow Botanic Garden, our figure was taken in the 
autumn of 1830. 

Descr. It is a small plant: the pseudo-bulbs grow ina 
tufted manner, and are ovate, four-angled, bearing gene- 
rally two, terminal, broadly lanceolate, very acute, some- 
what membranaceous, striated leaves, dark green above, 
paler beneath. Scape from the base of the bulb, spreading 
or pendent, one or two-flowered, with ovate, somewhat 
sheathing bracts. Sepals and petals ovate, acute, spread- 
ing, pale green, internally marked with transverse deep 
purple bands. Lip broadly ovate, deep black-purple in 
the centre and at the base, the border pale, with transverse 
streaks of deep purple, three-lobed ; the side-lobes small, 
oblong, acute, the middle one large, almost orbicular, ob- 
tuse, having at the base a two-lobed crest and a broad 
tooth with an apiculus pointing to the base of the lip. 


Fig. 1. Column. 2. Labellum. 3. Tnside view of the Anther-case. 4. 
Pollen-masses :—magnified. 


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DAHLIA GLABRATA. Smoota Dwarr 
DAHLIA. 


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Class and Order. 


SYNGENESIA PoryGaAmtia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composirs. ) 


Generic Character. 


. Capitulum radiatum, fl. radii ligulatis foemineis neutrisve, 
disci tubulosis 5-dentatis. Involucrum duplex : ext. squa- 
mis foliaceis 1-serialibus circ, 5 patulis reflexisve, int. squa- 
mis 12—16 subbiserialibus longis apice membranaceis basi 
crassiusculis et inter se coalitis. Recept. planum paleaceum, 
paleis membranaceis oblongis indivisis. Styli rami erecti 
aut subincurvi crassi extus piliferi. Anth. ecaudate appen- 
diculate. Achenium oblongo-obovatum obcompressum 
€papposum apice obsolete bicorne.—Herbe Mexicane _ 
8randes. Folia opposita pinnatipartita rarius bipinnati- 
Partita, segmentis ovatis acutis serratis. Radices fascicu- 
late, aliis cylindricis, aliis oblongo-tuberculatis. Rami 
apice elongati nudi 1-cephali. Capitula versicolora disco 
nempe luteo, radio purpureo roseo albo aut flavo. DC. 


Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Dauwia* glabrata ; caule viridi glaberrimo fistuloso, foliis 
bipinnatis glabris superioribus linearibus indivisis, 
rachi alata, foliolis ovatis acutis grosse serratis ciliatis, 
ligulis foemineis, involucri foliolis extimis linearibus 


patentibus. Lindl. 
Danuta glabrata. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840. ¢. 29. 


j ilful Curator 
I am indebted to Mr. Fereuson, the very skilful 
of the Satanic Garden of Belfast, for beautiful petite be 


: So named in compliment to ANDREW DaxL, a Swedish Botanist, who 
Wrote on systems of Botany in 1787. 


this DanuiA, a native of Mexico, whence its seeds, accord- 
ing to Professor Linptey, were obtained, by Grorce Fre- 
DERICK Dickson, Esq., who presented them to the Horticul- 
tural Society of London, and stated them to be from the 
subfrigid districts of the country. It isa handsome species 
of much humbler growth than the Danuta variabilis, and 
the foliage is less rank and weedy. It flowers in Autumn. 
Descr. Root perennial, consisting of comparatively 
small, but thickish, descending, branching fibres. Stem 
herbaceous, striated or even sulcate, green, tinged with 
purple, glabrous, branched, fistulose, three to four feet 
high. Leaves glabrous, glossy ; the lower ones bipinnate, 
the leaflets more or less ovate, inciso-serrate, or almost pin- 
natifid : the upper ones pinnatifid, the laciniz incised, the 
uppermost linear ; all of them with the rachis winged. Pe- 
duncles axillary and terminal, frequently branched. Exte- 
rior involucre green, of five linear, or subspathulate, spread- 
ing leaflets : aner of about eight broad, ovate ones, mar- 
gined with brown. Florets of the ray about eight, broadly 
ovate, deep lilac purple, with five lines or striae. Disk deep 
purple : the stamens and styles and stigmas orange yellow. 


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Mormépes: parpina ; var. unicolor. Lroparp- 
SPOTTED Mormopgs; whole-coloured var. 


~ Class and Order. 


Gynanpria Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuwwez. ) 


Generic Character. 


Sepalum superius fornicatum angustum ; lateralia confor- 
mia reflexa. Petala latiora conformia, erecta. Labellum 
selleforme, ascendens, trilobatum, subcuneatum apicula- 
tum, cum columna articulatum. Columna semiteres, muti- 
ca; gynizus longus angustus ; clinandrium postice acumi- 
natum. Pollinia 4, per paria connata, caudicule crasse 
affixa, glandule carnose crass adherenti.—Habitus Cata- 


Seti. Lindl. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 


Mormones * pardina; psendobulbis turbinatis foliis strictis 
4-plo brevioribus ; racemo nutante multifloro foliis 
breviore, sepalis petalisque subequalibus ovato-lance- 
olatis acutis conniventibus, labelli trilobi lobis latera- 
libus acutis decurvis intermedio elongato acuminato 


Bateman. : 
(«.) maculata ; floribus flavis purpureo-maculatis. 
Mormones pardina. Bateman, Orchid. Mex. et Guatem. 

tab. 14. Lindl. Bot. Reg. Misc. v. 24. p. 93. n. 176. 
(8.) unicolor; floribus concoloribus. (Tab. nostr. 3872.) 


The spotted-flowered state of this fine and fragrant plant 


is figured by Mr. Bareman in his magnificent work above 
Professor 


quoted ; and he communicated the information to S 
Linptey, 


; ; : < ; ie 
=~ , a frightful looking object, a goblin, in allusion to t 
strange Eisen ne the owen” (LINDL.) in the first species that was 
detected, 


Linptey, that shortly after M. pardina had flowered with 
him, he received from Mr. Barker specimens of a remark- 
able variety of it, the flowers of which were entirely self- 
coloured. This we take to be that particular state of the 
species, which was received along with the spotted variety 
at the Woburn gardens from Mexico by favor of Mr. Par- 
Kinson. It produces its fine racemes of blossoms, which 
exhale a powerful and most agreeable odour, in September, 
1840. 

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong, in our specimen sheathed 
with the broad membranaceous scales of the lanceolate, 
membranaceous and strongly striated leaves. From the 
base of the bulb arises the scape, a foot and more long, in- 
cluding the many-flowered racemes. Bracteas ovate, acu- 
minate. Sepals and petals ovate, acuminate, aud, as well 
as the lip, concave, moderately spreading at the base, the 
apices directed upwards, so that they are almost connivent. 
Lip cuneate, with three acuminated lobes, two lateral ones 
smaller and reflexed. The colour of the whole a deep 
lemon-yellow. Column and anther as in CATASETUM. 


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Fig. 1. Lip and Column. 2. Pollen-mass : magnified. 


In consequence of the unavoidable absence of the Editor from home, 


the following omissions, or errors, have appeared in the recent numbers 
of this Work. 


‘Tas. 3843. ARscHyNaNTHUS grandiforus, p. 2, 1.5, for “ Mr. SANGTON,” 
read Mr. Sanc. 


Tas. 3349. Musa superba. It should have been said that the drawing was 
from the pencil of Dr. GREVILLE. 
Tas. 3851. Tropxoium brachyceras, and Tas. 3853, PENTSTEMON 


heterophyllus, were both from the garden of the Horticultural Society 
of Edinburgh. 


TaB. 3860. Garpoguix belonicoides, p. 2, 1. 2, instead of “two inches 
long,” read “ two inches and a half long. 


INDEX, = 
In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Fourteenth 


Volume of the New Serigs, (or Sizty-seventh of the 


alphabetically arranged. 


Work) are 


Jp 


Fi, 
ot _— Chinense. 
3 Aeschynanthus grandiflorus. 
3858 okies petioles 
3848 Angelonia cornigera. 
3875 Anigozanthus Manglesii. 
3831 Barringtonia racemosa. 
3818 Batemannia Colleyi. 
3871 Bomarea acutifolia; var. punc- 


tata. 
3863 — simplex. 
3876 Brachycome iberidifolia. 
3834 Calectasia cyanea. 
3866 Callithauma viridiflorum, et 
angustifolium. 
3823 Catasetum integerrimum. 
3813 Cereus latifrons. 


3822 speciosissimus ; hybri- 
dus. 

3865 Coburgia coccinea. 

3867 —- trichroma. 


3868 Crocus annulatus, Adamicus. 


3869 — - lageneflorus ; var. lac- 

teus lutescens. 
_- speciosus. 

3864 - suaveolens. 

3855 Cycnoches Loddigesii; var. 
leucochilum. 

3836 Cyrtochilum maculatum ; var. 
ecornutum. 


3826 Cystanthe sprengelioides. 

3878 Dahlia glabrata. 

3837 Dendrobium moschatum. 

3838 Deutzia scabra. 

3835 Elwodendron Capense. 

3873 Elisena longipetala. 

3800 Epidendrum patens. 

3874 Euterpe montana. 

3824 Francoa ramosa. 

3801 Fuchsia fulgens. 

3860 Gardoquia betonicoides. 

3815 Gesneria mollis. 

3841 Grabowskia duplicata. 

3798 Grevillea dubia. 

3870 Hemanthus tenuiflorus; var. 
_ _Mozambicensis. 

3857 Helichrysum niveum. 

3862 Herbertia pulchella, et cerulea. 

3821 Hoteia barbata. 


Fi. 

3828 Hymenoxys Californica. 

8842 Isomeris arborea. 

3804 Lelia anceps. 

3817 - autumnalis, 

3810 ——-- furfuracea. 

3829. Liatris propinqua. 

3805 Macropodium nivale. 

3846 Malva lateritia. 

3814 — purpurata. 

3797 Mandevilla suaveolens. — 

3809 Marica humilis; var. 2, lutea. 

3877 Maxillaria stapelioides, 

8832 Monachanthus Bushnani. 

3819 longifolius, 

3796 roseo-albus. 

3839 Monolopia major. 

3879 Mormodes pardina; var, uni- | 
color. a 

8849 Musa superba. - 


| 8850 Ibid. 


3802 Myanthus spinosus. 
3806 Oncidium Huntianum. 
3845 macrantherum. 
3807. pachyphyiium: — 
3854 ————_ Wraye. ‘rad 
3847 Orthosiphon incurvus, 
3820 Passiflora onychinag = 
3853 Pentstemon heterophyllus, 
3833 Pimelea nana. ke 
3825 Rhododendron arboreum; Cin- 
- namomeum, floribus roseis. 
Caucasicum ; 


3811 
hybridum. 
3808 Salvia patens. 
3827 Senecio Heritieri; var. cya- 
nophthalmus, 
8840 Sida picta. — 
8795 Solanum crispum. 
3872 Sprekelia Cybister. - 
3803 Stenomesson latifolium. 
3856 Stevia trachelioides, 
3816 Stylidium fasciculatum. — 
3830 Tagetes corymbosa. 
3859 Tofieldia pubens. ae 
$851 Tropwolum brachyceras. 
3844 - - Moritzianum. 
3799 Verbascum Tauricum. 
3812 Zygopetalum Africanum. 


rN: Do X, 


In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Fourteenth 
Volume of the New Series (or Sizty-seventh of the Work) are 


alphabetically arranged. 


— 


Fi, 

3843 Aeschinanthus, large-flowered. 

8848 Angelonia, horn-bearing. 

3875 Anigozanthus, Mr. Mangles’. 

3858 Alkanet, petiolated-leaved. 

3859 Asphodel, American, downy- 
stalked. 

3831 Barringtonia, raceme-flowered. 

3818 Batemannia, Mr. Colley’s. 

3863 Bomarea, simple. 

- 3871 sharp-leaved ; 
speckled var. 

3876 Brachycome,Candy-tuft leaved 

3834 Calectasia, bright-blue. 

3866 Callithauma, green-flowered, 
and narrow-leaved. 

3823 Catasetum, entire-lipped. 

3813 Cereus, broad-stemmed. 

3822 splendid; hybrid var. 

3865 Coburgia, scarlet. 


3867 three-coloured. 

3868 Crocus annulatus, Mons. 
Adam’s var. 

3869 pale yellow gourd- 
shaped. 

3861 showy. 

3864 sweet-scented. 


3836 Cyrtochilum, spotted; horn- 
nn less var. : 

vystanthe, Sprengelia-like. 
3878 Dahlia, res ag watt 
3837 Dendrobium, musk-smelling. 
3838 Deutzia, rough-leaved. 
3835 Eleodendron, Cape. 
3873 Elisena, long-limbed. 
3800 Epidendrum, spreading-flow- 


ered. 


$874 Euterpe, mountain. 


3802 Fly-wort, spine-bearing. 
3824 Francoa, white-flowered. 
3801 Fuchsia, the glowing. 
3860 Gardoquia, Betony-like. 
3815 Gesneria, soft-leaved. 
3841 Grabowskia, toothed. 


~ oe : : : 3798 Grevillea, dubious. 


3827 Groundsel, Heritier’s; blue- 
oe eyed var. 


3870 Hemanthus, narrow-flowered ; 


oo Mozambic var. 
2 BROr Helichrysum, snowy-flowered. 
_ 3862 Herbertia, pretty and blue. 


| 


Pi. 

3821 Hoteia, bearded. 

3828 Hymenoxys, Californian. 

3844 Indian Cress, Mr. Moritz’. 

3851 short-spurred, 

3842 Isomeris, tree-like. 

3817 Lelia, autumnal. 

3810 scurfy-stalked. 

3804 — two-edged. 

3829 Liatris, sharp-scale spiked. 

3805 Macropodium, Siberian. 

3846 Mallow, pale red-flowered. 

3814 - purple. 

3797 Mandevilla, sweet-scented. 

3809 Marica, humble; yellow var. 

3830 Marygold, corymb-flowered. 

3877 Maxillaria, Stapelia-like. 

3819 Monk-flower, long-leaved. 

3832 - Mr. Bushnan’s. 

3796 -——__——— white and rose- 
colored. 

3852 Monks-hood, Chinese. 

3839 Monolopia, larger. 

3879 Mormodes, Leopard-spotted ; 
whole-coloured var. 

3799 Mullein, Taurian. 

3845 Oncidium, large-anthered. 


3806 -— Mr. Hunt’s. 
8854 —- Mrs. Wray’s. 
3807 -—————- thick-leaved. 


3847 Orthosiphon, incurved. 

3820 Passion-flower, Lieut. Sulivan’s 

3853 Pentstemon, various-leaved. 

3833 Pimelea, dwarf. 

8849 Plantain Tree, superb. 

3850 Ibid. 

8811 Rhododendron Caucasicum, 
hybrid var. of. : 

3825 tree; Cinna- 
mon-leaved var., with rose- 
coloured flowers. 

3808 Sage, spreading. 

3840 Sida, painted-flowered. 

3795 Solanum, wavy. 

3872 Sprekelia, the Tumbler. 

8803 Stenomesson, wide-leaved. 

3856 Stevia, trachelium-leaved. 

3816 Stylidium, fascicled-leaved. 

3855 Swanwort, Mr. Loddiges’; 
white-lipped var. 

3812 Zygopetalum, African.