CURTIS'S
‘BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,
COMPRISING THE
Plants of the Ropal Gardens of Hew
AND
OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN;
WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS ;
BY
| SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K.H., D.C.L. Oxon.,
; F.L.S., CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE
OF FRANCE, AND DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL GARDENS ©F KEW.
VOL. XVI.
OF THE THIRD SERIES;
(Or Vol. LXXXVI. of the Whole Work.)
a
OPAPP
“* So sits enthroned in vegetable pride
Imperial Kew, by Thames’s glittering side.”’
LONDON:
LOVELL REEVE, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1860.
fay yes] oe a.
TO
G. H. K. THWAITES, ESQ., F.L.S.,
THE ABLE AUTHOR OF ‘ENUMERATIO PLANTARUM ZEYLANIE”
AND THE TALENTED SUPERINTENDENT OF
THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, PERADENIA, CEYLON,
Ghe present Volume is Dedicated,
IN TESTIMONY OF THE HIGHEST ESTEEM AND REGARD,
BY
HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND .
THE AUTHOR.
Roya GarpEns, Krew,
December 1, 1860.
PALIN
GENERAL INDEX,
TO
THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN THE FIRST SIXTEEN VOLUMES
OF THE THIRD SERIES,
(Or from Vol. LXXI. to LXXXVI. inclusive, of the whole Work,)
OF THE
BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,
Vol.| No.
Abelia floribunda. 72 | 4260 | Alschynanthus Lobbianus.
uniflora. 73 | 4328 longiflorus.
Abies bracteata. 72 | 4264 | —— pulcher.
Abutilon insigne. 72 | 4236 purpurascens.
Acacia argyrophylla. 73 | 4320 | ——- speciosus.
—— celastrifolia. 84 | 5031 tricolor.
—— Cyenorum. 84 | 5077 | Ausculus Californica.
—— Drummondii. 85 | 5117 Indica.
—— hispidissima. 83 | 5012 | Agapetes buxifolia.
leptoneura. 82 | 4934 | Agave Celsii.
oncinophylla. 83 | 5006 densiflora.
—— wrophylla. 85 | 5097 Jacquiniana.
Acanthophippium Javanicum. || 85 | 5122 maculosa,
Achimenes argyrostigma. 82 | 4950 striata.
—— cupreata. 86 | 5213 yucceefolia.
—— heterophylla. 81 | 4864 | Akebia quinata.
—— hirsuta. ; 81 | 4842 | Albuca Gardeni.
ocellata. 74 | 4411 | Allamanda Aubletii.
Acroclinium roseum. 77 | 4594 neriifolia.
Adenocalymna comosum. 74 | 4351 Schottii.
Adhatoda eydonizefolia. 77 | 4598 | Allium Caspium.
Aichmea discolor. 75 | 4452 | Alloplectus capitatus.
mucroniflora. 74 | 4371 concolor.
Agiphila grandifiora. 72 | 4216 dichrous.
Aerides crispum. ~ 72 | 4250 repens.
cylindricum. 80 | 4769 | Allosorus calomelanos.
odoratum. 79 | 4698 cordatus.
Wightianum. 80 | 4762 flexuosus.
Aischynanthus cordifolius. 76 | 4548 | Almeida rubra.
fulgens. 86 | 5190 | Alocasia metallica.
Javanicus, 86 | 5210 | Aloe albo-cincta.
No.
4453
4764
4603
5187
4890
5025
44.00
4341
4159
4370
4145
4761
5170
4295
4782
5113
4313
4807
4291
4180
4507
5208
4226
4377
4965
4200
4146
4224
4899
5087
4693
4407
4897
4635
4595
5139
4940
4229
4388
4361
422]
4368
4467
4918
4409
4413
4911
5175
4557
4959
4544
4773
4248
INDEX TO VOLS.
Amherstia nobilis.
Amomum Danielli.
Granum-Paradisi.
Amorphophallus dubius.
Amphicome Emodi.
Ananas bracteatus.
Anastatica hierochuntica.
Anemone Japonica.
Angrecum apiculatum.
caudatum.
distichum.
eburneum.
eburneum ; var’. virens.
funale.
pertusum.
sesquipedale.
Anguloa Clowesii.
uniflora.
Anigozanthos fuliginosa.
pulcherrimus.
tyrianthinus.
Aneectochilus setaceus; var.
inornatus.
Anona palustris.
Anopterus glandulosus.
Ansellia Africana,
Anthocercis ilicifolia.
Aotus gracillima.
Aphelandra aurantiaca.
variegata.
Apteranthes Gussoniana.
Aquilegia Kanaoriensis.
—— leptoceras.
Aralia papyrifera.
Araucaria columnaris.
Arbutus mollis.
Areca sapida.
Argyreia hirsuta.
Ariopsis peltata.
Arisema Murrayi.
Aristolochia anguicida.
gigantea.
grandiflora,
macradenia.
—— Thwaitesii.
Arnebia echioides.
Asclepias Douglasii.
Asplenium Hemionitis,
Astelia Cunninghamii.
Aster Sikkimensis.
Astilbe rubra,
Astrapea viscosa.
Astrocaryum rostratum.
Asystasia Coromandeliana,
LXXI. TO
-| Barnadesia rosea.
| —— thyrsoidea.
LXXXVI.
Asystasia scandens.
Ataccia cristata.
Azalea ameena.
—— crispiflora.
ovata.
occidentalis,
Azara Gilliesii.
Backhousia myrtifolia.
Banksia Victoriz. ee
Barbacenia squamata. ee
Barkeria elegans.
er ee ee ee
Befaria sestuans.
coarctata.
Mathewsii.
Begonia albo-coccinea.
biserrata.
Bowringiana.
cinnabarina.
frigida.
fuchsioides.
Griffithii.
heracleifolia; var. nigri-
eans.
hernandizefolia.
laciniata.
microptera.
Natalensis.
Rex.
—— rubrovenia.
— Thwaitesii.
—— urophylla.
Wageneria.
Wageneriana.
xanthina.
xanthina ; var. Lazuli.
xanthina ; var. pictifolia.
Benthamia fragifera.
Berberis concinna.
Bealei.
Bealei; var. planifolia.
—— Darwinii.
ilicifolia.
——-. Wallichiana.
Bertolonia maculata.
Beschorneria tubiflora.
—— yuccoides.
Bifrenaria Hadwenii.
Billbergia Liboniana.
macrocalyx.
rhodocyanea.
Wetherelli.
Blandfordia flammea.
No.
4166
4532
5050
4267
4810
4223
5133
4481
4652
44.74
4734
| 4741
4717
4605
4339
4287
4839
4670
5147
4793
4834
4410
4392
5000
5199
5042
4714
4541
4671
4669
4973
4157
| 5154]
4158
4525
4929
4500
5181
4238
4188
5192
4808
| 4976
5044
5152
4555
4879
| 5068
INDEX TO VOLS, LXXI. TO
Bolbophyllum Careyanum.
Lobbii.
Neilgherrense.
uwmbellatum.
Bougainvillea spectabilis.
Bouvardia longiflora.
Brachychiton Bidwilli.
Brachysema aphyllum.
—— lanceolatum.
Brassavola Digbyana.
lineata.
Bravoa geminiflora.
Brillantaisia Owariensis.
Browallia Jamesoni.
speciosa.
Brunfelsia nitida ; rav. Jamai-
censis.
Brownea grandiceps.
Brya Ebenus.
Bryophyllum proliferum.
Buddleia crispa.
Burlingtonia decora.
Burtonia villosa.
pulchella.
scabra.
Caladium bicolor; var. Neu-
mannii.
Calanthe Dominii (hybrida).
gracilis.
Masuca.
vestita.
—— viridi-fusca.
Callathea villosa ; var. pardina.
Calceolaria alba.
amplexicaulis.
flexuosa.
— floribunda.
el Pavonii.
Calliandra brevipes.
heematocephala. —
Harrisii.
Tweediei.
Callixene polyphylla.
Calycanthus occidentalis.
Camellia reticulata ; flore pleno.
rosveflora. :
—— Sasanqua; var. anemo-|
niflora.
Campanula colorata.
peasbeliona.
strigosa.
Vidalii.
Camptosema rubicundum.
No
| 4530
4854
4729
4582
4386
4796
4953
5202
4219
4792
4596
5039
4009
4700
5048
5032
4902
5150
4270
4916
-| 4806
4811
5177
4815
4664
5127
5165
4660
4618
4675
4552
4611
5173
4499
4779
4417
4814
4707
44.43
4498
4349
4758
4338
5171
4845
LXXXVI.
Campylobotrys discolor.
Canna Warszewiczii.
Cantua bicolor.
buxifolia.
pyrifolia.
Cassiope fastigiata.
Castanea chrysophylla.
Catasetum atratum,
callosum; var. grandi-
florum.
Naso, varr.
Catheartia villosa.
Cattleya Aclandie.
bie
elegans.
—— granulosa.
—-— luteola.
maxima.
——- Schilleriana ; var. con-
color.
Skinneri.
Skinneri ; var. parviflora.
Ceanothus floribundus.
Lobbianus.
Oreganus.
— papillosus.
—— rigidus.
Veitchianus.
— velutinus.
verrucosus.
Cedronella cana.
Centrosolenia bractescens.
—— glabra.
—— picta.
Centrostemma multiflorum.
Cephalotaxus Fortuni.
Ceratostema longiflorum.
Cereus Leeanus.
— Lemairii.
— MacDonaldie.
—— reductus.
—— Tweediei.
Ceropegia Cumingiana.
—— Thwaitesii.
Cheenestes lanceolata.
Chamebatia foliolosa.
Chameedorea elegans (mas). ©
Ernesti-Augusti (mas).
Chamerops Fortuni.
Cheilanthes farinosa.
Cheirostemon platanoides.
Chirita Moonii.
—— Sinensis.
—— Walkeriz.
No.
4182
5095
4602
4576
5186
4753
4996
4391]
4.4.22
4977
4418
4237
4763
5207
4922
4794
44.95
4398
4269
4485
4355
4880
4354
4255
4259
5051
4895
4536
5180
4942
5018
4712
4645
5001
4440
4691
4661
5084
5072
4889
4785
44.96
4917
4754
4690
4247
5033
4927
4514
4294,
4330
5118
INDEX TO VOLS. LXXI. TO
Chirita Zeylanica.
Chrysanthemum carinatum ;
var. pictum.
Chrysobactron Hookeri.
Chysis aurea; var. maculata.
bractescens.
Cirrhopetalum cornutum.
—— Cumingii.
fimbriatum.
Macraei.
Meduse.
— nutans.
Thouarsii.
Cissus discolor.
velutinus.
Clavija ornata.
Clematis barbellata.
graveolens.
indivisa ; var. lobata.
tubulosa.
Clerodendron Bethuneanum.
capitatum.
—— fetidum.
— scandens.
sinuatum.
—— smilacifolium.
Clianthus Dampieri.
Clivia Gardeni.
Coccoloba macrophylla.
Cocos plumosa.
Codonopsis rotundifolia.
rotundifolia ; var. gran-
diflora.
Ceelia macrostachya.
Ceelogyne Cumingii.
elata.
—— fuliginosa.
maculata.
— ochracea.
—— par.durata.
Schilleriana.
——- speciosa.
—— testacea.
Wallichii.
Coffea Benghalensis.
Coleus Blumei. —
Macrei.
Collania Andinamarcana.
Colletia cruciata.
Collinsia verna.
Colquhounia coccinea.
Columnea aureo-nitens.
crassifolia.
—— scandens.
| No.
4980
5027
4888
4279
4912
4379
4658
5029
4979
4838
4822
5205
4710°
4143
44.70
4208
4362
4435
4667
4479
4215
4907
5126
4844
4141
4234
5024
4990
4901
4468
4444
—— cretaceum.
/-—— cymbidioides.
LXXXVI.
Comparettia falcata.
Cordia ipomeeeflora.
superba.
Cordyline Rumphii.
Correa cardinalis.
Corynocarpus levigata.
Coscinium fenestratum.
Cosmanthus grandiflorus.
Costus Afer.
Crawfurdia fasciculata.
Crescentia macrophylla.
Crinum giganteum.
Crossandra flava.
Cryptadenia uniflora.
Cupania Cunninghami.
Cuphea cordata.
silenoides.
Curcuma cordata.
Roscoeana.
Cychnoches barbatum.
Loddigesii.
Cymbidium chloranthum.
eburneum.
giganteum.
ochroleucum. _
Cypripedium barbatum.
Fairieanum.
hirsutissimum.
purpuratum.
Cyrtanthera aurantiaca.
catalpzefolia.
Cyrtanthus sanguineus.
Cyrtochilum citrinum.
Cyrtodeira cupreata ; var. viri
difolia.
Dasylirium glaucophyllum.
Hartwegianum.
acrotrichum.
Datura chlorantha ; flore pleno
cornigera.
Daviesia physodes.
Delphinium cardinale.
Dendrobium albo-sanguineum
Amboinense,
—— aqueum.
—— bigibbum.
Cambridgeanum.
— Chrysotoxum.
-—-— crepidatum.
crepidatum ; var. labell
glabro,
——- cucumerinum.
INDEX TO VOLS. LXXI. TO
Dendrobium Devonianum.
Falconeri.
Falconeri; sepalis pe-
talisque obtusioribus.
Farmeri.
fimbriatum ; var. ocu-
latum.
—— heterocarpum.
—— heterocarpum ; var. Hen-
shalii.
— Ki um.
—— Macarthie.
— moniliforme.
nobile; var. pallidiflorum.
—— pulchellum.
secundum.
teretifolium.
—— tortile.
transparens.
Dendrochilum glumaceum.
Dendromecon rigidum.
Desfontainia spinosa.
Dianthus Seguieri; var. Cau- }
casicus.
Diastema ochroleuca.
Dichorisandra leucophthalmos.
picta.
Dictyanthus Pavonii.
Didymocarpus crinita.
— Humboldtiana.
rimulzfolia.
Dielytra spectabilis.
Dillenia speciosa.
Dipladenia acuminata.
flava.
| —— Harrisii.
Diplothemium litiorale.
Dipteracanthus calvescens.
——? Herbstii.
spectabilis.
Disemma aurantia.
Dissotis Irvingiana.
Dombeya mollis.
viburniflora.
Doronicum Bourgei.
Draceena Draco.
elliptica; var. maculata.
Drimys Winteri.
Dryandra carduacea ; var. an-
No.
4373
4326
4311
4184
4632
4181
4177
4162
4290
4486
4364
4562
4559
4165
4567
4687
4521
4547
5020
4856
4903
4572
4225
LXXXVI.
Echinocactus chlorophthalmus.
cinnabarinus.
hexeedrophorus.
Leeanus.
longihamatus.
—— multiflorus.
—— myriostigma.
oxygonus.
—— pectiniferus.
rhodophthalmus.
rhodophthalmus ;
ellipticus.
streptocaulon.
Visnaga.
Williamsii.
Echinopsis campylacantha.
cristata.
——- cristata; var. purpurea.
Echites Franciscea; var. flori-
bus sulphureis.
Eichornia tricolor.
Embothrium coccineum.
Encephalartus Caffer.
Epidendram linearifolium.
longicolle.
—— Stamfordianum.
verrucosum.
Epigynium acuminatum.
leucobotrys.
Epimedium pinnatum.
Epipogon Gmelini.
Episcia bicolor.
melittifolia.
Eranthemum albiflorum.
Eremurus spectabilis.
Eria Dillwynii.
Eriogonum compositum.
Eriopsis rutidobulbon.
Eriostemon intermedium.
Erodium pelargoniiflorum.
Erythrochiton Brasiliense.
Escallonia macrantha.
— Organensis.
— pterocladon.
Eschscholtzia tenuifolia. —
Espeletia argentea.
Eucalyptus coccifera.
var.
No.
5141
4202
4771
4340
44.23
4280
4186
5089
4616
4995
4587
5163
4205
4189
4583
4790
4209
4546
4246
5052
4731
4506
4.233
4174
5096
4375
4261
4218
4701
4610
4948
4847
4987
4791
4322
4343
4307
4185
4461
5034
4697
4776
4860
4858
4831
4195
4240
5036
5070
4242
4217
4380
| 4348
INDEX TO VOLS.
Evelyna Caravata.
Evolvulus purpureo-ceruleus. |
Exacum macranthum.
—— tetragonum ; 8. bicolor.
Zeylanicum.
Exogonium Purga.
Exostemma longiflorum.
Fieldia australis.
FitzRoya Patagonica.
Forsythia suspensa.
viridissima.
Fourcroya flavo-viridis.
Fagreea obovata.
Franciscea acuminata.
calycina.
eximia.
— hydrangezformis.
Freziera theoides.
Friesia peduncularis.
Fritillaria Greeca.
— oxypetala.
Fuchsia bacillaris.
macrantha.
—— serratifolia.
simplicicaulis.
spectabilis.
Fugosia hakezefolia.
heterophylla.
Galeandra Baueri; var. flori-
bus luteis.
Devoniana.
Galipea macrophylla.
Garcinia Mangostana.
Gardenia citriodora.
globosa.
longistyla.
nitida.
malleifera.
Stanleyana.
Gautheria bracteata.
discolor.
ferruginea.
Gentiana Fortuni.
Genetyllis macrostegia.
tulipifera.
Geonoma corallifera.
Genista (Teline) Spachiana.
Gesneria bulbosa ; var. lateritia.
cinnabarina.
Donklarii.
elliptica ; var. lutea.
—— Hondensis.
—— Libanensis.
—— partina.
LXXI. TO
| }No
4431
5115
4152
4504
4342
4735
4876
4430
4213
4395
4677
4767
4363
5019
4171
4258
4179
4472
4539
4151
4607
5028
5179
5157
5007
4628
4651
5069
5155
5220
4706
4511
5123
5196
4201
4183
4745
4528
4643
4644
4.192
4574
4804
4516
4207
4774
4873
44,75
4685
4581
5166
4421
LXXXVI.
Gesneria picta.
purpurea.
Schiedeana.
Seemanni.
triflora.
Gilia (Leptosiphon) lutea.
dianthoides.
Gloxinia fimbriata.
pallidiflora.
Gmelina Rheedii.
Goethea strictiflora.
Goldfussia glomerata; va7’. spe-
ciosa.
isophylla.
Thomsoni.
Gompholobium barbigerum.
venustum.
versicolor; var. caulibus
purpureis.
Gonolobus Martianus.
Gordonia Javanica.
Govenia utriculata.
Grammanthes chlorzeflora.
Grammatocarpus volubilis,
Grammatophyllum Ellisii.
speciosum.
Grevillea alpestris.
Grindelia grandiflora.
Guichenotia macrantha.
Gustavia insignis.
Gutierrezia gymnospermoides.
Guzmannia tricolor.
Gymnostachyum Ceylanicum.,
Gynoxys fragrans.
Gynura bicolor.
Habenaria Salaccensis.
Habrothamnus corymbosus.
— fasciculatus.
Heemanthus insignis.
Hakea cucullata.
myrtoides.
Scoparia.
Hebecladus biflorus.
Hebeclinium ianthinum.
Hedera glomerulata.
Hedychium chrysoleucum.
Heinsia jasminiflora.
Heintzia tigrina.
Helianthemum Tuberaria.
Heliconia angustifolia,
pulverulenta.
Helleborus atro-rubens.
Heterocentron Mexicanum.
Heterotrichum macrodon. °
INDEX TO VOLS. LXXI. TO
Heterotropa asaroides.
Hexacentris Mysorensis.
Hibiscus ferox.
erossularizfolius.
radiatus ; 8. flore pur-
pureo.
Hindsia violacea.
Howardia Caracasensis.
Hoya bella.
campanulata.
—— cinnamomifolia.
—— coriacea.
—— coronaria.
Cumingiana.
fraterna.
—— imperialis.
—— (Otostemma) lacunosa.
purpureo-fusca.
Hydrangea Japonica ; var. ece-
rulea.
cyanema.
Hydromestus maculatus.
Hypericum oblongifolium.
Hypocyrta glabra.
gracilis.
leucostoma.
Hypoxis latifolia.
Ilex cornuta.
Illairea canarinoides.
Imantophyllum ? miniatum.
Impatiens cornigera.
fasciculata.
—— Hookeriana.
—— Jerdoniz.
macrophylla.
—— pulcherrima.
|— repens.
Indigofera decora.
Inga macrophylla.
Ipomeea muricata.
—— pulchella.
simplex.
Ismelia Broussonetii.
Isopogon attenuatus.
spheerocephalus.
Isotoma senecioides ; va7. sub-
_ pinnatifida.
Ixora barbata.
Griffithii.
—— Javanica.
jucunda.
—— laxiflora.
No.
4523
44.08
4649
4376
5092
5046
4620
LXXXVI. 7
Ixora salicifolia.
Jambosa Malaccensis.
Jasminum nudiflorum.
Jatropha podagrica.
Juanulloa eximia.
Kefersteinia graminea.
Klugia Notoniana.
Kniphofia uvaria.
Kopsia fruticosa,
Lacepedea insignis.
Lelia acuminata.
cinnabarina.
xanthina.
Lagetta lintearia.
Lapageria rosea ; var. albiflora.
Lardizabala biternata.
Leianthus longifolius.
umbellatus.
Leperiza latifolia.
Leptodactylon Californicum.
Leschenaultia arcuata.
splendens.
Leuchtenbergia Principis.
Leucothée neriifolia.
pulchra.
Liebigia speciosa.
Lilium giganteum.
roseum.
—— Wallichianum.
Linum grandiflorum.
pubescens ; 8. Sibthor-
pianum.
isianthus acutangulus.
pulcher.
Lithospermum canescens.
Littonia modesta.
Llavea cordifolia.
Loasa picta.
Lobelia splendens ; var. ignea.
—— Texensis.
— thapsoidea.
—— trigonocaulis.
Lopezia macrophylla.
Lopimia malacophylla.
Luculia Pinciana.
Lupinus Menziesii.
Luvunga scandens.
Lycaste fulvescens.
Lycium fuchsioides.
Lyonia Jamaicensis.
Lysimachia nutans.
Machzranthera tanacetifolia.
Macleania punctata.
INDEX TO VOLS.
Malachadenia clavata.
Malcomia littorea.
Malva involucrata.
Mamuillaria clava.
Mangifera Indica.
Marsdenia maculata.
Martynia fragrans.
Masdevallia fenestrata.
Wageneriana.
Maxillaria acicularis.
leptosepala.
macrobulbon.
Warreana.
Meconopsis Wallichii.
Medinilla Javanensis,
magnifica.
Sieboldiana.
speciosa.
Melastoma denticulatum.
Metrosideros. buxifolia.
florida.
tomentosa.
Methonica grandiflora,
virescens.
| Metternichia Principis.
| Meyenia erecta.
| Microsperma bartonioides.
Miltonia spectabilis.
spectabilis ; var. purpu-
reo-violacea.
Mirbelia Meisneri.
Mitraria coccinea.
Momordica mixta.
Monocera grandiflora.
Monocheetum ensiferum.
Monstera Adansonii.
Mormodes atro-purpurea,
—. Cartoni.
lentiginosa.
Moricandia Ramburii.
Mucuna prurita..
Myosotidium nobile.
Myrtus bullata.
orbiculata.
Negelia multiflora.
Napoleona imperialis.
Narthex Asafcetida.
Nematanthus ionema.
Nepenthes ampullaria.
Rafflesiana.
—— villosa.
Neptunia plena.
Nicotiana fragrans.
Niphzea albo-lineata.
LXXI. TO
84
79
82
80
75
Fol.
4357
5085
5076
4894
44.90
4636
4367
4553
4508
4549
4951
4436
5014
4736
4749
4836
44.06
4752
4565
4958
4666
4599
4946
4910
LXXXVI.
Niphea albo-lineata ; var. reti
culata.
Notholena sinuata.
Nyctanthes arbor-tristis.
Nymphea Amazonum.
ampla.
dentata.
Devoniensis (hybrida).
elegans,
gigantea.
micrantha.
Oberonia acaulis.
iridifolia.
Ochna atro-purpurea.
Odontoglossum hastilabium.
hastilabium ; var. —
tum.
maculatum.
membranaceum.
(Enothera bistorta; var. Veitch
jana.
Olearia Gunniana.
Oncidium bicallosum.
inecurvum.
longipes.
phymatochilum.
Ophelia corymbosa.
Opuntia Salmiana.
Orchis foliosa.
Orobus Fischeri.
Orothamnus Zeyheri.
Osbeckia aspera.
Ouvirandra Bernieriana.
fenestralis.
Oxalis elegans.
Oxyanthus tubiflorus.
Oxypetalum solanoides.
Oxyspora vagans,
Pachira alba.
longiflora.
Pachyphytum bracteosum.
Pachystigma pteleoides.
Pandanus Candelabrum.
pygmezus.
Papaver pilosum.
Paphinia cristata.
Passiflora amabilis.
Meduszea.
—— penduliflora.
tinifolia.
Paulownia imperialis.
Pedicularis mollis.
Pelargonium Endlicherianum.
Pentapterygium flavum.
Ss.
INDEX
Pol.
Pentapterygium rugosum. 76
Pentaraphia Cubensis. 77
Pentstemon baccharifolius. 76
centhranthifolius. 80
cordifolius. 17.
cyananthus. 74
Gordoni. 86
Jaffrayanus. 86
Wrightii. 82
Peristeria Barkeri. 86
Humboldtii; var. fulva. | 73
Pernettya furens. 79
Persea gratissima. 79
Pesomeria tetragona. 83
Phalenopsis amabilis. 77
grandiflora. 78
rosea. 17
Pharbitis cathartica. 71
Philesia buxifolia. 81
Philodendron erubescens. 88
Phrynium sanguineum. 83
Phygelius Capensis. 84
Phyllarthron Bojerianum. 82
Phyllocactus anguliger. 82
Physochlaina grandiflora. 81
Physosiphon Loddigesii. 83
Phytelephas macrocarpa.
Phytolacca icosandra.
Pilumna fragrans.
Pimelia macrocephala.
Pinguicula orchidioides.
Pistia Stratiotes.
Pitcairnia echinata.
—— exscapa.
oboe ee
Pleurothallis bicarinata.
Plocostemma lasianthum.
Plumieria Jamesoni.
Podocarpus neriifolia.
Polygala Hilairiana.
Polygonatum punctatum.
roseum.
Polygonum vacciniifolium.
Polystachya bracteosa.
reece lanceolata.
Portlandia platantha.
Potentilla ambigua.
Primula capitata.
— mollis.
—— dSikki
Stuartii. —
Psammisia penduleeflora.
Pteris Cretica.
| —— heterophylla.
33 | —— quadriaurita.
9 | Puya Altensteinii; var. gigantea.
—— Chiliensis.
sulphurea.
—— virescens.
Pyxidanthera barbulata.
Ranunculus cortuszefolius.
spicatus.
Reevesia thrysoidea.
Rheum acuminatum.
Rhipsalis sarmentacea.
Rhododendron album.
argenteum.
Blandfordizeflorum.
—— Brookeanum.
— Californicum. |
— pr aca
5 ie
— Kendrickii; var. lati-
folium.
| —— Keysii.
— ~ lepidotum.
-lepidotum ; var. chlo-
rivitheenns
—— Maddeni.
——- Moulmainense.
Bhododensil Niagirioum.
niveum.
—— Nuttallii. *
—— retusum.
= Smithii.
—— Stepherdii.
Thomsoni.
-——— Veitchianum. |
—-— virgatum.
—— Wilsoni (hyb
|—— Windsorii,
Rhodoleia Championi.
Rhynchospermum jasminoides.
| Rhynchoglossum Zeylanicum.
Ribes subvestitum.
Richardia albo-maculata.
hastata.
Rosa sericea.
Roscoea purpurea.
Rondeletia versicolor.
Roupellia grata.
Rubus b:florus.
/_—— nutans.
i. Ruellia lilacina.
leueantha.
ta.
scalperetolia.
Sandersonia aurantiaca.
Sanseviera cylindrica.
Sarcanthus filiformis.
Parishii.
Sauromatium guttatum.
Saxifraga cili
flagellari
urascens.
| Sceevola attenuata.
| Scheeria lanata.
Mexicana.
Scheenia oppositifolia.
Schomburgkia Lyonsi.
—— tibicinus; var. grandiflora.
Sciodacalyx Warszewiczii.
Seolopendrium Krebsii.
Scutellaria cordifolia. _
incarnata.
—— incarnata ; var. Trionai.
— macrantha.
—_—_——
Houiatlarie Ventenatii.
hia ery
Semeiandra grandiflora.
Senecio preecox.
Sida graveolens.
(Abutilon) integerrima.
—— peonieeflora.
——- (Abutilon) venosa.
— vitifolia.
Sinningia velutina.
Youngiana.
Siphocampylos coccineus.
glandulosus.
manattiseflorus.
—— microstoma.
Skimmia Japonica. |
Smeathmannia levigata.
—— pubescens. a
Smithia purpurea.
Sobralia chlorantha.
— fragrans.
macrantha.
sessilis.
Solandra levis.
Solanum macranthum.
runcinatum.
Sonchus gummifer.
radicatus.
Sonerila elegans. z
margaritacea.
—— speciosa.
—— stricta.
Spathodea campanulata.
—— levis.
Spheerostema propinquum.
Spirea Douglasii.
Fortunei.
—— grandiflora.
Rableans.
Spraguea umbellata.
Stachytarpheta aristata.
Stangeria paradoxa.
Stanhopea ecornuta.
igrina,
Statice Bonduelli.
Stemonacanthus macrophyllus.
Stenocarpus Cunninghami.
Stephanophysum Baikiei.
Stifftia chrysantha.
Stokesia cyanea.
Strelitzia augusta.
INDEX.
Streptocarpus Gardeni.
Talinum polyandrum. 17
Tamarindus officinalis. 76
Tecoma fulva. 73
Tetrazygia eleagnoides. 86
Theophrastus Jussizi. 86
Thermopsis barbata. ‘ 75
Thibaudia macrantha. 76
Pinchinchensis, 8.glabra.|| 73
—— pulcherrima. 74
Thyrsacanthus bracteolatus. 85
—— Indicus. .
—— Schomburgkianus.
strictus.
Thunbergia coccinea.
Harrisii.
laurifolia.
Natalensis.
Tillandsia bulbosa ; var. picta.
orenia Asiatica.
edentula.
- hirsuta.
Torreya Myristica.
Tradescantia papplors 08 var. va-
— thus.
Strobilanthes lactatus.
Stylidium mucronifolium.
—— saxifragoides.
Stylophorum diphyllun..
Swainsona Greyana.
Symphoricarpus microphyllus. 82
Syphocampylus Orbignianus. || 71
Tabernzemontana longiflora. 83
Tachiadenus earinatus. 17
Tacsonia mollissima. ® 188
sanguinea. 78
Talauma Candollii. 79
_— Smithii.
*
val
Tetiein aurea.
Tropzeolum crenatiflor
speciosum.
—— umbellatum.
Trycirtis pilosa.
Tupa crassicaulis. .
Tupidanthus calyptratus.
Turnera ulmiflora.
Tydea amabilis.
‘Ullucus tuberosus. —
Uroskinnera apartabilis.
Vaccinium erythrinum. —
—— ovatum. *.
—— Rollisoni.
Valoradia plumbaginoides.
Vanda cristata.
*
- suavis.
tricolor.
Veronica formosa.
Victoria regia.
Vriesia glaucophylla.
—— psittacina; var.
bracteata.
rubro-.
a
*
Tas.’ 5¥57.
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM spxctosum.
Showy Grammatophyllum.
Nat. Ord. Orncu1pE#.—GyYNaNnpDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. GRamMATOPHYLLUM, Bl. Perianthium explanatum, patens, sepalis
petalisque subeequalibus. Labellum cum columna articulatum, nanum, trilobum,
cucullatum. Columna arcuata, erecta, semiteres, basi callosa. Anthera subbilo-
cularis. ‘Pollinia 2, globosa, basi sulcata, in extremitatibus glandule arcuate
sessilia.—Herbe epiphyte, caulescentes. Caules simplices, incrassati. Folia line-
aria, disticha, striata. Peduneuli radicales, longissimi, (v. terminales ?) multifiorr.
Flores speciosissimi. Lindl.
.
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM speciosum ; scapo multifloro pseudobulbisque longissimis,
foliis distichis patenti-recurvis basi dilatatis equitantibus, bracteis herbaceis,
sepalis petalisque patentissimis subobovato-oblongis undulatis obtusissimis,
labelli lobis obtusis intermedio rubro-lineato, lineis ciliatis.
GRaMMATOPHYLLUM speciosum. Bl. Bijdr. p. 377. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid.
p- 173 (in part.). Bl. Rumphia, v. 4. p. 47. 4.191. Pact. Fl. Gard. t. 69
(imperfect specimen).
Great was the surprise of botanists and horticulturists when
the first knowledge of this gigantic Orchideous plant was placed
before the European public in the ‘Rumphia’ above quoted, and
expectations were not disappointed when the living plant was
introduced by the late Messrs. Loddiges, and at length flowered,
though imperfectly, in their stoves at Hackney, which happened
in 1852, when the figure above quoted was published in Paxton’s
‘Flower Garden.’
The specimen now before us exceeds in size all that was anti-
~ eipated by the most sanguine, and this under the skilful manage-
ment of Mr. Carson, gardener to W. G. Farmer, Esq., of Non-
such Park, Ewell, in October, 1859. It was taken from a plant
of which the old pseudobulbs, or stems, were from nine to ten
feet long, and the scape six feet, throwing out its noble flower-
ing scape from the base. The species is a native, Blume tells us,
of Java and other islands in the Indian Ocean (Mr. Finlayson
detected it in Cochin China), and from its vigorous vegetation,
ganvary Ist, 1860.
and the remarkable size of the flowers, it richly merits the title
of the “ Queen of Orchideous plants.” |
Duscr. Stems, or pseudobulbs, clustered, erect, five to eight
and ten feet high, tereti-compressed, striated below, and a few,
large, appressed scales there take the. place of /eaves. ‘These
latter occupy the rest of the stem, and are distichous, one
and a half to two feet long, from a broad, sheathing, equitant
base, lorate, acute, coriaceo-membranaceous, striated. Scape
nearly the size of one’s finger, and: from four to six feet long,
radical, erect, many-flowered, terete, quite glabrous. Flowers
distant, expanding from the base upwards on the panicle, each
with a large, broad, ovato-lanceolate, concave, greenish dract,
full an inch long. Ovary pedicelliform, as long as the flower
is broad, thick, fleshy, terete, four to six inches, almost white :
flower-bud two and a half inches long, independent of the ovary,
clavate. Expanded flower nearly six inches across. Sepa/s and
petals much spreading and slightly reflexed, undulated, broad-
oblong or subobovate, yellow, richly spotted and blotched with
deep: red-purple. Zip small for the size of the flower, three-
lobed, an inch and a half long; the lobes obtuse, the side lobes
convolute over the column; the disc sulcated, with three plates
more elevated in the centre, marked with red streaks, and where
the red streaks are, the lines are ciliated: middle lobe entire.
Column curved a little downwards, semiterete, partially spotted
with red.
Fig. 1. Front view of the lip. 2. Column. 3. Pollen-masses and caudicle :
—magnified.
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TAB. 5158.
STATICE BonpveE.ti.
Bonduelle’s Statice.
Nat. Ord. PLUMBAGINE®.—PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 3776.)
Sratice (§ Pteroclados) Bonduelli; foliis radicalibus patentibus pubescenti-
hirsutis ciliatis spathulatis sinuato-runcinatis, lobis rotundatis terminali sub-
rhombeo longe mucronato, scapis teretibus, ramis angulatis dichotome cy-
mosis, pedunculis obpyramidalibus trialatis, floribus glomeratis (flavis), brac-
teis interioribus patenti-spinosis, calycis limbo demum campanulato 5-
dentato.
Sratice Bonduelli. Lestid. in Annal. des Sc. Nat. ser. 3. v. 16. p. 81. ¢. 17.
This pretty yellow-flowered Statice was received at the Royal
Gardens of Kew from Mr. Thomson of Ipswich, and proves to
be a species described and accurately figured by Lestiboudois
in the ‘Annales des Sciences Naturelles’ above quoted, under
the name of S. Bonduelli. Tt was detected in North Africa, in
the desert of Djebel-Amour, on the banks of the Mzi, between
Tagemont and El-Aghouat, by M. Bonduelle, chirurgien aide-
major, after whom it is named. It is one of the prettier of a
very pretty genus, and is among the few of the yellow-flowered |
species known to us; is easily cultivated in a greenhouse, and
flowers readily during the summer months.
Dzscr. Perennial. eaves radical, spreading, three to. five
inches long, spathulate, sinuato-lyrate, hairy and ciliated, termi-
nated by a subulate point, tapering below into a short, winged
petiole: lobes of the leaves oval or rounded, separated by obtuse
sinuses ; terminal one larger than the rest, subrhomboid. Scapes °
a foot and more tall, several from the same root, branched
upwards in a compoundly dichotomous manner, rounded, hairy ;
the dranches triangular, moderately spreading: éracts two or
three together, linear, half an inch to an inch long, below the
branches.and at the bases of all the dichotomies, uppermost
ones subulate : w/timate branchlets, which may be considered the
JANUARY Ist, 1860.
peduncle, broad, obpyramidate, an inch long, ancipitate, trialate,
forked at the apex, slightly hairy. #VZowers inserted at the base
of the fork of the peduncle, clustered, surrounded by scariose
bracts, of which the interior are furnished with hard, green,
spreading spines, some subulate, others semi-hastate, all very
sharp. Calye at first cylindrical, at length infundibuliform, yel-
low, the Zimb campanulate, scariose, five-toothed, and minutely
crenulated. Petals five; the long claws approximated into a
tube, longer than the clayx, the /amine spreading, obovate, bifid,
pale-yellow. Stamens and style included.
Fig. 1. Peduncle, with flowers. 2. Flower, with an inner bractea. 3. Calyx,
after the fall of the corolla :—magnijied. 7
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Tas. 5159.
LLAVEA corDIFOLIA.
Cordate-leaved Llavea.
Nat. Ord. Frtices.—CryproGaMia FILicks.
Gen. Char. Pinna steriles et fertiles in eadem fronde. Sori lineares vel ob-
longi in venas pinnularum transmutarum siliquiformium. Involucrum e margini-
bus incurvis membranaceis dilatatis pinnularum soros tegentes.—Filix Mexicana.
Caudex brevis, crassus, sguamosus. Frons subampla, tripinnata, elegantissima.
Luavea cordifolia.
Luavea cordifolia. Lagasca, Gen. et Sp. Plant. p. 33. Dict. Se. Nat. v. 27. p. 89.
Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 2. p. 125.
CERATODACTYLIS osmundioides. J. Sm. in Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 36. Fée, Gen. Fil.
p. 228.
Auxosorus Karwinskii. Kze. in Linnea, v. 13. p. 138. Benth. Plant. Hartw.
p. 64, Kze. in Schkuhr, Fil. Suppl. p. 7. ¢.4. Hook. Ie. Plant. Rar. v. 4.
t. 387, 388.
BorryocramMe Karwinskii. Fée, Gen. Fil. p. 166. ¢. 15 C.
.
One of the most beautiful, and, in a state of cultivation, rarest of
Ferns, native of Mexico, with a very peculiar habit; for, with a fruc-
tification in many respects resembling that of our well-known
Cryptogramme crispa, Br., it bears on one and the same frond
two kinds of pinnules; the lower portion consists of sterile pin-
nules only, the upper portion forms a graceful drooping panicle
of pod-shaped fertile pinnules. No fern-collection suitable to a
warm greenhouse should be without this charming plant. It is
a solitary species of the genus.
Descr. Caudex or rhizome short, thick, mostly concealed
underground. Fronds tufted, including the stipes, from a foot
and a half to two feet long, moderately broad, tripinnate, lower
pinnae: sterile, the rest fertile. Pinnules of the sterile pinne an
inch or more long, ovate or cordate-ovate, petiolate, between
coriaceous and membranaceous, firm, delicate, bright-green, some-
what acute, serrated with subspinulose teeth, the margins slightly
thickened. eins pinnately two to three times forked, ultimate
veialets terminating within the margin, and clavate. About the ==
january Ist, 1860.
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upper half of the frond forms a panicle of fertile, linear, pedi-
cellate, pod-shaped, torulose pinaules, which are generally acute ;
the margins revolute upon the back of the pinne, the edges
meeting there and forming the zzvolucres to the sori, which
are in lines upon the branches of the veins. Capsules nume-
rous, crowded, pedicellate. Sfipes a span or more long, clothed,
and thickly at the base, with subulate, falcate, delicate, whitish,
membranaceous scales. Rachis free from scales, slender, flexuose.
Fig. 1. Portion of a sterile pinna, showing the venation. 2. Fertile pinna,
seen from beneath, showing the margin rolled in and constituting the involucre.
3. Portion of the fertile pinna, with the involucre forced back, showing a sorus:
—magnified.
Tas. 5160.
BEGONIA FriGipDa.
Frigid Begonia.
Nat. Ord. BEGoNIACE®.—Mone@cia POLYANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4172.)
Beconta frigida ; suffruticosa erecta glabra, foliis longe petiolatis ineequaliter
oblique cordatis brevi-acuminatis brevissime sinuato-lobatis serratisque,
lobis acutis supra intense viridibus subtus rubro-roseis, stipulis ovatis acu-
minatis roseis integerrimis, pedunculis axillaribus folia excedentibus bis di-
chotomis, floribus parvis albis, masculis 4-sepalis quorum 2 ovatis 2 multo
minoribus linearibus, staminibus 9 erectis, foemineis sepalis 4—5 eequalibus
lineari-oblongis, capsula membranacea 3-alata, alis 2 majoribus.
Beeonta frigida. Hortul. Alf. De Cand. in Ann. des Sc. Nat. 4th Ser. v. 11. p. 51.
The foliage of this small species of Begonia, which we re-
ceived from Continental gardens under the name here adopted,
is more attractive than the flowers, which are unusually small
and insignificant, and quite colourless ; but our artist, Mr. Fitch,
while making the drawing, detected a curious morphological -
structure, in the fact of one of the flowers having an zz/ferior
perianth of four very unequal sepals (such as are indicative of a
male flower) ; and above their point of insertion are four stamens
(apparently perfect), alternating with four superior, free, ovate
ovaries, each with a short style, and two, downy, linear stigmas.
It is to be regretted that no section was made of these ovaries,
which from situation and in form so little resemble the three-
celled, inferior fruit of Begonia. Indeed, all the flowers had an
imperfect appearance, a weak and starving aspect, as if likely to
prove abortive; for they are not only small, but the stamens
were few in each flower, never more than nine: in the female
flower the petals vary from four to five, and the fruit was in one
instance four-sided and four-winged.
De Candolle, in his admirable “ Mémoire sur la Famille. des -
Bégoniacées” in the Annales, |.c., makes brief mention of this
species as cultivated in the garden of M. Boissier at Geneva, and
refers it to a section, “ Dasysteles,’ whose character is “ Flores
JANUARY Ist, 1860. *
masc. disepali, dipetali. Stamina libera, antheris oblongis, fila-
mento longioribus. V. fem. lobis tribus, eequalibus. Svy/i tres,
liberi, bifidi, a basi usque ad apicem ramorum undique papillosi,
ramis erectis lmearibus. Placent@ integree. Capsula subsequa-
liter trialata.”’ 7
Dezscr. Stem, in our plant, not more than a span high, gla-
brous, as are the /eaves, which are from three to five inches long,
long-petioled, unequally cordate, shortly acuminate, sinuate at
the margin with small, sharp angles or lobes, and serrated,
slightly pilose ; upper side dark coppery-green, beneath deep
rose-red, especially upon the veins. Stipules half an inch long,
membranaceous, pale rose-colour, deciduous, ovato-acuminate.
Peduncles longer than the leaves, twice dichotomous. Flowers
white, small. A/ale flowers with four, spreading sepals, two oval,
and two very small linear ones. Stamens nine. Female flowers
larger. Sepals four to five, equal, oblong-oval, spreading. Cap-
sule with two large and one small and very narrow wing.
Fig. 1. Male flower. 2. A stamen. 3. Female flower. 4. Transformed
hermaphrodite ? flower :—magnified.
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Tas. 5161,
DIDYMOCARPUS prRIMULAFOLIA.
Primrose-leaved Didymocarpus.
Nat. Ord. CyRTANDRACEH.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4757.)
Dipymocarpus primulefolia ; acaulis, folis radicalibus patentibus ovalibus
obovatisve obtusis serratis in petiolum longum alatum decurrentibus
rugosis supra pubescentibus subtus tomentoso-albidis, scapis axillaribus
folia sequantibus apice dichotome cymoso-paucifloris, calycis villosi lobis
lineari-oblongis erectis obtusis, corolle tubo curvato subtus precipue insig-
niter inflato limbi lobis 5 patentibus eequalibus.
DipyMocarPus primuleefolia. Gardn. Contrib. to Fl. of Ceylon, p. 18.
Raised from seeds which were sent from Ceylon by our ex-
cellent friend Mr. Thwaites, to the Royal Gardens of Kew,
where it flowered in November, 1859. It was well named by
the lamented Gardner, “ primulefolia,’ for not only the leaves,
but the front view of the flower calls to mind some or other of
the Primrose tribe. The colour of the leaves however, from the
copious down, is peculiarly hoary, almost white. It is an inha-
bitant of shady rocks, in forests, on the Hantane range, near
Kandy. A near ally of this is D. Humboldtiana, of Gardner,
figured at our Tab. 4757. That has much broader leaves and
shorter petioles.
Descr. Herbaceous, stemless. Whole plant covered with
hoary down or short hairs, thicker (quite tomentose) on the
under side of the leaves. eaves (the blade) three to four inches
long, all radical, elliptical or subobovate, patent, rugose with
strongly reticulated veins, crenato-serrate, tapering at the base —
. into a long, winged petiole, longer than the blade. Scapes
about as long as the leaves, erect or nearly so, dichotomously
divided at the apex into a few-flowered cyme of moderately sized,
pale-lilac-coloured flowers, soon passing into white. Calyx
monophyllous, cut into five, deep, nearly erect, linear-oblong,
JANUARY Ist, 1860.
obtuse, very hairy /oles. Corolla short, with the tude at first
curved downwards, then upwards, singularly broad, and inflated
or ventricose beneath; limb of five, spreading, nearly equal,
rounded segments, crenated at the margin. Stamens two, perfect,
quite included, inserted near the base of the tube; filaments
short ; anthers yellow, reniform, applied to each other face to
face, and slightly conjoined: there are besides in our plant three
filiform aéortive stamens. Ovary oblong, pubescent and glandu-
lose. Style as long as the tube of the corolla. Stigma subcapi-
tate, depressed.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Corolla, laid open, showing “the
stamens. 4. Pistil :—magnified.
Tas. 5162.
STATICE BRASSICAFOLIA.
Cabbage-leaved Statice.
Nat. Ord. PLUMBAGINE%.—PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 3776.)
Sratice (Pteroclados) Jrassicafolia ; basi suffrutescente, foliis parce et brevis-
sime velutinis margine ciliatulis petiolatis lyratis lobo terminali maximo
ovato-rotundo sepe irregulariter lobato obtusissimo cuspidato basi subcor-
dato lateralibus 2—4-auriculeformibus parvis rotundatis alternis basi spe
confluentibus, seapo angulato superne paniculato-corymboso, ramis bialatis ©
alis latissimis grosse undulato-lobatis subdichotomis in auriculas amplas
abeuntibus, spiculis bifloris 2-3 ad ramulorum apicem fasciculatis, ramuli
floralis alis tribus a basi sursum dilatatis glabris in auriculas breves faleatas
acutiusculas cujus altera sape obsolete abeuntibus, bracteis duabus inferi-
oribus rufo-membranaceis ovatis acutis puberulis, interiore triplo majore
rubello-coriacea dorso coriacea elevatim plurinervi glabra apice angustis-
sime albo-membranacea ciliatula, calycis tubo glabro limbo obtusissime
5-denticulato-sinuato. Boiss.
SraTice brassicefolia. Webb in. Bourg. Plant. Canar. Exsicc. n. 136. Phyt.
Canar. v. 3. p.181. t. 195. Boiss. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 12. p. 637.
Se
A very pretty new Statice, recently detected by M. Bourgeau
in the Canaries, but only in the island of Gomora, and at a spot —
called El Risco de las Sulas, Lugar de Agulo, flowering in great
perfection early in April: with us, even in a cool greenhouse,
blossoming early in August. It evidently belongs to the same
group of the extensive genus Statice with the well-known S. —
arborea of Willdenow, and of Bot. Mag. t. 3776; but very dif-
ferent, and of a more humble character in point of size. In
this group of the genus, Teneriffe and the adjacent islands are
extremely rich.
Dzscr. The root or rhizome is stout and woody, and some-
times rises above the surface of the ground, but never to the ex-.
tent of becoming a subarborescent stem, as is the case in S. ar-
horea. Leaves all radical, roughly hairy, with small sete, va-
rying much in size, from six inches to a span and more long,
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lyrato-pinnatifid, or even below subpinnate. The terminal /ode
very large, broadly obovate, somewhat waved, tipped with a
long subulate dristle ; below that lobe the petiole is winged and
sinuato-lobate, the lobes small, subtriangular, and the lowest
ones wide apart and distinct. Scape a foot or a foot and a half
high, dichotomously panicled above, very singularly and broadly
winged, as’seen in the figure, and as is, together with the inflo-
rescence, sufficiently amply described in the above specific cha-
racter. :
Fig. 1. Flowers and outer bract. 2. Inner bract. 3. Calyx, separate from
the rest of the flower. 4. Portion of a leaf, to show the sete :—all more or less
magnified.
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Tas. 5163.
FOURCROYA FLAvo-viriDIs.
Yellow-green Fourcroya.
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACE®.—HEXANDRIA MOoNnoGyYNIA.
Gen. Char. Perigonium corollinum, superum, deciduum, hexaphyllo-partitum ;
foliolis equalibus, patentiusculis. Stamina 6, epigyna; filamenta basi cuneato-
dilatata, sstivatione erecta, sub anthesi inclusa; anthere ovate, medio dorso
affine, erectee. Ovarium inferum, triloculare. Ovuda plurima, in loculorum an-
gulo centrali biseriata, horizontalia. Stylus triqueter, basi strumoso-incrassatus,
subexsertus, cavus, apice pervius. Stigma obtusum, fimbriatum. Capsula co-
riacea, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis. Semina plurima, plano-compressa.—
Herbe in America calidiore cis equatorem indigene, longece, semel florentes ;
caudice interdum giganteo, apice folioso; scapo terminali, paniculatim ramoso,
multifioro. Endl.
Fourcroya flavo-viridis ; acaulis, foliis pallide flavo-viridibus subsesquipedalibus
bipedalibusve lanceolatis carnosis acuminatis subtortuosis spinosis, spinulis
mediocribus falcatis, seapo subbiorgyali apice laxe racemoso-paniculato,
floribus subaggregatis nutantibus 3 uncias longis, perianthio infundibuli-
formi-hypocrateriformi, tubo viridi, limbo flavescente 4 uncias lato, stami-
nibus limbi laciniis lanceolatis 3 interioribus latioribus brevioribus, fila-
mentis infra medium valde dilatatis, stylo staminibus brevioribus basi
erecto-trilobis.
The brief account we have of Mourcroya tuberosa might be
considered sufficiently to correspond with our present plant to
justify us in attaching the name to it, were it not for the absence
of a swollen base or rhizome from which the roots spring. We
have plants that have not yet flowered, which in that particular
better correspond with 7. tuberosa, and I am bound to consider
a new species, which Mr. Repper sent, twelve or, fourteen years
ago, along with Cereus senilis and other Mexican succulents, from
Real del Monte. It may be considered a Fourcroya gigantea in
miniature; the flowers however being quite as large and of the
same structure as F. gigantea, already given in Bot. Mag., Tab.
2250.
Descr. ‘The root is coarsely fibrous, without stem or cau-
dex. Leaves all radical, more or less spreading, and some-
FEBRUARY Ist, 1860.
what tortuose, about two-feet long, lanceolate, pungently acumi-
nate, pale-green, very smooth and even, spinulose at the margin :
the spines or teeth falcate, sharp ; superior ones pointing towards
the apex, inferior ones the reverse. Scape twelve to fourteen
feet high, naked below but bracteated above, forming a long lax
racemose panicle ; pedicels aggregated on short bracteated pe-
duncles, drooping ; bracteas ovato-lanceolate, long-acuminate. Pe-
rianth pale-yellowish-green ; the ¢wbe incorporated with the ob-
tusely triangular ovary. The spread of the limb is nearly four
inches ; three outer seyals narrower, three inner subcorolloid and
a little waved. Filaments, as in the genus, singularly dilated
below the middle, and the style has at its base three large erect
lobes, characteristic of the genus Fourcroya.
Fig. 1. Apex of a leaf,—nat. size. 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil. 4. Transverse
section of ovary :—magnified.
Tas. 5164,
SPIRAXBA FortTuNEI.
Fortune's Spirea.
Nat. Ord. Rosacrz.—Icosanpria D1-PENTAGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4795.)
Spirza Fortunei; frutex erectus, ramulis glabratis, foliis lanceolatis longe
acuminatis grosse subduplicato-serratis supra glabris subtus glaucis gla-
berrimis v. pilosulis, cymis laxis, ramis patentibus calycibusque pubes-
centibus, calycis lobis patentibus tubo intus tomentosis disco glandulis
suberectis ornato, ovariis glaberrimis.
Sprr#a Fortunei. Planchon, Flore des Serres, v. 9. p. 871.
Spirma callosa. Lindl. et Paat. Fl. Gard. v. 2. p. 113, cum ic. aylogr.
This handsome shrub is evidently the S. callosa of Lindley,
a native of North China and Japan, but whether of Thunberg
or not appears doubtful, for the latter author describes the leaves
as eglandular, whereas this and all its allies have the serratures
tipped with a gland. Planchon, who points out this difference,
adds that the S. ca//osa has much smaller, somewhat pilose
leaves, and larger callosities (axillary buds) at the base of the
petiole. Notwithstanding these differences we suspect this will
prove to be Thunberg’s plant, for the leaves vary extremely in
size, as do those of its allies. There are sometimes a few hairs
on the leaves beneath. Our specimens have the large callosities
alluded to, and we cannot but suspect some error in regard to —
the eglandular serratures. We have a cultivated specimen, in-
troduced from Japan to this country by T. Lobb, in which the
inflorescence and calyx are nearly glabrous.
The S. Fortunei flowered this year in the Royal Gardens,
Kew ; but we have figured in preference the specimens sent by
Mr. Noble, of Bagshot, for reasons which will be stated under
S. Nobleana (hereafter to be figured). As a species it is very
nearly related to some forms of the Himalayan 8. bella itself, a
a most variable plant, but in which the glands of the disc are
always much larger. :
Descr. A straggling shrub, three to five feet high, with
reddish glabrous éranches and puberulous branchlets. Leaves
FEBRUARY Ist, 1859.
three to six inches long, rather membranous, elliptic-lanceolate
_or oblong-lanceolate, with a long acumen, irregularly acutely
serrate ; the serratures tipped with a gland ; deep green, glabrous
above, glaucous and glabrous or obscurely pilose beneath. n-
florescence a lax cyme, with slender patent branches. Calya
tomentose with spreading lobes and hairy tube inside. Desc
with a row of suberect small glands. Stamens not very long.
Ovaries quite glabrous. —J/. D. H.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Ditto, with petals and stamens removed. 3. Portion
of calyx, gland, and stamens :—all magnified.
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Tap. 5165.
CEANOTHUS ve vutTINus.
Velvety Ceanothus.
Nat. Ord. RHAMNE®.—PENTANDRIA Monoaynia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4660.)
CEANOTHUS velutinus; frutex, ramis erectis, foliis coriaceis orbiculari-ellipticis
cordatisve obtusis glanduloso-crenatis supra glabris intense viridibus ver-
nicosis subtus canescenti-tomentosis trinerviis, paniculis pedunculatis axil-
laribus, floribus densis albis.
CranoTuus velutinus. Douglas, in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. p. 125. t. 45. Torrey
and Gray, Fl. of N. Am. v. 1. p. 265.
This is a plant of which the figure makes very little show upon
white paper, for there is nothing gay and no variety of colour ;
but in a garden it proves to be a very handsome evergreen orna-
mental shrub, derived from the Oregon Territory, with leaves
whose upper surface is very dark green, rendered glossy by ap-
parently an aromatic resin, which the plant exudes in hot wea-
ther, the under side velvety with whitish down, or sometimes
slightly ferruginous. It was first detected by the lamented
- Douglas, and has been lately reared from seed by Messrs. Veitch
and Sons, Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, with whom it flowered
in the open air in the early winter months. It may be expected
to be quite hardy, for it is found among the Rocky Mountains
at considerable elevation above the sea.
Descr. Shruéd, eight to ten feet high on its native hills, with
nearly glabrous, terete ranches, and rather long-petioled /eaves
of a singularly dark and vernicose green above, pale and canes-
cent or sometimes subferruginous with velvety down, beneath ;
the largest of them are nearly three inches long; their form is
elliptical-rotundate or elliptical-cordate, the margin glanduloso-
crenulate ; there are three principal longitudinal nerves, which
are prominent beneath. Peduacles axillary, bearing erect, thyr-
soid panicles of dense white flowers, overtopping the leaves, with
FEBRUARY IsT, 1860.
a pair of dracteas where the branches commence. Calyx small,
five-lobed. Petals long-clawed, cucullate. Stamens with in-
curved filaments; anthers subglobose. Dise very conspicuous.
Fruit a capsule, about the size of a small pea.
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Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil and hypogynous disc :—magnified.
3166.
Tas. 5166.
HETEROCENTRON Mexicanum.
Mexican Heterocentron.
Nat. Ord. MELASTOMACE®.—OctTANDRIA MonoGYNIA.
Gen. Char. HeterocentRON, Hook. et Arn. Flos tetramerus. Calycis dentes
triangulari-acuti, tubum campanulatum subsequantes. Petala obovata. Stamina
8, alternatim ineequalia, haud omuino conformia; antheris lineari-oblongis, 1-
porosis, loculis undulatis ; 4 majorum connectivo infra loculos longe producto et
ultra filamenti insertionem in appendices duas rectas calcariformes conniventes
antice porrecto; 4 minorum connectivum brevissime ante vix productum sed
infra loculas bituberculatum. Ovarium costis 8 parum conspicuis basi adherens,
superne liberum, apice setis coronatum, 4-loculare. Stylus filiformis, stigmate
punctiformi. Capsula 4-valvis. Semina cochleata.—Sufirutices fruticesve Mexi-
cani, monticole, erecti, ramosi, inter Melastomeas foliis multiplinerviis et Sere
omnino penninerviis memorabiles ; floribus paniculatis, albis ante roseis. Naudin.
Hererocentron Mericanum ; suffruticosum pilis scabriusculum, caule ramisque
tetragonis, foliis ellipticis obtusis penninerviis obtusis integerrimis in
petiolum longiusculum decurrentibus, panicula foliosa ampla terminali mul-
tiflora, calycis tubo globoso echinato-tuberculato.
HererocenTRon Mexicanum. Hook. et Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 290. Naud.
Melast. Tent. p. 248. :
Metastoma subtriplinervium. Link. Ic. Pl. Rar., p. 47. t. 24 (flore albo).
Heteronoma subtriplinervium. Hort.
A very beautiful Mexican Melastomaceous plant, inhabiting
mountains about Xalape, at altitudes of six to eight thousand
feet, and although hitherto kept in the stove with us, there is no
doubt of its succeeding well in a cool greenhouse. It has been ~
circulated, judging by the appellation which we have received
with it, as “ Heteronoma subtriplinervium, ’—the genus of which
is quite different ; and the specific name implies a character,
common to most of the Order Melastomacee, but quite at
variance with the species and the genus to which our plant be-.
longs. Our plants have flowered in the autumnal and early
winter months, and prove exceedingly ornamental at that un-
favourable portion of the year. We owe the possession of our
FEBRUARY Ist, 1860.
living plants to Messrs. Hugh Low and Son, of the Clapton
Nursery.
Descr. Suffruticose. A foot and rather more high, with
four-anguled stem and branches, and opposite /eaves, slightly
scabrous above, with short sete, elliptical in form, obtuse, entire,
penninerved, tapering at the base into a moderately long petiole.
Panicle very compound, terminal, spreading, formed of the nu-
merous flowering branches, each of which forms a corymé of
many flowers, of a bright rose-colour, nearly an inch in diameter.
Tube of the calyx globose, tuberculato-muricate ; /imé of five,
spreading, ovate, large, at length reflexed segments. Pefals
four, spreading, rhombeo-orbicular, a little concave, shortly
unguiculate. Stamens of two kinds: four smaller ones, with a
very minute connectivum and an erect anther ; four longer ones,
with a long connectivum, as long as the anther, bifid at the base,
attached transversely to the apex of the filament, and remarkably
deflexed.’ Ovary quite concealed within the muricated calyx-
tube, four-celled.
Fig. 1. Calyx, with the capsule bursting at the apex. 2. Fruit (and calyx-
tube), cut through transversely. 3. One of the four lesser stamens. 4. One of
the four larger ones :—all more or less magnified.
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Tas. 5167.
TORENIA HIrsvuTA.
Hairy Torenia.
Nat. Ord. ScROPHULARIACE®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, plicatus v. alatus, apice oblique 5-dentatus v. bi-
labiatus. Corolla ringens, labio superiore emarginato vel bifido, inferiore trifido
majore. Stamina postica fertilia, antica arcuata antherifera, basi appendice den-
tiformi vel filiformi aucta. Anthere per paria arcte approximate vel coherentes.
Stylus apice bilamellatus. Capsula oblonga, calycem non excedens.—Herbee
gerontogee, tropice, vel parce ex orbe veteri allate etiam America tropica vigentes.
Folia opposita. Racemi dreves, pauciflori, fasciculaformes, vel rarius elongati, ter-
minales vel ramo excurrente falso axillares, vel in dichotomia ramorum siti. Benth.
in De Cand.
TorENIA hirsuta; diffusa, foliis petiolatis ovatis serrato-crenatis basi subcordatis,
calycibus, elongatis 5-costatis exalatis basi obtusis, corolla calyce vix duplo
longiore, filamentorum anticorum appendice subulata. Benth.
Torenta hirsuta. Lamb. Ilust. t. 523. f.2. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 10.
p. £10.
TorENIA cordifolia. Benth. in Wall. Cat. n. 3954 (non Rowb.).
From the stove of the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it was
received from Messrs. Hugh Low and Son, of Clapton, who
appear to be the first who have introduced the plant to our
stoves. It certainly has many points in common with 7. Asia-
tica, figured at our Tab. 4249, and is perhaps more beautiful
than that favourite plant. The flowers are equally large, as well
as more highly coloured, and more inclined to a reddish than a
blue purple. The plant is not so straggling, but more compact,
the leaves shorter, less acuminate, less sharply serrated ; and they,
and the whole plant (and even the corollas), are hoary with fine,
short, canescent hairs. The calyx is considerably different in
shape, both in the state of bud, and after its full expansion,
much less acuminated at the apex; more obtuse at the base,
and the upper lip is always deeply bipartite (as accurately re-
presented in the otherwise indifferent figure of Lamarck), which
seems never to be the case with 7. Asiatica. It flowers at dif-
FEBRUARY IsT, 1860.
ferent seasons, and requires the protection of a stove. Our draw-
ing was made in December, 1859.
- “Drscr. Stem herbaceous, four-sided, and, as well as the fo-
liage, hoary with copious short hairs. Zeaves opposite, short-
petiolate, cordato-ovate, crenato-serrate, shortly acuminate. Pe-
duncles solitary, axillary in the upper leaves, longer than they,
single-flowered. Flowers inclined, large. Calyx oblong; angu-
lar, scarcely winged, downy, blunt at the base, two-lipped, up-
per lip deeply bifid, lower lip trifid, segments acuminate. Co-
yolla more than twice as long as the calyx, tube gibbous above.
Corolla rich purple; upper lip entire, lower lip three-lobed, la-
teral lobes very deep purple, middle lobe white, with a purple
margin. Stamens and pistil included: their structure the same
as that in 7. Asiatica. ‘
Fig. 1. Portion of the leaf. 2. Corolla, laid open. 3. Calyx and _pistil.
4. Pistil, with its hypogynous cup or dise :—magnified.
Fitch del ethith
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Tas. 5168.
NARTHEX Asaratipa.
Asafetida.
Nat. Ord. UMBELLIFERZ.—PENTANDRIA DiGyYNIA.
Gen. Char. Calycis margo obsoletus. Petala oblonga, apice una inflexa. Sty-
lopodium urceolatum. Styli recurvi. Fructus a dorso plano-compressus, mar-
gine dilatato; mericarpia jugis primariis 5, 3 intermediis filiformibus, 2 laterali-
bus obsoletioribus margini contiguis immersis. Vi¢¢e in valleculis dorsalibus ;
plerumque solitariz: (lateralibus nunc 1}-23-vittatis) ; commissuralibus 0-6, va-
riis. Semen complanatum.—Herba gigantea Tibetica ; radice crassa, fibris inter-
textis rigidis coronata; caule robusto, ramoso; foliis bipinnatis, laciniis lineari-
oblongis, obtusis, integerrimis v. serratis, glabris v. pubescentibus, petiolo lato, amplo,
vaginante, inflato; umbellis compositis ; involucris 0; floribus flavis, interdum
unisecualibus v. sterilibus.
NartTHEX Asafetida. ;
NarTHEX Asafcetida. Falconer in Linn. Soc. Trans. v. 20. p. 285.
A plant as rare as it is interesting, for the opportunity of
figuring which we are indebted to Professor Balfour, who pub-
lished the following record of its introduction and flowering in
the Edinburgh Garden in the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle’ for June
1859, p. 487. “This season another of the Asafcetida plants, Var-
thex Asafetida, raised from seeds sent home by Sir John M‘Neill
and Dr. Falconer, has produced a flowering stem. The specimen
was planted out in front of the houses in the garden about five
years ago. It began to show symptoms of developing a flower-
ing stem at the end of February and beginning of March; none
of the large radical leaves were produced, but the flowering axis
shot up at once from the under-ground stem. At the time when.
this took place none of the other specimens in the open ground
of the garden had shown any leaves. Warned by the untimely
fate of the plant last year, which was suddenly destroyed by an
intense frost on 13th April, when the thermometer fell to 22°,
Mr. M‘Nab secured the present specimen from injury by getting
a glazed wooden frame about eight feet high erected around it,
and connecting it with the adjoining stove so that a moderate
degree of heat might be supplied in the event of severe frost
MARCH Ist, 1860.
occurring during the night. In this way the plant has been com-
pletely protected from the effects both of very high wind and of
cold. It has progressed vigorously and rapidly. On the 13th
April its height was seven feet eight inches. This height has been
reached in about forty-five days. The last thirty inches of growth
have been accomplished in eleven days, 7. e. from 2nd to the 13th
of April. The first anther expanded at eleven a.m. on the 7th of
April, and in the course of that day the anthers appeared by
hundreds: the plant has flowered well, and promises to bear
fruit. At present there are forty-five compound umbels on it,
some of which are five or six inches across.”
The plant here figured for the first time from perfect spe-
cimens is one of the several now known to yield the well known
fetid gum-resin asafcetida, though whether it be, as Falconer
supposed, 4. Disgunensis, indicated by Keempfer and figured in
his ‘Ameenitates Exoticee’ (p. 535), is still a disputed point.
That it yields excellent asafoetida in the form of a copious milky
juice, which is collected and exported to Europe in great abun-
dance, is clearly made out by Dr. Falconer, who discovered it in
western Tibet, north of Kashmire, in 1838, and sent seeds to
the Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh in 1839, where the
plant flowered and ripened its fruit last year.
It would be impossible to discuss here the vexed question of
the history of the origin of all the Asafcetidas, nor would the dis-
cussion be very profitable; it is certain that Keempfer had two
plants (species or varieties) in view, from different countries,—
that his descriptions and drawings and specimens (in the British
Museum) do not tally,—and that though Dr. Falconer considers
his plant one of Keempfer’s, other botanists do not. Just now
too we have received at the Museum of the Royal Gardens su-
perb specimens of a very different gigantic Umbellifer from the
Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg, asa true Asafetida of com-
merce ; it was collected by M. Borsczhow in sandy places on the
steppes east of the Caspian, where it attains a height of nine feet !
and yields abundance of excellent asafcetida. Professor Bunge has
called this plant Scorodosma fetidum (characterized generically
by the absence of vittee), and M. Borsczhow, who recently visited
this country, informs us he believes it to be the Khorassan plant
figured by Keempfer, and of which fruits are in the British Mu-
seum. The same gentleman kindly informs us further, that he
considers the Tibetan plant to be quite distinct (in which we
entirely concur), and that the Scorodosma is probably also found
in eastern Persia.
Referring to our herbarium, we find various plants (varieties,
genera, or species), all yielding the asafcetida of commerce or
an entirely similar gum-resin :—(1) Dr. Faleoner’s plant (leaves,
fruit, and root), from Tibet. (2) A very similar one, collected by
Drs. Falconer and Thomson in the southern damp valleys of the
same mountain (and elsewhere in Kashmire) in whose northern
dry valleys Falconer obtains his Varthex, also by Dr. Thomson
in Piti (Tibet). (3) A flowering specimen, gathered in Turkistan
by Dr. Lord (19th April, 1838), and given to Dr. Falconer : it is
much injured by insects. (4) Leaves and roots of a quite similar
plant sent by Dr. Stocks, from Doobund, in Beloochistan, as,
certainly, the Asafcetida of commerce. (5) Another similar plant
from the banks of the Zenderad, in the Baktiyari mountains of
Persia, collected by the late W. Loftus (June 7, 1852), of which
excellent specimens are in the British Museum. (6) The Scoro-
dosma of Bunge, of which we know the fruit, root, and stems,
but have not seen leaves. Lastly, we have imperfect fragments
of Oriental Umbellifers from Aucher-Eloi and others, which may
belong to some of the above.
It remains to observe that the characters upon which Narther
and Scorodosma have been separated from Feru/a seem to us un-
worthy of generic importance. ‘The number and length of the
vittee vary extremely in the Edinburgh and native specimens. :
The habit of the species is entirely the same with that of varions
Ferulas, which themselves vary greatly in habit and vitte. We
may add that the individual species or varieties further differ
in the smoothness or pubescence of the leaflets, their entire or
serrated margins, in the shape of the mericarps, and in the
position of the smaller umbels of male flowers, which are often
extra-alary. Plants growing in arid climates (and, like the
Narthex, on the borders of moist ones) are eminently variable,
both as to sensible properties, form of organs, and habit; and
we suspect that the discrepancies between the specimens and
descriptions of several of the above enumerated plants (exclud-
ing the Scorodosma) may be attributed to climate.
We have to express our obligations to various gentlemen for
the trouble they have taken to obtain specimens and information
on this interesting subject, to Drs. Falconer, Balfour, Christison,
to M. Borsczhow and Mr. Hanbury, and especially to Mr. Ben-
nett, of the British Museum, who has further aided us in examin-
ing the specimens ; and he considers the characters of the vitte
of little value when unaccompanied with others of importance.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Ovary. 3. Transverse section of mericarp. 4. Ripe
fruit (all from the Edinburgh Garden pliant). 5. Fruit of native specimen, col-
lected by Falconer. 6. Transverse section of ditto. 7. Fruit of Scorodosma
fetidum :—all but 4, 5, and 7 magnified.
5169.
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Tas. 5169.
SPIRASA NosBLEANA,
Mr. Noble’s Spirea.
Nat. Ord. Rosace#.—Icosanpria Di-PENTAGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4795.)
Sprrma Nobleana; frutex erectus, ramis cano-puberulis, foliis lineari-oblongis
oblongo-lanceolatisve acutis grosse subduplicato-serratis supra glabris sub-
tus dense pubescentibus, paniculis brevibus densifloris pedicellis calycibusque
tomentosis, calycis lobis patentibus tubo intus glabro, disco glandulis in-
structo, ovariis glabris.
In the summer of 1859, Mr. Chas. Noble sent us numerous
fine specimens of three Spireas, S. callosa, 8. Douglasii, and
the present, with the following remarks :—‘ The third must, I
believe, be a hybrid between the two above named: the history
of it is this. I had callosa and Douglasii growing side by side.
I raised young plants from the seed of S Douglasir, supposing
them to be true; but their growth and flower appear to be ex-
actly intermediate between the two; and what appears remark-
able is, that the whole of the bed, containing several hundreds,
are quite the same.” A careful examination of the specimens
seemed in many respects to confirm Mr. Noble’s view, the sup-
posed hybrid having the leaves precisely intermediate, approach-
ing Douglasii in shape and pubescence, but cad/osa in toothing
and green under-surface ; the inflorescence is intermediate be-
tween the long thyrsus of Douglasit and broad cyme of callosa.
The calyx has the patent lobes of cadlosa and glabrous tube
inside of Douglasii ; and the flowers have the evident ring of
glands of callosa, but the colour and stamens of Dowglasit.
On referring to our herbarium, however, we find the wild speci-
mens from William Lobb of the supposed hybrid from the moun-
tains of California, where S. ca//osa (a native of Japan) has never
been found; and what is more remarkable, the specimens bear
the same number (391) as Lobb has attached to 8S. Douglasi.
The question hence arises, may not the seeds of both have
arrived in one packet, and been sown, and their differences not
MARCH Isr, 1860.
=
having been observed, those of the present alone may have been
collected and raised? The plant is, on the whole, very much
nearer to Douglasii than to callosa, showing no approach to
the lanceolate leaf of the latter; and the inflorescence, though so
much shorter than in Dowglasit, is by no means cymose. Such
are the facts of this curious case, which we must leave to the
future to decide. We have figured these species from Mr.
Noble’s specimens, and must own that were it not for the patent
calyx-lobes and evident series of glands, we should have regarded
this as a variety of S. Douglasiv.
Descr. An erect sirwb, intermediate in habit between S. cal-
losa and Douglasit. Branches and branchlets reddish, pube-
-rulous. Leaves two to five inches long, linear-oblong, acute,
coarsely duplicato-serrate from below the middle upwards, ser-
ratures tipped with minute glands; upper surface deep-green,
glabrous, under paler, densely pubescent. Jnflorescence a broad,
short, subconical ¢hyrsus of densely-crowded flowers, very similar
to, but rather deeper coloured than 8. Douglasit. Calyzx-lobes
patent, the tube glabrous within. Dzsc with a series of small,
suberect glands. Ovaries glabrous. J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, with petals and stamens removed :—oth
magnified.
cae
NRT TS
‘Tas. 5170.
ANGR/ECUM EsuRNEvUM; var. virens.
Lvory Angrecum ; greenish-flowered variety.
Nat. Ord. Orcutrx®.—GyYNANDRIA Mono@ynia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4761.)
ANara&cum eburneum ; caule simplici elato, foliis coriaceis lucidis apice obliquis
7-10-striatis, spicis multifloris elongatis secundis, labello orbiculari-cordato
cuspidato basi jugo elevato cristatis, caleare sepalo supremo parallelo et di-
midio longiore, ovario scabro.
An@R&cuM eburneum. Thouars, Orchid. Afric. t.65. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4761
(which see for synonyms and description).
Var. B. virens; floribus minoribus, labello cordiformi medio virescente. Angreecum
virens. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1847; under t.19, in Paxt, Flower Garden, v. 1.
p. 25. f. 9,10. (Tas. Nosrr. 5170.)
This plant having blossomed in the Royal Gardens at the
same time as, and in the same stove with, Angraecum eburneum
(see Tab. 4761), the differences to be seen are so trifling that we
dare not venture to give it as a species. Indeed, Dr. Lindley,
on first describing it from very imperfect materials, observes
that “it is very like a small state of Angraecum eburneum ;” and
“it is published chiefly to draw attention to its locality, which
is said to be Serampore ; but whether it is really a native of the
continent of India, or a plant received from the old Botanical
Garden of that settlement, as is more probable, I do not know.”
Again, in describing and figuring the 4. virens in Paxton’s
‘Flower Garden,’ along with a very-accurate figure from Bourbon
specimens, the chief characteristic mark is made to depend upon
colour ; “the sepals and petals and spur are greenish, and the
lip itself, though white, is nevertheless conspicuously tinged with
green in the middle ;” not however to such a degree as in the
plant which flowered with Mr. Loddiges, and which gave rise
to the name which this plant bears. We may then safely con-
sider it a variety and a less beautiful form of the noble Angre-
cum eburneum, and further, that the statement of the plant being
a native of Serampore originated in error.
Fig. 1. Column and anther,—slightly magnified.
_ APRIL lst, 1860.
Wich del. et ith
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Tarn. 5171.
CHAMZEBATIA Fo.Lio.Losa.
Leafteted Chamebatia.
Nat. Ord. Rosack®.—IcOSANDRIA MonoGyYnIA.
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus turbinato-campanulatus ; Jimbus persistens, laciniis
5 wstivatione valvatis. Petala 5. Stamina numerosa, pluriseriata, ad faucem
calycis inserta. Ovarium in fundo calycis unicum, erectum, liberum: stylus ex
apice ovarii erectus, latere interiore fere ad medium fissus et stigmatifer. Ovula
2, erecta, anatropa. Achenium siccum, calyce inclusum. Semen unicum, erec-
tum.—Frutex Californicus, ramosissimus ; foliis tripinnatisectis, segmentis ultimis
confertis numerosissimis ; stipulis lineari-lanceolatis; floribus cymosis, albis. Torrey.
CHamMazsBatTiA foliolosa.
Cuammpatta foliolosa. Benth. Plant. Hartw. p. 308. Torrey, Plante Fremon-
tiana, p. 11. t. 6.
This is certainly one of the most remarkable of Rosaceous
plants, in its flowers resembling a shrubby Potentilla, but with
leaves more resembling the very compound foliage of some species
of Milfoil (Achillea). It is a native of the “higher parts of
the Sierra Nevada, as well as the sides of the foot-hills (m great
abundance), and the mountains of the Sacramento, in California,
and was first discovered by Colonel Fremont, in 1844,” after-
wards gathered by Mr. Hartweg and Mr. Shelton; and Messrs.
Veitch and Sons, of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, have the
credit of importing living plants, sent by their collector from
California, which there is every reason to believe will prove hardy
in our gardens and shrubberies, and assuredly highly ornamental.
In our figure the flowers alone are taken from dried specimens.
The genus is allied to Cercocarpus and Purshia.
Descr. “A shrub, growing from two to three feet high, of
an agreeable balsamic odour, with very smooth bark, and nume-
rous upright branches.” Leaves broad-oval or elliptic, nearly
sessile, very closely and compactly tripinnatifid, the margin ci-
liated ; primary lobes approximate, linear, oblong, obtuse, patent;
MARCH lst, 1860.
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ultimate segments oval, acute, tipped with a glandular mucro,
sometimes having a similar small lobe at the inferior base. S#i-
pules minute, subulate, adnate to the short petiole. Peduncles
terminal, on the branches cymose, glanduloso-hirsute, few-flow-
ered, bracteated; the dractee toothed or pinnatifid. Flowers
white, half an inch wide. Calyz quinquefid, externally glandu-
loso-pilose ; ‘whe turbinate ; segments reflexed. Petals obcor-
date, shortly unguiculate. Stamens numerous. Ovary single,
free, hairy, with one erect ovule ; style erect, glabrous. Stigma
with a cleft on one side.
Fig. 1. Portion of a leaf. 2. Flower. 3. Calyx laid open, showing the sta-
mens and pistil. 4. Stamen. 5. Pistil, 6. Vertical section of ovary :—all
magnified. J. Flower-bud,—unat. size. ;
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Tas. O172:
SCHOMBURGKIA Lyownst1.
Mr. Lyons’ Schomburgkia.
“
Nat. Ord. OncHIDE#.—GYNANDRIA MonaANDRIA.
Gen. Ohar. Sepala et petala conformia, patentia, omnino libera, basi zequalia.
Labellum difforme, membranaceum, trilobum, semicucullatum, basi cum margine
column connatum, supra basin tumidum (intrusum) : venis lamellatis. Colum-
na alata. Pollinia 8.—Rhizoma repens, nudum, annulatum, pseudobulbigerum.
Pseudobulbi magni, elongati, bi-triphylli. Folia coriacea. Scapi terminales, va-
ginati. Bracteer magne, sicce, spathacee. Flores speciosi, racemost, congesti.
Lindl.
Scnompurexta Lyonsi; sepalis petalisque ovatis obtusissimis crispis, labello in-
diviso conformi unguiculato concavo margine crassulo, costis quinque sub-
eequalibus acutis, anthera bicornuta. Lindl.
Scnompuraxia Lyonsi. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. September 2, 1853, p. 615.
The spike of this Schomburgkia was sent to us by Messrs.
Rollison and Son, of the Tooting Nurseries, in August of last
year (1859). Dr. Lindley considers it “the prettiest of the genus.”
It is remarkable for the great length of the reflexed bracts, the
uniformity of the sepals and petals, and the copious purple spots
on the generally pure-white ground ; and these spots arranged in
parallel lines. In our specimen the lip is equally white with the
sepals and petals, and scarcely spotted at all: in the specimens
described by Dr. Lindley from Mr. Lyons’ plant, the lip was
dull-violet, with a yellowish edge, and deep-crimson ribs. At
the time that description was published its native country was
not known; but Dr. Lindley has since seen a native specimen
in Dr, Alexander Prior’s herbarium, which that gentleman had ga-
thered from “the trunk of a tree brought down from hills in
St. Ann’s parish, Jamaica.”
Duscr. The foliage of this species has not been seen by us,
but Messrs. Rollison describe it as exactly resembling that of
S. crispa, Brocklehurstiana, and marginata. he scape is sheathed
with bracteas. ‘I'he spike a span and more long: éracteas, the
lower ones at least, more than three mches long, membranace-
MARCH Ist, 1860.
ous, convolute, acuminate, refracted. Pedicels (with the ovary)
of the same length as the bracts. V/owers nearly two inches
across: sepals and petals spreading, nearly uniform, ovate or
ovate-lanceolate, crisped, obtuse, white, prettily marked with
lines of purple spots, leaving a broader white line down the
centre. zp larger than the petals, recurved, acute, and apicu-
late, much crisped at the margin, white, scarcely spotted, the
disc with elevated longitudinal lines or plaits. Column curved,
bidentate. Anther-case hemispherical, with two, conspicuous,
curved horns.
Fig. 1. Column and anther. 2. Lip :—magnified.
Tas: d173a
CENTROSTEMMA MULTIFLORUM.
Many-flowered Centrostemma.
%
Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADE®.—PENTANDRIA DieyNIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla 5-fida, abrupte reflexa, ngo-
lanceolatis, fauce annulo piloso ornata. Gynostegium inferne angu sulca-
tum, corollz faucem longe superans. Corona staminea summo gyno: 1
5-phylla, foliolis dimidia superiori parte gynostegio adnatis stigma
infer. in cornu calearatum productis. Anthere parve, membrana ov
adpressa terminate. Masse pollinis erectee, oblong, basi et apice obtuse, com-
presse. Stigma subdepressum, papilla acutiuscula, Styli elongati. Follreuls
leeves, oblongi, attenuati. Semina comosa.—Frutices Moluccani, volubiles ; folia
opposita, coriacea ; umbelle interpetiolares v. terminales, pedunculate, multiflore ;
flores majusculi, pedicellis gracilibus habituque proprio. Decaisne.
CentRosTeMMA multiflorum ; foliis oblongis vel lineari-oblongis acuminatis basi
in petiolum attenuatis, corolle fauce annulo barbato albo cincta, corone
staminez foliolis arcuato-recurvis acutis lobis superioribus brevioribus stig-
ma super acutis. Decaisne.
CENTROSTEMMA multiflorum. Dene. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1838, v. 9. p. 272, et in
De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 634. Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. p. 43. :
Hoya multiflora. Bl. Cat. Hort. Buitenz. p. 49.
Cyrroceras Lindleyanum. Dene. in De Cand.
Crrroceras floribundum. Maund’s Botani.
Hoya coriacea. Lind. Bot. Reg. 1839, ¢.
Drawn from a fine plant which flowered at Messrs. Hugh
Low and Son’s Nursery, Clapton, in July, 1859, having been
received from Borneo. The leaves seem to be subject to a little
variation; those on the specimen represented by Mr. Bemnett
being longer and narrower, and especially attenuated from near
the middle to the base: but the three figures I have quoted
seem all to belong to one and the same species, though pub-
lished under as many different names. Yet Decaisne records
two supposed species, and Blume as many as four, apparently
established on very slight grounds. ‘The genus, itself but
MAKCH Ist, 1860.
| slightly differing from Hoya, appears peculiar to the Malay
a ac : Islands.
- Descr. A glabrous climber, with terete stems, and opposite,
_ subcoriaceous, oval or subelliptical, penniveined /eaves, shortly
-acuminated at the apex, and more or less attenuated at the base.
Petiole short. Peduncles interpetiolary and terminal, shorter
than the leaves, bearing a moderately spreading, many-rayed,
slightly drooping wmbel: the pedicels or rays as long as the pe-
duncle. Calyx small, five-parted. Corolla rotate, white, deeply
five-lobed ; lobes linear-oblong, singularly deflexed, tipped with
buff-colour, the margins revolute. Gynostegium and folioles of
the corona staminea as in the genus.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Folioles of the corona staminea :—magnified,
bi
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Tas. 5174.
VANDA svavIis.
Fragrant Vanda.
Nat. Ord. Orncu1pE#.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. Sepala explanata, omnia basi equalia et angustata, seepius peta-
loidea. Petala sepalis conformia, seepius basi torta. Ladellum basi saccatum
vel calearatum, e basi column apode continuum carnosum, sepius sepalis multo
brevius, subtrilobum aut integrum, ante calcar sepius callosum, auriculis nanis
v. obsoletis. Columna crassa, nana, libera, apoda; elinandrio verticali. Stigma
transversum ; vostello obtuso v. retuso. Pollinia cereacea, plano-convexa, ge-
minata, v. 2 alte bipartita; caudicula lorata aut cuneata, pollinis Jongiore ; glan-
dula magna, subrotunda vel triangulari. Anthera ovata, bilocularis, valvulis:
semiliberis.—Herbe epiphyte Asie tropice. Folia coriacea, disticha, apice ob-
liqua. Flores sepius racemosi, conspicui. Pedunculi laterales. Lindl.
Vanpa suavis; foliis loratis flaccide recurvis apice oblique dentatis, racemis
laxis elongatis, sepalis petilisque spathulatis retrorsis convexis valde undu-
latis sublobatis apice rotundatis, labello convexo trilobo lacinia media an-
gusta alte bifida 3-costata lateralibus longis ovatis acutis patulis, auriculis
erectis rotundatis. Lindl.
Vanna suavis. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 351. Paxton’s Flower Garden,
t. 42. f.3. Reichenb. Xenia Orchid. v. 1. p. 26. t.12. Lindl. Folia Orchid.
part 4. p. 5 (excl. var. B flava, according to Reichenbach).
An extremely lovely Orchideous plant, the flowers richly
blotched and spotted with blood-purple on a pure white ground,
so clear and distinct that they look as if they were made of
porcelain. Dr. Lindley refers to it my Vanda tricolor (Bot. Mag.
Tab. 4434) which [ had taken to be the V. fricolor of Lind-
ley, but which that author makes var. fava of his more beau-
tiful Y. suavis. Dr. Reichenbach, on the other hand, maintains
that it is the true ¢ricolor. The differences in fact are more in
colour than in structure ; so that the description at our Tab. 4434
may answer for the present species. Here the ground colour
of the flower is pure china-white, the exterior spotless: the inner
face of the sepals and petals is streaked and spotted with purple.
The lip is deep purple in the lower half, with three white lines
or streaks on the disk; the rest of the lip is paler purple, the
whole destitute of spots. The species inhabits Java, but is yet,
we believe, rare, and much prized, as it deserves to be, in collec-
tions.
Fig. 1. Column and lip, magnified.
APRIL Ist, 1860,
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Tas. 5175.
ASTELIA CuNNINGHAMII.
Allan Cunningham's Astelia.
Nat. Ord. Juncp#.—Die@cia Hexanpria.
Gen. Ohar. Flores polygami, dioici. Perianthium subglumaceum, campanu-
latum v.rotatum, 6-partitum. Stamina 6. Ovarium trigonum, 1- v. 3-loculare ;
ovulis paucis v. plurimis ; stylo brevi v. sub-0 ; stigmate trilobo. Semina plu-
rima v. pauca ; ¢esfa crustacea, atra, nitida ; embryo brevis.—Herbe sepe magne,
plerumque sericee, insulis Australasia et maris Pacifici incolentes.
AsteLIa Cunninghamii ; foliis elongato-subulatis utrinque sericeis, paniculis se-
riceo-villosis ; masc. effusis, ramis elongatis, perianthii glabrati laciniis subu-
lato-lanceolatis, antheris late oblongis; fem. panicula subcoarctata, ramis
brevioribus, ovario globoso 1-loculari, placentis parietalibus, stigmate ses-
sili 3-lobo, bacca globosa perianthio persistente suffulta, seminibus 6-8
curvis teretibus atris.
A, Cunninghamii. J. Hook. Flora of New Zealand, v. 1. p. 259.
The curious half-hardy plants, of which one sex only is figured
here, was introduced by Dr. Sinclair, R.N., late Colonial Secre-
tary of New Zealand, to the Royal Gardens, where it flowered
last February. Though boasting no brilliancy of flower, this
forms a beautiful object from the copious long bright silvery hairs
with which all its parts are clothed. Without the female flowers
it is almost impossible to name the New Zealand species of this
nus accurately, but we have little hesitation in referring the |
present to 4. Cunninghamii, which is common throughout the
Northern Island, usually forming enormous masses on the
branches of gigantic forest-trees.
Descr. A tufted silky perennial, with long, linear-subulate,
acuminate Jeaves, and large, almost woolly panicles of greenish
flowers. Perianth, in the male plant, of six equal lobes that are
subulate, lanceolate, and finally reflexed, silky when young, gla-
brous when old, bearing on their bases six erect stamens, with
short filaments and anthers. Ovary trigonous, globose, with a
short, three-lobed stigma.
Fig. 1. Male flower. 2. Ovary of ditto :—both magnified.
APRIL Ist, 1860.
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Tas. 5176.
RICHARDIA wastTatTa.
Halbert-leaved Richardia.
Nat. Ord. Arorpr“#.—Monea@cra Monanpria.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5140.)
Ricnarpta /astata; foliis subflaccidis hastato-ovatis amplis immaculatis, venis
opacis, spatha viridi-lutea apice erecta intus basi atro-purpurea, petiolis
glandulosis.
At our Tab. 5140 we published one of two kinds of Azchar-
dia, received by Messrs. Veitch from the Cape, allied to, and yet
very distinct from, the well-known Richardia, or Calla, Aithio-
pica. Under the first of these we showed the differences be-
tween it and R. dthiopica. Our present plant, from Natal, has
been received by others, as well as by Mr. Veitch, as a “red-"
or a “ yellow-flowered Calla,” but in reality the flower, or rather
the spatha, is a greenish-yellow, with no tinge whatever approach-
ing to red. It is indeed too closely allied to our 2. albo-macu-
lata above quoted. The spathas are rather dirty yellow-green
instead of white, broader in the tube, and also in the limb; the
petioles are here glandular in their lower half; the ma/e portion of
the spadix is longer than the female, and the leaves are destitute
of the peculiar white pellucid spots so characteristic of 2. albo-
maculata. But I cannot say how far these characters are con-
stant ; if they are not, it would be better to unite the two under
the name here given, and constitute the var. a/4o-maculata of the
other.
The present kind has proved hardy in the Messrs. Veitch’s
Nursery, at Exeter.
Fig. 1. Column or spadix of flowers. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 4, Trans-
verse section of an ovary with two, and 5, one with three cells :—all but fig. 1
magnified.
APRIL Ist, 1860.
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W-Ritch,
Tae. Olas.
CEANOTHUS OreGanvs.
Oregon Ceanothus.
Nat. Ord. RoHaMNEX.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (See above, Tas. 4660.)
Creanotuus Oreganus ; fruticosa glabriuscula, foliis firmis ellipticis obtusis nune
basi subcordatis longiuscule petiolatis 3-nerviis junioribus subtus leniter
pubescentibus serratis, paniculis lateralibus, ramis corymbosis thyrsoideis.
Cranoruus Oreganus. Nutt. MSS. Torrey and Gray, Fl. N. Am. v. 1. p. 205.
CEANOTHUs sanguineus. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am.v.1. p. 125 (not of Pursh, according
to Nuttall).
Here is another hardy Ceanothus, allied to, but very distinct
from, C. velutinus, figured at our Tab. 5165, recently imported to
our gardens and shrubberies by Messrs. Veitch of the Exeter and
Chelsea Nurseries, from the Oregon territory, through their col-
lector, Mr. William Lobb. It was first detected by Douglas in
woods of the Oregon, frequent from the Blue Mountains to the
sea; found there also by Nuttall and Tolmie, and Dr. Scouler.
I had mistaken it, in my Fl. Bor. Am., for the C. sanguineus of
Pursh, an indifferently described plant, and a native, it appears, ©
of more southern latitudes, near the. Rocky Mountains, on the
banks of the Missouri, and which is said to resemble considerably
the C. Americanus. C. Oreganus flowers in May, and bears co-
pious lateral paniclés, which are entirely white.
Descr. A shrub, four to twelve feet high, with dranches gla-
brous, much tinged with red on one side. Leaves alternate,
firm, subcoriaceo-membranaceous, two to two and a half inches
long, petiolate, elliptical, obtuse, three-nerved, rarely subcordate
at the base, serrated at the margin, paler beneath, where the
young leaves are slightly pubescent. Petioles half to three-
quarters of an inch long, pale green, with a pair of deciduous
stipules at the base. Panicles axillary, often appearing quite
lateral from the deciduous leaves ; their branches form dense
APRIL Ist, 1860.
ds, and the collected corymbs a compact ¢Ayrsus, three to
r inches long, of numerous, white, rather long-pedicelled
Calyx with five segments inflexed upon the ovary,
tween which the spreading, spathulate, long-clawed petals, with
the lamin very concave and emarginate, are protruded. Ovary
depressed, half-sunk in a glandular diss: or ring. Style short,
with three branches, each crowned with a capitate stigma.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil and glandular ring :—magnified.
w
Tap. 5178. -
AZARA GILLIESII.
Dr. Gillies’ Azara.
Nat. Ord. Brxinp#.—PoLyaNpRIA Monoeynia.
Gen. Char. Calyx 4—6-partitus, laciniis estivatione imbricatis. Petala nulla.
Stamina numerosa, calycis fundo inserta. Filamenta filiformia. _Anthere didymo-
globose, biloculares, latere dehiscentes. _ Ovarium-superum uniloculare. Stylus
simplex. Stigma obtusum. Bacca coriacea stylo apiculata, unilocularis poly-
sperma. Semina subrotunda, placentis tribus parietalibus horizontaliter affixa.—
Frutices Chilenses. Folia gemina, inequalia. Popp. et Endl.
Azara (§ Almeja) Gilliesii ; foliis geminis longe petiolatis majoribus elliptico-
ovatis coriaceis rigidis remote spinoso-serratis minoribus rotundatis seepissime
deciduis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis petiolo brevioribus, floribus densis
capitato-racemosis, calycibus 4—5-fidis intus dense barbatis ad basin glan-
dulis 4.
Azara Gilliesii. Hook. et Arn. Bot. Misc. v.3.p.144. Gay, Fl. Chil. v. 1. p. 198.
A. intermedia, ejusd. p. 195.
The handsomest perhaps of all the species of Azara, a genus
of shrubs peculiar to Chili, and remarkable for having in the
normal state geminate leaves, extremely unequal im size, the
lesser one stipuliform. Our living plant of this species, however,
does not exhibit, nor do some of our native specimens, these
stipulary leaves: others are furnished with them. The leaves
have the colour and texture of the Holly, and like them are
evergreen ; the flowers are minute, but collected into oblong or
elliptical heads, resembling golden catkins, from the numerous
rich orange-coloured stamens. The species was many years ago
communicated to us from Chili by the late Dr. Gilles, and we
further possess specimens from Bridges, gathered at Valparaiso
and Quillota, and from the Cordillera of St. Iago, gathered by
M. Ph. Germain. Seeds were received at the Royal Gardens
from Mr. Bridges, and plants have for. some time flowered with
us in the winter months, and from one of these our figure is
made. With us it is kept in a cool greenhouse, but it is quite
likely it will bear the open air in a sheltered situation in the mid-
dle, especially the south, of England.
APRIL Ist, 1860.
.
Descr. A shrub, said to attain a height of ten to fifteen feet :
in its native country, with terete, suberect, glabrous dranches,
richly tinged with red. eaves of two kinds on some specimens,
in pairs, long-petiolate, the Zarger ones two and a half to three
inches long, broad-ovate elliptical subtruncate at the base, acute,
dark glossy-green, with strong, distant, subspinose serratures ;
petioles half to three-quarters of an inch long, red; the smadler
leaves nearly orbicular. Peduncles solitary, axillary, shorter
than the pedicels. lowers small, numerous in very dense,
amentiform, elliptical heads. Rachis stout, fleshy, to which the
short pedicels are attached. Flowers dicecious? or polygamous.
Calyx four- or five-cleft, woolly within, and having four con-
spicuous fleshy glands. Corolla none. Stamens numerous.
Filaments long, and, as well es the anthers, golden-orange.
Ovary oblong, one-celled, with two or three parietal receptacles.
Style slightly tapering. Stigma minute.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx, showing the four glands and pistil (abortive ?).
3. Section of a flower. 4. Anther. 5. Gland. 6, 7. Ovaries, cut through
transversely :—magnified.
W. Fitch delet hth :
Tan. O19.
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM Exnuistt.
Mr. Ellis’s Grammatophyllum.
Nat. Ord. Orncurpacem.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5157.)
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM JZilisii; pseudobulbis angulatis clavato-fusiformibus poly-
phyliis, foliis lato-loratis recurvis basi canaliculatis, racemo multifloro re-
curvo, sepalis patentibus acutis lateralibus gibbosis, petalis duplo breviori-
bus oblongis obtusis erectis apice revolutis, labello petalis aequali mobili
basi sacculato trilobo jugo medio elevato ultra isthmum 3-lamellato lineis-
que 3 elevatis arcuatis utrinque, lobo medio ovato acuto lateralibus brevibus
subfalcatis, anthera tuberculo pedicellato cristata. Lindl.
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM Ellisii. Lindl. MS.
The Rev. William Ellis, in a letter addressed to Dr. Lindley,
from Hoddesdon, dated August 23rd, 1859, writes :—‘* Among
the plants which I brought from Madagascar was a large-bulbed
plant, something like Anguloa Clowesiana, only the bulbs are
square instead of being round. I found it growing on a branch
of a tree about the size of a man’s leg, and stretching over a
river at about twenty-five feet above the water. The roots were
abundant, but short, white, fleshy, and matted together, a little
larger than the roots of Anselia Africana. The bulbs were
seven or eight inches long, and one and a quarter inch square,
but last year it made a bulb eleven inches long and nearly two
inches wide on each of the four sides. The leaves are one and
a half to two feet long, about the size, but not so curved as
those of Angrecum sesquipedale, and less fleshy than the A. ebur-
neum, but, like all the Angreecums, growing on opposite sides of
the crown of the bulb: each bulb has five or six leaves. The
flower-spike, as in the case of the Anguloa, comes up with the
young growth, and this year two young bulbs were accompanied
by a flower-spike ; each one damped off, but the other reached
about two feet in length, and at the end furthest from the bulb
bore between thirty and forty flowers. The flowers began to |
open three weeks ago, and as they opened slowly, I thought it
would last longer, but on my return on Saturday from the coun-
try I found the flowers fading rapidly. I have therefore cut the
MAY Ist, 1860.
spike, and send it to you; some of the flowers are, I hope, yet
in a state of sufficient preservation to enable you to determine
its species. Mrs.’ Ellis has also made a coloured drawing of
some of the flowers, and a sketch of the whole plant.” Such is
the first notice of this fine plant on its blossoming in Mr. Ellis’s
Orchideous house ; and from the spike there mentioned, aided by
the very beautiful drawing of Mrs. Ellis, the accompanying plate
has been executed ; the dissections are by Mrs. Crease; and I
am indebted to Dr. Lindley for the specific name and character
and the following remarks :—
“The genus Grammatophyllum is so nearly allied to Cymbi-
dium that the two may possibly be united hereafter. They differ,
however, first, in the presence of a sac at the base of both the
column and lip; and, secondly, usually in the pollen-masses of
Grammatophyllum being attached towards each extremity of a
lunate gland. The first of these characters is the more impor-
tant; the second can only be regarded as subordinate. It is in
the first that the plant before us corresponds with Grammato-
phyllum ; in the second it approaches Cymbidium. As to habit,
the first of these two genera includes very dissimilar plants ;
G. speciosum (see our Tab. 5157) being caulescent, this and G.
multiflorum being pseudobulbous ; a circumstance exactly analo-
gous to what occurs in the great genera Dendrobium, Hpiden-
drum, Oncidium, etc.
As a species, G. Eilisii is very distinctly characterized by its
broad leaves, short petals, gibbous lateral sepals, and smooth lip,
which has one stout median rib, separating at the isthmus into
three short slender ridges. The anther is moreover crested with
a small pedicellate tubercle.
Fig. 1, 2. Oblique and front view of -a flower, with the sepals removed. 3.
Labellum, laid open :—wat. size. 4. Front view of the column. - 5. Pollen-
masses (one cut through transversely) :—magnijied.
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COCOS pLuMosSA.
Feathery-flowered Cocoa-nut.
Nat. Ord. Patma.—Monecra HexanpDRia.
Gen. Char. (essentialis). Monoica in eodem spadice. Spatha simplex. Flores
sessiles, bracteolati. Masc.: Calyx triphyllus. Corolla tripetala. Stamina 6.
Rudimentum pistilli. Foem.: Calyx triphyllus et corolla 3-petala, convoluta.
Ovarium triloculare. Stigmata tria sessilia. -Drupa monosperma, putamine basi
triporo. Embryo in albumine cavo, intra porum basilaris. Mart.
Cocos plumosa,* Hook. ; elata; caudice 30-40-pedali et ultra crassiusculo cylin-
draceo annuloso-articulato, articulis pedalibus et ultra, frondibus 12—14-
pedalibus, pinnis sesquipedalibus solitariis vel 2-4-aggregatis linearibus
acuminatis apicibus deflexis, petiolis inermibus basi dilatata amplexante
fimbriato-fibrosa, spatha bi-tripedali fusiformi sublignoso, spadicis ramis
longis pendentibus, floribus copiosis sessilibus.
This truly noble Palm, long cultivated at Kew, produced its
blossoms in the summer and autumn of 1859, probably for
the first time in Europe, and was received many years ago
from Messrs. Loddiges as a Brazilian species to which Von Mar-
tius had given the name of Cocos coronata, equally a native of
Brazil, but whose character assuredly does not accord with the
specific character given by Martius of that Palm: for we do
not find the base of the petiole “spinescent” at the margin,
nor does the caudex at the setting on of the persistent petioles
become “ crasso-capitate,” nor are the branches of the spadix
“erect,” but singularly and gracefully drooping. Nor does it
accord with any other described species of the genus; so that I
am compelled, as it were, against my will, to give it a new name,
and to notice it as a new species, to which I give an appellation
characteristic of the beautiful and elegant branches of the pa-
nicle.
Descr. The Palm, now under consideration, forms a striking
feature in the Palm-stove of the Royal Gardens, where it has,
including its crown of leaves, attained a height of between fifty
and sixty feet. The caudew, or trunk, forms a graceful erect
* Cocos plumosa of Lodd, Cat. (without character or description). C. comosa,
Mart.
may Ist, 1860.
column of about forty fect high, and ten to twelve inches in dia-
meter, more slender upwards, jointed as it were with annular
scars of the fallen leaf-stalks; these rings are a foot to fourteen
inches apart. Crown of leaves or Jronds extremely beautiful ;
each leaf is twelve to fifteen feet, petiolate, lanceolate, pinnate, re-
curved ; pinnee numerous on the rachis, solitary, or more usually
two to four aggregated, springing from near each other. Petiole
subtriangular at the base, very much dilated, of a greyish-brown
colour, keeled, at the margin fimbriatedly fibrous, amplexicaul.
Spadia axillary ; two spadices during the autumn arose from
axils of the leaf-stalks, substipitate, two and a half to three feet
long, ligneous at first, at length bursting open laterally, concave
and fusiform, almost woody, very erect, rigid, firm, dark dirty-
green externally, within tawny, acute and apiculated. As this
spatha bursts longitudinally on one side, the spadia emerges.
This is nearly as long as the spatha, and clothed with numerous,
long, gracefully drooping, wax-like branches, loaded with flowers
of two kinds, which are sessile on the branches: some female,
but mostly male. owers in bud conical: the sepals com-
pactly imbricated. Sepals six, three outer (calyx), three inner
(petals) ovate, concave, moderately patent, with minute bracteas
at the base. AMJale flowers with six, oblong, yellow anthers on
short filaments. Female with a short downy ovary, crowned
with three stigmas. Frwit a dull orange-flowered apiculated
drupe, about the size of an acorn of the English Oak.
Fig. 1. Flowering specimen of Cocos plumosa, Hook.,—greatly reduced. 2.
Spatha and spadix of flowers, also much reduced. 3. Portion of a drooping
flowering branch,—zat. size. 4. Male tlower,—smagnified. 5. Female flower un
expanded. 6. Pistil from the female flower,—magnified. 1. Drupe,—nat. size.
Tas. 5181.
CALLIANDRA H&MATOCEPHALA.
Red-headed Calliandra.
Nat. Ord. Lecumrnos®.—PoLyGaMIa POLYANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4238.)
CALLIANDRA hematocephala ; frutex, stipulis e basi lata acuminatis nunc sub-
falcatis adpressis persistentibus, pinnis unijugis, foliolis 7-10-jugis oblongo-
lanceolatis acuminatis basi ineequilateris subcordatis binerviis accrescentibus,
pedunculis petiolo communi longioribus folio multo brevioribus, floribus
dense sanguineis, calyce corolla: quartam partem longo, legumine subfalcato
recto e basi angustissima sensim apicem versus dilatato glaberrimo nitidis-
simo, valvis subcoriaceis, seminibus 4—5. Hassk.
CALLTANDRA heematocephala. Hassk. in Retz. v. 1. pp. 216, 144. Walp. Ann.
v. 4. p. 654. Hassk. Hort. Bogor. v. 1. p. 260.
Inca hematoxylon. Hort. Calcutt.
A most lovely shrub with us, but eventually forming a tree
thirty to forty feet high, according to Hasskarl, the native country
of which does not appear to be known. We have specimens in
our herbarium from the Calcutta Botanical Garden, with the un-
published name of Inga hematoxylon. Hasskarl received it at the
Botanic Garden of Buitenzorg from the same source and under
the same name; and has rightly referred it to the genus Cal-
liandra. It has been sent to the Botanic Gardens of Kew, by
Mr. Duncan, from the Mauritius Garden, in 1857, and pro-
duced its lovely heads of flowers, for the first time in the stove,
in February, 1860. Hasskarl speaks of its affinity with C. ma-
crophylla’ and C. nitida, and still more with C. Surinamensis,
Benth., which differs in the pubescent branches and petioles,
and in the more obtuse and smaller leaflets.
Descr. Shrub, with glabrous, terete, green branches, and
‘copious petiolate unijugate eaves: each pinna is about five
inches long and pari-pinnulate, with seven to ten pairs of oppo-
site pinnul lowest and shortest an inch long, gradually
ls to one and a half inch long, all of them more
or less spreading, oblong-lanceolate, scarcely acuminate, two-
nerved, the base unequally sided ; some of them, especially the
superior ones, slightly falcate. Stipules small, green, from a
broad base subulate. Petioles about an inch long. Peduncles
as long as the petioles, bearing a capitulum of small flowers, of
which the calyx and corolla are almost concealed by the quantity
of rich coloured filaments of the stamens, which radiate from a
centre and form a ball of scarlet threads. Calyx minute, five-
lobed. Corolla small, infundibuliform. Stamens united into
four bundles. Anthers minute, abortive. Ovary oblong. Style
a little longer than the stamens. .
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Portion of a bundle of stamens. 3. Pistil :-—magnified.
152
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Tas. 5182.
BEGONIA Bowrinactana.
Bowring’s Begonia.
Nat. Ord. BeconIacr®.—Monecra PoLyanpRia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4172.)
Begonia (Diplochonium) Bowringianum ; caule herbaceo erecto ramoso, foliis
late inzequaliter cordatis inequaliter irregulariter 5-7-lobis, lobis latis bre-
vibus acutis dentatis lobatisve supra hispidulis subtus ramulisque novellis
rufo-lanatis, pedunculis folio brevioribus paucifloris, capsule alis 2 angustis
tertia elongata. Benth.
Brconta Bowringiana. Champ. in Benth. Florul. Hongk. Kew Gard. Mise. v. 4.
p- 120.
The present species of Begonia is very deficient in brightness,
as compared with many of the species with richly-coloured fo-
liage, which are such favourites with cultivators of stove plants
of the present day ; and yet it is so nearly allied to a very hand-
some species, namely the B. /aciniata, Roxb. and of this work
(Tab. 5021), that I was at first disposed to believe the two were
specifically identical. The latter-mentioned Begonia is, however,
remarkable for the variegated foliage, both on the upper and
under side, the larger white petals, with the outer sepals rufo-
tomentose, the peduncles longer than the leaves, bearing more
numerous flowers, and the very hispid fruit. The present is the
only species of the genus yet detected in Hongkong, where it
was discovered by the late Colonel Champion; and seeds were
sent to us by Mr. Wilford in 1858.
Descr. Rhizome “thick fleshy ;” the stem short, nearly as
thick as one’s finger, flexuose, jointed, tinged with red, slightly
woolly, swollen at the joints. eaves rather large, six to ten
inches long, four to six inches broad, very unequally cordate,
petiolate, green, and slightly hairy above, dull rufous and some-
what woolly beneath, the pubescence deciduous, the margin very
regularly cut into acute or acuminated lobes, and, besides, un-
equally serrated: pefioles longer than the leaves, terete, thick,
woolly, especially on the anterior side below the blade. Stipules
large, membranaceous, reddish, cordato-ovate, acuminate. Pe-
duncles much shorter than the petioles, axillary, reddish, woolly,
bearing three or four flowers, of which the majority are male.
may Ist, 1860.
Bracteas resembling the stipules.. Perianth pale rose-colour.
Male flower large ; sepals four, two large and broad, two (oppo-
site ones) oblong and narrow, all spreading and subtomentose at
the back. Female flowers smaller than the male, of five, spread-
ing, equal, obovate sepals. Fruit villous, at length glabrous,
with two short and one very long, oblong, deflexed, striated
wings.
Fig. 1. Stamen, magnified. 2. Female flower, nat. size. 3. Fruit, ditto. 4.
_ Transverse section of the capsule, ditto.
Tas. 5183.
PTERIS QUADRIAURITA ; cum vars.
Four-eared Brake ; with vars.
Nat. Ord. Frurces.—CrryptTocamia Fitices.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 3247.)
Preris (§ Eupteris) quadriaurita ; caudice brevi repente, frondibus ovatis ovat o-
cordatisve acuminatis seepe amplis subcoriaceo-membranaceis _pinnatis,
pinnis 5-21 magisve sepe oppositis lanceolatis profunde fere ad rachin
pinnatifidis, rachide supra spinulosa, segmentis oblongis obtusis subinteger-
rimis terminali elongato, pinnis infimis (rarius pluribus) bipartitis quan-
doquidem latere inferiori iterum pinnatis, venis furcatis, stipitibus elongatis
stramineis fuscisve leevibus v. scabriusculis.
Prenis quadriaurita. Retz, Obs. v. 6. p- 38. Willd. Sp. Pl. p. 383. 4g. Sp.
Gen. Pterid. p. 24. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 2. p. 179. ¢. 134 B. (which see for .
copious synonyms and remarks).
Var. argyrea ; viridis, linea lata centrali alba.
Preris (Pyrophylla) argyrea. 7. Moore in Gard. Chron. Aug. 1859, p. 671.
Var. tricolor ; intense purpurea demum viridis, linea lata centrali alba vel rosea,
rachibus costisque rubris.
Preis tricolor. Linden in Gard. Chron. Feb, 1860, p. 123. . Moore in Gard.
Chron. March 1860, p. 217.
Pteris quadriaurita of Retz, the species here figured, is one of
the most common of tropical Ferns, in Asia, Africa, and America,
Pacific Islands, etc., and two very interesting varieties arising
from the peculiar colouring of the foliage have been latélf: intro-
duced to our Ferneries by Mr. Linden, of both of whiéh"we have
here given as much as can be fairly represented in so small a
plate. One has the ordinary green colour of Pferis quadri-
aurita, except that a broad white line runs through the centre of
all the pinnee. This Mr. 'T. Moore raises to the rank of a species,
under the name of Pteris argyrea. Of it we possess native spe-
cimens in our herbarium from Nilghiri, gathered by Mr. M‘Ivor
(his n. 22); from Moulmein, communicated by the Rev. GC. 8.
P. Parish (his n. 141), and we have beautiful living plants from
Messrs. Veitch. The other, and infinitely the most beautiful, is
may Ist, 1860.
of a deep rich brown-purple colour, with a similar central broad
line or band to the one just mentioned, but instead of being white
is of a rich rose-colour. This is the only state in which I have
myself seen this variety, and such as is here fignred, from a re-
cent specimen sent to me by Mr. Linden : but this colour under-
goes a change. It would appear that “the fronds are of a beau-
tiful red colour, and when fully developed a rich deep-green, with
attractive silvery markings along the sides of the midribs, which
are red.”
The Pteris aspericaulis of Wallich, a name which has been
given to this in some gardens, is a very trifling var. of P. gua-
driaurita, with a rough surface to the stipites, a character not
apparent in any specimens of the coloured varieties, though as
likely to be found in them as in the ordinary green state of the
plant. No species can be more variable in size than this, from
five or six inches to three feet. in length.
Our Plate represents a small specimen of P. guadriaurita, var. argyrea, and
a young one of var. tricolor. Fig. 1. A lateral fertile pinna of the green or or-
state :—all nat. size. 2. Portion of a fertile segment,— magnified.
My
Tas. 5184,
PHALENOPSIS GranpIrLora.
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Large-flowered Indian Butterfly-plant.
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.
Nat. Ord. OrcHIpE®.—GYNANDRIA MonoGynta.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4297.)
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PHALENOPs!s grandiflora ; foliis longis, sepalis lateralibus internum phyllum su-
premum non tegentibus apice mucronatis, labello phyllis lateralibus externis
multo breviori, lobo medio lineari-hastato, lobis lateralibus oblique cuneatis
obtusangulis, cirrhis flavis. Lind/.
PHALENOPsIS grandiflora. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 39, with a woodcut
of the flower. Walp. Ann. Bot. v. 3. p. 561.
yer?
Dr. Lindley first distinguished this as a species from the well-
ee known and universal favourite, Phalenopsis amabilis, in the
oe ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ above quoted, and we cannot do better
Le than transcribe his remarks thereupon :—‘“ A small plant of this
noble epiphyte was exhibited on the 7th of September, last year
- (1847), before the Horticultural Society, by J. H. Schroder, Esq.,
‘of Stratford Green, when it received the silver Banksian medal.
it was not supposed at that time to be a distinct species from
the Phalenopsis amabilis, but was regarded merely as a fine
variety. Upon a comparison of it with the Manilla species, it
proves however to possess so many points of difference, that no
doubt can be entertained of its being really distinct. Its flowers
are four times as large, the petals do not overlap the back sepal,
nor have they the small point which is invariably present in Pha-
lenopsis amabilis ; the lip is very narrow, much shorter than the
lanceolate sepals, and its chief lateral lobes are somewhat wedge-
shaped, with the angles rounded off. The distribution of colour,
too, is different; there is a large stain of deep yellow on the
front edge of the chief lateral lobes of the lip, and the cirrhi are
yellow, not white.”
Such are the distinguishing characters given by the botanist
who has made the Orchideous plants almost the study of his life,
JUNE Ist, 1860.
—to which he adds, in the specific definition, “ the longer leaves
‘mucronated at the point.” Whether these marks are perma-—
nent or not, the Phalenopsis grandiflora is eminently deserving
of a figure in the pages of this Magazine, the more so as no co-
loured figure of it has yet been published. It is a native of
Java, and said to have been introduced to Europe by Messrs.
Veitch and Sons, of the Nurseries, Exeter and Chelsea. Our
figure is taken from a fine flowering specimen in the Royal Gar-
dens of Kew.
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Fig. 1. Lip,—magnified.
HBS.
Vincent Brooks, Imp
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Tas. 5185.
SCUTELLARIA rncarnata, var. 7rianat.
Flesh-coloured Skull-cap, var. Trianai.
Nat. Ord. Laprat2.—DipyNaM1A GYMNOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TAB. 4268.)
ScurTeLLaRia Ventenatii ; perennis erecta ramosa, ramis obtuse tetragonis, foliis
sublonge petiolatis crassiusculis ovato-lanceolatis acutis grosse serratis pen-
ninerviis vix' reticulatis atro-viridibus, racemis terminalibus elongatis sub-
secundis, bracteis valde deciduis, calyce parvo, corollis elongatis incarnatis
calyce multoties longioribus, labio superiore quadrilobo.
ScuTELLARIA incarnata. Vent. Choizx des Pl. t. 29: upper figure. Benth. Lab.
p. 429. De Cand. Prodr. v.12. p.416. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4268.
B. Trianai, foliis minoribus, floribus intense roseo-coccineis.
ScuTeLLaria Trianai, Planch. et Lind. in Lind. Cat. for 1855, n. 10. p. 6.
The red-flowered Scutellari@ recommend themselves to cul-
tivation by their beauty, and they are, I believe, chiefly natives
of tropical America. Some are already in cultivation in our
stoves, and greatly admired from the rich colour of their co-
rollas. The present species has been introduced to our collec-
tions from Bogota, and circulated under the name of S. Zrianat
of Klotzsch and Linden, and under that name is mentioned in
Linden’s Catalogue, but unfortunately without any specific cha-
racter. We fear, however, it is merely a highly coloured variety
of S. zncarnata, Vent., and of this work, Tab. 4268; and ¢hat,
Mr. Bentham, whose knowledge of the extensive family of Ladév-
ate entitles his opinion to great respect, believes may not be truly
distinct from 8. Ventenatii (Bot. Mag., Tab. 4271); and his own
S. Hartwegi he thinks may be the same also.
The present variety chiefly differs from 8. cxcarnata in the
smaller glabrous foliage, and the much richer rose-scarlet of the
corollas. It flowers in the spring in the stoves of the Royal Gar-
dens of Kew.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla, laid open. 3. Calyx, including the pistil. 4.
Ovary, on its large receptacle (or gynophore), with part of the style :—magnified.
JUNE lst, 1860,
5186.
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Tas. 5186.
CHYSIS sBRACTESCENS.
Bracteated Chysis.
Nat. Ord. OrncH1IDE®.—GyNANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.
Gen. Char, Sepala paulo connata; laterali pedi producto columne adnato et
calear simulantia. Petala sepala conformia. Labellum trilobum, patulum, venis
basi callosis. Columna marginata, canaliculata, mutica. Anthera subrotunda,
opercularis, glabra. Pollinia 8, in laminam luteam semifusa ; quatuor exteriori-
bus tenuibus, quatuor interiora crassiora abscondentibus. Rostel/um laminatum,
convexum.—Herbe epiphyte, occidentales ab arboribus pendula ; caulibus Cyrto-
0 pitta ; foliis nervosis, basi vaginantibus ; racemis lateralibus multifloris.
indl.
Cuysis bractescens ; bracteis cucullatis venosis foliaceis ovario longioribus, sepa-
lis petalisque ovatis obtusis, labelli lobis lateralibus obtusis intermedio mi-
nore carnoso bilobo hypochilio plicato, lamellis 5 carnosis subzequalibus pa-
rallelis basi pubescentibus, columna latissima carnosa eymbiformi antice
pubescente. Lindl.
Cuysis bractescens. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840; Misc. n. 131; e¢ 1841, ¢. 23.
Chysis bractescens is a Mexican plant introduced by Mr.
George Baker, with whom it blossomed in 1840. So many
intermediate forms exist between this and the original C. aurea,
on which the genus was founded, that we cannot but question
if the two are really distinct. The main character of this is
made to depend on the “large, white, not yellow, flowers, and
the great leafy bracts” of the plant now figured, whence too
the specific name; but the bracts are certainly variable in diffe-
rent individuals, and the colour of the sepals and petals no less
so. Our C. bractescens has the flowers much larger and of a
purer white than Dr. Lindley’s figure represents, but the label-
lum is more yellow than his figure exhibits them; and we have
given a figure of a very deeply coloured C. aurea at our Tab.
4576, of which we were uncertain whether it should be referred
to that or to the present species. Our very noble specimen here
figured was drawn from a plant in the Royal Gardens of Kew,
in 1847.
Fig. 1. Front view of the labellum. 2. Column. 3. Pollen-masses :—mag-
nified.
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Tas. 5187.
AMORPHOPHALLLUS pvstvs.
Smooth-headed Amorphophallus.
Nat. Ord. ArorpE®.—Mona@cr1a Monanpria.
Gen, Char. Spatha basi convoluta; limbo plano, patente. Spadix inferne
continuo androgynus, genitalibus rudimentalibus nullis, appendice sterili elon-
gata leevigata v. depresso-dilatata granuloso-verrucosa. Anthere distincte, fila-
mento brevissimo, loculis duobus oppositis, apice poro duplici dehiscentes. Ovaria
plurima libera, bi-tri-quadrilocularia. Ovu/a in loculis solitaria, basilaria, ana-
tropa. Stylus distinctus v. nullus. Stigma capitatum, indivisum vel emarginato-
aut depresso-lobatum. Bacce mono-oligosperme. Semina albuminosa(?). Em-
bryo (?).—Herbee Indice ; tubere radicali, carnoso ; scapo radicali, brevi ; foliis
serotinis, subsolitariis, bipinnatifido-decompositis. Endl.
AMORPHOPHALLUS dudius ; spathe lato-infundibuliformis limbo subpatente ob-
liquo acutiusculo undulato-crispato, spadice subcylindraceo infra apicem
dilatato, appendice conico-rotundato levi.
AMORPHOPHALLUS dubius. Blume, Rumph. v. 1. p. 142. Schott, Synops. Aroid.
p. 38.
Dracontium Zeylanicum ramoso folio caule ex viridi et flavo variegato aspero.
Herm. Parad. Bat. p. 89.
Scuena. Hort. Malab. p. 35. f. 18.
_ This is a very singular Aroideous plant, which we owe to our
friend Mr. Thwaites, who sent the tubers from Ceylon. It
will be at once seen that in all essential generic characters it ac-
cords with the still more remarkable species of this family which
we published under the name of Arum campanulutum, at 'Tab.
2812 of this work, now Amorphophallus campanulatus, Bl. As
a species, our present plant is abundantly different; (1) in size,
for our figure of 4. campanulatus, though reduced to one-fourth
its natural size, greatly exceeds the natural size of this; (2) the
floral portion of the spadix is here broad spindle-shaped, there
singularly dilated upwards; and (3) the terminal appendage,
there forming an enormous wrinkled expansion, is here conico-
globose, quite smooth and even on the surface. A second species
of this genus (for all of the others attributed to it now belong to
Conophallus, Bl.) is derived from Rheede, in Hort. Malabaricus,
above quoted, which agrees well enough with our plant to justify
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me in considering it the same, 4. dudius, Bl.: and that is also
a: native of Ceylon. Our plant flowered in a warm stove in
June 1858, and gave out so abominable a stench as almost to
render the atmosphere of it insupportable.
Dzscr. From a rounded depressed tuber, about four to five
inches in diameter, the flowering portion first arises. A very
short stem or scape, bearing four to five membranaceous, green-
ish-brown 4éracts, is termmated by a somewhat funnel-shaped
spatha, six inches long and four wide at the oblique mouth,
green, clouded with dull-purple, the limb somewhat expanded,
undulato-crispate, subacute. Spadix two'and a half inches long
(not including the terminal appendage), subcylindrical, but a
little dilated below the apex, the greater portion densely covered
with oblong yellow anthers, opening by two pores, and one-third
of the base with globose ovaries, bearing a long sfy/e and a peltate
subplicate stigma. Terminal appendage (or flowerless portion of
the spadix) twice as broad as the spadix, conico-subrotund, of a
reddish-brown colour, quite smooth on the surface. The flower
is succeeded by a large petioled compound solitary leaf, exactly,
except that it is smalller, like that described under J. campanu-
latus above quoted. :
Fig. 1. Flower plant,—anat. size. 2. Spadix, ditto. 3,4. Anthers, 5, Section
of an anther. 6. Pistil. 7. Section of ovary :—magnified. 8. Leaf,—very much
reduced.
ISS.
Tas. 5188.
TRADESCANTIA WarszZEwWICZIANA.
Warszewicz’s Spiderwort.
Nat. Ord. ComMELYNE%.—HExanpDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Gen. Char. Flores vegulares. Sepala 6, libera, patentia; tria exteriora navi-
cularia, persistentia ; tria interiora majora, petaloidea, breviter unguiculata, mar-
cescendo persistentia. Stamina 6, subhypogyna, omnia fertilia. Filamenta li-
bera, plerumque barbata. Anthere conformes ; loculis reniformibus, connectivo
varia forma distinctis, interdum tres sepalis exterioribus opposite robustiores,
loculis replicatis extrorse filamentisque brevioribus sustentate. Ovarium sessile,
triloculare; ovula in loculis 2, superposita. Stylus 1. Stigma simplex, obtu-
sum, infundibulare vel peltato-ampliatum. Capsula trilocularis, trivalvis, valvis
medio septiferis. Semina bina, superposita, angulata.—Herbee Americana, erecte
vel diffuse, sepe repentes. Folia indivisa. Vagine integre. Pedunculi axillares
et terminales, solitarii, gemini vel plures, apice umbellato-pauci-multiflori, sepe
brevissimi, subnulli, folioque duplici, involucrati. Kth. :
TRADESCANTIA Warszewicziana; caule robusto erecto subarborescente dicho-
tomo, ramis dense foliosis, foliis lato-lanceolatis acuminatis striatis basi vagi-
natis, pedunculis axillaribus foliis multo longioribus subpaniculatim ramosis
ramis bracteatis, floribus bracteatis in racemis secundis scorpioideis disposi-
_ tis, sepalis petalisque lilacinis, staminibus conformibus, filamentis imberbibus,
stigmate obtuso.
TRADESCANTIA Warszewicziana. “ Kunth et Bouché, Index Seminum in Hort.
Bot. Berol. 1847, p. 11.” Walp. Ann. Bot. v. 1. p. 886.
This is really a handsome stove-plant, and deserving a place
in every collection, especially when it is old enough to form a
dichotomous, subarborescent, stout stem, with recurved leaves,
having a good deal the appearance of an Aloe, still more of some
Dracena; and the flowers are not only numerous and of a
bright purplish rose-colour, but by the constant succession of
flowers, the blossoming (in the spring and early summer) is of
long duration. It is said to be a native of Guatemala, and is
of easy propagation by cuttings.
Descr. Sfem in our plants a foot or foot and a half long,
stout, forked, terete, having a subarborescent character, and
marked with the scars of fallen leaves. ‘The branches are leafy,
chiefly towards the apex. Zeaves a span to a foot long, from
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a
an entire sheathing base, broad-lanceolate, acuminate, striated,
recurved. Peduncle axillary, one to one and a half foot long,
terete, purplish above, forming a not very copiously branched
panicle of purple-lilac densely crowded but small flowers : bracts
are at all the divisions and subdivisions of the panicles, large
and broad, sheathing in the lower ramifications, small, and more
coloured (lilac) at the base of the pedicels, where they are densely
imbricated in secund scorpioid racemes. Pedicels lilac. Sepals
and petals uniform, the latter the largest. Stamens all uniform,
beardless.
.
Fig. 1. Reduced figure of an entire plant. 2. Leaf,—nat. size. 3. Panicle,—
nat. size. 4. Flower. 5. Stamen. 6. Pistil :—smagnified.
INS 9.
W Pitch, del. ct lith Vincent, Brooks,imp:
Tap. 5199.
VANDA GIGANTEA.
2 Gigantic Vanda.
Nat. Ord. Orcurpp#2.—GyYNANDRIA Monoe@yNia.
Gen. Char. Sepala explanata, omnia basi equalia et angustata ; seepius peta-
_ Joidea.- Petala sepalis conformia, sepius basi torta. Labellum basi saccatum v.
| _ calcaratum, cum basi columns apode continuum, carnosum, sepius sepalis multo
brevius, subtrilobum aut integrum, ante calcar seepius callosum, auriculis nanis V.
obsoletis. Columna crassa nana, libera, apoda; clinandrio verticali. Stigma
transversum ; rostello obtuso vel retuso. Pollinia cereacea, plano-convexa, gemi-
nata v. 2 alte bipartita; caudicula auriculata vy. cuneata; glandula magna, sub-
rotunda vy. triangulari. Anthera ovata, bilocularis, valvis semiliberis.—Herbee
epiphyte Asie tropice. Folia coriacea, disticha, apice obliqua. Flores sepius
racemost, conspicui. Pedunculi Jaterales. Lindt.
Vanpa (§ Fieldia) gigantea ; foliis late loratis apice obtusissimis emarginatis
subzequalibus, racemis foliis duplo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque oblongo-
obovatis obtusis eequalibus, labello incurvo canaliculato dolabriformi obtuso,
Bes callo conico in medio, auriculis nanis rotundatis. Lindl.
-Vanpa gigantea. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. n. 7326. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 215.
a > Folia Orchidacea, part 4, Vanda, p. 2.
ANDA Lindleyana. Griff. Notul. part 3. p. 353.
We are indebted for a splendid specimen of the rare Orchida-
ceous plant here figured to Messrs. Veitch and Sons, in whose
Orchid House, King’s Road, Chelsea, it produced its noble pen-
dent spike of golden-yellow blossoms, we believe for the first time
in Europe, in April of the present year, 1860. Mr. Griffith ob-
serves of it: “It is the only plant of its kind I have hitherto
seen capable of rivalling the American Vandee.” Dr. Lindley
remarks that “this is surely an exaggeration ;” probably judg-
ing only from dried and shrivelled specimens or from imperfect
drawings, for to our mind few even of the Malayan Orchidaceous
plants, so famous for their size and beauty, can vie with this in
richness of colour, “deep-yellow,” as Dr. Lindley says, “ with
cinnamon-brown blotches.” Of the truth of this some notion. —
may be formed from the portion here represented. The large,
- copious, distichous, rich-green leaves set off these large golden
flowers to great advantage. It would need an imperial folio
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plate to do justice to the whole plant. It is an inhabitant.-of the
Burman Empire, growing on Lagerstremia Regina, on the banks
of the Tenasserim river, near Barlavo, according to Griffith.
Descr. A large species, with copious foliage growing in a dis-
tichous manner. Leaves broadly lorate, recurved, a foot and a
half long, very obtuse, and deeply and unequally emarginate at
the apex. Raceme large, drooping. lowers three inches lon
in their greatest diameter, golden-yellow, richly spotted and
blotched with cimmamon-brown. Column and lip white, the
the latter small in proportion to the petals, thick and fleshy.
Column short.
*
” Fig. I. Side view of the column and lip. 2. Front view of the column and
anther. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified.
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Tas. 5190.
Nation nee eT Pe
Bronze-leaved Alocasia.
Nat. Ord. Arorpp#.—Mona@cia MonanDrRIA.
Gen. Char. Spathe tubus persistens ; lamina cucullato-cymbiformis. Spadix
appendiculatus, spatha paulo brevior, inferne ovariis (ovaridiisque interdum),
medio floribus neutris, infra apicem synandriis dense obsitus. Ovaria subastyla
(an semper?). Stigma depresso-hemisphericum. Synandria breviter stipitata,
loculis sub vertice aperientibus: Fructus spathe tubo irregulariter disrupto et
revoluto involucratus. Bacea rotundato-obovata (rubra). Semen depresso-hemi-
sphericum.—Rhizome plerumque elatum, arborescens, approximato- tenuterque
cicatrizatum. Folia juvenilis plante peltata, vetustioris sepe ad petiolum usque
bipartita. Costa et ven utrinque elevato-prominentes. Pedunculi breviusculi
plures ex una axilla. Spadices suaveolentes !—Indice. Schott.
Axocasta metallica; acaulis dense cespitosa, foliis longe petiolatis cordato-
ovatis peltatis subbullatis cuspidatim brevissime acuminatis sepe viridi-
eeruginosis nitore metallico nitidissimis subtus intense purpureis, scapis
rubris bracteatis petiolo subduplo brevioribus, spathe lanceolate subcylin-
draceee dimidio inferiore (seu tubo) oblongo, lamina cucullato-cymbiformi
Pee sublonge acuminata, ovariis laxiusculis, stylo distincto, stigmate
3-4-lobo.
Axocasta metallica. Schott, “C@str. Bot. Wochbl. v. 4. p. 410.” Syn. Aroid.
v. 1. p. 46.
In former days plants for horticultural purposes were valued
in proportion to the beauty of the flowers: now, none are more
highly prized than those which possess richness of colouring in
the foliage or some other parts of the plant, whether that colour-
ing is the normal state or condition, or to be reckoned among
the freaks and sports of Nature, as is presumed to be the case
with the now numerous varieties, depending on colour, of the
well-known Caladium bicolor among Aroidee. The plant we
have now the gratification of describing and figuring belongs to
that family of plants, but exhibits a foliage and hue which no-
thing of the kind can exceed, if it can equal, and to which the
pencil even of our accomplished artist, Mr. Fitch, can scarcely
do justice ; for there is a degree of metallic lustre of the leaves
on the ample foliage which must be seen to be understood; and
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this, too, is accompanied by a rich and very different colouring
(rich red) in the scapes that rise copiously beneath the foliage,
but never overtdp it. We think we cannot be mistaken in re-
ferring this noble plant (which in all Europe is perhaps only in
possession of Messrs low, of the Clapton Nursery, who received
it from Borneo) to the Alocasia metallica of Schott, equally a
Bornean plant, notwithstanding some discrepancies in the spe-
cific as well as in the generic characters. Our plant has a very
distinct style to the ovary, and the stigma is not “ depresso-
hemisphzericum,” but clearly three- or four-lobed.
Descr. From a large underground tuber or rhizome a cluster of
foliage springs, of which the petioles are two feet long, rounded,
and green, but with the sheaths tinged with rose-colour. The
blade of the leaves is from twelve to eighteen inches long, a foot
wide, with a firm, somewhat succulent texture, and of a form, so
common in Aroideous plants, ovato- or elliptico-cordate, peltate,
waved at the margin, somewhat bullate on the surface, suddenly
and somewhat mucronately acuminate at the apex; the upper
surface of a rich bronze-colour, extremely glossy and metallic,
exhibiting a beautiful play of light and colour, while the under
side is a very dark purple, and equally glossy ; veins pinnated,
exceedingly prominent, falcately curved, springing from a very
stout costa: from the point of attachment of the petiole, two
stout veins take a downward direction towards the sinus of the
blade, an inch and a half apart, and send out four or five spread-
ing and curved side-veins. Seapes, several arising from the
axils of several of the petioles, much shorter than they, red rose-
colour. Spatha five inches long, the base or ¢ube cylindrical,
purple-red, the /amina (there is a constriction between the tube
and it) cucullate. or cymbiform, much acuminated. Spadiz in-
cluded, shorter than the spatha: from below, for about one-third
of the length, occupied with the somewhat scattered pistils.
Ovary globose ; style thick, as long as ‘the ovary; stigma three
or four-lobed. ‘The middle of the spadix is occupied by a com-
pact mass of stamens, except at the base, where are some abortive
bodies (stamens or ovaries, or both?). The apex of the spadix
is formed by the fleshy appendage.
. Fig. 1. Plant in flower, on a very reduced scale. 2. Spadix,—mnat. size. 3.
are Eb 4. Single stamen,—more magnified. 5, Pistils and two
abortive bodies (imperfect stamen and pistil). 6, 7, and 8. Sections of ovaries.
9. Ovule :—all magnified.
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ACACIA Drummonpit.
Drummond’s Acacia.
*
Nat. Ord. Lecuminos#.—PotyGaMIA POLYANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4306.)
Acacta (Pulchelle:) Drummondii; inermis, ramis pedunculis petiolisque tenui-
ter puberulis, stipulis subulatis, pinnis bijugis, glandulis verruceformibus
sepe obsoletis, foliolis 2-6-jugis oblongo-linearibus glabris, spicis cylin-
dricis folia superantibus. Benth.
Acacta Drummondii. Benth. in Lindl. Sw. Riv. Bot. p. 61; in Hook. Lond.:
Journ. of Bot. v. 1. p. 388. Walp. Rep. Bot. Syst. v. 1. p. 908.
In foliage the present species (one of a very extensive genus)
very much resembles the Acacia Cycnorum (of our Tab. 4653);
but there the branches and rachises of the leaves are densely
patenti-hirsute, and the flowers are collected into globose, deep-
yellow Aeads. Here the flowers are in cylindrical spikes, and
of a pale lemon-yellow colour. The leaflets, too, are here much
broader. It forms a good-sized bush, and flowers copiously in
the early spring months. This and its numerous allies are not
encouraged in our ornamental greenhouses so much as they de-
serve to be, for they render them gay at a season when compa-
ratively few other plants are in blossom; and as soon as they
have done flowering, they may be removed to the open air,
which will greatly strengthen and benefit them; and they give
place to the more gaudy summer flowers: so that by means
of plants of temperate regions of the southern hemisphere in
the winter, and those of the northern hemisphere in the sum-
mer, a perpetual flowering season may be maintained through
almost the entire year. Acacia Drummondii is a native of Swan
River.
Fig. 1. Leaflet. 2. Flower :—magnified.
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W- Fitch del et lith.
392
Vincent Brooks Imp.
Tas. 5192.
CALLIXENE potypHyLta.
Many-leaved Callizxene.
Nat. Ord. Smrtace®.—HeExanpria MonoGyNia.
Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Perigonium corollinum, sex-partitum, pa-
tens, deciduum, laciniis eequilongis, tribus interioribus basi biglandulosis. Sfa-
mina 6, basi laciniarum inserta ; filamenta libera, basi dilatata, anthers: ovate in-
cumbentes. Ovarium triloculare. Ovu/a in loculis pauca, amphitropa. Stylus cras-
sus, trisulcus; stigma obsolete trilobum. Bacca trilocularis, pulposa. Semina
in loculis subterna, subglobosa, ¢esta membranacea, tenui, cum nucleo connata,
umbilico ventrali punctiformi. Hmbryo excentricus, in basi albuminis carnosi re-
spectu umbilici semi-transversus, extremitate radiculari centripeta.—Suffrutex
Magellanicus, ramosus, basi nodosus, triphyllus, squamatus, superne foliatus ; foliis
alternis, semi-amplexicaulibus, ellipticis, nervosis, coriaceis, margine crassioribus ;
floribus terminalibus solitariis, folio stipatis, pedicellis brevibus, basi squamis 2-4
cinctis. Endl.
CALLIXENE polyphylla; elata valde pinnatim ramosa, foliis numerosis oblongis
acutis mucronatis distichis 5—7-nerviis transversimque (sub lente) venosis
subtus glaucis, pedunculis folium subsequantibus infra medium bracteatis,
floribus pendentibus petalis acutis (siccitate maculatis).
CALLIXENE polyphylla. Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 684. Hook. fil. Fl. Antarct. v. 2.
p. 355.
Luzuriaca erecta. Kth. En. Plant. v. 5. p. 280.
' The first species of this very pretty genus (Callimene margi-
nata) being detected by Commerson, on the inhospitable shores
of the Magalhaens Strait, was appropriately named Callivene, from
xarndos, something beautiful, and Eevos, a stranger. All the known
species inhabit high southern latitudes of South America: and
the present seems to be confined to the extreme south of Chili ;
Cape Tres Montes, where it was discovered by C. Darwin, Esq.,
Isle of Huaffo, Dr. Fights, an officer in the United States’ Service,
and Valdivia, where it is called “ Asajur,” Mr. Bridges. It be-
longs to the same natural family as our well-known Lily-of-the-
valley, and is generally seen running over the trunks of trees néar
the ground, enlivening them with bright-green, Box-like leaves,
glaucous beneath, and the gracefully-drooping flowers of the
same pure white as the Lily-of-the-valley, but much larger, and
instead of being of one piece, cut into six eventually spreading
JULY Ist, 1860.
petals. We owe the possession of this plant at the Royal
Gardens to Mr. Standish. It may be kept in a cool greenhouse
in an ordinary frame or pit.
Duscr. The root seems creeping. The stem slender, angled,
copiously branched in a pinnated manner, a foot or a foot and a
half long. Leaves very numerous, oval or oblong, mucronate,
striated, glaucous beneath. Peduncles single : flowers one from
the axil of each leaf, pendent, and these in a measure concealed
by the foliage. The anthers are curious, sagittate, opening by
a pore at the base of each cell, bent down upon the filament, so
that the base of the anther becomes superior.
Fig. 1. Leaf and flower. 2. Stamens and pistil. 3. Pistil. 4. Section of
. Ovary. 5. Single stamen :—all more or less magnified,
AIS.
W-Fitch, del. et ith
Vincent Brooks, mp.
“Tan. 5193.
ONCIDIUM tonaiPEs.
Long-stalked Oncidium.
Nat. Ord. OrcutpE®.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4824.)
Oncrprum (Tetrapetala, Macropetala) Jongipes; pseudobulbis ovalibus diphyl-
lis, foliis angustis tenuibus, scapo bi- (pluri-)floro foliis eequali, pedunculis
elongatis, sepalis lateralibus elongatis pendulis basi connatis dorsali bre-
viore latiore refracto, petalis oblongis planis, labelli lobis lateralibus parvis
obtusis intermedio transverso apiculato sinu convexo serrato, crista pubes-
cente depressa basi simplici truncata papilla utrinque adpressa apice 3-
loba, columne alis minimis sinuatis. Lindl.
OncrpruM longipes. Lindley, in Paxton’s Fl. Garden, v. 1. n. 76. Folia Or-
chid. Oncid. p. 15. n. 45.
Oncrpium Janeirense. “Reichenb. fil. in Bonpl. Ap. 1, 1854.”
A Brazilian plant, reared by Messrs. Loddiges from pseudo-
bulbs received from Rio Janeiro. Dr. Lindley considers it iden-
tical with his Oncidium longipes; but its flowers are so much
brighter, and attractive for the size of the plant, that it is quite
worthy of cultivation. It differs moreover in the form of the
crest of the lip, which is accurately represented at our figure 2.
Its flowers appear in April, and continue long in blossom.
Descr. From a creeping cavdea, about as thick as a writing-
pen, pseudobulbs arise in clusters, oblong, tapering upwards,
sheathed with brownish scales, bearing two, linear, apiculated,
somewhat fleshy /eaves, linear-oblong, tapering much at the
base, apiculate at the point, bright green. Peduncle or scape
slender, arising from between the leaves, bearing a raceme, three
to four inches long, of several loug-pedicellate flowers. Sepals
and petals all spreading, dark, almost blood-red-brown within,
brownish-green on the outside ; superior or dorsal sepal spathu-
late, the margins waved and reflexed, lateral sepals narrower,
united at their base, deflexed. Zadel/um large in proportion to
the size of the flower, bright, almost golden yellow, with a broad
blood-coloured ring at the base surrounding the crest, three-
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lobed, lateral lobe small rounded, terminal one large and two-
lobed; the margin fimbriated between the principal lobes.
Crest a slightly downy, elevated, oblong, fleshy disc, lobed at
the margin, whitish, and spotted; the apex with three teeth or
small lobes, the two inferior curved and subspiniform. Column
rather short, with two small wing-like lobes beneath the anther.
Fig. 1. Front view. 2, Lateral view of a flower :—magnified.
te
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Vincent Brooks, i
Tas. 5194,
PTERIS Cretica, L.
Cretan Pteris.
Nat. Ord. Friices.—CryproGaMi1a Finices,
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4925.)
Preris (Eupteris) Cret¢ica ; fronde circumscriptione ovata subcoriaceo-membra-
nacea pinnata, pinnis 3-24 remotis digitalibus ad spithameam sterilibus
lanceolatis spinuloso-serratis fertilibus oblongo-linearibus apice serratis in-
fimis bi- rarius tri-partitis, venis plerisque furcatis approximatis horizonta-
liter patentibus, involucris marginalibus angustis, stipite elongato.
Preris Cretica. Linn. Mart. p. 130. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 96. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5.
p. 314. Schk. Fil. t. 90. Ag. Pterid. p.9. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 2. p. 160.
PrERIs semiserrata. Forsk. Descr. 186.
Preris serraria. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 96. ¢. 289.
Preris pentaphylla. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 362.
Preris heterophylla. Poir. (fide Desv.)
Preris nervosa. 7h. Fl. Jap. p. 332. Wail. Cat. n. 96.
Preris vittata. Bory in Belanger Voy.
Preris multiaurita. 4g. Plerid. p. 12 (taller form, with numerous pinne).,
Preis triphylla. Mart. et Gal. Fl. Mex. p. 51 to p. 81 (var. with three pinne
only), not of Agardh. :
Var. stenophylia ; frondibus digitatis vel digitato-pinnatis, pinnis 3-5 subinte-
gerrimis. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 2. p. 160.
Prerts stenophylla. Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 130. 4g. Sp. Pterid. p. 11.
Preris digitata. Wall, Cat. n. 91.
Preris teeniosa. J. Si. in Hook. Journ. Bot. v. 3. p. 405.
Var. albo-lineata ; pinnis linea media lata alba. (Tas. Nostr. 5194.)
Pteris Cretica is far from being peculiar to Crete, as its name
would seem to imply; on the contrary, few Ferns have a more
extensive geographical distribution, from Turcomania in Uralian
Siberia throughout the south of Europe, the Mediterranean and
its islands, Arabia, and Abyssinia. It is frequent in various parts
of India, and there generally quite maintaining the European
JULY Ist, 1860.
form, from the hot plains to the Himalayas, at elevations of 6000
feet ; Bourbon, Penang, Java, Luzon, Ceylon. We possess speci-
mens from the Sandwich Islands, from the Feejees and Loochoo.
‘It appears in the United States, upon rocks on the Apalacha
river (very rare), south through Mexico to Guatemala. In South
America it has been detected at Entre Rios by Mr. ‘Tweedie.
It is no wonder that a plant which is so widely diffused should
vary from its genuine type, and have given rise to the notion
that there are several distinct species. ‘The most interesting
state of the plant, however, is that which we have here repre-
sented, where the whole length of the centre is white, with a
jagged edge, bordered on each side by dark-green. This, we
believe, has never yet been recorded. We were lately favoured
with healthy living plants of this from our valued correspondent,
Mr. Binnendyk, of the Buitenzorg Botanic Garden, Java, m which
country it is a native.
Fig. 1. Portion of a sterile pinna. 2. Portion of a fertile ditto :—magnified.
2.
19
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Tas. 5195.
CYRTODEIRA cupreata, var. viridifolia.
Coppery Cyrtodeira ; green-leaved var.
Nat. Ord. GESNERIACE#.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. CyrtopEIRa, Hanst. Calyx parvulus, foliolis anguste lanceolatis
patentibus v. recurvatis. Corolle tubus basi postice gibbus, sursum dein de-
orsum curvatus, leviter ampliatus. Annulus et glandula. Stigma stomato-
morphum. ilamenta inter se et cum corolla basi connata. Hanst.
CYRTODEIRA cupreata ; repens stolonifera undique pubescenti-hirsuta, foliis ellip-
ticis petiolatis serratis reticulatim venosis (cupreatis v. viridibus), pedunculis
axillaribus solitariis unifloris petiolo longioribus, calycis laxi profunde 5-
partiti laciniis lineari-spathulatis subsecundis, corolla tubo calycem sub-
duplo superante curvato, ore fimbriato-glanduloso, limbi patentis lobis rotun-
datis planis crenatis, staminibus styloque inclusis.
Var. cupreata ; foliis cupreatis.
ACHIMENES cupreata. Hook, Bot. Mag. t. 4312.
CyrTopEIRa cupreata. Hanst. Gesn. in Linnea, v. 26. p. 207. t. 2. f. 39.
Var. viridifolia ; foliis viridibus. (Tas. Nostr. 5195.)
Tapina (Achimenes) splendens. Triana, in Lind. Cat. 1857 (name only).
The Natural Order of Gesneriacee has recently occupied the
attention of Dr. Oersted and Dr. Hanstein, and the result of
their studies has been the establishment, in the view of the
latter author, of sixty-seven genera, divided into two principal,
and twelve sub-tribes.. These are accompanied by well executed
figures of the flowers of each genus. Our <Achimenes cupreata
(Bot. Mag. Tab. 4312) there constitutes a new genus, with the
character given above. ‘That plant, native of New Grenada, is
remarkable for the coppery colour of the foliage. Our present
plant, from the same region, differs, and differs only from it in
the much larger flowers, and in the absence of the coppery tinge
to the foliage. I cannot therefore agree with M. Triana, who has
constituted of it a new species, and who has referred it to the
genus Zapina, Mart., with which it does not correspond. Mr.
Linden observes of it (for there is no specific character or de-
scription),—‘‘ Cette jolie plante rappelle par le port Vl Achime-
nes cupreata, dont il différe toutefois par la teinte argentée des
AUGUST lst, 1860.
feuilles, et par des fleurs d’un éclat peu commun dans le regne
végétal, et dont le vif écarlate trouve a peine une comparaison
dans la fleur du Pelargonium zonale.” Our plant, which flowered
copiously in the hothouse, in the spring of 1560, was received
from the nursery of Messrs. Henderson, Wellington Road.
Superior as this is to our Achimenes cupreata above referred
to, in the size and beauty of the flowers, and different as is the
colour of the leaves, they nevertheless are the only differences.
ts
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Fig. 1. Corolla, laid open. 2. Pistil and gland. 3. Ovary and gland :—
magnified. ‘
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Vincent Brooks,Imp.
Tas. 5196.
HABENARIA SaLaccensIis.
Salakian Habenaria.
Nat. Ord. OrcurpE#.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
‘ ®
Gen. Char. (§ Ophrydex). Perigonii galeati foliola subequilonga, exteriora
cum interioribus multo angustioribus integris bi-trifidisve conniventia. La-
belliem elongatum, pendulum, integrum v. bi-trifidum, elongato-calcaratum. An-
thera erecta, loculis solutis, basi divergentibus, canalibus stigmaticis adherenti-
bus, rostello plano, anthere adnato, processubus duobus stigmaticis, variis seepius
ori stigmatis adnatis. Polliniarum glandule nudee.—Herbe habitu Orchidis,
majuscule, inter tropicos totius orbis obvie ; im America, ubi etiam in extratropicis
utriusque hemispherii occurrunt, frequentiores; in Asia temperata rare. Endl.
Hasenarta (§ Erostres) Salaccensis, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis striatis, racemo
laxo plurifloro, bracteis membranaceis lineari-subulatis ovario longissimo
pedunculiformi brevioribus, labello tripartito, laciniis linearibus, basi biglan-
duloso, calcare filiformi recurvo ovario multo breviore, sepalis ovato-lanceo-
latis herbaceis.
Hagpenarta Salaccensis. Bl. Bijdr. p. 403. Tabell. Orch. f. 18 (flower only).
Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 308.
A rare and apparently little-known species of Habenaria,
found by Blume on Mount Salak, in Java, and lately sent to the
Royal Gardens of Kew, in a living state, by M. Binnendyk, of
the Botanic Garden of Buitenzorg, Java. It flowered with us,
in the stove, in April, 1860. Dr. Lindley only knew it from
Blume’s figure of the flower and the very brief specific character
above referred to.
Descr. The roof, in our living specimen, consists of a large
(for the size of the plant), fusiform, fleshy ¢wJer, and three or four
shorter yet thick fleshy fibres. Stem twelve to fourteen inches
high, at the base partially clothed with two to three sheathing
scales, leafy upwards ; lower leaves four to five inches long, lan-
ceolate, acuminate, striated, the superior ones becoming gradually
smaller, bracteiform. Raceme ovate, five to six inches long. Pe-
dicels short, clothed with two or three narrow-lanceolate bracts;
ovary ‘elongated and resembling the pedicel, but angled and
aucust Ist, 1860.
slightly twisted. Sepals spreading, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate,
green. Petals reddish, very narrow, linear-subulate, bipartite at
the base. Zip elongated, tri-partite, segments narrow-linear, mid-
dle one longer : at the base are two, large, oblong, fleshy glands.
Spur retlexed, narrow, almost subulate, tipped with orange,
shorter than the ovary. Column short. Base of the anther-cells
long and divergent.
Fig. 1. Base of the stem, with root,—mat. size. 2. Side view of aflower. 3.
Front view of ditto :—magnified.
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Tas. 5197.
IXORA sucunpDa.
Mr. Thwaites’s Ixora.
Nat. Ord. Ruprace®.—TETRANDRIA Monoaynia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4325.)
Txora jucunda ; foliis glabris lanceolatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis basi an-
gustatis petiolatis, corymbis primariis elongatis, bracteolis parvis acutis,
segmentis calycinis truncatulis ovario brevioribus. Thwaites.
Ixora jucunda. Thwaites, Enum. Plant. Zeyl. p. 155.
Izora is a genus of plants almost peculiar to tropical Asia, of
which thirty-four kinds are enumerated by De Candolle, in the
fourth volume of his ‘ Prodromus,’ which appeared in 1830.
Many additions have been since made by Wallich and Wight
and Bentham, etc. But it must be confessed that many of the
species are so described that they are very difficult of determi-
nation. It is very fortunate therefore when, as in the present
instance, we have the discoverer and describer of the species as
the authority for the name. ‘This is one of the many interesting
plants of Ceylon we have received from our valued friend Mr.
Thwaites. Of it he enumerates two varieties, differing in the
breadth of the leaves, and much more remarkably in the length
of the tube of the corolla, sometimes only two to three lines
long ; sometimes, as in our plant, fourteen lines long. It is not
an uncommon species, attaining on the hills an elevation of
4,000 feet. It first produced its flowers with us, in the stove,
in May, 1860.
Dzscr. A shrub, with much the aspect of Irvora acuminata, .
Boxb. ; in its native country from ten to twenty feet high, with -
subcoriaceous, opposite /eaves, three to seven or eight inches long,
and, according to Thwaites, one to four inches broad, obscurely
penniveined, broad-lanceolate, but varying from narrow-lanceo-
late to ovato-lanceolate on the same or on different specimens,
rather abruptly acuminate, tapering below into a short petiole
AuGusT Ist, 1860.
scarcely two lines long. Stipules ovate, sharply acuminate, red-
dish. Corgmb terminal, short-peduncled, trichotomous, pedicels
very short. owers very compact, erect. Calyw small, slightly
downy, subtended by a minute, oblong, acute bracteole, at the
base of the inferior ovary : limb of four, close-placed, small, erect,
lanceolate teeth or segments. Corolla white, or rather inclining
to cream-colour in our plant, long, hypocrateriform: fwde very
slender, terete, fourteen lines long : “limb spreading, almost three-
quarters of an inch in diameter, of four obovate, rather acute
lobes. Anthers subulate, quite exserted. Style as long as the
tube of the corolla. Stigma bipartite.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Pistil :—magnified.
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imp.
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Tas. 5198.
PENTAPTERYGIUM RUGOSUM.
Rugose Pentapterygium.
Nat. Ord. VaccrnrIaceE®.—DECANDRIA Monoeynta.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4910.)
PENTAPTERYGIUM rugosum ; ramis foliisque glabris, ramulis petiolisque juniori-
bus pubescentibus, foliis coriaceis subsessilibus lanceolatis v. ovato-lanceo-
latis acuminatis basi cordatis serratis superne rugoso-venosis subtus pal-
lidioribus, floribus in corymbos foliis brevioribus breve pedunculatis aggre-
gatis nutantibus, pedicellis pilosulis, calycibus glabris, lobis late ovato-tri-
angularibus obtusis subfoliaceis corolla alba transverse purpureo-fasciata ter
brevioribus.
Vaccinrum rugosum. Hook. et Thoms. Ms.
This remarkable and beautiful plant was originally detected
by Griffith in the temperate regions of the Khasya mountains,
where it has since been gathered by Drs. Hooker and Thomson,
who have distributed it in their Indian Herbarium under the
name of Vaccinium rugosum. It was also found by Dr. Hooker in
the Sikkim-Himalaya mountains, and by Mr. Booth in the
Bhotan Himalaya. The plant here figured was sent by Mr.
Thomas Lobb to Messrs. Veitch and Son, with whom it flowered
in May of the present year. It succeeds well ina common green-
house. At Tab. 4910 will be found figured another species of
this genus, together with some observations on its congeners, in-
cluding this. The beautiful transversely fasciated colouring of
the corolla on a white ground, exactly recalls that of the Thibau-
dia macrantha (Tab. 4566), but the colour of the flower probably
varies, as we find that it is described in the notes to the wild
specimens as varying from deep-red to purple.
Descr. A glabrous shud, often epiphytical, forming a large
tuberous rhizome or caudex on the trunks of lofty trees. Branches
covered with circular pale pustules. Zeaves almost sessile, sub-
cordate at the base, very coriaceous and rugose, almost lacunose
on the under surface, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,
serrate, deep bright-green above, pale beneath, the young ones
auGcusT lst, 1860.
purplish. JVowers pendulous, in few-flowered corymbs, about
an inch long. Calyx and base of the pedicel deep-red, lobes of
the calyx almost membranaceous. Corolla with a strongly five-
angled tube, having a prominent rib at each angle, nearly white,
beautifully marbled between the angles with slender, waving,
transverse, purple or blood-red bands, giving it an exquisitely
beautiful and china-like appearance, the mouth contracted and
greenish. Anthers with minute spurs at the back, about the
middle. Berry fleshy, insipid. The calyx-lobes vary a good
deal in length and breadth, and the peduncles and pedicels also
in length. —
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx-tube and ovary, style and stigma. 3. Anthers :—
all magnified.
Tas. 5199,
CALADIUM sicotor, var. Newnannis.
Two-coloured Caladium ; Neumann’s var.
Nat. Ord. AnoripE®.—Mone@cra MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. Spatha ventricosa, basi convoluta. Spadix apice omnino stamini-
fer, quandoque mucronatus, mucrone nudo, medio glandulosus, basi tectus ger-
‘minibus. Anthere sessiles, in spiram dense disposite, peltate, sub pelta ad am-
bitum multiloculares vel pluries sulcate, sulcis pollen concatenatum emittentibus.
Glandule seu anthere steriles multiplici serie adnate spadici, inaquales, ob-
long, angulose, obtuse,.ad ambitum sulcate. Germina numerosa, sessilia,
subrotunda, depressa; sfyli nulli; stigmata umbilicata, viscoso humore referta.
Vent.
CaLapiuM Jicolor ; foliis peltatis ovato-sagittatis, lobis profundis paululum di-
varicatis bicoloribus, spatha erecta basi subglobosa medio coarctata apice
ovato-acuminata.
a. foliis disco rubicundo.
Catapium bicolor. Vent. Pl. Nouv. ¢. 30. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 488. Ait.
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 311. Kerr, in Bot. Mag. t. 2543. Hook. Er. .
_ Fl. t. 26. Schott, Syn. Aroid. p. 54.
Arvo bicolor. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 3. p. 316. Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 820.
B. foliis maculatis maculis roseo-sanguineis ocellatis ocellis limboque albis.
CaLapium Neumannii. Ch. Lem. in Fl. des Serres, 1860, p. 104.
In proportion as the cultivation of plants peculiar for coloured
foliage increases in favour with the public, so, it would appear, do
their varieties; and among the more beautiful of them will rank
numerous Aroidee. Ventenat first described what is assuredly
the normal state of this species of Caladium (that indeed on
which the genus itself is founded), Jicolor, peculiar in the rich
red colour of the disc of the leaf, and running up, as it were, along
the principal veins, and disappearing at some little distance from
the margin. Here, in a plant no ways differing specifically, we
have the red collected in spots of unequal sizes and forms over
the whole disc of the leaf, but never touching the margin; and
these spots are of a deep rose-red, freckled and margined with
auGusT lst, 1860.
oS
white. It is a plant that loves heat and plenty of moisture, and
the offsets should be frequently removed : indeed it succeeds best
in a warm stove, with the pots standing in a pan of water.
Fig. 1. Spatha, laid open. 2. Anther. 3. Pistil. 4. Vertical section of the re
ovary. 5. ‘Transverse section of the ovary :—magnified. 1
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Tas. 5200,
ROSA SERICEA.
Stlky-leaved Rose.
Nat. Ord. Rosacr#.—Icosanpria D1-PENTAGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4030.)
Rosa (§ Canine) sericea; ramis. villoso-glandulosis, aculeis validis stipularibus
e basi dilatata compresse subulatis rectis, foliolis 7—9 parvis ovalibus ser-
ratis, floribus plerisque tetrapetalis, fructibus turbinatis calycibusque externe
pubescentibus. ?
Rosa sericea. Lindl. Monogr. Ros. p. 105. ¢.12. Royle, Fl. Himal. p. 208. t. 42.
f.1. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 613. Wall. Cat. p. 695,
Rosa tetrapetala. Royle, 1. c. p. 23.
Rosa Wallichii. Zrattin. Ros. v. 2. p. 193.
A white-flowered, usually tetrapetalous Rose of Himalaya,
first detected by Dr. Wallich at Gossam Them, but since found
abundantly in northern India. Dr. Lindley speaks of it as “a
Rose which, together with R. macrophylla, found in the same
district, exhibits the nearest approach among Indian Roses to
those of Europe.”’ Introduced by Dr. Hooker and Mr. Strachey
into our gardens, where it proves perfectly hardy, and is best
treated by nailing against a wall. Thus situated, its blossoms
are abundant in the early summer.
Descr. A moderate-sized dush. Branches numerous, stout,
green when young, at length brown, clothed with copious, rather
short, spreading, glandulose hairs or sete; the glands clammy,
and yielding an aromatic odour. Prickles rather distant, large,
strong, dark purple, from a very broad dilated base, laterally
compressed, subulate, very pungent, straight, generally appearing
below the base of a stipule. Zeaves about four inches long,
long-petiolate, petiole with a pair of lanceolate stipules, decur-
rent, and forming a broad wing to the base of the petiole.
Leaflets seven to nine, small, from half to three-quarters of an
-inch long at the utmost, oval or subobovate, strongly serrated
auGustT lst, 1860.
at the base, silky, or rather glanduloso-hirsuta in our specimens,
beneath. Flowers solitary, upon the peduncles a little drooping,
moderately large in cultivated specimens, small in native ones.
Peduncle and calyzx-tube villose, the hairs tipped with a gland ;
the limb of four, rarely five, ovato-lanceolate, acuminated seg-
ments, shorter than the petals, pubescenti-villous on the outside.
Petals broad-obcordate, four, rarely five, spreading, white. /ruit
globoso-turbinate, rather small, glandular, crowned with the per-
sistent calyx-segments. Stamens numerous. Styles free.
Fig. 1. Flower, from which the petals are removed,—magnified. 2. Fruit,—
nat. size.
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Tas. 5201.
YUCCA CANALICULATA.
Channel-leaved Yucca, or Adam’s Needle.
Nat. Ord. Litrace®.—Herxanpria MonoGynia.
Gen. Char. Perigonium hexaphyllum ; foliola eequilonga, interiora latiora, cam-
panulato-conniventia, ima basi connata, marcescendo-persistentia. Stamina 6,
perigonii foliolis basi inserta; filamenta brevia, plana, apice latiora. Ovarium
triloculare. Ovula in loculis plurima, horizontalia, biseriata, anatropa; stigmata
3, sessilia, basi subconnata, apice patentia. Capsula oblonga, obtuse hexagona,
subbaccata, vertice primum forata, demum loculicido-subtrivalvis, trilocularis, v.
' septis secundariis incomplete sexlocularis. Semina plurima, biseriata, horizontalia,
obovata, compressiuscula. Testa coriacea, nigra. Embryo axilis, dimidio albumine
breviore, extremitate radiculari umbilico proxima.—Plante in America tropica
cis equatorem et in boreali calidiore indigene ; caudice sepius arborescente, interdum
hypogao; foliis in apice caudicis confertis, lineari-lanceolatis, crassis, rigidis, margine
sepius spinuloso-serratis ; scapo ¢ foliorum centro bracteato, paniculato, Endl,
,
Yucca canaliculuta ; caule sesquipedali crasso, foliis densis bipedalibus lanceolatis
erassis supra basin. latioribus sensim spinoso-acumiuatis rigidissimis insig-
niter concavo-canaliculatis subtus asperis superne levibus marginibus in-
tegerrimis rubro-subcartilagineis, panicula ampla compacta densiflora, flori-
bus sulphureis, perianthio globoso, foliolis late ovatis acutis concavis acutius-
culis basi subito angustis.
We were much struck with the beauty of this Yucca in the
cool greenhouse of W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., Hillfield, Reigate,
in the summer of the present year. His flowering specimen
had been purchased at the sale of the collection of the late Ro-
bert Bevan, Esq., of Bury St. Edmund’s; name and locality un-
known. A young plant of the same kind had been received by
Mr. Saunders, from Paris. It appears to be quite undescribed,
and is probably of Mexican origin. It belongs to the section
“ foliis margine integerrimis,” and may rank next to Yucca
gloriosa, Linn., differing however remarkably from that in the
form and colour of the flowers, and still more in the singularly
straight, rigid, very concavo-canaliculated foliage. We know of
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1860.
no species, either, with such densely flowered panicles. The
plant is probably of considerable age, and has perhaps attained
- its ordinary size.
Drscr. Sfem-erect, eighteen inches high, three to four inches
in diameter, unbranched, transversely marked with the scars of
fallen foliage. Leaves nearly two feet long, spreading on all
sides, numerous, twenty to twenty-four inches long, closely im-
bricated on the trunk, lanceolate, firm and hard, coriaceous, sub-
glaucous, contracted at the base, then dilated and gradually
tapering to a rigid spinulose point, very concave in its whole
length (canaliculato-concava), almost semicylindrical, asperous
beneath, smooth above, the margins entire, with a subcar-
tilaginous and red-brown line at the very edge of the younger
leaves. Panicle terminal, a large compound raceme, each branch
thickly clothed with large, sulphur-coloured, drooping, globose
flowers. Folioles or sepals subconnivent, broad-ovate, scarcely
acute, contracted at the very base. Stamens and pistil as in
the genus.
Fig. 1. Flowering plant,—much reduced. 2. Portion of a leaf and of a panicle,
—nat, size. 3. Pistil. 4. Stamen :—magnified.
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Tas. 5202,
CATASETUM arratum.
Dark-flowered Catasetum.
Nat. Ord. OncH1ipE®.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4792.)
CatTasEetum atratum ; racemo decurvo, sepalis petalisque patentibus ovatis acu-
tis, labello carnoso cucullato margine tenui-pectinato apice rotundato reflexo
crasso denticulato. Lindl.
CaTasetum atratum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1838; Misc. n. 114; and same volume,
t. 63.
A singular species, imported by Messrs. Loddiges from Brazil
more than twenty years ago, and of which Dr. Lindley candidly
says: “Had this been known when the now-abolished genus
Myanthus was proposed, that error would not have been com-
mitted, for the species is neither exactly a J/yanthus nor exactly
a Catasetum.” It flowered in the Royal Gardens of Kew in
May, 1860.
Descr. Fully-formed pseudobulbs of this Catasetum are about
five inches long, oblong, jointed, partially sheathed with white
striated membranaceous scales. Leaves terminal, three, broad-
lanceolate, tapering downwards, submembranaceous, striated,
dark-green above, paler below, and there having three prominent
ribs. Scape from the bottom of a young pseudobulb, bracteated,
pendent, as is the raceme of large numerous flowers, of which
the ground-colour is a lurid green. Sepals and petals equal,
spreading, ovate, acute, concave, blotched with copious, trans-
verse, oblong, purple-brown spots, which are sometimes con-
fluent ; externally these spots are faint and obscure. Lzp about
as long as the sepals and petals, fleshy, ovate, cucullate, but the
deep cavity is confined to the centre of the lip; the margin is
not only open, but spreading, and somewhat reflexed, beautifully
fringed with brown bristles, and marked with a few brown spots ;
the apex is pale yellow-green, spotless, and much reflexed. Co-
Juma semiterete, acuminate, pale yellow-green.
Fig. 1. Column and lip,—slightly magnified.
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imp
Vincent. Brooks,
Tas. 5205,
BESCHORNERIA yuccorpss.
Yucca-leaved Beschorneria.
i
BESCHORNERIA yuccoides ; foliis pedalibus sesquipedalibusque lanceolatis inferne
angustatis basi dilatato-vaginatis apice acuminatissimis, scapo 3—4-pedali
gracili bracteato racemoso-paniculato corallino, ramis gracillimis elongatis
floribusque pendentibus, bracteis roseis, sepalis clausis rectis.
BEscHORNERIA yuccoides. Hortul.
Some years ago Lord Ilchester distributed seeds of a Beschor-
neria, which was considered to be different from the only de-
scribed one, B. tubiflora (see our Tab. 4642), and which we have
since understood bears the name of B. yuccoides in gardens. A
plant of this was in perfection in the succulent-house of our
friend Mr. Wilson Saunders at the same time with the Yucca —
canaliculata, given in the present number. The accompanying —
figure will show better than words can do how very different
this is from B. tubifora. It is indeed a most striking plant,
distinguished by the long, slender, coral-like scape and panicle,
with its gracefully slender drooping branches, of the same colour,
bearing racemes of large pendent green flowers, in shape not
much unlike those of some long-flowered Fuchsia, but of a dark
yellow-green colour, tinged with red. It is a highly ornamental
plant, and continues a long time in blossom. It requires a cool
greenhouse, and is probably a native of Mexico.
Drscr. Leaves radical (but the falling away of the older ones
at length causes an imperfect stem to appear, thick and short), a
foot to a foot and a half long, subcoriaceous, glaucous-green,
lanceolate, narrowed below the middle, dilated at the very base,
the apex pungently and narrow-acuminated, asperous beneath
and at the margin. Scape three to four feet long, the upper half
forming a panicle of slender drooping (as it were from the weight
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1860.
of the flowers) branches, of a rich coral-red colour. Bracteas
- membranaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, deep rose-colour. //owers
pendent, nearly three inches long, including the inferior ovary,
which is cylindrical, narrower than the perianth. Sepals linear-
oblong, dark-green, with a yellow tinge, straight, approximating
so as to form a fude. Stamens scarcely exserted. Filaments
subulate. Anthers linear. Style filiform, dilated, and trisul-
cate at the base. x 3
Fig. 1. Very much reduced figure
ty flowering plant. 2. Leaf. 3. Portion
of a panicle :—znat. size. 4. Stamen.
-Pistil :—magnified.
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Tas. 5204,
PSAMMISIA PENDULIFLORA.
Pendulous-flowered Psammisia.
Nat. Ord. EricAce®.—DeEcanpRIA MonoGynIa.
Gen. Char. Psammista. Calyx urceolato-campanulatus ; limbo cupuleformi,
breviter et late 5-dentato. Corolla tubulosa, basi ventricosa, limbo 5-fido. Sta-
mina 10, distincta, inclusa, equilonga. Anthere biloculares, oblongo-lineares,
apice breviter bifida, dorso supra medium affixee, basi liberee, scabree, alternatim
latiores, subinde ad apicem connectivi dentibus 2 divergentibus aucte, angus-
tiores semper edentule ; ¢wbulis levibus, anthera ipsa brevioribus, apice foramine
dehiscentibus. Filamenta lata, brevia. Ovarium 5-loculare, loculis multi-ovu-
latis. Stylus filiformis, strictus, plerumque exsertus. Stigma obtusum. Bacca
coriacea, subexsucca, 5-locularis, calycis limbo cupuleeformi 5-dentato coronata,
loculis polyspermis ; placentis in axi centrali versus apicem sitis, pendulis.—
Frutices Americani, ramosi; foliis coriaceis, 3-5—1-plinerviis, magnis ; racemis
axillaribus, robustis, corymbosis, solitariis, tegmentis destitutis ; pedicellis robustis,
sensim incrassatis, apice articulatis bractea parva squamaformi suffultis ; calycis
limbo eupuleformi, coriaceo. Kl.
PsamMMISIA pendulifiora ; ramis teretibus, foliis breviter petiolatis ellipticis acu-
minatis subdistichis glabris 3—5-plinerviis, racemis axillaribus subcorym-
bosis pendulis, corolla coccinea infra apicem subito contracta viridescente.
Psammista penduliflora. K?. in Linnea, v. 24. p. 43. Decaisne, in Revue Hor-
ticole, 1854, p. 5. #. 1.
Tuipaupia penduliflora. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 562.
Most of the South American Vacciniacee which have been
arranged under Zhibaudia, are considered by Dr. Klotzsch to be
sufficiently distinct to constitute a separate genus, to which he
has given the name of Psammisia (from Psammis, a king of
Egypt): and he enumerates no less than seventeen species, of
which one, Ps. Hookeriana, K1., has been figured in this work,
Tab. 4344, under the name of Zhibaudia Pichinchensis, var. B
glabra, Hook. ‘The species are eminently handsome, and wor-
thy of cultivation in a warm greenhouse. We owe the posses-
sion of our present plant to Mr. Linden, who received it from
the mountains of Caraccas. In some collections it bears the
SEPTEMBER IsT, 1860.
name of Ps. sclerophylla, but that is a very different species, and
is figured in the ‘ Flore des Serres,’ tom. viil. t. 825.
Dzscr. An evergreen shrvd, with terete, green branches, tinged
with red. Leaves about four inches long, glossy-green, shortly
petioled, elliptical, very entire, much and rather finely acumi-
nated, subdistichous, the base obtuse, three- to five-nerved, faintly
reticulated between the almost parallel nerves, dark glossy-green,
the older ones tinged with brown. Racemes solitary, axillary,
many-flowered, secund, and drooping. Pedicels thick, clavate,
eventually red, with two small bracteas. Calya« with its base
articulated upon the pedicel, scabrous ; twde globose, dimé of five
broad acute segments. Corolla large, rich scarlet, pitcher-shaped,
suddenly contracted into a greenish five-lobed apex. Stamens
ten, included. Ovary incorporated with the calyx-tube: an an-
nular disc surrounding the base of the filiform s¢y/e, which is a
little longer than the corolla. Stigma obtuse.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Calyx and pistil. 3. Stamens :—magnified.
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CRINUM GiGanTEuM.
Large-flowered Crinum, or Cape-Coast Lily.
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDE®.—HExANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Gen. Char. Perigonium superum corollaceum; tubo elongato, gracili; fauce
haud ampliata ; limbo 6-partito ; Jaciniis subzequalibus, multinerviis, erectis, pa-
tentibus vel reflexis. Stamina 6, summo tubo inserta, elongata. Filamenta fili-
formia, patentia vel declinata. dnthere lineares, versatiles. Ovarium inferum
triloculare ; ovuda plurima, in loculorum angulo centrali affixa, biseriata, hori-
zontalia, anatropa. Columna stylina filiformis, erecta vel inclinata. Stigma ob-
tusum, obsolete trilobum vel trifidum. Capsula membranacea, depresso-spheerica,
tri- vel abortu 1—2-locularis, irregulariter rampens. Semina pauca vel solitaria,
angulato-subglobosa, sepe in bulbillos carnosos mutata—Herbe Jduldifere,
scapigere ; bulbo tunicato, columnari vel spherico. Folia multifaria. Scapus
solidus, umbellato-multiflorus. Spatha diphylla. Flores pedicellati vel sessiles, —
bracteis linecribus ramentaceis interstincti. Endl.
Crinum giganteum ; sessiliflorum, foliis plurimis oblongo-lingulatis obsolete
striatis undulatis margine scabris, floris limbo nutante obsolete bilabiato
tubo breviore.
Crinum giganteum. Andr. Bot. Repos. t.169. Redouté, Liliae. t. 181. Her-
bert, in Bot. Mag. sub fol. 2121. Schultz, Syst. v. 7. p. 854. Kunth, Enum.
v. 5. p. 569.
Crinum petiolatum. Herb. App. p. 22. Var. 1. spectabile, Herbert, Amaryl.
p. 260.
AMARYLLIS gigantea. dit. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. p. 226. Gawl. in Journ. of Se.
v. 3. p. 368. ¢. 44. f. 8, 14, 15.
AMARYLLIS ornata, 8. Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 923 (leaves very unlike those of
our plant). ;
AMARYLLIS candida. Traut. Tabul. ¢. 488.
AMARYLLIS latifolia. Lam. Encycl. v. 1. p. 41.
This fine plant has been long known in England, but much
misunderstood ; and no figure (though there are not a few) has
yet done justice to the Jarge and delicate texture of the flowers ;
among the worst of the figures is that given by Mr. Gawler,
in this work, under the name of Amaryllis ornata, B. Tt is a
native of Sierra Leone, and no doubt other parts of the coast of
tropical Western Africa. Bulbs were sent to us recently by
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1860.
*
Capt. Babington, from Sierra Leone. The late Mr. Herbert can
hardly have seen a fair or well-cultivated specimen or he would
not have cavilled at the original name and changed it to C. pe-
tiolatum.
Descr. Build very large, a fully grown one being as big as a
child’s head. Leaves one to two and even three feet long, four
inches wide, lingulate, broadest above the middle, obsoletely
striated, but having a strong central rib and two depressed
lines between the costa and margin. Scape two to three feet
long, plano-convex, erect. Spyatha two-valved, ligulate. Umbel
of from five to thirteen sessile flowers. Tube of the perianth
eight to nine inches long, terete, green. Flowers six to seven
inches across, inclined. Sepals broad, ovato-concave, white,
tinged with yellow-green externally. Filaments four to five
inches long, declined, then ascending. dnthers one inch long,
dark-purple. Ovary oval. Style filiform, curved upwards.
Stigma obscurely three-lobed.
JIL206.
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Tas. 5206.
ERODIUM pELARGONIIFLORUM.
Pelargonium-flowered Stork’ s-bill.
Nat. Ord. GeRaNIACE#.—MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA.
Gen. Char. Sepala 5, eequalia, in calcar seu tubum nectariferum nulla producta.
Petala 5, regularia aut irregularia. Stamina decem, filamentis basi monadelphis,
5 antheriferis, 5 alternis sterilibus. Glandule 5 ad basin staminum sterilium.
Carpellorum ariste intus barbate, demum elastice. spiraliter torte.—Herbe aut
sufirutices, foliis variis, pedunculis sepius multi-rarissime 1-floris. De Cand.
Erovium pelargoniiforum ; perenne viride totum pilis papillaribus nitidis con-
spersum viscidulum, rhizomate squamis petiolaribus et stipularibus ve-
tustis vestito, caulibus fragilibus adscendentibus elongatis ramosis, foliis
teneris radicalibus longe petiolatis ovato-cordatis obsolete 3-lobis indivi-
sisque acutiuscule dentatis, stipulis bracteisque oblongis oblonge acuminatis
valde hispidis albo-membranaceis, pedunculis umbellatim 8—10-floris, pedi-
cellis longe hispidis flore triplo longioribus, sepalis oblongis albis viridi-
3—5-lineatis ad costas longe papilloso-ciliatis mucrone eis dimidio breviori
terminatis, petalis obovatis basi subciliatis albis 2 inferioribus macula pur-
purea in 5 lineas ramulosas superne extensa insignitis, carpellis parce et
adpresse hirsutis, cauda adpresse hirsuta eis quadruplo longiori. Boiss,
Eropium pelargoniiflorum. Boiss. e¢ Heldr. in Pl. Exsic. Anatol. 1846; et in
Diagnos. Plant. Orient. Nov. v. 8. p. 118. Walp. Annal. v. 2. p. 234.
v. 4. p. 395. Regel’s Garten-Flora, v. 1. p. 195. t. 19.
From the collection of W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., Hillfield,
Reigate, where the shelves of a very cool, airy greenhouse were
enlivened by its sparkling blossoms. In the days when the
Geraniacee were cultivated extensively as botanical objects, this
would have been very much prized; but that time is gone by,
and their place is taken by the “General Tom Thumb,” the
** Golden Chain,” and others, which render our flower-beds, in
summer, objects of such universal admiration. The present is
a recently-discovered species, by Heldreich, of the Hrodium ge-
nus, in Anatolia, growing on shady rocks and among caves be-
tween Karaman and Ermenek, at an elevation of 3,000 feet
above the level of the sea. It may therefore be expected to suc-
ocTOBER Ist, 1860.
ceed in the open air in summer, but at its period of rest in the
winter the roots will require protection. The above specific cha-
racter of Boissier may well be considered to serve for a descrip-
tion also.
Fig. 1. Lower leaf, showing the stipules,—nat. size. 2. Flower, from which
_ the petals are removed. 3. Pistil:—magnified.
‘Tan, 5207,
CISSUS vELUTINUS.
Velvety-leaved Cissus.
Nat. Ord. AMPELIDE®.—TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4763.)
Cissus velutinus ; caule scandente angulato ruberrimo, foliis petiolatis cordato-
oblongis obtuse acuminatis denticulatis supra purpureo-viridibus ad venis
sepissime albo pictis, subtus eximie sanguineis, pedunculis petiolo duplo
triplove longioribus cymisque laxis ruberrimis.
Cissus velutinus. Linden, Cat.
In specific character the present species nearly approaches the
Cissus discolor of Blume, to which, perhaps, it is too nearly re-
lated, and is scarcely inferior to it in beauty. It wants, indeed,
the warm, deep purple glow which prevails in the young foliage
of the latter plant: but, on the other hand, the inflorescence is
larger in the present species, and of the same coral-red all over,
instead of the cymes and flowers being white, as in C. discolor.
The leaves, though frequently marked with white lines followmg
. the course of the veins, often lose them in age; and they are
never spotted with transverse blotches, so conspicuous in discolor.
Of its native country we are ignorant; probably the Malay
Islands. It flowers at various seasons of the year in a warm
stove, and readily increases by cuttings. The specific name is
better merited in the young shoots of the plant, which are
clothed with a soft velvety pubescence, but which is deciduous,
and in age the foliage is generally quite glabrous.
Descr. Habit and mode of growth entirely that of C. discolor
(see our Tab. 4763). Leaves the same in form, but considera-
bly different in colour and markings. The deep purple hue is
almost entirely wanting, and the white blotches of C. discolor
give place to broad lines of white following the course of the
costa, veins, and veinlets, yet becoming obsolete in age. ‘The
chief distinction resides in the length of the peduncle, which is
_ twice at least that of the other in the larger and laxer cyme, and
in the flowers being of the same intense coral-red as the pe-
OCTOBER IsT, 1860.
of ster the cirrhi, and the under side of
a petals spread open. 2. The same, from which the
ave fallen. 3. Ovary, cut through vertically :—magnified. :
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Tas. 5208.
ANCECTOCHILUS setaceus, var. tnornatus.
Fringed Anectochilus ; var.
Nat. Ord. OrcHuipE#®.—GyNANDRIA Monoayntia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4123.)
ANG®CTOCHILUS setaceus ; subrepens, foliis rotundato-ovatis velutinis plerumque
aureo-reticulatis subtus discoloribus, sepalis extus ovariisque glanduloso-
hirsutis, labello medio ad marginem longe fimbriato apice bilobo, lobis ob-
longis obtusis patentibus, sacco labelli apice bifido.
a. aureo-reticulatus ; canle bracteisque subcarneo, foliis supra pulcherrime aureo-
reticulatis.
ANGCTOCHILUS setaceus. Blume, Bijdr.v.1.p.412. Tabelien, 15. Lindi. Bot.
Reg. t. 2010. Gen, et Sp. Orchid. p. 499. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4123. Wight,
Le. Ind. Or. v. 5. #. 1731.
CurysoBaPnus Roxburgii. Wall. Tent. Fl. Nepal. t. 17.
Folium petolatum. Rumph. Amb. v. 6. p. 93. t. 41. f. 3.
B. inornatus; caule bracteisque viridibus, foliis supra purpureo-cupreis (venis
aureis omnino obsoletis). (Tas. Nostr. 5208.)
The ordinary state of this plant, with its beautiful golden net-
work on the upper side of the leaves, is familiar, to all cultivators
of rare Orchideous plants, as well as to such as frequent the gar-
dens of those that are curious in them, for it is one of the most
interesting of the family; a native, too, of very extensive regions
in the East Indies, both on the continent and in the islands. In
Ceylon its foliage is so attractive that the plant is known by the
native name of Wana Rajah, or King of the Woods. Rumphius,
in Herb, Amboyn, accurately describes the leaves as “ cordifor-
mia quasi, crassiuscula sed flaccida, mollia ad tactum instar serici
densioris, ac quodammodo splendentia, quam elegantissime picta,
leete rabentilus et intricatis flavis lineis distincta, ita ut can-
cellata sint, atque ignotos referant characteres, ac si penicillo a
perito pictore picta | essent, inferius folia rubent, seu purpurascunt
sine characteribus.”’
But this is not always the condition of the foliage. In a valu-
able case of plants lately received from the Botanic Garden of
OCTOBER Ist, 1860.
“waa the present remarkable ‘variety, in which the leaves,
1 of a rich coppery hue and velvety character, are wholly
e of reticulations. The structure of the flower is the
L ‘Side view of a flower. 2. Front view of a flower :—magnified.
Vincent Brooks. imp.
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Tas. 5209.
SALVIA scABIOS&FOLIA.
Scabious-leaved Sage.
Nat. Ord. Laprat#.—D1anpRIA MonoGyNIa.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4874.)
Satvr1a (§ Eusphace) scabiosefolia ; caule herbaceo, ramis diffusis piloso-lanatis,
foliis pinnatisectis segmentis subgeminis, integris bisectis vel pinnatisectis
oblongis linearibusve acutis integerrimis, racemis simplicibus, verticillastris
6-10-floris distinctis, foliis floralibus lanceolatis ovatis vel ovato-rotundatis
acuminatis, calycibus ample campanulatis striatis villosis, labio superiore
brevissime tridentato, inferiore bifido, dentibus ovatis acutis, corollis calyce
duplo longioribus, labio superiore bifido. Benth.
SaLvia scabioseefolia. Lam. Journ. Hist. Nat. n. 14. p. 44. t. 27.
S. pinifolia. Pall. Ind. Taur.
S. Taurice. Habl. Phys. Beschr. Taur. p. 207.
S. scabrosa. Pers. Syn. Pl. v. 1. p. 29.
8. Habliziana. Willd. in Schrad. Journ. Bot. v. 1. p. 289. t. 2. Jacq. Fil. Eel.
v. l.p. 9.4.8. Bot. Mag. t.1429. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 1. p. 538.
S. vulnerariefolia. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. p. 149.
A remarkable-looking Sage, now rare in our gardens, but in-
troduced from ‘Tauria into the gardens of Kew as early as 1798,
by John Bell, Esq., and published under the name of S. Haé/i-
ziana. It was not till after our plate was engraved that I dis-
covered that this plant, recently received under the correct name
of S. scabiosefolia, was the same as the Hadliziana already given
in an early volume of this work, as above quoted. Our subscri-
bers, however, will here find a more accurate representation, with
analysis ; and we have profited by Mr. Bentham’s synonymy and
remarks in his monograph of the extensive genus in De Can-
dolle’s ‘ Prodromus.’
Duscr. :“ Stems diffuse, one to one and a half foot high, patently
hairy or woolly at the base, subglabrous above, often purplish.
Leaves numerous, sometimes almost glabrous, often hoary and
pilose ; segments three to five pair, often geminate or ternate,
but opposite, and thence apparently whorled. Raceme four to
OCTOBER Ist, 1860.
six inches or more long. Lower floral leaves ovato-lanceolate,
longer than the calyx ; superior ones broader and shorter. Fracti-
Jerous calyces seven to eight lines long, shortly pedicellate, erect,
softly piloso-pubescent, with abbreviated teeth. Corolle beautiful
white ; the ¢zvde within furnished with a hairy ring. Sfy/e shortly
inserted. The species varies with the leaves often very narrow
and more glabrous, the verticillastra sometimes all six-flowered,
sometimes ten- or more flowered; also in the size and form of
the floral leaves.” Benth. /. c.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Stamen. 3. Pistil and hypogynous gland :—magnified.
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ALOE a.uso-cinctTa.
White-margined Aloe.
Nat. Ord. ASPHODELE2®.—HEXANDRIA Monocyntra.
Gen. Char. Corolla tubuloso-6-fida vel hexapetalo-partita, carnosula, basi nee-
tarifera, in tubum connivens; Jimbo regulari, patulo, vel recurvo-bilabiato ;
daciniis ligulatis, exterioribus interiores aquales vel longiores imbricatim obtegen-
tibus. Stamina hypogyna, assurgentia, tubo eequalia, vel exserta. Stylus exser-
tus v. subnullus, trisuleus. Stigma simplex, v. 3, minuta, replicata. Capsula
membranacea, scariosa, rotunde vel acute trigona, 3-locularis, 8-valvis, valvis
medio septigeris. Semina numerosa, biserialia, subrotundo-complanata, v. tri-
gona, alata angulosave. Gawl.
ALOE albo-cincta; caule 2~-3-pedali subarboreo erasso simplici, foliis magnis
12-16-uncialibus lato-lanceolatis sensim acuminatis crassis integerrimis
cartilagineo-rubro- v. albo-marginatis glaucis obscure striatis lineari-macu-
latisque, pedunculo seu scapo subbipedali apice paniculatim patenti-cymoso,
bracteis ad basin ramorum, floribus racemosis omnibus etiam ante anthesin
pendulis clavatis rubro-aurantiacis basi ventricosis.
ALOE albo-cincta. Haworth, Suppl. Pl. Succul. p. 43. Ram. et Sch. Syst.
Veget.v. 7. p. 698. Kth. Enum. Plant. v. 4. p. 525,
.
If the African Aloes have lost caste among cultivators of the
present day, there are few, we think, who could have seen the
present species, as we saw it in the summer of the present
year, in Mr. Wilson Saunders’s succulent-house at Hillfield, who
would not deem it highly deserving of a place in their green-
house. It is the handsomest we know of the genus by far,
striking in its foliage, and still more so in its drooping flowers,
which form a spreading, compound, almost umbellate cyme, of a
rich yellowish-red colour. Our friend has long had it in culti-
vation under the name here given, and it seems quite correctly
so; but this is the first instance known of the flowering of the
plant. Had Haworth been acquainted with the inflorescence,
he would never have made the remark, “Fortasse est mere
junior 4. striate (A. paniculate, Jacg.).” Myr. Wilson Saunders
OTCOBER Ist, 1860.
has lately received young plants from his collector Mr. Cooper,
found in Algoa Bay.
Descr. The stem forms a cylindrical truzk two and a half
feet high, and stout. Leaves few, spreading, a foot to eighteen
inches long, and six inches wide, almost an inch thick at the
base, quite entire at the margin, and there cartilagmous and
white or tinged with red. The green of a glaucous hue, faintly
striated, and marked with obscure, whitish, elongated spots.
Scape or peduncle elongated, compressed, panicled at the top,
bearing numerous racemes, arranged in a broad, flattened cyme,
of drooping flowers, an inch and a quarter long clavate, and sin-
gularly inflato-globose at the base. Stamens scarcely exserted.
Ovary oblong ; style as long as the stamens ; stigma obtuse.
Fig. 1. Flowering plant, much reduced. 2. Apex of a leaf. 3. Portion of a
panicle :—nat. size. 4. Flower. 5. Pistil :—magnified.
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SONCHUS rapicatus.
Long-rooted Sow-thistle.
Nat. Ord. Composit#.—SyYNGENESIA ASQUALIS.
Gen. Char. Capitulum wmulti- vel pauci-florum. Jnvolucrum imbricatum, basi
_yentricosum demumque spongiosum. eceptaculum nudum. Achenia com-
presso-tetragona, ovato-oblonga, longitudinaliter striata, plerumque transverse
muricato-granulata, rarius glabra, alutacea, brunnea v. nigrescentia, erostrata,
vel rostro brevi robusto terminata, basi plerumque prominentiis 4 notata. Pap-
pus persistens v. caducus; se¢is vero basi non in annulum ut in Picridio concre-
tis, vel singulis vel pluribus basi connatis, niveis, mollibus, digitis facile adhe-
rentibus, distanter breve antrorso-extrorso-denticulatis v. subsimplicibus (saltem
sub lente, magis auctis vero denticulis confertioribus munitis quam sete cras-
siores), ineequalibus, intimis nempe pluribus, ceteris crassioribus, rarissime sub-
equalibus. Schuléz.
Soncuus radicatus ; fruticosus glaber glaucus, foliis fere omnibus radicalibus
lyratis lobis rotundatis superficialiter et minute sinuatis, caulinis paucis
cordatis, auriculis rotundatis, pedicellis subnudis, involucri subimbricati
squamis exterioribus ovatis, interioribus linearibus, receptaculo favoso,
acheniis brunneis glabris striatis, pappi subuniserialis caduci setis falcatis.
Webb.
Soncuus radicatus. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. v. 3. p. 116; ed. 2. v. 4. p. 436.
Willd. Sp. Pl.v.3. p. 1511. De Cand. Prodr. v.71. p. 188. Webb, Phy-
togr. Canar. v. 3. p. 436. t. 128.
No less than sixteen species of Sonchus or Sow-thistle, be-
sides the present one, inhabit the Canary Islands. But we must
not judge of them from the weedy nature of our British species,
for in the subgenus Dendrosonchus of Mr. Webb, to which our
plant belongs, are some which are described as arboreous, and
which, from their size and peculiarity of form, constitute strik-
ing features in the landscape. Our present species is of a much
humbler character, yet shrubby, and remarkable for the deeply
lyrate leaves, very hoary, or as it were frosted with short down,
and for the large size of the flowers. S. radicatus was intro-
duced into Kew Gardens by Masson in 1780. Plants were
reared, from seed sent by Mr. Webb, in his garden at Milford ;
and it has been, through Dr. Bolle, very recently imported by
OCTOBER Ist, 1860.
‘Mr. Wilson Saunders, in whose greenhouse at Hillfield our
drawing was made by Mr. Fitch, in July, 1860.
Our Plate represents the apex of a stem, with leaves and a portion of a flow-
ering peduncle,—nat. size. Fig. 1. Floret. 2. Apex of a style, and stigmas.
3. Hairs of the pappus :—maguified.
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PHALAENOPSIS rosea.
Rose-coloured Phalenopsis.
Nat. Ord. Orcutpr®%.—GyNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4297.)
PuHaL#£noprsts rosea ; foliis oblongis coriaceis acutis apice recurvis, scapo cernuo
ramoso tortuoso subclavato, floribus subcarnosis, sepalis ovatis, petalis ova-
libus paulo latioribus, labello ascendente tripartito, laciniis lateralibus lineari-
spathulatis lunatis, intermedia crista lunata rotundata depressa emarginata
(cirrhis nullis). Lend.
Puatenopsis rosea. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 671 (with woodcut of
flower), and in Paxt. Fl. Gard. v. 2. t. 72.
SravuRoGLortis equestris. Schauer, in Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. v. 19. Suppl.
— p. 432.
PHALENopsIs equestris. Reich. Fil. in Linnea, 1849, p. 864.
‘The name Phalenopsis, from our long familiarity with the well-
known species P. amabilis (see our Tab, 4297), and its close
affinity with P. grandiflora (Lab. 5184), which we have lately
ventured to consider scarcely different from amadilis, leads the
mind to flowers of large size and of the purest whiteness. To
those who thus form their ideas the present species will prove
a disappointment. The flowers are small, the whites are not
clear white, and the rose tints are not bright-rose. The organic
structure of the flower is however the same, wanting indeed the
cirrhi to the lip, which is so remarkable in them; and the foliage
bears a great resemblance to that of P. amadilis. It was im-
ported from Manilla into England, by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of
the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, through their zealous collector,
Mr. Thomas Lobb, who describes the spike of flowers from twelve
to eighteen inches long. It does not appear to attain such a size
with us. We are indebted to Mr. R. Bullen, gardener to John
Butler, Esq., of Woolwich, for the opportunity of figuring this
still rare species from that gentleman’s collection.
Dzscr. From a very short sfem or caudex, attached to its
place of growth by a few stout vermicular fleshy fibres, there
arise a few (three to four) oblong, thick coriaceo-carnose Jeaves,
NOVEMBER Ist, 1860.
which spread in two opposite directions; these are of a dark,
full-green colour, and unequally notched at the apex. Scape
springing from the base of the short stem and from the axil
formed by the persistent base of a fallen leaf, dark purplish-
black, terete, slightly thickened upwards, bearing a few, remote,
small, appressed dracts ; this scape is about a foot long, and is
terminated by a spike or raceme of twelve or fourteen fleshy
flowers, the largest of them not an inch and a half in their
broadest diameter. Buds ovate, greenish-yellow, with a red line
at the suture of the sepals. Sepa/s and petals patent, nearly uni-
form in size and shape, subovate, obtuse, and in colour white,
tinged with pink in the centre. zp rose-colour, scarcely larger
than the sepals, spreading, three-lobed: lateral lobes small, lu-
nate; middle one exactly ovate; at its base is a downy, fleshy,
prominent, furrowed gland. Pollen-masses two, attached to a
long caudicle, with a gland at its base.
Fig. 1. Side view of column and lip. 2. Front view of lip. 3. Pollen-
masses :—magnified,
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Tas. 5213,
AGAVE yucc&Fo.tia.
Yucca-leaved Agave.
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACERZ.—HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4934.)
AGAVE yuccefolia ; trunco erecto brevi, foliis glaucis coriaceo-carnosis lorato-
attenuatis supra canaliculato-concavis subtus obtuse carinatis marginibus
cartilagineo-serrulatis, exterioribus recurvis, scapo longissimo (20-pedali)
bracteato, spica terminali solitaria cylindrica multiflora, perianthio viridi,
tubo medio contracto, limbi lobis patentissimis, staminibus corolla duplo
longioribus.
AGAVE yucceefolia. Red. Pl. Liliac. v. 6. p. 328. t. 328 e¢ 329. Haw. Suppl.
p. 41. Willd. Enum. Suppl. p.19. Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 125. Kth
Enum. Pil, v. 5. p. 830.
*
This very distinct species of Agave, long cultivated in the
Royal Gardens of Kew, but whose native country is hitherto
unrecorded, was received by us from the Rio del Monte district,
Mexico, and is remarkable for the great length of the flower-
stem or scape in proportion to the rest of the plant,—so tall,
that long before the flowers began to expand, we were obliged
to remove the plant from a greenhouse fifteen feet high to a
loftier building, and support the continually elongating scape
against the wall. The flowers did not expand till this had at-
tained a height of twenty feet. The distance of the flowers from
the spectator renders them inconspicuous ; but when more closely
inspected, they are by no means insignificantly small, of a bright
yellow-green, with much exserted yellow large stamens, ‘whose
filaments and anthers are partially tinged with red. Its flowers
are produced in a cool greenhouse, in the summer months.
Descr. Stem or caudex in our plant short, erect, about two
to three inches thick, scarred with the persistent bases of fallen
foliage. Leaves numerous, outer and older ones curved, inner
and younger ones more erect, one to one and a half foot long,
nearly two inches wide in the broadest part, lorato-acuminate,
coriaceo-carnose, glaucous, canaliculato-concave above, very ob-
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tusely keeled beneath, the margin cartilaginous and. minutely
denticulate ; scape rising from the centre of the foliage, gradually
elongating till it has attained a height of twenty feet, one and a
half or two inches diameter, erect, but not strict, clothed all the
way with subulate, leafy scales, the lowest ones passing gradually
into leaves. Spike cylindrical, terminal, oblong, simple, six to
eight inches long. Flowers often two together, numerous, erect,
subtended by small bracts. Perianth about an inch long, in-
fundibuliform, green: the ¢wde a little contracted above. the
ovary ; /imd of six, spreading, oval, obtuse segments. Sfamens
inserted some way down the tube, yellow, tinged with red: ji/a-
ments twice as long as the perianth, stout, erect; anthers large,
versatile.
Fig. 1. Much reduced flowering-plant. 2. Portion of a leaf. 3. A flowering
spike :—nat. size.
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Tas. 5214,
ONCIDIUM puymartocHinum.
Warted-lipped Oncidium.
Nat. Ord. Orcu1pE#.—GyYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4824.)
Oncrp1uM phymatochilum ; racemo subpaniculato, sepalis linearibus acuminatis
apice recurvis lateralibus longissimis, labelli auriculis convexis dilatatis cre-
natis, lobo intermedio unguiculato ovato acuminato basi multituberculato,
columna alis semicordatis acuminatis. Lind.
Oncrp1um phymatochilum. Lindl. in Paaton’s Fl. Gard. v. 1. p. 78. n. 123, and
under t. 18 (woodcut of flowers only), and in Folia Orchidacea, Oncidium,
p. 54. 2. 191. ;
The present elegant and delicate species of Oncidiwm seems
to have been introduced nearly at the same time (1847) both
by the late Mr. Clowes and Messrs. Loddiges, and, it is sus-
pected, from Mexico; but of that there is no certainty. It is
rather a free flowerer in the stove, and our drawing was made
at Kew from Mr. Clowes’s plant, in May, 1860. The lip is pure
white, the rest of the flower pale yellow-green, spotted with
orange-red on the upper side, chocolate-brown beneath.
Duscr. Pseudobulé broad-fusiform, four to five inches long,
purplish-brown, somewhat compressed, having at the base four,
large, distichous, imbricating, carinated, and subequitant sca/es,
of the same colour, the longest of them the length of the pseudo-
bulb. This latter bears a large, membranaceous, solitary, obo-
vato-lanceolate, acute /eaf from its apex, twelve to fourteen inches
long, and three inches broad, striated, with prominent veins on
the under side. Scape rather slender, a foot and more long,
terete, green, arising from the base of the pseudobulb, and with-
in the larger scale, eated with appressed, green, acuminated
than a foot long, pendent, slightly com-
igzag, slender. /owers moderately nume-
sepals nearly uniform in shape and colour,
very delicate and flaccid, sometimes a little
es. Panicle
them pale-green, with blotches of deep-orange on the upper side,
dull chocolate-colour on the under. Zip moderately large, but
much shorter than the sepals and petals, trowel-shaped, three-
lobed, two /ateral lobes forming small, spreading, rounded au-
ricles ; there is a contraction and thickening of the substance be-
tween these lobes and the terminal lobe, and that portion is
tubercularly crested, yellow, spotted with orange: ¢erminal lobe
broad-ovate, finely acuminated, spotless. Colwmn small and
narrow, its auricles semicordate, and often cut or laciniated.
Anther-case conical.
Fig. 1. Column and lip,—magnified.
IMS.
W.Bitch, del. et hth.
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Vincent Broaks, ‘mp
‘Tas. 5215,
DIANTHUS Secautrert; var. Caucasicus.
Seguier’s Pink ; Caucasian Var.
Nat. Ord. CARYOPHYLLEH.—DECANDRIA DIGYNIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, 5-dentatus, basi squamis 2-4 oppositis imbri-
catis. Petala 5, longe unguiculata. Stamina 10. Styli 2. Capsula 1-locularis.
Semina compressa, hinc convexa, inde concava, peltata. Hmbryo vix curvatus.
Dranruvs ({ Caryophyllum) Seguieri ; caule superne bifido, floribus subfascicu-
lato-aggregatis v. paniculatis, floribus laxe dispositis, squamis calycinis
membranaceis ovatis (preesertim inferioribus) abrupte in acumen lanceolato-
subulatum tubum equans vel eodem duplo triplove brevius alternatis, brac-
teis lanceolatis, foliis oblongo-linearibus linearibusve attenuato-acuminatis
sub-3-5-nerviis cauleque scabris glabrisve, vaginis folii latitudinem sube-
quantibus. Lede.
Drantuvs Seguieri. Vill, Delph. v. 3.p.594. Koch, Syn.p.96. Ledeb. Fl. Ross.
v. 1. p. 277.
a. floribus fasciculato-aggregatis. Ledeb. 1. c. .
D. collinus, Waldst. et Kit. Pl. Rar. Hung. v. 1. p. 36. ¢. 8. D. collinus rutheni-
cus, Fisch. Cat. Hort. Gorenk. 1808, p. 26. D. asper, Willd. En. Hort.
Berol. p. 466. De Cand. Prodr.v.1. p. 357. D. Fischeri, Spreng. Cat.
Hort. Hal. 1810. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 365.
8. floribus brevius pedunculatis approximatis non vero fasciculato-aggregatis.
Ledeb. 1. e. ’
D. montanus, Bieb. Fl. Taur. Caucas. v. 1. p. 828, v. 3. p. 299. De Cand.
Prodr. v. 1. p. 359. D. discolor, Sims, Bot. Mag. ¢t.1161. D. collinus
Caucasicus, Fisch. Cat. Hort. Gorenk. 1808, p. 96.
y. floribus solitariis longius pedunculatis laxe dispositis paniculatis. Ledeb. 1. c.
a, squamis calycinis tubum dimidium superantibus v. totum eequantibus. Ledeb.
lc. p. 278 (under this Ledebour includes the following names with refer-
ences).
D.ruthenicus, Rem. in Poiret, Encycl. D. Caucaseus, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 795 ?
D. Caucasicus, De Cand. Prodr.v. 1. p. 363. Bieberst. Fl. Taur. Caucas. v. 1.
pp. 227, 299. 0. A. Meyer, etc. D. involucratus, Pallas in Herb. Willd.
n. 8526. D. guttatus, Bieberst. Fl. Tauric. Caucas. v. 1. p. 382, v. 3. p. 300.
De Cand. Prodr.v.1.p. 358. D. pratensis, Bieberst. Fl. Tauric. Caucas. v. 1.
p. 328, v. 8. p. 300. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 358. D. chloroleucus, D.
tataricus and D. ochroleucus of Fisch. OD. ibiricus, Willd. De Cand. Prodr.
v. 1. p. 863. D. Willdenovii, Link, ete.
8. squamis calycinis tubum dimidium squantibus v. brevioribus. Ledeb, 1. c.
p. 278. (Las. Nostr. 3215.)
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D. deltoides, Georgi. D. versicolor, Fisch. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 358.
D. dentosus, Fisch. et Reichenb. Pl. Crit. v. 6. p. 32.4. 546. Ledeb. Fl.
Alta. v. 2. p. 134. Karel. et Kiril. Enum. Pl. Fl. Altaic. n. 144, ete.
This very pretty species of Pink is not uncommon in gar-
dens, but it has gone under so many different names, that it is
difficult to say which is its most correct one. It is a native of
the south of Europe, and especially of a great part of Russia and
Siberia. I here adopt the specific character and synonymy of
Ledebour, and must refer to him for a more perfect list of the
latter than I have thought it necessary or convenient to give
here. My own herbarium contains authentic specimens from
numerous authors which amply justify Ledebour in uniting so
many species into one. The chief differences consist in the more
or less compact flowers, and the relative length of the bracts and
the calyx.
Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Pistil :—magnified.
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Tas. 5216,
: METHONICA GRANDIFLORA.
Large yellow-lowered African Methonica.
"Nat. Ord. Uvunartex.—HeExanpria MonoeGynia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4938.)
Metuonica grandiflora ; scandens, floribus diametro 8-pollicaribus, petalis an-
guste lanceolatis vix undulatis primum reflexis rectiusculis demum horizon-
taliter patentibus, styli ramis elongatis unciam longis.
At our Tab. 4938 we gave a figure of an African species of
Methonica, Herm. (Gloriosa, Linn. and some authors), M. vires-
cens, Lindl., which we cannot but regard as distinct from the
well known Gloriosa superba, derived from extratropical Africa,
which, after long cultivation, and in the same stove as the J/e-
thonica superba of India, retains all its characters, and these are
mainly to be sought in the shape and direction of the petals, as
explained in the description of the plate just referred to.
We have now the pleasure of representing a second (but tro-
pical) African species, of which specimens and living roots were
sent to us in the spring of this year (1860) from the island of
Fernando Po, by our energetic plant-collector there, M. Gustav
Mann. The growth from these tuberous roots has been ve
rapid, and the rafters of the stove were soon clothed with the
leafy branches and the copious flowers, such as are here repre-_
sented, from the month of July till the end of September. These
flowers are as distinct from J/. virescens as that is from M7. su-
perba. Indeed, this very western species agrees in the general
structure of the flower better with the latter than with the for-
mer; but in our cultivated plant it is nearly twice the size of
either of the other species, and the petals (totally different in co-
Jour) altogether want the remarkably crisped character of those
of MW. gloriosa. Here, too, the branches of the style are singu-
larly elongated. Future researches may teach us whether the
NOVEMBER Ist, 1860.
three are or are not in reality forms of one and the same
species.
The following notes, derived entirely from native samples in
my herbarium, may help to clear up some of the difficulties at-
tending the discrimination of the species, if, as I am inclined to
believe, they be really such.
1. Methonica superba, Lam. (Gloriosa superba, Zinn.).—All
my Indian specimens, and the species seems to be exclusively
Indian, and from various parts of that extensive region, Ceylon
and the Madras Peninsula in the west, to Bengal and the Malay
Peninsula, Tavoy (Wallich), Siam (Schomburgk), Banjermassing,
Borneo (Jo#/ey) in the east, and to Kumaon (elev. 4,800 feet,
in the north, Strachey and Winterbottom) ; all, without a single
exception, exhibit the very narrow, refracted, and yet tolerably
straight, deeply undulato-crispate petals, so characteristic of this
species.
2. M. virescens, Lindl. (see our Tab. 4938).—Of this my de-
cided native specimens, with quite spathulate petals, scarcely un-
dulated, and never crisped, as in MM. superba, are from South
Africa, viz. Albany and Natal. My others are cultivated speci-
mens from native roots; but all agree in the broad superior part
of the petal, with the apices recurved over the centre of the
flower. ‘These petals are seldom seen in a horizontal position,
_ In this respect agreeing with J. superba.
3. MW. Abyssinica, Achil. Richard, from Abyssinia, as its name
imphes.—I have received this, with the above name attached, from
the Mus. Herb. Paris (x. 346), and also from Dr. Hochstetter,
under the name of Clinostylis speciosa, Hochst., in “ Flora, 1844,
p- 46.” The height of each of my two specimens, including the
rather long and stout tuber, is under two feet, and there appears
no disposition to branch* or to be scandent; the leaves appear
to be nearly all opposite, and the upper ones alone are cirrhife-
rous, with small and very weak téndrils. Can this be due toa
dry soil and burning climate? ‘he petals are very broad-lan-
ceolate, (not dilated upwards,) apparently of a uniform orange-
colour ; one of the flowers has the refracted petals with recurved
apices, as in AZ. virescens. But the stamens and style and
anthers are shorter; and I may have erred in considering this a
form of MZ. virescens, under our Tab. 4938.
4. M. grandiftora, Hook.—Specimens in my herbarium, which
I would confidently refer to this, and agreeing with the charac-
ters here given, are from tropical, and chiefly tropical Western,
Africa; Fernando Po, x. 72, W. Gustav Mann; Sierra Leone,
Mr. Morson, from the Herb. of Robert Brown ; Great Bassa
* [ find among a collection of Abyssinian plants, lately the property of Mr.
Robert Brown, a specimen evidently of the same pl
: _- a t, gathered by Dr. Rohr,
at Alia Amba, which is branched a) subscandent. ee ee
river, Dr. Vogel; very fine specimens, with all the flowers appa-
rently yellow, but accompanied by the remark of Vogel, “ flowers
red; when young yellow.” Good specimens from the late A/r.
Barter, n. 164, from Aboh, with flowers apparently all over deep
red; and again, z. 1517, “ Niger,” with rather smaller flowers ;
petals, with the lower half and more, yellow, the rest deep red,
and a red line down to the base; and they are accompanied by
this remark,—‘“ A very variable plant in size and in the colour of
its flowers, but the differences appear to be dependent merely
upon the place of growth ; thus, in deep shady ravines, the plant
grows twelve feet high, with flowers pale yellow or almost green.
In hot sandy plains it does not attain four feet in height, and the
flowers are deep crimson. In general, however, the flowers are
yellow, and not unfrequently have a crimson line up the centre.
Negro girls place this flower in their hair with very pretty effect.”
Lastly, I possess, from Mozambique, on the east coast of tropical
Africa, specimens gathered by Forbes, of which the flowers seem
to be yellow, and which I can in no way distinguish from the J/.
grandifiora here figured. Even should these not prove perma-
nently distinct, all the kinds are eminently deserving of cultiva-
tion. ‘They are ready flowerers, and the foliage, as well as the
differently coloured petals, render them highly ornamental.
Descr. General habit of the plant and foliage resembling the
other species of the genus, but the growth is with us more vigo-
rous and rampant. ower-buds before expansion full three
inches long. Pefa/s, soon after the bursting of the bud, closely
refracted and nearly straight, but before they attain their full
size they fall into a horizontal position, and remain so at least
for a day, at which period the flower seems to be in its most
perfect state, measuring eight inches across, all over of a sul-
phur-yellow colour, green only at the broad claws: in witherin
the petals become tawny, and are marcescent. Their shape is
narrow-lanceolate, scarcely waved at the margin: at the superior
base is an elevated fleshy elongated xectary, deeply channelled
and very downy. ‘The ji/aments are more than two inches long,
the anthers three quarters of an inch. Séy/e three inches long ;
its branches one inch long: these are, both in J/. gloriosa and
M. virescens, very short. An unripe capsu/e measures three
inches in length, and is deeply trisulcate.
Fig. 1. A leaf from an older part of the plant,—zat. size. 2, Pistil,—slightly
magnified.
Vincent Brooks, inp
W. Fitch del. etlith.
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Tas. 5217.
SARCANTHUS Parisuit.
Mr. Parish’s Sarcanthus.
Nat. Ord. OrcHIDE®.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4693.)
SaRCANTHUS Parishii ; foliis loratis apice oblique bilobis obtusis, spicis simpli-
cibus, sepalis petalisque breviter oblongis obtusis planis ‘aureis vittis 2
parallelis rubris, labelli caleare ovario zequilongo curvato cbtuso in labellum
brevissimum subtrulliforme roseum producto.
Sent by the Rev. C. 8. P. Parish, of Moulmaine, toMessrs.
Low, of the Clapton Nursery, with whom it flowered in August
of the present year.
Descr. Plant small, with the stem short, and apparently not
tending to elongate, as in its curious terete-leaved congeners, 8.
Jiliformis and 8. teretifolius. Leaves distichous, spreading, or
recurved, four to five inches long, three-quarters of an inch broad,
rather firm and fleshy, deep-green, keeled at the back from being
somewhat longitudinally complicate, the apex very unequally and
bluntly bilobed, with a shallow acute sinus. Spikes as long as
the leaves, slender and flexuose, quite simple in our plant, shortly
peduncled. Vowers rather loosely disposed, small, brightly-co-
loured, about one-third of an inch across. Sepals and petals
shortly oblong, blunt, plane, golden-yellow, with two broad lon-
gitudinal red bands that do not extend beyond two-thirds of
their length. zp short, small, of irregular figure, pale rose-
coloured, produced anteriorly into a short, broad, rather concave,
trulliform lamina, and posteriorly into a curved, stout, cylindrical
spur as long as the ovary.—J. D. #7.
Fig. 1. Front view of a flower. 2. Side view of the column and lip. 3, 4.
Front and side view of the pollen-masses :—magnified.
DECEMBER Isr, 1860.
Tas. 5218.
CYRTANTHUS (GASTRONEMA) saneurnevs.
Red-flowered Cyrtanthus.
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACE®.—HEXANDRIA Monoaynta.
Gen, Char. Perigonium superum, corollaceum, elongato-tubuloso-infundibu-
lare, limbo 6-fidum curvatum, interdum parum ventricosum ; laciniis brevibus,
subequilongis, multinerviis; exterioridus calloso-acutis ; interioribus latioribus,
obtusis. Stamina 6, supra medium tubi libera, recta (in Gastronemate conni-
ventia, 3 deflexa), inclusa, alterna longiora. Anthere lineares, dorso infra medium
affixee, mobiles. Ovarium inferum, trigonum, triloculare ; ovu/a in loculis crebra,
biseriata, funiculata, horizontalia (in siceo adscendentia, Endl.). Columna stylina
filiformis, erecta vel declinata, stamina superans, exserta. Stigma leviter trifidum.
Capsula trigono-ovata, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis. Semina plurima, paleaceo-
compressa, testa nigra.—Herbze Capenses, bulbifere, scapigere. Bulbus tuni-
catus. Folia elongata, angusta, plana vel subcanaliculata. Scapus teretiusculus
vel compressiusculus, fistulosus. Spatha 2-polyphylla, uni-multiflora. Flores pedi-
cellati, bracteis linearibus scariosis interstincti, sepée penduli. Kth.
ae
CyRTANTHUS (GASTRONEMA) sanguineus ; foliis solitariis lineari-spathulatis ob-
tusis viridibus, caule unifloro longioribus, spatha diphylla tubo perianthii
eequali, flore sessili vel pedunculato suberecto, tubo tereti in faucem obco-
nicam ampliato, limbi patuli recurvi laciniis oblongis equalibus concolo-
ribus. Lindl.
GASTRONEMA sanguineum. Lindl. in Journ. of Hort. Soc. of Lond. v. 3. p. 315
(with a woodcut).
This is, as Dr. Lindley says, who first named and described
it, a very handsome plant, deserving general cultivation, even in
the most select collections. It is a native of Caffraria, and was
imported by Messrs. Backhouse, the eminent nurserymen of
York, and presented by them to the Horticultural Society of
London in 1846. Dr. Lindley adopts the genus Gastronema of
Herbert, which scarcely differs from Cyrtanthus but in the “ fila-
ments of the stamens being connivent, of which two are de-
flexed ;” so that it is now generally considered a section of Cyr-
tanthus. It flowered in the greenhouse at Kew in August of
the present year (1860).
Descr. The bulbous root we have not seen. The /eaves are
dark green, scarcely glaucous, radical, lanceolate, tapering into a
DECEMBER lst, 1860.
rounded petiole, slightly keeled at the back, and with a depressed
line in front. The stem or scape is terete, subglaucous, hollow,
three to four inches high, supports a solitary flower, and bears
at its summit two long, whitish, linear, membranaceous bracteas.
Peduncle (in our plant ; wanting in the figure given by Lindley,
where the ovary is sessile) two or more inches long, one-flowered.
Perianth \arge, infundibuliform, tubular at the base, the limb
very broad, of six oblong, spreading, recurved, mucronate seg-
ments, bright orange-red within, externally yellowish, with six
red streaks. Sfamens six, inserted at the throat, three longer
than the rest, all connivent. Ovary oblong, dark-green. Style
as long as the tube. Stigma three-cleft, the segments linear.
Fig. 1. Flower, laid open. 2. Pistil :—magnified.
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SONCHUS GuMMIFER.
Gum-bearing Sow-thistle.
Nat. Ord. Composit&®.—SYNGENESIA AQUALIS.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 5211.)
Soncuus gummifer ; fruticosus glaber glaucescens ; foliis subpectinato-pinnati-
partitis, pinnis cum lobo terminali oblongo-triangulari acutis dente uno
alterove munitis, radicalibus (seu inferioribus) minute auriculatis, caulinis
parvis cordato-auriculatis ; corymbi compositi (vel pauciflori) pedicellis sub-
nudis (apice insigniter dilatatis spongiosis coloratis), capitulis post anthesin
cernuis ; involueri imbricati squamis exterioribus ovatis acutis interioribus
linearibus, receptaculo areolato floribus glabris, acheniis striatis glabris,
pappo caduco niveo subuniseriali. Wedd.
Soncuus gummifer. Link (ex Webb, qui specimen herbarii Berolin. comparavit)
in Buch. Canar.. p.146 et 164. Webb, Canar. t. 129. Spreng. Syst. Veget.
p. 647. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 188.
This is another of the fruticose Sonchuses, which appear to
be almost peculiar to the Canary Islands, and which our friend
Mr. Wilson Saunders has lately introduced to his and other
English gardens. The Sonchus radicatus of Aiton is given at
our Tab. 5211: the present species is very different in its fo-
liage, and in the much taller shrubby stem. I refer it to the
S. gunmifer of Link and Webb with some degree of doubt, for
the flowers are larger, and fewer upon a panicle, and there is at
the apex of the pedicels a remarkable coloured expansion of a
spongy nature, somewhat resembling the apophysis of a Splach-
num, which is neither figured nor described by Webb. In all
other respects the two appear to be identical, and the distinct
presence of this apophysis may be due to the specimen from
which our figure is taken being a living one. It flowered in
Mr. Saunders’s greenhouse at Reigate in July, 1860. It was
received by that gentleman from Dr. Bolle, who found it in
rocky places. In regard to the specific name of gummifer, Mr.
DECEMBER Ist, 1860.
Webb observes, |. c.: “ Omnes Cichoriacee vulneratee succum
fundunt lacteum, in gummi sic dictum coagulans, precipue
Soncht, non vero pre aliis species nostra, quare nomen Linkii spe-
cificum non characteristicum.”.
Descr. Stem fruticose, but greenish, two to three feet high,
erect or flexuose, nearly as stout as one’s finger. Leaves approxi-
mate, broad-lanceolate, glaucous green, lanceolato-runcinato-pin-
natifid rather than pinnate, winged below, auriculate, and semi-
amplexicaul ; the segments subovate, acute, often deflexed, here
and there irregularly toothed. Panicle terminal (in our speci-
men few-flowered). Pedice/s two to three inches long, foliaceo-
bracteated at the base, just beneath the flower expanding into a
large spongy red-brown, turbinate or hemispherical apophysis,
which supports the capitulum. Involucre small, of a few imbri-
cated green scales, with a whitish margin, outer ones short,
interior ones oblong. Yorets all uniform, yellow. Corolla with
the tube pubescent. Ovary narrow, oblong, crowned with a
white silky pappus. Style downy. Branches of the stigma
long-linear, revolute.
Fig. 1. Floret. 2. Hair from the pappus. 3. Apex of style :—magnijied.
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GUZMANNIA rrico.or.
Three-coloured Guzmannia.
Nat. Ord. BromeLtaceE&.—HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Gen. Ohar. Perigonit liberi sexpartiti lacinie exteriores calycinze zquales, basi
coherentes, spiraliter convolute, interiores petaloidee, inferne teneriores in tubum
convolute, apice firmiores, erectee, basi intus nude. Stamina 6, hypogyna; fila-
menta basi perigonii laciniis interioribus agglutinata, superne latiora, apice con-
nata; authere dorso affixee, utrinque acute, in cylindrum coalite. Ovarium
liberum, triloculare. Ovula in loculorum angulo centrali prope basim plurima
biseriata, adscendentia, anatropa. Stylus filiformis ; stigmata 3, linearia, brevia,
erecta. Capsula cartilaginea, oblongo-cylindracea, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis,
valvis endocarpio mox soluto duplicatis, explanatis vel tortis. Semina plurima,
e basi dissepimentorum erecta, oblonga, acuminata, pilis papposis stipata.—
Herba Americana tropica; foliis radicalibus lineari-ensiformibus cartilagineis,
planis, basi involutis ; scapo inferne squamoso, floribus spicatis inter bracteas la-
tentibus. Endl.
GuzMANNIA ¢ricolor.
GuzMannia tricolor. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per. et Chil. v. 3. p. 88. ¢. 261. Lodd.
Bot. Cab. t. 462. Lindl. Coll. Bot. t. 8. Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 163 (bis).
Reem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 1281.
POURRETTIA sympaganthera. Ruiz et Pav. Syst. p. 82.
When in flower this is a very gay-coloured and handsome
Bromeliaceous plant, and deserves the name guadricolor as much
as or better than ¢ricolor, for it exhibits in its inflorescence four
very striking and different colours; the numerous and large
closely imbricated bracts are, below, yellow-green, deeply and
longitudinally streaked with purplish-black ; the superior bracts
are bright red, and the flowers are pure white. It was first
described as a native of Peru, but has since been found in
Guayaquil, in St. Domingo, and in Jamaica. It is easily culti-
vated in a moist stove, and blossoms in the summer months.
Only one species of this pretty genus is known.
Duscr. This quite resembles a 7i//andsia or Bromelia in its
mode of growth, and is everywhere glabrous. eaves all radical,
broad, linear-ensiform, involute, and broad and concave at the
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DECEMBER IsT, 1860.
sheathing base, the rest broadly channelled, minutely striated,
the margin quite entire, the apex rather apiculate than acumi-
nate ; colour a full green; their length varies from one to two
feet. Scape as long as the leaves, central, erect, almost resem-
bling, with its young inflorescence, a head of Asparagus, below,
at the very base, clothed with long, sterile, acuminated dracteas,
above with short, ovate, acute, closely imbricated fertile ones, these
of a bright and pale yellow-green, richly streaked with blackish-
purple ; towards the apex of the spike they are tinged with red,
and at the very apex they are rich scarlet. Calyw deeply cut
into three oblong segments, rigid and white, erect. Corolla
white. The other parts of the flower are as described in the
generic character.
Fig. 1. Bract, with its flower. 2. Corolla, laid open. 3. Pistil.
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CHAMAROPS Forrunet.
Mr. Fortune’s Chamerops.
Nat. Ord. Patma.—Potyeamia Diacra.
Gen. Char. Flores polygamo-dioici (alii hermaphroditi, alii masculi in eadem
vel in diversa stirpe), in spadice spathis (2-4) incompletis cincto, sessiles, vel bre-
viter pedicellati, bracteatiMasc. Calyx exterior 3-partitus; interior 3-sepalus;
prefloratio valvata. Stamina 6-9 ; filamenta basi connata; anthere lineari-ob-
longze, basi cordate (ovate v. oblonge, Hndl.). Ovaria tria, rarius plura, dis-
tincta. Stigmata subulata, sessilia (subsessilia, Hudi.). Bacce tres, rarius plures,
interdum abortu pauciores, l-sperme. Albumen corneum, irregulariter rumi-
nato-variegatum. Hméryo dorsalis.—Plante subacaules vel caudice donate, me-
diocri, irregulariter cicatrizato, et frondium basibus persistentibus coronata. Frondes
palmato-multifide, rigidula: laciniis induplicatis, apice _fissis, filis interjectis nullis;
petioli margine aculeis patentibus serrati vel denticulati, basi in fibrillitiem sepe
amplum extensi. Spatha coriacea, oblique aperta. Spadix simpliciter vel com-
posito-ramosus, dense floriger ; ramis spathellatis. Flores flavi v. flavo-virescentes.
Baccee oliveformes vel subglobose, flavescentes, fuscidule aut cyanee ; carne ‘spissa,
parca. Nuclei fusci, numerus partium floris, haud raro auctus, loco ternario qua-
ternarius, quinarius vel senarius. Kth.
Cuammrors Fortunei ; polygamo-dioica, caudice mediocri frondium fibrillitie
panniformi caudice appresso, petiolis margine inermibus aut denticulato-
scabriusculis, laminz digitato-multipartite laciniis apice pendulis linearibus
oO bidentatis v. breviter bifidis, spadice paniculato-ramoso, ovariis
irsutis.
CHAMmRops excelsa of English gardens.
The Palm above d scribed is now well known as “ Mr. For-
tune’s Chusan Palm,” and has attracted considerable attention
on account of its comparative hardiness. It is indeed the most
hardy of all these princes of the vegetable kingdom that is as yet
known to us, and the only one that has been proved to stand
almost unprotected throughout the last ten winters in the lati-
tude of London. In t] ie Isle of Wight, under the shelter of the
_ Royal residence of Osborne, it has attained a height of ten fect
in the open air, six feet being the height of the stem below the
foliage, and its diameter fourteen inches at one foot from the
_ ground; it has blossomed for the last three years, with no pro-
tection during the winter.* Our plants at Kew were introduced
by Mr. Fortune, in 1849, and have attained eight feet in height ;
the finest are moved into a conservatory during the winter, but
others receive no other protection than a matting in the severest
winter months. ee
We have taken
* Chamerops humilis
{tires a little protection |
DECEMBER Ist, 1860.
ins to determine the name and affinity
so flourishing in the open air at Osborne, but re- . 2
severest weather.
of this interesting plant, which certainly approaches very closely
indeed to the C. excelsa, Mart., a species discovered and described
by Thunberg, figured by Martius, and of which a noble speci-
men, twenty-eight feet high, received from Japan, through Dr.
Siebold, flourishes in the Palm house at Kew. To this we
were strongly inclined to refer Mr. Fortune’s palm, notwith-
standing that the C. excelsa was never supposed to be even halt-
hardy, both because of its near resemblance and because Thun-
berg states C. exce/sa to be a native of China and only intro-
duced into Japan. Mr. Smith, however, has always considered
them different, and after a close comparison we are disposed to
agree with him, on the following accounts :—C. Fortunei is a
more robust species, with more compact and appressed matted
network of fibres amongst the bases of the petioles, much stouter
shorter petioles, less glaucous more shining foliage, far broader
segments of the leaves, and pendulous apices to these. The
flowers of the two are nearly alike, and the fruit of C. Fortunes
is unknown; that figured for it at Figs. 6 and 7 of our Plate
was introduced by error, and should be expunged.
Descr. The caudex or stem, in its native climate, eight to
twelve feet high (exclusive of the crown of leaves), the lower por-
tion marked transversely with the numerous stars of the fallen
leaves, the upper portion exhibits the bases of the petioles of the
old leaves, mixed with a good deal of coarse transverse fibre,
which also abounds among the perfect foliage. Fronds forming
a handsome, more or less spreading crown to the caudex. Pe-
tioles a foot and a half or more long, convex below, nearly plain
above, the margin quite unarmed, or very obscurely toothed, in
which respect it differs widely from the better-known Ch. humi-
lis. Lamina semiorbicular, flabellate, a foot and a half long and
broad, deeply plaited, cut for about a half or more of the way
down into numerous linear segments, which are 3-1 inch broad,
pendulous towards their apices. Spadiz small in proportion to
the plant, and consequently not very conspicuous, emerging from
several imbricating leafy dracts, forming the spatha, and cov-
stituting a dense thyrsoid panicle, more than a spah long, and
clothed with yellow flowers, scarcely so large as those of the
Lily of the Valley. Peduwncles and primary branches thick : ulti-
mate branches pubescent. Flowers sessile, rarely perfect, mostly
male or female. Ca/yx small, of three sepals. Corolla of three
orbicular petals. Séamens inserted on the base of the petals.
Ovaries three, ovate, hairy, tapering upwards into a thick subu-
late style. :
Fig. 1. Very reduced figure of flowering plant. 2. Spatha and spadix :—
natural size. 3. Female flower. 4. Petal and stamen. 5. Ovaries. (N-B.
Figures 6 and 7 are fruits of another plant, unintentionally introduced, and are
to be eancelled) :—all but Figs. 1 and 2 magnified. -
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SOLANU M RUNCINATUM.
Runeinate-leaved Solanum.
Nat. Ord. SoLANACEX®.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-(rarius 4—6-10-)partitus, fidus, dentatus crenatusve atque
etiam integer. Corolla rotata, cupularis vel patellaris, tubo brevi, limbo plicato,
5-(rarius 4 vel 6-)fido, partito vel angulari, Stamina 5, rarius 4 vel 6, corollz
fauci adnata, plerumque exserta ; filamenta brevissima, equalia vel rarius ine-
qualia. Anthere liber, apice poris geminis dehiscentes, conniventes, rarissime
connate, equales vel interdum ingequales, loculis lateribus connectivo non
conspicuo adnatis. Ovarium 2- (rarius 3-4) loculare, placentis dissepimento
‘asertis adnatis multiovulatis. Stylus simplex. Stigma obtusum. Bacea 2-
(rarius 3—4)locularis. Semina plurima, subreniformia, compressa. Embryo
periphericus, spiralis, albumen carnosum includens. Dunal.
Sotanum (§ Pachystemonum) runcinatum ; caule herbaceo procumbente angu-
loso succoso fragili, foliis puberulis pinnatifidis 5—7-lobis, lobis sinubusque
obtusis, corollis revolutis 5-fidis, laciniis late ovatis acutis, baccis parvis
globosis.
SoLANUM runcinatum. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. et Chil. v. 2. p. 36. Ram. et
Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 579 in not. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 678
(sub S. quercifolium). De Cand. Prodr. v. 13. P19. 1.
The genus Solanum, notwithstanding it is now shorn of many
of its original species, still, on account of the numerous recent _
additions by the researches of botanists and travellers, includes,
under two primary sections and numerous subsections and di-
visions and subdivisions, no less than $84 species, according to
Dunal, in De Candolle’s ‘ Prodromus.’ Our present species, in
that work, ranks under the first section, Pachystemonum, and the
third subsection, Dulcamara, the same to which our Bitter-
sweet belongs. It is a native of Chili, and was raised at Kew,
from seeds sent from Coquimbo. It is a really ornamental
species, and well deserving of cultivation in a greenhouse, con-
tinuing a long time in flower during the summer months. The
corollas are of a bright purple-colour, with five blood-red starry
points radiating from the base of the lobes, while the large an-
thers are yellow, from between which the green clavate stigma
is protruded.
DECEMBER lst, 1860.
Descr. The plant is herbaceous, yet perennial. ‘The stems
more or less procumbent or ascending, angled, green, slightly
glanduloso-pubescent. Leaves alternate, two to three inches
long, with five or nine undulate segments, waved at the mar-
gin, but otherwise entire: these segments are oblong, obtuse;
five to seven on each leaf. The flowers droop and form a com-
pound cyme, with slender pedicels. The corolla as large as and
the shape of that of 8. tuberosum, of a rather bright colour, with
five rays of dark blood-colour. The authers oblong, bright, al-
most golden-yellow, and very conspicuous : filaments very short.
Ovary glabrous, oval ; syle thick, flexuose, pubescenti-villous.
Stigma large, club-shaped, green.
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Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil : —magnified.
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