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CURTIS'S 


BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, 


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COMPRISING THE 


Plants of the Ropal Gardens of Kew 


AND 
OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN; 
WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS; : 
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F,L.S., CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE 
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Tas. 5289. 


STANHOPEA Warpil. 


Mr. Ward's Stanhopea. 


Nat. Ord. OrcurpE#.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5278.) 


Stannorea Wardii; racemo pendulo multifloro, sepalis lateralibus subrotundo- 
oblongis concavis acutis basi alte connatis, petalis lanceolatis revolutis, hy- 
pochilio sessili angusto saccato intus ‘tuberculato medio angustiore margi- 
nibus approximatis depressis complanatis basi connatis, mesochilio utrinque 
cornuto in medio sinu cornuum foveato, epichilio cornuum longitudine sub- 
rotundo-ovato acuto indiviso marginibus recurvis. Lindl. 


STANHOPEA Wardii. Loddiges in Litt. Lindl. Sertum Orchidaceum, pl. 20. 
Knowles and Westcott, t. 90. 


Dr. Lindley has given a good figure and description of this 
plant; but our specimen, from the Kew Orchideous House, is 
singularly fine in the size and number of flowers on the raceme, 
and also in the colouring of the perianth,—there a clear bright 
yellow, here a deep golden-orange, but with smaller and fainter 
spots on the sepals and petals. The fragrance of the blossoms 
is very powerful. Our plants were received from Guatemala, 
and the flowers were in perfection in August. It differs, Dr. 
Lindley says, from Stanhopea quadricornis, in the lower part 
of the lip not having the strong horn on each side; from S. ocu- 
lata, in the lip being sessile, not stipitate, and a great deal shorter 
in proportion to the other parts ; and from S. saccata, Batem., in 
the middle segment of the lip being three-lobed, in the sharpness 
of the petals, and in the form of the horns of the lip. Indeed, 
the chief distinctive characters of the species of Stanhopea are 
derived from the labellum; there is great uniformity in the rest 
of the flower, and still more in the pseudobulbs and foliage. 
One of the most striking features of this flower is the colour of 


the cavity formed at the base of the lip, lined as it were with - E 
dark velvety purple, reflecting a silvery light, and giving it the 


appearance of being frosted. ‘This plant, in full flower, has : 


JANUARY Ist, 1862. — 


fine effect when suspended from the rafters in a flat basket or 
dish, the pseudobulbs and leaves erect, and the noble panicle 
of rich golden flowers originating in and pendent from the base 
of the pseudobulbs. 


W. Fitch, delet hth 


Tas. 5290. 
RHODANTHE Manetussit, var. maculata. 


Mangles’ Rhodanthe, spotted-flowered var. 


Nat. Ord. Composir™.—SYNGENESIA A‘QUALIS. 


Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5283.) 


RHopantuE Manglesii. 


RuopantHeE Manglesii. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1703. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3483. 
Don, Brit. Fl. Gard, ser. 2. t. 295. De Cand. Prodr. v. 6. p. 159. Lehm. 
Enum. Pl. Preiss. v. 1. p. 447. Paxton, Mag. of Bot. v. 3. p. 173. Fl. des 
Serres, v. 6. p. 622. 


Var. sanguinea ; floribus eximie purpureo-sanguineis, disco atro-sanguineo. 
RuODANTHE Manglesii, var. sanguinea. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5283. 
RHODANTHE sanguinea. Hort. 


Var. maculata ; floribus duplo majoribus extus pallide roseis fere albis, radii in- 
volucralis basi atro-purpureis, disco flavo. (Tas. Nostr. 5290.) 


RHODANTHE maculata. Drummond, MSS., et Hort. 


Dr. Lindley, the author of the genus and species, says of this 
plant,—‘‘Its season of perfection is May and June, at which 
time there is nothing in the gardens that equals it in beauty, 
for it possesses the brilliancy of the Cape Helichrysa, without 
their stiffness and formality.” And that was said nearly thirty 
years ago, when the more common condition of the species only 
- was known to us, and well figured by Dr. Lindley, Bot. Reg. 

t. 1703, and by us in the present work, Tab. 3483; but Mr. 
Drummond, who may be called par excellence the “ Swan River 
Botanist,” long since called our attention to dried specimens of 
two beautiful varieties which grew wild in Western Australia ; 
to the one he gave the name of sanguinea, to the other maculata. 
The first of these we published lately at our Tab. 5283,* and 
the other we have now the pleasure to give on the accompanying 
plate; and both have been derived from the same source, Mr. 
Thompson, of Ipswich, who raised them from Western Australian 


* By an accident Mr. Thompson’s name was omitted as the importer of that 
plant. 
JANUARY Ist, 1862. 


seeds sent by Drummond, and to whom a certificate of merit 
was awarded by the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural 
Society. This is much the finest kind of the three, the flowers 
being twice as large as the other two, the disk yellow; the inside 
of the involueral ray is bright rose-colour, dark purple at the base, 
and the rest of the involucral scales externally of a satiny, pale 
_ pinkish-white, 


Fig. 1. Inner involucral scale. 2. Floret. 3. Plumose hair of the pappus :— 
all magnified, 


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Tas. 5291. 


MALORTIEA Graci.is. 


Slender Malortiea. 


Nat. Ord. PaLME&%.— MoNG@cIA DECANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 5247.) 


Matortig£a gracilis ; foliis longe petiolatis, lamina ambitu late ovato-quadrata 
apice dimidiato-bipartita, segmentis integris v. in pinnulas paucas basi re- 
motas fissis, basin versus fenestratim fissis, apicibus grosse et irregulariter 
lobulatis lobis dentatis, spadice gracili apicem versus subfastigiatim ramoso, 
rarius erectis floriferis, spathis parvis ad divisuras spadicis bractezeformibus, 
floribus sparsis masculis et foemineis in eodem spadice, calycis lobis rotun- 
datis, petalis patulis, staminibus sub-10, in. fl. masc. filamentis filiformi- 
subulatis antheris oblongis, in fl. foem. antheris effcetis tubo calycis sessi- 
libus, ovario ovoideo, in stylum brevem attenuato, stigmatibus 3 recurvis. 


Ma orttea gracilis. Wendland, Index Palmarum, p. 28. 
CuamMaporea fenestrata. Hort. Parment. 

Cnuamrops fenestrata. Hort. Amstel. 

Gronoma fenestrata. Mackoy. 


Under Plate 5247 of this work we have figured another species 
of this singularly graceful genus of dwarf Palms, and alluded to 
the subject of the present plate as a congener. Since that time 
we have found a reference to the description of the genus in 
Bot. Zeit. 1854, p. 494, being published in the ‘ Allgemeine 
Garten Zeitung, etc.,’ Jahrg. xxi., a work which we unfortunately 
do not possess. Not knowing fully Mr. Wendland’s views as to 
the structure and limits of the genus, we must still refrain from 
publishing a generic character, but may remark that the genus 
appears to differ from Chamedorea mainly in the numerous (ten 
to twelve) stamens of the male flower, and ring of abortive sta- 
mens in the tube of the inner perianth of the female. It isa 
native of Guatemala. 

Descr. A dwarf very graceful Pa/m, about eighteen inches to 
two feet high. Stem slender, ringed. Leaves on slender petioles, 


little more than a span long, and as broad; split to the rachis — — 


JANUARY IsT, 1862. 


at the apex, the two halves in lobes. odes divaricating, each 
quadrate, entire or split into one or two broad pinnules, with 
lobulate toothed margins, also split partially at the rachis so as 
to present a fenestrated appearance. Sadia strict, erect, pedun- 
cled, branched in a somewhat fastigiate manner towards the 
apex. Branches simple, angled. lowers scattered along the 
branches, sessile, ma/e and female on the same branch. Calycine 
lobes rounded ; petaline triangular-oblong, valvate. Stamens 
about ten to twelve. ; 


Fig. 1. Diminished portrait of the whole Palm. 2. Leaf. 3. Spadix,—za- 
tural size. 4. Male flowers. 5. One removed. 6. Female flowers. 7. The 
same laid open :—all magnified. 


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ANEMIOPSIS CALIFORNICA., 


Californian Anemiopsis. 


Nat. Ord. SauruRE#.—HExanpDRIA MonoGyntIA. 


Gen. Char. Involuerum 5-8-phyllum, coloratum. Spadix simplex; floribus 
hermaphroditis, bracteatis. Perianthium nullum. Stamina epigyna, 6 nunc 8 ; 
Jilamenta crassa. Anthere ovales, biloculares; loculis lateralibus connectivo 
crasso disjunctis. Styli 3 nunc 4; ovaria coadunata, apice hiantia, 1-locularia. 
Placenta 3-4 inter stylos laterales, pauciovulate. Fructus cum spadice coales- 
cens. Capsule uniloculares, 3-4-valves, apice solo dehiscentes, sub-6-sperme. 
Semina subrotunda, punctulata.—Herba perennis, subaquatica, stolonifera. Caulis 
monophyllus, proliferus, monocephalus. Folia radicalia, stipulata, cordato-obova- 
lia, obtusa, petiolata ; caulinum amplezicaule. 


ANeEmiopsts Californica. 


ANEmIops!s Californica (under the gen. name Anemia). Nutt. in Tayl. Annals of 
Nat. Hist. v. 1. p.136. Hook. and Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 390. t. 92. 


This remarkable plant was first detected by Nuttall at San 
Diego, Upper California, and some of his original specimens are 
preserved in our herbarium. Our next were received from 
Douglas, and from the late Dr. Sinclair collected during the sur- 
veying voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur, on the American Pacific coasts; 
from Dr. Coulter, from Fremont’s collections, n. 472; and since, 
from Zacatecas, Hartweg, n. 4, and New Mexico. Our specimens 
here figured were raised by Mr. Wheeler from Californian seeds, 
and we are glad to be able to illustrate so rare and little-known 
a plant from living individuals. 

Descr. The root is perennial, fusiform, and often fasciculate. 
Leaves nearly all radical, long-petiolate, elliptical, subcordate at 
the base, obtuse, blunt, entire, with few pinnated veins ; petioles 
hairy, sheathing at the base. Svem, or perhaps rather scape, 
hairy, longer than the leaves, erect, terete, monophyllous; the 
leaf sessile, and frequently bearing a young plant from its axil. 
Spadix at first short, erect, conical, clothed with hermaphrodite 
flowers, without any perianth, but subtended by an involucre of 

JANUARY Ist, 1862. 


about six, oblong, spreading, white dracts, of which the three 
inner are spotted with red: these are persistent, and as the fruc- 
tification advances they are reflected, and turn brown: there are 
also several white, spathulate dracts among the flowers. Each 
flower consists of a pestil, with three, blunt, subulate, moderately 
spreading, or rather erecto-patent, styles. The ovary is one- 
celled, and is incorporated with, and immersed in, the substance 
of the spadix; and from the summit of this ovary are six sta- 
mens, three alternating with the styles, and three opposite to 
them. Stigmas obtuse. Ovules in three clusters, from vertical 
persisting receptacles. 


Fig. 1. Transverse section of a spadix, with flowers, and the smaller interior 
bracts. 2. Flower, cut out from the spadix. 3. Transverse section of the 
ovary. 4. Stamen. 5. One of the inner bracts :—all more or less magnified. 


IDS, 


Vincent Brocks, imp. 


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Tas. 5293. 
ONCIDIUM EXCAVATUM. 


Ezxcavated Oncidium. 


Nat. Ord. OrncHIDEA.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata; lateralibus 
nunc sub labello connatis: Petala conformia. Ladel/um maximum, ecalcaratum, 
cum columna continuum, varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum v. cristatum. Co- 
lumna \ibera, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilocularis ; vostello 
nune abbreviato, nune elongato-rostrato. Poddinia 2, postice suleata; caudicula 
plana, glandula oblonga.—Herbex epiphyte, nunc pseudobulbose. Folia coriacea. 
Scapi paniculati, vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores speciosi, lutei, sepius maculati, 
raro albi. Lindl. 


Oncip1uM excavatum ; pseudobulbis oblongis compressis basi apiceque foliosis, 
foliis lineari-oblongis, “ bracteis squameeformibus membranaceis acutis, se- 
palis lateralibus obovatis obtusis liberis supremo concavo acuto, petalis 
membranaceis oblongis retusis basi angustatis, labello sessili pandurato 
apice rotundato emarginato selleeformi basi gordato convexo fornicatim ex- 
cavato, columne alis retusis rotundatis.” Lindl. 


Oncipium excavatum. Lind. in Sert. Orchid. sub t. 25. Bot. Reg. 1839. Mise. 
n.150. Paaxt. Fl. Gard. v. 1, under t. 21. Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Gen. 
Oncid. p. 21. 

B. aurosum, Lindl.; “ flowers deep-brown in the middle, crest very rugose with 
athin vertical plate interposed between the front lateral ridges.” Lindi. /.c. 


OncrpiuM aurosum. &chd. in Bonpl. v. 1. 1854. 


The labours of Dr. Lindley among the Orchideous plants are 
beyond all praise. Of the genus Oxcidium alone he has de- 
scribed a hundred and ninety-eight species, exclusive of eleven 
“insufficiently known,” and he has abolished many bad species. 
No representation of the present very handsome kind has been 
anywhere given, and it is probably yet cultivated in few collec- 
tions. We are indebted for our knowledge of the plant to 
Thomas Dawson, Esq., of Meadowbank, Uddingston, on the 
banks of the Clyde. It was purchased by him, at a sale in 


Glasgow, as “ Oncidium, from Honduras.” Dr. Lindley pro-— a 


nounces it to be his O. excavatum, described from Peruvian _ 
specimens in the Hookerian Herbarium, gathered by Matthews 
JANUARY IsT, 1862. ae 


and others from the sources of the Maraiion, detected by War- 
szewicz. It may certainly be reckoned among the finest species 
of the genus, from its ample panicle, large size of the flowers, 
and the rich golden-yellow of the perianth, and the dark cinna- 
mon-coloured spots. It is easily distinguished from its con- 
geners, by “ the base of the labellum being very convex, a little 
hollowed out in front, and excavated with a deep pit on the 
under side,”—only to be seen by looking at the back of the 
flower, and putting aside the two lateral sepals. It is this cavity 
which suggested to the author the specific name, 

The pseudobulbs and leaves were unknown to Dr. Lindley 
when he published his description. The former are four to five 
mches long, ovate-oblong, compressed, subsulcate. The leaves 
are a foot to one and a half foot long; two arise from the sum- 
mit of the pseudobulbs, and three to five spring from its base: 
the latter have broad, sheathing bases. 


Fig. 1. Column and labellum, seen from above,—magnified. 


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Tas. 5294, 


CLERODENDRON CALAMITOSUM. 


Hurtful Clerodendron. 


Nat. Ord. VERBENACE%.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 


Gen. Char. Calyx campanulatus, rarius tubulosus, interdum pentagonus et 
subinflatus, 5-fidus vel 5-dentatus, rarissime truncatus. Corolla infundibularis 
vel subhypocraterimorpha ; tubo seepissime calycem conspicue excedente interdum 
longissimo ; Jimbo 5-partito laciniis superioribus paulo magis approximatis sub- 
ineequali, vel laciniis inferioribus magis minusve adscendentibus obliquo, immo 
subsecundo. Stamina 4, corolle tubo inserta, longe exserta, subdidynama; an- 
there supra basin insertz, basi fissee, biloculares, /ocu/is parallelis, rima longitu- 
dinali dehiscentibus. Ovarium 4-loculare, loculis 1-ovulatis; ovulo in spermo- 
phoro angulo centrali adnato, pendulo. Stylus filiformis, exsertus, stigmate bifido 
acuto. Drupa calyce ampliato insidens vel inclusa, baccata vel carnosa, quadri- 
vel seepius abortu mono-di-tri-pyrena, sepius 2—4-loba, pyrenis maturitate dis- 
tinctis unilocularibus, putamine lignoso levi. Semen solitarium, erectum. Coty- 
ledones oleose, applicatee ; radicula brevis, infera.—Frutices vel arbores inter tro- 
picos veteris orbis, imprimis vero Asia, copiose, in America vero parce crescentes. 
Folia opposita vel terna, simplicia, integra vel rarius lobata, phyllopodio interdum 
prominente persistenti insidentia. Cyme trichotome vel azxillares, vel in paniculam 
terminalem collecte. Schau. 


CLERODENDRON calamitosum ; ramulis obsolete tetragonis petiolis pedunculisque = 


pube hirtella subcanescentibus, foliis membranaceis oppositis ellipticis in 
petiolum acuminatis vel attenuatis obtusis acuminatisve a medio grosse et 
ineequaliter serrato-dentatis adultis utrinque preter nervos glabriusculis — 
opacis, panicula terminali subfastigiata brachiata inferne foliosa, cymis se- _ 
mel bisve trifidis folium subzquantibus brevioribusve, calyce puberulo 5-par- 
tito patente, laciniis linearibus acutis, corolle tubo puberulo calycem qua- 
druplo excedente. Schau. 


papers a da calamitosum. Zinn. Mant. v. 1. p. 90. De Cand. Prodr. v.11. 
p- 663. 


VoLKaMERIA alternifolia. Burm. Fl. Ind. p. 137. t. 44. 


This is a modest, unobtrusive plant, with its pure white blos- 
soms, as compared with the gorgeous scarlet-flowered species _ 
now commonly cultivated in our stoves, such as Clerodendron in- 
Sortunatum, squamatum, fallax, glandulosum, Bethuneanum, etc. — : 
It is a native of Java, but though figured and described by — 


FEBRUARY Ist, 1862. - 


Burmann, in his ‘Flora Indica,’ nearly a century ago, it has 
only recently been known in our gardens. 

Inquiries are often made why species of Clerodendron have re- 
ceived the specific names of fortunatum, infortunatum, and ca- 
lamitosum. 'The earlier known species were supposed to have 
medicinal properties, and of various qualities; and hence the 
generic name, from «dnpos, a lot, or anything used in determining 
chances, and Sevépor, a tree. The first of the species just named, 
being good for the colic, was called fortunatum ; two suspected 
of being injurious or poisonous were called izfortunatum and 
calamitosum. 


Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil,—slightly magnified. 


Tas. 5295. 
ARISTOLOCHIA arsorea. 


Tree Aristolochia. 


Nat. Ord. ARISTOLOCHIE®/.—GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Perigonium coloratum, tubulosum; tudo. 
nferne cum ovario connato, supra ovarium ventricoso, recto v. curvato ; limbo 
obliquo, ligulato, nunc bi-trifido. Stamina 6, disco epigyno inserta; filamenta 
brevissima, subnulla ; anthere extrorse, biloculares, dorso stylo adnate. Ovarium 
inferum sexloculare. Ovu/a plurima, loculorum angulo centrali uniseriatim af- 
fixa, horizontalia, anatropa. Stylus brevis; stigma radiato-sexpartitum. Capsula 
coriacea, nuda, sexlocularis, loculicido 6-valvis. Semina plurima, bracteata ; testa 
coriacea, membranaceo-marginata; raphe lata, fungoso-suberosa, infera, in cha- 
lazam apicalem impressam desinente. méryo in basi axeos albuminis dense 
carnosi y. cornei minimus; radicula centripeta——Herbe v. frutices erecti, pro- 
strati, scandentes vel volubiles, inter tropicos obvii, nec in regionibus extratropicis 
temperatis rari, e Capite Bone-Spei exules; foliis alternis, integris integerrimis 
vel lobatis; pedunculis avillaribus, uni-bi-multifloris; floribus quandoque maximis, 
utplurimum luridis. Endl. 


ArisToLocuta arborea; subarborescens, trunco 6-8-pedali erecto ramoso, ra- 
mis teretibus dense fusco-pubescenti-tomentosis flexuosis subnodosis, foliis 
spithameis ad bipedalibus alternis brevi-petiolatis oblongo-ellipticis acumi- 
natis pinnatim venosis, subtus pubescenti-villosis reticulatisque, floribus fas- 
ciculato-paniculatis, paniculis e basi trunci egredientibus subsessilibus 
paucifloris, perianthio tubuloso-subinfundibuliformi subcoriaceo-carnoso, 
tubo inflato duplicato-flexuoso striato, limbo obliquo amplo cucullato reti- 
culato apice subito inflexo-acuminato, intus ore processu orbiculari elevato 
disciformi puberulo-glanduloso clauso, stylo antherifero brevi, stigmate ob- 
tuse subumbilicato vix lobato. 


ArIsToLocuia arborea. Linden, Cat. 13. 1858,* p. 6. 


A beautiful young, healthy, flowering plant of this most re- : 
markable species of Aristolochia, was presented to the Royal = 
Gardens by Mr. Linden, about three feet high, which he had — 
lately introduced from New Granada, and to which he had given | 
the specific name we here adopt, of arborea. The voyage and 


* Mr. Linden adds to the name, “ Arbuste non grimpant, de 6 4 8 pieds de 


_ hauteur, remarquable par des feuilles trés-amples de 2 pieds de longueur 4 reflets 
bleuatres. Découvert par M. Ghiesbrecht dans les forets de Chiapas.” — ie 


FEBRUARY Ist, 1862. 


journey had so far shaken off the flowers, that it was found ne- 
cessary to send the plant immediately to the artist to be figured, 
and thus an opportunity was lost to us of carefully examin- 
ing, while recent, the interior of the flower; but I am sure the 
figures of Mr. Fitch are to be depended upon; and it is hence 
evident that at the faux or mouth of the tube is an elevated large 
circular disk, velvety on the surface, apparently closing the whole 
aperture. Jam not aware of anything of the kind being found 
in other species of the genus. In general habit this species has 
some affinity with our Aristolochia Thwaitesii,* figured and de- 
scribed at ‘Tab. 4918 of this work ; but there the panicles spring 
rather from excrescences of the root than from the trunk itself, 
but those flowers exhibited no internal structure such as we here 
represent. 


— Fig. 1. Corolla, with limb and upper part of the tube removed, showing the 
large elevated disk which closes the faux,—slightly magnified. 2. Style and 
stigma, with the anthers,—more magnified. 


* 


* T am glad to have the opportunity of correcting an error into which I have 
fallen, in stating that that plant was a native of Ceylon, communicated to us by 
Mr. Thwaites. An excellent friend assures us that such is not the case, nor am 
I able to trace its origin. I possess however another allied but very distinct 
new species of Aristolochia from St. Martha, New Granada (Mr. Purdie), with 
very copious panicles arising from subradicant tubercles. I think it prebable our 
plant figured at Tab. 4918 is, as well as the present, from Tropical America. 


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Tas. 5296. 
MAXILLARIA VENUSTA. 


Graceful Maaillaria. 


Nat. Ord. OncH1pE#.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. Perianthium connivens, raro patens. Sepala lateralia cum basi 
producta column connata. Pefala subconformia. Labellum trilobum, cucul- 
latum, sessile, cum basi producta columne articulatum. Columna semiteres, ap- 
tera. Anthera subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia v. integra, caudicula brevi, 
glandula transversa.—Epiphyte (Americana) pseudobulbose, acaules vel caules- 
centes. Folia plicata v. coriacea. Pedunculi radicales axillares vel terminales, 
uni v. multifiori. Lindl. 


MAXILLARIA venusta; pseudobulbis oblongis, compressis levibus viridibus 
2-phyllis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, brevi acuminatis subcoriaceis levibus 
inferne longe attenuatis, pedunculis radicalibus intense rubris vaginato-brac- 
teatis unifloris, folio brevioribus flore subnutante amplo, sepalis petalisque 
patentibus lanceolatis longe acuminatis albis, petalis lateralibus majoribus 
basi latioribus sublonge productis, labello perianthio multo breviore cum 
columna prolongata articulato trilobo, disco callo rotundato tomentoso, lo- 
bis subeequalibus, intermedio ovato obtuso luteo, lateralibus valde obtusis 
albis rubro-marginatis, subtus maculis duabus rotundatis rubris. 


Maxritaria venusta. “ Lindl. Reich. fil. Orchid. Schlimmiane” in Bonplandia, 
1854, p. 277. 


Maxituarta Anatomorum? Reich. fil. in Bot. Zeit. v.10. p. 935, et in Xenia 
Orchid. v. |. p. 188. t. 67. 


This charming plant was communicated for publication in the 
‘Botanical Magazine’ by Mr. Tucker, gardener to G. Reed, Esq., 
of Burnham, Somerset. Dr. Lindley has referred the specimen, 
and no doubt correctly, to his M/. venusta of the ‘ Orchidez 
Schlimmiane.’ Dr. Hooker and myself had considered it to be 
identical with, or only a more perfect specimen of, the M. Ana- 
tomorum of Reich. fil., first published in Bot. Zeit., and then in 
his ‘Xenia Orchidacea,’ with a figure; and I should still be dis- 
posed to believe it to be the same, but that Dr. Reichenbach has 
expressed a different opinion; for he says of MJ. Anatomorum, 
“ Affinis IZ. venusta, Fendl. Reichb. fil., sepalis angustioribus, la- 
belli angusti lobis lateralibus obtusatis supra discum non intran- 


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tibus;” and of MZ. venusta, “Aff. M1. Anatomorum, Reichb. fil., 
floribus duplo majoribus, sepalis multo latioribus, labelli trilobi 
lobis lateralibus angulatis lobo medio triangulo margine revoluto, 
callo triangulo in disco ante sinus loborum lateralium, tota su- 
perficie furfuraceo, rostello obtuse dentato.” I think it safest 
to adopt Dr. Lindley’s name. ‘The species is a native of Ocafia, 
New Granada, at an altitude of 5—-6000 feet above the level of 
the sea. It flowered in great beauty in Mr. Reed’s stove in 
October, 1861. 


Fig. 1. Column and labellum, with the upper part of the ovary. 2. Pollen- 
masses : — magnified, 


IG. 


Witch ddl  lith. 


Tas. 5297. 


CROCUS OCHROLEUCUS. 


Cream-coloured Crocus. 


Nat. Ord. IntpE#.—TRIANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 


Gen. Char. Perigonium corollinum superum, infundibuliforme ; ¢uéo elongato ; 
lim}i sexpartiti laciniis interioribus paulo minoribus, erecto-patentibus. Sta- 
mina 8, fauci perigonii inserta, erecta, inclusa; jfilamenta filiformia; anthere 
sagittate basifixe. Ovarivm inferum, obtuse trigonum. Ovula plurima in locu- 
lorum angulo centrali biseriata, adscendentia, anatropa. Stylus filiformis, elon- 
gatus; stigmata 3, dilatata, cuneata, carnosa, apicibus cucullata et denticulata. 
Capsula membranacea, trigona, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis. Semina plu- 
rima, subglobosa; festa coriacea, carnosula, ad umbilicum rugulosa; raphe tenui 
ad chalazam apicalem excurrente. Hmbryo axilis, albumine corneo multo brevior, 
extremitate radiculari umbilicum spectante, infera—Herbe in Europa et Asia 
media et in regione Mediterranea indigene, acaules ; foliis anguste linearibus ; 
floribus radicalibus magnis speciosis ; ovariis subhypogeis ; nonnulle ob peculiares 
stigmatum qualitates etiam culte. Endl. 


Crocus ochroleucus ; tunicis radicalibus tenuiter membranaceis fuscis, vaginis 
ternis elongatis inequalibus, foliis synanthiis latiusculis glabris, scapo elon- 
gato nudo, spatha diphylla acuminata vaginis plerumque inclusa, perigonii 
tubo limbo duplo longiore, fauce flavida glabra, laciniis ellipticis obtusis pal- 
lide ochroleucis, antheris albidis, styli divisionibus longis apice dilatato 
breviter denticulatis. Boiss. 

Crocus ochroleucus. Boiss. et Gaillardot, in Boiss. Diagn. Plant. Nov. Orient. 
ser. 2. n. 4. p. 93. 


One would almost have supposed that the labours of the late 
Hon. and Rev. Wm. Herbert, among the species of the favourite 
genus Crocus, had exhausted the subject: but recent researches 
in the East, of M. Boissier and his botanical friends, have added 
six new species to our catalogue, among which is the present 
very elegant and delicate one. 

It was discovered by M. Gaillardot, “in cultis argillosis Li- 
bani, prope Scanderoun supra Sidonem,” flowering in the middle 
of December. Bulbs of the same species were collected by Dr. 


Hooker in October of 1861, in the same neighbourhood, that 


is, on the Anti-Lebanon. Being planted, and gently forced with 


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heat, and removed to a cool greenhouse, they produced their 
charming cream-coloured blossoms with a yellow eye, in De- 
cember of the following year. M. Boissier speaks of its nearest 
affinity being Crocus Boryi, which, besides the slenderer leaves, 
differs in the deeply multifid divisions of the style, and from C. 
Pestalozze, by the latter having exceedingly narrow foliage, in the 
flowers thrice smaller, and in the branches of the style entire at 
the apex; a very unusual character. 


Fig. 1. Tube of the perianth laid open, showing the three stamens. 2. Por- 
tion of the style and stigmas :—magnified. 


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Tas. 5298. 


IRIS LONGIPETALA. 


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Long-petaled Iris. 


Nat. Ord. IntprEx.—TRIANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 


Gen. Char. Perigonium corollinum superum ; ¢udo brevi, limbi 6-partiti laciniis 
exterioribus seepissime reflexo et basi barbatis vel rarius nudis ; interioribus 
erectis, sepe minoribus v. nonnunquam minimis. Stamina 3, perigonii laciniis 
exterioribus basi inserta ; filamenta filiformia v. subulata ; anthere oblonge, basi- 
fixe. Ovarium inferum, obsolete trigonum, triloculare. Ovuda plurima, in locu- 
lorum angulo centrali biseriata, horizontalia, anatropa. Stylus triqueter, basi 
sepius cum perigonii tubo connatus ; stigmata 3, petaloideo-dilatata, supra cari- 
nata, subtus canaliculata, plica transversa bilabiata, staminibus opposita. Capsula 
coriacea, trigona vel hexagona, trilocularis, apice loculicido-trivalvis. Semina 
plurima, horizontalia, compresso-plana, marginata; raphe tenui, intra testam 
laxam libera. Zméryo axilis, albumine carnoso multo brevior, extremitate radi- 
culari umbilicum attingente, infera.—Herbee perennes, in hemisphera boreali tem- 
perata obvia, nonnulle aquatica ; rhizomate tuberoso vel rarius bulboso ; foliis 
gramineis, interdum 4-angularibus, sepissime ensatis, equitantibus; caule sepius 
compresso, ramoso ; floribus speciosis, magnis, terminalibus, solitariis v. spicatis ; 
spathis uni-multifloris. Endl. 


Iris longipetala ; imberbis, foliis angustis (sub-}-unciam latis) erectis acutis 
caulem solidum bracteatum aliquantulum superantibus, spatha bi-triflora, 
valvis acutis (circiter 8}-uncialibus) germen oblongum superantibus, pedun- 
culis sesquiuncialibus tubo brevi (3-unc. libero vix ;*; solido), petalis se- 
palisque angustis longitudine subaequalibus (circiter 2} uncias) cristas styli 
duplo fere superantibus, perianthii colore albo pulcherrime purpureo-venoso 
medio flavo. Herd. 


Iris longipetala. Herb. in Hook. et drn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 395. _ 


Two new species of Jris were detected by the naturalists of 
Captain Beechey’s Voyage of H. M. surveying ship Sulphur, 
in California, both very distinct from any other known of this 
extensive genus: these are Jris Douglasiana, Herbert in Hook. 
and Arn. Bot. of Beechey’s Voyage, and I. longipetala, I. c. p. 
395. Tubers of the latter species have been received at the 


Royal Horticultural Society, and a specimen was kindly sent to : | 


us by Mr. Thomas Moore, from the garden at Chiswick, last 
summer (1861), from which the accompanying figure is taken. 
It seems quite hardy, and will prove a great ornament to our 
flower-gardens. 


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Tas. 5299, 


LEEA COCCINEA. 


Scarlet-lowered Leea. 


Nat. Ord. AMPELIDEZ.—MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. Calyx liber, 5-dentatus, persistens. Corolia toro lamineformi 
calycis basim vestienti inserta, cum urceolo staminifero connata, quinquefida, 
laciniis revolutis. Urceolus subglobosus, corolla basi adnatus, emarginato-5- 
lobus, fauce intus annulo membranaceo semiclausus. Stamina 5, urceoli dorso 
inter ejusdem lobos inserta, petalis opposita; filamenta introflexa ; antheras ex- 
trorsas, biloculares, utrinque emarginatas, medio dorso insertas, marginibus 
plerumque inter se connatas vel rarius distinctas inter urceolum condentia, 
Ovarium disco semi-immersum, tri-sexloculare. Ovuda in loculis solitaria, ex 
anguli centralis basi adscendentia, anatropa. Stylus brevis, simplex ; stigma sub- 
capitatum. Bacea tri-sexlocularis ; Jocu/is monospermis. Semina erecta; testa 
ossea, endopleura intra albuminis rugas longitudinaliter profunde immersa. Em- 
bryo parvus, in basi albuminis cartilaginei lobati orthotropus ; cotyledonibus ovatis, 
subfoliaceis, vadicua conica, infera.—Suffrutices vel frutices, interdum arborescentes, 
in Asia tropica, insulis Borbonicis, et Capite Bone-Spei crescentes ; foliis oppositis, 
uni-bi-tripinnatis ; foliolis integerrimis vel serratis ; petiolis basi dilatata vaginanti- 
bus; pedunculis oppositifoliis, nunguam in cirrhos conversis, cymoso-decompositis. 
Endl. 


LEEA coccinea ; glaberrima, foliis tripinnatis, foliolis petiolulatis pro genere parvis 
(ad extremum sesquipollicem longis) oblongo-lanceolatis caudatis repando- 
dentatis undulatis supra saturate viridibus nitidis, cyma trichotoma, floribus 
confertis brevissime pedicellatis fere sessilibus coccineis, coronz staminex 
fere ad medium 5-fide divisuris truncato-subretusis, antheris primum inter 

se connexis mox liberis, stylo incluso. Planch. 


Lega coccinea. Planch. in Hort. Donatensis, p. 6. 
Lesa lucida. Lind. Cat. Ann. 1833. 
PanaXx excelsa e¢ Aralia excelsa. Hortul. Plurim. (Planchon). 


_ This new species of Zeea has been for some years past cultivated 
in the stoves of European gardens, where it eminently deserves a 
place on account of its neat and graceful habit, and the thick- 
flowered cymes of scarlet flowers ; but its native country is not 
known, though suspected to be Java. In Continental nurseries 
it seems to have passed under the name of Leea lucida (Lin- 
den), and of Panaz excelsa and Aralia excelsa, the two last on 
FEBRUARY IsT, 1862. 


no authority whatever. It has lately found a describer in the 
beautiful work ‘ Hortus Donatensis: ou Catalogue des Plantes 
cultivées dans les Serres de S. Ex. le Prince A. de Démidoff a 
San Donato, prés Florence,’ edited by Professor Planchon. It 
is the smallest of all known species, and commences flowering 
when the young plants are less than a foot high. 


Fig. 1. Apex of a leaf. 2. Flower. 3. Flower, with the stamens removed 
from the urceolus. 4. Vertical section of a flower, showing the pistil and the 
interior of the urceolus.’ 5. Stamen, 6. Pistil and hypogynal. disk :—ad/ but 
— fig. \ more or less magnified, 


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Tas. 5300. 


STANHOPEA ocvunata. 


Lyed Stanhopea. 


Nat. Ord. Oncu1pEa.—Gynanpria MonanpRIa. 


Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5278.) 


StraNnwopea oculata ; bracteis ovariis longe acuminatis duplo brevioribus, hypo- 
chilio unguiculato elongato cymbiformi antice intruso basi ecorni intus levi 
extus bicarinato, mesochilio bicorni carnoso aperte suleato mutico, epichilio 
ovato integro, cornubus semiteretibus ascendentibus acutis, columna late 
alata. Lind. 


STANHOPEA oculata. Lindl. Gen. et. Sp. Orchid. p. 158. Bot. Reg. t. 1800. 
Lindl. Fol. Orchid. p. 3. 


CERATOCHILUs oculatus. Lodd. Bot. Cab. é. 1764, 


Native of Mexico, introduced about thirty years ago through 
Mr. Deppe, from Xalapa, by Mr. Loddiges, who published a 
figure of it in ‘ Botanical Cabinet’ under the name of Ceratochilus 
oculatus. It is powerfully, almost too, odoriferous, scenting the 
whole house with its fragrance; and the size and number of 
flowers on the spike, and the waxiness and smoothness and 
almost polish of these, together with their strange form, add to 
the interest of the plant. 

Dr. Lindley, in his more recent writings on the genus Stanhopea 
(in ‘ Folia Orchidacea ”), enumerates and describes twenty species, 
most of which are now figured in this work, and he there notices 
the variations in the colouring of the flowers of that now under 
consideration. “These flowers,” he says, “are usually lemon- 
coloured, with a large number of lilac spots on the sepals, a 
smaller number on the petals, a deep yellow eye, and two, or occa- 
sionally four, large dark brown spots on the side of the hypochil, 
which is very much lengthened out, as if unguiculate ; by the 
latter circumstance it is chiefly known from S. Wardii (our Tas. 
5289) and S. Bucephalus (our Tas. 5278), which latter has a 
long narrow opening to the hypochil, and short ovaries. Nume- 

MARCH Ist, 1862. 


rous varieties occur in our gardens, varying in colour and in the. 
spotting of the lip. One, called Barkeriana, looks like S. insignis, 
with the lip of S. ocuwlata, and is very handsome; the sepals, 
petals, and column are covered with numerous purple freckles 
rather than spots, which as the flower fades run together, as if 
their colouring matter were dissolved ; so that at last the flower 
becomes of a dull wine-red tint.” 


Fig. 1. Column and lip,—stightly magnified. 


Tas. 5301. 


TOCHROMA GRANDIFLORUM. 


Large-flowered Jochroma, 


Nat. Ord. SoLANEZ,—PENTANDRIA MoNoGYNTA, 


Gen. Char. Calyx ovato-tubulosus, medio ventricosus, ineequaliter 5-dentatus, 
reticulatus, persistens et seepius accrescens. Corolla tubulosa, tubo longo sub- 
curvato, medio subinflato, calyce 2-6-plo longiore, limbo brevi subcampanulato 
5-partito, lobis acutis, estivatione plicata, Stamina 5, inclusa aut vix exserta. 
Filamenta tenuia, glabra vel infra medium villosa, corolle tubo imo adnata, 
infra medium libera, Anthere oblong, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes, 
Ovarium obovatum, biloculare, ovudis plurimis, in dissepimento incrassato utrin- 
que affixis. Stylus filiformis, apice incrassatus, erectus, staminibus subzequalis. 
Stigma capitato-bilobum. Bacca ovata, calyce inflato inclusa, 2-locularis. Semina 
numerosa, compressa, reniformi-rhomboidea, in pulpa nidulantia, ¢esta scrobicu- 
lata, hilo in sinu laterali perforato. Hméryo intra albumen carnosum fere semi- 
annularis, filiformis,—Frutices Americe calidioris, tomentosi vel pubescentes. Folia 
petiolata, integra. Umbelle vel cyme pauciflora, sessiles vel breviter pedunculate, 
primum terminales, dein laterales. Corolle cyanee vel violacee, speciose. Dunal, 


Iocuroma (§Cleochroma) grandiflorum ; fruticosum, ramis teretibus pubes- 
centibus, foliis late ovatis acuminatis basi rotundatis supra pubescentibus 
subtus pallidioribus subtomentosis penninerviis, nervis plurimis divaricatis, 
cyma simplici pedunculata terminali pluriflora pendula, pedunculo pedicel- 
lisque calyceque inflato pubescenti-tomentosis, coroll# infundibuliformis 
tubo longo pubescente, fauce subcampanulata, limbo amplo lobis 5 triangu- 
laribus patenti-recurvis, filamentis inclusis glaberrimis. 


Iocuroma grandiflorum. Benth. in Bot. Reg, v, 31 (1845), sub t, 20. Dunal, 
in De Cand. Prodr. 18, part 1. p. 491. 


Tocuroma Warscewiczii. Regel in Fl. des Serres, ser. 2, v. 1. t; 1163. 
CieocHRoMa grandiflorum, Miers, Illustr, of S. Am, Plants, v, 1. p. 150. @. 32, 


A very handsome species of Jochroma, hardly deserving to 
be held generically distinct, as Mr. Miers is disposed to con-— 
sider it, is very beautiful in its large rich purple flowers, which 
compensate for the rather coarse and Solanaceous foliage. It 
was discovered by Mr. Hartweg in mountains of Saraguru, 
Ecuador, and has since been found in Peru by Mr. Lobb and 
also Mr, Warscewicz; but by whom first introduced to our 


MARCH Ist, 1862. 


Gardens, I do not know. 
Our plant flowered freely in the stove in November, 1861. 


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Tas. 3302. 
LIGULARIA KAEMPFERI; aureo-maculata. 


Kempfer’s Ligularia, golden-spotted var. 


Nat. Ord. Composttm.—SyNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 


Gen. Char. Capitulum multiflorum, radiatum ; fl. radii }-serialibus, ligulatis, 
foemineis seepe biligulatis aut stam. rudimenta retinentibus ; disci tubulosis 5-den- 
tatis hermaphroditis. Znvolucrum campanulatum, subuniseriale. Receptaculum 
nudum, planum. Sfylus disci ramis obtusis, pube longe descendente utrinque 
obsessis; cono brevissimo superatis. Achenia erostria, sulcata, teretiuscula, exalata, 
eciliata. Pappus pluriserialis, pilosus, conformis.—Herbe perennes, gerontogee, 
Jere omnes Asiatice. Folia alterna, varia. Capitula ampla, flava, in racemum 
thyrsumve disposita, aut solitaria longe pedunculata. De Cand. 


Lreunarta Kempferi ; rhizomate carnoso perenni superne petiolisque elongatis, 
radiculis dense lanatis, foliis junioribus arachnoideis maturis glabris sub- 
rotundo-cordatis margine angulato-sinuatis subdentatisque basi sinu pro- 
fundo, seapo erecto, petiolis longioribus bracteatis lanatis, racemo subcorym- 
boso, capitulis basi bracteolatis, ovariis hirsutis. 

Lravnarta Kempferi. Sieb. et Zuccar. Fl. Jap. v. 1. p. 77. t. 35. 

Tusstzaco Japonica. Linn. Mart. p. 113. Thunb. Jap. p. 313. Banks, Ie. 
Kempf. t. 27,28. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. p. 1968. 

Senecto Kempferi. De Cand. Prodr. v. 6. p. 363. 

Arnica tussilaginea folio. Burmann, Fl. Ind. p. 182. 

Tsowa seu Tswa. Kempf. Ameen. p. 8217. 

Doronicum Tussilaginis folio ex insula Chusan, ete. Pluk. Amalth. p. 71. 
t. 390. f. 6. 

Farrucium Kempferi. Benth. Fl. Hongkong. p. 191? 


Var. aureo-maculata ; foliis maculis suborbicularibus majusculis aureo-flavis 
pietis. (Tas. Nostr. 5302.) 


Farrucerium grande. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1857, p. 4. 


This plant, so remarkable, when judiciously managed, for the 
beauty of its foliage, and now well known in our gardens under 
the name of Farfugium grande, was transmitted in 1856 to Mr. 
Glendinning’s Nursery, at Chiswick, by Mr. Fortune, from the 
garden of a mandarin in the north of China; and it was towards 
the close of the year exhibited and naturally much admired at 


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one of the London meetings of the Horticultural Society. Early 
in 1857, it was described by Dr. Lindley as a new plant, under 
the name of Farfugium grande. But it is far from being a new 
species or anew genus. Itis a native indeed of Japan, and seems 
to have been known to all botanical visitors there from the days 
of Keempfer to the present time. 

Siebold says :—‘‘ Per totam Japoniam frequens, amat preecipue 
regionum altiorum locos humidos, rivulorum ripas umbrosas, 
rupes madidas,” etc. Elsewhere two varieties are particularly 
mentioned by him, one with curled leaves, the other the kind 
here figured “a feuilles tachetées d’or,” for this is not the nor- 
mal state, nor does it appear to be found wild in that condition. 
My native specimens from Ringgold and Rodgers’ United 
States North Pacific Exploring Expedition, are gathered by Mr. 
C. Wright in the Loo-Choo Islands. I refer Mr, Bentham’s 
Farfugium Kempferi hither with a mark of doubt. The speci- 
mens are from “among rocks, near the top of Victoria Peak, 
Hongkong,” C. Wilford; the leaves are more coriaceous, with 
much sharper and more distinct angles (generally five), and a 
very broad sinus; indeed the base of the leaf is often trans- 
versely truncated, so that the leaf then becomes semiorbicular, 
and the flowers are very much larger: in these particulars the 
species much more nearly approaches the Ligularia gigantea of 
Siebold and Zuccarini, /. c. tab. 36, natives of Niphon, whose 
leaves are stated to grow from five to eighteen feet long, with 
the blade five feet in diameter.* Nevertheless, since, when cul- 
tivated in gardens in the south of Japan it does not attain a 
greater height than three to four feet, and since in the general 
structure of the inflorescence and capitula and florets there is 
the closest similarity, the probability is that all these may prove 
to be varieties of one and the same species. 

Our plant which flowered at Kew in December, 1861, exhi- 
bited no appearance of bilabiate florets, distinctly observed by 
Dr. Lindley ; but, indeed, it is characteristic of the genus to have 
the radical florets “ligulate or biligulate.” 


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Fig. 1. Floret of the disk. 2. Floret of the ray. 3, Hair from the pappus: — 
magnified. 


* Siebold tells us that the Japanese court artist, Hoksai, has represented in 
his Album, devoted to some remarkable natural history objects, a tuft of this 
plant, whose leaves (always radical) are sheltering many gardeners from the rain.” 
This kind Siebold took with him alive to Belgium, where it appeared in some 
catalogues, before 1830, under the name of Tussilago Japonica. 


IBS. 


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W. Fitch, del. et ith. 


Tas. 5303. 


DENDROBIUM Lowi. 


Mr. Low's Dendrobium. 


Nat. Ord. OrcH1pE®.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. Sepala membranacea, erecta vy. patentia; lateralibus majoribus obs 
liquis, cum basi producta columnze connatis. Petala sepalo supremo sepius 
majora, nunc minora, semper membranacea. Labellum cum pede columne arti- 
culatum v. connatum, semper sessile, indivisum vel trilobum, seepius membrana- 
ceum, nunc appendiculatum. Colwmna semiteres, basi longe producta. Anthera 
bilocularis. Pollinia 4, per paria collateralia.—Herbe epiphyte, nunc caules- 
centes, nune rhizomate repente pseudo-bulbifero. Folia plana, sepius venosa. Flores 
solitarii, fasciculati v. racemosi, speciosi. Lindl. 


Denprositm (§ Eudendrobia, nigro-hirsuta) Lowii ; caule erecto nigro-hirsuto, 
foliis ovato-oblongis apice obliquis subtus nigro-pubescentibus, racemis 
densis multifloris (floribus aureis), petalis oblongis obtusis undulatis dor- 
sali duplo longioribus, labello trilobo, lobis lateralibus brevibus lineari-lan- 
ceolatis incurvis paullo super basin insertis, intermedii longe unguiculati, 
limbo subrotundo convexo decurvo barbato, mento isifundibuliformi, co- 
lumna semicylindrica 3-dentata. Lind. 


Denprosium Lowii. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. for Nov. 30, 1861. p. 1046 a. 


A splendid and remarkable new species, deservedly dedicated 
to Hugh Low, Esq., of Labuan, who found it on a mountain, 
“on the north-west coast of Borneo, at an elevation of 3000 
feet above the sea-level, growing on trees in exposed situations,” 
whence it was introduced to his father’s nursery at Clapton. 
It flowered in November, 1861. 

Not having the opportunity of examining this in a living 
state myself, I gladly avail myself of the remarks of Dr. Lindley:— 
“A most attractive species, imported by Messrs. Low, of Clap- 
ton, from Borneo, and exhibited by them at a meeting of the 
Floral Committee of the Horticultural Society. Fragments of 
what appears to be the same plant occur among Mr. Motley’s 
Orchids (x. 201), gathered at Banjarmassing. ‘The flowers are 
admirably beautiful, produced in dense racemes as many as seven 
together, and are fully two inches in diameter, of a charming 

MARCH Ist, 1862. 


yellow colour, set off in a striking manner by six red lines on 
the lip, bearing long crimson fringes. The sfem is upright, 
about a foot long, covered with black, which also occurs on the 
under side of the leaves in the shape of fine down. 

The species is evidently an ally of D. formosum, of which it 
has the habit, but is slenderer, and has an entirely different flower 
in structure as well as colour. Probably it will eventually be 
stationed next the rare Dendrobium Infundibulum, found in Moul- 
mein by Thomas Lobb, but of which the colour of the flowers is 
unknown.” Lindi. J. c. 


Fig. 1. Column, lip, and spur ;—magnified. 


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Tas. 5304, 


ANGURIA WarscEwiczil. 


Warscewicz’s Anguria. 


Nat. Ord. Cucursiracra.—Dia@cita DIANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. Flores dioici. Masc. Calyx tubo campanulato, ventricoso ; limbo 
5-partito. Corolla imo calyci adnatim inserta ; Jimdi liberi quinquepartiti, laciniis 
angustis, patentibus. Stamina 2, ime corolle inserta, libera ; filamenta brevissima; 
anthere biloculares; loculis linearibus, connectivi lati, mutici y. angusti, in acumen 
producti marginibus adnatis, rectis v. flexuosis. Fam. Calyx tubo cum ovario 
connato ; limbo supero, campanulato, 5-fido. Corolla maris. Stamina 2, sterilia. 
Ovarium inferum. Stylus bifidus ; stigmata bipartita. Bacca oblongo-subtetra- 
gona, bi-quadrilocularis, polysperma. Semina .. . —Herbee Americane tropice ; 
radice crassa, verrucosa ; foliis alternis, petiolatis, cordatis, integris vel pedatisectis ; 
cirrhis simplicibus; pedunculis axillaribus ; masculis elongatis, racemosis ; foemineis 
unifloris. Endl. 


AnGuri# (§ Euanguria) Warscewiczii ; foliis petiolatis cordatis trifoliolatis, foliolis 
petiolulatis, lateralibus subsemihastatis medio obovato-oblongo omnibus 
brevi-acuminatis angulato-sinuatis, pedunculis masculinis folio (cum petiolo) 
duplo longioribus, floribus spicatis, calyce viridi cylindraceo, limbi lobis cras- 
sis glanduliformibus, petalis pulcherrime rubro-aurantiacis, staminibus 2. 


Anouria Warscewiczii. Hort. 


Although we are at present only acquainted with the male 
plant of this species of Anguria, we gladly figure it, and re- 
commend it as well deserving of cultivation on the rafters of a 
warm stove, where it produces its brilliant scarlet flowers in the 
middle of winter. At least it has been so with our plant, in 
December. It is a perfectly new, and as far as I yet know an un- 
described, species of the little-known Cucurbitaceous genus, 4n- 
guria. We received it, under the name here adopted, from Mr. 
Henderson, St. John’s Wood Nursery. It is most likely one 
of the many interesting plants introduced into European gardens 
by Mr. Linden, and was no doubt collected by Warscewicz ; 
but where I have no means of knowing. My Herbarium, how- 
ever, possesses native specimens recently sent me by my valued 
botanical correspondent, Sutton Hayes, Esq., who gathered it in © 


MARCH IsT, 1862. 


Panama, near the Barbacoos station of the Panama Railway, in 
May, 1861. It is readily distinguished from all the other species 
_ of the genus, of which thirty-eight are described by Schlech- | 
_tendal in the twenty-fourth volume of the Linnea, by the ter- 
nate leaves, the cylindrical calyx of the male flowers, its glan- 
duliform lobes, and the spreading orbicular petals, which are of 
_arich scarlet colour. 


_ Fig. 1. Flower with petals unexpanded, showing the thickened lobes of the 
calyx. 2. Flower laid open, showing the two stamens :—magnified. 


Tas. 5305. 


PHYSURUS macutatus. 


Spotted Physurus. 


Nat. Ord. OrncutpE#®.—GyYNANDRIA MOoNANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. Sepala subzequalia, herbacea, lateralia labello supposita. Petala 
subaqualia, sepalo dorsali agglutinata. Ladellum anticum, cum columna paral- 
lelum, concavum, sub apice dilatato seepe lunato constrictum, basi caleare brevi 
libero seepe ventricoso auctum. Colwmana libera vy. basi tantunr labello leviter 
accreta; rostello demum membranaceo-bipartito. Anthera dorsalis, apiculata, 
bilocularis. Podllinia 2, sectilia, glandule ovali adnata.—Herbe terrestres, cau- 
lescentes, radicibus jfiliformibus succulentis, Folia basi laxe vaginata, petiolata, 
nervosa. ‘lores dense racemosi. Lindl. 


Puysurvus maculatus ; radicis fibris crassis longis teretibus carnosis, foliis lan- 
ceolatis discoloribus supra viridibus seriatim albo-maculatis, vaginis arcte 
appressis, spica densiflora, bracteis latissime ovatis breviacuminatis, labello 
lanceolato medio constricto basi concava apice ovato-acuminato recurvato, 
calcare longitudine perianthii obtusissimo. 


Living plants of this new and pretty species of Physurus were 
brought to England by Mr. Cross, on his return from his mission 
to Ecuador for the purpose of procuring seeds and plants of 
Cinchona succirubra for cultivation in India, on account of the 


Indian Government. Flowering specimens were sent to us in 


November, 1861, by Mr. Osborne,* of the Fulham Nursery. 
Fifteen species of this genus are described by Dr. Lindley in his 
‘ Genera and Species of Orchideous Plants,’ and another species 
has been published in our ‘Icones Plantarum’ (vol. v. t. 449), 
Physurus vaginatus from Guatemala. To this probably our 
present one is most nearly allied, but abundantly distinct, for 
that has oblongo-ovate leaves, and remarkably inflated sheaths 
surrounding the stem. The spotting of the foliage is peculiar in 
our plant, but may not be constant. 

Descr. Terrestrial. Roofs consisting of stout, vermicular, long 
fleshy fibres, sometimes downy at the apices. Stem erect, about — 


* At Tab. 5259, under Lepanthes calodictyon, for “Mr. Osborne of Clapham 
Nursery,” read Mr. Osborne of the Fulham Nursery. 


APRIL Ist, 1862. 


a span high, terete, leafy. Zeaves remote, two and a half inches 
long (in the blade), petiolate, dark-coppery-green above, with two 
series of white oblong spots lying parallel with the costa, and two 
shorter lines of the same at the base, beneath greyish- white ; pe- 
tioles sheathing at the base ; sheaths rather short, close-pressed to 
the stem. Spzte of many close-placed whitish small flowers, each of 
which is subtended by a broad-ovate, acuminated dractea, scarcely 
the length of the ovary. Sepals ovato-lanceolate, the dorsal one’ 
agglutinated to the petals, which are similar in form and size. 
Spur about as long as the rest of the flower, very obtuse. Zadel- 
um longer than the sepals, much constricted near the middle, the 
lower half ventricose, the upper half ovate, much acuminated, 
reflexed. Column short. Pollen-masses attached to a large two- 
lobed gland. 


Fig. 1. Side, and, 2. Front view of a flower. 3. Side, and, 4. Front view of the 
lip and spur. 5. Front, and, 6. Side view of the column. 6 and 7. Side and 
front view of the pollen-mass :—ail more or less magnified. (Our artist has, we 
fear erroncously, represented the pollen-masses as fringed at the apex.) 


Tas. 5306. 
CEROPEGIA Ga RDNERI. 


Mr, Gardner's Ceropegia. 


Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADEH.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 


Gen. Char. Calyx quinquepartitus. Corolla tubulosa, basi magis minusve 
ventricosa, subinfundibuliformis ; Zimdi laciniis compressis, ligulatis, erectis, seepius 
arcuatis apiceque cohwrentibus, haud raro ciliolatis ; prefloratione valvata. 
Corona staminea duplici serie campanulata vel rotata, 5-15-lobata; lobis antheris 
antepositis seepius longioribus, ligulatis, apice seepissime approximatis, conniventi- 
bus. Anthere apice simplices, membrana destitute. Masse pollinis erect, ro- 
tundate, margine interiore pellucide. Stigma muticum. oiliculi cylindracei, 
leves, pergamacei. Semina comosa.—Suffrutices vel potius herbe perennes, 
Indica. De Cand. 


Cerorecia Gardneri; volubilis glabra, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis, pedunculis 
petiolo subquilongis paucifloris, calycis lobis linearibus, corolla ad tubi 
basin parum inflata supra medium subito valde ampliata apice aperte 5- 
crumenata margine ciliata, coronee staminee lobis exterioribus linearibus 
acutis, interioribus multo longioribus latioribusque et apice reflexis, folliculis 
longiusculis teretibus. Thw. 


Ceropeaia Gardneri. Thwaites, Enum. Plant. Zeyl. p. 199. 


A native of Ceylon, introduced by the Messrs. Veitch and 
Sons to their Nurseries at Exeter and Chelsea, and undoubtedly 
the C. Gardneri of our friend Mr. Thwaites’s valuable ‘ Enu- 
meratio,’ above quoted. It was first detected by Mr. Gardner 
(whose name it bears), at Rambaddo, at an elevation of from 
4000 to 5000 feet, and it well deserves a place in our collections. 
Mr. Thwaites aptly compares it with the Ceropegia elegans of 
Wallich, from the Nilgherries, figured at our Tab. 3015 of this — 
work; but a slight glance at that figure will serve to justify Mr. 
‘Thwaites in his further remark, that “it can scarcely be a variety 
of it.” It is indeed infinitely more ornamental than that, with 
larger leaves and larger flowers, twice the size of those of elegans. 
In the state of the bud there is a most striking difference when 
the lobes of the corolla are folded in, in a very remarkable man- 
ner, so as to present five spreading lobes like the lobes of a star- 
fish, or still more like the expanded corolla of a Sapelia. Then 
again, in the fully-developed corolla (we can hardly say expanded, 


APRIL lst, 1862. 


for the lobes continue to adhere at the apices), the inflected seg- 
ments take a broad heart-shaped form, the sides near the apex 
being reflected and forming the only opening into the tube. The 
colour is much bfighter, and the hairs, so very abundant and 
conspicuous in e/egans on the corolline lobes, are here few and 


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Tas. 5307. 
BEGONIA prismaTocarpa. 


Prism-fruited Begonia. 


Nat. Ord. BEGonrAcE®.—Monecra POLYANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4172.) 


BeGonia prismatocarpa ; herbacea humilis, caulibus teretibus repentibus pilosis, 
ramis ascendentibus, stipulis ovatis acutis membranaceis fimbriatis, foliis 
longe petiolatis oblique cordato-ovatis subpalmato-lobatis, lobis acuminatis 
ineequaliter serratis hinc latioribus, petiolis teretibus pilosis, pedunculis 
axillaribus pilosis petiolo longioribus umbellatim bi-trifloris, umbella brac- 
teis duabus stipuleeformibus, floribus dipetalis, masculis staminibus mona- 
delphis, antheris lineari-cuneiformibus, filamento perbrevi, capsula (imma- 
tura) elongata lineari-oblonga quadrangulari vix alata angulis equalibus 
4-loculari, stylo profunde 4-partito, stigmatibus capitatis pubescentibus. 


If this is wanting in floral beauty, it is nevertheless a very 
interesting plant, a Begonia with an elongated, four-celled, four- 
sided capsule, a quadripartite style, and capitate stigmas. It is dis- 
covered by Mr. Gustav Mann in Fernando Po. It will probably 
constitute a new genus among Begoniacee with M. Alphonse de 
Candolle, who has already alluded to some imperfect specimens 
of the plant in his valuable ‘Mémoire sur la Famille des Bego- 
niacées,’ in the eleventh volume of the ‘Annales des Sciences 
Naturelles’ (quatriéme série, Botan.): “ L’Herbier de Sir W. J. 
Hooker m’a fait connaitre une espece de Fernando Po, trop in- 
complete dans la collection pour qu’on pit la décrire, et qui 
semble un genre ou une sectiom trés-distincte, remarquable par — 
un ovaire ¢troit et allongé, analogue a celui des Prismatocarpus.” 
It is one of the many interesting new plants we have lately re- 
ceived through our collector from the mountain regions of tropical 
Western Africa. It flowered in the stove at Kew in December, 
1861. Its locality was rocks and trees at an elevation of 3000 — 
feet above the sea-level. 

Descr. The plant is small and insignificant-looking ; it has — 
creeping, herbaceous, rounded, hairy sfems and ascending 
branches. Leaves on long petioles, also hairy, the largest of — 


APRIL Ist, 1862. 


them scarcely two inches in length, obliquely cordato-ovate, sub- 
palmately three to five lobed, but the lobes are much larger on 
one side than the other, acuminate, coarsely and unequally, but 
sharply and submucronately serrated. Sfipules small, ovate, 
fimbriated. Peduncle axillary, solitary, longer than the petiole, 
bearing a small imperfect «mde/ of two to four dipetalous flowers. 
Petals ovate, yellow, with a tinge of orange towards the base. 
Male flower pedicellate, with a cluster of many stamens borne 
upon a short stalk (hence monadelphous), all inclined to one side. 
Filament very short. Anther linear-cuneate, most of it made up 
of the connectivum, yellow. Female flower sessile, apparently 
one to each umbel. Ovary or inimature fruit linear-oblong, te- 
tragonal, a little attenuated upwards ; the four angles are promi- 
nent, but scarcely form wings, and these angles are equal, four- 
celled, with numerous ovules attached to the four central recep- 
tacles. Style short, soon dividing into four erecto-patent branches, 
each crowned with a large capitate downy s¢igma. 


Fig. 1. Stamens from the male flower, the petals being removed. 2. Single 
stamen. 3. Female flower (or immature fruit), the petals only removed. 4. 
Transverse section of the capsule :—all magnified. 


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Tas. 5308. 
SCILLA BERTHELOTII. 


Berthelot’s Squill. 


Nat. Ord. LitraceE#.—HeExanpria MONOGYNIA. 


Gen. Char. Perigonium corollinum, sex-partitum, campanulatum, rotato-patens. 
Stamina 6, perigonii laciniis basi inserta ; filamenta eequalia, subulata. Ovarinm 
3-loculare. Ovuda in loculis plurima, biseriata, horizontalia, anatropa. Stylus 
filiformis, rectus ; stigma obtusum. Capsula obtuse trigona, 3-locularis, loculi- 
cido-trivalvis. Semina in loculis pauca, horizontalia, subglobosa ; festa crustacea, 
juxta raphen incrassata, atra v. pallescente-fusca. Embryo axilis, dimidii albu- 
minis longitudine, extremitate radiculari umbilico parallele contigua.—Herbe 
bulbose, in Europa media, in regione Mediterranea et Capite Bone Spei obvie ; 
racemo Jaxo scapum terminante, pedicellis bracteatis, floribus albis v. ceruleis. 
Endl. 


Sciuta Berthelotii ; bulbo oblongo fusco, foliis 2-3 linearibus acuminatis gla- 
bris caulem ad tertiam partem vaginantibus scapo brevioribus, spica gra- 
cili, pedicellis inferioribus remotiusculis bracteis setaceis sublongioribus, 
perigonii exigui laciniis lineari-lanceolatis, apice incrassato-glaudulosis sta- 
mina excedentibus. Wed}. 


Scitua Berthelotii. Webb, Phytogr. Canar. sect. iii. p. 337. ¢. 232. 


A plant of the genus Seil/a was so little expected by us from 
a country within the Tropics, and only four degrees from the 
Equator, that when the present plant, which had been sent to 
us by our zealous collector Mr. Gustav Mann, from the Came- 
roons River, tropical Africa, in 1861, flowered in our stove the 
latter end of the same year, I thought, unornamental as the plant 
is, it deserved a place in the ‘ Botanical Magazine’ on account of 
its locality. I little expected, however, to find that it was no 
new plant, but one already described in the Canary Island Flora 
of Messrs. Webb and Berthelot, in which country it grows (“in 
rupestribus maritimis humidiusculis Teneriffe’), accompanied 
by the remark on its geographical distribution, “ Planta est ex 
toto Canariensis.” But here it appears at a distance of twenty- __ 
four degrees of latitude and twenty-seven of longitude from 
Teneriffe. I am, however, still rather puzzled whether to refer 


APRIL Ist, 1862. 


the species to the 8. Berthelotit of the Canarian Flora or the 8. 
dasyantha of the same work; for I can see no valid difference 
between the two (and both are figured), save that the former 
has three leaves, the latter only two. 

Descr. The dud is oblong-ovate, with a coat of which the upper 
part forms a short sheath around the base of the leaves, sending out 
long radicles, thick, white, and fleshy. Leaves three, lanceolate 
or linear-lanceolate, tapering towards the base, and there sheath- 
ing each other and the base of the scape. Scape rather slender, 
terete, solitary, a span to a foot long, bearing a lax raceme of 
small insignificant whitish flowers. Bracts small, subulate. Pe- 
dicels very short. Petals narrow-oblong, concave, callous at the 
tips. Stamens rather shorter than the petals. Ovary subglo- 
bose, but having three broad obtuse lobes. S#y/e about as long 
as the germen. Capsules with two seeds in each cell. 


Fig. 1. Expanded flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified. 


ncent. Brooks, Imp. 
WFitch,dd. tlith Vincent: Broo 


Tas. 5309. 


BOLBOPHYLLUM RuizopHor«, 


Mangrove Bolbophyllum. 


. 


Nat. Ord. Orncnu1pE®.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. Sepala erecta, acuminata, subsequalia, lateralibus cum pede co- 
lumnz connatis et basi obliquis. Petala nana (rarissime sepalis subzequalia). 
Labellum cum pede columne articulatum, unguiculatum, sepius integrum, et 
posticum. Columna nana, antice bidentata v. bicornis. Anthera 1- v. bilocu- 
laris. Pollinia 4, libera, valde ineequalia, nunc in uno connata, nune per paria 
cohzerentia, altero cujusve paris minuto lobuliformi.—Herbe epiphyte, rhizo- 
mate repente pseudobulbifero. Folia coriacea, avenia. Racemi radicales. Lindl. 


Bo.sornyitum Rhizophore ; pseudobulbis ovatis diphyllis, foliis oblongis con- 
duplicatis obtusis, spicis multifloris pendulis, bracteis subrotundo-ovatis 
reflexis margine membranaceis, rachi floribusque scabris, sepalo dorsali 
lineari-lateralibus intus pubescentibus subrotundis cuspidatis multo lon- 
giore, petalis linearibus angustissimis glabris apice setaceis, labello lineari 
intus villoso sub apice mucronulato. Lindl. 


Bo.porHyiium Rhizophore. Lindl. in Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. v. 6. p. 124. 


A very lovely little plant, if minutely examined as the struc- 
ture of the flowers entitles it to be. It was found growing on 
Mangroves in the Nun River, by Mr. Barter, late Botanist to the 
Niger Expedition under Commander Baikie, when living plants 
were sent to Kew, and again by Mr. Gustav Mann, in 1860, 
from the same river. ‘These plants have flowered with us both 
in April and in October of 1861. 

Descr. Plant small. Pseudobulbs scarcely an inch long, — 
ovate, thickly clustered, each bearing two oblong-lanceolate ob- 
tuse or retuse eaves, tapering at the base, scarcely conduplicate, 
except in the dried state. Scape or peduncle from the base of 
the pseudobulbs, short, terminated by a slender, flexuose, droop- 
ing pikes of many small subsecund flowers. Rachis granulated 
with small tubercles. Bracts broadly ovate, at the base of the 
sessile ovary, reflexed. Perianth externally muricated, as well as 
the ovary, superior or dorsal sepad erect, purplish-brown, yellow- 


APRIL lst, 1862. 


ish at the base within, erect, oblong, larger than the lateral — 
sepals, which are reflexed and bright red-purple on the upper 
side. Pedals lineari-subulate, curved forward, white. Zip much 
smaller than the sepals, articulated upon a stalk, oblong-ovate, 
obtuse, reflexed, deep-purple. Co/wmu short, with a tooth on 
each side below the anther-case. Pod/en-mass oval, subrotund, 


double. 


Fig. 1. Flower and portion of the rachis. 2. Front view of a flower. 3. 
Flower from which the sepals have been removed. 4. Pollen-masses :—all more 
or less magnified. 


WFitch, ddl et lith 


‘: 
Vincent. Brooks, imp 


Tas. 5310. 


CLOMENOCOMA MONTANA. 


Mountain Clomenocoma. 


Nat. Ord. Composit#.—SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 


Gen. Char. Capitulum multifloram, radiatum ; ligudis uniserialibus, foemineis ; 
floribus disci tubulosis, quinque-dentatis, hermaphroditis. Jnvolucrum imbricatum ; 
squamis linearibus, imbricatis, dorso versus apicem glandulam grossam geren- 
tibus. Receptaculum tenuiter fibrilliferam. Achenium elongatum, multistriatum ; 
glabriusculum. Pappus squamellis 10, uniseriatis, basi polyadelphis, superne 
lineari-setzeformibus.—Herbe Austro-Americane, Tageti facie. Folia opposita, 
pinnatisecta. Capitula terminalia, pedunculata, solitaria. Flores aurantiaci. 


De Cand. 


CLoMENOCOMA montana; foliis ovatis acutis serratis basi cuneatis integris v. 
inciso-lobatis, petiolo basi lobulis seteformibus aucto, involucri squamis 
obtusis fimbriatis. Benth. 

CLoMENOcCOMA montana. Benth. Plant. Hartweg. pp. 86, 351. 


-Dysopra grandiflora? De Cand. Prodr. v. 5. p. 640 (fide Benth.). 


We owe the opportunity of figuring this plant to Messrs. 
Henderson, who received it under the name of “ Hebeclinium 
aurantiacum ;” but Mr. Bentham has recognized it as his Clome- 
nocoma montana, a native of Guatemala, whence we possess spe- 
cimens both from Mr. Skinner and from Mr. Hartweg. The 
name Clomenocoma was doubtless given by Cassini to the genus: 
on account of the resemblance of the flowers to those of the 
Marigold, «répevov in Greek. The colour of the flower is very rich, 
and it may prove to be a valuable summer bedding-out plant. 

Descr. The root appears to be perennial. The stems herba- 
ceous, scarcely branched, except towards the summit, where they 
divide into peduncles ; erect, one to two feet high, nearly glabrous. 
Leaves opposite, ovate, or rather ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, 
inciso-serrate, petiolate, marked with black glandular dots, most 
numerous beneath; on the petiole are four to six linear-lanceolate 
segments or small narrow /eafets, ending in a setiform point. 
Peduncles axillary and terminal, each with a pair of diminutive 
leaves or dracts. Head of flowers \arge, handsome. Lavolucre 


sprit 1st, 1862. 


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‘urceolato-cylindrical, consisting of one series of linear-oblong 
erect scales, erose at the apex, and a few smaller external ones, 
 Janceolato-subulate, all with black glandular streaks. teceptacle 
 fibrillose. oreds all of a rich deep-orange colour. 


‘Fig. 1. Apex of a peduncle and involucre. 2, Floret of the circumference, , 2 
with fibrille. 3. Floret of the disk, with fibrille. 4. Hair of the pappus:— 
magnified. 


B44, 


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Tas. 5311. 


RHODODENDRON ARBOREUM, Sm., var. limbatwm. 


_ Iree Rhododendron, broad-zoned var. 


Nat. Ord. Erice®.—Dianpria Monoeynlia. 


Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 3825.) 


RuODODENDRON arboreum ; caule arboreo, foliis lanceolatis utrinque acuminatis 
coriaceis supra glabris subtus discoloribus (argenteis ferrugineisve), corymbis 
confertifloris, calycis limbo obsoleto, corolla late campanulata 5-loba, sta- 
minibus 10, ovario 10-loculari. 


RHODODENDRON arboreum. Smith, Exot. Bot. t. 9. Tas. Nostr. (varietatibus 
tnclusis) 3290, 3825. - 


Var. limbatum ; foliis anguste lanceolatis subtus argenteis, corolla limbo late 
roseo, tubo intus albo ima basi macula sanguinea notato. 


Of all the varieties of these well-known and variable ‘Tree 
Rhododendrons of the Himalaya, none is better worth cultiva- 
tion than this, whether for its early free-flowering habit or the 
exquisite delicacy of the broad rose-coloured limb of the corolla, 
which gradually fades into the almost pure white throat, marked 
at the base with a deep blood-red blotch. The nearest variety 
to this is undoubtedly the ardoreum var. roseum, Don, Prod. Flor. 
Nep. p. 154, first figured by Dr. Lindley, in the ‘ Botanical Re- 
gister, t. 1240, and again in Sweet’s ‘ British Flower Garden,’ 
vii. t. 339, but in that the colour is more uniform, that of the 
limb being paler than the throat, and the leaves have a little 
brown tomentum underneath. : 

Our plant was raised from seeds sent by Dr. Hooker from the 
Sikkim Himalaya in 1848—9, and flowered in a cool conservatory. 


Fig. 1. Flowers. 2. Stamen. 3. Ovary. 4. Transverse section of ditto: 
—all more or less magnified. 
May Ist, 1862. 


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Tas. 5312. 
LIMATODES ROSEA. 


Rose-coloured Limatodes. 


Nat. Ord. OrncuIDEe.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. Perianthium erecto-patens, subsequale, liberum. Labellum liberum, 
divisum, calearatum ; limbo interno tumido. Colwmna erecta, semiteres. An- 
thera, bilocularis; loculis subquadrilocellatis. Pollinia 8, obovata, caudicula 
brevi filiformi, glandula minuta.—Herbe terrestres. Caules basi tumidi. Folia 
lato-lanceolata, nervosa, membranacea. Pedunculi laterales, solitarii, paucifiori. 
Flores ali vel rosei. Lindl. (Char. ex Blume.) 


LrmatopEs rosea ; pseudobulbis fusiformibus, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis plicatis 
glabris, scapo multifloro foliis longiore floribusque laxis villosis, bracteis 
membranaceis recurvis ovario brevioribus, labello oblongo plano retuso, 
calcare recto obtuso horizontali, columna nana tomentosa. Lindl. 


Limatopks rosea. Lindl. in Paxton’s Fl. Gard. t. 81. 


A very lovely plant, and much prized in collections. We are 
enabled to figure it through the kindness of Messrs. Low and 
Son, of the Clapton Nursery, who lately received plants from the 
Rev. C. 8. P. Parish, of Moulmein, where however it was some 
years before brought into notice by Mr. Thomas Lobb, collector 
for the Messrs. Veitch, and a figure of it appeared in Paxton's 
‘Flower Garden,’ above quoted. The genus Limatodes was es- 
tablished by Blume upon a Java species from Mount Salak, the 
L. pauciflora, and a third species is described by Dr. Lindley, 
a native of the Mishmee hills, in Griffith’s Herbarium. The 
present species seems to be a ready flowerer. In the case of our 
specimen the flowers appeared from the base of an old pseudo- 


bulb without any leaves. 


Fig. 1 represents a pedicel with the lip and spur. 2. Side view of the 
column, spur, and ovary. 3. Front view of the column and anther. 4. Pollen- 


masses :—magnified. 
MAY Ist, 1862. 


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CLERODENDRON THOMSON. 


Mrs. Thomson's Clerodendron. 


Nat. Ord. VerBENACE&.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 


Gen. Char. Calye campanulatus, rarius tubulosus, interdum pentagonus et 
subinflatus, 5-fidus v. quinquedentatus, rarissime truncatus. Corolla infundi- 
bularis vel subhypocraterimorpha ; tubo seepissime calycem excedente, interdum 
longissimo ; dimébo quinquepartito laciniis superioribus paulo magis approximatis, 
subineequali vel laciniis inferioribus magis minusve adscendentibus obliquo immo 
subsecundo. Stamina 4, corolle tubo inserta, longe exserta, subdidyma ; an- 
there supra basin insertz, basi fissee, biloculares, docu/is parallelis, rima longitu- 
dinali dehiscentibus. Ovarium quadriloculare, loculis uniovulatis ; ovulo in sper- 
mophoro angulo centrali adnato pendulo. Sty/us filiformis, exsertus ; stigmate 
bifido, acuto. Drwpa calyci ampliato insidens vel inclusa, baccata y. carnosa, 
quadri- vel seepius abortu mono-di-tripyrena, seepius 2—4-loba ; pyrenis maturitate 
distinctis, unilocularibus ; putamine lignoso levi. Semen solitarium, erectum. 
Cotyledones oleosze, applicatze ; radicula brevis, infera—Frutices vel arbores, inter 
tropicos veteris orbis imprimis vero Asie copiose, in America vero parce crescentes. 
Folia opposita vel terna, simplicia, integra vel rarius lobata, phyllopodio interdum 
prominenti insidentia. Cymee trichotome vel axillares, vel in paniculam termi- 
nalem collecte. Schauer, in De Cand. 


CLERODENDRON Thomsone ; caule volubili glabro, foliis oppositis brevi-petio- 
latis integris oblongo-ovatis acutis glabris, yenis superne sulcatis, panicula 
axillari et terminali, cymis dichotomis laxifloris bracteatis, calyce albo mem- 
branaceo inflato pentagono 5-partito, laciniis ovatis acutis, corolla coccinea, 
tubo gracili extus glanduloso-pubescente calycem aquante, limbo oblique 
5-lobato, staminibus longissime exsertis. Bal/. 


CLERODENDRON Thomsone. Balf. in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. N.S. p. 1. 0. 15. 
fe es ¢ 


From the stove of the Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh, whence 
we received specimens from Professor Balfour in January of the 
present year, 1862, to whom the living plant was communicated 
in 1861, by the Rev. W. C. Thomson, missionary at Old 
Calabar, on the West Coast of Tropical Africa. The specific 
name is given in memory of that gentleman’s wife, the late Mrs. 
Thomson. It flowered in the stove at Edinburgh, the branches 
twining extensively round other plants or prostrate and rooting. 


MAY IsT, 1862. 


We have only seen the cut specimen ; but no doubt Dr. Balfour 
says very correctly that it “has a very showy appearance in the 
conservatory, twining along the roof of the house to the extent of 
ten or twelve feet, and giving off numerous clusters of flowers ; 
and the contrast of colour presented by its (large) white calyx 
and crimson corolla renders it a desirable plant for cultivation.” 

Mr. Thomson met with it growing abundantly on the banks 
of the Old Calabar River, above salt-water range. I may add that 
the same. species has been detected by Mr. Barter, late botanist 
to Baikie’s Niger Expedition, at Angiama, on the Quorra; and 
very fine native specimens are deposited in the Herbarium at 


Kew. 


Fig. 1. Pistil,—magnified. 


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Tas. 5314. 
HAMANTHUS CINNABARINUS. 


Cinnabar-coloured Hamanthus. 


Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACE®.—HExANDRIA MonoGynia. 


Gen. Char. Perigonium superum corollaceum, limbo 6-partito, regulari, deciduo ; 
tubo recto; laciniis angustis, 1-8-nerviis, equalibus, erectis vel stellato-paten- 
tibus. Stamina 6, summo tubo inserta, exserta, alterna (petalina ?) longiora. 
Filamenta filiformia. Anthere oblonge, utrinque bifida, dorso supra basin affixe. 
Ovarium inferum, triloculare; ovwZa in loculis solitaria vel gemina, collateralia, 
pendula (pauca e loculorum angulo centrali adscendentia vel pendula, Endi.), 
anatropa. Columna stylina filiformis, recta. Stigma simplex, obsolete trilobum 
vel trifidum. Bacca globosa vel oblonga, abortu 1-trilocularis. Semina in locu- 
lis solitaria, loculum replentia; testa membranacea, adnata; raphe immersa; 
hilum basilare, chalaze apicali discolori jungens. Zmbryo minimus, in basi albu- 
minis dense carnosi; extremitate radiculari hilum attingente.—Herbe, paucis 
Africanis tropicis exceptis, Capenses, bulbifere, scapigere, glabre vel pubescentes ; 
bulbo tunicato, sepius bifariam squamoso ; folia pauca, s@pius bina, coriacea, 
erassiuscula, plerumque plana orbiculata erecta vel humistrata, rarius angusta 
elongata canaliculata, rarissime petiolata, oblonga, petiolis vaginantibus. Scapus 
brevis, solidus, plerumque compressus, basi sepe bracteis duabus radicalibus inter- 
dum coloratis stipatus, multiflorus. Spatha utplurimum polyphylla ; foliolis erectis, 
coloratis, umbella longioribus, rarius diphylla vel refleca. Kth. ex Endl. 


Hamantuvs cinnabarinus ; foliis paucis omnibus inferioribus seu subradicalibus 
ovali-oblongis longitudinaliter multinerviis, costa crassa subtus prominente, 
limbo in petiolum subvaginantem decurrente, scapo cylindraceo umbellatim: 
multifloro, bractea communi florem involucrante et multiseriata, pedicellis 
singulis bracteola lineari stipatis primo erectis mox patulis aut etiam re- 
flexis, perianthii lobis subzequalibus oblongis, ut stamina filamenta rigida 
stylusque cinnabarinis. Dene. 

TLeMantuvus cinnébarinus. Desv. in Flore des Serres, 2nd Series, v. 2. p. 27. 


Drawn from bulbs sent by M. Gustav Mann to the Royal 
Gardens, from Ambas Bay, at the foot of the Cameroon moun- 


‘tains, in Western tropical America. There can be no question 


of the plant being identical with the Hemanthus cinnabarinus 
of Professor Decaisne, in the ‘Flore des Serres’ above quoted, 
who considers it a new species ; but, were it not for such high 
authority, we should have been disposed to have looked upon 
it as a remarkable state of Hemanthus multiforus.* But there 


* See Bot. Mag. vol. 24. t. 261, and vol. 45. t. 1995. 
may Ist, 1862. 


is this remarkable difference :—in both the scape rises from the 
~ bulb, nearly simultaneously with the foliage; in 2. multiflorus 
it springs laterally from the outside of the cluster of leaves; in 
our plant, as in that of Decaisne, the scape forms the axis or 
centre of the plant, and is surrounded by the sheathing base of 
_ the leaves. These leaves externally (below) gradually become 
sheathing scales, more or less tinged with purple, and which 
form a kind of stem. I really can point out no other difference. 


Fig. 1. Section of the perianth. 2. Section of the ovary :—slightly magnified. 


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Tas. 5315. 
HELICONTA METALLICA. 


Metallic-leaved Heliconia. 


Nat. Ord. Musace®.—PENTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 


Gen. Char, Perigonii epigyni foliola exteriora eequalia, basi inter se concres- 
centia, interiora lateralia subconformia approximata, genitalia amplectentia, pos- 
ticum nanum. Stamina 5, sexto postico abortiente, basi perigonii adnata. Ova- 
yium inferum, triloculare. Qvuda in loculis solitaria, e basi axeos adscendentia, 
anatropa. Stylus filiformis; stigma depressiusculum, obsolete trilobum. Capsu/a 
subdrupacea, tricocca ; coccis osseis, indehiscentibus. Semina in coccis solitaria, 
obovato-subglobosa, basifixa ; ¢es¢a ab endocarpio vix solubili. Hmryo ortho- 
tropus, linearis, in axi albuminis farinaceo-carnosi, extremitate radiculari umbi- 
licum attingente, infera.—Herbee Americane tropice ; foliis longe petiolatis ; pe- 
tiolis basi vaginantibus, scapum radicalem sepe velantibus ; spathis pluribus distichis, 
in axilla floriferis. Endl. 


HELIcontiA metallica ; elata gracilis 6-8-pedalis, foliis sesqui—bi-pedalibus ob- 
longis acuminatis supra velutino-viridibus subtus purpureo-metallicis, spica 
erecta, spathis remotiusculis uni-trifloris, floribus subcylindraceo-angulatis 
curvatis falcatis coccineis, sepalorum apicibus acuminatis albis erecto-paten- 
tibus, petalo nano ovato obtusiusculo. 


HELIconra metallica. Planch. and Linden, Cat. 1856, . 11 (name only, no de- 
scriptive character or remarks). : 


Roots of this fine species of Heliconia were. sent to us by Mr. 
Linden, and M. Schlim is recorded as the discoverer, in the wet 
shady gorges at the foot of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Martha. 
It is to be regretted that Messrs. Planchon and Linden, as far 
as we can find at least, have nowhere published any figure 
or description of this plant, and, though we feel ourselves by 
no means called upon to perpetuate such names, yet in the 
present case we think it better to do so than to create con- 
fusion by needlessly increasing the number of names and syno- 
nyms. It requires the heat of a warm stove to induce the flower- 
ing of this plant. 

Descr. This is perhaps the most graceful of all the species of 
Heliconia known to us. It resembles a very slender Musa in its 
foliage, and is six to eight feet high: the stem-portion, if it may be 


May Ist, 1862. 


so called, is formed of large sheathing green scales, having a long 
slender pomt. ‘The /eaves, three to four, are quite at the sum- 
mit, and are from one and a half to two feet and more long, 
oblong, gradually acuminate, of a rich deep velvety green above, 
beneath of a coppery metallic-purple colour, which suggested 
the name of metallica to Messrs. Planchon and Linden. The 
spike of flowers is terminal, erect, about a span long, consisting of 
about six large green spear-shaped but conduplicate, bluntly 
caricated bracteas or spathes, the lowest one with three flowers 
in the axil, the rest with two or one. Pedicels one to one-and- 
a-half inch long, green, erect. Flowers large, handsome, three 
inches long, cylindrical, slightly angular, and a little curved ; the 
three sepads or outer portions of the perianth approximate and 
slightly conjoined, scarlet, the acuminated apices only free, white, 
erecto-patent. ‘The two perfect petals are scarlet to the apex and 
are convolute around the stamens and style: the third, or 
dwarfed pefa/ is a small, white, ovate scale. Stamens five. Fila- 
ments subfusiform, terminated by long, linear, white, or sub- 


sagittiform anthers ; style very much resembling a filament of 
the stamens, but acute. 


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Tas. 5316. 
BOLBOPHYLLUM cuprevum. 


Copper-coloured Bolbophyllum. 


Nat. Ord. OrncuIpEx.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.: 


Gen. Char.. (Vide supra, Tan. 5288.) 


BoLBOPHYLLUM cupreum; folio angusto solitario scapo longiore, racemo brevi 
oblongo nutante, petalis setaceo-acuminatis serrulatis, labello ovato dente 
utrinque setaceo, columnz angulis aristatis. Lindi. 


Bo.BoruyL_um cupreum. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. v. 24. 1838, Mise. p: 95. 


Figured from a flowering-plant in the Royal Gardens of Kew, 
in 1861. Dr. Lindley drew up his specific character from a 
plant imported by Messrs. Loddiges, through Mr. Cuming, from 
Manilla, whereas our specimen is stated to come from Arracan. 
The flowers, he observes, are copper-coloured, thence the name 
(cupreum), and have a smell extremely like Valerian-root. Many 
of the small-flowered Orchidee are remarkable for the singu- 
larity of their structure, as seen under a microscope; and such 
is the case with the present species. 

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs ovato-subrotund, compressed, green, 
fleshy, glabrous, and perfectly smooth on the surface. Several 
of these are attached to a creeping, rooting, scaly caudex, about 
the thickness of the quill of a writing-pen; often subtended by 
large, lanceolated, membranaceous, closely-pressed scales. Each 
pseudo-bulb bears on its summit a solitary, oblong, coriaceous 
leaf, about a span long. At the very base of a pseudo-bulb 
arises the curved scape, three to four inches long, clothed for its 
whole length with large, lax, sheathing, membranaceous scales. 
Spike about as long as the scape, cylindrical, drooping, of an 
orange-copper colour, consisting of closely-placed, imbricated 

flowers, each flower subtended by a lanceolato-acuminated drac- 
tea, of the same colour as the flowers. Pedicels very short. 


_ JUNE Ist, 1862. 


Sepals lanceolate, acuminate ; lateral ones deflexed, twice as large 
as the superior one, and approximate. Peta/s small, from a broad 
base, suddenly subulate. zp oblong-ligulate, shorter than the 
lateral sepals, almost blood-coloured, having a short gibbous spur 
at the base beneath; lateral lobes short, acute ; intermediate one 
obtuse, with a sharp longitudinal lamina, or keel, on the upper 
side ; downy at the margins. Co/wmn short, semicylindrical, the 


margin on each side terminating in a subulate lobe, extending 
much beyond the anther. 


Fig. 1. Front view of a flower. 2. Side view of ditto, with bractea. 3. 
Flower, with sepals removed. 4. Front view of the lip :—magnified. 


317 


Tan. 5317. 
RHODODENDRON FULGENS. 


Brilliant Rhododendron. 


Nat. Ord. Ericem.—DeEcaNpDRIA MonoGynlia. 


Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 3825.) 


RHODODENDRON fulgens ; ramulis petiolis pedunculis foliisque superne glaber- 
rimis, foliis petiolatis late obovato- v. ovato-ellipticis apice rotundatis basi 
cordatis margine recurvo subtus dense floccoso-tomentosis brunneis, capi- 
tulis densifloris, pedicellis brevibus, calyce obsoleto v. disciformi, corolla 
campanulata intense sanguinea, limbi lobis 5 rotundatis recurvis, stamini- 
bus 10 filamentis glabris, ovario conico basi turgido 6—8-loculari. 


RHODODENDRON fulgens. J. Hook. Sikkim Rhododendrons, t. 25. 


Of all the magnificent series of Rhododendrons which have 
reached us from India, none can vie in colour with the subject 
of the present Plate, which, from the gorgeous hue of its blos- 
soms, received the name of fwlgens from its discoverer, Dr. 
Hooker, who says of it, “'This, the richest ornament of the 
Alpine regions (of the Sikkim-[imalaya), in the month of June 
forms a very prevalent shrub, on mountain slopes and spurs, at 
an elevation of 12,000 to 14,000 feet, flowering in June, and 
fruiting in November and December ; not yielding in abundance 
to its associates, R. eruginosum (a variety of Lilacinum) and &. 
Maddeni, and, like the former, putting forth young leaves of a 
beautiful verdigris-green colour. The foliage is perennial, of a 
bright-green hue, and gives a singular hue to the bleak snowy 
mountain-faces, immediately overhung by the perpetual snow, 
contrasting in August with the bright scarlet of the Barberry, 
the golden-yellow of the fading Birch and Mountain-Ash, the 
lurid green of the Juniper, and the brown of the withered grass. 
Whether, then, for the glorious effulgence of its blossoms, which 
appear to glow like fire in the few sunny hours of the regions it 
inhabits, or the singular tint its foliage assumes at other seasons, 

JUNE Ist, 1862. 


it is one of the most striking plants of the inhospitable regions 
it inhabits. 

In many respects &. fulgens is most closely allied to R. cam- 
panulatum ; the chief difference, besides the colour of the blos- 
soms, lies in the denser head of flowers, shorter pedicels, smaller 
corolla, and disc-shaped calyx. 

The subject of the present Plate flowered in the Royal Gar- 
dens in the month of April, from plants introduced by Dr. 
Hooker twelve years ago. The flowers are considerably larger 

than in the plant figured in the ‘ Sikkim Rhododendrons ;’ but 
_ they are more numerous and crowded in the native specimens. 


Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and ovary. 3. Ovary, cut transversely. 4. Sta- 
men:—all but fig. 1 magnified. 


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Tas. 5318. 


PALISOTA BARTERI. 


Mr. Barter’s Palisota. 


Nat. Ord. CoMMELYNE.®.—TRIANDRIA MonoGynlia. 


Gen. Char. Flores subirregulares. Sepala ovata, obtusa, impari parum majore. 
Petala sessilia, sepalis subsimilia iisque paulo longiora. Stamina Jertilia 3, 
petalis opposita, difformia; duo brevia, filamentis filiformibus, anthera oblonga 
vix longioribus ; tertium longius, filamento crasso, anthera ovata pluries longiore ; 
slerilia 2 (v. rarius 3), brevia, ananthera, pilis longis articulatis dense barbata. 
Ovarium sessile, 3-loculare, loculis biseriatim 5-6-ovulatis. Stylus apice sim- 
plex, subpenicillato-stigmatosus. Benth. in Hook. Niger Flora, 544. 


Paztisota Barteri; acaulis, foliis omnibus radicalibus petiolatis oblongo- v. 
obovato-lanceolatis longe acuminatis integerrimis subsericeo-pilosis margini- 
bus villosis, racemo brevi ovoideo densifloro. 


P. Barteri. Tad. nostr. 


One of the many discoveries of the lamented Mr. Barter, the 
indefatigable and most successful botanist to Dr. Baikie’s Niger 
Expedition. ‘The first specimens we received were found by 
Barter in a grove of oil-palms (A/eis guineensis) Fernando Po, 
and it has since been gathered in the same place by M. Gustav 
Mann (collector for the Royal Gardens), from whom living plants 
were received. Both collectors describe the flower as white, which 
with us have a decidedly faint purple tinge. 8 

The only other known species of Palisota is P. thyrsiflora, 
Benth., also a native of Fernando Po and other places in the 
Bight of Benin, which differs wholly in the tall stem and 
branched inflorescence. 

Descr. An almost stemless herbaceous plant, one to three feet 
high. Leaves springing from the root, one to two feet long, 
obovate-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed at the base into 
a petiole of very variable length, attenuated at the apex into a 
long slender point ; petiole and /amina more or less covered with 
rather silky hairs, margin villous with a soft downy edging, very 


JUNE lst, 1862. 


_ conspicuous in the dried specimens. Pedunc/e short, terminal, — 
_ usually shorter than the petioles, solitary, erect, bearing an erect, — 
_ oblong, dense, thyrsoid raceme of pale purplish flowers. Sepals — 
and pefals nearly equal. Stamens three, staminodia with a pencil 
_ of beaded hairs. Ovary covered with long hairs. 


Fig. 1. Flower. 2 and 3. Stamens. 4. Staminodium. 5. Beaded hair from 
_ the same. 6. Ovary :—all magnified. 


5319 


Tas. 5319. 


ANTHURIUM ScuHerzerRIANuM. 


Scherzer’s Anthurium. 


Nat. Ord. OrontTracE#.—TrETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. : 
Gen. Char. Spatha ad basin usque explanata, herbacea, colorata, erecta patula 
v. refracta. Spadir varius. Ovarium septo axeos directione, loculamentis 2, v. 
abortu regulari uniovulatis. Stigma septi directionis. Ovula anatropa, breviter 
funiculata. Bacce maturitate e sepalis protruse, varie coloratee.—Caudex abére- 
viatus v. elongatus, scandens et radicans. Vagine stipulares, oppositifoliea, sepe 
folio deficiente, bis ter superposita. Petiolus imo tumidus, brevissime vaginulatus, 
apice geniculatus. Lamina folii pseudoneuro intimo continuo, interrupto v. termi- 
nali instructa. Pedunculi solitarii—Germinatio admotiva. Schott, Prod. Syst. 
Aroid. p. 436. 


Antuurtum Scherzerianum ; caudicis brevis internodiis brevibus, petiolo sulcato 
internodio multoties longiore, geniculo mediocri sulcato, folio elongato ob- 
longo v. anguste lanceolato-oblongo basi obtuso v. rotundato apice longo 
sensim acuminato utrinque punctato, pseudoneuro a margine subremoto, 
pedunculo petiolis duplo longiore, spadice juliformi subcylindrico vix stipitato 
coccineo, spatha intense ooceinea, spadice breviore late elliptica basi rotun- 
data apice acuto v. cuspidato. 


A. Scherzerianum. Schoét, l.c. 440. 


A very singular little plant, remarkable amongst its congeners 
for its small size, and the brillant colour of its spadix and spathe, 
which are retained for some time on the plant. According to 
Dr. Schott, the author of the species, it was discovered in Guate- 
mala by M. Scherzer, and afterwards found at Costa Rica by 
Wendland, through whom it was introduced to the Royal Gardens 
of Hanover, and thence sent to those of Kew, where it flowered 
in April of the present year. : 

Descr. A small plant, hardly forming a stem as yet in our 
houses. Leaves of a deep-green colour and coriaceous consistence, 
with a pale midrib and slender petioles. Peduncle longer than 
the petioles, the upper part as well as the whole spathe and spadix 
of a bright scarlet colour and shining surface. Spathe ovate, 

JUNE lst, 1862. 


about an inch long, subacute. Syadir rather longer than the 
spathe. Sepals four, obconic trigonous, broadly truncate at the 
apex. Stamens four; filaments very short and broad; anther- 
cells distinct. Ovary cubical, two- to four-celled. 


_Fig. 1. Spadix. 2. Flower. 3 and 4. Stamens. 5. Ovary. 6. Longitu- 
dinal, and 7. Transverse section of ovary :—all magnified. 


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Tas. 5320. 
OREODAPHNE CALIFORNICA. 


Californian Mountain- Laurel. 


Nat. Ord. LAURINEZ.—ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 


Gen. Char. Hermaphrodite v. dioice v. polygame. Perianthium 6-partitum 
v. 6-fidum, subzequale; limbo demum evanescente. Stamina 9; anthere oblonge 
in filamentis angustatee, locelli quaterni, per paria unus super altero positi, an- 
therarum trium interiorum reversi. Staminodia quarti ordinis v. 0, v. subulata, 
aut saltem minus completa. Bacca perianthii tubo in cupulam profundam cras- 
samque converso truncatoque, magis v. minus inversa.—Inflorescentia paniculata 
». racemosa, plerisque densa, multis etiam brevis et thyrsoidea, axillaris v. umbel- 
lulata. Nees, Syst. Laur, 462. 


OREODAPHNE Californica ; foliis glaberrimis anguste oblongis oblongo-lanceola- 
tisve subacutis supra reticulatim venosis subtus glaucis, pendunculo com- 
muni axillari solitario cano-pubescente, floribus umbellulatis, umbellulis 
involucro globoso tectis, floribus viridibus pedicellis validis basi strigosis. 


OREODAPHNE Californica. Nees, 1. c. 463. 
TETRANTHERA (?) Californica. Hook. and Arn. Bot. Beech., p. 159. 


This fine evergreen and hardy tree is described by David 
Douglas as forming the greater part of the forests of Califormia, 
where it marks the transition between the gloomy pine-forests of 
North-West America and the tropical-like verdure of California. 
He further states that it is a tree 30-100 feet high, with a 
trunk 2-17 feet in circumference, smooth bark, and spreading 
branches. Douglas states further, that the whole plant is so 
strongly aromatic, that even during violent hurricanes he has 
been obliged to remove from under its shade—the odour (a most 
powerful camphor-like smell) being so pungent as to produce 
violent sneezing. ‘The hunters make a decoction of the leaves, 
which imparts warmth. The first discoverer of the species was 
the late Mr. Menzies, surgeon and naturalist to Vancouver’s Ex- 
pedition, from whom I received specimens collected upwards of 
half a century ago. 


JUNE lst, 1862. 


Kew. The plant from which our figure was 
Bt received from Berlin, and flowered in March 
of the present year. The odour of the bruised leaves is, as 
Douglas says, very powerful indeed. 


Fig. 1. Flower. 2 and 8. Stamens. 4, Ovary :—all magnified. 


Tas: 5321: 
ECHINOSTACHYS PINELIANA. 


Banded Echinostachys. 


Nat. Ord. BroMELIACEZ.—HExaNDRIA MONOGYNIA. 


Gen. Char. Calyx tubo adnato, nec superius libero, lobis equalibus, convo- 
lutis, mucronatis. Petala medio constricta, ungue lato superne squamulis fim- 
briatis aucto. Stamina petalis opposita; filamento undique adnato. Ovarium 
crassum, carnosum, ovulis 3 ex apice loculorum pendulis.—Herba acauiis, basi 
surculosa, furfuraceo-canescens ; foliis confertis, ligulatis, canaliculatis, basi dila- 
tatis, margine aculeatis; scapo terminali, erecto, sesquipedali; bracteis lanceo- 
latis purpureis ornato ; spica cylindrica, densa, bractearum apicibus exsertis subu- 
latis echinata; floribus flavis post anthesin nigrescentibus, amplitudine circiter 
AXchme fulgentis. Brongn. in Planch. Hort. Donat, 25. 


Ecurnostacuys Pineliana, Brongn. 1. c. 


A singular and striking plant, from the vivid colour of the 
peduncle and bracts. According to Planchon, in his ‘ Hortus 
Donatensis,’ or Catalogue of Plants cultivated in the houses of 
Prince A. Demidoff at San Donato, near Florence, it is a 
native of Rio de Janeiro. The precise habitat of our specimen 
has been lost, but it was sent to us from the establishments of 
M. Mackoy, of Liége. : 

Dzscr. Whole plant two to three feet high ; almost stemless. 
Leaves linear, rigid, concave, spinulose-dentate along the mar- 
gin, acute and pungent at the apices, uniformly covered on both 
surfaces with fine appressed silvery furfuraceous down, minutely 
striated, and very obscurely transversely fasciate with brown. 
Flowering stem a foot high, terete, erect, wholly covered with 
loosely-sheathing lanceolate acuminate bright-red dracés, three to 
four inches long, and membranous. Speke dense, cylindrical, 
two inches long, spinulose from the projecting spines of the 
bracts. Bracts oblong, shorter than the calyz, blunt, abruptly 


JUNE lst, 1862. 


terminated by a spine that exceeds the flower in length. Ovary 
pubescent, bluntly trigonous. Sepals of the same form as the 
éracts, but emarginate at the apex with a very short spine. 
Petals yellow, convoluted, with fringed incurved apices. Stamens 
‘six, glabrous, alternating with as many thickened hairy glands 
on the perianth. Style erect, with a three-lobed stigma. 


Fig. 1. Flower and bracts. 2. The same, with the bracts removed. 3. 
Flower, with perianth laid open :—all magnified. 


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Tas. 5322. 
RHODODENDRON Datuousia, hybridum. 


Lady Dathousie’s Rhododendron ; hybrid var. 


Nat. Ord. Ertcem.—DecanpriA MoNoGYNIA. 


Gen. Char. (Vide TaB. 4336.) 
RHODODENDRON Dalhousie ; hybridum. 


A fine plant of this has been presented to us by Isaac Ander- 
son Henry, Esq., of Hay Lodge, Trinity, Edinburgh, as a hybrid, 
the offspring of Rhododendron formosum (see our Tab. 4457), fer- 
tilized by the pollen from 2. Dalhousie (see our Tab. 4718). 
The size of the flowers is that of its noble parent 2. Dalhousie, 
but it has derived a tinge of pink from 2. formosum, and the 
ciliated calyx also resembles the latter species, while the leaves 
are intermediate in size, and are quite glabrous. The anthers 
are small and abortive. 


Fig. 1. Calyx and base of the ovary :—magnified. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil: 
—natural size. 


JULY lst, 1862. \ 


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CaGELOGYNE  Parrtsui. 


Mr. Parish’s Cologyne. 


Nat. Ord. OrcuipE®.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. Sepala conniventia v. patentia, libera, qualia, petaloidea. Petala 
nune sepalis conformia, nunc linearia. Laéel/um cucullatum, sepius trilobum, 
lineis disci elevatis v. cristatis, nunc integerrimum ecristatum (in § Paniscia). 
Columna erecta, libera, margine alata, apice dilatata, nunc cucullata, stigmate 
bilabiato. Anthera bilocularis septo. medio non partibili, infra apicem columns 
inserta. Pollinia 4, libera (88), incumbentia, nunc basi materie granulosa co- 
herentia.—Herbe supra arbores et saxa vigentes, foliorum dasidus in pseudo- 
bulbos dilatatis, rhizomate nune crasso squamoso, nune obsoleto. Folia coriacea, 
sepius venis distinctis equalibus nunc quibusdam crassioribus costata v. plicata. 
Racemi ¢erminales v. radicales e squamis (bracteis sterilibus) corneis erumpentes. 
Flores speciosi, sepe odorati. Lindl. 


Catocynn Parishii; pseudobulbis elongatis cylindraceo-tetragonis angustis, 
foliis terminalibus binis ovato-oblongis acutiusculis nervosis, pedunculo 
terminali erecto subsexfloro, floribus 3-uncialibus erectiusculis flavo-viridi- 
bus, bracteis membranaceis -circa ovarium convolutis, sepalis petalisque mi- 
‘noribus patentissimis lanceolatis, labello pandurato trilobato viridi maculis 
atropurpureis irrorato, disco lineis tribus elevatis, lobo medio subrotundo — 


dilatato undulato-crispato obtuso bicristato. 


From the collection of Messrs. Low, of the Clapton Nursery, 
who received it from the Rev. C. 8. P. Parish, of Moulmein, 
where it appears epiphytal. In colour and general structure it 
has a close affinity with C. pandurata, figured at our Tab. 5084, 
but it is much smaller in all its parts: the psewdobulbs are very 
different in shape, and there are striking differences in the dracts 
and in the shape and surface of the “ip. 


Fig. 1. Front view of the lip. 2. Front view of the column. 3 and 4, Front 
and back view of the pollen-masses :—magnified. . 


JULY Ist, 1862. 


Tap. 5324. 


ISCHARUM PyraMI. 


Calla-leaved Ischarum. 


Nat. Ord. Aroip—E®.—Monecia PoLyaNDRIA. 


Gen. Char. Spatha marcescens ; tudus ventricosus, ima basi tantum connatus ; 
faux constricta ; lamina lanceolata, recurvata. Spadi« androgynus, liber, cras- 
sulus, spatha paulo longior, spica ab antherarum contiguarum spica parte neutra 
remota, rachi basi dilatata ; organa neutra infra antheras tantum sparsa ; appen- 
dix crasse subulata, erecta. Flosculi nudi; Mascu.t: anthere sessiles, compres- 
sulz, horizontaliter exserte ; connectivum tenue, vix prominulum, loculi oppositi, 
vertice poris oblongis vel rimulis tandem confluentibus aperientes, antheram 
bivalvem mentientes; Fa@MINEI: ovarium uniloculare ; stylus ex ovario abrupte 
exsertus, subulato-cylindricus ; stigma hemisphericum ; placenta in fundo ovarii, 
subexcentrica, obsoleta, uniovulata; funiculus indistinctus, vix ullus; ovulum 
(solitarium) erectum, orthotropum, lagenwforme, micropyle tholispectante ; NEv- 
TRI sparsi, patentis v. patentissimi, subulati, longuli v. obsoleti. Fructus P— 
Herbee humiles. Tuber rotundatum. Vaginee plures. Folia 4—5, lamina ellip- 
tico- vel lanceolato-oblonga, in petiolum longum decurrentia. Pedunculus brevis. 
Spatha ante folia producta, tubo e terra subexserto, lamina sordide atropurpurea. 
Spadix erectus, livido-purpureus. Schott. 


Iscuarum Pyrami ; foliis elliptico-subobovatis sensim in petiolum longum atte- 
nuatis apice obtusis oblique nervosis, spatha e tubo ventricoso brevi lato- 
lanceolatis longe acuminatis demum revolutis intus atropurpureo-velutinis, 
spadice spatham subeequante inferne organis tecto, ovariis stylo longiusculo 
attenuatis, organis neutris elongatis filiformibus ovariis contiguis, antherarum 
spica brevi semi-pollicari, appendice fusiformi longitudine fere spathee. 


Iscuarum Pyrami? Schott, Prodr. Syst. Aroid. p. 66. 


Schott is the great authority for the genera of Aroideous 
plants, for no one has studied them with more care, nor figured 
and described them more accurately ; but it must be confessea 
that both the species and genera seem to us to be needlessly mul- 
tiplied. The genus of which Schott quotes Blume as the author, 
is in reality only a section of Biarum with Blume, and all the 
characters the latter attributes to this section are “Orzenfalia SivE 
Iscuara.” ‘Ten species are described by Schott, mostly of Syrian 


JULY Ist, 1862. 


origin ; but the characters are so o finely drawn, that I cannot. say 

with certainty that our plant well accords with any of them. 

_ The tubers were brought from the Lake of Tiberias, by Dr. 

Hooker, in 1861, and the flowers were produced in a warm 
nhouse, in January, 1862, and were soon succeeded by the 

foliage, which has considerable resemblance to that of Calla pa- 


Fig. J. Spadix :—natural size. 2. Anther. 3. Pistil. 4. Pistil; the ovary 
laid open :—magnified. 


Tas. 3325, 


CLUSIA BroneniartTIANA. 


Brongniart’s Clusia. 


Nat. Ord. GuTr1rerm.—PoLyaNDRIA MONOoGYNIA. 


Gen, Char, Calyx 4-8-sepalus, coloratus. Corolla 4—-8-petala. Stamina 
numerosa, raro definita. Stylus 0. Stigma radiato-peltatum. Flores vulgo 
polygami et in foemincis ovarium nectario stamineo brevi crasso circumdatum. 
Capsula carneo-coriacea, 5-12-valvis, costis ab apice dehiscentibus. Placente 
3-angulares, valvulis introflexis affixee ; anguli interni placentarum unam efficiunt 
centralem placentam angulosam. Semina teretia aut placente centrali aut 
lateralibus angulis affixa. Cotyledones separabiles.—Arbores parasitice, foliis 
oppositis, caulibus se@pe tetragonis. De Cand. 


Ciusta Brongniartiana ; frutex erectus ramosus, foliis petiolatis oblongis acumi- 
natis subacutis crassiusculis nervo medio prominente, lateralibus paucis 
tenuibus, cymis (fl. masc.) terminalibus 3—plurifloris, floribus magnitudine 
mediocri albis (exsiccatione leviter flavescentibus) pedicellatis, bracteis 
ealycinis 6 triseriatis adpressis ovato-orbiculatis, sepalis 4 decussatis, petalis 
demum patentibus, receptaculo staminifero prominente quadrato, staminibus 
in acervum quadrilaterum congestis obscure 4—seriatis, filamentis. brevibus, 
antheris muticis cuneato-oblongis, loculis 2 linearibus laterali-introrsis. 
Planch. et Triana. 


Civusta Brongniartiana. Planch. et Triana, Ann. des Sc. Nat., 4me ser. v. 13, 
p. 355. 


Tovomirta oblongifolia. Hort. Bot. Par. (Planch. et Triana.) 


‘The Royal Gardens of Kew are indebted for the possession 
of this plant to the Jardin des Plantes of Paris. It is a native of 
Cayenne, and is considered among the numerous species of the - 
genus Clusia (62 species, as elaborated by the authors above 
mentioned) to be most nearly allied to C. fava, L., and to C. 
ovigera, Planch. et Triana. With us it flowered in the stove in 
January, 1862. 

Descr. A shrud, quite woody below, but the young branches 
are very dark green, terete, very obscurely and obtusely 4-angled. 
Leaves opposite, four to six inches long, oblong, acuminate, very 
thick and coriaceous, veinless, on thick petioles an inch long. 


JULY Ist, 1862. 


Panicles with opposite, thick dranches, 8—10-flowered. Flowers 
all male in our plant, an inch broad, cream-white. Bracteas 
very deciduous. Calyx of four, orbicular, green sepals. Petals 
four, obovate, concave. <Anthers red. 


Fig. 1. Section of a flower from which the petals are removed. 2. Section of 
a flower with the petals. 3 and 4. Stamens :—all more or lezs magnified. 


Tas. 5326. 


SACCOLABIUM miniatum. 


Orange-red Saccolabium. 


Nat. Ord. OncHIDE®.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum, patens. Sepala petalis sequalia, lateralia 
sepius majora. Ladellum indivisum, calcaratum, basi column accretum. Co- 
lumna erecta, semiteres, rostello subulato. Anthera semibilocularis. Pollinia 2, 
subglobosa, caudicula elongata, glandula minuta.—Herbe epiphyte, caulescentes. 
Folia disticha, coriacea, apice sepius obliqua. Flores awillares, racemosi v. soli- 
tari. Lindl. 


SACcOLABIUM miniatum ; foliis distichis imbricatis loratis canaliculatis apice 
oblique truncatis, racemis brevibus cylindraceis patentibus, bracteis minimis 
acutis, sepalis petalisque ovatis acutis patulis, labello lineari obtuso recurvo, 
caleare recto pendulo tereti breviore intus edentato, polliniis albis. Lindl. 

SACCOLABIUM miniatum. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1847, sud t. 26, and Bot. Reg. 
v. $3.2. 58. 


A native of Java, whence it was introduced to our stoves by 
Messrs. Veitch, previous to 1847. Our plant is specifically the 
same as that figured by Dr. Lindley, but the flowers are larger 
and, with the exception of the labellum and spur, much more 
inclined to red than orange. ‘The spikes of blossom appeared 
with us in May of 1862, and continued a long time in perfec- 
tion. It requires much heat and moisture in its cultivation. 

Descr. The stem is short, about the thickness of the little 
finger ; the lower portion is brown, zigzag, and clothed with the 
remains of old foliage, here and there sending out long solitary 
vermicular fiJres, by means of which the plant is attached to the 
branches of trees. Zeaves rather numerous, eight to ten inches 
long, loriform, coriaceous, canaliculate, bidentate at the apex, arti- 
culated below on a sheathing base. acemes axillary, solitary, 
somewhat drooping, rather shorter than the leaves, bearing nu- 
merous richly-coloured flowers, each arising from a small, ovate, 
acuminated dract. Ovary linear, coloured. Sepals and petals 


JULY IsT, 1862. 


preading horizontally, ovate, acute, uniform in size and shape, 
_ fine red. Zip small, linear, recurved, with two upright teeth or 
lobes at its base, orange as well as the club-shaped spur, about 
as long as the flower. Column and anther-case scarlet. 


« 


1. Flower from which the sepals and petals have been removed, showing 
the lip, spur, and column. 2. Front view of the columnand anther. 3. Pollen- 
asses :—all magnified. 


Tas. 5827. : 


NOLANA (§ SorEMA) LANCEOLATA. 


Lance-leaved Nolana. 


Nat. Ord. Sonanr#.—Pentanpria Monoeynia. 


Gen. Char. Calyx subcampanulatus, limbo 5-partito. Corolla infundibuli- 
formis, limbo amplo campanulato plicato 5-10-lobo. Stamina 5, corollee tubo 
inserta, inclusa vel exserta. Ovaria plura (3-40), disco hypogyno carnoso in- 
serta, libera, 1-8-locularia, Joculis uniovulatis. Semina in loculis solitaria, reni- 
formia, lenticulari-compressa, basi s¢rophiolo vario instructa. Eméryo filiformis, 
annularis, spiralis, albumine amplo, cotyledonibus semiteretibus incumbentibus ; 
radicula infera.—Herbee prostrate vel suffrutices erecti, Americe meridionalis, 
Convolvuli aut Solanearum facie ; foliis alternis, geminis fasciculatisque integris ; 
pedunculis ertra-arillaribus. De Cand. 


Nowana (§ Sorema) lanceolata ; herbacea prostrata incano-pubescens, caule sub- 
* angulato, foliis geminis lanceolatis semi-amplexicaulibus basi oblique adnatis 
hine decurrentibus, floribus in axillis solitariis speciosis ceruleis. Miers. 


Noxana (Sorema) lanceolata. Choisy, in De Cand. Prodr. 13, p. 12. 
Sorema lanceolata. Miers, in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. (1845) v. 4, p. 493. 


This very charming and as yet very little known annual pro- 
mises to be a great acquisition to our parterres in summer. It 
is a native of Chili, and was detected at Coquimbo by Mr. Cum- 
ing, and distributed by him under the number 856. Very 
recently, seeds have been introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, 
of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries; and the specimen from 
which our figure is taken was communicated to us from Exeter 
in June, 1862. It is a compact-growing plant, and its large 
brilliant blue flowers (a colour so valuable in our flower-borders), 
with a white eye in the centre, are numerous and striking. These 
flowers are very much larger and handsomer than the well-known 
Nolana paradova (see Bot. Mag. t. 2604), which belongs to the 
same group or section, viz. Sorema. This group was separated 
as a genus by Dr. Lindley, with the character, “ Corolla cam- 
panulata. Ovaria 20, libera, cumulata; Drupe 1-loculares, 1- 


AUGUST Ist, 1862. 


spermz, basi aperte,” and adopted by Miers, but with a more 
extended character and with “ovaria 30-40.” Our plant exhi- 
bited only five ovaria, unless indeed the glands surrounding them _ 
can be considered as abortive ovaria (see our Fig. 2). | 
- Descr. Plant annual, hoary, branched from the base ; branches 
eight inches to one foot long. Leaves geminate, two inches long, 
lanceolate, the outer one of the two decurrent upon the stem. 
Pedunele solitary, axillary, louger than the leaves, single-flowered. 
Calyx with the tube campanulate, prominently five-angled, with 
five erect, green, subulate segments, at length spreading. Corolla 
large, infundibuliform-campanulate, the ¢vde short, yellowish- 
white, gradually expanding into the large, spreading, five-lobed 
limb, each lobe bifid. Stamens five, three short, two long; fila- 
ments inserted near the base of the hairy tube. Anthers broad, 
ovate. Ovaries five, surrounded by several large glands. Style 
pentagonal, stigma clavate, five-lobed. 


Fig. 1. Portion of the corolla laid open, with stamens. 2. Pistil :—magnified. 


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‘Tas. 5328, 


GRAMMITIS (Sexuievea) CAUDIFORMIS. 


Taper-pointed Grammitis. 


Nat. Ord. Finicns.—Cryprogamia Fizices. 


Gen. Char. Sori nudi, lineares, elongati, crassi, continui, nonnunquam inter- 
rupti.— Selliguea, Bory. Vene primaria pinnate, relique copiose anastomo- 
santes ; areole irregulares subhexagone, venulas simplices vel varie ramosas in- 
eludentes. Sori inter venas primarias tisque paralleli. 


Grammitis (Selliguea) caudiformis; caudice elongato crasso ramoso copiose 
squamoso, squamis lanceato-subulatis appressis ferrugineis basi dilatatis disco 
affixis, stipitibus remotis plano-triquetris subspithamzis, frondibus difformi- 
bus firmis coriaceis, sterilibus late ovatis magis minusve acuminatis, fertili- 
éus multo angustioribus sepe caudatis, soris copiosis unciam sesquiunciam 
longis crassis elevatis emersis non raro varie interruptis. 

a. Soris elongatis continuis (Tas. Nostr. 5328). 

f. Soris interruptis polypodioideis. 

SELLIGUEA plantaginea. Brack. Fil., U.S. Expl. Exp. p. 58, and in Herb. Nostr. 


Po.yPopium caudiforme. Bl. Fil. Jav. p. 146, t. 54, f. 2, and Metten. Polyp. 
p. 110 (fronde fertili angustiori caudato-acuminata, soris interruptis). 


This is a very handsome and extremely interesting Fern of the 
Malay Archipelago and Islands, for the possession of which, the 
Royal Gardens are indebted to Mr. Wendland, of the Royal 
Hanoverian Gardens. Some may express surprise that a Fern 
with such very elongated linear sori as we have here represented, 
should be referred by Blume to the genus Polypodium (§ Phyma- 
todes) ; but we are so fortunate as to possess specimens exhibit- 
ing all the intermediate grades between the perfect sori of 
Grammitis, § Selliguea, and that form of son which would 
almost justify its being placed in Polypodium. The localities re- 
corded in our herbarium are, a, Java, Zollinger, De Vries, and 


 Teijsmann, n. 5 (our specimen partially breaking up into subor- 


bicular sori) ; x. 1, gathered at an elevation of 10,000 feet, upon 
the mountains; Tahiti (intermediate between the two forms, 


AUGUST Ist, 1862. 


Brackenridge) : B, Mergui, Griffith ; Aneiteum, trees on moun- 
tains, New Hebrides (exactly according with the P. caudiforme 
of Blume); Fiji Islands, Seemann (Pleuridium vulcanicum, 
J. Sm., in Seemann’s Cat. of Fiji Island Plants). The oldest spe- 
cific name of the plant, which we have preserved, is only expres- 
sive in certain forms of it. 

Descr. Caudex long, creeping on the surface of the ground, 
or more frequently on the trunks of trees. S#ipi/es a span to a 
foot long. Frond 6-10 inches long, and 3—4 inches wide in the 
broadest part, very firm and coriaceous ; primary veins very con- 
spicuous and very prominent beneath, the rest of the venation 
internal anastomosing and seen with difficulty. 


Fig. 1. Portion of a sterile frond, showing the venation. 2. Portion of a 


fertile frond, showing venation and sorus, and a receptacle from which the sorus 
have been removed :—magnified. 


W.Fitch del. et Ith 
Vincent Bro oks mp. 


Tas. 5329, 


BOLBOPHYLLUM PAVIMENTATUM. 


Clustered Bolbophyllum. 


Nat. Ord. OncurpE#.—GyNaNvRIA MOoNANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 5288.) 


BorBoPuyLiuM pavimentatum ; pseudobulbis densissimis subrotundo-oblongis 
compressis monophyllis, foliis oblongis planis pedicellatis, scapo foliis lon- 
giore filiformi erecto arcte 4-vaginato, spica densa, floribus carnosis glabris 
bracteis obtusis longioribus, sepalis ovatis acuminatis obtusis, petalis ovatis 
retusis, labello brevi carnoso tomentoso obtuse acuminate revoluto, columna 


biseta. Lindl. 
BoLBoruyi.uM pavimentatum. Lindl. on W. Afr. Trop. Orchids, in Journ. of 
Proceed. of Linn. Soc. v. 6. p. 128. 


Of the genus Boléophyllum alone, Tropical Western Africa 
has furnished Dr. Lindley with no less than fourteen species, all 
of which, with the exception of one, are entirely new species, 
and these are all from the collections of the indefatigable Gustav 
Mann. The species now before us was discovered on the banks 
of the Nun, in September, 1860, and it flowered with us in 
February, 1862. The specific name is given from the soil on 
which the plants grew, being as it were, paved with the densely 
compacted pseudobulbs, a resemblance the more striking in the 
dried and compressed specimens, where these pseudobulbs 
would be reduced to a nearly umform level. The species 1s com- 
pared by Dr. Lindley to the B. cupreum and B. recurvum. 

_ Drscr. Pseudobulbs subrotund or oval, subcompressed, densely 
clustered, scarcely exceeding an inch in length, terminated by a 
solitary, oblong, coriaceous, rather acute leaf, contracted and con- | 
duplicate at the base, so as to be subpetiolate, three to four 
inches long. Scapes slender, about as long as the leaf with four 
to six sheathing Jracts, bearing a drooping spite, two inches long, 
of rather densely imbricated, deep-purple flowers, each sub- 
tended by a short green, ovate, concave Jract. Ovary sessile, 


AUGUST Ist, 1862. 


short, ribbed. Calye of three spreading, oval- oblong, 
obtuse, fleshy sepals. Petals scarcely half the length of the 
sepals, Dae sblene. Lip thick, fleshy, oblong-ovate, obtuse, very 
obscurely . three-lobed, recurved or almost revolute, fringed all 
round with fleshy hairs, and having two lines of the same hairs on 
the disk. Column very short, but the margin is extended into a 
subulate spine on each side as long as the column, and bearing 

small tooth at its base. 


. 1. Side view of a flower. 2. Front view of flower. 3. Side view of the 
, the sepals and petals being removed. 4. View of the upper 
lip. 5. Pollen-masses : :—all more or less magnified. 


5IBO 


Tas. 5330. 
IPOMAA ALATIPES. 


Wing-footed Ipomea. 


Nat. Ord. ConVOLVULACE®.—PENTANDRIA MOoNOGYNIA. 


Gen. Char, Calyx 5-sepalus. Corolla campanulata. Stamina inclusa. Stylus 1. 
Stigma capitatum, sepius bilobum. Ovarium biloculare, loculis dispermis. Cap- 
sula bilocularis.—Herbe suffrutices aut etiam arbores, ex omnibus, speciatim e 
calidioribus, regionibus. Ohois. 


Ipom#a alatipes ; caule glabro volubili, foliis profunde acuminatis sinu et auri- 
culis obtusissimis glabris 2—3-pollices longis longiuscule petiolatis, pedun- 
culis 1-4-floris foliis longioribus utrinque ala lata membranacea, pedicellis 
exalatis glanduligeris seepe tortuosis apice dilatatis, calyee magno clavato, 
sepalis ovalibus imbricatis, corolle lateritie tubo elongato limbo amplo 
patentissimo, lobis brevissimis emarginatis. 


Troma pterodes. Seem. Bot. of the Herald, p. 171. (non Chois. in De Cand.). 


Seeds of this handsome species, accompanied by dried speci- 3 : 


mens, were sent to us by Sutton Hayes, Esq., under the native — 
name of “ Michoican,’ as a plant cultivated in gardens on ac- — 
count of its beauty. Dr. Seemann also found it at Veraguas, — 
but mistook it for the Jyomea pterodes of Choisy, from which, 
however, it is readily distinguished by the colour of its corolla, 


and by its singularly-winged peduncle bearing from two to four — oe 


flowers. The same species has been detected in Venezuela by 
Fendler (n. 2084), but I do not find it anywhere described. It 
has flowered in the stove of the Royal Gardens, in June, 1862. 
Duscr. A strong-growing, rampant climber, with glabrous 
stems, and branches, and foliage. Leaves two to three inches 
long, cordate, acuminate, with a deep obtuse sinus at the base, 
and very obtuse, rounded lobes. Peduncles axillary, furnished 
with a singularly-broad membranaceous wing on. each side, two- 
to four-flowered ; the pedicels wingless, but very tortuose, as if 


they might act as tendrils in supporting the long, climbing stem, - 
and frequently furnished with glands, possibly abortive branches ae 


AUGUST lIsT, 1862. 


of the pedicels, : dilated just below the large, ovate calya, an inch 


and often more long. Corolla salmon-coloured, three inches i 
diameter. 


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Tas. 5331. 


ANOMOCHLOA. maranrtorpEa. 


Maranta-like Anomochloa. 


Nat. Ord. GRAMINEZ.—TETRANDRIA MonoGyniIa. 


Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Spicule uniflore, in axillis bractearum 
spice composite ternatim fasciculatee (cymis scorpioideis abbreviate). Glume 
nulle. Palee due, carinate, imparinervie, alterne, florem terminalem invol- 
ventes ; inferior membranacea, nervosa; superior crassior, subcrustacea, margi- 
nibus ante adpressis, in appendice lineari canaliculato obtuso desinente. Sgua- 
mule nulle ; discus aut annulus piloso-fimbriatus staminum basi cingens. Sfa- 
mina 4, equalia et zque distantia. Ovarium oblongum, obliquum ; stylus graci- 
lis ; stigma indivisum, filiforme, exsertum, breve, papillosum. Caryopsis oblonga, 
palea superiori indurata, inclusa ; perispermo farinoso ; embryone parvo, basilari 
oblique scutelliformi.—Gramen (Brasiliense) humile, foliis petiolatis, vagina laxa 
truncata, limbo distincto lato, nervis parallelis. Brongn. 


ANOMOCHLOA marantoidea. 
ANOMOCHLOA marantoidea. Brongn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3. v. 16. p. 368. tab, 23. 


In the 5831 figures of plants given in this Magazine, it must 
be confessed the Grasses are not fairly represented. They are 
too uniform in aspect to be generally favourites with cultivators 
in ornamental gardens. Briza maxima, however, 18 an excep- 
tion, and it finds a place at our Tab. 337; and Coix Lachryma, 
or “ Job’s Tears,” Tab. 479, on account of the curious structure 
of its flowers. The Grass we now figure may surely come under 
the latter category. In its habit it resembles some Maranta- 
ceous plant rather than a Grass, and in the number of its sta- 
mens (four) it departs from the ternary arrangement so prevalent 
among Grasses, and these fovr are so regularly arranged as to 
indicate no abortive reduction, as in the well-known instance 
of our Sweet-scented Vernal Grass (Authovanthum odoratum), 
where the number is reduced to two, as is evident by the va- 
cant space where the third should be. M. Brongniart has given. 
a full and admirable description of this plant in the ‘ Annales, 


AuGUST Ist, 1862. 


above quoted, to which we must refer our readers. The plant 
is a native of Bahia, in Brazil, and has heen introduced to the 
Jardin des Plantes at Paris, whence our living plants have been 
received through the kindness of Professor Decaisne. 

Dzscr. Apparently perennial. Cu/ms short, erect, leafy, 
chiefly towards the base, with four to six broad leaves, which 
are four to five inches long, one to two inches broad, cordato- 
lanceolate, striated, petiolate; petiole one to two inches long, 
slender, grooved in front, terminating a long, lax, truncated 
sheath, three to four inches long; /igule short, obtuse, ciliated. 
Spikes racemose, one or two, terminal on the culm, at first, ac- 
cording to Brongniart, scorpioid, then erect. Flowers sub- 
tended by long, almost leafy, conduplicate, lanceolate dracés, the 
outermost one terminating in a leaf. Spikelets, two to three in 
each bract, with a few dracteoles at their base. Corolla of two 
valves (palee): the inferior larger, green; superior one nearly 
white, firm, and crustaceous, terminated by a long, linear, 
grooved appendage. Squamule none; but there is a ciliated 
ring or disk, within which are the stamens and pistil. Stamens 
four, uniformly disposed. Filaments very much extended, slen- 
der. Anthers lear, drooping, yellow, oblong-sagittate. Style 
very long, slender, longer than the valves of the corolla, gra- 
dually passing into the subulate papillose stigma. 


Fig. 1. Two spikelets, removed from the Jarge outer bract. 2. Inner crusta- 


ceous valve of the corolla, enclosing the stamens and pistil. 3. Pistil:—more 
or less magnified. 


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Tas. 5332. 
NEPHALAPHYLLUM putcurum. 


Beautiful Cloudy-leaf. 


Nat. Ord. OrcHIDE”.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. Sepala et petala linearia, patentissima v. reflexa. Ladellum cal- 
caratum, integerrimum, liberum, linea media elevata; limbo petaloideo cum co- 
lumna parallelo. Columna semiteres. Anthera carnosa, triangularis, bilocularis. 
Pollinia 8, subquadrata.—Herbe terrestres, subcaulescentes, glabre ; foliis ovatis 
petiolatis plicatis, supra nebulosis subtus purpurascentibus ; pedunculo terminali 
multifloro ; floribus pedicellatis. Blume. ‘ 


NEPHALAPHYLLUM pulchrum ; floribus dense spicatis, labelli limbo obovato re- 
tuso lineis tribus elevatis versus apicem subulato-papillosis. 

NEPHALAPHYLLUM pulchrum. Bl. Bijdrag. p. 372; Tabellen, 32. Lindl. Gen. et 
Sp. Orchid. p. 24. Reichenb. Xenia Orchid. v. 1. p. 216. t. 88. f. 1. 


A rare and very little known Orchideous plant, first detected 
by Blume in Java (on Mount Salak), and since by Zollinger. It 
has now been introduced to our gardens by Messrs. Low, of 
Clapton, by whom we were favoured with the flowering specimen 
here represented in May, 1862. A second species, described by 
Blume, is V. tenviflorum ; and Reichenbach is disposed to con- 
sider Cytheris cordifolia, Lindl., from Sylhet (Wallich), as a 
third species. The habit of the genus and the marking of the 
foliage remind one strongly of the now well-known genus 4u@ec- 
tochilus, and both the genera are terrestrial. : 

Descr. Stem ascending, branched, about a span high, with a 
few stout vermicular roo/s, partially clothed with membranous, 
Sheathing scales. Leaves two in our plant, petiolate, sabmem- 
branaceous, cordato-ovate, acute, five- to seven-nerved, reticulated 
with veins, yellowish-green, slightly tinged with purple (more so 
beneath), and clouded with irregular spots of darker green. Pe- 
duncle terminal, sheathed with dracts at the base, erect, short, 
few- (four to six-) flowered. Flowers in a lax short spike. Sepals 


AUGUST IsT, 1862. 


and petals pale-green, with three lines on strie, uniform, linear, 
patent, soon quite reflexed. Jip large, obovate, retuse, white, 
with three clevated lamellz or ridges, green at the base, but to- 
wards the apex muricated as it were with soft yellow papille : 
the base of the lip is extended into a short didymous spur. 
Column \arge in proportion to the size of the flower, semiterete, 
yellowish white, the margin expanded into a wing. Anther-case 
subtriquetrous (or rather saddle-shaped). Pollen-masses eight, oc- 
cupying the two cells of the anther-case. 


Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Column and anther, front view. 3. Side view of the 
pollen-masses. 4. Front view of ditto. 5. Side view of labellum and apex. 
6. Front view of ditto:—all more or less magnified. 


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Tas. 5333. 
AGAVE GLAUCESCENS. 


Glaucescent Agave. 


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* Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDE®.—HEXxaNnDRIA MonoGynta. 


Gen. Char. Perigonium corolinum, superum, infundibuliforme, persistens, 
limbi sexpartiti laciniis subeequalibus. Stamina 6, tubo perigonii inserta; fila- 
menta filiformia, eestivatione inflexa, sub anthesi exserta; anther@ lineares, ver- 
satiles. Ovarium inferium, triloculare. Ovula plurima, in loculorum angulo 
centrali biseriata, horizontalia, anatropa. Sfylus filiformis, exsertus, cavus, 
apice pervins; stigma capitato-trigonum. Capsula coriacea, trigono-triquetra, 
trilocularis, loculicide trivalvis. Semina plurima, plano-compressa; testa char- 
tacea, marginata ; raphe laterali, umbilicum prope basin Jateralem chalaze sub- 
apicali jungente. Lmbryo cylindricus, axilis, albuminis carnosi longitudine, ex- 
tremitate radiculari umbilicum spectante.—Herbee acaules v. caulescentes, inter- 
dum gigantee, longeve, vel semel florentis, in America tropica et subtropica cis 
@quitorem indigena, quadam nunc a mortalibus late diffuse ; foliis radicalibus car- 
nosis, interdum maximis, marginibus spinosis ; floribus in scapo radicali bracteato 
paniculatis numerosissimis, Endl. 


AGavE glaucescens ; caule elongato crasso, foliis crassissimis 2-3-pedalibus 
glaucis spathulato-lanceolatis marginatis integerrimis apice longe spies 
centibus supra concaviusculis subtus valde convexis, scapo bipedali copiose — 
subulato-bracteato, spica caudiformi crasso densiflora cernuo scapo qua- 
druplo longiore demum copiose viviparo, floribus in bracteis subulatis age 
_ gregatis pedicellatis, pedicellis brevibus basi bracteolatis, ovario cylindraceo, 2 
tubo brevi contracto, limbi laciniis linearibus, staminum filamentis longitu- 
dine perianthii, stylo longiore. 3 

AGave glaucescens. Hort. Kew. 


Of the fine and in many species stately genus Agave, no less 
than sixty-four species are enumerated and attempted to be cha- — 
racterized in Professor Koch’s ‘ Wochenschrift des Vereines zur — 
Beforderung des Gartenbaues in den kéniglich Preussischen : 
Staaten,’ ete., for 1860, chiefly from garden plants, and too often — 
plants whose flowers,are unknown. ,We do not find among 
them one which accords with our present individual, which has. 
been cultivated in the Succulent House at Kew, where it was 


SEPTEMBER Ist, 1862. 


received from Galeotti many years ago as a native of Mexico, 
under the name we have here adopted. It flowered in the 
autumn of 1861 for the first time, and was a very attractive ob- 
ject during the whole winter, for the expansion of the innume- 
rable flowers on the long and singularly decurved spike was 
very gradual, and now that we are describing it (August, 1862) 
the spike still remains with a few imperfect capsules, and an im- 
mense quantity of young plants germinating on the rachis. ‘The 
leaves are withering, and the foliage and most of the stem will 
probably die; but suckers are produced from the base of the 
stem, and there is altogether a most abundant crop of young 
plants. 

Descr. Stem three to four feet high, and twelve inches in cir- 
cumference, cicatrized with the transverse scars arising from the 
fallen leaves. Leaves two to three feet long, forming a noble 
crown to the stem, very thick and fleshy, and smgularly glau- 
cous, spathulato-lanceolate, quite entire, and with a narrow car- 
tilaginous margin, terminated by a long and very pungent and su- 
bulate spine. Scape eight feet long, cylindrical, erect or nearly 
so, beset with large subulate dracts, and terminating in a dense; 
caudate, remarkably deflexed spite, nearly as thick as one’s arm, 
of really innumerable, most firmly compacted, and imbricated 
flower-buds. ‘The lowest buds are the first to diverge from the 
rachis, and to expand; and then the spike becomes Aérissé with 
the multitude of stamens and styles, and eventually with a large 
crop of young plants, for it is abundantly proliferous, especially 
towards the apex. Bracteoles about three inches long, subulate, 
including two to four shortly pedicelled, green flowers, each about 
an inch and a half long. Ovary inferior, oblong, broader than 
the short free portion of the cylindrical tude; limé of six rather 
long, linear, obtuse, channelled, spreading segments. Stamens 
as long as the flowers, or even longer. Anthers long, linear. 
Style often as long as the filaments of the stamens. 


Fig. 1. Very reduced flowering plant. 2. Portion of the rachis of the spike, 


with flowers :—zatural size. 3. Bract, bracteoles, and flowers :—slightly mag- 
nified. 4. Apex of a leaf:—naéural size. 


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Tas. 5334; . 


PHILADELPHUS urrsvtvs. 


Hairy Philadelphus, or Mock Orange. 


Nat. Ord. PutLaDELPHES.—IcosaANDRIA Monooynia. 


Gen. Char. Calyx tubo obovato, turbinato, cum ovario connato ; limbi superi 
quadri—quinquepartiti laciniis wstivatione valvatis. Corolle petala 4-5, sub an- 
nulo epigyno inserta, calycis laciniis alterna, obovata, cestivatione convolutiva. 
Stamina plurima, cum petalis inserta ; filamenta compresso-plana, subulata; an- 
there introrse, biloculares, ovato- v. subgloboso-didyme, longitudinaliter dehis- 
centes. Ovarium inferum, quadri—quinque- rarius octo—decemloculare. Ovuda in 
placentis loculorum angulo centrali adnatis plurima, pluriseriatim imbricata, pen- 
dula. Styli 4~5, filiformes, basi coaliti, superne plus-minus distincti; stigmata 
oblonga v. linearia, discreta v. coalita. Capsula coriacea, calyce corticata, quadri- ' 
decemlocularis, apice breviter exserto loculicide quadri—decemvalvis, valvis medio 
septiferis, indivisis v. tandem septicide bifidis. Semina plurima, pendula, pluri- 
seriatim imbricata, oblonga; testa membranacea, utrinque relaxata, reticulata, 
ad umbilicum fimbriata, nucleam multo minorem includens. Hmdryo in axi al- 
buminis carnosi orthotropus ; cotyledonibus ovatis, plano-convexis ; radicula longa, 
cylindrica, supera.—Frutices in Europa australi vel in America boreali temperata 
indigeni ; foliis oppositis, epunctatis, petiolatis, simplicibus, dentatis vel subinteger- 
rimis ; floribus corymboso-cymosis subpaniculatis, v. rarius axillaribus, bracteatis, 
albis, sepe suaveolentibus. Endl. 


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PuHiLapELpuus hirsutus; foliis petiolatis ovatis acuminatis _grosse dentatis 
3-nerviis supra pubescenti-scabris subtus calycibus pedicellisque canescenti- 
hirsutis, floribus aggregatis, pedicellis brevibus, calycis segmentis ovato- 
triangularibus, stylo brevi stigmatibus connatis. ee 

Purtape.puts hirsutus. Nuéé. Gen. v. 1. p. 301. De Cand. Prodr. v.3. p. 206. 
Lindl. Bot. Reg. v.24. t.14. Torrey et Gray, Fl. N. Am. v. 2. p. 595. 


PHILADELPHUS trinervius. Schrad. in Linnea, v. 12. p. 47. 


The American species of Phil/adelphus are not very readily 
distinguished from each other; and if we are correct, as we be- _ 
lieve, in naming this P. Airsutus, it is a native of Oregon coun- 
try, North-west America, whence it was imported recently by — 
the Messrs. Veitch. It does not in any way-differ from the | 
original authentic specimens in our herbarium of P. Airsutus, 


SEPTEMBER IsT, 1862. 


gathered in Tennessee, of the United States, the only other loca- 
lity recorded for it. 

The common Péiladelphus, or Mock Orange of the gardens, 
has long been known by the name of “ Syringa;” and it is the 
“ Syringa alba, seu Philadelphus Athenzei” of Bauhin and other 
old classical botanical writers. Syringa vulgaris is the botanical 
name, as is well known, of the common Zi/ac, and this circum- 
stance led Mr. Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 183, to quote under the 
common Lilac a passage from old Gerard relating to the peculiar 
odour of the flowers of the Philadelphus coronarius (see our 
Tab. 891):—“ They have a pleasant sweete smell, but in my 
judgement they are too sweete, troubling and molesting the 
head in a very strange manner. I once gathered the flowers, 
and laid them in my chamber window, which smelled more 
strongly after they had lien together a few howers, with such a 
poutiche and unacquainted savor, that they awakened me from 
sleepe, so that I could not take any rest until I had cast them 
out of my chamber.” Curtis afterwards corrected this error, 
but suggested, to prevent similar mistakes in future, to cease 
applying the term Syringa to the Philadelphus altogether ; but 
this is more easily said than done. It is supposed that in both 
cases the name was derived from cupuy£, a pipe, from the use 
made of the long straight stems for pipe-tubes. ‘The odour of 
the common Mock Orange is indeed very powerful, by some 
compared to fresh Cucumber, by others to that of smelts. Of 


our P. hirsutus, the smell of the plant, especially in the dried 
state, is that of Melilot. 


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TAB. 5335. 
OURISIA coccinga. 


Scarlet-flowered Ourisia. 


Nat. Ord. ScropHULARIE®.—DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA. 


Gen. Char. Calyx 5-lobus vel 5-partitus. Corolla infundibuliformis, incurva 
v. obliqua; diméi 5-fidi laciniis obtusis planis. Séamina 4, didynama, inclusa ; 
anthere subreniformes, loculis divaricatis confluentibus. S/ylus apice capitato- 
stigmatosus. Capsula loculicide bivalvis, valvulis medio septiferis placentis au- 
ferentibus. Semina plurima, testa laxa reticulata.—Herbe. basi rarius lignes- 
centes, Austro-Americanze vel Australasice. Folia opposita, nunc omnia con- 
Sormia, nune radicalia petiolata, caulina subnulla, floralia bracteeformia opposita 
vel verticillata. Flores aut awillares solitarii, aut ad apicem pedunculi v. capi- 
Sormes racemosi vel subumbellati. Benth. in De Cand. 


Ovrisra (§ Dicuroma) coccinea; caule brevissimo repente, foliis subradicali- 
bus longe petiolatis cordato-ovatis crenatis, floralibus oppositis cuneatis 
inciso-dentatis, racemo elongato, floribus dissitis, corolle tubo calyce plus 
triplo longiore. Benth. 

Ourtsia coccinea. Pers. Syn. Pl.v. 2. p. 169. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v.10. 
p. 192. Gay, Fl. Chil. v. 5. p. 132. 


DicHroma coccinea. Cav. Ic. v. 6. p. 59. t. 582. 


This truly lovely plant, never yet known in cultivation,"and = 
of which no coloured figure has anywhere appeared, wel tee 
cently imported from the Andes of Chili by those enterprismg 
and eminent nurserymen, Messrs. Veitch and Son (a firm, we 
believe, of three generations of the family), of Exeter, and Kings 
Road, Chelsea. ‘All the species of the genus are beautiful, and 
they number thirteen, inhabitants of the southern hemisphere, — ae 
and chiefly the extratropical regions on the high Andes of South =~ 
America, coming down to the coast in the Straits of Magellan. — 
Two species, O. chamedrifolia and muscosa, ave found in the 
Andes of Peru and Ecuador (Jameson): one is a native of New 
Zealand, and one of Tasmania. ‘There can be little doubt of 
O. coccinea proving a hardy plant in our gardens, as far as cli- — 
mate is concerned; but it is best cultivated in a cold frame, 


SEPTEMBER lst, 1862. 


like alpine plants in general. In the spring of this year we wit- 
nessed its beautiful appearance thus treated in Messrs. Veitch’s 
Nursery, Exeter. 

Descr. Herbaceous, slightly pilose on the scape, veins of the 
foliage, etc. Leaves mostly radical, long-petiolate, cordate, with 
a deep sinus, obtuse, unequally lobed, and crenate all round the 
margin, rather strongly veined, pale-coloured beneath. Scape a 
foot and more long, erect, terete, bearing one or two petiolated 
leaves at the base. /owers in opposite pairs, racemose, each 
subdented by a somewhat palmate or digitated, erect, herba- 
ceous dract. Pedicels single-flowered, an mch and a half long, 
tinged with red, erect. Hower drooping. Calyx green, tinged 
with purple, of five, spreading, deep, lanceolate lobes. Corolla 
as long as the pedicels, bright scarlet; ‘wbe long, dilated, up- 
wards ; dimd two-lipped, five-lobed, each lobe obtuse and bifid, 
scarcely patent. Stamens included ; ji/aments inserted above the 
iy of the tube. Ovary ovate. Style filiform, as long as the 
corolla. 


Fig. 1. Corolla, laid open. 2. Pistil :—maguified. 


FIFO. 


W. Fitch, delet lith, 


Tas. 5336. 
E PIDENDRUM PRISMATOCARPUM. 


Prism-fruited Hpidendrum. 


Nat. Ord. Orcu1pr®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 4 


Gen. Char. Sepala patentia, subsqualia, lateralibus basi haud productis. 
Petala nunc conformia et wqualia, nune diversissima. Ladbellum unguiculatum, 
cum columna parallelum et omnino v. parte connatum : limbo integro v. diviso, 
basi szepius callo duplici, costa v. tubereulo nune interjectis instructo ; nunc veri- 
similiter in ealcar productum, pedicello immersum ideoque columne caniculum 
formans. Columetla elongata: clinandrio marginato spe fimbriato, semiteres 
ecornis, basi seepius caniculata. Podlinia 4, coriacea, eequalia, compressa ; caw- 
diculis totidem replicatis ; glandula libera nulla. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis.— 
Herbze epiphyte Americe calidioris, nunc terrestres. Caulis nunc pseudobulbosus 
nunc elongatus, foliosus. Folia carnosa rarissime venis elevatis striata. Flores 
solitarii, spicati, racemosi, corymbosi, vel paniculati, terminales vel laterales, se- 
pius siccati coriacei, raphibus farcti. Lindl. 


EpIDENDRUM prismatocarpum ; pedunculo elongato multifloro, ovario abbreviato 8 


triptero, sepalis petalisque ligulato-lanceolatis acutis, labello unguiculato — 
cordato acuminato utrinque obtuse auriculato, crista bicruri linea interjecta — 
lanceolata, clinandrii appendice quadrata tridentata. Lindl. es 
EvrpEnprum prismatocarpum. H. G. Reichenbach, in Bot. Zeit. 1852. p. 729. 
Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Epidendr. p. 9. n. 23. es 


Epripenprum Uro-Skinneri. Hortulan. 


This peculiar-looking species of pidendrum we have received 


in July, 1862, from the stove of Mr. Low, of the Clapton Nur- 
sery, and also from Mr. Tucker, gardener to George Reed, Ksq., 


Burnham, Somerset. It appears to have been cultivated in some cee: 


gardens under the name of £. Uro-Shinneri, but Dr. Lindley | 
refers us to the Bot. Zeit. for 1852, where it was published _ 
from dried specimens under the name of &. prismatocarpum, so 
named on account of the three sharp angles or wings of the — 
ovary. It isan inhabitant of Chiriqni, Veragua, Central America, — 
and is one of the many interesting discoveries of the botanical — 


- SEPTEMBER Ist, 1862. 


traveller Warszewicz. Reichenbach says, “flowers small, lip 
brown, dotted ;” but such is not the case in the living plant. 

Descr. Pseudobulb ovate, tapering upwards into a kind of neck, 
ereen, obscurely furrowed, crowned with three ligulate scarcely 
coriaceous, flaccid Jeaves, almost a foot long, and an inch and a 
half broad. Scape from the centre of these leaves terete, erect. 
Raceme almost a foot long, many-flowered. Bracfs minute. 
Pedicels scarcely an inch long, terminated by a turbinate, tri- 
_quetrous ovary. Sepals and petals uniform, spreading, an inch 
and more long, oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, pale-yellow, 
with many dark-purple blotches, variable in size, fewer on the 
sepals than on the petals, or sometimes none. Jip the same 
length as the petals, unguiculate, white, greenish at the base : 
two lateral lobes short and rounded, very obtuse, middle lobe 
trowel-shaped, very acuminate, the upper side with a large pur- 
ple-lilac blotch, varying in intensity: the disk of the lip has an 
elevated ridge, with a longitudinal cleft in the lower half. Colwmn 
semiterete, terminated by three fimbriated lobes, with a brown 
blotch at the base. 


Fig. 1. Column and lip, seen from above. 2. Front view of the column. 
3 and 4, Pollen-masses :—magnified. 


Tas. 553/. 


DIMORPHOTHECA BARBERIA. 


Mrs. Barber's Dimorphotheca. 


Nat. Ord. Composir®.—SyYNGENESIA PoLYGAMIA NECESSARIA. 


Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 5252.) 


DimorPHotTHeEca Barberia ; herbacea, tenuiter glanduloso-puberula, foliis ob- 
longo-lanceolatis basi longe attenuatis acutis distanter calloso-denticulatis 
integerrimisve, ramis apice aphyllis monocephalis, involucri squamis acumi- 
natissimis margine scariosis, floribus disci (omnibus sterilibus) dimorphis, 
exteriorum lobis patulis apice barbatis, interiorum lobis conniventibus inflato- 
cucullatis triangularibus glabris, achzeniis radii levibus. Harv. 


DIMoRPHOTHECA Barberiz. Harv. MSS. in Herb. T. C. D. 


A native of Kreilis’ Country, Caffraria, where it was discovered 
by Henry Bowker, Esq. It is described by Mrs. F. W. Bar- 
ber, to whom we are indebted for seeds and dried specimens, as 
“a lovely plant,” conspicuous for its brilliant purple flowers. 
Unlike most of the species of Dimorphotheca, the ray-flowers are 
much more deeply coloured on the upper or inner surface than 
on the outer. The disk-flowers are remarkable for having co- 
rollas of two forms. Raised at Kew, where it flowered in June, 
1862. 

Descr. Stems herbaceous, slightly lignescent at base, purple 
erect or ascending, subsimple, laxly leafy. Leaves broadly lan- 
ceolate or oblong-lanceolate, four or five inches long, from half 
to three-quarters of an inch wide, the lower ones tapering greatly 
at base into a petiole, the upper sessile, all remotely denticulate 
or quite entire. The stems, foliage, peduncles and calyx are 
minutely puberulous, with spreading gland-tipped hairs. //owers 
on terminal, naked peduncles, two anda half inches across. Ray- 
florets brilliant purple above, pale mauve beneath. Dzsk-florets 
all deep purple ; the corollas of the outer ones with five, spread- 
ing, externally bearded lobes; those of the inner florets with 


lsT SEPTEMBER, 1862. 


ig. 1. -Floret of the : ray. 2. Section of the same, showing the dieepty forked 

. 8. Outer floret of the ‘disk with its bearded corolla. 4. Style. from the 
5. Tuner floret of the disk, with its connivent and inflated corolla. 6. 

same, cut open, showing the anthers. 7. One of the inflated or hooded 
8. Style from the same floret :—magnified. 


W.Fitch, del. et lith., Vincent Broaks, bmp 


Taps. 5338. 


| LILIUM avratum. 


Golden-striped Lily. 


Nat. Ord. Littace®.—Hexanpria Monoaynta. 


Gen. Char. Calyx 6-sepalus, corollaceus, regularis, deciduus ; sepala distincta, 
sepe basi angustato-unguiculata, inferne campanulato- rarius infundibulari- 
conniventia, superne patentia vel revoluta, intus supra basin sulco nectarifluo 
exarata; sulco nudo vel fimbriato-ciliato. Prefloratio alternativa. Stamina 6, 
ime basi sepalorum inserta. Filamenta filiformia, apice subulata. Anthere 
lineares, emarginate vel obtuse, basi bilobx, antice supra basin affix, utroque 
margine secundum longitudinem dehiscentes, aperte, curvate, incumbentes. 
Ovarium liberum, prismatico-trigonum (hexaquetrum in Martagone), sex-sulea- 
tum, triloculare; ovuda in loculis crebra, biserialia horizontalia, anatropa. Stylus 
terminalis, cylindricus rectus vel subcurvatus, deciduus. Stigma toroso-incras- 
satum, trigonum, apice trilobum. Capsula subcoriacea, oblonga vel obovata, 
hexagona, apice obtusa et vertice depressa, basi brevissime attenuato-substipi- 
tata, trilocularis, superne loculicido-trivalvis ; valve medio septiferze filo suturis 
interjecto fibrillisque subalternis pectinato-ramoso connexe ; columella centralis 
nulla. Semina in loculis crebra, biserialia, horizontalia, oblique obovata, late 
alato-marginata, fusca vel lutescentia; hilum parvum ; ¢esta membranacea, ope 
membrane interne tenuissimee albumini cartilagineo-carnoso arcte adnata, mar- 
gine ubique membranaceo-dilatata ; raphe obsoleta, filiformis, ad latus rectius, e 
vertice per marginem descendens. mbryo rectus vel levissime sigmoideus, 
albumine magis minusve brevior ; radicula hilo proxima.—Herbe bulbose, bulbo 
squamoso, sepe per rhizoma infra produetum repéente. Caulis simplex, erectus, 
Joliatus, apice uni-multiflorus ; floribus pedunculatis, umbellatis corymbosis vel 
racemosis, magnis, speciosis, erectis vel nutantibus. Folia sparsa vel verticillata, 
plerumque angusta. Kunth. 


LinivuM auratum ; caule gracili (unifloro ?), foliis anguste lanceolatis basi acutis, 
flore subdeclinato maximo crateriformi candido odoratissimo, sepalis peta- 
lisque multo latioribus lanceolatis acuminatis apice recurvis basi intus vil- 
losis superficie spinulosa et guttulata, filamentis basi leviter monadelphis. 
Lindl. 


Litium auratum. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. July 12, 1848, p. 644 6. 


It may be presumed that this Lily has been one of the most 
attractive, if not the most attractive, object of the present floral 
season (1862); it was recently imported from Japan by Messrs. 
Veitch and Sons, of Exeter and Chelsea, through Mr. T. J. G. 
Veitch, who makes the following mention of its locality :—“ It is 

OCTOBER Ist, 1862. 


found growing wild on hillsides in the midland provinces of 
Japan (no particular island stated); the flowering season, July 
and August, during which months it may be commonly seen 
in situations exposed to the sun. ‘There is no doubt that it will 
prove perfectly hardy in this country.” 

Being myself absent when the specimens were sent to be 
figured, I had no opportunity of making notes from the recent 
plant ; and gladly transcribe Dr. Lindley’s observations, as I 
have above given his specific character :— 

“Tf ever a flower merited the name of glorious, it is this, 
which stands far above all other Lilies, whether we regard its 
size, its sweetness, or its exquisite arrangement of colour. Ima- 
gine, upon the end of a purple stem no thicker than a ramrod, 
and not above two feet high, a saucer-shaped flower at least ten 
inches in diameter, composed of six spreading, somewhat crisp 
parts, rolled back at their points, and having an ivory-white skin 
thinly strewn with purple points or studs, and oval or roundish, 
prominent, purple stains. ‘lo this add in the middle of each of 
the six parts a broad stripe of light satiny yellow, losing itself 
gradually in the ivory skin. Place the flower in a situation 
where side-light is cut off, and no direct light can reach it ex- 
cept from above, when the stripes acquire the appearance of 
gentle streamlets of Australian gold, and the reader who has 
not seen it may form some feeble notion of what it is. Fortu- 
nately ten thousand eyes beheld it at South Kensington on the 
2nd instant (July), and they can fill up the details of the picture. 
From this delicious flower there arises the perfume of orange 
blossoms sufficient to fill a large room, but so delicate as to re- 
spect the weakest nerves. It is botanically allied to Lilium lan- 
cifolium on the one hand, and to the orange-red Z. Thunber- 
geanum on the other, but it is wholly different from either.” — 
Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1. . 

In a subsequent number of the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ it is 
staied that Mr. Standish had some two-flowered plants coming 
on, supposed to be the same species; and Mr. Fortune remarks 
that he has usually seen this plant four feet high in Japan, and 
often with three or five of these large flowers on the same stem, 
and he adds, “I rather suspect it is the great-grandmother of 
L. speciosum.” Vf by this expression is meant a hybrid off- 
spring of that species, he is probably correct, for the purple spots 
and papillz show an evident affinity with that. 

The ‘Gardeners’ Monthly Advertiser,’ published at Philadel- 
phia, announces in its August number that the Lily had been 
received in Massachusetts by Mr, Parkman, of Jamaica Place, 
the preceding year, from Japan, and produced its gorgeous 
blossoms, equal in size with those that have appeared in England. 


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ACANTHONEMA STRIGOSUM. 


Strigose Acanthonema, 


Nat. Ord. CyrTanDRACE®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 


Gen, Char, ACANTHONEMA, Hook.—Calye profunde 5-partitus, aqualis, lobis 
lineari-oblongis erecto-patentibus. Corolla calyce 4-plo longior, infundibulifor- 
mis, tubo sursum curvato subventricoso, limbo patente aquali 5-lobo, lobis 
rotundatis. Stamina omnino inclusa, 4& fertilia, didynamia, quinto abortivo ad 
squamam subulatam redacto ; fertilium filamenta medio incrassata, 2 superiora 
breviora, inferiora apice furcata, ramo unico antherifero, altero spiniformi ; az- 
theris bilobis, unilocularibus, staminum inferiorum approximatis connatis. Ova- 
rium ovatum, biloculare. Dissepimentum medio longitudinaliter placentiferum ; 
glandula maxima, hypogyna, ad basin inferiorem ; sfy/us filiformis, inclusus, glan- 
dulosus ; stigma breve, bilobum. Ovula numerosa. Capsula? calyce longior, 
ovata, acuminata, placentis utrinque seminiferis.— Herba monophylla, tropice 
occidentalis; radice fusiformi, perenni. Folium humifusnm, oblongo-cordatum, 
pennivenium, superne strigosum, subtus venis hirsutis; paniculis brevibus pancifloris 
aggregatis, € basi in sinu foliorum erumpentibus ; floribus glanduloso-hirsutis ; co- 
rolla aléa ; limbo atro-sanguineo.—Nomen, axavOos, a spine, vyua, a filament. 


ACANTHONEMA strigosum. 


The solitary humifuse leaf of this plant, with small pani- 
cles of long tubular flowers springing from the sinus of the leaf, 
singularly reminds one of some of the Southern and Eastern 
African species of Streptocarpus ; but the structure of the flower, 
the short ovary, the four fertile stamens, together with the forked 
apex of the inferior pair of filaments, indicate a different genus ; 
but, unable to find one whose character accords with it, we are 
reduced to the necessity of forming of it a new genus of Cyr- 
tandracee. It is a native of tropical Western Africa. Living 
plants were sent home by M. Gustav Mann, from an elevation 
of 4000-5000 feet in the plains of Fernando Po, where it grows on 
rocks, and epiphytally on trees. The flowers are mottled with 
blood-purple; they are pretty, but we must confess that the 
plant is more botanically interesting than ornamental. It 
flowered with us from June till August; the various dried speci- 
inens were collected in flower in November. 


OCTOBER IsT, 1862. 


Dxscr. A small herb, with the habit of Streptocarpus. Root 
perennial (?), rather slender and fibrous (annual in appearance). 
Leaf solitary, radical, four inches to a span long, spreading 
on the ground, with the apex recurved, linear-oblong, cordate 
at the base, very shortly petioled, strigose with scattered hairs 
on both surfaces, but chiefly above; nerves transverse, pa- 
rallel, very numerous, upper surface lurid green, lower glau- 
cous. Panicles short, one to two inches high, sessile on the 
costa at the base of the leaf as in Streptocarpus, the peduncles 
being adnate with the costa, flowering in succession, those 
nearest the base of the leaf first ; dranches terete, spreading, and 
flowers covered with glandular hairs. Pedice/s a quarter to half 
an inch long. Mowers half to three-quarters of an inch long. 
Calyx of five equal linear oblong or lanceolate lobes, one-fourth 
to one-fifth as long as the corolla. Coro//a with a curved some- 
what inflated ¢ude, and very short spreading five-lobed limé. 
Stamens four, included, sometimes only two are perfect; fi/aments 
seated about the middle of the tube, thickened in the middle, 
the two lower pairs forked at the apex, one branch being an- 
theriferous, the other is spiniform. Az¢hers transversely oblong, 
obscurely cohering over the stigma, two-celled; the ced/s con- 
fluent ; the fifth rudimentary stamen is variable in form and 
size. Disk variable, cup-shaped and four-lobed or unilateral. 
Ovary ovoid, two-celled, with a slender pubescent style; s¢igma 
obscurely two-lobed. Placente with ovula on both surfaces. 
Capsule ? (immature) about one-third longer than the calyx, 
ovoid, acuminate, with a rather pulpy epicarp. Seeds extremely 


numerous, spreading and ascending, with fwaicles rather long 
and slender.—/. D. H. 


Vig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla laid open. 3. One of the longer stamens. 4. 
Ovary. 5. Transverse section of ditto :—all magnified. 


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Tas. 5340. 


BOTRYCHIUM DAUCIFOLIUM. 


Carrot-leaved Moonwort. 


Nat. Ord. Frurces, § OpH1oGLossE#.—CRYPTOGAMIA STACHYOPTERIDES. 


Gen. Char. Capsule biseriales, libere, erectze, sessiles, globose, ab apice ad 
basin in valvas duas eequales hemisphericas demum patentissimas dehiscentes. 
Vene flabellatee aut pinnate, simplices aut furcatee, interne venuleque apice 
obtuse liberee. Panicula fertilis, ramosissima, ramis (rachiolis) planis aut semi- 
teretibus, plus minus marginatis.—Species hujus generis in regione boreali et tem- 
perata Europe, Asize e¢ Americee, in regione temperata Australie, et in montibus 
regionem temperatam referentibus Asize et Americ obveniunt et magna affinitate 
juncte sunt. Presi. 


Botrycuium daucifolivm ; radice fasciculata, ffonde sterili spithamea et ultra 
membranacea subquinquangulari tripartita, partitionibus seu pinnis prima- 
rlis petiolatis subdeltoideis, inferne bipinnatis superne bipinnatifidis omni- 
bus acuminatis, pinnis vel laciniis ultimis ovatis ovato-oblongisve omnibus 
serratis terminali majori venis vere pinnatis conspicuis 2—3-4-furcatis, 
frondis fertilis tripinnate pedunculo elongato longe infra sterilem inserto et 
eam superante. 

Borrycutum daucifolium. Wail. Cat. n. 49 (in one impression, whilst n. 49 of 
another impression is given as ‘‘ Botrychium subcarnosum, Wal/.—Osmunda 
lanigera, Wall. Herb. 1823”). Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 161; and in 
Hook. Bot. Mise. v. 3. p. 224. Presi, Tent. Pterid. Suppl. p. 46. 


BorrycuiumM subcarnosum. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 312; via Wall. 


It would be no slight task for any one to undertake to settle 
the species and synonymy of the genus Botrychium, as may be 
inferred from the different views of authors on the subject ; for, 


_while Pres], in 1845, in his Tent. Pteridograph. Suppl., enume- 


rates seventeen distinct, and Moore, in his ‘ Index Filicum,’ in 
1860, reduces them to thirteen,—yet gives two additional ones,— 
Dr. Hooker, in his Fl. Nov. Zelandiz, considers it a genus “ of 
few, perhaps only two, species.” The truth perhaps lies between 
these different views, and in my opinion much nearer to the view 
of the last than the two first-mentioned authors. The present 
species is one of the most distinct, and yet among the least 


OCTOBER Ist, 1862. 


known to authors. The only habitat given by Presl is “ Nepal, 
Wallich, Hugel;” to which my herbarium enables me to add, 
Kamaon, Wallich (Blenkworth) ; Sikkim, Hook. fil. et Thomson, 
n. 356 a (in part); Nilghiri, Beddome, n. 159; Ceylon, Gardner 
(alt. 4000 feet, n. 1271), Zhwaites, C. P.,n. 1410; Java, Thomas 
Lobb ; Society Islands, very rare, Bidwill. 

The Royal Gardens are indebted to our excellent friend 
Mr. Thwaites for living plants, which were in great perfec- 
tion in a temperate stove in June, 1862. If there is little or 
no question about the specific identity .of this plant, there is 
more than ordinary confusion about the name. Presl says, that 
our name does not appear under n. 49 in Dr. Wallich’s Cata- 
logue, and suggests that the number should be suppressed as 
erroneous. Moore, in the Catalogue at the Linnean Society, 
finding n. 49 to bear the name of B. subcarnosum, has changed 
the name of daucifolium, Hook. et Grev., to subcarnosum, Wall.— 
a very unsuitable one to the plant, while that of dawcifolium is 
sufficiently appropriate. It is a fact however, known perhaps to 
few, that of Wallich’s lithographed Catalogue there have been 
of some of the early sheets two impressions, both of which I 
possess, and which are not always identical in name or number ; 
one was sent to me accompanying the specimens distributed, 
and perhaps the earliest and original sheets; the other to form 
a library volume for reference. My specimen bears, in the for- 
mer, the number “ 49, B. daucifolium.”’ In the other copy, n. 49 
is “‘ B. subcarnosum,” accompanied by the reference, “ Osmunda 
lanigera, Wall. Herb, from Sirrinigur, Kamroop.” This latter 
plant, from Wallich, in my herbarium bears that name, and 
is a true Osmunda—O. speciosa, Wall. Cat. n. 50. The name 
B. subcarnosum should therefore be entirely expunged, as well 
as the two Wallichian synonyms of Moore, B. speciosum and 
Osmunda lanigera, Wall. Herb.; for they only lead to error. 


Fig. 1. Ultimate segment of a frond, showing the venation. 2. Portion of 
a fertile rachis, with capsules and spores :—magnified. 


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Tas.. 5341. 


MONOCHAZTUM TENELLUM. 


Slender-branched Monochetum. 


Nat. Ord. MELASTOMACE®.—OcTANDRIA MonoGyYNIA. 


Gen. Char. Flos tetramerus. Calycis oblongo-campanulati dentes tubo sub- 
gequales aut breviores, acuti, caduci vel persistentes. Petala obovata. Stamina 
8, alternatim inequalia; filamentis complanatis, antheris longe subulatis acutis 
1-porosis, connectivo infra loculos non producto sed postice in caudam varie 
conflatam anthera ipsa sepius breviorem porrecto. Ovarium basi tantum 
costis 8 subevanidis adherens, subtetragonum, apice villosum, 4-loculare. Stylus 
filiformis, magis minusve sigmoideus, stigmate punctiformi. Capsula 4-valvis. 
Semina cochleata—Frutices suffruticesque ut plurimum monticole, in Republica 
Mexicana necnon in Columbia et Peruvia hucusque cogniti, ramosi ; foliis tripli- 
septuplinerviis, nervis convergentibus pagina superiore impressis, unde folia sulcata 
videntur ; floribus purpureis aut violaceis, antherarum minorum et fortassis ste- 
rilium quam fertilium ut plurimum longioribus. Naudin. 


Monocuztum fenellum ; ramis gracilibus hirtellis, foliis oblongo-ovatis acutis 
subintegerrimis integerrimisque quintuplinerviis sparse setulosis margine 
ciliato-setosis, floribus ad apicem ramorum ramulorumque in eymas pauci- 
floras dispositis, rarius solitariis, calycinis dentibus tubo subzquilongis 
persistentibus. Naudin. 


Monocnzrum tenellum. Naud. Monogr. Melast. p. 150.2. 5. 


A very lovely Melastomaceous plant, with copious rich purple- 
coloured flowers and myrtle-shaped leaves, from the Nursery of 
Mr. Henderson, Wellington Road, London. It is a native of | 
Guatemala, and flowered in the stove in October, 186]. 


Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx. 3 and 4. The two kinds of stamens :—magnified. 


OCTOBER Ist, 1862. 


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Tas. 5342. 
WAITZIA TENELLA. 


Slender-stemmed Weaitzia. 


Nat. Ord. Composit#.—SyYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 


Gen. Char. Capitulum multiflorum, homogamum. Receptaculum epaleaceum, 
planum vel demum convexiusculum, alveolatum. Jnvolucri multiserialis sguame 
imbricate exsuccee, omnes vel saltem intermedi et inferiores stipitate. et 
appendicula petaloidea radiante colorata aucte, discum superantes. Corolle 
hermaphrodite, tubulose, filiformes, graciles, pappum equantes, apice 5-dentate. 
Anthere basi attenuate, ecaudate. Sfyli rami apice capitellati. Achenia com- 
pressa, ovata, apice in rostrum producta. Pappi uniserialis sete 10-12, ima 
basi concretze et subplumosee, supra medium serrato-scabre.—Herbe Nove 
Hollandie ; caulibus corymbiferis, rarissime monocephalis, a basi ad apicem folia- 
tis ; capitulis hemisphericis ; involucri sguamis exsuccis, coloratis, discum superan- 
tibus, Helychrysi facie. Steetz. 


Wairtzea ‘Steetziana; caule erecto stricto versus apicem laxe corymbosum 
lanato, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, involucri squamis omnibus abbreviatis 
diseum vix superantibus ovatis acutis aureo-nitentibus, stipitibus in- 
teriorum planis laxe lanatis, floribus numerosissimis, acheniis minimis pa- 
pillosis in rostrum glabrum elongatum ipsis triplo longius attenuatis, pappo 
aureo. Steetz. 


Wairzia Steetziana. Lehm. Plant. Preiss. v. 1.-p. 454. 


Introduced by Mr. Thomson, of Ipswich, from Swan River Set- 
tlement, West Australia, to the gardens of this country, where it 
is likely to prove a great ornament to our flower-gardens. The 
flower-heads are. very pretty and drooping, of a lively and 
bright-yellow colour, and of that dry kind known by the name 
of “everlasting flowers,” retaining their beauty a long time 
after being gathered; hence well suited to the decoration of the 
drawing-room, even in the depth of winter. 

The genus was constituted by Wendland in 1810, and is the 
pa as Viraya, Gaudich., Leptorhynchos, Benth., and Morna, 

indl. 


Figs. 1 and 2. Involucral scales. 3. Floret. 4. A seta from the pappus. 
5. Summit of the style :—magnified. 


OCTOBER IsT, 1862. 


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Tas. 5343. 


BERBERIDOPSIS CORALLINA. 


Coral-flowered Berberidopsis. 


Nat. Ord. BerperIDE®.—ENNEANDRIA MonoGYNIA. 


Gen. Char. Berseripopsis, Hook. fil. mss.—Bracteole, sepala et petala 
9-15; externa (bracteole) patentia, parva, triangulari-ovata; interiora (sepala) 
orbiculata, concava; interna (petala) obovato-cuneata, erecta. Torus crassus, 
elevatus, cupularis. Stamina 8-9, intra torum inserta. Anthere sessiles, line- 
ares, apiculatze, 2-loculares, rimis lateralibus dehiscentes. Ovariwm sessile, an- 
guste oblongum, 1-loculare; sfylws crassus, columnaris, cum ovario continuus; 
stigmata obtusa, 3-loba; ovula 6-10, placentis 3 parietalibus supra medium 
ovarii insertis, fere orthotropa, funiculo curvo. Fructus ignotus.—Frutex gla- 
berrimus, sempervirens. Folia alterna, simplicia, petiolata, coriacea, oblongo- 
cordata, grosse spinuloso-dentata. Flores lonye pedicellati, penduli, axillares et 
in racemos terminales nutantes multifloros dispositi, eoccinei. 


The subject of our present Plate is not only one of the most 
beautiful hardy shrubs introduced of late years into this country, 
but botanically one of the most interesting ; for it so completely 
unites the two Orders, Berderidee and Lardizabalee, as fully to 
justify the union of these as tribes of one Order, a step already 
taken, previous to its discovery, in the ‘Genera Plantarum’ of Bent- 
ham and Hooker fil. In its scandent habit and foliage it is rather 
more Lardizabaleous than Berberideous. The stamens are those 
of the former most conspicuously. The ovary differs from both, 
being tri-carpellary, as in Lardizabalee; but the carpels, instead 
of being free, are wholly confluent into one ovary, which, but for 
its three-lobed stigma and three parietal placentae, shows no signs 
of its composition. This charming novelty was discovered by 
Mr. Pearce in the forests of Valdivia; and it is not a little re- 
markable that so striking a plant should hitherto have escaped 
the notice of all botanists and collectors who have explored a re- 
gion now so well known to us as Chili. 

NOVEMBER Ist, 1862. 


Dezscr. A glabrous, scandent or subscandent evergreen shrub, 
with long, terete dranches. Leaves alternate, petiolate, simple, 
oblong or oblong-ovate, with cordate or rounded base, acute 
apex, and toothed margin; the teeth large and spinulose, of a 
dull deep green above, glaucous below, with yellow midrib. 
Stipules none. Flowers pendulous, on long, slender, deep-red 
pedicels, which are clustered in twos and threes: the axils of 
the upper leaves arrahged in drooping, terminal racemes. Pe- 
dicels one and a half inch long, slightly thickened upwards. 
Perianth globose, of nine to fifteen deciduous leaflets, gradually 
passing into one another, all of a deep red colour, rather thick 
consistence, and shining surface; the outer (dracteoles) very 
small, spreading, more persistent than the others; inner (petals) 
obovate, cuneate, erect; intermediate ones (sepals) very con- 
cave, orbicular, and imbricate. Stamens seated within a cup- 
shaped torus. Anthers sessile, apiculate, two-celled, bursting 
by lateral slits. Ovary one-celled, with a short columnar séy/e, 
three-lobed sessile stigma, and three parietal placentee, with 
two to three ovules seated above the middle in each. Ovzules 
orthotropous or curved, funicles pendulous. Hook. fil. 


Figs. 1 and 2. Flowers. 3. Torus and stamens. 4. Anther. 5. Torus and 
ovary :—all magnified. 


Tan. 5344. 
RITCHIEA pouypera.ta. 


Many-petalled Ritchiea. 


Nat. Ord. CapPparIDEx.—POLYANDRIA MonoGynia. 


Gen. Char. Sepala 4, ampla, valvata. Petala 4 v. plura, longe unguiculata, 
oblonga, undulata, ungue induplicatim valvata, lamina imbricata. Torus hemi- 
sphericus, carnosus. Stamina }2—00, margine tori inserta, filamentis filiformibus 
elongatis. Ovarium ovoideum, 1-loculare, longe stipitatum, placentis 3-4 pro- 
minulis ; ovudis 00; stigmate sessili, magno, discoideo. Bacca elliptico-oblonga, 
3-4-costata. Semina ignota.—Frutices scandentes, erecti, v. sarmentosi. Folia 
3—5-foliolata ; stipulis odsoletis. Flores magni, suaveolentes, virescentes, corym- 
bosi, longe pedicellati. Benth. et Hook. fil. Gen. Pl. 110. 


Ritcuiea polypetala ; foliis 3-5-foliolatis, foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis longe acu- 


minatis, corymbis brevibus paucifloris, floribus breviter pedicellatis amplis’ 
polypetalis. 


R. poly petala. Hook. in Herb. Nostr. 


A very remarkable plant, differing from its congeners, and in- _ 
deed from every other plant of the Natural Order to which it 
belongs, in the numerous petals, which are not even multiples of 
the sepals as might have been expected. It was discovered by — 
the lamented Mr. Barter, of Dr. Baillie’s Niger Expedition, at_ 
Abeokuta, in 1859; and the plant here figured was sent from — 
Western Africa, by Mr. G. Mann, the intrepid collector for the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, from whom so many fine and curious | 
novelties have already been received by us and figured in this 
Magazine. Mr. Barter describes it as an erect shrub, growing in 
forests. It differs from the original species, &. fragrans (Cra- 
teva fragrans, Bot. Mag. t. 556), in the erect habit, short pe- 
duncle and pedicels, and numerous petals. The 2. erecta has 
much smaller flowers and few petals. 

Descr. An erect, glabrous shrub, with alternate, 3—5-folio- 
late /eaves. Petioles slender, terete, three to five inches long. 
Leaflets as long as or longer than the petioles, oblong or obovato- 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1862. 


: late, acuminate, shortly petiolulate. Corymbs terminal, 
erect, two ‘inches long, three- to five-flowered. /Vowers large, four 
inches across the petals. Sepa/s four, ovate-oblong, deep green. 
Petals about fourteen, very narrow, strap-shaped, crumpled above 
the middle, acuminate, pale straw-coloured. Stamens very nume- 


rous, spreading, with small anthers. Ovary on a very long stipes. 
_ Hook. 


‘Fig. 1. Pedicel, gynophores, and stipitate ovarium. 2. Transverse section of 
ovarium :—Jdoth magnified. 


allele ie aa 


Asl « kt 
delet Oth 


Seisvel 


Vincent Brooks,imp. 


Tas. 5349. 


ARISTOLOCHIA Gisertit. 


Giberf’s Aristolochia. 


Nat. Ord. ARIsSTOLOCHTE®.—GYNANDRIA HEXANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 5295.) 


ARISTOLOCHIA Gibertii ; herbacea, volubilis, scandens, glaberrima, caule gracili 
tereti, foliis petiolatis reniformi-rotundatis integerrimis apiculatis sinu pro- 
fundo, stipulis amplis rotundato-cordatis acutis, floribus axillaribus solitariis, 
perianthii viridis tubo basi oblique ampullzformi inflato, dein breviter con- 
stricto, ore campanulato bilabiato, labio superiore fornicato oblongo obtuse 
apiculato purpureo transverse ad margines picto, inferiore decurvo lingue- 
formi intus tomentoso, stylo obconico 6-cornuto, antheris linearibus. 


AristroLocuia Gibertii. 


A fine free-growing, tropical climber, more desirable for its 
handsome foliage than for any beauty in its flowers ; it was raised 
from seeds sent to the Royal Gardens by M. Gibert, who col- 
lected it in woods at Assumption, in Paraguay, in June, 1858; 
and it flowered in September of the present year. 

Dzscr. A lofty, perfectly glabrous climber, with twining, 
terete, green stems and dranches, and solitary, axillary flowers. 
Leaves two to four inches across, on petioles as long, round- 
reniform, minutely apiculate, quite entire, with pedate venation, 
of a fine green above, but not shining, paler and glaucous below. 
Stipules very large, rotundato-cordate, foliaceous. Peduncles 
axillary, solitary, curved, terete, shorter than the petioles, one- 
flowered. Flowers two to two and a half inches long, of a dull 
yellow-green, spotted with purple on the base of the tube ; the 
upper lip purple down the middle, and transversely barred with 
the same on the edges. Perianth suddenly inflated at the base 
into'a gibbous balloon, then suddenly contracted into a short, 
terete tube ; limb two-lipped, gaping; upper lip linear-oblong, 
- truncate with a dorsal horn, hairy inside down the centre, the 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1862. 


tip ton, = decurved, ‘broadly tongue-shaped, densely : 
on the inner surface. Sfy/e short, terminating in six, erect, 
atic horns. Anthers linear. : 


¥ 


. 


Fig. 1. Base of perianth, and style and anthers,—magnified. 


3346 


Tas. 5346. 
HIGGINSIA REFULGENS. 


Shining Higginsia. 


Nat. Ord. Rustacem, § Heprorrpp®.—Terrranpria Monoeynta. 


Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5280.) 


Hieeinsta refulgens ; patentim pilosa, caule crasso, foliis sessilibus obovato- 
oblongis acutis basi attenuatis utrinque pilosis subarcte plicato-nervosis 
pallide fusco-viridibus rubro tinctis subtus sordide rubris pallidis, floribus 
subcymosis, cymis longe pedunculatis, calycis tubo tetragono lobis triangu- 
lari-ovatis acutis, corollee lobis patentibus rubris linearibus subacutis. 


Campytosorrys refulgens. Hort., 


A very beautiful plant, native, it is presumed, of South 
America, of which a plant was presented to the Royal Gardens, 
by Mr. Ball, from his Nursery, King’s Road, Chelsea, under the 
name of Campylobotrys fulgens. \t flowered in May of the pre- 
sent year. It has already been shown in this work, under Z. 
regalis, t. 5280, that the genus Campylobotrys has been referred 


by Planchon to the long-established Aigginsia of Rersoon, the — he 


same as O’ Higginsia of Ruiz and Pavon. he present species is 
closely allied to H. discolor (Campylobotrys discolor, Bot. Mag. 
t. 4530), but differs in the more robust habit, sessile leaves, 
much larger flowers, and different calyx. 

Descr. A succulent, pilose, erect, branching derd, with erect, 
purple, almost terete dranches, opposite leaves, and axillary, soli- 
tary, long-peduncled cymes of red flowers. Leaves three to five 
inches long, narrow obovate, subacute, contracted at the base, but 
not petioled, the margins of the blades of the opposite pairs meet- 
ing, rather succulent, but not coriaceous, marked with numerous 
parallel veins, upper surface dull-green, but very beautiful, owing 
to the suffused red tint especially towards the margins, and the 
play of reflected lights from the cellular surface ; under side pale 
reddish. Peduncles solitary, axillary, shorter than the pale-green 
leaves, erect, slender, purple-red, pilose, bearing a short cyme of 


NOVEMBER lst, 1862. 


six to ten, crowded, pedicelled flowers. F/owers upwards of an 
inch across, pale-red. Calyx 4-gonous, angles pilose, lobes with 
solitary, minute, interposed teeth. Corol/a lobes much longer 
than the tube, linear, acute. dnthers linear. Style slender, 
erect, with linear stigmata. 


Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and pistil, with corolla removed :—doth magnified. 


W. Fitch, del.et lith. 


2347 


Vincent Brooks, Imp. 


5 iad 


Tas. 5347. 
PAN AUTIA LEsSONII. 


Lesson’s Panetia. 


Nat. Ord. Composir#.—SyNGENESIA SUPERFLUA. 


Gen. Char. Capitulum multiflorum, heterogamum, foribus tubulosis, radii 
paucis foemineis, disci hermapbroditicis. Znvolucri hemisphwrici flores equan- 
tis sguame imbricate, intermedi petiolate, appendice lata scariosa fimbriato- 
dentata, extimee ad appendicem redacte. Corolle tubulose, radii limbo tripar- 
tito, lobis linearibus ; disci longe tubulosi, quinquefide. Anthere (basi longis- 
sime bisete, apice attenuate, Steetz). Stigmata (apice appendice brevi, conica, 
papillosa aucta, Steefz). Achenia conformia, oblonga, erostria. Pappi sete 
tenuissime, superne plumose, radii bins, disci tres v. quatuor.—Herba Nove- 
Hollandie austro-occidentalis, annua, parvula, erecta, gracilis; caule sparsim 
piloso, apice in ramos monocephalos diviso; foliis alternis, sessilibus, oblongis, 
aculis, integerrimis, subtus albido-tomentosis ; capitulis soditariis, luteis. Endl. 


PanzTIA Lessonii. Cassini, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1829. pp. 19 and 32. De Cand. 
Prodr. v. 6. p. 162. Steetz, in Pl. Preiss. v. 1. p. 461. 


Panetia of Cassini is a genus of one species, native of King 
George’s Sound, and that one of the most graceful of the He/i- 
chrysum or Ary-flowered group of Composite, imported by Mr. 
Thomson, of Ipswich, to whom we are indebted for the speci- 
men here figured. It is an annual, and flourishes in the open 
air in the summer. Sown in masses, or planted out in rather 
compact masses, it cannot fail to prove a valuable border flower. 

We hardly see why this genus should not be united with 
Waitzia of Wendland, of which a species is given at ‘lab. 5342 
of the present volume. 

Descr. Root annual. Plant erect, graceful. Stem slender, 
wiry, terete, dichotomously branched from the base, about a foot 
high. Branches glabrous, purplish green, erect or nearly so, 
terminating in a very lax corymé of very slender flower-stalks, 
each bearing a single capitulum, or head of flowers. Leaves dis- 
tant, one at the setting on of every branch, and at the base 


NOVEMBER Ist, 1862. 


of-each peduncle, oblong, acute, one and a half to two inches 
long, sessile and subamplexicaul, slightly hairy above, dark- 
green beneath, and very glaucous and arachnoid. Peduncles 
three to four inches long, singularly slender, terminated by a 
solitary, globose, drooping /ead of flowers, scarcely half an inch 
in diameter. nvolucre hemispherical, consisting of densely im- 
bricated, yellow-green, hyaline, membranaceous scales, closely 
pressed, ovate or trowel-shaped, silky at the margin, stipitate ; 
stipes as long as the scale, glandularly pilose, lower scales sessile 
or nearly so. Florets very numerous, bright yellow, all tubular, 
much longer than the involucre, a few outer ones female, the 
rest perfect: ¢use of the corolla long, very slender, infundibuli- 
form ; limb of five, ovate, spreading segments. Anthers scarcely 
exserted. Ovary oblong, cylindrical, crowned with a pappus 
of four, Jong, slender sete, clubbed and hispid at the apex ; 
branches of the style linear, acuminated, the apex conical, hairy. 


Figs. 1 and 2. Scales from the involucre. 3. Floret from the disk. 4. Seta 
from the pappus. 5. Branches of the style :—adl more or less magnified. 


— 


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Tas. 5348, 


OPHIOPOGON spicatuws. 


Purple-flowered Snakesbeard. 


Nat. Ord. Opnitorpoconnz.—HEXANDRIA MonoGynia. 


Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Perigonium corollinum, liberum v. basi 
ovario adnatum, limbo sexpartito. Séamina 6, perigonii basi inserta ; Jilamenta 
brevissima v. elongata, filiformia v. inferne dilatata ; anthere oblonge, lineares v. 
sagittatee, basifixee, mucronate. Ovarium liberum v. cum perigonii basi coheerens, 
trilobum, triloculare. Ovuda in loculis 2, collateralia v. superposita, anatropa. 
Stylus trigono-pyramidatus ; stigma brevissime trifidum. Semina 4—6, ex ovario 
mox disrupto erumpentia, omnino nudata; ¢esta cerulea, subcarnosa.—Herbe 
in Asia australi et orientali indigene ; foliis lineari-ensiformibus, basi vaginanti- 
bus. Flores in racemo spicaformes fasciculati, scapum ancipitem v. angulatum 
terminantes ; pedicellis articulatis. 


OPHIOPOGON spicatus; scapo foliis subequali vel longiore, fasciculorum racemo 
laxiusculo elongato, pedicello apice articulato, bracteis brevibus, perigonio 
violaceo, foliolis conniventibus, filamentis elongatis, ovarii loculis 2-lobis, 
ovulis 2 collateralibus. 


OPHioPoGon spicatus. Gawl. in Bot. Reg. t. 593. Kunth, En. Plant. v. 5. 
p. 299, 


Convatiarta spicata. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p.141. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 161. 
Lrr1o0PE spicata. Loureiro, Cochin. p. 200. 
FiueeEa spicata. Schult. Syst. Veget. 


Botanists vary in opinion as to the Natural Order of this plant. 
Its first describer refers it to Asphodelee, apparently with the 
sanction of Mr. Brown. Endlicher places it at the end of his 
Smilacee, among a section of “ Genera Smilaceis affinia >? and 
in a subsection, which he calls Ophiopogonee (including besides 
Ophiopogon, Bulbospermum, Bl., and Peliosanthes), and between 
his Aspidistree and Herreriee. Dr. Lindley refers our genus 
to his eleventh section of Liliacee, corresponding with Ophio- 
pogonee of Endlicher, and lastly Kunth constitutes a separate 
Order for it, Ophiopogonee. Nor are all agreed about the limits 

NOVEMBER Ist, 1862, 


of the genus, for while Gawler refers this plant to his original 
Ophiopogon (O. Japonicus), Richard constitutes of the latter a 
distinct genus, by the name of Fhiggea. Gawler’s artist has not 
done justice to the plant in his figure above quoted, for the 
graceful habit, broad, grassy leaves, and the long spike of bright 
purple-blue flowers, render it a pretty object. It is a native of 
Cochin China, China, and Japan; but not, as has been stated, of 
Northern India, where a similar but different species is found. 

Our plants were raised from seeds sent by Pemberton Hodg- 
son, Hsq., from Hakodadi, in Japan, and the flowers are in per- 
fection in a cool greenhouse in October, 1862. 

Derscr. Leaves all radical, six inches to a foot long, subgra- 
mineous, narrow, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, three-nerved, and 
obscurely striated ; at the base they are surrounded by a few. 
membranaceous scales. Scape erect, dark livid-purple, angular, 
longer than the leaves, and terminated by a spicated raceme six 
to twelve inches long. The flowers are rather small, in fascicles 
or clusters of three to five, which are bracteated; dracts ovate 
acuminated. Pedicels short, green, upon which the flowers are 
jomted at the very apex. Perianth deep violet-blue, subcam- 
panulate, divided down to the ovary into six, moderately spread- 
ing, ovate-oblong, obtuse concave segments. Sfamens six, sub- 
erect, much shorter than the segments of the perianth. Fila- 
ments short, filiform, moderately incurved. Axthers linear-ob- 
long, bright yellow, scarcely sagittate at the base. Ovary free, 
depressed, three-lobed, the lobes globose, two-lobed, 2-ovuled ; 
ovules collateral. Sty/e columnar, about as long as the stamens ; 
stigma obtuse, not sensibly divided. 


Fig. 1. Fascicle of flowers from a portion of the rachis. 2. Base of flower ; 
ovary and style :—doth magnified. 


Se 


Shigeo 


Lite A iter 


ican oO 


NY 


Pa was “in, 


- Pes 


Vincent Bu-uuks, Imp. 


W. Fitch delet lich 


Tas. 5349. 
CYPRIPEDIUM Sronet. 


Mr. Stone’s Cypripedium. 


Nat. Ord. Orcuipe#: Tr. Cypripepe®.—GyNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 


‘Gen. Char. Perianthium patens. Sepala lateralia connata aut distincta, labello 
supposita. Petala \ibera, seepius angustiora. Labelium inflatum, margine 
utrinque auriculato inflexo. Columna nana. Stamina 3, quorum unum sterile, 
centrale, dilatatum, inflexum, et 2 fertilia lateralia. Anthere sub stamine sterili 
latentes, subrotunde, biloculares. Pollen pulticeo-granulosum. Stylus subliber, 
teres, stigmate disciformi terminatus. (Capsula unilocularis.\—Herbe terrestres 
utriusgue orbis, ab aquatore fere ad circulum arcticum vigentes. Folia radicalia 
aut caulina. Flores solitarii, racemosi v. paniculati, speciosi. Lindl. 


CypriPepiIuM Stonei ; acaulis, folis binis pedalibus oblongis coriaceis obtusis 
brevi-mucronatis, scapo elongato atro-purpureo folia subeequante subtrifloro, 
bracteis lanceolatis conduplicatis acuminatis, sepalis duobus (lateralibus in 
unum connatis) amplis late ovatis acuminatis, petalis 5-uncialibus penden- 
tibus linearibus acuminatis basi ciliatis, labello unguiculato, ungue margini- 
bus introflexis apicé amplo cucullato calceolariformi, ovario sesquiunciali 
oblongo 6-angulari uniloculari, stamine sterili ovato carnoso obtusissimo, 
stigmate amplissimo obovato bilobo margine supra dense fimbriato. 


CyprirepiuM Stonei. Hort. Low. 


ee 


This superb new species of Cypripedium was received in Oc- 
tober of the present year from the collection of J. Day, Esq., — 
of Tottenham. It was very recently imported from near Sarawak, — 
Borneo, by Messrs. Hugh Low and Son, of Clapton Nursery, 
who express a wish that it should bear the name of Mr. Day’s | 
able gardener, Mr. Stone. Nothing like this, as faras I know, 
has ever been received from the Old World; but it is evidently = 
allied to a species gathered by Ruiz and Pavon, in Peru, C. cau- 
datum of Dr. Lindley, figured at t. 659 of our ‘ Icones Plantarum,’ 
from a dried specimen, and without our having any knowledge _ 
of the foliage: but the form and size of the sepals and petals _ 
will abundantly distinguish it. 2 
Dxscr. Stemless. Roofs large, vermicular, fleshy. Leaves 
DECEMBER lst, 1862. 


with a few sheathing short scales at the base, ten to twelve 
inches, two arising from the same root, oblong, coriaceo-carnose, 
dark green, subcanaliculate, very obtuse, with a short mucro. 
Scape radical, arising from between the two leaves, with a large 
conduplicate sheathing dract at the base, a foot long, terete, 
dark purple, terminating in our specimen in three large, very 
handsome, bracteated, pedicelled fowers. Bracts resembling that 
at the base of the scape, but smaller. Pedice/s shorter than the 
bract, supporting an elongated, six-angled, one-celled ovary OY 
Immature capsule, one and a half to two inches long. Sepa/s two, 
large, spreading, uniform in shape, but the upper one the largest, 
broad-ovate, acuminate, white within, streaked and mottled with 
dark-purple externally, and tinged with yellow ; the lower one 
is, however, formed of the two lateral combined sepals. Petals 
four to five inches long, curved downwards, linear acuminate, 
tawny yellow, lined and blotched with purple, ciliated on the 
margin at each side of the base. zp large, standing forward 
horizontally, the lower half contracted, the sides involute, white, 
the rest cucullate, purplish, with red réticulated veins; the 
whole shaped like a ‘Turkish slipper. Sfyle a short white column, 
bearing, upon a separate branch, two orbicular, yellow, sessile 
anthers at the base of a large abortive, ovate, white, fleshy disk or 
abortive third stamen: another short branch of the style bears 
the s/zgma, a large, cordate, fleshy disk, yellowish, margined with 
a thick filamentous fringe. 


Fig. 1. Style and stigma, with staminiferous column, side view. 2. Front 
view of the same, showing the two anthers. 3. View of the upper surface of the 
stigma. 4. Front view of a labellum. 5. Transverse section of an immature 
capsule,—all slightly magnified. 


N.B.—By a strange oversight, in the last number of our ‘ Botanical Maga- 
zine,’ under t. 5343, Berberidopsis corallina, it was omitted to be noticed that that 
most lovely new shrub was imported from Chili by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of 
Exeter and King’s Road, Chelsea, and that the specimen figured was derived from 
a plant in the open ground at Exeter. 


= | 


Tas. 5350. 
HELIPTERUM Sanprorptt. 


Major Sandford’s Helipterum. 


Nat. Ord. Composir#.—SyNGENESIA AlQUALIS. 


Gen. Char. Capitulum multifloram, discoideum, homogamum, floribus omnibus 
hermaphroditis, rarissime floribus centralibus abortivis heterogamum, Involucri 
imbricati sguame scariose, interiores conniventes vel radiantes. Receptaculum 
nudum vel alveolatum sive fimbrilliferum. Corolle tubulose, limbo quinqueden- 
tato. Anthere basi bisetee. Stigmata exserta, obtusiuscula. Achenia sessilia, 
erostria, areola terminali. Pappi sete uniseriate, plumose, libere vel basi con- 
natee.—Herbe v. suffrutices, in Capite Bone-Spei et in Nova-Hollandia indigeni ; 
facie Helichrysi, involucris albis vel flavis. 


Hewiprerum Sandfordii; suffruticosim totum arachnoideo-tomentosum, cauli- 
bus erectis pedalibus sesquipedalibus, basi parce ramoso apice composito- 
corymboso, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, involucris elongato-turbinatis squamis 
aureo-flavis, ovatis imbricatis, internis radiantibus, flosculis tubulosis, 
limbo quinquefido, acheniis (immaturis), pappi setis hirsuto-plumosis. 


HELIPTERUM Sandfordii. Hort. Thompson. 


Whether or not this be one of the species of Helipterum of the 
‘Plante Preissianee, or whether it be a true //elipterum or a 
Helichrysum, 1 will not venture to say. De Candolle, who es- 
tablished the genus Helipterum, says of it, “omnia S/elichrys, 
sed pappus plumosus.” In Helichrysum the “ pappus is subsca- 
brous.” In our plant the pappus is more than scabrous, yet 
scarcely plumose. 

The present species has long been in our herbarium, gathered 
by Mr. James Drummond (n. 160) in Western Australia, “ be- 
tween Moore and Murchison Rivers,” and we have also received 
native specimens from Mr. Burgess, collected m 1860. Mr. 
Thompson, of Ipswich, has raised it from seeds sent from the 
Swan River settlement by Major Sandford, whose name he de- 
sires it should bear,—a gentleman who has done much during 
a long sojourn in Western Australia to explore the natural 


DECEMBER Ist, 1862. 


history products of that colony. It is likely to constitute 
good bedding-out plant for our summer flower-borders. 


‘ 


Fig. 1. Capitulum. 2. Inner radiating scale of the involucre. 3. Floret. 
4. Seta of the pappus. 5. Branches of the stigma :—all more or less magnified. 


Vincent Brooks, Imp. 


Witch del tlh, 


Ts ES eet 


Tas.° 535). 
PHALAENOPSIS Lown. 


Mr. Low’s Phalaenopsis. 


Nat. Ord. OncuripE®.—GyNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 


Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum, patens, sepalis liberis, petalis majoribus 
dilatatis. Labellum cum basi paulo producta column connatum, liberum, basi 
callosum, trilobum; lobis lateralibus ascendentibus petaloideis, intermedio an- 
gustiore bicirrhoso. Columna in ovarium recumbens, semiteres ; rostello gladiato. 
Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 2, subglobosa, caudicula plana spatulata, glandula 
maxima cordata.—Herba epiphyta. Caules radicantes, simplices. Folia rigida, 
lato-lanceolata, apice oblique retusa. Flores paniculati. Lindl. 


PHALENOPSIS Lowii ; radice crasse fibrosa, foliis paucis oblongis acutis carnosis, 
scapo gracili subspithameeo 4—5-floro, bracteis minutis ovatis acutis, floribus 
remotis albis roseo-tinctis, sepalo superiore late ovato acuto, lateralibus ob- 
longis, petalis latissime cuneatis obtusissimis, labello parvo longitudine se- 
palorum lateralium trilobo, lobis lateralibus brevibus linearibus reflexis, in- 
termedio oblongo purpureo lineato medio, carinato apice eroso, basi cristato, 
rostello longe proboscideo. 


Pua.Laznorsis Lowii. Reichenb. fil. in Bot. Zeit. 1862, n. 27. p. 214. 


A most lovely species of Phalenopsis from Moulmein, dis- 
covered by the Rev. C. S. P. Parish, for the introduction of 
which to Europe we are indebted to Messrs. Low and Son, of 
the Clapton Nursery. It is one of eleven new species of Orchids 
which have been recently described by Dr. Reichenbach, fil., from 
Mr. Low’s Orchideous House, during a recent visit to England, 
and given in the July number of the ‘ Botanische Zeitung’ for 
1862. If this species falls short in size and purity of white in 
the flowers of the well-known Phalenopsis amabilis, it compen- 
sates for those deficiencies in the delicate rose-tints of the petals 
and labellum ; and the shape of the lip and of the rostellum are 
very remarkable,—that of the latter quite resembling the head 


DECEMBER lst, 1862. 


Jong | beak of a bird, as may | be seen in our figur res. The 
affinity of the species is with Pdalenopsis rosea, Lindl., 
given in Bot. Mag. t. 5212; but the two are quite different. 


Fig. 1. Side view of the column, rostellum, and labellum. 2. Front view of 
the same : —e 


Vincent Brooks,imp. 


ie 


Tas. 5352. 


DRACAINA PHRYNIOIDES. 


Phrynium-like Dracena. 


Nat. Ord. ASPARAGINE®.—HEXANpDRIA MoNnoGyniA. 


Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 5248.) 


Drac&na phrynioides ; suffruticosa, caule declinato brevi basi squamoso dein 
folioso, foliis longe petiolatis ovatis acuminatis coriaceis striatis late viridi- 
bus maculis pallidis ovalibus transversis variegatis, petiolis teretibus antice 
canaliculatis basi insigniter dilatatis incrassatisque, capitulo terminali sub- 
sessili bracteato, bracteis numerosis late ovatis purpureis ventricosis longe 
acutissime subulatis, corolla tubo gracili, filamentis superne valde dilatatis. 


‘Tropical Africa is eminently rich in species of the genus Dra- 
cena, and not a few of them are well known to be remarkable 
for the variegated or coloured foliage, not of a uniform green. — 
The present is a new and very distinct species, sent from Fer- — 


‘nando Po by M. Gustav Mann, in 1860. Being anxious to — 


distribute so very pretty a plant named, it has been sent out 
before it blossomed, under an impression that it was a species of 
Phrynium, and with the specific appellation of maculatum. Now 
that it has proved to be a Dracena, and there being already a 
Dracena maculata, the name of D. phrynioides may not be con- 
sidered inappropriate. The flowers were produced in August of 
the present year; and they were found to expand only at night 
or before the early morning, and to close again by ten o’clock. 
Descr. Stem short and ‘stout, suffruticose but succulent, sub- 
decurrent at the base, thence erect and leafy, but rarely exceeding 
five inches in length, including the terminal head of flowers, 
Leaves six inches long, broad ovate, finely acuminate, coriaceous, 
striated, dark green, with transversely oblong, rather large, sul- 
phur-coloured spots. Pe/ioles longer than the leaves when at full 
size, terete, channelled in front, ” thick and broad sheathing at 


DECEMBER Ist, 1862. 


the base. FYowers in a dense bracteated globose ead, sessile or 
nearly so among the leaf-stalks. Bracfs large, concave, dark 
purple, broad ovate, very finely acuminated into an almost seta- 
ceous point. Corolla white, tinged with rose; ¢wbe long and 
slender; imé of six spreading, linear-oblong lobes. Filaments 
singularly thickened upwards, contracted again under the anther. 


‘Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Limb of corolla and stamens. 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil. 
5. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified. — 


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Tas, 5353. 


ACROTREMA Watkert. 


General Walker's Acrotrema. 


Nat. Ord. DrtLENIACE®.—POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 


Gen. Char, Sepala 5, patentia. Petala5. Staminum filamenta in fasciculos 
3 plus minus aggregata, apice haud dilatata. Anthere erecte, sublineares, ab 
apice ad medium v. infra dehiscentes. Carpella 3, plus minus cohzerentia, 2—00- 
ovulata, maturitate irregulariter dehiscentia v. disrupta. -dri//us membrana- 
ceus.— Herbee subacaules, rhizomate perenni v. lignoso. Folia ampla, parallele 
pennivenia, transverse venulosa v. pinnatim lobata v. dissecta. ' Petioli alati, alis 
(stipulis?) deciduis, Pedunculi azillares, laxe pauciflori vel racemoso-00-flori. 
Flores flavi. Benth. et Hook. fil. ° 


AcrotreMA Walkeri; foliis crenato-dentatis subauriculatis, utrinque precipue 
superne marginem versus et subtus ad costam nervosque pilosis, pedicellis 
patentim pilosis, staminibus circiter 15. Thaaites. 


AcrotreMa Walkeri. Wight, MSS. Thwaites, En. Plant. Zeylan. p. 3. 


Of this pretty Indian genus, of which ten species are re- 
corded in Mr. Thwaites’s ‘ Enumeratio,’ the present is, we be- 


- lieve, the first that has ever been -introduced alive to Europe. 


It was sent to us by our valued friend just. mentioned, in 1861, 
and was in great beauty in the month of June of the present 
year. It inhabits mountains in the central province of Ceylon, 


at altitudes of from 2000 to 4000 feet, and may be found to 


succeed even better in a temperate greenhouse than in a hot 
stove, where we have hitherto kept it. Its deeply-plaited leaves 
and humble growth remind one of those of our Primrose and 
Cowslip, but the young foliage is pale-coloured and deeply 
tinged with rose, while the flowers more resemble those of a 
Ranunculus, and the Natural Family to which it belongs (Dz/le- 
niacee) is next neighbour to that of the Crowfoots. A nearly- 
allied species to the 4. Walkeri is our A. wniflorum, figured in 
‘Icones Plantarum,’ vol. ii. p. 157; but the stem is there elon- 
gated, and the flower-stalks are appresso-pilose. A still more 


DECEMBER lst, 1862. 


elegant and stemless species, with single-flowered peduncles, is 
the 4. Thwaitesii, Hook. fil. et Thomson, given in ‘ Kew Garden 
Miscellany,’ vol. viii. p. 241. t. 4; this has deeply-pinnatifid leaves, 
resembling fronds of the well-known Fern, Blechnum Spicant. 


Fig. 1. Under side of a flower. 2. Upper side of ditto. 3. Portion of a fas- 
cicle of stamens, of which one is abortive :—magnified. 


INDEX, 


In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the 
Kighteenth Volume of the Turrp Sxrims (or Eighty. 
eighth Volume of* the Work) are alphabetically arranged. — 


Plate. 

5339 Acanthonema strigosum. 

5353 Acrotrema Walkeri. 

5333 Agave glaucescens. 

5292 Anemiopsis Californica. 

5304 Anguria Warscewiczii. 

5331 Anomochloa marantoidea. 
5319. Anthurium Scherzerianum. 
5295 Aristolochia arborea. 

5345 - Gilbertii. 

5307 Begonia prismatocarpa. 

5343 Berberidopsis corallina, 

5316 Bolbophyllum cupreum. 

5329 - pavimentatum. 
5309 - Rhizophore. 
5340 Botrychium daucifolium. 
5306 Ceropegia Gardneri. 

5294 Clerodendron calamitosum. 
5313 -— Thomsone. 
5310 Clomenocoma montana. 2 
5325 Clusia Brongniartiana. 

5323 Coelogyne Parishii. 

5297 Crocus ochroleucus. 
5349 Cypripedium Stonei. 

5303 Dendrobium Lowii. ¢ 
5337 Dimorphotheca Barberia. 
5352 Dracena phrynioides. 

_ 6321 Echinostachys pineliana. 
6836 Epidendrum prismatocarpum. 
ae 5328 Grammitis raenes caudifor-_ 


e 5290 Rhodanthe Manglesii, var, ma-— 


5311 Bisdodstdron hia oP 


var. limbatum. _ 
$322 Dalhousie hy: 
bridum. 
6317 - fulgens. 


"6344 Ritchiea polypetala. 
6326 Saccolabium miniatum. 
5308 Scilla Berthelotii. 


Plate. ; 

5330 Ipomea alatipes. 

5298 Iris longipetala. 

5324 Ischarum Pyrami. ee 

5299 Leea coccinea. oe = 

5302 Ligularia Kempferi; aureo- 

maculata. 

5338 Lilium auratum. 

5312 Limatodes rosea. 

5291 Malortiea gracilis. 

5296 Maxillaria venusta. 

5341 Monocheetum tenellum. 

5332 Nephalaphyllum pulchrum. 
5327 Nolana (§Sorema) lanceolata. 

5293 Oncidium excavatum. 

5348 Ophiopogon spicatus. 

5320 Oreodaphne Californica. 

5335 Ourisia coccinea. 

5318 Palisota Barteri. 

5347 Panztia Lessonii. 

5351 Phalenopsis Lowii. 

5334 Philadelphus hirsutus. 

5305 Physurus maculatus. 


culata. 


. 


5300 Stanhopea oculata. — 
5289 —- - Wardii. 
5342 Waitzia tenella. 


In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the 
Kighteenth Volume of the Turrp Series (or Eighty- 
eighth Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged. 


5839 Acanthonema, strigose. 


5358 Acrotrema, General Walker’s. 


5333 Agave, glaucescent. — 
$331 Anomochloa, Maranta-like. 
5292 Anemiopsis, Californian. 
304 Anguria, Warscewicz’s. 
319 Anthurium, Scherzer’s. 
5345 Aristolochia, Gibert’s. 
5295 Aristolochia, Tree. 
5307 Begonia, prism-fruited. — 
343 Berberidopsis, caseh-liowtied. 


5329 Babplatia clustered. ; 


Plate, 
5298 Iris, long-petaled. 
5324 Ischarum, Calla-leaved. 


5320 Laurel, Californian mountain. 


5299 Leea, scarlet-flowered. 

5302 Ligularia, Kempfer’s; golden- — 
spotted var. 

5338 Lily, golden-striped. 

5312 Limatodes, rose-coloured. 


5291 Malortiea, slender. 
| 5296 Maxillaria, graceful. 


5341 Monochetum, slender-branched, 


| 5840 Moonwort, Carrot-leaved. 
| 5827 Nolana, lance-leaved. 
6293 Oncidium, excavated. 


5335 Ourisia, scarlet-flowered. 
5818 Palisota, Mr. Barter’s, 


| 5847- Paneetia, Lesson’ eae 
5351 Phal s, Mr. law’ 8.