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RHODODENDRON Hopesost.

Mr. Hodgson’s Ithododendron.

Nat. Ord. Ertces.—Decanpraia Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tax. 4336.)

RuopopEenpron Hodgsoni ; frutex robustus, ramis cortice papyraceo tectis,
ramulis crassis tomentosis, foliis amplis obovato-oblongis oblongisve
obtusis supra glabris subtus tomento argenteo v. subrufo opertis, basi
rotundatis subcordatisve, petiolis crassis, capitulis magnis multifloris
densis, calyce obsoleto, corolla late campanulata pallide purpurea
8-10-loba, staminibus 16-18, ovario pubescente 10-16-loculari.

Ruopopenpron Hodgsoni. Hook. f. Sikkim Rhod. t.15, et in Journ. Hort.
Soc. Lond. v.7. p. 76.

Ruopopenpron sp. Griff: Notule, v. 14. p. 303. Te. t. 521.

One of the noblest of the grand series of Rhododendrons
that adorn the Eastern Himalayan mountains, discovered by
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alpine valleys of Eastern al and Sikhim, at elevations of
10-12,000 feet. It flowered“tn.the temperate house of Kew
in April of last year. This is one of the finest of all the
Rhododendrons in foliage; the trunk is remarkable for its
pale brown papery bark, which flakes offin patches as broad
as the hand ; and the leaves often attain eighteen inches in
length. Of the wood the mountaineers make spoons, cups,
saddles, etc., and the leaves are used as platters for butter,
curds, etc. ;

Descr. A large shrub or almost a tree, ten to twenty feet
high; main branches horizontal, almost as thick as the
thigh; bark smooth, papery, flaking off; wood white, close-
grained. Leaves ample, spreading, eight to eighteen inches
long, oblong or oblong-obovate, obtuse or subacute, very
coriaceous, glabrous and glossy above, beneath clothed with

JANUARY Ils, 1565.

silvery or ferruginous tomentum. Heads four to eight
inches in diameter, of very numerous, crowded, pale purple
flowers; peduncles short, viscid, and often downy. Calyx
obscurely lobed or obsolete. Corolla broadly campanulate,
one and a half to two anda half inches broad. Stamens six-
teen to eighteen. Ovary pubescent; ten- to sixteen-celled ;
style stout ; stigma rather large. Capsule narrow-linear, cy-
-lindric, curved.

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Ovary, style, and stigma :—natural size. 3. Trans-
verse section of ovary :—magnified.

W. Fitch, del. et lith.

Tas. 5558.

LALIA GRANDIS.

Largeflowered Lelia.

Nat. Ord. Oncutprm.—GyYnanpria Monanprera.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4302.)

Lxuta grandis ; caule clavato monophyllo, folio coriaceo, pedunculo bifloro
basi spathaceo longiore, floribus subhorizontalibus, sepalis lanceolatis
reflexis, petalis late lanceolatis crispis convexis, labello membranaceo
venoso nudo undulato trilobo, laciniis lateralibus circa columnam con-
volutis et multo longioribus. Lindl.

Laut grandis. Lindl. et Pact. Fl. Gard. v. 1. n. 91, ewm «ylog.

This fine Lelia first made its appearance in the establish-
ment of M. Morel, of Paris, where it flowered in the spring
of 1850. In the year following it was exhibited at one of
the great London shows, but from that time it would seem
to have entirely disappeared from our collections, until its
reintroduction last year (1864) by Messrs. Hugh Low and Co.,
of the Clapton Nursery, who received a few plants of it from
their collector at Bahia. From the same locality and about
the same time, specimens were sent by Mr. Williams to the
Royal Gardens at Kew, where one of them flowered finely
in the summer of 1865, when it was drawn by Mr. Fitch for
this work, in which the first coloured representation of the
plant is now presented. Some slight discrepancies may be
observed between Mr. Fitch’s drawing and the woodcut in
Paxton’s Magazine, but these are readily accounted for by the
circumstance that the former was made from fresh flowers,
while the latter was taken from specimens that had probably
suffered in their transmission to this country.

In its habit and the general aspect of its flowers L. grandis

JANUARY Ist, 1866. .

is undistinguishable from the Cattleyas, to which—but for
its eight pollen-masses—it would at once be referred. And
even the latter structural distinction cannot be implicitly re-
lied upon, for I have examined specimens of so-called Lielias
in which all but two pair of pollen-masses were merely rudi-
mentary. The circumstance of species of the two supposed
genera breeding freely together—as has been proved by Mr.
Dominy’s experiments—is another fact pointing in the same
direction, and goes far to justify Professor Reichenbach’s
opinion that they ought not any longer to be kept apart, ex-
cept for the convenience of cultivators. Lelia grandis should
be grown with the Cattleyas. It is easily managed, and
flowers during the summer months.

Descr. An epiphyte with stems under a foot high, narrow
at the base, but swollen above, and bearing a solitary rigid
leaf, which is rather broader at the base than at the point.
Peduncle proceeding from an ample spathe, two-flowered.
Sepals nankeen-coloured, lanceolate, about two inches long ;
petals rather wider in the middle than the sepals, and of the
same colour, a little curled and in some cases toothed at the
edges. Lip three-lobed, whitish with purple veins. Column
entirely concealed by the side lobes of the lip, which are
folded round it.

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

W. Fitch, del et lith.

Tas. 5554,

BEGONTA BACCATA.

Berried-fruited Begonia.

Nat. Ord. Begontacez.—Monecta Ponyanpria.

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

Braonta baccata ; herbacea, elata, monoica, robusta, caule petiolis pedun-
culisque breviter tomentosis, foliis late cordato-rotundatis abrupte
acuminatis remote inequaliter sinuato-dentatis subtus et utrinque
secus nervos pubescentibus, stipulis amplis late oblongis obtusis
deciduis, cymis brevibus axillaribus 6-8-floris, floribus magnis albis,
sepalis utroque sexu 2 oblongo-rotundatis, antheris linearibus sub-
emarginatis filamento gracili longioribus, ovario subgloboso obscure
5-6-sulcato 5-6-loculari, septis ramosis placentiferis, stylis 5-6 bicor-
nutis cornubus tortis, fructu (ex Mannio) baccato indehiseente subglo-
boso, carnoso.

One of the most remarkable of the discoveries of our in-
defatigable collector, Gustav Mann, in the Bight of Benin,
was a fine and robust Begonia, with a baccate fruit ; of this,
the subject of our present Plate, he sent living specimens to
the Royal Garden in 1861, from the island of St. Thomas,
which flowered in May of last year. ‘The same collector also
gathered it in Fernando Po, growing on an epiphyte at an
altitude of 1300 feet. Like the very different, but scarcely
less remarkable B. prismatocarpa (Tab. 5307), and the even
more remarkable fern-leaved B. aspleniifolia, Hook. f. (A. DC.
Prod. xy. 320), both also discovered by Mr. Mann, the B.
Mannii stands alone as a section of the genus, differing from
all described in A. De Candolle’s elaborate monograph of
the genus, in the baccate fruit and five- or six-celled ovary,
in which the septa are deeply lobed, or almost branched and
covered with ovules; for the details of this I am indebted
to Mr. Fitch’s careful drawing, not having had the oppor-
tunity of examining the plant when in flower.

Descr. Stems tall, robust, as thick as the thumb, covered
with ferruginous tomentum, as are the petioles, peduncles

hed

JANUARY Ist, 1866.

and pedicels. Leaves six to ten inches long, very broadly or-
bicular-cordate, suddenly tapering to a long point, remotely
toothed, glabrous except the nerves above, downy beneath.
Stipules very large, broadly oblong, obtuse,deciduous. Flowers
moneecious, in short axillary cymes, two and a half inches
_ across, white in our specimen, white and pink in dried ones
from Fernando Po. Sepals in both sexes two, broadly oblong,
obtuse, concave. Stamens in one short compressed bundle,
apparently seated on a flat receptacle; anthers narrow linear,
obtuse, emarginate. Ovary nearly spherical, but somewhat
urceolate, downy, obscurely five- or six-lobed, five- or six-
celled, with deeply lobed dissepiments. Styles five or six,
rather slender, with two horns, which are divaricating at the
base, and twisted at their apices. Fruit described by Mr.
Mann as a large, nearly spherical, fleshy, indehiscent berry.

_ Fig. 1. Stamen :—magnified. 2. Ovary and styles. 3. Transverse sec-
tion of ovary. 4. Miniature fruit :—nat. size.

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5555,

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Tas. 5555.

SPARAXIS PULCHERRIMA.

Most beautiful Sparaxis.

Nat. Ord. In1tppa2.—Trianpria Monoeysta.

Gen. Char. Perigonium corollinum superum, infundibuliforme, tubo
brevi gracili, limbi ampli 6-partiti laciniis subequalibus stellatim patentibus
rarius campanulatim conniventibus. Stamina 3, tubo perigonii inserta,
adscendentia, inclusa, filamentis subulatis. Ovarium obtuse 3-gonum, 3-
loculare ; ovula plurima, in loculorum angulo centrali 2-seriata; stylus fili-
formis, stigmatibus 3 linearibus recurvis. Capsula membranacea, obsolete
3-gona, subtorulosa, 3-locularis, loculicide 8-valvis. Semina plurima, sub-—
globosa.—Herbe Capenses, rhizomate tuberoso-reticulato tunicato. Folia
ensata, nervosa. Scapus simplex v.racemosus. Flores spicati, intra spatham
2-valvem membranaceam inclust. Endl.

Sparaxis pulcherrima ; scapo gracillimo elato racemoso, foliis anguste ensi-
formibus sensim attenuato-acuminatis, ramis capillaribus elongatis de-
vis apice floriferis, bracteis elongato-subulatis subintegerrimis, brac-
teolis spathaceis longe acuminatis, floribus magnis purpureis, peri-
anthio zquali campanulato.

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cimens were procured from the district between the Keis-
kamma and Buffalo rivers, on the eastern side of South
Africa, and grew in a rich black soil. The plant is alluded
to in the elder Backhouse’s Missionary Narrative, p. 199. I
have native specimens from the Albany district, Uitenhage,
Assagaybosch, and Transvaal, all named S. pendula, which in
habit it a good deal resembles; but the whole plant is much
larger, the perianth campanulate, and the bracts very dif-
ferent in shape. A more lovely and graceful plant, from its
extremely tall and slender stems and tiers of drooping flowers,
cannot well be imagined.

Descr. Leaves narrow ensiform, rather thick, about one-

JANUARY Ist, 1866.

_ third of an inch broad, gradually narrowed from below the
middle to a very slender apex, rigid, erect. Scape exceed-
ingly tall and slender, attaining six feet in its native habitat,
racemosely branched above and drooping; branches remote,
capillary, three to six inches long, curved from the weight of
the pendulous flowers, which are clustered at their extremi-
ties. Bracts at the base of the branches one and a half inch
long, very slender, subulate, entire; dractlets at the base of
the flowers oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat laciniate,
but less so than is usual in the genus. Flowers pendulous.
Perianth equal, one and a half inch long, dark blood-purple,
campanulate. Ovary turbinate.

Fig. 1. Reduced figure of whole plant. 2. Apex of scape :—naf. size.
3. Base. 4, Apex of leaf:—nat. size. 5. Ovary and stamens. 6. Ovary
and style :—both magnified.

JSS.

Vincent Brooks, Imp.

W. Bitch, del et lith.

Tas. 5556.

EPIDENDRUM. wrrrantavum.

Many-flowered Epidendrum.

Nat. Ord. Oncuipe#.— Gynanpria Monanpeia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4107.)

Errpenprum (Amphiglottium, Lindl.) myrianthum ; foliis lineari-lanceo-
latis acutis vaginis nigro-punctatis, panicule composite effuse ramis
divaricatis, bracteis setaceis, pedicellis ovariisque longissimis, sepalis
membranaceis oblongis obtusis, petalis lineari-spathulatis, labello
longiore 4-partito bicalloso laciniis truncatis linearibus sxquilongis
recurvis lateralibus subintegris, intermediis apice tantum laceris, cli-
nandrio utrinque obtuso appendice dorsali membranacea cucullata
bifida. Zind?.

EprrEenprvM myrianthum. Lindl. Fol. Orch.

This most charming Epidendrum was discovered many
years ago by Mr. Skinner at a very high elevation on the
mountains of Guatemala, and a few of the specimens that he
transmitted to this country have lingered in our collections,
but—owing no doubt to their having been kept too warm—
could never be induced to flower. As one of these happened
to be still alive at Knypersley, though its shoots were no
thicker than a crowquill, I directed it to be put in a cool
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almost immediately presented themselves. When these are
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the Lindleyan Herbarium (now at Kew), and which have
assisted Mr. Fitch in preparing the representation on the
opposite page.

The plant flowered in June last in one of the cool houses
at Knypersley, and continued long in beauty. Some idea of
its habit may be gathered from the reduced sketch in lhe
Plate. The stems are about a yard high.—J. B.

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Tas. 5557.

CHAMERANTHEMUM Beyricum; var. variegata.

Beyrich’s Chameranthemum; variegated-leaved var.

Nat. Ord. Acantuace2.—DipyNaMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx profunde 5-fidus, equalis. Corolla hypocraterimorpha
vel elongato-infundibuliformis, tubo longo gracili, limbo subequali. Sta-
mina 4 fertilia, infra os tubi paulove profundius inserta, inclusa, per paria

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Jloribus etiam minoribus. Spica floribus oppositis, parvibracteatis. Nees in
De Cand. Prod.

CuamEranruemum Beyrichii ; caule petiolisque strigoso-tomentosis, foliis
ovalibus oblongisve margine subscaberulis.

CHAMERANTHEMUM Beyrichii. ees in Lindl. Intred. ed, 2. p. 285, et in
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Var. variegata; foliis albo-variegatis.

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having been discovered by the traveller Beyrich, and since
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variable plant in stature and in the form of the leaves. Nees
describes a state with the leaves on long petioles, and their
Surface variegated with red; so that other showy forms may
be worth cultivation, and one day find a place in our stoves.

Descr. A rather slender herb, one to three feet high,
- Sparingly branched. Stem and branches, peduncles and pe-
_ tioles, covered with strigose pubescence. Leaves shortly pe-
_ tioled, two to five inches long, oblong ovate-oblong or almost
_lanceolate-oblong, scarcely acute, minutely scabrid on the
upper surface and margins, green or variegated with white.

FEBRUARY Ist, 1866.

Panicles strict, erect, branched, many-flowered ; branches slen-
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lobes narrow, oblong-lanceolate, acute, glandular-pubescent.
Corolla white, one and a half inch in diameter; tude rather
slender, slightly curved; lobes of the limb longer than the
tube, equal, spreading oblong, waved. Stamens united at
the very base in pairs; anthers included, those of the longer
stamens linear-oblong, with two unequal cells; those of the
smaller, one-celled—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Calyx and style. 2. Tube of corolla, laid open. 3. Pair of
stamens. 4, Ovary. 5. Young capsule:—all but Fig. 5 magnified.

W. Fitch, del.et lith.

Tas. 5558.

LUISIA Psycue.

Butterfly-flowered Inisia.

Nat. Ord. Orcnuipex.—Gynanpria MoNnanpria.

Gen. Char. Sepala herbacea, linearia, lateralibus labello suppositis, dor-
sali minore. Petala dissimilia, tenuiora, sepius longiora, patentissima vel
_fornicata. Zabellum indivisum, sepius auriculatum, cum columné conti-
nuum, dependens, inappendiculatum, nunc convexum, nune concavum et
medio constrictum. Colwmna nana, carnosa, apoda. Stigma anticum, cir-
culare, rostello obtuso obsoleto. Pollinia 2, cereacea, postice excavata ;
caudicula lata brevi trianguiari, glandula membranaced replicata. Anthera
subrotunda, 2-locularis, valvuhs macilentis.—Herbe epiphyte, caulescentes,
erecte, guncee, Asie et Americe tropice. Folia teretia, rigida. Flores
parei, obscure virides vel purpurascentes. Lindl.

Luista Psyche; foliis teretibus crassis, spicis brevissimis paucifloris, se- _
palo dorsali ligulato-fornicato, lateralibus angustioribus per dorsum
carinatis, petalis cuneato-oblongis subacutis, labello basi utrinque au-
riculato, ante auriculas a basi utrinque minute semicordato trans-
verse obovato subacuto, limbo minute lobulato. Rehb. fil. in. Gard.

Chron.
Luista Pysche. Rchb. fil. in Mohl et Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. 1863, p- 98, et in
Gard. Chron. 1865 (‘ New Plants,’ n. 312).

The genus Lwisia consists almost exclusively of inconspi-
Cuous, taper-leaved plants, with much the habit of Vanda
teres. ‘There are, however, a few exceptions to the above
tule, the most remarkable of which are an unintroduced
plant (the Zuisia volucris of Lindley) the flowers of which
resemble birds with narrow outspread wings, and the species
how figured for the first time, whose singular blossoms have
quite an insect-like character. ;

It was discovered in Burmah by the Rev. C. 8. Parish,
by whom a few living specimens were sent to Messrs. Hugh
Low and Co., of the Clapton Nursery. It is well described
by Prof. Reichenbach, both in the ‘ Botanische Zeitung’ of
1863, and in the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle’ of 1865. It grows

FEBRUARY Ist, 1866.

slowly, but is easily managed, and flowers freely during the
spring and summer.

Descr. Plant about a foot high. Leaves thick, round and
tapering, six inches long. Flowers produced, two or three in
succession, on a very short spike. Sepals and petals a pale
yellowish-green, the dorsal sepal being more concave and
broader than the side sepals, which are ligulate, keeled along
the back, and blunt at their extremities, and not half the
length of the petals; the latter, which hang down like the
ears of a rabbit, are more than an inch long, cuneate-oblong,
and rather sharp at the end. Lip not so long as the petals,
fleshy, convex, with two auricles at its base, the portion above
which is transversely obovate, and slightly cordate, its disk is
beautifully marked—after the manner of some species of

Ophrys—with dark violet-purple spots on a green ground.
Column very dwarf.—.J. B.

Fig. 1. Front view of flower. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

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THIBAUDIA CORDIFOLIA.

Cordate-leaved Thibaudia.

Nat. Ord. Vacornrex.—Dercanpria Monoeyntia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4303.)

Tureavnta cordifolia; ramulis glabratis teretibus, foliis breviter petiolatis
oblongis obtusis integerrimis basi cordatis 5-7-plinerviis, petiolo
pubescente, floribus subcapitatis, capitulis terminalibus nutantibus
bracteis amplis oblongis concavis subsericeis involucratis, floribus
breviter pedicellatis, calycis tubo depresso, limbo breviter 5-deutato,
corolla tubuloso-ventricosa extus pa thee ore contracto 4—6-den-
tato, filamentis brevibus latis, antheris lineari-oblongis in tubum sul-
catum elongatum apice 2-rimosum productis.

Turpaupra cordifolia. H.B. and Kunth, Nov. Gen.et Sp.v. 3.p. 271. t.255-
De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 563.

Proctrista cordifolia. Klotzsch in Linnea, v. 24. p. 82.

The beautiful plant here figured was exhibited by Mr.
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under the name of Thibaudia Ocanensis ; it is cléarly however
the 7. cordifolia of Kunth, a native of the alpine regions
of the Andes of Bogota, Merida, Caraccas, Loja, and other
provinces of New Granada and Ecuador. According to an
observation of Dr. Triana in our Herbarium, it is called
“Uva de Anis” in the Bogota Andes.

Descr. A branched shrub, nearly glabrous, except on the
tips of the branches, petioles, and inflorescence ; branches te-
rete, pubescent with spreading hairs towards the tips. Leaves
one and a half to three inches long, coriaceous, ovate-oblong,
obtuse, quite entire, margins slightly recurved, glabrous above,
also below, or there covered with minute scattered glandular
dots, five- to seven-nerved at the base; petioles very short,
pubescent, as are the nerves slightly beneath. Racemes re-
duced to a crowded head of flowers, which is clothed at the

FEBRUARY Isr, 1866.

base with oblong, concave, imbricating, rather silky bracts.
Flowers on short, pubescent peduncles and pedicels, nearly
one inch long, bright-red, white at the mouth of the corolla.
Calyx-tube sub-globose, but depressed, and almost truncate at
the base; teeth five, short. Corolla tubular, but ventricose,
between cylindric and oblong, much contracted at the mouth,
with five short, spreading lobes. Stamens with very short
broad filaments, and long, oblong anthers, their cells termi-
nating in a long, straight, double tube, which opens by two
anticous, subterminal slits. The flowers are occasionally tetra-
merous or hexamerous. J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx, ovary, and style. 3 and 4. Anthers :—all
magnified.

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BAUHINIA tomentosa; var. glabra.

Downy Bauhinia ; glabrous var.

Nat. Ord. Legumtnos#.—D1apetpx1a DEcANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus brevis v. elongatus, limbus ante anthesin apice
clausus v. contractus, per anthesin varie fissus. Petala 5, parum ineequalia,
imbricata, summo intimo. Stamina 10 v. pauciora, libera v. breviter con-
nata; anthere versatiles, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium sepissime
stipitatum; stylus brevis v. elongatus. Legumen oblongum v. lineare,
rectum v. obliquum, indehiscens v. 2-valve, intus continuum v. septatum.
Semina compressa, albuminosa; cotyledones plane; radicula brevis.—
Arbores v. frutices erecte v. scandentes, interdum cirrhifere. Folia sim-
plicia, 2-loba v. 2-foliolata. Flores racemosi, corymbosi v. paniculati.

Bavutnta tomentosa; fruticosa, inermis, pubescenti-tomentosa v. glabrata,
foliis basi cordatis rotundatis v. truncatis ad medium 2-lobis, lobis
obtusis 3-nerviis, pedunculis 1-2-floris, calyce spathaceo tubo brevi,
petalis flavis obovatis v. obcordatis, staminibus 10, fertilibus fere li-
beris, ovario stipitato, legumine tenui plano lineari basin versus sensim
angustato venoso acuto.

Bavurnta tomentosa. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 536. De Cand. Prod. v.2. p. 514.
Burm. Zeyl. p. 44. t. 18. Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. v. 2. p. 275.

Var. glabrata ; tota tenuiter pubescens v. glabrata.

This handsome shrub was introduced to the Royal Gar-
dens, Kew, by M. Monteiro, who sent seeds in 1860 from
Bembe, in Benguela, the plants from which fiowered in our
stoves in November of last year. The species itself (of which
this is rather a glabrous form) is a native of Ceylon, Malabar,
and other parts of India; it is also commonly cultivated
in the tropics of both the old and new worlds. In Africa, it
is also found in Natal; by Kirk at Senna, during Living-
stone’s late expedition; and in the interior of Dammara
Land, by Baines and Chapman.

Descr. A slender shrub in our stoves, four to five feet high,
with long, rather pendulous branches, the branchlets, pe-
tioles, under surface of the leaves, and inflorescence glabrous

FEBRUARY Ist, 1866.

id

or pubescent. Leaves nearly orbicular in circumscription, one
to two and a half inches in diameter, two-lobed to the middle,
rounded cordate or truncate at the base; lobes obtuse, each
three- to four-nerved ; petioles slender ; stipules subulate. Ra-
cemes small, few-flowered, terminal. Flowers pale golden-
yellow, with a deep-purple blotch at the base of the upper
petal. Calyx spathaceous, rather short. Petals obovate or
obcordate, concave, connivent. Stamens teu, all fertile, nearly
free. Legume flat, linear, but gradually narrowed down-
wards, acute, glabrous or puberulous.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Calyx and stamen. 2. Ovary and base of calyx with the stamens
removed :—both magnified.

——

Vincent Broaks imp.

Witch, del.etlith.

Tas. 5561.
EULOPHIA xzvetossa.

Pretty-lipped Eulophia.

Nat. Ord. Oncurp—Ex.—Gynanpria MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum, sepalis petalisque ascendentibus,
subzequalibus, aut omnino liberis, aut cum ungue magis minusve producto
column connatis. Zabellum cornutum, aut brevius calearatum, sessile,
venis cristatis, barbatis vel omnino brevibus, seepius: trilobum, nunc indivi-
sum. Columna semiteres, marginata. Anthera 1-2-locularis. Pollinia 2,
postice biloba vel cava, caudicula lineari brevi, glandula transversa.—Herbe
terrestres, pseudobulbose. Folia longa, membranacea, plicata vel pluries cos-
tata. Scapi radicales, multiflori. Lindl. Gen. et Sp.

Evnorata euglossa; pseudobulbo elongato sursum attenuato, foliis cu-
neato-oblongis acutis, pedunculo basi vaginato racemoso, bracteis
lineari-lanceis setaceo-acuminatis flores excedentibus, mento modico,
sepalis petalisque ligulatis acuminatis subzequalibus, labello trifido,
laciniis lateralibus acutangulis, lavinidé medid semioblong& acuta hine
undulata, carinulis obscuris geminis in disco inter lacinias posticas,
caleari subclavato, ovarii pedicellati dimidiam non attingente, anthera
apice tumida obtusi. Rchd. fil.

GaLEaNDRA euglossa. Rehb. fil. in Bot. Zeitung (1852), v. 9. p. 85. Lindl.
West Afr. Orchids, Proceed. Linn. Soc. (May, 1862.)

This singular plant was sent to Kew by Mr. G. Mann, from —
the banks of the Old Calabar river, on which——as indeed on
all the streams that form the great delta of the Niger—Or-
chids seem to abound. Unfortunately they rarely possess
sufficient beauty to recommend them to the notice of the
cultivator, as is the case with our present Eulophia which,
notwithstanding its prettily-marked lip, can by no means be~
considered an attractive object. Its long pseudobulbs, ta-
pering from the base upwards, are in their shape and ap-
- pearance not unlike the fossil Calamites that are found so
plentifully in the different beds of the New Red Sandstone,
and with which we are all of us familiar.

E. euglossa was so named by Prof. Reichenbach, who met
with it originally among some undetermined species from the

FEBRUARY lst, 1866.

West Coast of Africa, in Dr. Lindley’s Herbarium. It seems
to have been first introduced by the Messrs. Loddiges, then
it was sent to Consul Schiller, and still more -recently, as
already noted, to the Royal Gardens at Kew, where it hap-
pened the other day to be in bloom when the great German
Orchidist visited that establishment and drew up the descrip-
tion that I have had much pleasure in transcribing.

This Eulophia, like its congeners, is a terrestrial plant, and
must be treated accordingly. Coming as it does from one of
the sultriest regions on the earth’s surface, it will of course
require a good deal of heat.—J. B.

Descr. Pseudobulbs a span or more high, cylindrical, ta-
pering in a fusiform manner at the end. Leaves cuneate, oblong,
acute, a foot long. Peduncle elongate, with scales beneath,
racemose at the top. Raceme many-flowered, flowers dis-
tant. Bracts linear-lanceolate, very acuminate, longer than
the flowers. Sepals and petals lanceolate, acuminate, nearly
equal, spreading, green. Jip trifid, lateral segments semi-
ovate, acute, greenish-yellow, middle segment semi-oblong,
acute, somewhat crisp, white, with some radiating purple
streaks onthe base, and with two carine between the poste-
rior segments. Spur clavate, green, not half the length of
the pedicellate ovary. Column clavate. Anther with a ter-
minal umbo.—Lehb. fil.

Fig. 1. Side view of lip. 2. Front view of ditto. 3. Column. 4. Pol-
len-masses :—magnified.

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TILLANDSIA xtpntormes.

—

Buenos Ayres Air-plant.

Nat. Ord. Bromentace#.—HeExanpria Monoeynta.

_ Gen. Char. Calyx 3-partitus, laciniis subequalibus. Petala3 unguibus
in tubum conniventibus v. convolutis, limbo patente. Stamina 6, hypogyna,
filamentis linearibus alternis sepius petalis adherentibus. Ovariwm li-
berum, 3-loculare ; stylus filiformis, stigmate 3-fido, ovulis in loculorum
angulo centrali 2-seriatim affixis. Capsula cartilaginea, linearis v. ovata,
3-locularis, loculicide 3-valvis, valvis endocarpio mox soluto duplicatis,
explanatis v. tortis. Semina plurima, ex basi septorum erecta, stipitata,
stipite pilis papillosis cincto; testa dura.—Herbe plerumque epiphyte le-
pidote. Caules foliosi. Flores spicati v. paniculati, bracteati, rartus soli-
tarii. Endl.

Trunanpsta wiphioides; tota argenteo-tomentosa, foliis dense rosulatis
patenti-incurvis, e basi lata longe late subulatis marginibus incurvis '
Y. involutis, scapo brevi v. elongato simplici, spica disticha lineari-
oblonga multiflora, bracteis anguste oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis
dense imbricatis, floribus albis, sepalis anguste subulato-lanceolatis
attenuato-acuminatis, petalorum ungue elongato-lineari, lamina ob-
longo-vboyata acuminata recurva crispata, stigmatis lobis brevibus
linearibus recurvis.

Tintanpsta xiphioides. Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 105.

A remarkably pretty and deliciously-scented plant, for
which the Royal Gardens are indebted to Dr. Rayner, of
Uxbridge, who sent the flowering specimen figured here
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but the only native specimens I have were gathered by the
late Dr. Gillies, near Mendoza, where it is abundant on trees
and stones along the bases of the Cordillera, and is much

prized for its delicate fragrance. a
Descr. A small rigid herb, covered with grey silvery to-

FEBRUARY Ist, 1866.

ee
nee

mentum. Leaves crowded, rosulate, four to six inches long, —
half an inch broad at the base, broadly subulate with re-
curved margins that are involute at the tip. Scape long or
short. Spike three to four inches long, distichous, com-
pressed, of many closely imbricating, linear-oblong bracts,
two inches long. Flowers numerous, snow-white. Sepals
linear lanceolate, acuminate. Petals with a slender, linear

claw, one inch long, and broadly obovate acuminate, reflexed
white, crisped blade.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Calyx, style, and stigma. 2. Petal and stamen. 3. Ovary :-—
all magnified.

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CONCHOLOGIA ICONICA IN MONOGRAPHS.

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THE HYDROPULT,

AN INVENTION FOR THROWING WATER BY HAND-POWER.
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Weighs but 8 lbs.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.
B. S. WILLIAMS

Respectfully informs his Customers and the Public generally, that on and after the let of
January, 1866, his Counting-house, Seed Shop, Orchid-houses, Stoves, Greenhouses, and
other Plant-houses, will be removed to the Vicrorta Norsery, Upper Holloway, near the
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NEW ROSES OF 1866.

AUL AND SON’S LIST IS NOW READY. Their Plants are already strong, bat
‘ will not be fit to travel till early March.

THE “OLD” CHESHUNT NURSERIES, N.

EK. G. HENDERSON AND SON’S
CATALOGUE FOR JANUARY, 1866,

Is published, containing descriptive notes and other information of all the best novelties of this
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WELLINGTON NURSERY, ST. JOHN’S WOOD, LONDON, N.W.

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. HS the gratification of announcing that their GRAND EXHIBITION of HYA-
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SUTTON’S SPRING CATALOGUE

AND

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PART 1.—A comprehensive List of all the best kinds | PART 3.—A detailed List of Bulbous Flower Bool
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cently imported by Messrs. SUTTON. on the New Forage Plant, BROMUS SCHRADER
ALSO

A Useful and Concise Calendar of Operations in the Kitchen Garden,
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ORIGINAL ARTICLES on the POTATO DISEASE, USE OF FROZEN MANGELS, ele. :
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Containing tmportant information.

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STANDARD WORKS ON BRITISH FUNGI.

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HABRANTHUS FULGENS.

Brilliant-lowered Habranthus.

Nat. Ord. AMAryLuIpes.— HExanpria Monoayntia.

Gen. Char. Perianthium campanulatum, tubo brevi ad faucem incrassato,
squamuluso, limbi laciniis subiequalibus. Stamina fauci inserta, libera, fasci-
culata, valde inequalia. Stylus declinatus, sursum curvatus, stigmate 3-
fido. Capsula 3-sulea. Semina loculis 2-seriata, horizontalia, compressa ;
testa crustacea, alia—Herbe Americe tropice et extratropice australis
indigene ; radice bulbosa. Folia angusta, 2-faria, linearia, flaccida. Scapus
cavus, multiflorus. Spatha apice 2-fida.— Herbert.

Hasrantuvs fulgens; elata, robusta, foliis glaucescentibus 10-12-polli-
caribus linearibus obtusis recurvis dorso convexis, scapo tereti glauco
basi purpurascente, spatha lacera, floribus 6-8 pedicellatis amplis 4-5
poll. diametro, perianthii tubo brevi extus flavo, lobis lineari-oblongis
patentibus miniatis basi aureis, squamis 2-cruribus, filamentis flavis,

stigmate minute 3-lobo.

A truly magnificent plant, sent by Messrs. Backhouse, of
York, with whom it flowered in April of last year. —

As a species, it approaches nearest to H. phycelloides, Bot.
Reg. t. 1417, but the whole plant is more than twice as large,
and as far as can be judged from the indifferent figure given
of that plant, this further differs in the brighter colour, yel-
low filaments, larger broader perianth-lobes which spread
widely, and in the character of the corona at the base of the
lobes, which in H. phycelloides forms an annular bearded
membrane, but in this consists of bifid fleshy scales.

Descr. Bulb not seen. Leaves glaucescent, ten to twelve
inches long, half to three-quarters of an inch broad, linear,
recurved, obtuse, convex, and scarcely keeled at the beak.
Scape one to one and a half foot high, as thick as the little
finger, glaucous green above, purple below. Flowers seven
in this specimen, four to five inches across, bright scarlet ;

MARCH lst, 1866.

tube yellow externally; lobes linear-oblong, acute, golden-
yellow at the base, the yellow forming a defined triangular
mark; scales at the base of the tube of corolla six, forked.
Stamens with yellow filaments. Stigma minutely three-
lobed.— J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower, with the perianth-segments removed. 2. Base of peri-
anth-tube and scales. 3. Transverse section of ovary :—all magnified.

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DENDROBIUM prxantaom.

Double-tinted yellow Dendrobium.

Nat. Ord. Orcu1pE®.—GynaNnDRIA MONANDRIA.

Deyprosium dixanthum; caule erecto teretiusculo basi valde tenui stipi-
tato sesquipedali, racemis brevibus lateralibus 2—5-floris ex caulibus
vetustis, mento parvo obtusangulo, sepalis lanceolatis acutis, petalis
oblongis acutis sublongioribus margine minute denticulatis, labello ab
ungue lato hastato subquadrato obtusangulo antrorsum dilatato, medio
antice minute emarginato, toto margine minute serrulato denticulato,
carinulé transvers& per unguis basin, nervis fere omnibus lincis cris-
tularum obtectis.

Denprozivum dixanthum. Rehb. fil. in Gard. Chron. (1865) ‘ New Plants,’
n. 301.

Moulmein, that inexhaustible mine of new Dendrobia, is
the native country of this pretty plant which was discovered
in 1864 by the Rey. C. P. 8. Parish and sent to Messrs. H.
Low and Co. of Clapton. It grows rapidly and flowers freely
(in the early summer) under ordinary treatment. Untfor-
tunately the leaves fall off the stems—old and young alike—
before the flowers have had time to expand, a circumstance
that detracts materially from their effect.

In Professor Reichenbach’s otherwise accurate description
of the plant in the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle’ he speaks of the
flowers as appearing singly on the side of the old stems, a
mistake which the examination of additional examples—pro-
duced at Knypersley and elsewhere—has enabled me to
correct. The name is in allusion to the two tints of yellow
which are found in its blossoms.

In the form of its leaves—which are grassy and very sharp-
pointed—this species resembles D. aduncum, from which
however it is otherwise entirely distinct.

Drscr. Stems upright or nearly so, smooth, somewhat club-
Shaped, about half a yard high. Leaves grassy, three or four
inches long, very sharp-pointed, falling off before any flowers

MARCH Ist, 1866.

appear. acemes short, two- to five-flowered. Sepals (which
like the petals are a pale yellow) lanceolate, sharp-pointed,
forming at their base ashort mentum or chin. Pefta/s oblong,
acute, less than an inch long, a little wider than the sepals,
faintly toothed at the margin; /ip spreading out in front
from a broad hastate nearly square blunt-angled claw, a
little serrated along the whole extent of its margin, tra-
versed by a bar across its base, of the same colour as the
petals, excepting a deep orange tint on its disk.—J. B.

Fig. 1. Column and claw of labellum. 2. Lip:—magnified.

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GLADIOLUS Papruo.

Butterfly-flowered Gladiolus.

Nat. Ord. Intp—em.—Hexanpria Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tax. 5427.)

Grapioiws Papilio ; elatus, glaberrimus, foliis 2-3-pedalibus lineari-ensi-
formibus striatis, spica pedali laxiflora, floribus distantibus, spathis
cymbiformibus tubum perianthii superantibus, perianthio campanulato
ringente, lobis subsqualibus omnibus late obovatis 3 exterioribus et
interiorum supremo pallide purpureis basi flavis, interiorum 2-laterali-
bus medio sanguineo-purpureis et plaga semilunari aurea pictis, stig-
mate breviter trifido.

The Cape Colony abounds in species of Gladiolus, amongst
which that now figured appears the most beautiful, though
not the most gorgeous, that has hitherto been made known ;
nothing can well exceed the delicacy of the pale purple of
the upper petals, or the vividness of the deep purple and
golden-yellow markings of the lower ones. It was received
at Kew, in 1861, from D. Arnot, Esq., of Colesberg, to whom
the Royal Gardens are indebted for many excellent plants;
it was also found by Mr. W. Wilson Saunders’s collector,
Cooper, from whom roots, kindly communicated by Mr.
Saunders, flowered here two years later.

Descr. Plant three feet high and upwards, quite glabrous,
rather stout. Leaves narrow ensiform, gradually attenuated
to the long acuminate apex, two to three feet long, one inch
broad or upwards, striated, bright green. Spike a foot long
and more, slender, slightly inclined, many-flowered. Flowers
one to two inches apart. Bracts one to one and a half inch
long, cymbiform, acute, longer than the perianth-tube, green,
purplish on the back. Flowers horizontal, one and a half
inch expanse, subcampanulate, with incurved lobes. Perianth-

MARCH Ist, 1866.

tube purple, exserted beyond the bract ; /obes nearly equal in
size, all broadly obovate, obtuse ; two upper outer segments
very pale purple with a faint dash of yellow down the mid-
dle ; lower outer lobe with a strong purple central mark from
the base to the middle, and beyond that a yellow spot; upper
inner lobe coloured like the outer lateral; two lower inner
lobes with a broad very deep purple central band extending
from the base to the middle, beyond which is a broad .
semilunar golden areole, encircling the end of the purple.
Anthers linear. Stigma shortly three-cleft—J. D. H.

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PERISTROPHE wanceroari.

Lance-leaved Peristrophe.

Nat. Ord. AcantHace®.—Dt1anpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx equalis, 5-fidus v. 5-partitus, 2-bracteolatus. Corolla
resupinata, 2-labiata, labiis planiusculis v. inferiore concavo, superiore
apice 3-fido, inferiore integro v. 2-dentato. Stamina 2. Anthere anguste,
2-loculares, loculis recte v. oblique uno pone v. supra altero positis, muticis.
Capsula 2-valvis, 2-locularis, basi elongata, compressa, sterilis, commissura
valvarum plana, sursum compressa, loculis 2-spermis; dissepimentum ad-
natum, persistens. Semina discoidea, retinaculis uncinatis.—Herbe In-
dice, foribus speciosis. Flores speciosi, sepissime in capitula 2-bracteata
inclusi, capitulis paniculatis. ;

Prertstropue lanceolaria; herbacea, erecta, 2—-4-pedalis, caule teretiusculo,
ramulis et inflorescentia minute glanduloso-pubescentibus, foliis petio-
latis lanceolatis oblongo-lanceolatisve glaberrimis membranaceis, 3-0-
poll. longis, paniculis terminalibus dichotome ramosis erectis, capitulis
sub-3-floris angustis, bracteolis elongato-subulatis 7 poll. longis, calycis
lobis subulatis excedentibus, corolla pallide purpurea, tubo gracili ex-
serto 1-2 poll. longo, limbi labio superiore oblongo pollicari, inferiore
multo breviore cymbiformi acuto, antheris rectis loculis superpositis.

PeristropueE lanceolaria. Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. pp. 111-114, et in
De Cand. Prod, v. 11. p. 496.
Justrera lanceolaria. Roxb. Fl. Ind, v. 1. p. 121.

Though many species of 4canthacew are in cultivation, there
is perhaps no order of plants which promises so many future
valuable additions to our stoves. A large proportion of the
species are very beautiful plants, they are most easily propa-
gated, they come into flower in the dead of winter, when our
houses are often denuded of other ornaments but of the com-
monest sorts, and continue in flower for many weeks in suc-
cession. Such is the case with the present beautiful plant, of
which the Rev. Mr. Parish sent us seeds from Moulmein,
a year ago, and whose offspring have continued in flower
for six weeks in the palm-house shelves. The species, which

MARCH Ist, 1566.

was first described by Roxburgh in the Calcutta Gardens, is
confined to the far-eastern districts of India; it was found in
the Sylhet jungles by Dr. Thomson and myself in 1850, but
our plants are from Mr. Parish’s seeds.

Descr. A herbaceous plant, shrubby at the base and much
branched, branches and infloresence viscid-pubescent. Leaves
three to five inches long, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate,
long-acuminate, attenuated into the petiole, glabrous on
both surfaces. Panicles terminal, much branched, branches
erect, patent, with long, rigid, subulate bracts at the axils,
terminated by three-flowered, narrow heads. Calyx-lobes subu-
late, shorter than the similar bracteoles. Corolla pale purple,
with a long, slender tube, that is compressed, and slightly
twisted at the apex; upper lip one inch long, oblong, three-
toothed, pale purple-white, and speckled at the throat, lower
very concave, much shorter, entire at the apex. Anthers

straight—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Bracteoles, calyx, and pistils. 2. Stamens. 3. Ovary :—all mag-
nified.

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‘Tas. 5567.
BATEMANNIA Granprrrora.

Large-flowered Batemannia.

Nat. Ord. Orcu1pEx.— GyNanpRIA Monanprtia.

Gen. Char. Flores ringentes. Sepala patentia, lateralia unguiculata, basi
equalia. Petala sepalis latiora, basi obliqua, pedi producto columne ad-
nata. Labellum cum columna articulatum, trilobum, cucullatum. Columna
semiteres, basi elongata, clinandrio marginato. Anthera parva, bilocularis,
membranacea. Pollinia 2, postice biloba, glandula triangulari, caudiculd
nulla. Lindl. Bot. Reg. v. 20. (1835) p. 1714.

Batemannia grandiflora; pseudobulbis ovatis lucidis diphyllis, foliis valde
coriaceis lanceolatis acutissimis racemis basilaribus 2—5-floris 3-plo
longioribus, sepalis exterioribus liberis lanceolatis acutissimis patenti-
bus equalibus, internis paulo minoribus subcarnosis basi latis, labello
brevissimé unguiculato, basi gynostemii producte articulato subconcavo

‘ trilobo, lobo medio majori fimbriato, apice longe acuminato. Columna
arcuata, margine membranaceo, alis truncatis denticulatis. Anthera
operculiformis 2-locularis. Stigma concavum, rostello acuto, glandula
ovali antice attenuata. Pollinia 4 per paria superposita compressa.
Richb. fil. Bonpl. 1856. v. 4. p. 828, et in Walpers’ Annales.

Gatrotta grandiflora; Rich. et Gal. 1. c. et tab. 27.

The genus Batemannia was so named by Prof. Lindley,
upwards of thirty years ago, after the writer of these remarks.
The original species, B. Colleyi, came from Demerara, and a
second, &. Beaumonti, from Bahia, and with these Prof.
Reichenbach has now associated two species of the supposed
genus Galeottia (G. fimbriata and G. grandiflora), which agree
well with Batemannia, except that the number of pollen-
masses is four instead of two. A fifth species has been added
under the name of B. meleagris (the Huntleya meleagris of
Lindley), which, though I quite think my friend is right in
removing it from Huntleya, I am convinced he is wrong in
placing under Batemannia, with which its habit—more like
that of an Eastern Vanda—does not at all accord.

The present species is a very handsome plant, introduced

MARCH Ist, 1866.

many years since by Linden from New Granada, but still ex-
tremely rare. The figure was taken from specimens produced
in the spring of 1865, in Mr. Rucker’s far-famed collection.
Being found at a lower elevation (4000 ft.) than the majority
of its tribe in New Granada, it requires rather more warmth
than most of what are now denominated “ cool” Orchids.

Descr. Pseudobulbs ovate, deeply furrowed, shining, two
or three inches long, bearing two large, broadly-lanceolate,
very sharp-pointed, leathery leaves. Flower-scapes much shorter
than the leaves, three- to five-flowered. Sepals free, lanceo-
late, very sharp-pointed, fully expanded, all of the same size,
olive striped with reddish-brown. Petals rather smaller,
slightly fleshy, broad at the base. Lip with a short claw,
jointed with the extended base of column, rather hollow,
three-lobed, its middle lobe largest, fringed, and very acumi-
nate, white with purple streaks, and orange-coloured calli at
the base. Column arched, with membranous edges, and trun-
cate, toothleted wings. Anther two-celled. Stigma hollow,
with sharp beak and oval gland narrowing to a point in front.
Pollen-masses four.—J. B.

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Quantities of 100 yard ds delivered free at all the principal Railway Stations and Shipping Ports in ~
England ; and 200 juss fi cepivreia detiveded free to most parts of Scotland and Ireland.

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#* Every description of Netting warranted to give satisfaction,
returned unconditionally.

J.B. BROWN & CO.: OFFICES, 18, CANNON STEET, CITY, LONDON, EC.
4 (Nearly opposite St. Swithin's Lane and “ London Stone,” and near London Bridge.)

WAREHOUSE (where Stock is kept), 148, UPPER THAMES STREET EC.
_ (Opposite the std: pl a Ca re to the Londos Bridge Steamboat Piers.)

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-ESTIMATES.—Plans and Estimates will be sent on application.

_ IKON MERCHANTS AND HORTICULTURAL ENGINE

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HEATING BY HOT WATER.

It is now generally admitted that Buildings of any kind can be more effectual

warmed by Hot Water than by any other means ; but as so much depends on ¢)

way in which the Apparatus is fixed, it is of the greatest importance that it be don
by experienced men. i

J. Jonzs & Sons are prepared to estimate for Warming, to any extent—

GREENHOUSES. CHURCHES. FACTORIES.

CONSERVATORIES. CHAPELS. OFFICES. |
VINERIES. SCHOOLS. WORKSHOPS. a
HOTHOUSES. READING ROOMS. WAREHOUSES.
FORCING PITS. LECTURE ROOMS. DRYING ROOMS. -—
PEACH HOUSES. BILLIARD ROOMS. CELLARS. a
PINE STOVES. HALLS AND PASSAGES. COACH-HOUSES.
ORCHARD HOUSES. BATHS. HARNESS ROOMS. —

J. Jones & Sons’ Apparatus is simple in construction, moderate in cost, &
economical in working.

It is equally available for the Amateur’s Greenhouse, or the longest range

Forcing Houses ; for the smallest Chapel or the largest Church ; for Private I
or those of Public Companies. ¢

It is admirably adapted for Dwelling Houses, as coils of pipes can be pli |
im any part, for warming the various rooms. One or more Baths may be heal’

from the same boiler, and a constant supply of hot water obtained in any part |
the house.

For Warehouses and Workshops this system of heating is unsurpassed, as it

not only the means of keeping goods dry, but it also adds to the comfort
workpeople, and thereby effects a saving in labour.

J. Jonzs & Sons recommend boilers of all kinds being set in brickwo
possible; but portable boilers can be supplied, if required. ; |

MATERIALS,—All Materials supplied will be of the best quality.

DELIVERY.—Boilers of various kinds, and pipes and connections, being al
in stock, can, at a very short notice, be sent to any part.

guarantee the effectual working of any apparatus fixed by their own men.

J. JONES & SONS,

6, BANKSIDE, SOUTHWARK, LONDON, SE

Chird Series.

No. 256.

VOL. XXII. APRIL. [Price 3s. 6d, col 2. 6d. plain.

on No. 951 or tue ENTIRE WORK.
CURTIS’S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,

COMPRISING

THE PLANTS OF THE ROYAL GARDENS OF KEW,

AND OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN ;
WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS ;

BY

JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D., F.R.S. L.S. & G. S.,
Birector of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew.

Nature and Art to adorn the page combine,
And flowers exotic grace our northers clime.

LONDON:
LOVELL REEVE & CO., 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1866.

THE HYDROPULT,

AN INVENTION FOR THROWING WATER BY HAND-POWER.
(SecurED sy Royat Lerrers PaTENt.)
Weighs but 8 lbs.

Will throw 7 or 8 Gallons of Water per minute 50 feet, when worked by t
power of one Man.

PRICE LIST.
Complete with Brass Cylinders and J apanned Stirrup, £1. 12s. 64.

Complete with Brass Cylinders and Copper Stirrup, £2. 2s.

The price, “complete” as above, includes 23 feet Suction, and 3 feet Deliv:

Hose, Galvanized Wire Strainer, Rose, and Small Jet.

THE HYDROPULT
Ts invaluable for use in the Garden for

WATERING BEDS,
SPRINKLING PLANTS,
DROWNING OUT INSECTS,
CLEANSING TREES FROM SMUTS,
DRESSING WITH LIQUID MANURE, ETC. ETC.

THE HYDROPULT

Is desirable in every Household for

WASHING WINDOWS.
WETTING SIDE WALKS,
SPRINKLING STREETS,
WASHING CARRIAGES,
EMPTYING CISTERNS,
FILLING BARRELS,
A SPRAY BATH, ETC. ETC.

ORDERED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT AS FIRE ENGINES. —

ROBERT HOGG, LL.D. & F.L.S., REV. H. DOMBRAIN, A.B., SHIRLEY HIBE
ESQ., F.R.H.S., THOMAS RIVERS, ESQ. (the eminent Florist), and other well-kno!
gentlemen, recommend the Hydropult as an Invaluable Garden Implement.

The Hydropult will draw water horizontally, if necessary, through Two Hundred Feet Suction Hew
force it through Delivery Hose to an altitude of One Hundred Feet.

THE GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY HYDROPULT
A NEW AND BEAUTIFUL IMPLEMENT, |

Weighing scarcely 5 lbs.

And specially adapted for use in the Greenhouse and Conservatory.
Hose, Strainer, ~

of the principal Ironmongery and Seed Establishments throughout the City and provinces. These Cf

in many respects the Hydropult in appearance, and are calculated to deceive the unsuspecting. The

therefore, issues this Caution, and respectfully intimates that parties wishing to purehase the Hydropuy

mine the machine offered for sale, and see if it has attached thereto a label, with the following words :—
pult, Vosz’s Patent, manufactured only by Grirritas & Browitt, Birmingham. CHARLES PomEBoy

Proprietor, & and 143, Cheapside, London.” Unless this label is attached, the machine is not the HyGwey

_ PROSPECTUSES, WITH TESTIMONIALS, ON APPLICATION.

HYDROPULT SHOW-ROOM, 142 & 143, CHEAPSIDE, LO

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE ADVERTISER.

SHANKS’ PATENT LAWN MOWERS FOR 1866.

Patronized on Five separate occasions, during the Season of 1864, by
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN,
AND ONCE BY HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF SAXONY;
AGAIN ON FOUR SEPARATE OCCASIONS DURING THE SEASON OF 1865 BY HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN;
ONCE BY HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF HOLLAND;
AND ONCE BY HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA.

HORSE MACHINE. PONY MACHINE. HAND MACHINE.

ALEXANDER SHANKS & SON, in presenting their LAWN MOWERS for the approaching Season, are gratified
to be able to state that the demand for their celebrated Machines is rapidly increasing.

A. 8. & Son, in introducing Improvements into their Machines, have been careful that no Improvement be intro-
duced which has merely novelty to recommend it, but that the advantages in point of durability and ‘simplicity of
Construction, which have always been a peculiarity of their Machines, should still remain.

A. 8. & Sow can confidently assure their numerous Friends and Customers and the Public generally that their en-
deavour will always be to supply a Machine, first-class in every way, one which cannot be surpassed if even equalled,
: _ Whether for simplicity of construction, ease in working, or durability. None but the best materials and skilled work-
» “Men are employed in the manufacture of their Machines,

PRICE S—Including Carriage to most of the principal Railway Stations and Shipping Ports in the Kingdom.
SHANKS’ NEW PATENT HAND MACHINE FOR 1866.

10-inch Machine.....2.....0006.. £3.10 0) Easily worked : P Do. by a Man
12-inch age ee eer 4 10 of by a Lady. 19-inch Machine. ....,.....-.+.+4- 7 7G { and a Boy,
14-inch Machine... é.i66.ccive ate 510 0 Do. bya Boy. | 22-inch Machine.................. 8 7 6§ Do. by Two
16-inch Machine.............000... 610 0 Do. bya Man. | 24-inch Machine. ............... 817 6 Men.
Silent Movement for the four smallest sizes, 4s. extra; for the other sizes, 7s. 6d. extra.
_ SHANKS’ NEW PATENT PONY & DONKEY MACHINE. SHANKS’ NEW PATENT HORSE MACHINE,
Width of Cutter. If with Patent Delivering Apparatus. | Width of Cutter. _ If with Patent Delivering Apparatus.
25-inch Machine ............ id BE 15 ie Dre es 25s. extra. | 30-inch Machine ............ £19 0. 0............808. extra.
28-inch Machine ............ 16 10. Mik 30s. extra. | 36-inch Machine ............ 22 0 0...éo05:...808. extras
30-inch Machine ............ 1215 Po 80s. extra. | 42-inch Machine ............ OF 0 0 ee: 40s. extra.
__ Silent Movement, 12s. 6d. extra; Boots for Pony, 21s.-| 48-inch Machine ............ 28 0 O..0... 40s. extra.
per Set; ditto for Donkey, 16s. per Set. Silent Movement, 20s. extra; Boots for Horse’s Feet .
24s. per Set.

_ SHANK’ PATENT LAWN MOWERS cut the Grass on uneven as well as on level Lawns; and it is quite
immaterial whether the Grass be wet or dry.

Every Machine warranted to give ample satisfaction, and if not approved of, can be at once returned,

ALEXANDER SHANKS & SON,

27, LEADENHALL STREET, LONDON.
MANUFACTORY, DENS IRONWORKS, ARBROATH.

AS. and son keep a Stock of Lawn Mowers at 27, Leadenhall Street, London, ‘from which Orders can be
4 at once executed. They also have at their London Warehouse a staff of experienced Workmen thoroughly
acquainted with all the details of these Machines, so that they are enabled to repair Lawn Mowers in

as wel! as‘at the Manufactory.

GREEN’S PATENT SILENS MESSOE

NOISELESS LAWN MOWING, ROLLING AND COLLECTING MACHINES.
FITTED WITH PATENT SELF-SHARPENING CYLINDER CUTTERS.

Co Her Mlost Gracious
Majesty the Queen.

Hy Special Appointment
Sole Manufacturer,

try

Every Machine is Green’s Patent
warranted to give en- Mowers have provei

tire satisfaction, and be the best, and
if not approved of can carried off every pi

be returned uncondi-
tionally.

PRICES OF HAND MACHINES.

To cut 10 inches ... £3 10 0... Suitable fora Lady Tocut 18 inches ... £7 10 0 Suitable for one pe
ee NAS, a4 810-8 ee a ~ ew ... 8 O 0 Suitable for two pers
cu .. 510 0... Suitable for one person an 2 SI »
ot <- 610 0 ” ” » 24 » i OO ee ee

+e8 ”
Prices of Horse, Pouy, and Donkey Machines, including patent self-delivery box ; cross stay complete; sul
for attaching to ordinary chaise-traces or gig harness.
To cut 26 inches ... £13 0 0... ) yp oather Boots for | 10 cut30 inches ... £21 090 Leather Boots to
ey. IO Oe Tolar! tthe se Se ur wee D8 Pony, 228.
ee 4 3. 17 0-0. ee Ca ka a Leather Boots fe
iy. 3 yg Te OO Horse, 268. |
The 26, 28, and 30 inches can easily be worked by a donkey, or by two men, on an eyen lawn, the 30.
inches by a pony, and 42 and 48 inches by a carriage horse; and, as the Machines make no noise in worki
most spirited animal can be employed without fear of its running away, or in rm way damaging the Machine.
Both the Horse, Pony, Donkey, and Hand Machines possess (over all other Makers) the advantages 0
sharpening: the cutters being steel on each side, when they become dull or blunt by running one way roun®

eylinder, can be reversed again and again, bringing the opposite edge of the cutter against the bottom blade,
Machine will cut equal to new. Arrangements are made that the cylinder can be reversed, by any unexpe

person, in two or three minutes. ‘

The above Machines are made from the best materials, and of superior workmanship; are delivered ©
Free to all the principal Railway Stations and Shipping Ports in England.

GREEN’S IMPROVED NEW PATENT RO

LAWNS, DRIVES, BOWLING GREENS, CRICKET FIELDS, AND GRAVEL PATE
; SUITABLE FOR HAND OR HORSE POWER.

PRICES OF
PRICES OF ROLLERS FITTED
HAND ROLLERS. SHAFTS
Delivered at the principal . Pony or
Railway Stations in England. wenasarced aig hte

Diam. 30 in., len. 32 in. £7 10 Diam. 30 in., len. 82 im

— . « %, 410 80
et) 20 ” 22 2 3 10 ve 30 ” 42 » 4
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m2 SS ” 80 2

Thomas Green & Son, Smithfield Iron Works, Leeds; 44 & 45, Blackfriars 2
London, S.; and 19, Eden Quay, Dublin.

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE ADVERTISER. Ba

—_——

NEW ZONALE PELARGONIUM, WILTSHIRE LASS.
| , DOWNIE, LAIRD, & LAING

dl

Have much pleasure in introducing this splendid Novelty, which was pronounced by the Members of the Floral
Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, and also by the Judges of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent’s
Park, a3 the finest PINK PELARGONIUM ever exhibited, and was awarded a First-class Certificate on each
Occasion.

The following description is from the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London :—“ One of the finest
of the pink-flowered Bedding varieties yet seen, remarkable, not so much for size of flower as for size and completeness
of truss; the leaves were marked with a pale zone; the flowers were rosy-pink; the base of the upper petals white,
and the trusses are remarkably large and dense, having the valuable property of retaining their blossoms for a long
time in the truss.” :

The following NURSERYMEN have already ordered it, and will be able to supply it on and after the 17th of May
: next, at 5s. each :—

ee ee ee ae a le ee

- Messrs. Backhouse & Son, York
ae sh . Sugden, Covent Garden,

* » Carter & Co., High Holborn
_. » Cutbush & Son, Highgate, N.
_ F.&A. Dickson & Son, Chester.
-» J. Dickson & Son, Chester
» Dickson & Turnbull, Perth
» J. Dobson & Son, Isleworth, W.

Messrs. Ivery & Son, Dorking
J. & C. Lee, Hammersmith, W.
» Hugh Low & Co., Clapton, N.E.
» Osborn & Sons, Fulham, 8S.W.
» F. & A. Smith, Dulwich, 8.
>» Youell & Co., Great Yarmouth
Mr, W. Barnes, Camberwell, 8.
» W. Bull, King’s Road, Chelsea
», Clark, Brixton, S.

Mr. J. Fraser, Leyton, Essex. N.E.
+ W. Ivery, Rye Lane, Peckham, 8,
» J. Keynes, Salisbury :
; J. M‘Ronald, Chichester
1, W. Masters, Canterbury
», Monroe, Potter's Bar, N.
» P. J. Perry, Banbury
», C. Ramsay, Ball's Bridge, Dubliw
» G. Smith, Hornsey Road, N.
» R. Smith. Worcester

» J. Garaway & Co., Bristol » W. Dillistone, Sible Hedingham, Es- a. 1
.» E.G. Henderson & Son, St. John's sex, N.E » B. 8, Williams, Holloway, N,
: Wood, N.W. a

_ As our stock is limited, early Orders are respectfully solicited, which will be executed in strict rotation as received.

—

. PRIMULA, CALCEOLARIA, ETC«.

\\/M. CUTBUSH AND SON are now sending out Seed of their superb PRI-
¥ MULA SINENSIS FIMBRIATA, which has for many years given great satisfaction.
___ The ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle’ of the 6th of January, in Notices to Correspondents, says :—~
“The blooms sent are remarkably fine, richly coloured, full, and densely fringed ; they are evi-

dently the produce of a capital strain.”
The ‘Journal of Horticulture’ of the 28rd of January, says that “The finest and richest
coloured Chinese Primulas we have yet seen are those raised by Messrs. Cutbush and Son.”

Sealed packets, 2s. 6d. and 3s. 6d. each.

* CALCEOLARIA (James’s).—This is the finest herbaceous variety extant. Per packet,
28. 6d. and 8s. 6d. each.

CINERARIA, from finest named varieties.

Per packet 2s. 6d. and 3s. 6d. each.

HIGHGATE NURSERIES, LONDON, N.

(EORGE SMITH’S New Catalogue is now ready, with a splendid woodcut of
~~" Nosegay Geranium LE GRAND, which is the finest of all Geraniums for effect ; together
With descriptions of New Seedling Zonale Geraniums, CHIEFTIAN, CHRISTABEL, EXHI-
BITOR, GLADIATEUR, GREAT EASTERN, SIR R. PEEL, and PINK PERFECTION,
Which for their general fine qualities have received First-class Certificates at the Royal Botanic
fardens, and Royal Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington, and all of which G. 3. can with
‘He greatest of confidence recommend for description: see Catalogue, which also contains select
‘sts of Show FRENCH FANCY ZONALE AND VARIEGATED GERANIUMS,
: Fuc HSIAS, VERBENAS, PETUNIAS, DAHLIAS, CHRYSANTHEMUMS, BEDDING
PLANTS, etc., and will be sent in exchange for one postage stamp.

TOLLINGTON NURSERY, HORNSEY ROAD, LONDON, N,

4 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE ADVERTISER.

Kk. G. HENDERSON AND SON’S
CATALOGUE FOR JANUARY, 1866,

Is published, containing descriptive notes and other information of all the best novelties of
season, a copy of which will be forwarded, post-free, on application.

WELLINGTON NURSERY, ST. JOHN’S WOOD, LONDON, N.W.

BENJAMIN EDGINGTON,

— TENT, RICK CLOTH, AND FLAG MANUFACTURER,
BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT TO HER MAJESTY.
Marquees and Tents for Horticultural Shows, for Sale or Hire.

Netting for Fruit Trees, New and Second- hand; Scrims for Greenhouse Blinds,
Domo, Garden Mats, etc.

Be particular to address—

BENJAMIN EDGINGTON only),

2; DURE STREET, LONDON BRIDGE, S.E.
No other Establishment.

PLAGUES OF THE GARDEN.
SIMPLE AND SAFE REMEDY.

By using the “APHIS WASH,” these pests of the Garden, together with SC/
CaTERPILLARS, Siucs, Earwies, etc., are immediately destroyed. Leaves no ste
But strengthens the Trees or Plants.

See ‘GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE,’ August 19th, 1865.
‘GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE,’ July Ist, 1865.

Sold by Chemists and others, in 1s, Bottles and 2s. 6d. a Gallon, with full -
Directions for Use.

WHOLESALE AT THE

“CITY SOAP WORKS,” MILTON STREET, LONDON, E. te

JUST PUBLISHED
(GRATIS).

THE GREAT CRINOLINE QUESTION

SOLVED BY HER MAJESTY

THE EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.

Ladies should at once obtain GRarts of their Draper or Corset Maker, THOMSON’S. new Illus
showing the veritable

“MODE DE L’IMPERATRICE.”

or

Ee ee a ee a ee ee

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE ADVERTISER. 5

NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS.
JOHN SALTER’S Descriptive Catalogue for 1866 is now ready, and will be

sent on receipt of two postage-stamps.

VERSAILLES NURSERY, WILLIAM STREET, VALE PLACE, HAMMERSMITH, W.

DGINGTON’S GARDEN NETTING, the cheapest and most
: durable, 14d. per square yard, or in quantities of 250, 500, or
1000 yards, carriage free.
EDGINGTON’S MARQUEES and GARDEN TENTS are the
rettiest.
EDGINGTON’S MARQUEES, for hire, are the most handsome
and capacious.

EDGINGTON’S RICK CLOTHS for sixty-one years have main-

tained their celebrity as the best.

HAYTHORN and BRITTAIN’S NETTINGS. Sample of material free on application.

Be particular—Frederick Edgington & Co., Thomas Street, Old Kent Road, London, S.E.

Messrs. R, SILBERRAAD and SON, 5, Harp Lane, Great Tower Street, LONDON.

x Kinds of Flower Seeds, with Instructions on Cultivation, PART 4.—A descriptive List of the most desirable
cently imported by Messrs. SUTTON. on the New Forage Plant, BROMUS SCHRAZDERI.

_ ORIGINAL ARTICLES on the POTATO DISEASE, USE OF FROZEN MANGELS, etc.

A liberal Discount to the Trade!!!
International Exhibition, 1862, Class XIX.—Honourable Mention.

A. VERSCHAFFELT, GHENT, BELGIUM,

Begs to announce that his CATALOGUE No. 78 is ready, and can be had of his Agents,

—____

SUTTON’S SPRING CATALOGUE

AND 5
aN AMATEUR’S GUIDE FOR 1866, 4,
(ILLUSTRATED.) In 4 Parts, © (
PRICE SIXPENCE. GRATIS TO CUSTOMERS.

‘ CONTENTS.

START 1.4 comprehensive List of all the best kinds PART 3.—A detailed List of Bulbous Flower Roots
of Vegetables, with Instructions on Cultivation. (for Spring planting), Stove, Greenhouse, and other
(PART 2A comprehensive List of the most popular | Plants, Hardy Ferns, ete. etc. '

including an Illustrated List of Continental Novelties re- | kinds of Grass and other Agricultural Seeds, and Remarks

ALSO
A Useful and Concise Calendar of Operations in the Kitchen Garden,
For the whole Year, written expressly for this Work.

AND A VALUABLE COLOURED RAILWAY MAP OF ENGLAND,
Containing tmportant information.

SUTTON’S SHORT SELECT SEED LIST
Is also ready, and will be sent Gratis and Post Free on application.

~~

ADDRESS,
SUTTON AND SONS, Seed Growers and Merchants, Royal Berkshire Seed
Establishment, READING.

NEW PLANTS FOR 1866.

B.S. WL LLIAES,
VICTORIA AND PARADISE NURSERIES, HOLLOWAY, LONDON, N.,

Has great pleasure in offering, for the first time, the undermentioned Splendid Plants. Every care |
been used in the selection of the several kinds, therefore he trusts they will give the highest satisfaction, —

. AZALEAS,

The two following beautiful varieties will be found great
acquisitions, and B.S. W. feels confident that they must
take first rank as exhibition plants, PRINCESS ALEX-
ANDRA being raised from the same parents as Elegantis-
sima, which has proved to be one of the best. The present
variety will be found superior in quality, with much larger
flowers, of a substance never before met with—the most
important feature for prolonging the flowering season.
PRINCESS HELEN A is recommended for its general use-
fulness, being a free bloomer and quite distinct in habit.

PRINCESS ALEXANDRA.—A beautiful form of Ele-

gantissima, with flowers 34 inches across ; petals round
and smooth, of great substance, slightly striped with
deep crimson ; a profuse bloomer. 31s. 6d.

PRINCESS HELENA.—Deep rosy pink, upper petals

spotted with lake. The transparency of the flowers
causes it to be distinct from all other kinds; habit
good and free. 21s.

RHODODENDRONS.

These two elegant varieties are the Seedling productions
of Mr. Bousie, late of Stoke Park, and were exhibited by
him a few seasons since at the Royal Horticultural Meet-
‘ings, and received Certificates of Merit as valuable additions
for greenhouse decoration, being of free-flowering habit,
a feature much wanted in a greenhouse Rhododendron,

DENISONII.—A Seedling from Dalhousianum, crossed

with Edgeworthii and Gibsonii ; a very fine variety,

with splendid habit, well furnished with clean-looking

flattish elliptic leaves and large campanulated flowers,

pure white, with a lemon stain towards the base, very

ont {to be figured in the ‘ Floral Magazine’ for
ay). 21s.

MoNABBII .—From ciliatum, crossed with Edgeworthii;

avery handsome plant, dwarfish in habit, with smooth
sed leaves, and beautiful large blush-white flowers.

ACHIMENES.

Six beautiful varieties raised by Mr. Parsons, of Welwyn,
and far in advance of any yet sent out. PINK PERFEC-
_ TION the same size as Mauve Queen, and equal in sub-

stance, while GRANDIS gives the deepest violet shade ;
all the others will be found equally distinct in their sepa-
tate colours. Received Certificates of Merit from the

Floral Committee.

_ ADVANCE.—Flowers deep reddish purple. with a light
spotted eye, shaded towards the margin, quite dis-
tinct. 7s. 6d.

_ ARGUS.—Colour rich plum, large deep orange eye,
spotted with carmine, upper lobes of the flowers

_ beautifully rayed towards the margin. 7s. 6d.

AURORA.—Flowers 2 inches across ; colour rich heavy

scarlet, with light yellow eye, very effective. 7s. 6d.

GRANDIS.—Flowers deep violet colour, with a deep

a eye, finely spotted and shaded with carmine.

18 Gd:

PINK PERFECTION.—Flowers very large, colour ma-
genta rose ; the upper part of the eye rich carmine,
the under lobes beautifully rayed with violet, very

ae fine. 7s. 6d.

_ STELLA.—Flowers 24 inches across, clear magenta,
orange eye, spotted with carmine, nicely serrated,
distinct and beautiful. 7s. 6d.

The above set for 40s.

SWAINSONIA MAGNIFICA,
Figured in the ‘ Floral Magazine.’
A free-growing and free-flowering greenhouse climbe
native of Australia ; habit and character partakes of bo
the Clianthus and Swainsonia ; while it has the robust
graceful-growing habit of the former, it produces more pr
minently the long pendent racemes of delicate brigh
loured pink flowers of the latter, with a pure white
in the upper petal or lobe. It is well adapted for
nhouse, treated as a pot plant or planted out in
border for pillars or trellis-work. 10s. 6d.
THUNBERGIA FRAGRANS.
B.S. W. believes this to be the most useful plant he h
ever had the pleasure of offering, the whole character bein

quite distinct to any other Thunbergia, and whether gro
as a pot plant or planted in the border for covering pi
and trellis-work, it will be invaluable, being free in gro
with ample foliage of a dark green, with great substance
It continues flowering throughout the year, but its pri
cipal period is during the winter months, a time
white flowers are scarce. Although grown in a wart
stove, it has never shown the least sign of red spider,
most important feature in this class of plants. 10s.

PELARGONIUMS, BEDDING.

The following six Zonale Geraniums were }

Shirley Hibberd, Esq., the eminent Horticulturist.
well known that this gentleman has for some years
his close attention to this class of Bedding Plants, plat
in his own experimental garden every kind that has
raised, and carefully testing or proving their worth
gards habit and novelty by comparison, etc. He has 4
ready raised several valuable kinds, but prior to this

son none have been sent out under his name. B.5
has prevailed upon Mr. Hibberd to allow him to usé
name. This will convince all that they are each vari
of more than ordinary merit, and real novelties.

ANDREW MARVEL — Leaves bright green,
broad brownish zone flowers, large, and of remé
substance and smoothness ; colour vermilion-
fine variety. 7s. 6d.

EVANGELINE.—Leaves rich green, with dark
smooth circular flowers, colour French white, §
to delicate rose blush, large globular trusses, VeTy’
tinct and beautiful. 7s. 6d.

H. W. LONGFELLOW.—Flowers finely formed, ©
deep salmon flesh with red centre, with trusses ®
and globular ; leaves dark green, with brown
a very fine variety. 7s. 6d. :

KATE ANDERSON.—Flowers average size and f
trusses globular, colour the most brilliant shade
scarlet ; blooming profusely, likely to prove the!
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PEPEROMIA MARMORATA.

Marble-leaved Peperomia.

Nat. Ord. Prrperacem.—Drianpria Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. Amentum floribus dense v. remote tectum. Bractee peltate.
Stamina 2, lateralia, filamentis teretibus v. subulatis. Anthere 2-loculares,
loculis oppositis nune effoetis sursum confluentibus hine subunilocularibus.
Ovarium sessile, rectum vy. obliquum, stigmate sessili deciduo penicillato v.
fimbriato. Bacca sessilis, fere exsucca, pericarpio tenui. Semen conforme,
testa membranacea v. coriacea.—Herbe carnose, ramosa. Folia opposita,
alterna v. verticillata, exstipulatis. Amenta azillaria terminalia v. oppo-
sittfolia.

PEPEROMIA marmorata; herbacea, robusta, glaberrima, caule tereti ramoso,
foliis oppositis confertis carnoso-coriaceis ovatis obtusis basi profunde
cordato-2-lobis lobis incumbentibus integerrimis supra fusco-viridibus
albo-marmoratis, subtus pallidioribus, 5-nerviis, amentis subterminali-
bus 4—6 poll. longis gracilibus pedunculatis teretibus, floribus spiraliter
dispositis, bracteis peltatis, apice dilatato orbiculari, pedicello crasso
obconico, ovario obovoideo obliquo glanduloso, stigmate subterminali
sessili disciformi fimbriato.

The genus Peperomia, though generally consigned to the
“Botanic Garden” by horticulturists, contains a conside-
rable number of species extremely well worth cultivation,
and, amongst others, the subject of the Plate. For, unlike
most other variegated-leaved favourites, this retains more or
less of its beauty throughout the year. It is a native of
South Brazil, where it was discovered by Mr. Weir, collector
for the Horticultural Society. It was received at Kew, first
from Mr. Veitch, and afterwards from Mr. Wilson Saunders,
F.R.S.,—in both cases with the name of P. arifolia (a very dif-
ferent plant, with peltate leaves). I find it nowhere described.

Descr. A robust, branching, short, suberect plant, glabrous
throughout, surface papillose with minute, translucent cells.
Stems terete, branched, almost as thick as the little finger.
Leaves petioled, opposite, three to five inches long, ovate-cor-

MARCH Isr, 1866.

date, deeply two-lobed at the base, the lobes rounded and over-
lapping, quite entire, succulent, five-nerved, upper surface
opaque, dull green, marbled with white, under pale green.
Spikes single or two to three together, erect, slender, four to
six inches long, on stout, erect peduncles, about one-sixth of
an inch diameter. Flowers in rather close spirals, but not
crowded. Bracts peltate, summit orbicular, pedicel clavate.
Stamens short; anther two-celled. Ovary papillose, broadly
obovoid, oblique ; stigma nearly terminal, discoid, with fim-
briate edges.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Portion ot amerntum, with flower. 2 and 8. Side and front view
of scale, stamens, and ovary :—all magnified.

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ERICINELLA Manyt.

Cameroons Mountain Heath.

Nat. Ord. Ertcex.—Tetrranpria Monooynta.

Gen. Char. Calyx 4-partitus, lacinia infima majore. Corolla campanu-
lata, limbo 4-fido suberecto. Stamina 4, rarius 5, libera v. subconnata.
Stigma peltatum. Ovarium 3-6-loculare, loculis pluri-ovulatis. Capsula
3-6-locularis, 3-6-valvis.—Fruticuli fenwes, ericoidei, Afric tropice et
australis ef Madagascarie incole. Folia 3-4-natim verticillata, anguste
linearia. Flores terminales, pedicellati, parvi. Bractex 0.

Eetcrveta Mannii ; frutex ramosissimus, 5-12-pedalis, ramis ramulisque
pubescenti-tomentosis puberulisve, foliis 4-nis patulis v. appressis
glabris nitidis, pedicellis folia superantibus, sepalis minoribus corolla
dimidio brevioribus, antheris muticis inclusis, stylo breviter exserto.

Enxtctnentza Mannii. Hook.f. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vi. 16 et vii. 205.

Till the expedition of Gustav Mann, late collector for the
Royal Gardens of Kew, to the West Coast of Africa, the flora
of the tropical mountains of that continent was totally un-
known; now, thanks to his intrepidity and prudence, we
have excellent dried collections and many living plants from
the loftiest regions of that district hitherto visited by white
men,—viz. Fernando Po and _ the Cameroons Mountains.
From this curious country Helichrysum Mannii has already
been figured (ante, Tab. 5431), and other curious things will
hereafter appear. Meanwhile we here figure a type of ve-
getation equally familiar in Europe and South Africa, but
which had not previously been known to inhabit the inter-
mediate region. M. Mann found it at an elevation of 10,000
feet on Fernando Po, and between 4000 and 11,000 feet on
the Cameroons Mountains, where it forms a shrub, sometimes
twelve feet high. The other species of the genus, which is
very Closely allied to Erica itself, are found, one in Madagas-

APRIL Ist, 1866.

car and another in South Africa. Our specimens were raised
from seed, and flowered in the Heath-house in July, 1863.

Descr. A slender, bushy, erect shrub, four to ten teet high,
with close-set, fastigiate, pubescent or tomentose branchlets.
Leaves quaternate, close-set, whorled in fours, one-eighth of an
inch long, linear, with revolute margins, glabrous. Flowers
numerous, three or four together at the tips of all the branch-
lets, on short, curved pedicels, nearly globose, one-tenth of
an inch long, dull-red. Calyx-lobes unequal, three of them
ovate-oblong, half as long as the corolla, fourth linear-oblong,
as long as the corolla, all ciliate at the base. Corolla sub-
globose, with four short, obtuse, ciliate lobes. Stamens in- —
cluded. Anthers four or five, broad, obcordate-oblong, slightly
cohering. Ovary pubescent, six-celled. Style exserted ; stigma
broad, dilated, cup-shaped, dark-red.—J. D. H.

_ Fig. 1. Branch and leaves. 2. Leaf. 8. Apex of branch with flowers
4. Flower. 5 and 6. Stamens. 7. Germen and transverse section of
ovary :—all magnified.

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POLYCHIGOS coznvu-cenvt.

Stag’s-horn Polychilos.

Nat. Ord. Orncnipez.—Gynanpria Monanpria.

Gen. Char. Sepala explanata, carnosa, angusta, libera; lateralibus sub-
falcatis, leviter incurvis. Petala conformia, minora. Labellum posticum,
unguiculatum, in disco foveatum, cum columnA continuum, carnosum,
complicatum, tripartitum, laciniis lateralibus runcinatis terminali lunato
apiculato. Appendix circa foveam membranaceus, semicyathiformis, 5-
aristatus, dentibus duobus auctus: altero minore a latere columne, altero |
antico cultrato. Columna erecta, elongata, semiteres, basi bituberculata,
clinandrio proclivi, rostello elongato decurvo. Stigma oblongum, excava-
tum. Pollina 2, cereacea, postice fissa, caudiculé elongata, obovata, glan-
dula ovali. Lindl. Fol. Orch.

Ati
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PotxcurLos cornu-cervi ; foliis distichis coriaceis cuneatis oblongis, pe-
dunculis lateralibus erectis sursum elavatis multifloris subzqualibus,

rachi alata.
Ponycuinos cornu-cervi. Kuhl van Hass. Orch. tab. 1. a
PuHaLzyopsis cornu-cervi. Rchd. fil. Xen. Orch.

Although long since discovered in Moulmein by Lobb,
this curious plant had never reached England in a living
state before the year 1864, when, through the kindness of
the Rev. C. S. P. Parish, a few specimens of it were safely
transmitted to Messrs. Low, some of which have already
flowered.

Dr. Lindley had doubts as to whether Polychilos was, as
a genus, really distinct from Phalaenopsis, while Professor
Reichenbach is decidedly of opinion that the two genera
ought to be combined. Certainly the two species lately
figured in this work (Phalenopsis Luddemanniana and P. Su-
matrana) and which are nearly intermediate between the
older kinds of Phalenopsis and the present Polychilos, go far
to strengthen the views of the German Professor, but on
the whole I have thought it better to retain for the present
Dr. Lindley’s name, as so much fresh light is now being thrown

APRIL ist, 1866.

upon the subject by the constant discovery of new species,
and we shall therefore ere long be in a far better position to
deal with the question in all its bearings.

P. cornu-cervi flowers freely in the summer months, and is
readily grown among other Indian Orchids. Not more than
four or five flowers on the same scape are ever open at the
same time.

Descr. An epiphyte with the habit of Phalenopsis. Leaves
nearly a span long, distichous, leathery, cuneate, oblong,
about equal to the peduncles, which are nearly erect, clavate,
and forming a broad rachis, on which from six to a dozen or
more flowers open in succession. Sepals expanded, fleshy,
narrow, acute, the lateral ones partially falcate. Petals simi-
lar to the sepals but rather smaller, of a yellowish-green
barred with reddish-brown. Jip whitish, unguiculate, hol-
lowed on the disk, continuous with the column, fleshy,
folded inwards, tripartite, the lateral divisions being inclined
from the apex and the centre one crescent-shaped and apicu-
late. By the hollow of the disk is a somewhat cup-shaped
membranaceous appendage, usually furnished with five ariste
(awns) and two teeth, one in front the other in the rear.
Column erect, elongated, half-rounded, with two tubercles at
its base ; the clinandrium lying low and flat, with an extended
decurved beak.—J. B.

Fig. 1. Lip and column (magnified) seen in front, 2.. Ditto, ditto, seen
sideways.

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Tas. 5571.
TACSONIA Van-VoLxemit.

Van Volxem’s Passion-flower.

Nat. Ord. PasstrrorE®.—PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus elongatus, cylindricus ; lobi 5, lineari-oblongi
v. lanceolati, colorati. Petala 5 v. 0, ealycis lobis concolora et uniformia.
Corona faucis duplex vy. simplex, brevis v. elongatus. Stamina 5, filamentis
eum gynophoro longe connatis, apice liberis; anthere versatiles, lineari-
oblonge. Ovarium longe stipitatum, 1-loculare; styli 3, stigmatibus
capitatis ; ovula placentis 3 affixa, puplurima. Bacca intus pulposa, poly-
sperma. Semina compressa, arillata, testa scrobiculata.—Frutices scan-
dentes, cirrhiferi. Folia alterna,lobata. Pedunculi sepius solitarii, 1-flori,
_ 8-bracteati. Flores sepissime speciosi.

Tacsonta Van-Volxemii; ramis gracilibus foliisque subtus puberulis,
foliis breviter petiolatis cordatis profunde 3-lobis, lobis anguste lan-
ceolatis, petiolis glandulosis, acuminatis serrulatis, cirrhis elongatis,
pedunculis solitariis longissimis capillaribus infra florem 3-bracteatis,
bracteis parvis oblongis serrulatis, floribus amplis specicsis pendulis,
calycis tubo basi globoso, lobis anguste lineari-oblongis dorso intra
apicem apiculatis intus kermesinis, petalis consimilibus obtusis ima
basi plaga pallida notatis, corona brevissima simplici denticulata vio-
lacea,

Tacsonta (§ ? Pstnantnus) Van-Volxemii. Funk, in Journ. of Hort. v. 5.
Feb.1861. Lemaitre, Jard. Fleuriste. t. 381.

One of the most striking and beautiful plants hitherto in-
troduced into Europe, easy of cultivation, and continuing a
considerable time in flower. It promises to rival the Lapa-
geria, and even to eclipse it. The genus to which it belongs
inhabits South America, principally the valleys of the Andes ;
and it is stated in Lemaire’s ‘ Jardin Fleuriste ’ that this spe-
cies is a native of the temperate region of the province of
Antioquia, in New Granada, where it is cultivated by the
natives. It was introduced into Belgium, in 1858, by a zea-
lous amateur, M. Van Volxem, who found it in a garden at
Bogota; and I have native specimens collected by Goudot in

APRIL Ist, 1866.

the Quindiu Andes, in the same country. For the specimen
here figured, as well as for a fine young plant presented to
the Royal Gardens, I am indebted to Messrs. Lucombe and
Price, of Exeter. It succeeds well in a warm greenhouse,
and according to its discoverer it resists a temperature of
the freezing-point in its own country.

Descr. Stems slender, slightly pubescent, as are the under
surface of the leaves, petals, and peduncles. Leaves three
to five inches long, cordate at the base, deeply three-lobed ;
lobes membranous, lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate. Cirrhi
slender. Peduncles exceedingly long and slender, almost
capillary, ten to twenty inches long, one-flowered, tri-
bracteate. Bracts placed a little below the flower, small,
oblong, serrulate. Flowers five to seven inches in diameter,
bright-red. Calya-tube green, globose at the base, three-
quarters of an inch long; lobes oblong or oblong-lanceolate,
keeled ; feel and base externally green. Petals similar to the
calyx-lobes, yellowish at the very base. Corona inconspicu-
ous, toothed, violet. Gynophore two inches long.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Portion of corona :—magnified.

5572.

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Tas. 5572.

MILTONIA ANCEPS.

Two-edged-stemmed Miltonia.

Nat. Ord. OrncnuipE#.—Gynanpria Monanpria.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4109.)

MILTONIA anceps ; pseudobulbis compressis versus apicem attenuatis, foliis
binis oblongis, racemo ancipiti unifloro foliis longiore articulato, sepalis
petalisque lanceolato-oblongis patenti-recurvis, labello rhomboideo-
lyrato apice recurvo basi pubescente bilamellato dente intermedio
breviore adjecto, clinandrio circulari carnoso dentato. Lindl. Fol. Orch.

Minrtonta anceps. Rchb. Xen. Orch. tab. xxi.
OpontoaLossuM anceps. Klotzsch, in Allgem. Gart. Aug. 9, 1851.

This singular Miltonia was originally introduced from
Brazil, by the Messrs. Loddiges with whom it flowered, but no
figure of it has appeared in any English work and the plant
itself seems to have disappeared for many years from our
gardens. Fortunately a few plants of it were met with by
Mr. Blunt, and sent to his employers Messrs. H. Low & Co. of
Clapton, and from one of these, which flowered at Knypers-
ley in the spring of 1865, Mr. Fitch obtained his drawing.

The species is cultivated as easily and requires the same
treatment as the other Miltonias.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs two-leaved, two or three inches long,
adjoining each other, of the pale-yellowish tint usual in the
genus. Leaves two on each pseudo-bulb, narrow-oblong, ta-
pering at their extremity, shorter than the flower-scapes,
which are two-edged and partially concealed by long sheath-
ing pointed bracts. lowers one on each scape, two inches
in diameter. Sepals and petals oblong-lanceolate, spread-
ing, recurved, olive-coloured. Zip white with a few purple |
streaks and dots, somewhat lyre-shaped, slightly recurved at
the apex, same length as the petals, along its pubescent base
are two lamelle, with a third (sometimes in the form of a
tooth) raised between them. Clinandrium round, and toothed.

APRIL Ist, 1866.

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MUSSNDA: uvrnora:

Captain Grant's Mussenda.

Nat. Ord. Ruptacew.—Pentanpria MonoGynia.

Gen. Char. Calycis tubus oblongus y. turbinatus; lobi 5, decidui, uno
sepissime in folium amplum coloratum petiolatum producto. Corolla in-
fundibuliformis, tubo elongato, fauce villosa, limbo 5-partito. Anthere
5, sessiles, incluse, lineares. Ovarium 2-loculare; stylus gracilis, stigma-
tibus linearibus ; ovula oo, placentis stipitatis revoluto-2-lobis affixa. Bacca
apice cicatricata, polysperma. Semina parva.—Frutices, arbores et suffru-
tices tropiet. Folia petiolata, ovata ; stipule 2, libere v. connate. Flores
in corymbos terminales dispositi, bracteolati, sepissime albi v. flavi.

Muss4npa luteola ; suffrutex gracilis, ramis striatis teretibus et foliis sub-
tus inflorescentia pubescenti-tomentosis, foliis 1-2"poll. longis breviter
petiolatis ovato-oblongis lanceolatisve acuminatis membranaceis, sti-
pulis parvis ovato-subulatis, corymbis paucifloris, calycis lobis setaceis
uno foliaceo petiolato oblongo albo y, pallide flavo, corolle tubo 3-1
poll. longo, lobis late ovatis longe abrupte acuminatis luteolis, bacca
parva sicca.

Mussanpa luteola. Delil. in Caill. Pl. Afrig. 65.t:1.f.1. DC. Prodr.
v. 4. p. 871.

A very pretty plant and one of unusual interest, as being
first introduced into Europe by Captain Grant, the companion
of the lamented Speke in his daring exploration of the head-
waters of the Nile. During that memorable voyage Captain
Grant made a very valuable collection of plants, that have
been published by Dr. Thomson in the appendix to Speke’s
Narrative, and he further brought to Kew the seeds from
which the specimen here figured was produced, and which
flowered in our stove in August, 1863. It was found by
Cailliaud, during his voyage to Meroe, on the Nile, in about
lat. 10° N. Captain Grant collected it in the rocky ravines
of Gani and Madi, and it was again found in the White Nile
country, during Consul Petherick’s expedition.

Delile refers the M. lanceolata, Spreng. (Ophiorhiza lanceo-
lata, Forskahl, Manettia lanceolata, Vahl, Mussenda Aigyp-

APRIL Ist, 1866.

taca, Lamk.), of Arabia, to this, but as it does not at all agree
with Forskahl’s description, I refrain from quoting these
synonyms.

Descr. A small, erect, slender, twiggy shrub, pubescent on
the branchlets, leaves below, and inflorescence. Leaves one
and a half to two inches long, shortly petioled, ovate- or
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, membranous. Stipules ovate-
subulate. Corymbs few-flowered ; flowers in threes, usually
shortly pedicelled. Calya-teeth filiform or subulate, except
one, that forms a white or yellowish, oblong or ovate-cordate,
membranous leaf, half to three-quarters of an inch long.
Calyx-tube an inch long and under; Jobes broadly ovate, with
long acuminate points, pale-yellow.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower with foliaceous calyx-lobe removed. 2. Germen. 3. In-
terior of throat of corolla, with anthers :—all magnified.

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CYMBIDIUM Hooxertanvm.

Dr. Hooker's Cymbidium.

Nat. Ord. Oncuipex.—GynanpRIA Monanpreia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4884.)

CyrmBipium Hookerianum ; foliis lineari-ligulatis acutis (bipedalibus), va-
ginis energice striatis, pedunculo porrecto racemoso grandifloro, floribus
illos Cymbidii eburnei e2quantibus, sepalis petalisque stellatis, oblongis
obtuse acutis, petalis paulo angustioribus, labello trifido, laciniis late-
ralibus basi subsemicordatis, seu equalibus, antice angulatis, lacinia
antica subcordata ovata transversa lobulosa, lineis geminis velutinis a
basi disci in basin lacinie antic, labello ceterum hine illince subvelu-
tino —Sepala et petala viridia. Labellum et columna albo-flavida,
guttis atropurpureis. Rchb. fil. in ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle, Jan. 6, 1866.

CympBipium Hookerianum. Gard. Chron. l. ce.

I have copied from the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle’ for January
6 of the current year, Professor Reichenbach’s account of
this very remarkable plant, which was by him gracefully de-
dicated to Dr. Hooker, ‘‘ with his best wishes and as a gratu-
lation for the first New Year’s Day of his Kew directorship.”
Mr. Fitch’s drawing was taken from a plant that flowered
this spring in the establishment of Messrs. Veitch, to whom
it was sent many years ago by Mr. Lobb. According to Dr.
Hooker, it grows wild in the Sikkim Himalaya, having been
gathered there by himself in a district where he happened to
‘meet with Lobb, who no doubt obtained his specimens from
the same quarter. These flowered at Exeter not long after
_ their arrival, but—owing probably to their having been kept
too warm—many years elapsed before they flowered a se-
cond time. This, however, they have at length done, thanks
no doubt to their having been placed by Mr. Dominy under
cooler treatment. The species is epiphytical and should be
grown in a large pot, in which, if properly managed, it pre-
sents a very striking appearance,

Dr. Hooker, who, it has been already mentioned, saw the

MAY Ist, 1866.

plant in its native habitat, is of opinion that it should be re-
garded rather as a very fine and large variety of C. giganteum
than as a distinct species. Some such notion had also sug-
gested itself to my own mind, but the question had perhaps
better be left in abeyance until we shall have had the oppor-
tunity of examining additional specimens. Under any cir-
cumstances—i. e. whether it be merely a striking variety or a
truly distinct species—it will always be worthily associated
with Dr. Hooker’s name.

Descr.* Leaves one and a half to two feet long, acute,
strap-shaped, tough and leathery, dilated at the base, where
they are exceedingly striated or streaked with two shades of
green, much more so than in the ordinary form of C. gigan-
teum. Scape about the length of the leaves, erect in its
lower portion (where it is covered with loose imbricated
scales), but nodding from the point where the flowers are
placed. Flowers from six to twelve, very large (four to five
inches across), of a uniform green, the lip only excepted.
Ovaries an inch and a half long. ‘Sepals and petals stellate,
oblong, obtusely-acute, the petals slightly narrower than the ~
sepals. Jp three-lobed, the lateral lobes long, entire, fiat,
somewhat falcate and very sharp-pointed in front, bordered
with fine hairs, the middle lobe crisp and fringed at the
margin ; on the disk are two upright ciliated lamelle, parallel
or slightly converging, more than half an inch in length;
the whole of the lip is of yellowish-white, changed into
deeper yellow at the edges, where it is velvety and decorated
with rich reddish-purple spots. Column clavate, edged,
smooth, green, with a few reddish dots.—J. B.

* The following description is mainly drawn up from a flower furnished
by Messrs. Veitch, and varies in some respects from that of Professor
Reichenbach. :

Tas. 5575.
THIBAUDIA CORONARIA.

Small-leaved Thibaudia.

Nat. Ord. Vacctnrace®.—Decanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4303.)

THIBAUDIA coronaria ; pubescenti-pilosa, foliis parvis breviter petiolatis
ovatis obtusis integerrimis crasse coriaceis enerviis utrinque sparse
pilosis, floribus axillaribus solitariis v. binis, pedicellis gracilibus foliis
equilongis, calycis laxe lanuginosi tubo brevi acute 5-gono basi di-
latato 5-lobo, lobis 5 triangulari-ovatis acutis, coroila urceolata ob-
tusa 5-gona, lobis brevibus patenti-recurvis late triangularibus, fila-
mentis brevibus dilatatis ciliatis equilongis, antheris zquilongis lo-
culis brevibus oblongis in tubum duplicem angustum erectum apice
2-porosum attenuatis ecalcaratis.

CrRaTOsTEMMA coronaria. Hort. Lind.

This is another importation of my friend Mr. J. Bateman,
whose energy in introducing this beautiful class of plants
into Britain has been rewarded by signal success in rearing
and flowering them. Fora warm greenhouse no plants can
be more desirable, the bright green leaves—rarely, if ever,
infested by insects—are always beautiful, and the flowers,
which are produced in profusion, remain in beauty longer
than those of any other ornamental plants of the same na-
ture. How little known these Andean Vacciniaceous plants
are may be gathered from the fact that this is the third
figured in this magazine within five months, all new to culti-
vation and two likewise to science.

T. coronaria has been cultivated by Mr. Bateman under the
name of Ceratostemma, by which it was sold by M. Linden, of
Brussels, but I have no other information regarding it beyond
that it flowered with Mr. Bateman in January of the present
year. It is probably a native of New Granada or Venezuela.
It differs generically from Ceratostemma in the filaments not
being connate into a tube, and is perhaps referable to

MAY Ist, 1866.

Klotzsch’s genus Themistoclesia (Linnea, xxiv. 41), which,
however, has a half-globose calyx. As many of that author’s
genera will certainly fall into Zhibaudia on a revision of the
Order, it appears to me safe to regard the present plant as a
Thibaudia too. |

Descr. A small, much-branched, rigid shrub. Branches
stout, pale-green, and—as well as the leaves, peduncles, and
calyces—covered with distant, lax, soft, spreading hairs. Leaves
numerous, spreading and deflexed, half an inch long, ovate,
obtuse, quite entire, often glabrescent above, which is deep
shining-green, beneath pale; midrib and nerves none on either
surface ; petiole very short. Pedicels axillary, solitary or two
together, as long as the leaves, woolly. Flowers nodding or
drooping, nearly an inch long. Calyx short, almost square
in outline, pale-green, the base dilated and five-lobed, sides
acutely five-angled or rather with five deep depressions ; lobes
broadly triangular, acute. Corolla narrow-urceolate or tubu-
lar and inflated below, obscurely five-angled, with five short
spreading and recurved lobes, dark-red and shining, quite
glabrous. Filaments very short, free, oblong, margins ciliated.
Anthers oblong, incurved, a little longer than the filaments,
with a very long, straight, slender, double tube, opening by
two oblong pores. Style slender, exserted; stigma minute.
Ovary five-celled, many-ovuled. J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx. 3 and 4. Stamens :—all magnified.

W. Fitch, del et ith.

Vincent. Brooks, rag:

Tas. 5576.

MICROCACHRYS ‘terracona.

StrawberrySruited Cypress.

Nat. Ord. Contrerz.—Diaecra Monanpria.

Gen. Char. Dioicum. Ament. mase. terminalia, solitaria, sessilia, ovoidea.
Anthere imbricate, 2-loculares, loculis globosis ; pollen 3-gonum. Ament.
Jem. terminalia, solitaria, sessilia, subglobosa. Sguame patentes, arcte
imbricate, carnose, rubra, late ovato-rhomboide, concave, incurvee. Ovulum
solitarium, deorsum spectans, integumento exteriore abbreviato. Strobilus
decurvus, ovoideus. Semina immatura dorso compressa, integumento ex-
teriore basi cincta.—Frutex prostratus, ramosus ; ramis 4-gonis. Folia
triangulari-ovata, arcte imbricata, obtusa, ciliolata. Amenta parva. —

Microcacurys fetragona.

Microcacurys tetragona. Hook. f. in Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 4. p. 150, et in
Flor. Tasman. v. 1. p. 358. t. C. B.

AntHroraxis (?) tetragona. Hook. Ic. Pl. ¢. 560.

This is surely one of the most remarkable of Conifers, and
isin other respects one of the most interesting, being ex-
tremely rare inits native country, and presenting the unique
character in the Order of bearing a fleshy brilliantly-coloured
cone. It is true that we have in the Yew, and in various
species of Podocarpus, etc., fleshy highly-coloured fruits, but
a Conifer with the scales themselves of the young cones as-
suming a pulpy texture, semitransparent consistence, and
bright colour, is, as far as I know, unique in the Order ;
whether these characters persist in the ripe fruit I am un-
able to say.

Microcachrys tetragona inhabits the tops of a very few moun-
tains of Tasmania, viz. the Western range and Mount Lapey-
rouse, where it forms low straggling bushes. The plant here
figured was brought to Kew by my friend W. Archer, Esq.,
F.L.S., of Cheshunt, on whose property it grew, and was by
him presented to the Royal Gardens, where it produced its
female cones abundantly in 1862; but having no male plant
wherewith to fertilize it, no seeds were obtained.

MAY Isr, 1566.

Descr. A low, rambling bush, with tough, straggling, four-
angled branches and branchlets, clothed with evergreen, ap-
pressed imbricate leaves. Leaves one-tenth to one-sixth of
an inch long, ovato-rhomboid, obtuse, ciliolate, convex at the
back, obscurely keeled when dry. Male cones terminal,
small, oblong or ovoid, one-eighth of an inch long, of twenty
to thirty anthers, each consisting of a triangular scarious
scale, having at its base two cells, opening by transverse slits.
Female cones also terminal, ovoid or globular, one-fourth to
one-third of an inch long, bright red, translucent. Scales
thick and fleshy, with one naked ovule at their base. J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Young female cone. 38. Seale and ovule of ditto.
4. Ripe female cone. 5. Scale and ovule of ditto. 6. Branch of male
cones. 7. Male cone. 8. Anther:—all but fig. 6 magnified. ‘

ene

“entlina i Ainabhns

Let lith

W.-Fitch,

Tite, D577.
TRIS rericunata.

Netted Iris.

Nat. Ord. Intprex.—TRIsANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5298.)

Ir1s reticulata; foliis angustis strictis erectis linearibus acutis obtuse
4.gonis cavis glaucis, perianthii segmentis exterioribus angustis cunei-
formi-oblongis patentibus imberbibus, interioribus longioribus zequi-
longisve erectis elongatis lanceolatis anguste spathulatis, ovario obtuse
3-gono, stigmatibus oblongis, labio superiore 2-lobo recurvo serrato,
inferiore brevissimo.

Irts reticulata. Bieberstein, Fl. Laur. Cauc. v. 1. p. 34. Cent. Plant. Rar.
Ross. v. 1. t. 11. Sweet, British Fl. Garden, ser. 2. v. 2. ¢. 189.
Journ. Hort. Soe. v. 3. p. 166.

Though far from the largest or most gorgeous, this is really
one of the most beautiful species of Zris in cultivation ; no-
thing can exceed the deep rich violet of its perianth-lobes
and stigmata, or the delicious fragrance of violet it exhales,
whilst the leaves are of a less coarse appearance and texture
than is usual inthe genus. ‘The Royal Gardens are indebted
for the plants here figured to Colonel Scott, R.E., who pro-
cured them through his friend Captain Smith, R.E., a gentle-
man employed in the telegraph department in Persia; they
flowered in a cool greenhouse in March of the present year.
The plant isa native of Georgia, Asia Minor, Kurdistan, Syria,
and Persia, and is extremely well deserving of cultivation as
a spring flower of easy culture. .

Descr. Root a solitary tuber, coated with a firm network
of fibres. Leaves one foot high, striate, erect, glaucous, ob-

tusely four-angled, slightly twisted, with a sharp apex;
Sheaths with white scarious edges, closely appressed to the
bases of the leaves and flower-stems. Flowers three to four
inches in diameter, solitary, erect, deep-violet in hue and
fragrance. Perianth with the tube one inch long, slender ;

MAY Ist, 1866.

outer segments spreading, oblong-cuneiform, with a stout green
midrib, blade dark-purple, with deeper veins and brilliant
orange blotches towards the base; ¢nner suberect, narrow
spathulate, as long as the outer, obtuse, slightly waved,
all purple. Ovary obtusely trigonous. Stigma pale-purple ;
upper segment reflexed, serrate, two-lobed; lower almost ob-
solete. J.D. H.

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Tas. 5578.

CEROPEGIA sororta.

Kaffrarian Ceropegia.

Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADEX.—PENTANDRIA MoNoGYNIA. .

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5306.)

Crnopneta sororia; volubilis, glabra, caule tenui, foliis anguste linearibus
utrinque acutis internodiis longioribus, pedunculis axillaribus unifloris
elongatis, sepalis lineari-subulatis, corolle tubo glabro elongato, parte
inferiore inflata elongata oblonga, parte superiore inferiore equilonga
cylindrica, lobis partem superiorem tubi equantibus pendulis lineari-
oblongis acutis ciliatis, corone staminee lobis exterioribus subulatis
longe ciliatis, interioribus elongatis glabris.

Crropxata sororia. Harvey, mss.

In the eighty-ninth volume of this work a very remark-
able South African species of this genus is figured,—C. Bow-
keri, Tab. 5407,—partaking very much of the character of
this in the singular pendulous lobes of the corolla, which
move with the faintest breeze, and probably are intimately
connected with the function of impregnation, though how
does not appear. Like many South African plants, it has
large tuberous roots, though I cannot say whether, like its
above-named congener, it is erect in its native country and
becomes a twiner in our damper climate, having no indigenous
specimen at hand to judge from. The specimen here figured
was flowered by Dr. Moore, of Glasnevin, in May, 1865, from
seeds sent by Mrs. F. W. Barber, from Kaffraria, and named
by Dr.Harvey, who is engaged in working up the Asclepiadee
for the Cape Flora. Its name, sororta (sisterly), alludes to its
_kinship with C. Bowkeri, Miss Bowker (now Mrs. Barber)
having sent both species to Dr. Harvey. It has also been
found by Zeyher in the Albany district.

Descr. A slender, glabrous, rather glaucous, branching
climber, with almost filiform stems and branches and long
internodes. Leaves four to seven inches long, very narrow,

May Ist, 1866.

linear-lanceolate, not half an inch broad, dark-green above,
glaucous beneath. Peduncles axillary, solitary, about as
long as the internodes, one-flowered. Flowers an inch and a
half to two inches long, pale-green, the reflexed lobes of the
corolla darker green, with a double row of transverse purple
bars above, pink beneath. Calyx-lobes linear-subulate, not
half the length of the swollen base of the corolla; tube of
the corolla consisting of a narrow inflated lower and cylindri-
cal upper portion of equal length, glabrous; /odes as long as
the upper portion, linear-oblong, acute, villous and ciliated,
keeled down the middle with reflexed sides. J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Calyx and crown of anthers, etc. 2. Pollen-masses :—both mag-
nified,

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FIGURES OF ORCHIDACEOUS PLANTS, CHIEFLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF M. PESCATOR

Epirep sy M. LIN DEN,
With the assistance of MM. G. Luppemay, J. E. Prancuon, and M. G. ReronEnBacl

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By JAMES BATEMAN, Esq., F.R.S.,
Author of ‘The Orchidaces of Mexico and Guatemala.’

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Vincent, Brooks

Tas. 5579.
EULOPHTA VIRENS.

Greenish Eulophia.

Nat. Ord. Orncurprs%.—Gynanpria Monanpetia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5561.)

Evroputa virens ; foliis gramineis lineari-lanceolatis scapis ramosis bre-
vioribus, sepalis petalisque oblongis obtusis basi angustatis tessellatis,
labelli trilobi barbati lobis lateralibus abbreviatis intermedio ovato ob-
tuso, calcare erectiusculo conico. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. é

SERAPIAS epidendroides. Retz. Obs. 6. 65.

Limoporvo virens. Roxb. Corom. v. 1. t. 38.

Limoporvm epidendroides. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 123-4.

This is not by any means a showy plant, a ‘circumstance
that may have had something to do with its tardy introduc-
tion to European collections. It is a native of the Nilgher-
ries and also of Ceylon where Mr. Thwaites met with it, and
it is to him that the Royal Gardens at Kew are indebted for
living specimens, one of which flowered there not long ago.
It may be treated like the E. euglossa, figured in the February
number of this work.

Descr. Pseudobulbs roundish-ovate, two or three inches
long, bearing several narrow grassy leaves, which are shorter
than the branched or sometimes simple scapes. Sepals and
petals nearly equal, oblong, bluntly pointed, narrowed at the
base, of a yellowish-green, tessellated with brown lines. Lip
longer than the petals, white with purple streaks, three-
lobed, the lateral lobes being shortened, and the central one
crisp at the margin obtuse and recurved at the apex, and
furnished with rows of dark hairs along its disk; at its base
is a short nearly upright conical spur. Colwmn continuous
with the lip, but not more than a third of its length —J. B.

- Fig. 1. Lip and column, seen sideways. 2. Lip. 3. Column. 4. Pollen-
masses :—magnified.
- JUNE Ist, 1866.

D580,

ks, mp.

Vincent Br

W.Fitch, delet lith.

Tas. 5580.
SCILLA. Cooprrt.

Cooper's Squill.

Nat. Ord. Liniacrz.—Hexanpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5308.)

ScriLa Cooperi ; bulbo subgloboso, foliis 8-10 poll. longis elongato-lanceo-
latis obtusiusculis striatis utrinque concoloribus subtus purpureo line-
atis et basin versus maculatis, scapo viridi foliis breviore, racemo 2—3-
pollicari subdenso cylindrico, pedicellis patentibus pallide purpureis
3-4 poll. longis, bracteis minutis, floribus purpureis 3 poll. latis, petalis
patentibus non reflexis oblongis obtusis dorso apice incrassatis, sta-
minibus erectis, antheris peltatis, ovario breviter stipitato depresso-
hemisphzrico 6-suleato basi dilatato 6-lobo, stylo brevi recto, loculis
2-ovulatis, ovulis geminis.

The Cape bulbs are sufficiently numerous and difficult of
determination to form a study of themselves; and as they
are wanting neither in interest nor beauty, it is to be hoped
that they may soon find a historian. At present all is con-
fusion as regards the genera and species of this long-culti-
vated tribe, and we know no more difficult plants than these
toname. ‘The pretty species here represented has the habit
and appearance of many Drimias, but differs from the typi-
cal species of that genus in the two-ovuled cells of the ovary,
and in the spreading lobes of the perianth, which are neither
reflexed nor do they form a tube at the base. From the
technical characters of Scilla it differs in the definite ovules ;
but as it agrees in other respects, and is evidently a very
close ally of the Canary Island S. Berthelotii (Tab. nostr.
5308), which has also only two ovules in each cell, I cannot
(in the present state of our knowledge) refuse it a place in
that genus, of which but few Cape species have hitherto
been described. The stipitate ovary, with two geminate
ovules in each cell, occurs in other plants hitherto referred

JUNE Ist, 1866.

to Drimia, and may form a good sectional or generic cha-
racter for various plants hitherto referred to this genus or
Scilla, and possibly belonging truly to neither. Our only
knowledge of 8. Cooperi is derived from Mr. Cooper’s Cape
bulbs, for which the Royal Gardens are indebted to Mr.
Wilson Saunders, F.R.S.

Descr. Bulb subglobose, purple, smooth. Leaves eight to
ten inches long, three-quarters of an inch broad, narrow, li-
near-lanceolate, rather obtuse, striated, green on both sides,
streaked with purple at the back, and spotted there towards
the base. Scape shorter than the leaves, green. Raceme
cylindric, two to three inches long. Flowers rather close-
set, dark-red purple ; pedicels a quarter to half an inch long;
bracts very small. Perianth lobes oblong, spreading, obtuse
and thickened at the apex. Stamens inserted in the perianth
lobes, shorter than they are; anthers oblong. Ovary hemi-
spherical, six-lobed, with a broad six-lobed dilatation, then
suddenly contracted to a short pedicel; style short, erect,
subulate ; stigma minute; ovules two, ascending in each cell,

collateral.—J. D. H.

. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Ovary. 3. Transverse section of ditto :—all mag-
nified.

JI].

W. Fitch, del.et lith r: Brooks Imo
; : ates Vincent Brooks.imp-

Tap. 5581.
CUPRESSUS LAWSONIANA.

The Lawson Cypress.

Nat. Ord. Contrern®.—Monacrta Monanpria.

Gen. Char. Flores in diversis ramis monoici. Masc. Amenta termina-
lia, cylindrica. Stamina decussatim opposita, 4-fariam imbricata; connec-
tivo peltato mutico, loculis 2-4 subglobosis. Fam. Amenta terminalia,
subglobosa ; sguamis 6-12, basi superne incrassatis, inferne solutis. Ovula
ad basin squamarum pauca vy. plurima, erecta, lageniformia. Strobilus e
squamis lignosis suborbicularibus angulatis peltatis, vertice mucronatis v.
umbonatis, primum conniventibus, demum hiantibus. Semina ad basin sti-
pitis squamarum 2-38-00, compressa v. angulata, marginata v. alata. Hm-
éryo in axi albuminis carnosi 2-cotyledonus.—Arbores e¢ frutices semper-
virentes. Folia minuta, decussatim imbricata, squameformia v. rarius acerosa,
_ se@pe dorso glandula notata.’ Gemme nude.

Cupressus Lawsoniana ; arborea, ramis patulis 4-gonis, foliis appressis
imbricatis late ovatis acutis ovato-triangularibusve dorso szpissime
glanduliferis, strobilis parvis globosis glaucis, squamis ad 8, vertice
rhombeo lamina horizontali v. decurva patente late triangulari acuta
instructo, ovulis 8-4, seminibus alatis.

Cupressus Lawsoniana. Murray e« Gordon, Pinet. p. 62.

? Coamacyparis Boursieri. Dene. Ann. Soc. Bot. France, 1854, p. 70. Car-
riére, Traité Gen. Conif. p. 141.

The beautiful tree here represented has for the last few
years been a great favourite in our gardens and shrubberies,
and though a good many years must elapse before it attains
arboreous stature (it is said to rise to a hundred feet in its
hative country), it has reached a sufficient height (fourteen
to twenty feet) to demonstrate that it increases in beauty
with its years up to that and probably a much greater eleva-
tion. It was discovered—by Mr. Jeffreys, I believe—in the
mountain valleys of northern California, lat. 40°-42° N., and
the first description I find of it is in Gordon’s valuable ‘ Pine-
tum.’ According to this author, the C. Boursiert of De-
caisne is a synonym of it. Not having seen that plant, we
cannot confirm the identification; but if correct, it is very

JUNE Ist, 1866,

possible that the name C. Boursiert should replace that of Zaw-
soniana,—a contingency that would be greatly to be regretted,
as the name of one of the most active and intelligent intro-
ducers of rare Conifers is now deservedly and indissolubly
connected with this beautiful plant.

Gordon compares C. Lawsoniana with C. Nootkaensis, and
justly, the plants bearing a considerable resemblance in a
living state, and being with difficulty distinguished in the
herbarium: C. Lawsoniana is, however, a much more fea-
thery species, with more fan-like branches and slenderer
branchlets; the leaves also are of a glossier green, and the
cones quite different, being smaller, glaucous, with a trans-
verse, flat, acute, horizontal or recurved plate across the boss,
very different from the more conical horn of C. Nootkaensis.
The genus Chamecyparis, to which both these species have
been referred, is utterly futile, its only character, that of the
scales bearing two instead of many ovules as in most Cy-
presses, breaks down in the present species, whose ovules
vary in number from two to four or even five or six.

Descr. A large tree, said to attain a hundred feet in height,
with a narrow pyramidal coma. Branches spreading, fan-
like and feathery in aggregate. Branchlets tetragonous,
slender. eaves ovate or triangular-ovate, acute, appressed,
convex on the back and there furnished with a rather obscure
gland. Cones globular, one-fourth to one-third of an inch in
diameter, of about eight decussating scales. Scales rhom-
boidal, with a flattened and transverse lamina at the back of
the boss. Ovules two to four at the base of each scale. Seeds
with two wings.—J. D. H.

_ Fig. 1. Branchlets and leaves. 2. Branch and male cone. 8 and 4.
’ Stamens. 5. Femalecone. 6 and 7. Seeds :—all but fig. 6 magnified.

ptsx,

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ni Brooks, mp.

Vitis

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WFitet

Tas, 5582:

WARSCEWIZELLA vexata.

Veiled Warscewizella.

Nat. Ord. OrncuipE#.—GyNaNDRIA MONANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Perigonium carnoso-membranaceum, oblique insertum. La-
bellum brevissime unguiculatum, subquadratum, lobatum, basi cucullata
columnam amplectens, ceterum planiusculum, basi lamelliferam. Mentum
modicum. Columna semiteres, foved triangula angusté sub rostello trilobo
abscondité, lobus rostelli medius prosiliens. Anthera depresso-mitrata,
apiculata, valvis posticis persistentibus, bilocularis. Pollinia 2 depressa,
oblonga, alté bipartita, in caudicula ligulataé, apice hastataé. Glandula
rhombea. (Character ex Reichenbach.)

WarscewizEnna velata; ebulbis, foliis (4-5) spithameis pedunculis uni-
floris duplo longioribus, sepalis petalisque reflexis, sepalis lateralibus
lanceolatis acutis dorsali majore, petalis lato-ovatis acutis, labello ex-
panso subquinquelobo a basi brevissime unguiculato, callo semi-ovato
varie dentato in laminam transcendente, carinis transcendentibus in-
tegerrimis ; columné utrinque angulata.

Warscewizetua velata. Rehd. fil. in Schl. Bot. Zeit. 1865, p. 99.

ZYGOPETALUM velatum. Idem in litt.

The genera Huntleya, Bollea, Warrea, Warscewizella, Pes-
catorea, and Zygopetalum—to any one of which our present
subject might put forth a claim to belong—form a sort of
tangled skein, which neither a Lindley nor a Reichenbach
have yet been able to unravel. I frequently pressed my late
lamented friend, the former of the two botanists referred
to, to undertake the examination of this difficult subject, but
death snatched him away before he could bring himself to
deal with a problem on which his views were constantly fluc-
tuating, and I doubt whether the matter is even now ripe
for solution. I find that Reichenbach, who saw the present
plant in flower, regards it as identical with his own V. velata,
but there is also a considerable resemblance to W. marginata,
figured in ‘ Pescatorea’ and in the Professor’s own ‘ Xenia

Orchidacea.’
For my own part, although I formerly had doubts as to

JUNE lst, 1866.

whether Huntleya and Warscewizella—exactly alike as they
are in habit—were really distinct in the structure of their
flowers, I confess that at present I decidedly incline to the
latter view; and if Warscewizella be maintained as a genus,
there can, I think, be no doubt at all that the plant on the
opposite page ought to belong to it.

But whatever the name -it may ultimately bear, the plant
itself is unquestionably well worthy of cultivation, than which
nothing can be more simple; a moderately warm house and
protection from the direct rays of the sun being all that is
required. It flowers at all seasons, and is agreeably fragrant.
It was discovered in New Granada by Mr. Blunt, who sent
plants of it, and of many other varieties of the same species,
to his employers, Messrs. H. Low and Co., of Clapton.

Descr. Whole plant scarcely a foot high, the /eaves (there
are no pseudobulbs) grow in tufts of (generally) five, the
larger ones about a span long. Peduncles short, rising from
among the leaves, one-flowered, each tuft of leaves usually
producing about four, of which not more than one or (at
most) two are in perfection at the same time. Petiole about
three inches long. Sepals and petals an inch long, yellowish-
white, curved backwards, acute, the lateral sepals being much
narrower than the upper, which is itself about equal to the
broadly-ovate petals. ip very large, spread wide open, but
resting on a very short mentum, generally of the same hue
as the petals, but with a crimson margin and some deep-purple
streaks on its disk ; it is slightly five-lobed and furnished at
its base with a strong callosity, resembling a semicircular
row of teeth, of which there are five or seven, all running

forwards into as many furrows. Column angled on each
side.—J. B.

Fig. 1. Front view of lip. 2. Column. 3. Pollen-masses.

~Aneent Brooks bP

W.Fitch delet lith.

Tas. 5588.

BEGONTA GEerantomes.

Geranium-leaved Begonia.

Nat. Ord. Begontacez.—Mone@cia PoLyanpria.

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

Brconra (§ Aveustta) geranioides ; herbacea, subacaulis, laxe pilosa, foliis
orbiculari-reniformibus obscure 7—9-lobis, lobis obtuse crenatis, stipulis
parvis ovato-lanceolatis ciliatis, cymis paniculatis multifloris, bracteis
ovatis oblongisve obtusis ciliatis, floribus albis 1 poll. diametro, mase.
sepalis petalisque 2 fere orbicularibus, staminibus liberis, antheris
filamento equilongis ; fem. sepalis 2, petalis 3 masculinis consimili-
bus, ovario 3-ptero, alis angulatis, placentis integris, stylis apice auri-
culato-2-lobis, extremitatibus stigmatum tortis.

The genus Begonia, though abounding in both tropical Asia
and America, is comparatively rare in Africa. In A. De Can-
dolle’s monograph of the genus (Prodr. vol. xv.), out of upwards
of three hundred described species, only about five are natives
of continental Africa, and though a few have subsequently
been added in this Magazine (B. baccata, Tab. 5554, B. Mannit,
Tab. 5434), and others, still undescribed, are contained in
the herbarium, the total number is as yet under a dozen. .
The present species, which was imported from Port Natal by
Messrs. Backhouse, of York, and sent by them to the Ma-
gazine, belongs to the same section with all the other South
African species, viz. B. Dregei (Tab. nostr. 3720), B. Natalensis
(Tab. nostr. 4841), and the little-known B. suffruticosa: all
inhabit the eastern coast and mountains. B. geranioides is
a very elegant species, and forms a very pretty greenhouse
ornament.

Descr. A rather small species; the plant sent by Messrs.
Backhouse is ten to fourteen inches high, throwing up nume-
rous flowering stems and a crown of radical leaves. Radical
leaves three to five inches in diameter, orbicular-reniform,
obscurely seven to nine-lobed, bilobed at the base ; lobes very

JUNE Ist, 1866.

obtusely crenate, deep-green above, pale beneath, with a few
scattered, weak, paleaceous hairs; nerves pale-reddish ; pe-
tioles stout, bright-red ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, ciliate, en-
tire or serrate above. Scapes numerous, trichotomously
branched, stout, many-flowered ; bracts broadly ovate, obtuse,
toothed above, ciliate. Flowers nodding, an inch in diameter,
pure white. Male fl.: Sepals two, nearly orbicular. Petals
two, similar. Stamens short ; filaments free, as long as the
oblong anthers. Female fi.: Sepals two and petals three, like’
those of the male. Ovary three-winged, three-celled ; wings
two projecting in an obtuse angle, the other more obtuse.
Placente entire, covered with ovules. Style cleft to the
middle into three, reniform, papillose stigmas, whose extre-
mities are twisted.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Ovary, style, and stigmas. 3. Transverse section
of ovary :—all magnified.

IIS,

W Fitch del et kit Tin
WE 1tCn, Gel .et tith. incent Dro

Tas. 5584.

=

MYRSIPHYLLUM asparacowss.

Asparaqus-leaved Myrsiphyllum.

Nat. Ord. Lintace®.—HeExanpria Monoeyrnta.

Gen. Char. Perianthium corollinum, 6-partitum, quale, campanulato-
connivens, apice patens. Stamina 6, basi laciniarum affixa, filamentis subu-
latis; anthere peltate, erect. Ovariwm breviter stipitatum, 3-loculare ;
styli 3, stricti, contigui, stigmatibus simplicibus ; ovu/a in loculis 2, super-
posita. Baeca globosa, 3-locularis, loculis 2-spermis. Semina angulato-
subglobosa, testa coriacea atra, umbilico ventrali punctiformi.—Suffrutex
gracilis, Capensis, glaber. Folia breviter petiolata, ovato-lanceolata, nervosa.
Flores ad basin folii ex axilla squamule scariose gemini v. terni, pedicellis
nutantibus, medio articulatis. Endl.

MyrsipuyiiuM asparagoides; gracillimum, ramis flexuosis, foliis ovato-
oblongis ovato-cordatisve acutis nitidis, floribus parvis viridibus nu-
tantibus.

MyrsrPxyLuvum angustifolium. Mill. Dict.n.2. Willd. Sp. Pl.l.c. Ait.
Hort. Kew. v.1. p. 490.

MyrsIpuriium asparagoides. Willd.in Berl. Mag. v. 2. p. 25.

Mepeora asparagoides. Willd, Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 270, edouté, Liliac. t.
442. a

Draca#na Medeoloides. Linn. fil. Suppl. 203.

Asparaeus Medeoloides. Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap. 66.

Myrsiphyllum asparagoides, though hitherto never figured
in this country, was introduced into England so early as
1702, by the Duchess of Beaufort. Although long since:
almost gone out of cultivation, we have no hesitation in call-
ing attention to it, as one of the most elegant greenhouse
climbers that can well be found; nothing, indeed, can exceed
the feathery lightness of the plant when well grown and
flowered; and whether on account of its graceful habit, its
flowering in mid-winter, the uniformity of its bright-green
foliage, and perfume of its pearly flowers, it is one of the
plants best suited for table decoration and ornamentation
generally hitherto introduced. It is a native of various parts
of the Cape of Good Hope colony, whence the ‘plants here

JUNE lst, 1866.

figured were sent by Mr. Cooper, and contributed by our
friend W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S. It flowered at Kew
from January to March. The only other described species,
M. angustifolia, appears to me not even to rank as a variety,
the leaves being most variable on the same specimen.
Descr. A slender bright-green greenhouse creeper. Stems
much branched, flexuose. Leaves (flattened branches) alter-
nate, and, like those of Ruscus, inserted in the axil of a
minute scale, ovate ovate-cordate or ovate-lanceolate, acute,
quite entire, glabrous on both surfaces. Flowers solitary or
in pairs. or threes in the axils of the leaves, pendulous on
- slender, articulated, short pedicels, one-third of an inch long,
pearly-white or greenish. Segments of perianth linear, ob-
tuse, reflexed. Stamens erect, with small orange-red anthers. ©
Ovary shortly stipitate, three-celled, with two superposed
ovules in each cell. Berry globose, fleshy, six-seeded.—
fe dh Al.

Fig. 1. Branch and leaf. 2. Ditto and flowers. 3. Petal and stamen.
4. Germen. 5. Transverse section of ditto :—all magnified.

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BY

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Birector ot the Royal Botanic Gardens of Rew.

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And flowers exotic grace our northera clime.

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You may easily destroy all Plant Pests,
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Without injury to the most delicate Plant or Tree, by using

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CLEMATIS, PRINCE OF WALES.

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CLEMATIS RUBELLA.
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The usual allowance to the Trade, and a List of Firms will be advertised at a later period.
be figured in the ‘ Floral Magazine’ for September.

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can be more beautiful than these Clematises. See what fine large blue and purple petals they have, shining 7 fol
cases with metallic tints like the flowers of certain Ipomeas. They are varieties raised by those most succte”
hybridizers, Messrs. JackMaN, of Woking, who will have the honour of introducing quite a new race to)
which I believe will be ‘ amongst the best, if not the very best ornaments’ for all out-of-door walls, ete.” oa
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BRITISH FERNS; an Introduction to the Study of the Ferns, Lycopods, and Equiseta indigenous
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BRITISH BEES; an Introduction to the Study of the Natural History and Economy of the Bees
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BRITISH BEETLES ; an Introduction to the Study of our Indigenous Coteoprera. By E. C. Rye.
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Nearly Ready.

_ BRITISH SPIDERS; an Introduction to the Study of our Native ARacuNnipA. By E. F. Sraveney.
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BotANicaL MAGAZINE. Coloured Illustrations and Descriptions of the new and
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_ Plates by W. Frron, 3s. 6d.
Contents of No. 259, July 1866.
| * MECONOPSIS. NIPALENSIS. ANCYLOGYNE LONGIFLORA.
A POLYSTACHYA PUBESCENS. | ANGRAZOCUM CHAILLUANUM,
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FLORAL MAGAZINE; containing Figures and Descriptions of the newest varieties
of Popular Garden Flowers. By the Rev. H. Honywoop Domprain. Monthly, with 4

coloured Plates by ANDREWS, 2s. 6d.
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ip, Ants

?
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FOWLER'S GARDENERS’ INSECTICIDE,

Pronounced by all who have used it to be far superior to any other remedy.
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WORKS ON BOTANY.

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BENTHAM’S ILLUSTRATED BRITISH
FLORA; a Description (with a Wood-Engraving, in-
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Plants and Ferns indigenous to, or naturalized in, the
British Isles. 2 vols. 8vo. 1295 Wood-Engravings,
from Original Drawings by W. Fircu. £3. 10s.

BENTHAM’S HANDBOOK of the BRITISH
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Ferns indigenous to, or naturalized in, the British
Isles. For the Use of Beginners and Amateurs. 12s.

~MOORE’S FIELD BOTANIST’S COM-
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the British Isles. 24 Coloured Plates, by W. Fireu.
21s.

‘BENTHAM’S OUTLINES of ELEMEN-
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HOOKER’S FLORA of NEW ZEALAND;
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_ land’s, Campbell’s, and Macquarrie’s Islands. Part I.
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a Description of the Plants of the Australian Territory.

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BENTHAM’S FLORA HONGKONGEN-
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its Origin, Affinities, and Distribution. 10s.

HOOKER’S RHODODENDRONS of SIK-
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Geographical, of the Rhododendrons recently discovered
in the Mountains of Eastern Himalaya, from Drawings
_ and Descriptions made on the spot, by Dr. J. D.

Hooker, F.R.S. Folio, 30 Coloured Plates. £3. 16s.

=

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WOODS'S TOURIST’S FLORA ; Descriptive

MOGGRIDGE’S FLORA of MENTONE.

HOOKER’S BRITISH FERNS; Figures and
Descriptions, with Analyses of the Fructification and
Venation, of the Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland,
systematically arranged. Royal 8vo, 66 Coloured
Plates, £2. 2s.

HOOKER’S GARDEN FERNS; Figures and
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Venation, of a Selection of Exotic Ferns, adapted for
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HOOKER’S FILICES EXOTICA; Figures
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CHANTER’S FERNY COMBES; a Ramble |
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County, 5s.

BERKELEY’S BRITISH MOSSES, contain-
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BERKELEY’S BRITISH FUNGOLOG
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BADHAM’S ESCULENT FUNGUSES @
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MECONOPSIS Nreatensis, DC.

Nepalese Meconopsis.

Nat. Ord. Papaveraces.—Pornyanpria Monoaynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5456.)

Meconopsis Nipalensis; herba elata, robusta, tota setis patentibus cri-
nita pubeque stellata siccitate aurea obtecta, foliis caulinis sessilibus
linearibus lineari-oblanceolatisve sinuato-lobatis, radicalibus petiolatis
lineari-spathulatis subpinnatifidis, floribus racemosis aureis, pedicellis
elongatis patentibus, capsula 8—10-valvi setis appressis pubeque stel-
lata dense obsita.

Meconopsis Nipalensis. DC. Prod. v.1.p.121. Hook. f. et Thoms. Fl.
Ind. v. 1. p. 253. Hook. fil. Til. Pl. Himal. t. ix.

Papaver paniculatum. Don, Prod. Fl. Nep. p.197. Wall. Cat. t. 8123 a.

This noble plant was originally discovered by the celebrated
Dr. Wallich in the mountains of Nepal, and more recently col-
lected by myself abundantly in the central dampest regions of
the Sikkim Himalaya, where at elevations of 10-11,000 feet
above the level of the sea it often ornaments the rank herb-
age that skirts the pine forest. A more stately and beauti-
ful plant can hardly be imagined, except the Hollyhock,
which it somewhat resembles in miniature. The genus Me-
conopsis abounds in the Himalaya, where the J. aculeata,
Tab. 5456, and M. Wallichii, Tab. 4668, were also procured,
and from whence other beautiful species remain to be tm-
ported: |

For the specimen here figured I am indebted to those inde-
fatigable and skilful cultivators, Messrs. Backhouse, of York,
who flowered it in July, 1863.

Descr. <A tall, robust, simple or sparingly branched her,
three to five feet high, biennial (?), full of orange-yellow sap.
Stem often one to two inches in diameter at the base, covered
with spreading stiff hairs and shorter stellate down m more
or less abundance. Radical leaves petioled, half to one and a

JULY 1st, 1866.

half foot long, linear-spathulate or oblong-lanceolate, sinuate-

pinnatifid ; cauline sessile. Raceme erect, lax-flowered, one
to two feet high; pedicels distant, the lower sometimes two-
flowered. Flowers pale-golden or sulphur-yellow, two to three
inches in diameter. Sepals an inch long. Petals broadly
obovate. Stamens with orange anthers. Ovary oblong, co-
vered with erect yellow bristles; style columnar; stigma six-
to ten-lobed; placenta six to ten. Capsule subclavate, on a
stiff erect pedicel, densely strigose with yellow hairs. Seeds
with a cancellated spongy testa —J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Ovary. 2. Transverse section of ditto:—both magnified.

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Tas. 5586.

POLYSTACHYA PUBESCENS.

Hairy-stemmed Polystachya.

Nat. Ord. OrncH1pEx.—GYNANDRIA MonANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4161.)

Potystacnya pubescens; pseudobulbis fusiformibus 2-3-phyllis, foliis
oblongo-lanceolatis subacutis spicis simplicibus teretibus erectis pube-
rulis multifloris duplo brevioribus, floribus resupinatis (in genere ma-
joribus), sepalis liberis ovatis concavis, petalis paulo minoribus obovatis
obtusissimis, labello carinato trilobo sepalis vix sequali laciniis laterali-
bus rotundatis, lacinid medid ovata ad apicem paululum deflex4 callo
triangulari piloso versus basin, columna basi paulo producta.

Errenora pubescens. Lindl. Comp. Bot. Mag. v. 2. p. 201.
PoLystacHyA pubescens. Reichenbach fil. in Walpers’ Ann. v. 6. p. 643.

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This is the prettiest species of a very unattractive genus.
Its flowers are larger than those of any Polystachya hitherto
discovered,—P. grandiflora, otherwise very - different, alone
excepted,—and they are of a brighter colour than those of
P. bracteosa,while the tall, upright, unbranched, many-flowered
spikes are quite peculiar.

I have little doubt that this is the Zpiphora pubescens de-
scribed by Lindley twenty-five years ago, although the form
of the sepals varies from that of his diagnosis, for the term
“ acutissima” can scarcely be applied to those of the figure.
But we are now accustomed to look for these little diver-
gences, especially when a species—as in the present instance
—occupies a long extent of country; for it was found first
in Caffraria by Burchell, then in Delagoa Bay by Drege, near
Somerset by Mrs. Barber, and on the eastern frontier of our
South African possessions by Mr. Hutton. It flowered at
Kew three years ago. :

Dr. tandisy idne since separated this plant—though with
much hesitation—from Polystachya and founded upon it his
genus Epiphora. But more recent discoveries would seem

JULY Ist, 1866.

to show that the two genera are not really distinct, and I
am glad to find that Professor Reichenbach is quite of this
opinion.
Descr. Whole plant less than a foot high. Pseudobulbs

distaff-shaped, more than an inch long, clothed at the base
with large sheathing bracts that speedily become brown,
and bearing two or three oblong-lanceolate leaves, which are
from three to five inches long, leathery, and bluntly acute at
their extremities. Flower-spikes twice the length of the leaves,
terete, hairy, perfectly erect and many-flowered. Bracts tri-
angular, concave, exceedingly acute, not half the length of
the ovary, and standing out at right angles to the stem.
Flowers resupinate, closely massed together, of a bright golden-
yellow. Sepals hollow, ovate, rather blunt, streaked with red
lines up the centre (inside). Petals rather less than the
sepals, obovate, very blunt. Jép rather shorter than the
sepals, deeply three-lobed, the lateral lobes stretched a little
forwards and rounded, the middle lobe ovate, very acute, and
. With its apex slightly bent down, at base of lip there is a
triangular callosity, covered with small dark hairs; there are,
moreover, a few red streaks on its under surface. Column
very short, semiterete, and most exceedingly clavate—J. B.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Lip, spread flat. 3. Pollen-masses:—magnified.

Tas. 5587.

LOBELIA nicorrAN£Forta.

Lobacco-leaved Lobelia.

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Nat. Ord. Lopetiace®.—PeEnranpria Monoeynta.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-lobus, tubo obconico ovoideo v. hemisphzrico. Co-
voila superne longitudinaliter fissa, 2-labiata, tubo cylindrico v. infundibu-
liformi recto; labio superiore sepius minore et erecto, inferiore sepius
patente latiore 3-fido y. rarius 3-dentato. -Anthere 2 inferiores v. rarius
omnes apice barbate. Ovariwm inferum v. 3-superum, rarissime subli-
berum.—Herbe v. rarius suffrutices. Folia alterna. Flores sepius race-
moso-spicate ; pedicellis axillaribus. Corolla cerulea alba violacea rubra

v. ex rubro aurea. DC.

Losexta nicotianefolia ; elata, robusta, sepe ramosa, pubescens v. glabrata,
foliis lanceolatis breviter petiolatis basi angustatis acuminatis denticu-
latis, racemo basi foliaceo composito, ramis pyramidatis, bracteis acu-
minatis glanduloso-dentatis, lobis calycinis tubo multoties longioribus
serratis, corolla labiis deflexis acuminatis, labii superioris lobis anguste
lineari-lanceolatis labium inferius 3-lobum squautibus.

Lopetra nicotianefolia. Heyne ex Ram. et Sch. Syst. v. 5. p. 47. Roxb.
Fl. Ind. v.1. p. 506. “DO. Prod. v.7. p.381. Wall. Cat. p. 1304.
Wight, Til. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 135. :

~ Loperta excelsa. Lesch. ex Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Wall. v. 2. p. 114. DC.

Prodr. v. 7. p. 881. Wall. Cat. n. 1805. _Thwaites, Enum, Pl.

Zeylan. p.170. Wight, Ill. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 1178, 4. ©

Logpenia aromatica. Moon, Cat. Wight, Ic. 44172:
Rapuntium Leschenaultianum ef nicotianefolium. Presi, Prodr. Lobel.

p. 2A.

A stately plant, native of the Neilgherry and other moun-
tains of the Indian peninsula and of Ceylon, for seeds of which
the Royal Gardens are indebted to the late Mr. A. Black, —
Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens of Bangalore. It
flowered in the temperate house in January of the present
year, and attracted much attention for its striking habit and
great height, attaining six feet and bearing a profusion of
pale lilac blossoms. In its native country, it is said to grow
ten and even twelve feet high. I follow Mr. Thwaites in re-

JULY Ist, 1866.

ducing the L. excelsa and nicotianefolia to one, but maintain
the latter name as being the first published, viz. by Roemer
and Schultes in 1819, whilst that of excelsa did not appear
till 1824, in Wallich’s edition of Roxburgh’s ‘ Flora Indica.’

Descr. A tall, stout, herbaceous plant, six to twelve feet
high, glabrous, or more or less pubescent, or even tomentose
on the leaves below. Stem at the base as thick as the arm,
simple or branched. eaves narrow lanceolate, one to two
feet long, acuminate, denticulate, more or less narrowed into
a’petiole ; veins prominent beneath. Raceme simple or com-
pound, the branches a foot and upwards long, densely co-
vered with close-set flowers forming pyramidal summits of a
pale lilac colour. Bracts acuminate, toothed, the lower folia-
ceous. Pedicels slender. Calyx-tube broadly hemispherical,
five-ribbed ; /obes lanceolate, longer than the tube, serrate.
Corolla an inch long, upper lip of two linear acuminate pen-
dulous lobes, as long as the lower, which is three-cleft to the
middle, the outer lobes linear, the middle ovate-lanceolate,
and all acuminate. Anthers deeply blue, two of them bearded.
Stigma two-lobed—J. D. H.

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ANCYLOGYNE tonerrtora.

Long-flowered Ancylogyne.

Nat. Ord. AcantHace®.—Dr1anpria MonoeGynta.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, coloratus, laciniis subeequalibus v. insequa-
libus. Corolla tubulosa, limbo brevi obliquo subregulariter 5-fido, laciniis
patentibus v. recurvis. Stamina fertilia 2, exserta, cum 2 breviora anan-
thera; anthere oblongsx, loculis parallelis hirtis ciliatisve basi calcaratis,
calcaribus divergentibus. Ovarium 2-loculare ; stylus filiformis, staminibus
longior, apice uncinatus, stigmate bifido, lobo altero dentiformi v. deficiente ;
ovula 8. Capsula 4-gona, cuspidata, 8-sperma, septo crasso. Semina sub-
orbicularia compressa, nitida, retinaculis cochleariformibus suffulta.—
Herbe Americe tropice, caule 4-gono. Folia glabra, raphidibus farcta.
Spice v. racemi terminales, compositi. Flores sepe speciost, 2-bracteati.

‘AncytoeYNe longiflora; foliis petiolatis ovato-oblongis obovato-lanceola-
tisve acuminatis subsinuato-dentatis, panicula nutante, calycis laciniis
subulato-lanceolatis longe acuminatis corolla tubo 2-pollicari tertiam
partem «quantibus, corolie tubo lento curvo supra medium modice
inflato, lete purpureo, lobis brevibus rotundatis recurvis, filamentis
elongatis filiformibus longe pectinato-ciliatis, pilis recurvis.

A most beautiful plant, with something of the inflorescence
of Russellia juncea, introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Sons
from Guayaquil, where it was discovered by their intelligent
and most active collector, Mr. Pierce. It is undoubtedly one
of the finest tropical Acanthacee ever introduced into this
country, and cannot fail to be a most important accession to
our stoves. ‘It flowered with Messrs. Veitch in April of the
present year. :

The genus Ancylogyne of Nees, as previously known, con-
sisted of a few Peruvian and Brazilian plants, none of which
had hitherto been in cultivation.

Descr. A glabrous, apparently suffruticose plant. Stems
four-angled, and leaves glabrous or minutely pubescent.
Leaves four to ten inches long, petioled, ovate-oblong or ob-
ovate-lanceolate, with long acuminate points, obscurely sinu-

JULY Isr, 1866.

ate or subserrate. Flowers arranged in a drooping elongated
branched panicle,-with subulate bracts at all the axils, one-
eighth to one-fourth of an inch long, shortly pedicelled.
Calyz-lobes one-third to one and a half inch long, nearly equal,
subulate-lanceolate, purple. Corolla two inches long, nearly
straight, cylindrical, and tubular, rather inflated above the
summit of the calyx-lobes, bright vinous-purple ; mouth ob-
lique; lobes short, rounded, recurved. Stamens four, two
fertile; filaments very slender, exserted, garnished through-
out their length with two series of long recurved hairs; ste-
rile stamens with shorter filaments. Anthers bright-yellow,
the edge of the cells ciliated ; spurs short, projecting. Ovary
with eight ovules.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Base of corolla and stamens. 2. Summit of filaments and an-
ther. 3. Ovary. 4. Longitudinal section of ditto :—all magnified.

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ANGRACUM Cuarivanvm.

M. Du Chaillu’s Angrecum.

Nat. Ord. Orcuipex%.—Gynanpria Monanpria.

_ Gen. Char. Perianthium patens. Sepala et petala subzqualia, libera.
Labellum sessile, cam basi columne continuum, carnosum, indivisum, pe-
talis consimile v. iis latius; calcare recto v. flexuoso cornuto, sepius subcy-
lindraceo, perianthio equilongo v. multo longiore, raro obeonico. Colwmna
nana, subteres, raro elongata et semiteres. Anthera 2-locularis, truncata.
Pollinia 2, 2-partibilia; caudicula brevi v. elongata angusta, glandula tri-
angulari v. lanceolata——Epiphyte caulescentes. Folia coriacea, ligulata,
apice obligua v. 2-loba. Flores solitarii v. racemosi, albi virescentes v.
citrini, sepe herbacei.

Aner&zoum Chailluanum ; foliis valde coriaceis ligulatis 4-6 poll. longis
1} poll. latis apice 2-lobis, lobis valde inequalibus rotundatis, margi-
nibus undulatis, racemis 6-12-floris, bracteis amplis late ovatis sub-

' acutis acuminatisve, floribus ex albo virescentibus, sepalis petalis
et labello consimilibus 1} poll. longis anguste subulato-lanceolatis
recurvis, calcare tenui elongato 3—5-pollicari, rostello valde elongato.

This very distinct Angraecum was sent from the Gaboon
to the Royal Gardens, by M. Du Chaillu, on his return from
his last adventurous journey in Western Africa, and flowered
in May of the present year. The same plant was also sent
by M. Gustav Mann (collector for the Royal Gardens) from
the Nun river. on the same coast, but has not flowered. It
was named A. arcuatum by the late Dr. Lindley, in the
Hookerian Herbarium, but differs much from that South Afn-
can species in the greater size, large flowers, longer, more
acuminate sepals and petals, the spur several times longer
than the perianth, and in the longer leaves, with undulated
margins. I have given this the name of its celebrated dis-
coverer.

Descr. A small, stout epiphyte. Stems four to ten inches
long, as thick as the little finger. Leaves loosely imbricate,
four to six inches long, an inch and a half broad, leathery,

JULY Ist, 1866.

shrivellng much when dry, very unequally two-lobed at the
apex; the dobes rounded, margins undulated, dark-green.
facemes drooping, four to eight inches long, lax-flowered.
Flowers white, with a pale-greenish tinge. Bracts broadly
ovate or boat-shaped, subacute or acuminate, brown. Pedicel
with ovary an inch and a half long. Petals, sepals and lip all
of equal length and similar, narrow lanceolate-subulate, with
slender acuminate points, recurved, about an inch and a half
long. Spur very long, slender, flexuous, twice or thrice as
long as the perianth, pale yellow-green. Column short and
stout. fostellum much produced into a subulate beak. Anther-
case with a projecting, obtuse beak, much shorter than the
rostellum. Pollinia small.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Column and lip. 2. Column, anther-case, and rostellum. 3.
Transverse section of ovary. 4. Upper view of column, anther-case, and
rostellum. 5. Pollinia:—all magnified.

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KLEINIA ruueeys.

Brilliant-flowered Kleinia.

Nat. Ord. Composrtrm.—SyNGENESIA AZQUALIS.

Gen. Char. Capitulum multiflorum, eradiatum, fere semper homoga-
mum, floribus omnibus tubulosis 5-dentatis. Receptaculum planum. In-
volucrum 1-seriale, polyphyllum, bracteolis parvis spe calyculatum. Styli
rami cono brevi basi ciliato terminati, Achenia erostria. Pappus setosus,
subscaber, pluriserialis—Herbe et trutices Africana, carnose, sepe glauce,
ramis teretibus v. angulatis cicatricatis. Folia alterna, integerrima v. stnuato-
dentata. Flores albi flavi awrantiaci v. subminiati.

Kurta fulgens ; suffruticosa, glaberrima, glauca, ramis teretibus, foliis
breviter petiolatis obovato-oblongis acutiusculis distanter obtuse ser-
ratis utrinque glaucis carnosis, nervis tenuibus, pedunculis sub-1-floris
bracteatis, bracteis remotiusculis lineari-oblongis, capitulis ecalycula-
tis homogamis, involucri squamis linearibus acutis, floribus lete mi-
niato-aurantiacis.

The genus Kleinia consists of some twenty species, all na-
tives of South Africa, and many of them forming handsome
plants, well worthy of cultivation in the succulent: house.
Amongst these is the subject of the accompanying Plate,
which was sent from Port Natal, by Mr. Plant, to our inde-
fatigable horticulturist W. W. Saunders, F.R.S., and in whose
succulent-house it flowered in May of the present year. The
species does not exist in our herbaria, nor is it described in
Harvey and Sonder’s ‘ Flora Capensis.’ There is, however, a
very similar plant in cultivation, brought from Angola by
Dr. Welwitsch, which however, not having flowered, cannot

be identified with it.

Descr. A small, succulent, suffruticose plant, about two to
three feet high in our houses, everywhere covered with a
pale-green glaucous bloom. Stems branched, terete, brittle.
Leaves succulent, four to six inches long, with short, broad, de-
current petioles, obovate-oblong, subacute, remotely bluntly
serrate, uniformly smooth, glaucous and green on both sur-
faces, veins very indistinct. Flowering peduncles four to eight

AuGusT Isr, 1866.

nches long, erect, terete, one-flowered, loosely clothed with
erect, linear, acute succulent bracts, half an inch to one inch
long. Heads erect or inclined, an inch and a half long. In-
volucre terete, without any small scales at the base ; leaflets
eight to ten, linear, acute. Forets bright vermilion-orange.
Corolla-tube slender; lobes linear-oblong. Pappus scabrid,
unequal.—J. D. H. ee

Fig. 1. Vertical section of involucre and receptacle. 2. Floret. 3. Pap-
pus. 4. Stamen. 5. Style and stigmas :—all magnified.

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Tas. 5591.
FREMONTIA. Cattrorstea.

Californian Fremontia.

Nat. Ord. Matvacew.—Pentaypria Monoeyrnta.

Gen. Char. Flores 3-bracteati. Calyx patenti-campanulatus, coloratus,
profunde 5-fidus, laciniis petaloideis leviter imbricatis. Petala 0. Sta-
mina 5, filamentis basi in tubum confluentibus superne patentibus; an-
there reniformes, retrorsum dehiscentes (v. columna staminea 5-fida, ramis
linearibus superne dilatatis et extrorsum antheras 2 1-loculares antheram
2-locularem simulantes ferentibus). Ovarium 5-loculare, loculis oo-ovu-
latis ; stylus filiformis, stigmate acuto. Capsula loculicide 4—6-valvis.
Semina ovata, testa crustacea nitida, albumine carnoso; cotyledones ovate,
subplanee.—Frutex Californicus, stellato-pubescens. Folia cordata, lobata.
Flores majusculi, flavi, pedunculis oppositifoliis.

Fremontta Californica. Torrey in Smiths. Contrib. v. 6. p. 5: t.
Ann. v. 4. p.19. Hook. f. et Benth. Gen. Plant. v. 1. p. 212.

A very singular and beautiful hardy Californian shrub, im-
ported by Messrs. Veitch, and which flowered at their nur-
series in June of the present year. It is undoubtedly the
choicest early-flowering shrub introduced of late years, and
more than rivals the Morsythias in many respects. It was
discovered during Colonel Fremont’s adventurous United
States Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1846, and
bears the name of that gallant officer and highly-distinguished
explorer. ~~

The botanical characters of Fremontia are very anomalous.
It was referred to a new section of Bombacew (Fremontiew)
by its founder, and correctly placed along with the famous
Hand-plant, Cheirostemon (Tab. nostr. 5135), and the stamens
were described as five, with two-celled anthers. On the
other hand, certain considerations of affinity and structure
induced Mr. Bentham and myself, following Dr. Torrey, to
regard the apparently two-celled anthers of this plant and

Avaust Ist, 1866.

Cheirostemon as consisting of two confluent single-celled an- -
thers,—whence we referred both to the Order Malvacee
instead of Stereuliacew. I must confess, however, that after
examining living specimens of Fremontia, I am inclined to
refer the Fremontiew back to Sterculiacee, placing it next
to the tribe Sterculiee.

Descr. A woody shrub, attaining ten feet in its native
country, and resembling a Fig-tree. Leaves produced at the
extremity of the branchlets, petioled ; petiole slender, one to
three inches broad, suborbicular, three- to seven-lobed ; lobes
entire or crenate, sparsely stellate-pubescent above, glaucous —
below, and ferruginous when dry. Peduncles as long as the
petioles or shorter, stout, one-flowered. Flowers numerous,
golden-yellow, two to two and a half inches in diameter,
tribracteolate at the base; $racts small, ovate-subulate.
Calyx broadly and openly campanulate, five-lobed to below
the middle, petaloid, stellate-pubescent externally, villous
internally, with five pits at the base; Jodes orbicular, apicu-
late. Staminal column short, divided into five spreading
arms, each terminated by two reniform parallel anther-lobes
that dehisce outwardly. Ovary conical, pubescent, five-
celled, with numerous ovules in each cell; style filiform,
pilose, with spreading hairs; stigma acute—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Arm of staminal column. 2. Ovary. 3. Transverse section of
ditto :—all magnified.

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FERNANDESIA rosvsta.

Stout Fernandesia.

Nat. Ord. Orcn1prm.—Gynanpria Monanprta.

Gen. Char. Perianthium patens. Sepala libera. Petala conformia, sub
sepalo supremo conniventia. Labellum anticum v. posticum, ecalcaratum,
liberum, trilobum, disco tuberculatum. Columna brevis, utrinque aurita.
Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 2, solida, obovata.—Epiphyte caulescentes.
Folia disticha, equitantia, imbricata. Racemi paucifiort, terminales v. late-
rales. Flores parvi, lutei. Lindl. Gen. et Spee.

Frrnayprsia robusta; foliis carinatis ensiformibus acutis pedunculis uni-
floris subequalibus, bracteis triangulis cucullatis acutis, sepalis ob-
longis apiculatis reflexis, petalis ovatis obtusis, labelli trilobi lobis basi-
laribus magnis erectis obtusis incurvis, lobo intermedio dilatato qua-
drifido cuneato lamellis crenulatis instructo, callo hexagono in im&
basi, columne alis brevibus rotundatis.

Frrnanpxsta robusta. Bateman, mss., haud Klotzsch.

This, which is the largest of all the Fernandesias, was ori-
ginally found in Guatemala by Mr. Skinner. More recently
it has been reintroduced from the same country by that well-
known ornithologist O. Salvin, Esq., who sent some plants
of it to Kew, where they flowered freely, and enabled Mr.
Fitch to prepare the figure on the opposite page.

F. robusta is nearly allied to the Brazilian plant F. lunifera,
figured under the name of Lockhartia lunifera in Reichen-
_ bach’s ‘ Xenia’ (tab. 39. f. 3), but it comes from a totally dif-
ferent country, is much larger in all its parts, has sharp-pointed
instead of blunt leaves, and is moreover furnished with an
hecagonal (instead of heart-shaped, as in F. lunifera) callus on
the disc of itslip. It is easily grown in any house where Cat-
leyas or Oncidiums succeed, and flowers at different seasons.

Derscr. Stems upright, closely imbricated, about a foot
high. Leaves keeled, an inch and a half long, sharp at the
extremities. Peduncles drooping, about the length of the

avGuUsT Ist, 1866.

leaves, one-flowered, provided with two or three triangular,
acute, inflated bracts. Flowers two-thirds of an inch long,
of a bright yellow colour, barred and spotted on the lower
portion of the lip with red. ~Sepals oblong, apiculate, bent —
backwards. Petals ovate, obtuse, stretching a little forwards.
Lip longer and larger than the petals, three-lobed, its pos-
terior lobes large, upright, and curved a little at top; the
middle lobe dilatate, itself divided into four unequal portions,
of which the two lateral are shorter and smaller, while the
middle are wider and larger, all being blunt or rounded;
along its disc run several lamelle, which are beautifully cre-
nulated, and at its extreme base there is an hexagonal callo-
sity about the size of a pin’s head. Wings of column short
and rounded.—J. B.

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

Tas. 5593.

SEMPERVIVUM Parva.

Baron Paiva’s House-leek.

Nat. Ord. Crassutacex.—Dopecanpria DopEcagynia.

Gen. Char. Calyx 6-co-fidus v. -partitus. Petala 6-oc, libera v. basi
connata filamentisque adherentia, oblonga v. lanceolata, acuta v. acumi-
nata. Stamina numero petalis duplo y. rarius qualia, libera, filamentis
filiformibus ; anthere didyme v. ovate. Sguamule varie. Ovarii carpella
tot quot petala, libera v. basi y. ad medium in calycis tubum immersa, in
stylos filiformes attenuata, stigmatibus capitellatis; ovwla in carpellis oo,
placentis marginalibus v. intrusis affixa. Folliculi oo-spermi.—Herbe v.
suffrutices, carnose, acaules v. caulescentes. Folia alterra, sepe revoluta.
Cyme paniculate. Flores albi rosei virides flavi v. purpurascentes.

Semrervivum Paive ; “ fruticosum, glaucum, ramis subelongatis debilibus
declinatis v. decumbentibus subtortuosis nudis, sursum laxe rosulato-.
foliosis, foliis spathulatis abrupte acutis v. mucronulatis, ramorum
sterilium distincte serrulatim cartilagineo-ciliolatis, floralium integer-
rimis, novellis floralibusque minute velutinis, ceteris glaberrimis, pani-
cula late breviterque thyrsoidea laxa omnino glanduloso-velutina,
floribus 7-8-meris, petalis (virentibus) ligulato-acuminatis, apicibus
recurvis unilateraliter contortis filamentisque deorsum incrassatis
glanduloso-velutinis, antheris cordato-globosis muticis, glandulis hy-
pogynis glabris transverse quadrato-oblongis rectilineari-truncatis in-
tegerrimis.”’ Lowe.

Semprrvivum Paive. Lowe, mss.

This hitherto undescribed species of House-leek was
brought to the Royal Gardens by my friend the Rev. R. T.
Lowe, M.A., F.L.S., who discovered, it in the island of Go-
mera, one of the Canary group, and whose excellent descrip-
tion I herewith append :— is :

“I met with several plants of this Sempervivum (onium,
Webb) in April, 1861, on walls a mile or two above the
church in the valley of Hermigua, on the north side of Go-
mera, on my second few days’ visit to that long-neglected
island, so interesting in the grandeur of its scenery and rich-
ness of botanical productions. They were not in flower; but
perceiving them to differ from other Canarian species, I

AUGUST Ist, 1866.

brought away several plants, some of which have since
flowered in Madeira, under the care of Sir J. M. Moniz, and
other two are now flowering with me here in England.

“The species belongs to the same group as S. urbicum,
C. Schm., S. ciliatum, Willd., and S. Haworthii, W. B., ap-
proaching nearest the two latter and especially the last; but
it is perfectly distinct from all in habit and from each in
various other characters. Its name is a just tribute to the
unwearied zeal of the Baréo do Castello de Paiva in pro-
moting, both personally and by kind offices towards others,
the investigation of the botany, malacology, and entomology
of the Canaries.

“ Descr. A straggling tortuously branched low shrub, with
a short erect stem, and long weak, slender, curved or crooked,
pendently ascending or declining branches, 1-2 feet long,
which are naked, woody and ashy-greyish downwards, with
brown leaf-scars, fleshy, glaucous and leafy upwards, emitting
occasionally aerial, brown, fibrous, pendent roots. Leaves
highly glaucous, 1-24 inches long, 3-1 inch broad, those of
the flowering branches thick and fleshy, of the barren thinner
and finely serrulato-ciliate, the cilia white, short, acute, irre-
gular and obsolete or wholly evanescent on the older leaves
and flowering branches. Panicle terminal, ascendently erect,
6—8 inches long and broad, minutely but thickly glandular-
pubescent and slightly viscid, leafy; branches subelongate,
erecto-patent, leafy, ending in forked cymes. Inflorescence
and flowers (except the squamule and lower halves of ovaries)
glandular-pubescent. lowers rather large, green, scentless,
pyramidally conoidal in bud, } inch long, in flower ? inch
broad. Sepals bright-green, fleshy, ovate, 4 inch long. Petals
three times the length of the sepals, 34; inch broad, narrow-
acuminate, erecto-patent, tips recurved and spirally curved or —
twisted to one side both in bud and flower, pale-green, white
downwards. Stamens erect or subincurved and connivent, not
above half the length of the petals; filaments white, gra-
dually thickened and obcompressed downwards ; anthers pale
or whitish, retuse, not apiculate. Scales incisor-tooth-like,
short, transversely oblong, nearly twice as broad as high, recti-
lineally truncate, with a broad, flat edge, perfectly entire,
smooth, and shining. Lower half of ovaries smooth, shining,
upper glandular-pubescent ; styles erect, glandular-pubescent ;
stigmas recurvedly patent ; the whole white, forming an urceo-
late or inverted funnel-shaped column, 2-3 the length of
the stamens.”—R. T. Lowe.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Ovaries. 3. Single carpel :—all magnified.

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Tas. 5594. —

SANCHEZIA nosutas.

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Brilliant-flowered Sanchezia.

Nat. Ord. Acanruace®.—D1anpria Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Calycis foliola 5, spathulata, inequalia. Corolle tubus longe —
exsertus, tubulosus, ore coarctato, limbi lobis 5 parvis late ovatis revo-
lutis. Stamina fertilia 2, exserta, filamentis retrorsum pilosis; anthere
2-loculares, loculis parallelis hirsutis basi breviter calcaratis ; stamina 2 ru-
dimentaria subuliformia inter bases fertilium. Ovariwm 2-loculare; stylus
filiformis, exsertus, apice curvus, 2-fidus; ovula in loculis 4, adscendentia.
Fructus ignotus.—Herbe Peruvianz robuste, ramose, ramis 4-gonis. Folia
petiolata, petiolis basi connatis, integerrimis v. dentatis. Flores speciosi, in
cymas paniculatas confertas late bracteatas terminales dispositt.

SANcHEZIA nobilis; foliis ramisque glaberrimis obovato-oblongis lanceo-
latisve acuminatis obtuse dentatis in petiolum latum attenuatis, brac-
, teis magnis late ovatis concavis puberulis rubris, corolla 2-pollicari
fere glabra crocea.

A most beautiful and highly-interesting plant, discovered
by Messrs. Veitch’s indefatigable collector Mr. Pearce, in
Ecuador, in 1863, and which flowered in the Royal Exotic
Nurseries, Chelsea, in June last. It cerlainly belongs to the
little-known genus Sanchezia of Ruiz and Pavon, with the
original description of which it agrees in all respects except
the structure of the ovary. This, according to Ruiz and Pa-
von’s description and figure, is that of a Scrophularineous plant,
whilst our plant shows it to be truly Acanthaceous. This is
not the only instance in which the usually accurate authors of
the ‘Flora Peruviana’ have referred the fruit of one plant to
the flower of another, a mistake which could hardly have oc-
curred in this instance had the Natural System been invented
when the genus was described, for the two species figured in
the ‘ Flora Peruviana’ are so obviously Acanthaceous in habit
and floral characters, that it is almost inconceivable that they
should belong to any other Natural Order. :

Sanchezia nobilis differs from both the species hitherto de-

Aveust lst, 1866.

scribed in its very much greater size, and from S. odlonga,
which it closely resembles in foliage, and in the almost gla-
brous corolla; its affinity with Ancylogyne (Tab. nostr. 5588)
is obvious, and so close, that there can be little doubt but that
the name Ancylogyne should be suppressed.

Descr. A stout, erect, herbaceous plant, altogether gla-
brous except the inflorescence, which is faintly downy. Stems
obtusely tetragonous. Leaves three to nine inches long,
oblong-obovate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, obtusely
toothed, narrowed into short, broad-winged petioles, that are
connate at the base. Inflorescence erect, terminal, of nume-
rous opposite bracteate fascicles of flowers, forming together
a.dense panicle, most brilliantly coloured, the branches deep-
purple, the bracts bright red, and the corollas yellow. Bracts
an inch to an inch and a half long, orbicular, ovate, obtuse, very
concave, each pair enclosing eight or ten flowers and reach-
ing halfway up the corolla tube. Calya-lobes not half as
long as the corolla, obtuse. Corolla two inches long by one-
third in diameter, cylindrical, nearly glabrous, slightly curved,
contracted at the mouth.—J. D. H. :

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Base of corolla, cut open, and stamens. 8. Ovary.
4. Longitudinal, and 5. Transverse section of ditto:—all but Fig.1 mag-

nified,

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SACCOLABIUM AMPULLACEUM.

Bottle-lipped Saccolabium.

Nat. Ord. Orncu1pEz.—GyNnanpRiIA MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Taz. 5326.)

SaccoLaBiIuM ampullaceum ; caule brevissimo, foliis crassissimis distichis
ligulatis canaliculatis apice truncatis dentatis, racemis oblongis erectis
foliis multo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque ovatis patentibus subeequa-
libus, labello angusto acuminato concavo calcare compresso pendulo °
duplo breviore. Lindl.

SaccoLaBiuM ampullaceum. Lindl. Sert. Orch. t.17. Pazt. Mag. v. 13.
t. 49.

/ERIDES ampullaceum. Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 3. p. 476.

This is a neat, compact, and beautiful plant, it is likewise
perfectly distinct from any other species of the genus at pre-
sent known. It was figured so long ago as 1838 by Dr.
Lindley, in his ‘Sertum,’ but his plate was copied from a
drawing in the possession of the East India Company. A
few living specimens found their way shortly afterwards into
collections,—one of which, that flowered at Chatsworth, was
figured in ‘ Paxton’s Magazine,—but the plant continued ex-
ceedingly rare until Messrs. H. Low and Co. received a sup-
ply from one of their Indian collectors. The accompanying |
figure was taken from a plant that flowered at Kew in May.

EH. ampullaceum is a native of Sylhet, where it was found
growing upon trees by some of Dr. Roxburgh’s correspon-
dents. Dr. Wallich met with it near Bemphedy, and it was
also gathered in Sikkim by Drs. Hooker and Thomson. Its
time of flowering, both in India and our gardens, is the spring.
It grows slowly, rarely producing offsets, but is easily ma-
naged. Nothing can be more charming than its bright rose-
i racemes, which are freely produced and last long in

eauty.

kee: A dwarf plant, not rising more than six inches

AvGuUsST lst, 1866.

high, usually with a simple stem. Leaves barely a span long,
distichous, very thick, ligulate, with the edges nearly parallel,’
carinate beneath, channelled above, truncated and irregularly
toothed at the apex. Flowers of a deep rose-colour, growing
in erect, oblong, axillary racemes, which are much shorter
than the leaves. Flower-stalks and ovary together about an
inch long. Sepals and petals nearly equal, ovate, spread out
flat and beautifully veined. Lép linear, falcate, twice as short
as the sepals, channelled, acute, rather turned upwards at the
point, with a compressed, straight, slender spur, nearly as
long as the flower-stalk ; at the base of the lip are two teeth
pressed close to the base of the column, and parallel with it.
Column short, with a small hollowed stigma in front.—2J. B.

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RHODODENDRON Fortunet.

Mr. Fortune’s Rhododendron.

Nat. Ord. Ertcez.—Penranpria Monoaynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4336.)

Ruopopenpron Fortunei; glaberrima, nisi ramulis foliis junioribus pe-
dunculis calycibusque glanduloso-pubescentibus, ramulis robustis,
foliis sublonge crasse petiolatis oblongis lineari-oblongisve acutis
supra viridibus subtus pallidioribus, capitulis laxifloris, floribus amplis
pallide roseis, calycis limbo parvo disciformi, corolla breviter campa-
nulata, limbo amplo patente sub-7-lobo, lobis subundulatis, staminibus
ad 14, ovario glanduloso 10-loculari.

Ruopopenpron Fortunei. Lindley in Gard. Chron. 1859, pl. 868. -

The centre of the Rhododendron area is certainly Eastern
Asia, from both the tropical and temperate regions of which
continent new species are constantly turning up; hitherto,
however, we have very few from China or Japan. The pre-
sent very beautiful one was discovered by Mr. Fortune in
the Chinese province of Chekiang, on mountains 3000 feet
high. Its discoverer sent seeds to Mr. Glendining at Chis-
wick, who raised plants that proved perfectly hardy in the
open air, and from which Dr. Lindley originally described
the species. For the specimen here figured I am indebted
to Mr. Luscombe, of King’s Bridge, who flowered it in May
of the present year. In the foliage and form of the flower
and structure of the calyx and ovary, as also in its fragrant
odour, it is closely allied to R. Griffithianum and its variety
Aucklandii, but excels both these in the lovely rose-colour
of the corolla.

Descr. A stout shrub, glabrous everywhere except on the
young leaves and leaf-scales, peduncles, calyx, and ovary.
Branches very stout, terete, pale-green. Leaves five to seven
inches long, oblong or linear-oblong, acute, bright-green but

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1866.

opaque on the upper surface, glaucous below, acute, rounded —
or cordate at the base; petiole half to one inch long, red-
brown. Head of eight to ten loosely-clustered, rather pen-
dulous flowers. Peduncles half to one inch long. Calyr
small, discoid. Corolla shortly campanulate, three to three
and a half inches in diameter, seven-cleft, the lobes rounded,
fragrant, of a fine pale-rose colour. Stamens fourteen; fila-
ments slender; anthers small. Ovary glandular-pubescent,
ten-celled.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Transverse section of ovary :
—all magnified.

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ILEX LartivOtta:

Broad-leaved Japanese Holly.

Nat. Ord. Inicrine2.—Terranpria Monocynta.

Gen. Char. Flores sepius hermaphroditi. Calyx parvyus, persistens,
4—5-fidus. Corolla rotata, 4- rarius 5-6-partita, laciniis obtusis, Stamina
lobis corolle isomera, tubo brevi ejus leviter adherentia; anthere oblong.
Ovarium sessile, 4-6- rarius 7-8-loculare; stylus brevis v. 0, stigmatibus
_ tot quot ovarii loculis; ovula in loculis 1 v. 2, collateralia. Drupa glo-
bosa, 4-8-pyrena, vy. putamine 4—8-loculari—Arbores v. frutices. Folia
alterna, sepe nitida, integerrima v. rarius dentata v. spinosa. Pedunculi
axillares. Flores albi.

Inex latifolia; fruticosa, glaberrima, ramulis robustis angulatis, foliis crasse
petiolatis coriaceis oblongo-lanceolatis oblongisve obtusis acutis v.
acuminatis planis serratis basi cuneatis rotundatis v. angulatis, superne
lete viridibus nitidis, floribus in capitula axillaria dense congestis
pallide viridibus, calycis lobis rotundatis, corollx lobis late oblongis
obtusis, filamentis filiformi-subulatis, baccis globosis 4-pyrenis.

Inex latifolia. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p.79. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 16.

This noble Holly, though often supposed to be one of the
later importations from Japan, has long been cultivated in
‘the Royal Gardens, where it has stood without protection, -
_ trained against a wall, for many years, and quite uninjured.
__ In the open air I have not observed it flowering, but it

~ flowers abundantly in the Temperate House during June
and July. In other places near London and elsewhere, it is
cultivated as a standard; and though I have never seen it
luxuriant under such circumstances in the east of England,
it no doubt succeeds perfectly in the west. It is a beautiful
shrub, of a paler green than the common Holly, with similar
berries, and the flowers are produced in round heads of a
pale yellow-green colour. As a species it is extremely closely
allied to an arborescent Himalayan species that I have found
in the Sikkim province, which has however large berries
containing a bony three to four-celled nut, which does not, as
in this, break up into four nucules. I have native specimens

SEPTEMBER 1st, 1866.

of J. latifolia, collected near Nagasaki by the late Mr. Old-
ham, collector for the Royal Gardens, from whose seeds the
plant here figured was raised.

Descr. A tall evergreen glossy bush. Branches very stout,
angular, grooved when dry. Leaves three to seven inches
long, oblong linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, obtuse
or acuminate, serrate, bright glossy-green above, paler and
opaque below ; nerves numerous, obscure when fresh. Flowers
probably dicecious, in axillary, dense, subglobose, green clus-
ters an inch to an inch and a half in diameter. Calyx with
four short rounded lobes. Corolla cleft nearly to the base
into four broadly oblong, obtuse, concave, pale-green lobes.
Stamens usually larger than the corolla; filaments filiform-
subulate. Berries half to two-thirds of an inch in diameter,
bright-red, globose or a little depressed, with a large persis-
tent four-lobed stigma, containing four bony nuts.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, open 3. Calyx :—all magnified.

J5IE.

, del.et lith .

W. Fitch

Vincent Brooks, Imp

Tap. 5598.
HUN TLEYA ceERtIna.

Waxy Huntleya.

Nat. Ord. Orncurpex.—GyNanpDRIA MOoONANDRIA.

Hunrteya cerina; pseudobulbis nullis, foliis cuneato-oblongis acutis pe-
dalibus, pedunculis validis unifloris 2- vel 3-plo longioribus, sepalis
petalisque subzqualibus subrotundis concavis carnosis, labello ovato
convexo retuso crista crassi semicirculari truncata plicata, columna
apice nuda.

Huntteya cerina. Lindl. in Pact. Flow. Gar. v. 3. p. 535, cum aylo.

Pescatorta cerina. Rehb. fil. Xenia, t. 65.

The first notice of this beautiful plant appeared in the
third volume of Paxton’s ‘ Flower-Garden’ (1852-3), where
a description by Dr. Lindley and a woodcut of the flower _
are given. Dr. Lindley had no hesitation in referring it to
the same genus as a plant he had previously described in
his ‘Sertum’ under the name of Huntleya violacea, although
its column was clavate, while in the latter species that mem-
ber is remarkably short and thick. But since in other parts
of its structure, as well as in habit, it agrees perfectly with
the original type of the genus,* I have no hesitation in re-
taining Dr. Lindley’s name, although another high authority,
Professor Reichenbach, bas figured it in his ‘Xenia’ under
the name of Pescatoria cerina. oo

The plant was originally discovered by Warszewicz i
Veragua, on the volcano of Chiriqui, at an elevation of

* It is to be noted that Dr. Lindley never drew up any character of
this genus. Professor Reichenbach founded his genus Bollea upon the
eum which Lindley had already described as Huntleya violacea, the
atter name ought therefore, if possible, to be retained. Dr. Lindley’s
second species—H. meleagris—which has the habit of a Vanda whatever it
may be, is certainly no Huntleya, neither is it a Batemannia, to which
genus Reichenbach has referred it. It may possibly be a Wailesia, of
which it has all the habit; but the whole subject is one of extreme diffi-
culty, and awaits further examination so soon as more extensive materials
shall have been accumulated.

SEPTEMBER lst, 1866.

8000 feet. Mr. Rucker was the first to flower it, and in-
deed was almost its sole possessor, until some recent impor-
tations made the plant more plentiful. Mr. Fitch’s figure
was obtained from a plant exhibited, in beautiful condition,
by Messrs. Veitch at one of the Tuesday meetings of the
Royal Horticultural Society at South Kensington in June
last. It has also flowered at Knypersley, where, although
the flowers themselves were larger, the flower-stems were
much shorter than those of Messrs. Veitch’s specimen ; those
in Reichenbach’s figure are twice the length of either. I
have also observed considerable variations in the form of the
lip and of the sepals and petals, especially as regards the re-
lative size of the two last.

H. cerina grows slowly, but is easily managed in any house
that suits the Trichopilias, many species of which are found
in the same district with itself. Its flowers are of very long
duration.

Descr. A bulbless epiphyte, producing tufts of four or
five cuneate-oblong sharp-pointed leaves, which are about a
foot long. Peduneles one-flowered, from two to six inches
long, coming up at the base of the leaves, very strong.
Sepals and petals generally nearly equal, the latter more or
less unguiculate, an inch and a half long, nearly round,
concave, fleshy, of a pale straw-colour. . Lip yellow, ungui-
culate, puckered, ovate, convex, retused, bearing at the foot
of its disk a very thick semicircular ruff, composed of ‘nu-
merous plaits and folds. Colwmn sometimes with a violet
or brown blotch near its base, clavate, but with no expansion
or hood over the anther.—J. B.

Fig. 1. Lip, spread out flat. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

5599.

W. Kitch, del. et lith. : _ Vincent Brooks, Imp-

Tas. 5599.

NIEREMBERGIA. Verronn.

Mr. Veitch’s Nierembergia.

Nat. Ord. Soranes.—Pentanpria Dieynta.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus v. subcampanulatus, persistens, arcuatus,
5-fidus, laciniis subequalibus. Corolle tubus gracilis, elongatus; limbus
infundibuliformis v. campanulatus, sepe plicatus, 5-lobus. Stamina 5,
fauce corolla inserta, insequilonga, filamentis conniventibus v. connatis ;
anthere sub stigmate dehiscentes. Ovarium 2-loculare; stylus simplex,
stigmate 2-lamellato; ovula plurima. Capsula calyce persistente tecta,
2-locularis, septicide 2-valvis. Semina plurima, minima.—Herbe v. suffru-
tices Austro-Americane. Folia opposita, alterna v. subverticillata, integer-
fon Flores extra-alares v. oppositifolia, solitaria ; corolla alba v. sub-
violtacea.

Nrerempgrata Veitchii; glaberrima v. tenuiter pubescens, caulibus gra-
cilibus prostratis ramosis, foliis plerisque oppositis lineari- v. obovato-*
oblongis v. spathulatis, breviter tengo subacutis, floribus breviter
pedicellatis, calyeis campanulati lobis magnis patenti-recurvis lineari-
oblongis acutis, corolle tubo filiformi, limbo lato campanulato, lobis
latis subacutis.

NrerEMBERGIA Veitchii. Berkeley, mss.

A lovely little plant, imported by Messrs. Veitch from Tu-
cuman, in South America. Though we find nothing exactly
like it either described or in the Herbarium, the species of
this genus are so variable, that I suspect it will prove to be
a form of the Chilian W. repens, R. et P., or Peruvian N. spa-
thulata, H.B.K., if indeed these be not all varieties of one
widely-diffused and multiform plant, which differs in the
amount of pubescence, the form and length of the leaves and
their petioles, their opposite or alternate insertion, the length
of the peduncles calyx-lobes and corolla-tube, and in the
size of the flower. In the present species the lower leaves
are alternate, and all the rest opposite, the petioles and pe-
dicels short, and the calyx-lobes rather broad.

Descr. An elegant, prostrate, branched, slender, glabrous,
or very sparingly pubescent herb. Stems eight inches to a
foot long, branches almost filiform, terete. Leaves half to

SEPTEMBER lst, L866.

one inch long, lowest alternate, the rest opposite, varying
from linear above to broadly spathulate below, petiole short,
acute or obtuse. Pedicels longer than the petioles, a quarter
of an inch long. Calyx-tube scarcely oblique, short, between
funnel-shaped and campanulate ; Jodes linear-oblong, acute,
green, spreading and recurved. Corolla-tube half to three-
quarters of an inch long, slender, white; limb broadly cam-
panulate, pale-lilac, with four spreading shallow broad lobes ;
each lobe with three veins. Filaments united into a tube,
free at the base and apex. Stigmas broadly oblong.—J.D.H.

Fig. 1. Stamen and stigma. 2. Ovary and disk :—both magnified.

L600.

W.¥itch, del et lith Vincent

‘Tas. 5600.
KAMPFERIA Rosca@ana.

Mr. Roscoe's Kempferia.

Nat. Ord. Sctraminpz—Monanpria Monoeynr.

Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, hine fissus. Corolle tubus elongatus, fili-
formis ; limbi laciniw exteriores angustw, equales, laterales patentes, pos-
tica fornicata, interiores multo majores; labellum planum. Filamentum
breve carinatum ; anthera mutica, connectivo producto. Ovarium 3-locu-
lare; ovula plurima. Stylus filiformis, a filamento receptus; stigmate ur-
ceolato ciliato. Capsula 3-locularis, loculicide 3-valvis. Semina oo, aril-
lata.—Herbe Indice, habitu Cucume, bracteis sepius 2.fariam imbricatis,
rarius saccatis. Endl.

Kamrreria Rosewana ; acaulis, tuberibus fasciculatis subsessilibus ob-
longis, foliis horizontaliter patentibus suborbiculatis obtusis v. sub-
acutis, marginibus minute undulatis opacis subcarnosis, superne luride
viridibus colore saturatiore zonatis v. variegatis, floribus paucis sessi-
libus radicalibus fasciculatis erectis albis, petalis obovatis obtusis,
antico profunde 2-lobo.

Kamprerta Rosewana. Wall. in Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1212.

Now that the beautiful foliage of many new and little
known Scitaminee is bringing them into notice as objects of
horticultural interest, it is important to give figures of the
well-established species, of which the present is one of the
oldest and most beautiful. Though belonging to the same
genus as the aromatic Galanga and the Zedoary, both highly
prized in Hindoo medicine, perfumery, and cookery, the pre- -
sent species has no sensible qualities in its root or leaves,
and its only claim to notice resides in its beautifully-mottled
foliage. It is a native of Burma, was discovered by the late
Dr. Wallich in 1826, and sent to the Horticultural Gardens,
where it first flowered in 1829. The Royal Gardens are in-
debted to Messrs. Veitch for the beautiful specimen here
figured, which has continued flowering in a tropical stove for
several weeks.

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1866.

Descr. Hoots of numerous elongate, spindle-shaped, fleshy,
insipid, inodorous tubers. Sfem none. Leaves two, appear-
ing together, spreading horizontally on the ground, four to
five inches long, rather narrower, orbicular or orbicular-ob-
long, subacute, rather leathery and undulate, the margins
with a slender, pale, cartilaginous, minutely-crisped_ border ;
upper surface dull, dark, opaque green, variegated, mottled,
or zoned with paler green; under surface dirty-greenish, in-
clining to reddish. Flowers fascicled, sessile, one opening
at a time, pure white, four about one inch in diameter, in-
odorous. racts lanceolate, hyaline. Calyx short, subcylin-
dric, oblique, slender, glabrous. Tube of corolla cylindric,
one and a half inch long; outer segments linear, acute ; inner
spreading horizontally, obovate, obtuse, anterior deeply 2-
lobed ; lobes obtuse. Anther linear-oblong; connective un-
~ guiculate. Stigma cuneate, 2-lobed.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, with anterior petal removed. 3. Anther
and stigma :—all magnified.

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CHELOGYNE corrvueata.

Cologyne with wrinkled pseudobulbs.

Nat. Ord. OrcurpEx.—GynNanvria Monanpris.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 5462.)

CaLocYNE corrugata; pseudobulbis ovatis rugosissimis cespitosis diphyl-
lis, foliis oblongis membranaceis racemo erecto 3-6-floro longioribus,
bracteis cymbiformibus oblongis, petalis sepalisque subsqualibus ob-
longis acutis, labelli medio tricristati lobis lateralibus acutiusculis
intermedia ovato acuminato obtuso. Lindl.

Ca@Loerne corrugata. Wight, Icon. t. 1639. Lindl. Fol. Orch.

Although a very accurate representation of this pretty
Calogyne appeared fifteen years ago in Dr. Wight’s ‘ Icones,
it never, so far as I am aware, took its place among our living
collections before the year 1863, when some specimens were
received from India by the Royal Gardens at Kew. It is
found, according to Dr. Wight, near Courtallum, Tulney
Mountains (Neilgherries), where it flowers in August and
September. It also grows wild in Khasya, according to Lobb.
The figure is taken from a specimen that flowered at Kny-
persley in the summer of the present year. Like many other
Celogynes, it will not thrive in the East Indian house, but is
quite at home in the coolest part of the Cattleya house. It
should be grown in a pot.

The wrinkled pseudobulbs, which unfortunately are not so
well rendered on the opposite page as in Dr. Wight’s plate,

~ are almost peculiar to the species.

Descr. Pseudobulbs in tufts, ovate, very much (reticulately)
wrinkled, two-leaved. Leaves about a span long, oblong, sub-
acuminate, rather longer than the racemes. Racemes three-
to six-flowered. Bracts boat-shaped, oblong. Sepals and
petals nearly equal, oblong, acute, pure white. Lip three-
lobed, lateral lobes smaller and blunter than the central

OCTOBER Ist, 1866.

‘allel longitudinal lines ; yi iia’ of the lip is yellow in
inside, marked with orange streaks. —J. B. oe

5602.

|< Which delet lth. Berg a

Tas. 5602.

COTYLEDON rascrcuaris.

Glaucous-blue Cotyledon.

Nat. Ord. Crassunacex.—Decanpris PENTAGYNIA.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, corolle tubo xqualis v. brevior. Petala
5, sepius ad medium connata, erecta v. patentia. Stamina 10, rarissime 5,
petalis sepius breviora. Sguamule varie. Ovarii carpella 5, in stylos
filiformes attenuata, stigmatibus parvis; ovula ce. Folliculi 5, 00-spermi.—
Herbz v. frutices, raro annua, ramis foliisque sepius crassis, sed habitu
valde varie. Folia opposita v. alterna, petiolata v. sessilia.

Corrievon fascicularis ; glaberrima, pallide albo-virens, glauca, foliis spar-
sis sessilibus cuneato-obovatis cuspidatis planiusculis crassis, pani-
cule ramis elongatis scorpioideis, floribus magnis pedicellatis pendu-
lis, calycis lobis brevibus late ovatis acutis, corolle tubo calyce multo
longiore subcylindraceo, lobis reflexis lineari-oblongis acutis.

So far as these plants can be determined by descriptions,
‘this appears without doubt to be the Cotyledon fascicularis
of Aiton, and it further agrees with an unnamed drawing
made many years ago at Kew of a Cotyledon that existed in
the Garden at the date of the publication of ‘ Hortus Kew-
ensis.’ It is a beautiful plant, a native of South Africa, from
- whence the specimen here figured was sent by Mr. Cooper,
to our friend W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., of Reigate, in
whose fine collection of succulent plants it flowered in May
1865. The habitats assigned in Harvey and Sonder’s ‘ Flora
Capensis’ are chiefly in the Karroo districts.

Descr. A glaucous very pale green erect shrub, one to two
feet high, quite glabrous. Leaves scattered, two to three
inches long, sessile, broadly obovate-cuneate, cuspidate, fully
one-third of an inch in thickness, slightly concave, very pale
glaucous-green, with a yellowish margin. lower-stalk ten
to. twenty inches high, stout, terete, erect, paniculately
branched ; branches erecto-patent, with scorpioid inflorescence.
Bracts on the stem few, small, half an inch long, oblong,

OCTOBER Isr, 1866.

acute. Flowers pedicellate, pendulous, one inch long. Calyz-
lobes broadly ovate, acute. Corolla puberulous, five to six
times longer than the sepals, cylindrico-campanulate, with five
reflexed linear-oblong lobes ; tube yellow-green and dull red;
lobes dull red with green margins. Stamens ten, included ;
filaments pubescent at the very base. Sguamule connate
with the base of the ovary, short, concave.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Base of corolla and stamens. 2. Carpels and squamule. 3.
Transverse section of carpels :—all magnified.

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Tas. 5608.

GLYPTOSTROBUS pennttvts.

Pendulous deciduous Cypress.

Nat. Ord. Conrrer2.—Monecia Poryanpria.

Gen. Char. Flores in iisdem ramis monoici. Masc. Amenta parva, ra-
mulis elongatis spicata v. paniculata, oblonga, sessilia. Anthere 6-8, glo-
bose, ad basin squame late ovate, sessiles. Fam. Amenta parva, ad basin
Spice mascule pauca; sguame 8-10, ovate, patentes. Ovula 2, ad basin
Squamarum, erecta, lageniformia. Strobili ovoideo-subglobosi, lignosi ;
sqguame@ e basi strobili orte, lineari-obcuneate, imbricate, caduee, dorso
mucrone conico instructw. Semina 2, ad basin squame, compressa; testa
membranacea, superne alata.—Arbores Chinenses, ramulis erectis v. pen-
dulis. Folia alterna, sparsa v. disticha, lineari-subulata, subtrigona v. plana.
Gemme perulate. .

Guyprostronus pendulus; ramis patentibus honzontalibus et decurvis,
ramulis ultimis adscendentibus (demum pendulis) simpliciusculis elon-
gatis, foliis junioribus subulatis adultis lineari-acicularibus acuminatis.

Giyprostrosus pendulus. Lndl. Synops. Conif. p.71. Carriére, Traité
Gen. Conif. p. 152.

Taxoprum Sinense. Hort. Noisette; Gord, Pinetum, 308.

Taxoprum Sinense pendulum. Forbes, Pinet. Woburnense, p. 180. Loudon,
Eeyel. p. 1078.

Cupressus disticha, 8. nutans. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. p. 323.

One plant of the beautiful tree here figured was long cul-
tivated at Kew, side by side with a specimen (since dead) of
Taxodium distichum, of which it was considered a variety by
the elder Aiton. Of its native country or introducer, how-
ever, nothing is known, and I am indebted to Professor Oliver
(who this year observed male and female flowers on it) for
clearing up its botanical history, and referring it, no doubt
correctly, to the rare and little known Glyptostrobus pendulus
of China. Its similarity to the Taxodium distichum is very
striking: like that plant it has pendulous spikes of male
cones, with one or few female cones at the base of the spike,
and sheds its ultimate branches annually, but it differs in the

OCTOBER lst, 1866.

foliage not being distichous, in the scales of the cone not
being peltate, but arising from one point at the base of the
cone, and in the winged seeds. ‘The habit too is very re-
markable, owing to the great slenderness of the twisted stem,
decurved branches, and pectinately disposed branchlets.

Descr. A slender tree, forty feet high ; trunk straight, co-
vered with ragged reddish-brown bark. Branches horizontal
and decurved, slender, ultimate four to six inches long, at
first ascending and nearly erect, giving the branches a pecti-
nate appearance, pendulous and deciduous in autumn. Leaves
inserted all round the branchlets, young one-sixth to one quar-
ter of an inch long, subulate, trigonous; adult half to three-
quarters of an inch long, nearly flat, narrow linear acicular,
acuminate. Male inflorescence in pendulous spikes or nar-
row racemes two to four inches long, from the tips of the
branches. Male cones one-eighth of an inch long, as broad
as the short peduncles, which are covered with closely im-
bricating triangular scales, and ovoid-obtuse. Scales eighteen
to twenty, like those on the peduncles, each bearing six to
eight globose anther-cells at its base. Female cones minute,
solitary or few at the bases of the male spikes, on very short
scaly peduncles. Scales twelve to twenty, ovate with subulate
lips, spreading, each with two collateral erect flagon-shaped
ovules at its base. Ripe cone unknown.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Leaves. 2. Male peduncle and cone. 3. and 4. Male scales —
and anther-cells. 5. Female cone. 6. Scale of ditto and ovules :—all
magnified,

_ W Eitch, del et lith.

Vincent Brooks, Imp.

Tas. 5604.

HELIPTERUM Coruna.

Cotula-flowered Everlasting.

Nat. Ord. Composirz.—SynqEenesia SUPERFLUA.

Gen. Char. Capitulum multiflorum, nunc homogamum, floribus omnibus
hermaphroditis tubulosis 5-dentatis ; nunc heterogamum, fl. radii uniseri-
atis sepe paucissimis foemineis gracilibus. Involwerwm imbricatum, squa-
mis scariosis, interioribus conniventibus v. radiantibus. Receptaculum pla-
num, epaleaceum, nunc nudum v. areolatum, nune fimbrilliferum. Achenia
erostria, sessilia, areola terminali. Pappus 1-serialis, plumosus.— Herbee
aut suffrutices Austro-Africane et Australasice.

Hetirrervm Cotula; herbaceum, laxe pilosum v. subvillosum, ramis elon-
gatis gracilibus simpliciusculis 1-cephalis, foliis filiformibus, involucri
squamis radiantibus albis v. aureis, interioribus oblongis subacutis,
intimis sepe abbreviatis, pappi setis sursum dilatatis longe plumosis,
achenio glaberrimo.

Heiprerum Cotula. De Cand. Prodr. v. 6. p. 215.

Hewiprervm citrinum. Steetz in Plant. Preiss. v. 1. p. 474.
Hewiprervm simplex. Steetz, 1. c. p. 475.

Heviprerum precox. F. Muell. in Herb. Hook.

Heicurysum (Helipterum) Cotula. Benth. in Huegel Enum. p. 65.

A very beautiful West Australian Everlasting, for the seeds
of which we are indebted to Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich, in
whose establishment, and that of Kew, it flowered in May
of the present year. ‘The seeds were sent from Swan River
by the son of the late T. Drummond, the veteran explorer of
the vegetable riches of that country, and the introducer of
most of the beautiful plants we possess from it. Like some
other species of this genus, H. Cotula bears heads of two
colours, golden-yellow and white, but I have seen no inter-
mediates, and the individual plants have one-coloured heads ;
the white-headed variety is the H. Cotula, the yellow H. citri-
num, whilst H. simplex seems founded upon weak unbranched
specimens. ‘The plants appear to be common in South-West
Australia.

OCTOBER Ist, 1866.

Descr. A slender annual plant, six to twenty-four inches
high, more or less covered with weak flaccid woolly hairs.
Stem terete, generally much branched from the base, but
sometimes simple; branches very slender. Leaves scattered
(opposite in very young weak plants), one inch long, filiform,
terete. Heads half to one inch across, solitary at the ends
of the branches; yellow, or white with a yellow eye. Invo-
lucral scales radiating, scarious, oblong or oblong-lanceolate ;
outer shorter, intermediate quarter of an inch long, sub-
acute ; innermost again shorter, and sometimes very short
and truncate. Pappus hairs thickened upwards, very plu-
mose. <Achenes smooth.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Involucral seale. 3. Floret. 4. Pappus :—all magnified.

605,

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Tas. 5605.
BOLBOPHYLLUM RETICULATUM.

Reticulated-leaved Bolbophyllum.

Nat. Ord. OrncuipEx.—GyNanpRiaA Monanpria.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tax. 5309.)

BoLBoPnyiiuM reticulatum ; rhizomate elongato, pseudobulbis pedunculis
squamis amplis imbricatis truncatis, pseudobulbis ovoideis 1-phyllis,
folio amplo ovato-cordato acuminato pallide viridi, nervis saturate viri-
dibus nervulisque pulcherrime reticulato, pedunculis brevibus sub-
2-floris, floribus magnis, sepalo dorsali-petalisque subsimilibus ovato-
lanceolatis acuminatis intus purpureo striatis, sepalis lateralibus majo-
ribus concoloribus subfalcatis, labello trulliformi recurvo.

Bo.BoPHyLivoM reticulatum. Bateman, mss.

A most singular and beautiful plant, certainly the finest of
the genus, whether we consider the size of the flower, its
handsome striped sepals and petals, or the extraordinary
beauty of the large reticulated leaves. It was discovered by
Thomas Lobb in Borneo, and flowered with the employers of
that successful collector, Messrs. Veitch, at the Royal Exotic
Nurseries, King’s Road, in August of the present year.
There is nothing at all resembling it in either the Lindleyan
or Hookerian Herbaria at Kew, and may no doubt be taken
as an earnest of the Orchideous riches remaining to be disco-
vered in the Bornean forests.

Descr. Lhizome elongate, prostrate, simple or sparingly
branched, covered with closely imbricating, broadly ovate,
acute brown scarious sheathing scales. Pseudobulbs solitary,
scattered, ovoid, about an inch long, bearing one leaf covered
by two or three sheathing scales, like those of the rhizome,
but larger. Leaf large, three to five inches long, ovate-cor-
date, acuminate, much nerved, the longitudinal and transverse
nerves deep green, producing a beautiful reticulation on the
paler green of the substance of the leaf; petiole short, stout.

OCTOBER Ist, 1866.

Peduncle from the base of the pseudobulb, short, stout,
curved, one to two inches long, covered with sheathing ovate-
acuminate bracts, two-flowered. Flowers one and a quarter
inch diameter, pale externally, internally white, with stripes
of clear red-purple (sometimes broken up into spots) in the
sepals and petals internally. Sepals arched ; dorsal ovate-lan-
ceolate, acuminate; lateral much broader at the base, some-
what falcate and decurved. Petals like the dorsal sepal, but
smaller and more acuminate. Jip trowel-shaped, recurved,
cordate, with recurved auricles at the base, rather fleshy,

spotted with purple; claw slender.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Ovary, column, and lip. 2. Under side of lip. 8 and 4. Pollen:
—all magnified. :

Tas. 5606.
MUSSCHIA Wottastont.

Mr. Wollaston’s Musschia.

Nat. Ord. CampanuLacE®.—PENTANDRIA Monoeynti.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla profunde 5-fida, aurea. Stamina
5, libera, filamentis basi glabris leviter dilatatis; anthere lineares, cuspi-
datz. Ovariwm breve, 5-gonum ; stylus columnaris, stigmatibus 5 elongatis
horizontalibus apice revolutis. Capsula 5-locularis, 10-nervis, lateraliter
fissuris numerosis inter nervos dehiscens, loculis 5 cum lobis calycinis alter-
nantibus. Semina ovoidea.—Suffrutices glabri; caule robusto erecto. Folia
alterna, magna, serrata. Panicula pyramidata, terminalis.. Flores magni,

Jlavi.

Musscu1a Wollastoni ; herbacea, hirto-pubescens, suffrutescens, foliis ob-
longo-lanceolatis acutis basi longe attenuatis sessilibus argute dupli-
cato-serratis pubescentibus subtus hirsutis, panicula pyramidata elata
multiflora, ramis patentibus, calycis sinubus vix appendiculatis, laci-
niis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis tubo 2—4-plo longioribus, corolle
velutine laciniis linearibus tubo longioribus.

Musscata Wollastoni. Lowe in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 8. p. 298.
Johnson, l.c. v. 9. p. 164.

A beautiful plant, introduced from Madeira into Kew
about ten or twelve years ago, where it has flowered annually
since in a cool greenhouse. The genus to which it belongs is
restricted to the Madeiran group, and might perhaps be best
referred to Campanula as a section of that genus, equivalent
to Eucodon and Medium; it is confined to the Madeiran
islands. The only other known species of Musschia is the old
M. aurea, a plant cultivated at Kew as early as 1777, and
figured in the ‘ Botanical Register,’ t. 57.

The Rev. Mr. Lowe, who is the author of this species, de-
scribes it as being found but rarely in shaded valleys of Ma-
deira, above three to four thousand feet elevation, and adds,
in a private letter, that its habit is so much like that of
Sonchus fruticosus, that it is only distinguishable at a little
distance, when out of flower, by the non-sinuate leaves.

Descr. A large-leaved undershrub. Stem naked, usually

OCTOBER lst, 1866.

simple, two to six feet high, terminated by a crown of leaves
and pyramidal panicle. Leaves flaccid, one to two feet long,
often purplish, oblong-lanceolate, tapering to a broad sessile
base, doubly serrate, pubescent above, hirsute below, succu-
lent towards the middle. Panicle erect, pyramidal, two feet
high and upwards ; branches spreading. Flowers large, yellow-
green, one and a half to two inches long. Calyx green; lobes
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate; much longer than the angled
tube. Corolla-tube cylindrical, shorter than the linear re-
curved lobes. Stigmas radiating, very large, half an inch
long, revolute at the apex.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Calyx, ovary, and stamen,—magnified.

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BRACHYSTELMA Banuznra.

Mrs. Barber's Brachystelma.

Nat. Ord. AsctertapE®.—Pentanpria Draynta.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-phyllus. Oorolla campanulata, sinubus angulatis. :

Corona staminea 5-phylla, foliolis gynostegio medio adnatis, 3-lobis, lobis
antheris oppositis simplicibus longioribusque ad basin dentibus binis in-
trorsum plus minus pilosis stipatis. Gynostegiwm inclusum. Anthere sim-
plices, membrana destitute. Masse pollinis erectz, supra basin affixe,

cum margine pellucido quasi operculate.
graciles, lieves, erecti, pedunculo recto. Semina comosa.—Herbe Austro-

African, perennes, radice tuberosa, eduli.

Bracuystetma Barberie; caule brevissimo, foliis lineari-oblongis acutis,
floribus numerosissimis in capitulum amplum globosum congestis, co-
roll limbo explanato, lobis caudatis elongatis apicibus arcuatis cohe-

rentibus.
Bracuyste_Ma Barberixs. Harv. mss.

The ‘ Botanical Magazine’ claims the privilege of figuring,
from time to time, plants which are not as yet in cultivation
in England, but which are so remarkable for their interest
or beauty as to be objects of great and special interest, and
to which public attention should hence be drawn. Amongst
such subjects few can rival the subject of the present Plate,
of which an admirable coloured drawing, made by our ac-
complished correspondent Mrs. Barber, of The Highlands,
Graham’s Town, was transmitted to me for our late mutual
friend Dr. Harvey, of Dublin, who had already named the
plant from dried specimens. On hearing of Dr. Harvey's
decease, Mrs. Barber transferred the drawing to me; and
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bear the name of the amiable person and zealous botanist to
whose exertions we owe our knowledge of it.

The genus Brachystelma is a rather large South-African

NOVEMBER Ist, 1866.

Stigma muticum. Folliculi

one; the species grow in dry places, and form tuberous roots
that are eaten by the natives. Some of the species have
erect and others twining stems, but none hitherto described
approach this.in habit, whilst the coherent Ceropegia-like
tips of the corolla-lobes is an unusual character in the genus.
It was discovered by Mr. Bowker (Mrs. Barber’s brother)
in the valleys of the Isomo river, in Kaffirland.

Descr. Root a depressed tuber, as large as a turnip. Stem
very short.: Leaves spreading, three to four inches long,
linear-oblong, acute. Flowers collected into a sessile, dense,
globose capitulum, four to five inches in diameter, dingy-
purple, speckled with yellow in the disk. Corolla-limb one
inch broad, slightly concave, shortly five-lobed; /obes trian-
gular, terminating in slender tails one inch long, which arch
inwards and cohere over the centre of the flower.—J. D. H.

5608.

Vincent, Brooks , Imp.

ba eit rstniiishnssonenieatnieinwanied ed
ag sas ahi

W Fitch delet lith

Tas. 5608.
NIEREMBERGIA. rtvuzaris.

Water Nierembergia.

Nat. Ord. Souanem.—Pentanpria Die@ynta.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5599.)

NreremBereta rivularis; glaberrima, caule gracili repente, foliis alternis
longe petiolatis oblongis oblongo-spathulatisve obtusis, floribus bre-
viter pedunculatis oppositifoliis, calycis tubo cylindraceo supra me-
dium 5-lobo, lobis oblongo-lanceolatis subacutis, corolla albida y. dilute
flavescente, tubo gracili elongato, limbo late campanulato explanato,
lobis obtusis.

Nrerempereia rivularis. Miers in Hook. Lond, Journ. Bot. v. 5. p. 167.
Walp. Rep. v. 6. p. 568.

’ A beautiful little species, a native of La Plata, whence
it was introduced by Messrs. Veitch, of the Royal Exotic
Nurseries, Chelsea, with whom it flowered in July of the
_ present year. I have dried specimens from various places

near Buenos Ayres, where it was discovered by the late Mr.
Tweedie upwards of thirty years ago. This collector de-
scribes it as a most lovely and fragrant plant, abounding by
the sides of the Plate river, and only within high-tide mark,
its flowers rising above the dwarf grass which grows 1n simi-
lar situations in such profusion, that the plant is discerned
from a great distance. The flowers are sometimes tinged
with rose-colour. : a

Descr. Everywhere glabrous. Stems slender, creeping =
rooting abundantly, branched and matted. Leaves very =
riable in size, with the petioles one to three inches long;
petioles very long and slender; blade oblong or oblong-spa-
thulate, obtuse, membranous, nerveless or almost so. Flowers
sessile or shortly peduncled. Calyx a quarter to aed
quarters of an inch long, cylindric, with five slightly _ -
ing oblong-lanceolate subacute lobes. Corolla-tube one to

NOVEMBER Ist, L866.

two and a half inches long, very slender, yellowish-white ;
limb broadly campanulate, spreading, white with a yellowish
tinge; lobes broad, obtuse. Staminal tube entire to the sum-
mit. Stigmas transversely oblong.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Stamen and stigmas. 2. Stigma. 3. Ovary :—all magnified.

4

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3609.

Vincent Brooks,Imp.

W. Fitch, delet lith

Tas. 5609.
NOTYLIA BICOLOR.

Two-coloured Notylia.

Nat. Ord. OrcnipE®.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.

Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum, equale; sepalis 2 lateralibus con-
natis labello suppositis. Zabellwm liberum, ecalcaratum, patentissimum,
integrum, medio callosum. Colwmna erecta. Stigma rima verticalis. An-
thera dorsalis, unilocularis, cum stigmate parallela. Clinandriwm planum,
antics callosum, posticéd marginatum. -Pollinia duo integra, caudicula
elongato-cuneaté, glandulA minuté.—Herbe epiphyte Americane. Folia
equitantia vel plana. Spice radicales. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. p. 192.

Noryuta bicolor ; foliis equitantibus ensatis spicis nutantibus apice race-
mosis multi-(10-20-)floris duplo brevioribus, sepalis lineari-setaceis
(inferiora ima basi coalita) albis, petalis paulo latioribus brevioribus la-
zulinis ; labello libero breviter unguiculato ligulato ante apicem sagit-
tato, apice setaceo ecarinato ; column medio angulata labello duplo
breviore, anthera maxima.

Noryuta bicolor. Lindl. in Benth. Plant. Hartw. 1842. p.93. tchb. Xen.
Orch. v. 1. p. 46.

This little Orchid is a perfect gem. It was first discovered
in Guatemala by Mr. Skinner, and afterwards by Hartweg
in the mountains of Comalapan, where it grows upon oaks.
In its colouring it is quite unlike the other dozen or more
species of Notylia, which are generally of a greenish-white,
and, except as botanical curiosities, not worth growing.

Notylia bicolor has been established at Knypersley for
more than twenty years on a small branch of the Cork-tree
Oak, on which it never fails to flower profusely in the au-
tumn. It should be grown near the light at the cooler and
drier end of the Cattleya-house. The flowers continue a
long time.

Descr. Whole plant often not more than an inch and a
half high. Leaves generally about five, equitant, stiff, acumi-
nate, slightly scimitar-shaped, scarcely half the length of the

NOVEMBER Ist, 1866.

flower-spikes. Mlower-spikes drooping, two or three inches
long, very slender and graceful, bearing (on their upper por-
tion) from ten to twenty elegant little flowers. Sepals seta-
ceous (the two lower ones joined together), white. Petals
rather wider than the sepals, lilac, with blue spots towards
their base. ip free, narrow, slightly unguiculate, arrow-
shaped near its apex, ecarinate, resembling the petals in co-
lour. Column about half the length of the lip, angular near
the middle. Anther very large, overlying nearly one-half of
the column.—J. B.

Fig. 1. Flower, seen in front. 2. Ditto, seen sideways. 8. Side-view

of lip and column. 4. Lip. 5 and 6. Pollen-masses and gland :—mag-
nified.

5670.

Tas. 5610.

GLYPHAA Mowrsmot.

M. Monteiro’s Glyphea.

Nat. Ord. Trnrracem.—PonyanpRIA Monoeynia.

Gen. Char. Sepala 5, rarius 4, libera. Petala totidem, basi nuda. Sta-
mina oo, toro haud elevato inserta, filamentis brevibus basi in annulum
brevissime connatis v. liberis; anthere filamentis longiores, lineares, erecta,
connectivo apice in membranam brevissime producto. Ovariwm 4—10-locu-
lare, loculis o0-ovulatis; stylus brevis, stigmate obtuso. Fructus oblongo-
fusiformis, inermis, mesocarpio tuberoso, subindehiscens, oo-spermus, car-
pellis inter semina transverse septatis. Semina in loculis 1-seriata, orbicu-
lata v. subquadrata, compressa, verticalia, testa crustacea ; albwmen carno-
sum; cotyledones cordato-orbiculatw.—Frutices African. Folia subin-
tegra v. dentata, 3-plinervia. Cyme pauciflore, axillares laterales et termi-—
nales. Flores flavi.

Guypuma Monteiroi; ramis foliisque glabris, ramulis et inflorescentia
stellatim pilosis, foliis ovatis oblongisve acuminatis crebre irregulariter
dentatis, antheris basi breviter 2-lobis.

The genus Glyphwa was established in the Flora of the
Niger Expedition, upon a remarkable shrub discovered near
the Congo river by Christian Smith, and which has since
been found in Senegambia, Sierra Leone, and Fernando Po.
More recently, two other forms or species have been de-
tected also in tropical Africa; one on the east coast, and the
other, the subject of the present Plate, on the south-west,

viz. at Benguela, by M. Joachim Monteiro, to whom we are
indebted for specimens of many curious plants, and especially
for the Welwitschia (Tabb. 5368-69). This differs from the
original species in the larger, broader, more ovate and more
serrate leaves, in the much larger flower, and in the an-
thers not being so confluent with the filaments at the base,
but terminating in two evident lobules or teeth; whether
these are permanent characters, or whether all the three
Glyphawas may not be best referred to one species, is a point
that cannot be determined without fuller materials than we
possess. The Glyphwa Monteiroi flowered in September of

NOVEMBER Ist, 1866.

the present year, in a tropical stove, from seeds sent us by
its discoverer.

Descr. A shrub, with slender glabrous branches. Leaves
glabrous, four to six inches long, membranous, oblong or
ovate, rounded or slightly unequally cordate at the base,
acuminate, acutely irregularly toothed. Cymes three- to four-

flowered, pubescent with stellate hairs. Flowers an inch to

an inch and a quarter in diameter, bright yellow. Sepals
broadly linear, subacute. Petals similar in form, obtuse.
Anthers narrow-linear, slightly two-lobed at the base. Fruit
two inches long, sharply ribbed, four- to seven-celled.—

de D; H,

Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Germen. 38. Transverse section of ovary. 4.
Fruit. 5. Transverse section of do.:—all but 4 and 5 magnified.

*

SiS é L071.

Tas. 5611.
VANDA Bensont.

Colonel Benson’s Vanda.

Nat. Ord. Orcu1pp2.—Gynanpr1i Monanpria.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tax. 4432.)

Vanna Bensoni; foliis canaliculatis oblique ineequali-dentatis racemis
erectis rigidis multifloris duplo brevioribus, floribus distantibus pedi-
cellis subeequalibus, sepalis petalisque minoribus unguiculatis obovatis
obtusis intus guttulatis (nec tessellatis), labello convexo ovato disco
trilamellato apice alté bifido subreniformi auriculis ad basin triangu-
laribus obtusiusculis, caleare conico obtuso.

Vanva Bensoni. Bateman, mss.

This elegant addition to our list of Vandas was discovered
in Rangoon and sent to Messrs. Veitch by that zealous natu-
ralist Colonel Benson, after whom I have great pleasure in
naming it. It flowered at Chelsea shortly after its arrival in
the summer of the present year (1866), though the spikes
were of course inferior to those produced in its own country,
some of the latter—which are now in the Kew herbarium
—having been upwards of half a yard long, and carried
as many as fifteen flowers. The length of its spikes, the
absence of all tessellation, the spotting and yellow colour
of the inside of the flowers, are among the marks that dis-
tinguish the species from V. Roaburghii and V. concolor,
to which it is nearly allied. It appears to be a very free
grower. :

Descr. Plant a foot or more high, bearing a compact
mass of distichous channelled coriaceous leaves, which are
obliquely and unequally toothed, a span or more long.
Flower-spikes upright, many-flowered, much longer than the
leaves. Pedicels about an inch long, white. Flowers not
closely arranged, about two inches across: the sepals and

NOVEMBER Ist, 1866.

petals (which are smaller than the sepals) unguiculate, ob-
ovate, obtuse, white on the outside, and of a yellowish-green
on the inside, where they are marked with numerous reddish-
brown dots. Jip about the same length as the sepals, with
two small, triangular, rather blunt side-lobes or auricles at
its base, from in front of which it is ovate, convex, traversed
by three lamella, and terminated by a kidney-shaped, broad,
bifid apex, which is of a beautiful violet colour, while the
auricles and conical spur at the base are white—J. B.

Oe es Ce aoe a a Pe By? ee a

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CYPELLA CHRULEA.

Blueflowered Cypella.

Nat. Ord. Inipnpa.—Trianpeia Trieynra.

Gen. Char. Perianthium corollinum, superum, 5-phyllum, laciniis basi
concavis exterioribus majoribus patentibus, interioribus recurvis. Stamina
3, perigonii laciniis exterioribus basi inserta, filamentis brevissime coalitis
subulatis. Anthere oblong, basifixe, loculis connectivum marginantibus.
Ovarium inferum, oblongo-prismaticum, 3-loculare ; stylus brevis, filiformis,
stigmate dilatato 3-lobo, lobis erectis 3-fidis basi appendiculatis. Ovula
plurima, in loculorum angulo centrali 2-seriata. Capsula membranacea,
oblongo-prismatica, 3-locularis, loculicide 3-valvis. Semina plurima, an-
gustata.—Herbe perennes, Americe tropice ; rhizomate bulboso-tuberoso.
Caulis erectus, foliatus, apice ramosus. Folia late lineari-lanceolata v. ensi-
Jormia, Flores magni, speciosi, laxe paniculati, spatha 2-phylla 1-flora.

Cypetis cerulea; elata, foliis 3-6-pedalibus 1-1 lin. latis ensiformibus
obtusiusculis v. acuminatis, floribus ceruleis, 4 unc. diametro, peri-
anthii laciniis exterioribus late oblongis, ungue aurantiaco brunneo
fasciato, laciniis interioribus dimidio minoribus angustioribus, lamina
ceruleo-venosa, ungue aurantiaco fasciato, stigmatis lobis acuminatis,
raro 2-appendiculatis.

Crpzzua cerulea. Seubert in Herb. Reg. Berol.

Manica cerulea. Hovk. Exot. Flora, 7.222. Bot. Reg. t. 713.

A magnificent plant, native of the Brazils, long known in
our gardens, though displaced of late by newer but far less
attractive favourites. Whether for the boldness of its disti-
chous sword-like foliage or the magnificence of its fine [ris-
like flower, it is well worthy of a permanent place in our
stoves. The plant from which the accompanying drawing

Was made was sent to the Royal Gardens from Bahia, by
Mr. Williams, and flowered in September of the present
year.

Descr. Leaves three to six feet long, an inch to an inch
and a half broad, striate, on a very stout caudex in our plant,
equitant, bright green, acute or obtuse, sometimes acuml-

NOVEMBER Ist, 1866.

nate. lowers panicled; lower spathes four to six inches
long; floral two inches. Flowers variable in size, the fully-
sized fully four inches in diameter. Outer perianth-leaves
broadly oblong, obtuse, acute or apiculate; blade blue, some-
times blotched ; claw yellowish, with transverse brown bands;
imner segments about half as long as the outer, and much
narrower proportionally ; claw dirty-yellowish, with orange
radiating bands; limb with radiating blue bands. Stigma-
lobes bifid, each with a horn-like appendage at the base
below.— J.D. H. 3

Fig. 1. Stamens, style, and stigmas. 2. Transverse section of ovary :—
both magnified.

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HELICONTA HUMILIS.

Dwarf Heliconia.

Nat. Ord. Musacem.—Prnvanprra Monoernta.

Gen. Char. Perianthium corollinum ; foliola exteriora squalia, basi con-
nata; interiora lateralia subconformia, approximata, genitalia amplec-
tentia, posticum nanum. Stamina 5, sexto abortiente nano, basi perigonii
adnata. Ovarium 3-loculare ; stylus filiformis, stigmate obsolete 6-lobo.
Ovula in loculis solitaria, e basi axeos adscendentia, anatropa. Capsula
subdrupacea, 3-cocea, coccis osseis indehiscentibus. Semina subglobosa,
basifixa; albumen farinaceo-carnosum ; embryo linearis, orthotropus.—
Herbe sepius elate, Americe tropice incole. Folia longe petiolata, petiolo
bast vaginante scapum radicalem sepe velante. Spathw numerose, distiche ;

axillis floriferis.

Heiconra humilis; humilis, acaulis, petiolis longissimis, gracilibus, foliis
oblongis oblongo-lanceolatisve breviter acuminatis basi cuneatis, scapo
brevi radicali erecto, spathis 4-6 erecto-patentibus distichis subulato-
lanceolatis rubris apice viridibus multifloris, perianthii foliolis lineari-
bus angustis ex albo viridibus.

Heiconzs humilis. Jacg. Hort. Schanb. t. 48,49. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1.
p. 1187. Rem. and Sch. Syst. Veg. v. 5. p. 590.

Musa humilis. Awbl. Guian. v. 2. p. 931.

Few plants are so well worthy of cultivation, for those
who can afford space for’the purpose, than the species of the
magnificent genus Heliconia ; they are easily managed, their
beautiful foliage is evergreen, their brilliant flowering-bracts
keep their colour for many weeks, and they may be rapidly
increased by division of the rhizome. ‘The present species 1s
a native of Guiana, where it abounds in marshy places, and IS
called “ petit Bahisia” by the French settlers, according to
Aublet. Jacquin published an excellent figure and description
of it in his ‘ Hortus Schcenbrunensis’ so long ago as 1797,

“which appears to be the only figure extant. The gen
here figured flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in Sep-
tember of the present year.

DECEMBER 1st, 1866.

Descr. Rhizome tuberous and creeping, covered with cir-
cular scars of fallen buds, giving off thick fleshy root-fibres.
Stem none. Leaves all radical, on long slender petioles two
to three feet long; blade one to two feet long, oblong linear-
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, rather pale green, shortly
abruptly acuminate, cuneate at the base. Scape short, radi-
cal, hidden amongst the leaves, erect, straight ; flowering
portion bright red, about a span long, bearing about four
distichous spathes. Spathes erecto-patent, subulate from a
broad base, nearly a span long, scarlet, with green stiff, al-
most pungent points, thick and hard, not striated. Flowers
five to six in a spathe, two to three inches long, sessile,
crowded ; partial spathe membranous. Perianth white, green
towards the apices of the narrow linear segments; tude short,
cylindric ; limb two-lipped, upper leaflet concave, bifid, lower
at length revolute at the apex; upper inner leaflet triden-
tate, lower very short.— J. D. H.

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Fig. 1. Entire plant, reduced ; anthers whitish. 2. Inflorescence. 3-
Flowers. 4. Ovary, ete. :—ail magnified.

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Tan. 5614.
CYPRIPEDIUM Scum,

Schlim’s Lady’s-slipper.

Nat. Ord. Orcutppm.—Gynanpris Monanpria.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5349.)

Cyprirepium (SELENIPIDIUM) Schlimii; foliis coriaceis ligulatis acutis
subpedalibus pedunculo hirsuto nune ramoso brevioribus; bracteis
triangulis ancipitibus, ovario velutino, sépalis ovatis obtusis, superiore
ovato, extus sericeo, inferiore subzquali (vel paulo majore) apice con-
tracto cucullato, petalis sepalo summo majoribus, inferiori subequa-
libus ; labello elliptico-saccato ostio angusto ; staminodio ovato pan-
durato apiculato, stigmatis labio superiori triangulo, inferiori retuso
lobato. Ex Reichenbach.

SELENIPIDIUM Schlimii. Rchb. in Pescatorea, t. 34. Xenia Orch. t. 44.

This pretty New Granada Cypripedium bears the name of
its discoverer, M. Schlim, one of M. Linden’s most zealous
collectors, who found it in “ moist places,” in the neighbour-
hood of Ocafia, at an elevation of four thousand feet above
the sea-level. It first flowered in M. Linden’s establishment
in 1854. It was afterwards met with near La Cruz by
Purdie, and on “dry banks”(!) according to the memorandum
in the Hookerian herbarium. Possibly, however, the diffe-
rent season of the year at which the plant was gathered by
the respective collectors may explain the seeming discre-
pancy. In this country it is still a rare plant, though it is
easily grown in a mild temperature, especially if screened
from the direct rays of the sun. It blooms in the late sum-
mer and autumn months, always—when in vigour—producing
flower-stems with at least one lateral, a peculiarity that is not
represented in the figure, and which does not exist in the
dried specimens. The drawing is taken from a plant exhi-
bited at South Kensington in August last by Mr. Bull.

DECEMBER Ist, 1866.

As all the species of Cypripedium that have hitherto been
found in intra-tropical America have in common the remark-
able peculiarity of a three-celled ovary, Professor Reichen-
bach is anxious to raise them—under the name of Selenipi-
dium—into a separate genus; but however loth I may feel
to differ from my distinguished friend, I cannot as yet see
my way to accepting Selenipidium, except as a subgenus, in
which latter form it may very conveniently stand. The strong
family resemblance between such plants as C. levigatum from
the Old World, and C. caudatum from the New, make it ex-
ceedingly difficult to believe they can be essentially different
In structure. ae

There are still at the very least half-a-dozen noble Cypri-.
pedia to introduce from America south of the equator. ‘Two
of these (from the Quitensian Andes) are well figured in
Reichenbach’s ‘Xenia,’ under the name of Selenipidium
Hartwegii and 8. Boissierianum. As nothing so fine has yet
reached us from the eastern hemisphere, we cannot but hope
that some enterprising nurseryman will, ere long, add them
to the treasures already in our stoves.

Descr. A stemless terrestrial plant. There are from four
to six leathery ligulate sharp-pointed leaves, a span to a foot
long, from the centre of which issues the hirsute flower-stem,
which is longer than the leaves, often branched, and gene-
rally bearing about half-a-dozen flowers, of which not more
than two or three are usually in perfection at the same time.
Bracts triangular, flattened, more than half the length of the
ovary, which is itself covered with soft velvety hairs. Sepals
less than an inch long, ovate-obtuse, nearly uniform, but the
lower one is slightly larger, hooded, and contracted at top.
Petals vather larger than in the upper, or about equal to
the lower sepal, white (like the sepals), with streaks or
spots of crimson on the inner side, and a faint dash of crim-
son behind. Jip formed of a large swollen elliptic bag or
slipper with a contracted opening, white behind, but with a
large blotch of deep rich crimson in front. Sterile stamen
yellowish in front, ovate, panduriform, acuminate, having the
upper lip of the stigma triangular, and the lower lip of the
same bent backwards, and lobed.—J. B.

Fig. 1. Side-view of staminodium (sterile stamen). 2. Front view of

ditto :—magnified.

56785,

W.Fiteh, del. et ith.

Vincent Brooks, imp :

Tas. 5615.
HELIOTROPIUM convotvuaceum.

Convolvulus-flowered Heliotrope.

Nat. Ord. BoraGInEm.—PENTANDRIA MonoGyYnta.

Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus v. 5-dentatus, persistens. Oorolla hypo-
craterimorpha, fauce pervia interdum barbata, laciniis plica simplici (raris-
sime dente interjecto) donatis. Stamina 5, tubo corolle inserta. Ovarium
4-loculare ; stylus brevis, stigmate incrassato. Nucule 1-loculares, demum
separabiles, receptaculo communi 0. Semina exalbuminosa, embryone in-
verso, cotyledonibus planis.—Herbe v. suffrutices, glabre pilose v. hispida.
Folia sepius alterna, integra v. denticulata. Cyme unilaterales. Flores

albi v. purpurascentes.

HetrorropruM convolvulacewm ; annua, hispido-pilosa, caule ramoso ramis
patentibus adscendentibus, foliis alternis ovato-oblongis v. oblongo-
lanceolatis integerrimis acutis enerviis, floribus axillaribus subsolitariis
y. in cymas breves paucifloras dispositis, corolla tubo hispido, limbo
amplo explanato, stigmate capitato apice setoso, nuculis dimidiato-
reniformibus perforatis.

Hetrorropium convolvulaceum. A. Gray in Proce. Am. Acad. v. 5. p. 340,
et Mem. Amer. Acad. v. 6. p. 403.

Evrzoca convolvulacea. Nutt. in Am. Phil. Trans. N. Ser. v. 5. p. 189.
DC. Prodr. v. 9. p. 559. Hook. Ic. Pl. v, 7. t. 651. :

A curious and beautiful American annual, grown by Mr.
Thompson, of Ipswich, with whom the specimen here figured
flowered in September of the present year; it is a native of
the Southern United States, New Mexico, and Arkansas, in
which last State it was discovered by Nuttall, growing on
sandy plains. The flowers, which are most abundantly pro-
duced, are sweet-scented, and open towards sunset like those

of mirabilis.

Descr. A much-branched, suberect annual, a span to two
feet high, hoary all over with short rigid simple hairs. Stem
and branches terete. Leaves half to one and a half inches
long, very variable in shape, linear-oblong ovate ovate-orbi-

cular or lanceolate, acute, narrowed or rounded at the base,

DECEMBER Ist, 1866.

quite entire. Sowers axillary, solitary, very shortly pedi-
celled. Calyx quinquepartite ; lobes linear, hispidly pilose,
rather shorter than the tube. Corolla salver-shaped, plaited ;
tube contracted in the middle, pilose ; dimb one inch across,
white, nearly flat, five-angled, angles subacute; lobes hairy
along the back to the calyx; throat narrow. Anthers in-
cluded, sessile, linear, pubescent at the tips. Ovary oblong-
_ conic, four-celled, with a narrow adnate four-lobed concave
disk at its base ; style slender, stigma capitate, crowned with
stiff erect bristles. Capsule small, enclosed in the persistent
calyx-lobes.—J. D. H.

Fig.1. Calyx. 2. Tube of corolla laid open. 3. Anther. 4, Germen
and disk. 5. Transverse section of ovary :—all magnified.

W. Fitch, delet lith

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Tas. 5616.
LYCASTE GIGANTEA.

Gigantic Lycaste.

Nat. Ord. Orcutprx.—Gynanpria MonanpRiA.

Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4193.)

LycastE gigantea ; pseudobulbis maximis oblongo-ovatis glabris subcom-
pressis 2—3-phyllis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis plicatis scapo
vaginato unifloro longioribus, sepalis ovato- vel lineari-lanceolatis ob-
tusiusculis, lateralibus falcatis petalis lanceolatis brevioribus, labelli
oblongi lanceolati trilobi laciniis lateralibus elevatis acutis intermedia
serrata panduriformi concava apice integra recurva multo brevioribus,
callo unico emarginato selleformi per hypochilium decurreunte.

Lyoastk gigantea. Lindl. in Benth. Pl. Hartweg. p. 158. Orch. Linden,
p. 21. Bot. Reg. v. xxxix. (1843) p. 15; Id. v. xxx. Mise. 48.

Maxritarta Heynderyexii. Morr. Ann. 1845-9.

This stately Zycaste is very extensively diffused, having
been found in Central America by Hartweg,—near Santa
Martha by Purdie,—and in the forests of Merida, at an ele-
vation of 5-600 feet, by Linden. As might under such cir-
cumstances be expected there are many varieties differing in
the size and colour of the flowers, and also—though to a less
extent—in the size and form of the sepals and petals; the ~
latter are usually of a yellowish-olive, while the velvety lip
is of a dark rich maroon bordered with orange. The speci-
men figured was exhibited by Messrs. Veitch at South Ken-
Sington in July last.

All the Zycastes may be regarded as subterrestrial, and
should therefore be accommodated with large pots. They are
readily grown in a moderate temperature, but prefer the
shadier parts of the orchid-house. With the exception of
L. Skinneri—now such a universal favourite—L. gigantea 1s,
perhaps, the best of its race. Be ;

Descr. Pseudobulbs very large (sometimes six inches high),
oblong-ovate, smooth, and slightly compressed, bearing two or

DECEMBER Ist, 1866.

three large, deeply plicated oblong-lanceolate acuminate leaves,
which are from half a yard to two feet long. Scape upright,
one-flowered, partially sheathed (the upper sheath unguicu-
late and same length as the sepals), usually shorter than the
leaves. Sepals ovate, or sometimes linear-lanceolate, rather
blunted (those at the side being falcate) of a warm yellowish-
olive. Petals lanceolate, rather shorter than the sepals and
of the same olivaceous hue. ip oblong-lanceolate, 3-lobed,
the lateral lobes being elevated, acute, and much shorter
than the central one, which is panduriform, serrated at the
edges, depressed along the centre, but with its apex recurved ;
the lower portion of the lip is occupied by a transverse sad-
dle-shaped emarginate callus; the colour of the lip is usually
a rich maroon bordered with a narrow orange rim, the whole
having quite the appearance of velvet.—J. B.

Fig. 1. Lip, nat. size.

3677,

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W. Fitch, del-et lith Vincent Brooks, Imp

Tas. 5617.

COMBRETUM microrrratum.

Small-petaled Combretum.

Nat. Ord. CompretTacem.—OcrTanpRIA Mono@ynta.

Gen. Char. Flores polygamo-dioici. Oalycis tubus supra ovarium con-
strictus ; limbus campanulatus, 4-5-fidus, deciduus. Petala 4-5, raris-
sime 0, parva, inter lobos corolle inserta. Stamina 8 v. 10, 2-seriata, fila-
mentis elongatis ; anthere parve. Ovarium 1-loculare; stylus subulatus,
stigmate simplici; ovula 2-6, ab apice loculi pendula. Fructus 4-6-gonus
v. 4-6-pterus, l-spermus. Semen elongatum.—Frutices, rarius arbores
tropice, sepissime scandentes. Folia opposita, rarius 3-4-natim verticillata,
rarissime alterna, integerrima. Flores spicati v. racemost.

ComsBretuM micropetalum ; ramulis puberulis, foliis oppositis breviter pe-
tiolatis oblongis subacutis et apiculatis v. acuminatis, superne glabris
subtus impresso-punctulatis junioribus pubescentibus, racemis axillari-
bus breviter pedunculatis multi-densifloris, floribus congestis secundis,
pedicellis calycibusque dense lepidotis, petalis minutis.

Comprerum micropetalum. DC. Prodr. v. 3. p. 19. St. Hil. Fl. Bras.
Merid. v. 2. p. 249. ;

A truly magnificent climber, native of Brazil, from Rio
de Janeiro southward to the province of St. Paul, and north-
ward to those of Minas Geraes and Goyoz. ‘The specimen —
here figured is from a plant long cultivated by Dr. Moore in
a greenhouse at Glasnevin, which annually bears a profusion
of blossoms under his skilful management, and presents a
very striking appearance. It flowers in September here,
but in its native country in May and June. The genus Com-
bretum is a very considerable one, embracing fully a hun-
dred and twenty species, many of great beauty, and that
would be great acquisitions to our stoves. The prea a
comes very near to Don’s €. formosum, published in 182:
the fifteenth volume of the Linnean Transactions, but
is described as having a calyx pubescent with rusty dow

Descr. A large tree, according to the description in
laire’s <Flora;’ a tall rambling climber at Glasnevin Ge

DECEMBER Ist, 1866.

Branches terete, young clothed with lepidote scales. Leaves
opposite, membranous, three to five inches long, variable
in form, usually oblong, obtuse acute or acuminate, glabrous
_ above, beneath covered with minute pale pits, and clothed
with scales when young; petiole very short. Racemes spread-
ing or refracted, four to five inches long, on short stout pe-

duncles, axillary, simple, solitary ; rhachis, pedicels, and calyx.

densely covered with lepidote scales. Flowers densely
crowded, secund. Calyx green, one-third to half an inch long ;
tube slender, tetragonous; limb campanulate, four-lobed ;
lobes short, acute. Petals very minute, obovate, spathulate,

acute. Stamens eight, three-quarters of an inch long, yellow,
with orange anthers.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified.

INDEX,

In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the
Twenty-second Volume of the Tairp Serres (or Ninety-
second Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged.

Plate.

5588 Ancylogyne longiflora.

5589 Angreecum Chailluanum.

5567 Batemannia grandiflora.

5560 Bauhinia tomentosa; var. gla-
bra.

5554 Begonia baccata.

5583 Begonia geranioides.

- 6605 Bolbophyllum reticulatum.

5607 Brachystelma Barberie.

5578 Ceropegia sororia.

5557 Chameranthemum

var. variegata.

5601 Ccelogyne corrugata.

5617 Combretum micropetalum.

5602 Cotyledon fascicularis.

5581 Cupressus Lawsoniana.

5574 Cymbidium Hookerianum.

5612 Cypella cerulea.

5614 Cypripedium Schlimii.

5564 Dendrobium dixanthum.

5556 Epidendrum myrianthum.

5569 Ericinella Mannii.

5561 Eulophia euglossa.

5579 Eulophia virens.

5592 Fernandesia robusta.

5591 Fremontia Californica.

5565 Gladiolus Papilio.

5610 Glyphea Monteiroi.

5603 Glyptostrobus pendulus.

5563 Habranthus fulgens.

5613 Heliconia humilis.

5615 Heliotropium convolvulaceum.

5604 Helipterum Cotula.

_ 5598 Huntleya cerina.

Beyrichii ;

Plate.

5597 Ilex latifolia.

5577 Iris reticulata.

5600 Keempferia Roscceana.
5590 Kleinia fulgens.

5553 Lelia grandis.

5587 Lobelia nicotianeefolia.
5558 Luisia Psyche.

5616 Lycaste gigantea.

5585 Meconopsis Nipalensis, DC.
5576 Microcachrys tetragona.
5572 Miltonia anceps.

5573 Musseenda luteola.

5606 Musschia Wollastoni.
5584 Myrsiphyllum asparagoides.
5608 Nierembergia rivularis,
5599 Nierembergia Veitchii.
5609 Notylia bicolor.

5568 Peperomia marmorata.
5566 Peristrophe lanceolaria.
5570 Polychilos cornu-cervi.
5586 Polystachya pubescens.
5596 Rhododendron Fortunei.
5552 Rhododendron Hodgsoni.
5595 Saccolabium ampullaceum.
5594 Sanchezia nobilis.

5580 Scilla Cooperi.

5593 Sempervivum Paive.
5555 Sparaxis pulcherrima.
5571 Tacsonia Van-Volxemii.
5559 Thibaudia cordifolia.
5575 Thibaudia coronaria.
5562 Tillandsia xiphioides.
5611 Vanda Bensoni.

5582 Warscewizella velata.

INDEX,

In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the
‘T'wenty-second Volume of the Turrp Srries (or Ninety-
second Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged.

OL enw

Plate.

5562 Air-plant, Buenos Ayres.

5588 Ancylogyne, long-flowered.

5589 Angrecum, M. Du Chaillu’s.

5567 Batemannia, large-flowered.

5560 Bauhinia, downy; glabrous var.

5554 Begonia, berried-fruited.

5583 Begonia, Geranium-leaved.

5605 Bolbophyllum, — reticulated-
leaved.

5607 Brachystelma, Mrs. Barber’s.

5578 Ceropegia, Kaffrarian, —

5557 Chameranthemum, Beyrich’s;
variegated-leaved variety.

5601 Celogyne, with wrinkled pseu-
dobulbs.

5617 Combretum, small-petaled.

5602 Cotyledon, glaucous-blue.

5574 Cymbidium, Dr. Hooker’s.

5612 Cypella, blue-flowered.

5581 Cypress, the Lawson.

5603 Cypress, pendulous deciduous.

5576 Cypress, Strawberry-fruited.

5564 Dendrobium, double-tinted yel-
low.

5556 Epidendrum, many-flowered.

5579 Eulophia, greenish.

5561 Eulophia, pretty-lipped.

5604 Everlasting, Cotula-flowered.

5592 Fernandesia, stout.

5591 Fremontia, Californian.

5565 Gladiolus, butterfly-flowered.

5610 Glyphea, M. Monteiro’s.

5563 Habranthus, brilliant-flowered.

-5569 Heath, Cameroons Mountain.

5613 Heliconia, dwarf.
5615 Heliotrope, Convolvulus-flow-
oe ered.

Plate.

5597 Holly, broad-leaved Japanese.

5593 House-leek, Baron Paiva’s.

5598 Huntleya, waxy.

5577 Iris, netted.

5600 Kempferia, Mr. Roscoe’s.

5590 Kleinia, brilliant-flowered.

5614 Lady’s-slipper, Schlim’s.

5553 Leelia, large-flowered.

5587 Lobelia, Tobacco-leaved.

5558 Luisia, butterfly-flowered.

5616 Lycaste, gigantic.

5585 Meconopsis, Nepalese.

5572 Miltonia, two-edged-stemmed.

5606 Musschia, Mr. Wollaston’s.

5573 Mussenda, Captain Grant’s.

5584 Myrsiphyllum, Asparagus-
leaved.

5599 Nierembergia, Mr. Veitch’s.

5608 Nierembergia, water.

5609 Notylia, two-coloured.

5571 Passion-flower, Van Volxem’s.

5568 Peperomia, marble-leaved.

5566 Peristrophe, lance-leaved.

5570 Polychilos, stag’s-horn.

5586 Polystachya, hairy-stemmed.

5596 Rhododendron, Mr. Fortune’s.

5552 Rhododendron, Mr. Hodgson’s.

5595 Saccolabium, bottle-lipped.

5594 Sanchezia, brilliant-flowered.

5555 Sparaxis, most beautiful.

5580 Squill, Cooper’s.

5559 Thibaudia, cordate-leaved.

5575 Thibaudia, small-leaved.

5611 Vanda, Colonel Benson’s.

5582 Warscewizella, veiled.

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