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CURTIS'S
BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,
COMl'Iil.SlNG THE
pants oi tfte ftopal Gartens! of Jttto
AND
OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IX GREAT BRITAIN;
WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS ;
BY
JOSEPH DALTON J[OOKER,M.D., F.R.S. L.S.&G.S.,
D.C.L. OXON., 1J,.D. CANTXB., CORRESPONDENT OF THE INSTITUTE OF FKANCi;.
VOL. XXIII.
OF THE THlIiD SERIES;
(Or Vol.XCIU. of the Whole Work.) I ,
"The earth's embroidery then have ye eyed,
And smile of blossoms, purple, red, and white ;
Their vernal-tinctured leaves, luxurious, dyed
In Flora's livery, painted by the lieht."
W. Thomson.
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5618.
n.delet htli
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Tab. 5618.
CATTLEYA Dowiana.
Captain Bow's Cattleya.
Nat. Ord. Obcjiideje. — Gynandbia Monandbta.
Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 4700).
Cattleya Dowiana; pseudobulbis validis clavatis sulcatis monophyllis,
foliis lato-oblongis obtusis, spatba obtusa pedunculo 2-6-floro sub-
aequali, floribus speciosissimis, sepalis lanceolatis acutis seasilibus
planis, petalis plus quam duplo latioribus raargine contortis obtusius-
culis labello subaequalibus, labello maximo obscure trilobo oblongo
emarginato crispo disco laevi araplissimo velutino atro-purpureo venis
aureis pulcberrime ornato, columna subarcuata labello fere obtecta
et labello 3-plo breviore.
Cattleya Dowiana. Bateman in Gard. Chron., Oct. 1866.
This superb Cattleya was originally discovered by Warsze-
wicz in Costa Rica, and by him plants were forwarded to
this country ; but arriving in bad condition they eventually
died. The dried specimens moreover that accompanied the
living plants seem to have been mislaid or destroyed, so that
during the last ten years doubts had come to be entertained
as to the existence of a really distinct species of such unex-
ampled beauty as that which the letters of the veteran tra-
veller described. And in the mean time his name was given
to another supposed species respecting which the greatest
confusion now prevails, and which, whether or not it be a
^mere variety of C. Mossia? (labiata), is at all events perfectly
different from the glorious thing to which even the double
plate on the opposite page fails to do adequate justice.
Fortunately for the lovers of fine Orchids the plant, such
as Warszewicz originally described it, was rediscovered in
1864 by M. Arce, a zealous naturalist who was and is still
busily engaged in collecting birds, insects, and plants, for
•Mr. Salvin and Mr. Skinner, throughout some of the richest
portions of Costa Rica. The plants which Arce sent home
JANUABY 1ST. 1867.
were purchased by Messrs. Veitch and Son, in whose esta-
blishment at Chelsea one of them flowered for the first time
in the autumn of 1865. To their liberality I am myself in-
debted for a specimen that subsequently flowered at Kny-
persley and which was (in the autumn of 1866) exhibited
at one of the Tuesday meetings of the Royal Horticultural
Society at South Kensington. From this Mr. Fitch's draw-
ing was made. Beautiful as the latter is, it probably gives
but a poor idea of what the plant will ultimately become,
for the native specimens in Messrs. Veitch's possession have
some of them borne as many as five or six flowers on a scape.
Utterly unlike as are the nankeen and purple colours of
our plant to those of every other Cattleya, still as colour
alone is scarcely considered a sufficient botanical distinction,
and as in the mere form of its flowers C. Dowiana comes
very near to some of the many varieties of C. Mossice, there
was for a while some doubt on my mind as to whether it might
not eventually have itself to be ranked among the number,
especially as C. pallida, which has been shown (see Tab. 5504)
to be undistinguishable from other forms of C. labiata, has
been found by Hartweg as far north as Oaxaca. I have
lately however seen a letter from Messrs. Low's Costa Rica
collector, who, after announcing his discovery of what he
then supposed to be a new Cattleya, goes on to describe the
colours, which are precisely those of C. Dowiana, thus
proving at all events that the latter is not given to sport or
change, and I am therefore now fully disposed to believe
that it is essentially distinct from all other members of the
genus. Be this as it may, it is a worthy plant to bear the
name of a gallant officer in the American Packet service,
the well-known Captain J. M. Dow, to whom I have great
pleasure in dedicating it, as some slight acknowledgment
of the many kindnesses shown and the frequent assistance
rendered to English naturalists and men of science who have
been so fortunate as to come in his way in their passage
along the coasts of the Pacific.
C. Dowiana is very easily grown, but the warmest end of
the Cattleya house seems to suit it best.
Descr Psevdobulhs eight inches to a foot high, slender at*
the base but very much swollen in their upper portion,
furrowed. Leaves one on each pseudobulb, oblong, thick,
and rather broad for the genus, from a span to a foot long.
Peduncle two- to six-fl©wered, exceedingly stout, about six
inches long, proceeding from a ftpqthe Somewhat shorter than
itself. Flowers very large and beautiful, nankeen-coloured,
with the exception of the lip, their total expansion nearly
seven inches. Sepals lanceolate, acute, sessile, smooth at
the edges. Petals more than twice as broad as the sepals,
about the same length as the lip, somewhat obtuse, very
much waved at the margin. Lip oblong, crisp, very large
and prominent, of a substance resembling dark purple velvet
beautifully and uniformly streaked with golden threads
radiating from its centre, where they meet three other
golden lines passing longitudinally. It is obscurely three-
lobed, the lateral lobes being gathered round so as almost
to conceal the column; the central lobe emarginate, very
large, with its edges exceedingly curled. Column not more
than one third the length of the lip. — J. H.
5679.
V. Etch, del etlith.
joks , Imp
Tab. 5619.
BOWIEA VOLUBILIS.
Twining Bowiea.
Nat. Orel. Liliacejs. — Hexandhia Monouyma.
Gen. Char. Flores abortu monoici. Perianth i urn 6-partituin, herbaceum,
laciniis patenti-reflexis lineari-subulatis apicibus incurvis glandulosis. Sta-
mina hypogyna, in fl. $ imperfecta, minuta, in fl. <$ filamentis lineari-
subulatis; antherce oblonga?, 2-loculares. Ovarium couico-heinisphaericum,
lata basi sessile, 3-loculare ; stylus breviuscul us, rectus, stigmate capitato
3-lobo; ovula in loculis ad 6. Capsula oblongo-eoniea, obtusa, 3-gona,
inembranacea, loculicide 3-valvis, polyspermia. Semina irregulariter ob-
longa, compressa; testa laxa inembranacea, atra, splendila. — Herbs aphjlla.
Tuber globosum, carnosum, apice nudum v. squamis paucis parvis trianyu*
lari-subulatis circa basin pedunculi imbricatis coronatum. Pedunculus
floriferus volubilis, viridis, carnosulus, ramosissimus, ramis inferioribus
ramulosis, ramulis dichotomis divaricatis teretibus corniculatis non florid
feris, superioribus in pedicellis elongatis curvis de.iinentibus. Flores inter
minores, virides.
Bowiea volubilis. Han. mss.
Though possessing little beauty, this is certainly one of
the most curious plants ever introduced into Europe, and
is further perfectly new to science ; for though in botanical
characters allied to Ih'imia and SciUu. in habit and general
appearance it is like no other plant whatever. It consists of
little more than a globose, fleshy, almost tuberous, green
bulb, from the apex of which ascends yearly a very slender,
twining, green flower-stem, six to eight feet high, that throws
off an abundance of compound, curving, flowerless branches
below, and above bears numerous small, green flowers. For se-
veral years a specimen of this plant, sent to the Royal Gardens
by Henry Hutton, Esq., of Grahamstown, was an object of
great curiosity at Kew ; the twining, branched flower-stem
ascended, like a Cape Asparagus, the rafters of the succulent-
house for four or five feet, and as this bore no flowers, was
presumed to be a branched, leafless stem proper. This died
J ANITA TJX 1ST, 1807.
down the same year, and no one guessed the family of plants
to which it belonged. In the following year a similar twi-
ning stem produced a few minute flower-buds, which were
sent to my friend the late Dr. Harvey, who identified them
with a plant of which he had dried specimens, collected on
the eastern frontier of the Cape district by Mrs. Barber, and
to which he had attached the manuscript name of Boiviea,
in honour of the late Mr. Bowie, formerly collector for the
Royal Gardens, Kew, and latterly superintendent of the late
Baron Ludwig's Garden at Cape Town, the old genus Boiviea
having been reduced to Aloe. Other living specimens have
since been received from Mrs. Barber and from Mr. Wilson
Saunders, F.R.S., collected by Cooper, and it is from one of
the latter that the accompanying drawing has been made.
Descb. Wholly green, rather fleshy. Bulb as large as an
orange, green, the coats few, very thick, fleshy, with yellow
margins. Leaves 0, except a few scales at the apex of the
bulb. Flowering-stem or scape solitary, very slender, two to
four feet long, twining, excessively branched, the branches
intertwisted, repeatedly dichotomously divided, the branch-
lets curved, divaricating, terete, without flowers, Ilowerinq
peduncles at the upper part of the scape, on its axis or
branches, one to two inches long, slender, divaricating.
Flowers half to two-thirds of an inch in diameter. Perianth
six-cleft to the base ; segments linear or lanceolate-subulate,
with incurved tips. Stamens inserted at the base of the
ovary ; filaments slender, subulate ; anthers oblong. Ovary
three- celled, with several ovules in each cell ; style short ;
stigma capitate, three-lobed. Capsule membranous, oblong^
three-valved. Seeds several, flattened, with a loose, black,
brilliant testa. — ./. I). II
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Ovary. 4.. Transverse section of ditto :—
all magnified.
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Vincent Brooks, Imp
Tab. 5620.
CURCUMA Austkalasica.
Australian Wild Turmeric. «
Xat. Ol'd. ZlNGIBERACSiE. — MoNASDRIA MONOOTXIV.
Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, 3-dentatus. Corolla; tubus sursum dilafa-
tua, limbi laciqise exteriorea iuterioribus lateralibui eont'orines ; labelhnn
majtts, patens. Fdamenfum petaloideo-dilatatum, earinatum, apice '2-
Iobum, lobo intermedio anthera 2-calcarata terminate Ovarium info-
rum, 3-loculare ; stylus filiformia, stigmata capitato; ovula in loculornm
angulo centrali plurima, horizoutalia, anatropa. Oapsula 3-locularis, locu-
bcide 3-valvis. Semiua plurima, arillata. — Herbs WJ India oriental] tro-
pica indigent, acaales, raJicibus palmato-tubcrosis. Folia petiolata, hrr-
bacea, pedohs ragiuantihus. Scapus simpler, lateralis v. centralis. Npiea
erecta, carnosa, inferne bracteis saccatis subimbricata. Flores jlavesceates,
intra quamvis bracteara 3-5-7?/, approximati, bractcolati.
Curco.ia Australasica ; foliia petiolatis oblongo v. ovato-lanceolatis acu-
minata glaberrimis, scapo terminal], spica multiflora, bracteis inferi-
onbus obtusis recurvia flore brevioribua viridibua, anpremia oblongs
oblongo-lanceolatiaye acutis acuminatiave roseis, ealycia tubo corollas
dimidio breviore, lobis brevibus rotundatis, corolla laciniia oblongis
obtusis, labello orbiculato recurvo retuso v. emarginato marginibus
undulatis, anthera oblonga calcaribus couniventibus, filamento lato
cueullato.
Qf the extensive and beautiful Indian genus Curcuma, no
species had been known to inhabit Australia previous to the
visit of Mr. John Vcitch to that continent, who was the dis-
coverer and means of introducing the present species from
its north-eastern corner (Cape York) into England. The
plant here figured flowered in Messrs. Yeitch's establishment
in August of the last year, and the same specimen, presented
by them to the Royal Gardens, continued in flower through-
out the following month and beginning of October, forming
a very striking ornament in one of the tropical stoves, where
it lifted its beautiful crown of transparent, rose-coloured
bracts above the surrounding green foliage. As a species,
it approaches extremely near to two Indian ones, described
by Dr. Roxburgh, viz. the common C. longa (Turmeric), and
C. montana, differing from both in the cucullate bracts, with
JANUARY 1ST, 1867.
recurved tips, and in the broader base of the leaf. The root
is white, and has but a slight aroma.
Descr. Root of bundles of cylindric, white tubers, con-
stricted here and there. Leaves a foot to a foot and a half
long, narrow-lanceolate or lanceolate, with a rounded base,
acuminate. Sdape terminal, at first short, then lengthening
considerably. Spike five to seven inches long, cylindric,
many-flowered. Bracts, lower cucullate, close set, and con-
nate by their bases, obtuse, recurved, green ; upper spread-
ing, oblong, acute, rose-red, one inch long. Flowers pale-
yellow. Ovary globose. Calyx-tube half as long as the co-
rolla-tube ; lobes three, obtuse. Corolla-lobes oblong, obtuse.
Up orbicular. Anther oblong, with conniving spurs. Sta-
minodes terete — /. D. II.
Fig. 1. Front, and 2. Side view of flower. 3. Stamen and stigma. 4.
Side view of do. 5. Side view of ovary and staminodia. 6. Front view of
staminodes : — nil magnified.
5621.
■VOitch.del.etlith.
Vincent Brooks Jmp
Tab. 5621.
HELIANTHEMUM ocymoides.
Basil-like Rock-rose.
Nat. Ord. Cistink^:. — Polyandria Monogtma.
Gen. Char. Petala, in floribus perfectis, 5. Stamina numerosa. Ovarii
placentae v. semisepta 3 ; ovula in quavia placenta oo ; stylus cum ovario
articulatus, filiformis v. subclavatus, nunc abbreviatus ; stigma capitatum
v. eristato-3-lobum. Embryo uncinatus, 2-plicatus v. circumflexus. — Herbrc
suffrutieesce, basi seepius decumbenti-ramosa. Flores scepius in racemos
terminates, simplices v. 2-Jldos dispositi v. inferiores axillares. Petala lata.
Helianthemum ocymoides; caule suffruticoso erecto ramoso gracili, ramis
incanis hie illic pilosis, foliis oppositis lineari- v. spathulato-oblongis
aeutis obtusisve apice recurvis utrinque incanis, pedunculis elongatis
superne subcorymbosim ramosis gracilibus laxe patentim pilosis, sepalis
3 ovatis longe acuminatis pubescentibus v. tomentosis, petalis late
obcordatis basi purpureis, stylo brevi, stigmate magno capitate
Heliaxthbmum ocymoides. Persoon, Rack. v. 11. 76. DC. Prodr. v. 1.
p. 267. Sweet Cistin. t. 13.
Cistus ocymoides. Lam. Diet. v. 11. p. 18.
Cistus sampsucifolius. Cavan. p. 65.2?. 96, non Milleri.
A most beautiful hardy Rock- or Sun-rose, native of Spain
and Portugal, where, like its congeners, it inhabits dry.
rocky hills. It was for some years cultivated in the Royal
Gardens, Kew, and flowered in July in an open border,
though apt to be cut by the frost. The beautiful genus to
which this belongs was once a favourite in cultivation, but
has of late given way before the rage for t; bedding-out
plants," which now monopolize the once varied borders of
English gardens. No less than seventy species of Helianthe-
mum, besides varieties, are figured in Sweet's valuable work
on the cultivated plants of the Order, published in 1830. and
of these a great number are now no longer to be found in
England. It is to be hoped that the time will yet come
when the taste for really beautiful and interesting plants will
JANUARY 1st, 1867.
reign again, and replace the present passion for a blaze of
gaudy colours along our garden walks.
Descr. A shrub two to three feet high, slender, twiggy,
with erect, rather flexuous branches, everywhere covered on
the leaves and branches with a hoary pubescence. Leaves
opposite, half to one and a half inch long, those on the
main stems and branches linear-oblong acute, those on the
branchlets more spathulate, with recurved tips, all equally
hoary on both surfaces. Peduncles very slender, six to nine
inches long, many-flowered. Pedicels corymbose, branched
towards the tip of the peduncle, opposite below, half to one
inch long, erect, as well as the peduncles covered with loose
soft, very spreading hairs. Flowers an inch and a quarter to
an inch and a half broad, bright yellow with a purple eye.
Sepals ovate, long acuminate, subtended by two linear nar-
row bracts, tomentose on the back. Petals broadly and
shallowly obcordate, with an apiculus between the lobes.
Stamens unequal, very numerous ; filaments short ; anthers
purple, with yellow pollen. Ovary globose, villous ; style
very short ; stigma large, capitate, three-lobed. — J. 1). H.
Fig. 1. Calyx and ovary.
5622.
VTRteh,del.etkh.
Vincent Brooksjtnp
Tab. 5622.
gejas cauliflora.
Anchovy Pear.
Nat. Ord. MYETACEiE. — Monadelphia Polyandbia.
Gen. Char. Cahjcis tubus turbinatus, supra ovarium baud productus,
limbus cupulatus, demum in lobos 2-1 irregulariter ruptus. Pctahi I.
rarius 5, pateutia. Stamina oo, disco crasso subcupulato oc-seriatim in-
serta, interiora minora, filamentis crassis in globum conniventibus invo-
lutis; antherae parvae, loculis distinctis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus.
Ovarium inferum, 4-loculare ; stylus v. breviter conicus, stigmatibus 4
cruciatim radiantibus • ovula in loculis 2-4, pendnla. Fructus carnosus,
ovoideus, calycis limbo coronatus. Semen saepius 1, pendulum, testa crassa.
— Arbores excelsce Americana?. Folia alterna, ad apices ramulorum con-
ferta, sape longissima, penninervia, interferrima v. obscure sinuato-dentata,
epunctata. Flores in trunco ramisaue breviter pedicellati et subsessiles,
r asciculati.
Geias caulijlora ,• foliis lanceolatis acuminatis recurvis glaberrimis, pedun-
culis brevibus crassismultinoris,noribus pallide flavis, petalis oblongis
obtusis.
Geias cauliflora. Linn. Sp. PL 732. DC. Prodr. v. 3. p. 296. Griseb. Fl.
Brit. W. Ind. p. 243.
Anchovy Pear. Shane Hist. Jam. v. 2, p. 122. t. 217. / 1, 2. Browr.e, Jam.
p. 245. Lunan, Sort. Jam. v. 1. p. 19.
This is a plant of considerable interest, in a horticultural
and perhaps also in an economic point of new. In the first
place, it is one of the most striking and easily managed of all
those stately, palm-like tropical dicotyledonous trees that are
so greatly admired, and are essential for the decoration of
every stove ; and in the next place, as the " Anchovy Pear,'"
it has long been, according to some authorities, in esteem as
a West Indian fruit. The latter is a large, brown, fleshy
drupe, like that of the Mammee-apple, which was, according
to Sloane, pickled and eaten by the Spaniards in lieu of
mangoes, and was sent as a great rarity to Spain. Browne,
in his ' Natural History of Jamaica,' says nothing of the value
of the fruit, but M'Fadyen, who represents the English taste
ja^uaet 1st, 1867.
in such matters, says in his second volume (unpublished), " 1
cannot learn that the fruit is ever collected for use, or
brought to the market."
The Grias cauliflora is found throughout the Spanish
Main, growing in clumps or thickets, and its flowers are
deliriously sweet-scented. It has flowered several times at
Kew, and lately in September of last year.
Desce. A tree twenty to fifty feet high, trunk undivided
or with a few simple branches. Leaves crowded at the ends
of the branches, spreading and drooping, three to four feet
long, ten inches broad, obovate-lanceolate, acuminate, cuneate
at the base and continuous with the short petiole, quite
entire or obscurely waved and crenulate, dark green, quite
glabrous, shining. Flowers on short stout branching pedun-
cles, produced on the trunk far below the leaves, two inches
broad, pale yellow, very fragrant. Calyx limb irregularly
four-cleft, Petals four, fleshy, oblong, obtuse, nerveless.
Stamens crowded, incurved. Jpex of ovary square and red.
Fruit ovate, eight-grooved, containing an oblong, one-seeded
nut— J. D. II.
Fig. 1. Whole plant, reduced. 2. Branch and flower, nat. size. 3.
Ovary and calyx. 4. Transverse section of ditto. 5. Vertical section of
stamen. 6. Stamen : — all magnified.
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5623.
W Etch, del et lith .
Vincent Brooks, Imp
Tab. 5623.
TAFEINOTES CabolOta
Empress Charlottes Tapeinotes.
Nat. Ord. GeSNERTACE-E.— DlDYNAMIA AnGIOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx libera inequalta, 5-partitus. Corolla itifundibulirormi-
subnngens, ban postice gibba, tubo antice interdum grosse ventricoso,
fence contracto, limhi erecti, labio superiore 2- inferiore 3-lobo. Stamina
4, didynaina, et quinti rudimentum ; antherce cohacrentes. DwciM in glan-
dulam poaticam tumens. Capsula ovata, coriacea, 1-locularis, 2-Taifia
placentis 2 ! parietalibua 2-lamellatis. Smimmqo, oblonga.— Herba? Braai-
heiises, subcarnosat, cattle ba*i tnberoso. Folia opposita v. subopposita pe-
tiolata, subdentata. Pedicelli l-1-axillares, 1-2-jtori.
Tapeinotes Carolina; suffruticosa, foliis confertia oblon s is oblongo-
laneeolatisve acuminatis basi acutis crenato-serratis supra nitidis Tu-
ride yirescentibus subtus hirtis rubro-purpureis, pedicellis angulatia
1-noris infra calycem 5-alatis, sepalis t'oliaceis deltoideo-cordatis acutia
margjuibaa recurvis undulatis, corolla alba calyce duplo longiore, tubo
inflato hiraoto, lobis parvis suborbiculatis glabris, ovario birsuto.
Tapeinotes Carolina?. Wawra, CEstr. Bot. Zeitschrift, 1862, p. 273, cum
to. ; Bot. Ergebn. Reise Maximil. p. 72. t. 9.
A beautiful stove plant, introduced into this country by
Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, from whose plant the accompanying
drawing was made, in November, 1866. It was discovered
during the Brazilian travels of his present Majesty the Em-
peror of Mexico (Maximilian I.) in 1859-60, and was intro-
duced into the Imperial Garden of Schonbrunn (Vienna) and
published by Dr. Henrich Wawra, who accompanied the ex-
pedition as surgeon and naturalist. It bears the name of the
Empress of Mexico (Charlotte).
The other species of Tapeinotes, of which there are several,
are all natives of Brazil and well worthy of cultivation, as
indeed are most of the plants of the beautiful Order to
which it belongs.
Descr. A small undershrub. Stem and branches terete,
red-brown, rather succulent. Leaves crowded towards the
FEBRUARY 1ST, 1867.
ends of the branches, opposite, four to six inches long, shortly
petioled, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, obtusely serrate, dark
bluish-green and shining- above, with sunk veins and scat-
tered short hairs, bright red-purple and hairy below. Pe-
duncles axillary, solitary, one-third as long as the leaves, an-
gular, one-flowered^ with two subulate bracts at the base.
Calyx of five, large, leafy, triangular, cordate, acute, green
sepals, with undulate, recurved margins. Corolla an inch
and a half long, white ; tube curved upwards, inflated and
gibbous below, villous with long hairs ; mouth contracted ;
lobes short, broad, rounded, glabrous. Stamens included ; an-
thers cohering. Ovary villous. — J. I). H.
Fig. 1. Base of calyx and ovary : — magnified.
,' '■-• t
sm.
Lot Mi
Vincent Broods
Tab. 5624
AXniU'OTTM CTTRATUM.
Citron-yellow Angrcecum.
N;it. Ord, <)l!(HII)I..V,. — (iVSAM)UlA MONANDIIU
Gen. Char. (Vide tupra, Tab. 5589.)
Akoilbcuh citratum; aubaaculia, foliis conferm oblongo-lanceolatia icu*
minatia convexiuacalia, Bcapo gracili pendulo, bracteia appressia ob*
tuaia nigria, floribua inter minorea racemoaia breviter pedicellatia
pallida atramtneo-albia, pedicellia teretioaculia, Bepalia lateralibua obo-
rato-apathulatia obtusia, doraali multo tuiuore arcuato porrecto, petalia
aepalia majoribaa breviter unguiculatia obovato-rotundatia, labello
anguiculato, lamina orbiculari emarginato-2-lobo, calcare labello daplo
longiore flexuoao.
A n<;r y.cvv. citr.ituni. Pet. T I Hit. Purtic. Plant. Orchid, rrcueillies
xur It's trots ile$ </' AJrique, t. 61.
A very curious and pretty little species, of which I find
no record subsequent to the publication of Uu Petit Thouars'
work, cited above, and which was published in ! 822, for,
strange to say. it is omitted in Lindley's celebrated ' Genera
and Species of Orchidaceous Plants.' 'Hie structure of the
flower seems peculiar, owing to the small size of the dorsal
sepal, as shown both in Thouars' and Mi-. Fitch's drawings.
1 regret not having seen the living specimen, to confirm this
character. The name is given in reference to the pale yellow
(citron-coloured) flowers, which are scentless. The plant is
a native of Madagascar, and was flowered by Messrs. Veitch,
of the Royal Exotic Nurseries. Chelsea, in March, 1865.
Descr. Stem very short, half an inch long, sending out
abundance of slender flattened aerial roots. Leaves few,
close-set, three to four inches long, oblong-lanceolate, acumi-
nate, contracted at the base, smooth, convex, and bright
green above, paler below; midrib deeply sunk. Scapr-
radical, with the flowering portion twice as long as the leaves,
pendulous, very slender, with numerous short, sheathing,
Fl.BRrART 1st. 1867.
appressed, obtuse, black bracts. Raceme three to five inches
long, slender, many-flowered. Flowers rather close-set, shortly
pedicelled, three-quarters of an inch diameter, flat, pale straw-
colour. Lateral sepals obovate-spathulate, obtuse, rather re-
flexed ; dorsal very much smaller, arched over the column.
Petals a little larger and much broader than the lateral sepals,
orbicular, obovate, with short claws. Lip with an orbicular,
emarginate, or two-lobed flat blade, and short broad claw.
Spur about twice as long as the lip, flexuous, rather slender.
—J. J). H.
Fig. 1. Portion of raceme and flower. 2. Column, lip and spur.
Pollen-masses, spur and gland : — all magnified.
5626.
WFitcKdeletlith
Ymcent Brooks ,hif
Tab. 5625.
IMPATEENS LAiiroLiA.
Broad-leaved Cingalese Balsam.
Is at. Ord. Balsaminej:. — Pentandima I\Io> t ogtnia.
Gem. Char. Floret irregulares, Sepala 3, rarinime 5, imbricata, 2 late-
re lia p.irva, uepius riridia; posticum maximum, in calcar productum. Pe-
tala 3, anticum eiteriua concavuro, lateralia 2-lida (e 2 coal it ii composite) ;
lobo supenore exteriore. Stamina 5, filamentia brevibus complanat is \
antherce circa stylum conniventes r. coha?rentes, loculis introrsum debia-
centibtis. Ovarium oblongum, 5-loculare; stigma aeasile, 5-dentetmn, v.
stigmata 5, parra; ovula in loculia oo, Buperpoaita, 1-aeriata. Captula
2-6-loculana, loculicide dehiscens ; vaivis 5, elastic© desilientibus. Srmina
exalbumniosa.— Ilerbae nunc frutescentes, m»mm glabra. Folia opposita
alterna v. verticillata, exstipulata. PcduucuU axil/ares, rarius radicates,
1-oc-Jiori. Flores sape speciosi.
IMPATttStlatifoUa; erecta, glaberrima, tbliia alternia rarius oppositis
verticil iatisve ovato-laneeolatis attenuato-acuminatia basi acutis argute
aerratia dentibus inferioribus setiferis, petiolo longC setoso, setia glan-
dularis, pedicellis axillaribus aolitariia 1-floris ebracteolatis, floribua
majuscuha pdlide purpureis, sepalis lateralibua oblique oblongo-lan-
leolatis vindibus, labelli limbo concavo viridi, calcare gracili curvo,
vexdlo obcordato-2-lobo dorso cornuto, alia 2-partitia horizontaliter
patentibus.
Impatiexs latifolia. Linn. Sp. PI. 123S. ITook.f. and Thorns, in Journ.
Linn. Soc. i\\ p. 124.
Impatiexs cuapidata. Wiqht and Am. in HooJc. Comp. Bot. Mag. v 1 p
321. Wight, Ic. t. 741. T/ucaifes, Enum. PL Ceylon, p. 65.
Impatien-s bipartita. Am. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. I.e. p. 322.
Impatiens floribunda. Wight in Madr. Journ. Sc. v. 5. p. 7.
Of the vast horde of Indian perennial Balsams, only two
or three are actually in cultivation, whilst nearly a hundred,
most of them highly ornamental, are yet to be introduced,
and especially from the subtropical jungles of Ceylon, the
western Ghauts, and the Himalaya. Amongst those of the
first-named locality the present is a conspicuous instance,
which we owe to our indefatigable correspondent G. H. K.
Thwaites, F.R.S., who sent seeds from the Royal Gardens,
FEBEUABY 1ST, 18G7.
Peradenia, in the winter of 1865, plants from which flowered,
in moderate heat, at Kew, in September, 1866. It belongs
to a most puzzling group of this genus, in which the leaves
are sometimes opposite or whorled, but more often alternate,
and is most closely allied to, if not identical with, the L
flaccida of this work, Tab. 5276, differing chiefly in the
broader leaves. Thwaites, indeed, refers I. flaccida to the
Iinneean I. latifolia, but describes it as a decumbent plant,
which does not accord with the habit of the original specimen
in the Linnamn herbarium. Unfortunately the locality of
the Linna?an specimen is unknown ; it is marked as from
the Cape of Good Hope, obviously erroneously, and has the
spur bifid at the apex (an abnormal feature). Lastly, L flac-
cida, according to Thwaites, is a lowland plant, ascending to
an elevation of 3000 feet ; whereas the present is a mountain
species, occurring between 4000 and 7000 feet. It is also a
native of the ghauts of Western India.
Descr. A shrub, two to four feet high, much branched,
quite glabrous. Stems terete, rather swollen at the joints.
Leaves usually alternate, sometimes, especially in peninsular
Indian specimens, opposite or whorled, petioled, very variable
in size and shape, two to four inches. long, ovate or ovate-
lanceolate, acuminate, sharply serrate, lower serratures seti-
gerous, as is the petiole. Flowers in solitary, one-flowered,
axillary peduncles, one to two inches long, flat, an inch to
an inch and three-quarters in diameter, pale purple. Lateral
sepals small, green, oblong-lanceolate. Lip concave, green,
with a long, slender spur. Upper petal deeply two-lobed,
with a green horned keel at the back. Wings spreading,
upper lobe largest, emarginate, all obtuse. — J. L). H.
Fig. 1. Upper limb of ovary : — magnified.
5626.
W. Rich, del. et Mi.
Vincent Brooks, M"
Tab. 5G26.
CL AVI J A ¥V LG E N S.
Brill ian t-Jlo wend Cla rija.
Nat. Ord. Myrsixk.e. — Pkktanbeia Monocynia.
(let). Char. Cah/.v profunda 5-fidus, laciniis obtusis imbricatis. Corolla
tubus brevis; /o'w" 5, fauce in appendicea 5 camosaa cum lobis alternantea
tuniente. Stamina 5, filamentis brevissimis liberis v. connatin ; anther*
extrorsum debiacentea, aepe in capitulum conniventea. Ovarium 1-localare;
stflut breviaaimua, stigraate breri 2-lobo ; ovula paaea placenta; parvte baai-
lari inserta. Bacca globosa, oligoaperma. Semina placenta) globom affixa,
umbilico ventrali, testa mucilaginoaa, albumins corneo; embryo excentri-
cus, cotyledonibua ovatia plains, radiculainfera. — Fruticea America) tropica) i
caule rimplici, apice folioso. Folia altema, coriacea. Racemi axiliares.
Flores inter minore*, abortu unisexuales, albi jlavi v. aurantiad.
Clavija fulgent; foliia breriter peliolatis, elongato-obovato-lanoeolatia
obtusis v. subacutis supra medium remote denratis, costa valida, nervis
inconspicuia, racernia erectis robnatia multi-densifloris, floribus majua-
culis erecto-patentibus rubro-aurantiacis, pedicellia brevibus craaaia,
calycis lobis ciliolatis, corolla? lobis orbiculatis, giandulis subrotundis,
tilameutis liberie, antheris aubquadratia flavis, couuectivo crass^.
The beautiful plant here figured, and which flowered in
the Royal Gardens in September of last year, is stated to
have been received about eighteen years ago, but I can find
no record of either its native country or donor, except that
it may possibly have been raised from seeds sent from Lima,
in Peru, by the late Mr. M'Lean, an old correspondent of the
Gardens. Its congeners, of which a dozen or so are well
described, are all South American, extending from Brazil to
Panama, and down the Andes on the west coast to Peru, but
amongst them all I find none, either in our herbarium or
books, that equals this for the size and colour of its flowers.
As a stove plant it is easily managed, flowers freely, and
having the habit of the genus in foliage, etc.. it forms a very
strikingly ornamental plant.
Desck. Trunk erect, in our plant about four feet high, very
TKBRUARr 1st. 18(37.
stout, three-quarters of an inch in diameter, with scattered
subulate scales towards the top. Leaves ten to fourteen inches
long, three to five inches broad, very narrowly obcuneate-
spathulate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed into the very short
stout petiole, remotely toothed towards the apex, dark-green,
very coriaceous ; nerves obscure ; midrib very stout. Racemes
erect, four to five inches long, an inch and a half in diameter,
rachis entirely hidden by the densely crowded flowers. Pedi-
cels very short, stout, glabrous. Base of calyx turbinate ; lobes
orbicular, minutely ciliated. Corolla half an inch to two-
thirds of an inch in diameter, deep orange-red, yellow in the
disk ; lobes rounded, with very tumid subhemispherical glands.
Stamens small, sunk between the glands of the petals ; fila-
ments short, stout, free ; anthers subquadrate ; cells recurved
at the base on the very thick, subquadrate, SAvollen connec-
tive. Ovarii with a short conic style and capitate stigma. —
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and ovary. 3 and 4. Stamens -.—nil magnified.
5627.
W Fitch, deLet lit*
"Vincent ^Brooks, Imp-
Tab. 5627.
MESOSPINIDIUM sanguineus
Rosy Mesospinidium.
Nat. Ord. Obchides:. — Gynandeia Monandeia.
Gen. Char. Perigonium subcarnosum, clauaum. Scpalum summum lanceo-
laturu ; sepala lateralia connata, apice bifida, lacinia utraque lanccii, basi
subsaccato labello supposita ; petala triangulo-lanceoiata, acuta, sepalis basi
vix imbricantibus. Labellum cuneatum, obcordatum, limbo revoluto, carina 1
duse, unguem marginantes, eboracese, nunc antice lobatae caualetn veluti-
num inter se linquentes, lamella biloba depressa anteposita, subimmobile.
Columna semiteres, antice profunde excavatum. Androclinii limbus utrinque
dependens ; rostellum ascendens, acuto-triangulum, bicuspidatum. Anthcra
unilocularis, antice retusa, medio cuspidata. Pollinia globosa, postice
minute perforata. Caudicula linearis, basi latior; glandula lancea. Cha-
racter ex Bchb. Walp. Annates, v. p. 6.
Mesospinidium sanguineum ; pseudobulbis ovalibus compressis nebulosis
diphyllis, foliis cuneato-ligulatis acutis, racemis secundis, ramosis foliis
longioribus, bracteis squamEeformibus minutis, sepalis oblongis acutis,
lateralibus medium versus bifidis, sepalis cuneato-ovato-acutis, labello
lingulato acuto, lateribus erectis, carina lineari per disci basin superi-
orem apice sc. medio labello divergenti bieruri, androclinio minute
lobulato.
Mesospinidittm sanguineum. Bchl.fil. Walp. Annates, I.e.
A very pretty plant, with nodding racemes in the way of
those of Bodriguesia secunda, but larger and handsomer.
Unlike the latter species, which is found abundantly at the
embouchure of the Amazon river, and which therefore luxu-
riates in a great degree of heat and moisture — this Meso-
spinidium is met with at a great elevation, and consequently
in a cool climate, among the Peruvian and Quitensian Andes,
whence descend some of the largest tributaries of that most
magnificent of all streams. Although discovered by Jameson
more than twenty years ago, and subsequently met with by
Warscewicz, it does not appear to have ever reached this
country alive before the year 1866, when plants of it were
received in excellent condition from Ecuador, by the Messrs.
FEBBUAEY 1ST, 1867.
Backhouse, of York, who exhibited a flowering specimen
of it — from which the Plate was derived — at one of the
Tuesday meetings at South Kensington in November last.
It appears quite at home in what may conveniently be termed
the " Peruvian house," as meant to include the coolest and
dampest section of temperate Orchids, while the " Mexican
house " would indicate a climate somewhat warmer and drier
than the last, but still cool.
As a genus, Mesospinidium comes near to Odontoglossum,
from Avhich a superficial observer might fail to distinguish it-
Professor Keichenbach — the founder of the genus — would
also make it embrace the genera 'Ada' and 'Abola' of
Lindley, a view in which I find myself at present unable to
concur.
Descr. An epiphyte, with compressed, prettily-mottled oval
two-leaved pseudobulbs. Leaves ligulate, sharp-pointed,
shorter than the many-flowered drooping slightly-branched
flower-stem. Bracts minute, scale-like. Sepals oblong, acute,
the side ones joined at the base — for more than half their
length. Petals cuneate, ovate, acute, of a firm waxy sub-
stance, and (like the sepals) of a uniform warm rosy tint.
Lip Ungulate, sharp-pointed, its sides erect, its middle lobe
recurved, with a two-limbed diverging process at the base.
The lip at its point is of the same rosy tint as the sepals and
petals, but fades into white in its lower portion. Column
white, slightly lobed. — J. Bateman.
Fig. 1. Side view of lip and column. 2. Front view of lip. 3. Ditto
of column. 4. Pollen-masses -. — magnified.
5628.
W. Fitch, dsLet Iitti
Vincent Broois,Imp
Tab. 5628.
BARLEEIA Gibsoni.
Dr. Gibsons Barleria.
Nat. Ord. Acantuaceje. — Diaxdria Monogyma.
Gen. Char. Calyx 4-partitus, laciniis cruciatim oppositis, super* et in-
fera plerumque majoribus. Corolla regulariter infuiidibulit'orinis v. hvpo-
craterimorpha, 5-loba, ore dilatato, laciniis imbricatis, Buperiore plerumque
breviore. Stamina 2, cum stamiuodiis 2 3 v. 4, didvnama, circa basin tubi
inserta. Antherer oblongse v. lineares, 2-loculares, loculis parallelis uraturia.
Stigma v. infundibuliforme, compressum, truncatum, limbo integro, v. an-
gustum, oblique 2-fidum. Capsula circa basin fere 2-loeukris, septo integro
adnato, basi 2-4-aperma. Semina retinaculo suffulta. — llcrba; v. frutices,
ramosa. Inflorescentia spicata axillaris v. solitaria. Calyx 2-bracteolatus.
Barleria Gibsoni ; fruticosa, glaberrima, foliis ovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis
acuminatis in petiolum brevem angustatis, margine minute ciliolatis,
floribus mbterminalibus paucia vix spicatis, bracteis parvis anguste
ovatis, caiycis foliolis exterioribus anguste subulatis imerioribus
elliptico-oblongis obtusis subacutisve viridibus, exterioribua duplo
longioribua multotiesque majoribus, corollae pallide purpureas tubo
infundibuliformi calycem sequante, limbi lobis subaequaliter rotundatia
2 inferioribus medio macula saturatiore notatis, ore pallido, staminibus
2 cum staminodiis 3 parvis subulatis.
Barleria Gibsoni. Dalzel in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. v. 2. p. 339.
It has already been remarked in this work, that the hitherto
much neglected Order AcanthacecB abounds in beautiful
garden plant.-, which, from their habit of flowering in winter,
are especially desirable for stove cultivation in this climate.
Such is the subject of the present Plate, a native of the
Ghauts of Central India, for seeds of which the Royal Gar-
dens are indebted to Dr. Anderson, of the Royal Gardens,
Calcutta, which flowered at Kew in December, 1866. Hand-
some as it is, it falls very far short indeed of some of its
congeners, also natives of the Western Indian Ghauts, and of
which one, B. grandiflora, Dalzel, has leaves a span long,
and spikes of flowers, whose corollas are four to four and a
FEHRUARr 1st, 18G7.
half inches long by two inches diameter. The genus is a
large one, and contains very many beautiful species.
Descr. A small, quite glabrous shrub ; our first year's plants
are twelve to eighteen inches high, but will probably attain
three or four feet. Stems branched, shrubby, terete. Leaves
two to four inches long, shortly petioled, lanceolate or oblong
or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, rather rough at the margin,
coriaceous, glaucous below ; nerves distinct, running very
obliquely. Flowers in very short terminal spikes, or axillary
in the uppermost leaves. Calyx one and a half inch long ;
outer sepals very narrow subulate, not half the length of the
inner, which are oblong, obtuse, convex, nerved. Corolla
large, pale purple ; tube as long as the calyx, funnel-shaped,
paler ; lobes spreading, orbicular, each one-third of an inch
in diameter, inner rather smaller, two upper with a dark pur-
ple blotch in the centre. Stamens two, with three stami-
nodes ; filaments glabrous ; anthers oblong, purple. Stigma
narrow, very obliquely bifid. — J. I). H.
Fig. 1. Calyx, — nat. size. 2. Base of corolla and stamens. 3. Germen s —
magnified.
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5629.
W. Pitch, del et Mi.
Vmcent Brooks, Imp
Tab. 5629.
pleeoma sarmentosa.
Sarmentose Pleroma.
Nat. Ord. Melastomace^:. — Decandeia Monootnia.
Gen. Char. Cahjcis tubus paleaceus hirsutus v. strigoaus, ovoidotis cam-
panulatus v. elongatus ; lobi 5, subulati lanceolati v. oblongi, decidui.
Petala 5, obovata, ssepe insequilatera et retusa. Stamina 10, o?qualia v.
subsequalia, filamentis glabris pilosis v. glandulpsis; antherae consimiles,
lineari-subulatas, arcuatae, connectivo basi breviter v. longius producto an-
tice 2-tuberculato iuappendiculato. Ovarium liberum v. basi cost is 5
calyci adhserens, vertice liispidum v. setosura, 5-loculare ; stylus filiformis,
curvus, glaber v. pilosus, stigmate punctiformi. Capsida 5-valvis, calvce
inclusa. Semina cochleata. — Frutices^ suffrutices. rarius herba% America
australis tropica et subtropicce incolce, interdum scandentes, scepius kispidfg v.
strigoso-hirsutce. Folia petiolata, ovata v. oblonga, integerrima. Flores
smpissime paniculati, purpurei v. violacei.
Lasiandea sarmentosa ; fruticulus patentim villosus, ramis ramulisque sar-
mentosis, foliis breviter petiolatis ovatis ovato-oblongisve aeutis basi
rotundatis cordatisve 7-nerviis utrinque pilosis, paniculis 3-chotomis
terminalibus paucifloris, pedicellis brevibus, calycis tubo obovoideo v.
subgloboso dense tomentoso, lobis subulato-lauceolatis recurvis tuho
longioribus, petalis late cuneato-obovatis violaceis, filamentis glabris,
antheris majoribus connectivo basi producto basi 2-tuberculato, mino-
ribus connectivo breviore 2-tuberculato, ovarium ad medium calyci
costis 5 adhaerente.
Lasiandea sarmentosa. Naud. in Ann. 8c. Nat. ser. 3. v. 13. p. 130.
Ch^togastra sarmentosa. DC. Prodr. v. 3. p. 134.
Rhexia sarmentosa. Bonpl. Rhex. t. 10.
A very beautiful plant, discovered by Humboldt and Bon-
pland in the cool valleys of Peru, near Cuenca, and since
collected by Dr. Jameson at the same spot, alt. 8000 feet,
and elsewhere; by Spruce, at the base of Chimborazo ; and
by Dr. Seemann, at Loxa and Cuenca, etc., who observes
that it is very common and called " Flore de Gallinaso."
The specimen here figured was flowered in December, 1866,
by our zealous correspondent Isaac Anderson Henry, F.L.S.,
of Edinburgh, from seeds sent by Dr. Jameson. As this
marcu 1st, 18G7.
plant is as well adapted for greenhouse cultivation as Mono-
chcetum, and is far more beautiful, it is one of the most
■valuable acquisitions to our houses of late years.
Descr. A small, rather slender, straggling subscandent
undershrub, covered with spreading, villous hairs. Leaves
on petioles half an inch long; blade an inch and a half to
two inches long, ovate, acute, quite entire, rounded or cor-
date at the base, five- to seven-nerved, hairy on both surfaces,
bright green above, paler below. Flowers two to two and a
half inches in diameter, deep violet and very handsome, in
small, few-flowered panicles at the ends of the branchlets ;
peduncles and pedicels short, villous. Calyx-tube broadly
ovoid ; lobes longer than the tube, spreading, subulate-lan-
ceolate. Petals broadly obovate-cuneate, retuse. Anthers
dark purple, with green connectives filaments and tubercles ;
the longer with the connective produced at the base, where
it bears two tubercles ; smaller anthers with the connective
tubercled, but not produced. — /. I). II.
Fig. 1. Large, and 2, small stamens. 3. Calyx, ovary, and style. 4.
Transverse section of ovary. 5. Capsule :— all magnified.
5630.
W.Fitah ; djaLetlith
Tab. 5030.
SARCANTHUS erinaceus.
Hairy-stem med Sarcan th us.
Nat. Ord. Obchide^e. — Uy.sammua Moxakdhta.
Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab, 1039.)
Sarcanthus erinaceus ; pedunculo muriculato echinato racemoso, bract pis
triangulis abbreviatis echinulatis, ovariis pediccllatis nque eehinnlatis,
sepalis oblongis acutis seque echinatis, petalis Hgulatis obtusis, labello
excavato tridentato, utrinque sub columna plieato, dentibus lateralibus
bidentatis, dente medio producto triangulo, calcare rctrorso conico-
cylindraceo vacuo, gibbere pandurato sub columna, columna gracili
elongata, rostello deflexo subulato elongato apice bidentato, caudicula.
ab ovato basi lineari, polliniis in stipite bifido centrice caudicula; in-
sert© reflexis. liclib. in Oard. Chron. 1866.
Aebides dasypogon. Sort., non Lindl.
Saecanthus Stowellianus. Batem., mss.
The first plant that I ever saw of this pretty Sarcanfhus
was bought, under the name of Aerides rubrvm, about ten
years ago, at one of Stevens's sales. After several years' culti-
vation, it flowered at Knypersley, and as I first noticed the
open blossoms as I was passing through the Orchid houses
in company with my lamented friend Hugh Stowell, I called
it provisionally after him. I did not, however, describe or
collate it at that time, and as I shortly afterwards met with it
in Messrs. Low's collection under the name of Aerides dasypo-
gon, I too hastily concluded that such was probably its
real name, and made no further inquiries into the matter.
In the autumn of last year, however, I met with the plant
again — a nd this time under the name of Sarcanthm erinaceus
— in the Royal Gardens at Kew, where it had been seen by
Professor Reichenbach, and named as above by him. This
name, which well describes the peculiarly shaggy or hedge-
hog-like appearance of the flower-stems, must therefore
march 1st, 1867.
stand. It is a rare plant and, always excepting Saccolabimn
giganteum, the slowest grower of its tribe. My plant, which
is about four inches high, has at length begun to branch,
and, as the branches all flower freely, my specimen has
already become an attractive object; — in our grandchildren's
days it will be quite charming ! It flowers freely during the
summer months in the East India house. Its introducer,
both to Kew and to Clapton, was the Rev. Mr. Parish, who
no doubt met with it in Moulmeyne. — J. Bateman.
Fig. 1. Front view of flower. .2. Side view of ditto -.—magnified.
5631.
.kth.
"Vincent, Brooks, faf-
Tab. 5631.
SIPHOCAMPYLUS Humboldtianus.
Humboldt- s Siphocampylus.
Nat. Ord. Lobeliace^;. — Pentandria Monogynia.
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus turbinatus v. hemisphaoricus ; lobi 5. Corolla!
tubus ssepissime elongatus, incurvus et supernc veutricosus, integer,
rarissirae et basi tantum fissus ; limbi 2-labiati lobi 5, tubo brqviores,
superiores reflexi. Stamina connata ; antberae hirsuta: v. 2 inieriores bar-
batse. — Frutices suffrutiees v. herb* Americanae, erecta v. scandt,itr.s.
Folia alterna v. verticillata. Pedicelli axillares. Flores albi v. rubri.
Corolla scepius pubescens.
Siphocampylus Humboldtianus; suffruticosus, ramulis patentim subvil-
losis, foliis alternis petiolatis subcoriaceis ovato-lanceolatis ovatisve
acuminatis calloso-denticulatis superne glaberrimis subtus sparse pi-
losis, venis inconspicuis, pedicellis petiolo aequilongis, calycis glabri
tubo turbinato, deutibus brevibus triangularibus, corolla fere 2-pollicari
longe tubuloso integro, tubo e basi subinflato breviter subcylindraceo,
deinde pro maxima parte latiore compresso leDte incurvo, lobis brevibus
triangulari-lanceolatis patentibus.
Siphocamphyltts Humboldtianus. DC. Prod. v. 7. p. 398.
Siphocampylus fulgens. Floral Magazine, t. 313.
Lobelia Humboldtiana. Presl, Prod. Lob. 35.
This elegant plant was sent for figuring by Mr. Bull, of
Chelsea, with whom it flowered in November, 1866, and to
whom the Royal Gardens are further indebted for a living
plant that has also flowered. The plant is no doubt a native
of Peru, whence most of its congeners have been brought,
and it is evidently (if any dependence is to be placed on
descriptions) the 8 Humboldtianus, DC, of which, however,
I have seen no authentic specimens; it also approaches S.
Peruvianus, but is larger in all its parts, has broader leaves
and pubescent stems, and different calyx-lobes. The genus
/Siphocampylus is very nearly allied to Lobelia, and like it,
abounds in showy flowered plants. Upwards of fifty species
have been described, of which scarce a dozen have been in-
troduced into our gardens. Some are climbers, and. coming
march 1st, 1867.
from the cooler regions of the Andes, may be expected to
grow in a temperate house. The present is a very choice
plant, and succeeds well in a warm greenhouse, when it is
very attractive.
Descr. A small bush, three feet high, branching from the
base. Stem and branches pubescent with spreading leaves,
purplish-brown, slender, flexuous, but apparently not scan-
dent. Leaves alternate, on slender petioles three-quarters of
an inch long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, acute or
rounded at the base, irregularly minutely toothed or serrate,
dark green and glabrous above, paler and pilose beneath, ra-
ther coriaceous ; nerves very faint. Pedicels axillary, solitary,
slender, as long as the petioles. Flotvers drooping, decurved,
bright scarlet. Calyx glabrous, small ; tube turbinate or
subcampanulate, angled; teeth very small. Corolla almost
two inches long, scarce half an inch broad at the broadest
part, laterally compressed, ribbed, lower quarter narrower,
subcylindric, with an inflated base, remaining three-quarters
gently swelling, arched ; lobes one-third of an inch long,
triangular-lanceolate, recurved. Anthers exserted, violet-
purple, nearly glabrous. Style very slender, stigma small.
— /. D. H.
Pig. 1. Calyx, ovary, and style : — magnified.
5632.
rooKS
Tab. 5632.
ONCIDIUM SERRATUM.
Serrated On cidiu m .
Nat. Ord. Oechide^;. — Gynandeia Monandeia.
Qen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 4148.)
Oncididm serratum ; pseudobulbis ovalibus elatis dipbyllis, foliis erectis
rigidis acutis basi angustatis canaliculars, panicula pauciflora brevio-
ribus, sepalis serrato-crispatis, dorsali reniformi, lateralibus multo
longioribus obovatis patentissimis, petalis ovatis acutis serrato-crispatis
conniventibus, labello multo minore bastato, laciniis acutis intermedia
lineari obtusa medio constricta lateralibus acuminatis triplo minoribus
(crista depress^, crenulata), columnar alis subulatis ascendentibus.
Oncidittm serratum. Lindl. Sert., Rchb. in Walpers Ann. vi.
Oncidium diadema. Hort.
1 was much struck with this very remarkable Oncidium,
which I had the good fortune to see in flower in the Bishop
of Winchester's collection at Farnham Castle, in December
last. It has the colour and somewhat the appearance of 0.
crispum, but the flowers are tossed about after a strange and
fantastic fashion, which will no doubt become still more pro-
noncee as the plant gathers its full strength and sends forth
twining scapes nine or ten feet long. It belongs to a pecu-
liar group, that was at one time regarded as a distinct genus,
i. e. Cyrtochilum, but which is now more properly considered
a subgenus of Oncidium. Some of them — the Cyrtochilum
vohbile of Poeppig, for example — have stems twenty feet
high. Mr. Linden was the introducer of the present plant,
which he sold under the unwarranted name of 0. diadema
in Stevens's rooms. It is a native of Peru, and must be re-
garded as a moderately " cool " orchid.
Descr. Pseudohdbs tall and oval, bearing one or two
long, rigid, erect, acute leaves, which are narrowed at the
base and canaliculate. Panicle lax. many-flowered, much
MAECH 1st. 1867.
longer than the leaves (in wild' specimens nine or ten feet
long). Sepals with crisp and serrate margins, the upper one
kidney-shaped, the lateral ones very much longer, obovate
and spread open, of a brown chocolate colour, tipped and
margined with yellow. Petals same colour as the sepals,
than which they are much shorter, ovate, acute, connivent.
Lip very small, hastate, the side portions being acuminate
and three times less than the central, which is linear, obtuse,
and narrowed in the centre, with a depressed, serrate, or
crenulate crest ; the colour is similar to that of the sepals
and petals, with more yellow about the crest. Column with
awl-shaped, ascending wings. — J. Bateman.
Fig. 1. Front view of lip and column: — magnified.
5633.
-. delet
Vincent Brooks, Imp
Tab. 5G33.
SYNADENIUM Grantii.
Captains Grant's MUkbush.
]S"at. Ord. Euphorbiacej:. — Moncecia Monandbta.
Gen. Char. Involucrum campanulato-bemispbaericum, rcgulare, 5-lobum,
5-glandulosum, glandulis in cupulam horizontalem plano-concavam margine
lobulatam integram v. lobos involucri includentem coalitis. Flores tnasculi
25-30, in fasciculos'5 lobia involucri oppositos dispositi, ecalyculati. Brac-
teolce alia? inter fasciculos lineares distinctae apice fimbriatac, alia? circa
florem femineum ultra medium in tubum membrauaceum apice fimbriatutn
coalita;. Flos femineus centralis, obsolete calyculatus. Styli ad medium
eonnati. Semen carunculatum. — Frutices v. arbuscula? Africani, remit tr-
retibus carnosis. Folia sparsa, Integra. Cymse terminates, corymbose, laxa,
2-B-ckotom(e. Involucra alia in dichotomiis sessilia, alia terminaha, basi
foliis floralibus 2-nis oppositis suffulta. Boiss.
Sysadenittm Grantii ; frutex erectus, ramosus, glaberrimus, raima crassis
teretibus, foliis obovato-spatbulatis obtusis in petiolum brevem attenu-
atis, floralibus parvis appressis tomentosis involucro sequilongis apice
rotundatis, involucri pulvinati annularis integerrimi tomentosi lobis
margine interiori pulvini insertis erectis late oblongis gibbis apice den-
tatis, calyculis masculis sub-5-lobis, lobis angustis ciliatis.
During Captains Speke and Grant's adventurous journey
to the lake-feeders of the Nile, the latter of the distinguished
explorers made an excellent collection of dried plants, which
has thrown great light on the botany of Central Africa ;
together with some seeds, which vegetated in the Royal
Gardens, including the beautiful Muss&nda luteola (Plate
5573). The dried plants were examined by Dr. Thomson,
and are enumerated in the Appendix to Captain Speke's
work ; amongst them was a fragment of a succulent Euphor-
biaceous plant, which, having retained its vitality, was taken
by Dr. Thomson to the propagating pits, and being planted,
has now developed into a striking green Euphorbiaceous
bush, seven feet high, — the subject of this Plate. It be-
longs to a very curious genus, Synadenium, closely allied to
Euphorbia itself, established by M. Boissier in his excellent
MABCH 1st, 1867.
monograph of Euphorbia and its allies, published in the
fifteenth volume of De Candolle's ' Prodromus.' The genus
as there constituted consists of two species, a Natal and Mada-
gascar one ; these being described from dried specimens are
necessarily difficult of recognition, and S. Grantii is evidently
closely allied to the Natal S. arborescens, but according to
Boissier's careful description that must be a much smaller
plant in all its parts, with longer petioles ; and the involucre
in our species differs from it, and indeed from the generic
character, in being entire.
8. Grantii was found by Captain Grant near villages in
lat. 3° 15' N., in February, 1862, and there only. The Kew
plant flowered in November, 18G6.
Descr. An erect bush, six to ten feet high, with a stout,
terete, green stem, few very thick, erect branches, and co-
lumnar branchlets thicker than the thumb. Leaves scattered,
three to four inches long, obovate-spathulate, obtuse, not
very succulent, quite entire, dark green above, paler below.
Cymes axillary, corymbosely branched, six to eight inches
long, sparingly dichotomously, green. Pedicels purplish.
Floral leaves or bracts appressed, obtuse, tomentose, green.
Involucre a quarter of an inch in diameter, consisting of an an-
nular, tomentose, red-purple cushion, on the inner margin of
which are five broadly-oblong, pubescent, toothed, erect scales.
Stamens on separate cymes from the pistils, twenty to thirty,
with purple anthers and fimbriate calycules at the base of
their pedicels. Styles green, with bifid recurved stigmas.
JT).H.
Fig. 1. Female and, 2, male involucres. 3. Scale of ditto. 4. Male
flower and calyculus. 5. Pistil : — all magnified.
5634.
W Fitch, del etTith.
Vincent Brooks, Imp
Tab. 563i.
PEPEROMIA AEirOLiA; var. argyreia.
Arum-leaved Peperomia; silver-striped var.
Nat. Ord. Pipeeace^;. — Diandbia Monogynia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 55(38.)
Pepeeoxiia arifolia; acaulis,glaberrinia, foliis alternis longe petiolatis ovato-
v. cordato-rotundatis acutis integerrimis supra basin peltatis 7-9-ner-
viis subsucculentis junioribus concavis, superne laete viridibus opacis,
subtus pallidis, petiolis rubris, atnento longe pedunculato terminali v.
laterali gracili elongato, pedunculo petiolia sequilougo, floribus con-
fertis, bracteis peltatis breviter stipitatis, filamentifl brevibud crassis,
ovario obovoideo, stigraate sessili globoso pubescente.
Pepebomia arifolia. Miquel, Syst. Piperac p. 72. Martius, Fl. Bras. Pi-
per ac. p. 9. t. 2.f. 9.
Pipee arifolia. Sort. Petrop.
Var. argyreia ; foliis inter nervos albo-fasciatis.
Under Plate 5668 there was figured a beautiful Peperomia
from the collection of our friend Mr. Wilson Sanders, F.R.S.,
that had been cultivated in his and several other establish-
ments under the name of P. arifolia, but which was there
shown to be quite a distinct species ; the present Plate con-
firms this opinion, and at the same time affords the opportu-
nity of figuring an equally beautiful species. The true P.
arifolia, as here shown, has no stem, alternate leaves that
are peltate, very broad, less concave, and not two-lobed at
the base ; whereas the P. marmorafa had erect stems, oppo-
site, narrow and very thick leaves, two-lobed at the base where
the petiole is inserted. Both are natives of South Brazil, and
were collected by Mr. Weir, Collector for the Horticultural
Society. The specimen here figured flowered in the esta-
blishment of Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, in November, 1866 ; it is
a very beautiful plant, and like so many of its congeners, is
well adapted for placing along the edge of a shelf in a
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to four inches long, slender, pale green. Flowers close set,
but not densely packed, very minute. Bract peltate, orbi-
cular, with a short, stout stalk. Filaments very short; anthers
oblong. Ovary t obovoid, with a globular, sessile stigma.—
.7. R H. 5
Fig. 1. Portion of catkin. 2. and 3. Side and front views of bract,
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SACOOLABIUM giganteum.
Gigantic Saccolabiu m.
Nat. Ord. Okchidejs. — Gynaudkia Monandia.
Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5433.)
Saccolabivm giganteum ; foiiis latissimis coriaceis crassis apice inaequali
obtuse bilobis racemo densifloro subsecundo subsequalibus, sepalis
cuneato-ovatis obtuse acutis, petalis angustioribtis, labelli lamina eura
columna subparallela ob ealcaris limbos laterales praeruptos liberos
cuneato-Habellata apice trifida, laciniis lateralibus semirhombeis, la-
cinia media ligulata crassa retusa baud producta, lineis barbellatia
geminis in basi utrinque in latus ealcaris compressi cylindracei conici
transceudentibus ibi spbincterem efficientibus, columna brevi recli-
nata, anthera breve rostrata, polliniis spbeericis breve stipitatis. Hchb.
Saccolabium giganteum. TVall. ; Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 221.
Vanda densiflora. Lindl. Paxt. Fl. G. t. 42. Folia Orch. Vanda, n. 22.
Gard. Chron. 1866, 1194.
The honour of introducing this beautiful plant, as well as
of having been the first to flower it, belongs to the Bishop
of Winchester, in whose collection at. Farnham Castle it
made its appearance several years ago. Unfortunately the
Bishop's plants were small, and the spikes produced — though
sufficient to enable Dr. Lindley to recognize the species —
gave but an imperfect idea of the noble aspect that it would
eventually assume. The plant moreover is so exceedingly
slow in its movements, that notwithstanding the generous
anxiety of the Bishop to distribute it, a century might have
elapsed before all the orchidians amongst her Majesty's sub-
jects could have been supplied, had no further addition been
made to the number of imported specimens. Happily how-
ever about a year ago a fresh supply of fine plants were re-
ceived by Messrs. Veitch from Rangoon, having been sent to
them by the gallant Colonel whose name will be worthily
perpetuated in the Vanda (V. Bensoni), lately figured in this
APRIL 1st, 1867.
work. One of these flowered in the highest perfection in
November last, when it was exhibited at one of the Tuesday
Meetings of the Horticultural Society, exciting — as well it
might — universal admiration. The flowers, which were more
agreeably perfumed than those of 8. violaceum, continued in
beauty for nearly a quarter of a year. As to cultivation,
patience rather than skill is required, — the main object
being to obtain as large specimens as possible, for the ra-
cemes of flowers will be large in proportion.
No doubt S. giganteum is very nearly related to S. viola-
ceum ; still it is unquestionably distinct from, and vastly su-
perior to that species. " The chief difference," as Professor
Eeichenbach observes in an able notice of the plant in the
Gard. Chron., "is to be found in the shape, and, in conse-
quence, in the nervation of the lip. The lip of Saccolabium
violaceum is panduriform, retuse at the apex, with a tooth in
the end. All the nerves run nearly parallel. Here the lip
is tapering to the base, much dilated at the apex, where it
is trifid, but not truncate, with a projecting tooth. Both
species have a projecting callosity beneath the lip. Let us
add, that the colours of Saccolabium violaceum have a more
bluish hue, and that that species, bearing more blotches both
on the sepals and petals, has a totally different appearance.
S. Harrisonianum we regard as a splendid white variety of
the last."
Desck. Leaves very broad and fleshy, streaked and chan-
nelled, irregularly bidentate or eroded at their extremity,
from six inches to a foot long, about equal to the dense,
many-flowered, nodding, subsecund racemes, that issue from
the point of their junction with the stem. Sepals whitish,
cuneate-ovate, obtusely acute, not so wide as the petals,
which are of the same colour, with the addition of a few
lilac spots. The lamella (or plate) of the lip is nearly pa-
rallel with the column, wedge-shaped, divided at its apex
into three portions, of which those at the sides are semi-
rhomboidal, while that in the middle is short and slightly
retused, all these three portions being of the most lovely
violet hue, while the remainder of the lip is the same tint as
the sepals and petals ; there are two hairy lines at the base
of the lip, which, descending into the short spur, form a sort
of sphincter for the round pedicellate pollen-masses. Column
slightly bent backwards, with a short beak on the anther.—
J. Bateman.
Fig. 1. Column and lip, seen sideways. 2. Front of lip : — magnified.
,C
5636.
Vincent, Brcc
Tab. 563(1.
COEDYLINE australis.
New Zealand Ti-tree.
Nat. Ord. Liliaceje. — IIexandeia Monogtnia.
Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Ferianthium campanulatum ; foliola
6, persistentia, aequalia, patentia, basi breviter v. lougius connata. Sta*
viina 6, basi fbliolorum perigonii inserta, filamentis subulato-nliformibus
glabris ; antlierae versatiles, oblonga?. Ovarium ovoideum v. obovoidcum,
obtuse 3-gonum, 3-loculare ; stylus rectus, columnaris, stigmate 3-lobo ;
orula in loculis pauca v. numerosa. JRacca subglobosa, 3-loeulari.s. oligo-
v. polysperma. Semina angulata, testa atra nitida. Arbores, rarius
berbae, stepe elata?. Folia apices versus trunci v. ramorum congesta, pa-
tentia. rnsiformia, coriacea, nervis parallclis, costa obscnra v. dislincta.
Paniculae ampla, exertee v. nutantes, ramosissinue, multijlora. Flores albi
v. ccerulei, S-bracteati, bractea intermedia 2-nervi, ceteris 1-nerriis.
Cordyline australis ; caudice elato arboreo, demum ramoso, foliis ensifor-
mibus, 3-3 ped. longis, l|-2 poll, latis, supra basin paulo augustatis,
nervis uniformibus numerosissiniis striolatis, costa obscura, panicula
erecta ramosissiraa, floribus albis confertis.
Cordylike australis. Hook.f. Fl. Nov. Zeal. v. 1. 1. 257. Oard. Chron. I860.
p. 792. Handbook of New Zeal. Flora, 281 {non. Endl.).
Dracena australis. Forst. Prodr. 151.
The history of the New Zealand and Australian Cordyliw*
was long in a. state of great confusion, which I attempted to
clear up in the 'Gardeners' Chronicle' in 18G0. I then
showed that the Dracwna australis of Forster, which was
undeterminable from that author's description, was, accord
ing to the figure in the Banksian Herbarium, not the plant so
cited in this Magazine (Tab. 2835). I also showed that the
Magazine plant, which was sent from the Sydney Botanical
Garden, was most probably procured from Norfolk Island,
whence I have dried specimens collected by A. Cunningham,
so long the Superintendent of the Sydney Gardens.
I have now the pleasure of figuring what I believe to be
the true Dracaena australis of New Zealand, the commonest
april 1st, 18G7.
of four or six species that inhabit that group of islands, and
a plant which could not well have escaped Forster's notice.
It is a very handsome small tree, almost hardy in the west
of England, quite so in the Scilly Islands, where Mr. Augus-
tus Smith has flowered fine specimens in the open air. It
often passed for C. indivisa in the nurseries, but that, as is
now well known, is a totally different plant, with a much
broader, yellow-green, strongly-veined leaf, and a drooping
panicle of much larger flowers. The plant from which the
accompanying drawing was made, flowered in the temperate
house at Kew, in June, 1866.
Descr. Trunk slender, twelve to twenty feet high, branch-
ing at the top when old. Leaves two to three feet long, en-
siform, an inch and a quarter to two inches broad, slightly
contracted above the base, with numerous fine, parallel,
striated veins, and no obvious midrib, dark green. Panicle
very large, erect, copiously branched. Flowers most abun-
dant, crowded, white. Perianth-tube very short, limb spread-
ing, one-third of an inch in diameter, inner segments
toothed irregularly in the margin. Berry as large as a small
pea, white, with black shining seeds. — J. ]). H.
Fig. 1. Eeduced figure of whole plant. 2 and 3. Base and apex of leaf.
4. Branch of panicle. 5. Bud. 6. Flowers. 7. Ovary. 8. Transverse
section of do. Fig. 5-8, magnified.
5631
'WRtelv.deI.et'lith.
Vincent Brooks, Imp
Tab. 5637.
TINNEA ^thiopica.
Violet-scented Tinnea.
Nat. Ord. Labiate. — Didynamia Gtmnospeumia.
Gen. Char. Calycis 2-labiati tubus subenervis, ventricosus, verticaliter
depressus, hbiis planis subeequalibus integerrimia semi-orbicularibus.
Corolla tubus brevis, rectus, latiusculus, cylindricus, limbi verticaliter
depressi 2-labiati labio superiore abbreviate) 2-lobo, inferiore porrecto 3-
lobo, lobis lateralibus parvis rotundatis intermedio multo majore subor-
biculari emarginato. Sfat?u'na 4, filatnentis baai barbellatis ; anthers in-
clusas, parvse, reiniformes, filamento oblique adnata?. Stylus gracilis, stig-
mate ina?qualiter 2-fido. Fructus . . . — Frutex erect us, ramosus, ramis tere-
tibus cano-pubescnifibns. Folia parva, petiolata, ovato- v. ovoideo-lanceolafa,
acuta v. subobtusa, integerrima. Verticillastra axillaria, pauciflora, peduncn-
lata. Flores odori, majusculi, pedicellate calyce viridi, corolla fusco-pur.
purea.
Tixjtea asthiopica, Kotschy in ' Plantce Tinneance' ined. cum tabula.
Amongst the more important scientific results of the late
gallant explorations of Central Africa, has been a great
accession to our knowledge of its previously little known
flora; and for this we are indebted almost exclusively to
three individuals — Dr. Kirk, during Livingstone's explora-
tion of the Zambesi and Shirr rivers and Lakes Shirwa and
Nyassa; Captain Grant, during Captain Speke's and his own
adventurous journey to the upper waters of the Nile ; and
Mdlle. Tinne and Herr Heuglin. during their disastrous
Nile voyage. Singularly enough, the beautiful plant here
figured was found by all three expeditions, and I do not know
to whom the merit of being its first discoverer belongs, though
we owe to Mdlle. Tinne the introduction of the plant, and
the specimen here figured. Dr. Kirk gathered it on the
Manganga hills, in October, 1862; and Captain Grant, in the
Umyoso forest, in August of the same year; but where Mdlle.
Tinne's party, who collected it in 1863, found it, I do not
know, their collections being at Vienna ; and my late friend
apbil 1st, 1867.
Dr. Kotschy, the author of the hitherto unpublished work
in which this plant is figured, is recently deceased.
Thinea is a stove plant, of which seeds were sent home by
Mdlle. Tinne's party, and were raised at Liverpool, by Mr.
Sandbach, in 1865 ; and it is no less remarkable for the
maroon-purple colour of its flowers, than for their delicious
perfume of violets. It flowered copiously at Mr. Williams's
Nursery at Holloway, and at Kew, last winter. The genus
belongs to the division Stachydeoe, of the Order Labiatce.
Desce. A hoary bush, four to six feet high. Steins and
branches erect, terete, ribbed, twiggy. Leaves on short slen-
der pedicels, ovate, subacute or acute, quite entire, narrowed
at the base; nerves faint. Floivers copiously produced in
all the upper axils ; in native specimens, arranged in terminal
elongate spikes. Peduncles two- to three-flowered, bracteate.
Calyx bright green, ventricose, depressed, two-lipped; the
lips broad, transversely flattened, quite entire. Corolla dark
maroon-purple, tube broad, little longer than the calyx ;
limb compressed horizontally, two-lipped, upper lip short,
almost truncate, two-lobed, lower advanced, nattish, three-
lobed, lateral lobes small rounded, middle large, orbicular,
emarginate. Stamens four, with parallel filaments, bearded
at the very base ; anthers small, concealed under the upper
lip, attached laterally to the filament, reniform, two-celled.
Style slender. — /. D. H.
Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Ovary, style and stigma and disk:— hoik
magnified.
5638.
Wfi.tch.iel.et Mi.
Vincent Brooks . Irrrp
Tab. 5638.
DICTYOPSIS Thtobeegii.
Tkunbergs Dictyopsis.
Nat. Ord. Smilace^:. — Hexandbia Monogtnia.
Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Perianthium deciduum, tubuloso-
campanulatum, limbo brevi 6-lobo, lobis recurvis 3-nerviis. Stamina 6 basi
penantlm tubi inserta, filamentis inferne tubo adnatis, inclusis ; anther®
oblongae. Ovarium ovoideum, basi attenuatum, apice cum stylo columnari
continuum 3-loculare, stigmate capitato 3-lobo ; ovula in loculis 2-4 2-
seriata. Bacca globosa, 3-locularis, oligosperma. Semina plano-convexa
testa coriacea, albumine copioso.— Herba ylaberrima, scandens, foliosa
ramis gracilhmis teretibm. Folia sessilia, ovata, acuminata, inteaerrimd
basi rotunda/a v. cordata, casta tenui distincta, nervis lateralibus numerosis
tenmbus, nervuhs transversis pulcherrime reticulatis. Pedunculi simplices
v. 3-ckotome ramosp, aocillares et terminates, pedicellis gracilibus sub calyce
articulatis. i lores parvi, nutantes, albo-virescentes.
Dictyopsis Tkunberaii. Harv. Gen. Cap. PL Ed. 2, ined.
Kuscus reticulatus. Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap. 13. Willd. Sp. PL v. 4. «. 876.
Kunth, Enum. PL v. 5. p. 276.
At Plate- 5584 of the last volume of the Magazine, was
figured a Cape climbing Liliaceous plant, of singular grace
and beaut}, so much resembling this in habit and general
appearance, that it must strike every one as surprising
that these plants have nothing whatever to do with one
another ; that they do not belong to the same natural family-
even ; and that the apparently precisely similar leaves of the
two are in the one case (that of the Myrsiphyllmn) not leaves
at all (as noticed under its description). The Myrsiphyllum
is a Liliaceous plant, with six leaflets to the perianth, seeds
with a black covering, and the apparent leaves are flattened
leaf-like branches, growing from the axils of small scale-like
true leaves. The Dictyopsis is a Smilaceous plant, with
an entire tube to the perianth, seeds with a coriaceous
pale testa, and true leaves without scales at their bases.
APRIL 1st, 1867.
Dictyopsis reticulata is a most beautiful tender greenhouse
climber, as graceful and as fitted for all decorative and orna-
mental purposes as MyrsiphyUum. It is a native of the
eastern districts of South Africa, from Albany and Somerset
(Mrs. Barber and Mr. Hutton) to British Kaffraria (Cooper)
and the coast land of Natal (Dr. Sutherland).
Descr. A slender, graceful, glabrous leafy climber. Stems
and branches cylindric. Leaves sessile, ovate, acuminate,
rounded or cordate at the base, with many parallel nerves, the
central forming a distinct midrib, all finely reticulated with
cross-nerves. Peduncles axillary and terminal, three- or more-
flowered, sometimes paniculately branched. Flowers drooping,
pedicelled; pedicels articulate. Perianth tubular-campanu-
late, green below, white above, limb of six reflexed lobes.
Stamens six, filaments adherent to the sides of the base of
the perianth-tube ; anthers oblong. Ovary narrowed above
and below; style columnar; stigma capitate, three-lobed ;
ovules two to four in each cell. Berry subglobose, half
an inch in diameter. Seeds with a coriaceous coloured testa
and copious albumen. — J. 1). IL
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same laid open :— both magnified.
5639.
Ymceni. Brooksjmp,
Tab. 5G39.
DOMBEYA Mastersii.
Dr. Masters's Dombeya.
Nat. Ord. Sterculiace^e. — Monadelphia Pentandria.
Oen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5487.)
Dombeya JUatterni; rarnulis gracilibus foliis utrinque et inflorescentia
pilis laxis molliter villosis, foliis gracile petiolatis late ovato-cor-
datis acuminatis angulatim sub-3-lobis serrato-dentatis 7-9-nerviis,
pilis subtus ad nervos stellatis, stipulis lanceolatis ?, corymbis gracile
pedicellatis subsimplicibus multifloris ebracteatis. pedicellis filiformibus
calycibusque patentim pilosis, bracteis lanceolatis sepalis reflexis cou-
similibus, petalis obovato-cuneatis valde obliquis uno latere producto
acuto albis, staminibua 15, stylo gracili, stigmatibus filiformibus re-
curvis.
Dombeya angulata. Masters in Gard. Chron. January, 1867, p. 14, non Cav.
The beautiful plant here figured flowered in the Palm
house at Kew in January of the present year, and was the
subject of an interesting communication to the c Gardeners'
Chronicle ' by Dr. Masters, who, besides deservedly eulogizing
it for the elegance of its perfumed trusses of pure white
flowers, adds some valuable observations on the morphology
of the flowers, and a curious account of the action of the sta-
minodes in the process of fertilization. The staminodes, he
observes in the opening flower to curve downwards and out-
wards, so as to come into contact with the stamens, whose
anthers open outwardly, and allow their pollen to adhere to
them. Being thus provided with a freight of pollen, the
staminodes uncoil, and bring their points to a level with the
stigmata, which curl round them, and thus receive the pollen.
Should this interesting observation be verified, it will prove
a remarkable discovery, and proof of an arrangement for self-
fertilization, as curious as any that Mr. Darwin has dis-
covered for the contrary effect
With regard to the correct nomenclature of this species
APRIL 1st. 1867.
(of the introducer of which I find no record in the Gardens),
it is certainly not D. angulata, which is well figured at Tab.
2905 of this work, and which has very broad bracts, pink
flowers, and much less oblique petals; nor do I think it
agrees with any Mauritian species ; but it is identical with a
tropical African one, of which there are specimens in the
Hookerian Herbarium, collected in Abyssinia by Dr. Eoth, and
by Captain Grant on the banks of the Nile north of Chopeh,
in November, 1862.. It is further very nearly allied to, if
not identical with D. Schimperiana, A. Rich., of Abyssinia,
but that is a larger plant, with broader, more obtuse petals,
and a longer staminal tube.
Descr. Our plant is a small bush, from four to five feet
high, sparingly branched, the branches slender, nearly gla-
brous; branchlets tomentose, with soft, spreading hairs.
Leaves four to seven inches long, deeply cordate-ovate, acu-
minate, obscurely angularly lobed, rather sharply toothed,
five- to nine-nerved, bright-pale-green, villous, with long
hairs, on both surfaces, those on the nerves beneath stellate.
Peduncles axillary, slender, about as long as the petioles,
bearing a simple or rarely subcompound corymb. Bracts
none at the base of the pedicels. Pedicels numerous, slender,
one inch long, pilose, with soft, spreading hairs. Flowers
pearly-white, one inch in diameter; bracts beneath the
flowers lanceolate, as long as and similar to the sepals.
Sepals narrow-lanceolate, one-third of an inch long. Petals
very obliquely obovate-cuneate, produced at one side into an
obtuse or acute point, white. Stamens fifteen, with pinkish
filaments and a short tube ; staminodes strap-shaped. Style
slender, pilose at the base; stigmas filiform. Ovary very
woolly.— J. RE.
Fig. 1. Stamen and ovary. 2. Ovary: — both magnified.
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DOWNTE, LA1ED, and LAING most respectfully announce that they will send out the
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yards wherever shown, including First-class Certificates at the Boyal Horticultural Society.
The following extract is from the ' Journal of Horticulture,' July 17, 1866 : — " There are so many
good Nosegays, and so much alike, that it requires something quite new in colour to surpass them,
or, in many cases, to equal them. The large bold truss of Stella and Le Grand, or the KING OF
THE NOSEGAYS, must be the models of perfection in this class of flowers."
ING OF THE NOSEGAYS.— Bright orange-scarlet. Very large truss, dwarf habit. Very
free and most effective variety. 7s. 6d. each.
MBS. LA1NG (Nosegay). — Glowing carmine-scarlet. Very dwarf, free, and most effective as a
bedder. A beautiful and distinct variety. 5s. each.
MRS. MENZIES. — Bright rosy-salmon. Flowers perfect, good habit, free, and very fine. 5s. each.
SAMBO. — Very dark glussy scarlet, of great substance. Flowers of the finest form. Very large,
compact, globular truss ; quite distinct from all others. 7s. <$d. each.
Ready second week in May.
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GROOM'S ZONAL GERANIUMS,
MISS MAETIN, SIE FITZEOY KELLY, and FLOBIBUNDA ALBA NANA.
The Set of Boses, 21s. The Set of Geraniums, 10*. 6i. Package included.
See 'Journal of Horticulture,' Juue 26th, and July 31st; also ' Floral Magazine ' for Sep-
tember, October, and last month, in which they are figured.
A Descriptive Circular will be sent on application. Beautiful Illustrations, each 13 Stamps.
NEW ZONAL PELARGONIUMS.
SALTMAESH and SON, Nurserymen, Seedsmen, and Florists, Chelmsford, have great pleasure
in introducing the following SEEDLINGS of their own raising, feeling confident they will give
equal satisfaction with the two now well-known varieties, Luna and Little Treasure, sent out by
them in 1865. They will be ready for distribution in May next. Early orders are solicited, as the
stock is limited.
ZONAL PELAEGONITJMS.
REINE D'lTALIE (Saltmarsh and Son). — A seedling from the highly esteemed variety Roi d'ltalie, possessing all
the good properties of its parent in compactness of habit, profusion, form, and size of flowers, each blossom
measuring 1£ of an inch in diameter ; colour, pale salmon-flesh, shading off to flesh-white at the edges, with pure
white eye, altogether forming a most attractive specimen for pot culture. Price 7*. 6d. each.
CRITERION (Saltmarsh and Son). — Also a seedling from Roi d'ltalie, with darker zone, producing an abundance of
flowers, of the large size of its parent, of the most perfect form, and borne on stout footstalks ; habit compact
and vigorous ; colour bright orange-vermilion, with small white eye. Price It. 6d. each.
VAEIEOATED ZONAL PELAEGONIUMS.
METEOR (Saltmarsh and Son).— Foliage large and flat, almost circular, having a green disc about 1± inch in
diameter, surrounded by a very broad and well-defined zone of deep sienna maroon and bright red in about equal
proportions, leaving a clear margin of about a quarter of an inch of bright chrome-yellow ; flowers bright scarlet
with white eye ; habit compact and vigorous. Figured in ' Floral Magazine ' for January, 1867.
The above splendid variety will prove a valuable addition to the Golden Tricolor section of variegated Pelargo-
niums. It is quite distinct from any variety hitherto introduced, and was awarded a First-class Certificate at
the Royal Horticultural Society's meeting in September, 1864. Price 21*. each.
ELECTRIC (Saltmarsh and Son) .—Foliage greenish-yellow, changing with exposure to sun and air to a rich golden
yellow, with a very broad zone of dark chocolate, in the way of Luna, but more heavily zoned, and of more
robust habit, producing fine trusses of scarlet flowers, with white eye. Price 10*. 6d. each.
VENUS (Saltmarsh and Son).— Foliage greenish-yellow, changing to golden-yellow, with slight bronze zone; habit
compact and spreading, producing neat trusses of well-formed flowers on short footstalks of a soft and pleasing
shade of rosy-cerise, altogether forming a most attractive variety by the harmonious blending of its colours and
its remarkably close habit of growth. Price 10*. 6d. each.
SNOWSTORM (Saltmarsh and Son). —Foliage green, with a very deep edge of pure white. This variety will be
found to display a greater proportion of white variegation than any other yet produced. The leaves are less
disposed to curl than most varieties of this class ; in addition to which, the habit is exceedingly close, yet robust
and bushy ; flowers rosy-scarlet, with white eye. Price 10*. 6d. each.
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DUCHESS or SUTHERLAND and LADY CONSTANCE GROSVENOR, which have been
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WILLIAM CUTBUSH AND SON strongly recommend the following :—
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CINERARIA from named flowers, 2s. Qd., 3s. Gd., and 5s. per packet.
SNOW'S WINTER WHITE BROCCOLI, true, W. C. & Son's own saving, 2s. 6d. per packet.
NUNEHAM PARK ONION, 2s. Gd. per packet.
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A. Prize for the Collection Manchester. Five Certificates Nottingham.
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May now be had on application.
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of unusual advance on all other kinds in their respective classes. They have been chosen
from upwards of Three Hundred Seedlings, sent from almost every county in the United
Kingdom, and are sure to give the greatest satisfaction by their superior qualities.
FUCHSIAS.
KING OF THE DOUBLES.— This is the finest exhibition Double Fuchsia ever sent out. Habit
perfect ; the corolla beautifully striped. 7*. Qd. each.
MRS. GLADSTONE.— Great advance on all the white corolla kinds, and reflex equal to the well-known
Guiding Star. 7s. &d. each. ,.
BLAND'S FLO RIBUNDA.— This Fuchsia will introduce a new race, being perfectly distinct from all
others ever sent out, and H. C. believes it will become equal to the well-known Tom Thumb gera-
nium, and will shortly be planted in every garden and on every window. It has a scarlet tube an
sepals, pure white corolla ; very short, stiff growth, requiring no stakes. A bed of this looks at a dis-
tance to have the appearance of being covered with thousands of stars. For bedding and small po |
this reallv has no equal, and is a decided acquisition. 5s. each. . ,
THE PERFECT CURE.— Scarlet tube, and sepals perfectly reflexed ; good habit and grower, with*
most extraordinary-shaped corolla, which make it one of the most pleasing and curious novelties
the Fuchsia ever seen. The corolla is formed on the ends of each stamen, and measures from tip
tip three to four inches over, and is a very attractive and amuBing variety. 5s. each, the set ot to
for £1. Is. Ready to send out on the 1st of May. , ,
MONSTER.—This is the largest ever sent out, the corolla measuring from two to two and a halt incne>
over, and is as large as a Rose ; scarlet tube and sepals, very rich violet-purple corolla, very stio > •
stiff habit. On account of its immense blooms and good growth, and being an abundant bloomer,
is the most saleable Fuchsia ever sent out. 7s. 6d. each. , , u
The demand being so great for this, H. C. finds it impossible to get sufficient stock of it to send
out before the 1st of July.
NEW TROP.S10LUMS COMPACTUM.
FOB BEDDING AND BIBBON BOBDEBING.
LUTEUM IMPROVED.— Immense improvement upon the one sent out last season. Beautiful bngh f
yellow, for bedding, etc. No Calceolaria is near an equal to this for its continual and abundance
bloom. Is. 6d. each. , _
THE MOOR. — In every way equal to the above ; colour, deep-dark maroon-crimson, a grand new co o
for bedding ; has long been required for geometric gardens. Is. 6d. each. , - nS
SCARLET GEM.— For its beautiful colour and dwarf compact habit, and continual massive blooming'
no Scarlet Geranium is equal to this. 2s. 6d each. -n.-^.
These were examined when growing in the garden by the Committee, and all were awarded a i?i
Class Certificate.
XO VELTY .— In every way equal to the above ; with a beautiful peculiar mixed bronze and yellow colour,
fine for fancy beds, being quite a novel attractive colour. 2s. each. , , r^a
These were raised by Mr. J. George, who is well known for introducing this new race of bedcu z
plants ; and they are equally valuable for pots, having been in bloom ever since Christmas. All tn
are acknowledged to be decided acquisitions. The following is an
Official Description from tne ' UNITED HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY,' Dec. 8, 1866.
"All these were considered as great additions as bedding plants, and cannot be too extensively gro^'
lney far surpass any other plants in profusion of bloom, and the weather does not affect them to *"J
apparent extent ; no one should be without them. In Scarlet Gem you have a most brilliant and attra^
tire variety, far surpassing the T. Lobbii section for effect in the parterre or ribbon-gardening-
VV. Meale, Secretary. r ,
1st of Ma 36 ' f ° r 65 ' Gd ' '' US ' Per d ° Zen 5 £2 ' 2s ' f ° r 5 ° ' U f ° r 10 ° ; P acka S e deluded. Eeady ° D
FLORAL GUIDE, with fuller description, for Four Stamps.
FUCHSIA NURSERY, WOOLWICH.
Tab. 5640.
DALECHAMPIA Roezliana.
RoezVs Dalechampia.
Nat. Ord. Euphorbiace^;. — Moncecia Polyandrta.
Gen. Char. Flores monoici, £ et $ , involucro compresso 2-pbyllo 2-
sexuali inclusi. Calycis J lacinise 4-5, valvatse; ? 5-12, imbricatse. JPetala
utriusquc sexus 0. Discus fl. £ 0; fl. $ ssepius obsoletus. Stamina cen-
tralia, in receptaculo convexo sita ; antherse 2-rimosae, loculi longitrorsum
adnati. Ovarii loculi 1-ovulati. Capsula 3-4-cocca. Semina ecaruncu-
lata ; cotyledones complanatse. — Frutices tropiei, scepissime volubiles. Folia
alterna, petiolata, penninervia v. palminervia, indivisa lobata v. ao-foliolata.
Stipule 2. Flores axillares, pedunculati, bracteis foliaceis albis pallidis v.
coloratis 2-stipulatis inclusi. Involucella $ B-Jlora, $ oz-flora, latere supe-
riore Jloribus sterilibus carnoso-ceraceis pallidis multicristatis aucta.
Dalechampia Roezliana ; caule erecto, foliis sessilibus v. brevissime pe-
tiolatis obovato-oblongis lanceolatis spathulatisve longe acumiuatis
integerrimis v. supra medium grosse obtuse serratis basi angustatis
cordato-2-lobis, stipulis ovato-triaugularibus, ovario sericeo-pubesceute,
stylo gracillimo, stigmate obtuso.
Vae. a. rosea ; involueri foliolis grosse dentatis serratisve pulchre roseis.
Dalechampia Eoezliana, var. a. rosea. Mueller Aryan, in DC. Prod v 15
p. 1233.
A truly superb plant, one of the noblest introduced for
many years, comparable only with the Bougainvillwce amongst
those of its habit, and exceeding these in the size and clear
rose-colour of its broad membranous veined involucral leaves.
The specimen here figured was flowered in March of the pre-
sent year by Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, who procured it from
Messrs. Van Houtte, of Ghent. It is a native of Vera Cruz,
and, according to its first describer, Dr. Mueller Argan (in
De Candolle's ' Prodromus '), living plants were sent from
Mexico to the Botanic Garden of Zurich by its discoverer,
M. Eoezl. Mueller further has another variety, p viridis,
distinguished by its subentire leaves, and greenish or green-
ish-red involucral leaves, which he states to be cultivated by
MAT 1st, 1867.
M. Van Houtte, and to have been received by that eminent
nurseryman from M. Ortgies, of Zurich ; but I can hardly
fancy this variety being anything more than an imperfectly
developed state of the original plant {a rosea).
The genus Balechampia contains some fifty tropical plants,
chiefly American ; very few of them having any claims to
horticultural notice, though the white bracts and scandent
habit of some may recommendthem.
Descr. An erect shrub, three to four feet high, much
branched and leafy, glabrous, bright-green. Leaves six inches
long, subsessile, narrow obovate-oblong or -lanceolate, long
acuminate, entire or coarsely obtusely toothed above the mid-
dle, narrowed and produced towards the base, which is cordate,
dark shining green above, paler below. Stipules large, green,
ovate or triangular-ovate. Peduncles solitary, axillary, strict,
shorter than the leaves. Involucral bracts two to two and a
half inches long, broadly cordate, sessile, toothed, membra-
nous, nerved, of a brilliant rose-red colour, alternating with
two small ovate, acute, green stipule-like outer bracts.
Flowers clustered, male and female together, with many
braeteoles at the base of the clusters. Male flowers on a jointed
pedicel. Sepals five, oblong, spreading and incurved, pube-
rulous. Staminal column cylindric, pubescent; anthers nu-
merous, capitate ; pedicelled waxy capitate bodies (imperfect
male flowers) are clustered together at one side of the male
flowers. Female flowers subsessile. Calyx-lobes six, erect, lan-
ceolate, irregularly toothed or entire. Ovary pubescent,
three-celled. Style very slender ; stigma obtuse. — J. I). H.
Fig. 1. Cluster of flowers. 2. Ditto of imperfect males. 3. Male flower
and pedicel. 4. Stamen. 5. Cluster of female flowers. 6. Female flower.
7. Ovary. 8. Transverse section of ditto -.—all magnified.
Vincent Brooks Imj
Tab. 5641.
agaye scmdigera.
Splintered-Leaved American Aloe.
Nat. Ord. Amaryllide.e. — Hexandria Moxogynia.
Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5333.)
AoAVJI tchidigera; acaulis, foliis horizontaliter pateutibus pedalibus an-
guste ensiformibus spinuloso-acuminatis supra basin dilatatam paulo
angustatis viridibus albo-lineatis marginibus late albo-lanatis in fills
planis elongatis retortis desinentibus, scapo stricto gracili 6-pedali
bracteis elongatis strictiusculis acicularibus dense obsito, spica elon-
gata stricta sublaxiflora, floribus viridibus 2-3-nis, fasciculis subsessili-
bus bractea filiformi subtensis, ovario cylindrico pollicari glaber-
riuio, periantbii tubo subinfundibuliformi ovario a»quilongo, lobis
lineari-oblongis revolutis acutis tubo a?quilongis, filamentis subulatis
perianthio aequilongis strictis, antheris lineari-elongatis.
Agave scbidigera. Lemaire in Verschqffelt Cat. 1861 ; Compte Rendu Soc.
Roy. d'Aqric. et Bot. Gand, 1861 ; lllust. Rortic. v. 8. sub t. 287, et
v. 9. t. 330.
Agave filifera, var. pannosa et var. adornata. Scheidw. in Compte Rendu
Soe. Roy. Agric. et Bot., et in C. Koeli, Wochenschr. n. 36. 1861.
The remarkable plant here figured was introduced into
Europe in 1861, from Mexico, by Mr. Verschaffelt, of Ghent,
and its foliage was figured in the • Illustration Horticole ' of
the following year, where it is also described by M. Lemaire.
on whose authority our synonyms and quotations rest. Our
specimen flowered in January in Mr. Williams's establish-
ment, Paradise Nursery, Ilolloway, where the drawing was
executed by Mr. Fitch. As a species, M. Lemaire states
that it is so very closely allied to A. filifera, that he was
at first disposed to regard it as a variety of that plant,
but that it differs in the more linear (less oblong) leaves,
more dilated at the base, their less pungent tips, and the
very much thicker, broader, woolly, torn edges of the leaf,
MAY 1ST, 18G7.
while, according to the figure of the A. filifera in the ' Revue
Horticole,' the corolla-lobes of that plant are shorter.
Descr. Stem none. Leaves forming a low subhemisphe-
rical mass ; lower spreading and recurved ; upper suherect,
about one foot long, narrow linear-ensiform, with red sub-
pungent apices, dilated at the base and slightly contracted
above it ; with irregular longitudinal broad white bands on
both surfaces, and white edges, from which are given off
woolly recurved flattened broad filaments, one to three
inches long. Scape strict, erect, about six feet high, lower
third covered with numerous erect or recurved subulate red-
brown bracts, two inches long and upwards. Spike rather
slender, very many-flowered, cylindric. Flowers, including
the stamens, three and a half inches long, green, with yellow
anthers, rather dense, in fascicles of two or three, each fas-
cicle subtended by a filiform red flexuous bract. Pedicels
very short, with very small broad bracteoles. Ovary cylin-
dric, glabrous. Perianth tube as long and broad as the
ovary, lobes as long as the tube, linear, acute, re volute.
Filaments strict, subulate, one inch long ; anthers nearly as
long, linear-elongate. Stigma obtusely three-lobed. /. B. H.
Fig. 1. Eeduced figure of entire plant. 2. Leaf, nat. size. 3. Flowers,
nat. size.
564-2.
"W. Fitch, deLetlith
Tab. 5642.
GOMPHIA Theophrasta.
Thcophrasta-like Gomphia.
Nat. Ord. Ochnace2e. — Decandbia Mono&ynia.
Gen. Char. Sepala 5, docidua. Fetala 5, calyce paulo longiora, obovata,
uuguiculata, itubricata. Torus crassus, lobatus, in gynophorum elevatus.
Stamina 10, basi tori inserta, erecta, conniventia ; antherte sessiles, poris
dehiscentes. Ovarium profimde 5-G-partitum ; styli arete connati, stigmate
simplici ; ovula in loculis solitaria, a basi adsceudentia. Drupes 5 v.
abortu pauciores, toro ampliato sessiles. Semen erectum; testa membra-
nacea; cotyledones carnosse, plano-convexae ; radicula brevissima, ad bilum
deseendens. — Arbores v. frutices (/laberrimce. Folia alterna, persistentia,
simplicia, coriacea, nitida, argute serrata, nervis creberrimis. Stipula? libera
v. connatte. Panicula? v. racemi terminates v. terminates et axillares, brae-
teatce. Flores lutei, pedieellis basi articulatis.
Gomphia Theophrasta ; foliis pedalibua brevissime petiolatis elongato-
ovato-lanceolatis accuminatis serrulatis supra basin obtusum integerri-
mis, paniculis ramosis ramis suberectis basi bracteis 2 subulatis sti-
puhrlbrmibus auctis, fasciculis 2-5-floris, floribus ^un. diam., pedieellis
gracilibus curvis ebracteolatia, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis subacutia
pallide viridibus, petalis oblongo-ovatis obtusis.
Gomphia Theophrasta. Lind. Hort. Cat. 1859.
Wolkensteinia Theophrasta. Beqel in GartenpZ. v. 14 (1865). p. 131. t.
171.
Of the large and handsome genus Gomphia, containing
upwards of eighty species, almost all of them American, and
distinguished for their glossy foliage, and many for their
beautiful flowers, not half-a-dozen have been introduced into
Europe, and only one, G. olivceformis (Tab. 52G2), has
hitherto been figured from living specimens in this country ;
yet no plants can be more suited for stove decoration,
whether for the persistence of their bright, shining, ever-
green foliage, or the golden colour of their inflorescence.
67. Theophrasta was introduced by Mr. Linden's collectors
from South America, but of its exact native country I have
no information. It is allied to the Brazilian 67. casfaneafolia,
DC, but differs conspicuously in the very much longer leaves.
may 1st, 1S67.
attenuated to an obtuse base, with the margins quite entire
for an inch above the petiole, and in other points.
Desck. A small stove shrub, probably becoming a bush or
small tree in its native country. Leaves crowded at the apex
of the stem, a foot long, three inches broad, spreading and
recurved, on very short thick petioles a quarter of an inch
long, acuminate, acutely serrulate from an inch above the
base to the tip, oblong-lanceolate, almost linear below,
rounded at the very base, not very coriaceous ; veins nume-
rous, arching. Panicle a foot long, copiously branched;
branches stout, ascending, with two subulate stipuliform
bracts at the base. Flowers one-third of an inch in dia-
meter, in clusters of two to five on the branches of the
panicle ; pedicels spreading, slender, curved, without bracts.
Sepals linear- oblong, obtuse, pale yellow-green. Petals
golden-yellow, rather longer than the sepals, ovate-oblong,
obtuse. J. I). H.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 4. Transverse section of
ovary : — all magnified.
sm.
WfitdvaeLetTith
"Vincent Brooks, Imp .
Tab. 5643.
EPIDEKDKUM ebtjknbtjm.
Ivory-flowered Epidendrum.
Nat. Ord. Orchide^e. — Gynandria Diandria.
Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5336.)
Epidendrtjm (Euepidendrum) eburneum ; caulibus erectia fasciculatis
teretibus foliosis, foliis oblongia lineari-oblongisve planiusculis obtusis
coriaceia enerviis, racemo termin:ili 4-6-floro brevi inclinato, bracteia
parvis viridibus late ovato-triansularibus, aepalia lineari-lanceolatis
acuminatia integerrimia pallide citrinia, petalis angustioribus, labeJlo
ungue columnae adnato lamina ampla cordato-rotundata acuta inte-
gerrima planiuscula eburnea baai 2-tuberculata, columna crasaiuscula
apice truncata sub-5-dentata.
Epidejtdruh eburneum. Reichenb. fil. in Gard. Chron. 18G7, p. 404.
A handsome stove Orchid, discovered by Mr. P. Hender-
son, of the Royal Mail Packet Company's service, by whom
it was sent to T. R. Tuffnell, Esq., of Spring Grove, Isleworth.
It was found within a few miles of Colon, in Panama, grow-
ing in swamps, close by the railway, and flowered with Mr.
Tuffnell in December, 1866. It belongs to the subsection
" plain [folia racemosa" of the section Euepidendrum in Lind-
ley's arrangement of this vast and difficult genus, as given in
his ' Folia Orchidacea,' but is wholly different from all de-
scribed species, and from any preserved in the Lindleyan or
Hookerian Herbaria at Kew. Though wanting the gorgeous
colours of so many stove Orchids, its good foliage and ivory-
white lip recommend it for cultivation.
Descr. Stems tufted, one to two feet high, terete, leafy, as
thick above as a swan's quill, more slender below, deep green.
Leaves alternate, spreading, plane, three and a half to four
and a half inches long, and an inch and a quarter broad,
linear-oblong, obtuse, amplexicaul, very coriaceous, with an
impressed costa but no nerves, dark green on both surfaces.
Raceme terminal, without spathes or membranous bracts,
siat 1st, 1S67.
four- to six-flowered; rachis inclined, stout, green, terete.
Bracts minute, green, broadly triangular-ovate. Ovary gibbous,
pedicelled. Sepals an inch and three-quarters long, spreading,
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire, and. as well as the
equally long but narrower petals, of a pale citron-green colour.
Lip sessile on the apex of the column, orbicular-cordate, an
inch and a quarterto an inch and a half in diameter, ivory-
white, slightly concave, subacute, quite entire, smooth, with
two small yellow calli at its base. Column stout, truncate
and five-toothed in fruit, white like the lip. — J. I). II
Fig. 1. Ovary and column. 2 and 3. Pollinia : — magnified.
5644.
Wfitch,ael.et"tLth.
Yfrteert. Brooks, imp .
Tab. 5644
MYETUS Cheken.
Chequen of Chili.
Nat. Ord. Myetace.e. — Poltandkia Monogtnia.
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus turbinatus, adnatus, ultra ovarium vix aut
breviter productus ; lobi 4-5, imbricati v. aperti. Petala 4-5, patentia.
Stamina oc, cc-seriata, libera ; authera? basifixae, rimisdehiscentes. Ovarium
perfecte v. imperfecte liberum, 2-3- rarius 4-loculare ; stylus filiformis,
stimulate parvo v. rarius eapitato ; ovula in loculis oo, angulo centrali inor-
dinate oo-seriatim affixa. Bacca calycis tubo inclusa, limbo coronata v.
rarius limbo deciduo nuda. Semina perfecta l-2-oo, subreniformia, testa
ossea Crustacea v. membranacea ; embryo hippocrepicus v. parum involutus,
radiculalongissimatereti, cotyledonibus multo brevioribus nunc minimis. —
Erutices, rarius arbores. Folia opposita. Pedunculi axillares, scepius
graciles, 1-3-7- rarius ao-flori.
Myrttjs (Luma) Cheken ; fruticosa, dense foliosa, ramulis glabris pube-
rulis tomentosisve obscure 4-gonis ibliisque glanduloso-punctatis, foliis
patulis breviter petiolatis elliptico- v. oblongo-ovatis apiculatis basi
obtusis acutisve utrinque glaberrimis nervis paucis indistinctis, pedun-
culis 1-floris foliis longioribus brevioribusve, bracteolis infra calycem
subulatis, floribus \ unc. diam. albis 4-meris, calycis lobis petalisque
orbicularis, petalis glabris ciliolatisve.
Myktus Cheken. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 2. p. 85, excl. syn.
Eugenia Cheken. DC. JProdr. v.3. p.276. Hook, et Am. Bot. Beech. Voy.
56. C. Gay, Fl. Chil. v. 2. p. 390.
Luma Cheken. A. Gray, Bot. IF. S. Expl. Exped. v. 1. p. 536. t. 66.
This is one of those pretty evergreen Chilian plants, so
suitable for walls in all the milder parts of England, and for
greenhouse decoration everywhere, but which is apt to be
cut by a winter's cold below the average, and burnt by a
long summer's drought, on the eastern side of the kingdom.
Its nearest affinity is with the Myrtus Luma {Eugenia Luma.
supra, Tab. 5040), which, indeed, is united (perhaps rightly)
with it as a variety by A. Gray, but that plant has more
distinctly apiculate leaves and usually three-flowered pedun-
cles.
mat 1st. 1S67.
Myrtus Cheken has been for some years in cultivation, and
was introduced from Chili, I believe, by Messrs. Veitch.
The plant from which the accompanying drawing was made
flowered in Kew in July, 1866. In Chili it is in great re-
pute as a medicine in cases of inflammation of the eyes, in
diarrhoea, and in other disorders.
Desck. A small, densely-leafy, much branched shrub.
Branchlets obscurely tetragonous, glabrous pubescent or
tomentose, covered with glandular dots. Leaves close-set,
shortly petioled, one-third of an inch long, oblong-ovate or
oblong, obtuse, apiculate or subacute, nearly flat, quite
glabrous, nerves obscure. Peduncles solitarv, usually one-
flowered, shorter or longer than the leaves, slender. Flower
two-thirds of an inch in diameter, white. Calyx tube turbi-
nate, with two subulate bracts at the base ; limb of four orbi-
cular lobes. Petals orbicular, glabrous or ciliated. Stamens
Very numerous. — J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, with the petals and stamens removed :—
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Tab. 5645.
AMABYLLIS pardina.
Spotted-floivered Amaryllis.
Nat. Ord. Amaeyleide.3:. — Hexajtdeia Monogy>ia.
Gen. Char. Perianthii tubus brevis v. 0, limbi subringentis lobis sub-
sequalibus recurvis, fauce saspius squamulosa. Stamina 6, fauce periauthii
inserta, filamentis liberis erectis v. declinatis ; antheraa versatiles. Ovarium
3-loculare; stylus elongatus, staminum directione, stigmate simplici v. 3-fido;
ovula plurima. Capsula membranacea, oblongo-3-gona v. depressa, 3-locu-
laris, 3-valvis. Semina plurima, globosa, compressa, marginata v. alata, v.
interdura abortu solitaria, carnoso-baccata, loculum v. capsulara implens. —
Herbae tropica? et subtropicse, bulbo tunicato. Folia scapo cocetanea v. sero-
tina. Spatha 2-valvis, \-co-flora.
Amaeyeeis (§ Hippeastrum) pardina ; elata, foliis bifariis flore cosetaneis
late linearibus obtusis scapo robusto glauco basi rubro maculato bre-
vioribus, spathis 2-floris, periautbii 5-7 poll. diam. subinfuudibulifor-
mis tubo brevissimo intus fimbriato, lobis subsequalibus ovato-oblongis
acutis pallide stramineis creberrime miniato-puiictatis. staminibus de-
clinatis subaequalibus, stigmate obscure 3-lobo.
A truly magnificent plant, discovered in Peru by Mr.
Pearce, collector to Messrs. Veitch, of the Royal Exotic
Nurseries, Chelsea, by whom it was flowered in March of the
present year. It is certainly the most striking species of the
genus known to me, and even Mr. Fitch's skill has failed to
give full effect to the dazzling contrast of the bright vermi-
lion spots on the translucent substance of the perianth. It
is a stove plant of easy cultivation, and a worthy rival of the
more temperate Lilium auratum.
The genus Hippeastrum, of Herbert, which includes many
American species of Amaryllis, differs from this latter by such
very slight and variable characters, that it cannot be regarded
as of any practical value, and I therefore follow Endlicher in
regarding it, together with its allies Zephyranthes, Nerina,
Vallota, etc., as sections of the great and widely diffused and
very natural genus Amaryllis.
Descr. Bulb clothed with pale brown, membranous scales.
juxe 1st, 18G7.
Leaves bifarious, recurved, appearing with the flowers, and
then eight to ten inches long, by an inch and a half broad,
pale green, linear or narrow-linear, oblong, obtuse, not
striated. Scape as thick as the little ringer, twelve to eighteen
inches high, contracted at the apex, glaucous-green, speckled
with red at the base. SpatJie two-flowered ; leaflets about as
long as the pedicels, one to two inches, linear, membranous.
Ovary short, green. Perianth five to seven inches in diame-
ter ; tubes very short, fimbriate inside ; lobes broadly ovate-
oblong, acute, spreading and recurved, nearly equal, pale
straw-coloured, profusely covered with vermilion spots, verdi-
gris-green at the base, with a dark purple band at their in-
sertion. Stamens nearly equal, decimate ; anthers green.
Stigma very obscurely three-lobed.' — J. B. H.
"Fig. 1. Ovary, base of perianth, and stamen. 2. Transverse section of
ovary : — magnified.
5646.
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Vincent Brooks, Imp-
Tab. 5640.
BLETIA Sherrattiana.
Sherratfs Bletia.
Nat. Orel. Orchide^:. — Gynandria Monandhia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 3319.)
Bletia Slierrattiana ; pseudobulbis depressia, foliis 3-4-plicatis utrinque
acuminatis, scapis simplicibus apice racemosis subbrevioribus, floribus
intense roseis, bracteis acuminatis ovario brevioribus, sepalis oblongo-
lanceolatis obtuse acutis, petalis duplo latioribus, labelli trifidi lobis
lateralibus apertis rotundatis maximis planis, intermedio multo niinore
reniformi medio apiculato, lamellis 3 aureis parallelis totum axim
labelli percurrentibus. Columna clavata, arcuata, baud conspicue alata.
-Bateman.
This, which is perhaps the prettiest of the true Bletias, is
a native of New Granada, whence the Messrs. Low imported
it about the year 1864. In its habit it is so similar to the
old and well-known B. verecunda that it Avas quite a surprise
to me when the spikes of bright-rosy flowers showed them-
selves in all their distinctness and beauty. As the plant is
quite new, I have named it after my gardener, Mr. Sherratt,
who almost from a child has been specially devoted to
Orchids.
As regards culture that, of course, is of the simplest
character. Being terrestrial, it requires a large pot, and
being found at a lower level than most of the New Granada
species, it can scarcely be classed among " cool " Orchids.
The Cattleya or intermediate house seems to suit it well.
Desce. Pseudobulbs flattened, about two inches across.
Leaves three or four, plicated, acuminate at either end,
raised upon an upright, greenish stalk, including which they
are nearly a yard long. Bracts acuminate, shorter than the
ovaries. Flowers of a very delicate texture, a dozen or more
in a somewhat dense terminal mass, bright rose-colour.
Sepals about an inch long, oblong-lanceolate, bluntish. Petals
june 1st, 18G7.
twice as broad, rounded. Lip longer than the petals, deeply
three-cleft, the lateral lobes being thrown wide open and
rounded, very much larger than the intermediate one, which
is kidney-shaped, emarginate, and apiculate. Three parallel
golden lamellse traverse the entire length of the axis of the
lip, from whence a network of veins radiates. Column
arched, clavate, much shorter than the lip. — J. B.
Fig. 1. Lip spread flat. 2. Column. 3. Side view of pollen-masses.
4. Front view of ditto : — magnified.
5647.
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I J
Vincent Brooks. Imp
Tab. 5647.
BILLBEEGIA sphacelata.
Ckupon of Chili
Xat. Ord. Bkomeliace^;. — Hexanbeia Moxogtnia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5502.)
Btlebergia sphacelata ; caule brevi robusto, foliis nutnerosis carnoso-cou-
gestis 4-5-pedaIibus anguste ensiformi-lanceolatis concavis viridibus
remotiuscule spinulosis, floribus in capitulum axillare sessile dense
congestis, braeteis subulatis spinuloso-serratis medio sphacelatis, sepal is
dimidiato-laneeolatis acuminatis integris v. uno latere 1-dentatis, petalis
erectis obtusis basi intus 2-tuberculatis, filamentis breviusculis cotn-
pressis, antheris apiculatis, stigmatibus lineari-subulatis vix tortis.
Brojielia sphacelata. Ruiz et Pav. Prodr. v. 3. p. 32. Gay, Fl. Chili,
v. 6. p. 8.
Greigia sphacelata. Kegel, Gartenflora, v. 14. p. 137. /. 474.
This very handsome Bromeliaceous plant, conspicuous for
its magnificent crown of leaves, each from four to five feet
long, flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in October, 1866,
from specimens sent by Dr. Kegel from the Imperial Botanic
Gardens of St. Petersburg. Though not altogether corre-
sponding with the Greigia sphacelata described and figured
by Dr. Kegel in the ' Gartenflora,' I can hardly doubt its
being that plant, both from its origin and habitat. The diffe-
rences are that Regel's plant is represented as having obtuse
anthers, whereas in the Kew plant the anthers are strongly
mucronate. In Ruiz and Pavon's description the flowers are
said to be purple, which is not the case with our plant.
Billbergia sphacelata is a native of temperate Chili, near
Concepcion, in lat. 37° S., where it is called Chupon, and the
sweet pulpy fruits, which are greedily eaten by children, are
called Chu pones.
Desck. Stem very short. Leaves numerous, densely
crowded, bright green and shining, erecto-patent and recurved,
june 1st, 1867.
four to five feet long, dark-green, narrow-lanceolate en si-
form, one inch broad, concave, not keeled nor striate, with
rather distant spines on the margins, which are recurved,
gradually tapering to the acuminate apex. Head of flowers
axillary, short,' very many-flowered, sunk amongst the leaves
near the crown or at the side of the stem, much depressed.
Bracts longer than the flowers, erect subulate-lanceolate,
spinous-ciliate, whitish, with greenish tips, and brown across
the middle. Flowers pale rose-red, an inch and a half long.
Ovary smooth. Sepals dimidiate-lanceolate, with often a deep
tooth on one side. Corolla tube rather shorter than the linear-
oblong, obtuse lobes, which have a thickened two-lobed scale
or two tubercles at the base. Filaments subulate, compressed.
Anthers linear, with a terminal mucro. Stigmas three, linear-
subulate, hardly twisted. — J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla tube, lobe, and stamens. 3. G-ermen :— all
slightly magnified.
5648.
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Tab. 5648.
STEMON ACANTHUS Peaecei.
Mr. Pearces Stemonacanthus.
Nat. Ord. Acanthacej:. — Didyuamia Angiospermia.
Gen. Char. Calyx profunde 5-fidua, aequalis. Corollas tubus elongatus,
curvus, sensim ampliatus ; limbus ringens, 2-labiatus, 6-lobus, lobis pa-
tentibus v. reflexis. Stamina 4, exserta, infra os tubi inserta, filamentis
per paria connatis ; antherae oblongae, 2-loculares, loculis contiguis. Stigma
2-ndum, lobis angustis. Capsula basi contracta, asj)erma, superne 4-8-
sperma. Semina planiuscula, retinaeulis suffulta. — Suffrutices Americani.
Folia opposita v. infer iora 3-na. Inflorescentia axillaris v. terminal**, laxa
v. densa. Bracteae parvce v. angusta. Flores coccinei, ebracteolati v. 2-
bracteolati.
Stemonacanthus Pearcei ; caule acute 4-gono, foliis breviter petiolatis
lane olatis louge acuniinatis obtuse serratis glaberrimis subtus fuseo-
purpureis, paDiculis axillaribus paucifloris, pedunculis petiolis paulo
lougioribus, calycis pilosuli lobis subulatis, corolla? 2-2|-pollicaris
tubo gracile lobis revolutis, ovario glacduloso.
Of the beautiful American Acanthaceous genus Stemon-
acanthus, very few species have hitherto been introduced into
this country, though our herbaria contain several that are
eminently worthy of cultivation. But one, S. macrophyllus,
(Tab. nostr. 4448,) has been figured previously in this Maga-
zine ; it resembles the present in habit and general charac-
ters, but has a much more lax inflorescence.
8. Pearcei is a stove plant, native of Bolivia, where it was
discovered by Messrs. Veitch's able collector, whose name it
bears, and flowered in the Royal Exotic Nurseries in March
of the present year. I find no described species near it in
characters, but think it possible that it may be identical with
Arrhostoxylum Roenkeanwm, Nees (in DC. Prod. v. 11, t. 211),
which, though placed by its author in a genus which differs
from Stemonacanthus chiefly in the obtuse calyx-lobes, is
nevertheless itself described as having subulate calyx-lobes.
Bescr. An erect, glabrous undershrub. Branches acutely
quadrangular, stout. Leaves shortly petioled, five to six inches
rovjL 1st, 1867.
long, lanceolate, long-acuminate, obtusely serrate, green
above, brown-purple below, with very prominent veins. Pe-
duncles axillary, patent, few-flowered, rather longer than the
petioles. Bracts linear ; bracteoles none, or one or two subu-
late. Calyx half to three-fourths of an inch long, divided
below the middle into subulate, erect lobes. Corolla scarlet,
two to two and half inches long, erect ; tube slender, slightly
curved, gradually dilated upwards, compressed ; lobes recurved
or revolute. Anthers shortly oblong, two-celled ; cells con-
tiguous, red-purple. Ovary glandular. — J. D. II
Fig. 1. Calyx and bracteole. 2. Stamens. 3. Anther. 4. Ovary:— all
magnified.
5649.
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VmcentBr oaks .Imp-
Tab. 5649.
DENDROBIUM macrophylltdi ; var. Feitchianum.
Large-leaved Dendrobe ; VeitcKs var.
Nat. Ord. Oechidb^. — GtYkandbia Monandbia.
Oen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 4755.)
Dendbobidm macrophyllum ; caulibus basi teretibus superne clavatis pro-
funde sulcatis 2-3-phyllis, foliis sessilibus oblongis apice oblique
2-fidis v. emarginatis, racemo terminali erecto elongato apice nutante
multifloro, bracteis membranaceis acutiusculis, pedicellis sepalisque
ovato-oblongis extus birsutis, petalis spathulatis acutis flavidis, labello
maguo 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus adscendentibus reniformibus purpureo-
flabellatim striolatis, interraedio transverse dilatato convexo flabella-
tim maculato obscure 3-dentato.
Denbbobitjm macropbyllum. A. Hick. Serf. Astrolab.p. 22. t. 6.
Var. VeitcManum ; foliis minoribus. D. Veitchianum. Lindl. Bot. Req.
1847, sub. t. 25.
The true D. macrophyllum of A. Kichard, a native of New
Guinea, is one of the finest of Orchids, having leaves up-
wards of a foot long and a spike twice as long : the plant here
introduced differs only in the smaller leaf from Richard's
figure and description, and is clearly a variety of that species.
It was named after its introducers, Messrs. Veitch, by Dr.
Lindley, who seems to have overlooked Richard's plant, or
he would surely otherwise have alluded to it as a close ally
at any rate. Our specimen of var. VeitcManum was flowered
by Messrs. Backhouse, of York, in February of the present
year, and I am indebted to my friend Dr. Reichenbach for
its identification, as also for the information that I), ferox, of
Hasskarl, is another of its many varieties, which inhabit
the Javan and Sumatran hills.
The var. VeitcManum is a native of Java, whence it was
sent to England by the late Mr. Thomas Lobb, one of the
most indefatigable and successful of Messrs. Veitch's collec-
tors. It inhabits the hottest jungles of the hottest climate in
JUjfE 1st, 1867.
the globe, and must be treated accordingly, and even then, as
Mr. Bateman informs me, it is difficult to flower.
Descr. Stems tufted, eight to twelve inches high, terete
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organ to enable the reader to recognize the various grasses."
Loxdon: ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY, W.
Tab. 5652 is unavoidably postponed till
next month.
565C.
^fttch,dfil.etlttK
Vincent. Brookslmp ■
Tab. 5050.
draba violacea.
Violet-flowered Draba.
Nat. Ord. Ckucifeb^:. — Tetradidtnamia, Siliculosa.
Gen. Char. SepaJa brevia, a?qualia. Stamina simplicia. Siliqua elliptica
oblonga v. raro linearis, compressa, poly sperm a, rarius oligospermia, valvis
planiusculis rarissime costatis, septo membranaceo ; stylus brevis v. elonga-
tus, stigmate simplici. Semina 2-seriata, immarginata, fuuiculis setaceis;
cotyledones accumbentes. — Herbse scepissime parva, ccespitosrr, pitbe ttcllata
incanre. Folia Integra, radicalia scepe rosulata. Scapi caulesue nudi V.
fohosi, foliis sessilibus. Flores ebracteati v. inferiores foliaceo-bracteati,
scepe parvi, albi v. aurei, rarius rosei v. purpurei.
Draba violacea ; frutfculus suberectus, raraosus, ubique incano-tomentosus,
eaulibus basi nudis cicatricatis superne longe foliatis, foliis brevibns
laxe imbricatis obovato-oblongis obtusis subspathulatisve integerrimis
v. obtuse dentatis, floribus subcorymbosis violaceis, pedicellis iuferiori-
bus foliaceo-bracteatis elongatis, siliqua oblonga recta v. curva in sty-
lum elongatum acicularem angustata.
Dkaba violacea. DC. Prod. v. 1. p. 171. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 35.
Draba Bonplandiana. H. B. et K. JVov. Gen. et Sp. v. 5. p. 78.
It is seldom that a species of so obscure a genus as Draba
possesses such horticultural attractions as to claim a place in
the * Botanical Magazine ;' but such is the case with the pre-
sent plant, which is further very interesting on account of
its locality, for it attains almost as great an elevation on the
lofty Andes as any Phamogamic plant. It was discovered
by Humboldt and Bonpland near Quito, and has since then
been gathered repeatedly by Professor Jameson, of that city,
who sent seeds to his friend I. Anderson Henry. Esq., F.L.S.,
of Hay Lodge, Edinburgh, and from whom living plants in
flower were received at Kew in March of the present year.
Professor Jameson describes it as of rare occurrence, and
growing in loose rocks and walls at elevations of 13-15,000
feet. It was figured by my father as long ago as 1837, in
the ' Icones Plantarum,' with the remark, u This would in-
deed be a lovely plant to introduce into our gardens."
JUI.T 1st, 1867.
The genus Draba, so abundant in the mountains of North-
ern Europe, is even more characteristic of the Andes of tro-
pical America, where many species, including most of the
finest of the genus, are to be found.
Descr. A densely hoary-tomentose shrubby-stemmed herb,
a foot or so high. Brandies naked and scarred below, clothed
above with imbricating obovate or obovate-spathulate leaves.
Leaves about half an inch long, obtuse, equally tomentose on
both surfaces, obtuse, entire or obtusely toothed. Scapes
leafy. Mowers subcorymbose ; lower pedicels slender, aris-
ing from the axils of the uppermost leaves. Flowers nearly
half an inch diameter. Sepals suberect, oblong. Petals
obovate-spathulate. Pod about a third of an inch long, ob-
long, acute at both ends, very flat, straight or curved, nar-
rowed into an acicular long style. — J. 1). H.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamens. 3. Ovary, style, and stigma: — all magnified.
5651
T v
'
"fciceiU iJrocfe,Imp ■
Tab. 5651.
IPOMCEA Geerabdi.
Gerrard's Ipomcea.
Nat. Ord. Convolvtjlace^:. — Pentatjdbia Mcwogynia.
Gen. Char. (Vide tupra, Tab. 5330.)
Ipomcea Gerrardi ; caule laevi volubili, petiolis pedunculis sepalis foliisque
subtus adnervos laxe albo-lanatis v. araneosis, foliis rotundato-cordatis
obtusis acuminatisve obscure sinuatis integerrimis supra glabris, pe-
dunculis axillaribus solitariis 1-floris 2-bracteolatis, bracteolis brevibus
obtusis persistentibus, sepalis mediocribus oblongis obtusis concavis,
floribus amplis albis suaveolentibus, seminibus dense et copiose fusco-
lanatis.
Of this very fine plant the seeds have several times been
sent to Kew from Natal, where it seems to be known as
"wild cotton;" the first were received in 1857, from our ex-
cellent correspondent Dr. Sutherland, Surveyor-General of
the colony ; and from a plant reared from these the drawing
here published was made. It forms a tuberous stock above
the earth as large as the fist, from which annual stems shoot,
attain a length of ten to fifteen feet, and flower copiously.
It succeeds well in the moderate heat of the Palm stove,
flowering about August. The seeds wore exhibited as " wild
cotton " in the Great Exhibition of 1862, and attracted some
attention as a possible substitute for cotton, the cotton famine
at that time raging.
As a species, I. Oerrardi is closely allied to /. albivenia,
Don, of Zanzibar (Convolvulus albivenius, Lindl. IJnt. Keg. t.
1116), but that plant is more woolly, the stems are tubercled,
the bracts are long and linear, and the inside of the (much
smaller) corolla tube is purple. I have named it after a
most indefatigable collector. Mr. Gerrard, of Natal, who
sent dried specimens to Sir W. Hooker, and who, after ex-
ploring the countries to the nortrnvard of Natal, proceeded
with impaired health as a naturalist to Madagascar, where
he soon succumbed to that pestilential climate.
jui.y 1st, 1867.
Desc. Stems numerous, from a stout woody root-stock, ten
to fifteen feet long, twining, not tubercled, cobwebby or
covered with thin white wool, as are the petioles, nerves of
the leaves below, peduncles, and sepals. Leaves on terete
petioles two to four inches long, rounded-cordate, four to five
inches long, obtusely or acutely acuminate, obscurely sinuate.
Peduncles axillary, solitary, one-flowered, shorter than the
petioles, stout, terete. Bracts very small, short, ovate, obtuse,
persistent. Sepals two-thirds of an inch long, concave, obtuse.
Seeds densely four inches in diameter, very sweet-scented.
Corolla white, clothed with brown wool. — J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Disk and pistil. 2. Seed with its woolly covering. 3. The same
removed :— all hut Fig. 1 of the nat. size.
W. Fitch., del etlith..
Vincent Brooks , Io?'
Tab. 5652.
DENDEOBIUM Bullerianum.
Mr. Wentworth Bailer's Dendrobium.
Xat. Ord. Orciiide.e. — Gynandria Monandria.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 4755.)
Dendrobium Bullerianum ; caulibus suberectk striatis foliosis (floriferis
aphyllis), foliia ovato-lanceolatis acutis, floribus geminatis vel ternatis,
bracteis ovatis acutis pedicellis 5-plo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque
(paulo latioribus) lanceolatis acutis, labello integro late ovato acuto
macula magna circulari aurea supra discum. Bateman.
Dendrobium gratiosissimum. Hort.
A few plants of this pretty Dendrobium were imported
two or three years ago from Moulmeine by the Messrs. Hugh
Low and Co. of Clapton, to whom they had been sent — like
so many other additions to this beautiful genus — by their
indefatigable correspondent, Mr. Parish. In structure it is
perhaps most nearly allied to T). crepidatum, from whence
the form of the lip abundantly distinguishes it : while in the
size and colouring, and general effect of its flowers, it some-
what resembles the otherwise very different D. Dewnianum.
Mr. Wentworth Buller, one of our most zealous Orchidolo-
gists, having been the first to flower this plant in his very
rich collection at Strete Raleigh, Devon, I have great plea-
sure in naming the plant in his honor. He describes it as
of very easy cultivation in the Dendrobium house, where it
flowers in the spring.
Desck. Stems nearly erect, slender at the base, and rising
to upwards of a foot in height, striated, leafless when flower-
ing. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, two or three inches long, sharp-
pointed, falling off before the flowers appear. Bracts ovate,
acute, five times longer than the pedicels. Flowers in twos
and threes, of a creamy white, faintly tipped with rose. Sepals
august 1st, 1867.
oblong-lanceolate ; petals wider than the sepals, ovate-lanceo-
late, acute. Lip broadly ovate, acute, its edges entire, and
its disc decorated with a large, rich, circular yellow spot,
which is streaked with reddish-orange lines. — J. B.
Fig. 1. Column and base of lip. 2. Lip spread out: — slightly magnified.
.5653.
WfttcMeUtlitlY
OmdsJl^P-
Tab. 5653.
mjdgea mackophylla.
Large-leaved Rudgea.
Nat. Ord. Rubiace^:. — Pentakdbia Monogtnia.
• Gen. CJiar. Calycis tubus subglobosus; lobi 5, acuti. Corolla subinfun-
clibuliformis ; tubus gracilis, fauce nuda ; lobi 5, erecto-patentes v. reflexi,
subconcavi, apice 3-quetro iucurvo v. deflexo. Stamina 5, corolla? fauce in-
serts, inclusa, filamentis brevibus v. elougatis ; antherae oblon^a 1 , erectae.
Ovarium 2-loculare; stylus simplex, stigmate 2-cruri; ovula in loculis soli-
taria. Bacca 2-locularis, 2-spertna. — Arbores et frutices America? tropica?,
glabri v. cinereo-pubescentes. Polia breviter v. longe petiolata. Stipulae
magna, libera v. connate, scepe fimbriates v. setosa. Plores in paniculas v.
capitula terminates v. pseudo-terminales dispositi, albi.
Rudgea. macrophylla ; frutex glaberrimus, ramulis robustis, foliis 1-2-
pedalibus brevissime petiolatia elongato-obovato-oblongis v. lanceo-
latis subacutis inferne angustatis basi acutis obtusis v. cordato-2-lobis,
floribus maguis in capitulum magnum densiflorum globosum crasse pe-
dunculatum dispositis, stipulis in tubum connatia dorso intra margines
setosis
Rudgea macrophylla. Benth. in Linn. v. 23. p. 456. Walp. Ann. v. 2. p.
7.1 7
747.
A magnificent plant, and belonging to a genus which,
though containing many species, had never previously, so far
as I am aware, been introduced into European gardens. All
of the species are South American, and the present, which
flowered in Mr. Henderson's Nursery, of Pine-apple Place,
in March of the present year, is a native of the neighbour-
hood of Rio de Janeiro, where it has been found by various
collectors, and is described (by Gardner) as a shrub six feet
high.
Desck. A glabrous, shining, deep-green shrub, about six
feet high. Branches terete, very stout. Leaves very large,
one to two feet and upwards long, very shortly petioled,
narrow obovate-oblong or obovate-lanceolate, acuminate,
spreading and recurved, narrowed to the base, which is
acute obtuse or auriculate-two-lobed, very coriaceous, shin-
ing, with a stout broad midrib and numerous veins. Stipules
july 1st, 1867.
connate into a cylindric short sheath, with two rows of
thick, erect setiform processes on their sides. Flowers cream -
white, collected into a globose dense head as large as a
small fist. Peduncle very stout, cylindric ; each flower one
to one and a half inches long. Ovary globose, pubescent.
Calyx teeth small, acute. Corolla thick in texture, funnel-
shaped ; lobes very thick, tips scarcely inflexed. Filaments
long; anthers included. Style slender; stigmas linear. — J.D.II.
Fig. 1. Stipules, stem and base of leaf. 2. Flowers, both qfnat. size.
3. Stamen. 4. Pistil and calyx. 5. Transverse section of ovary. 6. Ovule :
— all magnified.
5654.
UL -fir
V It *f
Ij kM Ny
W..Etch.deL.etJith.
Tab. 5654
EPIDENDEUM Coopeeianum.
Mr. Cooper's Epidendrum.
Nat. Ord. Orchide,e. — Gynandria Monandria.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5336.)
Epidendkum (§ Spathium) Cooperianum ; caulibus rigidis erectis versus
apicem foliosis, foliis disticbis lanceolatis acutis pedunculo denso
nutaube multifloro e spatba herbacea carinata subduplici orto vix
a?quantibus, bracteis minutis setaceis, flonbus carnosis, sepalis ovali-
lanceolatis acutis, petalis minoribus lineari-lanceolatis acutis, labello
amplo basi bicalloso trilobo, laciniis lateralibus, maximis subrotundo-
cuiieatis, intermedia transversa reniibrmi alte eniarginata, liuea elevata
per discum currente ; clinandrio obtuse dentato. — Bateman.
Epidendrum Cooperianum. Batem., mss.
Cultivators scarcely need to be told that the vast genus
Epidendrum is divided, as respects habit, into two grand
divisions, i.e. the species that have and the species that have
not pseudobulbs. They are also well aware that it is among
the latter that the most describable kinds ai^ generally to
be found. There are, however, a few exceptions, amongst
which must be numbered the plant now represented, which
has a neat, compact, caulescent habit, and will well repay
cultivation. It is named in compliment to Mr. Cooper, of
Alpha House, Old Kent Eoad, a very zealous collector and
successful grower of Orchids, who had the merit of exhibit-
ing it for the first time at one of the Tuesday meetings of
the Horticultural Society in the spring of last year. A
month or two later, it was exhibited at another of these
meetings by Mr. Dawson, of Meadow Bank, near Glasgow.
It is a Brazilian plant — probably from the neighbourhood
of llio — and grows readily in the Cattleya house, but it
should also be tried in the Mexican house, in which very
many Brazilian Orchids — especially divers Oneidia — would,
I conceive, succeed perfectly. The Cattleya house itself
jult 1st, 1SG7.
frequently proves too warm and too moist for many of the
Orchids from the higher portions of the Organ Mountains,
whence not a few of the most popular species have come
to us.
Descr. A caulescent plant with erect rigid stems, two feet
or more high, thickly clothed in their upper portion with
stiff distichous lanceolate sharp-pointed leaves, which are not
quite so long as the dense nodding peduncle, which issues
from what is usually a twofold keeled herbaceous spathe,
the latter not quite so long as the leaves. Baceme many-
flowered. Flowers coriaceous, of a dull yellowish-brown,
with the exception of the lip, which is bright rose. Sepals
oval-lanceolate, acute. Petals narrower than the sepals,
linear-lanceolate, acute. Lip large, fully as broad as the
column is long, divided into three unequal portions, of which
those at the side are plane, subrotund, and rather wedge-
shaped, while the central one is much smaller, kidney-
shaped, and deeply emarginate ; the disk of the lip is tra-
versed by a raised line, and has at its base two oblong calli.
Column somewhat bluntly toothed. — /, B.
Fig. 1. Column and lip, seen in front. 2. Pollen-masses : — magnified.
5655.
WBbcli;dfil.etlith
Vincent Broelis , Imp .
Tab. 5655.
gloxinia htpocyrtiflora.
Hypocyrta-flowered Gloxinia.
Nat. Ord. Gesneeiace^:. — Didynamia Ajs'Giospebmia.
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus basi ovario connatus, 5-fidus v. 5-partitus. Co-
rolla polymorpha, tubo cylindrico v. inflato, limbi lobis patentibus v. conni-
ventibus. Stamina basi corolla? inserta, didynama. Discus e glandulis
5 liberis v. aimulus crenatus. Ovarium basi v. altius calycis tubo adhaarens.
Stylus crassiusculus, stigmate 2-lobo. Fructus capsulars. — Herbse radici-
bus fibrosis, propagulis repentibus. Flores axillares.
Gloxixia hypocyrtijlora ; herbacea, erecta, tota patentim subhirsuta, radice
fibrosa, propagulis aucta, foliis oppositis breviter petiolatis ovato-rotun-
datis obtusis basi cordatis, sinu angusto, convexis obtuse serratis
reticulatim venosis, areolis bullato-regulosis, costa nervisque pallidis,
pedunculis axillaribus solitariis 2-nisve adscendentibus validis 1-floris,
calycis parvi tubo ovario connato, limbo ultra ovarium producto sub-
campanulato breviter 5-fido, corolla ventricosa gibba fere globosa
patentim hirsuta, lobis 5 parvis conniventibus faucem claudentibus,
filamentis styloque villosis, antherarum loculis pubescentibus disci
glandulis 5 erectis, ovarii apice libero.
The Gesneriacece are confessedly a very difficult tribe to
classify, and the subject of the present Plate tends to in-
crease the difficulty. In its habit, fibrous roots, and the
presence of propagula (shoots bearing leafy buds), it is a
Gloxinia; in the corolla, a Hypocyrta ; in the glands, a
Gesnera ; whilst in the small calyx it differs from the ordi-
nary forms of all these genera. Many botanists would no
doubt found a new genus on it ; but this I am unwilling to
do for a member of an Order whose genera are already so
badly defined. It must also be observed, that though it
differs in the form of the corolla so much from any known
Gloxinia, this organ presents extremely different forms in
the various species both of that genus and of Gesnera.
Gloxinia hypocyrtijlora is a native of the forests of the
Quitenian Andes, whence there are dried specimens (with
propagula) in the Hookerian Herbarium, collected by Pro-
jult 1st, 1S67.
fessor Jameson. For the specimen here figured I am in-
debted to Messrs. Veitch, who introduced it by means of
their excellent collector, Mr. Pearce. It is a very beautiful
plant, especially in the rich green of its velvety leaves tra-
versed by pale veins.
Descr. A very hirsute and subglandular herb, a foot or so
high. Moots fibrous. Stem erect, terete, soft. Leaves oppo-
site, three to four inches long, on petioles half to three-
quarters of an inch long, broadly ovate-cordate, with a very
narrow sinus at the base, convex, obtuse, obtusely serrate,
costa and nerves yellow, contrasting strongly with the dark
emerald-green closely-reticulated surface of the leaf; the
areolae between the nerves present elevated conical papillae.
Peduncles one to two, in the axils of the leaves, ascending,
and when numerous on the plant, forming a sort of corymb,
stout, curved, three to four inches long. Calyx very short,
broadly campanulate ; limb produced beyond the ovary,
shortly and obtusely five-lobed. Corolla two-thirds of an
inch long, bright orange-red, nearly globose, but gibbous
below, with five very obscure lobes which close over the
mouth, bright orange-red, yellower on the gibbous portion.
Glands epigynous, five, thick. Stamens four, filaments hir-
sute ; anthers cohering, pubescent ; fifth stamen rudimentary.
Ovary sunk in the calyx tube, apex free, hairy. Style stout,
pubescent. Stigma two-lobed. — J. 1). H.
Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Calyx and ovary. 3. Glands, and base of
calyx. 4. Glands removed: — all magnified.
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NNV'iU-AvAftAefLWVh.
VincenL rh'ookrjimp
Tab. 5656.
EPIDEND11UM CNEMIDOPHORUM.
Sheathed Epidendrum.
Xat. Ord. Okcride^;. — GtTnanuria Monandkia.
Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5336.)
-CiPiBEKDETJM (Spathinm) cnemidophorum ; spathis p]urimis foliaceis equi-
tantibus obtusis, racemo niultifloro sessili cernuo simplici vel (rarius)
paniculato, bracteis linearibus, sepalis oblongis obtusis, petalis lineari-
bus, columna sigmoidea, labelli lobis carnosis integerrimis lobis Iate-
ralibna rotundatis, intermedio cuneato bilobo rotundato, callis 2 maxi-
niis lineisque tribus elevatis quarum intermedia major. Lindl. Fol.
Orch.
Ei'iDENimuM cnemidophorum. Lind, Fol. Orch.
This most remarkable plant was long since discovered by
the late Mr. Skinner, who laboured ineffectually for many
years to introduce it alive into our gardens. At length how-
ever his perseverance was rewarded, and he had the satis-
faction of receiving, early in 1864, a cargo of some twenty
or thirty specimens, all in the most perfect condition, and of
which some were sold at Stevens's .Rooms, while others, with
his wonted generosity, were distributed amongst his friends.
Among the latter Sir Philip Egerton was not forgotten, and
from a particularly fine specimen that flowered at Oulton,
and which was exhibited at South Kensington in April last,
Mr. Fitch's very characteristic representation was obtained.
Even this however by no means conveys an adequate idea
of the stately appearance presented by the plant, the stems
of which were when exhibited already some five feet high,
while a dozen still more vigorous growths were preparing to
follow.
In its native country (Guatemala) it is found at an eleva-
tion of at least 7000 feet, and it must consequently be kept
cool, if we would expect it to thrive in our collections.
At Oulton it receives little more than ordinary greenhouse
august 1st. 1867.
treatment, and with me it succeeds perfectly in the Mexican
house. Patience however will have to be exercised, for —
even in Guatemala — it takes nearly seven years to grow a
really fine plant ; but this when once obtained will remain
a sort of heirloom for generations. The roots being very
large and fleshy, it requires abundant pot-room, the pots
being filled with a mixture of broken potsherds, sphagnum,
and fibrous peat.
Mr. Skinner once showed me a clever model of this plant
executed in coloured paper, and which he obtained from the
nuns of some Guatemala convent, in whose garden it was
cultivated for the sake of its flowers. The white background
of these, contrasted with the rich spotting on the inner side,
does, indeed, produce a very striking effect, and no doubt
attracted the attention of the sisterhood. This model showed
a compound raceme a foot or more long, which I expect will
be at least equalled by those of the plant at Oulton when it
flowers again.
Desck. A robust terrestrial plant, throwing out numerous
fleshy roots, and forming tufts of stout leafy stems, which are
from half an inch to an inch thick, and from four to six feet
high. Leaves from six to ten inches long, glossy, dark green
and sharp- pointed. From the extremity of the stem there
issues forth a nodding, many-flowered (sometimes, though
rarely, compound) raceme, protected by numerous blunt,
sheathing, equitant, pale green spathes. Flowers fleshy, on
white pedicels three times as long as themselves. Sepals
oblong, obtuse, broader than the linear petals, both being
white at the back, and of a pale yellow, mottled with rich
reddish brown inside. Lip divided into three fleshy lobes,
of which those at the sides are rounded and entire, while
that in the centre is wedge-shaped and deeply cleft into two
portions, which are divergent and rounded ; its colour lfl
a creamy white, with rosy tints. Column somewhat curved
and club-shaped, about the same length as the lip. — J- -#•
Fig. 1. Front view of lip and column, slightly magnified. 2. Dimi-
nished outline of the plant.
5657.
Vincent Brooks.i
Tab. 5657.
BEGONIA JBoliviensis.
Bolivian Begonia.
Nat. Ord'. Begoniace^;.— Moncecia Poetandbia.
Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 4131.)
Uegonia (§ Barya) Boliviensis ; herbacea, glabra, ramosa, foliis breviter
petiolatis oblongo-laueeolatis acuminatis valde inaaquilateralibus basi
obliquis subcordatis penninerviis irregulariter incisoserratis, denti-
bus setaceis, stipulis oblongo-lanceolatis serratis, peduneulis axillari-
bus pollicaribua 2-floris fl. J 1 et $ , bracteis amplis cucullatis serratis,
floribus magnis coccineo-cinnabarinis, perianthii foliolis lanceolatis
c? 4, $ 5, filaruentis in conum elongatum alte counatis, antheris ob-
tusis, stigmatibus 3 ramis fascia papi]Josa basi continua cinctis, ovario
3-ptero, placeutis alte 2-fidis, aegmentis utrinque ovuliferis.
Begonia Boliviensis. BO. Prodr. v. 15. pars I. p. 287.
The very beautiful plant here figured was procured by
Messrs. Veitch from Bolivia, through their collector, Mr.
Pearee, and was exhibited for the hrst time at the Inter-
national Horticultural Show in Paris in May last, when it
attracted more of the attention both of botanists and horti-
culturists than any other plant then brought to that magnifi-
cent floral exhibition.
Begonia Boliviensis was discovered by Weddell in the Cor-
dillera of Bolivia, and belongs to a very small section of the
genus, to which the (generic) name of Barya was given by
Klotzsch ; the only other species being the B. monadelpha,
Ruiz and Pav., a native of Peru. In habit the Baryas sin-
gularly resemble the species belonging to the subgenus Cas-
par y a, KL, but differ wholly in the structure of their stigmas.
Descr. Glabrous. Boot a small tube. Stem herbaceous,
two to three feet high, sparingly branched. Branches cylin-
drical, green, translucent. Leaves on very short petioles, four
to five inches long by one to one and a half inches broad,
august 1st, 18(57.
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, very unequal at
the base, the larger lobe rounded, acutely doubly serrate and
obscurely lobulate, feather-veined, bright-green above, with
red margins, pale below. Stipules oblong-lanceolate, toothed,
recurved, green. Peduncles axillary, one inch long, two-
flowered, male and female. Bracts green, broadly ovate,
cucullate, toothed. Pedicels one inch long, red. Floivers
drooping, bright cinnabar-scarlet ; S two inches long, with
four lanceolate perianth-leaflets two inches long, ? with five
half as long. Stamens united into a long conical column ;
anthers small, oblong, yellow. Ovary three-winged ; styles
three ; stigmas two-lobed, lobes with a spiral band that is
continuous at their bases. Placentas bifid, with ovules on
both surfaces of the segments. — /. D. H.
Fig. 1. Staminal column. 2 and 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil. 5. Transverse
section of ovary : — all magnified.
5658
^r
^."Pitah,del.,-
^5nceri Brook -
Tab. 5658.
PEOSTANTHEEA nivba.
Sno w-whife Prostanthera.
Nat. Ord. Labiate. — Dibtnajiia GtI'mnospermia.
Gen. Char. Calyx campanulatus ; tubus brevis, 13-striatus; labia indivisa
tructus clausa. Corolla tubo brevi amplo, fauce campanulata, labio supe-
riore erecto subplano, inferiore patente. Stamina 4 ; antherae 2-loculares,
iociijjs parallelis, connectivo subtus calcarato. Stylus apice 2-fidus, lobia
8uba?qualibus. — Frutices glandulosi. FJores axillares v. racemosi sub cahjce
bract eis parvis instructi.
1 ROstaisTheba nivea ; glaberrima, foliis linearibus v. lineari-lanceolatis
niargine (sicco) revolutis, racemis laxis, calycibus glabris, ]abio supe-
rjore maximo, inferiore dimidio breviore ciliato, cormectivi calcare
altero brevi, altero elongato loculum bis superante.
Prostantheea nivea. Can)}, in Benth. Lab. p. 452. Benth. in DC. Prodr.
v. 12. p. 561.
The Prostantheras belong to a class of hard-wooded plants,
the cultivation of which has of late years given place to that
of innumerable varieties of Fuchsias and other more gaudy
but in many respects less interesting things, that now form
the staple of "our greenhouse furniture. There are some
twenty-six species described by Bentham, all Australian.
Many of them are pretty and graceful, and they further
flower at a season when little else that is not forced for the
purpose is to be had in the conservatory. P. nivea is a
native of rocky hills in New South Wales and Victoria,
where it was discovered by the late Allan Cunningham (for-
merly of Kew). The specimen here figured was raised from
seeds sent to Kew by Dr. Mueller, and flowered in May of the
present year.
Desck. A glabrous bush, three to four feet high. Stems
and branches slender, twiggy, upper four-angled ; branchlets
erecto-patent. Leaves one to one and a half inches long,
spreading, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, quite entire,
pale-green, nearly flat, margins re volute when dry. Flowers
attttst 1st, 1S07.
forming loose racemes, being solitary in the axils of the
uppermost leaves, shortly pedicelled, bracteoles linear. Calyx
green; tube hemispherical, grooved; lobes ciliolate, upper
obscurely three-lobed, lower much smaller, obtuse. Corolla
two-thirds of an inch in diameter, white with pale lilac lobes,
and a few yellow-brown spots on the throat at the base of
the lower lip ; upper lip short, two-lobed. Leaves spreading,
deeply three-lobed, lateral obtuse, middle truncate and emar-
ginate, all pilose and crisped at the margin. Anther with
one flat spur that is erose at the tip, and as long as the cell,
the other adnate with the connective, and much smaller.
Ovary subglandular ; stigma 2-fid. — J. I). H.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2 and 3. Stamens. 4. Calyx. 5. Pistil : — all magnified.
5659.
sUitk.
"Vinent Brods
Tab. 5659.
OESTRUM ELEGANS.
Purple Habrothamnus.
Nat. Ord. SoLANACE-aS. — P-ENTAN.DBIA MotfOGYIflA.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus 5-dentatus v. 5-partitus. Corolla inftmdibuli-
iormi-tubulosa, tubo ventrieoso, fauce constricta, limbo parvo 5-lobo. Sta-
mina 5, tubo adnata, rarhis libera ; antbera? 2-lobse, longitudinaliter dehia-
centes. Ovarium breviter stipitaturo, stipite disco circumdato, 2-loculare,
septo medio placentifero ; stylus simplex, stigmate vario ; ovula pauca.
Bacca ovoidea v. globosa, 1-2-locularis, oligosperma. Semina compressa,
albuminosa ; cotyledonea parvae, foliaceae. — Frutices v. arbusculae. Folia
solitaria v. gemina, petiolata, penninervia. Flores racemosi.
Cestrum (Habrothamnus) elegans; fruticosa, ramis herbaceis teretibus
pubescenti-tomeutosis, foliis petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis
basi rotundatia, cymis terminalibus, calyce obconico glabro, corolla?
laciniis acutis.
Oestrum elegans. ScMecht. in Linn. v. 19. p. 261. Dunal in DC. Prodr.
v. 13. pars I. p. 000.
Habrothamnus elegans. A. Brong. Kerb. Gen. de VAmat. ser. 2. v. 4. et
Hort. Univ. v. 5. p. 293.
Habrothamnus purpureus. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1844, t. 43, et Misc. p. 12.
The figures hitherto published by Van Houtte and Lind-
ley give no idea of the size and beauty of the flower of this
fine plant, and these are succeeded by magnificent grape-
like clusters of deep purple globular berries one-third of an
inch in diameter.
The Habrothamnus section of Cestrum are all natives of
Mexico. Several species are described, evidently very closely,
if not too closely related. The present grows at elevations
of 3-4000 feet, and succeeds well in a temperate house. The
plant fruited was sent by Mr. Henderson, of Wellington
Nursery.
The genus Habrothamnus of Endlicher, established as a sec-
tion by Schlechtendal, has been reduced again to Cestrum by
Dunal in the ' Prodromus ' of A. De Candolle, in conformity
with which work we have described the above species.
AUGUST 1st, 1867.
Descr. A large bush or small tree, with graceful pendu-
lous leafy branches ; branchlets cylindrical, pubescent. Leaves
alternate, shortly petioled, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate,
quite entire, acuminate, three to four inches long, pubescent,
pilose on the nerves beneath, deep-green, membranous,
rounded acute or obscurely cordate at the base. Flower in
dense pendulous, thyreoid, compound racemes, one inch long,
purplish-red, shortly petioled. Calyx short, tube turbinate,
green ; lobes broadly triangular-ovate, acuminate, erect.
Corolla tubular, gradually inflated, then contracted below
the mouth, glabrous ; limb short, with five spreading trian-
gular acute lobes ; mouth and inner surface glabrous. Sta-
mens inserted two-thirds of the way down the tube ; filaments
filiform ; anthers included, small, yellow. Ovary globose ;
style slender; stigma capitate, truncate, included. Berry
globose, half to three-quarters of an inch in diameter, fleshy,
deep red-purple, two-celled, many-seeded. — J. 1). H.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Vertical section of corolla. 3. Pistil. 4. Transverse
section of fruit : — all hut Fir/. 4, magnified.
5660.
TfncentBrocks>p-
Tab. 5660.
agave xylonacantha.
Woody-tlwrned Agave.
Nat. Ord. Amaktllide^:. — Hexa^dbia Monogynia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5333.)
Agave ocylonacantha ; acaulis, foliis subsquarroso-patentibus ensiformibua
aeummatis apice subtrigono pungente glaueis granulatis supra plnnius-
cuha subtus coiivexis ecarinatis estriatis, margine cartilagineo albo acu-
leis dilatatis siraplicibus v. fureatia instructo, scapo elato bracteis longe
setaceis numerosis instructo, racerao densifloro, pedunculis pedicellis-
que brevibu?, bracteolis subulatis, periauthii tubo brevissimo lobis
oblongis obtusis erectis viridibus ovario cylindrico aequilongis. C.
Koch, Wochenschr. 1861, p. 39.
Agate xylonacantba. Salm-Dyck, in Bonplandia, v. 7. p. 92. Jacobi in
Otto, Hamburg. Garten- und Bhtvten-Zeitung, v. 20. p. 547.
The ' Botanical Magazine ' seems especially adapted for
the publication of that noble class of plants that few can
afford to cultivate, and which seldom flower in cultivation,
but which are of equal interest to the scientific botanist and
to the horticulturist. Amongst these the Aloes and Agaves
hold, after the Palms, the place of honour, and their value
for decorative purposes is becoming yearly more apparent.
The subject of the present Plate is a native of Real del
Monte, Mexico, whence it was sent to the Royal Gardens in
1846, by Mr. Repper, to whom the Gardens are indebted for
many fine plants.
Descr. Stemless. Leaves spreading all round, two to three
feet long, three to five inches broad, thick, rigid, and succu-
lent, rough with minute granulations, but neither keeled,
striated, nor ribbed, plane above, convex beneath, glaucous-
green, ensiform-Ianceolate, gradually acuminate to the pun-
gent trigonous apex ; margin broad white, cartilaginous, beset
with flat-lobed, white, vertically compressed, simple or lobed
spinous processes, the lobes irregular, often uncinate. Scope
AUGUST 1st. 18G7.
nine to ten feet high, strict, rather stout, green, beset with
long, strict, subulate bracts, two to eight inches long. Flowers
in a very dense, elongate, strict, erect raceme, three to four
feet long, clustered in twos and threes on short, stout pedun-
cles, that are subtended by a reflexed subulate bract one and
a half to two inches long; each flower, with the stamens,
three inches long; pedicels very short; bracteoles minute,
subulate. Ovary cylindric, one inch long, glabrous, green.
Perianth tube very short ; lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, erect,
about as long as the ovary, green. Stamens as long as the
ovary and perianth, erect. Filaments yellow with a red
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5661.
XRrdyiel.etlith.
Vincent lipooks Jmp
Tab. 5661.
COLAX jugosus.
Furrowed-Upped Colax.
Nat. Ord. Orchidia. — GtTNandkia Monandria.
Gen. Char. Perianthiwm vix ringens, in mentum breve production, sub-
gtobosum. ^ Sepala et petala subaequalia, oblonga. LabcHum unguiculatuai,
immobile, inappendiculatum, ungue brevi sublineari in laminam dilatatam
3-lobam dilatato. Columna semiteres, subelongata. Anthem earnosa,
subimmersa. Pollinia 4, obovoidea, caudiculae mem bran a cere elongatsa
angustatse adnata ; glandula obscura. Bostellum 5-lobum. — Herbffl fteth
dobulbosa, Brasilienses. Folia terminalia et radicalia, plicata. Pedunculi
radicales, erecti, 1-3-JZori, vaginati. Flores majuscnli.
Colax jugosus ; pedunculo 2-3-floro, sepalis ovato-rotundatis albis>, petalis
late obovatis albis fasciis purpureis creberrime notatis, labelli viliosi
jugosi purpureo-fasciati lobis lateralibua parvia, intermedio semiorbi-
culari, columna villosa.
Colax jugosus. Lintll. in Hot. Betj. 1843; Misc. p. 51. Beivhenb.Jil. Xen.
Orch. p. 107. t. 41.
Maxillaria jugosa. Lindl. Bot. Beg. 1840; Misc. p. 51.
The genus Colax was established by Lindley upon certain
Mamillaries with less ringent flowers than the majority of
the species of that genus and a peculiar caudicle, though
how far such differences will hold good as generic cannot be
determined, until a revision of this great and most important
Order shall settle the value of the characters now so arbitra-
rily used for the limitation of its genera. Colax is, however,
upheld by Keichenbach, whose authority on Orchidese is
unquestionably the highest, and who gives a very fair figure
of this species in the valuable work referred to.
Colaxjiigosus is a native of Brazil, and, according to Lindley,
was introduced by Messrs. Loddiges. The specimen here
figured flowered in Mr. Ruckers magnificent collection at
Wandsworth in May of the present year. I have followed
Keichenbach in referring it to Lindley 's C. jugosus, from
whose description in the ' Botanical Register ' it differs in
SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1SG7.
the petals being banded with dark purple, not speckled with
crimson.
Desck. Pseudobulbs elongate-ovoid, compressed, smooth
and even, two to three inches long. Leaves from the apex
and base of the pseudobulbs, lanceolate, acuminate, six to
nine inches long, an inch and a half to two inches broad.
Scape radical, clothed with imbricating, rather ] turgid, acute
sheaths, an inch to an inch and a half long, two- to three-
flowered. Flowers subglobose, when fully expanded two
inches in diameter. Sepals broadly oblong, almost rounded,
obtuse, pale cream-colour. Petals obovate-oblong, shortly
unguiculate, obtuse, white, thickly studded with short, trans-
verse, black-purple bands. Lip smaller than the petals,
shortly unguiculate, velvety and covered with fleshy ridges,
three-lobed ; lateral lobes small, banded longitudinally with
dark purple spots ; middle lobe semicircular, streaked and
splashed with dark purple. Column villous in front. — J. L). 11.
Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3. Polliuia and caudicle : — all magnified.
5661.
V?. Htch.dfi] etlith
Tab. 5662.
DEAC iENA surculosa ; var. maculata.
Long-shooting Draccena ; spotted-leaved var.
A T at. Ord. Asparagine^:. — Hexandria Monogtpia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5218.)
Deacena surculosa ; fruticosa, surculos strictoa erectos squamosos e ra-
dice eniittens, caulibus gracilibus dichotome ramosis paucifbliatis
squamosis, cicatricibus squamarum delapsarum annulatis, f'oliis bre-
viter petiolatis oblongo-laiiceolatis acuminatis striato-nervosis, nervia
omnibus parallel's, squamis lanceolato-subulatis membranaceis erectis,
pedunculo terminali gracili erecto, bracteis minutis, floribus in co-
rymbum laxum globosum dispositis gracile pedicellatis, pedicello basin
versus articulato, periantbii tubo gracili lobis linearibus reflexis aequi-
longo, filamentis filil'ormibus.
Dracjena surculosa. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1169.
Var. maculata ; foliis fulvo-maculatis.
This is another of the spotted-leaved Draccmas that
inhabit, and indeed are almost peculiar to the shores of
western tropical Africa, and, with the I), phryaoides (Tab.
nostr. 5852) and D. bicolor (Tab. 5248), dried specimens were
sent home by Mr. Gustav Mann, whilst collector for Kew on
that dangerous but prolific coast.
D. surcxlosa was discovered by the late George Don, when
collector for the Horticultural Society of London in 1821,
at Sierra Leone, and from the plants he sent to England the
figure published in the ' Botanical Register ' was made ;
these however wanted the yellow spots so conspicuous in
var. maculata, and the pedicels of its flowers are rather
shorter; in other respects the plants are identical. It is
very near the D. elliptica, var. maculata (Tab. nostr. 4787),
but has very different flowers and inflorescence.
I), surculosa, var. maculata, was collected by G. Mann in
1863 on the banks of the Old Calabar River, but the speci-
SEPTEMBER 1ST, 18G7.
mens here figured were communicated by Mr. Clarke, of the
Glasgow Botanic Garden, to whom the Royal Gardens are
indebted for a fine living plant.
Desck. A shrub, six to eight feet high, sparingly dichoto-
mously branched, throwing up copious, stout, erect, rod-like,
scaly surculi from the root. Stems and branches very slender,
annulate where the scales have fallen away, terete, with de-
ciduous subulate membranous scales here and there on the
shoots and at the base of the peduncle. Leaves in scattered,
subopposite pairs, and whorled in threes, spreading, flat, tour
to six inches long, one and a half to two inches broad,
shortly petioled, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, finely striated
with parallel nerves, rather membranous in texture. Peduncle
terminal, strict, erect or inclined, three to five inches long,
slender, with scattered sheathing scales, bearing at the top a
globose, lax corymb of greenish-white flowers. Peduncles one
inch long, very slender, with subulate bracts at the insertion,
jointed near the base. Ovary oblong. Perianth-tube above
the ovary nearly half an inch long, slender ; lobes linear,
reflexed, obtuse, about as long as the tube, pale-yellowish.
Filament slender, filiform, as long as the perianth lobes ;
anthers oblong, yellow. Ovary bluntly trigonous ; style very
slender ; stigma capitate, three-lobed. Berry as large as a
pea, one-seeded. Seed subglobose. — J. I). H.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Upper part of stamen. 3. Pistil. 4. Transverse
section of ovary. 5. Fruit : — all hut Fig. 5 magnified.
5662.
\A .«. lith
Vincent r:
Tab. 5663.
BEGONIA Yeitchii.
Veitclis Begonia.
]S T at. Ord. Besoniace^;. — Moncecia Poltandria.
Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 4131.)
Begonia (§ Huszia) Veitchii ; acaulis, laxe pilosa, foliia crasse petiolatis
oblique ovato- v. rotundato-cordatis lobulatis et crenulatis, nervis fla-
bellatissubtusprominulis, scapo robusto 2-floro (fl. <$ et ? ), bracteis
2 oblongis obtusis roseis, floribus amplis miniato-ciunabarinis, peri-
anthii foliolis obovato-rotundatis in $ 4, in ? 5, filamentis liberis, an-
theris obtusis, ovario 3-loculari, placentis 2-fidis, lobis lobulatis uudi-
que ovuliferis, sty lis 3-2-furcatis, cruribus fascia papillosatorta cinctis.
Begonta Veitchii. Hook. f. in Gard. Chron. 1867,^). 734, cum ic. xylofj.
Of all the species of Begonia known, this is, I think, the
finest. With the habit of Saxifraga ciliata, immense flowers
of a vivid vermilion-cinnabar red, that no colourist can re-
produce, it adds the novel feature of being hardy, in certain
parts of England at any rate, if not in all. It was discovered
by Messrs. Veitch's collector, Mr. Pearce, near Cuzco, in
Peru, at an elevation of 12,000-12,500 feet, and the plants
grown in Mr. Voitch's establishments have already given
proof sufficient of their hardihood, by withstanding a tem-
perature of 25° Fahr. with absolute impunity. Unwilling as
I am to pronounce on the probable or possible adaptation of
exotic plants to an English climate, I cannot but believe
that in the south-western counties and in the south of Ire-
land, the Begonia Veitchii will certainly prove one of the
most ornamental of border plants.
A very nearly allied species to this exists in the Hookerian
Herbarium, collected by Man don in the Andes of Bolivia,
near Sorata, altitude 9,000-10,000 feet ; it is, however, more
caulescent, and has a glabrous scape, with larger stipules and
bracts. I have mentioned this as the same species as Yeitchii.
SEPTEMBER IsT, 18G7.
in the ' Gardeners' Chronicle,' but from live specimens since
received from Major Trevor Clarke, I believe it to be dis-
tinct, having a caulescent habit, many-flowered scapes, and
less brilliantly coloured flowers. It will shortly be figured
in this work as B. Clarkii.
Descr. Root tuberous. Stem almost none. Leaves nearly
radical, on short, stout, pilose petioles, orbicular- or broadly
ovate-cordate, concave, obscurely lobed and crenate, four to
six inches in diameter, thick in texture ; nerves radiating
from the centre, very prominent below ; upper surface dark-
green, under very pale ; margins red and ciliate. Stipules
membranous, triangular, ovate, red. Scape erect, stout,
terete, eight to ten inches high, pilose, two-flowered, male
and female. Bracts concave, membranous, oblong, obtuse,
ciliate, rose-red. Peduncles about one inch long. Flowers
one and three-quarters to two and a half inches in diameter,
bright cinnabar-red ; male flower largest ; perianth segments
four, broadly ovate ; stamens very numerous, crowded on a
slightly elevated torus; filaments filiform; anther broadly
obovate, obtuse ; female flower, perianth segments five, as in
the male flower. Ovary green, obcuneate, unequally three-
winged ; style trifid, lobes bifid, with spiral stigmatic bands ;
placenta bifid and lobed, the lobes ovuliferous all over. —
J. I). H.
Fig. 1. Ovary and style and stigmas. 2. Transverse section of ovary.
3. Stamen : — all magnified.
566k,
"WFitch,del.etlnl
Tab. 5664
EPIDEKDBTJM Bbassayoms.
Brassawla-like Epidendrum.
A r at. Ord. OscniBEiE. — G-yna^dkia Moxanbkia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 4107 .)
Epibetwrum Brassavolce ; pseudobulbis semifusiformibus compressis di-
phyllis, foliis oblongis acutis racemo multifloro 2-8-plo brevioribus,
sepalis petalisque subsequalibus lineari-lanceoiatis acuminatis, labello
longe cuneato oblongo acuminato lineis tribus per discum carinato,
androclinii dentibus lateralibus triangulo-semilunatis extus medio
unidentatis, denti medio spathulato sursum serrulato. Rchb.
Epibenbbuh Brassavolae. Bclib. in Bot. Zeitung, 1852, p. 738; et in Beitr.
Orchid. Flora Cent. Amer. p. 36. Lindl. Folia. Bateman in Card.
Chron. (1867), p. 682.
This very distinct Epidendrum was discovered by the late
Mr. Skinner on the mountains of Guatemala, and he it was
who gave me (in 1865) the plant from which the accom-
panying figure was obtained. Professor Eeichenbach had pre-
viously examined wild specimens of the same thing, gathered
on the volcano of Chiriqui, and these suggested to him the
very appropriate name of Brassavolw, under which he de-
scribed it several years ago in a German periodical. But,
although long known to botanists, I am not aware of the
species having ever flowered in England before the present
summer, when a spike made its appearance in the Mexican
house at Biddulph Grange, in which the quaint form and
singular colour of its blossoms attracted much attention. It
grows freely, and will, no doubt, prove to be a popular
favourite, especially when it has become strong enough to
produce such copious heads of bloom as those that are pre-
served in the herbaria. The flowers continue a long time in
beauty, and, though scentless by day, are agreeably fragrant
by night. It is most nearly allied to E. jrrismafocarpum, but
is a far handsomer plant ; nor does it require so much heat
as that species.
SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1867.
Descr. Pseudobidbs compressed, somewhat fusiform, a span
long, bearing two leaves. Leaves oblong, acute, much
shorter than the raceme, which is many-flowered, and some-
times attains the height of from two to three feet. Flowers
nearly four inches across, arranged in a raceme proceeding
from a short pointed spathe. Bracts triangular, much
shorter than the ovaries. Sepals and 'petals nearly equal,
spread wide open, about two inches long, linear-lanceolate,
acuminate, of a rich yellowish-brown. Lip not quite so long
as the petals, oblong, wedge-shaped at the base, acuminate
at the apex, where it is tipped with a patch of lovely mauve,
the other portions being straw-colour ; along its disk run two
or three carinate lines. Column three-toothed, the side
teeth being triangular and semilunate, while that in front is
spathulate and serrulate. — J. B.
Fig. 1. Column. 2 and 3. Pollen-masses: — magnified.
5665.
"WfttcKdeLetlith..
Ymcent tivoo'ss,
Tab. 5665.
erodium macradenium.
Spotted-Jlowered StorJesbill
Nat. Ord. Geeaniace^;. — Monadelphia Pestandeia.
Gen. Char. Flores regulares v. vix irregulares. Sepala 5, imbricate.
Petala 5, imbricata. Glandulce 5, petalis alternae. Stamina 5, cum stami-
nodiis totidem anantberis alternata et basi cum iis in tubum connate.
Ovarium 5-lobum, 5-]oculare, rostratum, rostro in stylum abeunte, ramis
5 longitudinaliter stigmatosis ; ovula in loculis 2, superposita. Gapsitla
5-loba ; lobi 1-spermi, ab axi placentifero septifrage dehiscentea, caudis a
basi ad apicem elastice revolutis. Semina exalbuminosa, cotyledonibus
plicatis v. flexuosis. — Herbas, rarius suffrutices, ramis sape articulato-no-
dosis. Folia opposita, altero sape minor e^ v. alterna, den fa fa lobata v. dis-
sccta. Stipulae membranacece. Pedunculi axillares. Flores sapius umbel-
lati, rarius solitarii v. 2-ni.
Erodittm macradenium ; acaule, foliis petiolatis ambitu oblongis pinnati-
sectis pubescenti-glandulotiis, segmentis pinnatifidis, raehi dentafca,
peduueulis umbelliferis, involucri foliolis lanceolatis v. ovatis acumi-
natis, sepalis anguste oblongis longe mucronatis, petalis obovatis, 2
superioribus paulo minoribus plaga lata purpurea notatis, seminibus
estriatis.
Ekodioi niacradeniutn. Llitrit. Goran, f. 1. Gren. et Godr. Fl. France,
v. I. p. 313.
Eeodiu.m graveolens. Lapeyr. Hist. PI. Pyren. abregee, p. 390.
Eeodium glandulosum. Willcl. Sp. PI. v. Z.p. 628. DC. Prodr. v. I. p. 615.
Geranium glandulosum. Cav. Diss. v. 5. t. 125./. 2.
Geeats'IUM radicatum. Lapeyr. FL Pyren. v. 1. t. 1.
There can be little doubt but this charming hardy peren-
nial plant is the very rare Erodium macradenium, L'herit.,
though it does not agree with the author's character in hav-
ing acute petals, nor with the descriptions of Willdenow and
Lapeyrouse, who describe the two spotted petals as larger
than the others; nor with Willdenow's observation that
the involucral leaves are linear-lanceolate. Still, the habit
and all other characters, including the colour of the flower.
agree so precisely with those of E. macradenium, that it is im-
SEPTEMBEE 1ST, 1867.
possible to separate it specifically by the slight and probably
variable differences above noted.
E. macradenium is a native of the Pyrenees, where it was
discovered by Lapeyrouse in 1782, who describes it as being
remarkable for the extraordinary length and peculiar form
of the roots, and strong, acrid, penetrating odour of the fo-
liage. The specimens figured were received from Messrs.
Backhouse, to whom we are also indebted for living plants
now flowering in the Royal Gardens.
Descr. Boot very large, stout, long, tortuous amongst
rocks, crowned with the ragged bases of the old leaves. Stem
scarcely any. Leaves crowded near the top of the root,
spreading, on long petioles, hairy and glandular, one and a
half to two inches long, oblong in outline, pinnate, the seg-
ments linear-oblong, pinnatifid ; rachis with a toothed wing.
Peduncles longer than the leaves, ascending. Flowers um-
bellate, three-quarters of an inch in diameter. Involueral
leaves ovate or lanceolate, acuminate. Sepals oblong-linear,
with a long, subterminal mucro. Petals longer than the
sepals, obovate ; two upper purple, with a deep black-purple
horse-shoe spot, and purple veins ; three lower pale purple. —
J. I). H.
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil: — magnified.
5666.
W.Fjtd-
"VmcentBroote '-tx.
Tab. 5666.
GEIFEINIA Blumenavia.
Dr. Blumenaus Griffinia.
Nat. Ord. Amabyllide^i. — Hexandeia Mokogynia.
Gen. Char. Perianthium corollinum, superum, tubo brevi cylindrico,
limbo insequali sub-2-labiato 6-partito, lobo inferiore porrecto. Stamina 6,
summo tubo inserta, filameutis filiforrnibus, declinatis v. uno assurgente, re-
bquis declinatis ; antJierce versatiles. Ovarium inferum, 3-loculare ; stylus
3-sulcus, stipnate indiviso 3-fido v. 3-lobo ; ovula in loculis 2, collateralia.
Capsula membranacea, 3-sulca, 3-locuIaris. Semina in loculis subsolitaria,
obovata, erecta, testa ocbroleuca nitida ; embryo axilis. — Herbse Brasilienses,
oulbo radicali tunicato. Polia pauca, petiolata, ollonga, costato-nervosa.
Seapus subci/lindrictfs, solidus. JFlores umbellati, spatJia 2-valvi arida.
(jBIffinia Blumenavia ; foliis subgraciliter petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis,
floribus 3 unc. diam., periantliii foliolis oblongo-laneeolatis obtusi,s
albis, 5 superioribus roseo-venosis, superiore latiore, inferiore angus-
tiore, stigmate 3-fido, lobis acutiusculis recurvis.
&MFF1NIA Blumenavia. Koch et Bouehd ex Carriere, in Rev. Horticole,
1867,^?. 32, cum icone pessima.
A very charming tropical bulbous plant, discovered by Dr.
Blumenau at St. Catherine's, Brazil, and sent by him to the
Berlin Botanic Gardens. It is advertised by Messrs. Haage
and Schmidt in their catalogue for 1867, and the Royal
Gardens, Kew, are indebted to Messrs. E. G. Henderson and
Son for specimens which flowered in April of the present year.
The figure in the ' Revue Horticole ' is so bad, that it Mould
have been impossible to have recognized the species by it, and
as it is, I am indebted to Messrs. Haage and Schmidt for the
verification of the plant.
The genus Griffinia seems to be very closely allied to
Amaryllis, differing conspicuously in the persistent leaves.
Endlicher describes it as having a stamen ascending, which
we do not observe in this plant. Herbert, again (on 'Bul-
bous Plants, 1 p. 228), implies that all are decimate. End-
licher says the stigma is undivided or obsoletely three-lobed,
whereas in G. Blumenavia it is three-cleft.
SEPTEMBER 1.3T. 1S67.
Descr. Bulb as large as a wild hyacinth, covered with
brown scales. Leaves numerous, four to five inches long, on
rather slender petioles, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, ob-
scurely nerved in a young state, as figured, ribbed and
marked with transverse veins when old. Scape erect, six to
eight inches long, terete, solid. Umbel six- to eight-flowered ;
spathes membranous. Peduncles one inch long. Perianth
white, three inches in diameter ; segments oblong-lanceolate,
obtuse, all but the lowest traversed with fine, broad, pale
rose-coloured veins; uppermost broadest, lowermost narrow-
est and pointed. Filaments slender, all declinate ; anthers
yellow. Stigma trifid, lobes acute. — J, 1). H.
Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Transverse section of ovary: — both magnified.
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Tab. 5667.
LiELIA MAJALIS.
May-flowering Laelia.
Nat. Ord. OECiiiDEiE. — Gvsatsdeia Monandeia.
Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 158.)
L.HLIA majalis ; pseudobulbis ovatis vel subrotundis, foliis solitariis coria-
ceis oblongis, spicis 1- vel rarissime 2-floris subaequalibus, bracteis raem-
branaceis ovatis, sepalis lanceolatis petalis oblongo-lanoeolatis duplo
latioribua, labelli lobo medio rofcimdato emargiiiato piano, lateralibus
parvis obtusis. Lindl.
L^lia majalis. Batemm, Orchid. Hex. et Guat. t. 23. Sot. Beg. v. 30. t.
30. Paxton, Mag. v. 12. p. 1.
Bletta speciosa. Hb. Bonpl. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. 1. p. 342.
Hchb. in Walpers' Ann. v. 6.
Bleth grandiflora. La Llave.
This magnificent Mexican Orchid has long been known to
botanists. Hernandez was the first to notice it, and he gives
it a place by the side of the glorious Tigridia pavonia and a
Stanhopea (probably S. Martiana) in the singular frontis-
piece that he prefixed to his work on the natural history of
New Spain, published about two hundred years ago. Early
in the present century it caught the eye of Humboldt him-
self, by whom, or rather by his collaborateur Kunth, it was
described under the name of Bletia speciosa. Lexaiza, the
companion of La Llave, subsequently found it growing over
the whole province of Mechoacan, but failing to identify it
with Humboldt's plant, published it under the designation
of B. grandiflora. Later still, when it flowered in Mr.
Llewelyn's collection at Penllargare, Dr. Lindley, supposing
it to be a new La?lia, gave it the name of L. majalis, which
is merely a Latin rendering of the vernacular name, " Flor
de Mayo," by which the species is known over nearly the
whole of Mexico, and which of course indicates the usual
period of its blossoming ; and although the latter name has.
as regards priority, no right to stand, still, as it has been ac-
cepted over all Europe, it would scarcely be desirable, even if
it were possible to disturb it.
octobee 1st, 1867.
This Lgelia is no stranger, having been introduced for thirty
years at least, and I well remember being present at the un-
packing of a quantity of it that had been brought over on spe-
culation in 1837 by a M. Deschamps, who was much surprised
to discover that because a few plants of the species had been
sold for several guineas a-piece, a cargo of many hundreds
could not find purchasers at the same rate. But however
numerous the specimens, none of them survived for more
than a few years, as was the case with a subsequent importa-
tion of the same thing by the Horticultural Society. In
two or three instances, indeed, flowers were produced, but
they gave a very inadequate notion of the beauty of the
plant which was not likely to succeed permanently under
other than cool treatment. It was reserved for Mr. Ander-
son, gardener to Mr. Dawson of Meadow Bank near Glas-
gow, to produce flowering specimens fully equal to those
that the plant sends forth in such rich profusion in its native
haunts, and which, exhibited at South Kensington in the be-
ginning of June last, excited much astonishment and admi-
ration. One of these is represented on the opposite side,
and its beauty is not in the slightest degree exaggerated in
Mr. Fitch's drawing, excepting that two flowers are shown
on a spike as sometimes, though rarely, occurs in the wild
specimens ; in cultivation it has hitherto produced only so-
litary flowers, but these were more than a span across.
Mr. Anderson's plants are accustomed to a rather close
and warm temperature during the day in summer, but at
night are kept as cool as possible, while in winter they are
allowed a decided rest. I apprehend, however, that a cool
airy and rather dry temperature, — an imitation, in short, of
the Mexican climate, — will be found at least equally effica-
cious ; at all events, in such a climate my own plants are
thriving beautifully, being suspended near the glass on
branch orchid-pots.
Descr. Psendobulbs ovate or subrotund, two inches high,
and bearing solitary, leathery, oblong leaves, which are
about the length of the Jloivers, i. e. fully a span across. Bracts
membranaceous, ovate. Spikes short, issuing from apex of
the bulb, one- or (very rarely) two-flowered. Sepals lanceo-
late. Petals oblong-lanceolate, twice the width of the
sepals, and like them of a beautiful rosy -lilac. Lip three-
lobed, the middle lobe emarginate, rounded, its edges lilac,
and its centre white with lilac streaks, the side lobes small,
white inside, with lilac streaks. — J". Bateman.
Fig 1. Column. 2. Lip: — natural size.
5668.
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iECHMEA GLOMERATA.
Crowded-flowered JEchmea.
Nat. Ord. Bromeliace2e. — Hexakdeia Moxooynia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra. Tab.' 5117.)
Noumea glomerate; foliis e basi amplexantibus sensim dilatatis late li-
neari- v. oblongo-ligulatis cuspidatis 8-4 poll, latis viridibus, margine
spinalis remotiusculis brovibus nigris inferioribus crebrioribus re-
eurvis ornato, scapo erecto folio longiore ramoso viridi-roseo picto,
ramis brevibua undique florif'eris, floribus bracteatis dense glomeratis,
bracteis basi ovatis dein subulatis sepalisque erectis imbricatis san-
guiueis pungentibus, petalia violaceis acuminatis, ungue apice 2-squa-
itiato, filamentia flliformibuB.
Pivonneata glomerata. Gaud. Voy. Bonite, t. 63.
-llopioPHYTuir augustum, partim. Beer, Die Familie der Bromeliaceen, p.
136.
m A native of the province of Bahia, in Brazil, from whence
living specimens were sent in 1863 by C. Williams, Esq., of
that city, which flowered in the Palm House of the Royal
Gardens in March of the present year. It is a most beau-
tiful plant, easy of cultivation, and is very effective at a
season when the tropical houses are rather deficient in con-
spicuous plants.
This species is exceedingly well figured in the ' Botany of
the Voyage of the French Frigate Bonite,' a work which is
unfortunately unaccompanied by descriptive matter ; it there
bears the generic name of Pivonneava, which is probably
synonymous with Beer's Hoplophytum, founded on a group of
Achmeas with rigid spinescent foliage, branched inflores-
cence, an ovoid ovary crowned with the subulate calyx-teeth,
^n almost closed perianth, and erect petals.
Beer, in the above-quoted work, confounds this with the
#• augustam {Tillandsia augusta, Arrab. Fl. Flum. t. 135), a
Pfant with woollv inflorescence, and much smaller flowers,
according to the figure.
OCTOBER 1st. 1867." \
Dbscr. Quite glabrous. Stem simple, or branched at the
base only. Leaves spreading on all sides, one to two and
a half feet long, four to six inches broad, linear oblong,
rounded at the apex, with a cuspidate point; beset along the
margin with short, rather distant, black spines, those on the
lower part recurved and closer-set, dull green, not glaucous
nor shining, nerveless, concave below 7 , not thick in texture.
Scape stout, erect, six to eight inches high, bearing a bril-
liantly coloured blood-red branched panicle, of large bracts
studded with small violet flow r ers ; rachis green, tinged witli
red ; floriferous branches short, thick, forming with the
dense bracts broadly ovoid masses. Bracts rather longer
than the flowers, subsquarrose, ovate, with long subulate
pungent apices. Calyx-lobes ovate, acuminate, pungent.
Petals twice as long, violet ; blade linear-oblong, with re-
curved acuminate apex, the claw with two scales at the
junction with the blade. Filaments filiform ; anthers linear.
Stigma subclavate, with a twisted apex. — /. D. H.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal and stamens. 3. Ovary, style, and stigma : —
all magnified.
>B69.
Tab. 5669.
BOKDELETIA Purdiei.
Mr. Purdie s Rondel eti a.
Nat. Ord. Rubiace^.— Pen-tatn'dria Monooyxia.
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus subglobosus ; limbus 4-5-partitus, lobis ob-
longis linearibusve acutis persistentibus. Corolla tubus cylindricus, limbo
patenti 4-5-fido, lobis subrotundatis. Stamina 4-5 ; anthers fauce calyeia
msertae, sessiles. inclusie. Discus tumidus. Ovarium 2-loculnre ; stylus
filiformis, stigraate 2-fido ; ovula numerosa, placentis septo aduatis affiza.
Capsida globosa, calycis limbo coronata, 2-locularis, ab apice ad basin loculi-
cide v. septicide in valvas 2 apice fissis dehiscens, polysperma. Semina
minima, angulata, 2 v. plura perfecta. — Frutices v. arbuscula> America? tro-
picae incol/z. Folia sessilia v. pctiolata. Stipube inirrpctiolarrs, deltoidea
v. Uneari-lanceolatfS. Flores inter minores, in pedttnculos axillares 3-cho-
tomos paniculasve tape multifloras terminates disposili.
Eondeletia Purdiei ; ramulis et iuflorescentia subsericeo-puberulis, foliis
ovato-oblongis obtusiusculis in petiolum brevem angustatis v. basi
contracta cordata utrinque glaberrimis v. subtus ad nervos puberulis,
nervis plurhnis, stipulis deltoideis, floribus iu corymbos terminales
densifloros 3-cbotome ramosos dispositis 4-5-meris Juris, calycis lobis
subulato-lanceolatis tubo subaequi longis, corolla? flava? lobis glabris,
fauce aunulo tumido 5-lobo aucto.
A very charming and fragrant hothouse shrub, a native of
various parts of Venezuela and New Granada, and intro-
duced into the Royal Gardens, upwards of twenty ypars ago,
by Mr. Purdie, an eminent collector for the establishment.
who was afterwards Curator of the Botanic Garden at Tri-
nidad. Mr. Purdie sent it from the province of St. Martha,
where it has been also collected by Goudot and by Schlim
(n. 17 and 926), and the same plant has been found in
Venezuela by Fendler (n. 586).
As a species it is well marked by the obtuse leaves, which
are suddenly contracted to a narrow base, their numerous
oblique veins, and the large corymbs of yellow flowers ; the
mouth of whose corolla is surrounded by a thickened ring.
It is a free flowerer, and very fragrant.
OCTOBER 1st, 1867.
Descr. A slender shrub, with almost silky pubescent
branchlets and inflorescence. Leaves three to eight inches
long, ovate-oblong or almost oblong-lanceolate but obtuse,
narrowed at the base into the very short petiole, or suddenly
(in the larger lower leaves) terminating in a small cordate
base, glabrous and deep green above, with a red midrib ; pale
and usually glabrous below, with many (sometimes ten to
fourteen) oblique nerves on each side the costa. Stipules
triangular, silky-pubescent. Mowers small, half an inch
long, crowded in terminal and axillary rounded corymbs, pale
yellow, fragrant. Calyx-lobes as long as the tube, subulate-
lanceolate. Corolla with a thickened ring at the throat. — ■
J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Flower: — magnified.
5670.
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Tab. 5670.
THAPSIA decipiens.
Madeiran Tliapsia.
Nat. Ord. Umbelliferje. — Pextandkia Dic.ynia.
Gen, Char. Calycis dentes inconspicui. Petala cuneato-obovata, apicc in-
nexa, Integra v. ob costam impressam 2-fida. Discus depressus v. explanatus,
stylopodiis variis. Fructus oblongus, a dorso compressus, carpellis dorso
leviter convexis 2-alatis ; juga primaria filiformia, asqualia, obtusa, latoralia
inter alas juxta commissuram sita, secundaria dorsalia primariis coafbrmia,
Jateralia in alas latas cum plaga commissurali continuas expansa ; vitta sub
jugis secundariis v. omnibus solitaria?. Carpopkorum 2-partitum. Semen
com plan atum. — Herba3 Mediterranean et Madeirenae«,jwett«tf* v. bietmee,
sapius elatce, caudice nunc valde elongato frutescentes. Folia pinnatim de-
composita, segmentis inciso-pinnatijidis. Umbella; comjyositce, muUiradiatce.
Jnvolucrum saepius 0; involucellorum bract cae paucm parv<e 9, 0. Florea
flavicantes, sordide albi x. purpHrascentes.
Thapsia dccipiens ; caule nudo erecto gracili simplici annulato apice f'o-
lioso, foliis 2-3-pinnatisectis, segmentis ovatis ovato-lauceolatusve in-
eiso-serratis nunc lobulatis, petiolis rachi costaque subtus tomentosia,
umbcllis in panicalas elatas ramosaa dispositis pubesceutibu^, involu-
cri foliolis 10-12 oblongis inciso-serratis v. pinnatiseetis, carpellorum
alia serratis.
Selinuk decipieus. Schrad. et Wendl. Sert. Ham. v. 3. p. 23. t. 18.
Melanoselinum decipiens. Hoffm. TJmb. ed. 2. v. I. p. l5G,exI)C. Frodr.
v. 4*. p. 208. Lowe, Manual of Flora of Madeira, p. 862.
This is one of the most remarkable Umbelliferous plants
in cultivation, and though of little beauty as regards inflo-
rescence, is in habit and foliage an extremely elegant and
graceful plant. Unlike its congener, it has a slender, erect,
annulate, palm-like stem, two to four or even six feet high,
and half to one inch in diameter, bearing at the top a splen-
did waving crown, three to four feet across, of two to three
pinnatisect leaves. It is a native of rocky gorges in the
island of Madeira, where it was first brought to light, in
1829, by the Rev. R. T. Lowe, M.A.. the distinguished in-
vestigator of the natural history of the Madeira, Canarian,
'6 l
octobee 1st, 18G7.
and Cape cle Verde Islands. Curiously enough, however, it
had been for many years previously in cultivation under the
name of Bubon Galbannm (a totally different and Persian
plant), owing to which mistake De Candolle gave it the spe-
cific name of decipiens.
The Rev. Mr. Lowe describes the T. decipiens as a magni-
ficent, palm-like Umbellifer, exuding, when cut or bruised,
a copious, fragrant gum or resin, smelling of spirits of tur-
pentine and carrots, and having fragrant flowers also. He
adds that it is usually biennial, dying altogether after flower-
ing ; but sometimes the paniculate inflorescence alone dies,
and the plant becomes branched.
The specimen here figured flowered in the succulent house
of the lloyal Gardens in April of the present year. It has
perfected seeds since the drawing was made. — J. J). H.
Fig. 1. Reduced figure of the entire plant. 2. Portion of flowering
panicle. 3. Ditto of leaf. 4. Flower. 5. Imperfect ditto at base of
umbel. 6. Fruit. 7. Ditto. S. Transverse section of unripe ditto : — ell
magnified, except 2, 3, and 6, which are ofnat. size.
5671
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Tab. 5671.
EPIMEDITJM alpinum; var. rubrum.
Hell-flowered Barren-wort.
-Nat. Ord. Bekberide^e. — Tetrandria Moxogyxia.
Oen.^ CJmr. Sepala 8, petaloidea, plana, exterioribus minoribus minusque
coloratis, et petala 4 nectariformia cucmllata v. calcarata 4-fariam super-
posita. Stamina 4, libera ; antherse valvulis 2 sursum dehiscentes. Car-
pellum 1, stigmate parum dilatato ; ovula co, juxta suturam ventralem 2-
seriiilia. Capsula siliqureformis, 2-valvis, valva e'orsali minore decidun. m:i-
jorem placentiferam nudaute. Semina pauca, raphe ariilrcformi ; embryo
leviter ineurvus. — Herbae Europse et Asia? temperatae incohe, rUzomate re-
pente. Folia pinnatim semel lisve 3-secta,folio7is denticulatis, caul ina 1-2.
-Kaeemi simplices v. subramosi, terminales v. oppositifolii. Flores varie
color at i.
-CiPiMEDirM alpinum ; sparse gland uloso-pilosum, foliis radicalibus v. cau-
linis 2-ternatis, foliolis ovato-cordatis acuminatis ciliolato-serratis, se-
palis concavis obtusis, petalis interioribus cucullatis in calcar horizon-
tale petalum exterius subscquans productis, antheris linearibus apicu-
latis filamentis brevibus.
var. rubrum; foliis rubro-marginatis, petalis exterioribus rubris.
Epimedium rubrum. Morren in Journ. d'Hort. 1844. Begel in Ind. Sem.
Rort. Petrop. 185G, p. 33. Gartenflom, 1857, p. 21.
A very elegant, hardy, herbaceous plant, equally suited
for the shady border or rockwork, and for early greenhouse
decoration. Originally introduced into the St. Petersburg
Gardens, from Japan, in 1844, and since cultivated in various
establishments. The specimen here figured has flowered in
the Royal Gardens in April and May for several years past.
I find no character whatever, except the rather larger size and
the red colour of the flowers, by which it may be distin-
guished from the well-known reddish-yellow-flowered Epi-
medium alpinum, a plant of which no detailed description is
required.
It is very much to be desired that plants of the habit of
growth of that here figured should be more extensively culti-
vated. Their forms are peculiarly graceful, and suited for
pot-culture and table-decoration; their bright foliage i>
OCTOBER 1.8T, lSb'7.
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ther in-doors or out-of-doors, and nothing can exceed the de-
licate grace of the panicle of nodding flowers. There are
several other species of Epimedhim equally deserving of cul-
ture, as E. macranthum, E. Musschianum (Tab. nostr. 3745),
E. pinnatum (Tab. 4456), E. violaceum (Tab. 3791), and E.
difhyllum (Tab. 3448). All are hardy, all suited for deco-
ration, and a collection of half-a-dozen of the spring-flower-
ing species, brought forward into flower at the same time by
a skilful gardener, would deservedly command a high award
at any horticultural exhibition. — J. J). H.
Fig. 1. Inner petal. 2. Ovary. 3. Stamen: — all magnified.
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5672
Flower i Nat. Size
W i i' h li i el teh
Vincent Brooks. Imp
Tab. 5672.
ARISTOLOCHIA Goldieana.
The Rev. H. Goldie's Aristoloehia.
Nat. Orel. Aristolochie.*;.— Gynandbia Hexandiua.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5295.)
Aristolochia Goldieana; glaberriina, foliia ovato- v. triangulari-cordatis
acuminatis, basi prof'unde exsculptis, floribus maximis, periantkii re-
f'racti utriculo elongato subclavato, limbo infundibuliformi-campanu-
Iato, ore ampliato truncato obtuse 3-lobo, lobis caudato-acumiuatis,
staminibus ad 24, colmnuae lobis ad 12 2-cruribus.
Aristolochia Goldieana. Nob. in Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 25. p. 185. t. xir.
South America has hitherto been considered the head-
quarters of the gigantic flowers Aristolochias, so well known
in the stoves of the gardens of the curious for the fine
colouring of their perianth and their atrocious odour. Of
these, Humboldt, upwards of half a century ago, published
an account of one (A. grandiflora, Tab. nostr. 4368-9) whose
flowers were worn on the head by the Indian children, and
which has often been quoted as (excepting perhaps the Eafflesia
Arnoldii) the largest flowered plant hitherto known. How-
ever this may be, the American Aristolochias are eclipsed by
the discovery of the present plant, of which specimens, pre-
served in alcohol, were communicated to me, in 1864, by the
Rev. W. C. Thomson, from the mouth of the Old Calabar
river, and which I described and figured in the ' Linnean
Transactions ' above quoted, and named, in accordance with
Mr. Thomson's wish, after his fellow-labourer, the Rev. Hugh
Gfoldie, of the United Presbyterian Missionary Society.
The merit of flowering A. Goldieana is due to Mr. Clarke,
the zealous and intelligent Curator of the Glasgow Botanic
Gardens, who received living specimens from his active cor-
respondent Mr. Thomson, and flowered a plant of it in July
of the present year, and the blossom of which he kindly
transmitted to the Magazine for figuring.
NOTJSMBEB l.ST, 1^(17,
Aristolochia Goldieana differs from all its numerous con-
geners, except two others, also West African species, in the
number of stamens, which are about twenty-four, six being
the normal number in the genus ; also, in the three-lobed
perianth, and in the twelve bifid stigmatic lobes of the
column. It has also been gathered in forests near Elugu, by
the Bishop of Sierra Leone, who, in 1859, gave specimens to
the late Mr. Barter, the Botanist to Baikie's Niger Expedi-
tion, and which are preserved in the Hookerian Herbarium.
It was also found at Sierra Leone by G. Mann. Its odour of
putrid meat is as offensive as that of the Brazilian species. —
I greatly regret having to reduce the figure to one-half its natural size
to make it available for the Magazine, — the flower drawn having measured
26 by 11 inches.
Fig. 1. Portion of stem and leaf : — natural size. 2. Vertical section of
side of perianth, showing the colour of stamens and stigmas : — magnified.
56ft
•*V>>
"Vincent Brooks, in - -?-
Tab. 5673.
LILIUM Leichtlinii.
Max LeichtUn's Lily.
Nat. Ord. Liliace^;.— Hexandeia Monogynia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5838.)
Luium Leichtlinii ; caule 2-3-pedali gracili glaberrimo 1-floro, foliis alternis
sparsis lineari-lanceolatis 3-4 poll, longis \ poll, latis acufcis sessilibus
subenerviis ima basi ad insertionem utrinque pilosulis v. villosulis,
nore nutante 4 poll, diametro, perianthii foliolis e basi oblonga lanceo-
Jatis obtusis revolutis, exterioribus angustioribus, interioribus basin ver-
sus 2-cristatis 2-carinatisve eristis carinisve pubescentibus, omnibus
aureis purpureo-maculatis, filamentis stramineis, antheris brunneis.
Bulbs of this charming Lily were received by Messrs. Veitch
and Sons from Japan, along with those of L. auratuni, and com-
municated to me for determination in July of the present
year. Though resembling in some respects L. tigriniim in
the form of the flower, it differs from that plant, not only in
colour, but in the graceful habit, scattered leaves, and crested
inner segments of the perianth. From the prince of the
genus, L. auratum, which in some respects it approaches, it
differs both in the colour and form of the perianth-leaves,
and in wanting the long processes on these which L. auratum
bears.
I have named this plant after a zealous cultivator of the
genus, to whom the Royal Gardens are indebted for various
rare species, M. Max Leichtlin, o£ Carlsruhe, a gentleman
who is especially devoting himself to the elucidation, by
culture, of the numerous species and races of this noble
genus of bulbous plants.
Desck. Stem tall, slender, two to three feet high, te-
rete, glabrous, except where the leaf joins the stem at each
side, where a few long hairs appear. Leaves alternate, ses-
sile, rather remote, linear-lanceolate, acute, spreading and
recurved, three to four inches long by a quarter of an inch
NOVEMBER 1 ST, 1SG7.
broad, pale bright green ; nerves obscure. Flowers solitary
in our specimens, nodding, four inches in diameter, pale
golden-yellow, spotted with small oblong blotches of clear
red-purple, or maroon-brown. Perianth segments revolute,
outer narrower, with two keeled pubescent ridges from below
the middle to the base ; inner segments broader, one inch
across, the ridges dilating into irregularly-toothed crests on
the disk below the middle. Filaments straw-coloured, long,
curved ; anthers yellow brown or purplish, half an inch long.
Style and stigma yellow. — J. J). H.
5674.
"VOitck.deletMi
"Vincent Brooks Imp
Tab. 5074
CCELOGYNE humilis.
Dwarf Pleione.
Nat. Ord. Okchidejk. — Gtnandria MokasdbU.
Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5462.)
CffiLoar^E (Pleione) humilis; pseudobulbis lagenseformibus, bracfcea ob-
longo-lanceolata petaloidea ovavio longiore demum retraeta, pedunculo
denudato, sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceobtis patentibus planis, la-
bello ciliato emarginato, lineis 6 fimbriates disrautibus venis totidem
coloratis interjectis. Lindl.
Pleione humilis. Don, Fl. UTep. p. X7. Paxt. Fl. Qard. t. 51. Zemerire,
Jard. Fl p. 158,
This pretty Pleione, although long since introduced and
figured, had been lost to the country for many years; no
doubt through inattention to its habits and constitution.
Fortunately a fresh supply of plants was recently obtained
(through Dr. Anderson, of the Calcutta Botanic Gardens)
from Sikkim by the Royal Gardens at Kew, and it was here
that the one represented in the Plate flowered last winter.
Tt is quite a mountain plant, having been found on the Indian
Alps, in Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhotan, at an elevation of seven
to eight thousand feet, growing among moss in shady places,
and even on the trunks of trees. Dr. Hooker met with se-
veral varieties during his travels in the Himalaya, where this
and other species take the place of our autumn Crocuses,
throwing up masses of gay flowers after the leaves have dis-
appeared. Excepting Ccelogyne metadata, which is found two
thousand feet lower, all the Pleione section of Ccelogyne arc
easily cultivated in the shadiest part of the coolest house ;
and they form a most interesting group, to which other fine
species, not yet introduced, will, I trust, ere long be added.
They require to be grown in a pot.
Descb. Pseudohulbs in the form of bottle-flasks, from one to
XOVEMBEK 1st. 1867.
two inches long, of a dark purplish-green, crowned with soli-
tary, narrow, and rather long acuminate dark green leaves.
Peduncle one-flowered, at first enclosed in a pale violet bract,
which afterwards shrivels up and leaves the peduncle naked.
Sepals and petals open, linear-lanceolate, smooth and even at
edges, white faintly tinted with rose. Lip fringed in its
upper portion, emarginate, of the same colour as the petals,
except where it is traversed by six parallel veins (that are
also fringed), and between each of which rich crimson streaks
are interposed. Column clavate, distinctly adnate to the
base of the lip, of which it is not much more than half the
length. — /. B.
Fig. 1. Lip spread out. 2. Side view of column and ovary. 3. Front
view of ditto. 4, 5. Pollen masses : — all more or less magnified.
5675
Pitch del. et lith
Vincent Brooks. Inip
Tab. 5675.
BEGONIA Clarkei.
Major Trevor Clarke's Begonia.
Nat. Ord. Beciontaceje. — Mojkecia Poeyandbia.
Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 4131.)
Begonia (§ Huszia) Clarkei; caulescens, caule erecto robusto puberulo
colorato parce ramoso, foliis oblique rotundato-eordatis obtusis lobu-
lars et crenatis nervis radiantibus ciliolatis, superne pallide viridibus,
nervis subtus prominulis, stipulia late triangularibus, pedunculis ro-
bustis axillaribus 2-bracteatis 2-floris, pedicellis 2-bracteolatis, bracteis
bracteolisque late oblongis obtusis, floribus amplis la3te roseis, ? 5-
petalis.
Begonia Clarkei. Nob. supra, sub Tab. 5663.
I have already stated with regard to this lovely Begonia,
under the description of B. Veitchii, that I had, from imper-
fect specimens, regarded it as a form of the latter plant. A
fine-flowering specimen, sent by Major Clarke to the Royal
Gardens, shows a considerable difference between them, and
enables me to give a figure of it here. From a comparison of
this with Tab. 5663 (B. Veitchii), it will be seen that the pre-
sent differs in being a caulescent, branched, pubescent but
not pilose plant, with purple stem and branches, large opaque
foliage, axillary peduncles, and larger, deep rose-coloured
flowers.
B. Clarkei is probably a native of a wanner region than
B. Veitchii, and, as Major Clarke assures me, requires the
temperature of a warm greenhouse. This gentleman had
possessed the specimens here figured for several years before
flowering it, and received it from Messrs. Henderson as a
native of Peru. This is apparently the same as a plant gath-
ered by Mandon, near Sorata, in the Bolivian Andes, at an
elevation of eight to nine thousand feet, of which specimens,
without name, are preserved in the Hookerian Herbarium.
Whether this and B. Veitchii, together with another allied to
NOVEMBER 1ST, 1S6J.
it from the same country, and hitherto unpublished, will
eventually prove wholly distinct, is, 1 think, doubtful ; they
will probably be extensively hybridized, and thus blended for
all but horticultural purposes.
Descr. A tall succulent herb, two feet high. Rhizome
stout. Stem pubescent, as thick as the little finger, purplish.
Leaves six to eight inches in diameter, obliquely orbicular-
cordate, obtuse, lobulate and crenate, pubescent, dull green
above, nerves radiating ; petioles stout, three to five inches
long. Peduncles axillary, stout, longer than the petioles,
bibracteate at the middle, two-flowered ; pedicels slender ;
bracts and bracteoles one-third to two-thirds of an inch long,
pale, oblong, obtuse, ciliate. Flowers two to two and a hall
inches in diameter. Female perianth five-peltated, blight
rose-red ; petals obovate retuse or emarginate. Styles three,
bifid, the arms twisted and surrounded with a spiral, papillose
band. Ovary three-lobed, with two short wings, and the third
produced into a wedge-shaped form. Placenta bifid, the seg-
ments lobed and covered evervwhere with ovules. — /, D. II.
Fig. 1. Transverse section of ovary, — magnified.
S676.
*W Fitch, del etkth
Vincent Brooks. Imp
Tab. 5676.
CYMBIDIUM Huttoni.
Mr. Muttons Cymbidium.
Nat. Ord. Oechide^;. — Gtnandbia Monandbia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5457.)
Ctmblditjm Huttoni; pseudobulbis aggregatis ampullaceo-ovoideis cora-
pressis suleatia basi vaginatis, foliis 2-nis anguste oblongia obtusis
crasse coriaceis enerviis lsete viridibus, scapo radicali brevi, squamis
paucis brevibus late triangularibus, racemo ad 10-flore, sepalis late
oboyato-oblongis recurvis acuminatis intus labellique lobo intermedio
fasciis brevibus brunneis creberrime transverse notatis, petalis minori-
bus recurvis intus brunneis, labelli lobis lateralibus erectis obtusis
longitudinaliter faseiatis intermedio breviter oblongo, columna elon-
gata semiterete.
At first sight this remarkable plant does not much resemble
a Cymbidium, but after a careful consideration and comparison
with the hitherto published species of this genus I see no
reason to separate it : the structure and form of the pollinia
and their gland is the same, as are the essential characters of
the column and perianth ; the very coriaceous nerveless leaves
are to be found in C. tigrinum (Tab. nostr. 5457), but the
very broad perianth-segments and their colour are unique in
the genus in so far as I know it.
C Huttoni is a native of Java, and is named after its dis-
coverer, Mr. Henry Hutton (at the request of Messrs. Veitch).
in commemoration of his zealous services and early death.
Mr. Hutton, a most ardent student and promising collector
(son of the Mr. H. Hutton, head gardener to the Eight Ho-
nourable Lord Houghton), was sent to the East by the Messrs.
Ve itch, and after twelve months' residence in Java, when, as
was hoped, he had become inured to the climate, he fell a
victim to his enthusiasm. The plant which commemorates
nis services flowered with Messrs. Veitch in June of the pre-
sent year.
NOVEMBEE 1ST, 1867.
Descr. Pseudobulbs three to five inches long, elongate
ovoid, with straight sides, compressed, grooved, green,
sheathed to above the middle. Leaves in pairs, six to eight
inches long, two to two and a half inches broad, narrow ob-
long, obtnse, very coriaceous, nerveless, dark green. Scape
from the base of the pseudobulbs, stout, curved with a few
distant, short, triangular, appressed scales. Baceme about
ten-flowered, pendulous, six to eight inches long. Flowers
shortly pedicelled, an inch and a half in diameter. Bracts
small. Perianth ringent. Sepals recurved, obovate, acumi-
nate, pale brown externally, internally studded with trans-
verse, small, short, chocolate streaks or blotches. Petals
smaller, but similar in form and direction, dark chocolate in-
side. Lip subsessile, lateral lobes erect, obtuse, greenish,
striped with chocolate ; middle lobe oblong, acute, banded on
each side of the median line, like the sepals, but darker.
Column long, semiterete. Pollen-gland bicuspidate. — J. P. H.
Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3, 4. Pollen : — all magnified.
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Tab. 5677.
CALCEOLARIA pisacomensis.
Orange-red Calceolaria.
Nat. Ord. Scrophulahine^:.— Diandria Monogynia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 4929.)
^alceolarta pisacomensis ; caule robusto stricto erecto superne ramis
et inflorescentia pubescentibus v. furfuraceo-tomentellis, foliis breviter
petiolatis ovatis obtusis, marginibus recurvis grosse irregulariter
crenatis supra rugosis minute scabcrulis, subtus glanduloso-pubescen-
tibus, cymis in axillis superioribus suberectis umbellatim multifloris,
noribus erectis gracile pedicellatis, calycis lobis late ovatis subacutis,
corolla? rubro-aurantiaca; labio superiore parvo margine refleio,
mferiore magno adscendente calceiformi, antice sublobulato.
Calceolaria pisacomensis. Meyen, Reise um die JErde, v. 1. p. 469. Walp.
in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. v. l.p. 396. Hep. v. 111. p. 162.
This is certainly the handsomest Calceolaria that has been
introduced for many years ; and though, owing to its siy.e.
Probably unsuited for bedding-out in masses, its robust habit,
copious flowers, and beautiful colouring cannot fail to recom-
mend it as one of the choicest recent contributions to the
flower-garden. It was imported from Peru by Messrs. Veitch
and Sons, through their indefatigable and successful collector,
Mi'. Pearce, and was originally discovered by the distin-
guished traveller Meyen, near Arequipa, in Peru. The
specimen here figured flowered in Messrs. Veitch 's Nursery in
August of the present year.
It is very much to be desired that the accession of such
fine plants as this would induce cultivators to turn their
attention to the extensive genera to which they belong, witli
the view not only of procuring new species, but of recover-
ing some of their many beautiful once-cultivated con-
geners. No less than twenty-three handsome species of Cal-
ceolaria are figured in this Magazine, all from specimens once
living in England ; probably not half-a-dozen of these now
exist in any one collection. * Kew ought to possess all, and
DECEMBER 1ST, 1S67.
will, I hope, recover some ; but it is obviously impossible for
any single establishment to afford time, space, and labour to
cultivate everything worth keeping, greatly as it is to be
desired ; it is to local institutions and private establishments
that we must look for special collections ; and if more ot the
latter would, instead of aiming at all the novelties of the
day, strive to form complete collections of certain classes of
ornamental plants, the number of these would be greatly
increased, and science as well as horticulture be benefited
accordingly.
Descr. A tall, stout, erect perennial. Stems glabrous
below, pubescent or subtomentose above, obtusely quadran-
gular. Leaves one to two inches long, subsessile, ovate-cor-
date, obtuse ; margins recurved, coarsely irregularly crenate,
minutely scabrous above, glandular-pilose below. Cymes very
numerous in all the upper axils, suberect, umbellate, many-
flowered. Flowers on slender pedicels, of a rich orange-
yellow, passing into bright orange-red. Calyx lobes broadly
ovate. Upper lip of corolla small, reflexed; lower large,
ascending, slipper-shaped, obscurely iobed in front. — /. D> -"•
Fig. 1. Stem and branch. 2. Flower: — magnified.
56) 8
Tab. 5678.
NYCTOCALOS Thomsoxi.
Assamese Nyctocalos.
Nat. Ord. Bignoniace^e. — Didynamia Angiospermia.
Gen. Char. Calyx parvulus, subcampanulatus, extus infra os sequaliter
o-dentatus. Corolla elongato-infundibuliformis, tubo tereti leviter
arcuato; lobi 5, subsequales v. inferiore majore, lati, imbricati. Stamina
4, cam rudimento subulato quiuti, fauce tubi corollse inserta, didynama,
inclusa, filamentis filiform i-subulatis ; antherce loculis divaricatis ab apice
connectivi apiculati pendulis. Discus annularis. Ovarium breviter
stipitatum, 2-loculare ; stylus elongatus, filiformis, stigmate 2-lamellato ;
ovula numerosa, placentis secus marginea septi affixis sub-2-seriatim inserta.
Capsula lanceolata, plana, septifraga, valvis medio carinatis crasse coriaceis.
uemina . . . . — Frutiees alte scandentes, glabri. Folia opposifa, 3-jfbliolafa,
joliolis integerrimis. Flores speciosi, in cymas longe pedunculatas dispositi.
Ni'Ctocalos Thomson* j foliolis ovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis longe acumi-
natis, pedunculis terminalibus, floribus 7-pollicaribus albis.
We have long had in the Herbarium specimens of this
very handsome Bignoniaceous plant, which differs wholly in
habit from any Asiatic genus hitherto described, and were
gathered on the Miku hills, near Gowahatty, in Assam, by
Mr. Simons. It was not, however, till about six years ago
that living plants were received from Dr. Thomson, F.RS.,
then Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, and these
have flowered during the present year in the Victoria House,
at Kew. Though differing in having four stamens instead of
five, and these didynamous, it is no doubt a species of the
Javanese genus Nyctocalos, of Teijsman and Binnendyk, first
published in Miquels ' Journal de Botanique ' (vol. i. p. 366),
and figured in 1863 by the same author in his great folio
work, ' Choix des Plantes Rares ou Nouvelles Cultivees et
Dessinees dans le Jardin Botanique de Buitcnzorg.' The
Assam species resembles the Javanese entirely in foliage,
but has much larger and terminal white flowers, those of
N. brunsfekin-florns being only three inches long, of a
pale pinkish-purple, and disposed in axillary cymes. The
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regular corolla and five equal stamens attributed to the
Javanese plant are characters which we should like to see
confirmed.
Descr. A tall, glabrous climber ; branches slender, terete
Leaflets four to six inches long, petiolulate, ovate- or oblong-
lanceolate, long-acuminate, membranous, flowers erect, in
short, four- to five-flowered cymes, which are borne on
slender, terminal, pendulous peduncles as long as the flowers
themselves. Pedicels short, thick, with minute acute
bracteoles. Calyx green, with five red-brown teeth on the
outside below the margin. Corolla seven inches long, pure
white, expanding at night and dropping next morning ; lobes
five, very broad and obtuse or retuse, two upper smaller,
approximate, lower largest and two-lobed. Anthers yellow.
Pod six inches long and two inches broad, quite flat.— =-*7i D. II
Fig. 1. Portion of corolla and stamens. 2. Calyx, cut open and showing
the ovary. 3. Transverse section of ovary. 4. Pod : — all but Fi'j. 4
magnified.
i679.
"Vincent Brook
Tab. 5679.
DENDEOBIUM Benson.
Mrs. Benson 's Bendrobe.
Nat. Oi-d. Okchidej;. — Gtnanbria Monanbeia.
Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 4755.)
-Uendkobium Bensonice ; oaulibus suberectis striatia (floriferis aphyllis)
teretiusculis, nodis non tumidis, folds linearibus acutia emarginatisve,
floribus ad nodos solitariis v. in pedunculis 2-3-iIoris dispositis,
bracteis minutis acutis, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis albis,
petalis late oblongo-rotundatis albis, labello orbiculato concavo inte^ro
albo, disco tomentoso lsete aureo maculis 2 purpureis basin versus
notato, marginibus denticulatis.
This beautiful plant belongs to a puzzling set of Den-
drobcs. natives of the Malayan peninsula, Burma, and Assam,
of which I). Bierardi (Tab. 2584) is the oldest known
member, and I), crcpidatum (Tab. 4993 et 5011), B. nodatum
(Tab. 5470), and I). Bullerianum (Tab. 5652), more recently
discovered members. To the B. nodatum the present is, indeed,
most closely allied, but differs in the much larger flowers,
broader petals, and orbicular labellum, which is rounded at
the apex. That intermediate forms, connecting some of these
together and with others, will be found, cannot be doubted ;
meanwhile, as objects of cultivation they differ materially,
and it is most important that they should be well figured
for ulterior botanical purposes.
B. Bensonice is a native of Moulmein, and was sent to
Messrs. Veitch by an indefatigable collector and horti-
culturist, Colonel Benson, after whose lady it is named at
his own request. Along with it Colonel Benson has sent, as
a smaller form, a plant with more acute petals and sepals,
and a tendency to have a pointed lip ; this is probably refer-
able to B. nodatum.
Descr. Stems tufted, one to three feet long, suberect and
pendulous, terete, nodes not tumid, internodes one inch long,
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concealed by the membranous sheath. Leaves few, on sepa-
rate stems from the flower, linear, acute or emarginate, two
to three inches long, one-third of an inch broad, keeled.
Flower produced at the joints, usually two or three on a
common peduncle, rarely solitary ; bracts and bracteoles very
small, acute, pale green, as are the peduncles and pedicels.
Flowers two inches in diameter, snow-white, except the lip,
which has a broad, deep golden-yellow disk, and two purple
spots near the base. Sepals oblong, obtuse. Petals much
broader, almost orbicular. Lip orbicular, contracted to a
short, convolute neck; edges denticulate, surface concave,
finely tomentose. Column very short. — J. I). H.
Fig. 1. Column and mentum. 2. Lip: — magnified.
5680
"W. Fitch, del. etHth.
cs.Imp.
Tab. 5680.
BEGONIA hosjsploea.
Hose-flowered Begonia.
Nat. Ord. BEGcmiACE;E. — Motstceoia. Poltawdbia.
Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 4131.)
Begonia (§ Huszia) rosaflora; acaulis, foliis omnibus radicalibus crasse
petiolatis orbiculari-reuiformibus basi profunde 2-Iobis conoavis, niar-
ginibus recurvis lobulatis dentatis ciliolatis rubro-marginatis, supra
nervis radiantibus impressis bullatis, subtus pallidis, nervis robustis
pilosis, stipulis membranaceis, scapis erectis robustis laxe villosis
rubris sub-3-floris, bracteis bracteolisque late oblongia obtusis, floribus
amplis breviuscule pedicellatis 5-petalis, petalis late roseis orbicu-
laris emarginatis, filamentis liberis, antheris brevibus latis obtusis,
ovario 3-loculari piloso, placentis 2-fidis etlobulatis undique ovuliferis,
stylis 3 2-furcatis, cruribus fascia papillosa torta cinctis.
This lovely plant is the second species of Begonia allied
to B. Veitchii (Tab. 5663), which I alluded to under B.
Clarkei (Tab. 5675), and about the specific distinctness of
which I expressed my doubts. In all respects it is much
more closely allied to B. Feitchii than to B. Clarkei, being
stemless, with similarly concave leaves and few-flowered
scapes ; it differs, however very conspicuously, in the stouter
red petioles and scapes, in the broader rounder leaves, with
very deeply impressed veins (and hence bullate upper surface),
in the broad obtuse stipules and bracts, in the villous scape,
in the blunt bracteoles close under each flower, in the more
numerous flowers, which are of a pale red, like those of the
Briar Rose (not the vivid cinnabar-red of B. Veitchii), and in
the acute wing of the hairy ovary. So many and such con-
spicuous characters would amongst less variable plants than
Begonias abundantly establish these species as distinct, and
whether they prove permanent or no, it appears particularly-
desirable to publish good figures of all these forms on their
arrival, and before they fall into the hands of the hybridizers,
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by whom the specific characters, of such beautiful and popu-
lar plants, will doubtless soon be blended.
B. roswflora was imported by Messrs. Veitch and Sons
from Peru, where it inhabits elevations on the Andes of
twelve thousand feet. It flowered in July of the present
year.
Desck. A stout stemless herb. Petioles, scapes, bracts, and
stipules pale or bright red. Leaves pale green, two to four
inches across, on stout, hairy petioles two to six inches long,
orbicular-reniform, very concave, with deeply sunk radiating
nerves ; margins recurved, lobulate, edged with red, toothed
and ciliolate, veins below prominent, hairy, Stipules broad,
blunt. Scapes stout, villous, three-flowered. Bracts and
hracteoles broadly ovate, obtuse, Flowers two inches in dia-
meter, bright rose-red. Petals five, orbicular, emarginate.
Stamens very numerous ; filaments short, free ; anthers orbi-
cular. Ovary hairy, with one short acute wing. Styles and
placenta as in B. Veitchii. — J. P. H.
Fi<r. 1. Ovary. 2. Transverse section of ditto. 3 and 4. Stamens : — all
magnified.
5681
s
WFitah.delet Mi
Vincent Brooks, Imp .
Tab. 5681.
SACCpLABIUM Huttoni.
Mr. Mutton's Saccolabium.
Xat. Ord. Orchide^e. — Gtynaxdria Monandria.
Gen. Char. {Fide supra, Tab. 5326.)
oaccolabium Huttoni; caule breviusculo, foliis crasse coriaceis inibri-
catis breviter loratis carinatis apice 2-lobis, racemis elongatis multi-
subdensifloris pendulis, floribus secundis erectis, pedunculis floribus-
que lsete roseo-purpureis, sepalis petalisque patentibus subaequalibus
late oblongis apice rotuudatis, labelli 3-lobi lobis parvis erectis calcar
obtuse infundibuliforme incurvum rubro-purpureum coronantibus, late-
ralibus subquadratis, interraedio angusto.
Aerides Huttoni. Sort.
It is difficult to suppose that this lovely plant should have
escaped the many zealous Dutch botanical explorers of its
native country, Java, or the collectors attached to the mag-
nificent gardens of Buitenzorg, where more tropical plants
are cultivated than in any other garden in the world, and
named with scientific accuracy. But neither in books nor
catalogues do we find any notice of this plant, which was
discovered by Mr. Hutton, whose early, lamented death was
alluded to under another of his discoveries (Cymbidimn Hut-
toni, Tab. 5676) only last month. It flowered in the collec-
tion of its importers, Messrs. Veitch and Sons, in September
last, and from its vivid colours ranks as the most beautiful
species of the genus hitherto in cultivation.
I have referred this plant to Saccolabiurn rather than to
Aerides, not doubting but that it is congeneric with *S T . ampul-
laceum, Lindl. (Tab. nostr. 5595), and S. miniatum, Lindl.
(Tab. 5326); but I must add, that I know of no valid cha-
racters by which these genera are to be distinguished, if T
am to follow Lindley's collocation of species under each.
Desck. Stem stout, rigid, suberect, closely beset with dis-
tichous imbricating foliage. Leaves six inches long, loriform.
DECEMBER 1ST, 1867.
rigidly coriaceous, keeled, three-quarters of an inch broad,
unequally two-lobed at the apex, deep green. Raceme from
the axils of the lower leaves, a foot long, pendulous, rather
slender, very many-flowered. Bracts minute. Flowers erect,
an inch long from base of spur to tip of upper sepal, bright
rose-purple, the lip much deeper-coloured ; pedicels paler.
Sepals and petals nearly equal, broadly oblong, rounded at
the apex, spreading. Lip formed chiefly of the stout funnel-
shaped, somewhat incurved, obtuse spur, the mouth of which
is formed by the three small erect lobes of the lip ; of these
the lateral are quadrate ; the middle is broadly linear and
obtuse.—-/. IX II
Fig. 1. Flower, — magnified.
5682
■ ,
■ ■ .
V. Fitch, del ei liti
cent Brooks, Imp-
Tab. 5682.
VITIS HETEROPHYLLA, Thwib. / var. HUMULIFOLIA.
Hop-leaved Vine.
Nat. Ord. AmpelidEjE. — Pextandbia Movooybix.
Gen. Char. Calyx brevis, integer v. 4-5-dentatus v. lobatus. Prtala
4-5, libera v. apice ealyptratim cohaerentia. Discus varius v. obsoletus.
Stamina 4-5, infra marginem disci inserta, filamentis subulatis ; anthers
libera?. Ovarium ovoideum v. subquadratum, 2- rarissirae 3-4-loeulare ;
stylus brevis v. ; ovula in loculis 2. Bacca ovoidea v. globosa, 1-2-loeu-
laris, 1-2-sperma. — TYutices cirrhi, sarmentosi, scepe alte scandenfes. Folia
simplicia v. composita. Fdores parvi, in cynias thyrsosve racemosos panicu-
latos spicatos v. umbellatos dispositi, non raro polyyamo-monoici.
Vitis heterophylla, Thunb.; var. humulifolia; caule tereti gracili glabro
v. piloso, foliis profunde 3-5-lobis late cordatis sinu aperto, lobis
basi constrictis ovato-rhombeis acutis v. acuminatis serratis, cirrhis
2-fidis, petiolo nervisque pubescentibus, cymis longe pedunculitis di-
chotome ramosis rarius gracilibus divaricatis, floribus minutis, calyce
breviter 5-lobo, petalis liberis, disco membranaceo truncato, baccis
spbgericis pallide cyaneis.
Vitis heterophylla. Thunb. var. f3, Siebold et Zuccarini, Abhandl. Baier.
AJcad. Wissenschaft, iv. v. 2. p. 197.
Ampelopsis humulifolia. Bunye, Mem. Sav. Etr. St. Petersl. v. 2. p. 86.
ex Walp. Hep. v. l.p. 441.
Japan contains many species of Vine, of which several are
now growing freely in the open-air at Kew against the
walls of plant-houses. Amongst these that figured here
was conspicuous this autumn for the peculiar colour of its
lovely pale blue berries, its bright red stems, and hop-like
foliage, which latter character suggested to Dr. Bunge. its
discoverer in North China, the very appropriate name of
humulifolia. It has since been found in Corea. whence dried
specimens and seeds have been received from Mr. C. Wilfoid,
collector for the Royal Gardens, and in Japan, where it was
found by the celebrated Japanese traveller Siebold.
The V. humulifolia was reduced, by Siebold and Zuccarini,
to a variety of the old V. heterophylla of Thunberg. a plant
DECEMBEB 1ST, 1867.
that we have growing close by this variety at Kew, and which
differs both in appearance and in the scarcely-lobed leaves.
By these authors V. heterophylla comprises an entire-leaved
variety (a) and a cut-leaved variety (/3), to the former of which
Bunge's humulifolia is referred by them ; our own specimens,
however, of Bunge's plant, received from himself, have
deeply lobed leaves, exactly as in our figure. Bunge, indeed,
describes his humulifolia as having the lower leaves lobed
and the upper entire, but in our live plant the lobed foliage
is pretty constant throughout, whilst the leaves of our living-
Japanese specimens of V. heterophylla are uniformly entire,
or only obscurely lobed throughout.
J)esck. A nearly glabrous, climbing, slender vine. Stems
two to five feet long ; branches glabrous or pilose, red, nearly
terete. Leaves on slender red petioles, three- to five-lobed,
with a broad open sinus at the base ; lobes acutely serrate,
middle lobe contracted at the base, dark green and rather
rugose above, pale beneath, with pubescent veins. Tendril*
bifid. Cymes on slender peduncles, sparingly divided ; branch-
lets divaricate. Flowers subumbellate, minute, green. Petals
five, free. Stamens on the margin of a rather membranous
annular disk surrounding the ovary. Berries globular, of a
fine pale china-blue colour, dotted with black. — /. D. H.
Fig. 1. Bud. 2. Expanded flower : — magnified.
INDEX,
In which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the
Twenty-third Volume of the Third Series (or Ninety-
third Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged.
Plate.
5668 vEchmea glomerate.
5641 Agave schidigera.
5660 xylonacantlia.
5645 Amaryllis pardina.
5624 Angrsecttm citratum.
5672 Aristolochia Goldieana.
5628 Barleria Gibsoni.
5657 Begonia Boliviensis.
5675 Clarkei.
5680 rosaeflora.
5663 Veitchii.
5647 Billbergia sphacelata.
5646 Bletia Sherrattiana.
5619 Bowiea volubilis.
5677 Calceolaria pisacomensis.
5618 Cattleya Dowiana.
5659 Oestrum elegans.
5626 Clavija i'ulgens.
5674 Coelogyne humilis.
5661 Colax jugosus.
5636 Cordyline australis.
5620 Curcuma Australasica.
5676. Cymbidium Huttoui.
5640 Dalechampia Boezliana.
5679 Dendrobium Bensonise.
5'652 Bullerianum.
5649 macropliyllutn; var.
Feitchiann in .
5638 Dictyopsis Thunbergii.
5639 Dombeya Mastersii.
5650 Draba violacea.
5662 Dracasna surculosa; var. mactdata.
56G4 Epidendrura Brassavola-.
5654 Cooperianum.
Plate.
5656 Epidendrum cnemidopborum,
5643 i eburneum.
5671 Epimedium alpinum ; var. m-
brtttn.
5665 Erodium maoradeniiim.
5655 Gloxinia hypocyrtiilora.
5642 Gomphia Theophrasta.
5622 Grias cauli/lora.
5666 Griffinia Bhmieuavia.
5621 Helianthemum ocymoides.
5625 Impatiens latifolia.
5651 Ipomcea Gerrardi.
5667 Lselia majalis.
5673 Lilium Leiclitlinii.
5627 Mesospinidium sanguineum.
5644 Myites Cheken.
5678 Nyctocalos Thomsoni.
5632 Oncidium serraturo.
5634 Peperomiaarifolia; var. argyreia.
5629 Pleroina sarmentosa.
5658 Prostanthera aires.
5669 Eondeletia Purdiei.
5653 Budges macropbylla.
5635 Saccoluhiimi gigauteum.
5681 Huttoni.
5630 Sarcantluis erinaceus.
5631 Sipliocampylus llumboldtiainis.
5648 Stemonaeanthus Pearcei.
5633 Synadenium Grantii.
5623 Tapeinotes Carolina?.
5670 Thapsia decipiens.
5637 Tinnea .Ethiopica.
5682 Vitis heterophylla, Thunbery ;
var. luunid'tfoUa.
INDEX,
In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the
Twenty-third Volume of the Third Series (or Ninety-
third Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged.
Plate.
5668 xEchmea, crowded-flowered.
5660 Agave, woody-thorned.
5641 Aloe, splintered-leaved American.
5645 Amaryllis, spotted-flowered.
5624 Angrsecum, citron-yellow.
5672 Aristolocliia, The Rev. H. Gol-
die's.
5625 Balsam, broad -leaved Cingalese.
5628 Barleria, Dr. Gibson's.
5671 Barren-wort, red-flowered.
5657 Begonia, Bolivian.
5675 Major Trevor Clarke's.
5680 rose-flowered.
5663 Veiteh's.
5646 Bletia, Sherratt's.
5619 Bowiea, twining.
5677 Calceolaria, orange-red.
5618 Cattleya, Captain Bow's.
5644 Chequen of Chili.
5647 Chnpon of Chili.
5 626 Clavija, brilliant-flowered.
56G1 Colax, furrowed-lipped.
5676 Cymbidium, Mr. Hutton's.
5640 Dalechampia, Iloezl's.
5679 Benrobe, Mrs. Benson's.
5649 Large-leaved; VeiteVs
var.
5652 Bendrobium, Mr. Wentworth
Buller's.
5638 Bictyopsis, Thnnberg's.
5639 Dombeya, Br. Masters's.
5650 Braba, violet-flowered.
5662 Bracmna, long-shooting; spot"
terf-leaved var.
5664 Epidendrnm, Brassavola-lifce.
Plate.
5654 Epidendrum, Mr. Cooper's.
5643 ivory-flowered.
5656 sheathed.
5655 Gloxinia, Hypocyrta-flowered.
5642 Gomphia, Theophrasta-like.
5666 Griffinia, Br. Blumenau's.
5659 Habrothamnns, pnrple.
5651 Ipomoea, Gerrard's.
5667 Laelia, May-flowering.
5673 Lily, Max Leichtlin's.
5627 Mesospinidium, Rosy.
5633 Milkbush, Captain Grant's.
5678 Nyctocalos, Assamese.
5632 Oncidinm, serrated.
5622 Pear, Anchovy.
5634 Peperoraia, Arum-leaved; silver-
striped var.
5674 Pleione, dwarf.
5629 Pleroma, sarmeutose.
5G58 Prostanthera, snow-while.
5621 llockrose, Basil -like.
5669 Rondeletia, Mr. Purdie's.
5653 Rudsrea, large-leaved.
5635 Saccolabium, gigantic.
5681 Mr. Hutton's.
5630 Sarcanthus, hairy-stem med.
5G31 Siphocampylus, Humboldt's.
5648 Stemonacantlms, Mr. Pearce's.
5665 Storksbill, spotted-flowered.
5623 Tapeinotes, Empress Charlotte's.
5670 Thapsia, Madeiran.
5637 Tinnea, violet-scented.
5636 Ti-tree, New Zealand.
5620 Turmeric, Australian Wild.
56S2 Vine, hop-leaved.
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