CURTIS'S
BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,
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3S
sai COMPRISING THE
Plants of the Ropal Gardens of Kew
OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN ;
WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS;
BY
JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D., F.R.S. L.S.&G.S.,
D.0.f, OXON., LI.D. CANTAB., CORRESPONDENT OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, idx es
WAAL
VOU GAT
OF THE THIRD SERIES;
(Or Vol. XCIV. of the Whole Work. Er)
SADA ALARA AAR AAA A RAR AS
“ Gems of the changing autumn, bow beautiful ye are!
Shining from your glossy stems like many a golden star ;
Peeping through the long s, smiling on the down,
aang up the dusky ban > jase where the sun goes down,”
Campbell.
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ss cRVE & c0., ‘8 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1868.
Mo. Bot. Garden.
TO
PROFESSOR HEINRICH GUSTAV REICHENBACH,
DIRECTOR OF THE HAMBURG BOTANIC GARDENS.
My pear Dr. Retcnenpacn,—
The Authors of the ‘Borantceat Magazine’ have long
enjoyed the privilege of dedicating its successive Volumes to
individuals who have signally contributed to the progress of
the Botany and Horticulture of these Islands; and amongst
these there are few, within late years, who have been so pro-
minent as yourself,
In dedicating this Volume, therefore, to you, I am recording,
on the one hand, the obligations of British Orchid-growers, who
have profited so largely by the prompt and generous aid you
have granted them in naming their plants ; and, on the other,
of Scientific Botanists, who recognize in your efforts a scrupulous
regard to the requirements of a scientific system of nomenclature.
I am,
My dear Dr. Reichenbach,
Most faithfully yours,
J. D, HOOKER.
Royat Garpens, Krew.
December 1, 1868.
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Tas. 5683.
CATTLEYA ameruystognossa.
Amethyst-lipped Cattleya.
aa Nat. Ord. Orcntpez.—Gyyaypru Monanopnta.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas, 5449.)
Catrhreya amethystoglossa; caulibus elatis teretibus superne sensim in-
crassatis inferne sulcatis, foliis 2-nis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis 5—8-
pollicaribus, scapo valido erecto multifloro, pedunculis validis adscen-
dentibus, sepalis petalisque obtusis albis roseo-suffusis et purpureo-
maculatis, sepalo superiore oblongo- vy. lineari-oblongo lateralibus
latioribus subfalcatis, petalis obovato-oblongis, labello profunde 3-lobo,
lobis lateralibus erectis, intermedio late obcordato-2-lobo roseo-vio-
laceo, lobis patentibus corrugatis et papillosis.
‘Carrizya amethystoglossa, Linilen et Rchb. Jil. Cat. Plant. Exot, 1857,
p. 26. Warner, Select. Orchid. Plant. pt. 1. t. 2.
_ Eemenpnon amethystoglossum. Rehb. Jil. in Walp. Ann. v. 6. p. 319.
There is little to add to the excellent description and —
e of this magnificent plant given by Mr. Warner in his
‘Select Orchidaceous Plants,’ published in 1862. As he
truly observes, the species is allied to C. granulosa (Tab.
nostr. 5048) and C. guttata (Tab. nostr. 3693), but is very
distinct from both. It is, no doubt, a native of Brazil, but
of it either in Dr. Lindley’s or the Hookerian Herbarium.
Mr. Warner describes it as flowering in May and June; but
e plant with us blossomed in February of the past year.
Descr. Rhizome woody, creeping. ‘Stems (pseudobulbs)
two to three feet high, strict, stout, erect, gradually thickened
_ upwards, deeply grooved ; upper joints sheathed. Leaves six
to eight inches long, two to two and a half inches broad,
_ linear-oblong, obtuse, very coriaceous, deep green. . Scape
Stout, erect, two to four inches high, sheathed at the base.
Flowers forming an erect, somewhat. candelabrum-like corymb,
arge and showy. Peduncles stout, ascending, one to two
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‘its exact locality is not known, and there are no specimens _
inches long, gradually thickening into the long, slender
ovary. Pertanth white, suffused with rose-purple, four inches
in diameter. Upper sepa erect, linear-oblong, obtuse, covered
with transversely oblong purple blotches; Jateral sepals
broader, deflexed, subfalcate, similarly coloured, but with
larger blotches. Petals broadly obovate, rounded at the
apex, their purple blotches large and often confluent. Lip
short; lateral lobes erect, with spreading apices; middle
expanded, broader than long, very broadly obcordate or two-
lobed, the lobes deep violet-purple, with raised radiating cor-
rugated papillose ridges.—J, D. H.
Fig. 1. Column. 2. Lip :—both magnified.
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Tas. 5684.
COTYLEDON veturta.
Velvety-leaved Cotyledon.
Nat. Ord. Crassunace®.—DEcANDRIA PENnTAGYNIA.
Gen. Ohar, (Vide supra, Tan. 5602.)
CorYLEDON velutina ; ramulis foliisque junioribus velutino-pubescentibus,
caule erecto tereti, foliis oppositis obovato- v. subpandurato-oblongis
obtusis integerrimis basi cordato-amplexicaulibus crassis enerviis viri-
dibus marginibus apices versus brunneis, panicule corymbose ramis
subhorizontalibus, floribus magnis pendulis pedicellatis, calycis lobis
ovato-triangularibus corolla tubo pallide virescente multo brevioribus,
coroll lobis lineari-oblongis subacutis patentibus flavis purpureo-
marginatis, filamentis basi dilatatis.
This is another of the noble South African plants intro-—
duced by W. W. Saunders, F.R.S., of Reigate, through his
energetic collector, Mr. Cooper, and liberally presented, in
1858, to the Royal Gardens, where it is, when in flower, a
great ornament to the Succulent House. As a species, it
approaches, firstly, C. cwneata, Thunb., in the form of the
leaves, differing, however, in their being semiamplexicaul at
the base, and in not being hispid; and secondly, C. tomentosa,
Harv., which is a slender, more densely pubescent plant,
with subpetioled leaves.
The genus Cotyledon contains upwards of twenty Cape
species, described in Harvey and Sonder’s ‘ Flora Capensis ;’
and that this number must fall far short of the total South
African species, is evident from this being the second that
has flowered since the publication of those descriptions |
(1862), and been figured in the ‘ Botanical Magazine’ (see
Tab. 5602). Amongst the species are some with the most
beautifully-coloured foliage, and others with very handsome
_ flowers, and which, together with the facility with which
they are cultivated in dwelling-houses or small greenhouses,
if even of indifferent construction, renders them well adapted
for supplying the horticultural requirements of the less
ss SANVARY Is7, 1868.
wealthy and even the poorer classes who inhabit the out-
skirts of our great towns. A distribution of such succulent
plants as these, would give far more enduring pleasure to
the poorer classes, than the Geraniums and Verbenas of the
parks, given away at the end of the season, when it is almost
impossible to keep them alive without heat and glass, and
quite impossible to flower them.
Descr. A stout, succulent perennial, two to three feet
high, with rather glaucous, terete stem and scape, and dark-
green foliage; young leaves and shoots covered with a fine
velvety pubescence. Leaves opposite, rather crowded, decus-
sate, three to five inches long, oblong-obovate or subpandu-
riform, obtuse, cordate and semiamplexicaul at the base, very
thick, quite smooth, even, nerveless; margins quite entire,
edged with brown towards the tip. Scape erect, strict.
Panicle subcorymbose, flat-headed, branched, open; branch-
lets nearly horizontal. Flowers pedicelled, pendulous. Calyx
broad, green, with short, deltoid teeth, Corolla-tube one
inch long, pale green below, yellow above ; lobes as long as
the tube, linear-oblong, subacute, spreading, bright yellow,
with purple margins. Stamens exserted ; filaments very
broad at the base; anthers striate. Squamule connate, short,
spreading. Styles filiform.—J. D, H
Fig. 1. Lobes of corolla and stamen, 2. Stamen. 3. Ovary :—all
magnified.
DOA.
Tas. 5685.
VITIS PLANICAULIS.
Flat-stemmed Vine.
Nat. Ord, AMPELIDEZ.—TrtrranpRIA Mono@ynI.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5682.)
Vitts planicaulis; glaberrima, caule alte scandente lignoso plano-com-
presso, ramulis teretibus, foliis longe petiolatis digitatim 5-foliolatis,
foliolis petiolulatis oblongo-lanceolatis obtuse acuminatis subdistanter
serratis basi obtusis, cirrhis robustis simplicibus, cymis breviuscule
pedunculatis subcorymbosis ramosis ramis divaricatis, floribus abortu
unisexualibus robuste pedicellatis 4-meris, calycis margine integerrimo,
alabastris urceolatis, petalis demum patentibus caducis late ovato-
triangularibus obtusis, disco inconspicuo, ovario late conico, stigmatis
lobis 4 rotundatis patentibus, bacca majuscula globosa, seminibus cor-
diformibus dorso medio sulcatis lateribus transverse corrugatis, an-
tice medio carinatis,
This is one of those curious tropical forms of the genus
Vitis that form enormous llanas in the forests of the torrid
zone, and attract the attention of every traveller by their
remarkable characters; in the present plant it is the struc-
ture of the stem and its enormous size that form its most
conspicuous features. These stems may be seen in the
forests, at the base of the central Himalayan provinces, de-
scending from the overhanging limbs of gigantic forest trees,
in the form of flat, lithe bands, as much as eighteen inches
in breadth, and not one inch in thickness, and of much the
colour and pliability of those gutta-percha bands that are
used for the driving-machinery of our manufactories. This
species was discovered in the Sikkim Himalaya by myself in
1849, and the specimen here figured was derived from a
plant whose seeds were sent home at that time, and which
_ how climbs the rafters of the Succulent House at Kew.
_ Specimens of the trunk may be seen in the Museum (No. 1).
In the absence of the disk (or, more probably, its confluence
JANUARY Ist, 1868.
with the base of the ovary), this resembles the Ampelopsis
section of the genus, but the tendrils-are wholly different.
Descr. A perfectly glabrous, gigantic, climbing Vine.
Trunk, at the base, eighteen inches broad by one to one and
a half inch in thickness, quite flattened, dark brown, swelling
at the nodes, which occur at intervals; wood soft and spongy,
with large, open proper vessels. Branchlets and shoots quite
terete. Leaves large, quinately digitate ; petioles three inches
to a span long, terete; leaflets a span long, petiolulate, ob-
long-lanceolate or linear-oblong, acuminate, with an obtuse
point, rather distantly serrate, base rounded or obtuse, sub-
stance rather leathery, shining above with divergent veins.
Tendrils long, stout, and simple. Cymes shorter than the
petioles; peduncles stout; branches subcorymbose, divaricat-
ing. lowers green, umbellulate ; pedicels stout, one-eighth
to a quarter of an inch long. Calya-limb entire. Corolla
urceolate in bud, the four petals soon separating, spreading
and deciduous. Stamens very minute and imperfect in the
cultivated plant, whence the species is probably subdicecious.
Ovary conical, with a sessile four-lobed radiating stigma.
Ben fein: as large as the thumb-nail, and two-seeded,—
Fig. 1. Flower,—magnified.
ONT eR PE TeREERIOEEEEL See
Tas. 5686.
COBURGIA TRICHROMA.
Tricoloured Coburgia.
Nat. Ord. Amaryiiippm.—Hexanpria Monoeynta.
Gen. Char. Corolla infundibuliformis §v. cylindrica, superne ampliata,
fauce dilatato, tubo incurvo, lobis imbricatis patentibus. Corona 6-loba,
lobis 2-fidis y. 2-dentatis, dentibus alternis brevibus 2-fidis alternis stami-
niferis, Filamenta vix conniventia; anther breves. Ovarium 3-quetrum ;
stylus rectus, stigmate capitellato v. obtuso; ovula 2-seriata. Capsula
oblonga, 3-locularis, 3-valvis, polysperma.—Herbex, bulbo tunicato. Folia
linearia, glauca. Seapus compressus v. teretiusculus. Spatha 2—-4-phylla,
membranacea, Flores cernui v. penduli, coccinei rosei v. aurantiact, sepe
speciosi.
Cozurata trichroma; bulbo subgloboso, squamis externis brunneis, foliis
2-pedalibus 3-2 poll. latis carinatis obtusis pallide viridibus scapum
subsquantibus, spathis oblongis obtusis pedicellos superantibus, flori-
bus 4-pollicaribus pendulis, tubo basi gracili demum ampliato coccineo,
lobis oblongo-lanceolatis tubo 4-ties brevioribus intus roseis extus
dorso fascia viridi notatis.
Copurera trichroma. Herbert in Bot. Mag. t. 3867. Bot. Reg. 1842.
Mise. p. 52. Kunth, Enum. v. 5. p. 647.
Payoratium trichromum. Lexarza et De Llave, Nov. Veg. Deser. t. 20.
CHRYSIPHIALE trichroma. Schult. Syst. v. 7. p. 907.
This magnificent plant was first introduced, in 1838, from
rocky precipices in the Andes of Peru, by the late J. Maclean,
Esq., of that city, and was figured in the ‘ Botanical Maga-
zine’ thirty years ago, from a specimen that flowered at
Spofforth. That figure gives so little idea of its size and beauty
that another figure, being absolutely required, is given here.
The specimen from which it is taken flowered in the choice
garden of our friend W. W. Saunders, F.R.S., at Reigate,
to whom we are indebted for the drawing. Coburgia tri-
chroma seems to be a much better known plant in American
= : than in English gardens, for it was first described by Llave
and Lexarza from specimens cultivated in Mexico. For the
— following description I am indebted to Mr. J. G. Baker :-—
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Descr. Bulb subglobose or ovoid, two or three inches in
diameter, the outer coats brown, membranous, truncate up-
wards. Leaves five or six, contemporaneous with the flowers,
eighteen to twenty-four inches long, half to three-quarters of
an inch broad, quite a line thick, in the centre glaucous-
green, the inner face curved, especially in the lower part,
the keel faint, the veins quite immersed. Scape firm, erect,
subterete, glaucous-green, quite naked, about equalling the
leaves. Spathe four- to six-leaved, the leaves about two
inches long, clasping tightly round the lower part of the
flowers, quite hiding the ovaries and short pedicels. Flowers
four to six, cernuous, about five inches long, the tube four
inches, bright scarlet, not more than two lines in diameter
below, expanding gradually upwards to the throat, the divi-
sions ovate-lanceolate, subpatent, about an inch deep, the
inner three narrower and more acute than the outer three,
all with a green keel on the outside, and with green vertical
marks bounding a paler central portion on the inside. Corona
short, with a bifid tooth between each stamen. Stamens
equalling, and style slightly exceeding the perianth. Capsule
bluntly trigonous.—/. G. B.
Fig. 1. Tube of corolla, corona, and stamens. 2. Transverse section of
ovary :—both magnified.
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Fig. 1. OPHELIA anata; 3. aneusTrroLt;
5. PANICULATA.
Winged, Narrow-leaved, and Panicled Ophelia.
Nat. Ord. Gentrane®.—Pentanpria Monoeynta.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5897.)
OPHELIA alata ; caule tetraptero, foliis ovatis v. ovato-cordatis 3-5-nerviis,
cymis subcontractis, calycis lobis lineari-lanceolatis, corolla 4-partita,
lobis oblongis acuminatis sordide flavis rubro-purpureo-punctatis,
fovea nectarifera margine fimbriata.
OPHELIA alata. Griseb. Monog. Gent. p. 321; et in DC. Prodr. v.9. p. 127.
AGatuHortes alata. Don in Phil. Mag. 1836, p. 523.
OpuHEtia angustifolia; caule subtetragono, foliis lanceolatis lineari-lanceo-
latisve acuminatis 3-nerviis, cymis laxifloris, floribus gracile pedicel-
latis, calycis lobis lineari-lanceolatis, corolla 4-partita, lobis oblongis
acuminatis purpureis ceruleo-punctatis, fovea nectarifera orbiculata,
margine superiore squamula instructo.
OPHELIA angustifolia. Don, 1. c. p. 524. Griseb.in DC. Prodr. v. 9. p. 127.
Swerrta angustifolia. Don, Prodr.p. 127. Wall. Pl. As. Rar.v. 3. t. 204.
OpHeEnta paniculata; caule tereti v. superne subangulato, ramis diffusis,
foliis lineari-lanceolatis subpetiolatis 3-nerviis, marginibus scaberulis,
cymis contractis, calycis lobis lineari-lanceolatis, corolle seepius 5-par-
tite lobis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis albis infra medium fascia
violacea semilunari notatis, fovea nectarifera fere obliterata obscure
marginata.
OpuHELIa paniculata. Don, l. c. p.525. Griseb. l. c. p. 124.
SweErr1 paniculata. Wall. Pl. As. Rar. v. 3. t. 205.
The arrival from Isaac Anderson Henry, Esq., F.L.S., of
Edinburgh, of a boxful of these charming and interesting
plants, deserves all the publicity that the ‘ Botanical Maga-
zine’ can give. Unfortunately the coloured Plate cannot
JANUARY lst, 1868.
give the sparkling hues of their inflorescence, though it can
their graceful habits and varied colours. They are all na-
tives of the Himalaya and of its colder regions, though not
attaining the alpine zone of vegetation. Several species
inhabit the Nilghiri mountains, of which two, 0. corymbosa
(Tab. nostr. 4489) and 0. umbellata (t. 5397), have flowered
at Kew. Most, if not all, the species are annual, and have
bitter roots, whence their popular use as febrifuges by the
natives of India, under the names of Chirita, Chiryta, Chi-
rayta, and Chirata, as it is indifferently spelt.
0. alata has been found hitherto in the north-west Hima-
laya only. 0. angustifolia, which inhabits a lower elevation
than the others (2000-6000 feet), is found throughout the
range; it is a very variable plant, especially in the size and
length of the calyx-lobes, which sometimes far exceed the
corolla. O. paniculata inhabits temperate regions, from
Kumaon to Sikkim.
Descr. The species may be most easily distinguished as
follows :—0O. alata, by the four-winged stem and broad ovate
or subcordate leaves, greenish-yellow corolla with red-purple
spots, and nectary almost surrounded with a fimbriate ridge.
O. angustifolia, by the more terete stem, narrow leaves,
. flowers on slender pedicels, four-parted corolla, whose lobes
are purple and spotted with blue, and the nectary is orbi-
cular with a tongue-shaped scale at its upper margin. 0.
paniculata, by its obscurely angled stem, narrow leaves, and
usually five-parted corolla, whose lobes are white, with a
semilunar purple-violet band about the middle.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. O. alata. 2. Corolla lobe,—magnified. 3. O. angustifolia. 4
Corolla lobe,—magnified. 5. O. paniculata. 6. Corolla lobe,—magnified.
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TRICHOCENTRUM axpo-purrurevm.
Purple and white Trichocentrum.
Nat. Ord. Orncurpe®.—GyYNANDRIA MOonANDRIA.
Gen. Char. Perianthium patens, liberum, equale. Labellwn sessile, cum
basi columna connatum, planum, 2-lobum, basi lamellosum, calcaratum.
Columna nana, semiteres, crassa, utrinque alata. Anthera 2-locularis,
mutica. Pollinia 2, complicata; caudicula cuneata; glandula minuta.—
Herbee epiphytice, Americane, acaules. Folia planiuscula. Flores pedun-
culati, subsolitarii, radicales.
Tricnocentrum albo-purpureum ; foliis sessilibus oblongo-lanceolatis acu-
minatis pallide viridibus, Jabello subquadrato 2-lobo, lobis rotundatis
albis basi utrinque plaga lata purpurea notatis, columne alis brevibus
superne in cornua porrecta productis marginibus integerrimis, calcare
brevi curvo.
Tricuocentrum albo-purpureum. Reichenbach fil. in Gard.
p. 219.
Chron. 1866,
Trichocentrum is a small genus of Vandee, allied to Bur-
lingtonia and, like it, a native of South America, where the
species are distributed from Peru and Brazil to Mexico; but
few are known, and amongst those in cultivation the present
is by far the prettiest; the only other figured in an English
work is the sombre-coloured TJ. fuscum (Tab. nostr. 3969),
from Mexico. a ae
T. albo-purpureum was introduced by M. Linden, it 1s be-
lieved, from the Rio Negro, in North Brazil, according to
Reichenbach in the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ who gives an
excellent woodcut representation of the flower, and who
further states that two varieties of it are known, one with a
narrow and the other with a very broad lip. The specimen
here figured flowered with Mr. W. Saunders, F.RS., at Rei-
gate; its sepals are more obtuse, and the lip a little nar-
rower than in the figure of the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle” _
Descr. Stem 0, or very short; ovoid pseudobulbs sending
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down long, flat, aerial roots, that adhere firmly to the wood
or cork on which the plant is growing. Leaves three inches
long by one inch broad, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, acute,
thick, bright green above, pale below. Peduncles, from the
bases of the leaves, solitary, simple, one-flowered, one inch
long, with two subopposite bracts at the apex; pedicel short ;
ovary slender. Perianth nearly two inches in diameter, spread-
ing. Petals obovate-lanceolate, acuminate, of a fine maroon-
brown on the inner surface, outer surface and tips greenish-
yellow. Lip subquadrate, two-lobed at the apex, white,
except at the subauricled base, where there are two large,
bright purple spots; basal ridges lobed. Colwmn with short,
entire, margined wings, produced above into subulate pro-
jecting horns. Spur much shorter than the sepals, curved,
stout.—J. D. H.
Wig. 1. Ovary, lip, spur, and column magnified,
5689.
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BEGONIA Svruer.annt.
Dr. Sutherland's Begonia.
Nat. Ord. Begonracem.—Moneecia PonyanpRia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4181.)
Braonta (Augustia) Sutherlandi; fere glaberrima, caule gracili ramoso
rubro-purpureo, foliis gracile petiolatis oblique ovato-lanceolatis basi
profunde cordato-2-lobis acuminatis lobulatis et inciso-serratis, costa
nervis marginibusque rubris, stipulis oblongis serrulatis, cymis multi-
floris, perianthii rubro-aurantiaci foliolis in fl. f 4, in fl. 9 4-5, ex-
terioribus rotundato-obovatis, interioribus angustioribus, staminibus
receptaculo planiusculo insertis, antheris oblongis obtusis, stigmati-
bus 8 2-lobis, ramis vix tortis, placentis integris, capsula subequaliter
3-alata.
Of the various pretty Begonias from South Africa figured
in this Magazine (Tab. 3720, 3731, 4841, 5583), this is by
far the most elegant, and will no doubt prove a great fa-
vourite amongst horticulturists ; its graceful habit, the bril-
liant vinous-red hue of its branches, petioles, and of the
nerves and margins of the leaves, contrasting with the deli-
cate green of the membranous translucent leaves and copious
orange-red blossoms,—are all very marked and beautiful
characters. It was discovered by Dr. Sutherland, Surveyor-
General of Natal, in the western mountains of that colony,
altitude 3500 feet, and is one of the many discoveries of
that excellent contributor to the botany of South Africa.
More recently it has been collected by the unfortunate Ger-
rard, who lately perished whilst collecting in Madagascar,
and by Mr. Cooper, who was sent out by Mr. W. Saunders,
F.R.S. For the specimen here figured I am indebted to
Messrs. Backhouse, of York, with whom it flowered in June,
1867.
Descr. Root of small tubers. Stem one to two feet high,
slender, graceful, and, as well as the branches, of a deep,
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bright red-purple colour.- Leaves on slender red petioles,
two to three inches long; d/ade four to six inches long, very
obliquely ovate-lanceolate, deeply two-lobed at the base, the
lobes rounded, margin lobed and acutely serrate, bright
green above, with a few small scattered hairs, paler below,
the nerves on both surfaces, as well as the margin, of a
bright red colour. Stipules oblong, red, usually serrulate or
erose. Cymes axillary and terminal, many-flowered ; pedun-
cles and pedicels slender, red ; bracts opposite, obovate or orbi-
cular, obtuse or acute, red, serrulate or quite entire. Flowers
one inch in diameter, orange or pale coppery-red, varying to
a dirty rose-red; male with’ four leaflets, of which the two
outer are almost orbicular, the inner much narrower ; female
with usually five leaflets, irregular in size. Stamens nume-
rous, free, sessile on the receptacle; anthers oblong, obtuse.
Ovary three-celled, placentas entire; stigmas three, with
short arms. Capsule with three subequal wings.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Unripe capsule. 3. Transverse section of ditto :-—
magnified,
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HYPOXIS ELATA.
Tall Hypoxis.
Nat. Ord. Hypoxtprx#.—Hexanpria Mono@ynia.
Gen. Ohar. Perianthii tubus cum ovario connatus, limbi 6-partiti lobis
patentibus coloratis planis persistentibus. Stamina 6, disco epigyno in-
serta, perianthii foliolis opposita; anthere lineares y. oblong, intus dehis-
centes. Ovariwm 8-loculare ; stylus liber, brevis v. elongatus, stigmatibus 3
in columnam conicam connatis, ramis liberis; ovula numerosa, 2-seriata,
amphbitropa. Oapsula 3-locularis, evalvis, polysperma.—Herbe perennes, ’
sepissime villos@, acaules v. caudice crasso vaginis foliorum vetustorum ob-
tecto. Folia tristicha, linearia v. lanceolata, basi vaginantia. Flores in
spicas cymas v. paniculas pauci-multifioras dispositi, flavi.
Hyvoxis elata; elata, robusta, sericeo-villosa, foliis perplurimis revolutis
- 2-pedalibus lanceolato-ensiformibus costatis subtus dense lanuginosis,
scapo foliis breviore nutante multifloro, floribus amplis racemosis,
bracteis filiformibus, perianthii foliolis aureis dorso medio griseis et
lanuginosis, antheris oblongo-sagittatis, filamentis brevibus subulatis,
stylo brevi, stigmatibus connatis.
This is the handsomest of all the hitherto figured species
of the genus, introduced by Mr. Wilson Saunders, F.R.S.,
from Natal, through his active collector, Mr. Cooper. It
flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, first in 1865, from
bulbs given by Mr. Saunders, but the drawing here given 1s
of a much larger specimen, that flowered at Reigate in June,
1862. As a species it closely resembles the H. Hooperi,
Moore, but is a much larger plant, with the inflorescence race-
mose, not disposed in open, opposite-branched, trichotomous
cymes; the peduncles are large and more slender, and the
bracts are not short, persistent, .and subulate ; the flowers are
twice as large, and the perianth segments are not green at
_ the back, but yellow, with a dorsal green stripe.
The genus Hypoxis is a very large one in South Africa,
whence many species remain to be introduced ; as yet they
have found little favour with horticulturists, most of those
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that have hitherto been cultivated possessing none of the
attractions of H. edata.
Descr. Loot bulbous. Stem an inch broad at the base.
Leaves very numerous, a foot to a foot and a half long,
spreading and revolute, thinly villous above, thickly below
with soft hairs, keeled and plicate, an inch to an inch and a
half broad. Scapes numerous, shorter than the leaves, bear-
ing a large, nodding, many-flowered raceme. Peduncles an
inch and a half long, slender. lowers two inches in dia-
meter, golden yellow; perianth segments ovate-oblong, sub-
acute, yellow and thinly villous at the back, with a green
dorsal band. Anthers oblong-sagittate. Ovary with very long
spreading hairs; stigmas consolidated, —J. D. red
Fig. 1. Stamens and ovary,—magnified.
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Tas. 5691.
ODONTOGLOSSUM Atsxanpra; var. Triana.
Princess of Wales's Odontoglossum, Dr. Triana’s variety.
Nat. Ord. OrncnrpEx.—Gynanpria MonanpRia.
Gen. Char. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et petala sepius subcon-
formia. Labellum integrum, ecalcaratum, unguiculatum, ungue cum basi
column continuo, lamina patente basi cristata. Colwmna erecta, membra-
naceo-marginata, apice utrinque alata. Anthera 2-locularis. Pollinia 2,
solida, caudicula lineari, glandula hamata—Herbe epiphytice, pseudobul-
bifere, montium Americe tropice incole, Folia solitaria 2-na v. pauca,
- plicata v. plana. Scapi ad basin pseudobulbi inserta, breves v. elongatt,
1-multiflori, erecti v. penduli. Flores speciosi, racemost.
Ovoyroc.ossum Alexandre; pseudobulbis ovatis compressis 1-2-phyllis,
foliis elongatis, racemo simplici multifloro, sepalis et petalis membra-
naceis subsqualibus v. sepalis angustioribus ovatis v. lanceolatis acu-
minatis, labello polymorpho ovato v. subquadrato apice acuto obtuso
v. truncato et 2-lobo, marginibus integerrimis v. dentatis, columna
arcuata clavata alis laceris.
Opontoariossum Alexandre. Batem. in Proc. Hort. Soc. 1864, p. 186,et
Monog. Odontogloss. t. 14 et 19.
Var. Triane ; sepalo dorsali macula solitaria rosea notato, lateralibus roseo
suffusis et maculatis, petalis niveis, labello oblongo-panduriformi
apice 2-lobo, marginibus undulatis et crispatis, disco plaga ampla
2-loba notato. Tab. nost. 5691.
For the beautiful variety here figured of this lovely Orchid
the Royal Gardens are indebted to Dr. Triana, of Bogota, a
very distinguished botanist, who procured it from the New
Granadan Andes, about ten leagues from Bogota, at eleva-
tions of 7000 to 8000 feet. Two varieties of the same
species have been figured by my friend Mr. Bateman, in his
splendid work on the genus, neither of which rival this in
beauty and delicacy of colouring, or in the size of the flower.
This author well points out the very variable nature of the
flower, not only as to colour, but in the form of the lip,
which is rounded. and two-lobed at the apex, or acute or
acuminate, and entire or serrate.
It need hardly be observed, that in common with all the
FEBRUARY lst, 1868.
other Odontoglossums we know of, this requires a cool treat-
ment. Its flowers last for a long time, and are not surpassed
by those of any other Orchid for delicacy and beauty; they
expanded at Kew in October.
Descr. of var. Zrianw. Pseudobulbs an inch and a half to
two inches long, compressed. Leaves one to two, or six to eight
inches long, an inch and a half to two inches broad, acute.
Racemes larger than the leaves, drooping, many-flowered,
slender. Bracts short, obtuse. Flowers two and a half
inches in diameter. Sepals oblong, acuminate, white suf-
fused with rose, the upper with one circular rose spot in the
centre, the lateral usually deeper rose-coloured along the upper
half, and. there spotted with the same. Petals snow-white,
broader than the sepals. Zip oblong panduriform, two-lobed
at the apex, base expanded.into wing-like lobes barred with
rose, margin toothed, disk with a large, 2-lobed, rosy patch,
and two small spots more towards the base. Column with
toothed wings spotted with red.—J. D. H.
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STAPELIA PLANTII.
Mr. Plant's Stapelia.
Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADEE.—PENTANDRIA PenraGynia.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla rotata, 5-fida, carnosa. Gyno-
stegium sepius exsertum. Corona staminea duplex, exterioris foliolis v.
laciniis integris v. partitis, interioris foliolis corniculiformibus simplicibus
V. 2-fidis. Anthere apice simplices. Pollinia erecta, ventricosa, margine hinc
pellucida. Stigma muticum. Folliculi subcylindrici, leves, erecti. Se-
mina Comosa.—Plantee Capenses, carnose, ramose, ramis aphyllis sepius
4-gonis angulis dentatis. Flores utplurimum speciosi, atro-sanguineo guttati
marmorati v. fasciati. Decaisne in DC. Prod.
Srapeta Plantii; ramis pubescentibus erectis 4-quetris clavatis v. colum-
naribus, angulis dentatis, dentibus remotis incurvis spinula molli ter-
minatis, pedunculis calycibusque pubescentibus, corolla ampla 5-fida,
marginibus longe ciliatis, laciniis lanceolatis acuminatis, disco fusco-
purpureo fasciis fulvis creberrime transverse notato, marginibus late
atro-purpureis.
Srapetra Plantii, Hort. Grahamstown.
In the year 1811, the Kew collection of Stapelie contained
no less than forty-four species, that of epiphytic Orchids
thirty-seven. Those were the days of small dry stoves, heated
by hot-air flues; when the successful cultivation of epi-
phytic Orchids was regarded as impossible, and our houses
overtlowed with the representatives of such dry climates as
South Africa and Australia. Now we boast of rather fewer
species of Stapelia and about four hundred epiphytic Orchids ;
and, small as the former collection must appear when compared
with the number of species of Stapelia that have been in culti-
vation (nearly eighty), it is, I believe, one of the largest now in
England. In Germany, probably, much larger exist ; and that
much may be added to all, is evident from the fact of the sub-
ject of the accompanying Plate being quite new; it ;was sent to
the Royal Gardens from the Botanic Garden of Grahamstown,
in 1866, and flowered in November, 1867. As a species it
is very near 8. grandiflora and 8. hirsuta, differing from both
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chiefly in the pale sulphur-coloured transverse bands of the
corolla lobes.
Descr. Stem stout, creeping ; branches downy, five to nine
inches long, erect, columnar or subclavate, with four thick
wings; wings remotely toothed; teeth incurved, and terminated
by short, soft, incurved spines. Peduneles at the base of the
branches, stout, and, as well as the calyx, pubescent. Corolla
five inches in diameter, villous around the throat : lobes an inch
to an inch and a half broad, ovate-lanceolate, purplish-brown
in the centre, and there transversely barred with wavy yellow
bands, margins and apex broadly black-purple, ciliated with
long hairs. Staminal crown double; outer lobes simple,
entire, narrow ; inner broader, unequally two-lobed.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Staminal crown,—magnified
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HYPERICUM PATULUM.
Spreading St. John’s-wort.
Nat. Ord. Hypertcinem.—PoOLYADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.
Gen. Char. Sepala 5. Petala 5, intus calva. Stamina nunc libera v.
basi breviter connata, in phalanges 3-8, glandulis hypogynis 0, nune altius
connata in phalanges 8 3-8-andras cum glandulis hypogynis alternantes.
Ovariwm nunc 2-loculare, placentis 3- v. 5-parietalibus, nune perfecte v, im-
perfecte 3-5-loculare ; styli distincti v. rarius alte coaliti; ovula in loculis ~
placentisve sepius numerosa. Capsula septicide v. ad placentas dehiscens,
placentis v. axi v. marginibus valvarum adherentibus. Semina non alata.—
Herbe suffrutices fruticesve amphigee. Folia sepius subsessilia, coriacea
v. membranacea, integerrima v. rarius serrulata. Flores flavi, rarius albidi,
solitarii cymost v. paniculati.
Hypericum patulum ; fruticosum, glaberrimum, variegatum, ramis graci-
libus teretibus rubris, foliis breviter petiolatis oblongis ovato-ob-
longisve pellucido-punctatis obtusis subacutis apiculatisve, floribus
in eymas terminales paucifloras dispositis amplis, pedicellis 2-brac-
teatis, sepalis orbiculatis oblongisve, petalis late oblongis v. suborbicu-
latis epunctatis, staminibus perplurimis, filamentis basi in phalanges 5
dispositis, glandulis interjectis 0, ovario 5-loculari. ,
Hyrertcum patulum. Thunb. Fl. Jap. 295, et Icon. t.17. DC. Prod. v. 1.
p- 545,
A very ornamental, hardy perennial, flowering abundantly
in September and October, in the open air, and forming a
very valuable addition to the list of available border plants.
It is a native of Japan, where it was discovered by Thunberg
ninety years ago, and was introduced into Kew by Mr.
Oldham, collector for the Royal Gardens, who, after making
many valuable botanical collections, perished of fever on the
coast of China. As a species it is very nearly allied to the
H. uralum, Hamilton, of Nepal (Tab. nost. 2375), and will
probably prove to be a large-flowered variety of that plant.
It is very variable in the foliage, which is flat or has recurved
margins, and is green or rust-coloured beneath.
Descr. A small, perfectly glabrous, slender, branching
shrub, one to’ three feet high. Stems and branches terete, red.
FEBRUARY Ist, 1868.
Leaves on very short petioles, from an inch and a half to
two inches and a half long, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse
acute or apiculated, flat or with recurved margins, covered
obscurely with pellucid oil-glands, bright green above, paler
or rusty beneath. Flowers in terminal, few-flowered cymes,
very large, an inch and a half to two inches in diameter,
bright yellow. Peduncles short, with two foliaceous bracts
at the apex, compressed ; pedicels short. Sepals much shorter
than the petals, orbicular or oblong, concave, green, with
reddish-green margins and slender, linear, pellucid oil-glands.
Petals very broad. Stamens very numerous; filaments free,
collected into five bundles. Hypogynous glands none. Ovary
five-celled, with five rather slender styles and truncate stig-
mas.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Calyx and ovary, —magnified.
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THUNIA BENSONLA.
Mrs. Benson’s Thunia.
Nat. Ord. Orncuipem.—Gynanpria Monanpria.
Gen. Char. Perianthii foliola membranacea, erecto-patentia, lanceolata,
subeequalia, acuta. Labellum cum columna parallelum, basi in calcar breve
obtusum productum, 3-lobum, lobis lateralibus brevibus obtusis dentatis
columnam amplectentibus, intermedio producto flabellato, margine lobulato
dentato undulato et crispato, disco carinis ciliatis ornato. Colwmana graci-
lis, semiteres, subalata, superne cucullata, 3-loba, lobo intermedio triangu-
lari porrecto, lateralibus dentatis. Anthera cordata, 4-locularis, basi 8-
locellatus. Pollinia 4, clavata, sulcata, subtiliter granulosa. Stigma quad-
ratum.—Herbe terrestres ; caules fasciculati, basi tuberosi, elongati, foliosi,
inferne squamis foliaceis recurvis vaginati. Flores pauci, speciosi, termi-
nales, nutantes, spathaceo-bracteati.
Tuvnta Bensonie ; floribus lete purpureis, labelli lobo intermedio oblongo
lateralibus longiore, columne alis terminalibus profunde dentatis.
One of the most beautiful of the many recently-introduced
Orchids, and like its congener, the T. alba (the Phajus albus
of old), no doubt most easily grown. It was discovered by
an excellent correspondent, Colonel Benson, at Rangoon,
and flowered in July of last year, both at Kew and at Messrs.
Veitch’s establishment. As a species, it is so very closely
allied to 7. alba in everything but colour, that I have felt
very great doubts as to the propriety of calling it by any
other name; but the flowers are larger, and the middle lobe
of the lip is much longer in proportion to the sepals, and
more oblong in shape. At Colonel Benson’s request it
is named after his lady, and few more beautiful plants have
ever borne a lady’s name. |
I have followed Reichenbach fil. (Bot. Zeit. 1852, p. 764),
in adopting the genus Thunia as distinct from Phajus, rely-
ing chiefly mainly on the totally different habits and con-
sistence of the flower. Reichenbach further refers the genus
to Arethusew, and I find the pollinia to be composed of mi-
MARCH Ist, 1868.
‘nute grains, without any elastic web; he ranks it near
Vanilla, Sobralia, Epistephium, etc.
Descr. Stems fascicled, a foot to a foot and a half high,
terete, leafy, swelling into nodose tubers at the base; below
clothed with green, suborbicular, reflexed, leafy sheaths,
which gradually pass upwards into the leaves. Leaves sub-
distichous, sheathing, eight to ten inches long, linear-lanceo-
late, acuminate, glaucous below, membranous, and waving.
Flower two to three inches broad, on a short terminal raceme,
enclosed at first in sheathing spathes, four to five inches across.
- Perianth-seqgments equal, spreading, linear-lanceolate, pale
bright red-purple, white towards the centre. Jip large,
three-lobed, white at the base, deep purple beyond it, with
a yellow-crested disk; lateral lobes short, obtuse, toothed ;
middle one broadly oblong, flabellate, crumpled, lobulate,
and toothed; base produced into a short, straight, thick,
notched spur. Column with toothed wings at the apex.—
Fee 1 3 &
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BEGONTA GLANDULIFERA.
Glandular Begonia.
Nat. Ord. Brcontacen.-~—Moneacta Ponyanprtia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 418 23
Breonta (Begoniastrum) glanduliferum ; acaulis, sparse glanduloso-pilosa,
foliis subgracile petiolatis oblique ovato-cordatis v. semi-cordatis, acu-
minatis dentatis palmatinerviis siccitate subtus albo-punctulatis, stipu-
lis ovato-oblongis obtusis viridibus, seapis gracilibus multifloris ramis
strictis patulis, floribus paniculatis, bracteis oblongis, floribus albis,
fl. 3 perianthii foliolis 4, 2 exterioribus late oblongis dorso glandu-
losis, interioribus minoribus, staminibus parvis in globum confertis,
filamentis liberis, fl. ? perianthii foliolis 6 subequalibus ovatis sub-
acutis, stylis 3 breviter 2-fidis, ovario glanduloso 8-loculari 3-alato,
ala una longe producta obtusa, placentis 2-fidis, lamellis undique ovu-
liferis,
Beeonta glandulifera. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 804.
A very elegant species, native of moist ravines in 'T rinidad,
Whence it was first sent to England by Mr. Lockhart, late
Curator of the Botanic Gardens of that island. More re-
cently living plants have been sent home by Mr. Prestoe, the
neg energetic Curator of those gardens, and to whom the
oyal Gardens are indebted for many other fine plants; it
flowered in February, 1867.
Descr. Root-stock perennial, elongate, sending down nu-
merous stout fibres. Stem none. Leaves from the apex of
rootstock on rather slender glandular petioles, three to six
inches long; dlade obliquely ovate-cordate or semi-cordate,
three to five inches long, acuminate, serrate-dentate, cilio-
late, dark-green above, and glabrous, beneath paler, with a
few hairs on the strong nerves which radiate from the apex
of the petiole. Stipules ovate, obtuse, gteen or red. Scapes
Several, often very tall (six to eighteen inches high), covered
with glandular hairs, bearing at the top a branched panicle
MARCH 1st, 1868.
of pure white flowers; branchlets and pedicels glandular-
pilose, slender; bracts oblong, obtuse, green, ciliate.— Male
tiowers one inch broad across the two outer perianth leaves,
which are oblong, obtuse, glandular at the back; inner pair
much smaller and narrower. Stamens numerous, collected
into a small globose capitulum ; filaments free ; anthers ob-
long.—Female flowers bibracteolate. Perianth-leaves five,
ovate, subacute, nearly equal. Styles three, persistent in
fruit, bifid, with short stigmatic arms, surrounded with a
papillose band; ovary three-celled, three-winged, glandular-
pilose; two wings narrow, the third prolonged almost hori-
zontally, longer than broad, subacute; placentas bifid, the
lobes ovuliferous on both surfaces. Capsule glandular, three-
winged ; wings membranous, veined, two smaller about as
long as the capsule is broad; the third two to three times
as long as the capsule is broad; upper margin straight, lower
curved.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Ovary. 2. The same transversely cut,—magnified.
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DICENTRANTHERA MACROPHYLLA.
Large-leaved Dicentranthera.
Nat. Ord. Acanrnacen.—D1pynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-lobus, lobis subulatis. Corolla basi tubulosa, su-
perne campanulata; limbus 5-fidus; lobi ovato-rotundati, patentes, 2 pos-
tici minores, ad medium connati, Stamina 4, didynama, filamentis fili-
formibus basi per paria connatis; anthere vix exsertz, 2-loculares, loculis
linearibus, margine minute glandulosis, basi inequaliter 2-calearatis. Ova-
rium disco tumido impositum ; stylus brevis, stiymate emarginato ; ovula in
loculis pauca. Capsula ignota.—Suffrutex glaberrimus, ramulis obscure
d-gonis. Folia elongata, breviter petiolata, obovato-lanceolata, in petiolum
angustata, abrupte caudato-acuminata, obscure sinuata. Flores Speciost, ver-
ticillastris in spicas strictas simplices v. compositas dispositis.
Dicrntrayraera macrophylla. 7. Anders. African Acanthacee in Journ.
Linn. Soe. Lond. v. 7. p. 52. :
This fine plant was discovered by the intrepid African
plant collector, Gustav Mann, in the Island of Fernando Po,
and the Cameroons and’Gaboon river, forming a handsome
shrub, eight to ten feet high. It was afterwards collected in
the Gambia by Mr. Milne, and the specimen here figured
was raised from seeds or plants sent home by him, which were
flowered at Glasnevin by Dr. Moore, F.L.S., the able super-
intendent of that establishment, in June, 1867. In its na-
tive country its flowering season is December and J anuary,
whence we may hope that it will eventually prove a useful
plant for winter stove-decoration—a purpose for which, as I
have repeatedly pointed out in this work, the tropical 4cantha-
cee are admirably well suited.
Descr. A glabrous erect shrub, eight to ten feet high.
Branches striate, obtusely tetragonous. Leaves large and
membranous, deep green and lucid, ten to fourteen inches
long, obovate-lanceolate, tapering into a short petiole,
abruptly narrowed to a long point; margin undulate ; nerves
Strong and arching. Spikes terminal, short, erect, a foot
long, simple or branched at the base. Flowers almost
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whorled, disposed in opposite rather distant sessile pairs of
three- to eight-flowered fascicles. Calya small, of five trian-
gular subulate lobes. Corolla handsome, an inch to an inch
and a half long, tube narrow, slightly curved, expanding into
a bell-shaped five-cleft limb, rose-purple externally, almost
white internally; lobes rounded-ovate, two upper smaller
and connate forming a two-lobed upper lip; buds dark
purple above, green below. Stamens four, filaments connate
in pairs at the base; anthers scarcely exserted, yellow, two-
celled; cells linear, inserted at unequal heights, obscurely
glandular, each terminated below by two rigid spurs. Ovary
two-celled, on a tumid disk; style filiform, apex decurved ;
stigma notched ; ovules four in each cell.—J. D. I.
Fig. 1. Anthers. 2, Calyx and ovary. 3. Ovary. 4: Vertical section
of ditto, —magnified.
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ODONTOGLOSSUM Axexaypr®; var. guttatum.
Princess of Wales's Odontoglossum, spotted variety.
Nat. Ord. OrcurpEx.—Gynanpria Monanpnria.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5691.)
Opontrostossum Alexandre. Batem. in Proc. Hort. Soc. 1864, p. 186, e¢
Monog. Odontogloss. t. 14 et t.9. Tab. nostr. 5691.
Var. guttatum ; sepalis lineari-oblongis acutis undulatis petalisque latioribus
purpureo-guttatis, labello albo subpanduriformi, apice quadrato retuso
caudiculato, disco flavo, margiuibus guttatis.
The remarkable difference in the form and colour of the
sepals and petals and lip of this variety, as compared with
those of the var. Triana, figured at Tab. 5691, or the vars.
Wearii and Bluntii, figured in Mr. Bateman’s magnificent
monograph of the genus, have induced me to figure it here.
It was flowered by W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., of Reigate,
in August of last year, is rather larger-flowered than the
varieties hitherto figured, and equal in beauty to any of them.
__ Descr. of var. guttatum. Raceme four to five inches long, -
about six-flowered. Flowers three inches and a quarter
broad from tip to tip of the petals, snow-white, the outer
half of the lateral sepals faintly tinged with rose-purple.
Sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, waved at the edges ; upper
with from three to five oblong, dirty pale-purple blotches near
the base; lower with usually more blotches scattered on the
disk. Petals white, broader than the sepals, more crumpled,
with a few spots on the disk. ip oblong-quadrate, some-
what contracted at the middle, margin toothed, apex truncate
and retuse, with a short, subulate appendicle at the apex ;
calli small; the colour of the lip is white, suffused with yel-
low at the base, and having a sort of ring of dirty purple
spots on the margins of the disk. Anther white, streaked
with purple.—.7. D. H.
Fig. 1. Ovary, lip, and column :—magnyfied.
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VERNONIA (Srpneztt1a) Catvoana.
Signor Calvo’s Vernonia.
Nat. Ord. Compostt#.—SYNGENESIA-EQUALTA.
Gen. Char. Capitulum pluri- seu multiflorum, equaliflorum. Involuerum
imbricatum, floribus brevius, squamis interioribus longioribus. Recepta-
culum sepius nudum. Corolla regularis, 5-fida, lobis subequalibus. Fila-
menta \evia. Achenium basi callosum, disco epigyno magno. Pappus
sepius 2-3-serialis, serie interiore setiformi externam sepe paleaceam longe
superante.— Herb frutices v. arbores. Folia sepissime alterna. Inflo-
rescentia varia.
Subgenus Srreneenia. Involucri squame exteriores oblonge v. oblongo-
lanceolate, in appendicem amplam latam dilatate, bracteolis foliaceis
circumdate.—Srene@etia, 0. H. Schultz, mss.
Veryonia (Stengelia) Calvoana ; fruticosa, ramulis pubescenti-tomentosis,
foliis caulinis sessilibus obovato-lanceolatis acuminatis dentatis deorsum
longe attenuatis sepe auriculato-2-lobis, corymbis amplis laxe ramosis,
ramulis elongatis, capitulis pedunculatis late hemispherico-campanu-
latis, involucri squamis externis linearibus lanceolatisve herbaceis,
intermediis 2—multiseriatis in laminam chartaceam obtusam dilatatis,
intimis minoribus erectis concavis, corollis violaceis, pappi setis multi-
seriatis compressis, achenio glaberrimo, receptaculo amplo plano levi.
Sten@eL1a Calvoana. Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. v. 7. p. 199.
This magnificent composite plant was discovered on the
Cameroons mountains, in the Bight of Benin, by Gustav
Mann, whilst collecting for the Royal Gardens, Kew, at
elevations of from three to seven thousand feet, in December,
1861, and was by him introduced into our gardens, where it
first flowered in January, 1866. It was accompanied by
another and apparently equally handsome species, 7. (Sten-
gelia) insignis, Hook. f., which differs remarkably in the
petiolate leaves, and which has not yet been introduced. The
name Calvoana was given in compliment to Signor Calvo, of
Fernando Po, who rendered Mr. Mann essential service in his
arduous journeys on the Cameroons mountains and river.
MARCH 1st, 1868.
Descr. A tall shrub, eight to twelve feet high. Stem
stout, sulcate, branched, tomentosely pubescent. Leaves
eight to fourteen inches long, sessile, oblong-lanceolate,
acuminate, toothed, much narrowed at the base, which is
unequally auricled. Corymbs large, branching and spreading,
bearing leafy toothed bracts. Heads two inches broad, white,
with a purple eye. Involucral scales large and spreading, in
many series ; outer lanceolate, green, herbaceous; interme-
diate of several rows, spreading, broad, white, obtuse ; inner
erect, concave, shorter. Forets purple. Corolla tubular
below, campanulate above, equally five-cleft, segments erect.
Stamens exserted. Style-arms revolute. Pappus of several
series of filiform, shortly pilose, shining bristles—J. D, H.
Fig. 1. Intermediate involucral scale. 2. Floret. 3. Style arms. 4.
Achene and pappus. 5. Achene, 6. Pappus bases :—all but 4 magnified.
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COLA ACUMINATA.
Kola-nut Tree.
Nat. Ord. Srercunracez.—Monecra MonapeELputa.
Gen. Char. Flores unisexuales v. polygami. Calya 5-fidus, rarius 4- v. 6-
fidus. Petala 0. Columna staminea (nunc brevissima) apice antheras
10-12 simplici serie annulatim adnatas ferens. Ovarii carpella 5-10 vy.
rarius 10-12, subdistincta v. connata, oo-ovulata ; styli totidem, breves,
filiformes y. dilatati, intus v. supra stigmatosi. Carpella matura crassa,
intus rima dehiscentia, oo-sperma. Semina obovoidea, exalbuminosa ;
cotyledones 2 v. 4, crass ; radicula hilo proxima.—Arbores. Folia integra
v. juniora lobata, eum petiolo articulata. Flores in caule v. in aillis fasci-
culati, breviter cymosi v. subpaniculati.
.
Cota acuminata ; foliis obovatis oblongis obovato-lanceolatisve acuminatis
venosis utrinque glabris, junioribus sepe 38-lobis, columna staminea
brevi, antherarum loculis divaricatissimis.
Cora acuminata. Br. Pl. Jav. Rar. p. 237. Walp. Rep. v. 5. p. 106.
Var. B. acuminata ; foliis breviter petiolatis latioribus. Hook. Fl. Nig. 233.
STERCULIA acuminata. Palisot, Fl. d Oware, v. 1. p. 41. t. 24.
S. grandiflora e¢ 8. nitida. Vent. Hort. Malm. v. 2. p. 91 in nota.
S. verticillata. Schum. Pl. Guin. p. 240.
Lunay1a Bichy, DC. Prodr. v. 2. p. 92.
I have here the pleasure of figuring for the first time in
England, a plant of remarkable importance in an economic
point of view, the well-known kola-nut of tropical Africa,
also known as the Cola, Korra, or Gorra nut, the seeds of
which are universally eaten by the negroes of West Africa
and the West Indies as a condiment. ‘The trade in this nut
is immense throughout tropical Africa, and extends from
Tripoli to Benguela and Angola. The seeds are about the
size and appearance of a horse-chestnut, have an astringent
taste, and a portion of one is chewed by the negro before
every meal to promote digestion and improve the flavour of
whatever is eaten after it. It is also used as a medicine and
to render putrid water wholesome. ‘The tree is abundant
along the western coast, and found also on the eastern, and
MARCH Ist, 1868.
is cultivated in the West Indies and Brazil, and forms a
valuable property to the natives. There is another kind of
kola-nut, known as the bitter kola, whose botanical history
is wholly unknown. The kola has been introduced into
the Royal Gardens, Kew, repeatedly, from both West Africa
and the West Indies, but never flowered till J anuary of the
Descr. A small tree, about forty feet high, resembling an
apple-tree. Leaves alternate, on petioles half an inch to six
inches long; blade four to six inches long, oblong-obovate or
obovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, coriaceous, nerves strong
below, glabrous on both surfaces. F lowers unisexual, in
cally. Ovary tomentose, subglobose, with six short spreading
stigmas, six-celled, surrounded at the base by imperfect
H.
Denese ee a
Fig. 1. Male flower. 2. Staminal column. 3, Ovary. 4. Transverse
section of ditto. 5, Imperfect anthers at base of ditto :—all but Fig. 1
magnified,
5700.
Vincent Brooks, Imp.
W.-Fitch delet ith.
Tas. 5700.
ARISTOLOCHTA RINGENS.
Gaping-flowered Aristolochia.
Nat. Ord. AgisroLocHiem.—GynNanpria HeExanpRia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5420.)
AristoLocuta (Gymnolobus) ringens ; glaberrima, caule volubili alte scan-
dente, foliis late reniformi-rotundatis, sinu obtuso, obtusis emargina-
tisve subtus glaucis, basi digitatim 7—9-nerviis, pseudo-stipulis reni-
formibus profunde auriculato-2-lobis, floribus longe pedunculatis,
ovario infra apicem dilatatum tuberculato, perianthio viridi purpureo
marmorato, utriculo obovoideo inflato, tubo infra-apicali refracto assur-
gente 2-labiato, labiis valde elongatis superiore lineari-lanceolato ob-
tuso concavo, inferiore breviore spathulato, ungue marginibus recur-
vis, lamina dilatata orbiculata v. ovata.
AnisToLocuta ringens. Vahl, Symb. v.38. p.99. Jacq. Coll. v. 5. t. 4. f.
2. Duchartre in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. 1. p. 471.
A. grandiflora. Vahl, Symb. v. 2. p. 94. t. 47. ‘
Hlowarpia ringens. Klotzsch in Monatsb. Acad. Berl. 1859. p. 607.
This noble plant was introduced into the Royal Gardens
by its late collector, Mr. Purdie, from the plain of Santa
Cruz, in New Granada, where its roots are esteemed as an
antidote for snake bites, and form one of the many plants
having that reputed property, and called “Guaco” by the
natives. It inhabits also the Caraccas, and, according to
Ducharte, the West Indian islands near that coast. The
form of the lobe of the lower lip varies, in the dried speci-
mens, from oblong to orbicular-reniform, and as the latter
character is the only distinctive one assigned to the A. hians,
_ Willd., which comes from the same country, I suspect that
_ this latter is not a distinct species. )
A. ringens has flowered repeatedly in the Royal Gardens,
_ usually in the month of September.
Descr. A tall, slender, twining, perfectly glabrous plant.
Leaves petioled ; petioles one to two inches long, broadly or-
i = ‘APRIL Ist, 1868.
bicular-reniform, with a broad sinus, obtuse or emarginate,
dull pale green above, glaucous below, digitately five- to
seven-nerved at the base. alse stipules reniform, very
deeply two-lobed. Peduncles slender, four times as long as
the petioles. Ovary slender, twisted, grooved, expanded at
the apex into a dark purple, callous disk, tubercled on the
upper surface just below this. Flowers seven to ten inches
long, pale green, marbled and reticulated with dark black-
purple. Perianth with an obovoid ventricose sac two inches
and a half long, which is woolly inside; tube ascending ob-
liquely from the sac, terete, dividing into two very long lips;
upper lip (lower as the flower hangs) oblong-lanceolate, ob- —
tuse, concave, recurved, hairy inside below the middle ; lower
shorter, spathulate, claw long, with recurved margins, blade
broadly ovate or orbicular, or almost reniform. Stamens SIX,
equidistant on the almost sessile column.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Base of perianth cut vertically, showing the column :—of the
natural size.
Vincent Brooks, Imp.
emis
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Tas. 5701.
TPSEA SPECIOSA.
Beautiful Ipsea.
Nat. Ord. Ononrpra.—Gynanpria Monanpria.
Gen. Char. Sepala explanata, equalia; lateralia basi obliqua, subsaccata,
cum pede columne connata. Petala paulo minora, obovato-oblonga. La-
bellum cum basi columne articulatum, concavum, late 3-lobum, lobis late-
ralibus magnis erectis subacutis, intermedio porrecto oblongo obtuso, disco
obtuse carinato et canaliculato. Columna semiteres, elongata, basi et apice
paulo incrassato. -Anthera parva; pollinia 8, cereacea, caudiculis 4 pul-
vereis, per paria coherentia, altero cujusvis paris minore.—Herba fota
pubescens, epigea, rhizomate tuberoso carnoso. Folia 1-2, graminea, elon-
gato-lanceolata, plicata. Scapus strictus, gracilis, elongatus, bracteis spatha-
ceis ornatus, 1-2-florus. Flores ampli, speciosi, flavi.
Ipsna speciosa. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 124, Wight, Ie. Pl. Ind.
Or. t. 1663.
A very beautiful terrestrial Orchid, one of the very few
golden-flowered species of that class, with the habit of a
Bletia ; it is a native of Ceylon, whence a number of its
tubers were sent to the Royal Gardens, in 1866, by Mr.
Thwaites; of these some were distributed to various culti-
vators, and others planted here under different conditions.
These grew freely; but the only person who has hitherto
succeeded in flowering the plant is Mr. Bateman, who exhi-
bited it in January of the present year. If it can only be
made to flower as easily as the Bletias, it will indeed become
a very valuable addition to every Orchid collection.
Descr. Whole plant finely pubescent. Rhizomes terres-
trial, tuberous, hard, fleshy, as large as a nut or larger, often
fascicled, subglobose, with conical tops, furnished with the
fibrous remains of old leaves. Leaf usually solitary from the
rhizome, appearing before the flower, four to eight inches long,
narrow lanceolate, tapering into a petiole, half an inch to
three-quarters of an inch wide, plaited, green. Scape lateral
on the rhizomes, very slender, erect, one to two feet high,
one- to two-flowered, with distant spathaceous bracts ; spathes
APRIL 1st, 1968.
one inch long, tumid, loosely appressed to the scape, sub-
acute, green. Flowers sessile or nearly so, two inches and a
half in diameter, golden-yellow, with faint red lines on the
disk of the lip, between the lateral lobes. Sepals oblong,
obtuse, the lateral connate at the base of the column, then
oblique, and together forming an inconspicuous sac. Petals
obovate-spathulate, rather smaller than the sepals. Lip as
long as the sepals, broad, concave, three-lobed, lateral lobes
ascending, subacute, middle one horizontal, recurved, obtuse,
with several obtuse ridges on the disk. Column long.—
Giih Hi.
Fig. 1. Ovary and column. 2. Lip. 3 and 4. Pollinia:—all magnified,
W. Fitch, del et lith
Vincent Brooks, Imp
‘Tas. 5702.
HIBISCUS marmoratvs.
Marbled-flowered Hibiscus.
Nat. Ord. Matvacr®.—MonaveELPHia PoLYANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 5406.)
Hrierscus (Ketmia) marmoratus; fruticosus, hirsutulus, foliis ovatis y.
ovato-cordatis integris v. obtuse 3-5-lobis subacutis crenato-dentatis
basi 3—5-nerviis, stipulis parvis subulatis, pedunculis 1-floris axillari-
bus petiolo multo longioribus supra medium articulatis, involucelli
foliolis 8-10 oblongo- v. lanceolato-spathulatis acutis patentibus calyce
brevioribus, calyce campanulato eglanduloso 5-fido lobis acutis, petalis ai
inferne in tubum convolutis superne patentibus calyce multo longiori-
bus, lamina obovato-cuneata retusa roseo-maculata, columna staminea
gracili, stigmatibus capitellatis, ovulis numerosis..
#
Hrgrscvs marmoratus. C. Lemaire in Ill. Hortic. v. 8, February, 1856. t.
82. Planchon in Fl. des Serres, t. 1159.
ABUTILON marmoratum. Hort.
This fine plant is a native of Mexico, whence it was im-
ported, in 1854, by M. Auguste Tonel, and flowered in the
following year in M. Verschaffelt’s establishment at Ghent.
It has since been widely distributed ; and the specimen from
which the accompanying figure was made was raised from
seed sent by Dr. Anderson from the Calcutta Botanical Gar-
den in 1866, which flowered in February of the present year.
It is described as a greenhouse plant by Lemaire and
Planchon, but our specimen flowered in a stove.
Descr. A pubescent or subhirsute branching shrub. Leaves
on rather short petioles, variable in shape, ovate, ovate-cor-
date or oblong-cordate, acute, entire or obscurely three- to
five-lobed, bluntly toothed, dark green and rugose on the
upper surface, paler below, three to four inches long, two to
four inches broad. Stipules small, subulate, persistent. ae
duncles solitary, axillary, stiff, much longer than the petioles,
articulate above the middle. Flowers two inches and a half
long, and as wide across the petals. nvolucel of eight to
ten spreading, obovate-oblong, or subspathulate acute green
leaflets, with subrecurved tips. Calyx tubular-campanulate,
APRIL Ist, 1868.
five-cleft almost to the middle; lobes ovate, acute, erect.
Petals much longer than the calyx, convolute into a tube
below, above spreading, obovate-cuneate, retuse, white, reti-
culately mottled with bright rose-pink. Staminal column
slender, exserted. Stigmas five, capitellate. Ovules nume-
tous —J.D. H.
Fig. 1. Calyx cut open, involucel, and staminal column :—magnified.
5703, .
W Fitch, del.et lith Vincent Brooks .Imp.
Tas. 5708.
DENDROBIUM CUMULATUM.
Clustered-flowered Dendrobe.
Nat. Ord. Oxcu1tppm.—GyNnanpRIA MoNnANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4755.)
Denpropium (Stachyobium) ewnulatum; caulibus fasciculatis elongatis
pendulis teretiusculis vaginis scariosis nodis exceptis tectis, foliiferis
brevioribus, foliis 3-4-pollicaribus lineari- v. elongato-oblongis acumi-
natis, racemis corymbiformibus densi-multifloris, rachi brevi pedicel-
lisque gracilibus rubro-purpureis, floribus 1 une. latis roseo-purpureo
pallide tinctis, sepalis petalisque subequalibus oblongis obtusiusculis,
labello obovato-oblongo obtuso planiusculo glaberrimo, caleare labello
eequilongo crasso recto apice angustato obtuso.
Deyprozivum cumulatum. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1855, p. 756.
This very pretty species is another of Colonel Benson’s
valuable Moulmeyne contributions. A comparison with the
Dendrobes contained in Dr. Lindley’s Herbarium, nowat Kew,
proves it to be his D. cumulatum, of which I find no figure
published, nor other description than that quoted as in the
‘Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ where it is stated that the specimens ©
were leafless, that their native country is unknown, that the
colour of the flower varies in depth, and that the lip is some-
times freckled with rose-coloured spots. Our-plant differs
from one of Dr. Lindley’s varieties in the flowers being much
smaller, for he gives the dimensions as “two inches long,’
but as he does not state in which direction this measurement
is taken, it is impossible to compare them; in our specimens
they measure an inch and three-quarters from the tip of the
_ Spur to the tip of the lip, and one inch across the sepals.
Dr. Lindley further describes the tip of the spur (mentum) as
incurved and subacute, which is scarcely the case in our
— specimens.
The specimen here figured flowered in Kew in September,
1867.
Descr. Stems tufted, pendulous, one to two feet long,
APRIL Ist, 1868.
slender, subterete, internodes almost concealed by the scari-
ous pale brown sheath. Leaves few, on shorter branches,
three to four inches long, an inch to an inch and a half
broad, narrow oblong, acuminate, pale bright green, with
brown apices. Mowers numerous, collected into subglobose
corymbs of three inches diameter at the nodes, rose-purple,
vanilla-scented, an inch in diameter; rhachis of corymb and
pedicels deep red-purple, bracts minute. Sepals and petals
nearly equal, oblong, subacute, transparent. Lip longer and
broader than the sepals, obovate-oblong, obtuse or retuse,
glabrous, nearly plane, quite entire. Spur stout, straight,
almost tumid, contracted at the obtuse apex. Column very
short.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Column lip, and spur :—magnified.
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RAPHISTEMMA crutavom.
Ciliated Raphistemma.
Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADEZ.—GYNANDRIA PENTANDRIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx alte 5-fidus. Corolla campanulata v. rotato-campanu-
lata, limbo 5-fido. Gynostegium tubo inclusum. Corona staminea 5-phylla,
foliolis gynostegium duplo superantibus exsertis compressis apice inflexis.
Anthere membrana terminate ; pollinia clavata v. ovato-rotundata, sub
apice affixa, pendula. Stigma obscure 5-gonum. Folliculi sepius abortu
solitarii, subventricosi. Semina comosa.—Frutices Indici v. Moluccani,
caule tenui volubili. Folia cordata, supra petiolum glandulifera. Flores
albi, eorymbosi.
Rapaistemma ciliatum ; laxe pilosum, foliis late ovato-cordatis acuminatis
sinu profundo clauso, pedunculis elongatis pendulis, pedicellis filifor-
mibus, calycis lobis parvis acutis, corolle tubo brevissimo, lobis paten-
tibus ovatis acutis longe ciliatis.
A pretty, delicate climber, bearing a profusion of white
blossoms, the fringed edges of whose corollas have a very
beautiful appearance. The seeds were sent from Penang by
the Honourable Colonel Man to the Royal Gardens through
Mrs. Courtenay Bell, of Kew, and flowered in October, 1867.
Of the genus Raphistemma only two species have hitherto
been described, one a native of continental India, and the other
of Java, and from both which the present differ in its pilose
stems, very slender pedicels, short corolla-tube, and its fringed
lobes.
Descr. Stem slender, twining, covered with spreading or
reflexed hairs. Zeaves on slender petioles, ovate-cordate, acu-
minate, deeply two-lobed and auricled at the base, the sinus
closed by the almost overlapping auricles, two inches long
by an inch and three-quarters broad. Peduneles axillary,
pendulous and ascending, two to four inches long, bearing
an interrupted corymb of flowers; pedicels filiform, almost
capillary, an inch and a half long, reddish below the middle.
Flowers half an inch to three-quarters of an inch in diame-
ter, pale greenish-yellow, faintly rose-coloured towards the
APRIL lst, 1868.
base of the corolla lobes. Calya lobes five, small, subacute.
Corolla tube very short; lobes large, broad, spreading, beau-
tifully ciliated. Appendages of the column laterally com-
pressed, spurred behind at the base, their incurved apices
produced. Pollinia clavate.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Calyx and column. 2. Ovaries. 3. Pollinia :-—ail magnified.
anit
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Vincent Brooks , Imp
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Tas. 5705.
COCHLIOSTEMA J ACOBIANUM,
General Jacobi's Cochliostema.
Nat. Ord. Commetynex.—MonapenpPuta TRIANDRIA.
Gen. Ohar. Sepala 8, oblonga, obtusa, concava. Petala 3, subeequalia,
sepalis latiora, fimbriata. Staminodia 8, villosa; 2 erecta, linearia; tertia
abbreviata, plumosa. Columna staminea cucullata, marginibus involutis,
autheras 3 spiraliter tortas includens; anthere 2 erect parallelz, tertia
inferior, transversa. Ovariwm 3-loculare, obliquum ; stylus ascendens, fili-
formis, stigmate simpliciusculo; ovula numerosa, 2-seriata. Fructus igno-
tus.—Herbe acaules, foliose, Americe tropice incole. Folia basi vaginan-
tia, oblongo-lanceolata. Flores in paniculas avillares dispositi, fugaces.—
Cochliostema, Lemaire in Illust. Hortic. ¢. 217.
Cocnuiostema Jacobianum; glaberrimum, foliis 3-4-pedalibus oblongo-
lanceolatis acuminatis basi angustatis utrinque viridibus marginibus
brunneis, paniculis amplis axillaribus foliis brevioribus ramis opposi-
tis et verticillatis, bracteis amplis albis et pallide purpureis, sepalis
auguste oblongis obtusis roseo-purpureis, petalis obovatis fimbriato-
ciliatis ceruleis.
Cocutiosrema Jacobianum. K. Koch et Linden, Wochenschrift, 1867, p-
322. André, Revue Horticole, 1868, p. 71. Masters in Gard. Chron.
1868, p. 264 (cum ic. aylog., et 328, anal.).
This superb plant certainly ranks amongst the grandest
stemless Monocotyledons known, combining the foliage of a
gigantic Anthurium with masses of inflorescence which, for
size, delicacy, and beauty of tints, cannot well be surpassed.
Nor in a botanical point of view is this plant less note-
worthy, the structure and arrangement of the anthers of
the genus Cochliostema being most curious, and for an ex-
cellent account of which I would refer to Dr. Masters’s
papers, above quoted. It is there assumed that the apparent
number of stamens and staminodes is six, but the normal
number nine. Of these nine the three outer are represented
by two blue staminodes, and a third staminode reduced to a
tuft of.yellow hairs; whilst the other six consist of two
broken series of three each, the intermediate series being
represented by the two upright spiral anthers within the
. MAY Ist, 1868,
hood and a suppressed stamen (of which there is no visible
evidence), and the innermost series by the horizontal spiral
anther and two suppressed stamens (of which there is no
visible evidence). This explanation is ingenious, and is pro-
bably substantially correct.
C. Jacobianum is a native of Ecuador, from which it was
introduced by Mr. Linden, who exhibited it in full foliage
at the Paris Exhibition of 1867, and sent to England the
flower here figured. It has a faint sweet odour, not to be
compared with that of the C. odoratissimum.
Descr. A stemless epiphyte. Leaves numerous, spread-
ing, three to four feet long, sheathing at the broad base,
then oblong-lanceolate, four to six inches broad, deep green,
edged with brown. Peduncles axillary, stout, suberect, as thick
as the finger, white tinged with pink or purple, a foot long,
bearing an immense panicle of flowers. Bracts opposite and
whorled, oblong, concave, three to four inches long. Branches
of panicle stout, four to six inches long, bearing at their
apices short scorpioid, deflexed cymes; pedicels three-quar-
ters of an inch long. Flowers two inches to two inches and
a half in diameter. Sepals oblong, obtuse, concave, purple-
pink. Petals obovate, longer than the sepals, of a fine vio-
let-blue, fringed with soft purple hairs. Staminodes three,
two lateral linear, purple, fringed; third a tuft of yellow
hairs at the back of the staminal column. Staminal column
(or hood) pedicelled, petaloid, blade concave, with involute
margins, ovoid, produced into two long tubular points, being
cleft through the middle to the base, enclosing three anthers.
Anthers spirally twisted; one horizontal at the base of the
hood, two vertical, one in each involute half of the hood.
Ovary ovoid, three-celled ; style filiform, curved ; stigma mi-
nutely three-lobed.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Reduced figure of whole plant. 2 and 3. View of staminodes,
staminal hood, and ovary. 4. Vertical section of lower part of staminal
hood, showing the anthers:—all but Fig. 1 magnified.
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LYCASTE Barrrneroni#; var. grandiflora.
Mrs. Barrington’s Lycaste, large-flowered variety.
Nat. Ord. Orcutpe#.—GyNnanpria MonaANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tax. 4193.)
Lycasre Barringtonie ; pseudobulbis oblongis compressis demum costa-
tis, foliis amplis subternis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis plicatis,
scapo radicali pseubobulbo subsquilongo vaginato unifloro, bractea
ovarii longitudine, floribus albis flavisve, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis
subacutis, petalis paulo minoribus, labelli trilobi _lobis lateralibus
parvis erectis, intermedio ovato-rotundato marginibus erosis, callo
lato adnato alte suleato apice 2-dentato.
Lycaste Barringtoniw. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844, Mise. p. 15.
Epipenprum Barringtoniw. Smith, Ic. Pict. t. 25.
Denvrosrum Barringtoniw. Swartz, Nov. Act. Ups. v. 6. p. 82. Willd.
Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 182. Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 119.
Cotax Barringtonie. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 897.
Deyvrosivm ciliatum. Swartz, Pers. Synops. v. 2. p. 523.
Maxinrarta ciliata. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per. Syst. p. 221? Lindl. Bot. Reg.
#. 1206.
M. Barringtoniw. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1824. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. n.
23.
Var. grandiflora ; flore albo pallide virescente, 5 poll. diametro.
A fine old Orchid, now rarely seen in cultivation, and
which has, according to Dr. Lindley, been re-christened over
and over again, as our knowledge of the Order and limita-
tions of its genera have advanced or retarded, as the case
may be, That it is now rightly placed in Lycaste there can
be no doubt; and the present variety is certainly the largest
flowered, if not the showiest, of the genus. The specimen
here figured was flowered by Mr. Bull, F.LS., of Chelsea;
had leaves fully two feet long, and was very sweet-scented.
The species is a native of the West Indies and South Ame-
rica.
I follow Dr. Lindley in the above citations of synonyms ;
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they include plants of very different size and colour of flower,
and of no little variety of form of sepals, petals, and lip.
The specimen here figured vastly exceeds any of his varie-
ties in the size of the flower, and in its structure approaches
nearest to Lindley’s figure of MV. ciliata (Bot. Reg. t. 1206),
is, however, very green, and much smaller.
Descr. Pseudobulbs oblong, compressed, deep green, three
to five inches long, at length furrowed. Leaves two to three
at the apex of the pseudobulb, six to ten inches long, broadly
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, plaited and ribbed, dark green.
Scapes about as long as the pseudobulb erect, two-flowered,
covered with loose sheathes. Flowers of var. grandiflora six
inches long from the tip of the upper to those of the two
lower sepals, nearly white, with a faint green hue. Sepals
narrow oblong, obtuse. Petals smaller, rather undulate.
Lip three-lobed, lateral lobes small, erect, middle much
larger, nearly orbicular, margin erose or fringed, appendix
adnate to its surface, and bifid at the apex.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Column. 2. Lip. 3. Pollen:—ail magnified.
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BEGONTA ratcrrorsza.
The Sickle-leaved Begonia.
Nat. Ord. Braontacem.—Mona@cra Potyanprtra.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4131.)
Bsaonta faleifolia; pagina superiore folii setosa excepta glaberrima,
nitida, caule erecto subramoso, foliis petiolatis lanceolato - faleatis
attenuato-acuminatis basi oblique cordatis, irregulariter serrato-den-
tatis uno latere sublobatis junioribus albo-punctatis, subtus rubro-pur-
pureis supra saturate viridibus inflorescentia roseo-purpurea, perianthii
foliolis 9 et ¢ 2 orbiculatis roseis staminibus breviter monadelphis,
ovario 3-alato apice contracto, stylis 3, stigmatorum cruribus brevibus
fascia papillosa semel torta basi continua cinctis, placentis integris.
A very lovely species, a native of Peru, from whence it was
imported by Messrs. Veitch, being discovered by their col-
lector, Mr. Pearce. For the plant here figured, which has
been in flower almost ever since Christmas, the Royal Gar-
dens are indebted to W. Wilson Sanders, Esq., F.R.S. cs am
at a loss to which of Klotzsch’s or A. De Candolle’s sections
of the genus to refer it, there being none of these with en-
tire placentas which have but two leaflets of the perianth in
both the male and female flower.
Descr. Stems one to two feet high, glabrous, terete, erect,
more or less branched. Leaves petiolate, four to seven inches
long, petiole an inch and a half to two inches, falcate-lanceo-
late, gradually narrowed to the tip, base two-lobed-cordate,
the larger lobe produced laterally, irregularly serrate or du-
plicate dentate-serrate, four or six smaller teeth occurring
between the larger, veins very oblique, prominent beneath,
under-surface deep red-purple, upper very deep green, often
bronzed, covered with short, stiff, scattered, erect hairs, the
younger spotted with white. Stipules small, oblong, acute.
Panicles short, axillary, hermaphrodite, six- to ten-flowered,
much shorter than the leaves, rose-pink ; peduncles and pedi-
cels very slender; bracts small, oblong. Perianth of both
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sexes of two orbicular, glabrous, rose-coloured leaflets, half
an inch long. Stamens monadelphous at the base, in a uni-
lateral, curved bundle, filaments about as long as the clavate
anthers. Ovary oblong, equally three-winged, contracted to
a short neck at the apex; styles three, free, except at the
base, bifid, the lobes short, with a short, twisted, continuous
fascia; placentas quite entire.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Ovary. 3. Transverse section of do. :—all magnified.
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ONCIDIUM CUCULLATUM ; var. nubigenum.
Alpine Oncidium.
Nat. Ord. OrcutpEm.—GyYNANDRIA MOoNANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4148.)
Oncrprum cucullatum ; pseudobulbis anguste oblongis, folio plano lineari-
oblongo acuto, pedunculo gracillimo, racemo simplici erecto v. nutante,
sepalis lateralibus alte connatis petalisque subequalibus ovato-oblongis
acutis, labello amplo suborbiculato basi 2-auriculato marginibus integer-
rimis, tuberculis ad basin parvis, columne brevis margine nudo.
Var. nubigenum ; racemo suberecto, sepalis petalisque albis v. fusco-pur-
pureis apice viridibus, labello amplo, lobis lateralibus parvis inter-
medio dilatato emarginato albo concolore y. basi roseo.
OncrpiumM cucullatum D. nubigenum. Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Oncidium, p. 22.
Of this remarkably pretty Orchid I received two varieties
last year, the one in December, with white sepals and petals,
from Wentworth Buller, Esq., and the other in June, with
these organs of dingy purple, from Messrs. Backhouse and
Sons, of York; both are clearly referable to Lindley’s very
variable O. cucullatum, var. nubigenum, though differing in
the purple spot at the base of the lip. The specimen here
figured is Mr. Backhouse’s, and, though smaller than the
wild specimens in our Herbaria, has more flowers. It is a
native of forests on the western side of ridge of Asuay, in
Ecuador, alt. 11,000 feet, where it was discovered by Professor
Jameson, of Quito, some thirty years ago, and is one of the
most alpine of the genus, though Dr. Lindley mentions
another variety of the same species (cucullatum) as ascending
to 13,000 feet.
Descr. Pseudobulbs an inch and a half to two inches long.
narrow-oblong, compressed, smooth. Leaf solitary, five to
seven inches long, three-quarters of an inch to an inch broad,
linear-oblong, acute, deep gréen, plane, coriaceous. Scape very
slender, erect or inclined, sheaths distant. Raceme simple,
MAY Isr, 1868.
inclined, many- and dense-flowered, four to five inches long.
Flowers crowded, three-quarters of an inch to an inch dia-
meter ; pedicels and ovary slender, curved, ascending. Sepals
and petals equal, small, ovate, acute, white or dull purple,
with green tips; lateral sepals connate. Jip broader than
long ; lateral lobes small; middle very large, almost reniform,
membranous, glabrous, with smooth, entire edges, white, with
purple blotches and three small calli at the base. Column
short, white and purple.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Column and lip. 2. Pollen; both of Mr. Backhouse’s specimen :—
magnified. 3. Flower of Mr. Buller’s specimen :—of the natural size.
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LONICERA SranpisHit.
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Standish’s Honeysuckle.
Nat. Ord. CaprrroLiacrE®.—Prntranpr1a MonoGynta.
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus ovoideus y. subglobosus, limbus brevis, 5-den-
tatus, deciduus v. persistens. Corolla tubulosa, infundibuliformis v. cam-
panulata, basi gibba v. equalis, limbi 2-labiati obliqui v. rarius symmetrici
lobi 5. Stamina 5, tubo corolle inserta, anthere incluse y. exserte.
Ovarium 2-3-loculare ; stylus filiformis, stigmate capitato; ovula in loculis
numerosa, angulo interiore 2-seriatim inserta. Bacca carnosa, 2-3-locularis,
v.ob septa evanida 1-locularis, loculis oligospermis. Semina ovoidea v.
oblonga, testa crustacea.—Frutices erecti v. scandentes, hemispherit bore-
alis incole, gemmis squamosis. Folia opposita, integra vel rarius lobata.
Flores in cymas v. capitula pedunculata dispositt.
Lonrcera Standishii ; erecta, virgata, ramulis subflexuosis scaberulis, setis
retrorsis deciduis hispidis, foliis deciduis breviter petiolatis anguste
ovato-oblongis oblongo-lanceolatisve acuminatis ciliatis superne gla-
berrimis subtus secus nervos petioloque setulosis, pedunculis brevi us
retrorsum hispidis 2-floris, bracteis lanceolato-subulatis, ovaris glabris
connatis, coroll albse tubo brevi basi gibbo, limbi 2-labiati labiis tubo
multo longioribus, superiore quadrato 4-fido, inferiore anguste oblongo,
omnibus obtusis.
This charming, fragrant, early-flowering Honeysuckle has
been for some time in cultivation in Europe, but hitherto it
has borne no name in English gardens, except that in some
places it has been confounded with the similarly fragrant
L. brachypoda, Thunb., and L. fragrantissima, of Japan. M.
Baillon, who has had the goodness to compare it with au-
thentic specimens of L. brachypoda in Baron Delessert’s her-
barium at Paris, assures us that the two are quite different,
and that the present is cultivated in France under the name
of L. Standishii, which is supposed to have been given It by
the late conductor of this Magazine. It hence appeared pro-
bable that our plant was one of Mr. Fortune’s Chinese intro-
ductions, and, on application to Mr. Fortune, he informs
us that it is common in gardens at Shanghae, and was sent
home by him many years ago, and distributed by the Horti-
cultural Society with L. fragrantissima. Whatever may be
MAY Ist, 1868.
the origin of the name Standishii, it is well applied in honour
of the active and ‘intelligent nurseryman to whom many of
Mr. Fortune’s rich Chinese collections were consigned.
Descr. A twiggy, deciduous shrub, with flexuous, pale
yellow-brown branches, covered with deciduous, reflexed
bristles, that leave a papilla when they fall away, and are
hence scabrid. Leaves three to five inches long, an inch to
an inch and three-quarters broad, very shortly petioled, ovate-
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, rounded at the base,
pale green, upper surface glabrous, margin ciliate, nerves
prominent below and petiole hispid. Flowers in pairs, on
short, curved, retrorsely hispid peduncles, white, very sweet-
scented, one-fifth of an inch to half an inch long, ovaries
connate ; calyx truncate. Corolla glabrous, with a short tube
that is gibbous at the base, limb two-lipped, lips longer than
the tube; upper quadrate, cleft to the middle into four
blunt lobes; lower, of one narrow, oblong lobe. Stamens
exserted.— J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Peduncle and flower :—magnified.
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CYMBIDIUM PENDULUM ; var. atro-purpurea.
Pendulous Cymbidium, purple-flowered variety.
Nat. Ord. OncHrpEx®.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5457.)
CymBiprum pendulum; foliis ensiformibus distichis coriaceis oblique ob-
tusis, racemis pendulis multifloris, bracteis minutis, floribus 24 poll.
diametro, sepalis petalisque subzqualibus lineari-oblongis obtusius-
culis, labelli 3-lobi lobis lateralibus parvis acutis, intermedio ovato v.
oblongo obtuso v.apiculato, disco lamellis 2 parallelis approximatis
mediocribus. Swartz, Nov. Act. Ups. v. 6. p. 73. Lindl. Bot. Req.
1860. ¢. 25.
Var. atro-purpurea; sepalis petalisque extus flavo-viridibus intus atro-pur-
pureis, labelli pallide purpureo-maculati lobo intermedio lateralibus
triplo majore recurvo basi dilatato.
There can, I think, be little doubt but that this fine plant
is a form of C. pendulum, Swartz, a native of Singapore,
Java, and the Philippine Islands, as well as of many parts
of India proper, as the Himalaya and Khasia mountains,
and those of the Western Peninsula. It flowered with
Messrs. Rollison, of Tooting, in March of the present year,
and was imported from the Kast Indian islands, probably Java,
‘ but this is, I understand, doubtful. The leaves were three
feet in length, and spikes of two feet and a half, presenting
a truly noble appearance, far surpassing any of the other
varieties of the same species hitherto discovered. Wallich’s
C. Finlaysonianum (Tab. n. 7358) seems hardly different from
C. pendulum, and there are probably many other forms.
Descr. Stems tufted. Leaves two to three feet long, equi-
tant, and deeply grooved at the base, then ensiform, half an
inch to three-quarters of an inch broad, keeled, very co-
riaceous, obliquely obtuse at the apex, one half ending in
an incurved tooth. Spike two feet long, lax, pendulous,
many-flowered. Bracts very minute. Sepals and petals
similar, an inch and a half to an inch and two-thirds long,
linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, externally dull yellow-
JUNE lst, 1868.
green, internally intensely dark purple, with green edges
at the tips. Jp recurved, shorter than the sepals; lateral
lobes small, acute, pale purple; middle lobe broadly oblong-
cordate, much larger, white tinged with rose-colour, and with
a few purple spots; disk yellowish, with two narrow, ap-
proximate, slender, parallel ridges. Column dark purple;
anther pale.—J. D. H.
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ERAN THEMUM asprErsum.
Speckled-flowered Eranthemum.
Nat. Ord. AcantHace®.—DIAnpRria Monoersta.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5440.)
ErantTHEemvM punctulatum ; fruticosum, glaberrimum, ramulis levibus, foliis
petiolatis oblongo-ovatis obtusiusculis obscure repando-sinuatis, cymis
axillaribus breviter pedunculatis foliis brevioribus multi-densifloris,
calycis puberuli lobis subulatis erectis corolla multo brevioribus, co-
rolla hypocraterimorpha, tubo gracillimo pollicari albo, limbi plani
lobis oblongis obtusis albis 4 superioribus disco excluso purpureo-
punctulatis, inferiore majore disco sanguineo-purpureo margine punc-
tulato, filamentis ciliatis, antheris oblongis obtusis.
A remarkably-beautiful stove shrub, sent from the Solomon
Islands by Mr. John Veitch during his Australian voyage, and
communicated to the Royal Gardens in 1867, without name,
where it flowered fully in March of the present year. It appears
undescribed, but is manifestly closely allied to E. Cooperia-
num (‘Tab. nost. 5467) and E. tuberculatum (Tab. nost. 5405).
It differs remarkably from any species known to me in the
very straight, slender corolla-tube, and white limb, curiously
speckled with purple, all but one lip-like lobe, which is
almost wholly purple, giving the corolla-limb the appear-
ance of an Orchid flower.
Descr. Apparently a slender shrub, much branched, gla-
brous; stems and branches tetragonous. Leaves on short
petioles, two to three inches long, ovate or ovate-oblong,
subacute, obscurely sinuate, waved at the margin, dark green
above, paler below ; petioles a quarter to half an inch long.
~Cymes numerous, axillary, shorter than the leaves. Peduneles
half an inch to an inch long, three- to five-flowered ; pedicels
very short, and, as well as the calyx, puberulous. Corolla-tube
four or five times as long as the calyx, straight, very slender,
white; limb flat, an inch toan inch and a quarter in its
longest diameter, five-lobed; lobes oblong, obtuse, four upper
JUNE Ist, 1868.
white, sprinkled with purple dots towards the margin, the
two lateral rather larger and’longer than the two upper ;
lower lobe largest, very deep blood-purple at the base and
over the disk, the broad white margin speckled with purple.
Stamens altogether included, filaments short, with a line of
recurved hairs; anthers linear-oblong, subacute, cells nearly
equal. Ovary narrow oblong, on an annular disk; style
slender, stigma minutely two-toothed.—J. D. H.
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OPHRYS rnsecrirmra; var. aranifera.
Spider Ophrys.
Nat. Ord. Oncuip®E.—Gynanpria Monanpreia.
Gen. Char. Sepala patentia, supremo fornicato v. galeato. Petala minora,
patentia, linearia oblonga v.cordata. Labellum columne basi insertum,
sessile, rigidum, planiusculum vy. marginibus recurvis, carinatum v. lobatum.
Columna brevis, aptera, antice fissa, 2-bursiculata. Anthera verticalis,
mutica; pollinia caudiculis rectis, glandulis distinctis intra bursiculis re-
conditis—Herbe in Europa media et australi indigene, habitu Orchidis.
Flores laze spicati, labello varie picto. Endl.
Opnnys insectifera; sepalis oblongis lineari-oblongisve, petalis consimi-
libus v. subcordatis multo minoribus, labello subquadrato-oblongo
obscure lobato, columna rostrata.
Opurys insectifera. Linn. Sp. Pl. vol. 2, 1343 (1765). Moggridge, Contri-
butions to the Flora of Mentone, pl. 43.
Var. aranifera; petalis glabris planis viridibus, labello integro v. apice
emarginato.
Opurys insectifera, var. 8. Linn. Sp. Pl. l.c.
Orueys aranifera. Huds. Fl. Angl. p. 392. Ourt. Fl. Lond. ed. 2. t. 67.
Opurys aranifera, var. apiculata. Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 465. f. 2, 3.
The receipt of a beautiful set of Ophrys bulbs, collected
by our indefatigable correspondent T. Moggridge, Esq., in
the neighbourhood of Mentone, together with the advancing
taste for the cultivation of terrestrial and especially spring-
flowering Orchids, has induced me to figure what Linneus
considered as the typical form of that group of Ophrys which
includes the lesser and common Spider, the Bee, and the
Drone, amongst British Orchids, and several other foreign
ones, and which have been distinguished as good species by
most succeeding authors. Mr. Moggridge has figured a
series of these forms in his charming work, ‘Contributions
to the Flora of Mentone, and, after carefully studying the
structure and habits of an enormous series of specimens In a
living state, and in a locality where they abound, he has
JUNE Isr, 1868.
come to the conclusion that Linnzus was -right, whom he
quotes as saying that they ‘‘seem at the first glance per-
fectly distinct, but one who compares them with their con-
geners, and has before him all the varieties at the same
moment, will easily perceive them to be sprung from one
stock, and will find no means by which he can distinguish
them, however constant they may be.”
The interest of this subject is however by no means ex-
hausted when this conclusion is arrived at; on the contrary,
in a philosophical point of view, it is vastly increased, for Mr.
Moggridge has, with great acuteness, observed some very cu-
rious facts connecting the various forms of flowers with their
seasons of coming into flower, showing ‘‘the intimate con-
nection which exists between the sequence in which each
variety flowers, and its approximation to one of the extreme
forms ;” a sequence which, he goes on.to say, he “ cannot
regard as fortuitous,” but is rather “led to surmise that laws
new to me are here in operation.” The different varieties
occupy no less than five months in flowering; the plant
here figured (0. aranifera) commences the series, flowering
in December at Mentone (at Kew in February), whilst the
last to flower is the 0. apifera (our Bee-Orchis), which there
appears in April, but with us in June.
For further particulars I must refer to Mr. Moggeridge’s
excellent work, and can only hope that, with extended oppor-
tunities, he will be able to clear up the whole question of the
origin and interdependence of the principal forms of Ophrys.
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STROPHAN THUS CAPENSIS.
South African Strophanthus.
Nat. Ord. ApocyNE®.—PENTANDRIA MoNnoGyYNIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus, lobis intus basi glandulosis. Corolla in-
fundibuliformi-campanulata, lobis 5 longissime ligulatis y. lineari-subulatis,
sinistrorsum convolutis, ore corona 10-cornuta cincto. Stamina basi
fauce corolle inserta, filamentis crassiusculis tubo adnatis; anthere sagit-
tate, apice mucronate v. appendiculate. Ovarii carpella 2, subglobosa ;
stylus cylindricus, stigmate capitato v. oblongo. Folliculi crassi, obtusi,
polyspermi. Semina oblonga, compressa, carnosa.—Frutices erecti v. sar-
mentosi Africani et Asiatici. Folia opposita et 3-natim verticillata, inte-
gerrima. Flores majusculi, in cymas terminales dispositi, flavi rubri v.
virides,
SrrorHantuus Capensis ; scandens, foliis 3-natim verticillatis, oblongo-
v. obovato-lanceolatis acutis glaberrimis marginibus recurvis, cymis
4-6-floris, pedicellis bracteas excedentibus, sepalis subulato-lanceolatis,
glandulis calycinis 7-10 erectis, corolla flava, lobis basi aurantiacis,
eer ay pilosis appendice subulata pilosa terminatis, stigmate mitri-
ormi.
Srropuanruus Capensis. Alph. DO. Prodr. v. 8. p. 419.
A very handsome South African shrub, of which there are
native specimens in the Kew Herbarium, collected, in J. anuary
of the present year, by Mrs. Henry Hutton, of Bedford, in the
Kaga-berg forest, where it forms a lofty climber, at eleva-
tions of about 5000 feet above the sea. These arrived at
Kew almost at the same time as the living specimens here
figured, which I owe to Mr. Veitch, with whom the plant
flowered in April. It is a very handsome evergreen climber,
admirably suited for a conservatory wall or pillar, and for
which, it may be safely predicted that it will prove a valuable
acquisition. The calyx-lobes of the native specimens are
considerably larger than those of the cultivated, but I find
no other difference whatever between them.
Descr. A lofty, evergreen, leafy, dark green, glabrous
climber. Leaves close-set, two to three inches long, half to
JUNE Ist, 1868.
two-thirds of an inch broad, shortly petioled, oblong- or
obovate-lanceolate, attenuated towards the base, acute, paler
beneath, quite entire. Cymes terminal, about as long as
the leaves, four- to six-flowered; bracts subulate-lanceolate, -
shorter than the pedicels. Calya-lobes variable in size, subu-
late-lanceolate, erecto-patent ; glands about ten, erect, ligu-
late, unequal in size. Corolla bright yellow, with dark
orange spots at the base of the lobes; tube and throat half
an inch long; lobes an inch to an inch and a half, ligulate
from a broad base; ¢hroat campanulate, with five bifid scales
united into a tube, which surrounds the mouth. Anthers
pilose, and having a pilose terminal appendix. Style stout;
stigma mitriform.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Corolla, laid open. 2.Stamen. 3. Calyx and style. 4. Glands
of calyx and pistil:—all magnified.
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ERYTHRONIUM GIGANTEUM.
Gigantic Erythronium.
Nat. Ord. Littacer®.—HeExanpria Monoeynta.
Gen. Char. Perianthium corollinum, persistens, late campanulatum,
6-phyllum ; foliolis subeequalibus, interioribus basi callosis. Stamina 6,
3 interiora hypogyna, 3 exteriora basi foliolorum adherentia. Ovariwm
brevissime stipitatum, 3-loculare; stylus terminalis, stigmate 3-lobo v.
3-partito ; ovula in loculis numerosa, 2-seriata. Capsula 3-gona, 3-locu-
laris, polysperma. Semina ovoidea, inversa, testa fusca; chalaza terminali,
caudicula basi tumida instructa; embryo minimus.—Herbe bulbose, sub-
acaules, scapigere, in Europa et Asia media et America boreali indigene.
Folia sepius 2-na, Scapus 1-3-florus ; floribus majusculis nutantibus.
Eryturonium gigantewm; foliis 2 amplis obovato-oblongis obtusis fusco-
maculatis, scapo elato 2-8-floro, floribus 3 unc. diam. albis, petalis
ovato-lanceolatis, lamina alba, ungue aureo et aurantiaco fasciato,
antheris flavis, stigmatis lobis subelongatis.
Eryturonium giganteum. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. v. 21. sub t. 1786. Kunth,
Enum. v. 4. p, 219.
Errruronium grandiflorum, var. y. albiflorum. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 11.
p. 182.
This is by far the handsomest species or variety of Ery-
thronium hitherto introduced into this country. It is a na-
tive of North-west America, and was communicated from the
Edinburgh Botanic Garden in April of the present year. I
have had some difficulty in determining what name it should
bear, the Herbarium specimens of the West American forms
of the genus (E. grandiflorum, Pursh, E. gigantewm, Lindl.,
and E. revolutum, Sm.) being utterly indistinguishable in a
dry state; and their published characters being founded on
the colour of the flowers,—white, yellow, and purple,—they
have been all reduced, and, I suspect, very properly, to one
species, in the ‘ Flora Boreali-Americana.’
E. giganteum was discovered by Douglas, who does not
- notice the colour of the flower, nor does Lindley, in his
diagnosis of it above quoted. They would appear to be
white in Douglas's own specimens preserved in the Hook-
JUNE lst, 1868.
erian Herbarium, but in the ‘ Flora Boreali-Americana’ they
are stated to be yellow; and another variety is noticed as
having white flowers (viz. 6. albiflorum), to which the present
plant no doubt belongs. From some observations by Burke in
the Hookerian Herbarium, it would appear that the species
or forms of West American Erythronia retain their colours
over considerable areas, and that they are at least constant
races, whence for horticultural purposes the present will, no
doubt, bear a specific name.
Descr. A tall herd, one to two feet high. Leaves five
to eight inches long, oblong-obovate, obtuse, dark green,
blotched with dark brown. Scapes two- to four-flowered ;
peduncles one to two and a half inches long. Flowers two
to three inches in diameter. Petals, with the limb, white,
the claw green on the back, in front golden-yellow, with an
irregular, transverse, orange-yellow band. Stigma with three
slender recurved lobes, — J. D. H.
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STOBAIA sPH#ROCEPHALA.
Round-headed Stobea.
Nat. Ord. Compostr#.—SyNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.
Gen. Char. Capitula multiflora, v. discoidea floribus omnibus tubulosis
et hermaphroditis, v. radiata floribus radii neutris. Jnvolwert: squame
multiseriate, basi concrete dein spinescentes, marginibus spinulosis. Re-
ceptaculum profunde alveolatum, alveolis fimbrilliferis v. setiferis. Fila-
menta levia. Pappi set wquales v. inequales v. in coronam concrete.
Achenia turbinata v. obpyramidata, sulcata, sepe alveolis receptaculi im-
mersa.—Herbe habitu Carduacew, Capenses, glabre araneose v. lanate.
Folia alterna, sepissime pinnatifido-lobata. Capitula ramos terminantia,
flava, rarius purpurea.
Srospma spherocephala; herbacea, erecta, ramosa, laxe araneosa, caule alato,
alis spinulosis, foliis radicalibus lanceolatis pinnatifidis spinuloso-den-
tatis ciliatisve, demum glabratis lobis rotundatis, caulinis longe decur-
rentibus, capitulis corymbosis globosis discoideis, involucro disco
multo breviore, squamis angustis marginibus 1-2 spinulosis, recep-
taculi squamis acicularibus, pappi squamis brevibus in coronam char-
taceam irregulariter fissam connatis, acheeniis glaberrimis.
Sropma spherocephala. DC. Prodr. v. 6. p. 518. Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap.
v. 3. p. 490.
The Cape genus Stobea consists of no less than forty-three
species of for the most part handsome golden-flowered thistle-
like plants, well adapted for the open border, but of which
the present is the first that has ever been cultivated and
figured in this country. It was raised from seeds sent by
- our excellent correspondent Henry Hutton, Esq., of Bedford,
South Africa, and flowered in the open air in September,
1864.
Descr. A stout, erect, branching herb, two to three feet
high, loosely covered with cobwebby down. Branches
broadly winged, with the green, spinous, decurrent bases of
the leaves and bracts. Radical leaves eight to ten inches
long, lanceolate, narrowed to the base, deeply sinuato-pinna-
tifid, the lobes broad, rounded, spinous-toothed, cobwebby
below, glabrous above, and often spinulose on the surface ;
JUNE Ist, 1868.
cauline leaves much smaller, spinulose. Heads an inch to an
inch and a quarter in diameter, golden-yellow. Involucral
scales connate at the base, the free portion spreading, re-
flexed, spinulose at the apex and margin, green, cobwebby.
Receptacle scales all acicular. Flowers all tubular, much
longer than the involucre; tube curved, puberulous; Lim)
of five narrow spreading lobes. Anthers long, connate ;
filaments glabrous. Style arms recurved, linear, papillose.
Achene glabrous; pappus hairs connate into a short, stiff,
irregularly-cleft annulus.—J. D. H.
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AGAVE DASYLIRIOIDES.
Dasylirion-like Agave.
Nat. Ord. AMaryttipex.—HeExanpria Monoeynta.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 5333.)
Agave dasylirioides ; acaulis, foliis numerosissimis coriaceis anguste ensi-
formibus patenti-recurvis longe attenuato-acuminatis marginibus pec-
tinatim serrulatis utrinque convexiusculis pallide glauco-viridibus
striolatis, scapo longissimo, parte nudo suberecto bracteis numerosis-
simis falcato-secundis crinito, parte florifero elongato dependente, spica
densissima cylindrica, floribus 2-nis viridibus, perianthio subcampanu-
iato 6-lobo, lobis brevibus obtusis, staminibus strictis perianthio cum
ovario equilongis, antheris brunneis.
Agave dasylirioides. Jagobi et Bouché in Hamburg Gartenzeit. v. 21. p.
344, et v. 22. p. 269.
The noble Agave here figured has been a very conspicu-
ous plant in the conservatory of the Regent’s Park Botanic
Gardens, where it has flowered three times, on each occasion
presenting the same remarkable appearance that our draw-
ing conveys. Mr. Sowerby informs me that it was raised
from a packet of seeds sent from Mexico about twenty-five
years ago, amongst which seeds were also those of the Four-
croya longeva, figured in this Magazine (Tab. 5519). This
Agave first flowered in about 1860, and again in 1864, and
lastly in January of the present year; on each occasion the
old head died away, and a new one formed at its base. For
the reduced drawing of the entire plant here given, I am in-
debted to a lady friend of Mr. Sowerby’s. The leaves were
three and a half to four feet long, the flower-stem ten feet
and a half high, and the crowded sickle-shaped, one-sided
bracts on which produced a no less remarkable appearance
than the pendulous habit of the floriferous parts. My
authority for the specific name of dasylirioides is General
Jacobi, who says that the same species is cultivated in the
Vienna Botanic Garden. Koch, however, considers it the
JULY Ist, 1868.
same with A. dealbata, Lemaire, a plant I have no means of
comparing it with.
Descr. Stem in our specimen very short or none. Leaves
three and a half to four feet long, very numerous, the central
erect, the others recurved, narrow ensiform, an inch to an
inch and a half broad, rather convex on both surfaces,
sharply but minutely pectinately toothed, dull glaucous-
green, striated. Scape ten and a half feet long, flowering
portion sharply recurved, and quite pendulous; lower part
most densely clothed with subulate, ensiform, curved, falcate,
secund bracts. racts all similar, arid with a similar curva-
ture, the lowest one foot long, the upper gradually smaller.
Inflorescence a very dense, cylindric, pendulous spike, five
feet long, green, dotted with the brown anthers. Flowering-
bracts subulate, longer than the flowers. Flowers sessile,
pale green, in pairs, an inch and three-quarters long, exclu-
sive of the stamens; ovary cylindric, rather shorter than the
campanulate, six-cleft perianth, whose lobes are short, ob-
tuse, concave, and nerveless. laments as long as the
flowers, stout, strict ; anthers linear-oblong, bright red-brown.
—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Portion of scape and bracts. 2. Upper portion of leaf. 3.
Margin of leaf. 4. Flowers. 5. Transverse section of ovary :—all but
3 and 4 of the natural size.
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Tas. 5717,
ABUTILON VEXILLARIUM.
Standard-flowered Abutilon.
Nat. Ord. Matvacem.—MonaDELPHIA POLYANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4840.)
Axpvuriton vevillarium ; frutex glaber, ramis gracilibus, foliis gracile petio-
latis cordato-lanceolatis grosse serrato-dentatis venosis, stipulis sub-
foliaceis oblongis pauci-dentatis lobulatisve, floribus axillaribus solitariis
gracillime pedicellatis pendulis, calyce ampullaceo rubro 5-alato breviter
5-fido, lobis triangularibus acuminatis, corolle tubo calyce incluso,
lobis stramineis exsertis ovatis acutis, antheris numerosissimis exsertis ,
multiseriatis in conum oblongum confertis stigmatibusque purpureis.
Apuriion vexillarium. Morren in Belg. Hortic. Octob. 1864, p. 289. f. 16.
ex Lemaire, Illustr. Hortie. t. 432.
Srpa Leopeoldi, Hort.
A most elegant warm greenhouse plant, published first by
Morren in 1864, but of which the native country, though
said to be South America, seems to be entirely unknown;
and there are no native specimens in the Herbaria at Kew.
It flowered in the Palm House of Kew in March of the pre-
sent year, and had a most attractive appearance, from its grace-
ful habit, and the vivid contrast of the red calyx and sulphur-
coloured corolla.
Descr. A very slender, graceful, glabrous shrud. Branches
spreading, leafy. Leaves almost pendulous from the very
slender, spreading petioles, two to three inches long, cordate-
lanceolate, coarsely toothed, bright green above, paler below.
Stipules persistent, oblong, obtuse or acute, irregularly lobu-
late or toothed. Flowers numerous, solitary from the axils
of the leaves, pendulous from very slender pedicels an inch
long. Calyx one inch long, narrow flagon-shaped, bright red,
obtuse at the base, narrowly five-winged, with five short,
acute, triangular teeth. Corolla-tube enclosed in the calyx-
tube; lobes short, exserted, twisted, ovate-acuminate, pale
sulphur-coloured. Staminal tube very slender, twisted ;
JULY Ist, 1868,
anthers small, very numerous, collected in an oblong cone,
purple. Styles five; stigmas minute, capitate, purple.—
Fig. 1. Longitudinal section of the flower :—magnified.
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Taz. 5718.
NASONTA puncrata.
Cinnabar-red Nasonia.
Nat. Ord. Orncutprm.—GyNanpRiA MonaANDRIA.
Gen. Char. Sepala patentia, lateralia connata. Petala conformia, qualia.
Labellum liberum, cum pede paulo producto columne articulatum, medio
constrictum et appendiculatum. Colwmna erecta, basi teres; clinandrio
elongato erecto, margine petaloideo cincto. Anthera unilocularis, apice
longissima cum columna parallela ideoque decurva. Pollinia 2, solida,
spheerica, caudicule longissime diaphane subulate apice affixa; glandula
ovata. Rostellwm breve, 2-fidum. Ovariwm 3-quetrum.—Herbee Austro-
Americans, parvule, epiphytice, ramose, foliose. Folia coriacea, disticha.
Flores pedicellati, awillares, pro planta majusculi.—Lindl. in Pl. Hartweg.
Nasoy1a punctata ; foliis }-pollicaribus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis carinatis,
floribus subsolitariis cinnabarinis, sepalis petalisque subconformibus
oblongis obtusis, labello sepalis breviore late obovato subcuneato
retuso y. transverse oblongo flavo basi scutellato, scutello sub lobo
parvo aurantiaco, columnee alis irregulariter lobato-dentatis.
A very pretty little Orchid, discovered by Hartweg in the
mountains of El Sisme in Peru, and called by Lindley N.
punctata, from the dark spots seen on the perianth of dried
specimens, which are of a very pale colour, quite unlike the
vivid red of the living plant. The specimen here figured
flowered with Messrs. Veitch in April of the present year,
and was called N. cinnabarina ; the latter is a plant described :
by Reichenbach fil. in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1867,
p. 544, as having been imported by Linden; I can, however,
find no difference, except the above-mentioned one, of colour
of flower, between Veitch’s and the original specimens of
Lindley’s plant.
Descr. Stems tufted, three to five inches long, rather stout,
leafy throughout above the rooting portion. Leaves disti-
chous, half to two-thirds of an inch long, spreading, with
short, broad sheaths that clasp the stem ; limb jointed on
the sheath, oblong-lanceolate, acute, keeled. Flowers axil-
lary, pedicelled, solitary, nearly an inch long across the
JULY Ist, 1868.
sepals; pedicel shorter than the leaves, with short bracts on
the middle ; ovary three-winged. Sepals and petals cinnabar-
red; upper sepal oblong, obtuse, somewhat recurved; lateral
joined nearly to their apices, also slightly recurved, their free
parts short, subacute. Petals projected forward, like the
upper sepal, rather conniving. Zip much shorter than the
sepals, broadly obovate-cuneate, retuse, yellow, with a two-
lobed shield of a bright orange colour at the base. Wings
of the column dilated, irregularly cut and toothed.—J. D. H.
_ Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Flower with petals and sepals removed. 3. Lip and
column. 4. Lip. 5. Column. 6. Anther. 7 and 8. Pollinia:—all mag-
nified.
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PAONTA Emopt.
Himalayan Peony.
Nat. Ord. RanuxcuLacE®.—POLYANDRIA PoLyG@YNIA.
Gen. Char. Sepala 5, herbacea, persistentia. Petala 5-10, conspicua,
lata, efoveolata. Carpella 1-5, multiovulata, disco carnoso cincta, maturi-
tate coriacea, folliculatim dehiscentia. Semina magna, albumine carnoso.
—Herhe, radice caudiciformt perennes, v. caules ramosi plus minus lignost.
Folia alterna, ampla, pinnatim dissecta v. composita. Flores spectost, pur-
puret albi v. rubri.
Pxronta Emodi; herbacea, foliis ternatim sectis utrinque glabris lete viri-
dibus lucidis, floribus subpaniculatis albis, carpello solitario tomentoso.
PHONIA Emodi. Wall. Cat. n. 4727. Royle, Til. p. 57.
P. officinalis. Hook. f. e¢ Thoms. Fl. Indica, p. 60.
‘The herbaceous Peonies comprehend a group of variable
plants, about whose specific distinctions naturalists are little
likely to be of one mind. In the Herbarium they are undis-
tinguishable specifically; in the garden a certain number
differ, apparently permanently, by characters of mest unequal
value. In the ‘Flora Indica’ Dr. Thomson and I referred
the Himalayan Peonies to forms of P. officinalis,—a conclu-
sion little acceptable to some botanists, and not at all to
gardeners. On reviewing the subject @ propos to the present
plant, I see no reason to alter my opinion that, as compared
with the species of many other genera, the Himalayan ones
may well be referred to forms or varieties of the European; —
but as they differ greatly in habit, colour, and those qualities
that render them worthy of cultivation, as well as in some
other points of a little more moment, I here keep one at any
rate distinct. ‘This is the P. Emode of Wallich, a common —
temperate Himalayan plant from Kumaon to Kashmir, which
is easily recognized by its slender habit, white, subpanicled
flowers, and solitary tomentose carpel ; In this respect alone,
of a solitary tomentose carpel, it differs from P. albiflora,
Willd. (‘Tab. Nostr. 1756), of Siberia; and in the tomentose
carpel alone from a Kashmir one-carpelled plant, hitherto not
JULY Ist, 1868.
distinguished from this, and which, therefore, differs from P.
albifiora in the solitary carpel alone.
The P. Emodi was flowered, in the open air in May of the
present year, at Glasnevin Gardens by Dr. Moore, F.L.S., who
says of it that it is the most distinct of all the herbaccous
Peonies, several of the flowers expanding together on the
same stem, and being always monogynous. It is more tender
than any other herbaceous species, and appears above ground
a month earlier than these do.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Disk and ovary. 2. Stamen:—both magnified.
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‘PHARBITIS Nu; var. limbata.
White-edged Pharbitis.
Nat. Ord. ConvoLVULACE.—PENTANDRIA Monoeysia.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla campanulata v. infundibuliformi-
campanulata. Stamina inclusa. Ovariwm 3- rarius 4-loculare ; stylus fili-
formis, inclusus, stigmate capitellato 2-lobo; ovula in loculis 2.—Herbe
volubiles, caule elongato. Folia integra v. lobata.
Puarsrris Nil; caule retrorsim piloso, foliis cordatis 3-lobis lobo inter-
.
medio basi dilatato, petiolis longiusculis, pedunculis 2-3-floris petiolo
brevioribus longioribusve, sepalis elongato-subulato-lanceolatis erectis
dein lente recurvis longe acuminatis, corolla ampla. Choisy in DC.
Prodr. v. 9. p. 343.
Var. limbata; corolla violacea, albo-marginata.
Puarsrris albo-marginata. Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 5. p. 38. Hen-
Srey in Gard. Mag. Bot. v. 2. p. 217, cum ic.; Flore des Serres, t.
608; Lemaire, Jardin Fleuriste, t. 97.
The most beautiful plant here figured was raised from
seeds collected in North Australia, and sent by Dr. Mueller
to Kew, where it flowered in a stove in May of the present
year. Pharbitis Nil itself is an extremely common tropical
weed, so widely distributed, that it is difficult now to say of
what country it is a native. The variety albo-limbata was
originally imported from Java by Messrs. Rollisson, of Toot-
ing, and is probably not uncommon In the East Indian
Islands; it was considered a good species by Lindley, but
more correctly referred by Henfrey to P. Nil, from which it
differs only in the colour of the flowers. So many Malayan
‘island plants, and especially annuals, are also North Austra-
lian, that its appearance in the latter country is not extra-
ordinary. a
Descr A slender, twining annual. Stems hispid with
retrorse hairs, Leaves on rather slender hairy petioles, two
inches and a half to four inches long, cordate, three-lobed,
the lobes broad, the middle one broadest and acuminate.
Peduncles variable in length, one- to three-flowered, hispid.
JULY Ist, 1868.
_ Flowers bibracteate. Calya-lobes green, one inch long,
hispid. Corolla two inches long; tube pale rose-purple;
_limb two inches and a half in diameter, of a deep violet-
purple edged with white. Stamens included, filaments
slender, hairy at the base; anthers rather short. Ovary
short; style slender; stigma small, capitate, lobed, granu-
late.— J. BD. #7,
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PLEROMA MACRANTHUM.
Large-flowered Pleroma.
Nat. Ord. MenastoMace2.—DeEcAanDRIA MonoGynyta.
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus paleaceus strigosus v. hirsutus; lobi persistentes
v. decidui. Petala 5, obovata, sepe inequilatera et retusa. Stamina 10,
eequalia v. subequalia, filamentis glabris pilosis v. glandulosis; anthere
consimiles, arcuate, connectivo basi producto antice 2-tuberculato. Ovarium
liberum v. costis calyci adnatum, vertice hispidum, 5-loculare; stylus curvus,
stigmate punctiformi. Capsula 5-valvis, calyce inclusa. Semina cochleata.
—Frutices v. suffrutices, rarius herb, sepius hispiduli. Folia petiolata,
coriacea, 8—7-nervia. Flores sepissime im paniculas 3-chotomas dispositt,
ampli, violacei v. purpurei, calyce sepe bracteis involucrato.
Preroma macranthum ; fruticosum, erectum, pubescens, foliis petiolatis ova-
tis oblongo-ovatisve acuminatis minute denticulatis 5-nerviis superne
rugulosis, floribus terminalibus subsolitariis amplissimis, calycis tubo
ovoideo lobis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis obovato-obcordatis
violaceis subapiculatis, filamentis 10 styloque pilosis. ,
LasrtanpRa macrantha. Seem. in Journ. Bot. v, 2. p. 361. t. xxiv.
This magnificent plant was discovered by M. Libon in the
province of St. Catherine, Brazil, and introduced from thence
by Mr. J. Linden into his garden at Brussels, where it
flowered in 1864. For the specimen here figured I am in-
debted to Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, who flowered it in April of
the present year. For size and vividness of colour, this cer-
tainly is the finest flowered of all Melastomacee, and that it
is both easy of cultivation and a free flowerer 1s shown by
Mr. Bull’s plants of five inches high bearing six or seven
flowers and buds; his largest plants were four feet high, and
_had leaves four inches long.
Descr. A pubescent branched shrub, four feet high and
upwards. Branches terete. Leaves opposite, petioled, two
to four inches long, ovate or oblong-ovate, acuminate, m1-
nutely denticulate, five-nerved, rugose with closely anasto-
mosing veins, vivid green above, pale below. Flower soli-
AUGUST lst, 1868.
tary, terminal or three together towards the ends of the
branchlet—one terminal and two in the axils of the upper-
most leaves, shortly pedicelled, five inches in diameter. Ca-
lyx-tube ovoid, densely pubescent ; /obes five, large, spreading,
ovate-lanceolate; bracts two, orbicular, concave, enclosing
the calyx-tube. Petals deep violet above, more purple be-
neath, obovate-obcordate, retuse with a short broad apiculus,
glabrous. Stamens deep purple; anthers with small pores ;
filaments pubescent, glandular here and there. Style slender,
pilose.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Ovary and calyx. 3. Vertical section of ovary.
4, Transverse section of ovary :—all magnified.
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PRIONIUM Pazar.
South African Palmite.
Nat. Ord. Juncem.—Hexanpria Monoeynia.
Gen. Char. Perianthium glumaceum, 6-phyllum, foliolis subsequilongis,
2 exterioribus suboppositis carinatis, ceteris dorso coriaceis. Stamina 6,
hypogyna, perianthii foliolis opposita. Ovariwm liberum, 3-loculare ;
stylus 0, stigmatibus 3 recurvis ; ovula pauca, infra medium loculorum
inserta, ascendentia. Capsula 3-locularis, loculicide 3-valvis, loculis 1-
spermis. Semina oblonga, ascendentia, testa laxa cellulosa, albumine car-
noso; embryo in axi albuminis clavatus, ejusdem longitudinis v. dimidio
brevior.—Frutex Capensis, fluviatilis, caudicibus fastigiatis lignosis elon-
gatis reliquiis foliorum vetustorum vestitis. Folia versus apices ramulorum
conferta, elongato-ensiformia, marginibus carinaque spinuloso-serratis.
Flores parvi, in naniculam ramosam terminalem erectam strictam dispositi.
Priontum Patmira. E. Meyer in Linnea, v. 7. p. 181; Kunth, En. Pl.
v. 8. p. 315; Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 9. p. 173. t. 4.
Juncus serratus. Thunb. Prodr. p. 66.
The Palmite of the South African rivers is one of the
most curious plants hitherto introduced into cultivation,
having the flower of a Juncus, the habit of a Pineapple, and
inhabiting running streams in such masses, that the matted
stems often form a sort of floating bridge, capable of sup-
porting a man. ‘The plant is, further, of considerable com-
mercial importance from the fibrous matter of the bases of
the leaves, which is used for brushes and brooms; the finer
fibres of the middle and upper part of the leaf have also been
used as a textile material.
For living specimens the Royal Gardens are indebted to
Messrs. Haage and Schmidt, of Erfurt, from whom it was
received in 1857; but, though treated in various ways, 1t
_hever flowered till the present year, when a plant in, the suc-
culent house threw out a panicle four feet long. It was
grown in a pot, which stood in a pan of water, in which it has
succeeded better than in a water-tank.
AUGUST IsT, 1863.
The following are Burchell’s descriptions of the appear-
ance of the plant in its native rivers, extracted from his
‘Travels in Southern Africa’ (v. 1, p. 89):—* We soon after
crossed the Palmiet river, whose waters were of a brown
colour, resembling coffee, but clear and wholesome. The
Boers believe this brownness to be caused by the great quan-
tity of Palmiet that grows everywhere in these streams, but
I have observed them to be thus coloured before they reach
the foot of the mountains, and far above where the Palmiet
begins to grow.” And again, p. 91, “ Most of the rivers we
passed in this excursion are choked up with this plant.
Some notion of their appearance may be gathered by imagi-
ning a vast number of Pineapple plants, without fruit, so
thickly crowded together as to cover the sides and even the
middle of the stream, standing seldom higher than three to
four feet above the surface, but generally under water when
the river swells above its ordinary height: they have much
the growth of Dragon-trees, or of some Palms.” Again, p.
139, “'The-ford, which had rather the appearance of a cave,
led us through the tall, thick Palmite, with which the river
was in this part so choked up, that its waters seemed as if
struggling to find a passage between the stems. It would
be very unsafe, without great care, for a traveller to ford a
river of this kind ; for should he, by the force of the stream,
be carried into the Palmites, he might find the greatest diffi-
culty in extricating himself or his horse from amongst the
entangled branches.”—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Whole plant :—reduced. 2. Branch of panicle. 3. Leaf. 4.
Flower. 5. Ovary. 6. Transverse section of ovary. 7. Capsule :—all
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NANODES Meptsa.
Medusa's-head Orchid.
Nat. Ord. Orcurpem.—Gynanpria Monanprria.
Gen. Char, Sepala ringentia, posticum fornicatum, lateralia labello sub-
opposita, eique basi connata. Petala sepalis lateralibus subconformia et
subparallela, libera. Zabellum eum columna connatum, carnosum, indivi-
sum. Columna clinandrio alato. _Anthera 2-locularis, rostrata. Pollinia 4,
compressa, collateralia, in caudicula ovata oblonga vy. lineari sessilia.—
Herbe Brasilienses ef Nove Granade incole, epiphyte, caulescentes, hu-
miles, cespitose. Folia disticha, vaginantia, brevia, approximata. Flores
apices versus caulis axillares, solitarit.
Nanoprs Medusa ; caulibus crassis pendulis pedalibus, foliis 3-pollicari-
bus oblongis obtusis apice inzqualiter 2-lobis, floribus magnis, sepalis
petalisque subsqualibus lineari-oblongis acutis fusco-viridibus, labello
maximo orbiculato apice 2-lobo basi cordato 2-lobo ambitu profunde
fimbriato luride purpureo, pollinis caudicula lineari-oblonga.
Nanovzs Meduse. Reichb. fil. in Gard. Chron. 1867. p. 432.
Amongst the many bizarre flowers which Orchidee present,
few are more singular than this Manodes, to which Mr.
Reichenbach has most felicitously given the specific name of
Medusa. Altogether the flattened, stout culms, and the
pale glaucous colour of the foliage, and the extraordinary
appearance and lurid purple of the flower, give it a most
sinister appearance, and, for an Orchid, a most unusual one.
I follow my learned friend Professor Reichenbach in refer-
ring it to Nanodes, from Lindley’s meagre description of
which genus it differs in the upper sepal not being arched.
It is a native of Ecuador, introduced by Messrs. Backhouse,
of York, and was flowered by the celebrated Orchid-grower,
Mr. Day, of Tottenham.
Descr. Epiphytical. Stems densely tufted, pendent, branched
from the base, a foot long, terete at the base, thence covered
densely with the imbricating flattened leaf-sheaths, which
are as broad as the thumb. Leaves distichous ; blade two to
AUGUST Ist, 1868.
four inches long, linear-oblong, an inch to an inch and a
quarter broad, curved, unequally two-lobed at the apex, semi-
amplexicaul at the base where it joins the sheath, margins
recurved, keeled, obscurely striate, very pale glaucous-green.
Flowers leathery in consistence, one or two axillary at the
ends of the branches, two inches and a half in diameter, very
shortly pedicelled, flat, as if vertically compressed. Sepals
and petals nearly equal and similar, linear-oblong, green,
tinged and edged with faint red-purple ; wpper sepal retlexed ;
petals rather twisted. Lip very large, orbicular, bifid at the
apex, two-lobed and embracing the top of the column at the
base, margin deeply cut into spreading, flexuous, subulate
fimbriz, dull purple, dirty green on the disk. Column green,
truncate. Pollen-masses at the top of a ligulate caudicle,
with an intervening glandular mass—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, Lateral, 2, anterior, and 3, posterior view of column. 4 and 5.
Lateral and anterior views of pollen-masses and caudicle : —all magnified.
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MONIZIA xpvtts.
Cenoula da Rocha, or Rock Carrot.
Nat. Ord. UMBELLIFER ©.—PENTANDRIA Die@ynta.
Gen. Char. Calycis dentes obsoleti. Petata oblonga, lanceolata, apice
angustata, incurva, dorso pilosa. Discus depressus. Stamina incurva.
Fructus oblongus, a dorso compressus, carpellis dorso leviter convexis non
alatis, jugis omnibus crassis obtusis ; primaria, lateralibus juxta commis-
suram sitis inconspicuis; secundaria, dorsalibus primariis conformibus, la-
teralibus multo majoribus cum plana commissurali continuis, fungosis ;
vitte sub jugis secundariis solitarie. Carpophorum 2-partitum. Semen
complanatum.—Frutex erectus, caudice simplici v. diviso, elato, crassitie
brachii humani. Folia ad apicem caudicis v. ramuli conferta, recurva, ob-
longa v. ovato-oblonga, 3-4-pinnatisecta; foliolis vernicosis incisis, Um-
belle ample ; involucri et involucelli bractez 6-10, lineari-lanceolate. Flores
parvi, albi.
Monizia edulis. Lowe, Manual of Hlora of Madeira, p. 365, et Hook.
- Kew Journ. Bot. v. 8. p. 295.
The Madeiran group of islands possesses two of the very
few frutescent Umbellifere hitherto discovered; both are
plants of excessive rarity and singularity, and both have
flowered and fruited in the Royal Gardens within six months
of one another; of these, one is the subject of the present
Plate, the other is Thapsia decipiens (Tab. nostr. 5670).
Monizia was discovered by my friend the Rev. R. Lowe, M.A.,
on sea-cliffs on the east side of the Great Deserta Island,
about one thousand feet above the sea, in clefts, hollows, and
ledges; there he describes it as having a stem a foot or more
high, but in the Royal Gardens the largest specimen at-
tained a height of nearly seven feet before flowering, and the
smallest (two have flowered) about two feet; these flowered
Within a few weeks of one another in April and May. The
toot, which is like a branched carrot, and black externally,
contains a pure white farinaceous substance, like that of the
common Pig-nut (Bunium flecuosum), which it resembles in
taste, and when boiled is compared to a bad, stringy parsnip.
AUGUST lst, 1868.
In times of scarcity the root is eaten, boiled and raw, by the
goat-herds, orchil-gatherers, and fishermen of the Desertas..
The genus Monizia was named in honour of Senhor J. M.
Moniz, a zealous Madeiran botanist, and cultivator of the na-
tive plants of the islands. It is so closely allied to Thapsia,
that in the absence of fruit it was referred to that genus in
the ‘Genera Plantarum’ of Mr. Bentham and myself; but
after a careful examination of fresh specimens, I am disposed
to retain the genus, which differs from Thapsia in its singu-
lar habit, well-developed involucral bracts, and the thick
ribs of the fruit, the lateral secondary of which are very
much incrassated and corky when ripe, with no disposition
whatever to produce wings. /elanoselinum, again, a genus
founded upon the other Madeiran caulescent Umbelliter
(Thapsia decipiens), may be distinguished from both Monizea
and Thapsia by the large-cut involucral bracts, the notched
petals with inflexed lacinule, the toothed edges of the wings
of the carpels, and the Palm-like stem; it is, however, much
nearer to the two Mediterranean Thapsias than Monizia is.
—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Reduced view of whole plant. 2. Portion of caudex. 3. Branch
of umbel. 4. Portion of leaf. 5. Flower. 6. Fruit. 7. Transverse sec-
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ONCIDIUM MarSHALLIANUM.
Mr. Marshall's Oncidium.
Nat. Ord. OncHipEx.—GynanpRia Monanpri.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4148.)
Oxcrp1um (§ Macropetala) Marshallianum ; seudobulbo cylindraceo-
ovoideo tereti, foliis anguste oblongis, floribus amplis flavis, sepalis
nanis superiore obovato apiculato lateralibus basi in unguem connatis
oblongis undulatis, petalis unguiculatis pandureformibus 2-lobis, la-
bello amplo in unguem basi breviter auriculatum constricto, limbo di-
latato transverse oblongo 2-lobo basi aperte -cordato, callis in ungue
rostratis, columne alis quadratis.
Oncrprum Marshallianum. Reich). fil. in Gard. Chron. 1866, p. 682.
This superb species of Oncidium was figured from a speci-
men flowered by W. Marshall, Esq., of Enfield, and is stated
by its original describer, Dr. Reichenbach, to have been in-
troduced by Messrs. Low and Co., of Clapton, but whence is
not stated: it flowered in May of the present year. It 1s
most nearly allied to O. pectorale, Lindl., but differs in the
sepals and lip. -
Dzscr. Pseudobuls two to four inches long, ovoid-cylin-
dric, terete. Leaves five to seven inches long by two broad,
oblong-lanceolate, acute, bright green above, paler below,
coriaceous. Panicle very large and broad, much branched,
many-flowered. Flowers very large, two inches and a half
broad across the petals, on slender pedicels, the pedicel and
ovary together two to three inches long, bright sulphur-yel-
low with purple blotches on the sepals, petals, and claw of
the lip. Sepals small, stipitate, upper one-third of an inch
long, obovate, apiculate, concave in the centre, banded with
purple; lateral placed under the lip, oblong, undulate, con-
nate into the stipes. Petals shortly stipitate, broadly fiddle-
shaped, undulate and crisped at the margin, two-lobed at the
apex, with purple, broad, transverse bars on the disk. Lip
as large as the rest of the flower, contracted at the base into
AUGusT lst, 1868.
an auricled claw, which is spotted with orange-red, and bears
a tubercled beaked callus; auricles oblong, obtuse, ascend-
ing; limb of lip transversely oblong, two-lobed at the apex,
broadly cordate at the base, hence two-winged, bright yel-
low, unspotted, margins scarcely undulate, surface smooth.
Column with short quadrate wings.—J. D. H.
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SPIRAA PALMATA.
Palmate-leaved Spirea.
Nat. Ord. Rosacem.—IcosanpRIA PENTAGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4795.)
Spirma palmata; glaberrima, ramis sulcatis, foliis palmatim 5-7-lobis, lobis
ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis argute duplicato-serratis, petiolis validis
superne glandulosis v. minute foliolatis, stipulis dimidiato-lanceolatis
glanduloso-serratis, floribus cymoso-umbellatis, albis v. rubris, sepalis
parvis reflexis obtusis, petalis orbiculatis, stylis brevibus recurvis, car-
pellis 4-5 pilosis 2-ovulatis.
Sprrma palmata. Thunb. Fl. Japon. p. 212. DOC. Prod. v. 2. p. 544.
By far the handsomest species of the genus hitherto im-
ported, and certainly one of the most beautiful hardy plants
in cultivation; the deep purple-red of the stems and branches,
passing into the crimson-purple of the glorious broad co-
rymbs of flowers, contrasts most exquisitely with the foliage,
which in autumn assumes beautiful tints of brown and golden-
yellow. Spirwa palmata is a native of Japan, and was in-
troduced by Messrs. Noble, of Bagshot, through Mr. Fortune,
from whom dried specimens are in the Hookerian Herbarium
at Kew. ‘The specimen here figured flowered in June of the
present year. ‘Thunberg describes it as sometimes having
white flowers, and Professor Asa Gray has referred a white-
flowered Japanese plant to this, which however is identical
with a glabrate form of 8. digitata (var. glabra, Ledebour),
and differs in the much broader stipules with cordate bases.
Descr. A glabrous, erect undershrub. Branches slender,
deeply grooved, and, as well as the stipules, petioles, and pe-
_ duncles, of a bright crimson-purple colour. Leaves petioled,
petiole three to seven inches long, either glandular towards
the apex or furnished with several minute gland-serrated
leaflets ; terminal or solitary leaflet four to five inches diame-
ter, five- to seven-lobed ; obes ovate-lanceolate, acute, sharply
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1868.
irregularly serrate, five- to seven-nerved; uppermost leaves
three-lobed. Stipules erect, obliquely lanceolate, the upper-
most leaves subulate, gland-toothed. Corymbs numerous,
terminating the branches, six to twelve inches across, much
branched. Flowers and all their parts wholly of a fine crim-
son colour, small, one-eighth of an inch diameter, shortly
pedicelled. Calyx lobes very small, broadly oblong, obtuse,
recurved. Petals nearly orbicular, concave. Stamens very
numerous, filaments capillary, flexuous; anthers very minute.
Carpels four to six, hairy, with short recurved styles and
capitate glandular stigmas.—J. D. H.
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MYRICA Nact.
Yangmae Fruit of China, and Yamamo-moki of Japan.
Nat. Ord. Myrtcacem.—Monacia Tri-OcTANDRIA.
Gen. Char. Flores mono-dioici. Masc.: Amenta filiformia. Bractee
1-flore, 2-bracteolate. Stamina 2-8, filamentis liberis v. inter se connatis ;
anthere 2-loculares. Fam.: Amenta ovata vy. cylindrica. Bractee 1-flore,
2-bracteolate. Sgwamule hypogyne, cum ovarii basi conerescentes. Ova-
riwm 1-loculare; stylus brevissimus, stigmatibus 2 elongatis. Ovulum 1,
basilare, orthotropum. Drupa 1-sperma. Semen erectum; embryo exal-
buminosus, antitropus.—Arbores, frutices ef arbuscule. Folia aléerna, in-
teqra serrata vy. laciniata, rarius pinnatifida.
Myrica (§ Gale) Nagi; foliis e basi longe cuneato-lanceolatis acutis ob-
tusisve integerrimis y. supra medium serratis coriaceis, amentis masc.
simpliciusculis, fl. mase. bractea ovato-orbiculata obtusa, bracteolis 2-4
ovatis, staminibus ad 6, filamentis brevibus liberis, ovario papilloso,
drupa globosa dense papillosa.
Mynica Nagi. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p.'76. Cas. DC. Prodr. t. 16. pt. 2. 157.
Mynrica Nagi. Sieb. et Zucc. Fam. Nat. fase. 2. p. 106.
Myrica integrifolia. Roxb. Fl. Ind. v.3.p.765. Wight, Ie. t. 764. Cas.
DC. Prodr. 1. c.
The interesting Chinese fruit here figured was sent to me
by James Bateman, Esq., F.R.S., of Biddulph Grange,
whose stove at Knypersley it ripened in June of the present
year. The male flowers are figured from native specimens.
The Myrica Nagi is a very commonly cultivated tree In China
and Japan, and is much esteemed for its subacid fruits, which
are eaten by natives and Europeans, both raw and cooked.
I can find no difference between it and the MV. integrifolia of
Roxb., which, though described as tetrandrous in Candolle’s
‘Prodromus,’ is certainly hexandrous to octandrous in speci-
mens that I have examined. :
Myrica integrifolia is a very common native bush or tree in
the mountainous parts of Bengal and the eastern peninsula
of India, and especially in Silhet, where it is called Sophee,
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1868.
and the fruit is eaten both pickled and raw. MM. sapida,
Wall., is probably another variety.
Descr. A nearly glabrous evergreen ramous shrub or small
tree ; branchlets slightly pubescent. Leaves crowded towards
the ends of the branches, three to five inches long, oblong-
lanceolate, subacute, fontracted into a short slender petiole,
obtusely serrate from the midrib to the apex or quite entire,
deep green above, pale beneath (in native specimens the
leaves vary greatly in size, form, and dotting). Male catkins
axillary, solitary, short, cylindrical, half an inch to an inch
and a half long. Bracts minute, glandular, the outer broadly
orbicular, obtuse, the lateral smaller. Stamens six to ten;
filaments very short, subulate; anthers broad, didymous.
Female catkins shorter than the male, fewer flowered ; outer
bract as in the male ; bracteoles more numerous, fleshy. Ovary
globose, covered with mamillary tubercles that are crowned
with a papilla, one-celled. Styles two, stout, recurved, ob-
tuse, grooved on the inner face; ovule solitary, pendulous.
Drupe oblong or globose, as large as a cherry or smaller,
deep red-purple, studded with mamillary tubercles; flesh
soft, juicy, acid, of radiating soft fibres. Stone oblong, com-
pressed, covered with a coating of fibres that radiate through
the flesh. Seed exalbuminous.—J. D. H. ,
Figs. 1 and 2. Female flower. 8. Ovary. 4. Male catkin. 5. Male
flower. 6. Stamen. 7. Transverse section of drupes:—all but 4 and 7
magnified,
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AERIDES mirratum.
Mitre-spurred Aerides.
Nat. Ord. Orncu1pEx.—GyNaNnpRIA Monanpria.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5138.)
AERIDES mitratum ; caule brevi, foliis confertis longissimis cylindricis atte-
nuato-acuminatis superne alte sulcatis marginibus acutis, racemis
—erectis multi-densifioris, floribus albis labello antheraque purpureis,
sepalis petalisque subequilongis brevibus oblongis obtusis, labello late
trulliformi sepalis paulo majore obtuso planiusculo, basi utrinque uni-
lobulato, caleare mitriformi compresso obtuso, columna brevi.
AERIDES mitratum. Reichenbach fil. in Mohl. et Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. 1864.
p. 415.
A charming species, allied to Aerides’ cylindricum (Tab.
nostr. 4982) in the foliage, which is however very much longer
and differing totally in the inflorescence. It is stated by
Reichenbach to be a native of Moulmeyne, from whence it
was introduced by Mr. Day, of Tottenham, in whose magni-
ficent collection of Orchids it flowered in April of the pre-
sent year. It is not in either the Hookerian or Lindleyan
Herbaria, and is hence probably exceedingly rare. :
Descr.. Stems, in the only specimen seen, short, sending
out abundance of very stout branching, cylindrical, aerial
roots. Leaves crowded, upwards of two feet long, cylindrical,
and gradually tapering to a very fine point, like whip-lashes,
upper surface deely channelled, margins sharp, as is the base
to the groove, giving the latter a triangular outline on a cross
section, dull green. acemes numerous, erect, five to ten
inches long, cylindrical, obtuse, on short, stout, dull purplish-
red peduncles. Flowers crowded, half to three-quarters of
an inch in diameter, shortly pedicelled, white, with purple lip
and anther-case. Sepals and petals subsimilar, subequal,
spreading, short, broadly oblong, obtuse, flattish. Lip broadly
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1868.
trulliform, obtuse, almost flat, with a horn-like projection on
each side at the base. Colwmn short; anther-case beaked.
Spur short, very thick, projecting backwards, mitre-shaped,
obtuse, much laterally compressed.—J/. D. H.
Fig. 1. Side view of flower. 2. Lateral view of flower :—-both magnified.
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SARCOCAULON BurMANNI.
Burmann’s Sarcocaulon.
Nat. Ord. Gerantace®. PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.
_ Gen. Char. Flores regulares. Sepala 5, imbricata. Petala 5, hypo-
gyna, imbricata. Glandule 5, petalis alterne. Stamina 5, omnia antheri-
fera, basi in annulum brevissime connata, ceterum libera. Ovarium 5-
lobum, 5-loculare, rostratum, rostro apice in stylum abeunte, ramis 5,
linearibus introrsum stigmatosis ; ovula in loculis 2, superposita. Capsule
lobi 2-spermi, ab axi placentifero septifrage dehiscentes, caudis a basi ad
apicem elastice revolutis. Semina exalbuminosa; cotyledones convoluto-
plicate.—Herbz suffruticesve Austro-Africane, carnose v. succulente v. bast
lignose, petiolis defoliatis spinescentibus armate. Folia parva.
SaRcocauLton Burmanni; foliis obovato-cuneatis inciso-crenatis glabris
puberulisve, petalis albis sepala mucronata duplo excedentibus.
Sarcocauton Burmanni. Eckl. et Zeyher.’ Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. v. 1.
p. 256.
GERANIUM spinosum. Burm. Ger. n. 2. Cav. Diss. v. 4. p. 195. t. 75. f. 2.
Monsonta Burmanni. DC. Prodr. v. 1. p. 688.
Amongst the many remarkable forms of Geraniacee which
abound in South Africa, the present is conspicuous for its
woody stem that abounds in resin, short tortuous branches,
slender spines, which are reduced to petioles, two-lobed leaves,
and beautiful’ pearly-white, plaited corolla. It was commu-
nicated to the Royal Gardens from the Botanic Gardens of
Grahamstown, by Mr. Tuck, and flowered in May of the pre-
sent year, The genus Sarcocaulon differs from Monsonia in
little but habit; it consists of several species, all natives of
the drier parts of the interior of South Africa. A very similar
species, 8. Patersoni, from Namaqualand, secretes such a
quantity of waxy, inflammable substance in the bark, that
the stems finally become mere tortuous tubes of wax; the
woody substance decaying away and leaving the firm, waxy
coating of the bark, which is apparently indestructible. This
latter species, Dr. Brown informs me, is called by the Dutch
“ Gifdoorn” (Poisonous Thorn) and “ Inkrup Doorn” (Cress in
SEPTEMBER Isr, 1868.
Thorn), and, by the natives, “ "Novra,” preceded by a click in
pronunciation.
Descr. Stems woody, about eight to sixteen inches high,
much branched. ranches as thick as the little finger,
cylindrical, terete, quite smooth, woody, the bark separating
from the wood, to which, in old age, it forms a waxy sheath,
studded with scattered spines an inch long, which are the
petioles of undeveloped leaves; branchlets green. Leaves scat- —
tered, glabrous or downy, on slender petioles, black, a quarter
to three-quarters of an inch long, broadly obcordate, with a
mucro between the lobes, which are irregularly and bluntly
toothed towards the apex, coriaceous, nerveless, deep green.
Stipules minute, subulate. Flowers large, solitary, axillary,
shortly pedicelled, an inch and a half in diameter ; pedicels
about as long as the leaves. Sepa/s linear-oblong, with a stout
dorsal mucro near the apex, green. Petals obcuneate, beau-
tifully wrinkled and plaited, pearly-white with a faint rosy
tinge. Mlaments slightly hairy at the base; anthers yellow.
Ovary pubescent.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Flower, with petals removed. 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil.
5. Transverse section of ovary :—all magnified.
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LEAVENWORTHIA avrua.
Golden-flowered Leavenworthia.
Nat. Ord. Cructrer®.—TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA.
Gen. Char. Sepala basi equalia. Petala cuneiformia. Siliqua linearis v.
oblongo-linearis, subinflata, marginibus rectis v.inter semina contractis,
valvis planis, septo hyalino transverse areolato 2-nervi, stigmate 2-dentato.
Semina 1-seriata, compressa, late alata ; radicula recta, brevissima.—Herbe
annue, humiles, scapigere. Folia lyrato-pinnatifida. Flores lutet roset v.
purpuret, in scapis solitarii v. laxe ramost.
LEaVENWORTHIA aurea; siliqua marginibus undulatis, stylo subelongato.
LEAVENWORTHIA aurea. Torrey in Ann. Lyc. New York, v. 3. p. 87. t. 5.
A. Gray, Man. Bot. N. U. States, p. 31; Gen. Lil. t. 57.
CarDAMINE uniflora. Michaux, Fl. Bor. Am. v. 2. p. 29. DC. Prodr. v. 1.
p. 150,
A lovely hardy annual, or perhaps biennial, introduced by
Mr. Thompson, of the Ipswich Nurseries, and sent to me for
figuring by my friend Mr. Wilson Saunders, F.R.S., of Rei-
gate, with whom it flowered in June of the present year.
The genus Leavenworthia consists of two species, both
natives of the middle and Southern States of North America:
one species, J. aurea, is described as having yellow flowers,
and the other, L. Michauaii, white or purplish flowers, yel-
lowish towards the base, and it is suspected by Dr. Gray that
these are varieties of one ; according to the specimens in the
Kew Herbarium, however, J. aurea has the margins of the
pod waved and a very distinct style; and LZ. Michauait, the
margins of the pod straight and a very short style, whence,
notwithstanding the colour of the flowers, I have referred
the present plant to LZ. aurea. Chapman, who notices these
differences in the style in his ‘Flora of the Southern United
States,’ also observes that the radicle of Z. aurea is straight,
and of the other slightly curved.
Descr. A glabrous, stemless annual, or at most biennial,
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1868.
throwing out from the crown a profusion of spreading leaves
and numerous slender, one-flowered scapes, which are really
axillary amongst the crowded leaves. Leaves two to three
inches long, petioled, lyrate-pinnatifid, the terminal lobe
largest, rounded, obscurely lobed, the lateral much swollen,
subopposite, short, broad, and decurrent. Scapes as long as
the leaves, erect. Buds drooping. Flowers resembling those
of a Wood-sorrel, two inches and one-third in diameter, pale
lilac, with a golden edge. Sepals’ linear-oblong, equal, ob-
tuse. Petals clawed, obovate-spathulate, retuse. Ovary with
a manifest style.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal. 3. Pistil. 4. Apex of scape, stamens, and
pistil. 5. Stamen:—all magnified.
a,
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Vincent Brooks Day & Son. Imp
Tas. 5731.
EPIDENDRUM PANICULATUM.
Paniculate Epidendrum.
Nat. Ord. OrncHipEZ.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5336.)
EprmpenpruM paniculatum ; foliis distichis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis,
caule apice vaginis membranaceis setaceo-acuminatis vestito, panicula
effusa multiflora, floribus gracile pedicellatis roseo-purpureis, sepalis
spathulato-ligulatis obtusis, petalis sepalis multo angustioribus fere
filiformibus, labelli profunde 4-lobi laciniis lateralibus obovatis obtusis
intermedii 2-partiti lobis divaricatis oblique linearibus obtusis, disco
2-carinato, carinis basi subcornutis.
Eprmenpaum paniculatum. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. Syst. p. 243. Lindl.
Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 108.
This, the most superb of all the paniculate Epidendrums,
and perhaps the most floribund of Orchids, was discovered
by Ruiz and Pavon, near Huayaquil, in Peru; and since then
in the province of Pasto by Hartweg, in Bolivia by Bridges,
and in the province of Pamplona, New Granada, by Schlim,
at an elevation of 7-8000 feet above the sea. Its robust
yet graceful habit, profuse and lovely rose-lilac flowers that
last a long time, and its odour, render it one of the most
charming of cool-house Orchids. The specimen here figured
was flowered by Messrs. Veitch in April of the present year,
and was four feet in height.
In Lindley’s Herbarium we find a much. broader-leaved
plant bearing this name, with shorter pedicels to the flowers,
which are described as green, having a white labellum ; it
was gathered at Truxillo by Funck and Schlim (n. 732).
Descr. Stems tufted, erect or inclined, simple, two to four
feet high, covered with the distichous leaves, except at the
terete base. Leaves four to seven inches long, narrow-lan-
ceolate, acuminate, spreading and recurved, green, often
spotted with purple, keeled. Panicle a foot or more long,
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1868.
nodding, broadly-ovate, much-branched, very many-flowered ;
branches green, slender, curved, and spreading. Bracts su-
bulate, half an inch to an inch long, green. Pedicels and
ovary an inch to an inch and a half long, very slender, and
flower rose-pink. Flowers three-quarters of an inch in dia-
meter. Sepals spreading and reflexed, linear-spathulate,
obtuse. Petals almost filiform, but rather broader at the
apex, as long as the sepals. Lip sessile on the apex of the
column; two lateral lobes obovate-oblong, irregularly cre-
nate; middle divided nearly to the base into two broadly-
linear, spreading, oblique lobes; disk with small yellow longi-
tudinal calli; edges of the lobes of the lip white.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Reduced figure of entire plant. 2. Upper part of stem. 3. Branch
of panicle, both of the natural size. 4. Flower :—magnified.
Fle ?
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Tas. 5732.
PUYA WHytet.
Mr. Whyte’s Chilian Puya.
Nat. Ord. Bromentacem.—HeExanprt1A Monoe@yvia.
Gen. Char. Sepala 8, herbacea, wequalia. Petala 3, obovato-oblonga,
basi erecta, supra medium patenti-recurva, basi intus squama aucta, mar-
cescendo spiraliter convoluta. Stamina 6, hypogyna, zqualia, filamentis
filiformibus; anthers oblonge v. lineares, basi 2-fide. Ovarium liberum,
3-gonum, 3-loculare; stylus filiformis, stigmatibus 3 spiraliter contortis ;
ovula numerosa, in loculis 2-seriata, horizontalia. Capsula cartilaginea, 3-
locularis, loculicide 8-valvis, polysperma. Semina compressa.— Herb
Americe Australis incole, rupicotea, caule brevi v. elongato apice folioso.
Folia angusta, spinosa. Flores mediocres, in paniculas bracteatas dispositt.
- Pura Whytei ; foliis confertis patenti-recurvis elongato-subulatis remote
spinosis spinis inferioribus recurvis, supra coneavis viridibus, subtus
sparse argentco-lepidotis, pedunculo valido erecto bracteis recurvis
oblongis vestito, panicula erecta pyramidata densiflora, bracteis mediis
superioribusque integerrimis, petalis obovato-oblongis luride vires-
cente-ceruleis metallicis.
A superb rock-plant, introduced by Messrs. Veitch from
Chili, through Mark Whyte, Esq., an enthusiastic amateur,
in whose honour as discoverer it is named at Messrs. Veitch’s
request. As a species, it is so very similar to the drawing of
P. cerulea, in the Botanical Register (1840, t. 11), that it is
with great hesitation that I propose another name for it.
The most obvious difference, in comparing the plates, will be
seen to consist in the colouring of the flowers, and this I
suspect may be due to the colourist; for the most peculiar
dull metallic blue shot with green of Messrs. Veitch’s plant
is so difficult for an artist to seize and represent, that I can
well conceive Dr. Lindley’s colourist to have failed in repro-
ducing it. In P. cewrulea the bracts are more serrated, and
the petals narrower ; in all other respects they seem identical.
P. cerulea is described as an almost hardy perennial rock-
plant, of a most striking habit, and very ornamental. I.
Whytei has proved hardy through last winter, and indeed
flowered in the open air.
OCTOBER Lst, 1868.
Descr. Stems very short and branching, bearing an im-
mense rigid tuft of spreading and recurved foliage. Leaves
one to two feet long, narrow subulate, one inch broad at the
base, finely attenuated, spinous, spines remote, rigid, curved,
upper surface concave, green, lower somewhat silvery. Pe-
duncle three feet high, stout, erect, clothed with broadly-
oblong recurved bracts. Panicle pyramidal, much and
densely branched, branches ascending, densely clothed with
flowers and bracts. lowers shortly pedicelled, an inch
and a half long, campanulate. Sepals linear-oblong, ob-
tuse, green, convex, not keeled. Petals more than twice as
long, obovate-oblong, dull metallic blue shot with green, red
purple when withered. Anthers bright orange-yellow. Stig-
mas spirally twisted.—J. D. H.
Fig 1. Reduced figure of plant. 2. Leaf; and 8, portion of panicle,
both of the natural size. 4, Stamen and pistil, 5. Transverse section of
ovary. 6. Pistil:— Sigs. 4 to 6 magnified.
J7135.
“cent Brooks Day &Sealmp-
WEitch, del etlith. Vincen
Tas. 5733.
LINARIA oriGanrronta, var. CRASSIFOLIA.
Marjoram-leaved Toad-flax.
Nat. Ord. SckoPHULARINE®.—DipynaMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx profunde 5-partitus. Corolla personata, tubo basi
ealearato, labio superiore erecto, palato prominulo, nunc amplo faucem
claudente, nunc depresso fauce pervia. -Antherarum loculi oblongi. Cap-
sula ovoidea y. globosa, loculis sepius subequalibus, poro uni- v. pluri-
valvato dehiscentibus, loculo inferiore minore nunc indehiscente. Semina
nune ovoidea aptera angulata v. rugosa, nune discoidea alata.—Herbe,
rarius suftrutices, hemispherii borealis temperate incole. Folia inferiora
sepius opposita v. verticillata, superiora alterna, Flores azillares, solitari
v. racemost.— Benth.
~
Livarta (Chenorrhinum) origanifolia ; pubescens y. glabriuscula, foliis
ovatis obovatis oblongisve breviter petiolatis, pedicellis longiusculis
alternis, sepalis linearibus v. lineari-spathulatis villosis. Benth. in
DC. Prodr. v. 1. p. 287.
Var. 8. crassifolia ; foliis ovatis crassiusculis, corolla majore 7-9 lin. longa.
Lryarta crassifolia. DC. Fl. Franc. v. 5. p. 410.
ANARRHINIUM crassifolium. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. p. 261.
ANTARRHINIUM crassifolium. Cav. Ic. v. 2. p. 11. ¢. 114.
A lovely hardy rock-plant, native of Southern France,
Spain, and Portugal, inhabiting walls and crevices of rocks,
and ascending to 5000 feet in the Pyrenees and mountains
of Asturias. The specimens here figured flowered in the
Royal Gardens in May of the present year, and were received
from the Hull Botanic Gardens. The plant is conspicuous
for the bright green of the foliage, and profusion of bright
blue-purple flowers, which have appeared In succession al-
most throughout the summer, thus rendering 1t one vo a
most valuable herbaceous plants for rock decoration.
Descr. A diffuse hardy perennial, more or less covered
with glandular hairs or nearly glabrous. Stems none. pane
wiry, prostrate and ascending, four to six inches high, muc
divided, leafy upward. Leaves variable in form and —.
ence, usually opposite throughout the plant; mn var. crassi-
OCTOBER lsz, 1868.
folia half an inch long, rather thick and somewhat succulent,
very shortly petioled, ovate, obtuse, bright deep green.
Flowers axillary towards the ends of the branches, which
often run out into leafy or bracteate racemes, on long or
short pedicels. Sepals linear-spathulate, villous and glandu-
lar, obtuse, much shorter than the corolla, very unequal,
slightly spreading. Corolla three-quarters to nearly one inch
long, pale but bright blue-purple, with a yellow palate and
red-purple throat; lobes all retuse and emarginate, spur
short, obtuse. Ovary obovoid, villous; style straight, with a
very oblique clavate apex and small oblong lateral stigmatic
surface.— J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Apex. 2. Ovary :—both magnified.
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Witch deletlith
Tas. 5734.
BLANDFORDIA Cunytnewamn.
Allan Cunningham's Blandfordia.
Nat. Ord. Linracem.—Hexanpria Monoeynta.
Gen. Ohar. Perianthium tubuloso-campanulatum, marcescens, ore 6-fido.
Stamina 6, basi declinata, basin versus tubi inserta, filamentis filiformibus in-
zequilongis, apice cucullo connectivi insertis. Ovarium stipitatum, lineare,
3-loculare, in stylum brevem attenuatum, stigmate 3-lobo; ovula plurima,
2-seriata, horizontalia. Capsula prismatica, basi perianthio vaginata, 3-par-
tibilis, polysperma, loculis angulo interno dehiscentibus acuminatis mem-
branaceis. Semina linearia, testa villosa laxa membranacea fusca.—Herbe
Australasice, perennes, radicibus crasse fibrosis. Folia radicalia, lineari-elon-
gata; scapus teres. Flores racemosi v. racemo contracto subwmbellati,
penduli, rubri. Capsula erecta.
Bianprorp1a Cunninghamii ; foliis margine integerrimis, bracteis lineari-
bus subacutis, floribus umbellatis densis 2-pollicaribus, perianthio
flammeo intus lobisque aureis.
B. Cunninghamii. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. v. 31, sub t. 18.
Of the four or five known species of this magnificent Aus-
tralian genus, the present is by far the most handsome and
profuse flowerer. It was raised by Messrs. E. G. Henderson
and Sons, of the Wellington Nurseries, St. John’s Wood,
who flowered it in April of the present year. It is a native
of the Blue Mountains, in New South Wales, where it was
discovered by the late Allan Cunningham, who describes it as
“ growing on a stiff clayey soil, below a permanent elevated
peaty bog.” It is nearly allied to the B. grandifiora of
Brown, a native of Tasmania, but differs in the serrulate
margins of the leaves. ° ; ;
From B. flammea, Hook. (Tab. nostr. 4819), it differs in
the narrower perianth, its colour, and especially in the
broader leaves, which are quite smooth on the margin.
Descr. Root of tuberous fibres. Leaves all radical, disti-
chous, one to two feet long, erect and spreading, bright green
above, pale below, narrow linear-ensiform, somewhat keeled
at the back, nearly half an inch broad at the base. Scape
two to three feet high, stout, terete, with numerous appressed
OCTOBER Ist, 1868.
linear-oblong, acute bracts, one to two inches long. Floral
bracts subulate, the lower broader, as long as the pedicels.
Flowers sixteen to twenty in a terminal umbellate panicle,
shortly pedicelled, pendulous. Perianth conical, two inches
long, externally bright orange-scarlet with golden-yellow
segments, internally all yellow; segments ovate, subacute,
slightly spreading. Stamens inserted towards the base of the
. perianth, declinate, filaments curved; anthers linear-oblong,
yellow, exserted. Ovary stipitate, very slender.—J. D. Z.
Fig. 1. Base of perianth and stamens. 2. Ovary :—both magnified.
sees
ant Brooks imp
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Tas. 5735,
ARECA BaveErti.
Norfolk Island Betel Palm.
Nat. Ord. Patwem.—Mone@ecra Hexanpetia.
Gen. Char. Flores monoici, sessiles in eodem spadice, spatha duplici
- cincti; masculi superiores, plerumque femineis 2 stipati—Masc. Peri-
anthiwm 6-partitum, 2-seriale. Stamina 8-12.—Fam. Perianthii foliola 6,
imbricata, 3 exteriora minora, 3 interiora convoluta. Ovariwm 1-3-loculare ;
stylus brevissimus, stigmate minuto 3-dentato. Drupa monosperma, fibrosa ;
albumen ruminatum v. leve; embryo basilaris—Palme erecte, Asia,
Australie subtropice, et Ins. Pacif. incole. Caudex elatus, gracilis v.
robustus, annulatus. Folia pinnata, basi vaginantia, decidua, Flores in
spadices simplices v. ramosas axillares dispositt.
Arrca Baueri; caudice robusto, foliis pinnatis, pinnis multijugis anguste
lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, costis petiolisque sparse lepidotis, spadice
ramoso, ramis crassis albis, floribus albis v. pallide carneis, perianthii
foliolis exterioribus in mase. subulatis in foom. ovatis, interioribus
mase. et foem. ovatis acutis, bacea globoso-ovoidea rubra nitida, albu-
mine zequabili.
Angca Baueri. Hook. f. in Fl. Nov. Zel. v. 1. p. 262, in obs.
A. sapida. Endl. in Prod. Fl. Ins. Norfolk. p. 26 (non Forst.).
This beautiful Palm is closely allied to the A. sapida,
Forst., of New Zealand (Tab. nostr. 5139), and, indeed, it
long passed for that plant, from which it is chiefly distin-
guished by its greater size, larger and broader pinne, the
broader outer segments of the female perianth, and especially
the white flowers and more globose and scarlet berries. It
was introduced into Kew many years ago from Norfolk
Island by the late Allan Cunningham, and now has attained
a trunk eight feet high. It flowers annually in the Felm-
house during autumn and winter, and ripens Its fruit about
midsummer. It also grows in the temperate-house, but not
nearly so freely or well. ‘
Descr. Caudex twenty feet high in its native state, and
four to ten inches in diameter, terete, green, smooth, closely
ringed with scars. Leaves six to nine feet long, pinnate, rachis
“OCTOBER lst, 1868.
beneath, costa and nerves at back of the pinnules sparingly
clothed with furfuraceous scales. Pinnules close-set, two feet
long by an inch and a half broad, stiff, acuminate, usually three-
nerved, ribbed and plaited ; rachis triangular towards the base,
convex above. Spathes eight to ten inches long, white, nar-
row-oblong, acuminate, flat at the back, three to four inches
across. Spadix axillary, but, owing to the falling away of
the leaf as soon as the spathe is ready to open and the flowers
are fully formed, only flowering when infra-axillary, horizon-
tally patent from the caudex, one to two feet long, sparingly
branched; branches stout, divaricating, white in flower,
green in fruit. lowers crowded, white, nearly half an inch
when expanded. Outer perianth-segment broadly ovate in
the female, narrower in the male, inner oblong, acute. Ber-
ries nearly globose, half to three-quarters of an inch in
diameter, scarlet, shining. Albumen not ruminate.—J. D. H.
_ Fig. 1. Reduced view of whole plant. 2. Portion of spadix, of natural
size. 3, Male, and 4, female flowers;—both magnified.
JI736
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ODONTOGLOSSUM CONSTRICTUM.
Narrow-petalled Odontoglot.
Nat. Ord. ORcHIDEH.——GYNANDRIA MonanDBlIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 5691.)
Opoxtoarossum constrictum; pseudobulbis ovoideis compressis, foliis
elongato-lineari-lanceolatis, scapo elongato gracillimo, panicula ampla
laxe ramosa multiflora, bracteis minutis ovatis acuminatis, sepalis
petalisque subsimilibus oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis aureis fusco-
maculatis, labello panduriformi apice truncato v. rotundato apiculato
vy. caudato, albo maculis duabus roseis notato marginibus erosis, crist@
lamellis parvis dentatis, columna elongata apice 2-cirrhosa.
OpontoctossuM constrictum. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844; Mise. p. 17;
Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. v. 6. p. 825.
Ce i
‘his beautiful species was sent to us from Messrs. Back-
house, of York, under the name of 0. angustatum, trom
which it differs in the bracts, the sessile sepals, the form of
the lip and its crest, and in the slender cirrhi at the apex of
the column. It is, however, identical with Lindley’s 0. con-
strictum, a native of Caraccas, of which I have examined
original specimens: collected by Linden. The plant was
originally introduced in about 1843, when, as Lindley states,
it flowered both with Mr. Rucker and with Mr. Clowes, at
Broughton Hall. The flowers of the native specimens are
considerably larger than those of the cultivated, measuring
‘two inches and a half to three inches across the expanded
petals; but in form, colour, and markings of these, and in
the structure of the column, lip, and crest, there is no differ-
-ence whatever between the native and cultivated specimens. —
Descr. Pseudobulbs two inches to three inches and a half
long, ovoid, compressed, but not sharp-edged, obscurely
grooved. Leaves a foot long by an inch and a half broad,
bright green, narrow linear-lanceolate, rather obtuse, shortly
OCTOBER lst, 1868.
keeled. Scape very slender, a foot to a foot and a half long,
with few remote, short, sheathing, membranaceous bracts.
Panicle as long as the scape, loosely branched, branches
spreading ; bracts at the forks and pedicels very small, short,
ovate, acute. Pedicels slender. Flowers an inch and three-
quarters in diameter (in the specimen figured). Sepals and
petals nearly equal and similar, sessile, oblong-lanceolate,
much acuminate, bright yellow, blotched with orange-brown.
Lip fiddle-shaped, with a rounded or truncate tip, terminated
by a decided apiculus or sometimes a short’ acuminate tail,
White, with a rose-coloured blotch on each side at the mid-
dle ; crest short, projecting, toothed ; margins erose. Column
without wings, but with two projecting cirrhi at the apex.—
J.D. H. 3
Sateen ne a
Fig. 1. Front, and 2, lateral view of column and lip :—both magnified.
5737.
W. Fitch, del.et lith
Vincent Brooks, Day&5on, imp.
Tas. 5737.
PASSIFLORA CINCINNATA.
Curly-fringed Passion-flower.
Nat. Ord. PasstFLORE®.—PENTANDRIA TRIGYNIA.
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus brevis, urceolaris ; lobi 4-5, lineares v. oblongi,
intus sepius colorati et dorso infra apicem cornuti. Petala 4, 5, v. 0,
calycis lobis subequalia. Oorolla simplex v. duplex, exteriore filamentis
1-2-seriatis vy. membrana tubulosa, interior multiseriata v. tubulosa v. 0.
Gynophorum elongatum. Stamina 4-5, filamentis basi gynophori adnatis ;
anthers versatiles. Ovariwm stipitatum ; styli 3, subterminales, stigmatibus
capitatis; ovula numerosa, placentis 3 affixa. Bacca polysperma. Semina
arillata,—Frutices, rarius herbe, scandentes, rarius erecta, crrhifere. Folia
alterna. Stipule 2 v.0. Flores inter majores, pedunculis articulatis, sepius
3-bracteate.
Passtrtora (Granadilla) cincinnata ; glabra, foliis digitatis v. palmatisectis
5-lobis, lobis oblongis mucronulatis integris v. pinnatifidis serrulatis,
petiolo 2-glanduloso, stipulis subulatis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis
1-floris petiolis longioribus, bracteis ovatis obtusis basi glandulosis,
calycis tubo brevi, lobis 5 oblongis obtusis intus petalisque consimilibus
purpureis, corone sub-3-seriate filis extimis petalis longioribus con-
tortis violaceis, ceteris brevibus capitellatis.
PAssrFiora cincinnata. Masters in Gard. Chron. Sept. 1868, cum ie. xylog.
Of the one hundred species of Passion-flower known in
herbaria most have still to be introduced into our gardens,
and this though many of them are natives of very accessible
countries and of temperate regions long traversed by Euro-
peans. One of the latter is the present beautiful species,
which was discovered in the provinces of Pernambuco and
Ceara in Brazil, by the late Mr. G. Gardner, so long ago as
1837. It was introduced into cultivation by Mr. Philip
Frost, gardener to Mr. Fortescue, the proprietor of the beau-
tiful Dropmore Gardens. It flowered profusely in a sete
greenhouse in August of this year, and was are be
carefully described by Dr. Masters in the ‘ Gardeners ro-
nicle.’
Duscr. A branched, glabrous, slender climber; branches
terete. Leaves about three inches broad, deeply palmate or
NOVEMBER Ist, 1868.
digitately lobed ; lobes five, oblong, serrulate, glabrous, bright
een above, pale below; petiole about one inch long, bi-
glandular between the middle and base. Pedwneles axillary,
single-flowered, larger than the petiole. Bracts three, large,
oblong, boat-shaped, with two large glands at the _ base.
Flower three inches in diameter. Sepals five, oblong, obtuse,
green at the back, with a short horn towards the apex, violet
- internally, the colour laid on in minute dots. Petals similar
to the sepals, and also violet. Corona of many rows, outer
of twisted cilia, longer than the petals, violet banded with
white ; inner in many series, short, simple, slightly thickened
at the apex. (Gynophore seated in a tubular sheath.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Portion of flower :—magnified.
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Tas. 57388.
ACRIDOCARPUS NATALITIUS.
Port Natal Acridocarpus.
Nat. Ord. Manprentacem.—Decanpria Dieynta.
Gen. Ohar. Calyx 5-partitus, glandulis minutis v.0. Petala inaequalia,
unguiculata, subintegra, glabra. Stamina 10, omnia perfecta, filamentis
brevibus distinctis; anther magne, oblonge v. sagittate, poro v. rima
brevi dehiscentes. Ovariwm 3-loculare, hirsutum; styli 2, longissime
divergentes, flexuosi. Samare 1 v. 2, receptaculo oblongo applicate, in
alam obliquam margine antico superiore incrassato products. Semina sepe
angulata; embryo curvus.—Arbores ¥. frutices Africane, interdum scan-
dentes. Folia sepissime alterna, exstipulata. Racemi ¢erminales, rarvus
laterales. Flores lutet.
Acripocarrus Natalitius ; scandens, foliis alternis oblongis v. lineari- v.
obovato-oblongis obtusis glaberrimis coriaceis marginibus recurvis,
racemis terminalibus simplicibus elongatis: multifloris ferrugineis,
bracteolis subulatis eglandulosis, samare glabriuscule ala extrorsum
adscendente oblique oblonga, calycis glandulis parvis, anthere oblonge
poris dehiscentes.
Acrrpocarrus Natalitius. A. Juss. Monog. Malpigh. p. 232. Walp. Rep.
v. 5. p. 287. Harv. et Sond. Flor. Cap. v. 1. p. 231.
A very handsome subtropical climber, introduced from
South Africa by W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., in whose
warm greenhouse it flowered in July of the present year. It
is a native of margins of woods in the Natal colony, and will
prove a very valuable addition to the rather scanty list of
free-flowering woody plants suited to a conservatory, especially
if, like some of its nearest allies, it is proof against insect
pests. The other species of this genus are all tropical Afri-
can, this being, indeed, one of the most temperate plants of
the large family to which it belongs.
Descr. Stem woody, climbing ; branches terete ; branchlets
covered with a rufous pubescence. Leaves alternate, three
to eight inches long, shortly petioled, oblong or obovate or
lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, velny, margins recurved,
above deep green, below pale, with two glands at the base
close to the midrib. Stipules none. Raceme simple, or rarely
*
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with a branch at the base, terminal, three to seven inches
long, many-flowered ; rachis stout, clothed with ferruginous
hairs. Pedicels slender, half an inch long, with three minute
subulate bracts at the base. Flowers one inch in diameter,
pale yellow. Sepals oblong, obtuse, green, with two glands
externally, pubescent with ferruginous hairs at the middle of
the back. Petals nearly orbicular, clawed, edges crenate-
toothed. Stamens small; anthers oblong, opening by termi-
nal pores. Styles two, very slender, recurved; ovary hairy.
hipe carpels two, with broad, arched, expanded, coriaceous,
veined wings.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Flower with petals removed. 2. Ditto, showing glands of calyx.
3. Stamens. 4. Pistil. 5. Transverse, and 6, vertical section of ovary.
7. Ripe fruit :—all but Fig. 7 magnified.
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MASDEVALLIA VEITCHIANA.
Mr. Veitch’s Masdevallia.
Nat. Ord. OrcHipem.—GyYNaNDRIA MoNaAnpDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5476.)
Masprvattta Veitchiana; foliis lineari-oblongis obtusiusculis, pedunculis
gracilibus folio duplo longioribus supra mediam bracteatis unifloris,
bracteis elongatis vaginantibus, flore majusculo rubro-aurantiaco,
sepalis in tubum campanulatum connatis, supremo late ovato longe
caudato-acuminato, lateralibus majoribus late ovatis obliquis abrupte
angustatis incurvis, petalis inclusis lineari-oblongis obtusis albis, labello
lineari-oblongo apice recurvo subacuto ecristato, columne margine
integro.
Maspevatt1a Veitchiana. Reichb. fil. mss. (ex Hort. Veitch.).
By far the most striking species of Masdevallia hitherto
figured, discovered by the late Mr. Pearce in the Cordillera
of Peru whilst collecting for the Messrs. Veitch, with whom
it flowered last month in their coolest orchid-house. In
point of colour it is not only one of the most beautiful, but
most singular of Orchids; for the vivid hue of the flower is
due to the whole inner surface of the sepals being studded
with minute papille of a brilliant cadmium-yellow colour;
these are largest and most crowded when the colour is
cleepest. oe
Descr. Stems densely tufted. Leaves four to six inches
long, by one broad, narrow linear-oblong, rather contracted
at the base, hardly acute, coriaceous, bright green. Scape a
foot high, erect, slender, terete, with two or more appressed,
narrow, elongate, sheathing bracts, the upper placed far
below the flower. Germen terete, deeply grooved. Pertanth
three inches across. Sepals connate into a bell-shaped tube,
of a brilliant orange-red colour, internal surface papillose
external pale and glossy; free portion of
and glistening
: : denly contracted to long points, the
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upper narrower, but longer and erect, with a very tapering
point, the lateral oblique, with incurved points. Petals small,
white, hidden, linear-oblong, obtuse. Column not winged.—
J. DoH.
Fig. 1. Column, ovary, and petals. 2. Lip. 3. Column. 4. Pollinia:—
all magnified.
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FUCHSIA COCCINEA.
Scarlet Fuchsia.
Nat. Ord. OnaGrartEx.—OorTanpria Monoaynta.
Gen. Char, Calycis tubus ovoideus v. subglobosus, supra ovarium in
limbum 4-lobum deciduum productus. Petala 4, rarissime 0, conyoluta v.
patentia v. reflexa. Stamina 8, filamentis filiformibus; antherz lineares
v. oblong. Ovariwm 4-loculare; stylus elongatus, stigmate integro v. 4-
lobo; ovula perplurima, angulo interim multiseriatim affixa. Bacca 4-
locularis, oligo-polysperma.—Frutices v. arbuscule Mexict, Americe aus-
tralis et Nove Zelandie incole. Folia opposita alterna et verticillata.
Flores avillares solitarii aggregati paniculati v. racemosi, sepius speciosi.
Fucusta coccinea; ramulis gracilibus petiolisque sparse patentim pilosis,
foliis oppositis et 3-natim verticillatis brevissime petiolatis anguste
ovatis basi rotundatis cordatisve sinuato-dentatis, pedicellis 1-3 axil-
laribus gracillimis, floribus pendulis, petalis convolutis.
Fucnsta coccinea. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. v.2. p. 8. Duhamel, Arb.
ed. nov. v. 1. t. 18; non Bot. Mag. t. 97.
F. elegans. Salisbury, Stirp. Rar. t. 7.
Nanvsta coccinea. Schnevoogt’s Icones, n. 21.
It will surprise many of our horticulturists to learn that
the plant now called Fuchsia coccinea in our gardens 1s not
the first described species of that name, though it has borne
it almost exclusively from within a year or two of the intro-
duction of the real plant; and it may still more surprise
them to know that the original F. coccinea is very rarely seen
in cultivation. There is a story current amongst gardeners
that the common Fuchsia was, when originally introduced, a
greenhouse plant, but that it has become so far acclimatized
as to withstand, without protection, the coldest winters of
many parts of England, Scotland, and Treland, and the milder.
winters of all Great Britain; be this as it may, 1t 1s not
doubted that the Fuchsia coccinea was once treated as a stove
or greenhouse plant, and now flourishes both in a greenhouse
and out-of-doors. Now, whether the true F. coccinea has
changed its habits no one can say, for next to nothing seems
to be known of its history between the date of its introduc-
NOVEMBER Ist, 1863.
tion as a greenhouse plant in 1788, and its re-discovery in
the greenhouse of the Oxford Botanic Garden in 1867; the
fact being, that the much hardier F. Magellanica was im-
ported from wintry Tierra del Fuego very shortly after the
introduction of F. coccinea, and immediately usurped its
name and spread it to every garden in the kingdom, whilst
the true plant lingered in Botanic Gardens, lastly sur-
viving (greatly to the credit of the Baxters, father and
son) in that of Oxford alone. It may be more common
abroad, and is almost naturalized in Madeira, according to
Mandon. 3
The native country of the true coccinea is unknown; it is
probably Brazilian, as it resembles the Brazilian more than
the Western or Southern American species; Salisbury says
it was introduced by Vandelli from Brazil, whereas Aiton
attributes its introduction to a Captain Frith, from Chili.
The evidence of the plant here figured being the true and
original plant of Aiton’s ‘Hortus Kewensis,’ ed. 1, rests on
the fact that named specimens of the same are preserved in
the Banksian Herbarium of the British Museum, and in Sir
J. Smith's Herbarium at the Linnean Society, all procured at
Kew in the year of the introduction of the plant, and at the
date of its being described by Aiton.
The Royal Gardens are indebted to Mr. Baxter for one of
the two plants preserved at Oxford, and from this the figure
here given was made.
As aspecies, F. coccinea is much more graceful than any
of the varieties of F. Magellanica, flowers even more freely,
and is readily distinguished by the almost sessile leaves with
broad bases, and the hairy twigs and petioles; further, its
foliage turns of a bright crimson when about to fall.—
J.D. H.
Fig. 1. Flower, with one calyx-lobe removed :—magnified.
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APHELANDRA wnrrens.
Glossy-leaved Aphelandra.
Nat. Ord. AcanrHace®.—DipynaMiIa GYMNOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5463.)
APHELANDRa nitens; glaberrima, caule tereti robusto, foliis breviter et
crasse petiolatis crasse coriaceis ovatis subacutis, basi in petiolum de-
currentibus marginibus recurvis supra lete-viridibus nitidis subtus
atro-purpureis, spica simplici erecta elongata stricta 4-gona, bracteis
imbricatis pollicaribus pallide Viridibus ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis
serratis concavis carinatis nervosis, floribus miniatis, bracteis subula-
tis sepalis subulato-lanceolatis aristato-acuminatis paulo brevioribus,
corolle tubo gracili calycem superante, limbi labio superiore parvo
erecto convoluto inferiore amplo 3-partito lobis obovato-oblongis
patentibus integerrimis lateralibus minoribus, staminibus labio supe-
riore inyolutis.
A near ally of the A. awrantiaca, Lindl. (Tab. nostr. 4224),
but a much more beautiful plant, and indeed one of the
handsomest of the splendid Order to which it belongs. No-
thing can exceed the brilliant glossy polish of the upper sur-
face of the leaves, the dark vinous purple of their under sur
face, and the brightness of the vermilion-scarlet of the co-
rolla. It is a native of Guayaquil, in New Granada, from
whence it was sent to England by Mr. Pearce, when collect-
ing for Messrs. Veitch, and flowered in the Royal Exotic
Nurseries, Chelsea, in May of the present year.
Descr. Stem in the specimen figured three feet high,
stout, erect, sparingly branched, cylindrical, green, quite gla-
brous. Leaves four to six inches long, narrowed into petioles
of a quarter to half an inch, exactly ovate, subacute, quite
entire, thick and coriaceous, brilliant polished green on the
upper surface with impressed veins and recurved margins,
beneath deep vinous-purple. Spike terminal, erect, six inches
long, one inch in diameter, simple, shortly peduncled, tetra-
NOVEMBER Ist, 1868.
gonous, of numerous imbricating appressed bracts. Bracts
one inch and a half long, ovate-lanceolate, concave, keeled,
serrate, pale green, veined. Flowers an inch to an inch and
a half in diameter, bright vermilion-scarlet. Bracts subu-
late. Sepals elongate-lanceolate, aristate, puberulous, longer
than the bracts. Corolla-tube longer than the calyx, upper
limb of one small erect ‘lobe, convolute and concealing the
stamens ; lower lip broad, of three obovate-oblong, substipi-
tate, spreading lobes, the central the largest. Style very
slender.—.J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Bracts, calyx, and style :—magnified.
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GENTIANA Pyrenatca.
Pyrenean Gentian.
Nat. Ord. Gentranea%.—Pentanpria Monoeynta.
Gen. Char. Calyx 4-10-fidus v. partitus, rarissime spathaceus et fissus.
Corolla infundibuliformis, campanulata v. rotata, fauce nuda v. barbato-
fimbriata, limbo 4—5-fido rarius 10-fido, lobis alternis nanis. Stamina 4-5,
coroll tubo inserta, filamentis basi equalibus ; anthere erect, immutate,
rimis dehiscentes, Ovariuwm 1-loculare; stylus brevis, stigmate 2-partito
obtuso; ovula numerosa, placentis 2 parietalibus affixa. Capsula 2-valvis,
polysperma. Semina minima, compressa.—Herbe perennes, regionum tem-
peratarum imprimis hemispherii borealis incole.
Gentiana (Chondrophyllum) Pyrenaica ; caulibus cespitosis brevibus
florem subzequantibus, foliis anguste lanceolatis mucronatis margine
scaberulis calycis 5-fidi appressi lobis ovato-lanceolatis acutis corolle
tubum dimidium equantibus, corolla hypocraterimorphe cyanex tubo
sensim ampliato lobos 10 ovales duplo superante, capsula elliptica
stipitata.
Gentrana Pyrenaica. Linn. Mant. p. 55. Gouan, Obs. p.7. t. 2. f. 2.
Kitaibel, Plant. Hung. t. 207. Griseb. in DO. Prodr. vol. 9. p. 105.
Reich. Fl. Germ. t. 1050. f. 2.
Thanks, especially to the exertions of the Messrs. Back-
house, the horticultural-loving public begin to understand
the ease and effectiveness with which many alpine plants can
be cultivated, and the beautiful appearance they make.
Amongst these the Gentians are proverbial for their
beauty, and, with the single exception of G. acaulis, have
been hitherto equally so for their difficulty of culture, being,
in fact, one of the opprobria of horticulturists. Of the
success that attends care and judgment we may judge by
the fact that Messrs. Backhouse and Sons cultivate many
species in the open air, and are constantly adding to the
number. Of these, G. Pyrenaica is one of the rarest and
most beautiful; it is a native of the Pyrenees and Alps of
Hungary, Caucasus, and Armenia, at elevations of 5—8000
feet above the sea level. Like its congeners, it is an early
- flowerer, and the specimens from which the accompanying
NOVEMBER lst, 1868.
figure was made were sent by Messrs. Backhouse in full
flower from the Nurseries near York in March of this year.
For the method of cultivation of this and other alpines, I
would refer the reader to their excellent annotated catalogue.
Descr. A dwarf, tufted, hardy, perennial-rooted herd.
Stems short, an inch to an inch and a half long, clothed with
narrow-lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, rough-edged leaves.
Flowers solitary, sessile on the tips of the stems, and of about
the same length. Calyx tubular, with five short acute lobes.
Corolla salver-shaped, three-quarters of an inch in diameter,
with a rather funnel-shaped tube, ten-lobed, green exter-
nally; lobes within deep prussian blue, edges crenulate.
Ovary stipitate—2J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Bud. 2. Corolla laid open. 3. Ovary :—all magnified.
W. Fitch, del et ith.
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ONCIDIUM MACRANTHUM,
Largeflowered Oncidium.
Nat. Ord. OrcurpEx.—Gynanpria Monanpria.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4148.)
Onerprum (Miecrochila) macranthum; pseudobulbis ovoideo-ampullifor-
mibus leviter sulcatis, foliis lanceolato-loriformibus acuminatis strictis,
floribus maximis, sepalis unguiculatis orbicularibus basi cordatis undu-
latis obtusis, petalis equalibus conformibus sed unguibus brevioribus,
labelli parvi crassi_hastati lobis lateralibus deltoideo-ovatis acuminatis
cornutis intermedio elongato-triangulari apice angustato linguiformi
acuto, criste lobis 3 omnibus 2-cornutis, cornubus recurvis, columne
alis rotundatis.
Oncripium macranthum. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 205; Folia Or-
chidacea, Oncidium, p. 4; et in Paxt. Fl. Gard. v. 2. p. 126.
Truly described by Lindley as a “ magnificent species ;”
one plant of it, indeed, is enough to ornament a house of
considerable dimensions. It appears to be not uncommon
in Peru and New Granada, there being many specimens of
it in our Herbaria. It was first described from specimens
collected by the celebrated Peruvian travellers, Ruiz and
Payon, and preserved in Lambert’s Herbarium, and which
were labelled as from Guayaquil. This is, however, no doubt
an error, as it is a mountain plant, and, like most of its con-
geners, prefers a cool rather than an intermediate house.
Professor Jameson, of Quito, gathered it on the Andes at
7000 feet, Hartweg at the foot of Tanguragua at 14,000 feet,
and Matthews in Peru, the exact locality not known. ‘The
superb specimen here figured flowered at the Earl of Londes-
borough’s in the spring of this year, and it shortly afterwards
flowered at Mr. Veitch’s establishment. The blossoms re-
main in perfection for several weeks, which renders it a pe-
culiarly valuable plant for ornamental purposes. :
Descr. Pseudobulds ovoid or flagon-shaped, three inches’
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long, turgid, grooved. Leaves a foot long by an inch to an
inch and a half broad, narrow lanceolate, acuminate. Pa-
nicle climbing, two to three feet long, lax-branched, many-
flowered. Bracts three-quarters of an inch long, cymbiform.
Flowers three to four inches in diameter, on pedicels which,
together with the ovary, are three to three and a half
inches long. Sepals clawed, orbicular-oblong, obtuse, cor-
date at the base, waved, upper dirty yellow-brown, lateral
dull orange-yellow, claws green. Petals similar to the sepals,
but with shorter claws, pale golden-yellow, streaked with
blood-red at the very base. Jip hastate, very thick and co-
riaceous, much smaller than the sepals, lateral lobes forming
short, rather recurved horns, middle ones with a hemisphe-
rical base and tongue-shaped acuminate limb. ‘These lobes
are dark purple-brown, except the tip and disk of the middle
lobe, which is yellow. Crests three, white, each two-lobed,
the lobes recurved. Wings of column rounded, purple-
brown.—2J. D. H.
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PARROTIA Peabren:
Persian Parrotia.
Nat. Ord. HaMAMELIDEZ.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx campanulatus, basi ovario adherens, lobis 5-7 coriaceis
persistentibus. Petala 0. Stamina 5-7, perigyna, calycis lobis opposita,
filamentis filiformibus; antherx basifixee, connectivo mutico v. mucronato.
Ovarium semi-inferum, 2-loculare; styli 2, stigmatibus simplicibus ; ovula
in loculis solitaria. Oapsula lignosa, semisupera, 2-valvis, valvis 2-partibi-
libus, endocarpio corneo soluto 2-valvi. Semina oblonga, testa atra nitida.
—Arbores et frutices, Persie ef Kashmire incola. Folia oblonga v. orbi-
cularia, decidua, crenata. Stipule ample, decidue. Flores precoces, con-
ferti, subcapitati, bracteis amplis membranaceis involucrati, tomentosi.
Parxorta Persica ; foliis breviter petiolatis obovato-oblongis basi rotun-
datis obtusis ultra mediam grosse crenato-serratis, antheris linearibus
mucronatis.
Parrotia Persica. C. A. Meyer, Index Cauc. p. 47. Ledebour, Fl. Ross.
v. 2. p. 877.
Hamametis Persica. DOC. Prodr. v. 4. p. 268.
-
The tree now figured for the first time is one of the rarest
in cultivation. It is a native of the Trans-Caucasian pro-
vinces of Russia, and of Northern Persia. Two small trees
of it exist in the Royal Gardens, which were received as pot-
plants from St. Petersburg some twenty-five to thirty years
ago; one of these is trained against a west wall, the other,
which is nine feet high, stands in the open ground, and the
latter flowered abundantly in March of the present year.
The great beauty of the plant consists in the magnificent co-
louring of the foliage in late autumn, when the leaves usually
turn of a brilliant orange and golden-yellow and scarlet, and
hang upon the plant on the wall till late in winter; on the
plant in the open ground they are shed much sooner. During
the present year, however, this colouring has been very dull,
a peculiarity shared by the Scarlet Oaks, American Maples,
Liquidambar and Salisburias at Kew, all of which have
‘DECEMBER Isr, 1868.
turned of a dull yellow or purple or brown, instead of their
usual brilliant hues. The genus was named in honour of
the Russian Professor Parrot, who made the first ascent of
Mount Ararat in 1829. The wood of Parrotia is stated to be
excessively hard and durable, whence the tree is called in Per-
sian Temir-Agatsch, or ‘‘iron tree.” ‘There is but one other
species of the genus, 2. Jacquemontiana, Decne., a native of
the Kashmir Himalaya.
Descr. A small tree, ten to fifteen feet high, with spread-
ing branches and very hard wood. Leaves alternate, on
short downy petioles, three to four inches long, one and a
half to two and a half inches broad, broadly ovate- or obo-
vate-oblong, rounded at the base, coarsely and crenately
toothed beyond the middle, more or less pubescent below
when young with silky hairs, beautifully plaited (like beech-
leaves) in vernation, brilliantly coloured in autumn. Flowers
appearing before the leaves in lateral and terminal involu-
crate heads on the young branchlets; dracts oblong, decidu-
ous, outer dark and scaly, inner membranous, greenish.
Flowers small, conspicuous for their spreading stamens with
scarlet anthers. Calya of five to seven oblong lobes, with
silky apices. Corolla none. Filaments half an inch long,
five times as long as the calyx-lobes; anthers linear, apicu-
late. Ovary of two carpels, with long recurved styles, and
several ovules in each cell.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Male flower. 2. Anther. 3. Ovary. 4. Ripe fruit (from dried
specimen) :—all magnified. :
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CAMPANULA ISOPHYLLA.
Ligurian Campanula.
Nat. Ord. CAMPANULACE®.—PENTANDRIA Monoeyntia.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla 5-loba v. 5-fida, sepius campanulata.
Stamina 5, filamentis basi dilatatis antherisque liberis, membranaceis.
Ovarium 3-5-loculare, loculis lobis calycinis oppositis, stylus pilis mox de-
ciduis tectus, stigmatibus 38-5 ; ovula 0, Capsula ovata v. turbinata, 3-5-
locularis, loculis prope basim v. apicem valvula parietali sursum dehiscenti-
bus. Semina plurima.—Herbe annue v. perennes, per regiones tempe-
ratas hemispherii borealis diffuse. Folia radicalia sepe majora, caulina
alterna. Flores racemosi spicati v. capitati, cerulet purpuret v. candidi.
CampanvLa isophylla ; cano-pubescens Vv. glabrata, rhizomate ramoso,
caulibus suberectis simpliciusculis brevibus ramosis densis et dense
foliosis multifloris, foliis inter se subequalibus petiolatis late ovato-
.
cordatis grosse crenato-dentatis, floribus corymbosis, lobis calycinis
lineari-oblongis patentibus hic illic dentatis, corolla late campanulata
profunde 5-loba dimidio brevioribus, stylo exserto, cagsula ovoidea.
Campanvna isophylla. Moretti, Appendix ad Schoww. prospett. Fl. Ital. p.
99. DC. Prod. v. 7. pt. 2. p. 476. Reich. Ic. Pl. Cent. v. 3. t. 202. fy.
344.
Campanvna floribunda. Viviant, Fl. Lyb. Append. p. 67.
A very beautiful and rare hardy herbaceous plant, native
of the ancient Liguria, as the district between the Gulf of
Tuscany and the Apennines was called, frequenting rocky
sea cliffs; there are also specimens in the Hookerian Her-
barium collected on the east of the Apennines, near the town
of Feriale, in Modena. The. specimen here figured was re-
ceived from J. Traherne Moggridge, Esq., who collected it
on the shores, of the Riviera, and which bloomed in the
Royal Gardens in August of the present year, presenting @
mass of most lovely blue flowers that lasted a considerable
time.
Descr. Rhizome a short woody branched stock, sending
out very many short, slender, leafy, pubescent branches, four
to eight inches high, bearing flowers abundantly. Leaves all
DECEMBER Ist, 1868.
very uniform in size and shape, none radical in the flowering
state of the plant, all on slender petioles, an inch to an inch
and a half long, two-thirds to three-quarters of an inch
broad, broadly ovate-cordate, coarsely crenate-dentate, or al-
most lobulate, usually covered thickly with a hoary pubes-
cence, sometimes nearly glabrous. Flowers pedicellate, an
inch to an inch and a quarter in diameter, pale, but very
bright blue, with orange-yellow pollen in the style. Calyx-
lobes narrow, linear-oblong, entire or with one or two teeth,
spreading, about half as long as the corolla. Corolla broadly
campanulate, lobed almost to the middle, lobes spreading.
Style slender, exserted ; stigmas three.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Flower with corolla removed :—magnified.
3746.
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W. Fitch, del. et lith. Vincent Brooks,Day & San, Imp.
Tas. 5746.
LYCHNIS (Prrrocortis) Lacasem. '
Lagasea’s Lychnis.
Nat. Ord. CarYorpHYLLEX.—PENTANDRIA. TRI-PENTAGYNTIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx inflato-ovoideo- vy. clavato-tubulosus, 5-dentatus, 10-
nervius. Petala 5, ungue angusto, lamina integra 2-fida v. laciniata, basi
sepius 2-squamata. Stamina 10. Torus in gynophorum stipitiforme plus
minus elongatus. Ovariwm 1-loculare v. ima basi septatum, oo-ovulatum ;
styli 5, rarius 4 v. 3. Oapsula apice in dentes v. valvas breves tot quot styli
v. duplo plures dehiscens. Semina umbilico marginali affixa, tuberculata
v. levia; embryo periphericus.—Herba, sepius erecte, habitu Silenum.
Flores sepe speciosi.
Lycunts (Petrocoptis) ZLagasce; glaberrima, glauca, caulibus cxspitosis
dichotome ramosis inferne 4-quetris ramosissimis, foliis sessilibus basi
subconnatis integerrimis obsolete nervosis, infimis linearibus obtusis
mediis ovato-lanceolatis subacutis, summis lanceolatis, floribus in di-
chotomiis et in summis ramulorum longe pedunculatis, pedunculis
lateralibus medio 2-bracteolatis, calyce obsolete striato, petalis retusis,
stylis 3-5, seminibus strophiolatis.
Prrrocoptis Lagasex. Willkomm, Ic. et Deser. Plant. Hisp. v. 1. p. 82.
t. 21; et Sert. Fl. Hisp. p. 24. Walp. Ann. v. 4. p. 292.
Stnenorsts Lagasce. Willkomm in Bot. Zeit. 1847, p. 237. Walp. Rep.
ol. p. 92.
This is at once one of the most beautiful and most rare of
the rock-plants now under cultivation in England, its native
locality being confined to a very narrow belt of the sub-
alpine region of the North-Western. Pyrenees, where it has
been seen by but two or three botanists, whilst for beauty it
is difficult to conceive anything more sparkling, and at the
same time delicate, than the rose-coloured, white-eyed blos-
soms. The tendency of the plant is to form a hemispherical
mass in the pot, when it resembles in habit and colour, but
on a large scale, one of those lovely pink Androsaces of the
glacial regions of the Eastern Alps, which have hitherto all
but defied our most skilful cultivators. The Royal Gardens
are indebted for this gem to Mr. Niven, formerly of Kew,
now the energetic curator of the Hull Botanic Gardens; it
flowered in May of the present year.
DECEMBER Ist, 1868.
The figure in Willkomm’s Icones gives no idea either of
the beauty or habit of the plant ; it was confessedly executed
from dried specimens, and represents the flowers as white.
Descr. A low, perennial, glabrous, glaucous, tufted herd.
Stems densely dichotomous, branched, two to four inches
long, leafy below. Lowest leaves linear, obtuse ; middle ones
ovate-lanceolate, half an inch to three-quarters of an inch
long, subacute, sessile, connate at the base; upper smaller,
lanceolate. Peduncles terminal and in the forks, one to two
inches long, strict, erect ; lateral ones with two minute bracts,
middle naked. lowers two-thirds of an inch in diameter,
produced in profusion. Calyx clavate, obscurely striate, half
an inch long, green and dull red. Petals clawed; blade
pale rose-colour, with two white acute scales at the base, re-
tuse and slightly erose at the apex. Styles three to five.
Seeds with a woolly strophiolus.—./. D. H.
Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Gynophore and ovary :—both magnified.
1
incent Brooks
Vi
Tas. 5747.
AGALMYLA STAMINEA.
Long-stamened Agalmyla.
Nat. Ord. Cyrrtanprace®.—Dranpria Monoe@ynta.
_ Gen. Char. Calyx quinquepartitus, equalis, Corolla hypogyna, tubulosa,
incurva, tubo basi annulo villosa, fauce dilatato, limbo obliquo 5-lobo sub-
2-labiato. Stamina antherifera 4, filamentis longe exsertis; anthers pa-
rallele, apicibus connatis; staminum rudimenta 3, brevia, setiformia. Ova- —
rium elongatum, lineare, stipitatum, disco tumido insidens, in stylum—
validum attenuatum, stigmate equaliter 2-lobo ; ovula numerosa. Capsula
siliqueformis, elongata, pseudo-4-locularis, 2-valvis, polysperma. Semina
pendula, apice nuclei affixa, utrinque monotricha—Herbe tropice, altera
Javanica altera Borneensis, caule radicante. Folia alterna, oblonga, acu-
minata, denticulata. Flores avillares, fasciculati.
AGALMYLA staminea ; caule brevi prostrato radicante, foliis longe valide
' petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis serratis supra glabris subtus marginibus-
que sparse pubescentibus multinerviis, fasciculis florum subradica-
libus, floribus gracile pedicellatis.
AGALMYLa staminea. Blume, Bijdragen, p.767. Brown in Bennett, Plant
Jav. p.116. Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 733,734. A. DC. Prod. v. 9. p. 263°
Pact. Mag. Bot. v. 15. p. 73, cum ic. Van Houtte, Flore des Serres
v. 4, ¢. 358.
Justicia parasitica. Lamarck, Illustr. v. 1. p. 42.
‘Cyrranpra staminea. Vahl, Enum. v. 1. p. 105.
A brilliantly-coloured stove-plant, native of Java, where
it grows in mountain woods, and first introduced into Euro-
pean gardens by Mr. Lobb, the late intelligent and energetic
collector for Messrs. Veitch and Sons.
The specimen here figured flowered in the Royal Gardens
in June of the present year, and continued flowering for
several weeks.
Descr. Stem stout, almost as thick as the little finger, a
ot long, creeping and rooting from the lower surface.
Leaves alternate, with an abortive one opposite the base of
ach, erect, on stout petioles four to eight inches long. Blade
DECEMBER Isr, 1868.
as long, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, deep green and glabrous
above, below paler and as well as the margins covered with
a fine appressed pubescence; nerves strong and numerous,
margin coarsely serrate. Flowers in large axillary sessile
fascicles of eight to fourteen together, pedicelled, pedicel
half an inch long, with an oblong-lanceolate bract of the
same length at the base. Calyx greenish-red, of five linear
lobes with recurved apices. Corolla scarlet, puberulous, two
inches long, five times as long as the calyx; tube dilated
below the mouth, with a ring of hairs near the base; lobes
short, obtuse, recurved. Stamens two; filaments dark purple,
slender, very long and exserted; anthers parallel, cohering
by their tips, red purple. Staminodes, three small bristles.
Ovary very slender, stipitate, the stipes inserted in a tumid
disk ; style stout; stigma two-lobed.—J. D. H.
Vig. 1. Calyx and ovary. 2. Base of ovary, its stipes and disk :—both
magnified.
INDEX,
In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the
Twenty-fourth Volume of the Turrp Srrizs (or Ninety-
fourth Volume of the Work) are alphabetically arranged.
PD DOPOD
Plate. Plate.
5717 Abutilon, standard-flowered. 5739 Masdevallia, Mr. Veitch’s.
5738 Acridocarpus, Port Natal. 5718 Nasonia, Cinnabar-red.
5728 Aerides, mitre-spurred. 5697 Odontoglossum, Princess of
5747 Agalmyla, long-stamened. Wales’s; spotted var.
5716 Agave, Dasylirion-like. 5691 Odontoglossum, Princess of
5741 Aphelandra, glossy-leaved. Wales’s; Dr. Triana’s var.
5700 Aristolochia, Gaping-flowered. 5736 Odontoglot, narrow-petaled.
5695 Begonia, glandular. 5708 Oncidium, alpine.
5707 , sickle-leaved. 5743 large-flowered.
5689 Dr. Sutherland’s. 5725 Mr. Marshall’s.
5735 Betel Palm, Norfolk Island. 5687 Ophelia, winged, narrow-leaved,
5734 Blandfordia, Allan Cunning- and panicled.
ham’s. 5723 Orchid, Medusa’s-head.
5745 Campanula, dense-flowered. 5712 Ophrys, spider.
5683 Cattleya, Ametiyst-lipped. 5722 Palmite, South African.
5724 Cenoula da Rocha. 5737 Passion-flower, curly-fringed.
5686 Coburgia, tricoloured. 5744 Parrotia, Persian.
5705 Cochliostema, General Jacobi’s. | 5719 Peony, Himalayan.
5684 Cotyledon, velvety-leaved. 5720 Pharbitis, white-edged.
5710 Cymbidium, pendulous; pary/e- | 5721 Pleroma, large-flowered.
flowered var. 5732 Puya, Mr. White’s Chilian.
5703 Dendrobe, clustered-flowered. 5704 Raphistemma, ciliated.
5696 Dicentranthera, large-leaved. 5724 Rock Carrot.
5731 Epidendrum, paniculate. 5729 Sarcocaulon, Burmann’s.
5711 Eranthemum, speckled-flowered. | 5726 Spirsea, palmate-leaved.
5714 Erythronium, gigantic. 5693 St. John’s-wort, spreading.
5740 Fuchsia, scariet. 5692 Stapelia, Mr. Plant’s.
5742 Gentian, Pyrenean. 5715 Stobea, round-headed.
5702 Hibiscus, marble-flowered. 5713 Strophanthus, South African.
5709 Honeysuckle, Standish’s. 5694 Thunia, Mrs. Benson’s.
5690 Hypoxis, tall. 5733 Toad-flax, Marjoram-leaved.
5701 Ipsea, beautiful. 5688 Trichocentrum, purple and white.
5699 Kola-nut tree. 5698 Vernonia, Signor Calvo’s,
5730 Leavenworthia, golden-flowered. | 5685 Vine, flat-stemmed.
5706 Lycaste, Mrs. Barrington’s; | 5727 Yamamo-moki of Japan.
largeflowered var. 5727 Yangmae fruit of China.
ee
5746 Lychnis, Lagasca’s.
Exythronium siganteum.
a Fuchsia pel
onda sellin.
5690 Aypoxis elata,
SR,
I In which oh Latin. N ames of: the Plants ve in _
5739
5724 Monizia edulis.
5727 Myrica Nagi.
5723 Nanodes Meduse.
5718 Nasonia eae ,
5697
‘nitlidne.
5691 Odontoglossum Ale
Triana.
5736. —
5708
5743
5725 —-—_—- Mars
5687 Ophelia alata, an
Loagme 2
eae ies ce arae
5719 Pmonia Ernodi. =
5744 Parrotia Persica.
|| 5720 Pharbitis Nil; 1
8721 Pleroma macral
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