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“Meneppreeiei. COMPRISING THE
Plants of the Roval Gardens of Keiw,

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

BY

SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D., C.B., K.CS.I,
P.R.S., F.L,8.,, ETO.

D.C.L. OXON., LL.D. CANTAB., CORKESPONDENT OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE.

VOL. XXXIII.
OF THE THIRD SERIES.
(Or Vol. CLIT. of the whole Work.)

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TELFAIRIA OCCIDENTALIS.

Native of Western Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. Cuctursiracez.—Tribe CucUMERINE.

_ Genus Terai, Hook, (Benth. et Hook. fil. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 821).

Tetrarrta occidentalis, foliis longe-petiolatis pedatim 5-foliolatis, foliolis petiolu-
latis elliptico-ovatis acuminatis repando-dentatis basi 3-plinerviis, calycis
tubo hemispherico lobis brevibus latis serratis, corolla campanulata alba
disco purpureo lobis rotundatis breviter fimbriatis, bacca 1-2-pedali ovoidea
alte decaptera, alis crassis.

T. occidentalis, Hook. f. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afric. vol. ii. p. 524.

' The original and for fifty years the only known species of

- this singular genus is 7. pedata, Hook. (Bot. Mag. t. 2751-3 ;
Feuillea pedata, Sm. ibid. t. 2681). A native of Hastern
Tropical Africa (Zanzibar). It is described at great length
in this work, and as having a fruit three feet long, full of
seeds as large as chestnuts (one contained 264 of these), which
are as excellent as almonds, have a very agreeable flavour,
and yield an abundance of oil equal to that of the finest
olives; it is called kouémé by the natives of Zanzibar, and
‘oil plant’? in the Mauritius, where it was cultivated in
former times.

T. occidentalis is the West African representative of the
East African species, distinguished by the triplinerved
leaflets, short ovary, short calyx-lobes which are simply
serrated, the smaller more open white corolla with smooth
fringes and a red purple eye, and by the few broad wings to
the fruit; the fruit of 7. pedata having no wings, but many
very deep grooves. It is cultivated in West Africa for the
sake of its seeds, which are boiled and eaten by the natives,
and have been imported as oil-nuts into England. We have
dried specimens from Sierra Leone, Abebokuta, Old Calabar,
Fernando Po, and Angola, where it was found by Welwitsch,

growing commonly over littoral hedges of Luphorbia aphylla.
Our plant was raised from seed presented by Mr. Tyerman,
late of the Liverpool Botanic Gardens, in 1870; it flowered in
the Palm House in September, 1876.

Drscr. An extensive climber, glabrous (except the
pubescent young parts, petioles, and racemes) with a stout,
fleshy perennial root, and very slender angled and grooved stem
and branches. Leaves alternate, petioled, pedately five-folio-
late ; leaflets three to six inches long, shortly petiolulate, ellip-
tic-ovate, obtusely acuminate, sinuate-toothed, triplenerved at
the base, with many transverse veins, membranous, bright green.
Tendrils bifid. Male racemes a foot long, six- to ten-flowered ;
_ bracts small. 2owers one and a half to two inches in diameter ;
pedicel slender, one inch long. Culyz-tube hemispherical,
grooved ; lobes broadly triangular-ovate, obtuse, serrate.
Corolla broadly campanulate, white, with a purple eye; .
segments fimbriate. Stamens five, two of them four-celled,
one one-celled, connective dilated ; filaments three, free. Fruit
two feet long, ovoid-oblong, obtusely beaked, yellow-green,
with ten thick wings an inch deep, three-celled, and flesh
of golden yellow pulp. Seeds horizontal, one and a quarter
inch diameter, very numerous, nearly orbicular, compressed ;

testa brown, coriaceous ; cotyledons plano-convex, fleshy.—
JODA. 3

Fig. 1, Branch with male flowers ; 2, flower with course removed ; 3, fruit; 4,

tranverse section of do. ; 5, seed ; 6, tranverse ; and 7, vertical section of do. : all but
fig. 2 of the natural size.

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MASDEVALLIA ATTENUATA,

Native of Costa Rica.

Nat. Ord. Orcuiprem.—Tribe PLevRoTaaLLipE®.

Genus Maspevatuia, Ruiz. and Pav. (Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid, p. 192).

MaspEVALLIA attenuata; parvula, dense cespitosa, foliis patulis lineari-obo-
vatis imo apice 3-denticulatis in petiolum subelongatum angustatis crasse
coriaceis dorso carinatis facie canaliculatis, scapis 1-floris gracilibus foliis
brevioribus glaberrimis, bractea ovario breviore obtusa, floribus parvis pedicel-
latis albidis v. stramineis caudibus flavis, perianthio 4-poll. longo campanulato-
tubuloso subtus basi gibbo breviter 3-lobo, lobis in caudas patenti-recurvas
filiformes tubo fere duplo longiores abrupte angustatis, petalis oblongis
obtusis, labelli inclusi lamina lingueeformi apice unguiculato, disco carinis 2
distantibus medio tumidis percurso, columna apice denticulata.

M. attenuata, Reich. f. in Gard. Chron., 1871, p. 834.

The genus Masdevallia appears to be coming into cultiva-
tion as fast as the Indian Dendrobes were some ten to
twenty years ago, and from a somewhat similar cause to
that of the Dendrobes. This was owing to the residence of
two accomplished amateurs (Parish and Benson) in the pre-
viously unexplored head-quarters of the genus; in that of
Masdevallia it was owing to similar explorations of the pre-.
viously little-known mountains of Costa Rica, New Granada,
and Peru. 7 3

M. attenuatais one of Mr. Veitch’s introductions, and flowered

in the Royal Gardens in December, 1874, from specimens
presented by Mr. William Saunders. :
_ Reichenbach remarks that the dried native specimens
have the perianth glabrous within, whilst that of the fresh
ones is finely velvety ; the contrary of which is frequent in
Masdevallias.
_ Drscr. A small, densely-tufted species, with very nume-
-rous leaves and flowering scapes. eaves with the petioles
three to four inches long, spreading and almost recurved ;
blade one and half to two inches long, by one-third of an

inch broad, narrowly oblong-ovate, minutely three-toothed at
the tip, very coriaceous, keeled at the back, grooved in front,
narrowed into the slender petiole. Scapes one-flowered, shorter
than the leaves, very slender; bract short, obtuse, placed
below the ovary and shorter than it, whence the flower
appears pedicelled. Flowers white, with pale green along
the tube opposite the sepaline lobes, and bright yellow tails.
Perianth-tube narrowly campanulate, gibbous below at the
base; lobes rounded, suddenly narrowed into slender
recurved tails which are almost twice as long as the tube.
Petals oblong, very shortly clawed, obtuse. ip straight,
yellow, linear-oblong, with an obtuse claw at the tip, and
two keels on the face, which are rather dilated in the
middle. Colwnn green, toothed at the tip.—J. D. H.

__ Fig. 1, Top of scape, bract, and flower ; 2, top of ovary, petals, lip, and column ;
3, lip and column ; 4, the same with that lip deflexed :—all magnified.

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LIVISTONA ausrraus.
Native of Eastern Temperate Australia.

Nat. Ord. Patmea.—Tribe Corypuinua.

Genus Livistona, Br. (Endl. Gen. Plant. p. 252).

Livistona australis; caudice 50-80-pedali, petiolis gracilibus arcuatis marginibus
spinosis, foliis saturate viridibus orbiculatis ad medium fissis, spatha stricta
}-12-pollicari lanceolato-cymbiformi acuta rufo-fulva villosa, spadice elongato
cernuo ramosissimo glaberrimo ramulis curvis, fl. masc. minutis ramulis
tenuibus spicatis vix + poll. diam., sepalis brevibus latioribus quam
longis, petalis crasse carnosis triangulari-ovatis subacutis valvatis, fila-
mentis brevibus dilatatis, antheris brevibus parvis, fructu globoso, pericarpio
indurato minute granuloso intus crustaceo, semine globoso, albumine ~
eequabili osseo intus sacculo a chalaza dilatata ad centrum extenso instructo,
embryone supra-basilari.

L. australis, Mart. Hi ist.Palm., 241, cum tab. ; Wendland and Drude, Palm. Austral.
in Linnea, vol. xxxix. p. 232, t. ili, £5; F. Muell. Fragr. Phyt. Aust. vol. v.
p. 49.

Coryrua australis, Br. Prodr. p. 128.

This graceful palm was for many years one of the greatest
ornaments of the Palm House at Kew, rearing its massive
head of bright green foliage supported on a rich brown
caudex, high above all the other palms except Cocos plumosa
and Caryota wrens. During the present year having reached
the roof on the west side of the centre, it was felled and re-
Placed by a Phoenix dactylifera which will take years to
assume the same proportions, and never rival it in beauty.

Livistona australis is the most southern palm of the Austra-
lian continent, reaching the snowy range in lat. 37° 30’ 8.
when its trunk attains 80 ft. in height, and extending thence
along the west coast to the Illawarra River, in lat. 34° 45’ 8.
It flowered annually at Kew, in the spring months, for many
years. The fruits I have received from Mr. Hill, of the
Brisbane Botanical Gardens; they resemble specimens brought
by Brown, preserved in the British Museum, except in
____ having a thicker and harder pericarp.

Duscr. Trunk forty to eighty feet high, cylindrical, slender,
red-brown, marked with circular scars. eaves in a dense —
oblong crown; petiole spreading and decurved, spinous on the
margins ; blade three to four feet in diameter, orbicular, cut
to about the middle into thirty to fifty radiating slender bifid
lobes, the acuminate points of which do not droop. Spathes
six to ten inches long, lanceolate, compressed, acuminate,
rigidly leathery, tomentose. Spadix three to four feet long,
decurved, much paniculately branched, the branches and
branchlets curved and slender, quite glabrous, rachis com-
pressed. Flowers minute, one eighth of an inch in diameter,
spiked upon the very slender terminal branchlets, green. Calyx

of three short very broad obtuse segments. Corolla of three — :

triangular-ovate fleshy coriaceous valvate subacute petals. —
Stamens six, filaments very broad and short; anthers sub-
globose. Rudimentary pistil three-cleft. Fruit globose,
three-quarters of an inch in diameter; pericarp thick,
crustaceous, granular outside, with a smooth buff obscurely
veined inner surface; remains of stigma evanescent. Seed
globose, testa pale brown, smooth, veins invisible; chalaza
a brown subterminal large polished areole. Albumen very
hard, white, not ruminate, with a broad sac-like canal.
passing from the chalaze to the centre, and full of corky
brown tissue; embryo dorsal above the base—/. D. H.

Fig. 1. Whole plant reduced ; 2, portion of male spadix of the natural size ; 3,

portion of spadix and flowers; 4, single flower; all enlarged; 5, fruit of the
natural size.

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XANTHISMA Texanvm.
Native of Texas.

Nat. Ord. Composirz.—Tribe AsTEROIDEX.

Genus Xantuisma, DC. (Benth. et Hook. J. Gen. Plant. vol, ii. p. 253).

XANTHISMA texanum, glaberrimum vy. scaberulum gracile, parce ramosum, rigidius-
culum, ramulis tenuibus virgatis, foliis sparsis parvis sessilibus lineari-oblongis
obovatisve aristato-acuminatis cartilagineo-serrulatis 1-nervis aveniis, capitulis
terminalibus solitariis breviter pedunculatis, involucri hemispherici bracteis
coriaceis nitidis obtusis cuspidatis, receptaculo plano alveolato paleaceo,
floribus flavis radii 2 1-seriatis ligula oblonga apice 3-dentata disci $ tubu-
losis 5-dentatis, styli ramis subulatis hirtis, acheniis obovoideis, pappi setis
rufis rigidis subpaleaceis achenio multo longioribus.

X. Drummondii, DC. Prod. vol. v. p. 94: Torr. Bot. Marcy Exped. t.10, sine
descript ; A. Gray, Plant. Wright, vol. i. p. 98.

Crntavripium Drummondii, Zorr. and Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 246.

A very handsome Centaury-like hardy annual, with golden
flowers, discovered in Texas some fifty years ago, and since
found by many collectors, but never introduced into European
gardens till within the last few years. It was published both
in Europe and America, and as a new genus, first as Xan-
thisma, by the elder De Candolle in the Prodromus in 1836,
and in about 1842 as Centawridium, by Torrey and Gray in the
Flora of North America.

Xanthisma is closely allied to the great American genus
Haplopappus, which extends from California to Patagonia.

he figure in “ Marcy’s Expedition ” is a very bad one, and
represents the pappus as two distinctly double, the corolla of
the ray as acute, which is owing to the margins being involute
in a dry state ; it omits the hairs on the achenes, and the minute
serratures of the foliage. This plant flowered in Kew in
November last.

Descr. A slender sparingly branched annual,one to three
feet high, with slender twiggy branchlets that are smooth or
slightly scaberulous. eaves scattered, three-quarters to one
and a half inch long, sessile, linear or linear-oblong, or slightly
dilated upwards, acute, with a deciduous awn at the tip, margin

cartilaginous fringed with minute cartilaginous teeth, and some-
times rather coarsely serrate; midrib obscure, nerves obso-
lete. Heads one to one and a half inch in diameter, solitary,
terminal, sessile or peduncled, golden yellow. Jnvolwere hemi-
spherical, bracts in several series, green, coriaceous, the outer
lanceolate, the inner spathulate, with broad pale serrate margins
and awned tips. Receptacle flat, pitted, paleaceous. Ray-flowers
numerous, female ; ligule oblong-lanceolate, three- toothed ; disk
flowers tubular, hermaphrodite. Style arms linear-subulate,
hairy. Achenes small, turgid, obovoid, ribbed, pubescent.
Pappus of six to ten unequal rigid flattened shining rufous
bristles.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Ray-flower and palea of receptacle ; 2, disk flower and pappus bristle :— —
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DRIMIOPSIS Krext. :

Native of Zanzibar.

Nat. Ord. Liztackm.—Tribe ScrtEx.

Genus Drimiopsis, Lindl, (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe., vol. xiii. p. 226).

Drimiorsis Kirkii, bulbo globoso tunicis membranaceis albidis truncatis, foliis
6-8 lanceolatis subpedalibus pallide viridibus maculis copiosis saturatioribus
decoratis acutis ad basin vix petiolatum longe angustatis, scapo subpedali,
racemo angusto 3—4-pollicari floribus numerosis supremis abortivis, pedicellis
patulis brevissimis, bracteis abortivis, perianthii segmentis oblongis apice
leviter cucullatis interioribus diu conniventibus, filamentis omnibus lanceola-
tis conformibus, stylo ovario xquilongo.

D. Kirkii, Baker in Gard. Chron., 1874, part 2, p. 644,

In 1871 Dr. Kirk sent to Kew from Zanzibar bulbs of two
species of this curious and little-known genus. One of them

_ proved to be D. dotryoides, which I described in the Linnean
Proceedings from a couple of poor specimens, without any
locality, in the collection of the late Judge Blackburn, of
Mauritius, and the other, the present plant. All the known
species of the genus resemble one another very closely in
habit and flower; but there are two types of leaf, one with a

distinct petiole and an oblong blade, after the fashion of a

_ Lucharis or a Griffinia, a type of form very rare in Liliacem,

and the other with the blade narrowed gradually from the
middle to both ends and not furnished with any distinct
petiole. This is the first species of the latter group that has
been brought into cultivation. It flowered at Kew first in
— July, 1873.

___ Duscr. Bulb globose, one and a half inch in diameter, with
_ thin whitish truncate tunics. eaves six to eight, cotempo-
tary with the flowers, lanceolate, a foot long, one to one
and a half inch broad above the middle, acute, narrowed
gradually to the base, not distinctly petioled, very fleshy in
texture, glabrous, pale green on the upper surface with
large irregular blotches of dark green, still paler green beneath.

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Scape terete, a foot or more long. Laceme three to four —
inches long, the upper flowers crowded ; those of the
lower half laxer, many of the uppermost abortive ; pedicels
very short; bracts abortive. Perianth white, a quarter of an inch
long; segments oblong, obtuse, slightly cucullate at the tip, the
three inner ones permanently connivent. /i/aments shorter
than the perianth, lanceolate, uniform. Ovary globose ; style
as long as the ovary ; stigma eapitate—J. G. B. , .

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, stamens; 3, pistil ; 4, tranverse section of ovary :—all
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: BAUHINIA PETIOLATA.

- Native of New Granada.

Nat. Ord. Lecuminos%.—Tribe BavnHIniEs.

Genus Bavutnta, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 575.)

Bavaria (Pauletia) petiolata; glaberrima, foliis simplicibus petiolatis distichis
ovatis obtuse caudato-acuminatis basi rotundatis integerrimis 5-nerviis luride
viridibus, petiolo basi et apice tumido, floribus paucis in racemum brevem
terminalem dispositis brevissime crasse pedicellatis, calycis tubo brevi cam-
panulato, limbo spathaceo obtuso_ basi fisso corolla breviore, petalis anguste
obovato-spathulatis albis, staminibus exsertis, filamentis decurvis elongatis
basi monadelphis, antheris anguste hastatis flavis supremo minore casso
ovario gracile stipitato libero, stylo valido, stigmate 2-lobo.

B. petiolata, Triana, MSS.

Amani petiolata, Mutis Sem. Nuev. Granad. 1810, p. 25, ew DC. Prod.
vol. ii. p. 25.

Casparta speciosa, Hort. Lind.

_ The genus Amaria was established by the Spanish botanist
Mutis, and adopted by De Candolle, for this and an allied very
interesting plant; unfortunately, the only character by which
it could have been separated from Mr. Cavanilles’ older genus
Pauletia is that attributed to it of having the stalk of the ovary
adnate to the calyx, which however, as shown in our plate,
is not the case; and it hence, together with Pauletia itself,
falls into the huge genus Bauhinia. The anthers are repre-
sented in our drawing (which was made in 1862) as uniform
and also perfect, but in the dried specimen, preserved at the
same time, the upper filament is shorter and its anther is im-
perfect ; and the plant being now lost to the Gardens, I can-
not determine whether the character is a constant one. The
only other species of the section figured in this work is B.
-forjicata (tab. 3741), which has two-lobed leaves and axillary
flowers. :
__B. petiolata was introduced by Linden from New Granada, —
and by him was sent to Kew, where it flowered in October of
the above-named year. I am indebted to the excellent New

Granadan botanist M. Triana for identifying it with the plant
of Mutis.

Drscr. A glabrous shrub, with slender terete woody pen-
dulous or inclined branches. eaves alternate, distichous,
spreading, four to five inches long, ovate or almost deltoid,
obtusely caudate-acuminate, quite entire, base rounded, with
five slender nerves from the top of the petiole, reticu-
lately veined, coriaceous, even, dark green; petiole very
variable in length, one-half to one and a half inch long,
slender, swollen at the apex and base. Flowers white, three |
inches long, few together in a very short terminal subsessile ©
raceme ; rachis thick ; pedicels very short, placed close toge-
ther; bracteoles minute, triangular. Calyx tube campanu-
late, half an inch long; limb spathaceous and splitting at
the base into five segments which cohere at the obtuse apex,
cylindric and curved in bud. Petals white with a faint rosy
tinge, narrowly obovate-spathulate. Stamens nearly three
inches long, with white declinate then ascending filaments
that are shortly monadelphous; anthers narrowly hastate, —
nearly half an inch long, yellow. Ovary narrowly linear,
with a slender free stipes, nearly half an inch long, gradually
contracted into a stout style with a two-lobed thickened
stigma.—J, D. H.

Fig. 1, Tip of filament and anther; 2, pedicel and ovary :—both enlarged.

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ONCIDIUM cuerornorum.
Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. Orcuipe®.—Tribe Vandra.

Genus Oncipium, Swartz. (Lindl. Fol. Orchid., Oncidium.)

Oxorpt0m (Paucituberculata) cheirophorum ; pseudobulbis parvis ellipsoideis v. orbi-
culatis compressis ancipitibus, foliis lineari-lanceolatis subacutis carinatis ;
scapo filiformi foliis longiore, panicula angusta multi-densiflora subcylin-
dracea nutante, floribus inter minoribus flavis nitentibus, sepalis petalisque
parvis subsimilibus obovato-rotundatis concavis, sepalo supremo galeato,
labello ampliato 3-lobo lobis lateralibus oblongis rotundatisve patenti-recurvis,
intermedio orbiculato concavo emarginato, disco eallo tricruri ornato, columna
brevi alis magnis dolabriformibus basi in processum cornutum producta,

rostello elongato.

Q. cheirophorum, Reichb. f. in Bot. Zeit. vol. x. 1852, p. 695, 697; Xen. Orchid.
vol. 1, p. 191, t. 69; Walp. Ann. vi. 776, et in Gard. Chron. 1871, p. 168;
Lindl. Fol. Orchid., Oncidium, p. 124.

A charming, very sweet-scented little species, allied to the
0. stramineum (Tab. 6254), but afar more elegant plant, with
narrow leaves, an almost filiform scape, and brighter-coloured
sparkling flowers. It was discovered by Warscewicz on the
voleano of Chiriqui, at an elevation of 8000 feet, in New
Grenada (near Panama) ; flowering in December, with the
thermometer some few degrees above freezing point. It has
been long cultivated on the continent, and first of all at
Hamburgh, a town once so famous for the Orchid collections
of its high office-bearer, as of Senator Janisch, and Consul
Schiller ; and was soon thereafter introduced into England.
It was flowered at Kew in December, 1872, from plants
reared by Messrs. Veitch the previous year.
Descr. Asmall species. Pseudobulbs aboutan inch long, orbi-
cular or ellipsoid, much flattened, with sharp margins, smooth,
finely wrinkled in age. Leaves three to six inches long, linear-
lanceolate, acute, green, hardly narrowed into a petiole. Scape
longer or shorter than the leaves, very slender, bearing an
elongate, drooping, rather dense-flowered, contracted, sub-
_ eylindric, very many-flowered panicle; branches short, slender,

and branchlets horizontal and flexuous; bracts small, spread-
ing, triangular-ovate, erect or recurved. Flowers one half
inch diameter, bright yellow, with greenish sepals, not spotted.
Sepals and Petals subequal, small, spreading and reflexed,
orbicular-obovate, concave, the dorsal sepal galeate. Lip very
much larger than the petals, three-lobed; lobes (and crests)
variable, lateral orbicular or oblong, more or less recurved or
auriculate towards the column; mid-lobes orbicular or broader
than long, concave, emarginate; callus of the disk consisting
of two lateral bosses and a central ridge which notched and
truncate in front. Column stout, with two large spreading
hatchet-shaped wings, a beaked rostellum, and a curved basal
projecting horn.—/. D. H.

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CORDIA prcanpra.
” Native of Chile.

Nat. Ord. Boracinea.—Tribe Corpiex.

Genus Corpra, Plum. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 838.)

Corpta (sebestenoides)decandra, fruticosa, v. subarborea, pilis rigidulis aspera, ramulis
teretibus, foliis sessilibus lineari-lanceolatis obtusis subacutisve marginibus
revolutis supra scabridis et venis immersis rugosis subtus griseis, panicula ter-
minali corymbosa laxa effusa foliosa, pedicellis gracilibus, calyce campanu-
lato obtuse 3-5-lobo et 10-dentato pilis brunneis hispido, corolle tubo brevi
infundibulari,‘limbo explanato albo breviter 10-lobo, antheris 10 vix exsertis,
fructu ovoideo ligneo levissimo apiculato calyce fere incluso 4-valvatim fisso.

C. decandra, Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. vol. i. p. 38. t. 10.; DC. Prod. vol. ix.
Pp. 478; C. Gay, Flor. Chil. vol. ii. p. 455.

A beautiful shrub, native of Central and Northern Chili,
where it is well known for the excessive hardness of its wood,
which is much used for charcoal, whence the local name of
Carbon for the species is derived. The first information we

possess of it is from specimens gathered in 1825 by Macrae,
a collector in the employ of the Royal Horticultural Gardens,
who visited Chili on his way to the N.W. coast of America ;
since which period it has been met with by many botanists
and voyagers. It is easy of cultivation and well worth a
place in a warm greenhouse on account of the pure white of
the blossoms that are copiously produced in spring.

The following account of ‘the wood is given in the Ap-
pendix to Mrs. Graham’s (afterwards Lady Calcott’s) ‘ Chili,’
‘Carbon grows in the districts of Guasco, Coquimbo, and
Cuzcuz only. It is short and thick, and used for small articles
of turnery, but it is incomparable for firewood. Two logs
that might not each be more than a yard long and one-third
thick, suffice to keep a stew boiling night and day, besides
other kettles, enough for eight or ten people. Mr. Cruck-
shanks, from whom there are specimens in the Hookerian
Herbarium, states that the wood is extensively employed for

fuel in smelting copper (as the dead and withered stems. of
the cactus are for refining that metal) in the mining districts
of Coquimbo, so that in many places the district is almost
cleared of these plants.

Cordia decandra was introduced by Messrs. Veitch, who
sent the specimen here figured in May, 1879. :

Descr. A shrub, rough to the touch from the copious short
rigid hairs. Branches scabrid, terete, leafy. Leaves alternate,
sessile, erect, spreading or deflexed, linear, lanceolate, obtuse
or subacute, scabrid above and rugose with small veins, grey
and pubescent beneath, with glabrous varied veins, margins
recurved very strongly. Punicles lax, terminal, corymbose,
many-flowered, drooping; peduncles and pedicels slender,
tomentose. Flowers solitary or fascicled, Calyx campanulate,
many-nerved, hispid with brown hairs, variously irregularly
lobed and with 10-marginal subulate teeth. Corolla one to
one-and-a-half inch in diameter, pure white; tube funnel-
shaped; limb expanded, obtusely 10-lobed at the margin.
Stamens 10, almost included, filaments slender, ciliate ; anthers
small, yellow. Ovary conical; style slender, its divisions
slender forked at the tip. Fruit like a hazel-nut, half to two-
thirds inch long, almost enclosed in the calyx, hard, ovoid,
apiculate, smooth, without any trace of a fleshy covering,
four-celled, with four woody valves that partially separate
from the woody axis and allow the seeds to escape.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Tube of corolla and stamen; 2, pistil :—both enlarged.

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TUPISTRA MACROSTIGMA.
Native of the Khasia Mountains.

Nat. Ord. Littackm—tTribe AspipIsTRE®.

Genus Tuptstra, Gawl. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiv. p. 580).

TuristRa macrostigma ; rhizomate crasso ramoso, foliis binis lanceolatis longe
petiolatis chartaceis viridibus, exterioribus rudimentariis in fibras dissolutis,
pedunculo brevi erecto, spica laxa cernua, bracteis deltoideis, perianthi
atropurpurei segmentis deltoideis tubo campanulato quilongis, stigmate
magno peltato convexo margine 6-lobato tubum corolla et antheras occultante.

T. squalida, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. loc. cit. partim, p. 130, t. 192, non Gawl.

~ Macrosrrama tupistroides, Kunth, Enum. vol. v. p. 319; Hegel, Gartenflora,

1857.

&

In my monograph of the Aspidistree just cited, judging from
dried specimens alone, I joined all the species of Tupistra
then clearly known into one. Now, upon study of living ©

specimens of this, I recognise that it is really distinct speci-

fically from 7. squalida of Gawler, which inhabits the same
country, and differs from the plant now in question by its
more robust habit, broader leaves, denser spikes, and mate-
rially smaller stigma. For making the plants two different
genera, as Kunth has done, I certainly cannot see any good
ground.

The native country of the present plant has never been
stated. We have a considerable suite of specimens in the

: Kew herbarium, gathered in the mountains of Khasia, at an
- elevation of between two thousand and four thousand feet, by
_ Griffithand Hooker and Thomson. There is a fine drawing

at Kew yet unpublished, by Cathcart, of the true 7: squalida,

from Sikkim. ‘The present drawing of 7. macrostigma was

made from a plant which flowered in Kew Gardens in

December, 1876, which was sent to the collection by Dr.
- Regel in 1872.

Descr. Rhizome like that of a Ginger, short, creeping,

thick, much-branched ; floriferous tufts consisting usually of.

two produced leaves, and the flower-stem, with several small
sheath-leaves outside which split up into fibres. Pettole
dilated at the base, firm, erect, half a foot or more long,
channelled down the face; blade lanceolate, acute, chartaceous,
above a foot long, narrowed from above the middle to the
point and petiole, bright green on both sides, with the
copious fine regular veins rather oblique as regards the
midrib. Peduncle dark purple, erect, two or three inches
long. Spike drooping, lax, about as long as the peduncle;
bracts large, deltoid, persistent. Perianth campanulate, dark
purple, half an inch in diameter, the reflexing deltoid segments
as long as the campanulate tube. Anthers sessile at the
throat of the tube. Ovary globose, minute; style fleshy,
cylindrical, reaching up to the top of the tube; stigma, large,
peltate, fleshy, convex, distinctly six-lobed round the border,
filling up the whole mouth of the tube and concealing the
stamens.—/. D. Baker.

Vig. 1, Flower cut open to show thé stigma; 2, a sixth part of the perianth,
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DRACOCEPHALUM speciosum.

Native of the Himalaya Mountains.

Nat. Ord. Lasrara.—Tribe NEPETE.
Genus Dracoceruatum, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. fil. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1699)”

Dnracocepuatum (Boguldia) speciosum ; ascendens Vv. erectum pubescenti-tomen-
tosum v. subvillosum, foliis rugosis crenatis utrinque viridibus radicalibus
longe-petiolatis late cordiformibus caulinis paucis sessilibus v. breviter
petiolatis subtus laxe pilosis, floralibus orbiculatis subbracteseformibus, ver-
ticillastris supremis in spicam latam oblongam obtusam dense congestis,
‘bracteis inciso-crenatis calyce multo brevioribus, calyce infandibulari-
campanulato curvo dentibus 4 triangulari-ovatis acutis quarto orbiculato
dilatato, corolla purpurea albo maculata.

D. speciosum, Benth in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. vol. ii. p. 65, nom Sweet; Gen.
et Sp. Lab. p. 494; Wall, Cat. no. 2128.

Discovered by Wallich’s collectors in Nepal, and afterwards
almost simultaneously found by Madden in Garwhal, by
Strachey and Winterbottom in Kumaon, and by myself in
the Sikkim Himalaya, all at elevations ranging from 12000 to
15000 feet above the sea, where it forms a robust handsome
plant in grassy places. The genus is a very considerable
one, containing many species well worth cultivation, espe-
cially on a rock-work. It extends from Europe to the Altai
and Himalaya, where about 30 species are known. Of these
only one bas been previously figured in this work, the D.
peregrinum, t. 1084, the D. sibiricum, t. 2185, being a true
Nepete. The D. speciosum of Sweet’s Flower Garden, vol. 1. t.
98, is Physostegia virginiana (see Benth. in DC. Prod. vol. xii.
p. 404).

The specimen here figured was received at Kew from the
Rev. Mr. Harper Crewe, who raised it from seeds sent from
Sikkim by Mr. Elwes. It flowered in June last. :

Desc. More or less clothed with spreading pubescence or
almost woolly. Root of very stout fleshy fibres. Séem,

erect, or ascending at the base, very stout, simple, obtusely
4-angled. Leaves dark-green, rugose, radical on petioles
sometimes a foot long; blade cordiform, deeply lobed at the
base, coarsely crenate, rugose ; cauline in few pairs, sessile or
shortly petioled, more finely crenate, orbicular or cordiform,
uppermost bracteiform. Upper whorls densely crowded into
an oblong almost woolly head 1—4 inches long; bracts shorter
than the calyx, incised; pedicels very short. Calyx 5 inch
long, between bell-shaped and funnel-shaped, curved, with
4 short triangular-ovate acute teeth, and one broadly dilated
orbicular one. Corolla purple, spotted with white and darker
purple, tube not much exceeding the calyx, dilated at the
throat ; lips short; upper compressed hairy, 2-lobed ; lower
with 2 rounded lateral lobes, and a reniform mid-lobe that is
attached by a broad claw. Stamens short, filaments ciliate ;
anther-cells divaricate. Disk fleshy, produced behind.
J.D. H.

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HYPOLYTRUM LATIFOLIUM.

Native of Ceylon and the Malay Archipelago.

Nat. Ord. Cyprrack®.—Tribe HypoLytTre”&.
Genus Hyrorytrum, Rich. (Endl. Gen. Plant, p. 116).

Hyvotytrem latifolium ; culmis robustis 2-4 pedalibus levibus trigonis foliosis,
foliis culmum longe excedentibus late linearibus $-1 poll. latis plicatis
3-nerviis striatis rigidulis marginibus et interdum nervis subtus serrulato-
scaberulis, corymbis terminalibus foliaceo-bracteatis, ramis robustis erecto-
patentibus, ramulis divaricatis, spiculis floriferis cylindraceo oblongis pedi-
cellis paullo longioribus, fructiferis squarrosis, squamis obovatis obtusis
apiculatis obscure 8-nerviis, glumis 2 demum liberis carinatis, carina
ciliolata, floribus diandris, stigmatibus 2, fructu squamam vix superante
ellipsoideo-ruguloso apice acuto demum incrassato obtuso.

HZ. latifolium, Rich. in Pers. Synops. vol. i. p.70; Kunth, Enum. vol. ii. p. 271 5
Benth. Flor. Hongk. p. 389; Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Ceylon, p. 346; Kurz in
Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xxxviii (1869) pt. 2, p. 72.

H. giganteum, Wall. Cat. No. 3404; Nees in Wight's Contrib. p. 93, et in
Linnea, vol. ix. p. 288.

H. diandrum, Dietr. Sp. vol. ii. p. 365.
ALBIKIA scirpoides, Presi, Rel. Henk, vol. 1, p. 185, t. 35.
Scnanvs nemorum, Vahl, Symb. iii. p. 8; Enum, vol. ii. p. 227.

Tuca diandre, Roxb. Fi. Ind., vol. i. p. 184.

It is very rarely that a Cyperaceous plant+has found a place
in the Botanica, Magazine. Now, however, that elegance
of form is beginning to be appreciated in cultivation, both
Graminew and Cyperacee will claim a consideration which
has hitherto been but grudgingly awarded to them. The
plant here figured was sent to Kew from Ceylon by Dr.
Thwaites, an excellent judge of what is horticulturally an
acquisition, as a very ornamental one, and well worthy of
cultivation in a tropical house. And this it has proved from
its graceful bright green foliage, its rich brown inflorescence,

and its permanent freshness. The genus Hypolytrum is a

thoroughly tropical one, found in all three Continents, and
the species have wide ranges; the present extends from
Hindostan and Ceylon to China and the Fiji Islands, and has
been identified with an African species. It is common in
mountain woods of Ceylon, and in the Malay Peninsula, but
has not been found in northern India. It was raised from
seeds sent by Dr. Thwaites to Kew, and flowers at various
seasons.

Descr. Culms, two to four feet high, stout, trigonous
with obtuse smooth angles. eaves much longer than the
culm, often an inch broad, three-nerved, and closely striated,
plaited, rather rigid ; margins, and often the nerves beneath,
minutely serrulate. Inflorescence a depressed corymbose
cyme, often four inches long, and broad, the lower branches
with large leafy bracts, the upper with smaller, more
rigid ones; main-branches trigonous, stout, erecto-patent ; _
branchlets short, rigid, spreading horizontally. Spikelets one
quarter of an inch long, cylindric-oblong, longer than their
pedicels, of eight to twelve closely imbricate obovate, obtuse,
apiculate, round-backed, broad-keeled, brown opaque scales,
that spread in fruit, and are very persistent. Glwmes two, op-
posite, included, much shorter than the scales, at first
connate, easily separated, keel ciliolate. Stamens two, ex-
serted ; anthers shortly oblong. Style distinct : stigmas two.
Fruit ellipsoid, turgid, rough, dark brown, and opaque, at —
first acute, then obtuse with a thickened tip.—J. D. H _

Fig. 1, Spikelet; 2, glumes and flower; 3, glumes and ovary; 4, ovary
removed :—all enlarged.

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SOLANUM ACANTHODES.

Natiwe of Brazil ?

Nat. Ord. Sotanack&.—Tribe Soranna.
Genus Soranum, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 888.)

Sonantm «acanthodes ; fruticosum, furfuraceo-tomentosum et aculeatum, aculeis
validis rectis v. lente curvis pallidis, foliis late obovato- v. ovato-oblongis
pinnatifidis pubescentibus basi cordato 2-lobis, lobis horizontalibus obtusis
sinnato-lobulatis, costa nervisque rectangularibus ochraceis utrinque aculeatis,
petiolo robusto cylindraceo, cymis scorpioideis lateralibus 6-10-floris, pedi-
cellis aculeolatis, alabastris ovoideis semipollicaribus, calycis parvi setosi tubo
hemispherico lobis ovato-lanceolatis subacutis, corolla ampla 24 poll. diam.
lobis ovato-rotundatis late marginatis, antheris lineari-oblongis 2 porosis, ovario
glabro.

This fine Solanum was for some years an ornament of the
Palm-stove at Kew, but I am not certain of its origin ; it
bore the name of S. acanthocalyx, Klotzsch; and as that
author was keeper of the Royal Herbarium of Berlin at the
time, it is probable that the plant was derived from the
Berlin garden. It is not however the true S. acanthocalyz,
which is a Mozambique plant, described as having two
flowered peduncles which are densely aculeate. Its nearest
ally is undoubtedly the S. macranthum, Dunal (DC. Prod. vol.
xiii. pars 2, p. 315), a native of the Amazons, of which
there are fine specimens from Spruce in the Herbarium at Kew,
which differ in the broader, shorter, more rounded sinuately-
lobed leaves, in the much larger buds and calyx, which and
the pedicels are not at all or very rarely aculeate, not densely
shortly setose asin our plants. The S. macranthum of this
work again (t. 4138), and of the Revue Horticole (1867, p.
132) is a very different plant, with the leaf-blade decurrent
on the petiole, and is the §S. marionense, Poit. I find no
species out of the many hundred in the Kew Herbarium, nor
in the descriptions of Dunal, at all agreeing in this, of which
I am obliged reluctantly to make a new species. The figure
was made in August, 1863.

Descr. Shrubby, clothed with a mealy tomentum, and
scattered stout, pale, straight, or slightly curved prickles. Stem

MARCH Ist, 1877,

and branches dark green and bright orange, the younger ones
wholly orange. Leaves a foot long and upwards, ovate or
obovate-oblong, pinnatifidly lobed to the middle or lower,
deeply two-lobed at the base, dull green; lobes horizontal,
sinuate, subacute ; midrib and horizontal nerves orange-red ;
prickles scattered on the midrib and nerves of both surfaces ;
petiole robust, cylindric, armed with scattered stout prickles.
Cymes lateral, scorpioid, 6—10-flowered; rachis and pedicels
clothed with short prickles, reddish yellow. Flowers two and
a half inches in diameter, pale blue-purple. Calyz-tube green,
hemispherical, and its lobes stellately hairy, both clothed with
short stiff bristles; lobes one quarter of an inch long, recurved,
ovate-lanceolate, subacute, green. Corolla nearly flat, lobed
to about the middle, the lobes rounded apiculate, margins
concolorous waved. Anthers about one quarter the length of the
corolla, narrowly linear-oblong, yellow, with two apical pores,

filaments very short. Ovary glabrous ; base of style pubescent.
—J. D. A.

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GONC GORA portTEnTosa.
Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. OrncuiwEa:.—Tribe VanpEx.

Genus Goncora, Ruiz and Pav. (Endl. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 199.)

Goncora portentosa; pseudobulbis conico-ovoideis, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis,
pedunculo elongato, racemo laxo multifloro pendulo, floribus longo-pedicellatis
pallide carneis petalis columna labellique disco violaceo-punctatis, sepalo
dorsali unguiculato lamina ovato-lanceolata acuminata, lateralibus late-ovato-
oblongis acutis basi lata oblique truncata, petalis linearibus falcatis caudato-
acuminatis, labello crasse carnoso compresso medio incrassato et antice trun
cato superne tentaculis 2 retrorsis instructo apice in caudam rectam v.
apice decurvam abrupte angustato, columna gracile exalata.

G. portentosa, Reichb. and Lind. in Gard. Chron 1869, p. 892; André in I’ Lilust.
Horticol. vol. xviii. p. 92, t.61.

A very remarkable species of a genus already well known
for the grotesque forms assumed by its flowers, and for the
adaptation of these to ensuring cross-fertilization by insects.
In the present genus the upturned margins of the lip, as
observed by Mr. Darwin (Fertilization of Orchids, p. 276),
no doubt act as lateral guides to lead insects up to stand
beneath the middle of the rostellum and carry the pollen.

The genus Gongora is rapidly being recruited with new
Species from tropical America, and especially the Andes,
Only two are enumerated in Lindley’s Genera and Species of
Orchidew ; upwards of fifteen species are now known, and
we have drawings of other unfigured ones. The present one
is a native of Cundinamarca, in the province of Bogota, and
was discovered by Mr. Wallis in 1868. It has been widely
distributed by M. Linden, and the specimen here figured,
flowered with Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, in April, 1874.

Descr. Pseudobulb two to three inches long, between
ovoid and conical, faintly-grooved, dark green. Leaves six to
ten inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate. Scape slender,
very pale; bracts small. Raceme pendulous, laxly many-

MARCH Ist, 1877.

flowered. Flowers on slender pedicels, one and a half to two
and a half inches long, pale flesh-coloured; the sepals faintly —
speckled with red purple; the petals, column, front
and sides of the lip nearly white and closely speckled with
violet purple; the lower part of the lip golden -yellow.
Dorsal sepal with a slender claw adnate to the column, and
an ovate-lanceolate acuminate blade; lateral sepals very much
broader, broadly oblong-ovate, acute, spreading, finally undu-
late. Petals narrow linear, strongly falcate, adnate below
to the sides of the column, terminating in slender filiform
awns. Lip very large, laterally compressed, almost boat-
shaped, obliquely truncate in front, the everted lips white
and’ spotted with purple, and furnished each with a recurved
slender awn; tip abruptly contracted into a stouter awn;

sides smooth, shining. Colwmn very slender, curved.—
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BORONIA gExattor.

Native of South Western Australia.

Nat. Ord. Ruracka.—Tribe Boroniex.

Genus Boronia, Smith. (Benth. et Hook. J. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 291)

Boronia (Heterandre) elatior ; frutex elatus floribundus, ramis patentim pilosis,
foliis pinnatis, pinnis 5-13 linearibus planis rigidiusculis glabris v. pilosis,
rachi inter pinnas subdilatata, floribus axillaribus cernuis, pedunculis
petiolum xquantibus 2-bracteolatis, sepalis ovatis acutis, corolle subglobose
fusco-rubre petalis orbiculatis apiculatis imbricatis, filamentis brevibus
subulatis ciliolatis, oppositipetalis incurvis antheris minutis flavis, alternis
crassioribus antheris magnis atris sterilibus, ovario hirsuto, stigmate maximo
pyramidato obtuso basi 4-lobo.

B. elatior, Bartl. in Plant. Preiss. vol. i. p. 170; Benth; Fl. Austral. vol. i. p. 316°
B. semifertilis, Muell. Fragm. Phytol. Austral. vol. ii. p. 98. '

A near ally of the sweet-scented B. megastigma, tab. 6046,
and like it belonging to a small group of the extensive genus
with dimorphous anthers and enormously large stigmas, which
is confined to Western Australia. Though a very distinct
Species it is a variable one, especially in the amount of pubes-
cence, which is almost absent or so copious that the branches
are almost hirsute with soft-spreading hairs. Its neat habit
andabundanceof red-brown flowers, which in well-grown species
completely hide one side of the branch, render it well worthy of
cultivation, as indeed are almost all the species of this genus,

Nearly fifty species of Boronia areknown, they inhabit heathy
and rocky places in Ausiralia, and with the various Epacridece
and Zetrathecas, etc., form one of the most beautiful features
of the scenery. About fifteen species have been raised and
figured in England, but it would be difficult to find half of
them now, so entirely has the cultivation of Australian plants
been superseded by easier grown soft-wooded things.

MARCH Ist, 1877,

B. elatior was introduced by Messrs. Veitch, who sent speci-
mens for figuring in May, 1876, at which time also it
flowered at Kew.

Descr. A slender twiggy erect shrub, four to five feet high,
and much branched. Stem and branches more or less clothed
with long soft, rather distant spreading hairs. Leaves close
set, uniform and rather distichous on the flowering branches,
one to two inches long, by one-half to three-quarters inch
broad, pinnate; rachis slightly dilated between the pinne
which are in 2-6 pairs with an odd one, sessile, linear,
acuminate, flat, quite entire. J/owers very numerous on the
branches, drooping, shortly peduncled ; peduncle glabrous or
hairy, with two small bracts about the middle. Sepals broadly
ovate, acuminate. Corolla dark, red-brown, nearly globose ;
petals nearly orbicular, apiculate, much imbricate. Stamens
8, filaments very short, subulate ; those opposite the sepals
with small yellow anthers placed under the stigmatic lobes ;
then alternate with large black anthers. Ovary pubescent,
hid under the obtusely pyramidal stigma, which is 4-lobed at
the base.—J. D. H. |

Fig. 1, Portion of leaf; 2, peduncle and flower: 3, flower with petals removed
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PECTIS aneusrrroria.
Native of New Mexico and Western Texas.

Nat. Ord. Compostra.—Tribe HELenrowER.,

Genus Peocris, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p- 412.)

Preis angustifolia ; annua, glaberrima, caule basi simplici superne dichotome
corymboso ramosissimo, ramis obscure angulatis, foliis lineari-subulatis
acutis marginibus incrassatis glanduliferis basin versus ciliis paucis subulatis
instructis, capitulis terminalibus breviter pedunculatis, involucri bracteis
8 coriaceis dorso convexis, floribus radii ad 8, ligula elliptica emarginata,
disci 10-12 tubo puberulo, acheniis angustis estriatis puberulis, pappi squa-
mellis minutis.

P. angustifolia, Vorr. in Ann. Lye. New York, vol. ii. p. 214; A Gray in Pl.
Wright, pars 1. p. 83. Plant. Fendl. p. 61; Coulter, Syn. Flor. Colorado,
. 55.

Pp ‘
P. fastigiata, A. Gray. Plant Fendl. p. 62.
Pecriporsis angustifolia, D.C. Prod. vol. v. p- 98.

A very pretty annual, forming dense golden cushions in its
native country, from the excessively branched corymbose
habit of the plants which grow close together, and the abun-
dance of flowering heads that open at the same time. It
was found by all the early travellers in New Mexico, that
Colorado district, ete., as by James, Coulter, Gregg, as well

as by the later travellers, as Fremont, Wright, Fendler, ete.;
and it was introduced into cultivation by Mr. Thompson, of
Ipswich, in 1865, who sent specimens in that year to Kew.

The genus Pectidopsis, founded by the elder DeCandolle

for this plant, on the form of the pappus, has rightly been
sunk in Pectis by Asa Gray. The organism in question being
not only very variable in the genus, but in the present species,
in which it consists of sometimes five pointed scales, at others,
of retrorsely serrulate bristles, at others of 1-2-awned scales.
Descr. A glabrous annual, six to ten inches high. Stem
simple at the base, then excessively dichotomously branched
in acorymbose manner. Leaves opposite, all cauline, one to one
_ anda half inches long, linear-subulate, apiculate; margin’s

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thickened with a few oblong oil-glands, and a few subulate cilia
towards the base. Heads very numerous, crowded, shortly
peduncled, half to three-quarters inch in diameter, golden-
yellow. Involucre cylindric, of about eight erect linear obtuse
coriaceous bracts that are convex and smooth on the back. Kay-
flowers about eight, tube short, slender; limb elliptic, ob-
tusely notched at the apex. Disk-flowers with a slender
puberulous tube and campanulate 5-toothed limb. Style of

ray with two linear obtuse awns ; of disk, slightly thickened, |

truncate, and notched. Achene linear, cylindric, pubescent. —
Pappus in our specimens of very minute scales.—/. Dy, #4.

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CAMASSIA xscunenta, var, LEICHTLINII.
Native of British Columbia.

Nat. Ord. Lintackz.—Tribe Scottie.
Genus Camassta, Lindl. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiii. p. 256).

Camassia esculenta var. Leichtlinii ; foliis lineari-loratis, racemo laxo subpedali
interdum furcato, pedicellis 6-12 lin. longis apice distincte articulatis,
perianthii 12-15 lin. longi albi segmentis dorso 7-nervatis.

Cutorocatum Leichtlinii, Baker in Gard. Chron, 1874, p. 689.

This is a third subspecies of Quamash, differing from the
well-known Camassia esculenta, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1486,
by its more robust habit, broader leaves, laxer sometimes

- compound raceme, and larger flowers with more numerous

nerves in the keel of the segments of the perianth. At first,
led by its compound raceme and distinctly articulated
pedicels I was inclined to place it in the genus Chiorogalum,

_ but now after having seen further and better specimens, I am

convinced that the present is its correct position. It was dis-
covered by Mr. John Jeffrey in British Columbia in 1853. As
a garden plant my first knowledge of it was derived from
our indefatigable correspondent, Max Leichtlin, Esq. The

_ present sketch was taken from a plant which flowered on the

rockery in Kew Gardens in May, 1873. The ordinary

‘ eolour of the flowers of @. esculenta and of C. Fraseri, its

representative in the Eastern States, is blue, but in all the
specimens which I have seen of the present plant the flowers
are white.

Descr. Bulb globose, one and a half inch in diameter, with
brown membranous tunics. Leaves about half-a-dozen in a
basal rosette, linear-lorate, a foot or a foot and a half long at
the flowering time, an inch or more broad low down,
narrowed gradually to the point. Scape one and a half to
two feet long, terete. Raceme a foot long, sometimes

branched ; pedicels solitary, erecto-patent, half an inch to an

inch long, distinctly articulated at the tip ; bracts lanceolate,

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persistent, equalling or exceeding the pedicels. Perianth
white, one inch to an inch and a quarter long, the lanceolate
segments spreading horizontally when fully expanded, —
furnished with a keel of seven distinct ribs. Stamens about
half as long as the perianth. Ovary oblong; style subulate ;
stigma obscurely bicuspidate.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, The pistil, complete; 2, horizontal section of the ovary :— both
enlarged.

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Tas. 6288.

RESTREPIA ANnTENNIFERA.
Native of the Andes of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. OrcoipEea.—Tribe PLEUROTHALLIDES.

Genus Restrepra, HW. B. and K.; Lindl. Fol. Orehid.

Resrrepia antennifera ; caulibus fasciculatis simplicibus strictis vaginatis, vaginis
subinflatis, foliis breviter petiolatis ovatis obtusis basi rotundatis v. cordatis,
seapis gracilibus, sepalo dorsali lanceolato serrulato in caudam elongatam
erecto-recurvam apice clavellatam producto, lateralibus labello suppositis
lineari-oblongis in laminam oblongam denticulatam apice 2-lobam basin ver-
sus utrinque appendice subulato instructam connatis flavidis creberrime
kermesino guttatis, petalis filiformibus basi lanceolatis apice clavellatis,
labello parvulo panduriformi obtuso sepalis lateralibus appresso iisque con-
colore, columna gracili marginibus erosis.

R. antennifera, H. B. and K. Nov. Gen. and Sp. vol. i. p. 294, t. 94; Lindl. Gen,
and Sp, Orchid. 14; Id. Fol. Orchid Restrepia, p.1; Reichb. in Walp. Ann.
vol. vi. p. 203; Lemaire, [1. Hortie. t. 601.

R. maculata, Lindl. Orchid. Lind.

This, the first discovered and described species of the sin-
gular genus Restrepia, has not hitherto been accurately figured
and described. Humboldt’s plate, which though done from a
dried specimen, is very characteristic in most particulars,
represents a proliferously 2-leaved state, and omits the serru-
lation of the outer perianth segments and margins of the
column, as also the free tips of the lateral sepals, whilst Le-
maire represents the stem sheaths as uniformly lacerate and
terminated by a filiform point, and omits both the serrula-
tion of the perianth, etc., and the subulate processes on the
outer margins of the lateral sepals.

R. antennifera was discovered by Humboldt on the trunks
of trees near Pasto, at an elevation of 9000 feet (French),
and it has since been found by several travellers in different
localities in New Grenada, between 6000 and 10,500 feet,
and in Venezuela. Our plant flowered in the cool orchid-
house at Kew, in January of the present year.

Descr. Stems tufted, stout, simple, erect or ascending,
April. Ist, 1877.

two to four inches high, clothed with loosely imbricating
sheaths which have obtuse oblique mouths and are white spotted
with red. Zeaf two and a half to three and a half inches
long, shortly stoutly petioled, ovate, obtuse or subacute,
rounded or cordate at the base. Scapes longer than the
leaves, very slender, 1-flowered; bract appressed. Dorsal
sepal one and a half inches long, lanceolate, tapering into a
filiform tail with a clubbed red-purple tip; blade serrulate,
pale yellow, with three lines of red-purple dots. Lateral
sepals united into a linear-oblong serrulate lamina as long
as the upper sepal, 2-lobed at the tip, and with a subulate
appendage on each margin towards the base, slightly longi-
tudinally folded, yellow with eight to ten close-set rows of
large red spots. Petals like the dorsal sepal, but very much
smaller. Jp very small, appressed to the lateral sepals,
oblong-panduriform, rounded at the tip. Column slender,
pale, with narrow serrulate wings.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with lateral petals removed :—enlaryed.

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: CALLI PHRURIA suspepEntATaA.

Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACER.—Tribe PANcRATIER.

Genus Catuirurunia, Herbert ; (Kunth, Enum. vol. v. p. 692).

Catiipurouria edentata; bulbo ovoideo tunicato, foliis circiter 4 longe petiolatis
oblongis viridibus, venis pluribus perspicuis arcuatis, pedunculo pedali vel
Sesquipedali subcompresso, umbellis 6-8-floris, spathe valvis lanceolatis,
pedicellis flore multo brevioribus, ovario ovoideo-trigono, perianthii infun-
dibularis sesquipollicaris segmentis oblongis tubo equilongis flore expanso
falcatis, staminibus limbo subduplo brevioribus, filamentis linearibus in-
terdum exappendiculatis interdum dente parvo prope basin praedito, stylo
perianthio subsequilongo apice stigmatoso leviter trieuspidato.

This is a plant which has been in English gardens for
many years, and in the absence of flowers has passed for
Eucharis candida. “Lately it has flowered at several places
almost simultaneously, and it turns out to be no Lucharis at
all; but a near neighbour of the Calliphruria Hartwegiana
which was figured in the Botanical Magazine last year (tab.
6259). The present plant, however, differs materially from
C. Hartwegiana in the filaments, in which the toothing is some-
times entirely wanting, so that for the botanical systematist it
forms an awkward connecting link between the tribes Amary/-
idee and Pancratiee. he Eucharis candida which was dis-
tributed by Mr. William Bull in 1876, and which was
figured in his catalogue for that year, is the true plant so
called by Planchon. The present plate was made from a
specimen sent by Mr. G. R. Sheath, which flowered in the
garden of M. H. Beaufoy, Esq., at South Lambeth in De-
cember, 1876. :

Duscr. Bulb ovoid, one and a half inch in diameter, with
a few brown membranous tunics. eaves about four to a
bulb, cotemporary with the flowers; petiole nearly a foot
long, channelled down the face; blade oblong, acute, bright

APRIL Ist, 1877.

green, rather fleshy, six to eight inches long by more than half —
as broad, with many distinct arching ribs. Pedunele one to
one and a half foot long, slightly compressed. Flowers six
to eight in an umbel; spathe-valves lanceolate ; pedicels half
to three-quarters inch long; unexpanded flowers suberect ;
expanded flowers horizontal or drooping, scentless. Ovary
green, ovoid-trigonous, quarter inch long; perianth pure
white, funnel-shaped, one and a half inch long, the oblong
segments half as long as the tube, spreading falcately when
the flower is fully expanded. Séamens inserted at the throat
of the tube, about half as long as the segments; filaments
linear; sometimes entirely without any tooth, sometimes
furnished with a more or less distinct tooth at the base on
one or both sides ; anthers yellow, linear-oblong ; style as long.

as the perianth, obtusely lobed at the stigmatose tip.—J. @.
Baker.

Fig. 1. Flower, cut open ; 2, horizontal section of the ovary :—both magnified.

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RONDELETIA BackHousit.

Native of Tropical America.

Nat. Ord. Rusracrm.—Tribe RonpELETIER.

Genus Ronveretia, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 48.)

Ronpevetia Backhousii; fere glaberima, caule gracili, ramis teretibus, toliis
breviter petiolatis elliptico-ovatis subacutis supremis ovatis sessilibus, nervis
remotis arcuatis, stipulis triangulari-subulatis, paniculis terminalibus amplis
ramosis basi foliaceo-bracteatis, bracteis ad axillas linearibus v. lineari-
oblongis, bracteolis subulatis, floribus breviter gracile pedicellatis 5-meris,
calycis puberuli tubo subgloboso, limbi lobis obovato-oblongis v.-linearibus
obtusis v. acutis corolle tubo gracili dimidio terve brevioribus, corolle
rose lobis rotundatis, fauce glaberrima, ore obscure annulato, staminibus
medio tubo-insertis, filamentis brevibus, antheris inclusis lienari-oblongis
sequilongis, stylo brevi, stigmatibus linearibus.

This charming plant was received from Messrs. Backhouse
of York, about the year 1860, without locality or name, and
has been cultivated ever since in the Palm-house at Kew,
where it flowers freely annually in autumn, but does not
fruit. I have in vain endeavoured to name it, but it agrees
with no described species, nor is there any at all like it in
the Herbarium, except one from the Ecuadorian Andes,
collected by: Spruce (n. 5116), which has lanceolate acumi-
nate leaves that are very pubescent beneath in the young
State, and have many nerves. The genus is a very large one,
including upwards of 60 species, and extends from Mexico to
South Brazil. Their flowers are probably dimorphic, the males
having short styles and stamens comparatively high up the
tube; in which case our plant is a male. I have named it
in compliment to its introducers, Messrs. Backhouse, of York,
who can give me no information as to its origin, but suppose
that it was obtained from their continental correspondent.

_Descr. A small shrub, glabrous in all its parts, except the
pedicels, calyx and corolla-tube, which are minutely pubescent.
Stems and branches slender, terete, green. Leaves opposite,
shortly petioled, four to nine inches long, ovate, subacute,
membranous, green with red petiole and veins beneath ;

APRIL Ist, 1877.

veins arched, few, distant; stipules triangular-subulate, ap-
pressed, persistent. Panicle terminal, erect, laxly many-
flowered, trichotomously branched, the lower branches spring-
ing from the axils of subsessile ovate acuminate leaves;
bracts linear-oblong, green, rather appressed to the branches ;
bracteoles subulate. Flowers pedicelled, half to three-quarter
inch long, rose-coloured. Calyax-tube nearly globose ; limb
of five linear-obovate acute or obtuse segments. Corolla-tube
slender, twice or thrice as long as the calyx-lobes, pubescent ;
Limb one-third of an inch diam., lobes rounded ; mouth with
an obscurely thickened ring ; throat glabrous. Séamens small,
inserted in the middle of the tube, with short filaments and
linear-oblong included anthers. Style very short, stigmatic-
lobes linear.—J..D.H.

Fig.1, Flower with calyx lobes removed and corolla laid open; 2, flower with
corolla removed :—both enlarged.

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‘Tas. 6291.

GLADIOLUS ocurotevevs.
Native of the Transvaal territory and Kaffraria.

Nat. Ord. Intpackam.—Tribe GLapIoLex.

Genus Graprotus, Linn. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe, vol, xvi., inedit).

GuiapioLus ochroleucus; bulbo ovoideo tunicis membranaceo-fibrosis, foliis
basalibus 4-6 linearibus pedalibus acuminatis rigide coriaceis glabris
marginibus et cost’ incrassatis ‘stramineis, caule foliis breviore foliis 1-2.
reductis vaginato, racemo semipedali 10-15 floro inferne laxo, spathe valvis
6-12 lin. longis viridibus acutis margine membranaceis, exteriore oblongo-
lanceolata, interiore lanceolata, perianthii sulphurei sesquipollicaris tubo
curvato cylindrico segmentis oblongis unguiculatis obtusis tubo duplo
longioribus, tribus inferioribus decurvatis angustioribus, staminibus perian-
thio distincte brevioribus, antheris ligulatis mucronatis, stylo profunde
trifurcato.

G. ochroleucus, Baker in Trimen Journ., 1876, p. 182.

3 This new Gladiolus belongs to a group of which we now

< know upwards of a dozen species, all of which are compara-

tively recent discoveries, marked in the subgenus Ewgladiolus

by flat leaves and flowers, much smaller than in the great

ensiform-leaved kinds, such as psittacinus, cardinalis, and

Coopert. The species of this group which have been already

figured in the Botanical Magazine, are G. sericeo-villosus,

tab. 5427, G@. Papilio, tab. 5565 and G. purpureo-auratus,

tab. 5944; the present plant was discovered by the

Rey. R. Baur, in Transkeian Kaffraria, and was first

a sent to the Kew harbarium by our indefatigable cor-

- respondent, Mr. McOwan in 1874. . Mr. Baur describes

it as growing in grassy places at an elevation of

two thousand feet above sea-level, and flowering in March.

We owe the introduction of it in a living state to Mr.

Bull, who imported it from the Transvaal territory and
flowered it last autumn.

Derscr. Bulb ovoid, under an inch in diameter, the mem-
branous tunics rather splitting up into fibres. Basal leaves
four to six, produced in a distichous rosette, linear, reaching
a length of twelve to fifteen inches, and a breadth of half an

APRIL Ist, 1877, :

inch, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, acuminate, the midrib and
margins thickened and straw-coloured. Stem under a foot
long, slender, sheathed by one or two reduced leaves.
Spike simple, half a foot long, ten to fifteen flowered, lax
in the lower half; spathe-valves half to one inch long, acute,
green with a membranous colourless edge and tip, the outer
one oblong-lanceolate, the inner one lanceolate. Perianth
primrose-yellow, fifteen to eighteen lines long; tube curved,
cylindrical, three-eighths of an inch long ; segments all oblong-
unguiculate, obtuse, twice as long as the tube, the three
upper ones arching, about half an inch broad, the three lower
ones decurved, a quarter to one-third inch broad. Stamens
distinctly shorter than the perianth-segments; anthers one-
third inch long, ligulate, cuspidate. S/yle deeply three-—
— the stigmas just overtopping the anthers.—J. @.
aker.

Fig. 1. Anther, with part of filament; 2, upper part of style, showing the
three stigmatose forks :— both magnified.

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AGAVE (irra) Sartori.

Native of Mexico and Guatemala.

Nat. Ord. AmaryLLipAcE%.—Tribe AGAvER.

Genus Acave, Zinn ( Jacobi in Hamburg Gartenzeit., 1864, et anni seq.).

AGave (Littea) Sartorii ; breviter caulescens, caudice interdum furcato, foliis cir-
citer 30 laxe rosulatis lanceolatis bipedalibus carnoso-coriaceis viridibus
seepissime albido-vittatis, e medio ad apicem angustatis, mucrone terminali
haud pungente, aculeis marginalibus minutis crebris patentibus deltoideis
inequalibus castaneis, scapo foliis 2-3-plo longiore foliis reductis pluribus
linearibus erectis predito, panicula cylindrica subspicata tripedali cernua,
pedunculis et pedicellis subobsoletis, bracteis parvis linearibus basi deltoideis,
perianthio viridi luteo tincto, ovario oblongo, tubo late infundibulari ovario
zequilongo fauce dilatato segmentis oblongis erecto-falcatis, genitalibus longe
exsertis. ' '

A. Sartorii, K. Koch in Wochensch. 1860, p. 87; Jacobi, Monog. Agave, p. 128.
A. aloina, XK. Koch, loc. cit. p. 37.
A. Noackii, Jacobi, Monog. Agave, p. 125. ;

A. pendula, Schnittspahn; Jacobi, Monog. Agave, p. 130.

A. cespitosa, Todaro Hort. Bot. Panorm, p. 32, t..8.

Fovurcroya Noackii, Hort.

This is a very well-marked species of Agave, easily recog-
nisable in the large group of the carnoso-coriacee by its
caulescent habit, which is very rare in the genus as a whole,
and confined to this single species in the group In question.
It was first introduced to the Berlin botanic garden by Dr.
Rohrbach about 1850, and has since been received from the
district of Orizaba, in Mexico. Our first notice of its flower-
ing is by Dr. Schnittspahn in 1857 in the Zeitschrift des
Gartenbauvereines zu Darmstadt. It is fully described, so
far as leaves go, under three different names in the mono-
graph of Jacobi, and has lately been figured under a fourth
by Todaro from a specimen that flowered at the botanic
garden at Palermo. The present plate is after a drawing of
a specimen that flowered with Mr. Wilson Saunders, at
Reigate, in March, 1870, and it has flowered at least twice

APRIL Ist, 1877.

at Kew within the last few years; the last time this present
spring.

Descr. Caudexv reaching in the specimen drawn a length
of a foot, forked dichotomously, and bearing two tufts of
leaves. Leaves about thirty in a lax rosette, lanceolate, two
feet long, three inches broad at the middle, narrowing gradu-
ally to a non-pungent point, and to a breadth of two inches
above the dilated base, somewhat fleshy in texture, one-eighth
to a quarter inch thick in the centre, an inch thick at the
base, bright green, with often a broad pale band down the
centre, the margin furnished with copious close, unequal,
deltoid, spreading, chestnut-brown spines. Scape twice or
three times as long as the leaves, furnished with numerous
erect linear reduced bract-like leaves. Panicle cernuous,
subspicate, cylindrical, three feet long ; peduncle and pedicels
nearly obsolete; bracts linear, from a dilated base, much
shorter than the flowers. Perianth green, with a yellow
tinge in the upper part ; ovary oblong, half-inch long; tube
broadly funnel-shaped, as long as the ovary, dilated at the
throat ; segments oblong, obtuse, half-inch long, erect-falcate
when fully expanded. Filaments inserted in the perianth-
tube, subulate, reaching a length of eighteen to twenty-one
lines ; anthers ligulate, versatile, three-eighths of an inch
long. Style reaching as high as the top of the stamens;
stigma capitate. Capsule oblong-trigonous, one and a quarter
to one and a half inches long.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, The whole plant, much reduced in size ; 2, aleaf less reduced ; 3, summit
of a leaf; 4, portion of the panicle, with several pairs of flowers; 5, capsule, the
three last natural size.

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Tas. 6293,
THAPSIA Garcanica,
Native of the Mediterranean Region.

Nat. Ord. Umbetiirer#.—Tribe Laserprtiex.

Genus Tuapsta, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p..930).

Twapsia garganica ; glaberrima v. foliis parce setoso-pilosis, caule robusto tereti,
foliis crasse petiolatis ambitu late ovatis 2-3-pinnatisectis laciniis linearibus
oblongisve decurrentibus obtusis subacutisve integerrimis y. 2-8-fidis mem-
branaceis supra nitidis marginibus sepe revolutis, supremis siepius ad
vaginas tumidas reductis, umbellis crasse pedunculatis amplis longe
6—15-radiatis, involucro involucellisque obsoletis, floribus flavis interioribus
in quevis umbellula masculis, fructu 2-3? poll. longo basi et apice 2-lobo,
nucleo anguste ellipsoideo 5-costato alis latis undulatis nitidis transverse
striolatis.

T. garganica Linn, Mant. p.57; DC. Prod. vol. ii. p. 202; Desf. Fl. Atlant., vol.
i. p. 262; Boiss. Flor. Orient. vol. ii. p. 1067 ; Gouan, Til. et Obs. Bot. p. 18,
t. 10; Sibth, Flor. Graee. t. 287 ; Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 2, vol. i. p. 156.

This plant, the aya of Dioscorides, has been celebrated
for its healing powers from very early times, and has further
been supposed, but on insufficient grounds, to be the Silphium
of Cyrenaica, where it abounds. It inhabits the whole
Mediterranean region, from the south of Spain and Morocco
to Greece, Turkey, Rhodes, and Crete, growing in fields and
in good soil. The root is used externally asa specific against
pains of all kinds, and in the reduction of tumours by the
Moors of N. Africa, where it is known under the name of
Dreeas; but I am not aware that it has a place in the
Pharmacopeeia of any civilized people. That it cannot be the
famous Silphium of the ancients has been demonstrated by
Oersted of Copenhagen, who shows that the plant represented
on the coins of Cyrenaica as the Silphium has the remarkable
character of growth of the true Asafcetida, and wholly differs
from that of Zhapsia ; whence it follows, either that a plant like
Asafetida was formerly native of Cyrenaica, but is no
longer found there, or that the true Asafcetida was cultivated
there, which seems to me not to be impossible.

For the opportunity of figuring the Ziapsia I am indebted

APRIL Ist, 1877.

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Tas. 6294.

DYCKIA rricrpa.
Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Bromettacra:.—Tribe Povurretize.

Genus Dyoxta, Schult. fil. (C. Koch in Append. iv. ad indic. Sem. Hort. Bot. Berol.
ann. 1873).

Dycxia frigida ; acaulis, robusta, foliis dense rosulatis patenti-recurvis e basi
13-2-pollicari_ ad apicem pungentem sensim acuminatis concavis supra
viridibus lucidis subtus striolatis glaucis marginibus et subtus apicem versus
spinis corneis remotis uncinatis onustis, scapo 2-pedali robusto bracteato,
bracteis ovato-subulatis spinoso-acuminatis, panicula pedali robusta furfur-
aceo-tomentosa griseo-brunnea ramis basin versus nudis, floribus subcon-
fertis, bracteolis ovato-subulatis acuminatis flores equantibus, sepalis oblongis
obtusis furfuraceis viridibus, petalis late unguiculatis lamina late ovata
obtusa ochracea, filamentis crassis cum petalis basi in tubum connatis,
antheris oblongis incurvis, ovario angusto, stigmatibus brevibus, capsule
perianthio duplo longioris carpellis liberis loculicidis.

Povrretta frigida, Hort. Lind.

I advance this as a new species with much hesitation, having
no better means of discriminating the species of this diffi-
cult genus than is afforded by C. Koch’s Conspectus, quoted
above, from which it would appear to be allied to the D.
remotiflora, Ott. and Dietr., and D. altissima, Lindl. Bot. Reg.
1841, Mise. p. 84, (erroneously cited as gigantea, by Le-
maire), from both of which it differs by its almost free
filaments (not attached to the length of the claw of the
petal). From D. Princeps, Lemaire (Ill. Hort. t. 224-5), it
appears to differ in the smaller flowers and longer sepals, but
it is certainly very closely allied both to that plant and to
those above mentioned.

The species of Dyckia are mostly Brazilian, and some of them
come from the colder southern provinces. This is probably
the case with the accompanying plant, which flowered freely in
the cool half of the succulent house, at Kew, in February
of the present year, and is now maturing its capsules. It
Was received from Messrs. Linden, under the name of
Pourretia frigida.

MAY Ist, 1877.

Descr. A stemless aloe-like herb. eaves densely rosu-
late, sixty to eighty together at the crown, one and a half to
two feet long, one and a half to two inches broad at the
base, gradually contracted from thence to the pungent’s
point, spreading and recurved, smooth and concave above,
glaucous striolate and rounded on the back, margins and
middle-line at the back towards the apex armed with stout
hooked yellow-brown spines one quarter of an inch long.
Scape lateral, ascending, stout, and as well as the inflorescence
clothed with pale furfuraceous down; covered densely below
and more sparingly above with bracts, the lower of which
are four to six inches long, erecto-patent and lanceolate, the
upper much smaller and triangular-subulate. Panicle del-
toid, a foot long, with few stout spreading branches which
are flowerless at the base; bracts ovate-lanceolate, recurved.
Flowers three-quarters of an inch long, on very short stout
green pedicels that gradually pass into the swollen green
base of the perianth. Sepals oblong, obtuse, green, furfur-
aceous ; rather shorter than the broadly clawed petals, the
blades of which are ochreous, broadly ovate, obtuse, spread-
ing. laments united at the base with the petals into a
rather membranous tube, broad, stout; anthers oblong.
Ovary narrowly ovoid; stigmas very short. Capsules twice

as longas the perianth, divided to the axis into three loculi-
cidal carpels.—J. D. H.

Pig. 1, Whole plant much reduced ; 2, leaf and, 3, panicle of the natural size;
4, flower ; 5, the same with 2 sepals and a petal removed :—all magnified.

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TIGRIDIA turea.
Native of Peru and Chili.

Nat. Ord. Inmacrez.—Tribe Ticripie®.

Genus Tienipia, Juss. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xvi. inedit.).

Tieriia (Beatonta) lutea ; bulbo ovoideo, tunicis brunneis, foliis 3-4 superpo-
sitis sessilibus linearibus acutis glabris profunde plicatis, caule gracili tereti
monocephalo, spathe 2-4-flore valvis lanceolatis exterioribus viridibus, in-
terioribus pallidis membranaceis, pedicellis floriferis spatha equilongis,
ovario oblongo, perianthii lutei fugacis segmentis unguibus latis diu imbri-
catis cupulam efformantibus fusco punctatis, laminis rotundis supra un-
guem flore expanso patulis, interioribus minoribus ad unguis apicem crystal-
lino-foveolatis, filamentis in tubum cylindricum prorsus connatis, antheris
ligulatis erecto-patentibus, styli ramis profunde bifurcatis ramulis falcatis
apice stigmatosis.

T. lutea, Link, Klotzsch, and Otto, Icon. Plant. Rar. Hort Reg. Bot. Berol. p. 85,
tab. 34; Baker in Journ, Linn, Soc. vol. xvi, inedit.

Sisyrincuivum grandiflorum, Cav, Diss. tab. 192, fig. 2?

Beatonia lutea, Klatt in Linnea, vol. xxxi. p. 567; vol. xxxiv. p. 733.

This 7’gridia is much inferior in decorative effect to the
well-known P. Pavonia, and, as in all the other species of
the genus, the flowers are very fugitive. Probably it is the
plant figured by Cavanilles, in 1790, under the name of
Sisyrinchium grandiflorum, but if so the drawing is a very
poor one. I have seen a dried specimen in the British
Museum, collected about the time by Pavon, in Peru. It
was named and well figured by Link, Klotzsch, and Otto,
from a specimen sent to the Berlin Botanic Garden, from the
island of Chiloe, by Professor Philippi, in 1840. It is the
only species of Zigridia that comes from that part of the
world, all the other five that are known being Mexican.
The present drawing was made from a plant that flowered
with Mr. H. J. Elwes, at Cirencester, in the autumn of

1876,

MAY Ist, 1877,

Descr. Bulb ovoid, with thick brown membranous tunics.
Stem terete, about a foot long, bearing three or four distantly
superposed leaves and a single terminal head of flowers.
Leaves sessile, linear, acuminate, four to six inches long, a
quarter to half an inch broad at the middle, moderately firm
in texture, bright green, strongly plicate, glabrous. Spathe one
and a half to two inches long, two- to four-flowered, the flowers
opening in succession on different days; valves lanceolate, the
two outer ones green, the inner ones pale and membranous.
Pedicels as long as the spathe. Ovary oblong, one-quarter to
one-third inch long. Perzanth yellow, very fugitive, measuring
an inch and a half across when expanded, the broad claws of
the segments forming a permanent cup and dotted with brown,
those of the inner three suddenly narrowed just above the
base and furnished with a transverse glittering crystalline
band at the throat of the claw; blade of the segments
spreading from the top of the cup when the flower is ex-
panded, roundish, with a minute cusp, the three inner much
smaller than the three outer. Filaments united to the top in
a cylindrical column as long as the cup formed by the claws
of the perianth-segments; anthers ligulate, erecto-patent.
Style-arms cut down nearly to the base into two hooked forks,
ee: are stigmatose in a cushion at the very tip.—J. G.

aker.

Fig. 1, One of the outer segments of the perianth; fig. 2, one of the inner
segments ; fig. 3, pistil and stamens complete; fig. 4, column of stamens, with
the anthers cut off so as to show the style-arms :—all magnified.

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CYPRIPEDIUM Haywnarpranum.
Native of the Philippine Islands.

Nat. Ord. Orcnipex.—Tribe Cyprivepie.
Genus Cyprirepium, Linn, (Endl. Gen. Plant. p. 220).

Cyprivepium Haynaldianum ; foliis distichis lineari-oblongis carinatis obtusis
apice 2-dentatis coriaceis concoloribus, scapo plurifloro stricto. patentim
villoso, bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis ellipticisve acutis villosis ovario subsessili
villoso brevioribus, sepalo dorsali oblongo obtuso marginibus ciliolatis infra
medium recurvis, dimidio inferiore virescente brunneo maculatis, superiore
pallide roseo-albo, sepalis lateralibus in unum late ovatum labello suppositum
et eo brevius connatis, petalis ligulatis patentissimis sepalo superiore duplo
longioribus eoque concoloribus ultra medium dilatatis apicibus recurvis, labello
virescente saccato ore biauriculato auriculis latis obtusis sinu triangulari,
staminodio spathulato apice 2-lobo.

C. Haynaldianum, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid. vol. ii. p- 222, et in Gard. Chron.
N.S. vol. vii. p. 272 (1877).

A very near ally of (. Zowei, Lindl., also a native of the
- Philippines ; so near indeed that Reichenbach observes that a
casual observer might confuse the two, but after a careful
examination of thirty-five flowers of that plant and five of
this, he regards them as distinct, summing up the differences
in C. Lowe as follows :—Upper sepal yellowish-green, with
purplish lines and dots on the inner base; lower sepal (com-
bined sepals) narrower and longer, yellow-green ; lip with
less prominent auricles, and a toothed keel in the sinus;
stigma round and bent. These distinctive characters are, it
must be confessed, but slight, and would seem to indicate a
difference of race rather than of what are usually held to
constitute a species. It is named after his Excellency Dr.
Ludwig Haynald, archbishop of Kaloesa, in Hungary, who
Dr. Reichenbach justly commemorates as a zealous botanist,
and an active promoter of science and art, and whose name
will ever be most honourably connected with the development
of Hungary. ;

Tam indebted to Messrs. Veitch for the opportunity of
figuring this plant, which flowered at Chelsea in February
of the present year.

MAY Ist, 1877,

Descr. Leaves dictichous, six to ten inches long, linear-
oblong, about one and a half inches broad, suberect, keeled,
obtuse and 2-toothed at the tip, dark green, very coriaceous.
Scape solitary, one to one and a half feet high, strict, two- or
more-flowered, clothed with soft long spreading hairs, as are
the bracts and ovary; bracts one to one and a quarter inch |
long, elliptic or ovate-oblong, shorter than the ovary. Flower
six to seven inches across the peta!s, greenish white, except
the lower half of the ciliated upper sepal and petals, which
are blotched with dark brown, and their upper halves are
faintly rosy and white. Upper sepal suberect, oblong, obtuse,
lower half with recurved margins, upper almost hooded.
Lower sepal (of two combined) broadly ovate, obtuse, much
shorter than the lip. Peéals almost twice as long as the upper
sepal, linear, suddenly twisted beyond the middle with a
recurved apex. Jip green, saccate, with a rounded base ;
mouth with two broad obtuse elongated lips, and a broadly
triangular sinus between them, at the base of which is a tooth.
Staminode 2-lobed, green.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Staminode and stigma, enlarged.

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XANTHORRHGA MINOR.

Native of South-Western Australia and Tasmania.

Nat. Ord. Juncea.—Tribe Xerotwex.

Genus XanrHorrua@a, Smith ; (Endl. Gen. Plant. p- 152)

XANTHORRH@A minor ; pumila, acaulis, dense cxspitosa, foliis suberectis e basi
paullo dilatato filiformibus triquetris superne lente convexis v. concavis
subtus acute carinatis marginibus tenuissime erosis, scapis cum spicis foliis
brevioribus, spica brevi cylindracea, bracteis anguste cymbiformibus dorso
subapice pubescentibus, sepalis chartaceis anguste obovato-oblongis sub-
acutis dorso vix carinatis sub apice, puberulis, petalis paullo majoribus
planiusculis membranaceis glabris.

X. minor, Br. Prodr. 288 ; Kunth, Enum. Pl. vol. iv. p. 649; Hook. f. Fl. Tas-

man. vol. ii. p. 59. F. Muell. Fragment. Phytog. vol. iv.p. 112. ‘Benth. Fl.
Austral. vol. vii. ined.

This is the second species of this remarkable genus that
has flowered at Kew, where three or four others are in culti-
vation. In the structure of the flower it closely resembles
X. quadrangulata, figured at plate 6075, but differs wholly in
habit, and in the leaves, which in that species are square on
a transverse section. It is not an uncommon plant in the
moist turfy and sandy moors of South Australia, Victoria,
and Tasmania, where it covers extensive tracts of land.

Tam not at all sure but that two dwarf species of Xanthor-
rhea may be confounded under the one name of X. minor, and
if so I am doubtful to which Brown’s name should be applied ;
one, that here figured, has a nearly flat or concave upper
surface to the very slender suberect leaves; the other, a
much more robust plant, with longer stouter scapes, has larger
and more spreading leaves, and more convex upper surfaces
than those of the first. We have native specimens (gathered by
myself in company with Mr. Gunn) on Grass Tree Hill, near
Hobarton, and others from Victoria; whilst the much larger
form abounds near York Town, Tasmania, where, according
to Gunn, it covers hundreds of acres, to the exclusion of
almost every other plant. In December, 1841, Mr. Gunn

describes the country as being white with it, one plant pro-
MAY 1st, 1877.

ducing 36 flowering scapes, whereas in the following year he
could get only 6 or 8 specimens in flower on the same spot.
From this he assumes that the Xanthorrheas do not flower
every year. The copiously flowering one may be that alluded
to by Mueller (Fragmenta, iv. 112), as possibly distinguishable
from X. minor, and if so to be called X. polystachya.

X. minor was sent to Kew some years ago by Baron von
Miiller from the rich collections of the Melbourne Botanic
Gardens, of which he was the director, and it flowered in
February of this year ; its flowering season in Australia being
December and January.

Descr. Stemless, densely tufted, glabrous. Leaves 8 to 10
inches long, suberect, very slender, filiform from a slightly
dilated base, triangular, flat, slightly concave or convex above,
acutely keeled beneath, margins minutely erose. Spzke very
variable in length and robustness; in the Kew specimen
always shorter than the leaves; scape slender ; bracts nar-
rowly boat-shaped, equalling the perianth. Perianth green,’
with brown pubescent tips to the sepals, which are hard,
linear, dilated upwards, obtuse, very concave. Petals longer,
more membranous, flatter, with broader rather spreading
tips. Stamens horizontally bent from beyond the middle.
Ovary ovoid narrowed into the straight style—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Reduced view of tuft of plants; 2, leaf; 3, transverse section of ditto ;
4, scape and spike; 5, spike with expanded flowers; 6, bracts and flowers ;
7, ovary unexpanded; all but 2,4, and 5 much enlarged.

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GLOBBA ScHomsBurertt.
Native of Siam.

Nat. Ord. Zinciperacez.—Tribe Guopse.

Genus Grosna, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant, p. 222).

Giospa Schomburgkii ; glaberrima, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis caudato-acuminatis,
panicula 2-4-unciali cernua, dimidio inferiori bracteis navicularibus obtusis
imbricatis bulbilliferis tecta, superiore florifera bracteis consimilibus persist-
entibus, ramulis paucis breviusculis v. elongatis 2-~ floris, floribus 14-pollica-
ribus aureis labello basi aurantiaco, ovario globoso, calyce brevi campanulato
3-fido, corollz tubo puberulo, limbi laciniis exterioribus ovatis acuminatis
interioribus duplo majoribus falcatis, labello apice truncato angulis divaricatis
acutis, anthere alis bipartitis segmentis triangularibus acuminatis.

Of the curious genus (lobba, which is a common native of
damp woods in Tropical Asia and its islands, few species have
been cultivated in this country, and not a few undescribed
ones are contained in herbaria. One alone has been figured
in this work, @. sessiliflora, Sims (t. 1428), whereas thirteen
are described in Horaninov’s ‘ Prodromus Monographie
Scitaminearum,’ published in 1862. All are very similar in
general habit, and many are remarkable for bearing on the
flowering panicle solid ovaries without perianths cells or
ovules, which fall off and produce new plants. The structure
of the flower is very singular, closely resembling that of
Mantissa (tab. 1320), which differs from G/obba in the in-
florescence being borne on a separate scape distinct from the
leaves.

G. Schomburgkii was discovered by the late Sir Robert
Schomburgk when H.B.M.’s Consul at Siam, who sent roots
to Kew in 1864, where it has flowered repeatedly in August.
It has been distributed as G. bulbifera, Roxb., from which
and from all others it differs in the curious panicles.

Duscr. Quite glabrous. Stems tufted, six to twelve
inches high, with three to five leaves. Leaves six to nine
inches long by one to one and a half broad, elliptic-ovate
or lanceolate, with slender acuminate tips, contracted into

May Ist, 1877.

a short petiole above the vagina. Panicle two to four inches
long, drooping, the lower half unbranched and clothed with
‘ imbricating bracts, each bearing in its axil a globose tuber-
cled bulbil (which is an imperfect ovary without perianth) ;
the remainder of the panicle is more or less branched, and
bears perfect flowers; bracts one quarter to half an inch long,
oblong, obtuse, very concave, green, persistent, imbricating,
then spreading ; branches slender, sometimes short and two-
flowered, at others two inches long, very slender, spreading,
many-flowered. Flowers one and a half inch long, golden
yellow with a bright orange-red base to the lip. Ovary
globose, tubercled. Calyx campanulate, three-toothed. Corolla-
fube puberulous; three outer segments ovate, acuminate,
deflexed ; two inner twice as long, deflexed then spreading,
falcate, acuminate. Lip narrowly wedge-shaped, with a broad
retuse truncate end, the angles of which are acute and
divergent. Anthers with a two-partite wing on each side,
the segments triangular-subulate.—/J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, anther :—both enlarged.

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MESEMBRYANTHEMUM SUTHERIANDII.
Native of Natal.

Nat. Ord. Ficorpnrm.—Tribe MresemMBryveEz.

Genus Mesempryantnemum, Linn, (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant.
vol. i. p. 853.)

MEsEMBRYANTHEMUM Sutherlandii ; herbaceum, perenne, ramosum, robustum,
ramis annuis adscendentibus cylindraceis hispidulis, foliis oppositis
patenti-recurvis basi subconnatis, elongato lingulatis minute papulosis supra
medium subdilatatis acutis superne scaberulis marginibus subrecurvis ciliola-
tis crasse carnosis supra paulo-concavis subtus costam rotundatam versus
tumidis, scapo 5-floro 1-2-pollicari robusto hispidulo, flore 2-2} poll. diamet.
calyce tereti tubo turbinato, sepalis inequalibus subcylindraceis patenti-
recurvis obtusis scaberulis 2 brevioribus membranaceo-marginatis, petalis
roseo-pupureis anguste linearibus obtusis, staminibus flavis multiseriatis
exterioribus anantheris, stigmatibus 5 ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis grosse
papillosis seta terminatis.

It is not without hesitation that I propose a new South Afri-
can species of the immense genus Mesembryanthemum, of

which some 290 species are already contained in Harvey and
_ Sonders’ ‘ Flora Capensis.’ I have, however, searched in vain |
amongst those described in that work for any which accords
with this, which moreover comes from a district beyond the
range of the species hitherto discovered. Of the sixty-five
sections under which the S. African species are classified, there
1s none with which it quite agrees, though it is probably refer-
able to one of those belonging to the great group of ‘“ Papu-
losee,” the surfaces of whose leaves and branches are covered
with minute glistening cellular papille. It may, perhaps,
be safely referred to a reformed section, “ Platyphylla,” of
Haworth, from which it differs in the root being perennial
instead of annual or biennial.

M. Sutherlandii was sent to the Royal Gardens by Dr.
Sutherland, Surveyor-General of the colony of Natal, in
ie and has flowered annually in the summer months since

Dzscr. Minutely papulose and clothed (except the broad
tumid middle part of the under surface of the leaves) with
short rigid hairs. Root perennial, Stem branching from

JUNE Ist, 1877.

the base ; branches annual, diffuse or suberect, cylindric, three
to six inches high, green. Leaves opposite, decussate, two to
three inches long, spreading and recurved, slightly connate
by their sessile bases, oblanceolate or linear-oblong and
dilated beyond the middle, acute, deep green, upper surface
slightly convex, channelled towards the base, under tumid and
rounded towards the keel; margins acute, slightly recurved.
Peduncles subterminal, three to four inches long, stout, terete,
green, gradually dilated into the almost hemispheric bristly
terete calyx-tube. Calyax-lobes 5, unequal, spreading and
recurved, cylindric, obtuse, papillose and scabrid, green,
two smaller than the others and having broad membranous
margins. Corolla two to two and a half inches in diameter.
Petals very numerous, pale bright-purple, linear, very narrow,
obtuse. Stamens very numerous in many series, the outer
without anthers. Curpels 5, globose; stigmas large, ovoid,
acuminate, terminating in hair-like points, densely clothed
with large papille on the inner surface and margins. 5

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SALVIA ScHIMPERI.

Native of Abyssinia.

Nat. Ord. Lastarm.—Tribe Monarpeai.

- Genus Saryia, L. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1194).

Satvra (ZEthiopis) Schimperi; araneoso-lanata, caule robusto simplici, foliis
ample ovato-lanceolatis acutis crenulatis basi rotundatis v. subacutis rugosis
utringque albo-lanatis, panicula virgato-ramosa ramis erecto-patentibus
glanduloso-pubescentibus, foliis floralibus sessilibus late ovato-rotundatis
concavis acuminato-spinescentibus glandulosis ciliatis, calycibus tubuloso-
campanulatis glandulosis nervis hirtis, labio superiore “3-spinuloso inferiore
bifido dentibus aristatis, corolla tubo calyce duplo longiore sub fauce in-
flato, labio superiore compresso oblongo obtuso, inferioris lobis lateralibus
parvis oblongis-intermedio sub-orbiculari, connectivis postice deflexis abrupte
dilatatis, nuculis fere orbiculatis eleganter venosis facie obtuse carinatis.

8. Schimperi, Benth. in DO. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 283.
S. hypoleuca, Hochst. MSS. (non Benth.) in Schimp. Herb. It. Abyss. No 1916.

Abyssinia has not added many attractive novelties to
European gardens, and indeed its vegetation seems to afford
far less of interest than any other mountain regions in its
latitude. Its low tropical forests present few or no Orchids, Bro-
meliacecee, and other such stove favourites, whilst its dry rocky
mountains have to be ascended to a very great height before
even a temperate vegetation is met with, and there seems to
be no Alpine flora worthy of the name. ‘The subject of the
present plate is a robust Sage, suited for the herbaceous
ground, belonging to an Oriental group of the genus, and
closely allied to the fine 8. asperata of Kashmir (tab. nostr.
4884); it was discovered by Schimper in the mountains near
Axum, at an elevation of seven to eight thousand feet above
the sea, flowering in October, and was introduced by Mr. Bull,
who sent the specimen here figured to Kew in July, 1875.

Descr. Root woody, asthick as the thumb. Svem two to
three feet high, very stout, simple, obtusely four-angled,
woolly or glabrate. Leaves few, petioled, five to seven inches

JUNE Ist, 1877.

long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, crenulate, base rounded,
rarely acute, rugulose, covered with cobwebby wool, especi-
ally beneath, where they are snow white ; petiole one to two
inches long, cottony. Punicle very large, with stiff erecto-
patent branches, glandular-pubescent, as are the bracts and
calyces. Bracts orbicular-ovate, with acuminate spinescent —
tips, membranous, ciliate, white with green borders. Flowers
sessile, nearly two inches long. Calyz green, tubular-cam-
panulate, ribs almost hispid; lips short, upper with three
minute spinous teeth, lower bifid, the tecth aristate. Corolla
white ; tube twice as long as the calyx, slender, curved, in-
flated below the lower lip; upper lip oblong, compressed,
obtuse, puberulous, lower small; lateral lobes small, re-
curved; mid-lobe nearly orbicular, notched. Conneectives
produced downward and ending abruptly in a broad plate.
Nucules nearly orbicular, compressed from back to front,
ane keeled in front, smooth, pale, elegantly veined—

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ALOE cHINENSIS.

Native country unknown.

Nat. Ord. Lintacka.—Tribe Atoinex.

Genus Axoz, Linn. (Kunth, Enum. vol. iv. p. 492).

Aor chinensis ; acaulis vel breviter caulescens, caule simplici, foliis 15-20 dense
rosulatis lanceolatis acuminatis semi-pedalibus vel pedalibus viridibus cana-
liculatis utrinque maculis albidis parvis oblongis paucis vel numerosis deco-
ratis dentibus pallidis deltoideis marginatis, scapo simplici sesquipedali
bracteis paucis deltoideis instructo, racemo sublaxo, pedicellis brevibus in-
ferioribus cernuis, bracteolis minutis lanceolatis, perianthii lutei rubro tincti
tubo brevi campanulato, segmentis superne viridi vittatis, staminibus omnibus
inclusis, stylo demum leviter exserto.

A. barbadensis, var. chinensis, Haworth Suppl. Pl. Suece. p. 45; Kunth, Enum.
vol. v. p. 522.

Trusting to a large extent to garden tradition we venture
to identify the present plant with an Aloe which was intro-
duced from China, by Mr. William Anderson, in 1817, which
was briefly described by Haworth, from flowerless specimens
in his ‘Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum’ of 1819,
as a probable variety of 4. barbadensis, and is mentioned in
Salm Dyck’s monograph and Kunth’s Enumeratio, by name
only. Our present plant is clearly quite distinct specifically
from A. barbadensis. The leaves are never more than half
the length of those of that species, and are spotted more or
less copiously both on back and face after the fashion of A.
abyssinica ; the raceme is very much laxer and the stamens
are very much shorter. We have had it for a long time in
the Kew collection, and have received it from other gar-
dens, but never, so far as I know, with any definite informa-
tion as to its native country. The drawing was made froma
plant that flowered at Kew this spring. The flowers have a
strong and decidedly unpleasant scent. Its affinity is with
A. barbadensis, abyssinica and consobrina.

Descr. Leaves fifteen to twenty, extending on the stem over

JUNE lst, 1877.

a space of three or four inches in a sessile or shortly stalked
rosette, which in the mature plant is multifarious, but in the
young plant sometimes subdistichous, lanceolate, acuminate,
varying from half a foot to a foot long, one and a half or
two inches broad at the base, narrowed gradually to the
point, flat at the base, where they are about about half an
inch thick, deeply channelled in the upper part, a sixth of
an inch thick in the centre, pale green, irregularly marked
on both surfaces with small oblong whitish blotches, which
become less numerous in older specimens, the edge margined
with copious spreading pale green deltoid prickles a twelfth
or an eighth of an inch long. Scape simple, a foot and a
half long, furnished with a few distant small deltoid bracts.
Kaceme simple, four to eight inches long, much laxer than
in A. barbadensis, about two inches in diameter when ex-
panded ; pedicels a sixth to a quarter of an inch long, the
lower ones cernuous ; bracteoles lanceolate, as long as the pedi-
cels. Perianth cylindrical, bright yellow, slightly tinged
with red, an inch long; tube campanulate, an eighth of an
inch long ; segments lanceolate, keeled with green towards
the tip. Stamens all included; filaments bright yellow;

anthers oblong, small. Style finally just exserted.—J. G.
Baker,

Fig. 1, A single flower; fig. 2, the same, cut open :—both magnified.

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HAPLOPAPPUS sprnutosvs.

Native of the Rocky Mountains.

Nat. Ord. Composirm.—Tribe AsTEROIDE®.

Genus Harroparpus, Cass. (Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 258).

Hartorappus (Blepharodon) spinulosus; fruticulus cano-tomentosus, corymboso-
ramosus, ramis foliosis, foliis brevibus 1-2-pinnatifidis segmentis brevibus
recurvis acuminatis aristulatis, capitulis terminalibus solitariis v. subeorym-
bosis pedunculatis, involucri hemispherici squamis numerosis parvis arcte
imbricatis subulato-lanceolatis mucronatis canis, radiis numerosis patentibus
obtusis aureis, disci corollis breviter 5-dentatis, pappi setis rufis, acheniis
oblongo-obovatis compressis sericeis.

Apropaprus? spinulosus, DC. Prod. vy. p. 347.

A. spinulosus, Torr. and Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 240.

Amettus? spinulosus, Pursh. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 564.; Torr. in Ann. Lyc. New
York, vol. ii. p. 213.

StankEa? pinnata, Nutt. Gen. vol. ii. p. 169.
Dirtoparrvs pinnatifidus, Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. vol. il. p. 22. :
Diererta spinulosa, Nutt. in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. (N. Ser.), vol. viii. p. 801.

A widely distributed native of the prairies bordering the
Rocky Mountains, from the boundary of the British possessions
as far South as New Mexico, apparently common about the
source of the Saskathchewan, Platte, and Colorado rivers. It
forms a low corymbosely branched bush, one to two feet high,
with innumerable branches from the root, clothed with small
leaves, and bearing masses of flower-heads. One specimen from
Mr. Veitch’s garden, about ten inches in diameter, bears
nearly a hundred golden heads, an inch in diameter, and I
cannot doubt but that they will prove a most ornamental
hardy garden plant when fully established, preferring, no
doubt, a rather dry soil and climate, and flowering, like many
other Composite, late in the year. The specimen here figured
was raised by Messrs. Veitch, who introduced it ; it flowered
with them in August, 1874.

JUNE Ist, 1877,

Descr. A low bushy shrub, one to two feet high, with
numerous ascending corymbosely arranged branches springing
from a woolly rootstock, covered with soft rather appressed
woolly down. Leaves very uniform throughout the plant,
about one inch long, suberect or recurved, once or twice
pinnatifid; lobes spreading and recurved, linear-subulate,
aristulate, nerveless. Head one inch in diameter, peduncled,
solitary or rarely three to four together in a lax corymb;
peduncle naked. Jnvolucre hemispherical, one-third of an
inch in diameter, green; scales numerous, imbricate,
appressed, linear-subulate, aristulate, coriaceous. Receptacle
alveolate. Ray-flowers twenty to thirty, spreading horizon-
tally, close-set, corolla-tube slender; limb narrowly linear-
oblong, notched. Disk-flowers tubular, with a campanulate
five-toothed limb. Style-arm of ray slender, truncate ; of the
disk oblong, obtuse, papillose. | Achenes between ovoid and
turbinate, silky, flattened ; pappus bristles unequal, more or
less rufous, shining.—J. D. H.

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LYCASTE LINGUELLA.
Native of Peru ?

Nat. Ord. Orcuipes.—Tribe VANDEx.
Genus Lycaste, Lindl. (Bot. Reg. 1843, Mise. p. 14).

Lycaste Linguella ; pseudobulbis lagenseformibus sulcatis compressis, foliis
membranaceis elongato-lanceolatis acuminatis _plicatis, scapis robustis,
spathis obtusis, bractea coriacea obovata cucullata obtusiuscula ovarium
superante, floribus flavo-virescentibus labello pallidiore, sepalo dorsali
obovato-oblongo obtuse apiculato, lateralibus majoribus deflexo-curvatis
subacutis, petalis late obovatis obtuse apiculatis, mento in cornu obtusum
producto, labelli dimidio basilari crasso valde concavo lobis_lateralibus
angustis disco intra lobos in callum semicircularem protrusum lingueeform!
truncato labello equilato producto, lobo intermedio callo supposito linguz-
formi recurvo late ovato obtuso eroso, columne basi puberulo.

L. Linguella, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. June 1871, p. 738.

This fine Lycaste is remarkable for the structure of the lip,
which, as indeed is the case with so many orchids, is difficult
to describe. ‘The body of this organ forms a coriaceous sem1-
cylindric tube, with the narrow lateral lobes appressed to its
sides, whilst the front part is protruded as a truncate fleshy
spout, and the mid-lobe, which arises on both sides from the
base of the lateral lobes, is for the rest of its breadth attached
to the back of the gutter, from which it appears to hang as a
broad erose tongue. That this is after all only a modification of
the prevalent character of the lip of Lycaste is obvious on
comparing that of Z. Linguella with any other figured in
this work. In Z. lasioglossa (Tab. 6251), the gutter 1s reduced
to a tongue-shaped callus concealed in the concavity of lip. In
L. Barringtonie (Tab. 5706), L. fulvescens (Tab. 4193), and
L. Skinneri (Tab. 4445), it forms a similar but larger tongue,
which approaches that of L. Linguella in being concave and
very fleshy; whilst in L. gigantea (Tab. 5616) the tongue
extends across the disk of the lip almost to the angles of the
lateral lobes. In none of these, however, does it protrude as
in the present species. :

L. Linguella is, according to Reichenbach, supposed to

JUNE Ist, 1877.

be a native of Peru. It was imported by Messrs. Veitch,
from whom it was received by the Royal Gardens, where it
flowered in January, 1872. It was described in 1871 by
Reichenbach, who states that it has a close affinity with
L. ciliata and L. lasipes.

Duscr. Pseudobulbs three inches long, narrowly ovoid or
flagon-shaped, deeply grooved, compressed. Leaves twelve
to fourteen inches long by three to four broad, lanceolate,
acuminate, membranous, plaited. Scapes three to four inches
long, strict, erect, with several obovate-oblong obtuse concave
coriaceous erect green sheaths, the upper larger, and lower
an inch long. Bract suberect, very coriaceous, dark green,
hooded, subacute, longer thanthe ovary. Flowers upwards of
three inches from the tip of the upper to that of either lateral
sepal, pale yellowish green, with a nearly white lip. Dorsal
sepal obovate-oblong, nearly one inch diameter, obtusely
apiculate, as are the lateral sepals, which are larger, curved,
and deflexed. Petals smaller than the sepals, broadly obovate,
rather concave. Jip much smaller than the sepals; lateral
lobes very narrow; terminal broadly ovate, obtuse, recurved,
erose. Column not winged, pubescent towards the base,
where it is prolonged into the almost spurred obtuse mentum.
Anther-case three-lobed in front, the middle prolonged into a
little tail— J. D. H.

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TULIPA PULCHELLA.
Native of Asia Minor.

Nat. Ord. Liniackx%.—Tribe TuLPE.
Genus Turapa, Linn. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol, xiv. p. 275).

Toripa pulehella ; bulbo ovoideo tunicis brunneis intus glabris vel apice obscure
pilosis, scapo brevissimo unifloro glabro, foliis 2-3 patulis confertis lanceo-
latis vel linearibus glaucis facie canaliculatis margine obscure ciliatis,
perianthii infundibularis segmentis conformibus oblongo-spathulatis acutis
rubris facie deorsum lilacinis unguibus immaculatis basi luteis pilosis,
staminibus perianthio duplo brevioribus, filamentis basi pilosis, ovario clavato,
stigmatibus parvis.

T. pulchella, Fenzl in Kotschy Reise Cilie. p. 379; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe.
vol. xiv. p. 289.

T. alpina, J. Gay in Balansa Pl. Orient. Exsic. anno 1855.
T. sylvestris, var. pulchella, Regel Hnum. Tulip. p. 45.

This species belongs to the same group (Sawatiles) as T.
Hageri, which was figured last year (tab. 6242). They have
the showy red flowers of the Gesneriane, in combination
with perianth-segments and stamens hairy at the base, as in
the Sylvestres. This is a very distinct dwarf species, without
any dark-coloured blotch at the base of the perianth-seg-
ments. It isa native of the Alpine region of the Cilician
Taurus, where it was discovered by Kotschy in 1836, and of
course is perfectly hardy. It has only very lately been
introduced into cultivation in this country. For the specimens
figured we are indebted to the Rev. H. Harpur-Crewe, who
flowered it at Drayton Beauchamp in the spring of this
present year, and exhibited it at one of the meetings of the
scientifie committee of the Royal Horticultural Society.

Descr. Bulb ovoid, half or three-quarters of an inch in
diameter, with many dark brown tunics, which are either en-
tirely glabrous on the face or only obscurely pilose towards
the tip. Scape one-flowered, glabrous, one to four inches
long, bearing two or three crowded spreading leaves close to
the surface of the ground, which are lanceolate or the upper.

JUNE Ist, 1877,

one linear, three or four inches long, a quarter to half an inch
broad, glaucous, channelled all down the face, obscurely ciliated
on the edges. Perianth erect, funnel-shaped, about an inch
long in wild, an inch and an inch and a half in cultivated
specimens; segments all oblong-spathulate, acute, bright
mauve-red in the upper half of the face, passing downwards
into a slaty lilac, the claw without any dark-coloured blotch,
bright yellow and densely pilose at the base. Filaments
linear, about halfas long as the perianth, densely pilose at the
base. Anthers linear-oblong, half as long as the filament.
Ovary clavate, half an inch long. Stiymas not as broad as
the diameter of the ovary.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, A single stamen; fig. 2, the pistil:—both magnified.

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HOULLETIA prcra.
Native of New Granada.

Nat. Ord, OncH1pEx.—Tribe VanpEx.

Genus Houtieria, Brongn. (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841 t. 69).

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Hovurtetra picta, pseudobulbis ovato-lanceolatis, foliis pedalibus petiolatis elon-
gato-lanceolatis subacutis plicatis, pedunculo erecto robusto mutltifloro,
floribus 3} poll. diamet., sepalis oblongis obtusis cinnamomeis a basi ad
medium tessellatis, petalis sepalis concoloribus sed paulo minoribus, basi
angustioribus, labelli epichilio late hastato apice lato recurvo canaliculato
brunneo-tesselato angulis posticisin cornua acuta retrorsa productis, hypochilio
subquadrato brunneo maculato, callo in foveam transversam utrinque acutam
marginatam exeunte angulis posticis utrinque in calcar elongatum erectum
columna parallelum producto, columna flava dorso maculata.

H. picta, Lind. et Reichb. f. in Regel Gartenflora, 1855, p. 2; Walp. Rep. vol. vi.
p. 616. |

The genus Houlletia was founded by Brongniart on a
Brazilian plant, discovered by M. Guillemin at Rio de Janeiro
during his mission to Brazil in search of evidence concerning
the cultivation of tea, and was named after M. Houllet, a
gardener who accompanied M. Guillemin on his mission, and
transmitted plants to the Jardin de Plantes. Singularly enough
M. Brongniart gave no specific name to the plant he described,
which is in all probability the H. Brocklehurstiana, Lindl.
Sect. Orchid. t. 41 (tab. nost. 4072), of which we have native
specimens gathered by Gardner on the Organ Mountains
(Herb. n. 5871). From this, the original species H. picta,
though coming from so distant a country, appears to differ
very slightly, and chiefly in the more cinnamon-coloured
larger flowers, and in the epichyle of the lip not being of a
uniform dark violet hue but white and barred with innume-
rable red-purple bands. The sepals and petals too are longer
in proportion. Reichenbach, indeed, says that the flowers of
H., picta are the smallest of the two, but this is not the case

with our specimen. WH. picta was discovered by Schlim in
JULY 1st, 1877.

New Granada, along with other very similar species of the
genus, collected up to an elevation of four to six thousand
feet above the sea. It was first flowered at the celebrated
orchid garden of Consul Schiller at Hamburgh, and later at
Farnham Castle, from whence the specimen here figured was
obtained.

Descr. Pseudobulbs tufted, about three inches long, narrow,
ovoid, compressed, grooved. Leaves with the slender petiole
one and a half to two and a half inches long, elliptic-lanceo-
late, acuminate, plaited, green. Scape from the base of the
pseudobulb, stout, ascending, green, six- to ten-flowered ;
sheaths few, short; bracts linear-oblong, green, deciduous ;
pedicel and ovary three-quarters of an inch long. Flowers three
and a half inches in diameter ; perianth spreading, cinnamon-
brown, the leaflets within whole coloured from the tip to the
midrib, tessellated from thence to the base. Sepals narrow-
oblong, tips rounded. Pedals rather smaller, narrowed towards
the base. vp shorter than the petals, jointed at the middle ;
distal portion (epichyle) broadly hastate, with the broad blunt
deeply channelled apex so recurved that the epichyle looks
truncate, posterior angles produced into short recurved horns ;
colour pale yellow, mottled with short transverse red-purple
bars; hypochyle somewhat trapeziform, the sides produced
backwards into long ascending spurs that are rather shorter
than the column; disk of hypochyle yellow, blotched with

red purple. Column yellow, blotched with brown on the
back.—J. D, H.

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TRIS SPECULATRIX.

Native of Hong-Kong.

Nat. Ord. Inwacem.—Suborder IriwEex.

Genus Iris, Linn. (Baker in Gard. Chron, 1876, part 1, p. 526.)

Ints (Evansta) speculatria ; rhizomate brevi obliquo, foliis productis tribus linea-
ribus firmis erectis viridibus pedalibus vel sesqui-pedalibus, scapo monoce-
phalo subpedali arcuato, spathee bifloris valvis tribus linearibus, pedicello ovario
subequilongo, tubo lato brevissimo, limbi lilacini segmentis exterioribus
falcatis, lamina parva orbiculata ungue duplo breviora, fauce albo maculata,
ungue pallide lilacino maculato crista flava predito, segmentis interioribus
paulo brevioribus, oblanceolatis, erectis, immaculatis, styli ramis segmentis
interioribus «quilongis, capsule valvis lanceolatis acuminatis late divergen-
tibus.

Ints speculatrix, Hance in Trimen Journ, Bot. 1875, p. 196; 1876, p. 75. Baker
in Gard. Chron. 1876, part IL. p. 36.

This is a very interesting novelty. It was discovered in
April, 1874, by a Chinese workman, attached to the botanical
garden of Hong-Kong, on a hill facing the sea between
Victoria Peak and Mount Davis, in that island. Its general
habit is more like that of one of the Cape or Angolan Moras
than that of the ordinary Irises of the north temperate zone,
but in structure it belongs clearly to the small group of
crested Irises, of which I. japonica, commonly grown in
gardens under Ventenat’s name of J., fimbriata, is the oldest
and best known representative. Of this group seven species
are now known, of which two are North American, and the
others all Japanese, Chinese, and Himalayan.. For the fine
living plant from which the present plate was made, the Kew
collection is indebted to Mr. ©. Ford, of the Hong-Kong
Botanic Garden. It was received in April, 1877, and came
into flower immediately after its arrival in this country. The
plant is not likely to prove hardy in England.

guLY 1st, 1877.

Descr. Rhizome short, creeping near the surface of the
ground, about a third of an inch in diameter, the crowded
relics of former leaves splitting up into fibres. Leaves three
produced to a tuft, bright green, erect, firm in texture, a
quarter to half an inch broad, the largest about a foot long at
the flowering time, lengthening out to a foot and a half
afterwards. Stem slender, terete, arcuate, one-headed, about
a foot long, bracteated by two or three linear adpressed re-
duced leaves. Spathe two-flowered, three-valved, the outer
valves linear, green at the flowering-time, one and a half or
two inches long. Pedicel as long as the ovary at the flower-
ing-time, afterwards an inch or more long. Ovary cylindri-
cal-trigonous, about halfan inch long. Perianth with a broadly
funnel-shaped tube an eighth or a sixth of an inch long above
the ovary ; outer segments of the limb (falls) an inch long,
spreading faleately, with a bright lilac almost orbicular blade
with a couple of white spots at the base, which is half as long
as the claw, the latter paler in colour, spotted and veined
with deep lilac, and furnished from top to bottom with a
shallow bright yellow crest ; inner segments of the limb
oblanceolate-unguiculate, pale lilac, unspotted, permanently
erect, rather shorter than the outer ones, Branches of the
style, including their lanceolate crests, as long as the inner
segments of the perianth, with which they coincide in colour.
Capsule an inch long, with three lanceolate acuminate diverg-
ing valves.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, An outer segment of the perianth, enlarged : fig. 2, capsule split open,
natural size.

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CARISSA GRANDIFLORA.
Native of Port Natal.

Nat. Ord. Arocynum.—Tribe CartssEx.
Genus Carissa, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol, ii. p. 695.

Carrssa (Arduina) grandiflora ; glaberrima, foliis breviter petiolatis, ovatis ovato-
oblongis v. rotundatis, apiculatis coriaceis costa subtus crassa venis
obscuris, floribus subsessilibus terminalibus solitariis v. binis, calycis seg-
mentis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis intus glandulosis, corolle tubo elongato
lobis oblongis obtusis sinistrorsum obtegentibus, ovarii loculis «-ovulatis,
bacca ovoidea polysperma.

C. grandiflora, A. DC. Prod. vol. viii. p. 335; Saunders, Refug. Bot. t. 300.
Arpurna grandiflora, Z. Meyer, Comm. Pl. Dreg. p. 190.

_A very pretty evergreen bush, with white fragrant flowers
and deep green leaves, of easy culture in a moderate stove or
warm greenhouse during winter, and in a greenhouse or the
open air in summer. It is a native of Natal, where it was
discovered by Drege, and has been since collected by Peddie,
Krauss and other travellers. We have also seen specimens
from St. Helena, where it is cultivated. Bentham (Gen.
Plant, 7. c¢.) observes that it differs from other species
of Carissa in the glands within the base of the calyx-seg-
ments, and in the indefinite ovules, and suggests that it may
be generically different, but the habit and other characters are
so entirely that of Carissa that it would seem unnatural to
separate it, and I follow him in retaining it in the genus.

Carissa grandiflora was introduced by Cooper, when
collecting for Mr. Wilson Saunders; in a note to the her-
barium specimen which he sent home he gives it the native
name of ‘ Amatungula,’ adding, “ fruit used for jam, tarts, etc.”
Harvey states of the African Carissas generally, that the fruit
is plum-like and delicious. That of the Indian C. Carandas
is eaten both raw and cooked.

Our plant flowers in the Palm House at the Royal

JULY. 1st, 1877.

Gardens in May. It has narrower leaves and much larger
flowers than the native specimens and that figured in the
‘ Refugium,’ which has also a greenish corolla, ours being pure
white. ,

Descr. A rigid glabrous shrub, with stout cylindric green
branches. eaves one anda half to two and a half inches
long, very variable in width, from rounded ovate to oblong
ovate, apiculate, very coriaceous, with a stout midrib beneath
and very obscure nerves, margin slightly recurved ; petiole
very short. Spines very stout two or more inches long, and
forked, more slender in the cultivated plant. Flowers single
or in pairs at the ends of the branches, very shortly peduncled;
peduncles with a few subulate bracts. Calyzx-tube short,
ovoid ; segments twice as long as the tube, narrow, lanceo-
late, broader in the native specimen. Corolla-tube white, much
longer than the calyx-segments, half an inch long, cylindric,
pubescent within; limb two to three inches in diameter}
segments oblong, rounded at the tip, twisted and overlapping
to the left in bud. Stamens half way down the corolla tube,
anthers oblong, sessile. Ovary ovoid; style short; stigma
clavate. Berry half an inch or more long, ovoid, fleshy.
Seeds numerous, imbricated, orbicular.—J. D. H.

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TULIPA vnputatiroria.
Native of Asia Minor.

Nat. Ord. Lit1ackz.—Tribe Turreez.

Genus Tutipra, Linn. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiv. p. 275).

Turia undulatifolia ; bulbo ovoideo magnitudine mediocri tunicis intus glabris,
caule monocephalo puberulo, foliis 3-4 prope medium caulis confertis glau-
cescentibus margine hyalinis obscure ciliatis, inferioribus lanceolatis acumi-
natis valde undulatis profunde canaliculatis, superioribus linearibus, peri-
anthii splendide rubri segmentis conformibus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis,
unguibus macula atra oblongo-oblanceolata luteo marginata decoratis, fila-
mentis atris glabris antheris oblongis paulo longioribus, ovario clavato,
stigmatibus parvis.

Tulipa undulatifolia, Boiss, Diagn. ser. I. pt. 5, p. 57: Baker in Journ.. Linn.
Soc. vol. xiv. p. 986.

The increased attention which has been paid lately to
hardy bulbs is producing as one of its fruits the discovery
and introduction into our gardens of several new species of
tulip. The present plant is allied to 7. Greigi, Regel. (Bot.
Mag. tab. 6177) and T. Hiehleri, Regel (Bot. Mag. t. 6191),
but is much more slender in habit, with narrow much undu-
lated leaves and perianth-segments narrowed gradually to a
point after the fashion of that very fine and too-much neg-
lected south European species, 7’. Oculus-solis. T. undulati-
Jolia is less effective horticulturally than any of these three,
and comes from a different country. It is very near the
Greek 7. betica of Heldreich, which has not yet been
figured. It was discovered many years ago by M. Boissier
on the Tartali-dagh, just above Smyrna, but was only brought
into cultivation two years ago by Mr. Elwes. Our drawing
was made from bulbs which he procured on the Boz-dagh,
sixty or eighty miles east of Smyrna, at an elevation of 4000
to 5000 feet above sea-level, which flowered at Kew early
in May of the present year. This spring Mr. Maw has
procured a good supply of bulbs from Boissier’s original

JULY Ist, 1877.

station, which he has distributed with his customary liber-
ality.

Seat. Bulb ovoid, middle-sized for the genus (about an
inch in diameter) with several brown membranous tunics
which are glabrous internally. Stem one-headed, about a
foot long in the cultivated plant, glaucous, terete, obscurely
downy. Leaves three or four, crowded near the middle of
the stem, glabrous, glaucous, with a hyaline obscurely ciliated
border, the lower one lanceolate, acuminate, six or eight
inches long, an inch to an inch and a quarter broad near the
base, much undulated, deeply channelled down the face, the
upper oneslinear, scarcely at all undulated. Pedunele four
or five inches long. Perianth campanulate, erect, two inches
long, all the six segments uniform in shape, oblong-lanceo-
late, narrowed from the middle to a long point, bright red on
* the face, the claw furnished with an oblanceolate-oblong’
black blotch bordered with yellow, which is half an inch
long. Filaments black, linear, glabrous, three-eighths of an
inch long; anthers black, oblong, rather shorter than the
filaments; pollen yellow. Ovary clavate, green, half an
inch long ; stigmas an eighth of an inch broad.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Pistil :—magnified.

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TILLANDSIA USNEOIDES.

Native of Tropical America.

Nat. Ord. BromMELiAcE2.

Genus Tritanpsia, Linn. (Endl. Gen. Plant. p. 183).

TILLaNDstA (Strepsis) usneoides : squamulis patulis argenteis cana, e basi ramosis-
sima, ramis filiformibus inordinate flexuosis intricatis pendulis, foliis bifariis
patentibus v. recurvis subremotis filiformibus teretibus acuminatis canalicu-
latis, vaginis teretibus, floribus parvis terminalibus viridibus subsessilibus,
sepalis lanceolatis 3-nerviis bracteis convolutis 3-nerviis acuminatis subduplo
longioribus, petalorum unguibus 5-nerviis sepalis equantibus lamina oblonga
recurva apice rotundata, staminibus inclusis antheris linearibus, filamentis
filiformibus glabris, ovario oblongo, stylo breviusculo, stigmate 3-lobo.

T. usneoides, Linn. ; Lamk. Encycl. t. 224, £ 2. Chapman Flor. 8, U. States,
472, Griseb, Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 598. Sloane Hist. Jam. t. 122, f. 2, 3.

This, the Spanish Moss, Old Man’s Beard, and Long Moss,
of the Southern United States and the West Indies, is well
described in Sloane’s History of Jamaica as a ‘ mossie plant
. . . with stalks the bigness of a thread, consisting of a
thin skin, whitish, as if covered with a hoar-frost, having
within that a long tough black hair, like a horse-hair . . .-
very often a yard long, hanging down on both sides from the
branches of the trees they adhere to, being curled, or twining
and winding within another, and making a show of an old
man’s beard (whence the name), or as if they were made to
climb, which I never saw they did.” Further on he says,
‘it is used to pack up anything which otherwise may easily
be broken, as cotton is sometimes made use of with us;”
and again, “the inward black hairs of this moss’s stalk are
made use of by the birds called Watchipickets for making
their curiously contrived nests hanging on the twigs of trees.”

To this description I have little to add, except that the
Spanish Moss is a very widely distributed plant in the hotter
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Andes, hanging in bunches sometimes many yards long from
the branches of trees. It has frequently been sent to England
as packing for Orchids, but rarely alive, and it is not till
quite lately that it has been successfully cultivated at Kew,
from plants imported (as packing from Jamaica). The
specimen from which our flowers are figured was contributed
to the Royal Gardens by Mr. J. C. Hopwood, of Stoke
Newington. It now thrives in a damp stove, growing on
pieces of tree-fern, and other substances, and flowering in
spring. The scurfy scales that clothe the plant are beautiful
microscopic objects. Each presents a nucleus of four central
cells, around which other cells are concentrically disposed,
and a delicate transparent wing surrounding the nucleus, and
formed of a single series of slender extremely delicate ra-
diating cells. The hairs of the funicle of the seed are formed
of superimposed cells, of which each fits into a notch of the
one below it.

Descr. Forming lax tufts, one to many feet long, pendu-
lous from the branches of trees, and clothed everywhere with
a spreading silvery scurf. Stems excessively branched from
the base, uniform in thickness throughout, filiform, tough,
flexuose ; branches interwoven. Leaves alternate, bifarious,
uniform along the whole of the branches, spreading, one to
three inches long, filiform, acute, groved on the upper side ;
sheaths half to two inches long, cylindric. Flowers about
one-third of an inch long, on a very short stout peduncle,.
terminal, solitary, green. Bracts convolute, acuminate, 3-
nerved, about half the length of the lanceolate, acuminate,
green, almost glabrous, 3-nerved sepals, which are tinged
with red. Petals with a linear 5-nerved claw, equalling the
sepals ; limb linear-spathulate, recurved, obtuse. Stamens
included ; filaments filiform; anthers linear, erect. Ovary
oblong ; style short, stigmas capitate. Capsule half to one
inch long, straight, linear, trigonous, beaked ; valves of a
membranous 1-nerved outer layer, and a horny brown sepa-
rating inner one. Sveds very slender, fusiform; testa
with a long straight pencil of cellular hairs.—J, D. H.

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TULI PA ORPHANIDEA.

Native of Greece.

Nat. Ord. Lizracka.—Tribe Tutirer.

Genus Touttpa, Linn. (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc., vol. xiv. p. 275.)

Tura Orphanidea ; bulbo globoso tunicis intus apice brunneo-sericeis, caule glabro
monocephalo, foliis 2-3 linearibus glabris glaucescentibus facie canaliculatis,
perianthii infundibularis lutei rubro tincti segmentis omnibus oblongis acutis
unguibus rubro-brunneo suffusis, exterioribus angustioribus, filamentis lineari-
bus basi pilosis incrassatis, antheris oblongis filamento brevioribus, ovario
clavato staminibus breviore stigmatibus magnitudine mediocribus.

T. Orphanidea, Boiss. in Orphan. Pl. Gree. Exsic. No. 843; Heldr. in Regel
Gartenfl. vol. xi. (1862) p. 309, tab. 373, figs. 1 and 2 ; Baker in Journ. Linn.
Soe. vol. xiv. p. 294.

T. Celsiana, Heldr. in Fl. Gree. Eusic., non DC.
T. sylvestris, var Orphanidea, Regel num. p. 43.
T. Orphanidesii, Minervee et atheniensis, Hort.

For garden purposes this is the finest. of all the Tulips of
the sylvestris group. It has flowers as large as those of
sylvestris itself, but flushed on the outside with red instead
of green. It is quite hardy, being an inhabitant of the
mountains of Greece, at an elevation of from three thousand
to four thousand fect above sea-level. It has been for some
time in cultivation under various names, having been dis-
covered in 1857 on Mount Malevo, in Eastern Laconia by
Dr. Orphanides, Professor of Botany in the University of
Athens, after whom it is named. Our drawing was taken
from a plant which flowered with the Rev. H. Harpur-Crewe,
at Drayton-Beauchamp, in June of this present year. In its
native stations it flowers as early as April, or even the latter
end of March.

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many brown tunics, which are clothed with brown silky hairs
on the inside towards the top. Séem half to one foot high,
terete, glaucous, glabrous, tinged with red, one-headed.
Leaves two or three placed near together below the middle
of the stem, erecto-patent or falcate, linear, six or nine inches
long, under an inch broad, glabrous, glaucous, channelled
down the face. Perianth funnel-shaped, in wild specimens
about two inches, in cultivated two and a half or three
inches long, bright yellow, tinged with red on the outside,
all the segments oblong and acute, but the outer much
narrower than the inner three, all flushed with a blotch of
reddish-brown on the claw, the edges of which are ciliated
with minute silky hairs. Séamens an inch long; filaments
linear, incrassated and densely pilose at the base; anthers
oblong, shorter than the filaments. Ovary grecn, clavate,
shorter than the stamens; s¢igmas one-sixth of an inch broad.
—dJ. G. Baker.

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NOTYLIA ALBIDA.

Native of Central America.

Nat. Ord. Orncu1pE”%.—Tribe VanDEz.
Genus Norytia, Lindl. (Reichb. in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 670.)

Noryi1a albida ; pseudobulbis parvis cespitosis costatis unifoliatis, foliis
planis lineari-oblongis obtusis apiculatis in petiolum brevem compressum
antice sulcatum angustatis coriaceis aveniis, racemo breviter pedunculato elon-
gato cylindraceo densifloro, rachi et pedunculo crasso, bracteis subulatis,
floribus imbricatis albidis, sepalo dorsali fere orbiculari, lateralibus in unum
ovatum apice 2-bifidum labello-suppositum connatis, petalis oblongo-obovatis
subacutis, labello breviter unguiculato trulliformi acuto ecalloso et ecarinato
angulis posticis acutis, columna breviuscula glabra, anthera elongata.

N. albida, Klotzsch in Otto and Dietr. Alg. Gartenzeit. 1851, p. 21; Reichb. f.,
Xen. Orchid. vol. 1, p. 47, et in Walp, Ann. vol. vi. p. 674, et in Gard. Chron.
1870, p. 987.

Notylia is on the whole an inconspicuous genus of orchids,
containing some eighteen species, skilfully diagnosed by
Reichenbach in Walper’s Annals. It is a native of South
America, from Mexico to Brazil. The species here figured is
one of the largest flowered ones, though inferior in this respect
to some others, as it isin colour. Reichenbach well remarks
that it resembles an Zria in habit and colour, or a small-
flowered Angraecum. It was discovered, I believe, by
Warscewicz, in Central America, and sent by him to the Royal
Horticultural Suciety’s Gardens many years ago, since which
time it has been re-imported by Messrs. Veitch, to whom I
am indebted for the specimen here figured, which first flowered
April, 1872, in Messrs. Veitch’s nursery.

Descr. Pseudobulbs one-half to an inch long, compressed,
deeply grooved in front, pale green. Leaves, one from the
top of each pseudobulb, four to five inches long, linear-
oblong, rounded and apiculate at the tip, flat, coriaceous,
nerveless, keeled beneath, pale green, narrowed into a short
stout flattened petiole about one-third of an inch long. Raceme

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from the base of the pseudobulb, six inches long, pendulous,
curved, cylindric ; peduncle very short, and rachis stout, pale
green; bracts small, subulate. /owers shortly pedicelled,
one-third of an inch in diameter, close-set, imbricating,
shortly pedicelled, white, faintly marbled with yellow. Dorsal
sepal nearly orbicular, concave ; lateral sepals combined into
one ovate blade, which is bifid at the tip, and placed under
the lip. Petals obovate-oblong, rather shorter than the
sepals, subacute. vp trowel-shaped, with a very short claw,
the posterior angles rounded, tip subacute, disk neither
keeled nor tubercled. Column rather stout, glabrous. Anther
oblong.— J. D. H.

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MESEMBRYANTHEMUM CooPERi.

Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Ficoipes.—Tribe MEsEMBRYEZX.

Genus Mesempryantuemum, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant.
vol. i. p. 853.)

Mrsempryantuemum (Papulosa) Cooperi ; totum creberrime papulosum, glaucum
herbaceum, perenne, ramosum, ramis decumbentibus, foliis oppositis patenti-
recurvis semi-teretibus linearibus obtusis angulis obtusis facie subconvexa
apicibus cylindraceis obtusiusculis glaberrimis, pedunculis terminalibus
solitariis brevibus cylindraceis 1-rarissime 2—3-floris. floribus 24 poll. diametr.
calycis tubo obconico lobis tubo equilongis subacutis patenti-recurvis 2 ceteris
longioribus,’ petalis exterioribus perplurimis 1-seriatis anguste linearibus
roseo-purpureis, interioribus (v. staminodiis) multo brevioribus et angusti-
oribus erecto-recurvis, staminibus confertis, antheris stramineis, stigmatibus

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‘This is a very handsome and free-growing species of Mesem-
bryanthemum, filling a large pot with its blue-glaucous glisten-
ing stems and foliage, and bearing a handsome purple flower.
It belongs to the Crassulina group of the Papulosa division,
-but differs very much from all previously described species,
all of which have very slender stems. Its precise habitat is
unknown; it was sent by Mr. Cooper when collecting in
South Africa for Mr. Wilson Saunders, who, with his usual
liberality, presented specimens to Kew, which flower an-
nually in the month of June.

Descr. A much-branched quite glabrous decumbent glau-
cous blue herb, forming large masses, clothed everywhere on
‘stem, leaves, and calyx with close-set crystalline papille.
Branches os thick as a duck-quill, cylindric, terete, not
thickened at the nodes. Leaves rather close-set, opposite,
one and a half.to two inches long, spreading and recurved,
nearly linear, gradually narrowed to the subobtuse apex,
semi-terete, the angles of the upper surface rounded, very

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soft and fleshy ; papille in rows, giving a minutely striate
appearance to the leaf. Peduncles solitary, terminal, one-
rarely two- or three-flowered, short, cylindric. Flowers two
and a half inches in diameter. Calyx tube obconic, half an
inch long ; dobes five, spreading, longer than the tube, three
of them shorter than the others, semi-terete obtuse or sub-
acute. Petals of outer series twice as long as the calyx-lobes,
very narrow, linear, rose-purple ; inner series or staminodes
one-third shorter, very narrow, suberect and recurved, also
rose-purple. Stamens densely crowded in the centre of the
flower, forming a small yellow disk about one quarter of an
inch in diameter. Stigmas four or five, ovate-lanceolate,
apiculate, seated on the top of the 5-lobed ovary.—/. D. #.

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TOVARTA OLERACEA.

Native of Temperate Sikkim.

Nat. Ord. Lin1aces#..— Tribe Tovarizm,

Genus Tovaria, Neck. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiv. p. 564.)

Tovarra oleracea ; caule 2-8-pedali simplici, basi nudo, medio foliato, sursum
flexuoso dense piloso, foliis 8-14 breviter petiolatis magnis oblongis acutis
membranaceis facie glabris dorso puberulis, venis 7-9 magis conspicuis,
floribus in paniculam amplam dispositis, ramis flexuosis dense pubescentibus,
pedicellis solitariis flore equilongis vel longioribus, bracteis minutis lineari-
bus, perianthii campanulati albi rubro tincti segmentis oblongis obtusis,
staminibus perianthio subtriplo brevioribus, antheris parvis, oblongis filamento
lineari, ovario globoso, stylo brevissimo apice stigmatoso tricuspidato.

Tovaria oleracea, Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xiv. p, 569.
Smitacina oleracea, Hook. fil. et Thoms. Herb. Ind.
Smilacina, sp., C. B. Clarke in Journ, Linn. Soe. vol. xv. p. 122.

This is far the most striking of the eighteen species of
Tovaria, a genus better known by its much later name of
Smilacina. Itis an inhabitant of the temperate region of
Sikkim, at an elevation of from eight thousand to twelve
thousand feet above sea-level, and, as might be expected,
proves to be perfectly hardy in English gardens. It was
gathered first by Griffith, in 1849 by Sir Joseph Hooker,
whose sketch made on the spot from the living plant is now
in the Kew collection of drawings, and recently by Dr. —
Treutler and Mr. C. B. Clarke. It is the Smélacina described
without a name by the latter gentleman in the account of his
journey from Darjeeling to Tonglo, printed in the fifteenth
volume of the Journal of the Linnean Society. We owe its
introduction into cultivation to Dr. Treutler, who presented
some of the rhizomes which he brought home to the Kew
collection, where they flowered in the herbaceous ground this

present summer. According to Dr. Hooker’s note (see his
AuGusT Isr, 1877.

Himalayan journals, vol. ii. p. 48) it is called “ Chokli-bi” by
the natives of Sikkim, and its young flower-heads, sheathed
in tender green leaves, form an excellent vegetable, and it is
to this that the specific name “ oleracea” alludes.

Descr. Rootstock as in the other species of the genus.
Stem simple, suberect, attaining sometimes a height of six or
eight feet, naked in the lower third, leafy from the middle up
to the base of the inflorescence, flexuose and pubescent in the
upper part. Leaves eight to fourteen, alternate, oblong,
acuminate, reaching a length of six or nine inches, mem-
branous, glabrous on the upper surface, minutely pubescent
beneath, rounded at the base to a short clasping petiole, with
seven or nine of the vertical veins more pronounced than the
rest, the intermediate finer veins numerous and crowded,
not connected by any distinctly-visible transverse veinlets.
Flowers in a deltoid terminal panicle, which is sometimes a
foot broad, and has a very pubescent and very flexuose main
rachis and branches; pedicels a quarter or half an inch long,
solitary, densely pubescent, ascending, or the lowest defiexed.
Bracts minute, linear. Perianth campanulate, white, more or
less tinged on the outside with red; segments oblong, obtuse,
about a quarter of an inchlong. Stamens less than half as
long as the perianth; anthers minute, oblong; filaments
linear. Ovary globose; style short and stout, tricuspidate
at the stigmatose tip. Berry rose-purple, with dark spots,

often with one seed perfected in each of the three cells.—
J. G. Baker.

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EPIDENDRUM SoPHRONITIS.

Nat. Ord. Orcuipem.—Tribe EripEnpREa:.

Genus Eprenprem, (inn, (Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Epidend. p. 1).

Epmenprum (Hormidium) Sophronitis ; humilis, caule repente robusto, pseudo-
bulbis parvis, foliis paucis sessilibus patentibus oblongo lanceolatis acutis
coriaceis utrinque valde glaucis purpureo-marginatis crasse carnosis, floribus
in pedunculo perbrevi crasso 2-3-floro, bracteis late ovatis acutis cucullatis
valde carnosis, floribus sesquipollicaribus pallide luride viridi-luteis purpureo
irroratis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis sensim acuminatissimis dorsali recurvo
lateralibus porrecto-deflexis, petalis minioribus et angustioribus recurvis,
labelli ungue column adnato lamina coriacea lanceolato-lingueformi lateri-
bus ad medium usque membrana viridi undulato-crenate marginato dein
subulato sordide purpureo, disco pallidiore tesselato concavo late nectarifera,
columna brevi crassa conica alis crasse coriaceis rotundatis.

E, Sophronitis, Lindl. et Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1867, p. 655. Xen. Orchid.
p. 160, t, 167, £1.

This is certainly one of the most singular species of the
vast genus Ypidendrum, and few but skilled scientific Orchi-
dologists, as Reichenbach, would venture at first sight to
refer it to its proper genus, so unlike is.it to any with which
we are familiar in horticultural establishments. That author
has, however, correctly referred it to Lindley’s division
Hormidium, characterised by the creeping rhizome, true
pseudobulbs, and subsessile flowers. To it belong Z. pyg-
meum, Hook (Tab. 3233), and a few other S. American
species. Reichenbach states that Lindley gave to the group
the name Hormidium, from the species of it being miserable
objects, inadvertently adding that they form a group of
Lindley’s section Aulizeum, which has leafy stems and a
pronged lip. Perhaps the most curious characters of E.
Sophronitis are the broad honeyed area of the lip, and the most
singular pale glaucous greenish waxy secretion that clothes
both surfaces of the leaves. : :

E. Sophronitis is a native of Loxa in Peru, where it has

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been collected by Wallis and others; the specimen here
figured flowered in the Royal Gardens in May and June of
the present year, and was received from Mr. Linden.

Descr. Rhizomes stout, short, creeping, sending off many
stout cylindric roots from its under surface. Pseudobulbs
one half of an inch long, ovoid, green. Leaves two to three,
at the tip of the pseudobulb, two to three inches long,
spreading, oblong-lanceolate, acute, thickly coriaceous, keeled,
clothed on both surfaces with a pale glaucous, green, waxy
secretion, margins purple. Flowers two to three, on a short
terminal peduncle, one and a half inch in diameter, dull
yellow-green, mottled with dull violet-purple; peduncle very
stout; bracts short, very coriaceous, concave, green; pedicel
and ovary almost an inch long. Sepals ovate-lanceolate,
acuminate, upper recurved, lateral, projecting forwards and
downwards. Petais rather narrower, recurved. Jip with
the claw adnate to the column; limb broadly ovate, then
suddenly contracted to a lanceolate acuminate apex, sides of
the broadest part membranous, green and waved, within this
green edge is a broad purple belt, which unites with the
purple tip; dise broadly nectariferous, white mottled with
red-purple. Column short, very broadly conical, with the
sides broadened into rounded coriaceous wings.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, Fruit; and 2, side view of lip and column :—enlarged.

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CEROPEGIA sarkteyt.
Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. AscterIaDEZ—Tribe CERoPEGIE®,

Genus Crnoprcis, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant), v. ii. p. 779.)

Cenorecia Barkleyi ; rhizomate tuberoso, caule gracili ascendente simpliciusculo
glabro v. pilosulo, foliis sessilibus ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis carnosis, pe-
dunculis axillaribus gracilibus paucifloris, floribus 2-pollicaribus, pedicellis
apice incrassatis, calycis segmentis acicularibus, corolle tubo curvo basi
globoso dein anguste infundibuliformi, ore dilatato, limbi lobis tubo fere
sequilongis e basi triangulari filiformibus erectis medio pilosis apicibus hori-
zontaliter incurvis connatis.

This is one of many undescribed species of Ceropegia which
seem to abound in the dry regions of South Africa. ‘These
probably form a conspicuous feature in the flora of regions
that are all but desert during a considerable portion of the year,
to meet the exigences of which they are provided, some with
tuberous rhizomes, others with very succulent leaves,
whilst others still have fleshy leafless stems. They differ too
remarkably in the structure of the corolla lobes; in the
majority of them these are as in the present species slender,
erect; spread first outwards and then inwards, finally meeting
and cohering by their tips as in most extra-African species ;
in others they dilate much at the tip, and cohering by broad
expansions, form a sort of parachute over the mouth of the
corolla, as in 0. Sandersoni, Tab. 5792, whilst in still others
the lobes are free, clawed, and hang down loosely from the
throat of the corolla, as in @. Sororia, (tab. 5578) and ©.
Bowkeri, (tab. 5407). It would be an interesting study for
some South Africa naturalist to ascertain the significance of
these three types of corolla, which in all probability represent
as many modes of fertilization by insect agency. _ Ceropegia
Barkley’ flowered at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in May of
the present year, from tubers sent toH. E. Sir Henry Barkly,
K.C.B., (late Governor of the Cape Colony), from the

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Morley Mission Station in the Transkei District, by Mr.
Bowker. It isallied perhaps most nearly to @. africana, (Bot.
Reg. t. 626). :

Descr. Glabrous or hairy on the stem. Rootstock tuberous,
fleshy, sending down stout cylindric fibres. Stem simple or
branched from the very base, slender at first prostate, then
ascending, six inches or a foot or more high, probably at
times climbing, cylindric, lower nerves swollen. Leaves one
to two inches long, opposite, sessile or very shortly petioled,
ovate-lanceolated, acuminate, very fleshy, keeled below, bright
green with white nerves. Flowers in axillary few-flowered
racemes ; peduncle slender, shorter than the leaves; bracts
subulate ; pedicels quarter to half inch long, swollen at the
apex. Calyx segments between subulate and acicular, spread-
ing. Corolla nearly two inches long; tube slightly curved,
globose at the very base, then narrowly funnel-shaped,
glabrous, pale pink, throat not much dilated; limb-segments
triangular at the base, then narrowed into filiform processes
which are first incurved, then curved slightly outwards with
the tips horizontally incurved and cohering ; the segments are
ciliated about the middle, are pale green externally, and in-
ternally reticulated with dark purple. Ozer corona annular,
10-toothed ; inner with rounded lobes—J. D. H.

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YUCCA orcuHro1pEs, var. MAJOR.
Native of the Southern United States.

Nat. Ord. Lit1acea.—Tribe YuccompeR.

Genus Yucoa, Linn. (Engelmann, Monograph.)

Yooca orchioides, var. major; acaulis, foliis 12-15 ensiformibus chartaceis
glauco-viridibus 12-15-poll. longis deorsum margine parce filamentosis,
scapo puberulo pedali, panicule laxe ramis brevibus erecto-patentibus,
pedicellis inferioribus geminis bracteis 2-3-plo brevioribus, floribus inapertis
viridulis, perianthii albidi segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis 18-21 lin.
longis, filamentis pilosis perianthio triplo brevioribus, stylis ovario subduplo
brevioribus.

In this group of Yuccas it is very difficult to settle
satisfactorily where one species ends and another begins.
Of described forms the present plant comes nearest to
Y. orchioides of Carriere, described in the ‘Revue Horticole,’
for 1861 at page 369 and figured at tab. 89 and 90. It
differs from this by its more robust habit, branched
inflorescence, longer styles and longer more acute perianth
segments. It is probable that in a broad sense orchioides
is not more than an extreme variety of jilamentosa, and if so
this should be regarded as a connecting link in the series.
It was drawn from a plant which flowered in the Kew
collection in July, 1875, and is perfectly hardy.

Descr. Leaves twelve or fifteen in a stemless rosette,
ensiform, glaucous green, chartaceous, a foot or a foot and a
quarter Jong, an inch broad at the middle, with a few short
threads splitting off from the margin in the lower half.
Scape erect, about a foot long, with five or six erect reduced
leaves. Panicle as long as the scape, with a densely
pubescent rachis, and five or six short lax erecto-patent
branches ; pedicels about a quarter of an inch long, the
lower ones in pairs; bracts membranous, lanceolate, two or
three times as long as the pedicels. Buds tinged with

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green. Expanded perianth milk-white, broadly campanulate,
strongly scented ; segments oblong-lanceolate, acute, the
outer ones about half an inch and the inner ones three-
quarters of an inch broad. Stamens a third as long as the
perianth ; filaments densely pubescent ; anthers small,
oblong. Ovary oblong-cylindrical, about half an inch long ;
Styles more than half as long as the ovary.—J. G. Baker.

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ODONTOGLOSSUM crrruosum.
Native of Ecuador.

Nat. Ord. Orcu1pE%.—Tribe VanpEX.

Genus Ovontoctossum, H. B. dé K. (Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Odontoglossum).

Opontoctossum (Eudontoglossum) cirrhosum ; pseudobulbis oblongo-lanceolatis
compressis ancipitibus ecostatis foliis lineari-lanceolatis acutis, scapis
subacutis folia superantibus, paniculis nutantibus, bracteis triangulari-
subulatis, floribus 3 poll. diam. albis maculis parvis brunneis sparsis, sepalis
petalisque paulo latioribus consimilibus lanceolatis cirrhosi-acuminatis
undulatis, labelli elongati lobis lateralibus brevius latioribus quam longis
aureis rubro-lineatis intermedio elongato-lanceolato cirrhoso-acuminato basi
aureo dein albo maculis 2-brunneis, disco 2-cornuto columna apice

bicirrhosa.

O. cirrhosum, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orehid. p. 211; Fol. Orchid. Odont. p. 3;
Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann, vi. 827, et in Gard. Chron. 1876, p. 503 eum Le.
Xylog. 91, 92.

This beautiful plant was discovered in the the Eucadorean
Andes in the valley of Mindo, at an elevation of 6000 feet,
by the late Col. Hall, who sent dried specimen to Sir W.
Hooker that were imperfectly described by Dr. Lindley, and
it has since been gathered in the same locality by his fellow
explorer of the Andes, Dr. Jameson, and others. Subse-
quently, but not till many years after its discovery, it has
been fully discribed by Prof. Reichenbach in the ‘ Gardeners’
Chronicle,’ with two figures, one of the whole plant reduced,
the other of a portion of a panicle with about fifteen flowers
of the natural size. As a species its nearest allies are
O. Hailii and inter-purpureum, both natives of the Andes,
but it is abundantly distinct from these and all other species.

Since its importation by the Messrs. Klaboch, 0. cerrhosum
has flowered with many collectors, amongst the first of whom,
I believe, is Sir Trevor Laurence, Bart., whose gardener, Mr.
Spyers, informed Dr. Reichenbach that thirty flowers might

be produced on a single panicle.
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1877.

Descr. Pseudobulbs oblong-lanceolate, compressed, two-
edged, two to three inches long, pale green, not grooved or
striate. Leaves four to six inches long, linear-ensiform,
acute, nearly flat, coriaceous. Scape much longer than the
leaves, slender, bearing a many-flowered drooping or inclined
panicle; bracts minute, triangular. Flowers three inches
across the petals, milk-white with brown blotches on the
petals sepals and mid-lobe of the lip; lateral lobes and base
of the lip golden yellow, the former with red stripes.
Sepals narrow lanceolate, ending in recurved subcirrhose
points, undulate. Pe/als broader, otherwise similar, dis-
tinctly clawed. ip about two-thirds the length of the
petals, narrowly convolute at the base, then expanding into
two ciliate lateral lobes, and contracting into a lanceolate
tongue-shaped recurved acuminate undulate mid-lobe ; disk
with two ascending prominent yellow horns. Column short
trigonous, with two spreading cirrhi at the apex.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Lip and column, enlarged.

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PITCAIRNIA rravescens.
Native of Topical America,

Nat. Ord. Brometiacem.—Tribe Prrcatrniex.

Genus Prroatrnia, LZ’ Herit. (K. Koch in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 78.)

Prrcarrnta flavescens ; acaulis, foliis circiter 20 dense rosulatis lorato-lanceolatis
tenuiter chartaceis 2-3-pedalibus facie viridibus dorso albidis aculeis
marginalibus nullis, scapo sesquipedali tenuiter floccoso foliis 3-4-valde
reductis, linearibus bracteato, racemo laxo subpedali, pedicellis patulis petalis
2-3-plo brevioribus bracteis lanceolatis longioribus, ovario basi distincte
immerso, sepalis coriaceis lanceolatis nudis petalis lingulatis pallide luteis
basi squamatis subtriplo brevioribus, genitalibus petalis zquilongis.

CocuLioretTaLum flavescens, Beer, Die Famil. der Bromel. p. 69.

This is a fine plant, which has been known in cultivation
for several: years, but which has never been figured or
even fully described. Its nearest ally is P. albiflos, Herbert
in Bot. Mag. t. 2642, (Cochliopetalum albiflos, Beer), but this
has milk-white flowers and narrower leaves, green on the under-
side. By Karl Koch, in his monograph of this large and
intricate genus above cited, it is placed doubtfully under
P. odorata, Regel in Gartenflora, tab. 114, (Cochliopetalum
Schuchii, Beer), but this also is a plant with milk-white
petals and leaves green on both surfaces. Its precise country
is not known, and I have looked for it in vain amongst the
wild specimens of Piteairnia in the London herbaria. Our
drawing was made from a plant that flowered in the
Palm Stove at Kew in April of this present year. 5

Descr. Acaulescent. eaves about twenty in a dense
rosette, linear-lorate, two to three feet long, an inch or
an inch and a quarter broad at the middle, narrowed to the
point and downwards to a channelled hatt three or four lines a
broad, not a proper petiole, bright green on the face, white —
furfuraceous all over the under surface, entire thout —
marginal prickles. Scape a foot and a half long,

SEPTEMBER I1sT, 1877.

floccose, bracteated by three or four reduced linear leaves.
Raceme lax, simple, about a foot long and half a foot
broad when fully expanded; most of the pedicels patent,
the lower ones half or three-quarters of an inch long;
bracts lanceolate, a quarter or half an inch long. Calya-
tube obconical, a quarter of an inch long, adnate to the
ovary; segments lanceolate, naked, coriaceous, yellowish,
three-quarters of an inch long. Petals primrose-yellow,
lingulate, obtuse, two inches long, with a toothed oblong
scale at the base. Stamens and style about as long as
the petals ; anthers lemon-yellow, linear, basifixed, nearly
half an inch long. Stigmas strongly twisted spirally —J. G.
Baker.

Fig. 1, Petals, shewing the scale at the base, and a couple of stamens; fig.
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DENDROBIUM CRYSTALLINUM.
Native of Birma,

Nat. Ord. Orcu1pEx.—Tribe DenprosiEe.

Genus Denprosium, Swartz. (Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 74.)

Deyprostum (Eudendrobium) erystallinum; caule tereti crassiusculo, vaginis
membranaceis pellucidis arcte appressis striatis tecto, foliis distichis lineari-
lanceolatis acuminatis membranaceis, racemis ad nodos brevibus 2-floris, :
peduneulo perbrevi, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis, floribus 2-poll. diametro, albis
apicibus fsbicloitimn roseis labellique disco aureo, sepalis petalisque ovato-
lanceolatis patentissimis marginibus recurvo-undulatis, labello orbiculato
breviter unguiculato, lamina explanata marginibus basin versus inflexis centro
disci et ungue pilosulis, mento obtuso, columna brevissima, anthera elongata
obtusa, papillis crystallinis operta.

D. erystallinum. Rehb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 572; Xen. Orchid. vol. ii.
p. 210, tab. 193, f I.

This is another of the beautiful Dendrobes, with which
British Birma abounds, and for which Horticulturalists are
under lasting obligations to the indefatigable exertions of
Col. Benson, and the Rev. ©. Parish. It belongs to the
same group of the genus, called Zudendrobium by Lindley,
to which the well-known D. Pierardi, and transparens belong,
together with D. Bensonie, Wardianum, and some twenty
other Indian species. Prof. Reichenbach, who first pub-
lished it about 10 years ago, spoke then with confidence of
its distinctness, and there is no reason to doubt the correct-
ness of his decision, though it must be confessed that the
number of Birmese species and the very close relationship of
many of them, suggests the possibility of hybridisation or
great variation. A glance at the figure of D. Bensonic (tab.
5679), and the remarks made under it, illustrate this point.
From all its congeners, however, L. crystallinum may be
distinguished by the shape of its elongated anther-case, which
is covered with very prominent crystalline papille.

SEPTEMBER lst, 1877.

D. crystallinum was discovered by Col. Benson, F.L.S. in
Birma, and introduced by Messrs. Veitch, who first flowered
it. The Royal Gardens are indebted to Messrs. Low for a
fine specimen of it, which flowered freely, and the drawing
was made from a plant in Mr. Bull’s nursery in June, 1874.

Descr, Stems tufted, terete, slightly flexuous, grooved,
one third of an inch and upwards in diameter, a foot or more
long, internodes about an inch long; clothed with closely
appressed membranous striate pellucid sheaths, the rounded
tops of which project about one quarter of an inch beyond
the nodes. Leaves on flowerless stems, distichous, four to
six inches long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, membranous,
bright pale-green. F/owers in pairs on very short peduncles
from all the upper nodes, two inches in diameter; bracts one
quarter of an inch long, lanceolate; pedicels slender, nearly
an inch long; ovary small. Sepals and Petals spreading
widely, white, with pale rose blotches at the tip, margins
somewhat waved and recurved; sepals linear-oblong, acute ;
petals broader, more obovate, and obtuser. Zip with a short
convolute claw and circular expanded limb, which is in-
flexed at the base forming two auricles, margin ciliolate, sur-
face finely furred, golden-yellow, with a small, pale, rose-
coloured blotch at the rounded tip. Column very short;
anther-case longer than the column, oblong-cylindric, obtuse,
clothed with crystalline papille.—J. D. H. 2

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ALLIUM wtniroutvm.

Native of California.

Nat. Ord. Lim1acke.—Tribe ALLER.

Genus Attium, Linn. (Regel, Alliorum Monographia: St. Petersburg, 1875.)

AtLIum unifolium ; bulbis parvis longe rhizomatosis tunicis albidis membra-
naceis, foliis linearibus glabris scapo brevioribus solitariis vel paucis, scapo
tereti 1-2-pedali, umbellis densis 20-30-floris, spathe valvis duabus lanceolato-
deltoideis pedicellis subsquilongis, pedicellis 9-12 lin. longis, perianthii
rubri segmentis ovato-lanceolatis acutis 5-6 lin. longis flore expanso patulis,
staminibus perianthio distincte brevioribus, filamentis subulatis conformibus,
stylo elongato, ovulis in loculo geminis collateralibus erectis.

A. unifolium, Kellogg in Proc. Calif. Acad. vol. ii. p. 112, tab. 35; S. Wats. in
Bot. 40 Paraill, p. 486, tab. 36, fig. 9-10; Regel, Alliorum Monog. p. 146.

This is one of several handsome new Aldiums which have
lately been discovered in California. It is found in the vici-
nity of Oakland, and about the bay of San Francisco. It was
first named and described by Dr. Kellogg in 1861. It was
afterwards found that name was not an appropriate one, the
number of leaves not being a constant character. Of well-
known old-world types it is most like Allium roseum in the
flowers, but its underground structure is quite unique in this
very large genus, so far as known, the bulbs being developed
some distance from one another, and connected by a thread-
like rhizome, like that of Lilium canadense. Our drawing
was made from specimens which flowered with Messrs. Back-
house and Son at Holgate, near York, in July, 1873.

Derscr. Bulbs small, ovoid, connected by a filiform rhizome ;
outer tunics whitish, membranous, marked with fine parallel
anastomosing waved lines. Leaves one, two or more, linear,
glabrous, shorter than the scape, a foot or less long, a sixth
to a quarter of aninch broad. Scape erect, terete, one or
two feet long; umbel dense, 20-30-flowered, about two inches
in diameter; pedicels nine to twelve lines long; spathe-valves
SEPTEMBER IlstT, 1877.

lanceolate-deltoid, about as long as the pedicels. Perianth
mauve-pink, rotate when fully expanded ; segments ovate-
lanceolate, acute, five or six lines long. Stamens rather
shorter than the perianth-segments ; filaments all alike, subu-
late ; anthers small, oblong. Ovary depresso-globose, deeply
three-lobed. Style a quarter of an inch long; ovules two in
each cell, basal, collateral, erect.—J. G. Baker.

_ Fig. 1, An open flower, natural size; 2, a single stamen ; 8, the pistil: 4, ver-
tical section of ovary :—all three magnified.

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FRITILLARIA DASYPHYLLA,
FRITILLARIA ACMOPETALA.

Natives of Asia Minor.

Nat. Ord. Liniacka.—Tribe Tutrerz.

Genus Fririttari, Linn. (Baker in Journ. Soe. Linn., vol. xiv. p. 251.)

Frirmtaria (Amblirion) dasyphylla ; bulbo parvo globoso tunicis pallidis, caule
4-9-pollicari sepissime unifloro, foliis 6-12 viridibus omnibus sparsis vel
infimis et supremis oppositis, inferioribus oblongo-oblanceolatis subobtusis,
superioribus lanceolatis vel linearibus acutis, perianthii infundibularis seg-
mentis obovato-oblongis obtusis extus purpureis intus luteis haud tessellatis
foveola parva oblonga viridi supra basin preditis, staminibus perianthio
subduplo vel triente brevioribus, antheris filamento puberulo duplo breviori-
bus, stylo integro ovario zquilongo, stigmate capitato..,

F. dasyphylla, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1875, pt. 1, p. 653.
F. tulipifolia var, dasyphylla, Baker in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xiv., p. 266.

Frirmzarta (Monocodon) acmopetala; bulbo parvo globoso tunicis pallidis
caule pedali vel sesquipedali unifloro, foliis 5-6 glauco-viridibus omnibus
sparsis linearibus, perianthii campanulati segmentis obovato-oblongis obtusis
viridulis haud tesselatis dorso et apice plus minusve purpureo suffusis supra
basin fovéolaé parva oblonga viridi preeditis, staminibus perianthio subtriplo
brevioribus antheris filamento puberulo duplo brevioribus, stylo supra
medium trifurcato ramis subulatis.

F. acmopetala, Boiss, Diag. pt. vii. p. 104; Walp. Ann, vol. i. p. 851; Baker
in Journ. Linn, Soe., vol. xiv., p. 262; Gard. Chron, 1875, pt. 1, p. 620.

F. lycia, Boiss. and Held. in Boiss. Niagn., pt. 13, p. 20.

These are two Fritillaries of which living plants have
lately been brought for the first time from Asia Minor by
Mr. Elwes, and liberally distributed. /. dasyphylla is a
dwarf species, first gathered by Professor Edward Forbes,
which belongs to the section with an entire style, and re-
sembles in general habit F. /ulipifolia of the Caucasus,
figured Bot. Mag. tab. 5969. F. acmopetala, on the contrary,
is a tall-growing plant, closely allied to F. pyrenaica, but
with very different leaves, Both are plants of the mountains

OCTOBER Ist, 1877,

and perfectly hardy. # dasyphylla was gathered by Mr.
Elwes in light sandy soil over serpentine between Moolah and
Aidin, at an elevation of two thousand feet above sea-level,
and #. acmopetala in rocky woods in Caria.

Duscr. F. dasyphylla. Bulb globose, under half an inch in
diameter, with pale membranous tunics. Stem rising four to
nine inches above the surface of the ground, one- rarely two-
flowered, bearing six to twelve rather fleshy green leaves, all
alternate or the lowest and sometimes the uppermost opposite,
the lowest oblanceolate-oblong, subobtuse, two or three
inches long, the others lanceolate and linear. Flowers more
or less drooping. Perianth broadly funnel-shaped, three-
quarters or seven-eighths of an inch long, the segments pur-
plish on the back, yellow without any tessellations inside,
with a small green oblong foveole above the base. Stamens
three-eighths or half an inch long; filament flattened, pubes-
cent ; anther oblong. Style a quarter or three-eighths of an inch
long, entire.

F. acmopetala. Bulb small, globose, with pale tunics.
Primordial radical leaves oblong, two or three inches long,
narrowed to a petiole as long as the blade, Svem above a
foot long, slender, glaucous, one-flowered. Leaves five or
six, rather glaucous, all alternate, linear, three or four inches
long. Flowers drooping. Perianth campanulate, fifteen or
eighteen lines long, the obovate-oblong obtuse segments
more or less flushed with purple on the back and tip, for the
rest greenish, without any tessellation, furnished with a small
oblong greenish foveole above the base. Stamens less than
half as long as the perianth; anthers linear-oblong, cus-
pidate, half as long as the pubescent filaments. Style half an

inch long, with three subulate forks reaching nearly halfway
down.—J. G. Baker,

Fig. 1, segment of the perianth of F’. dasyphylla ; fig. 2, pistil of the same;

fig. 3, segment of the perianth of #' acmopetala ; fig. 4, pistil of the same :—all
more or less magnified.

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ON CIDIUM EUXANTHINUM,

Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Orcutpem.—Tribe VANDEA:

Genus Oncipium, Swartz, (Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Oncidium).

Oncipium (Micropetala) ewwanthinum; pseudobulbis ellipsoideis compressis canali-
culatis, foliis binis lineari-ensiformibus acutis acute carinatis, panicula
ampla ramosa, bracteis triangulari-subulatis, floribus 1-poll. diam. aureis disco
rubro-maculato, sepalo dorsali columna vix longiore cucullata, lateralibus
parvis acutis connatis, petalis paulo longioribus oblongis obtusis undulatis,
labelli trilobi ungue brevi porrecto lobis lateralibus sessilibus rotundatis
crenatis intermedio maximo subreniforme bilobo sinu acuto, callo inter lobos
antice multilobulato, postice in cornu porrecto, columna brevi alis lobulatis.

O. Euxanthinum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 1158,

SCSURIRRREGIietonses cre nee RE na = -* SR

A member of a small group of chiefly Brazilian Oncidia, of
which the first described species is 0. difolium, Sims, (Tab.
nostr. 1491), a native of the Brazils, which differs in the
tacemose flowers, much smaller broadly obovoid pseudo-bulbs,
and shorter leaves. It is even nearer the 0. martianum var.
bicolor, Lindl. (0. bicolor, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1847, t. 66) in
the racemose flowers, but that species has a solitary broad
leaf, and very much narrower lateral lobes of the ip. . DE
Reichenbach, who has kindly verified the name for me, de-
scribes the flowers of the original specimen as having greenish
Sepals and petals with brownish bars, but those of the speci-
men here figured are of the same clear yeliow as the lip, and
the spots on the latter are of a clear red hue. The warts etc.
of the lip are not only variable in this genus, but most diffi-
cult to describe ; in the present species they occupy a narrow
area on the disk, and consist principally of a transverse row of
tubercles and a prominent but small conical horn.

O. euaanthinum is a native of Brazil, whence it was im-

OCTOBER lst, 1877.

ported by Messrs. Veitch, who sent the specimen represented
here in November, 1871.

Duscr. Pseudobulbs two to three inches long, ellipsoid, flat-
tened, channelled. Leaves two, eight to ten inches long, linear-
ensiform, acute, not narrowed into a petiole keeled especially
towards the base, coriaceous, bright green. Scape slender,
drooping, with the broad spreading many-flowered panicle
longer than the leaves; branches slender, green, flexuose;
bracts minute, ovate-subulate. Flowers about an inch in
diameter across the lip, bright golden yellow with red dots
on the disk of the lip, and bars across the sepals and petals,
which latter are very small compared with the lip. Dorsal
sepal one-sixth of an inch long, obovate, obtuse, hooded,
arching over the column; lateral sepals united into an obovate
bifid body with acute lobes placed under the lip. Petals
rather longer than the sepals, oblong, spreading undulate.
Lip very large, shortly clawed, the claw protruded and
winged, 3-lobed; lateral lobes many orbicular, sessile, crenate,
flat ; mid-lobe reniform, much broader than long, bifid with
an acute sinus, margins waved; disk with several warts in
a transverse line, and a prominent horn, besides other smaller
warts in irregular series. Column short, with coriaceous
rounded wings.—J. D. H.

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BUDDLEIA ASIATICA.
Native of the Hast Indies.

Nat. Ord. Locantacez.—Tribe Eviocanré.

Genus Buppiesa, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 793.)

Bupvie1a (Neemda) asiutica; arborea, albo- v. ferrugineo-tomentosa, foliis

breviter petiolatis lanceolatis v. elongato-lanceolatis acuminatis integerrimis v.
' serrulatis supra glabris, floribus parvis albis in racemos elongatos graciles

axillares et terminales nutantes dispositis, solitariis v. fasciculatis odoris,
bracteis bracteolisque subulatis pedicellis brevibus v. brevissimis, capsulis
deflexis.

_ Bz asiatica, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 72; Benth, in DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 446;
Brand. For. Flor. p. 818; Beddome, Flor. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. t. xxi. f. 4.

B. Neemda, Hamilt. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. i. p. 396. Ed. Carey, vol. i. p. 411.
DO. 1. ¢.

B. discolor, Roth. Nov. Pl. Spec. p. 83; Benth. Scroph. Ind. p. 42; Wight Ic. Ft
Ind. Or. t. 894; Ill. t. 165, b. and v.

B. salicina, Lamk. Illustr. i. p. 291.

B. sundaica, acuminatissima et densiflora, Blum. Bijd. 743, ex Miq. Fl. Ind.
Bat. vol. ii. p, 363.

B. subserrata, Don. Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 92.

B. virgata, Blanco, Fl. Filip. p. 57? non L. fil.

A very common and graceful large shrub or small tree of
” a alay Peninsula, Cochin-

Continental India, Burma, the M
China and Java, advancing north-westwards to the Indus,

ascending to 4000 ft. in the Himalaya, and to 6000 in the
Nilgherri Hills, but curiously enough absent from Ceylon.
Two forms of it are common, differing much in the flowers
which are very variable in size and the length of the tube
of the corolla; one form, that here figured, has a salver-
shaped corolla, with orbicular spreading lobes; the other has
much smaller flowers with short suberect corolla-lobes.

The stamens in both are inserted near the mouth of the

corolla-tube, not as stated by Roxburgh near its base.

It is certainly remarkable that so very common, elegant
and sweet-scented a plant as this, which flowers for three

OCTOBER Ist, 1877. |

months continuously in India, should not be in common
cultivation ; but it does not appear in the Hortus Kewensis,
nor is it figured in any work published in England. For the
specimen here described I am indebted to Messrs. Downie,
Laird and Co., who sent it for naming in February 1874.

Duscr. A shrub or small tree, with opposite cylindric
branches, the young shoots, leaves beneath and inflorescence,
clothed with snow white or buff appressed or mealy tomentum.
Leaves four to eight inches long, short-petioled, lanceolate
or elongate-lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire or serrulate ;
nerves diverging ; upper surface glabrous. Racemes three to
six inches long, axillary or terminal, or panicled, very
slender, drooping; bracts and bracteoles subulate ; flowers
very shortly pedicelled, usually ternate, white, sweet-scented,
of two forms, larger with spreading orbicular erose corolla
lobes, smaller with erect lobes. Calyz shortly ovoid,
4- rarely 5-lobed or -toothed, villous. Corolla-tubes two to
four times the length of the calyx, villous; limb with

- rarely 5-spreading large, or ovate erect small lobes, mouth
villous. Stamens inserted on the throat of the large corolla
tube. Anthers oblong included. Ovary conical, narrowed
Into a short style with a thick 2-fid stigma. Capsule ovoid,
deflexed 2-celled, 2-valyed. Seeds numerous, imbricate,
compressed, winged at both ends.—J. D. 7.

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ALOE tricoror.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Nat. Ord. Lintacka—Tribe Anornex,

Genus Atoz, Linn. (Kunth, Enum. vol. iv. p- 492).

AoE tricolor ; breviter caulescens, foliis 12-15 dense rosulatis lanceolatis
semipedalibus e basi ad apicem attenuatis sordide viridibus maculis copiosis
parvis albidis irregulariter seriatis decoratis margine dentibus parvis
deltoideis cuspidatis patulis apice castaneis corneis armatis, scapo sesqui-
pedali, paniculis deltoideis parce ramosis ramis brevibus densifloris race-
mosis, pedicellis 3-4 lin. longis, bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis pedicello
eequilongis, perianthii splendide corallino-rubri tubo cylindrico medio
constricto, segmentis oblongis introrsum luteis tubo duplo brevioribus,
genitalibus inclusis.

This is a fine new dwarf Aloe of the Picte group. It
differs from 4. obscura, Miller, and from the well-
known A. Saponaria, Haworth, with its many subspecies and
varieties, by its typically racemose, not capitate inflorescence
and by its perianth strongly constricted in the middle. In
both these points it agrees with 4. macrocarpa, a species
lately described and figured by Todaro, (Hort. Bot. Panorm.
tab. 9) sent by Schimper from Abyssinia, from which our
present plant differs in the shape and maculation of its
leaves. Perhaps it may be, as Mr. N. E. Brown has
suggested, the 4. arabica of which the foliage alone is
described by Salmdyck (see Kunth, Enum. vol. iv. p. 525).
But it is clearly not the plant originally named arabica by
Lamarck, which is founded on the Arabian 4. variegata of
Forskahl. Our present plant flowered for the first time in
the Kew collection this spring. We received it from the
Oxford Botanic Garden, and on applying to Professor
Lawson he tells me that they got it some time ago, labelled
as a Cape species, from Mr. Justus Corderoy, of Blewbury.

Descr. Stem very short, simple. Leaves twelve to fifteen,

OCTOBER Ist, 1877.

in a dense rosette, lanceolate, half a foot long, one and a
half or two inches broad at the base, narrowed gradually to
an acute point, half an inch thick in the middle, rounded on
the back, slightly turgid in the upper half of the face, dead
green, marked on both faces with copious irregular transverse
bands of small crowded oblong or roundish whitish spots,
the edge armed with crowded deltoid cuspidate spreading or
deflected prickles, a sixteenth or a twelfth of an inch long,
which have a horny brown tip, the leaves bordered before
they fade with purplish-brown, and at the flowering time all
more or less recurved. Scape a foot and a half long, purplish,
glaucous. Panicle deltoid, six or eight inches long, with an
end raceme three or four inches long and two or three short
erecto-patent branches; pedicels three or four lines long;
bracts lanceolate, about as long as the pedicels. Perianth an
inch long, bright coral-red on the outside ; tube twice as long
as the segments, constricted at the middle ; segments oblong,
yellow inside. Stamens falling slightly short of the tip of
the perianth-segments; oblong anthers a sixteenth of an
inch long.—J. G. Baker.

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MICROSTYLIS Josrepurana.
Native of the Sikkim Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. OrcuipEx.—Tribe PLEvROTHALLIDER.

Genus Microsrytis, Nutt. (Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 18.)

Microstyits Josephiana; pseudobulbis evolutis oblongo-fusiformibus aphyllis
junioribus 3-phyllis foliis oblongis ‘acutis plicatis supra cupreo-aspersis,
subtus viridibus, pedunculo basi hexagono superne minus angulato, floribus
racemosis pro genere maximis posticis, bracteis ligulatis acutis, reflexis
ovaria pedicellata vix squantibus, sepalis lingulato-triangularibus obtuse
acutis lateralibus connatis flavis nune cupreo-irroratis, petalis linearibus
acutis, labello cuculato ventricoso basi obtusangule sagittato apice
emarginato-bilobo flavo intus brunneo maculato, columna utrinque apice

antico extrorsum rhombea.—Reichb. f. MS.

A very curious novelty. resembling a good deal the
African genus Lissochilus, differing in size and habit from the
majority of species of Microstylis, which are for the most
part weedy green-flowered plants of no interest to the
horticulturist. It is a native of the tropical forests of the
Sikkim Himalaya, where, however, it escaped the notice of
all observers previous to the late Dr, Anderson, F.L.S., then
Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanical Garden, who dis-
covered it in 1863 and sent plants to the Calcutta Garden.
These flowered in April, 1867, and I am indebted to my late
friend for a copy of a drawing of the plant taken in the
garden, which, however, has only three-flowered racemes. The
specimen here figured flowered at the Royal Gardens of Kew,
in May of the present year, from plants sent by Mr. Gamnie,
Superintendent of the Sikkim Cinchona Plantations, to whom
the Gardens are indebted for numerous and very valuable
contributions of Sikkim seeds and plants. It is named after
the editor of this magazine “in recognition of his services to
orchidology when exploring for the first time by any botanist,
the primeval forests of the Sikkim Himalaya.” ;

Descr. Pseudobulbs tufted, three to four inches high,
oblong-fusiform, old leafless, young with about three leaves
bright green, smooth, partially clothed with the remains of

OCTOBER Ist, 1877.

old leaves. eaves four to seven inches long, oblong or
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, plaited, coppery above, beneath
green. Scape acutely six-angled below, more obscurely so
above. Flowers six to twelve, in a strict, erect lax raceme,
nearly globose, three-quarters of an inch in diameter,
posticous; bracts small, ligulate, acute, deflexed, hardly
equalling the pedicel and ovary. Sepals broadly ovate,
revolute, obtuse, apiculate, the lateral connate for one-third
of their length, all of a dirty-yellow colour with a coppery
hue. Petals linear, acute, revolute, much narrower than the
sepals and of the same colour. Lip forming an orbicular
hood, ventricose and emarginate above, with overlapping
margins opposite the column, yellow with red-brown blotches
internally. Column very short, with small rhomboid lateral
wings.—Reichb. f.

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ARTHROPODIUM NEO-CALEDONICUM,

Native of New Caledonia,

Nat. Ord. Litiacex.—Tribe ANTHERICER,

Genus Artnnoropium, R. Br. (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xv. p. 351.)
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ARTHRopopIUM neo-caledonicum ; foliis pluribus rosulatis linearibus graminoideis
Viridibus glabris semipedalibus, caule nudo tereti, panicule laxissime ramis
elongatis ascendentibus, floribus in racemos laxos secundos dispositis, pedi-
cellis medio articulatis patulis vel cernuis inferioribus geminis, bracteis parvis
lanceolatis, perianthii parvi albi segmentis exterioribus lanceolatis, interiori-
bus oblongis, staminibus perianthio distincte brevioribus antheris minutis
oblongis filamentis dimidio inferiori nudis dimidio superiori strumosis, ovario
oblongo, stylo brevi, stigmate capitato. :

; * A. neo-caledonicum, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. p. 352.

This is a native of New Caledonia, recently introduced into
cultivation by Messrs. Veitch. It is interesting geographi-
cally as extending to New Caledonia the range of another
of the characteristic Australian and New Zealand genera.
Its nearest ally is 4. candidum, Raoul, of New Zealand, and
the other five or six species besides these two are all confined
to Australia and New Zealand. Whether it will be hardy
about London still remains to be proved. I described it last
year from a single dried specimen gathered on Mount Kanala
in New Caledonia by M. Deplanche, and it is No. 1695‘ of the
Vieillard collection distributed by the late M. Lenormand.
The plant from which our drawing was made flowered with
Messrs. Veitch in May, 1877.

-Descr. Root a tuft of cylindrical fleshy fibres. Leaves
many in a radical rosette, linear, grass-like, bright green,
glabrous, about half a foot long, three or four lines broad.
Stem, including the inflorescence, a foot and a half long,
slender, terete, without any leaves between the radical rosette
and the branches. Panicle very long, with four or five

slender ascending branches each about half a foot long, which
_ OCTOBER Ist, 1877.

bear the flowers in very lax secund racemes; lower flowers
in pairs, the upper ones solitary; pedicels spreading or
cernuous, reaching half an inch in length, articulated at the
middle, the upper joint whitish and thickened. Perianth
white, measuring half an inch in diameter when expanded;
outer segments firmer, lanceolate, acute ; inner broader, more
tender, oblong, obtuse. Stamens distinctly shorter than the
perianth-segments ; anthers minute, oblong; filaments appen-
diculate with an oblong-sagittate pilose struma in the upper
half, naked and rather flattened in the lower half. Ovary
Seba oblong; style short, erect; stigma capitate—J. G.
aker.

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DRACZAENA REFLEXA,

Native of Mauritius.

Nat. Ord. Littackm.—Tribe Dracmnex.

Genus Draczna, Vand. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 523).

Dracana reflexa ; frutex 6-20-pedalis, foliis lanceolatis acutis patulis laxe dis-
positis 6-9 poll. longis, 6-12 lin. latis, costa preter apicem perspicua, paniculis
deltoideis erectis breviter pedunculatis ramis patulis densifloris, pedicellis
solitariis apice articulatis, bracteis superioribus deltoideis, inferioribus
lanceolatis, perianthii albidi tubo campanulato, segmentis ligulatis tubo 5-6-
plo longioribus, staminibus segmentis equilongis, stylo demum exserto.

D. reflexa, Lamk. Encyclop., vol. iii. p. 324; Red. Lil. vol. ii. t. 92; Kunth, Enum.
vol. v. p. 6; Regel, Revis. Drac. p. 40; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiv.
p. 530.

D. cernua, Jucg.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 158.

This is the typical form of the Bos de Chandelle of
Mauritius. The plant is spread widely through Tropical
Africa and runs into numerous varieties. It has long been
known in cultivation, but the only figure which has been
given is the old one above cited. It may be known from the
other cultivated Draceenas with lanceolate sessile leaves by
the looser disposition of its leaves upon the stem and by its
solitary flowers, with a very short perianth-tube. D. cernua
of Jacquin is a variety of the same plant, with a drooping
panicle, longer pedicels and leaves edged with red. Our
present drawing was made from a specimen that flowered
some time ago in the Palm-house at Kew.

Descr. An erect shrub, with slender branches, reaching a
height of from six to twenty feet. Leaves laxly placed over
the top half foot of each of the branches, lanceolate, acute,
six to nine inches long, three-quarters of an inch to an inch
broad at the middle, narrowed to a quarter of an inch above
the deltoidly dilated clasping base, bright green, with the

NOVEMBER Ist, 1877.

midrib visible on the under side, except near the tip. Panicle
deltoid, erect, shortly peduncled, usually about a foot long
and broad, with several densely-flowered spreading branches,
bracteated by lanceolate reduced leaves ; pedicels solitary, an
eighth to a quarter of an inch long, articulated at the tip;
bracts membranous, the upper ones deltoid, shorter than the
pedicels, the lower ones lanceolate. Perianth whitish, half
to three-quarters of an inch long, the tube very short.
Stamens reaching to the tip of the perianth-segments; the
filament five or six times as long as the pale yellow linear-
oblong anther. Berry passing from orange to red, generally
globose and one-seeded.—-J. G. Baker.

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VANDA ca#ruescens, var. BoxaLu.

Native of Transgangetic India.

Nat. Ord. Orcutpackm.—Tribe Vanpex.

Genus Vanna, Lindl. (Bot. Reg. 1843 ; Mise. p. 14).

Vanna caerulescens, Griff. (Bot. Mag. 5834), var. Bowallii ; sepalis petalisque
lateralibus pallidioribus, labello violaceo"disco albo-lineato.—Reichenb. Jil.
in Gard. Chron, 1877, pt. i. p. 749.

This lovely form of Vanda caerulescens, a species already
well represented in this Magazine (Tab. 5834) was figured
from a specimen flowered by Messrs. Low, of Clapton, last
June. It is merely a horticultural form of the type-species,
presenting no tangible botanical difference entitling it to
rank as a variety. Those specimens, in which the outer
perianth becomes pure white, must be especially charming.
In the flowers figured they are a very pale violet.

_ Descr. Stem and leaves as in Vanda caerulescens, the
latter numerous, rigidly distichous, with an obliquely toothed
apex, four to six inches long, half to three-quarters of an
inch broad, strongly keeled. Raceme many-flowered from
the lower axils, in our specimen rather shortly pedunculate ;
pedicel and ovary one inch to one and a quarter inch in
length, subtended by very small ovate or lanceolate bracts.
Flowers one inch to one and a quarter inch in diameter ;
NOVEMBER Ist, 1877,

sepals and petals nearly equal, obtuse or retuse, pale violet
or nearly white. Lip rather shorter than the sepals, the disk
with smooth longitudinal ridges, with dark blue or violet
stripes alternating with white ones, passing into deep violet
at the dilated extremity with its bilobate convexity.—D.
Oliver.

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ZECHMEA (Cunvartiera) Veitchii.

Native of New Granada.

Nat. Ord. Bromeniacem.—Tribe ANANASSER,

Genus Aicumea, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Peru. tab. 264.

Ecumea (Chevalliera) Veitchii ; acaulis, stolonifera, foliis 12-15 loratis rigide co-
riaceis pedalibus vel sesquipedalibus facie glabris viridibus dorso prorsus albo-
lepidotis haud zonatis margine dentibus crebris minutis brunneis armatis,
scapo pedali bracteis pluribus viridibus firmis lanceolatis adpressis dentatis
predito, floribus in capitulum densum oblongum dispositis, bracteis
squarrosis dentatis cartilagineis splendide rubris calyce paulo longioribus,
ovario inquilateraliter globoso facie exteriori magis convexo, sepalis
lanceolato-deltoideis acutis haud mucronatis ovario longioribus, petalis
pallidis parvis lingulatis, genitalibus sepalis subequilongis, staminibus
petalinis basi squamulis parvis preeditis.

CuHEvALLIERA Veitchii, Morren in litt.

This is a very fine new Bromeliad, discovered by Gustave
Wallis in New Granada in 1874, and introduced this present
year into cultivation by Messrs. Veitch. It is closely allied
to the Costa-rican ichmea Marice-regine of Wendland, and
belongs tothe section Chevalliera, which was proposed asa genus
by Gaudichaud (Atlas, Voy. de la Bonite, tab. 61-62), and has
been maintained as such by Grisebach and Morren. Chevalliera
differs from Hohenbergia, under which most of the cultivated
Aichmeas fall, by the heads being so tightly packed that the
ovary and calyx have become unequal-sided by pressure,
instead of remaining symmetrically globose, and both
Chevalliera and Hohenbergia recede from the original species
of Aichmea by their central inflorescence and shorter and less
protruded petals and stamens. In addition to these, [ am

_ disposed to look upon Hoplophytum, Pothuava, Pironneava,

Canistrum and Ortgiesia as mere sections of Auchmea.
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Descr. Acaulescent, stoloniferous. Produced /eaves twelve
to fifteen, forming a dense basal rosette, lorate, horny in
texture, reaching a length of twelve or fifteen inches, and a
breadth of under two inches above the.middle, so deeply
channelled that they are semicircular in horizontal section in
the lower half, bright green, and quite naked all down the
face, thinly white-lepidote all down the back without any
transverse bands, deltoid-cuspidate at the point, the edge
bordered all down with close small erecto-patent lanceolate
brown teeth. Scape about a foot long, central, entirely
hidden by the imbricated lanceolate adpressed green horny
toothed bracts. Flowers in a dense oblong head, three or
four inches long, and under a couple of inches in diameter,
each subtended by a squarrose bright scarlet horny toothed _
bract; upper bracts without any flowers in their axils.
Ovary globose, a quarter of an inch long, the side nearest the
axis much less convex than the outer one. Sepals lanceolate-
deltoid, connivent, under half an inch long, bright scarlet in
the lower flowers of the head, white in the upper ones, acute,
but not spine-tipped. Petals pale, lingulate, imperfectly
developed in the specimen drawn. Stamens about as long as
the calyx, those opposite the petals furnished with a pair
of small scales at the base—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, A single flower, and its clasping bract; 2, petaline stamen and its
basal scales ; 3, pistil:—all magnified.

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CALCEOLARIA torata.

Native of Peru and Bolivia.

Nat. Ord. ScropHuLARIAcEE.—Tribe CALCEOLARIEA.

Genus Catcrotarta, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. p. 929).

CaLLEoLARiA (Jovellana) lobata ; herbacea vel basi frutescens glanduloso-pilosula
ramis erectis adscendentibusve, foliis longiuscule petiolatis rotundato-cor-
datis 5-7-lobatis dentatis, cymis sepius corymbiformibus v. laxe paniculatis,
calycis viscoso-pubescentis laciniis ovatis v. oblongo-ovatis obtusiusculis,
corollz labio superiore brevissimo, inferiore elongato oblongo-obovato incurvo
basi longe contracto ultra medium aperto.

C. lobata, Cav. Je. et Deser. Plant. vol. p. 26, tab. 443, fig. 1; Benth. in DC.
Prodr. vol. x. p. 206. :

We are indebted to Messrs. Veitch for this very interesting
addition to our cultivated species of Calceolaria. It is a
dense-growing herb from seven or eight inches to a foot or
‘more in height, flowering profusely in the autumn. The
corolla is pale yellow with deep brown-purple spots towards
the base of the lower lip, which is remarkably long and
folded back upon itself about the middle.

Descr. An ascending or decumbent herb, freely branching
from the base, more or less glandular-pubescent throughout.
Leaves opposite, on rather long petioles or the upper ones
shortly petiolate, from half-an-inch to 3 inches in diameter,
roundish with a cordate base, and palmately 5- to 7-lobed, the
lobes unequally toothed. Cymes terminal, but shortly pedun-
culate ; pedicels half to one inch in length. lowers a clear

NOVEMBER lst, 1877.

rather pale yellow with warm red-purple spots on the lip.
Calyzx-lobes herbaceous, glandular-hairy, ovate or ovate-oblong,
rather obtuse. Corolla with a very short tumid rounded
upper lip, lower lip elongate obovate-oblong rounded and
entire at the extremity, sharply recurved a little beyond the
middle.—D, Oliver.

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BOLLEA LALINDEI.

Native of New Granada.

Nat. Ord. Orcu1paceEm.—Tribe VanpER.

Genus Bouxea (Reichenb. fil. in Mohl & Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. vol. 1852,
p. 667.) :

Botrea Lalindei ; aff. Bolles violacee, Reichenb. fil. ; foliis anguste cuneato-
ligulatis acutis, floribus solitariis, sepalis latis oblongo-ovatis petalis
lateralibus late oblongis subplanis, labello a basi hastato triangulo antice
utrinque implicito, hinc quasi grosse tridentato, sinubus inter dentes obtusan-
gulis, callo in disco multisulcato columna angustiori utrinque angulato, sulcis
rugosis, angulo deorsum verso.—Achb,

B. Lalindei, Reichenb. fil. in Gard. Chron. 1874, part ii. p. 33.

For the discovery of this beautiful species we are indebted
to Mr. Lalinde, of Medellin. A fresh flower was furnished to
Dr. Reichenbach, by Messrs. Veitch, in 1874, apropos of
which the notice in ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ cited above, was
drawn up. Our figure is from a specimen flowered by Messrs.
Williams, of Holloway, last August, which differs materially
in colour from the plant described by Reichenbach. In the
latter the flower is of a beautiful bright violet with the tip
of the upper sepal green, the lower half of the lower sepals
brownish-putple; the lip deep orange and the column deep
purplish. Notwithstanding these great differences in color-
ation, there is no doubt as to the agreement of the speci-
men here figured with Reichenbach’s specific description in
the diagnostic characters taken from the peculiar form of the
lip, and the great breadth of the column which completely
arches over the plaited palate.

I have already in this Magazine under Tab. 6214 and 6240,
given it as my opinion that Bod/ea should, with Pescatorsa and
other genera there enumerated, be regarded as sections of

NOVEMBER lst, 1877.

Zygopetalum, and a consideration of B. Lalindei tends to
confirm me in this opinion. |

Descr. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, gradually nar-
rowed below into the petiole, one foot long more or less, about
one and a half inches broad, strongly five-nerved. Flowers two
and a half to three inches broad on peduncles about 3 inches
long, one-flowered with two or three sheathing bracts. Sepals
spreading and recurved at the lips, broadly ovate-oblong, ob-
tuse, rose-coloured with straw-coloured tips, the lower margin
of the lateral ones also straw-coloured. Petals spreading,
undulate, oblong, obtuse, rose-coloured with white margins.
_ Lip ovate hastate, margins and tip recurved, the latter ob-
tusely pointed, golden yellow; disk with raised close-pressed,
blunt, smooth lamelle. Column broader than the raised disk
of the lip, arched, rose-coloured.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Column; 2, lip: —both enlarged.

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LILIUM wNEILGHERRENSE.

Native of the Mountains of Peninsular India.

Nat. Ord. Liniackm.—Tribe Turnrren.

Genus Litium, Linn, (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xiv. p. 225).

Lito neilgherrense; bulbo magno globoso rhizomatoso squamis ovato-lanceolatis
albis, caulibus strictis validis erectis 1-3-floris 1-2-pedalibus, foliis 30-40 lan-
ceolatis sessilibus 5-nervatis firmis viridibus utrinque glabris, perianthii infun-
dibularis albi suaveolentis 6-10-pollaris tubo segmentis falcatis oblongis
sesquilongioribus, staminibus parallelis perianthio distincte brevioribus,
antheris magnis polline luteo, pistillo staminibus equilongo,

L. neilgherrense, Wight, Icones, tab. 2031-2082 ; Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc, vol.
xiv. p. 230; Floral Magazine, new series, tab. 237.

L. tubiflorum, Wight, Icones, tab. 2033-2034; Duchartre Obs. sur le Genre Lis,
p. 71.

LL. Wallichianum, Wight, Zeones, tab. 2035 ; non Schultes fil.
L. Metzii, Steudel in Hohenack. Plant Ind. Or. Exsice. No. 954.

L. neilgherricum, Hort. Veitch.; Lemaire Jil. Hort. vol, x. tab. 353; Planch. in
Flore des Serres, tab, 2266-2267.

This is the only Lily of the mountains of Southern India.
It inhabits the Neilgherries and Pulnies, at an elevation of
about eight thousand feet above sea-level. It is closely allied
to L. Waillichianum of the Himalayas, L. philippinense of the
Philippine islands, and LZ. longiflorum, japonicum, and Browni
of China and Japan. It was introduced by Mr. Thomas
Lobb in 1862, but failed to become established, and has
lately been imported again in considerable quantity by
Messrs. Veitch and others. The present plate was taken
from a specimen that flowered with Messrs. Veitch in 1876.
I have no hesitation in regarding as slight forms of one
species the three plants figured by Dr. Wight, and cannot
follow the view lately expressed by Dr. Planchon in the ‘Flore

DECEMBER Ist, 1877.

des Serres’ in separating Lemaire’s L. neilgherricum, which I
cannot see is distinguishable even as a variety.

Descr. Bulb globose, two to three inches in diameter,
developed upon a rhizome which reaches a length of half a
foot ; scales thick, white, ovate-lanceolate. Stem one to two
feet high, green, glabrous, stiffly erect, half an inch thick in
the lower part. Leaves moderately crowded, all scattered,
thirty or forty to a stem, sessile, lanceolate, three or four
inches long, half or three-quarters of an inch broad at the
middle, firm in texture, bright green, strongly five-nerved,
glabrous even on the ribs beneath. Flowers one, two, or
three, horizontal or nearly so, pure white except the outside
of the tube which is greenish, fragrant, narrowly funnel- .
shaped, varying in length from six to ten inches, the per-
manently connivent claws of the segments half as long again
as their faleate oblong limb, which in the three inner ones
is usually half as broad again as in the three outer. Stamens
about three-quarters as long as the perianth; anthers some-
_ times an inch long; pollen bright yellow. Ovary cylindrical,
above an inch long; style thickened gradually above the
middle, reaching to the top of the Stamens; stigma capitate,
deeply three-lobed.— J. G. Baker.

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ALLOPLECTUS PELTATUS.

Native of Costa Rica.

Nat. Ord. GrsneRaceEm.—Subtribe CoLUMNEEM.

Genus Attor.ectus, Martius (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 1008).

Attor.ectus peltatus ; fruticosus erectus glaber, foliis oppositis petiolatis carno- -
sulo-coriaceis altero ovali-oblongo apiculato basi rotundato peltato altero
multoties minore, floribus axillaribus sepius 2-3-fasciculatis pedicellatis,
calyce 5-partito rubro-purpureo lobo postico minore cxteris lanceolatis
obliquis, corolle tubo calyce longiore limbo bilabiato, labio superiore bifido
inferiore tripartito, segmentis obovato-rotundatis denticulato-fimbriatis,
glandula disci carnosa ovata ovario breviore postica.

Introduced by Messrs. Veitch from Costa Rica, where it
was collected by the late M. Endres, and flowering from
July to the present month (November) in our stoves. This
is another of those Gesneriads remarkable in having one leaf
of each pair permanently rudimentary, as, for example, in
Columnea aureo-nitens (Bot. Mag. 4294), with farther and,
so far as I know, unique peculiarity in this genus of a
distinctly peltate leaf-blade, the insertion of the stout petiole
being a quarter to one third of an inch within the rounded
base of the blade.

Dusor. Shrubby, one and a half to two feet high, wholly
glabrous excepting the young leaves which are ciliate at
first as are also the segments of the calyx. Branches stout,
sub-terete, marked with leaf-scars, the internodes smooth.
Leaves opposite, but one of each pair fully developed, on a
stout terete petiole one to two inches in length, blade oval-
oblong rather coriaceous and somewhat fleshy, acute or
apiculate, base rounded and peltate, six to nine inches long,
one and three-quarters to two and a half inches broad, at

DECEMBER lst, 1877.

first ciliolate, early glabrous. Flowers in sessile few-flowered
fascicles, more rarely solitary, from the axils of the present
or of fallen leaves, on pedicels a half to three-quarters of an
inch long ; bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, shorter
than the pedicels. Calye 5-partite, red-purple, segments
lanceolate subacute one inch long, excepting the posterior
segment which is much shorter, lateral segments oblique.
Corolla pale yellow, throat and base of lobes passing into
orange-brown; tube curved, constricted below, and again
dilated around the ovary ; limb bilabiate, upper. lip deeply
bifid, lower lip tripartite, segments like those of the upper
lip obovate-rotundate, the median lobe larger and rotundate,
all more or less fimbriate-dentate. Stamens included, four,
inserted near base of corolla-tube; the glabrous filaments
cohering below in pairs; anthers slightly coherent, two-celled,
obtuse and rounded above, sagittate below, cells. contiguous.
Ovary superior, ovoid, narrowed into the style, minutely
papillose, one-celled with four mutiovulate placentas ; stigma
slightly compressed and laterally dilated, undivided, strongly

papillose. Gland of disk posterior, ovate, about half the
length of the ovary —D. Oliver.

Figs. 1, Corolla laid open; 2, pistil and disk.

6334,

Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Imp.

pcan SORA ON A I amB ye,

W.H Fitch, Del et Lith.

Tas. 6334,

STENOSPERMATIUM Wattistr.

Native of Columbia.

Nat. Ord. ArorpE&.—Tribe CALLER.

Genus StenosperMaAtiuM, Schott (Prodr. Syst. Aroid. p. 346).

SrenosrermMatium Wallisii; caudice assurgente ad nodos radices emittente,
foliis approximatis longiuscule petiolatis basi vaginantibus lamina oblongo-
vel ovato-lanceolatis acutis basi oblique rotundatis, pedunculis folio breviori-
bus v. subequilongis erectis apice recurvis, spadice cylindraceo obtuso
pedunculato nutante spatha albida rotundata concava v. late cymbiforme
breviore.

S. Wallisii, @. 7. Masters in Gard, Chron. 1875, I. p. 558 (cum ic. xylog.).

One of Mr, Wallis’ important discoveries in Tropical
America, introduced to cultivation by Messrs. Veitch ; ex-
hibited two years ago in flower, and described, together
with an excellent woodcut and detailed analysis, by Dr.
Masters in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle’ about the same time.

The pure ivory-white nodding spathes, freely developed
amongst the clustered dark shining green leaves, render this
plant one of the most valuable of our stove Aroids for orna-
mental culture. It belongs to asmall genus consisting
altogether of but four or five species, peculiar to Columbia,
Peru, and Northern Brazil.

Duscr. Stem erect or ascending two to three feet high,
terete, glabrous, about as thick as the thumb, giving off
copious wrial roots from the lower nodes. Leaves rather
numerous, dark-green and shining above, paler beneath,
lamina obliquely-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acute or acumin-
ate, base unequally rounded; midrib depressed above, pro-
minent beneath, venation rather obscure ; about’six to seven
inches long, two to three inches broad ; petiole closely am-
plexicaul, laterally compressed and slightly channelled

DECEMBER Ist, 1877.

above, about one inch in length; the sheath three to four
inches long. Pedunele slender, erect, recurved at the ex-
tremity, equalling or shorter than the leaves. Spathe ivory-
white, roundish, deeply concave, apiculate, at length
deciduous. Spadix distinctly pedunculate, shorter than the
spathe, about two inches long, cylindrical, obtuse, densely
covered with hermaphrodite flowers. Perianth wanting.
Stamens 4, filaments flattened, dilated below ; anthers 2-
celled, cells broadly divergent at base, at apex ultimately
confluent. Ovary turbinate, truncate, 4-6-sided, 2-celled
(not 1-celled, as figured), with 4-6 erect ovules in each cell ;
upper portion of the ovary solid; stigma sessile, centrical.—
D. Oliver.

Fig. 1, Ovary and stamens; 2, detached stamen; 3, transverse section of
ovary, the dissepiment not shown; 4 and 5, longitudinal sections of ovary —all
magnified.

6335.

Vincent Brooks, Day & Son,Imp

WH Fitch, Del et Lith.

Tas. 6335.
GLADIOLUS Ecxtonr.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Nat. Ord. Inmpackm—Tribe GrapDIoLER®.

Genus Giapio.us, Tourn. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe, vol. xvi. p. 170).

Grapiotus Hekloni ; bulbo magno globoso, collo setoso, tunicis brunneis in fibras
parallelas dissolutis, foliis productis circiter 4 ensiformibus acutis
subpedalibus glabris rigide coriaceis venis et marginibus incrassatis, caule
subpedali folioso, spica densa 6-12-flora semipedali, spathe valvis magnis
lanceolatis, perianthii tubo curvato 9-12 lin. longo, limbi crebre minute
purpureo-rubro punctati segmentis tubo squilongis, tribus- superioribus
ovatis vel oblongis obtusiusculis, tribus inferioribus minoribus unguiculatis,
staminibus limbo duplo brevioribus, filamentis brevissimis, stigmatibus
cuneatis antheras superantibus.

G. Eckloni, Lehm.; Klatt in Linnea, vol. xxxii. p. 712; Baker in Journ. Linn.
Soe. vol. xvi. p. 175.

Nevsert longifolia, Ecklon, Topog. Verz. p. 87 (nomen solum).

G. carneus, Klatt in Linnea, vol. xxxii. p. 722, non Delaroche.

This is a most distinct and beautiful species of Gladiolus,
marked by its comparatively dwarf habit, ensiform leaves,
and as compared with the best-known Cape species small
flowers with innumerable minute spots of bright red purple
on a pale groundwork. It is widely spread in South Africa
extending from Uitenhage northward through Kaffraria to
Natal, and inland to Basuta-land and the Transvaal, As it
ascends to a height of three thousand or four thousand feet
on the Katberg, we may fairly expect it to be as hardy in
England as any of the Cape species. For the specimen
figured we are indebted to Mr. Elwes, who flowered it at
Cirencester in October. He procured it from Mr. Wilson
Saunders, who had it from Mr. Thomas Cooper from the
Drakensberg. We confidently expect it will prove a

pular favourite.
DECEMBER Ist, 1877.

Descr. Bulb globose, an inch and a half in diameter,
the neck crowned with long bristles and the brown tunics
splitting up more or less into parallel fibres. Produced
distichous roof-leaves usually four to a stem, ensiform,
acute, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, attaining a breadth of
an inch or more at the middle, about a foot long, with the
margins and main nerves much thickened. Stem about a
foot long below the spike, sheathed with three or four
reduced leaves. Spike dense, six to twelve-flowered,
reaching a length of half a foot. Spathe-valves green and
moderately firm in texture at the flowering time, lanceolate,
the outer one much the largest, two or three inches long.
Ovary small, oblong; perianth-tube curved, an inch or
rather less long; limb about as long as the tube, the three
upper segments ovate or oblong, subobtuse, the three
lower smaller and unguiculate. Stamens inserted at the
throat of the tube not more than half as long as the
segments; filaments very short, the cuneate stigmas just
overtopping the anthers.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Stigmas and summit of the style; 2, a single stamen :—both magnified.

n, imp.

Day & So

Tas. 6336.
ERANTHEMUM LAXIFLORUM.

Native of Polynesia.

Nat. Ord. AcantHackm—Tribe ErantHEME,

Genus Erantuemum, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. fil. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1097).

Eranturmum laviflorum; fruiticosum glaberrimum, foliis ovalibus vel ovato-
oblongis obtusiuscule acuminatis basi angustatis, pedunculis axillaribus folio
brevioribus sepius bifcliiferis cymosim pauci- vel multifloris, pedicellis
spe calyce longioribus, laciniis calycinis subulatis, corolla purpurea hypo-
craterimorpha lobis subsequalibus subellipticis obtusis.

E. laxiflorum, 4. Gray in Proce. Am. Acad. vol. v. p. 349; Seemann, £1.
Vitiensis, p. 185, tab. 42. -

For this very desirable addition to our autumn-flowering
Acanthads we are indebted to Messrs. Veitch, for whom it
was introduced from the New Hebrides. Specimens are also
in the Kew Herbarium from the Fiji Islands, collected by
the late Dr. Seemann, where he states (I. ¢.) that it is
frequently cultivated by the European settlers as an orna-
mental plant.

Descr. Shrub or half-shrub attaining from two to four feet
in height, wholly glabrous; stem smooth subterete or
obscurely tetragonous. Leaves petiolate, oval or lanceolate-
or ovate-oblong, narrowed to each end, apex scarcely acute,
of the flowering branches usually two to three and a half
inches long; two-thirds to one and a quarter of an inch broad,
the lower ones, according to Dr. Seemann sometimes
eight to nine inches long and four to five inches broad ;
petioles of upper leaves one-sixth to one-half of an inch long.
Cymes few- or many-flowered, axillary, pedunculate, usually
with a pair of foliaceous bracts; pedicels equalling or
exceeding the calyx. Calyx divided to nearly the base into
five erect subulate subequal segments, several times shorter
than the corolla-tube. Corolla purple, hypocrateriform ;
tube cylindrical, exceeding the five-partite spreading limb,

DECEMBER lst, 1877.

‘the ‘segments of which are approximately equal, ovate-
elliptical, rather obtuse. Stamens two, a little exserted,
anthers recurved at length, each with two contiguous

equal unappendaged cells. Ovary oblong, conical, glabrous.—
— Dz. Oliver. :

Fig. 1, Corolla laid open; 2, calyx and pistil; 3, ovary’:—enlarged.

INDEX
To Vol. XXXIII of the Turrp Serres, or Vol. CIIT. of

the Work.
—
JEchmea (Chevalliera) | 6282
Veitchii. | 6306
Agave (littcea) Sartorii. 6382
Allium unifolium. 6274
Alloplectus peltatus. 6303
Aloe chinensis. _ 6273
Aloe tricolor. 6312
Arthropodium neo-cale-
donicum. — 6299
Bauhinia petiolata. |
Bollea Lalindei. | 6325
Boronia elatior. | 6311
Buddleia asiatica. | 6317

Calceolaria lobata.

Calliphruria subedenta.

Camassia esculenta, var.
Leichtlinii.

Carissa grandiflora.

Ceropegia barkleyi.

Cordia decandra.

Cypripedium Haynaldianum.

Dendrobium erystallinum.

Dracena reflexa.

~ Dracocephalum speciosum.
-Drimiopsis Kirkii.

Dyckia frigida.
Epidendrum Sophronitis.
Eranthemum laxiflorum.
Fritillaria acmopetala.
Fritillaria dasyphylla.
Gladiolus Eckloni.
Gladiolus ochroleucus.
Globba Schomburgkii.
Gongora portentosa.
Haplopappus spinulosus.
Houlletia picta.

6278

6322
— 6286
6318

6288

6300
6283
6334
6272
6293

— 6295
— 6309

ann enn

Hypolytrum latifolium,
Tris speculatrix.
Lilium neilgherrense.
Livistona australis.
Lycaste Linguella.
Masdevallia attenuata.
Mesembryanthemum
Cooperi.
Mesembryanthemum
Sutherlandii.
Microstylis Josephiana.
Notylia albida.
Odontoglossum cirrhosum.
Oncidium cheirophorum.
Oncidium Euxanthinum.
Pectis angustifolia.
Pitcairnia flavescens.
Restrepia antennifera.
Rondeletia Backhousii.
Salvia Schimperi.
Solanum acanthodes.
Stenospermatium Wallisii.
Telfairia occidentalis.
Thapsia garganica.
Tigridia lutea.
Tillandsia usneoides.
Tovaria oleracea.
Tulipa Orphanidea.
Tulipa pulchella.
Tulipa undulatifolia.
Tupistra macrostigma.
Vanda cerulescens, var.
Boxallii.
Xanthisma texanum.
Xanthorrheea minor.
Yucea orchioides, var. major.