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In grateful remembrance of his services to the cause of Hor-
ticulture; and as a tribute to his worth, his many accom-
plishments, his extensive and accurate knowledge of hardy
plants, his ardour and success in cultivating them, and his
liberality in encouraging others in this pursuit, to which he

devoted his time, his means, and his opportunities,

Royat Garpens, Kew,

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PITCAIRN ITA wvORALLINA,

Native of New Granada.

Nat. Ord. Brometracr®.—Tribe Pircatrniex.

zequilongis.

Baker in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1881, p. 272.

care of Mr. Charles Green.

JANUARY Ist, 1882,

Genus Pircartrnia, L’ Herit. ; (Baker in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1881, p. 225.)

PircairniA corallina; acaulis, cespitosa, foliis rosulatis, exterioribus rudimentariis
scariosis integris, centralibus 6-8 productis longe petiolatis lanceolatis acumi-
natis medio recurvatis plicatis facie viridibus glabris dorso albo-furfuraceis,
pedunculo cernuo subpedali glabro rubro, racemo pendulo subdenso, pedicellis
brevibus, bracteis parvis lanceclatis, sepalis lanceolatis splendide rubris, petalis
lingulatis basi appendiculatis calyce triplo longioribus, genitalibus petalis

P. corallina, Linden et André; Carriére in Rev, Hort. 1875, p. 321, cum icone ;

This is a most distinct plant, the finest for decorative
purposes of all the seventy known species of the genus. Its
= broad plicate leaves narrowed into a long petiole, and its
: dense drooping racemes of large spreading flowers, in which

peduncle, axis, calyx and corolla are all of one brilliant
Z, coral-red, mark it at a glance from all the other species,
and stamp it as one of the most effective of all the cultivated
Bromeliaceze. It was introduced about 1870, by Linden
from the Andes of the province of Choco, in New Granada.
It flowered for the first time in Europe with Baron Roths-
child at Ferrieres near Paris in 1874. Our drawing was
made from a plant that flowered last spring with Sir George
Macleay at Pendell Court, near Bletchingley, under the

Duscr. Acaulescent, densely ceespitose. Leaves rosu-
late, the outer unproduced ones hard and dry, without any
marginal spines ; produced leaves six or eight to a rosette,
with an erect petiole about a foot long, which is margined
by small decurved horny brown spines, and a lanceolate
lamina two or three feet in length, three or four inches

broad at the middle, tapering gradually to the base and
acuminate apex, plicate like the leaf of a Curculigo, recurving
abruptly from about the middle when mature, green and
glabrous on the face, while furfuraceous over the back.
Peduncle arising from the base of the tuft of leaves,
abruptly recurved, about a foot long, bright red like the
flowers, as are also the axis of the raceme and the pedicels.
Raceme drooping, moderately dense, a foot long; pedicels
about a quarter of an inch long, spreading or cernuous ;
bracts small, lanceolate, scariose. Sepals lanceolate, horny,
an inch long. Petals lingulate, exserted a couple of inches
beyond the sepals, furnished with a large oblong basal
scale, which is free at the summit and along the edges.
Stamens as long as the petals; filament white, filiform ;
anther linear, half an inch long; pollen yellow. Ovary
ampulleform, immersed at the base only; style filiform,

about two inches long; stigmas spirally twisted—QJ. G.
Baker,

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ABELIA SPATHULATA.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Capriroriacem.—Tribe LonicEREX.
Genus ApEtia, Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 4.)

ABELIA spathulata; ramulis foliisque subtus v. utrinque sericeo-puberulis v.
glabratis, foliis oppositis elliptico-lanceolatis obtuse acuminatis sinuato-serrulatis
in petiolum brevissimum angustatis, floribus 2-nis terminalibus pedunculo
brevi gracili sessilibus, bracteis minutis caducis, ovario tenui pubescente,
calycis lobis 4-5 oblongo-spathulatis obtusis roseis reticulatis, corolla elba fauce
aureo-maculata e basi breviter tubuloso campanulata, lobis 5 rotundatis,
staminibus inclusis, filamentis pilosis. :

A. spathulata, Sieb. et Zuce. Fl. Jap. vol. i. p. 77, t. 34, f. 2.

The Japanese species of Abelia are not easily distinguished,
varying much as they do in habit, pubescence, form and.
margin of leaf, and size of flower; and I have some difficulty
in discriminating between A. spathulata, A. serrata, A. biflora,
and A, wniflora. The subject of the plate here given is
unquestionably A. spathulata, 8. & Z., best recognized by
the minute bracts, the four or five oblong-spathulate
spreading rosy calyx-lobes, and the large flower. Its
nearest ally is A. serrata, 8S. & Z., with larger bracts,
usually only two elliptic-oblong calyx-lobes and a narrower
corolla, gradually narrowed into the basal tube. Of A.
biflora, Turez., a Chinese plant, I have seen no authentic
specimens; it is said to have a tribracteole peduncle, and a
four-fid corolla. A. uniflora, Br., again, figured in this
work (Tab. 4694, doubtfully the plant of Brown), has minute
bracts, corollas larger than d. spathulata, and two very
large oblong calyx-lobes ; A. serrata, 8. & Z., is referred to
it under the above-cited plate, but the form of the corolla
of the two is widely different, that of the figure being quite
like A. spathulata, whilst that of the true A. serrata is, as
described above, much narrower and more funnel-shaped.

JANUARY Ist, 1882.

A fifth snpposed species is the north Chinese A. Davidii,
Hance. in Seemann’s Journ. Bot. vol. vi. p. 329, and vol.
xiii. p. 132; it closely resembles A. serrata, and its author
suspected it at first to be referable to A. biflora, but latterly
he regarded it as distinct on account of its bractless
peduncles; as, however, I find minute deciduous bracts In @
specimen of an otherwise identical plant from north China,
no reliance can be placed on this character.

A. spathulata is a beautiful free-flowering hardy shrub,
introduced by M. Maries when travelling for Messrs. Veitch
in Japan. ‘The specimen figured was sent from Combe
Wood nurseries in April of last year.

Descr. A much-branched shrub; branches slender,
opposite, divaricate, ultimate pubescent or silky. Leaves
about two inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely acumi-
nate, obscurely or more strongly sinuate-toothed, glabrous
above, slightly pubescent beneath, pale green with purplish
edges, base contracted into a very short silky petiole.
Flowers sessile in pairs on a short slender peduncle at the
tips of the lateral branchlets, minutely two-bracteoled at the
base. Ovary very slender, sparingly silky, one-third of an
inch long. Calyz-lobes four or five, one-quarter of an inch
long, obovate- or oblong-spathulate, obtuse, stellately
spreading, reticulate, rose-red. Corolla nearly an inch long,
between funnel and bell-shaped, contracted at the base into
a short narrow tube, white with yellow blotches in the

throat, puberulous or glabrous; lobes rounded, subequal.

Stamens included, filaments hairy. Stigma three-lobed.—
Jv. i.

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LESPEDEZA sitcotor.

Native of North China and Japan.

Nat. Ord. Leguminos%.—Tribe HepDYSAREX.
Genus LespepEza, Michaux; (Benth, et Hook.f. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p. 524.)

Lesrepeza bicolor; frutex gracilis, ramis angulatis cinereo-puberulis, ramulis
gracillimis brevibus v. elongatis rectis curvis v. pendulis, foliis gracile petiolatis
et petiolulatis oblongis v. elliptico-lanceolatis acutis v. obtusis rarius obovatis
obcordatis v. orbiculatis muticis ¥. apiculatis glaberrimis v. subtus puberulis,
racemis axillaribus elongatis longe v. breve pedun~ulatis erectis v. cernuis
multifloris, floribus oppositis alternis et subverticillatis pedicellatis, calyce
pubescente v. sericeo tubo brevi, lobis lanceolatis acuminatis, corolla late roseo-

urpurea calyce triplo longiore, vexillo late ovato breviter unguiculato margini-
bas recurvis, alis oblongo-falcatis obtusis, carina alis longiore vexillum xequante
apice rotundata, legumine parvo sessili v. breviter stipitato oblique ovato-
rotundato membranaceo basi acuto apice tenuiter rostrato, marginibus tenuiter
incrassatis, faciebus longe reticulatis, semine oblongo-rotundato testa levi
brunnea.

L, bicolor, Turezan. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xiv. 69; Walp. Rep. i. 749; Ledeb.
Fl. Ross. vol. i. p. 715; Maxim. Fl. Amurens. p. 86; Regel Gartenft.
vol. ix. p. 270, t. 299.

L. Sieboldii, Miguel Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. vol. iii. p. 47.

Desmodium japonicum, Hort.

D. penduliflorum, Oudem. in Neerlands. Plantenkuin ex Wan Houtte Ff.
des Serres, vol. xviii. t. 1888-9; Carriére in Rev. Hortic. 1873, p. 211,
cum ic.

This is one of the most beautiful hardy shrubs that has
of late years been introduced into Europe, alike remark-
able for its graceful habit, elegant foliage, and the beauty
of its copious bright rose-purple racemes. It has a
wide range in North-Eastern Asia, from Pekin and the
Corean Peninsula, the Amoo and Ussuri rivers, to Japan ;
and in its native country it varies much in habit, in the
shape of the leaflets, length of the racemes, and size and
colour of the flowers.

The celebrated traveller and botanist Maximoyicz was
the first to introduce L. bicolor into Europe, he having

JANUARY Ist, 1882,

sent seed to the Botanic Gardens of St. Petersburg from
the Ussuri river, a southern tributary of the Amoor m
Mantchuria, in the year 1858. The specimen here figured
flowered in an open border of the Leguminous collection in
the Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in October last.

Descr. A slender leafy shrub, three feet high and up-
wards ; stem angular, usually hoary ; branches very sees
often elongate and pendulous. Leaves three-foliolate, petio 6
very slender, one-fourth of an inch to three inches long;
leaflets very variable, one-half to two inches long, elliptic
oblong obovate obcordate or rounded, tip rounded or acute,
with or without a short or long mucro, petiolules short
slender, upper surface smooth glabrous, under glabrous
or pubescent; nerves numerous, spreading, very slender.
Racemes axillary, rarely terminal also, short or long, often
six to nine inches long and drooping or suberect ; peduncle
and rachis very slender, glabrous pubescent or silky; bracts
minute, subulate. Flowers opposite alternate and fascicled,
one-third to two-thirds of an inch long; pedicel slender.
Calyx one-fourth of an inch long, with two minute bracteoles
at the base, pubescent or silky; tube short; lobes lanceo-
late, acuminate, straight. Corolla three times as long as
the calyx, bright rose-purple, white or violet; standard
ovate, very shortly clawed, reflexed with recurved margins ;
wings shorter than the standard, falcately oblong, obtuse.
Upper stamen free. Pod one-quarter of an inch long,
membranous, flattened, obliquely ovate-rotundate or subtra-
peziform, base narrowed, point-beaked, margins slightly

thickened, faces reticulate. Seed flattened, orbicular-oblong,
testa brown smooth.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Section of calyx, staminal tube, and ovary; 2, calyx and bractevles;
3, standard; 4, wing

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SAXIFRAGA DIVERSIFOLIA. —

Native of the Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. SaxtrraGEx.—Tribe EusaxtrraGex.

Genus Saxtrraga, Linn. ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 635.)

SaxrrraGa (Hirculus) diversifolia; caule erecto folioso superne corymboso-ramoso
glanduloso y. glabrato inferne glabro v, subvilloso, foliis radicalibus gracile
petiolatis ovatis v. ovato-cordatis acutis integerrimis, caulinis sessilibus ovatis
v. ovato-oblongis acutis semi-amplexicaulibus, marginibus basi spe glanduloso-
pilosis, corymbo glanduloso-pubescente foliaceo-bracteato, ramis erecto- patentibus
pauci- v. multifloris, floribus pedicellatis aureis, calycis tubo brevi obconico
5-gono, limbi segmentis ovato-oblongis obtusis dorso glandulosis, petalis
obovatis patenti-reflexis obscure impresso-punctatis marginibus nudis y. basin
versus glandulis paucis stipitatis, stylis brevibus, capsula ovato-oblonga,
seminibus angulatis subplicatis.

S. diversifolia, Wall. in Sternb. Saxifr. Suppl. t. 22; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 44;
Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. iv. t. 21; Hook. f. et Thoms. in Journ. Linn,
Soc. Bot. vol. ii. p. 70; Engler Monog. Sazifr. p. 125; Clarke in Hook f.
Fil. Brit. Ind. vol. ii. p. 393.

S. parnassifolia, Wall. Cat. n. 451, partim ; Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii.
p. 405; Sternbd, l. ¢. t. 25.

S. Moorcroftiana, Wall. Cat. n. 453; Sternb, Ll. c. t. 24.

S. lysimachoides, Klotzsch in Reise Pr. Wald. Bot. t, 42.

This is by far the largest species of Saxifrage belonging
to the group of S. Hirculus, L., which is eminently a
Himalayan group; the type of it being the only species
that is found beyond that range of mountains, and from
whence it extends westwards into the northern parts of
England and south of Scotland (where, however, it is very
rare), and throughout the Arctic Circle, retaining its
character everywhere with much constancy, except in the
Himalaya, where it is represented by four very marked
varieties,

The habit of 8. diversifolia is quite that of a Parnassia
in respect of its stem and foliage, and it inhabits similarly
boggy places, which it adorns with its bright golden flowers.

JANUARY Ist, 1882.

It is found throughout the range, from Kashmir to Bhotan,
at elevations of 9000 to 17,000 feet, and probably-extends
thence into the mountains of Western China.
S. diversifolia flowered during last year both at the:
Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh and Kew; much more
luxuriantly in the former establishment, from whence the
specimen here figured was sent by Mr. Sadler in July.
Desor. More or less covered with glandular hairs or
glabrous, except the corymb, often laxly villous below.
Stem erect, six to sixteen inches high, strict, cylindric,
simple or corymbosely branched above, leafy. Radical
leaves few or many, long-petioled; petiole one to three ©
inches long, slender, sometimes villous; blade one to two
inches long, ovate or cordate, acute, dark green ; cauline
leaves sometimes very numerous, smaller, sessile, sem-
amplexicaul, ovate oblong or rounded, quite entire, smooth
or with a few glandular hairs at the base. Corymb few or
many-branched and -flowered; branches erecto-patent,
glandular-pubescent, with leafy bracts at the forks, the
uppermost of which are linear. lowers one-half to three-
fourths of an inch in diameter, pedicelled, erect. Calyz-
tube obconic, angled, glandular; lobes much longer than
the tube, ovate-oblong, rounded, glandular at the back and
margins. Petals twice as long as the sepals, obovate, tip
rounded, spreading and recurved, golden yellow, obscurely
spotted. Anthers subglobose. Ovary ‘nearly superior;
conical, bifid; styles very short, stigmatose at the tips

internally. Capsule ovate-oblong. Seeds angled, testa
somewhat folded.— J, D. H.

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CAMBESSEDESIA PARAGUAYENSIS.

Native of Paraguay.

Nat. Ord. Me.astomace®.—Tribe Micronicies.
Genus Campessepgsia, DC.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 737.)

CAMBESSEDESIA paraguayensis ; herba humilis, erecta, hirtella v. glabra, caule
ramisque 4-gonis angulis anguste alatis, foliis sessilibus ovatis acutis 3-nerviis
ciliatis, floribus subcorymboso-paniculatis, calycis glanduloso-pilosi tubo
oblongo-campanulato lobis subulato-lanceolatis breviore, petalis late ovatis
acutis ciliolatis roseis, antheris subsequalibus longioribus basi antice 2-lobis
dorso tumidis, brevoribus basi antice tumidis, ovario glaberrimo, capsula
- globoso-ovoidea calycis tubo inclusa 3-valvi, seminibus minimis levibus.

The genus Cambessedesia consists of nine known species
of South Brazilian plants, with woody rootstocks on stems,
and erect usually simple four-angled herbaceous branches,
growing in grassy plains and rocky exposed places.
All, judging from herbarium specimens, are handsome
plants, and the present species is the first ever introduced
into European gardens. Though hitherto undescribed, I
find specimens exactly corresponding to it in the Kew
Herbarium, collected at Villa Rica in Paraguay by B,
Balansa, during his journeys of 1874—1877 in that hittle-
known country,

The specimen here figured was communicated by Messrs.
K. G. Henderson and Son, of Pine Apple Nursery, Maida
Vale, with whom it flowered in July last.

Drscr. Rootstock short, woody. Stems numerous, ten
to eighteen inches high, annual, herbaceous, leafy, sub-
corymbosely branched above, more or less minutely hispid
or glabrate, four-angled, the angles narrowly winged.
Leaves uniform, three-fourths to nearly one inch long,
sessile, broadly ovate or elliptic-ovate, acute, three-nerved,
pale green, margins quite entire, ciliate. Flowers in
terminal corymbose glandular-hairy panicles, with stiff

JANUARY lst, 1882.

erecto-patent branches, bearing small leaves at the forks.
Flowers two-thirds of an inch in diameter, shortly pedicelled,
erect. Calyx green, glandular; tube one-sixth of an inch
long, oblong-campanulate, five-ribbed, green ; lobes longer
than the tube, subulate-lanceolate. Petals twice as long as
the calyx-lobes, broadly ovate, acute, ciliate, rose-red.
Anthers nearly as long as the petals, nearly equal in size,
slender, faleate, larger with a two-lobed tubercle at the
base in front and a smaller simple tubercle behind ; smaller
anthers with a simple tubercle in front and none behind, |
Ovary quite glabrous, style long, stout, red, deflexed.
Capsule almost globose, enclosed in the calyx-tube, three-

celled, three-valved, valves rather crustaceous. Seeds very
minute.—J. D. H.

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ZEPHYRANTHES cirrina.

Native of Tropical America,

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACEXZ.—Tribe AMARYLLIDER,

Genus ZepHyRANTHES, Serbert ; (Kunth Enum. vol. v. p. 480.)

ZEPHYRANTHES (Argyropsis) ci¢rina ; balbo magno globoso stolonifero, foliis 3-4
synauthiis anguste linearibus viridibus subpedalibus facie profunde canaliculatis
dorso rotundatis, scapo ancipiti vix semipedali, spathd brevi tubulosa, pedicello
producto, perianthii tubo infundibulari ovario longiori, limbi citrini segmentis
oblongis acutis, staminibus exquilongis erectis filamentis brevibus, stylo
perianthio subduplo breviore, lobis stigmatosis subglobosis,

This is an interesting new Zephyranthes, well marked
botanically by the rounded lobes of its stigma, and a
valuable acquisition horticulturally because all the species
of the genus which are in cultivation already have either
white or more or less decidedly red flowers. It was
brought to us for the first time from Messrs. Veitch last
August, when it was in flower. They believe that they
received it from Demerara, but its nearest ally as regards
the structure of its stigma is the well-known Mexican
4. candida of Herbert (Bot. Mag., Tab. 2607), and we
have lately received from Mexico a second yellow-flowered
Species. This was found by Dr. Palmer on the banks of
the Rio Grande, and has a similar tube, but a very much
smaller perianth-limb.

Descr. Bulb globose, with brown membranous tunics,
an inch and a half in diameter, copiously stoloniferous.
Leaves three or four, developed in autumn simultaneously
with the flower, narrow linear, bright green, about a foot
long, deeply channelled down the face, rounded on the
back, a sixth of an inch broad, tinged with red-brown
towards the base. Scape ancipitous, four or five inches
long, green, tinged with red-brown towards the base.

FEBRUARY Isr, 1882.

Spathe short, tubular. Pedicel under an inch long. Ovar
oblong-trigonous, green; perianth with a funnel-sha
tube above the ovary, a third or half an inch long, and
bright yellow limb ‘an inch and a half long of six oblon
subacute connivent segments under half an inch broad.
Stamens the same colour as the perianth-limb; filaments
under an inch long, erect and equal; anthers linear, half
an inch long, their tips falling considerably short of the
tips of the perianth-segments. Style about an inch long,
with a stigma of three distinct rounded lobes.—J. G. Baker. —

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PITCAIRNIA atta.

Native of the West Indies.

Nat. Ord. Bromettacem.— Tribe Pircatrniex.
Genus Pircarrnia, L’Herit. ; (Baker in Trimen Journ, Bot. 1881, p. 225.)

Pircatrnta (Kupitcairnia) alta; acaulis, cxespitosa, foliis basalibus 12-20 lineari-
loratis 2-3-pedalibus acuminatis recurvatis facie viridibus glabris dorso persis-
tenter albo-lepidotis prope basin aculeis paucis corneis marginatis, pedunculo
elongato floccoso foliis pluribus valde reductis praedito, racemis pluribus laxis in
paniculam amplam aggregatis, pedicellis brevibus, bracteis parvis lanceolatis,
sepalis lanceolatis uncialibus splendide rubris, petalis concoloribus calyce duplo
longioribus basi appendiculatis, genitalibus petalis equilongis.

P. alta, Hassk, Retzia, vol. ii. p.5; Baker in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1881, p. 266.

P. ramosa, K. Koch in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 82, non Jacq.

This is the finest, for horticultural purposes, of all the
Pitcairnias of the bromeliefolia group, as it has an inflo-
rescence five or six feet in height, made up of numerous
racemes of flowers in which both calyx and corolla are a
brilliant coral-red. Although it is now figured for the first
time, it has been many years in cultivation, having been first
clearly individualized and excellently described from plants
of unknown origin in the Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg by
Dr. Hasskarl in 1856. Our Kew plant was received many
years ago from Dominica, from Dr. Imray. Our drawing
was made from this when it was in flower last July. A
fine specimen was sent by Mr. Bull to the Kew Herbarium
to be named in October, 1878. A specimen kindly sent
for comparison by the late Dr. Karl Koch shows that this
was the plant intended under the name of Pitcairnia
ramosa in the monograph of the genus which he published
in the Report of the Berlin Garden for 1857, but the true
plant of Jacquin is totally different.

Desor. Acaulescent, densely tufted. Basal leaves from

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twelve to twenty to a flower-stem, linear-lorate, two or
three feet long, three-quarters of an inch or an inch broad
at the middle, narrowed gradually to a long point and to a
quarter of an inch above the dilated base, where it 18
armed with a few small brown-black horny prickles, bright
green on the face, persistently white-lepidote on the under
surface, recurving from about the middle. Pedunele two
or three feet long below the inflorescence, floccose, fur-
nished with a few much-reduced leaves. Ltacemes several,
_very lax, arranged in a deltoid panicles pedicels ascending,

a quarter or half an inch long; bracts lanceolate, scarcely
longer than the pedicels. Calyx bright red, above an inch
long, adhering to the ovary at the cuneate base; sepals
lanceolate. Petals twice as long as the sepals, the same
colour, unilateral when expanded, furnished with a distinct
scale at the base. Stamens as long as the petals; anthers
linear, basifixed, half an inch long. Style reaching up to
the summit of the anthers; stigmas convolute.—J. G. Baker.

A, the whole plant, much reduced ; fig. 1, a petal; 2 : istil ;
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SELEN TA AUREA. "i

Native of Arkansas.

Nat. Ord. CeucIFERm.—-Tribe ALYSSINER.

Genus SeLenta, Nutt. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 72.)

SELENIA aurea; spithamea, glaberrima, a basi ramosa, ramis gracilibus laxe foliosis,
foliis lineari-oblongis pinnatifidis, segmentis lanceolatis acutis grosse pauci-
serratis, floribus gracile pedicellatis in axillis superioribus et in racemum
subcorymbosum foliosum terminalem dispositis, sepalis lineari-oblongis flavo-
viridibus, petalis obovato-spathulatis aureis patentibus sepalis duplo longioribus,
siliqua lineari-oblonga compressa stylo elongato recto terminata, valvis
membranaceis reticulatis costa nulla, septo membranaceo interdum incompleto,
seminibus quovis loculo 4-6, orbicularibus compressis marginibus cartilagineo-
alatis, cotyledonibus accumbentibus.

S. aurea, Nutt. in Journ. Acad. Philad. vol. v. p. 132, t.6; Torr, et Gray, Fl.

N, Am. vol. i. p. 99; Gray Gen. Lil. vol. i. p. 158, t. 67.

North America is not a favoured country in respect of
either the variety or beauty of its Cruciferous vegetation.

It has nothing to compare in stature or boldness of foliage —
with the Brassicas, Crambes, and Isatis of the Old’ World; ©

nothing so showy as our Alyssums, Arabis, Lunaria,

Aubrietia, Malcolmia, and Iberis; nothing so sweet as our.

Mathiolas, Cheiranthus, Hesperis, and Erysimum; nor

has it a herald of earliest spring like our Draba yerna. ©

Nevertheless, Selenia aurea may claim a place in every

garden, whether for the colour or odour of its flowers, or

for the considerable time it remains in flower, in which
point it contrasts favourably with the fugacious nature-of
many annual Crucifers. a

The genus Se/enia is a very peculiar one, consisting of
only two species, natives of the dry North American
regions of Arkansas and Texas, towards the eastern base
of the Rocky Mountains. The specimen here figured was
raised from seed sent to the Royal Gardens by Professor
Asa Gray, which flowered in the open border of the
Herbaceous Grounds in June of last year.

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Desor. A perfectly glabrous annual, erect, ben
from the root, a span high; branches cylindric, ie
leafy throughout. Leaves one to two inches long, by o
third to one-half broad, linear-oblong, pinnatifid : aie
about five to seven pairs, lanceolate, acuminate, ped y
serrate, spreading, rachis narrowly winged. L"lower Pe a
lower solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, on a
pedicels, upper collected in a subcorymbose leafy ger se
pedicels one-fourth to half an inch long, slender, a
Sepals erect, one-fourth of an inch long, seers eee
greenish-yellow. Petals golden-yellow, twice as ee -
the sepals, obovate-spathulate, claw erect, limb esos a
obscurely emarginate. Stamens with slender tere we w
ments and ten small globose glands at their bases ; ee a
shortly oblong. Ovary lanceolate, sessile; style = ae
straight. Pod one-half to three-fourths of an ime ae
linear-oblong, much compressed, two-celled, base acute oF
prolonged into a short stalk, membranous septum pine
times incomplete; style one-third as long as the po ,
valves very membranous, with no midrib and loosely reticu
lated nerves. Seeds four to six to each cell, orbicular,
flattened, with a thickened wing; cotyledons orbicular,
radicle very short, accumbent.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Top of pedicel, with two of the long stamens, glands, and ovary; 2, long
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STERCULIA (BRACHYCHITON) DISCOLOR.

Native of Eastern Australia.

Nat. Ord. SrercurracexZ.—Tribe STERCULIEE.
Genus Srercunta, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Pl. Gen. vol. i. p. 217.)

Srercurta (Brachychiton) discolor ; arbor ramulis foliisque subtus incano-tomen-
tellis v. puberulis, foliis ambitu orbiculatis basi late cordatis v. 2-lobis
sinu angusto 5-7-gonis v. lobis totidem brevibus acutis v. acuminatis
membranaceis supra glabris, floribus spicatim paniculatis 2-3-nis 2-pollicaribus
sessilibus roseis, calyce infundibulari-campanulato dense stellatim tomentoso
ad medium 6-fido lobis erectis ovato-lanceolatis acutis marginibus tenuibus
glabris longe induplicatis, folliculis breviter stipitatis acuminatis intus et extus

hirsuto-tomentosis, seminibus tomentosis.
S. discolor, Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. i. p. 228.
Bracuycurton discolor, F. Muell. Fragment. vol. i. p. 1.

Amongst the most curious features of the Australian
vegetation are the species of a section of Sterculia which
is endemic in Australia. All of them have remarkably
short, stout, and often deformed trunks, which in the case
of the Bottle tree, S. rupestris, is contracted at the top and.
bottom, and swelling out in the middle, rudely resembles
some form of flask or bottle. This section has been
erected into a genus, distinguished from Sterculia by the
tomentose inner surface of the fruit, and of the outer
coat of the seed, together with the radicle of the embryo
being placed next to the hilum of the seed. In the
“Genera Plantarum” the uncertainty of these characters
in the genus, and other considerations, led to the abandon-
ment of Brachychiton (together with many others founded
on similarly unstable characters), and the referring back
all its species to the old Linnean genus Sterculia, with
which they agree entirely in habit, &c.

S. discolor is a native of Eastern Australia, from the
Clarence and Richmond rivers in New South Wales, north-

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ward to the Pine river in Queensland and Buckland Table
Land in North Australia. It was discovered by Mr. Charles
Moore, of the Sydney Botanical Gardens, who sent seeds
to Kew nearly a quarter of a century ago. From them the
plant from which the figure is taken was raised; it forms
a very handsome tree in the Temperate House of the Royal
Gardens about forty feet high, with a crown fifteen feet in
diameter, and trunk two feet in circumference at three
feet from the ground.

Drsor. A tall timber tree, with a large leafy crown;
young branches and leaves beneath clothed with a thin
grey pubescence or tomentum. Leaves long-petioled, five
to seven inches long and broad, pale green, membranous,
cordate or two-lobed at the base, with a broad or narrow
sinus, more or less deeply five-lobed, but never beyond the
middle; lobes acute or acuminate, quite entire, palmately
five-nerved ; petiole very slender, two to three inches long.
Flowers in terminal contracted spicate panicles, usually in
groups of two to three sessile on a strict slender erect
rachis six to eight inches long; buds ellipsoid, obtuse.
Calyx one and a half inch long, between campanulate and
funnel-shaped, rustily tomentose without and within, rose-
red, six-lobed nearly to the middle ; lobes ovate-lanceolate,
suberect, with broad thin induplicate margins. Staminal
column slender, half an inch long, with about fifteen
sessile anthers in a subglobose head. Foilicles large,
stalked, rusty-tomentose. Seeds hirsute.—J. D. H.

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PARN ASSIA nusico.a.

Native of the Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Saxrrragacem.—Tribe SaxtFRaGEX.
Genus Parnassia, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 639.)

SaxirraGa nubicola; glaberrima, scapis acute angulatis, foliis radicalibus ellipticis
v. elliptico-ovatis cordatis v. lanceolatis acutis nervis 5-7 subtus prominentibus,
caulino sessili basi 4-amplexicauli, flore 1-1} poll. diam., sepalis late ovatis
obtusis, petalis obovatis sepalis subduplo longioribus margine nudis v. hic illic
erosis, staminodiis paleformibus apice obtuse 3-lobis, ovarii ovoidei basi calyci
immerso stigmatibus 3 capitatis, capsula semipollicari inferne subconica
vertice rotundata stylo brevissimo coronata, seminibus ellipsoideis, testa
reticulata firma,

P. nubicola, Wall. Cat. n. 1246, et in Wight. Tiz. t. 21; Arn. in Hook. Comp.
Bot. May. vol. ii. p. 315; Hook. f. et Thoms. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. ii.
p. 81; Drude in Linnea, vol. xxxix. p. 315; Royle Ill. Pl. Himal. p. 50;
C. B. Clarke in Fl, Brit. Ind. vol, ii. p. 402.

The “ Grasses of Parnassus ”’ have their head-quarters in
India, no fewer than eight species occurring in the
Himalaya and Khasia Mountains, of which two extend to
the Nilgherry Mountains in the Western Peninsula. The
common British species, Parnassia palustris is one of them,
though it only just enters the region of the Indian: flora,
being found in Western Tibet by Falconer and others.
This is its western known limit in low latitudes, though
in higher it occurs all round the globe. P. nubicola is
the largest aud coarsest of all the species, attaining a
height of eighteen inches, with sometimes four or five
flowering scapes from the root; it however wants the
delicate beauty and pure white petals of the European
plant. It has been found throughout the Himalaya range,
from Kashmir in the West, where it descends to 6000 feet _
above the sea, to Sikkim in the East, where I have gathered
it at 12,000 feet, and as low as 8000, The specimen here

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figured was raised from seeds sent to the Royal Gardens
by Mr. Duthie, of the Botanical Gardens, Saharunpore,
which flowered in July of last year. ag
Dzscr. A slender or stout herb, six to eighteen inches
high. Radical leaves with long or short petioles; blade
two to four inches long, elliptic ovate or cordate, rarely
lanceolate, acute, with five to seven strong nerves which
are deeply impressed above and very prominent beneath;
petiole as long or twice as long as the blade, deeply
grooved in front, sheathing at the base. Scape acutely
four-angled, almost winged, hollow between the angles ;
cauline leaf solitary, sessile, elliptic, as large as the radical,
base semiamplexicaul. Flowers one to one and a half
inches in diameter, Calyzx-tube obconic, angled and strongly
ribbed; lobes as long, broadly ovate, obtuse, strongly
three-ribbed. Petals twice as long as the calyx-lobes,
obovate, greenish-white, margins even or a little erose
towards the base. Staminodes spade-shaped, with three
short erect obtuse oblong lobes, fleshy, not ciliated. Ovary
ovoid, base sunk in the calyx-tube; style very short,

stigmas three capitate. Capsule obovoid, top rounded.
Seeds ellipsoid, testa firm.—J. D. H. i

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SEMPE RVIVUM Moaceripcetr.

Native of the Alpes Maritimes.

Nat. Ord. CRAssULACER.

Genus Semprrvivum, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 660.)

Semprrvivum (Rhodanthe) Moggridgei; rosulis diam. 2 poll. polyphyllis,
foliis elongato-cuneatis v. oblanceolatis pallide viridibus apicibus pilis copiosis
arachnoideis connexis superne glabris marginibus minutissime ciliatis, caulibus
4—6-pollicaribus erectis robustis, foliis caulinis et inflorescentia dense glanduloso-
pilosis viridibus, foliis caulinis inferioribus suberectis oblanceolatis cuspidatis
apicibus barbatis pallide viridibus rubro tinctis, superioribas lineari-oblongis,
cyma ter quaterve furcata multiflora, bracteis lanceolatis foliaceis, floribus 3 poll.
diam. 10-12-meris roseis, sepalis lineari-oblongis obtusiusculis pubescentibus,
petalis lanceolatis acuininatis ciliolatis, staminibus petalis 3 brevioribus, fila-
mentis rubris, antheris breviter oblongis purpureis, polline citrino, ovariis
pubescentibus, glandulis hypogynis minutis.

_ S. Moggridgei, Hort. De Smet.

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The species of Sempervivum are by no means easily
distinguished, and in many of the groups of the genus
they tend to “run into one another,” as botanists express
it, and have considerable ranges; whilst in other cases
exceedingly distinct species occupy very restricted areas
in the mountains of Southern Europe. ‘The subject of the
present plate does not agree with any of the one hundred
and four forms enumerated by Mr. Baker in the Gardeners’
Chronicle (1874, p. 103), and which he has wisely reduced
to thirty-three definably distinct species in the Chronicle
for 1879. Amongst these latter the nearest ally of 8.
Moggridgei is clearly the well-known 8. arachnoidewm of
Linneeus, one of the earliest plants figured in this work
(Tab. 68), and which extends from the Pyrenees to the
Tyrolese Alps. It differs from S. Moggridgei in the much
shorter leaves of the rosette, which are more oblong, and
form a rounder mass, in the oblong obtuse cauline leaves,
and in the smaller and less numerous flowers and glabrous

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filaments. These are, however, all differences of degree,
and I cannot but expect that S. arachnoidewm and Mog-
gridgei will prove to be local forms of one species, of which
the latter is the much handsomer plant. The specimen here
figured flowered in the Royal Gardens in September, 1881,
and was received under the name it bears from Mr. De Smet.
It is a native, I believe, of the Maritime Alps.

Desor. Rosettes two inches in diameter, of many (about
one hundred) leaves, of which the outer are spreading or
recurved, the inner erect, all connected by a web of white
hairs proceeding from their tips. Leaves three-fourths of
an inch long, elongate-cuneate or oblanceolate, green,
glabrous, with minutely ciliate margins and acute tips.
Flowering-stems a span high, stout, leafy, and, as well as
the cauline leaves and inflorescence, clothed with glandular
pubescence. Lower cauline leaves oblanceolate, three-fourths

of an inch long, suberect, ciliate, tips bearded, pale green
and reddish; upper more oblong. Oyme three to four
times forked, with spreading branches; bracts linear-oblong,
green, fleshy. Flowers three-fourths of an inch in diameter,
ten- to twelve-merous. Calyx cylindrically cup-shaped,
glandular-pubescent; sepals linear, obtuse. Petals twice
as long as the sepals, spreading, lanceolate, acuminate,
apiculate. Stamens half as long as the petals, filaments
bright red, glabrous; anthers shortly oblong, purple, with
yellow pollen. Hypogynous glands minute, square. Ovaries

lanceolate, glandular-pubescent, with suberect styles more
than half their own length.—J. D. H.

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CATALPA KuMPrert.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Branontacex.—Tribe Branontex.
Genus CataLpa, Juss.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Pl. Gen. vol. ii. p. 1041.)

Catatpa Kempfert; arbor ramis horizontalibus, ramulis annotinis viridibus
glandulosis, foliis longe petiolatis late ovatis acuminatis basi rotundatis y.
cordatis szepissime inaequilateralibus integris angulatis vy. 2-3-lobis lobo medio
attenuato-acuminato lateralibus brevibus divergentibus nervis superne pilosis
inferne scabris v. glabris, paniculis terminalibus, floribus gracile pace re
calycis labiis integris rotundatis, corolla tubo campanulato limbi 2-labiati Jobis
5 rotundatis marginibus crispatis, capsula pedali cylindracea, seminibus com-
planatis alatis villosis utrinque in caudas capillaceo-fissas productis.

C. Kempferi, Sieb. et Zuce. Fl. Japon. Sect. alt. p. 18; Ill. Hortic, 1862, t. 319;
Miquel Prolus. Fl. Jap. p. 286; Lavailée Ic. Sel. Arb. et Frut. Hort.
Segrez. p. 33, t. 10,

C. bignonioides, Walt. var. Kempferi, DC. Prodr. vol. ix. p. 226.

C. ovata, G. Don Gen. Syst. vol. iv. p. 230.

C. Bungei, Hort. (non C. A. Mey.).

C, himalayensis, Hort.

Bienonta Catalpa, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 257.

This is the Japanese representative and close ally of the
Eastern American Catalpa syringefolia, Sims (Plate 1094
of this work), and one of the most striking of the many
instances of that intimate relationship, due to common
origin, of the plants of the Atlantic United States and
Eastern America, which is not shared by the plants of the
Pacific Coast States. It has been beautifully figured and
fully described in M. Lavallée’s “ Icones Selectwe Arborum
et Fruticum in Hortis Segrezianis collectorum,” where we
are informed that, though found in various parts of Japan,
it is not certainly indigenous in any. It was discovered
by Kempfer in 1693, and introduced into Belgium by seed
in 1849. It has proved perfectly hardy, and though not
attaining the stature and size of leaf and flower of the C.

MARCH Ist, 1882.

syringefolia, it is a most welcome addition to the tree flora
of Europe, being easily propagated by seeds which have
ripened on the Continent and by cuttings. C. Kempfert
is often found under the name of C. Bungei, a very different
tree, not hitherto introduced into Hurope, which 1s a native
of N. China, has a much larger flower, and pods eighteen
inches long. The tree from which the accompanying plate
was taken flowered in the Royal Gardens in August. In
France the flowers attain a deeper colour than at Kew. M.
Lavallée describes them as spotted-with deep violet, and
having two yellow bands extending to the base of the
middle lobe of the lower lip; these are obscure In our
lant.
5 Desor. A middle-sized tree, twenty-five to thirty feet
high, with spreading rather brittle branches and copious
foliage; main branches stout; shoots green, smelling
disagreeably when bruised. Leaves about six inches long
and broad, of a bright pale green colour, with brown
glandular spots at the junction of the nerves, broadly ovate,
base rounded or cordate, margin sinuate or three-lobed,
the lateral lobes short, terminal tapering to a fine pomt,
surfaces pubescent at first, then glabrous above, smooth or
roughish beneath ; petiole two to five inches, round; nerve-
axils pubescent. Panicle terminal, erect, as long as the
leaves, narrow or broad; rachis with small brown petioled
leaves at the base. Flowers two to three together at the
ends of the branchlets of the panicle, horizontal or drooping;
pale yellow sprinkled with minute red spots within. Caly«
very small, lips rounded. Corolla campanulate, three-
quarters of an inch long, mouth oblique, upper lip short,
recurved, lower spreading ; lobes all rounded with crisped
margins; in many of the flowers a small recurved tongue-
shaped appendage to the corolla (see fig. 6) occurs on the
corolla-tube near its base above (it is figured also in M.
Lavallée’s work). Capsule a foot long and one-third of an
inch in diameter, cylindric, straight, smooth, brown. Seeds

compressed, velvety, produced at each end into fine silky
hairs.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Longitudinal section of flower; 2, corolla laid open; 3, stamen;
4, ru imentary ditto ; 5, transverse section of ovary; 6, corolla with appendage ;
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MASCARENHASIA CURNOWIANA.

Native of Madagascar.

Nat. Ord. ApocyneEx%.—Tribe EcH1TIDER.
Genus MascarennasiA, dA. DC.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 721.)

Mascarennasia Curnowiana ; frutex gracilis glaberrimus, foliis breviter petiolatis
oblongis v. oblongo-lanceolatis apicibus obtusato-attenuatis basi rotundatis yv.
subacutis, nervis numerosis gracillimis patentibus, supra intense viridibus
subtus pallidis, cymis terminalibus breviter pedunculatis 3-5-floris, floribus
breviter pedicellatis, calycis parvi segmentis subulatis erectis, corolla rosea
glaberrima limbi patentis lobis tubo «quilongis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis
basi subcordatis ad orem puberulis, fauce intus basi filamentisque pubescentibus,
antheris subulatis, disci glandulis inconspicuis.

M. Curnoviana, Hemsley in The Garden, 1882, p. 98, t. 323.

A very beautiful plant, and being both a free flowerer
and remaining long in bloom, one likely to become a
favourite for stove cultivation. It belongs to a little-known
genus near LHchites, of which five species have been
described, all from Madagascar, and of which none had
previously to this one been in cultivation. The name of
Mascarenhasia commemorates the commander of the Portu-
guese fleet, Don Mascarenhas, by whom the Island of
Bourbon was discovered in 1545, and in honour of whom it
was first called (after corruption) le Mascaraigne; to give
place to that of Bourbon when it was taken by the French
1642; and this to Reunion at the Revolution. Singularly
enough the original name has been perpetuated through all
these changes, and so amplified in signification by Botanists
as to include not only all the Islands of the Bourbon and
Mauritian group under the title of Mascarenes, but some-
times also Madagascar, the Seychelles, and their depen-
dencies.

Mascarenhasia Curnowiana was imported by Messrs.

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Hugh Low from Madagascar through their collector, whose
name it bears. The drawing was made in August of last
year.

Dsscr. A slender shrub, with very dark green leaves and
branches. Leaves opposite, three to four inches long,
shortly petioled, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, quite entire,
narrowed at the tip ito an obtuse point, base acute or
rounded, pale beneath; nerves numerous, slender and spread-
ing ; petiole one-tenth of an inchlong. Cymes terminal, se
flowered; peduncle rather longer than the petiole, pedice :
shorter. Calyx very small, of five subulate erect teet
much shorter than the tube of the corolla. Corolla per-
fectly glabrous, scarlet; tube two-thirds of an inch long,
the slightly swollen upper part containing the stamens
twice as long as the lower, which is pubescent within ; lobes
nearly an inch long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, base
subcordate, margins slightly undulate, disk suru
the mouth stellate; hairy. Stamens subulate, with shor
pubescent anthers. Hypogynous disc obsolete. Oe
glabrous; style slender, stigma constricted in the middle,
obtuse.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of corolla and stamens; 2, stamen; 3, ovary; 4, transverse
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WAHLENBERGIA saxtcona.

Native of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. CampanuLace®.—Tribe CAMPANULER,
Genus WaHLENBERGIA, Schrader ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 555.)

WAHLENBERGIA saxicola; glabra, caule debili ramoso, ramis brevibus czespitosis
prostratis v. ascendentibus laxe foliosis, foliis radicalibus et rosulatis v. in ramos
alternis petiolatis obovatis v. oblanceolatis rarius linearibus integerrimis v.
marginibus remote subcrenatis interdum albo-cartilagineis, scapis gracilibus
robustisve elongatis nudis 1-floris, floribus 4-5-meris inclinatis, calycis tubo
obconico lobis ovato-subulatis, corolla campanulata recta v. obliqua pallide
lilacina lobis ovatis obtusiusculis patenti-recurvis, antheris subzequilongis
obtusis v. 1-2 apiculatis.

W. saxicola, A. DC. Monog. Campan. 144; Prodr. vol. vii. p. 433 ; Hook. f. Fl.
Tasman, p. 239, t. 71; Handb. of N. Zeald. Flora, p. 170; Benth. Fl.
Austral. vol. iv. p. 138.

W. albomarginata, Hook. Ic. Pi. t. 818.
STRELESKIA montana, Hook.f. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. vi. p. 267.

The Wahlenbergias represent in the southern hemis-
phere the Campanulas of the northern, and the little species
here figured so closely carries out the generic representation,
that it bears the name of the Blue-bell in the New Zealand
Colonies. Its only near ally is the common W. agrestis of
Australia and New Zealand, which is a tall slender
branched leafy plant, with much smaller flowers ; but it is
so very variable in all respects, that I have ventured to
think that W. sazicola may be a mountain form of it,
characterized, like so many alpine forms of lowland plants,
by the reduced stem and leaves and larger higher-coloured
flowers. In fact, our own Blue-bell (Campanula rotundifolia)
has varieties quite as different from one another as Wahlen-
bergia saxicola is from W. agrestis, and the differences are
of the same nature. This view is in some respects sup-
ported by the fact of W. saxicola and agrestis both growing
in Tasmania, where the former is as abundant a lowland

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weed as it is in New Zealand, and the latter confined to an
elevation of about 3000 feet on Mount Wellington.

I am indebted to the rich collection of Mr. Isaac
Anderson Henry, of Trinity, Edinburgh, for this interesting
plant, which flowered with him in July of last year.

Descr. Perennial, quite glabrous, branching from the
root or forming a short rootstock; branches short, slender,
leafy, prostrate or ascending. Leaves either in radical
rosettes or alternate on the branches, one-half to one and a
half inch long, narrowly spathulate or oblanceolate or
linear, obtuse or acute, quite entire or obscurely crenate or
toothed, margins sometimes white and cartilaginous. Scapes
several, four to six inches high, slender or stout, green,
usually quite naked, sometimes with one or two small
linear leaves towards the base, one-flowered. lowers very
variable in size, one-half to nearly one inch broad, inclined.
Calyx-tube obconic ; lobes ovate-subulate, much shorter than
the corolla-tube. Corolla campanulate, pale lilac, oblique
or straight ; lobes broadly ovate, acute, spreading and re-
curved, about as long as the tube. Stamens four or five,
subequal or two rather longer than the others; filaments
broadly dilated, almost square, ciliated, suddenly contracted
beneath the anther, which is linear-oblong subacute or

a = two longer apiculate. Ovary two- to three-celled.—

Fig. 1, Flower with the corolla removed; 2, stamen ; 3, longitudinal section of
the ovary :—all enlarged.

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TALAUMA Canponiar, var. GaLeormiaNna. *

Native of Java ?

Nat. Ord. Magnottacen.—Tribe MaGno.Liex.
Genus Tanauma, Juss.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p. 18.)

Tatauma Candollei; ramulis ultimis pedunculisque sericeo-tomentosis v. pubescen-
tibus, foliis petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis firme coriaceis basi acutis,
floribus nutantibus, sepalis oblongo-spathulatis concavis petala subsequantibus,
petalis flavis exterioribus obovato-oblongis, interioribus subunguiculatis.

T. Candollei, Blume, Bijdrag. vol. i. p.9; Fl. Jav. 32, t. 9, et 124; Lindl. in
Bot. Reg. t. 1709; Bot. Mag. t. 4251.

Var. Galeottiana, foliis angustioribus sepalis petalisque angustioribus subsequ'longis.

The plant here figured was presented by the late M. Van
Houtte under the name of Magnolia Galeottiana, presumably
a Mexican species, and as such was grown in a cool pit in
the Royal Gardens, Kew, for six years, when (in July last)
it blossomed and was figured for this work. On com-
paring it, however, with the Herbarium specimens of
Magnoliacee, we find on the one hand nothing at all like it
from the American Continent, and on the other an almost
if not altogether similar plant from Java, to which I can
with much confidence refer it, specifically retaining the
name it bore in Van Houtte’s garden as that of a very
slight variety.

The genus Talawma is one of the handsomest amongst
the Magnoliacee ; and what is very remarkable is, that it
occurs in South America as well as in tropical and sub-
tropical Asia. Very few species of it have been introduced
into this country, and this is the only one that has flowered
in Europe. 1’, Hodgsoni, of the Himalaya, a noble species
with leaves sometimes nearly two feet long, is in cultivation
at Kew, and there are three other species in British India

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that have not yet been introduced. The plant here figured
flowered in a cool pit; the species is, however, a tender
one, and usually cultivated in a stove. It is deliciously
fragrant.

Descr. An evergreen shrub; branches terete and leaves
quite glabrous, young shoots and peduncles silkily pubescent
with brown hairs. Leaves four to seven inches long,
narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acute at both ends, thin but
rigid, bright shining green above, darker beneath; nerves
faint, nervules finely reticulated; petiole one-half to one
and a half inch long, grooved in front, margins of the
groove ciliate. Flowers three inches in diameter, nodding,
on curved peduncles one-half to one inch long. Sepals
oblong and subspathulate, convex, pale yellow-brown,
obtuse. Petals nearly as long, outer obovate-oblong, imner
clawed, all dull yellow and very concave. Column of
stamens and pistil small for the size of the flower, about
half an inch long. Stamens appressed to the ovaries,
linear, subsessile ; connective produced into a triangular tip.
Ovaries subcylindric; stigma decurrent, recurved at the
tip, grooved down the centre; ovules two.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Stamen ; 2, ovaries :—both enlarged.

Tas. 6615.
SCUTE LLARIA Harrweci.

Native of the Andes of Quito.

Nat. Ord. Lapratm.—-Tribe NepeTer.

Genus Scurennaria, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1201.)

ScurELiarta (Heteranthesia) Hartwegi; gracilis, erecta, caule petiolis et inflo-
rescentia puberulis, foliis petiolatis ovatis subacuminatis remote crenato-serratis
basi rotundatis truncatis v. cordatis supra glabris subtus rubro-purpureis nervis
puberulis, floralibus minutis linearibus herbaceis, racemo simplici erecto, floribus
alternis breviter pedicellatis, calyce brevi 2-fido, corolla pilosa pollicari coccinea
lente curva, tubo gracili superne lente inflato, limbo parvo, labio superiore
brevi obtuso, inferiore decurvo brevi subrotundato violaceo breviter 3-fido,
ovario stipitato stipite obliquo basi tumido.

S. Hartwegi, Benth. Pl. Hartweg. p. 244, et in DC. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 415.

This handsome plant belongs to a section of Andean
Scutellarias, the limits between which are hard to define.
The type of them is 8S. coccinea, Kunth, a species discovered

_ by Humboldt, and described as having obtuse quite entire
leaves, violet-purple beneath, and scarlet flowers. Still
nearer to the present plant is S. Ventenatii of this work
(Plate 4271), in which the leaves are green beneath, and the
scarlet corollas shorter, with a broader limb of one colour ;
it hardly differs from S. incarnata, Vent. (Plate 4268), of
which a variety, T’rianai, is figured at Plate 5185. In fact
Bentham, the accurate monographer of the genus, gives it
as his opinion, as quoted under the last-cited plant, that
S. incarnata, Ventenatii, and Hartwegi may be varieties of
one species. Whatever may be the case with the first two
of these three, the last (our plant here figured) may at once
be distinguished from both by the longer more slender
corolla with the limb scarcely broader than the tube, and
by the larger leaves being of a beautiful violet-purple
beneath.

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T am indebted to Messrs. Veitch for the specimen figured
of 8S. Hartwegi, which flowered in their nurseries in May,
1881. Itis a native of the western declivity of the Andes
of Quito, where it was discovered by Hartweg, who calls it
a half-shrubby perennial.

Drsor. A slender half-shrubby perennial, with pubescent
branches petioles leaf-nerves beneath and inflorescence.
Leaves two to two and a half inches long, ovate, acuminate,
remotely obscurely crenate-toothed, base truncate rounded
or cordate, dark green above, red-purple beneath ; petiole
one-half to three-fourths of an inch long. tacemes four to
six inches long, terminal, stout, erect, slender; floral
leaves (or bracts) small, linear; pedicels alternate, one-
eighth to one-sixth of an inch long. Flowers subsecund,
an inch long, spreading. Calyx small, green; lips short,
obtuse, upper horned in flower, the horn produced in fruit
into a flat shield-like process. Corolla scarlet, hairy, many
times longer than the calyx; tube slender, inflated beyond
the middle; limb small, hardly broader than the tube;
upper lip short, obtuse; lower rounded, decurved, violet-
purple, three-fid. Stamens included; anthers small, didy-
mous. Ovary four-lobed glabrous, terminating a stout

ewe stipes which is tumid at the base. Style capillary.—
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ANTHURIUM ANDR#EANUM.

Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. ArorpEx.—Tribe OronTIEX.
Genus AnrHuriuMm, Schott; (Prodr. Syst. Aroid. p. 436.)

Antuurium Andreanum; caudice brevi vy. subelongato, foliis elongato-ovato- v.
oblongo-cordatis acutis sinu profundo acuto nervis numerosis, petiolo gracili
elongato geniculo elongato cylindraceo, pedunculo gracili petiolum longe
superante, spatha deflexa v. horizontali subpeltata ovato-rotundata acuta
explanata basi profunde cordato-2-loba lobis rotundatis superpositis inter
nervos elevatos lacunosa coccinea, spadice spathe squilonga paullo decurva,
floribus pallidis rhombeis, perianthii foliolis 3-gonis vertice truncatis latioribus
quam longis, filamentis brevibus subquadratis, antherarum loculis parallelis
contiguis oblongis, ovario oblongo, stigmate disciforme.

A. Andreanum, Linden in Illust. Hortic. vol. xxiv. p. 43, t.271; Engler in A. DC.
Monogr. Phanerog. vol. ii. p. 160; Masters in Gard. Chron. 1880, p. 490,
fig. 83; Rev. Hortic. 1881, p. 170.

This is certainly one of the gaudiest plants that have been
of late years introduced into cultivation, far exceeding in
all points of foliage and in size of spathe, though hardly in
richness of colouring, the now well-known A. Scherzerianum
(so inadequately represented in Tab. 5319 of this work).
Tt is a native of the province of Choco, in New Grenada,
at an elevation of about 4000 feet, and was discovered
there many years ago by M. Triana, the indefatigable
explorer of that State, who, previous to M. André’s visit to
South America, directed his attention to the region of its
growth as an almost unexplored one, abounding in new and
interesting plants. The Kew Herbarium is indebted to the
enterprising traveller and introducer of the plant, whose
name is so well associated with it, for a reduced sketch of
the whole plant, a tracing of a full-sized leaf, and an ex-
cellent dried specimen of both leaf and inflorescence.
There is also in the Kew Herbarium a specimen of it
collected at Popayan by Lehmann, presented by Dr.

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Reichenbach. The specimen here figured flowered at Kew
in September, and was presented in 1880 by Mr. Linden,
to whose establishment the plant was originally sent im
1876, and where it was flowered in 1877. The spadix is
figured and described as yellow, with a white band, which
latter I do not observe in the Kew specimen, and suspect
it to be due to the shedding of the pollen. The Spanish-
American name is “ Capotillo Colorado.”

Desor. Lootstock about as thick as the finger, short or
elongate, chiefly subterranean. Leaves six to ten inches
long by four to six broad, spreading or deflexed, elongate
oblong- or ovate-cordate, deeply cordate with rounded
lobes and narrow sinus, acute, bright green, reticulated on
both surfaces when dry; nerves many, arching; petiole as
long as the blade, slender, terete, with a cylindric swelling
at the top. Pedunele much longer than the petiole, slender,
terete. .Spathe subborizontal or defiexed, subpeltately at-
tached, three to four inches long by two to three broad,
broadly ovate-cordate, with raised reticulating nerves and
broad lacunee between them, vivid scarlet. Spadia as long
as the spathe, horizontal and decurved, cylindric, gradually
narrowed from the base to the obtuse tip, yellowish white.
Flowers rhombic. Perianth leaves short, broad, trigonous,
truncate. Stamens included, filaments subquadrate ;

anther-cells oblong. Ovary oblong ; stigma discoid, sessile.
—J.D. H.

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ANDROSACE ROTUNDIFOLIA, Var. MACROCALYX.

Native of the Himalaya.

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Nat. Ord. Prrmvtacex.—Tribe Prrmutex.
Genus AnprRosacg, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Pl. Gen, vol. ii. p. 632.)

Anprosace rotundifolia; perennis, estolonifera, pubescenti-pilosa, foliis omnibus
radicalibus rotundatis basi cordatis multilobulatis lobulis crenato-dentatis,
scapis elongatis, bracteis foliaceis obovatis v. spathulatis integris v. inciso-
dentatis, pedicellis elongatis, calycis lobis corollam superantibus ovatis obovatisve
integris y. dentatis, corolle lobis obcordatis, ovario breviter turbinato vertice
depresso.

A. rotundifolia, Hardwicke in Asiat. Research. vol. vi. p. 350 (non Smith, nee
Duby in DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 54).

A. incisa, Wall, in Rowb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey et Wall. vol. ii. p. 16; Cat. 616;
Duby, 1. ¢.

A. cordifolia, Wall. in Asiat. Research. vol. xiii. p. 351, et in Roxb. Fl. Ind. l.c.
17; Duby, le.

A. parviflora, Jacquem. MSS.; Duby, l. c.
A. elegans, Duby, 7. c. 55.

Var. macrocalyzx ; laxe villosa, foliis 1-2 poll. diam., involucri bracteis foliaceis
obovato-spathulatis incisis, calyce maximo lobis late obovatis dentatis.

This plant has been the subject of unaccountable mis-
conceptions on the part of several authors. It was found
by Col. Hardwicke in the year 1796, and well described by
him in the Asiatic Researches in 1801, with the locality, “on
the most elevated ridges of mountain 8.W. of Sirinagur ”
(Shree-nagur in Kumaon). This description and locality
are both copied by Wallich in the Edition of Roxburgh’s
Flora Indica which he and Carey edited; but to the
description he has added under notes of his own, that this
plant has been fully described by Smith in his Exotic
Botany (vol. ii., p. 107, t. 118), “where Behar and Nepal
are stated to be its native countries,” and that he has
humerous specimens collected in the Turaya and about
Katmandu (in Nepal). Now the plant figured by Smith
as Hardwicke’s A. rotundifolia has nothing to do with that
plant, neither is it a native of the mountains, but is the
A. sawifragefolia, Bunge, of China and Japan (A. carnosula,

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Duby), a species remarkable as being the only thoroughly
tropical one; for it extends from Calcutta to the base of
the Himalaya, and ascends the hot valleys only of these
mountains, hardly reaching even a temperate elevation.
The true A. rotundifolia, on the other hand, occurs chiefly
between 4000 and 8000 feet, though sometimes extending
down to 2000, and in the drier western ranges it ascends
to 10,000 and even 14,000 feet.

A. rotundifolia is one of the first Himalayan plants ever
described as such; it is also one of the most sportive species
throughout its wide range of distribution, which includes
the whole Himalaya from Sikkim to Kashmir, Western
Tibet, and Affghanistan. Of its varieties, that here
figured is the largest and most developed, the bracts
becoming leafy, and the calyx-lobes very large and deeply
toothed ; between this, and forms only two inches high,
with entire oblanceolate acute bracts a quarter of an inch
long, flowers no broader, and ovate acute entire calyx-
teeth, there is every intermediate form to be found; and
in still another variety, as fully developed as that figured,
the calyx-lobes are linear-oblong or oblanceolate, and half
an inch long. 3

I am indebted to my indefatigable correspondent, Mr.
Isaac Anderson Henry, for the living plants here figured ;
they were raised from seed sent him by Augustus Johnstone,
Ksq., and flowered at Hay Lodge in June of last year.

Descr. (of Var. macrocalyz). Softly hairy, without stolons.
Leaves all radical, one to two inches in diameter, orbicular-
cordate, lobulate, lobules obtusely three-toothed or -crenate;
petiole equalling the blade. Scapes slender, longer than
the leaves. Involucral bracts leafy, half an inch to one
inch long, obovate-spathulate, deeply toothed. Flowers
numerous ; pedicels one inch to one and a quarter inches
long, spreading. Calyx one-half to two-thirds of an inch
in diameter; tube small, obeonic; lobes large, obovate,
deeply toothed. Corolla much smaller than the calyx,
pale rose-coloured, lobes obcordate. Ovary turbinate, with
a circular depressed top.—J. D. H.

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AMORPHA CANESCENS.

Native of the United States.

Nat. Ord. Leauminosz.—Tribe GaLEGER.
Genus AmorpHa, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 492.)

AMORPHA canescens ; suffrutex erectus, strictus, cano-tomentosus v. puberulus, foliis
confertis erecto-patentibus sessilibus lineari-elongatis, foliolis 10-24-jugis
approximatis ellipticis oblongisve apiculatis basi rotundatis glanduloso-punctatis,
stipulis stipellisque minutis, spicis apicem versus caulis subpaniculatis axillaribus
et terminalibus breviter pedunculatis elongatis erectis strictis multi-conferti-
floris, calycis dentibus ovato-lanceolatis, vexillo brevi dolabriformi oblique trun-
cato, explanato orbiculari-obovato, legumine calycem vix superante 1-spermo.,

A. canescens, Nutt. in Fras. Cat, et Gen. vol. ii. p. 92; DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 256;
Pursh. Fi. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 467; Hook. Fl. Bor, Am. vol. i. p. 139; Torr.
et Gr. Fl. N. Am, vol.i. p. 306; A. Gray Man. Ed. 5, 130; Chapm. Fl.
S. U. States, p. 94.

This, the “ Lead Plant” of the United States, is said to
be so called from a belief that its presence indicates the
presence of that ore in the soil—a superstition probably
due to the leaden hue of the plant; a better name is that
of the genus, ‘‘ Bastard Indigo.” The geographical range
of A. canescens is very extensive, from the Red-River settle-
ment in British, America, southward to Georgia and
‘Louisiana, and even Florida. It is a very beautiful plant,
though making little show on a drawing, the amethystine
blue standard, and golden yellow of the anthers, of the
numerous flowers in numerous racemes, contrasting well
with the dull silvery foliage. According to Loudon, it
was introduced into England by Lyon in 1812; but it was
never common, and soon went out of cultivation. He
observes of it, that like all the other species of the genus,
it requires to be well cut in every year, or to be planted in
very poor soil, or it will not preserve its vitality for any
length of time.

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The specimen here figured is from a plant which flowered
in the Arboretum of the Royal Gardens in August, and
was presented by M. Van Volxem, of Brussels, a most
liberal contributor of rare trees and shrubs to this establish-
ment.

Descr. An undershrub two to four feet high, hoary
with soft short tomentum, or ashy with a slighter pubes-
cence, quite erect, very leafy. Leaves close-set, sessile,
spreading on all sides, three to five inches long by three-
quarters of an inch to an inch broad; rachis slender;
leaflets ten to twenty-five pairs, close-set and produced
along the whole length of the rachis, sessile or shortly
petiolate, oblong or elliptic, obtuse or apiculate, dull pale
green with glandular dots; stipules and stipelle minute,
subulate. Spikes numerous towards the ends of the
branches, axillary and terminal, very shortly peduncled,
slender, strict, erect, very many-flowered. lowers one
quarter of an inch long, horizontal. Calyx green, subcam-
panulate, five-toothed, the lower tooth longest. Standard
about twice as long as the calyx, hooded, obliquely truncate,
bright amethystine blue. Wings and keel none. Stamens
shortly united at the base, filaments exserted; anthers
bright yellow. Ovary villous.—J. D. H.

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PEPEROMIA Resep=rLora.
Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. Piprracex.—Tribe PrPerER.
Genus Perrromia, Ruiz et Pav.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 132.)

PEveromia resedeflora ; glaberrima, caule erecto ramoso, foliis orbiculato-cordatis
subacutis 7—9-nerviis radicalibus rosulatis longe petiolatis caulinis oppositis v.
8-natim verticillatis, amentis clavellatis in racemos terminales erectos albos
longe pedunculatos dispositis, bracteis liberis orbicularibus peltatis, antheris
brevibus filamento brevi, ovario emerso obovoideo, stigmate sessili terminali.

P. resedzeflora, André, L’Illust. Hortic. vol. i. t. 26.

This singular plant, introduced in 1865 by Mr. Braam
into Mr. Linden’s establishment at Brussels, was so easily
propagated and so attractive that, according to M. André,
who first described it in 1870, it in two years became so
general a favourite as to be found in all stoves; thus
justifying his expression regarding it, borrowed from our
horticulturists, that it is ‘a plant for the million.” Though
so well known itself, there is some obscurity about the
name it should bear. André rightly indicates its general
affinity to P. secunda, P. Cotyledon, and P. wmbellata, and
adds that there is but one plant in the Paris Herbarium
that is very close to it, namely, one found by Spruce in the
Andes of Equador in 1857, which bears on the ticket,
** Pep. secunde affinis.”” Now this plant of Spruce is also
in the Kew Herbarium; it is the number 5552 of his
distributed specimens, and though having orbicular-cordate
leaves, is referred by Casimir De Candolle (Prodr. vol. xvi.
part i. p. 898) from specimens in the Geneva Herbarium to
P. Fraseri, a species described as having cordate-lanceolate
leaves. It differs from P. resedeflora in its larger size,
suffruticose stem below, abruptly acuminate leaves, and
much larger, longer, more crowded catkins.

Whether P. resedeflora differs from P. Cotyledon, Benth.
(Cas. DC. 1. c. 401), is more doubtful; in habit the two
entirely agree, for P. Cotyledon, though described in the
Prodromus as stemless, has an erect simple stem (as
Bentham indeed states}, the inflorescence and flowers are

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identical, and the only apparent difference is that the leaves
of P. Cotyledon are all, except the uppermost, peltate ; but
this peltation varies in amount, and the allied Sprucean
plant has both cordate and peltate leaves; I therefore
quite expect that P. resedeflora and P. Cotyledon will, when
more material is obtained, prove identical specifically.

André describes his specimen as having uniformly (on
upwards of one hundred flowers) obscurely umbilicate tri-.
gonous apparently one-celled anthers, and remarks on the
singularity of this structure, suggesting further, under
great reserve, that if the character proves constant, P.
resedeflora will constitute the type of a genus to be called
Trigonanthera. Unfortunately the plate in the Flore des
Serres gives no analyses; ours shows perfectly normal
anthers.

P. resedeflora is a native of the table-land of Bogota,
where it grows on mossy trunks of oaks; it has long been
cultivated at Kew, but by far the finest specimens I have
seen are those figured, which were sent by Mr. Lynch from
the Cambridge Botanical Gardens.

Descr. Erect, quite glabrous, succulent. Stem cylindric,
one to one and a half feet high, red, forked or subverti-
cillately branched above. Leaves broadly orbicular-ovate,
dark green, radical two to two and a half inches long,
subacute, basal sinus very narrow and short; nerves seven
to nine, radiating from the petiole, stout, reddish beneath ;
petiole stout, two to three inches long, terete; cauline
leaves opposite or whorled in threes, smaller shorter-
petioled, very pale beneath. Peduncles one to three at the
ends of the branches, two to three inches long, simple or
with small opposite or solitary lateral branchlets, naked or
with a few minute scattered imperfect amenta below the
inflorescence. Amenta in short conical or long cylindric
conical topped racemes, white, spreading, clavellate, obtuse,
a quarter to a third of an inch long. Bracts orbicular,
peltate, stipitate. Stamens several in each flower; fila-
ments very short; anthers shortly oblong. Ovary pyriform

or yo top rounded, with a very minute sessile stigma.

Fig. (= Portion of amentum with flower; 2, bracts; 3, stamens; 4, ovary;
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ALOE ABYSSINICA, var. Pracocxtt.

Native of Abyssinia.

Nat. Ord. Littacem.—Tribe ALOINER.

Genus Atoz, Linn. ; (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xviii. p. 152.)

ALoE abyssinica var. Peacockii ; acaulis, foliis 20-30 lanceolatis sesquipedalibus e
basi 5-6 poll. lato ad apicem sensim angustatis pallide sordide glauco-viridibus
margine dentibus'parvis crebris deltoideis corneis rubro-brunneis patulis armatis,
pedunculo valde compresso semipedali, paniculx ramis 6-8 elongatis ascendentibus,
racemis densis oblongis, pedicellis 6-9 lin, longis, bracteis lanceolatis pedicellis
paulo brevioribus, perianthii citrini cylindrici pollicaris segmentis lanceolatis
tubo oblongo duplo longioribus, genitalibus perianthio subsquilongis, antheris
parvis luteis oblongo-globosis.

A, abyssinica var. Peacockii, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xviii. p. 175.

Probably this fine Aloe will prove to be distinct specifi-
cally from the original type of abyssinica, as figured in
Prince Salmdyck’s monograph of the genus (Sect. xviii.,
fig. 1); but as we have as yet only had a single plant of it,
we prefer for the present to regard it as not more than a
variety. It was contained in the fine collection of living
plants lent lately to the Royal Gardens by J. T. Peacock,
Esq., of Hammersmith, and flowered whilst in our charge
in February, 1881, when the present drawing was made.
Although a stout well-developed plant, it had no produced
stem to the rosette, and the leaves are much broader than
in typical abyssinica, of a very pale dull glaucous tinge
and without any spots, and the tube of the perianth is half
as long as the segments. The plant lately figured and
described by Professor Todaro (Hort. Bot. Panorm., vol. i.,
p. 81, tab. 21) under the name of Aloe percrassa has
similar leaves, in combination with a perianth in shape
very like that of typical abyssinica, but cinnabar-red instead
of yellow.

Descr. Leaves twenty or thirty in a dense sessile rosette,

APRIL Ist, 1882,

lanceolate, a foot and a half long, five or six inches broad
near the base, narrowed gradually to the pungent point,
the colour a pale dull glaucous-green without any spots,
the centre half an inch in thickness, the margins with close
spreading deltoid spines with horny reddish-brown tips.
Inflorescence as long as the leaves, a panicle with six or
eight ascending branches; peduncle much flattened,glaucous,
half a foot long; racemes oblong, dense, three or four
inches long; pedicels about half an inch long, articulated
at the tip; bracts lanceolate, rather shorter than the
pedicels. Perianth lemon-yellow, cylindrical, an inch long;
tube oblong, half as long as the lanceolate segments.
Stamens finally reaching to the tip of the perianth-seg-
ments, or a little exserted; anthers minute, round-oblong ;
pollen yellow. Ovary oblong, yellow; style straight,

reaching finally to the tip of the perianth-segments.—
J.G. Baker.

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BAUHINIA corymsosa.

Native of China.

Nat. Ord. Legumrinosm,.—Tribe BaAvHINIER.

Genus Bavurnta, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 575.)

Bavurnta (Phanera) corymbosa; alte scandens, inflorescentia sparse ferrugineo-
ase excepta glaberrima, ramulis sulcatis, foliis infra medium v. ad basin fere
-partitis, segmentis dimidiato-oblongis basi et apice rotundatis 3-4-nerviis,
corymbis terminalibus ramulosque breves terminantibus, calycis lobis 2 tubo
cylindraceo multo brevioribus, petalis obovato-rotundatis unguiculatis patentibus,
marginibus crenulato-crispatis, staminibus perfectis 3 petalis subzquilongis,
legumine lineari 6-8-pollicari $-poll. lato, 6-12-spermo, valvis coriaceis levibus.
B. corymbosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 329,t. 70; Prodr. vol. ii. p. 515; Wall.
Cat. 5788 (non DC. Mem. Legum. t. 70).
B. scandens, Burm. Fl. Ind. 94 (non Linn.).

There has been some confusion between the plant here
described and the very closely allied B. glauca, Benth.,
from both being natives of China, and their being almost
undistinguishable in dried specimens except these possess
fruits. B. corymbosa was first described, and exceedingly
well, by Roxburgh, from plants introduced from China
into the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, and B. glauca by
Bentham (Plant Junghuhn) from Javan specimens and from
Martaban ones of Wallich (to which the MS. name Phanera
glauca had been previously applied by Bentham). Subse-
quently, in the Florula Hongkongensis (Kew Journ. Bot.
vol.iv., p. 77), Bentham gives B. corymbosa as a Hongkong
plant, which he afterwards in the Flora Hongkongensis
corrected to B. glauca, having received fruiting specimens.
Now, however, both B. corymbosa and B, glauca have been
found in Hongkong, the latter certainly native, occurring
in the Happy Valley and about East Point; whilst with
regard to b. corymbosa there is no evidence of its being
indigenous in that island, though I have seen very good

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specimens, identical with native ones (but with foliage
only) collected by Dr. Tate in the province of Quantung.
In his Memoir on Leguminose, I suspect that De Candolle
has confounded the two; for whilst describing B. corymbosa
alone, his figure (tab. 70) intended for that plant represents
the foliage of B. glauca.

In so far as I can determine, B. glauca differs (as
Bentham has pointed out) from B. corymbosa unmistakeably
in the large broad thin straight pod, six to eight inches
long by one and three-quarters to two and a half inches
broad ; it has also larger leaves, bifid, or if divided, only
half-way down, and more truncate at the base ; whilst
B. corymbosa has more or less curved pods five to six inches
long by one-half to three-quarters of an inch broad, with
smaller more coriaceous leaves, more cordate at the base,
and these are divided more deeply, usually, as Roxburgh
describes them, three-quarters of the way down.

B. corymbosa is one of the most beautiful of climbing
plants. The specimen here figured was sent me from Sir
G. MacLeay’s fine gardens at Pendle Court, Bletchingly,
in May of last year.

Descr. A woody climber, branching from the ground,
glabrous except the young shoots and sometimes the
inflorescence, which is then covered with rusty shining
scattered hairs. Branches grooved; tendrils opposite,
revolute. Leaves one and a half to two inches long,
divided to the middle or usually deeper; lobes parallel,
oblong, with the outer edge, base and tip rounded, and
the inner edge nearly straight, two- to four-nerved, bright
pale green ; petiole one-half to one inch. Corymbs terminal
and on short subterminal branches, shortly peduncled,
many-flowered ; bracts small, filiform. lowers rosy, one
inch in diameter. Calyz-tube one-half to three-quarters of an
inch long, three times as long as the two boat-shaped
lobes. Petals spreading, obovate-orbicular, margins crisped
and crenulate. Stamens three, perfect as long as the petals,
anthers and stout filaments bright red; imperfect filiform
with twisted tips.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Top of calyx-tube with stamens and style; 2, anthers; 3, imperfect
stamens; 4, section of portion of ovary :—all enlarged.

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PHAL/AEN OPSIS StuartTIANA.

Native of the Philippine Islands.

Nat. Ord. OncHIDEx.—-Tribe VaNDEZ.
Genus PHatznoprsis, Blume; (Endl. Gen. Pl. p. 204.)

Puatzyoprsis Stuvartiana; foliis pedalibus anguste elliptico-oblongis obtusis crasse
coriaceis luride viridibus subtus basim versus punctis rubris conspersis junioribus
marmoratis, floribus amplis numerosis in paniculam decurvam laxam longe
pedunculatam dispositis, ramis divaricatis, bracteis parvis coriaceis basi ovarii
appressis, perianthio 2 poll. diam., sepalis ellipticis obtusis dorso pallide
viridibus lateralibus intus et extus rubro punctulatis, petalis sepalis duplo
majoribus rotundato-quadratis eburneis, labello aureo rubro-maculato, segmentis
lateralibus oblique obovatis obtusis, callis inter lobos 2-nis cuneato-quadratis
terminali orbiculari apice appendice bicruri cruribus subulatis incurvis
Instructo.

P. Stuartiana, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron, New Ser. vol. xvi. p. 748, fig. 149; TZ.
Moore in the Florist and Pomologist, 1882, p. 49, t. 559.

This is a very interesting species of the noblest genus of
Hast Asiatic Orchids, allied to P. amabilis (Tab. 4297), P.
grandiflora (Tab. 5184), and P. Schilleriana (Tab. 55380),
all distinguished by the curious forked appendage at the
tp of the labellum, and the large open panicles of white, or
nearly white, flowers. As Dr. Reichenbach notices, its
nearest ally is P. Schilleriana, the affinity with which is
shown by the leaves, which are in that plant always mottled,
being so in the young state of this. The flowers of P.
Stuartiana are more numerous than in any of its congeners.
The learned authority just cited states, that 120 have been
counted on one panicle, and that in dried specimens in his
possession, the flowers rival those of P. amabilis in size. It
would, therefore, not surprise us if it proved that a panicle
of this plant in full flower covered a greater area than does
the single inflorescence of any other Orchid.

P. Stuartiana was introduced by Messrs. Low, through
their collector, Mr. Boxall, and flowered for the first time

MAY Ist, 1882,

at Clapton in December last, and is named in compliment —
to Mr. Stuart Low by Dr. Reichenbach. fs
Desor. Stem very short, with flattened creeping roots.
Leaves two to three, a foot long and upwards, narrowly
elliptic-oblong, obtuse, very coriaceous, dull yellowish-green
above, paler and reddish beneath, young mottled above, older
towards the base and beneath speckled with red. Panicle
branched, drooping, many-flowered ; peduncle long, slender,
branches divaricate; bracts small, coriaceous, ovate, ap-
pressed to the base of the ovary, which is an inch long.
Perianth two-inches in diameter, spreading. Sepals equal,
elliptic, obtuse; dorsal pale green without and within ;
lateral pale green, speckled with red on the half next the
lip. Petals much larger than the sepals, nearly orbicular,
obscurely four-angled, white with a few purple dots towards
the base. ip golden or orange-yellow, speckled with
crimson and with white tips to the lobes; lateral lobes —
obliquely obovate, obtuse, or almost hatchet-shaped ; two
calli between their bases are broadly cuneate, truncate,
bright yellow, speckled with red; terminal lobe orbicular,

with a forked appendage at the tip, the prongs subulate
incurved.—J, D, H, : J ae

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STIGMAPHYLLON LITTORALE.

Native of South Brazil.

Nat. Ord. MatriaH1acEm.—Tribe BANISTERIER.

Genus StramaPHYLLON, A. Juss.; (Benth. et Hook. J: Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 257.)

STIGMAPHYLLON Jittorale; ramis petiolis foliis subtus et inflorescentia pubescenti-
bus v. tomentosis, foliis orbicularibus ovatis v. late oblongis basi rotundatis v.
cordatis acutis obtusis apiculatisve integerrimis v. sinuatis, petiolo elongato
apice 2-glanduloso, pedunculis axillaribus petiolo longioribus, corymbis simpli-
cibus v, compositis multifloris, pedicellis floriferis decurvis demum erectis,
sepalis ovatis obtusis glandulis magnis, petalis sepalis multo majoribus orbicu-
laribus unguiculatis erosis unguibus sepala superantibus, staminibus calycem
vix superantibus valde dissimilibus, 5 ceteris multo minoribus imperfectis,
connectivo crasso granulato, ovario trilobo, stylis crassiusculis apice in appen-
dicem foliaceam dilatatis.

S. littorale, A. Juss. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. vol. iii. p. 55; Walp. Rep.
vol. v. p. 212; Griseb. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Malpigh. p. 40.

Banisteria bonariensis, Hook. et Arn. in Hook. Bot. Mise. vol. iii. p. 157.

The plants of the Natural Order Malpighiacee are not
often seen in cultivation, though many of them are hand-
some, and those of the genus Stigmaphyllon are especially
adapted for clothing pillars, &c., in hothouses, from their
copious very persistent foliage, which is singularly free
from insects (a peculiarity probably due to the disposition
of the forked hairs of their surfaces), and abundant golden
blossoms. The only species of the genus hitherto figured
in this work is 8. heterophyllum (Tab. 4014), also a native
of South Brazil, which has smaller opposite leaves and
much shorter peduncles.

S. littorale is a native of South Brazil, Uraguay, Buenos
Ayres, and Monte Video, growing on river banks, where it
produces large tuberous roots of an astringent nature. It
has been in cultivation in the Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh
and Kew, and flowers in the autumn profusely.

Descr. A tall leafy climber; branches, leaves beneath

MAY Ist, 1882.

petioles, and inflorescence clothed with a grey pubescence
or tomentum ; hairs with two divaricating perfectly hori-
zontal branches. Stem and branches slender, terete. Leaves
opposite and alternate, long-petioled, two to five inches
long, variable in breadth and shape, orbicular ovate or
oblong, acute obtuse or apiculate, base rounded or cordate,
dark green and glabrous above, quite entire or margin
sinuate; petiole two to three inches long, flexuous, biglan-
dular at the apex. Peduneles axillary, solitary, erect,
longer than the petioles, many-flowered. Flowers in
terminal simple or compound corymbs; pedicels one-half
to one and a half inch long, at first strongly decurved,
then erect, often bracteolate in the middle. Sepals small,
ovate, obtuse, with a pair of large glands on four of them.
Corolla golden-yellow, an inch in diameter. Petals unequal,
two larger than the rest, orbicular clawed, erose, the claw
longer than the sepals. Stamens ten, filaments united
below, five much smaller than the rest with large granular
connectives and minute anthers; of the five others two
have very large anthers, and three smaller ones. Ovary
three-lobed ; styles three, exserted, stout, each terminated

ape broadly sagittate stigmatiferous appendage.—

¢ F ig. 1, Flower with petals removed; 2, stamens and pistil ; 3, front and back
views of largest anthers; 4, three smaller anthers ; 5, front and back views of

middle-sized anthers ; 6, vertical, and 7, transverse section of ovary; 8, ovule;
9, hair from branch :— add enlarged.

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é PINGUICULA caupata.

Native of Mexico.

Nat. Ord. LenTIBULARIER.
Genus Pinevicuta, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 989.)

Pinevicuta caudata; sparse glanduloso-puberula, foliis ovali-oblongis obtusis
sessilibus v. in petiolum brevem angustatis, corolle violaceo-purpuree lobis
patentibus lateralibus obovatis apive rotundatis inferiore cuneato-obovato apice
truncato v. retuso angulis rotundatis, calcare decurvo cylindraceo acuto lobo
inferiore longiore v. breviore.

P. caudata, Schlecht. in Linnea, 1832, p. 393; Benth. Pl. Hartweg. p. 70.
A. DC. Prodr, vol. viii. p. 28.

P: Bakeriana, Sanders in Gard. Chron. New Ser. vol. xv. p. 541, fig. 102.

To any one unfamiliar with the changes of form which
some plants undergo in different stages of development, it
would be difficult to realize the figure here given of the
fully formed state of P. caudata, to be the same species as
that figured under the name of P. Bakeriana in the
** Gardeners’. Chronicle.” The fact is, that as our own
specimens at Kew show, the leaves of young plants are very
short, ovate, acute, extremely numerous, recurved, densely
imbricate, forming a compact hemispherical cushion, and |
overlap from the centre outwards so closely that their acute ~
tips alone are exposed. As the plant grows larger and
larger, leaves are thrown out from the crown, of an obovate
form, till at last these attain the size and appearance repre-
sented in our plate. Singularly enough, the plant flowers
freely in both stages, but it is only in the last that the
flowers attain the great dimensions of our figure.

In the Kew Herbarium there are numerous specimens of
this species from damp shady woods in Mexico, and these
display a great variation in size, in the shape of the leaf,
from obovate to oblong, and from sessile to petiolate ; in the

MAY Ist, 1882.

length and robustness of the scapes; the size of the flower,
from one-half to one and a half inch in diameter; and,
above all, in the length of the spur, from one-sixth to one
inch long.

I am indebted to Mr. Sanders, of St. Albans, for sending
to the Royal Gardens a fine healthy plant of this remarkable
species, which arrived in the state figured in the Gardeners’
Chronicle,” but in the following year assumed that here
figured.

Descr. More or less glandular-pubescent in the leaves
above scapes and calyx. Leaves in the young plant small,
ovate, acute, densely imbricate in an orbicular rosette; in
the older plant few, spreading and recurved, one to four
inches long by one and a half to three inches broad, obovate,
obtuse, with a thick obscure midrib, dull pale green with
dirty purplish margins. Scapes five to seven inches long.
Flower deep bright violet-purple. Calyzx-lobes oblong or
obovate-oblong, obtuse. Corolla one to two inches in
diameter ; tube very short indeed; limb spreading, deeply
lobed; four lateral lobes obovate, with rounded tips ; lower
lobe cuneate-obovate, tip broad, retuse. Stamens very
short, included in the tube, filaments glandular. Ovary
depressed-globose, glandular; stigma sessile, very broad,
transversely two-lipped.—J. D. H.

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SATYRIUM Neparense.

Native of the Mountains of India.

Nat. Ord. OrncuH1pEx.—Tribe OpHRYDER.
Genus Satyrium, Thunb.; (Hndi. Gen. Pl. p. 211.)

SaTYRIUM nepalense; glaberrimum, gracile v. robustum, foliis ovatis v. lanceolatis
acutis, nervis validis, bracteis flores superantibus lanceolatis inferioribus reflexis,
floribus roseis, sepalo antico lineari-oblongo obtuso deflexo, lateralibus multo
majoribus oblongo-ovatis obtusis, petalis sepalo antico multo minoribus oblongis
obtusis recurvis, labello cucullato dorso carinato marginibus recurvis crenatis,
calearibus ovarium brevioribus zequantibus v. superantibus.

S. nepalense, Don Prodr. 26; Wight Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 929; Lindl. Gen. et Sp.
Orchid. 340, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. iii. p. 44.

Ss. eer sites A. Rich. in Ann, Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, vol. xv. p. 76, t.5; Wight,
fr ts L716.

8. albiflorum, A. Rich. l.c.; Wight, 1. c. t. 1717.

S. Wightianum, Lind/. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 340, and in Journ. Linn. Soe. l. ce. ;
Wight, 1. c. t. 1718.

S. pallidum, A. Rich. l.c.
8. ciliatum, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orehid. p. 340, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. l.e. p. 44.

This is the commonest Orchid in the hills of India,
abounding in the Himalaya from Simla eastward; also
found in the Khasia Mountains, in those of the Deccan
Peninsula from the Bababooden Hills to Travancore, and
in Ceylon. The elevation it attains varies with the climate.
In the north-western Himalaya it ranges between 4000 and
8000 feet, in the eastern between 6000 and 12,000; in the
Khasia it is found at 4000 to 6000 feet, and in the
Nilgherry Hills and in Ceylon at about the same. Of the
six species to which this plant has given rise, there is not
one presenting a shadow of a good character; as many
could with equal reason be made of our common Orchis
latifolia, which has nearly as wide a range in Europe
(from Norway to South Morocco) as 8. nepalense has in
India. Wight, indeed, retains and figures the type,

MAY lst, 1882,

together with Perrottetianwn, albiflorum, and Wightianum,
but says that they grow intermixed and present no constant
characters. Lindley in his Contributions to the Orchidology
of India (Journ. Linn. Soc.) unites Perrottetianum, albi-
florum, and pallidum with nepalense ; and keeps Wightianum
and ciliatum distinct, relying on the dwarf habit and blunt
dense spike of the former, and the stout spurs of the latter.

S. nepalense is hardly an ornamental, though highly
curious and very sweet-scented plant, differing from
European genera in the twin spurs descending from the
lip and lying on the ovary. It is the only Indian species
of the genus, which is otherwise African, extending from
Abyssinia to the Cape. The scent of the flower is much
like that of the common Gymnadenia conopsea. The Royal
Gardens are indebted to Mr. Elwes for tubers, which he
sent from Sikkim, in 1881, to Kew. It flowered in both
his garden and that of Kew at the same time, namely, in
January of the present year.

Desor. An erect glabrous leafy terrestrial fragrant Orchid,
very variable in stature, foliage, and number of flowers,
from six to thirty inches high. Stems from the thickness
of a crow-quill to that of the finger. Leaves alternate,
two to eight inches long by one to four inches broad, ovate
or lanceolate, strongly ribbed, loosely sheathing at the
base, sheaths ribbed. Spike two to six inches long, dense-
or lax-flowered ; bracts exceeding the flowers, lanceolate,
green, the lower often an inch long and reflexed. lowers
about three-fourths of an inch long. Perianth pale or deep
rose-pink, Sepals small, dorsal linear-oblong obtuse
decurved, lateral much larger ovate-oblong obtuse recurved ;
sepals much smaller than the dorsal sepal oblong obtuse
recurved. Lip very concave, helmet-shaped with reflected
crenate border and two spurs that equal the ovary, or are
longer or shorter than it. Column pedicelled; anther-
cells dorsal, stigma very broad.—J. D. H.

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GLOBBA atRo-saNGuINEA:

Native of Borneo.

Nat. Ord. ScrramInex.—Tribe GLopBex.
Genus Giroppa, Linn.; (Endl. Gen, Pl. p: 222.)

GLoBBA atro-sanguirea; vaginis foliis subtus et inflorescentia pubescentibus, foliis
ovato- v. elliptico-lanceolatis utringue acuminatis saturate viridibus, spica
simplici erecta, bracteis inferioribus remotis oblongis convolutis superioribus
coccineis ovatis explanatis patulis v. recurvis, ovario oblongo, calycis cylindracei
infra medium 3-lobi tubo brevi lobis subulato-lanceolatis, corolle tubo gracili
glabro calyce triplo longiore, lobis brevibus late ovatis acutis, labello oblongo
basi 2-lobo Jobis rotundafis, anther alis profunde 2-fidis laciniis triangularibus
acutis.

G. atro-sanguinea, Teijsm. et Birnend. Plant. Nov. Hort. Bogor. no, 117.

G. coccinea, Hort. (Gard: Chron. vol. xvi. p.23, in Report of Scientific Committeé
of R. H. S.).

Under G. Schomburgkii (Tab. 6298) will be found some
remarks on the curious genus Globba, so little known under
cultivation, though so common in tropical Asia and its
islands. When it flowered, it was exhibited at the Scientific
Committee of the Royal Horti¢ultural Society, and_ being
supposed to be a new species, was named provisionally
G. coccinea (see Gard. Chron. New Ser. vol. xvi. p. 23) ; itis
however undoubtedly the G. atro-sanguinea of Messrs.
Teijsmann and Binnendijk, described in 1863 from Bornean
Specimens introduced into the noble gardens of Buitenzorg
in Jaya.

This beautiful plant was procured by Mr. Burbidge
during his travels in Borneo (of which he has given us an
excellent account in his “The Gardens of the Sun”), and
was raised by his employers, Messrs. Veitch, who forwarded
it to the Magazine for figuring in July of last year.

Descr. Stem slender, strict, erect, two to three feet high.
Leaves three to four inches long, sessile on the sheath,
elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, dark green

May lst, 1882.

above with yellowish margins, pale beneath and there loosely
pubescent ; sheath red-brown, pubescent, closely clasping
the stem throughout its length. Spike strict, erect, spar-
ingly shortly branched, pubescent; lower flowerless bracts
distant, spreading, or erect, one-half to three-fourths of an
inch long, oblong-lanceolate, convolute, red-brown ; upper
or flowering bracts crowded, ovate, acute, spreading and
recurved, bright-red, as are the rachis and_ branches.
flowers one and a half inch long, glabrous. Ovary oblong
and calyx red, the latter tubular cleft two-thirds down into
three narrow acuminate segments. Corolla pale yellow;
tube very slender, three times as long as the calyx, limb
short; outer segments ovate, acute, not one-fourth the
length of the tube; inner smaller. Lip oblong, base two-
lobed, lobes short rounded. Filaments as long as the
corolla-tube ; anther-wings divided two-thirds way down
into triangular acute lobes.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, anther; 3, ovary, hypogynous glands, and base of style;
4, stigma; 5, transverse section of ovary :—all enlarged.

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APHELANDRA CHAMISSONIANA,

Native of South Brazil.

Nat. Ord. AcanTHACEH.—Tribe JusTICcIER.
Genus Apmetanpra, Br. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. ii. p. 1102.)

APHELANDRA Chamissoniana; fruticosa, ramulis puberulis exceptis glaberrima,
ramis teretibus, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis longe acuminatis apicibus obtusius-
culis membranaceis in petiolum longe angustatis supra saturate viridibus
secus costam nervosque albidis subtus pallidis, spica sessili late oblonge,
bracteis dense imbricatis late ovato-lanceolatis longe acuminatis recurvis flavis
spinoso-dentatis, corolla glabra flava, tubo bracteis longiore «quali limbo
subsequaliter 5-fido quadruplo longiore.

A. Chamissoniana, Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. fase.7, p. 90, et in DC. Prodr.
vol. xi. p. 299.

A. punctata, Hort. Bull. (Catal. No. 184, 1882, p. 25).

Though I have seen no authentically named specimen of
Aphelandra Chamissoniana, and thouch the latter is described
by Nees as having a scarlet corolla, I can hardly doubt the
plant here figured being referable’ to that species. The
native country of Nees’ A. Chamissoniana is St. Catharina
in South Brazil, from whence there is an unnamed Aphe-
landra in the Kew Herbarium, communicated by F. Mueller,
agreeing with Nees’ description and with Mr. Bull’s plant
in every particular, except possibly the colour of flower,
which cannot be ascertained from the dried specimen. In
Mueller’s specimen it has the same brown hue that both
yellow- and scarlet-flowered species assume in that state.
Nees indeed had seen but one specimen, and that a Herba-
rium one collected by Chamisso early in the century, and
probably guessed at the colour. It is hardly conceivable
that there should be at St. Catharina two species with such
remarkable bracts agreeing in every particular but the
colour of the corolla.

This beautiful plant was raised from seed imported-by

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Mr. Bull, with whom it flowered in November of last year.
It was provisionally named A. punctata in reference to the
dotted white edges of the pale bands on the leaves.

Descr. A weak shrub, glabrous except the young
branches and petioles, which are minutely pubescent. Stem
woody, slender, branches terete. Leaves four to five inches
long, membranous, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate at both
ends, narrowed at the base into a slender petiole, tip
obtuse, deep green above with broad white bands along the
courses of the midrib and nerves,. pale beneath. Spike
terminal, sessile, three to four inches long by two to three
broad, bright yellow throughout except the buds and tips of
the bracts, which are green. Bracts one and a half inch long,
decussately closely imbricate, ovate-lanceolate, strongly
recurved, concave, tip very slender, margins strongly
spinous-toothed ; bracteoles filiform, longer than the calyx,
rigid. Calyx one-third of an inch long; sepals narrowly
lanceolate, acuminate, with needle-like tips. Corolla-tube
one and a half inch long, slightly curved, nearly equal
throughout, glabrous; limb one-fourth the length of the
tube, lobes nearly equal in length, upper bifid, lateral and
lower ovate subacute. Anthers linear-oblong, subequal ;
connective hairy, of the inner pair most so. Ovary
glabrous.—J. D. H,

Fig. 1, Lateral anthers; 2, one of the inner pair ; 3, ovary and disk; 4, vertical,
and 5, transverse section of do. :—all enlarged.

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CILIA Beta.

Native of Guatemala.

Nat. Ord. OncHIDEZ.—Tribe MaxILLaRIeR.
Genus Caia, Lindl. ; (Endl. Gen. Pl. p. 190)

Catia bella; pseudo-bulbis ovoideo-globosis subcompressis levibus, foliis anguste
ensiformibus subgramineis longe acuminatis striato-nervosis 3~-5-costatis,
vaginis elongatis, scapo brevi paucifloro erecto, vaginis amplis scariosis distiche
imbricatis cymbiformibus acuminatis, bracteis spathaceis elongato-lanceolatis
erectis membranaceis, floribus 2-23 pollicaribus erectis, perianthio tubuloso-
infundibulari extus pallide stramineo intus albo apicibus sepalorum et petalorum
patentibus roseo-purpureis, sepalo dorsali oblongo obtuso, lateralibus cum basi
columnz in mentum elongatum apice 2-lobum productis decurrentibus, labello
breviter unguiculato elongato sensim in auriculas (lobos laterales) breves obtusas
dilatato et in apicem lingueformem (lobum terminalem) auream recurvam
supra callosam producto, ovario gracili 9-alato.

C. bella, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 218.
BrrrEnarta bella, Lemaire Jard. Fleuriste, vol. iii. t. 325 (1853).
Boruriocuitvs bellus, Lemaire Ill. Hortic. vol. iv. p. 30 (1856).

The curious genus Celia seems divisible into two sections
by the characters of the inflorescence; of these the first
has racemes of numerous horizontal flowers much exceeded
by the long spreading bracts, and a shortly produced base to
the column ; to this section belong the original (. Baueriana,
Lindl. (Bot. Reg. 1842, Tab. 36), C. macrostachya, Lindl.
(Plate 4712 of this work), and some undescribed species.
In the plants of the second section the flowers are few,
erect, longer than their bracts, and the base of the column
is produced to twice its own length, giving a long tubular
or infundibular aspect to the flower. To this belong the
plant here figured, together with C. Guatemalensis, Reichb. f.
(in Walp. Ann. vi. 219). For the second of these the genus
Bothriochilus is proposed by Lemaire, but it has no cha-
racters to stand upon, and indeed it is very probable that
plants with intermediate characters will be found uniting
the groups.

JUNE Ist, 1882,

The reputed native country of C. bella is Ie St. Catherine,
where it is said to have been discovered by M. F. Devos
when travelling for Messrs. Verschaffelt ; but it is no doubt
(like its congeners) a central American plant, for there is
a specimen of it in Lindley’s Herbarium collected in
Guatemala by Mr. Skinner, under the name of C. picta,
Batem. MSS. with the note, that it inhabits “avery damp
climate” (temp. 68° to 80°),” and is found ‘in thick fog on
trees, also terrestrial.” Whether the word “ fog” is used in
the English sense of visible moisture in the air, or in the
Scotch one of moss, may be doubted.

Celia bella has been long in cultivation; the drawing
here given was made from a plant that flowered in Kew in
December last.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs one and a half to two inches long,
globose or ovoid, somewhat compressed, smooth, green.
Leaves several, six to ten inches long, elongate ensiform,
finely acuminate, three- to five-nerved, striate, pale green,
narrowed into long slender ribbed sheaths. Scape two to
four inches long, clothed with distichous imbricating tumid
ovate-lanceolate acuminate brown sheaths. Flowers three
to four, erect, two inches long. Perianth tubular below,
funnel-shaped above, yellowish white with rose-purple tips
to the segments, and an orange-coloured mid-lobe of the
lip. Dorsal sepal oblong, obtuse, erect, lateral, produced
an inch below the ovary, and there adnate to the pro-
duced base of the column. Lip erect, slender, gradually
dilated upwards into two narrow rounded lateral lobes;
mid-lobe tongue-shaped, recurved, subacute, the whole face
covered with an orange callus. Column slender, top three-
toothed. Pollen masses eight, in four pairs. Ovary nearly
an inch long, slender, angles three-winged.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Column and lip ; 2, front, and 3, side view of column; 4, front, and Dy
back view of anther-case ; 6, two pairs of pollen masses :—al/ enlarged.

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SCROPHULARIA carysanrua.

Native of Asia Minor.

Nat. Ord. ScrRoPHULARINEX.—Tribe CHELONEZ.
Genus Scropuuaria, Linn; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 937.)

Scropuutarta (Venilia), chrysantha; laxe patentim glanduloso-pilosa, inferne
oes minusve lanata, caule robusto folioso, foliis ovato- v. orbiculari-cordatis
obulatis et serrulatis convexis rugosis floralibus amplis, cymis ad apicem
caulis dense congestis multifloris, pedunculis foliis floralibus brevioribus,
— ealyce brevioribus, calycis glanduloso-puberuli laciniis oblongo-
anceolatis immarginatis, corolla aurea inflata ovoidea ore contracto, lobulis
os subzequalibus truncatis, filamentis exsertis styloque puberulis gla-
ratisve.

S. chrysantha, Jaub. et Spach Ill. Plant. Orient. t. 221; Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. iv.
p- 390.

S. minima, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. xii. p. 303, non Bieberst.

S. congesta, Stev. Enum. Taur. p. 267.

The genus Scrophularia, containing nearly a hundred
real or supposed species, presents so little worthy the
attention of horticulturists, that the present is the first
species that has ever found a place in a volume of either
the Botanical Magazine or Register, or indeed of any
British or foreign work devoted to the illustration of
garden plants.

Asa species S. chrysantha is closely allied to the European
S. vernalis, L., differing in habit and in the dense flowered
cyme of much larger golden flowers. It was first published
by Bentham in De Candolle’s ‘ Prodromus,” under the
name of 8S. minima, Bieberst., from specimens sent from
the Caucasus by Prescott. Subsequently Jaubert and
Spach pointed out that Bieberstein’s S. minima was a
different plant, much smaller, with a close viscid pubescence
and red flowers, and they proposed for this the name it
now bears. Its native countries are the Caucasus and
Armenia, at Teflis, and Erzeroom. Our plant flowers freely
in a cool frame at Kew, in March, as a pot-plant.

JUNE lst, 1882,

Descr. A stout biennial erect herb, covered with lax soft
spreading glandular hairs, often woolly at the base of the
stem, which is four-sided. Leaves two to three inches broad,
ovate- or orbicular-cordate, lobulate and toothed, convex,
rugose with strongly impressed nerves, petiole longer than
the blade; floral leaves like the cauline, but smaller. Cymes
densely packed in the upper leaf axils, forming a rounded
head two inches in diameter; peduncles much shorter than
the floral leaves ; pedicels shorter than the calyx. Flowers
half an inch long, inclined and drooping. Calyz cleft three-
fourths of the way down into oblong-lanceolate divisions.
Corolla ovoid, turgid, glabrous, golden yellow, mouth
contracted ; divisions very small, subequal, broad, retuse.
Filaments exserted, puberulous or glabrate, as on the
ovary and style —J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, anthers; 3, ovary; 4, transverse section of do. :—ald
enlarged.

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DRACAINA GoLDIEANA.

Native of West Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. Litrackm.—Sub-order ASPARAGACER.

Genus Dracmuna, Vandelli; (Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 523.)

Dracmna Goldieana; fruticosa, caule erecto simplici, petiolo brevi ascendente
deorsum dilatato caulem amplectente, foliis contiguis patulis cordato-ovatis
cuspidatis fasciis transversalibus viridibus et albidis pulchris copiosis decoratis,
floribus in glomerulos globosos sessiles terminales aggregatis, pedicellis brevis-
simis, bracteis magnis latis scariosis, perianthii albi pollicaris tubo cylindrico,
segmentis lanceolatis tubo paulo brevioribus, staminibus inclusis antheris
oblongis albidis versatilibus, stylo demum exserto apice stigmatoso obscure
trilobato.

D. Goldieana, Hort. Bull.; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe, vol. xiv. p. 535; André
in Linden Ill. Hort. New Ser. t. 300.

This is one of the most valuable additions that has been
made for a long time to our stock of plants with beautiful
foliage suitable for stove cultivation. It was introduced
about 1870 from West Tropical Africa by the Rev. Hugh
Goldie, of the United Presbyterian Missionary Society, who
sent it to the Botanic Garden at Edinburgh. Here it
attracted the notice of Mr. William Bull, through whose
energy it has been largely propagated and widely dispersed.
A very large number of plants to which specific names
under the genus Dracena have been given in gardens during
the last twenty years are in reality not Dracznas at all,
but races or varieties of Cordyline terminalis. The present
plant is a true Dracewna, and is a well-marked new species
of the same group as D. elliptica (Bot. Mag. Tab. 4787),
differing from all its neighbours by its sessile capitate
inflorescence. It received a certificate from the Royal
Horticultural Society in 1873, but has only been known
to flower quite recently. Our drawing was made from a
plant that flowered in the Royal Gardens at Kew in March,
1882.

JUNE lst, 1882,

Desor. Trunk simple, erect, about half a foot long in
the flowering specimen drawn. Leaves crowded ; petiole
ascending, one and a half to three inches long, dilated and
amplexicaul at the base; blade cordate-ovate, six to nine
inches long, three to five inches broad, cuspidate, distinctly |
costate from base to apex, marbled with irregular trans-
verse bands of bright green and silvery grey in about equal
proportions. lowers in a dense globose sessile head a
couple of inches in diameter, surrounded on the outside by
a few reduced leaves; pedicels very short; proper bracts
large, scariose, oblong, cuspidate, clasping the lower part
of the flowers. Perianth white, above an inch long, the
lanceolate spreading segments rather shorter than the sub-
cylindrical tube. Stamens inserted at the throat of the
perianth-tube, rather shorter than the segments; anthers
small, oblong, versatile, cream-white. Style finally pro-
truded beyond the tip of the perianth-segments, obscurely
three-lobed at the stigmatose tip.—J. G. Baker.

_Fig. 1, A complete flower; 2, a stamen, viewed from the back; 3, a stamen,
viewed from the tace :—adl enlarged.

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STACHYURUS PRECOX.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Ternstra@mracem.—Tribe SAURAUJER.
Genus Stacuyvnus, Sieb. et Zucc.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 184.)

Stacnyurus precox; frutex subscandens, glaberrimus, ramalis teretibus
flagelliformibus, foliis pendulis petiolatis ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis tenuiter
acuminatis serrulatis nervosis, spicis breviter peduncalatis pendalis, floribus
sessilibus bracteatis et 2-bracteolatis, sepalis 4 oblongis, petalis 4 late obovato-
spathulatis concavis, staminibus ovario brevioribus, fructibus pedicello post
antherum elongato instructis globoso-obovoideis.

S. precox, Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Japon. p. 43, t.18; Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl.
Japon. vol. i. p. 59; Carritre in Rev. Hortic. 1869, p. 200, cum ic. zylog.

The genus Stachyurus is a very little known and very
singular member of the same natural order as the Tea and :
Camellia plants belong to, and was long supposed to con-
sist of a single species, a native of Japan, that here figured.
A second, 8. himalaicus, was found in the Nepalese Hima-
laya by Wallich in 1820, and is included in his Catalogue
of Indian Plants (n. 7417), where it is noted that it was
examined by R. Brown, who failing to discover its affinities,
ticketed it “* Frutex indeterminatus.” The same plant was
rediscovered by Griffith in 1838 in Bhotan, and regarded
by him as Ericaceous; and lastly by myself in 1849 in
Sikkim, where it is common at 5000 to 8000 feet elevation.
In habit and foliage the Japanese and Himalayan plants are
almost identical, but the former has much larger flowers
and longer petioles; the length of the pedicel of the fruit
which has been regarded as a difference (being usually
shorter in S. japonicus) is too variable in both to be relied
upon. The most remarkable character in both species is
that which misled botanists as to the affinity of the genus,
namely, the definite number of stamens, in which Stachyurus

JUNE lst, 1882.

differs from all the Ternstremiace, indicating, however,
no direct affinity with any other order.

S. japonicus is a native of the mountains of Nagasaki,
Kinsin, Nippon, Jedo, and other parts of Japan, where
it is frequently to be met with in the gardens of the
Japanese, and it has also been collected by Wright in the
Loochoo Islands. The flowers are described by Oldham
as beautiful and yellowish, and the bark as red; neither
of which characters obtains in the cultivated specimens,
the bark being brown and the flowers yellowish green.
It forms a slender straggling bush, ten feet high, in the
Temperate house at Kew, flowering in March, but it has
not formed fruit.

Descr. A rambling perfectly glabrous shrub, ten feet
high, with slender cylindric flexible branches, and pendent
branchlets. Leaves deciduous, four to six inches long,
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, finely acuminate, serrulate, often
oblique, bright green, thin and membranous; nerves many,
oblique; nervyules transverse; petiole half to one and a
quarter inch long. Spikes axillary, two to three inches
long, curved, shortly peduncled, many-flowered ; peduncle
and rachis stout. Flowers one-third of an inch in diameter,
subglobosely campanulate, sessile or very shortly pedicelled;
bracts small, scale-like, broadly ovate, acute, keeled;
bracteoles two, twice as large as the bract, coriaceous,
ovate, acute. Sepals oblong, two outer small, two inner
twice as large. Petals broadly obovate-spathulate, concave,
much larger than the sepals. Stamens eight, hypogynous,
shorter than the ovary, filaments slender, the alternate
ones shorter. Anthers small, didymous. Ovary obovoid,
obtusely four-angled, contracted into short style; stigma
capitate, four-lobed. Fruit globose or obovoid, one-third to
half an inch long, tipped by the style, pericarp coriaceous,
four-celled. Seeds very numerous; testa crustaceous, pale
brown, shining.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, two petals, stamens and pistil; 3, petal; 4, stamens and
ovary ; 5, vertical, and 6, transverse section of ovary; 7, diagram of flower :—
all enlarged.

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BILLBERGIA EUPHEMIZ.
Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Brometiace®.—Tribe BRoMELIER,

Genus Bitnpereia, Thunb. et Holm. (Roem. et Schultes Syst. Veg. vol. vii. p. 71.)

BIttBerGia Euphemia; acaulis, copiose stolonifera, foliis 5-6 lanceolatis rigidis
suberectis dimidio inferiori arcte convolutis ad apicem sensim angustatis
sordide viridibus utrinque tenuiter albo-lepidotis haud fasciatis, aculeis mar-
ginalibus minutis deltoideis, pedunculo albo-lepidoto foliis breviori bracteis
lanceolatis scariosis obscure rubellis, racemis laxis cernuis 6-12-floris, bracteis
inferioribus magnis lanceolatis, oyario oblongo-trigono, sepalis oblongo-
lanceolatis subacutis rubellis, petalis lingulatis basi appendiculatis apice
splendide violaceis ungue flavo-viridibus, staminibus petalis distincte breviori-
bus, stigmatibus arcte convolutis.

B, Euphemiz, H. Morren in Belg. Hort. vol. xxii. (1872), p. 11, t. 1-2.

Of all the Bromeliacee, the greatest favourites with culti-
vators have been the Billbergias with large persistent violet-
tipped flowers and lax drooping or erect racemes. They
are all natives of Central and Southern Brazil, where they
grow with Orchids and other epiphytes on trunks in the
forests. The present plant is a comparatively new species
of this group, of which B. vittata, Moreliana, macrocalyz,
Saundersii, and iridifolia are the best-known garden re-
presentatives. Its' history is not quite clear, but it has
been known for some time in the Belgian gardens (where
from its copiously-stoloniferous habit it is sometimes called
Billbergia repens), and it is believed to have been originally
introduced by De Jonghe. It was first described and
figured in a flowering state by Professor Morren ten years
ago, and named in compliment to Madame Morren. We
have had it for many years at Kew, and it flowered with
us in 1878, and now again in 1882, when the present
drawing was made. It grows so freely that I have no
doubt it will hold its ground in our conservatories,

JUNE Ist, 1882,

Desor. Acaulescent, copiously stoloniferous. Produced
leaves five or six in a closely convolute rosette, which is
cylindrical in the lower half, about a foot long, one and a
half or two inches broad, horny in texture, narrowed
gradually to an acute point, dull green on both surfaces,
covered, especially beneath, with a thin layer of white lepidote
scales, not at all fasciated, the marginal prickles minute,
deltoid. Peduncle nearly as long as the leaves, reddish,
terete, farinose, furnished with several scariose lanceolate
dull reddish bract-leaves. Flowers six to twelve in a lax
drooping raceme with a mealy flexuose rachis, nearly sessile,
the lower ones subtended by large lanceolate scariose
bracts, like those of the peduncle. Ovary oblong-trigonous,
a third or half an inch long. Sepals oblong-lanceolate,
horny, reddish, subacute, longer than the ovary. Petals
lingulate, about two inches long, with a greenish-yellow
claw, with a pair of small fimbriated basal scales and
bright violet-coloured tip. Stamens shorter than the petals ;
anthers linear-oblong, versatile, bright yellow. Stigmas

protruded beyond the anthers, strongly convolute.—J. G.
Baker,

Fig. i, Petal, with stamen, life size; 2, a basal scale of the petal; 3 and 4,
anthers; 5, stigmas; 6, horizontal section of ovary :—all enlarged. ©

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COLUMNEA KCALBREYERI.

Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. GESNERACEH.—Tribe CyrTANDRER®.

Genus Cotumnea, Leénn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. vol. ii. p. 1009.)

Cotumnea (Collandra) Kalbreyeri; fere glaberrima, caule robusto tereti, foliis
sessilibus valde disparibus subtus sanguineis majoribus elongato-oblongis
acuminatis recurvis inezquilateris integerrimis y. serratis, minoribus parvis
ovatis acuminatis, floribus magnis aureis in cymas v. fasciculos pancifloros
axillares foliaceo-bracteatos dispositis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis longe-acuminatis
integerrimis v. serratis, corollz tubuloso-infundibulari piloso tubo lato basi
sub-geniculato lobis brevibus rotundatis.

C. Kalbreyeri, Hook. f.; Masters in Gard. Chron., 1882, pp. 44, 217.

This superb plant belongs to the same division of the
genus Colwmnea as C. aureo-nitens, Hook., figured at
Plate 4294 of this work, and to which the generic name of
Collandra was given by Lemaire, in the Flora des Serres
(1847, under t. 223), but which is rightly referred to a
section of the old genus by Bentham in the Genera Plan-
tarum. ‘There is a closely allied species still to be intro-
duced from the base of Chimborazo, which has green leaves
with blood-red tips, and there are, no doubt, others in that
rich region of vegetation equally worthy of introduction
into our stoves.

Columnea Kalbreyeri was discovered by the collector
whose name it bears, when travelling for Messrs. Veitch,
in the forests of Cifiegetas, province of Antioquia, where it
grows on trees. Its discoverer says of the leaves, that
they are seen from a far distance, the upper ‘‘ surface being
spotted and marked, the marks shining as if illuminated.”
The contrast between the brilliant hues of the upper surface,
consisting of a bright pale green suffused with yellow in
patches, and the opaque glowing blood-red of the under
surface, forms one of the most striking of the many com-

JULY Ist, 1882,

binations of colour in the foliage of plants. In a notice of
the plant in the “ Gardeners’ Chronicle,” cited above at
p- 44, the leaves are inadvertently described as dull green,
and mottled with creamy orange on the under surface, and
as having green veins. |

I am indebted to Messrs. Veitch for the opportunity of
naming and figuring this magnificent plant, which flowered
in his establishment in January of the present year.

Descr. Stem short, somewhat woody below, quite
glabrous, cylindric, as thick as the middle finger, pale
green. Leaves in very close-set imbricating distichous
pairs, of which one is small, the other very large, the pairs
alternating in respect of their sizes, giving a fan-shaped
appearance to the foliage; all are sessile, pale green above,
suffused with yellow in patches, and blood-red beneath ;
larger leaves twelve to eighteen inches long by two and a
half to three inches broad, narrowly falcately oblong, re-
curved or subrevolute, acuminate, unequal-sided below,
quite entire or serrated, somewhat keeled beneath, the
lateral halves ascending from the midrib with recurved
margins, midrib and nerves beneath very stout. Flowers
in fasciculate leafy cymes three to four inches long, at the
axils of the leaves by which they are hid from above ; bracts
many, yellow-green, or the lower green and red; flowers
pedicelled. Sepals one to one and a half inch long, elliptic-
ovate, long-acuminate, quite entire or serrate, pale yellow,
midrib very thick. Corolla two to two and a half inches
long, broadly tubular, swelling upwards, hairy, golden
yellow streaked with red, mouth oblique; lobes subequal,
short, rounded, concave. Filaments glabrous, united into

a tube below. Disk-gland very large, semicircular. Ovary
elongate-ovoid.—J. D. H.,

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ARISARUM prososcipeum.

Native of Southern Italy.

Nat. Ord. Arorprx.—Tribe EvarEx.
Genus Arisarum, Zurg. Tozetti; (Endl. Gen PI. p. 232.)

ARisaruM proboscideum; glaberrimum, folio solitario, petiolo elongato crasso,
lamina sagittata obtusa v. apiculata, lobis posticis oblongis obtusis paullo
recurvis, pedunculo brevi basi vaginato spatha breviore, spathe tubo breviter
late cylindraceo basi truncato obtuso pallido, lamina olivacea superne late ovata
repente incurva et in caudam longissimam proboscideam decurvam dein
erectam tubo pluries longiorem desinente, spadice brevi sparsiflora, appendice
crassa cylindracea obtusa incurva basi intrusa.

A. proboscideum, Savi, Bot. Arch. vol. iv. p. 102, et observ. 6, ex Engler in A. DC.
Monogr. Phanerog. vol. ti. p. 565; Schott. Meletem. vol. i. p. 16; Synops.
Aroid. p.4; Prodr. Aroid. p.24; Blume Rumph. vol.i.p.91; Kunth. Enum.
pl. v. vol. iii. p. 15; Caruel, Prodr. Fl. Tose. 666, et Suppl. p. 49, et in Nuov.
Giorn. Bot. vol. xi. p. 7, t. 1; Parlatore, Fi. Italian, vol. it. p. 238.

Arum proboscideum, Linn. Sp. Pi. ed.ii. p. 1370 (Sabbat. Hort. Roman. vol. ii.
t.78; Bocconi, Mus. di Piant. vol. ii. t. 50; Barrelier Icones, t. 1150).

This singular plant is the second and only other species
of the genus, the type of which, A. vulgare, was figured at
Plate 6023 of this work. From this latter A. proboscideum
differs so remarkably in the creeping rootstock (in contrast
to the tuberous one of the type) and in the prodigious
proboscidiform elongation of the spathe (which is truncate
nA. vulgare), that it is remarkable that Schott, in his
multiplication of the genera of the Order, did not separate
the two generically. Schott is, however, one of the few
of the notorious multipliers of genera who invariably
founded these on definite, though too trivial characters, and
his works on Aroidew will always maintain their high
character for their accuracy, and for the singularly sagacious
views they display of the affinities of the genera of this
Order, which is one of the most difficult to analyze from
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any in the vegetable kingdom. During the revision of the
Order for the ‘‘ Genera Plantarum,” I have been through-
out impressed with Schott’s great excellence as a systematist,
his powers of observation, and discernment of affinities.
Arisarum proboscideum is a very rare plant; the only
localities assigned to it by Engler are shaded woods of the
Upper Arno, and the Apennines, along which range 1b
extends from the far-famed Valle Ombrosa, near Florence,
to the latitudes of Rome and Naples. :
The specimen here figured came from the rich collection
of the late lamented G. C. Joad, Esq., of Wimbledon, which
he bequeathed to the Royal Gardens, where it flowered in
a cool greenhouse in February last.
Drser. Rootstock subterranean, horizontal, creeping, as
thick as a goose-quill. Leaves solitary or few, each with a
short obtuse basal sheath; petiole four to six inches high,
stout, cylindric; blade three to four inches long by one to
two inches broad, hastate, middle lobe ovate or oblong,
obtuse or apiculate, margins recurved, lateral lobes as long
as the middle one or shorter, obtuse, rather recurved.
Scape not half the length of the petiole, stout, with a single
basal sheath. Spathe erect, one to one and a quarter inch
long without the proboscis, which is often five inches long ;
tube broadly cylindric, rather inflated below, where it is
truncate with the scape intruded, pale grey-white ; upper
part olive-green, horizontal and decurved, narrowed into
the proboscis, the filiform apex of which is first decurved,
and then ascending becomes very slender and erect ; mouth
of spathe small, deep olive-purple. Spadie included,
cylindric, ending in a stout subclavate obtuse club, which
is curved within the curved part of the spathe, and the base
of which is intruded. Filaments very short; anthers
broadly reniform, one-celled, dehiscence transvers>. Ovaries
very few, at the base of the spadix in front, subglobose,
one-celled, with many erect, slender, clavate, orthotropous
ovules ; style very short, stigma capitate.—J. D. H. ,

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TULIPA Borszczow1.

Native of Central Asia.

Nat. Ord. Liz1acrz.—Tribe TULIPEx.
Genus Tuxipa, Linn, ; (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xiv. p. 275.)

Tutrrs Borszczowi ; bulbo ovoideo, tunicis exterioribus-intus adpresse pilosis,
caule glabro unifloro 4~-14-pedali, foliis 3-4 lanceolatis suberectis glaucis facie
canaliculatis margine obscure ciliatis, pedunculo stricto erecto, perianthii
saturate lutei segmentis conformibus oblongis cuspidatis basi maculA parva
rubro-brunnea notatis exterioribus dorso rubro suffusis, staminibus perianthio
subduplo brevioribus, antheris magnis, filamentis glabris antheris brevioribus,
ovario cylindrico-trigono stigmatibus magnitudine mediocribus.

T. Borszezowi, Regel in Regel et Herder Enum. Plant. Semenoid. pt. iii. p. 115 ;
Regel Fl. Turkest. vol. i. p. 137, tab. xxi. figs. 5-7.

This is another of numerous new tulips discovered by
the Russian explorers during their recent investigations in
Central Asia. Of familiar types it comes in between
Gesneriana and australis, having the broad glaucous leaves
and glabrous filaments of the former, but a perianth in size
and colouring more like those of australis or Orphanidea.
It was first gathered by the explorer after whom it is named
nearly twenty years ago on the Karakum Steppe near the
Sea of Aral, flowering in May. It is figured in Regel’s
Flora of Turkestan, and no doubt is quite hardy, but as yet
we know very little of it in England as a living plant. Our
figure is drawn from specimens that flowered at Kew in
March of this present year, the bulbs of which were received
from Dr. Regel.

Drsor. Bulb ovoid, about an inch in diameter, with
dark-brown membranous outer tunics, thinly coated with
adpressed hairs inside. Stem erect, glabrous, one-flowered,
not more than half a foot long in our specimens, but said
to attain a foot or a foot and a half. eaves three or four,
lanceolate, suberect, glaucous, channelled down the face,

JULY Isr, 1882,

obscurely ciliate on the edges, the largest four to six
inches long by an inch broad. Pedunele robust, glabrous,
stiffly erect. Perianth campanulate, bright yellow, an inch
and a half long ; segments all six uniform in shape, oblong,
cuspidate, half as long as broad, furnished with a small
deltoid red-brown blotch at the base, the three outer flushed
with red over the back. Stamens about half as long as the
perianth ; anthers bright yellow, nearly half an inch long;
filaments shorter than the anthers, without any hairs at
the base. Ovary cylindrical-trigonous, the three stigmas
about as broad as its diameter.—J. G. Baker.

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STREPTOCARPUS PARVIFLORA.
Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. GesNERACER.—Tribe CYRTANDRE®.
Genus Srreprocarrvs, Lindl.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1023.)

Srreprocarrus parviflora; foliis plurimis suberectis sessilibus oblongis v. ovato-
v. lanceolato-oblongis obtusis crenulatis dense lanuginosis, nervis impressis
rugosis scapis gracilibus pilosis plurifloris, bracteis parvis oblongis, calycis pilosi
segmentis lineari-lanceolatis, corolla albe tubo recto glanduloso-piloso lobis
ovato-rotundatis,

S. parviflora, ZH. Meyer Zwei Pfl. Docum. p. 152 (nomen tantum), ex Harv. MSS. ;
C. B. Clarke, Monog. Cyrtandr. in A. DC. Monog, Phanerog. ined.

The genus Streptocarpus comprises plants of very different
modes of growth. The typeof the genus—the old S. Rezii,
Lindl. (see our Plate 3005, under Didymocarpus)—was
introduced in 1826 ; it resembles the present species in habit,
but differs in the single-flowered scapes, which, however,
spring from the very bases of the leaf-blade, as in our plant.
The next species that flowered in our gardens (in 1855)
was the beautiful S. polyanthus, Hook. (Plate 4850), which
bears a single horizontal leaf, and whose many-flowered
scapes arise in succession along a considerable length of the
midrib on the upper surface of the leaf; and which further
differs from the type species in the almost salver-shaped
corolla with a curved tube and obovate crenulate spreading
lobes. In the same year, S. Gurdeni, Hook., flowered
(Plate 4862), a many-leaved species, with the scapes more
radical, and with the corolla-tube slightly curved, and the
limb very distinctly two-lipped. Lastly, nm 1861, the most
beautiful species hitherto discovered was introduced, the
S. Saundersti, Hook. (Plate 5251), which has the single
horizontal leaf of S. polyanthus, with the scapes also arising
from along the midrib far into the leaf, but with a corolla
more nearly resembling that of 8. Rewxii and parviflora.

JULY Ist, 1882,

All the above species were introduced into cultivation by
the Royal Gardens of Kew; but for that here figured we
are indebted to the Botanical Gardens of Cambridge, which,
under the superintendence of Mr. Lynch, are rapidly ob-
taining a character worthy of the University for their
botanical interest, as well as their horticultural and educa-
tional value.

S. parviflora is a native of the mountainous districts of
the Cape Colony itself; we have seen herbarium specimens
collected near Grahamstown by the late Dr. Pappe; at 3500
feet elevation on Mount Boschberg, by Mr. MacOwan ; and
near Graaf-Reinet by Mr. Bolus at 3900 feet. In its
native country it flowers in September to November, and
at Cambridge it flowered in June.

Descr. Lootstock very short. Leaves suberect, numerous,
tufted, five to nine inches long by one and a half to two
inches broad, sessile, oblong or ovate- or Janceolate-oblong,
obtuse, crenulate, rugose above from the numerous impressed
nerves, densely velvety on both surfaces. Scapes longer or
shorter than the leaves, numerous, slender, hairy ; flowers
numerous, subpaniculate; bracts small, obovate-oblong,
pedicels slender, and calyx and tube of corolla glandular-
hairy. Calyz-segment linear-lanceolate. Corolla white, with
faint purplish streaks on the three lower lobes; tube three-
quarters of an inch long, nearly straight, broad but hardly
inflated ; lobes subequal, rounded, about one-third of the
length of the tube. Stamens and Staminodes as in the
Order. Ovary glandular-pubescent. Capsule one and a
half inch long.—J. D. H.

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PONTHIEVA macunata.

Native of Venezuela.

Nat. Ord. OxcH1pEZ.—Tribe NEoTTIER.
Genus Ponraigva, Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 593, ined.)

PonTHIEVA maculata; pilis patentibus elongatis laxe villosa, foliis sessilibus v.
in petiolum angustatis lineari-oblongis acuminatis, scapo valido, spica multiflora,
bracteis ovato-oblongis lanceolatisve, floribus horizontalibus, ovario bracteis
2-3-plo longioribus hirsutis, sepalo dorsali anguste ovato-lanceolato, lateralibus
duplo majoribus erecto patentibus late ellipticis albis brunneo maculatis longe
ciliatis, petalis parvis ab apice columne gracilis pendulis dimidiato-ovatis
unguiculatis parallelis marginibus rectis contiguis, labello minuto excavato.

P. maculata, Lindl. in Ann. Nat. Hist, vol. xv. p. 385; The Gardeners’ Maga-
zine, vol. i. (1850) p. 248; WV. H. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1882, p. 496.

ScHonLernia benigna, Klotzsch MSS,

This is, so far as can be determined by Herbarium speci-
mens and the few species that have already flowered in
this country, the handsomest except one of the curious
genus of terrestrial Orchids to which it belongs, all but
that one of the others (a fewer, but much larger flowered
species found by Jamieson in the Quitenian Andes) being
in comparison insignificant plants. The genus itself was
founded by R. Brown in the second edition of Hortus
Kewensis (vol. v. p. 199), upon a West Indian plant
figured nearly eighty years ago in this work as Neoittia
glandulosa (Plate 842), since which nearly twenty species
have been added to the genus, natives chiefly of Venezuela
and the United States of Colombia. P. maculata is not
new to cultivation, for a reduced woodcut figure of it-was
published upwards of thirty years ago in the “ Gardeners’
Magazine” (cited above), where, however, it is not stated
how it was introduced, nor when it flowered.

Mr. N. E. Brown, in an excellent description which he
has given of the plant in the “ Gardeners’ Chronicle,”
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sepals there arises a perfectly transparent glossy appressed
clavate hair, which can scarcely be perceived except under
a lens.

Ponthieva maculata has rather a wide range in geo-
graphical distribution; there are in the Herbarium dried
specimens from an elevation of 6000 to 7000 feet on the
Silla de Caraccas in Venezuela, collected by Linden, Crueger,
and Fendler; and from Colombia by Hartweg, as also by
Funck and Schlim, at an elevation of 7500 feet, in the
province of Pamplona. Linden describes the foliage as
resembling that of Arnica montana, and the lower sepals as
white spotted with red, and the petals as white streaked
with rose, colours hardly consistent with those of the
cultivated specimens.

A. maculata flowered at Kew in March of the present
year from plants purchased at Stevens’ auction rooms.

Descr. Whole plant covered sparsely with long spreading
flaccid hairs. Roots of stout fleshy fibres. Leaves a foot
long and less, sessile or narrowed into a petiole, from
elliptic-lanceolate to narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acuminate,
pale green, with few nearly longitudinal nerves. Scape
stout, erect, longer than the leaves, bearing two or three
short appressed acute green sheaths, and a lax raceme-like
spike of horizontal flowers. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, much
shorter than the slender strict ovaries, which are one inch
long. Flowers three-quarters of an inch across the sepals;
perianth widely spreading, with the minute lip upwards.
Dorsal-sepals inferior, ovate-lanceolate, acute, pale brown
with darker streaks; lateral sepals twice as large, broadly
elliptic, long-ciliated, white with brown spots. Column
slender, projecting forwards, bearing at its extremity the
two petals which hanging down in front resemble a lip.
Petals dimidiate-ovate, parallel and close together, clawed,
yellow with red-brown streaks. Lip very small, fleshy,
reflected, tongue-shaped, acute, curved, concave. Stigma
concave, with membranous walls.—J. D. H.

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HEDYCHIUM GRAOCILE.

Native of the Himalaya and Khasia Mountains.

Nat. Ord. Scrraminem.—Tribe ZINGIBERER.
Genus Hepycuivum, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. iii. p. 642 ined.) .

Hepycnivm gracile; glabrum, pallide glauco-virescens, foliis supra vaginam
breviter petiolatis lanceolatis acuminatis, vaginaram auriculis brevibus rotun-
datis, spica elongata erecta cylindracea densiflora, rachi pubescente v. glabrata,
bracteis lineari-oblongis obtusis glandulosis v. eglandulosis 1-2-floris, calycis
membranacei ore valde obliquo apice barbellato, corollz alba tubo tenui 3-}-
pollicari calyce vix duplo longiore, laciniis filiformibus, staminodiis (petalis
2 eghaeene linearibus, labello angusto 2-lobo lobis angustis acutis, filamento
rubro,

H. gracile, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p.1; Fl. Ind. vol. i. p. 15; and Ed. Carey et Wal.
vol. i. p. 12; Corom. Pl. vol. iii. p. 48; Wall. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot.
vol. v. p. 367 (1853); Horaninov, Prodr. Monog. Scitam. p.25; Wail. Cat.
6543.

H. glaucum, Roscoe Monand. Pl., Hedych. n. 3.
H. viridiflorum, Clarke MSS.; Gard. Chron. 183], part 2, p. 406.

Since the publication of the magnificent work on Scita-
mineous plants of W. Roscoe, of Liverpool (better known
as the erudite author of the life of Lorenzo de Medici),
little has been done towards the illustration in this country
of the beautiful Indian genus Hedychiwm, Seventeen species
are figured in the above-named work, chiefly from speci-
mens sent by Wallich from the Calcutta Botanical Gardens,
and all of them from plants cultivated in those of Liverpool,
and about half that number have appeared in this Magazine;
but it is upwards of thirty years since the last of the
latter was published (H. chrysoleucum, Hook., tab. 4976).
Since the date of Roscoe’s work many species have been
added to the genus, and most of these are included im
Wallich’s “Initiatory attempt to define the species of
Hedychium, and settle their synonymy,” published in the
“Kew Journal of Botany,” vol. Ves t. 821 (1853). In this
summary H. glaucum of Roscoe is reduced to H. gracile,

avueusr lst, 1882.

Roxb., in which I entirely concur, though the plant 1s not
nearly so glaucous as a smaller species which I found, also
in the Khasia Mountains, and which is undescribed. I have
not quoted the figure of the flower referred to by Roxburgh
in his Coromandel plants (t. 251, right-hand corner), because
it is so bad a representation, if indeed really belonging
to this plant.

H. gracile was introduced into England by Dr. Wallich »
in 1820, who sent plants to Lord Milton, by whom it was
communicated to Mr. Shepherd, of the Liverpool Botanical
Gardens, where it flowered in 1822. It is a native of the
Nepalese and Sikkim Himalaya and of the Khasia Moun- ~
tains, in both of which I have gathered it at elevations of
3000 to 5000 feet. The specimen here figured flowered at
Kew in September last from plants communicated by Mr.
Elwes from Sikkim.

Drscr. Whole plant a pale glaucous green colour,
glabrous except the often pubescent rachis of the spike.
Stem slender, two to three feet high. Leaves five to nme
inches long by two to three inches broad, finely acuminate,
base acute, narrowed into a petiole one-half to three-quarters
of aninch long. Sheath long, compressed, auricles at the
top short, rounded. Spike five to seven inches long, by
one and a half to two and a half inches in diameter, ex-
clusive of the stamens ; rachis pubescent or nearly glabrous;
flowers suberect, white with the filament red. Bracts one-
half to three-quarters of an inch: long, slender, cylindric,
obtuse, glabrous; inner bract shorter, tubular, very mem-
branous. Calyx tubular, membranous, shorter than the
bracts, mouth obliquely truncate. Corolla-tube two-thirds
to three-quarters of an inch long, about one-third longer
than the outer bract; lobes three, filiform, longer than
the tube. Staminodes (or inner petals) linear, acute, shorter
than the petals. Lip linear oblong, cleft into two semi-
lanceolar acute diverging lobes. Stamen projecting one
to one and a half inch beyond the perianth-tube; filament
convolute, red; anther linear. Stigma turbinate, truncate.
Ovary hairy, subglobose.—.J. D. H.

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TULIPA Dptert.

Native of Savoy and Italy.

Nat. Ord. Linracex.—Tribe TULIPER.

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

Tuxipa Didieri; subinodora, bulbo magno ovoideo tunicis exterioribus brunneis
intus subglabris vel parce pilosis, caule stricto glabro unifloro pedali vel sesqui-
pedali, foliis 3-4 oblongo-lanceolatis vel lanceolatis glauco-viridibus glabris,
perianthii campanulati splendide coccinei segmentis basi macula magna pur-
purea flavo marginata praditis exterioribus oblongis subacutis interioribus
obovato-oblongis cuspidatis, staminibus perianthio triplo brevioribus antheris
filamento glabro subeequilongis, ovario trigono stigmatibus magnis. 4

T. Didieri, Jordan Fragm. vol. i. p. 36, t.5, fA; Jord. et Fourr. Ie. p. 8, t. 17;
Baker in Journ. Paw. Soc, vol. xiv. p. 283.

T. Fransoniana, Parlat. Nuov. Gen. p. 15; Flora Ital. vol. ii. p. 392; Baker in
Gard. Chron. 1878, p. 756.

T. Gesneriana, Bellardi App. Fl. Ped. p. 226, non Linn.

This is one of the finest of all the known Tulips. It is
closely allied to T. Gesneriana, with which it agrees in
general habit, leaves and bulb. It differs by the segments
of the perianth being narrower and more pointed, and
especially by their being furnished at the base with a large
cuneate purple blotch with a yellow border, which covers
the whole of the claw. It has long been known to inhabit
cultivated fields in the neighbourhood of St. Jean de
Maurienne, in Savoy, and I cannot separate from the Savoy
plant by any tangible character the Florentine 7’. Fran-
soniana of Parlatore. There are three other Tulips which
grow along with it in Savoy (7. mauriana, planifolia, and
Billietiana), which have been described and figured as
species by Jordan, but which come so near to it that I have ~
regarded them as varieties in the paper above cited. Our
plate was drawn from a plant which flowered in Kew
Gardens in the herbaceous ground towards the end of May
last year.

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Duscr. Bulb ovoid, an inch in diameter, the outer brown
membranous tunies scarcely at all hairy inside. Stem erect,
glabrous, one-flowered, a foot or a foot and a half long.
Leaves three or four to a stem, rather glaucous, not hairy
on the margin, the lower oblong-lanceolate, acute, half a
foot long, one and a half or two inches broad, the others
lanceolate, about an inch broad. Perianth erect, campanu-
late, bright crimson, two or two and a half inches long;
segments an inch and a quarter or aninch and a half broad,
with a large cuneate purple blotch with a yellow border
covering the whole claw to a height of nearly an inch ; three
outer segments oblong, subacute; three inner rather broader,
obovate-oblong, cuspidate. Stamens about an inch long,
the same purple as the blotch of the claw of the perianth-
segments; anthers about as long as the glabrous filament.
Pistil a third as long as the perianth; ovary greenish,
trigonous, a sixth of an inch in diameter; stigmas large,

deeply channelled. Scent of the flower very faint.—J. G.
Baker.

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SAXIFRAGA Camposil.

. Native of Spain.

Nat. Ord. Saxtrragackx.—Tribe SaxIFRaGen.
Genus SaxirraGa, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p. 635.)

SaxirraGa Camposii; dense ecwspitosa, foliis laxe rosulatis sparse laxe pilosis
carnosulis petiolo lato nervoso, limbo flabelliformi 3-5-lobo lobis integris, v.
latiore lobis 2-3-fidis, ramis floriferis glabris v. parse glanduloso-pilosis, pedun-
culis subcorymbosis pedicellis ovariisque globosis densius glanduloso-puberulis,
floribus %-poll. diam, inclinatis, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis ovario longioribus,
petalis spathulatis albis staminibus duplo longioribus, antheris flavis, stylis
gracilibus fere rectis stigmatibus oblongo capitatis.

8. Camposii, Boiss. et Reut. Pugill. (1852), p. 47; Willk. Ill. Fl. Hisp. p. 38,
t. 32,4 B; Willk. et Lange, Prodr. Fl. Hisp. vol. iii. p. 112; Engler,
Monog. Gatt. Sawif. p. 168.

S. Almeriensis, Willk. ined. Pl. Exsice. (1845), no. 1224,
S. Wallaceana, Hort.

There is no more difficult group of plants to discriminate
specifically than the Dactyloid Saxifrages; many of the
forms are exceedingly local; they are only just distinguish-
able when compared from their native habitats; they
vary more or less in habit under cultivation, without abso-
lutely “ running into” one another; and in the dried state
they lose much of the character they showed when living.
S. Camposii is no exception to this statement; according
to Willkomm its nearest affinity is with S. trifwrcata, Schrad.
(Bot. Mag., t. 1651), and S. cuneata, Willd., but to me it
appears to be scarcely distinguishable from S. Maweana,
Baker (Bot. Mag., t. 6384), except in the smaller leaves,
which seem never to assume the reniform shape. It is true
that, judging by the dried native specimens, S. Camposii
is a stouter, more rigid species, with a more crowded rosette
of leaves, and shorter peduncles and pedicels, but under
cultivation these differences are so considerably modified,
that the two plants may not unreasonably be regarded as

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geographical forms, one inhabiting the southern mountains
of Spain, the other the northernmost ones of Marocco. The
S. maderensis represents the same type in its western
limit of growth, the Island of Madeira; the S. cuneata of
the Pyrenees represents its northern limit within the
Peninsular area; within that area occur the equally or
indeed more closely connected forms of S. obscura, Gren.
and Godr., and S. canaliculata, Boiss. and Reut.; and it
would not be difficult to connect all with the forms that
occur under other names elsewhere in Western Europe.

The size of the flowers, no less than the habit, recommend
S. Camposti for cultivation in the rock-garden, along with
its numerous allies. The specimen here figured flowered
at Kew in May of this year, where it has been in cultivation
for many years.

Descr. Densely tufted, bright green, forming large
patches, more or less hairy on the leaves and glandular in
the inflorescence. Leaves very variable, a quarter to half
an inch in diameter, flabellately three- to five-cleft, with
simple obtuse or subacute teeth, or broader and deeply
three- to five-lobed, with the lobes three or more toothed ;
petiole one-half to one inch long, broad, flat, strongly
ribbed when dry. Flowering stems three to four inches
high, rather stout, glabrous or sparsely glandular ; peduncles
and pedicels glandular-pubescent, slender. Flowers corym-
bose, two-thirds of an inch in diameter, inclined. Ovary
nearly globose, densely glandular. Sepals oblong-lanceolate,
subacute, longer than the ovary. Petals spathulate, white,
twice as long as the stamens, tip rounded. Anthers yellow.
Styles slender ; stigma oblong-capitate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower; 2, ovary and stamens ; 3, stamens; 4, style ;
5, transverse section of ovary :—ali enlarged.

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BESCHORN ERIA BRACTEATA.

Native of Mezico.

Nat. Ord. AMaRYLiipacex.—Tribe AGAavEx.
Genus Bescnorneria, Kunth; (Kunth Enum. vol. v. p. 844.)

BescHornenia tubiflora ; acaulis, foliis circiter 30 lanceolatis pedalibus vel sesqui-
pedalibus glauco-viridibus margine scabris, pedunculo valido 2-3-pedali, floribus
In paniculam rhomboideam ramis corymbosis dispositis, pedicellis ovario sxpe
zquilongis, bracteis conspicuis scariosis rubellis oblongo-lanceolatis vel lanceo-
latis, perianthii segmentis oblanceolatis obtusis ovario 14-2-plo longioribus,
genitalibus limbo equilongis.

B. bracteata, Jacobi Index Agaveen. p. 11 (nomen solum),

This is the most robust and copiously floriferous of all
the Beschornerias which we had in a living state at Kew.
The species of this genus seem to be very closely allied to
one another, and a monograph of them is greatly needed.
In his catalogue of the Agave, General Von Jacobi
enumerates nine species, but his monograph of the sub-
order never reached this genus, and so far as I am aware
ouly three out of the nine, all of which have been figured in
the Borantcan Magazine (viz. tubijflora, tab. 4642, yuccoides,
tab. 5208, and Toneliana, tab. 6091), have ever been
described or characterized. Our drawing was made from
a plant which has been for a long time in the Kew collec-
tion, which flowered for the first time in the month of
March of this present year.

Descr. Acaulescent. Leaves about thirty in a dense rosette,
a foot or a foot and a half long, two inches broad at the
middle, contracted to less than an inch above the dilated
base, thin but firm in texture, glaucous green, scabrous on
the margin. Inflorescence four to five feet long, including
the robust peduncle, which is terete, reddish-brown, about
as long as the panicle, and furnished with three or four

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adpressed lanceolate bract-leaves. Panicle rhomboid, the
branches many-flowered and corymbose, the central ones
eight or nine inches long, subtended by large scariose
reddish bracts; pedicels half or three-quarters of an inch
long; ultimate bracts oblong or lanceolate, about as long
as the pedicels. Ovary trigonous, three-quarters of an inch
to an inch in length; limb an inch and a half long, the
oblanceolate obtuse segments free to the base, but per-
manently connivent, at first green, but turning yellowish-
red when mature. Stamens and pistil as long as the

perianth-segments; filaments thickened above the base.—
J. G. Baker,

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SONCHUS Jacqurnt.

Native of the Canary Islands.

Nat. Ord. Composirm.—Tribe CrcHoRIACER.
Genus Soncuvus, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 528.)

Soncuvs Jacquini ; sparse albo-lanatus, caule 1-2-pedali robusto confertim folioso
basi fruticoso, foliis sessilibus lineari-oblanceolatis acuminatis ad medium v.
infra pinnatifidis, lobis triangularibus acutis decurvis spinuloso-ciliatis, capi-
tulis corymbosis v. subumbellatis, involucri bracteis adpressis exterioribus
pe adetes interioribus lineari-oblongis obtusis, acheniis obovoideis atris
sulcatis.

8. Jacquini, DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 1813, p. 147; Prodr. vol. vii. p. 188, excl.
var. 8; Webbet Berth. Phyt. Canar. pars ii. p. 428,-t. 132.

8. fruticosus, Jacq. Coll. vol. i. p. 83 (non Linn.) ; Ic. Rar. vol.i. t. 161, excl. Syn.
8, macranthus, Poir. Suppl. vol. iii. p. 289.

The Canary Islands are remarkable for the number of
handsome species of Sonchus which they contain; and of
which but few have as yet been in cultivation in England ;
one alone, S. radicatus (Tab. 5211), is figured in this
Magazine. As in the case of various other genera of what
are herbaceous plants on the Continents, many of the
Sonchi of the Canaries are suffrutescent or even frutescent,
the base of the stem becoming woody and perennial.

S. Jacquini is a native of rocky places in the “ Laurel
region” of the Island of Teneriffe, where it was discovered
by Masson, a collector for the Royal Gardens of Kew, who
In 1779 sent seeds to the Imperial Garden of Schoenbrun
(Vienna), which produced the specimen well figured by
Jacquin. Its native name is “ Lachuza de Pastor,’ or

astor’s Lettuce, whence it is to be inferred that it is avail-
able as a salad; it is however described by Webb as being
very bitter. Our specimen was raised from seeds brought
in 1880 by Mr. Perez from M. Wildpret, of the Botanic
Gardens of Orotava; they flowered in March, 1882, in a

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cool greenhouse, and formed a most ornamental feature
from the size and brilliant colouring of the heads.

Descr. A stout erect sparingly branched herb, with a
woody stem below, one to two feet high; sparingly clothed
here and there with patches of snow-white wool; stem at
the lower part as thick as the thumb, herbaceous branches
as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves crowded, six to twelve
inches long, by two to three broad, spreading and recurved,
deep green above, paler beneath, lower sessile, upper deeply
cordate and half-amplexicaul, oblanceolate, pinnatifid to
about or beyond the middle, denticulate and ciliate ; lobes
triangular, acute, with rounded sinus, drooping; nerves
horizontal. Heads two to three inches in diameter, deep
golden-yellow; involucre one-half to three-quarters of an
inch in diameter, shortly urn-shaped, green; bracts ap-
pressed, slightly woolly, outer rounded-ovate very obtuse,
imner oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse. Corolla with a long
very slender hairy tube, and linear ray toothed at the tip.
Achenes one-sixth of an inch long, narrowly obovoid or
pear-shaped, with five deep longitudinal furrows, otherwise

smooth or very obscurely tubercled, quite black; pappus
very soft and white.—J. D. H. ; ze

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IMPATIENS SuLTANI.

Native of Zanzibar.

Nat. Ord. GeRaAnrIAcEx,—Tribe BaLsaMINEX,

Genus Impatiens, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 277.)

Impatiens Sultani; glaberrima, caule erecto ramoso ramisque robustis teretibus,
foliis alternis longe petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis basi acutis crenato-
serratis sinubus setiferis, floribus axillaribus solitariis rarius in pedunculo
communi 2-3-nis coccineis, bracteis minutis, sepalis parvis lanceolatis, vexillo
obovato-rotundato retuso, alis 2-partitis segmentis w#qualibus cuneato-obovatis
vexillo paullo majoribus, labio parvo lanceolato in calcar gracillimum curvum
abrupte contracto.

The mountains of India were long supposed to be the
head-quarters of the Balsams, no less than 125 species,
together with many varieties, having been described from
that region. There are, however, indications of Tropical
Africa proving a rival for this honour; for though owing to
the fragile and membranous nature of the species, and
their fugacious flowers, they are of all plants the most
difficult to preserve in a dried state, and though the climate
of Africa is most unpropitious to their being so preserved,
no less than seventeen species are already described
from that botanically unexplored country, in Oliver's
“Flora of Tropical Africa.” Of these, only one has hitherto
been figured in Europe, the I. bicolor (Plate 5366), a very
handsome plant, native of the mountainous Island_ of
Fernando Po and the Cameroons Mountains. The subject
of the present plate is the second which has flowered in
this country, and for gorgeous colouring and profuse
flowering it is not surpassed by any of its congeners. Asa
Species it comes very near to (and is possibly a form of)
I. Walleriana, Hook. f., a native of the Mozambique district,
at an elevation of 2000 feet, but it differs from that plant
in the retuse standard, shorter spur, and axillary scarlet

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flowers, which are not umbelled at the end of a long
peduncle.

I. Sultani is one of the numerous and not the least
beautiful of the discoveries of Sir John Kirk, K.C.M.G.,
Political Resident at Zanzibar, whose scientific labours,
first as the companion of Livingstone on his second ex-
pedition, and since in his official capacity, has thrown more
light on the Flora of Hastern Tropical Africa than all other
explorers put together. I have named it in honour of that
distinguished potentate, the Sultan of Zanzibar, to whose
enlightened and philanthropic rule Hastern Africa owes so
much,

Desor. A glabrous, erect, branched, rather succulent
herb; stem and branches stout, terete, green. Leaves two
to three inches long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, base
acute, crenate-serrate with a bristle in the angle of every
serrature, pale green, base narrowed into a petiole three-
quarters to one and a half inches long. lowers solitary
and axillary, or two to three on very short peduncles, one
to one and a half inches in diameter; bracts minute. Sepals
small, lanceolate, acuminate. Petals quite flat, scarlet;
dorsal (or standard) obovate - orbicular retuse, rather
smaller than the others; lateral petals (or wings) cleft to
the base into obovate-cuneate equal flat lobes. Lip not
half the length of the petals, lanceolate in outline, suddenly
contracted into a slender up-curved spur as long or twice
as long as the petals.—J. D. H.

: Fig. 1, Portion of margin of leaf; 2, lip with its spur and two sepals at its base ;

stamens before the dehiscence of the anthers; 4, the same after dehiscence ;
5, ovary :—all enlarged,

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BACULARIA MONOSTACHYA.

Native of New South Wales.

Nat. Ord. PALMEx.—Tribe ARECER.
Genus Bacuraria, F. Muell. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. ined..)

Bacunarta monostachya; caudice gracili erecto, foliis gracile petiolatis xequaliter
pinnati-partitis, segmentis 4—6-jugis lineari-oblongis basi lata oblique insertis,
oppositis et alternis apice truncatis et inciso-dentatis plicato-nervosis glaberri-
mis, petiolo basi in vaginam apice 2-lobam dilatato, spadicibus numerosis
interfoliaceis longe pedunculatis simplicibus gracilibus patenti-recurvis, floribus
3-nis laxe undique insertis, spatha lineari membranacea completa, fl, masc.
precocioribus symmetricis ovoideis, sepalis rotundatis, petalis ovatis acutis
valvatis crasse coriaceis, staminibus 6-10; fl. foem. masculis multo minore
inter 2 masculis nidulante globoso, sepalis rotundatis, petalis paullo longioribus
ovatis acutis imbricatis, staminodiis dentiformibus, ovario ovoideo stigmatibus
3 sessilibus.

B. monostachya, F. Muell. Fragment. vol. vii. p. 103.
Linospapix monostachyos, Wendl. et Drude in Linnea, vol. xxxix. p. 198.
Arxca monostachya, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. vol. iii. p. 178, t. 155, f. 4.

Kentra monostachya, F. Muell. Fragment. vol. vii. p. 82; Benth. Fl. Austral.
vol. vii. p. 136.

One of the smallest Palms of the Old World, confined to
the East Coast of Tropical Australia, where it inhabits
humid forests from Northern New South Wales to Cape
York, and is known by the name of “ The Walking-stick
Palm,’ in allusion to its slender stem, which attains six to
eight and even twelve feet high, with a thickness rarely
exceeding that of the thumb. , From the summit of the
stem rises a plume of deep green leaves three to five feet in
diameter, and mixed with these are the numerous slender
whip-like spadices. Though usually cultivated in a tropical
house, this Palm succeeds well in a warm greenhouse,
flowering profusely, but it has never ripened its fruit at
Kew. The female flowers are extremely minute at the time
the male are fully developed, being scarcely bigger than a
pin’s head, and are solitary between every two of the males.

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The “ Walking-stick Palm” was, as I am informed by
the late Curator, originally introduced into the Royal
Gardens in 1824 or 1825, by its discoverer, the late Allan
Cunningham, Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens of
Sydney; and it has since that period been sent by Mr.
Walter Hill, who was long the Superintendent of the Bris-
bane Botanical Gardens. It flourishes in the Palm-house
and Begonia-house, requiring no great heat, and flowering
copiously throughout the year.

Dsscr. Caudex four to twelve feet high, very slender,
green, ringed, giving off aerial roots from near the very base;
clothed below the leaves with the persistent old leaf-sheathes.
Leaves very numerous, terminal, spreading and recurved,
two to four feet long by one to one and a half feet broad,
equally pinnatisect; segments four to six pairs, alternate,
ligulate, attached by a broad oblique base, plaited and
many-nerved, tip truncate and toothed or incised, dark
green, quite glabrous ; petiole slender, shorter than the
blade, sheath oblong-lanceolate, keeled, green, rigid, two-
auricled at the top. Spadices numerous from amongst the
leaves and as long as these, very slender, spreading and
drooping ; peduncle long, slender, as long as the flowering
portion. Spathe as long as the spadix and enclosing it
when full grown, then bursting vertically throughout its
whole length, and deciduous, membranous. Flowers in
threes (of two males and one female) loosely inserted all
round the terete spadix, green. Male flower sessile, ovoid,
acute, terete. Sepals rounded, scarious, closely imbricating
round the base of the corolla. Petals three, thickly coria-
ceous, ovate-oblong, acute, valvate. Stamens six to ten.
Female flower minute, globose. Sepals broader than long,
closely imbricating. Petals larger than the sepals, rounded,

obtuse. Ovary obovoid, with one cell and basal ovule, and
three sessile stigmas.—J. D. H.

A, whole plant, reduced ; B, spadi ; ’ :

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tr; te = me wers ; 2,f fl. ; 3, sepal; 4, petal; 5 and 6, stamen of the same; 7,
sles ae outer sepal; 9, petal; 10, ovary; 11, vertical section of ditto:—al/

Tas. 6645.
PAIONIA WI1TTMANNIANA.

Native of the Caucasus and Armenia.

Nat. Ord. RanuncuLacEx.—Tribe PHONIEZ.
Genus Paonia, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 10.)

Pxonta Wittmanniana ; herbacea, foliis biternatis subtus discoloribus pilis elon-
gatis flexuosis laxe vestitis, foliolis distinctis ovatis oblongis v. obovatis,
lateralibus basi acutis rotundatis v. dilatatis et cordatis, terminali basi cuneato,
floribus amplis pallide ochroleucis virescenti-stramineis v. fere albis, ovariis 2-3
glaberrimis.

P. Wittmanniana, Stev. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, vol. xii. p. 374; Boiss. Fl.
Orient, vol. i. p. 97; Bot. Reg. vol. xxxii. t.9; Annales de Gand, 1846, t. 64.

The Ponies form a notoriously variable genus of plants,
and many species have been made on insufficient characters,
especially out of the forms of the common P. corallina. I
have given some observations on a few of these under the
Himalayan P. emodi (Plate 5719), a reference to which
will show how little there is to separate it and P. albiflora
(Plate 1756), of Siberia, from this Caucasian plant, which,
as Boissier remarks, is closely allied to P. corallina, differing
in the colour of the flower and the glabrous carpels. :

This, the first and only yellow-flowered (so-called) Pasony,
was introduced into the Horticultural Society’s Gardens so
long ago as 1842, from the Imperial Gardens of Nikitz in
the Crimea, shortly after its discovery by Count Woronzoft

m Abcharia, who at the same time procured the now well-

own Abies Nordmanniana and Epimedium pinnatum.
(Letter from Dr. Fischer, of St. Petersburg, to Sir W.
Hooker ; see Hooker’s “ London Journal of Botany,” 1842,
p. 207). It was named after Mr. Wittmann, a traveller in
the Tauran Caucasus, who was afterwards gardener at
Odessa. Dr, Lindley, who is my authority for this state-

Ment, says that twenty-five guineas were demanded for a
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single plant of it by one of the great Continental Nurseries ;
he adds that it has much the appearance of P. cretica, and
is quite hardy, flowering in May.

P. Wittmanniana is a native of cool shaded forests in the
Caucasus and Armenia; also of North Persia, according
to Bossier, who gives Asterabad as a habitat on the
authority of Bunge; but Bunge’s Asterabad plant, so
named by himself, and which he communicated to the
Hookerian Herbarium, cannot be this species, having very
woolly carpels. The true plant is, however, in the same
Herbarium, collected in the Caucasus by Frick.

Descr. A herbaceous perennial, two to three feet high.
Stem and branches smooth, green, glabrous. eaves four
to eight inches long, biternately compound; leaflets very
variable in size and shape, one to three inches long, pale
green and glabrous above, rather glaucous beneath and
clothed sparingly with lax soft curly white hairs; lateral
leaflets sessile or petiolate, usually obliquely ovate or ovate-
cordate, acute, base often unequally dilated; terminal
larger, petiolate, ovate or oblong, acute, base cuneate,
rarely rounded. Flowers solitary, four inches in diameter,
white or very pale yellowish or greenish. Sepals very
regular in size and shape, concave, green. Petals about
seven, broadly elliptic-obovate, concave, membranous. Disk
narrow, red, not prominent. Stamens with slender red
filaments and orange-yellow anthers. Carpels two to three,
oblong-ovoid, from a broad sessile base, not immersed

ee = the disk, quite glabrous; stigmas recurved.—

Fig. 1, Calyx, disk, and carpels; 2, stamens; 3, vertical section of carpel and
peduncle ; 4, transverse section of carpel :—ald enlarged.

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BERBERIS THUNBERGII.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. BersertpEx.—Tribe BERBEREZ.
Genus Berseris, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p. 43.)

Berseris Thunbergii ; frutex humilis, dumosus, glaberrimus, ramis breviusculis
robustis strictis profunde sulcatis, spinis mediocribus simplicibus, foliis parvis
obovatis v. spathulatis integerrimis apice rotundatis v. apiculatis, nervis
obscuris, floribus solitariis v. 2-nis rarius breviter umbellatis, pedicellis gra-
cillimis foliis seepissime brevioribus v. subaquantibus, sepalis 3-4 exterioribus
equalibus ovatis acutis rubris petalis dimidio brevioribus, petalis pallide
stramineis rubro tinctis 4 exterioribus elliptico- rotundatis, interioribus obovato-
rotundatis, ovario ellipsoideo, stigmate sessili late orbiculari, baccis subglobosis
stigmate sessili.

B. Thunbergii, DC. Syst. Veg. vol. ii. p. 9; Prodr. vol. i. p. 106; Regel, Deser.
Pl. Nov. Turkest. fasc. 1. (1873), p. 19; Gartenfl. 1872, p. 238.

B. sinensis, Miquel, Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 1.
B. chinensis, Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. ii. p. 272.
B. cretica, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 166.

There is some confusion in respect of the nomenclature
of the Japanese barberries. The plant here figured was
first published by Thunberg in 1784 as being the same
with the Linnean B. cretica, to which indeed it is so similar
in habit that A. Gray, in his account of the Japan plants
collected by Wright during Commodore Rogers’ U. 8S.
Exploring Expedition (Trans. Amer. Acad. Sc. N. S8.,
vol. vi. p. 380), says of it:—‘* We have from Japan both
the true B. vulgaris and B. Thunbergii, DC., the latter very
near B. cretica, and hardly distinguishable from our own
Alleghanian B. canadensis.” On the other hand, Miquel
refers B. Thunbergii, DC., to B. sinensis, Desf., an entirely
different species, with pendulous branches and long drooping
racemes (figured in last year’s volume of this work, Plate
6573). These two species have, however, been well dis-

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tinguished by Regel (Gartenflora, 1872, p. 238). The true
B. cretica again, which is only a stunted form of vulgaris,
L., is abundantly distinct from B. Thunbergti, in its three-
partite spines, often serrated leaves, erect racemes of flowers,
and notably in the form and colour of its pale flowers with
large obtuse outer sepals. B. Thunbergii is indeed one of the
most distinct species in cultivation, whether from its low
almost tufted robust habit, or the colour of the small
flowers, which are more red than yellow. 2

Regel describes as another species B. Maximovican
(Gartenfl., 1872, p. 238), differing in the leaves not bemg
glaucous beneath, but green on both surfaces: it is reduced
to a variety (8. Mazximoviczii) by Franchet and Savatier.

B. Thunbergii is a native of Japan, whence we have
examined dried specimens collected at Yokohama by Mr.
Dickens, Dr. Maximovicz, Wright, and others. The speci-
men figured was raised from seed sent by M. de Regel, from
the Imperial Gardens at St. Petersburg; it flowers freely
in April.

Drsor. A low bush, with close strict, robust, deeply-
‘grooved branches clothed with red-brown bark; spines
simple, straight, half an inch long Leaves in crowded
tufts all along the branches, half an inch to nearly one inch
long, obovate or spathulate, quite entire, tip rounded,
apiculate or not, nerves very indistinct. Flowers very
numerous, small, one-fourth to one-third of an inch 1n
diameter, drooping, solitary or in pairs on very slender
curved pedicels which hardly exceed the leaves, rarely in
shortly peduncled few-flowered umbels. Sepals three or
four, equal, ovate, acute, red, half as long as the petals.
Petals pale straw-coloured, suffused with red, outer nearly
orbicular, inner more obovate. Ovary oblong; stigma broad,
sessile, orbicular. Fruit a quarter of an inch long, globose,
or broadly ellipsoid, with a sessile stigma.—J. D. H.

Figs. 1 and 2, Flowers with three and four sepals respectively ; 3, vertical section
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BREDIA HIRSUTA.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Metastomace®.—Tribe OxysPorER.
Genus Brepia, Blume; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl, vol. i. p. 753.)

Brepia hirsuta; gracilis, ramis petiolisque rufo-brunneis pubescentibus et patentim
hispido-pilosis, foliis ovatis acutis 5=7-nerviis basi obtusis rotundatis v. cordatis
ciliatis utrinque sparse setulosis pilis albidis, supra saturate viridibus, subtus
pallidis, petiolo longiusculo, cymis terminalibus laxe paniculatis multifloris,
pedunculo ramis pedicellisque gracilibus rufo-brunneis pubescentibus sparse
setulosis, floribus roseis, calyce turbinato, lobis parvis triangularibus recurvis,
petalis orbiculari-ovatis subacutis, antheris majoribus rubris curvis basi antice
2-tuberculatis, minoribus pallidis rectis.

B. hirsuta; Blume Mus. Bot. p. 24, fiz. 4; Miquel Ft. Ind. Bat. vol. i. part i.
p. 537; Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. ii. p. 369; Regel Gartenft.
1870, p. 193, t. 655.

The genus Bredia is one of the very few of the large
tropical family of Melastomacee that inhabit temperate
regions. It contains only two known species, of which
the present is one; it is a native of Japan, or supposed to
be so; for, according to Franchet and Savatier, it is only
known there in gardens, where it forms a small shrub.

Descr. A small shrub two to three feet high, with slender
spreading branches of a red-brown colour, which, as well
as the petioles, are finely pubescent and clothed with long
Spreading bristly red hairs, Leaves three to four inches
long, ovate, acute, rather membranous, five- to seven-nerved,
with many transverse veins, base rounded obtuse or
shortly cordate, margin obscurely sinuate or quite even,
ciliate, upper surface dark green, under pale blueish green,
both with scattered white bristles; petiole one to one
and a half inches long. Flowers half an inch in diameter,
In erect terminal lax panicled cymes four to six inches
high ; branches, peduncles, and pedicels red-brown, pubes-

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cent and sparsely hairy; bracts at the axils opposite, ovate,
‘ minute; pedicels strict, slender. Calyz one-fifth of an inch
long, narrowly turbinate, pubescent; lobes very small,
triangular, recurved. Petals pale rose-coloured, one-third of
an inch long, broadly ovate, almost rounded, obtuse. Longer
anthers faleate, red, subacute, with one small terminal pore,
and two tubercles at the base in front; smaller anthers
nearly straight, pale. Ovary with a deep depression at the
crown, its sides adnate to the calyx-tube by eight vertical
plates in the cavities between which the anthers are lodged
in the bud, the filaments being sharply deflected.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower; 2, ditto of bud, showing the position of the
anthers ; 3, larger stamen ; 3a, terminal pore of the same; 4, smaller anther; 5,

terminal pore of the same ; 6, top of style and stigma; 7, transverse section of *
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CATASETUM cattosum.

Native of Venezuela.

Nat. Ord. OrcH1pDEa.—Tribe VanpDEx.
Genus CataseTum, Swartz; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 551, ined.)

CatTasETuM callosum; pseudobulbis oblongis vaginatis, foliis obovato-oblanceolatis
acutis plicatis, racemis multifloris, scapo rachi ovariisque rufo-brunneis, peri-
anthii foliolis elongato-lanceolatis concavis acuminatis brunneis, sepalo dorsali
petalisque erectis parallelis contiguis, sepalis lateralibus deflexis parallelis v.
paullo divaricatis, labello hastato-ovato-v.-lanceolato luride virescente purpureo
maculato obtuso convexo basi dorso saccato, apicem versus subtrilobo, lobo
intermedio producto recurvo, marginibus crenulatis, callo basi virescente v.
flavido, columna aurantiaca in rostrum elongatum gracile erectum producta.

C. callosum, Lindl, in Bot. Reg. 1840; Mise. n. 183 and 1841, t. 5,f.1; Rchb.f.
in Walp, Ann. vol. v. p. 568.

A form of the Catasetum calloswm has been figured in
this work (Plate 4219) under the name of var. grandiflorum ;
it, however, differs from the original plant described by
Lindley, and now pourtrayed here, more in colour and
narrowness of leaf than in the size of the flower; for
whereas in this the sepals and petals are of a rich brown,
and the lip a uniform dull green speckled with red, in the
var. grandiflorum the sepals and petals are pale dirty-yellow
green, with red-brown tips, and the lip is of a bright
verdigris green with purple edges and spots, a bright-red
tip and red callus. There can, however, be no doubt as
to the specific identity of these two plants. It would be
more interesting to know whether this species presents
the different sexual forms that some other species of the
genus do, and upon which the genera Monachanthus and
Myanthus were founded by Lindley, the former repre-
senting a female form, having a short column without the
cirrhi, a perfect stigma, and imperfect pollinia, and the
latter a hermaphrodite form, with a ciliate lip and perfect

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stigma and pollen. In the plant here figured I found the
anther and stigma well developed, but the cirrhi were not
sensitive, and the pollen masses were very small and
apparently imperfect, whence I assume that this was a
hermaphrodite form, with a functionally imperfect fertilizing
apparatus.

C. callosum is a native of La-Guayra and Venezuela, from
which latter country the specimen here figured was pro-
cured. It was presented to the Royal Gardens by Mr.
Sander, of St. Albans, and flowered in the Orchid-house in
December of last year. Other varieties are described as
CO. Lansbergii, Lind]. (Lindl. and Paxt. Fl. Gard.vol.i.p.156),
and var. erenatum, Regel (Gartenfl. vol. v. p. 275).

Drscr. Pseudobulbs two to three inches long, clothed
with sheathes. Leaves six to ten inches long by two to
three broad, narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, plaited and
strongly nerved, Scape radical, short; raceme pendulous,
many-flowered ; rachis very stout, red-brown; bracts half
an inch, oblong-lanceolate, membranous, Ovary one to
one and a half inches, slender, curved, red-brown. Perianth
three and a half inches long, segments all narrowly lanceo-
late, acuminate, concave, bright-brown. Dorsal sepal and
two petals quite erect, parallel and contiguous; two lateral
sepals deflexed, parallel or slightly diverging. Lip one inch
long, cordate- or hastate-lanceolate, convex, dirty green,
speckled with red, with a short gibbous sac at the base
behind, margins slightly toothed ; tip three-lobed, mid-lobe
elongate and recurved; callus yellow or green. Column

dirty yellow, as long as the lip, ending in a long, slender,
erect beak.—J. D. H.

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ALBUCA Netsont.

Native of Natal.

Nat. Ord. Liz1acex.—Tribe Scrtuem.
Genus Atpuca, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii, p. 809, ined.)

Atsuca Nelsoni; elata, robusta, glaberrima, bulbis magnis squamis carnosis
viridibus orbiculari-ovatis exterioribus gradatim brevioribus, foliis 3-4-peda-
libus a basi 2-3 poll. diam. sensim in apicem acuminatam angustatis infra
medium concavis dein planis lete viridibus enerviis, scapo 4-5-pedali valido
viridi, racemo pedali laxifloro, bracteis elongato-subulatis, pedicellis gracilibus
erecto-patentibus inferioribus 3-pollicaribus bracteas excedentibus, floribus 2-
pollicaribus, perianthii oblongi segmentis lineari-oblongis obtusis concavis apice
Incurvis albis, exterioribus medio dorso apicem versus virescentibus v. brunneo-
virescentibus, staminibus omnibus fertilibus, filamentis crassiusculis albis basi
quadrato-dilatatis, antheris parvis, ovario oblongo 3-gono faciebus cristatis.

A. Nelsoni, V. FE. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1880, p. 198, fig. 41.

This, as Mr. Brown remarks in the work referred to, is
by far the finest species of Albuca hitherto made known, all
of which—there are sixteen species enumerated in Mr.
Baker’s revision of the genus in the Journal of the Linnean
Society (vol. xiii. p. 285)—are natives of tropical or southern
Africa. It belongs to a small section of the genus (Palla-
stema), in which the stamens are all perfect, and the style
more or less elongate; this section includes the A. ango-
lensis, Welw., of western tropical Africa, which rivals A.
Nelsoni in stature, and A. abyssinica, Dryand., of which the
Scape is two to four feet high and densely many-flowered. |

_A. Nelsoni was discovered by Mr. Nelson near the Umlayi
river in Natal, and sent by him to his father’s nursery at
Thornbank near Rotherham, where it was flowered in 1880.
The specimen here figured flowered in the Royal Gardens
in July of the present year, the plant having been presented
by Mr. Nelson.

Descr. Bulb from the size of a small apple upwards,
green, globose, of numerous bright-green fleshy imbricating

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broadly rounded ovate obtuse appressed scales, the outer
shorter, margins brownish. Leaves four to six, suberect
and spreading, three to four feet long, gradually narrowed
from above the base, where they are three to four inches
broad, to a slender straight point, concave, with the back
rounded below the middle, flat above it, nerveless, bright
green. Scape four to five feet high, erect, as stout as the
middle finger, cylindric, bright green, smooth. Raceme a
foot long, lax-flowered ; bracts two to two and a half inches
long, narrowly subulate, shorter than the slender ascending
or erecto-patent pedicels. Flowers white, oblong, one and
a half inches long. Perianth segments linear-oblong, con-
cave, obtuse, with incurved hooded thickened tips, outer
more or less spreading, inner conniving, all white except
the middle of the back towards the tip, which is green or
greenish brown. Stamens all fertile; filaments stoutly
filiform, base dilated and quadrate ; anthers small, oblong;
pollen ochreous yellow. Ovary shortly stipitate, three-
gonous, lower half thickened into a trigonous stipes which
sends an adnate obtuse thickened process up each face ;
style longer than the ovary, stout, clavate, trigonous,
papillose all over, ending in three obtuse stigmas.—J. D. H.

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LILIUM PaRRyI.

Native of Southern California.

~ Nat. Ord. Littacem.—Tribe Turireg.
Genus Linium, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. ined.)

Lintum Parry; elata, glaberrima, bulbo estolonifero ? squamis brevibus parvis
ovoideis obtusis, foliis inferioribus v. omnibus verticillatis anguste elongato-
lanceolatis acuminatis lete viridibus, racemis multifloris, rachi sulcato, floribus
horizontalibus gracile pedicellatis inferioribus verticillatis, perianthio infundi-
bulari-campanulato, segmentis 2-34 pollicaribus lineari-oblanceolatis obtusius-
culis extus stramineis basin versus virescentibus intus aureis infra medium
remote purpureo-punctatis, staminibus exsertis perianthium subequantibus,
filamentis gracilibus, antheris lineari-oblongis, polline flavo-brunneo, stylo
staminibus zquilongo, capsula lineari-oblonga.

L. Parryi, Sereno Watson, in Proc. Davenport Acad. vol. ii. pp. 188, 256, t. 5, 6 ;
Bot. Calif. vol. ii. p. 165; Hlwes Monog. Lilium, t.12; T. Moore, Florist
and Pomologist, 1882, p. 3, t. 553.

Though discovered so long ago as 1876, this Lily is one
of the most recent introductions as a living plant. Mr.
Elwes, indeed, in his noble monograph of the genus, had no
other material for illustrating it than a drawing made in
the United States from a dried specimen, and which drawing
was pronounced by the discoverer of the species, Dr.
Parry, to be “‘a true and characteristic likeness of the
living plant.” A comparison of Mr. Elwes’ plate with both
the specimens which first flowered in England, and the
drawing in the “Florist and Pomologist,” amply justifies
Dr. Parry’s statement, except as regards the colour of the
flower, which is far too pale. On the other hand, the
Specimens which flowered most luxuriantly at Kew in the
new Rock Garden, show a much more luxuriant develop-
ment, the leaves being whorled almost throughout the
Stems, and the flowers much more numerous and also
whorled often in sixes. The bulbs are quite like those of
L. pardalinum, except that the new ones in the only specimen
examined are produced quite close to the old.

OCTOBER Ist, 1882,

L. Parryi is a native of the San Barnardino Mountains
in Southern California, on the borders of the Arizona desert,
in lat. 34° N., and at an elevation of 4000 feet. It was
found in the potato-patch of a settler in a boggy soil, and
is described as having only the lower leaves whorled. Mr.
Elwes remarks that it belongs to a type intermediate
between L. Washingtonianum and L. pardalinum, the nearer
affinity being certainly with the former species.

The specimen from which our plate was made was pre-
sented by Max Leichltin, of Baden, and flowered profusely
in July of the present year.

Descr. Bulb the size of a small apple, new ones (in the
only root examined) formed close to the old without an
intervening stalk, scales half an inch long, ovoid, fleshy,
obtuse. Stem two to three feet high, stout, erect, cylindric,
bright green. Jieaves three to four inches long, in whorls
of eight and more, the upper displaced and sometimes
alternate, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, bright green.
Raceme a foot high and more, many-flowered; rachis stout,
grooved; bracts one to two inches long, subulate-lanceolate ;
flowers in whorls of three to six or more, sometimes
scattered or alternate, horizontal on slender suberect pedi-
cels. Perianth three inches in diameter, between bell- and
funnel-shaped ; segments two to three inches long, narrowly
oblanceolate, upper half spreading and revolute, externally
deep straw-coloured, greenish towards the base, internally
golden-yellow, with minute distant specks of _purple.
Stamens and style about equalling the perianth-segments.
Anthers linear-oblong; pollen yellow-brown. Capsule linear-
oblong.—J, D. H,

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HABERLEA RHODOPENSIS.

Native of Rumelia.

Nat. Ord. GesNERACEE.—Tribe CyRTANDRER.
Genus Haperuna, Lrivaldsky; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1025.)

Hapertxa rhodopensis ; perennis, molliter hirsuta, foliis oblongo-ovatis v. obovatis
in petiolum latum angustatis obtusis grosse crenatis crassiuscule coriaceis,
nervis paucis, scapis 2~5-floris apice 2-bracteatis, floribus umbellatis lilacinis
inclinatis v. cernuis, pedunculis brevibus, calycis 5-fidi lobis ovatis acutis,
corollz tubo intus pubescente, lobis orbiculari-obovatis emarginatis.

H. rhodopensis, Frivaldsky in Act. Soc. Hung. 1835, vol. ii. p. 249, t. 1; Endl.
Iconogr. t. 69; Griseb. Fl. Rumel. vol. ii. p. 54; Stein in Regel Gartenfl.
1879, p. 323, t. 991, f. 4; Rosenth. and Berm. Wien. Ill. Garten Zeit. 1879.
487, cum ic. xylog.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. iv. p. 82.

A very interesting plant, both because of its restricted
local range, and of its being a type of a very large Asiatic
and American Natural Order, the Gesneracee, of which
only four species occur in Europe, all of them restricted
m range, and three of them absolutely confined each
to one spot. Of Haberlea there is only one species
known; it is confined to a few miles of a single valley
in Thrace, where it abounds, on the southern declivity
of the Balkan range, growing on shaded schistose rocks
near the town of Kalofer, and there forming in the
flowering season a most beautiful feature of the landscape.
Its nearest (and very near) ally is the genus Ramondia, of
which only three species are known, including the beautiful
R. pyrenaica, which is confined to the Pyrenees. The
other species of Ramondia are geographically nearer neigh-
bours of Haberlea; one, R. Heldrichii, inhabits only
Mount Olympus in Thessaly, two hundred and thirty miles
South-west of Kalofer; the third is found only in one spot
in Servia, some three hundred miles west of the locality of
Haberlea. To meet with other members of the Gesneracew
all West Asia must be traversed, and for two thousand

OCTOBER Ist, 1882.

miles, when two species occur nearly together in the
North-Western Himalaya, namely, Didymocarpus pedi~
cellata and the beautiful Platystenvma violoides, neither of
which has hitherto been introduced into cultivation.
Continuing eastwards the genera and the species become
abundant, many occurring in the Eastern Himalaya, whence |
the Order spreads eastwards through China and the
Malayan Island to the Pacific and America.

Haberlea rhodopensis was presented to the Royal Gardens
by its indefatigable correspondent, Max Leichltin, of Baden;
and it is also one of the many beautiful plants which
formed the bequest of the late Mr. Joad, of Wimbledon.
It flowered beautifully in the new Rock Garden at Kew in
April last. :

Descr. A hardy perennial, clothed except the corolla
with soft spreading hairs. Leaves all radical, spreading
and recurved, two to three inches long, obovate- or ovate-
oblong, obtuse, coarsely crenate, thickly coriaceous, nar-
rowed into a broad stout petiole; nerves few, oblique,
strong beneath. Scapes several, stout, dark purple-brown,
four to six inches high, two- to five-flowered, with two
small subulate or lanceolate bracts at the top. Flowers
umbellate, drooping ; pedicels stout, one-fourth to one-half
of an inch long, with sometimes a filiform bracteole about
the middle. Calyx campanulate, five-cleft to the middle,
dark purple-brown ; lobes ovate, acute. Corolla pale lilac,
one inch in diameter; tube broad, hairy within; mouth
oblique, obscurely two-lipped; lobes all rounded-obovate,
emarginate, spreading, the two upper forming the upper lip
the smallest. Stamens included; filaments glabrous ;
anthers united in pairs by the cells, which spread cruciately ;
abortive filament very short. Disk very narrow. Ovary
and style pubescent ; stigma notched.—J, D. H.

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OPUNTIA Davistt.

Native of New Mexico.

Nat. Ord. Cactrrx.—Tribe OpunTIEz.
Genus Opuntia, Mill. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 857.)

Opuntia Davisii; caule dense lignoso ramosissimo, ramis divaricatis adscendentibus
eylindricis, articulis junioribus erectis elongatis basi attenuatis, tuberculis
oblongo-linearibus prominulis, setis stramineis tenerrimis, aculeis interioribus
4—7 subtriangularibus rufis apice pallidioribus vagina straminea laxa fulgida
indusiatis divergentibus seu reflexis, aculeis gracilioribus inferioribus 5-6, bacca
ovata, pulvillis sub-25 setas stramineas aculeolosque paucos gerentibus, umbilico
lato.— Engelm.

O. Davisii, Engelm. in Whipple Exped. p. 49, t. xvi. f. 1-4.

A small shrubby species, remarkable for the bronzy colour
of the flowers, which have a peculiar metallic lustre, which
cannot be produced on the Plate. I give it the name
under which it is cultivated by Mr. Loder, in his most
interesting and rich collection of Cacteew. It presents in
some respects deviations from Hngelmann’s figure and
description, but not more than might be expected to occur
between young cultivated and old native specimens. In
' Engelmann’s native specimen the spines are much larger
and stouter, and the calyx wants the stout horn-like slightly
recurved spines seen in the cultivated one (in which how-
ever all the fruits seen are described as sterile). I have
preferred giving Dr. Engelmann’s latin character for the
Species to one drawn up from the young cultivated speci-
mens, to which I have restricted the English description.

O. Davisii is a native of the district of New Mexico,
eastward and westward of the Tucumcari hills in lat. 35° N.
and long. 104° W., on the head waters of the Canadian
river, a branch of the Arkansas.

I am indebted to Mr. Loder for the specimen here figured,
which flowered with him in July last. He informs me that

OCTOBER Ist, 1882.

O. Davisii has been considered to be identical with O. twni-
cata, of which the flowers are unknown.

Descr. A small much-branched bright-green glabrous
shrub; branches spreading, joints elongate, slightly nar-
rowed below, two to three inches long by half an inch
broad; tubercles low, oblong, one-half to three-quarters of
an inch long, not well defined, smooth; cushions low,
rounded, about one-sixth of an inch in diameter, clothed
with woolly felted hairs; spines four to seven, very un-
equal, slender and straight, the longest half an inch long,
bright brown, covered with a deciduous glossy scarious
sheath, often so loose as to give the spine a considerable
thickness, the lower-most spine often becomes herbaceous
green and much thickened, both on the joints and calyx.
Flowers two and a half inches in diameter. Calyx turbinate,
nearly two inches long, clothed, like the joints, with
tubercles and spines. Perianth-segments in about three
Series pale bronzy green, glistening, outer rounded, sub-
acute, intermediate oblong, inner obovate-spathulate, acute.
Stamens very numerous and densely crowded, not half the
length of the perianth-segments; filaments dark red;
anthers yellow. Stigma partially exserted beyond the
anthers, oblong, deeply four-lobed, pink,—J. D. H.

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CE LMISIA SPECTABILIS.

Native of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. Compostrm.—Tribe ASTEROIDER.
Genus Cenmista, Cass.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 278.)

CrLMisia spectabilis ; vhizomate descendente robusto, foliis rigide coriaceis ensi-
formibus lineari-oblongis v. elliptico-lanceolatis acutis v. obtusis erectis in
vaginas elongatas tumidas sericeo-villosas angustatis, supra glabris v. sparse
sericeo-pilosis nervis parallelis impressis, subtus lana pallide straminea v. fulva
densissime opertis nervis obscuris, marginibus planis v. recurvis integerrimis v.
obscure serrulatis, scapis foliis aquilongis v. superantibus validis laxe sericeo-
lanatis 1-floris, bracteis numerosis linearibus erectis, capitulo 2-poll. diam.,
involucri late obconici lanati bracteis linearibus, ligulis numerosissimis albis v.
pallide lilacinis revolutis, disci corollis aureis, acheniis glaberrimis, pappi setis
valde inequalibus.

C. spectabilis, Hook.f. F/. Nov. Zeald. vol. i. p. 122, t. 33; Handbook of New
Zeald. Flora, p. 134,

The genus Celmisia is one of the most beautiful of the
New Zealand Flora, and contains nearly thirty species, all
well worthy of cultivation, many of them indeed being
extremely handsome; yet, strange to say, the species here
figured is the only one hitherto introduced into this country,
and that quite lately. The genus represents in New Zealand
the Asters and Erigerons of the Old and New Worlds, which
genera are otherwise absent in that archipelago, differing
from them by very slight characters, chiefly in the presence
of very short processes at the base of the anther-cells and
in the achenes being usually neither flattened nor ribbed.
The specimen of CO. spectabilis here figured gives no idea of
the stature which the species attains, or of the curious dwarf
forms it sometimes assumes. In its largest state the base
of the stem, clothed with silky leaf-sheaths, is as thick as a
child’s wrist, and the leaves a foot long and twenty to
thirty in number; whilst the smallest forms have only a
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oblong with rounded points. The scape too is sometimes
three times as long as the leaves. In other respects the
species is a very constant one; it ranges throughout the
mountain regions of both the principal islands; in the
northern it inhabits Tongariro (where it was discovered by
Bidwill in 1889) and the Ruahine Mountains (Colenso),
whilst in the middle island it occurs throughout the southern
Alps at elevations of 2000 to 5000 feet.

I am indebted to Mr. Veitch for the opportunity of
figuring this very beautiful and interesting plant, which
flowered in his nursery in May of this year.

Dusor. Rootstock woody, short or long, often as thick as
the thumb, obliquely descending. Leaves numerous, strict,
erect, usually five to seven inches long by one-half to one
inch broad, thickly coriaceous, ensiform, elliptic-lanceolate
or linear-oblong, obtuse or acute, quite entire or obscurely
serrulate, dark green above with parallel impressed nerves
and a few silky hairs, beneath densely clothed with matted
buff- or straw-coloured wool; base narrowed, then dilated
into a broad sheathing laxly silky-woolly tumid sheath,
two to four inches long. Scapes several, stout, stiff, erect,
longer than the leaves, clothed with silky white wool;
bracts numerous, linear, erect. Head two inches indiameter ;
Involucre obconic, scales very narrow, woolly. Ray-/lowers
very numerous, revolute, white or pale lilac. Disk-flowers
yellow. Achenes narrowly ellipsoid, compressed, smooth
and glabrous ; pappus hairs very unequal.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Ray-flower; 2, base of ligule, thickened lip of tube, and style arms;
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Native of Natal.

Nat. Ord. Crcapacem®.—Tribe ENCEPHALARTER.
Genus Encersarartos, Lehm.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 445.)

EycerHatarros villesus ; trunco humili vel fere nullo frondium basibus tomen-
tosis persistentibus arctissime imbricatis obtecto, foliis erectis demum patulis
viridibus, petiolo rhachique primum cinereo-pubescentibus subcylindricis,
segmentis utrinqgue 60-90 patentibus lineari-lanceolatis interdum subfalcatis
basi angustatis apice pungente margine utrinque dentibus pracipue apicem
versus plus minus distantibus suberectis pungentibus, inferioribus per spinas
digitatas ad aculeos spiniformes sensim reductis, strobilis utriusque sexds
pedunculatis squamis oblique deflexis, masculo anguste cylindrico squamis
oblongis vel deltoideis vix stipitatis apice triangulari subpeltato margine
inferiori crenato-denticulato, feemineo ovoideo-cylindrico squamis majoribus
“age apice peltiformi subquadrangulo margine inferiori ad medium eroso-

entato.

E. villosus, Z-m. Ill. Hort. 1867, misc. p. 79 et 1868, t. 557; Regel Cycad. Rev.
p-17; Gartenfl. 1877, p. 214; Kichler in Monastschr. Gartenb. 1880, t. 1;
Gard. Chron. N.S. vol. i. p. 613, vol. iii. p.400, e¢ vol. vi. p. 708 (var. typica) ;
vol. vi. p. 709 (var. nobilis) ; vol. vii. p. 21 e¢ vol. xiii. p. 181 (strobilus mas);
vol. vi. p. 711 (strobilus fem.).

_ This fine and very distinct species was first introduced
mto European horticulture from Natal by M. Ambroise
Verschaffelt, of Ghent. Its singularly graceful habit has
Since won it a place in most considerable collections of
Stove foliage plants which can afford space for its proper
display. When first described, its cones were unknown,
but they have been repeatedly produced since in cultivation.
I have been favoured with specimens of the male cones
from T. §. Gladstone, Esq., Capenoch, Dumfriesshire, and
from ©, Warren, Esq., Handcross Park, Crawley; and of
the female cones from Mr. Russel of Falkirk, Mr. Bull,
and Don José da Canto of St. Michel, Azores. The
female plant is undoubtedly the most ornamental. he
Colour of the cone of the latter is often very striking, some-
times assuming a deep apricot tinge.
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The general habit and technical characters approach
those of Encephalartos .Hildebrandtii of Zanzibar, for
copious photographic illustrations of which I am indebted
to Sir John Kirk, H.M. Political Agent. This species 1s,
however, abundantly distinguished by the female cone, the
scales of which terminate in a quadrangular-conic apex.

Plants of both sexes have repeatedly produced cones at
Kew. Those figured in the accompanying Plate, which,
although small, are sufficiently characteristic, were pro-
duced in the summer of 1881.

Descr. Stem rarely developed in imported and cultivated
specimens, probably always short, closely covered with
persistent imbricated leaf-bases clothed with pale brown
cottony tomentum. Leaves erect, then spreading, about
five feet long, a foot to eighteen inches wide towards the
apex, bright green; petiole and rachis subcylindric, clothed
at first with a deciduous fluffy tomentum ; leaflets sixty to
ninety pairs, alternate or opposite, rather close-set, about
three-quarters of an inch wide, linear-lanceolate, sometimes
subfalecate, abruptly narrowed at the base, apex pungent,
margin toothed on either side especially towards the apex;
teeth erect, more or less scattered, pungent; lower leaflets
diminishing in length downwards, passing gradually into
digitate and ultimately simple spines extending to base
of petiole. Cones pedunculate. Male cone pale yellow,
narrowly cylindric, one to two feet or more long, two and
a half to three inches wide; scales spreading, oblong-
quadrate to deltoid, apex obliquely deflexed, subpeltate
triangular, three-quarters to an inch wide, inferior margin
more or less crenate-denticulate. Female cone greenish-
orange to apricot-coloured, ovoid-cylindric, as much as 4
foot and a half long by seven inches wide; scales long-
stalked, apex obliquely deflexed, peltate, subquadrangular,
about an inch and a half across lower margin, erose-dentate
at the middle. Seeds ovoid, somewhat angular, ultimately
protruded between the separating scales of the mature
cone, about one inch and a quarter long, testa crimson.—

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AGAVE oNIVITTATA.

Native of Mexico.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACEH.—Suborder AGAVER.
Genus Acave, Linn.; (Kunth Enum, vol. v. p. 818.)

Agave (Littwa) wnivittata ; acaulis, foliis 50 vel ultra dense rosulatis ensiformibu.
rigidis 13-2-pedalibus sordide viridibus linea mediana pallida vittatis apice spind
pungente armatis marginibus continuis corneis angustis aculeis marginalibus
distantibus parvis falcatis, pedunculo gracili 3—4-pedali, bracteis vacuis linearibus
superioribus squarrosis, floribus in spicam elongatam cylindricam dispositis,
bracteis parvis lancéolatis, pedicellis brevissimis, bracteolis minutis lanceolatis,
floribus viridibus, ovario cylindrico pollicari collo constricto, perianthii tubo
subnullo, segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis ovario brevioribus, staminibus segimentis
2-3-plo superantibus.

A. univittata, Haworth in Phil. Mag. vol. x. p. 414; Salm-dyck Hort. Dyck.
p. 308; Bonpland. vol. vii. p. 92; Kunth Enum. vol. v. p. 835; C. Koch in
Wochenschrift, 1860, p. 47; Baker in Saund. Ref. Bot. tab. 215; in Gard.
Chron. 1877, p. 369, fig. 58.

This is one of the best-known and most distinct of the
marginate Agaves. It is remarkable for its very stiff
numerous narrow pungent ensiform leaves, which have a
narrow horny border, with distant prickles, and invariably
are marked down the centre with a narrow pale band, such
as occurs casually in some other species. It has been in
cultivation in this country for fifty years at least, but the
flowering was not recorded till it was figured in 1870 in
the Refugium. During the last few years I have seen it
in flower, not only in our own collection, but also in those
of Messrs. Peacock and Wilson Saunders. Our drawing
“em from a plant that flowered at Kew in the spring
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Descr. Leaves fifty or more in a dense sessile rosette,
ensiform, very rigid in texture, one and a half or two feet
long, one and a half or two inches broad at the middle, not
narrowed at all downwards, narrowed gradually upwards

to the pungent brown point, quite flat on the face in the
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lower half, a quarter of an inch thick in the middle, dull
dark glaucous green with a band of pale yellowish-green
down the centre, furnished with a continuous narrow
brown horny border, with small distant much-hooked
prickles. Peduncle three or four feet long, furnished with _
copious linear barren bracts, the lower ones ascending, the
upper squarrose. Infloreseence a cylindrical spike seven or
eight feet long, four inches in diameter when the flowers
are fully expanded; flowers arranged in sessile pairs sub-
tended by a small lanceolate scariose bract; pedicels a line
long, each furnished with a minute lanceolate bracteole.
Flowers proterandrous, very pale glaucous green in bud.
Ovary cylindrical, an inch long, constricted at the neck;
tube searcely any; segments oblong-lanceolate. Stamens
inserted at the base of the perianth-segments; filaments
above an inch long; anthers linear. Style not developed

till after the anthers fade, fmally an inch and a half long.
—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, A small portion of the flower-spike ; 2, a complete flower in its final stage,
with stigma developed and stamens faded; 3, half a flower, above the top of the
ovary, as seen from within :—all life size.

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UTRIC ULARIA Enpresi.

Native of Costa Rica.

Nat. Ord, LENTIBULARIER.
Genus Urarcunanra, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 987.) _

Urricutaria Endresii; terrestris et epiphytica, cespitosa, glaberrima, caulibus
repentibus tuberculiferis, foliis deciduis lanceolatis in petiolum gracilem angus-
tatis acutis undulatis, scapo elongato erecto 4—5-flore hic illic foliis parvis
linearibus v, subulatis aucto, bracteis oblongis lanceolatisve, floribus amplis
pallide lilacinis, sepalis ovatis obtusis, corolle labiis amplis undulatis ciliolatis,
superiore orbiculari subplicato, basi subtruncato, inferiore ter majore latiore
quam longo subobcordato v. latissime cuneato angulis rotundatis, palato promi-
nente marginibus in auriculas obtusas elevatis, calcare robusto incurvo labio
inferiore breviore.

U. Endresii, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1874, p. 582.

This, as Dr. Reichenbach well indicates under his
description, is very closely allied to U. montana (Plate
5923), and except the colour of the flower, much more
slender habit, and very membranous leaves, it is not easy
to point out any other prominent distinguishing characters
between them, except perhaps the beautiful microscopic
fringe of the corolla of U. Endresii, of which I see no trace
in its ally. Another near neighbour is U. Humboldtii,
Schomb., of the marshes of Guiana, figured in the Annales
de Gand (vol. i. tab. 34); this, according to the rude figure
(apparently made from herbarium specimens), is a still
more robust plant, with a very broad leaf, a flower almost
twice as large, dark blue, with a cuneiform lower lip, and a
long spur.

_ U. Hndresii inhabits the hills of Costa Rica at an eleva-
tion of 2000 feet, where it was discovered by Sefior Endres
in 1868, who describes the leaves as deciduous, whence no
doubt the plant should have a resting season. The speci-
men figured flowered at Kew in the cool Orchid House in
the spring of the present year.

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Duscer. Rhizomes slender, tufted, creeping amongst moss
on tree trunks and on the ground, bearing ovoid green
tubercles a quarter of an inch long. Leaves solitary, one to
three inches long, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed
into a slender stiff petiole of about the same length, acute,
flaccid, membranous, waved, midrib strong; nerves very
slender, oblique, branching and reticulate. Scape twice as
long as the leaves, slender, erect, wiry, about five-flowered,
bearing three to five very slender erect linear or filiform
leaves a quarter to a half inch long; bracts about
as long, oblong and obtuse, or lanceolate. Flowers droop-
ing ; pedicels very slender. Sepals one-half to three-
quarters of an inch long, ovate, obtuse, pale greenish or
reddish. Corolla one and three-quarters to two inches in
diameter, beautifully ciliolate all round, pale lilac with a
yellow palate; upper lip nearly rounded, rather cuneate at
the base, very much and loosely undulate; lower nearly
three times as large, much broader than long, obcordate, or
very broadly wedge-shaped with rounded angles, raised
along the middle line by a mesial fold reaching to the
palate, which is glabrous, almost horseshoe-shaped, with

high rounded borders. Spur incurved, shorter than the
lower lip.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower seen in front; 2, side view of lower lip and spur; 3, stamens; 4
ovary :—ali enlarged,

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FICUS sripvnata.

Native of China and Japan.

Nat. Ord. Urnticem,—Tribe ARTOCARPER.
Genus Ficus, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 367.)

Ficus stipulata; caulibus plantis junioribus et sterilibus radicantibus repentibus
late diffuse ramosis, ramis hirtis gracilibus, ramis senioribus v. fructiferis
ascendentibus articulatis robustis sulcatis hirsutis, foliis in plantis junioribus
distichis subsessilibus oblique ovato-cordatis subacutis penninerviis utrinque
reticulatim nervosis hirtis glabriusculisve, foliis in plantis v. ramis fructiferis
multo majoribus oblongis utrinque obtusis basi triplinerviis supra levibus
subtus prominenter reticulatis, petiolo hirsuto, stipulis foliis junioribus mem-
branaceis glabris, in senioribus firmis dorso dense pubescentibus v. villosis,
receptaculis magnis pedunculatis pyriformibus turbinatisve appresse pubescen-
tibus demum glabris intus villosis, perianthio ? 4-mero, stylis aliis filiformibus
in stigmate acuto aliis robustis stigmate peltato.

F. stipulata, Thunb. Dissert. de Ficu. n.7; Vahl, Enum. Pl.. vol. ii. p. 184;
Willd. Sp. Pl. vol.iv. pars 2, p. 1139; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed, 2, vol. v. p. 486;
Miquel in Hook. Lond. Journ, Bot. vol. vii. p. 439; Wendl. Coll. Plant.
t.72; Masters in Gard. Chron. 1880, p. 716, fig. 135 et fig. 102, 103 (F. repens).

F. scandens, Lam. Dict. vol. ii. p. 498; Vahl Enum. Pl. vol. ii. p. 184.

F, repens, Hort. .

Puaciostiema stipulatum, Zuccarin. in Abhandl. Acad. Bayer. Wissenschaft.
vol. i. p. 154 in nota.

Tenorra heterophylla, Gasparr. Ricerche Sull. Nat. Caprif. e del Fico, p. 81,
t. 8, f. 22-31.

Of this well-known little ornament of the warm green-
house and hothouse, only the female flowers have been
seen, and there is some doubt as to the structure of the
stigma of these, which is described by Zuccarini and
Miquel as peltate, agreeing with the figure here given, but
which, in the specimens that I have examined in the
Herbarium, from the Berlin Garden, collected in 1877 by
Mr. Bentham, and from a French Garden, preserved in
Gay’s Herbarium, is unmistakably very long, filiform, and
narrowed to the very tip. Possibly the flowers are dimorphic,
for the genus Plagiostigma was founded by Zuccarini for
this species on the peltate form of its stigma.

Ficus stipulata was, according to Aiton, introduced about

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the year 1771, but it is comparatively lately. that it has
become so common a favourite for tapestrying the walls of
conservatories, &c., and for which no other plant is so well
suited. Itis a native of both China and Japan, extending as
far south as Hong Kong. Our figure of the fruiting plant
was taken from a specimen grown at Kylemore Castle,
co. Galway, in the garden of Mitchell Henry, Esq., M.P.
Desor. Stem and branches of young and barren plants
extensively creeping and rooting, much branched and
spreading, appressed to and clothing the trunks of trees,
walls, &c., flexuous, slender, hispid; fruiting branches
suberect, free, stout, jointed, channelled, hispidly hairy.
Leaves of young and barren branches close-set, distichous,
shortly petioled or sessile, appressed to the wall or support,
half an inch to one and a half inch long, obliquely
ovate-cordate, subacute, very unequal at the base, glabrous
or scabridly pubescent, nerves very reticulate beneath;
stipules glabrous, membranous, bifid; leaves of fruiting
branches three to four inches long, elliptic-oblong, petioled,
spreading all round, very coriaceous, obtuse at both ends
or rounded at the base, which is triple-nerved, smooth on
both surfaces, closely and prominently reticulate, beneath
dark green ; petiole one-half to two-thirds of an inch long,
hispidly hairy, reddish ; stipules lanceolate, densely hirsute
on the back. Receptacle peduncled, solitary, axillary, pear-
or top-shaped, two to three inches long, narrowed at the
base and tip, obscurely lobed, dark blue- or red-purple,
appressedly pubescent, at length glabrous, fleshy; bracts
at the mouth ovate, acute, spreading, inner surface villous ;
peduncle as long, very hairy. Flowers, female only seen,
pedicelled ; perianth-segments four, oblong, obtuse. Ovary
obliquely rounded or dimidiate; style either capillary with
an acute stigma, or shorter with a peltate stigma.—J. D. H.

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HUE RNIA ocunata.

Native of Dammara Land.

Nat. Ord. AscLEPIADE®.—Tribe STAPELIER.
Genus Hunryia, R. Br. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 784.)

Hvuernta oculata; humilis, cespitosa, glaberrima, ramis erectis 5-angulatis,
sinubus acutis, angulis compressis grosse molliter spinoso-dentatis, dentibus
rectis v. curvis, floribus subeymosis breviter pedicellatis, pedicellis glabris, lobis
calycinis subulato-lanceolatis, corolle levis lobis brevibus parvis triangularibus
acutis sinubus 1-dentatis, limbo saturate purpureo, tubo albo, corona exteriore
a basi columne explanato 5-lobo, lobis horizontalibus rotundatis integerrimis,
interiore e cornubus 5 dorso antherarum adnatis dein inflexis apicibus supra
stigma cohvrentibus.

The genus Huernia, of which only a dozen species are
described, is no doubt a very large one in South Africa,
extending from the Cape district far to the north, though
its exact limits are unknown. ‘The species resemble
Stapelias in habit, but differ im the broadly campanulate
or cupular corolla with very small lobes, and having a
tooth in the sinus between them. #H. oculata resembles no
described species, and is remarkable for the striking contrast
in colour between the deep violet-purple limb of the corolla
and the white cup-shaped tube, the limits of the colours
being so sharply defined that the flower has a staring look.
It was procured with other very singular plants in Dammara
Land, in 1880, by Capt. Een, when trading on that coast, and
brought by him to Kew, where it flowered in June, 1880.

Desor. Densely tufted, branching from the base, pale
green, soft; branches three to four inches high by one-half
to three-quarters of an inch broad, five-angled, quite
smooth, sinus deep between the angles, acute at the base ;
angles compressed, produced into soft spine-like teeth one-
third to half an inch long, that are broad at the base and
Straight or curved. Flowers in small lateral few-flowered

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cymes; pedicels short, glabrous. Calyx segments one-
third of an inch long, subulate. Corolla nearly one inch in
diameter, tube almost hemispherical, rounded at the base ;
limb short spreading, five-toothed, the teeth short trian-
gular acute remote, with a minute intermediate tooth; the
tube is white inside, the limb deep violet-purple, sharply
defined in a circle against the white of the tube. Colwmn
short; outer corona adnate to the base of the column,
spreading horizontally from it, five-lobed; lobes fleshy,
rounded, quite entire, concave on the surface; inner corona
of five large subulate fleshy papillose teeth inserted one at the
back of each anther, inflected over the stigma and meeting
at their points. Anthers truncate; pollen-masses pyriform,

caudicle short; gland with two subulate auricles. Stigma
discoid, five-angled.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Four sepals, portion of the base of the corolla and column ; 2, column with
outer and inner corona; 3, side, and 4, front view of anther and inner coronal
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HAMAMELIS sapontoa.

Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. HAMAMELIDER.
Genus Hamametis, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol.i. p. 667.)

HaMAMELIS japonica ; fruticosa v. subarborea, ramulis ultimis petiolis nervisque
foliorum subtus plus minusve pubescentibus, foliis obovatis ellipticisve sinuato-
crenatis v. dentatis acutis v. obtusis basi rotundatis acutis v. cordatis sepe
inequilateris, nervis validis, calycis lobis revolutis rubris, capsula basi tantum
cum calyce cincta.

H. japonica, Sieb. et Zuce. Abhandl. Math. Phys. Klasse Baier. Akad. vol. iv.
pars 2, p. 193; Franch. et Savart Enum. Pl. Jap. vol.i. p. 163, vol. ii.
p. 368; Walp. Ann. vol. i. p. 982; Miquel Prolus. Fl. Jap. p. 209.

H. arborea, Masters in Gard. Chron. 1881, pars 1, p. 216, fig. 38.

A very interesting plant, so closely allied to the North
American Witch Hazel, H. virginica, that it might easily
be mistaken for that plant, the principal differences being
the rather larger flowers with red revolute calyx-lobes, and
the short fruiting calyx of this; in foliage they are almost
undistinguishable; the leaves of H. virginica are however
usually narrower and often more lobulate. Franchet and
Savart, who discuss the differences between the two species,
overlook the calyx, and attach most importance to the
statement that the leaves of H. japonica are six- to nine-
nerved, and of H. virginica five- to six-nerved, a distinction
that does not at all hold good; they further observe that
the calyx in fruit of H. japonica is sometimes half as long
as the capsule, whilst in all the specimens which I have
examined it is confined to the base. A plate has been pre-
pared of H. virginica from plants growing in Kew, to show
the differences. The genus Hamamelis, consisting only of
these two species, is one of the best of the many proofs of
that close connexion between the Floras of Japan and
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side of that continent, which has been so ably discussed by
Dr. Gray, and which he has shown to throw so much light
on the origin and distribution of the North American Flora.

H. japonica was introduced into cultivation by Messrs.
Veitch; it flowers, like its American kinsman, as the leaves
fall in autumn, and fruits the next summer. The petals
in our specimen are narrower and less crumpled than in
that figured in the ‘‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,” and in some
dried specimens from Japan. There is a plant of it
in the Kew Arboretum presented by Messrs. Veitch, to
whom I am indebted for the specimens here figured, of
which the leaves were drawn in September, and the flowers
in the following February.

Descr. A shrub or small tree; branches rather stout,
covered with brown bark, young branchlets, buds, petioles
and often leaf-nerves beneath bracts and calyx externally
clothed with a fine close pubescence. eaves ovate oblong
or rounded, two to three and a half inches long and broad,
obtuse or acute, sinuate-toothed or -crenate, firm in texture,
dark green; base acute obtuse cordate or rounded; nerves
deeply sunk above, very prominent beneath ; petiole very
short, stout. Flowers in sessile or subsessile globose
heads one-half to three-fourths of an inch in diameter,
crowded ; bracts small, rounded, appressed to the calyx.
Calye one-third of an inch across the lobes, tube cam-
panulate; lobes broadly ovate, revolute, dull red, margins
villous. Petals two-thirds of an inch long, strap-shaped,
waved, tip acute obtuse or notched, golden-yellow, involute
In estivation. Stamens very short, filaments stout;
anthers opening by valves in front. Carpels two, silky,
styles filiform. Capsule subglobose, half an inch long,

densely brown-tomentose, girt at the base by the calyx-
tube.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Bud (from “ Gardeners’ Chronicle”); 2, portion of flower laid open;
3, petal; 4 and 5, front and side view of stamens; 6, rudimentary stamens;
7, carpels ; 8, transverse section of a carpel :—all enlarged.

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FALL UGIA:. parapoxa.

Native of New Mezico.

Nat. Ord. Rosacza.—Tribe PotentitiER.
Genus Fattuata, Endlicher ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 618.)

Fattuera paradoxa; fruticulus ramosus, ramulis gracilibus pubescentibus, foliis
fasciculatis anguste cuneatis pinnatim v. flabellatim 3-7-fidis, lobis linearibus
obtusis subtus niveis, floribus apices versus ramulorum solitariis v. subracemosis
graciliter pedicellatis, pedicellis- basi minute bracteatis et hic illic bracteolatis,
floribus amplis albis, calyce parvo, petalis rotundatis, acheniorum caudibus
1-13 pollicaribus capillaceis plumosis.

F. paradoxa, Endl. Gen. Pl. p. 1246; Torrey in Emory Rep. p. 185, t. 2;
S. Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. ii. p. 175. :

F. mexicana, Walp. Rep. vol. ii. p. 46.

Stevenrsia paradoxa, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 575, t. 22.

Grum ? cercocarpoides, Moc. et Sesse; DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 554.

A very singular and beautiful plant, closely allied to
Geum, differing chiefly in the shrubby habit and imbricate
calyx-lobes. It is a native of the dry interior western
regions of North America between the Rocky Mountains
and the Sierra Nevada, where it inhabits open plains
and ‘hills in Utah and Nevada, but principally in New
Mexico. I gathered it in company with Dr. Gray on the
Sierra Blanca at about 7000 feet elevation in the southern
part of Colorado, bordering New Mexico, whence the seeds
were sent to England in 1877. The copious large white
blossoms on the slender branches, moving with the slightest
breath of wind, gave the bushes a very beautiful appearance.

The plant flowered for the first time in July of the
present year, in the Royal Gardens, in an open border of
the herbaceous grounds. ;

Desor. A slender bush, two to four feet high, much
branched below, sparsely above, the terminal branches
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flowered peduncle or in a very lax raceme ; bark quite
white, of the branchlets, peduncles and pedicels pubescent,
or tomentose. Leaves fascicled on the branches, one-third
to two-thirds of an inch long, cuneate, narrowed into a
short petiole, flabellately or pimnately cut into five to mine
narrow linear obtuse lobes, bright green above, white and
tomentose beneath, margins recurved. lowers one to
one and a half inch in diameter; pedicels as long, very
slender, bracteate at the base, and with often one or more
bracteoles along their length ; bracts and bracteoles small,
oblong-lanceolate, appressed. Calyx one-fourth of an inch
in diameter; tube turbinate, villous within; lobes ovate
acute or two- to three-toothed at the tip, densely tomentose,
with a subuiate bracteole at the sinus between each. Petals
pure white, orbicular, fugacious. Stamens in a triple
series at the mouth of the calyx, filaments capillary, half
as long as the petals; anthers minute. Carpels numerous,
on a minute conical receptacle at the bottom of the calyx-
tube; style very slender; stigma minute; ovule basal,
erect. Stipe carpels lanceolate, silky, ending in capillary
feathery styles one to one and a half inch long.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower cut vertically ; 2, calyx seen from the back ; 3,stamens; 4, carpel ;
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AN DROSACEH FOLIOSA.

Native of the Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. PrimuLacE®.—Tribe PRIMULER.
Genus Anprosacg, Linn. ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 632.)

AnpDRosack foliosa; elata, pubescenti-pilosa, rhizomate crasso estolonifero, foliis
magnis ellipticis v. obovato-ellipticis acutis v. obtusis in petiolum elongatum
angustatis integerrimis utrinque laxe pilosis, scapo solitario elongato robusto,
floribus umbellatis graciliter pedicellatis, bracteis parvis v. majusculis, calycis
lobis oblongis oblongo-lanceolatisve obtusis, corolla 3-4 poll. diam., lobis
obovato-rotundatis, ovario turbinato, capsula calyce duplo longiore.

A. foliosa, Duby in Jacquem. Voy. Bot, p. 142, t. 146, et in DC. Prodr. vol. viii.
p. 49.

A. sarmentosa, var, foliosa, nob. in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 498.

This is by far the largest known species of Androsace,
and though itself so unlike A. sarmentosa figured at Plate
6210 of this work, there are so many forms of the latter
plant approaching it in size and in habit, that I was induced,
when monographing the Indian species of the genus, to
bring these two together as varieties of one plant ; nor,
though the differences between them are even more striking
in living than in dried specimens, am I at all convinced
that I was wrong. A. sarmentosa varies extremely in
stature and in the base of the leaves, and sometimes wants
the stolons altogether, and developes tall stout scapes
exactly as in A. foliosa. A very similar plant to this occurs
in Sikkim, which Duby referred to A. foliosa, but which
has much broader shorter calyx-lobes; this is my var.
grandifolia.

A, foliosa is a native of the Western Himalaya, at
elevations of 8,000 to 12,000 feet; in its wild state it has
usually very small involucral bracts, but these vary
excessively in P. sarmentosa, and would naturally become
highly developed in cultivation, as have all the organs in

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the specimens of A. foliosa here figured, the leaves and
flowers of which far exceed those found in the native state
of the plant.

A. foliosa was raised by Isaac Anderson Henry, Esq.
(the introducer of A. sarmentosa, Tab. 6210) from seeds
sent by his niece, Mrs. Johnstone, from the N. W. Hima-
laya. It flowered on the 18th May of the present year,
and continued in full bloom till September, throwing out
flower after flower during all that time. Mr, Anderson
Henry further informs me that he has raised young plants
of what appears to be the same species, but with shorter
and broader leaves.

Dusor. Whole plant covered with lax soft hairs. Loot-
stock woody, about the size of a nut, without stolons,
sending up one or more very short stems, so reduced in
native specimens that the leaves are to all appearance
radical, whilst in the cultivated example here figured the
stem is two inches high, and red. Leaves two to three
inches long, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or acute,
deep green, hairy on both surfaces, narrowed into a petiole
half as long as the blade or longer. Scape solitary, stout, -
erect, three to five inches high. Umbel many-flowered ;
bracts very small in native specimens, linear or obovate
and sometimes leafy in cultivated ones; pedicels one-fourth
to three-fourths of an inch long. Calyzx-lobes oblong oF
oblong-lanceolate, obtuse. Corolla one-third to half an
inch in diameter, pale flesh-coloured; mouth contracted,
thickened, greenish ; lobes orbicular-obovate, tips rounded.
Stamens minute, filaments very short. Ovary turbinate.—

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ONCIDIUM prarextom.

Native of South Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Oncu1pEm.—Tribe VanpEx.
Genus Oncrpium, Swartz; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. vol. iii. p- 562 (ined.)

Oncrprvm (planifolia) pretextum ; pseudobulbis oblongis leviter sulcatis 2-foliatis,
foliis ensiformibus subacutis basi breviter vaginantibus, panicula graciliter
breviter pedunculata nutante sparsiflora, floribus graciliter pedicellatis 1} poll.
diam., bracteis parvis, sepalo dorsali parvo stipitato obovato v. elliptico obtuso
intus aureo brunneo fasciato, lateralibus lineari-oblongis obtusis deflexis, petalis
sepalis duplo majoribus obovatis profunde sinuato-lobulatis pallide brunneis,
labelli magni breviter stipitati lobis lateralibus parvis quadratis aureis
intermedio amplo semicirculari v. flabelliformi undulato aureo brunneo late
marginato, callis utrinque ad basin oblongis verrucosis, columna minuta sub-
globosa, alis rotundatis.

O. pretextum, Reichb. in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 1206.

This belongs to much the largest section of the genus
Oncidium, which abounds in Brazil, and of which the
Species are as yet only partially known in collections. Dr.
Reichenbach indicates O. crispwm, Lodd. (Plate 3499 of
this work) as allied to it, and no doubt correctly, though
O. crispwm is a much larger and coarser plant with almost
wholly brown flowers relieved with yellow only at the bases
of the petals, lip, and column.

O. preetextwm was introduced by John H. Wilson, Esq.,
of Liverpool, who communicated specimens to Dr. Reichen-
bach in 1873, and who states that it was discovered by
Mr. E. D. Jones in the province of St. Paolo, Brazil. The
specimen here figured flowered in the Royal Gardens in
July last. It is deliciously sweet-scented.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs one and a half to two inches long,
oblong, slightly compressed and faintly grooved. Leaves
two at the top of the pseudo-bulb, five to seven inches long
by one to one and a half broad, ensiform, subacute, pale

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green. Panicle from the base of the pseudo-bulb, shortly
peduncled, drooping, graceful, lax-flowered; rachis and
slender pedicels curved; bracts very small, appressed.
Flowers one and a half inch in diameter, sweet-scented.
Sepals golden yellow with broad blotches of pale brown;
dorsal small, half an inch long, stipitate, obovate or elliptic,
obtuse; lateral deflexed and hidden by the lip, linear-
oblong, obtuse. Petals more than twice as large as the
sepals, broadly obovate, deeply sinuate and almost lobulate,
pale brown. Jip very large, one inch long and one and a
quarter broad, shortly stipitate ; lateral lobes very small,
square with acute angles, yellow speckled with red;
terminal lobe fan-shaped from a very narrow base, undu-
late, golden yellow with a broad pale-brown outer margin ;
calli at its base one on each side oblong, very prominent,
warted; the area between the lateral lobes is also warted.

Column very small, yellow banded with red; wings
rounded.—J. D. H.

_ Fig. 1, Column and lip seen in front; 2, ovary column and base of lip; 3, anther
lid; 4, pollen masses :—all enlarged.

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HYACINTHUS FASTIGIATUS.

Native of Corsica and Sardinia.

Nat. Ord. Lrtrm0Em.—Tribe HyacinTHEE.
Genus Hyacrntuvs, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 812, ined.)

Hyacintuvs fastigiatus; bulbo parvo ovoideo tunicis pallidis membranaceis, foliis
4-8 synanthiis subulatis carnoso-herbaceis flaccidis glabris erectis dorso
rotundatis facie canaliculatis, scapo brevi tereti gracili, racemis paucifloris szepe
subcorymbosis, pedicellis erecto-patentibus flore interdum longioribus, bracteis
parvis solitariis lanceolatis vel deltoideis, perianthii lilacini segmentis oblongo-
lanceolatis tubo campanulato longioribus, staminibus ad perianthii faucem
uniseriatis, filamentis brevibus, antheris minutis ceruleis, ovario globoso, ovulis
in loculo paucis, stylo cylindraceo, stigmate capitato. -

H. fastigiatus, Bertol. in Ann. Stor. Nat. vol. iv. p. 62; Gren. et Godr. Fl. France,
vol. ili. p. 217; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xi. p.430; Nyman. Conspect.
p. 301,

H. Pouzolzii, Gay in Lois. Not. (1810), p.15; Parlat. Fl. Ital. vol. ii. p. 484.
Scruta fastigiata, Visiani Fl. Cors. App. p. 1.

This is one of the least conspicuous representatives of the
great genus Hyacinthus. At first sight it might easily be
overlooked for Scilla verna, which it much resembles in
stature and habit, but it is a true Hyacinth, with the
segments of the perianth united in a distinct cup at the
base. It has a very limited geographical range, being only
-known to inhabit the mountains of Corsica and Sardinia,
and has never before been figured. It flowers, like Scilla
verna, in March and April. Our drawing was made from
specimens that flowered in two successive years in the
herbaceous department at Kew, the bulbs of which were
presented to the garden by the Rev. H. Harpur Crewe. _

Descr. Bulb ovoid, not more than half an inch in
diameter, with several pale thin outer tunics of firm texture.
Leaves three or four in the wild plant, half a dozen or more
in the cultivated, subulate, weak in texture, quite glabrous,
sometimes half a foot long, contemporary with the flowers,

DECEMBER lst, 1882. :

rounded on the back, channelled down the face. Scape
slender, erect, terete, shorter than the leaves. Llaceme few-
flowered, often in the wild plant congested into a corymb ;
pedicels solitary, erecto-patent, the lower ones sometimes
longer than the flowers; bracts small, membranous, lilac-
tinted, deltoid or lanceolate. Perianth bright lilac, a quarter
or a third of an inch long; segments oblong-lanceolate,
longer than the campanulate tube. Stamens six, inserted in
a single row at the throat of the perianth-tube; filaments
very short, flattened; anthers oblong, minute, blue after
they have shed their pollen. Ovary sessile, globose, with
very few ovules in each cell; style long, cylindrical; stigma
capitate, Fruit a small globose capsule.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Section ofa leaf ; 2, one of the six segments of the perianth ; 3, two views
of an anther; 4, pistil, complete; 5, horizontal section of ovary :—all more or
less enlarged,

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Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Ficoripem.—Tribe MEsEMBRYER.

Genus MgsEemBryanTHEMUM, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 853.)

MESEMBRYANTHEMUM Bolusii; acaule, late obeonicum, 3—4 poll. diameter, gla-
berrimum, glaucum, griseo-virescens, creberrime granulato-punctulatum, foliis
(maturis) 2 oppositis crassissimis subhemisphericis v. obscure 3-gonis, facie
planis, dorso obscure et obtuse carinatis marginibas obtusis, floribus 1-2
sessilibus 2-3 poll. diam. 2-4-bracteatis, calycis tubo obconico limbo 6-lobo,
lobis oblongis obtusis recurvis, petalis perplurimis liberis 2~3-serialibus angus-
tissime linearibus infra medium flavis dein rubris, staminibus numerosissimis
multiseriatis calycis lobis duplo longioribus, ovarii vertice late conico 10-sulcato,
stylo brevi crasso, stigmatibus 10 crassiuscule filiformibus rugulosis.

This is quite as singular a plant as its ally, M. truncatellum
(Plate 6077 of this work), but is even more bizarre in form
and colour, the almost filiform and most delicate petals
contrasting strangely with the lumpy ungainly form of the
leaves over which they spread. As a species it appears to
be entirely new, nor is it easy to say to which of the sections
of the genus under Sonder’s arrangement (in Harvey’s
‘Flora Capensis,” vol. ii. p. 392) it should be referred,
differing as it does from the Spheroidea in the leaves not
being connate to near the apex, or the petals united at the
base; from the Subquadrifolia in having only two leaves,
and in the many stigmas; and from the Aloidea in the
leaves being only two, and not attenuate to the apex. The
discovery of this singular plant is due to Mr. H. Bolus,
F.R.S., a very able South African botanist, who sent plants
of it to Kew some years ago. These were exhibited in the
Succulent House, from which they suddenly disappeared in
1877. For the specimen here figured I am indebted to
Mr. Peacock, of Sudbury House, Hammersmith, whose
beautiful collection of Cacti and Aloes was so long deposited
by him in the south octagon of the Temperate House for

DECEMBER Ist, 1882.

the inspection of the public. It flowered in July of this
year. He informs me that it was sent with several others
from Graham’s Town, and that the flower opens by five
o'clock.

Desor. A stemless dwarf succulent plant, consisting at
maturity of two fully-formed leaves, placed at right angles
to a pair of small withered ones at their bases, and one or
two sessile flowers between them. Leaves trigonously
hemispherical, two inches in diameter, of a dull grey green,
covered with minute green pustular spots; face or upper
surface nearly flat, back obscurely bluntly keeled and
slightly laterally compressed, margins rounded. lowers
sessile between the leaves, two to three inches in diameter,
with two fleshy oblong trigonous bracts at the base
placed at right angles to the leaves. Calyzx-tube half an
inch in diameter, turbinate; lobes six, oblong, revolute.
Petals very numerous, two-thirds to one and a quarter inch
long, in several series, very narrowly linear, almost filiform,
spreading and recurved, free at the base, yellow below the
middle, dull red beyond it. Stamens very numerous, in
many series, twice as long as the calyx-lobes. Ovary with
a low ten-grooved conical crown, ending in a short thick
style; stigmas ten, filiform and rugose.—J. D. H.

Fiz. 1, Bracts; 2, vertical section of flower with the petals removed; 3 and 4,
anthers ; 5, top of ovary ; 6, ovules; 7, single ovule :—all enlarged.

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Abelia spathulata.
Agave univittata.
Albuca Nelsoni.

Aloe abyssinica, var.Peacockii.

Amorpha canescens.

Androsace rotundifolia, var.

macrocalyx.
Androsace foliosa,
Anthurium Andrzanum.
Aphelandra Chamissoniana.
Arisarum proboscideum.
Bacularia monostachya.
Bauhinia corymbosa,
Berberis Thunbergii.
Beschorneria bracteata.
Billbergia Euphemiz.
Bredia hirsuta.

Cambessedesia paraguayensis.

Catalpa Kempferi.
Catasetum callosum.

-Celmisia spectabilis,

Coelia bella,

Columnea Kalbreyeri.
Dracena Goldieana.
Encephalartos villosus,
Fallugia paradoxa,
Ficus stipulata.
Globba atro-sanguinea,
Haberlea rhodopensis.
Hamamelis japonica.
Hedychium gracile.
Huernia oculata.
Hyacinthus fastigiatus.
Impatiens Sultani.

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Lespedeza bicolor.
Lilium Parryi.
Mascarenhasia Curnowiana.
Mesembryanthemum Bolusii.
Oncidium pretextum.
Opuntia Davisii.
Peonia Wittmanniana.
Parnassia nubicola,
Peperomia resedeeflora.
Phalenopsis Stuartiana.
Pinguicula caudata,
Pitcairnia alta.
Pitcairnia corallina,
Ponthieva maculata.
Satyrium nepalense.
Saxifraga Camposii.
Saxifraga diversifolia.
Scrophularia chrysantha.
Scutellaria Hartwegi.
Selenia aurea.
Sempervivum Moggridgei.
Sonchus Jacquini.
Stachyurus pracox.
Sterculia (Brachychiton) dis-
color.
Stigmaphyllon littorale,
Streptocarpus parviflora.
Talauma Candollei,
Galeottiana.
Tulipa Borszezowi.
Tulipa Didieri.
Utricularia Endresii.
Wahlenbergia saxicola.
Zephyranthes citrina.

var.