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CYMBIDIUM RHODOCHILUM.
Native of Madagascar.

) Nat. Ord. OrncnipEa#.—Tribe Vanpea.
Genus Crmarpium, Si.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 536.)

Cyrsripium rhodochilum ; herba, ut videtur, semper in arboribus excelsis supra
: Platycerii madagascariensis candices crescense, pseudobulbis fasciculatis
oblongo-conicis 3-5 poll. longis demum nigropurpureis, foliis 8-10
distichis loriformibus 2-3 ped. longis acutis flexilibus recurvis atroviridibus,
scapis simplicibus solitariis infra pseudobulbos enatis erectis folia fere
zequantibus multifloris (scapus solus visus 20-florus), bracteis lanceo-
litis acutis deflexis quam pedicellis brevioribus, pedicellis cum ovario
circiter 3-pollicaribns, floribus sanguineo-viridibus splendidis circiter 4
poll, diametro maximo, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis pallide viridibus reflexis
circiter bipollicaribus, petalis sepalis similibus erectis apiculatis maculis
atroviridibus conspersis, labello trilobo lobis lateralibus margine sanguineo
excepto petalis coneoloribus et 4-plo brevioribus, lobo intermedio obcordato
circiter 2 poll. diametro sanguineo medio luteo viridi-maculato.
C. rhodochilum, Rolfe, Orchid Review, vol. ix. (1901) p. 10; x. (1902) p. 184
(descriptio). Le Jardin, 1901, p. 276, fig. 183; 1902, p. 351. The Garden,
1902, vol. i. p. 383 cum habitus figura.

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It will be generally admitted that Cymbidium rhodochilum
is one of the most striking of recently introduced Orchids.
Jt is still very rare in cultivation, and the plant figured
was purchased for Kew from Mr. G. Warpur, the dis-
coverer, in 1900. Mr. Warpur states (Orchid Review,
vol, ix. p. 10) that it always grows on masses of Platy-
cerium, on the branches of tall trees, mostly of Albizzia
fastigiata, Oliver, along the rivers and on the higher
forest-slopes, at elevations of 1,800 to 2,100 feet. He
adds that it seems to prefer a moderate degree of heat
and humidity, and much light. In its native country it
flowers from October to December, but the Kew plant
flowered in May.

The Kew plant is still attached to, and growing on the
Platycerium, as it was imported. .

Only two other species of Cymbidium have been recorded
from Madagascar, namely, C. jlabellatum, Sindl., and
C. Humbloti, Rolfe; both very different from (. rhodo--
chilum. On the authority of Mr. Warpur, C. Humbloti,

JANUARY Ist, 1904.

which is also in cultivation, invariably grows in a wild
state on a palm, Raphia madagascariensts.

With regard to C. rhodochilum always growing on
Platycerium, itself an epiphyte, it may be mentioned that .
it is not at all unusual for one epiphyte to grow on
another, but it is rare for the associated plants to be con-
stantly the same. The same phenomenon is, however, not
unknown among truce parasites. For example, so far as is
known, all the species of Phacellaria, a small genus of
shrubby parasites belonging to the Santalaceex, are para-
sitic on different species of the equally parasitic genus
Loranthus.

Descr.—A_ tall, epiphytic herb. Psendobulbs clustered,
oblong-conical, three to five inches long, at length purple-
black. Leaves about eight to ten on a pseudobulb, dis-
tichous, strap-shaped, two to three feet long, acute,
flexible, recurved, dark green. Scapes simple, solitary,
from below the pseudobulbs, nearly as long as the leaves,
many-flowered. Practs lanceolate, acute, deflexed, shorter
than the pedicels. Pedicels with the ovary about three
inches long. Flowers crimson and green, very striking,
about four inches in their greatest diameter. Sepals
oblong-lanceolate, pale green, reflexed, about two inches
long. Petals similar to the sepals, erect, apiculate, be-
sprinkled with dark green spots on a light green ground.
Labellum three-lobed; lateral lobes, except the crimson
margin, of the same colour as the petals, and about a
quarter as long; intermediate lobe obecurdate, about two
inches in diameter, crimson, with a central, longitudinal,
yellow band, spotted with green.—W. B. H.

Tab. 7932. See
Fig. 1, part of lip; 2, colamn; 3 and 4, pollen-masses :—all enlarged.
Tab. 7933.

Sketch of entire plant growing on Platycerium :—about one quarter natural
Size.

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PROSTANTHERA peEnticunata.
Native of Hastern Australia.

Nat. Ord. Lapiata.—Tribe PRostanTHERE x.

Genus Prostantusna, Labill.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1217.)

PrRostaNTHERA denticulata; frutex ramosus, paucipedalis, hispidulus, flori-
bundus, caulibus ramisqnue oppositis gracilibus rectis, foliis brevissime
petiolatis rigidis lineari-lanceolatis maximis vix pollicaribus vix acutis
maryine rigide setosis nec vere denticulatis supra hispidis subtus fere
levibus, floribus purpureis in ramulorum apicibus subracemosis in folioram
aut bractearum axillis solitariis brevissime pedicellatis, bracteolis 2 fere
filiformibus juxta calycem positis et quadruplo brevioribus, calyce hispi-
dulo alte et fere equaliter bilabiato, labiis rotundatis superiore majore
margine basi recuryo, corolla glabra valde ineequaliter bilabiata circiter
6 lin. diametro maximo, tubo brevi basi cylindrico subite inflato, labio
superiore erecto breviter bilobato lobis obscure 3-lobulatis, labio inferiore
recto ineequaliter 3-lobato lobis lateralibus ovato-rotundatis lobo inter-
medio longiore obeordato, staminibus 4 inclusis, filamentis glabris,
antheris 2-locularibus loculis basi in caudam brevissimam produactis
connectivo etiam basi producto, stylo incluso, nuculis ovoideis punctatis.

P. denticalata, R. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 509. Benth. in DC. Prodr.
vol. xii. p. 561; F7. Austral. vol. v. p. 97. Moore, Handb. Fl. N.S. -
Wales, p. 351.

Prostanthera denticulata, R. Br., is a member of a tribe
of the Labiatx, consisting of five genera, and about 100
species, mostly shrubby, restricted to Australia. Pros-
tanthera itself comprises about forty species, spread all
over Australia, except the extreme north, and P. denti-
culata has a wide range on the eastern side of the country.
Some of the species are described as tall shrubs, but they
are mostly bushes, three to six feet high,

The plant figured was raised from seed sent to Kew by
Mr. J. H. Maiden, Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney,
N.S. Wales, in 1900. It is in the Temperate House, and
is now about three feet high, growing and flowering freely,
beginning in April.

Altogether some half-a-dozen species of Prostanthera
have been in cultivation, mostly early in the last century,
when ‘‘ hard wooded” plants were more in vogue. The
species figured was originally introduced in 1824.

Three haye previously been figured in the Magazine,

January Isr, 1904.

namely: P. lasianthos, Labill. (t. 2434); P. empetrifolia,
Sieb. (t..3405), and P. nivea, A. Cunn. (t. 5658). Another
species, P. violacea, R. Br., is figured in the ‘ Botanical
Register,” t. 1072.

Descr.—A much-branched, free-flowering, hispid shrub,
a few feet high. Stems and the opposite branches slender,
straight. Leaves very shortly petioled, stiff, linear-lan-
ceolate, the largest scarcely an inch long, subacute, margin
beset with short, rigid bristles, but not toothed, hispid
above, naked below. Flowers purple, subracemose, soli-
tary in the axils of the leaves or bracts. Pedicels very
short, bearing two very short, filiform bracteoles close
under the calyx. Calyx hispid, deeply two-lipped ; lips
almost equal, rcunded, the upper slightly larger, with the
margin recurved near the base. Corolla glabrous, very
unequally two-lipped, about half an inch in its greatest
diameter ; tube very short, cylindrical at the base, then
suddenly inflated ; upper lip erect, shortly two-lobed, lobes
obscurely 3-lobulate ; lower lip straight, unequally 3-lobed,

lateral lobes ovate-rotundate, intermediate longer, obcor- .

date. Stamens 4, included; filaments glabrous; anthers
2-celled, cells produced at the base in very short tails;
connective also produced at the base. Style included,
Nutlets ovoid, pitted.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, a leaf; 2, calyx and style; 3, corolla; 4 and 5, anthers; 6, fruit:—
all enlarged,

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ARETHUSA stxensts.
Native of Western China.

Nat. Ord. OrncutpEa.—Tribe N sorties.

Genus Argtuusa, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 614.)

ARETHUSA sinensis; herba terrestris, tuberosa, scaposa, 4-9 poll. alta, glabra,
_ tubere parvo subgloboso, foliis 3 vel 4 inferioribus vaginiformibus vel
laminis parvis instructis 2 vel 3 superioribus lanceolatis acutis maximis
in exemp'ariis cultis 6 poll. longis et 1} poll. latis in exemplariis sylves-
tribus fere dimidio minoribus multinerviis tenuibus, scapis solitariis
erectis 1-7-floris folia paullo excedentibus infra flores nudis, bracteis
membranaceis lineari-lanceolatis 2-3 lin. longis acutis, pedicellis circiter
3-4 lin. longis, floribus albo-rubris 9-12 lin. longis nutantibus, sepalis
petalisque lanceolatis acutis erecto-incurvis labello paullo brevioribus,
labello erecto indiviso e basi angusta columne brevissime adnato sursum
valde dilatato marginibus involuto fimbriato intus longitudinaliter trila-
mellato lamellis fimbriatis, columna clavata labello dimidio breviore.

A. sinensis, Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxxvi. p. 46. Orchid Review,
1896, p. 211.

The history of the introduction of this interesting little
Orchid is obscure. It was first sent to Kew by the Editors
of the ‘‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle” in May, 1896, and in June
of the same year it was received from Sir Trevor Law-
rence, without any indication of its origin. Sir Trevor
sent it again in June, 1900, when he exhibited it at a meeting
of the Royal Horticultural Society. Subsequently Mr.
Rolfe identified these cultivated fragments with specimens
collected by Dr. A. Henry near Mengtze, in the Province
of Yunnan, Western China.

The plant figured was presented to Kew by Mr. H. J.
Klwes, F.R.S., and it flowered in a greenhouse in July of
last year, under ordinary treatment.

Arethusa, as now limited, comprises four other described
Species; one is native of Japan, one of Mexico, one of
Guatemala, and A, bulbosa, Linn. (Bot. Mag. t. 2204), the
species on which the genus was founded, is a native of
North America.

Descr.—A. terrestrial, tuberous, scapose, glabrous herb,
four to nine inches high. Tuber small, ovoid or globose.
Leaves two or three, lanceolate, acute, the largest six

JaNvuagy Ist, 1904.

inches long and one and a half broad, thin, many-nerved,
with three or four lower ones almost reduced to sheaths.
Scapes solitary, erect, 1-7-flowered, scarcely taller than
the Jeaves, naked below the flowers. Bracts membranous,
linear-lanceolate, acute, two to three lines long. Pedicels
about three lines long. Flowers white and red, nine to
twelve lines long, nodding. Sepals and petals lanceolate,
acute, erect, incurved, slightly shorter than the labellum.
Labellum erect, undivided, narrow at the base, obscurely
saccate, almost free from the column, much widened
upward, with involute, fimbriate margins and three longi-
tudinal, fringed crests on the upper surface. Column
clavate, about half as long as the labellum.— W. B. H.

Fig. 1, labellum and column; 2, labellam laid open; 3, column; 4, clinan-
drium; 8, pollen :—adl enlarged.

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PASSIFLORA VITIFOLIA.

Native of Tropical America,

Nat. Ord. Passtrroracea.—Tribe PassIFLORER.
Genus Passrrtora, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 810.)

Passtrtora (§Granadilla) vitifolia; species P. quadriglandulose, Rodsch.
(Tacsonia sanguinea, DC., Bot. Mag. t. 4674) simillima, sed bracteolis
amplis coloratis et florum colore intensiore sat distincta; caulibus graci-
liusculis debilibus ope cirrhorum simplicium alte scandentibus, novellis
plus minusve tomentosis in sic’o spe ferrugineis, foliis petiolatis (inter-
dum longe) demum coriaceis glabrescentibus sepissime ultra medium
trilobatis, interdum lobis 2 basilaribus pirvis additis, maximis\6-7 poll.
diametro basi cordatis, lobis ovato-oblongis acutis grosse crenato-dentatis
vel foliornm superiorum denticulatis, pedun:ulis quam foliis brevioribus,
bricteolis coloratis venosis glanduloso-dentatis circiter pollicaribus in-
volucrum prope calycis basin formantibus, floribus cum cirrhis in folio-
rum axillis solitariis in exemplariis nonnuallis sylvestribus usque ad 6 poll.
diametro sanguineo-coccineis, tubo circiter 5. lin. lato altoque extus
10-sulcato, sepalis petalis similibus oblongo-lance :latis dorso infra apicem
cornutis, cornu viridi, corona exteriore (fauciali) tilamentosa triseriata
erecta filis seriei prime liberis sanguineis quam petalis dimidio breviori-
bus, filis seriei secunde etiam liberis quam exterioribus tertia parte
brevioribus, filis seriei tertiz albis alte connatis quam intermediis paullo
longioribus, corona intermedia (operculo) membranacea e floris tubo versus
apicem emergente deflexa deinde ascendente tubum brevissimum apice
fimbriatum formante, corona interiore (vel disco nectarifluo) squamis
parvis denticnlatis consistente, gynandrophoro circiter 2 poll. alto viridi
sanguineo-maculato, antheris viridibus, ovario viridi, stylis brevibus
sanguineis, stigmatibus amplis disciformibus, fructu ignoto.

P. vitifolia, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vol. ii. (1817) p. 138. Masters in Mart.

Fl. Bras. vol. xiii. pars 1, p. 607, t. 121; Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvii.
(1871), p. 637. Karst. Fl. Colomb. vol. i. p. 103, +. 51 (var. bracteosa).
Hemsl, in Salv. et Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer. Bot. vol. i. p. 481.

P. sanguinea, Sm. in Rees’s Cyclop. vol, xxvi. (1819), n. 45,

P. punicea, Ruiz et Pav. ex DC. Prod. vol. iii. p. 329.

P. servitensis, Karst. in Linnea, vol. xxx. p. 163.

Tacsonia Buchanani, Lem. in Illust. Hort. vol. xiv. (1867), t. 519.

P. Buchanani, Planch. et Triana in Ann. Se, Nat. 5me série, vol, xvii. p. 144,

Passiflora vitifolia, H. B. K., appears to have been first
introduced into Europe from Panama in 1851; but it has
never got into general cultivation, probably because it
requires tropical treatment to produce its magnificent
flowers. At Kew it is cultivated both in the Palm House
and the old Lily House, where it flowered in June, 1903.
It is certainly one of the most brilliantly coloured species
im a genus abounding in gorgeous forms.

It has a wide distribution in tropical America, ranging

January Ist, 1904,

from Nicaragua to Peru, Guiana and Brazil, and from
sea-level in Nicaragua to 3,000 feet in Colombia, where
Lehmann (n. 1268) observed stems forty feet long.

In the Kew Herbarium there are dried specimens of
flowers of this species from Panama (Fendler, 118) fully
six inches across.

Descy.—A tall shrubby climber similar to P. quadri-
glandulosa, Rodsch. (Tacsonia sanguinea, DC., Bot.
Mag. t. 4574), but differing in the less diversified foliage,
large coloured bracts and the deeper colour of the
flowers. Stems slender, tomentose, as well as the
leaves, when young. Leaves petiolate, at length coria-
ceous, glabrescent, usually deenly three-lobed, some-
times with two additional small, basal lobes, cordate at
the base, the largest six to seven inches in diameter ; lobes
ovate-oblong, acute, coarsely crenate-dentate or only —

ng,

Flowers

Tube about half an inch
Sepals similar to the peta
with a short, green, dorsal hc
Outer corona filamentose, in three s¢
first series free, crimson, half as
filaments of the second series also
outer or first series; filaments of
united in a tube to abo rT

than the second or
corona membranous, -
flower-tube, deflexed, anc
short tube, fringed at tl ) corona (or honey-
secreting disk) consisting of small, dentate scales. Gynan-
drophore (column bearing the stamens and ovary) about
two inches long, green, spotted with crimson. Anthers
green. Ovary glabrous, green; styles short, crimson;
stigmas large, circular, compressed. Fruit unknown.—

ep, ten-furrowed.

petals ;
an the

forming a very

W. B42.

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intermediate corona; 4, a portion of the inner corona or disk; 5 and. 6, ventral
and dorsal view of an anther :—all enlarged. =< ; ee

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LYSICHITUM camrscHartcense.
Native of N.E. Asia and N.W. America,

: Nat. Ord. Arnoipra%.—Tribe OrontTIE&.
Genus Lysicuitum, Schott; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 994.) —

Lysicnitum camtschatcense; herba paludosa, robusta, rbizomate repente,
foliis amplis 1-3 ped. longis sessilibus v. crasse petiolatis oblongo-ovatis
v. -lanceolatis acutis obtusisve crasse coriaceis lete viridilus petiolo lato
concavo, nervis gracilibus arcuatis, pedunculo crassitie digiti minoris,
eataphyllis paucis primum involutis albis, spatha 4-6 poll. longa cymbi-
formi acuta membranacea flavida basi in pedunculum longe producta
spadicem juniorem totum includente, demum stipitem ejus valde
elongatum inferne involvente denique decidua, spadice longe stipitata
2-3 poll. longa $-? poll. diam. cylindracea apice rotundata densiflora
sursum florente tloribus omnibus fertilibus densissimis, perianthii seg-
mentis 4 inaéqualibus crassissimis truncatis oblongis trigonisve apice
fornicatis ovarium velantibus, staminibus 4 inzqualibus, filamentis late
complanatis, antheris minutis exsertis didymis, ovario conico-ovoideo
viridi basi constricto apice attenuato, stigmate sessili capitellato flavo,
loculis 2 basilaribus interdum confluentibus 1-2-ovulatis, baccis 2-locu-
laribus dispermis, seminibus exalbuminosis, embryone macropodo.— _
J. D. Hi.

L. camtschatcense, Schott in Cesterr. Bot. Wochenbl. vol. vii. (1857), p. 62;
Mig. Ann. Mus. Ingd.-Bat. vol. i. p. 285, ii. p. 202. Engl.in DO. Monogr.
Phaner, vol. ii. p. 210. Macoun, Cat. Canad. Pl. vol. ii. p,73. Franch. &
Savat. Enum. Pl, Jap. vol. ii. p.9. Honzo Zufu, vol. xxiv. t.18. Somoku ,
Zusetsu, vol. xix. t. 10 (Japonice 13). ;

LL. camtschaticum, Schott, Gen. Aroid. t. 91.

LL. kamtechatcensis, 8S. Wats. Bot. Californ. vol. ii. pp. 187, 484.

LL. japonicum, Schott e« Mig. Cat. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. p.96. Franch. &

"Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. ii. p. 9. :

Symplocarpus kamtschaticus, Bong.in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, vol. ii.
(1838), p. 169; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. vol. iv. p. 12 (Simplocarpus).

S. camtschaticus, Kunth, Hnum. Pl. iii. p 84.

Arctiodracon japonicum, A. Gray in Mem, Amer. Acad, ser. 2, vol. vi.
(1858-9), p. 408.

Pothos camtschaticus, Spreng. Syst. Veg. vol iii. p. 767.

Dracontium foliis lanceolatis, Linn. Amen. Acad. vol. ii. p. 362.

Dracontiam camtschatcense, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 968.

Lysichitum, or Lysichiton, which is better, and as Schott
himself wrote it in a note in the place where he published
the description, is a monotypic genus of remarkable dis-
tribution. In Asia it inhabits Eastern Siberia, Kamt-
schatka, Saghalien, and the Kurile Islands, southward to
Central Japan; and in America it ranges from the

Feprvuary Ist, 1904,

Aleutian Islands and Alaska southward to California, to
about 40° of latitude. he high Jatitudinal extension, or
rather existence, of this plant, is accounted for, partly, at
least, by its being an inhabitant of swamps.

C. A. Geyer, who collected specimens on the Coeur
d’Alene River, Idaho, states that it grew in deep, rich,
vegetable mould, and that its scarlet fruit was a favourite
food of the bear.

Lysichitum camtschatcense, Schott, varies very much in
size from different localities; the leaves being from a foot
to nearly three feet in length, and the spathe, including
peduncle, is sometimes as much as eighteen inches long.
The fertile part of the spadix is from one inch and a half
to nearly six inches long. The late Professor H. N.
Moseley, who collected a specimen in Oregon, labelled it
“skunk cabbage,” a name applied in Canada and the
Eastern United States to the closely allied Symplocarpus
fetidus, Salisb. The latter is figured in the Botanical
Magazine, t. 836, under the name of Pothos fetidus, Ait.,
and also t. 3224.

Symplocarpus, as well as Lysichitum, is a monotype, and
it inhabits Japan as well as Hastern N. America. But,
improbable as it seems, there are many more plants
‘common to Eastern Asia and Hastern N. America than
there are common to Eastern Asia and Western N.
America.

The figure was prepared from a clump growing in a
wet, shady corner of the Himalayan section of the Tem-
perate House, Kew, and Mr. Watson notes that it had
previously been unsuccessfully tried in the Bog Garden in
the open air, In its present position it is flourishing, and
perfectly at home.

Kew is indebted to Mr. James R. Anderson, Deputy
Minister of Agriculture, British Columbia, for tubers, sent
in 1901. ‘The plant of previous cultivation, referred to by
Mr. Watson, was apparently of Japanese origin, as there
is a leaf in the Herbarium labelled: “ Lysichiton japonicus
from North Japan, garden specimen, Aug. 5, 1886.”
his leaf is about two feet six inches long, so that the
plant was not wanting in vigour. The reason why it did
not flower is not easily explained, because M. W. Gorman,
who collected the plant in Alaska, notes on the label that —

the spathes sometimes appear through the snow. Possibly
the local conditions were unfavourable. The same col-
lector states that it grows in moist places and on the
banks of creeks.—W. B. 1. :

Descr.—A stout, glabrous marsh-herb, with a creeping
rootstock, giving off erect, sessile tufts of leaves and
inflorescences, Leaves erect, one to two feet and a half
long, subsessile or base narrowed into a very stout,
concave petiole, oblong-ovate or -lanceolate, acute or
obtuse, thickly coriaceous, costa very broad, nerves spread- .
ing and arching. Peduncle shorter than the leaves, stout,
- pale green, nearly white, obscurely transversely wrinkled.
Spathe four to six inches long, erect, deeply boat-shaped,
elliptic in outline, acuminate, membranous, pale yellow,
base narrowed into and resembling the peduncle for some
length, but fissured in front. Spadix stipitate, four to six
inches long by one-half to three-quarters of an inch in
diameter, top rounded, dense-flowered, green, at first
enclosed in the spathe, flowering from the base upwards ;
stipes inserted far down in the contracted, terete base of
the spathe, terete, green, elongating after flowering of the
spadix to six inches or more, and freeing itself and the
latter from the spathe. lowers all fertile, very densely
spicate. Perianth-segments four, very unequal, variously
compressed, fleshy, truncate, tightly embracing the stamens
and ovary. Stamens four; filaments very unequal, broad,
flat; anthers minute, didymous. Ovary conic-ovoid,
fleshy, base constricted, cells two, sometimes confluent,
one- or two-ovuled ; stigma capitellate, yellow. Berries
partially sunk in the rhachis of the spadix, 2-celled,
2-seeded. Seeds concave-convex, exalbuminous; embryo

having a large radicle.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, three flowers detached from the spadix ; 2, two lobes of the perianth,
two unequal stamens and pistil; 3, sectivn of 2-celled ovary showing the
solitary ovules :—all enlarged ; 4, much reduced figure of entire plant.

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BULPOPHYLLUM AURICOMUM.

Native of Burma.

Nat. Ord. OrcnipEm.—Tribe DENDROBIEA,
Genus Butsopnyiium, Thou.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 501.)

BuLBoruyttumM (Eubulbophyllum) auricomum; rhizomate repente crassitie
penne anserinze squamis brevibus arcte imbricatis brunneis vaginato,
pseudobulbis #-1}-pollicaribus confertis anguste ovoideis oblongisve
teretibus nudis fusco-viridibus aphyllis, foliis rhizoma terminantibus
solitariis binisve 3-4 poll. longis sessilibus lineari-oblongis obtusis
coriaceis basi vaginis brevibus viridibus cinctis supra lete viridibus
subtus pallidis, scapis basi pseudobulborum insertis racemo incluso 4-10
poll. longis gracillimis, vaginis paucis angustis appressis auctis, racemo
elongato decurvo multifloro, rhachi puberulo, bracteis minutis subulatis,
floribus subsessilibus cernuis, ovario brevi, sepalis patulis ? poll. longis
lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis 38-nerviis membranaceis albis dorsali
paullo breviore, petalis parvis oblongis obtusis 1-nerviis ciliatis, labello
lingueformi recurvo supra papilloso apice rotundato aurantiaco, columna
et truncata bidentata, anthera mitreformi apice obtusa puberula.—

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B. auricomum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. n. 1985; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. p. 50.
Parish in Mason’s Burma, ed. nov. 1883, vol. ii. Bot. p. 154. Hook. f. Fl.
Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 765.

B, foenisecii, Par. ex Reichd. S. in Bot. Zeit. vol. xxiii. (1865) p. 99.

Dendrobium tripetaloides, Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 478, et icon. ined, in —
Bibl. Kew., n. 2359. :

Bulbophyllum auricomum was discovered by the Rev. F.
Carey in the forests of Rangoon, whence living plants
were sent by him, before 1832, to the Botanical Gardens
of Calcutta, where it was cultivated under the name of
Dendrobium tripetaloides, which was published by Dr. Rox-
burgh in his “Flora Indica.” It has more recently been
collected in Tenasserim by William Gomez, one of Wallich’s
collectors, and by the Kev. C. Parish in Moulmein. The
plant figured was obtained by Kew from Mr. J. O’Brien,
Harrow-on-the-Hill, in 1894, and Mr. Watson observes
that it flowers annually in a stove in June. But this
‘Season it is flowering freely at the end of December, and a
very pretty and graceful little thing it is, and its agreeable
fragrance adds to its attractiveness. ae

Parish collected numerous specimens, which he presented
to Kew in 1872, and in an accompanying note he states

Feprvany Ist, 1904, :

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that it was a great favourite with the Burmese girls to
put in their hair, as it is pleasantly fragrant, like new-
made hay. He adds that he had found a golden-coloured
variety in the mountains. Parish does not take up the
name B. fonisecii, credited to him by Reichenbach in the
place cited above, and it has not been found in his manu-
scripts at Kew; but there is no doubt of its identity with
B. auricomum, Lind), Reichenbach drew up his description
from a plant introduced and cultivated by Messrs. Low &
Co.

Since Miss Smith’s drawing was lithographed we have
found another in the Kew Collection, made by W. H.
Fitch in 1871, from a plant cultivated by Messrs. James
Veitch & Sons. It is endorsed: * Buller, Stevens’s sale, —
1849.” Fitch’s drawing represents a more robust con-
dition of the plant.

B. suavissimum, Rolfe (Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. i. p. 297)
is a closely allied species from Upper Burma, which Mr.
Rolfe thinks may be the plant regarded by Parish as a
yellow variety of B. auricomum. :

Descr.—A rhizomatous, pseudobulbous herb, less than a
foot high. Rhizomes creeping, short-jointed, about a
quarter of an inch thick, clothed with short, brown, closely
imbricated scales. Pseudobulbs clustered, three-quarters
to one and a quarter inch long, narrow-ovoid or oblong,
leafless when the flowers are produced. Leaves usually
two in the formation of each succeeding pseudobulb,
oblong, obtuse, about four inches long, deciduous. Scapes
solitary from the base of the leafless pseudobulbs, very
slender, four to ten inches long, recurved from above the
middle, about two-thirds floriferous. Bracts minute, per-
sistent. lowers very fragrant, numerous, nearly sessile,
nodding, white, with an orange labellum. Sepals linear-
Janceolate, acuminate, about three-quarters of an inch
long, tbree-nerved. Petals small, ovate-oblong, obtuse,
1-nerved, ciliate. Lip tongue-shaped, somewhat longer
than the petals, hinged at the base and motile, arched,
papillose on the upper surface. Column short, truncate.
Anther mitre-shaped, puberulous at the top.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1,a flower from which the sepals have been retaoved ; 2, the same

from which the petals have also been removed; 3, anther-cap; 4, pollen:—
all enlarged.

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CORYDALIS Witsont.
Native of Central China.

Nat. Ord. Fumartacea.—Tribe Fumarrex.
Genus Corypatis, DC.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 55.)

Corypauis Wilsoni; acaulis, glaberrima, foliis 3-5-pollicaribus patentibus
flaccidis pinnatis petiolo breviusculo rhacheque gracilibus, pinnis utrinque
4-6 $-1-pollicaribus sessilibus petiolulatisve ovato-oblongis pinnatifido-
lobatis lobis apice obtusis v. rotundatis enerviis glauco-viridibus, pedun-
culo brevi robusto, racemo 4-5-pollicari laxe multifloro, bracteis lanceolatis
pedicellis 3-4 poll. longis brevioribus, floribus pollicaribus aureis, sepalis
4 poll. longis ovatis caudato-acuminatis brunneis, petalis exterioribus
acuminatis superiore kasi in calear 3 poll. longum incurvum apice
rotundatum leviter compressum producto inferioris disco excavato
marginibus recurvis, interioribus stipitatis obovato-spathulatis costa
crassa exserta, ovario lineari stigmate 2-cruri cruribus incurvis apice
2-lobis, capsula lineari arcuata.—/. D. H. :

C. Wilsoni, V.2. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1908, vol. ii. p. 123.

Corydalis Wilsont was raised by Messrs. James Veitch
& Sons from seed sent home by their very successful
collector, Mr. E. H. Wilson, after whom it is named.
They at first cultivated it in a greenhouse, where it
flowered in March of last year, and one of the plants so
raised is represented in our plate. The plant in question
was presented to Kew, and in May it was turned out in
the Rock Garden, where it has flourished and flowered
throughout the summer and autumn, and in the middle of
December, as Mr. Watson pointed out to us, it was still
flowering under the shelter of an overhanging rock. ‘he
dimensions of the plant were considerably beyond its
condition when Miss Smith made the drawing. Although
the plant was past flowering, the leaves were still green
at the end of the first week in January.

In reply to inquiries, Messrs. Veitch state that the
habitat of Corydalis Wilsoni is given in Wilson’s. notes
as: “dry rocks at 10,000 ft., Fang”; which is in the
Province of Hupeh. Its hardiness, in so far as temperature
is concerned, is therefore unquestionable. Whether it will
bear our often mild, humid winters, time will prove.

Frpruary Ist, 1904,

There are many other new species from the same region
deserving of a trial in our gardens.—W. B. H.
Descr.—Stemless, perfectly glabrous. Leaves all radical,
three to five inches long, spreading, flaccid, ovate-oblong
in outline, glaucous green, pinnate; petiole short, and
rhachis slender; pinne four to six on each side, three-
fourths to one inch long, rather distant, sessile, on the
lower part sometimes free and petiolulate, ovate-oblong,
pinnatifidly lobed, lobes rounded, lobulate, lobules obtuse
or rounded at the tip. Peduncles short, robust, with the
raceme four to five inches long, bright green. LRaceme
loosely many-flowered ; bracts lanceolate, shorter than
the pedicels, which are one-quarter to half an inch long.
Flowers about an inch long. Sepals ovate, caudately
acuminate, pale brown. Petals golden-yellow. Outer
petals linear-oblong, acuminate, tips recurved, upper pro-
duced at the base into a very broad, incurved, slightly
flattened spur rounded at the apex; lower with a deep
groove on the disk bounded by a crenulate ridge, margins
recurved, Petals narrow, stipitate, spathulately obovate,
costa very thick, protruded beyond the rounded apex.
Ovary very slender; stigma horse-shoe-shaped, with the

tips of the incurved arms 2-lobed. Capsule very slender,
arcuate.—J. D. H.

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SAUROMATUM brevires.
Native of the Sikkim Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. ARnoIDEZ.—Tribe ARINER.

Genus Savromatum, Schott; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 966.)

Saurnomatum brevipes; acaule, tubere parvo oblato tuberculis perplurimis
coronato, foliis 1-3 longe petiolatis pedatim 5-9-partitis segmentis 4-6
poll. longis anguste lanceolatis caudato-acuminatis supra lete viridibus
subtus pallidis costa utrinque rubra, petiolo 4-15 poll. longo erecto
tereti roseo, spathis confertis breviter pedunculatis, pedunculo curvo
hypogzo, spathe tubo 13 poll. longo ampulleformi basi inflato fere polli-
cem viametro dein in collum breve cylindraceum apice fissum in laminam
desinense constricto extus pallide flavo-virescente maculis pallide roseis
ornato fauce basique limbi intas rubro-purpurea, limbo 4-5 poll. longo
basi ad $ poll. lato arcuato anguste lineari-lanceolato acuminato convoluto
torto extus pallide sordide roseo v. griseo, spadice sessili spathe equilonga
gracili parte florifera 1-1} pollicariin ventre spathe inclusa in appendicem
gracilem exsertam ascendentem cylindraceam apice obtusam infra
medium roseam dein aurantiacam desinense, ovariis minimis in
columnam oblongam viridem ad 3 poll, longam densissime confertis
ovoideis 1-locularibus 2-ovulatis stigmate minuto sessili, ovulis 2 basi-
laribus erectis, organis neutris paucis clavatis, antheris minutis
2-locularibus in columnam cylindraceam confertis infimis minimis
deformatis papilleeformibus, loculis globosis.

S. brevipes, VE. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. ii. p. 93.

Typhonium pedatum, Schott in Gisterr. Bot. Wochenbl. 1857, p. 262, partim.

T. brevipes, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 511.

_ The genus Sauromatum consists of about five species of
K. Indian and tropical African plants closely allied to
Arum. Of these one has been previously figured in this —
work, 8. guttatum, Schott, tab. 4465, a N.W. Indian
Species, conspicuous for its large spathe spotted with dark
purple. 8S. brevipes was first found by myself near Dar-
jeeling, in the Sikkim Himalaya, in 1848, but in fruit only.
It has since been collected in flower by Mr. C. B. Clarke,
F.R.S., and Mr. G. A. Gammie, now Professor of Botany
at Poona, in the same neighbourhood, at elevations of
7,000 to 7,500 feet. Owing to the difficulty of ascertaining
the true nature of the spathe in dried specimens it was
referred to the genus T'yphonium (see tabs. 339, 2324, Arum,
and 6180), with which it agrees in all other points, except
Fesrvary Ist, 1904,

that the tube of the spathe is entire, not convolute, which
latter character brings it to Sauromatum. On the other
hand, the leafing of S. brevipes being coetaneous with the
flowering, is opposed to the character of Sauromatum, and
suggests the expediency of the two genera being united.

For this interesting plant I am indebted to the rich
collection of the University Botanic Gardens of Cambridge,
where it flowered in June, 1902. <A tuber of it was
received from the Sikkim Himalaya, along with others of
Remusatia vivipara, Thomsonia nepalensis, and Arisema
speciosum.

Mr. Lynch writes that he has a number of healthy small
plants growing from daughter-tubers produced by the
mother-tuber, which perished after flowering. He adds:
“The formation of a number of small tubers upon the
crown of the old one appears to be characteristic of the
species, for even the tubers of the young plants, only
three-eighths of an inch across, have already a conspicuous
ring of tiny buds.”

Descr.—Tuber small, oblately spherical, giving off
coetaneously sub-sessile spathes, and a few long-petioled,
pedatipartite leaves, and from the crown innumerable
tubercles by which the species is propagated, as well as by —
seed. Petiole four to fifteen inches long, erect, cylindric,
rose-coloured, unspotted ; segments of limb five to nine,
four to six inches long, narrowly linear-lanceolate, caudate-
acuminate, bright green above, with a dark red costa.
Spathes very shortly peduncled ; peduncles hy pogeeous ;
tuke an inch and a half long, ampullaform, quite entire,
pale yellowish green, faintly spotted with rose, globose
below, an inch in diameter, then narrowed into a short,
cylindric tube split at the throat and passing into the
long, narrow, convolute, twisted, acuminate, arching limb,
four to six inches long, of a pale greyish or rosy colour,
bright red at the base and inside the throat. Spadi«
_ as long as the spathe, slender; flowering part about an

inch and a half long, enclosed in the inflated portion of
the spathe, terminated by a very slender, terete, smooth,
ascending appendix, which is rose-coloured towards the
base, and orange-yellow above it to the obtuse tip.
Ovaries crowded in an oblong mass at the base of the
spadix, minutely ovoid, green. Anthers in a cylindric

mass at the top of the flowering portion, very minute,
2-celled, the lower reduced to papillee on the neuter space
between the anthers and ovaries, which bears a few
stipitate, clavate, neuter organs.—./, D, H,

Fig. 1, base of tube of spathe laid open, inflorescence and peduncle; 2, male
part of the inflorescence; 3, anther; 4, ovary; 5, the same bisected, showing
the ovules :—all enlarged.

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MELALEUCA vuncrnata.

Native of Temperate Australia.

Nat. Ord. Myrrace#.—Tribe LeprosrperME2.

Genus Metateuca, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 705.)

Metatevca (Capitate) uncinata; frutex erectus ramis gracilibus, ramulis
junioribus sericeo-pubescentibus, foliis sparsis 1-4-poll. iongis sessilibus
fere filiformibus teretiusculis pallide viridibus apicibus subulatis recurvis
rarius obtusis brunneis, floribus minutis in capitula parva axillaria sessilia
globosa densissime congestis, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis } poll.
longis caducis, bracteolis late oblongis, calycis hemispherici tubo vix
zz poll. longo sinuato-5-dentato, petalis orbicularibus parvis staminibus
crescentibus disjunctis et provectis, staminum phalangis ad } poll. longis,
filamentis 5-7, ovario hirsuto superiore, stylo gracili flexuoso basi in- ©
crassato, capitulis fructiferis ad } poll. diam. globosis, capsulis compactis
angulatis truncatis. r

M. uncinata, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. iv. p. 414. DC. Prodr. vol. iii.
p- 218. Schau. in Lehm. Pl. Preiss. vol. i. p. 138. Benth, Fl, Austral,
vol. iii. p. 150. Bail. Queensland FV. p. 602.

M. hamata, Field. & Gard. Sert. Pl. t. 74.
M. Drummondii, Schaw. l. c. 138.
M. semiteres, Schau. l. c. p. 143.

Of the large Australian genus Melaleuca, numbering
ninety-seven species in Bentham’s ‘‘ Flora Australiensis ”
(since increased to upwards of a hundred), M. wneinata is
one of the only three which inhabit both Hastern and
Western Australia. It has indeed a wider distribution
within Australia than any of its congeners, namely, New
South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Western
Australia, advancing northward in the latter colony to the
Murchison River, and in New South Wales to the Lachlan
River, but apparently does not cross the Blue Mountains
to the eastward. It has also been collected in Queensland
by Mueller, according to Bailey’s ‘ Queensland Flora,” and
in King’s Island, Bass Strait, but notin Tasmania. It seems
natural to attribute this most remarkably wide dispersion
for an Australian shrub to the hooked tips of the leaves. |
The genus is all but confined to Australia, and nearly two-
thirds of the species are restricted to Western Australia.
One of the few tropical species, M. Leucadendron, Linn.,

Feprvary Ist, 1904.

is found in the Malayan Archipelago, and as far North-
west as Southern Burma. It is also cultivated in India,
and yields the Cajuput oil of commerce.

The plant figured was raised from seed taken from
herbarium specimens in 1896, collected by the Elder
Exploration Expedition (1891-2) from South Australia
through the Victoria Desert into Western Australia. It
flowered in the Temperate House in April, 1902. There
are many ornamental species of Melaleuca, though few are
so brilliant as those of the allied genera Callistemon and
Calothamnus. Only five have previously been figured in
the Magazine, the last being M. Wilsoni (t. 6131). The
history of the cultivation of the genus at Kew is singular.
In 1789 there was only one species in the garden (Aiton,
Hortus Kewensis), By 1812 (Hortus Kewensis, ed. 2) the
number had increased to twenty-four. In 1850, as Mr.
Watson informs me, there were only five species, and now
there are thirty.

M. uncinata was first raised at Kew in 1803, from seed
sent home by Peter Good, who accompanied Robert Brown
on Flinders’s voyage, and died at Sydney, N.S. Wales, in
1803. It is noteworthy in the genus for having a free or
superior ovary.

Descr.—A dwarf, erect shrub, with slender branches,
silky-pubescent when young. Jeaves scattered, one to
four inches long, sessile, terete, very slender, pale green,
_ tips hard, sharp, recurved. Flowers minute, pale yellow,
clustered in small, axillary, sessile, dense, globose heads.
Bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, a quarter of an inch
long, caducous. Bracteoles broadly oblong, villous. Calyx
hemispherical; tube minute; limb of five very short,
rounded lobes. Petals very small, nearly orbicular, cilio-
late, carried up and thrown off by the unfolding stamens.
Stamens in five bundles of five to seven each; filaments
free to below the middle. Ovary hairy, free; style slender,

era Capsules densely clustered, long, persistent.—

Fig. 1, tip of leaf; 2, bracteole ; 3, expanding flower, the petals on the top
of the unfolding stamens; 4, portion of flower laid open; 5, petal; 6, pistil;

7, portion of branch and head of fruit; 8, tube of calyx :—all but fig. 7
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OLDENBURGIA arsuscuna.
Native of South Africa,

Nat. Ord. Composira,—Tribe MurTisiacex.
Genus OLpenbureia, Less. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 494.)

OLvENBURGIA Arbuscula; frutex robustissimus, arborifurmis, usque ad 6 ped.
altus, caule simplici usque ad 6 poll. crasso, foliis confertis subsessilibus
patentibus crasse coriaceis rigidissimis obovatis vel oblongis 9-18 -poll.
longis 4-9 poll. latis integris basi cuneatis apice rotundatis junioribus
densissime albo-lanatis supra cito glabrescentibus nitidisque venis
primariis numerosis costiformibus, ramo florifero (interdum 2) subter-
minali crasso rigidissimo densissime lanato 1-5- sepius 3-cephalo erecto
folia superante foliis compluribus parvis oblongis, breviter petiolatis acutis
munito post fructescentiam deciduo, pedunculis brevibus etiam foliiferis,
eapitulis amplis albo-purpureis, involucri bracteis numerosissimis multi-
seriatis linearibus acutissimis rigidis basi dense albo-lanatis cetera glabris
purpureis, florum alborum exteriorum corollis distincte bilabiatis labio
exteriore 3-lobato labio interiore emarginato, interiorum corollis bipartitis
segmentis revolutis, acheniis gracilibus circiter semipollicaribus striatis
glabris, pappi setis numerosis uniseriatis quam staminibus exsertis
brevioribus brevissime plumosis. ;

O. Arbuseula, DC. Prodr. vol. vii. pp. 12 e¢ 306; Mém. Comp. t.12. Harv. et
Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. iii. p. 512, excl. synon. North Gallery, Kew, pict. 403
et aT W. Wats. in Gard. Chron. vol. ii. 1908, p. 178, e¢ vol. i. 1904,
p. 9, £. 4. :

O. grandis, Baill. Hist. Pl. vol. viii. p. 97, in nota, excl, synon.

Oldenburgia is a genus of three known species, all native
of South Africa, and comparatively local, inhabiting the
mountains from Swellendam to Albany. It was named in
memory of 8. Oldenburg, a Dutchman, who accompanied
F. Masson on his first journey collecting for Kew in
1772-3. O. paradowa, Less.,.on which the genus was
founded in 1830 (Linnea, vol. v. p. 252), is an almost
stemless shrub, with a thick, woody rootstock. It has
smaller flower-heads than O. Arbuscula, and they are at
first nestled close to the clustered leaves, but as the heads
mature the peduncle elongates a foot or more, according
to a note accompanying a specimen collected by Prof.
MacOwan. Elongation of a fruit-bearing branch or stalk
18 not an uncommon occurrence, but such a very great
prolongation is rare. One of the most remarkable in-
Stances of this phenomenon is exhibited by a slender,

Manrcu Ist, 1904,

saprophytic orchid (Didymoplevis pallens), which in the
flowering-stage is only about six inches high, but as the
capsules ripen the pedicels elongate until they are often as
long or longer than the whole plant was when in flower.
In this case it would probably facilitate the dispersal of
the seed.*

The third species of Oldenburgia, O. Papionum, DC.,
is figured in Hooker’s “ Icones Plantarum,” t. 1723.

The plant figured here was raised from seed collected
and brought home from South Africa, in 1887, by Mr. W.
Watson, the Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,
when he returned happily restored to health, which was
the main object of his visit. As may be imagined, it has
ever since been one of his pets, and it was a great
les when the first flowers appeared in September
ast.

O. Arbuscula inhabits the mountains of Uitenhage and
Albany, and it is a specially striking feature in the vegeta-
tion of the mountain sides and tops near Grahamstown,
where it ascends to an altitude of 2,000 feet.

_ Harvey and Sonder, in their work cited above, describe
O. Arbuscula as a shrub or small tree, twelve to fifteen
feet high, with a trunk one foot and a half in circum-
ference, but all the collectors’ notes that we have seen give
no dimensions to equal these. Burchell, who was a most
careful observer, describes it as “ arbor nana, 2—4-pedalis,
truncus 2-6 pollices crassus;” therefore it should pro-
bably have been two to five feet, though Mr. Watson has
pee impression that it sometimes attains a height of six

eet.

The Kew plant is still unbranched, and it has taken six-
teen years to reach a height of about three feet. We have
found no previous record of the species having flowered in
Kurope. But it was in cultivation at Kew as long ago as
1873—how much longer is uncertain, because we have
not been able to trace the history of any previous
introduction,

It is not probable that Oldenburgia Arbuscula will ever
become familiar in our gardens; but it is a remarkable

i Si Journal of the Linnwan Society, “ Botany,” vol. xx. (1883), p. 308,

t. 28.

plant, even in the Tribe Mutisiacez, which includes many
singular and beautiful forms. Kreupel-boom, meaaing
dwarf tree, is the Dutch name. The finest dried specimen
we have seen is in the British Museum, and was collected
_ by Francis Masson.

Descr.—A very robust, tree-like shrub, three to six feet
high. Stem simple, four to six. inches thick. Leaves
crowded, nearly sessile, spreading, very thick, coriaceous
and stiff, obovate or oblong, six to eighteen inches long,
and three to eight inches broad, entire, cuneate at the
base, rounded at the top, younger ones covered with a
dense white wool, upper surface soon becoming smooth
and shining; primary veins numerous, prominent, and
rib-like. Hlowering-branch (sometimes there are two) or
common peduncle, sub-terminal, thick, rigid, densely
woolly, erect, bearing one to five, but usually three heads
of flowers, and, as well as the peduncles proper, a
number of small, oblong, shortly-stalked, acute leaves,
deciduous after fruiting. Flower-heads large purple and
white. Involucral bracts very numerous, in many series,
linear and tapering into very fine points, hard, tough,
clothed with a dense white wool at the base, thence
glabrous and purple. Flowers white; corolla of the outer
ones distinctly two-lipped, with the outer lip three-lobed,
inner lip notched; corolla of the inner flowers bipartite,
segments rolled up outwardly. Achenes very slender,
cylindric, about half an inch long, striate, glabrous ;
pappus-bristles numerous, uniseriate, shorter than the
exserted stamens, very shortly plumose.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, an outer flower; 2, a bristle of the pappus; 3, an anther; 4, upper
part of style and stigma from the same; 5, an inner flower; 6, anther;
7, upper part of style and stigma, from the same:—al/ enlarged; 8, plant
about 3 of natural size.

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TANAKASA RADICANS.
Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. SaxirraGacEa#.—Tribe SaxIFRAGER.

Genus Tanaka, Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl, Jap. vol. ii. p. 852.

TaNak&A radicans; herba dioica, vel fortasse interdum monoica, exigua,
modesta, scaposa, stolonifera, stolonibus gracilibus foliiferis radicantibus,
foliis longe petiolatis crassis subcarnosis demum coriaceis cum petiolo 4-8
poll. longis oblongo-lanceolatis vel ovato-lanceolatis basi rotundatis vel
subcordatis apice acutis, utringue parce setulosis demum glabrescenti-
bus subduplicato-serratis, scapis gracillimis pyramidatim ramosis 6-7
poll. altis parce minuteque setulosis, bracteis primariis linearibus acatis

3-8 lin. longis, floribus minimis breviter pedicellatis, bracteis calycem
zquantibus, sepalis 5 oblongo-lanceolatis circiter } lin. longis fere liberis,
petalis nullis, H. ¢ staminibus 10 alternis brevioribus filamentis filiformi-
bus sepala dimidio excedentibus, antheris unilocularibus, gynecei
rudimento minato, fl. ? staminibus rudimentariis nullis, ovario glabro
fere omnivo libero 2-loculare, stylis 2 divergentibus, ovulis numerosis,
capsula ignota.

T. radicans, Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. i. (1875) p. 144 (ubi nomen
tantum et sphalmate Tanakea), ef op. cit. vol. ii. p. 352 (wbi descriptio et
nomen emendatum), Honzo Zufu, vol. xxxvi. t. 23. Somoku Zusetsu,
vol. vill. t. 17 (18 (japonice). Kew Hand-list Herb. Pl. ed. 2, 1902,
p. 1127. Engler & Prantl Natiirl. Pflanzenf. vol. iii. 2, A. pp. 48 et 49,
Hemsl. in The Garden, vol. Ixiii. (1908). p. 3384. Gard. Chron, 1903,
vol. i. p. 269 (ervore Janckea) et p. 288.

Tanakea is a monotypic genus confined to Japan in a
wild. state, so far as our present knowledge goes; but
exact localities are not given in the works cited. It was
named after Yoshio Tanaka, a Japanese botanist and a
member of the House of Peers.

Our figure was prepared from a plant exhibited by
R. H. Beamish, Esq., Ashbourne, Glounthaune, Cork,
Treland, at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society,
where it was awarded a Botanical Certificate. When I
wrote the article in “The Garden,” referred to above.
I was under the impression that it was not at Kew in a
hving state; but, as Mr. W. Irving, the Foreman of the
Herbaceous Department, has informed me, a plant was
presented to Kew by Mr. W. H. Stansfield, Nurseryman

Marcu Ist, 1904,

of Southport, Lancashire, in 1899. It is still alive, and
apparently healthy, although it is not very big; and it
produced a very small inflorescence in 1900. Since then
it has not flowered.

Tanakea radicans is not one of those plants with a
probable future in gardens, but it is highly interesting
from a botanical standpoint. The individual plants bear
only unisexual flowers, and the one depicted bore only
female flowers; the inflorescence having the appearance of
a miniature Astilbe japonica. The figure in the ‘‘ Honzo
Zufu” represents a male plant, having runners like those
of the strawberry plant. The figure in the “ Zomoku
Zusetsu”’ is of a female plant with an enlarged male
flower by its side, which is reproduced in our plate.

Franchet and Savatier, in the place cited above, give no
locality for Tanakea, and the only specimen in the Kew
Herbarium is from the Science College, Imperial Univer-
sity of Japan. It is labelled ‘“* Mt. Amagi, Prov. Idn.”
I have not been able to fix this locality, and the
transliteration may not be correct.

The genus. Tanakea is most nearly related to Leptar-
rhena pyrelifolia, R. By., a native of North America and
Kamtschatka, which it strongly resembles in foliage, but it
differs essentially in floral structure.

Descr.—A lowly, dicecious, or perhaps sometimes monce-
cious, scapose herb, producing runners similar to those of
the strawberry-plant. Runners very slender. Leaves
petiolate, thick, almost fleshy, at. length coriaceous, in-
cluding the petiole four to eight inches long; blade
oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, rounded or some-
what cordate at the base, acute, sparingly setulose
on both surfaces, doubly serrulate. Scapes exceedingly
slender, branched, pyramidal, six or seven inches high.
Bracts at the base of the branches linear, acute, one and a
half to three lines long. Flowers exceedingly small,
greenish white, shortly stalked, solitary in the axils of
bracts of about the same length as the calyx. Sepals five,
almost free, oblong-lanceolate, about a quarter of a line
long. Petals none. Male flowers: stamens ten, alternate
ones shorter; filaments filiform, twice as long as the
sepals ; “ anthers one-celled ;”” rudimentary ovary minute.

Female flowers : rudimentary stamens none; ovary glabrous,
almost entirely free, two-celled; styles two, divergent;
ovules numerous. WSeed-vessel unknown.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, a male flower, copied from the “ Zomoku Zusetsu ;” 2, rudimentary
gyneceum, from the same source; 3, branch of a female inflorescence; 4, a
female with some of the sepals removed; 5, vertical section of the ovary :—
all enlarged. . :

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Tas. 7944:
KIRENGESHOMA PALMATA,
Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. SaxirraGace”.—Tribe HYDRANGEA.

Genus Kirencrsuoma, Yatabe, Bot. Mag. Tokyo Bot. Soc. vol. v. p. 1.

KrRENGEsHOMA palmata; herba perennis, compacta, in horto kewensi culta
circiter 2-pedalis, in sylvis indigenis 3-4-pedalis, caulibus graciliusculis
glabris purpureis, foliis papyraceis preter superiora petiolatis cordato-
rotundatis palmatilobatis utrinque pilis brevibus rigidis appressis in-
structis caulinis szepius oppositis inferioribus 7-10-lobatis interdum 6-7 ©
poll. diametro petiolis 9-10 poll. longis sursum gradatim minoribus
supremis sessilibus lanceolatis omnium lobis acutis grosse dentatis,
pedunculis axillaribus terminalibusque sepissime trifloris folia super-
antibus, bracteis linearibus acutis 2-4 lin. longis, pedicellis calycibusque
puberulis, floribus luteis campanuliformibus 14-13 poll. diametro sub-
nutantibus, calyce hemispherico circiter 5-6 lin. diametro 5-dentato
dentibus subacutis, petalis 5 liberis crassiusculis fragilibus oblongo-
lanceolatis supra medium recurvis sinistrorsum contorto-imbricatis,
staminibus 15 triseriatis petalis basi adnatis seriei exterioris longioribus
quam petalis brevioribus, seriei interioris brevioribus, filamentis filiformi-
bus, antheris bilocularibus fissuris longitudinalibus dehiscentibus,
ovario semisupero glabro_ triloculari (vel interdum quadriloculari,
VYataée), loculis multiovulatis stylis glabris fere a basi liberis inclusis,
capsula loculicide dehiscente stylis persistentibus divaricatis coronata,
seminibus numerosis planis oblique alatis, embryone recto in albuminis
carnosi axe, cotyledonibus ovatis radiculam teretem equantibus.

K. palmata, Vatabe in Bot. Mag. Tokyo Bot. Soc. vol. v. (1€90), no. 46, p. 1,
t. 18; Ieonogr. Fl, Jap. vol. i. (1891), p. 5, t. 2 (icon et descriptio Tok. Bot.
Mag. ibi iterata). W. Wats. in Gard, Chron. vol. ii. 1903, p. 187. W.
Irv. in The Garden, vol. ii. 1903, p. 245, eum figura plants kewensis in
situ. Engl. in Engler & Prantl Natirl. Pflanzenf. Nachtr. p. 180.

Kirengeshoma is, we believe, the first genus founded by
a Japanese Botanist that has been figured in this Maga-
zine; and it may be news to some of our readers that
botanical work has been conducted in Japan for some
years past on the same lines as in western countries,
Most branches, too, have attained an equally high position.
Both descriptive and illustrative work is excellently done,
and descriptions of new plants are published in Latin or
in one of the leading European languages, as well as in —
Japanese.

This genus was first published in the “ Botanical
Magazine of Tokyo.” 'The name is compounded of the

Marcu Ist, 1904.

Japanese words: ki, yellow, and vengeshoma, the name of
Anemonopsis macrophylla, Sieb. & Zucc.; but it is de-
sirable that this example should not be followed. Similar
compounds in Huropean languages are generally regarded
as inadmissible; but Dr. Yatabe had a precedent, though
not a parallel, in Aucuba, a Japanese name adopted by a
Kuropean botanist.

Dr, R. Yatabe discovered this plant in flower, in 1888, in
Open woods, at an elevation of over 5,000 feet, on Mount
Ishizuchi, in the province of Iyo, and in 1890 Mr. E.
Yoshinaga sent him seeds from the same locality. As we
learn from Mr. Watson’s note in the ‘Gardeners’
Chronicle,’ Dr. Yatabe sent seeds to Kew in 1891, from
which, however, only one plant was raised. ‘ This,” he
adds, ‘has been grown for ten years or so in a rather
moist, sunny situation in the rock-garden, and it has now
and then made an attempt to flower, but from some cause
or other it has never revealed its true character until this
year. Probably the excessive wet and other peculiarities
of weather may have suited. At any rate it has made
strong stems two feet high.” It flowered freely in Sep-
tember and October, though some of the flowers fell before
attaining full expansion, and it is certainly a very distinct
and attractive plant. But it evidently has not yet found
the most favourable conditions at Kew, as it grows three
to four feet high in its native woods. The reduced figure
in “‘ The Garden” gives a good idea of its habit.

It is a noteworthy event the figuring of two mono-
typic genera of the same natural order, from the same
country, in the same number of the Magazine. And
it emphasizes the richness of the Japanese flora as com-
pared with the British flora.

Descr.—A compact, perennial herb, about two feet high,
as grown at Kew. Stems slender, glabrous, purple.
Leaves papery, except the uppermost stalked, rotundate-
cordate, palmately lobed, beset with rigid, appressed hairs
on both surfaces, cauline mostly opposite, lower ones seven-
to ten-lobed, sometimes six to seven inches in diameter,
with petioles nine to ten inches long, smaller upwards,
uppermost sessile, lanceolate; lobes of all acute, coarsely
toothed. Peduneles axillary and terminal, usually three-
flowered, overtopping the leaves. Bracts linear, acute,

two to four lines long. Pedicels and calyx puberulous.
Flowers yellow, campanulate, one and a half to one and
three quarters of an inch in diameter, more or less nodding.
Calye hemispherical, about five or six lines in diameter,
five-toothed. Petals five, free, thick, brittle, oblong-
lanceolate, recurved above the middle, contorted in zstiva-
tion, overlapping to the left. Stamens fifteen, in three
series ; outer series longest, shorter than the petals ; inner
series shortest; filaments filiform; anthers two-celled,
dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary half-superior, three-
celled (or sometimes four-celled, Yatabe), glabrous; cells
many-ovuled; styles glabrous, filiform, free to the base,
included. Capsule dehiscing loculicidally, crowned by
the persistent, spreading styles. Seeds numerous, flat,
obliquely winged; embryo straight in the axis of the
fleshy albumen; cotyledons ovate, about as long as the
terete radicle.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, gynzeceum and part of calyx; 2, a petal and adherent stamens;
3 and 4, anthers; 5, cross-section of ovary; 6, vertical section of the same :—
all enlarged.

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SOLANUM Gtavcopnyiium,
Native of South Brazil and Uruguay.

Nat. Ord. Souanacex.—Tribe Sonanea.
Genus Sotanvy, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 888.)

Sotanum glaucophyllum ; frutex erectus, pluricanlis, usque ad 6 ped. altus,
fere omnino glaber, caulibus rectis subsimplicibus glaucis, ramulis fracti-
feris demum rubescentibus, internodiis quam foliis multoties brevioribus,
foliis deciduis petiolatis crassiusculis glaucis lineari-lanceolatis szpins
cum petiolo 4-8 poll. longis utrinque attenuatis acutis venis immersis
inconspicuis, floribus roseo-purpureis circiter 1 poll. diametro in eymas
laterales laxas 5-6 poll. latas dispositis, bracteis minutis cito deciduis,
pedicellis graciliusculis curvatis, calycis parvi lobis rotundatis apiculatis
ciliolatis, corolle subcampanulate lobis ovatis apiculatis incurvis extus
leviter puberulis, antheris aurantiacis pulverulentis, ovario glabro, stylo
what sequante, fructa oblongo-ovoideo 9-10 lin. longo purpureo-
violaceo.

&. glaucophyllum, Desf: Cat. Hort. Par. ed. 3 (1829), p. 396.

8. glaucum, Dun. in DC. Prodr. vol. xiii. (1852), pars1, p. 100. Bertol. Mise
Bot. vol. xii. p. 46. Belg. Hortic. vol. iii. (1853), p. 165, eum fig. color.
Betifreund, Fl. Argent. vol. iii. t. 152.

8. glaucophyllum et 8S. glaucum, hortulanorum, fide Dun, in DQ. Prod. loc.
cit.

Solanum glaucophyllum was cultivated in Paris three-
quarters of a century ago, and it was described, though
not very fully, by Desfontaines, in the publication referred
to above. Dunal, when preparing his monograph for the
** Prodromus,” seems to have been unaware that a descrip-
tion of the plant had appeared, and chose the shorter of
two names then current in gardens.

A year later Prof. Ch. Morren figured and described it
_In the “ Belgique Horticole,” where he attributes its intro-
duction, in 1833, to the botanist Gaudichaud; but most
probably it was originally introduced by Auguste de Saint-
Hilaire, who travelled in South America between 1816 and
1821, and was apparently the first to discover this species.
The only wild specimen in the Kew Herbarium is of his
collecting, and from Uruguay. It is also recorded from
South Brazil and the Argentine Republic.

It is singular that such a very attractive Solanum should
have scarcely become known outside of botanic gardens

Marcu Isr, 1904.

during the long period it has been cultivated. Morren
describes it as one of the most beautiful and most elegant
species of this large genus, ‘‘ which may be cultivated in
the open air.’ He probably meant during the warmer
months, though he adds that it is an ornament in our
gardens throughout the whole year. It certainly looks
like a plant that would repay careful cultivation, Another
species, which has proved an excellent roof-climber for
the conservatory or greenhouse, is 8S. Wendlandi, Hook. f.
(B. M. t. 6,914) and deserves mention here.

The history of the plant figured is unknown, but
the species has been in cultivation at Kew for many
years, and it flowers and fruits annually in the Temperate
House.

Descr.—An erect, almost wholly glabrous shrub. Stems
_ numerous, straight, usually almost unbranched, glaucous;
fruiting branches tinged with red. Internodes many times
shorter than the leaves. Leaves deciduous, petiolate,
rather thick, glaucous, linear-lanceolate, usually four to
eight inches long, tapering to both ends; venation im-
mersed and inconspicuous. Flowers rose-purple, with
orange-yellow anthers, about an inch in diameter, arranged
in loose, lateral cymes, five to six inches across. Bracts
very small, and early deciduous. Pedicels rather slender,
curved. Calyz small; lobes rounded, apiculate, ciliolate.
Corolla broadly campanulate; lobes ovate, apiculate, in-
curved, very slightly hairy on the outside. Anthers
pulverulent. Ovary glabrous; style not exceeding the
stamens. Fruit oblong-ovoid, about three-quarters of an
inch long, purple-violet. Seeds flattened, kidney-shaped,

rhe Fe : quarter of an inch long, finely reticulated.—

Fig. 1, calyx and gynaceum; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, ovary and disk;
5, fruiting-branch; 6 and 7, seed :—all except 5 and 6 enlarged. :

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MEGACLINIUM PLATYRHACHIS,
Native of British Central Africa.

Nat. Ord. Orncurpacea.—Tribe EprpenpRE”.
Genus Meeacuinium, Lindl. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 508.)

Meeac.inium platyrhachis; inter species hucusque cognitis rhachis amplitu-
dine insignis; rhizomate crasso lignoso, pseudobulbis sparsis oblongo-
ovoideis acute 5-vel 6-angulatis 2-3 poll. longis bifoliatis, basi squamis
paucis dimidio brevioribus instructis, foliis crassis oblongis obtusis 5-6
poll. longis eveniis, scapis basilaribus solitariis, pedunculo tereti
circiter semi-pedali erecto bracteis vel squamis paucis ocreiformibus
oblique truncatis ornato, rhachi luteo-viridi albo-brunneo-punctulata
valde complanata loriformi (medio incrassata utrinque alata) undulata
crenulata utrinque secus medium florifera per anthesin gradatim evo-
luta perfecta circiter 1 ped. longa et medio 1% poll. lata plus minnsve
tortili apice acuminata basi attenuata, bracteis triangularibus acutis
circiter 3 lin. longis et inter se 4 lin. distantibus primum supra flores
arcte appressis deinde arcte retrofiexis, floribus in rhache utrinque
uniseriatis numerosis luteo-viridibus punctis brnnneo-purpureis conspersis
circiter 6 lin. diametro in bractearum axillis solitariis subsessilibus
a basi versus apicem ordinatim evolutis retroflexis ad rhachem respicien-
tibus, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acutis dorsali longiore, petalis sepalis
similibus sed minoribus, labello cum pede column articulato crasso
carnoso linguiformi recurvo margine infra medium minute papilloso-
fimbrillato lobis lateralibus parvis, columna brevi basi lata biauriculata.

M. platyrhachis, Rolfe in Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 43; Orch. Rev. vol. xi.
(1903), p. 284.

Lindley founded the genus Megaclinium on M. falcatum
in 1826 (Bot. Reg. t. 989). This was sent from Sierra
Leone to the Horticultural Society of London by George
Don, in 1822, and it was some years before a second
species became known. Now already twenty-five species
are on record from tropical Africa, two or three from
extratropical 8. Africa, and one has been reported from
Madagascar. In floral structure Megaclinium offers no
constant difference from Bulbophyllum, but the dorsal
sepal is usually longer than the lateral ones, and the
genus is always easily recognized by the flattened axis of
the inflorescence, which suggested the generic name. It
is a remarkable fact that the flowers face the rhachis, in
other words, open towards it in a downward direction.

The other species figured in the Magazine are M. mazi-
mum, Lindl., in part (t. 4028) = M. Lindleyi, Rolfe;

Marcu Ist, 1904.

M. purpuratum, Lindl. (t. 5936) = M. mazimum, Lindl.,
on the authority of Mr. Rolfe; and M. minutum, Rolfe
(t. 7314), the smallest of the genus. WM. platyrhachis is
the largest, though perhaps not the most attractive species.

The plant figured was received at Kew from Zomba,
British Central Africa, in 1899. It begins to flower in
July, and the same inflorescence, Mr. Watson states, goes
on flowering for three months.

Descr.—Readily distinguished by the large size of the
flattened axis of the inflorescence. Rhizome thick, woody.
Bulbs produced at intervals, oblong-ovoid, acutely 5- or
6-angled, two to three inches long, two-leaved, invested to
the middle by large, brown, acute scales. Leaves thick,
oblong, obtuse, five to six inches long; veins immersed,
inconspicuous. Scapes from below the bulbs, solitary ;
peduncle terete, erect, about six inches long, furnished
with a few closely sheathing, obliquely truncate bracts ;_
rhachis greenish-yellow, spotted with white and brown,
finally changing to a red-brown, very much flattened, strap-_
shaped, undulate, crenulate, lengthening during the flower-
ing period, bearing flowers in one row on each side, fully
developed about a foot long, and an inch and a half broad
in the middle, more or less twisted, acuminate, tapering to
the base. Bracts triangular, acute, about three lines long
and about four lines apart, at first closely covering the
flower-buds, then closely recurved on to the rhachis.
Flowers numerous, yellowish green, about half an inch in
diameter, thickly spotted with purple brown, in lines along
the lateral sepals, about half an inch in diameter, solitary and
nearly sessile in the axils of the bracts, opening successively
from the base of the rhachis upwards, strongly reflexed
and facing the rhachis in a downward direction. Sepals
ovate-lanceolate, acute, dorsal longer than the lateral.
Petals similar to the sepals, but smaller. Labellum hinged
to the foot of the column, thick, fleshy, tongue-shaped,
recurved, margin minutely papillose or fringed below the —
middle; lateral lobes very small. Column short, broad

at the base, two-winged or auricled at the sides.—
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ARUNDINARIA Fatoonzrt.
Native of the Temperate Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Gramine®.—Tribe BaMBUsE®.
Genus ArunpInaRIA, Mich.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 1207.)

ARUNDINARIA Falconeri ; culmis perennibus gracilibus ad 30 ped. altis olivaceo-
viridibus versus internodioram basin plerumque purpurascentibus.
foliis imperfectis vaginis apice breviter attenuatis in marginibus convexis
minute ciliolatis glabris vel primo pilosis intus supra medium venis
transversis prominulis notatis purpurascentibus ligulis brevissimis trun-
catis laminis parvis angustis, foliis perfectis vaginis angustis arctis ligulis
brevibus rotundato-trancatis laminis lanceolatis acuminatis 23-3 poll.
longis 3-4 poll. latis lete viridibus glaberrimis dense tenuiterque striatis
venis transversis vix uillis, inflorescentiis in culmis foliis destitutis pani-
culato-fasciculatis, spiculis in racemos basi bracteis saffultos secundum
ramulos solitarios vel fasciculatos collectis unifloris 1 poll. longis,
rhachilla in setam producta, glumis subsequalibus inferiore 1-3-nervi,
superiore plerumque 5-nervi spicule dimidinm magis minusve equantibus,
valva (gluma flurente) prominenter 7- vel sub-9-nervi superne ciliata,
palea valvam zquante vel superante superne in carinis ciliata prominenter
nervosa, antheris purpureis.

A. Falconeri, Gamble in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. vol. vii. p. 20.

A. falcata, Riviere in Bull. Soc. d’Acclim, 3me sér. vol. v. (1878) p. 791-797,
fig. 60-62, non Nees. .

A. nobilis, Mitford, The Bamboo Garden, p. 178-180,
Thamnocalamus Falconeri, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xxvi. (1868) p. 34.

This Bamboo has been in cultivation in Hurope ever since
1847, when Ed. Madden, then a Captain in the Bengal
Artillery, and an enthusiastic explorer of the North-
western Himalaya, forwarded a quantity of seed to Sir
William Hooker. It was collected by him on the Upper
Pindari River, North-west Kumaon, in September, 1846,
and was supposed to be the seed of Arundinaria falcata,
Nees. Under this name it was soon introduced, mainly
throngh Van Houtte’s establishment at Ghent, into
the parks and gardens of western Europe, the Riviera
and Algeria, and into the greenhouses of the climatically
less favoured parts of Europe. It first flowered in Europe
in 1875-1877 ; 1876 being the year when its flowering was
almost universal, and when it flowered at Kew. In the
Himalaya it ranges from Kumaon to Sikkim at altitudes of
8000-10,000 feet, and it is perfectly hardy in the maritime
parts of western Europe, the Riviera and Algeria, forming

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tall clumps of great beauty. It seems to be monocarpic,
dying after seeding.

The specimen from which the drawing was made was
communicated by J. C. Hawkshaw, Esq., of Hollycombe,
Liphook, Hants, where five or six plants, all originally
taken from one, flowered last spring. The sheath or
‘“‘imperfect leaf,” however, was added from a specimen
at Kew, received as A. nobilis from Lord Redesdale.

A more complete account of the introduction of this
bamboo, and the characters distinguishing it from A. falcata,
Nees, with which it has long been confused, will be
published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Descv.—Perennial, monocarpic. Culms slender, tallest
thirty feet high, olive green, with a tinge of purple, par-
ticularly towards the base of the internodes, without any
waxy bloom. Imperfect leaves of the young culms more or
less purplish, shortly attenuated at the upper end with
convex, minutely ciliolate margins, otherwise glabrous, or
soon glabrescent; transverse nerves raised on the inner
side ; ligules short, truncate ; limb small, subulate. Perfect
leaves lanceolate, acuminate, bright green, glabrous,
usually edged with purple, contracted at the base into
a short purplish petiole ; ligule short, rounded or truncate,
purplish, Inflorescences on leafless culms, forming large,
loose, compound panicles, bearing solitary racemes or
clusters of racemes of spikelets on slender branches, each
raceme being supported by several bracts, and resembling
a 5-7-flowered spikelet. Spikelets about one inch long,
one-flowered, with a bristle-like production of the rhachilla,
bearing a rudimentary floret. Glwmes about half the
length of the spikelet, sub-equal, lower one- to three-,
upper usually five-nerved ; valve (flowering glume) oblong-
lanceolate, prominently seven- or nine-nerved, with ciliate
margins near the tip; pale as long as or longer than the
valve, with the keels ciliate near the tip, and a pair of
prominent nerves on each side between the keel and
margin. Anthers purple. Lodicules ciliate. Style filiform,
longer than the three plumose stigmas.—Otto Stapf.

Fig. 1, i :
shonth ofthe laf reprovouted is hp Uninet
4, partial inflorescence, consisting of six spikelets ; 5, spikelet; 6, upper glume;

7, lower glume; 8, valve; 9, palea; 10 2: - ; ae
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ALOE Baum. .
Native of South-west Africa,

Nat. Ord. Lintacez.—Tribe ALOINE.
Genus Ator, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 776.)

Aor Baumii; acaulis (fere acaulis Engl. et Gilg) foliis circiter 15-20 dense
rosulatis lanceolatis patentissimis 9-12 poll. longis basi 2-2 latis 5-6 lin.
crassis apice in plantis cultis cito plus minusve marcescentibus supra
planis maculis numerosis albidis oblongis longitudinalibus ornatis margine
regulariter dentatis dentibus e basi lata rigidissimis corneis pungentibus
fere rectis circiter 3 lin. longis inter se 4-6 lin. distantibus, scapo solitario
erecto graciliusculo 3-5-pedali supra medium laxe simpliciterque ramoso
ramis 3-10 erectis laxifloris, bracteis herbaceis albidis lanceolato-caudatis
sursum gradatim minoribus supremis pedicellis paullo longioribus, pedi-
cellis vix 3 lin. longis, floribus rubro-coccineis (flavido-rubescentibus
Engl. et Gilg.) 1-1} poll. longis pendulis, perianthii tubo supra ovarium
valde constricto lobis tubo brevioribus erectis (an semper ?) interioribus
latioribus omnibus subobtusis, staminibus styloque brevissime exsertis.

A. Baumii, Engler & Gilg, in Warburg (Baum’s) Kunene-Sambesi Exped.
pp. 186, e¢ 191-2, fig. 90.

We are indebted to Sir Thomas Hanbury for the oppor-
tunity of figuring this handsome dwarf Aloe. Excellent
specimens were sent to Kew by Mr. A. Berger, his
enthusiastic gardener, together with notes, and a photo-
graph of the plant, as growing in the beautiful gardens
of La Mortola. This was in November of last year, and
in the previous April specimens and a photograph of
another plant were received from the same source under
the name of A. hereroensis, Engl., of which also a drawing
was made. At Kew we are unable to distinguish them
specifically, but Mr. Berger maintains that they are
different, and states, amongst other things, that the seeds
are totally different. The seeds of A. hereroensis, he says,
are among the smallest of the genus, and quite wingless,
whereas those of 4A. Baumii are relatively large, and
prominently winged. We have no seeds for comparison ;
but Engler describes the perianth of his A. hereroensis as
“ perianthio supra ovarium haud constricto,” and it is very
decidedly constricted in the plant received under that
name. In both of the cultivated plants the tips of the
leaves are crippled and shrivelled; those of the plant

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named A. hereroensis, crippled much earlier, and the leaves
consequently very short. There is no crippling of the
leaves in the figures of the wild plants of either of the
species in question. :
Sir Thomas Hanbury obtained his plant from the Berlin
Botanic Garden, whither it was sent by Mr. Baum, the
discoverer, now Curator of the Botanic Garden at Rostock.
In the narrative of Mr. Baum’s journey, as cited above, it
is stated that this Aloe is extremely common, ranging from
the Shella mountains eastward to beyond the Kuito River
in Angola; that is between about 14° and 20° KH. long., and
about 16° to 18°S. lat. The plant photographed in the book
named was at Chirumba, on the Kubango River, growing
in sandy, gravelly soil, at an elevation of nearly 4,000 ft.
-The Kaffirs of Humbe, on the Kunene River, in the
west, make cakes of the flowers of Aloe Baumii. They
boil and press the flowers for this purpose ; but we are not
told whether Europeans relish the said cakes.
Descr.—Stemless or nearly so. Leaves from fifteen to
twenty, densely rosulate, lanceolate, spreading, nine to
twelve inches long, two to two and a half inches broad at
the base, nearly half an inch thick, more or less shrivelled —
at the tip in the cultivated plants, upper surface flat,
beset with whitish, oblong spots, margin regularly toothed; —
teeth almost straight from a broad base, very rigid, horny,
sharp, about a quarter of an inch long, a quarter to half
an inch apart. Scape solitary, erect, rather slender, three
to five feet high, loosely, simply branched above the
middle; branches three to ten, nearly erect; bracts her-
baceous, dirty white, lanceolate, long-pointed, gradually
smaller upwards, uppermost slightly exceeding the pedi-
cels, about a quarter of aninch long. \ Flowers loosely race-
mose, orange-red, one to one and a half inch long, pendulous.
Perianth conspicuously constricted above the ovary ; lobes
Shorter than the tube, erect, inner ones broader, all

ee obtuse. Stamens and style very shortly exserted.

Fig. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, gyneceum:—all enlarged: 4, whole plant, as
cultivated in Sir Thomas Hanbury’s garden :—about sae catacat an

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CROSSOSOMA CALLFORNIOCUM.
Native of Califorma.

Nat. Ord. DILLENIACEZ.

Genus Crossosoma, Meit.. ( Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. 1. p. 15.)

Crossosoma californicum; frutex 3-4-pedalis, tortuoso-ramosus, fere undique
glaber, pallide viridis, ramis graciliusculis, cortice amarissimo, internodiis
brevibus, foliis alternis brevissime petiolatis exstipulatis demum subcoria-
ceis oblongo-lanceolatis maximis 3} poll. longis 1 poll. latis integris basi
cuneatis apice obtusis costa excurrente apiculatis venis immersis inconspi-
cuis, floribus albis (antheris luteis) circiter 2 poll. diametro ramulis ter-
winantibus solitariis, pedunculis brevibus, sepalis 5 basi connatis tubum
hemisphzricum formantibus, limbi lobis orbicularibus concavis imbricatis
petalis multo brevioribus, petalis 5 perigyniis orbicularibus undulatis
breviter unguiculatis imbricatis, staminibus numerosis perigyniis 3-4-—
serlatis quam petalis multo brevioribus, filamentis brevissimis, antheris
Jongitudinaliter dehiscentibus, pistilli carpellis 3-6 basi in stipitem con-
natis cetera inter se liberis biseriatim multiovulatis, stylis brevissimis
stigmatibus capitatis, fructus folliculis 1-6 maturescentibus recurvis
maximis pollicaribus ventre dehiscentibus, seminibus numerosis reni-
formibus arillo longe fimbrillato-multifido vestitis, testa crustacea nigra
nitida, embryone clavato parvo leviter curvato in albumine juxta hilum
posito, radicula cotyledonibus paullo longiore.

C. californicum, Nutt. in Journ. Acad. Philad. n.s. vol. i. (1847), p. 150, t. 22.
Torr. U.S. Pacif. Railr. Rep. vol. iv. t. 1 (fig. 1 tantum). A. Gr. Synopt.
Fl. N. Am. vol. i. p. 57. Rev. Hort. 1902, p. 103. M. 7. M. in Gard.
Chron. 1908, vol. ii. p. 130, fig. 50. Lngler in Engl. & Prantl Natiirl.
Pflanzenf. Nachtr. vol. i. p. 185 (Crossosomatacez).

Crossosoma was founded by Nuttall on a specimen of
the present species collected by Dr. W. Gambel in the
Island of Santa Catalina, off the coast of California in
about 33° N. lat. Much finer specimens were subsequently
collected by Dr. E. Palmer and others in the far more
isolated Guadalupe Island, off the coast of Lower California,
in about 29° N. lat. A second species, CU. Biyelowit,
S. Wats., was published in 1876, having previously been
confused with C. californicum by Torrey, and figured as
such. It inhabits the mountains of the mainland of Cali-
fornia. A third species, CO. parviflora, Robins. & Fern., of
more recent discovery, is a native of Sonora, North-west
Mexico.

The floral structure of Crossosoma is somewhat anoma-

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lous, and Nuttall compared it with Pwxonia, adding that it
might be regarded as the type of a new group, which he
called the Crossosomeze. The late Dr. Asa Gray, writing
to Dr. (now Sir Joseph) Hooker in 1859, says: “I told
Torrey long ago I thought the plant was Dilleniaceous;
what do you say to it?” Bentham & Hooker placed it
doubtingly at the end of the Dilleniaceze. Engler (op. sup.
cit.) treats it as the type of a new natural order, which
he places between the Platanacew and Rosacex, laying
great stress on the perigynous position of the petals and
stamens.

For my own part I can find no better place for it than
the Dilleniacez. In habit and flowers C. californicum is
very much like some species of the Australian genus
Hibbertia; the follicular fruit is very similar to that of
Dillenia subsessilis, Gilg, as figured in Engler & Prantl’s
* Natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien,’’ vol. iii. 6, pi 107; 4256;
and the fringed aril of the seed has an almost exact counter-
part in Tetracera Assa, DC., figured in the same place.

Again, the small embryo and relatively copious endo-
sperm is a further bar to an alliance with the Rosacee.

Exceptional perigyny occurs in so many natural orders
that I attach less importance to it than the sum of the
other characters.

The specimen figured flowered in the garden of
W. Gumbleton, Esq., at Belgrove, near Cork, in August
of last year, and it is believed to be the first occasion of

~. this shrub flowering in Europe. What the future of this

plant may be in European gardens it is impossible to
predict, but it is likely to prove a difficult subject. It
should be placed in the driest, warmest and most open
situation possible out-of-doors, but it would probably
succeed better in a warm, rather dry conservatory.
Descr.—A dwarf, tortuously-branched shrub, three to
four feet high, glabrous in nearly all parts; bark and
leaves pale green. Branches slender; internodes short ;
bark very bitter. Leaves alternate, very shortly stalked,
exstipulate, at length coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, the
largest three inches and a half long by one inch broad,
entire, cuneate at the base, rounded at the tip with the
midrib running out into a fine point, veins immersed,
inconspicuous. flowers white (anthers yellow), about two

inches in diameter, solitary at the ends of the branches ;
peduncles short. Sepals five, connate at the base, forming
a hemispherical tube ; lobes of the limb orbicular, concave,
imbricate, very much shorter than the petals. Petals five,
perigynous, orbicular, wavy, shortly clawed, imbricate.
Stamens very numerous, perigynous, in three or four
series, much shorter than the petals; filaments very short ;
anthers dehiscing longitudinally. Pistil of three to six
carpels, connate at the base on a common stalk, otherwise
free ; styles very short ; stigmas capitate. rut follicular ;
follicles one to six, recurved, the largest about one inch
long, dehiscing by the inner or ventral suture. Seeds
numerous, in two rows, reniform, enveloped in a fringed
aril; testa crustaceous, black, shining. Hmbryo siall,
clavate, slightly curved, immersed in the albumen near the
hilum; radicle slightly longer than the cotyledons.—
Wo, A

Fig. 1, tricarpellary pistil with part of calyx-tube and base of stamens;
2 and 3, stamens; 4, fruit and persistent calyx ; 5, a seed enveloped in the aril;
6, the same divested of the aril :—all except 4 enlarged.

M.S. del JN-Fitch ith

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Tas. 7950.
CROTALARIA CAPENSIS.
Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Lecuminosea#.—Tribe GENISTEs.
Genus Crotararia, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 479.)

CROTALARIA capensis; frutex ramosus, sempervirens, 3-6-pedalis, cito glabres-
cens inter species africanas australes extratropicas stipularum obovata-
ram amplitndine insignis, ramis gracilibus sericeo-puberulis, internodiis
quam foliis multo brevioribus, foliis trifoliolatis graciliter longeque
petiolatis in speciminibus cultis cum petiolo usque ad 6 poll. longis sed
seepius precipue in speciminibus sylvestribus 14-2 poll. longis, foliolis
breviter petiolulatis papyraceis obovatis oblanceolatisve majoribus 2 poll.
longis basi cuneatis apice rotundatis simul apiculatis cito glabrescentibus,
petiolo sericeo-pubescenti, stipulis foliaceis foliolis similibus sed minori-
bus, racemis terminalibus folia superantibus circiter 7-15-floris, bracteis
linearibus acutissimis pedicello dimidio brevioribus, pedicellis circiter
semipollicaribus calyceque parce puberulis, floribus suaveolentibus luteis
striis rubescentibus variegatis diametro maximo circiter sesquipollicaribus,
calycis tubo amplo subgloboso (totoque mellis pleno, fide Jacquin), lobis
fere aqualibus ovato-lanceolatis acutis patentibus 3-4 lin. longis, vexillo
orbiculato apiculato reflexo circiter 1 poll. diametro, alis parvis oblique
ovatis, carinw falcatee longe rostrate petalis inferne liberis superne
connatis stamina et stylum includentibus, antheris omnibus basifixis,
ovario stipitato puberulo multiovulato, stylo geniculato unilateraliter
ciliato, legumine turgido pergameneo duro lwvi cum stipite circiter 24
poll. longo clavato supra medium crassiore apice breviter rostrato,
seminibus circiter 20 oblique reniformibus compressis circiter 2 lin. latis
nitidis longiascule funiculatis.

©. capensis, Jacq. Hort. Vindod. vol. iii. (1776-7), p. 36, t. 64. Harv. & Sond.
Fl. Cap. vol. ii. p. 46. Melliss, St. Helena, p.258, Wood, Natal Pl. vol. i.
92

le . *

C. arborescens, Lam. Encyel. vol..ii. p.199. DO. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 130. Nouv.
Duham, vol. iv. t.49. Rev. Hort. 1868, p. 11.

C. incanescens, Linn. f. Suppl. (1781) p. 328. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, vol. iii.
p. 20.

_ According to Aiton, this ornamental, free-flowering
shrub was introduced into Kew Gardens by Masson, in
1774; and N. J. Jacquin, who was the first to describe and
figure it (1776) states that it was raised from seed sent
from the Cape to Royen, without any information. Royen
gave the seed to Jacquin several years (* plures annos”’)
before the latter published his description, when it was
already a branching shrub ten feet high, ‘‘. . . maximam
partem anni floribus numerosis onustus.”’
Apri Ist, 1904,

In spite of its attractions this shrub does not appear to
have got into general cultivation in Europe; but it was
early introduced into the island of St. Helena and eastern
extra-tropical South America, where it has become
naturalized. There is a specimen in the Kew Herbarium
from the Montpellier Botanic Garden taken in 1821.

Crotalaria capensis, Jacq., inhabits the south-eastern
districts of Cape Colony, and extends northward to Natal.
It is most nearly related to C. Natalitia, Meisn., which has
distinctly angular branches and lanceolate stipules.

The plant figured is growing in the Temperate House at
Kew, where it flowers freely in the autumn. The pod
figured is from a wild specimen, collected in Fish River
Heights, Albany, in 1880, by H. Hutton. One of the
seeds taken from the pod began to germinate after being
a week in water.

Deser.—A branching, evergreen shrub, five to ten feet
high, but flowering when quite small, early glabrescent.
Branches slender, at first clothed with a silky tomentum ;
internodes usually much shorter than the leaves. Leaves
alternate, petiolate, trifoliolate, in cultivated specimens
sometimes as much as six inches long, usually smaller;
leaflets shortly petiolulate, thin, obovate or oblanceolate,
the largest two inches long, cuneate at the base, rounded
at the tip, apiculate, soon glabrous. Stipules similar to
the leaflets, but smaller. Racemes terminal, overtopping
the leaves, seven- to fifteen-flowered ; bracts linear, very
acute, about half as long as the pedicels; pedicels about
half an inch long, slightly puberulous as well as the calyx.
Plowers fragrant, yellow, striped with red-brown, about an
inch and a half in their greatest diameter. Calya-tube
almost globular (filled with honey, according to Jacquin) ;
lobes nearly equal, ovate-lanceolate, acute, spreading,
three to four lines long. Standard-petal orbicular, apicu-
late, reflexed, about an inch in diameter; wing-petals
relatively small, obliquely ovate; keel-petals strongly
curved, beaked, free at the base, connate above, enclosing
the stamens and style. Anthers all attached by the base,
Ovary stalked, puberulous; ovules numerous; style sud-
denly curved upwards, hairy along the upper edge. Pod
inflated, thin, hard, tough, glabrous, club-shaped, thicker

above the middle, shortly beaked at the tip, including the
stalk about two and a quarter inches long. Seeds about
twenty, distinctly stalked, obliquely kidney-shaped, about
two lines broad, dark brown, shining.—W,. B. H.

Fig. 1, portion of a branch; 2, calyx, stamens and pistil; 3, a wing-petal;
4, a keel-petal ; 5 and 6, anthers ; 7, pistil with the ovary laid open ; 8, a pod:
—all except 8 enlarged.

M. S. del JN-Fitch lith.

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Tas. 7951.
DIPODIUM picroum.
Native of Malaya.

Nat. Ord. Orncuipex.—tTribe Vanpea.
Genus Drroptum, R. Br.; (Benth. e¢ Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 539.)

DiropiuM pictum; herba perennis, caulescens, scandens, undiqnue glaberrima,
“ad arborum truncos septem pedes altior” foliis subcoriaceis crebre distichis
equitantibusque tricostatis cum nervis intermediis tenuioribus parte vagi-
nante persistente lamina lineari-lanceolata 6-12 poll. longa acuta ab vagina
truncatim disjuncta, inflorescentiis axillaribus folia superantibus simplici-
bus vel pauciramosis multifloris, pedunculo bracteis vel squamis paucis
parvis ovatis instructo, racemo (vel panicula) laxo, pedicellis cum ovario
circiter pollicaribus, floribus sanguineo-purpureo maculatis circiter
2 poll. diametro, sepalis petalisque similibus oblongo-obovatis lan-
ceolatisve obtusis 9-12 lin. longis, labello erecto ima basi columns adnato
sepalis gquilongo trilobo, lobis lateralibus parvis dentiformibus, lobo
intermedio amplo obovato apice rotundato bisin versus attenuato supra
basi apiceque et secus medium pilis longis crassis~ densissime vestito,
columna intus basi pilosa, polliniis 2 ovatis stileatis segregatim ope
caudicularum glandule magne affixis, caudiculis pone pollinia obtuse
breviterque productis. ae .

D. pictum, Reichb. f. Xenia Orch. vol.ii. pp, 15 et 20,%. 107. Hook. f. Fl. Brit.

_ Ind. vol, vi. p. 19. W. W. in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. ii. p. 209,

Wailesia picta, Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. vol. iv. (1849), p.261. Pawt. Mag.
Bot. vol. xvi. p. 321, ewm ic. col. ee

Wailesia rosea, Pazxt. errore Reichb. f. Xenia Orch, vol. ii. p 20. Nichols.
Dict. Gard. vol. iv. p. 191. ~ ES ees al 5:

Leopardanthus scandens, Blume, Rumphia, vol. iv. (1848), p. 47; Mus. Bot.

* Lugd.-Bat. vol. i. p. 47, fig. 15. ‘ ree 2

Grammatophyllum scandens, Griff. Notul. vol. iii. p. 845; Zc. Pl. Asiat. t. 324,

Hydranthus: scandens, Kuhl et Van Hasselt, ex Reichb. f. Xenia Orch. vol. ii.

p. 20

Hight years ago a figure of Dipodiwm paludosum, Reichb.
f., appeared in the Magazine (tab. 7464), and the peculiarities
of the genus were described, and its distribution given.
There are leafless and leafy species, as the genus is
defined in Bentham and Hooker’s ‘‘ Genera Plantarum ;”
and the leafy species are remarkable amongst orchids
having distichous, sessile leaves, for the disarticulation in
the blade between two and three inches above their in-
sertion. Herbarium specimens have the appearance of
the leaves being clipped off, with the exception of a few of
the upper ones. In living plants the position where
disarticulation will take place is easily seen, as the leaf is
of a darker green below than above the point.

Records are not very precise, but from the incomplete

Apri. Ist, 1904

notes of collectors, Dipodiwm pictum and D. paludosum
start in the ground, and grow up against the trunks of
trees; the former to a height of at least seven feet.
Whether in very open woods, or otherwise, we have not
been able to find out.

D. pictum was cultivated at Chatsworth by Paxton
forty-five years ago, and he states that it was attached toa
block of wood with a little sphagnum, and was suspended
in the Orchid House, where it grew rapidly, and flowered
in September and October. At Kew it is grown attached
to a stump, in a pot, and the plant from which the drawing
was made is now nearly two feet high. -

Brown does not explain why he chose the name Dipodiun,
literally, two-footed; but there is little doubt it had re-
ference to the two stalks of the pollinia, not to the
two small lateral lobes of the lip, as explained by some
writers,

Descr—A_ perennial, herbaceous plant. Stems weak,
attaching themselves to the trunks of trees, sometimes as
much as seven feet long. Leaves sheathing, closely dis-
tichous, equitant, lnear-lanceolate, six to twelve inches
long, acute, three-ribbed, with thinner, intermediate nerves,
sheathing part and about two inches above persistent, the
rest of the leaf disarticulating in a truncate manner.
Inflorescence axillary, simple or slightly branched, many-
flowered, eighteen inches to two feet long; peduncle about
as long as the flowering part, furnished with a few small,
seale-like bracts. Raceme or panicle loose; pedicels, in-
cluding ovary, about an inch long. Flowers coarsely
blotched with crimson on a pale ground, about two
inches in diameter. Sepals and petals similar, oblong-
obovate or lanceolate, obtuse, nine to twelve lines long.
Tip erect, adnate to the base of the column, as long as the
sepals, three-lobed ; lateral lobes very small and tooth-
like ; intermediate lobe large, obovate, rounded at the tip,
- narrowed towards the base, densely clothed with coarse
hairs on the upper surface at the base, in the terminal
half, and along the middle. Pollinia two, separately
stalked on the large gland; stalks shortly produced behind
above the point of attachment of the pollinia.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, lip and column; 2, li

detached ;. 3, ; :
5, pollinia :—all enlarged. . column separately 4 and

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EPIPREMNUM aicanreum.

Native of the Malayan Peninsula,

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Nat, Ord, AromEa,—Tribe CaLLEex.
Genus Erirremnum, Schott; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 993.)

EvivrEmMNuM giganteum; fratex glaber, robustus, in arborum truncis alte
scandens, caulibus pauciramosis crassis radices validas usque ad 100
ped. longas ad terram descendeutes emittentibus, foliis amplis crasse
coriaceis durissimis cum petolis 6-8-ped. longis 1}-2-ped. latis crebre
distichis cordato-oblongis acuminatis integris venis transversis numero-
sissimis, petiolo alato crasso apice geniculato laminam fere wquante
amplexicauli, spathis solitariis axillaribus subsessillibus crasse coriaceis
in siccis fere lignosis circiter pedalibus spadicem excedentibus per
anthesin medio tavtum apertis, spadice sessili cylindrico per totam
longitudinem florifero, floribus hermaphroditis vel paucis inferioribus
femineis creberrimis, perianthio nullo, staminibus 4 quam gynzveo
brevioribus, ovario crasso carnoso apice truncato uniloculari biovulato
stigmate sessili lineari canaliculato, ovulis basalibus, fructu ignoto.

E. giganteum, Schott in Bonplandia, vol. v. 1857, p. 49; Prodr. Arvid. p. 389.
Engl. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. vol. ii. p. 249. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind.
vol. vi. p. 548.

Pothos giganteus, Roxb. I'l. Ind. vol. i. p. 434.

Scindapsus giganteus, Schott in Schott et Hndlicher, Meletem. vol. i. p. 21.
Kunth Enum, Pl. vol. iii. p. 68. :

Monstera gigantea, C, Koch, ee Ender Index Aroid. p. 74.

Epipremnum giganteum, Schott, was discovered by
William Roxburgh, Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic
Garden from 1793 to 1814, in Prince of Wales Island,
Penang, and was introduced and cultivated by him in the
Caleutta garden. He described it under the name of
Pothos giganteus, and it was published in his posthumous
“Flora Indica.” It has therefore been in cultivation,
more or less, for about a century; but we believe its in-
troduction into Europe is due to Mr. H. N. Ridley,
Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, who sent a
plant of it to Kew in 1897. This plant is now a very
striking object in the north-west angle of the Aroid
House, where it flowered in June of last year.

Roxburgh remarks that it was the stoutest of the

May Ist, 1904.

parasitic [sic] Aroideew that he had met with, and it is
truly very robust and rigid. Its very thick, hard, un-
divided leaves contrast unfavourably, from an ornamental
standpoint, with the divided leaves of the allied Monstera
deliciosa and Rhaphidophora decursiva in cultivation in’
the same house. The Asiatic and Polynesian genera
Tthaphidophora and Epipremnum are exactly alike in
vegetative characters, and the structural and morpholo-
gical differences are not evident and constant. The
former genus is described as having a two-celled ovary
with several ovules attached to a central placenta, and the
ripe berries as confluent ; whereas Epipremnum bas a one-
celled ovary with two basal ovules, and the ripe berries
are free from each other. But the species of each genus
present certain modifications of these characters, and Sir
Joseph Hooker (‘ FI. Brit. Ind.,” vol. vi. p-. 548) suggests
that it would be better to unite them. The American
genus Monstera differs from both in having exalbuminous
seeds and a large embryo; otherwise it is very similar.
M. Adansonii, Schott (B. M. t. 5086) is an example ; but it
is somewhat surprising that no figure of the better known
M. deliciosa, Liebm. has ever appeared in the Magazine.
This is perhaps the only member of the natural order
bearing an edible fruit.

Descr.—A climbing, glabrous, robust shrub, which
attaches itself to the trunks of trees, and ascends, as
nearly as possible, in a straight line. Stems often a
hundred feet long, three or four inches or perhaps more in
thickness, bearing few branches, emitting thick, rope-like
roots from every growth, the uppermost ones descending
to the earth, and sometimes a hundred feet long. Leaves
large, thick, coriaceous, very hard, including the long
petiole six to eight feet long, one and a half to two feet
broad, closely two-rowed when attached to the trunks of
trees, cordate-oblong, acuminate, entire ; petiole winged,
thick, kneed at the top with the blade, stem-clasping.
Spathes solitary, axillary, subsessile, thick, coriaceous,
almost woody when dry, about one foot long, exceeding
the spadix. Spadiz sessile, cylindrical, floriferous through-
out. Flowers crowded, hermaphrodite or a few of the
lower ones female. Perianth none. Stamens four, shorter |

than the pistil. Ovary thick, fleshy, truncate, one-celled ;
ovules two, basal; stigma sessile, linear, channelled.
Fruit unknown.— W. B. H,

Fig. 1, a cluster of flowers from the spadix; 2, a flower, showing pistil and
two stamens; 3 and 4, ventral and dorsal views of a stamen; 5, section of

pistil, showing basal ovules; 6, an ovule; 7,sketch of the Kew plant, about
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MARSDEN TA IMTHURNII.
Native of British Guiana.

Nat. Ord, AscLeprapacea.— Tribe MARSDENIEX,
Genns Marspenta, R. Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 772.)

MarspEnia Jmthurnii; frutex alte volubilis, M. maculats, Hook. et M. Bur-
chelii, Fourn., affinis, a priore foliis immaculatis, a posteriore foribus
majoribus, pedicellis longioribus differt, caulibus teretibus primaom
appresse pubescentibus florigeris circiter 3 lin. diametro, internodiis quam
foliis brevioribus, foliis oppositis longe petiolatis crassiusculis primum
mollibus cordatis interdum medio constrictis in ramis florigeris cum
petiolo 6-9 poll. longis maximis 4 poll. latis abrupte acuminatis utrinque
precipue subtus primum appresse pubescentibus bullatis venis crassius-
culis subtus elevatis, floribus purpureis 5-6 lin. diametro pubescentibus
densissime cymoso-umbellatis, cymis axillaribus brevissime pedunculatis
subglobosis 14-2 poll. diametro, pedicellis pubescentibus 2-3 lin. longis,
calycis lobis 5 oblongis obtusis corolle tubo saltem dimidio brevioribus,
corolle extus pubescentis suburceolate tubo. lato limbi Jobis longiore,
lobis ovato-oblongis rotundatis recurvis, corons squamis 5 erectis
crassis carnosis ovatis obtuse acuminatis quam staminibus brevioribus,
polliniis oblongis erectis stipitatis, ovario biloculari multiovulato, fructu
ignoto.

_ M. Imthurnii, Hemsl. |

Like many other genera of the order Asclepiadacex,
Marsdenia is not very well defined, but there is no doubt
about the plant figured being a congener of M. maculata,
Hook. (Bot. Mag. t. 4299), which was founded on a plant
cultivated at Kew in 1847, received some years previously
from Santa Martha, Colombia. It is also near the
Brazilian M, Burchellii, Fourn., and M. mollissima, Fourn.
As defined in Bentham and Hooker’s ‘ Genera Plantarum,”
and in Engler and Prantl’s “ Die Natiirlichen Pflanzen-—
familien,” the genus comprises about sixty species, very
widely dispersed in tropical countries; and there is an
outlier, M. erecta, R. Br., native of the eastern Mediter-
ranean region. M. Inthurnit was raised from seed sent
from British Guiana to Kew, in 1882, by E. F. im Thurn,
C.B., C.M.G., now Lieut.-Governor of Ceylon, but formerly
of the Civil Service in the country named. Mr. im Thurn
was an ardent investigator of the Natural History of
British Guiana, and Kew is indebted to him for many

May Ist,’ 1904.

seeds and collections of dried plants. M. Imthurnii is a
vigorous climber, and covers a considerable space on the
roof of the Palm House. It has long, hanging branches,
which occasionally flower in autumn; the flowers re-
sembling those of a Hoya.

Deser.—A tall, twining shrub. Stems rather slender,
terete; flowering branches about a quarter of an inch in
diameter ; internodes shorter than the leaves, pubescent.
Leaves opposite, on long petioles, rather thick, soft,
cordate, sometimes constricted in the middle, those of the
flowering-branches including petiole six to nine inches
long, the largest four inches broad, abruptly acuminate,
hairy on both sides, especially on the under surface, more
or less bullate; veins thick, and raised on the under
surface. lowers purple, about half-an-inch across, hairy,
arranged in dense, globular, axillary, very shortly stalked,
umbellate cymes, one and a half to two inches across;
pedicels hairy, a quarter of an inch-or less in length.
Calyz-lobes five, oblong, obtuse, about half as long as the
corolla-tube. Corolla hairy outside; tube broad, slightly
inflated, longer than the lobes of the limb; lobes ovate-
oblong, rounded at the tip, recurved. Coronal-scales five,
erect, thick, fleshy, ovate, suddenly and obtusely acumi-
nate, shorter than the staminal column. Pollinia oblong,

erect, on long stalks. Ovary two-celled ; ovules numerous.
Fruit unknown.— W. B.

Fig. 1, a flower; 2, corona and staminal column; 3, a pair of pollinia;
4, style and stigma :—all enlarged.

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Tap. 7954,
DICENTRA cuHrysantHa.

Native of California,

Nat. Ord. Fumariace,
Genus Dicentra, Borkh, ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 59.)

DicentRA chrysantha; herba perennis, basi interdum lignescens et per
hiemem persistens, glabra, glauca, erecta, 2-4 ped. alta, caulibus
rigidis pauciramosis, foliis amplis bi- vel tripinnatisectis segmentis
lobisque ultimis linearibus vel cuneatis acutiusculis, paniculis multi-
ramosis multifloris 1-2 ped. longis, floribus aureis 1-12 poll. diametro
breviter pedicellatis suberectis, bracteis bracteolisque minutis squami-
formibus, sepalis 2 parvis late ovatis caducis, petalis 4 dimorphis
circiter pollicaribus 2 exterioribus basi saccatis rotundatis supra medium
ovato-oblongis acutis patentibus 2 interioribus oblongis concavis dorso
carinatis per totam longitudinem conniventibus stamina stylumque in-
cludentibus, staminibus 6 in phalanges 2 petalis exterioribus oppositas
connatis, filamentis glabris supra medium filiformibus, ovario unilocu-
lari glabro stigmate capitato bilobato, placentis 2 parietalibus linearibus
multiovulatis, capsula clavata cum stylo persistente 13-11 poll. longa
levi polysperma, seminibus numerosis reniformibus compressis circiter
# lin. longis leevibus.

D. chrysantha, Walp. Rep. vol. i. p. 118. S. Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 24.
W. Irving in The Garden, vol. lxiv. (1903), p. 334. H.N.E. in op. cit.
vol. lxv. p. 18. :

Dielytra chrysantha, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 320, t. 73. Pat. Fl.
Gard. vol. iii. (1852-3), p. 151, t. 103.

Capnorchis chrysantha, Planch. in Flore des Serres, vol. viii. p. 193, t. 820.

Bikukulla chrysantha, Coville in Contr, U.S. Nat, Herb, vol. iv. (1893), p. 60.

Dicentra chrysantha, Walp., was originally discovered
by David Douglas, and subsequently by William Lobb,
who collected for Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, where plants
were raised from seed, and flowered for the first time in
September, 1852. It inhabits dry hills of the Coast
Range, Southern California, at elevations of 2,500 to
4,000 feet, and should therefore be given a sheltered
situation and a southern exposure. At Kew it succeeds
well under a south wall, and last year, in spite of the
unfavourable weather, it flowered from July till nearly the
end of October. Canon Ellacombe, writing in ‘“ The
Garden,” sums up his experience of the plant in a few
words, to the effect that it is hardy, short-lived, and never
produces seed.

May Ist, 1904.

Anyone interested in the history of the generic appella-
tions Dicentra, Dielytra and Diclytra, should turn to the
‘Botanische Zeitung,’ vol. xv. (1857), p. 641, and
vol. xvii, (1859), p. 157.

Descr.—A_ perennial, glabrous, glaucous, erect herb,
two to four feet high, sometimes becoming woody at the
base, and persistent through the winter. Stems stiff, with
few branches. Leaves large, pinnately divided to the second
or third degree; ultimate lobes small, linear or cuneate,
somewhat acute. Panicles much-branched, many-flowered,
one to two feet long. Flowers of a brilliant, golden
yellow, one inch to one inch and a quarter in diameter,
shortly stalked, nearly erect. Bracts and_bracteoles
minute, scale-like. Sepals two, small, broadly ovate, fall-
ing in the expansion of the flower. Petals four, of two
shapes, about an inch long; two outer saccate and
rounded at the base, ovate-oblong above the middle, acute,
spreading ; two inner oblong, concave, keeled down the
back, more or less cohering their whole length, and en-
closing the stamens and pistil. Stamens six, in two
bundles of three, opposite the outer petals; filaments
glabrous, filiform above the middle. Ovary one-celled,
glabrous; stigma capitate, two-lobed; placentas two,
parietal, very narrow, bearing numerous ovules. Capsule.
club-shaped, including the persistent style one inch and a
quarter to one inch and a half long, naked, many-seeded.
Seeds numerous, kidney-shaped, flattened, about three-
quarters of a line long, smooth.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, a Hower; 2, an inner petal; 3, a bundle of stamens; 4, a pistil :—
all enlarged,

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CHLORAA orisPa.
Native of Chile.

Nat. Ord. OrcuiIpE.z.—Tribe Neorrigx.

Genus Cxtorma, Lindl.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant vol. iii. p. 618.)

Cuior&a crispa; herba terrestris 1 usque ad 3 ped. alta, radicibus carnosis
elongatis, caule erecto glabro, foliis basalibus oblongis vel lanceolatis
acutis usque ad 8 poll. longis et 1 poll. latis basi amplectentibus im-
bricatisque, scapo squamis ovatis vel late lanceolatis acutis vel acuminatis
distantibus 1-4 poll. longis instructo, racemis pauci- vel multifloris,
bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis ovarium «#quantibus vel paullo excedenti-
bus, non reticulatim venosis, pedicellis brevibus, ovario subclavato,
floribus fere omnino albis, labello ad latera, petalis ad basin minute
viridi-maculatis, columna ad basin aurantiaco-maculata, sepalo dorsali
oblongo obtuso circa 1} poll. longo 7 lin. lato, lateralibus e basi lineari
obovato-oblongis leviter undulatis apice cochleatis incrassatis 1} poll.
longis 6 lin. latis, petalis ellipticis obtusis sepalo dorsali quarta parte
brevioribus ad nervos longitudinales sparse verrucosis, labello basi con-
tracto superne late oblongo vel fere orbiculari parte superiore crispato-
dentato lamellis 7-9 fimbriatis basi confluentibus instructo facie inferiore
prope margines papillis paucis predito, columna circa 1 poll. longa,
ovario subclavato.

C. crispa, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 401. Gay, Flor. Chil. vol. v. p. 445.
ered Review, 1903, p. 133. Krdnzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. vol. ii. p. 129,
t. Lda.

Cymbidium luteum, Willd. Sp. Plant. vol. iv. p. 106.

Epipactis amplo flore luteo, vualgo Gavilu, Fewillée, Journ. Observ. vol. ii.
(1714), p. 729, tab. 20.

_ Although this plant was first described by Feuillée
nearly two hundred years ago, it appears to have been
only recently brought into cultivation. Mr. H. J. Elwes,
F.R.8., collected tubers in the sandy plain between
Coronel and Concepcion, Chili, in December, 1901, which
he presented to Kew, and from them the plant here
figured was raised, and it flowered in April, 1903.
Lindley, who first distinguished the genus Chlorea, knew
this species in the dried state only.

It inhabits the plains of Chili, where its long fleshy
rootlets bury themselves deeply in the sand, and, pro-
bably owing to different degrees of humidity, it varies
much in size and the number of flowers produced.
Feuillée states that the Indian women mix the juice of

May Ist, 1904.

this plant with their ‘bouillon’ to produce a more
abundant flow of milk after child-birth.

When figuring C. longibracteata, Lindl. (t. 7909) we
gave some particulars of the genus. Since then Dr. F.
Krianzlin has completed a monograph of the species
(Orchidearun Genera et Species, vol. ii. pp. 143, tt. 14), of
which he describes eighty-four. It is curious that the
name Chlorea does not occur in the Dictionaries: of
Gardening, although C. longibracteata was in cultivation
in 1837, and C. virescens, Lindl. (Bot. Reg. vol. xxxi. t. 49)
in 1845. :

Descr.—A terrestrial herb, varying from one to three
feet in height. Roots long, fleshy. Stem erect, glabrous.
Leaves chiefly basal, oblong or lanceolate, acute, the
largest eight inches long and one inch wide, sheathing and
imbricate at the base. Scape furnished with distant,
ovate or broadly lanceolate, acute or acuminate scales, one
to four inches long. Racemes few- or many-flowered ;
bracts lanceolate, acuminate, about as long as the shortly
pedicellate ovary. lowers white, with numerous very
minute, green dots near the sides of the lip and base of the
petals, and a large orange and brown blotch at the base
of the column. Dorsal sepal oblong, obtuse, about an inch
and a half long and seven lines wide; lateral sepals
obovate-oblong from a linear base, slightly undulate,
cochleate, and thickened at the apex, about as long as the
dorsal and slightly narrower. Petals elliptic, obtuse,
three-quarters the length of the dorsal sepal, sparingly
warted on the longitudinal nerves. Labellum contracted
at the base, widely oblong or nearly orbicular above,
entire below, crispate-dentate above, with seven or nine
fimbriate lamelle confluent towards their base, and a

few papilla on the under surface towards the margins.
Column about one inch long.—W. B. H. |

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TRIS (Xresion) warneyensis.
Native of Bokhara.

Nat. Ord, IntpE#,.—Tribe Mormex.
Genus Iris, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 686.)

Iris (Xiphion) warleyensis; herba erecta, usque ad 1 ped. alta sed swpius
brevior, caule tereti glabro, foliis caulinis lanceolatis acuminatis basi
amplectentibus, floribus singulis vel binis ordinatis, spathis duabus viridi-
bus lanceolatis acutis vel subobtusis 2 poll. longis, perianthii tubo 2 poll.
longo infra cylindrico supra anguste infundibuliformi, perianthii segmentis
exterioribus unguibus ligulatis 1} poll. longis dilute purpureis apice
reflexis laminis ovalibus vel fere orbicularibus leviter emarginatis
obscure purpureis medio aurantiacis marginibus albis crista crenata
infra purpurea supra aurantiaca instructis, segmentis interioribus
patentibus violaceis 8 lin. longis trilobis, lobis lateralibus breviter
triangularibus, lobo terminali longe subulato, styli ramis violaceis
maculo aurantiaco squama crenata instructis circa 13 poll. longis usque
ad 6 lin. bifidis prope apicem obtuse irregulariterque paucidentatis,
capsulis iis I. bucharice similibus. -

I, (Xiphion) warleyensis, The Garden, vol. 1xi. (1902), p. 241; M. Foster in
Gard. Chron. vol. xxxi. (1902), p. 386, fig. 134; Journ. Hort. ser. 3,
vol. Ixiv. p. 339.

In the genus Iris the section Xiphion, distinguished by
its bulbous rootstock, includes several types around which
cluster very closely related forms, which for garden pur-
poses are more conveniently regarded as distinct species.
The present plant is a member of such a group, which has
for its type J. orchioides, Carr, and bears a considerable
resemblance to var. cerulea, Hort., of that species. In
structure it is similar to I. bucharica, M. Foster, figured
in tab. 7914 of this work, which differs in having yellow
flowers.

This species was discovered in the neighbourhood of
Bokhara, whence it was introduced into cultivation by
Messrs. van Tubergen, of Haarlem. he plant from which
our figure was made, flowered in the garden of the Hon.
Charles Hillis in April, 1902. At Kew J. warleyensis has
not succeeded so well as typical I. orchioides, Carr.

Descr.—An erect herb, usually six to twelve inches
high. Stem terete, glabrous. Leaves cauline, lanceolate,
acuminate, sheathing at the base. Flowers solitary,

May Ist, 1904.1

with sometimes a second added just below it; spathes
two, green, lanceolate, acute or sub-obtuse, two inches
long. Perianth-tube two inches long, cylindrical below,
narrowly funnel-shaped above; outer segments with a pale
purple ligulate claw about an inch and a quarter long,
reflexed at the apex, blade oval or almost orbicular,
shghtly emarginate, with a central, crenate crest, purple at
the base, orange above, surrounded by an orange-coloured
area, the remainder dark violet, except for a narrow, white
marginal line; inner segments patent, violet, about eight
lines long, three-lobed, terminal lobe much longer, subu-
late. Style-branches about an inch and _ three-quarters
long, bifid about six lines down, violet, with an orange-
coloured spot and crenate scale at the base of the bifur-
cation, with a few obtuse, irregular teeth near the apex.
Capsule similar to that of I. bucharica.—C. H. Wright.

Fig. 1, stamen, front view; 2, the same, back view; 3, base of bifurcation of
style-branches -—a// enlaryed.

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TUPISTRA C.rarkel.
Native of Sikkim.

Nat. Ord. Littacea.—Tribe AsprpistREs.
Genus Tupistra, Ker-Gawl. ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 772.)

TuPISTRA blarkei ; herba robusta, rhizomate repente crasso, vaginis basalibus
ovatis vel oblongis acuminatis membranaceis, foliis approximatis oblan-
ceolatis acuminatis integerrimis glabris nitentibus 4 ped. longis usque ad

. 44 poll. latis, nervis obliquis translucentibus, petiolis rigidis erectis,
pedunculis teretibus 8 poll. longis, spicis nutantibus vel fere pendulis
densifloris usque ad 3-4 poll. longis, bracteis quam floribus multo
brevioribus, floribus cirea 1} poll. diam. intus sordide rubro-purpureis
extus primum (perianthii loborum marginibus purpureis exceptis) viridi-
bus demum subfuscis, perianthii tubo breviter campanulato vel fere
cupulari intus sparse piloso, lobis 6 patentibus late triangularibus obtusis,
filamentis brevissimis crassis supra medium perianthii tubi affixis,
antheris oblongis introrsis, ovario parvo trilobo, stylo cylindrico exserto,
stigmate peltato quam ovario multo latiore trilobo.

T. Clarkei, Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 325.

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The genus Tupistra was founded by Ker-Gawler in the
Botanical Magazine, tab. 1655, upon a plant introduced
by Loddiges from Amboyna, to which the name 7’. squalida
was given. .Though closely resembling Aspidistra in
vegetative characters, this genus is distinguished by having
its 6-merous flowers arranged in usually dense cylindrical
spikes.

T. Clarkei was discovered by Sir J. D. Hooker in
Sikkim at from 2,000 to 5,000 ft. altitude. A water-
colour drawing of it by Cathcart is in the collection at
Kew. It flowered at Kew in October, 1877, and again in
the Aroid House in November, 1903. ‘The latter plant,
from which our illustration was taken, was received from
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, in the preceding
year. It thrives at Kew in a stove, and, on account
of its tall, shining green leaves, gracefully recurved
towards the apex, is of considerable value for decorative
effects.

T. grandis, Rid). (tab. 7829) differs from this species
in having erect spikes, while its peltate stigma has
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terminating in a small marginal lobe; the whole stigma
much resembling the pileus of some of the smaller species
of Mycena. ‘T’. macrostigma, Baker (tab. 6280) has fewer
flowers in a drooping spike, and its large, red, imbricately
lobed stigma is borne on a much shorter style, so as to
almost close the mouth of the perianth-tube.

Descrv.— A robust, glabrous herb. Rhizome creeping,
thick; basal sheaths ovate or oblong, acuminate, mem-
branous. Leaves approximate, oblanceolate, acuminate,
quite entire, shining, four feet long, four inches and a
half broad ; nerves obliquely joined to the midrib at varying
heights, translucent; petioles rigid, erect. Peduneles
terete, three inches long; spikes nodding or almost
pendulous, three to four inches long, dense; bracts much
shorter than the flowers. Flowers about an inch and a
- quarter in diameter, dull reddish-purple inside, outside
at first green with purple margins to the perianth-lobes,
at length entirely buff. Perianth-tube shortly campanulate
or alniost cupular, sparingly pilose inside; lobes six,
patent, broadly triangular, obtuse. Filaments very short
and thick, inserted just above the middle of the perianth-
tube ; anthers oblong, introrse. Ovary small, three-lobed ;
Style cylindrical, exserted; stigma peltate, three-lobed,
much broader than the ovary.—W. B. H. ~

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BULBOPHYLLUM Weppsrr.
‘Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Oncn1pacea.—Tribe EPIDENDRE®. —

Genus BuLBopHYLiuM, Thouars; (Benth.et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 501 )

Bu.poruyitium (§ Racemosee) Weddelii; herba epiphytica rhizomate crasso
elongato, pseudobulbis sparsis 4-angulatis unifoliatis circiter 2 poll.
longis 1-1} poll. latis, folio oblongo 3-4 poll. longo 1}-14 poll. lato
utringue rotundato multinervi, scapis basilaribus solitariis, pedunculo
tereti usque ad 2 ped. longo erecto bracteis paucis membranaceis vaginatis
ochreiformibus apice obliquis instructo, racemo pendulo multifloro denso
circiter semipedali, bracteis membranaceis branneis lanceolatis acutis
4-5 longis persistentibus, floribus subsessilibus circiter 2 poll. diametro
nutantibus, sepalis Jineari-lanceolatis acutissimis 1-1} poll. longis intus
albis extus viridibus, petalis linearibus acutis 2 lin. longis, labello albo-
purpureo maculato mobili cum columne pede articulato basi subtus
gibboso lobis lateralibus minutis lobo terminali linguiformi vel spathulato
circiter 6 lin. longo, columne brachiis setiformibus utrinque infra brachia
unidentatis.

B. Weddelii, Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 251.

_ Didactyle Weddelii, Lindl. Fol. Orch. vol. i. (Didactyle), p. 2.

Bulbophyllum is one of the most diversified of the
genera of orchids, and one of the few epiphytic genera
common to America and the Old World. It is also very
widely spread, ranging from Central America and the
West Indies to Brazil in the West, and China to Australia
and New Zealand in the Hast. A considerable number of
species inhabit tropical Africa, the Mascarene Islands and
India. Probably not less than one hundred species have
been described, and they present greater variety in size,
aspect, and structure than any other group of species of
orchids generally recognized as congeneric. It is true
that generic distinction has been given to various species
and groups of species by different botanists, but they are
not accepted by the leading writers on orchids, and the
late Dr. Reichenbach even went so far as to unite Cirrho-
petalum with Bolbophyllum. : | ;

In illustration of this diversity we may refer to some
of the species figured inthis Magazine. Take, for example,
B. Dayanum, Reichb. f. (t. 6119); B. lemniscatum, Parish

June lst, 1904,

(t. 5961); B. comosum, Coll. & Hemsl. (t. 7283), and —
B. Beccarii, Reichb. f. (t. 6567). And they by no means
cover the range of variation.

The last-named is one of the largest orchids known,
being a tall climber, with thick rhizomes, leaves two feet
long by a foot and a half broad, and large clusters of
flowers. It isa native of Borneo, where also perhaps the
very smallest orchid hitherto described is at home. This ©
is B. Odoardi, Reichb.f. Both of these remarkable orchids
are named after our old friend, Dr. Beccari, who spent
some years in the botanical exploration of Borneo. |

Not much bigger is B. minutissimum, F. Muell., an
Australian species (Fitzgerald’s “ Australian Orchids,” —
under Dendrobium), which has leaves and flowers barely
one-twelfth of an inch in diameter,

B. Weddelii, Reichb. f., is a very graceful species, with a
delicately mobile lip. : | ;

Deser.—An epiphytic herb, with a thick, elongated —
rhizome. Bulbs distant, angular, one-leaved, about two
inches long. Leaf oblong, three to four inches long,
many-nerved. Scapes solitary from the base of the bulbs;
peduncle one to two feet long, erect; racemes many-
flowered, pendulous, about six inches long. Flowers
nearly sessile, about two inches in diameter, nodding. —
Sepals linear-lanceolate, very acute, an inch or more long, —
green outside, white within. Petals linear, minute. Lip —
spotted purple and white, tongue-shaped, shorter than the
ie Sone to the base of the column and mobile.—

Fig. 1, column, lip, and one petal; 2, column and base of the lip seen from ~

the front and below ; 3, base of the lip seen from above; 4, anther-case; 5 and — |
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CHAM ADOREA PULCHELLA.
Native of Tropical America.

Nat. Ord. Pata —Tribe AnEces. |
Genus CuamaporeEa, Willd.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 910.)

Cuamaporea (Collinia) pudchella; palma gracilis, caule erecto nudo annulato,
foliis in caulis apice confertis erecto-patentibus 4-pedalibus, petiolis
sesquipedalibus levibus, supra concavis linea media elevata instructis,
subtus convexis, foliolis utraque circa 30 lineari-lanceolatis ad 1 ped.
longis et 9 lin. latis ad basin nervoram in facie superiore sparse squamatis,
nervis 3 quam reliquis crassioribus, paniculis ¢ interfoliaceis laxe ramosis
minute pulveralentis, ramulis ultimis 10 poll. longis, pedunculis circa
2 ped. longis, spathis basalibus 4-5, scariosis, calycis lobis late ovatis
marginibus membranaceis purpureis, corollis stipitatis dilute luteis,
globosis, lobis triangularibus quam tubo quarta parte brevioribus,
staminum tubo quam parte libera longiore, antherarum loculis basi
paulo divergentibus, ovarii radimento ovoideo quam staminibns longiore,
stylo brevi crasso, stigmate trilobo, inflorescentia ? ignota.

C. pulchella, L. Linden in Cat. Plant. Comp. Cont. Hort. 1885, p. 4.

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This palm was distributed in 1885 by the Compagnie —
Continentale d’Horticulture, from which a _ plant was
obtained for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where it
flowered in 1891, and again in the autumn of 1903; the
naked part of the stem having in the meanwhile increased
from about nine inches to eight feet in height. The native -
country of this species is not known, but most of its
allies come from the Central American region. In habit
and in the texture of the leaflets it resembles C. schiedeana,.
Mart., from which it differs in having narrower and
straighter leaflets. The globose, trifid corolla places it
in the section Collinia.

About seventy species have been described in the genus
Chamedorea, some of which have been subsequently
separated to found new genera, based chiefly upon the
character of the corolla, which varies from deeply lobed
and widely expanded to very shortly lobed and
nearly globose, and from sessile to stipitate. These
characters, however, are generally regarded as insufficient
to maintain such genera. The species inhabit the
western side of tropical America, from South Mexico to

JUNE lst, 1904.

Peru. Several have been figured in this work, amongst
them C. tenella, Wendl. (Nunnezharia tenella, Hook. f.,
tab. 6584), which is one of the smallest palms known, and
produces fruit when only seven inches high. Most of the
plants have slender, solitary stems, but C. stolonifera,
Wendl. (tab. 7265) sends out stolons from which young
plants arise close to their parent. The flowers and also
the spadix are sometimes of a bright orange-red, which
contrasts well with the dark green of the leaves, which in
C. Hrnesti-Augusti, Wendl. (tab. 4831), and a few other
species are broad and simply two-lobed.

Descr.—A slender palm. Stem erect, about eight feet
high, naked, the annular scars of fallen leaves about
one inch apart. Leaves forming a terminal crown, nearly
erect, about four feet long; petiole about a foot and a
half long, smooth, concave, with a_central ridge above,
convex beneath, sheathing at the base; rhachis slightly
elevated, with an obtuse ridge above, convex beneath;
leaflets in about thirty pairs, linear-lanceolate, central
ones one foot long, the larger nine lines wide, but usually
much narrower, slightly scaly near the base of the main
nerves on the upper side; nerves slender, about three
more prominent than the rest. Male panicle from between
the leaves, mach branched, loose, finely powdered; ultimate
branches ten inches long; peduncle about two feet long ;
basal sheaths four or five, scarious. Calyz tripartite ; lobes
broadly ovate, with membranous, purple margins. Corolla
stalked, pale yellow, globose ; lobes triangular, one-quarter
the length of the tube. Filaments free less than half-way
down; anther-cells slightly divergent at the base. Ovary
rudimentary, ovoid, longer than the stamens ; style short,

thick ; stigma three-lobed. Female inflorescence unknown.
We DH.

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ovary; 4, the same in Wogiendiaal section ; 5, anther;
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IMPATIENS Otivert.
Native of Tropical Africa.

Nat, Ord. GeRANIACEZ.—Tribe BALsaMINE*.
Genus Iupatiens, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. 1. p. 277.)

Impatiens Oliveri; herba glaberrima usque ad 4 ped. alta, caulibus erectis
dilute viridibus supra nodos spe incrassatis, foliis irregulariter verticillatis
oblanceolatis acutis vel acuminatis setoso-ciliatis usque ad 8 poll. longis
23 poll. latis, pedunculis unifloris 24 poll. longis, pedicellis 1} poll. longis,
bracteolis 2 altera 3 lin. longa lanceolato recurva altera 4 lin. longa, |
floribus circa 2} poll, diam. dilute lilacinis vel roseis dorso pallidioribus,
sepalis lateralibus ovatis acuminatis apiculatis quam petalis 2-3-plo
brevioribus, labio ovato infundibuliformi abrupte reflexeque mucronato
parte infundibuliformi $ poll. longa, caleare curvato tenui 12 poll. longo,
vexillo e basi lata suborbiculari apice recurvato apiculato, alis profunde
bilobis, lobo terminali obovato quam laterali subcordato paullo longiore,
fructibus oblongis acuminatis, seminibus 1 lin, longis ovoideis verrucosis.

I. Oliveri, C. H. Wright ea W. Watson in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. ii. p. 178.
I. Thomsoni, Oliw. in Journ, Linn Soc. Bot. vol. xxi. (1886) p. 398, now Hook. f.
nec Bot. Mag. tab. 7795.

This plant was discovered by the late Mr. Joseph
Thomson, F.R.G.S., at Lykipia, Tropical Hast Africa, at
elevations of 6,000 to 8,000 feet, with flowers scarcely
more than an inch and a half across, which under cultiva-
tion have greatly increased in size, and rival those of
I. grandiflora, Hemsl. (tab. 7826).

Our illustration was taken from a plant at Kew, raised
from seeds presented by Sir John Kirk, K.C.M.G., which
were obtained along the Uganda railway, about 300 miles
inland, on volcanic rocks or tufa, at an elevation of
6,800 ft. The flowers of the wild plant are said to be
white, but under cultivation they assume a pale lilac or
occasionally rosy tint. ‘They were first produced at Kew
in July, 1903, and fruit was developed in the following
November. Flowers were also produced in September,
and at the end of April of the present year plants were
in full flower in the Begonia house, where they continue
to thrive. Being of vigorous habit and a profuse bloomer,
it is likely to get into general cultivation.

Descr.—A perfectly glabrous herb, about four feet high.
Stems erect, pale green, often thickened above the nodes.

June Ist, 1904.

Leaves. in irregular whorls of from four to eight, oblan-
ceolate, acute or acuminate, the largest eight inches long
and two inches and a quarter wide, setose-ciliate on the
margin. Peduneles one-flowered, about two inches and a
half long; pedicels one inch and a quarter long. Bracteoles
two, one three lines long, lanceolate, curved outwards
above, the other less than half as long. Flowers about
two inches and a quarter across, pale lilac, or occasionally
rosy above, almost white beneath. . Lateral sepals ovate,
acuminate, apiculate, two or three times shorter than the ~
petals. Lip ovate, funnel-shaped, with an abrupt reflexed
mucro, funnel-shaped part about half an inch long, abruptly
narrowed into a slender, curved spur, about an inch and
three-quarters long. Lip sub-orbicular from a_ broad
base, recurved and apiculate at the apex. -Wings deeply
two-lobed; terminal lobe obovate, lateral obcordate,
shorter and wider than the terminal. Jruit oblong,

acuminate. Seeds one line long, ovoid, verrucose.-—C.
Wright.

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LYSIMACHIA Henry.
; | a4 Native of Western China.

ka Nat, Ord. Prrwutacea.—Tribe LystmacniE&,
_ Genus Lysimacuta, Linn, ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 635.)

Lysimacuta Henryi; herba perennis, robusta, subcarnosa, repens, radicans,
' - plus minusve ferrugineo-pubescens, vel villosa, culta fere glabra vel cito
labrescens, caulibus elongatis teretibus floriferis adscendentibus interno-
diis nunc folia excedentibus nunc brevissimis, foliis plerumque oppositis
petiolatis lanceolatis vel ovatis cum petiolo 1-4 poll. longis acutis basi
cuneatis vel interdum rotundatis integris venis :mmersis inconspicuis,
floribus luteis circiter 1} poll. diametro in axillis folioram superioruam
confertorum solitariis vel interdum subumbellatis pedicellatis, pedicellis
plerumque vix semipollicaribus sed interdum elongatis, calycis lobis fere
liberis lineari-lanceolatis acutissimis 3-4 lin. longis, corolla rotate lobis
obovato-oLlongis, staminibus coroll# lobis dimidio brevioribus omnibus
inequilongis filamentis fere ad medium connatis papillosisqne supra
medium filiformibus, ovario villoso stylo capitato stamina vix excedente.
L. Henryi, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol, xxvi, p. 52. W. Irving in
_ The Garden, vol. |xiv. (1903), p. 269, cum habitus figura. W. W.in Gard.
Chron. 1903, vol. ii. p. 187. :

In the letterpress accompanying the figure of Lysi-
machia crispidens, Hemsl. (tab. 7919) some particulars
are given of the composition and distribution of the genus.
L. Henryi bids fair to become as great a favourite as the
“Creeping Jenny,” L. Nummularia, L., and it is an
equally vigorous grower, of more robust habit, though
probably not so hardy. The flowers,.too, are of a richer
yellow.

It was originally collected by Dr. A. Henry near Ichang,
in the Province of Hupeh, in 1685, and two years later
Kew received specimens from the Rev. H. Faber, collected
in the Province of Szechuen. Dr. Henry found it at
altitudes of 6,000 to 8,000 ft. More recently Mr. EK. H. -
Wilson, collector for Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, sent
seeds to that firm, in whose nurseries at Coombe Wood
it was raised last year. A small piece sent to Kew for
determination was divided and planted in the herbaceous
ground and rock-garden, where it soon formed large
patches, and flowered profusely and continuously during

June Ist, 1904. ;

the summer and autumn. Moist ground would probably
suit it best, but last season it was moist everywhere, and
it grew well in exposed, well drained soil.

Descr.—A vigorous, trailing, somewhat fleshy, peren-.
nial herb, more or less hairy in the wild state, but almost
glabrous under cultivation. Stems terete, rooting at the
joints, flowering-branches ascending; internodes some-
times longer than the leaves, sometimes very short. Leaves
mostly opposite, lanceolate or ovate, including the petiole
one to four inches long, acute, cuneate, or sometimes
rounded at the base, entire; veins immersed, inconspi-
cuous. lowers full yellow, about an inch and a quarter in
diameter, solitary in the axils of the upper, crowded leaves,
_ or sometimes sub-umbellate, pedicellate. Pedicels mostly
under half an inch in length, but sometimes elongated. —
Calyz-lobes almost free, linear-lanceolate, very acute, three
to four lines long. Corolla rotate; lobes obovate-oblong.
Stamens half as long as the corolla, spirally unequal in
length ; filaments connate and papillose almost to the
middle, filiform above the middle. — Ovary villous ; style
capitate, about as long as the longest stamen.—W. B. H.

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VELLOZIA tricuoprytna,
Native of Eastern Tropical Africa. oe

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACE&.—Tribe VELLOZIEA.
Genus Vettozia, Vand. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 739.)

Vetioz1a trichophylla; frutex caudice vel trunco brevi crassissimo demum
saltem 1 ped. diametro, ramis primariis paucis crassis, innovationibus
numerosis brevissimis, foliis numerosis gramineis vix rigidis 3-9 poll.
longis (in speciminibus sylvestribus sape 1-2 ped. longis rigidioribusque)
medio circiter 6 lin. latis acutis multinerviis distincte costatis utrinque
moiliter pubescentibus vel fere lanatis in margine non setulosis, pedun-
culis szpius ternis unifloris cum ovario tomentoso 24-4 poll. longis
suberectis, floribus rubro-lilacinis fragrantibus 2}-3 poll. diametro,
perianthii segmentis «qualibus lanceolatis acutis 1}-14 poll. longis
patentibus, tubo nullo, staminibus 6 antheris subsessilibus 5-6 lin. longis,
ovario inferiore triloculari multiovulato stylo clavato stamina equante,
capsula ignota.

V. trichophylla, Hemsi.
V. equisetoides, var. trichophylla, Baker in Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 411.
V. equisetoides, W. W. in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. ii. p. 425, £. 167.

Our figure was drawn from one of several fine plants
sent to Kew in 19038, by Mr. J. McClounie, Head of the
Scientific Department, Zomba, British Central Africa.
As will be seen from the above references, Mr. J. G.
Baker treated this plant as a variety of his V. equisetoides,
but living plants and further wild specimens offer characters
that fully justify, as Mr. Baker grants, their specific
separation. ‘Typical V. equisetoides has much longer
primary branches; the leaves are shorter and glabrous,
except that they are minutely setulose on the margin and
along the midrib on the under surface. The leaf-bases
break up early, and present something like the appearance
of the bristled sheath of an Hquisetum.

‘Specimens of a third species have been referred to
V, equisetoides in the Kew Herbarium’:—

V. Kirxu, Hemsl.; caule erecto cylindrico simplice vel
furcato 3—1 poll. diametro elongato, foliis gramineis sub-
erectis 6-9 poll. longis medio circiter 3 lin. latis acutis
ecostatis glabris in margine primum paucisetulosis in siccis
luteis rigidis, foliorum basibus persistentibus compactis

JuLy Ist, 1904.

rotundatis arcte imbricatis tarde rumpentibus, pedunculis
cum ovario 3-4 poll. longis erectis crebré muricato-tuber-
culatis, perianthii segmentis 2-24 poll. longis medio fere
1 poll. latis acutis 3 interioribus membranaceis 3 exterio-
ribus medio incrassatis extus muricatis.

__ V. trichophylla was first collected by Dr. (now Sir John)
Kirk at Zomba, British Central Africa, in 1859, and
since by Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot on Mount Ndurani, in
1893-4.

Authors differ widely in their definition of the allied
genera Vellozia and Barbacenia. Bentham and Hooker
(Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 739) characterize the former as
having a tubeless perianth, and six or sometimes numerous
Stamens; the latter as having a more or less developed
perianth-tube, and six, or in one species, eighteen stamens.
Pax (Engler & Prantl, Natirl. Pflanzenf. vol. ii. 5, p. 127)
includes the species having only six stamens in Barbacenia,
and those having more than six stamens are referred to
Vellozia, This is perhaps justified by Vandelli’s original
descriptions and figures.

Both in Africa and South America the members of the
Velloziee are characteristic in the scanty vegetation of
granitic rocky regions. Mr. John Mahon, who has spent
Some years in British Central Africa and British Hast
Africa, informs us that the various species grow in bleak,
exposed situations, always preferring the almost bare
granite rock. He never saw them where there was any-
_ thing approaching good soil, or even associated with the
short grass so common in certain situations. _In some
places they almost clothed the cliffs; in other places they
i Scattered; growing at altitudes of 6,000 to 7,500
eet.

_Descr.—A shrub having a thick stock, a foot or more in
diameter, and short, thick primary branches. Flowering-
shoots numerous, very short. Leaves numerous, grass-like, |
scarcely stiff in cultivated specimens, three to nine inches”
long (often one to two feet long, and more rigid in wild
Specimens), about half an inch broad in the middle, acute,
many-nerved, midrib distinct, softly hairy on both surfaces,
without bristles on the margins. Pedwncles usually in
threes, one-flowered, two and a half to four inches long,
sub erect, stiffly hairy as well as the ovary. Flowers

reddish-lilac, very fragrant, two and a half to three inches
across. Perianth-segments equal, lanceolate, acute, one
inch and a quarter to one inch and a half long, spreading ;
tube none. Stamens six; anthers almost sessile, about half
an inch long. Style club-shaped, equalling the stamens.—
Vie :

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4, style:—all enlarged, ‘

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GEONOMA araciiis.

Native of Tropical America,

Nat. Ord. Patmat.—Tribe ARECER.
Genus Gronoma, Willd.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 913.)

Gronoma gracilis; palma gracilis, caule erecto 4 ped. alto 1} poll. diametro nudo
annulato, foliis confertis arcuatis 24 ped. longis, petiolis 14 ped. longis
supra concavis linea media elevata subtus convexis, rhachibus supra
obtuse triangularibus subtus convexis, foliolis lineari-lanceolatis acumi-
natis ad 1 ped. longis 3-6 lin. latis circa trinervibus facie superiore sparse
squamatis, paniculis laxis, ramis tenuibus, floribus masculis: sepalis
navicularibus scariosis 1 lin. longis apice leviter hirsutis, petalis quam
sepalis paulo longioribus ovatis obtusis membranaceis hyalinis, stami-
num tubo I$ lin. longo tubuloso-campanulato, filamentorum parte libera
quam tubo dimidio breviore, antheris lineari-oblongis 4 lin. longis loculis
basi tantum connatis Jate divergentibus, ovarii rudimento minuto,
floribus femineis: sepalis oblongis obtusis scariosis 1 lin. longis petalis
ovatis acutis submembranaceis, staminodiis cupnlatim connatis quam
stylo (ramis exclusis) equilongis, ovario abortu 1-loculari, stylo basali,
ovulo ascendente. ~ a

G. gracilis, Linden & André in Tllustr. Hortie. vol. xxi. (1874) p. 73, t. 169.
Hi. Wendl. ex Kerchove, Les Palmiers, pp. 245 et 323 (1878).

G. Riedeliana, H. Wendl. ex Linden & André, loc. cit.

This palm was first described in 1874 by Linden and
André, who quote as a synonym the previously unpublished
name of Geonoma Riedeliana, H. Wendl. In Kerchove’s
“Les Palmiers,” it is reduced to G. Riedeliana, but a
G. gracilis, H. Wendl., is retained, which is not described,
but illustrated by a reproduction (on a reduced scale) of
Linden and André’s figure of their G. gracilis. | |

Although this palm has long been in cultivation, its.
origin is still obscure. Wendland records it from
Costa Rica; while Linden and André state that it was
collected in Eastern Brazil by Riedel, and afterwards by
Binot, who sent it to Europe. It is not mentioned in
Martius’s “ Flora Brasiliensis,” nor by Tonduz in his
“Flora de Costa Rica.” Its nearest ally is the Brazilian
G. Schottiana, Mart., which much resembles it in habit,
but differs in having sub-opposite, decussate flowers. It
also approaches some of the forms of G. Spruceana, Traill.

JuLy Ist, 1904.

The plant here figured was shown at the Ghent Quin-
quennial International Horticultural Exhibition in 1902,
and was afterwards purchased for the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew, where it flowered in the Palm House in
September and October, 1903.

The spadices are monoecious, but at the time when the
male flowers are fully expanded the female flowers are
still immersed in the tissue of the spadix; thus showing a
form of protandry.

Deser—A slender palm. Stem erect, about four feet
high and an inch and a half in diameter, naked, closely
ringed. Leaves forming a terminal crown, arching, about
two feet and a half long; petioles about a foot and
a half long, concave, with a central ridge above, con-
vex beneath; rhachis obtusely triangular above, convex
beneath ; leaflets linear-lanceolate, acuminate, the larger
about a foot long, three to six lines wide, three-nerved,
sparingly scaly on the upper side. Panicles loose,
with slender branches. Male flowers: Sepals boat-shaped,
Scarious, one line long, slightly hairy at the apex. Petals
a little longer than the sepals, ovate, obtuse, membranous,
hyaline. Filaments united for two-thirds of their length
Into a tubular-campanulate cup; anthers linear-oblong, —
half a line long, attached by the base only, widely diver-
gent. Ovary rudimentary, minute. Female fowers:
Sepals oblong, obtuse, scarious, one line long. Petals
ovate, acute, thin. Staminodes united into a cup reaching
to the base of the style-branches, Ovary by abortion one-
celled ; style basal, trifid; ovule ascending.—W,. B. H.

Fig. 1, male flower; 2 sepal of the ‘dike: 3, petal
» male , petals and anthers; 4, stamens
seen from inside of the bud; 5, stamens and rudimentary ovary; 6, portion
of spadix bearing female flowers ; 6*, portion of the same enlarged; 7, sepal

of the same; 8, petals and istil; 9, pistil: / :
ait casont Ont ts ee 3 ¥, pistil; 10, whole plant much reduced :—

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SPATHOGLOTTIS Harpinctana.
| Native of North Burma,

Nat. Ord. Orcurpacta,—Tribe EripenpRem..
Genus Spatuoatortis, Blume ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 511.)

/

Sratnociortis Hardingiana; inter species hucusque cognitas labello lineari
lobis lateralibus destituto distincta; pseudobulbis late conico-ovoideis ob-
scure multi-angulatis 6-8 lin. longis bi- vel trifoliatis squamis membranaceis
duplo longioribus instructis, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis basi breviter
petiolatis 5-7 poll. longis medio ad 1 poll. latis plicatis membranaceis
circiter 5-7-nerviis nervis secundariis numerosis, scapis basilaribus soli-
tariis vel binis erectis 3-1} ped. altis ut pedicellis pubescentibus, floribus
numerosis roseo-purpureis vel interdum lilacinis, pedicellis gracilibus
cum ovario 10-14 lin. longis, bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis 3-5 lin.
longis, sepalis lanceolatis subacutis recurvis 6-7 lin. longis, petalis lineari-

-lanceolatis acutis recurvis 6-7 lin. longis, labello oblongo-lineari sub-
acuto 4-5 lin. longo basi auriculis parvis suberectis instructis, medio
bicalloso, callis erectis cuneato-obovatis flavis brunneo-punctatis, columna
gracili arcuata 5 lin. longa supra medium anguste alata.

S. Hardingiana, Par. et Rehb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. p. 45; Hook. f. Fl. Brit.
Ind. vol. v. p. 815. Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxxii. pp. 217, 312.
—Semper sphalmate Handingiana. Parish’s Drawings in bibl. Kew.
vol. i.n. 79. Orch. Rev, vol. xi. (1903), p. 349.

Spathoglottis Hardingiana is a remarkable species,
described in 1878, and dedicated to Mr. Coles-Harding
(misspelt Handing), a skilful cultivator of Orchids, who
resided for some time in Moulmein. He obtained it from
Bhamo. For a long period it was only known from the
original specimens and drawing, but at length it was
rediscovered in the Lankawi Islands, on the western side
of the Malay Peninsula, by Mr. C. Curtis, Assistant
Superintendent of Forests, Penang. It is recorded as
growing on rocks. ‘The plant here figured is from a
later importation, received from Mr. Curtis in 1902. It
flowered the following autumn, in a tropical house, and
again in November last. There were two varieties, one
haying bright rose-purple flowers, and the other very pale
lilac. Of the latter a single flower is shown, fig. 4. It is
quite an anomalous species, differing from all others in
having the side lobes of the lip reduced to a pair of very

JuLy Ist, 1904.

small suberect auricles. In other respects it conforms to
the characters of Spathoglottis. These differences may
be seen by reference to S. Petri, Reichb. f. (t. 6354) ;
S. Vieillardii, Reichb. f. (t. 7013); S. dwioides, Lindl.
(t. 7060) ; S. gracilis, Rolfe (t. 7366) ; and S. Kimballiana,
Sander (t. 74:43), |

It may be mentioned here that we forgot to state in the
letterpress to tab. 7958 that we were indebted to Mr. |
F. W. Moore, Keeper of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, for
the specimen of Bulbophyllum Weddelit there figured.

Descr.—Very distinct from all other species in the lip
being reduced to a long, linear body without side lobes,
these being represented by a pair of very small auricles.
Bulbs broadly conical-ovoid, obscurely many-angled, six to
eight lines long, two- or three-leaved; basal, membranous |
sheath about twice as long as the pseudobulb. Leaves
lanceolate, acuminate, five to seven inches long, and an inch
broad in the middle, plicate, membranous ; primary nerves
five to seven; secondary ones numerous. Scapes basal,
solitary or sometimes two from the same bulb, erect, nine
to fifteen inches high, loosely pubescent, flowering part
five to eight inches long. Flowers numerous, rose-purple
or sometimes pale lilac, about an inch across. Pedicels,
including the ovary, ten to fourteen lines long, slender.
Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, three to five lines long.
Sepals lanceolate, subacute, recurved, six to seven lines
long. Petals linear-lanceolate, acute, recurved, six to
seven lines long. Jip linear, subacute, four to five lines
long, with a pair of small, rounded, suberect auricles at
the base, and a pair of cuneate-obovate, somewhat com-
pressed, nearly erect tubercles about the middle, these’ |
being bright yellow, dotted with brown. Column slender,

curved, about five lines long, narrowly winged above the
middle.—R. A. Rolfe.

Fig. 1, lip and column; 2, the column; 3, the pollinia, showing the attach-

ment to the viscous gland; 4, a flower of the lilac-coloured variety :—all —
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CHRYSANTHEMUM ornarum.
Native of Japan,

Nat. Ord. Composira.—Tribe ANTHEMIDER.

Genus Curysantuemum, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant vol. ii, p. 424.)

CHRYSANTHEMUM ornatum; herba perennis, ramosa, 2-3 ped. alta, caulibus
ramisque gracilibus angulatis albo-pubescentibus, foliis exstipulatis graci-
liter petiolatis papyraceis crassis discoloribus subtus albis circumscriptione
ovatis in ramis floriferis 14-3 poll. longis subpalmatim pinnatifidis
segmentis obtusis vel rotundatis subtus margineque albo-tomentosis
supra atroviridibus sparse pubescentibus, capitulis laxe corymbosis
distincte pedunculatis 14-2 poll. diametro, involucri bracteis circiter
3-seriatis omnibus similibus ovato-oblongis obtusis medio albo-tomentosis
margine brunneo-purpureis, acheeniis glabris obliquis.

C. ornatum, Hemsi. - ;

C. marginatum, Rafill in Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. i. p. 51, fig. 22, non
Pyrethrum marginatum, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. vol. ii. p. 86=C. marginatum,
N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1888, p. 99. a

The late C. J. Maximowicz, who was a very critical
Botanist, and whose knowledge of the plants of Eastern ~
Asia was based on observations in the country itself,
enlarges (Mélanges Biologiques, vol. viii. p. 519) on the
difficulties of dealing with the forms of Chrysanthemum, or,
as he preferred calling it, Pyrethrum sinense, DC., and»
CO. indicum, L., although the strictly wild specimens left no
doubt of there being two distinct species concerned in the
varieties resulting from over a thousand years’ cultivation
in China and Japan.

We were in doubt as to the best way of naming the
plant figured, but arrived at the conclusion that the least
unsatisfactory way was to give it a single name, without
attempting to decide whether it should be regarded as a
variety of C. sinense. 3

By some mischance, but probably on account of the
strong resemblance in the foliage, it has appeared in some
of the gardening papers under the designation of Chrysan-
themum marginatum (Pyrethrum marginatum, Miq. Fi. Ind.
Bat. vol. ii. p. 86), a species having very numerous quite
small flower-heads usually destitute of ray-flowers. |

JuLy Ist, 1904,

We have carefully examined the literature of the subject,
and the nearest approach that we have found to our plant
is figured in the Japanese ‘‘ Somoku Zusetsu,” under the
name of Pyrethrum Decaisneanum, Maxim. But the plant
there figured does not at all agree with Maximowicz’s
original description.

C. ornatum was raised at Kew from seeds obtained in
1895 from the University Botanic Garden, Tokyo. It was
first tried in the open ground, where it made vigorous
bushes three feet high, but failed to flower before it was
- cut down by frost. Last year it was tried as a pot-plant,
and the result was so satisfactory that itis confidently
anticipated that it will come into favour in the greenhouse,
where it succeeds admirably, flowering about Christmas
time. It is so distinct from any of the varieties of the
Florists’ Chrysanthemums as not to be brought into
comparison with them; yet its parentage or descent is
uncertain.

Descr.—A branching herb forming dense bushes three
or four feet high, and as much through. Stems and
branches slender, angular, clothed with a white pubescence
changing green. Leaves without stipules, slenderly stalked,
papery, rather thick, clothed with a white felt underneath
and on the margin, ovate in outline, one inch and a half
to.two inches long on the flowering branches, somewhat
-palmately pinnatifid; primary segments usually five, .
obtuse or rounded, usually two- or four-toothed; teeth
obtuse. Flower-heads loosely corymbose, distinctly stalked,
an inch and three-quarters to two inches across. Bracts
of the involucre in about three series, all similar, ovate-
oblong, obtuse, tomentose, white in the centre, purple-
brown on the margin. Achenes small, oblique, glabrous.—

W. B.E.

Fig. 1, an involucral bract ; 2, a ray-flower ; 3 and 4, disk-flowers ; 5, anthers ;
6, style-arms :—all enlarged.

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PITCAIRN TA sPpATHACEA.
Native of Argentina.

Nat. Ord. Brometiaceax.—Tribe Picatrniex.
Genus Pitcarrnia, L’Hérit.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 665.)

Pircarrnia spathacea ; acaulis, foliis patentibus vel recurvis lineari-acuminatis
usque ad 16 poll. longis 1 poll. latis supra primum furfuraceis demum
glabris subtus perpetuo albo-squamatis, spinis sursum curvatis mar-
ginatis, pedunculis 1 ped. altis, paniculis fere 2 ped. altis, bracteis
navicularibus acuminatis dilute roseis, sepalis ovatis valde acuminatis
pedice!lo multo Jongioribus dilute roseis apice viridibus 1 poll. longis,
petalis obovatis obtusis convolutis basi nudis obscure ceruleis 1} poll.

_longis, ovario ovoideo, stvlo auam ovario triplo longiore, stigmate brevi
spiraliter contorto.

P. spathacea, Griseb. in Goett. Abh. vol. xxiv. (1879) p. 329; Baker, Handb.
Bromel. p. 102.

Puya spathacea, Mez in DC. Monogr. Phan. vol. ix. p. 481.

This is one of the few species of Pitcairnia having petals
destitute of a basal scale inside. It was discovered by
Lorentz on the banks of the Rio Primero, Argentina. The
date of its introduction into cultivation is not known, but
the plant from which our figure was taken in February
last was raised from seeds received from the Breslau
Botanic Garden in 1896, and has been grown with other
hard-leaved Bromeliacew in the Succulent House at Kew,
where they grow better than in a more humid atmosphere.

The genera Pitcairnia and Puya are very closely allied,
differing chiefly in the capsule of the former being septi-
cidal in dehiscence, and more or less adnate to the calyx,
while in the latter it is loculicidal and quite free. It was
probably on account of the very slight degree of union of
ovary and calyx that the present species was transferred
to Puya by Mez. About 130 species of Pitcairnia are
known, of which about twenty have been figured in the
Magazine, some of them under the name of Puya._
P. atrorubens, Baker (Puya Warscewiczii, Wendl.—B. M. t.
5225), is a striking plant with a dense spike of pale yellow
flowers subtended by large purplish-brown imbricate
bracts, which again flowered at Kew last year. In other
species the inflorescence is more lax, varying from a simple

JuLy lst, 1904, ; oe

raceme in P. Andreana, Linden (B. M. t. 6480), to a panicle
in P. alta, Hassk. (t. 6606); the latter species differing
from P. spathacea in having unarmed leaves and scarlet
flowers.

Descr.—A stemless plant. Leaves patent or the lower
recurved, linear, acuminate, the largest sixteen inches long
and one inch broad, at first furfuraceous on the upper
surface, at length glabrous, with persistent, white scales
on the lower surface ; marginal spines curved upwards, and
almost parallel with the leaf-margin. Panicle simply
branched, nearly two feet high, on a peduncle one foot |
high; bracts boat-shaped, acuminate, pale rose. Sepals —
ovate, very acuminate, much longer than the pedicels, pale
rose, green at the apex, one inch long. Petals obovate,
obtuse, convolute, without a basal scale, dull blue, an inch ©
and a quarter long. Ovary ovoid; style three times as
long as the ovary; stigma short, spirally twisted.—C. H.
Wright. :

Fig. 1, leaf-margin; 2, scale from the under surface of leaf; 3, petal;
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ZINGIBER spectasi.e.
Native of the Malay Peninsula.

Nat. Ord. Sciraminea#,—Tribe ZInGIBERE.
Genus ZineipEr, Adans. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 646.)

ZINGIBER spectabile; herba elata, rhizomate repente, caulibus erectis vel
inclinatis glabris viridibus usque ad 8 ped. altis, foliis fere distichis
oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis supra glabris subtus sparse pilosis vel
glabrescentibus 1 ped. longis 3 poll. latis breviter petiolatis, ligula
rotundata integra margine membranacea, scapo radicali, spica oblongo-
cylindrica 6 poll. longa, pedunculo 1} ped. longo, bracteis rotundatis 1}
poll. latis unifloris pallide viridibus, marginibus aurantiacis involutis,
calyce spathaceo 1 poll. longo, coroll~ tubo 13 poll. longo subcylindrico,
lobis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis superiore cucullato dilute luteis, labello

_ rubro-brunneo luteo- vel albo-maculato, lobo terminali emarginato
quam lateralibus rotundatis paullo majore, staminodiis lateralibas
nullis, basalibus anguste lanceolatis, filamento alato apice utrinque
unidentato, stylo filiformi apice truncato et ciliis marginato.

Z. spectabile, Griff. Notul. vol. iii. p. 413. Baker in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind.
vol. vi. p. 247. Maingay mas. vol. v. p. 48.

This plant, which flowered in the Aroid House at Kew
in July of last year, bears the most showy inflorescence of
any species of the genus, the reddish-brown lip spotted
with yellow forming a conspicuous contrast to the back-
ground of yellow-edged bracts. The bracts in Z. Parishii,
Hook. f. (B. M. t. 6019) are also edged with yellow. 7

The species was discovered at Veruppe, in Malacca, by
Griffith, who published a description, without details, of
the structure of the flower. Subsequently Dr. A. C.
Maingay collected it in the same region, and drew up an
excellent description (loc. sup. cit.), which agrees with the
present plant, except that the bracts are described as
reddish-pink, He designates it as “a most elegant
species,” an opinion confirmed by Mr. H. N. Ridley, M.A.,
F.L.S., Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, by
whom the plant here figured was sent to Kew. Speci-
mens have also been collected in Perak by Mr. L. Wray,
Jun., and by Sir George King’s collector, while apparently
the same species was found by Kurz in the South
Andaman Island.

Avéust Ist, 1904,

The nearest ally of this species is Z. inflecum, Blume
(Bnum. Pl. Jave, p. 48), a very rare Javan species, which
differs in having the bracts almost keeled in the upper
part and the lip blackish purple.

Descr.—A tall herb. Rhizome creeping. Stems erect
or inclined, glabrous, green, eight feet high. Leaves
almost distichous, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous
above, sparingly pilose or glabrescent beneath, one foot
long, three inches wide, shortly petiolate; ligule short,
rounded, entire, membranous at the margin. Scape
springing from the rhizome ; flower-spike oblong-cylindric,
six inches long; peduncle one foot and a half long ; bracts
rotundate, one inch and a quarter wide, one-flowered,
pale green, margins orange-yellow, involute. Calyx
spathaceous, one inch long. Corolla-tube subcylindrical,
an inch and a half long; lobes oblong-lanceolate, acute,
the uppermost hooded, pale yellow. Lip reddish-brown,
spotted with yellow; terminal lobe emarginate, a little
larger than the roundish basal ones. Lateral staminodes
none, basal narrowly lanceolate. Filament winged, with a
lateral tooth on either side near the insertion of the
anther. Style filiform, trancate and surrounded by a
ring of hairs at the apex.—C. H. Wright.

Fig. 1, a flower ; 2, vertical section of basal part of flower; 3, anther and
style; 4, stigma :—all enlarged ; 5, reduced view of the whole plant. _

7968

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VANDA pumILa.
Native of Stkkim.

Nat. Ord. Onchipex.—Tribe Vannes.
Genus Vanna, BR. Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 578.)

Vanpa pumila; herba epiphytica caulibus brevibus, foliis distichis confertis
recurvis linearibus canaliculatis 4-8 poll. longis 6-9 lin. latis apice
oblique 3-dentatis, racemis axillaribus erectis spe 3-floris folia vix ex-
cedentibus, floribus suaveolentibus eburneis, labello sanguineo striatis,
circiter 2-poll. diametro, sepalis petalisque similibus oblongo-spathulatis,
petalis angustioribus, labelli obconico-calcarati lobis lateralibus brevibus
triangularibus acutis intermedio vittato ovato-oblongo apice obtuse
breviterque acuminato, capsula clavata alata circiter bipollicari.

V. pumila, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 53. King & Pantling in Ann,
Calc. Bot. Gard. vol. v. p. 45, t. 68, et vol. viii. p. 216, t, 288,

V. cristata, var., Lindl. Fol. Oreh., Vanda, p. 10.

Lindley, who treated this species as a variety of his
V. cristata (B. M. t. 4304), only knew it from Cathcart’s.
drawing in the Kew Herbarium; but it differs from that
and the allied V. alpina, Lindl., in the longer spur-sac of
the lip, and the absence of horns on the tip of the lip. It
was first described as a distinct species by Sir Joseph
Hooker in the place cited above, and subsequently figured
by Sir George King and Mr. Pantling twice over; the
first figure being a very poor one.

Although V. pumila and its allies cannot compare for
beauty with V. tricolor, V. insignis and other congeners,
it is a very pretty, free-growing orchid, having deliciously
fragrant flowers. It inhabits hot valleys of the Sikkim
Himalaya, at about 2,000 feet above sea-level, and there-
fore requires tropical treatment. In its native haunts it

flowers, or begins to flower, in May.
___ The specimen figured was sent to us in June, 1903, by —
Mr. F. W. Moore, the Keeper of the Glasnevin Botanic
Gardens ; the only place in the United Kingdom, so far as
we know, where it is in cultivation. |

Descr.—An epiphytical herb. Stems short. Leaves
densely distichous, recurved, narrow, channelled, four to
eight inches long, six to nine lines broad, obliquely three-

August lst, 1904,

toothed at the tip. Racemes axillary, erect, usually three-
flowered, scarcely exceeding the leaves. lowers very
fragrant, ivory-white, lip striped with crimson, from two
inches to two inches and a half in diameter. Sepals and
petals similar, the latter somewhat smaller, oblong-spathu-
late, sometimes tipped with crimson. Lip with a pro-
minent, obconical spur; lateral lobes short, triangular,
acute, erect; intermediate lobe or main part of the lip
ovate-oblong, shortly and somewhat obtusely acuminate,
striped with crimson. Capsule club-shaped, winged, about
two inches long.—W. B. H.

‘Fig. 1, side view of lip and column; 2, front view of column; 3 and 4,
pollen-masses :—all enlarged.

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THUNBERGIA primvnina. |
Native of Eastern Tropical Africa,

Nat. Ord. ACANTHACEZ.—Tribe THUNBERGIEZ.

Genus TuunBeERrGia, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1072.)

TuuNBERGIA (§ Euthunbergia) primulina; species nova, fere undique villosa,
ex aflfinitate 7’. sericex, a qua differt floribus majoribus Inteis distincte
pedunculatis; 7. atriplicifolize etiamque similis, sed pedunculis multo
brevioribus floribus minoribus; candice nano lignoso incrassato, caulibus
numerosis annuis debilibus sericeo-villosis, foliis breviter sed distincte
petiolatis crassiusculis rhomboideo-ovatis 14-2} poll. longis utrinque
unilobulatis basi rotundatis vel truncatis apice obtusis vel rotundatis
primum sericeo-villosis demum glabrescentibus, floribus axillaribus soli-
tariis luteis 14-13 poll. diametro, pedunculis circiter semipollicaribus,
bracteis ovato-oblongis vix acutis corolle tubum fere 6, Papa calyce
brevi multifido glanduloso segmentis linearibus, corolle tubo sursum
leviter dilatato curvato, limbi lobis patentibus obcordatis tubo intus
pilorum lineis duabus instructo, staminibus brevibus paullo supra tubi
basin insertis, antheris mucronatis loculis basi barbulatis calcaratisque.

T. primulina, Hemsl.

Thunbergia, including Hezacentris (B. M., t. 4786), and
Meyenia (B. M. t. 5013), presents great variety in habit
and in the shape, size and colour of the flowers. About
ninety species have been described; out of which upwards
_ of fifty-five are peculiar to tropical Africa. The present
species is only known from the cultivated plant raised
from seed presented to Kew last year by Sir John Kirk,
who collected it on the main escarpment of the Uganda
Railway, at an elevation of 8,000 feet. ee :

The plant figured flowered in a greenhouse in August
of last year, and promises to develop into a very orna-
mental subject for a cool house; but its value can hardly
be estimated from a young specimen flowering for the
first time. Apart from the tube of the corolla, the
flowers are singularly like those of the common primrose,
both in colour and shape. In general appearance it closely
resembles the extratropical South African T. atriplicifolia,
Mey., and it was provisionally given that name. 5

Among other ornamental species previously figured in
the Magazine, we may note the old favourite 7’. alata
(t. 2591 and 8512); 7. grandiflora (t. 2366) ; T. laurifolia

Aveusr Ist, 1901. }

(t. 4985); T. natalensis (t. 5082); TZ. coccinea (t. 5124),
and 7’, affinis (t. 6975). ~ 3

Descr.—Perennial, at first silky-hairy in nearly all
parts. Rootstock thickened, woody. Stems numerous,
weak, annual. Leaves shortly stalked, rather thick,
rhomboid-ovate, one inch and a half to two inches and a
half long, with one small lobe on each side, rounded or
truncate at the base, abtuse or rounded at the tip,
becoming almost glabrous. Flowers axillary, solitary,
primrose-yellow, with an orange ring around the mouth of
the tube, about an inch and a half across; stalks about
half an inch long; bracts ovate-oblong, nearly as long as
the tube of the corolla. Calyx very short, glandular, —
multifid; segments unequal, linear. Covrolla-tube nearly
_ cylindrical, slightly curved ; lobes of the limb spreading,

obcordate; tube furnished inside with two longitudinal
lines of hairs. Stamens very short, inserted a little above
the base of the tube; anthers mucronate, with the cells
bearded and spurred at the base. Stigma nearly equally
two-lipped, included.—W. B. H. |

_Fig. 1, bracts laid open, showing calyx and pistil; 2, calyx laid open and
pistil; 3, corolla-tube laid open, showing the stamens; 4 and 5, front and
back views of anther:—all enlarged. - — .

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TECOMA surrensts.
Native of Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. Bigxontacea.—Tribe TECOMER.
Genus Txcoma, Juss; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p, 1044.) _

Txcoma (§ Tecomaria) shirensis; frutex erectus, 4-10 ped. altus, ramis sub-
teretibus minute pubescentibus, foliis oppositis vel rarius ternatis
longipetiolatis 4-9 poll. longis imparipinnatis 4~6-jugis, foliolis ovatis
acute acuminatis, plus minus serratis supra glabris subtus in venarum
axillis pilosis ceterum glabrescentibus, racemis terminalibus simplicibus
vel szpius cymas trifloras gerentibus, pedunculo folia squante vel
superante, rhachi pedicellisque pubescentibus, bracteis lineari-subulatis
caducis, calyce tubuloso-campanulato 5-7 lin. longo leviter pubescente
glanduloso, lobis deltoideo-ovatis acuminatis tubi dimidium soquantibus,
corolla anguste infundibuliformi antice curvata valde bilabiata, labio
postico erecto, antico deflexo, lobis late ovatis obtusis, staminibus exsertis,
antherarum lobis supra connatis, disco cupulari, ovario minute lepidoto,
ovulis in loculis 4-seriatis, capsula 4} poll. longa rostrata.

T. shirensis, Baker in Kew Bull, 1894, p. 30.

T. Whytei, C. H. Wright in Kew Bull, 1897, p. 275.

T. nyikensis, Baker in Kew Bull. 1898, p. 159.

Tecomaria shirensis, K. Schum. in Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr., C. (1895), p. 363.

The genus Tecoma as founded by Jussieu (Gen. Pl. p. 139)
was a heterogeneous assemblage of species. The plant
from which the name of the genus was derived, Tecomazo-
chitl of Hernandez (Nov. Pl. Hist. p. 408) is almost certainly
not a member of the Bignoniacew at all; but it has not
yet been satisfactorily identified, though Dunal (DC. Prodr.
vol. xiii. pars i. p. 586), refers it to Solandra guttata, with
the remark that the figure is extremely bad. The other
Species included in Tecoma by Jussieu were Bignonta stans
and B. radicans, both having pinnate leaves and a regular
calyx, and B. pentaphylla, which has digitate leaves and an
irregularly split calyx. As it was apparent that the
pinnate- and digitate-leaved species could not be retained
in the same genus, Bentham and Hooker (Gen, Plant.
Vol. ii. p. 1044) restricted the name Tecoma to the former.
Unfortunately, however, Bureau, followed by other con-
tinental botanists, referred the digitate-leaved species to
Tecoma, so that much confusion now prevails in the
nomenclature of the genus. This is accentuated by the

Aveusr Ist, 1904,

fact that the pinnate-leayed set has been split up into no
fewer than seven genera, based on very slender characters.
Some idea of these genera may be gathered by comparing
figures which have appeared in this Magazine, such as
those of 7. stans, Juss. (t. 3191), a native of tropical
America, T. jasminoides, Lindl. (t. 4004), Australia, and
T’. fulva, G. Don (t. 4896), Chili, with 7. capensis, Lindl.
(Bot. Reg. t. 1117), and T. undulata, G. Don (Smith,
Exot. Bot. t. 19). All of these are retained in Tecoma by
Bentham and Hooker, and have in common pinnate leaves,
a loculicidal capsule and a regular calyx.

Tecoma shirensis is a shrub of vigorous growth, with
_ flowers very similar to those of 7. capensis, but much
finer. In company with its nearest ally 7. Nyassex, Oliv.
(Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1351), which differs chiefly in the shape
of the leaflets, it grows on the high plateau of Nyassaland,
where it flowers from May to September, at altitudes of
between 2000 and 7000 feet above the sea. The plant
from which the present figure was prepared was raised
from seed sent to Kew in December, 1902, by Mr. J.
McClounie, Head of the Scientific Department, Zomba.
It flowered in March of the present year.

Descr.—An erect shrub, four to ten feet high; branches
nearly round, minutely pubescent. Leaves opposite or
three at a node, four to nine inches long, unequally pin-
nate; leaflets in four to six pairs, ovate, serrate, tapered
to a sharp point and glabrous, except on the lower
surface, where there are tufts of hairs in the axils of the
veins. Inflorescence terminal, bearing a number of usually
three-flowered, shortly-stalked cymes ; rhachis and pedicels
pubescent; bracts linear-subulate. Calyx tubular-cam-
panulate, five to seven lines long, pubescent and glandular ;
lobes triangular-ovate, tapering, acute. Corolla funnel-
shaped, curved forwards; upper lip erect; lower lip
deflexed. Stamens exserted; anther-lobes connate above.
Ovary scaly; ovules in four rows in each cell. Capsule
four and a half inches long, beaked.—T. A. Sprague.

Fig. 1, half of calyx cut away to show pistil; 2, base of corolla with
stamens and staminode ; 3 and 4, anthers; 5,apex of style; 6, dehiscing fruit ;
7,a seed :—all except 6 enlarged.

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TABE 48a be
EUPHORBIA virrrina.
Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Eupnorspiacez.—Tribe EurHORBIEs.
Genus Evurnorsia, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 258 )

Kurnorsia (§ Euphorbium) ciperina; species ex affinitate FE. Caput-Medusxe
et H. parvimamme a quibus foliis~minutis sqnamiformibus differt; etiam
E. tridentate (E. anacanthe, B. M., t. 2520) affinis, ab ea glandule
lobis linearibus recedit; frutex carnosus, erectus, inermis caule nunc
brevi obconice incrassato apice plus minusve stellatim ramoso nunc
elongato cylindrico podariis carnosis elongato-hexagonis tecto, foliis
ovatis vix 1 lin. longis acutigs cito deciduis, pednnculis brevissimis
monocephalis, involucri campanulati lobis albis hirtis fimbriatisque,
glandalis carnosis lacerato-bilobis, staminibus filamentis plumosis inter-
mixtis, ovario hirsuto stylo glabro stigmate late trilobato lobis crenulatis,
fructu ignoto, :

“E viperina, A. Berg. in Monatsschr. fiir Kakteenk. vol. xii. (1902), p. 39.

‘The genus Huphorbia is one of the largest in the
vegetable kingdom, numbering five to six hundred species,
which exhibit the greatest variety in size, habit, duration -
and foliage. .They are spread all over the world, except —

the colder regions. The section to which HE. viperina — eae

belongs is confined to the Old World, and mainly to
Africa ; and the species are still very imperfectly known.
~The growth of H. viperina and allied species is very
irregular under. different conditions. When propagated
from seed the primary stem develops as an obconical
body, which bears numerous branches spreading in a
stellate manner from near the top. The further develop-
ment we have not ‘observed. When propagated from
cuttings the branching is one-sided, and the main stem
elongates considerably—two to three feet.

This species comes very near the one figured in the
Magazine (t. 2520), as EZ. anacantha, Ait., especially in the
minute, scale-like leaves; but the involucral glands are
very different. H. globosa, Sims (B. M. t. 2624) is another
species of the same section. LH. meloformis, Ait., is very
much like some of the unarmed species of Melocactus.

It is a noteworthy fact that although the genus Huphor-
Aveust Ist, 1904. :

bia is represented by a hundred or more species in Central
America, the headquarters of the Cactacez, the sections
Diacanthium and BLuphorbium of the genus Huphorbia,
which simulate the Cactacez so closely, are not repre-
sented in that region.

Descr.—A fleshy, erect or straggling, thornless shrub,
one to two feet high. Stems and branches usually
cylindrical, clothed with spirally arranged, fleshy “* poda-
ria” or leaf-bases. eaves minute, ovate, acute, scarcely
a twelfth of an inch long, falling soon after development.
Peduncles short, bearing a single head of flowers. Invo-
lucre campanulate; lobes white, hairy, fringed; glands
fleshy, two-lobed ; lobes crenulate, Stamens (male flowers)
interspersed with plumose filaments. Ovary hairy; style
glabrous; stigma broadly three-lobed; lobes crenulate.
Seed-vessel unknown.—W. B. H. ~

Fig. 1, an inflorescence; 2, part of involncre laid open; 8, an involucral
gland; 4, one of the feathery filaments which are interspersed with the male _
flowers; 5, a male flower; 6, a female flower and bases of stalks of male
sro th el enlarged; 7, whole plant, as it was when drawn :—about half
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Tab. 7972.
ROSA GiGanTEa, |
Native of Eastern India, North Burma and Western China.

Nat. Ord. Rosace#.—Tribe RosEa, ee
Genus Rosa, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625.)

Rosa (§ Indices) gigantea ; species ex affinitate R. indice, Linn., a qua ramulis
seepissime ebracteatis unifloris floribus fractibusque majoribus differt;
frutex robustissimus, alte scandens vel vagans, caulibus basi 3-4 poll.
diametro aculeis fere rectis circiter 8-4 lin. longis armatis, ramulis
floriferis inermibus vel aculeis paucis recurvis armatis, foliis in ramis
floriferis 3-7-foliolatis 8-9 poll. longis, petiolis aculeolatis setoso-

. glandulosis, foliolis breviter petiolulatis lanceolatis 1-3 poll. longis
acuminatis margine calloso-serrulatis glabris, stipulis integris fere ad
apicem adnatis parte libera lineari minute glandulosa, pedunculis sepius
unifloris interdum trifloris seepius elongatis nudis, floribus albis vel
lutescentibus (petalis in alabastris extus fere aureis) 4—6 poll. diametro,
sepalis anguste lanceolatis longe acuminatis usque ad 1 poll. longis
preecipue intus albo-pubescentibus margine minute glandulosis, petalis
obovato-rotundatis 13-2} poll. diametro abrupte obtuseque acuminata,
carpellis pilosis, fructu globoso circiter 14 poll. diametro inermi glabro.

R. gigantea, Collett, ex Orépin in Comptes-Rendus des Séances de la Soc. Bot. ©
Belg. vol. xxvii. (1888), pp. 150-154, et vol. xxviii. (1889), pp. 11-14.
Gard. Chron, 1889, vol. ii. p. 12, fig. 4. Coll. et Hems!. in Journ, Linn.
Soc. Bot. vol. xxviii. (1890), p. 55, %. 9. W. C. Leach in Gard. Chron.
1908, vol. i. pp. 188 ef 211. S. W. F. in daar. cit. p. 278.

R. macrocarpa, Watt, ex Orépin in Oomptes Rendus des Séances de la Soc.
Bot. Belg. vol. xxviii. (1889), p. 13. :

This remarkable Rose was, we believe, first discovered
by Dr. (now Sir George) Watt in Manipur, in 1882,
at an altitude of 7000 ft., and there are excellent speci- —
mens in the Kew and other herbaria collected by him. _
He regarded it as an undescribed species, and named it
Jt. macrocarpa, but he never published a description.
The name, however, has appeared in print in the place
cited above. :

In 1888 the late Col. Sir Henry Collett discovered the —
Same species in the Shan Hills, Upper Burma, some

five degrees south of the original locality, and he sent

dried specimens and seeds of it to Calcutta and Kew.
More recently it has been collected in Mengtze, Yunnan,
South-western China, by Mr. W. Hancock and Dr, A,

Henry. The former describes the flowers as white, and — ae

sometimes fifteen inches in circumference. _
SErremper Ist, 1904, ae )

Sir Henry Collett was greatly interested in his Rose,
which impressed him as one of the most striking objects _
in the forests of the Shan Hills, and he was desirous of
its being published. Accordingly the Calcutta specimens —
were sent to Prof. F. Crépin, who described them under —
Collett’s proposed name. .

The seed sent to Kew germinated, and the plants grew
apace. Some were given to other gardens; some were
tried at Kew under various conditions, but none flowered. —
One was planted out in the Succulent House, where it —
remained, for years, and must have made hundreds of —
yards of stems and branches, but it never flowered. At
the present time there is a plant in the Temperate House
with shoots some fifty feet long, showing no signs of ©
flowering. : —

Albury Park, Guildford, one of the seats of the Duk
of Northumberland, is the only place, except under gle
with Mr. Cant, the Nurseryman, we believe, where it has_
flowered in England, and we are indebted to Her Grace
the Duchess for the opportunity of giving a coloured
figure of it. Mr. Leach, the Head Gardener at Albury,
writes that two flowers only were produced in 1908, “ the
first of which was just on six inches across.” In Feb-_
ruary of the present year, the same plant bore about a
_ dozen flowers, the largest being a little more than five
inches and a half across. 2
_ Every possible method of propagation has been tried —
— ineffectually in order to obtain flowers more freely in this
country; yet it flowers profusely on the Riviera. 2
_ The drawing of the fruit was made from a dried
specimen, soaked out. Sir George Watt tells us that it is
as large as a small apple, bright yellow, edible, and it is
sold in the bazaars of Manipur State. ss ‘
_ Fortune’s “ Double Yellow,” which is very closely allied —
to R. gigantea, is also usually a very shy bloomer, though ©
it sometimes flowers freely when worked as a standard. _

_ Descr.—A very vigorous, climbing or rambling shrub.
Stems as much as three or four inches in diameter at the
base, more or less armed with nearly straight prickles
about a quarter of an inch long. Flowering-branches
usually unarmed, sometimes furnished with a few curved
prickles. Leaves usually of five or seven leaflets, upper-

most often of three leaflets, three to nine inches long;
petioles furnished with small prickles and glandular
bristles. Leaflets lanceolate, one to three inches long,
glabrous, serrulate., Stipules entire, minutely glandular,
adnate to the petiole almost to the top, free part linear.
Peduncles often elongated, naked, one- or rarely three-
flowered. Flowers white or more or less tinged with
yellow, almost golden in bud, four to six inches across.
Sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, about an inch long,
pubescent and white on the inner surface, minutely
glandular along the margin. Petals orbicular-oboyate,
largest two inches and a half across, abruptly acuminate.
Carpels hairy. Fruit globose, about an inch and a half in
diameter, quite smooth.—W. B. H,

Fig. 1, free part of stipule; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, pistil; 5, fruit ; 6, a ripe
carpel :—all except 5 enlarged, Z

Tap. 7973. -— (UA pollen 4

DYSCHORISTE Hirprpranpri,
Native of Hast Tropical Africa,

\ ‘i
Nat. Ord. ACANTHACE%.—Tribe RuELLIER.

Genus Dyscuoriste, Nees; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1077.) 3

Dyscnoriste Hildebrandtii; frutex ramosissimus, tripedalis, caulibus quad-
rangularibus juvenilibus viridibus glandaulosis vetustioribus glabris —
pallide brunneis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis obtusis basi breviter attenuatis
utrinque pubescentibus absque petiolo usque ad 14 poll. longis 9 lin. latis,
petiolis 4 lin. longis, cymis axi!laribus breviter pedunculatis paucifloris
seepius trifloris, calyce 6 lin. longo extus glanduloso intus pilis simplici-
bus appressis vestito, segmentis 5 quam tubo sauilongis lineari-
lanceolatis longe acuminatis, corolla lilacina fauce loboque antico
violaceo-striato bilabiata, labio postico 2-lobo lobis oblongis obtusis
3 lin. longis 1} lin. latis, labio antico 3-lobo oblongo-spathulatis obtusis
lobis 5 lin. longis 2 lin. latis, filamentis inferioribus quam superioribus
paullo longioribus et cum iis breviter connatis, antheris oblongis obtusis
1 lin. longis prope basin dorsifixis, ovario oblongo 1} lin. longo glabro,
stylo filiformi. hae

Dyschoriste Hildebrandtii, Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Natiirl. Pflanzenfam.
vol. iv. 3 B. p. 302; Engl. Pl. Ost. Afr. C. p. 367; C. B. Clarke in Dyer,
Ft. Trop. Afr. vol. v. p. 76.

Calophanes Hildebrandtii, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1880, p. 8. .

Dyschoriste consists of about sixty species, twenty-two
of which are found in Tropical Africa, while a few occur
in South Africa, Madagascar and India, and the remainder
in America, from Texas to Peru. Most are small shrubs
of scrubby habit, and but few have found their way
into cultivation. Some have been cultivated under Calo-
phanes, a name published by D. Don in Sweet’s ‘ British
Flower Garden,” ser. 2, tab. 181 (1833), which must be
superseded by Dyschoriste, Nees, published in the pre-
ceding year, ‘

Dyschoriste is allied to the well-known genus Tiuellia,
from which it differs in having only two ovules in each
cell, while the latter has three or more. os

D. Hildebrandtii was discovered by Hildebrandt at
Kitui, in British East Africa, and it was afterwards
collected in Usambara by Holst. The plant here figured
flowered in the Water Lily House at Kew in October, 1903,
and it was still in full bloom in June of the present year.

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1904.

Deser.—A much-branched shrub, about three feet high.
Stems quadrangular, green and glandular when young,
pale brown and glabrous in age. Leaves ovate-lanceolate,
obtuse, shortly attenuate at the base, pubescent on both
surfaces, an inch and a half long, nine lines wide; petioles
two to four lines long. Cymes axillary, shortly pedunculate,
few-flowered. Calyx six lines long, five-lobed half-way
down, glandular outside, clothed with simple adpressed
hairs inside; segments linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate.
Corolla lilac with violet streaks in the throat and on the
lower lip; upper lip with two oblong, obtuse lobes three
lines long and a line and a half wide; lower lip with three
oblong-spathulate, obtuse lobes five lines long and two
lines wide. Lower filaments a little longer than the upper,
and united to them for a little distance above their in-
sertion; anthers oblong, obtuse, one line long, dorsifixed

near the base. Ovary oblong, a line and a quarter long, _ —

: glabrous ; style filiform.—C. H. Wright.

__ Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, corolla laid open; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, longi-
tudinal section of ovary; 6, stigma:—all enlarged.

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DENDROBIUM Wu.tamsonr.
Native of North-eastern India.

Nat. Ord. OrncHIpAcEa.—Tribe EpIpENDRE.

Genus Drenproxium, Swartz; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 498.)

Denprosium (§ Formose—Nigro-hirsute) Williamsoni; caulibus erectis
crassiusculis 6-12 poll. altis polyphyllis foliisque primum nigro-hirsutis, _
foliis oblongo-lanceolatis 3-4 poll. longis apice oblique bidentatis flores
excedentibus, pedunculis subterminalibus sepius bifloris, floribus 2}-3
poll. diametro eburneis labelli lobis lateralibus splendide aurantiacis,
sepalis petalisque similibus lanceolatis acutis, labelli barbellati lobis
rotundatis ciliatis lateralibus minoribus erecto-incurvis terminali recurvo,
anthera basi antica puberula, columne pede plano. :

D. Williamsoni, Day & Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 78. Hook. f. Fl.
Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 721. King & Pantling in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc.
vol. v. p. 6, t.9. Day Drawings in Bibl. Kew., vol. xiii. n. 77.

_ Dendrobium Williamsoni has an interesting history. It
was discovered in Assam by Mr. W. J. Williamson, a
nephew of the late Mr. W. Day, to whom he sent a living
plant in 1868. It flowered in the latter gentleman’s
notable collection in 1869, and it was described by the late
Dr. Reichenbach in the place cited above. We are unable
to trace its course of distribution under cultivation, but it
is on record that it flowered in the Calcutta Botanic
Garden in 1879. In March, 1887, an unnamed plant
flowered at Kew, and Mr. R. A. Rolfe identified it with
Dendrobium Williamsoni from Reichenbach’s description ;
but the type being locked up at Vienna, absolute certainty
Was unattainable. In 1902, Mrs. Wolstenholme, sister of
the late ‘W. Day, presented that gentleman’s most valuable
collection of some thousands of drawings of cultivated
orchids, and Mr. Rolfe’s identification of the plant was
confirmed by a drawing of the original D. Williamson.

It may be added here that Day’s drawings include a
considerable number of the types of Reichenbach’s species
founded on cultivated specimens, sO that the senseless
provisions of his will are, to some extent, nullified.

D. Williamsoni flowered again at Kew in. 1890, and
_ Sepremper 1st, 1904, :

flowers are preserved of this and previous dates in the
Herbarium. In March of the present year, Mr. F. W.
Burbidge sent flowers of this species to Kew for identifica-
tion, and as it was flowering at Kew at the same time, the
accompanying figure was made from the materials offered
by the two establishments. - ee,

Nearly six hundred proposed species of Dendrobium
have been described, and it is estimated that about five
hundred of them may be valid. They range from North-
west India to Ceylon, China, Japan, the Malayan Archi-
pelago, New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, New
Zealand and Polynesia, eastward to Tahiti. The full
merits of D. Wialliamsoni have probably not yet been
brought out, and we can only add that it is very attrac-
tive. ak

Reichenbach compares the present species with his
D. Draconis (Bot. Zeit. 1862, p. 914; B.M. t. 5459, under

the name eburnewm). Other species of the same affinity ~

are: D. Lowii, Lindl. (B.M. t. 5303); D. infundibulum,

Lindl. (B. M. t. 5446), and D. Wattii, Reichb. f(b. M. t.

6715).

Descr.—A caulescent species. Stems erect, rather thick,
six to twelve inches high, many-leaved, more or less
clothed, as well as the leaves, with black hairs. Leaves

_oblong-lanceolate, three to four inches long, obliquely

two-toothed at the tip, slightly overtopping the flowers. — eS

Peduncles from the upper joints, usually two-flowered.
Flowers two inches and a half to three inches across,
ivory-white, or with a more decided tinge of yellow, and a
zone of bright orange-red on the lateral lobes of the lip. —

Sepals and petals similar, lanceolate, acute. Lip bearded; —

lobes rounded, fringed, lateral smaller, erect, involute,
terminal recurved. Anther hairy in front at the base.
Column not hollowed in front.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, lip; 2, column and spur; 3, anther; 4 and 5, pollinia :—all enlarged.

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PYRUS NIEDZWETZKYANA,
Native of Central Asia.

Nat. Ord. Rosacra,—Tribe Pourz.
Genus Pyrus, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 626.)

Prrus Niedzwetzkyana; arbor parva (specimen in horto Kewensi cultum jam
12-14 ped. altum), ramulis floriferis rigidis rectis crassiusculis cortice
glabro atro-purpureo, foliis longe graciliterque petiolatis in ramis
fructiferis subcoriaceis rigidis glabrescentibus demum_ rubescentibus
lanceolatis oblanceolatis vel oblongis absque petiolo 3-5 poll. longis
crenato-serrulatis sepius breviter acuminatis subtus pallidioribus secus
costam sepe etiam puberulis, petiolo usque ad 2 poll. longo venisque
nitido-roseis puberulis, floribus roseo-purpureis 13-12 poll. diametro
numerosissimis in ramis lateralibus brevissimis fasciculatis, pedunculis
gracilibus 6-9 lin. longis, calycis albo-lanati lobis lanceolatis acutis
demum recurvis 23-3 lin. longis, petalis obovatis circiter 9 lin. longis,
staminibus stylos glabros excedentibus, fructu pendulo conoideo 132-2
poll. longo extus sanguineo-purpureo intus per totam carnem roseo-
purpureo,

Pyrus Niedzwetzkyana, Hemsl.

Malus Medwietzkyana, Dieck. Neuheiten Offerte des Nat. Arb. Zischen, 1891,
p- 16. Gard. Chron. 1891, vol. i. p. 461. Wiener Illustr. Gartenz, 1891,
p. 164. stipe

Malus Niedzwetzkyana, Dieck, diar. cit. 1892, p. 18. Koehne, Dendrologie,
1893, p. 259. :

Pyrus malus, Durand & Jackson, Index Kewensis Suppl. i. p. 262.

This remarkably distinct apple is an instance in which
it seems better, for practical purposes, to avoid the
theoretical species, and publish it under the single name
it goes by in cultivation. It might be argued that it is
only a variety of Pyrus Malus, Linn., but we do not
propose discussing that. question here. It certainly is a
most striking object, whether in flower or in fruit.

As to the spelling of the distinctive name, we have
adopted the one used by the author in his second account
of the plant, where, however, he gives no explanation of
the deviation from the first. In each case he states
that he names it after his patron, who collected it
wild in the Ili District, South-west Siberia. Mr. Dieck
further states that this apple is widely spread in Western
and Central Asia, both in a wild state and cultivated, and
he believes it.is the'same as a common wild apple of the

SrerremMBer Ist, 1904.

Caucasus, which is highly prized for its fruit by the Swabian
_golonists. He received it from Kashgar and the Plateau
of Talgar, and the European stock appears to have been
raised from seed of cultivated trees in the former locality,
where it is called ‘ Kisil alma,” or red apple. With the
exception of the leaves all parts of this apple are red—
bark, wood, flowers and fruit, and the leaves turn red
-inautumn. Even the flesh of the nice-tasting fruit is of
a deep, rosy red.

Pyrus Niedzwetzkyana is hardy at Kew, where it
flowered profusely last spring, and is just ripening fruit at
the time of writing this. The fruit actually represented
in the plate is from adrawing made by Mr. George Massee,
of a very fine fruiting specimen sent to Kew from Bitton,
in August, 1901, by Canon Ellacombe. eee 3

Descr.—A small, free-growing tree. Flowering-branches
long, straight, stiff, rather thick; bark smooth, very dark —

purple. Leaves on long, slender petioles, on the fruiting ae

branches rather thick, stiff, nearly glabrous, tinged red, —
lanceolate, oblanceolate or oblong, three to five inches long
without the petiole, finely crenately-toothed, shortly
acuminate, slightly hairy along the midrib ; petiole one to
two inches long, bright red as well as the midrib, slightly
hairy. Flowers deep rose-purple, an inch and a half to
an inch and three-quarters across, very numerous, clustered

at the ends of very short, lateral branchlets; stalks

slender, six to nine lines,long. Calyx woolly, white;
lobes lanceolate, acute, about a quarter of an inch long,
Petals obovate. Stamens longer than the smooth styles.
_ Fruit pendulous, conical, one inch and_ three-quarters
to two inches long, skin crimson-purple, flesh rose-purple
throughout.— W. B. H.

Fig. 1, section of a flower; 2 and 3, stamens :—al/ enlaryed; 4, fruit:—
natural size. :

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MORASA THomsont, |
Native of Hastern Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. Intpacra.—Tribe Morzea.
Genus Mora, Linn, ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 688.)

Morza Thomsoni; herba rigida Junci habitu, caule erecto usque ad 1 ped.
alto, foliis teretibus glabris 6-sulcatis 4-7 poll. longis superioribus
gradatim reductis, fasciculis florum spicatim dispositis, spathis 2 ovato-
lanceolatis acuminatis rubro-brunneis 2-floris 1-1} poll. longis, floribus
13-2 poll. diam., perianthii segmentis pallide lilacinis intus basi luteis
brunneo-maculatis costis intus violaceis extus rubro-brunneis notatis
exterioribus ovatis acuminatis e basi angusta lanceolatis acuminatis
interioribus quam exterioribus minoribus, antheris oblongis basi sagittatis
connectivo apice breviter producto, styli ramis triangularibus obtusis
emarginatis undulatis, ovario oblongo, capsulis circiter 4 lin. longis
castaneis.

Morza Thomsoni, Baker, Handb. TIridesx, p. 57, et in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr.

vol. vii. p. 341.

.

This plant, which flowered in the Cape House at Kew
in July, 1908, was raised from seeds sent by Mr. J.
McClounie, Head of the Scientific Department; Zomba,
British Central Africa, who collected them on the Nyika
Plateau. It has also been found by Mr. Alexander Whyte
at an altitude of 4000-6000 ft. on Mount Malosa, in
Nyasaland; but it was originally described from a
specimen discovered by the late Mr. Joseph Thomson, |
F.R.G.S., on the higher plateau in German Hast Africa,
north of Lake Nyasa. |

The genus Morea, consisting of about sixty species, has
its headquarters in South Africa, while sixteen species
occur in Tropical Africa, and one, M. Robinsoniana,
F. Muell. (B, M. t. 7212) inhabits Lord Howe Island.

During the early part of the last century, when Cape
plants were largely imported, many species of Morxa were
introduced with them, and were figured in the publica-
tions of that day. A reference to these figures (B. M.
tabs. 168, 618, 712, 750, 759, 771, 1012, 1276, 5438) will
show that many are of great beauty, but the fugacious
nature of the flowers, as in many other Iridacex, has
prevented them from becoming general favourites.

SerTeMBER Ist, 1904.

Deser.—A rigid herb of rush-like habit. Stem erect,
reaching a height of one foot. Leaves terete, glabrous,
six-furrowed, the lowest about seven inches long, gradually
becoming shorter upwards. lowers in fascicles spicately
arranged, about an inch and three-quarters in diameter.
Spathes two to each fascicle, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,
reddish-brown, an inch to an inch and a half long.
Perianth-segments pale lilac, the base inside yellow,
spotted with brown; midrib of each segment darker lilac |
inside, reddish-brown outside; outer segments ovate from
a narrow base, acuminate; inner smaller than the outer,
lanceolate, acuminate. Anthers oblong, sagittate at the
base; connective shortly produced at the apex. Ovary
oblong; style-arms triangular, obtuse, emarginate, undu-
late. Capsule four lines long, chestnut-colour.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, portion of leaf showing cross section; 2, an outer perianth-
segment; 3, stamens and style-arms; 4, anther, front view; 5, anther,
back view :—a// enlarged.

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Nat. Ord. CarriroLtiace®.—Tribe LonicEREa. —
Genus Lonicera, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5.)

Lonicura etrusca; frutex alte scandens, ramosissimus, caulibus glabris
primum purpureis teretibus, foliis obovatis vel supremis fere orbiculari-
bus 2 poll. longis 2 poll. latis integris supra et ad nervos subtus sparse
pulbescentibus superioribus basi connatis, capitulis floram sepins ternis
terminalibas circa 12-foris, floribus biais involucro quadrilubo cinctis,
calyce viridi 1 lin. longi lobis deltoideis acutis, corolla primum straminea
demum aurantiaca, tubo 1 poll. longo tubuloso-infundibulifor.ni, labio
postice 5 lin. longo 4 lin. lato ad quartam partem in lobos 4 ovatos im-
bricatoe diviso, labio antico oblongo 7 lin. longo 1} lin. lato, staminibus
longe exsertis, stylo filifurmi, baccis rubris. ;

L. etrusca, Santi, Viagg. al Montiam. vol. i. p. 113, tab. 1 (1795); Savi. Fl.
Pis. vol. i. (1798) p. 236; DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 331; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ.
vol. xvii. tab. 1172; Willk. & Lange, Prodr. Fl. Hisp. vol. ii. p. 332;
Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. iti. p. 5; Nym. Consp. Fl. Hur. ed. 2, p. 321;

_ W. Watson in Gard. Chron, 1998, vol. ii. p. 231; Rehder in Rep. Missouri
_ Bot. Gard. vol. xiv. (1903), p. 194. ee Bs

L. hetrusea, Host, Fi. Austr. vol. i. p. 298; Bub. Fl. Pyren. vol. ii. p. 335.

L. gigantea, Hort. ex Carritre in Rev. Hort. 1882, p. 558; var. superba,
Hort. ee W. Wutson, in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. ii. p. 281.

L. Charlotti, Hort. ex Watson, lc. — ae <

Caprifolium Periclymenum, Gouan, Hort. Monsp. p. 101 (1768), non Linn,

C. etruscum, Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. vol. v. p. 261.

C, dimorphum, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p. 274.

Amongst about a dozen species of Lonicera figured in
this work, the present one most nearly resembles the
North American Z. flava, Sims (t. 1818), which differs in
having solitary flower-heads and a shorter, less slender,
corolla-tube. Rehder’s monograph (loc. sup. cit.) contains
about 150 well-marked species belonging to this genus,
grouped in two subgenera, viz. :—Chamecerasus, having
two-flowered, axillary cymes and leaves never united at
the base, and Periclymenum, having terminal, usually
three-flowered cymes collected into whorls or spikes and
at least the upper leaves connate by their bases. |

L. etrusca, which belongs to the latter of these sub-
genera, was mentioned by Gouan (under the name of
October Ist, 1904,

Caprifolium Periclymenum) as growing in the garden at
Montpellier in 1762. In 1795 Santi described it as a
distinct species from specimens he saw when on a tour
in Tuscany. Since then it has been observed at various
stations on all sides of the Mediterranean and extending
westwards to Madeira and eastwards to Kurdistan. “Ex-_
tending over so wide a range, it naturally presents
_ varieties, eight such, founded chiefly on the size of the
leaves and the nature or absence of their indumentum, ~
being enumerated by Rehder. 3

The specimen here figured flowered in the Himalayan
section of the Temperate House at Kew in August, 1903.
The plant was purchased from a continental nurseryman
about ten years previously. The conditions in this
situation are eminently favourable for it, and its stem has
attained a diameter of two inches, and its shoots grow
from six to ten feet in length in a season. These shoots
bear, for a distance of several feet from the apex, numerous
short lateral branches terminated by the clusters of
flowers, and, hanging down from the rafters, present the
appearance of a graceful cloud of colour. In the open air
the plant also thrives, but does not flower so freely as
indoors. It is easily propagated from cuttings.

Deser.—A lofty, much-branched climber. Stem terete,
glabrous; branches purple plum-colour when young.
Leaves obovate or the upper almost orbicular, at least the
upper pair joined at the base, sparingly pubescent above
and on the chief nerves beneath, pale green, about two
inches and a half long arid two inches wide. flowers in
usually ternate heads terminal on the branches, each head
about twelve-flowered, borne on a peduncle about one
inch long, each pair of flowers surrounded by a four-lobed
involucre, shorter than the calyx. Calye green, one line
long; teeth deltoid, acute. Corolla at first creamy-yellow,
finally almost orange ; tube one inch long, tubular funnel-
shaped; upper lip five lines long, four lines wide, divided

“about a quarter of the way down into four ovate imbricate — :
lobes; lower lip oblong, seven lines long, a line and

a half wide. Stamens much exserted. Style filiform.
Berries red, not united.—O. H. Wright.

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MUCUN A SEMPERVIRENS.
Native of China.

Nat, Ord. Leeuminosx.—Subord. PAPILIONACER.
Genus Mucuna, Adans.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 533.)

Mucuna sempervirens; frutex alte scandens vel vagans, caule primario basi
interdum 1 ped. diametro (planta in horto kewensi culta fere 100-pedalis)
ramulis ultimis volubilibus, foliis trifoliolatis longe petiolatis cum petiolo
gracili 9-12 poll. longis floribusque primum pilis urentibus vestitis cito
glabrescentibus, foliolis petiolatis coriaceis nitidis atroviridibus ovato-
oblongis lateralibus obliquis, omnibus acuminatissimis integerrimis
3-5 poll. longis, floribus atropurpureis crassis carnosis circiter 2} poll.
longis racemosis, racemis densis szpius in ramis vetustiotibus fascicu-
latis interdum in ramis junioribus productis, pedicellis quam floribus
multo brevioribus, calycis subhemisphezrici tubo lato dorso gibboso limbo
bilabiato labio superiore brevissime bidentato labio inferiore trilobato
lobis deltoideis acuminatis, petalis fere coriaceis, vexillo erecto cordi-
formi concavo basi dorso inflexo apice recarvo, alis horizontalibus oblique
oblongo-spathulatis intus concavis marginibus superioribus divergentibus,

carina alas excedente genitalia includente rostrata spinuloso-acuminata,
- staminibus glabris vexillari libero divergente, antheris biformibus alternis
versatilibus barbatis cito deciduis, ovario styloque pubescentibus, stylo
stamina paullo superante, ovulis numerosis, legumine lignoso circiter
pedali 13 poll. lato inter semina szpe constricto puberulo suturis in-

crassatis, seminibus compressis oblongo-rotundatis vel reniformibus 9-15

lin. longis hilo velutino ad § circumdatis.

M. sempervirens, Hems/. in Journ. Linn, Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. p. 190; peo

Garden & Forest, vol. ii. (1889), p. 266; Rafill in Gard. Chron. 1904, —
vol, i. p. 282. ,

pakie ata

Mucuna is the Brazilian name of M. pruriens, DC., and
perhaps of other species, the pods and other parts of
which are clothed with stinging-hairs, which are used,
under the name of cowhage or cow-itch, as a mechanical
anthelmintic. It is almost impossible to handle either
fresh or herbarium specimens without suffering from the
stings of these extremely insinuating hairs. Those of
M. sempervirens are mostly shed at an early stage of the
development of the parts. a :

The plant figured in the Magazine (t. 4945) as M.
prurita, Hook. (M. pruriens, DC.), is not the true plant, but
M. imbricata, DC.,a native of India. M. pruriens ig
figured, though not well, in the “ Botanical Register,’ vol.

-OcToBER Ist, 1904.

hy

xxiv. t. 18, and in Bentley and Trimen’s “ Medicinal
Plants,” t. 78.

M. sempervirens was originally described from a dried
‘specimen sent to Kew, from Ichang, by Dr. A. Henry, in
1886. The material consisted of foliage, ripe pods and
quite young flower-buds. The same year Dr. Henry sent
seed direct to the Gardens, and one of the plants raised —
was set in a bed in the Temperate House, where it has _
grown to the dimensions given in the description. It
flowered for the first time in August, 1903. ‘'wo large
clusters of flowers were produced on one of the old stems,
about forty feet from the ground, and one smaller one on
a thin branch about two years old. This year none has
appeared, but the foliage is ornamental and effective. The —
plant is growing at the south end of the central building
_ of the Temperate House. ;

. In 1895, Mr. E. Ludlow, of “The Firs,’ Wimbledon,
Sent seeds of M. sempervirens to Kew. He was Com-
missioner of Imperial Customs at Ichang in 1892-3, and
had actually seen the large specimen from which Dr.
Henry obtained his specimens, and in his notes accom-
panying the specimen he states that it is traditionally an
_ introduced plant there. This may be so, but we have the

authority of Dr. Henry that this species is wild in many

parts of the surrounding mountains.

Supplementary to my original description of M. semper-
virens, I mentioned that Kew possessed flowers of a
Mucuna from Ningpo, which I Supposed might be the
Same species, and it now proves to be the same. It was
collected by Mr. C. W. Everard, of the British: Consular
Service, and presented to Kew, with many other plants, by
the Rev. T. A. Preston. The Rev. E. Faber also collected
Wt in the Province of, Kweichau, about the year 1887. —

Descr.— A very tall, climbing or rambling, evergreen
shrub, the young parts more or less clothed with stinging
hairs. Stem sometimes a foot in diameter at the base ;
ultimate branchlets slender and twining. Leaves trifolio-
late, including the slender petiole nine to twelve inches
long. Leaflets petiolulate, coriaceous, shining above,

ovate-oblong, lateral oblique, all tapering to a fine point,
three to five inches long. Flowers dark purple outside,
lighter within, and Shading off to white at the base of

the petals,* thick, fleshy, about two inches and a half
long. Iacemes dense, six to nine inches long, mostly —
produced from the old stems. Pedicels shorter than the
flowers. Calyx broadly campanulate, somewhat two-
lipped; tube gibbous above; upper lip very shortly
bidentate; lower distinctly tridentate. Standard erect,
cordate, shorter than the other petals ; wings horizontal,
oblong-spathulate; keel narrow, exceeding the wings,
beaked, closed over the stamens and pistil. Stamens
glabrous, the upper one free; alternate anthers versatile,
bearded, caducous. Pod woody, about a foot long and an
inch and a half broad, often constricted between the seeds.
Seeds purple-brown, flattened, reniform, three-quarters. to
an inch long.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, calyx and pistil :—enlarged.

* Dr. Henry describes the flowers of the wild plant as flesh-coloured, and
states that they are much visited by bees and other insects.

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LOROPETALUM cutnensz,
Native of India and China.

Nat. Ord. HaAMAMELIDACER. :
Genus Lonoretatum, R. Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 668.)

LoropetaLum chinense; frutex usque ad 8-10 ped. altus, dam juvenis copiose
florens, dense ramosus, ramis gracilibus foliisque primum stellato-
ubescentibus, foliis alternis breviter petiolatis subcoriaceis persistenti-
te ovato-lanceolatis 1-2 poll. longis (in speciminibas silvestribus sepius
multo minoribus circumscriptione variabilibus) basi leviter obliquis
apiculato-acutis ciliolatis, stipulis parvis cito deciduis, floribus candidis
viridi-albis vel pallide luteis circiter 1 poll. diametro in ramulis brevibus
fasciculatis subsessilibus, calycis dense pubescentis lobis 4 brevibus ovatis
obtusis, petalis 4 linearibus 9-12 lin. longis, staminibus 4 cum glandulis
totidem alternantibus filamentis brevissimis connectivo apice rostrato,
ovario 2-loculari lo¢ulis uniovulatis stylis brevissimis, capsula lignosa
dense pubescente semisupera subglobosa loculicide bivalva, seminibus
oblongis circiter 2 lin. longis albis levibus.

L. chinense, R. Br. in Abel’s Narrative of a Journey in China (1818), p. 375,
in nota. D. Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soe. vol. xxiii. p. 459. Hemsl. in |
Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. p. 290. WN. FE. Brown in Gard. Chron.
1880, vol. ii. p. 620; 1883, vol. i. p. 152, f. 23; 1894, vol. i. p. 342, f. 42.

- -The Garden, vol. lxv. p. 255, cum figura. Journ. of Hortic., series 3, vol.
xviii. p. 235, £.39. De Wildem. Ic. Hort. Then. vol. ii. t. 58.

Hamamelis chinensis, 2. Br. loc. sup. cit., cum icone nigra,

Robert Brown published this shrub as a species of
Hamamelis, but at the same time he pointed out in a note
‘some essential differences, and suggested that it might be
raised to generic rank, under the name of Loropetalwm.
This was adopted by Prof. D. Oliver in the place cited
above, and he subsequently (1883) reduced (Hook. Ic. Pl.
t. 1417) Bentham’s Tetrathyrium subcordatum, published —
in 1861, to the same genus.

_ Both are natives of China, and Loropetalum chinense is
common, ranging from Formosa, Chekiang and Kwang-
tung to Hupeh and Yunnan, and extending to the Khasia
Hills in Hastern India. It was introduced into this
country, in 1880, by the late Mr. Maries for Messrs. James
Veitch & Sons. In 1894 this firm was awarded a First
Class Certificate for it; yet its merits were not at once

OctToBER Ist, 1904,

recognized. It is quite hardy, and autumn is the flower-_
ing-time usually given, but we believe, that like the species
of Hamamelis, and some other members of the order, its
natural time is late winter or early spring, when its flowers
are liable to be destroyed by frost. But it is very attrac-
tive when it escapes the cold, and it bears mild forcing
quite well, flowering freely as a small. plant in pots.
It was very ornamental in this state, in the Temperate
House at Kew last February, when our drawing was made,
and it certainly deserves to become more widely known.

The Hamamelidacew are a comparatively small family,
but they are pretty fully illustrated in this Magazine, the
present subject being the twelfth. The N. American
Fothergilla. alnifolia, Linn, (t. 1342) is the first, and
perhaps the least attractive. Rhodoleia Championi, Hook.
(t. 4509) is the second, and it is the most showy member
of the order. ae

The others figured are:—Corylopsis spicata, Sieb. &
Zuce. (t. 5458); C. himalayana, Griff. (t. 6779); C.
pauciflora, Sieb. & Zuce. (t. 7736); Hamamelis japonica,
Sieb, & Zuce. (t. 6659); H. virginiana, Linn. (t. 6684);
HI. mollis, Oliv. (t. 7884); Parrotia persica, C. A. Mey :
(t. 6744); P. Jacquemontiana, Decne (t. 7501), and Tricho-
_cladus grandiflorus, Oliver (t. 7418). The last is a native
of South Africa, and the only one of them from the —
southern hemisphere, and it has a very strong family —
likeness to our plant.

Some members of this order are more valuable for the —
brilliant tints of their foliage in autumn than they are
for their flowers, Liquidambar styraciflua and Parrotia —
persica being especially noteworthy in this respect. The
former closely resembles a small-leaved maple, but it may
be recognized by its alternate leaves. .

Descr.—A densely branched shrub, reaching eight to ten
feet_in height, but flowering profusely while still quite
small. Branches slender, more or less clothed, as well as
the leaves, with a stellate pubescence. Leaves alternate,
shortly stalked, somewhat leathery, persistent, ovate-
lanceolate, one to two inches long, slightly oblique at the
base, tapering to a fine point, minutely fringed on the
margin; stipules small, falling early. Flowers pure white,
greenish-white or very pale yellow, about one inch in

diameter, in clusters of about four at the ends of short
branchlets. Calyx small, densely hairy, shortly four-lobed.
Petals four, very narrow, nine to twelve lines long.
Stamens four, alternating with as many glands; filaments ©
very short ; anthers beaked. Capsule nearly globose, very
hairy, two-celled, with a solitary seed in each cell.—
WB. A,

Fig. 1, a leaf-node and stipules; 2, portion of under surface of leaf; 3,a
flower beginning to unfold; 4, the same from which calyx-lobes and petals
have been removed; 5, a longitudinal section of the ovary; 6,a cluster of
fruits; 7, a seed :—all enlarged. ;

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x. ZYGOCOLAX verrentt.
Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Orncuipace®.—Tribe VANDE.

Zreocoiax, Rolfe, genus inter Zygopetalum ? et Colacem ¢ hybridum, Gard.
Chron. 1887, vol. i. p. 765.)

Zyeocorax Veitchii; pseudobulbis ovoideis ‘compressis, foliis 2 vel 3 floribus
coetaneis anguste lanceolatis circiter pedalibus acutis 7-costatis recurvis
inferioribus brevioribus latioribus, scapis basilaribus erectis quam foliis
brevioribus 3-5-floris, bracteis amplis ovarium involventibus, floribus 2}-
3 poll. diametro, sepalis petalisque similibus spathulatis concoloribus
intus viridi-luteis brunned-purpureo-maculatis, labello suborbiculari
albido longitudinaliter rubro-violaceo-striato, polliniis 4 stipitatis ovoideis
per paria in loculis segregatis.

Zygocolax Veitchii, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1887, vol. i. p. 765; Journ. Linn,
Soc. Bot. vol. xxiv. p. 170, t. 4; Orch. Rev. vol. xii. 1904, p. 93. Veiteh,
Manual Orch. Pl. vol. ix. pp. 66, 67, ewm icone ex Journ. Linn, Soc. iterata ;
vol. x. p. 94.

Zygopetalum Veitchii, Gard. Chron. 1887, vol. i. p. 426.

Zygocolax Veitchii, var. Kromeri, Gard. Chron. 1900, vol. ii. p. 346. Orch.

— Rev, vol. viii. p. 371. oe

Zygolax Veitchii, Hansen, The Orchid Hybrids, p. 244.

Hybrid orchids of reputed bigeneric origin are now

not uncommon. The first raised artificially, according to
Veitch’s valuable work, cited above, was Phaiocalanthe
irrorata, Rolfe, a cross effected by Dominy, the celebrated
orchid-grower of the firm named, between Phajus
grandifolius, Lour. (Bletia Tankervilia, R. Br.—B. M. t.
1924) and Calanthe vestita, Lindl. (B. M. t. 4671). It was
originally described by Reichenbach (Gard. Chron. 1867,
p- 264, with a figure) under the name of Phaius trroratus,
and a coloured figure of it appeared in the * Floral Maga-
zine,” vol. viii. (1869), t. 426. This was a highly interest-
ing achievement, both of the parents having long been in
cultivation, and the former was one of the earliest of
exotic orchids successfully cultivated in England. A fine
coloured figure of it appeared in Aiton’s “‘ Hortus Kew-
ensis”’ (ed. 1, 1789, vol. iii. p. 302, t. 12) under the name
of Limodorum Tankervilliz, Dryander.

For many reasons, Zygocolax Veitchit, Rolfe, deserves our
attention and admiration. Messrs. Veitch (Man. Orch. Pl.

Octosgr Ist, 1904, ee :

vol. ix. p. 67) say: * This hybrid, whether in its botanical
or horticultural aspect, is one of the most interesting we
have yet raised.”

It was the result of a cross effected by Seden, the —
worthy successor of Dominy, between Colar jugosus, Lindl.
(B. M. t. 5661) and Zygopetalum crinitum, Lodd. (B. M.
t. 3402), respectively the male and female parents of the
hybrid. The seed was sown in September, 1882, and the
first flowers were produced in March, 1887. Truly the
gardener has to wait for the flowers of his labour !

Zygocolae Vettchii is also noteworthy as having been
the principal subject of Mr. R. A. Rolfe’s excellent
articles on a uniform plan of naming bigeneric hybrid
orchids, to which references are given above. He followed
Dr. M. T. Masters * in combining elements of the names
of the two genera concerned, and this has now become
almost universal in practice.

Another point of special interest and importance in the
plant figured, is that it is of natural origin, having been
imported direct from Brazil by Mr. Kromer, Roraima
Nursery, Croydon, as we are informed by Mr. Young,
gardener to Sir Frederick Wigan, Bart., in whose garden
at Hast Sheen the plant in question flowered in February
of the present year. But, as Mr. Rolfe has pointed out, —
it does not differ from the original Z. Veitchii, and therefore
deserves no distinctive name.

Comparing the flowers of the reputed parents, as repre-
sented in our illustration, with those of Zygocolax Veitchti,
one might be sceptical of the hybrid origin, for it seems
to be nearly all Zygopetalum; but we refer readers
desirous of fuller details to the publications cited above.

Descr.—An epiphytal herb. Bulbs ovoid, flattened.

Leaves two or three on each bulb, appearing at the same — :

_ time as the flowers, lanceolate, about a foot long, seven-

ribbed, recurved, sharp-pointed, lower ones shorter and
broader than the others, Scapes solitary from below the
bulbs, erect, shorter than the leaves, three- to five-flowered.
Bracts large, enfolding the flower-stalk, Flowers two
inches and a half to three inches. across. Sepals and

ae hilageria, a hybrid between J, L ilesia,i “ | »
Chroniéle,” 1 872, p. 358, figa, 119, eo Philesia, in the “ Gardeners

petals similar in shape and colour, greenish-yellow, on the
upper surface blotched with a rich purple brown. Lip
nearly circular, ground yellowish-white, longitudinally
striped with red-violet.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, column of Zygocolaw Veitchii; 2 and 3, front and back views of the
pollinia of the same; 4, a flower of Zygopetalum crinitum, female parent,
from Warner and Williams’s “Orchid Album,” vol. ix. t. 410; 5, a flower of
Colax jugosus, male parent, from B. M. t. 5661 :—jigures 1-3 enlarged.

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES.

Tab. 7972. Rosa gigantea:—We are told that the
record in the “‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle” of this rose having
flowered in Mr. F. Cant’s nursery was based on a mistake,
so that the first flowering in this country was at Albury
Park, as set forth in the Magazine for September.
’ Messrs. F. Cant & Co., of Colchester, were written to on
this point, but no reply has been received. The first
flowering in Europe, we believe, was at Cannes. Sir
Thomas Hanbury, writing to Sir William Thiselton-Dyer,
says: ‘I send you herewith a dried specimen of Kosa
- gigantea, picked in the garden of the Villa Eléonore, at
Cannes, where it grows against the house of Lord

Brougham and Vaux, the owner. He has it in a box
measuring, perhaps, 24 by 14 by 14 feet.” This com-
munication is dated May 11th, 1898. In a previous letter
he had mentioned that it was in full flower; but we went
too far, perhaps, in saying that it flowers profusely on the
Riviera. There is also a cultivated flowering specimen in
the Kew Herbarium (received through Mr. G. Nicholson in -
December, 1899), from Mr. R. Armstrong, Claremont,
Cape Town. |

Tab. 7973. Dyschoriste Hildebrandtii :—This plant was
raised at Kew, in 1900, from seed collected in South
Rhodesia by Mr. John Mahon, then Government Botanist,
Scientific Department, Zomba, British Central Africa,
and now of the Imperial Institute, South Kensington.

Tab. 7974. Dendrobium Williamsoni :—Mr. W. Day is
a misprint for Mr. John Day.

W. Bi wt,

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Tas. 7981.
JASMINUM primutinum.
” Native of Western China.

Nat. Ord. OLEacEa.—Tribe JasMINER,
Genus Jasminum, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p, 674.

_JAsMINUM primulinum; frutex alte vagans, omnino fere glaber, ramis elon-
gatis angulatis viridibus, foliis trifoliolatis graciliter petiolatis, foliolis
subseasilibus oblongo-lanceolatis 1-2 poll. longis integris subcoriaceis

_ supra atroviridibus nitidis apiculatis, floribus in foliorum axillis solitariis
vel in ramulis -brevibus lateralibus terminalibus luteis 13-2 poll.
diametro, pedunculis vel ramulis bracteis foliaceis integris instructis,
calycis lobis lanceolatis acutis puberulis, corolla lobis swpius 6 obovato-
spathulatis rotundatis interdum duplicatis, staminibus inclusis, stylo in
floribus simplicibus exserto, fructu ignoto. ere

J.primulinum, Hemsl. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, p. 109. Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl.

~ t. 2384. Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. vol. xxviii. p. liii. Journ. of Hort. series 3
vol. xlvi. p. 295, cum figura nigra. Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. i. p. 197,
f ; : Veitch, Catalogue of Novelties, 1903, p. 5. Rev. Hort. 1904, pp. 182-

? ¥ 2, to; .

When I described this species nine years ago from a
dried specimen, presented to Kew by Mr. W. Hancock,
F.L.S., F.R.G.S., of the Chinese Imperial Customs, I used
the following phrase :— J. nudifloro valde affinis et hujus_
Speciei forsan varietas speciosissima,” and Dr. A. Henry,
who subsequently collected it in the same locality, is of
the opinion that it is a race of J. nudiflorum, Lindl. (B. M.
t. 4649). He supplies the following note :—“ I found the
plant both at Szemao and Mengtze, in the Province of
Yunnan; but I am of opinion that it occurs always, in the
districts where it has hitherto been found growing, culti-
vated or as an escape from cultivation. The shrubs were
Seen in gardens, or more frequently in hedges or amidst
other shrubs, in the vicinity of villages, and never were
met with in woods or forests. It apparently never set
any fruit, as I searched for it. assiduously in vain; but
propagated itself freely by suckers. Semi-double flowers
were often seen, and varied very much in size. Several -
_ other species of Jasminum were plentiful in the woods and
_ forests of South Yunnan, and these produced fruit freely
and never showed any variation in the size of the flowers

OctoBEr Isr, 1904,

nor any tendency to doubling. There is no reference to
J. primulinum in the ‘Chi-wu-ming,’ which is rich in
details concerning Yunnan plants.” Dr. Henry is led by
the foregoing facts. to the conclusion that 7. nudiflorum
was long ago introduced into the district from the north,
and has become evergreen and larger-flowered under the
different climatic conditions. :
Whatever its descent, J. primulinum is a great acquisi-—
tion, and should it prove as hardy as the old J. nudiflorum, it
will doubtless be widely planted. It has withstood sixteen
degrees of frost against a north wall in Messrs. James
Veitch & Sons’ nursery. It also does well as a pot-piant.
With regard to its not bearing fruit, the same may be ~
said of J. nudiflorum, so far as our knowledge goes. Not —
one of the numerous wild and cultivated Specimers in the ~
Kew Herbarium bears a single fruit.

J. primulinum was one of the first plants introduced _
from China by Mr. E. H. Wilson, for Messrs. Veitch, who
received a First Class Certificate for it last April. It has
flowered freely at Kew, both indoors and out. ae
Descr.—A rambling, evergreen, glabrous shrub. Stems
and branches quadrangular, slender, green. Leaves tri-
foliolate, on slender stalks; leaflets almost sessile, rather
thick, oblong-lanceolate, one to two inches long, entire,
dark green and shining above, paler beneath, apiculate.
Flowers solitary on axillary peduncles or branchlets
furnished with scale-like or leaf-like, simple bracts, prim-
rose-yellow, with a darker eye, one inch and a half to two
inches across. Calyz-lobes lanceolate, acute, slightly
hairy. Corolla-lobes usually _ six, obovate-spathulate
rounded, sometimes duplicated and the inner ones shorter.
Stamens included. Style exserted in the single flowers
Fruit unknown.—W,. B. H. aoe

Fig. 1, ovary and calyx with one lobe removed :—enlarged.

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ALLIUM ALBOPILOSUM.

Native of Southern Turkestan.

Nat. Ord. Lintacza.—Tribe ALLIER.
Genus Auiium, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 802.)

Autium (Molium) albopilosum ; herba robusta, bulbo globoso, foliis ligulatis
vel lanceolatis acuminatis vel acutis supra glabris subtus albopilosis ad
18 poll. longis et 1} poll. latis, seapo 1 ped. alto 5 lin, diam. glabro tereti
circa 80-floro, spathis 3 latis acuminatis membranaceis, pedicellis 2 poll.
longis teretibus glabris, perianthii segmentis linearibus acuminatis
obscure lilacinis 10 lin. longis 1 lin. latis post anthesin rigidibus,
staminibus uniformibus quam perianthii segmentis dimidio brevioribus,
filamentis subulatis basi dilatatis atropurpureis, antheris oblongis,
pollinis granis cesio-viridibus, ovario trilobo minute verrucoso viridi,
stylo subulato 3 lin. longo.

S. albopilosum, CO. H. Wright in Gard. Chron, 1903, vol. ii. p. 34, cum fig. ;
Gardening World, Aug. 29, 1903, cum fig.

*

The genus Alliwm now contains nearly 300 described
species, and is remarkable for being one of the few genera
in which three primary colours are represented in the
flowers. Those of A. kansuense, Regel (Bot. Mag. t.
7290) and A. cerulewm, Pall., are blue; those of A. flavum,
Linn. (t. 1330), and A. Moly, Linn. (t. 499) are yellow, while
various shades of red are exhibited by A. acuminatum,
Hook., A. narcissiflorum, Vill. (t. 6182), and other species.
Further, not a few are white-flowered. :

A. albopilosum is the largest flowered species of the
genus, being approached only by the closely allied A.
Christophi, Trautv. (Incr. Fl. Phen. Ross, p. 782) in which
the filaments are of a different shape.

This species was collected for Mr. Van 'l'ubergen, Junr.,
of Haarlem, in 1901, by Mr. Sintenis “in the mountain
range which divides Transcaspia from Persia.” It
flowered in June, 1902, in the garden of the Hon. Charles
Ellis, Frensham Hall, Shottermill, and he presented
plants to Kew, which flowered in a border in the herba-
ceous ground in June of last year, and subsequently
ripened seeds.

NovemBer Ist, 1904,

Our drawing was made from a plant that flowered
at Kew. The delicate, metallic or silky sheen on the
flowers is difficult of reproduction.

Descr.—A robust herb. Bulb globose. Leaves strap-
shaped or lanceolate, acuminate or acute, the largest
eighteen inches long and an inch and three quarters broad,
glabrous above, marked with longitudinal lines of white
hairs beneath. Scape one foot high, about five lines in
diameter, terete, glabrous, about eighty-flowered ; spathes
three, wide, acuminate, membranous; pedicels two inches
long, terete, glabrous. Perianth-segments linear, acumi-
nate, deep lilac with a metallic sheen, ten lines long, one
line wide, rigid after flowering. Stamens all alike, about
half as long as the perianth-segments ; filaments subulate,
dilated at the base; anthers oblong; pollen greyish-green.
Ovary three-lobed, minutely verrucose, green; style
subulate, three lines long.—C. H. Wright. —

' Fig. 1, flower; 2 and 8, anthers; 4, ovary :—all enlarged.

7983

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HELIPTERUM SPLENDIDUM.

Native of Western Australia.

Nat. Ord. Comrosit2.—Tribe INuLOIDE.
Genus Heuipreaum, DO. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 308.)

HeELipteRvM splendidum; herba annua, glabra, erecta, 9-18 poll. alta, caulibus
gracilibus simplicibus superne aphyllis monocephalis, foliis glaucis
sessilibus linearibus maximis sesquipollicaribus obtusis integerrimis,
capitulis erectis usque ad 3} poll. diametro, involucri bracteis scariosis
glabris multiseriatis seriebus 4 vel 5 exterioribus multo minoribus ovatis
obtusis brunneis extimis minimis ceteris albis lineari-lanceolatis 1-12
poll. longis vix acutis breviter unguiculatis ungue leviter incrassato,
paucis interioribus supra prope basin auguste purpureo-zonatis, floribus
numerosissimis aureis, corollis omnibus tubulosis lobis erectis, pappi setis
circiter 10 longe plumosis corollam equantibus vel superantibus, acheeniis
ciliato-bialatis maturis non visis.

H. splendidum, Hemsl, n. sp.

Kew is indebted to Mr. G, F. Berthoud, of Waroona,
near Drakesbrook, W. Australia, for dried specimens and
seeds of this handsome plant, which he labelled :—
** Native of North-western Districts.” There are also
herbarium specimens collected in open plains at Menzies,
about a hundred miles north of Coolgardie, in about
29° 30’ S. lat. and 121° E. long., by Cecil Andrews. His
specimens are named Helichrysum Davenportii, F. Muell.
There is no authenticated specimen of this at Kew, but
Bentham (Fl. Austral. vol. iii. p. 616) places it as a
variety of Helichrysum Lawrencella, F. Muell. (syn.
Lawrencella rosea, Lind).), remarking that he was disposed
to rank it as a distinct species. Mueller (Fragm. Phytogr.
Austral, vol. ii. p. 32) refers it to what he denominates
section Acroclinium of Helichrysum, from which it would
appear that, at that date, he contemplated uniting Helip-
terum with Helichrysum.

As a matter of fact our plant is most nearly related to
Helipterum voseum, Benth. (syn. Acroclinium roseum,
Hook., Bot. Mag. t. 4801), from which Mueller’s descrip-
tion differs in essential particulars.

H. splendidum is indeed a very showy member of the

Novemser Ist, 1904,

Australian “ Everlastings,” and if its cultivation in pots
should prove as easy as that of Helipterum Manglesii,
F. Muell. (syn. Rhodanthe Manglesit, Lindl., ‘* Botanical
Register,”’ t. 1703) there is a big future before it. Several
varieties of the latter are represented in this Magazine.
The typical form (t. 3483) is perhaps the prettiest, and
tt. 5283 and 5290 are-colour variations of an ornamental
character.

Unfortunately the plants raised at Kew flowered in April,
and under unfavourable conditions, as to sunlight, produced
no seed. .

Descr.—An annual, glabrous, erect herb, nine to
eighteen inches high. Stems slender, simple, leafless in
the upper part bearing one head of flowers. Leaves
alternate, sessile, glaucous, linear, the largest an inch and
a half long, obtuse, entire. Flower-heads erect, the
largest three inches and a half across. Bracts of the
involucre glabrous, scarious, in very many series, those
of the four or five outer series much smaller than the
inner, ovate, obtuse, brown, outermost very small, the
rest white, linear-lanceolate, one inch to one and a half
long, scarcely acute, shortly clawed, claw thickened, a few
of the innermost having a narrow, purple band on the
upper surface near the base. flowers very numerous, all
tubular, yellow. Corolla-lobes erect. Pappus of about ten
very feathery bristles, equalling or slightly exceeding the
corolla. Achenes 2-winged ; wings fringed.— W. B. H.

Fig. 1, a flower; 2, anthers; 3, upper part of style and stigmas:—ad/
enlarged,

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CRYPTOSTEGIA MapaGascaRiENsIs.
: Native of Madagascar.

Nat. Ord. AscLEPIADACE#.—Tribe PERIPLOCE.
Genus CryprosteciA, R.Br. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 742.)

CryptosTgcia, madagascariensis ; species a C. grandiflora petiolis brevioribus
viridibus floribus minoribus intus sanguineo-purpurels corone# squamis
indivisis diversa ; frutex scandens, glaber, ramis se#pius verrucosis, foliis
breviter petiolatis coriaceis lanceolatis ovatis ellipticis vel interdum fere
orbicularibus 2-4 poll. longis obtuse acuminatis basi rotundatis subtus
pallidioribus venis ultimis minute reticulatis, floribus in cymas terminales
dispositis distincte pedicellatis 24-3 poll. diametro, bracteis squamiformi-
bus cito deciduis, calycis lobis ovatis acutis, corolla lobis tubo ampliato
longioribus ovato-lanceolatis acutis recurvis, corone squamis 5 subulatis
infra tubi medium insertis occultis (unde nomen genericum), pollinis
massis in utroque loculo geminis appendicibas spathulatis applicitis,
folliculis lignosis cymbiformibus circiter tripollicaribus divaricatis acutis,
seminibus numerosissimis longe copioseque plumosis.

C. madagascariensis, Bojer, Cat. Hort. Maurit. (1837), p. 212, nomen nudum.
Decne. in DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 492. Mig. Choir de Plantes Rares, t. 9.
Jumelle, Les Plantes & Caoutchouc, p. 264, ff. 28,29; Rev. Gén. de Bot.
1901, p. 394.

The genus Oryptostegia was founded by R. Brown in
the ‘ Botanical Register,” vol. v. (1820) t. 485, on a
cultivated plant, previously published, but not described,
by Roxburgh, under the name of Nerium grandiflorum.
Roxburgh records his plant as a native of India, discovered
by Dr. B. Heyne in 1804; but most subsequent writers
declare that it exists in India only under cultivation or as
a colonist. Other writers record it as wild and common
in certain districts in the Madras Peninsula. There are
no undoubtedly wild specimens of C. grandiflora, R. Br., in
the Kew Herbarium ; but there are cultivated specimens
from Mauritius, Natal, Khartoum, Jamaica, and from the
most distant parts of India. It is also in cultivation at
the present time at Kew. ; |

CO. madagascariensis, Bojer, is the only other species
known, and, until comparatively recently, only from culti-
vated specimens ; but now Kew possesses dried specimens
from various parts of Madagascar, besides cultivated ones

November 1st, 1904.

from this country, Hong Kong, and Cape Town. The
two are very much alike in general characters, and the
names are sometimes interchanged in gardens. This is
partly due to the fact that the differences have been mis-
understood. When in flower there is no difficulty, the
flowers of C. grandiflora, although somewhat larger, are
of a lilac-purple, and the staminodes or lobes of the corona
are very deeply divided into two filiform segments.

The date of introduction of CO. madagascariensis into
England is given as 1826, but it has always been rare. Our
plate was drawn from a plant that flowered at Kew in May
and June of the present year. It is avery beautiful thing,
and if it should prove free-flowering, it would well deserve
a place in a hot-house, as it flowers when quite small.

Deser.—A climbing, glabrous shrub; branches often
beset with small, warty excrescences. Leaves shortly
stalked, leathery, varied in outline from lanceolate to
almost orbicular, two to four inches long, obtusely acumi-
nate, rounded at the base, paler beneath ; ultimate veinlets
very finely reticulated. lowers in terminal cymes, dis-
tinctly stalked, two inches and a half to three inches
across. Practs scale-like, falling away early. Calyz-lobes
ovate, acute. Corolla-lobes longer than the funnel-shaped
tube, ovate-lanceolate, acute, recurved. Corona-lobes five,
subulate, attached below the middle of the corolla-tube and
invisible from the outside. Pollen-masses in pairs in each
cell, each pair attached to a spathulate appendage. rwit
composed of two divergent, boat-shaped carpels containing
numerous small seeds furnished with a cluster of long, soft
hairs at one end.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, section of the lower part of a flower showing the insertion of the
corona-lobes; 2, longitudinal section of the androecium; 3, a pair of pollinia
attached to the scale; 4, anterior view of the same; 5, one of the two carpels
of which the fruit is composed; 6, a seed :—all except 5 enlarged.

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DENDROBIUM BELLATULUM.
Native of China.

Nat. Ord. OncHipacra.—Tribe ErrpENDREA.
Genus Denprosium, Swartz ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 498,)

’ Denprozium (§ Formosaw—Nigro-hirsute) bellatulum; planta nana, ceespi-

tosa, pseudobulbis florentibus }-2 poll. altis, fusiformibus longitudi-
naliter rugoso-costatis 2-4-phyllis 1-3-floris foliisque primum plus
minusve nigro-hirsutis, foliis oblongis vel ovato-oblongis 3-2 poll.
longis apice oblique obtuseque bidentatis, floribus axillaribus cum pedi-
cello quam foliis brevioribus 13-2 poll, diametro, sepalis petalisque albis,
labello miniato, sepalis lateralibus elongato-triangularibus acutis, sepalo
postico lanceolato, petalis spathulatis apice rotundatis apiculatis, labello-
pandurato-trilobo lobis lateralibus rotundatis lobo intermedio latissime
obcordato-bilobo disco medio obtuse 5-costato costis tuberculoso-verrucosis,
mento saccato obtuso.

D. bellatulum, Rolfe in Journ, Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxxvi. (1903), p. 10; Oreh.
Rev. vol. xi. (1903), p. 103; vol. xii. (1904), p. 185; Gard. Chron. 1904,
vol. i. p. 258; 1904, vol. ii. p. 114, f. 47. .

This charming little Dendrobium is closely. related to
the recently figured D. Williamsoni, Reichb. f. (B. M. t.
7974) in structural and vegetative characters, but it is very
different in its dwarf habit. The species was based upon
copious dried specimens, collected by Dr. A. Henry, in
1898, at Mengtze, in the Province of Yunnan, at an eleva-
tion of 5,000 ft. It was found in the forest to the south-
east of Mengtze, growing on trees. In 1900, previous to
the publication of the description of the species, Messrs.
James Veitch & Sons presented living plants to Kew,
sent home by their collector, Mr. Wilson. It was subse-
quently discovered by Mr. W. Micholitz, collector for
Messrs. Sander & Sons, of St. Albans, at Lang Bian,
Anam, at an elevation of 4,500 to 5,000 ft. The plant
presented by Messrs. Veitch flowered some time ago, but
not freely, and the plate was prepared from a more robust
tuft presented by Messrs. Sander. It flowered in April,
and although very pretty, it was evidently not at its best,
nor equal to Dr. Henry’s wild specimens, in which the
unexpanded flowers are an inch and a half long, and those
flattened out are two inches and a half from the tip of the

NovemMBeER Ist, 1904,

lip to the tips of the petals. Judging from the altitude at
which it flourishes, it requires cool treatment.

Descr.—A densely tufted plant, two to four inches high.
Bulbs fusiform, longitudinally ribbed, ribs rounded and
uneven, two- to four-leaved, one- to three-flowered. Leaves
leathery, at first more or less beset with black hairs, ovate-
oblong, one and a half to two inches long, obliquely and
obtusely two-toothed at the tip. Flowers axillary, slightly
overtopped by the leaves, one inch and a half to two inches
in diameter, white with a vermilion lip. Sepals acute,
lateral elongate-triangular, dorsal lanceolate. Petals
spathulate, rounded at the tip. Lip three lobed ; lateral
lobes short, rounded ; intermediate lobe broadly obcordate,

recurved ; disc traversed by five warty ribs; sac obtuse.—
We. Be

Fig. 1, portion of upper surface of a leaf; 2, column; 38, anther-cap ;
4, pollen :—all enlarged.

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TRIS BISMARCKIANA.
_ Native of Palestine.

Nat. Ord. Intpacraz.—Tribe MorazE.

Genus Iris, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 686.)

Iris (Oncocyclus) bismarckiana ; herba circa 18 poll. alta, rhizomate brevi,
foliis ensiformibus ad 9 poll. longis et 1 poll. latis glaucis, scapo unifloro,
spathis lanceolatis viridibus 3 poll. longis, perianthii segmentis exteriori-
bus late ovatis acutis 23 poll. longis fere 2 poll. latis luteis dense
pbrunneo-purpureo maculatis medio macula purpureo-fusca 7 lin. diam.
notatis, segmentis interioribus orbicularibus 23 poll. diam. unguiculatis
dilute ceruleis venis maculisque lilacinis, stigmatibus oblongis cristis
8 lin. longis colore perianthii segmentis exterioribus similibus.

I. bismarckiana, Dammann ex Wien. Ill. Gartenzeit. 1890, p. 352, fig. 72;
Dammann, Catal. 1892, p. 25, fig. 26; Baker, Handb. Iridee, p. 18.

I. bismarkiana, Sprenger in Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. ii. p. 222. -

The Oncocyclus section of Iris, which is characterized by
the outer perianth-segments being diffusely hairy on the
claw and lower part of the blade, contains the most con-
spicuous species of the genus. On this account many,
which have been brought into cultivation, have had
specific names given to them on very slight differential
characters. The most widely cultivated species of this
section, as well as the largest-flowered one of the genus,
is I susiana, Linn. (B. M. t. 91), while closely allied
is L Gatesii, Foster (t. 7867), which differs from the
present plant in the absence of a distinct blotch or
“sional” on the outer perianth-segments. I. Sari, var.
lurida, Boiss. (t. 6960) is a dwarf plant with smaller
flowers than I. bismarckiana, and has the anther-cells
adnate to the filament, instead of being inserted in a small
pit on the back of the anther near its base. J. Lortetit,
Barbey (t. 7251) much resembles this species, but it has
short, truncate, dentate style-arms.

TL. bismarekiana was introduced from Lebanon in 1888
by Messrs. Dammann & Co., of Naples, but, like most
_ species of the section Oncocyclus from Palestine, is some-
what difficult to cultivate. The plant here figured was —

NovemBeER Isr, 1904.

purchased from Mr. Georg Egger of Jaffa, and flowered
in the Alpine House at Kew in May, 1904.

Descr.—A perennial herb about eighteen inches high.
fthizome short. Leaves ensiform, glaucous, the largest
nine inches long and one inch wide. Scape one-flowered ;
spathes lanceolate, green, three inches long. Perianth-
segments : outer broadly ovate, acute, two inches and a
half long, nearly two inches wide, yellowish, densely
spotted with purple-brown and marked in the centre with
a similarly-coloured spot (signal) seven lines in diameter ;
inner orbicular, clawed, two inches and a half in diameter,
pale blue, with numerous lilac veins which bear spots —
towards the margin of the blade. Stigmas oblong; crests
triangular, eight lines long, similar in colour to the outer
perianth-segments.—C, H. Wright.

Figs. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, portion of style-arm :—all enlarged.

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KALANCHOE Dyent.
Native of Nyasaland.

Nat, Ord. CrassuLaces.
Genus Katancnog, Adans.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.)

Katanchor Dyeri; herba succulenta, 2-24 ped. alta, glabra, plus minusve
glauca, foliis oppositis petiolatis ellipticis obtusis basi rotundatis vel
cuneatis margine grosse crenato-dentatis petiolo 14-8 poll. longo alte
canaliculato lamina 4-73 poll. longa 23-5 poll. lata, foliis superioribus
bracteisque multo minoribus spathulato-obovatis vel lanceolatis obtusis
vel subacutis integris, floribus tetrameris pedicellatis in cymas corym- |
-bosas terminales dispositis, sepalis 33-6 lin. longis deltoideo-lanceolatis
obtusis, corolle tubo 13~2 poll. longo basi 4-angulato pallide viridi,
limbi lobis ?-1 poll. longis lanceolatis acutis albis, staminibus 8 biseriatis
filamentis brevissimis antheris parvis luteis superioribus breviter exsertis,
glandulis hypogynis filiformibus apice plus minusve bifidis albis, car-
pellis lineari-lanceolatis in stylos longos filiformes attenuatis glabris
stigmatibus capitatis.

_K. Dyeri, N.E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. i. p. 354.

—_

This species of Kalanchoe is one of the finest that has
yet been introduced into cultivation. It is allied to
K. marmorata, Baker (B. M. t. 7333), K. somaliensis,
Baker (t. 7881), and K. longiflora, A. Rich. These four
handsome species are all natives of tropical Africa, and
form a distinct group, characterized by their large, long-
tubed, white flowers.

K. Dyeri was raised at Kew from seeds sent in 1902,
from Nyasaland, by Mr. J. McClounie, Director of the
Scientific Department of British Central Africa. The
plants first flowered in April, 1904, and have ripened
seeds, from which young plants have been raised.

Descr.—Plant two feet to two feet and a half high,
with a stout stem about three-quarters of an inch thick
at the base, glabrous in all parts and more or less
glaucous on the green parts. Leaves opposite, very
spreading, petiolate ; petiole one and a half to three inches
long, four and a half to six lines broad and nearly as
thick, sub-terete, slightly flattened above, dilated at the
base, green, slightly tinted with purple and speckled
with white; blade four to seven and a half inches long,

December 1s7, 1904,

two and a half to five inches broad, elliptic, obtuse,
rounded or cuneate at the base, with irregular, obtuse
teeth, two to three lines long, four to six lines broad,
flat or with the sides more or less incurved, green, with
a purplish tint on the midrib and principal veins above;
leaves and bracts on the inflorescence half to two
inches long, spathulate-obovate to lanceolate, sub-acute
or obtuse, entire. Inflorescence a terminal, corymbose
cyme nine to twelve inches long, six to nine inches
across, with three or four pairs of three- to ten-flowered,
sub-erect branches. Pedicels eight to nine lines long,
three-quarters to one line thick. Sepals three and a half
to six lines long, half to two lines broad at the base,
thence tapering to an obtuse point. Corolla-tube one and
three-quarters of an inch long, three and a half to four
lines square at the base, pale green ; lobes very spreading,
one inch long, four and a half to five lines broad,
lanceolate, acute, pure white. Stamens eight, inserted
near the top of the tube, the four lower included, the four
upper just exserted from the mouth of the tube; filaments
._ three-quarters to one line long; anthers small, half to
three-quarters of a line long. Hypogynous glands five
lines long, filiform, more or less bifid at the apex, white.
Carpels with a linear-lanceolate ovary three-quarters of
an inch long, sub-quadrate in transverse section, tapering
into a filiform style eleven lines long, all twisted together
at the base, green; stigmas capitate, white—N. LH.
Brown.

Fig. 1, calyx, hypogynous glands and carpels; 2, part of the top of an
unopened corolla and stamens; 3 and 4, stamens :—all enlarged.

Tas. 7988.
CYDONTA stvensts.
Native of China.

Nat. Ord. Rosacka#,—Tribe Pomacea.

Genus Cyponta, Tourn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Flant. vol. i. p, 626, sub.
Pyro).

CypDONIA stnensis; arbor parva, tortuoso-ramosa, foliis petiolatis adultis
crassiusculis ovatis vel obovatis cum petiolo usque ad 4 poll. longis (in
ramis florigeris seepius minoribus lanceolatisque) acutis basi cuneatis
petiolo marginibusque glanduloso-serrulatis glabrescentibus, stipulis
pedatis cito deciduis oblongo-lanceolatixs 3-4 lin. longis margine glandn-
losis basi utrinque lobis binis parvis deflexis instructis lobis exterioribus
minutis, pedunculis brevibus unifloris basi bracteis numerosis ovato-
oblongis circiter semipollicaribus margine glandulosis ornatis, floribus
circiter 14 poll. diametro, calycis segmentis ovato-lanceolatis 3-4 lin,
longis acutis recurvis margine glandulosis precipue intus albo-lanatis,
petalis ohovato-oblongis 7-8 lin. longis apice rotundatis roseis basi albis
et rubro-zonatis, staminibus uniseriatis quam petalis dimidio brevioribus
stylos excedentibus, ovario 5-loculari, stylis glabris medio connatis,
stigmatibus capitatis, fructu oblongo-ovoideo circiter 6 poll. longo aureo,
seminibus -numerosissimis subtriangularibus. uno angulo rotundato
compressis 3-4} lin. longis brunneis opacis Jeevibus.

C. sinensis, Thouin in Ann. du Mus. d’ Hist. Nat. de Par. vol. xix. (1812),
pp. 144-153. tt. 8 e¢ 9. Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. 1815, p. 200. DC. Prodr.
vol. ii. p. 638. Duhamel, Traité des Arbres et Arbustes, vol. vi. t. 75,
Herbier Général de Vv Amateur, vol. ii. t. 75. Rev. Hort, 1889, p. 228,
cum ic. color. W.B. H. in Kew Bulletin, 1899, p. 224. Wien. Illustr.
Gart. Zeit. vol. xxvi. (1901), p. 207, t. 2. Hemsl. in Hook, Ic. Pl. sub
tt. 2657-8.

C. chinensis, Lind. Bot. Reg. vol. xi. (1825), t. 905.

Pyrus sinensis, Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. vol. iv. p. 452, non Lindl. nee
Auctor, alior. plurim.

P. cathayensis, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. (1887), p. 256, pro
parte.

P, chinensis, Spreng. Syst. vol. ii. p. 510.

P. chinensis, Roxb. Fl, Ind. vol. ii. p. 511.

Cheenomeles chinensis, Kehne, Dendrol. p. 262,

This quince was originally described and figured in

black and white, by Thouin, from a tree in the Jardin

des Plantes, Paris, and he states that it was introduced

into England and Holland during the last decade of the

eighteenth century. We find no confirmation of this

statement, and Lindley seems to have been the first to
DeceMBER Ist, 1904,

publish an account of it in this country—see the reference
above.

Subsequently another species was introduced from
China, and it was for many years cultivated at Kew
under the same name, the genuine plant having apparently
disappeared from our gardens. The confusion of the two
Species extended to the literature of the subject, including
the Enumeration of Chinese plants (Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot.
vol. xxiii. p. 256), under Pyrus cathayensis, Hemsl., where,
however, it is mentioned that the plant cultivated at Kew
had much narrower, less hairy leaves than that originally
described and cultivated in Europe.

In 1899 the Director of Kew brought a ripe quince, of
the species here figured, from the garden of Sir Thomas
Hanbury, at La Mortola, near Ventimiglia, which led to
further investigations, and the publication in Hooker’s
“Icones Plantarum” (tt. 2657 and 2658) of Cydonia
cathayensis, Hemsl., as distinguished from C. sinensis,
Thouin.

In April of the present year a young plant of the latter
flowered at Kew, and thus gave us an opportunity of
completing the description and illustration of the two
species,

CU. sinensis is a very pretty plant for the conservatory

in spring; but, as Mr. Ed. André observes, it requires
such a climate as the Mediterranean to reach perfection.
There it is extensively grown, as it is ornamental, whether
in flower or fruit. Like all other quinces, it is not a
dessert fruit, but associated with other fruit, in tarts or
as a marmalade, it is very palatable, though perhaps not
to those who cannot relish a new thing in flavours. In
the south the foliage assumes beautiful autumnal tints.
_ C. cathayensis, Hemsl., differs from (. sinensis, Thouin,
in having lanceolate, eelandular leaves; large, foliaceous
eee > erect, rounded calyx-lobes, and a much smaller
ruit,

There is such a confusion of names under Pyrus and
Cydonia that it may be useful to mention that Pyrus
stmensis, Lindl. (Bot. Iteg. t. 1248, chinensis in letterpress)
18a true pear, and that P. sinica, Royle, is the same_
Species. Pyrus chinensis, Roxb. (Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 511), is
another Synonym of that species. Pyrus sinensis, Dum.

(Cours, ed. 2, vol. v. p. 429), is, on the authority of
Decaisne (Nouv. Arch. du Mus. vol. x. p. 154) the same
as Pyrus spectabilis, Ait.

There are no wild specimens of C. sinensis in the Kew
Herbarium, and the only Chinese specimen was presented
by Dr. Shearer in 1875. His label runs thus: ‘‘ Mul
Kwa=woeden cucumber, from its solidity and shape,
now fruiting, June, 1872. The large, fragrant fruit is
said to be used for scenting tea and flavouring wine.
The bark is olive-green, with bald patches, and the trunk
thick and contorted. Growing in tubs, it is indeed a very
handsome shrub.”

The only other species of Cydonia figured in this
Magazine is the well-known, rich-coloured C. japonica,
Pers. (t. 692).

Descr.—A shrub or small, tortuously-branched tree.
Leaves petiolate, becoming leathery and glabrous, lan-
ceolate on the flowering branches, obovate and larger on -
the barren branches, three to four inches long, glandular-
toothed as well as the petioles; stipules falling early,
pedate, glandular on the margin; basal lobes very small.
Peduneles short, one-flowered, furnished at the base with
numerous, oblong bracts. lowers about one inch and a
half in diameter. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, three to
four lires long, acute, recurved, glandular on the margin,
woolly on the upper surface. Petals obovate-oblong,
rounded, seven to eight lines long, pink, white at base, with
a zone of a deeper red. Stamens half as long as the petals,
and slightly longer than the styles. Ovary five-celled ;
styles glabrous, consolidated to the middle; stigmas
capitate. Iruit oblong-ovoid, about six inches long, deep
yellow. Seeds very numerous, nearly triangular, with
one obtuse angle, flattened, three inches to four inches
and a half long, dull brown.— W. P. H.

Fig. 1, section of a flower from which the petals have been removed, showing
the numerous ovules:—enlarged. —

M.S. deLJ-NFitchiith

Tas. 7989.
LONICERA SYRINGANTHA,
Native of North-West China.

Nat. Ord. Caprirotiacea.—Tribe LoNICERER.
Genus Lontcera, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5.)

Lonicrra (Isoxylosteum) syringantha ; frutex ramosissimus, circa 4 ped. altus,

ramis tenuibus quadrangularibus glabris, foliis ovalibus vel ovatis
obtusis rarius subacutis basi rotundatis vel subcordatis usque ad 9 lin.
‘longis et 4 lin. latis glabris, petiolis 2 lin. longis gracilivus, floribus
geminatis, pedunculis 4-6 lin. longis, bracteis lanceolatis breviter
petiolatis quam calycibus paullo longioribus, Lracteolis in cupulam con-
natis margine crenulatis, calycibus 3 lin. longis, segmentis lanceolatis
quam tubo paullo brevioribus, corollis hypocrateriformibus pallide roseis
intus pilosis, tubo 4 lin. longo, lobis ovalibus obtusis 3 lin. longis,
antheris subsessilibus apiculatis tubi medium vix superantibus, baccis
liberis ovoideis 4 lin. longis coccineis.

L. syringantha, Mazim. in Bull. Acad. Pétersb. vol. xxiv. (1878) p. 49; Mél.
Biol. vol. x. (1877) p. 77. Hemsl. in Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 367.
Wolfe in Gartenfl. vol. xli. (1892) p. 564, figs. 115-116. Rehder in Rep.
Missouri Bot. Gard, 1903, p. 46. :

Lonicera rupicola, var. syringantha, Zabel in Beissn. Schelle & Zabel, Handb.
Laubholz- Benen. p. 462 (1903).

Caprifolium syringanthum, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Plant. vol. i. (1891) p. 274.

Rehder, in his monograph of Lonicera (l.c.), classifies
the 154 species known to him in two sub-genera, viz. :—
Chamecerasus, in which the 2-flowered, usually peduncled
cymes are borne in the axils of the leaves, which are
never connate; and Perielymenwm, in which the 3-
flowered, sessile cymes are arranged in spikes or whorls
at the ends of the branches and the bases of the upper
leaves are usually connate. Of the 131 species of
Chamecerasus, eight constitute a well-marked section,
which Rehder has named Jsoxylostewm, to which L. syrin-
gantha belongs. Unlike most species of Lonicera, those
belonging to this section have the corolla perfectly
regular, with a comparatively short, straight tube. ‘Two
such species have already been figured in this work,
namely: L. tomentella, Hook. f. & Thoms. (t- 6486), and L.
‘Alberti, Regel (t. 7394) ; the latter Rehder regards as a
variety of L. spinosa, Jacquem. Both of them differ from

DeceMBER Ist, 1904.

the present plant in the shortness of their calyx-lobes,
while the former has the lower part of the corolla-tube
pilose outside, and the latter has linear, obtuse leaves,
about an inch long.

The plant here figured was received at Kew in 1894
from the St. Petersburg Botanic Gardens. It forms a
compact bush, which has proved quite hardy, flowering
freely in May, and ripening its fruit in July.

Descr,—A much-branched shrub, about four feet high.
Branches slender, quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves oval or
ovate, obtuse, more rarely sub-acute, rounded or slichtly
cordate at the base, largest nine lines long and four lines
wide, glabrous; petioles slender, two lines long. lowers
im pairs; peduncles four to six lines long; bracts lan-
ceolate, shortly stalked, a little longer than the calyx ;
bracteoles connate into a crenulate cup. Calyx three
lines long; segments lanceolate, a little shorter than the
tube. Corolla hypocrateriform, pale rose-coloured, pilose
inside; tube four lines long; lobes oval, obtuse, three
lines long. Anthers sub-sessile, apiculate, inserted just
above the middle of the corolla-tube. Berries free, ovoid,
four lines long, red.—C. H. W. right.

Fig. 1, pair of flowers with corollas removed; 2, corolla laid open; 3 and 4,

mes oan ®, transverse section of ovary; 6, branch with fruit :—all except 6

1S. .del,JN Firch ith

7990

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xX. ODONTIODA VUYLSTEKER.
Of Garden Origin.

Nat. Ord. OrcurpacEx.—Tribe VANDEX.

Opontiopa, genus inter Odontoglossum et Cochliodam hybridum.

.

Opontiopa Vuylstekee; psendobulbis ovoideis, foliis circiter 3 floribus co-
eetaneis anguste lanceolatis acutis 6-9 poil. longis recurvis, scapo foliis
breviore suberecto 6-floro, floribus circiter 2} poll. diametro, sepalis
petalis similibus ovato-lanceolatis vix acutis leviter undulatis basi
sanguineis supra medium albidis rubro-maculatis margine roseis, labello
panduriformi petalis dimidio breviore basi aureo lobis lateralibus rotun-
datis sanguineis lobo intermedio latiore rotundato sinuato albo
sanguineo-maculato, polliniis non visis.

Odontioda Vuylstekex, Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. i. p. 360, f.159. Orch. Rev.
vol. xii. (1904), pp. 189, 209, f.34. Gard. Mag. 1904, p. 376, cum fig.
Journ. Hort. 1904, vol. i. p. 487, cum fig. The Garden, vol. Ixy. (1904),
p. 433, cum fig.

Under tab. 7980 we gave some particulars of bigeneric
orchids with references to the literature of the subject.
Odontioda is recorded as the result of a cross between
Odontoglossum nobile, Reichb. f., in “ Linnea,” vol, xxi.
(1849), p. 850 (syn. OU. Pescatorei, Linden, ex Lindl. in
Lindley & Paxton’s ‘‘ Flower Garden,” vol. ii. p. 83,
t. 90), and Cochlioda Noetzliana, Rolfe (B. M. t. 7474), but
it is not stated which was the seed parent. Judging from
other crosses of a similar kind, we venture to suggest that
it was the Odontoglosswm, the bulbs and leaves being very
similar, and the flowers also, in shape. Indeed the only
obvious feature derivable from the Cochlioda is the colour,
But a writer in the ‘‘ Orchid Review” says: ‘ Beside the
brilliant colour and partially adnate lip, there is a trace of
connexity about all the segments which also shows the
influence of the Cochlioda parent.”

Odontioda was raised by Mr. Ch. Vuylsteke, of Loo-
christi, Ghent, and he exhibited the spike of flowers at the
‘'emple Show, last May. It caused great excitement, and
was the centre of attraction, and the judges marked their
appreciation by awarding it a First-class Certificate and
a silver-gilt Lindley medal. Miss Smith made a sketch of

DecEMBER Ist, 1904.

the ‘spike on the spot, and Mr. Vuylsteke gave us a
flower, which has preserved its colour to a remarkable
extent, and he subsequently furnished a photograph of
the plant, so that we are able to give its habit. Judging
from this it is a free-growing subject.

We understood that a very high price was asked for it,
and one gentleman told us that he had offered £200; but
it did not change hands.

Descr.—Plant about a foot high. Bulbs ovoid, bearing
about three leaves at the same time as the flowers.
Leaves narrow, lanceolate, acute, six to nine inches long,
recurved. Tlower-spike shorter than the leaves, nearly
erect, six-flowered. lowers about two inches and a half
across. Sepals and petals similar, ovate-lanceolate, slightly
undulate, crimson at the base, white above the middle,
and spotted with red, pink around the margin. Lip
fiddle-shaped, half the length of the petals, yellow at the
base; lateral lobes rounded, crimson ; front lobe broader,
rounded, waved, white, spotted with crimson.—W. B. H.

Fig. 1, reduced representation of the plant of Odontioda Vuylstekex ; 2, a
flower of Odontoglossum nobile; 3, a flower of Cochlioda Noetzliana :—both
natural size, from plants exhibited with the hybrid.

7991

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TULIPA Baraxint.
Native of Turkestan. |

Nat. Ord. Lir1ace%.—Tribe TULIPEs.
Genus Tuuira, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 818.)

Turrrpa Batalini; herba glabra, bulbo globoso tunica papyracea apice intus
fusco-lanata, caule 3-4 poll. alto, foliis caulinis circa 7 lineari-lanceolatis
acuminatis usque ad 7 poll. longis et 6 lin. latis superioribus sensim
minoribus, pedunculo unifloro 2-4} poll. longo, glabro, floribus pallide
flavis, perianthii segmentis 1} poll. longis exterioribus oblongo-ovatis
acutis interioribus late obovatis quam exterioribus minus acutis, fila-
mentis 8 lin. longis glabris, antheris luteis, stigmate quam ovario paullo
latiore.

T. Batalini, Regel in Gartenfl. 1889, p. 506, t. 1307, fig. 2. Gard. Chron.
1889, vol. ii. p. 469 ; 1896, vol. i. p. 759, fig. 181.

In 1876 Regel (Fl. Turkest. vol. i. p. 182) enumerated
eleven species of Tulipa as native of Turkestan. Since
then various collectors, stimulated by the desire of
obtaining new hardy plants, have visited that region, and
succeeded in adding several new species to Regel’s list, —
amongst them the plant under consideration, which was
discovered by the late Dr. Batalin, formerly Director of
the Botanic Gardens, St. Petersburg. Bulbs were first
received from St. Petersburg in 1888, and have flowered
annually in April or May in the herbaceous ground at
Kew, our figure having been made in May last.

Tulipa is a very natural genus, and the species there-
fore difficult of discrimination. This difficulty has been
increased, both by the variation of the species under
cultivation, and by the slight grounds on which specific
names have been given for commercial purposes. The
flowers here depicted are larger than those in Regel’s
figures, and have anthers longer in proportion to the size
of the filaments; but, considering the length of time the
plant has been in cultivation, and that it is derived from
material authentically named, we hesitate to apply to it a
new name. It bears a certain amount of resemblance to
7. sylvestris, Linn. (B. M. t. 1202), which differs in having

DEcEMBER Ist, 1904,

the perianth greenish outside, and the filaments pilose
towards the base.

_ Deser.—A glabrous herb. Bulh globose; tunic thin,
beset with brown hairs inside at the apex. Stem three to
four inches high. Leaves cauline, about seven, linear-
lanceolate, acuminate, the longest seven inches long and
six lines wide, the upper gradually smaller. Peduncle one-
flowered, two to four inches and a half long, glabrous.
Flowers ‘pale yellow. Perianth-segments slightly unequal ;
outer oblong-ovate, acute, an inch and a half long; inner
broadly obovate, as long as, but less acute than the outer.
Filaments three lines “long, glabrous; anthers -yellow.
Stigma slightly wider than the ovary. =O. Hi Wright.

Figs. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, pistil:—al/ enlarged.

INDEX

To Vol. LX. of the Turep Series, or Vol. CXXX. of the
whole Work.

7982 Allium albopilosum.
7948 Aloe Baumii.

7935 Arethusa sinensis.

7947 Arundinaria Faleoneri.
7938 Bulbophyllum auricomum.
7958 ‘ Weddelii.
7959 Chamacdorea pulchella.
7955 Chlorea crispa.
7965 Chrysanthemum ornatum.
7939 Corydalis Wilsoni.

7949 Crossos ma californicum.
7950 Crotalaria capensis,

7984 Cryptostegia madagascarensis.

7988 Cydonia sinensis.

7932 Cymbidium rhodochilum,
7985 Dendrobium bellatulum.
7974 ae Williamsoni.
7954 Dicentra chrysantha.
7951 Dipodium pictum.

7973 Dyschoriste Hildebrandtii.
7952 Epipremnum giganteum.
7971 Euphorbia viperina.

7963 Geonoma gracilis.

7983 Helipterum splendidum.
7960 Impatiens Oliveri.

7986 Iris bismarckiana.

7956 ,, warleyensis.

7981 Jasminum primulinum,
7987 Kalanchoe Dyeri. i
7944 Kirengeschoma palmata. —

7977 Lonicera etrusca var. superba.
7989 e syringantha,

7979 Loropetalum chinense.
7937 Lysichitum camtschatcense.
7961 Lysimachia Henryi.

7953 Marsdenia Imthurnii.
7946 Megaclinium platyrhachis.
7941 Melaleuca uncinata.

7976 Morea Thomsoni.

7978 Mucuna sempervirens.
7990 Odontioda Vuylstekem.
7942 Oldenburgia arbuscula,
7936 Puassiflora vitifolia,

7966 Pitcairnia spathacea.

7934 Prostanthera denticulata.
7975 Pyrus Niedzwetzkyana.
7972 Rosa gigantea,

7940 Sauromatum brevipes.
7945 Solanum glaucophyllum.
7964 Spathaglottis Hardingiana.
7943 Tanakeea radicans.

7970 Teeoma shirensis.

7969 Thunbergia primulina.
7991 Tulipa Batalini,

7957 Tupistra Ciarkei.

7968 Vanda pumila

7962 Vellozia trichopbylla,

7967 Zingiber spectabile.

7980 Zygocolax Veitchii,

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