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CORYANTHES maocrantTHa.
Native of: Guiana and Venezuela.
Nat. Ord. OrcuEs.—Tribe VANDEX.
Genus Coryantues, Hook.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 549.)
— CoryantHEs macrantha; pseudobulbis 5-6-pollicaribus angustis alte costatis,
foliis pedalibus oblongo-lanceolatis utrinque attenuatis, pedunculo valido
pendulo bifloro, pedicellis 6-pollicaribus sulcatis basi bractea 2-pollicari
spathacea instructis, floribus amplis expansis 6 poll. longis flavidis
maculis sanguineis fere ubique conspersis, sepalo dorsali 2-pollicari
oblongo-lanceolato torto, lateralibus maximis 4-5 poll. longis reflexis
lunatis infra. medium postice gibboso-lobatis’ apicibus tortis, petalis
pendulis 2-23 poll, longis lanceolatis undulatis, labelli maximi ungue
- pollicari robusto tereti basi lamellis 2 oblongis porrectis recurvis aucto
_ hypochilio globoso-reniformi inflato 1} poll. diam., epichilio maximo
crateriformi basi in unguem latum dorso crasse 4-5-lamellatum lamellis
reflexis angustato, antice truncato quadrilobo, columna crassa supra
medium recurva dilatata apice contracta bicornuta cornubus obtusis
incurvis.
©. macrantha, Hook. Bot. Mag. sub t. 3102. Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orchid.
p. 159. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1841. Paat. Mag. Bot. vol. v. p. 31,
cum ic. Hartinger, Parad. Vindob. p. 19, +. 32, fig. 2. Linden, Pescatorea,
t. 30. Rolfe in Orchid. Rev. vol. ii. p. 41.
Goncora macrantha, Hook. Bot. Misc. vol. ii. p. 151, t. 80.
The noble Orchid here figured was discovered by the
late David Lockhart, Superintendent (1823 to 1846) of
the Trinidad Botanical Gardens, when on a_ visit to
Caraceas in 1828, whence he brought plants which flowered
in those gardens in the autumn of the following year.
Lockhart’s previous career was an eventful one, for he
was the sole survivor of the staff of Captain Tuckey’s ill-
fated Expedition to the Congo River in 1816, to which he,
then a young gardener at Kew, was appointed by Sir
Joseph Banks, as assistant to Christian Smith, the
naturalist to the Expedition. Lockhart sent a flower
preserved in spirits to Sir William (then Dr.) Hooker,
who figured and described it in his Botanical Miscellany.
The specimen here figured, which flowered in a tropical
house of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in May of last year, was —
received in the previous May from Mr. Hart, F'.L.8., Super- -
January Ist, 1900.
intendent of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Trinidad. The
flowers remain fresh for about three days. . Plants of it
have also been sent to the Royal Gardens from the Demerara
River by Mr. Jenman, F.L.S., Superintendent of the
Botanical Gardens of Georgetown, and Government
Botanist.
Descr.—Pseudobulbs five to six inches long, very narrow,
deeply channelled, and with about eight stout, intervening,
elevated ribs. Leaves a foot long, oblong-lanceolate,
acuminate, narrowed to both ends from about the middle.
Pedunele stout, pendulous, two-flowered; pedicels sub-
equal, six inches long, stout, grooved, embraced at the —
base by an obtuse sheathing bract two inches long.
Flowers up to six inches long-from the lip to the outer *
margin of the lateral sepals. Sepals membranous, dorsal
two inches long, oblong-lanceolate, twisted, flesh-coloured,
speckled with red; lateral very large, four to five inches
long by two inches broad, reflexed from the base and re-
curved, lunate, the dorsal margin dilated below the middle |
into a broad, rounded gibbous lobe, tip twisted, pale. Petals
pendulous, two to two anda half inches long, undulate, and
more or less twisted, dull pink, with a few red blotches
towards the base. Lip clawed; claw an inch long, stout,
terete, base with two parallel, white, oblong, obtuse, rather —
recurved, projecting, white lamelle half an inch long; ~
hypochile globosely reniform, an inch and a halfin diameter,
inflated, and claw closely streaked and spotted with orange-
red ; epichile an orange-yellow bucket, spotted with blood-
red; truncate and three-lobed anteriorly, narrowed at the
base into a triangular fleshy neck, which is dorsally fur-
nished with four or five, reflexed, fleshy transverse lamellz.
Column very stout, greenish white, with a few red spots,
dilated at the recurved top, which terminates in two short,
obtuse horns, one on each side of the anther.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, Top of the column with anthers; 2 and 3, pollinia :—AJl enlarged.
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HAYLOCKIA pusiILua,
Native of Uruguay.
Nat. Ord. AmaryLLIpaAcE&.—Tribe AMARYLLER.
Genus Hayrtocxia, Herb.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 723.)
Haytockta pusilla; herba pusilla, bulbo globoso tunicato, tunicis fuscis
appressis, foliis serotinis solitariis paucisve angustissime linearibus sub-
acutis flaccidis viridibus supra concavis, floribus bulbo solitariis sub-
sessilibus erectis, basi spatha bifida instructis, perianthii tubo 14-pollicari
gracili cylindrico, limbi infundibulari-campanulati segmentis patenti-
recurvis oblongis subacutis albis pallide roseis v. primulinis basin versus
rubro striolatis, staminibus brevibus fauci perianthii insertis, filamentis
subulatis, antheris lineari-oblongis versatilibus aureis, ovario spatho
occluso brevi, stylo filiformi, stigmatibus 3 linearibus obtusis ore
perianthii breviter exsertis, capsula parva trigona trisulca trivalvi,
seminibus dorso convexis, testa nigra.
H, pusilla, Herb. in Bot. Reg. t. 1371; Amaryjllid. pp. 59, 72, 182. Kunth
Eawm. Pi. vol. v. p. 480.
SteryBERGIA Americana, Hoffmgg. Verz. Pf. p.197 cum ic. Gibert, Enum. Pl.
Agr. Montevid. p. 107.
ZEPHYRANTHES pusilla, Dietr. Syn. Pl. vol. ii, p. 1176,
.
Haylockia is a monotypic genus, established by the late
Dean Herbert of Manchester, upon a little bulbous plant,
-a@ native of the neighbourhood of Monte Video and Mal-
donado, which flowered in his garden at Spofforth in 1830.
It is closely allied to Zephyranthes. Herbert says of it,
** with bulb, foliage, capsule, and seed that are scarcely
distinguishable from Zephyranthes, it has a flower which
is nearly that of a Colchicum.” The only distinction
between Zephyranthes and Haylockia appears to me to
be, the almost total absence of a scape in Haylockia,
the ovary being, with the spathe, sunk in the very short
neck of the bulb. Two varieties of it are described,
found growing together, one with straw-coloured, the
other with pale rose flowers. The generic name com-
-memorates the valuable services of Mr. Matthew Haylock,
who had for twenty-two years the charge of the Spofforth
collection of plants, and “who brought no small number,
especially of this natural order, to blossom for the first
time in this country,”
January Ist, 1900,
Bulbs of Haylockia were received at the Royal Gardens,
Kew, from Dr. Cantera of Montevideo, in 1898; these
flowered in July, 1899, and threw up leaves in the following
August. The flowers appear in quick succession for about
a fortnight, but are very ephemeral.
Descr.—A dwarf, perfectly glabrous, bulbous herb.
Bulb globose, scales brown, appressed. Leaves few, pro-
duced after the flowers, very narrowly linear, sub-acute, —
flaccid, green, concave above. Flowers solitary, sub-sessile,
erect, white, pale rose-coloured or primrose-yellow, streaked
with pink at the base of the perianth-lobes externally.
Perianth-tube very slender, an inch and a half long,
surrounded at the base by a bifid spathe, limb infundibular-
campanulate, six-partite; segments oblong, spreading and
recurved. Filaments short, subulate, inserted in the
throat of the perianth; anthers versatile, linear-oblong,
golden-yellow. Ovary embraced by the spathe and sheaths
of the leaves; style filiform, stigmas three, linear, obtuse,
shortly exserted from the throat of the perianth. Capsule
small, trigonous, three-valved. Seeds black, dorsally |
convex.—J. D. H.
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MACLEANTA INSIGNIS.
Native of Mexico.
Nat. Ord. VacctnracE#.—Tribe THIBAUDIEA,
Genus Macreania, Hook. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p- 506.)
Mac.eania insignis; ramulis robustis, foliis 14-2-pollicaribus brevissime
crasse petiolatis ellipticis oblongisve obtusis apiculatis basi rotundatis
utrinques parsim punctulatis supra lete viridibus subtus pallidioribus
novellis aurantiaco-coccineis, costa subtus crassa, nervis paucis arcuatis
gracillimis, floribus axillaribus solitariis et fasciculatis foliis subsequi-
longis, pedicellis crassis medio minute 2-bracteolatis, calycis subob-
pyramidati 5-alati ore truncato 5-apiculato, corolle 1}-pollicaris coccines
tubo cylindraceo levi deorsum paullo dilatato, lobis brevibus triangulari-
bus, antherarum loculis asperis in tubum angustum uniporosum apice 2-
denticulatum productis, connective dorso incrassato, bacca globosa 4-%
poll. diam. 5-costata alba costis rubris.
M. insignis, Mart. & Gal. in Bull, Acad. Brug. vol. ix. (1842) p. 531. Walp.
Rep. vol. ii. p. 724; Ann. vol. i. p. 478. Klotzsch in Linnea, vol. xxiv.
(1857) p. 20.
Fifteen species of the beautiful genus Macleania are
enumerated in the “Index Kewensis,’’ of which five, in-
cluding M. insignis, have been figured in this Magazine.
The earlier ones are M. angulata, Hook., t.3979; M. punc-
tata, Hook., t. 4426 ; M. speciosissima, Hook., t. 5453, and
M. pulehra, Hook., t. 5465. The names of three out of
the six bespeak their exceptionally ornamental character.
M. insignis is a native of Mexico, where it was dis-
covered in the Province of Vera Cruz, by Galeotti, in
1840, growing epiphytically on oaks, at an elevation of
four thousand to six thousand feet, flowering in April.
Galeotti describes it as bulbous, referring, no doubt, to
the tuberous base of the stem, so characteristic of many
epiphytic Vacciniacex. It has also been collected by
Linden, and by Jurgensen. Specimens from the latter
_ (No. 969) inthe Kew Herbarium have much longer leaves
_ than those here represented. The species was introduced
into Europe many years ago, and is not uncommon in
gardens. The specimen here figured was sent to me by
January Ist, 1900. oes
Mr. Lynch, from the Botanical Gardens of the University of
Cambridge. It is a green-house plant, flowering in June
and July. -
Descr.—A small, evergreen, glabrous shrub, with stem
tuberous at the base. Branches very stout, leafy; bark
brown. Leaves one and a half to two inches long, very
shortly and stoutly petioled, oblong or elliptic, obtuse, sub- .
acute or apiculate, coriaceous, minutely distantly punctate
on both surfaces, bright green above, paler beneath;
young brick-red; nerves few, very slender, arched.
Flowers solitary and fascicled in the axils of the leaves; —
pedicels very stout, one quarter to half an inch long or
more, minutely bibracteolate about the middle, green.
Calyz obpyramidal, five-winged, green, mouth truncate,
minutely five-toothed. Corolla an inch and a half long,
tubular, terete, slightly dilated downwards, scarlet ; lobes
small, triangular, spreading. Filaments united in a mem-
branous tube; anther-cells prolonged into a single tube
with an oblong, terminal, anticous pore, and a two-toothed
tip ; connective dorsally thickened. Berry globose, white,
- with five red ribs.—J. D. H. | 7
Fig. 1, portion of leaf; 2, oe and style; 3, four stamens, front view ;
5, a single stamen, side view :—Al/ enlarged. =
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DIOSTEA JUNCEA.
Nutive of Chili.
*
Nat. Ord. VerBenacrex.—Tribe VERBENE.
Genus Diostsea, Miers; (in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvii. 1871) p. 102.)
DiostEa juncea; frutex v. arbuscula fere glaberrima, e basi ramosa, sparsi-
folia, ramulis gracilibus virgatis oppositis v. 3-4-natim verticillatis
erectis decurvisve, internodiis valde. elongatis teretibus fistnlosis, foliis
parvis oppositis sessilibus oblongis ovato-oblongisve obtusis pauci-
crenatis crassiusculis, floribus parvis in spicas densifloras pedunculatas
breves v. demum elongatas dispositis basi bracteolatis, bracteola minuta
oblonga, calyce brevi tubulosa truncata breviter 5-dentata pubescente,
_ dentibus obtusis xqualibus y. postico longiore, corolla tubo calyce
ter quaterve longiore tubulosa decurva supra medium gibboso-inflata
2H ey lilacina intus pilosa, ore paullo constricto, limbo parvo patente
-lobo, lobis rotundatis, staminibus medio tubo corollz insertis didynamis
quinto seepe imperfecto v. 0, connectivo dorso incrassato, disco annulari,
ovario 2-loculari, loculis 1-ovulatis, stylo gracile apice clavellato, stigmate
simplici. .
D, juncea, Miers, 7.c. p. 103, t. 28.
D. chameedryfolia, Hort. Kew. (non Lippia chamedryfolia, Steud.)
BaiLionia juncea, Benth. in Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1144.
DipyreEna dentata, Philippi in Linnea, vol. xxix. (1857-8) p. 22.
Lrprra juncea, Schauer in DC. Prodr. vol. xi. p. 573. C0. Gay, Fl. Chil. vol. v.
p- 80. Philippi Le. vol. xxxiii. (1864-5) p. 196.
VexBena juncea, Hook. et Gill. in Hook, Bot. Misc. vol. i. (1830) p. 162.
Diostea is a very curious genus, closely allied to Lippia,
but differing remarkably in habit, in the slender green
branches, and in the branchlets being cylindric, fistular,
with very long internodes. It was founded on Verbena
juncea, Hook. & Gill., by Miers, who describes seven species,
all Chilian.
Bentham, who elaborated the Verbenaceex for the “ Genera
Plantarum,” referred D. juncea with D. infuscata, Miers, and
valdiviena, Miers, as synonyms, to Bocquillon’s genus Bail-
lonia, a Paraguayan plant, of which he had seen no
specimens. The latter has been acquired for the Kew Her-
_ barium, and proves to be generically different from Diostea.
Miers’ other species, D. scoparia, stenophylla, filifolia and
January Ist, 1900,
scirpea, are all referred by Bentham to Verbena, but they have
all precisely the same habit as D. juncea, and I should
not be surprised if they proved to be forms of that plant.
Walpers (Repertorium iv. 16) includes D. juncea and some
of the others in a section (Juncex) of Verbena, together with
some other Verbenacex, which, as Miers observes, have no
affinity with these. :
In D. juncea the teeth of the calyx vary a good deal in
development, being sometimes hardly perceptible; the
stamens vary in number; of the specimens cited by
Miers, the type, that collected by Gillies, has no fifth,
which is present in Macrae’s and Bridge’s specimens.
D. juncea is a native of the Chilian and Argentine Andes,
at elevations of three thousand to five thousand feet, from
the latitude of Mt. Aconcagua to that of Valdivia. There
are three small trees of it in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in
a bed close to No. 2 House, where they flower in June;
they were raised from seed received about ten years ago,
but there is no record of their source.
Descr.—A bush or small tree, branching from the base ;
branches erect, spreading, or recurved, branchlets opposite,
ternate, or quaternate, internodes very long, green, terete,
fistular, when dry constricted as if jointed at the nodes.
_ Leaves in very distant pairs, rarely one inch long, opposite,
sessile, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, crenate, green, rather
fleshy, glabrous, or very minutely puberulous, Flowers .
crowded in peduncled axillary and terminal spikes, one
inch long or more, spreading and decurved, pale lilac, a
quarter of an inch long, rhachis of spike pubescent. Calyx
shortly tubular, pubescent, mouth truncate, unequally very
shortly five-toothed. Corolla three to four times as long
as the calyx, tubular, inflated beyond the middle, hairy
within, quite glabrous externally; mouth constricted ;
lobes five, very short, rounded, spreading. Stamens four,
didynamous, with or without a more or less imperfect
one ct two-celled ; style very slender, tip clavellate. .
Fig. 1, flower and bracteole; 2, portions of corolla with stamens; 3 and 4,
anthers; 5, ovary; 6, vertical, and 7, transverse section of the same :—All
enlarged.
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-RHODODENDRON ‘ARBOREUM, var. KINGIANUM.
Native of Manipur. ;
Nat. Ord. Ertcacra.—Tribe Ruopore.
Genus RuopopEenpRon, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 599.)
ical Mas
RuopopENpRon arhboreum, var. Kingianum; frutex robustus, ramulis
crassis, cortice brunneo; foliis apices versus ramulorum confertis 2-3-
pollicaribus breviter petiolatis oblongis v. ovato-oblongis obtusis convexis
-marginibus late recurvis subcoriaceis supra late saturate viridibus inter
nervos -utrinque costs 8-10 arcuatos valde impressos bullatis, subtus
tomento arcte appresso flavido opertis costa nervisque robustis, petiolo
robusto, floribus in corymbum capitatum amplum multi-densiflorum
__ congestis breviter crasse pedicellatis, pedicellis glanduloso-pilosis, calycis
~ brevis cupularis lobis rotundatis glanduloso-ciliatis, corolla campanulata
tota saturate coccinea fulgida immaculata, limbo, H laneras diam. 5-lobato,
lobis patulis bilobulatis, staminibus 10 declinatis, filamentis tubo corollz
paullo longioribus glaberrimis roseis, antheris parvis brevibus fusco-
purpureis poris magnis, ovario 10-loculari strigilloso, stylo glaberrimo
roseo, stigmate annulato minute 10-lobo.
R. Kingianum, Watt mss. ex Gard. Chron. 1899, vol. ii. p. 306, fig, 102.
A remarkably beautiful member of a genus abounding
in strikingly handsome species, happily bearing the name
of Sir George King, the distinguished late Superintendent
of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Calcutta, who in that
capacity has rivalled his great predecessor Wallich in the
advancement of Indian Botany. &. Kingianum, Watt, is
obviously a form of 2. arborewm, from the type of which it
differs in the crowded, strongly bullate, very dark, almost
glossy, broader leaves, with broadly recurved margins and
deeply impressed nerves ; in the well developed five-lobed
calyx ; in the more deeply two-lobed divisions of the corolla,
which is of a more intense scarlet, rivalling in that respect
R. Thomsoni, Hk. f. (tab. 4797); and in the rose-coloured
stamens.
Var. Kingianum was discovered by Dr. G. Watt, F.L.S.,
ae Reporter on the Economic Products of India, when on a
tour of inspection in 1882, upon a mountain called Ching
Low in Manipur, at an elevation of nine thousand feet’
above the sea. Plants of it were raised at the Royal
January Ist, 1900,
Gardens, Kew, from seeds sent by Dr, Watt in 1882, one
of which flowered for the first time in the Himalayan
wing of the Temperate House in June, 1899, a flowering
branch of which is here figured. ‘The leaves attain a
length of six inches in native specimens.
Descr.—A robust shrub. Branches very stout, glabrous,
covered with ‘brown bark. eaves crowded towards the
ends of the branches, very shortly petioled, spreading
and recurved, two to three inches long, oblong or ovate-
oblong, convex, above bullate, dark shining green, with
impressed reticulate nervules, margins recurved, beneath
clothed with appressed fulvous tomentum; petiole very
stout. Flowers very many, crowded in a globose, sessile
head, five inches in diameter, bright deep scarlet ; pedicels
very short, glandular-pubescent. Calyx short, broad,
cupular, five-lobed, lobes rounded. Corolla campanulate,
bright scarlet, without spots, limb an inch and a half in
diameter, five-lobed; lobes short, rounded, spreading,
rather deeply bilobulate. Stamens ten, declinate, filaments
slender, quite glabrous; anthers small, dark brown.
Ovary strigose, ten-celled ; style slender, glabrous, stigma
annulate, minutely ten-lobed.—J.D.H.
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, transverse section of ovary + _
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EUCALYPTUS ricirotia.
Native.of South-western Australia.
Nat. Ord. Myrracem.—Tribe LertosPpERMEA,
Genus Evcatyrrus, L’Her.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 707.)
Evcatyptus (Corymbosz) jficifolia; arbor mediocris, umbrosa, cortice persis-
tente rimoso, ramulis robustis, foliis petiolatis sparsis v. suboppositis
4-6-pollicaribus ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis in petiolum
decurrentibus subsequilateris tenuiter coriaceis supra saturate viridibus
subtus opacis, nervis innumeris patulis circumficiali margini proximo,
glandulis oleiferis obscuris, umbellis simplicibus v. subpaniculatis 4-6-
floris, pedicellis subsequalibus teretibus, calycis tubo pyriformi tereti
% poll. longo ore vix constricto, operculo tenui brevi depresso, filamentis
coccineis, antheris omnibus fertilibus, fructu ovoideo v. urneformi 1-13
poll. longo 3-4-loculari, oris margine acuto, valvis demum depressis,
_ seminis ala decurrente nucleo longiore translucida.
E. ficifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. vol. iti. p. 85; Hucalyptographia, Dec. vii. eum
ic.; Rep. Forest Region of W. Australia, p. 5, t.3; Benth. Fl. Austral.
vol. iii. p. 256; Hemsl. in Gard. Chron. 1883, vol. ii. p. 465 fruct.
Sag! of scenery with H. ficifolia, in North Gallery, Royal Gardens, Kew,
o. 789.
_ According to the late Baron Sir F. Mueller, the author
of H. ficifolia, “hardly any thing can be more gorgeous
than forests of this tree seen at the end of January and
beginning of February, when the flowers diffuse a rich red
hue over the dark green foliage of the landscape.” It is
a native of a very narrow area in the extreme south-west
point of Australia. There, according to Muir and Max-
well (as cited by Mueller in his Report on the Forest
Region of Western Australia) it is restricted to a narrow
belt extending from the west side of Irwin Inlet, to the
mouth of the Shannon River, hardly reaching the coast,
and not beyond eight miles inland; there it forms a tree
seldom exceeding fifty feet in height. The quality of the
timber is unknown. Mueller, in his ‘* Fragmenta,” gives
Broken Inlet as.the habitat.
The nearest ally of ZH. ficifolia is the geographically
contiguous W. Australian H. calophylla, Br. (t. 4036,
E. splachnicarpon, Hook.), the Red gum of King George’s
Frsruary Ist, 1900.
Sound, which differs chiefly in having nearly white
filaments.
The specimen here figured was sent to the Director of
the Royal Gardens, Kew, by General Abadie, C.B. It
was taken from a plant growing in a cool Palm House in
the gardens of Mrs. Fitzroy Fletcher, of Letham Grove,
Arbroath, N.B., where it was raised from seed sent from
Australia about seven years ago. Mrs. Fletcher informs
me that the young plant grew very fast, soon flowered,
and has continued to do so yearly in August.
Deser.—A moderate-sized, umbrageous tree, with stout
branches, and persistent, furrowed bark. Leaves scattered
and sub-opposite, four to six inches long, ovate or ovate-
lanceolate, finely acuminate, base narrowed into a red
petiole one to two inches long, thinly coriaceous, very
dark green above, with a yellow-green midrib and margins,
paler and not shining beneath; nerves very numerous,
slender, transverse. Umbels very large, simple or sub-com-
pound, four to six-flowered ; pedicels terete, slender, an
inch to an inch and a half long. Calyx about three-
quarters of an inch long, pyriform, green, mouth not or
-hardly contracted, lobes connate in a depressed conical,
deciduous cap. Stamens very numerous, forming a scat
cup two inches in diameter, with minute, dark red anthe
Fruit ovoid or urn-shaped, an inch to an inch and a half
long, an inch and a quarter in diameter, mouth contracted
with a narrow rim, valves deep down in the body of the
fruit, connivent.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, cap of sepals; 2, section of ovary with style :—Hnlarged.
7698
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LOMATIA tonerrorta.
Native of South-Eastern Australia,
Nat, Ord. Proteace2.—Tribe EmBoturize.
Genus Lomatia, Br. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 183.)
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Lomatia longifolia; fratex v. arbuscula fere glaberrima, ramulis novellis et
inflorescentia minute strigillosis, ramis gracilibus, foliis 4-8 poll. longis
sessilibus v. breviter petiolatis linearibus et lineari- v. oblongo- anceolatis
acuminatis basi acutis remote dentatis supra lete viridibus subtus
pallidis glaucescentibus, nervis distantibus tenuissimis, costa subtus
prominula, racemis apices versus ramulorum numerosis axillaribus et
terminalibus foliis brevioribus v. longioribus erecto-patentibus multi-
laxifloris, rhachi gracili pedicellisque }-3 poll. longis viridibus, perianthii
pol]. expans. pallide albi virescentis segmentis fosaritap patenti- revo-
utis apicibus ovato-dilatatis, antheris parvis late ovatis sessilibus,
glandulis hypogynis 3 globosis, ovario ellipsoideo glaberrimo, stipite
curvo elongato, stylo stipite breviore decurvo, stigmate dilatato peltato
trigono, folliculo pollicari stipitato decurvo gibboso oblongo-lanceolato
glaberrimo tenuiter coriaceo polyspermo,.stylo persistente, seminibus
oblongis imbricatis ala nucleo longiore.
L. longifolia, Br. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vol. x. p. 200. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 442.
Meissn. in DC. Prodr. vol. xiv. p. 447. Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. v. p. 537.
Emporurium myricoides, Geertn. f. Fruct. vol. iii. p. 215, t. 218.
E. longifolium, Poir in Lam. Dict., Suppl. vol. ii. p. 551,
TRICONDYLUS myricefolius, Knight, Proteac. p. 122.
Lomatia longifolia is an evergreen shrub, or small tree,
attaining the height of twenty to twenty-five feet, with
very variable foliage. It is a native of New Soutk Wales,
from the neighbourhood of Sydney westward to the Blue
Mountains, and southward to Two-fold Bay, near Cape
Howe. It has also been found by F. Mueller on the King
River, Mitta-Mitta and Buffalo ranges of the Victoria
Alps. According to Lindley (in the “ Botanical Register,” -
quoting Sweet’s “‘ Hortus Britannicus ”) it was introduced
into England in 1816. It has long been in cultivation in
the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it flowers, in the Temperate
House, in July. |
Descr.—An erect shrub or small tree, glabrous, except
the young parts, which bears a scattered, ferruginous,
deciduous, appressed pubescence; branches _ slender,
Frsrvary 1st, 1900,
Leaves very variable, four to eight inches long, sessile, or
very shortly petioled, from narrowly linear to oblong-
lanceolate, acuminate, distantly toothed, base acute;
midrib beneath stout; nerves few, very slender. Racemes
peduncled, axillary in the uppermost leaves and terminal,
longer or shorter than the leaves, erecto-patent, laxly many-
flowered; peduncle and rhachis slender; pedicels one-
fourth to one-third of an inch long, often binate; bracts
none. Flowers about half an inch broad, greenish white.
Perianth-segments linear, revolute beyond the middle, tips
dilated, broadly ovate, obtuse. Anthers small, sessile ;
cells divaricate, meeting at their tips. Hypogynous glands
three, globose. Ovary on a long stout stipes, ellipsoid,
glabrous, narrowed into very stout incurved style with a
broad peltate obtusely trigonous stigma. Capsule an inch
long, thinly coriaceous, stipitate, gibbously oblong-lanceo-
Prey compressed, smooth, glabrous, many-seeded.
—J, D. H.
. Fig. 1, flower and pedicel; 2, pedicel, glands, and pistil; 3, capsule ;
4, interior of the same with one wall removed, showing the seeds; 5, embryo
(figs. 3-5 from Geertner) :—All but figs. 3 and 4 enlarged,
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PHLOMIS tunarirouia.
Native of Asia Minor. |
Nat. Ord. Lasiata2.—Tribe StacuyDEz.
Genus Putomis, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol, ii. p, 1214.)
Putomis (Dendrophlomides) lwnarifolia; frutex erectus, cano-tomentosus,
caule ramisque 4-gonis, foliis oblongis ovato-oblongisve obtusis inferiori-
bus longe petiolatis basi truncatis cuneatis v. cordatis superioribus
sessilibus. supra viridibus reticulatis subtus cano-virescentibus nervis
utrinque costes ad 5 ascendentibus supra impressis subtus prominulis,
nervulis validis reticulatis, capitulo amplo ad 4 poll. diam. depresso
multifloro foliis 2 deflexis a oblongis suffulto, bracteis parvis
imbricatis orbicularibus cuspidatis pilosis, calyce fere recto stellatim
pubescente, lobis 5 brevissimis latis retusis, sinibus cuspide patula
instructis, corolla 14-poll. longa aurea, galea villosa alte obtuse bicarinata
apice retusa, labio inferiore bialato alis rotundatis, filamentis infra medium
pilosis longioribus appendiculatis, nuculis glabris. -
P. lunarifolia, Sibth. & Sm. Prodr. Fl. Gree. vol. i. p. 414 (excl. hab.).
Benth. in DO. Prodr, vol. xii. p. 541 (excl. hab.). Unger & Kotschy,
iss ts Cypern, p. 275. Boiss. Fl. Orient, vol. iv. p. 785 (lunaris-
Olla).
P. imbricata, Boiss. in Bourg. Pl. Lye. exsicc. (1860).
A very handsome Labiate described as shrubby, though
more probably an undershrub, attaining in its native
country six feet in height, with flowering branches a foot
long. It is described by Boissier as a native of Lycia,
Cilicia, and the Island of Rhodes, but I suspect that the
latter is a mistake for Cyprus, for the collector’s name
given for Rhodes is Kotschy (No. 678), and the precise
habitat Chrysochu ; and there is a specimen of P. lunari-
folia in the Kew Herbarium with the same number and
habitat, ticketed as from Cyprus, by Kotschy. The species
is also included in Unger and Kotschy’s “ Die Insel Cypern”
(published in 1865), a record overlooked by Boissier.
The habitat of Peloponnesus, given in Sibthorp and
Smith’s Prodromus, repeated in DC. Prodr., &c., arose, as
Boissier points out, from a confusion of the species with
P. samia, L.
The Royal Gardens are indebted to E. Whittall, Esq.,
of Smyrna, for seeds of P. lunarifolia, collected in the
FEBRUARY Ist, 1900,
Davas Dagh in 1895; a plant raised from which flowéred
in the open border in June, 1899.
Descr.—An erect, branching undershrub, attaining six feet
in height, with appressed-tomentose, green branches and
leaves. Lower leaves long petioled, oblong or ovate-oblong,
obtuse, base acute, truncate, or cordate, upper smaller,
sessile by a narrow base, all rather dark green above, with
four or five pairs of impressed ascending nerves, and copious
reticulations, beneath paler, almost hoary with very strong
nerves and anastomosing nervules. Head of flowers a
depressed sphere four inches in diameter, with two pendu-
lous narrowly oblong leaves, three or more inches long, at
the base. Bracts small, orbicular, cuspidate, -membranous,
more or less stellately hairy. Calyx three-fourths of an
- inch long, erect, nearly tubular, ten-ribbed, hirsute, with
stellate hairs ; mouth truncate, rather oblique; lobes five,
short, very broad, membranous, retuse, alternating with as
many cuspidate spreading teeth. Corolla one inch and a
half long, golden-yellow ; upper lip villous, with two dorsal
elevated obtuse keels extending to the retuse tip; lower
lip expanded at the end into two orbicular wings.
Filaments hairy below the middle.—J. D. H.
Figs. 1 dnd 2, bracts; 3, calyx and style; 4, stellate hairs of calyx; Pe.
5, portion of corolla and stamens; 6 and 7, anthers; 8, disk and ovary:—AU)
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ARIS AMA rravoum.
Native of the Western Himalaya.
Nat. Ord. ARorpE#,—Tribe ARINEX.
Genus Ariszma, Mart. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 965.
Anisaima (Pedatisecta) flavum ; monoicum, rhizomate globoso, vaginis appres-
sis petiolisque, pallide rufo-brunneis striatis, foliis binis atisectis,
foliolis 7-11 sessilibus vel petiolulatis oblongo- v. lineari-lanceolatis
acuminatis cuspidatisve lete virescentibus basi cuneatis intermedio
majore, vagina elongata, pedunculo petiolo subsequilongo viridi, spathe
viridis intus purpureo-fasciate tubo subgloboso cancellato, limbo tubo
longiore v. equilongo late ovato v. orbiculari incurvo cuspidato, cuspide
erecto v. recurvo marginibus basi vix recurvis, spadice subsessili brevi
oblongo v. conico incluso, ovariis pauci- v. multi-seriatis obovoideo-
lobosis, stigmate oe antheris dense congestis obovoideis, appen-
dice brevi clavato, baccis cuneato-obovoideis.
A. flavum, Schott, Prodr, Syst. Aroid. p. 40. Engler, Arac. in Alph. & Cas.
DO. Monog. Phan. vol. ii. p. 548. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 503.
A. abbreviatum, Schott in (ster. Bot, Zeitschr. 1857, p. 382; Prodr. p. 39.
Engler, l.c. et Ic. ined. No. 7. .
Docuara flava, Schott, Syn. Aroid. p. 24; Gen. Aroid. App.
Arum flavum, Forsk. Fl. Agypt. Arab. p. 157.
Arisema flavum is a remarkably variable plant, from six
inches to nearly twenty-four inches in height, with a root-
stock from the size of a small nut to that of a walnut; a
stem sometimes as thick as the thumb; leaves four to
nearly twelve inches span, with seven to eleven sessile or
petiolulate leaflets varying greatly in breadth ; a spathe one
to three inches long, of a green to yellow colour. The
ovaries are often numerous, ripening into an oblong
infructescence sometimes three inches long and two in
diameter. Its Himalayan distribution is a wide one, from
Garwhal, at an elevation of eight thousand to nine thousand
feet, to Kashmir at six thousand five hundred feet, and in
the Kurrum Valley (Afghanistan) at seven thousand to
nine thousand feet. It has’ not been collected at any
locality between that last given and Arabia, where it was
discovered by Forskil in 1763. The latter author de-
scribes it as 2-8-leaved, with a yellow spathe two inches
long, and spadix an inch long. :
Frpruary Ist, 1900.
The specimens here figured were raised from seed sent
to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Mr. Duthie, F.L.S.,
Director of the Botanic Department, Northern India, in
1896. They flowered in a greenhouse in June, 1899.
Descr.—Very variable in the size of all its parts, but the
spathe rarely exceeding an inch in length. Sheaths
embracing the petiole and peduncle, pale red brown,
streaked with darker brown. Leaves two, pedatisect ;
leaflets seven to eleven, usually lanceolate, acuminate,
bright green, the central largest and broadest; petiole pale
brown, striated, its sheath very long. Peduncle about .
as long as the petiole, green. Spathe short, green, or
yellowish, purple within, streaked with green ; tube globose,
striate and trellised; limb open, very broadly ovate or
orbicular, incurved, ‘cuspidately acuminate, with the tip
ascending or recurved. Spadix sub-segsile, short, included,
androgynous. em. infl. of few rows of obovoidly globose
ovaries with pulvinate stigmas. Male injl. longer, of
crowded anthers. Prpentage. clavate, much shorter than
the inflorescence.—J. D. H
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vertically halved; 5, an ovule :—All enlarg
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IRIS oprvusiroria.
Native of Persia.
Nat. Ord. In1pEa#.—Tribe Morse.
Genus Inis, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 686.)
Ins (Pogoniris) odéusifolia; rhizomate robusto breviter repente, foliis 6
distichis laxis caule brevioribus ligulatis obtusis pallide viridibus,
caule simplici subpedali capitulo unico terminali unico laterali sessili
preedito, spathe valvis magnis cblongis obtusis valde ventricosis, pedi-
cellis brevissimis, perianthii sulphurei tubo brevi cylindrico, limbi
segmentis exterioribus obovato-cuneatis e medio recurvatis barba
aurantiaca densa preditis, segmentis unguiculatis erectis interioribus
zequilongis, styli ramis perianthio distincte brevioribus cristis deltoideis
irregulariter dentatis. ; os :
This new Iris is nearly allied to I. lutescens, Lam. (Bot.
Mag. t. 2861), and J. Statellx, Todaro (Bot. Mag. t. 6894),
from both of which it differs by its laxly arranged obtuse
leaves, very ventricose spathe-valves, and by having a
sessile lateral cluster of flowers in addition to the end one.
It was discovered by the. late Lieutenant-Colonel Henry
Lake Wells in the year 1895, in the province of Mazan-
deran, on the south ‘of ‘the Caspian Sea. Colonel Wells
describes this province as ‘a lovely country, full of
beautiful flowers, and amongst others I found a yellow
Iris, growing beside the streams at an elevation of about
seven thousand feet above sea-level.” He sent it in 1897
to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in a living state, and our
drawing was made from a plant that flowered in the bulb-
house in April, 1899.
Descr.—Rootstock robust, shortly creeping. Leaves six,
distichous, mostly basal, pale green, ligulate, obtuse, the
largest six or eight inches long at the flowering season, by
an inch broad. Stem a foot long, bearing one terminal
and one sessile lateral cluster of flowers. Spathe-valves
oblong-navicular, very ventricose, two or three inches
long, pale green at the flowering season; pedicels very
short. Perianth sulphur-yellow ; tube very short; outer
segments of the limb obovate-cuneate, two inches by an
Feprvary Ist, 1900,
inch broad above the middle, reflexing from the middle,
furnished with an orange-yellow beard more than halfway
up; inner segments erect, as long as the outer, cordate-
orbicular, with a short, narrow claw. Style-branches pale
yellow, an inch long; crests deltoid, irregularly toothed on
the outer edge.—J. G. Baker.
Fig. 1, front view of anther; 2, back view of anther; 3, apex of style-
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STAN HOPEA Ropicasiana.
* Native of New Grenada.
Nat. Ord, OxcHIDEa&,—Tribe VANDEZ.
Genus Sranvorza, Frost; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 549.)
Stannorea Rodigasiana; pseudobulbis ovoideis parvis monophyllis, foliis brevi-
ter petiolatis lanceolatis acuminatis trinerviis, scapis elongatis pendulis uni-
floris, bracteis spathaceis oblongo-lanceclatis acuminatis membranaceis,
floribus amplis, sepalis patentibus ovato-oblongis subobtusis concavis
dorsali angustiore, petalis triangulari-lanceolatis superne attenuatis et
recurvis sepalis zxquilongis, labello carnoso sepalis paullo longiore,
hypochilio elongato superne paullo dilatato basi ecornuto, mesochilii
cornibus valde prominentibus apice utrinque dilatatis triangularibus
acutis antice longe unisetosis, epichilio articulato triangulari-elongato
obtuso canaliculato basi paullo dilatato et saccato, columna elongata
inferne teretiuscula densa utrinque alata, alis angustis denticulatis
apice utrinque in cornu breve oblongum denticulatum extensis, rostello
longiuscule et divergente bisetoso, anthera generis.
S. Rodigasiana, Claes, ex Cogn, in Chronique Orchidéenne, p.134. Gard. Chron.
1898, vol. ii. pp. 14, 31, 32, fig. 9. Gard. Mag. 1898, p. 492, with fizure.
The genus Stanhopea was established in the present
work in 1829, on a plant which flowered in the Royal
Gardens, Kew, and was dedicated to the Right Hon. Earl
Stanhope, President of the Medico-Botanical Society of
_ London. Itnow numbers upwards of forty species, eight of
_ which have been illustrated in the “ Botanical Magazine,”
namely :—S. insignis, Frost (t. 2948-2949), S. eburnea,
Lindl. (t. 8359), 8S. tigrina, Batem. (t. 4197), 8. ecornuta,
Lindl. (t. 4885), 8S. Bucephalus, Lindl. (t. 5278), 8S. Wardit,
Lodd. (t. 5289), S. oculata, Lindl. (t. 5300), and S. Hase-
loviana, Reichb. f. (t. 7452). All are remarkable for
great complexity in the structure of their flowers, and the
present one is no exception, though in several respects it
- is So anomalous in character that it cannot be compared
with any other, and may almost be said to constitute a
distinct section of the genus. The flowers are solitary,
borne on rather long pendulous scapes, and the middle
portion of the lip—the mesochile—bears no approach to
anything hitherto known.
Makxcu Ist, 1900.
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__ §. Rodigasiana is a native of New Grenada, and was dis-
covered in the State of Antioquia, in 1896, by Mr. Florent
Claes, of Brussels, and first flowered in the celebrated
collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., at Burford,
Dorking, in June, 1898, from which plant the present
illustration was prepared about a year later.
As regards culture it agrees with other species of the
genus in its requirements.
Descr.—Pseudobulbs ovoid, monophyllous, one to one
and a half inches long, light green. Leaves shortly
petiolate, lanceolate, acuminate, eight to ten inches long,
_ bright green above, paler beneath, with three prominent
nerves. Scape pendulous, about nine inches long, one-
flowered; bract spathaceous, acute, membranous, an
_ inch or more long; pedicel three inches long. lowers
_ nearly six inches in diameter. Sepals spreading, ovate-
_ oblong, sub-obtuse, concave, three inches long, more or
___ less marbled with dull purple below, and: bearing large
- bright maroon blotches above. Petals triangular-lanceo-
late, attenuate above and recurved, three inches long,
very pale green. Lip rather longer than the sepals,
very fleshy; hypochile narrow at the base, dilated and
the rest similarly blotched on a paler ground; arms of
_ mesochile suddenly dilated and hatchet-shaped, with the
front angle prolonged into an acuminate bristle, the other
“=o
- Fyeute: spotted with dull purple on a pale ground; epichile
delicately articulated, triangular, elongate, obtuse, chan-
rrelled above, dilated and saccate at the base, spotted with
dull purple on a paler ground. Colwmn as long as the
lip, curved, winged from the middle upwards, and extend-
_ ing into a pair of curved oblong teeth at the apex,
coloured like the lip; rostellum extending in a pair of
_ diverging bristles, about half an inch long.—R. A. Rolfe.
Fig. 1, epichile of lip; 2, column; 3, anther; 4 and 5, pollinia :—All
enlarged.
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MATTHIOLA sinvaTa, var. OYENSIS.
Native of Western France.
Nat. Ord. CructFer2.—Tribe ARABIDE.
Genus Marruiora, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 67.)
MATTHIOLA sinuata, var. oyensis ; herba annua vel biennis, ramosa, circiter
sesquipedalis, sublignosa, viridis undique glandulis. stipitatis sparsis
vestita, nec incano-tomentosa, foliis caulinis oblongo-lanceolatis lineari-
lanceolatis vel superioribus linearibus maximis 4-5 poll. longis paucilo-
bulatis sinuatisque vel integris obtusis deorsum in petiolum attenuatis,
floribus albis 1}-1} poll. diametro odorem gratum emittentibus, sepalis
basi inequalibus anguste oblongis obtusissimis, petalorum laminis
cuneato-oblongis sursum dilatatis sinuatis apice emarginatis vel bilobulatis,
siliqua angusta recta 2-3 poll. longa, seminibus ovalibus valde compressis
pallide brunneis ala angusta svariosa cinctis.
M. sinuata, Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. iv. p. 120, var. foliis glabris,
grandiflora, Lloyd, e« Nym. Oonsp. Fl. Europ. gh. yppl. 2, p. 19.
M. i pe Ménier et Viaud in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. xxiv. (1877),
p. 203.
M. sinuata, var. oyensis, Rouy et Foucaud, Fl. de France, vol. i. p. 193.
This fragrant annual or biennial Stock has such a differ-
ent appearance from typical M. sinwata, that one would at
first sight pronounce it a distinct species, and it was de-
scribed as such by Messrs. Ménier and Viaud-Grand-Marais,
in the publication cited above, in 1877. Subsequent writers
have taken a different and probably correct view of its
status, and there is little doubt that it is a white-flowered
variety of M. sinuata, differing from the typical or ordinary
condition in the total absence of a dense, greyish tomen-
tum. Several other species of plants exhibit the peculiarity
of densely hairy and glabrous individuals growing inter-
mixed. Borrichia arborescens, and B. frutescens, also sea-
coast plants (Composite), inhabiting the West Indies, Florida,
and Bermuda, are among the most remarkable instances.
Usually their leaves are clothed all over with hairs or a
dense, soft down; but side by side with plants thus
clothed with hairs others occur, having perfectly glabrous,
glossy foliage. Another species of Matthiola—M. incana,
Br.—is represented by a variety analogous to the one under
consideration. At least, that is the view taken by
Marcu Ist, 1900, *
botanists who, like Caruel (in Parl. Fl. Ital. vol. ix.
p. 795), regard M. glabra, DC. (M. glabrata, DC.), as a
variety of M. incana, Br., the parent of the Brompton and
other races of garden Stocks.
M. sinuata, var. oyensis, is a native of the Ile d@Yeu
(latine Insula Oya), off the coast of La Vendée, where it
grows associated with the typical form; thus strongly
favouring the view of its affinities here adopted. Seeds of
it were received at Kew from Messrs. Vilmorin-Andrieux & —
Co., of Paris, early in 1899, and the plants raised flowered
in the open ground in June of the same year. Mr. R.1. ~
Lynch also sent flowering specimens from the Cambridge _
Botanie Garden. It may be mentioned that the name ©
oyensis has been corrupted in gardens to “ ohiensis” and
* chinensis.” Both M. incana and M. sinuata are now
found growing wild in Britain; the former on cliffs in
the Isle of Wight, and the latter on the coasts of Devon,
Cornwall, and Wales ; but neither is regarded as indigenous
or aboriginal.
Deser,—An annual or biennial, branching, green herb,
one to two feet high, somewhat sparsely furnished with
stalked glands on the stems, leaves, calyces and pods, but
quite destitute of the dense, felt-like, greyish tomentum,
characteristic of typical M. sinuata. Leaves alternate (of
the stem only present in our specimens) oblong-lane ,
linear-lanceolate, or the upper ones quite linear, furnished ©
with two or three small lobes on each side, or quite entire,
obtuse, narrowed downwards into a more or less distinct,
though short petiole. Flowers white, very fragrant, espe-
cially in the evening, about an inch and a half in diameter,
in stiff, terminal racemes. Sepals unequal at the base,
narrowly oblong, very obtuse. Petals having avery narrow
claw, and a wavy limb, dilated upwards, and notched or
shallowly two-lobed at the top. Pod straight, two or
three inches long, many-seeded. Seeds oval, much com-
pressed, uniformly pale brown, and furnished with a
narrow, white, membranous or scarious, marginal wing.— _
W. Botting Hemsley. | =
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4, a stamen ; 5, pistil :—Al/ enlarged.
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CEROPEGIA Wooptt.
7 Native of Natal. :
Nat. Ord. AscLerIaDEX%.—Tribe CEROPEGIEM. -
Genus Ceropreia, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 779.)
Cerorecia Woodii; herba tuberosa, glabra, ramis gracillimis decumbentibus
vel pendentibus ad nodos seepe tuberiferis, foliis petiolatis }~1 poll, longis
et latis late cordato-ovatis vel orbiculari-reniformibus acutis vel obtusis
carnosis supra albo-venosis, cymis axillaribus peduneulatis 2-3-floris,
pedicellis 3-3} lin. longis, sepalis $ lin. longis lineari-lanceolatis acutis,
corollz tubo 7-9 lin. longo basi globoso-inflato superne cylindrico ore
leviter infundibuliformi rubro-purpureo lineato, lobis erectis apice co-
herentibus angustis replicatis ciliatis atro-purpureis, coronz exterioris
- breviter cupulilormis lobulis integris, corons interioris lobis linearibus
vel lineari-lanceolatis apice recurvis acutis.
C. Woodii, Schlechter in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. xviii., Beibl. No. 45, p. 34;
and vol. xx., Beibl. No. 51, p. 49. Gard. Chron, 1897, vol. ii. pp. 357,
358, fig. 104,
This pretty,species of Ceropegia was discovered by Mr.
J. Medley Wood, the energetic Curator of Durban Botanic
Gardens, in February, 1881, hanging from rocks on Groen
Berg, Natal, at an altitude of about one thousand eight
hundred feet. In 1894 Mr. Wood sent a living plant of it
to Kew, and subsequently it has been introduced into
other establishments. It seems to be nearest allied to
C. africana, Br., and O. Barkleyi, Hook. f. (Bot. Mag.
t. 6815), but is a much more slender and more elegant
plant than either of these. It is admirably adapted for
basket culture, as it produces a profusion of slender stems
which hang gracefully down on all sides, and are well
furnished with small variegated leaves. It flowers freely,
and ripens fruit under cultivation. The accompanying
figure was made from plants cultivated in the Botanic
Garden at Cambridge, and in the Royal Gardens, Kew.
It flowers under cultivation from February to November.
Descr.—Glabrous in all parts except the corolla. Root-
stock tuberous, fleshy. Stems numerous, pendent, or
trailing on the ground, slender, often producing globose
tubers at the nodes. Leaves opposite, fleshy, one-third of
Marca Ist, 1900.
an inch to one inch long, and as much in breadth, on
petioles two to six lines long, varying from broadly cordate-
ovate to orbicular-reniform, acute or obtuse, apiculate,
dark green, reticulate, variegated with white above, pale
green beneath. Cymes axillary, pedunculate, two- or three-
flowered. Pedunele two to five lines long. Bracts minute.
Pedicels about a quarter of an inch long. Sepals three-
quarters of a line long, linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla
slightly curved ; tube seven to nine lines long, globosely
inflated at the ‘base, cylindric above, slightly dilated into
a funnel-shaped mouth at the apex, streaked with purple;
lobes three to three and a half lines long, erect, cohering at
the tips, narrowly spathulate from a deltoid base, replicate,
blackish-purple, ciliate with purple hairs. Outer corona
shortly cupular, with five short, obtuse, pocket-like
lobules, white. Inner coronal-lobes linear or linear-lan¢eo-
late, acute, connivent-erect, recurving at the apex, adnate
at the base to the outer corona, white. —N. HE. Brown.
Fig. 1, corolla; 2, corona; 8, one of the inner coronal-lobes attached to a
stamen; 4, pollen-masses : :—All enlarged. ‘
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CEREUS mosavensts.
Native of California.
Nat. Ord. Cactacrm.—Tribe EcuinocactTEea,
Genus Cereus, Haw.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 849.)
CEREUS mojavensis; glaucescens, caulibus dense ceespitosis 2-6 poll. longis 13-2
poll. diam. ovatis vel cylindricis 8-11-costatis, costis sinuato-tuberculatis,
areolis 5-6 lin. distantibus orbicularibus junioribus tomentosis, aculeis
radiantibus 7-8 inzequalibus intertextis centrali solitario omnibus subtereti-
‘bus curvatis, floribus prope apices caulium enatis 2 poll. longis 1} poll.
diam. rubro-cinnabarinis, calycis tubi pulvillis 18-20 pauci-spinulosis,
sepalis obléngis obtusis, petalis oblongo-obovatis obtusis, staminibus
petalis fere sequantibus purpureis, stigmatibus 7-8 radiantibus viridibus.
C. mojavensis, Hngelm. & Bigel. in Pacif. Rail. . vol. iv. p. 33. EHngelm.
in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. iii. p. 281; §& Bot. Works, pp. 137, 158, 174.
Walp. Ann. Bot. vol. v. p. 43. Oreutt, Rev. Cact. United States, p. 22.
CO. Bigelovii, Hngelm. in Pacif. Rail. Rep. vol. iy. pl. 4, £. 8; § Bot. Works
(Cact. of Whipple’s Exped.), pl. 4, f. 8.
C. mohavensis, S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. p. 398.
Echinocereus mojavensis, Riimpl. im Férst. Handb. COact. ed. 2, p. 803;
K. Schum. Monogr. Cact. p. 297.
The Cereus here figured is one of the dwarf, tufted
species, and is nearly allied to C. Fendleri, Engelm. (Bot.
Mag. t. 6533), from which, as may be seen by a comparison
of the plates, it differs entirely in its longer radiating spines,
and smaller, differently coloured flowers. It is a native of
the dry Mohave district between the Rio Colorado and
Mohave Creek in California, where it was discovered in
March, 1854, by Lieut. Whipple, whilst making the survey
for the Pacific Railway, although, by some oversight, it is
altogether omitted in 8. Watson’s Botany of California.
The plant from which our figure was made was procured
from Mr. Orcutt, of San Diego, California, in 1897, and
flowered at Kew in June, 1899.
Descr.—Old plants densely tufted. Stems two to six
inches high, one and a half to two inches in diam., ovate or
cylindric, eight- to eleven-ribbed, light green, slightly
glaucous. ibs obtuse, sinuately tubercled. Areoles about
Maxcu Ist, 1900.
half an inch distant, orbicular, tomentose when young.
Spines slightly bulbous at the base, the radial seven to
eight unequal, more or less interwoven, three-quarters of
an inch to one anda half inches long, the central one single,
one and three-quarters of an inch to two inches long, all
sub-terete, and more or less curved, pale greyish. Flowers
produced near the apex of the stems, about two inches
long, and one and a half inches in diam., bright reddish-
scarlet. Calyz-tube bearing about eighteen to twenty
small pulvilli, with two to six short, bristle-like, ascending
- spines to each. Sepals oblong, obtuse. Petals oblong-
obovate, obtuse, entire, closely placed. Stamens nearly
as long as the petals, purple-mauve. Stigmas seven to
eight, radiating, green.— NV. LH, Brown.
Fig. 1, a tuft of spines, of the natural size.
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KNIPHOFIA RUFA.
Native of Natal.
Nat. Ord. Lintacrex#.—Tribe HEMEROCALLEZ.
Genus Knipuorta, Meench ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 775.)
Kyipnoria rufa; acaulis, foliis linearibus paucis viridibus firmis dorso acute
carinatis margine levibus, pedunculo modice valido foliis equilongo,racemo
' laxo, pedicellis brevissimis cernuis, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis pedicellis
superantibus, floribus inferioribus citrinis superioribus rufo tinctis, peri-
_ anthii cylindrici lobis orbicularibus patulis, staminibus demum exsertis.
_ K. rufa, Hort. Leichtlin.
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This pretty little new species of Kniphofia is nearly
allied to K. lawiflora, Kunth, from which it differs in its
shorter, smooth-edged leaves, shorter perianth, and exserted
stamens. It was introduced alive from Natal not long ago
by Mr. Max Leichtlin, of Baden Baden, and was drawn
from plants that he sent to Kew in June, 1899.
Descr.—Acaulescent. Leaves linear, few, firm, green,
acutely keeled on the back, a foot or a foot and a half
long, a third of an inch broad low down, tapering gradually
to the point. Peduncle terete, moderately stout, as long as ©
the leaves. Raceme lax, four to six inches long; pedicels
_ very short, cernuous ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, much longer
than the pedicels, scarious, white, with a brown keel ;
lower flowers primrose-yellow; upper tinged with red.
Perianth cylindrical, three-quarters of an inch long; lobes
orbicular, spreading. Stamens and style finally exserted.—
J. G. Baker. ;
_ Fig. 1, perianth with pedicel and bract; 2, front view of anther; 3, back
view of anther; 4, pistil:—<AJ/ enlarged. : Pe
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VERBASCUM toneironium.
Native of S. Italy and the Balkan.
Nat. Ord. ScropHuLaRINE#.—Tribe VERBASCEA. |
Genus VerBascum, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 928.)
Versascum (Thapsus) longifolium ; elatum, robustum, bienne, albido- v. luteo-
floccosum, foliis dense superpositis undulatis caulem simplicem velantibus
oblongo-ovatis-lanceolatisve acuminatis infimis majoribus patulis 14-2-
pedalibus breviter petiolatis superioribus angustioribus suberectis sessili-
bus basi amplexicaulibus,* racemo inter folia sessili pedali spiceformi
stricto cylindraceo 34 poll. diam. obtuso, ramulis appressis v. raro elon-
gatis, bracteis filiformibus, floribus dense congestis breviter pedicellatis,
calycis stellatim tomentosi lobis lanceolatis acuminatis, corolla explanato-
concava aurea pollicem lata, filamentis 3 brevioribus albido- v. violaceo-
lanatis, antheris parvis connectivo villoso, 2 longioribus glaberrimis
_ antheris multo majoribus lunatis ochraceis nudis, ovario hirtello basique
__- styli stellatim tomentoso.
V. longifolium, Tenore Fl. Neap. Prodr. p. 16; Syll. Pl. Vasc. Fl. Neap.
110; Fl. Napol. vol. i. p. 89, t. 21. Bertoloni #7. Ital. vol. ii, p. 595.
Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 228. Parlat. Fl. Ital. vol. vi. p. 579,
Arcang. Compend. Fl. Ital. p. 504. Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. iv. p. 304,
Baldacci in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. vi. (1899) 338.
V. pannosum, Vis. ea Panc. in Mem. Ist. Venet. vol. xii. (1866) p. 475.
Velenovsky, Flor. Bulg. Suppl. i. 207.
V. montanum, tomentosum, &e., Tilli, Cat. Pl. Hort. Pisan. p. 171 (1728).
Verbascum longifolium is a stately species, remarkable,
under the form here figured and described, for its extra-
ordinarily abundant undulate sinuate foliage, and the
massive columnar inflorescence of which the branches are
_ closely appressed to the axis. This, however, may be only
an extreme form, for the inflorescence is said by Boissier
to be either‘simple or branched. The woolly hairs of the
short filaments are both figured and described by Tenore
as purple in the Italian plant, but by Bertoloni and
Arcangeli as white; by Gussone as white below and
purple above; Boissier says white, but his description
probably applies to Macedonian or Servian specimens.
Its habitats recorded by Boissier are mountains near
Bitolia, in Macedonia, at an elevation of three thousand
five hundred to four thousand six hundred (French) feet,
Servia, and Southern Italy. In the last named country
_® Not “cordatis,” as might be supposed from the figure.
Apriu Ist, 1900.
Tenore gives the mountain pastures in the Abruzzi,
Bentham gives near Rome, on the authority of Mauri, and
there is a specimen so ticketed in the Kew Herbarium, but
it is not the true plant. Its nearest ally is the common
S. of Europe V. phlomoides, in which the leaves are crenu-
late, and the corolla-lobes are spreading, not, as in
longifolium, forming a cup.
V. longifolium was raised in the Royal Gardens, Kew,
from seed procured from Messrs. P. Barr & Sons, Thames
Ditton, in 1898. As it flowered in the Herbaceous ground
in July, 1899, it must be an annual, though described as
a biennial by Boissier. ee
Descr.—Whole plant as here described, three or four feeb
high, clothed, except the corolla, with white or yellowish
flocculent tomentum mixed with stellate hairs, forming a
low conical mass of leaves crowned with a sceptre-like
columnar inflorescence. Leaves innumerable, densely
superposed, gradually diminishing upward in size and
breadth ; lower one and a half to two feet long, spreading,
narrowly ovate, or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base
narrowed into a short petiole, upper sessile, base am- —
plexicaul, all quite entire, with strongly waved margins.
Inflorescence sessile, a foot high, by three and a half
inches in diameter, of innumerable short, stout appressed
flowering branches; bracts filiform, green. lowers
shortly pedicelled. Calyz stellate-tomentose ; lobes lan-
ceolate, acuminate. Corolla cup-shaped, an inch broad, —
golden-yellow. Three short filaments and connectives of _
the small, short anthers, villous, with simple, clavellate —
white or violet hairs ; two longer filaments quite glabrous,
anthers twice as large, lunate, quite naked. Ovary hispid,
base of style stellately hairy.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, calyx with style and stigma; 2, stellate hairs of foliage, &c.;
3, base of corolla and stamens; 4 and 5, anthers of two long stamens; 6 and
7, short stamens ; 8, hair from do. ; 9, : 2
is ns of whale ae a yodaaad. ovary and base of style :—all enlarged ;
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DEUTZIA piscoLor, var. PURPURASCENS.
Native of Western China.
Nat. Ord. SaxirraGacEm.—Tribe HypRANGER.
Genus Devuraia, Thunb. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 642.)
Devtzta discolor; frutex 6-7-pedalis, ramis teretibus, cortice brunneo,
ramulis lateralibus precipue foriferis, foliis breviter petiolatis 2-33 poll.
longis ovatis oblongisve acutis acuminatisve basi rotundatis subcordatis
v. cuneatis subdiscoloribus supra lete viridibus glabris scaberulis v. sparse
stellatim puberulis subtus pallidis glabris v. plus minus stellatim pubes-
centibus, petiolo 3-4 poll. longo, nervis primariis 4-5 arcuatis, paniculis
densi- vel laxi-floris, ramis ramulis pedicellisque sparse stellatim lepidotis, ©
pedicellis brevibus v. elongatis, floribus 3-1 poll. latis, calycis stellato-
pubescentis segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis 3-3 poll. longis, petalis oblongis
induplicatim valvatis dorso stellatim-puberulis marginibus late mem-
branaceis glaberrimis, filameutis complanatis linearibus subsqualibus
5 longioribus petalis alternis furcatis cruribus apice crenulatis anthera
sinu inserta, 5 brevioribus linearibus anthera facie inserta, disco expla-
nato glabro v. stellatim puberulo, stylis 3 apicibus paullo incrassatis
stigmatibus decurrentibus.
D. discolor, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. (1887) p. 275.
Var. purpurascens; panicula ramis ramulis pedicellis calycibusque rubro-
purpureis, petalis dorso roseo-purpureis. Franchet ex L. Henry in Le
Jardin, 1894, p. 147, fig. 64. Gard. § Forest, vol. vii. (1894) p. 284 &
287, fig. 48. Gard. Chron. 1899, vol. ii. p. 45, fig. 25, -
The species of Deutzia are very difficult of discrimination,
and have not hitherto been carefully studied. D. discolor
was founded in 1887 by Mr. Hemsley on herbarium speci-
mens collected in the Patung districts of the Hupeh
province by Dr. Henry, who has more recently sent
specimens of it from Szechuen. Its most distinctive
character is that of the elongate calyx-lobes, in contrast
to those organs in the Himalayan and Chinese D. staminea,
Br., which is its nearest ally. The other characters
assigned to it of discolorous leaves, densely stellately
squamulose beneath, very long, slender pedicels, white
flowers, and densely stellately lepidote crown of the ovary,
are all most variable. Except in the purplish red colora-
tion of the inflorescence and flowers I can find no differ-
ential characters for var. purpurascens, the figure given of
Apri. Ist, 1900,
which in Garden § Forest differs widely from that here repre-
sented in the very lax inflorescence with very long pedicels,
much larger flowers, and narrower petals. It was dis-
covered in the Province of Yunnan, at an elevation of six
thousand to seven thousand feet by the Abbé Delavay,
who sent seeds in 1888 to Messrs. Vilmorin of Paris.
Plants of var. purpurascens were first received by the
Royal Gardens, Kew, from the Jardin des Plantes, Paris,
but the figure here given was taken from a specimen
purchased in 1897 from Mr. J. Smith, of Newry, which
flowered June, 1899.
Descr.—Var. purpurascens. A shrub six to seven feet
high; branches covered with light brown bark. Leaves
two to three and a half inches long, ovate or oblong, acute
or acuminate, finely serrate, glabrous, scaberulous, or
minutely stellately lepidote above, sparsely lepidote be-
neath, base rounded, sub-cordate or cuneate, nerves four
to five pairs; petiole one-eighth to one-sixth inch long.
Inflorescence of terminal rounded panicles terminating the
lateral branchlets, peduncles and pedicels and calyces dark
red-brown, sparsely lepidote. Flowers three-fourths to
one inch in diameter. Calyz-lobes linear or oblong-
lanceolate. Petals broadly ovate-oblong, dorsally
thickened, stellately pubescent and red-purple, margins
very broad, white, membranous. Filaments ten, linear, _
five opposite the petals shorter, simple, with the anthers
on the inner face, five longer opposite the sepals forked,
with the anther in the sinus. Styles three, with linear,
thickened stigmatose tips.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, calyx and styles; 2, stellate scale; 3, petal, dorsal view; 4, longer
and 5, shorter stamens :—Al/ enlarged.
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ANTHOLYZA SoHWEINFURTHII.
Native of Abyssinia.
Nat. Ord. IntpEa.—Tribe Ixrex,
Genus Antuotyza, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 710.)
AntTHOLYZA Schweinfurthii; cormo globoso mediocri, caule folioso, foliis
5-6 alternis pedalibus ensiformibus ad # poll. latis acuminatis plicatis
nervosis, spica laxiflora decurva, spathis exterioribus erectis angustis
acuminatis scariosis convolutis inferioribus 1-2 pollicaribus rubro tinctis,
superioribus brevioribus inflatis acutis, spathis interioribus tubo
perianthii paulo longioribus ovato-lanceolatis, floribus spathas longe
superantibus, perianthii 13-pollicaris angusti decurvi coccinei basi aurei
tubo brevi limbo dilatato subgibboso breviore et angustiore ore valde
obliquo 6-fido, lobo dorsali ovato-oblongo obtuso galeato dimidium
rianthii squante, lobis 4 lateralibus dorsali terquaterve brevioribus
ineari-oblongis subacutis, lobo antico minimo, staminibus styloque
perianthio zquilongis, stylo gracili apice tricruri, cruribus recurvis,
stigmatibus capitatis.
A. Schweinfurthii, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. i. p. 588; in Fl. Trop.
Afr. vol. vii. p. 375,
Antholyza is a wholly African genus, extending from the
Cape of Good Hope to Abyssinia, but found only at con-
siderable elevations in the tropical zone. A. Schweinfurthit
is the most northern species hitherto discovered. It in-
habits the mountains of Erytrea (Italian Abyssinia) at
three thousand to six thousand five hundred feet elevation.
Only three species (of nearly thirty described) have been,
before the present, figured in this magazine, namely, A.
ethiopica, L., t. 561, and its variety B, t. 1172; A. quad-
rangularis, Burm., t. 567 (Gladiolus); A. Watsonioides,
Baker, Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 376 (@. Watsonioides,
Baker, Bot. Mag. t. 6919); for A. Meriana, L., t. 418, is a
Watsonia, and A. Merianella, L., t. 441, is a Gladiolus.
A. Schweinfurthit flowered in a greenhouse in the Royal
Gardens, Kew, in May, 1899. The bulbs were purchased
from Messrs. Dammann & Co., of Naples, in 1884.
Descr.—Corm globose, an inch to an inch and a half in
diameter. Stem about two feet high, slender, leafy.
Leaves five or six, alternate, narrowly ensiform, acuminate,
_ Apgin Ist, 1900,
“Semana
about three-quarters of an inch broad, plicate, costate
for about half their length, bright green. Spike lax-
flowered, decurved when flowering in the upper half, four
to five inches long, rhachis stout, dark green, lower flowers
an inch or more apart. Outer spathes of lower flowers
up to two inches long, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate,
scarious, pale green clouded with red, of upper flowers
shorter, oblong, acute, inflated; inner spathe lanceolate,
about half as long as the perianth-tube. Perianth about
one-third longer than the outer spathe, narrow, decurved,
scarlet when exposed, yellow towards its base, tube short,
cylindric, suddenly dilated into a gibbous, very unequally
six-cleft tubular limb; dorsal lobe nearly as long as the _
rest of the perianth, ovate-oblong, concave, sub-acute;
lateral lobes two on each side, erect, oblong-lanceolate,
longest of each pair (those next the dorsal) about one-
fourth the length of the dorsal, anticous lobe much the
smallest. Stamens and style as long as the perianth ;
anthers linear-oblong, yellow. Style very slender, trifid at
the apex, arms spreading, stigmas capitate.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, flower with inner spathe ; 2, anther; 3, ovary, style, and stigmas :—
All enlarged, cs feo:
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CLEMATIS onrteyvatis, var. TANGUTICA,
Native of Central Asia,
Nat. Ord. RanuncuLace#.—Tribe CLEMATIDES.
Genus Ranuncutus, Linn. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 3.)
C.iematis (Flammula) orientalis, var. tangutica; caule scandente, ramulis
glabris v. sparse sericeo-pilosis, foliis longe pis tape glauco-viridibus
pinnatisectis, segmentis longe petiolulatis 2-2} poll. longis lineari-
lanceolatis acuminatis grosse serrato-dentatis incisisve basi spe lobatis,
terminali simplici 3-lobo v. trisecto, pedunculis solitariis valde elongatis,
_ad 6 poll. longis erectis apice decurvis unifloris, floribus magnis aureis
_ cernuis, sepalis fere bipollicaribus ovato-lanceolatis apicibus fere caudatis
_ dorso alte tricostatis intus glabris marginibus late villosis, filamentis
infra medium dilatatis ovariisque minutis villosis.
C. orientalis, Linn., var. tangutica, Maxim. Fl. Tangut. p. 3.
*
Clematis orientalis is the most widely distributed of the
known species of the genus, extending from the Cyclades
and Caucasus Mts., eastward through North Persia to
Affghanistan, and in the Western Himalaya as far as the
confines of Nepal; and from Soongaria and the Pamir to
the Altai Mountains, Manchuria, and North China. It
varies greatly in the size of the flowers ; and so much in
the form of the sepals, that I suspect the Himalayan
O. graveolens, Lindl. (tab. nostr. 4495), which is said to be
a aren by its fetid odour, will prove to be a variety
of it.
Living plants of var. tangutica were received by the
Royal Gardens, Kew, from the Imperial Gardens of St.
Petersburg in 1898, which flowered in the Arboretum in
August, 1899.
Descr.—A glaucous-green scandent shrub, sparsely pilose
with silky hairs. Leaves three to five inches long, long-
petioled, pinnatisect, segments up to two anda half inches
long, long-petiolulate, lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate,
acuminate, coarsely serrate toothed or incised, base acute,
often lobed in one or both sides, terminal segment entire,
Arxit Ist, 1900,
three-lobed or three-partite; petiole one to two inches
long, petiolules about half as long. Flower solitary, very
large, cernuous, golden-yellow ; peduncle six inches “long,
erect, arched at the tip. Sepals nearly two inches long,
ovate-lanceolate, sub-caudately acuminate, tips recurved,
dorsally strongly three-ribbed, glabrous within, margins
broadly tomentose. Filaments dilated, and sparsely villous
below the middle, anthers linear. Ovary minute, villous,
style plumose.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, stamen; 2, carpel :—both enlarged.
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REN ANTHERA ImsoHooriaNa.
Native of Assam.
Nat. Ord. Oxcuipra.—Tribe Vannes,
Genus Renantuera, Lour.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 677.)
RenantuERa Imschootiana; rhizomate $-1-pedali crassitie Fee anserine,
_ ramis brevibus foliosis, foliis 2-4 poll. longis lineari-oblongis ad 1 poll.
latis recurvis apice inwqualiter bilobis lobis rotundatis lete viridibus
marginibus recurvis, pedunculo axillari $-1-pedali vaginis paucis brevibus
aucto, racemo multifloro basi tantum interdum ramoso, ramis pedicellis
pollicaribus bracteis ovariisque rubris, bracteis parvis rotundatis concavis,
_ sepalo postico } poll. longo lineari-oblanceolato obtuso flavo, lateralibus
- ungviculatis 13 poll. longis ovalibus obtusis supra cinnabarinis subtus
_ ochraceo-rubris, eco anguste spathulatis sepalo dorsali brevioribus
- flavis rubro maculatis, labello minuto 3-lobo aureo sanguineo maculato,
lobo antico recurvo fere orbiculari crasso basi trituberculato, lateralibus
brevibus triangularibus obtusis, disco cristato, caleare brevi saccato obtuso,
columna brevi truncata sanguinea, antheria hemispherica.
R. Imschootiana, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1891, p. 200; in Orchid Review,
vol. iii. (1895) p. 208; vol. iv. (1896) p. 229; in Gard. Chron. 1898, vol. i.
pp. 41, 42, fig. 17.
R. Papilio, King § Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. lxiv. (1896) p. 328.
Mr. Rolfe, in describing this beautiful plant in the Kew
Bulletin, informs us that it was sent to the Royal Gardens,
Kew, in 1896, by Mr. A. Van Imschoot, of Ghent, who
_had received it from Messrs. F. Sander & Co.; of St.
Albans, as presumably a native of Cochin China. © It has,
however, since been found by Lieut. E. Lugard and others
in Assam, which must be regarded as its native country.
Plants of it were sent by the latter officer to the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, which were described by Sir
G. King and Dr. Prain, under the name of BR. Papilio.
It is remarkable in the genus for its dwarf stature. The
specimen here figured flowered in a tropical house in the
Royal Gardens in June, 1899; the flowering lasting for
about a month:
Descr.—Stem as much as a foot long, as thick as a goose-
quill, tortuous, sending out stout roots and short leafing
and flowering branches. Leaves close-set, distichous,
Apri Ist, 1900.
linear-oblong, about two to four inches long, and an inch
in breadth, rather deeply unequally two-lobed at the tip,
with an acute sinus, lobes rounded, margins recurved.
Peduncle axillary, a foot long, slender, bearing a few short
acute sheaths, and a many-fid. inclined raceme or panicle
up to one ft. long; rachis of panicle, branches, pedicels and
ovaries bright red; bracts small, rounded. Dorsal sepal
linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, dull yellow, three-fourths of an
inch long; lateral one and a half inches long, clawed, oval,
obtuse, cinnabar-red above, beneath ochraceous. Petals
rather shorter than the dorsal sepal, narrowly spathulate ;
yellow with blood-red spots. Lip minute, three-lobed ;
midlobe nearly orbicular, yellow, with scarlet blotches,
two auricled at the base, and with three basal tubercles ;
side-lobes triangular, erect; disk complicately crested ;
spur a short, obtuse sac. Column scarlet, anther hemi-
spheric.—J. D. H.
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ALOE AByssINIcA.
Native of Abyssinia.
Nat. Ord. Lit1racea.—Tribe ALOINE®.
Genus Axor, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 776.)
Axoxr (Eualoe) abyssinica; caudice simplici 6 ped. alto ad 3 poll. diam. leviter
cicatricato, foliis ad 20 apice caulis rosulatis quaquaversis 2-3 ped. longis
ensiformibus sensim in apicem pollicarem cylindraceum obtusum attenua-
tis concavis basi 4-5 poll. latis crassitie } poll. medio ad 3 poll. latis late
viridibus supra basin versus maculatis, dentibus marginalibus ad 4% poll.
distantibus majusculis deltoideis incurvis viridibus apicibus corneis
brunneis, pedunculo foliis breviore ramoso, ramis erectis bracteis } poll.
_longis subulatis membranaceis onustis, racemis ad 6 poll. longis 3-4 poll.
diam. oblongis densifloris, bracteis floralibus rameis consimilibus, floribus
pollicaribus nutantibus, pedicellis a poll. longis, perianthio anguste
campanulato supra tubum integrum leviter constricto primulino (alabastro
viridi infra medium cinnabarino), segmentis tubo duplo longioribus
oblongo-lanceolatis apicibus intus aureis recurvis, genitalibus exsertis,
antheris breviter oblongis ochraceis.
A. abyssinica, Lam. Encycl. vol. i. p. 86 (excl. syn.). Roem. § Sch. Syst. vol.
vii. p. 695. Salm-Dyck, Aloe, sect. xviii. fig. 1. Kunth, Enum. Pl.
vol. iv. p. 521. PA. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. vol. ii. p. 324. Baker in
Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xviii. (1881) p. 174; 1m Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 467.
Engl. Hochgebirgsft. Trop. Afr. p. 164. Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss.
vol, ii. app. IT. pp. 66, 110.
A. vulgaris, var. abyssinica, DC. Pl. Grasses, sub t. 27; Poir Encycl. Suppl.
vol. i. p. 294. :
Aloe abyssinica is a plant of historic interest, having
been brought to Europe by the celebrated Bruce, on his
return from Abyssinia in 1771, and was no doubt presented
by him to Louis XV. of France, for it was first described by
Lamarck in 1783, from a specimen in the Jardin du Roi,
given by that traveller. According to Baker, in the “ Flora
of Tropical Africa,” it has a wide geographical range in
N.E. tropical Africa, at elevations of three thousand two
hundred to nine thousand four hundred feet, between
Suakin and Berber in Nubia, to Erytrea and Abyssinia. In
the same and in other works the stem is described as short,
but in the plant here figured it is fully six feet high. The
A, abyssinica of A. Richard, in his “ Tentamen Flore Abys-
sinice,’ is cited under it by most authors, but as the
May lst, 1900,
perianth is described in that work as sexfid at the apex
only, I have queried that citation. ae
There is no record of the source whence the specimen —
now in the Succulent House in the Royal Gardens, Kew,
was procured. It has been there for many years, together
with var. Peacockiu, Baker (A. elegans, Todaro, Hort. Bot.
Panorm. vol. li. p. 25, t. 29), of which the leaves are
eighteen to twenty-one inches long, and five to six broad
near the base, and the flowers bright yellow ; its stem is
more slender, five feet high. =
Descr.—Stem (of the specimen figured) six feet high,
three inches in diameter, cylindric, faintly marked with
transverse scars. Leaves about twenty, rosulate at the
top of the stem, erect, spreading, or deflexed, two to three
feet long, ensiform, gradually narrowed into a cylindric
obtuse brown tip, nearly an inch long, four to five inches
broad at the base, with the thickness of about half an inch,
bright green, with oblong, pale, narrow blotches on the
upper surface towards the base; marginal teeth about two-
thirds of an inch apart, deltoid, incurved, green, tips
cartilaginous, brown. Peduncles two or more, rather
shorter than the leaves, erect, branched; branches loosely
covered with subulate, pale, membranous bracts about a
fourth of an inch long. aceme up to six inches long,
and three in diameter, very dense-fld., cylindric, bracts
like those on the peduncle, but rather longer ; pedicels
longer than the bracts, erect, arching at the tip. lowers
pendulous, about an inch long, narrowly campanulate,
slightly constricted above the short, entire tube, pale
yellow (buds cinnabar-red below the middie, greenish-
yellow above it); segments twice as long as the tube,
narrowly oblong; tips recurved, golden-yellow within.
Stamens and style exserted; anthers ochraceous, shortly
oblong.—J. D. H. |
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COTYLEDON (Ecuxveria) Purpusit.
Native of California, oo
Nat, Ord. CrassuLacss&.
Genus CotyLepon, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.)
CoryLepon (Echeveria) Purpusii; acaulis, glaberrima, foliis dense rosulatis
crasse carnosis ellipticis ovatisve acuminatis apicibus pungentibus leviter
incurvis supra concavis dorso rotundatis glauco-viridibus pracipue apices
versus rubro tinctis, exterioribus in fasciculo 14-2-pollicaribus, interioribus
dense congestis minoribus glaucis, pedunculo valido pallide rubro infra
medium foliis paucis alternis radicalibus consimilibus sed multo minoribus
ovatis acuminatis instructo, cyma 4-5 poll. lata dichotoma, ramis _
primariis divaricatis recurvis, ramulis pedicellisque roseis, floribus # poll. |
- longis suberectis, pedicellis 3-3 poll. longis basi bracteola parva carnosa
instructis, calycis basi rotundati lobis ovatis obtu«is, corolla coccines
~ Jaciniis lineari-lanceolatis apicibus acutis recurvis intus aureis in tubum
basi integrum anguste conicum dispositis, stamivibus 10, filamentis —
basi laciniarum insertis glaberrimis, antheris inclusis, ovario ovoideo,
carpellis in stylum brevem 5-sulcatum attenuatis.
Echeveria Purpusii, Schwmann in Gartenfl. 1896, p. 609, fig. 97 (ic. awylog.) ;
Gard. Chron. 1896, vol. ii. p. 698, fig. 123.
Cotyledon Purpusti is a native of the Sierra Nevada of
California, where it was discovered at an altitude of seven
thousand to eight thousand feet on Mt. Whitney, by the
gentleman to whom it is dedicated by the author in the
© Gartenflora.”” Nine Californian species of the genus _
are given by 8. Watson in the “ Flora of California,” with
the descriptions of one of which, C. nevadensis, Wats.,
CO. Purpusii so closely agrees, that it is possible that the
latter is a synonym, especially as Sonora and the Yosemite
Valley (the habitats for nevadensis) are, though much
lower in elevation, in the same botanical region and group
of mountains as Mt. Whitney. Referring to the Her-
barium, I find it impossible from dried specimens to settle
this point, which must be reserved for study when living
specimens of C. nevadensis are available for comparison.
Another very similar species is Heheveria Desmetiana, L. de
Smet (ex Morren in Belg. Uortic., 1874, p. 159; Ill. Hort.
sér. 6, ii. p. 93, f. 13), which is recorded as a native of
Mexico.
May Ist, 1900,
The specimen here figured of C. Purpusii was sent to
me by Mr. R. J. Lynch, for figuring in this work from the
Botanic Gardens of the University of Cambridge, where
it flowered in the open air in June, 1899, having been
subjected, without injury, to at least 12° below the
freezing point in the previous winter.
Descr.— Quite glabrous. Leaves crowded in a sessile
rosette, four inches in diameter, thickly fleshy, of a dull,
rather pale, more or less glaucous-green colour, tinged
with dull red towards the margins and tips, outer one and
a half to two inches long, ovate or elliptic-ovate, acumi-
nate, tip pungent, inner densely crowded, narrower, paler,
more glaucous. Peduncle four inches high, ascending
from the base of the rosette, stout, and, as well as the
cyme-branches and pedicels, pale, rose-coloured, bearing
below the middle scattered, ovate, acuminate leaves like the
radical, of which the lower are an inch long, the upper
gradually smaller. Cyme twice dichotomous, branches
divaricate, primary two and a half inches long, spreading
and recurved ; bracts small, obtuse, fleshy. Flowers erect,
pedicelled, three-fourths of an inch long. Sepals short,
broadly ovate, obtuse. Corolla conical-tubular ; tube very
short; segments linear, scarlet, with spreading, acute,
golden-yellow tips. Stamens included; filaments sub-
equal; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary ovoid-oblong, nar-
rowed into a short style with five minute stigmas.—
J.D. H.
Fig. 1, portion of corolla and stamens; 2, tip of pedicel and ovary :—Both
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CAMPANULA MiIRaBILIs.
Native of the Western Caucasus.
Nat. Ord. CampanuLace#.—Tribe CAMPANULEA.
Genus Campanuta, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 561.)
Campsnu.a (Medium) mirabilis; biennis?, radice, fusiformi, caule robusto
pyramidatim densissime ramoso, ramis patentibus foliosis multifloris,
foliis glabris coriaceis inferioribus 6-pellicaribus . obovato-spathulatis
obtusis in petiolam alatum angustatis grosse inzequaliter crenato-serratis
marginibus spinuloso-ciliolatis saturate viridibus, superioribus minoribus,
ramis sessilibus ovato-cordatis, racemis confertis simplicibus v. ramosis
pauci-multifioris, pedunculis 1-2-floris, pedicellis brevibus erectis brac-
teatis, bracteis minutis, calycis tubo turbinato, lobis erectis ovato-
lanceolatis appendicibusque ovatis deflexis spinuloso-ciliolatis, corolla
ampla late campanulata ad 2 poll. lata 5-loba pallide lilacina, lobis ovato-
rotundatis obtusis pilis longis flaccidis ciliatis, filamentis filiformibus
basi in laminam 4-orbicularem dense papilloso-ciliatam abrupte dilatatis,
antheris elongatis liberis, stigmatibus 3 linearibus, capsule valvis
basilaribus, seminibus anguste alatis.
C. mirabilis, Alboff in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vol. iii. (1895) p. 228, t. 3. A
1898, vol. xlvii. p. 192, fig. 57. Gard. Chron. 1899, vol. ii. p. 616; 1898,
vol. ii. p. 33, fig. 10, p. 108; 1899, vol. ii. p. 275, figs. 92, 93. Correvron in
Rev. Hortic. 1895, p. 677.
The very remarkable Campanula here figured was dis-
covered by Mr. N. Alboff on limestone rocks in the
Western Caucasus: The precise habitat which its dis-
coverer gives for it is Arbika-Akhegoesh, in the province
of Abkasia, at an elevation of two thousand one hundred
feet. Though belonging to the same sub-division of the
enus in Boissier’s arrangement of the Oriental species to
which C. alliarizfolia, Willd. (macrophylla, Sims, Bot.
Mag. tab. 912), and OC. collina, Bieb. (t. 927) both
Caucasian species belong, it differs from them, and all
others of the genus, in the singular, rather low conical form
of the whole plant, its dense ramification, and the profusion
of large flowers which almost hide the stem, branches, and
leaves.
The Royal Gardens, Kew, are indebted to their old
correspondent, the distinguished horticulturist, Mr. Max
Leichtlin, of Baden Baden, for the plant of C. mirabilis
here figured, which flowered, when two years old, under a
May Ist, 1900,
sunny wall in the open air. It has hence proved to be a
biennial under cultivation, though said to be annual by its
discoverer.
Desecr.—Whole plant forming a low, broad cone of
crowded branches, leaves, and flowers, a foot or more in
diameter at the base. oot fusiform. Lower leaves four to
six inches long, spathulately obovate, obtuse, narrowed into
a broad winged petiole, irregularly coarsely crenate-toothed,
glabrous, except the minutely spinulosely ciliate margins ;
upper leaves one to two inches long, sessile, ovate-cordate, —
crenate. Flowers two or more, erect, shortly stoutly
pedicelled on the short spreading branches. Calyz-tube
turbinate; lobes lanceolate, half an inch long, and together
with the deflexed, ovate, acute appendages spinulosely
ciliate. Corolla broadly campanulate, two inches broad
across the mouth, pale lilac; lobes orbicular-ovate, margins
and back sparsely ciliate with long hairs. Filaments
‘slender, suddenly dilated at the base into a very broad,
papillosely ciliate lamina; anthers narrowly linear, free.
Stigmas three, linear, recurved.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, portion of leaf, showing the spinulose margin; 2, stamen:—Both
enlaryed.
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LILIUM svrtvnvenst.
Native of China.
Nat. Ord. Lintacra.—Tribe Tunires.
Genus Litium, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 816.)
Litium (Martagon) sutchuense; bulbo mediocri, squamis appressis, canle 14—-
2 ped. alto erecto gracili folioso luride virid1 rnfo-brunneo marmorato
plurifloro basi nudo, foliis numercsis sparsis 3—5-pcllicaribus anguste
linearibus acuminatis 4-1 poll. latis patenti-recurvis superioribus gradatim
brevioribus supra saturate viridibus medio canaliculatis subtus palli-
dioribus carinatis, axillis ebulbiferis, pedicellis robustis 3~4 poll. longis
horizontalibus cauli concoloribus folio parvo recurvo medium versus
instructis, foribus pendalis 3-poll. diam., perianthii flavo-miniati medio
- rubro punctati basi campanulati segmentis ovato-lanceolatis obtusis
-_- reyolutis expansis 3-poll. longis dorso supra medium crasse carinatis
- intus versus basin multinerviis, nervis validis flexuosis spinulis carnosis
obsitis, sulco nectarifero bilamellato lamellis superne rugulosis inferne
fimbriatis, filamentis divergentibus aurantiacis, antheris periantbio fere
concoloribus, stylo ovario lineari-ollongo triplo 4-plo longiore, stigmate
parvo obscure trilobo.
L, sutchuense, Franch. in Journ. de Botanique, vol. vi. (1892) p. 318. Mottet
in Rev. Horticole, vol. lxxi. (1899) p. 475, fig. 204.
L. tenuifolinm, Fisch. var. punctatum, Bur. § Franch. in Herb. Mus. Paris,
ex Franch. Le.
Hong pee ho, nom. Sin.
_ The nearest and indeed very near ally of Liliwm sutchu-
ense is L. tenuifolium, Fisch., a native of Central Asia,
from the Altai to Amur-land and N. China, which differs
in its smaller size, slender stem, narrower leaves, unspotted
perianth, and shorter style. :
LL. sutchuense was raised from seed sent by the Abbé
Farges to Mr. Maurice Vilmorin, of Paris, from Hastern
Szechuen, where it has also been collected by Prince
Henri of Orleans. It is one of the twenty-four species
of Chinese and Tibetan Lilies enumerated by Franchet
in the * Journal de Botanique”’ (Lc. p. 204). ;
The plant here figured was received by the Royal
Gardens, Kew, from Messrs. Vilmorin & Co. in 1897. It
flowered in an open border in July, 1899.
Descr.— Bulb about an inch in diameter; scales narrow,
fleshy, appressed. Stem a foot and a half to two feet
May Ist, 1900.
high, erect, slender, dark green mottled with brown, leafy
except towards the base. Leaves many, scattered, de-
creasing upward in size, three to five inches long, by one-
sixth to one-fourth of an inch broad, spreading and
recurved, narrowly linear, acuminate, deep green above,
channelled from the base to the middle, paler, and strongly
keeled beneath, axils not bulbiferous. Flowers two to four,
pendulous ; pedicels long, stout, horizontal, three to four
inches long, of the same colour as the stem, and carrying
a short, revolute leaf about the middle. Perianth about -
three inches in diameter; segments three inches long,
two-thirds to three-fourths of an inch broad about the
middle, conniving in a short, campanulate tube, then
spreading and revolute, bright orange-scarlet, with small
black spots about the middle, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse,
stoutly keeled dorsally for half their length, ventrally fur-
nished below the middle with many flexuous, stout nerves
bearing fleshy spinules; nectarial fossa linear, margins
produced into fleshy ridges, which are crenulate in their
upper part, and hairy in their lower. Jilaments orange-
yellow, diverging ; anthers orange-yellow. Stigmas small,
obscurely three-lobed.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, base of perianth-segment, inner surface; 2, anther; 3, ovary;
4, top of style and stigma :—All enlarged ; 5, reduced view of whole plant.
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RUBUS Rreriexus.
Native of China.
Nat. Ord. Rosacrm.—Tribe Rusra,
Genus Rubus, Linn.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 616.)
Rusus reflecus; eglandulosus, caule scandente, ramis robustis sparsim acule-
atis unacum petiolis foliis subtus et inflorescentia cinnamomeo-villosis,
aculeis compressis rectis v. uncinatis, foliis amplis 3-8 poll. longis
simplicibus e basi cordato-orbicularibus ovatis v. oblongo-ovatis obtusis
integris v. 3-5-lobatis, lobis latis terminali elongato ovato v. oblongo
marginibus denticulatis, supra saturate viridibus nervis impressis, subtus
valide 3-nerviis, nervis primariis viridibus nervulis prominulis reticu-
latis, petiolo robusto, stipulis pectinatis, racemis parvis axillaribus
_ deeurvis densifloris, bracteis serratis, floribus breviter pedicellatis }-3
poll. latis, calycis dense villosi lobis late ovatis grosse serratis intus
____sericeis fructu erectis, petalis parvis albis, staminibus brevibus, antheris
-minutis rufescentibus, stylis capillaribus filamentis multoties longioribus,
fructu parvo globoso, receptaculo villoso, carpellis maturis rabris pur-
pureis v. nigris, pufamine rugoso. == —t Boe.
R. reflexus, Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 461 (non R. gp ean B. reflexus, Wall. Cat.
sub n. 748). DO. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 566. _ Hook. et Arn., Bot. Beech. Voy.
p. 184. Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 104. Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald, p. 376,
Maxim. in Mel, Biol. vol. vii. p. 378. Kunze, Methodik, p. 53. Forbes
& Hemsl. in Jowrn. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. (1886-8) p. 236.
Rubus refleecus belongs to a group of tropical Asiatic
Brambles that are extremely difficult to distinguish, of
which f. moluccanus, L. (i. moluccus latifolius, Rumph.
Herb. Amboin. vol. v. t. 47, f. 2) is the type. Bentham
(Fl. Hongk. l.c.) regards it (reflewws) as the same as
Rk. rugosus, Sm., a widely distributed species from the
Himalayas to the Malayan Islands, in doing which he
follows Wallich, who refers reflexus as a var. B. to rugosus.
After some remarks on variation in the inflorescence and
bracts of . rugosus, Bentham concludes with, ‘if united
the R. rugosus, that is the older name; unless indeed the
whole be considered as varieties of the Linnean R. moluc-
_canus.” This last name is the one I adopted in the “ Flora
of British India” (ii. p. 330), where the most prominent
differential characters of the varieties are indicated. It is
impossible in this work to enter further into the subject
than to point out that R. reflexus is perhaps the most
May Ist, 1900. .
distinct form of the group, best distinguished by the
elongated mid-lobe of the leaf, combined with the very much
decurved axillary panicles and densely villous calyx. It is
confined to China, where it was first collected by Sir G,
Staunton at Kwang-tung during Lord Macartney’s Em-
bassy in 1816. Besides being common in Hong Kong
it inhabits Lo-fan-Shan, Hainan, and the North river.
According to Ker (Bot. Reg. lc.) BR. reflewus was in
cultivation in Lee’s Nursery, Hammersmith, in 1820, in
which year it flowered in Mr. Kent’s of Clapton. The —
_ drawing here given is from a plant clothing a pillar twenty
feet high, in the Mexican wing of the Temperate House
of the Royal Gardens. It was received in 1886 from
the Royal Botanic Garden of Calcutta. It flowers in
August, but does not ripen fruit.
Descr.—A tall, stout climber ; branches, petioles, leaves
beneath, and inflorescence covered with a cinnamon-
brown villous pubescence. Prickies few, scattered, straight
. or curved. Leaves three to eight inches long, broadly
ovate or ovate-oblong from a cordate base, obtuse, entire
or three to five-lobed, with the terminal lobe elongated,
margins toothed, palmately three- to five-nerved at the
base, nerves sunk above, very prominent beneath ; stipules
pectinate. Flowers one half to three-fourths of an inch
broad, crowded in small, decurved panicles, very shortly
pedicelled. Bracts and sepals toothed. Petals white or —
pink. Styles filiform, much longer than the stamens.
Fruit small, globose, red-purple or black.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, portion of stem and prickles; 2, the same with base of petiole
and stipules; 3, Howers and bracts; 4, carpel:—AI/ enlarged.
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CONVOLVULUS Macrostsetus.
Native of Lower California.
Nat. Ord. ConvotvuLacEa.—Tribe ConvorlvuLes.
Genus Convotvutus, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 874.)
Convotvutus macrostegius; suffratescens, fere glaberrimus, caule gracili
tereti fusco, ramulis annotinis elongatis volubilibus viridibus, foliis longe
petiolatis late ovato- vy. deltoideo-cordatis 4-5 poll. latis obtuse acutis
v. acuminatis margine recurvis undulatis grosse crenatis v. basin versus
fere lobulatis sinu lato v. angusto rotundato, basi palmatinerviis, nervis
lateralibus paucis, nervulis laxe reticulatis, petiolis gracilibus 3-5-poll.
longis, peduncalis axillaribus 6-10-pollicaribus 1-3-foris infra apicem
bibracteatam pubescentibus, bracteis orbicularibus concavis apiculatis
membranaceis 2 poll. longis, sepalis 3-3 poll. longis oblongis truncatis
apice retusis costa valida in mucronem subulatum producta, corolla
albze roseo tinctz tubo late infundibulari, limbo 3-poll. diam. explanato,
ovario strigilloso, stigmatibus linearibus teretibus obtusis. _
C. macrostegius, Greene in Bull. Calif. Acad. vol. i. (1885) p. 208. A. Gray
Synopt. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. part i. p. 435. : :
C. occidentalis, S. Wats. in Proc. Am. Acad. vol. xi. (1876) pp. 89, 118; Bot.
Calif. vol. i. p. 533 partim (non A. Gray).
There are very few species of Convolvulus indigenous
in North America, as compared with Europe and Western
Asia,—a dozen in all, including C. sepium, L. and C.
Soldanella, L., which are common to the Old World.
Except C. arvensis, L., no species native of Hurope has been
naturalized in N. America, and that very sparingly. Seven
species are Californian, all of them, except C. Soldanella,
confined to the west of the Rocky Mountains. Two of
these, C. occidentalis, A. Gray, and C. macrostegius, Greene,
are closely allied to C. sepium, differing from it in the
shape of the leaves, and conspicuously in their very long
petioles and pedicels. OC. macrostegius is the larger and
handsomer of the two; it is indeed one of the finest species
of the genus, and being quite hardy, and flowering
copiously for many weeks continuously, it has all the
qualities requisite for becoming a great favourite. It
appears. to be a rare plant in California, the only hitherto
recorded localities for it being San Clemente Island, one
JUNE lst, 1900,
of a group of islets off the coast of California, near
Los Angeles, in lat. 33°-34° N., and Guadalupe Island,
upwards of two hundred and fifty miles further south, and
one hundred and fifty from the coast of Lower California.
A plant of C. macrostegius was, in 1896, presented by
W. HE. Gumbleton, Esq., of Belgrove, Queenstown, to the
Royal Gardens, Kew, where, being planted against a wall
in the Herbaceous ground, it flowers freely throughout the
Summer months.
Descr.— A slender, climbing, glabrous undershrub, with
brown stem, and long, twining, pale green, annual
branches. Leaves very long-petioled, four to five inches
long and broad, ovate or deltoidly cordate, with a deep
rounded sinus at the base, obtusely acute or acuminate,
margins recurved, undulate and coarsely crenate, the basal
lobes sometimes lobulate, light green above, paler beneath,
palmatinerved at the base, lateral nerves three to five
pairs, nervules loosely reticulate; petiole up to five inches
long, very slender. Peduncle up to ten inches long, slender,
terete, puberulous upward, bearing at the top a pair of
large, hemispheric, membranous, green bracts, which
enclose one to three sub-sessile flowers. Calya-segments
one-half to two-thirds of an inch long, narrowly oblong, -
truncate, retuse, cuspidate. Corolla white, tinged with
pink ; tube broadly funnel-shaped ; limb two and a half to
three inches in diameter. Ovary hispidly hairy. Stigmas
linear, terete, obtuse.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, calyx, style, and stigmas; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary :—All enlarged:
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MAMILLARIA vivirara.
Native of the Rocky Mountains.
Nat. Ord. Cacte#.—Tribe EcutnocactEa,
Genus Mamitiaria, Haw.,; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 847.)
Mamitraria (Coryphantha) vivipara; caule brevi depresso-globoso ovoideo vy.
ovoideo-oblongo simplici v. caspitoso luride viridi, tuberculis ad 2 poll.
longis laxis oblongo-ovoideis teretibus v. leviter sulcatis, aculeis 12-36
gracilibus 3-3 poll. longis rectis rigidis exterioribus patentissime radianti-
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briatis apice setuliferis, stiginstibus numerosis anguste lineraribus, baccis
sublateralibus ovoideis viridibus, seminibus obovatis scrobiculatis fulvis.
M. vivipara, Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. Suppl. p. 72. DC. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 459.
Torr. §& Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. i. p. 554, Leavenw. in Am. Journ. Sc. ser. 1,
vol. xlix. (1845) p. 130. Huagelm. in Gray, Pl. Fendl. p.49; Pl. Lindh. p.197 ;
Pl. Upper Miss. p. 192; Syn. Cact. U. St. p. 269; Cact. Mex. Bound.
p. 15, t. 74, f. 3-5 (sem.); in Trans. Acad. St, Louis, vol. ii. p. 197; iu
S. Wats. Pl. Wheeler, p.9; in King’s Rep. vol. v. p. 115; Hayd. Rep.
1871, p. 484; Simps. Rep. p. 436. Salm. Cact. Hort. Dyck. p. 156.
Lab. Monogr. Cact. p. 79. Porter § Coult. Fi. Colorad. p. 48; Coulter,
Man. Bot. Rocky Mts. p. 109. Férst Handb. Caet. Ed. ii. p.302. Hirscht.
in Schum. Gesamtb. Kakt. p. 547. Bot. Works, Engelm. p. 113, &e.
M. arizonica, Engelm. in S, Wats. Pl. Wheeler, p. 9.
M. missouriensis, Scheer, in Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald, p. 287 (non Sweet).
Cactus viviparus, Nutt. Gen. vol. i. p. 295. Poir Encycl. Suppl. vol. v.
p. 587. Torr. in Ann. Lyc. N. York, vol. ii. (1828) p. 202.
I have some difficulty in reconciling the characters of the
plant here figured with the descriptions of M. vivipara
given by Engelmann in the numerous American railway
and other reports in which he has alluded to it. I gather
from these, however, that the species is a very variable
one in size, form, and especially in the number and dis-
position of the spines, some or all of which are described
by him as being white, others purple, or mottled with
purple ; all are dark coloured in the specimen here figured.
Coulter, in the “ Rocky Mountain Flora” also describes
the spines as variously coloured; “five to eight reddish-
brown, surrounded by fifteen to twenty greyish ones in a
single series.” Both authors say that the flowers are
purple, whereas in our plant they are distinctly rose-red.
June Isr, 1900.
M. vivipara has a wide distribution on the plains and
the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, from the
Missouri River in Dakota, to Texas, S. Utah, and Arizona.
The specimen figured was purchased for the Royal
Gardens, Kew, from Mr. D. M. Andrews, Nurseryman, of
Boulder, California. It has proved to be so far hardy
as to have, along with M. Nuttallii, Engelm., flowered in
July, in the open air, between the buttresses of the
Palm House, after having been exposed to the winter of
1898-99, ——
Deser.—(Of the specimen figured.) Stem four inches
high, and three in diameter, solitary, ovoid, lurid
green. Tubercles about an inch long, sub-erect, ovoid-
oblong, terete, smooth. Spines twelve to thirty-six, one-
half to three-quarters of an inch long, slender, stiff, outer
radiating more or less horizontally, a few central, stouter,
more erect, all purplish-brown. lowers towards the top
of the plant, several opening together, about an inch and
a half in diameter. Sepals rather short, linear-oblong, or
oblanceolate acute, pale brown, recurved, margins fim-
briate. Petals much longer, narrowly oblanceolate, acumi-
nate, with a minute, terminal bristle, margins fimbriate.
Anthers yellow. Stigmas about thirteen, narrowly linear.
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CRYPTOCORYNE Gnrirrirat.
Native of the Malayan Peninsula,
Nat. Ord. AnompEm.—Tribe ARINEX.
Genus Cryprocoryneg, Fisch. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 963.)
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Crytocoryne Griffithii; stoloniferum, foliis ad 3 poll. longis subcarnosis
ovato- v. orbiculari-oblongis obtusis basi rotundatis v. cordatis marginibus
subundulatis supra lete viridibus rubro-striolatis subtus pallidioribus
creberrime striolatis, nervis utringue coste valide ad 6-8 gracillimis
arcuatis, petiolo 6-8-pollicari basi mnguste vaginante, spathe breviter
pedunculate tubo 3-4-pollicari albo basi oblongo tumido dein cylin-
draceo ad 3% poll, diam. superne sensim ampliato in limbum recurvum
1-13 pollicarem lanceolatum caudato-acuminatum intus papillosum rufo-
branneum dilatato, inflorescentia }-pollicari, mascula gracile stipitata
oblonga membrana operculiformi velata, appendice parvo clavato, in fl.
fem. ovariis 8 connatis glandulosis pistillodia cingentibus, stigmatibus
sessilibus reniformibus.
C. Griffithii, Schott, Sun, Aroid. p, 1; Prodr. Syst. Aroid. p. 14; in Bonplandia,
1857, p. 220. Engler, in DC. Monogr. P. . Vol, ii. p.- 631.
N.E. Br. in Journ. Linn, Soe, vol. xviti. (1880) p. 244. Hook. f. Fi.
Brit. Ind, vol. vi. p. 493.
Cryptocoryne, sp., Griff. Notul. vol. iii. p. 139; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 173, fig. 3
(ovula).
Though described by Griffith (without a specific name) as
having only six ovaries, I think that the plant here figured
is certainly that to which Schott gave the name Giriffithit.
The genus consists of six-and-twenty described species, all
East Indian or Malayan ; of which one alone has been pre-
viously figured in this work (Arum spirale, Retz., tab. 2220),
It is remarkable for the curious hood in the interior of
the tube of the spathe, which envelops the male inflores-
cence, and is, no doubt, concerned in the operation of
pollinization. Mr. Motley, in a MS. description of a
closely allied Bornean species (cited by Mr. Brown in
Journ. Linn. Soc., |, c.), describes the tube of the spathe
as depending for length on the depth of the water in which
the plant grows, thus performing the office of the peduncle
in other water-plants ; and observes that after the pollen
is shed the inflated portion of the tube generally contains
half a dozen living insects, attracted probably by the slight
carrion smell of the limb of the spathe.
JuneE Ist, 1900,
C. Griffithii was discovered in fresh-water pools in-
Malacca by Dr. Griffith. In 1898 Mr. H. N. Ridley sent a
plant of it, by favour of Mr. Glasgow, from the Botanical
Gardens of Singapore to the Royal Gardens, Kew, where
it flowered in a warm-water tank in September, 1899.
Descr.—Stemless ; base emitting stout, simple roots and
stolons. Leaves long-petioled, about three inches long,
ovate, or orbicular-oblong, obtuse, rather fleshy, base
rounded or cordate, dark green above, and striolate with
minute wavy-red lines, which are more copious on the
paler under-surface, margins waved; midrib stout; nerves
six to eight pairs, very slender, arching; petiole six to
eight inches long, greenish-brown, narrowly sheathing at
the base. Peduncle short, stout, red-brown. Spathe with
an oblong basal swelling about half an inch long, suddenly
narrowed above it into a white membranous tube three
inches long, which dilates upwards into a lanceolate
caudate-acuminate recurved limb an inch and a half long,
purple and papillose within. Inflorescence in the tumid
base of the spathe; male infil. an oblong stipitate head of
crowded vertical anthers, terminated by a minute appendage,
and enclosed in a membranous calyptra which is adnate
to the wall of the spathe; female infl. a whorl of about
eight, confluent, sessile, glandular ovaries, with large reni-
oe stigmas, surrounding many crowded pistillodes.—
Dred.
Fig. 1, interior of base of spathe with inflorescences; 2, male infl.; Sand
4, anthers; 5, fem. infl.; 6, vertical section of an ovary, with ovules :—AJ3
enlarged,
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DIPLADENIA EXIMIA.
Native of Brasil.
Nat. Ord. ApocynacE#.—Tribe EcuitTIpEs,
Genus DipLapenta, A.DC. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 726.)
DipLaDENiA (Enudipladenia) eximia; caule gracili volubili roseo minute
puberulo, foliis parvis 1-1} poll. longis breviter petiolatis late ovatis
ovalibus v. fere orbiculatis abrupte obtuse acuminatis v. fo) Dhaba papy-
raceis basi rotundatis glaberrimis supra lete viridibus subtus pallidis,
nervis utrinque 8-10 divaricatis subtus prominulis, petiolis vix jy poll.
longis, paribus basi glandulis interpetioleribus erectis subulatis utrinque
4-5 connexis, cymis pseudaxillaribus longiuscule pedunculatis, pedunculo
1-2 poll. longo torto viridi, bracteis pedicellis brevioribus subulatis deci-
duis sanguineis, calycis segmentis parvis subulato-lanceolatis sanguineis
_ intus basi glandulis subulatis instructis, corolle tubo fere 2-pollicari infra
medium cylindraceo dein anguste infundibulari intus medio infra staminum
insertionem pilis deflexis onusto, limbi 23-3 poll. diam. lete rosei lobis
explanatis rotundatis obtuse apiculatis, staminibus medio tubo insertis,
antheris linearibus, connectivo in laminam ovato-oblongam producto, disci
glandula solitaria oblonga, ovariis glaberrimis, stigmate pentagono.
D. eximia, Hemsl. in Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. ii. p. 120.
The beautiful plant here figured was imported by Messrs.
F. Sander & Co., in 1889 or 1890, but from what country
is rather uncertain. In answer to my request for informa-
tion on this point, they promptly informed me that they
believe it came from the Lelia purpurata country, with
plants of that Orchid, of which the habitat is known to be
the Province of Santa Catarina in South Brasil. It is
a stove plant, flowering freely in the summer months.
Deser.—A very slender, twining, nearly glabrous climber,
Stem flexuous, rose-red, minutely puberulous. Leaves in
distant pairs, very shortly petioled, an inch to an inch and
a half long, from broadly ovate to elliptic or nearly orbi-
cular, abruptly obtusely cuspidate, quite glabrous, bright
green above, pale beneath, base rounded; nerves six to
eight pairs, widely spreading, together with the midrib
prominent beneath ; petioles with four to five interpetiolar,
subulate, erect glands on each side of the stem. Cymes
axillary, six- to eight-flowered ; peduncle one to two inches
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long, tortuous, green; bracts very small, subulate, bright
red, shorter than the stout pedicels. Calyx small, segments
erect, subulate-lanceolate, acuminate, bright red, furnished
at the base within with about five subulate minute fleshy
glands. Corolla-tube nearly two inches long, cylindric
below the middle, dilated and narrowly funnel-shaped above
it, furnished within below the middle with copious deflexed
hairs; limb two and a half to three inches in diameter,
bright rose-coloured; lobes orbicular, obtusely cuspidate.
Stamens inserted at the top of the cylindric part of the
corolla-tube; filaments very short, flat; anthers linear, —
connective produced in an oblong-ovate terminal claw.
Disk a solitary oblong gland. Ovary glabrous, stigma
five-angled—J. D. H.
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2, portion of calyx with the gland of the disk and two carpels; 3, portion of
corolla-tube and stamens; 4, three stamens; 5, top of style and stigma :—AJ¢
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HELENIUM TENUIFOLIUM.
Native of the Eastern U. States.
Nat. Ord. GompositrEa.—Tribe HELENIEA.
Genus Hutenium, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol, ii. p. 418.)
He Lentum (Huhelenium) fenwifoliwm ; herba annua, erecta, fastigiatim ramosa,
glaberrima, foliosa, multiflora, foliis alternis et ternatim fasciculatis
sessilibus anguste linearibus 13-2-pollicaribns vix ; poll. latis acuminatis,
pedunculis elongatis gracillimis, capitulis 1-1} poll. diam., involucri
bracteis oblongo-lanceolatis, receptaculo angusto tumido, fl. radii_ numero-
sis tubo brevi ligula cuneiformi 3-loba aurea deflexa basi dorso pubescente,
fl. disci in capitulum globosum aureum congestis, corolla tubulosa breviter
5-loba pubescente, antheris linearibus inclusis connectivo uanguiformi
- terminatis, achzniis obconicis hirsutis, pappi squamis ad 6 achzaio
_ equilongis orbiculatis v. late ovatis seta rigida elongata terminatis.
H. tenuifolium, Nutt. in Journ. Acad. Philad. vol. vii. (1834) p. 66. Hook.
Comp. Bot. Mag. vol. i. p. 98. Torr & Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 385.
Chapman, Fl. 8S. U. States, p. 239. Meehan Nat. Fl. U. States, vol. ii.
p- 37, t.10. A. Gray, Synopt. Fl. N. Am. i. 2, p. 347.
—_
Helenium tenuifolium is described by Gray as a very
common plant in river bottoms and on roadsides, from
Arkansas to Mississippi, Florida, and Texas, being a
naturalized weed throughout the Southern Atlantic States.
A variety, badiwm, A. Gray, from Texas, has dull, purplish-
brown disk-flowers. Under the name of Sneezewort it is
reported to be poisonous to men and cattle, and to give a
bitter taste to milk. Horses will not touch it unless
pressed by hunger. It has no effect on sheep. It has
been long cultivated in the Royal Gardens, Kew, where its
profuse golden flowers renders it very conspicuous in
autumn. ?
Descr.—An erect, slender, fastigiately branched, copiously
flowering, leafy, glabrous annual; branches erect, sub-
corymbosely fascicled. Leaves sub-erect and spreading, one
and a half to two inches long, by about one-twelfth of an
inch broad, sessile, usually fascicled in threes, very narrowly
linear, acuminate, bright green. Peduncles terminal, very
slender, erect, naked. Heads an inch to an inch and a
half in diameter. Involucral bracts oblong-lanceolate. e-
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ceptacle narrow, tumid. Ray-florets twelve to fifteen,
spreading and deflexed, golden-yellow; tube very short,
limb cuneiform, three-lobed, dorsally hairy towards the
base; style short, arms linear, recurved. Disk-florets
forming a globose or hemispheric golden-yellow head;
corolla tubular, shortly obtusely five-lobed, papillosely |
hairy; anthers included, linear, connective unguiform ;
style exserted, arms as in the ray-florets. Achenes of ray
and disk-florets short, obconic, hirsute, crowned with five
or six, broadly ovate or orbicular, erect pappus scales, each
terminated by a rigid bristle as long as itself.—J. D. H. —
Fig. 1, bract of involucre; 2, base of ray-floret; 3, disk-floret ; 4, anthers ;
5, style-branches ; 6, achene; 7, scale of pappus :—All enlarged.
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LILIUM Brownu, var. LEUCANTHUM.
Native of China.
Nat. Ord. Littacea.—Tribe TuLiPEa. —
Genus Linrum, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 816.) .
Lium (Enlirion) Brownii; bulbo globoso, squamis arcte adpressis oblongis
carnosis albidis, caule 3-6-pedali robusto viridi folioso foliis (supremis
subverticillatis exceptis) alternis confertis patenti-recurvis subaquilongis
3-5 poll. longis 11-1} latis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis 3-5-nerviis basi
constrictis supra saturate viridibus subtus pallidis alte 3-5-costatis axillis
bulbiferis supremis brevioribus et latioribus, floribus in exillis supremis
paucis maximis pendulis, pedicellis robustis arcuatis, perianthi 5-7-
p llearis segmentis infra medium in tubum cylindricum alte et late
6-costatum dein anguste infundibulare eel nag oe dorso brunneis apicibus
dilatatis apice rotundatis revolutis 2~2% poll. latis albis, nectarii margini-
bus papilloso-pubescentibus, filamentis robustis vix declinatis styloque
robusto inferne papillosis, antheris 3-3 poll. longis flayo-brunneis, stylo
apice capitato costis stigmatosis decurrenti}us.
L. Brownii, Gheldo/f, Cat. (ewm deseript.) ex Rev. Hortic. Ser. II. vol. ii.
(1843-44) p. 495. F. & E. Brown ex Spae in Ann. Soc. Roy. d’ Agric. et de
Bot. Gand, vol. i. (1845) p. 437, t.41; Mem. Lis, p. 11. Miellez in Fl.
des Serres, vol. i. (1845) p. 110, cum tab. col.
L. Browni, Franch. in Morot, Journ. Bot. Paris, vol. vi. (1892) p. 312. Elwes,
Monog. Lil. t. viii. (excl. syn. L. japonicum).
L. japonicum, Bury, Select. Hevandr. Pl. t. 2.
L, japonici forma, Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xiv. (1874) p. 280.
L. longifloram, Franch. Pl. David. pars I. p. 307 (non Thunb.)
L. odorum, Planch. in Fl. des Serres. tt. 876-7.
_L. japonicum, var. Colchesteri, Van Houtte in Fl. des Serres, t. 2193-4.
Var. pEvcANTHUM, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1894, pt. 2, p. 180. The Garden,
1895, p. 97, cum ic.; foliis latioribus, perianthii segmentis albidis dorso
costa valida viridi percursis.
Though described as a distinct species nearly sixty years
ago, it is only comparatively recently that Lilium Brownii
has become well known to botanists and horticulturists. -
This is owing to its having been supposed to be a native of
Japan, and hence confounded with L. japonicum, tab. 1591,
and L. longiflorum, Thunb. According to Spae’s mono-
aph of Liliwm, cited above, it was obtained from England
by Mr. Miellez, of Liege, in 1837; and at about the same
time the Messrs. Brown, of Windsor, in writing to Mr.
Schurmans-Steckhoven, Director of the Botanical Gardens
of Leyden, mention it as a new Lily, with flowers as large
Jury Isr, 1900.
as those of L. japonicum, but with a dark band on the
back of the petals. That it was known at an earlier date
in England is proved by its being figured in Bury’s
magnificent folio on Hexandrian plants, which was published
in the years 1832-1834, where it is named L. japonicum,
with Japan as its native country.
Var. leucanthum was first described by Mr. Baker in the
Gardener's Chronicle, from a plant the bulb of which was
sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Dr. Henry in 1889,
along with those of L. Henryi (tab. 7177) from Ichang,
in the province of Hupeh. The specimen here figured was
raised from seeds sent also by Dr. Henry, in 1897. It
flowered in August, 1899. __ .
Another variety of L. Brownii, called viridulwm, is de-
scribed by Mr. Baker in the Gardener’s Chronicle (1885, vol.
i. p. 184) as having only a faint dash of claret-brown on
the perianth-segments, and is recorded as a native of Japan.
Descr.—Var. leucanthum. Bulb globose, white, four
inches in diameter; scales appressed, oblong, fleshy. Stem
three to six feet high, robust, green, leafy from the base
upwards. eaves very many, crowded, spreading and
recurved, sessile, alternate, and uniform in size, except
the terminal, which are whorled, shorter and broader,
ovate-lanceolate, three to five inches long by one and a
quarter to one and a half broad, dark green, with about
five deeply impressed parallel nerves above, which are
strongly raised beneath, axils bulbilliferous; bulbils the
size of a pea, dark brown and green. Flowers two or
more in the axils of the uppermost whorled leaves, stoutly
pedicelled ; pedicels green, decurved, shorter than the
flowers. Perianth five to seven inches long, very narrowly
funnel-shaped ; segments nearly white, each with a stout,
broad, green dorsal midrib, dilating into a rounded revo-
Jute white limb, two to two and_ half a inches broad.
Nectary linear, margins papillosely pubescent. Filaments
very stout, sub-declinate, green; anthers half an inch
long or more, linear-oblong, yellow-brown. Style very
Stout, green, tip capitate, six-lobed; stigmas decurrent on
the lobes.—J. D. H. a
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HESPERALOE yucozrForta.
Native of Texas..
Nat. Ord. Lintacra.—Tribe Dracayra.
Genus Husperator, Lngelm.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii: p. 778.)
HEsPERALOE yuccxfolia; glaberrima, caudice elongato interdum ramoso,
-foliis confertis erecto-patentibus et recurvis 3-pedalibus elongato-lineari-.
subulatis crasse coriaceis late viridibus supra concavis subtus rotundatis
marginibus albis filamentosis, scapo 6-pedali roseo,. inflorescentia pedal
angusta paniculata rhachi ramis pedicellisque strictis roseis, floribus in
fasciculos bracteatos secus rhachim dispositis, bracteis herbaceis late ovatis.
acuminatis viridibus marginibus late membranaceis albis vy. roseis,
bracteolis minntis,. pedicellis $—I-poll. longis, floribus swberectis cum pedi-
cello articulatis, p rianthio pollicari cylindraceo v. anguste hr ses eet we
rubro basi constricto, segmentis anyustis apicibus patentibus obtusis
_ exterioribus utrinque fere concoloribus interioribus intus aureis, filamentis:
_ basi segmentorum adnatis, antheris versatilibus. linearibus basi sub-
sagittatis, ovario oblongo in stylum crassiusculum attenuato, stigmate
minuto 3-lobo. . :
H.. yucceefolia, Engelm. in S. Wats. Bot. King’s Brped. p. 497; Coll. Bot.
Works, p- 277. S. Wats. in Proe. tee dat oe ay. p- 250 (1879)..
Baker in Journ, Iinn. Sor. vol. xviii. (1880) p. 231.
H. Engelmanni, Krauskopf, ex Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. l.c.
Yucca? parviflora, Torr. in Bot. Mex. Bound, p. 221. Baker in Gard. Chron.
1870, p. 923.
Ator yuccefolia, A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. vii. (1868) p. 390.
A very singular plant, described by Engelmann as re-
sembling a Yucca in habit, in the filamentose margined leaves,
and in the scape, pollen, and seeds; an Alve in the perianth
and pistil; and an Agave in the filaments being adnate at
the base to the perianth-segment, and geniculate upwards.
By which latter term I suppose that incurved at the apex
is intended, a character which I cannot confirm on ex-
amination of living specimens.
Mr. Baker regards H. Engelmanni, Krauskopf, as a form
with the style included, larger anthers, more slender
flexuous branches of the panicle, and smaller bracts.
H. Engelmanni was discovered in Western Texas by
Charles Wright, and is No. 1908 of his Herbarium.
Seeds of it were received by the Royal Gardens,
Kew, from its old correspondent, Mr. W. Thomson, of
Ipswich, in 1888, plants from which were grown in an
JuLy Ist, 1900.
unheated frame, along with Cape bulbs. One of them
flowered for the first time in July, 1899, and from it
the accompanying figure was made. It ripened a few
seeds.
Deser.—Stem (not developed as yet in the Kew indi-
vidual) two to four feet high, simple or branched. Leaves
a yard long, by an inch broad towards the base, spreading
and recurved, linear-subulate, acuminate, rigid, thickly
coriaceous, concave ventrally, rounded dorsally, deep
bright green, with white filiferous margins, the threads an
inch long. Scape with panicle six feet high, stout, erect.
Panicle narrow, branched at the base ; rhachis and branches
stout, strict, terete, rose-purple. Flowers sub-erect, an
inch long, fascicled in bracts along the rhachis and
branches; bracts up to an inch long, herbaceous, ovate,
acuminate, green with broad, thin, white or red margins ;
pedicels up to an inch long, rose-purple. Perianth bright
rose-red, articulate on the pedicel by a short, contracted,
solid base, cylindric, or narrowly campanulate; segments
linear-oblong, obtuse; tips spreading, outer concolorous,
or very narrowly bordered with yellow, inner golden-yellow
within. Stamens included, filaments with nearly straight,
slender tips; anthers linear-oblong, dorsifixed. Ovary
ovoid, narrowed into the rather slender style; stigma
minutely three-lobed.—J. D. H. |
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a of perianth and pistil; all enlarged:—4, reduced figure of the whole
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DENDROBIUM Hopexrnsont.
Native of New Guinea.
Nat. Ord. Oncuipex.—Tribe EPIDENDREZ,
Genus Denprosium, Sw.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 498.)
Denvrosium (Stachyobium) Hodgkinsoni; pseudobulbis 5-10 poll. longis an-
guste clavatis canaliculatis apice 2-3-phyllis, foliis 4-7 poll. longis elliptico-
lanceolatis subacutis subcoriaceis, scapo ad 4 poll. longo terminali erecto,
racemo brevi 5-7-floro, pedicellis pollicaribus, bracteis 3-3 poll. longis
oblongis subacutis, floribus nutantibus subeam anulatis, sepalis petalis-
que ad 1-13 poll. longis suberectis pallide viridibus triangulari-
lanceolatis acuminatis dorso carinatis, labello sepalis paullo longiore
3-lobo pallide viridi radiis purpureis ornato, lobis lateralibus erectis
rotundatis crenulatis, terminali ovato-cordato subacuto, disco callo
magno albo nitido tricarinato basi utrinque unilobulato instructo,
mento 4-poll. longo late conico obtuso, columna latiuscula bicornuta,
_ anthera depressa.
D. Hodgkinsoni, Rolfe in Kew Bullet. ined.
New Guinea, the native country of Dendrobium Hodgkin-
soni, will probably prove to be the most productive of
those hitherto unexplored areas of the globe which abound
in Orchids. About a dozen species, many of them ve
imperfectly known, are contained in Miquel’s “ Fl. Ind.
Bat.,” published in 1859, to which must be added very
many more recently discovered.
D. Hodgkinsoni is, according to Mr. Rolfe, who has
kindly given me his unpublished description of it, allied
to D. atroviolacewm (tab. 7371) also a New Guinea species,
from which it differs, amongst other characters, in the
elliptic-lanceolate leaves, unspotted flowers, acuminate
sepals, lanceolate petals, and the large callus on the disk
of the lip. It was introduced by Messrs. Sander & Co.,
of St. Albans, from whom the Royal Gardens, Kew,
obtained the specimen here figured, which flowered in
1899.
Descr.—Pseudobulbs tufted, five to ten inches long,
narrowly clavate, deeply channelled. Leaves two or three
terminal on the pseudobulb, four to seven inches long, ellip-
tic-lanceolate, sub-acute, coriaceous, bright green. Scape
terminal, erect, about four inches long, terminated by a
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short five- to seven-flowered raceme. Bracts one-fourth
to one-third of an inch long, oblong, sub-acute. Flowers
nodding, sub-campanulate ; mentum short, broadly conical,
obtuse ; pedicels an inch long. Sepals and petals an inch
and a quarter long, sub-erect, triangular-lanceolate; acumi-
nate, dorsally keeled, pale green. Lip rather longer than
the sepals, three-lobed, pale green, with broad, radiating,
purple nerves ; side-lobes erect, broad, rounded, crenulate ;
terminal ovate-cordate, sub-acute; disk with a large pro-
minent white, three-keeled callus.. Column large and broad
for the genus. Anther depressed on the broad top.—J.D.H.
Fig. 1, base of lip with callus; 2, column and mentum; 8, anthers;
4, polliaiin :—All enlarged.
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DIPLADENTA pastoruM, var. TENUIFOLTA.
Native of Brasil.
Nat. Ord. Apocynacex.—Tribe EcuHITIpEs.
Genus Diptapenta, A.DC.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 726.)
DirLapEnia (Erythrochites) pastorwm, var. tenuifolia; glabra, radice tuberoso,
caulibus gracilibus flexuosis herbaceis, foliis anguste linearibus 2-3-
pollicaribus 74-3 poll. latis sessilibus subacntis d-nerviis marginibus
subrecurvis supra late viridibus subtus pallidis, pedunculis axillaribus
foliis brevioribus v. longioribus gracilibus 2-3-floris, calycis + poll. longi
segmentis subulato-lanceolatis basi intus glandalis subulatis instructis,
corollz hypocrateriformis tubo gracili pollicari apicem versus inflato
ellipsoideo dein breviter constricto intus pubescente, ore annulari aureo,
limbi rosei 13 poll. diam, plani lobis rhombeo-ovatis subacutis, antheris
oblongis apiculatis, disci glandulis majusculis oblongis obtusis, folliculis
___ linearibus 2-pollicaribus teretibus acuminatis erecto-patulis.
D. pastorum, tenuifolia & peduncularis, A.DC. in DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 482.
D. polymorpha, var. a tenuifolia, Muell. Arg. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. vi. pars.
I. p. 121, t. 36.
Echites tenuifolia, Mikan, Fl. et Faun. Bras. Fase. 3 (1820); Stadelm. in
Flora, vol. xxiv. pars i. (1841) Beidl. p. 53.
E. peduncularis, Stadelm. l.c. p. 54.
E. pastorum, Mart. ea Stadelm. l.c. 52. Mart. Syst. Mat. Med. Veg. Bras.
p- 90 (et Ic. ined. t. 63 ex A.DC.)
According to Mueller, in Martius’ “ Flora Brasiliensis,”
lic. Dipladenia polymorpha is a very variable plant; of which
he describes four forms, to which may possibly be added a
plant badly figured in Flore des Serres, vol. i. t. 74 (Aug.
1846) under the name of D. vinceflora. It is widely
distributed in Brasil, from the littoral province of Bahia
to that of San Paulo, and is found also in those of Minas
Geraes and Goyaz. Martius describes it as having purga-
tive properties, and being known to the Portuguese as
Purga do pastor.
Tubers of var. tenuifolia were presented to the Royal
Gardens, Kew, in 1896, by Mr. E. Hansen, Florist, of
Mile End Road, London, which flowered in a stove in
May, 1897, and again in Midsummer, 1898.
Deser.—Var. tenuifolia. A very slender, glabrous,
tuberous-rooted herb, with twining, flexuous stem. Leaves -
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opposite, in distant pairs, two to three inches long, by one-
tenth to one-sixth of an inch broad, very shortly petioled,
sub-acute, one-nerved, margins slightly recurved, pale
bright green. Flowers two or three, pedicelled on slender
axillary peduncles as long as the leaves or longer. Calyzx
one-sixth of an inch long; segments erect, linear, acute,
with subulate glands at the base within. Corolla-tube an
inch long, very slender, with a small ellipsoid dilatation
below the apex which is hairy within, and contains the
stamens; limb an inch and a half in diameter, flat, rose-
coloured, with a narrow, golden, five-cleft ring at the
mouth, the lobes of which are emarginate; segments
rhombic-ovate, sub-acute. Anthers sessile, linear-oblong,
apiculate. Disk with two, erect, oblong, obtuse, or truncate
fleshy glands. Stigma mitriform.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, calyx, style and stigma ; 2, ventricose upper part of corolla-tube laid
open, showing the stamens; 3, tip of pedicel with calycine glands, disk-glands
and ovary :— All enlarged.
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ROBINIA NEO-MEXICANA.
Native of the Rocky Mountains.
Nat. Ord. Legumtnos#.—Tribe GaLEGex.
Genus Rosrnta, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 499.)
ROBINIA neo-mexicana ; frutex y. arbuscula ramosa, ramulis hispidis, foliis
6-12-pollicaribus, foliolis multijugis ellipticis obtnsis apiculatis primo
supra albo-puberulis subtus tomentellis demum glaberrimis pallide viri-
dibus, stipulis brevibus sericeis demum spinescentibus rectis v. recurvis,
racemis breviter pedunculatis foliis brevioribus confertifloris, rhachi
pedicellisque brevibus glanduloso-hispidis, bracteis lineari-oblongis cadu-
cis, calycis tubo hispido dentibus subulato-lanceolatis glanduloso ciliatis,
legumine 3-4-pollicari anguste alata glanduloso-hispida, valvis setis
_ RB. neo-mexicana, A. Gray, Pi. Thurb. in Mem. Am. Acad. N. Se. vol. v.
(1855) p. 314. Turez. in Pacif. Rail. Rep. vol. iv. p. 79; Bot. Mex. Bound.
p. 53. 8..Wats. in King’s Rep. vol. v. p. 419. Porter, Fl. Colorad, p. 23.
Coulter, Man. Bot. Rocky Mts. p.59. Rev. Hortic. 1895, p.112. Gartenfl.
t. 1385. Sargent, Sylva of N. Amer. vol. iii. p. 48, t. 114.
Robinia neo-mexicana marks the western limit of the
genus, which reaches the eastern slopes of the Rocky
Mountains, along the chain of which it extends from
Southern Colorado to New Mexico, Southern Utah, and
Arizona, at elevations of four thousand to seven thousand
feet. It is very closely allied to, and is, indeed, the
western representative of f. viscosa, Vent. Zard. Cels. t. 4
(R. glutinosa, Sims. t. 560) a native of the mountains of
Carolina; and which, according to Sargent, is one of the
rarest trees of the United States. The only other species
of the genus are the well-known Locust Tree, or False
Acacia, f. Pseudacacia, Linn., and the Rose Acacia, &.
hispida, L. (t. 811), both natives of the Eastern United
States. I collected R. neo-mezxicana in fruit, when visiting
the Rocky Mountains, in company with Dr. Gray, near the
town of La Veta, in Colorado. The tree, from which the
specimen figured was taken, has been in cultivation in
the Kew Arboretum for the last twelve years, flowering
in June. It was received from the Botanic Gardens of
Harvard, U.S.A., in 1887.
Juty Ist, 1900.
Deser.—A bush, or small tree, with spreading, hispid
branches drooping at the tips. Leaves shortly petioled,
six to twelve inches long, impari-pinnate, quite glabrous
when mature ; leaflets in fifteen to twenty-one pairs, about
an inch long, elliptic, obtuse with a terminal mucro, pale
green, young puberulous above and pubescent beneath,
membranous, rhachis very slender, glabrous; stipules at
length spinescent, a quarter to half an inch long, straight,
or sub-recurved. tacemes shorter than the leaves, shortly
peduncled ; peduncles and rhachis hispid ; flowers crowded,
about an inch across; bracts lanceolate, membranous,
caducous; pedicels short. Calyx-tube rounded at the base,
hispid; lobes sub-equal, triangular-lanceolate, acute, ciliate
with gland-tipped hairs. Corolla pale rose-pink. Pod
three to four inches long, by half an inch broad, nearly
straight, linear, obtuse, narrowly winged; valves thickly
clothed with gland-tipped hairs and rigid bristles. Seeds
oblong.—J, D. IT.
Fig. 1, calyx laid open and ovary; 2, stamens and style, both enlarged;
3, pod of the natural size; 4, poition of the same enlarged.
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CATTLEYA x Wurrar.
Native of Bahia.
Nat. Ord. OrcutpE2.—Tribe ErripEnDREA.
Genus Carrizya, Lindl. ; (Benth. & Hook. Ff. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 531.)
CattLeva X Whitei; pseudobulbis foliisque C. /abiate, inflorescentia 2-flora,
sepalis lineari-oblongis acutis v. acuminatis apicibus virescentibus, petalis
latioribus oblongis obtusis undulatis decurvis, labelli laciniis lateralibus
late triangulis columnam velantibus extus pallidis marginibus reflexis
lete purpureis, fauce aurantiaca purpureo lineata, terminali reniformi
rotundata dilatata lobulata denticulata et crispata.
C. x Whitei, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1882, vol. ii. p. 586. Warner §
Williams, Orchid. Album. vol. iii. t. 115. Gartenfl. vol. xxxili. p. 197,
t. 1159. Veitch, Man. Orchid. Part ii. p. 87. Rolfe in Orchid. Rev. vol.
vii. (1899) p. 292; in Journ. Hort. Soc. vol. xxiv. (1900) p. 192.
C. x Russellianum, Mantin ex Rolfe in Journ. Hort. Soc. vol. xxiv. p. 192.
So great has been the interest shown by Orchidologists
in the natural hybrid here figured, that I have yielded
to their wish that it should appear in the Botanical Maga-
zine, as one of the few exceptions to the rule which excludes
hybrids in favour of pure species, so long as these are press-
ing for illustration. Not that it is the only known wild
hybrid Orchid, for Mr. Rolfe has given mea list of nineteen,
all of which, including CO. x Whitei, have had their mule
origin proved, by having been artificially reproduced in
Europe, and most of them in English gardens. These
belong to eight genera, five American, Cattleya, Laelia,
Odontoglossum, Masdevallia and Anguloa, and three Asiatic,
Phalenopsis, Calanthe, and Dendrobium. a
A special interest is attached to C. x Whiter, from its
being one of the earliest of supposed wild hybrid Cattleyas.
It was discovered in the Bahia province of Brasil by Mr.
White, collector for Messrs. Hugh Low & Sons, with
whom it flowered in 1882, when it was described by Reich-
enbach, who suggested its being @ hybrid between U.
labiata and OC. Schilleriana. The only objection to this theory
was, that the Supposed parents were believed to inhabit
localities some eight hundred miles apart. Some years
later Mr. Rolfe, investigating the history of OC. x Whiiet,
Aveust Ist, 1900,
ascertained from Mr. Boxall, another collector for Messrs.
Low, that C. Whitet was a native of Bahia, where it was
found growing on a tree in company with C. Schilleriana,
a plant whose rea] habitat had not previously been re-
corded.
Up to the year 1899 the specimen described by Reichen-
bach was the only wild one known in Europe, but in that
year a re-importation of specimens took place, amongst
which was the fine one here figured, which flowered in the
rich Orchid collection of Sir F. Wigan, Bart., D.L. of
Clare Lawn, E. Sheen, who kindly sent it to Kew for
illustration in this work.
For an instructive paper on natural and artificially pro-
duced hybrid Orchids and other plants, I may refer
botanists to Mr. Rolfe’s Essay on ‘* Hybridization viewed
from the standpoint of systematic Botany,” published in
the journal of the Royal Horticultural Society in April of
this year.
It remains to give the diagnoses of C. x Whitei and of
its parents.
C. Warneri, T. Moore, ex Warner Sel. Orchid. vol. i. t. 8.
Floral Mag. 1871, t. 516. C.labiata, var. Warneri, Veitch,
Man. Orchid. Part II. p. 27; flowers six to eight inches
diam., sepals linear-lanceolate, petals ovate, three times
broader than the sepals, lip obscurely 3-lobed, side lobes
entire, midlobe deeply emarginate.
C. Schilleriana, Reichb f. in Berlin Aligem. Gartenzett.
1857, p. 335. Fl. des Serres, t. 2286; Veitch, Man. Orchid.
Pars il. p. 45; flowers four to six inches in diam., sepals
and petals similar oblong-lanceolate, lip ovate-oblong,
deeply three-lobed, side lobes triangular, acute, midlobe
reniform. 7
C. x Whitei; flowers six to eight inches in diam.,
sepals and petals most like OC. Warneri, lip most like that
of C. Schilleriana.—J. D. H. ,
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ASPARAGUS TERNIFOLIUS,
Native of Natal.
Nat. Ord. Lit1ace”.—Tribe ASPARAGEA,
Genus Asparaaus, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 765.)
Asparacus (Asparagopsis) ternifolius; alte scandens, caule volubili, gracile
tereti sulcato, ramulis flexuosis patulis v. deflexis suleatis angulatis
angulis rugulosis, spinis 3-3 poll. longis pungentibus, cladodiis 3-8-natis
linearibus v. anguste lineari-lanceolatis rectis y. falcatis 3-1 poll. longis
ts-g poll. latis acutis v. acuminatis planis, racemis solitariis v. 1-3-
natis 1-2-poll. longis fere ad basin multifloris, rhachi stricto 6-gono
angulis ragulosis apice nudo v. cladodiis instructo, pedicellis 3-3 poll.
longis medio versus articulatis, bracteis parvis lanceolatis, perianthio ad
2 poll. diam. segmentis patenti-recurvis obovato-oblongis obtusis, filamen-
tis perianthio ad } brevioribus, antheris majusculis oblongis aurantiacis,
ovario ad 12-ovulato. :
A. xthiopicus, Linn. var. ternifolius, Baker in Saunders, Refug. Bot. t. 261.
Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 1588, fig. 338.
A. faleatus, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiv. (1875) p. 626; in Flor. Trop.
Afr. vol. vii. p. 485 (non Linn.)
The species of Asparagus, of which one hundred and
forty are enumerated in the Index Kewensis, are often very
difficult of discrimination; that which I here describe as
A. ternifolius, was regarded by Mr. Baker first as a variety
(ternifolius) of A. xthiopicus, Linn., from which it differs
in the larger broad cladodes, angular rhachis of the
raceme, larger flowers, shorter filaments, and oblong
anthers, and subsequently as the same as A. falcatus,
Linn., of Ceylon, which has much fewer and smaller flowers
in the raceme, the rhachis of which is very short, and quite
smooth, its pedicels are jointed far below the middle, its
bracts are cymbiform, its filaments are nearly as long
= the perianth-segments, and the anthers smaller and
globose. :
A. ternifolius was first described from specimens that
flowered in the late Mr. Wilson Saunders’ rich collection
of Cape plants at Reigate, the seeds of which were sent
from Natal by Thomas Cooper (Mr. Saunders’ collector).
The only native specimen of it which I have seen 1s in
Asvust sz, 1900,
the Kew Herbarium, collected by Mr. J.M. Wood, A.L.S.,
Curator of the Durban Botanic Garden, ticketed as found
on Durban Flats in 1887. A closely allied species, also
referred to A. falcatus by Mr. Baker, but I think differing
from that plant, though more resembling that plant, has
been sent by several collectors from Natal.
A. ternifolius has been in cultivation in the Succulent
House of the Royal Gardens for a long period, and was,
no doubt, procured from Wilson Saunders, F.R.S., about
the time of its publication in the ‘ Refugium” (1871).
It flowers in August, but has not fruited at Kew.
Deser.— A slender, twining shrub, with a flexuous,
smooth, woody stem, long, spreading or drooping, sul-
cate branches and branchlets, which are angular towards
the tips, with minutely roughened angles. Spines short,
stout, usually slightly recurved, pungent. Oladodes often
in threes towards the tips of the branches, but up to eight
occur lower down on the plant, linear or linear-lanceolate,
acute or acuminate, variable in length and breadth, three-
fourths to one inch long, by one-sixth to one-eighth of an
inch broad, flat, bright green. Racemes one to two inches
long, solitary, binate, or ternate, many- and rather dense-
fid., rhachis striate, rather rigid, six-angled, with the
angles roughened by prominent cells; pedicels one-sixth
to one-fourth of an inch long, jointed about the middle;
bracts lanceolate, one-nerved. ‘Flowers about a fourth of
an inch broad, faintly odorous; perianth-segments ob-
ovate-oblong, obtuse, spreading, and recurved, white.
Filaments about half as long as the perianth-segments ;
anthers oblong, orange-yellow.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, portion of stem anl spines; 2, portion of rhachis of raceme;
3, flower ay bract; 4, bract; 5, perianth-segment and stamen; 6, ovary :—
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PHAONEURON Motoneyi.
Native of Lagos.
: Nat. Ord. Metastomace@.—Tribe DissocuaTeR.
Genus Puzonevron, (Gilg in Engl. § on Natiirl. Pflanzfam. Nachir.
p. 267.
PuaontuRON Moloneyi; herba caule apicem versus quadrangulo et purpureo-
furfuraceo, inferne terete et glabrato, foliis ovatis vel ovato-ellipticis sub-
acuminatis basi rotundatis vel subcordatis repando-serrulatis 4-6 poll.
longis 2-33 poll. latis primo supra saturate viridibus pilis crispulis_pur-
pureo-rufis tenuibus obtecta mox basi excepta glabratis subtus pallidis
primo in nervis venisque dense villoso-tomentosis deinde glabratis e basi
7- (ramis 5-) nervibus venis transversis subhorizontalibus crebris, petiolo
1-2 poll. longo, panicula terminali purpureo-furfuracea minuti-bracteata,
pedicellis brevibus gracilibus, calyce hemisphwrico truncato parce crispe-
pubescente demum glabrescente, petalis 5 oblique-obovatis apiculatis fere
semipollicaribus, staminibus 10 swqaalibus, antheris lineari-lanceolatis,
connectivo basi haud producto antice appendicibus 2 brevibus anthers
subcontiguis postice calcare subtrilobo latiusculo brevi aucto, stigmati
subcapitato, fructu bacciformi pericarpio irregulariter (?) rampente, semi-
nibus subrhombeis, embryo recto cylindrico, rhaphe spongiosa embryone
multo latiore. O. Stapf.
The genus Phzoneuron, founded by Gilg on a tropical
W. African plant closely allied to Dicellandra, has, together
with other allied Melastomacee from the same region, been
studied by Dr. Stapf, with the result that the generic
characters of the first-named genus must be modified, and
both enlarged by characters afforded by their seeds. In
anticipation of a paper on the subject which he proposes
to publish, he has given me the following diagnoses of
both genera, with a list of the species appertaiing to
each:—
DicEtuanpRa, Hk. f. Stem 4-angled. Calyx 5-toothed. Stamens in 2
sets differing in oe and size; lenat appendages of connective mag
pointed. Seeds obovoid, a pendaged at the upper posticous end ; sve ~
brittle, granular anticously above; raphe hollow walls, thin. FE ak
ovoid, placed beneath the granular portion of the testa. D. Barteri, Hk. f,
Fernando Po. 5 Il alik
Paxonevron, Gilg. Stem terete. Calyx entire. ie oral Pacey e, rie
nearly so; basal appendages of connective short, tips thicken aa 8
cuneiform ; testa smooth; rhaphe large, spongy OF. corky. moryo 8u
cylindric, occupying the whole anticous side of the seed.
1. P. dicellandroides, Gily. Cameroons.
Avevust Ist, 1900.
2. P. setosum, Stapf. (Dicellandra setosa,, Hk. f. D. liberica, Gilg.) Sierra
Leone, Liberia.
3. P. Moloneyi, Stapf. (Tab. nostr.) Lages.
4. P. Schweinfurthii, Stapf. (P. dicellandroides, Gilg. partim). Central
Africa.
Phexoneuron Molaneyi was raised from seeds sent from
Lagos to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Sir Cornelius
Moloney, K.C.M.G., when Administrator of that colony.
It flowered in September, 1884, in a Tropical House.
Deser.—Stem herbaceous, terete; branches obtusely
tetragonous, and petioles and panicles covered with pur-
plish furfuraceous pubescence. Leaves four to six inches
long, ovate or elliptic-ovate, sub-acuminate, base rounded
or sub-cordate, young, puberulous above, with crisped
hairs, mature, glabrous, or nearly so, nerves five to seven,
tomentose beneath in the young leaves; petiole one to
two inches long Panicle terminal, lax-flowered ; bracts
minute. Flowers shortly pedicelled, about an inch broad.
Calyez hemispheric, faintly furfuraceous, mouth truncate,
entire. Petals obliquely obovate, pale rose-purple within.
Stamens 10, equal; anthers linear-lanceolate, basal appen-
dages short; tips thickened. Style slender, stigma capi-
tellate. Berry globose. Seeds many, rhombic-cuneiform ;
testa rather rough.—J. D. H. 2 a
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HUERNIA SOMALICA.
Native of Somaliland.
Nat. Ord. AscLeriapE&.—Tribe STaPELieg.
Genus Huernu, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 784.)
Hurrnta somalica; caulibus brevibus crassis pentagonis glabris pallide viridi-
bus, angulis crassis grosse sinuato-dentatis, dentibus ad 3 poll. longis
deltoideo-subulatis lateraliter compressis apicibus spinescentibus, floribus
basin versus ramorum erratis breviter crasse pedicellatis, sepalis subulatis
3-poll. longis, corolla tubo parvo subgloboso-campanulato glabro, limbo
14-2 poll. diam. patenti-recurvo glabro fusco-purpureo remote 5-lobato,
lobis deltoideis acutis ochraceis papillis rubris ornatis, sinubus latis
medio dentiferis, coronz exterioris lobis subquadratis bifidis glabris san-
guineis, interioris lobis late subulatis incurvis conniventibus Iluteis,
antheraram loculis angustis pallidis, polliniis clavatis glandula bialata
___ sessilibus.
H. somalica, N.E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, Nov., 1898, p. 309.
*
The genus Huernia, Br., consists of about sixteen species
of South African and Tropical African plants, distinguished
from Stapelia chiefly by the toothed sinus of the corolla
and adnate outer corona. Nine of these, including H.
somalica, have been figured in this work, some of them
under Stapelia. I am indebted to Mr. N. E. Brown for
the following enumeration of them :—H. venusta, R. Br.
(St. lentiginosa, Sims, ‘t. 509). #. campanulata, R. Br.
( S.campanulata, Mass. t. 1227). H. clavigera, Haw. (as “
S. campanulata, Mass. t. 1661, and S. barbata, Mass. t. —
2401). H. reticulata, Haw. (S. reticulata, Mass. t. 1662).
H. Hystrie, N. B. Br. (S. Hystriz, Hk. f. t. 5751), H. brevi-
rostris, N. E. Br. (t. 6379) ; all from South Africa; and
H. oculata, Hk. f. (t. 6658), and H. aspera, NN. EB.
(t. 7000), from Tropical Africa.
Huernia somalica was brought from Somaliland by Mrs.
Lort Phillips, who presented living specimens, both to the
Royal Gardens, Kew, and to the Gardens of the University
of Cambridge, with the information that it was called
“Anahrob” by her Somali boy. It flowered for the first
time at Cambridge in July, 1897, and in the following year
at Kew. ‘The figure is of the Cambridge specimen.
Aveust Ist, 1900.
Descr.—Stems short, two to three inches high, about an
inch in diameter, simple, sub-erect, five-angled, glabrous,
pale green; angles deeply, regularly sinuate-toothed ; teeth
about a fourth of an inch long, subulate-deltoid, laterally
compressed, green, pungent. lowers from the lower part
of the stem stoutly pedicelled, one and a half to two inches
in diameter; pedicel sigmoidly curved, stout. Sepals
subulate, about a fourth of an inch long. Corolla-tube
small, globosely campanulate, glabrous; limb spreading
and recurved, forming an annulus around the mouth of the
tube, dark purple, glabrous, remotely five-lobed ; lobes del-
toid, spreading, acute, ochraceous, studded with purple
papille; sinus with a minute tooth. Corona very small; |
outer lobes sub-quadrate, bifid, glabrous, blood-red ; inner.
broadly subulate, incurved, with their tips connivent,
golden-yellow, bases tumid. Pollinia narrowly clavate,
seated on a two-winged gland.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, staminal corona; 2, the same, with the inner lobes removed; 3 and
4, pollinia :— All enlarged.
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SENECIO avricunarissiuus.
Native of British Central Africa.
Nat. Ord. Composita.—Tribe SenECIONIDEA.
Genus Senecro, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 446.)
SENECIO auriculatissimus ; frutex scandens, glaberrimus, divaricatim ramosus,
ramis ramulisque teretibus levibus, foliis gracile pest id transverse
oblongis obreniformibus v. late reniformi-rotundatis late crenatis palma-
tim nervosis supra lete viridibus nervis obscuris subtus pallidis nervis
validioribus, petiolo supra canaliculato basi in auriculam magnam ova-
tam profunde cordatam amplexicaulem convexam dilatato, capitulis
ad apices ramuloram laxe corymbosis gracile pedicellatis ad po licem
diametro, pedicellis minute braceteolatis, involucri cylindracei basi rotun- —
dati nudi bracteis linearibus acuminatis, floribus aureis radii 12-15. by
lineari apice 3-crenata, disci tubulosis 5-dentatis, antherarum loculis basi
acutis, mt ramis revolutis obtusis ex-appendiculatis, acheniis lineari-
bus alte 5-costatis costis puberulis, pappi mollis albi setis subscaberulis.
8. auriculatissimus, Britten in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. vol. iv. pars i. p. 21.
Engler Pflanzenw. Ost. Africa, Theil C. p. 418.
This very remarkable groundsel is a native of Nyassa-
land and of the Shiré Highlands, in British Central
Africa. It was discovered in 1887 by Mr. J. T. Last,
near Milangi, and has subsequently been sent from the
Zomba Plateau, alt. five thousand feet, by Sir H. H.
- Johnston, K.C.B., from Namapi, in Nyassaland, by Mr.
Cameron, from Mt. Bombo, alt. four thousand feet to six
thousand feet, by Mr. Whyte in 1896, and by Mr. J.
Buchanan from the Shiré Highlands. In habit and the
auricled petioles it resembles several Indian species, and
the garden Cineraria.
S. auriculatissimus was raised in the Royal Gardens,
Kew, from seeds sent by Mr. John Mahon, Government
Botanist, British Central Africa, in 1898. It flowered in
the Conservatory in February of the present year, where
it began to climb one of the pillars, and is a very attractive
object.
Descr.—A perfectly glabrous, climbing shrub, with
terete, smooth stem, and divaricating branches. Leaves
petioled, spreading, broader than long, transversely oblong
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or obreniform or orbicular-reniform, two to two and a half
inches broad, coarsely crenate, bright green above, with
faint, spreading nerves, which are strongly raised on the
pale under surface; petiole one to two inches long, very
slender, channelled above, suddenly dilated at the base
into an ovate, amplexicaul, convex, green auricle, upwards
of aninch long. Heads pedicelled in lax terminal corymbs,
an inch in diameter, pedicels short; with scattered subu-
late bracteoles. Involucre cylindric, smooth, green, base
ecalyculate; bracts linear, acuminate. florets golden-
yellow ; of the ray twelve to fifteen ; ligules linear, tip
three-toothed ; of the disc tubular, campanulate above,
with five short teeth. Arms of style linear, revolute,
obtuse, not appendaged. Achenes linear, strongly five-
ribbed, ribs pubescent. Pappus hairs soft, faintly scaberu-
lous, white.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, floret of ray; 2, its style-arms; 3, floret of disk; 4, anthers; 5, its
style-arms; 6, hairs of pappus; 7, ripe achene,—All enlarged.
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COLOCASIA antiquorum, var. Fonranusit.
Native of Tropical Asia.
Nat. Ord. Aracka#.—Tribe CoLocasiza&.
Genus Cotocasra, Schott; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 974.)
Cotocasta Antiquorum, var. Fontanesii; rhizomate brevi carnoso vix tuberoso,
turionibus bipedalibus, foliis 1-2-pedalibus cordato-ovatis v.- oblongis
acutis v. cuspidatis saturate viridibus marginibus nervisque violaceis
subtus pallidis, petiolo 3-5-pedali scapo que breviore et robustiore rubro-
purpureis v. violaceis, spathz tubo 3-pollicari 1} poll. diam. oblongo-
cylindraceo rubro-purpureo collo aureo, lamina aperta 10-pollicari 4 poll.
lata oblonga caudato-acuminata primulina, spadicis appendice parvo
conico, inf. masc. quam foem. paullo longiore neut. foom. subsquilonga,
ovariis minutissimis.
2 Gy antiquorum, var. Fontanesii, Schott Syn. Aroid. p. 42. Prodr. Syst.
Aroid, p. 140. Engl. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. vol. ii. p. 491.
©. Fontanesii, Schott in Gistr. Bot. Wochenbl. 1854, p. 409. K. Koch in
Berlin. Aligem. Gartenzeit. 1858, p. 362. ;
C. violacea, Hort.
Caladium colocasioides, Hort. Par. ex Brongn. in Nouv. Ann. Mus, Par.
vol. iii. (1834) p. 156. Kunth Enum. Pl. vol. iii. p. 43.
C. violaceum, Hort. ew Engl. l.c. p. 492.
Arum colocasioides, Desf. Cat. Hort. Par., pp. 7 et 385.
Colocasia antiquorum, figured at t. 7364 of this work, is
an exceedingly variable plant, of which four forms (in-
eluding Arum nymphezifolium) are considered by Roxburgh
to be indigenous in India, and two or three others are cul-
tivated. Engler enumerates seven varieties, distinguished
chiefly by the length of the suckers given off from the
tuber, the length of the appendix of the spadix and the
colour of the leaves and petioles.
That here figured, which was named C. Fontanesit by
Schott, was founded on the Arum colocasioides of Desfon-
taines, who gives the following character, ‘ Affine A. colo-
casiz, petioli violacei seque ac Colocasia, differt lobis
posticis productioribus, nervis violaceis, venulis pagine
inferioris paucioribus nec arcuatim patentibus ut in Colo-
casia. Non floruit.”” According to Schott it differs from
OC. antiquorum proper in the shortness of the suckers,
violet petioles, and more oblong, obscurely green blade of
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the leaf with violet margins. He adds that it was known
in Holland as early as 1680 to 1690 as “Arum Colocasia
dictum zeylanicum pediculis punicantibus.” This would
indicate Ceylon as the origin of var. Fontanesii, which is so
far confirmed by Trimen, who describes the petioles of
C. antiquorum as being green or violet. Roxburgh
mentions a variety with leaves and petioles more or less
tinged with purple as wild in India. The only other
description of it is by Karl Koch, according to which the
leaves are brownish, and the petiole violet-purple.
The plant here figured differs from any form of C. anti-
quorum known to me in the red-purple petioles and
peduncles, and in the great size of the spathe, the tube of
which is three inches long, of a bright red-purple colour,
and in the oblong limb ten inches long by four broad, very
flat after expansion, and of a bright primrose colour.
The appendage of the spadix is a very small cone. This
character of the large open spathe has not been figured,
described, or seen by me in any other form of C. antiquorum,
in which the spathe is normally much narrower, erect, and
convolute, or very concave. It has been for many years
in cultivation in Kew and elsewhere in Britain. The
Specimen figured was sent to me from the University
Botanical Garden, Cambridge, by Mr. Lynch in July, —
1899.—J. D. H. 3 ae tes r
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ASPARAGUS vumsettatvus.
Native of Madeira and the Canary Islands.
Nat. Ord. Littacem.—Tribe AspakaGEaZ,
Genus Asparacus, Lina.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p, 765.)
Asparacus (Asparagopsis) umbellatus; caule gracili scandente, ramis deflexis
elongatis suleatis v. polygonis scaberulis, internodiis brevibus, foliis
brevibus deltoideo-calcaratis v. obsoletis, cladodiis fasciculatis 3-10-natig
acicularibus v. fere filiformibus obscure trigonis acuminatis glabris v.
subscaberulis luride viridibus, pedicellis axillaribus solitariis et ad apices
ramulorum umbellatis 3-} poll. longis longe infra medium _articulatis,
bracteis minutis subulatis, floribus pro genere magnis, perianthii cam-
pete segmentis 3 poll. longis anguste oblongis obtusis albis recurvis,
lamentis supra basin segmentorum insertis illis brevioribus, antheris
_ majusculis oblongis aureis, ovario imperfecto fusiformi perfecto obo-
_ voideo stylo elongato, stigmatibus 3-recurvis, ovulis numerosis, bacca ad
3 poll. diam. monosperma, semine nigrescente.
A. umbellatus, Link in Buch, Beschreib. Canar. Ins. p. 140. Buch, Allgem.
Uebericht. Fl. Canar. Ins., p. 162. Webb & Berth. Phyt. Canar. vol. iii.
part ili. p. 327, t. 227. Kunth, Enum. Pl. vol. v. p. 79.
A. umbellatus, var. scaber, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. (1875)
p- 611. ;
A. grandiflorus, Willd. Herb. ex Webb. & Berth. l.c. Bresl. Gen. Asparag.
Hist. n. 23.
A. dichotomus, Brouss. er Webb. & Berth. l.c.
A. scaber, Lowe in Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc. vol. iv. (1831); Primit. et Novit.
Fl. Mader. p 11.
A. Lowei, Kunth, l. c.
Asparacorsis umbellata & grandiflora, Kunth, l. c. pp. 73, 79.
Asparagus umbellatus is remarkable for the large size of
its flowers, which are usually collected in simple umbels at
the tips of the branchlets. It is a native of rocky places
in the Island of Madeira and the Canaries, where it was
discovered (in the Canaries) by Francis Masson, F.L.S., the
first collector sent out from the Royal Gardens, Kew, under
Sir Joseph Banks’ auspices in 1778, to that Archipelago
and the Azores. It was subsequently found in Madeira.
It has for many years been cultivated in the Royal Gardens,
Kew, where, in the Temperate House, it is trained up one
of the pillars for about twelve feet, flowering in September,
and ripening its fruit in the same month of the following
year.
SerremBer Ist, 1900.
Mr. Baker (Journ. Linn. Soc. lc.) regards A. scaber,
Lowe, as a variety of A. umbellatus, but Webb and
Berthelot do not; and I fail to find sufficient characters
whereby to distinguish it. The cladodes attain a greater
length under cultivation than I find them to be in any
specimens preserved in the Kew Herbarium.
Descr. — Stem slender, climbing, woody and _ terete
below ; branches flexuous, drooping, angled and grooved ;
internodes short, angles of the branchlets minutely
scaberulous. Leaves minute, deltoid, or 0. Cladodes in
fascicles of three to ten, one half to one inch long, acicular
or filiform, tips rounded or pungent, terete, or obscurely
angled, smooth or sparsely scaberulous, very dark green.
Flowers three to six in an umbel at the tips of the branch-
lets, with often a few axillary in the fascicles of the cladodes,
white; pedicels one-third to half an inch long, jointed
considerably below the middle; bracts minute. Perianth
- campanulate ; segments narrowly oblong, obtuse, recurved,
one-third of an inch long. Filaments inserted above the
bases of the segments, rather shorter than these; anthers
large, oblong, golden-yellow. Berry globose, about half
an inch in diameter, bright red, one-seeded. Seed nearly
black—J. D. H.
_ Fig. 1, portion of branchlet and cladodes ; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, ovary :—AJ/
enlarged,
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IRIS stenorHy.ya.
Nutive of Asia Minor.
Nat. Ord. Intpe#.—Tribe Mores.
Genus Iris, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 686.)
Irts (Juno) stenophylla ; bulbo ovoideo, tunica extima brunnea primum fissa,
interiorum 3 exterioribus in vaginas elongatas pallidas obtusas folia basi
amplectentes productis, radicibus crassis, foliis 6-7 temp. florent. tubo
floris vix longioribus demum elongatis 8-10 poll. longis anguste linearibus
in apicem acuminatam angustatis concavis, scapo brevi unifloro, flore
4-poll. expans., spathze valvis herbaceis, perianthii tubo 2%-pollicari
exserto ovario pluries longiore lilacina, limbi segmentis exterioribus 23
pollicaribus stipitatis, stipite }-pollicari suberecto crasso, limbo late
ovato-oblongo basi cordato ceruleo parte reflexa rotundata apice late
saturate violacea et maculis paucis violaceis conspersa, crista media
angusta aurea, interioribus parvis vix pollicaribus patenti-deflexis
obovato-spathulatis obtusis pallide coeruleis, styli ramis amplis seg-
oo fere sequilongis, 1} poll. latis bilobis crenatis czruleis, filamentis
iberis.
I. stenophylla, Hausskn. mss. ex Baker in Gard. Chron. 1900, vol. i. p. 170, fig.
55.
I. Heldreichii, Hort.
This singularly beautiful plant is a near ally of Iris
persica, L., the figure of which (tab. 1) is the first of the
7733 which precede that of I. stenophylla in this Magazine.
It belongs to the section Juno of the sub-genus Xiphion,
which consists of about fourteen species, all natives of
Western Asia, characterized by the bulbous rootstock, and
very small spreading or deflexed inner segments of the
perianth. As in J. persica and others, the leaves are not
fully developed till long after flowering. It was discovered
in the Cilician Taurus, by Heldreich I assume, as the bulbs
which were purchased by the Royal Gardens, Kew, from
Mr. Siehe, of Mersina (near Tarsus) in 1898, were labelled
I. Heldreichit. It flowered in a sheltered sunny border, in
the open air, in February of this year.
— Descr.—Bulb ovoid, about an inch in diameter, with very
_ stout vermiform roots ; outer coat short, dark brown, cleft
_ to the base, three succeeding elongating, imbricating,
obtuse, very pale, forming a neck two inches long, sheath-
SEPTEMBER ist, 1900,
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ing the bases of the young leaves. Leaves at the flowering
time rather longer than the perianth-tube, after flowering
elongating to eight or ten inches, narrowly linear, gradually
contracted to an acuminate point, concave. Scape very
short. Spathe bright green, nearly as long as the perianth-
tube. Flower solitary; four inches broad. Perianth-tube
two and a half inches long, pale lilac; outer segments
Stoutly stipitate, stipes half an inch long ; blade two inches
long, very broadly ovate-oblong, base broadly cordate, pale
blue, the reflexed portion rounded, deep violet-blue on the
upper fourth, and with a few large deep violet spots lower
down, crest narrow, golden-yellow; inner segments hardly
an inch long, spreading and reflexed, spathulately ovate-
oblong, obtuse, concave, pale blue. Filaments free, Style-
arms nearly as long as the outer perianth-segments, one
inch and a half broad, nearly orbicular, two lobed and
irregularly crenate, blue.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1 and 2, anthers, enlarged.
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PEDICULARIS, curvirss.
Native of the Sikkim Himalaya.
Nat. Ord. ScropuvuLaRine£a.—Tribe HUPHRASIER.
Genus Pepicutaris, Linn; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 978.)
Pepicutaris (Rhyncolopha) curvipes; caule gracili primo suberecto demum
elongato decumbente pubescente simplici v. basi ramoso, foliis sparsis
petiolatis ovatis oblongisve pinnatifidis v. pinnatisectis segmentis 3-5-
jugis cum impari oblongis obtusis marginibus lobulatis crenatisve glabris
puberulisve, petiolo lamina breviore, floribus axillaribus fere racemosis ad
1 poll. longis, pedicellis erectis calyce longioribus fructiferis decurvis,
calycis tubo oblongo antice triente fisso puberulo, limbi lobulis 2 auricn- —
leformibus obovatis crenatis cum tertio postico dentiformi interjecto,
corolle tubo calycem zquante recto cylindraceo, labio sessili roseo
$-poll. lato paullo latius quam longo 3-lobo membranaceo, lobis lateralibus
rotundatis intermedio parvo rotundato emarginato, galea arcuato-incurva
inflata puberula erecta dein medium versus incurva et in rostrum decurvum
apice integrum lobum lateralem labii spectantem attenuata, staminibus
medio tubo corolle insertis, filamentis. glaberrimis, capsulis pendulis 4-4
poll. longis oblongis faleatis calycis tubo ad medium vestitis, seminibus
oe paucis ellipsoideis vix reticulatis.
_ P. eurvipes, Hook. f. F/. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 316, Maxim. Mél. Biol. pars xii.
p. 919. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxv. (1890) p. 51. Prain in
Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, vol. iii. p. 151, t. 35, fig, A.
_ he genus Pedicularis is widely spread in the temperate
and alpine regions of India. Thirty-seven species are de-
-_ seribed in the “ Flora of British India,” published in 1884, a
__ number increased to sixty-nine by Dr. Prain in his admirable
memoir on the genus published in the Annals of the Royal
_ Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, in 1891; this great accession
being mainly due to the discovery of new species by the
activity of collectors for those gardens in the Eastern
Himalaya, Assam, and Burma. P. curvipes was discovered
by OU. B. Clarke at Tumbok, alt. ten thousand feet, in the
_ Sikkim Himalaya, and was subsequently collected by him
on Jakvo in the Naga hills, bordering Assam on the south,
at a little lower elevation (nine thousand feet to nine
_ thousand five hundred feet). On both occasions fruiting
Specimens alone were obtained, which led to its being
referred (doubtfully) to a wrong section of the genus, in
SEPTEMBER lst, 1900,
both the “ Flora of British India”? and in Dr. Prain’s
monograph. In Dr. Prain’s system its proper place is in
Division Longirostres, Siphonanthex, B. Brevitubxe, where it
forms of itself a sub-division characterized by its slender,
decumbent habit, and its capsules. It has no near ally as
a species.
I am indebted to A. K. Bulley, Esq., of Ness, Neston,
Cheshire, for the specimen here figured of this very
interesting plant. It was raised from seed sent by Dr.
Prain from the Royal Gardens, Calcutta, and flowered in
_ May of the present year. <o
Descr.—Stems very slender, at first sub-erect, then
elongating to a foot or more, flexuous and decumbent,
simple or branched at the base. Leaves scattered, spread-
ing and recurved, one to two inches long, oblong or ovate-
oblong, pinnatisect (or the lowest pinnatifid), glabrous or
puberulous ; segments seven to eleven, spreading, oblong,
obtuse, margins irregularly crenate or lobulate; petiole
puberulous. lowers solitary, axillary, pedicelled, about
one inch long; pedicels erect, longer than the calyx,
puberulous, fruiting decurved. Calyx-tube one-third of an
inch long, narrowly oblong, split for one-third of its length ;
limb of two small obovate-oblong crenate auricles. Corolla-
tube not longer than the calyx ; lower lip sessile, two-thirds
of an inch broad, pale rose-colrd., white towards the
mouth, glabrous, three-lobed, lateral lobes obliquely
rounded, median much smaller, orbicular, emarginate or
obcordate ; upper lip puberulous, bright rose-red, erect
and inflated, then arched, and forming a decurved, rather
Slender beak. Filaments inserted about the middle of the
corolla-tube, very slender, quite glabrous. Capsule a third
of an inch long, falcately oblong, acute, clothed for half its
length by the calyx.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, leaf; 2, flower; 3, calyx and style; 4, calyx laid open and ovary;
o and 6, anthers :—all enlarged ; 7, portion of stem leaves and capsule of zat.
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CORYLOPSIS PAUCIFLORA.
Native of Japan.
Nat. Ord. HaMaMELIDEs.
Genus Corrrorsts, Sied. & Zuce.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol.i. p. 667).
CoryLorsis pauciflora; frutex ramis ramulisque gracilibus glabris, foliis
distichis cordato-rotundatis acutis membranaceo-chartaceis 7—9-nerviis
nervis supra depressis subtus prominulis in mucrones marginales
excurrentibus supra lete viridibus marginibus fusco-rubris plagis in-
tercostalibus tumidis medio sericeo-pilosis, subtus pallidis pubescenti-
bus, petiolis gracilibus }-1 poll. longis, stipulis 3 poll. longis oblongo-
lanceolatis acuminatis concavis albis, floribus }-poll. diam. in racemulos _
breves 2-3-floros secus ramulos illimos aphyllos dispositis hrevissime
pedicellatis, racemulis subsessilibus bracteis orbicularibus membranaceis
coneavis intus pilosis onustis, calycis tubo brevi lobis parvis rotundatis,
_ petalis obovato-rotundatis concavis primulinis, disci glandulis conicis
obtusis, antheris oblongis bilocularibus, connectivo apice conico obtuso.
©. pauciflora, Sieb. § Zuce. Fl. Jap. vol.i. p. 48, t. 20: Walp. Rep. vol. ii.
p. 434. Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. vol. iii. (1867) p. 21. Franch.
& Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. i. p. 163. Gard. Chron. 1899, vol. ii. p. 24.
Gartenfl. 1899, t. 1467.
Hinga-miduki, Jap.
Corylopsis is a genus of six species of shrubs, natives
of the Hastern Himalaya, China, and Japan. It is
closely allied to Hamamelis, of which there are two species,
one, the N. American “ Witch Hazel,” H. virginiana,
L. (tab. 6684), the other Japanese, H. japonica, Sieb. &
Zuce. (tab. 6659). One species of Corylopsis has been
figrred in this work, C. spicata, Sieb. & Zuce. (tab. 5458)
which differs from C. pauciflora in the much larger leaves,
longer, many-flowered racemes, and longer petals; it is
also a native of Japan.
The figure of C. pauciflora is made from a plant pro-
cured from Messrs. Veitch & Sons, which flowered in the
Temperate House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in March of
the present year. It is a native of Japan, whence there
are specimens in the Kew Herbarium, from Yokohama, in
the Island of Nipon, collected by Bisset and Dickins, and
from Kisurio, near Nagasaki, in the island of Kiusiu, by
Maximovicz.
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1900.
Deser.—A small shrub, flowering before leafing ; branches
and branchlets very slender, glabrous. Leaves distichous,
one and a half to three and a half inches long, often
as broad as long, orbicular-cordate, acute or acuminate,
bright green above, margined with red-brown, glabrous
above, except in the margins, and in the silkily hairy
centre of the interspaces between the sunk nerves, of
which there are seven to nine pairs; beneath pale, with
raised, pubescent nerves ; petiole very slender, one half to
one inch long. Stipules half an inch long, oblong-lanceo-
late, acuminate, membranous, concave, white, hairy within,
eaducous. Flowers bracteate and bibracteolate, about two-
thirds of an inch in diameter, disposed in small distant
two- or three-flowered short, sessile racemes, which are
scattered along very slender, flexuous, leafless branches.
Bracts crowded, one-fourth to one-third of an inch long,
orbicular or oblong, concave, very pale green, membranous,
hairy within. Calyz-lobes very small, rounded. Petals
orbicular-obovate, primrose-yellow.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, portion of leaf; 2, calyx, stamens, and base of bract ; 3, calyx with
two lobes removed, showing the disk-glands and ovaries; 4 and 5, anthers :—
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HIPPEASTRUM Harrisont.
Native of Uruguay.
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEX.—Tribe AMARYLLEE.
Genus Hirrgastrum, Herb.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p- 724.)
Hiprrastrum (Habranthus) Harrisoni; bulbo gloloso 2-poll. diam. atro-
brunneo, collo perbrevi, foliis ad 6 loratis 1-13-pedalibus 13-1 poll. latis
apice rotundatis supra subconcavis lete viridibus albo marginatis
ecostata subtus pallide viridibus costa apicem versus lata crassiuscula,
scapo bipedali cylindraceo glauco-viridi, bracteis 2 oblongo-lanceolatis
bipollicaribus membranaceis paliide brunneis, umbella 3-4-flora, pedicellis
1-1}-pollicaribus suberectis, floribus subdeflexis, ovario brevi, perianthio
4-pollicari anguste infundibulari tubo virescente lobis tubo brevioribus
oblongis subacutis intus albis striatis sanguineis infra medium ornatis,
staminibus declinatis lobis perianthii brevioribus, antheris 3-pollicaribus
linearibus falcatis aureis, stylo filamentis multo longiore, stigmatibus
_ 8 linearibus recurvis obtusis.
HipprastruM Arechavalete, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1898, p. 226. Gard.
Chron. 1899, vol. i. p. 332.
AmarRyYLuis Harrisoni, Lindl. in Bury, Hexandr. Pl, t. 27.
I am indebted to Mr. W. Watson for pointing out to me
the identity of the plant here figured with the Amaryllis
Harvisont of Mrs. Bury’s magnificent folio volume on Hex-
_andrian plants, published upwards of sixty years ago. In
the “Kew Index Plantarum” it will be found in the
Addenda, p. 1264) referred to Hippeastrum solandriflorum,
Herb., on the faith of an observation in Baker’s Handbook
of the Amaryllidex, p. 53. But H. solandriflorum is, as
may be seen from tab. 2573 of this work, a very different
plant, a native of French Guiana and N. Brazil, with a
much longer perianth-tube, no markings on the lobes,
small anthers, and an almost capitate stigma. It con-
stitutes the sub-genus Macropodastiwm of Baker. Accord-
ing to Lindley in Bury’s work, Amaryllis Harrisoni was
imported by Mr. Harrison, of Aigburth, near Liverpool,
from Peru; but I think this must be an error, for our
plant, which differs in no respect from that figured by
Bury, except in having a narrower white margin of the
leaf, is certainly a native of Uruguay.
OctozeR Isr, 1900.
__ Bulbs of the specimen here figured were received at the
Royal Gardens in 1898 from Monte Video. They were
_ forwarded by Mr. C. B. Cantara, with the compliments of
Professor Arechavaleta, and flowered ina warm greenhouse
in May, 1899.
Descr.—Bulb about two inches in diameter, globose ;
scales dark brown; neck scarcely any. Leaves about six,
afoot and a half long by one and a half to two inches
broad, linear, but rather narrowed below, tip rounded,
bright green above, with narrow, white margins, paler
beneath, with a broad, low thickened costa towards the
tip. Scape two feet high, stout, cylindric, dull glaucous
green, three- or four-flowered. Pedicels sub-erect, stout,
green, an inch to an inch and a half long. Bracts two,
oblong-lanceolate, membranous, pale brown. Ovary short,
green. Perianth four inches long, narrowly funnel-shaped ;
tube green; lobes oblong, sub-acute, spreading and re-
curved, pure white, with irregularly placed broad blood-
red streaks below the middle. Stamens sub-declinate,
much shorter than the perianth; anthers large, a third
of an inch long, golden-yellow. Style much longer than
the stamens, declinate ; stigmas three, linear, recurved.—
#.D.H,
Fig. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, top of style and stigmas; al/ enlarged; 4, view
of whole plant reduced.
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LINDENBERGIA GRANDIFLORA.
Native of the Himalaya.
Nat. Ord. ScropHuULARINE#.—Tribe GRATIOLER.
Genus LinpenBereta, Lehm., (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 948.)
LinpenBercia grandiflora; herba annua, foliosa, vage ramosa, subscandens,
molliter villoso-pubescens, ramis flexuosis, foliis amplis 2-8 poll. longis
floralibus (bracteis) brevioribus oblique ovatis acutis v. acaminatis
dentatis, petioiis 3-1 poll. longis, floribus in spicas terminates laxifloras—
elongatas dispositis subsecundis brevissime prdicellatis, calycis cam-
panulati glanduloso-villosi lobis rotundutis, corolla aurez tubo pollicari
calyce duplo-triplo longiore piloso, limbi 1 pvil. expans. labio superiore
brevi rotundato emarginato, inferiore triplo majore 3-lobo, lobis laterali-
bus oblongo-rotundatis terminali orbiculazi, fauce tumoribus 2 oblongis
parallelis rubro-puncticulatis instructa, filamentis basi pilusis, ovario
sericeo-villoso, capsula ovoidea apice exserta.
L. grandiflora, Benth. Scroph. Ind. p. 22; et in DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 376.
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iy. p. 261. .
haere grandiflora, Ham. in Don, Prod. Fl. Nep. p. 89. Wall. Cat. n.
4. : : :
Lindenbergia grandiflora is much the handsomest known
species of the genus, of which there are fourteen described,
natives chiefly of India, with a few Malayan and tropical
African. It is a common plant on the foot-hills of the
Himalaya, from Simla to Bhotan, at elevations of two
thousand to six thousand feet, and has also been found in
Pegu. It probably extends further east, but it has not
hitherto been found in China.
The specimen here figured was sent by Mrs. Lynch
from the Cambridge University Botanical Gardens, where
it flowered in a warm house in March of the present year.
Deser.—A_ villously pubescent, much-branched, sub-
‘scandent herb, annual, or with stem woody at the base ;
branches slender, flexuous, leafy, straggling, six to twenty
inches long. Leaves all opposite, petioled, lower up to eight
inches long, upper or floral (bracts) much smaller, all
ovate, acute or acuminate, crenate-serrate, pale green,’
nerves six to ten pairs; petiole of lower up to four
inches long. lowers sub-secund, sub-sessile in the floral
leaves, in long, loose leafy spikes, sometimes six inches
Octoser Ist, 1900.
long. Calyx campanulate, about one-third of an inch
long, glandular-villous ; lobes equal, spreading, orbicular.
Corolla-tube two to three times as long as the calyx, laxly
hairy, golden-yellow; upper lip short, orbicular, emar-
ginate, lower an inch broad, broader than long, three-
lobed; lateral lobes orbicular-oblong; median smaller,
orbicular, emarginate; mouth with two large, oblong,
parallel swellings which are speckled with red. Filaments
hairy below the middle ; anther-cells obliquely superposed,
oblong. Ovary silkily villous.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, portion of calyx and ovary; 2, tube of corolla laid open and stamens;
3 and 4, stamens :—All enlarged.
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GRE VILLEA ORNITHOPODA,
Native of Western Australia.
Nat. Ord. Proreace#.—Tribe GREVILLEEX,
Genus Grevittea, Br. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 180.)
GREVILLEA (Manglesia) ornithopoda; frutex glaberrimus, ramis ramulisque
gracillimis pendulis, foliis anguste cuneatis in petiolum sensim angustatis
alte trilobis coriaceis supra laete viridibus subtus pallidis trinerviis,
nervis subtus validis, lobis 1-12 pollicaribus lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis
lateralibus quam terminali paullo minoribus falcatis, ravemis axillaribus
pedunculatis 1-1} poll. longis foliis brevioribus sepissime simplicibus
multifloris, pedunculo rhachique gracillimis, floribus parvis albis,
pedicellis 3-$ poll. longis filiformibus, perianthii $ poll. longi tubo
fusiformi recto, limbo parvo subanthesim globoso, glandula hypogyna
minuta semicirculari, ovario minuto stylo multo minore longe stipitato
_ gibboso-globoso, stylo turgido ellipsoideo infra stigma magnum conoideum
basique constricto, fructu obliquo rugoso.
G. ornithopoda, Meissn. Lehm. in Pl. Preiss. vol. ii. p- 256 ; in DC. Prodr. vol.
xiv. p. 391. Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. v. p. 486. ;
Grevillea ornithopoda belongs to one of two small closely
allied sections of this very large genus, characterized by a
straight perianth-tube and conical stigma. These sections,
which have been regarded as genera (Anadenia, Br., with
nine species, and Manglesia, Endl., with ten), are both
Western Australian, with the exception of one species of
Anadenia, which inhabits New South Wales. G. ornitho-
poda belongs to the section Manglesia, so named (as a
genus) in compliment to Capt. James Mangles, R.N., and
his brother, Robert Mangles, Esq., of Sunningdale, through
Whose exertions many Western Australian plants were
introduced into this country half a century ago. Lindley
almost simultaneously named a myrtaceous shrub after the
brothers Mangles (Swan River App. t. 3) which has been
since referred to Beaufortia.
G. ornithopoda is a native of the south-western district
of the Swan River Colony, between the river of that name
and King George’s Sound. The specimen figured was
‘Sent from the Botanical Gardens of Cambridge, where it
flowered in a conservatory in April.
Deser.—A small, perfectly glabrous shrub, with very
Octozer Ist, 1900.
slender, drooping branches and branchlets. Leaves about four
inches long, very narrowly cuneiform, gradually narrowed
from above the middle into a petiole, trifurcately cleft
into narrowly lanceolate acuminate lobes one to one and
a half inches long, of which the median is nearly straight,
the lateral rather shorter, divergent and_ sub-falcate,
dark green above, paler beneath, with a stout median
costa. lowers small, white, in short, oblong, peduncled,
axillary, very many-flowered, one to one and a half inch
long, pale greenish-yellow racemes ; peduncle and rhachis
filiform; pedicels capillary, one-third to one half of an
inch long. Pertanth (unopened) one-sixth of an inch long;
tube fusiform, straight; segments reflexed from the base,
staminiferous portion elliptic, with an incurved cusp. —
Anthers sessile, shortly oblong. Hypogynous disk minute, —
semi-annular. Ovary erect, on an erect, slightly curved
stipes, nearly half as long as the perianth-segments,
obliquely globose ; style fusiform, stout, contracted beneath
the broadly conical stigma.—J. D. H.
——
Fig. 1, unexpanded, and 2, expanded flower; 3, hypogynous di-k and pistil
on its stipes :—A/l enlarged. |
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CROCUS ALEXANDRI.
Native of Servia and Bulgaria.
Nat. Ord. Inipza.—Tribe SisyRINCcHEA.
Genus Crocus, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 693.)
Crocus Alexandri; cormo globoso parvo, tunicis rigidis pallidis ad basin
circumscentibus, spatha basali nulla, foliis 3-4 synanthiis anguste lineari-
bus alho-vittatis margine revolutis, spatha propria diphylla, perianthii tubo
e spatha longe exserto, limbi segmentis oblongis interioribus utrinque
albis, exterioribus facie albis dorso saturate lilacinis vel albis striis tribus
lilacinis plumosis ornatis, antheris pallide luteis, filamentis brevibus
glabris, styli ramis integris fulvis.
> G. Alexandri, Velen. Fl. Bulgar. Vierte Nachtr. (1894) p. 26.
©. biflorus, var. Alexandri, Velen. FU. Bulgar. Suppl. (1898) p. 264.
Crocus Alexandri is, in a broad sense, a variety of
C. biflorus, nearly allied to the Caucasian and Crimean
C. Adami, J. Gay. In its extreme form it has larger
flowers than the type, and the outer segments are flushed
with bright lilac all over the back, with a narrow band of
white round the margin; but as our plate shows, they often
show three feathered lilac stripes on a white ground, as in
ordinary biflorus. It was first collected by Skopil at
DPragalera in 1892. It was introduced into cultivation by
Mr. Max Leichtlin in 1899. Our drawing was made from
plants that flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in March,
1900, in the open ground.
Descr.—Ovrm small, globose; tunics pale, rigid, cut
‘round the base. Basal spathe absent. Leaves three or
four, produced at the same time as the flowers, narrowly
linear, with revolute edges, and a white band down the
centre. Proper spathe small, membranous, diphyllous.
Perianth-tube much longer than the spathe, white or tinged
_ with Jilac; segments of the limb oblong, above an inch
long, the three inner white on both surfaces, the three
outer white inside, flashed with lilac all over the back,
except a narrow, white, marginal band, or marked on a
Ocrozer Isr, 1900.
white ground with three-feathered lilac stripes. Anthers
pale yellow; filaments short, white, glabrous. Style-
branches entire, bright saffron yellow.—J. G. Baker.
Fig. 1, section of leaf; 2, proper spathe; 3, anther; 4, branched apex of
style :—All enlarged.
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DENDROBIUM Jxrvonsanvm.
Native of Malabar.
Nat. Ord. ORcuipE&.—Tribe Errpenprea.
Genus Denprosium, Swartz ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 498.)
Denprosium Jerdonianum; caulibus fastigiatis simplicibus subflexuosis basi
attenuatis, internodiis pollicaribas cylindraceis sulcatis, vaginis pilis
brunneis hispidulis, foliig 2-24-pollicaribus subdistichis patenti-recurvis
lineari-oblongis apice bidentatis coriaceis, floribus in racemos breves sub-
terminales subsessiles paucifioros dispositis longe pedicellatis, rhachi
brevissimo, bracteis minutis obtasis, pedicellis cum ovariis 14-pollicaribus,
sepalis petalisque consimilibus 14-13 pollicaribus anguste lineari-lanceolatis
acutis erecto-recurvis anrantiacis, mento sepalis quater breviore truncaio,
labello sepalis breviore concolore erecto incurvo, lobis lateralibus
brevibus emarginatis, epichilio elongate anguste lingueformi obtuso
nays Sagal profunde sinuato-crenatis, disco 3-carinato, carina media
epichilio crenato, colamna longiuscula. ’
D. Jerdonianum, Wight Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. vol. v. part I. (1852) p. 6, in part
(non t. 1644). Rehb. f. in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 292, in part.. Hook. f. Fl.
Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 734, exel. Ie. Wight.
D. villosulum, Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orchid. p. 86; in Lindl. & Past. Fl. Gard.
vol. ii, p. 82, ic. xylog. n. 175, non Wallich.
Wight, in describing Dendrobium Jerdonianum, gives
two habitats for it, namely, Coorg jungles, Jerdon, and
Iyamally Hills (which are in the Nilgherry district), adding
that “the specimens from the two stations differ in the
size of the flowers, but in both they are spurred, and have
the same long narrow form, and agree in colour, hence I
consider them mere varieties.” Of these two forms, that
figured by Wight is the smaller flowered, with a spur-like
mentum half as long as the sepals, and is, I think, identical |
with the Cingalese D. nutans, for a good figure of which
_ see Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Calcutta,”
vol. xii. t.18. The other, with the larger flowers and very
short mentum, here figured, is the Coorg plant of Jerdon,
as proved by a sketch of the flower made by that naturalist
which is preserved in the Kew Herbarium.
D, Jerdonianum was introduced into England previous
to 1852, when it was described by Lindley (in Paxton’s
“Flower Garden,” as D. villosulum) from a plant sent
OcroBer Ist, 1900.
from Tillicherry in Coorg (Jerdon’s habitat), which flowered
in the garden of the Right Honourable Lady Ashburton.
The specimen here figured was presented by Sir Trevor
Lawrence, Bt., to the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it
flowered in 18.9, and continued in flower for nearly a
month.
_ Descr.—Stems ten to twelve inches high, fastigiate,
simple, rather flexuous, internodes_about an inch long, and
one-sixth of an inch in diameter, cylindric, grooved, not
swollen in the middle, clothed with sheaths that are
hispidulous with dark brown hairs. Leaves sub-distichous,
spreading and recurved, two to two and half inches long,
linear-oblong, two-toothed at the tip, coriaceous, yellowish-
green. Flowers large, in few-flowered short, sessile, sub-
erect racemes from the uppermost leaf-axils; rhachis of
raceme very short, green; bracts minute, obtuse, green ;
pedicels very slender, with the ovary about an inch and a
half long, orange-yellow. Sepals and petals all alike, rather
longer than the pedicels, erect and recurved, narrowly
linear-lanceolate, tips obtuse. Mentum a quarter of an
inch long, truncate. Jip rather shorter than the sepals,
and of the same colour, erect and incurved; lateral lobes
short, rather narrow, notched, or two-lobed at the anterior
margin; epichile narrowly tongue-shaped, obtuse, margins
deeply sinuously crenate, almost lobulate; disk with three
acute keels, of which the median is crenate on the epichile.
Column long for the genus. Anther tumid, anterior margins
ciliate.—J, D. H. |
Fig. 1, lip with one lateral lobe removed; 2, column; 3, anther; 4, pollinia:
—All enlarged.
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MICHAUXIA T CHIHATOCHEFII.
Native of Asia Minor.
Nat. Ord. CampanuLacea#2.—Tribe CAMPANULE.
Genus Micuavxia, Lher.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 561.)
Micuavxia Tchikatchewii; herba biennis, elata, erecta, robusta, patule hispida,
caule simplici 6-7-pedali setoso-hispido inferne folioso in spicam densi-
floram elongatam columnarem basi subpaniculatam terminante, foliis
patulis et deflexis oblongis lineari-oblongis v. lyratis acutis obtusisve
irregulariter inciso-dentatis v. lobulatis et serratis costa crassa infimis
6-pollicaribus in petiolum angustatis euperioribus sessilibus v. amplexi-
caulibus, floribus magnis in fasciculos confertos dispositis inferioribus bre-
viter crasse que pedicellatis superioribus sessilibus, bracteis e basi cordata
triangulari-ovatis acuminatis, calycis setaceo-hispiduli laciniis lanceolatis
acuminatis, appendicibus deflexis ovato-v. triangulari-lanceolatis, corolla
albe tubo hemisphzrico 2 poll. diam., lobis 8 tubo ee uilongis ovato-
lanceolatis obtusis recurvis, filamentis triangulari-ovatis fimbriatis, stylo
hispido, stigmate maximo oblongo v. ovoideo ima apice 8-lobulato.
M. Tchihatchefii, Fisch. et Mey. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. iv. vol. i. (1804) p. 32.
Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. iii. p. 892. Gartenfl. 1896, p.173. Gard. Chron.
1897, vol. xxi. p. 182, fig. 53.
M. columnaris, Boiss. in Herb. Kotschy.
A majestic biennial, discovered in the Cilician Taurus |
by the late eminent traveller and explorer of Asia Minor,
P. de Tchihatchef in 1849, the exact habitat being between
Tchataloglou and Yailadjii in Cataonia. More recently it
has been collected by the botanical traveller, Kotschy, in
the same district, at elevations of two thousand eight
hundred feet to five thousand feet above the sea, and
amongst other localities in the celebrated defile of Gilek
Boghas, by which Alexander the Great entered Cilicia.
The specimen here figured was raised from seed pur-
chased for the Royal Gardens from F. Stindermann, of
Lindau, in 1896. ‘It flowered in a sheltered border in
June, 1899, and died shortly afterwards. e
Deser.—A tall, more or less hispid annual, six to seven
feet high. Stem very stout, erect, simple, leafy below,
passing upwards into a long, erect, cylindric, very dense-
fld. spike, four to five inches in diameter, which is some-
Novemper 1st, 1900.
times shortly branched at the base. Leaves six to eight
inches long, spreading and deflexed, narrowly oblong,
obtuse, or acute, margins more or less irregularly lobulate
or toothed and serrate, lower sometimes lyrate, or narrowed
into a shert, broad petiole, upper sessile or semi-
amplexicaul, midrib very thick. Flowers binate, or in
fascicles of three, rarely more, two and a half inches in
diameter across the corolla-limb, lower shortly pedicelled,
upper sessile. Calye hispidly setose, lobes half an inch
long, ovate-lanceolate; appendages similar, but smaller,
broader, and deflexed. Corolla white, tube cup-shaped ;
lobes eight, ovate-lanceolate, margins fimbriate. Style
hispid with spreading hairs; stigma very large, oblong
or obovoid, tip eight-lobulate.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, stamen; 2, stigma :—Both enlarged.
Tas. 7748.
ERIGERON teromervs.
| Native of the Rocky Mountains.
Nat. Ord. Compositex.—Tribe ASTEROIDER.
Genus Ertcrron, Lina. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 279.)
Enicrron (Euerigeron) letomerus; herba perennis, humilis, e basi ramosa, fere
glaberrima, ramis spithameis ascendentibus simplicibus monocephalis
infra medium foliosis, foliis patenti-recurvis anguste lineari-spathulatis
in petiolum angustatis integerrimis late viridibus apice rotundatis,
capitulis 1 poll. diam., involucri hemispherici } poll. longi bracteis
appressis linearibus obtusis pruinosis, floribus radii numerosis suh-
triseriatis tubo brevi, ligula lineari-oblonga pallide roseo-purpurea apice
obscure crenata, disci flavis, achzeniis teretiusculis pubescentibus, pappi
setis albis.
E. leiomerus, A. Gray, Synopt. Fl N. Am. vol. ii. pt. i. p. 211. Coulter,
Man. Bot. Rocky Mi. Region, p. 171.
Aster glacialis, Hatox in Bot. King’s Exped. p. 142.
Erigeron leiomerus inhabits the alpine regions of
Colorado, Utah, and Nevada, ascending to eleven
thousand feet, where it was discovered by Dr. Parry. I
gathered it in company with Dr. Gray on Gray's Peak,
and in the Sierra Blanca of the Rocky Mountains in 1877.
Its habit is that of a dwarf Aster, as may be seen by
referring to the figure of the Himalayan A. Strachey?,
Hook. f. (tab, 6912), from which genus frigeron is only
distinguished by the ray-flowers being in several series.
The figure here given is that of a plant purchased in
1895 of Mr. Sindermann, Nurseryman, of Lindau, which
flowered in the Herbaceous ground of the Royal Gardens,
Kew, in June of the present year.
Descr.—A_ glabrous, dwarf, perennial herb, copiously
branched from the root. Branches about a span long,
ascending, slender, each bearing a solitary peduncled
head, leaty from the base to about the middle, and with a
.°W narrow linear leaves on the peduncle. Leaves spread-
™g and recurved, an inch to an inch and a half long, very
narrowly spathulate, narrowed into a petiole, quite entire,
tip rounded, bright green. Heads about an inch in
Novesser Isr, 1900.
diameter. Jnvolucre nearly hemispheric, a quarter of an
inch long ; bracts linear, acute, appressed, green, pruinose.
Ray-flowers about forty, in two to three series; ligule
narrowly oblong, pale rose-purple; disk flowers yellow.
Achene nearly terete, pubescent. Pappus hairs white.—
oH.
Fig. 1, bract of involucre; 2, ray-flower; 3, disk-flower; 4, style-arms
Ali enlarged.
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POTHOS LouREIRI.
Native of China and Tonkin.
Nat. Ord. ArompExX.—Tribe OrnontTIEZ.
Genus Poruos, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 999.)
Pornos (Eupothos) Loureiri; frutex alte scandens, ramulis floriferis paucis
gracilibus, internodiis brevibus, foliorum petiolo 4-5-pollicari 3-}
poll. lato lineari stricto basi et apice rotundato v. truncato lete viridi,
lamina 13-2 poll. longe anguste lanceolata acuminata recurva, pedunculis
2-3 poll. longis gracilibus arcuatis, spatha 1}-2-pollicari lineari v. lineari-
lanceolata, spadice 2-4 pollicari stipitata gracili fructifera elongata ad
5-pollicari cylindracea, floribus minutis confertis, filamentis dilatatis
infra apicem repente constrictis, antheris minimis, baccis ellipsoideis %
poll. longis coccineis.
P. Loureiri, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. p. 220. Schott Aroid. vol. i.
p. 23, t. 49. Prodr. Aroid. p. 569. Engler in DO. Monogr, Phanerog.
vol, ii. p. 87.
P. terminalis, Hance in Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. V. vol. v. (1866) p. 247.
Flagellaria repens, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 212; Ed. Willd. vol. i. p. 263.
Of the genus Pothos, numbering about fifty species,
all natives of the tropics of the Old World, P. Loureiri is
the first figured in this magazine, for the six bearing that
generic name all are referable to other genera. These
are— 7
— oer, Dryand. (t. 603), which is Spathiphyllum cannefolium,
Chott,
. Soetid it. (t. i idus, Salisd.
Bpetaphytiay Walt (& 199) 9 Ashore pentaphytiom, @. Do.
P. macrophyllus, Willd. (t. 2301), is Anthurium cordifolium, Kunth.
P. microphyllus, Hook. (t. 2953), is Anthurium microphyllum, Endl.
P. crassinervius, Hook. (t. 2987), is Anthurium Hookeri, Kunth.
P. Louretri is a native of Southern China; where it was
collected by Loureiro, and described by him as a Flagellaria
in his “ Flora of Cochinchina,” published in 1790. There
are specimens in the Kew Herbarium from Macao
_- (Millett), from Tingushan, on the West River (Samp-
Son), and from Tonkin (Balansa). A living plant of it
Was received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from that
of Hong Kong in 1888, which flowers annually in the
Aroid House, where it is trained for twelve feet on a
Pole, It fruited freely this year for the first time.
Novemser Ist, 1900.
Descr—A rather slender, branching climber, with
aerial roots; flowering branches short; internodes about
half an inch long. Leaf-petioles four to five inches long
by a third to a half inch broad, linear, flat, strict, rounded
at both ends, bright green; blades decurved, much shorter
than the petiole, linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Peduwncles
two to three inches long, slender, decurved. Spathe one
and a half to two inches long, linear or linear-lanceolate.
Spadiz stipitate, two to four inches long, cylindric, green,
about one-sixth of an inch in diameter. Flowers minute,
densely crowded. Berries ellipsoid, smooth, scarlet, about
two-thirds of an inch long, one-seeded.—J, D. H.
- Fig. 1, portion of spadix; 2, perianth-segment; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, ovary;
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DENDROBIUM inaaquate.
Native of New Guinea.
Nat. Ord. Oncu1pe#.—Tribe EprpEnpReEa.
Genus Denprosium, Sw.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 498).
DENDROBIUM (Breviflore ?) insequale; pseudobulbis erectis quasi dimorphis,
aliis foliiferis e basi gracili in laminam oblongam tetragonam valde com-
pressam apice 2-3-foliatam dilatatis, internodiis vaginis ovatis acuminatis
albis indutis, aliis longioribus aphyllis e basi gracili in rhachin floriferam ~
3-4 poll. longam 3 poll. latam ensiformem subfalcatam tetragonam valde
compressam productis, foliis 3-pollicaribus oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis
coriaceis, floribus 1} poll. expans. secundis faciebns alternis internodioram
rhachidis solitariis nutantibus (alabastris foveolis internodiorum immersis),
pedicellis 3-2 poll. longis decurvis bracteis parvis orbicularibus imbricatis
tectis, sepalis petalisque conformibus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis recurvis
albis, mento 0, labelli basi intus bicornuti lobis lateralibus in tubum extus
flavescentem intus purpureo striatum convolutis, tubi ore obliq e trun-
cato in apicem (lobum terminale) late triangularem acutam sensim
angustate, columna brevi apice bicornuta.
D. inwquale, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1900, ined.
A very singular Dendrobe, regarded by Mr. Rolfe as
an anomalous species, apparently most allied to D. eu-
phlebium, Reichb. f., of Java, though much larger flowered,
and very different in the shape of the lip. Anomalous as
the inflorescence certainly is, it would not be difficult
to reduce it to the type of other species of the genus
with compressed pseudobulbs ; as for example, D. anceps,
Sw. (Aporum anceps, Lindl., see tab. 3608), were the
flowering pseudobulbs of that plant leafless, and tetrago-
nous as well as compressed. On the other hand, the
cavities in which the flower buds of D. ineguale are im-
mersed, and the position of these on the faces, instead of
the angles of the pseudobulb, are peculiar features. _
The plant of D. inzguale here figured was presented to
the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Messrs. Sander & Co., of St.
bans. It flowered in a tropical house in May of this
year.
Deser.—Leafing pseudobulbs six to ten inches high,
erect, very slender and terete below, dilated upwards,
Noveuner Isr, 1900,
becoming tetragonous, very strongly compressed, and
bearing from. the uppermost nodes two or three leaves;
upper internodes clothed with white, ovate- faceolube
acuminate sheaths ; flowering pseudobulbs longer than the
leafing, very slender and terete below, dilating upwards
into a strongly compressed, sub-clavate, tetragonous, sub-
faleate, green rhachis three to four inches long by about
one-third of an inch broad; internodes about as long as
broad, margins acute. Leaves about threeinches long, ovate-
lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers secund on one face of the
rhachis, solitary, arising alternately from oblong depres-
sions towards the margins of the internodes ; pedicels very
short, clothed with minute, rounded, imbricating bracts.
Sepals and petals sub-similar, spreading and recurved,
oblung-lanceolate, acuminate, white. zp shorter than the
sepals, lateral Jobes convolute, forming a cylindric tube,
pale yellow, streaked with purple within; mouth of tube
obliquely truncate, with a short triangular tip repre-
senting the terminal lobe; disk with two, stout, erect,
basal spines.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, lip; 2, lip with one side-lobe removed; 3, column; 4, anther ;
5, poliinia —All enlarged.
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CYPRIPEDIUM cortarum.
Native of N.H. Europe, Asia, and N.W. America,
Nat. Ord. OncHIDEH#.—Tribe CyPpriPpEeDIEA.
Genus Cypripepium, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook, ¢ >" Plant. vol. iii. p. 634.)
CyprirEpium (Diphylle) guttatwm; rhizomate repente, caulibus 6-12-pollicari-
bus laxe pilosis, foliis 2 alternis sessilibus ellipticis v. orbiculari-
ellipticis acuminatis v. apiculatis marginibus ciliatis 5-7-nerviis, floribus
solitariis albis purpureo maculatig, bracta pollicari ovato-lanceolata
foliacea. pubescente, sepalo dorsas.*amplo hemispharico, lateralibus in
laminam angustam bidentatam v. bifidam viridem labello suppositam
connatis, petalis lineari-oblongis sigmoideo-faleatis deflexis, labello fere
globoso sepalum dorsale equante ore constricto, columnz staminew lobis
lateralibus patentibus 2-lobulatis antheriferis, stamine sterili galeato
aureo apicem versus crenulato, stylo decurvo crasso apice dilataio
truncato.
C. guttatum, Sw. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, p. 251. Lindl, Gen. et
Sp. Orchid p. 529. Reichb. Ic. Pl. Crit. vol. iii, p. 8, t. 210; £1. Germ.
vol. xiii. pp. 166, 186, t. 495, 520. Lcdeb. Fl. Alt. vol. iv. p. 174; FV. Ross,
vol. iv. p. 88, Hook, Fl. Bor. Am. vol. ii. p. 205. Fl. des Serres, vel. vi.
p. 131, t. 573. .
C. orientale, Spreng. Syst. Veg. vol. iii. p. 746.
C. variegatum, Georgi, Itin. vol. i. p. 232, vol. ii. p. 719 (ex Ledeb.).
The most remarkable character of this beautiful little
Lady’s-slipper is its extraordinarily wide distribution. It
inhabits Central Russia, from the longitude of Moscow
to the Ural Mts., thence it extends through northern
Asia to Kamtschatka, Manchuria, and the mountains of
China from Peking southwards ; crossing Behring’s Straits
by the Aleutian Islds. (in one of which, Unalaska, it has
been found) it inhabits Alaska, and extends eastward to
the Mackenzie River, where, at Fort Franklin, in N.W.
Canada, it was. collected by Richardson during his and
Franklin’s perilous Arctic journey. Nor is its distribution
in latitude less notable, being from close upon the Arctic
circle in N.E. Asia, and in N.W. America, southward
in Asia to the mountains of Szechuen, in China, about
lat. 30° N., and to the Hastern Himalaya, in the Tibetan
province of Chumbi, between Sikkim and Bhotan, where
it has been quite recently discovered by a collector from
the Royal Botanical Gardens of Calcutta.
November Ist, 1900.
The specimen of C. guttatum here figured was kindly
communicated by H. J. Elwes, Hsq., F.R.S., from his
garden at Colesborne, Gloucestershire, in June of the present
year. Roots of it were brought by him from the Altai
mountains in 1899, where it was growing in an almost
impenetrable forest of Pinus Cembra, on the west shore of
Lake Teletskoi. The specimen figured is smaller than the
average of those in the Kew Herbarium; as in all of
these, the leaves turn black in drying.
Descr.—footstock creeping and rooting. Stem six to
twelve inches high, softly pubescent with flaccid, spread-
ing hairs. Leaves two, alternate, three to five inches long
by two to three broad, sessile, broadly or narrowly elliptic,
acute, or apiculate, ciliate on the margins, five- to seven-
nerved. flowers solitary, bracteate, white blotched with
purple, about one and a half inches long from the tip of
the dorsal sepal to that of the lip. Bract an inch long,
ovate-lanceolate, green, pubescent. Dorsal sepal hemi-
spheric, lateral united into a two-toothed or bifid, narrow,
green blade, placed under the lip, and shorter than it.
_ Petals linear-oblong, deflexed, sigmoidly falcate. Lip about
as large as the dorsal sepal, tumidly saccate, mouth con-
_ tracted. Column with a large, arched, golden-yellow,
sterile stamen, crenate at the tip; lateral arms two-lobed,
spreading, overhanging the anthers, stigma decurved,
stout, tip dilated, truncate.—J. D. H. ;
___ Fig. 1, rootstock, of the natural size; 2 and 8, front and side views of the
— column :—Enlarged.
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DENDROBIUM spectantte.
Native of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
Nat. Ord. OxcurpEa.—Tribe Eripenprea.
Genus Denprosium, Sw.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 498.)
Denprosium (Latouria) spectabile; pseudobulbis 1-2-pedalibus cmspitosis
simplicibus subclavatis flexuosis apice 3-5-phyllis, internodiis sulcatis
supremis vaginis hyalinis deciduis tectis, foliis 5-8-pollicaribus subsessili-
bus ovato- v. lineari-oblongis obtusis crasse coriaceis supra lete-subtus
flavo-viridibus nervis obscuris, pedunculo infra-foliaceo ascendente elon-
gato viridi basin versus vaginis paucis appressis viridibus obtusis aucto,
racemo suberecto laxe multifloro, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis herbaceis, pedi-
cellis cum ovariis 2-pollicaribus viridibus, floribus 3 poll. latis albis purpureo
striatis et maculatis, sepalis petalisque 14 poll. longis patenti-recurvis
flexuosis marginibus crispato-undulatis, sepalis e basi lata subulato-
lanceolatis, petalis angustioribus, labello sepalis paullo longiore, lobis
lateralibus brevibus lunatis crenatis columnam cingentibus, terminali
anguste panduriformi in apicem recurvam angustatis marginibus valde
undulatis, disco basi 3-calloso et lamellis erectis carnosis crenulatis
instructo, mento brevi crasso, polliniis 2.
D. spectabile, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. vol. iii. p. 645. Rolfe Orchid. Rev. vol. iv.
(1896) p. 356. Gard. Chron. 1899, vol. ii. p. 491, fig. 162. Journ. Hort.
ser. III. vol. xxxix. p. 562, fig. 97. Cogn. Dict. Icon. Orchid. Dendr. t. 22.
Kew Bulletin, 1900, App. II. p. 43. Sanders Cat. Orchid. &c., 1899, p. 7,
cum ic,
D. tigrinum, Rolfe ex Hemsl. in Ann. Bot. vol. v. (1891) p. 507.
Latouria spectabilis, B/ume, Rumph. vol. iv. p. 41, t. 195, fig. 1, and t. 199, —
fig.c. F. Muell. in Victorian Naturalist, vol. i. (1884) p. 52.
This magnificent Dendrobe was discovered in New
Guinea by Leschenault de La Tour, naturalist of Baudin’s
voyage to the Pacific in search of La Peyrouse’s lost
expedition. La Tour made a drawing of it, upon which
Blume founded the genus Latouria, which he distinguished
from Dendrobium by the lateral lobes of the lip, erro-
neously supposing them to be connate.
More recently it has been found in the easternmost islets
of the Solomon Archipelago, namely, in Malaita, whence
plants were obtained by Sir Trevor Lawrence, and in San
Christoval, where it was collected by the Rev. R. B.
Comins in 1890. The specimen here figured was kindly
lent by J. T. Bennett-Poé, Esq., of Holmewood, Cheshunt,
in January of this year.
December Ist, 1900,
Descr.—Pseudobulbs one to two feet high, tufted,
narrowly clavate, terete, grooved. Leaves three to five,
terminal, five to eight inches long, ovate- or linear-oblong,
obtuse, flat, coriaceous. Peduncle ascending from the
pseudobulb below the leaves, stout, terete, green, bearing a
few distant, small, oblong, obtuse sheaths. Panicle broad,
loosely many-flowered. Bracts about half an inch long,
oblong-lanceolate, obtuse. Pedicels with the ovary about
two inches long. Flowers three inches broad, white
streaked and spotted with dark purple. Sepals and
petals subequal in length, spreading and recurved, almost
twisted, margins crispedly undulate; sepals narrowed from
a broad triangular base into a subulate-lanceolate tip;
petals much narrower, strap-shaped. Lip rather longer
than the sepals, lobulately undulate; side-lobes small,
lunate, together forming a cup around the stout column;
mid-lobe narrowly panduriform, terminating in a long,
narrow, subulate-lanceolate recurved tip; disk with many
thick, crenate ridges, and with three parallel pyriform calli
at the base.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1 and 2, portion of lip showing the calli; 3, column; 4, pollinia :—
all enlarged ; 5, reduced view of whole plant.
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ADESMIA BORONIOIDES.
Native of South-Eastern Patagonia.
Nat. Ord. Lecuminose”.—Tribe HepYsAREa,
Genus Apsesmi, DC. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 517.)
Aprsmra boronioides; frutex humilis, petalis exceptis glandulis magnis sessilibus
verrucosus, ramulis robustis, foliis breviter petiolatis linearibus, foliclis
10-12-jugis cum impari subconfertis fere orbicularibus } poll. diam. grosse
crenatis supra luride viridibus, petiolo rhachique crassiusculis, racemis
elongatis erectis multifloris rhachi robusta viridi, floribus 3 poll. longis,
pedicellis brevibus crassiuseulis, bracteolis in pulvillam tubereulatam
mutatis, calycis campanulati glandulosi et pilosuli lobis ohtusis, vexillo
orbiculari aurantiaco infra medium purpureo striato, alis oblique oblongis
aureis, carina brevi virescente, legumine 3-d-articulato dehiscente
glanduloso-piloso et punctis nigris adsperso.
A. boronioides, Huok. f. Fl. Antarct. vol. i. pars ii. p. 257. OC. Gay, Fl. Chil.
vol. ii. p. 182.
Adesmia is a large South American genus of plants, con-
sisting of about 170 species, according to the ‘* Kew Index,”
of which, however, many are no doubt synonyms, for
Bentham, in the “ Genera Plantarum,” says of the 110
species supposed to be known, “ plures a diversis auctoribus
bis terve repetite et vix ultra 80 species bone in herbariis
nostris servantur.” The fact is that the genus has not
been monographed since 1825, when nine species only were
known to De Candolle, and published in his ‘* Prodromus.”
One only has been figured in this work, 4. balsamica,
Bert., which yields an exquisite balsamic odour.
A. boronioides ig a native of South-Eastern Patagonia,
where it was first collected at Cape Fairweather, in about
lat. 52° §. by Capt. King, R.N., during his survey of the
extreme south of Chili, Patagonia, and Fuegia. It has
since been collected on the hills at the entrance of the
Straits of Magellan on the N. side, at Cape Possession,
at Mt. Direction, and at Port Deseado. It is described
by Dr. Cunningham, in his “ Notes on the Natural History
of the Straits of Magellan,” as forming a shrub with
a stem eighteen inches high, covered with glands that
yield a viscid substance having a balsamic odour.
The specimen figured was sent to Kew for the determina-
DecemsBer Ist, 1900.
tion of its name in May of the present year by A. K.
Bulley, Esq., of Ness, Neston, Cheshire, who raised it from
seeds collected by Mr. T. T. Austin in Patagonia. The
species has been for some years in cultivation in the open
air at Kew, where, however, it has never flowered. Mr.
Bulley informs me that with him it forms a hardy ever-
green, never suffering from storm or frost, and flowering
profusely.
Descr.—A small shrub, warted all over except the petals
and leaflets with large balsamiferous glands. Leaves one
and a half to two inches long, by half an inch broad,
shortly petioled, linear, impari-pinnate; leaflets ten to
thirteen pairs, close together, sessile, orbicular, coarsely
crenate, rather thick in texture, very dark green above,
paler beneath; petiole and rhachis stout; stipules obscure.
Racemes terminal on the branches, erect, three to five
inches long, many-flowered; petiole and rhachis stout,
green; bracts represented by tubercled cushions at the
bases of the very short pedicels. Calyx about one-sixth of
an inch long, green, hairy and glandular; lobes one-third
the length of the tube, obtuse, erect. Corolla about three
times as long as the calyx. Standard bright orange-yellow,
with purple streaks from the base to the middle. Wings
golden-yellow. Keel small, pale green. Pod an inch to an
inch and a half long, glandular hairy, and covered with
black spots ; joints three to five, tumid.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, portion of rhachis of leaf with a pair of leaflets; 2, portion of
rhachis of raceme, with bract, pedicel, calyx, and ovary; 3, stamens and
ovary; 4, ovary laid open :—all enlarged; 5, pods of nat. size.
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DASYLIRION QUADRANGULATUM.
Native of Mexico,
Nat. Ord. Lintacrz.—Tribe DrackENnem.
Genus Dasyuirion, Zuce, (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 780.)
DasYiirion quadrangulatum; caudice robusto, foliis numerosissimis den-
sissime confertis 2-pedalibus exterioribus recurvis interioribus erectis
rigidis tetragonis e basi dilatata ad medium compressis deinde
zquilateris in apicem pungentem sensim attenuatis tactu asperulis
marginibus subscaberulis, scapo 5-pedali robusto foliis setaceis elongatis
inferioribus longioribus deflexis superioribus brevibus erectis ornato, in-
florescentia paniculata e racemis confertis cylindraceis amentiformibus
erectis bracteis immixtis constante, bracteis 6-8 poll. longis spathaceis
ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis pallide brunneis albo-marginatis deciduis,
racemis 4 poll. longis 1 poll. diam. breviter pedunculatis apice rotundatis,
floribus densissime confertis imbricatis, pedicellis vix } poll. longis supra
medium articulatis basi bracteolatis, bracteolis pedicellis brevioribus
cupuliformibus hyalinis erosis, perianthii segmentis late oblongis apice
rotundatis, ovario compresso, stigmatibus reniformibus stipitatis, fractu
1 poll. longo orbiculari-oblongo trigono valde compresso coriaceo inde-
hiscente basi perianthio induto apice rotundato bilobo stigmatibus sinu
insertis, alis amplis, nuce parvo 1l-spermo, semine 32 poll. longo ovoideo
compresso-trigono, testa pallida coriacea nucleo adhzrente.
D. quadrangulatum, S. Wats. in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xiv. (1879) p. 250.
Gard. Chron. 1900, vol. i. p. 244.
Agave striata, var. recurva, Zuccarint, e« Baker in Gard. Chron, 1877, vol. ii.
p- 556.
This very remarkable plant is a native of the mountains
of the Tamaulipas State of Mexico, at elevations of seven
thousand to nine thousand feet, where it was collected by
Dr. E. Palmer. It was first described in 1879 by Sereno
Watson. But it must have been discovered and seeds
sent to Europe before that time, for it was. in cultiva-
tion in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1877, in which year
Mr. Baker mentions it in the Gardener's Caronicle, under
the name of Agave striata, var. recurva, of Zuccarini. In
its native country the trunk is described as three feet to
eight feet in height, and the flowering stalk five feet to ten
feet; but the latter attains much larger dimensions in
Europe, for Mr. Watson mentions a specimen growing in
the Jardin d’Acclimatation of Hyéres (under the name of
Xanthorrhzxa hastilis), with a scape and panicle together
DeEcemsBer Ist, 1900.
eighteen feet high, and another also of great size, but not
in flower, at the Casino of Monte Carlo, named D. junci-
folium. The latter specimen was subsequently seen by
Mr. Baker in a flowering state, with leaves three feet to
_ six feet long, and scapes fifteen feet to twenty feet high.
The origin of the specimen so long cultivated in the
Succulent House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, is unknown.
It is a female plant, of very slow growth, the stem being
only eighteen inches high; the tuft of leaves is six feet in
diameter, the scape eight feet high, and inflorescence two
feet.
Deser.—Trunk stout, cylindric. Leaves (in the Kew
specimen) two feet long, exceedingly numerous, densely
crowded in a globose head, the outer recurved, inner erect,
rigid, tetragonous, flattened from the base to about the
middle, narrowed, and equilateral from thence to the
pungent tip, surfaces rough to the touch, margins rather
rough. Scape very stout, clothed with short leaves, the lower
of which are deflexed, the upper erect. Panicle of numerous,
strict, erect racemes of imbricating small green flowers
mixed with large white, spathaceous, deciduous bracts, six to
eight inches long. Racemes about four inches long, shortly
peduncled ; pedicels about half an inch long, jointed above
the middle; bracteoles minute, cup-shaped, membranous,
erose. Segments of wperianth broadly oblong, obtuse.
Ovary compressed, crowned with three reniform stigmas.
Fruit orbicular-oblong, trigonous, compressed, about one-
third of an inch long, winged all round, tip notched with
the stigmas in the sinus, one-seeded. Seed minute, ovoid,
trigonous—J. D. H.
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perianth with stamens :—all enlarged; 4, reduced view of plant.
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MATTHIOLA coronorrrotta.
Native of Sicily.
Nat. Ord. Crucirerz.—Tribe ARABIDEX.
Genus Marruioua, R. Br. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 67.)
MatrHiota coronopifolia; herba perennis v. suffruticulus ramosnus, pilis stellatis
cano-puberulus et sparse- glandulozo-pubescens, foliis lineari-cblongis in-
squaliter pinnatilobatis v. sinuato-dentatis rarius integris lobulis incurvis
obtusis, racemis spiciformibus, pedicellis brevissimis, sepalis lineari-
oblongis obtusis, petaloram lamina # poll. longis, lineari-oblonga undulata
vinoso-purpurea, siliqna gracili subtereti, stigmate 3-loba v. breviter 2-3-
crari, seminibus oblongis anguste alatis.
M., coronopifolia, DO. Syst. Veg. vol. i. p. 173; ef Prodr. vol. i. p. 134 (excl.
cit, Sibth. & Sm.) Presl, Fl. Sic. vol. i. p. 41. Guss. Pl. Rar. Sic. p. 275.
partim; Fl. Sic, Synops. vol. ii. pars i. p. 176. Bertol. Fl, Ital. vol. vil.
p: 103. Tenore, Syll. Fl. Neap. p. 821; #1. Wap. vol. v. p. 66. Arcang.
Comp. Fl. Ital. p. 31.
M. tristis forma, Parlat. Fl. Ital. vol. ix. p. 801.
M. tristis, var. bicornis, Pojero, F/. Sic. vol. i. pars i. p. 101.
Leucojum montanum, &¢c, Boece. Mus. Piant. Rar. Sic, p. 147, t. 111. Ray,
Hist. Plant. vol. iii. p. 497.
L. minus purpureun, &c., Barrel. Plant. Gall. Ic., t. 999.
Hesperis Sicula coronopifol. &., Tourney. Instit. vol. i. p. 223.
Though referred by Parlatore and Pojero to a form of
M. tristis, Br., M. coronopifolia is retained as a distinct
species by most Italian botanists, including the latest of
these, Arcangeli. Its sole constant distinctive character
is that of the beautiful vinous purple colour of the petals,
which was recognized by Boccone (1697), and has been by all
subsequent authors, in contrast to the dull yellow or livid,
often greenish purple of JM. tristis. It is singular that
De Candolle, and following him some other authorities,
whilst recognizing the colour of the petals as distinctive
should cite Cheiranthus coronopifolia of the “ Flora Graeca
as a synonym, the beautiful plate in which work is certainly
M. tristis. Boissier, who unites coronopifolia and tristis in
his “Flora Orientalis” with the character “ petalis lividis
vel vinoso-purpureis,” overlooks the normally pinnatifid
character of the leaves of coronopifolia, to which it owes
DrcEeMBER Ist, 1900.
its name, describing these as “integris v. utrinque
1—2-dentato-lobatis.”
M. coronopifolia appears to be a very local plant, confined
to Sicily, and though some authors cite localities for it in
Continental Italy, Arcangeli gives only one, “ Parcoe a
Cattolico.” The specimen here figured was raised from
seed supplied by Mr. Siindermann of Lindau, Bodensee,
Bavaria; it flowered freely and ripened seeds in the
rockery of the Royal Gardens, Kew.
Descr.—A small, branching, perennial herb, or almost
an undershrub, covered uniformly with a hoary pubescence
of stellate hairs, with here and there a few gland-tipped
hairs; branches leafy, straggling, and ascending. Leaves
two to three inches long, linear-oblong, very irregularly
sinuate-lobed or sub-pinnatifid, rarely (except in young
plants) entire; lobes usually more or less incurved, obtuse.
ftacemes spiciform from the shortness of the pedicels, few-
or many-fid. Sepals narrow, obtuse, one half to three-
quarters of an inch long; margins membranous, glabrous.
Petals with the limb of a clear, vinous purple colour, deeper
towards the claw, as long as or longer than the sepals,
linear-oblong, obtuse, strongly waved. Filaments naked;
anthers narrow. Pod three to four inches long, slender,
flexuous, sub-terete ; stigma three-lobed, or with two or all
_ the lobes produced into short horns. Seeds oblong, com-
pressed, with a narrow, hyaline wing.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, portion of leaf showing the stell i
“ies : g the stellate pubescence and gland-tipped
ye 2, stellate hairs; 3, calyx; 4, stamens and pistil; 5, anther; 6, pod;
» interior of pod and seeds :—all but fig. 6 enlarged,
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PASSIFLORA CAPSULARIS.
Native of Brasil.
| Nat. Ord. PasstrLorace#.—Tribe PassIFLOREx.
Genus Passirtora, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 810.)
Passirtora (Decaloba) capsularis; cirrifera, ramis gracilibus angulatis pube-
scentibus, foliis cordatis antice lunato-bilobis sinu mucronatis lobis
divaricatis ovatis v. ovato-oblongis apice rotundatis trinerviis supra
pilosis subtus tomentosis, petiolo pollicari, stipulis parvis subulatis falcatis
deciduis, pedicellis 2-3 poll. longis, alabastris oblongis obtasis, perianthii
rosei tubo cylindraceo piloso basi intruso lobulato, sepalis lineari-oblongis
obtusis 3-nerviis, petalis sepalis conformibus sed pallidioribus et paullo
angustioribus, corona exteriore erecta e filis subclavatis erectis petalis
multo brevioribus, interiore brevissima incurva alba plicata crenata, ovario
hirsuto, fructu siliqueformi elongato-ellipsoidea hexagona, seminibus
ovoideis profunde sulcatis flavescentibus.
P. capsularis, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 957 (non Bot. Mag. t. 2868), DC. Prodr. vol. iii.
p. 325. Masters in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. xii. pars i. pp. 552 et 589,
P. rubra, Lamk. Dict. vol. iii. p. 35 (non Linn.). Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind.
p- 292 (in part).
P. pubescens, H. B. & K., Nov. Gen. & Sp. vol. ii. p. 132.
P. bilobata, Vell. Fl. Flum. vol. ix. t. 78 (non Juss.).
P. lunata, Vell. l.c. vol. ix. t. 80.
P. piligera, Gardn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. i. (1842) p. 178.
P. foliis bilobis, &c., Plum. Plant. Am. p. 129, t. 138, f. 2.
The accompanying figure is that of the true Passijlora
capsularis, distinguished by its dehiscent, elongate, ellipsoid,
hairy fruit; the plant figured under that name at tab. 2868
of this work being P. rubra, L., a widely spread native of
tropical America. P. capsularis appears to be a common
plant in Brasil, and has been collected in other parts of
the continent of §. America and in the West Indies, but
whether in a wild or cultivated state may be doubted. It
was introduced into this country by the late Mr. Isaac
Anderson Henry, of Trinity, Edinburgh, who sent specimens
to Kew in 1880.
The figure is taken from a plant presented to the Royal
Gardens, Kew, in 1896, by the late Professor Allman,
F.R.S., of Parkstone, Dorset. It flowers freely all the
summer in a stove.
DecemBer Ist, 1990.
Descr.—A tall, slender climber, with grooved, villously
pubescent branches, and axillary red tendrils. Leaves
three to four inches broad, lunately two-lobed, with a
mucro in the sinus, deeply cordate at the base, pubescent
_above, tomentose beneath; lobes divaricate, obliquely
ovate-oblong, obtuse, three-nerved ; petiole about an inch
long; stipules small, subulate, falcate. Flowers solitary,
axillary, about two inches broad, rose-red ; pedicels two to
three inches long, curved, pubescent, jointed one-quarter
to half an inch below the flower, green below the joint, red
above it. Calyzx-tube about half an inch long, cylindric,
hairy, twelve-lobed at the intruded base; sepals narrowly
linear-oblong, obtuse. Petals rather narrower and paler
than the sepals. Outer corona much shorter than the
petals, formed of white, sub-clavate threads of equal
length ; inner short, lobulate, incurved, white, membranous.
Ovary hairy.—J. D. H.
Fig. 1, calyx-tube cut open, showing the two coronas; 2, portion of inner
corona ; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, ovary :-—All enlarged.
INDEX
To Vol. LVI. of the Tatrp Ssriss, or Vol. CXXVI. of
the whole Work.
7748 Adesmia boronioides.
7712 Aloe abyssinica.
7709 Antholyza Schweinfurthii.
7700 Arisema flavum.
7728 Asparagus ternifolius.
7733 $3 umbellatus.
7714 Campanula mirabilis.
7727 Cattleya x Whitei.
7705 Cereus mojavensis.
7704 Ceropegia Woodii.
7710 Clematis orientalis, var. tan-
gutica.
7732 Colocasia antiquorum,
Fontanesii.
7717 Convolvulus maerostegius.
7692 Coryanthes macrantha.
7736 Corylopsis pauciflora.
7713 Cotyledon (Echeveria) Pur-
pusii.
7740 Crocus Alexandri.
7719 Cryptocoryne Griffithii.
7746 Cypripedium guttatum.
7749 Dasylirion quadrangulatum,
7724 Dendrobium Hodgkinsoni.
var.
7745 = ineequale.
7741 ; Jerdonianum,
7747 ‘3 spectabile.
7708 Deutzia discolor, var. pur-
purascens.
7695 Diostea juncea.
7720 Dipladenia eximia.
7725 $s pastorum, var.
tenuifolia.
7743 Erigeron leiomerus.
7697 Euealyptus ficifolia.
7739 Grevillea ornithopoda.
7693 Haylockia pusilla.
7721 Helenium tenuifolium.
7723 Hesperaloe yuccefolia.
7737 Hippeastrum Harrisoni.
7730 Huernia somalica.
7701 Iris obtusifolia.
7734 ,, stenophylla,
7706 Kniphofia rufa.
7722 Lilium Brownii, var. leucan-
thum.
7715 Lilium sutchuense.
7738 Lindenbergia grandiflora,
7698 Lomatia longifolia.
7694 Macleania insignis.
7718 Mamillaria vivipara.
7750 Matthiola coronopifolia.
7703 ra sinuata, var.
oyensis,
7742 Michauxia Tchihatchefil.
7751 Passiflora capsularis.
7735 Pedicularis, curvipes.
7729 Pheoneuron Moloneyi.
7699 Phlomis lunarifolia.
7744 Pothos Loureiri.
7711 Renanthera Imschootiana.
7696 Rhododendron arboreum, var. —
Kingianum.
7726 Robinia neo-mexicana.
7716 Rubus reflexus.
7731 Senecio auriculatissimus.
7702 Stanhopea Rodigasiana.
7707 Verbascum longifolium.
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