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PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON,

AND THE KOYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN,

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VOL. IX.

OR VOL. XXII. OF THE ENTIRE WORK.

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ALPHABETICAL INDEX

VOL. IX. OF THE NEW SERIES.

Folium

Alstromeria aurantiaca 1843

Angrsecum caudatum 1344

Antirrliinum glandulosum 1893

Aptosimum depressum 1882

Ardisia odontophylla 1892

Aspasia variegata 1907

Bartonia aurea 1831

Bifrenaria aurantiaca 1875

Brasavola cordata 1914

Brunonia australis 1833

Camellia Japonica DoncT<elaeri 1854

Cattkya labiata 1859

— ^ — intermedia 1919

Celosia coccinea 1834

Clintonia pulchella 1909

Cirrha;a tristis 1889

Cooperia Drummondi 1835

Coryanthes macrantha 1841

Craspedia glauca 1908

Crataegus Aronia 1897

Crus Galli, omlifolia 1860

I glandulosa, macracantha .. . 1912

heterophylla 1847

microcarpa 1846

mexicana 1910

maroccana 1855

odoratissima 1885

orientalis 1852

platyphylla 1874

pyrifolia 1877

prunifolia 1868

spathulata 1890

tanacetifolia 1884

Crybe rosea 1872

Cytisus zeolicus 1902

Dendrobium macrostachyum 1865

Douglasia nivalis 1886

Epidendrum semulum 1898

armeniacum 1867

bifidum 1879

clavatum 1870

Skinneri 1881

Epimedium macranthum 1906

Escallonia illinita 1900

Genista monosperma 1918

Giliatenuiflora 1888

Folium

Godetia lepida 1849

rubicunda 1 856

vinosa 1880

Habenaria procera 1 858

Hyacinthus spicatus 1869

lonopsis tenera 1 904

Iris alata 1876

Kageneckia crata-gifolia 1 836

Kennedya ? glabrata 1838

^^^-^— macrophylla 1862

Stirlingi 1845

Kerria Japonica ] 373

Lapeyrousia anceps 1903

Lobelia decurrens 1 842

Lupinus latifolius 1891

Lychnis Bungeana 1 864

IManettia cordifolia 1866

Maxillaria aromatica 1871

r ufescens 1 848

Mormodes atropurpurea 1 861

Myanthus deltoideus 1896

Nectaroscordura siculum 1913

(Enothera humifusa 1829

serotina 1840

Oncidium iridifolium 1911

Russellianum 1830

altissimum 1851

Lanceanura 1887

Ornithogalum cbloroleucum 1853

Oxyura cbrysanthemoides 1850

Pentstemon heterophyllum 1899

Prescottia colorans 1916

Rondeletia odorata 1903

Sarcochilus falcatus 1832

Scaphyglottis violacea 1901

Scilla Cupaniana 1 878

Sisyrinchium graminifolium pumilum 1915

Stackhousia nionogyna 1917

Stanhopea insignis 1837

Trichopilia tortilis 1 863

Trifolium fucatum 1 883

Tristania macrophylla 1 839

Yucca Draconis 1894

flaccida 1895

Zvgopetalura cochleare 1 857

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1829

lENOTHERA humifusa.

Pencilled Evenhig Primrose.

Nut. Ord. OXAGRACE.E.

(E MOTHER A. -Stqjra, vol.-l.foL 147.

NL'V\ YORK
SOTAMCAL

CE. humifusa ; tota villosa, caulibus prostratis, foliis ex ovata basi angustis ac\J-
minatis dentatis, spicis foliosis termlnalibus, calycis tubogracili ovario duplo
longiore, petalis bilobis venosis staminibus longioribus, stigmatis lobis bic-
vibus cruciatis, capsulis prismaticis.

CE. humifusa. Nutt. (jen. amer. 245.

G^. concinna. Don in Brit. Fl. Gard. n.s. t. 183.

Boisduvalia concinna. Spach in Ann. des sc. ser. 2. 4. 161.

Annua, cinerascens, undique pube brevi patente vestita. Caules pro-
cumhentes, subsimpliciter ramosi, pallide virides. Folia sessilia, basi ovata,
angusta, acuminata, paululum recurva, dentata ; supenora bractescentia in'
tegriora. Tubus calycis sanguineus, gracilis, limbo ovarioque duplo longior ,-
limbus 4-partitus viridis. Petala obcordata, venosa, diurna, S7ib sole pallida,
in umbra amcene rosea. Stamina omnia fertilia, alterna breviora. Stylus
filiformis staminibus longior, decolor ; stigma breviter quadrilobum, Seniina
oblonga., fusco-olivacea, glabra, subangulata ; testa Icevi tenui.

A pretty little hardy annual, for a specimen of which I
am indebted to the kindness of Mrs. Marryat, who origin-

cNi ally received the seeds from Mr. Lambert. In the Garden
at Wimbledon it creeps close to the ground, forming a plant

t^ a foot in diameter, and shedding its seeds very freely.

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=3 According to Professor Don this is a Chilian plant, m-

troduced by Mr. Cuming. But I do not find any thing
like it among the rich Chilian Herbaria collected by Cum-
ing, Macrae, Mathews, Bridges, and others ; Mr. Cruck-
shanks, who is so well acquainted with the Chilian flora, is

VOL. XXII. B

equally a stranger to it ; and 1 suspect some mistake on the
part of Mr. Lambert's gardener. In fact, it appears to be
the (E. kumifusa of Nuttall, a species originally discovered
on the sea-coast near Cumberland Island in Florida, by
Dr. Baldwin. When exposed to much light its flowers are
a very pale delicate flesh colour, but if they are made to
expand in a cool shady place, such, for instance, as a sitting
room with a northern aspect, they acquire the beautiful pink
of the accompanying plate.

The genus GEnothera has lately been the subject of what is called
a revision, by one Mr. Spach, a German Botanist resident at Paris.
This writer appears to belong to that school which takes for the fun-
damental article of its faith, the belief that an occasional subversion
of the established nomenclature of the best known parts of syste-
matic Natural History, is the surest way — not to advance the science
but — to carve out a great reputation for themselves ; who think it
far more pleasant to see their own names attached to a plant, than
the name of its discoverer ; who have a happy knack of appropri-
ating to themselves, by an ingenious sort of hocus pocus, the credit
which in reality belongs to others, and who contrive, by what they
are pleased to call remodelling a genus, to push themselves into
what the uninitiated imagine to be the high places of science. One
of the first s^entlemen who took up this trade in Botany was, I think,
a certain Mr. Schreber, who, by changing all the generic names of
the plants collected in Cayenne by Fusee Aublet, succeeded for a
time in getting to himself the credit of the unfortunate Frenchman's
discoveries. So meritorious an example was not likely to want
imitators, and accordingly, from that day to this, the world has
been occasionally afflicted by the visitations of scientific putters-to-
rights, who have bedizened and bedecked poor Botany after such a
fashion, that her nearest friends cannot recognise her, and can
hardly believe her to be the same science, whose acquaintance they
have been cultivating all their lives. . Mr. Spach is no unworthy dis-
ciple of this •' philoseautic" school, as I now proceed to shew.

Most people who know any thing of Botany are acquainted with
.such plants as QSnothera macrocarpa of Pursh, CE. biennis of Linvceus,

CE. acaiilisof Cavanilles, (E. rosea of Aiton, 05. fruticosa of Sims, or
CE. speciosa of Nuttall. But no such species are to be found in the
book of Mr. Spach, who has been putting CEnotliera to rights.
Upon looking, however, more narrowly after our old acquaintances,
we at last discover them figuring away under the names of Megapte-
rium Nuttalliannm of Spach, Onagra vulgaris of Spach, Lavauxia
muticaof Spach, Hartmannia gauroides oi' Spach, Kneiffia suffruti'
cosa of Spach^ and Xylopleurum Nuttallii of Spach ; and in like man-
ner, our friends Fuchsia lycioides, thymifolia and microphylla have
been spirited away, and their places taken by Kierschliegeria lycioides
of Spiach, Lyciopsis thymifolia of Spach, and Brebissonia micro-
phylla of Spach. And upon what grounds, it will be asked, is all this
improvement effected? Why upon this ? Mr. Spach has made the
prodigious discovery that in some species of Oenothera the seeds
have a thicker skin than in others, that their skin is even oc-
casionally pitted ; he has further ascertained that the seed vessel is
not always of the same shape, but that it is narrow in some and
broad in others, tough in some and tender in others, now broadest
at one end now at the other ; and he has even found out that some
Q^^notheras have 8 ribs, others 12, and others only 4 in their
capsules. Armed with this intelligence this clever gentleman
snatches up his critical lance, jumps into the saddle, puts spurs to
his Rosinante, and rides full tilt at QEnothera, whom he unseats at
the first atteinte, and then cuts and hacks into a dozen pieces. No
one can deny that this is brave work ; all honour to Mr. Spach for
his feat.

But to be serious— can any thing be well imagined more per-
fectly absurd or more pregnant with mischief than such doings as
this. If there is any meaning in the word genus, and if it has any
intelligible application, it must be the representation of some special
simple type of organization which differs from all other types: just as
an order is the representation of some more compound type of or-
ganization. Thus a Strawberry is a Rosaceous plant, in which a
tendency to become excessively succulent and saccharine exists in
the receptacle of the achenia ; a Potentilla is a Rosaceous plant in
which no kind of tendency exists to such an enlargement of the
receptacle, and the differences are constant ; again a Rubus differs
from both these genera in the tendency to enlargement and the for-
mation of saccharine matter existing in the achenia, and not in the
receptacle, and this is accompanied by the suppression of one series
of the calycine segments. These are clear, plain, intelligible dif-
ferences, each of winch constitutes a separate type of structure. But
is one seed being less pitted (scrobiculate) than another, a diff'erent
type of structure? Or having its seed coat a little thicker? Or
are we to consider an obovate capsule a different type of structure

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from an ovate one? Or a tliin-sided pericarp a different type of
structure from a thicker-sided one? Mr. Spach says yes ; and upon
such differences is the larger part of his new genera (!!) proposed.
To me, however, and 1 shoukl hope to the greater number of Bota-
nists who have any idea what general views are, such opinions
appear contrary to common sense. If the example of writers like
Mr. Spach were to be followed, systematic Botany would be resolved
into its original elements : books would consist of mere masses of
species ; all power of analysis would be at an end, and the great
objects of classification would be annihilated,

A proneness to disturb existing nomenclature is very commonly
alleged against modern Botanists in a mass, and is looked upon by
the Public, who are much inconvenienced by it, as a besetting sin
in modern Natural History. That there is a good deal of prejudice,
much misconception, and no small degree of ignorance in this po-
pular outcry, I or any Botanist could easily prove ; for it is impos-
sible that, in a science of observation, the ideas of any man should
remain fixed and immoveable, unless, indeed, in the case of those
gentlemen whom Science every now and then leaves so far behind
her, that, in the end, they are well nigh lost sight of altogether.
As new objects are discovered the necessity of new systematic combi-
nations becomes evident, and the ideas of Botanists change accord-
ingly, the visible result of which is occasional changes in nomen-
clature. Genera are thus materially affected from time to time,
and new species as they are discovered render the creation of new
genera necessary, into which some of the species of the old genera
are very often transferred. But, on the other hand, it is most
true, that there are too many Botanical writers who, without due
consideration, or a sufficient power of forming good general views,
or from an incomplete and superficial acquaintance with their
subject, are, like this Mr. Spach, in the habit of introducing inno-
vations which science indeed repudiates, but which produce the
greater public inconvenience, because it has usually happened that
the writings of such persons are intended for popular purposes, and
are directed to subjects of common occurrence. In the case I have
now brought forward, the genus CEnothera, one of the most natural
and indivisible in the whole science, is cut up into 12 pieces, to
which, what with synonyms and blunders, at least 16 generic
names belong, and the adoption of these renders necessary some- '
thing more than 100 new specific names, which for one genus is
pretty well. Surely, I shall not be thought too harsh and severe,
when I pronounce the writings in which such enormities are perpe-
trated to be scientific nuisances.

To these general observations upon Mr. Spach's performance, I

have one or two more to offer of a more special nature. There
really is one grain of coj'n in the midst of his chaff". He states that
certain supposed (Enotheras have their chalaza bordered by a fringed
margin. This is obviously an additional organ and a special type
of structure : it is the beginning of the feathei-y appendage of the seed
of Epilobium, but it is incapable of performing the office of buoying
lip the seed in the air so as to enable it to be dispersed from place to
place. I find the structure to be as Mr. Spach states, and that the spe-
cies collected by the character are CE. Romanzovii, purpurea, and the
like, which will not intermix with the true Evening Primroses, and
which have quite a peculiar habit. Among other things, their
flowers have no tendency to become yellow. To these plants the
name of Godetia may be assigned. But Mr. Spach refers to the
same type of structure, QEnothera densiflora, and the species now
before me, making them however into another genus, which he calls
Boisduvalia. As I have the seeds of both at this moment under
my microscope, I can safely affirm that neither of these species
has any trace of a fringed border to the chalaza, and that conse-
quently the most remarkable part of their supposed character has
no real existence. Mr. Spach adds to these marks of distinction,
that of the stamens which are opposite the petals being very short
(brevissima) ; this is hardly true of CE. densiflora, and it is altogether
untrue of CE. humifusa. Boisduvalia may, therefore, be consigned
to the same fate as the rest of Mr. Spach's new genera.

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ONCIDIUM Russcllianum..

The Duke of Bedford's Oncidium.

Nat.ord. Orchidace^, § Vande^.
ONCIDIUM.— Supril, vol. 13. fol. 1050.

B. Labellum integerrimum.
O. Russellianum ; pseudobulbis ovatis costatis dipliyllis, follis ligulato-Janceo-
latis patentibus, racemo paucifloro radicali, sepalis petalisque conformibus
ovato-oblongls subundulatis, labello postico oblongo-cuneato retuso apicidato
subsinuato, lamellis disci truncatis.

Folia l(Ete viridia. Caulis fusco-purpureus . Sepala et petala fusco-
purpurea viridi marginata et costata. Labellum lilacinum lamellis disci
purpureis albo-7narginatis, quarnm series tres geminatcB truncates sensim
antepositce pares duas includunt angustissimas pariter truncates. Columnse
al(B semiovatcE eroscE acutcB lutecc ; gynizus margine purpurea basi utrinque
bidentato {fig. I-)/ anthera et pollinia Oncidii.

That this is a genuine species of Oncidium I by no
means aver ; on the contrary it differs from the general form
of that genus in its undivided posterior lip, and in the two
teeth which are placed below the gynizus on either side : its
colour too, notwithstanding the example of O. Lanceanum, is
different from what prevails in the principal part of the spe-
cies of this very natural and extensive genus. Nevertheless
I do not feel justified in forming a new genus out of the ma-
terials I at present possess. The plant may possibly be a
transition species ; and it ranges well enough with the ver-
bal character of Oncidium.

I have named this species in compliment to his Grace
the Duke of Bedford, one of the many liberal patrons of
Botanical science of whom England now can boast, and in
whose stove at Woburn it first appeared in Europe. It was
obtained from the garden of Mrs. Moke at Tejuca near Rio
Janeiro, by the Hon. Capt. J. Roos, R.N. who sent it to
Woburn along with many other valuable plants in 1835.

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1831

* BARTONIA aiirea.

Golden-flowered Bartonia.

Nat. ord. Loasace/E'

BARTONIA, Piirsh. Sepala 5. Petala 5-10, nunc 5 staminibus toti-
dem alternantibus petaloldeis. Stamina 00. Capsula subclavata, sessilis, apice

3-(-7 D C.) valvis. Placentce serie simplici polyspermse. Herbte, caulibus

teretibus, ranwsis, pallidis, hispidis, frayilibits, erectis, nunquam scanden-
tibus.

B. aurea ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis simpliciter pinnatifidis laciniis inferiorum grosse
serratis, bracteis ovatis pinnatifidis flores obvallantibus, petalls 5 obovatis
ciispidatis, filamentis numerosissimis omnibus filiformibus.

Herba annua, l-'i-pedalis, erecta, ramosa, undique pilis pungentihus
haud pi'urientibus hisjnda ; canlibus pallide cinereo-virentibus fragilibus.
Folia atroviridia ; inferiora 3 p. longa, sessilia, subamplexicaulia ex ovatd
basi lanceolata, acuminata, pinnatifida, lobis utrinque circiter 5 gross^ ser-
ratis ; superiora sensim breviora, demum in bracteas abeuntia pinnatifidas
quoque, calyce paulh breviores eumque arete obvallantes. Flores axillares,
versus fastigia ramulorum. Calyx pilis incanis hispidus ; tubo ovario adnata,
obovato ; limbo 5-partito, patente, cequali, corolla hreviore. Petala 5, aurea,
lucida, sub sole tantum expayisa, ferh. unciam longa, subrotundo-obovata,
cuspidata, cestivatio?ie convoluta. Stamina numerosissima, calyci inserta,
Jilamentis omnibus filiformibus exterioribus longioribus. Ovarium \-locu-
lare placentis 3 parietalibus , linearibus, polyspermis ; semimaturum parie-
tibus IcBvigatis nitidissimis. Semina indefinita, pallide fusca, testa suhcoria-
ced sub microscopio minutissime tuberculata. Embryo in medio albutninis
parci olcoso-carnosi ; cotyledonibus plants virescentibus, radicula tereti albd.

A very beautiful half-hardy annual, discovered by Mr.
Douglas in California, and raised in the garden of the Hor-
ticultural Society, where it flowered in July last.

It is only beneath bright sunshine that its splendid flowers
unfold; in'^the early morning the plant is a shabby bush,
with pale, greenish-grey branches and weedy leaves; but as
the sun exercises his influence the petals gradually unrol as

* Named in complimcut to the late Dr. B. S. Barton of Fliiladelphia.

if" in acknowledgment of his power, till every branch is
radiant with gold ; and so metallic is the lustre of the inside
of the petals, that one would really think they must be com-
posed of something more solid and enduring than the delicate
and perishable tissue of a flower.

It is probable that this is a species that will be apt to
degenerate, and which, if neglected, or not supplied with
sufficiently rich and moist soil, will have its beauty greatly
impaired. The wild Californian specimens are by no means
so handsome as those of the Garden.

What I should recommend for it is, firstly, a sheltered
situation, for the branches are very brittle and liable to
be broken by wind ; secondly, a warm and sunshiny spot,
for without sun Bartonia will not be brilliant ; thirdly,
a very rich soil, for she is a gourmande in her way, and if
starved she will not gain half her natural size ; and, fourthly,
a good deal of moisture, for she is a thirsty sort of personage,
and would prefer the banks of a rivulet to the side of a hill.

/S32.

1832

SARCOCHILUS falcatus.

Falcate-leaved Sarcochihis.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^e § VANDEiE.

SARCOCHILUS, R, Br. Perianthium patens. Sepala hteraWa. cuin
ungue labelli subtus connata. Petala coiiformia. Labellum ecalcaratum, cum
ungue columnaj continuum, calceiforme ; lobo intermedio c^rnoso solido, laterali-
bus ascendentibus petaloideis. Columna brevissima, marginibus tenuibus inflexis.
Anthera bilocularis, valvis antherae inferioribus deflexis erosis. Pollinia caudi-

cula linear! affixa glandula deltoidea. -Epiphyta acaulis, vel brevissime cau-

lescens. Folia disticha, lineari-lanceolata, subcoriacea. Racemi axillares,
erecti, 3-6-Jlori, secundi, Bractese breves, lata, ovatce. Flores mediocres.

S. falcatus. R. Br. Prodr. 332. Lindl. g. & sp. orch. 142.

This rare plant has been sent me both by Mr. Bateman
and Messrs. Loddiges. The drawing was made in the col-
lection of the latter gentlemen in April last.

It is a native of New Holland and near Hunter s River ;
but so rare that I have never yet received a single native
specimen except an imperfect one for which I was some
years since indebted to Dr. Brown, who however saw it only
in an imperfect state.

The flowering specimens, with which my garden friends
have supplied me, while they have enabled me to complete
my account of it, have also shown that this hitherto little
known species is really an extremely pretty little plant,
which, without any of the gaudy colours of many of its tribe,
is so neat and simple in its appearance as to be sure to capti-
vate the feelings of every lover of nature.

It must be treated just like other Orchideous Epipliytes.

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* BRUN(3nIA aiistralis.

Southern Brunonia.

Nat. ord. Brunomace^.

BRUNONIA, Smith, Capitulmn iiwolucratum. Cabjx 5-fidus, 4-
bracteatus. Corolla monopetala, Infundibuliformis : limbo 5-partito, laciniis
2 superioribus altius divisis. Stamina 5, hypogyna. Anthers connat£e. Ova-
rium monospermum. Stigmatis indusium bivalve. Utriculus inclusus tubo
aucto indurato calycis superne patuli laciniis plumosis. Semen exalbuminosum.
Br. Prodr. 589.

B. australis ; foliis undique scapisque inferne villosls : pilis patulis, calycis laci-
niis longitudinaliter plumosis : apice acutiusculo. R. Br. I. c. 590.

A most interesting new perennial, introduced by Mr.
James Backhouse in 1834. The drawing was made from
specimens supplied by Mr. Lowe of Clapton, and I have also
received it from the Messrs. Backhouses of York.

In appearance it is very like our wild Scabiouses, but it
is delightfully fragrant. It no doubt requires the protection
of a frame in winter, and would probably be more at home
in such a place, or in a cool greenhouse even during the
summer ; and the general neatness of its appearance renders
it peculiarly well adapted for such a mode of cultivation.
I presume it will be easily increased by partition of the
crown of the root.

Neither the cultivated plant nor my fine wild specimens
from Mr. Gunn agree exactly with Dr. Brown's defini-

* So named by Smith in compliment to Robert Brown, Esq. D. C. L. &c. &c.
the present Keeper of the Banksian herbarium in the British Museum, whom I
may designate with perfect truth as the most learned systematic Botanist of this
or any previous age.

tion of tlie species, for he states that the scapes are only
villous at their base, with spreading hairs. I find them, on
the contrary, equally downy at the top, but it is true that the
hairs of that part are not spreading.

This genus is the representative of the very small Natural
Order Brunoniacese, allied to the Scabious tribe, to Globula-
riaceee, to the Campanula tribe, and to other Monopetalous
orders. An account of it is given in the Introduction to the
Natural System of Botany, whither the reader is referred
for information concerning its place in the system, and the
nature of its affinities.

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1834

* CELOSIA coccinea.

Scarlet Cockscomb.

Nat. ord. Amaranthace^.

CELOSIA, L. BractecB ivirnQTO incertae, scariosge, dcuminatEe, flore sup-
positge. Cahjx 5-phyllus, scariosus. Stcwiina breviter monadelpha filamentis
basi latissimis. Stigma leviter trifidum. Utriculus circumscissus, polyspermus.

C. coccinea ; foliis anguste lanceolatis acuminatls, caule sulcato, spicis multipli-
cibus compressis acuminatis pyramidalibus, staminibus calyce brevioribus.

C. coccinea. Mill. diet. no. 4. Willd. sp. pi. 1. 1199. Rom. Sf Schult. 5
465.

One of the many forms in which the Cockscomb makes
its appearance in Asia ; but whether or not it is truly a
distinct species I cannot judge. It differs from C. cristata
chiefly in the crowded pyramidal arrangement of the inflo-
rescence, the narrower leaves, and the short stamens. It is
also a far more hardy plant, for while the common Cocks-
comb can only be brought to produce its stiff" and fantastical
crests with much care and assiduity, this demands no other
attention than is required by every tender annual, and goes
on enlarging its glowing crimson tassels, in the open border,
till winter destroys it.

The drawing was made from specimens communicated
by the Hon. W. F, Strangways from his garden in Dorset-
shire, in the end of last October.

* Said to be derived from K/jXeoc, something burnt ; because the flowers look
as if scorched and dried up by exposure to heat.

flower from which the sketch was made flowered in the
collection of Earl Fitzwilliam at Wentworth House, under
the care of Mr. Cooper, who received it from the Botanic
Garden at Glasgow. Mr. Cooper is one of the most
zealous and successful cultivators of rare plants in this king-
dom, and has with unremitting exertion brought together
the fine collection of plants now at Wentworth, by a liberal
system of exchanging his superfluities for those of other per-
sons. He has now for above twenty years had the manage-
ment of the Botanic Garden at Wentworth, and few culti-
vators deserve better the compliment of having his name
handed down to posterity, as engrafted in our botanical no-
menclature. It seems that bulbs of this singular plant flow-
ered about the same time at the Botanic Garden at Edin-
burgh, and at Mr. Dickson's nursery, bat Mr. Cooper was
at least one of the first who brought it into flower, and, as the
name Drummondia is preoccupied, the genus is named after
Mr. Cooper. It is possible that the plant may be found to
endure our climate, as the frosts are severe in Texas, but as
it pushes its leaves in the autumn, it probably grows in a
temperate situation and would be injured by our winters,
and at present it must be considered as a greenhouse or
frame plant. It is nearly allied to Zephyranthes. Two suc-
cessive one-flowered scapes were produced, the first of which
ripened seed that readily vegetated. The limb expanded
quite flat. The pollen viewed in the microscope is difformed
like that of Zephyranthes Candida, and not of the usual more
regular and oval form that prevails amongst the genera allied
to it. It is doubtful whether Z. Candida, ought not to be
generically distinguished by that and some other features
from Zephyranthes."

1. The back of a petal. 2. Ditto of a sepal. 3, Stigma. 4. Ripe seed*
5. Pollen magnified. 7. Inside of the mouth of the tube, shewing the

sessile anthers.

Mr. Herbert speaks of another species, nearly akin
to this, which has flowered in the greenhouse at Spoffbrth,
equally from Texas. This plant has at this time (beginning
of January, 1836) three leaves nearly a foot and a half long,
and may be distinguished by the following name and cha-
racter.

" Cooperia chlorosolen ; foliis sesquipedalibus, ^ unc. latis tortilibus acutis \ari-
dibus; germine sessili; spatha 1^-unciali tubulosa apice fenestrate. ; perianthii
tubo 4j-unciali viridi, limbo 1^-unc. albo sepalis viridi-apiculatis extus
Tiridi-lineatis; stylo seraunciam vel ultra tubo breviore." — W. H.

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*KAGENECKIA crateegi folia.

Cratcegus-leaved Kageneckia.

Nat. ord. RosACEiE, § Quillaji^.

KAGENECKIA. .F/ores unisexuales. Ca Z</.r 5-fidus, lacinlis aestivatione
imbricatis. Petala 5. Stamina marum 15, eesdvatione deflexa, quorum series
exterior prima erigitur. Discus ceraceus tubum calycis muniens. Carpella 5,
petalis alterna, tomentosa, omnino sejuncta, ovulis plurimis liorizontalibus ; styli
subnulli; stigmata simplicia emarginata. FoZZicii/ilignosi, dehiscentes ; semi-
nibus samaroideis.

K. cratacgoides ; floribus corymbosls, foliis oblongis serratis acutis, sepalis mar-

gine tomentosis subdenticulatis.
K. crataegoides. Don in Edinb. Ph. Journ. n. s. 10. 229.
" Lydaea Lyday. Molin. Hist nat. chil. ed. 2. 300."

A very pretty and half-hardy evergTeen shrub, native of
Chili, and flowering in this country in June.

I call it half-hardy because I have never yet seen it cul-
tivated in the open air, except beneath the protection of
walls, but I have no doubt that it will succeed perfectly in
our South-western counties.

The plant has never yet been increased except by seed,
but it would doubtless multiply by layers, if not by cuttings.
Our drawings were made in the garden of the Horticultural
Society in June last.

Professor Don refers this genus, Quillaia and Vauque-
linia, to an order he separates from Rosaceae, under the
name of Quillajiae, for the following reasons, " Quillaia and
Kageneckia, (he says,) together with Vauquelinia, I consider,

* Dedicated by the authors of the Flora Peruviana to M. de Kageneck, Am-
bassador from the Emperor of Germany to the King of Spain.

as constituting a small family, differing essentially both from
Rosacese and Spirseaceae in their erect ovules, and from the
latter also in the valvular aestivation of their calyx." But I
think there must be some inadvertence or typographical error
in this paragraph, or possibly both combined ; for certainly
Kageneckia has horizontal, not erect ovules, and an imbricated
not valvular calyx. I see no more difference between them
and Rosaceas than between Spiraea and Potentilla. The
unisexuality of the flowers is certainly no mark of distinc-
tion, for Fragaria is hardly otherwise ; and the convolute
cotyledons of Kageneckia have their parallel in Chamaemeles.

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1837

STANH(3pEA insignis.

Nohle Stanhopea.

Nat. ord. Orchid ace^, § Vande^.
STANHOPEA. —Supra, vol. 18. t. 15-29.

S. insignis ; labello medio quam maxime constricto, hypochilil subrotundi late-
ribuscornutis incurvis, epichilio ovato medio depresso cornubusduobus baseos
incurvis. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 157.

Epidendrura grandiflorum. Humb. S^ Bonpl. PI. cequinoct. p. 94, t. 27.

Anguloa grandiflora. H. B. K. nov. gen. §■ sp. pi. 1. 343. Kunth Synops.
1.332.

Stanhopea insignis. Hooker in Bat. Mag. 2948-9. Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 1985.

Bracteae meinhranacece , spathacece, subscariosce, striates, ovarii longitu-
dine, ut et ovarium ipstim leviter furfuraceoe- Ovarium obtuse triquetrum,
obclavatum, angulis intermediis costatibus minoribus. Sepala 3 patentia,
circiter 4 uncias inter suos apices, ovata, carnosa, concava, obtusa, ftava,
lucida, intus sanguineo-guttata ; 2 lateralibus basibus conjiatis. Petala
lanceolata, widulata, rejiexa, magis lutea, sanguineo interrupte fasciata.
Labellum carnosum, mim basi columnce non articulatum, a sepalis distinctu7n,
basi ventncosum, albidiim, atro-sanguineo conferte guttatum, limbo 3-lobo,
lobo intermedio subcordato- ovato carnoso sanguineo- guttato, lateralibus
falcatis incurvis acumiaatis cornuformibus. Columna maxima, 2 uncias
longa, cum ovario continua, basi semiteres sursum alata, apice obtuse triloba,
sanguineo densissime guttata. Stigma clausum, rostello subulato aeumina-
tissimo incumbente. Antbera ajnce membranacea, bilocularis. Pollinia 2,
obovata, basi acuminatissima, extrorsum Jissa. Glandula subrotunda, antice
subulata, postice magis membranacea, subbiloba ; caudicula brevis membra-
nacea.

The drawing of this plant was made from a specimen sent
me in 1830 by the late Mr. Cattley ; at that time it was a
rarity, and the specimen was thought a fine one, but the cul-
tivation of this genus has since become so much improved
that still handsomer specimens are not uncommon. Some
apology may perhaps be required for again figuring what has
been well represented in the Botanical Magazine and the

VOL. xxir. D

Botanical Cabinet ; but upon comparing the accom pan}/ i no-
plate with those of Dr. Hooker and Mr. Loddiges, I find
enough to induce me not to suppress the drawing that was
made for this work.

Stanhopea insignis was originally found by Messrs. Hum-
boldt and Bonpland on the trunks of old trees in shady woods
near Cuen^a in Quito; it has since been procured abundantly
from various districts of the north-eastern part of South
America. There it fixes its pseudo-bulbs upon branches,
clinging to them wath its numerous creeping roots, and sus-
pending in the air its stout zig-zag spikes of fleshy wax-like
flowers. The species grows freely in a mixture of coarse
peat, sand, and broken tiles or potsherds, provided it is
kept constantly growing ; but it does not like to be periodi-
cally dried up as many others do. In order to see its curious
blossoms in perfection the young spikes should be watched
for, and as soon as they appear they should be artificially led
over the edge of the pot or basket; otherwise their tendency to
turn downwards is so great that they are apt to force themselves
into the earth and so to become smothered.

In the annexed plate, the dissections are taken from a speci-
men, for which I am obliged to Lord Fitzwilliam, with much
richer colours than usual ; fig. 1 . represents a lip seen from the
upper side, and 2. the same part viewed from beneath; these
figures show the cup-shaped base of this organ, the spotted
tongue that terminates it, and the two long fleshy horns that
project on each side of it. — Who shall imagine the use that
such curious parts are intended for ? 3. and 4. are the hardly
less curious pollen-apparatus.

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KEiVNJEDYA glabmta.
Smooth-leaved Kennedya.

Nat. ord. Leguminos/E.
KENNEDYA.— Supra, vol. 11. fol. 944.

K. glabrata ; foliolls 3 cuneatis mucronatis glabris petiolis caulibusque pilosis,
stipulis late ovatis acutis, bracteis deciduis, pedunculis foliorum longitudine
subsexfloris.

A specimen of this very pretty greenhouse climber was
-communicated to me by Mr. Knight of the King's Road, in
May, 1835. It is a New Holland plant, probably from the
South coast, and very distinct from all that have hitherto
been figured.

The slender wiry hairy stems, broad ovate sharp-pointed
stipules, and smooth leaves, with wedge-shaped leaflets,
which are shining and almost entirely destitute of hairiness,
sufficiently mark the species.

A hardy greenhouse shrub, propagated by cuttings.

None of the Kennedyas which I have yet seen have so
clear and bright a scarlet as this; and the efl'ect of the colour,
brilliant as it is, is much set off by the green spot bordered
with deep brown, at the base of the standard.

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* TRISTANIA macrophylla.

Large-leaved Tristania.

Nat. ord. Myktace.e.

TRISTANIA, R. Br. Calyx 5-fidus, persistens, tubo turbinato. Pe-
tala 5. Staminum phalanges 5 petalis opposite iisdem vix longiores. Antherce
incumbentes. Capsula 3-locularis, polysperma, semierecta v. inclusa. Semina

aptera. i^nt^zces australasici. Folia lanceolata. jFZores peduiiculati subco-

rymbosi. D. C. Prodr. 3. 210.

T. macrophylla ; arborea, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis subverticIUatis, ra-
mulis calycibusq. pubescentibus, phalangibus polyandris, capsula oranino
infra.

T. macrophylla. All. Cun7i. MSS.

Arhor procerus, rainulis levissime puhescentihiis cito calvis. Folia 5-6-p.
longa, coriacea, ovato-lanceolata, acuta, petiolata, puncds pellucidis cojifer-
tissimis. Floras ex axillis foliorum decessorum, ternati, breviter pedicelluti
in apice pedunculi puhescentis ancipitis ; nunc abortu lateralium solilarii.
Calyx pubesce7is ; laciniis 5, brevibus, ovatis, acutis. Petala 5, unguiculuta,
concava, patentid. Phalanges staminvim polyandrcB, lineares, petalorum lon-
gitudine. Capsula oninino infera, semitrilocularis, virtice truncato dehiscens
polyspermo.

Drawn in August, 1835, from specimens communicated by
Richard Harrison, Esq. of Liverpool, who received it some
years since under the name of Tr. lawina. The plant had
been constantly kept in the Greenhouse, where it had gained
the height of four feet, losing the exterior of its bark like
Arbutus Andrachne.

* From TpiiQ three, and larapat or karavai to stand ; in allusion, as we pre-
sume, to the ternate disposition of the flowers and their stalks ; the three-forked
inflorescence of this doubtless very distinct genus being strikingly different from
all to which it is nearly allied in the parts of fructification. — Smith.

Its flowers usually appear in threes; but in Mr. Harrison^s
specimens they were solitary ; in other respects they quite
agreed with a wild specimen collected by Mr. Allan Cun-
ningham and given me by Dr. Hooker.

To Mr. Cunningham I am indebted for the following
information respecting this species, and for specimens of
it and the undermentioned, which were long since collected
by him in his various expeditions of discovery in New
Holland.

" T. macrophylla is a tree 50-60 feet high, affording, by means of
its ample foliage, a pleasant, agreeable shade, on the sandy southern
shores of Moreton Bay, New South Wales (Lat. 27°. 30'. s.) where it
was first observed, bearing flowers and fruit, in Sept. 1824. It is
nearly allied to T. conferta, R. Br. but the segments of the calyx are
smaller."

T. snaveolens ; arborea, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis alternis glabris,
petiolis calycibusque pubescentibus, laciniis calycis ovatis brevibus
acutis, phalangibus polyandris.

" T. suaveolens Smith in Rees — Melaleuca suaveolens Goertn.

" A tree of irregular growth 15-20 feet high, frequent in damp
rocky places, margins of gullies, &;c. ; Endeavour River, 1770, Sir
Jos. Banks ; July 1829, N. E. Coast, New South Wales, A. C."

T. umbrosa, A. C. ; arborea, foliis oblongis mucronatis oppositis gla-
berrimis opacis, fructibus globosis superis glaberrimis.

" Twenty-five to thirty feet high, in dark shady woods, on the
shores of York Sound, N. W. Coast of Australia, 16th Sept. 1820 ;
third Voyage of H. M. Cutter Mermaid, Capt. King. Rare."

T. depressa, A. C. (D. C. prodr. 3. 210); glaberrima, caule fru-
ticopo, foliis subverticillatis angusto-oblongis, fructibus solitariis om-
nino inferis.

" A low shrubby plant, on barren, stony hills ; islands of Repulse
Bay of Cook, I'^e^f South Wales, tropic (Lat. 20°. 35'. sj June 8,,
1829,"

T. alhens (D. C. prodr.3. 210) ; arborea, foliis oblongis subundu-
latis ciliatis subtus pallidis oppositis, petiolis ramulisque tomentosis,
fructibus capitatis coadunatis inferis pedunculisque tomentosis.

" Turpentine tree of the Colonists. A tree 60-80 feet high; in
shady situations. New South Wales."

T. psidioides, A. C. ; arborea, foliis obovato-oblongis obtusis mucro-
natis alternis subtus albo-tomentosis, ramulis pedunculis fructibusque
superis albo-tonientosis.

'* A tree of slender habit, forming brushes in ravines falling into
the Regent's River, Brunswick Bay, N. W. Coast, Australia (Lat.
15*^4. s. Long. 124". 45'. e.) 10th Oct. 1820; Mermaid's second
Voyage."

T. salicina, A. C. ; arbuscula, foliis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis
subdentatis conferte verruculosis alternis ramulisque angulatis glabris,
floribus laxe corymbosis, calycibus superis glabris.

" A slender tree, 12-15 feet high, in shaded ravines, Spring-
wood, Blue Mountains. Sept. 1822."

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1840

CENOTHERA seiotina.
Late-fiowering Evening Primrose.

Nat. Old. Onagrace^.

(E NO THERA.— Supra, vol. 2. fol. 147.

CE. serotina, caule ascendente, internodiis subsequalibus, foliis lineari-lanceolatis
subdentatis pubescentibus, capsulis pedicellatis obovatis tetrapteris pube-
scentibus.

CE. serotina. Sweet Fl. G. I. ser. 2. 184.

According to Sweet this plant was sent under the present
name by Mr. Nuttall to the Liverpool Garden ; I do not,
however, find it noticed by the latter Botanist, nor is it men-
tioned, as far as I can discover, by any writer on the plants
of North America. It is probably considered, and perhaps
with reason, a mere variety of CE.fruticosa, from which it
differs more in habit than in any very precise characters.
Its leaves are narrower and longer, its stem much less erect,
and the leaves and inflorescence are not separated from each
other by a considerable interval, as is usually the case in
(E. fruticosa. The period of flowering of (E. serotina is
later, extending into November.

In size the flowers are variable. Usually they are as is
here represented, seldom so large as in the figure in Sweet's
Flower Garden.

It is a hardy perennial, growing best in a moist, but well
drained American border ; but not refusing cultivation even in
common garden soil. The late period to which its flowering-
is protracted renders it an acceptable species.

NOTE UPON FOL. 1829.

Mr. Lambert has satisfied me that the seeds from which his plants
of CE. concinna were raised, were really obtained from Chilian
specimens, collected by Mr. Cuming. The species must, however, be

of very rare occurrence, for no notice is taken of it in Messrs.
Hooker and Ai-nott's valuable catalogue of Chilian plants, nor do I
see for what species those authors, who I presume must have had all
Mr. Cuming's collection, could have mistaken it. The only new
species they mention is (E. mendocinensis, which was not found by
Ml-. Cuming, and which seems from the description to be a very dif-
ferent plant. It is no doubt improbable that the same species should
be found in Chile and in Florida, but I am still at a loss to discover
the difference between (E. concinna and CE. humifusa.

With regard to the observations I felt called upon to make upon
the absurdity and mischievousness of the endless changes of names
introduced into Botany by some Botanical writers, I cannot but feel
upon consideration that it was wrong in me to assign particular motives
to Mr. Spach for his proceedings, however much 1 might be disposed
to ridicule or condemn them. As it is not my nature to be either
uncharitable or unjust, I do not scruple to take this opportunity of
recalling that part of the remarks, in which I assigned Mr. Spach
a place in the school of Schreber; but in stating this I by no means
wish to be understood as withdrawing one word of the remainder of
the criticism. On the contrary I regard such a case as that which
elicited my animadversions to be one of those which there is no hope
of curing without the application of the actual cautery.

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CORYANTHES macrantha.

Large-flowered Coryanthes.

Nat. ord. OncHiDACEiE, § Yandex,
CORYANTHES.— Supra, vol. 2\. t. 1793.

C. macrantha; foliis angusto-lanceolatis, pseudo-bulbis ovato-conlcis alte

sulcatis, labello utrinque quater plicato : plicis deflexis.
Gongora macrantha. Hooker Bat. Misc. 2. p. 151. t. SO.
Coryanthes macrantha. Hooker in Bat. Mag.fol. 3102 in textu. Gen. 8f Sp.

of Orchideous PI. 159.

Accustomed as we are now become to strange forms among
Orchideous plants, I doubt whether any species.has yet been
seen more remarkable for its unusual characters than that
now represented.

It was first figured by Dr. Hooker in the Botanical Mis-
cellany, from a specimen in spirits sent him from the Caraccas
by Mr. Lockhart. When the plant blossomed in Trinidad,
the flowers appeared so extraordinary to those who saw them
that the visitors to the Botanic Garden supposed them to be
artificial. It has, however, lately flowered in the collection
of Mr. Knight in the King's Road; and it proves to be in all
respects the same as the specimen sent to Dr. Hooker.

The plant has the habit of a Stanhopea, or a Gongora ;
and pushes forth from the base of its pseudo-bulbs a pendulous
scape, on which two or three flowers are developed. Each
flower is placed at the end of a long stiff" cylindrical furrowed
ovary, and when expanded, measures something more than
6 inches from the tip of one sepal to that of the opposite one.
In colour the sepals are an ochrey yellow, spotted irregularly
with dull purple; they have a most delicate texture; the upper
sepal falls back from the tip of the ovary, is narrow and not
above one half the length of the two lateral ones, which, instead

of applying themselves to the lip as is usually the case, turn
directly away from it, placing themselves at an acute angle
with the upper sepal, and after a while collapsing at their
sides till they look something like bats' wings half at rest.
The petals, which are narrowly lanceolate, very weak and
much curved at the edge, have the same colour and texture
as the sepals nearly, and are intermediate in length between
the upper one and those at the side; they hang nearly parallel
with the column, but are so placed as to conceal in no degree
the lip ; nature taking most especial care to exhibit this
strange part in the most conspicuous manner. The lip is as
fleshy and solid in its texture as the sepals and petals are de-
licate; it is seated on a deep purple stalk, nearly an inch long,
and forming an obtuse angle with the column, and conse-
quently an acute one with the ovary ; this stalk terminates in
a hemispherical greenish-purple cup, or rather cap consi-
dering its position, and the latter, contracting at its front edge,
extends forward into a sort of second stalk of a very vivid
blood colour, the sides of which are thinner than the centre,
turned back, and marked with 4 or 5 very deep solid sharp-
edged plaits. These plaited edges again expand and form a
second cup, less lobed than the first, thinning away very much
to the edges, of a broadly conical figure, with a diameter of
at least two inches at the orifice ; this second cup is of an
ochrey yellow, streaked and spotted with pale crimson, and
seems intended to catch a watery secretion which drips into
it from two succulent horns which take their origin in the base
of the column, and hang over the centre of the cup.

Of course this species will require the heat of a damp
stove.

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LOBELIA decurrens.

Winged-stemmed Lobelia.

Nat. Ord. LOBELIACE^.

LOBELIA.— Supra, vol 1. fol. 60.

L. decurrens ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis decarrentibus confertis duplicato-serratis
glabris, floribvis axillaribus breviter pedunculatis, calycis villosi laciniis
lanceolatis inciso-serratis, corollsD laciniis apice pilosis. Spreng. syst. \.
712. Sweet. Brit.Fl. G. n. s. 1. 86.

L. decurrens. Cav. ic. 6. 13. t. 521. Rom. Sf Schult. syst. 5. 42.

Perennis. Caulis erectus, parum ramosus, de?isissime foliosus, l-pedalis,
glaber, hasihus folioruvi decurrentibus alatus. Folia glabra, radicalia
obovato-lanceolata, duplicato et mcequaliter dentata ; caulina sessilia,
lanceolata, internodiis 3-plo longiora, duplicato-dentata, deniibus omnibiis
acuminatis. Floras ad Jastigium caulis, axillares, breviter pedunculati ;
calycihus pedunculisque villosis. Calyx superus, hemisphcericus, laciniis
foliaceis lineari-lanceolatis pinnatijido-jimbriatis. Corolla pallide coerulea,
rectiuscula, limbo erecto, 5-lobo extus pubesceute, lobis anterioribus subcon-
nalis, dorso Jissa. Tubus staminum Jiliformis, glaber, antheris omnino
connatis glaberrimis. Stigma bilobum extus annulo obscure pilorum cir-
cumdatum.

Introduced some years since from Chile, but not frequently
seen in collections. It is probably destroyed very often by
our winters, which the plant, although perfectly hardy
during the summer, is unable of bearing without protection.

It is a handsome perennial, growing vigorously in a
moist partially shaded peat border, and increased without
much difficulty by cuttings. It flowers in June, July, and
August. Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horti-
cultural Society.

Like the rest of its genus, this has an exceedingly acrid
milky juice, which renders it dangerous to those who handle
it incautiously.

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1843

ALSTROEMERIA aurantiaca.

Orange-fiowered Alstrcemeria.

Nat. ord. Amaryllidace^, § 1. Caulescentes. Subordo 1. Opercu-
losae, Hypoxidese, (operculo ovarii prominente) Herbert, MS.

ALSTRCEMERIA. German ovulis suberectis non imbricantibus, 6-cos-
tatum, superne 1 2-angulare apiculo trilobo (lobis costas sepalinas respicientibus).
Perianthium sexpartitum laciniis quater disparibus apice reflexis pctalis duobus
erectis imo porrecto : filamenta recurvata, germini inserta, laciniarum basi vix
adnata, petalina basi acut6 ovali sepalina seraicirculari capsulam signantia. Cap-
sula acuminate operculata sexcostata valvulis crustaceis septigeris dissilientibus,
axe ab ima parte trifariam disrupto, costarum dimidio inseparabiliter pedunculo
adha?rente ; semina subrotunda testa tuberculata difficulter separabili, hilo Isevi,

chalaza circulari, endopleura ab albumine corneo inseparabili. Plantce Occi-

dentales caule {quoad novi) erecto folioso vel squammato, pedunculis brac-
teatis, l-5-(pluri?)JIoris. Herbert, MSS.

A. aurantiaca; erecta, foliis lanceolatis obtusis glabris obsolete denticulatis,
perianthii foliolis integerrimis : interioribus lanceolatis acuminatis erectis.
Don in Sweet Fl. Gard. 2 ser. 3. 205. t. 208.

? A. aurea. Graham in Jamiesons Journal, July. 1833.

The drawing of this plant was made in the Nursery of
Messrs. Low and Co. of Clapton, in June 1833. It is a very
handsome species, and with a little protection from wet during
winter will live very well in the open ground.

For the following observations upon it I am indebted to
the Honourable and Rev. W. Herbert.

" Alstrcemeria aurantiaca has the flower stem with smooth
leaves, persistent, and green for months after the seed is ripe
and shed, and even the long leaf-like bractes on the peduncles
remain till winter. A. pulchella, Bot. Mag. (erroneously so
named, and apparently hsemantha of Flor. Peruv.) has the
leaves ciliated, the stems shorter, the bractes less, and the
whole perishable almost before the seed is ripe; the tubers
lying dormant more than half the year, and sprouting slowly

in the spring. Aurantiaca never dies away entirely, unless
perhaps if cut by severe frosts, but sends up fresh stems.
The capsule of aurantiaca is much less acutely pointed and
prolonged; its peduncles fewer flowered, less erect, and not
so long. The peduncles of aurantiaca in the border at
Spofforth are 4-inched and 3-flowered on a stem a yard high;
those of the plant called pulchella, 9-inched and 5-flowered
on a stem 12 or 13 inches high. The seed of aurantiaca is
very pale chesnut-coloured, the chalaza rather elevated and
a little tuberculated ; those of the other plant of a much
deeper chesnut, the tubercles which cover them fewer and
harsher, the chalaza flatter and smoother, the hilum shorter,
more distinctly marked and whiter.

"Bomarea, amongst other diflTerences from Alstrcemeria,
has the ovules cumulate and a little imbricating, the capsule
coriaceous, not opening from the base and dissilient, but
widely dehiscent at the top, persistent and thrown back; the
seeds not ejected by disruption of the capsule, but adhesive,
covered with a soft pulpy coat. In all the known species the
stem is twining, and so far as I can ascertain, the style
tripartible.

" Sphserine (mihi) has the capsule indehiscent, the seed-
coat pulpy, but less so than Bomarea, the stem tapering,
flexuous, but not twining.

" Collania (mihi) has the stem rigid, the umbel nodding,
the leaves rigid, the flowers few, with a close tubular appear-
ance, gibbous at the base, the germen smaller than the base
of the flower, ribbed, turbinate, the fruit not known.

" That the lobes on the point of the capsule in Alstrcemeria,
which are the bases of the three consolidated styles, and cor-
respond with the three angles or lobes of the stigma, are
opposite the ribs of the sepals, belongs in truth to the obser-
vations on the character of the order and not of the genus.
An amended generic character of the order will be attempted
in the revision of Amar\dlidace8e, preparing for the press."

W. H.

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* ANGRtECUM caudatum.
Long-tailed Angrcecum.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Vande^.
JNGR^ CUM.— Supra, vol. 18. fol. 1522.

A. caudatum; foliis loratis canaliculatis emarglnatis, spica radical! penduld
flexuosa 4-flora, labello obovato rostrato serrulate, calcare longissimo apice
bilobo.

Epiphyta radices crassas simplices nebulosas promens- Caulis simplex,
brevis, foliis loratis canaliculatis apice fissis 6 j)oll. longis, distiche imbrica-
tis. Spica pedalis, ex axilla imorum foliorum pendula ; pedunculo gracili,
atroviridi, ad nodes tumido ; rachi Jiexuosa, internodiis circiter 2 poll,
longis. Ovarium sessile, fusco-maculatum, hasi tortum. Sepala et petala
explanata, lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, herbacea, cequalia, basi fulva,
fere 2 poll, longa. Labellum ejusdem longitiidinis, album, petaloideum,
serrulatum, cuneatum angulis rotundatis v. potius obovatum, apice mn-
crone longo viridi rostratum, imd basi involutum et denticulatum, in
calcar productum 9 poll, longum, fulvum, subulatum apice (Jig. 3.)
obtusum et bilobum. Columna fulvo-viridis, brevis, erecta, basi (^Jig. 1.)
crassior et angulata, sursum attenuata et marginata, gynizo piano fulvo,
rostello subulato gynizo longiore. Pollinia 2, postice paulb sulcata, in cau-
diculam longam cuneatam sessilia.

A most remarkable new species of Angrsecum, imported
from Sierra Leone by the Messrs. Loddiges, in whose collec-
tion the accompanying drawing was made in August last.
At present it is exceedingly rare, and is likely to remain so ;
for it seems to be one of the most difficult of the tribe to
manage successfully. In the Nursery at Hackney it is
attached to a piece, of wood suspended from the roof of the
stove for epiphytes.

* See folio 1522.
VOL. XXII.

The most curious point of structure in this species is the
unusual length of its spur, which measures nine inches from
its base to its two-lobed apex. The only parallels to this
among all the Orchideous plants I am acquainted with are
those of Hahenaria longicauda figured in the Botanical Maga-
zine, t. 2957, and of Ayigrcecum sesquipedale of Du Petit
Thouars's Mascaren Orchidese, t. 66 and 67. For what wise
purpose these extraordinary appendages may have been
destined by nature, we may well be unable to imagine. It
would seem that they must be added to the vast list of objects
which, to our confined apprehension, appear merely intended
to exhibit the endless diversity of power of the Creator.

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=* KENNEDYA Stirlingi.
Sir James Stirling's Kennedy a.

Nat. ord. Leguminos^, or pABACEiE.
KENNEDYA.— Snprci, vol. W.fol. 944.

K. Stirlingi ; foliolis tribus subrotundo-ovatis mucronulatis glabrlusculls, pe-
tiolis caulibusque pilosis, stipulis late ovatis acutis, bracteis fasciculatis, v.
verticillatis nunc trUobis nunc in involucrum conniventibus, floribus gemi-
nis, calycibus pedunculisque pilosis.

A graceful greenhouse trailing plant, native of the Swan
River. It was raised by Robert Mangles, Esq. of Whitmore
Lodge, from seeds given to him by Sir James Stirling, the
Governor of the Colony, in compliment to whom it has been
named.

Its thin broad pale green leaves, fringed with long weak
hairs, and its twin scarlet flowers sufficiently characterise this
species, which moreover is botanically remarkable for having
its bracts collected into a whorl, or even grown together
into a little involucre.

Flowers in April, and no doubt easily propagated by
cuttings.

* See folio 1421,

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* CRATiEGUS microcarpa.

Small-fruited Thorn.

Nat. ord. Rosacea, § Pome^.
CRAT^GUS.— Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1128.

microcarpa ; subspinosa, foliis fasciculatis longe cuneatis 3-fidis lobatisque
crenatis glabris nitidis, corymbis multifloris, calycibus glabris laciniis ovatis
integerriinis, pomis ovato-subrotundis glabris 5-loculaiibu3, putamine tenui.

spathulata. Elliott Fl. S. Carol. 1. 552. Loudon's Arbor. Brit. t.3\. k.
non Mich, nee Pursh.

Fe^ hardy plants are more deserving of general admi-
ration for the neatness of their foliage, the diversity of their
manner of growing, the beauty of their flowers in the spring,
or the gay appearance of. their numerous richly coloured
haws in the autumn, than the various species of the genus
Crataegus. And yet they are little known, except to the
curious collector, they are not very frequently seen in gar-
dens, if we except a few varieties of the common Hawthorn,
and Botanists themselves have paid them but little attention.
I, therefore, propose to avail myself of the circulation of
this work for the purpose of bringing the subject into more
notice, and of shewing how very well deserving the species
of Crataegus are of general cultivation ; but as they are very
much alike in flower, and as their strongest claims to be con-
sidered ornamental plants arise from the beauty of their
leaves and fruit, it is in the latter state that they will
generally be represented.

* See Mo 1161.

C. microcarpa is, according to Elliott, a native of the upper
districts of Georgia and Carolina ; in Colombia connty,
Georgia, common, growing to a small tree, from twelve to
fifteen feet high. It was also collected in an unusually spiny
state by Mr. Drummond in the province of Texas.

Elliott confounds it with Cr. spathulata, which, as de-
scribed by Michaux and Pursh, must be a different species
in the way of Cr. pai'vifolia, and allied to the C. virginiana
of the English nurseries.

In this country Cr. microcarpa is a small tree with slen-
der, smooth, drooping branches, and something of the habit
of the Whitethorn. Its leaves have a very handsome ap-
pearance, and are remarkably shining and deep green ;
they usually grow in clusters, have a long stalk, tapering up-
wards into a blade which is sometimes nearly entire, with
only a tooth or two at the end, sometimes they are three-
lobed with crenated segments, and occasionally they are
deeply three-parted ; their form is always more or less spa-
thulate. The stipules of the more vigorous branches are
large and leafy. The flowers are white and appear in May,
or the beginning of June, at the same time with those of
Cr. cordata, and later than most others. The fruit is rather
abundant, but small, and, although bright red, does not
make much show upon the branches. The sides of the
stones of the fruit are unusually thin for a Crataegus.

Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul-
tural Society.

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1847

* CRATjioUS heterophylla.
Various- leaved Hawthorn.

Nat. ord. Rosace^e, § Pome^.
CRATAEGUS. -Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1128.

C. heterophylla; foliis lucidis tarde deciduis lanceolatis cuneatis apice dentatis
trifidis pinnatifidisque laciniis serratis, tubo calycis fusiformi, cymis multi-
floris, floribus monogynis, fructibus ovatis monopyrenis putamine osseo,
stipulis maximis pinnatifidis.

C. heterophylla. Suprd, vol. 14. fol. 1161.

In the fourteenth volume of this work, at fol. 1161, this
species is represented in its flowering state, and some ac-
count is given of its synonyms and general structure. In
that account, however, it is necessary to observe that the
fruit is erroneously described as black.

The accompanying plate will give an idea of its appear-
ance when in fruit.

The tree, whence the drawing was taken, in the Garden
of the Horticultural Society, is one of the handsomest in
that very extensive collection of hardy trees and shrubs.
It forms a dense pyramidal head, leats among the first of
the genus, and is soon covered with a mantle of snow-white
blossoms. After the latter have fallen away the leaves
become fully developed, and from their shining surface,
neat figure, and firmness of texture, render the tree still a
beautiful object. Finally, the rich crimson of the numerous
haws which adorn the branches in the last days of autumn,
harmonizes l)eautifully with the fading verdure of the leaves.

* See fol. 1161.

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* MAXILLA RI A rutescens.

Brownish MaxiUaria.

Nat. Old. ORCHIDACEyE, § VaNDEjE.

MAXILLARIA.—Suprd, vol. 11. fol. 897.

M. rufescens ; pseudobulbis ovatis subtetragonis monophyllis, fdliis lanceolatis
utrinque acuminatls, scapis unifloris (prostratis) vagiuis distantibus, sepalis
petalisque oblongis conformibus obtusis, labello oblongo triJobo etubercu-
lato laciniis lateralibus minimis acutis intermedia elongata emarginata.
Supra, fol. 18U2.irt textu.

A native of Trinidad, whence it was imported by Mr. Lowe
of Clapton. It first flowered at His Grace the Duke of Devon-
shire's at ChatSM^orth, in December 1834, whence I was
favoured with a sketch ; since that time it has appeared in
many other collections.

It requires the usual management of a hot damp stove,
in which it grows freely.

By no means one of the prettiest of the genus, nevertheless
its yellow labellum richly spotted with crimson, is a beautiful
object when closely examined.

This species also occurs in gardens under the name of
M. fucata.

* See folio 1428.

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1849

*GOD]ETIA lepida.

Smart Godetia.

Nat. ord Onagrace^.

GODETIA Spach. Omnia CEnotherae salvis seminibus angulatis quels

comae rudimentum adest marginls dentatse forma chalazam circumdantis.

Omnes annuce, floribus rubicundis v, purpurascentibus, nunquam xanthinis.

G. lepida ; erecta, foliis ovato-lanceolatis integerrimis, petalis subrhombeis ob-
tusis denticulatis, staminibus petalis triplo brevioribus alternis brevioribus,
capsulis sessilibus ovato-oblongis villosis.

Ayinua, pedalis et sesquipedalis, caule stricto ramoso pilis brevibus
adpressis leviter pubescente. Folia ovato-lanceolata, integerrima, subpilosa,
Jloribus cequalia v. paulh longiora. Sepala acuminata, reflexa, villosa,
ovario parum breviora, tubo brevissimo. Petala subrotunda in rhomboideam
formam abeuntia, apice denticulata, pallide purpurascentia, maculd vinoso-
purjmrea. cuneatd in medio apicis. Stamina alterna breviora, antheris pur-
pureis apice fulvis ; petalis triplo breviora. Capsula sessilis, ovaio-oblongay
pilis sessilibus albidis villosa. Semina fusca, depressa, angulata, cunei-
formia, chalazd marginatd denticulatd.

A pretty new annual, found in California by Mr. Douglas.
It was raised in the Garden of the Horticultural Society in
July 1835. In some respects, especially in the spots on its
petals, it resembles Godetia (CEnothera) quadrivulnera, but is
more handsome than that species ; in reality it is most
nearly allied to Godetia (CEnothera) decumbens, already
figured at t. 1221 of this work; but that species, indepen-

* A name the meaning of which is unexplained by its author, M. Spach.

dently of its glaucous leaves, decumbent habit, and whole-
coloured flowers, has less shaggy and more linear fruit.

My reasons for admitting the genus Godetia have been
already given at fol. 1829, in the note.

The relationship of Godetia and Oenothera to Fuchsia is
admitted on all hands ; and everything that appertains to
the latter beautiful genus is so generally interesting that
I gladly avail myself of the present opportunity of pub-
lishing a memorandum, for which I am indebted to Mr.
Allan Cunningham, concerning two apetalous species, one
of which has already been figured in the Flora Peruviana,
and the other lately discovered by Mr. Richard Cunning-
ham in New Zealand.

* F lores ape tali.

F. procumbens ; (Rich. Cunn. MSS.) caule procumbente adscendente, ramis
gracilibus glabris, folils sparsis alternis longe petiolatis lato-elllpticis subro-
tundisve obtusis basi subinde cordatis remote denticulatis ciliatis, paginis
glabris, pedicellis solitariis axillaribus flore ter breviorlbus, perianthio infun-
dibuliformi, lobis lanceolatis reflexis tubo brevioribus, stylo elongato fili-
formi stamina exserta superante, stigmate dilatato lobato pilis paten tibus
tenuiter instructo. A. C.

Totera ab incolis vulgo vocatur.

Hah. in Noveb Zelandiae insula septentrionali : in arenosis prope littora, juxta
pagum Matauri, adversum Insulas Cavallos, ubi in mense Martii floret. —
1834. Bich. Cunningham.

Fruticulus decumbens, virgatus. Rami patentes, graciles, teretes, juniores foliati.
Folia subuncialia, venosa, basi cordiformia minute denticulata utrinque
orlabra. Petioli unciales, complanato — filiformes, glabriusculi, supra canali-
culati. Flores axillares, solitarii, erecti, apetali. Perianthium tubulosum
aurantio-luteura, limbus 4-partitus reflexus ; laciniis aequalibus lanceolatis,
acutis, virldibus, apicibus purpureo-luridis. Staui. 8 ; filamenta fauci inserta;
antherse ovata hilnrnl.i.f.^ n^it.f'-^ o.-o..;,,,,, „„«.i..:t — u.... i,,^,,!;^ nlnri-

ovulatis, ovulis obovatis erectis. Stylus complaiiatus staminibus longior.
Stigma clavatum, lobatuni. Bacca — A. C.

V.apefala; (Ruiz, melius scandens) caule villoso scandente radicante, foliis con-
fertis alternis petiolatis ovatis acuminatis integerrimis, petiolis ramulis
foliisque junioribus copiose villosis, floribus extremitatem versiis ramulorum
subcorymbosis pedicello plus quater longioribus, perianthio elongato tubu-
loso lobis ovatis acutiusculis erecto-patentlbus tubo triple brevioribus, stylo
filiformi staminibus exsertis parum longiore, stigmate lobato glabro. A. C.

Fuchsia apetala. De Cand. prodr. 3. p. 39. Ruiz et Pavon. fl. peruv. 3.
p. 89. t. 322. y, b. {v. s. spont. in herb. Lambert.)

Hab. in Peruvia : in nemoribus circa Huassi-huassi et Muna. Maio floret.
1779. Ruiz, Pavon, Dombey.

Frutex scandens, super arborum truncos radicans. Caulis parum ramosus, teres,
cortice multiplici ferrugineo, radicibus stoloniformibus longissimis arbori-
bus adhserens. Folia venosa subtus purpurascentia, decidua. Petioli
dense villosi. Flores corymboso-umbellati, dependentes, magni, apetali,
sesqui v. 5-pollicares ! Perianthii tubus ruber, limbus quadripartitus rectus,
lobis parvis ovatis dilute luteis. Stamina octo. Bacca oblonga tetrag^ona,
rubra quadripartita. A. C.

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* OXYCjRA chrysanthemoides.

Ox -eye- like Oxyura.

Nat. ord. Composite.

OXYURA. De Cand. in Lindl. Nat. Syst. of Bot. ed. 2. page 259.
Involucrum simplici serie verticlUatum, foliolis herbaceis patentibus basibus suis
cucullatis flosculos radii involventibus. Flosculi radii fere neutri; pappo O,
stylo bilobo, corolld ligulatgl triloba. Flosculi disci hermaphroditi, bracteis
basi membranaceis apice herbaceis stipati ; pappo O ; corolld infundlbulari, pube-
scente, basi paulo gibbosa; antheris muticis ; styli ramis subulatis acutis dorso
villosis. Receptaculum planum.

Oxyura chrysanthemoides. D. C. in Herb. Hort. Soc. Lond.

Annua., erecta, ramosa, leviter pubescens. CanMs purpurascens. Folia
inferiora pinnatifida, laciniis linearibus obtusis sublobatis ; superiora sen-
sim magis integra, suprema integerrima, omnia margine scabriuscula.
Capitula solitaria, pedunculo subclavato tomentoso. Involucrum planiuscu-
lum, foliolis serie simplici verticillatis, herbaceis, ligulatis, obtusis, basi
ovaria flosculorum radialium involventibus ; angulis dorsalibus hispido'Cchi-
natis. Llgulae lato-oblongce, involucro paulo longiores, triloboe, basi lutecE,
apice pallidce. Flosculi disci infundibulares, ovario compresso glabro calvo
(incuria pictoris pessime reprcesentatur hirsutum pappo irregulari setoso) ;
tubus teres basi paululum gibbosus, pubescens, limbi erecti longitudine.
Paleae receptaculi membranacece, pilosce, apice herbacece, barbatce, corol-
larum fere longitudine.

A new genus of Compositae, placed by M. De Candolle, in
his catalogue of the genera of that order in the second edition
of my Natural System of Botany, in the subdivision Madieae,
of the division Galinsogeae, of the suhtrihe Helenieae, of the
tribe Senecionideae, of his first series Tubuliflorse, which nearly
answers to the Corymbiferae of Jussieu.

* It is supposed that this word is formed from oi,vc, sharp, and ovpa, a tail, but
its application is not obvious.

With very much the aspect of Chrysanthemum corona-
rium, except that it is not half so tall, it agrees very nearly
in structure with the widely different genus Madia, especially
in having the ovaries of the florets of the ray enwrapped in
the bases of the leaflets of the involucre.

This species is a hardy annual, introduced by the Horti-
cultural Society from California, where it was found by Mr.
Douglas. It flowers in the months of August and September,
ripening seeds in abundance.

Of the dissections in the accompanying plate, fig. 4 repre-
sents an anther; fig. 2 a floret of the ray with its base
enwrapped in the scale of the involucre ; and fig. 3 the top
of tJie style with the two subulate hairy branches of the
stigma ; but fig. 1 does not belong to the plant ; it has been
introduced by some negligence on the part of the artist.

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1851

* ONCIDIUM altissimum.
Tallest Oncidium.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Vande^e.
ONCIDIUM.— Suprd, vol. 13. fol. J 050.

0. altissimum ; pseudobulbis subrotundis compressis ancipltibus, foliis distichls

ensiformibus carinatis acutis scapo decurvo multo brevioribus, racemo sim-
plicl, sepalis petalisque labelli longitudine lineari-lanceolatis undulatis,
- labello apice dilatato bilobo medio constrlcto basi auriculato, crista ennea-
dactyla, columnee alis rotundatis crenulatis.
Epidendrum altissimum. Jacq. stirp. amer. 2'29. t. 141.

Planta elegans, parasitica arborum. Radices teretes,Jihros(E, cinerece,
numeroscB. Folia acuta, ensiformi-oblonga, avenia, nitida, integerrima,
crassiiiscula, pollicetn lata, sesqui-pollicem longa, hasi carinata, cceterum
plana : orta singula e 7iodo t'el tuber-e ovato, compresso, glabra, ovi interdum
anserini magnitudine ; qui ipse insidet basifolii alius radicalis, unius alte-
riusve, et similis. Inter hoc nodumque exsurgit scapus solitarius, teres,
glaber, colore ferrugineo, tenuis, inclinatus, quadripedalis, superne race-
mosus ; qui ad pedunculos et nodos vestitur spathis membranaceis, lanceo-
latis, cinereisque. Pedunculi bijlori vel trijlori plerumque, distiche alterni.
Flores inodori,Jfavi cum macidis fuscis, numerosi. His sunt petala oblonga,
distincta, utrinque acuta, undulata, subcequalia. Nectarii labii inferioris
lacinia media est suhquadrata, fiavaque tola sine maculis. Reliqua in
charactere obtinent, sicuti in Epidendro (Oncidio) carthaginensi. Jacq.

1. c. 229.

I long ago suspected that two distinct species were con-
founded under the name of O. altissimum, and I even dis-
tinguished, by the name of O. Baueri, what appeared to be
a different species from the Epidendrum altissimum of Jacquin,
which is the original authority for the former name. I was
afterwards led to suppose that O. Baueri was a mere form of
O. altissimum, and I accordingly reduced it to a simple

* See folio 1542.
VOL. xxir. F

variety, in the genera and species of Orcliideous plants. In
this however I am satisfied that I was wrong, as will I think
be evident from the following comparison of the two species
as they were seen last year in the stove of the Messrs.
Loddiofes.

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O, altissimum, Pseudobulbs nearly round, very much compressed, and two-
edged. Leaves acute. Raceme decumbent nearly simple. Colours of the
flower very bright. Wings of the column rounded and a little crenelled.

O. Baueri. Pseudobulbs oblong, a little compressed, only slightly two-edged.
Leaves broader, and rather acuminate. Raceme erect, very compound.
Colour of the flowers rather dingy. Wings of the column very remarkably
truncated.

It is impossible, now that these differences are made out,
to combine the two plants as I once proposed. I therefore
avail myself gladly of an opportunity afforded me by Messrs.
Loddiges of figuring the true O. altissimum; and for the
satisfaction of those who may not have access to the work in
which it was first described, I have added the very words of
Jacquin in speaking of that species.

The O. altissimum figured at fol. 1651 is the true
O, Baueii.

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Oriental Hawthorn.

ISOCANDRIA ni-PENTAGYNlA.

Nat. ord. Rosacea, § Pomaces.
CRAT^G US.— Supra, vol. U. fol. 1 128.

C. orientalis ; foliis subtrifidis inciso-serratis basi cuneatis tomentosis, fructibus
4-5-pyrenis glabris sphaericis nudis, putamine crassissimo,

Mespilus orientalis apli folio villoso, fructu magno pentagono purpureo crlabro
Tour7i. It. vol. 2. p. ]72. " "

Folia tomentosa demum calva ; stipulis magnis semicordatis serratis.
Pedunculi tovieyitosi. Fructus atropurpurei, glahri, subpentagoni, pyrenis
4-5 osseis, putamine crassissimo.

A very handsome tree, with large snow-white fragrant
vernal flowers, and rich purple autumnal leaves. When
young it has a gray appearance because its leaves are downy ;
at a more advanced age it becomes green in consequence of
the leaves losing their hairiness.

This I take it is the genuine Oriental Mespilus of Tour-
nefort, with villous celery leaves, and a large purple 5-
cornered smooth fruit, and is undoubtedly distinct from C.
odoratissima to which some have referred it, as well as from
C. tanacetifolia ; each of these last mentioned species will be
figured hereafter.

C. orientalis forms a small close-headed tree, with the

Sec folio 1161.

F 2

aspect of C. odoratissima. It is propagated by grafting or
budding upon the common Hawthorn. The drawing was
made in the Garden of the Horticultural Society last October.

It is a native of the Crimea and the parts bordering on
the Black Sea.

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1853

* 0RNITH6gALUM chloroleucum.
Green and White Ornithogalum.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Liliace^.
ORNITHOGALUM.—Supra, vol. 8. tab. 158.

O. chloroleucum ; foliis acuminatis canaliculatls strictis racemi corymbosi longi-
tudine, filamentis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis conformibus laciniis perianthil
brevioribus, sepalis petalisque oblongis obtusis.

Folia scBpius racemi longitudine, aliqudndo breviora. Floras parvi,
patenfes. Ovarii loculamenta polysperma, ovulis imbricatis alatis ascen-
dentibus. Stigma d-fidum.

Found not nncommonly in the vicinity of Valparaiso,
whence it has been brought by several collectors. It is the

* " An ancient name, adopted by the Latins from the Greeks, evidently de-
rived from opvic, opvL^OQ, a bird, and yaXa, milk ; but its application has
proved a stumbling block to most etymologists. Ambrosinus presumes the word
may allude, either to the shining milky-white of the flowers, like that of a hen's
egg ; or to the white egg-shaped bulbs. Tournefort supposes the flowers, being
green when closed, and white when expanded, may have been compared to the
wings of several birds. Linnseus first gave the true explanation, in suggesting
{Mant. 364. Preselect, in Ord. Nat. 287.) that the O. umbellatum appears to
be the " dove's dung,'' mentioned in the 2nd Book of Kings, chap. vi. 5. 25. as
having fetched so high a price during the siege of Samaria. It is recorded by the
sacred writer, that a quarter of a cab of dove's dung then sold for five pieces of
silver ; and the rabbinical commentators, taking the words literally, have asserted,
absurdly enough, that it was used as fuel. As the plant grows copiously in
Palestine, whence the English name. Star of Bethlehem, and the roots are still
in common use for food in that country, the name is explained by the resem-
blance in the colours of the flower to the dung of birds, the white or milky parts
of which, their urine, is contrasted with dull green, exactly as in the petals of
this original species of the genus before us, and which appears to be the very one
described by Dioscoridcs. " — Smith.

number 692 of Ciimings collection, 343 of Bridges, and
270 of Matthews.

It is a frame bulb, flowering in July. The specimen
from which the drawing was taken was furnished by Robert

Mangles, Esq.

There is no previously described species that can be
confounded with it.

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1854

* CAMELLIA japonica, Donckelaeri.

Donckelaers Japan Camellia.

MONADELPHIA MONOGYNIA.
Nat. ord. TERNSTROMIACEiE.

CAMELLIA.— Suprd, vol. l.fol. 22.

Camellia japonica, vide suprd, I. c.

Garden Variety.

A remarkably beautiful variety, for the opportunity of
figuring which we are obliged to Mr. Lowe of Clapton.
It is said to be a genuine Japanese kind, and to have been
brought to Holland by Dr. Siebold.

The blotching of the petals and "the general appearance
of the specimen have been very happily expressed by Miss
Drake in the accompanying figure.

* See folio 1267.

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1855

* CRATAEGUS maroccana.

Morocco Hawthojii.

ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Rosacea, § Pomace^e.
CRATMGUS. -Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1128.

C. viaroccana ; foliis cuneatls glabris 3-5-fidis 3-lobisque lobis integrls sub-
falcatis, calycibus glabris, fructibus subrotundis glabris dipyrenis, putamine
crassissimo.

C. maroccana. DC. prodr. 2. 628.

C. aronia. Decaisne in Ann. Sc. n. ser. 3. 264 ; not of others.

Folia glabra, longipetiolata, integra, triloba, Z-fida, 5-Jida, into 3-5-

partita, lobis scepius integerrimis acutis nunc subfalcatis. Poma pallide

lateritia, subrotunda, dipyrena, putamine crassissimo.

Said, I know not on what authority, to be a native of
Barbary ; but it is not mentioned by Desfontaines, nor have
1 seen any certain specimen from that country.

It however undoubtedly occurs in Palestine, having been
collected on Mounts Sinai and St. Catharine by M. Bove, in
June 1832; its Arabian name is Sarrour. C. Aronia, to which
M. Decaisne referred M. Bove's specimens, is essentially dif-
ferent, as I shall hereafter shew.

It is not improbable that C. maroccana is a mere variety
of C. heterophylla, t. 1847 ; to which it approaches very
nearly in some respects. Independently however of the form
and colour of the fruit, and of the shape of tlie leaves, by

* See folio 1161.

which these species are sufficiently distinguishable, the sti-
pules of C. maroccana are smaller, the growth less vigo-
rous, and the fruit has usually two stones instead of one.

The drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul-
tural Society.

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1856

* GODETIA rubiciinda.

Ruddy Godetia.

OCTANDRIA MONOGVNIA.

Nat. ord. Onagrace^e.
GODETIA.— Suprd, vol. 22. /o/. 1849.

G. rubicunda ; erecta, foliis lineari-lanceolatis subdentatis viridibus, petalis sub-
rotundo-cunealis undulatis immaculatis, staminibus alternis minorlbus, an-
theris Igneis apice luteis cassis, stigmatlbus pallidis, capsulls linearibus ses-
silibus truncatis, seminibus elongatb cuneatis.

Caulis erectus, 2-pedalis, ramosus, leviter pubescens. Folia viridia,
lineari-lanceolata subdentata. Flores magni, rubicundi. Calyx tubo brevi
obconico. Petala unicolora, basi exceptd igned, subrotundo-cuneata, tindu-
lata, sepalis duplb staminibus fer^ triplh longiora. Stamina alterna bre-
viora, antheris igneis subrostratis apice recurvantibus luteis cassis. Stig-
mata pa /Zic?a linearia rejiexa. Capsula leviter pubescens, subsessilis, linea-
ris, truncata, tetragona. Semina elongata, rhombea, cinereo fuscoque
nebulosa.

A handsome species found in California by Mr. Douglas,
and raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society. It
forms an agreeable contrast with G. Lindleyana, in conse-
quence of the want of spots, and the peculiar ruddy appear-
ance of its petals. Flowers in July and August.

In many respects it approaches G. lepida, already figured
in this work (fol. 1220) ; but it is abundantly distinguished
by the following circumstances. The leaves are green and
not glaucous, the flowers are twice as large and a bright flame
colour at the base of the petals, while the purple blotch near
the apex of those of G. lepida is wanting. In G. rubicunda
the anthers are alternately shorter, of a rich flame colour,

* Sec fol. 1849.

except at the tips, where they are yellow, and rolled back-
ward ; in G. lepida they are all equal, of one uniform, pale
yellowish hue, and not turned back at the point. In G. ru-
hicunda, the stigma is a very pale lilac, almost white, in
G. lepida it is a rich dark purple; the seeds too of the former
are far more slender than those of the latter species.

A hardy annual.

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1857

* ZYG0P6tALUM cochleare.

Spoon-lipped Zygopetalum.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Vande^.

Z YGOPETA L UM, Hooker. PeriantMum explanatum, sepalls petalisque
ascendentibus subsequalibus, cum ungue producto columntB connatis. Labellum
muticum, indivisum, patens, ungue ascendente : crista magna transversa carnosa.
Columna brevis, arcuata, semiteres. Anthera subbilocularis. Pollinia 2,

bipartibilia, in glandulam transversam subsessilia.' Herbae terrestres, sub-

acaules, foliis plicatis patentibus. Flores speciosi, labello coeruleo. Gen.
et Sp. Orch. 187.

Z. cochleare ; foliis plicatis peduuculis unifloris radioalibus solitariis duplo
longioribus, sepalis petalisque ovato-lanceolatis conniventibus inferioribus
majoribus, labello cochleato bilobo crista transversa crenata.

Pseudobulbi nzfZZi. Y o\\a, pallidt viridia ohovata vel oblonga, plicata,
pedem longa, infima abbreviata petiolaria. Pedunculi ex axillis foliorum
infimoriiviy basi vaginati, unijiori, erecti, apice sub ovario bracted cucullatd
oblongd. Ovarium albidum, incurvum. Perianthium semi-explanatum.
Sepala ovata, subundulata, acuta, albo-viridia, lateralia majora. Petala
sepalo svpremo conformia et ccqualia. l^aheWum cum columna basi paululum
elongata articulatum, concavujn, unciam latum, 1 j unc. longum, indivisum,
emarginatum, extus albidum, intus venis creberrimis atrocceruleis velutinis
pictum ; breve unguiculatum, supra unguem callo lato rotundato convexo
plurie s plicato et cristato instructum. Columna teres clavata, dorso viridi-alba,
fronte purjmreo-striata, basi paululum producta. Antbera bilocularis valvis
hilabiatis. Pollinia 4, per paria incumbentia.

Beautiful as all the species of Zygopetalum are, without
exception, this is perhaps upon the whole the most attractive,
not only on account of the delicate waxy surface of the petals
and sepals, and the peculiarly rich veining of the Lapis lazuli
blue of its lip, but because of its delicious fragrance. If Lilies

* So named by Sir William Hooker from (tvyvvb), to join ; in allusion to the
adhesion of the segments of the perianth by their bases, in the original species.

of the Valley were growing intermingled with the plants, the
air could not be more perfumed with their pure and delight-
ful odour than it is after the curious flowers have unfolded.

Like all the other species of the genus, this is easily cul-
tivated in earth in a damp stove. It is a native of Trinidad.
The drawing was made from a specimen supplied by Mr.
Knight, in August last.

1. represents a front view of the column, with the bases
of the petals and lips adhering to it ; 2. is a view of the
fleshy ridge of the lip ; and 3. shews the pollen masses and
their glands.

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1858

* HABENARIA procera.

Tall Habenaria.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^. § OpHRYDEiE.

HABENARIA, Willd. Perianthium Orchidis. Calcar elongatum.
Colunma libera reclinata. Anthera basibus loculorum solutis divergentibus ca-
nalibus stigmaticis adhserentibus. Glanduloe nudse. Rostellum planum, an-
tberae adnatuin. Processus carnosi 2 stigraatici, ultra antheram projicientes,
forma varil. — Habitus Orchidis. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 306.

A. Erostres; ovariis pedunculatis subcylindraceis aut fusiformibus, nunquam
rostratis.

§ 2. Petala indivisa.
a. Labellum trifidum, laciniis Jiliformibus indivisis.

H. procera ; caule folioso, foliis oblongis basi cucuUatis patentibus sensim in
bracteis decrescentibus, racemo multifloro, bracteis herbaceis inferioribus
foliaceis ovarii longitudine superioribus parvis ovatis, labelli tripartiti laciniis
lateralibus linearibus intermedia latiore paul6 brevioribus, calcare pendulo
clavato ovario duplo longiore.

Orchis procera. Swartz in Pers. syn. 2. 506.

Habenaria procera. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 318,

Caulis bipedalis, foliis circiter 5 cequidistantibus dimidiam inferiorem
vestientibus. Racemus laxus, multiflorus, 8 poll, longus. Ovaria 2^-polL
Sepala ovata, alba apice viridia, lateralia latiora patentissima, supremum
concavum cum petalis ovatis erectis albis dorso viridulis galeam referentibus.
Labellum yere j9oZ/icem longum, album, laciniis apice luteo-viridibus. Calcar
3^-poll. longum, basi album, cceterum viride. Columna parva, alba, carnosa,
reclinata, auriculis {staminibus ster.^ rotundatis. Anthera ochracea, loculis
distantibus basibus elongatis, jjaululum incurvis, a canalibus stigmaticis
facile separabilibus, caudiculam longam Jiliformem in gremio sua foventibus
cui glandula parva pallida adnascifur. Canalia stigmatica linearia alba,
truncata, crassitiei cequabilis. Rostellum planum antheroe adnatum. Pro-
cessus carnosi herbacei, ultra os calcaris arcuatim projicientes, et canalibus
stigmaticis paulb longiores.

* From habena a rein or thong, in allusion to the long strap-shaped spur*
VOL. XXII. G

This rare species is a native of Sierra Leone, where it was
found by Afzelius many years since. It was afterwards
introduced with a brief character into Persoon's Synopsis,
and from that time remained unknown, until it was im-
ported last year by Messrs. Loddiges, in whose stove it
flowered in August.

It offers an excellent illustration of the characters of the
curious genus Hahenaria, as limited in the genera and species
o/" Orchideous plants, and will shew the student in a distinct
manner what the points are in which it differs from the
genus Platanthera, whither I refer our British Butterfly
Orchis, to which this bears a striking resemblance. In order
to make this clear, attention should be paid to the magnified
figure of a column extracted from the flower, and placed at
the right hand corner of the accompanying plate. In this
the lower white portion to the left is the column, with
an auricle or sterile stamen at its upper corner to the right.
Immediately proceeding from this in a curved direction
upwards are the white stigmatic canals, in whose hollow the
lengthened bases of the anther are placed when in their
natural position. The upper yellow body which divides
downw^ards into two legs is the anther ; the legs are its lobes,
which lengthen at their lower end and fit into the stigmatic
canals, enclosing the pollen masses in their upper portion,
and in their lower keeping the caudicle of the pollen in such
a position that it must inevitably come in contact with the
gland which once formed the tip of the stigmatic canal, but
which eventually separates from the latter, adhering to the
caudicle, as is seen in the thread-shaped processes, which in
the figure rise up from the anther-bases. All these parts
equally exist in the genus Platanthera. But in Hahenaria
we find an addition of two greenish horns, which spring
from the lower edge of the stigma, skirting the orifice of the
spur, and finally project beyond the latter, as is seen in the
figure. These horns, which are considered to be processes
of the stigma, do not occur in Platanthera, unless in a very
rudimentary state, while in Hahenaria they are always so
fully and obviously developed as to form conspicuous objects,
even when the flowers are dried.

It may appear to some Botanists that this is but a slight
distinction upon wliicli to found a genus. But it is to be
remembered, firstly, that it is a decided organic difference,
inasmuch as it is the developement of a new organ in the
apparatus for reproduction; secondly, that it is a constant
and obvious character which in many cases is far more
remarkable than even in the species before us ; and more-
over, that after being limited within the comparatively
narrow bounds that I have assigned it, and after striking off
the genera Bonatea, Peristylus, Platanthera, Aopla, and
another or two, the genus Habenaria still comprehends no
fewer than eighty-five well ascertained species, to which
many more will doubtless have to be added.

This plant must have the heat of a damp stove, when in a
growing state, but will doubtless partake of the habits of its
kindred species in requiring a long period of coolness and
dryness, while its roots are at rest, after the leaves have
perished.

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1859

* CATTLEYA labiata.

Crimson-lipped Cattleya.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHiDACEiE, § Epidendre^.
CATTLEYA.— Suprd, vol. \4.foL 1172.

C. labiata ; sepalis lineari-lanceolatis, petalis membranaceis lato-lanceolatis
acutis subundulatis, labello obovato undulato obtuso iiidiviso, pseudobulbis
oblongis angulatis, spatha maxima foliacea. Gen. Sf Sp. Orch. pi. p. 116.

C. labiata. Lindl. Collect. Bot. t. 33. Hooker Exot. fi. \51 , Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t. 1856.

A native of Brazil, whence it was introduced about 18
years ago by Mr. William Swainson. It has since that time
been represented in most of our Botanical periodicals, so that
I fear I shall hardly stand excused for reproducing it here.
Nevertheless, all the plates above quoted are deficient in the
richness of colour that is so peculiarly characteristic of the
species, and that constitutes its chiefest ornament ; and the
knowledge of the existence of so truly beautiful species can-
not be too widely diffused, the more especially as this, like
the rest of its genus, requires the excessive heat and damp-
ness of an Orchideous house in a less degree than many other
kinds.

It is one of those plants which flourish so remarkably in
the hothouse at Wentworth, with no greater dampness and
heat than can be endured by human beings without incon-
venience.

* See folio 1406.

The specimen selected for representation in this place is
a small one, with its colours remarkably rich and well deve-
loped ; it is figured in the Botanical Cabinet with four
flowers in a cluster, and I have seen it with six. In such a
state, and with several stems, each laden with flowers in a
similar manner, there is certainly no plant of which I have
any knowledge that can be said to stand forth with an equal
radiance of splendour and beauty. For it is not merely the
large size of the flowers, and the deep rich crimson of one
petal contrasted with the delicate lilac of the others that con-
stitute the loveliness of this plant, it owes its beauty in
almost an equal degree to the transparency of its texture,
and the exquisite clearness of its colours, and the graceful
manner in which its broad flag-like petals wave and inter-
mingle when they are stirred by the air, or hang half droop-
ing half erect when at rest and motionless.

The drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural
Society in October last.

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1860

* CRATiEGUS Crus Galli, var. ovalifolia.

Oval-leaved Cockspur Thorn.

TCOSANDRIA DI-PEliTAGYNlA.

Nat. ord. Rosacea, § Pomaces.
CRATjEGUS.-Supnl, vol. 13. fol. 1128.

C crus-galli; foliis obovato-cuneiformibus nitidis glabris tard^ deciduis, spinis

longissimis validls, pedicellis glabris, fructibus pyriformibus 3-pyrenis.
C. crus-galli. Linn. Sp.pl. 632. DC. prodr. 2. 626.
Mespilus Crus Galli. Poir. diet. 4. 441.
C. lucida. Wangenh. am. t. 17. y. 42.

Mespilus lucida. Ehrh. Dum. Cours. Bot. cult. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 448.
? M. nana. Dum. Cours. Suppl. 386.
M. linearis. Desf. arb. 2. 156.

var. ovalifolia, foliis latioribus, minus cuneatis, longiiis petiolatis, minus lucidis.
C. crus-galli ovalifolia. Loud. Arbor. Britt. t. xxxi. c. e.
C. ovalifolia. Hornem. hart. kafn. suppl. 52. DC. prodr. 2. 627,

The Cockspur Thorn is a hardy small tree, found wild in
North America, in woods and hedges and on the banks of
rivers, from Canada to Carolina. Its name is derived from
the length of its powerful curved spines.

Two varieties are common in our gardens, the broad-
leaved and the Pyracantha leaved, both which have remark-
ably smooth shining leaves, and rather a dense mode of
branching. This, which is less known to the Nurserymen,
has more oval and less shining leaves, and a more open head.

It has been described as a distinct species, but I think Mr.
Loudon right in looking upon it as a mere variety of C. crus-

* See folio 1161.

gallL Sometimes it passes in the nurseries under the name
of C. pemisylvanica.

A particularly handsome tree, in even this handsome
genus. No trace of the variety has been remarked in a wild
state, and it is not improbable that it is altogether of a garden
origin.

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1861

* MORMODES atropurpiirea.

Dark-purple Mormodes.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Vande^.

MORMODES. Lindl. Sepalum superius subfornicatum, angustum ;
latercdia conformia reflexa. Petala latiora, conformia, erecta. Labellum sel-
leeforme, ascendens, trilobatum, subcuneatum, apiculatum, cum columna articula-
tum. Columna semiteres, mutica ; gynizus longus angustus ; clinandrium
postice acuminatum. Pollinia 4, per paria connata, caudlculse crassse affixa,
glandulffi carnosae crassae adhsErenti. — Habitus Cataseti. Lindl. Nat. Syst. of
Botany, ed. 2. p. 446.

Mormodes atropurpurea.

Pseudobulbi caulescentes, Cataseti fade, polyphylli, oblongi, hasibus
folioruni distantibus vaginantibus imbricati. Folia plicata (Cataseti), 3-5-
costati, erecti, apice recurvi. Racemus lateralis, densus, ohlongus, pedun-
culatus, pseudobulbo altior. Flores atropurpurei. Sepala lineari-oblonga
(Bqualia, reflexa, basibus lateralium paulo obliquis et ungui labelli adnatis.
Petala ovata, erecta, supra columnam conniventia. Labellum replicatum,
retrorsum arcuatum, circumscriptione cuneatum, leviter unguiculatum, trilo-
bum, lateribus defiexis venosis, loho intermedio magis carnoso, cuspidato, sub-
trilobo. Columna compressa, rostrato-acuminata, cum labello continua,
erecta, mutica, anthera postice rostratd, gynizo oblongo. Pollinia 4, per
paria connata, caudiculce subcucullatce adnata, glanduld concavd crassd.

Sent to me in December last from the garden of John
Willmore, Esq. of Oldford near Birmingham, with whom
it then flowered for the first time. It had been imported
from the Spanish Main in 1834. It is a new genus, differing
from Catasetum and Myanthus in the want of cirrhi upon the
column, and from Monachanthus in its lip (fig. 1.) being
membranous and curved upwards, with the sides turned down-

* From iiopfxij a frightful-looking object, a goblin, in allusion to the strange,
appearance of the flowers.

wards, like the sides of a saddle, instead of being fleshy and
helmet-shaped.

The leaves are pale green ; the flowers one uniform rich
purple.

A tender stove plant, requiring the same treatment as
Catasetum, Cycnoches, &c. With reference to Orchideous
plants, with this habit, it may in general be observed, that
they require to be kept cool and dry when not in a growing
state, to be forced gently into growth, and when in the full
vigour of their vegetation to have a copious supply of mois-
ture. They will at that season even introduce their roots
into water, if they are allowed, and flourish the more under
such treatment.

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1862

* KENNEDYA? macrophylla.

Large-leaved Kennedya.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Leguminos^e or Fabace^.
KENNEDYA.— Supn), vol. W.fol. 944.

§ 2. Foliis 3-foliolatis, carind vexillo et alis breviore.

K. macrophylla ; foliolis 3 ovato-oblongis retusis mucronulatis petioli longitu-
dine, stlpulis setaceis petiolulis sequalibus, racemis multlfloris foliorum lon-
gitudine.

A beautiful greenhouse twining shrub, introduced by Sir
James Stirling from Swan River in New Holland. It was
raised in the garden of Robert Mangles, Esq. at Sunning Hill,
from whence specimens were received in the course of last
summer.

It is in many respects so much like K. Comptoniana as to
render it doubtful whether it is more than a variety of that
species. It appeared, however, to differ in being altogether
a more vigorous plant; its leaf-stalks were as long as the
leaflets and not shorter ; the reticulations of its leaves were
more coarse ; and I did not remark any tendency to produce
those linear leaflets which always accompany the original
K. Comptoniana.

This will be usually trained to the rafter or column of a
greenhouse ; but a pretty mode of managing such plants is
that, practised in the garden of Mrs. Lawrence, of twining the

_t _ — — .

* See folio 1421.

stems round and round to stakes fixed into the sides of the
pot, so that the plant is compelled to grow round itself. The
result of this is the collection into the compass of a bush of
hundreds of clusters of flowers, which would otherwise be
scattered over the roof of a greenhouse, and too far removed
from the eye to enable the beautiful form and colour to be
distinctly seen.

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1863

TRlCHOPfLIA tortilis.

Twisted-petalled Trichopilia.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Nat. Ord. OrCHIDACE^, § VANDEiE. '

TRICHOPILIA. Lindl. Sepala et petala aequalia, patentia, angusta.
Labellum magnum, petaloideum, convolutum, c. columna parallelum, trilobum,
lobo intermedio sub-bilobo planiusculo ; intus nudum. Columna teres, clavata.
Clinandrium cucullatum, 3-lobum, villoso-fimbriatum. Anthera l-locularis,
compressa, antice convexa, Pollinia 2, postice sulcata, caudicula; tenui cuneatse
adhaerentia ; glandula minimi. — Pseudobulbi carnosi, vaginis maculatis super-
tecti, monophylli, coriacei. Floras solitarii axillares. Lindl, Natural System
of Botany, ed. 2. p. 446.

Trichopilia tortilis.

Pseudobulbi ohlongi, sulcati, compressi, vaginis fusco-maculatis arete
vestiti, aliquandb folii fere longitudine. Folia solitaria, oblonga, coriacea,
acuta, plana, v. leviter complicata. Flores solitarii, axillares, horizontales,
sessiles. Sepala et petala cequalia, lineari-lanceolata, patentissima, spira-
liter torta, margine crispatula, fusco-lutea, disco latentia. Labellum 2-poll.
longum, circa colutnnam convolutum, album, maculis pluribus magnis in-
cequalibus ad interius ; limbo 3-lobo intermedio subbilobo. Columna cum
ovario contimia, teres, clavata, alba; clinandrio cucullato triloba; lobis
ascendentibus, falcatis, ciliato-laceris. Anthera compressa, apiculata. Pol-
linia 2, parva, pyriformia, postic^ sulcata, caudiculd cuneatd inserta, glan-
duld minimd ovali. Gynizus excavatus, paululum oblique retrorsum versus.

A beautiful and highly curious plant, introduced from
Mexico in 1835, and communicated in January last by
George Barker, Esq. of Springfield near Birmingham. In
many respects the genus approaches Maxillaria, but differs
in the column not being reclinate upon the ovary and sub-
tended by the partially united lateral sepals, in the regular

* From dpii,, Tpi-)(6c hair, and irtXtov a cap ; the anther of this genus is con-
cealed below a cap surmounted with three tufts of hair.

expansion of botli sepals and petals, and especially in the
singular column, (fig. 1.) terminated by three little plume-
like lobes which unite at their bases into a sort of hood,
that covers over a remarkably compressed anther (fig. 2.).

The white of the lip, which is very clear and pure, forms
a brilliant contrast with the rich blotches of deep crimson
that ornament the interior of the little funnel formed by the
rolling of the lip round the column.

From the habit of this plant it may be conjectured that it
will thrive in the stove, under the same treatment as Maxil-
1 arias.

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* LYCHNIS Bungeana.

Bunges Lychnis.

DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.

Nat. Ord. SiLENACE^ (CARYOPHYLLEiE).

LYCHNIS.— Supra, vol. Q.fol. 478.

L. Bimgeana ; calyclbus clavatis pedicello bracteisque longioribus, petalis incisis,

foliis ovatis lanceolatisque pubescentibus, florlbus solitariis.
Lychnis Bungeana. Fischer MSS.
Agrostemma Bungeana. Don in Sweet's Fl. Garden, t. 317.

A very beautiful species, sent to England last year by
Dr. Fischer of St. Petersburgh. It is not quite hardy, suf-
fering both from the dryness and the coldness of the open
air, but thriving well in a cool greenhouse or frame, if fully
exposed to light. If the latter point is not attended to the
specimens become weak, and the brilliancy of the flowers is
impaired.

It strikes freely from cuttings, and will soon become com-
mon enough. The accompanying drawing was made in the
garden of the Horticultural Society in August last.

The species is very like a one-flowered state of L. fulgens.

* A-vyvvQ a lamp, is said to have given its name to this genus, because tlie
cottony leaves of some species were employed as wicks for lamps.

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* DENDR6bIUM macrostachyum.

Long-spiked Dendrohium.

GYNANDRIA MONANDHIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHiDACEiE, § Malaxide^.
DENDROBIUM.— Supra, vol. l.fol. 548.

D. macrostachyum ; caulibus teretibus pendulis flagelliformibus, foliis ovato-
lanceolatis submembranaceis, floribus ternatis racemum spurium formantibus,
sepalis ovatis acutis, petalis lanceolatis sepalo supremo subaequalibus, labello
cucullato venoso : limbo ovato obtuso ciliato intus pubescente. Gen. ^
Sp. Orch. 78.

A native of Ceylon, where it was discovered by the late
Mr. James Macrae, who some years ago sent me dried
specimens and a drawing of it. Upon the former I found a
minute blanched portion that seemed still alive ; this was
fastened by a nail and shred to a damp shady wall in a stove
in the garden of the Horticultural Society, where it gradually
recovered its green colour and began to grow. By tending
it carefully, and not feeding it until it had recovered the
effects of its long fast while buried between two sheets of
brown paper in a dry chest, it gradually recovered and grew
into a plant, the offspring of which has been distributed.
From one of them, which flowered in the garden of Mr.
Bateman, the accompanying drawing was prepared in June
last.

The species approaches to D. Pierardi, cucullatum, and
pulchellum, than all of which it is less beautiful, and it requires
precisely the same treatment as those species.

* See folio 1249.

VOL. XXII. H

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1860

* MANfiTTIA cordifolia.

Heart-leaved Manettia.

TETRANDRIA MONOGyNlA.
Nat.ord. ClNCHONACE^.

MANETTIA, Muds. Calycis tubus turbinatus, limbus partitus in lobos
tot quot corollini aut dupli, lobulis in sinubus saepe interpositis. Corolla infun-
dibuliformis, tubo tereti, fauce piloso-hirsuta, lobis 4, rarissime 5. AnthercB
in fauce sessiles. Capsula ovata, compressa, calycinis lobis coronata, ab apice
ad basin septicido dehiscens, raericarpiis cymbiformibus. Placentce a septo
subexsertae. Semina imbricata subsessilia peltata, margine membranaceo sae pills
dentato undique alata. Embryo erectus in albumine carnoso ; cotyledonibus
foliaceis lanceolatis. — Yievh^ per ennes, suffruticesve. Caules et rami voliibiles,
graciles. Folia, ovato-oblonga, aut subcordata. Stipulse latce, breves, acutcE,
scepius cum peliolorum basi subconcretce. Pedunculi axillares uni aut mul-
tiflori. DC. prodr. 4. 362.

M. cordifolia ; caule herbaceo volubili tereti scabriusculo, foliis ovatis basi cor-
datis apice acutis utrinque subtiliter pubescentibus, pedunculis axillaribus
1-floris. DC. I. c.

M. cordifolia. Mart. spec, rnat, med. bras. p. 19. t. 7.

A beautiful hothouse climber, running to the length of
four or five feet, and clothed with a profusion of scarlet
trurnpet-shaped flowers in the month of June. It strikes
freely from cuttings.

It has already been so well described by Dr. von Martins
that I have nothing to add, except that I do not find the
corolla hairy on the inside ; the ovules are arranged in an
unusual manner, upon cylindrical placentae, which spring
from near the base of the dissepiment, (fig. 1 and 2).

* So called after Xavier Manetti, a Professor of Botany at Florence, who
published a work on Italian Fruit Trees in 1751.

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A native of hedges and copses, and the skirts of forests
in Brazil, near Villarica and elsewhere in the Province of
ihe Mines, where it is accounted a potent medicine in cases
of dropsy and dysentery. The bark of its root is powdered,
and administered in doses from J to IJ drachm; it acts as
an emetic.

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1867

* EPIDENDRUM armeniacum.

Apricot-coloured Epidendrum.

GYNANDRIA MONANDIUA.
Nat. Ord OrCHIDACE^, § EpiDENDREiE.

EPIDENDRUM.— Suprd, vol. 1. tab. 17.

E. armeniacum ; caulibus teretibus, foliis lanceolatis coriaceis acutis subplicatis,
racemis pedunculatis cylindraceis nutantibus, sepalis patulis ovatis acutis,
petalis setaceis, labelli subcucuUati laclniis lateralibus rotundatis intennedia
ovata acuminata : callo magno oblongo in disco.

Caules erecti, compressi, semipedales, foliis 3-4?;e distantibus in spa-
tham abeuntibus vestiti. Racemus "i-A poll. Floras minuti armeniaci coloris.
Bractese setacece ovario triplb breviores.

A native of Brazil, where it was found in company with
Grobya Amherstige, figured at fol. 1740 of this work. It
was first seen in England in flower in the year 1835, at one
of those splendid exhibitions in the Garden of the Horticul-
tural Society, which attest more strongly than even the
country residences of our nobility and gentry, the skill and
perseverance of English gardeners. There, in the midst of
the dazzling scarlet or pink of various kinds of Cacti, and
surrounded by the brilliant plumes of Chinese Azalea flowers,
that weighed down their graceful branches, which really
seemed as if they were proud of their lovely burthen, from a
basket of humble moss, a little tuft of stems of this species was
seen to rear its modest head, as if in hopelessness of attracting
notice in so gay a company. The neatness however of its tiny
flowers, the pleasing tint of its apricot-coloured petals, the ele-
gant form of their slightly nodding or even drooping clusters,
and the novelty of their form in so well known a genus as

* See folio 1415.

Epidendrum, arrested the curious observer, who soon found
the symmetry and simple elegance of the little blossoms of
Epidendrum armeniacum compensate for the absence of
those more obvious beauties that adorned its gaudier rivals.

It is a stove plant, increasing readily by division of its
tufted stems, like E. elongatum, and the kindred of that
common species. It was imported by Messrs. Rollissons of
Tooting, to whom I was indebted for a specimen in the month
of June.

Fig. 1, is a profile view of the lip, with its column;
Fig. 2, is the lip cut from the column, and viewed from
above, with the great callus that occupies its middle; Fig. 3,
represents the pollen masses, with their powdery reflexed
caudicle.

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1868

* CRAXilGUS prunif61ia.
Plum-leaved Thorn.

ISOCANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Rosacea, § Pome^.
CRATAEGUS.— Supra, vol. 13. foL 1128.

C. prunifolia; foliis oblongis inaequaliter serratis glabriusculis, spinis medio-

cribus rectis, pedunculis villosis, fructibus oblongis dipyrenis.
C. prunifolia. Bosc. in DC. prodr. 2. 627.
Mespilus prunifolia. Poir. Diet. 4. 443.

Apparently a distinct species of Thorn in the way of
C. crus-gaili ovalifolia, from which it is readily known by
its shaggy flower-stalks, and its less pear-shaped fruits, each
of which contains 2 instead of 3 stones.

Its mode of growth is very much that of the broad-leaved
Crataegus Crus Galli, but it is a taller tree, with a richer
green in the summer, and a deeper tint of crimson in its
autumnal leaves. It does not lose its leaves till late.

Said to be a native of North America.

* Seefol. 1161.

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* HYACINTHUS spicatus.

Spike-jiowered Hyacinth.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYi^lA.

Nat. ord. Liliace^.

HYACINTH US. Suprd, vol. 5. fol. 398.

H. spicatus ; coroUis campanulatis semisexfidis spicatis, staminibus membra-
naceis. Smith prodr.Ji. Gr. 1.237.

Folia linearia, debilia, humifusa, 6 poll, circiter longa, Icete viridia.
Scapus erectus, nudus, 2 poll, longus, spicam gerens brevem densam subova-
tamS-9-Jioram. Bractese membranacece, diaphance, cuique fieri duce,inaquales,
opposifcE, semisagittatce, subdentatce. Perianthium campanulatum, semisex-
fidum, laciniis patentibus, apice revolutis, lacteis, per axin cceruleis. Fila-
menta membranacea, 3-dentata, dente medio antherifero, inter se et cum
tubo perianthii connata. Antherae atrocoerulecE sessiles in fauce tubi. Ova-
rium 5M6ro^MwrfM7rt, ovulis aliquot teretibus a placenta centrali radiantibus.

Ripe seeds of this plant were gathered in April, 1826,
in the island of Zante, by H. F. Talbot, Esq. and were
raised in his garden at Lacock Abbey, Wilts, whence a
drawing and specimen were communicated to me in February
last.

* 'YafCivSoe, a name adopted from the ancient Greeks, who applied it to the
flower supposed to have sprung from the blood of Hyacinthus, the favourite of
Apollo, when accidentally slain. Great differences have arisen amongst commen-
tators concerning the plant of the ancients, which we cannot presume to settle,
but there seems no paramount authority for the present application of the name
in question. — Smith. Linnaeus supposes it to have been the wild Larkspur,
Sprengel the common Gladiolus or Cornjlag, Martyn and Fee the Martagon
Lily, while others have endeavoured to shew that the Hyacinths of the Greeks
were the same as the Vaccinia nigra of Virgil, or the bilberries of the English,
the Vaccinium Myrtillus of Botanists.

Mr. Talbot considers it to be the rare and little known
H. spicatus of Smith, which Dr. Sibthorp also gathered in
the island of Zante, where it is said to be called BorboL
As a species it is well marked by its crow^ned sessile half erect
flowers, and the double membranous bracts that subtend it.
These are unequal, attached as it were by one edge, and
slightly toothed ; they are correctly represented at fig. 2.
Fig. 1, shews the structure of the perianth when cut open.

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1870

* EPIDEiNDRUM clavatum.

Cluh-stfmmed Mpidendrum.

GYNANDRIA MOJV^A'DR/.l.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Epidendre^.
EPIDENDRUM.—Siiprd, vol. l.fol. 17.

E. clavaUun ; caule clavato in pseudobulbum ovale desinente diphyllo, foliis
lanceolatis patulis, racemo simplici subffiquali, bracteis ovatis canaliculatis
acutis ovarlis inferioribus duplo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque lanceolato-
linearibus cequaliter patentibus, columna clavata,, labelli tripartitl basi bical-
losi lacinlis lateralibus ovatis subfalcatis margine posteriore denticukto :
intermedia unguiculata lamina ovata acuminata.

Caules vetusti duri, clavati, subarticulati, erecti, in pseudobulbum ovale
desinentes^vesligiis follorum vayinantium vestiti, diphylli, foliis lanceolatis,
patulis, coriaceis. Pedicelli Jlorum inferiorum elongati sed non corymbosi.
Ovaria Jiliformia. Sepala et petala viridia fere unciani -longa, angusta.
Columna virens. Labelli lamina nivea.

Found in August, 1834, near Cumana. Communicated
to this work in July, 1835, by the late Lord Grey of Groby.
It is not a pretty species, but it is very distinct from any
previously described, and is remarkable for its stems being
dilated at the upper en.d, like some of the species of Den-
drobium.

The station of the plant will be near Epidendrum concolor.
It Mas procured by Mr. John Henchman for Messrs. Lowe
and Co. of Clapton, by whom it was introduced along with
Trichopilia tortilis and Mormodes atropurpurea.

* See fvl. 1415.

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1871

* MAXILLARIA aromatica.

Aromatic Maxillaria.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, ^ Vande^.
MAXILLARIA.— Supra, vol. U.fol. 897.

M. aromatica ; pseudobulbis ovatis compressis, foliis pluribus oblongo-lanceo-
latls plicatis scapis unifloris erectis longioribus, sepalis ovato-oblongis
petalisque conformibus acutis. labelli semicyhndracei laciniis lateralibus por-
rectis subulatis ; intermedia bilabiata ! labio superiore truncate nano Infe-
riore spathulato apice recurvo serrulate. Gen. &; Sp. Orch.pl. p. 146.

M. aromatica. Graham in Hooker's Exot.Jl. 219.

Colax aromaticus. Spreng. cur. post. 307.

A fragrant stove plant, breathing cinnamon and sweet
spices, found in Mexico, whence it was sent by Lord Napier to
the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, previous to the year 1826.
The species is now not uncommon in good collections,
flowering abundantly in the month of May.

The callosity of the disk of the lip of Orchideous plants,
which sometimes appears in the form of lamellae, following the
course of the veins, and sometimes is a thick tubercle, in the
present species is a truncated plate, occupying the base of the
middle segment of the lip, and looking like the half of a
petal laid over the true lip. What is the real nature of this
truncated plate?

* See folio I4'28.

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1872

* CRYBE rosea.
Pink-Jlowered Cry be.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Arethuse^.

CR YBE, Lindl. Sepala et petala similla, lanceolata, conniventia ; late-
ralibus basi obliquis. Labellum multo majus, membranaceum, cucullatum, nun-
quam expansum, cum columna clavata marginata semi-connatum. Lindl. Nat.
Syst. of Botany, ed. 2. p. 446.

Crybe rosea.

Pseudobulbi subrotundi, virides, leviter angulati. Folia ex apice erum-
penlia, lanceolata, plicata, subterna, IcBte viridia, pedalia. Spica 3-4-Jlora,
scapo laterali, basi purpureo, squamis circiter 3 distantibus vaginati. Flores
penduli, ovario brevi, arcuate, bracted subulato-ovatd 3-plb longiore. Flores
fere 2 pollices longi, clavati, nunquam expandentes. Sepala cBqualia, obovato-
lanceolata, basi adhcBrentia^pallide viridia, apice purpureo-maculata. Petala
subcequalia, subalba, purpureo tincta, membranacea. Labellum longius, ob-
ovatum, acutum, atropurpureum, marginibus plicato-crispis infiexis, basi cum
columna semiadnatum. Columna clavata, basi teres, ultra insertionem la-
belli marginata, paulo supra labellum bidentata, apice paululum cucullata.
Anthera terminalis, opercularis, polline granulari.

A native of Mexico, whence it was imported by Messrs.
Loddiges, in whose stove it blossomed in June last.

This plant is remarkable for never expanding its singular
club-shaped flowers, which always remain as much closed as
is represented in the accompanying figure, the edges of the
lip turning inwards, and forming a sort of dish at the end
of the flower.

The genus is nearly allied to the North American Are-
thusas, from which the adhesion of its labellum to the base of

* From tcpvTTTU) to conceal, whence Kpyfielg concealed, in allusion to the
manner in which the column is hidden by the floral envelopes.

the column sufficiently distinguishes it, independently of the
remarkably property of always keeping its flowers closed,

A stove plant, requiring the same management as the
common Bletia verecunda, and the like.

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1873

* KERRIA japonica,
Japan Kerria.

ICOSANDRIA DI-VE^TAGYKIA.

Nat. ord. RosACEiE, § SpiR^EiE,

KERRIA, DC. Calyx 5-ficlus, lobis ovatis, 3 obtusls, 2 apice calloso-
mncronatis, aestivatione imbricatis. Petala 5, orbiculata. Stamina circiter 20,
cum petalis e calyce exserta. Carpella 5-8 libera, glabra, stylo filiforml superata,

globosa, ovulo 1 lateraliter adhserente fceta. SufFrutex, cortice l(Bvi vires-

cente, ramis virgatis, foliis ovato-laaceolatis grosse et incsqualiter serratis
penninerviis conduplicatis, stipulis lineari-subulatis, floiibus Jiavis facile
plenis. Prodr. 2. 541.

Kerria Japonica. DC. Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 12. 156.

Corchorus Japonicus. Thunb. fl.jap.221 . Bot. Rep. t. 5S7. Bot. Mag. t.
1296. with double flowers.

This plant, in the state when it bears double flowers, is
one of the commonest shrubs in our gardens. It was
Supposed to be a species of Corchorus until Professor
De CandoUe investigated its affinities, and decided that it
was to Rubus and Spiraea that the plant was really allied,
and not to any Tiliaceous genus.

The correctness of this opinion has been fully proved by
the single-flowered plant, now represented, for wliicli the
country is indebted to John Reeves, Esq. It was imported
by him two or three years back, and now exists in several
collections. The accompanying figure was made last Sep-
tember in the garden of the Horticulturtd Society.

* Named in compliment to IVIr. William Ker, a botanical collector sent from
Kew to China.

VOL. XXII. I

It did not produce any fruit, but the carpels remained
a long while upon the flower-stalk before they fell off. It is
probable that its nearest affinity will be found to be with
Neillia.

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CRATAEGUS platyphylla.

Broad-leaved Thorn.

ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Rosacea, § Pomf,^.
CRATMGUS.— Supra, vol. \3. fol. 1128.

C. platyphylla ; foliis pinnatifidis basi truncatis cuneatisque lacinils apice serratis
subtus ramulisque pubescentlbus, stipulis semicordatis dentatis integrisque,
cymis villosis, pomis oblongis nigris pubescentibus tripyrenis, laciniis calycis
erectis integris.

C. platyphylla. Supra, fol. 1128. in textu.

C. fissa. Hort. nee Boscii.

Certainly in foliage and elegance of general appearance
this is the handsomest of the European Hawthorns. It grows
like an exceedingly vigorous Oxyacantha, spreading its grace-
fully bending arms on all sides ; its leaves are a deep rich
green, it is loaded with large masses of snow-white blossoms
long after the common hawthorn is flowerless, and it retains its
vigour till late in the autumn, so that the rich colour of its
blackish purple fruit is not impaired in effect by the fading
tints of the foliage.

That this is some European or North-Asiatic plant, can-
not well be doubted, and yet it is not to be traced in books,
unless it is the Cr. melanocarpa of Bieberstein ; but that

* See folio llGl.

I 2

plant, whicli is a native of the Crimea, is described as having
trifid leaves, reflexed calycine segments, and five stones in
each haw. I therefore presume that it must be different
from this which has only three stones.

The drawing was made last October in the garden of
the Horticultural Society.

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* BIFRENARIA auiantiaca.
Orange-coloured Bifrenaria.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Vande^.

BIFRENARIA, Lindl. Sepala patula, libera, subaqualia ; lateralia
cum basi producta columnae connata vix basi obliqua, Petala scpalis duplo
minora. Labellum cum pede mucronato columnse articulatum, cucuUatum, tri-
lobum, medio callosum. Columna brevis, semiteres, mutica. Anthera mutica,
subcristata. Pollinia 4, per paria incumbentia, caudiculis duabus distinctis

materiel viscidae rostelli adhaerentibus, glandula (oblonga). Epiphytapsewrfo-

bulbosa, Maxillarice (Colacis} habitu. Ge?i. et Sp. Orch. 152.

B. aurantiaca ; pseudobulbis subrotundis compressls dlphyllis, foliis oblongis
plicatis racemi erecti longitudine, petalis erectis, labelli lobis lateralibus semi-
cordatis intermedio transverso ovali subundulato basi bicalloso, columna
pubescente.

Perianthium bilahiatum. Petala obovata, rotundata, crenata, erecta,
cum sepalo supremo oblongo acuto labium supremum formantia. Sepala
lateralia ovata, obtusa, supra pubescentia, patentia, basi obliqica, supremo
duplo latiora, Labellum cum columricB pede producto articulatum, tmguicu-
latu7n ; unguis cuneatus, carnosissimus, limbi longitudine, callo transverso
truncato ad apiceni ubi in limbum abit ; limbus tripartitus lacinid intermedia
transversd apiculatd indivisd subundulatd, lateralibus erectis semicordatis,
obtusis utrdque Jiexurd elevatd baseos callum mentiente. Columna semiteres,
pubescens, clinandrii dorso acuminato. i^nthera triangularis : angulis pilosis,
lateralibus productioribus. Pollinia 2, biloba, caudiculis totidem glandulae
communi adhaerentibus.

A pretty epiphyte, native of Demerara. For the oppor-
tunity of publishing it I am indebted to his Grace the Duke
of Devonshire, in whose hot-house at Chiswick it flowered
in October, 1835.

* So named in allusion to the double strap or frsenum that connects the
pollen masses with their gland.

The colours of the flowers being deep orange-yellow,
mottled with deep brown spots, the aspect of this species
is rather handsome. Fig. 1. represents the appearance of
tlie lip separated from the column, and especially of the
double callus at the base of its middle lobe. Fig. 2. shews
the face of the column with the bases of the sepals and petals.
Fig. 3. is a view of the double strap, connecting the pollen
masses to the gland. Fig. 4. shews the anther removed from
the column, and viewed in front.

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1876

*imS alata.
Small-winged Iris.

TRIANDRIA MO^OGYNIA.

Nat. ord. IniDACEiE.
fRIS.—Suprd, vol. 3. fol. 246.

1. alata ; imbetbis, acaulis, foliis ensiformibus, corollce tubo longissimo laciniis
interioribus minimis, styli laciniis obtusis undulatis lacinias exteiiores a;quan-
tibus. Dietr. Sp. pi. 2. 436.

I. alata. Poir. iter. 2. 86. Bivonapl. sic. cent. I. p. 44.

I. scorpioides. Desf.fl. atl. I. p. 40. t. 6.

I. microptera. Vahl. enum. 2. 142.

I. transtagana. Brot.fi. lusit. p. 52.

Juno scorpioides. Trattin. tabul. no. 652.

Iris bulbosa latifolia 1. Chis. hist, plant, rar. p. 210.

VoWa. i)laniuscula, carinata, lorata, acuminata, nulla modo equitantia,
pedem et ultra longa, jjagind superiore lucidd tactu molli, inferiore opacd,
margine minutissimc cartilagineo-scrrulata. Flos e sinu foUorimi solitarius,
Usque mullo brevior, e spathis duabus magnis membranaceis subJierbaceis
erumpens ; ovario hyjiogeeo, basibus foliorum, Croci modo, tecto. Tubus
floris 6-poll. longus, et ultra, apice Icetissime purpureus ; laciniae calycinae
oblongo-spatulatcE, margine crenato-iindulatce, ascendentes, recurvcE, glaber-
rimcB, lined elevatd disci intense luted, cceterum ayncene purpureo-violacecB
maculate ; laciniae corollinsD spathulatce, basi valdc angustatce, limbo coch-
leato crispato, calycinis triplh breviores, rectcB, divaricatce. Stamina calycinis
opposita. Stigmata apice biloba, laciniis dimidialis, acuminatis, laceris.
Odor fiorum gratus inter hyacinthinum et sambucinum.

Found by Desfontaines in moist places near Algiers,
flowering in the winter. According to Bivona, a native of
sterile meadows and rocks in Sicily ; Clusius speaks of it as
a common })lant in Portugal and Spain at the foot of hills,

* See folio 14Q4.~

especially about Antequcra and Cordova, flowering in
January and February.

It produces its blossoms in this country a little later;
my specimens were obligingly communicated by the Honour-
able W. F. Strangways, from the garden of the Dowager
Countess of Ilchester, at Aljbotsbury in Dorsetshire, where
the plant was growing in a terrace border, with no more pro-
tection than a mat-screen would afford. Its flowers have a
pleasant smell, between that of the Hyacinth and the Elder.

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1877

* CRATAEGUS pyrilblia.
Pear-leaved Thorn.

ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Rosace.^, § PoMEiE.
CRATMGUS.—Suprd, vol. 13. foL 1128.

C pyrifolia; foliis ovato-ellipticis inciso-serratis plicatis pedunculis juniorum
ramulisque hirsutis, calycibus hlrsutis lacinlis glanduloso-serratis, fructibus
glabris pendulis pyriformibus 3-pyreiiis lacinlis calycinis reflexis.

C. pyrifolia. Hort. Kew. 2. 168. Be Cand. Prodr. 2. 627. Loudons arbor,
britann. t. xxxi. B. b.

One of the largest leaved species of this genus, with a
good deal of beauty in the spring, when the leaves are green
and the branches loaded with flowers, but less valuable as an
ornament of autumn scenery, because although the tints of
the orange-coloured fruit and of the foliage are pleasing, yet
the tree has an open inelegant head, and the leaves drop off
while the fruit remains behind adhering to the branches.

It is immediately known from all the remainder of the
species by the strong plaits, which give the leaves something
the appearance of being furrowed from the midrib towards
the margin, A native of rocky woods in North America,
from Pennsylvania to Carolina, flowering in June. The
drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural
Society.

# See folio 1161.

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1878

* SCILLA Cupaniaiia.

Cupanis Squill.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Liliace^, § Scille^.
SCILLA.— Supra, vol. 16. fol. 1355.

S. Ciqmniana ; foliis lanceolatis planis brevissime densissimeque ciliatis, coiymbo
paucifloro, capsulls rostratls. Romer et Schult. Sp.pl. 7. 559.

S. Cupaiiiana. Gusson. prodr.Jl. Sic. I. 416.

S. fistulosd. Rajincsque.

Ornithogaluni coeruleum. Rafinesq. Caratt. 85.

Hyacinthus stellatus coeruleus umbellatus latifolius. Cupani pamph. sic. vol. 1 .
t.20.

Communicated by Henry Fox Talbot, Esq. from the
garden at Lacock Abbey. The bulbs were sent by the Hon.
William Strangways from Sicily, where they are found wild
near Villafrata, Ogliastro, and Castrogiovanni.

A hardy bulb, of great rarity in this country, flowering
in June. Its bright blue pistil contrasts in a remarkable
manner with the dull purple of the remainder of the flower.
It is very near the Scilla, erroneously called peruviana, which
is also a Sicilian plant, but is altogether much smaller. 1
find the leaves edged with a broken cartilaginous margin,
rather than ciliated as Gussone is represented to describe
them.

* Scclolio 1355.

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1879

*EPIDENDRUM bifidum.

Hare- lipped Epidendrum .

GYNANDRIA MON ANURIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidaces, § Epidendre^.
EPIDENDRUM.— Snpr a, vol. \.fol. 17.

E, hifidum ; foliis in pseudobulbos subternis lanceolatis, scapo ramoso folils
multo longiore, sepalis oblongis acutis petalisque lanceolatis patentibus, la-
belli cuneati lobis lateralibus ovatis : intermedio inaxiino apice dilatato sub-
reniformi sulcatobasi in disco biappendiculato (a columna fere libero). Gen.
et Sp. Orch.pl. 100.

Helleborine florc papilionaceo. Plum. sp.9. ic. 186, y. 1.

Epidendrum bifidum. Aubl. guian. p. 824. Sivartz Fl. Ind. Occ 3. 1489.
Willd. Sp.pl. no. 3. Redout. Liliac. 84.

E. papilionaceum. West. St. Cruc. p. 230. sec. Willd.

In this state E. bifidum appeared when, in July, 1835, a
specimen was communicated to me by Messrs. Loddiges. It
was then very pretty, on account of the beautiful veining of
its lip ; but it cannot have been any thing like so handsome
as Swartz describes it to be, with all the divisions of the
flower bright purple, and a flowering stem three feet high
and branching.

It is a very remarkable and distinct species, with a pecu-
liar slit lip, by which it is readily known from all, except
E. auropurpureum, a kind that appears to be very nearly
related to it.

\i is described as found upon branches of trees in the
West India islands, especially St. Christophers, St. Bartho-
lomews, and Santa Cruz. The Messrs. Loddiges had it
from Tortola ; Aublet found it in Cayenne.

* See folio 1415.

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1880

* GODETIA vinosa.

Wine-stained Godetia.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Nat. ord. Onagrace^.
GODETIA.— Supra, vol. 12. fol. 1849.

G. vinosa ; erecta, foliis lineari-oblongis subdentatis glabris, petalis subrotundo-
cuneatis undulatis imitiaculatis, staminibus alternis minoribus, antheris phce-
nicejs apice luteis cassis, stigmatibus pallidis, calycis tubo laciniis triplo
breviore, seminibus atrofuscis unicoloribus.

^wwwa, G. rublcundae valdt ajffinis ; sequentihus tamen nofis diversa
videtur. Petala pallida sunt, et paululum minora, colore vinoso levissime
suffusa. Tubus calycis vix partetn tertiam limbi cequat, in G. ruhictinda
dimidiam. Apex cassus antherarum brevior est quavi in G. ruhicunda.
Semina atrofusca sunt et minora, nee cinereo fuscoque nebulosa. Demum
planta tota habitu graciliori gaudet.

The last of the new Californian Godetias introduced by
the Horticultural Society. It is in technical characters much
like G. ruhicunda, but is a very dift'erent looking plant.
They may be distinguished thus :

G. ruhicunda.

Calyx with its tube half as long
as the limb, or more.

Petals a uniform purple, with
an orange-red eye.

Anthers orange-red, the empty
end bright yellow.

Seeds clouded with ash coloured
and brown.

G. vinosa.

Calyx with its tube not more
than one-third the length of the limb.

Petals nearly white, with a
slight dash of purple.

Anthers deep crimson, the empty
end nearly white.

Seeds a uniform dark brown,
and much smaller.

It is a hardy annual, flowering in July and August.

See folio 1849.

NOTE.

Mr. Spacli has published, in the Nouvelles Annales du Museum, Vol. 4.
what he no doubt considers an answer to some of the criticisms that his perform-
ances among Onagraceae have called forth. As a specimen of his style of con-
ductlno- an argument let the reader take the following. He complains that his
genus Boisduvalla is stated by me not to have a fringed chalaza, as if he had
said that it had one, and he denies that he ever did state this, (Boisduvaliarum
semina fimbriata esse nuUibi diximus.) Now it is true that in the character of
Boisduvalia this is not mentioned, but on the other hand the main character of
the subsection Dermospermae, in which that genus is stationed, depends upon
" semina ad chalazam margine membranaceo aucta." I was not before aware
that Mr, Spach did not consider it necessary for his genera (!) to agree in cha-
racter with the sections under which they arc stationed.

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1881

*EPIDENDRUM Skinneri.
Mr. Skinner s Epidendrum.

GYNANDRIA MONAlSlDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Epidendre^.
EPIDENDRUM.— Supril, vol. l.fol. 17.

E. Skinnei-i ; foliis distichis lanceolatis acuminatis, caule aplce longe aphyllo
squamoso, racemo cylindraceo multifloro, floribus cernuls, sepalis lineari-
lanceolatis, petalis ovalibus acutis, labello ovato acurninato integerrimo basi
callo sulcato cristato.

E. Skinneri. Batemans MSS.

Caulis erectus, teres, distiche foliosus, apice aphyllus vaginatus. Folia
5 poll, longa. Bracteae lineari-lanceolatce, jjedicellis capillaribus paulh bre-
vioribus. Flores pallide purpurei, 1 \ poll. lati. Labellum cum columnd
semiconnatum, concavum, basi luteum, cuniculatum.

For this beautiful species of Epidendrum I am obliged
to James Bateman, Esq. jun. in whose hot-house at Kny-
persley it flowered last January. He states, " that it was
sent to him in the summer of 1835, from the neighbourhood
of Guatemala, by his most excellent friend G. U. Skinner,
Esq., to whose enthusiasm in the cause of science he is
already indebted for many new and interesting plants. Ep.
Skinneri is among the most free-flowering of its tribe ;
every one of its shoots, both great and small, having been
invariably succeeded by a spike of flowers."

The perfect state of the specimens, so short a time after
the importation of the species, attests the skill of Mr. P. N.

* See fol. 1415.
VOL. XXII. K

Don, Mr. Bateman's gardener, in the management of these
curious plants.

The species is in the way of E. elo7igatum, and I presume
requires the same management as that plant. I have also
received it from Messrs. Loddiges.

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* APTOSIMUM depiessum.

Depressed Ap tosimum .

DIDYNAMIA A'NGIOSPERMIA.
Nat. ord. ScROPiiULARrACE.E.

APTOSIMUM, Burchell. — Calyx cainpanulatus , semi 5-Jidus, basi
bibracteatus. Corolla tuho basi contracto, extra calycem amplo, limbo 5-Jido,
subbilabiato, laclniis rotundatis planis subcEqualibus. Stamina didynama,
declinata. Antherae extnsvillosce, subbiloculares, loculis confluentibus,rimd
unicd transversali dehiscentibus, staminum superiorum minoribus, scape
cassis. Stylus simplex, stigmate brevissime bilobo. Capsula brevis, basi
subglobosa, apice compressa, obcordata, dissepimento contrario, apice breviter
loculicidc et septicide dehiscens. — Suffrutices rigidi saepius prostrati, vel
densissime caespitosi. Flores axillares sessiles. Bentham MSS.

A. depressum (Burch. Trav. 1. 260.) ramis glabris vel breviter lanuginosis,
foliis confertissimis petiolatis obovatis glabris corolla multo brevioribus,
calycibus extus glabriusculis iiitus lanatls capsulas emarginatas vix superan-
tibus. Bentham MSS.

Ruellia depressa. Thufib.?

Ohlendorffia procumbens. Lehm. Index Sem. pi. Eckl.

Caulis fruticosus, terrce appressus, in supina parte densissime ramu-
losus, ac foliis spathulatis, petiolatis, maxime conferlis tectus. Folia 3-4
lineas longa, baud opposita sed spirata, crassiuscula, obtusissima, brcvi-mu-
cronata, glabra. Calyces in inferiori parte ramulorum, brevi-pedicellati,
axillares, longitudine foliorum, chartacei, pallidi, ad 3 bijidi, extus Iceves,
glabri, nilidi, laciniis acuminatis patentibus intus dense albo totnentosis.
Bracteolae duce, breves, lineares, pubescentes ad basin calycis. Corolla 8
lineas longa, extus pubescens, ccerulea, tubo brevi angusto, limbo infundi-
buliformi brevi spatio qidnquejido, laciniis cequalibus patentibus brevibus.
Stamina inclusa ; filamenta glabra ; antherae ante dehisccntiam cordatce.

* From a privative ; and Trrojaipoc deciduous, because of tlie capsules
which remain on the stem long after the seeds have fallen out. — Burchell.

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subrotundcB, dein transversa, subrotundo-ovales, (ransversim pauloque infe-
rivs dehiscentes, labio superiori recto verticali, inferiori undulato quadriloho
ciliato. Vertex lanugine alba cinctus. Staminum breviorum anthercE con-
formes et dimidio duplove minores. Stylus longitudine staminvm, glaber,
apice incurvvs. Stigma verticaliter bilobum. Capsula calyce tunc com-
presso rigiduloque transversa, apicc truncata et subretusa, longitudinaliter
rugoso-venosa, inferius crassior rigidiorque, nigrescens. Semina inferioH
parte receplaculi conferta, subtrigonn, obtusa, punctato-aspera nigra.
Funiculus in strophiolam brevem cyathiformam trilobam abit. Albumen
tenue, carnosum. Embryo axilis, rectus ; radicula subcylindrica ; cotyle-
donibus ovatis. — Vix dubium est, quin Thunbergius sub Ruellice depresscB
nomine hanc speciem intellcxerit, scil. calycibus solii nee corollis repertis
nee multum, uti scepe illi accidit, inquirens, fiores minutos dixit in descrip-
tione. LinncBUS corollce non meminit. — Lehm. in litt.

A native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence its seeds
were brought to Europe by Mr. Ecklon, the celebrated bota-
nical collector, and communicated to Dr. Lehmann of Ham-
burgh, under whose care it was raised. To that gentleman
I am indebted for the accompanying drawing and descrip-
tion. It is altogether contrary to my practice to publish
accounts of plants that have hitherto only been in foreign
gardens ; but the beauty of this species, the evident fidelity
of the drawing, the specimen that accompanied it, and
the vicinity of Hamburgh to our own shores, have induced
me to deviate from the rule ; without however intending
that this should be at all drawn into a precedent.

The species is a greenhouse undershrub ; it was found
by Ecklon in the Karroo, near Hermanskraal, on the Great
Fish River, flowering from October to December : Burchell
met with it on the Roggeveld; and Drege on the Sneeuw and
Rhinoster mountains and Zwartruggers. To Mr. Bentham
I am indebted for the following observations upon the genus
and some of its affinities.

Tlie genus Aptosimum was considered by Mr. Burchell
as allied to Capraria, that is, to the Cape species now formr
ing the genus Freylinia ; but the declinate stamina and the
conformation of the anthers are very different from that of

any Gratioleas, and as well as the form of the coroHa, appear
to me to assimilate the plant much more to some of the
Salpiglossidea3, and especially to the Salpiglossis prostrata.
Hook, et Arn. and some other species from the West Coast of
America; which probably form a new genus. Like other
Salpiglossidese it comes near the capsular Solaneae, and the
corolla is very nearly that of Fabiana.

The following are the characters of the species I am
acquainted with of Aptosimum, and of another genus also
from the Cape, which is closely allied to it and belongs
likewise to the tribe of Salpiglossideae.

APTOSIMUM.

* Folia petiolala, detrita non spinosa. Calycis lacinice intus tomentosce.

A. eriocephalum (E. Meyer.) ramis prostratis longe lanatis, foliis longe
petiolatis ovatis glabris, calycibus lanatis laciniis intus pubescentibus, capsulis vix
emarginatis. On the Gariep, Drege.

2. A. depressum (Burch. supra).

3. A. indlvisu7n (Burch. Trav. I. 219.) ramis brevissimis, foliis dense
CEespitosis oblongo-spathulatis glabris corollas sequantibus, calycis laciniis intus
lanatis. — Carroo desert, Drege. Cape Flats, Ecklon.

Ohlendorffia rosulata. Nees ab Esenbcek.

** Folia subsessilia nervo medio valido persistente apice demurn spine'
scente. Calycis lacinice intus glabree.

4. A. viscosum herbaceum ? foliis late oblongo-spathulatis viscoso-pube-
scentibus nervo medio infra apicem spinescente flores ter superantibus. Rocks
near the Gariep, Drege.

5. A. tragacanthoides (E. Meyer) suffruticosum, foliis anguste oblongis
spathulatis glabris flores vix superantibus nervo medio infra apicem spinescente.
Rocks on the Kunkunnuroab, Drege.

6. A. abietinum (Burch. Trav. 1. 308.) suffruticosum, foliis linearibus
glabris flore brevioribus nervo medio excurrente spinoso. On the Sunday River
and in the vallies of the Kooper hills, Drdge. /3. elongata on the Gariep.

PELIOSTOMUM.

Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla et genitalia y^/j/osm^ Capsula ovato-oblonga
acuta apice subcompressa sulcata valvulis loculicide dehiscentibus a:pticide bifidis
bipartitisve. Semhia numcrosa minuta. — Herbse sufFruticesve rigidae saepe
viscosae. Folia omnia alterna integerrima. Flores axillares vel racemosl breviter
pedicellati vel sessiles pedicellis ssepe bracteatis. Corolla: forma fere Fabiance.

1. p. scoparium (E. Mey.) herbaceum rigidum ramosissimum viscosum,
foliis parvis paucis oblongo-linearibus, laciniis calycinis oblongis viscosp-villosis
capsulam aequantibus, corollas tubi parte attenuata calyce breviore. Rocks on the
Gariep, Drege.

2. P. leucorrhizum (E. Mey.) herbaceum rigidum ramosissimum glabrum,
foliis oblongo-lanceolatis linearibusve, laciniis calycinis apice subulatis capsula
brevioribus, coroUae tubi parte attenuata calyce subduplo longiore. On the
Gariep, Drege.

3. P. viscosum (E. Mey.) herbaceum rigidum divaricato-ramosum vis-
coso-pubescens, foliis obovatis oblongisve, laciniis calycinis linearibus obtusis
capsula dimidio brevioribus, corollse tubi parte attenuata calyce subduplo longiore.
Rocks on the Gariep, Drege.

4. P. virgatum (E. Mey.) sufFruticosum ramis rigidis virgatis viscosis,
foliis inferioribus obovatis superioribus sessilibus parvis subrotundis omnibus
subcarnosis leviter viscosis, laciniis calycinis obovatis oblongisve capsula dimi-
dio brevioribus, corolla tubi parte attenuata calyce parum longiore. Namaqua
country. Ecklon, Drege.

5. P. origanoides (E. Mey.) sufFruticosum glabrum, ramis brevibus tor-
tuoso-prostratis, foliis^ ovatis obovatisve, calycis laciniis linearibus acutiusculis
capsula obtusa vix brevioribus, coroUae tubi parte attenuata vix exserta. Nieuwe-
weld and Sneeuwbergen, Drege.

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1883

*TR1F6LIUM fucatum.

Farded Clover.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Leguminos^ or pABACEiE.
TRIFOLIUM.—Suprd, vol. 13. fol. 1070.

T.fucahini; folioHs subrotundis spinoso-denticulatis crassiusculis, stipulis maxi-
mis membranaceis integerrimis cuspidatis, pedunculis foliis aequalibus loiigi-
oribusque, capitulis hemisphericis involucratis, foliolis involucri basi connatis
ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis margine membranaceis floribus brevioribus.

Radix aK«M«, CanAes suberecti,paruin ramosi, rubescentes, internodiis
scepe in spontanea stipulis tantum cBqualibus. Petioli stipulis nunc duplb
quadruplo longiores. Stipulae magncc, membranacece, scepe rotundatce et
cuspidatcB, nunc acuminatce. Capitula 1-2 uncias lata, depressa. Involucri
foliola herbacea, margine pallidiora, cyathum formantia floribus breviorem.
Flores disci ochroleuci, radii rubescentes. Calyx minimus, membranaceus ,
campanulatus, dentibus quinque aristatis. Vexlllum circa carinam et alas
convolutum, emarginatum, demum inflatum. Ovarium stipitatum, 7-8-sper-
mum.

A pretty annual clover, the seeds of which were collected
for the Horticultural Society in California, by Mr, Douglas.
It flowered for the first time in June, 1835, but ripened no
seeds, and was afterwards lost. From the wild specimens in
my herbarium, it appears to grow in a black peaty soil, pro-
bably the damp vegetable matter found in woods.

This new species belongs to the curious set of clovers
whose bracts collect into an involucre like those of an um-
belliferous plant ; among them it is by far the most showy,
with its cream-coloured flowers just blushing where the sun
strikes them.

* See folio 1408.

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1884

* CRATAEGUS tanacetifolia.

Tansy-leaved Hawthorn.

ICOSANDllIA DI-PENTAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Rosacea, § Pome^.
CRATMGUS.-Supra, vol. 13. fol. 112«.

C. tanacetifolia ; foliis pinnatifidis glanduloso-serratis pubescentibus basi cu-
neatis laciniis linearibus, bracteis foliaceis glandulosls pectinatis sub fructu
persistentibus, fructibus solitariis sessilibus depresso-sphaericis pubescenti-
bus, putamine crassissimo.

C. tanacetifolia. Pers. synops. 2. 38. De Cand. Prodr. 2. 629. Loudon
Arhor. Britami. t. 117, b.

Mespilus tanacetifolia. Smith Exot. Bot. t. 85.

M. orientalis, tanaceti folio villoso, magno fructu pentagono e viridi flavescente.
Tourn. corolL 44. Voyage v. 2. 171. t. 172.

Folia pubescentia, virescentia, parum canescentia, dentibus argutis apice
glanduligeris, nunquam calva ; stipulis semi-sagittatis serratis. Flores
corymbosi subsessiles. Fructus solitarii, sessiles, lutei, depressi, sub-penta-
goni, bracteis quibusdam foliaceis glanduloso-pectinatis persistentibus suf-
fulti, pyrenis 5 osseis, putamine crassissimo.

This is obviously known from Cr. odoratissima and orien-
talis both by its yellow solitary sessile fruit, to which a
small number of leafy bracts adhere irregularly, but also
by its regularly pinnatifid leaves, the fine toothings of
which are all tipped with a gland. Like those species this
is hardy and very handsome ; it is multiplied by grafting
on the common hedge Hawthorn.

Sir James Smith has the following observations upon it
in Rees's Cyclopaedia. " Native of all the higher mountains
of Greece. A very desirable shrub for plantations, on ac-

* See fol. 1161,

count of its highly-scented corymbose flowers, and yellow
fruit, which resembles a small apple, and has the scent of
one. By culture and grafting, it promises to become an
acquisition to our tables. From the description in Diosco-
rides of his ixeairiKov, ' a spinous tree, with leaves like
hawthorn, fruit like a little apple, sweet, with three hard
seeds,' this should seem, as the number of seeds varies, to
be the very plant; while his ixeairiXov erepou, from Italy,
' a tree like an apple tree, but with smaller leaves, and a
round eatable fruit, with a broad depression, slightly astrin-
gent, and long in ripening,' can only be our common garden
Mespilus germanica. Tournefort did not observe the thorns
of the Cr. tanacetifolia, but he describes the eagerness with
which his Armenian companions collected and ate the fruit,
and he mentions the trees as of the size of oaks.''

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1885

* CRAT^GUS odoratissima.

Sivee test-scented Hawthorn.

ICOSANDRIA Bl-FENTAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Rosaceje, § Pome^.v
CRATAEGUS.— Supra, vol. 13. fol. 1128.

C. odoratissima ; foliis trifidis pinnatlfidisque inciso-serratis basi cuneatis in-
cano-tomentosis, fructibus 5-pyrenis sphasricis pubescentibus, putamine
tenui.

C. orientalls. Bieberst. Fl. Taur. cauc. 1 . 387.

C. odoratissima. Bot. Repos. t. 590. Loudon Arboret. Brit. t.Wl a.

C. tanacetifolia /3 taurica. De Cand. Prodr. 2. 629.

Folia incano-tomentosa, demum viridiora, nunquam calva ; stipulis fal-
catis integris. Pedunculi tomentosi. Fructus lateritii, pubescentes, subpen-
tagoni, pyrenis 5 osseis, putamine crassitudine solitd.

A common bush on the hills adjoining the Black Sea,
and elsewhere in the Crimea. It is described by Bieberstein
as growing to the size of the common Hawthorn.

In this country it is always grafted upon that species, and
acquires a dense round-headed habit, which diminishes its
beauty in some degree ; this is, however, abundantly com-
pensated by its multitude of deliciously perfumed flowers,
and the rich clusters of red fruit with which it is loaded
in the autumn. It differs from C. orientalis not alone
rn the colour of its fruit ; but in its leaves never becoming-
smooth, in its stipules being small and imdivided, and in
the stones that enclose the seeds not being particularly
thick-sided.

* See folio 1161,

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1880 {

* DOUGLAsIA nivalis.

Snow Douglasia.

PENTANDIIIA MOl^OGYKIA.

Nat. ord. Pkimulace^.

DOUGLASIA, Lindl. — Calyx obconicus, angulatus, 5-dentatus. Co-
rolla infundibularis, tubo ventricoso, limbo piano 5-partlto. fauce callo llneari
sub utroque sinu. Ovarium uniloculare, placenta ccntrali libera pedicellata fun-
gilliformi, margine 5-dentata ; ovula 5, dentibus placentae opposita. Capsula
vestlta, unilocularis, 5-valvis. ^'emina 2, concava. scrobiciilata. Ca-spites
svffrutlculosi (Atnericce borcalis), foliis indivisis, floribus subumbellatis , soli-
tariisque.

D. nivalis {Lindl. in Brandes Journal, Jan. 1828, p. 383.) foliis linearibus
pube rigida ramosa incanis subverticillatis, floribus longe pedunculatis sub-
umbellatis.

" Upon his journey across the rocky mountains in April, 1827, in
latitude 52" N., longitude 118'^ W., at an estimated elevation of 12,000
feet above the level of the sea, the attention of Mr. Douglas was attracted
by a brilliant purple patch amidst the surrounding snow. On approach-
ing it, he was surprized to find that the colour which had arrested his eye
was caused by the blossoms of a little plant, from which the superincum-
bent snow had not yet melted away. The well-known Saxifraga oppositi-
folia immediately occurred to his recollection, and he at first imagined
he had either discovered that species, or one nearly allied to it ; but upon
a closer inspection, he perceived that it was no Saxifraga, but a genus
apparently new. Specimens having been submitted to me for examination
since Mr. Douglas's return, the following description lias been drawn
up: — The plant forms a thick tuft, consisting of numerous perennial
branched stems, the lower of which are covered with the persistent de-
cayed leaves and fruit of pi-evious summers. The .sterns are round, bright
purplish brown, covered with scattered, rigid, branched short hairs, and
densely clothed with opposite spreading leaves. The leaves arc a dull
glaucous green, semi-amplexicaul, linear, obtuse, about five lines long and

* Named by me some years ago in compliment to Mr. Douglas, whose zeal
in the collection of seeds and dried specimens of plants, and whose untimely end,
have richly earned for him a niche in the long gallery of departed science.

three-quarters of a line broad, so closely covered witli liairs, like those of"
the stem, that the whole epidermis is hidden. Their veins are concealed
by the hairs ; but if the latter are removed, they appear to consist, of a
thickened midrib, and a few nearly simple spreading vena3 primariog.
The flowers proceed from the axils of the upper leaves, from three to
six on each little branch ; at first they are sessile, but their footstalks
subsequently lengthen by degrees until the fruit is ripe, when they are
from three-quarters of an inch to one inch in length, and covered with
the same sort of hairs as the leaves and stem. The calyx is hairy in like
manner, obconical, angular, with five equal erect narrowly triangular
teeth, about the length of the tube. The corolla is of a vivid purple
colour, infundibuliform, wholly destitute of pubescence. The Uibe is a
little ventricose, and rather longer than the calyx, its whole length being
about three lines. The limb is spreading, five-parted with cuneate, oblong,
obtuse segments ; the orifice is guarded by five transversely linear calli,
placed under each sinus, and corresponding to the same number of ex-
ternal depressions of the neck of the tube. The anthers are linear oblong,
nearly sessile, opposite the segments of the corolla, and a little inclosed
within the tube. The ovarium is superior, of an obovate figure, one-
celled, with a central free fungilliform placenta, the lower edge of which
has five teeth corresponding to an equal number of peltate ovules. The
style is filiform, as long as the tube of the corolla, and continuous with
the ovarium ; stigma, a minute depressed cup. The capsule is of a carti-
laginous texture, surrounded by the persistent calyx, one-celled, with five
recurving valves ; the seeds are two, peltate, oblong, convex on the out-
side, concave in the inside, dark brown, covered closely with minute dots
or depressions ; four only having been found, their internal organization
has not been determined.

" Hence it appears that, with the exception of the interior of the
seed, the whole structure of the plant is determinable : it is also obvious
that it is referable to Primulacese, of which it possesses all the characters.
In fact it is closely akin both to Primula and Androsace. From both
these genera, however its ovarium which exhibits the greatest instance of
reduction of ovules yet known in the order, and its dispermous capsule,
with oblong concave seeds, readily and essentially distinguish it."

The foregoing statement is extracted from the notice of this genus
which I published some years ago in the Journal of the Royal Institution.
Since that time the plant has been raised in the garden of the Horticul-
tural Society, where it flowered in July, 1835, and subsequently in April,
1836, having been raised from seeds collected in California by Mr. Douglas.
It proves to be a branched herbaceous plant, growing pretty freely in
peat and sand, and ripening its seed in small quantity. Hitherto it has
been kept in the greenhouse, there having been only two plants raised in
the first instance ; it is however probable that it will thrive better under
the treatment suited to alpine plants.

Sir William Hooker possesses a second species (Douglasia arctica,
Hooker) collected by Dr. Richardson on the shores of the Arctic sea.

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1887

* ONCIDIUM Lanceanum.

Mr, Lance s Oncidium.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^. 5( Vande;e.
ONCIDIUM.— Suprd, vol 13. foL 1050.

A. Labellum trilobum.
§ 1. Folia plana, v. complicata.
a. Sepala lateraVta libera. * Labelli hicinuc laterales nance v. obliteratce.
O. Lanceanum ; ebulbe, foliis oblongis acutis plain's substriatis carnosis, seapo racemoso
composito erecto rigido raccmulis confcrtifloris, se])alis ' petalisque coiifoiniibus ob-
loiis^is obtusis carnosis concavis niargine undulatis, labelli lobo medio dilatato sub-
cuneato integerrimo basi hastato : lobis lateralibus semi-ovatis, crista triloba carnosa
jiigoque elevate proclivi, colnmnai alls carnosis rotundatis, anthera cristata.
O. Lanceanum. Lindley in Hort. Trans, n.ser.vol. 2. jj. 100. tab. 7.

This remarkable plant has lately been published in the Transactions
of the Horticultural Society of London, whence the follovving account of
it is extracted : —

" In the year 1834, John Henry Lance, Esq. upon his return to England
from Surinam, where he had been residing several years, brought with him a
considerable collection of Orchideous Epiphytes, which he presented to the So-
ciety. Among other interesting species was the subject of the following memo-
randum ; a plant, than which a more acceptable addition to the hot-houses of
this country has rarely been made.

" The genus Oncidium already includes several very beautiful species, in
particular 0. flexuosum, hifolium, ampliatum and crispum, but all these have
flowers in which yellow or brown are the only colours, they owe their beauty to
the graceful arrangement of their branches, and to the singular form of tlieu- petals,
rather than to their colour, and moreover their blossoms are destitute of fragrance.
When, therefore, it was ascertained that among Mr. Lance's plants there existed
an Oncidium, with violet-coloured sweet-scented flowers, great interest was ex-
cited, and no pains were spared to ensure its successful cultivation. Many plants
were soon distributed by Mr. Lance's orders, one of which blossomed in the hot-
house of the Messrs. Loddiges, and another shortly after in that of the Society.
The plant was found by no means difficult to manage ; and in point of beauty and
fragrance it more than answered all the expectations that had been entertained of
it.

" The roots are flexuose, slender, simple elongations of the base of the stem,
evidently intended to grow upon places where the quantity of mould is insuffi-
cient to cover them ; they lengthen independently of their growth at the point,
like the aerial roots of other Epiphytal Orchidese, and diffiir from those of other
Oncidiums only in being of a greenish yellow colour. The leaves spread from a
very short, woody, annulated root-stock, and are about a foot in length on the
average ; they are of a broadly oblong figure, of a leathery consistence, are nearly
flat, a little curved back at the point, and have a light green colour faintly mottled

* See folio 1542.

with purple. The flowers are disposed in a short-branched rigid panicle, elevated
on a stalk not quite so long as the longest leaves ; it is about six or nine inches
lonp-, and densely covered with flowers, which sometimes assume a corymbose,
sometimes a racemose arrangement. The flowers when expanded measure an
inch and three-quarters from the tip of their back sepal to the point of their lip;
they emit a delicious fragrance resembling that of the garden pink. The sepals
are oblong, concave, obtuse, a little waved and greenish yellow at the edge, bright
yellow in the middle, and regularly marked with broad blotches of crimson which
run together near the base. The two petals are similar to the sepals. The lip
is bright violet, darkest at the lower half; at the base it is prolonged on each side
into a triangular tooth, and in the middle of the base there are three nearly equal
tubercles which towards the column terminate a ridge that gradually lowers and
then disappears at the expanded portion of the lip ; above the base it is narrow,
it then expands again into a broad, thin, light purple, somewhat truncated and
toothed extremity. The column has an oblique, rounded, ear-like appendage on
each side, and is capped by a rich crimson anther.

" Such was the specimen from which the annexed drawing was taken ; but
it was far inferior to one which I have just seen (June 29, 1836^, in the rich
collection of epiphytes belonging to the Messrs. Rollinsons of Tooting. This
plant, which I regard as the most perfect instance of successful cultivation I
have yet witnessed among epiphytes, had leaves eighteen inches long, and up-
wards of thirty flowers two inches and a quarter in expansion, with all the mark-
ings of the sepals and petals of the richest chocolate brown, and of the lip of
the deepest violet. In fragrance there was a resemblance to the spicy odour of
that sweetest of all flowers Aerides cornutum.

" In the Society's garden this plant is cultivated along with other epiphytes
in a damp hothouse facing the north ; it is planted in a mixture of sandy peat,
potsherds, and decayed wood; and under these circumstances it thrives very well.

" Mr. Lance has favoured me with the following account of the discovery
and subsequent management of this remarkable plant in its native country.

" ' The first specimen of this splendid Epiphyte I discovered, was growing
on the trunk of a large tamarind tree, in a noble avenue of those trees close to
the Government House in Surinam. I took it home with me and planted it in a
pot filled with rotten pieces of wood and a little light earth ; but though it re-
mained alive and flowered once or twice, it did not thrive, but wasted away and
became less. I afterwards found a great number of the plants in different parts
of the colony ; they were generally attached to the stems or branches of the
Tamarind, the Sapodilla, or the Calabash trees, appearing to prefer those to any
other ; however, on being tied to the branches of the Orange, the Soursop, the
Mammee, and even the Brugmansia arborea, it grew well upon them all and pro-
duced vigorous stems with upwards of twenty blossoms on each stem. The
scent is extremely fragrant, and is retained after the flower is dried, only becoming
fainter and more of a spicy flavour than when fresh. The plant remains in full
beauty ten or twelve days, a long period in that climate, and I found that it
always required a shady situation and a living stem to grow upon, without which
it would not produce its flowers in the highest perfection.'

" Although the Society's sense of the importance of Mr. Lance's endeavours
to introduce new plants to this country has already been recognized by the
Council having awarded him the Society's Large Silver Medal, yet I trust it will
not be considered improper in me to indicate this in a more specific manner, by
naming after that gentleman one of the most beautiful of the plants we owe to
his exertions."

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y'')iQiijc.

1888

* GILIA tenuiflora.

Slender-jiowei'ed Gilia.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. Ord. PoLEMONIACEiE.

GILIA:— Supn}, vol. Id.fol. 1622.

G. tenuiflora ; caule erecto elato supern^ viscoso subnudo paniculato, follis
bipinnatisectis glabris, floribus subsolitariis, corymbis laxis long6 peduncu-
latis, corollis calyce 4-pl6 longioribus. Bentham supra, vol. 19. 1622.
in textu.

Qs.\A\s l-pedalis , totus paululum viscidus, ramis Jiliformibus sed rigidis
suhdichotomis , glandulis viridibus fungilliformibus in caule raris sub calyce
creberrimis. Flores rosei, nee coerulei. Calyx laciniis mucronatis, dorso
herbaceis purpureisve, margins membranaceis. Corolla infundihularis , se-
munciam longus, extus roseas, sanguineo acupiinctatus, intils unicolor et vio-
laceus. Antherae plumbe(B. Capsula ovato-oblonga, testacea, papyracea,
semi-trivalvis loculicidh dehiscens ; valvulis a placenta '6-angulari demum
libera secedentibus. Semina testacea, oblongo-reniformia, longiludinaliter
corrugata, cceteriim glabra.

A hardy annual raised from Californian seeds in tlie
Garden of the Horticultural Society, where it flowered for
the first time in August, 1834. A single plant only was at
that time raised, but it seeded plentifully, and is now not
uncommon.

Mr. Douglas sent it home under the name of Gilia
splendens, a somewhat singular appellation, seeing that it is
one of the least showy of the genus. In fact it is not worth
cultivating for the sake of the flower garden; but it is very
pretty in nosegays as an ornament to rooms.

Its flowers change in drying from rose colour to blue,
which gave rise to the supposition that they are naturally of

* See fol. 1170.

VOL. XX I r.

the latter colour. The corolla is in reality of a rich clear
uniform violet in the inside, and on the outside of a pale rose,
but this colour is much affected by the presence of innumer-
able short deep red lines, which are as delicate as if they
were drawn with the point of a needle.

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1889

* CIRRHiEA tiistis.

Sad-coloured Cirrhcea.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § VandEjE.
CIRRHMA.—Suprd, vol. \8. fol. 1538.

C. tristis ; follis oblongo-lanceolatis basi parum angustatis, petalis lineari-spa-
thulatis, labelli sagittati lobo intermedio lineari abrupte acuto lateralibus
acuralnatis parallelis breviore.

Pseudobulbi ovati, sulcati, angulis rotundatis. Folia solitaria, subpli-
cata, coriacea, ohlongo-lanceolata vel ohlonga, basi in petiolum brevem con-
volutum angustata. Racemi peiiduli, foliis paidb longiores, radicales, dens^
multiflori. Flores odoratissimi tristt purpurei, sanguineo suffusi, cqncibus
herbaceis. Sepala linearia, patentissima, obtusa, postremo sigmoideo, reflexo.
Petala lineari-spatulata sepalis paulo breviora et duplo angustiora. Labellum
atropurpureum ; ungue arcuvi continuum cuvi colurnnd resupinatd efficients ;
limbo sagittato, laciniis lateralibus acuminatis subparallelis carnosis inter-
media fere duplo longioribus. Columna arcuata, clavata, truncata, anthera
posticd, stigmate obliquo, verticali, cirrhifero, ut in genere.

A deliciously scented species, native of Mexico, whence it
was obtained by Messrs. Loddiges, in whose hot-house the
drawing was made in June, 1835. The form of its lip is
quite different from that of any of the other three species
now known.

Like its other botanical allies it grows upon the branches
of trees, and apparently in a pendulous manner.

* See folio 1538.

l2

1890

* CRATAEGUS spathulata.

Spathula-leaved Thorn.

ICOSANDRIA MO^O-PENTAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. RosacE/E, § PoMEiE.
CRATMGUS.-Supr^, vol. 13. fol. 1128.

C. spathulata ; ramulis spinescentibus fasciculatim foliosis, foliis obovatis basi
angustatis subtrilobis stipulisque semihastatis foliaceis glanduloso-serratis,
floribus subsessiiibus, corymbis pauclfloris, sepalis inclsis.

C. spathulata ; ramulis spinescentibus fasciculatim foliosis, foliis parvis longis-
sime deorsum angustatis subspatulatis trifidis, corymbis paucifloris, pedicellis
brevibus, calycibus tomentosis. Mich. Fl. Amer. Bor. 1. 288. Pur&h
Fl. Am. sept. 1 . 336. Non Elliotti.

C. virginica. Loddiges. Loudon Arboret. ^ Fruticet. Britann. p. 842. t. 560.

C. viridis. Hart.

There can be no doubt that this plant, the Cratcegus
virginica of the Nurseries, is the real C. spathulata of
Michaux, about which so little is known that it is altogether
omitted from the Floras of Torrey, Hooker, and Beck, is
introduced by name into Elliott's work on South Carolina
without that author's being acquainted with the plant, was
missed by Willdenow, and was unknown to De Candolle.
Pursh merely repeats Michaux 's character, but he adds that
it occurs in dry woods near rivers in Virginia and Carolina,
flowering in May and June, and having very large crooked
thorns with small leaves. Mr. Loudon in his Arboretum Bri-
tannicumf keeps the garden name virginica, considering

* See folio 1161.

t I gladly avail myself of the present opportunity of calling attention to this

useful work, upon the hardy Trees and Shrubs cultivated in Great Britain, in

which, as is usual in the writings of the indefatigable author, there is a most

valuable mass of information, partly compiled, but also to a great extent original.

C. inicrocarpa figured at folio 1846 of this work, as the true
C. spathulata.

A hardy bush, growing four or five feet high, and
retaining its leaves late in the autumn.

This species has very much the appearance of Cr. parm-

folia, from which it is essentially distinguished by its leaves

being edged with strong dark glands, and by its large leafy

stipules. The fruit is always green, even when ripe, is a

little downy, and contains from five to six stones.

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1891

* LUPfNUS latitblius.
Broad-leaved Lupine.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. Old. Fabace^e or Leguminos^, § Papilionace^.
LUPINUS.— Supra, vol. ]3.foL 1096.

L. latifolius ; elatus, caule Isevissimo glaberrimo nltente, foliolis 5-7 (5-9)
obovatis basi angustatis supra glaberrimis subtus sparsissime piliferis, stipulis
setaceis, bracteis coroUam superantibus, floribus racemi vald^ elongati long^
pedunculati sparsis (et verticillatis) calycis ebracteolati serlcei labiis subin-
tegris, carina glabra. /. G. Agardh, Synops.gen. Lupini,p. 18.

Caulis subprocumbens ramosus. Foliola sublucida, mucrone molli ciis-
pidata. Flores purpureo-violacei. Legumina brevia, vix unciam longa,
oblique constricta,intus isthmis nullis sed lanugine sparsd parcdque obducta.
Seniina nebulosa.

This Lupine has been described by Dr. J. G. Agardh,
in the valuable little work above quoted, from a wild specimen
communicated by me, and which had been collected in
California, by Mr. Douglas. It is apparently distinct from both
L. rivularis and X. littoralisy to which however it approaches
more nearly than to X. polyphyllus. It is a hardy perennial,
flowering in July and the two following months.

In the work above referred to Dr. Agardh has described
76 certain species of this pretty genus, besides adverting to
7 others of which little is known. Of the former 34 are in
Mr. Douglas' collections.

* See folio 1198.

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1892

* ARDISIA odontophylla.
Tooth-leaved Ardisia.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. Old. Myrsinace^.
ARDISIA.— Supn}, vol. 7. foL 533.

A. odontophylla (Wallich Cat. no. 2279) ; foliis lanceolate -oblongis utrinquc

acutis long^ petiolatis argut^ dentatis puberulis, racemis axillaribus foliis

multo brevioribus, pedicellis brevlbus alternis ut pedicelli velutinis, lobis

calycinis ovato-acutis ciliatis et puberulis, coroUae profunde partitse lobis

- ovato-acutis. Alph. De Cand. in Linn. Trans, vol. 17. p. 125. t. 6.

A stove shrub, native of Bengal towards the Sylhet
borders and about Gualpara, where it was found by Dr.
Buchanan, and by Dr. Wallich's collectors.

It was first introduced by Thomas Carey Palmer, Esq.
of Bromley, by whom it was communicated to Mr. Knight
of the King's Road, in whose hot-house the accompanying
figure was made in July, 1834.

Independently of its being, like all the Ardisias, a hand-
some evergreen, this species is remarkable for its delicious
fragrance. Its flowers are pale salmon colour, slightly
streaked with red.

* From ap^ig, the point ol" a weapon, in allusion to the sharp-pointed
segments of the corolla.

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1893

* ANTIRRHfNUM glanduI6sum.
Glandular Snapdragon.

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. Scrophulariaceje.

ANTIRRHINUM L. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla personata, tubo crasso
vel elongate, basi saccato. Capsula 3 poris valvulatis, v. rarius 2 foraminibus
irregularibus sub apice dehiscens. Chavannes Monogr. 74.

A. glandulosum ; undique pilis capitatis subviscidis conspersum ; foliis alternis
petiolatis anguste ovato-lanceolatis, racemo denso folioso, calycis lobis
lineari-lanceolatis inaequalibus.

Caulis bipedalis, erectus, ratnosus, Icete viridis, glandulis pilorum den-
sissimorum rufescens. Folia subsucculenta, superne lucida, in spontaned
parva et fere linearia. Racemus cylindraceus, terminalis, densissimus, brac-
teis foliaceis longe ultra Jiores inferiores projicientibzis. Flores solitarii
brevi-pedunculati. Sepala lineari-lanceolata, tubo corollce duplo breviora,
incequalia ; dorsali lateralibus longiore. Corolla tubo cylindraceo labioque
superiore roseis, labio inferiore ochroleuco, basi antice gibboso ; labii infe-
rioris laciniis cequalibus rotundatis. Stamina tubo cequalia, filamentis basi
oblique tortis et dilatatis inferiorum basi barbatis, superiorum pubescentibus ;
antheris glaberrimis. Capsula immatura subrotundo-ovata, papyracea, pilosa ;
maturam non vidi.

This, if not a very pretty plant, is something of a geogra-
phical curiosity, it being the first species of the genus
Antirrhinum which has yet been found certainly wild in the
New World ; the specimens of A. orontium that have been
met with in the United States, are believed to have been
introduced from Europe.

* The avrtpp/voj' of Theophrastusand Dioscorides was probably Antirrhinum
Orontium. The name, which may be literally rendered Snoutwort, has obviously
been derived from the appearance of the corolla, which resembles the snout of
some animal.

Seeds of it were sent to the Horticultural Society from
California by Mr. Douglas. The flowers were first produced
in 1815; they appear in August and September, and conti-
nue to open in succession till the frosts come. The species
is a quite hardy annual, and will grow in any soil ; it ripens
its seeds freely enough.

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1894

* YUCCA Diaconis.

Dragon-tree-leaved Adams Needle.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. LiLiACEiE.

YUCCA.— Supra, vol. 20.fol. 1690.

Y. Draconis ; arborescens, foliis laxe capitatis subreflexls ensiformlbus acumi-
natis marglne scabris, paniculis ramosis, perianthiis patentissimis.

Y. Draconis. Haworth, Suppl. p. 33. Romer S^ Schult. Syst. veg. 1 . 716.
Elliott Fl. South Carol. 1.401.

What may be species and what varieties in this noble
genus, it is in the present state of botanical information im-
possible to say ; there is however but little doubt that the
two plants which form the subject of this and the succeeding
plate are really distinct.

This, which I presume is the Y. Draconis of Haworth
and Elliott, at least, whatever it may be of others, is one of
the most stately of the genus ; it grows along the sea-shore
of Carolina, frequently intermixed with Yucca gloriosa, and
flowers from May to August ; it sometimes grows as much
as 9 or 10 feet high. The great peculiarity by which it
appears to be distinguished is the spreading flowers, whose
segments, instead of remaining closed in a globose manner
as in most others, expand till they diverge from the flower-
stalk at nearly a right angle.

The drawing was made in the garden of the Horticul-
tural Society, in July, 1835; and about the same time I
received it from the Nursery of the Messrs. Backhouse of
York, with whom it had been growing in the open ground

* See folio 1690.

for some years. Mr. William Wood, who has the charge of
the plant department in this extensive establishment, informs
me that the main stem, clear of the leaves, was two feet long,
and terminated in three clusters of leaves, from the centre
of each of which rose a flower stem three feet high. The
foliage, notwithstanding its stiffness, does not offend the
eye, for the leaves gradually turn back as they grow old, till
at last they form the graceful arrangement shewn in the
accompanying figure.

Nothing can be better adapted than these plants for orna-
menting either artificial or natural masses of rock-work,
precipitous banks, or other situations where the singular
stems can be so much above the eye, as to form a bold and
prominent object standing out in strong relief against the
sky. They are hardy, perennial, and easily procured in
the Nurseries. The Messrs. Backhouse find this, Y. rufo-
cincta, recurvifolia, glaucescens, filamentosa, and others,
quite capable of bearing the winter, even so far north as
York. In the Garden of the Horticultural Society no
weather seems to harm them.

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1895

* y6cCA fl&ccida.

Weak-leaved Adam's Needle.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Liliace^e.

YUCCA.— Su^rd, vol. 20. fol. 1690.

Y. flaccida ; foliis omnibus valde flaccidis tenuibus infra medium debiliter

recurvo-dependentibus loratim longo-lanceolatis planis apicc concavis

mucronulatis undique asperiusculis, filis margin alibus validissimis fulvicanti-

bus. Haworth, Suppl.p. 35. Eomer et Schultes Syst. Veg. 7. 719.

Acaulis, ccsspitosa, foliis flaccid^ recurvis, striatis, striarum jugis

interrupte elevatis et hinc superjiciem scabram reddentibus. Paniculee mul-

tiflorce, patentes, glaberrimce. Flores ochroleuci rubore vix ullo nisi ipsis

apicibus sepalorum, subglobosi. Petala sepalis duplb latiora. Filamenta

pruinoso-pubescentia, stylo breviora.

Of this the native country is unknown. It was first
noticed in the Garden of Mr. Vere, of Kensington Gore,
where it had probably been raised from North American
seed. It is a pretty and apparently distinct species, well
marked by its thread -edged scabrous leaves, pallid flowers,
and stemless habit.

The drawing was made in July, 1835, in the Garden of
the Horticultural Society, where the plant is a hardy ever-
green perennial ; its flowers are over by the middle of August.
It is readily multiplied by off'sets, and like the rest of the
genus thrives most in sandy soil, resembling that of the
sea-shore, along which so many of the species are found
wild in North America.

These Yuccas would surely be excellent plants for gar-
dens on the sea- coast, and yet one never sees them there.

* See fol. 1690.

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1896

* MYANTHUS deltoideus.

TriangulcLV lipped Fhjwort.

GYNANDRIA UQ-^ Al^HUlA,

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Vande^,
MYANTHUS.—Suprd vol. 18. fol. 153B.

M. deltoideus ; labello imberbi sagittate triangulari, angulis posticls rotundatis
dentatis apice dllatato calloso margine recuryo basi tuberculato.

Planta omnino facie M. cernui ; foliis quodammodo latioribus. Rachis
purpurascens, angulata. Bracte^ parvce, memhranacece, acuminulatcB.
Petala et Sepala subcequalia, lineari-lanceolafa, virescentia, purpureo-macu-
lata et interrupte fasciata. Labellum sepalis duplo breviiis, versus basin
saccatum, planum, caryiosum, atro-purpureum, disco virescente, tuberculo
unico oblongo pone basin, et callo virescente ad apicem. Ccetera M. cernui.

This makes the fourth species of the present curious
genus, and in all probability many more will be added.
It is a native of trees in the neighbourhood of the great
waterfall of the Demerara river, where it was found by Mr.
Joseph Hubbard, who sent it to his friend Mr. Booker of
Liverpool, by whom it was presented to Richard Harrison,
Esq. of Aighburgh. To the latter gentleman I am indebted
for the fine specimen from which the accompanying drawing-
was made in October, 1835.

Its distinction from the other species resides in its lip,
which has none of the fringe-like hairs of M. barbatus and
cristatus, but is flat, of a thick fleshy consistence, and of a
rich purple colour with a dash of green on its centre ; its
figure is arrow-headed, with the barbs rounded off and ser-
rated, and the point a little dilated with the edges reflexed.

* See folio 1721.
VOL. XXfT. • M

When the third part of the Genera and Species of Oirhi-
deous Plants was published in 1833, I was only acquainted
with Myanthus cernuus, and cristatus, the latter of which I
considered a Catasetum, and the former as the only genuine
species of the genus ; to a certain degree mistaking the
real generic character of Myanthus, in consequence of the
imperfect materials of which only I was then in possession.
Now however that four species are known in a living state,
it has become necessary to alter the original character of
the genus so as to include Catasetum cristatum. This I
think is more advisable than to combine Myanthus with
Catasetum, as my learned friend Sir William Hooker has
recommended {Bot. Mag. fol. 3514). If the latter measure
were to be adopted it would be equally necessary to suppress
the ^enQYdiMonachanthus, Mormodes, Ci/cnoches, &c. the effect
of which would be to form a heterogeneous collection of
species, the principal combining character of which would
reside in the peculiar succulent stems. As the genera now
stand they have each a clear distinction, and each already
possesses as many species a:s are usually assembled vmder
newly discovered types of structure ; Myanthus has already
4, Cycnoches 2, Monachanthiis 2, Catasetum 5; and Moiinodes
is the only one that comprehends only a solitary species.

Like the rest of its allies a tender stove plant.

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1897

* CRATAEGUS Aionia.

The Aronia Thorn.

ICOSANDRIA MONO-PENTAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Rosacea, Subord. Pome^.
CRATJEGUS.—Supn}, vol. 13. fol, 1128.

C. Aronia ; subinerrais ramulis tomentosis, folils cuneatis pinnatifidis trifidisque
laciniis latls linearibus apice sub-incisis supra lucidis subtus glabriusculis
glaucescentibus, corymbis subsessilibus, fructibus (armeniacis) subangulatis
dipyrenis, putamlne crassissimo.

Mespilus Aronia. Willd. enum. Suppl.

Cr. Aronia. Dec. Prodr. 2. 629. Loudon Arb. Britann. p. 827. f^g. 593.

Mespilus orientalis apii folio subtus hirsute. Pocock. Travels in the East, 1 89.
t. 85. fide Willd.

Arbor mediocris, coma conicd subapertd, ramis rigidis, nullo modo
Jlexuosis. Folia, forma variant ut in omnibus fere speciebus mos est ; semper
tamen circumscriptionem habent cuneatam ; tridentata sunt, trifda, pin-
natifdaque , laciniis integerrimis emarginatis incisisque ; facie superiore
scepius glabrescunt, subtus pabe quddam pagina obducitur. Flores albi
speciosi.

Said to be a native of the Levant, I presume upon the
authority of Pococke's Travels, which I have not at hand to
consult. Specimens from Gramniont near Montpellier are
before me, and they are considered wild by Professor Delile,
who gathered them. This I suspect is the species which
yields the fruit called at Montpellier Pommettes a deux closes,
and not C. Azarolus.

It is very near C. Azarolus, of which indeed it might be
considered a mere variety, if it were not so much more hardy,
nearly destitute of pubescence, and constantly furnished with

*- See folio 1161.

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two stones in its fruit; in the true Azarole there are five,
according to Scopoli.

The tree of C. Aronia is, next to C. maroccana and hete-
rophylla, the largest and most like timber of all the thorns.
It grows very fast, makes a handsome head, and on account
of the great quantity of apricot-coloured fruit with which it
is loaded, is a suitable ornament for lawns and grass in
pleasure grounds.

This plant furnishes a whimsical illustration of the blun-
ders sometimes made by careless compilers. It is supposed
to be the plant described and figured in Dr. Pococke's Tra-
vels in the East ; these are quoted by Willdenow thus, Pock,
orient. ; De Candolle copying this author prints Pocock. cr.,
the c in cr being substituted for o by a typographical error ;
a modern writer copying De Candolle, and knowing nothing
about Dr. Pococke, quotes him thus, Pococke Cratcegi ; thus
making that learned Orientalist the author of a monograph on
the genus Cratcegus !

1898

* EPIDENDRUM imulum.

Emulous Epidendrum.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Epidendre^.
EPIDJENDRUM.—Suprct, vol. l.foL 17.

§ 1. Foliisin pseudobulbos insidentibus.

E. cemulum ; rhizomate repente, pseudobulbis ovalibus compressis, foliis soli-
tarils oblongo-lanceolatis coriaceis, sepalis petalisque linearl-lanceolatis
aequalibus patentibus, labello subrotundo mucronato cochleato lineato inte-
gerrimo, racemo paucifloro.

Rhizoma pennam anserinam crassum, repens, apice squamis memhra-
naceis deciduis vestitum. Pseudobulbi 2 poll, longi, glabri, rugosi, ohlongi,
compressi. Racemus 3-4-Jloriis, folii longitudine. Florcs E. fragranti
simillimi, sed 3-plo minores ; petala non sepalis latiora, et labellum mu-
cronatum nee cuspidatum.

A very rare little plant, closely allied to the variable
E.f vaginalis, from which it is distinguished by its pseudo-
bulbs being very exactly oval, and not tapered to each end,
by its more leathery less acuminate leaves, and very much
smaller flowers, the petals of which are the same width as
the sepals.

A native of Para, whence it was sent by Mr. Hesketh,
the English Consul, to Richard Harrison, Esq. who favoured
me with a specimen in February, 1834.

A tender stove species.

* See folio 1415.

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1899

PENTSTEMON heteropliyllmn.
Various-leaved Pentstemon.

DIDYNAMIA A-NGIOSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. Scrophulariace^.
PENTSTEMON. Suprd, vol. 13./o/. 1131.

P. heterophyllum ; follis glaucescentibus integerrlmls inferioribus lincari-lancco-
latis superloribus linearibus, racemo virgato, sepalis ovatis acumiiiatis,
corollis ventricosis imberbibus, stamine sterili glabro, antheris sagittatis apice
fimbriatis.

CauWs \h-'2.-pedalis, virgatus, glaucescens, basi purpureus. Folia sub-
coriacea, obtusa, vix unquam serrulata. Corollse IcBtc purpurecB, glabcr-
rimce, fere 1| unciam longce, ventricosce, laciniis lahii superioris oblique
rotundatis, inferioris intermedid lateralibus paulo angustiore. Pedicelli
supra medium bibracteati. Filamentum sterile album, glaberrimum, sub-
emarginatum.

A native of California, where the seeds were collected by
Mr. Douglas. It is a hardy herbaceous plant, propagated
by cuttings as well as seeds, and flowering from June to
October. The stems are rather woody, and if not supported
artificially fall upon the ground, and throw out a number of
lateral shoots.

The upper part of the plant is sometimes furnished with
leaves so narrow as to be almost linear ; the lower has them
of an oblong lanceolate form ; so that a person unaware of
the circumstance would be apt to mistake portions of the
same individual for different species.

Drawn in the garden of the Horticultural Society, where
the plant grows in common garden soil.

* Sec fol. 1245.

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1900

* ESCALLONIA illinita.

Varnished Escallonia.

PENTANDRIA MONOCVNIA.
Nat. Old. ESCALLONIACE^.

ESCALLONIA. L. Calycis tubus hemisphaericus, ovario adiiatus,

limbus epigynus quinquedentatus. Petala 5, annulo epigyno inserta. Stamina
5, cum petalis inserta, iisdem alterna. Capsula bilocularis, a basi versus apicera
septiclde dehiscens. Semina plurlma, placentis in utroque loculo treminis, e
columella centrali filiformi ortis affixa, scrobiculata. Albumen carnosum,
copiosum. Embryo orthotropus, axilis. P'uppig et Endlicher Nov. qen ct
sp. 1.8. ^ '

E. illinita ; follis oblongo-lanceolatis serrulatis viscosis vernicosis, corymbis

subtrifloris racemosis, disco epigyno hemispha^rico.
E. illinita. Presl. Reliq. Hcenk. vol. 2. p. 49. t. 59. Hooker et Arnott in

Bot. Miscell. 3. 343.

Frutex sempervire7is, dumosus, undique vernice obductus, odorem gravem
Meliloti aid Fceni GrcBci spirans. Rami vernicis acervulis papillosi. Folia
pallida viridia, nunc tantum lucida, nunc vernicem nitidissimam ex puiictis
numerosissimis exsudantia. Racemi terminales, corymbis constantes pluribus
alternis trifloris bractea parva foliacea suffultis. Flores albidi, subvires-
centes. Calyx limbo ca7npanulato truncato, dentihus 5, subulatis. Petala 5,
distincta. Stamina 5, petalis alterna et paulo breviora. Discus epigynus
Jiavus, hemisphcericus, areolis 10 nectariferis subdepressis circa verticem.
Ovarium biloculare, polyspermum.

This is by far the most hardy of the many species of
Escallonia at present in our gardens, and is not unHkely to
become a common evergreen. If this should prove so, the
pale green of the leaves, their varnished ap})earance, and
the peculiar habit of the plant, will render it a valuable
ornamental species, notwithstanding the want of beauty in
its greenish white flowers.

* See folio 1467.

It is a native of the mountains of Chili ; the late Dr.
Gillies met with it at El Arroyo de los Limes, and Valle del
Rio Tinguirica; and a supposed variety at La Siente Vieja
and La Cuesta de Chacabuco ; Bridges found the latter at
La Laguna, near Valparaiso.

Flowers in August and September ; and readily enough
multiplied by cuttings. The figure was made in the garden
of the Horticultural Society.

The whole plant emits a powerful odour, which to some
persons is highly disagreeable, appearing to them to resemble
the smell of swine ; to me it seems less unpleasant, and much
more like the odour of Melilot or Fenugreek.

The most showy plant of this kind is the Escallonia Mon-
tevidensis, which is also nearly hardy. That species is
usually covered with hundreds of hemispherical heads of
clear white flowers, over which countless insects keep up a
busy hum, as they spring from blossom to blossom in search
of the rich store of honey concealed within the recesses of
the calyx-cup. As one looks at these creatures enlivened
by the warmth of a bright sunny day, one cannot but admire
the exquisite beauty of the ball room that nature thus pro-
vides for an insect festival.

The disk of this species does not surround the base of
the style in the form of a cup, but adheres to it in the form
of a solid yellow cone. I do not know whether such a dis-
tinction is of more than specific value.

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1901

* SCAPHYGLOTTIS violacea.

Violet Boatlip.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Nat. Orel. ORCHIDACEyE, § VANDEiE.

SCAPHYGLOTTIS. Poppig et Endlicher Nova Genera et Species
Plantarum, 1. 58. Sepala conniventia, lateralla basi paulo producta cum pede
columnar connata labello supposita, siipremum lineare convexum. Petala con-
formia sed paulo brevlora. Labellum oblongum canaliculatum cum pede paulu-
lum producto columnse continuum eique in parallelum, margine leviter repandum.

Columna marginata. Pollinia 4. teretia, glandulam cuneatam sessilia.

Herbas epzp/j?//«, cazilesce7ites,nuncpseudobulbosce in axillis. Folia cormcea,
angusta. Floras parvi, axillares, pedunculis dense vaginatis.

S. violacea ; pseudobulbis nuUis, foliis linearibus apice emarginatis, floribus

subgeminis, labello lineari apiculato leviter repando.
Cladobium violaceum. Lindl. Nat. syst. of Botany, p. 446.

Caules teretes, striati, articulati, verosimiliter penduli, ad nodos proli-
feri. Folia 1-2 poll, longa, linearia v. lineari-lanceolata, emarginata, forte
in pseudobulbos insidentia dum planta vegetior pullulat. Flores minuti,
violacei, pedunculis dense vaginatis brevissimis, geminati. Sepala lateralia
basi producta et ohliqua, supremo lineari duplb latiora. Petala supremo
conformia, sed paulo breviora et minus colorata. Labellum album, cum basi
leviter producto columnce continuum, carnosum, canaliculatdm, lineare,
apiculatum, apice purpurascens, margine leviter repandum ideoque subtrilo-
bum. Columna semiteres, alba, apice utrinque unidentata. Pollinia 4, dis-
tincta, teretia, in glandulam triangularem sessilia.

A native of Demerara, whence it was imported by Messrs.
Loddiges. It is not a species of any beauty, but it is a great
Botanical rarity, flowering in the Orchideous stove in
February,

'" ^Ki'tfjjoc a boat, and yXwrro a tongue, in allusion to the usual form of the
labellum.

It constitutes, along with some other South American
plants with a similar habit, a genus representing among
Vandeae Isochilus in the Epidendreous section ; and distinctly
characterized by its flowers having the calyx and corolla of
Speckliniay combined with pollen masses of a very unusual
structure. When four pollen masses are combined in pairs,
they are usually pressed so close together that the one is
flattened against the other, and they seem as if in reality
each pair were produced by the slitting of one ; in this genus,
on the contrary, each mass is rounded and separate from its
neighbours.

When I published this plant in the work above quoted,
under the name of Cladobium violaceum, I had not seen the
late parts of Poppig and Endlicher's Nova genera, which ap-
peared in the end of 1835 ; and consequently I was unaware
of the genus having been already named Scaphyglottis in
that work. Perhaps as the name Cladobium was in circu-
lation, from me, so long since as February, 1835, I might on
that ground set up a claim to priority, and preserve it;
but as Mr. Poppig has described several species, I think
the interests of science will be best consulted by cancelling
Cladobium and adopting Scaphyglottis.

Of the dissections, 1. is an entire flower seen in profile
and magnified ; 2. is a side view of the column and lip ;
3. a view of the lip from above ; 4. a set of pollen masses
with their gland.

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1902

* CYTISUS eeolicus.

jEolian Cytisus.

DIADELPHIA BECA^DRIA.
Nat. ord. FABACEiE or LEGUMINOSiE, § PAPILIONACEiE.

CYTISUS.— Suprd, vol. 2. fol. 121.

Sect. 2. Laburnum. Calyx campanulatus. Legumina polysperma ad

suturam superiorem non dilatata. Flores fiavi. Rami inermes

foliosi. DC.

C. ceolicus ; ramis teretibus folilsque incanis, foliolis ovalibus tomento marginatis,
floribus ternis subebracteatis racemosis, calycibus membranaceis campanu-
latis pubescentibus |, leguminibus glabris.

C. aeolicus. Gussone ined.

Frutex elatus. Rami pilis mollihus patentibus hirsuti. Folia ternata,
incana ; foliolis anguste ovalibus, subsessilibus, petiolo longioribus, tomento
viarginatis. Racemi terminales, breves, flexuosi, rachi tomentosd. Flores
lutein geminati ternatique, pedicellis calyce longioribus, pubescentibus.
Calyx campanulatus membranaceus , pubescens, bilabiatus : labio superiore
2-dentato inferiore ovato integerrimo. Vexillum oblongum, obttisum, alis
longius marginibus rejiexis. Carina basi pubescens, unguibus linearibus an-
gustissimis. Stamina monadelpha, antheris alternis minoribus. Legumina
juniora glabra.

From the seed of a plant marked Cytisus cboUcus in the
garden of Professor Tenore, at Naples, and said to be a new
species discovered in Stromboli by Professor Gussone, this
plant was raised by the Honourable W. F. Strangways, in
his curious garden at Abbotsbury in Dorsetshire. It
flowered there this year for the first time in England, and
specimens were given me in May of the present year ; it is
expected that the blossoms will become handsomer and more
copious as it grows older.

* See fol. 1191,

The climate of Stromboli does not hold out much pros-
pect of this plant being hardy enough to bear English
winters, without some kind of protection ; 1 do not however
anticipate any difficulty in preserving it against a wall on a
well drained border.

In foliage it bears a striking resemblance to C. proli-
ferus, but its flowers are altogether different. Its real affinity
seems to be with C. trijiorus, from which it differs in being a
much larger and more woody plant, with terminal racemes
of flowers, in its larger, deeper and more distinctly campa-
nulate calyx, and smooth, not hairy pods. It seems as if
it were an intermediate species between C. Laburnum and
C. trijiorus.

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1903

* LAPEYR6uSIA anceps.

Two-edged Lapeyrousia.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Iridace^.

LAPEYROUSIA. Pourr. — Pcrianthium hypocrateriforme ; tubo lon-
gissimo gracili ; limbo sexpartito subregulari. Stamina 3, tubo superne in-
serta. Stylus filiformis ; stiymata 3, gracilia, bifida, patentia. Capsula mem-
branacea, triangularis. Semina numerosa, triquetra (sphterica). Dietrich.

L. anceps ; caule folioso ancipiti angulis dentatis, foliis ensiformibus rectis,
bracteis cucuUatis subcrispis foliosis, laciniis limbi subspathulatis.

Gladiolus anceps. Thunb. dissert, no. 17. t. 2.y. 3.

Gladiolus denticulatus. Lamark illustr. 1. 118.

Ixia Fabricii. De la Roche dissert, p. 18. no. 5.

Ixia Lapeyrousia. Gmelin syst~veg. 108.

Ixia pyraraidalis. Lamark Enc. Meth. 2. 334. Illustr. 1. 109.

Lapeyrousia compressa. Pourr. act. tolas. 3. t. 6.

Lapeyrousia anceps. Ker. Ann. Bot. 1.238.

Ovieda anceps. Sjireng. syst. 1. 147.

Meristostigma anceps. Dietr. Sp. plant, vol. 2. 596.

Flores albi, odoratissimi. Ovarium triloculare, polyspermum, ovulis

serie duplici affixis, horizontalibus. Stylus filiformis ; stigmata 3, bipartita,

filiformia, cequalia. Capsula membranacea, obcordata, triquetra, corrugata,

pisi maximi magnitudine ; semina sphcerica, minutissime papillosa, testa

papyraced, raphe tenui simplici, chalaza carnosd depressd. Embryo teres,

albus, in axi albuminis cornel.

An uncommon, though long known, Cape plant, having
nothing to boast of in point of rich colouring or fantastical
structure, but with a pretty modest aspect and a delicate
delightful perfume.

It is usually cultivated in a greenhouse, but will thrive
perfectly in a cold frame, well drained in winter, and ex-

* Named in compliment to Mons. Picot de la Peyrousc, author of figures
of Pyrenean Plants, and a short history of the Pyrenean Flora.

posed to the warm and bright south in summer. It then
flow.ers in June and July, and ripens its seeds about October.

The figure was taken from a plant in the possession of
John Rogers, Esq. jun. of Streatham.

Fig. 1. is a view of the vertical section of the ovary;
2. is a transverse section of the same ; 3. shews the stigmas
and point of the styles.

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1904

* lONOPSIS tenera.
Delicate lonops'is.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Vande^.

lONOPSIS, Kunth. -^ Perianthium clausum. Sepala lateralia basi
approximata, (v. connata) cum basi labelli connata. Petala sepalis conformia.
Labellum sepalis multo majus, basi saccatum, ungue bicalloso columna parallelo,
lamina explanata patente biloba. Columna erecta, aptera, semiteres, rostello
rostrato. Anthera 1-locularis rostrata. PolUniaQ, postice sulcata, caudiculS.

lineari inclusa, glandula obovata. Herbse epiphyfce, acaules. Folia coriacea.

Scapi paniculati, vaginati. Floras parvi, pallidi. Lindl. Gen. & Sp.
Orch. 193.

I. tenera ; foliis carinatis aouminatis, scapo subsimplici, sepalis acutis lateralibus
liberis labello cuneato obliqu^ truncato bilobo crenulato duplo brevioribus.

The species of this genus are but little known. It is seldom that they
appear in gardens, in consequence of the difficulty attending their preser-
vation on shipboard, and when imported they are difficult to manage and
soon are lost. In their native woods they grow upon the smaller branches
of trees, or upon dead sticks, which their white slender delicate roots
quickly overspread. When cultivated they require all the aid of a hot
and damp stove.

Materials to illustrate this genus are so uncommon, that there is much
difficulty in ascertaining what species it contains. I think, however, four
may be safely characterized, exclusively of I. pulchella and testiculata.
The first of these is figured in the Collectanea Botanica, under the name
of I. utricularioides ; it is a smaller plant in all respects than the other
three, has a panicled scape, and its labellum is not much longer than the
sepals, which are acute ; a second is Sir William Hooker's lantha palli-
diflora, which has a large lip with a little irregular toothing at its margin,
and extremely obtuse sepals and petals. The third is that now repre-
sented, which differs from I. pallidiflora in its sepals being acute, and its

* Literally Violet-faced ; lov a violet and o\\jiz look ; why so named 1 do not
know.

VOL. XX n. N

leaves sharp-pointed and earinate, without any intermediate tooth between
the lobes of the lip. The fourth is a very remarkable species, with which
I am acquainted through an extensive unpublished collection of excellent
water-colour drawings, by Mons. Descourtilz, of Brazilian Orchideous
plants, obligingly lent me by Baron Delessert. Tliis species has purple
panicled scapes a foot and half long, bending gracefully beneath the
weight of the delicate snow-white flowers. It was found in the ancient
forests of Brazil, in the province of St. Paul. M. Descourtilz mentions a
variety of it with flowers of a delicate and pure rose colour. " Son inflores-
cence," he says, " a lieu dans les mois de Septembre et d' Octobre, et se
prolonge jusqu'en Mars sans que lesjleurs sefanent ; elles sont inodores."

The systematic characters of these species are given below. For the
following note, and the drawing of the accompanying plate, I have to
thank Mr. Booth, the very intelligent gardener of Sir Charles Lemon,
Bart.

" This elegant little plant flowered in May last, in Sir Charles Lemon's
collection at Carclew, to which it was presented by Captain Sutton, of
Flushing, near Falmouth, who brought it from Havannah in March, 1835."

" Pseudo-bulhs, very small and nearly hidden by the leaves, oval, deep
green. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, of a brownish green colour, striated,
sheathing at the base, thick and fleshy, from 2 to 4 inches long, and about
half an inch broad, slightly earinate, and tapering to a narrow point.
Scape produced from the bottom of the small pseudo-bulb, and rising from
8 to 10 inches high ; jointed, round and slender, nearly erect, of a pale
brownish green, bearing a number of delicately marked flowers arranged
alternately in a loose sort of panicle. Sejmls very small and thin, closely
laid over the petals which they resemble in colour, but are rather shorter
and more acuminate. Petals oblong, rounded at the edge, concealing the
column. Labellum large, and spreading, two-lobed, almost obcordate,
with a spur at the base, of a pale pinkish colour, beautifully marked with
bright violet-coloured veins, darkest towards the claw, which has two,
raised, fleshy, yellow appendages, parallel to, and about twice the length
of, the column : the latter is pale green and roundish oblong."

I. utricular ioides (Collect. Bot. t. 39. A.) foliis carlnatis acuminatis, scapo

ramoso, sepalis acutis lateralibus liberis, labello cuneato oblique truncate

bilobo integerrlmo. Labellum sepalis dimidio tantum longius. Floras

minimi in genere. Ins. Trinitatis.

\. palUdiftora (lantha pallidiflora, Hooker Exot. Fl. t. 113.) foliis hnearibus
obtusis planiusculis, scapo subsimplici, sepalis obtusissimis lateralibus
liberis labello cuneato oblique truncate bilobo cuspidulato crenulato dupl6
brevioribus. Ins. Trinitatis.

I. paniculata (Epidendre panicule, Descourtilz Epidendr. Bras. ined. in bibl.
Delessert t. .54.) foliis lineari-lanceolatis carinatis, scapo ramosissimo, sepalis
acutis lateralibus ultra medium connatis labello obcordato apiculato piano

integerrimo duplo brevioribus. Flores majores quam in I. tenera, albi.

Labellum medio purpureo lineatum, basi flavum. Variat floribus roseis.

In sylvis primaevis Brasilise, prov. S'. Pauli.

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* RONDELETIA odorata.
Sweet-scented Rondeletia.

HEXANDRIA MQ-NOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Cinchonaceje.

RONDELETIA, Plwm. — Calycis tubus subglobosus, limbus 4-5-parti-
tus, lobis oblongis linearibusve acutis persistentibus. Cor. tubo cyllndrlco vix
apice subventricoso, limbo patente 4-5-lobo, lobis subrotundis ; antherce 4-5, in
aplce tubi inclusae, sessiles. Sfiyma bifidum. Capsula globosa, calyce coro-
nata, bilocularis, ex apice dehiscens invalvulas 2, ssepius apice iissas, und^ seepfe
4-valvis videtur, nunc loculicido-rarius septicido-dehiscens. PlacentcB centrales.
Semina plurima, minima, ovato-angulata, ssep^ 2 tantiim in loculo maturescentia.
— Arbusculae aut frutices omnes ex America. YoY\^ plus minus petiolata aut
subsessilia. Stipulae deltoidece aut lanceolato-lineures, utrinque solitarice,
indiviscB, interdum intus hirsutcB. Pedunculi axillares, scepius trichotomi,
interdum in paniculam corijmhosam terminalem dispositi, rarius tri- imo uni-
fiori. DC. prodr. 4. 406.

R,. odorata ; foliis vix petiolatis ovatis aut subcordatis acutiusculis, supra sparse
scabris, subtus pallidioribus in nervis tantum scabris, corymbis terminalibus.
D.C.X.c.

R. odorata. Jacq. Amer. t. 42. p. 59. Linn. Sp. 1671.

R. coccinea. Quormidam.

R. speciosa. Hort.

Obs. Os corolla; cyatho brevi inteyro munitum, characterem dat aucto-

ribus recentioribus prcetervisum.

The accompanying drawing was made in the hothouse
of Messrs. Loddiges, in December, 1834. The plant more
usually flowers three months earlier ; it requires to be kept
in a stove, and by no means exposed to cold even in the
summer.

* " So named by Plumier after Guillaume Rondelet, a physician and natu-
ralist, bom in 1507, died in 1566. He is principally known for his works on
Algae and Fishes. Rabelais ridiculed him under the name of Rondibilis. He
is accused of having given a horrible proof of his love for anatomy, m dissecting
his own son."^De Theis.

N 2

Jacquin, who found it in the Havanna, on bush-covered
rocks near the sea, and sometimes growing upon the naked
rock itself, describes it as an inelegant straggling shrub about
six feet high. He says the bright vermilion coloured flowers
are as sweet-scented as violets ; a property however which
exists in only a slight degree in the cultivated plant.

It is usually known in gardens by the erroneous name of
Rondeletia speciosa.

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1906

* EPIMEDIUM macranthum.
Large-jlowered Epimedium.

TETR ANURIA MONOGYH^IA.

Nat. ord. Berberace^e.

EPIMEDIUM, L. — Sepala 4, discolora, petalis opposlta. Petala 8,
colorata; exteriora simplicia; interiora calcarata. 'S^«/rtin« 4, petalis interioribus

opposita. Capsula siliculfeformis, polysperma. Herba; perennes, foliis

radicalibus comjiositis, foliolis serrato-aristalis.

E. macranthum ; foliis triternatis, foliolis cordatis ovatis,petiolis pilosis, raceinis
multifloris, sepalis Hnearibus obtusis, petalis ovato-lanceolatis exterioribus
quam interiorum calcaria duplo brevioribus.

E. macranthum. Morren ^ Decaisne Ann. des Sc. ser. II. 2. 352. t. 13.

A very pretty sweet-scented species, remarkable for the
large size of its pale violet flowers. It has been amply de-
scribed by Messrs. Morren and Decaisne, from plants that
flowered in the garden of the University of Ghent, where it
forms one out of one hundred and sixty species of Japanese
plants bronght to Europe alive by Dr. von Siebold. This is
by far the most considerable importation from Japan that
has yet been made, and its results have been so satisfactory
as to lead us to hope that the Dutch may be the means of
bringing us acqnainted with a larger portion of the beautiful
plants of that most singular country.

The drawing of this species was made in April last, from
a plant in the possession of Mr. Osborne of the Fulham Nur-
sery. It is no doubt quite hardy, and is well worth the

* An old name, supposed to be derived from Media, where the plant to which
it belonged was reported to grow ; that j)lant does not however appear to have
had any resemblance to the Epimedium of modern writers.

notice of all lovers of pretty and curious plants. Two more
species of the same genus, E. violaceum and Musschianum,
are in the garden of Ghent.

The Epimedium alpinum is common in Botanical gardens,
but its dusky brown flowers are so small as to escape notice ;
it is reputed to be a wild British plant, but Messrs. Morren
and Decaisne are of opinion that it is merely an outcast from
gardens, and that it is not really wild north of the Maritime
Alps in 44° n. lat.

The dissections at the bottom of the plate represent, fig. 1.
one of the innermost petals, or nectaries as they are usually
called, with a stamen growing just in the mouth of its cavity ;

2. a stamen with the valves of its anthers turning backwards;

3. a pistil ; 4. a section of its ovary, shewing how the ovules
grow in two rows to an elevated placenta ; I do not find them
in three rows as described and figured by the learned Bota-
nists above quoted.

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1907

* A8PASIA variegata.
Variegated Aspasia.

GYNANDRIA MONAXDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Vande^e.

ASPASIA. Lindl. — Perianthium patens, sequale. Sepala lateralia
libera; supremum cum petalis basi et dorso columnae connatum. Lahellum ob-
longum, concavum, ecalcaratum, obsolete 4-lobum, cum columna seml-connatura.
Columna labello parallela, semiteres, marginata. Antheru bilocularis. Pol-

linia 2, pyriformia, postic^ sulcata, caudlcula plana cuneata, glandula parva.

Herbse epiphytes, caulescentes, pseudobulbosce. Folia subcoriacea. Spicae
radicales, breves.

A. variegata; pseudobulbis oblongis ancipitibus, sepalis lineari-oblongis petalis-
que subrhomboideis acutis, labelli lobis lateralibus recurvis intermedioque
carnosis serratis.

BracteJE ovatce, cucullatcB, herbacecB, coriacece. Sepala coriacea, herbacea,
sanguineo fasciata. Petala herbacea luteo-marginata sanguineo interrupt^
striata, cum basi sepali supremi connata ideoque oblique inserta. Labellum
carnosum, serratum, album, violaceo-maculatum, basi limbi bicallosum.
Pollinia pyriformia, postice sulcata caudiculd simplici inserta.

A native of the tropical part of South America. I re-
ceived specimens of it for the first time from Mr. Joseph
Knight of the King's Road, in February, 1836, and subse-
quently from Mr. Bateman. The flowers are deliciously
sweet in the morning. It will probably prove a plant of easy
cultivation, and if so it will deserve to be in every collection.

In most respects it is very like A. epidendroides, for which,
before I carefully examined it for publication, I had mistaken

* From aaira'Cofiai I embrace, in allusion to the manner in which the column
is embraced by the labellum.

it. Tliere are however some essential differences between
them, especially in the form of^the labellum, and in the far
greater degree of obliquity in the insertion of the back sepal
in A. epidendroides ; it is moreover probable from the dried
specimens of the latter that its flowers are whole coloured ;
I have subjoined a character by which it may be distin-
guished.

In the same collection of unpublished drawings, belong-
ing to Baron Delessert, to which I have already referred (foL
1904), there is a figure of a third species of this genus. It
has oblong smooth not two-edged pseudo-bulbs, solitary much
larger scentless flowers, of which the sepals and petals are
yellowish green blotched with crimson, and the lip and
column pure white, with a faint purplish crescent-shaped
stain in the middle of the lip. M. Descourtilz found it on
the Cedrela in Brazil, in the district of Bananal. A variety
of it is mentioned by him with a pale lilac lip, the stain on
which is deep violet. He also represents the pollen masses
as each furnished with a separate caudicula ; if this is correct
it will be an additional reason for doubting how far that
character is of importance in distinguishing Genera.

Of the dissections in the accompanying plate that in the
centre represents a magnified view of the column and the
base of the labellum ; the other the pollen masses with their
caudicle and gland seen from behind.

A. epidendroides (Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 139); pseudobulbis oblongis ancipi-
tibus, sepalls lineari-oblongis acutis, petalis obtusis concavis, labelli lobis
lateralibus rotundatis integerrimis, intermedio crenulato emarginato. Pa-
nama and Columbia occidentalis.

A. lunata ; pseudobulbis oblongis compressis lasvibus, sepalis petalisque linea-
ribus obtusis patentissimis, labelli lobis lateralibus nanis intermedio piano sub-

quadrato undulato, floribus solitariis. Brazilia. Sepala et petala luteo-

viridia, sanguineo-maculata. Labellum album macula lunata in medio.
Flores inodori.

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1908

* CRASFEDIA glauca.
Glaucous Craspedia.

SYNGENESIA POLYGAUIA MdUALlS.

Nat. ord. Composit^e CoRYMBiFERiE, or Asterace^.

CRASPEDIA, Forst. — Ca/ji^M/wm circiter 5-florum. i?acAts bracteo-

lata. Pappus uniserialis, plumosus Herba glabrata, Australasica, erecta,

shnplicissima, monocephala, foliis oblongo-obovatis, follolis intcgris scariosis.
Lessing Gen. Compos. 271.

Craspedia glauca. Spreng. syst. 3. 441.
Richea glauca. Labillard. Fl. Nov. Holl.

Herba perennis, glaucescens, pilis quibusdam sparsis, teldque rard
araneosd vestita. Folia lineari-lauceolata, acuminata, subdectirrentia.
Caulis in planta culta foliosus, in spontanea sitbaphyllus ; semper monoce-
phalus. Capitulum compositum, sphcBricum, foliolis ovalis acutis involucra'
tuvi ; partialia 5-9 -yZora, pariter involucrata, sed foliolis interioribvs invo-
lucelli membranaceis scariosis. Receptaculum planiusculum, squaviis ser-
ratis membranaceis corollis brevioribus munitum. Pappus basi annularis,
in setis sedecim phimosis divisus corolloe longitudine. Corolla infuyidibularis,
lutea. Antherse caudatce. Stylus basi bulbosus, brachiis truncatis canali-
culatis, apice pulvinatim dilatatis.

A curious herbaceous plant, found in Van Diemen's
Land, whence it was sent by Mr. James Backhouse to his
brother, in whose Nursery at York it flowered in April last.

It will no doubt be hardy in the warmer parts of Great
Britain, but had better be kept in a frame in other places.

The ample dissections in the accompanying plate give a
correct idea of its structure. Each of the round yellow
heads is composed of several smaller heads; and the invo-
lucre consists principally of the external leaflets of the small

* Said to be so called from Kpaanecvi' a fringe, in allusion, I presume, to the
feathery pappus.

heads. Each smaller head (fig. 1.) consists of from 5 to 9
florets, surrounded by ovate rather serrated leaflets, all of
which, except the most exterior one, are white and mem-
branous. The florets (fig. 2.) arise from the axil of each
leaflet, and have a feathery pappus (fig. 4.) cup-shaped at its
base, and then divided into 16 rays. The corolla (fig. 5.) has
rather a funnel-shaped figure ; the anthers have each two
bristles at the base (fig. 3.) ; and the style, which is bulbous
at the base is divided at the apex into two linear furrowed
arms, each of which is terminated by a cushion-shaped
dilatation.

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1909

* CLINTONIA pulchella.

Pretty Clintonia.

SYNGENESIA MONOGAMIA.

Nat. ord. Lobeliace^e.

CLINTONIA .—Snpn), vol. 1 5. fol. 1241.

C. pulchella ; foliis sepallsque obtusls, corollae laciniis superioribus ovatis acutis
divaricatis labelli lacinia intermedia productiore.

I figure this little plant more for the sake of recording its
existence, than from any expectation that it will ever become
an object of horticultural interest ; for since C. elegans, a far
hardier and more cultivable plant, has disappeared, there can
be little hope that this, beautiful as it is, will be preserved.

It only exists at present in the Garden of the Horticultural
Society, where it was sent from California by Mr. Douglas.
It is there treated as a tender annual, and every year a
small number of tiny plants, not at all bigger than those now
represented, have been raised from the very few seeds ripened
the previous year. It has been usually grown in a flower-
pot.

The wild Californian ' specimens shew this to be a much
smaller plant, even wild, than C. elegans ; from which it
differs in its leaves being more obtuse, and its flowers, which
are twice as large, having the upper segments diverging not
parallel, the middle lobe of the lower lip longer than the
others, and the broad lobed white spot in its middle richly
stained with yellow at the base.

Seeds are the only means which this plant has of propa-
gating itself.

* See fol. 1241.

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1910

* CRATAEGUS mexicana.

Mexican Hawthorn.

ICOSANDRIA MONO.PENTAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Rosacea, § Pome^.
CRATyEGUS.— Supra, vol. ]3.fol. 1128.

C, mexicana ; foliis ovalibus acutis serratis aut apice incisis subti'ls tomentosis,
floribus corymbosis, calycinis lobis acutis tomentosis, bracteis filiformibus
ramentaceis, pomis sphaeroideis 3-5-pyTenis.

C. mexicana. D. C. Prodr. 2. 629. Sweefs Flower Garden, 2 ser. t. 300.
Loudon, Arb. Brit. p. 843. and Jig. 617. jo. 867.

Arbor, in locis temperatis sempervirens, foliis diiris siiblucidis, aliquando
in ramis vegetioribus trilobis. Stipulse lineari-lanceolatce, ramentacece, mar-
gins glanduloscE, petiolis longiores. Fructus lutei, sapidi.

A native of the Tierra fria of Mexico, M^hence I have wild
specimens gathered by Mr. Graham. It is a small tree, which
in mild climates is quite evergreen, with lanceolate sharply
serrated rather shining deep green leaves. The flowers are
almost as large as those of some kinds of Pear, and, appear-
ing as they do in abundance from the rich green bosom of
the leaves, produce a striking effect. The fruit is in some
estimation among the Mexicans, but it has not much merit.

Mr. Loudon states that, if budded upon the common
Hawthorn, this plant will produce shoots from 5 to 7 feet
long the first season. It may be easily propagated by this
process, and will therefore soon be common. It is quite
hardy, but succeeds best if allowed to grow in front of a wall,
or in some equally sheltered place.

* Seefol. 1161,

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1911

* ONCIDIUM iridif61ium.

Pigmy Oncidmm.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHiDACEiE, § Vande^e.
ONCIDIUM.— Suprd, vol. i3. fol. 1050.

C. iridifolium ; foliis ensiformibus brevibus equitantibus, scapo slmplici sub-
unifloro, sepalo supremo obtuso : lateralibus acutis collateralibus (herbaceis),
petalis obtusis undulatis majorlbus, labellilobis lateralibus parvis subrotundis
unguiculatis : intermedio multo majore subrotundo bilobo utrinque versus
apicem emarginato, crista (depressa 5-loba apice truncata), columnae ala
crenulata circumdante. Gen. §• Sp. Orch. 203.
Folia nunc eguitantia, nunc explanata, semper acuta. Crista labelli

apice truncata crenulata, basi disciformis, lobulis duobus in vertice disci.

This curious little species of Oncidium seems to be com-
mon in many of the hotter parts of America ; for it has been
found from Mexico, New Grenada, and Surinam, as far south
as Brazil. M. Descourtilz, in his manuscript account of
Brazilian Orchideae, observed it in the neighbourhood of the
town of Bom Jesus de Bananal in the province of St. Paul's,
growing exclusively upon the branches of Orange and Lemon
trees; it was very abundant there, and constantly preferred
dry places exposed to the sun.

The specimen from which the accompanying drawing
was taken was sent me by Lord Fitzwilliam's desire, from
the rich collection at Went worth, in August, 1835.

The outline figure at the bottom of the plate represents
the column, with its two serrated wings, and the lower part
of the lip, with the tuberculated disk, by which the species
of Oncidium are remarkably well distinguished.

* See folio 1542.

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* CRATAEGUS glandulosa /3. macracantlia.
Long-spined glandular Hawthorn.

ICOSANDRIA MO'NO.PE^TAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Rosacea, § Pome^.
CRATAEGUS.— Supra, vol. \2,.foL 1128.

C. glandulosa ; foliis subrotundis oblongisve inciso-serratis basi cuneatis long6
petiolatis, calycfs laciniis pinnatifidis glandulosis, spiiiis axillaribus arcuatis
petiolis longloribus, pomls sphaericis corymbosis 3-pyrenis putamine crassis-
simo osseo.

C. glandulosa ; De Cand. Prodr. 2. 627. &c. Loudon Arb. Brit. p. 817.
J^g. 567. .

/3. macracantha ; spinis foliis jequalibus v. longioribus, pomis subminoribus.

C. macracantha ; Lodd. cat. Loudon Arb. Brit. p. Si9. Jig. 572. et 573.

A fine handsome vigorous American thorn, forming a
tree with a spreading head, and having firm dark green
leaves, amongst which are intermixed stout curved spines
of unusual length. I have seen them as much as four inches
and a half long. It flowers in May, and produces an abun-
dance of its deep vermilion-red haws in the autumn.

No writer upon the wild trees of North America notices
this remarkable plant; it is therefore in all probability of
garden origin ; indeed I entertain no doubt of its being a
mere variety of C. glandulosa, possibly of hybrid extraction,
between that species and C. crus-galli.

* See fol. 1161.

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1913

* NECTAR0SC6rDUM siculum.

Sicilian Honey-garlic.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Liliace^, § Scille^.

NECTAROSCORDUM. Flores umbellati. Sepala et petala diversi-
formia, serai-herbacea, valde inibricata. persistentia, demilm cartilagiiiea et supra
capsulam rigid^ conniventia. Stamina 6, perigyna ; tilamentis liberis subulatis.
Ovarium in apice pedicelli clavati seiui-immersum, depressum, poris tribus melli-
fluis in vertice dissepimentorum crassissiinorum ; polyspermum, ovulis e fundo
loculorum. Capsula sepalis petalisque persistentibus supertecta, ovata, loculicido

trivalvis, pori melliflui vestigio in dorso. Semina compressa, atra. Herba

hulbosa, allium fortissime olens. Pedicelli fiorum cernui, capsularum
rigidi erecti.

N. siculum.

Allium siculum. Ucria pi. ad Linn. op. addend, n. 7. Guss. prodr. fl. sic.

1. 398. Don in Sweet Fl. Gard. ser. 2. t. 349.

Sepala et petala Ijasi valde imbricata, diversiformia, nempe ; sepala
ovato-oblonga, obtuse , herbacea, leviter purpurascentia ; petala umjuiculata,
subcordato-ovata, ^nucronulata, medio purpurascentia, ungue calloso et
stdcato. Stamina libera, basi nullo modo connata, omnia conformia. Ova-
rium loculis petalis alternis, in toro crasso semi-immersis, poro depresso
melli/luo in vertice dissepiment07-u?n crassissimorum. Ovula in basi loculo-
rum aggregata, quatuor per paria pone axin, quatuor pone amhiium serie
simplici. Capsula receptaculo crassissimo inserta, sepalis petalisq. induratis
obtecta, hemisphcerico-lrigona, Icevis ; dorso loculorum elevato, poro melli-
fluo dejjresso.

A bulbous plant found wild in shady woods on the moun-
tains of Polizzi, Madonie, Ficuzza, S. Maria del Bosco, in
Sicily, flowering in May and June.

It has been hitherto referred most unaccountably to the
genus Allium, with which it agrees indeed in having an

* From j/fKTap honey, and nKoplov garlic, in allusion to the lioney pores in
its flowers.

o2

umbellate inflorescence, and a powerful garlic-like odour,
but in hardly any other respect more than Ornithogalum,
and the other genera of the Liliaceous order. The charac-
ters assigned to it are amply sufficient to fix it as a most
distinct and remarkable genus.

Gussone inquires whether A. Dioscoridis may not be the
same species ; a question that I believe there is no present
means of answering.

It is a hardy species, my drawing of w^hich was made
from a plant in the Garden of the Society of Apothecaries at
Chelsea, in June last. It produces seeds, by which the cura-
tor, Mr. Anderson, will, I presume, be able to increase it.

In the accompanying dissections, 1. represents an ovary
surrounded by stamens, the calyx and corolla having been
cut away ; 2. is a section of the ovary indicating the position
of the ovules ; 3. is a ripe fruit invested by the permanent
calyx and corolla ; 4. is a capsule wdth its valves opening ;
5. is a seed.

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1914

* BRASAV(3lA cordaia.
Heart-lipped Brasavola.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. OacHiDACEiE, § Epidendre^e.
BR ASAVOLA .—Supra, vol. M.fol. 1465.

B. cordata; labello cordato acumlnato integerrimo ungue parum lonoriore, sepalis
petalisque linearibus acuminatls, clinandrio integerrimo postice in dentem
subulatum producto.

A species of Orchidaceous plant, closely allied to B. no-
dosa, already figured at fol. 1465 of this work, from which
it differs in its flowers being only half the size, with a cordate
labellum, and a very different clinandrium.

It was imported from Brazil by Messrs. Loddiges, who
obligingly furnished me with the specimen from which the
drawing was made in January 1836.

There will be no certainty in the cultivation of epiphytal
Orchidaceae till we become more precisely acquainted with
the habits of the different species than we now are. At
present it is usual to consider them all natives of trees in
damp shady woods. It is however quite certain that such is
the habit of onl}' some of them. The whole genus Brasavola,
for example, grows upon stones and rocks, never upon trees,
in open forest glades, fully exposed to the sun.

It is not a little remarkable that no species of this genus
should occur in the extensive series of drawings of Brazilian
Orchidacese by M. Dcscourtilz, with which Baron Delcsscrt

* See fol. 1 465.

has favoured me. Neither indeed do more than two species
exist in Dr. Von Martius's extensive Brazilian Herbarium,
one of which is Br. tuberculata, and the other the following
new species.

B. Martiana ; labello ovali acuminato ciliato-dentato sessili, petalis sepalisque

linearl-lanceolatis acuminatis longioribus, clinandrio cucullato inciso.

Brazil, on the banks of the Rio Negro, Martius. — Leaves subulate, chan-
nelled, 1| foot long. Flowers white. — Next B. cucuUata.

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1915

* ^.lIC!

SISYRiNCHIUM graminif61ium, /3. pumilum.
Dwarf Grass-leaved Sisyrinchium.

MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA.

Nat. ord. iRiDACEiE.

SISYRINCHIUM.— Suprd, vol. \3.fol. 1067.

S. graminifolium. Supra l. c.

/3. pumilum; scapo submonostachyo foliis breviorc, pilis ovarii longissiinis,
floribus oculatis.

A beautiful little perennial, found on mountains near
Valparaiso and Conception, where it flowers in October. I
have wild specimens both from Mr. Macrae and Mr. Bridges.
It is a much more attractive plant than the other variety
figured at fol. 1067 of this work, because of the deep purple
spots at the base of the divisions of its flower, and might be
almost considered a different species, but there do not appear
to be any characters to distinguish it with certainty.

For the specimens from which the figure was taken I am
indebted to Robert Mangles, Esq. with whom the plant
flowered in May last. It will probably be treated as a
greenhouse plant, but it is undoubtedly one of those species
which would succeed better in a situation protected from
frost and damp in winter, but without any artificial heat.
Considering how very large a number of beautiful plants we
have that would grow in all their native beauty under such
circumstances, it is not a little remarkable that none of the
many wealthy cultivators of flowers should yet have thought
of constructing moveable glass-houses, that should be only

* Sto-yptyxtoi/ is an ohl Greek name for the Iris Sisyrinchium.

erected during winter, and totally removed after the end of
the frosts in spring. A thousand pounds so expended would
produce a far greater result than three thousand applied in
the common manner ; and the annual cost of keeping such
houses in order would be nothing as compared with the ex-
pense of greenhouses and stoves.

This is one of those perennials with succulent, fingered
roots which multiply sparingly. It is chiefly to its seeds
that we must look for the means of propagating it.

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1916

* PRESC(3tTIA coloians.
Purplish Prescottia.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Neottie^.

PRESCOTTIA. Lindl. Sepala reflexa, basl paululum connata. Pe-
tula minora, reflexa aut erecta. Labellum erectum, posticuni, cucullatum, car-
nosum, integeirinmni. Columna nana, teres, aptera, libera, clavata. Anthera
opercularis, rotundata, loculis completis divaricatis, connective carnoso. Stigma
obtusum. Pollinia 4, geminata.

P. colorans ; folio solitario ovate- oblongo acuminato basi cucuUato petioli longi-

tudme, spica densa cylindracea, petalis subulatis ascendentibus.
Scapus bipedalis, f/louco-purpurascens.

A native of Brazil, whence it was imported by Messrs.
Loddiges. The drawing was made in January 1834.

It is a stove herbaceous plant, growing readily in sandy
peat, flowering in its season, and then dying down for the
remainder of the year.

Little is as yet known about the species of this genus ; the
following certainly belong to it, besides P. plantaginca.

1. v. stachyodes.=Cr&\\\c\i\s si&chyoAes. Swartz Prodr. Z. 1437.

2. P. petiolaris ; foliis latis ovato-lanceolatis ovalibusque petiolo brevioribus,

spica densissima elongata multiflora, petalis sepalisque revolutis. Peru

Mathews (No. 1875). Principally distinguished from P. plantaginea by

its widely different leaves.

* Named in compliment to John Prescott, Esq. of St. Petersburgh. a
learned and indefatigable botanist, with whose attainments it is to be regretted
that the public should not be as well acquainted as his personal friends.

3. P. micrantha ; foliis ovatis subsessillbus rosulatis, scapo erecto filiformi

subaphyllo, splca nutante pauciflora, bracteis subulatis ovario multo bre-

vioribus, sepalis petalisque patulis. Brazil, Sierra d'Estrella, Dr. Gries-

bach. Scapus palmaris. Flores minuti.

4. P. leptostachya ; folio oblongo acuto petiolo longiore, scapo subaphyllo, spica

gracili rariflora, bracteis brevissimis subulatis, petalis sepalisque revolutis.
Bahia, in fruticetis sabulosis, Salzmann.

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1917

* STACKHOtJSIA inon6gyna.

Pink-tipped Stackkousia.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Nat. Ord. SxACKHOUSIACEiE.

STACKHOUSIA. Smith. Genus solum adhuc notum in ordine.

S. munogijna ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis lanceolatisque, spicis cylindraceis elon-
gatis apice acute conicis, corollae laciniis acutatis, staminlbus inxqualibus,
coccls oblongis corrugate -areolatis, bracteis brevissimis membranaceis.

S. monogyna. Lab. Nov. Holl. 1. t. 104.

Planta herbacea, ■perennis, pedalis et ultra; caule folioso, ramoso, sub-
decumbente, glaberrimo, striata. Folia lineari-lanceolata, et lanceolata,
nullo modo carnosa, basi acuminata. Spies densce, semper apice rosea conico
acuta, nunc per luxuriem foliis quibusdam intermixtce, post anthesin valde
elongatoe. Bracteag acutninaice, membranacece, calyce breviares. Calyx
5-Jidus, campanulatus , corolla multoties brevior ; tuba carnosa, discum ad-
hcerentem gerente, laciniis acuminatis. Corolla pseuda-monopetalu, petalis
in tubum cylindraceum concretis basi liberis, limbo piano acutato. Stamina
5, incequilonga, tubo breviara, infauce calycis inserta extra discum. Ova-
rium trilabum, monostyluyn, stigmatibus tribus linearibus erectis, tubo corollae
multo brevioribus vix calycem longitudine superantibus.

A pretty neat herbaceous plant, native of Van Diemen's
Land, whence its seeds were sent by Mr. James Backhouse
to his brothers at York, where it flowered for the first time
in April of the present year. I have wild specimens of it
collected in the same island by Mr. Gunn (69) and others.

It is interesting as forming the type of a ver^'' small
natural order bearing its own name, concerning which the

* So named in honour of the late John Stackhousc, Esq. F.L.S. of Pen-
darvis in Cornwall, author of a splendid work on submarine plants, entitled
" Nereis Britannica," and of some botanical illustrations of Theophrasstus. —
Smith.

reader is referred to the Natural System of Botany, page
US.ed.2.

It will be a half-hardy perennial, and may no doubt be
propagated by cuttings of the woody base of its stem, if it
should not produce seeds. The pink tips to the spikes of
white flowers are striking enough before the flowering is too
much advanced.

Hitherto only two species of Stackhousia have been men-
tioned ; namely, S. viminea of Smith, and that now de-
scribed. Characters of three others in my herbarium are
given below.

Fig. 1. in the dissections of this plate represents the 5
petals adhering in a tube, except just at the base where they
separate ; fig. 2. is the calyx split open, with the fleshy disk
lining its tube, and the 5 stamens, of which 2 are alternately
shorter than the others ; fig. 3. is the ovary, with the style
and 3 stigmas.

3. S. ohtusa; foliis lineari-lanceolatis mucronatis, spicis cylindraceis (brevibus?)

et corollae lacinils obtusis, staminlbus insqualibus, coccis , bracteis

acuminatis calyci sequalibus. Van Diemen's Land (Gmwm, 4G2.)

Very near S. raonogyna.

4. S.muricafa; foliis linearibus carnosis obtusis, racemis gracilibus aphyllis,

pedunculis ternis, corollse laciniis linearibus obtusis, staminibus ,

coccis truncatis muricatis inaequalibus, bracteis obsoletis. Port Jackson.

Flowers very small.

5. S. nuda ; apbylla ? ramis filiformibus apice racemum pauciflorura gerentibus,

pedunculis 3-4-nisve, corollae laciniis acuminatis, staminibus Eequalibus,

coccis , bracteis obsoletis. New Holland. Flowers not half the

size of the last. Whole plant apparently leafless.

./Hc^y ^-voAe-. M. mJriyJ. ^^n^ /6ff 9icccMI^0^. /. ISjS-

XW^tOj:

1918

* GENiSTA monosperma.
Single-seeded Genista.

DIADELPHIA (MONADELPHIA), DECANDRU.

Nat. ord. FabacE;E or Leguminos.^, § Papilionace^.
GENISTA.— Supra, vol. 14. t. 1150.

G. monosperma ; ramis virgatis teretibus striatis floriferis nudis juniorlbus foliis-
que anguste linearibus simplicibus sericeis, racemis lateralibus, (floribus
albis), leguminibus ovalibus nionospermis glaberrimis subinflatis. Gusso7ie
fi. sic. 2. 363.

Spartium monospermum. Linn. sp. pi. 995. Bot. Mag. t. 683.

Genista monosperma. DC. prodr. p. 150.

One of the most delicioiisly fragrant shrubs in the worhl.
It is difficult to imagine an^r thing more delicate and grate-
^ ful than the sweet odour that its tender snow-white blossoms
diffuse in the conservatory, in the months of May and June.

It is described as being, when wild, a good deal taller
than a man, having a trunk an inch thick, and waving its
green gray leafless thread-like branches in the wind in the
most graceful manner. All along the basin of the Mediter-
ranean, as high as the latitude of Sicily, it is abundant ;
but it cannot bear the cold of the French shore. At Gibral-
tar, in a sandy barren soil, and close upon the sea-beaten
rocks, it is loaded with blossoms in F("l)ruary ; along the
Barbary coast ; in Sicily from Alicata to Spaccnforno, and in
Greece it occurs in similar situations ; and finally it gains its
eastern limits in the desert of Mount Sinai, where the Arabs
call it Retam.

* Of doubtful meaning. It is said to be derived from (jemi the knee, be-
cause tbe branches are flexible like the knee joint. Tlic Genista; lent® of Virgil
are generally referred to Spartium jiinceum.

It bears no little resemblance to the Retania of TenerifFe,
Cytisus nubigenus, and will doubtless be one day associated
in the same genus with that species, whenever Botanists shall
discover the true mode of grouping the European genera of
Papilionaceous plants.

The accompanying figure was taken from a specimen
that flowered with Messrs. Young of Epsom, in May 1835.
It is multiplied by seeds and cuttings, and must be treated
as a greenhouse plant in winter. It is another of those
plants which might be successfully managed in a moveable
temporary glass-house.

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1919

* CATTLEYA intermedia; mr. pallida.
Pale-flowered intermediate Cattleya.

GYNANDRIA MONA^BRlA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace-i:, § Epidendre/E.
CATTLEYA.— Suprd, vol. U.fol. 953.

C. intermedia ; folils oblongis emarginatis cauli asquallbus, sepalis pctalisque
lineari-oblongls subajqualibus subundulatis obtusiusculis, labello trilobo
lamellis pluribus in medio carnosis cristato : laciniis lateralibus ovatis ob-
tusis planiusculis intermedio crispo rotundato denticulate.

a. Jioribus roseis.

C. intermedia. Graham in Bot. Mag. t. 2851 . Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 1 17.

ft. Jioribus suhalbis rubescentibus, disco labelli sanguineo.

This very pretty Cattleya was imported from the Brazils
some years since by the Horticultural Society, in whose
Garden the drawing was made so long since as June 1834.
The mixture of white and crimson in its flowers gives it a
beautiful appearance, and renders it much more interesting
than the original variety, which is too like C. Loddigesii.

The only wild specimens I am acquainted with are in
Sir Wm. Hooker's Herbarium, collected near Buenos Ay res
by Mr. Tweedie, and sent home with the following note : —
" This is by far the handsomest of the tribe in this country,
and grows equally well on the sea-beaten rock, and the
moss-covered tree in the heart of the forest. It is to be
found in bloom at all seasons. There are many varieties of
it ; their colour pink and crimson." I suspect, however,
that Mr. Tweedie confounds different things, and that
several species of Cattleya are to be found in the neighbour-
hood of Buenos Ayres. One at least I am able to describe

* See folio 1172.

below, and I avail myself of the same opportunity to charac-
terise two or three others with which 1 am acquainted.
Beautiful as are C. labiata, crispa, and Loddigesii, C. coc-
cinea and bicolor described below, are not at all inferior to
them, and moreover there is in the possession of Messrs.
Loddiges a very distinct crimson-flowered fragrant species,
found in British Guiana by Mr. Schomburgh, with which I
have not sufficient acquaintance to define it.

C. ovaia ; foliis binis ovatis obtusis caule cylindraceo longioribus (?) sepalis
petalisque lanceolatis acuminatis, labello nudo trilobo laciniis lateralibus

apice intermediaque oblonga obtusa denticulatis undulato-crispis. St.

Catharine's, Brazil (Mr. Hindes). A very fine species in the way of

C. labiata.

C. bicolor ; foliis oblongo-loratis caule tereti elato triple brevioribus, sepalis
lanceolatis falcatis acutis, petalis parum latioribus subundulatis obtusis,

labello indiviso piano apice dilatato rotundato crenato convexo. Brazil,

Descourtilz in Bibl. Deless. t. 49. Stems 2-3 feet long. Sepals and

petals tawny; labellum bright purple, with a lanceolate streak in the centre,
white slightly spotted with purple. The flowers are slightly fragrant.

C. maritima ; foliis binis ovalibus obtusis spatha parum longioribus, caule sub-
clavato, sepalis oblongis acutis, petalis lanceolatis falcatis obtusis, labello
trilobo (nudo?); laciniis lateralibus erectis rotundatis intermedia dilatata

denticulata emarginata. Sea-beaten rocks, Buenos Ayres, (Tweedie, in

herb. Hooker.) Flowers fine, rose-coloured, usually in threes ; many varie-
ties. Its small leaves sufficiently mark this, of which I have only seen
one specimen.

C. coccinea ; foliis solitariis oblongis acutis caulibus ovalibus teretibus longiori-
bus, floribus solitariis, spatha nulla, sepalis lineari-oblongis obtusis rectis,
petalis triple latioribus, labello ovato basi cucuUato indiviso apice piano

sepalis breviore. Brazil, Descourtilz in bibl. Deless. t. 10. Stems

2 or 3 inches high. Flowers brieht scarlet, 3 inches across. A most
remarkable and beautiful species.

C. Harrisoniana (^Bateman in litt.) ; foliis anguste lanceolatis, racemo 1-4-
floro, sepalis petalisque patentibus his subrotundo-ovalibus, labello subtrilobo

verrucoso. Bateman. Brazil, Mr. Harrison. Very near C. Lod-

digesii.

GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX

VOLS. I. TO IX. OF THE NEW SERIES.

roi.

Acacia albida ... 16

• leprosa ... 17

luuata . • . 16

pentaJenia • . 18

uncinata . • 16

Acantbophippium bicolor . 20

Acjena pinnatifida . . 15

Aceras secundiHora . . 18

Adenotrichia amplexicaulis . 14

Adesmia Loudonia . . HO

Aerides cornutum . . 18 ,

Agave geminiflora . . ' 14 ,

Alstromeria psittacina . 18 ,

pulcbella, var. pi/osa 17 ,

auraiitiaca . 22 .

Amaryllis acuminata, var. longi-

pedunculala . . . 14 .

coranica, var. |)ai/ida 15 ,

intermedia . 14 .

kermesina . . 19 .

Amelanchier florida . . 19 .

sanguinea . 14 .

Amygdalus communis, var. macro-

carpa . . . 14 .

persica, var. alba . 19 .

Anemone vitifolia . . 16 .

Angraecum disticbum . . 21 .

caudatum . • 22 .

eburneum . 18 .

micrantbum • 21 .

Anomatlieca cruenta . . l6 .

Anona laurifolia . . . 16 .

Antbocercis viscosa . . 19 .

Antbolyza a;tbiopica, var. minor 14 .

Folium

. 13)7

. 1441

. 1352

. 1521

1332

1730

. 1271

152.5

1190

1720

1483

1145

1510

1410

1843

1188
1219
1148
1638
1589
1171

1160
1586
1385
1781
1844
1522
1772
1369
13i;8
1624
1159

Vol. Folium

Antburium gracile
Antirrbinum glandulosum
Apbelandra cristata
Aplosimum depressum .
Arbutus procera
Arctostapbylos tomentosa
Ardisia odontophylla
Argemone grandiflora

ocbroleuca

Aristolocbia caudata

Chilensis

cjmbifera

— foe tens

— trilobata

Aspasia variegata

Aspbodelus luteus, var. iibiricus

Aster adulterinus

amygdalinus

concinnus .

conlifolius

coridifolius

cyaneus

eminens

eminens, var. virgineus

fragilis

laiWs

pallens

puniceus, var. demissiis

spectabilis .

A stragalus^succulentus
Audibertia incana
Azalea caleudulacea, var. subcu-
prea ....

calendulacea, var. lepida

b

19
22
18
-i-Z
21
21
22
15
16
17
20
18
21
17
22 ,

18 .

19 ■

18 .

19 .
19 .
18 .

18 ,

19 .

20 .
18 .
18 .

18 .

19 .
18 .

16 .

17 .

l(i .
17 .

. 1635

. 1893

. 1477

. 1882

. 17.53

. 1791

, 1892

. 1264

1343

1453

1680

1543

1824

1399

1907

1.507

1571

1517

1619

1597

1487

1495

1614

1656

1537

15(10

1509

1636

1527

1324

1469

1366
1402

GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES.

FoZ. Folium

Azalea calendulacea, var. Staple-

toniana ... 17
Indica, var. lateritia . 20

indica, var. variegata i20

nudiflora, var. scintillavs 17

niidiHoia, var.thyrsijiora 16

pontica, var. smensis 1.5

pontica, var. versicolor 18

Azara dentata . . 21

Banksia littoralis

prostrata

■ — quercifolia

^peciosa

undulata

Barleria lupulina
Bartliolina pectinata
Bartonia aurea
Batemannia Colleyi
Bauliinia cumanensis
Begonia heracleifolia

petalodes

vilJosa

Beloperone oblongata
Benthamia fragifera
Berberis aquifolium

dealbata

gluraacea

repens

Bifrenaria aurantiaca
Bignonia Cberere
Billardiera ovalis
Billbergia pyramidalis, var. hi
Blackwellia jiadiflora
Bletia florida

gracilis

reflexa

Bcebera incana
Brasavola cordata

• nodosa

• Perrinii

Brassia Lanceana
Brodicea grandiflora
Browallia grandiflora
Brownlowia elata
Brugmansia bicolor
Brunonia australis
Brunsvigia ciliaris
■ grandiflora

Buddlea heteropbylla
Burtonia conferta

Cactus Ackermanni

speciosissimus, var.

tius
Calandrinia arenaria

• grandiflora

speciosa

Calanthe densiflora
Calathea grandifolia

16
19
17
20
16
18
20
22
20
14
20
21
15
20
19
17
2t
17
14
22
15
20
color 14
16
17
20
21
19
22
17
18
21
14
16
17
20
22
14
16
15
19

. 1407
. 1700
. 1716
. 1461
. 1367
. 1253
. 1559
. 1788

. 1363
. 1572
. 1430
. 1728
. J316
. 1483
. 1653
. 1831
. 1714
. 1133
. 1668
. 1757
. 1252
. 1657
. 1579
. 1425
. 1750
. 1426
. 1176
. 1875
. 1301
. 1719
. 1181
. 1308
. 1401
. 1681
. 1760
. 1602
. 1914
. 1465
. 1561
. 1754
. 1183
. 1384
. 1472
. 1739
. 1833
. 1153
. 1335
. 1259
. 1600

lateri-

16 . 1331

19
19
14
19
19
14

1596
1605
1194
1598
1646
1210

Vol. Folium

Calceolaria angustiflora . 21 . 1743

aracbnoidea . 17 . 1454

ascendens . . 14 . 12l5

chiloensis . 17 . 1476

crenatiflora . 19 . 1609

difl'usa . . 16 . 1374

floribunda . 14 . 1214

Herbertiana . 16 . 1313

Herbertiana, var. yar-

viflora . . . 19 . 1576

polifolia . 20 . 1711

purpurea . 19 . 1621

rugosa . 19 . 1588

sessilis . . 19 . 1628

viscosissima . 19 . 1611

Mr. Young's . 17 . 1448

Calliprora lutea . . 19 . 1570

Calochortus macrocarpus . 14 . 1152

luteus . . 19 . 1567

splendens . 20 . 1676

venustus . . 20 . 1669

Calotropis procera . . 21 . 1792

Camassia esculenta . 18 . 1486

Canaelliajapnnica, var. imftricata 17 . 1398

japonica, var. punctata 15 . 1267

japonica, var. Reeve-

siana . . . 18 . 1501
japonica var. Doncke-

laeri
Campanula fragilis

garganica

Canavalia bonariensis
Canna Achiras

discolor

lagunensis

speciosa

Capparis acuminata
Caprifoiium Iiispidulum

• longiflorum

occidentale

Cassia biflora

Herbertiana

Castilleja coccinea
Catasetum luridum

semiapertum

Cattleya crispa

guttata

intermedia

labiata

Celosia coccinea
Cereus, crimson creeping

• triangularis

Ceropegia elegans
Chasmonia incisa
Cbeiranthus mutabilis
Chelone centrantbifolia

nemorosa

Cbironia peduncularis
Chorozema ovatum

— triangulare

2?

20

21

14

16

15

16

15

16

21

15

17

16

17

14

20 ,

20

14

17

22

22 ,

22 .

19

21

20

15

17

20

14

21

18 .

18

GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES.

Chrysanthemum iudicum

— ^ iudicum, var. pla-
num

Cirrhaea Loddigesii

tristis

Clarkia elegans

Clavija ornata

Clematis chlorantlia

Cleome speciosissima

Clerodendron hastatum

Clianthus puniceus

Cliutonia elegans

pulcliella

Clivia nobilis

Coburgia fulva

Coccoloba virens

Coleus aromaticus

Colletia horrida

Colhnsia bicolor

CoUomia coccinea

grandiflora

' heterophylla

linearis

Colutea nepalensis

Combretum comosum

grandiflorum

Conanthera campanulata

Conocephalus naucleiflorus

Convolvulus farinosus

Cooperia Drummondi .

Cordia grandiflora

Coreopsis Atkinsoniana

aurea

Correa pulchella

Coryanthes maculata

macrantha .

Corydalis bracteata

Cosmelia rubra

Costus pictus

Cotoneaster frig;ida

— ■ laxiilora

microphylla, var. Uva

Ursi

Craspedia glauca

Crassula turrita

Crataegus Aronia

cordata

Crus Galli, var. ovali

folia

Douglasii
rlatiduiosa, var.

cracantha

heterophylla

heteroi)hylla

microcarpa

mexicana

maroccana .

odoratissima

orieiitalis

platypbylla .

Vol.
15

18

18

22

19

21

18-

lb"

16

21

15

22

14

18

21

18

21

20

19

14

16

14

20

14

19

14

14

16

22

18

16

15

15

21

29

19

21

19

15

15

14

22
16
22
14

22
21

22
14
22
22
22
22
22
22

Folium
. 1287

. 1.502
. 15.38
. 1889
. 1575
. 1764
. 1234
. 1312
. 1307
. 1775
. 1241
. 1909
. 1182
. 1497
. 1816
. 1520
. 1776
. 1734
. 1622
. 1174
. 1347
. 1166
. 1727
. 1105
. 1631
. 1193
. 1203
. 1323
. 1835
. 14^
. 1376
. 1228
. 1224
. 1793
. 1841
. 1644
. 1822
. 1594
. 1229
. 1305

. 1187
. 1908
. 1344
. 1897
. 1151

. 1860
. 1810

.1912
1161
1847
1846
1910
1855
1885
1852
1874

Vol.

Crataegus pyrifolia . . 22

prunifolia . . 22

spathulata . . 22

tanacetifolia . . 22

Crinum latifolium . 15
Crocus vernus, var. leucorhynchus 17

vernus, var. pictus . 17

Crotalaria verrucosa . 14

Crybe rosea ... 22

Cuphea Llavea . . 16

Cyclobothra alba . . 20

lutea • . 20

pulchella . 20

Cycnoches Loddigesii . 21

Cymbidium marginatum . 18

Cyrtanlhus carneus . . 17

Cyrtochilum ilavescens . 19

Cyrtopodium Woodfordii . 18

Cypripedium macrantbos . 18

spectabile . 20

Cytisus multiflorus . 14
seolicus ... 22

Daphne hybrida
Daubenya aurea
Delphinium Menziesii

speoiosum

Dendrobium aggregatum
anceps

■ chrysanthum

■ cupreuin

■ densiflorum
longicornu
macrostacbyum
moniliforme
Pierardi
secundum

■ speciosum

Deutzia scabra
Dianthus Libanotis
Digitalis laciniata
Diilwynia glycinifolia
Diospyrus Mabola
Diplopappus incanus
Douglasia nivalis
Dracaena surculosa

terniinalis

Drimia villosa
Duvaua dependens

latifolia

ovata

Dyckia rariflora

Echeveria gibbiflora
Echinocactus oxygonus

Eyriesii

Ecbites stellaris
Edwardsia chilensis
Eiieagiius aiigustifolia
Elichrysuni bicolor

14
21
14
18
20
15
15
21
21
16
22
16
21
15
19
20
18
14
18
14
20
22
14
12
16
19
19
19
21

15
20
20
20
21
11
'J I

Folium
. 1P77
. 1868
. 1890
. 1884
. 1297
. 1416
. 1440
. 1137
. 1872
. 1386
. 1661
. 1663
. 1662
. 1742
. 1530
. 1462
. 1627
. 1508
. 1.534
. 1666
. 1191
. 1902

1177
1813
1192
1.503
1695
1239
1299
1779
1828
1315
1865
1314
1756
1291
1610
1718
1548
1201
1514
1139
1693
18U6
1169
1749
1346
1573
1580
1.568
17tt2

1247
1717
1707
1664
1798
1 1.6
iUI 1

GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES.

Einpetrum rubrum
Epacris nivalis
Epideudrum fEmuIum

armeniacum

■ bifidum

clavatum .

gracile

odoratissimum

— oncidioides

• Skinneri

Epimedium macranthum
Eranthemum facundum
Erica codonodes
Eriogonum compositum
Erinphyllum cajspitosum
Erythrina carnea

■ poianthes

poianthes, var. sub

mis .

Erythronium grandiflorum
Escallonia montevidensis

illinita

Escbscboltzia ralifornica

- crocea

Eulopbia ensata

]\Iackaiana

Eupatorium glandulosum
Euphoria Longan
Eurybia corymbosa
Eurycles Cunninghamii
Eutoca divaricata

multiflora

viscida

Francoa appendiculata
Fernandezia acuta
Fuchsia bacillaris

discolor

globosa

microphylla

thymifolia

Gaillardia aristata
Galatella punctata
Galipea odoratissima
Gardoquia Gilliesii

■ Hookeri

Garrya elliptica
Gastrolobium retusum
Gaultheria Shallon
Genista procumbens

nionosperma

Geodorum fucatum
Gesnera allagopbylla

faucialis

macrostachya

■ - rutila

rutila, var. atrosangii

Suttoui

Geum chilense, var. gmndifl:
Gilia Acbillea;foIia

Vol.
21
18
22
22
22
22
21
17
19
22
22
17
20
21
14
16
15

19
21
17
22
14
20
14
17
20
20
18
18
21
14
21

19
21
18
21
18
15
15

14

21
17
21
21
20
19
17
14
22
20
21
21
14
14

1 15
19

I 16
20

Folium
. 1783
. 1.531
. 1898
. 1867
. 1819
. 1870
. 1765
. 1415
. 1623
. 1881
, 1906
. 1494
, 1698
. 1774
. 1167
. 1327
. 1^46

. 1617
. 1786
. 1467
. 1900
, 1168
. 1677
. 1147
. 1433
. 1723
. 1729
. 1532
.1506
. 1784
. J180
. 1803

. 1645
. 1806
. 1480
. 1805
. 1.556
. 1269
. 1284

. 1186
. 1818
. 1420
. 1812
. 3747
. 1686
. 1647
. 1411
. 1150
. 1918
. 1687
. 1767
. 1785
. 1202
. 1158
. 1279
. 1637
. 13J8

Gilia coronopifolia

cajiitata

tenuiflora

tricolor

Gladiolus psittacinus .
Glycine biloba
Godetia vinosa

• • lepida

rubicund a

Gompholobium capitatum

' Knightianum

marginatum

tenue

tomentosum

venulosum

Gongora maculata
Govenia superba
Grevillea concinaa

punicea

Grobya Amherstise
Guettarda speciosa

Habenaria procera
Habranthus Andersoni

Bagnoldi

— Phycelloides

Hakea linearis
Hamelia ventricosa
Haylockia pusilla
Hedychium coccineum
tielianthus lenticularis

tubajfomiis

Helicoriia pulverulenta
Herminium cordatum
Hesperoscordum lacteum
Heuchera niici-antha
Hibiscus Lindleii

palustris

Rosa sinensis

splendens

Hosackia bicolor
Hosta coerulea
Hovea chorozemsefolia

lanceolata

purpurea

villosa

Hyacinth us spicatus

Indigofera atropurpurea

louopsis teuera

Iponioea Aitoni

Ipomopsis elegans

Iris alata

— - bicolor

— - tenax

Ismene Amancaes, var. snip

Isopogon formosus

Jasminum acuminatum
Wallicbianum

Vol. Folium
20 .
14 .
22 .
20 .
17 ,
17
22 .
22 ,
22 ,
18
17
18
19 .
17 ,
19
19
21
16
16
20
17

22 ,

16

17

17

18

14

16

14

15

18

19

18

19

15

17

17

21

19

15

14

18

17

17

18

22

21
22
21
15
22
17
15
urea 20
15

15 . 1296
17 . 1409

GENERAL INDEX l(» HIE NEW SERIES.

Justicia came a

guttata

picta

quadrangularis

venusta

Kasmpferia Roscoeana
Kageneckia crategitblia
Kenoedya dilatata

glabrata .

ino])liylla

niacroi)liylla

JMarryatta;

monophylla, var. /

racemosa
nisrricans

-- Stirling!

Kerria japonica .

Larlienalia pallida
La;lia anceps
Lalage ornata
Lnpeyrousia anceps
Lasthenia talifornica

glabrata

Lathyrus californicus

■ tingitanus

Ledocarpum peduuculare
Lepanthes tridentata
Lepechinia spicata
Leptosiphon androsaceus .>

densiflorus

Leptotes bicolor
J.eucocoryne odorata
l^t'ucopogon parviflorus
Liatris scariosa
Libertia formosa
Limnanthes Douglasii
Limnocbaris Huniboldti
Linaiia Ualtnatica
Linum mexicauum

sibiricuni, var. Lewisi

Lipatis elata

guineensis

Lissaiitbe sapida
Litbospermum rosmariuifoliu
Loasa ainbrosi:eiolia

Placei

Lobelia decurrens

longiflora

Low's purple

purpurea

■ Tupa

Lonicera involucrata
Lopbanthus anisatus
Lopbospemium erubescens
IvOtus arenarius
Lowea berberifolia
Lupinus arbustus
albifrons

Vol. Folium
17 . 1397

16

l.T

16
16

14

18
22
17

16 ,
20 ,
2'2 ,
'22 ,

16 .
21

20 ,
22

21 ,
21
14 ,
16
17
21
15
20
20
19
15
18
20
19
20
19
20
16
14
14
20
15
20
16
19
22
14
17
16
19
14
15
16
18
15

;5

19

1.>.j4
1227
1310
1380

1212
1836
1526
1838
1421
1862
1790

1336
1715
1845
1873

1350

1751

1722

1903

1823

17 80

1144

1388

1392

. 1762

, 1292

. 1710

. 1725

, 1625

, 1^293

, 1560

, 1654

, 1630

, 1673

, 1640

, 1683

, 1326

,1163

. 1175

1671

1275

. 1736

, 1390

1599

1842

, 1200

1445

1325

l(il2

, 1179

. 1282

, 1.81

. 1488

, 12(il

, 1230

. 1642

Lupinua aridus
densiflorus

— ■ eli'ijans

latil'i)lius

laxitlurus

lepidus

leptopbyllus

lictoralis

micrantbus

mutabilis

nanus

orniitus

I)luniosus

polypLyllus, var. alhi

Jiorus

rivularis

Sabinianus

Lychnis Bungeana

Macradenia triandra
Wadia elegans

Magnolia Vulan, var. Soulang
Malva IMunroaua

purpurata

umbellata

IVIamraillana pulcra

tenuis

IVIanettia cordifolia
jMaxillaria aromatica

■ — ciliaris

cristata

crocea

decolor

densa

picta

racemosa

rufpscens

tetragona

iridis

Maytenus obilensis

Mesembryantbemuni rubrocii

IMicbauxia lajvigafa

iMicrostviis opiiioglossioides

Millabidora

ftlimulus luteus, var. variega

propiuquus

roseus

Smitbii

Mirbelia Haxteri
Munacbantbus discolor

viridis

INIormodes atropurpurca
Moscliaria piruiatitida
Myantbus barbatus

ccrnuus

I deltoideus

Nanodes discolor
Nectaroscorduin si( uluiii
N'emopbiia auiita

t'ol. Folium
\U . 1242
20 .
IK .

14 .
14 .
20 .

14 .

15 .

18 .
20 .

14 .

15 .

16 . 1377

19 . 1595

17 , 143.'>
22 . 1864

21

17
I 14

16

16

14

16

18

22

22

14

21

21

18

21

21

19

22

17

18

20
in 20

17

15

18

21

16

19

20

17

UO

21

22

lii

21

20

in . 1.541

22 . 191.S
I'.' . 1601

GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES.

Nemophila insignis
Nierembergia filicaulis
Nicotiana persica

Ocliranthe arguta
CEnothera anisoloba

' bifrons

biennis, var. grand ijiora

decumbens

densiflora

humifusa

glauca

• pallida

serotina

— — tenella, var. tenuifolia

vimiuea

Oncidium altissimum

• altissimum

ampliatum

ciliatum

citrinum

cornigerum

Harrisonianum

• iridifolium - .

Lanceanum ,

.——— Lemonianum
• pulchellum

Russellianum

Ononis peduncularis
Ophrys arauifera, var. limbata
Opuntia aurantiaca

■ monacantha

Orchis foliosa

papilionacea

Ornithogalum chloroleucum .
Orobus atropurpureus
Osbeckia nepi-Jensis,var. ulbijiora
Oxalis Bowiei

Cummingi

— divergens

Piottffl

tortuosa

• variabilis

Vol. Folium
20 . 1713
ly . 1649
19 . 1592

Oxjura chrysanthemnides

Pacliy podium tuberosum
Palavia rhorabifolia
Paeonia albiflora, var. Pottsii

— • hybrida

" Moutan

Moutan lacera

Semidouble tree

Pancratium pedale
Papaver Feraicum
Passiflora ligularis
■ gossypiifolia

■ kermesina

phoenicea

Pentstenion acuminatum
atteuuatuin

21
18

17 ,
19
15

18 ,
22

18 ,
14
22 ,

19 ,
15
22
19

20 ,
20 ,
21

18 ,

19 .
22 .
22 ,
21
21
22
17
14
19
20
20
14
22
21
17
19
18
19
21
15
18
22

16
16
17
14
20
21
17
19
17
19
19
19
19
15
15

1819
1479
1405
1604
1221
1593
185!9
1511
1142
1840
1587
1220
1851
1651
1699
1660
1758
1542
1569
1911
1887
1789
1787
1830
1447
1197
1606
1726
17()1
1155
1853
1763
1475
1585
1545
1620
1817
1249
1505
1850

1321
1375
1436
1208
1678
1771
1456
1641
1570
1339
1634
1633
1603
1285
1295

Pentstemon confertum

deustum

diffusum

glandulosum

glaucum

heteropbyllum

pruinosum

pulchellum

Scouleri

speciosum

staticifolius

triphyllum

• venustum

Pereskia Bleo

Perilomia ocymoides

Pernettia mucronata

Persea gratissima

Petunia violacea

Phacelia tanacetifolia

Pharium fistulosum

Platystemon Californicum

Phlomis floccosa

Phlox speciosa

Pholidota imbricata

imbricata

Phycella Herbertiana

Physianthus albens

Pimelea humilis

hispida

intermedia

ligustrina

sylvestris

Pleurothallis Grobyi

picta

prolifera

Plumeria Lambertiana

Podolobium trilobatum

Polemonium cccruleum, var. pili-
ferum .

humile

Polj'gala oppositifolia, var. majur 14

15
20
16
19
16
18
17
18
18
16
16

Polygonum injucundum
Portulaca Gilliesii
Potentilla arguta

glandulosa

Hopwoodiana

laciniosa

missourica

Russell's

viscosa

Pothos scaudens
Pratia begonifolia
Prescoltia colorans
Prunus candicans

dasycarpa

japonica

Psoralea macrostachya
Pultenaia flexilis

■ rosmarinifolia

subumbeJlata

Vol.
15
16
14
15
15
22
15
14
15
15
21
15
16
17
17
20
15
19
20
18
20
15
16
14
21
16
21
15
19
17
21
19
21
21
15
16
16

15
IJ

14

15
21
21
20
19
19

Foliwn
. 1260
. 1318
. 1132
. 1262 ■
. 1286
. 1899
. 1280
. 1138
. 1277
. 1270
. 1770
. 1245
. 1309
. 1473
. 1394
. 1675
. 1258
. 1626
. 1696
. 1546
. 1679
. 1300
. 1351
. 1213
. 1777
. 1341
. 1759
. 1268
. 1578
. 1439
. 1&27
, 1582
. 1797
. 1825
. 1298
. 1378
. 1333

. 1303
. 1304
. 1146
. 1250
. 1672
. 1379
. 1583
. 1387
. 1478
. 1412
. 1496
. 1492
. 1337
. 1373
. 1916
. 1135
. 1243
. 1801
. 1769
. 1694
. 1584
. 1632

GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES.

Fol. Folium

Purshia triJeiitata
Pyrolirion auieuiu
Pyrus angustifolia

• creuata

Bollvvylleriana

grandifolia

nivalis

salvifolia

— ■ — sinensis
spuria

17

'20
14
20
17
14
17
18
15
14

Ranunculus creticus, var. macro-

phiiUus ... 17

Raphiolepis rubra . . 17

Keevesia thyrsoidea . 15

Renanthera coccinea . 14

Rhodanthe Manglesii . 20

Ehodochiton volubile . 21

Rhododendron Alta-clerense 17

— ■ arboreum,

album

arboreum, var.

Cartons
pulcherrimum

Ribes cereum

— — divancatum

inebrians

niveum

punctatum

sanguineum

setosura

speciosum

tenuiflorum

Rondeletia odorata

Rose Clare ... 17

Rosa multiflora, var. platyphylla 16

Ruga ... 16

Rubus nutkanus . . 16

roridus ... 19

spectabilis . . 17

Rueliia Sabiniana . . 15

Russellia juncea . . 21

Saccolabium papillosum . 18

Sagittaria angustifolia . 14

Salpiglossis atropurpurea . 18

Salvia angustifolia . . 18

foliosa . . 17

fuigens . . . 16

Grahami . . 16

— — - invoiucrata . . 14

Sarcanthus guttatus . 17

Sarcocbilus falcatus . . 22

Sauroglossum elatum . 19

Scaphyglottis violacea . 22
Schizanthus pinnatus, var. humilis 18

retusus . 18

Scilla plumbea . . 16
Cupaniana . . 22

1446
1724
1207
1655
14:j7
1134
1434
1482
1248
1196

1432
1400
1236
1131
1703
17.55
1414

15 . 1240

20 .
17 .

21 .

15 .

16 .

17 .
20 .
26 .
16 .
15 .

18 .

19 .

1684
1449
1820
1263
1359
1471
1692
1658
1349
1237
1557
1574
. 1905
. 1438
. 1372
. 1389
. 1368
. 1607
. 1424
. 1238
. 1773

. 1552
, 1141
. 1518
. 1554
. 1429
. 1356
. 1370
. 1205
. 1443
. 1832
. 1618
. 1901
. 1562
. 1541
. 1355
. 1878

Vol.

Scottia angustifolia 15

den lata . . 15

la-vis . . . 19

Scutellaria alpina . . 18

alpina, var. lupuHna 18

Sedum Cepaea . . 16

Seiago Gillii ... 18

Sempervivum villosum . 18

urbicum . 20

Senecio lilacinus . . 16

Tussilaginis , . 18

Serapiascordigera, var. longipetala 14

Silene laciiiiata . . 17

Sinningia villosa . . 14

Sisyrinchium grandiflorum 13

graminifoliura, var.

pumilum ... 22

odoratissimum l5

Solandra guttata . . 18

Solanum crispum . 18

etuberosum . 20

SoUya heteropliylla 17

Sophora velutina . . 14

Soulangia rubra . . 18

Sparaxis pendula . . 16

Spermadictyon azureum . 15

Sphacele tarapanulata . 16

Sphffirostema propiuquum . 20

Sphenotoma capitatum . 18

Spira;a ariffifolia . . 16

chamaidrifolia . 15

Stachys albicaulis . . 18

germanica, var. pubescens 15

inflafa . . 20

Salvias . . 15

Stackbousia monogyna . 22

Stanbopea eburiiea . . 18

insignis . . 22

■ oculata . . 21

Stapeiia Gussoneana . . 20

Statice puberula . . 17

Stemodia chilensis . . 17

Stenactis speciosa . . 19

Sterculia lanceolata . . 15

Tragacanlba . 16

Stigmapbyllon aristatum . 20

Streptocarpus Rexii . 14

Stylidium fasciculatum . 17

Syringa Josika^a . . 20

Taberna?montana densiflora
Tacsonia pinnatistipula
Talauma L'andollii
Teliima granditlora
Teucrium orchideum
'J'Lermojisis fal)acea
Tbryallis bracliystachys
Tiliaiidsia acaulis

rosea

stricta

15
18
20
14
15
15
14
14
16
16

Folium
. 1266
. 1233
. 16.S2
. 1460
. 1493
. 1391
. 1504
. 1553
. 1741
. 1342
. 1550
. 1189
. 1444
. 1134
. 1364

. 1915
. 1283
. 1551
. 1516
. 1712
. 1466
. 1185
. 1498
. 1360
. 1235
. 1382
. 1688
. 1515
. 1365
. 1222
. 1.558
. 1289
. 1697
. 1226
. 1917
. 1529
. 1837
. 1800
. 1731
. 14.50
. 1470
. 1577
. 1256
. 1353
. 1659
. 1173
. 1459
. 1733

. 1273
. 15.16
. 1709
. 1178
. 1255
. 1272
. 116*2
. 1157
. 13.57
. 1358

GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES.

Tracliymene ccErulea
Tradescantia undata
Trichopetalum gracile
Tricbopilia tortilis
Trifolium fucatum

vesiculosum

Tristania macropbylla
Triteleia laxa
Tritoma Burclielli
Tropajolum pentaphyllum
Tulipa Oculus solis, var. persica

Oculus soils, var. pracox

Tupistra nutans
Turraea pinnata

Ulex genistoides

Vacciniura ovatum
Vanda teres
Verbena Melindres

Vol.

Folium

Vol.

Folium

15

. 1225

Verbena multifida coiitracta

21

. 1766

17

. 1403

sulpburea

21

. 1748

18

. 1535

Venionia axilliflora

17

. 1464

2-2

. 1863

Viburnum cotinifolium

19

. 1650

22

. 1883

Villarsia reniformis

18

. 1533

17

. 1408

Viola prasmorsa

15

. 1254

22

. 1839

20

. 1685

Westringia longifolia

18

. 1481

21

. 1745

18

. 1547

Xerophyllum setifolium

19

. 1613

14

. 1143

17

. 1419

Yucca Draconis .

22

1894

15

. 1223

flaccid a .

22

1895

17

. 1413

superba .

20

. 1690

17

. 1452

Zephyranthes mesochloa

16

1361

Spoftbrtbiana

21

1746

16

. 1354

Zinnia violacea, var. cocciiiea

15

1294

21

. 1809

Zygopetalum cocbleari .

22

1857

14

1184

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