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BOTANICAL REGISTER

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ORNAMENTAL FLOWER-GARDEN

AND SHRUBBERY: ^"'-^^ART

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•Jv-TANICAL

CONSISTING OF QARDEN

COLOURED FIGURES OF PLANTS AND SHRUBS,

CULTIVATED IN BRITISH GARDENS;

ACCOMPANIED BY THEIR

J&tstoig, iitst iHetholi of tKrcatintnt^iit dtUtbattore, |9io|)agatton, &c.

CONTINUED

By JOHN LINDLEY, Ph. D. F.R.S. and L.S.

PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON,

AND THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN,

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ALPHABETICAL INDEX

VOL XXIII.

VOL. X. OF THE NEW SERIES.

Folium
Anigozantbus Manglesii, var. atigusii-

folia 2012

AnsEctochilus setaceus 2(U0

Azalea Seymouri 1975

Begonia insignis 1996

BolbopbjHum cocoinum 1964

saltatorium 1970

barbigerum 1912

Builingtonia Candida 1927

Campanula Portenschlagiana 1 995

Cauna Reevesii 2001

CLryseis compacta 1948

Cbysis aurea 1937

Cirrhaea obtusata 2005

Clarkia rhomboidea 1981

Clematis coerulea 1955

Cosmus tenuifolius ♦ 2007

Oatffigus coccinea 1957

flava 1939

/3 1932

^ oxyacantba oliveriana .... 1933

Crocus Imperati 1993

pusillus 1987

Cymbidium eiisifolium, var 1976

Cynorcbis fastigiata 1 998

Cypripedium purpuratum 1991

Cj tisus Laburnum Purple 1965

Uelpbinium azureum 1999

-intermedium 1963

var. rtrru/ei-

ceiis 1984

vai: pallidum 1969

Barlowii 1944

montanum 1 936

Folium

Dipodium punctatum 1980

Epidendrum nocturnum, /3 1961

Eucliaridium concinnura 1 962

Eulopbia macrostacbya 1 97 2

Gardenia pannea 1952

Gesnera lateritia 1950

Grabowskia boerbaaviasfolia 1985

HabranthuH gracilifolius, /3 1967

Heucbera cylindrica 1924

Hibiscus lilacinus 2009

Horkelia fusca 1997

Hosackia stoloiiifera 1977

Jasmiuum glaucum 2013

Lacbenalia pallida, /3 1 945

Lffilia anceps, /3 1 947

Lilium speciosum 2000

Lobelia beterophylla 2014

Lupinus versicolor 1979

Mariynia diaudra 200 1

Maxillaria Steelli 1986

Megaclinium maximum 1959

Miltonia spectabilis 1992

Monacbiintbi monslrum 1951

Morna nitida 1941

Nemopbila atomaria 1940

Nuttallia cordata 1938

Oncidium deltoideum 2006

. Ceholleta 1994

lunatum 1929

— crispum 1 920

Ornitliogalum latifolium 19'8

Pentstemon brevillorus 1946

Pereskia aculeata 1928

Peristeria cerina 1 953

ALPHABETI

Folium

Petuoia intermedia 1931

Pharbitis diversifolia 198

Phlox Drummondi 1949

Philadelphus speciosus 2003

Philodendron crassinervium 1958

Pbycella brevituba 1943

Platystigma lineare 1964

Pleurothallis saurocepbalus 1968

Potentilla glandulosa, /3 1 973

Primula venusta 1983

Psoralea orbicularis 1971

Rebmannia cbinensis 1960

Rhododendron arboreum, var. cinnamo-

meum 1 982

Rosa sinica 1922

Silene chlora;t'olia 1989

CAL INDEX.

FoUun

Spartium aculifolium 1 974

Spirtea barbata 201 1

Spiranthesbracttosa 1934

Sternbergia colcbiciiiora 2008

StranviEsia glaucescens 1956

Tecoma jasminoides 2002

Tricbocentrum fuscum 1951

Trigonidium obtusum 1923

Triteleia uniflora 1921

Tropaeolum tricolor 1935

brachyceras 1926

Tulipa scabriscapa 1990

Verbena A ubletia, var. .^ 192.5

Veronica perfoliata 1930

Wigandia caracasana 1966

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* OXCIDIUM cn'spum.

Curled-jiowercd Oncidlum.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. LIBRART

JVo<. ord. Orchidace^, § Vande^. Mi>^ YORK

ONCIDIUM. Suprd, vol. 13. fol. 1050. B«>T A N IC At

OARUtiiN

X § 1. a. • G«n. et Sp. Oreh. 197.

O. crispum; pseudobulbis oblongis sulcatis riigosis diphyllis, foliis laiiccolatis coriaceis
acutis, scapo simpliei multifloro, sepalis (obovatis) recurvis undulatis obtusis laterali-
bus semicounatis, petalis tluplo majoribus subrotundis undulatis unguiculatis, labcUi
lobis lateralibus cornuformibus recurvis nanis inferniedio maximo uiiguiculato sub-
rotundo cordato undulato, crista subliastata acuminata tuberculis subuniserialibus
circumdata, cohimnjE alis rotuudatis denticulatis carnosis.

0. erispum. Lodd. Bot. cab. t. 1854. Gen. et Sp. Orck-IST. Hooker in But. Mag.

t. 3499.

The first notice I had of the existence of this species was the finding,
in the Herbarium of Sir William Hooker, a drawing and one single dried
flower of it, which had been sent from tlie Organ Mountains in Brazil,
with a memorandum that from fifty to sixty flowers frequently grow on
a stalk. A small specimen of it shortly after flowered with Messrs.
Loddiges, and it has subseqnentl}' blossomed in many collections, but
never with the vigour that it possesses in its wild state.

Even as we know it, it is a stately, noble looking object, with its very
large deep ehesnut flowers ; but if it can be brought to its full degree of
vigour, we shall have little in its tribe that can vie with it in appearance.

The plant that furnished the accompanying drawing grew in the hot-
house of Richard Harrison, Esq., Liverpool, in May 1830.

The genus Oncidium is one of the most distinct in the whole of the
extensive natural order to which it belongs, and in general it is easily
enough determined ; but even here, as in all such cases, there are species
that do not exactly belong to it, or to any other genus. Some instances of
these I shall give in the next number of the Register ; for the present I
confine myself to the genuine and certain species. These, which abound
in the tropical parts of America, extend also so far into colder regions,
that one species, O. nubigenum, occurs on the mountains of Peru, at the
height of 14,000 feet above the sea, where the air must nearly freeze. A
large'number of them occur in our gardens ; of these many are among
the older inhabitants of stoves, others are of such recent introduction as
hardly yet to be known even by name ; among the last are more particu-
larly to be named the lovely rose-coloured O. ornithorliynchiuu from
Mexico, and a beautiful little species, O.lunatinn, a native of Demerara.
The genus Oncidium will not however be seen in all its glory till we pos-
sess O. tigrinum from Mexico, O. pictum from Peru, and O. macranthum
from Guayaquil. The first and last of these equal O. erispum in the size of
their flowers ; the other is probably tlie finest of the yellow species.

I am acquainted with the following in addition to those already
published.

A. § 1. a.*

1. O. maculosum ; pseudobulbis ovalibus compressis, foliis lanceolatis aeutis, scapo stricto

maculoso apice paniculato, sepalis oviilibus aeutis reflexis lateralibus basi connatis,
petalis oblongis obtusis, labello maximo basi pubescente obsolete quadrilobo reni-
formi : laeiniis lateralibus minimis auriculoeformibus, crista oWonga e tuberoulis
pluribus digitiforniibus eonstante, columnse alis inferiorihus truncatis superioribus

i'alcatis integerrirais majoribus. Brazil, von Martins. A fine species in tbe way

of Oncidium bifolium.

2. O. varicosum ; pseudobulbis oblongis subtetragonis diphyllis, foliis rigidis spathulato-

lanceolatis scapo gracili pyramidali subsimpliciter racemoso ter brevioribus, floribus

• See folio 1542.

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distantibiis, petalis sepalisque quorum laleralia semicoiuiata acutis reflexis, labelU)
maximo subrotundo obsolete quadrilobo : lobis lateralibus rotundati?, crista postice
tridentatil fornicata antic^ cuneata varicibns vcnarum in posticis confluentibus cir-
cumdatik, alis siiperioribus coluinnse rotundatis doiiticuUitis interioribus integcrrimis.

Brazil, Prinoe Maximilian of Wied Neuwied. A very fine species in the way

of O. bifolium, but with large spreading compound racemes.
^. O. -hopterum; pseudobulbis ovalibus compressis diphyllis, foliis angustis canaliculatis
recurvis scapo apice paniculate flexuoso quadruplo brevioribns, sepalis acutis supremo
fornicato lateralibus seniiconnatis divaricatis, petalis obovatis reflexis, labelli laciniis
lateralibus brevibus angustis obtusis intermedia transversa augulata biloba, crista

tuberculosa, columnre alis 4 subsequalibus rotundatis. Brazil, Von Martius. ■ X

small species very near O. flexuosum.

A. U. ft. *

4. O. Martianum ; pseudobulbis, .... foliis . . . . , scapo erecto paniculato, sepalo supremo

petalisque obovatis obtusis concavis lateralibus liuearibus acutis brevioribns, labello
bilobo reniformi : laciuiis lateralibus rotundatis nauis, crista falcata compressil utrin-
que tuberculis 3 liuearibus f suffulta, alis columiiaj denticulatis subquadratis angulis

rotundatis. In Brazil, von Martius. A beautiful yellow species, with a scape

two feet high; it resembles in general appearance O. ampliatum.

5. O. Itmatum; pseudobulbis oblongis compressis 1-2- phyllis, foliis anguste oblongis planis

obtusis scapo brevioribns, scapo racemoso, sepalis petalisque spathnlatis retusis, labello
pnbescente lunato basi piloso : laciniis lateralibus minimis inflexis, crista lineari apice
depressa utrinqne bidentata : dentibus glanduligeris, alis colnmna; cuneatis integris,

clinandriopostice dentato. ."i. pretty little species, with a w'liite crescent-shaped lip,

blotched with dull orange, and white sepals blotched with deep orange. Messrs.

Loddiges imported this plant from Demerara. It will be figured in the Botanical
Register, folio 1929.

6. O. retusum ; pseudobulbis foliis lineari-lanceolatis, scapo paniculate divaricato,

sepalis petalisque subiequalibus spathulatis retusis subcarnosis, labelli lobo medio
reniformi bilobo lateralibus paulu mnjore, crista e lamellis 5 brevibus tuberculos

6 elongatos circumdantibus, columnije alis maximis acinaciformibus dentatis.

Peru, Mathews in herb. Hooker. A beautiful species with deep chesnut and yel-
low flowers, and a yellow lip. Its mode of growth is that of O. Baueri.

7. O- gmcile ; pseudobnlbis ovatis compressis diphyllis, foliis laneeolatis acutis brevibus,

scapo gracili apice racemoso 3-6-tloro, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis, petalis paulo latio-
ribus, labello cuneato cmarginato basi auriculato lamellis diialuis linearibus cristato,

columnoe alis oblongis integris. Brazil, von Martius. Tlie scape of this s))ecies

is about a foot high, with from 3 to 6 rather small flowers at the end. The leaves
are not more tlian two inches long, and the pseudobulbs about ^rd that length. The
lip is yellow, the remainder of the flower reddish brown and green.

8. O. ramosum ; pseudobulbis ...., foliis , panicula stricta densa ramossl, sepalis

angustis acutis supremo erecto fornicato lateralibus unguiculatis angustioribus, pe-
talis oblongis subundulatis, labello subrotundo bilobo basi auriculato, crista digitato-

tuberculata squamis ^ carnosis inteijectis, columnar alis rotimdis integerrimis.

Brazil, von Martius. Scape a foot and half long, much branched, very compact,

not at all floxuose. Flowers extremely numerous, yellow and olive, rather smaller
, than those of O, altissimum. A beau1:iful species.

/ 9. O. leucochilum (Bateman in litt.); foUis .... pseudobulbis ...., scapo elato panicu-
lato, sepalis petalisque oblongis obtusis subsqualibus patentissimis, labello reniformi
alte bilobo utrinque emarginato : laciniis lateralibus retusis nanis, crista 3-corni basi

utrinqne dentatii, columnse alis acinaciformibus dentatis. Mexico, Mr. Bateman.

A noble species with the habit and stature of Oncidium Baueri. Flowers greenish,

banded with crimson ; lip pure white.

10. O. rpfiexum; pseudobulbis ovatis monophyllis, foliis anguste laneeolatis acutis, racemis
subcompositis longissimis pendnlis multifloris, sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis
undulatis acutis reflexis, labello reniformi emarginato : laciniis lateralibus rotundatis
dilatatis planis, cristi depressa tridentata apice bicorni, columnre alis falcatis den-
tatis. Mexico, Count Kai-winski. A beautiful species related to O. altissimum ;

there are specimens in the Royal Bavarian IMusenm, now in my care, and the species
is cultivated by Messrs. Loddiges. I mistook a specimen of this plant, preserved in
Mr. Lambert's Herbarium, for O. funereum of La Llave, but that species, having
lenticular depressed pseudobulbs, must be dift'erent.

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11. O. raniferum ; pseudobulbis ovatis sulcatis diphyllis, foliis lato-linearibus acutis
scapo paniculato brevioribns, sepalis petalisque oblongis acutis patulis, labelli laciniis
lateralibus triangularibus intermedia cuneata emarginata, crista depressa medio con-
stricta: dimidiS posteriore quadrata basi utrinque callosa medio tuberculatil ante-

riore triangular! apice emarginata utrinque foveata, alis columnre integris. Brazil.

-A small yellow-flowered species, with the lower half of the lip chesnut coloured;

it exists in Mr. Knight's collection.

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12. O. deltokienvi ; pseudobulbis angustis angnlatis, foliis laneeolatis canaliculatis, scapo
paniculato ramis multifloris flexuosis divaricato, sepalo supremo unguiculato obovato
lateralibus longioribus spathulato-lanceolatis, petalis latiorihus obovatis crispis, labello
deltoideo angulis rotundatis, crista basi tubereulata apice trilamellata, colunmse alis

maximis acinaciformibus dentatis. Peru, Mathews. A remarkable species, with

Eoniewhat the habit of a dense-flowered O. altissimum.

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* TRITELEIA uniflora.

One-jlowered Tritclia.

HEXANDRIA MO^WGYNJA.

Nat. ord. LiLiACEiE, § ScillEjE.
TRITELEIA. Supra, fol. 1685.

T. uniflora ; foliis llnearibus scapo (pedali) debili subasqualibus, involucro
vaginante apice bifido pedunculo filiformi duplo breviore, umbella 1 -flora,
staminibus superioribus infra faucem ortis. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub
folio 1293.

Rather a pretty bulbous plant, native of Mendoza, where
it was originally found by Dr. Gillies. Its flowers have a
delicate sky-blue tinge, but unfortunately the plant smells
powerfully of garlic.

It will be easily cultivated in a frame, or even in an
open border, kept dry in winter.

The specimen was communicated by Messrs. Lowe and
Co. of Clapton, in June 1836.

The manner in which the anthers are attached to the
filament, and the sessile ovary of this species, are at variance
with the characters of the genuine Triteleias, but in the
absence of any additional species, it will be most advisable
to leave it imdisturbed in the genus where it at present
stands.

* See fol. 1685.

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R(JSA sinica.
Three-leaved China Rose.

ICOSANDRIA POLYGYRIA.

Nat. ord. Rosace^e.

ROSA. Suprii, vol. l.fol. 53.

R. sinica ; stipulis setaceis deciduis, petiolis costaque aculeatis, fructibus muri-

catis. Lindl. Monoc/r. Ros. p. 126. t. 16.
R. sinica. Aiton. Hort. Kew. ed. ult. 3. 261 . non Linn.
R. trifoliata. Bosc.
R. ternata. Poiret.
R. cherokeensis. Donn.

R. nivea. De Cund. Hort. Monsp. 137. Prodr. 2. 599.
R. hystrix. Lindl. Monogr. 129. t. \1 .
R. laevigata. Michaux Fl. Bor. am. 1 . 295.

A very common climbing Rose in the gardens of Italy
and the South of" France, where it is highly ornamental, from
the profusion of its snow-white flowers, and the handsome
shining appearance of its evergreen leaves.

It is less suited to this climate, in consequence of being
rather tender; I have seen it however in great beauty trained
to a south wall : and it was from a similar situation, in the
Nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Osborn of Fulham, that the
specimen now figured was obtained in May 1835.

It is a native of China, where it appears to be the com-
mon Dog Rose of the country. Now that the races of culti-
vated Roses have become so much improved by hybrid
intermixture, it is well worth ascertaining how far this is
suited to alter the foliage and size of blossoms of some of

the other Chinese species. What would be most to be feared
is, that its delicate constitution should be communicated to
its offspring ; but this might be avoided by mixing it with
some very hardy species, and then using the variety so ob-
tained as the subject of a second intermixture. There is so
much beauty in the foliage, and such remarkable firmness,
combined with delicacy, in the petals of R. sinica, as to
make it highly deserving of a trial.

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* TRIGONIDIUM obtiisum.

Bhuit-pctuUed Trigonidium.

GYNANDRIA UONANDHIA.
Nat. Old. ORCHIDACEa;, § VAiNDE*.

TRIGONIDIUM. Sepala squalia, semiherbacea, in cyathuiii triguimin

•isoscelem coliaerentia, apice patula. Petala corollina, duplo minora, venosa.

Labellum nanum, trilobuni, cum columna articulatum, medio carnosum. Co-

lumna nana, libera, semiteres. Anthera unilocularis. Pollinia 4, coha^rentia,

ininoribus dorsalibus, in glandulam triangularem stigma parvum triangulare tegen-

tem insidentia. Herba; epiphijttB, Americana, rhizomate repente Jiorifero !

et pseudobulbifero. Folia coriacea. Pedunculi erecti, uniflori, vaginati.

T. obtusum ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis, vaginis acutis, sepalis obovatis, petalis
obtusis, labello dorso tuberculato, anthera glanduloso-pilosa.
Pseudobulbi compressi, oblongi, obsolete striati, in plantd spontaned
per duas uncias distantes, in rhizoma scapes plurimos promens insidentes.
Folia ctiique pseudobulbo duo, anguste lanceolata, pedalia, sesquiunciam
lata, fere enervia. Bateman in litt. Pedunculi palmares, erecti, foliis bre-
V ores ; vaginis 5, convolutis, acutis, pedmiculo appressis, superiore ovario
breviore. Sepala obovata, obtusa, basi quasi agglutinata in cyatlmm tri-
gonnm petalorum longitudine, luteo viridia, versus apicem fuscescentia.
Petala alba, apice aurantiaco-fusca et cullosa, venis purjmreis ornata.
Labellum petalis plus quam duplo brevius, trilobum, axi et lobo medio car-
nosis, infra apicetn extiis tuberculatum. Anthera glandulis piliformibus
cristata, l-locularis.

For the opportunity of publishing this curious plant I am
indebted to Mr. Bateman, who sent it me in August 1836,
with the following note : —

" This singular plant I owe to the exertions of Mr. CoUey
in Demerara. I received it from thence in the summer of
1834; the entire plant, at the time of its importation, con-

* Named in allusion to the triangular form of several parts ; the sepals form
a 3-cornered cup, the gland on which the ])ollcii masses rest is an obtuse-angled
triangle ; and the stigma is a triangular excavation.

sisting of only two pseudo-bulbs, connected by a veiy stout
rhizoma. To this rhizonia a prodigious nvimber of withered
flower-stems were attached ; a circumstance so remarkable,
that I confidently expected the new-comer would prove a
distinct genus, a suspicion which the curious flowers, now
for the first time produced, have confirmed. The species
grows slowly, but is of easy cultivation, and of a free flower-
ing habit. It has not yet increased."

As a genus it belongs to the set of Maxillaria-like plants,
from all which, however, its curious flowers sufficiently dis-'
tinguish it. Among M. De Lessert's Brazilian drawings is a
second and very fine species, with larger flowers and much
broader leaves, found by Descourtilz on the trees that sur-
round the foot of the mountains of La Bucanha, and on the
borders of the Parahyba, below the town of Rezende, flower-
ing in January. This species may be distinguished as
follows : —

T. latifolium ; foliis obovato-oblongis, vaginis acuminatis suprema ovario lon-
giore, sepalis lanceolatis acutiusculis, petalis acutis, (labello dorso nudo ?)
anthera glabra. Epidendre a chainons Descourtilz Brasilian draw-
ings, No. 33.

In the plate fig. 1. shews the petals and lip, magnified;
2. is the lip by itself more magnified ; 3. is the column with
its gland-crested anther ; 4. the pollen masses and gland ;
and 5. a transverse section of the latter.

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* HEUCHERA cylindiacea.

Cylindrical Heuchera.

PENTANDRIA DlCYi^lA.

Nat. ord. Saxifragace*.
HEUCHERA.— Supra, vol. \5.foL 1302.

H. cylindrica ; scapo omnin6 nudo petiolisque patentim hirsutis, foliis cordatis
alt^ rotundato-lobatis crenatis ciliatis dentibus piliferis supra glabriusculis
subtus ad venas praeeipue pilosis, paiiicula compacta cylindracea subspicata,
floribus apetalis, staminibus inclusis. Hooker Fl. Bor. Amer. 1. 230.

This new species of Heuchera is distinguished from the
remainder of the genus, both by its very contracted panicle,
and by its flowers being destitute of petals.

It is a hardy herbaceous plant, thriving in any kind of
light soil, and flowering in May.

Mr. Douglas found it in the north-western part of North
America, in dry mountain woods, near the Kettle Falls. The
accompanying drawing was made in the Garden of the
Horticultural Society.

Fig. 1. is a magnified flower, with a portion of the calyx
cut away ; Fig. 2. is a vertical section of the ovary, exhibiting
the position of the ovules.

Saxifragaceous plants are generally described as destitute
of stipules ; those organs are however visible enough in the
genus Heuchera.

* See folio 1302.

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* VERBENA Aubletia; var. Drummondi.

Sweet Lilac Vervain.

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. Verbenaces.
VERBENA.— Supri, vol. 4. fol. 294.

V. Aubletia, supra, vol. 4. fol. 294.

Var. Drummondi ; floribus lilacinis suaveolentibus.

V. Drummondi. Hort.

A beautiful perennial of hardy habit, with delightfully
sweet-scented flowers, recently introduced from Louisiana,
where it was found by the late Mr. Thomas Drummond,
from whom I have native specimens.

The drawing was made in July last, in the richly stocked
collection of the Messrs. Rollinsons of Tooting.

A plant in every way so desirable as this, and so easily
cultivated, should be found in every garden of pretty
flowers.

Tlie Verbena Lamberti var. rosea of the British Flower
Garden, stated to have been found by Mr. Drummond in
Texas, seems a diff'erent plant from this, and if so there are
two sorts of Verbena Drummondi in the Gardens.

* See folio 1184.

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TROl'yEOLUM biachyceias.
Short-spurred Tropceoluvi.

OCTANDRIA MOA'OfiFIV/vl.

Nat. ord. Balsaminace;e, § Trop^eoles;.
TROPMOLUM.—Supru, vol. 9.fol. 718.

T. brachyceras ; foliis peltatisectis segmentis 6-7 oblongo obovatis inlegris ses-
silibus, petalis conformibus, calycis segmentis obtusis, calcare brevissinio ob-
tusissimo. Hooker et Arnott in Bot. of Beechey's Voyage, p. 14.

A beautiful little Tropseolum, forming the prettiest pos-
sible match for T. tricolor, whose habit it possesses, with a
substitution of clear, delicate yellow in the petals for the rich
crimson of that species. Like it the present species is not
uncommon about Valparaiso, in bushy places in the moun-
tains. The Chilians call it Flor de Ferdiz.

It was originally introduced many years since by Mr.
Cruickshanks, but appears to have been lost again ; or at
least it was never brought into notice till now, when I have
the opportunity of publishing a figure of it from specimens
obligingly communicated by the Rev. G. Gumming Rash-
leigh of Hyde Lodge, near Winchester, in August last. This
gentleman received the roots, with those of many other plants,
about three months previously, from a friend at Valparaiso,
and is at present the only known possessor of the species.

It is not a little singular that our gardens should still be
without the other beautiful Tropeeoliims that grow wild near
Valparaiso. Weeds enough, including common Lucerne,

* See folio 1547.

and the corn-plants that were carried out from Spain, have
been sent home, while some of the most interesting parts of
the Chilian Flora remain neglected. For instance, it was
only the other day that the first species of Chloraea, of which
there are probably twenty in Chili, reached England through
Capt. James Mangles, and of the genus before us we are still
without T. polyphyllum, whose ^flowers grow in heads as
large as the fist, and T. azureum, which to the herbage of
T. tricolor adds the colour of the deep blue of a Siberian
Larkspur.

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* BURLINGTONIA Candida.

Snow-white Burlingtonia.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace.e, § Vande.«.

BURLINGTONIA. PeHdnthiuin memhranaccam, convolutum, obliquum. Se-
pala uiiguiculata, labello breviora, basi a petalis distincfa ; lateraUa basi concava, con-
nata, labello supposita. Petala uiiguiculata, labello parallela, sepalis longiturtine a'qualia,
sed latiora. Zabellum unguiculatum, bilobum, basi cornutum aut muticum, cum column^
parallelum, apice dilatatuni; ungue canaliculato, lamellato. Col urn na teres, loiige cla-
vata, nunc apiee appendicibus duabus coloratis aucta; cliuaudrio dorsali, stigmate utrin-
que coriuito. Anthei'a uniloculaiis. Pollinia i, postice excavata, caudiculae eubulatse
elasticEE adnata. Herbce epiphytte, pseudobulbis l-i-phyllif, basi foliatis.

B. Candida ; racemis pendulis, sepalo anteriore apice bilobo supremo petalisque obtusis,

labello seriebus duabus laiiiellarum carnosarum in disco.
Rodriguezia Candida. Bateinan in litt.

Folia oblon/ja, apicem ver.nis paulu latioia, subcanalieulata, snlitaria. Racemus
pendulus, 6-Jlorus. Flores candidi, mendjranaceij seinidiaphani ; venis quibusdam luteis
in labello,' duos pollices longi. Sepalum siipremum obovatum, planum, emarginatmn ; in-
ferius canalieulatum, bifidum, basi concavum, ad calcar Incurcitm labelli recipie?iduin, a
pefalis distinctuni. Petala obovata, apive pafida, circa columnani valuta. Labellum cum
columnfi parallelum, ungue canaliridirfu, apice utrinque unidentato, apice dilatatuni, sub-
cuneatum, bilobum, veni^ lutei^cenfibus ornatunl ; lamellis plurihus distiehiscarnosis in disco,
quaru/n anteriores mnlto Inngi^res. Columna gracilis, teres, clavata, apice dentibus
duabus carnosis stignuiti adstantibus ; clinandrio decliui imniarginato.

The vegetable kingdom comprehends nothing more perfectly lovely
tlian the delicate flowers of this plant, in which not a tinge of colour sullies
the snow-white transparency of the petals, unless it be a faint dash of
straw-colour on the lip. For its introduction to this country we are
indebted to Mr. Bateman, who imported it from Demerara, and flowered
it in his rich collection at Knypersley, in April 183.J.

In many respects it agrees with the genus Rodriguezia, especially in
its lower sepals being united in one, in its lip having a short horn at the
base, in the column being taper, and in the structure of the pollen masses ;
and I was at first disposed to refer it thither; but its membranous and
convolute (not herbaceous, or coloured and spreading) flowers, its ungui-
culate (not sessile) petals and sepals, its long slender (not dwarf) column,
and its membranous 2-lobed lip, so much longer than the other parts, have
satisfied me that it is a trulv distinct genus.

The species now represented does not stand alone in solitary beauty,
but it belongs to a little family, at present consisting of five, each of which

* Those who have the honour to be acquainted with the Countess of Burlington will
feel that no compliment was ever more justly conveyed, than in the dedication of these
most lovely flowers to the amiable and accomplished Lady whose name they are hence-
Ibith to bear.

vies with the otlier in loveliness. One of them, BurVingtonia i-ennxta,
a native of Brazil, may be literally said to sink beneath its long heavy
clusters of snow-white blossoms just tinged with pink ; a second, seated
upon the highest branches of the Cedrela tree, perfumes the forests of the
same country with the odour of Jonquils: it is Biirlinf/tovia frar/rans ;
while a third, Siirlinf/tonla nihexcen.i, delicately spotted with rose
colour, inhabits the trunks of the Calabash tree in the mission of Yurima-
guas, in the province of Maynas, the hottest part of Peru, and is loaded
with blossoms all the year long ; and the fourth, Burl'mgtonia rigida, with
many peculiarities, to which I shall immediately advert, breathes the
delicious fragrance of the violet.

At the end of the column of Burliiigtonia fragrans there are two little
brownish purple teeth, which are probably rudiments of anthers ; even
in Burlingtonia venusta there is a trace of them, but a less distinct one.
These bodies, in Burlingtonia rigida become long purple ears, fringed
with gland-like hairs, and standing erect like a pair of curved pen-knife
blades. Nothing indeed is more common throughout the whole of the
order than such rudimentary stamens in one state or other. In Zygostates
they attain their greatest degree of developement, separatini; from the
column to the very base, and sjjreading away from it at a right angle.
One species of the latter genus exists in Dr. von Martius's Brazilian
Herbarium ; the other I find among M. Descourtilz's drawings.

Characters of the four additional species of Burlingtonia, and of the
last mentioned genus, are given below.

Surlivgtonia I'enusta ; raeemis pendulis, scpalo anteriore intefferrimo supremo acuto,
labello infra mefliura tranverse plicato. Brazil ; Descourtilz's dra\\ ings, No. 63.

Surlmgfonia fragrans ; raeemis erectis, sepalo anteriore inteserrinio supremo acuto,
labello postieo cucullato supra imguem bilamellato disco pubescente elevato apice tri-
deutato. Brazil, in tbe disti'icts of Morro-Quema<lo and Macahe, and in the neigh-
bourhood of the town of Bom .lesus de Bananal ; Descourtilz's drawiuii's, No. 12.

Burlingtonia rubescens ; raeemis erectis, sejialo anteriore integen'imo lineai'i-lanceolato

patente supremoque acnminatis, labello basi auriculato bilamellato. ^ Peru ;

Poppig (not', gen. et sp. vol. 1 . p. 41 . f. 70 Rudriguezia Batemauni).

Burlingtonia rigida ; caulibus teretibus rigidis durissimis erectis per lonja intervalla pro-
liferis, pseudobulbis obovatis compressis monophyllis, folds oblongis, scapo longo
rigido apice raeemoso, labello basi mutico disco sparse lainellato, columuA. pubes-
cente apice appendicibus 2 falcatis erectis pilosis aurita. Found in Brazil, near

Villa Nova de .ilmeida, by Prince Maximilian of Wied Neuwied, and preserved in
the Brazilian Herbarium of Dr. Von JMartins. Tiiis singular plant lias stiff, appa-
rently erect stems, the thickness of a crow's quill, which throw out pseudo-bulbs
at intervals of from 1^ to 3 feet, each pseudo-bulb pushes forth its own roots, which
are extremely long and as fine as hairs ; and gives birth to a scape of the same thick-
ness and texture as the main stem, a foot and half long, at the tip of which are
clustered 5 or 6 flowers, the size of those of Burlingtonia nivea, with the perfume of
violets. I believe Messrs. Loddiges possess living plants of this.

Zygostates. Sepala membranaeea, libera, reflexa. Petaln dilatata fimbriata, sepalis
mnlto majora, patula. Labellum cymbifornie, mendiranaceum, patens, basi intus
cornntum ant dentatum, cum columnn articulatum. Columna teres, antice exca-
vata, basi utrinque brachio aucta lineari, apice globoso, sepalis sequali, patentissimo
(stamine sterili). Rostelhim longissimum, subulfitu\n, arcuatum. Anthera rostrata,

unilocularis. PolVviia 2, caudicula subulata, ghmdula minima. Ilerba; epi-

phi/tte. acaule.'!, Braziliense=, vacemis /)cnrf!(«'s, floribus jirt/TJs riridi-lateis.

1. Zijgostatcs cortmta : coi'nu unico incm-vo ad basin labclli, petalis rhomboideis.

Brazil, Prince Maximilian of Wied Neuwied.

2. Zygostates hinata ; dente duplici ad basin labelli, petalis lunatis. On trees on the

highest wooded moimtains of the district of Bananal in Brazil, in the midst of
dense cold fogs, which are almost jierpctual, flowering in March ; Descourtilz's draw-
ings, No. 4. Sepals whitish. Petals greenish yellow.

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* PERESKIA acule6ta.
West Indian Gooseberry.

ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Cactace^.

PERESKIA. Suprd, vol. 17. fol. 1473.

P. aculeata ; folils elliptlcis, aculeis in axilla solitariis demilm in caule fascicu-
latis, floribus subpaniculatis, fructu globoso sepala foliacea gerente. De
Cand. Prodr. 3. 474.

Grossularia americana. Plum. gen. t. 26.

Cactus Pereskia. Linn, sp.pl. Ql\.

I do not find a figure of this common plant in any of our
English books ; a circumstance that is perhaps to be ac-
counted for by its seldom flowering. In fact it is usually
cultivated as a stock on which other species of Cactaceous
plants may be grafted, rather than for the sake of its own
flowers and fruit.

And yet the latter are not without their beauty. The
flowers have not indeed the deep brilliant colours of the
more popular plants of the order ; but they form fine clus-
ters of white and green cups, and the fruit is like a rich
mellow gooseberry ; whence the colonial name of West
Indian Gooseberry.

In the whole genus Pereskia, and in this species in par-
ticular, the leaves are as large, and fully organised as in
any plants whatever ; and tlie woody matter of the stem is
one of the best illustrations that physiologists are acquainted

* .See fnlio 147:1
VOL. X.XIfl.

■with, of the plan on which Exogenous trunks are formed.
This is easily seen by taking an old stem of Pereskia acu-
leata, and macerating it for a few weeks, when the whole of
the horizontal cellular system decays, leaving behind it the
longitudinal system in the form of a woody skeleton.

The drawing was communicated in October 1833, from
the Garden of W. M. Christy, Esq. of the Clapham Road,
by his intelligent gardener, Mr. James Nash.

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* ONCIDIUM lun^um.

Crescent-lipped Oncidium.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHiDACEa:, § Vande.e.
ONCIDIUM.— Supra, vol. \3.fot. 1050.

O. lunatum ; pseudobulbis oblongis compressis 1-2-phyllis, i'oliis angust^ ob-
longis planis obtusis scapo brevioribus, scapo racemoso, sepalis petalisijue
spathulatis retusis, labello pubescente lunato basi piloso : laciniis lateralibus
minimis inflexis, crista lineari apice depressa utrinque bidentata : deiitibus
glanduligeris, alis columns cuneatis integris, clinandrio postic^ dentato.
Supra, ful. 1920. in textu.
V ma.ni\\\Vi\a Jiavum, laciniis croceo maculatis. Labellum album, cristd

medio sanguineo-lineatd, limbo obscure croceo maculato. Alee columna

sanguineo fasciatce.

This vei'y pretty species of Oncidium was imported
from Demerara by Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered
in their stove for epiphytes in June last.

It is in some measure related to O. Harrisonianum, from
which it is however abundantly distinct. The crescent-
shaped lip is, as far as I know, quite peculiar to this species ;
and the very blunt flat sepals conspicuously point it out.

Fig. 1. is a magnified representation of the lip, with the
crest fringed with glands at the angles. Fig. 2. is the upper
end of the column, with the wedge-shaped banded appen-
dages, and the toothed clinandrium.

* See folio 1920.

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Notes upon Burlingtonia Candida, fol. 1927.

Since the appearance of the last number of this work, I
have been favoured by the following memorandum from
Mr. Bateman : —

" Tlie plant to which you formerly gave the name of Roilriguesia
Batemanni, and which you now call ' Burlingtonia Candida,' is a naiive
of Demerara, from whence it was sent to me in 1834 l)y Mr. Colley, and
it is, I think, without exception, the most beautiful new species that lias
hitherto made its appearance amongst his collections.

" It produces its flower-spikes freely, twice every year, and their large
blossoms, sus])ended over the margin of the pot in which the plant grows,
have a singularly delicate effect, resembling nothing so much as white
satin trimmed with gold.

" While at Vienna last year, I was shewn, by the kindness of
M. Endlicher, some of the drawings belonging to his and Dr. Pceppig's
work on the plants of Peru ; among the number was a species bearing so
strong a resemblance to our present subject, that I did not hesitate to
pronounce it to be Ilodriguesia Batemanni, and it was accordingly pub-
lished bv those gentlemen under that name in their admirable 'Genera et
Species Plantarum.' I have now before me, through the liberality of
Dr. Pceppig, wild specimens gathered in Maynas by that intrepid tra-
veller, and on comparing these with specimens of the Demerara species
produced in my stove, I am satisfied that I erred in supposing them to be
the same. The following are among the more prominent difterences. Dr.
Poppig'sRodriguesia Batemanni (now Burlingtonia rubescens) has stiff, up-
right many-flowered spikes ; B. Candida few-flowered, entirely pendulous
ones. Theflowers of the latter are nearly twice the size of those of the former,
and streaked with gold instead of being spotted with red. The column
of B. Candida is nearly half the length of the lip ; while in B. rubescens
it is not one-third. In B. rubescens, too, there is a sort of tooth jilaced
on the under side, at the extremity of the lip, which is wholly wanting in
B. Candida."

To this I would add, that it must have been difficult
for the most experienced Botanist to have distinguished
Burlingtonia rubescens from B. Candida, under the circuin-
stances by which alone Mr. Bateman could compare them.
They are very similar in appearance : no one could have
anticipated that so many beautiful species, distinct as they
nevertheless are from each other, would have been suddenly
discovered to form a new genus ; and only an actual
comparison of specimens could have shewn that the Rodri-
guesia Batemanni of Poppig and Endlicher was distinct
fi-om Burlingtonia Candida, to which I once applied the
former name.

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* VERONICA perfoliata.

Perfoliate Veronica.

DIANDRIA MOKOGYKIA.
Nat. ord. ScROPilULARIACE/E.

VERONICA, L. — Calyx 4-rar6 5-partitus, campaiiulatus vel com-
pressus. Coiolla tubo brevlssirao vcl rariiis elongato, limbo 4-partito, laciiiiis
omnibus intcgcrrimis pateiit'bus planis, supremo latiore. Stamina 2, ad latera
lacinia; corolliiiffi supremoe sita, divcrgenlia, inferiorum vestigia nulla. Antlicra:
bilocularcs. loculis apice conflnentibus. Sti<jma vix incrassatum. Capsula: val-

vultE medio scptifcras v. bipartibiles. Sem'ma nuda. Herboe, suffrutices, iVuti-

cisve. Folia opposila, alterna vel vcrticillaf.a. Inflorescen'cia axillaris, race-
mosa, V. spicata. Flores smpius c(sruloi,v. albi. Benth. Scroph. Ind. p. 44.

V. pcrfoliata ; foliis ovatis acuniinatis basi connatis integerrimis glaberrimis,
racemis latcralibus pedunculaLls multiHoris. Dietr. sp. pi. 1. 524.

V. perfoliata. R. Br. Prodr. 1. 434. Bot. Mag. 1936. R6m. ^ Sch Si/st.
veg. 1. 119. Mant. 1. 112.

* An old, but not classical Latin name, whose derivation has occupied and
perplexed etymologists as much as any upon record. Linnseus thought it a cor-
ruption of V'etonica, which, as Professor Martyn observes, confounds it with
Bctonica. The same learned writer gives us a Greek etymology, from Hoffmann,
ijiepot'tKii, composed of (j)ipoi to bear, and rtkij, victory, or distinction, as if we
should say in English, bearing the bell, on account of its beauty. But we doubt
whether this be more than a pun. Its common etymology is of a mule kind,
between Greek and Latin, from verus, or rather vera, true, and m;oiy, a figure ;
and this, illiterate and barbarous as it is, has the sanction of the superstitious
legend of St. Veronica, whose handkerchief is recorded to have received the im-
pression of our Saviour's face, as be used it, in bearing his cross to the place o(
crucifixion. But we find nothing analogous in any of the herbs which have borne
this name, nor any character, true or false, stamped upon them, except that of
their own peculiar beauty. Ambrosius says the word is German, and originated
in the druggists' shops of that country, though he favours the idea of its being
corrupted from Vetonica for Belonica, or Betony. The chief object of this
controversy is to learn the true pronunciation of the name in question. If there
be any truth in its Greek origin, the i must be long ; but if otherwise, the ana-
logy of Betnnica may justify the usual practice, of throwing the accent on the o.
— Smith.

A very pretty perennial plant, native of the country near
Port Jackson, whence it was many years since introduced
to our gardens. It is seldom cultivated, and yet its grace''
ful racemes of pale blue flowers are exceedingly beautiful.
It is a little tender, and will not bear our ordinary winters
unprotected, but it may easily be kept with a very moderate
degree of care.

The drawing was made last July, from plants growing in
the open ground in the fine collection of handsome hardy
plants in the Nursery of the Messrs. RoUissons of Tooting.

No genus is more extensively distributed in the old
world than Veronica ; but the principal part of the species,
known in Europe, consist either of weedy plants, or of
species not particularly striking for their beauty ; it is in the
southern hemisphere, in New Holland, Van Diemen's Land,
and New Zealand, that the most interesting kinds are to be
found. V. diosvnfolia, salicifolia, and catarractce, all as yet
unknown in Europe in a living state, yield in beauty to very
few plants of the same countries.

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* PETCNIA intermedia.

Intermediate Petunia.

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. SolaiNACe.*.

PET UNI A. Supra, vol. ]9. /<:>/. 16'26.

P. intermedia ; minute glandulosa, canescens, foliis linearibus obtusis, coroUis

iiifundibularibus laciniis obtusis.
Nierembergia intermedia. Graham in Edinb. N. Phil. Journal, 1832. D.

Don in Siveet's Fl. Garden, t. 237.
Salpiglossis linearis. Hooker Bat. Mar/, t. 3256.

First published in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal,
where it is stated by Professor Graham to have been intro-
duced from Buenos Ayres in 1832.

It is a half-hardy greenhouse herbaceous plant, with gay,
changeable, purple and violet flowers, and hoary leaves ;
and it does pretty well out of doors in the summer. It can-
not, however, be compared in point of beauty with either
Petunia violacea, or any of the graceful and delicate Nie-
rembergias. It readily multiplies by cuttings.

I regret being unable to admit this species into either of
the genera in which it has been hitherto stationed ; it is
certainly no Salpiglossis, on account of its pentaudrous re-
gular flowers ; nor will it associate with Nierembergia, with
whose slender-tubed corollas it is altogether at variance.
Petunia is plainly the genus into which it must enter ; as I
think will be obvious, if its characters are attentively com-
pared with those of P. violacea.

* See folio 1626.

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* CRAT^GUS flava; var. lobata.
Rough-harked Thorn. ; single-fruited variety.

ICOSANDRIA DI-PEi^TAGySIA.

Nat. ord. RosacEjE, § Pome/E.

CRA TjEGUS. Suprd, vol. 13. fol. 1 128.

C.fiava; foliis rhomboideis subtrilobis incisis serratis stipulis glandulosis, fruc-
tibus turbinatis solitariis cymosisve, spinis arcuatis, pomis tetrapyrenis, puta-
mine crassissimo.

C. flava. Ait. Hort. Kew. 2. 169. De Cand. Prodr. 1. 628. Loudon Arb.
^ Frut. Brit. 3. 823.

Mcspilus Michauxii. Pers. synops. 2. 38.

/3. lohata ; fructibus subsolitariis, foliis acutioribus minOls cuneatls.

C. lobata. Bosc. in De Cand. Prodr. 2. 628.

Mespilus lobata. Pair, snppl. 4.71.

? Cr. turbinata. Pursh. fl. Am. sept. 2. 735. Elliott. Sketch 1. 549.

A small tree, with the bark of the stem split into many-
deep rugged fissures like that of an elm, and with a com-
pact spreading head. It is in some parts spiny, as represented
in tlie accompanying drawing ; sometimes it is unarmed.

That it is a mere variety of C. flava, must be evident to
any one who will compare the two plants growing ; in fact,
it seems to differ in almost nothing, except its fruit being
solitary instead of in clusters, and its more sharply cut leaves.
The two supposed species are in fact undistinguishable in
general appearance.

What its synonyms may be among American writers,
can only be conjectured. It seems to be the same as
C. turbinata of Pursh and Elliott ; but the specific phrase of

* See fol. 1611.

those authors is insufficient to settle the question. Un-
doubtedly C.flava of Elliott was a misnomer ; nor can the
summer haw of the same writer, with oval well-flavoured
fruit, from sandy soil on the sea-islands of Carolina, be re-
ferred to the true C. flava, as he supposes.

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* CRATJ2GUS oxyacantha; var. Oliveriana.

Hairy-leaved Black Hawthorn.

ICOSANDRIA Dl.PESTAGYNIA.
Nat. ord. Rosacea:, § Pome/e.
CRATjEGUS.— Supra, vol. \2.fol. 1128.

C. oxyacantha. Suprd, vol. 13. Jul. 1128.

var. Olheriana ; foliis subtAs petiolisque pubescentibus, pomis ovalibus nioris

tetrapyrenis.
C. Oliveriana. Bosc. in De Cand. Prodr. 2. 630.
C. oxyacantha, no. 10. Loudon Arb. t^ Friit. Brit. vol. 3. p, 831.

This supposed species is clearly nothing more than a
variety of the common hawthorn ; from which in fact it
differs in little, except its oval black haws and downy
leaves. The latter are generally more or less blotched with
brown in the autumn ; and the cymes of haws are more
compact than those of the common Cr. oxyacantha. The late
M. Bosc, the author of the name, was one of those species-
makers, who do serious injury to science by the number of
errors they crowd into it.

It is said to be a native of Asia Minor ; I have not seen
any wild specimens.

Mr. Loudon has rightly reduced the plant to its true
type ; it is not in fact very different from the black-fruited
hawthorn sometimes found wild in the woods of Great
Britain. Of course it is not to be confounded witli C. nigra,
a genuine and very distinct species.

* See folio 1161.

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* SPIRANTHES bracteosa.

Long-hracted Lady's Traces.

GYNANDRIA MONANDUIA.

Nat. Ord. Orchidace^, § Neottie^.
SPIRANTHES. Suprd, vol. 10. fol. 1043.

bracteosa ; foliis rosulatis oblongis acutis, scapo vaginato pubescente, bracteis
llneari-laiiceolatis foliaceis floribus longioribus, sepalis ovatis pubescentibus
acutis lateralibus basi eonnatis, petalis glabris sepalo supremo agglutinatis et
conformibus, labello pubescente : uiigue obovato canaliculate mutico limbo
subcuneato rotundato aplculato.

An addition to the very difficult genus of which our
own sweet Ladj^'s Traces forms a part. It was imported from
Saint Catharine's by Messrs. Loddiges, in whose collection
the drawing was made in May 1835.

It is readily known by ifs long leafy bracts, downy stems
and flowers, spreading oval root leaves, and peculiar lip.

Of course a stove herbaceous plant.

Fig. 1. is a magnified view of an entire flower; fig. 2. is
a still more highly magnified view of the back of the column
and the lip, the sepals and petals being cut away.

* In allusion to the spiral manner in wliith the flowers of many species
are arranged.

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* TROP.EOLUM tricolor.

Thrcc-colourcd TropcEolum.

OCTANDRIA M.O'NOGYmA.

Nat. Old. BaLSAMINACE^E, § TROPiEOLE*.

TROPMOLUM. Supra, vol. Q.fol. 718.

T. tricolor ; scandens, gracile, foliis peltatis 5-6-partltis : laeiniis obovatis ob-
longisve obtusis, floribus solitariis pedicellis multo brevioribus, calycibus
turbiiiatis coloratis petalis obovatis integerrimis aequalibus calcare gracLli
attenuato brevioribus.

T. tricolorum. Sweet Brit. Fl. Card. t. 270. Hooker in Bat. Mag. t. 3169.

Like the neat little T. hruchyceras, figured in the last
number of the Botanical Register, this is a native of bushy
places on the hills near Valparaiso, whence it has been for
some years introduced to our gardens ; so that it is now as
common as the former is rare.

For some time after its arrival it was a puny sickly plant,
shewing but little sign of the extraordinary beauty that
every one now knows is its attribute ; but the skill of our
excellent English gardeners has so completely overcome any
difficulties in its management, that nothing is now more
common than to see large pieces of treillage covered with
hundreds of its gay, scarlet, and purple flowers.

The most ornamental mode of displaying its graceful
mode of growth, is by allowing it to climb over wires fixed
to the pot, and bent into elegant forms, especially if the
wires are made to represent the skeleton of some solid figure,
and not kept upon the same plane.

The drawing was made in the nursery of Messrs. Lowe
and Co. of Clapton, some years since.

• See folio 1547.

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1936

* DELPHINIUM montanum.

Mountain Larkspur.

POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Ranunculace^.
DELPHINIUM. Suprd, vol. 14. fol. 1192

D. montanum ; petiolis basi non dilatatis, foliis pubescentibus 5-lobatis : lobis
basi cuneatis trifidis incisis, racemo simplici, bracteis calyclbus capsulisque
pubescentibus, calcare inflexo. De Cand. prodr. 1 . 55.

D. hirsutum. Roth, beitr, 88.

D. elatum. All. pedem. n. 1504.

cies of
There are in this country many beautiful spe

Delphinium, about which little is known except to mere
Botanists. They have been little cultivated, and never
figured ; and, to the great mass of the lovers of plants, are
as new as if they had never been introduced. I propose to
bring them by degrees into notice by the assistance of the
Botanical Register, feeling sure that in so doing I shall be
rendering a service to both Horticulture and Botany. For
wliat can be more graceful than the tall slender stems of many
species of Delphinium, or more perfect than the form of their
dissected leaves, whicli no insects dare touch, or more agree-
able than the rich blue, whether deep or pale, of their
singular flowers ? what is there more easy of cultivation, and
more perennially durable ? and what species of well-known
hardy plants are more in need of figures to illustrate them ?

• See folio 1503.
VOL. XXIIf.

Of such plants Delphinium montanum is one of the
handsomest. It grows 5 or 6 feet high, it is covered with
soft green down, and its flowers, which are a pale blue, are
compactly arranged in simple or branched racemes, some-
times as much as two feet long. Its roots are perennial, and
it produces seeds abundantly.

Its native country is the Alps of central Europe. De
Candolle says it inhabits the vallies of mountains nearly as
high up as the limits of trees; as in the valley of Eynes in
the Pyrenees, on the Alps of Provence and Switzerland, and
in the Appennines. Haller speaks of it as extremely common
on the mountains of Switzerland, especially on Mounts La
Varaz and Enzeindu, Lioson, Taveyanaz, Prapioz, Audon,
and elsewhere.

With us it is a hardy perennial, growing vigorously
among bushes, and flowering in August. The accompanying
drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural
Society.

1937

* CHYSIS aurea.

Golden-flowered Chysis.

GYNANDRIA MONAKDRIA.

Nal. Ord. ORCHIDACE.B, § Epidendres.

CHYSIS. Sepala pauI6 connata, patula ; lateralia pedi producto columns
adnata et calcar simulant.a. Petala sepalis conformia. Labellum trilobum,
patulum venis basi callos.s. Columna marginata, canaliculata, mutica An-
thera subrotunda, opercularis, glabra. PoUhiia 8, in laminam luteara semi-
Rn':Jr'''°^' ^.^'^"""l'"' '^""'bus quatuor interiora crassiora abscondentibus.

£ 11 ™ lamn^atum convexum. Herba. epip/njtce, occidentales ab ar-

bortbus penduhe; caulibus Cyrtopodh depauperath, foliis nervosis basi vagi-
nantibus, racerais lateralibus multifloris. ^

Chysis aurea.

„../-/^'"''^'i-^^'"^"''', '■"*''''"""''' «'''''c«^«<'. squamis fuscis, membranaceis
msnn. i-olia ovatu-lancenlata. basi vaninantia, nervosa, undvlala. Racemi
pedunculuh, ex axilla folii inferioris erumpentes, penduli, nvdliflori. Sepala
ovata, obtusa, subundulata, basi alba, cceterum crocca ; lateralium marmne
anterwre ^nfracto. Fet^\aovafo-oblo„gu, obtusa, marjnitudiue et colore sepalis
simuia l^abellum album, concavum, venis sanquineis, trilobum ■ lobo late-
rail oblongo, obtuso, crispo, apice subsaccato ; venis 5 medds tumidis callosis,
trihus lateralibus utri.que pubescentibus elevatis. Pollinia sunt Imiusmodi ;
lamina adest tenuis, lutea, pulverulenta, bipartita, lUrinnue biloba, in cli-
nandrium prona nwrgiuibus suis incrassatis, et incurvis (= pollinia 4 basi
%n lamvns duabus geminathn coharentia.) Prceterea ad sunt 4 alia mi-
nova, et prwribus supertecta, quorum duo ab angulis posterioribus, et duo
ab anterionbus lamella; s.pradictce JisscB oriuntur (= polluda 4 alia mi-
nora). Horum corporum vera indoles latet ; sed verosimiler pollinia 8 ad-
sunt quorum 4 eiteriora m laminam fissam margine bilobam deliquescunt.

The first knowledge I had of this beautiful epiphyte was
irom Messrs. Lowe and Co. of Clapton, who sent it to me
m June 1836, with a note, from which the following is an
extract : — *

* XvcTiQ a melting. The pollen masses of this plant are as it were fused
her. '

together.

D 2

"It was collected in 1834 by Mr. Henchman, in the valley ofCuman-
coa, in Venezuela. Mr. H. describes it as growing suspended by long
fibrous roots from the lateral branches of trees, so that its pseudo-bulbs,
which in their growing state are uncommonly brittle, hang downwards
and wave in the wind, which Mould otherwise be sufficient to break them.
It has a very delicate perfume in the morning, but appears to lose it in
the heat of the day. The remains of spikes have been seen, which had
produced ten flowers."

Shortly afterwards Mr. Bateman forwarded it from Knypersley, with
this memorandum : —

" The plant which produced the specimen from which your drawing
is made, I derived in September (1835) from Messrs. Lowe and Co. of
the Cla])ton Nursery. It liad then been only recently imported, and was
just beginning to push a shoot, which has ever since continued to increase
in length and strength. It is now, although apparently far from com-
pleted, upwards of two feet long, and equal in girth to the stem of an
ordinary Cyrtopodium. It is suspended from a rafter in a pot (filled
with broken potsherds and turfy peat), and its stems are completely pen-
dulous, like those of some eastern Dendrobia. Common as is this pendent
habit in the Old World, our present subject presents, as far as I am aware,
the only example of its occurrence in the New. It may also be worthy
of remark that the fleshy stems of this species, although apparently similar
in structure to those of Cyrtopodium, Catasetum, Myanthus, Mormodes,
Cycnoches, and the like, seem utterly incapable of pushing a shoot after
the radical eye is gone, several healthy pieces having remained with-
out breakinfj for more than a year; whereas from any of the above-named
genera, under similar circumstances, plants would have been long since
obtained."

With regard to the aflinity of this genus, although it has in so many
respects the habit of certain genuine Dendrobia, and in others that of
Cyrtopodium and its allies, it is in reality essentially different from those
genera, and much more nearly akin to Epidendrum and its section. Its
pollen masses consist of two yellow plates, j)laced side by side in the bed
of the anther, united at the back and slightly notched on the outer edge,
so that it is in reality four-lobed, the lobes being extremely unequal ; each
lobe has a thickened margin, and rising up, overlies and conceals four
other lobes of a thicker texture and smaller size, two of which arise from
the back and two from the front of the inner edge of the principal lobes
of the plate above described. This remarkable structure may be theore-
tically described as being equivalent to eight pollen masses, of which the
straps of connection, such as exist in all Epidendrefe, are run together
into two plates, from an expansion of the edges of which the pollen
masses appear to spring.

This is a very showy plant ; the colours of the flower being very
bright, its texture firm, and its surface even and waxy. The lip,
with its crimson veins, and narrow elevations radiating from the base, is
especially worthy of attention.

Fio-. 1. is a representation of the upper portion of the column; 2. is
the lip laid open ; 3. are the pollen masses spread open, to shew their
structure.

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* NUTTALLIA coidata.

Heart-leaved Nuttallia.

MONADELPHIA POLYAJiDUIA.

Nat. ord. Malvace.e.

NUTTALLIA. Calyx simplex (nunc duplex, exteriore triphyllo), quiii-
quefidus. Capsula plurimiE, nionospermae, in annulo congestae. Hooker in
Bot. Mag. 3287.

N. cordata ; foliis radicalibus cordatis obtusis inciso-lobatis caulinis tripartiris
subintegris simplicibusque, bracteis calycibusque apice pilosis, stigmatibus
ultra antheras pariim exsertis.

I received this plant in August, 1836, from Mr. Garvie
of the Stratford Nursery, to whom it had been sent by Mr.
Murray, the Curator of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, as a
species of Nuttallia, raised from seeds collected by Drum-
mond in North America.

It was a remarkably pretty herbaceous plant ; but un-
fortunately the specimens, from which the drawing was
taken, have been mislaid, and no description of the species
can be given.

* Named after Mr. Thomas Nuttall, a writer on the Systematic Botany of
North America.

M- lyJ^^lUr"^ 169.

1939

* CRATAEGUS flava.
Rough-barked Thorn.

ICOSAN0RIA m.VEl<ITAGYNJA.

Nat. ord. Rosaces, § PoMEiE.
CRATMGUS.—Supri,vol. 13. fol. 1128.

C. fiava ; foliis rhomboideis subtrilobis incisis serratis, stipulis glandulosis, fruc-
tibus turbinatis solitariis cymosisve, splnis arcuatis, pomis tetrapyrenis, puta-
mine crassissimo. Supril,fol. 1932.

C. flava. Ait. Hort. Kew, 2. 169. De Cand. Prodr. 2. 628. Loudon Arb.
et Frut. Brit. 3. 823.

Mespilus Michauxii. Pers. Synops. 2. 38.

The accompanying- plate shews the true character of
Ci'ataegus flava, the single-fruited varietj^ of whicli was no-
ticed at folio 1932.

I find nothing to add to the remarks then made, except
that both varieties are among those which are the least worth
cultivating for their beauty. In fact, their mode of growth
is stiff and inelegant, their foliage is neither abundant nor
deep-coloured, their fruits are indistinguishable at a little
distance from the leaves they grow among, and there is no
character in the flowers beyond that whiteness and sweetness
which belongs to all the Hawthorns.

» See fol. Itill.

1940

NEMOPHILA atomaria.

Speckled JVcmophila.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Hydrophyllaces.
NEMOPHILA. Suprd, vol. 9.fol. 740.

N. atomaria ; foliis oppositis plniiatifidis basi in petiolum angustatis : lobis sub-
rotundis indivisis, calycis sinubus minimis reflexis, pedunculis axillaribus
corollisque hirtis, ovariis multi-ovulatis.

N. atomaria. Fischer in litt.

A new, but not very pretty, species of Nemophila, nearly
related to the beautiful N. insignis, but entirely destitute of
the brilliant blue in the corolla of that species.

It is a hardy annual, and probably a native of California ;
but upon that point there is no precise information. The
seeds were sent to the Horticultural Society in 1836, from
the Imperial Garden at St. Petersburgh.

Independently of the small size of the flowers, and their
want of blue, this species is to be distinguished from N. in-
signis by the following characters. The leaves are less
deeply cut, and their lobes are broader, and hardly ever
divided into secondary lobes ; the flower-stalks are rough
with hairs, not smooth ; the recesses of the calyx have
much shorter appendages ; the corolla is hairy, and strongly
marked with numerous, dull, lead-blue specks, both on the
inside and outside ; the style, too, is longer and rather
hispid.

See folio 1601.

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1941

* MORA'A nitida.

The Beautifnl Murnn.

SYNGENESIA POLYGAIMIA .EQUALIS.

Nat. ord. Asterace^, or CoMPOSiTiE.

MORN A. Capitulum homogamum. Involucrum coloratura, exsuccum,
iinbricatum, squamis omnibus petiolatis ! glaberrimis, Receptacuhtm planum,
nudum. Corolla hermaphroditEe, infundibulares. Antherie basi bicalcaratse.
Achmnia glabra, scabriuscula, compressa, long^ rostrata. Pappus scaber, uni-
seriatus, setaceus, tequalis, basi pubescens. Caules apice cymosi, foliati.

Morna nilida.

Caules erecli, subsimplices, pubescentes, versus fastigium arachnoideo-
lanati. Folia erecta, linearia, basi paulh latioru, mucromilata, pubescentia.
Capitula cymosa, homogcuna, multijlora, pedunculis ad involucrum usque
folialis. Involucrum hemispharicum , polyphyllum, imhricatvm , multiseria-
tum ; squaviis intense aureis, acutissimis, serrulatis, Innge petiolatis ; exte-
rioTibus ovato-lanceolatis, intimis linenribus apice cuneatis, omnibus basi
lanatis. Uece^taculum planum, 7iudum. Flosculi homogami, infundibulares,
glabri, 5-dentati. Ovarium levissime pubescens, compressum, longe rostra-
turn. Pappus setaceus, uniseriatus, scaber, basi pilosus.

* Morna, one of the heroines of the Northern romances, was a beautiful
lady, confined in a golden hall, guarded by a thousand golden lances, and attended
night and day by knights, whose sole office was to do her bidding in all things,
except allowing her to escape from her splendid tiiraldom. Her court could
only be held where the sunbeams and the summer breeze had the freest access.
During her residence on earth, she was worshipped as a divinity, and when she
disappeared, her palace, her knights, and her lances vanished with her. She is
described as having been a person of the most kind and gentle disposition, but of a
melancholy and somewhat imperious temperament; her figure was noble and com-
manding, her voice melodious, and her smile so resistless, that the fiercest animals
were tamed by merely looking on her. See Viseling de reb. Scand. orat. p. 23.
After her, various heroines of northern romance have been named Morna or Morni ;
in the present instance the ingenious reader will have no difficulty in tracing a
resemblance between this mystical personage and the plant before him.

A beautiful perennial (?) everlasting-flower mhabiting
the dry country about the Swan River, whence it was mtro-
duced^n the year 1835, by Sir James Stn-lmg. The first
time it was publicly seen in this country was at one ot the
great exhibitions held in the Garden of the Horticultural
Society in 1836, when the judges awarded to Robert Man-
gles, Esq. who exhibited it, a Knightian Medal. To that
Jentleman I am indebted for an opportunity of figuring it.

It is indeed a lovely plant, with its starry heads of the
most rich and transparent yellow, having qmte a metallic
brilliancy, when illuminated by the sun It may be said
indeed that Elichrysum bracteatum and bicolor are more
showy ; but they want altogether the softness and dehcacy ot
Morna, while the latter is destitute of none of their richness
and brilliancy.

The genus difi"ers from Leptorhynchos, in its pappus not
being feathery or paleaceous, nor its acha^nivmi papillose, nor
the beak of that organ short ; and in its whole habit. Md-
lotm has a cylindrical involucre, whose scales are m one row
The most striking features of Morna, m a distinctive point of
view, are its scabrous setaceous pappus, its long-beaked truit,
and the stalked leaflets of its involucre.

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1942

* BOLBOPHYLLUM barbigerum.
Bearded Bolbopliyllum.

GYNANDRIA M0NA}^DRIA.

Nat. Ord. Orchidace^.

BOLBOPHYLLUM, Thouars. Sepala erecta, acuminata, subajqualia,
lateralibus cum pede columns connatis et basi obliquis. Petala nana (rarissim^
sepalis subiEqualia). Labellum cum pede columnae articulatum, unguiculatura,
sajpiils integrum et posticum. Columna nana, antic6 bidentata et bicornis.
Anlhera l-'2-locularis. PoUinia 4, libera, vald^ injequalia, nunc in uno con-

nata, nunc per paria cohaerentia, altero cujusvis paris minuto lobuliformi.

ilerh'iS epip/njttp, Th'izomdte repente pseudobulbifero. Folia coriacea, aveiiia.
Racemi radicales. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orcli. p. 47.

B. barbigerum ; pseudobulbis lenticularibus, foliis solitarlis racemo erecto bre-
vioribus, bracteis ovatis amplexicaulibus ovario subcequalibus, sepalis lineari-
lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis subulatis columna brevioribus, labello lineari-
lanceolato acuminato villoso apice stuposo-barbato.

A most curious plant introduced from Sierra Leone, by
Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered in June 1836. It
grows pretty freely under the hot damp system of cultivating
epiphytes.

That a drawing is altogether incapable of representing
so strange a conformation as exists in this species, will be
evident in the course of the following description. The
pseudo-bulbs are small, lenticular, very pale green bodies,
from one edge of wliich springs an oblong, firm, smooth,
veinless leaf. From the opposite edge of the pseudo-bulb
there rises a raceme of flowers, about six inches long, the
base of which is protected by brown, narrow, imbricated
scales. The number of flowers in each raceme is from 15

* From /3oX/3oe a bulb, and ipvXkov a leaf, in allusion to the leaves univer-
sally arising from a bulb-like stem or pseudo-bulb.

to 20. The bracts are, for the size of the flowers, rather large,
broad, ovate, a little stem-clasping-, very pale green, and
stained with crimson at the points. The three sepals are
narrow and taper to a point, pale green externally, dull cho-
colate brown in the inside (jig. 2. a. a. a.). The petals
are minute, slender-pointed scales, shorter than the co-
lumn, and not discoverable without disturbing the sepals.
The column is dwarf, and terminated in part by two long
curved horns (jig. 1. a. a., and jig. 2. c). The anther is a
little round lid, beautifully studded with crystalline points
(jig. 1.). The lip (jig- ~- b-) is one of the most extraordi-
nai-y organs known even among Orchidaceous plants ; it is
a long, narrow, flexuose, sharp-pointed body, closely covered
with a yellow felt; just within its point there is a deep purple
beard of exceedingly fine compact hairs ; on the vnider side,
at a little distance from the point of the lip, is another such
beard ; and besides these there is, at the end of the lip, a
brush consisting of very long, purple threads, so excessively
delicate, that the slightest disturbance of the air sets them in
motion, when they wave gently to and fro, like a tuft of
threads cut from a spider's web ; of the last mentioned hairs
some are of the same thickness throughout, others terminate
in an oblong club, so that when the hairs are waving in
the air, and I do not know that they ever are at rest, a part
float along gracefully and slowly, while the others are im-
pelled by the weight of their glandular extremities to a
more rapid oscillation.

Nor is this all; the lip itself, with its yellow felt, its two
beards, and its long purple brushes, is articulated with the
column by such a very slight joint, that to breathe upon it is
suflicient to produce a rocking movement, so conspicuous
and protracted, that one is really tempted to believe that there
must be something of an animal nature infused into this most
unplant-like production.

Messrs. Loddiges possess another species, with similar
habits.

191^3

1943

* PHYCELLA brevituba.

Short-tubed Phycella.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Amaryllidacej;.
PHYCELLA. Supra, vol. \6.fol. 1341.

P. hrevituha ; periantho Ig unciali basi annulari vix tubato infundibulifonni
rubro intiis luteo-striato, stylo perlaiithium et stamina superante, filamentis
pallidis apice rubris : petalinis limbum subcequantibus, processibus fauciall-
bus sex j-uncialibus tenuiter subulatis, foliis semunciam vel ultra latis.
Herbert M^S.

P. brevituba. Herbert Amaryllidacece, p. 1 54.

Mr. Herbert, to whom I shewed the specimen of this
plant when I received it from Mr. Knight's Nursery in the
King's Road, in July 1836, determined it to be Phycella
brevituba, with the specific character of which he shortly
after favoured me.

Having been indulged with an early sight of an elabo-
rate work, about to be published by the same gentleman,
upon the natural order Amaryllidaceae, I find the species
stationed next P. Herbertiana, with the observation that it
is remarkable for the tube of the flower being nearly obsolete.

It is a matter of no little difficulty to distinguish the spe-
cies of this beautiful genus ; I may almost add, that it is
impossible to do so, in the absence of information concerning
the small appendages found at the base of the filaments.
These bodies differ in number, proportion, and size in diffe-
rent species, and afford the most certain distinctive characters
I am acquainted with. In P. brevituba they are six, awl-
shaped, slender, and placed in pairs at the base of the sepa-
line stamens (/?_</. B.) ; in P. Ignea they are twelve in
number, of which six are awl-shaped, and in pairs as in
P. brevituba, and six minute, rudimentary, gland-like, and

* See folio 1341.

at tlie base of tlie petaline filaments {fig. A.) ; in P. atte-
nuata, which is also very like P. brevituba, the processes are
rudimentary and gland-like {fig- l-)-

I received fine specimens of P. ignea last December from
Mr. Ingram, of High Street, Southampton, and from their
striking resemblance to P. brevituba in every thing except
size, and the slight difference above described in the petaline
filaments, I can hardly doubt that the two species are fre-
quently confounded. It may indeed be questioned whether
they are really distinct.

Fig. 1. represents a longitudinal section of P. attenuata,
taken from a specimen that flowered in Mr. Knight's Nur-
sery ; the lower part of the tube is forced open, so as to have
an appearance of distension by no means natural to it, in
order to shew distinctly the interior, with the bases of the
stamens, a. is the base of the flower of P. ignea, with the
sepals and petals cut away. b. is the base of a sepaline
filament of P. brevituba, shewing the processes.

In Mr. Herbert's Monograph of Amaryllidaceae, the cultivator will
find a multitude of invaluable directions as to the proper management of
that beautiful tribe of plants; and vehat renders such remarks the more
acceptable to the horticultural world, is their being invariably the result
of long personal experience. The following memorandum upon the habits
and consequent treatment of Phycclla, may be taken as an example :—

" Some years ago I planted three species of Phycella out of doors in
front of a green-house, throwing a small heap of sawdust over them in
winter. In that situation one of them flowered early in the summer, and
they go to rest in the hot dry season. They are tempted by mild weather
to push their leaf in the winter, in which case they suffer injury from
severe frosts that may ensue, thouEjh they will endure a good deal ; and
their habit is to flower after the leaf has acquired its growth before they
go to rest. The Phycellas have been found difficult to cultivate, because
they have been often set in peat, though they grow naturally in a sandy
or strong soil on a dry rocky substratum, and proper rest has not been
allowed them. They should be planted in light soil well drained, and be
left dry from the moment their leaves show a disposition to wither, till
the bulbs on examination show a disposition to push out fresh fibres at
their base. The old fibres in this genus seem always to perish before the
plant vegetates again ; it cannot therefore be injurious, and may be ad-
vantageous, to take the bulbs out of the ground when the leaves perish,
and set ihem again when they are disposed to move. They will be best
preserved while at rest in dry sand. I consider that Phycellas should
begin to grow in February, and go to rest in August. If the leaf endures
later than August, they should have six months rest before they are
watered again. A sunny aspect, at the foot of a south wall, appears to suit
them."

1944
DELPHINIUM Bailowii.

A Garden Variety.

This Delphinium presents to tlie eye the most gorgeous
mass of deep lapis-lazuli bhie that 1 am acquainted with
in the vegetable kingdom. My attention was attracted by
it in the rich collection of hardy herbaceous plants in the
nursery of the Messrs. Rollissons of Tooting, where the draw-
ing was made. It is quite impossible to describe, without an
appearance of exaggeration, the effect of several plants
growing in a cluster, and well backed up by species whose
colours harmonize with the blue.

Messrs. Rollissons have obligingly furnished me with the
following memorandum respecting this variety : —

"We received the Delphinium from a friend at Man-
chester several years ago, under the name of ' Delphinium
Barlowii,' and we beli-eve it to have been raised by a florist
of that name in the neighbourhood of Manchester ; un-
doubtedly it is an hybrid production, and we think the
parents to be Delphinium grandiflorum and Delphinium
elatum, partaking in growth and flower of the character of
both.

" it is a most ornamental and beautiful herbaceous plant,
and very easy of cultivation ; it appears to flourish in every
soil and situation. We have had plants in bloom throughout
the whole of summer and autumn ; the principal stems some-
times attaining the height of seven and eight feet, and much
branched.

" We have sold plants of it to most of the nurserymen in
Great Britain. It is known also under the name of Delphi-
nium phoeniceum."

VOL. XXIII. E

Note upon MORN A nitkla, fol. 1941.

I am indebted to Robert Mangles, Esq. for the following note upon
this cliarming plant, b}' his gardener, Mr. Donald Mackay. It reached
me too late for insertion sooner.

" The seeds were imported along with many others from Swan River
colony, in the beginning of 183(3, by Mu. Robert Mangles, sown the 2nd of
February, 183G, in rich light mould, potted separately, and repotted as
often as the roots made their way through the bottom of the pot. The plants
attained the height of two feet, began blooming in June, and continued gay
nearly three montlis ; they ripened seed sparingly, the leaves turned brown,
and they soon ceased to exist. The species is only annual, and requires the
ordinary treatment of greenhouse annuals.

" I have raised some plants from a September sowing, which are just
potted off and doing well ; from them I expect early bloom and abundance
of seed, which will be the more acceptable, as there is no fear of its proving
a very gay addition to the flower garden in summer."

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LACHENALIA pallida ; var. coerulescens.

Slue-flowering pallid Lachenalixi.

HEXANDRIA MONOOYNIA.

Nat. ord. Liliace* (§ Scille.e, Lindl. ; A.sphodei,e« HyacinthiniE,
Endlicher).

LA CHENALIA. Suprd, vol. 4. fol. 287.

L. pallida. SuprA vol, 16. fol. 1350.

This, like all the genus, is a native of the Cape of Good
Hope, where the species occupy the situation of the Blue-
bells and Squills of Europe. It is described, and its syno-
nyms arranged, at the place above quoted.

The Honourable and Reverend \Vm. Herbert, who sent
me the accompanying figure, remarks that there are three dis-
tinct states of this species ; one, the present, which has clear
blue flowers, without any yellow ; a second, figured at fol.
1350 ; and a third, with spotted leaves. A fourth, I presume,
is the variety figured at fol. 314 ; which, however, may be
a distinct species.

See folio 1350.

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* PENTSTEMON brevillorus.

Short-Jiowered Pentstemon.

DIDYNAMIA AVGIOSPERMIA.
Nat. ord. SCROPHULARIACE^.

PENTSTEMON.— Suprd, vol. 13. fol. 1121.

P. breviflorus ; foliis lanceolatis serratis glabris summis sessilibus, paiiiculii
laxa brachiata, calyce pubescente, corollie labio siiperiore lineari arcuato
emarginato villoso inferiore deflexo 3-partito tubo calyce breviore.

Radix perennis. Caules erecti, glabri, brachiaiim raniosi, gland. Folia
ovato-lanceolata aut lanceolala, plana, glabra, serrata aut dentato-ser-
rata ; caulina brevissime peliolata ; summa sessilia ; in ramulis lateralibus
nunc omnia Uneaiia serrulata et integerrima. Flores in apice ramulorian
bini terni quinative, imh solitarii prope fastigium paniculs. Calyx
glandiiloso-piibescens, ovatus, aqitalilcr quinquefidus ; dentibus acutissimis.
Corolla parva, albida, rubescens ; tubo calycis longitudine infundibulari ;
labio superlore lineari, emarginato, arcuato, rubescente, dorso glanduloso-
villoso ; inferiore breviore, 3-partito, laciniis albis, sanguineo-venosis, latera-
libus revolutis, intermedid breviore. Stamina 4 fertilia basi incrassata villosa,
prope basin tubi inserta, labio snperiore appressa, antheris glabris subro-
tundis : lobis basi divergentibus ; sterWeJUiJorme, in labium inferius iiicu7n-
bens, glabrum, fauce paulh longius. Stylus Jiliformis, glaber ; stigma t»/e-
gerrimum. Capsula ovaia, acuta, glabra, calyce pauVo longior, septicido-
bivalvis ; valvulis apice integris.

A Californian perennial, raised in the garden of the Hor-
ticultural Society from seeds picked off some of Mr. Douglas'
dried specimens. In its native country it appears to be a
stout branching plant, bearing a profusion of small, white
and purple flowers : but when cultivated it has been found
so tender and difficult to manage, that little of its native
beauty is developed.

See folio 1245.

It is apparently hardy, and during the summer grows
pretty freely in peat and loam, flowering in September, and
striking without much difficulty from cuttings. But in the
winter the plants thus obtained have uniformly perished, so
that two puny specimens are all that now remain.

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* L^LIA anceps; var. Barkeriana.

v.

Mr. Barkers variety of Liella aiieeps.

GYNANDRIA MONASDUIA.

Nat. ore/. OhchidacEvE, § Epidendre^e.
L.ELI A. Siqiril, vol. 21./,)/. 1751.

L. anceps. Supra I. c.

Var. Barkeriana ; sepalis petalisque subaequalibus, lubelli lobo medio angusto
acutissimo.

A native of Mexico, whence it was procured by Messrs.
Lowe and Co., as I am informed by George Barlier, Esq.
of Birmingham, who favoured me with a specimen and
drawing- from liis rich collection in December last. I believe
it to be common in some parts of that coimtry, and that
considerable quantities have been recently imported.

It is, in general appearance, like Lcelia anceps; from
which it differs in two of the opposite ribs of its four-angled
pseudo-bulbs being smaller than the other two ; in its petals
being so much narrower as not to ditl'er materially in size
from the sepals ; and in the middle lobe of the lip being
both narrower and sharper. Mr. Barker tells me, that when
the flower first opened, the lilac of the sepals and petals was
lighter, and possessed the transparent character of Cattleya
labiata, but in a more striking degree.

I do not, however, think these differences will justify its
being considered more than a striking variety of Lselia
anceps.

It will, "doubtless, be easily cultivated upon the same plan
as the Cattleyas.

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* CHRY8EI8 compacta.

Dwarf Chryscis.

ICOSANDRIA? POLYAyoniAi. TKTRAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Papaveraces.

CHRYSEIS. Snprd, vol. \A.fol. 1168, sub Eschscholtzia.

C. compacta; caule denso humili ranioso, foliorum sctimentis lineari-cuneatis
apice tridentatis, pedunculi cyatho iiifundibulari: limbo maximo planiusculo.

This plant seems to stand in much the same relation to
Chryseis californica and ci'ocea, as those to each other ; tliat
is to say, if they are distinct, so is this ; but if they are
varieties only of one species, this must be reduced to that
species also.

It differs from both of them in having a much more
dwarf compact habit, the segments of the leaves very slightly
toothed, instead of deeply lobed, and in the flowers being far
smaller. From C californica it is distinguished by the limb
of its calyx-cup being much broader and slightly undulated,
while it is much less undulated than that of C. crocea. In
the plate, ^V/. 1. belongs to C. compacta; fig. 2. to C. crocea;
andfg. 3. to C. californica.

With respect to the generic name, which, it will be per-
ceived, is altered from Eschscholtzia to Chryseis, I beg to
insert the following note from a botanical friend, on whose
correct judgment 1 place great reliance :- —

"It is surprising that so great a violation of an esta-
blished botanical rule, as is contained in the generic name
Eschscholtzia, should have been so long permitted to remain.
The rule to which we refer, is, that two different genera

* Chryseis a celebrated Homeric beauty ; the name allusive to the golden
colour of the flowers.

should not both be named in honour of the same individual,
or of the same family. Thus, for example, the name Linnaa
must be held to commemorate both the elder and the younger
Linnaeus, and it would not be allowable to establish a diffe-
rent genus " LhiiKEa " in honour of the latter. It is evident
that nothing but confusion would arise from neglecting a
rule of such plain utility.

" Now, in the present case, the generic name Esch- ■
scholtzia has been previously appropriated to a genus among
the Labiatse, and dedicated to the memory of Eschscholtz,
senior; this genus has been universally received, among
others by Mr. Bentham, in his recent arrangement of the
Labiatse ; and consequently the same name cannot be ap-
plied with any propriety to designate a different genus of
the order Papaveraceae, in commemoration of his son Esch-
scholtz, junior, the botanist who accompanied Kotzebue in
his voyage round the world. It is true that we find the
former name spelt Mhcholtzia in botanical works, which ap-
pears to make a difference between them ; but this has no
better foundation than an error of the press ; the two indivi-
duals to whom the genera are dedicated standing to each
other, as we have already remarked, in the relation of father
and son. It is time, therefore, that this anomaly should be
removed from our nomenclature, and that the name should
be preserved to the plant to which it was originally appro-
priated.

" The beautiful genus to which the subject of this plate
belongs, was first discovered by Menzies in Vancouver's voy-
age. It might, therefore, with propriety have been named
Menziesia, had not that name been pre-occupied."'

Unwilling as I am to become a party to change in the
established names of plants, in consequence of the great incon-
venience to which it generally leads, I cannot but feel that the
foregoing oljservations are unanswerable ; and I have the
more willingly acted upon them, because I anticipate little
objection to the substitution of so harmonious a word as
Chryseis, for the barbarous combination of conflicting conso-
nants in the word Esclischollzia.

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* PHLOX Di-ummondii.

Mr. Drummond's Phlox.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYSU.

Nat. ord. PoLEMONIACE/i;.

PHLOX. Supra, vol. l.fol.es.

P. Drunimondii ; annua, patentim pilosa, crecta ; foliis oblongis acutis aristatis
basi subcordatis semi-amplexicaullbiis infimis subspatlnilatis, floribus corym-
bosis, calycis laciniis subulatis acuniinatissimis reflexis corollEeque tubo
(calycis tubum. ter excedente) hirsutissimis. Hooker in Bat. Mag. t. 344 1 .

An annual Phlox is indeed a novelty ; every species of
that beautiful genus previously described being perennial.
In this instance the novelty is accompanied by a degree of
beauty which is hardly equalled by any annual in culti-
vation.

The flowers are either light, or deep carmine, on the
inner snrface of their corolla, and a pale blush on the out-
side, which sets off wonderfully the general effect. A bed
of this plant has hardly }et been seen ; for it is far too pre-
cious and uncommon to be possessed by any one, except in
small quantities ; but I have had such a bed described to me,
and I can readily believe that it produced all the brilliancy
that my informant represented.

Being an annual, it will only be propagated by seeds ;
and, unfortunately, the unusual wetness of last autumn was
exceedingly unfavourable to their ripening. I have no doubt,
however, that one fine dry season will render the plant com-
mon and accessible to every one.

* See folio 1351.

It is a native of Texas, whence it was sent to Sir William
Hooker, by the late Mr. Thomas Drummond, in 1835.

Fig. 1. represents a corolla cut open, to shew the inser-
tion of the stamens ; 2. is an ovary cut across, together with
a cup-like disk in which it is seated ; 3. is the calyx opened
out, to shew the pistil; and 4. is a very highly magnified
view of one of the hairs that so thickly clothe the calyx ; the
surface of the hair is thickly studded with minute elevated
points, a circumstance by no means common.

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* GE8NERA lateiitia.
Brick-red Gesncra.

DIDYNAMIA ANGWSPERillA.

Nat. ord. GESNERACEiE.

GESNERA. Supra, vol. 4.fol. 329.

G. lateritia ; herbacea, foliis subrotundo-ovatis cordatis rugosis crenatis hirsutis,
floribus axillaribus solitariis terniinalibusque geminatis, bracteis sessilibus
amplcxicaulibus planis, corollis tomentosis labio superiore oblongo coiicavo
bilobo inferiore truncate.

G. Selloi. Hort. nee Martii.

This is the plant to which I adverted, fol. 1785, in com-
paring G. faucialls with G. Selloi ; but upon comparing it
•with the G. SeUovii of Martins, I find it is a very different
plant, and in fact a mere garden misnomer.

G. SeUovii is related to G. macrostachya, fol. 1202, and
allagopliylla, fol. 1767, while this forms one of the set of
(t. bulbosa, which is plainly distinguished by the oblique
orifice of the corolla, the long emarginate upper lip, and the
very small lobes of the lower lip. It is most nearly allied to
G. faucialis, from which it differs in the leaves being more
round, the flowers smaller, the flower-stalks longer, the base
of the upper lip of the corolla as wide as its apex, the narrow
orifice of the tube, and the truncated narrow middle lobe of
the lower lip.

A native of Brazil, whence it was received by the Horti-
cultural Society, in whose garden the drawing was made in
June, 1834. It is a stove plant, readily cultivated in peat
and loam.

* See fol. 1158.

1951

* TRICHOCENTRUM fuscum.

Brown-flowered Trichocentrum .

GYNANDRIA MO'NANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace.e, § Vande«.

TRICHOCENTRUM. Poppig Nova Gen. ^ Sp. PL 2. 11. Peri-

anthium patens, liberum, squale. Labellum sessile, cum basi columnce conna-
tum, calcaratum, planum, bilobum, basi lamellosura. Columna nana, semiteres,
crassa, utrinque alata. j4 n//je;-a bilocularis, mutica. Pollinia 2, complicata ;

caudiculd cuneata; glanduld minuta. Herbas epiphytes Americana acaules;

foliis planis (aut nullis?) : floribus radicalibus. Genus jEceocladi proximum,
labello cum columna; continuo et subconnato, necnon columna nanii utrinque
alata, diversum.

T. fuscum ; foliis oblongis acutis obliqufe tortis racemo longioribus, labello o-labro

bilobo basi bilamellato venis quibusdam callosis, alis columna: serratis.
Acoidium fuscum. Mihi in horiis.

Imported from Mexico by Mr. Kniglit, of the King's
Road, from whom I received it in flower in July of last year.
Shortly after it was sent me by Mr. Bateman. It is a stove
epiphyte, and apparently by no means of difficult cultivation.

When I first received it the genus had not been distin-
guished, and I called it Acoidium fuscum, from aKO-q, an ear,
in allusion to the two ears of the column ; but Mr. Poppig
having subsequently figured and described a second species
under the name of Trichocentrum pulcJirum, the former must
give way.

* From Qpil rpixoc a hair, and Kevrpov either a spur or a centre ; but the
applicability of the word is not apparent, nor is it explained by its author, Mr.
Poppig.

As a genus, Trichocentrum must rank next to JEceoclailes,
from which it principally differs in having the labellum
united at the base with the column, and in the latter having
two ears or wings. It is also close upon AngrcBcum and
Mystacid'mm, with which it agrees in habit, but from which
it is abundantly distinct.

To the two species now admitted into the genus Tricho-
centrum, must, I think, be added, as a third, the Limodorum
funale of Swartz, a very curious leafless Jamaica epiphyte,
which no modern botanist seems to have met with alive, and
which I only know from Swartz's description. He states it
to grow upon old trunks of trees on the mountains of Jamaica,
emitting numerous, simple, stiff, thick, pale green roots,
from two to three feet long, and having, in the spring, large
whitish flowers in pairs. This plant ought to be sought for
again ; if it were not found, there would be other species to
reward the trouble of the traveller, for I see there are not
fewer than twenty species of Jamaica epiphytes described by
Swartz, of which none have as yet reached England alive ;
not to mention the Cymbidium utriculatum, a terrestrial
species inhabiting moist woods on the island, having a tuber
as large as the largest potatoe, a scape about two feet high,
Calanthe-like leaves, and pretty large (majusculi) white
succulent flowers.

X

11)51*

MONACHANTHI et MYANTHI cristati
proles biformis.

In November, 1836, His Grace the Duke of Devonshire
was so kind as to put into my hands the extraordinary flower
represented in the accompanying phite, wliich may be re-
garded as one of the greatest curiosities that our gardens
ever produced. Accustomed, as Botanists now are, to the
freaks and masqueradings of Nature, and to the strangest
departures from all rules, at every step among Orchi-
daceous plants, there is certainly nothing upon record to
be for a moment compared with the case before us. It is
that of a plant oi Myanthus cristatus changing into a Mona-
chaiithus, related to Monachanthus viridis, and combining in
its own proper person no fewer than three supposed genera,
Myanthus, Monachanthus, and Catasetum.

I doubt very much whether any one would have believed
in the possibility of such transmutations upon weaker evi-
dence than that I am about to produce. At least, for my
own part, I am much in the position of tlie person who,
upon being assured of the truth of an improbable story, ex-
claimed, " Why, Sir, I would not believe it if I saw it my-
self." I am the first Botanist who ever witnessed any of
these changes ; my observation was put upon record several
years ago, and yet, when I read it again in 1833, I really
believed I must have been mistaken, and doubted my
own positive testimony. In this very Botanical Registei",
vol. xii. fol. 966, in April, 1826, is the following note under
Catasetum cristatum : —

"The unimportance of the peculiarity which exists in the
labellum (namely, its flattened or fringed and crested state) is
manifested in a singular manner by a curious monster of this
plant, which we have observed on an individual in the Horti-
cultural Society's garden. Among flowers of the ordinary
structure two or three others were observed, in which the
labellimi was precisely of the same nature as that of Cata-

VOL. XXIII. F

setum tridentatum ; that is to say, destitute of the crested
appendage, and perfectly galeate and naked."

This, I repeat, appeared to me so extraordinary a
statement, especially as after seven years it had never been
corroborated by any other case of the same kind, that I
concluded I must have made some mistake, and I accord-
ingly formed the genus Myanthus out of a species nearly
allied to the very Catasetum cristatum, which, in 1826, I
had seen sporting back to C. tridentatum.

Not content with this, I added the genus Monachanthiis,
distinguishing it from Catasetum by the want of cirrhi on
its column, and by its perianth being turned back ; and
when the original species, M. viridis, was sent me from
Wentworth, previously to publication in this work, fol. 1752,
I felt no doubt of its being an entirely distinct plant. Even
when Lord Fitzwilliam assured me that it was beyond all
doubt an accidental sport of Catasetum tridentatum, I still
adhered to my idea that an imported plant of Monachanthus
viridis had been accidentally taken for the latter common
species. Nor do 1 think that as a Botanist I was to be blamed
for these errors : the genera being founded upon characters
which were apparently important, and which most assuredly
no one could, a priori, have suspected could pass into each
other in the manner that has now been seen. If, however,
it should be thought that I ought to have been aware of such
metamorphoses, I at least have lost no time in acknowledging
the mistakes, and putting others on their guard against
them for the future.

With regard to the particular case now before us, Mr.
Paxton has furnished me with the following note : —

" The monster sent by his Grace the Duke of Devonshire,
was produced on a plant of Myanthus cristatus, which also
produced a perfect spike of Myanthus cristatus at the same
time ; the same plant has flowered twice before, but did not
sport : a high state of cultivation appears to favour the
production of monsters of this kind. Tliere are more than
twenty plants of Myanthus barbatus at Chatsworth, which
are almost all different in colour, but none of them have yet

sported ; tliere are also, at least, twenty plants of Monachan-
thus discolor, which keep true. Mr. Hillhouse (a gentleman
residing in Demerara), has informed the Duke of Devonshire
that a flower spike of Catasetum often has on it several dis-
tinct kinds of flowers."

To make the reader more distinctly aware of the changes
that the flowers of this specimen exhibit, I will describe one
of those of the species in its ordinary state.

It has narrow, ovate, lanceolate, green sepals, of which
the two lateral ones are placed obliquely on each side of the
lip; the petals are narrow, spotted with red, and placed
almost in front of the upper sepal ; the lip is a narrow,
flattish, fleshy body, having a sac or conical depression
{fig. 4. c.) in its middle, a large, curved, white, fleshy horn
{fig. 4. b.) projecting forwards from its base, and a row of
stiff, short, fleshy teeth standing up all round the edge. The
column has a long horn rising up from its back, and forming
a narrow bed for the anther, while two other horns or cirrhi
{fig. 4. «.) hanging downwards over the lip.

In other flowers, which may be said to exhibit the ex-
treme of diff"erence, the sepals and petals are all equally spot-
less, of the same short, ovate, obtuse figure, and spread
equally round the column ; the lip is a fleshy hood-like, or
helmet-like, greenish yellow body, a little turned back at
the point, entirely without sac, horn, or marginal teeth, and
standing erect so as to overshadow the column. The column
itself has an exceedingly short horn at the back, and no
cirrhi in front. I think I may safely say, that until these
two sorts of flowers had been seen on the raceme, no
G^dipus could have guessed them to belong to either the
same species, or even genus.

The way in which they pass into each other is sufficiently
curious, as far as regards the lip. All the fringe-like teeth
of this organ disappear, except a few at the base on one side
{fig 3. a.), the curved horn shortens ffig. 3. b.), and the
remainder contracts about the sac, which widens and deepens
till the commencement of a helrriet is shadowed out. In
another case all the fringes disappear except a few minute

bristles {fig. 1. a.), the lateral cirrlii are not formed, the
curved horn is wanting, and the helmet-like form in the lip
is completed. All these transitions were perfectly shewn in
the Duke of Devonshire's specimen, and have been faith-
fully copied by Miss Drake. On the same specimen was
also a case of a flower with two lips, as is represented at
figure 2.

The necessai'y consequence of this is, that the supposed
genera Myanthus and Monachanthus must be restored to
Catasetum, and I have no doubt now, although no proof
has been seen of it, that Mormodes must share the same fate.
But which of the species have their masks on, and which
shew their real faces, I certainly will not at present presume
to guess.

Mr. Schomburgh has lately sent to the Linnaean Society,
from Demerara, a specimen of another Monachanthus,
sporting to a crested Myanthus ; of which, I presume, some
account will in due time be published. And I am ac-
quainted with the following e.\ample of this tendency in a
very different genus.

In August 1836, Mr. Willmer, of Oldfield, near Bir-
mingham, sent me a specimen of a Cycnoches, which had
broad petals, a short column, hooded and dilated at the
apex, and a broad roundish lip, gibbous at the base, and
with its stalk much shorter than the column. It was, how-
ever, destitute of scent, while Cycnoches Loddigesii has, as
is well known, a delicious odour of Vanilla. I had no
doubt of its being distinct species, and called it C. cucullata.
But in the autumn of 1836, in the garden of the Horticul-
tural Society, a plant of Cycnoches produced from the
opposite sides of the same stem two racemes ; those of
one raceme were the well-known fragrant flowers of Cycno-
ches Loddigesii, and of the other the scentless flowers of
the new C. cucullata.

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* GARDENIA pannea.

Cloth-leaved Gardenia.

PENTANDRIA MONOGY'NIA.

Nat. ord. CiNCHONACE*, § Gardenie^.
GARDENIA. Suprc), vol. \.fol. 73.

G. pannea ; inennis, foliis dens6 hirsutis rugosis oblongis acutis basi obtusis
breve petiolatis, floribus terminalibus aggregatis in peduticulum communem
sessilibus, tubo corollas longissimo piloso ; limbo reflexo intiis tomentoso,
calyce 5-dentato glabro.

Frutex, in caldario A-j/edalis, vix canescens, sed undique fere hirsutus.
Rami subtelragoni. Folia circiter sex poll, longa, rugosissima, tactu sub-
aspera ; petiolis brevibus ; stipulis brevibus, rotundatiSf membranaceis, den-
tatis, glabris. Calyx glaber ; tubo oblongo Icevi ; I'lmho campanulato, brevi,
acute 5-dentato. Corolla straminea, pilosa ; tubo 3 poll, longo, et ultra,
ajjice paritm dilatato, tomentoso; fauce nudd ; limbo contorto, tomentoso,
laciniis oblongis, coriaceis, basi subimdulatis medio refractis. Stamina 5,
sessilia, exserta, linearia ; antheris post anthesin incurvis. Ovarium 2-3-
loculare ; ovulis numerosis, in placentis carnosis subdidymis immersis.
Stijlusjiliformis; sUgma. clav at um, i-S-lobum.

A handsome stove shrub, native of the tropical j^arts of
South America, whence it was received some years since by
the Horticultural Society.

It flowers in June and July ; but like a large number
of the woody inhabitants of the tropics, seldom produces
its blossoms in this country. The drawing was made three

* Named in compliment to Dr. Alexander Garden, a physician of Charles-
town in South Carolina, and a correspondent of Linnaeus. He was the discoverer
of the Siren lacertina, and is highly eulogized as a botanist and zoologist by his
biographer Smith.

VOL. XXIII. F

or four years since. The dull wrinkled foliage is by no
means handsome, and as the flowers are destitute of smell,
they have nothing to recommend them beyond their size and
curious colour.

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* PERISTERIA cerina.

Waxen Dove-flower.

GYNANDRIA MONAKDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Vande^.

PERISTERIA, Hooker. Perianthium globosum. Sepala basi sub-
connata, concava, basi labello coiinata. Petala conformia, paulo minora. La-
belluni erectum, medio articulatum ; dimidio superiore obovato, truncate, medio
pulvinato, inferiore bilobo columna continue. Columna erecta, seraiteres, basi
magna dllatata. Anthera ecristata, bilocularis. Pollinia 2, postice fissa,

glandula sessili nuda rostellum involvente. Herba subterresliis, pseudo-bul-

hosa. Folia plura, j)licata. Scapi vaginati, radicales, multijiori. Flores
speciosi. Lindl. gen. et sp. Orcb. p. 160.

P. cerina ; scapo brevi pendulo, raceme denso, labcUi lebo medio margine
crispe, columna aptera.

Pseudobulbus oblongus, vel ovatits, airo-viridis, 3-poUicaris, apice folia
3-4 gerens,oblongo-lanceolata, plicata, basi vaginantiu, pedalia et iiltrd.
Scapus brevis, vaginatus, pendulus, rigidus, racemo denso, Q-\Q-poro, secundo
onustus. Sepala et petala colore et texturd cerce lutescentis, immaculuta,
obtusa. Labellum trilohuni, cum basi productd coluntnce articulalum, ejusque
faciei appressum ; lobis lateralibus ovatis, aciUis, pAanis. intermedia abrupte
injiexo, ovato, emarginato, margine crispo et croceo, ctEterum colore sepalo-
rum. Columna crassa, ovata, semiteres, aptera. Pollinia '2, biloba, in glan-
dulam triangularem sessilia. ¥\oies jimiperu?n syirant.

A new species of the curious genus Peristeria, imported
from the Spanish Main by Mr. Knight of the King's Road,
in whose Nursery the accompanying figure was made in
June last.

It is allied to the P. pendula of the Botanical Magazine,
from which it differs in its spotless, smaller flowers, in the
crisped border of the middle lobe of the labellum, and espe-
cially in the absence of wings from the column. This latter

* From TTtpioTtpa a dove : the column in the original species, P. elala,
resembles a dove hovering with expanded wings.

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circumstance brings the genus Peristeria extremely near
Maxillaria Warreana on the one hand, and Maxillaria cris-
tata on the other.

The flowers have a strong smell of Juniper.

Fig. 1. is a side view of a column and lip ; shewing how
the middle lobe of the latter is bent inwards, so as to press
against the face of the column. Fig. 2. a front view of the
column. Fig. 3. the pollen masses with their glands.

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* PLATYSTIG'MA lineare.

Linear-leaved Platystigma.

POLYANDRIA TRIGYKIA.

Nat. ord. Papaverace^.

PLATYSTIGMA. Sepala 3-4, ovata, caduca, pilosa. Petala 6-8-
Sfu/niiia numerosa. Filamenta filiformia. Antlierce lineares, biloculares^ late-
raliter deliiscentes. Stigmata 3, ovata, acuta, erecto-divergentia. Capsula
oblonga, basi attenuata, 1-locularis, 3-angularis, 3-sulcata, 3-valvis, ab apice ad
basin dehiscens : valvulis conduplicatis margiiie in plaeentis filiformbus productis.
Semina numerosa, minuta, ovoidea, nigra, la^vissima, nitida. Bentham in
Hort. Trans. ii. s. vol. 1. quibusdam, mutatis.

P. lineare. Bentham I. c. Hooker Ic. vol. I. t.

Annua. Caules densi, subsimplices, teretes, patentim pilosi, fragiles,
3-4 poll. alti. Folia linearia, opposila, ant ternatim verticillata, tenera,
patentim pilosa. Pedunculi solitarii, axillares et termiiiales, gracillimi,
caulibus duptb longiores, patentim pilosi. Ca.\y\ decidints Papaveris more,
viridis, 3-4-sepalus, pilosics. Petala serie duplici verticillata, 6-8, con-
cava, ovata, subcequaliti ; exteriora liitea, interiora alba. Filamenta Z;«ea»'ta,
utrinque infra apicein dentata.

One of the prettiest of all little annuals,"\vith its graceful
cups of white and yellow, resembling those of a Ranunculus,
but far more gay.

It is a native of California, where it was originally found
by Douglas, who however sent home no seed. More recently
it has been received at St. Petersburg]! from the Russian
settlements in California, and thence it has found its way to
England. I fear, however, our damp summers will prevent
its ripening seed with any certainty.

Fig. I. is a magnified stamen; 2. an ovary, with the
three stigmas; and 3. a transverse section of the ovary,
shewing the position of the placentas, with respect to the
angles.

From TrXarus broad, and stigma.

Note upon PHLOX Drummondi, fol. 1949.

Phlox Drummondi never ripens seed with me, but it is easily mul-
tiplied and perpetuated by pipings in sand on a warm flue. A piping
from the flowering umbel makes as good a plant as any other part of it,
though it may have only flower-buds when set.

Wm. Herbert.

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1955

* CLEMATIS coerulea.

Violet Clematis.

POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.

Nat. nrd. RanunculacE/E.

CLEM A TIS. Supra, vol. 2. fol. 97.

§11. VlTlCELLA. D. C.prodr. 1.8.

C. coerulea ; patentim pilosa, foliis ternatis segmentis ovatis acutis integerrimis,
pedunculis unifloris, sepalis sex oblongo-lanceolatis acutis membranaceis
margine distantibus.

C. coerulea grandiflora. Hort.

This is a charmiiio- addition to the climbers cultivated in
England ; it has a most graceful mode of growth, and the
large violet flowers, with deep purple stamens, are more
ornamental than those of any species of Clematis yet in
this country.

It is nearly related to C. florida, from which it differs not
only in the colour, delicacy, and transparency of its blossoms,
but also in its leaves being only once ternate, and in the
sepals not touching and overlapping each other at the edges.

The drawing was made last October, from a plant be-
longing to Messrs. Lowe and Co. of Clapton, to whom a
medal liad beeu awarded for it at one of the meetings of the
Horticultural Society in Regent Street.

Messrs. Lowe and Co. inform me, that it is, like C.
florida, a native of Japan, from which country it was intro-
duced to the European gardens by Dr. Van Siebold, and
tliey have no doubt that it will prove as hardy as that

• See folio 1234.

species. It is a free growing and profuse blooming plant,
and will prove a great accession to our hardy climbers.
They received this species with another very distinct one,
called Bicolor or Sieboldi, from Belgium in the spring of
1836.

The name is, I presume, an unpublished one of Dr.
Siebold, the great modern investigator of the noble flora of
Japan. Systematic Botanists should compare it with the
C. Cadmia of Hamilton, from Majahur.

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* STRANV^SIA glaucescens.

Grey-leaved Stranvcesia.

ICOSANDRIA PEXTAGYNIA.
Nat. Ord. Rosacea § Pome.e.

STRANV^J'^SIA. Calyx 5-dentatus. Petala 5, concava, sessilia, patentia, basi
villosa. Sttimma 20, patula. Ovarium Tillosum, supenim, 5-loculare; ovulls cuique
loculo biuis. Styl'i 5, subcoucreti, apice liberi, stigmatibus totidein compresso-reniformi-
bus. Fructus sphcericus, clausiis, inehidens capsulam superam, quinquevalveni, osseam,
frasilem, loeulicido-debiscentcm. iSCTH?'?ia oblonga. compressa; fesid cartilagiuea; radi-

cidA exseiiA. Arbores sempervirentes, Asi<e temperatte. Folia simplicia. Flores

corymbosi.

S. glaucescens ; foliis lanceolatis coriaceis serratis basi acuminatis subtus ad cqstam pe-
tiolo I'amisque junioribus floccoso-villosis, corymbis sublanatis, pedicellis alabastro
bisterve longioribus.

Crattegus glaiica. Wallich. Cat. no. 673.

Arbor mediocris, semperrirens, atroviridis, subglauca ; ramis purpureis jmiioribus
tojiieiitosis adultis glabriusculis. Folia cor'uicea, parkni idtidfLy laiiceolata, acuta, serrafa,
basi acuminata, subtus ad costain petiohwtque villosa. Corymbi multiflori, densi, albi,
jtoccoso-villosi. Calyx lanatus, 6-dentatus. Petala obloiuja, euiurgiiiata, concava, pa-
tentia, basi villoaa. Stamina '20, imequalia, dentibus calycis longiura. Ovarium sttperum,
tomentosum, b-loculare loculis disperniis. Styli 5, apice tantum liberi, glabri, stigmatibus
conipresso-reniforniibus. Fructus jparrus, sphcericus, aurantiacus, dentibus calycis clausus,
puhcscens. Capsula inclusa, subpubescens, ossea, frazils, b-locularis, 5-valvis, vcdvulis
medio septiferis ab axi solubilibus. Semina compressa, test& eartilagine& vestita ;
radiculii exsertd.

It is about eleven years since the first plant of this new evergreen was first
brought to England by Dr. VVallich, and placed in the Garden of the Horticul-
tural Society, under the name of CratcPgus glauca,by which it has been extensively
distributed. Its native countries are the provinces of Nepal and Kaniaon.

In the neighbourhood of London the species is scarcely more hardy than a
myrtle ; but it grows very well against a wall where it is protected, and in such a
situation it flowers in the month of June. In warmer counties I have no doubt
that it will prove a valuable evergreen. The worst part of its habit is its pushing
early in the spring ; which exposes it to be damaged by frosts ; and this seems to
happen to it ui its native country, if we can judge from the dried specimens dis-
tributed by the East India Company, all of which, when ui flower, evidently have
the leaves injured by frost, or some such accident. Its leaves are something like
those of Photinia integrifolia, with which it was mixed in Dr. Wallich 's distri-
bution of dried specimens; its serrated leaves will however readily distinguish it.

It takes by grafting, or budding upon the common thorn, and may now be pro-
cured without difficulty in the Nurseries under the name of Cratsgus glauca.

As a genus this is one of the most remarkable in the Ponieous suborder of
Rosacese, in consequence of its truly capsular 5-valved fruit, resembling a pome,
only so far as the fleshy calyx is concerned. On this account it bears the same
relation to other FomeiE as Gaultheria to Vaccinium. It is true, that in some
other Pomeous genera tlie pericarp is dry, while the calyx tube only is fleshy, as
Cotoneaster and Photinia. But in none of them is there any tendency to a
separation of the carpels into valves.

* The Honourable William Fo.^ Strangways, F. R.S., is so well known in this country
for a learned and indefatigable investigator of the Flora of Europe, as to vender super-
fluous any justification of the name now proposed for a most distinct and remarkable genus.

Fig. 1 . represents a calyx, with the stamens and styles, much magnified ;
2. a petal ; 3. a section of the ovary ; and 4. a section of the ripe fruit.

Notwithstanding that the plants of Pomeous Rosaceae have undergone exami-
nation from several Botanists since the year 1820, when I first revised them, yet
I find so little original criticism upon the genera and their characters, that I am
tempted to avail myself of the present opportunity of offering a few additional
remarks : —

Eriobotrya. It is not improbable that Pliotiiiia dubia maj' belong to this genus : it
varies witli three styles, and probably with a greater number. Nothing can decide
the point except its ripe seed, which I have never succeeded in procuring. Its habit
is that of Eriobotrya. Eriobotrya ? cordata, and -B. ohtusifulia do not belong to the
genus ; they are much nearer Cotoueaster, having subparietal carpels. But their
petals are longer than is usual in Cotoncastcr, and there is only one ovule in each cell.
I therefore think they may be safely separated as a peculiar genus, to which the name
of Hesperomeles (or Western Apple) will not be inappropriate.

Hesperomeles. Calyx brevis, rigidus, valde apcrtus, 5-dentatus. Petala concava,
dentibus calycis longiora. Staniina 20, dentium calycis longitudine. CarpeUa 5,
calycis tubo adnata, glabra, augulis interioribus libera, unilocularia, ovulis solitariis ;
styli 6, distinct!, glabri. Fructus ignotus. Frutices peruviani.

1. H. cordata^Eriobotrya? cordata. Lindl.

2. H. oblonga ; foliis obloiigis rugosis supra glabris subtus ferrugineo-villosis, cymis lanatis

foliis brevioribus. PerUy Mafheivs, no. 888.

3. H. obtusifolia^EriobotryaobtusifoUa. D. C.

i. H. cuneata; spinescens, foliis cuneatis apicc subtrilobis incisis supra nitidis utrinque
glabris, corymbis puboscentibus termiualibus foliis brevioribus, petalis calvis. Peru,
Matheivs, no. 517. Fructus ex descr. Mathewsii parvus rotundas ruber.

Photinia. This must be divided into two sections, until an examination of the fruit of
the second section shall shew whether it is not rather a separate genus.

Sect. 1. Euphotinia ; ovario complete blloculari.

1. P. serrulata. Lindl.

2. P. prunifolia (P. serrulata |8. Hooker et Arnott in Beechey's Voyage, p. 185.). Quite

<Ustinct from P. scrriUata, in the leaves being glandular on the under side, and dif-
ferently formed, and in the flowers being much smaller.

3. P. arbutifolia. Lindl.

4. P. arguta (Wall. Qat. no. G72) ; foliis lanceolatis acuminatis argute serratis glabris,

cymis sessilibus paucifloris lanatis, calycis dentibus obtusis membranaceo-marglnatis.
Pmidua, Wallich. Fructus ignotus.

Sect. 2. Myriomeles ; ovario seviibiloeulari.
b. P. pustulata ; foliis obovato-lanceolatis acutis basi acuminatis supra medium serratis
Ipevibus utrinque glabris, corymbis calvis multifloris ramulis pustulatis. China prope

Cantonein, Parkes. -Flares ignoti. Pomum semimaturum ovatum, pisi inagui-

tudine, glabrum, calyce clauso coronatum. Pericarpium apice tantum liberum, char-
taceum, 2-locuIare ( v. abortu uniloculare). Semina 2-4, testa coriacea submucilagi-
nosti, acidi hydrocyanici gustu. Embryo compressus, radicula exserta.

6. P. integrifolia. Lindl. (Wall, Cat. no. 6G9. cum fructu Stranvcesiie glaucescentis com-

mixta) foliis ovalibus nitidissimis utrinque acuminatis glaberrimis, corymbis supra-

decompositis densis glabris, floribus sessilibus. 1 doubt very much whether Dr.

Blume's plant of tliis name from Java, is not quite a distinct species ; see Bijdragen,
p. 1103.

7. P. eugenifolia ; foliis oblongis acuminatis integerrimis glaberrimis, corymbis supra-

decompositis divaricatis tomentosis. Pundua, Wallich.

Dubia.

8. P. dubia. Lindl. P. bengalensis, X>o?i, is not distinct from this.

Raphiolepis. There is an important mistake in the character of the fruit of this genus.
The seeds have not a thick leathery testa, as is represented in the Collectanea Bota-
nica, from imperfect materials. On the contrary the testa is tough, thin, arid mem-
branous. The embryo is spheroidal, with a distinct chalaza, and two plano-convex
cotyledons, within whose base the radicle lies concealed, as in Eriobotrya !

Cratcegus Imvis and villosa of Thunberg are probably referred with justice to Photinia ;
but I am altogether unable to judge, from Dr. Blume's short characters, where his
Mespilus spiralis, and Chinensis ouglit to be placed. P. Sieboldi of G. Don, the
Mesjnlus Sieboldi of Bhime, is stated by that author, upon the authority of Dr.
SieboM to be the Crata;gus villosa of Thunberg.

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* CRATAEGUS coccinea.
Scarlet-fruited Hawthorn.

ICOSANDRIA MOIiO-PENTAGYNlA.

Nat. Ord. Rosace.h, § Pome^.
CRATAEGUS. Supra, vol. Vi.fol. 11-28.

C. coccinea ; foliis subroturulis nblongisve augiilatis inciso-serratia basi cuneatis longe
petiolatis, calycis laciuiis pinnatiiidis petiolisciue glandulosis, spinis axillaribus arcu-
atis petiolis longioribus, pomis sphaericis coryinbosis 3-4-pyreuis putaminc crassis-
simo ossco.

C. coccinea. Linn. Sp. PI. 682. I'orrei/ Fl. 1. 474. De Cand. Prodi: 2. 627. Loudon
Arb. et Frut. Brit. p. 816.

C. glandulosa. Willd. Sp. PI. 2. 1002. Loud. Arb. Brit. p. 817. De Cnnd. Prodr. 2. 627.

p- macracantha ; spinis foliis tequalibus v. longioribns, pomis suliminnribns.

C. glandulosa macracantlia. Supril vol. 22. t. 1912.

C. macracantha. Lodd. cat. Loud. arb. Brit. p. 819. Jig 572. et 573.

When the long-spined variety of this plant was figured at fol. 1912, it did
not occur to nie to look very particularly into the synonyms, my object being
chiefly to publish a figure of the species under some recognised name ; the critical
enquiry into the entangled synonymy of the whole genus Crataegus being left for
a special discussion by whomever might be disposed so to amuse himself. A note,
however, from Dr. Asa Gray of New York, has led me to look a little more par-
ticularly into the matter. That gentleman .says, " C. glandulosa (i macracantha,
of Bot. Reg. t. 1912, is the most common species in the Northern States, and is
here familiar to every one. It is the C.pijrifolia Torrey FL, and as we supposed
of preceding authors." Probably pyrifolia was written for coccinea, for upon
turning to Torrey's Flora, I find that excellent Botanist quoting Elliott, Pursh,
and Muhlenberg as his authorities for C. pyrifolia, which he does not appear
himself to have seen: and in my herbarium are excellent specimens of this C. glan-
dulosa marked " C. coccinea auct. Amer. C. pyrifolia? common near New
York," sent to me by Dr. Torrey himself.

In referring this plant to C. coccinea the American Botanists are right, for it
is certainly the plant meant by Linnaeus. Nor was I wrong in referring it to
C. glandulosa of De Candollc ; for it is as certainly the plant of the Prodronius.
It is not, however, C. glandulosa of Alton, which was probably intended for
C. .■ipalhulata, figured at fol. 1890, if we are to judge from its being compared
in the Hortus Kevvensis with C.flava and parvijolia. The confusion arose
with Willdenow, who, with his usual ingenuity, first copied the specific character
of C. glandulosa from the Hortus Kewensis, and then added C. sangninca of
Pallas as a synonym : hence the latter plant and C glandulosa became identified
in the eyes of systematic writers, and a fresh character was contrived to suit the
erroneous combination. The genus CratcBgus not having been studied by Professor
De Candolle himself, the error was transferred to the Prodromus, and has given
rise to some most extraordinary confusion in writers who shall be nameless.

The following adjustment of synonyms will help to put this matter straight
for the future, to a certain extent at least.

C. glandulosa of Willdenow, De Candolle, and Loudon is the same species as C. coccinea
of LinniEus.

* See fol. 1161.

C. sanguinea of Pallas, referred to C. glandulosa by Willdenow, De Candolle, and

Loudon, is distinct from C. coecinea in its want of glands upon the calyx and petioles,

as well as in its country and habit.
C glandulosa of Aiton, refeiTed by Willdenow, De Candolle, and Loudon to C. coccinea,

miscalled glandulosa, is a totally different species, and may be the same as C. spa-

tlmlata.

With Dr. Asa Gray's note above referred to, 1 received the following criticism
upon C. spathulata, fol. 1890: —

" I am not convinced of the correctness of the view you take respecting the C.
spathulata, Michx. and C. Virginica, Loudon. I liave before me specimens of C. Virginica,
Loudon, in various states, from North Carolina to Florida; and of the true C. spathulata,
as it is considered by N. American botanists (your C. microcarpa), from Georgia, New
Orleans, Texas, and Arkansas. Tlie specimens exhibit the various diversities in foliage
for wiiich the plant is so remarkable. This species is well known to our botanists,
and tiie reason of its being ' altogother omitted from the Floras of Torrey, Hooker, and
Beck,' is that the works alluded to are confined to the botany of the Northern States and
British America, whereas the above-mentioned species does not grow North of Virginia.
The chief reasons for considering the C. microcarpa, Bot. Reg. to be the original C.
spathulata are these —

" 1. The lower leaves of the plant are almost always fascicled on very short spurs, or
abortive branches ; corresponding in this particular with the character of Michaux ;
which can hardly be said of C. Virginica.

" 2. The fasciculate leaves are very much smaller than the irregularly-shaped
younger ones, wliich terminate the vigorous branches ; smaller, indeed, tlian those of any
other species, thus agreeing with the character 'foliis adulla plantte parvulis.' The small,
lucid, and coriaceous fasciculate leaves, of such uniform occurrence in our native speci-
mens, are not represented in Bot. Reg. t. 1846.

" 3. The phrase ' foliis longissime deorsum angustatis' is peculiarly applicable to
this plant, but by no means strikingly so to C. Virginica. They are decidedly spatnlate,
while in C. Virginica they are obovate or cuneiform.

" 4. The leaves are almost always 3-cleft, or deeply 3-toothed at tlie summit, in our
C. spathulata ; the upper and larger ones being however sometimes undivided, but usually
variously lobed ; whereas in C. Virginica the leaves are very slightly lobcd at the summit,
and often undivided.

" Our C. spathulata somewhat resembles C. oxyacantha, with which it is compared
by Michaux. C. Virginica does not.

" Lastly, I have before me a sketch of two leaves made by Dr. Torrey from the
specimens in Micliaux's Herbarium, which wholly agree with the ordinary leaves of what
we have always considered C. spathulata, viz. your C. microcarpa."

To this I answer, that it still appears to nie that the synonymy i]i the Bot. Re-
gister is correct, for the following reasons: —

However much Micliaux's character of the leaves may appear more applicable
to C. microcarpa than to C. virginica, yet it does not disagree with the latter, for
the terms " fasciculatim " and " longissim^ angustatis" apply very well to some of
the leaves of C. virginica ; but the remainder of the specific character of Michaux
does entirely disagree with C. microcarpa, while it as entirely agrees with C. vir-
ginica. " Corymbi pauciflori" cannot be said of a plant which often bears 15
fruits in a cluster, as in wild specimens from Texas now before me ; " pedicclli
breves" are equally at variance with pedicels half an inch long and slender ; while
" calyces tomentosi'' have no applicability to a plant which is remarkably smooth
in its fructification.

But " corymbi pauciflori," " pedicelli breves," and " calyces tomentosi," do
exactly correspond with the 1-3-flowered corymbs, almost sessile fruit, and perma-
nently downy calyx of C. virginica. It does not appear whether Dr. Torrey
noticed the glandular border so characteristic of C. virginica, when he examined
the specimens of C. spathulata in Micliaux's herbarium. But, if it really were to
prove that a specimen of C. microcarpa is labelled C. spathulata in that collection,
I should still prefer the evidence of Micliaux's own words, which cannot misre-
present him, to that of a specimen which may have been mislabelled.

1958

* PHILODEXDRON crassinervium.

Thick-ribbed Philodendron.

MONCECIA TETRANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Arace«.

PHILODENDRON. Spatha tota persistens, post florescentiam reclusa.
Spadix dense obsitus, appendice carens. Anthera singuli floris liberae. Ovarimn

multi-(.5- 1 5-)-loculare, loculis pluriovulatis, ovulis axi affixis erectis. Plantm

Americana; tropicce, succo decolori, rhizomate in caulem elongatum scanden-
tem V. arborescentein mutato, foliis remotis, vaginis petiolaribus brevissimis,
stipularibus e/on(/a<is deciduis folio opposilis. Schott. in Meletemat. p. 19.

P. crassinervium ,- foliis lanceolatis acuminatis costa crassissima inflata, spatha
obtusa cucullata apiculata spadicis longitudine.

Spadix apice masculiis, basi fcemineus ipso medio neuter. Flores masculi
nudi, tetrandri ; staniinibus crassissimis , triincatis, extrorsum lineas duas
parallelas discretas polliniferas per rimam lonyitudinalem dehiscentes gercn-
tibus, initio bilocellatas, demum confluentes. Flores neutri e corpusculis
constantes slaminibus similibus sed majoribzis, miniis densis, etpolline orbatis.
Flores fosminei midi ; ovarium truncatum subtetragonum, 5-T-loculare, ovulis
in utroque loculo pluribus axi affixis ; stigma pulvinatum, glutinosum, indi-
visum, omnino ntidum.

This is one of the extraordinary climbers which, in
tropical forests, lay hold of the trunks and limbs of trees,
fix themselves upon their bark, root on their surface, often
twine round and strangle them in their embrace, or some-
times hang down like cords or cables, from tree to tree,
contributing, along with wild Vines, Bauhinias, and other
powerfid twisting leguminous plants, Aristolochias, Passion-
flowers, and the like, to render the forests impassable.

In the organs of vegetation, Philodendron constitutes
a case of excessive developement, in part arising out of high

* From (/i(\ew to love, and ctvlpov a tree ; in allusion to the habit of the
plants of this genus to over-run trees in the South American forests.

heat, light, and moisture ; and in part dejiendent upon its
own specific nature. The strong stem that bears its leaves
and spathes is the same part which, in the European Arum,
remains under ground, in the form of a round leafless tuber.
When it is concentrated, as in the latter case, it contains
a large quantity of nutritious fascula, mixed with an
acrid principle, while in a diffuse state the fascula disap-
pears, and the acrid part alone remains. Hence the arbo-
rescent Araceous plants are simply dangerous, while the
tuberous kinds are both dangerous and nutritious, or, the
dangerous parts being removed by washing, simply nutri-
tious.

Caladium, like many of the genera of the Botanists of
the last age, was a heterogeneous assemblage of various
plants, having only a sort of external, pi'ima facie, resem-
blance ; it is now confined to certain tuberous kinds, while
the caulescent species go into other genera, of which Philo-
dendron is one.

The species now represented is a native of Brazil, and
consequently requires to be cultivated in the stove. For the
opportunity of figuring it I am indebted to the Rev.
Frederick Beadon of North Stoneham, from whom I received
it in December last. Pothos crassinervia is a very different
plant.

In the plate — 1. is the inside of an anther; 2. its outside;
3. a section shewing the four cells in pairs; 4. is an ovary ;
and 5. a longitudinal section of it, shewing the position of
the ovules, and the form of the stigma.

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* MEGACLINIUM maximum.

Largest MegacUnium.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nal. ord. Orchidace*, § MALAXiDEiE.
MEGACLINIUM. Supra, vol. \2.fol. 989.

M. maximum ; sepalo supremo acuto lateralibus margine involutis acuminatls-

simis reflexis, labello lineari revoluto.
M. maximum. Lindl. gen. Sj- sp. Orch. p. 47 ; siiie char.

Facies herbcB fere M. falcati, sed paulo robustior, et folia mirtus emargi'
natu et margine subrevoluta. Rachis ensiformi-falcata, dentata, mullijloru,
9 poll, longa, ])allide viridis. Flores herbacei. Pedicelli et calyx extus san-
guineo-maculati. Sepalum supremum erecliim, oblong um., acutum, denticula-
tum, utrinque callosum, lateralibus duplo longius ; lateralia triangularia, e
laid basi acuminalissima, rejiexa, marginibus involutis. Petala parva, plana,
linearia, acuta, pallidc viridia. Columna lata, discoidea, tenuis, marginata,
basi cum labello lineari fusco revoluto mobili elastice articulata. Anthera
iinilocularis. PoUinia 2 solida, geminaia, neclobata nee lined exaratd.

Nearly a thousand plates ago, the first species of this
most singular genus was published in the present work. At
a later period I found the imperfect remains of a second in
the Banksian Herbarium, collected by Smeathman in Sierra
Leone ; and this has at last been added to our gardens by
the correspondents of the Messrs. Loddiges, in whose collec-
tion the drawing was made in August last.

In general appearance it is a good deal like M.falcatum,
from which species it differs, in having larger leaves, which
are less deeply notched at the point, and more revolute at
the edges; in its larger sabre-shaped rachis, which is as
much as nine inches long ; and in the form of all the parts

* From /Jeytif large, and KXivrt a bed, in allusion to the broad, sword-shaped
bed or rachis of the flowers.

of the flower. Its lip is hardly so moveable as in M.fal-
catum, in which that part swings up and down with consi-
derable rapidity, like the heads of some Chinese images,
when set in motion by a sudden jar.

I believe this will prove one of the easier kinds to
cultivate.

Fig. 1. is a highly magnified figure of an entire flower;
2. is a pair of pollen masses.

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* REHMANNIA chinensis.

Chinese Jlehmannia.

DID VN A MIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. Scrophulariace^.

KEHMANNIA, Libosch. Cah/x campaiiulatus, 5-fidus. Corolla
ringcns, tubuloso-ventricosa : limbo .5-Iobo: lobis suba;qualibus 2 superioribus
reflexis. Stamina didynaina. Anfherce terminales : loculis divergentibus
muticis. Stir/ma bilamellatum. Capsula ovata, polysperma, uiiilociilaris,
bivalvis ; valvulis in media parte septiferis, marginibus liberis. Scmhia albu-
minosa, ovata, membiana spoiigiosa reticulata involuta. Fisch. ^ Meyer bid.
Sem. hort. Petrop. p. 30. quibusdam mutatis.

R. chuiensis, Fisch. ^' Meyer. I. c

Digitalis glutinosa, Gotrln. in nov. comment. Acad. Imp. Petrop. xiv. p.

.544. /. '20.
Gerardia glutinosa, Bunr/e enum. pi. chinens. p. 49.
Rehmannia glutinosa, Libosch in herb. Imp. Petrop.

Herba perennis, glutinosa, pilosa, palmaris ad bipedalem, omni parte
liindo-purpurascens. Folia oboimta, inceqnaliter grosse dentata, altenia,
snrsum decrescentia. Racemus laxus, in plantd cultd S-\0-Jiorus, bast
foliosus, in spontanea contractus. Flores inferiores in uxillis bructearuiu
foliacearum longe pedunculati, snperiores subsesiiles. Calyx villosissiynus,
campannlatus, quinquedtntatua. Umbo panlh nbliquo. Corolla tubulosa,
villosa, SKSquiiincialis ; tubo extus fusco-jttrpureo ventre liitescente ; limbo
ferrugineo, venoso. hasi sangiiineo, 5-lobo ; laciniis rotundatis, superioribus
latioribiis paulh reflexis, inferiore lineari cceteris multo angustiore utrinque
plicatd. Stamina 4, didi/nama, versus basin lubi inserta, inclusa, glabra,
antherarwn lobis subparallilis 7nuticis. Ovarium ovatum, nniloculare,
placentis duabns did ij mis reflexis polyspermis ; stylus Jiliformis ; stigma
bilamellatum, lobis aqualihus.

This plant was sent from the Imperial Garden at St.
Petersburgh to that of the Horticultural Society in the year
1835; and the reported size of the flowers excited great

* An unexplained name.

VOL. x.\iir.

expectations as to its beauty. It will, however, be seen by
our figiire, that the dinginess of their colour so much dimi-
nishes the effect of the magnitude, that the plant is by no
means distinguished for its ornamental appearance. It
flowers in July, and although nearly hardy, succeeds best
in a cool green-house, where it is readily nmltiplied by
cuttings.

It is a native of the North of China and Chinese Mon-
golia ; and is nearly related to the genus Digitalis. In the
Natural System of Botany it was referred to Cyrtandraceae,
on account of its one-celled ovary with double placentae,
but upon the whole it is better placed in Scrophulariacese.

Fig. I. is a corolla split open to shew the stamens; the
up])er segment is the lip ; 2. is the ovary, style, and stigma ;
3. is a section of the ovary.

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* EPIDENDRUM nocturnum; /3. latitolium.
Broad-leaved Night-smelling Epidendrum.

GYNANDRIA MOiV^NDRM.

Nat. ord. Orchidace*, § Epidendre*.
EPIDENDRUM, Supra vol. X.fol. 17.

E. nocturnum ; foliis distichis oblongis acutis, floribus subgeminis terminalibus,
sepalis petalisque llnearibus acuminatis patentibus, labelli lobis lateralibus
ovatis integerrimis intermedio setaceo brevioribus. Lindl. Gen. Sf Sp.
Orch. 105. cum synonymis.

/3. latifolium ; foliis oblongis obtusis subemarginatis, labelli lobo medio lineari-
lanceolato, floribus duplo majoribus.

The original Epidendrum nocturnum was found by
Jacquin, filling the mountainous woods of Martinique with
its fragrance at night, and is now common in our hot-houses.
The plant now figured, for which I am indebted to His Grace
the Duke of Devonshire, differs from it in several respects,
especially in its much greater size, broader leaves which
are of an oblong figure, and larger flowers. Mr. Paxton is,
however, certainly right in considering it a mere variety of
the species, under which it is here arranged.

I received it from Chatsworth in Sept. 1836.

* See folio 141.5.

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* RUCHARIDIUM coiitinnum.
Neat Euchandium.

TETRANDRIA UOliOGY'NlA.

"Nat. ord. Onagrace^.

EUCHARIDIUM. Calycis tubus supra ovarium elongatus, filiforniis,
cum limbo 4-partito deciduus. Petala 4, unguiculata, trifida. Stamina 4 I
Sti(/ma bilobum. Capsula 4-locularis, 4-valvis, dehiscens. Sernina iiumerosa,
in quovis loculo uniserialia, sursilm imbricata, erecla, alato-marginata. Fischer
Sj- Meyer index secund. hort. Petrop. 36.

E. concinnum, Fischer Sj- Meyer I. c.

Herba annua, ascendens,undique minutissime pubescens. Foliapetiolata,
ovata, integerrima. Flores axillarcs, solitarii, foliis siibceqiiales. Calycis
ttchus Jiliformis, deciduus; limbns quadriparlitus, laciniis anyustis acutis
liberis aut cohaerentibus. Petala 4, triloba, purpureo-rosea, lineis tribus
nliis macrdisque diiabus alropurpureis. Stamina 4, sepalis opposita,fauce
tubi inserta ; antlieris pilosis. Discus brevis, cylindraceus, basin sfyli
circumdans. Ovarium lit/care, A-locidare ; ovulis indefinitis iiniseriatis.
Stylus Jiliformis, ylabcr. Stigma villosiim, A-lobum ; lobis duobus opposilis
nanis. Capsula linearis, qnadrivalvis, papyracea, columella Jiliformi cen-
trali, liberd. Semina oblonga, subfusiformia, fusca, acupunctata, hinc
plana, membranaceo-marginala, demum involuta.

A little annual plant allied to Clarkia, found near the
Russian colony of Ross in New California, and communicated
to the Garden of the Horticultural Society from that of the
Emperor at St. Petersburgh in 1836.

It flowers in about six weeks from the time of germina-
tion, and although not to be compared with Clarkia pul-
chella in point of beauty, is a neat and by no means weedy
plant, and perfectly hardy.

* From ivxctpic in the sense of agreeable ; in allusion to the appearance of
this plant.

Fig. 1. is the tube of the calyx split open, with the four
stamens placed at the base of the remains of the sepals which
have been cut off; fig. 2. represents the disk, style, and
stigma; fig. 3. is a section of the ovary.

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* DELPhInIUM intermedium.

Vaiiable Larkspur.

POLYANDRIA TRlGYtilA.

Nat. ord. Ranunculace^.
DELPHINIUM. Supra, vol. \A.fol. 11 92.

D. intermedium ; petiolis basi non dilatatis, follis 5-7-fidis superioribus trilobis
omnium lobis inciso-serratis, racemis glaucis, pedicellis bracteolls calycibus
ovariisque glabris.

D. intermediumr Ait. Hort. Keiu. ed. 1. D. 2. 243. mild. Sp. pi. 2. 1228.
DeCand. Prodr. 1. 55.

Perennial roots ; a tall branching stem, glancous at the
upper part, and either downy or smooth towards the ground ;
leaves having a palmated figure, with from three to seven
deep incised lobes, and either hairy or perfectly smooth,
their petiole being round ; smooth, glaucous, branched or
simple racemes of flowers of a blue colour, which is either
deep or so pale as to be almost white ; and a total absence
of hairs from all the parts connected with the flowers, except
the disk of the two-lobed petals — these characters include
a variety of plants found in mountainous vallies, from the
Pyrenees to Kamtchatka, assuming an endless diversity of
appearance in their leaves and flowers, designated by Bota-
nists under various names, but all belonging to one and the
same species. The D. alp'mum of Waldstein and Kitaibel
from Hungary, D. elatum of many authors, D. palmatifidum
of DeCandoUe at least in part, and probably some others,
are all undoubtedly referable, as simple varieties, to D.
intermedium of Alton, the plant now represented. Botanic

* See folio 150 J.

Gardens swarm witli specific names all belonging to little
varieties, wliich those who judge of the Vegetable Kingdom
by its appearance in the masquerade warehouse of a gar-
dener, or who are not aware that a difference and a distinc-
tion must not be confounded, actually believe to be so many
natural spocies. To illustrate such variations by separate
plates, would be a sad waste of time and paper, I shall
therefore only figure hereafter such, belonging to this species,
as are really striking enough to render a mistake about them
probable.

As to D. palmatifidum and D. intermedium of DeCandolle,
to the former of which the plant now figured belongs, it
does not appear from our learned and excellent friend's own
shewing, that they differ in anything more than that the
leaves of the first are called truncate at the base, and of the
second cordate. But it is in vain that we seek for perma-
nent differences between these two forms, and even DeCan-
dolle himself refers under his var. a. of D. pahnatifidmn, to
the 79th figure in the fourth vol. of Gmelin's Flora Sibirica,
which agrees entirely with the character of D. intermedium.

One of the commonest of all perennials in Botanic
Gardens, where it grows six or seven feet high in rich soil,
and forms a beautiful object if allowed to spring among
bushes which partially support the branches, and prevent
their being broken by wind.

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* BOLBOPHYLLUM cocoinum.

The Cocoa-nut Bolbophyllum.

GYNANDRIA MON/lNDRi/I.

Nat. Old. Orchidace^, § Malaxide;e.
BOLBOPHYLLUM. Suprd, vol. 23. fol. 1942.

B. cocoinum ; pscudobulbis ovatis tetragonis, foliis solitariis lanceolatis spira
stricta imiltifloni brevioribus, bracteis membranaccis linearibus acutis ovario
longioribus, sepalis anstatis, petalis linearibus denticulatis columna bicorni
longioribus, labello ovato-lanceolato obtuso basi ciliato sub apice foveato.

A pretty little species of this extensive germs, imported
by Messrs. Loddiges from Sierra Leone, wliere it is found
growing on the trunk of the Cocoa-nut Palm.

It is related to Bolb. recurvura, tetragonum, and the
others in their neighbourhood, but is readily known by the
pale flesh-coloured flowers, the serrated petals, and the con-
cave short lip, delicately ciliated towards its base.

It flowered at Hackney, in January 1835, and I received
it about the same time from Mr. Bateman.

In the dissections fig. 1. is a front view of a column with
its two horns arising from either margin, and the serrated
petals ; fig. 2. is the upper side of the lip ; fig. 3. represents
the pollen-masses.

* See folio 1942.

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THE PURPLE LABURNUM.

DIADELPHIA DE-CANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Fabace^, or Leguminos*.
C YTISUS. Supra, /oZ. 1 1 9 1 .

Garden Variety.

The Laburnum is so very beautiful a tree, that when,
some years since, there was sent from France what was
called a scarlet Laburnum, Cytisus Laburnum coccineum,
or the purple Laburnum, every body was anxious to obtain
a plant with so promising a name. It was in vain that
persons who knew something of the tricks of foreign dealers,
cautioned their friends against allowing their expectations
to become too sanguine. The plants had a ready sale, and
every body was eager to be the first to obtain a sight of the
flowers. It is needless to describe the disappointment that
was felt, when the scarlet Laburnum first produced such
dull, dingy, dirty-purple clusters, as those in the accompa-
nying plate. And yet what else could have been antici-
pated ? For it was well known that the origin of the variety
was between C. purpureus and C. Laburnum. Surely
nothing better ought to have been expected from an inter-
mixture so monstrous in regard to the habit of the two
parents, and so unpromising as to their colours. Purple
and yellow do not form scarlet when they are mixed, but
just such a tint as tliat which the purple Laburnum actually
possesses.

The plant is figured here merely for the sake of dis-
pelling the false impression that still exists as to its appear-
ance. It is not at all worth cultivation.

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* WIGANDIA caracasana.

Caraccas Wic/andia.

PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Hydroleace*.

WIGANDIA. Calyx 5-partitus, persistens. Corolla infundibularis,
limbo 5-partito patente. Stamina 5, cxserta. Aniherce sagittatae. Stijli 2.
Stigmata subpeltato-dcpressa. Capsula ovato-oblonga, bilocularis, (unilocu-
laris m.) loculicido-bivalvis. Placenta 4, bina; in quolibet loeulo laiiiiniipfornics
(2, bilobfe, reflexse, polysperma; m.). Humb. et Bonpl. n. g. et sp.pl. vol. 2.
Romer ^- Schvltes, 6. xviii.

W. caracasana ; foliis ellipticis acutis duplicato-dentatis (utrinque) hirto-tomen-
tosis supra canescentibus subtxls incanis et moUissiniis, spicis paniculatis.
Humb. Bonpl. Sj- Kunth. nov. gen. et sp.pl. 3. 128. Romer if Schulles.
Sp. PL 6. 190.

Planta culta in caldario orgyalis, a spontanea, quam coram habeo,
diversa est foliis viridioribus cnntextu laxiore et aliquando costd vcnisfjue
primariis hispidis, necnon Jioribus triplh majoribus. Ovarium certissimi
uniloculare est placentis bilobis rtvolutis, nee biloculare.

A native of the Caraccas, where it was originally found
at the Quebrada of Cotecita, at the height of 2880 feet above
the level of the sea, by Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland.
To this country it was introduced from the Royal Garden at
Berlin, whence it was sent to His Grace the Duke of Nor-
tliumberland, to whom I am obliged for the specimen now
figured.

It is a tender stove shrub, about six feet high, flowering
at uncertain periods.

* So named by Kunth in compliment to John Wigand, a bishop of Pome-
rania, and author of VercB historicE de succino prussico, et de licrbis in
Borussia nascentibns. Jena, 1590.

There are now before me wild specimens from the Caraccas,
in which the leaves are more hoary, without any hispidity,
and the flowers not more tlian half the size of the cultivated
plant, but no further differences are perceptible.

If well grown, and formed into a bush, feathered to the
surface of the ground, this plant must have a very beautiful
appearance with its large clusters of delicate lilac flowers,
which continue to open in succession for a long time. But
if formed into a sort of stake with a few leaves and flowers
at the top, as is too frequently the case with stove plants, it
will be found to possess little claims to attractiveness.

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* HABRANTHUS gracilifolius; |8. Boothianus.
Mr. Booth's Slender-leaved Habranthus.

HEXANDRIA MONOGySU.

Nat. ord. Amaryllidacex.
HABRANTHUS. Supr^.vol. ]6.fol. 1345.

H. gracilifolius, /3. Boothianus ; spatha pedunculo et gcrmine erubescentibus,
germine et pedunculo magis elongatis, filamentorum quaternii discrepantia
obsoletiore, stigmate majore. Herbert Amaryllid. p. 165.

I some time since received a drawing of this plant from
Sir Charles Lemon, with the following- memoranda from
Mr. Booth, the gardener at Carclew.

" Bulbs of this pretty little species of Habranthus were,
last year, presented to Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. M.P., by
Capt. Thomas Ball Sulivan, C.B., to whom they had been
forwarded from Maldonado, where they were collected by
Lieut. James Sulivan, R.N., of H. M. ship Beagle, now en-
gaged in the extensive survey of that part of the South
American coast."

" Bidh about the size of a pigeon's egg, and of a dark
brown colour. Leaves not produced until after the flowers
decay ; linear, narrow, and twisted ; of a glaucous green,
with a deep groove rvmning from the base to the point, which
is round and blunt. Scape erect, 7 inches high, round and
smooth, purplish at the base, from which it upwards assumes
a pale glaucous green. Flowers solitary, nodding, on a
round, and somewhat bent, purplish-coloured peduncle,
about two inches long at the time the flower opens, increas-
ing to three inches long, and becoming pale green. Spatha
tubular below, bifid upwards, li inch long, and of a pale

* See folio 1 345.

brown colour, tipped with green. Perianth campanulate, an
inch and a half in length, and expanding to about the same
width ; of a bright pink on both sides, with darker coloured
veins. The tube is shallow and of a pale shining green, with
the throat almost filled by the fleshy membrane at the base
of the petal, to which the filaments are attached. Segments
ovate-acuminate, each about half an inch broad, nearly
equal, and striated with green at the base. The three outer
divisions overlap the three inner ones, the former of which
have each a small greenish tip. Stamens declinate, three
long and three short ; the longest being rather more than
half the length of the perianth. Anthers very large, deep
yellow, versatile. Ovary oblong, three-sided, thickest towards
the base of the flower, three-celled with numerous seeds in
each cell. Ovules apparently flat, laid over one another, and
attached to the placenta opposite the angular part of the
ovary ; the three dissepiments being alternate with the three
angles. Style filiform, the same colour as the segments and
exceeding half their length. Stigma 3-lobed,each lobe being
one-fourth of an inch long, clavate, round, and recurved.

" From the little knowledge we have of this plant, we are
inclined to consider it as half hardy, requiring only protec-
tion from frost. The soil around the bulbs, when received,
was of a very sandy nature. We have, therefore, grown it
in a similar mixture of loam, peat, and sand, in which it
seems to thrive pretty well, although we have not been able
to increase it. Its flowering; season is October. The flowers
remain in perfection for eight or ten days.

" Fig. 1. represents the scape three days before the flower
expanded. 2. The flower when open. 3. The same when
shut, or when the sun is not shining upon it. 4. An ovary
with the base of the perianth. 5. A section of the same."

Mr. Booth considered it a distinct species, but Mr. Her-
bert has referred it without any doubt to his H. gracilifolius
as a variety.

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* PLEUROTHALLIS sanrocephala.
Lizard-headed Pleurothallhi.

GYNANDRIA MONANDIilA.

Nal. orH. Orchidace,e, § Malaxide/E.
PLEUROTHALLIS, Supra vol. 9.foL 759.

P. sanrocephala ; folio coriaceo oblongo cauli vaginato subaequali racemis

breviore, bracteis ovatis ovario brevioribus, sepalis coriaceis obloiigis
pubescentibus laterallbus semi-connatis, petalis iianls acutis, labello oblongo
medio excavate utrinque bilaniellato: lainellis iiiarginantibus incurvis.
P. saurocepbala, Lodd. Bot. Cah.

Tlie accompanying drawing was sent me, with the follow-
ing description, by Mr. W. B. Booth from the Garden of Sir
Charles Lemon, Bart. M.P. of Carclew. The plant has been
some years in the gardens near London, but has always
remained a scarce species.

" The species now before us was, with some other tropical
plants, added to the collection of Sir Charles Lemon, by
Mrs. Lake of Falmouth, and flowered for the first time in
September last.

" jS^e?;* jointed, round, smooth and upright, from six to
eight inches high, and nearly covered by the sheathing per-
manent bractese which proceed from the joints. Leaves
ovate-oblong, obtuse, very thick and fleshy, about five inches
in length and two in breadth, of a deep green on both sides,
nearly flat, excepting at the base, which is slightly com-
pressed or cupped. The foicer spikes spring from a kind of
spathe in the axil, formed by the leaf and stem ; whether

* See folio 1298.
VOL. xxiri.

they always come in pairs we are unable to say with cer-
tainty, our specimen had only two, but on other parts of the
same plant we found the remains of five, and even as many
as eight of these spikes. They are each' from four to six
inches long, with numerous cucullate, roundish acuminate
bracteae, so closely imbricated at first as almost to conceal
the flowers, which are small and produced on round, pale
green, short foot-stalks. Sepals fleshy, conniving, the upper
one arched, and rising nearly erect, three veined on the out-
side, which is of a dull green. The inside is a yellowish
green, beautifully marked with small dark brown spots.
The two lower sepals are partlv connected together, and of a
much darker colour and more glossy than the upper. Pctah
small, embracing the column, or closely joined to it ; some-
what cordate and pointed, of a dull green with their edges
tinged with broMu. Lahelhim entire, rounded at the point
and slightly undulated at the margin, which is also tinged
like the petals. Column round, somewhat bent and club-
shaped, largest towards the point."

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1960

* DELPHINIUM intermedium; war. pallidum.
Pale-hlue variable Larkspur.

POLYANDRIA THIGYNIA.

Nat. nrd. Ranunculace^.
DELPHINIUM. Supra, vol. \4.foL 1192.

D. intermedium, Supr(i,fol. 1963.

Var. pallidum ; undique glaberrimum glaucescens, floribus pallide coeruleis
dens6 racemosis, petalorum lateralium lobis rotundatis.

This is a lovely variety of the Delphinium iatermedium
figured in the last number of the present work. It grows
seven feet high in rich ground, with a firm stem of a delicate
glaucous green, its leaves are thin and destitute of the
smallest trace of hairiness, while its long branched racemes
of nodding sky-blue flowers give a most graceful appear-
ance to the terminations of the branches.

It differs from the common form of the species in the
perfect nakedness even of the leaves, and in the lobes of the
small hairy lateral petals being more rounded and perhaps
shorter than usual.

The drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural
Society in July, 1836.

See folio 1503.

H 2

7970.

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1970

* BOLBOPHYLLUM saltatoiium.

Uanciiig Boibopkylluin.

GYNANDRIA MONAKDRIA.

Nat. Old. Orchidace^, § Malaxide^.
BOLBOPHYLLUM. Supra, vol. 23. fol. 1942.

B.sallatorium; pseudobulbis ovatis compressis ancipitibus, f'oliis solitariis acutis
racemis brevioribus, bracteis ovatis niembranaceis appressis emarcidis ovario
suba;qualibus, sepalis ovato-obloiigis pubescentibiis subaequalibus, sepalis
subulatis columna longioribus, labello ovato aeuminato sepabs longiore
villoso apice stuposo.

This is the plant alluded to at folio 1942 as resembling
Bolbophyllum barbigerum. Like that species it was im-
ported from Sierra Leone by Messrs. Loddiges, in whose
collection the drawing was made in December last.

Fig. 1. is a magnified view of the whole flower; 2. the
column aud petals ; 3. the base of the lip ; and 4. the pollen
masses.

It is worthy of remark, that in all this genus Bolbophyl-
lum the spiral vessels are particularly tough and numerous.
I have noticed this circumstance in the calyx of the plant
now figured, and Mr. Griffith has observed it in the sheaths
of the leaves of Bolbophyllum auricomum in Burma.

* See folio 1942.

I take this opportunity of defining a new g-enus of
Mexican Orcludacea3 received by the Horticultural Society
from the neighbourhood of Vera Cruz, where it was found
by Mr. Theodore Hartweg, after whom, as the original
Hartwegia proves to be nothing but Chlorophytum, I have
named it.

HARTWEGIA (Orchidacem § Epidendrece).

Periantliiiim patulum, coloratura ; sepalis lateralibus basi productis labello
adnatis. Lahelhnn cum columna coiinatura, basi gibbosum, limbo ovato basi
calloso. Anthcra 4-locularis. PoUinia 4, olivaceo-purpurea, fills replicatis.

Caulis monophyllus. Pedunculus lovgissimus; cajnllaiis, arete vayinatus,

apicejioridus.

H. purpurea. Folium solitarium, coriaceura, ovato-lanceolatum lentiginosum,
cauli tereti a;quale, pedunculo capillari multoties brevius. Florcs parvi,
purpurei. Sepala acuta petalis paulo majora. Labelli liiiibus basi albus
callosus.

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1971

* PSORAlEA orbicularis.

Rou7id-leaved Psuralea.

DIAUELPHIA DECANDRIA.
Nat. Ord- FaBACE* or LeGUMINOSS, § PAPILlONACEyE.

PSORALEA. Supra, vol. ]2.fol. 968.

P. orbicularis ; undique pubescens glandulis clavatis truncatis intermixtis, foliis
tril'oliolatis loiigi-pedunculatis, foliolis subrotundo-ovalibus, capitulisconicis,
pcdunculis longissimis axillaribus, bracteis oblongis concavis calycibusque
hirsiitissimis, caule rcpenti.

A hardy herbaceous plant, with long tough slender creep-
ing stems from which the leaves spring upon stalks about six
inches long.

It is remarkable for the numerous dark glands which are
mingled with soft hairs all over its surface, and which
resemble the kind of nails which upholsterers call tacks.

A native of California, whence seeds were sent to the
Horticultural Society by Mr. Douglas. It flowers in June
and July.

Fig. 1. is a magnified calyx from which the petals have
been removed ; the glands are seen scattered over its surface,
and from between the stamens projects the small hairy capi-
tate stigma. Fig. 2. represents the ovar)', opened to exhibit
the single ovule, and having the style smooth, but thickened
upwards, and a ring of hairs surrounding the stigma. Fig.
3. is a capitate gland very much magnified ; Fig. 4. is a
ripe pod surrounded by the calyx, and 5. is one of the ripe
olive-green seeds.

* See folio 1769.

SSflff'^J*;^"^^ ^S^ SiaxutcUif My./. ISS/.

11)72

* EULOPHIA macioslachya.

Lontj-spiked Eulopkia.

GVNANDIUA MONAKUIUA.

Nat. vrd. Orchidace^, § Vande*:.
EULOPHIA, SupTa vol. l.fol. 686.

E. macros tac III/ a; foliis oblongis utrinque acumiiiatis plicatis subtricostatis, scajjo
simplici radlcali (laterali) foliis iongiore, sepalis lineari-laiiceolatis acimiinatis,
petalis confonnibus latioribus undulatis, labelli suborbicularis trilobi lobis
lateralibus intermedio alte bilobo abbreviato subsqualibus : lamellis duabus
nanis ad basin, calcare subrotundo inflate obtuso. Gen. et sp. Orch.p. 183.

A handsome species of this extensive genus, inhabiting
shady woods in Ceylon, whence it was sent to the Horticul-
tural Society some years ago, by Mr. Watson, the Superin-
tendent of the Botanic Garden at Peradenia.

It is one of tlie easiest of Orchidaceous plants to cul-
tivate, and produces its graceful racemes of green and yellow
flowers abundantly towards the latter part of the year.
They go on growing and producing fresh flowers till Christ-
mas.

The stems are in the form of long irregular erect cones,
and when old are covered by the withered or ragged remains
of the leaves ; they are analogous to the pseudo-bulbs of
other Orchidacese, and to those horizontal tuberous rhizomata
which in some species of this genus yield a kind of Salep.

Fig. 1. is a section of the lip showing one of the scales
that stand at the base of its limb.

* See folio 1433.

I&73

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1973

* POTENTILLA glandulosa; /3. incisa.
Cut-leaved Glandular PotentiUa.

ICOSANDRIA POLYGYRIA.

Nat. ord. Rosace*, § Potentilles.
POTENTILLA. Suprii. vol. \5.foL 1359.

P. glandulosa, Suprd, vol. \9.fol. 1583.

/3. incisa ; foliolis incisis utrinque acutis, petalis calyce longioribus.

A hardy herbaceous plant introduced from California by
the Horticultural Society, in whose garden it flowered in
June 1836.

It is not a horticultural plant, being too weedy to offer
any reasonable probability of being improved by culture,
but it is interesting to Botanists as an evidence of the extent
to which species vary permanently in their wild state. That
it is a mere variety of PotentiUa glandulosa, figured at plate
1583 of this work, I cannot doubt, and yet the wild speci-
mens have the ])etals longer than the calyx, the stem weaker
and less glandular, and the leaflets not only deeply cut as
well as serrated but strikingly cuneate at the base, and
pointed at the other end, instead of having a roundish oblong-
figure. These distinctions, which are sufficiently obvious
when the plant is wild, become so much more striking in
cultivated individuals that a Botanist, unacquainted with the
wild plant, might be well excused for supposing it to be a
distinct species.

* See folio 1379.

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1974

* SPARTfUM acutifolium.

Sharp- leaved Spanish Broom.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Fabace^ or Leguminos^e, § Papilionace*.

SPARTIUM, Linn. Calyx membranaceus, spathaceus, supern^ fissus
apice quinqucdentatus subbilabiatus. CorollcB vexillum snbrotunduni, complica-
tum, carina acuminata et petalis parum agglutinatis bipartibili. Stamina inona-

delpba. Leyurnen plano-compressum, polyspermimi, eglandulosum. Frutex

glaher, ramis virgatis, teretibus, foliis paucis lanceolatis, floribus in racemos
terminales dispositis distantibus flavis. DC. prodr. 2. 145.

S. acutifolium ; foliis acuminatis, racemis laxioribus.

Whether this is more than a variety of Spanish Broom
I cannot say. It appears to be a distinct species ; for its
leaves are not only longer and taper-pointed (fig. 1.), instead
of being rounded at the point (fig. 2.), but the racemes are
more lax, and the manner of growth far more graceful.
Otherwise it is like the Spanish Broom. It was raised in the
Garden of the Horticultural Society from Turkish seeds, and
proves a hardy shrub, with fragrant yellow flowers.

* Spartiuin junceum appears to have been the airapnov of Dioscorides,
and the aTraproi' of Aristotle, of which bees were fond ; it is a very different
plant from the XivoanapTov of Theophrastus, which certainly was either Lygeum
Spartum, or Stipa tenacissima.

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Ift75

AZALEA Seymouri.

Garden Variety.

Rhododendron Seymouri. i

Mater ; Rhododendron Rhodora (Rhodora Canndensis).> Herbert MSS.

Pater; Rhododendron hiteum (Azalea Pontica). )

" A great number of plants were raised some years ago
at Spofforth from Rhodora Canadensis, impregnated with
the pollen of Azalea Pontica. Their constitution seemed
ticklish, or the peat in wliich they were grown disagreed
with them, and only one plant was preserved, wliich formed
a healthy low bush, more spreading tlian Rhodora. Its
leaves are produced early in the spring, and last year they
were very much damaged by a severe frost in April. It
pushed afresh afterwards vigorously, and formed two flower-
ing buds. On the approach of spring, to avoid any danger
of damage to the blossom by frost, the plant was potted, and
placed in an airy greenhouse. The leaves pushed long-
before tlie flower buds began to move and completely clotlied
the plant before their expansion, contrary to the habit of
Rhodora. The flowers expanded at the latter end of March,
r>\ the palest yellow, the number of stamens being irregular,
seven, or nine in tlie first that opened. I have at this moment
before me an umbel of a genuine Azalea Pontica, of which
two flowers have seven, and two six, stamens; shewing clearly
that tlie deficiency of the five stamens of inferior power in
the Azaleas is not a generic distinction, but an imperfection.
It is observable tliat crosses between the genuine and the
Azaleaform sections of Rhododendron generally have seven
or nine stamens, like the Indian Azalea, which forms an in-
termediate section both as to leaf and flower. Some cross-bred
plants, between Rhododendron Ponticum and Azalea Pontica,
raised from seed obtained the same season at Spofforth, hav-

ing flowered last year at Highclere, varying in coUmr so as
to include bright yellow, lemon, and chesnut colour, it is
probable that a like diversity would have appeared in the
cross, if more of the seedlings had been preserved.

" The other umbel of the mule from Rhodora has become
almost white, the yellow fading, but shews a little tinge of
purple. I observe that its calyx is less obsolete than that of
Az. Pontica, and its limb shorter in proportion to the tube
and the segments narrower." — Herbert MSS.

J97d.

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I97G

* CYMBIDIUM ensitolium; mr. estriatum.
Sword-leaved Cymhidium ; streakless variety.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Vande^;.
CYMBWIUM. Suprd, vol. 7. fol. 529.

C. ensifolium ; foliis llneari-ensiformibus striatis acutis scapis erectis multifloris,
bracteis , ovario multo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque lineari-oblongis acutis,
labello indiviso planiusculo oblongo undulato revoluto obtuso medio sulcato,
sulco pone apicem bidentato.

Epidendrum ensifolium. Linn. sp. plant. 1352. '^ Smith, spicileg. botanic.
22. t. 24."

Limodorum ensatum. Thunh.fl. jap. 29. Bunks, ic. Kavipf. t. 3.

C. ensifolium. Swartz. nov. act. ups. 6. 77. Gen. et sp. Orch. If)2.

a. striatum ; sepalis petalisque concoloribus purpureo-lineatis. Bot. mag.
t. 1751.

/3. estriatum ; sepalis virescentibus petalisque albidis obsolete striatim sanguineo
punctatis, lineis nullis.

The variety of this plant originally introduced from
China, we have not seen for some years ; it had flowers dis-
tinctly lined with purple, as in the figure in the Botanical
Magazine. That which is now more generally cultivated is
what is here represented with greener sepals, and pale
whitish petals, both without lines ; and seems intermediate
between the first and the spotless Cymbidium xiphii folium.

It is a very easy plant to cultivate, requiring nothing
more than good greenhouse management, when it produces
quantities of its slightly fragrant flowers in the spring. The

• See folio 1530.

VOL. xxiri.

drawing was made in tlie garden of the Horticultural Society
in May last.

C. xiphiifolium with spotless pallid flowers is very near
this species, and is perhaps a variety ; but it appears to be
distinguished by its lower bracts being nearly as long as the
ovary, and by the ovate flat labellum, in which no undula-
tion exists.

Fig. I. is the labellum of C. ensifolium ^ ; fig. 2. of C.
xiphiifolium.

Messrs. Loddiges and Mr. Barker of Springfield have
lately flowered a most beautiful new Brazilian Orchidaceous
plant, which will soon be published in this work. It will be
called Miltonia spcctabil'is, the character of the genus being
very briefly the following : —

Perianthinm explanatum, confoniie. Labellum indivisum diktatum cum ovario
continuum basi cuniculatum. Columna et pollinia Oncidii.

Sp. \. M. spectabilis. Pseudobulbosa. Vaginte scapi uniflori equitantes. Sepala
et petala pallide viridicitrina. Labellum grande violaceum.

9lUr6y J. t/tatyunu) Z&p. MmU% Aiji^t 1S3y.

X^ii

1977

* HOSACKIA stolonifei-ji.
Creeping-rooted Hosackia.

DIADELPHIA DEC ANURIA.

Nat. ord. Fabace* or Leguminos^e, § Papilionace.b.
HOSACKIA. Suprd,v(>l. \5.fol. 1257.

H. stoloniferu; stipulis ovatis herbaceis, foliis septemjugis: foliolis ovatis ob-
longisve mucronulatis, umbellis niultittoris capitatis, peJuiiculis infra umbel-
lam folio simplici vel trifoliolato bracteatis, calycinis dentibus brevissirais.

A stoloiiiferous, hardy, herbaceous plant. Stems about
3 feet high, taper, smooth. Leaves pinnate with an odd
one ; the leaflets in about seven pairs, opposite or alternate,
ovate or oval, mucronulate, when young finely downy,
when full grown naked ; stipules herbaceous, ovate, acute.
Peduncles axillary, erect, shorter than the leaves, with a
simple or 3-foliate bract below the umbel. Umbels capitate,
many-flowered, nodding. Calyx tubular, smooth, shortly
5-toothed, contracted at the base, slightly downy at the
edge. Petals greenish, with chocolate-coloured middles ;
their stalks distinctly longer than the calyx : that of the
vexillum standing apart from the others. Stamens nearly
equal ; the tenth almost adherent to the others. Ovary
linear, many-seeded, smooth. Style smooth ; stigma capitate.
Legumes in nodding umbels, about two inches long, taper,
smooth, mucronate ; with a succulent lining which separates
the seeds from each other before ripeness, drying up after-
wards. Seeds oblong, brownish ; mottled with a darker
colour. Embryo sometimes with three cotyledons.

* See folio 1257.

I 2

Among the last seeds sent from California liy Mr. Douglas,
were some of this plant, which forms an interesting addition
to the genus Hosackia. It is much larger than any other
known species, forming a stout bush about three feet high,
and multiplying itself readily by its creeping roots. Altliough
its flowers are unattractive, it forms a good shrubbery plant,
where it is desirable to form the appearance of under-
growth quickly — for it resembles a shrub during the sum-
mer, and it spreads so fast as soon to extend far beyond its
original station. It flowers in June, and produces an abun-
dance of its seeds in August.

It is nearly allied to H. crassifolia, which is distinguished
by its scarions stipules, 4- or 5-paired leaves, with more ob-
tuse leaflets, and few-flowered umbels.

I remarked among the seeds I examined, two whose
embryos had three cot^dedons, an unusual occurrence, the
more interesting as taking place in the embryo of a species
whose leaves are unequally pinnated, and indicating a kind
of foreshadowing in the rudimentary plant of the plan of
organization in the perfect plant.

1978

* ORNITHOGALUM latitolium.

Broad-leaved Ornithogalum.

IIEXANDUIA MOSOOYKIA.
Nut. Old. LiLlACEX.

ORNITHOGALUM. Supra, vol. 8. fol. 158.

O. latifolmm; racemo longissimo couico, tilamentis subulatis, pedunculis infe-
rioribus patentissimis flore multoties longioribus, follis late ligulatis sublan-
ceolatis.

O. latii'olium. Linn. sp. pi. 440. Rbmer Sf Schultes. Si/sl. Veg. 1. .')14.
Bot. Mag. t. 876. " Jacj. coll. 2. 318. ic. rar. t. 424."

O. maximum. Clus. hist, append. 257.

" Stellaris ktifolia. Mcench."

This plant, not now uncommon in gardens, does not ap-
pear to have had its native country ascertained. Linnajus
says Egypt and Arabia, probably upon the statement of
Clusius that he received it out of Italy, under the name of
Ornithogalum arabicum, Lilium alexandrinuni, and Byzan-
tinum. Mr. Ker adds Hungary according to some persons.
But no notice is taken of it by Forskahl ; it does not occur
among the herbaria of Traill or Bove from Egypt, of Fischer
from Arabia, or of Colonel Chesney from Mesopotamia ;
Reichenbach takes no notice of it in his very extensive Flora
excursoria, nor can I find any authentic trace of it elsewhere.
The only Egyptian Ornithogalum I have met, with appears to
be O. umbellatum. O. garganicmn, found by Tenore in the
kingdom of Naples, seems the nearest approach to it ; and

* See folio 1 853.

can it be a garden state of that species ? for it seems to be
known only in gardens.

Mr. Strangways, to whom I am obliged for an opportu-
nity of figuring the plant, rightly observes that this is erro-
neously called by gardeners O. pyramidale, which is a name
applied by Jacquin to O. Narbonense, which is near our wild
O. pyrenaicum. He adds, that when fully blown the petals
of this species are quite white on both sides, never having
the decided green line found in most Ornithogalums.

A hardy species, flowering in April and May.

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1979

* LUPIN US versicolor.

Party-coloured Lupine.

DIADELPHIA DEC^NDB/^.

Nat. ord. FabacEjE or Leguminos*, § Papilionace^.
LUPINUS. Supra, vol. Vd.fol. 1096.

II. Perennes ; valvis leguminum maturitate dissilientibus et spiraliter sese
coiitorqueiitibus.

t Caulc annuo vel persislente, leguviinibus polyspermis, seminibus
subovatis : foveold hili ovali, fere totmn apiccm aytgustiorem seminis occic-
paute, cotyledouibus germinatione erectis petiolatts,fuliis primordialibus non
atite germinatioiiem conspicuis alternis.

G. Tribus L. Nootkatensls

* Caulibiis subdecumbentibus laxis foliosis diutiils persistentibus,
slipulis plerumque j)ermagnis, racemis crassis densi/ioris, florihus maynis,
calycibus vel bracteolatis : labiis plus minus divisis, vel cbracteolatis de-
viumque basi circu?nscissis et cum corolla deciduis. J. G. Agardh syiiops.
lupin, p. 19.

L. versicolor; caule basi lignoso decumbente sericeo, foliolis 9 obovato-linearibus
sericeis margine incanis petiolo brevioribus, stipiilis setaceis pilosis, calycibus
verticillatis subbracteolatis : labio superiore emarginato, carina ciliata, legu-
minibus villosis.

Hoot perennial, woody. Stems decumbent, silky, rather
woody at the base, about two feet high, much branched,
rather hoary towards the upper end. Leaflets 9, narrow-
obovate, silky, hoary at the margin, shorter than the petiole,
which is also silky. Stipules green, subulate, three times as
short as the leaflets, with long weak hairs. Racemes ter-
minal, verticillate, many-flowered. Flowers variable in
colour, between rose-colour, violet, pale blue, greenish white

* See folio 1198.

and pink on the same raceme, darkest near tlie base. Calyx
silky, two-lipped, witli an extremely minute bracteola ; the
upper lip emarginate, the lower entire. Corolla about the
size of L. perennis. Pods narrow, straight, rather shaggy,
contracted lound the seeds.

A very beautiful perennial Lupine, introduced from Cali-
fornia by the Horticultural Society, and hitherto but little
known It has been called in the Society's Garden a dirarf
Lnpinus rivularis, and I find the specimens in my herbarium
marked as '■'very near L. rivularis' in the hand-writing of
Dr. Agardh. Nevertheless, tlie affinity of the species seems
to be less with L. rivularis than with L. nootkatensis, for it
has nothing of an arborescent habit.

Independently of that mark of distinction from L. rivu-
laris it has a stem not even half the size, sweet-scented flowers,
and shaggy legumes.

The decumbent liabit of this species renders it well suited
for a bed in a flower-garden ; it produces a great profusion
of its pale, many -coloured flowers, breathing the sweet per-
fume of the field bean, during all the months of May and
June; after which it ripens its pods, and remains shabby
for the rest of the year.

J9&0.

1980

* !)1I'(')|)1UM piinctatum.
Dotted Dipodium.

GYNANDIU.-V MOK.IKDIUA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEiE, § Vande^.

DIPODIUM, R. Br. Perj(;ni/i«(ra patens, petalissepalisque squalibus.
Lahellum subconforme, utriiique infra medium auriculatum, disco barbatum, basi
saccatum et cum columna connatum. Columnn erecta, marginata, semitcres.
Anthera membranacea, bilocularis? Pollinia 2, oblique biloba, caudiculis

duabus glandulffi communi affixis. Herbae terrestres, aphyllce. Radix

crassa, lumosa. Caules sqaamosi. Racemi speciosl. Gen. et sp. Orch. 186.

Y). punctatum; squamis radicalibus distantibus, labello recto disco pubescente.

Ibid. 186.
D. punctatum. H. Brown prodr. 33\.
Dcndrobium punctatum. Smith exot. hot. 1.21. t. 12.

Radix fibrosa ; fibris quibiisdam horizon taiibvs, crassis, succulentis,
ccpteris filiformibus perpendicularibus. Caulis fusco-purpureus , gluber,
teres, \ ^-2-pedalis, dis/anter vagirtatus, squamis brevibus obtusis. Race-
mus cylindraceiis, laxns ; pedxinculis IcBte purpureis subhorizontalibns.
Perianthium fuscnpurpurewn. maculis sanyuineis conspersum ; sepalis peta-
lisque Uiieari-oblongis suhaqualibus. Labellum oblongum, trilobum, basi
pubescens sulco exaratiim, saccatum, cum basi columna: brcviter connatum,
trilobum ; lobis lateralibus ongustis falcatis recurvis disco pilosis, intermedio
ohlongo, piano, apicnlato, basi angustato. disco villoso. Columna erecta,
semiteres, truncata, margine glandulosa ; clinandrio denticulato ; stigmate
bicvi, transverso. Pollinia duo, postice exarata, caudiculis binis gla?idulce
sublunatcB ajffixis.

A most curious, leafless, terrestrial Orchidaceous plant,
with thick fleshy fibrous roots, and purple spotted flowers ;
for which I have to tiiank the inexhaustible collection of the
Messrs. Loddiges.

' At(j two, and touc ffo^or, a Joot ; in allusion to the two stalks of the
pollen masses.

Dr. Robert Brown found it both in New Holland and
Van Diemen's Land ; but it would appear to be rare in the
latter island, as Mr. Gunn has sent very little of it home in
his rich collections, of which it forms No. 127. Mr. Allan
Cunningham met with it- in sandy forest ground in the
colony of Port Jackson, and beyond the Blue Mountains,
flowering in December.

Fig. 1. is the column; 2. the labellum seen from above;
3. the pollen masses, half of one of them being cut away.

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1981

CLARKIA rhomboidea.

Entlre-petalled Clarkia.

OCTANDRIA MOIiOGyNU.

Nat. ord. Onagrace*

CLARKIA. Supr^, vol. ]3. fol. WOO.

C. rhomboidea ; petalis integris rhomboideis. Douglas in Hooker Jl. boreali-

amer. 1. 214.
C. gauroides. Hart.

An annual, nearly destitute of pubescence, except upon
the ovary and other parts of the flower. Stem one to two
feet high. Leaves ovate, or linear oblong, shorter than the
internodes. Flowers on short stalks, axillary, shorter than
the leaves. Ovary slightly downy. Calyx 4-parted, reflexed,
pubescent ; with the segments longer than the tube, which
is smooth inside. Petals purple, rhomboidal, white, blotched
with purple near the, base, where they are dilated and
toothed. Disk epigynous, annular. Stameiis 8, alternately
smaller, each arising from the back of a roundish villous scale;
those opposite the petals the smallest, and destitute of
pollen.

Found among some of the seed-papers sent from Norfti-
West America, by Mr. Douglas, on his last expedition,
and raised in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, where
it flowers in the middle of summer.

This species is, botanically, very interesting, on account
of its flowers indicating the nearest approach yet known

* See folio 1100.

among Onagraceous plants to the indefinite stamens of
Myrtacese. The wliole genus, indeed, shews this to a cer-
tain extent, but in no case so distinctly as in that before
us. In the genus Eucharidium there are but four stamens ;
in Godetia there are eight ; in Clarkia pulchella there are
12, of which the first whorl is perfect, the second rudimen- _
tary, the third in the form of narrow glandular scales at the
base of the perfect stamens ; in Clarkia elegans there are 16,
the first whorl of which is perfect, the second striate but not
rudimentary, the third in the form of small round hairy
scales at the base of the imperfect stamens, and the fourth in
the state of smaller scales at the base of the perfect stamens;
and in Clarkia rhoniboidea the two whorls of scales are
equally perfect, while the stamens are in the same state as in
C. elegans.

This is indicated in the plate, where fig. I. is a section
of the tube of the calyx of C. elegans, fig. 2. of C rhom-
boidea, fig. 3. of C. pulchella.

Nearly allied to C. rhomboidea is an unpublished species
in Douglas's Californian herbarium, the character and name
of which may be briefly stated thus —

C. unguiculata ; foliis oblongis sessilibus dentatis, ovariis calycibusque villosis,
petalis unguiculatis limbo subsagittato rotundato ungue dup!6 breviore.

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* RHODODENDRON arb6ieum; var. cinnamomeuin.
Cinnamon-coloured Tree Rhododendron.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNU.

Nat. ord. Ekicaceje.

RHODODENDRON. Suprd, vol. \.fol. 37.

R. arhoreum. Siipn) vol. 20. fol. 1684.

<j. cinnamomeuin ; floribus candidis, foliis subtiis cinnamomeis.

R. cinnamomeum. If'allich in litt. 1824. Cat. herb. ind. no. 760.

This variety of the Indian Tree Rhododendron is very
like the white sort already figured in this work at fol. 1684 ;
but it appears to differ in having the clusters more compact,
the purple spots on the corolla larger, darker, and more
numerous, the white less clear, and the leaves covered on
the under side with a clear, bright, cinnamon-coloured fur.

About the year 1822, a considerable quantity of seed of
this plant was sent to England by Dr. Wallicli, through the
Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company ;
but the plants that were thus obtained do not appear to have
blossomed before that which furnished the accompanying
drawing, in the Nursery of Messrs. RoUisson of Tooting, in
April last.

It has been supposed that it was E. campanulatnm
which Dr. Wallich intended by the name of rinnmnomeuni,
and that the former name was given by Mr. Herbert, and
adopted by Mr. Don, to the same plant as the latter. But
this does not seem to be Dr. Wallich's opinion, for while

• See folio 1240.

the plant now figured is the No. 760 of his Indian Herba-
rium, and there called R. cinnamomeum, as is proved by his
specimens, R. campanulatum is included in the same col-
lection at No. 756.

Mr. Herbert informs me that the old white variety of R.
arboreum is hardy, and has stood 12 or 13 years in the
garden at Spofforth ; this may therefore be supposed to
possess the same quality.

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PRIMULA venusta.

Purple Auricula.

PENTANDRIA MOfiOC.YJilA.

Nat. ord. Primulace^.
PRIMULA. Supri), vol. 7. fol. 539.

P. venusta ; foliis oblongo-obovatis unduktis glabris repando-denticulatis, flori-
bus umbellatis nutantibus, calyce tubuloso quinquefido. Hort. Fl. Anstr.
1. 248. Reichenb.pl. crit. 7. t. 851.

" P. Freyeri, Hoppe." sec Reickenb.

Brought from the Botanic Garden, Vienna, in 1833, by
the Hon. W. F. Strangways, from whom was received the
specimen that furnished the accompanying figure in May
last.

The species was first distinguished from P. auricula by
Host, on account of its smootli toothletted leaves, long-
tubed calyx, and purple flowers ; he liad procured it from
the hilly parts of Hungary, about Hladnik, and also from
Mount Baldo. Reichenbach, upon various authorities, adds
the crevices of rocks at Krain near Idria, the alps of Kobila,
and Laybach, placing the species near glut'mosa and carnio-
lica at a distance from P. auricula. In fact it seems to differ
from P. carniolica chiefly in its more obovate denticulated
leaves.

Mr. Strangways suspects that, as there are amongst the
garden Auriculas varieties which from length of tube,
form of limb, &c. do not appear to have come from one origi-
nal species, this may have been in part their parent, a con-
jecture which the eye of the corolla much strengthens.

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* DELPHINIUM intermedium ; var. coerulescens.
Downy-leaved variable Larkspur.

POLY'ANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Nat. Ord. RanunculacE/E.
DELPHINIUM. Supra, vol. ll.ful. 119-2.

D. intermedium, Supri, fol. 1963.

Var. ccerulescens ; caule glabro, petiolis foliisque subtus bracteis pedicellisque
pilosis, racemo lonaissimo ramoso.

A third and very striking variety of Delphinium inter-
medium (see fol. 1963 and 1969), with the palest flowers of
any I am acquainted with, and perhaps also the tallest stem.
It has rather smaller flowers than the kind last figured, its
leaves and leaf-stalks are downy, especially the former on
the under side, and there are many weak long hairs on the
bracts and pedicels. These circumstances shew how un-
important is the hairiness of the leaves, stem, and flowers, in
this genus.

The leaves have their base decidedly truncate, as in the
supposed species D. palmatifidum, which has already been
shewn (fol. 1963) to be a simple variety of D. intermedium.

Our drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural
Society, in July, 1836.

See folio 1503.

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GRABOVVSKIA boerhaavifefolia.
Boerhaama- leaved Grabo wskta.

PENT Ai\ DRI A il ONOG YMA.

Nut. Ord. SOLANACES.

GRABOWSKIA Schlechtendahl in Linnma vol. 7. p. 71. Cahjx
subcampanulatus regulariter 5-deiitatus eestivatioiie valvar!. Corolla e tubo
brevi iiit'uiulibuliformis, limbo 5-partito, laciniis patentibus reflexisve, quatuor
aestivatione convolutiva, quinta externa niarginibus suis vicinaruin margines
obtegens. Genitalia exserta. Stamina 5 a?qualia, filamentis paulo supra tubi
basin liberis, medio dense villosis (villis basin versus decrescentibus). Stylus
teres, stigmate subeapitato aut leviter bifido. Germen 4-loculare, loculamenlis
1 -ovulatis. Bacca calyce persistente suffulta, globosa, dipyrena, pyrenis
lignosis bilocularibus, loculis l-spermis. Embryo hamalo-curvatus, cylindrieus.

¥ruXe\ hab'ttu l^ycn yennini ramosissiinus, ST^ims axillaribus horridus ;

foliis sparsis integerrimis. Flotes axitlares c. fasciculis foliornm (ramulo
non evoluto); aut subcorymhosi in ramulis summis (hinc in idtmiis ramis
quasi peiniculati).

G. boerhaavi(Efolia. Schlecht. 1. C.

Lyciuiu boerhaavisefolium. Linn, suppl. p. 150. La?n. Encycl. 3. 510.

Willd. Sp. pi. 1. 1060.
Ehretia lialimifolia U Merit. Stirp. 1. 45. t. 83.
Lycium beterophyllum. Murray Co7nment. gott. 178,')./). (i. t. 2.

Flores oppositijolii, solitarii. Calyx carnosus, subregularis, scepius
latere Jissus. Corolla pallida, plumbeo-ccerulea, astivalione ijnbricata,
laciniis marqine refiexis, venis viridibics reticulatis ad basin ; seriebus quin-
que pilorum succulentorum articulatorum faucem Jilamenta et lubimi a
busi stamiuum occupantibus. Discus aitrantiacus, carnosus, cith, ovario
crescente, absorptus. Ovarium carnosum, 4- loculare ; ovulo sohtario sptuB-
rico ascendente in quoque loculo; stylus simplex, glaber ; stigma incrassatum,
viride, utrinque dcclive, vix bilobum.

A spiny scrambling shrub, with singular fleshy, glaucous
leaves, which give it a grey appearance, like Atriplex Hali-

* Named by Professor von Schlechtendahl after Mr. H. Grabowsky, an
apothecary of Ohiaf, and together with Wimmer, the author of a good Flora
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mus. It is hardy enough, in the garden of the Horticultural
Society, to live out of doors against a south wall, where it
does not suffer at all in moderate winters ; even in the last
severe one it was not much injured. Notwithstanding the
dull aspect of both leaves and flowers, it forms a pleasing
appearance when mixed with other and greener plants.

It is a native of Brazil, where Sellow found it in the
fields and woods of the southern provinces, a common shrub,
growing from G to 10 feet high. It is also found in Peru.

Professor Schlechtendahl considers that this genus,
strangely enough referred to Lycium, connects Nolana with
Solanacese, by its drupaceous fruit. But, notwithstanding
the resemblance between the unpublished shrubby Nolanas
and certain plants now referred to Lycium, I believe that
the two genera are really very distinct. The fruit of Gra-
bowskia, like that of all other Solanacese is dicarpellary,
with the carpels posterior and anterior ; and even in the ano-
malous plurilocnlar instances of Datura, and more particu-
larly of Nicotiana multivalvis and Solanum Lycopersicum,
the same plan is adhered to in reality, although it is very
much obscured either by the production of spurious dissepi-
ments, or I)y the addition of a wliorl of carpels exterior to
the normal pair. But in Nolana the ovary is constantly
formed upon a quinary type ; an important difference in a
systematical point of view.

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* MAXILLARIA Steelii.
Mr. Steel's Maxillana.

GYNANDRIA MONAMiRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Vande*;.
MAXILLARIA. SuprA, vol. W. fol. 997.

M. Steelii ; caule pendulo iiauo ramose squamato : ramulis monophyllis, foliis
longissimis flagelliformibus canaliculatis, floribus solitaiiis axillaribiis, scpalls
petalisque oblongis obtusiusciilis, labello trilobo, lobis lateraUbus erectis
rotundatis : intermcdii bilobi laciniis rotuiidatis subcuneatis divergentibus
callo baseos elevato apice obtuse tridentato.
M. Steelii. Hooker in hot. mag. t. 3.''i73.

Folia 3-4 pedes longa, apice subulata. Flores flnvi, maculis atro-pttr-
pureis irregularibus tigrini ; labellam potiiLS interrupte venosum quam miicu-
latum. CoKinina semiteres. Pollinia 4, in glandiilam transversum utrinque
aristatam sessilia, per parin distinctn glandules agglutinata.

A native of Demerara, where it would seem to be common if we are
to judge from the large quantity of it that has been introduced within
these two last years. When it first came over I called it Maxillaria
flagellifera, in allusion to the thong-like leaves, and under that name it
exists in many collections ; but the name not having been published must,
of course, give way to that oiM. Sfeelii, under which it was first described,
in May last, by Sir W. Hooker.

It is not only a very remarkable plant on account of the strange
appearance of the leaves, but really a beautiful species, as must be obvious
from the accompanying figure taken in September, 1836, from a plant in
the possession of Messrs. Loddiges.

It has no very obvious affinity with any known species ; but the truth
is that we know as yet so little of the genus, which no doubt abounds in
species, that the determination of affinity is of no great importance.
The most useful thing to do at present is to describe the species, and
when the means of doing so are more exhausted it will be time enough to
think of their final arrangement. As a contribution to this labour I take
the present opportunity of noticing the following.

M. Rollissonii ; acaulis, pseudobulbis subrotundis compressis subbifoliis, foliis
oblongo-lanceolatis acutis apice recurvis, scapis unifloris diffusis lax6 ^agi-
natis unifloris, sepalis carinatis lateralibus basi subsequalibus petalisque

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acutissimis, labelli lobis lateralibus ovatis angustis acutis intermedlo oblongo
membranaceo apiculato inargine deflexo : callo disci elevato carnoso antic^
transverse lobos laterales labelli conjungente medio producto truncalo tri-

dentato et denticulis utriiique reflexis postice fornicato truncato bilobo.

Brazil; in Messrs. Rollisson's collection. Flowers pale lemon colour;
labellum dotted with purple in the middle. Next M. slapelioides.

M. acicularis ; (Herbert mss.) subcaulescens, pseudobulbis subfusiforraibus
sulcatis diphyllis basi squamosis, foliis linearibus acuminatis canaliculatis
dorso convexis, pedunculis arctissim^ squamosis axillaribus unifloris, peri-
anthio conniventc, sepalis petalisque ovatis acutis, petalis obtusioribus,
labello indiviso oblongo obtuse disco illinito : callo lineari apice rotundato

integro. Brazil ; in the collection of the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert.

Flowers purplish chocolate. I only know this from a drawing by Mr.

Herbert. The structure of the flower requires to be re-examined. The
pollen I have not seen at all. Affinity uncertain, except with M.
uyicata.

M. uncata ; caulescens, pseudobulbis in axillis squamarum meinbranacearum
iisque brevioribus teretibus sulcatis monophyllis, foliis linearibus canaliculatis
obtusis, lateralibus basi maxira^ productis petalis sepaloque supremo qua-
druplo majoribus, labello oblongo obtuso carnoso margine crispo membra-
naceo basi angustato disco unicalloso, columna apice utrinque uncata.

Demerara ; m the collection of Messrs. Loddiges.

M. chlorantha ; acaulis, pseudobulbis ovalibus compressis monophyllis, foliis
ligulato-oblongis obtusis lucidis basi in petiolum canaliculatum angustatis,
sepalis patulis suba?qualibus linearibus acutis lateralibus basi parfim
obliquis, petalis linearibus conniventibus, labelli trllobi oblongi lobis latera-
libus nanis obtusis planis intermedio producto ovato carnoso granulate

crispo : callo solitario ovate. Demerara ; in the collection of Messrs.

Loddiges. Flowers small, yellowish green, sweet-scented.

^ M. variabilis ; (Bateman mss.) caulescens, pseudobulbis ovalibus compressis
squamis membranaceis longioribus monophyllis, foliis lineari-ligulatis ob-
tusis emarginatis planiusculis, floribus axillaribus solitariis, sepalis lineari-
oblongls acutis petalis subaequalibus lateralibus basi parilm productis, labello
oblongo refuse carnoso basi membranaceo veneso medio utrinque centracto,
callo disci parve ovate obtuse integerrimo, columna clavata, anthera pu-

bescente, Mexico; in various collections. Flowers small, deep purple.

Known in the gardens under the names of M.atropurpureaand M.concinna.
Near M. platypetala.

y M. tenuifolia ; caulescens, pseudobulbis evato-oblongis compressis monophyllis
squamis longioribus, foliis lineari-lanceolatis acutis recurvis, pedunculis
axillaribus solitariis basi squamatis, evario denudato arcuate, floribus cernuis,
sepalis evato-lanceelatis inargine revolutis subaequalibus reflexis lateralibus
basi subsequalibus, petalis ovatis obtusis conniventibus, labello oblongo
indiviso apice ovato reflexe infra apicem utrinque centracto, callo disci

oblongo integerrimo. Mexico; found near Vera Cruz by Mr. Hartweg.

■ Flowers rich purple, spotted and broken into small yellow patches.

Near M. platypetala.

With regard to the limits of the genus Maxillaria, the reader will find
some observations at the end of folio 1901.

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CROCUS pusillus.

Tiny Crocus.

TRIANDRIA MOKOGY^IA.

Nat. ord. IridacEjE.

CROCUS. Supra, vol. M.fol. 1416.

C. pusillus ; tuiiicis cormi basi circiimsclssis la^vibus, sepalis petalis(|iie iliversi-
coloribus erectis incurvis, fauee nuda, sligmatil)us spathulatis cuciillatiiu
convolutis liulivisis (slaminibus longioribus).

C. pusillus. Tenore Fl. Nap. 3. 33. " Me7n. snpr. Crock, p. 8. t. 2."
Gussone Jl. sic. 1. 30. Ten. syllog. 28.

C. biHoriis var c. Tenorii. Reichenb. Jl. cxcurs. I. 84.

C. Tenorii. Gai/ in Bull. univ. Jul. 1837, sec. Tenorium.

Nothing can well l)e more agreeable to a Botanist than
to trace with certainty the origin of a garden plant, which,
after centuries of domestication, has lost all record of its
origin, and mush trace of its native aspect. Even in the
case of a Crocus, such an enquiry is far from uninteresting.

We have had in the gardens, time out of mind, what is
called the Scotch Crocus, to which the equally unintelligible
name of C. biflorus was first given in his Dictionary by Miller,
who only knew that it was unquestionably a peculiar species.
It was neglected by Linneeus and his followers, and is not
even adverted to in Willdenow's Species plantarum, or Per-
soon's Synopsis. It is, however, admitted into Romer and
Schultes's Systema Vegetabilium, upon the authority of the
Hortus Kewensis, but is supposed to be a variety of C. vernus,
and its native country is-said to be unknown. In one of the

» See folio 1416.

Mantissas of tlie same work various synonyms are added
from Bieberstein and others, from which it is to be inferred
that it is a Caucasian plant ; but it is probable that all
those synonyms are spurious, and consequently they throw
no light upon its origin.

By degrees, however, a suspicion arose that Croats pu-
sillus, a plant originally described by Tenore in his Flora
Napolitana, but witii incorrect synonyms, might be the same
as C. biflorus, and Reichenbach even refers the new species
of Tenore to the latter. Specimens, for which I am indebted
to the Hon. W. F. Strangwa3^s, to a great extent confirm the
correctness of the modern opinion, and render it extremely
probable that our garden Scotch Crocus is a native of the
southern parts of Italy ; and owes its peculiar appearance to
long years of domestication.

It is this very pretty wild plant that the accompanying
plate is intended to illustrate. The colours are more strongly
marked here than in the Scotch Crocus, and the peculiar
striation of the sepals of that plant is hardly traceable ; all
the parts moreover are smaller, and the anthers are shorter
than the stigmas, instead of equalling them in length. But
the peculiar dull, dirty yellow of the sepals, the texture of
the tunics of the cormi, and especially the form and undi-
vided structure of the stigmas, on which I am disposed to
put much reliance, are all characters of correspondence
between these two, and, I think, afford reasonable evidence
of their identity. Nevertheless, I have not absolutely com-
bined them, but figure this plant as I find it, leaving it to
those who agree with me in opinion, to add the synonyms of
C. biflorus should they think proper.

According to Tenore, C. pusillus inhabits sterile sub-
mountainous pastures of the valleys of S. Rocco and of Orso-
lone near Naples, about Montescaglioso, Potenza and elsewhere
in Lucania. Gussone finds it near Caronia, Mistretta, S.
Fratello, Montalbano and Floresta in Sicily ; and Reichen-
bach says that it occurs on sterile hills near Parma, and in
the Roman states.

Fig. 1. is an expanded flower; 2. shews the stamens
and stigmas.

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* PHARBITIS diversifolia.

Three-lobed Convolvulus Major.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. CONVOLVULACE*.

PHARBITIS. Calyx 5-sepalus. Corolla campanulata aut campanulato-
infundibiiliformis. Stylus 1 ; stigma capitato-granulatuni. Ovarium 3 rarius
4-loculare, loculis dispermis. Choisy convolv. orient, p. 56.

P. diversifolia ; foliis cordato-acuminatis pubescentibus integris trilobisque
auriculis divergentibus, pedunculis folio brevioribus subbifloris, sepalis
ovato-lanceolatis acutis.

Annua, P. hispida duplo minor, .led facie admodum simili. Folia prima
cordata integerrima, subinde anyulata, demum triloba formd
omninb P. hederacece. Corolla purpurea radiis sangidneis, margine
Integra, cceterum P. hispidae simillima, sed duplu minor. Capsula et
semina omnino P. hispidce.

A very pretty little half-hardy annual, about halt' the
size of the common Convolvulus major, of which it has very
much the appearance. It differs, however, in constantly
producing- at the latter part of the year 3-lobed leaves,
instead of entire ones, so that specimens of the same plant
collected at different seasons would be thought essentially
different. In the first stage of its growth, it is like P. hispida ;
at the ne.\t it resembles P. hederacea, only that the calyx
and inflorescence are distinct.

A native of Mexico, whence seeds were obtained by Geo.
F. Dickson, Esq. and by him presented to the Horticultural
Society ; it also grows in Peru, where it was found by
Mr. Mathews in a 3-lobed state (No. 2050); and I think "l
have a garden specimen in the entire state, from Chile,
which has been marked P. purpurea, in my herbarium, by
M. Choisy himself.

* So called from ^ap/3?;, colour, on account of the elegance and variety of
colour in the flowers.

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* SILENE chloi-ffifolia.
Arynenian Catchfly.

DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Nat. ord. SlLENACE^.

SILENE. Suprd, vol. 2. fol. 247.

S. chlorcefolia ; glaberrima glutinosa glauca, caulibus ramosis, foliis subrotundis
acuminatis superioribus subcordatis, floribus solitariis axillaribus termlnali-
busque, calvcibus clavatis estriatis, petalis coriaceis rotundatis bilobis dorso
discoloribus, appendicibus bilobis caiuosis acutis.

S. cblorEefoiia. Smith ic. ined. \. t. 13. Bot. may. t. S07. De Cand.prodr.
1. 1381.

There is not a hardy plant in our gardens that is less
treated according to its merits than this Silene chloraefolia.
It is one of the neatest of all herbaceous plants in its broad,
trim, firm, well-coloured leaves, and its compact manner of
growth ; the flowers are of the purest and brightest white,
and are deliciously fragrant ; it is quite hardy, if not exposed
to a wet soil in winter, is easily increased both by seeds and
cuttings, and thrives equally whether grown as a rock plant
or in the common flower border. Yet we hardly ever see
it in the gardens. It has every good quality that a garden
flower should have, and so far as I know, not a single defect,
and nevertheless it is scarcely thought of or heard of. May
I hope that this notice will gain for it that attention which
it so eminently deserves.

When grown upon rock-work, its flowers are only about
half the size they acquire in a deep rich light soil ; the ac-
companying figure was taken from a plant in the former
situation in the garden of the Society of Apothecaries at
Chelsea.

It was found in Armenia by Tournefort, and was intro-
duced so long since as 1796, by Mr. Hunneman.

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TULIPA scabriscapa.

Rough-stemmed Tulip.

HEXANDRIA MOKOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Liliace^.

TULIPA. Suprd, vol. 2.fol. 127.

T. scabriscapa ; bulbo solido prolifero tunica castanea Ijevi obtecto ; scapo pu-
bescente scabro, foliis glaucescentibus flaccidis subundulatis, sepalis acumi-
natis, germine prismatico-triangulari stigmate plus minusve angustiore.
Strangways in lilt.

Like many other garden flowers, the Tulip has in its
cultivated state assumed appearances so unlike what are
proper to it when wild, that it is only after long and patient
investigation that the garden varieties can be referred to
their original species. Mr. Strangways' residence at Flo-
rence, and the enquiries he was able to institute into this
subject, have enabled him to investigate the genus success-
fully, and I am extremely indebted to him for the following
interesting memoranda, drawn up with reference to the four
Tulips represented in the annexed plate, from specimens
supplied out of the garden at Abbotsbury.

" This name {T. scabriscapa) would unite four different varieties of tulip,
found wild near Florence, which do not appear to differ specifically one from the
other, while they agree in sever-il characters, the most remarkable as well as the
most constant of which (in the wild plants) is the roughness of the stalk.
They were first noticed, though under a different arrangement, by M. Reboul, a
French gentleman residing at Florence, to whom, however, only two varieties
seem to have been known, viz. Nos. 3 & 2.

No. 4. T. scabrisc. var. prumdina, is that which may be taken as the t3'pe
of the species, both as being most distinct in colour and character from all the
other wild Tulips with which Tuscany abounds ; and as being the least variable
of the four varieties here represented. Indeed the only frequent variation observ-
able in it, is that the bases of all the petals, interiorly, are sometimes marked
with a dusky spot, which at other times is hyaline or smooth and semitransparent ;
the same variation of colour extends also to the filaments and anthers, and,
rarely, to the petals. T. sc. primulina was first noticed by Viscountess Hawarden
in some vineyards on the slope of the hill under the Church of S. Miniato, at a
short distance from Florence ; it has since been found abundantly higher up the
same valley. It has been introduced into some English gardens under the name
of Lady Hawardeii's Tulip.

No. 3. T. scabrisc. var. strangulata. This, in red, is nearly as invariable
as primulina in yellow ; nevertheless it has sometimes a few yellow specks
which serve to unite it with No. 1. It was named strangulata by M. Reboul,
from the character of the unexpanded flower, in which the tips of the petals cross
each other, as if a ligature had been applied just below. He found it first at
8*. Margherita, about three miles from Florence, on the south, and afterwards in
the same valley with No. 4. Its colour is a remarkably brilliant crimson, each
petal having a black spot, forming an eye round the germen, not unlike that of

* See folio 1419.

T. Oculus Solis (which, however, belongs to quite a different section of the
genus). It has not, at least .~n ;wild state, the fine yellow edging of the eye of
Oculus Solis. Filaments and anthers black.

No. 1. T. scabrisc. var. mixta. This varies from the state of 4'<raregi<Za<«,
with the addition of a few yellow dots, to the pied condition well represented in
the plate. But it is remarkable that although an evident variety, the plants
brought from their native soil have never varied back into the pure states of Nos.
4 and 3. nor are those two varieties found in the same locality with this. It
multiplies the most readily of all by offsets, and is a sure flowerer, but one of the
latest. It is the only one of the wild tulips cultivated in Florence for beauty.
In its wild state it is slender, but becomes stronger and larger by cultivation. It
has only been found in olive grounds east of Florence, and south of the Arno,
between Villa Rusciana and the Bosco Rondinelli, well known to the botanists of
Florence.

No. '2. T. scabrisc. var. Buonarrotiana. This is in many respects the
most remarkable of the four. It is much the largest and stoutest plant, has a
uniform tawny buff colour, not bright enough to be called orange, and has a
faint but heavy and honeylike smell. In this respect, as well as its tendency (in
cultivation) to become variegated in blots and patches like Gesneriana, and not in
dots or specks like the three former varieties, it might be taken as the wild
original of the well known Van Toll or Dutch sweet-scented Tulip. That too
has pointed petals and a rough stalk, and I have no doubt is naturally connected
with or derived from this division of Tulips in some way or other. But it is a
dwarf to T. sc. Buonarrotiana. This was discovered some years ago by M.
Reboul, in the olive-grounds of the Villa Buonarroti, at Settignano, four miles
east of Florence on the north side of the Arno. He named it in honour of the
great Michael Angelo Buonarroti,* and described it as it is, ''coloro vitellino," in
a single sheet descriptive of the wild Tulips of Florence as far as then nivestigated,
which he printed several years ago. It is certainly the scarcest of the four
varieties.

These four Tulips agree in the form of their flowers, which are elegantly cup-
shaped, well expressed in the figure No. 3, petals pointed, though less so than in
O. Solis ; germen prismatic, stigma overhanging, not so large as in Gesneriana,
bulb smooth, .scape rough, pubescent, or even hairy in strong plants, in which
they differ from all other Tulips. The petals of all have two strong furrows down
the middle. Their leaves are glaucous, more or less undulated. They may
possibly be the original stock of a tribe of second rate garden tulips, neglected
for the more showy varieties of T. Gesneriana, which are met with in some of
our gardens, and which betray their origin by their pointed petals, honey smell,
and more or less pubescence on the stalk.

Of these garden varieties the Van Toll has been noticed ; those that are in
cultivation at Florence are either the improved No. \.7nixta, or a large very
double sort, of a mixture of white, pink, and green pointed petals, short scape,
smooth as far down as one or two green or partly coloured leaves like bracteoe,
and rough below them, where the true scape begins ; the upper smooth part
with its leaves (detached petals) being in fact a monstrous, elongated flower;
also some English or Dutch, pink or lilac, and white with pointed petals, and
stalks pubescent towards the base ; that called the early Edgar is one of this set.
In cottage gardens in the West of England are often seen two varieties that can
only be referred to this class of Tulips : one is exactly the strangulata of Flo-
rence with a perfectly smooth stalk ; the other a handsome variety of the same,
havhig the black and yellow eye of O. Solis, from which, however, it differs in
every important character.

These pointed petaled Tulips are frequently introduced into Italian paintings :
and in the gallery Gualtieri at Orvieto are six oblong pictures of flowers, with the
date 1614, in which many of these tulips are represented; besides other flowers,
with the Italian names of that time."

* This villa still lemains in the Buonarroti family ; and there is a spirited sketch of
a Satyr, drawn witii a hot iron upon a door within the house, which is attributed to the
great Michael Augelo.

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* CYPRIPEDIUM puipuiatuin.

Purple-stained Lady's Slipper.

GYNANDRIA DIAXDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace;e, § CvPRiPEDiEa;.
CYPRIPEDIUM. Supra, vol. 10. fol. 788.

C. purjmratum ; foliis oblongis acutis striatis maculatis basi equitantibus, scapo
aphyllo pubescente, sepalo dorsali acuminato ciliato margine revoluto,
petalis oblongis subundulatis pubescentibus, stamine sterili luiiato.

A further addition to the tropical section of the genus
Cypripedium, of which C. insigne and venustum constitute
tlie other species. It is a native of the Malayan Archipelago,
and was imported by Mr. Knight, of the King's Road Nur-
sery. The accompanying drawing was made in Nov. 1836,
in Messrs. Loddiges' collection.

Not having had an opportunity of examining personally the
only flower that was produced, 1 am unable to say any thing-
more of the plant than is shewn in the figure. It is mani-
festly distinct from the other f\vo species in its crescent-shaped
sterile stamen. Its leaves are most like those of C. venustum,
but are more oblong, and far less rigid, besides having a
pallid colour, quite uidike that of the species alluded to ; its
petals moreover want the long bearded fringe, and the dorsal
sepal is convex, not concave.

( Continued from folio 1986.)

Whether or not the uenus Maxillaria is well limited as it
is at ])resent understood is uncertain ; nor, till a larger num-
ber of species shall have been accurately examined, will it
be safe to arrive at any conclusion upon the subject. The
value of the numerous modifications of the pollen masses
and glandular apparatus is, in particular, still to be ascer-
tained. But, in the meanwhile, there is one character at
least, without which it may be safely asserted that no plant

* See folio 1534.
\

can be a Maxillaria ; namely, a labellum attached to the
column by a moveable joint, or, as we technically say, articu-
lated with the column. This is found in every true Maxil-
laria, and therefore I have no hesitation in separating from
it a Demerara plant which flowered lately with Mr. Barker
at Birmingham, in which this character is wanting. It
may be called Stenia in allusion to the singular narrowness
of the pollen masses.

Stenia.

Perianthium explanatum, subaquale, sepalis lateralibus basi obliquis.
Labellum cum basi columnae continuum, (indivisum), concavum, disco appendi-
culatum. Columna semiteres, basi producta, apice rotundata, mutica. Anthera
bilocularis. Pollinia 4, linearia, geminata, basi sejuncta, dorsalia minima.

Caudicula subquadrata acuta (pubescens). Herba acaulis, ebulbis. Folia

oblouga, basi angustata, apice recurva. Flores solitarii, radicales, basi ovarii
bracteolati.

1. Stenia pallida. Bot. reg. ic. ined.

There is moreover an unpublished genus, called Huntleya
by Mr. Bateman, in compliment to the Rev. J. T. Huntley,
an ardent cultivator of Orchidaceous plants Tsee fol. 1721 of
this work), of which the original species was found, accord-
ing to a memorandum I have received from Mr. Bateman,
in Demei-ara by Mr. Schomburgk, and of which another
and very fine species occurs among Mons. Descourtilz's
Brazilian drawings. These plants manifestly difi'er from
Maxillaria in combining with the distichous habit of a
Vanda, a flat, spreading labellum, which is unguiculaie with
the free base of the column, and furnished with a fine fringed
appendage at its base, and a column broadly winged towards
the apex. This genus may be established upon the following
character, which I take from the species of M. Descourtilz.

Huntleya.

Perianthium explanatum, subsequale, sepalis lateralibus basi antice involutis
vix obliquis. Labellum planum, unguiculatum, rhomboideum, patens, basi
longe fimbriatiim, cum basi libera producta columnte articulatum. Columna
clavata, apice cucullata, margine alata. Anthera bilocularis mutica. Pollinia 4.
Herbae caulescentes. Folia ligulata, disticha. Flores axillares (solitarii).

1. H. sessiitflora (Bateman ined.) ; " floribus sessilibus." In Guiana Schom-

burgk.

2. H. Meleagris ; floribus longfe pedunculatis. In Brasilia. Epidendre

fritille Descourtilz ic. Orch. Bras. ined. t. 8. Planta Vandae

omnino facie. Folia pedalia, flabellatim disticha. Pedunculi cum ovario
5 pollices longi. Flores diametro 3-pollicari, medio candidi, ultra medium
Fritillarise Meleagridis aspectu et colore vinoso. Labellum ovato-rhora-
boideum, acutum. Columna apice virens.

M\M9j'iake. cUC. 3-/jJj: Uy %.,

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* MTI/IONIA specfabilis.
Showy Milfonia.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. >

Naf. ord. Orchidace-s, § Vande;e.

MILTONIA. Perianihium explanatuiii, petalis revolutis scpalisquc late-
ralibus basi connatis sessilibus conforiiiibus. LaheUum maximum, dilatatum,
indivisum, sessile, cum columna leviter connatum, basi lamcllatum. Columna

nana, semiteres, apice aurita. Pollinin 2, caudicula; oblongap adnata.

Herb* epiphytcB, pseudobulboscB. Scapi unijiori, vnginati, squumis eqmtan-
tibus. Flores speciosissimi.

M. spectabiils Supr^,fnl. \91Q ( Auyust \, 1837.)

Macrochilus Fryanus. Floral Cabinet, t. 45. {September 1, 18IJ7.)

Scapus teres, vaginalus ; squaviis carinatis. cnrtilagineis, equitantibus,
obtusis, virescenti- funds , siiperiorihus majoribus ovario stibaqualibus. Peri-
aiitbium patenlissinuivi, 4-poUices longiim, tres circiter latum, petalis expla-
natis. Sepala ■pallida, viridi-alba, oblonga, apicidatn, subimdulata, margine
rejlexa. Petala conformia et ejusdem coloris, sed latiora, margine crisputa,
revolula. Labellum maximum, subrotundo-cuneatum, vndulatum, ctim co-
luvma continuion, violaceum, basi iutensiks margi?ie pallidius, 7 tiervatam :
venis arcuatis, convergentibus, pictis, basi atropurpureis ; Iribus centralibus
basi cristatis : cristis iutegerrimis antice truncatis, intermedid breviore,
crassiore, magis elcvatd, lutescente. Columna hrevis, erecta, compressa,
petalorum colore, antice gibbosa, lutescens, it cum basi lahelli connatum ;

alis ditabus purpureis , carnosis, acinaciformibus. Anthera

PoUinia.

A most beautiful Brazilian Orcliidaceous plant, which I
originally received from Messrs. Loddiges, and sul:)sequently,
at the end of July last, from George Barker, Esq. of Bir-
mingham. I had promulgated the name of Miltonia spec-
tabilis previously to hearing that Messrs. Knowles and

* In some countries there is a difficulty in finding individuals whose love for
Natural History vi'ould justify such little compliments, as the naming after them
rare or beautiful plants. In this country, on the contrary, the crowd of claimants
is so great as to render a selection of names an embarrassing office : and it some-
times hapjjens that those who ought to be the earliest recognised are accidentally
lost sight of. Such is the case in the present instance, where the name of a
Nobleman, one of the oldest and steadiest friends of Natural Science in this
country is only now, for the first time, fixed among the imperishable records of
Botany. Let me hope, however, that the present beautiful genus, selected from
among his favourite flowers, will be some atonement to Lord Fitzwilliam for the
obliviousness of which I at least have to confess myself guilty.
VOL. XXIII. h

Westcott had called the plant Macrochilus Fryanus, and as
the former name was published a month earlier the latter will
have to give way.

The genera Brassia, Miltonia, Cyrtochilum, Odontoglos-
sium, and Oncidium are closely related, and no doubt form
the nucleus of a group of Vandese, the limits of which remain
to be ascertained. Of these, Oncidium has a column with
two ears, and a distinct lobed lip; Miltonia a column with two
ears, and an entire lip partially united to it at the base ;
Odontoglossum a winged column, and an entire lip partially
imited to it at the base ; Cyrtochilum a winged column and
a distinct entire lip ; and finally, Brassia has a column that
is neither winged nor eared, and a distinct entire lip. I say
nothing of the tubercular processes upon the lip of all these
genera, for I do not see how they will serve with any cer-
tainty to distinguish them. Moreover, Oncidium and Cyr-
tochilum should have unguiculate sepals and petals, while
all the other genera have them sessile. While, however,
such are the real distinctions between these genera, I am
by no means sure that all the species now stationed under
them are rightly placed. But that is a question upon which
I cannot enter at this time.

Miltonia differs from Oncidium in its lip being slightly
connected with the column, much dilated and undivided ;
and from Odontoglossum, Brassia, and Cyrtochilum, in its
column being auricled, and its lip not only much larger than
the sepals, but also altogether different in form.

The following are additional species of these genera.

/ Cyrtochilum Karwinsku ; scapo paniculato, sepalis petalisque oblongo-lancco-
latis apiculatis, labcllo obovato rigido ecristato vcnis ccntralibus incurvantibus

lamcllatis, margine columnae serrato. Teoxomulco, propc Oaxaca, Kar-

winski. (Hh. re(j. Monac.) A noble species. Flowers Ih inches in

diameter. Sepals and petals blotched with brown, upon a yellow ground.
OdoiitO(jlossum awjustatum ; scapo paniculato, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis acumi-
natis, petalis ovato-lanceolatis unguiculatis undidatis, labello ovato-lanceolato

acuminato : crista baseos lamellata niultifida, columna mutica. Super

arbores in valle Lloa, regni Quitensis, alt. 8000. ped. Hall. (//Zi. Hooker.)

Odontoglossum Hallii ; scapo paniculato, sepalis petalisque ovato-lanceolatis
acuminatis unguiculatis, labello oblongo acuminato pectinato ; crista baseos

lamellata multifida, colunnia^ alis bidentatis dcntc supcriore aristato.

Supra arbores in valle L1o;ij regni Quitensis, alt. 8000 pcd. Hall. (Ho.

Hooker.) A most beautiful species. Flowers blotched with brown

upon a yellow ground, 3.J inches in diametci'.

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CR6cUS Imperati.

Tmperato's Crocus.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. Ord. Iridace^.

CROCUS. Supri, vol. 17. fol. 1416.

Imperati; tunicis radicalibus membranaceo-filatncntosis, foliis proteranthiis
glaucescentibus basi latioribus deflexis, scapo supra basim vaginifero, spatlia
duplici opaca, corolla; tubi campanulati laciniis ovalibus obtusis emarginatis,
fauce nuda aurantiaca, stigmate incluso trifido staminibus longiore lobis
cuneiformibus incisis crenulatis, capsula oblonga acuminata 6-striata, semi-
nibus fulvis reticulato-erosis altero latere cxcavatis. Tenore sylloy. p. 28.

For the specimens of this charming plant I am indebted
to the Hon. W. F. Strangways, who has furnished me with
the following note upon it.

" Crocus Imperati, so named by Professor Tenore, after an
old Italian Botanist Imperato, is, perhaps, the most beautiful
of the genus. It varies greatly in the size of the flower,
which is sometimes very large, and rises from a double
spathe; the bulb, which is covered with irregularly inter-
woven fibres, is comparatively small.

" Although it belongs properly to the set of vernal cro-
cuses, it seems to connect them with the autumnal, beginning
to flower in the middle of winter. It is fortunate that, flower-
ing at such a season, it requires less sun to expand its blos-
soms than any other species.

" It increases readily by seed, which ripens in May.
The diflTuse character of its leaves, wliich are of a dark green,
and appear long before the flower, is one of its distinguish-
ing marks : seen before the buds appear, they miglit be
taken rather for the leaves of some autumnal species that had
done flowering, than for those of a spring crocus coming on.

l2

" The variety albiflorns is tlie most beautiful of tlie
white crocuses — it is rather more decidedly vernal than this,
which is the common form of the species.

" There has been much controversy between Italian
Botanists on the identity, as a species, of this and Crocus
suaveolens of Bertoloni, of which a short notice is given
below.

" The habitats of these crocuses are — C. Imperati, of this
figure ; in profusion all about Castellamare, La Cava and
Salerno, and other parts to the south of Naples, in every
hedge bank to the height of 2000 feet or more above the sea.
It is wonderful that so fine a plant has not attracted more
notice in such a frequented country.

" C. Imp. albiflorus is rare, and found much higher up
the mountains.

" C. suaveolens, Bert. Fl. Ital. is found in the pass
called Le Gole d'ltri, near the town of that name; and also
in the Valle d'Inferno, about two miles from Rome, behind
St. Peter's.

" C. suaveolens, Bert. Fl. Ital. has the petals lanceolate
pointed, the spathe one-leaved, the stigma filiform, pale
orange or yellow. It is sweet scented; the leaves are short,
appearing with or little before,' the flower. The petals are
seldom finely veined as in Imperati ; it blossoms regularly
later in the spring, February and March."

Add to the description o/'Tulipa florentina the following note.

The Tulips figured under the name of T. pubescens in Sw. B. Fl. Gard.
pi. 9, are some of the garden varieties alluded to in the foregoing descrip-
tion : the name pubescens has not been adopted, because the pubescence is
not constant even in the cultivated plants, which alone Sweet professes to
describe.

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* OJNCIDIUM Cebolleia.
Chive-leaved Oncidium.

GYNANDRIA MON ANURIA.

Nat. ord. OrchidacejE, § Vande^.
ONCIDIUM. Supn), vol. 13. fol. 1050.

O. Cebolleta ; foFiis radicalibus teretibus subulatis, scapo paniculato rigido
glutinoso, sepalis petalisque obovatis acutis concavis unguiculatis, labelli
laciniis lateralibus obovatis retusis intermedia reniformi uiululata emarginata,
crista imidentata truncata basi tuberculosa, alis columna; parvis camosis.

Epidendrum Cebolleta. Jacq. stirj). Amcr.p. 230. t. \'i\. )i(j. 2.

Oncidium Cebolleta. Swartz. act. Holm. 1800. /). 240. Willd. sp. pi. 4.
113. Gen. ^ Sp. Orch. p. 206.

It is, I presume, impossible to determine with certainty
to which, out of two or three taper-leaved Oncidiums, the
name of Cebolleta was applied by Jacquin ; for he neither
describes nor figures the flowers of his plant. In this un-
certainty let the present, which agrees with the description
of that Botanist as far as it goes, bear the name. It is a
native of the Spanish Main, whence it was obtained by
Messrs. Lowe and Co. of Clapton, who flowered it iu
February, 1836.

It is clearly distinguished from O. nudum by the lateral
lobes of its lip being < bovate, and by the nature of the
tuberculated crest at its base. In all probability O. jun-
cifolium combined by me with ,0. Cebolleta will form
another species, but I do not possess the materials for
defining it.

* Sec folio 1830.

Jacquin found O. CeboUeta in the woods of Carthagena,
especially near the coast; and he says that the young
pseudo-bulbs, pounded with salt, are of great repute as an
external application in extensive bruises, broken bones, and
other surgical cases.

O. nudum (Bateman) ; facie Cebolletae sed sepalis petalisque subsessilibus
rotundatis acutis concavis, labcUi lobis lateralibus linearibus rpcurvis inter-
media obovata emarginata, crista callis 3 linearibus in frontc lunulaque

crenata convexa ad basin. Hab. in Caraccis, unde in horto rcgio Bero-

linensi rcceptum, a Dom. Otto Batemanno meo benevolo communicatum est.

J995

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1995

* CAMI'ANULA Portenschlagiana.
Dalmatian Wall Campanula.

PENTANDRIA MO'NOGYNIA.

Nat. Old. Campanulace^.
CAMPANULA. Suprd, vol. l.fol. 56.

C. Portenschlagiana ; caule suberecto, foliis inter se aequalibus petiolatis cor-
datis rotuudatis acutfe anguloso-deiitatis, floribus racemosis, lobis calycinis
subulatis corolla subinfuiidibuliformi triplo brevioribus. Alph. DeCand.
Monof/r. J). 303.

C. Portenschlagiana. Rmn. et Schult. syst, 5. 93. Visiani stirp. dalm. spec,
p. 29. et 54.

C. muralis. Herb. Portenschl.

A pretty little herbaceous Campanula, introduced with
so many more rarities by the Hon. W. F. Strangways, to
whom I am obliged for a specimen.

It is a native of walls and rocks in Dalmatia, where it
has been recently found by several Botanists, and is hardy in
the milder parts of Great Britain. Like C. garganica, and
fragilis, it however succeeds best if kept in a greenhouse
in winter.

Two states of the species are named by M. Alphonse
DeCandolle, the one quite smooth, the other velvety with
down. The only wild specimens I have seen belong to the
former, as does the garden plant ; they were gathered near
Zara by Visiani. The flowers are smaller, and the stems
more diffuse and delicate than when cultivated, and the

* See fol. 1738.

tou2:h, woody, root-like stems attest the dnraljility of the in-
dividual, and how well it is constituted for nraintaining itself
in the crevices of rocks.

The species is intermediate between Campanula elatine
and floribunda.

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1996

* BEG(3NIA insignis.

Noble- flowered Begonia.

MONCECIA POLYAJ'iVlUA.

Nat. Old. Begoniace;e.
BEGONIA. Supra, vol. 4. fol. 2S4.

B. insignis ; caule erecto succulento glabro, foliis inaequaliter cordatis oblongo-
lanccolatis duplicato-aristato-deiitatis supra puberulis, stipulis Ihieari-trian-
gularibus, corymbis pendulis multifloris, sepalis 4 : majoribus cordato-ovatis,
capsula; alu maxiinii acutiuscula reliquis rotundatis.

B. insignis. Graham in Neiu Edmb. Phil. Jourval, no. 1 1 . Bot. Mag. '2900.

There is no plant in our hothouses more beautiful than
this in the months of December and January, when it pro-
duces its lovely semitransparent rose-coloured flowers. Many
species are more conspicuous for the size and richness of
their foliage, but none for the gayness of their blossoms.

It was introduced from the Berlin Garden, and is pro-
bably a Brazilian species. We have not, however, seen any
wild specimen.

It flourishes with but little care in a good greenhouse,
but like all the species acquires its greatest perfection if
kept in the stove, when in its most rapid growth. My draw-
ing was made from a charming specimen belonging to Lady
Antrobus.

* See folio 1252.

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1997

* HORKELIA fusca.

Dusky Horkclia.

DECANDRIA POLYGYmA.
Nat. Orcl. RosACEJE, § PoTENTILLEiE.

HORKELIA. Schlecht. Calyx campanulatus, semidecemfidus, laciniis
alternis accessoriis. Petala5, parva. 5/a»M7ia 1 0, biseriata, calycis parietibus
inserta. Receptaculum conicuni, siccum, villosum. Onaria indefinite nume-
rosa. Shjli simplices, cum ovario articulati, subterminales. Achenia calyce
inclusa. Schlecht. in LinncBa. 2. 26.

H. fusca I glandulo8o-pubescens, foliis radicalibus pinnatis 6-7-jugis laciniis
cuneato-oblongis pinnatifidis vel palmatifidis incisis, paniculis corymbosis
capitatis, sepalis integerrimis, bracteis palmatis capitulis brevioribus.

It is rather singular that the original species of this
genus should never have been found by Mr. Douglas in
California, although he detected in that part of America as
many as five new species. Of these one has been published
in the Botanical Magazine under the name of H. congesta
(fol. 2880) ; the subject of this notice is another ; and a
brief account of three others, in the Herbarium formed by
that Naturalist, will be found below. They are all erect
herbaceous plants, resembling some Potentillas in their
general aspect, but with flowers collected into heads, ungui-
culate petals, a campanulate calyx, and ten stamens, often
with ovate petaloid filaments. They form a transition from
Potentilla to the genus Sibbaldia, and thus assist in estab-

* " Named in honour of John Horkel, Professor of Physiology at Berlin,
who would be admitted on all hands to be one of the first botanists of our age,
if he could but be persuaded to cotnmit to paper the treasures of his immense
erudition, and of hii profound knowledge of nature and of plants." — Schlecht.

lishing a graduated series of structure between the most
liighly developed forms of Rosacese, and such imperfect
forms as we finil in Sanguisorbeaj.

A hardy perennial, flowering from June to August, and
propagating readily by means of seeds, or by division of
the roots.

The other species above alluded to are the following: —

H. cuneata ; villoso-pubescens, foliis radicalibus pinnatis 10-i2-jugis laciniis
subrotundo-cuneatis iiicisis, paniculis corymbosis capitatis, sepalis integer-

rimis, bracteis tripartitis capitulis villosis brevioribus. Varies in size

from a span to a foot or more in lieigbt. California, Douglas.

H. hirsuta; basi hirsutissima apice glandulosa, foliis radicalibus pinnatis 7-8-
jugis, laciniis angustis cuneatis incisis, paniculis corymbosis capitatis multi-
floris glandulosis calvis, sepalis integerrimis, bracteis brevissimis 3-5-partitis.

A very striking I species, covered with long, loose, coarse hair near the

base, but hairless and simply protected by minute glands towards the flowers.

The corymbs are more flat and compact than in the others. California,

Douglas.

H. capitata ; caule basi glabriusculo apice glanduloso-pubescente, foliis radica-
libus pinnatis 5-6-jugis laciniis inferioribus subrotundis incisis basi cuneatis,

capitulis solitariis bractea pinnatifida brevioribus, sepalis integerrimis.

California, Douglas.

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* CYN6RCHIS fastipata.
Corymbose Dog-Orchis.

GYNANDRIA MOAMNDR//!.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^;, § Ophryde*.

CYNORCHIS. Thouars. Sepala a;qualia, conniventia. Petala sub
sepalo superiore agglutinata. Labellum colunina connatum, calcaratutn, sspiils
4-partituni, sepalis multii majus et texturoe Uiversissimai. Colunina nana. A71-
thcra Iiorizontalis v. resupinata, loculis distantibus elongatis. Rostellum planum
(v. plicatum), dilatatum, tripartitum. Pollinia glandulis nudis. Stig7na lobis

duobus carnosis rostelli lobis lateralibus suppositis. Herbae, Africa australis,

et msularu7)i Mascarensium ; radicibus testiculatis. Flores jiunquam her-
bacei. Caules scBpius squamd vaginante in medio. Gen. & Sp. Orcb. 331.

C. fastigiata ; foliis binis radicalibus oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis horizontali-
bus, caule unisquamato, racemo corymbose, labello quadrifido : lachiiis
ffiqualibus truncatis, calcare longissimo filifomii. Gen. 4" Sp. Orch. I. c.
cum synonymis.

Sepala extus rosea intus virescentia. Petala rosea, sepalo supremo ag-
glutinata. Labellum pallida herbaceum basi extiis glandulosum, sepalis
A-plo majus, rosea levissime tinctum, basi intensiiis; calcar roseicm. An-
tbera atropurpurea, brevis. Rostellum virescens. Stigmatis lobi laterales pul-
vinati, carnei, papillosi. Rostellum compressum plicatum.

This is one of the representatives in tropical countries
of the terrestrial Orchises of Europe, growing in similar
situations, and having knobby roots of the same kind. It
occurs in damp places in the Isle of France, and has a smell
very like that of Orchis mascula.

The drawing was made in the stove of Messrs. Loddiges,
in April of the present year.

Literally Dog-Orchis.

The analytical figures of the plate will help the student
to understand the complicated structure of such plants.
Fig. 1. is a view of the column and lower part of the lip
seen in profile ; fig. 2. is the same part seen in front ; a. a.
are the lateral stigmatic lobes ; b. b. the glands of the pollen-
masses ; c. the middle lobe of the rostellum ; d. d. the base
of the lip.

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* DELPHINIUM azureum.

Sky-blue Larhpur.

POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Ranunculace^.
DELPHINIUM. SuprH, vol. 14. fol. 1 192.

D. azuTeum ; petiolis basi vix dilatatis, foliis 3-5-partitis multifidis, lobis llne-
aribus, raceino stricto, petalis omnibus apice barbatis, inferioribus villosis-
simis. DeCcmd. prodr. 1.54.

D. azureum. Mich.fl. bor. amer. 1. 314. Deless. ic. select. 1. 1. 60.

The seeds from which the plant now figured was raised
were collected in California, for the Horticultural Society,
by Mr. Douglas ; the species would, therefore, appear to
range quite across the North American continent. It is very
like the pale variety of D. grandiflorum, called chinense,
but is readily known by its lower petals being deeply cleft
into two lobes, much more hairy, and smaller.

The specimens from Mr. Douglas had flowers of a dirty
pink upon a whitish ground, with a small green depression
below the points of the sepals. A much prettier variety was
sent me by Mr. W. Garvie, Nurseryman, Stratford, Essex, to
whom it had been communicated by Mr. Murray of the
Glasgow Garden, where it was raised from Mr. Drummond's
Texas seeds. In that plant the flowers were a pale blue,
corresponding with the specific name, and the leaves
broader ; a leaf and flower of this are figured at No. 2.

I am not aware of the existence of any coloured figure
of this species, which is scarcely deserving of cultivation
except in Botanic Gardens.

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LILIUM speci6sum.

The Crimson Japan Lily.

HEXANDRIA UONOGYNIA.

Nat. Ord. Liliace^.

LILIUM. Suprd, vol.2, fol. 132.

L. speciosum ; caule erecto ramoso glabro, foliis sparsis ovato-oblongis nervosis
petiolatis, ramis unifloris, flore cernuo reflexo, coroUis revolutis intus papil-
loso-barbatis. Morren Notice sur un Lis du Japan, p. 2.

L. speciosum. Thunb in act. linn.2. '3'd2. H'illd. sp. pL2.Sti. " Encycl.
regn. vecj. pars. 1. t. 1. Horticiilteur Beige, March 1833, t. 1."

L. superbum. Thunb. fl. jap. 134.

Kasbiako vulgo Konokko Juri. Kczmpf. amcen. 871. Banks ic.KcBmpf. t. 47.

All the Lilies previously seen in Europe, however beauti-
ful they may be, are quite thrown into the shade by this
glorious species, for which we have to thank Dr. von Siebold,
who introduced it to Holland from Japan. Not only is it
handsome beyond all we before knew in gardens, on account
of the clear, deep rose-colour of its flowers, which seem all
rugged with rubies and garnets, and sparkling with crystal
points, but it has the sweet fragrance of a Petunia. Well
might Ksempfer speak of it as " flos magnificae pulchritu-
dinis," for surely if there is any tiling not human, which is
magnificent in beauty, it is this plant.

Beyond its own country it has no rival ; but in Japan
there are others that will scarcely yield even to it. Kaempfer
tells us of tlie Oni Juri, or Devil's Lily, with a showy flower, a
span in breadth, the flowers all stained and mottled with
crimson and purple, and minium ; of the Fime Juri, a dwarf
species, daggled with marks of blood, its purple flowers
moreover spotted with crimson ; and of the FiJuri, or Fiery

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Lily. Can these be among the twenty species of Lily which
Dr. von Siebokl is said to have brought alive from Japan to
the Botanic Garden of Ghent ?

Ksempfer learned that the Japanese had obtained this
species from Corea ; Thunberg saw it about Nagasaki and
elsewhere, but cultivated.

In the gardens here it has obtained the wrong name of
L. lancifolium, which is a difl'erent species. Several accounts
of it appear to have been published in Belgium, it having
flowered at Ghent so long since as August, 1832, under the
care of the late excellent gardener, Mr. Mussche ; the only
account that I am acquainted with is that by Professor
Morren, where a detailed description will be found.

The accompanying drawing, by Miss Drake, was made
in the nursery of the Messrs. RoUisson of Tooting, in
August last.

I presume it requires the same treatment as Lilium japo-
nicum and longiflorum, which flower beautifully every year,
if planted in good light loamy soil, in a glazed pit, where
they are protected from wet and severe cold in winter.

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* MARTYNIA diandra.

Diandrous Martynia.

DIDYNAMIA AKGIOSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. Pedaliace.e.

MARTYNIA. Suprd, vol. 11. fol. 934.

M. diandra ; caule ramoso, foliis oppositis cordatis dentatis, floribus diaiulris.

WiUd. sp. pi. 3. 263.
M. diandra. Gloxin. obs. p. 1 4. <. 1 . Jac'i. hort. Schonbr. 3. p. 2 1 . /. 289.
M. angulosa. Lamarck encycl. 2. 112.

A tender annual, inhabiting the neighbourhood of Vera
Cruz, and long ago introduced to this country, although now
seldom seen. It grows from two to three feet high, has a
pallid appearance, and is covered all over with long soft
hairs, tipped with a glutinous exudation. The flowers, which
grow in short racemes from the axil of the leaves, are a most
delicate pink fading to white, with the tips of the lobes of
the corolla deeply stained with crimson ; moreover, a bright
yellow broken streak passes down the tube of the corolla from
the middle of the lip. The calyx, which is pale green, is
enveloped in two oval, concave, delicate, membranous, pink
bractlets, and springs from the axil of a stalked wedge-shaped
bract of the same texture and colour.

Altogether it is a pretty plant and worth cultivation, not-
withstanding a somewhat unpleasant smell emitted by the

* Named by Houstoun in compliment to his friend Mr. John Martyn,
Professor of Botany at Cambridge, and the father of the gentleman who filled the
same chair for so many years, without performing any other duty than that of
receiving his salary.

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leaves when pressed. It differs from Martynia not only in
the presence of the two membranous bracts already men-
tioned, but also in two of its stamens being abortive ; never-
theless, as I see no particular necessity for separating it on
these accounts, I leave it in the genus where it has hitherto
stood.

The drawing was made in September, 1836, from a plant
raised by Mr. George Mills, in the garden of the late Mr.
Rothschild at Gunnersbury. It requires the treatment of
a cockscomb, or any similar tender annual.

Fig. 1. shews the form of the ovary, style and stigma;
2. is a cross section of the ovary, representing the two
double revolute parietal placentae ; and fig. 3. exhibits
the two perfect stamens, the two imperfect ones, and the
fifth, which is only rudimentary, all growing from the tube
of the corolla. '

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* TEC6mA jasminoides.

Jasmine-leaved Tccoma.

DIDVNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. Bignoniace^.

TECOMA. Supri, vol. l3.fol. 1117.

T. jasminoides ; foliis pinnatis 2-jugis foliolis ovatis glabris nitidis, racemis ter-
niinalibus densis paniculatis, corolla tubuloso-carapanulata limbo piano sub-
aquali pubescente laciniis rotundatis undulatis.

Bignonia jasminoides. Horl.

This charming greenhouse climbing shrub is an ever-
green, not uncommon in collections, but so seldom flowering,
that it was only in August last I heard for the first time
of its blossoms having been formed in Messrs. Chandler's
nursery. From these the drawing was made, and subse-
quently a plant from the same collection obtained a medal
at one of the Horticultural Society's meetings in Regent
Street.

It is said to be a native of New Holland, and to havebeen
originally received at the Royal Gardens at Kew ; but I find
no trace of it in books, and, in fact, have had no opportunity
of examining the plant, except in a very cursory way.

The tendency to produce a flower with six segments to
the corolla, instead of five, is remarkable, but probably
accidental.

* An improvement upon the Mexican name Tecomaxochitl, applied to
one of the species.

Tecoma australis seems to be the species to which this
approaches the most closely ; but the plant now figured is far
more beautiful, and must, in fact, be considered one of the
finest of its handsome race.

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* PHlLADjfeLPHUS speciosus.

Showy Syringa.

ICOSANDRIA MOtiOGYNIA.

Nut. Ord. PHILADELPHACEiE.

PHILADELPHUS. Suprd, vol. 7. fol. 570.

P. speciosus; foliis ovatis rariils ovali-ovatis longe acuminatis argut^ serrato-den-
tatis subtus pubescenti-hirtis, floribus teriiis solitariisque, calycis lobis loii-
gissime acuminatis, stylo profunde quadrifido, stigmatibus stamina super-
antibus. Schrad. in DC. prodr. 3. '20(1.

This beautiful genus, common as it is in gardens, is but
imperfectly known even to Botanists, and to cultivators so
little, that it is hardly possible to procure the species, as
defined by Professor Schrader, with certainty from the nur-
series, unless from Messrs. Loddiges. In one case, indeed, I
have reason to believe, that an American species has been
palmed upon the public as Deutzia grandiflora.

And yet there is no doubt that, whether species or not,
the different forms of Philadelphus ought to be carefully
distinguished ; for they are extremely dissimilar in the size,
colour, odour and abundance of their flowers, and in their whole
manner of growth. That which is now figured is, for in-
stance, called P. grandifiorus where it is known at all ; but
neither of the plants, otherwise called by that name, can be
compared with it for beauty. One of them, already figured
at fol. 570. of this work, under the name of P. grandifiorus,
is smaller flowered, more cream-coloured, and a far more

* A classical name of some doubtful shrub. The application of the term
is unknown ; it literaHy means friendly brother.

robust plant, and yet is altogether inferior in beauty ; it is
the P. verrucosus ; another is P. latifolius ; while the true P.
grandiflorus has rarely been marked with its proper name.

The species now represented, is a hardy shrub, growing
in the garden of the Horticultural Society, to the height of
eight or ten feet, and by no means stiff or formal, but with
gently bending branches, loaded with snow-white flowers of
the largest size, and scentless. It is among the least com-
mon of the genus, although much the handsomest. I pro-
pose to figure the others by degrees, and as the task of doing
so is proceeded with, the distinctions between these plants
will be more apparent than any thing that could be here
said would render them now.

The dissection shews the degree of division of the style
and the form of the stigmas, and the proportion they bear
to the stamens.

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* CANNA Reevesii.
Mr. Reeves's Indian Shot.

MONANDRIA MONOGY'SIA.

Nat. ord. MARANTACEiE.
CANNA. Suprd, vol. l.fol. 576.

C. Reevesii ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis acutis \xth viridibus, racemis paucifloris,
bracteis ovatis ovario brevioribus, corolla laclniis exterioribus ovato-
lanceolatis concavis reflcxls tubi loiigitudine interioribus patentibus : duabus
semi-lanceolatis apiculatis altera obcordata undulata cuspidata, filamentis
duobus corolliE laciniis majoribus erectis : sterili maximo obcordato undulate
fertili minora semi-oblongo obtuse apice reflexo, stylo spathulato hinc
angulato.

A most beautiful species of Canna, drawings of which
were long since sent to England from China ; and of which
seeds have been at length procured by Mr. Reeves, to whom
we owe so many of the finest Chinese plants now in the
gardens of Europe.

It is very near C. fiaccida; so very near that it may be
doubted whether it is distinct. I have not been so fortunate
as to see that plant, and therefore I judge of it entirely from
Redoute's figure and description, which, if they are to be
depended upon, shew that the leaves of this species are
much shorter and less glaucous, and the inner petals dis-
tinctly cuspidate and unequal, instead of being obtuse and
equal.

As to Canna glauca, I cannot conceive how any Botanist
could have imagined it to be the same as C. flaccida; it is
unnecessary to compare that species with this.

• See folio 1231.

The flower here represented was produced in a stove in
the Garden of the Horticultural Society in May last ; but I
have no doubt that a greenhouse would suit the species
equally well.

Nothins: is more difficult than to understand the defini-
tions of the species of Canna in Botanical books, owing to
the vagueness with which the parts of the corolla are spoken
of. It should always be borne in mind that a flower of this
genus consists of four series of organs, each of which ought
to be defined separately, and which are explained by the
diagram No. 4. in the accompanying plate. The first row
represents the calyx, the second the outer limb of the corolla,
the third the inner limb of the corolla, and the fourth the
stamens, of which two only are present, both petaloid, and
one only bearing the anther. If these circumstances were
attended to, in describing Cannas, the species would be
distinguished upon much more intelligible diff'erences than
they now are.

Fig. 1. is the apex of the style; 2. a transverse section
of the ovary ; 3. the apex of the petaloid filament, with the
anther upon one edge.

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* CIRRH^A obtusata.
Blunt-petalled CirrhcBa.

GYNANDRIA MONAh^DRlA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Vande*.
CIRRHMA. Supra, vol. l^.fol. 1538.

obtusata ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis utrinque acuminatis, petalis sepalisque
lineari-oblongis obtusiusculis planis, labelli lobo medio obovato acuto inflexo

latt^ unguiculato lateralibus acuminatis.

This species of Cirrhaea appears distinct from any of the
others yet described. It is a good deal like C. fusco-lutea,
for which I at first mistook it ; but it seems sufficiently dis-
tinguished by its much more obtuse petals and smaller
flowers. I am, however, far from being satisfied with the
goodness of such distinctions among these plants, and am
rather inclined to fear that we sometimes trust them too
much. I believe, however, the form of the middle lobe of
the lip to be essentially different in this species from all,
except one which flowered in Messrs. Loddiges' collection in
March last, and which I then named C. pallida.

That plant had most of the characters of C. obtusata,
except that the sepals and petals were acuminated, and the
middle lobe of the labellum placed on a slender unguis. The
real value of these distinctions must remain for future
enquiry.

* See folio 1538.

This C.obtusata was sent me from Liverpool, in September
1836, by Richard Harrison, Esq. who had received it from
Mr. Moke of Rio de Janeiro ; it had been collected by that
gentleman at Tejuca.

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* ONCiDIUM deltodieum.

Triangular-lipped Oncidium.

GYNANDRIA MOJiANDRIA.

Nat. ord. OrchidacEjE, § Vande^.
ONCIDIUM. Suprii, vol. 13. fol. 1050.

§ 1 . Sepala lateralia libera.
* * * Labelli lacinis laterales intermedia majores.

O. deltoideum ; pseudobulbis oblongis compressis sulcatls 2-3-pbyllis, foliis
linearilanceolatis canaliculatis, scapo paniculate ramis multifloris flexuosis
divaricate, sepalo supremo unguiculato obovato lateralibus longioribus spa-
thulato-lanceolatis apice revolutis, petalis latioribus obovatis crispis, labello
deltoideo angulis rotundatis, crista tuberculata serie subduplici tuberculorum
juxta basin et quatuor versus apicem majoribus distlnctis biseriatis minore
interjecto, columnae alis maximis acinacifonnibus.

O. deltoideum. Supra, vol. -fol.

Omnes partes virides leviter glaucescentes. Panicula secunda, nutans,
in apice scapi sesquipedalis. Sepala et petala lutea. Labellum apice acu-
tiusculum refiexum. Crista e tuberculis hrevibus oblongis composita, Jeri
totum discum labelli occupans ; tubercula baseos interiora in circulum con-
jluentia unico centrali magis prominulo, exteriora in lineas duas interrxiptas
divergentes ordinata ; ultra hcEC versus apicem adsunt unum oblongtim in
ipso apice circuli et utrinque duo alia majora patentia et magis versus
apicem tendentia : Circulus et tubercula exteriora pallide Jlavescunt maculis
quibusdam sangtiineis interjectis. Aim columncE, in planta culta integer-
rimm, in spontanea denticulis quibusdam marginantur.

I was very unexpectedly gratified at finding this rare
plant a few weeks since flowering in the greenhouse of Wm.
Joseph Myers, Esq. of Aighburgh, near Liverpool. It had
been sent him from Lima by John Maclean, Esq. a great
friend to science, now resident in that distant station. Mr.
Maclean probably received it from Mr. Mathews, who first

• See folio 1050.

discovered it in the province of Chacapoyas in Peru, and from
one of whose specimens, without a number, I had previously
described it. The arrival of tliis species in a living state
should be a fresh stimulus to those who have mercantile re-
lations with Peru, to procure Orchidaceous plants from the
west side of the Cordilleras, for many of them, especially
those from the valley of Lloa, are of singular beauty.
Hitherto scarcely any of them have found their way into
our gardens.

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I believe that Mr. Myers and Mr. Richard Harrison are
at present the only possessors of this species, which is very
graceful and pretty.

O. deltoideum is nearly related to O. divaricatum, from
which its narrow leaves and differently formed labellura suf-
ficiently separate it. To the little known O. macranthum,
from Guayaquil, with flowers three inches across, it is also
closely allied ; but the hastate labellum and peculiar crest
of that plant are, independently of the many other circum-
stances, satisfactory distinctive characters.

It may be expected that this species wdll grow well with the
heat of a greenhouse. I found it among a general collection
of greenhouse plants in Mr. Myers's garden, and it was in
such good health that I can hardly doubt its preferring the
cool temperature in which Cape and New Holland plants
thrive, to the excessive heat and damp to which Orchidaceae
are commonly subjected.

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Fine-leaved Cosmus.

SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.

Xat. uid. AsTERACE.*:, § Senecionide,e.

COSMUS, Can. Capitulum multiflormn, raJiatum, ligulis neutris.
bii'olucnim duplex, utruiuque squaiiiLs 8-10 basi plus minus concretis apice
acuuiiuatis. Receptnculum planum paleaceum, palcis membranaceis in filuni
elongatum proiluctis. Styli rami apice incrassati, hispidi, in conum subulatum
producti. Anthercs apice appendiee scariosa cordata superata;. Achaiuinii
tetragouum, exalatuui, rostratum, et interdum stipitatum, aristls 2-4 retrorsum

piloso-scabris deciduis coronatum. Herb* American£E annuce, glabra:, aut

vix pilosuLe, elates, romosce. Folia bipinnatisecta, lobis linearibus, lanceo-
latis, scepiics margine integerrimis. Capitula ad apices ramorum longe nu-
dorum soHtaria. Discus intense luteus. Radius versicolor. DC. prodv.
5. 607.

C. tenuij'oiias ; glaberrimus, foliis bipinnatisectis, lobis linearibus remotis acu-
tissimis integris lobatisque, involucri exterioris squamis ovatis acuminatis,
achaeniis asperis rostratis muticis vel 1-triaristatis.

Herba Cosmi bipinnati sed magis laciniata et tenuior. Liguls cuneatct,
eroscB, rosece, sublks pallidtp, unciam lungte. Flosculi disci Ititei, antlieris
atris. Corolla bis strangulata, parte inferiore tereli, intermedia injiald,
supremd urcrolatd. Achtenia teretia, nspera, nunc rnstrata mutica, nunc
suberostria ; aristis 1-3, quartan unica retrorsum serrata,curonata.

A beautiful annual Mexican plant, not unfreqnently
raised from imported seeds, but always flowering so late in
tlie year that it is unable to ripen seed and perishes. It
grows from a foot and a half to two feet high, and is a most
striking- object when its rich purple flowers are well con-
trasted with the bright fennel-like leaves.

It differs from C. bipinnatus in the leaves being still more
finely cut, the outer leaflets of the involucrum less acuminate,

* From Koa^oQ heautifuh in allusion to tlic appearance of the species.
VOL. XXIII. N

and the fruit scabrous with a longer beak, whicli, in tlie outer
florets of the disk, has no aristae.

The drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural
Society, where it had been raised from seeds presented by
George Frederick Dickson, Esq. F. H.S. It is hardly likely
to be preserved over the winter. The only way to keep
it in our gardens will be to raise it so early as to enable it to
ripen its seeds before the close of the autumn.

The right hand figures, on the accompanying plate,
represent different states of the pappus : those on the left are
the involucrum, a highly magnified floret of the disk without
pappus, and the point of one arm of the stigma.

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* STERNBERGIA colcl.kiHora.

Meadow Saff'ron-jioioered Sternbertjia.

IIEXANDRIA UOXOGYNIA.
Nat. Orel. AMAllYLLIDACEiE.

STERNBERGIA, W. S^ K. .S/)afAa hypogaa, apice petaloidea. Peri-
anthium semisubterraiieum, regulare, iiifiindibulare, revoluto-patens. Stamina
distincta, alterne Xongwm ; Jilamenta conniveinia, basi dilatata; anthera- ob-
longs, innatas. Stigma trilobum, bilabiatum : lobis duobus deflcxis, altero erccto.
Capsula epiga;a, pericarpio niolli succulento lateraliter debiscente ; semina nigra,

nitida, punctis elevatis scabra, bilo earnoso tumido albo. Flores autumnalcs ;

folia verna.

S. colchicijiora ; foliis linearibus viridibus obtusis, limbo tubi longitudine, petalis
quam sepala angustioribus et brevioribus, floribus suaveoleiitibus.

S. colcbiciflora. Waldst. et Kit. 2. 172. t. 159. Bieb. fi. taur. catic. 1. 261.
Herbert Amaryllid. ed. 2. 187.

Narcissus autuninalis minor. Clus. hist. 1. 164.

A charming little autumn-flowering bulbous plant, re-
cently introduced by the Hon. W, F. Strangways, who cul-
tivates it without difficulty in his rich garden at Abbotsbury,
in Dorsetshire.

Marschall v. Bieberstein describes it as perfuming tlie
fields of the Crimea, especially about the Bospliorus, with
its fragrant jasmine-scented flowers, in the months of Sep-
tember and October. Waldstein and Kitaibel speak of it as
inhabiting dry, exposed, calcareous mountains at Buda-Ors,
Palota, and Fiired, in Hungary. These authors add that
after the fruit is ripe the leaves wither, and the plant vvill

* So called in compliment to Count Caspar v. Sternberg, a learned Botanist,
and one of the most liberal and zealous promoters of that science.

n2

not flower in tlie autumn of the same year, but remains
altogether torpid till the autumn of the succeeding year.

I do not know what degree of cold this plant will bear
without injury: but considering how rare it at present is,
the wiser plan will be to treat it as a frame-bulb, unless in
the mildest parts of the country.

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* HIBISCUS lilacinus.
Lilac Hibiscus.

MONADELPHIA VOLYANDRIA.

Nut. ord. Malvaces.

HIBISCUS. Supra, vol. 1 . fol. 29.

§ XI. Lagunaria. Involucellum subnullum, nempe reductum ad marginem
prominentera subintegrum dentatumve, aut 1-phylliim deciduum. DC.
prodr. 1. 454.

11. lilacinus ; glaber, foliis integris tripartitisque filiformibus vel trifidis parcn-
chymatosis : laciniis lineari-lanceolatis acuniinatis in inferioribus pinnatifidis
grossfe dentatis, involucello obsoleto aut 6-partito laciniis subulatis, ealycis
laciniis acuniinatis tricostatis tubo duplo longioribus, corolla infundibulari
calyee duplo loiigiore, stiginate clavato indiviso.

Caulis orgyalii, glaher, teres. Folia in plantd spontanedfiliformia, in
cultd dilatata. Involucelli denies in spuntayied subulati culld obsoleti.

A beautiful new Hibiscus, obtained from seeds sent home
from Swan River by Sir James Stirling, and raised with his
usual skill and success by Mr. Robert Mangles, to which
gentleman I am indebted for a wild specimen from Swan
River. The latter is so little like the garden plant that,
under other circumstances, I should have hesitated to con-
sider them the same, for the leaves are filiform instead of
being flat and broad as in the figure, while the involucellum,
which can hardly be said to exist at all in the garden plant,
consists of six distinct subulate teeth in the spontaneous
specimen.

In some respects this approaches the H. hakecpfolius of

* See Mo 1463.

Giordano, but it appears to belong to a different section of
the genus.

It will doubtless be baidy in the summer, and will pro-
bably succeed better if planted in the open ground ; but it
will have to be protected in winter.

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* AN(ECTOCHiLUS setaceus.
Fringed Ancectockilus.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Neottice*.

ANQSCTOCHILUS, Blume. Perianthium lingens. Sepalum supre-
mum cum petalis in galeam agglutinatuin ; lateralia patula, basi infequalia labello
supposita. Labelluin cum columna basi coiinatum, ventricoso-calcaratuin, ungue
rigido caiialiculato inflexo fimbriato, limbo bilobo patente. Columna brevis, mar-
ginibus membranaceis dilatatis involutis appeiidiculam bilamellatam simulantibus.
Stigma basi bicallosum. Pollinia 2, pulverea, subbiloba, caudiculis brevibus,

glandultl oblonga. HerbtE tropica-, Asiatics, radicc fibrosa, rhizomatey?/;-

formi subterraneo. Caules foliosi. Folia 7iervosa, discolora, venis stepe
aurornicantibus. Flores Spicati, laxiuscuU, glanduloso-pilosi. (Aneectochi-
lus, Bhuiic Pre/at. Ji.jav. vi. sec. Endlicher. gen. pi. 710. 1569. Anecochilus,
BluTKe Bijdr. 411./. 15. Chrysobapbus, Wallich fl. nep. tent. t. 17.
" Orchipedum, Kahl Sf Hasselt Orchid, ed. Breda, t. 10." sec. cl. Endl.

A. setaceus ; foliis ovatis vel ovalibus acutis discoloribus, spica sub-4-flora
sepalisque exterioribus pubescentibus, labello infernti ad margines setaceo-
multifido, sacco labelli subdidymo. Rlume Bijdr. 1.412.

This extremely curious plant is a native of damp, shady
places, among stones, on the mountains of Java, and of
similar situations in the woods of Ceylon, whence it was
sent to the Duke of Northumberland, in whose collection at
Syon it flowered in June last, soon after its arrival.

It, or a nearly related species, is included by Rumf among
his most alpine Amboyna plants, " ubi nebulosis nubibus
adeo cincti sumus ut ipsa meridie vi.x sol dignosci possit, qui
nor perpetuo fluens cum frigore perpetuo quara maxime de-

* Apparently from aVourog open, and x^^^oc a lip, I presume in allusion
to the spreading apex of that organ.

lassat et horridum reddit prsetereiintem." He says, it always
grows in the highest and most inaccessible mountains,
where the scattered trees just afford it a little shade, and
where the soil is but scantih' supplied with moisture. He
adds that it is called by the natives Daun petola, or Petola
leaf, on account of its resemblance to the Petola, a precious
silken vestment of many gaudy colours.

The beauty of the plant consists in this character, for its
flowers are white and green, and very inconspicuous. But
the leaves are singularly painted with golden veins upon a
brownish purple ground, as if, in the words of Rumf, " some
cunning painter had traced them over with unknown cha-
racters."

The plant will require the same treatment as Goodyera,
Hsemaria, Spiranthes, Pelexia, and other terrestrial Orchida-
ceous plants of the same division of the order.

I have it from Mr. Macrae, and Sir W. Hooker from
Mrs. Walker, from Ceylon.

Fig. 1. represents a flower after the sepals and petals
have been cut off; 2. the column with the curious involute
membranous margin ; 3. the same unrolled and seen in a
front view.

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* SPIRAEA barbata.

Bearded Meadow-sweet.

icosan;jria di-pentagynia.

Nat. ord. RosACE.E.

SPIRJEA. Supra, vol. \6. fol. 1365.

S. barbata; t'oliis biternatis pinnatis subbijugis: foliolis biserratis oblongis acu-
minatis lateralibus semper basi cordatis terminalibus sspfe basi cuneatis,
petiolis petiolulisque basi barbatis, panicula pubescente, floribus glabris
decandris digynis bibracteolatis.

S. barbata. Ji'all. cat. no. 705.

S. japonica. Hort.

Herba verosimiliter 3-4-pedalis, pilosa. caule solido medulla sponyioid
farcto. YoXia j)edalia et ultra . Panicula l2-'2 pedes longa, stricta, ramis
gracillimis nutantibus ; purissime nivea, alabaslris tantum virescentibus.
Carpella '2, semi-infera, poiysperma, apice recta parallela. Stamina 10,
periyyna, faro nuUo conspicuo. Capsula ovata, glabra, castanea, semibival-
vis, calyce persistentc longlor.

This is beyond all comparison the handsomest herba-
ceous Spiriea yet in our gardens ; for to all the pure and
brilliant whiteness of S. JiHpendula, it adds the graceful
plume-like appearance of the American S. Aruncus. It was
originally discovered in Nepal, Gossain Than, and Kamaon,
by Dr. Wallich, and has been since introduced to Europe
from Japan by Dr. von Siebold, so that, like some other
Himalayan plants, it ranges to the most eastern limits
of Asia.

The accompanying drawing was made from a small plant
sent from the garden of Wm. Harrison, Esq. of Cheshunt,

* See folio 1365.

by his intelligent gardener, Mr. Pratt, who informs me that
it was imported from Holland by Messrs. Low and Co. Mr.
Pratt kept the plant in a pot in a cold frame, which accounts
for its small size. When in its natural state it grows from
three to four feet high, and the snow-white plume of flowers
is alone two feet long. I have no doubt that it is perfectly
hardy.

The name of bearded has been well applied to this
species by Dr. Wallicli, in allusion to a cluster of long stiff
hairs which forms at the base of every petiole, both principal
and secondary. This peculiarity is represented in the plate:
but when the plant attains its natural dimensions the
bearded character becomes much more conspicuous.

Fig. 1 . is a flower magnified ; fig. 2. is a section of the
ovary lengthwise, shewing the insertion of the stamens, and
the absence of a torus.

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* ANlGOZANTHUSManglesii, var. angustitblia.
Narrow-leaved Manglesian Anigozanthus.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYKIA.

Nat. nrd. H^modorace^e.

ANIGOZANTHUS, Labill. Perianlhium superum, coloratum, tubu-
losum, laiiatum pilis rainulosis, limbo 6-fido, laciniis subsequalibus sursilm se-
cundis ; tardiils deciduum. Stamina 6, fauce inserta, adscendentia. Antheree
erectae. Ovarium triloculare, loculis polyspermia. Stylus filiformis, deciduus.
Stigma simplex. Capsula trilocularis, apice deliiscens. Semina numerosa.
Yieihx perennes. KsiAix fasciculato-Jibrosa, Jibris crassis. Caulis in-
teger V. superne divisus. Folia ensiformia, aversa, basibus semivaginantibus.
Flores suhcorymbosi, e spicis brevibus, bracteis suboppositifioris. R. Br.
prodr. 157.

A. Manglesii ; foliis sparse ciliatis acutissimis, caule lanato, racemo simplicii
paucifloro, perianthio subti'is fisso limbo revoluto unilaterali, antlieris muticis.
A. Maiiglesii. D. Don in Sweet's Flower Garden, n. s. 3. 265.
Var. ungustifolia ; foliis linearibus acuminatissimis.

Pili omnes plumosi, marginibus foliorum rari, sparsi, caule perianthio-
qve densissime intertexti, lanam tacta subasperam constiiiientes. Perian-
lhium aut virens unicolor, aut basi rufoaiirantiacum, liinbo aquali sexden-
tato replicato, tubo nd basin usque subtus Jisso,intus glabrum, nisi in fundo
ubi papillis horret numerosissimis carnosis apice pilosis. Ovarium oblongwn,
om7iinb inferu7n 3-loculare ; ov\\\s. placentce centrali adharenlia, numerosis-
sima in apice fmiiculi dolabriformis verticalis inversa, foramine basin
ovarii spectante.

A very distinct variety of the beautiful A. Manglesii, ob-
tained like its prototype from Swan River by Mr. Mangles,
through the good offices of Sir James Stirling. It differs
from the broad-leaved form of the species in having very
narrow leaves, and somewhat smaller flowers which are

* From ftWiTxw I raise up, and ardos afiower ; but with what application'
is not evident.

either coloured reddish orange at the base as in this figure,
or of one uniform green.

Like the other species of this handsome genus this is
exceedingly easy to cultivate, if care be taken that the soil
in which it is grown contains a small portion of chalk mixed
with loam and peat. The plants are not very tender, living
near London with the protection of a frame in winter ; and
would no doubt thrive well in some of the sheltered gardens
in the mild southern climate of Great Britain.

Nothing can be more beautiful than the feathery hairs of
all the species in this genus ; they form striking microscopic
objects. Fig. 1. represents the ovary all covered with them;
and at the same time its interior, together with the long
slender style and the curious papilte that line the base of the
tube, are brought into view; 2. one of those same papillae;
3. an ovule with its singular hatchet-headed stalk.

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JASMINUM glaucum.

Privet-leaved Jasmine.

DIANDRIA MOI^IOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Jasminace*.
JASMINUM. Supra, vol. l.fol. ).

J. fjlaumm ; foliis oppositis ovato-lanceolatis mucronatis subcoriaceis subtripli-
nerviis, pedunculis terminalibus brevissimis trifloris, calycibus pilosiusculis
laciniis subulatis, corollee glabrae lacinlis senis ovalibus planis.

J. glaucum. Hort. Kew. ed. I. p. 9. Vahl. enum. 1. 30. Ventenat. hort.
eels. t. 55.

J. ligustrifolium. } t i i i

M° ■ -^ ,. > Lamarck, encyl. I. s.

ogonum myrtilohum.J •'

J. africanum foliis solitariis, floribus vulgatiori similibus. Commel. pi. rar.f. 5.

All old inhabitant of our gardens, but now neglected for
newer favourites. Nevertheless this Jasmine is sweet, pretty,
easy to cultivate, and not growing more than five or six feet
high, its slender branches are particularly well adapted to
be wreathed round one of those moveable trellises which
gardeners now employ with so much advantage for their
tender climbers.

It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, according to
Thunberg as high as a man in Lange Kloof, by the great
stream called Zonder End, and in the neighbourhood of
Brederivier.

It is a hardy greenliouse plant, flowering all the summer
long. The drawing was made in the garden of the Society
of Apothecaries at Chelsea.

* See fol. 1409.

Fig. 1. is a view of a corolla cut lengthwise ; 2. repre-
sents half a calyx, and ovary, together with the ovules,
style, and stigma.

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2014

* LOBELIA heterophylla.

Various-leaved Lobelia,

SYNGENESIA MO^iOGAMlA.

Nat. ord. Lobeliaceje.
LOBELIA. Suprd, vol. 1, fol. 60.

L. heterophylla ; glabriuscula, caule angiilato siinplici, racemo secundo, foliis
crassiusculis : inferioribus dentato-pinnatifidis, superioribus linearibus inte-
gerrimis, corollae labii inferioris lacinia media obcordata : lateralibus dimi-
diatis. R. Br. prodr. 420.

L. heteropbylla. Labillard. nov. holl. 1 . p. 52. /. 74.

This very beautiful half-hardy herbaceous plant was first
sent me in September last, by Mr. J. Ingram, of Southamp-
ton. It had been raised by Mr. William Shenton, of Win-
chester, who received it from Van Diemen's Land, from his
brother. It afterwards reached me from Mr. Veitch, of the
Mount Radford Nursery, near Exeter, with a memorandum
that the plant had been hung up iti the stove for more than a
month without the least soil, and without ceasing to flower ;
a very singular fact, and quite new in plants of this de-
scription. I have also been favoured with it by Mr. Man-
gles and others.

It is much the handsomest of the herbaceous Lobelias, as
will be obvious from the accompanying plate. The flowers
are of a particularly clear, rich blue, and so large as to pro-
duce a very rich and gay appearance, either when the plant

* See folio 1612.

is grown singly or in beds. The property of continuing to
ficrow and flower after beino' aathered, renders it invaluable
to those who grow flowers to decorate their sitting rooms.

GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX

VOLS. I. TO X. OF THE N *E W SERIES.

Acacia albida

leprosa

luuata

pentadenia

uncinata

Acantliophippium bicolor
Acjena pinnatititla
Aceras secundiHora
Adenotric'uia amplexicaulis
Adesmia Loudonia
Aerides cornutum
Agave geminiflora
AlstrJimeria psittacina

pulcbella, var. pilosa

aurantiaca

Amaryllis acuminata, var. /hh

peduuculala .

coranica, var. palli

intermedia

kermesina

Amelanchier floiida

sanguinea

Amygdalus communis, var. n

car pa

persica, var. nllni

Anasctochilus setaceus .
Anemone vitifolia
Angra'cum distichum .

caudatum

■ eburneum

micranthum

Anigozantbus Manglesii, i

angUHlJolia .
Anomatlieca cruenta
Anona laurifolia .
Antbocercis viscosa
Antbolyza ^tbiopica, var. nnnot-
Antburium gracile
Antirrbinum glandulosum
Apbelandra cristata
Aptosimum depressum .
Arbutus procera
Arctostaphylos tomentosa

Vol.

16

17

16

18

Ifi

20

15

18

14

ao

18
14
18
17

14
13
14
19
19
11

14
19
2.'3
16
21
22
18
21

23
l(i
16
19
14
19
oo

18

21
21

Folium

. 1317

. 1441

. 1352

. 1521

. 1.S32

1730

. 1271

. 1525

, 1190

, 1720

, 1485

. 1145

1540

1410

1843

1188
, 1219
1148
1638
1589
, 1171

13 60
1586
, 2010
1385
1731
1844
1522
1772

2012
1369
1328
1624
1159
1635
1S93
1477
1882
1753
I79I

Vol. Folium

Ardisia odontophylla . . 22 . 1892

Argemone grandiflora . 15 . 1264

ocbroleuca . 16 . 1343

Aristolochia caudata . 17 . 1453

■ ■ — Cbilensis . 20 . 1680

cymbifera . 18 . 1543

freiens . 21 . 1824

trilobata . 17 . 1399

Aspasia variegata . 22 . 1907

Aspbodelus luteus, var. iibiricus 18 . 1507

Aster adulterinus . . 19 . 1571

amvgdalinus . . 18 . 1517

concinnus . . . 19 . 1619

cor.Iifolius . . 19 . 1597

coridifolius . . i8 . 1487

cyaneus . . . 18 . 1495

eminens . . . 19 . 1614

eminens, var. virghieus 20 . 16o6

fiagilis . . . 18 . 1537

laivis . . . 18 . 1500

pallens . . . 18 . 1509

puuiceus, var. rfej7iissus 19 . 1636

spectabilis . . . 18 . 1527

Astragalus succuleutus . 16 . 1392

Audibertia incana . . 17 . 1464
Azalea calendulacea, var. suhcii-

prea . . . . 16 . 1306

calendulacea, var. lepida 17 . 1426

— — calendulacea, var. Stuple-

toniana . . . 17 . 1407

Indica, var. lateritia 20 . 1700

indica, var. vartegata 20 . 1716

nudiflora, var. schitiltans 1? . 1461

nudiflora, var. (fcursi/ioru 16 . 1367

pontica, var. sinensis 1.5 . 1253

-poaticvi, var. versicolor 18 . 1559

Seymouri . . 23 . 1975

Azara dentata . . 21 . 1788

Banksia littoralis

prostrata

quercifolia

speciosa

16 • 1563

19 . 1.572

17 . 1430

20 . 1728

GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES.

Banksia unuulata
Barleria lupulina
Bartliolina pectinata
Bartonia aurea
Batemannia Colleyi
Bauhinia r umanensis
Begonia heracleitblia

■ insi^nis .

• — petalodes

■ vil'osa

Eeloperone oblongata
Benthamia fragifera
Berberis aqiiil'olium

de;ilhata

i^Iuraacea

repens

Bifrenaria aurantiaca
Bignonia Clierere
Billardicra ovalis
Bilibergia pyramidalis, var.
BlacUwellia jiadiflora
Bletia florida

gracilis

reflexa

BcEbera incana
Bolbophyllum barbigerum

cocoinum

■ saltatorium

Brasavola cordata

nodosa

— Perrinii

Hrassia Lanceaua
Brcdijea grandiflora
Browaliia grandiflora
Brownlowia elata
Brugmansia bicoloT
Brunonia australis
Brunsvigia ciliaris

• grandiflora

Buddlea hereropbylla
Burlingtonia Candida .
Burtonia conferta

Cactus Ackerraann

speciosissimus, var. /.

tilts
Calandrinia arenaria
— grandiflora

Fol.
16
18
20
22
20
14
20
23
21
15
20
19
17
21
17
14
22
13
20
C()/or 14
J6
17
20
21
19
23
23
23
22

18
21
14
16
17
20
22
14
16
13
23
19

specrosa

Calantbe densiflora
Calatbea grandifolia
Calceolaria auj^stiflora

arachnoidea

ascendens

cliiloensis

crenaiiflora

diffusa

floribunda .

Herbertiana

Herbertiana, var.

viflora

Folium

. 1316
. 1483
. 1653
. 1831
. 1714
. 1133
. 1668
. 1996
. 1737
. 1252
. 1657
. 1579
. 1425
. 1750
. 1426
. 1176
. 1875
. 1301
. 1719
. 1181
. 1308
. 1401
. 1681
. 1760
. 1602
. 1942
. 1964
. 1970
. 1914
. 1465
. 1561
. 1754
. 1183
. 1384
. 1472
. 1739
. 1833
. 1153
. 1335
. 1239
. 1927
. 1600

19 .

19 ■

14 ,

19 ,

19

14

21

17

14

17

19 ,

16

14

16

Calceolaria polifolia
• — purpurea

16 . 1331

1596
1605
1194
1598
1646
1210
1743
1452
1215
1476
1603
1374
1214
1313

par

19 . 1576

rugosa

■ sessiiis .
viscosissima

■ Mr. Young's

Calliprora lutea
Calocbortus macrocarpus

luteus

splendens

Tenustus .

Calotropis procera

Camassia esculenta

Camellia japnnica, var. imbricata

japonica, var. punctata

japonica, var. Reeve-

Vol.

Folium

20

. 1711

19

. 1621

19

. 1588

19

. 1628

19

. 1611

17

. 1448

19

. 1570

14

. 1152

19

. 1567

20

. 1676

20

. 1669

21

. 1792

18

. 1486

17

. 1398

15

. 1267

18 . 1501

japonica var. Voticke-

laeri . . . . 22 . 1854

Campanula fragilis . 20 . 1738

. garganica . 21 . 1768

Portenscblagiana 23 . 1995

Canavalia bonariensis . 14 • 1199

Canna Acbiras . . 16 . 1338

discolor . . 15 . 1231

lagunensis . . 16 . 1311

Reevesii . . 23 . 2004

speciosa . . 15 . 1276

Capparis acuminata . 16 . 1322

Caprifolium bispidulum . 21 . 1761

longitlorum . 15 . 1232

occidentale . 17 . 1457

Cassia biflora . . 16 . 1310

Herbertiana . 17 . 1422

Castilleja coccinea . 14 . 1136

Catasetum luridum . 20 . 1667

• semiapertum . 20 . 1708

Cattleya crispa . . 14 . 1172

'- guttata . 17 . 1406

intermedia . . 22 . 1919

■ labiata . . . 22 . 1859

Celosia roccinea . . 22 . 1834

Cereus, crimson creeping . 19 . 1563

. triangularis . 21 . 1807

Cerojiegia elegans . 20 . 1706

Chasmonia incisa . . 15 , 1244

Cbeirantbus mutabilis . 17 . 1431

Cbelone centrantbifolia . 20 . 1737

nemorosa . . 14 . 1211

Chironia peduncularis . 21 . 1803

Cborozema ovatum . 18 . 1528

triangulare . 18 . 1513

Chrysanthemum indicum . 15 . 1287
indicum, var. ;i/a-

mivi . . . 18 . 1.502

Chryseis compacta . . 23 . 1948

Cbysis aurea . . . 23 . 1937

Cirrhrea Loddigesii . 18 . 1338

obtusata . . . 23 . 2005

tristis . . . 22 . 1889

19 . 1.575

Clarkia elegans

GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES.

Ciarkia rbomboidea
Clavija ornata
Clematis cblorantha

cccrulea

Cleome speciosissima
Clerodendrun hastatum
Clianthus puiiiceus
Cliutonia ele;^ans

• pulchella

Clivia nobilis
Coburgia fulva
Coccoloba virens
Coleus aroinaticus
Colletia borriiia
Collinsia bicolor
CoUomia coccinea

scran diflnra

■ beteropbylla

linearis

Colutea nepalensis
Combretum comosum

• grandiflorum

Conantbera campanulatu
Conocepbalus naudeiflorus
Convolvulus t'arinosus
Cooperia Drummondi .
Cordia grandifiora
Coreopsis Atkinsoniana

■ — a urea

Correa pulcbella
Corjantbes maculata

macrantba

Corydalis bracteata
Cosmelia rubra
Cosmus tenuifolius
Costus pictus
Cotoneaster frigida

laxiflora

miorophyll:

Ursi
Craspedia i^lauca
Crassula tuirita
CratEPgus Aronia

■ coccinea

— ■ cordata

■ Crus Galli, var. ov

folia

Douglasii

flara .
•/3

glaudulosa, var.

cracantha

lieteropliylla

iielerophjila

— microcarpa

Diexicana

- maroccaua .

- odoratissima

- orienlalis
■ oxvacantba oliveri:

- platyphylla .

■ali-

fol.

23
til
18

as

16
Id
21
15
22
14
18
21
18
21
20
19
14
16
14
20
14
19
14

14 .
Id .

22 .

18 .
16 .

15 .
15 .
21 .
29 .

19 .
21 .

23 .
19 .
15 .

15 .
)a

14 .
22

16 .
22
23
14

22
21 ,
23
23

22
14
22
22
22
22
22

ma 23 .
22 .

Folium
. 1981
. 1764
. 1234
. 1955
. 1312
. 1307
. 1775
. 1241
. 1909
. 1182
. 1497
. 1816
. 1520
. 1776
. 1734
. 1622
. 1174
. 1347
. 1166
. 1727
.1105
. 1631
.1193
. 1203
. 1323
. 1835
. 1491
. 1376
. 1228
. 1224
. 1793
. 1841
. 1644
. 1822
. 2007
. 1594
. 1229
. 1305

1187
1908
1344
1897
1957
1151

1860
1810
1939
1932

1912
1161
JE47
1846
1910
18.55
1885
1852
1933
1874

Vol. Folium

Crata^gus pyrifolia . . 22 . 1877

• prunitbUa . . 22 . 1868

spatbulata . . 22 . 1890

tanacetilblia . . 22 . 1884

Crinum latifoliuiu . . 15 . 1297

Crocus Imperati . . . 23 . 1993

■ pusillus . . . 23 . 1987

veinus, var. ^eucor/iv/ic/iHS 17 . 1416

vernus, VAT, pictus . 17 . 1410

Crotalaria verrucosa . 14 . 1137

Crvbe rosea . . . 22 . 1872

CupUea Llavea . . 16 . 1386

Cyclobotlira alba . - 20 . 1661

lutea ■ . 20 . 1663

pulchella . 20 . 1662

Cycnocbes I.oddigesii . 21 . 1742

Cymbidium ensitbiium, var. 23 . 1976

marginatum . 18 . 1530

Cynorcbis fastigiati . . 23 . 19';8

Cyrtanliius cariieus . . 17 . 1462

Cyrtocbilum tlavescens . 19 . 1627

Cyitopodiuai U'oodfordii . IS . 1508

Cypripedium macrantbos . 18 . 1534

■ ■ purpuratum . 23 . 1991

spectabile . 20 . 1666

Cytisus asolicus . . . 22 . 1902

Laburnum Purple . 23.1 965

raultiflorus . 14 . 1191

Dapbne bybrida . . 14.1 177

Daubenja aurea . . 21 , 1813

Delpbinium azurcuui . 23 . 1999

Barlowii . . 23 . li;44

-^— intermedium . 23 . 1963

rulescens

lidum

■ IMenziesii

■ montanum
- ^[ieniosum

Deudrobium aggregatum

• anceps

— cbrvsanthum

Dendrobiura cnpreuni

densiflorum

longicornu

■ ■ macrostacbyura

moniliforme

. Pierardi

■ secundum

speciosum

Deutzia scabra
Diantbus Libanotis
Digitalis ladniata
Diilwynia glycinifolia
Diospyrus iMabola
Diplopappus incanus
Dipodium punctatum .
Douglasia nivalis
Draca;na surculosa

ptil-

23 . 1984

14
23
18
20
15
15
21
21
16
22
16
21
15
19
20
18
14
18
14
20
23
22
14

1969

, 1192

1936

1503

1695

1239

, 1299

, 1779

1828

1315

1865

1314

, 1756

, 1291

1610

. 1718

, 1548

1201

1514

1139

, 1693

1980

, 1886

, 1169

GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES.

Dracasna terminalis
Drimiu villosa
Duvaua dependens
■ latiiblia

Dyckia rariflora

Echeveria gibbiflora
Echinocactus oxvgonus

■ — Eyriesii

Echites stellai-js
Edvraidsia cbilensis
EL-tagnus anyustifolia
Klichrysum bicolor
Empetrum rubrum
Ejjitcris nivalis
Epideiidram ^mulura

armeniacum

■ bilidum

clnvatuni .

j^racile

nocturnum, /3

odoratissimum

oncidioides

■ Skinneri

Epimedium macrantbum
Erantliemum facundum
Erica codonodes
Eriogonum compositum
Ehopbyllum ca;spitosum
Erytlirina carnea

poianibes

— jiomnthes, var. sui

Tits

Errtbroniura g;raudiflorum
Escallonia moclevidensis

illiuita

Escbscboltzia ralifornira

Eucharidium concinnum
Eulopbia ensata

IMackaiana

■-- macrostacbya

Eupatorium gUindulosum
Euphoria Longan
Eurvbia corvmbosa
Eurycles Cunnioghamii
Eutoca divaricala

' multiHora

viscida

Francoa appeniliculata
Fernandezia acuta
Fucbsia bacillaris

discolor

■ globosa

• micropbylla

tbymifolia

Gaillardia aristata
Cialatella punctata

1-2
16
19
19
19
21

15

SJO
20
20
21
14
21
21
18
22
22
22
22

21 ,
23 ,
17 ,

19 ,

22 .
22 .
17 .

20 .

21 .

14 .
1(5 .

15 .

19 .

21 .
17 .

22 .
14 .

20 .

23 .
14 .

17 .
23 .
20 .

20 .

18 .

18 .

21 .

14 .
21 .

19 .
21 .
18 .
21 .
18 .

15 .
15

14

21

t'uliiiin

. 1749

. 1346

. 1373

. 1580

. 1568

. 1782

1247

1717

1707

. 1664

. 1793

• 1156

. 1814

. 1783

. 1531

. 1898

. 1867

. 1819

. 1870

. 1765

. 1961

. 1415

. 1623

. 1881

. 1906

. 1494

. 1698

, 1774

1167

1327

1246

1617
1786
1467
1900
1168
1677
1962
1147
1433
1972
1723
1729
1532
1506
1784
1180
1803

1645
1806
1480
1805
1556
1269
1284

1186
1818

Vol- Folium

Ualipea odoratissima
Gardenia pannea
Gardoquia Gtlliesii

■ Hookeri

Garrya elliptica
Gaslrolobiam retusum
Gaultberia Sballon
Genista procumbens

monosperma

Geodorum t'ucatum
Uesnera allagopbylla

faucialis

laieritia

macrostacbya

■ rutibi

rutila,_Tar. atrosangi

• Suttoni

Geura cbilense, var grandiflt

GiUaAcbiileaffolia

Gilia coronopitolia

■ capitata

tenuiflora

■ tricolor

Gladiolus psittacinus
Glycine biloba
Godetia vinosa

■ lepida

rubicund a

Gomjjbolobium capitatum

■ Knightiauum

■ marginatum

' tenue

tomentosum .

venulosum

Gongora maculata
Govenia superba
Grabowskia boerbaaviailoba
Greviilea concinna

■ — punicea

Grobya AniberstiiB
G uetlarda speciosa

Habenaria procera
Habranthus Andersoni

Bagnoldi

graciliiblius, /3

Phycelloides

Hakea linearis
Hamelia ventricosa
Haylockia pusilla
Hedycbium coccineum
Heliantbus lenticuiaris

tubseformis

HeMconia pulverulenta
Herminiuni cordatum
Hesperoscordum lacteum
Heucbera cylindrica

■ micrantba

Hibiscus lilacinus

Lindleii

— palustris

17
23
21
21
20
19
17
14
22
20
21
21
23
14
14

0 15
19

1 16
20
20
14
22
20
17
17
22
22
22
18
17
18
19
17
19
19
21
23
16
16
20
17

22

16 ,

17 ,
23 ,

17 ,
18
14 .
16 .

14 .

15 .

18 .

19 .

18 .

19 .
23 .

. 1420
. 1952
. 1812
. 1747
. 1686
. 1647
. 1411
. 1150
. 1918
. 1687
. 1767
. 1785
. 1950
. 1202
. 1158
. 1279
. 1637
. 1348
. 1682
. 1691
. 1170
. 1888
. 1704
. 144-,;
. 1413
. 1880
. 1849
. 1856
. 1563
. 1468
. 1490
. 1615
. 1474
. 1574
. 1616
. 1795
, 1985
, 1383
. 1319
, 1740
, 1393

1858
1345
1396
1967
1417
1489
1195
1371
1209
1265
1519
1648
1499
1639
1924

15 . 1302
23 . 2009
17 . 1395
17 . 1463

GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES.

Vol.

Folium

Vol.

Folium

Hibiscus Rosa sinensis

21

. 1826

Leucopogon parpiflorus

18

. 1560

19

. 1629

Liatris scariosa

20

. 1654

Horkelia tusca

23

. 1997

Libertia I'orniosu

19

. 163l)

Hosackia bicolor

15

. 1257

Lilium speciosum

23

. 2000

^ ___ C 1 1"! 1 /^ T^ t T^FO

23

. 1977

Limnanthes Douglasii

20

. 1673

~ O lUlUIlIItrra •

Hosta cccrulea

14-

. 120+

Limnocharis lluniboldti

19

. 1640

Hovea chorozemaefolia

18

. 1524

Linaria Ualmatica

20

. 1683

17

. 1427

. 1423

Linum mexicauum

sibiricum, var.Leiff'sii

16
14

. 1326
. 1163

purpurea

17

18

. 1512

Lipatis elata

14

. 1175

Hyacintbus spicatus

22

. 1869

20

. 1671

Lissaiuhe sapida

15

. 1275

Indigofera atropurpurea

21

. 1744

Litbospermum losmariuifoliu

m 20

. 1736

louopsis tenera .

22

. 1904

Loasa ambrosi^efolia

16

. 1390

Iponicea Aitoni

21

. 1794

Placei

19

. 1699

Ipomopsis eleg^ans

15

. 1281

Lobelia decuirens

22

1842

Irisalata

22

. 1876

23

. 2014

bicolor

17

. 1404

longifiora

14

. 1200

tenax

15

. 1218

17

. 1445

Ismene Amancaes, var sulyki

irea 20

. 1663

purpurea

16

. 1325

Isopogon formosus

15

. 1288

Tupa

19

. 1612

Lonicera involucrata

14

1179

Jasminura acuminatum

15

. 1296

Lopliantbus anisaius

15

1282

gliiucum

23

. 2013

Lophospermum eiubescens

16

1381

17

. 1-109

Lotus arenariuy

18
15

1488
1261

Justicia carnea

17

. 1397

Lowea berberifolia

rtittTlta

16

. 1334

Lupiuus arbustus
albifrons .

15
19
15

1230

1642
1242

15

1227

— — — quadraugularis

16

13^0

■' aridus

— . .venusta

16

1380

densiflorus

20

1689

elegans

18

1501

Kaempferia Roscoeana

14

. 1212

laiifolius

22

1891

Kaijeneckia crategit'olia

22

. 1836

14

1140

Kennetlya dilatala

18

1526

■ lepidus

14

1)49

22

1838
. 1421
. 1862

1790

iej)top]iyllus

20
14
15
18

1670

1 T» /-I »-. Kl ' 1 1 **

17

22

11S8
1251

IlllUIilllO I

Marrjaitce

21

1539

~ lUUiaitllla

raonophvUa, var.

longi-

nanus

20

1705

16

1336

14

1216

racemoi^a . .

orurtius •

20

1715

piuniosus

15

1217

. Stirling!

22

1845

polypbvllus, var. a

lid-

Kerra japonica .

22

1873

tiovtis

16

1377

rivularia

19

1595

Laclienalia pallida

16

1350

Sabinianus

17

1435

— P ■ ■

23

1945

versicolor

23

1979

Lailia anceps

21

1751

Lyciinis Bungeana

22

1864

j3 .

23

1917

Lalage ornata

20

1722

Macradonia triandra

21

1815

Lapeyrousia anceps

22 .

1903

Riadia elegans

17

1458

Lasthenia caliiornica

21

1823

Magnolia \'ulan, x^wSoulaitg

aua 14

1164

21
14

1780
1144

Malva jMunroaiia .

16

1306

Lathyrus califomicus

16

1362

16

1388

14 .

1603

tingltanus

LeJocarpum pedunculare

17

1392

Maniinillanu pulera

16

1329

l.epantlies tridentiita

21

1762

• tenuis

18 .

1523

Lepechiiiia spicata

16

1292

Waneitia cordit'olia

22

1866

Leptosiphon androsaceus

20

1710

JMart^nia diandia

23 .

2001

— . densiflorus

20

. 1725

Maiillaria aromatica

22 .

1871

Leptotes bicolor

19

1625

ciliaris

14 .

1206

Leucocorvne odorata

15

1293

cristata

21

IBIl

GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES.

Maxillaria crocea
decolor

densa

picta

racemosa

rufescens

Steellii . . 23

tetraijona . 17

viridis . . 18

Rlaytenus cliilensis . . 20
Megaclinium maximum
Mesembryanthemum rubrocinctum 20
jMicbausia l^vigata
IMicrostylis opbioglossoides
Willabiflora
Wiltonia spectabilis
Mimulus luteus, var. variegat

propinquus

roseus

Smitbii

jVIirbelia Baxter!
IMonacbanthi monstrum
IMonacbantbus discolor

viridis

IMormodes atropurpurea
]\Iorna nilida
jMoscbaria pinoatifida
IVIyantbus barbatus

cernuus

I — deltuideus

Nanodes discolor
Nectaroscordum siculum
Nemopbila atomaria
aurita

insignis

Nierembergia'tilicaulis
Nicotiana persica
Nuttallia cordata

Ocbranthe arguta . . 21 . 1819

Oenothera anisoloba . . 18 . 1479

bifrons . . 17 . 1405

— biennis, vargrondi^ora 19 . 1604

Qinotbera decumbens . . 15 . 1221

densiflora . . 18 . 1593

bumit'usa . . 22 . 1829

glauca . . 18 . 1511

pallida . 14 . 1142

serotina . . 22 . 1840

tenella, var. (enui/i)(m 19 . 1587

viminea . . 15 . 12'J0

Oncidium altissimum . . 22 . 1851

altissimum . 19 . 1651

ampliatum . 20 . 1699

- Cebolleta . . 23 . 1994

cdiatum . . 20 . 1660

citrinum . . 21 . 1758

cornigerum . 18 . 1542

23 . 1920
23 . 2006

■ crispum
• deltoideum

Vol.

21

18

21

21

19

Folium
. 1799
. 1549
. 1804
. 1802
. 1566
. 1848
. 1986
. 1428
. 1510
. 1702
. 1959
1732
. 1451
. 1290
. 1555
. 1992
. 1796
. 1330
. 1591
. 1674
. 1434
. 1951
. 1735
. 17.52
. 1861
. 1941
. 1.564
. 1778
. 1721
. 1896

Vol. Folium

18 . 1541

22 . 1319

23 . 1940

19 . IdUl

20 . 1713
19 . 1649
19 . 1592
23 . 1938

Oncidium Harrisoniarum

— iridifulium

Lanceanum

Lemonianum

lunatum

pulcbellum

Kussellianura

Ononis peduncularis
Ophrys aranifera, varlimlnita
Opuntia aurantiaca

monacantba

Orcbis foliosa

papilionacea

Ornitbogalum cbloroleucum
latifolium

Orobus atropurpureus
Osbeckia nepalensis, var
Osalis Bowiei

Cummingi

divergens

Piottffi .

. tortuosa

variabilis

Oxyura cbrjsantbemoides

Pacbypodium tuberosum
Palavia rbombifolia
Pa;onia albiflora, var. Pottsii

■ hybrida

— — -Vloutan

Moutau lacera

Semidouble tree

Pancratium pedale
Papaver Persicum
Passitlora ligularis

gossypiifolia

kermesina

phcenicea

Pentsteniou acuminatum

attenuatum

■ breviflorus

confertura

deustum

dilfusum

■ glandulosum

glaucum

■ — heteropbyllum

. — pruinosum

■ pulcbellum

Scouleri

speciosum

staticilblius

■ tripbyllum

■ venustum

23
21

albifiom 17
19
18
19
21
15
18
22

Pereskia Bleo

aculeata

Peristeria carina
Perilomia ocymoides
Pernettia mucronata
Persea gratissima
Petunia violacea

19
22
22
21
23
21
22
17
14
19
20
20
14

. 1569
. 1911
. 1887
. 1789
. 1929
. 1787
. 1830
. 1447
. 1197
. 1606
. 1726
. 1701
. 1155
. 1853
. 1978
. 1763
. 1475
. 1585
. 1545
. 1620
. 1817
. 1249
. 1505
. 1850

16 .

16 .

17 .

14 .

20 .

21 .
17 .
19 .
17 .
19 .

19
19 .

19 .

15 ■
15 .
23 .

15 .

16 .

14 .

15 .
15 .

22 .
15 .

14 .

15 .
15 .
21 .

15 .

16 .

17 .

23 .
23 .
17 .

20 .
15 .
19 .

GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES

Vol.

Foliuin

Vol.

Folium

Petunia intermedia

23

1931

Pyrus sinensis

15

1248

Phacelia tanacetifolia

20

1696

spuria

14

1196

Pharbkis diversifolia .

23

19!i8

Pharium fistulosum

18

1546

Ranunculus creticus, var macro

Pbloniis fiuccosa

15

1300

phiiUtts

17

. 1432

Phlox Drumraondi

23

1949

Rapbiolepis rubra

17

1400

speciosa

Iti

1351

lieevesia tbyrsoidea

J 5

. 1',j36

Pliiladt-lphus speciosus

23

2003

Robniannia cbineusis .

23

1960

Philodendron crassinerviura

23 .

19.)8

Reuantbera coccinea

14

1131

Pholidota imbricata

14 .

1213

Rhodantbe Manglesii

20

1703

imbricata

21

1777

Rbodocbiton volubile .

21

. 1755

Phycella brevituba

23 .

1943

Rbododendron Alta-clerense .

17

1414

Herbertiana

16 .

13H

arboreum, var.

Physianthus alhens

21 .

1759

roseu7)i

15

1240

Pimelea humilis

lb .

1268

bispida

19 .

1578

album

20

1684

17 .

21

1439

11. ,'7

ligustrina

cinnamorneum

23

1982

sylvestris

19

1582

Cartons

17

1449

Platystemon Californicum

20 .

1679

al

18v.'0

— '• ■ puiv-uemiiiuiii

Platystigma lineare

23 .

1954

Ribes cereum

15

. 1263

Pleu'rotballis Grobyi

21

1797

divaricatum

16

. 1359

. — picta

21

1825

inebrians

17

1471

prolifera

15

1298

— — niveum

20

. 1692

i^rtttm*f^ft-.r-\li'i lui*

■US

16

1968
1378

punctatum

sangaineum

26
16

. 1658
1349

Plurneria Lambertiaria

X^odolobium trilobatum

16

1333

• setosum

15

. 1237

Polenionium cceruleum, var.

piU-

speciosuni

18

. 1557

ferwn .

15

1303

tenuifiorum

19

. 1574

humile

15

1304

Rondeletia odorata

22

. 1905

Polygala oppositifolia, var ma

jor 14

1146

Hose Clare

17

1438

Polygonum injucundum

1.)

1L'50

Rosa multiflora, var platyphylla

16

. 1372

Portulaca Gillit^sii

20

1672

Ruga

16

. 1389

PoteiitiUa arg^uta

16

1379

sinica

23

. 1922

glandulosa

19

1583

Rubus nutkanus

16

. 13u8

-. ;3

23

1973

roridus

19

. 1607

Hopwoodiana

16

1387

17

. 1424

laciniosa

18

1478

Ruellia Sabiniaua

15

. 1238

17

1412
1496
1492
1337

Kussellia juncea

21

. 1773

■RntsplI',

18

Ti^cosa

18

Saccolabium papillosum
Sagiitaria angustifolia

18

. 1552
. 1141

Pothos scandens

16

14

Pratia begonifolia

16

1373

Salpiglossis atropurpurea

18

151 8

Primula venusta .

23

1983

Salvia angustifolia

18

. 1554

Prescottia colorans

22

1916

foliosa

17

. 14'.'9

Pninus candicans

14

. 1135

fulgens

16

. 1356

dasycarpa

15

. 1243

Graiiami

16

. 1370

21

. 1801

14

. 1205

. japonica

Psoralea orbicularis

23

. 1971

Sarcantbus guttatus

17

. 1443

macrostacbya

21

. 1769

Sarcocbilus falcatus

22

. 1832

Pultenfea flexilis ' .

20

. 1694

Sauroglossum elatura

19

. 1618

19
19

. 1584
. 1632

Scapbyglottis violacea
Scbizantlius pinaatus, var humilis

22

. 1901

18

. 1562

Pursbia tridentata

17

. 1446

retusus

IB

. 1544

Pyrolirion auieum

20

. 17ii4

Scilla plumbea

16

. 1355

Pyius angustifolia
crenata

14

. 1207

Cupaniana

22

. 1878

20

. 1655

Scottia anf;ustifolia

15

. 1266

BoUwylleriana

17

. 1437

dentata

15

. 1233

grandifolia

14

. 1154

^^ la?vis

19

. 1652

■ nivalis

17

. 1434

Scutellaria alpina

18

. 1460

salvilblia

18

. 1482

alpina, var tupulina

18

. 1493

GENERAL INDEX TO THE NEW SERIES.

Sedum Cepapa
Selago Gillii
Sempervivum villosum

urbicum

Senecio lilacinus

Tussilaginis

Serapias cordigera, var. /ongtpcd
Silene laciniata

chlora?folia

Sinningia villosa
Sisyrinchium grandiflorum

. graminifoliom, var,

pumitum

odoratissimum

Sohndra guttata
Solanum crispum

etuberosum

SoUya heterophylla
SopiioTa velutitia
Soulangia rubra
Sparaxis peudula
Spartium acutifolium
Spermadictyon aznreum
Spbacele tampanulata
Spbierostema propintjuum
Spbenotoira capitatum

Spiraea ariiEfolia
barbata

cliamaedrifolia

Spirantlies bracteosa

Stacbvs atbicnulis

^ermauica, var. pubesci

inflata

Salvia

Stackbousia monogyna

Stanhopea eburnea

— insignis

. oculata

Stapelia Gussoueana

Statice puberula

Stemodia cbilensis

Stenactis speciosa

Sterculia lanceolata

Tragacan'ba

Stenibergia colcbiciflora

Stigmapbyllon aristatum

Stranvafsia glaucescens

Streptocarpus Rexii

Stylidium fasciculalum

Syringa Josiksea

Tabernfpmontana densiflora
Tacsonia pinnatistipula
Talautna Candollii
Tecoma jasminoides

Vol.
16 ,
18
18 ,
20
16
18
la 14
17
23
14
13

22
15
18
18
20
17
14
18
16
2 '3
15
16
20
18
16 ,
23 ,
15
23
18
;ns 15
20
15
22
18
22
21
20
17
17
19
15
16
23
20
23
14
17
20

Folium
. 1391
. 1504
. 1553
. 1741
. 1342
. 1550
. 1189
. 1444
. 1989
. 1134
. 1364

. 1915
. 1283
. 1551
. 1516
. 1712
. 1466
. 1185
. 1498
. 1360
. 1974
. 1235
. 1382
. 1688
. 1515
. 1365
. 2011
. 1222
. 1934
. 1558
. 1289
. 1697
. 1226
. 1917
. 1529
. 1837
. 1800
. 1731
. 1450
. 1470
. 1577
. 1256
. 1353
. 2008
. 1659
. 1956
. 1173
. 1459
. 1733

Tellimagraiidiflora
Teucrium orcbideum
Tbermopsis fabacea
Thryaliis bracbystacbys
Tillaiidsia acaulis

- rosea

- stricta

Tracbymene ccErulea
Tradescantia undata
Tricbocentrum fuscum
Tricbopetalum gracile
Tricbopilia tnnilis
Trifolium fucatum

ve^iculosum

Trigouidiiim obtusuni .
Trislania macropbylla
Triteleia nniflora

laxa

Tritoma Burcbelli
Tropffiulum pentapbyUum

tricolor

tracbyceras

Tulipa Oculus solis, var. per

Oculus solis, var. pr

scabriscapa

Tupistra nutans
Turra*a pinnata

Ulex genistoides

I'oi. Folium

14 .

1178

15 .

1255

15 .

1272

14 .

1162

14 .

1157

16 .

1357

16 .

1338

15 .

1225

17

1403

23

1951

18

1535

22

1863

22

1883

17

1403

23

1923

22

1839

23

. 1921

20

1685

21

. 1745

18

. 1547

23

. 1935

23

. 1926

sica 14

. 1143

■if cor 17

. 1419

23

. 1990

15

. 1223

17

. 1413

17 . 1452

15 . 1273
18 . 1536
20 . 1709
23 . 2002

Vaccinium ovatum

16 .

1354

Vanda teres

21 .

1809

Verbeua Aubletia, var.

23 .

1925

Melindres

14 .

1184

multifida contracta

21 .

1766

sulpburea

21 .

1748

Veruonia axilUflora

17

1464

Veronica perfoliata

23 .

1930

Viburnum cotinifolium

19

1650

Villarsia reniformis

18

1533

Viola pra2mor5a

15

1254

Westringia longifolia

18

1481

Wigandia caracasana .

23

1966

Xeropbyllum setifolium

19

1613

Yucca Draconis .

22

1894

flaccida .

22

1895

superba .

20

. 1690

Zepbyrantbes mesocbloa

16

. 1361

• Spoffbrtbiana

21

. 1746

Zinnia violacea, var. coccinea

15

. 1294

Zygopetalum cochleari .

22

. 1857

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