CURTIS’S
BOTANICAL MAGAZINE;

BARRA OR

Flower Garden Displapen:

In which the most Ornamental Foreieén Pants cultivated in the Open Ground,
the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented and coloured.
To which are added,

THEIR NAMES, CLASS, ORDER, GENERIC AND SPECIFIC CHARACTERS,
ACCORDING TO THE SYSTEM OF LINNEUS;

Their Places of Growth, Times of Flowering, and most approved
Methods of Culture.

CONDUCTED

‘By SAMUEL CURTIS, F. L. S.

‘THE DESCRIPTIONS

By Str WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K. H.

LUD. F. R. A. and L. S.and Regius Professor of Botany in the
University of Glasgow.

VOu. X11. 6
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Hipprastrum amBicuum: var. 1. longiflora. AmBre-
vous Knient’s-star Lity: var. 1. long-flowered.

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Class and Order.

HexanpriA Monoeynta.
( Nat. Ord.—AmaryLLivEd. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium declinatum, tubo infra abbreviato, mem-
brana fauciali non annulari, limbo quater dispare ; Scapus
spathaceus cavus, capsula trivalvis, semina testa nigra.
W. Herbert.

Specific Name and Character.

Hirrrastrum ambiguum; perianthio tubuloso, sezmentis
intus rubro bistriatis, fauce leviter barbata, stylo fila-
menta superante perianthium subequante stigmate
trifido.

Var.1. Longiflora ; perianthio 8 unciali. Ex Lima, Pe-
ruvie allata. Tab. nostr. 3542.

Var. ll. Tweediana ; perianthio subsexunciali. Specim.
Herb. Hooker. (Tweedie.) Ex Brasilia meridionali ?
WH,

Several bulbs of this plant were received from J. MacLean,
Esq. by Mr. Murray, from Lima, and have flowered mag-
nificently in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The inflores-
cence is remarkably like that of the mules obtained by the
admixture of H. solandriflorum with H. Regina-vittatum,
crossed again with vittatum. The beard is fainter than in
H. vittatum, and the plant occupies an intermediate situa-
tion between this species and H. solandriflorum. Whether
it be a garden production at Lima, or exhibits a natural
local variation of the Genus, we have no means of ascer-
taining ; it seems principally distinguished from ‘T'wEEDIE’s

specimen

VOL, XI. B

specimen gathered on the East coast of the continent by the
superior size, and, perhaps, paler colour. The Valley of
Lima is so small, the distance being only seven or eight
miles from the steep granite mountains to the sea, and the
breadth of the plain very inconsiderable, that it is probably
nota native of the immediate vicinity of Lima. W. Herbert.

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EPIDENDRUM CRASSIFOLIUM. ‘'THICK-LEAVED
EPIDENDRUM.

| Class and Order.

GynaANDRIA MonanprIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipea. )

Generic Character. i

Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia vel
angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia vel reflexa. Labellum
cum marginibus columnz omnino vel parte connatum,
limbo integro vel diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato vel
tuberculato ; nunc in calcar productum ovario accretum et
auriculum formans. Columna elongata ; clinandrio margi-
nato, sepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis.
Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbez
(Americane) epiphyte, caule nunc apice vel basi pseudo-
bulboso, nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, raris-
sme venis elevatis striata. Flores spicati racemosi, corym-
bosi, vel paniculati, terminales vel laterales. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ermenprum crassifolium ; foliis distichis oblongo-lanceola-
tis crassiusculis acutis, caule apice longe aphyllo squa-
moso, squamis superioribus lineari-oblongis zqualibus
labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus dimidiatis denticulatis,
intermedio obcordato denticulato majore basi calloso,
callo carnoso concavo margine lobato, racemo brevi
subcorymboso.

ante og crassifolium. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p.

ee ellipticum. odd. Bot. Cab. t. 1276. (not

rah.)

This plant is a native of Rio Janeiro ; and the Glasgow
Botanic Garden is indebted for the possession of it to =
well-

well-known liberality of Mr. Loppices. It is undoubtedly
the plant figured in the Botanical Cabinet under the name
of E. ellipticum, which Dr. Linpuey refers to bis E. crassifo-
hum: but I am far from certain that the two are really the
same species. The leaves in Mr. Loppiczs are by no
means thick for this groupe of Epmenprum, they are not
obtuse, nor concave, and the shape of the middle lobe of
the lip is different. Whilst ours is a Brazilian plant, the
original E. crassifolium is a native of St. Vincent. Be that
as it may, ours is an exceedingly pretty and lively-looking
species, many stems in the same pot bearing their heads of
bright, rose-coloured flowers in the month of March.
Descr. Stems erect, wavy, terete, leafy ; leaves disti-
chous, alternate, oblong, patent, or slightly recurved,
oblongo-lanceolate, moderately thick, and somewhat cori-
aceous, rather acute, obscurely striated, sheathing at the
base, of a dark, glossy, green colour. The extremity of
the stem runs out into a long jointed peduncle, sheathed
with membranous bracteas, of which the upper ones have a
tendency to become leafy. Spike corymboso - capitate.
Flowers full rose-colour. Sepals and petals obovato-lanceo-
late, spreading, nearly equal. Lip uppermost, its claws
combined with the nearly triquetrous column, at the apex
of which, the anther is sunk in a sort of cavity ; lamine of
the lip deeply three-lobed, toothed, lateral lobes rotundato-
cuneate, entire, the middle one the largest, obcordate: the
disk fleshy, concave, with a thick wayed and lobed border.

Fig. 1. Column and Lip :—magnified.

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SISYRINCHIUM SPECIOSUM. SuHuowy Sisy-
RINCHIUM.

Class and Order.

TrianpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Irivez. )

Generic Character.

Spatha diphylla. Perianthium simplex, corollinum, pro-
funde 6-partitum, ewquale. Filamenta connata. Stylus
simplex. Stigma trifidum. Capsula 3-locularis, infera.

Specific Name and Character.

SIsyRINCHIUM speciosum ; bulbosum, caule tereti flexuoso
subramoso, foliis linearibus angustis striatis preecipue
radicalibus caulem subequantibus, spatha biflora, flo-
ribus speciosis, perianthii foliolis patentissimis oblongo-
spathulatis (purpureo-ceruleis basi intense flavis) fila-
mentis liberis, stylo tripartito ramis patentibus linea-
ribus superne canaliculatis, stigmatibus emarginatis
velutinis.

A native of Chili, whence bulbs were imported by Mr.
‘Towarr (gardener to Her Royal Highness the Dutchess of
Gloucester, Bagshot Park), and by him communicated to
Mr. Murray, at the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The same
beautiful species has been sent from Valparaiso in Chili, by
Mr. Cumine, and distributed as No. 498 of his Herbarium;
by Mr. Marnews, No. 308; and by Mr. Briners, No. 415: |
and again by the last-mentioned collector (in one instance
bearing a remarkably broad leaf) from marshy places near
Valdivia (No. 252). About Valparaiso, it is found on sandy
hills ; and a dry and light soil, with a sunny situation in the
greenhouse, are what are required to bring this beautiful
plant to perfection in our country. It has flowered with us
in June.

Descr.

Descr. Bulb ovate, enveloped with a dark brown, mem-
branous and loose coat, which forms a sheath considerably —
above the bulb. Stem three to four or five inches high, —
slender, rounded, wavy, somewhat branched, glaucous. At —
the origin ofa branch bearing a leaf with a sheathing base, —
which produces flowers like the spatha. Leaves mostly —
radical, distichous, linear, narrow-acuminate, deeply striat- —
ed, sheathing at the base, the inner ones about as long as —
the stem. Spatha of two unequal leaves, about two-flow-
ered. Peduncle an inch long, curved. Perianth of six —
oblongo-spathulate, bright purple-blue sepals, yellow atthe
base, slightly waved, spreading, the three inner ones a little _
smaller: Stamens three: Filaments inserted a little above _
the base of the perianth, nearly erect, free, yellow, broader _
at the base. Anthers orange, linear- oblong, eventually
twisted. Style yellow below, dividing into three spreading _
slender branches, which are longer than the stamens, purple,

grooved above. Stigmas velvety, emarginate. Ovary in- Q
ferior, oblong, glabrous.

Fig. 1. Flower, with the Perianth removed. 2. The same, with the Sta-
mens also removed :—magnified.

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CENOTHERA FRUTICOSA, var. ambigua.
SuruBBy Eveninc Primrose, var.

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Class and Order.

OctanpriA Mownoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Onacraries. )

Generic Character.

Calyx tubulosus, 4-partitus, deciduus. Petala 4. Cap-
sula cylindrica vel prismatica, 4-locularis. Semina nuda,
cortice fungoso placente columnari centrali affixa. Spreng.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

(Enornera fruticosa; perennis glabra vel pilosa, caule
erecto herbaceo, foliis sublanceolatis dentatis punctis
linearibus pellucidis notatis, floribus terminalibus co-
rymbosis, calycibus acuminatis, capsulis pedicellatis
clavatis 4-alatis.

(«.) vera ; corymbis pedunculatis, petalis late obcordatis.

CEnornera fruticosa. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 492. Hook. Fl.
Bor. Am. 2. 1. p. 212. Nutt. Gen. Am. v. 1. p. 247.
Torrey Fl. of Un. St. p. 389.

(8.) ambigua ; corymbis pedunculatis, petalis longioribus
quam latis—(E. fruticosa, 8. ambigua. Nutt. l. c.
Torrey l. c. (Tab. nostr. 3545.)

CEnornEera ambigua. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 229.
De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 50.

(Enornera Canadensis. Gold. in Ed. Phil. Journ. 1821,
p.7. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 52.

(y-) phyllopus ; pedunculo folioso, (seu corymbo sessili.)
NOTHERA fruticosa. Curtis Bot. Mag. t. 332. De Cand.
Prodr. v. 3. p. 50.

CEnornera serotina. Sw. Br. Fl. Gard. 2d Ser. t. 184.
Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1840.
(3.) incana ; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis incano-pilosis. :
CEnorHera incana. Nutt. Gen. Am.v. 1. p.52. De Cand.
Prodr. v. 3. p. 52. Torrey Fl. of Un. St. v. 1. p. 389.
(y.) Fraseri; glaberrima, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis.
CENOTHERA

CEnoruera Fraseri. Pursh Fl. Am. Suppl. p.734. Nutt.
Gen. Am. v. 1. p. 247. Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1674. De
Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 51.

(2.) linearifolia ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis.—An QE. linearis.
Mich. et auct. ?

(noruera fruticosa is a species, widely extended through-
out North America, from Canada to Carolina ; but so vari-
able in its foliage and hairiness, as to have suggested the
idea of there beimg the several species above enumerated.
The only kind, about which I feel at all doubtful, is the GE.
linearis of Micuaux, whose leaves, besides being very nar-
row, are more opaque, and exhibit the pellucid linear dots,
above alluded to, very imperfectly. Indeed, they are not
seen in the recent state of the true fruticosa. Linnxus
made it one of the characters of his original plant, that it
should have the raceme pedunculated ; which is very often
not the case with our species, as represented in an early
plate of this Magazine, on which account I have reduced
that toa variety. Sprencen and De Canpouze have raised
the state of the plant here figured to the rank of a species,
which, I think, it by no means merits. (8. Fraser? and
Ck. incana I consider to be broad-leaved varieties of OE.
Jruticosa; the former remarkable for its freedom from
hairs, (it is found plentifully by Dr. Suorr at Kentucky, )
while the latter, of which I possess specimens from Wabash,
gathered by Mr. Gotprg, is abundantly clothed with hairs.
An exactly intermediate state is found at West Chester, by
Mr. Townsenv. Our 6. ambigua was communicated by
Mr. Miter of the Bristol Nursery to the Glasgow Botanic
Garden ; where, slightly sheltered, it flowered in J uly.
Although the stem is very downy, the peduncle is quite
glabrous, and instead of leaves, as in var. y, there are only
small, linear bracteas at the base of the short pedicels.
It may be thus described :—

Descr. oot perennial. Stem annual and herbaceous, as in all the
varieties, erect, mostly simple, very downy. Leaves lanceolate, toothed,
more or less distinctly; slightly downy. Peduncles terminal, quite
glabrous, naked below, bearing a corymb of flowers, which afterwards
elongates into a raceme. Flowers large for the size of the plant, hand-
Some, rather pale yellow. Pedicels short, with a small, linear bractea
at the base. Calyx acuminated. Petals four, narrow, obcordate, stri-
ated, spreading. Fruit immature, oblongo-clavate, with four broad
wings, and as many moderately elevated, obtuse angles.

Fig. 1. Lower Leaf, nat, size. 2. Immature Capsule, magnified.

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TRADESCANTIA CARICIFOLIA. SEDGE-LEAVED
SpIDER-WORT.

KER KEKE KEE EERE EERE E
Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—CommetineEa. )

Generic Character.

Calyx et Corolla profunde tripartita. Filamenta subvil-
losa. Capsula 3-locularis. Spr.

Specific Name and Character.

Trapescantia caricifolia ; erecta glaberrima gracilis, foliis
lineari-attenuatis subtus carinatis vaginis ciliatis, um-
bella sessili terminali congesta, bracteis lineari-acumi-
natis.

Allied to the common Garden Spider-wort, (T. Virginica)
differing, however, in its much smaller size, slenderer habit,
much narrower leaves and bracteas, and in the entire free-
dom from hairs of every part of the surface of the plant,
the margins of the sheath alone being ciliated. The colour
of the flowers is variable, for in some of the dried native
specimens they are decidedly of a rose-colour, and if we
look to the character usually given of T’. rosea, Micn., we
shall find it to accord pretty well with our plant, though in
reality no two species can be more distinct; the latter being
very small in every part, with pedunculated umbels. Our
plant is a native of Texas, where it was found b Mr.
Drummonp. With us it has flowered in August and Sep-
tember, under a cool frame. : :

Descr. Stem a foot or more high, quite erect, simple or
branched, rounded, glabrous, jointed. Leaves arising from
the joints, eight to ten inches long, half an inch across in

the widest part, linear-acuminated, quite glabrous, striated,
sheathing

sheathing at the base, the sheaths ciliated at the margins.
Involucre of two unequal bracteas, of the same shape as the
leaves, but shorter. Umbel sessile, terminal, of many pedi-
cels, at first curved downwards, then erect. Calyx of three
green, glabrous sepals, tipped with purplish. Corolla of
three broadly-ovate, spreading petals, thrice as long as the
calyx, and of a fine purplish-blue colour. Stamens six,

equal in length ; filaments blue, clothed with long, shaggy,
blue hairs: Anthers deep yellow. :

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Tursaenia Lupwictana. Lupwie’s
TULBAGHIA.

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Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.
-( Nat. Ord.—Liniscez. Lindl. )

Generic Character.

_ Spatha bivalvis, multiflora. Corolla urceolato-infundibu-
liformis ; tubus cylindricus, erectus ; limbi lacinie 6, pro-
fundz, equales, lanceolate, patentes. Corona (vel Necta-
rium) e foliolis 3 distinctis vel in tubum connatis, fissis,
equalibus, carnosis. Stamina 3 in fauce tubi, 3 intra
tubum. Anthere subsessiles, ovate. Stylus teres, tubo
multo brevior. Stigma turbinatum, depressum. Capsula
ovata, trigona, trilocularis ; valvulis 3, emarginatis. Se-
mina numerosa, oblonga, obtusa, compressa, corrugata.
m.

Specific Name and Character.

TuLpacuta Ludwigiana ; floribus erecto-patulis, limbo tu-
bum crassum subangulatum equante, perianthio In-
terno carnoso flavo trilobo, lobis obtuse emarginatis.

arv,

TULBAGHIA Ludwigiana. Harv. MSS.

‘een

Bulbs of this species were sent to the Ludwigsburg Gar-
dens, Cape of Good Hope, from the borders of Cafferland,
by Mr. Zier in 1834, and have now (Oct. 1835) come into
flower there for the first time. In many characters it ap-
Proaches T.. alliacea ; but is amply distinguished from that
Species by the distinctly three-lobed, bright yellow, interior
Perianth. I have great pleasure in distinguishing it with

name of my valued friend, the Baron von Lupwie, whose

well-known patr f Botany amply entitles him to any
patronage of botany amply eae

honour that Science can bestow, and to whom the South
African Botanist in particular is under great obligations.
Through his means many new plants have already been
disseminated in Europe, and many more may be expected
from the constant exertions he is making to procure bulbs
and seeds from the most remote parts of the colony. Harv.

Descr. Root (?). Root-leaves distichous, six to eight
inches long by an inch wide, numerous, patent, ensi-
formi-ligulate, somewhat acute, flexuose, rigid, glabrous,
bright green. Scape erect, glabrous, filiform, two feet
and more high. Flowers umbellate,—when in bud, droop-
ing,—afterwards patent and erect. Umbel simple, about
eight-flowered. Spatha two-valved : valves ovate, acute,
membranaceous, sphacelate ; the exterior large, and equal-
ling the peduncle in length. Peduncles one to two inches
long, slender, filiform. Exterior Perianth of one piece, in-
ferior, patent: tube short, half an inch long, its length
about equalling the breadth, obtusely angular, gibbous at
the base, greenish-purple, or green with purple streaks; the
limb six-partite, its segments ovate, obtuse, plane, as long

as the tube, green with a purple margin, in a double series,

the three inner ones a little longer and adnate with the sides
of the inner perianth, the three outer free, s reading. Inner
perianth forming a crown to the mouth se the tube, thick,
fleshy, yellow, a little shorter than the outer, mouth trian-
gular, three-lobed : lobes emarginate, or obsoletely biden-
tate. Iilaments none (or rather they are adnate with the
tube of the perianth.) Anthers six, sessile, in a double
Series: the three superior inserted under the apices, the
three inferior in the axils of the lobes, two-celled : cells
bursting longitudinally. Ovary oval, glabrous, marked
with resinous dots, obsoletely six-grooved, three-celled.
Ovules numerous: Style erect; cylindrical, about equal in
length with the germen: Stigma subcapitate, truncate.
Smell strong, resembling that of Onion. W. H. Harvey.

No apology, we trust, is necessary for representing this
and another very pretty species shortly to be figured, of
TULBAGHIA, as we are quite sure the Baron von Lupwie will
have pleasure in introducing them to our collections.

hah 1. Flower cut open. 2, Pistil. 3. Section of the Ovary :—mag-
nified.

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MADIA ELEGANS. ELecant Mapia.

KEK EEK KEK EEE EEE EEEEK
Class and Order.

SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA.
( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. )

Generic Character.

Radius femineus uniserialis. Discus hermaphroditus.
Corolla radii lingulata, lingula triloba tubum superante.
Achenium erostre, quadrigono-compressum, quadricos-
tatum disco epigyno parvo.—Herbe Chilenses, viredes,
erecte ; foliis alternis, semiamplexicaulibus, oblongis; capt-
tulis luteis, terminalibus vel axillaribus ; rachide plana,
nuda ; involucris uniserialibus pubescentibus. Less.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Mapia * elegans ; panicula multiflora, radio elongato.

Mania elegans. Don in Bot. Reg. t. 1458.

Maparia elegans. De Cand. Prodr. 2. 5. Not. sur les
Pl. rares de Geneve, n. 7. p. 17.

A hardy annual, clothed with the same clammy and fetid
pubescence as the common Mapa viscosa of Chili ; but, in-
stead of having very small and imperfect rays, as in that
species, they are developed and spreading so as to give a
totally different appearance to the plant. It 1s a native of
North-West America, where it was discovered by the late

Mr. Davin Dovetas, and through him introduced to the
: Horticultural

* From Madi, the vernacular name of the plant in Chili.

+ The volume of DE CanpoLiE’s Prodromus, where the character of
this genus, Maparia, is given, not having reached me, although published,
at the time this sheet went to press, I have been unable to avail myself of
that author’s essential characteristic marks; and have, hence, for the present,
been induced to give the plant under its old appellation.

Horticultural Society. With us it blossoms through most
of the summer months, and is already become a general
favourite in our flower borders.

Descr, Stem erect, two to four feet high, much branch-
ed and panicled above, clothed, as is the whole plant, with
unctuous fetid hairs, many of which are tipped with globu-
lar black glands. Leaves sessile, oblongo-lanceolate, the
upper ones obscurely nerved, the lower ones larger and
broader, with more evident parallel nerves, and a few trans-
verse connecting ones. Panicle much branched, leafy.

Flowers numerous, large, handsome. Involucre subglobose, _

of a nearly simple series of channelled, subulato-lanceolate
scales, their points only spreading. Corollas of the ray ob-
long, deeply and sharply three-cleft, yellow, with a blood-
coloured spot at the base, bearing pistils only. Style short.
Stigmas subulate: Achenia embraced by the scales of the
involucre, obovato-oblong, laterally compressed ; disc ob-
lique » pappus none. Filorets of the centre with abortive
pistils, tubular, hairy below and at the apex. <Anthers
protruded, as is the stigma, which is downy, and the seg-
ments are combined. Receptacle conical, downy, bearing
a row of scales only within the floret of the ray

Fig. 1, Abortive Floret of the Disk. 2, Floret of the Ray, of which the
lower part is embraced by the involucral Scale. 3, Achenium.— Magnified.

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HlippEASTRUM BREVIFLORUM. SHORT-FLOW-
ERED Kwyicut’s-STAR LILy.

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Class and Order.

HexanpriaA Monoeyntia.
( Nat. Ord.—AmarvLuiDEs. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium declinatum, tubo infra abbreviato, mem-
brana fauciali non annulari, limbo quater dispare ; Scapus
spathaceus cavus, capsula trivalvis, semina testa nigra. W.
Herbert.

Specific Character.

Hippeastrum breviflorum ; pedunculis 23 uncialibus, tubo
4 unc. rubro striato, limbo 2 unciali albo stella lutes-
cente rubro-lineata parte inferiore obsoleta, stylo fila-
menta superante perianthium vix equante, stigmate
trifido. W. Herbert.

A very distinct species of a most difficult Genus, of
which roots and dried specimens have been sent by Mr.
Tweepre from the neighbourhood of Buenos Ayres. The
specimen from which the accompanying figure was taken,
blossomed in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden in
April, 1836, and promises to bea valuable acquisition to our
collections. Iam indebted to the Hon. and Rev. W. Her-
BERT, for its specific name and character.

Descr. Scape nearly three feet high, rounded, glaucous.
Spatha of two lanceolate, membranous leaflets. Umbel, in
our specimen, of six flowers, destitute of fragrance. Pedicels
obtusely tetragonal. Perianth campanulate, its length
equalling the diameter at the mouth, formed of six pieces,
of which the five upper ones are rather broader than the
rest, lanceolate and more closely placed, wavy towards the

apex,

VOL. XI. Cc

apex, white, striated ; externally slightly tinged with yellow-
green, and marked with a central broad, red streak, vanish-
ing below the middle ; within, the same red streak is sep
rated by a white line down the middle. The disk, at th
base within, closely surrounds the filaments, and is strong
ciliated. Germen obovato-trigonous. Style rather shorter
than the perianth, curved upwards, flesh-coloured. Stigma
of three linear lobes. Filaments also assurgent ; three

alternate ones shorter; all shorter than the style, flesh-
coloured.

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( 3550 )

LOBELIA POLYPHYLLA. MANY-LEAVED
LOBELIA.

SEEK KK KEKE KEE RE ERER ERE
Class and Order.

PentTANDRIA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord. —Lose.1acez. )

Generic Character. .

Corolla tubo hinc fisso (raro integro) ; limbo 5-partito.
Anthere connate. Stigma bilobum (nunc indivisum).
Capsula 2-locularis (raro 3-locularis) apice supero bivalvi.

r.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Lopenia polyphylla ; suffruticosa, foliis late oblongo-lan-
ceolatis brevissime petiolatis coriaceis confertis argute
serratis glaberrimis, racemo folioso, pedicellis pubes-
centibus folio brevioribus, calyce hemispherico-pubes-
cente dentibus subulatis integerrimis, corolla pubes-
cente pedicello longiore.

Loses polyphylla. Hook. et Arn. in Bot. Journ. v. 1. 9%.

277. ‘Bot. of Beech. Voy. v. 1. p. 33.

A very handsome species of Losetia, of which our first
nowledge was derived from specimens collected at Valpa-
raiso during Capt. Bercney’s Voyage. It was afterwards
gathered in the same country by Mr. Bripces and Mr.
Cumine. The var. “ 8. foliis angustioribus,” found by Mr.
UMING at Coquimbo, we now incline to consider a new
Species, having quite entire leaves. Our drawing was taken
tom a fine flowering specimen sent by Mr. Knicur of the
ing’s Road, Chelsea, to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in
September, 1835.
Escr. It is a perennial plant, and suffruticose ; a foot,
or more high, branched ; the branches rounded, glabrous,
thickly

Ailpecs

thickly clothed with leaves, which are from two to four
inches long, erecto-patent, coriaceous, oblongo-lanceolate,
acute, scarcely petiolate, of a bluish-green, and paler be-
neath, reticulated with veins, the sides often turned upwards,
the margin furnished with numerous sharp, irregular teeth,
which, under a glass, seem enlarged or glandulose at the
extremity. Raceme terminal, leafy, the leaves often so re-
duced in size, as to resemble bracteas, as in the specimen
here figured : at other times, the leaves are as large as those
of the stem, and then the flowers may truly be said to be
solitary and axillary, often terminated with a crown of
barren leaves. Pedicel shorter than the bractea or leaf,
downy. Calyx (including the germen) with an hemispher-
ical tube, green, slightly downy, with five, erect, subulate
teeth. Corolla of a deep blackish, or blood-purple colour,
thrice as long as the calyx, curved, with adeep cleft above, _
through which the column of stamens and style ascends,

the-segments slightly downy, spathulate, combined at their
apices. Filaments purple. Anthers closely combined,

curved, brownish ash-coloured, the two lower ones slightly
bearded at the apex.

Fig. 1. Flower and Bractea; magnified. 2. Leaf: nat. size.

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( 3551 )

GAILLARDIA BICOLOR; var. Drummondii, integer-
rima. Two-coLtourep GaLarpia; Drummond’s
entire-leaved variety.

KER EEE ERE EERE KERR EERE
Class and Order.

SyNGENEsSIA F’RUSTRANEA.
( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. )

Generic Character.

Receptaculum paleaceum, hemisphericum. Pappus pa-
leaceus. Involucrum imbricatum, planum, polyphyllum. |
Corolle radii trifidi. 2

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Gaittarpra bicolor ; radii corollis 3—5-dentatis, tubo brevi
inappendiculato, involucri foliolis plurimis subulato-
lanceolatis.

Gaittarpia bicolor (for Synonyms and several varieties see
Tab. 3368). ;

Var. 8. Drummonpir integrifolia ; foliis omnibus integerri-
mis. (Tab. nostr. 3551.)

Gatarpia picta. Sw. Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 267.

This beautiful plant, which we still hold to be only a
variety of G. bicolor, is identical with the G. picta of the
** British Flower-Garden,”’ and in reality differs in no re-
spect from our var. Drummondii, except in having all the
leaves entire. It is derived too from the same country,
having been found in Texas by Mr. Drummonp, and intro-
duced by him to our gardens, in the spring of the year
1835. We have figured it the more readily, because it
affords us an opportunity of pointing out clearly the spe-
cific differences between it and our G. trifidum.

Fig. 1. Root Leaf ; nat. size. 2. Floret of the Ray. 3. Floret of the
Disc. 4. Scale of the Pappus :—magnified.

( 3552 )

LACHENALIA GLAUCINA. GLAUCOUS-FLOWERED
LACHENALIA.

SEK KR KKK KEKE KEE EERE
Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—AspHopELE2. )

Generic Character.

Corolla 6-petala vel 6-partita, campanulato-cylindrica et
campanulata ; petalis 3 interioribus longioribus, extimis
subcalycinis magis acutis. Stamina erecta, basi petalorum
inserta. Anthere incumbentes. Stylus subulatus, stigmate
simplici vel obsolete trifido. Capsule 3-alata vel ovato-
olay cee 3-locularis. Semina plura, globosa, biseriata.

acq.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

LAcHENALIA glaucina ; foliis geminis oblongis, floribus ses-
silibus, petalis interioribus duplo longioribus apicibus
patulis obtusis, stylo staminibusque paulo longioribus
Inclusis.

Lacnenauia glaucina. Jacq. Coll. Suppl. p- 39. Ic. Rar.
t.391. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 284. Spreng.
Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 78. i :

(«.) flore pallide cerulescenti, scapo foliisque immaculatis.

(8.) flore lilacina, scapo foliisque maculatis.

A very handsome species of LacHENALIA, for the pos-
session of which the Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted
to Baron Lupwic, of the Cape of Good Hope. There are
two varieties, of which the principal figure here given re-

resents the original species of Jacquin, with spotless
eaves and scape, and which, with us, has the palest and
bluest flowers (always changing, however, to lilac as they

fade): while the other has its leaves and scape eau

and the flowers are, even in their youngest state, more in-
clined to lilac or rose colour. Of the latter kind a single
flower is given at fig. 5. Its flowering season in this coun-
try is August.

Descr. Bulb small, roundish, about the size of a hazel
nut. Leaves two, oblong, striated, erecto-patent, in « des-
titute of spots; in 6 spotted. The scape varies in the
same way, and is below the spike, a length about equal to
that of the leaves, covered with a glaucous bloom. Spike
many-flowered. Bracteas small, subulate. Flowers sessile,
about an inch long. Outer segments of the perianth
(which might well be called a calyx) oblongo-ovate, erect,
with a gland just below the apex, of a yellowish-green
colour at the base, blue, or rose-coloured in 8, and more or
less dotted with blue: inner segments twice as long as the
outer, spathulate, obtuse, erect, spreading only at the ex-
tremity. Stamens unequal, shorter than the style: both
are ascending and included. Filaments subulato-filiform,
white. Anthers very small, yellow. Germen ovato-glo-|
bose, three-lobed, green. Stigma capitate.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil. 3, 4. Stamens. 5. Flower of @.:—all slightly
magnified.

Pah by 5. Curtis, Glaxeneood Essex Feb. 11837

( 3553 )

DesMopium CANADENSE. CANADIAN
DeEsmMopIuM.

SE a oe ee oe

Class and Order.

Diapetpa1a Decanpria.
( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosa, )

Generic Character.

Calyx basi bibracteolatus ad medium obscure bilabiatus,
labio superiore bifido, inferiore 3-partito. Corolla papi-
lionacea, vexillo subrotundo, carina obtusa non truncata,
alis carina longioribus. Stamina diadelpha (9 et 1), fila-
mentis subpersistentibus. Legumen constans articulis plu-
rimis ad maturitatem secedentibus compressis monospermis
membranaceis coriaceisve, non aut vix dehiscentibus. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Desmoprum Canadense ; caule erecto pilosiusculo striato,
foliis pinnatim trifoliolatis, foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis
obtusis glabriusculis, stipulis filiformibus, racemis ter-
minalibus, leguminis articulis 4—5 ovalibus obtuse
triangulis pube brevi hispidis.

Desmopium Canadense. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 328.
Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 1. p. 154.

Hepysarum Canadense. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1054. Pursh,
Fl. Am. v. 2. p. 481. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 3. p. 313.

A very frequent inhabitant of North America, from Ca-
nada to the extreme Southern States; and though, I
believe, far from common in the collections of this coun-
try, it deserves a place in every garden, on account of its”

numerous racemes of handsome flowers. It is, as may be- eo

Supposed, perfectly hardy, and blossoms with us in July.

Descr. Stem one and a half to two feet and more high. 5 .

erect, branched, striated, more or less hairy, panicled
above. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate, on very short petioles,
with a linear-subulate downy stipule on each side. Leaflets
petiolulate, two to three inches long, oblongo-lanceolate,
obtuse, more or less downy. Racemes terminal, often
branched, bearing many flowers. Pedicels short. Calyx
two-lipped, hairy, reddish-green ; upper lip broad, bifid;
lower m three deep, lanceolate segments. Corolla of a fine
purple rose-colour. Vexillum large, soon reflexed, with two
white spots at the base of the limb, which are surrounded
by a dark ring: Ale nearly as long as the vexillum, ob-
long, obtuse, enclosing the carina. Legume about an inch
and a half long, of generally five oval, or obscurely and

bluntly triangular, downy joints, mostly tipped with the
permanent style.

Fig. 1. Side view of a Flower. 2. The same with the Carina reflexed.
3. Calyx. 4. Legume:—nat. size. 1—3 magnified.

Fib. by S. Curtis, Glarenwood Essex, Feb 11837,

( 3554 )
Limnantues Dovetasi. Mr. Dovenas’
LIMNANTHES.

TERRE KEE EEE ERK KEE REK
Class and Order.

Decanpria Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Limnantuez. Br. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus. Petala5. Stamina 10. Nucula 5.—
Herba annua, carnosa, glaberrima ( Californie) ; floribus
conspicuis.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Limnantues * Douglasii.

Limnantues Douglasii. Br. in Lond. et Ed. Phil. Mag.
July, 1833. Benth. in Hort. Trans. v. 1. N. 8. p. 409.
Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1673.

A very pretty hardy annual, with fragrant flowers, dis-
covered by the Naturalist whose name it bears in California,
whence he sent both specimens and seeds to the Horticul-
tural Society. It is not only a new Genus, but what gives
additional interest is, that Mr. Brown has made it the type
of a new Order, which, including FLoerKea, another annual,

glabrous, and succulent North American plant, he has _

called Limyanrurm, and placed near Grraniacez. The
subject of our present plate flowers in June and July. |

_Descr. Plant glabrous; the stems much branched, espe-
cially near the base, decumbent, eight to ten inches long,
rounded. Leaves alternate, on long petioles, pinnated with

one to three pairs of oblong or lanceolate leaflets, ogi

peceneemere

foreseen

_* Avwm, a lake, and avboc, a flower. The plant is believed to inhabit the
sides of watery places,

odd one: these are acute, entire, or incised, sometimes
pinnatifid. Peduncles axillary, about as long as the leaves,
solitary, single-flowered. Calyx deeply cut into five lance-
olate spreading entire segments. Petals five, inserted im-
mediately beneath the filament, oblongo-cuneate, spread-
ing, emarginate at the apex, yellow, white towards the
extremity, veined, at the base on each side having a line of
hairs. Stamens ten, shorter than the petals, pale yellow.
Filaments equal in height, every alternate one ( opposite
to the petal) with a concave gland at the back near the
base. Anther oval, fixed by the back, turned outward.
Germen of five deep, ovato-globose lobes. Style single,
shorter than the stamens. Stigmas of five rays, each tipped
with a little globose head.

Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Stamens and Pistil. 3. One of the Stamens bearing a
Gland. 4. Pistil :—magnified.

W hitch del: Fisb.by 3. Curtis, Aamo. Ess: x FeBLIG37. ywe".

( 3555 )

TULBAGHIA VIOLACEA. VIOLET-FLOWERED
TULBAGHIA.

KER KEKE EEE ERE KEE EERE
Class and Order.

Hexanprta Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Litiscez. Lindl. )

Generic Character.

Spatha bivalvis, multiflora. Corolla urceolato-infundibu-
liformis; tubus cylindricus, erectus ; limbi lacinie 6, pro-
funde, zquales, lanceolate, patentes. Corona (vel Necta-
rium) e foliolis 3 distinctis vel in tubum connatis, fissis,
equalibus, carnosis. Stamina 3 in fauce tubi, 3 intra tubum.
Anthere subsessiles, ovate. Stylus teres, tubo multo bre-
vior. Stigma turbinatum, depressum. Capsula ovata, tri-
gona, trisulca, trilocularis ; valvulis3 emarginatis. Semina
humerosa, oblonga, obtusa, compressa, corrugata. Lam.

Specific Name and Character.

Turpaeuta violacea; foliis lineari-ensiformibus numerosis,
floribus patulis, tubo gracili limbum superante, peri-
anthio interno triphyllo. Harv.

Turpacuia violacea. Harv. MSS.

This beautiful plant, a native of Southern Africa, flow-
ered in the Ludwigsburg garden, at the Cape of Good
Hope ; but its exact lneabee was not known to Mr. Har-
VEY, to whom we are indebted for the drawing and descrip-
tion here given. The roots were immediately derived from
the Government Gardens, the plant having been sent some
years previously to Lady Frances Cote.

_Descr. Root? Leaves several, sheathing at the base,
Six to eight inches long, one fourth of an inch wide, linear-
ensiform, plane, or obsoletely grooved, obtuse, quadrifari-
ous, glabrous, coriaceous and rigid, bright gree . Seape

‘erect, a foot and more high, slender, glabrous, filiform,
bearing a simple wmbel whose flowers open in succession.
Spatha of two ovate, acute, membranaceous, patent, wrin-
kled, purplish pieces. Flowers eight to nine, erect or
patent, bright, purple, shining. Peduncles slender, about
equal with the tube of the perianth. Perianth double:
outer of one piece, salver-shaped ; tube three-fourths of an
inch long, slender, triquetrous ; limb six-partite ; sepals in
a double series, linear-obtuse equal in length with the
tube, the margins incurved: interior of three leaves in-
serted at the mouth of the tube, short, oblong, one-fourth
the length of the limb, obtuse, or emarginate, or bifid,
placed opposite the three interior segments. Stamens six,
sessile, in a double row: the three upper ones opposite the
three leaves of the inner perianth just described ; the three
lower alternating with them. Ovary ovate, very short,
with six furrows, three-celled: ovules numerous. Style
cylindrical, short, somewhat angled, one-third the length
of the tube: Stigma obtuse. Scent powerful, alliaceous.

—

Ae 1. Flower laid open. 2. Pistil. 3. Section of the Ovary :—mag-
nified.

Clazenweood Asccve March! 7837.

( 3556 )

PeTuNIA vioLaceaA ; hybrida. Purpie
Petunia; hybrid var.

KEEEE EEE EERE EEE EEE EK

Class and Order.

Pentranpria Monoeyntia.
( Nat. Ord.—Sotanez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx breve tubulosus, laciniis foliosis. Corolla tubo
cylindraceo vy. ventricoso, limbo plicato inequali plano 5-
lobo. Stamina 5, inzqualia, inclusa, medio tubo corolle
Inserta. Ovarium disco insertum, dente unico utrinque ad
suturam instructo. Stigma capitatum. Capsula valvis 2
integris, seminibus sphericis reticulatis. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Perunta* violacea ; caule debili viscido-piloso, foliis brevi-
petiolatis acutis, corolla ventricose laciniis rotundatis
acutis.

Perunta violacea. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1626.

Saxricxossis integrifolia. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3113.

Nrerempereta phenicea. Sw. Brit. Fl. Gard. N. S. t. 193.

‘Hybrida. (Tab. nostr. 3556.)

The charming groupe here figured represents seedling
varieties of a hybrid between Perunia violacea and P.
nyctaginiflora, and it must be confessed that here, as in
many other vegetable productions, the art and skill of the
Horticulturist has improved nature. Cultivation, alone,
has, indeed, very much increased the size of the flowers and
foliage of this plant: so that it can scarcely be recognized

as

* From Petun, the Brazilian name of the Genus, according to Jussieu.
VOL. XI. D

as belonging to the same species as the native specimens sent
by Mr. Tweenie ; while in plants that are raised from seeds
which are the offspring of P. nyctaginiflora and P. violacea
(as represented in the annexed plate), the tube becomes
longer, and narrower than in the latter, and the whole
plant, save in colour, almost precisely similar to the former.
There are various shades of purple on the corollas, but in
every one the tint, though often exceedingly brilliant on the
first expansion, soon fades to a paler and less bright hue.
Some are pale pink, streaked within with deep purple lines,
very much after the manner of Satptexossis picta :—others
are nearly of a pure white ; but all have the tube dark-
coloured. These varieties are equally hardy with the
parents.

With regard to the Genus of this plant, I never can
consent to its being referred to Nrerempereia; but I do
entirely agree with Professor Linpiey in uniting it with
Perunta, and gladly adopt the amended character which
that able Botanist has given of this Genus, and the views he
has taken of its structure and affinities.

‘These varieties of Perunta and the Patox Drummondit
were decidedly among the greatest ornaments of the green-
house in the Glasgow Botanic Garden during the month of
May (1836), a season too early for them to come to perfec-
tion in the open border.

Pub by S. Curtis Glaz crpood borer March.I 7837 Swan Jt

( 3557.)

EPIDENDRUM CHLOROLEUCUM. GREEN AND
WHITE-FLOWERED EPIDENDRUM.

KKK KEE EERE EERE EE

Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA MonanpRIiA.
( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEz. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis zqualia v.
angustiora rarius latiora, patentia v. reflexa. Labellum cum
marginibus columnz omnino vel parte connatum, limbo in-
tegro vel diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato v. tuberculato ;
nune in calcar productum ovario accretum et cuniculum
formans. Columna elongata; clinandrio marginato sepe
finbriato. Anthera carnosa 2—4 locularis. Pollinia 4,
caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe ( Americaneé )
epiphyte, caule nunc apice v. basi pseudo-bulboso, nunc
elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, rarissime venis eleva-
tis striata. Flores spicati, racemosi, corymbosi vel panicu-
lati, terminales vel laterales. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Eripenprum chloroleucum ; pseudo-bulbis oblongo-ovatis
diphyllis, foliis ensiformibus racemum simplicem &-
quantibus, sepalis petalisque patentibus spathulatis,
labelli omnino liberi trilobi lobis lateralibus oblongis
erectis columnam in parte tegentibus intermedio cor-
dato acuto, disco lineis tribus elevatis.

Imported from Demerara by Joan Attcarp, Esq., who
indly communicated the flowering specimen here repre-
sented in September, 1836. That zealous cultivator justly
remarks its near affinity with my Encycr1a patens (Bot. Mag.

t. 3013), which Professor Linpey, I do not doubt properly,
refers

refers to Epmpenprum, and which he describes under the
name of Epmenprum odoratissimum (Bot. Reg. t. 1415).
The figure just quoted, indeed, more resembles our plant
than it does my Encycuia patens ; but the lip is different,
and the flowers are by no means fragrant.

Descr. Bulbs oblong-ovate, somewhat wrinkled, and —
sheathed with large scales. Leaves two, terminal, eight to
ten inches long, oblong-ensiform, coriaceous, faintly striat-
ed, the margin a little reflexed. Scape arising from the
apex of the bulb between the leaves, bearing a single ra-
ceme of eight to ten scentless flowers. Sepals and petals
spreading, equal, spathulate, green. Lip entirely free from,
but closely allied to, the column, white, three-lobed, the
lateral lobes curved upwards, and in part surrounding the
column, intermediate one cordate, acute, with three slightly
elevated lines on the disk. Column pale green, semicylin-
drical, grooved above, on each side having a projecting
white ring. Anther hemispherical.

Fig. 1. Column and Lip. 2. Lip. 3. Column.

tubby S. Curt. Glazenwoed Essex: Marl 1837.

( 3558 )

EcHINOCACTUS MAMMILLARIOIDES. MAMMIL-
LARIA-LIKE E\CHINOCACTUS.

SER KKK KKK KEKE KEE EEE
Class and Order.

IcosanpRIA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Cacrez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala numerosa imbricata, basi ovarii adnata, in tubum
brevissimum concreta, exteriora involucriformia, intima
petaliformia. Stamina numerosa. Stylus filiformis apice
multifidus. Bacca sepalorum reliquiis subsquamata. Coty-
ledones nulla ?—Frutices simplicissimi carnosi ovati aut
globosi melocactoidet costati aphylli, costis tuberculis conflu-
entibus quasi formatis, dorso aculeorum. jasciculos gerentibus.
Cephalium seu spadix nullus. Flores e fasciculis aculeorum
ad apices costarum orti, similes floribus Cerei sed tubo vix

ullo donatit. D C.

Specific Name and Character.

Ecuinocacrus mammillarioides ; subrotundo-cylindraceus
mammillosus, mammillis magnis conico-hemisphericis
subangulatis in costas 14—16 subspirales irregulares
dispositis, apicibus lanosis spinis sub-7 breviusculis
gracilibus patentibus pallidis terminatis, floribus flavo-
rubris.

Introduced by Mr. Hrrcnin from Chili, and now in the
rich collection of Cactea of Messrs. Mackre of the Laken-
ham Nursery, near Norwich, who kindly communicated the
drawing of the flowering specimen in the autumn of last
year (1836). They justly observe, that the species appears
in the structure of the stem to be intermediate between Mam-

MILLARIA and Ecuinocacrus. It iscovered with mammille of
a

a large size indeed, but these are arranged in cost, which
are irregular, and slightly spiral ; but the flowers appear to
be quite those of the latter genus.

Not having seen the living specimen, I do not attempt a
description ; nor does the excellent figure seem to require
it. It flowers very freely, and the blossoms continue in
perfection for several days. In one instance, there were
about sixteen flowers expanded upon the same plant at one
time.

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BrEGONIA OCTOPETALA. EIGHT-PETALED
Breconia.

Class and Order.

Monazci1a Ponyanpria.
( Nat. Ord.—Brcon1Acez. )

Generic Character.

Masc. Calyx o. Corolla polypetala, petalis plerumque
4, inequalibus—Fzm. Calyx o. Corolla petalis 4—9,
Plerumque inequalibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Capsula triquetra,
alata, trilocularis, polysperma. :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Brconia octopetala ; acaulis, foliis longe petiolatis cordatis
lobatis serratis, pedunculo longissimo, floribus mascu-
lis subocto femineis subsexpetalis, capsule ala ob-
longa elongata porrecta.

BrcGonta octopetala. L’Hérit. Stirp. p. 101. Spreng. Syst.
Veget. v. 2. p. 627.

Queen

Tubers of this truly fine species of Beconza were sent in

5 from Lima, by Joun M‘Leay, Esq., to the Glasgow
Botanic Garden, where the large flowers, like those of an
Anemone, were produced in the stove during the months of
October and November in the following year. Dried spe-
cimens were also communicated by Mr. Maruews from the
Same country: but they do not appear in any of the sets
which were distributed by that zealous Botanist. It was
originally discovered by Domsey, and from his dried speci-
mens it would appear L’Heririer’s description was made.
Living plants also were at that time in the Jardin des Plantes,
but they did not produce flowers. We have found that
those individuals bloomed best, which were in the warmest
Situation in the stove.
Descr.

Descr. Root tuberous. Stemnone. Leaves upon long,
succulent, downy petioles, a foot and ahalf or more in length,
cordate, from six inches to a span long, deeply lobed and
serrated at the margin, slightly downy, most so upon the
prominent veins beneath, of a bright green colour. Scape
about as long as the petioles, rounded, downy, bearing the
large, greenish-white flowers in corymbs ; in the dried spe-
cimens each peduncle has two or three such corymbs, and
in each corymb of from four to six flowers, the upper flowers
are male, the lower female : pedicels with caducous bracteas.
Male flowers two inches in diameter, of eight or nine obo-
vate, spreading, unequal petals, of which the outer ones are
greener than the inner. Stamens exceedingly numerous, of
which several in the centre are abortive, club-headed ones.
—Female flowers smaller than the male. Petals fewer,
generally six. Germen downy, turbinate, triquetrous, three-
lobed, two of the angles with small, indistinct wings, the
third with a very large, oblong, porrected one, slightly
toothed and reddish at the extremity. Styles several,
branched. Stigmas lobed, penicillate.

Fig. 1. Pistil, slightly magnified. 2. Stamen. 3. Abortive ditto: mag-

nified.

Whitch det Lib by 8. Curtip Aacenwvod 255 Mat! 37

( 3560 )
MIMULUS CARDINALIS. CARDINAL MoNKEY-
FLOWER.

TKK KEKE KEK KEK KKK KKK KEK
Class and Order.

Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Scropnutarin2. )

Generic Character.

Calyx tubulosus, angulatus, 5-dentatus. Corolla perso-
nata; labio superiore bilobo lateribus reflexo ; inferiore
trifido, laciniis subaqualibus. Stamina 4, didynama. An-
therarum lobis divaricatis. Stigma bilamellatum. Capsula
calyce inclusa, bilocularis, loculicido-bivalvis ; valvis inte-
gris. Kunth. :

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Mimutus cardinalis ; villosus subviscidus, foliis obovato-lan- |
ceolatis dentatis subquinquenerviis basi connatis, pe-
dunculis elongatis, dentibus calycinis subaqualibus
acutis, corolle laciniis emarginatis reflexis.

Mimvtws cardinalis. Dougl. MSS. Lindl. in Hort. Trans.
N.S. v. 2. p. 70. t. 3. Sweet, Br. Fl. Gard. t. 358.

‘ames

Of the several species of Mimutus discovered by Mr.
Doveras on the fertile shores of N. W. America, this was
among the last, as it certainly is the most beautiful, of the
Whole, though its beauty is somewhat diminished by the
rellexed position of the scarlet lobes of the corolla. It is a
hative of California, and may be considered a hardy annual,
with us, readily increasing both by seeds and cuttings.

Vescr. Stem a foot to a foot and a half high, erect,

ary and slightly viscid, bearing numerous opposite branches
and opposite leaves, which latter are two to four inches long,
obovato-lanceolate, connate toothed, except near the base,
somewhat distinctly three or five-nerved, with a few oblique

veins.

veins. Pedunceles axillary, generally longer than the flowers,
hairy. Calyx tubular, downy, marked with five prominent
ribs, the limb oblique, of five, nearly equal teeth. Tube of
the corolla a little longer than the calyx ; limb oblique, of
four deep lobes, the upper one bifid, the segments reflexed,
emarginate. Stamens and style protruded. The plant has
a faint smell of musk, when passed through the hand.

935 br [f

( 3561 )

Ecurnocactus Mackreanus. Mr. Mackirz’s
ECHINOCACTUS.

KKK KKK ERE EEEEE KEE ERERK
Class and Order.

IcosanpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Cacteaz. )

Generic Character.

Sepala numerosa imbricata, basi ovarii adnata, in tubum
brevissimum concreta, exteriora involucriformia, intima pe-
taliformia. Stamina numerosa. Stylus filiformis, apice
multifidus. Bacca sepalorum reliquiis subsquamata. Coty-_
ledones nulla ?—Frutices simplicissimi carnosi ovati aut
globosi melocactoidei costati aphylli, costis tuberculis conflu-
entibus quasi formatis, dorso aculeorum fasciculos geren-
tibus. Cephalium seu spadix nullus. Flores e fasciculis acu-
leorum ad apices costarum orti, similes floribus Cerei sed tubo
vix ullo donati. D. C.

Specific Character.

Ecuinocactus Mackieanus ; obovatus mammillosus, mam-
millis magnis conico-depressis in costas 16—17 subre-
gulares dispositis apicibus lanosis spinis 8—10 longis
gracilibus patentibus fuscis terminatis, floribus albis
apicibus rubro-tinctis. :

‘een

This species is also from the rich collection of Messrs.
Mackie of the Lakenham Nursery, and like that given at t.
3558 has a considerable affinity with the Genus MamMIL-
LARIA : but it isa much more neatly made and elegant spe-
Cles. The drawing came marked as “ E. melocactiformis :”
but it cannot be the species so called of Dre CANnDoLLE, figur-
ed at tab. 10 of the « Revue de la Famille des Cactées”’ which

18a totally different plant. Ours, we believe, was formerly in

r. Hircuin’s collection, where it was derived from cp

It is probably a native of Chili, like the Ecuinocacrus mam-
millarioides.

The Messrs. Macxiz observe in their letter, that this is a
fine species, but of very slow growth, and more difficult to
keep in health than the genuine Ecuinocacti ; it requires
however the same treatment.

( 3562 )

RyYTIDOPHYLLUM AURICULATUM. AuRICcU-
LATED RyTIDOPHYLLUM.

Class and Order.

DipynamMiA ANGIOSPERMIA.
( Nat. Ord. —GeEsNERIACEZ. )

Generic Character.

Calyx ovario toto adnatus, limbo quinquedentato-fidove.
Corolla supera, campanulata, medio constricta, limbo quin-
quelobo. Stamina quatuor didynama: cum quinti postici
rudimento. Anthere libere aut anisogenee coherentes.
Jiscus epigynus, crassus, annularis, sinuosus. Capsula
sicca, cum calyce subquinquecostato connata, vertice plano
bivalvis, placentis duabus parietalibus, polysperma, semin-
ibus fusiformibus.—Arbuscule aut frutices, radicibus Jfibro-
sts, ramis alternis sparsisve hirtis, foliis stipulatis breviter
petiolatis sparsis, subtus insigniter hirtis, parenchymate m
Superiore pagina in bullas parvas apice pilum ferentes ele-
vato. Flores cymosi in pedunculis ex supremis foliorum alis
veredes, unicolores aut sanguineo-punctati (aut unicolores
sanguinei ?) Mart. |

Specific Name and Character.

Rytopnyttum * auriculatum ; foliis lato-lanceolatis obli-
que subfaleatis crenatis basi utrinque auriculatis ses-
silibus.

—en

The learned Martius has, I think with justice, separated
from Gesneria, G. tomentosa, L., G. grandis, Sw., and G.
scabra, all West Indian species, readily dito

eir

—____

* From pursc, os, wrinkle, and @uaroy, a leaf, from the rough, or wrinkled,
of the upper side of the foliage.

their somewhat arborescent or shrubby stems, fibrous roots,
pedunculated cymes, scattered leaves, with the parenchyme
singularly wrinkled on the upper surface, each little promi-
nence surmounted with a hair or papilla, to which characters
that author adds the presence of stipules. To this groupe
our present plant certainly belongs, although I can find
no trace of stipules. From all the previously described
species, it is known by its entirely sessile and auriculated
leaves. Seeds of it were brought to Mr. Murray by the
mate of a vessel from Rio Janeiro: but as no species of the
Genus has been described as an inhabitant of Brazil, it is
probable that it came originally from some of the West
India Islands. The figure of Gesneria grandis given in the
Nouv. Dict. des Sciences at first sight much resembles this ;
but it will be seen that the leaves are petiolated, and that
there are two heart-shaped stipules at the base ; the flowers
too, are of a very different colour. Our plant flowered in
Noy. 1836.

Descr. Stem, in our plants, three and five feet high, but
little branched, densely woolly. Leaves a foot and more
long in the older plants, broadly lanceolate, somewhat
obliquely falcate, crenato-serrated, sessile, auriculated at
the base, very wrinkled and bullate above and downy, deep
green, beneath paler and more downy, beautifully reticulat-
ed with nerves, having very depressed areola. Peduncles as
long as the leaves, erect, downy, bearing a di- trichotomous
cyme. Calyx hairy, five-fid, the tube adhering to the ger-
men: the segments acuminate, spreading. Corolla yellow-
green and silky externally, within yellow, spotted with red,
tubular: the tube short, curved: the Limb spreading, with
five rather acute lobes. Stamens curved, with the anthers
connate. Germen wholly inferior ; the apex surrounded
by a five-lobed, fleshy disk. Style as long as the stamens:
Stigma clavate, oblique.

Glazenword hssen Api L057
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Pub br & Curhis

/ YOR, xr.

( 3563)

Acrorprera Loppicesit. Mr. Loppigces’
ACROPERA.

KKK KE KEKE KEE KEE EERE EEE
Class and Order.

GynanpriA MonanpriA.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuivez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patentia, supremum galeatum, lateralia divaricata.
Petala nana, obliqua, apice truncata, subpatentia. Label-
lum wnguiculatum, cum basi columne elastice articulatum,
trlobum, lobo intermedio minore saccato. Colwmna erec-
ta, marginata, basi saccata. Pollinia 2, linearia, convoluta,
caudicula lineari-subulata, glandula minuta, Rostellwm
subulatum.—Epiphyta, racemis cernuis multifloris, vegeta-
fone Maxillaria Colacis. Lindl. |

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Acroprra * Loddigesii.
AcropEra Loddigesii. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 172.
AXILLARIA galeata. Lindl. in Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1645.

(ees

_ Avery singular Epiphytous Orchideous plant, introduced
to the stoves of this country from Xalapa of Mexico by

'. Grorce Loppiges, whence Dr. Linpxey has been led
to distinguish it by his name: a compliment which that
iberal and able Horticulturist well merits. The habit of

© plant is quite peculiar: the racemes are quite pendent,
and in the state of bud and after the first expansion, the

ong and regularly decurved ovaries are arranged in three
rows.

SS

* The name is probably derived from axgos, the extremity, and sega be-
» from the little saccate appendage at the apex of the labellum.

E

rows. Our plants, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, for
which we are indebted to Mr. Loppices, blossomed in Sep-
tember ; but the flowers are of very short duration.

Descr. Bulbs ovate, clustered, clothed with two or three
large, sheathing, membranaceous scales, bearing at the
summit, two, rarely one, broadly -lanceolate, nerved leaf:
Raceme six to eight inches long, arising from the base of
the bulbs, and pendent. Germen long, cylindrical, decurvy-
ed, at first arranged in three rows, tapering a little below
- into a footstalk. Sepals three, oblongo-ovate, the two side
ones spreading, their margins reflexed ; the upper one hel-
met-shaped and carinated, all of them pale brownish-yellow,
inclining to green. Petals small, oblongo-falcate, truncate _
at the apex, the angles tooth-like. Lip articulated on the —
base of the column, oblong, yellow-brown, the two large
side lobes inflexed, the extreme one saceate. Column green-
ish-yellow, spotted, somewhat winged at the margin : above
the stigma is a long beak (rostellum ), which receives the
gland of the pollen-mass. _Anther-case hemispheerical.
Pollen-masses double, oblong, compressed, cleft at the
margin above on one side: gland very long, subulate.

———

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Ditto, from which

th 1 d 2
Pollen-mass. 4. Lip— Magnified. e Sepals have been remove

1

ows aJ¢ p23 1 1OA4
VFitch del fub, by J. Curtis. Glavenwed kssvex for 11837

( 3564 )

BEGONIA MONOPTERA. SINGLE-WINGED
BEGonlIiaA.

BREE EER EERE REE EEE

Class and Order.

Monazcta Poxyanpria.
( Nat. Ord.— BeeontAcez. )

Generic Character.

Masc. Calyx 0. Corolla polypetala, petalis plerumque
4, inequalibus. Fam. Calyx o. Corolla petalis 4—9,
plerumque inequalibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Capsula trique-
tra, alata, trilocularis, polysperma.

Specific Name and Character.

Brcon1a monoptera ; pubescens, foliis longe petiolatis an-
gulatis crenatis subtus insigniter papillosis sanguineis
radicalibus reniformibus vix obliquis, caulinis oblique
cuneatis, racemo composito, germinis ala solitaria
elongata corniformi.

a

This is one of the many species of this handsome Genus,
for which our stoves are indebted to Mr. Orro of the Royal
Berlin Garden. It was introduced from Brazil to that col-
lection in 1826, by Mr. Depre. It flowers in July.

Descr. Stem erect, one to two feet high, rounded, geni-
culated and swollen at the joints, of a dall red colour,
minutely papillose and downy. Radical leaves on long,
red stalks, large, somewhat reniform, truncate at the base,
Scarcely at all oblique, those of the stem remote, much
smaller, on short petioles, roundish, obliquely cuneate, all
of them angled and crenate, of a dark rather lurid green
above, when seen under a microscope obscurely papillose, —
each papilla terminated by a short soft hair, beneath re- —

Markably papillose, except upon the nerves (which are —
radiating);

radiating) ; the papillz flattened and somewhat wrinkled
at the top, amongst them are a few scattered hairs. Séi-
pules ovate-oblong, entire, green. Raceme terminal, elon-

ted ; pedicels one to two inches long, solitary or two or |

three from the same point, simple or branched. Bracteas
two or three, bearing little gemme as well as the pedicels
from their axils. Where the pedicels are solitary, the
flower is female ; where there are two or three, one is male,
the remainder, (one or two,) female. All have mostly
flowers with four white, petaloid, spreading sepals, two
opposite ones large and oval, the other two much smaller
and oblong, or sometimes five, and sometimes six, unequal
sepals. Filaments of the stamens club-shaped, yellow, with
a cell under the apex at each side. Germen turbinate,
downy, with three angles ; one of which is expanded into a
horizontal, horn-like wing. Stigmas yellow, hairy.

Witch Bet. Pub. by S. Curtis, Glazenwoed. Essex. Aor 1, 1837,

”

( 3565 )

EPIDENDRUM DIFFUSUM. SPREADING
EpPIDENDRUM.

Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA Monanpria.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia v.
angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia v. reflexa. Labellum
cum marginibus columnz omnino v. parte connatum,
limbo integro y. diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato y.
tuberculato ; nunc in calcar productum ovario accretum et
auriculum formans. Columna elongata ; clinandrio margi-
nato, sepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis.
Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa—Herbe
(Americane) epiphyte, caule nunc apice vel basi pseudo-
bulboso, nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, raris-
sume venis elevatis striata. Flores spicati racemosi, corym-
bost ». paniculati, terminales v. laterales. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

EpipenpruM diffusum ; foliis oblongis, caule ancipiti, pani-
cula terminali ramosissima, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis
petalisque setaceis erecto-patentibus striatis, labello
cordato acuminato basi bicalloso. Lindl.

Epipenprum diffusum. Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. v. 3. t. 1503.
Loddiges, Bot. Cab. t. 846. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3.
p. 737. Lindl. Gen. et. Sp. Orchid. p. 102. :

eee

Not an uncommon inhabitant of the trunks of trees in the
hilly parts of Jamaica, whence we have often received spe-_
Cimens for the Herbarium; and Professor Linpiey, upon —
the authority of Pavon, gives it as a native also of Mexico. |

Swartz

Swartz states the flowers to be red (sanguinei), but he pro-
bably made his descriptions from the dried state of the
plant, when they certainly have a reddish tinge: but in the
several recent specimens we have seen, the blossoms have
been invariably of the colour here represented. Our figure
was taken in November 1837, from plants, sent to J. AL-
carb, Esq. from St. Michael’s Mount, Jamaica: and it was
flowering also at the same time in the stoves of the Glasgow
Botanic Garden, the specimens having been transmitted to
Mr. Murray, by Mr. Niven, Overseer of White River
Estates, who sent it with Brovecuronia sanguinea and other
rarities from the same island. :

Descr. Stem five to six inches long, flexuose and more
or less reclined, compressed, leafy. Leaves eight to ten,
distichous, broadly oblong, spreading, coriaceous, dark
green, obtuse, sheathing at the base. Panicle terminal, six
or eight inches to a foot long, branched from the base,
branches and branchlets spreading, slender. Flowers small,
of a uniform pale yellow-green colour. Sepals narrow,
lanceolate, and, as well as the almost subulate or setaceous
petals, spreading. Lip cordate, acuminate, waved, with two
callous, raised hairs at the base, the claw completely united
with the column. This latter is triangular. Anther-case
hemispherical, having two small cells, in which lie the

Eee Pay pollen-masses, which are connected by a small
gland.

—e

Fig. 1. Flower, 2. Underside of Anther-case. 3. Pollen-masses:—
magnified. .

( 3566 )

CEREUS SERPENTINUS. SERPENT-LIKE CEREUS.

SERRE EEE KER EEE EREE
Class and Order.

IcosanpriA Mownoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Cactea. )

Generic Character.

Sepala numerosissima imbricata basi ovario adnata, in
tubum elongatum concretum, exteriora breviora calycinalia,
media longiora colorata, intima petaliformia. Stamina
numerosissima cum tubo concreta. Stylus filiformis apice
multifidus. Bacca sepalorum reliquiis areolata tuberculosa
aut squamata. Cotyledones nulla ?—Frutices carnosi elon-
gati axi ligneo interne medullifero donati, angulis vertical-
thus spinarum fasciculos gerentibus regulariter sulcati.
Anguli seu ale nunc plurime, nunc paucissime, rarius due
tantum et tune rami compresso-alati. Flores ampli e spina-
rum fasciculis aut crenis angulorum orti. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cereus serpentinus ; subrepens flexuosus subscandens obtu-
sissime 11—12-gonus, setis fasciculatis lanugine parca
demum obsoleta multo longioribus, tubo florali basi
valde setifero.

Cereus serpentinus. “ Lag. Annal. Cienc. Nat. 1801. p.
261.” De Cand. Diss. Cact. t. 12. :
Cactus serpentinus. Willd. Enum. Suppl. 31. Link et

Otto, Ic. Pict. t. 91.

_ For the opportunity of figuring this fine Cereus, Iam
indebted to Mr. Mackay of the Norwich Nursery, in whose
extensive collection of succulent plants (formerly Mr.
Hircnin’s) it produced flowers, from which the accompany-
ing drawing was made. Mr. Mackay observes, that it isa
hight-blooming species, that the blossom remains ee oe
, : about

about the same time as the C. grandiflorus (Tab. 3381)
is strongly scented, and that the plant is more hardy than
that species, but less so than the Ecurnocacti.

Descr. Stem long, creeping unless supported, branched,
jointed ; the joints long, cylindrical, an inch or an inch and
a half in diameter, and marked with from eleven to twelve
angles, on which are numerous fascicled, spinous sete, in-
termixed with short tufts of a woolly substance. The
flower is large, handsome, fragrant, terminating a joint of
which it seems to be a continuation, there being no well-
defined mark between the termination of the one and the
commencement of the other. Tube three to four inches
Jong, clothed with several linear, green, strongly ciliated
scales. Petals numerous, linear, acute, spreading, of a pale
whitish flesh colour within, reddish or brick colour without.
Stamens much protruded, very numerous, forming a deep

cup: filaments white: anthers yellow. Stigma of four to
five rays, white.

WFitch. del?

Pub, by SCurtic, Clareneood Firsex for 1183)

( 3567 )

CEROPEGIA STAPELIIFORMIS. STAPELIA-LIKE
CEROPEGIA.

KKK KKK KKK KEKE EKER KK EK
Class and Order.

PenTANDRIA DiGyniA.
( Nat. Ord.—AscLepiaDEz. )

Generic Character.

Corona staminea exterior abbreviata, 5-loba ; interior 5-
phylla, foliolis ligularibus indivisis. Masse pollinis basi
affixe, marginibus simplicibus. Stigma muticum. Folli-
cult cylindracei, leves. Semina comosa. Br.

Specific Name and Character.

CERoprcia stapeliiformis ; volubilis? aphylla ramosa, ramis
teretibus dentibus mollibus spiniformibus subverticil-
latis, floribus 1—2 e ramis propriis brevibus, corolle
limbo intus hirsuto-tomentoso laciniis liberis recurvis
carinatis, lobis corone staminee exterioris brevibus
emarginatis, interioris elongatis filiformibus.

Ceropreia stapeliiformis. Hort. Kew.

This remarkable plant is probably a native of the East
Indies, and was received at the Glasgow Botanic Garden
from the Royal Gardens of Kew, with the appropriate name
here adopted. It flowers in the stove in April. —

Descr. Stem, in our plant, about the thickness of one’s
finger, full of a milky juice, rounded, glabrous, of a dark
urid green colour, glabrous, marked with soft, spiniform
processes, three in a whorl, each with two little points from
within which the branches arise, these are long, slender,
4pparently climbing, of a dark purple colour, and have the
Soft, spine-like teeth above mentioned alternate and whorl-

lowers one to two, from short branches. a
wo

two to three lines long, thickened upwards. Calyx five-
partite, the segments subulate. Corolla two inches long ;
tube curved, swelling below, and constricted just above the
base, greenish-white, spotted above and below with deep
purple : the tube expanded upwards to form the limb, which
is cut into five segments, dark purple without and glabrous,
white and hairy within, they soon separate, and are curved
backwards, the sides are closely reflexed, so that the upper
side presents a sharp keel, giving a very singular appear-
ance to the blossom. Staminal crown with the exterior lobes

short, erect, or slightly patent, emarginate, inner elon-
gated, erecto-connivent, filiform.

Fig. 1. Staminal Crown —magnified,

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Oncipium CEBOLLETA. RoOUNDED-LEAVED
~ QONCIDIUM.

Class and Order. :

GynanpriA Monanpri.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuinez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata : late-
ralibus nunc sub labello connatis. Petala conformia. La-
bellum maximum, ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum,
varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum v. cristatum. Columna
libera, teres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilocularis,
rostello nune abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato. Pollinia
2, postice sulcata, caudicula plana, glandula oblonga. —
Herbe epiphyte, nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia coriacea.
Scapi paniculati vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores speciosi,
lutet, sepius maculati, raro albi. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Oncip1um Cebolleta; bulbis minutis vaginatis unifoliatis,
foliis teretibus subulatis, scapo stricto paniculato mul-
tifloro, sepalis petalisque obovato-lanceolatis undulatis,
labello profunde trilobo, lobis lateralibus patentissimis
obovatis, lobo medio reniformi basi unguiculato apice
emarginato, crista triloba tuberculata, columne alis
rotundatis brevibus.

Oncipi1um Cebolleta. Swartz, Act. Holm. 1800, p. 240.
Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 207.

Eripenprum Cebolleta. Jacg. Amer. p. 230. t. 131. f. 2.
(without flower. )

Oncipium juncifolium. Lindl. Coll. Bot. p. 27.

Eprmwenprum juncifolium. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1351.

Cymeiprum juncifolium. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 102.

Of this singular and handsome Orchideous plant, I am

not aware that the flowers had been seen in this country,

till

till a fine panicle appeared in the stove of the Glasgow
Botanic Garden* in April, 1836, on a plant which that
establishment derived from Mr. Locxuarr of Trinidad.
The blossoms, of long duration, have considerable bright-
ness of colour, and make a singular contrast with the harsh,
thick, dark green, and almost spindle-shaped leaves.
Descr. If the base of the leaves, which is more or less
clothed with a ragged, sheathing membrane, be examined,
it will be seen that each of them is jointed on to a small
bulb, not much larger than a pea. The leaves are erect,
terete, obscurely marked with lines, having a rather deep
furrow in front, in the middle about as thick as one’s finger,
tapering a little below, acuminated to a sharp point at the
apex : the whole of a harsh and rigid texture, and of a dark
green colour. From the base a spotted scape arises, about
two feet in height, much branched and panicled upwards,
many-flowered. Flowers rather small. Sepals spreading,
nearly equal, narrow-obovate, waved, greenish-yellow,
spotted with dull red. Lip patent, large, deeply three-
lobed, bright yellow : two lateral lobes broadly obovate,
red at the lower margin near the base ; middle lobe much
the largest, kidney-shaped, with a notch at the apex: disk
with a prominent crest with three distinct lobes or teeth,
and some lesser ones, yellow, spotted with red. Column
short: with a rounded wing on each side of the stigma.
Anther hemispherical, yellow, blotched with red-brown.

_* Since the above was printed, we learn that it is blossoming at this
time in the Collection of CHaRLEs HorsFatt, Esq., Liverpool.

Fig. 1, Column and Lip —magnified.

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EcHINOCACTUS SESSILIFLORUS. SESSILE-
FLOWERED E\CHINOCACTUS.

SKK KKK KK KKK EEKEKERE
Class and Order.

IcosanpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Cacrez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala numerosa imbricata, basi ovarii adnata, in tubum
brevissimum concreta, exteriora involucriformia, intima
petaliformia. Stamina numerosa. Stylus filiformis apice
_multifidus. Bacca sepalorum reliquiis subsquamata. Coty-
ledones nulle ?2—Frutices simplicissimi carnosi ovati aut
globosi melocactoidei costati aphylli, costis tubercults conflu-
entibus quasi formatis, dorso aculeorum fasciculos gerentibus.
Cephalium seu spadix nullus. Flores e fascicults aculeorum
ad apices costarum orti, similes floribus Cerei sed tubo vix
ullo donatit. DC.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Ecurnocactus sessiliflorus ; parvus depresso-globosus, costis
12 acutiusculis, spinarum fasciculis paucissimis, spins
breviusculis 46 subvalidis albis recurvo-patulis, flo-
ris tubo brevi, petalis flavis lineari-spathulatis.

Ecurnocactus sessiliflorus. Hort. Mackie.

_ From the Norwich Nursery, whence the charming draw-
ing here engraved was kindly communicated by Messrs.
Mackin. The beautiful, short, white, and distinctly-placed
fascicles of spines form a singular contrast with the dark
green of the plant, and together with the short and much
depressed stem, readily distinguish it from E. Ottonis, figured
at tab. 3107 of this work. It flowers freely, producing seve-
ral blossoms every year a
r.

Mr. Freperic Mackie, whose skill and experience in
Horticulture are very great, observes, that he is very suc-
cessful in flowering the different species of Ecurnocactus,
by growing them “ very near the glass, and during the
summer time, in a very high temperature, by keeping the
upper glasses of the house close: strong light and heat
bemg necessary for expanding their blossoms in perfection.
Some of them will close immediately upon being removed
to a cooler place. It is also very necessary to have the
pots well drained, as the roots are liable to decay if the
earth is at all sodden with moisture. I think that setting
the free growing species in poor soil is quite a mistake, for
we invariably find that they thrive better in good soil, pro-
vided it be well drained, and if they are planted in small

pots.”

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EcHEVERIA RACEMOSA. RacemeD Ecue-
VERIA.

KKK EKER EEE EREEKEEES
Class and Order.

Decanpria PEenTaGynNiA.
( Nat. Ord.—CrassuLacea. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus, sepalis folia referentibus erectis ima
basi subconcretis. Petala 5, inferne coalita erecta crassa
rigidula ad nervum medium crassiora et fere basi trigona
acuta. Stamina 10 petalis breviora basi cum petalis con-
ereta. Sguame 5 breves obtuse. Carpella 5 in stylos
subulatos abeuntia.—Frutices carnosi Mexicani. Folia
alterna caulina aut rosulata subopposita integerrima enervia.
Flores secus rachin aut secus cyme ramos sessiles, coccinet

aut flavi. DC.
Specific Character and Synonym.

Ecueveria * racemosa ; foliis rosulatis densis lingueformi-
lanceolatis acutiusculis cartilagineo-marginatis, supra
convexiusculis subtus convexo-carinatis, caule sparsim
folioso simplici vel ramoso racemoso, laciniis calycinis
equalibus acutissimis patenti-reflexis.

Ecueverta racemosa. Hort. Claremont.

Four species of this handsome Genus are. described by
Dr Canpottze, all natives of Mexico or California, and a
fifth (Mexican one) is described by Haworrn: from all

these our plant differs in the inflorescence, and still ae! "
e

——— i

So named by M. De CanpoLuE in honor of ECHEVERA, @ Mexican
tanical painter,
VOL. XI. FE

the foliage. The Glasgow Garden has received it from the
Berlin Garden, but without a name, and from that of Clare-
mont under the appellation here adopted. Of its history, I
regret to say I know nothing: it is probably a native of
Mexico. The flowers are produced copiously in the green-
house, in the summer and autumn months.

Descr. Succulent, suffruticose. Barren stems short,
thickly clothed with rosulate tufts of fleshy leaves, of a
brownish-green colour and glaucous hue, two to four inches
long, in form between lanceolate and linguiform, slightly
concave above, convex and keeled beneath, the margin
white and cartilaginous : flowering stems nearly a foot high,
rounded, glaucous, sparingly leafy, with leaves of the same
shape as those of the barren stems, but narrower and gra-
dually becoming smaller. Raceme elongated, many-flow-
ered. Pedicels curved. Calyx 5-partite, fleshy, glaucous,
the segments ovato-lanceolate, very sharp-pointed. Corolla
red, of five, erect, carinated petals, gibbous at the base, and
there united so as to appear monopetalous. Stamens ten,
five at the base of the petals, and alternate with them, five
shorter ones inserted a little above the middle of the petals.
Hypogynous glands five, small, white, fleshy, one at the

ase of each germen. Pistils five, standing close, erect:

Germen ovate, tapering into a rather short, slender style :
Stigma obtuse.

Fig. 1. Flower, with the Corolla laid open, 2. Sj sect weith tha
Gland at the base :—magnified. pen. 2. Single Pisti , Wi

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SARCANTHUS TERETIFOLIUS. RouND-LEAVED
SARCANTHUS.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuwen. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et petala subequalia.
ellum breve calcaratum, trilobum, carnosum, cum co-
lumna articulatum ; calcare intus 4 biloculari. Coluwmna
erecta, semiteres. Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 2, postice
lobata, caudicula glandulaque variis.—Herbe epiphyte
caulescentes. Folia disticha, plana »v. teretia. Racemi
oppositifolit, Flores speciosi. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Sarcanruus * teretifolius ; foliis teretibus, spica simplici
horizontali_ foliis equali, sepalis petalisque oblongis
obtusis reflexis, labelli caleare recto obtuso intus
pubescente in lamina ovata acuta carnosa producto,
facie columne villosa.

Sarcanrius terctifolius. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 234.

ANDA teretifolia. Lindl. Coll. Bot. t. 6.

‘tee

This singular looking plant, with the leaves of nearly
the same form and texture as the stem, is a native of China,
and we have excellent figures of it in some beautiful draw-
gs of plants executed by the Chinese. It was introduced

) Our stoves by Mr. Brooxes of Newington Green, and
described by Dr. Linney in his valuable Collectanea

: Botanica.

—=—_.

———

‘* ¥ : "
_” From cae, capnos, flesh, croc, a flower, in consequence of the fleshy
€ blossom,

Botanica. It is now not uncommon in collections of Orchi-
deous Epiphytes, flowering in September.

Descr. Stema foot or more high, erect, rounded, green
(except in the oldest parts), flexuose, jointed, sending forth
aerial, thick, fibrous roots from the various parts of their
joints, and a leaf from the top of each, which is in itself
articulated upon the stem, two to four inches long, cylin-
drical, flexuose, obtuse. Spike horizontal, and directed
towards the opposite side of the stem to that from which it
has its origin, bearing seven or eight flowers. Sepals and
petals spreading, oval, dull green with reddish lines, the lat-
ter the smallest. Lip ovate, slipper-shaped, pendent, longer
than the calyx, articulated upon the column, white, having
at the base two incurved lobes edged with red. Column
short, downy at the base : Stigma projecting : Anther-case
hemispherical.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Column:— Magnified.

ERRATUM.
Tas. 3565, second page, for Mr. Niven, read Mr. Cowan.

Tas. 3568. Oncidium Cebolleta. We have pleasure in stating that
Joun Hencuman, Esq., of the Clapton Nursery, introduced this fine
plant to our collections in 1834. He found it in the vicinity of Cumana
and carried it to Trinidad, whence, as above stated, Mr. Murray re-
ceived our specimen, which blossomed in the Glasgow Garden. Another
plant of it was sent to Mr. Murray from the Clapton Nursery, by Mr.
Lowe, which is now showing flower, and Mr. Horsra.t’s was received
from the same establishment. Mr. Hencuman possesses eight varieties,
one of them with much larger and handsomer flowers, than that given at
t. 3568, and which are at this time (April 1837,) in high perfection.

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Eutoca viscosa. CiraAmmy Evuroca.

KEK KEKE EEE EE EERERR ERK
Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.
. ( Nat. Ord.—Hypropnyiacez. )

Generic Character.

Corolla decidua. Ovarium ovoideo-globosum, piloso-
hispidum. Placente lineares, dorso parietibus ovarii ad-
nate, 4-multi-ovulatea. Capsula dissepimentis incompletis
semi-bilocularis.—Herbz annue ? sepius erecta, habitu Pha-
celie, rarius diffuse vel divaricate. Flores racemosi densi
Sessiles, vel laxi pedunculati, cymis unilateralibus simplict-
bus vel dichotomis. Benth.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Evroca viscosa ; glanduloso-pilosa viscosa, caule erecto
ramoso, foliis cordato-ovatis subangulatis serratis, ra-
cemis elongatis furcatis simplicibusque, placentis mul-
tiovulatis.

Evroca viscosa. Bentham MSS. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1808.

ue

A most lovely, hardy annual, flowering during the sum-
her, and continuing, in Scotland, in great beaut through
the month of September. The blossoms are o the most
brilliant blue, and there is a constant succession of them
during the fine weather. Native of California, where it
was discovered, and whence it was introduced, by Mr.

OUGLAs,

Descr. Whole plant, but more especially the stem and
calyx, clothed with glandular, viscid pubescence. Stem
tounded, green, erect, branched, a foot or more high.

aves alternate, petioled, cordato-ovate, somewhat lobed
and irregularly serrated: petiole scarcely an inch long.

acemes terminal, forked, at first circinnate. Flowers large,
, brilliant

brilliant deep blue, pale and dotted in the centre. Calyx
deeply cut into five linear segments. Corolla rotate, five-
lobed, lobes spreading, rounded. Stamens five, arising
from the base of the short tube: filaments purple, very
hairy in their lower half. Anthers oval, yellowish. Ger-
men ovate, hairy. Style bipartite, purple, glabrous.

Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2, Pistil :—magnified.

( 3573)

MAXILLARIA STEELII. Mr. STEELE’s
MAXILLARIA.

KEKE KEKE KEE EERE ERERERE
Class and Order.

GynAnDRIA MonanpRIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuivez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium connivens, raro patens. Sepala lateralia
cum basi producta columne connata. Petala subcon-
_ formia. Labellum trilobum, cucullatum, sessile, cum basi
__ Producta columne articulatum. Columna semiteres, aptera.
ie Anthera subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia v. integra,
caudicula brevi, glandula transversa.—Epiphyte (Amert-
cané) pseudo-bulbose, acaules, v. caulescentes. Folia pli-
cala, v. coriacea. Pedunculi radicales, axillares, v. termi-
nales, uni- wv. multiflort. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Maxinaria Steelii ; pseudo-bulbis oblongis annulatis mo-
nophylilis, folio longissimo tereti hinc canaliculato,
Scapo radicali brevi unifloro, perianthio connivente,
labello trilobo basi intus glandula oblonga, lateribus
inflexis, lobo intermedio obtusissimo bifido.

[tees

This highly interesting Orchideous plant was obligingly
communicated from the stove of Joan Moss, Esq., Otters-
pool, near Liverpool, together with a drawing by Miss
‘ 98s, from which the accompanying figure was made, It
Mas introduced in July of last year (1836) by Marraew
STEELE, E'sq., from Demerara. With the flower of Maxit-
FARIA, it has a foliage quite at variance with any described
a 5 ean’ of that Genus, attaining a height of two and even
a “eng feet, and proves a most valuable addition to our

Piphytes,

Descr.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs numerous, clustered, small, oblong,
terete, brownish-green, marked with transverse, jagged,
membranous rings ; from the top of this arises a single leaf,
which suddenly bends almost at an angle, and then hangs
down over the sides of the pot, to the length of two or
three feet, it is cylindrical, as thick as a swan’s quill, with a
narrow groove on the upper side which is chiefly seen near
the base. The scape is short and single-flowered ; the
blossom rather large, fragrant, of a dingy reddish-yellow
colour ; the perianth connivent, blotched with deep purple;
sepals oval, acute ; petals oblongo-obovate ; Lip very broad,
streaked with purple, three-lobed, the sides much incurved,
the middle lobe very obtuse : at the base of the lip within is
a large depressed, oblong, bright yellow gland, streaked
with red and crenate at the truncated apex. Column semi-
cylindrical, decurrent below with the two lower sepals, so as
to form a blunt spur. Anther hemispherical. Pollen-

masses two, bipartite, fixed to a large transverse gland, by
two short caudicule.

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Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower. 2. Side view of the Lip. 3. Inner
view of ditto to show the Gland, the sides being laid open. 4. Column, the
Perianth being removed. 5. Pollen-masses :—all but fig. 1. magnified.

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( 3574 )

LINUM MONOGYNUM. MonoGynous FLAx.

KKK KKK KKK KEK ERE EEE ©
Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Luinez. )

Generic Character.

Flores proportione partium quinaria. Sepala integra.
ae rarissime 3, cum petalis staminibus sepalisque 5. De
and.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Linum monogynum ; perenne, foliis alternis lanceolatis acu-
tis sepalisque trinerviis, floribus corymbosis (albis),
stylo unico.

Linum monogynum. Forst. Prodr. p. 23. De Cand. Prod.
0. 1. p. 428. Spreng. Syst. Veget.v. 1. p. 963, Sweet,
Br, Fl. Gard. p. 278.

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Of this species of Flax, remarkable for its corymbs of
large white flowers, nothing seems to have been known
since the days of Forsrer, who detected it in New Zealand,
till very recently, when a figure and description of it ap-
peared in Sweet's British Flower-Garden. But no mention
Jsmade of the time when, nor of the person by whom, living
Plants were introduced into this country.

ur specimens were derived from Bagshot Park, by favour
nae Mr. Towarp. The species is avery desirable one, blos-
Soming in the greenhouse in May and June, and having a
Succession of flowers for a great length of time.

Escr. Our plants are a foot and a half or more high ;
the stems erect, rounded, elaucous, branched very much at
the top in a corymbose manner. Calyx of five ovate, very
acute sepals, with one long, central rib, and two lateral and

Shorter ones, the margin white and diaphanous. on
ve,

five, handsome, large, white, broadly obovate, obtuse, at the
apex tapering into claws. Stamens five, white ; Anthers
linear-sagittate. Pistil globose ; Styles combined into one,
with five reflexed, slender branches. Capsule globose, very
acute, tipped with the withered style.

Fig. 1. Flower, from which the Petals have been removed. 2. Fruit:—
magnified.

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PLATYSTIGMA LINEARIS. MLINEAR-LEAVED
PLATYSTIGMA.

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Class and Order.

PoLyANDRIA TRIGYNIA.
( Nat. Ord.—PapavERAcEz. )

Generic Character.

Sepala 3, ovata, caduca, pilosa. Petala 4, 5. Stamina
numerosa. Filamenta filiformia. Anther@ lineares, bilo-
culares, lateraliter dehiscentes. 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, margine in placentis
filiformibus productis. Semima numerosa, minuta, ovoidea,

nigra, levissima, nitida. Benth.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

PLatystiema * linearis.
Pratystigma linearis. Benth. in Hort. Trans. N. S. v. 1.
p. 407. Fischer et Meyer, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. p.

22. Hook. Ic. Select. v. 1. t. 38.

_A very pretty annual, native of California, where 1t was
discovered by Mr. Doveras: but it does not appear that
the plant has been raised at the Horticultural Society.
Mr. Benruam’s characters were derived from dried speci-
mens. Seeds, however, have been sent from Ross in New
California to the Petersburg Garden, and from thence to
the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where our plants flowered in

August and September, in the open border.
Descr.

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* grates, large, and oryya, the stigma.

Descr. Root annual. Leaves radical, linear, acute,
glaucous, two to three inches long, glabrous, single-nerved.
Seapes several from the same root, a span high, clothed
with spreading hairs. Flowers drooping before expansion,
then erect. Calyx of three leaves, generally caducous,
sometimes remaining for a time in a withered state. Three
outer petals broadly obovate, full yellow, pale at the sides ;
three inner narrower, white, yellow at the claw. Stamens
not numerous, yellow ; filaments decidedly dilated. Anthers
oblong. Germen ovato-triquetrous, Stigmas three, ses-
sile, ovate.

Fig. 1. Outer Petal. 2. Inner ditto. 3. 3. Stamens. 4. Pistil :—mag-
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GesNERIA Sceprrum, y ignea. Sceprre-
FLOWERED GesneERIA, pale-flowered var.

KKK KEKE EEE EEE EEE EEK EEE
Class and Order.
DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA.

( Nat. Ord.—GesneriAcez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus, (plerumque germini adnatus). Corolla
tubuloso-campanulata, limbo bilabiato ; labio superiore bi-
inferiore trifido. Stigma bilobum. Capsula bilocularis,
bivalvis, placentis parietalibus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Grsneria Sceptrum ; elata molliter villosa, foliis subsessili-
bus ternatis e subcordata basi oblongis obtuse serratis,
verticillis aphyllis, pedunculis longitudine florum laci-
nlis calycinis lanceolatis appressis, labio superiore
paululum productiore, glandulis hypogynis 5.

Gesneria Sceptrum. Mart. Gen. et Sp. Pl. Brasil. v. 3. p.
32. t. 214. : c

(y.) ignea ; corollis pallide igneis versus limbi marginem
rubentibus. (Tab. nostr. 3576.)

Our intercourse with Brazil has made known to our col-
lections several species of this beautiful tropical Genus, than
which few are more ornamental to our stoves. The foliage
1S mostly of a full and vivid green, and the flowers are re-
markable, in general, for their rich colour, frequently in-
clining to, or altogether scarlet. This plant was intro-
duced by Mr. Murray to the Glasgow Garden. It flow-
ered with us in September, 1836, and proves to be the
var. ignea of G. Sceptrum of Martius. In many respects
it approaches our G. Lindleyi, Hoox. in Bot. Mag. ined.

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- Tutilans, var. atro-sanguinea of Linpuey): but the
present

present has constantly ternate, nearly sessile, more cordate
leaves, shorter peduncles, larger flowers, differently-shaped
calycine segments, and the whole plant is clothed with
copious soft hairs.

Descr. Stem three feet high, simple, rounded, veiny,
hairy. Leaves three in a whorl, three to four inches long,
almost entirely sessile, from a somewhat cordate base, ob-
long, rather acute, bluntly serrated at the margin, on both
sides copiously clothed with soft pubescence, especially
beneath, where the colour is paler, and the nerves more
prominent. The leaves gradually become smaller upwards,
and pass into bracteas beneath the flowers. These latter
form several leafless whorls, of about three in a whorl, with
lanceolate bracteas at the base. Peduncles two inches long,
hairy. Calyx very hairy, cut into five deep, lanceolate,
acuminate, appressed segments. Corolla hairy, as long as
the peduncles, tubular, dull pale reddish-yellow, with a
darker edge to the limb, of which the upper lip is a little
longer than the lower; lobes all rounded. Hypogynous
glands five, two of which stand close together. Style and
Stamens included.

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Brassia Lanceana. Mr. Lance’s Brassia.

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Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA MonaAnpRIA.
( Nat. Ord.—OrcuiveEs. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et petala angusta,
libera, equalia, his nunc minoribus. Labellum planum,
indivisum, ecalcaratum, columna continuum, basi bicris-
tatum. Columna libera, aptera, nana. Anthera 1-locularis.
Pollinia 2, postice sulcata; caudicula brevi; glandula crassa.
—Epiphyte pseudo-bulbose. Folia pergamenca. Scapi
radicales vaginati. Flores spectosi, spicati. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Brassta Lanceana ; sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis,
labello oblongo acuminato undulato sepalis lateralibus
duplo breviore. Lindl.

Brassta Lanceana. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1154.

_A truly handsome plant, apparently blossoming at very
different seasons. With Mr. Loppiees, it has flowered in
August. I received beautiful specimens from C. S. Par-
KER, Esq., of Liverpool, in December, 1836, and, at the
same season, plants that had been liberally communicated
by Mr. Lowe, blossomed in the Glasgow Garden. It is
said to be a native of Surinam, (whence it was introduced
to our gardens by Mr. Lance), and also of the Province of
Rio Negro, South Brazil.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs ovato-oblong, compressed, furrow-
ed, especially in the old state, when they also acquire a
brownish tinge. Leaves two, from the summit of the bulb,
and two or three are often seen at the base, between oblong
and lanceolate, striated. Peduncle from the base . m3

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VOL. XI. G

bulb, rounded, terminating in a long raceme of large,
handsome, fragrant subsecund flowers. Perianth spread-
ing ; sepals and petals lanceolate, acuminate, yellow, spot-
ted with blood-red: the former nearly equal in size, the
latter shorter. Lip large, oblong, waved, yellow, very
acute, spotted only at the base, and there having a large
tubercle deeply furrowed, and orange-coloured within the
furrow. Column short: Anther hemispherical.

Fig. 1. Germen, Column, and Lip: magnified.

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LEPTOSIPHON DENSIFLORUS. ‘'THICKLY-
FLOWERING LEPTOSIPHON.

KEKE EEE EEE EEE EE EEE RE

Class and Order.

PenranpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—PoLemontAcE&. )

Generic Character.

Calyx tubuloso-campanulatus, equalis, semi- 5-lobus,
lobis lineari-subulatis, acutis, sinubus membranaceis. Co-
rolla infundibuliformis (hypocrateriformis) ; tubo longe
exserto tenuissimo ; limbo campanulato (patenti 5-fido) ;
lobis ovalibus obtusis integerrimis. Stamina fauce inserta ;
anthere oblongx, basi sagittate. Capsule loculi poly-
spermi—Herbe annue basi glabre, apice pubescentes.
Folia sessilia opposita, palmatisecta, segmentis linearibus
vel subulatis. Flores dense corymboso-capitati, axi subla-
nato. Bractee imbricate foliis conformes, segmentis cult-
ato-hirsutis. Bentham.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

LeprosipHon densiflorus ; foliis 7—9-partitis laciniis fili-
formi-subulatis hirsutulis, corolla tubo limbo breviore,

laciniis obovatis. :
Leprosipuon densiflorus. Benth. in Bot. Reg. ¢. 1622 (in
textu). Hort. Trans. N. S. v. 1. t. 18. f. 2.

a

A very handsome annual, introduced by Mr. Doveras
to the Horticultural Society’s Garden, from California, at
the same time with the L. androsaceus (tab. 3491). It is
equally hardy with that species, and, in many respects,
very similar to it; but the leaves have more numerous and
narrower segments, the flowers, varying in colour, are

much larger, the tube is shorter in proportion to ” gee

and the segments of this latter are obovate. It blossoms
at the same time with L. androsaceus, adding greatly to
the gaiety of our flower-borders.

Descr. Stem erect, slender, flexuose, rounded, gla-
brous, branched, with the branches opposite. Leaves op-
posite, often crowded immediately beneath the flowers, pla-
mately divided, almost to the base, into from seven to nine
slender, filiform-subulate segments, slightly hairy, most
so near the base. Flowers capitate. Calyx with five
subulate segments, as long as the tube of the corolla.
Corolla hypocrateriform ; the tube white: limb longer than
the tube: the segments obovate, lilac, more or less inclin-
ing to a deep rose-colour or purple, becoming almost
blue in age; the inside of the tube white ; sometimes the
corolla is wholly white. Stamens scarcely exserted. An-
thers bright orange.

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PLATYSTEMON CALIFORNICUM. CALIFORNIAN
PLATYSTEMON.

KKK EEE EE KEKE EEE KEE KEKE SE
Class and Order.

PotyanpriA PoLyGynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Papaveracez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala 3, ovata, caduca, pilosa. Petala6. Stamina nume-
rosa. Filamenta dilatata, membranacea, obcordata. An-
there \ineares, biloculares, lateraliter dehiscentes. Ovaria
plurima (10 et ultra) linearia, stigmate sessili lineari termi-
Nata. Capsule totidem distincte torulose, articulate,
transversim multiloculares extus piloso-hispide. Semina
im quoque loculo solitaria pendula. Benth.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

PLatystemon * Californicum ; ovariis fructibusque pilosis.
Puatystemon Californicum. Benth. in Hort. Trans. v. 1.
N.S. p. 405. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1679.

@enmeen

A highly interesting annual, for the introduction of which
to our gardens we are indebted to Mr. Dovetas, who sent
the seeds to the Horticultural Society from California. Mr.

ENziEs, however, was the first to discover it in that coun-
try, when on the voyage round the globe with Capt. Van-
couver. His specimens are preserved in my Herbarium,
and doubtless in those of other Botanists on whom he has
bestowed them with his wonted liberality. In the recent
specimen which I examined, the germen on being laid open

owed one cell, with as many projections and —_ as
there

SN
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* From trarvs, broad, and ermpw», a stamen, in allusion to the breadth of
the filaments,

there are styles : as this advances to maturity, a separation
takes place at the ridges, the sutures unite, and the fruit is
separated into carpels. Our plants, for the seeds of which
we are indebted to the Horticultural Society, flowers in
June and July, and proves perfectly hardy, ripening its
seeds very copiously.

Descr. Root annual. Stems weak, branched, rounded,
succulent, glabrous. Leaves three to four inches long,
linear-oblong, usually in whorls of three each, entire, sessile,
ciliated, marked with three to four parallel nerves, glaucous,
as is the whole plant. Peduneles axillary, longer than the
leaves, single-flowered, somewhat hispid with patent hairs.
Sepals three, oval, concave, hispid, soon falling away.
Petals six, oval-oblong, concave, spreading, of a pale sul-
phur yellow. Stamens several. Filaments broad, petaloid,
the inner ones gradually broader: Anthers linear-oblong,
terminal. Germen oval, bristly, with six to nine deep fur-
rows, and an equal number of linear, downy styles: eyen-
tually separating into as many distinct, cylindrical, knotted
carpels as there are ridges.

Fig. 1.2. Stamens. 3. Pistil. 4. Germen laid open. 5. Carpel.

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PavetTa CArrra. SoutH-AFRICAN PAVETTA.

KKK KEKE KEKE KEK EKER EEK
Class and Order.

TrerrRaANnDRIA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Rvsiacegz. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus ovatus, limbus parvus 4-dentatus. Corolla

hypocraterimorpha, tubo gracili tereti lobis longiore, limbo

4-partito patente. Anthere 4 ad faucem subsessiles. Stylus
longe extra tubum corolle exsertus, loborum longitudi-
nem superans, apice clavatus, subinteger aut stigmatis
cruribus adglutinatis aut vix ac ne vix subdivisis. Bacca
drupacea calyce persistente coronata subglobosa bilocu-
laris, Pyrene chartacee intus plane aut concave dorso
gibbe l-sperma. Albumen cartilagineum. Embryo dorsa-
lis erectus incurvus, cotyledonibus foliaceis, radicula longa..
—Flores albi. Species omnes Asiatice aut Africane. DC.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Paverra* Caffra ; foliis obovatis ramisque glabris, stipulis
subulatis basi herbaceo-membranaceis connatis, cymis
fastigiatis, calycibus 4-fidis segmentis subulatis, co-
rollz lobis obovato-oblongis mucronulatis tubo bre-
Vioribus. Grah.

Paverta Caffra. Thunb. Prodr. p. 29. Fl. Cap. v. 1.
p. 535. DC. Prodr. v.4.p.491. Ram. et Sch. Syst.
Veg. v.3.p.175. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 1. p. A407.

Ixora Caffra. © Poir. Suppl. v. 3. p. 209.

Paverra corymbosa. Houtt. Pfl. ed. 1. p. 11. ¢. 40.

‘Seen

This very pretty species, native of Southern Africa, was
received from Kew at the Botanic Garden kdb 5,

3

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* The name of the Shrub in the Malabar language.

1835, and flowered freely in the stove in the end of April
and beginning of May following, when scarcely nine inches

Descr. Shrub erect, branches ascending, whole plant
glabrous, except the stigma and the inside of the tube of
the corolla. Leaves (two and a half inches long, one and
a quarter broad) obovate, petioled. Stzpules subulate,
herbaceous, small, dilated, connate, and membranaceo-
herbaceous at the base, persisting. Flowers in dense ter-
minal cymes, perfumed: pedicels with two opposite fila-
mentous bracteas in the middle. Calyx four-cleft, herba-
ceous, segments subulate. Corolla white, hypocrateriform ;
tube (seven and a half lines long) slender, cylindrical,
greenish towards its base, hairy within, especially in its
upper part, hairs somewhat reflected ; limb four-parted,
(three-fourths of an inch across) flat, in the bud imbricated
and slightly convolute; segments obovato-oblong, with a
small mucro in the centre, from which a dark-green streak
passes for a little way along the back. Stamens alternate,
with the lobes in the throat of the corolla, and becoming
reflected between these. Anthers linear, cleft at the base,
pointed at the apex ; filaments short, attached to the back
of the anther at the top of the notch; pollen-granules
minute, rounded, white. Pistil more than twice as long
as the tube of the corolla ; stigma clavate, green, pubes-
cent, the hairs being arranged in many vertical lines ; style
white, erect, filiform. Germen inferior, crowned with a
small depressed disk, which is superior. Graham.

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Onciprum pumitum. Mr. Hergert’s Dwarr
ONCIDIUM.

Pores eR KI EEE ER ERE
Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA MonaANDRIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipea. )

Generie Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata ; la-
teralibus nunc sub labello connatis. Petala conformia.
Labellum maximum ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum,
varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum v. cristatum. Columna
libera, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo-
cularis, rostello nunc abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato.
Pollinia 2, postice suleata; caudicula plana ; glandula ob-
longa. Herbe epiphyte nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia co-
riacea, Scapi paniculali vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores
speciosi lutei, sepius maculati, raro albi. Lindl.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Onxcipium pumilum ; pseudo-bulbis nullis, foliis rigidis ob-
longis obliquis, panicula erecta thyrsoidea foliorum
longitudine, sepalis petalisque obovatis incurvis, 1a-
bello subrotundo trilobo, lobis ovatis obtusis inter-
medio paulo minore, disco callis duobus longitudina-
libus sinubus loborum oppositis cristato, alis columne
integerrimis. Lind. :

Oxcio1um pumilum. Lind. Bot. Reg. ¢. 920. Loddiges,
Bot. Cab, t. 1732. Lindl. Gen. et Spec. Orchid. p. 205.

(8.) alis columna cuneiformibus, crista labelli obsoleta,
foliis atro-viridibus vix maculatis, statura majore.
Lindl. 1. ¢.

Geen

This singular little epiphyte was introduced by the

Hon. and Rey, Wituiam Hersert of Spofforth, in whose
collection

collection it flowered about ten years ago. It was de-
tected by one of his collectors in Brazil, between Rio
Janeiro and Botofogo, growing upon the trunk of Bompax
Ceiba. We are indebted for our plants in the stove of the
Glasgow Botanic Garden to Mr. Loppices. It flowers in
April and May.

Descr. Bulbs (or pseudo-bulbs as they are generally
called) none; a few roots proceed from the base of the
exceedingly short stem. Leaves oblong, coriaceous, rigid,
somewhat distichous, oblique, acute at the point, of a deep
green colour. The scape arises from the axils of one of
these leaves, and, including the flowers, is scarcely so long
as the foliage. Flowers small, arranged in a compound
raceme or a lax thyrsus, which is erect. Perianth spread-
ing, yellow, jagged at the margin. Sepals and petals com-
bined at the base, oblongo-spathulate, spreading, spotted
with brown. Lip roundish, three-fid, entirely yellow, ex-
cept along the margin on each side at the base where is a
deep red-brown line: the segments are acute, incurved, the
disk is furnished with a bifid crest, and each segment is
again divided into two unequal ones. Column short, fur-
rowed in front, with a long, spreading, linear-oblong wing
on each side. Anther-case large, ovato-acuminate. Ger-
men quite straight, hence the lip is superior.

Fig. 1. Back view of a Flower. 2. Front view of ditto (reversed). 3.
Column, the Anther-case being bent back —magnified.

‘

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( 3582 )

XANTHOSIA ROTUNDIFOLIA. ROUND-LEAVED
XANTHOSIA.

KERR REE KKK KEKE EKEKEEEE
Class and Order.

PEeNTANDRIA DiaynliA.
( Nat. Ord.—Unpet.irer2. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus ovato-compressus, limbus 5-lobus, lobis
ovatis acutis subcoloratis. Petala stipitata, ovalia, apice
cuspidata replicata. Stamina lobis calycinis opposita. Sty-
lopodia 2 crassa, villosa (vix semper) ad apices carpellorum.
Styli 2, filiformes e basibus internis stylopodiorum orti.
Fructus compressus striato-nervosus, mericarpiis ad com-
missuram contractis 7—9-jugis, jugis filiformibus, 2 latera-
libus marginantibus, valleculis evittatis, commissura an-
gustissima evittata.—Suflrutices Australasici, pilis sepius
stellatis hirsuti. Folia alterna simplicia aut tripartita.
Umbelle varie. DC.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Xantnosta* (Sect. Levcoumna) rotundifolia; glabra vel
pubescens fruticosa, foliis petiolatis cordato-rotundatis
grosse dentatis coriaceis glabris, umbella 4-radiata,
involucri tetraphylli foliolis lineari-lanceolatis, invo-
lucellis monophyllis latissimis profunde trifidis albis.

Xantnosta rotundifolia. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 75.

eee

This extremely curious umbelliferous plant, so unlike in
abit to the majority of individuals of this.extensive Na-

tural Order, is a native of New Holland, where it appears
to

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cevboc, ‘ is ith which some species
a “etn yellow ; from the yellowish tomentum wit which so: pe

.

to be not uncommon. We have numerous specimens from
the vicinity of Port Jackson and from King George’s Sound.
The Glasgow Botanic Garden owes the possession of it to
Mr. Loppiees, and it flowers with us in the month of June.
It may be reckoned a hardy green-house plant.

Descr. Stem a foot to a foot and a half high, shrubby,
slightly branched, clothed with a brown bark, which in
our plant is but slightly hairy. Leaves alternate, cordate,
sometimes approaching to ovate, sometimes to rotundate,
coriaceous, glabrous, or partially clothed with deciduous
down, acute, deeply and sharply toothed at the margin:
petiole one-fourth the length of the leaf, scarcely dilated at
the base. Peduncles terminal, elongated, sometimes with
a coloured bractea. Umbels of four rather short rays.
Involucre of four linear-lanceolate reddish-green leaves.
Involucels, one at the base of each partial and nearly sessile
and few-flowered umbel, large, petaloid, pure white, or
externally only slightly tinged with red, concave, deeply
three-cleft, with acute, spreading segments. Flowers few,
six to eight in each involucre, white, the anthers and the
upper margin of the germen only being red. Calyx of
five large, deciduous sepals, jointed as it were on the top
of the germen, erect. Petals erect, oval, unguiculate,
with a large involute appendage. Filaments incurved at
the apex: Anthers oval. Young fruit roundish, remark-
ably flattened on the sides, many-ribbed. Stylopodium of

two large, rounded, fleshy lobes. Some of the flowers are
imperfect.

——

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Back view, and 3, front view of a Petal. 4 Sta-
men, 95. Immature Fruit —magnificd,

Pen et. (oe a

( 3583)

CHRYSOSTEMMA TRIPTERIS. 'THREE-LEAVED
CHRYSOSTEMMA.

Class and Order.

SyNGENESIA FRUSTRANEA.
( Nat. Ord.—Composirs. )

Generic Character.

- Capitulum multiflorum heterogamum, fl. radii neutris 1-
serialibus ligulatis, disci hermaphr. tubulosis 5-dentatis.
Involucrum biseriale, squamis foliaceis basi coadunatis, ext.
paucis parvis linearibus patentibus, inter. erectis ovali-ob-
longis margine subscariosis. Receptaculum planum, paleis
linearibus angustissimis fere filiformibus. Styli rami cono
superati pubeque descendente instructi. Acheniwm plano-
obcompressum obovato-ellipticum angulis alatum glaber-
rimum apice emarginatum, pappo coroniformi lacero coro-
natum, disco epigyno minuto, alis albidis.—Herba Borealr-
Americana nitida erecta. Folia opposita petiolata, una
subpedato-pinnatifida, superiora trisecta, segmentis lanceo-
latis integerrimis. Pedunculi subgemini l-cephali. Capt-
tula radio luteo, disco brunneo.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

Curysosremma * tripteris.

CurysostemMa trinterla, Less. Syn. Compos. p. e2a7. DC.
Prodr. v. 5. p. 568.

Coreopsis tripteris. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1282. Mich. Fl. Amer.
v.2. p. 148. Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 2. p. 368. Elliott, Fl.
Carol. v. 2. p. 442. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 3. p. 614.

ae

This very handsome plant, although a well-known inha-

itant of our gardens for a period of one hundred years, a
no

=—

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From xpuce«, gold, and crtupa, a crown, from the colour of the flowers.

not (perhaps for want of novelty to recommend it) found a
place in any of our periodical botanical publications. It is
a native of Virginia, Carolina, and Georgia, chiefly in the
upper districts, and was introduced by Mr. Puitip Miiier.
{t flowers from August till October; when the cold and
frosts cause it to perish down to the root.

Descr. Stem erect, straight, rigid, five to six feet high,
glabrous, striated, branched, especially upwards, and there
in a paniculated manner. Leaves opposite, on short peti-
oles, the lower ones generally more or less bipinnate, be-
coming pinnate upwards, and the uppermost deeply tripar-
tite, when they pass into the simple bracteas of the peduncle,
all of them glabrous, somewhat rigid, spreading or recurv-
ed, of a dark green colour, the segments quite entire, of a
linear-lanceolate form, but varying somewhat in width in
different individuals. Panicle trichotomous. Peduncles
with linear bracteas. Involucre glabrous: outer of seven
to eight, linear, obtuse, spreading, green scales: inner of
as many close-pressed, ovate, brownish, and somewhat
membranaceous ones. Florets of the ray yellow, at. first
singularly involute in the margins, and entire at the extre-
mity, but soon unfolding and becoming bi- trifid at the
apex. Disk purple: base of the tubular corolla only
yellow: Anthers and filiform segments of the style dark
purple. Achenium compressed, slightly winged at the mar-
gin, especially upwards, but quite destitute of awns.

Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray. 2. Ditto of the Disk: magnified.

( 3584 )

CLIANTHUS PUNICEUS. CRIMSON GLORY-
PEa.

KKK KEKE EEE EK EK EEE EEE EEE
Class and Order.

DiapELPHIA DECANDRIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. )

Generic Character.

Calyx late campanulatus, subequalis, 5-dentatus. Vex-
illum acuminatum, reflexum, alis parallelis longius ; carina
scaphiformis, vexillo alisque multo longius ; omnino mono-
petala. Stamina manifeste perigyna, diadelpha, omnia fer-
tilia, Stylus staminibus duplo longior, versus apicem hine
leviter barbatus, stigmate simplicissimo. Legumen pedi-
cellatum, coriaceum, acuminatum, ventricosum, polysper-
mum, intus lanulosum, sutura dorsali recta ventral con-
vexa. Semina reniformia, funiculis longiusculis affixa.—
Suffrutices, Herbeve ; foliis impari-pinnatis, stipulatis, flo-
ribus speciosissimis, racemosis. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cuanrnus * puniceus ; fruticosus diffusus glaber, foliolis
alternis oblongis subemarginatis, racemis pendulis
multifloris, calyce 5-dentato, legumine glabro.

Cuiantuus puniceus. Soland. MSS. in Mus. Brit. Allan
Cunningham, in Hort. Trans. v. 1. n. 8. p- 521. t. 22.
Bot. Reg. t. 1775.

Donia punicea. Don’s Gen. Syst. of Gardening, 2. A68.

_ Wereceived at the Botanic Garden Edinburgh, this strik-
ingly handsome plant from Mr. Lowe, of the Clapton —
sery,

eee

* From xasos, glory, and avbos, a flower, in allusion to the great beauty of
the blossoms.

VOL. XI. H

sery, in 1835. It has been cultivated in Scotland, both in
the open ground and in the greenhouse. In the former it
lives, but unfortunately does not thrive, and will never be
ornamental, unless, perhaps on a good wall, and well pro-
tected in winter. In the latter situation it is most luxuriant,
but has produced no fruit with us. It first flowered in
February, 1837, and will probably exhibit a long succes-
sion of blossoms.

[In the South of England, this splendid plant bears the
wiuters with impunity, and in Devonshire and the Isle of
Wight, fully authorises the generic name given to it by the
learned Sonanver (Flower of Glory). It was discovered by
Sir Josep Banxs in New Zealand, in the northern interior,
in 1769, and again by the Missionaries in 1831. Mr. Curtis,
who has raised numerous plants of it at his extensive nursery
grounds at Glazenwood, has been furnished with the follow-
Ing particulars respecting its introduction, &c., to this
country, by Mr. Vaux of Ryde, Isle of Wight, where the
plant grows luxuriantly, and blossoms freely in the open
air without the slightest protection.“ Mr. Ricaarp Davis,
Missionary Catechist at New Zealand, sent the seed of
CuiantTuus puniceus to the Rey. Joun Nogie Coiman, 5,
Terrace, Ryde, who sowed it as soon as it was received in
the autumn of 1831. In the following spring, Mr. Conman
had several fine plants. In the autumn of 1832 some of the
plants had indications of blossoms forming, and in the
spring, or rather summer of 1833, they flowered most beau-
tifully, and produced seed-vessels, one of which was for-
warded to the London Horticultural Society, and engraved
in the Transactions of that valuable body. ‘The propaga-
tion is extremely simple. Cuttings strike readily under a
hand-glass in any soil ; indeed, where any bud of the grow-
ing plant touches the ground, it will take root like a
Mimuvus, or like Versena Melindres. The cuttings appear
to succeed equally well, whether stripped off or clean cut
out under a joint, and I have not found any difference as to
ripened or green shoots.” The native name of the plant,
according to Mr. Cunnincuam, is Kowaingutu-Kaka, ot
Parrot’s-bill. Ep.] ;

Descr. Stem shrubby. Bark cracked, but otherwise
smooth, round. Branches diffused, green, glabrous, slightly
angled. Leaves alternate, pinnated, with an odd leaflet ;
common petiole round, with a slender furrow above, taper
ing to the apex, pinne ten to twelve pairs, nearly sessile,
alternate towards the apex of the leaf, subopposite below,

largest

largest in the middle, oblong, subemarginate, minutely mu-
cronate, opaque, green and glabrous above, paler, and with
minute adpressed pubescence below, edges slightly revolute,
middle-rib channelled above, prominent and round below.
Racemes axillary, pendulous, many-flowered ; lower flow-
ers expanded first, flexuose ; common peduncle and pedicels
green and slightly pubescent, each pedicel springing from
the axil of a small, green, ovato-lanceolate, spreading
bractea, and with two subopposite bracteoles in the middle.
Calyx campanulate, green, its mouth somewhat oblique,
with five subequal, deltoideo-subulate, adpressed teeth.
Corolla of nearly uniform red, and becoming livid in fading,
very handsome, but the whole raceme is less so than it
otherwise would be, in consequence of the gradual elonga-
tion of the pedicels being disproportionately greater than
the rachis, by which the whole forms a dense and confused
ovate mass. Vexillum ovato-acuminate, reflected from near
its base, slightly striped with white near its centre, some-
what callous at the keel. Ale about half as long, narrow,
oblong-sickle-shaped, with a callous, colourless, curved
claw, and a tooth on its upper edge of nearly a similar tex-
ture, but shorter. Carina as long as the vexillum, nearly
colourless on its inside in the lower half, monopetalous, with
a colourless undivided claw and short blunt tooth on the
edge on each side, acuminate, curved forwards. Stamens
ten, diadelphous ; filaments colourless ; anthers uniform,
oblong, yellow ; pollen-granules minute, golden coloured,
shining, round. Pistil green, as long as the keel, and
closely wrapped up in it ; germen glabrous, furrowed along
its upper edge. Style covered with long, simple white
hairs in a line along its upper side, and extending nearly to
its middle. ‘ The flowers are succeeded by brownish-
lack pods, two inches and a half long, seated on a slender
Stipe, and convex on the upper instead of the lower edge,
So that unless attention be given to the manner of growth,
't would seem as if the seeds grew from the lower instead of
the upper edge. They are covered all over with a deli-
cate cottony down, in which lie the small, kidney-shaped
seeds, of a dull yellowish ochre colour, mottled with small
crown blotches and speckles.” (Hort. Trans. l. ¢.)
raham.

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FNGOPETALUM COCHLEARE. SHELL-LIPPED

ZY GOPETALUM. ‘

Class and Order.

GynanpriA MonaANnpria.
( Nat. Ord —Orcuive&. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum, sepalis_petalisque ascenden-

tibus, subequalibus, cum ungue producto columne conna-

tis. Labellum muticum, indivisum, patens, ungue ascen-
dente : crista magna transversa carnosa. Columna brevis,
arcuata, semiteres. Anthera subbilocularis. Pollinia 2,
bipartibilia, in glandulam transversam subsessilia —Herbe
terrestres, subacaules ; foltis plicatis patentibus. Flores spe-
ciost, labello ceruleo. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Zycoreratum cochleare ; pseudo-bulbo nullo, foliis lato-
lanceolatis, scapo unifloro, sepalis petalisque oblongis
subequalibus, labello subquadrato basi ventricoso
lateribus inflexis crispatis callo baseos lunato depresso —
antice crenato.

Zycorrratum cochleare. Lindl. Bot. Reg. ¢. 1837.

Evuxoruia cochleata. Hort. Knight.

This very distinct species of ZyGorETALUM was sent to
the Glasgow Botanic Garden by Mr. Knieurt of the Ball’s
Pond Nursery, under the name of Evora cochleata.
It is probably a native of Brazil *. Its handsome flower is

produced in August.
Descr. —

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* Of Trinidad, according to Professor LINDLEY, who has published a
figure and description since the above was written.

Descr. Pseudo-bulb none in our specimens. The leaves
are from eight or ten inches to a foot long, and spring from
the root, they are broadly lanceolate, glossy, yellow green,
scarcely striated, waved, distichous, sheathing at the base.
From the axil of one of the outer leaves arises the scape,
scarcely of the length of one’s finger, erect, having two
membranous, sheathing bracteas on the top at the base of
the germen. Sepals and petals in one series, oblong, pale
greenish-white, spreading, combined at the base: the
petals rather smaller than the sepals, Lip very large, nearly
Square, set on by a small short claw, very broad and cordate
at the base, where it is ventricose, the sides involute and
crisped, the apex reflexed, two-lobed : at the base within
is a large, lunate, fleshy, depressed crest, lobed and cre-
nated, marked with purple lines as is the lower half of the
lip itself; but these lines soon combine, and form a large
purple blotch in the upper half of the lip. Column short,
semiterete, with two small wings above, white, the front

delicately streaked with red. Anther-case obliquely coni-
cal, obtuse.

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CoREOPSIS LONGIPES. LONG-STALKED
CorREopPsIs.

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Class and Order.

SyNGENESIA F'RUSTRANEA.

( Nat. Ord.—Composira. )

Generic Character.

(Composite, Senecionidee.) Capitulum multiflorum
heterogamum, fl. radii circ. 8 neutris ligulatis, disct her-
maphr. 5-dentatis. Inod. duplex utrumque circ. 8. phyllum
ima basi subcoadunatum, squamis ext. foliaceis angustio-
ribus subpatulis, int. latioribus submembranaceis. Recept.
pasa paleaceum, paleis persistentibus. Stylz rami apice
hispidi cono superati. Achenia obcompresso-plana, raro
incurva, margine plus minus alata, apice nunc bidentata,
nunc biaristata, aristis levibus aut sursum ciliato-serratis,
(nec retrorsum pilosis)—Herbe Americane, raro suffru-
tescentes, plerumque glabre. Folia opposita, rarius alterna.
Pedunculi 1-cephali solitarii aut corymbosi. Capituli dis-
cus luteus, radius concolor, raro albus. D C.

Specific Name and Character.

Corroprsis longipes ; debilis, foliis oppositis radicalibus spa-
thulatis, caulinis profunde pinnatifidis glabris | basi
utrinque ciliatis laciniis lineari-lanceolatis integris vel
iterum pinnatifidis, pedunculis elongatis, floribus uni-
coloribus, radii corollis apice 5-fidis.

Among the various species of Coreopsis sent by Mr.
Drummonp from North America is the present one, found
in Texas, which appears to me, both in the living and
dried state, to present characters by which it may be sepa-
rated from all others that have yet been described. In

general

general habit it comes nearest to C. tinctoria and Atkinso-
niana; and is, perhaps, as it were, intermediate between
them and C. verticillata, having broader and less divided
leaves than the former, and more flaccid foliage and stems,
and a very different inflorescence from the latter. It
appears to be annual or biennial, and flowers in the open
border in the autumn.

Descr. Stems erect, but weak and flexuose, succulent,
striated, glabrous, having many straggling and wavy
branches. Leaves opposite and connate at the base, very
variable : the lowermost ones entire, the rest more or less
pinnatifid or even bipinnatifid, with the segments from
three to five, rarely more, linear-lanceolate, flaccid, gla-
brous, generally curved, glabrous, strongly ciliated at the
base, which forms a kind of broad petiole ; and, when seen
under a lens, the rest of the margin exhibits minute hairs.
Peduncles very long, flexuose, naked, or rarely with an un-
divided leaf, single-flowered. Involucre glabrous ; outer of
about eight spreading, ovato-lanceolate, green, acute leaves,
diaphanous and ciliated at the margin: znner of about as
many erect, ovate, obtuse, membranaceous, yellow-brown
leaves. Florets all full yellow: those of the ray oblong-
obovate, with five deep, unequal teeth at the extremity :
their germen abortive, flat, but having a pappus of two
minute, plumose scales. Tubular or central floret yellow.

Fruit (immature) compressed, winged, crowned with small,
flat, ciliated awns or scales.

Fig. 1. Floret of the Ray. 2. Floret of the Disk.

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IMPATIENS SCAPIFLORA. STEMLEss BALSAM.

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Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Batsaminea. )

Generic Character.

Anthere quinque, nempe 3 biloculares, 2 ante petalum
superius I-loculares. Stigmata 5 coalita. Capsula pris-
matico-teretiuscula, elongata ; valvis a basi ad apicem ex-
trorsum revolutis. Cotyledones planiuscule. Pedunculi
axillares, ramosi, multiflori. Capsule glabre.—Folia al-
terna. DC,

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Impatiens* scapiflora ; radice tuberosa, foliis radicalibus cor-
datis glanduloso-serratis, scapo apice racemoso, calyce
3-sepalo, sepalo inferiore longissime calcarato, petalo
superiore (seu anteriore) galeiformi, reliquis 4 per
paria connatis quorum lateralibus oblongo-falcatis, in-
terioribus (y. infimis) oblique cuneatis.

Impatiens scapiflora. Heyne, Wall in Fl. Ind. v. 2. p. 464.
Wall. Cat. n. 4758. Wight Cat. n. 446.

Impatiens bulbosa. “ Moon Cat. Ceyl. Pl. p. 18.”

MPATIENS acaulis. Arn. in Hook. Comp. to Bot. Mag. v. 1.
p. 325. (Exempl. in Herb. nostr.)

It has seldom been our good fortune to figure a more in-
teresting plant than the one here given ; or one that, at first
sight, would appear less to belong to the very natural Genus
of which it is, in my opinion, undoubtedly a member, Impa-

lens.

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* So called on account of the elastic nature of the valves of the capsule,
which throw out the seeds with considerable force.

tens. The Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted for the
tubers to Witi1am Nimmo, Esq., who sent them in 1835 from
Bombay, and they flowered beautifully in the stove in
August, 1836. The plant would appear, however, not to be
peculiar to the western coast of the Peninsular of India. It
is, I think, certainly the I. scapiflora of Heyne and Watucu,
and, consequently of Wieur and Arnorr: but the station
of the plant does not seem to be known to those authors.
Small specimens in our Herbarium were gathered by Mr.
Macras at Kandy, Ceylon, and larger ones were sent to us
from the same country by Mrs. Col. Waxxzr. These are
probably the I. bulbosa of Moon’s Catalogue, and certainly
the I. acaulis of Mr. Arnorr in the paper above quoted.
There can, indeed, be no question about the identity of
these: indeed the smaller Kandyan specimens are consid-
ie by Mr. Arnorr himself to be the same with Hryne’s
plant.

Descr. Root consisting of small tubers, like those of
many Breonim, a Genus of plants to which the present bears
no inconsiderable resemblance in its leaves and inflores-
cence, and especially in its succulent habit. Leaves all aris-
ing from the root, roundish, cordate, glabrous, many-nerved,
serrated, the teeth almost intramarginal, pointing upwards,
tipped with a gland: the length of the leaf is about equal
with that of the rounded petiole. Scape a span to eight or
ten inches high, rounded, succulent, terminated by a ra-
ceme of six to ten large, handsome, one-sided flowers.
Bracteas solitary, ovato-cordate, concave, fleshy. Pedicels
quite straight, patent, an inch and a half to two inches long.
Sepals three : two lateral ones resembling the bracteas, but
rather less fleshy, pale reddish-green : lower one white,
ovate, concave, lengthened at its base into a slender spur,
curved, between three to four inches in length. Upper
petal white, helmet-shaped, covering the organs of fructifi-
cation, the other four delicate purple-rose colour, spreading,
all on the same plane, combined at the base into two pairs:
of these four, the two lateral ones are oblong, singularly
recurved like a sickle ; the two inner ones longer, straight,
obliquely cuneate. Stamens five, white, combined by the
anthers and upper part of the filaments. | Filaments dilated
upwards. Anthers ovate, forming an obtuse cone above
the pistil, opening internally by two longitudinal cells.
Pollen white. Germen oval, with five furrows : Style short,
conical, with three acute stigmas.

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Class and Order.

HexanpriaA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—AspnopEtex. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium subcampanulatum, cum pedicello contin-
uum, 6-partitum. Stamina 6, omnia fertilia, fauce exserta,
verticillata, quorum 3 breviora ; filamenta petaloidea, bi-
loba, antheris inter lobos sessilibus. Squame hypogyne o.
Ovarium stipitatum, 3-angulare, 3-loculare, polyspermum.
Stylus simplex. Stigma trilobum. Capsula membranacea,

triptera—Herba Allii facie. Lindl.

Specific Name and Synonym.
Catuprora * lutea. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1590.

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An exceedingly pretty bulbous Genus, discovered in
Northern California by the late Mr. Dovetas, and first dis-
tinguished as such by Professor Linptey in the work just
quoted, by the name of Catuirrora. That author reckons
ita hardy plant, as it flourished well in an open, but shaded
peat border in the garden of the Horticultural Society at
Chiswick ; but with us in Scotland, it is yet too rare and
valuable a plant to run any risks by exposing it to the in-
clement summer of our climate, and it is kept in a pot in the
frame, where it expands its exceedingly pretty flowers in
July. It differs, asa Genus, from Broprza and Trirecesa,
and Leucocoryne (all from the same country) not only in
the different structure of the stamens, as marked by Dr.

INDLEY ; but also in the yellow colour of the flowers.
Descr.

* xadrrmpopa, pretty face, in allusion to its beauty.

Descr. Root, a small, pale-coloured, roundish bulb,
scarcely so large as a Hasel-nut. Leaves, solitary in the
wild specimens, generally two in the cultivated ones ; linear-
lanceolate, striated, grooved, attenuated at both extremi-
ties, ten to twelve inches long. Scape much shorter than the
leaves, rounded, bearing an umbel of six to eight bright
yellow flowers on slender stalks. Bracteas four to five,
membranous, forming an imperfect involucre. Perianth of
six leaves, spreading above, united below by the filaments
of the stamens, deep yellow within, paler and with a brown
streak on the outside, below greenish. Filaments six, large,
"Sere deeply bifid, alternately smaller: Anther oblong,

xed between the segments of the filament. Germen oval-
triangular, stipitate: Style nearly as long as the germen:
Stigma glandular, of three deflexed lobes.

Fig. 1. Base of the Perianth, showing the Stamens. 2. Two of the Sta-
mens. 3. Pistil :—magnified.

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EUCHARIDIUM CONCINNUM. PrertTy
EucHARIDIUM.

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Class and Order.

TrerranpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—OnaGrarizz. )

Generic Character.

_Eucharidium, Fischer et Meyer.—Calycis tubus supra ova-
rium elongatum, filiformis, cum limbo 4-partito deciduus.
Petala 4, unguiculata (trifida). Stamina 4! Stigma bilo-
bum. Capsula 4-valvis, dehiscens. Semina numerosa, in
quovis loculo uniserialia, sursum imbricata, erecta, alato-
marginata. F. et M.

Specific Name and Synonym.

Eucuaripium * concinnum.
Evucuaripium concinnum. Fisch. et Mey. Ind. Secundus,

Sem. Hort. Petrop. p. 37.

A very remarkable and pretty little annual, allied to
Epitosium and Crarxia; and well distinguished from both
by Drs. Fiscuer and Meyer in the work above quoted,
Where many rare Californian plants are first described.
The present plant inhabits Ross, in New California. Seeds
were kindly sent by Dr. Fiscuer to the Glasgow Botanic :
Garden, where the plants produced their lively blossoms in
the open border during the months of August and Sep-
tember.

Descr. Root small, annual. Stem nearly simple, erect,

rounded, glabrous, red. Leaves below opposite, and soon
deciduous,

* Probably from «, bene, and aeapss, gaudium, from the lively appearance
of the flowers,

deciduous, the rest alternate, all of them oblong-ovate,
entire, shortly petiolate, glabrous ; flowers sessile, from the |
axils of the upper leaves, and forming a sort of leafy corymb.
Calyx with the upper part of the tube slender and crowning
the germen ; the limb four-cleft, the segments linear-lance-
olate, often cohering by the apex, sometimes free and then
reflexed, red. Petals four, unequally placed, cuneate,
trifid, rose-coloured, with pale veins and deeper spots.
Stamens four, erect : Filaments didynamous : Anthers ovate,
slightly hairy, recurved at the point: Style rather longer
than the stamens. Stigma two-lobed, white, fleshy, and
velvety.

Fig. 1. Upper part of the Calyx, Stamens, and Style. 2. Petal. 3.
Stamen: magnified,

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CATASETUM LURIDUM. LwuRIp CATASETUM.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA MonanpriA.
( Nat. Ord.—OrcuivEz. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium sepius globosum, nunc explanatum. Se-
pala et petala subequalia. Labellum crassum, carnosum,
nudum, ventricosum v. explanatum, fimbriatum ; sub apice
saccatum obsolete trilobum. Colwmna erecta, aptera, li-
bera, apice utrinque cirrhosa. Anthera subbilocularis, an-
tice truncata. Pollinia 2, postice biloba v. sulcata, caudi-
cula maxima nuda demum elastice contractili, glandula
cartilaginea subquadrata.—Herbe terrestres v. epiphyte,
caulibus brevibus fusiformibus vestigiis foliorum vestitis.
Folia basi vaginantia, plicata. Scapi radicales. Flores
speciosi, racemosi, virides, nunc purpureo-maculati. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cataserum luridum; pseudobulbis oblongis compressis,
foliis lato-lanceolatis, racemo brevi nutante, perianthio
subgloboso, petalis sepalisque subrotundo -ellipticis
arcte imbricatis, labello magno carnoso cucullato apice
producto truncato subreflexo.

Caraserum luridum, Lind. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 156.
Bot. Reg. t. 1667. :

Aneutoa lurida. “ Link in Verhandl. des Vereis, &e. 1.
p. 289. t. 6.”

The form of the flowers of this very distinct species of
Carasetum is no less remarkable than their powerful fra-
stance: a single raceme of flowers diffusing its odour
throughout the whole of a large apartment, and which is
too powerful if we smell closely at the blossoms fheomaiee

It seems to have been first cultivated in Prussia, and isa
native of Brazil. Our plant flowered in the stove of the
Glasgow Botanic Garden in J uly, 1836.

Descr. Pseudo-bulb oblong, striated, somewhat com-

pressed : sheathed below with large scales, above by the
bases of five to six rather large, lanceolate leaves, which
are a foot or more long and striated. Scape a foot high,
arising from the base of a pseudo-bulb, and bearing; in our
specimen, a short raceme of five, large, drooping, subglo-
bose flowers. Sepals and petals nearly equal, roundish,
oval, very concave, pale greenish, obscurely spotted,
closely imbricated above and at the sides of the lip. Lip
very large, singularly thick and fleshy, remarkably cucul-
late at the base, the mouth expanding and ending in a de-

flexed, truncated, or slightly two-lobed apex, the outside is ~

pale dull green, faintly striated, within deeply tinged with
yellow, striated with green, the sides elegantly dotted with
rich brown. Column completely enclosed in the cucullate
base of the lip, green, semicylindrical, with two purplish
set, which rest on the inside of the lip. Anther depressed,
acuminated, as is the top of the column.

Fig. 1. Section of the Lip, including the Column. 2, Pollen-masses:
magnified.

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BEGONIA PLATANIFOLIA. PLANE-LEAVED
BEGONIA.

KK KK KKK KKK KEK KEK ERERE
Class and Order.

MonaeciA PoLyANDRIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Bzeon1ace2. )

Generic Character.

_ Masc. Cal. 0. Cor. polypetala, petalis plerumque 4,
inequalibus.
_Fam. Cal. o. Cor. petalis 4—9, plerumque inequa-
libus. Styli tres, bifidi. Caps. triquetra, alata, trilocularis,
polysperma,

Specific Character and Synonym.

Beeonta platanifolia ; fruticosa ; foliis subequaliter remi-
formibus lobatis serrulato-denticulatis utrinque his-
pidis subtus purpurascentibus, lobis acutis, stipulis
ovatis acutis rigidis demum marcescentibus.

Brecon platanifolia. Schott.—Spreng. Syst. Veget. cur.
post. 407.

* We received this large and handsome species at Edin-
burgh from Berlin in 1834, but the plants did not grow
vigorously, nor flower, till this year, when our increased
accommodation at the Botanic Garden enabled us to give
them greater stove heat. 5

Descr. Stem erect, robust, of rapid growth, (in our
specimens from two and a half to five and a half feet high,)
round, joints slightly swollen and marked with a ring, from
whence the stipules fell, slightly spotted, glabrous, showing
little disposition to develop branches unless the top be
injured. Leaves (eight to ten inches across their —
diameter) alternate, petiolate, reniform, nearly equ gtr

VOL. XI. I

base, lobed, hispid on both sides, dark green above, paler
and becoming purplish below, especially on the ribs, which
are strong and prominent ; lobes acute, contorted, serrulato-
denticulate, and in the interstices between the teeth crenu-
late and ciliated ; petioles (two to three inches long) nearly
round, slightly flattened above, erect ; stipules opposite,
intrafoliaceous, ovate, acute, involute, herbaceous, rigid,
marcescent. Cymes axillary, on peduncles as long as the
petioles, dichotomous, always bearing a flower in the cleft,
fully developed only after the leaf, from the axil of which it
springs, drops off; branches slightly hairy, spreading like a
fan. Male flowers (there are no others on the only two
specimens which have yet flowered with us) tetrapetalous,
nearly white, very large (two inches across); petals very
unequal, the larger rotundato-ovate, the smaller spathulato-
linear. Stamens numerous, connected only at the base:
Jilament slender : connective thick, and clavate: anther-cells

small, on the outside of the connective, and towards its
edges.” Graham.

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CLARKIA ELEGANS. CALIFORNIAN CLARKIA.

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Class and Order.

OctranpRIA MonocGynis.
( Nat. Ord.—Onagcrariz. )

Generic Character.

Cal. superus 4-partitus reflexus, sepe laciniis coherenti-
bus. Pet. 4, unguiculata, estivatione convoluta. Stam.
alterna sterilia, antheris demum reflexis. Stigma 4-lobum,
petaloideum. Capsula cylindracea, sulcata, 4-locularis, 4-
valvis. Semina adscendentia nuda.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Crarkta elegans ; foliis ovatis dentatis integrisque, caule
glauco racemoso, petalis rhomboideis indivisis, stig-
mate pubescente, ovario piloso. Lindl.

Crarxia elegans. “ Dougl. in litt.” Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.
1575.

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This is a third species of the Genus Crargia which Mr.
Dovetas has detected on the Pacific side of North America:
two of them he found in the Hudson’s Bay Company's
territories ; while the present is a native of California, and
scarcely less worthy of a place in our flower borders, (where
it is perfectly hardy,) than the well-known Cxarkra pul-
chella, which Mr. Dovexas was also the means of introduc-
ing to our collections through the Horticultural Society.
It blossoms through the summer and autumn.

Descr. Stem erect, two to three feet high, with numer-
ous erect, twiggy, rounded, and quite glabrous, reddish
branches. Leaves ovate, on short petioles, glabrous, acute,
more or less distinctly toothed, the upper ones gradually
narrower and smaller, and taking the place of bracteas: so

that the branches, for a great part of their length, are lou
eafy,

leafy, distantly flowering spikes. Bud pendent : the flower
stands out horizontally and is quite sessile. Calyx hairy,
of four superior segments, which, however, as in G2NoTHERA,
split open for the whole length only on one side, the apices
still continuing united, and the base forming a cup-shaped
tube above the germen. Petals four, equal, spreading,
somewhat rhomboidal, with a distinct claw, of a deep rose
colour. Stamens eight, four longer and fertile: four ste-
rile. Anther linear-oblong, red, fixed by the base. Style
ascending, white: Stigma of four spreading lobes. Capsule
immature, cylindrical, hispid, marked with eight furrows.

Fig. 1. Portion of the Calyx, with two Stamens (a fertile and a sterile
one,) and the base of a Petal. 2. Immature Capsule: magnified.

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DELPHINIUM VIMINEUM. SLENDER UPRIGHT
LARKSPUR.

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Class and Order.

“PoLyAnprRiA TRIGYNIA.
( Nat. Ord.—RanuncuLacez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx deciduus petaloideus irregularis, sepalo nempe su-
periore in calcar deorsum producto. Petala 4; 2 superiora
basi in appendicibus intra calcar contentis producta. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

DeLpuinium vimineum; pubescens, petiolis simplicibus,
foliis planis tripartitis, segmentis cuneatis obtusis mu-
cronulatis trilobis ; summis linearibus indivisis tripar-
titisve, racemo laxo velutino, petalorum inferiorum
limbo bifido, calcare recto calycis longitudine, ovariis

sericeis. Don.
Detpuinium vimineum. Don, in Sw. Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 374.

Raised from seeds sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden
from Velasco, in Texas, by the late Mr. Drummonp. The
same plant has been figured by Mr. Don, with the lower
leaves smaller and broader: and I follow that Botanist in
making it a new species ; at the same time, I am far from
certain that it is not a state of D. azwreum, also found in
Texas by Mr. Drummonp,) with less divided leaves than
usual. It is a handsome hardy perennial, flowering in July
and August.

Descr. Stem slightly branched, two to three feet high,
downy. Leaves all petiolate, tripartite, the segments linear-

cuneate, entire or deeply and unequally bifid, upper oe
. e

the narrowest. Racemes lax, elongated, of several mode-
rately-sized, bright azure flowers. Rachis and _ pedicels
downy. Sepals oblong, acute, waved : Spur equal to them
in length. Upper petals resembling the carina of a papili-
onaceous flower ; its claw tubular: lower petals with the
limb spreading, purple, bifid, bearded with a yellow tuft of
hairs. Stamens numerous.

Fig.1. Flower, with the three lower Sepals removed, nat. size. 2. Lower
Petal. 3. Upper Petals: magnified.

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Lycunis BunGEANA. Dr. Bunee’s SCARLET
CAMPION.

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Class and Order.

Decanpria PENTAGYNIA.
( Nat. Ord.—CaryorHv.1es. )

Generic Character.

Calyx tubulosus, 5-dentatus, nudus. Petala 5, unguicu-
lata, fauce sepius coronata. Stamina 10. Stylib. Cap-
sula 1—}-locularis, anthophoro longo vel nullo. D €.

Specific Name and Character.

Lycunis Bungeana; caule pubescenti, foliis ovato-lanceo-
latis ciliatis sessilibus, floribus axillaribus terminali-
busque solitariis, calycibus pilosis profunde 10-an-
gulatis, petalis (coccineis) obsolete coronatis angusto-
cuneatis apice profunde inciso-multifidis.

Lycunis Bungeana. Fisch. et Mey. Hort. Petrop.

I regret that the history of this most beautiful plant is
unknown to me, further than that it was received at the
Glasgow Botanic Garden, (where it flowered in a warm
open border in September, 1835,) from Mr. Boortu of Ham-
burgh, under the name here adopted, and evidently intend-
ed to commemorate the services, rendered to Science and
Botany in particular, of Dr. ALEXANDER Bunce, who not
only accompanied Professor Leprsour in his celebrated
travels in the Altai, but was attached to the Russian mission
which went to Pekin, during which he collected many
plants in the north of China. From the circumstance of
that species of Lycunis, which is perhaps the most nearly —
allied to it, (L. grandiflora, Jaca. L. coronata, Tuuns., and —
Curr. Bot. Mag. t. 233,) being a native of China and Japan,

I had hoped to have found some account of the present
among

among the plants that have been described of those two
countries : but none appears, and I am therefore ignorant
both of the region of which it is a native, and of the name
of the Botanist to whom we are indebted for its discovery *.

Descr. Appearance and mode of growth extremely simi-
lar to that of L. grandiflora ; but the stem is downy, and
the leaves, though similar in form, are decidedly ciliated at
the margin and on the nerve at the back. The flowers
aad in a similar manner ; but here the calyx is hairy and

eeply sulcated, presenting ten sharp angles. The most
striking difference, however, resides in the petals, which
instead of being of a dull orange red, very broad and
closely placed, and only fimbriated at the extremity, are of
a bright crimson, distantly placed, narrow-cuneate, and
deeply laciniated, so as to be irregularly multifid at the
extremity,

* Since the above was written, Dr. von FiscHeERr informs me, that it was
ue by Dr. Bunaz in a garden at Pekin: but its native country was not
own.

Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Petal :—nat. size.

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EPIDENDRUM CoRIACEUM. CoRIACEOUS-
LEAVED EPIDENDRUM.

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Class and Order.

GyYNANDRIA MonanprRIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuwes. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patentia, subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia, v.
angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia v. reflexa. bellum
cum marginibus column omnino v. parte connatum, limbo
integro v. diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato, v. tubercu-
lato ; nunc in calcar productum ovario accretum et cunicu-
lum formans. Columna elongata: clinandrio marginato,
sepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis. Pollinia
4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe (Ameri-
cane) epiphyte, caule nunc apice v. basi pseudo-bulboso,
nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, rarissime vens
elevatis striata. Flores spicati, racemosi corymbosi, v. pa-
niculati, terminales v. laterales. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Erienprum coriaceum ; pseudo-bulbis oblongo-lanceolatis
compressis, foliis subbinis coriaceis acutis oblongo-
lanceolatis, perianthii foliolis obovato-oblongis, petalis
sepalis duplo angustioribus, labelli limbo rotundato-
reflexo. Parker MSS.

This plant was sent from Demerara some years ago by
Cuarces Parker, Esq., to the Liverpool Botanic Garden,
where Mr. Henry Suepuerp considered it a variety of E.
variegatum (Bot. Mag. t. 3151.), and, I must confess, I was
myself at first disposed to look upon it in the same light :

but Mr. Parker has, I think, clearly shown, that it isa
distinct

distinct species. “‘ The leaves,’ Mr. Parker observes, “ are
invariably more coriaceous, more lanceolate, shorter, less
striated, and acute, only one or two, the segments of the
sepals more unequal (to say nothing of the difference in the
spotting).”’ It will, indeed, undoubtedly rank next to E.
variegatum. |

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Column and Lip :—magnified.

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Haprantuaus ANpDERSONI, var. «, Texanus.
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Class and Order.

HexanpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—AmaArRyYLLIDEZ. )

Generic Character.

Germen medio constrictum ; tubus equales. Filamenta
declinata, fasciculata, recurvata, quaterna longitudine. Sty-
lus declinatus, recurvatus. Semzna cumulata, complanata
nigra.—F los sub sole patentior. Herb.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Haprantuus* Andersoni; bulbo parvo obovato, foliis an-
gustis 5—6-uncialibus, scapo unifloro subrubescente,
3—4-unciali. Spatha unciali apice diviso, pedunculo
1i unciali, germine subrubescente, corolla 13-unciali
aurea y. cuprea striis externis et fundo subfusco-rubes-
cente, tubo 4-unciali membrana intus clauso, laciniis
externis imbricantibus, filamentis internis longioribus ;
summo brevissimo stylo longiore. Herd.

Hasrantuus Andersoni. Herb. in Bot. Reg. t. 1345, Herb.
Amaryllid. p. 167. ee

(y.) Texanus ; perianthii laciniis rotundate obtusioribus.
Herb.

Of this pretty Hasrantuus, four varieties are noticed by
Mr. Herserr in the Bot. Reg., all, apparently, from Monte
Video. The plant must have an extended range. I pos-

sess specimens from Buenos Ayres gathered by —
om

* From afpos, delicate, and avbos, a flower.

from Araucania, S. Chili, by Mr. Reynotps ; and Mr.
Drummonp sent the species from Texas (third Collection,
n. 410, of the dried specimens) which Mr. Hergerr has
pronounced to be the same, differing slightly in the shape
of the segments of the floral covering.

Bulbs sent home by Mr. Drummonp have flowered both
in Mr. Hergerr’s garden and in that of Glasgow ; and from
the latter collection, the drawings here given were made.
The leaves did not appear on our flowering specimens.

Fig. 1. Inner view of an inner segment of the Perianth. 2. Stamens and
Pistil. 3. Section of the Ovary.—Magnified.

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BIFRENARIA AURANTIACA. ORANGE-
COLOURED BIFRENARIA.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA MonanpriA.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala patula, libera, subeequalia ; lateralia cum basi pro-
ducta columne adnata, vix basi obliqua. Petala sepalis
duplo minora. Labellum cum pede mucronato columne
articulatum, cucullatum, trilobum, medio callosum. Co-
lumna brevis, semiteres, mutica. Anthera mutica, subcris-
tata. Pollinia 4, per paria incumbentia, caudiculis duabus
distinctis materiei_ viscide rostelli adherentibus, glandula
(oblonga).—Epiphyta, pseudo-bulbosa, Maxillaria (Cola-
cs) habitu. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Birrenarta * aurantiaca ; pseudo-bulbis subrotundis com-
pressis diphyllis, foliis oblongis plicatis racemi erecti
longitudine, petalis erectis, labelli lobis lateralibus
semicordatis intermedio transverso ovali subundulato
basi bicalloso, columna pubescente. Land.

BirrenariA aurantiaca. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1875.

From the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, having
been received by Mr. Murray from Demerara, where the
plant is a native.

Descr. Pseudo-bulbs broadly ovate, compressed, spotted,

bearing a single leaf at the extremity, which is oval-oblong,
striated,

* “ So named in allusion to the double strap or frenum that connects the
pollen-masses with their glands.”

striated, acute, waved, spotted with purple beneath, taper-
ing below into a short footstalk. Scape from the base of
the bulb, a span high, bearing a raceme of deep yellow
flowers, spotted with orange. Sepals and petals nearly
equal, oblong, spreading, waved. Lip clawed, articulated
upon the produced base of the column; limb three-lobed,
with a callous excrescence at the base, two side lobes
oblong, deflexed ; intermediate one much larger, bifid.
Column semicylindrical. Anther helmet-shaped, bidentate
at the back. Pollen-masses two, two-lobed, stalked: the
stalks adhering to one common gland.

Fig. 1. Side view of a Flower. 2. Column. 3. Anther-case. 4, 9.
Pollen-masses. 6. Lip:—magnified.

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Cereus ACKERMANNI. ACKERMANN’S
Mexican CEREUS.

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Class and Order.

IcosanpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Cacrex. )

Generic Character.

Sepala numerosissima imbricata basi ovario adnata, in
tubum elongatum concreta, exteriora breviora calycinalia,
media longiora colorata, intima petaliformia. Stam.nume- _
rosissima cum tubo concreta. Stylus filiformis apice multi-
fidus. Bacca sepalorum reliquiis areolata tuberculosa aut
squamata. Cotyledones nulla ?—Frutices carnosi elongatt
axi ligneo interne medullifero donat, angulis verticalibus
spinarum fasciculos gerentibus regulariter sulcatt. Anguli
seu ale nunc plurime, nunc paucissime, Trarws duce tantum
et tunc rami compresso-alati. Flores ampli e spinarum fas-
ciculis aut crenis angulorum orti.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cereus (Phyllanthus) Ackermannt ; ramis compressissimo-
alatis foliiformibus, sinuato-lobatis, floribus maxims

coccineis ad crenas ramorum sessilibus, tubo petalis

acutissimis ter breviore, antheris stigmatibusque rosels.
Cereus Ackermanni. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1331. :
Cereus oxypetalus? De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 470. Ejusd.

Rev, de la fam. des Cact. p. 60. t. 14.

Mr. Murray received this truly splendid plant from Mr.
Hircuin, with the remark, that it was raised from seeds
which came direct from Mexico : thus confirming the state-
ment of Mr. Tare, with regard to its native country (as
given in the Bot. Register) which had been called in ques-
tion. An opinion seemed to prevail, that it was a se ling

hybrid :

VOL. XI. K

hybrid: and, indeed, it is an extraordinary circumstance,
that a phyllanthoid Cactus should bear flowers as large,
and almost exactly like those of Cerrus spectosissimus. 1
have referred to the present species, though, certainly, not
without hesitation, the Cereus oxypetalus of De CanpoLiEe
above quoted, and those who will be at the trouble of
comparing the two will find many striking points of resem-
blance ; added to which they are both from the same country,
Almost the only difference is in the flowers of C. oxypetalus
being less spreading, “ reddish-brown on the outside, and
white within.” But when we consider that Professor Dz
Canpo.te’s knowledge of the plant is solely derived from a
Mexican drawing, we may be allowed to suppose that there
probably exists some variation in the plant itself, or that the
artist was not a faithful colourist. ‘The sharpness of the
petals, especially in the state of the bud, is very remark-
oe in both. With us it bears its magnificent flowers in
une.

Descr. Stems a foot and a half high, rounded at the
base, and marked with little downy prominences, bearing
a few short bristles; the branches singularly dilated and
flattened, so as to be two inches to two inches and a half
broad, and leaf-like, sinuato-lobed at the margin, desti-
tute of prickles as of fascicles of hairs: in the centre
is a costa projecting on both sides, and some oblique and
broad lateral nerves. From a sinus of these branches, and
generally from near the extremity, the flower-bud arises,
which in a few days enlarges into the splendid blossom
here represented. The tube is about two inches long,
green, tinged with brown, bearing a few ovate, lax, mem-
branous scales, soon passing into petals, of which the greater
number are about four inches long, oblong, very acute,
slightly waved, of a rich scarlet colour aud satiny lustre.
Stamens numerous, declined, shorter than the petals : Fila-
ments slender, greenish white at the base, the rest scarlet:
Anther and pollen rose-colour. Style longer than the sta-
mens : Stigma of seven linear, spreading rays.

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BLUMENBACHIA MULTIFIDA. MOULTIFID-
LEAVED BLUMENBACHIA.

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Class and Order.

PoLyADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Loasez. )

Generic Character.

Calycis tubus spiraliter striatus ovario adherens, lim-
bus 5-partitus, marcescens. Pet. 5, compresso-cucullata,
Squame 5 petalis alterne, singule filamenta 2 sterilia
includentes. Stam. oo, in fasciculos 5 petalos oppositos
disposita. Stylus 1, obtusus. Fructus fungosus in partes
10 basi spirales dehiscens, 5 alterne tenuiores (dissepi-
menta), 5 crassiores (valve). Semina plure parieti dis-
sepimentorum versus axim adfixa, epidermida indusiata ru-
gosa.—Herbe rarmose scandentes piloso-prurientes, habitu
et inflorescentia Loasex, sed fructus structura distincte.
Pedunculi axillares, uniflori, bracteati. Flores albi. DC.

Specific Name and Character.

Biumensacura multifida ; foliis palmatis lobis bipinnati-
fidis, floribus bibracteatis, petalis hispidis.

This new Biumensacuta was first detected by the late
Dr. Gituirs at Buenos Ayres, and I noticed his specimens,
preserved in my Herbarium under the description of Bt.
wmsignis, at t. 2865 of this work. Since that discovery
Mr. Tweepie has gathered the same plant in the Pampas
of Buenos Ayres, and seeds from him have been raised in
the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The plants flourish ex-
tremely well in the open border, and preserve all the
characters of my native dried ones, so that I can have little

hesitation in considering the species perfectly distinet —
L.

Bu. insignis. It is the much stronger growing plant of the
two, more compact, more hispid with strings: the leaves
are much larger, five-partite in a palmated manner, the
middle lobe the longest, but all of them bipinnatifid and
wrinkled upon the surface. The peduncles are longer,
the bracteas constantly two at the base of each germen,
the petals are hispid; in other respects the two plants are
so closely allied that it is needless to repeat the description
already given at our tab. 2865.

BLuMENBACHIA insignis may be thus characterized: gracilis, foliis
quinquelobo-palmatis lobis inciso-pinnatifidis, floribus unibracteatis,
petalis pubescentibus.

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LopeLiA CAVANILLESII. CAVANILLES’
LopBeELIA.

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Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—CAMPANULACE. )

Generic Character.

Cor. tubo hinc fisso (raro integro); limbo 5-partito.
Anthere connate. Stigma bilobum (nunc indivisum). Cap-
sula bilocularis (raro 3-loc.) apice supero bivalvi.—Herbe
vel suffrutices, plereque lactescentes. Folia alterna, integra
». laciniata, raro fistulosa. Flores racemosi, terminales v.
axillares, solitarii, pedicellis bibracteatis v. nudis. Anthere

sepius barbate. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Lozeuta Cavanillesii ; erecta herbacea glabra, foliis sparsis

lanceolato-acuminatis serrulatis sessilibus, pedunculis
axillaribus unifloris gracilibus folio subbrevioribus,
corolla calycis basi obtusa laciniis erectis tuabulosa su-
perne fissa bilabiata, laciniis 2 superioribus liberis in-
ferioribus 3 coadunatis, antheris hirsutissimis.

- a Cavanillesii. Ram. et Sch. Syst. Veget. ». 5. p. 43.
Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 713.

Losewia eroleifolig: OB: Ic. v. 6. p. 12. #. 518 (non
Lam.).

A very graceful and desirable stove plant, a native of
New Spain, according to CavANILLEs, near Acambaro, “ fre-
quently growing with Martini annua and BartraMIA, and
more abundantly with Heriantaus giganteus, multiflorus,
tuberosus, and angustifolius, which occupy so large a space

in the borders of fields, that the corn growing ag
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them is sometimes wholly concealed from the view of the
travellers.” We are indebted for the plant in the Glasgow
Botanic Garden to Professor Leumann of Hamburgh. - Its
flowering season is August and September. Its nearest
affinity is with L. Kraussii, Grah. in Bot. Mag. t. 3012,
from which the calyx, corolla, and stamens are consider-
ably different.

Descr. In our plant the stem is nearly three feet high,
erect, scarcely branched, rounded, dark purple, clothed
with scattered leaves, spreading in all directions and nearly
horizontally, four to six inches long, sessile, lanceolate,
glabrous, acuminated, acutely serrated for their whole
length. Peduneles solitary, axillary, slender, single-flow-
ered, generally shorter than the leaves, curved gracefully
downwards, but bearing the flower horizontally. Calyx
with a short wrinkled tube, very obtuse at the base; seg-
ments broadly lanceolate, erect, about as long as the tube,
glabrous as well as the corolla, which is nearly two inches
long, orange-red, tubular, but slit longitudinally above for
the whole length, (in which slit the staminal tube is
lodged,) two-lipped: upper lip of two linear, reflexed seg-
ments ; lower lip of three narrow segments, which are
combined and only three-toothed at the apex. Stamens
united for their whole length into a long red tube : Anthers
combined, very hairy : Stigma two-lobed.

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Diney Monk-F.tower: Green-flowered var.

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Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA MonanprliA.
( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEx. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et petala zqualia, de-
orsum versa. Labellum posticum, carnosum, indivisum,
ventricosum, sepalis multo majus. Columna brevis, crassa,
mutica. Anthera et pollinia Cataseti—Epiphyte Cataseti
habitu. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Monacuantuus* discolor; racemo laxo multifloro, labello
hemispherico marginibus planis medio fimbriatis.
Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1735.

(8.) viridiflora ; floribus viridibus. (Tab. Nostr. 3601.) _

(y.) Bushnani ; floribus viridi-fulvis, labello minus fimbri-
ato. (Tab. Nostr. 3601. fig. A.)

Like so many of the epiphytal Orchidee the present
Species is probably liable to considerable variation. Three
plants of it, received at different times from Demerara,
where it is a native, have all proved different in colour and
Somewhat in the shape of the flowers. i:-. The original
M. discolor of Dr. Linptey, with the lip and sepals dingy
Steen, the petals purple. 2. The plant here figured, re-
ceived at the Glasgow Botanic Garden, amongst a splendid

Set of other Epipnyres, by favour of _— INVERARITY, pg
this

* From Movaé, a monk, and asbos, a flower, so called from the cowl-like
labellum of the original species.

this has the whole flower of nearly the same uniform pale
green ;—and 3, A noble raceme sent to us by C. Par-
KER, Esq. of Liverpool, imported from Demerara also : this
approaches nearer in colour to Dr. Linpxey’s plant, but the
colour is much more inclining to yellow or buff, and the
margin of the lip is less distinct and less fimbriated. All
are eminently singular and deserving of cultivation. Our
8. and y. flowered in August, 1836. The following de-
scription applies to the second of these varieties.

Descr. Pseudo-bulb five or six inches long in the old
state when destitute of leaves. In the flowering state of
the plant it is scarcely more than two to three inches long,
sheathed by the broad bases of the leaves, of which the
outer ones are short, the rest a foot or more in length, lance-
olate, striated, plicate, dark green above, paler and some-
what glaucous beneath. Scape a foot and a half long,
arising from the base of the young pseudo-bulb, pale
green, bearing a lax raceme of seven to nine flowers, of
a yellowish-green colour, nearly destitute of fragrance.
Sepals lanceolate, closely reflexed. Petals straight, having
the direction of the column, oblong, their margins revo-
lute. Inp large, fleshy, ventricose, yellow and downy
within, the sides much reflexed and beautifully fringed,
somewhat three-lobed at the apex, the middle lobe not
longer than the side ones, very obscurely toothed. Co-
lumn short, standing forward, quite exposed, the sides
above thickened and produced, thus forming on each side
a sort of tooth, directed downwards (corresponding with
the sete in Caraserum) under the singularly projecting
margin at the base of the stigma. Anther hemispherical.
Pollen-masses two, as in Caraserum, furrowed at the back,
fixed to a large, broad, and highly elastic membrane,
which, on separating from the column, has its sides singu-
larly reflexed; this membrane, indeed, often springs UP
from the column before the falling of the lid, and soon
turns black, giving the appearance of a black beak to the
base of the anther, as seen in the lower flower of our
figure.

Fig. 1. Front view of the Column. 2. Pollen-masses: magnified. A.
Flower from Mr. ParKer’s plant of yar. y: nat. size.

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GESNERIA.

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Class and Order.

DipynamMiA ANGIOSPERMIA.
( Nat. Ord.—GesNzRIAcEz. )

Generic Character.

Cal. 5-partitus (plerumque germini adnatus). Cor. tu-
buloso-campanulata, limbo bilabiato ; labio superiore bi-
inferiore trifido. Stigma bilobum. Capsula_bilocularis,
2-valvis, placentis parietalibus.

Specific Character and Synonym.

GrsnerrA Lindleyi; elata, pubescenti-hirsuta subscabra,
foliis petiolatis oppositis ovato-oblongis rugosis cre-
natis, verticillis sursum aphyllis in racemum elonga-
tum compositis, corolla limbo obliquo lobo superiore
majori, glandulis hypogynis 5.

Gesneria rutila: var. atrosanguinea. Lindl. Bot. Reg.
t. 1279.

This is a yery striking plant, handsome in its foliage
and in its flowers, which latter, though each is but of few
days’ duration, are succeeded by others in the same whorl
for a considerable length of time. Professor LinDLEY was
of opinion that it is merely a variety of his GESNERIA rutila,
(Bot. Reg. t. 1158.) ; but a comparison of his two figures
will, as it appears to me, show them to be different. The
original G. rutila has axillary solitary flowers of a different
colour and haying a wider mouth ; and the hypogynous
glands are only two, whereas in G. Lindleyx they are
constantly five. It is a native of Brazil, and blossoms with

us in the stove during the months of June and July.
Descr.

Descr. Root a large, somewhat globose, depressed
tuber. Stem erect, four to five feet high, rounded, purple,
hairy, below marked with darker streaks; branches oppo-
site, short, not bearing flowers. Leaves opposite, ovato-
oblong, obtuse, wrinkled, crenate, downy and somewhat
scabrous : petiole varying in length in the lower part of the
plant, nearly half as long as the leaf, channelled above.
The upper part of the stem becomes suddenly bare of
leaves, and bears numerous pseudo-verticils of flowers,
thus constituting a raceme, one or two feet in length.
Peduncles, generally in threes, from three lines to an inch
in length. Calyx inflated, five-angled, deeply cut into
five, acute, triangular segments, scabrous. Corolla bright
scarlet: tube slightly curved and a little inflated near the
middle, remarkably dilated and inflated at the base. The
limb oblique, five-lobed, within spotted with yellow, upper
lobe much broader than the rest, emarginate. Stamens
four: Anthers meeting in a cross-shaped manner. Germen
oblong, with five yellow glands, of which two larger ones
are combined. Style rather longer than the flower.

Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil. 2. Corolla. 3, Pistil with h Glands :
magnified. — istil with hypogynous

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ONCIDIUM LURIDUM. DINGY-FLOWERED
ONCIDIUM.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuiwea. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata: late-
ralibus nunc sub labello connatis. Petala conformia. La-
bellum maximum, ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum,
varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum vel cristatum. Columna
libera, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo-
cularis, rostello nunc abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato.
Pollinia 2, postice suleata, caudicula plana, glandula ob-
longa.—Herbe epiphyte, nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia cori-
acea. Scapi paniculati, vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores
speciosi, lutei, sepius maculati, raro albi. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Oxcip1wm lwridum ; pseudo-bulbis nullis, foliis lanceolatis
rigidis carnosis carinatis solitariis, sepalis liberis peta-
lisque subrotundo - ovalibus. unguiculatis undulatis,
labelli lobis lateralibus minimis obtusis lateribus revo-
lutis, intermedio amplo reniformi-emarginato, crista
trilamellata.

Onci1um luridum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 727. Gen. et Sp.
Orchid. p. 201.

Oncipium cuneatum. Lindl. Coll. Bot. p. 27.

Erienprum guttatum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1351.

: Cymeiwium guttatum. Willd. Sp. Pl. ». 4. p. 102.

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This species varies considerably as to the height and
branching of the scape, the depth of colour in its flowers,

and the size of these. We had three plants very mae
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ably differing in these respects, from Mr. Cross; to whom
we owe a very excellent collection of parasitical OrcuipEz,
which he brought from Trinidad in 1835. All the varieties
flowered freely in the stove of the Royal Botanic Garden,
Edinburgh, in April, 1837, and continued for several weeks
in great perfection.

Descr. Root of strong, cylindrical, waved fibres. Pseudo-
bulbs wanting. Leaves (one foot four inches long, three
inches and a half broad) solitary, lanceolate, very thick and
rigid, dull green, having small, brown, circular spots on
both sides, folded along the middle, keeled behind. Scape
(three feet high), slender, brown, with numerous small,
greenish-yellow oblong spots, panicled or racemose, with
small alternate, subacute, membranous sheaths. Flowers
large, yellow, with large, brown, confluent spots, which
cover nearly the whole upper surface, but are somewhat less
continuous behind. Sepals all distinct, unguiculate, undu-
late, crenulate, warted on the back, the upper rotundato-
rhomboid, the lower spathulato-oblong and slightly cohering
near the insertion of their claws only. Petals resembling the
upper sepal, but larger, and without warts behind. Lip
three-lobed ; the side-lobes small, blunt, revolute in their
edges, the central lobe large, kidney-shaped, emarginate,’
rather less undulate than the other parts of the perianth, and
like them crenulate, without warts behind; crest of three
longitudinal, erect lamella, of which those at the sides are
interrupted in the middle, that in the centre is nearly
entire, becoming broader downwards. Column about as
long as the claw of the upper sepal, colourless, with two
large kidney-shaped wings, emarginate at the upper edge,
pink-coloured in front, and two smaller, rounded, entire,
internal wings. Anther-case white, helmet-shaped, crested,
emarginate at its anterior edge and sides, minutely pubes-
cent. Pollen-masses pear-shaped, furrowed behind, placed
on the upper edge of a white membrane, which has its
origin from the anterior border of the subrotund gland,
and covers the upper surface of this. Graham.

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Lopeia sipHiLitica ; hybrida. Hybrid var.
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Class and Order.

Pentanpria Monoeynta.
( Nat. Ord.—Losetiacez. )

Generic Character.

Cor. tubo hinc fisso (raro integro) ; limbo 5-partito..
Anthere connate. Stigma bilobum (nunc indivisum). Cap-
sula bilocularis (raro 3-loc.) apice supero bivalvi.—Herbe
vel Suffrutices, plereque lactescentes. Folia alterna, integra
| v. laciniata, raro fistulosa. Flores racemosi, terminales v.
; axillares, solitarii, pedicellis bibracteatis v. nudis. Anthere
| sepius barbate. Br.

Specific Name and Synonym.

Lozetia siphilitica ; hybrida.
: Lowe’s purple Lobelia. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1445.
. Lozets speciosa, and L. Milleri, Hortulan.

_ There are few more beautiful hybrid vegetable produc-
tions than the subject of the present plate ; which, though
known in our gardens by a peculiar specific name, as if it
were a legitimate individual, is now universally acknow-
ledged to be the offspring of Losetia siphilitica on the one
hand, and of some scarlet-flowering species, L. fulgens or
. cardinalis or splendens, on the other. The foliage is most
like the first, while the size and form of the flower chiefly
4 resemble the three last; and the colour seems to partake
i of the red of the latter, combined with the blue of L. sephe-
: litica, thus producing a rich purple hue, such as is very
. difficult to be imitated by the pencil of the artist.

It is quite hardy, growing in the open air to the height
of two to three feet, blossoming through the summet
months, and with us continuing in great beauty till cut off

| ae by the autumnal frosts.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—OrcuinEz. )

Generic Character.

Sepala semipatentia v. clausa, inequalia, extus lanata
v. glabra, lateralibus basi valde obliquis cum pede columnz
connatis calcar emulantibus. Petalasepalo superiori equa-
lia v. minora. Labellum cum basi producta columne arti-
culatum, trilobum, raro subintegrum, cucullatum, disco
calloso, y. cristato. Columna basi longe producta. An-
thera terminalis, bilocularis, loculis obsolete 4-locellatis.
Pollinia 8, nunc omnino libera, nunc materie elastica glan-
dulam mentiente coherentia.—Herbe in arboribus crescen-
tes ; caulibus carnosis, vaginatis, cicatricibus foliorum nota-
tis. Folia sepius plicata. Racemi simplices erecti, bracters
sepius dilatatis. Flores nunc conspicui. Lindl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Enia® stellata ; foliis lanceolatis carnosis 5-costatis, sepalis
pubescentibus petalisque lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis
labelli tricostati lobis lateralibus obtusis intermedio
acuminato, scapo elongato radicali multifloro ovario-
que pube ferruginea lanatis. Lindl.

Era stellata. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 904. Gen. et Sp.
Orchid. p. 67.

Ocromerra stellata. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 310.

Denprontum Javanicum. Swarts in Act. Holm. 1800. p.

247? Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 137?
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* From «a, wool, on account of the woolly, or downy, nature of the
flowers.
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The noble specimen here figured blossomed in the Orchi-
deous stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden in April, 1837.
It is considered to be a native of Java, but when and by
whom introduced is not known. It was first described in
this country from plants which blossomed in Mrs. Cartiey’s
collection. The long, curved spike of copious, fragrant,
stellated flowers, and the creeping habit with ample and
graceful foliage, combine to render this a most desirable
plant for our stoves.

Descr. Stems creeping, branched, covered with sheathing
scales, and bearing what may be considered pseudo-bulbs,
clothed with still larger scales, and each of these having two
broadly lanceolate leaves, marked with five longitudinal ribs.
Scape from the base of the leaves, long, curved, clothed
with ferruginous down (as well as the germens), and bear-
ing copious flowers for nearly its whole length. Bracteas
ovato-lanceolate, soon withering. Perianth pale yellow-
green. Sepals (which are downy on the outside) and petals
nearly equal, linear-lanceolate, patent, two of the former
uniting below, and forming a conspicuous, blunt spur at
the base of the labellwn. Lip nearly parallel with the
column, lanceolate, three-lobed, the disk with five elevated,
crenated lines, the side lobes obtuse, incurved, marked with
red lines, the middle lobe much acuminated and patent.

Column extended below. Anther-case hemispherical. Pol-
len-masses four.

Fig. 1. Column, Anther, and Lip. 2. Anther-case. 3. Pollen-masses -—
Magnified.

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Class and Order.

PoLtyGAMIA SUPERFLUA.
( Nat. Ord.—Composir«. )

Generic Character.

~ Capitulum radiatum, radio femineo sepe bi- vel pluri-
seriali, ligulis angustis linearibus soa ne hermaphrodito
fertilibus ; involucri subhemispherici foliolis 2—3-seriali-
bus, imbricatis, subequalibus, angustis, subfoliaceis, rigi-
dulis. Receptaculum planum, v. convexum verruculoso-
punctatum, Pappus duplex: exterior brevis paleaceus,
paleolis angustis ; int. uniserialis, radiis distantibus, sube-
qualibus, filiformibus, serrulato-scabris, deciduis. Nees.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Srenactis* speciosa; caule erecto apice corymbo multifloro
glabro, foliis ciliatis acutis integerrimis, radicalibus
spathulatis caulinis ovato-lanceolatis subamplexicau-
libus, radio involucro duplo longiori.

Srenactis speciosa. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1577.

Srenactis is a Genus of plants allied in general habit to
Aster, and in the numerous narrow florets of the ray to
Ericrron ; differing from both in the peculiar nature of
the pappus. Most of the species have been referred to one
or other of these genera. The only ones described by
Ness are S. annua (Aster, L., ER1GERON of various authors)
and S. verna, (Aster, L., Er1gERON nudicaule, Micn.,) both

natives of North America : S. bellidioides, (ASTER, Don,) an
inhabitant

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* IT presume from crnns, narrow, and ag, axros, a ray; consequence of

the narrow florets of the ray.

inhabitant of Nepal, and S. glauca of Buenos Ayres. The

present plant, a native of California, discovered by Mr. .
Dovetas, and first cultivated and distributed by the Horti-

cultural Society, is, I have no doubt, correctly referred by

Professor Linptry to the same Genus. It flowers, like the

Asters, in the latter end of the summer and in the autumn,

and is equally with the Aster entitled to the appellation of

Michaelmas Daisy.

Descr. Root perennial. Stem herbaceous, a foot and a
half high, rounded, striated, glabrous, erect, branched up-
wards in a corymbose manner. Leaves sessile, oblong,
acute, entire, ciliated at the margin, the rest glabrous,
dark green, marked with nerves, which commence near the
base and run upwards, nearly parallel with the midrib : the
radical leaves spathulate, tapering into long, slender stalks.
Flowers corymbose. Peduncles single-flowered. Flowers
(or capitula) large, handsome. Involucre hemispherical,
of numerous imbricated, narrow, linear-subulate, downy
scales. Florets of the ray purple, numerous, of several
series, exceedingly narrow. Those of the disk yellow.

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CuorizeEmMaA Hencumannti. Mr. Hencu-
MAN'S CHORIZEMA.

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Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. )

Generic Character.

_ Cal. semiquinquefidus bilabiatus, labio superiore bifido,
inferiore 3-partito. Cor. carina ventricosa, alis breviore.
Stylus brevis uncinatus. Stigma obliquum, obtusum. Legu-
men ventricosum uniloculare polyspermum sessile aut sub-

sessile.—Suffrutices Australasici. Folia alterna simplicia
sinuato-dentata aut integra.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Cuorizema* Henchmannt ; pubescenti-hirsutum, foliis ter-
natis acicularibus, racemis elongatis foliosis, calycibus
villosissimis.

Cuorrzema Henchmanni. Br. MSS.—Lindl. Bot. Reg. €.
986. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1233.

The plant from which our drawing is copied of Cuori-
zema Henchmanni is between four and five feet high, cloth-
ed almost from the base to the extremity with numerous
branches, and every branch loaded with red blossoms, hav-
ing a yellow eye, in a similar manner to what is here
represented. If the red were of a brighter tint, and the

foliage more copious and less sombre, it would be eo
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* From xopos, a dance, and ema, a drink; so named by LABILLARDIERE
from the joyous circumstance of his party having discovered a supply of
fresh water, when much tantalized by thirst on the south-west coast of New
Holland, at the time of his finding the first species of this beautiful Genus.

most lovely of plants. The species is one of the late Mr.
Baxter’s numerous discoveries in the South-west coast of
New Holland, and was named Henchmanni by Dr. Brown,
in compliment to Francis Hencuman, Esq., through whom
it was introduced to the Clapton Nursery. In the green-
house of the Glasgow Botanic Garden the plant blossoms
in April and May, and the flowers continue in perfection a
long time.

Descr. An upright shrub, with numerous and downy
branches. Leaves small, ternate, spreading, circular, dark
green above and nearly glabrous, beneath paler, slightly
hairy, the margins revolute. Flowers solitary, or two or
three together from the axils of numerous leaves, so as to
constitute, a dense elongatedraceme. Pedicel shorter than
the flower. Calyx very hairy, tubular, two-lipped, upper
lip bifid ; under one trifid:—at the base of the calyx is a
small subulate bractea on each side. Flowers brick-red.
Standard orbiculari-reniform, with a yellow eye. Wangs
oblong, with a slight twist, the extremity bent down.
Keel very acute. Stamens ten, free, filaments broader at
the base, nearly of equal length. Germen elongated, silky:
Style short : Stigma small, capitate.

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Fig. 1. Standard. 2. Flower from which the Standard is removed. 3.
Calyx. 4. Awing, 5. The Keel. 6. Stamen, 7. Pistil:—magnifed.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.
( Nat, Ord.—OrcuineE&, )

Generic Character.

Sepala carnosa erecta, lateralibus majoribus obliquis cum
basi producta columne connatis. Petala sepalo supremo
minora. Labellum cum pede columne articulatum, pos-
ticum, indiyisum vy. trilobum: limbo cristato calloso v.
nudo. Columna semiteres, basi longe producta. Anthera
sessilis, bilocularis, nunc apice membranaceo. Pollinia 4,
per paria collateralia—Herbe epiphyte, caulescentes. Folia
disticha, equitantia, ancipitia, Flores subsolitarti, e paleis
membranaceis erumpentes, septus herbacei coloris. Landl.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Aporum anceps; foliis scalpelliformibus carnosis acutis,
floribus solitariis geminisve, sepalis carnosis : laterali-
bus ovatis patentibus supremo petalisque multo majo-
ribus, labello postico unguiculato ecalloso inappendi-
culato cuneato emarginato crenulato, caulibus, com-
pressis. Lindl.

Arorum anceps. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. n. 2020. Gen. et
Sp. Orchid. p. 71.

Denprozium anceps. Swarts, Act. Holm. 1800. p. 26.
Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1239. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3.
p. 738.

A very remarkable plant : agreeing indeed with Denpro-
BIuM in all that is essential, as concerns the fructification :
but differing exceedingly, as Professor Linptey well ob-
Serves, in the distichous, equitant leaves. Its native coun-

try, we learn from the same author, is the estuaries of the
rivers

rivers of Bengal and Pegu, where it is found on the trunks
of trees in swampy low situations ; and whence it was intro-
duced by Dr. Watticn to the gardens of the Horticultural
Society. In the Stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden its
blossoming season is the month of May. We have received
fine specimens, also blossoming at the same season, from
the Edinburgh Botanic Garden.

Descr. Stems, several from the same root, six to eight
inches long, pendulous on its native trees, compressed,
jointed, leafy throughout the whole length. Leaves, ovato-
lanceolate, compressed, fleshy, very acute, distichous,
sheathing at the base. Flowers arising from the sheaths,
solitary, having two bracteas at the base, at first greenish,
then pale, almost lemon-yellow. Sepals three, combined
from above the middle downwards with the back of the
column, and running down into an obtuse spur ; the middle
sepal much the smallest ; two lateral petals, very small, ovate,
close pressed against the calyx. Lip erect, articulated to
the base of the column, cuneate, three-lobed ; middle lobe
the largest, its apex reflexed and crisped at the margin.

Fig. 1. Back view of a Flower. 2. Front view of ditto :-—magnified.

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LoBELIA ERINOIDES. ERINUS-LIKE
LoBELIA.

Class and Order.

PentanpriA Monoeynis.
( Nat. Ord.—Lopetacez. )

Generic Character.

Cor. tubo hine fisso (raro integro) ; limbo 5-partito.
Anthere connate. Stigma bilobum (nunc indivisum). Cap-
sula bilocularis (raro 3-loc.) apice supero bivalvi—Herbe
vel Suffrutices, plereque lactescentes. Folia alterna, integra
v. laciniata, raro fistulosa. Flores racemosi, terminales v.
axillares, solitarii, pedicellis bibracteatis v. nudis. Anthere
sepius barbate. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Losexta erinoides ; annua glabra, caulibus filiformibus sim-
plicibus decumbentibus flexuosis, foliis dentatis radi-
calibus inferioribus spathulatis petiolatis summis linea-
ribus integerrimis, floribus solitariis axillaribus folio
brevioribus, corolla tubo campanulato limbo obliquo
subregulari lobis ovatis acutis patentibus.

Lopezia erjnoides. Linn. Mant. p. 291. Hort. Kew. ed.
2.v. 1. p. 361. Rem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. v. 5. p. 62.
Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 2. p. 180. Spreng. Syst. Veget.
oi. p. T1572 :

Campanvxa minor Afrinana Erini facie caulibus procumben-
tibus. Herm. Ludg. 108. t. 109.

A very pretty greenhouse annual, introduced from the
Cape of Good Hope so long ago as the year 17 59 : but it
was probably soon lost, and | do not recollect having myself
Seen it any where except in the Glasgow Botanic Garden,

where seeds were received from the Baron Lupwie in oi
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Our specimens displayed their small but most delicately-
marked flowers in July and August. It is very likely that
in England at least the species might be raised in the open
border.

Descr. Root annual (biennial in Hort. Kew.), throwing
out, from its crown, several spreading, decumbent, flexuose,
filiform, simple branches, three to four or five inches long.
Leaves glabrous, most of them petiolate, those from the
root (which are much the largest) and those from the lower
part of the stem spathulate, toothed, upper ones linear, ses-
sile, (or nearly so,) entire. Flowers from the axils of the
upper leaves, and shorter than they, solitary, pedunculate.
Calyx of five, erect, linear-subulate segments. Corolla
purplish-white, with a campanulate, entire tube, the limb
slightly oblique, with five spreading, ovate acute, nearly
equal lobes : the mouth is beautifully and regularly marked
with deep purple, and two yellow spots. Combined anthers
bearing two white awns. Germen almost cylindrical, a
little tapering below, and very obscurely downy.

Fig. 1. Front view ofa Flower. 2. Side view of ditto :-—Magnified.

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ANTHERICUM GLAUCUM. GLAUCOUS-LEAVED
ANTHERICUM.

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Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—AsPHODELE2. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium sexpartitum patens deciduum. Filamenta
receptaculo inserta, plerumque barbata. Stylus filiformis.
Capsula subglobosa, 3-loc. 3-valv. valvis medio septiferis.
Semina pauca, angulata.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Ayturricum glaucum ; radicibus tuberosis, foliis lineari-
elongatis carinatis striatis subtus precipue glaucis,
floribus racemosis, pedicellis ternis nutantibus demum
erectis, sepalis tribus interioribus majoribus marginatis
marginibus undulatis, filamentis superne incrassatis.

Anruericum glaucum. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. v. 3. p.-
68. Rem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. v. 7. p- 469. Spreng.
Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 85. Lod. Bot. Cab. t. 1580.

Puatanerum glaucum. Poir. Ene. Suppl. v. 4. p. 380.

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An interesting South American, and, I believe, little
known, plant in this country, for tubers of which the Glas-
gow Botanic Garden is indebted to our often-mentioned
friend, Joun Mactean, Esq., of Lima. The species in-
habits the vicinity of that city, and requires the heat of
the stove to bring it to perfection. It flowered in August
and September.

Descr. The root consists of numerous fibres, many of
which bear oval, or oblong tubers : the top of the root 1s

Crowned with copious, rigid, erect fibres, the wither
remains

remains of old leaves, from which spring the recent ones ;
these are one and two feet long, linear, tapering, flaccid,
striated, keeled, glaucous beneath, but scarcely so above.
Scape two to three feet high, simple or branched, rounded,
glabrous, bracteated ; bracteas below somewhat leafy ; bear-
ing a long raceme of rather large pure white flowers, mostly
three together from each lanceolate bractea : but of these
three, only one opens at a time, and that only for one day.
Pedicels half an inch or more long, curved in flower, erect
before and after. Sepals six, spreading, elliptical, the three
outer the smallest, with a single broad rib; three inner
larger, with three nerves and a broad, waved margin. Sta-
mens six: Filaments erecto-patent, remarkably thickened
upwards: Anthers oblong, yellow. Germen oval: Style
larger than the stamens, somewhat spindle-shaped : Stigma
terminated with a minute pencil of hairs.

Fig. 1. Flower from which the Perianth is removed :—Magnijfied.

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THERMOPSIS FABACEA, BEAN-LEAVED
THER MOPSIS.

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Class and Order.

DecanpriA Monoeynis.
( Nat. Ord.—Lecuminosz2. )

Generic Character.

Cal. oblongus campanulatusve, A—}-fidus, subbilabiatus,
postice convexus, basi attenuatus. Pet. 5, subeequalia,
vexilli lateribus reflexis, carina obtusa. Stamina persis-
tentia. Legumen compressum, falcatum aut lineare, poly-
spermum.—Herbe perennes, sericeo-villose._ Folia trifolt-
ata. Stipule ovato-lanceolate, foliacee. Racemi termi-
ea floribus pedicellatis geminis aut subverticillatis flavis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Tuermorsis* fabacea; foliis petiolatis foliolis lato-ovalibus,
stipulis lato-ovatis obtusis petiolo brevioribus, racemo
alternifloro.

Turrmorsis fabacea. De Cand: Prodr. v. 2. p. 99. Hook.
Fl. Bor. Am. v. 1. p. 128. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1272.

Turrmopsis rhombifolia. Rich. in Frankl. 1st Journ. App.

ed. 2. p. 13. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 99. Hook.
Fl. Bor. Am. v. 1. p. 128. t. 47.

Tuermia rhombifolia. Nutt. Gen. v. 1. p. 283.

Cyrisus rhombifolius. Pursh, Fl. Am. v. 2. p. TAl.

Soruora fabacea. Pall. Astrag. p. 122. t. 90. f. 2.

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I think there can be little doubt of the correctness of the
above synonyms. Now that I have seen the living ee

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* From Oepuoc, a Lupine, and ofc, a resemblance : from the affinity of the

species of the Genus, with those of the Lupine.

I have no hesitation in referring to it the Tuermopsis rhom-
bifolia of Dr. Ricuarpson. Thus it appears to have a very
extended range, being found in the North-eastern parts of
Asia, and in North America on both sides of the Rocky
Mountains, but no where, as it appears, on the East side of
that vast continent. It was introduced to this country
through the Horticultural Society, having been sent by Mr.
Doveuas from dry channels of mountain torrents, in the
vallies of the Cordillera near the Columbia river. It is cul-
tivated in the greenhouse of the Glasgow Botanic Garden,
where it flowers in May: but Dr. Linptey speaks of it
as a good herbaceous plant, readily increased by the divi-
sion of its creeping roots: and it will probably prove quite
a hardy plant.

Drscr. Stem herbaceous, erect, simple, or branched only
upwards, somewhat angular, quite glabrous below. Leaves
trifoliate, petiolate : leaflets obovate, approaching to rhom-
boid, distinctly veined, glabrous above, slightly downy be-
neath. Stipules very large, foliaceous, nearly ovate, often
as long as the petiole, and nearly as large as the leaflets of
the leaf. Raceme erect, terminal, stalked, of several rather
bright, yellow, alternate flowers, about the size of those of
the Laburnum. Pedicels short, subtended by an oblongo-
ovate bractea. Calyx ovate, two-lipped, upper lp erect,
bidentate, lower trifid, reflexed: Vexillum shorter than the
rest of the petals, having a deep carina, spotted within,
the sides reflexed. Ala standing forward, oval, covering
the carina which is nearly of the same shape and very ob-
tuse. Stamens ten, free, subulate, nearly equal in length.
Germen linear, very silky: Style short, curved upwards:
Stigma minute.

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KEKE KE KEKE KEKE EKER EKEEK
Class and Order.

DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA.
( Nat. Ord.—GesnerizE. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus (plerumque germini adnatus). Corolla
tubuloso-campanulata, limbo bilabiato ; labio superiore bi-
inferiore trifido. Stigma bilobum. Capsula bilocularis, 2-
valvis, placentis parietalibus.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Gesneria Douglasii; herbacea, radice tuberosa, foliis in
medio caulis verticillatis ovatis crenatis, cyma termi-
nali umbellata pedunculata, corollz limbo subequali,
glandulis duabus superioribus dilatatis, inferioribus
obliteratis.

Gesneria Douglasii. Lindl. in Hort. Trans. v.71. gusd. in
Bot. Reg. t. 1110.

Gesneria verticillata. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2776. _

(8.) verticillata ; pedunculis subsimplicibus densissime ver-
ticillatis. (Tas. nostr. 3612.)

Our former figure of this plant, under the name of Grs-
NERIA verticillata, from the first plant that flowered with us,
gave no idea of the beauty of this plant: but the present
variety exhibits it in the highest degree of perfection. The
tubers were imported by Mr. Auicarp from Rio, and the
noble specimen here exhibited blossomed in that gentle-
man’s collection in April, 1836. In Professor LixpLey’s
plant the inflorescence is a decided panicle. In ours, the
peduncles, generally simple, are arranged in dense whorls,
many of them quite simple, the others very slightly branch-
ed, and only near the base. The flowers too are larger than
in that figure, and more inclining to a purple tint.

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MAXILLARIA PUMILA. Dwarr MAXILLARIA.

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Class and Order.

GynanpriA MonanprIiA.
( Nat. Ord.—OrcuineEz. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium connivens raro patens. Sepala lateralia cum
basi producta column connata. Petala subconformia.
Labellum trilobum, cucullatum, sessile, cum basi producta
columne articulatum. Colwmna semiteres, aptera. Anthera
subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia v. integra, caudi-
cula brevi, glandula transversa.—Epiphyte ( Americane@ )
pseudo-bulbose, acaules ». caulescentes. Folia plicata v.
coriacea. Pedunculi radicales, axillares v. terminales, uni-
v. multiflori. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Maxiniaria pumila; nana, caulibus brevibus squamosis
pseudo-bulbiferis, bulbis aggregatis oblongis sulcatis,
folio solitario lanceolato, pedunculis pseudo-bulbo
brevioribus unifloris, petalis sepalisque erectis oblon-
gis obtusis, labello erecto oblongo obscure trilobo
disco ealloso, lobo terminali bifido.

Sent from Demerara to the Glasgow Botanic Garden by
Mr. Inverarity, to whom we are indebted for many other
choice Orchideous plants. It is the smallest of the species
with which I am acquainted. It flowers in April and May.

Descr. Stems short, not exceeding two or three inches,
bearing many aggregated, small, pseudo-bulbs, half to three
quarters of an inch long, which are oblong, deeply furrow-
ed, and partially clothed with brown, sheathing scales.
Leaf solitary, terminal, an inch, scarcely more, in length.

Peduncle arising from the scales at the base of the bulb,
shorter

shorter than the bulb, bearing a solitary, small, dark pur-
ple flower. Sepals and petals erect, nearly equal, oblong,
obtuse. Jap erect, oblong, obscurely three-lobed, the
middle lobe very blunt, emarginate, spreading: at the
middle of the upper side is a callous disc. Column curved.
Anther-case hemispherical. Pollen-masses four, on a nearly
sessile gland.

Fig. 1. Portion of a Plant with Flower. 2. Petals, Column, and Lip.
3. Lip. 4.4. Anther-case. 5. 6. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

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MAXILLARIA Hencumanni. Mr. HeEnch-
MANS MAXILLARIA.

LEK KKK KKK KE EEE EERE
Class and Order.

GynanpriA Monanpria.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium connivens, raro patens. Sepala lateralia
cum basi producta columne connata. Petala subconformia.
Labellum trilobum, cucullatum, sessile, cum basi producta
columne articulatum. Coluwmna semiteres, aptera. Anthera
subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia v. integra, caudi-
cula brevi, glandula transversa—Epiphyte ( Americané )
pseudo-bulbose, acaules v. caulescentes. Folia plicata v.
coriacea. Pedunculi radicales, axillares v. terminales, uni-
v. multiflori. Lindl.

Specific Name and Character.

Maxintarta Henchmanni ; pusilla, caulibus elongatis squa-
mosis pseudo-bulbiferis, pseudo-bulbis ovali-oblongis
compressis levibus, folio solitario lineari-ligulato, pe-
dunculis unifloris pseudo-bulbo longioribus, petalis
sepalisque erectis oblongis acutis, labello erecto ob-
longo obscure trilobo, lobo terminali integerrimo.

Obligingly communicated by Mr. Hencuman, from the
Clapton Nursery. It was by that gentleman imported
from Mexico, and I am anxious this very pretty species
should bear the name of one who has distinguished himself
by collecting, in climates the most inimical to the human
constitution and introducing to our collections, so many
fine species of this favorite family. It is certainly allied to,

though quite distinct from, our preceding species, M. pens,

_ It is four times the size of that individual, with more copi-
ous, paler-coloured scales on the stems and pseudo-bulbs,
these latter are broader in proportion to their length, more
compressed and even (not furrowed on the surface) ; the
leaf is much longer and more ligulate ; the peduncle exceeds
the bulb in length; the petals and sepals are acute, and
the apex of the lip is not bifid.

Fig. 1. Flower, from which the two lateral sepals are removed. 2. Lip.
3. 3. Anther-case. 4.4. Pollen-masses :—magnified.

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STENOMESSON CROCEUM. ORANGE-FLOWERED
STENOMESSON.

KKK KKK EE EREE EEE
Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord. —AmaryxuipE&. )

Generic Character.

Tubus sub-rectus medio constrictus superne ventricosus,
limbus brevis regularis, corona brevis. Filamenta recta, an-
there incumbentes ; Capsula late ovata, trisulca, trivalvis,
basi valde ampliata.—Folia lanceolata margine compresso ;
bulbus subrotundus. Herb.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Srenomrsson crocewm ; folio solitario lanceolato basi atten-
uato, umbella sub-septemflora, floribus nutantibus
aurantiacis, perianthio recto infundibuliformi campanu-
lato segmentis erecto-patentibus, staminibus exsertis.

Srenomesson* croceum. Dombey in Herb. Linn. Soc.

Herbert, Amaryl. p. 199. a
Pancratium croceum. Redouté’s Lilac. t. 187.

Of this charming lively-flowered plant we had many spe-
cimens flowering in the stove of the Botanic Garden, from
bulbs sent by our obliging friend J. M‘Lean, Esq. of Lima.
I was disposed to refer it to the PancratruM coccineum of
Rui and Pavon: but Mr. Hersert, whose opinion 1s
invaluable in this family, refers it to his S. eroceum above
quoted, copied from Domsey’s original specimen : which it

indeed resembles : and this excellent and laborious author
is

* I presume from eres narrow, and pecos, or proves, the middle : from the

contraction in the flower below the middle.

is satisfied that Revouri’s plant is the same as that of
Domery. But in the ovate, or almost oblong bulb, in
the several linear leaves, springing from the top of the
old bulb, in the shape of the flower, and especially its
dingy saffron-colour, there appears to me to be very strik-
ing differences between Repourts’s species and our’s. It
is to be observed, however, that the French author has not
made his figure from the living plant, nor from the plant at
all; but, as he has acknowledged, copied it from the col-
lection of vellum drawings in the Museum of the Jardin des
Plantes at Paris.

Descr. Old Bulb globose, leafless: in some of our
plants, a young bulb springs from the side of the old one,
terminated by a single, lanceolate leaf, tapering below into
a petiole, the margin slightly reflexed. Scape from the
top of the old bulb, a foot and more high, terete, bear-
ing an umbel of about seven flowers. Spatha of two mem-
branous, lanceolate leaves. Perianth of a bright, reddish
orange colour, nearly two inches long; for one-third of its
length at the base cylindrical, narrow, then gradually
widening into a cylindraceo-campanulate limb ; lacinia six,
ovate, erecto-patent. Stamens six, alternating with as
many linear-oblong nectaries, which are situated at the

mouth of the tube. Stamens and style much exserted.
Germen oval.

Fig. 1. Flower laid open to show the St Style, and Nectaries :—
slightly magnified. P amens, Style

( 3616 )

POLYGALA MYRTIFOLIA: var. grandiflora. Myrrie-
LEAVED Mixx-worr: large-flowered var.

KKK EKER EEK ERR RK KKK
Class and Order.

——- | DiapetpHia OctTanpRIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Potyeatez. )

Generic Character.

Calycis sepala persistentia, 2 interiora aleformia. Petala
3—5, tubo stamineo connexa, inferiore carineformi (forsan
e duobus coalitis constante). Capsula compressa, elliptica,
obovata aut obcordata. Semina pubescentia, hilo caruncu-
lata, coma destituta. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Potyeata myrtifolia; foliis obovatis oblongisve submu-
cronatis, ramulis pubescentibus, bracteis persistentibus
equalibus, pedicellis flore brevioribus.

Potyeata myrtifolia. Linn. Am. v. 2. p. 138. Ait. Hort.

| Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 244. Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 669. De
Cand. Prodr. 2. 1. p. 322. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 3.
p. 163.

Potyeaxa frutescens, foliis oblongis glabris, flore purpureo.
Burm. Afr. p. 200. t. 73. f. 1. :

(8.) grandiflora ; floribus majoribus magisque coloratis.
(Tab. nostr. 3616.)

Potyeata grandiflora. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1227. Ekl. et
Seyh, Enum. Pl. Afr. Austr. Extratrop. p. 19.

_ The Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted for the posses-
sion of this handsome shrub to the Royal Gardens of Kew,
where it was received from Southern Africa. It came under
the name of P. grandiflora, and is first published as a spe-
cies distinct from myrtifolia by Mr. Loppiers in the place
above quoted. The species is retained by Be and

EYHER,

ZEYHER, Who have made no remark upon it; and Mr. Lop-
pigEs Only observes, that it is “ allied to myrtifolia, but
that its flowers are far more beautiful.” This is, indeed,
quite correct ; but since after the most careful examination
I find no other point of distinction, I venture here to de-
scribe it as a slight variety of P. myrtifolia. It bears its

lovely blossoms in April and May, and they continue a long

time in perfection, nestled among the yellow-green leaves
of the young shoots, at the apex of the branches.

Descr. A much-branched shrub, four to six feet high,
the young branches downy. Leaves on very short petioles,
oblong, or oblongo-ovate, glabrous, except in the young
leaves, and somewhat mucronate, of a rather thin, some-
what membranaceous texture. Flowers in short racemes,
which are terminal, but appear lateral from the proliferous
shoots. Pedicels shorter than the flowers, each with three
bracteas at the base. Three outer calycine leaves green,
ovate, mucronate, membranous at the margin: two inner,
or ale, very large, obliquely and broadly ovate, mucro-
nate, rich purple, veiny : keel large, veiny, pale, with a deep
black-purple blotch at the extremity, a very conspicuous
crest below the apex, and two bifid auricles at the base
above. Filaments diadelphous.

Fig. 1. Keel. 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil magnified.

( 3617 )

Cuysis AUREA. GOLDEN-FLOWERED CnhysIs.

KKK ERE EK EEE EEE KEE EEEE
Class and Order.

GyNANDRIA MonanpRIiA.
( Nat. Ord.—Orcuinez. )

Generic Character.

Sepala paulo connata, patula ; lateralia pedi producto
columne adnata et calcar simulantia. Petala sepalis con-
formia. Labellum trilobum, patulum, venis basi callosis.
Columna marginata, canaliculata, mutica. Anthera subro-
tunda, opercularis, glabra. Pollinia 8, in laminam luteam

- semifusa, quatuor exterioribus tenuibus quatuor interiora
erassiora abscondentibus. Rostellwm laminatum, con-
- vexum.—Herbe epiphyte, occidentales, ab arboribus pen-

dule ; caulibus Cyrtopodii depauperatis, foliis nervosis basi
vaginantibus, racemis lateralibus multifloris. Lindl.

Specific Name and Synonym.
Cnysis* aurea. Lindley Bot. Reg. t. 1937.

An Orchideous plant of great beauty, discovered by Mr.
Hencuman in 1834, in the valley of Cumancoa, in Vene-
zuela, and introduced by him to the collection of Messrs.
Low of the Clapton Nursery, to whom the Glasgow Garden
is indebted for the possession of the plant. It blossomed in
the stove in May, 1837, in great perfection. Its mode of
growth is singular; for the old stems are constantly pen-
dent, the extremities and young shoots alone curved up-
wards, characters not easily exhibited in so small a figure

as the annexed one.
Descr.

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* Xo, a melting: the pollen-masses of this plant being, as it were,
fused together. Lindley.

Descr. Stems long, pendent, branched ; the branches
clavate, some leafless, others with a tuft of foliage from the
extremity of the young shoots, which curve upwards.
Leaves broadly lanceolate, membranous, recurved, striated.
Raceme from one of the leafy scales which clothe the lower
part of the young branches, pendent, many - flowered.
Sepals and petals ovate, moderately spreading, white at the
base, the rest yellow, the two petals with deeper yellow
spots within. Lip white, mottled with yellow, and with
red streaks, recurved, three-lobed, the two lateral lobes
incurved, the terminal one roundish, crisped : at the base
are five elevated, velvety, yellow lines, sprinkled with red
dots. Column short, white, yellow dotted with red within:
above the stigma is a white, projecting lip, on the base of
which lies a part of the pollen, which is extremely curious,
and better understood by the figure, than by the description.
Professor Linptey, the learned author of the Genus, con-
siders it as “ equivalent to eight pollen-masses, of which
the straps of connection, such as exist in all Eprpenprea,
are run together in two plates, from an expansion of the

edges of which the masses appear to spring.” Anther-case
hemispherical, oblique.

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PHILIBERTIA GRANDIFLORA. LARGE-FLOW-
ERED PHILIBERTIA.

Class and Order.

PewranpriA Dieynts.
( Nat. Ord.—AscLepPiADE2. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla urceolato-rotata, sinuato-quin-
queloba, lobis acutis denticulis interjectis; tuwbus brevis,
mediante toro carnoso apice quandoque annuliformi et un-
dulato gynostegii (columne staminee, Br.,) basi adnatus.
Corona staminea simplex, 5-phylla : foliolis carnosis sum-
mo gynostegio insertis, integris. Anthere membrana ter-
Minate. Masse pollinis clavato-cylindracee, ad apicem
_ fere affixe. Stigma brevissimum v. breviter rostratum
- apice biapiculatum.—Frutices volubiles. Folia opposita
basi cordata. Umbelle interpetiolares.

Specific Name and Character.

Puiinertia* grandiflora ; ubique molliter pubescens, co-
rolla rotato-campanulata, corone staminee foliolis
rotundato-gibbosis rostratis vertice depressis, stigmate

bifido.

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An extremely handsome Asclepiadeous plant, of which
_ Seeds were sent by Mr. Tweepie from Buenos Ayres to Mr.
_ Morray of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, and to Mr. Niven,
_ at Glasnevin Gardens, Dublin; in both which establish-
_ Ments they flowered in the summer of 1837. The plant is
- @native of Tucuman, and will probably succeed well in a

_ $00d greenhouse.
e Descr.

* Thus named in honor of J. C. PHILIBERT, who published an elemmen~ —
tary work on Botany. te

Descr. Plant very soft with fine down, twining. Leaves
opposite, cordato-acuminate, with a deep and acute sinus,
longer than the petioles. Peduncles axillary, bearing wm-
bels of large, handsome, downy flowers. Calyx in five deep,
acuminated segments. Corolla more than an inch across,
between rotate and campanulate, with five triangular seg-
ments, and a small tooth beween them, cream-coloured,
prettily dotted and streaked with purple within. Column
of fructification short. Leaflets of the staminal crown large,
ovato-globose, gibbose, fleshy, pale-green, the apex ob-
liquely beaked, depressed on the top. Style short: Stigma
bifid.

Fig. 1. Column of Fructification. 2. The same with the leaflet removed:
—magnified.

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DomMBEYA CANNABINA. Hemp Domeeya.

Class and Order.

MonaApDELPHIA PoLYANDRIA.
( Nat. Ord.— Bytrnericez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus, persistens, involucello 3-phyllo unila-
terali cinctus. Petala 5. Stamina 15—20, filamentis vix (?)
basi coalitis, 3 sterilia, 2—3 fertilia inter quodque ste-
rilia (?). Stylus 1, apice in stigmata 5 subreflexa fissus.
Carpella 5 bivalvia, 1—polysperma in capsulam arcte con-
nexa. Cotyledones contortuplicate bifide. DC.

Specific Character and Synonym.

Dosey a* cannabina ; foliis cordatis integris trilobisve serra-
tis, pedunculis pendulis, floribus corymbosis, calycibus
5-fidis tomentosis bibracteatis, columna staminea lon-
gissima,

Dompeya cannabina. Hels. et Boj. in Herb. nostr.

This fine plant, which has so completely the habit of an
Asrrapa#a, that one can hardly think it ought to be sepa-
rated generically, was sent many years ago to the Glas-
gow Botanic Garden from the Mauritius, by the late Cuartes
Texrair, Esq. It is, however, not a native of that island,
but of the provinces of Emirena and Be-tani-mena in Mada-
gascar, whence I possess native specimens, gathered by
Messrs. Hersincer and Boser, and communicated by them
under the name which I have adopted. Whether it be

referred to Astrapa#A or Dompeya, the generic character
will

* Named in honour of JosepH DomMBEY, an eminent South American
Traveller and Naturalist.
VOL, XI. N

will equally require modification. It has the less spread-
ing petals and the long staminal tube of Astrapma, but the
inflorescence, and the absence of involucre of Domseya:
in the constantly bibracteated and quinquefid, not five-
leaved calyx, it differs from both: but I can hardly think
these characters of sufficient importance to constitute a
distinct Genus :—on the other hand, I would rather be
inclined to the original opinion of Dr. Wattuicu, that
Astrapma might safely be referred to Domeeya. The
fruit, however, both of that plant and of the present, is still
a desideratum. Our plant flowered with us for the first
time in March, 1837.

Descr. Stem almost arboreous, of rapid growth, with
moderately spreading branches. Leaves on long petioles,
cordate, and generally three-lobed, serrated, very slightly
downy beneath. Stipules rather large, ovato-lanceolate,
deciduous. Peduncle axillary, six to eight or ten inches
long, pendulous, and, as well as the pedicels, bracteated.
Corymb of many closely-placed Jlowers, yielding a rather
disagreeable and peculiar odour. Calyx very pale greenish-
white, downy, five-cleft ; segments erect, oblong. At the
base of the calyx, on one side, are two oblong, spathulate
bracteas, as long as the flower. Corolla (filled with a honey-
like juice) of five imbricated, convolute, nearly erect petals,
white, obcordate. Staminal tube twice or thrice as long as
the flower, white with a tinge of red : Anthers about fifteen,
two-celled, within which are a few abortive ones. Germen
nearly globose, covered with dense, white, silky hairs :
Style longer than the stamens: Stigma five-cleft.

Fig. 1. Flower with its Bracteas. 2. Pistil -—magnified.

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BoussINGAULTIA BASELLOIDES. BASELLA-
LIKE BOUSSINGAULTIA.

KEKE KEK KEKE EK EEEEERE
Class and Order.

Hexanpria Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—CueEnopopes. )

Generic Character.

Perianthium 6—8-phyllum, basi bibracteatum. Stam, 6
sepalis opposita. Ovariwm ellipticum, Stylus filiformis
basi incrassatus. Stigmata 3, claveformia. “ Fructus
subrotundus, lenticulari-compressus, membranaceus, mo-
nospermus, indehiscens, stylo persistente coronatus. Semen
reniforme, lave, sessile. Hmbryo curvatus.’’—Frutex volu-
bilis. Folia alterna, integerrima, exstipulata, carnosa. Flo-
res racemosi, fragrantes. Radix tuberosa.

Specific Name and Synonyms.

BovussincautTiA* baselloides. Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. v.
7. p. 196. t. 645 bis. Spreng. Syst. Veget. cur. post. p.
108.

I cannot doubt this being the Boussincauttia of Hum-
Botpt and Kuntu, although the description of those authors
is somewhat at variance with our plant ; not more so, how-
ever, than may be accounted for on the supposition that
their description was made from a dried individual. I have
received specimens from various parts of South Ameri-
ca; but its native country appears to be near Loxa, in
the Quitinian Andes. It is indeed a most desirable stove

plant, growing rapidly, and bearing copious and graceful
racemes

* Named in honor of J. B. BousstNGAULT, a celebrated Naturalist and
South American Traveller.

racemes of flowers, which are deliciously fragrant. Mr.
T weenie introduced it to our gardens from Buenos Ayres,
and we have specimens both from the Glasgow and Glas-
nevin Botanic Gardens. Mr. Niven observes that the
quantity of mucilage contained in the root is quite remark-
able, and the bulk of roots produced altogether astonishing.
He has one root of not less than four pounds weight. At
Glasnevin, indeed, it has stood the winter in the open air at —
the bottom of a wall.

Descr. Root formed of oblong, fleshy, knotted, and in
the younger state, somewhat scaly tubers, frequently of a
large size, bearing a few fibres, and throwing up from one
extremity a rounded, and branched stem, which twines from
left to right, and is quite glabrous, (as is the whole plant,)
somewhat woody at the base, the rest herbaceous and green.
Leaves fleshy, alternate, jointed as it were upon the stem,
cordate, acute, from an inch and a half to four and five
inches long, on the lower part of the stem, penninerved,
quite entire: petiole about an inch long, compressed, broad
upwards. Stipules none. Racemes axillary, pendent, three
to five inches long, bearing many greenish-white, deliciously
fragrant flowers. Pedicels with a small, subulate bractea
at the base, and at the top are two small, ovate ones, closely
pressed to the base of the perianth. Perianth single, thin,
and membranaceous, deeply cut into six oval, soon becom-
ing reflexed sepals, of which three are more external : often
there is one or two (and these opposite) large scales or sepals
on the outside of these, in form, colour, and texture resem-
bling the segments of the perianth. Stamens six, inserted
at the base of the segments and opposite to them. Fvla-
ments subulate, spreading : Anther fixed by the back, short-
ly-oblong, opening by two clefts. Germen superior, ovate,
white, abortive : Style shorter than the filament : Stigmas
three, clavate, white, furrowed at the back. The fruit has
never been perfected in this country.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Pistil —magnified.

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PHILODENDRON CRASSINERVIUM. ‘THICK-
RIBBED PHILODENDRON.

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Class and Order.

Monasoia TEeTRANDRIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Aro1peEz. )

Generic Character.

Spatha tota persistens, post florescentiam reclusa. Spadzx
dense obsitus, appendice cereus. Anthere singuli floris
libere. Ovarium multi (5—15)-loculare, loculis pluriovu-
latis, ovulis axi affixis erectis—Plante Americane tropice,
succo decolori, rhizomate in caulem elongatum scandentem
v. arborescentem mutato, foliis remotis, vaginis petiolaribus
brevissimis stipularibus elongatis deciduis folio oppositis.

Schott.
Specific Character and Synonym.

Puiopenpron * crassinervium ; foliis lanceolatis acuminatis
costa crassissima inflata, spatha obtusa cucullata api-
culata spadicis longitudine. Lindl.

Puiopenpron crassinervium. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1958.

A singular climbing Aroideous plant, which would have
been considered a Pothos of former Botanists, a Genus now
appropriately separated into many others by Scnorr of
Vienna. Our flowering specimen was sent from the Edin-
burgh Botanic Garden, by Dr. Granam, in May, 1837.

Descr. Stem running to a considerable length, thick,

rounded, fleshy, glabrous, as is every part of the plant: at
intervals

__ * grew, to love, derdpor, a tree ; from the circumstance of the species attach-
ing themselves to trees in the tropical forests.

intervals throwing out roots from below, and there produc-
ing a large, brown, amplexicaul scale opposite to the inser-
tion of a leaf. Leaf one to two feet long, broadly lanceo-
late, coriaceous, petiolated, acute, margined with red, above
deep green, beneath pale : the costa exceedingly thick and
inflated ; from each side of the costa arise numerous parallel
nerves : petiole three to four inches long, rounded, purplish
green, having a sheath within at the base, from which the
spatha arises. Peduncle shorter and thicker than the pe-
tiole, pale green spotted with purple. Spatha somewhat
cylindrical, cucullate, acute, contracted in the middle, pale
yellow-green spotted with red, thick and fleshy, bright red
within at the base. Spadix cylindrical, as long as the spa-
tha, densely covered in the lower part with pzstils ; the rest
with stamens, those at the base abortive. Germen subglo-
bose : Stigma large, depressed, wrinkled, sessile. Stamens
peltate, angled, bearing the linear cells on the sides.

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til :—magnified.

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DopDECATHEON INTEGRIFOLIUM. ENTIRE-
LEAVED AMERICAN COoWSLIP.

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Class and Order.

PenranpriA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Primutacez. )

Generic Character.

Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis reflexis. Corolla 5-partita, la-
ciniis limbi reflexis. Stamina filamenta brevissima, latius-
cula, tubo insidentia. Anthere sagittate in rostrum con-
niventes. Stylus staminibus longior, simplex. Capsula
apice dehiscens dentibus 5. Spr.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

DopecatuEon* integrifolium ; foliis spathulatis integerri-"
mis, umbellis plurifloris, pedunculis divaricatis, brac-
teis ovatis, filamentis elongatis in tubum connatis.

Dopecarueon integrifolium. Mich. Fl. Am. v. 1. p. 123.
Pursh, Fl. Am. ».1. p. 136. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget.
v. 4. p. 132. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 673. Rich-
ards. in Frankl. Journ. ed. 2. App. p. 6.

e

A very distinct and beautiful species of a very small

Genus, first described by Micuaux from plants eng
im

* This Name is said to have been conferred by PLiny on some plant or
other, which he considered to display in itself the majesty of all the Divini-
ties. Of these it is well known that the Romans enumerated twelve princi-
pal ones; six male and six female. The DopECATHEON of modern authors
has, however, nothing to do with the individual to which Pirny applied so
grand a designation, as it is a native of the New World, and received its
name in allusion to the number of the flowers, frequently twelve, which it

bears in each head.

him in the Alleghany Mountains, since found abundantly by
Dr. Ricuarpson in the woody country of British North
America as far as Carlton House Fort, and by Mr. Drum-
monp in the Rocky Mountains. The latter Naturalist sent
seeds to this country, from which plants were raised at the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Botanic Gardens. Another en-
tire-leaved species with sessile anthers, was found by Dr.
Ricuarpson on the Arctic shores, and by other Naturalists
in North-West America: this is the D. frigidum of Cuam.
and Scuiecur. in the Linnea : and we possess another anda
new species of the Genus in Mr. Dovenas’ last collections
in the interior of North-West America.

Descr. Root perennial, throwing up a tuft of rather pale
green, spathulate, quite entire leaves. Scape eight to ten
inches high, glabrous, rounded, terminated by an umbel of
from eight to ten or twelve handsome flowers. Peduncles
spreading, surrounded by an involucre of five to seven ovate
bracteas, and several smaller bracteas within. Flowers
drooping. Calyx of five, spreading, ovate, acute segments.
Corolla rotate, soon reflexed, the short tube white with a-
yellow ring ; the limb reflexed. Filaments much exserted,
and united into a yellow, fleshy tube, almost as long as the
anthers: Anthers meeting in a cone, lanceolato-subulate,
greenish-yellow, purple on the back. Germen globose :
Style filiform, longer than the stamens : Stigma capitate.

Fig. 1. Upper part of the Scape with its Bracteas. 2. Calyx and Pistil.
3. Staminal Tube laid open :—magnified.

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( 3623 )

Papaver GARIEPINUM. SoutTu-AFRICAN
Poppy.

KKK KEKE KEKE EEK EEE EEEK
Class and Order ;

Potyanpria Monoeynt.
( Nat. Ord.—Papaveraceg. )

Generic Character.

Sepala 2 convexa, decidua. Petala4. Stamina nume-
rosa. Stylus o. Stigmata 4—20, radiantia, sessilia super
discum ovarium coronantem. Capsula obovata, 1-locula-
ris, e carpellis 4—20 in thalami productione membranacea
inclusis constans, sub stigmatum corona valvulis brevibus
dehiscens. Placente intervalvulares, intus in dissepimenta
incompleta producte.—Herbe perennes succo albo fete.
Pedunculi ante florescentiam apice inflexi. D C.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Papaver Gariepinum; capsulis glabris obovato-oblongis,
sepalis setosis, caule multifloro setis innumeris hor-
rido, foliis sessilibus hispidis sinuato-pinnatifidis, lobis
distantibus ovatis.

Paraver Gariepinum. Burchell, Afric. Trav. v. 1. p. 318.
De Cand. Prodr. v.11. p. 119. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 2.
p. 570.

When Mr. Burcuett reached the river Gariep in South-
ern Africa, in lat. 29° 40' 52” S., he says, in his valuable
Travels, “ Along the bank I found a Poppy four feet in
height, with a showy bright-red flower, like that of our
common English Corn: Poppy ; an interesting and unex-
pected discovery, in these southern latitudes, of a Genus so

decidedly northern.” Our figure represents this species,

which was raised by Mr. Murray in the Glasgow Botanic

Garden, from seeds sent by. Baron Lupwie. It is remark-
able

able for the strong, spreading bristles, varying in size, in-
deed, but most of them very large, with which almost every
part of the plant is clothed. There is, however, an Austra-
lian species, which seemed very nearly allied to this, the P.
horridum of Dr Canpotie: whether distinct or not I am
unable to say.

Our plant flowered under a frame the latter end of May
and beginning of June. Placed in the open border it
seemed very susceptible of our (in this year, 1836) unusually
cold and fickle summer.

Descr. Root annual, or perhaps biennial. Stem erect,
a foot and a half to two feet high, rounded, branched,
clothed, as is every part of the plant, except the flowers)
with copious, spreading, and very harsh bristles, unequal
indeed, in size, but most of them very large. Leaves ob-
long-lanceolate ; those of the root and lower part of the
stem somewhat petiolate, pinnatifid, the segments distant,
oblong-ovate, the margin every where toothed, the teeth
bristle-pointed ; upper leaves sessile, inciso-serrate, gradu-
ally smaller. Flowers scarcely two inches across, on hispid
peduncles, which are somewhat panicled. Sepals two, oval,
concave, hispid. Petals obovato-rotundate, somewhat
clawed, very obtuse, wavy, pale brick-colour approaching
to orange. Stamens numerous. Germen oblong, a little
thickened upwards, slightly furrowed and torulose, quite
glabrous. Stigma conico-depressed, of few rays. Capsule
of the same shape with the germen, opening by large aper-
tures beneath the stigma.

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DracopuyLLuM cCAPITATUM. RouUND-HEADED
DracoPpHyLLuM.

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Class and Order.

PentanpriaA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Epacripe4. )

Generic Character.

Calyx bi- v. ebracteatus. Corolla tubulosa, limbo 5-
partito patenti, imberbi. Stamina epipetala v. hypogyna.
Squamule 5 hypogyne. Capsula placentis ab apice co-
lumne centralis pendulis solutis.—Frutices v. Arbuscule,
ramis dum denudatis annulatis. Spice v. racemi termi-
nales ; ille simplices, hi quandoque compositt. Br.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Dracornytium * capitatum ; ramis floriferis spica ovata
multoties longioribus, foliis caulinis ensiformi-lanceo-
latis erectiusculis, rameis adpressis.

Dracopayiium capitatum. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p.
557. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 629.

A very pretty New Holland Plant, which has for some
years annually produced its white heads of flowers in the
greenhouse of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in the summer
months.

Descr. A shrub about a foot and’a half high, with erect,
twiggy branches. Leaves _ensiformi-lanceolate, pungent,
dark green, tipped with red and somewhat spreading on the

stem ; paler coloured, smaller, and close-pressed upon the
branches.

* Ypaxos, draco, and Qvars, a leaf; from the resemblance of the leaves to
those of Dracana Draco.

branches. Flowers in terminal heads, pure white, very
delicate. Bracteas two at the base of the calyx. Corolla
salver-shaped, the limb of five spreading, very obtuse, obo-
vate segments: the mouth contracted. Stamens from the
tube of the corolla, included: Anthers reddish-purple :
pollen and filaments white. Germen globose, green, with
five hypogynous glands. Style thickened upwards, shorter
than the corolla. Stigma obtuse.

Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil and hypogynous Glands. 3. Stamens :—
magnified.

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( 3625 )

CHRYSOCOMA SQUAMATA. SCALY-STALKED
GOLDYLOCKS.

Class and Order.

SyNGENESIA /EQUALIs.
( Nat. Ord.—Composir. )

Generic Character.

Capitulum multiflorum homogamum : flosculi tubulosi.
Pappus pilosus, uniserialis. Achenitum erostre plano-com-
pressum.—F ruticuli vel herbacei; foliis linearibus, sparsis,
mntegris ; capitulis terminalibus solitariis, luteis ; involucris
embricatis.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

Curysocoma * squamata ; pubescens, ramis elongatis gra-
cilibus, foliis lineari-oblongis acutis subtus niveo-
tomentosis, summis squameformibus, involucri squa-
mis acutis scariosis.

Cnrysocoma squamata. Labill. Nov. Holl. v. 2. p. 40. t.
184. All. Cunn. in Field’s N. S. Wales, p. 359. Spreng.

Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 429.

A very pretty, perennial, suffruticose plant, native of-
Van Diemen’s Land, where it was discovered by LaBILLAR-
piERE, (and whence seeds were sent by Ronatp Gunn, Esq.,
to the Glasgow Botanic Garden,) and about Cox’s River,

N. S. Wales, according to Mr. Annan CUNNINGHAM. it

flowers in the greenhouse during the month of May.

Descr. Stem much branched from the base, where it

appears to be shrubby, and ofa red-brown colour : branches
downy,

* spvcos, gold, and xoyn, hair ; from the golden heads of flowers.

downy, erect, slender, virgate, leafy throughout. Leaves
linear-oblong, or linear-lanceolate ; the lowermost an inch
and a half or two inches long and acute, the rest shorter
and more obtuse, passing gradually upwards into small
scales, which are numerous below the flowers, nearly gla-
brous above, beneath clothed with white down. Flowers,
or Capitula, terminal, solitary, yellow. Involucre bell-
shaped ; its scales numerous, imbricated, acute, scariose,
dark brown at the tip. Florets numerous, densely crowded.
Corolla infundibuliform, five-cleft. Anthers and Stigmas

included. Germen oblong. Hairs of the Pappus slightly
feathery.

Fig. 1. Floret. 2. Upper part of the Style and Stigmas. 3. Hair from
the Pappus :—magnified.

INDEX,

which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Hleventh
‘Volume of the New Series (or Siaty-fourth of the Work) are

—.—_- alphabetically arranged.

<a
Fi. ras
3563 Acropera Loddigesii. 3542 Hippeastrum ambiguum, var.
3610 Aa eristien glaucum. t losgificn. OPE:
3608 Aporum anceps. 3549 breviflorum.

3564 Begonia monoptera.
3559 - octopetala.
3591 platanifolia.
3597 Bifrenaria aurantiaca.
3599 Blumenbachia multifida.
3620 Boussingaultia baselloides.
3577 Brassia Lanceana.

3588 Calliprora lutea.

83590 Catasetum luridum.
3598 Cereus Ackermanni.
3566 serpentinus.
3567 Ceropegia stapeliiformis.
3607 Chorizema Henchmanni.
3625 Chrysocoma squamata.
8583 Chrysostemma tripteris.
3617 Chysis aurea.

3592 Clarkia elegans.

3584 Clianthus puniceus.
3586 Coreopsis longipes.
3593 Delphinium vimineum.

~ 8553 Desmodium Canadense.

3622 Dodecatheon integrifolium.
3619 Dombeya cannabina.

3624 Dracophyllum capitatum.
3570 Echeveria racemosa.

3561 Echinocactus Mackieanus.

3558 mammillaroides.
3569 ———-———— sessiliflorus.
3557 Epidendrum chloroleucum.
8595 coriaceum.
3543 crassifolium.
3565 diffusum.

$605 Eria stellata.

3589 Eucharidium concinnum.

3572 Eutoca viscosa.

3551 Gaillardia bicolor, var. Drum-
mondii integerrima.

3612 Gesneria Douglasii, 8. verticil-

lata.
3602 Lindleyi.
3576 Sceptrum, y. ignea.
3596 Habranthus Andersoni, var €.
Texanus.

3587 Impatiens scapiflora.
3002 Lachenalia glaucina.
3578 Leptosiphon densiflorus.
3004 Limnanthes Douglasii.
3574 Linum monogynum.
3600 Lobelia Cavanillesii.

3609 erinoides,
3550 polyphylla.
3604 syphilitica, hybrida.

3594 Lychnis Bungeana.

3548 Madia elegans.

3614 Maxillaria Henchmanni.

3613 ————— pumila.

3573. —————. 5 teellii.

3560 Mimulus Cardinalis.

8601 Monacanthus discolor, 8. viridi-
florus.

3545 CEnothera fruticosa, var. am-
bigua.

3568 Oncidium Cebolleta.

3603 -———— luridum.

3581 —————. pumilum.

3623 Papaver Gariepinum.

3580 Pavetta Caffra.

3556 Petunia violacea, hybrida.

3618 Philibertia grandiflora.

3621 Philodendron crassinervium.

3579 Platystemon Californicum.

3575 Platystigma linearis.

3616 Polygala myrtifolia, var. gran-
diflora.

3562 Rytidophyllum auriculatum.

3571 Sarcanthus teretifolius.

3544 Sisyrinchium speciosum.

3606 Stenactis speciosa.

8615 Stenomesson croceum.

3611 Thermopsis fabacea,

3546 Tradescantia caricifolia.

3547 Tulbaghia Ludwigiana.

3555 violacea.

3582 Xanthozia rotundifolia.

3585 Zygopetalum cochleare.

EN) D: BX,

In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Eleventh
Volume of the New Series (or Sizty-fourth of the Work) are

alphabetically arranged.

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Fi.
3563 Acropera, Mr. Loddiges’.
3610 Anthericum, glaucous-leaved.
3608 Aporum, two-edged.
3587 Balsam, stemless.
3059 Begonia,eight-petaled.
8591 plane-leaved.
3064 single-winged.
3597 Bifrenaria, orange-coloured.
3599 Blumenbachia, multifid-leaved.
3620 Boussingaultia, Basella-like.
3577 Brassia, Mr. Lance’s.
3588 Calliprora, yellow.
3594 Campion, Dr. Bunge’s scarlet.
3590 Catasetum, lurid.
8598 Cereus, Ackerman’s Mexican.
3566 serpent-like.
3567 Ceropegia, Stapelia-like.

3607 Chorizema, Mr. Henchman’s.

- 8583 Chrysostemma, three-leaved.
_ 8617 Chysis, golden-flowered.
- 8592 Clarkia, Californian.

8586 Coreopsis, long-stalked.

_ 3622 Cowslip, American, entire-
ee —leaved.
3553 Desmodium, Canadian.
3619 Dombeya, Hemp.
3624 Dracophyllum, round-headed.
3070 Echeveria, racemed.
3561 Echinocactus, Mr. Mackie’s.

8558 : mammillaria-
like.

3569 ———_—-—— sessile-flowered

3595 Epidendrum, coriaceous-
leaved.

3057 green and white-
flowered.

reading.
3543

— thick-leaved.

3605 Eria, star-flowered. :

3589 Eucharidium, pretty.

3572 Eutoca, clammy.

3545 Evening Primrose, shrubby,
‘4, OAT.

3574 Flax, monogynous.

3551 Gaillardia two-coloured, Drum-

mond’s entire-leaved var.

3612 Gesneria, Mr. Douglas’ whorl-
eee ed var.
ao 3602 Dr. Lindley’s.

1

LE.

3576 Gesneria, sceptre-flowered,
pale-flowered var.

3584 Glory-Pea, crimson.

3625 Goldylocks, scaly-stalked.

3596 Habranthus, Anderson’s
Texas var.

3542 Knight’s Star Lily, ambiguous,
var. 1. long-flowered.

8549 short-flow-

ered.
3552 Lachenalia, glaucous-flowered.,
3593 Larkspur, slender, upright.
3578 Leptosiphon,thickly-flowering.
$554 Limnanthes, Mr. Douglas’.
3604 Lobelia, hybrid var, of the blue

American.
3600 — Cavanilles’.
3609 Erinus-like.
3550 — many-leaved.

3548 Madia, elegant.

3613 Maxillaria, dwarf.

3614 Mr. Henchman’s.

3573 ——__—_—— Mr. Steele’s.

3616 Milk-wort, Myrtle-leaved,
large-flowered var.

3601 Monk-flower, dingy, green-
flowered var.

$560 Monkey-flower, Cardinal.

3603 Oncidium, dingy-flowered.
3681 Mr. Herbert’s dwarf...
3568 rounded-leaved.

3580 Pavetta, South African.
3556 Petunia, purple, hybrid var.
3618 Philibertia, large-flowered.
3621 Philodendron, thick-ribbed.
8579 Platystemon, Californian.
3575 Platystigma, linear-leaved.
3623 Poppy, South-African.
3562 Rytidophyllum, auriculated.
3571 Sarcanthus, round-leaved.
3544 Sisyrinchium, showy.

3546 Spiderwort, sedge-leaved.
3606 Stenactis, showy.

8615 Stenomesson, orange-flowered.
3611 Thermopsis, bean-leaved.
3547 Tulbaghia, eae te

3555 —————- violet-flowered.
3582 Xanthozia, round-leaved.
3585 Zygopetalum, shell-lipped.