CURTIS’S BOTAN ICAL MAGAZINE; le add an Flower Garden Bisplaped: In which the most Ornamental Fore1en PuanTs 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. By SAMUEL CURTIS, F. L. S. THE DESCRIPTIONS By Str WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K. H. LLD. F.R.A. and L.S. Director of the Royal Botanic Garden of Kew. VOL. XIV. [5 OF THE NE W SERIES; Or Vol, txv11. of the whole Work. ‘* Herbs and Flowers, the beauteous birth Of the genial womb of earth, Suffer but a transient death From the Winter’s cruel breath, * Zephyr speaks ; serener skies Warm the globe, and they arise.” LONDON : Printed by Edward Couchman, 10, Throgmorton Street ; FOR THE PROPRIETOR, SAMUEL CURTIS, AT THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE WAREHOUSE, GLAZEN woop, NEAR COGGES HALL, ESSEX: Published also by Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 23, Paternoster Row 3 Blackwood, Edinburgh ; and in Holland, by Mr. Gt. Eldering, Florist, at Haarlem: And to be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country. 1841. TO MRS. WRAY, OF OAKFIELD, CHELTENHAM, A LADY, WHO DERIVES SOME OF THE TRUEST PLEASURES FROM HER EXTENSIVE AND SUCCESSFUL CULTIVATION OF EXOTIC PLANTS; AND TO WHOM THE PAGES OF THIS WORK — : ARE MUCH INDEBTED FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF MANY NOVELTIES . as a AND RARITIES, THE PRESENT VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, . BY HER OBLIGED FRIEND : AND SERVANT, _ ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, KEW, Jun» Ist, 1841. ( 3795 ) SoLANUM cRrisPpuM. Wavy SoLanum. KKK KKK KEKE KKK EE EEE Class and Order. PentranpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Sotanez. ) Generic Character. Calyx monophyllus, persistens. Corolla monopetala, rotata. Anthere oblonge, apice poris duobus dehiscente. Bacca bi- tri- quadrilocularis. Spr. Specific Character and Synonyms. SoLanum crispum ; fruticosum, foliis petiolatis ovatis acutis vel acuminatis undulatis integerrimis, corymbis termi- nalibus, calycibus tomentosis lobis quinque brevibus, corolla rotata profunde quinqueloba lobis ovatis un- dulatis, antheris zqualibus. Sotanum crispum. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. v. 2. p. 31. Dunal, Solan. p. 159. Syn. p. 16. n. 78. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 595. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. p. iu Lodd. Bot. Cab, t: 1959. Lindl. Bot. Reg. Pp. ; Apparently a frequent inhabitant of Chili, growing in waste places ; as at Conception, Carcamo, and Palomares, and also in the island of Chiloe, whence it seems to have been introduced to our gardens by Mr. Anperson. It was suspected it would prove a hardy plant: and such is the case even as far north as the Highlands of Argyleshire, where, in the gardens of James Hunrer, Esq., of Hafton, a most indefatigable Horticulturist, there is a plant which has attained to a height of from twelve to fourteen feet upon a south wall. It has braved the unusually severe winters of 1837—8 and 1838—9, and it is hardly possible to conceive any thing more beautiful than the numerous purple corymbs, backed by the copious dark foliage, which the VOL. XIV. B the plant produces throughout the summer months. It strikes very freely from cuttings. Our drawing was made a few years ago from a comparatively small individual in the greenhouse of the Glasgow Botanic Garden. As an addi- tional recommendation to the cultivation of this plant, the flowers are fragrant ; though heavy if too strongly inhaled. Descr. Stem woody; young branches herbaceous, green, terete, glabrous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate, acute or acuminate, the base obtuse, rarely subcordate, the mar- gins entire, waved. Petiole from half an inch to an inch long. Corymbs on terminal, leafless branches ; large when cultivated successfully, handsome. Pedicels, at first, curved downwards, so that the buds are drooping. Calyx cup- shaped, cut into five short, acute, spreading lobes, downy on the outside. Corolla an inch or more in diameter, ro- tate, cut almost to the base into five horizontal, waved seg- ments, of a palish purple, marked with a central streak of red. Anthers connate, five, yellow, on short, white jila- ments, Style protruded beyond the anther-tube. v Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and Pistil :—magnified. = cod Essex May 1.28 40. ( 3796 ) MOoNACHANTHUS ROSEO-ALBUS. WHITE AND RoseE-coLoreED Monk-F Lower. BEEK KEKE EEEKREEEEEREE EK Class and Order. GynanpriA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuiwea. ) Generic Character. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et petala equalia, deorsum versa. Labellum posticum, carnosum, indivisum, ventricosum, sepalis multo majus. Colwmna brevis, crassa, mutica. Anthere et pollinia Cataseti.—Epiphyte Cataseti habitu. Lindl. Specific Name and Character. \p Monacuantuus roseo-albus ; labello triangulari acutissimo concavo-hemisphezrico (non ventricoso) intus pubes- cente margine basi longissime ciliato. Several pseudo-bulbs of this remarkable and very pretty plant were sent from Para, in Brazil, to Mr. Murray of the Glasgow Botanic Garden in the early part of last year by _Mr. Campsext, and there is scarcely any period since, that some or other of them have not been throwing up the flow- ering-stems, and exhibiting their delicate blossoms of a white colour, the lip, tipped with red and banded with the same colour in the inside, while the margin at the base has a deep red fringe much longer than in any species I have ever seen. It will be seen that I have preserved the generic name of Monacuantuus, rather from consistency than a conviction of the soundness of the Genus. It might with greater propriety be called Caraserum, Sect. Monacuan- THUS, Pseudo-bulbs a span and more long, clustered, oblong, tapering at both ends, annulated. Leaves lanceolate, six to to eight inches long, thin, membranaceous, with numerous elevated striae, and tipped with a short acumen. Scape from the base of the bulb, erect, two feet high, if we include the long raceme of many (twenty to thirty) flowers. Sepals linear-lanceolate, white tinged with red, soon closely reflexed ; petals longer and broader, standing both of them erect over the column and parallel, their margins only reflexed, white. Lp deflexed, the smallest of the Genus; as viewed in front exactly triangular, with a very acute point, the margin near the column fringed with remarkably long, coarse hairs or bristles, the disk concave, so that seen on the underside it is hemispherical (not by any means ven- tricose) : within downy, the bands, the acute apex of the lip, and the fringe all red, the rest white. Column short and thick, much shorter than the lip. Anther-case hemi- spherical. Pollen-masses as in CatasEerum. Stigmatic sur- Jace of the column becoming black soon after the anther- case has fallen off. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pollen-masses >—magnified. REL en ee ee EG ee Ee ea ee ee ee ee i Swart Se aul LIFO, atl Le EA SSOP Me oa ok ( 3797 ) MANDEVILLA SUAVEOLENS. SWEET-SCENTED MANDEVILLA. f KEK KERR KEK KKK KEK KEKE Class and Order. Pentanpria Dieynta: ( Nat. Ord.—Apocynez. ) Generic Character. Calyx pentaphyllus, imbricatus, erectus, intus annulo pectinato auctus. Corolla hypogyna, campanulato-infundi- buliformis, fauce tuboque esquamatis, limbi 5-fidi laciniis subequilateris. Stamina 5, basi corolle tubi inserta: an- there in conum circa stigma conniventes, apice membra- nacee. Ovarium biloculare, polyspermum. Stylus unus; stigma conicum, a latere 5-foveatum, basi campanulatum 5-lobum, apice bicuspidatum. Annulus hypogynus 5- lobus, carnosus. Fructus ..... —Frutex Bonariensis (7?) volubilis, foliis petiolatis membranaceis, stipulis pectinatis, racemis secundis axillaribus multifloris. Lindl. Specific Name and Synonym. MANDEVILLA suaveolens. Manvevitta suaveolens. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, ¢. 7. I had long possessed specimens of this plant in my Her- barium, where I had referred it to Ecurres ; and having received recent flowering ones from the Horticultural Society of Edinburgh, from which the accompanying figure was taken in October, 1839, I was on the point of publishing it as an Ecurres when the plate above quoted appeared, where Professor Linptey has constituted of it a new Genus, under the name of Manpevixna, in compliment to Henry Joun Manpevitze, Esq., H. B. M. Minister at Buenos Ayres, “ to whom we are indebted for the introduction of this and many other interesting plants.” He considers it to differ from from Ecuires, first, by the form of the corolla, which is more like that of Beaumontia, than of Ecurres ; and, se- condly, by the presence of a pectinated ring between the bases of the calyx and corolla.—This pectinated ring we had unfortunately omitted to observe.—Its native country is not yet certainly known, Mr. ‘T'weepie’s remarks on my specimens in the Herbarium are, “‘ This is one of our best climbers, only to be met with in gardens about Buenos Ayres, and called “ Chilian Jasmine.” Its seed-pods are a foot to a foot and a half long, generally two hanging together. The seeds are long and bearded like those of Kcurrgs.” From the name given to it at Buenos Ayres, it would appear to have been introduced from Chili ; but we have seen nothing of the kind from that country. It.is not considered to be hardy with us: and Dr. Lrypiey recom- mends that it should be cultivated in the conservatory, and observes that it is easily propagated by cuttings. Descr. Stem fruticose, long, terete, climbing, glabrous. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovato-cordate, entire, with a rather slender acumen, membranaceous, entirely glabrous above, beneath pale, copiously marked with brown reticu- lated veins, and bearing tufts of hair in the axils of the principal nerves. Petioles one to three inches long: be- tween the opposite pairs on each side are several short, fleshy, filamentous stipules. Peduncles axillary, elongated, ring a corymb of large, white or somewhat cream- coloured, fragrant flowers. Calyx five-partite, the lacinie lanceolate and erect. Corolla funnel-shaped, the limb of five, broadly-ovate or subrotund, wavy, imbricated, spread- ing lobes. Within, the lower part of the tube is thickly clothed with hairs, above which the five nearly sessile, con- nate, linear-oblong, included, yellow anthers are inserted, covering and concealing the stigma. Ovaries two, sur- rounded by a five-lobed, hypogynous disk, and tapering into a single style, which bears a very large, green, fleshy, extinguisher-shaped séi . Fig. 1. Lower part of the Tube of the Corolla, with Stamens. 2. Pistils: magnified. Spy @ tub by 8 Curtiy Cascravond Fs cer Mami T& to ( 3798 ) GREVILLEA DUBIA. DupBtious GREVILLEA. KEK KEE EEK EKER EEE EK Class and Order. TrerranpriA Monoeynta. ( Nat. Ord.—Proteacez. ) Generic Character. Perianthium irregulare ; foliolis laciniisve secundis : api- cibus cavis staminiferis. Anthere immerse. Glandula hypogyna unica, dimidiata. Ovarium dispermum. Stig- ma obliquum depressum (raro subverticale, conicum). Fol- liculus unilocularis, dispermus, loculo centrali. Semina marginata, v. apice brevissime alata. Br. Specific Character and Synonyms. Grevittea dubia ; foliis ellipticis marginibus refractis, ra- mis ramulisque tomentosis, floriferis racemoque abbre- viato recurvis, pistillis uncia brevioribus. Br. Grevittea dubia. Brown in Linn. Trans. 10. 169. Ibid. Prodr. 1. 376. Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. 3. 410. Mr. Brown considers this plant scarcely specifically dis- tinct from his GrevitLea punicea; Ramer and Scuuttes repeat the doubt, and Spreneert unites them; but these writers have probably no additional information on the subject. A specimen which I received from New Holland without name in 1824, and which I considered G. punicea, is distinguished from this by its leaves being broader, larger, and minutely dotted, but otherwise glabrous on the upper surface, where also the marginal nerves are less conspi- cuous; the raceme too is less dense, and the style longer. Our plant was raised at the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, from seeds sent by Mr. CunnineHam as a new species, and has flowered freely in the end of the season, during several years. Descr. Descr. Shrub (five feet high) erect, with pendulous branches, twigs covered with brownish pubescence, hairs adpressed, attached by the middle. Leaves elliptical or obovato-elliptical, mucronulate, spreading, having adpress- ed pubescence, similar to that on ‘the twigs on both sides, but silky and chiefly abundant below, lateral nerves near the margins. Racemes short, dense, terminal, becoming lateral, and opposite to the leaves, from the prolongation of the branches. Bractee subulate, falling very early. Flowers rose-coloured, geminate, on recurved pedicels, the lowest expanding first ; perianth pubescent on the outside, four- _ phyllous, united in the throat by a dense tuft of white wool, less than half the length of the revolute limb, which on the inside is glabrous. Stamens small, white, sessile in the apices of the perianth. Pistil pedicellate, including the pedicel less than eight lines long, surrounded at its base on the lower side by a pale, semfunar disk, everywhere gla- brous except at the top of the style, where it is slightly pubescent: stigma oblique, flat ; germen green, obscurely furrowed above and below. Graham. ( 3799 ) Verpascum Taurtcum. TaurtaN MULLEIN. KKK KEE KEK KEKE REE EK Class and Order. PentanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Scropuu.arin2. ) Generic Character. Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla rotata, limbo inzqualiter lobato. Filamenta subbarbata. Anthere difformes. Capsula val- vis inflexis, dissepimentum formantibus in placentas incras- satis. Spr. Specific Name and Character. o Versascum Tauricum ; subpubescens, foliis cordato-ovatis rosse crenato-lobatis reticulatis submembranaceis in- erioribus petiolatis, petiolo brevi, superioribus multo minoribus magis cordatis sessilibus, racemis elongatis, pedicellis solitariis v. geminis bracteas equantibus, (floribus purpureis). Vergsascum Tauricum. AHortulan. If this very handsome Muttery, which was kindly com- municated from the open border of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, by Dr. Granam, be anywhere described under the name with which it was received, I have no means of access to that description; nor will I, knowing how liable the Genus is to mix with other species, pronounce that the present is of a genuine stock. I publish it with the name which accompanied the specimen, and under which it was probably sent from the German gardens to Dr. Granam. Its nearest affinity with any acknowledged species is, per- haps, with V. pheniceum, Bot. Mag. t. 885 ; but the pedi- cels are very much shorter, in which respect it approaches V. cupreum (Bot. Mag. t. 1226), a supposed hybrid, from which again it differs in the colour and size and markings of the flower. It blossomed in August, 1839. Descr. Descr. Root probably biennial. Stem erect, terete, branched, downy, the branches upright. Lower leaves large, ovate, cordate at the base, rather thin and membra- naceous, reticulated, petiolated, with very large coarse serratures, they may almost be called lobes, at the margin. Petioles short and, except of the radical leaves, broad. The leaves gradually become smaller upwards, more cordate, and at length sessile. Raceme eight to ten inches, or a foot long. Flowers rather closely placed, solitary or two together. Pedicels two to three lines long, equal in length with the narrow almost subulate bracteas, reddish. Calyx hairy, of five deep, lanceolate, spreading segments. Corolla moderately large, rotate, the segments unequal, broad, and rounded, purple, deeper and almost blackish at the base, with a yellow ring. Stamens unequal. Filaments deep purple, with long purple, spreading hairs, yellow and naked at the base. Anther reniform, dark purple. Pollen deep golden colour. Style red, a little thickened upwards. j Stigma capitate, green. o Fig. 1. Calyx with Pistil. 2. Stamens :—magnified. ( 3800 ) EPIDENDRUM PATENS. SPREADING-FLOWERED EPIDENDRUM. KKK EEE KEK KKK EERE EK Class and Order. GynanprRIA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuinez. ) Generic Character. Sepala patentia subequalia. Petala sepalis equalia vel angustiora, rarius latiora, patentia vel reflexa. Labellum cum marginibus column omnino vel parte connatum, lim- bo integro vel diviso, disco sepius calloso, costato vel tuberculato ; nunc in calcar productum, ovario accretum et cuniculum formans. Columna elongata ; clinandrio margi- nato, sepe fimbriato. Anthera carnosa, 2—4-locularis. Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis annexa.—Herbe epiphyte (Americane ), caule nunc apice v. basi pseudo-bul- oso, nunc elongato apice folioso. Folia carnosa, rarissime venis elevatis striata. Flores spicati, racemosi, corymbosi vel paniculati, terminales vel laterales. Lindl. Specific Character and Synonyms. EpripenpruM patens ; caule tereti, foliis distichis oblongo- lanceolatis, sepalis petalisque subequalibus oblongis acutis convexis patentibus, labello trilobo lobis de- flexis, lateralibus subrotundis, intermedio bifido. Epipenprum patens. Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. p. 1495. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 757. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1537. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 108. From the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where it flowered in ch 1839. It is a native of Jamaica and Trinidad, and probably of other of the West Indian islands. _ Descr. Stem a foot, or a foot and a half high, terete, jointed, bare of leaves below, leafy above. Leaves oblongo- lanceolate. lanceolate, somewhat coriaceous, distichous, and more or less reflexed, acute, exhibiting no nerves, sheathing the stem with the base. Peduncle from the apex of the stem, deflexed, rounded, bearing flowers almost from the base. These are moderately large, greenish-white when young, cream-coloured when fully expanded, and then soon be- coming tinged with reddish-brown, as shown in Lopp1cEs’ figure. Petals and Sepals nearly equal and uniform, ob- long, acute, spreading horizontally, the margins deflexed, so that the upper side is convex or semiterete. Column short, clavate. Free portion of the lip cut into three nearly equal lobes, the sides or margins deflexed, so as to be con- vex above, with two tubercles at the base, very concave beneath: the side lobes roundish, entire, the intermediate lobe bifid, the lacinie rather spreading, obtuse. Fig. 1. Upper side of the Column and Lip. 2. Under view of ditto:— _ | magnified. ge, IAS i] Miss Dally Del! Pub by S Cartes, (leary MWOOK, LS SEL: « June L. LS44) ( 3801 +) - Fwucusta FULGENS. THe GLowiNG Fucusia. KEK KEKE EERE EEE EERE Class and Order. OcranpriA Monoeynta. ( Nat. Ord.—Onagrarizz. ) Generic Character. Calycis tubus basi ovario adherens, superné productus in tubum cylindraceum 4-lobum post anthesin articulatim deciduum. Petala 4 summo tubo inserta, lobis alterna, rarius 0. Stamina8. Ovarium glandula urceolata coro- natum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum. Bacca ob- longa aut ovato-globosa, 4-loc., 4-valv., polysperma.—Fru- tices. Folia sepius opposita. Pediculi axillares 1-flori, interdum ad apices ramorum racemosi. Flores sepius nu- tantes, rubri rarius albi, interdum 5-fidi, 10-andrv. Specific Character and Synonyms. Fucusia fulgens; ramis glabris, foliis oppositis cordato- ovatis acutis denticulatis glabris, pediculis axillaribus flore brevioribus superioribus racemosis, calycis lobis ovato-lanceolatis acutis petala acutiuscula superan- tibis. 8: ©. Fucusta fulgens. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 39. Landl. Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 1. Bent. Plant. Hartweg. A comparatively recent introduction to this country, from Mexico ;—now become common in our gardens, on ac- count of its easy culture and the great beauty of its grace- ful, pendent racemes of long, scarlet flowers. The leaves however, it must be confessed, are coarse and weedy look- ing, very different from the neat and glossy foliage of Fucustas in general, and detract somewhat from the charm of the plant. It is too delicate to bear the winters in our climate ;—but it may readily be raised by seeds or cuttings, and VOL. XIV. c and young plants placed in the open border in the early summer will continue to flower till the autumnal frosts come on. Mr. Curtis, at his extensive Nursery of Glazenwood, (where this very beautiful drawing was made by Miss Da ty, in the summer of 1839,) has succeeded in produc- ing a great number of hybrids, by means of other species, and flowers of all kinds are the result, from the balloon form of the Fucusta globosa, to the peculiarly elongated figure here represented. ; Descr. Stem rather herbaceous and succulent than woody, terete, glabrous, more or less tinged with red. aves large, ovate or cordato-ovate, soft and flaccid, toothed at the margin, glabrous ; petiole short, thick, tinged with red, as are the veins of the leaf, especially beneath. Flowers in long, terminal, pendulous, leafy racemes ; leaves — small, otherwise similar to those of the main branches. Pedicels slender. Ovary and young fruit elliptical, downy. — Calyx bright red tipped with greenish, infundibuliform : tube very long, slender; limb of four erect, acuminated — segments, Petals shorter than the calyx-segments, deep — scarlet. Stamens included. Style longer than the calyx. — Stigma capitate. We take this opportuni veolens, figured at Tab, 3797, Mr. James M‘Nas, at the Hor but by Mr. James Macintos H, gardener t : , at Arch- erfiell. ‘Teak TAhink and gardener to Mrs. Fercuson, a him it i uni to us through Mr. M‘Nas, y him it was kindly communicated ity of mentioning, that the MANDEVILLA sua- was not, as there intimated, raised by — ticultural Society’s Garden of Edinburgh; — Lub. by 5. Curtis, lata’, Essex: Funel 1940. WKuch Del? ( 3802 ) MYANTHUsS sPINOsSUS. SPINE-BEARING FLy-wort. KKK KEK KKK KKK KEKE KESE Class and Order. GyNANDRIA MonanpriA. ( Nat. Ord.—Onrcuipez. ) Generic Character. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala libera, equalia, late- ralibus paululum adscendentibus. Petala conformia, an- gustiora, sepalo supremo supposita. Labellum planum, obovatum, tridentatum, sepalis brevius. Columna erecta, teres, basi bicirrhosa, postice ad cardinem anthere longe producta, Anthere et pollinia Cataseti—Epiphyta, Cata- seti omnino vegetatione. Lindl. Specific Name and Character. Myanruus spinosus ; petalis versus apicem serratis, labelli _ Infra medium saccati margine pilis tenuibus succulentis albis pe as fimbriato apice anguste attenuato recurvo supra basin spina tripartita infra apicem spina magna dentata porrecta. This new Myanraus is one of the very few Orcuipex which rewarded Mr. Garpner’s researches in the Province of Ceara in the interior of Brazil. “Cacrez,” he says in his Journal, (see Ann. of Nat. Hist. v. 3. p. 334,) “ are very scarce here ; I have met with but four species, all of them similar to those that I had already despatched to England from the Rio San Francisco. Orcuwex are still more rare. T'wo kinds only can I find to send home alive, but of both you will receive an abundant supply ; they are the Onciprum already mentioned and the Errrnyre that grows on the Catolé. The latter of these I have not seen in flower, it being in a dormant leafless state at this season. The general appearance is that of a Caraserum, and I have no no doubt it will prove to be new. The place of the tropi- cal OrcuipEz of South Brazil, is in these regions occupied by Loranruea, which, in the shape of Viscum, occupy every tree, and being evergreen, give a remarkable appearance to the deciduous forests.”—The “ Carasretum-like Orcut- DEX,” proves to be this Myanruus, whose lip exhibits an exquisitely beautiful structure. It flowered with us, for the first time, in February, 1840. Descr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong, striated and transversely marked with the scars of fallen leaves and scales. The foliage has not yet made its appearance on our plants. Scape from the base of a pseudo-bulb, about a foot high, erect, and terminated by an erect raceme of many slightly fragrant, resupinate (that is, the lip being superior) flowers. Sepals linear-lanceolate, spreading, pale yellowish-green with blood-coloured blotches, petals similar to them in shape, but slightly serrated towards the points, standing parallel over the back of the column, and thus connivent with the superior sepal. Lip spreading, linear, grooved, saccate near the middle, the apex much attenuated and re- curved, the margins beautifully fringed with white, flexuose, succulent hairs, greenish-white beneath, dotted with red, bearing on the upper side at the base an erect, three-partite spine or horn, and having a much larger, porrected one below the acumen, which is a little toothed or fimbriated. Column with a curved, much acuminated apex, and in front below the large stigma are two long, deflexed, and ap- pressed, coloured sete. Ovary purple, straight. Fig. 1. Column, Petals, and Lip: magnified, Lub. by S. Cartas, Slawnwoad, Fs sex June Ll 18S ( 3803 ) STENOMESSON LATIFOLIUM. WiUIDE-LEAVED STEN OMESSON. KKK KKK KKK EKER EEE EEE Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Amaryiiumacem. Subord. Pancrarirormes. §. 1. Semina testa nigra.) Generic Character. ° Perianthium tubo subrecto media parte constricto su- perne ventricoso, limbo brevi regulari, corona brevi ; folra margine in oriundo retroflexé compresso hysteranthia. Specific Character. Stenomesson latifolium ; foliis superficie subrugosa circiter sesquiunciam latis, scapo glaucescente 5-floré 4—5-un- ciali, spatha pallida ultra-unciali, pedunculis brevibus (cire. 3-unc.), perianthio sesquiunciali tubi parte infe- riore pallida, superiore cum limbo aurantiacd, fila- mentis limbo longioribus stylo interdum elongato plerumque semunciam brevioribus.—Ex Lim4& An- gliam allatum. W. H. This new species of Srenomesson was sent to Spoftorth by J. Macizan, Esq. from Lima, in November, 1837 ; and, having arrived in the spring of 1838, showed its leaves soon after, and flowered very early in the spring of 1839, aud again in 1840, or, rather, towards the close of the winter, during its season of rest. The plants.of this Genus like a pretty strong alluvial soil, with manure that is per- fectly rotten, being naturally inmates of rich pastures or meadows. Their leaves are produced at the first accession of moisture after rest and drought, and are impatient of sunshine, from which they should be screened when it is ardent. ardent. After their decay, the pot should be left dry, and the flower-scape will rise while it is yet unwatered. In their native country the leaves rise after the first rains, and decay when the heat becomes powerful, and the stems appear at uncertain periods during the season of rest. Mr. Mactean omitted to state the precise quarter from whence this species was obtained. They might be cultivated with us in any situation where their leaves were protected from snails and from scorching sun, and where the soil could be shielded from rain during the winter by some covering and kept perfectly dry. The same treatment, with a little more warmth, suits Urcroxina, but it is equally impatient of sunshine, and, indeed, almost ‘all petiolated Amaryt- LIDER are so. GrirrintA and Hymenocatus with fleshy seeds have the margin of the young leaf inflexly, Penr- tanpiA, Urceouina and Srenomesson with shelled seeds reflexly, compressed. W. H. Fig. 1. Portion of a Staminal Crown magnified. AMARYLLIDACEE; § HippeastTrRiFoRMEs. Sprexecia cybister ; scapo forti4d—5-fioro, flore basi rubro superne sub- virescente, perianthio laciniis basi latis superne longé angustatis teflexis, labio inferiore cum genitalibus basi comprehensis precipt- tato, sepalorum margine involuto, petalis duobus superioribus plani- oribus apice tortuosé demisso, imo scapum attingente. Hz Bolivia Solus hysteranthus, (Sprexei2.§2. Filamento sepalino supe- riore elongato, petalino imo abbreviato.) The Tumbler Sprekelia. HipPEastRum Organense ; scapo bifloro, perianthio nutante rubro stella interna sublutescente radiata, sepalis latioribus, calyptro in fauce tenui sepius lacero, foliis ortu suberectis (seepius glaucescentibus) bulbo substolonifero. Variat multiim (ex montibus Organ dictis Brazilie) colore, magnitudine, styli longitudine, et calyptri barbé. | lee potits ie Shale ioe supra 2983, certé non Aulici . in quo sepala petalis angustiora, color s é fulgidus, ma- cula interna non radiata, Gio artisin. W. H. ees 38 04, Essex Sane I LE¢0 Puh by S. Curtis Gla Len ood. es Laura ANcEPS. Two-EepGEeD LALIA. a Oe Os On OR OR Os On On Oe Class and Order. GynanpriA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuivez. ) Generic Character. Sepala explanata, lanceolata, equalia. Petala majora paulo difformia. Labellum (posticum) 3-partitum, lamella- tum, circa columnam convolutam. Columna aptera, car- nosa, antice canaliculata. Anthera 8-locularis. Pollima 8; caudiculis 4 elasticis—Herbz epiphyte, rhizomate pseu- do-bulbifero. Scapiterminales pauci- 0. multiflori. Flores speciosi, odorati. Lindl. . Specific Character and Synonyms. Leuia anceps ; foliis binis aut solitariis lanceolatis, scapo ancipiti bi- trifloro squamis carinatis vestito, ovario viscoso, labelli disco lineari elevato apice trilobo, pseudo-bulbis ovatis distantibus tetraquetris. Lindl. Lazuia anceps. Bot. Reg. t. 1751. (8.) Barkeriana; sepalis petalisque subzqualibus, labelli lobo medio angusto acutissimo. Lindl. I. c. t. 1947. This is one of those beautiful purplish rose-coloured flowers, to which it is impossible for our artificial colours to do justice. _ The pseudo-bulbs were sent by Mr. PARKINSON from Mexico to his Grace the late Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, where they flower in great perfection, and where there is, during the winter season, a constant succes- sion of blossoms of this and of the allied species, also sent by Mr. Parxinson. It is, I believe, generally known that in two of the Orchideous houses at Woburn the plants are cultivated in moss, upon branches of trees placed against the sides of the building, and nothing can well exceed the vigour and beauty of the specimens. seis . Every Botanist and Cultivator is aware of the extensive “collections of Orcuipem and Cacrezx possessed by Mr. Harris of Kingsbury, and that they are under the care of one of the ablest and most scientific gardeners of this coun- try, Mr. D. Beaton. It is to Mr. Beaton I am indebted for the following very valuable information respecting the cul- tivation of some of the species of this Genus, and of other Orcuipe, which he received last year from the high moun- tainous districts of Mistica alta in Mexico, where they were gathered by M. Gateormr, at an elevation of from seven thousand five hundred to nine thousand feet above the level of the sea :—and concerning which he writes, that “ they may be cultivated in the greenhouse.” “A large importation of these plants,” Mr. Beaton further observes, “ arrived at Kingsbury at the close of last Septem- ber, an awkward time of the season to begin to grow plants, whose natural winter was fast approaching. I laid them on shelves in the seed-room, with a thin layer of damp moss under them. By the middle of December, they imbibed moisture sufficiently to swell their bulbs to the natural size ; but not wishing to risk them all in that cold place during winter, I removed the strongest sorts to the colder end of the Orchideous house, and the more tender, to a cool, dry place in the Cactus house, reserving some of éach kind (to be wholly wintered in the seed-room), to the amount of about a dozen species, among which were Lzuia autumnalis, L. albida, L. furfuracea, Carrirya citrina, and others, of similar habits, but which were strangers to me. The moss was kept a little moist all the winter ; and the temperature of the room was from 35° to 45°. Those did far better in the seed room than those of the same species put into heat in December. Carrieya citrina appeared to like this treat- ment better than the rest. A few of the new species began to dwindle away about the middle of January under this treatment, the place being too cold for them; but if I had kept them in the same dry state in which I received them, no cold above the freezing point would have injured them all the winter. “« When they made the first effort to grow in March and April, I removed them into a brick heat ; and now they have the advance of those which were in heat during the winter ; and, as soon as their leaves are fully formed, I shall remove em to ripen their growth to the warmest end of the greenhouse, “ After making-a season’s growth in this country I would not v2 not of course recommend that they should be kept so cool _ next winter, but merely to give them from 40° to 45° of heat, and. about the end of the spring to have them started in a frame if there be no stove at hand. “You will thus see how desirable it is, for the extension of the cultivation of this family, that we should procure all the species that are to be found in the higher latitudes’ in Mexico and other places, to enable amateurs of limited means to cultivate a few beautiful plants of Orcuipez ; for hitherto this fine tribe of plants has only been enjoyed by the wealthier classes.” Mr. Bearon still further adds, in a subsequent letter, that, “from a collection of fine OrcuipEem, just received from Mr. Skinner of Guatamala, I am enabled to give a fuller list of the hardy Orcuipem mentioned in my former letter. I believe this will be the first notice of plants of this tribe having been subjected to a cold temperature in this country; and I have ample proof that these and many others will not do so well if they are subjected to a heat above 50° or 55° in winter. Nothing can be more difficult than to bring some of the plants in my list to any state of healthy growth in our ex- cessively-heated Orchideous houses; but, treated as green~ house plants, and with a little forcing for six weeks at the end of the spring, or whenever they show a disposition to new growth, they seem as easy to manage as the Stan-: hopeas, or any other free-growing sorts. It is only the expense of fuel and the disagreeableness of very hot and damp houses that could prevent every lover of plants from. indulging in this lovely tribe; and if they could be satis-. fied that there is even a portion of this lovely family that does not require such a treatment, it would be an induce- ment to their extensive cultivation. That such a portion does actually exist is clear from the following list of Or- cuivez, which lived last winter at Kingsbury, and began growing in spring without artificial heat. The same species in the stove did not do so well, and are now unwilling to yield to additional heat. : Lauia autumnalis. JSurfuracea. albida. CattTLeya citrina. Oncipium leuchochilum. Brassavota glauca (or grandiflora). Cyrrocuitum sp. (C. Russellii, SkiNNER. ) . EPIpENDRUM ; Epimpenprvo ; a species which looks very much like the Scnompurexia, or Spead-Eagle of the nurseries, but much stronger. Hartwee sent specimens of it from Chantla, in the State of Qucelieance Opontoctossum elatum. Hartwecia purpurea, &c., &c.”’ Descr. Root, or more properly, rhizoma, creeping, and bearing at uncertain Seiiesiler pseudo-bulbs, four to five inches long, which are compressed and two-edged, and which have also prominent angles on the two flattened sides, so as to render them tetraquetrous. These are clothed with large, keeled, membranaceous scales, Leaves generally two from each pseudo-bulb, sometimes one, varying much in size and length, from five to eight or nine inches, oblong-lanceolate, blunt, coriaceous, glossy, smooth and even on the surface. Scape from the top of the bulb in the axil of the leaves, a foot and a half to two feet long, two-edged, jointed, clothed with carinated scales, and bearing two or three large, ex- ceedingly showy flowers. Perianth delicate ssiecliah rose- colour, spreading : Sepals lanceolate ; petals nearly ovate, all much acuminated, and each with a greenish line or nerve on the back. It may be observed that the petals and sepals in our plant have an exactly intermediate character between the 2 and @ of Dr. Linp.ey. Lip large, three-lob- ed: the lateral lobes involute, so as to include the column, of a deep rose colour at the margin, within yellow with deep red lines : middle lobe oblong, acute, recurved, deep purple, the disk with the base within yellow, and the middle having an elevated, thickened, yellow line, terminatine in three ridges. Column semicylindrical. Pollen-masses eight. —— Fig. 1. Pollen: magnified. ISOS e ij B or Vj ( 3805 ) MACROPODIUM NIVALE. SiperrtAN MAcro- PODIUM. KEKE K EKER EREEREEEEEK Class and Order. TETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. ( Nat. Ord.—Crucirerz. ) . Generic Character. Calyx laxus, basi equalis. Petala indivisa. Glandule hypogyne valvarie 4. Filamenta libera, edentula. Stigma punctiforme. Siliqgua supra torum longissime pedicellata, sublinearis, plana, bilocularis, polysperma, dehiscens ; val- vulis planis, nervosis; placentis dorso obtusis. Semina pendula, uniserialia, submarginata, plana, levia. Funiculi umbilicales subulati, liberi. Ledebour. Specific Character and Synonyms. Macropopium* nivale ; foliis radicalibus ovali-lanceolatis obscure serratis longissime petiolatis, caulinis lanceo- latis sessilibus integerrimis, floribus sessilibus, petalis lineari-spathulatis. Hook. Bot. Misc. v. 1. p. 340. Macropopium nivale. Br. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 4. p. 108. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p:149. Ledeb. Fl. Alt. v. 3. p. 32. Hook. l. c. t. 67. Seer nivalis. Pall. It. I. p. 568. et App. p. TAO. n. we fair Aranis nivalis. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 2. p. 893. This rare Cruciferous plant is more interesting to the Botanist than to the mere Florist. It was raised in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, from seeds sent by Professor LepeEgour, Tennent a . So named by Mr. Brown, from jaxpos, long, and ses, wodos, a foot ; from the long pedicel te stalk to the fruit, at once so characteristic of the Genus. Leprgour, who gives as its locality, alpine and subalpine situations of the Altai mountains at the verge of perpetual snow, never descending below four thousand feet above the level of the sea. The Genus was founded by Mr. Brown, on the Carpamine nivalis of Pautas ; and a second species, which is figured and described in Bot. Miscellany, (v. 1. p. 341, tab. 68,) was detected by Mr. Davin Dovetas, about the Columbia and Wallawallah rivers, N. W. America. I am aware, indeed, that Mr. Nurratz has referred this latter to anew Genus, Pacnyroprum,* and he expressly says it differs from Macroropium “ in the very short stipe of the siliqua, and in the incumbent cotyledons.” But the young fruit on my specimens does not exhibit a very short stipes (the perfect fruit I have not seen), and the habit is so en- tirely that of Macroropium, that I should be very unwilling to separate it from that Genus on slender grounds. Descr. Root perennial, creeping. Plant herbaceous, glabrous. Stem simple. Root-leaves large, oval-lanceolate, obtusely serrated, on long petioles. Stem-leaves sessile, lanceolate, entire. Spike long, of copious horizontal, or, soon deflexed, nearly sessile flowers. The very short pedz- cel is thickened where it receives the calyx. Sepals four, equal, erect, oblong, pale-green. Petals much longer than the calyx, erect, white, linear-spathulate, long, nar- row. Stamens six, tetradynamous. Anthers oblong, green- ish-yellow. Pistil terete, tapering below into a long pedi- cel or stipes. Fruit, a pendent siliqua, flattened and slightly falcate, stipes from half to three-quarters of an inch long. Seeds orbicular, compressed, smooth. * See Torrey and Gray’s Fi. of N, Am. v. 1. p- 96. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Petal. 3. Stamens and Pistil:—magnified. 4. Fruit :—nat. size. 5. Seed :—magnified. Curtis Glazenwood, Essec June? 784. C 3806 ) Oncipium HuntiAnum. Mr. Honv’s OnNcIDIUM, SE OE ae OO Oe OO OR Class and Order. GynanprRiA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. ) Generic Character. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata: late- ralibus nunc sublabello connatis. Petala conformia. -La- bellum maximum ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum, varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum vel cristatum. Coluwmna libera, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo- cularis, rostello nunc abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato. Pollinia 2, postice sulcata ; 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 Name and Character. Oncip1um Huntianum ; pseudo-bulbo unico, folio solitario oblongo coriaceo crasso acutiusculo basi attenuato sessili, scapo longissimo, racemo composito elongato, pedicellis bi-trifloris, sepalis petalisque patentibus ob- longo-ovatis crispatis, labello trilobo basi supra sub- 5-tuberculato, lobis lateralibus crassis acutiusculis, in- termedio subflabelliformi longiore medio emarginato, columna bialata. A new Oncipium, from the inexhaustible resources of Brazil, having been sent to the Woburn collection (where it flowered in October, 1839,) by Hunt, Esq. of Rio de Janeiro. Its affinity probably is with O. Carthaginense ; but the flowers are smaller, very much more beautifully marked and coloured, and the lip has a totally different structure. Descr. Descr. The leaf is solitary, large, oblong, somewhat acute, very thick and coriaceous, tapering at its base, which springs at once from the root, and is only surrounded by some brown scales. Scape from the base of the leaf, very long, and bearing a long, narrow, compound raceme, with distantly-placed short branches, each with from one to three flowers. These flowers are white, beautifully spotted and mottled with red. Sepals (all free) and petals equal, spread- ing, oblongo-ovate or obovate, somewhat clawed, waved. Lap rather longer than the sepals, pendent, three-lobed, with about five tubercles (two larger and three smaller) at the base: the lateral lobes standing out horizontally, and rather acute, the intermediate one much larger, fan-shaped, with a notch in the middle. Column short, white, orange at the base, bearing above on each side of the anthers a large rose-coloured wing. Fig. 1. Flower:—magnified. W Kitch Del! Pub. by 8. Curtis. Glavenwood, Lssex July L. 1840 ( 3807 ) ONCIDIUM PACHYPHYLLUM. THICK-LEAVED ONCIDIUM. Seka skakokobskokobcobaokeobeak sbeaksteote Class and Order. Gynanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcninez. ) Generic Character. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata ; late- ralibus nune sub labello connatis. Petala conformia. La- bellum maximum ecalcaratum, cum columna continuum, varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum v. cristatum. Colwmna libera, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo- cularis, rostello nunc abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato. Pollinia 2, postice sulcata ; caudicula plana; glandula ob- longa.—Herbz epiphyte, nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia cori- acea. Scapi paniculati vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores Speciosi, lutei, sepius maculati, raro albi. Lindl. Specific Name and Character. Oncip1um pachyphyllum ; pseudo-bulbo nullo, folio ellip- tico-oblongo apice recurvo acuto crassissimo, panicula ampla, sepalis late obovato-spathulatis undulatis liberis, petalis similibus sed paulo angustioribus, labello tri- Partito disco basi tuberculis 4 cruciatim dispositis quinto in medio, laciniis lateralibus obovatis inter- media transversim oblonga emarginata, columna utrin- que ala oblonga deflexa. This is another extremely handsome Mexican Orchideous © plant, for which the Woburn Collection is indebted to JOHN Parkinson, Esq. It is remarkable for its large, thick, _ and very coriaceous leaf, its ample panicle loaded with — blossoms of a greenish yellow colour, spotted with orange _ and red purple, and not destitute of fragrance. It flowered — in January. Descr. . VOL. XIV, D Descr. There is no evident stem, no pseudo-bulb. Roots consisting of numerous thick, whitish, fleshy fibres, from the top of which springs the solitary leaf almost a foot long, singularly thick and coriaceous, keeled on the middle at the back, the point a little reflexed and acute : the base has three or four imbricated scales, of which the outer one is withered and membranaceous, the rest green and herba- ceous. From the base of this leaf, and from within one of the scales just mentioned, arises the peduncle, as thick as a goose-quill, bracteated, two feet and more long, terminated _ by a large, many-flowered panicle. Pedicel, including the cylindrical ovary, an inch and a half long. Flowers an inch across, the whole perianth waved. Sepals free to the base, broadly obovato-spathulate, greenish-yellow spotted with red-purple, concave : the petals similar to them in form and colour, but rather narrower. Lup yellow, deeply divided into three lobes, the lateral lobes obovate, the middle one trans- verse, broadly oblong, tapering at the base, the apex notched: the disk of the labellum at the base is considerably elevat- _ ed, spotted with orange, and bears four tubercles placed in a cross-shaped manner, and between them a larger and more prominent one. Column short, having on each side, © near the top, a curved wing or horn-like process pointing downwards. Anther-case very large. A Fig. 1. Column and Lip :~—magnified. S08 axenwood Essex Tu 6 4. 1840 His on J. Ceri Luh. by ( 3808 ) SALVIA PATENS. SpREADING SAGE. KKK EK EKEKEKEKKEKK KKK Class and Order. Dianpria Monoeynta. ( Nat. Ord.—Lasiataz. ) Generic Character. , Calyx subcampanulatus, bilabiatus, labio superiore 3- dentato, inferiore bifido. Corolla ringens. Filamenta duo fertilia bifida, lobo altero adscendenti anthera dimidiata, altero sterili, Br. Specific Character and Synonyms. Saxvia patens ; radice tuberosa, foliis cordatis aut hastatis ovato-oblongis supra pilosis subtus pubescentibus flo- ralibus lanceolato-linearibus, verticillastris remotis subbifloris, floribus maximis, galea falcata, labelli tri- lobi lobis lateralibus minutis acutis intermedio trans- verso concavo subangulato emarginato. Satvia patens. Cav. Ic. v. 5. p. 33. t. 454. Spreng. Syst. Veget.. 1. p. 63. Benth. Lab. p. 395, in Hort. Trans. N. S. v. 2. p. 222. t. 10. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839, t. 23. This splendid species of Sage is said to have been first introduced to our gardens from Mexico by Mr. Pace of Southampton, and is now in very general cultivation. Like the bright scarlet-blossomed Mexican Saxvias it will only succeed in the open air during the summer months; and then in a warm sheltered situation in a South aspect it bears its large, handsome flowers of the richest dark ultramarine blue inclining to purple. Mr. Curtis, (at whose Nursery at Gla- nat, size. 3SF0. ¢ 3840 ) SipA PICTA. PAINTED-FLOWERED SIDA. KKK EEK EKER EKEEEK KEKE Class and Order. MonapeELPHiA PoLyANDRIA. Generic Character. Calyx wudus, 5-fidus, sepé angulatus. Stylus apice mul- tifidus. Carpella capsularia 5—30 circa axim verticillata, plus mindsve interse coalita, l-locularia, mono aut oligo- sperma, apice mutica aut aristata.—Genus polymorphum, in posterum jam docente cl. Kunth, dividendum ex fructii semi- nisque structuré valde diversd, sed adhuc intactum huc reti- nut ob innumeris species non satis cognitas ut in ordine car- pologico locum obtineant. De Cand. Specific Character and Synonyms. Siva (Sect. Anutiton) picta ; fruticosa ramis herbaceis gla- bris, foliis longé petiolatis cordatis 3—5-lobatis glabris grosse serratis, lobis acuminatis, pedunculo axillari longo gracillimo unifloro, calyce late, campanulato basi obtuso, petalis erectis calyce triplo longioribus venis ramosis pictis. Sipa picta. Gill. in Hook. et Arn. Bot. Misc. v. 3. p. 155. (1832.) Asutiton striatum. ‘“ Dichs. in Botanist ined.” Lindl. Miscell. Not. 1830, p. 39. A native of the banks of the Uraguay and of Buenos Ayres, whence specimens have been transmitted to us by Dr. Ginus and Mr. Tweepir. The latter, many years ago, sent home seeds, and plants have been raised of which flowering branches were communicated to us by Mr. Mackay, of the College Botanic Garden, Dublin, Mr. Moors, of the Glasnevin Garden, and from the Botanical Gardens of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Hitherto it has been” treated as a greenhouse plant; in all probability it will succeed succeed in the open air, especially in the summer months, and its gaily-painted flowers render it highly worthy ofa place in every Collection. It flowers during various months of the year, and is easily cultivated and propagated. Descr. Asmall shrub, with herbaceous, green, rounded, glabrous, straight branches. Leaves on long, slender peti- oles, glabrous, cordate, from three to five-lobed, the lobes acuminated, serrated with coarse teeth. Stipules subulate, caducous, one on each side of the petiole. Peduncles axil- lary, solitary, more elongated, and slenderer than the peti- oles, often as long as the leaves, one-flowered, glabrous. Flowers large, handsome. Calyx somewhat campanulate, obtuse, and even truncate, and slightly ventricose at the base, downy, cut about half-way down into five equal, erect, acute, triangular segments. Petals erect, or but slightly spreading, concave, obovate, with a short claw, orange colour, beautifully marked with blood-coloured, branching veins. Staminal tube long : Anthers numerous, yellow. Ovary obtuse, hairy. Style purple upwards, fili- form, dividing into five branches, each with a capitate stigma. Fig.1. Petal. 2. Pistil:—magnified. ( 3841.) GRABOWSKIA DUPLICATA. 'TooTHED GRABOWSKIA. EKER EK EKER KEK EK EK RKEK Class and Order. PentanpriaA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—So.anez, ) Generic Character. Calyx campanulatus regulariter 5-dentatus zxstivatione valvari. Corolla e tubo brevi infundibuliformis, limbo 5- partito, laciniis patentibus reflexisve, quatuor estivatione convolutiva, quinta externa marginibus suis vicinarum ‘mar- ges obtegens. Genitalia exserta. Stamina 5 equalia, lamentis paulo supra tubi basin liberis, medio dense villo- sis (villis basin versus decrescentibus). Stylus teres, stig- mate subcapitato aut leviter bifido. Germen 4-loculare, loculamentis 1-ovulatis? Bacca calyce persistente suffulta, globosa, dipyrena, pyrenis lignosis bilocularibus, loculis I-spermis. Embryo hamato-curvatus cylindricus.—Frutex habitu Lycii genuini ramosissimus, spinis axillaribus horri- dus ; foliis sparsis integerrimis. Flores axillares e. fasci- cults foliorum (ramulo non evoluto); aut subcorymbosi in ramulis summis (hinc in ultimis ramis quasi paniculati). Schlecht. Specific Character and Synonyms. Grazowsk1a * duplicata ; foliis longiuscule petiolatis orbi- culari-ovatis undulatis basi attenuatis apice acuminula- tis calycis maturescentis ore intus dentibus 5-erectis instructo, laciniis lanceolatis acutis. Grapowsk1A duplicata. Arn. in Linnea, v. 11. p. 485. =. GRABOWSKIA © * So named in compliment toa very excellent and liberal Silesian Botanist — and Apothecary of Ohlaf, Mr. H. Grapows&l, author, in conjunction with - Mr. Wiuer, of a Flora of Silesia. ae Grasowsxia boerhaviefolia. Schlecht. in Linn. v. 7. p. 72. (quoad plant. Brasilianam) ? fide Arn. Eureria duplicata. Nees in Herb. Arn. The distinguishing characters of this Genus were pointed out by L’Hérrrier when he figured his Exreria halimifolia (the Lycium boerhaviefolium) ; for he says; ‘ ad Atropam ‘ex corolla infundibuliformi et staminibus distantibus fere referenda est, sed calyx vesicarius baccam recondens Phy- salidem rectius declarat.”’ ScHLEcHTENDAL upon the same plant, a native of Peru, established the Genus Grasowskia ; and Mr. Arnotr has _ added two species in the “ Linnea” above quoted, the one, G. obtusa, from Mendoza, at the eastern foot of the Chilian Andes, and our present plant, from Buenos Ayres and South Brazil. We have received wild specimens from Mr. 'Twes- pig, and seeds were sent by the same meritorious Botanist to Mr. Moore at the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, whence we were favoured with the flowering specimens in July, 1840. Mr. Moore informs us that it requires the moderate heat of a stove to bring the plant into flower, and that even then the blossoms are produced but sparingly. These flow- ers are different in form and in colour from the Gr. boer- haviefolia figured by Dr. Liyptey at tab. 1985 of the Bot. Register : but the specimen there figured seems to be from South Brazil, and is probably the Gr. obtusa of ARNoTT. The true Gr. boerhaviefolia has dense corymbs of white flowers. The essential character of our species is the sin- gular inflation at the base of the segments of the calyx, which rises into a tooth-like form. Descr. Stems shrubby, rambling, twelve feet high. Branches terete, bearing a straight spine from the axil of many of the upper leaves. Leaves alternate, very broadly ovate, or almost orbicular, exceedingly glaucous, waved, entire, slightly attenuated at the base into a moderately short petiole, and having a small acumen at the point. Flowers axillary, fascicled, from the upper leaves, which, sometimes becoming abortive, the inflorescence appears terminal and subcorym- bose. _ Calyx-tube short, hemispherical: the limb of five, spreading, ovato-lanceolate segments, each with the base inflated into an evident tooth. Corolla hypocrateriform, greenish-white ; the tube straight, very hairy within, the /imé of five, ovate, veined, spreading segments. Sta- mens five, exserted, arising from near the middle of the corolla. Base of the filaments (like the inner part of the tube of the corolla) villous with jointed hairs. Andthers oval, yellow. Germen ovate, four-celled. _ Style rather longer than the stamens, white. Stigma capitate, green. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, with th i i the | ae phe e Corolla laid open. 3. Section of | from ditto :—magnified. ( 3842 ) IsoOMERIS ARBOREA. ('TREE-LIKE ISOMERS. Class and Order. HexanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—CapparivEz. ) Generic Character. Sepala basi unita subpatens marcescens. Petala 4 ob- longa sessilia (sub-) regularis. Torus carnosus, subhemi- sphericus superne dilatatus. Stamina 6: filamenta equa- lia (estivatione inflexa) longe exserta. Capsula magna, obovato-elliptica, inflata, coriacea, indehiscens, stipitata, stylo perbrevi subulato terminata. Semina plurima magna, levia.—Arbor Californica humilis vertice patente. Radix longe fusiformis. Folia approximata 3-foliolata. Flores magni, flavi, terminales, racemoso.— Tota planta odore Po- linisie. Nutt.in Torr. et Gr. Fl. Specific Name and Synonyms. , Isomeris * arborea. Nutt. MSS. in Herb. Hook.— Torrey et Gray, Fl. N. Am. v. 1. p. 124. This curious plant, whose blossoms at first sight consid- erably resemble those of a small-flowered EpWwarDsIA, Was discovered by Mr. Nurratx in California, and sent both to the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and to that of the Cale- donian Horticultural Society, by Mr. Burst of Philadelphia in 1839. In the former establishment it has been kept in the greenhouse, and has not yet flowered ; in the second it was placed in the stove, and flowered in the beginning of May. Mr. James M‘Nas thinks that the flowering was promoted, by his having forcibly retained the top in a depending position. D ESCR. _* So named from icss, equal, and jspos part, in efiusion praheey: to the Tegular petals, and the equal length of the stamens and pistil. Descr. Shrub erect; branches hoary, covered with short, erect, blunt hairs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, trifoliate, without stipule ; or stipetticles ; leaflets ovato-elliptical ,con- cave, soft, glaucous, scaly, mucronulate, without pubes- cence, excepting a very few hairs like those on the branches along the middle rib, which is prominent behind, veins ob- lique and obscure, scarcely seen on the back: petioles (an inch to an inch and a half long) rather shorter than the leaflets, spreading wide, hoary and pubescent like the branches, slightly compressed laterally, and obscurely grooved above. Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves, but collected into terminal pseudo-racemes, pedunculate ; peduncles nearly as long as the petioles, more green than them, but equally pubescent. Calyx campanulate, rather more green and somewhat less pubescent than the peduncle, truncated at the base, four-cleft, segments ovate, acute, connivent at the apices. Corolla yellow, faintly but offen- sively perfumed ; petals four, imbricated, two approaching each other laterally in the upper part of the flower, two at the sides slightly removed from the upper ones and from each other below, ovato-elliptical, undulate, nearly without claws, more than twice as long as the calyx. Disk nectari- ferous, large and fleshy, shortly cylindrical, spreading and flat and pubescent on its upper surface, with a broad, conni- vent somewhat rugged tooth at its upper edge. Stamens Six, twice as long as the petals, free, declined a little, insert- ed upon the disk towards its centre; filaments tapering a little, yellow, slightly pubescent ; anthers erect, two-celled, bursting along the face, and while bursting, becoming gra- dually revolute ; pollen granules very minute, yellow. Pistil abortive in the upper flowers, in the others declined, pro- jected nearly twice as far as the stamens, on a rather stout, filiform, green, slightly pubescent footstalk, which is twice as long as the petals, or about as long as the stamens; Germen boat-shaped, inflated, concave above, unilocular, green, glabrous, nearly as long as the petals, apiculate from the persisting, short style ; ovules yery numerous, kidney- shaped, in two rows along each of the two sutures, both of which are prominent along the inside of the germen. Graham. ae ————— _ Fig. 1. Flower, with part of the Calyx and the Petals removed. 2. Petal, 3, Ovary laid open: magnified. 4. Fruit: nat size. Ee eee Eich del! Pub by Siluartis Glaxc0od Ex sex San” L1S4tl ( 3843 ) AESCHYNANTHUS GRANDIFLORUS. LARGE- FLOWERED AESCHINANTHUS. KEKE EEE EKER ERE EEE EEREK Class and Order. Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—CyrranprAcez. ) Generic Character. Cal. tubulosus, 5-fidus, equalis. Cor. hypogyna, tubo in- curvo, limbi bilabiati labio sup. bilobo, inf. trilobo, lobis subequalibus. Stam. 4, didynama, rudimentum quinti : Anthere biloculares, per paria coherentes. Ovarium elon- gatum annulo hypogyno carnoso cinctum. Stylus simplex ; stigma clavato-bilamellatum. Capsula basi calyce stipata, elongato-siliqueformis, pseudo-quadrilocularis, bivalvis, valvis medio placentas, demum explanatas, margine semini- feras, gerentibus. Semina plurima, cylindrica, funiculo filiformi et chalaza incrassata in filum simplex v. bifidum excurrente utrinque aristata. Albumen o. Radicula tereti- uscula, umbilicum basilarem attingens.—Frutices Asie tro- pice, volubiles v. scandentes, ad articulos tumidos radicantes ; foliis subcarnosis, pedunculis axillaribus terminalibusque ; floribus speciosis aurantiaceo-coccineis. Endlich. Specific Character and Synonyms. Arscuynantuus* grandiflorus ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis serratis obscure nervosis, umbella multi- flora, laciniis calycinis ovatis, corolla lobis omnibus rotundatis subequalibus, stylo exserto. Arscuynantuus grandiflorus. Don, in Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v. 4. p. 656. Paxt. Mag. of Bot. t. 241. gen ppiaen in grandiflorum. Don, in Ed. Phil. Journ. v. . p. 8d. INcarviLLEA parasitica. Roxb. Corom. t. 291. 7 —_—_—_—_—_ * From the Greek words, asoxos, modesty, and avbos, a flower. VOL. xiv. K A native of Nepal, and lately introduced we believe by His Grace the Duke of Devonshire from India to the stoves of our Botanic Gardens. Weare indebted for the noble specimens here figured to Mr. Saneton, Nurseryman, Kirkaldy, in whose hothouse it flowered in great beauty in September, 1840. The stems were about two feet high, scarcely tall enough to exhibit the scandent character. It succeeds well if planted in pots, though in its native country it is an epiphyte. : Descr. Stems creeping, rounded, herbaceous, (at least n~ the younger ones and branches, ) succulent, nodose. Leaves opposite, four to five inches long, lanceolate, acuminated, rather obscurely serrated, of a texture between coriaceous and carnose, obsoletely penninerved, quite glabrous, petio- lated ; petiole short, rounded, thick. Flowers in lateral, or usually terminal, bracteated, umbels, drooping, very showy. Peduncles short. Calyx oblong, glabrous, rather fleshy, deeply five-lobed, the lobes ovate acute, nearly equal. Corolla two and a half to three inches long, rich orange- scarlet, clothed with fine, somewhat glandular down. Tube long, inflated upwards, curved, the mouth contracted ; the limb two-lipped, upper lip with two projecting lobes, lower with three patent lobes, each lobe with a deep line down the middle. Stamens four perfect, didynamous, and one minute, abortive one. Filaments much exserted. Anthers of the two pairs oblong, two-celled, each pair conjoined by their tips, eventually separating. Ovary linear, surrounded at the base by a glandular ring: style white, thick, filiform : stigma capitate, formed of two plates. ‘ Fig. 1. Lower portion of the Corolla, with the Stamens, 2. Calyx laid open, showing the annular Disk and Pistil:—magnified. Pub bug JS Ceortig Glaxerres vod Esser’ Jan’ { PFT. Witch de® ( 3844 ) TrorexoLtum Morirzianum. Mr. Moritz’ INDIAN CREssS. SEK KEK KKK KK KEKE KEKE Class and Order. OcranpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—TRopeo.ez. ) Generic Character. Cal. 5-partitus, lobo superiore calcarato. Petala 5, in- equalia, 3 inferiora minora aut evanida. Stam. 8 ab ipsa basi libera. Carpella 3, suberosa, reniformia, indehiscen- tia, hinc sulcata, rotundata. Semina magna, exalbuminosa, loculum secum implentia et hujus cavitati conformia. Hm- bryo magnus, cotyledonibus 2 rectis crassis, junioribus dis- tinctis, dein arcte conferruminatis et etiam cum spermo- dernate adherentibus, ima basi subdistinctis, radicula intra cotyledonum processus latente, tubercula 4 mox radicellas proferentia gerente. De Cand. Specific Character and Synonyms. Trorxotum Moritzianum ; estipulata, foliis peltatis subor- biculatis leviter 7—9 lobatis basi transversim trunca- tis lobis apice callosis, petalis venoso-pictis subequi- longis calycem superantibus, 2 inferioribus cuneatis apice fimbriatis, 3 superioribus, spathulatis lamina fiin- briata ungue longe ciliata, calcare petala 3 excedente. Tropmotum Moritzianum. Klotzsck; in Ic. Pl. Rar. Hort. Berol. Fasc. 3. t. 17. The seeds of this new and very beautiful Tropzo.um were given to Mr. Murray at the Glasgow Botanic Garden by Mr. Locxuart of Trinidad, who received them from Cumana. They soon vegetated, and the plants blossomed in July, 1840, for the first time, in the greenhouse. Others placed in the open border grew more vigorously, but show showed no disposition to flower. At Berlin, and no doubt in England, and, probably, in more genial seasons, in Scot- land, it will blossom in the open air. The T. Smithi, De Canp., (T. peregrinum Sm., not Liny.,) answers to this somewhat in the general structure of the flowers, but is quite different in the foliage. It is a great acquisition to our collections. Descr. Stems long and twining, branched, terete, suc- culent, green, often tinged with purple. Leaves on more or less twisted petioles, peltate, nearly orbicular, but trun- cate at the base, with from seven to nine shallow lobes at the margin, each lobe obtuse, but with a callous point ofa dull orange colour. Stipules none. Peduncles much lon- ger than the petioles, often twisted and scandent. Flowers moderately large, exceedingly handsome. Calyx of five very deep, ovate, bright-red, acute sepals: the spur twice their length, tapering, but obtuse and slightly bifid at the very point. Petals longer than the calyx: the three lower ones spathulate, bright orange, marked with red veins, the lamina deeply cut all round into a bright-red fringe, the claw, long, narrow, with long, red ciliz : two upper petals scarcely longer than the lower, wedge-shaped, veined and coloured as the rest, deeply fringed at the broad apex, destitute of ciliz. Stamens eight, shorter than the petals. Anthers subglobose; pollen green. Ovary deeply three- lobed : Style shorter than the stamens: Stigma unequally three cleft. Fig. 1. Upper Petal. 2. Lower ditto. 3. Pistil :—magnified. eg me Lub by 5. Curtis Hlaconwood Bisse Tent 11S. a ro ( 3845 ) ONCIDIUM MACRANTHERUM. LARGE- ANTHERED QONCIDIUM. SEK KKK KEK EEE EEE EREE Class and Order. GyNANDRIA MOonaAnDRIA. ( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipEz. ) 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, semiteres, apice utrinque alata. Anthera semibilo- cularis rostello nune abbreviato, nunc elongato rostrato. _ Pollinia 2, postice sulcata ; caudicula plana, glandula ob- longa:—Herbe epiphyte nunc pseudo-bulbose. Folia cor?- acea. Scapi paniculati, vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores speciosi lutet sepius maculati, raro albi. Specific Name and Character. Oncipium macrantherum; pumilum, pseudo-bulbis ovatis compressis monophyllis, pedunculis subtrifloris folio brevioribus, petalis sepalisque ellipticis conformibus, labello ovali apice emarginato lateribus deflexis disco callo elevato pubescente basi bituberculato, columna brevi basi utrinque longe calcarata, rostello producto, anthera (magna) ovato-acuminata. - This is one of the many new Orchideous plants which along with still more interesting Cacrez have been collect- ed by Mr. Gateort: in the interior of Mexico, and sent by our late Consul there, Mr. Parkinson, to the princely col- lection at Woburn, where it flowered in April, 1840. It is quite unlike any other species of the Genus with which I am acquainted; but may, perhaps, rank near O. pumilum (Bot. Reg. t. 920). Descr Descr. Pseudo-bulb ovate, or oblong-ovate, an inch long, smooth, green, crowned with a single, oblong-lance- olate, rather rigid, but scarcely coriaceous leaf, acute, and very obscurely striated. On each side of the bulb, at the base, another similar leaf is produced, with a sheathing base, and these have two or three brown scales beneath them, from which the fibrous roots issue. Peduncle, or scape, from the bulb, one on each side, and shh from the axil of the radical leaf, slender, two-flowered, much shorter than the leaves. Perianth of an exceed- ingly delicate cellular structure. Sepals and petals spread- ing, uniform, elliptical, yellow-green tinged with red. Lip longer than the sepals, oval, lemon-colour, blotched with pale purple, the margins deflexed, waved, the apex bifid, the disk with a downy, oblong elevation or crest, having two yellow tubercles at the base. Column short, green, slightly downy upwards, rostellum elongated, bifid, fand there are two projecting spurs at the base, longer than the rostellum ; stigma witha deep purple border. -Anther-case ovate, acuminated, as long as the rostellum. Pollen-masses two, deep-yellow, on a white caudicula, with a brown, oblong, gland, at its base. Fig.1. Back view of a Flower. 2. Front view. 3. Column and Lip. 4, Column from which the Anther is removed, exhibiting the rostellum. 5. Inner view of an Anther-case. 6,7. Back and front view of the pollen- masses :—magnified, MER GG - MTS blasenw A, Sex. a ‘A 4 id Pub b ood LISE Jan The ( 3846 ) MALVA LATERITIA. Pate RED-FLOWERED MALLow. KERR ERE ERE KEKE KEKE REK Class and Order. MonapELPHIA POoLyANDRIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Matvacez. ) Generic Character. *i Calyx cinctus involucro 3-phyllo, rarius 5—6-phyllo, bracteolis oblongis setaceisque. Carpella capsularia plurima in orbem disposita. D C. Specific Name and Character. Matva lateritia ; prostrata, pilis divaricato-bipartitis sim- plicibus stellatisque subhirsuta, foliis longe petiolatis 3—5-lobis lobis oblongo-cuneatis inciso-dentatis, sti- pulis lato-ovatis herbaceis persistentibus, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis unifloris folio longioribus stamin- ibus numerosis, ovariis hirsutis sub-13. Our first knowledge of this plant is derived from Mr. Tweepiz, who sent us specimens in 1836 from Buenos- Ayres (?), and from Entro Rios. In September, 1840, Mr. Mackay favoured us with living specimens, which flowered in the open border in Dublin College Botanic Garden ; the seeds of which were derived from the same source. Descr. Stems prostrate, obtusely angled, herbaceous, branched. Leaves two to four inches long (rounded peti- oles about the same) cordate, deeply three- to five-lobed, truncate at the base, sparingly hairy, the lobes broadly- oblong, cuneate. Stipules broadly-ovate, herbaceous, per- sistent. Peduncles axillary, solitary, longer than the leaves, slightly hairy, single-flowered, nerved and ciliated. Calyx hairy, deeply five-cleft, the segments ovate, spreading. Involucre Involucre of three ovate, foliaceous bracteas. Corolla mode- rately large, of five spreading, rotundato-cuneate, unevenly truncated, pale red, somewhat roseate, oblique petals, the base with its short, ciliated claw, deep yellow, having a deep rose-coloured ray. Column of stamens short, hairy, deep yellow, conical ; free portion of the filaments nume- rous, spreading, moderately long, each terminated by a reniform, yellow, one-celled anther. Ovaries twelve to thirteen, united in a circle, clothed with long, upright hairs, each one-ovuled : Style dividing above the stamens into as many red branches as there are ovaries: Stigmas capi- tate, red. bad Fig. 1. Petal :—magnijfied. sex Sam ISEL LBS FUEL REIN HM Lab by Skurtie G: EP itete dal” (oem. 3. OrRTHOSIPHON INCURVUS. INCURVED ORTHOSIPHON. KEKE EK KEE EKEREEEEEE Class and Order. DipynamiA GyYMNOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Lasguarz. ) Generic Character. Calyx ovato-tubulosus, 5-dentatus, dentis superioris ova- to-membranacei marginibus decurrentibus alatus, post an- thesin deflexus. Corolla tubo exserto recto vel incurvo nec gibboso nec defracto, fauce equali vel rarius inflato, bilabiata, labio superiore 3—4 fido, inferiore integerrimo concavo. Stamina 4, declinata. Filamenta \ibera, eden- tula. Anthere ovato-reniformes, loculis confluentibus. Stylus apice clavato-capitatus, subinteger vel breviter emarginatus, stigmatibus in emarginatura subconfluenti- bus, nunc minutis nunc incrassato-capitatis. Achenia mi- nutissima, punctulato-rugosa.—Herbe perennes, suffrutices- ve. Racemi simplices, sepius elongati, rarissime ovato-spi- ciformes. Verticillastri sexflori, distantes, laxi. Folia flo- ralia bracteeformia, ovata, acuminata, reflexa, pedicellis sepius breviora. Pedicelli fructiferi recurvi. (Benth. Labiat. 25.) Specific Character and Synonyms, OrtuosiPHon* incurvus; caule basi procumbente adscen- dente, foliis petiolatis oblongis crenatis utrinque an- gustatis tenuissime pubescentibus, verticillastris sub- secundis, corollis villosis incurvis calyce triplo longio- ribus, fauce subequali, staminibus corollam subequa- libus. Benth. Orrnosiruon incurvus. Benth. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. 2. 15. This plant, native of the mountains near to Silhet, was received at the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, from the collection of His Grace the Duke of Rarehamberans at ion * From ogbec, straight, and cvpwr, a tube, from the usually straight form of the tube of the corolla. Sion House, in October, 1839, and flowered in the stove in May and June following. Its structure is very curious, and the generic character, therefore, remarkably distinct. Descr. Stem suftruticose, erect, branched. Leaves (three inches long, an inch and three quarters broad) ovate, peti- olate, bright green, paler behind, rough on both surfaces. coarsely serrato-crenate, entire and wedge-shape at the base, middle-rib and oblique veins strong and very pro- minent behind, transverse reticulations distinct, though much more slender. Spike racemose, terminal, much elon- gated, many-flowered, unilateral; rachis furrowed, pubes- cent with dissimilar hairs, most of these being very short, others longer ; bracts ovate, acute, reflected, green, persist- ing. Whorls four-flowered ; flowers arising in pairs from one point, but having no common peduncle. Pedicels as long as the bracts. Calyx ten-nerved, bilabiate ; the upper lip three-nerved, rounded, reflexed, entire, mucronulate in the centre, decurrent along the sides of the tube, between which narrow wings the tube is flat above; lower lip of four slender, subulate teeth, of which the lateral ones are shorter than the others, and broader at the base; nearly the whole of the calyx, as well as the pedicels, has similar pubescence to that on the rachis, and is reddish-green, with a pink tinge of the upper lip, which alone is glabrous. Corolla pale pink ; tube greatly exserted, covered with dense, uniform, pubescence, equal to the longer hairs on the rachis, compressed laterally, dilated a little upwards, but contracted at the throat; limb bilabiate, the lower lip spoon-shaped, slightly undulate, entire, projecting forwards in a line with the lower side of the tube; the upper lip three- lobed, of which the central is notched, the lateral ones being entire and reflected. Stamens four, didynamous ; Jjilaments glabrous, adherent along the whole of the lower side of the corolla, in whose substance they seem to be lost, free in the throat and there divaricated after shedding the pollen, and scarcely exserted ; anther—lobes divaricated, reddish, and applied face to face before bursting. Pistil intermediate in length between the longer and shorter stamens ; stigma white, capitate, style recurved a little up- wards at the apex, glabrous, and lying with the filaments along the lower side of the tube. Germen of four small, erect lobes, rising from a white, fleshy disk, which is much enlarged on the lower side, and curved upwards, forming a large, blunt, fleshy covering to the germen, notched at the apex for the passage of the style. raham. ad ny fed. 1, Calyx from the side, and fig. 2, seen from the front: both mag- FE Fuel dad’* : : Swates =~ Pub by S Curtis Glazerwood Essex. Jan? 118A ( 3848 ) ANGELONIA CORNIGERA. HoRrN-BEARING ANGELONIA. Be ees Oe ony Oe a as Oe ss Oe os Class and Order. DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Scropuutarine. ) Generic Character. Cal. 5-fidus v. 5-partitus. Cor. tubo brevi, fauci forni- cata, limbi subbilabiati plani labio superiore obtusissimo bilobo, inferioris, trilobi lobo medio basi saccato longiore rotundato. Anthere loculi divergentes: capsula globosa ~ vel ellipsoidea, bivalvis, valvulis integris medio septiferis, Semina membrana laxa inclusa.—Herbe Austro-Ameri- cane, erecte v. procumbentes. Folia opposita v. superiora alterna. Pedunculi uniflori, solitarn, axillares v. racemosi. Benth. Specific Character and Synonym. ANGELoNIA cornigera ; hirsutula, foliis lanceolatis ciliatis basin versus latioribus integerrimis, superioribus mi- noribus bracteiformibus, pedunculis solitariis gracili- bus pilosis, labii inferioris segmento intermedio longi- cornuto, cornu apice bidentato. Ancetonia ciliata, Gardn. MSS. in Herb. Brasil. n. 2271. Found in Brazil by Mr. Garpner, in 1839, growing commonly in sandy places about Oeiras, and from thence to the province of Ceara. I have taken the liberty of altering Mr. Garpner’s name (ciliata) derived from a very obscure mark in the foliage to that suggested by the large and conspicuous horn-like appendage arising from the middle segment of the lower lip, and directed towards the centre of the flower. The specimen here figured was raised in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden from seeds = | y by Mr. Garpver, and differs somewhat from the native samples, in having the leaves rather more attenuated at the base, and the floral ones longer, more remote, and less resembling bracteez. In the native specimens, the flowers may almost be said to be in bracteated racemes. The flowers are extremely rich in colour, and a beautiful object for the microscope. Descr. Root fibrous, annual. Stems a foot and more high, branched from the base, hirsute. Lower leaves oppo- site, lanceolate, the rest alternate but approximate, small and bracteiform, floriferous, almost cordate at the base, all of them slightly hairy, ciliate and entire. Peduncles single- flowered, solitary, slender, hairy, shorter than the floral leaves in our cultivated specimens ; longer than they in the native specimens. Calyx small, two-lipped, of five deep segments 3, segments linear-lanceolate, hairy. Corolla, as in the Genus, with an inflated, saccate tube, the limb plane, of five, deep, cuneate segments, two forming an upper lip, the other three a lower lip, the whole of a rich purple, deeper towards the mouth, the upper segments sprinkled with velvety dots, the intermediate one of the lower lip furnished at the base with a hornlike process, rounded and biaristate at the apex. Capsule elliptical, two-valved. Fig. 1. Flower.. 2. The horn from the lower Lip of the Corolla: magni fied. 3. Capsule: nat. size. HAIL TO CHRISTMAS. All hail to Christmas !—to that genial time, When skies are cold, but hearts within are warm; When Friendship bids defiance to the clime; And while rude winds the out-door scene deform, Calls those she loves and shields them from the storm; And bids them share in joys of holiest birth, And all the dear enjoyments known to swarm In rich abundance and in gentlest mirth, Around that blissful shrine—a happy Christmas hearth! All hail to Christmas !— tis a blessed season, To gentle joys and sweet emotions given; When ev’ry thought unkind appears a treason, And friends unite, and foes are all forgiven; And Love rules all the day, and then at even, Affection’s triumph is indeed complete, While joy and transport make this earth a heaven; And mirth and song unite in concord sweet, Around the social hearth where friends and kindred meet! All hail to Christmas!—give a hearty greeting, To him who gladdens each domestic sphere; And high and hallowed be the joy of meeting With one who brings us bliss, so lov’d, so dear! Who friends unites, that thro’ the bye gone year, Are widely parted on life’s stormy ocean; And bids them once more meet and mingle here, And share again with sweet, sublime emotion, Affection’s joys refined, and Friendship’s dear devotion! All hail to Christmas !—many a time like this, May we enjoy the blessings he bestows; For many a year partake as pure a bliss, And taste the joy the gentle spirit knows, In the sweet intereourse we hold with those, Who prize all home-born blessings, and confine Their hopes and wishes, but to taste repose In the dear circle of the hallowed shrine, Where love and feeling meet and make the hour divine ! All hail to Christmas! and to Row.anp, hail! To beanty’s self, who fairest bounty brings; Who comes with gift and song, and fairy tale, And at her feet, in rich profusion flings Charms of a worth untold, all brightest things, Meant to preserve her beauty from the tomb Of fell decay; to steal from Time his wings, And bid her fair, but fading charms assume ze A fresh immortal glow—a bright eternal bloom! All hail to Christmas! and to Rowan, hail! Who comes with gifts of strange and magic power, With spells all potent, never known to fail In guarding youthful Beauty’s fairy dower Of charms and graces safe from storm and shower, Macassar’s Oit; Kaxypor’s gentle balm; And last a charm to soothe Affliction’s hour, OponTo’s boon to shield from tooth-ache’s qualm, And o’er her being shed a sweet and heay'nly calm! ISLIP ee “ae ey wer” SWANSC . W Fitch; del" Pub by 8. Curtis Glaxenweed Essex Fab? 118 +0. DS nr isa acti ( 3849 3850 ) Musa SUPERBA. Supers PLANTAIN TREE. JHebbeHbebnnbebnisbbibk Class dua ‘Order: * Poryeamia Monamcia. ( Nat. Ord.—Musacee. ) Generic Charac Perigonium epigynum, bilabiatum, labium inferius tubu- losum, postice usque ad basin fissum, apice quinquelobum, superius concavum, nanum, amplectens. Stamina 5, sexto postico abortivo. Ovarium inferum, triloculare. Ovula in loculorum angulo centrali plurima, biseriata, horizontalia,— anatropa. Stylus crassus; stigma infundibuliformi-clava-_ tum, breviter sexlobum. Bacea oblonga, angulata, trilo- cularis ; seminibus plurimis in pulpa nidulantibus, sepius effoetis farcta. Semina depressiuscula subglobosa, testa crustacea, atra, ad umbilicum impressa. Embryo ortho- tropus, fungiformis, in axi albuminis subfarinosi, extremitate radiculari umbilicum attingente, centripeta-——Herbe geron- togee tropice et subtropice, in Americam introducte, gt- gante ; trunco e petiolorum vaginis longissimis, scapum ra- dicalem, solo apice liberum, floriferum velantibus conflato, lamina foliorum amplissima, valde nervosa, floribus in axilla spatharum confertis, ebracteatis. Endl. hig: = Specific | Character and Synonyms. | Musa* superba ; subacaulis, spica nutante, bracteis corda- to-ovatis concavis obtusis inferioribus persistantibus, perianthii labio superiore 3-partito lateribus revolutis, labio inferiore multo breviore 3-lobo lobo intermedio ’ subulato * “The word is corrupted, or rather refined from Mauz, the Egyptian appellation of this valuable plant, and is made classical in the works of Linnaus, by an allusion to Musa, a Muse; or with much greater propriety, to Antonius Musa, the physician to Aucustus, who, having written on some Botanical subjects, may justly be commemorated in the above name. Smith in Rees’ Cycl. VOL, XIV. mF subulato lateralibus multo longiore, filamentis 5 cy- lindraceis. Grah. : Musa superba. Roxb. Pl. Corom. v. 3. t. 223. Fl. Indie. v. 1. p.667. Ed. Car. et Wall. v. 2. p. 489. Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 1294. Spreng. Syst. Ve- gel. v. 1. p. 833. I think there cannot be any reasonable doubt that the plant I have described is the M. superba of Roxpureu ; though the description of the size and form of the stem, as given by him, does not accord with our plant. His plant is described as thirteen feet high; ours, though remarkably vigorous, is only five; his has a most remarkable conical base, seven and a half feet in circumference close to the ground, and four and a half immediately under the leaves ; ours is hardly two feet and a half in circumference at the ground, and scarcely tapers at all. In almost every other respect the description of Roxsuren, where it does not contradict itself, is minutely applicable to our plant, very imperfectly indeed to his figure, which also differs greatly from the specimen I now describe. It is probable that the difference in the form of the stem arises from the age of the respective plants when they flowered. The figure in the Coromandel plants is perhaps taken from a plant which flowered in the Botanic Garden, Calcutta, thirty three months after the seeds from whence it sprung were sown ; our plant blossomed in the end of August, 1840, fourteen months after the seed from which it sprung was put into the ground. : Every one who has visited the Botanic Garden of Edin- burgh for some years past, has been struck with the brilliant success which has attended the cultivation of the many forms of Banana under the judicious management of Mr. M‘Nas, and the immence quantity of high-flavoured fruit which has been produced ; but nothing has afforded a Sreater triumph than the rapid perfection of this beautiful species from imported seed, though we are informed by Dr. Roxpuren that it does not yield a fruit which can be eaten, but one which resembles a dry capsule, rather than a berry. We learn from the same authority, that it is a native of the valleys in the southern parts of the Peninsula of India. In cultivation in the Botanic Garden, this, and all the varieties of fruit-bearing Bananas have been planted in large tubs containing extremely rich soil, have had much water, and been been kept in great heat. The flower-bud, as I have proved by cutting down full grown plants of Musa rosacea and Cavendishi, and I think also of M. paradisaica, remains at the root till a time after the plant has attained its full size varying according to its treatment, and then pushes its way upwards—its appearance at the top of the stem being preceded by the evolution of one or more leaves smaller than the rest. Descr. Stem scarcely any, the petioles spreading nearly from the root upwards on all sides, and forming a pseudo- stem of nine inches in diameter at the base of the specimen described. Flower-stalk (about five feet high from the ground) cernuous. Leaves (five feet long, by one foot seven inches. broad) lanceolato-elliptical, slightly unequal at the base, of a lively green on both sides, rather darker above, with a very narrow red edge, middle rib very strong, semicylindrical behind, with a deep rounded groove in front, transverse veins waved, especially near the base ; petioles of the lower leaves fully one-third of the length of these, and of the same shape as the middle rib, slightly stem-clasping at their origin; floral leaves gradually smaller till the petioles pass into large, ovate bracts, the lower of which only retain a small portion of the leafy expansion at the apex, but these, like the others, spread in a roseate manner, green without, red-brown within, forming after a few only have expanded, a large, elegant, cernuous, imbricated, circular basin, of a foot in diameter, in the centre of which is the cordato-ovate mass of unexpanded bracts, surrounded by the flowers, which are half concealed among the imbricated expanded bractee. These are persistent, and always concave forwards, never reflexed ; a few of the lower are empty, next are several with female flowers, the stamens being abortive, and then follow many, expanding in slow succession, deciduous, and covering flowers having the stamens fully developed, but with the pistil incomplete. Perianth single, superior, bilabiate ; the upper lip (an inch and a half long) coriaceous, linear, erect, revolute in the sides, reflected at the apex, ultimately three-partite, with two slender, linear, internal segments laid along the fissures, the segments usually twisted to- gether ; lower lip embraced by the base of the upper, less than half its length, membranous, diaphanous, colourless, deflected, three-lobed, the centre lobe subulate, and very slender, the lateral lobes scarcely half the length of the other, ovate, subacute, spreading. Filaments five, epigy- nous, nous, round, stout, erect, parallel to each other, and ranged in a row within the upper lip of the perianth. A large quantity of transparent, colourless, deliquescent jelly is discharged from the faux; between the style and the lower lip of the perianth. Male Flower. Anthers twice as long as the filaments, their apices reflexed, and projecting beyond the upper lip of the perianth, bilobular, the lobes narrow, red, laid along the face of the flat linear connechve, towards its edges, and bursting anteriorly ; pollen yellow, abundant, granules spherical. Pistil abortive, style subu- late, equal in length to the filaments, and having a small dry sitgma. Female Flower.—Filaments rather shorter than in the male flower, with scarcely any appearance of abortive anthers on their conical summits. Stigma large, white, slimy, capitate, irregularly and incompletely lobed. Style stout, erect, twice the length of the abortive stamens, and two-thirds of the length of the upper lip of the perianth. Germen angular, three-celled. Ovules very numerous, globular, shortly pedicellate, their attachment being in two rows to a central placenta in each cell. Graham. Tas. 3849. Musa superba, on a very reduced scale, from a sketch sent by Mr. James Macnas. Fig. 1. Female Flower, nat. size. Tap. 8850. Bractea, with its Male Flowers, nat. size, partially covered with the gelatinous fluid, which copiously exudes from the blossoms. Fig. 1. Single Male Flower, nat. size. IEA. iy Lub by S Curtis Clarerwood/ Essexleb? 110A. WT Pity del” ( 3851 ) TROPAHOLUM BRACHYCERAS. SHORT-SPURRED In DIAN-CRESS. Class and Order. OcranprRiA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Tropeo.ez. ) Generic Character. Calyx 5-partitus coloratus, lacinia superiore basi calca- rata, calcare libero intra florem hinc hiante extra stamina, lobis nunc liberis, nunc inter se varie coalitis. Petala 5, calyci inserta, ejusdem lobis alterna, inequalia, irregularia, 2 superiora sessilia remota, calcaris fauci infixa, 3 inferiora unguiculata minora interdim abortiva. Stamina 8, fila- mentis liberis ovarium arcté cingentibus, disco (perigyno ?) insertis, antheris terminalibus oblongis erectis bilocularibus rima duplici dehiscentibus. Carpella 3 arcté connata in ovarium 1 trigonum. Styli 3 in | tristriatum filiformem connexi. Stigmata 3 acuta. Carpella 3 imo stylo seu fructus axi adnata, l-locularia, l-sperma. Semina magna, exalbuminosa, loculum suum implentia et hujus cavitati conformia. Embryo magnus ; cotyledonibus 2, rectis, crassis, junioribus distinctis, dein arcté conferruminatis et etiam cum spermodermate adherentibus, ima basi subdis- ie : radicula intra cotyledonum processus latente. De and. | Specific Character and Synonyms. Tropmoivum brachyceras ; foliis peltatisectis segmentis 6—7 oblongo-obovatis integris, caleare conico obtuso ca- lyce duplo breviore, petalis subconformibus emargt- natis 2 superioribus cuneatis basi venosis. Trorzoium brachyceras. Hook. et Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 14. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.1926. Sweet Brit. Fil. Gard. t. 370. : 3 | Tropzouum tenellum. G. Don, Gen. Syst. Gard. and Bot. v. 1. p. TAT. a Our first knowledge of this delicate and dtiacate species of Indian Cress was derived from specimens gathered in the Chilian Andes, not far from Valparaiso, by Mr. Brivess, By the natives it is called Flor de Perdiz. Mr. Cumine introduced it to our gardens, and it is now cultivated in several greenhouses besides those of Woburn Abbey, whence our specimen here represented was sent in June, 1840, by Mr. Forses. It is a scandent plant ; and if the stems and branches are allowed to grow in a compact manner around some upright sticks in a pot, the copious bright yellow flowers are well relieved by the delicate green of the foliage, and the effect is exceedingly pretty. Descr. Stems very slender, filiform, herbaceous, pale green, scandent, much branched, a foot and a half to two feet long. Leaves peltate, petiolate, nearly orbicular in their circumscription, deeply six to seven-lobed, the lobes between oblong and obovate, very obtuse, entire, bright green above, somewhat glaucous and paler beneath. Petioles about an inch long, slender, wavy and often performing the functions of tendrils. Peduncles axillary, resembling the petioles, but longer, and a little stouter, single-flowered. Calyx bell-shaped, green, cut into five deep, ovate, rather acute, and moderately spreading segments ; prolonged at the base, above the insertion of the peduncle, into a conical, obtuse spur, about half the length of the calyx. Corolla of five spreading, yellow petals, twice or thrice as long as the calyx, two-lobed at the apex; the three lower ones obovate, and of an uniform yellow colour; the two upper rather smaller, more cuneate, marked with purple veins at the bottom. Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower. 2. Side view of the Calyx with Stamens :—magnified, Pub by S. Curtis Glaxenwood EsseacvkFeb 1841, WE Fitch’ det” ( 3852 ) Aconitum CHINENSE. CHINESE MoNKS-HOOD. KKK KKK KEKE EE EEE ERE Class and Order. PoLyAnDRIA PENTAGYNIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Ranuncutacez. ) Generic Character. Calyx petaloideus irregularis deciduus vel marcescens, sepalo nempé superiore concayo cassideformi. Petala 2 superiora (cuculli, nectaria) longé unguiculata apice in saccum expansa sub galea recondita——Folia palmatisecta. Specific Character and Synonyms. Aconrrum Chinense ; elatum robustum, caule glabro, foliis inferioribus petiolatis amplis profunde tripartitis seg- mentis cuneatis incisis lateralibus profunde bifidis, su- _ perioribus sessilibus 3—5-fidis laciniis subintegerrimis, racemis compositis, pedicellis superne pilosis, calycis galea elevatim venosa vertice obtusissima apice acuta, _ Nectariis calcare brevissimo. =~ Si iis Aconrrum Chinense. ‘ Sieboldt.” ‘ Paxt. Mag. of Bot. Feb. 1838,” with a figure. me / 1 i Of the history of this fine, showy Aconitum, I know no- thing further than that the plant has been kindly commu- _nicated to me by Dr. Granam from the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, and that Srevper in his new ‘‘ Nomenclator Bota- nicus,” gives it as an inhabitant of China, and assigns Dr. Sirzotpt as the authority for the name. It is probably cultivated in China: but of its specific merits I am alto- gether incompetent to speak, in a Genus so liable to vary, and so apt to produce hybrids. This 1s a stately and a hardy species ; the blossoms co jous, large, and of a pecu- liarly deep and vivid purple colour. ~The species w! 1 be- long to De Canpouie’s Sect. IV. NapeLLus. i Descr. Descr. Root perennial, tuberous. Stem five to six feet high, stout, erect, branched, green, tinged with purple, gla- brous. Lower leaves large, and on moderately long, broad, and channelled petioles ;—deeply cut, indeed to the very petiole, into three, cuneate segments, tapering at the base, regularly toothed and cut towards the top, the side ones very broad and deeply divided, but not to the base, the whole is glabrous, strongly veined and reticulated : upper leaves sessile, gradually passing into more and more entire, small bracteas, among the upper flowers. Racemes large, compound, pedicels slightly hairy above. Flowers large, showy, of an intense and very bright blue colour. Galea semicircular, but moderately compressed at the sides, the apex acute. Nectaries on long, glabrous stalks, the saccate Spur very short. Fig. 1. Two of the Petals with the Nectaries, Stamens, and Pistils:— magnified, Lub by 5 Curtis Glazenwood EssexcFob!LIS#0 ( 3853 ) PENTSTEMON HETEROPHYLLUS. VARIOUS= LEAVED PENTSTEMON. ERIS EES Ssksksbabookaakatoleak Class and Order. DipynAmiA ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Scropuutarinz, ) Generic Character. Calyx pentaphyllus aut 5-partitus, bractea solitaria dis- tante. Cor. ventricosa, bilabiata. Stam. didynamia, rudi- mento quinti filiformi sepius barbato. Anthere sejuncte sepius glabre. Caps. ovata, bilocularis, bivalvis, poly- sperma. Semina angulata. Lind. Specific Character and Synonyms. Pentstemon heterophyllus ; foliis glaucescentibus integerri- mis inferioribus lineari-lanceolatis superioribus linea- ribus, racemo virgato, sepalis ovatis acuminatis, corol- lis ventricosis imberbibus, stamine sterili glabro, an- theris sagittatis apice fimbriatis. Lindl. Pentstemon heterophyllus. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1899. Hook. et Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 376. As we have already observed in the work on the Botany of Capt. Beecury’s Voyage, above quoted, the name given to this plant is scarcely appropriate, seeing that there is no greater difference between lower and upper leaves than what is usually observable between the cauline and floral _ leaves of plants in general. The species is one of the inany handsome hardy herbaceous plants introduced by the late Mr. Dovetas to the gardens of the Horticultural Soci- ety, and by that valuable institution spread far and wide in the collections of this and other countries. Our specimens Were sent from Woburn Abbey, where they flowered in July of this year, and made a very pretty appearance Mes their large, showy, purple flowers. It may be increased either by seeds or cuttings. Descr. Plant from a foot to a foot and a half high, erect, branched, the branches slender and virgate, deeply tinged with purple. Leaves opposite, glabrous, narrow-lanceo- late, often curved downwards, entire, acute, sessile, the uppermost ones, among the flowers, more narrow and almost exactly linear. Peduncles an inch or more long, bearing, above the middle, two opposite leaves or bracteas, and generally one, sometimes two flowers. Calyx very small in proportion to the size of the corolla, deeply cut into five linear-subulate, narrow, spreading, or recurved segments. Corolla an inch and a half long, red-purple, much paler in bud. Tube narrow at the base, gradually expanding upwards ; limb two-lipped, upper lip two-, lower three-lobed ; lobes very obtuse, spreading. Stamens 1n- serted below the middle of the tube, four didynamous, and a fifth sterile filament, quite glabrous. Anthers cordate, deep purple. Style rather longer than the sterile filament. Fig. 1. Calyx and lower part of the Corolla, with the Stamens and Pistil, slightly magnified. ( 3854 ) Oncipium Wrayva. Mrs. Wray’s ONCIDIUM. KEK KKK REE EE EERE Class and Order. GyNANDRIA MonaANDRIA. ( Nat. Ord —OnrcnipEz. ) Generic Character. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala sepius undulata: late- ralibus nune 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 sulcata ; 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 Name and Character. Oncin1um Wraye ; pseudo-bulbis ovatis compressis sulcatis, foliis 2 terminalibus lineari-lanceolatis, scapo radicali elongato ramoso, floribus paniculatis, petalis sepalis- que conformibus ovato-acuminatis patentibus ferru- gineo-maculatis, labello unicolori late cuneato-obo- vato 3-lobo cristato, crista elevata acute triloba. A native of Mexico, whence it was introduced to the stove of the gardens at Oakfield, near Cheltenham, by one of the most intelligent and enthusiastic of cultivators, 3 Mrs. Wray of that place. ee ae _ Descr. Pseudo-bulbs clustered, scarcely three inches igh, ovate, furrowed, wrinkled and compressed. Tn the younger state of the bulb, itis accompanied by four leaves, two from the base and terminating a broad kind of sheathing scale, and two arising from the apex of the bulb, larger, but similar in shape to the radical ones, linear-lanceolate, somewhat coriaceous, and slightly spirally twisted. Scape from the base of a bulb and within the withered sheathing scale of a radical leaf, slender, tall, varying from three to five feet high, panicled above, and bearing copious bright coloured flowers, yellow, the sepals and petals alone blotched with deep rusty brown. These sepals and petals are alike in shape, ovate, acuminate, spreading. Lip \arge, broadly obovate, somewhat unguiculate, three-lobed, lobes rounded, entire, waved: at the base is an elevated, keeled ridge, or crest, presenting three acute lobes. Column short, yellow, in front at each side having a projecting, rounded wing. Anther-case hemispherical, yellow. Pol- len masses two, the caudicle arising from an oblong, deep red gland. Fig. 1. Germen, Column, and Anther. 2. Pollen-Masses:—mag- nified. Pub by S.Curtis Glaxeravood E ssea/Mar'l 1841 Wi Bitchy dol’ ( 3855 ) Cycnocues LoppiceEsi; var. leucochilum. Mr. Loppices’ Swanwort; white-lipped var. KKK KKK KEKE EE EEE EK Class and Order. GynanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipe. ) Generic Character. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala lateralia lanceolata, basi paululum sub labello connata; supremo angustiore. Petala \atiora falcata decurva. Labellum liberum, ecalca- ratum, columna continuum, lanceolatum, integerrimum, ungue abrupto calloso. Columna elongata arcuata teres, apice clavata, auriculis 2 falcatis ad latera clinandrii. An- thera bilocularis. Pollinia 2, postice sulcata, subpedicel- lata; caudicula lineari; glandula grossa.— Habitus Cataseti (sed racemus lateralis). Land. Specific Name and Character. Crcnocues* Loddigesii; labello lanceolato planiusculo ungue -brevi_ calloso, columna sepalum supremum eequante. (B.) leucochilum ; \abello immaculato. It is to Mr. Moss of Otterspool, Liverpool, that I am in- debted for the noble specimen of a white-lipped variety of the Cycnocnes Loddigesit of Dr. Linptry. The species is a native of Guiana, and may certainly be numbered among the most remarkable of this very remarkable tribe of plants, the Orcuipes, produced its large, fragrant blossoms = the stove, * So called by Professor LINDLEY, from nuxvas, & swan, and auyny, og neck, in allusion to the column of this plant, which 1s gracefully curved, like the neck of a swan. VOL. XIV. “3 stove, in the month of August, 1840. Two other species of this Genus are now known in our collections, the C. ventri- cosum of Mr. Bateman’s splendid “ Orchidaceze of Mexico and Guatemala,” Tab. V., characterized by its pale, yellow- green, sulphur-coloured, spotless flowers, ventricose lip, and short column; and C. maculatum of Dr. Linptey’s equally beautiful “* Sertum Orchidaceum,” readily known by its very long raceme of copious but comparatively small, yellow flowers, spotted with purple, and by the singularly fringed lip. : : Descr. Pseudo-bulbs elongated, cylindrical, eight or ten inches to almost a foot in length, clustered, articulated and sheathed with the bases of former year’s leaves, pale ashy grey, at the apex terminated by a leafy crown, Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous, striated. Scape from near the top of the pseudo-bulb, long, drooping, aris- ing from the side of the pseudo-bulb, bearing many flowers, no less remarkable in their form than in their size, Sepals unequal, the uppermost one, (or that corresponding with the column,) very narrow, linear-lanceolate, brownish- green, the two lateral ones much broader, oblongo- lanceolate, acuminate, greenish with transverse, brown blotches. Petals similar to them, but rather larger, spot- less, and both of them falcate and decurved. Lip lanceo- late, thick, fleshy in our specimen, ivory white tipped with yellowish-green, the base, or claw, where it unites with the column, spotted with red. Column remarkably long and slender, gracefully curved, like aswan’s neck, as the generic name implies, semiterete, deep purple, above broader and somewhat winged, green, spotted with purple, just below which the small anther-case is placed. Witch iia® Puck by S Lurtig Glareeuntad ger tf} 1%: ~ ( 3856 ) STEVIA TRACHELIOIDES. ‘'TRACHELIUM- LEAVED STEVIA. KKK REE EEE KEE E EERE E Class and Order. SyNnGENESIA AUQUALIS. ( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. ) Generic Character. Capitulum 5-florum. Invol. cylindricum, squamis 5—6 acutis acuminatisve subequalibus. Recept.nudum. Ache- nium stricto-nervosum angulatumve elongatum. Pappus paleis 1-serialibus nunc in iisdem aut seepius in diversis indi- viduis omnibus scariosis planis parvis, nunc aliis scariosis, aliis (pler. alternis) in aristas 1—5 rigidas margine scabras abeuntibus, nunc omnibus (pler. 5—20) in aristas mutatis. —Suffrutices aut herbe omnes ex Americé presertim é Mex- ico, rarius ex Amer. Merid. Folia infer. opposita, super, opposita aut alterna, in omnia ternato-verticillata, linearia lanceolata aut ovata, sepius triplinervia integerrima serrata aut in unicé trifida. Capitula in corymbum densum laxum- ve disposita, rarius subsparsa longius pedicellata. Cor. albe, rosee aut purpuree, interdum subochroleuce. De Cand. Specific Character and Synonym. Srevia trachelioides ; caule herbaceo erecto dense pubes- centi-scabrido, ramis oppositis alternisque corymbosis, foliis plerisque oppositis basi cuneatis sessilibus me ett oribus lanceolatis sepe integerrimis inferioribus 4-plo majoribus late ovatis acutis trinervus grosse serratis subtus pallidis nervis precipue pubescentibus, involucri Sab Gaieh squainis acutis corollisque hispidulis, pappo coroniformi dentato. Srevia trachelioides. De Cand. Prodr. 5. p. 115. Communicated by Mr. Tuomas Grover, from the garden of Epwarp Lzeps, Esq., near Manchester, who received the seeds seeds from W. Hieson, Esq., of Mexico, and who cultivates it both in the greenhouse and open border. In the latter it attains a height of three feet, and bears the dense corymbs of flowers of a very deep and rich purple colour. They are paler in the greenhouse : and some of our native specimens in the Herbarium exhibit them white. Descr. Stem erect, two to three feet high, pubescenti- scabrous, tinged with purple, branched, the lower branches opposite, the upper ones alternate. Leaves, in like manner, opposite below, alternate above, the former broadly ovate, acute, on short, broad petioles, three-nerved ; upper ones gradually smaller and narrower, quite sessile, all of them coarsely serrated. The copious branches at the top of the stem reach nearly to the same level, thus forming a large, dense corymb, with the numerous bright red-purple flowers. Heads in clusters of three or four together. Involucre of five, erect, linear-oblong, hispid leaves, including the same number of florets. Corolla almost salver-shaped, the tube slightly enlarged upwards, the five spreading segments of the limb hispid on the outside. Style, with its very long downy branches, much protruded. Achenium furrowed, crowned with a short, irregular, cup-shaped pappus, desti- tute of awns or sete. : Fig. 1. Head of Flowers. 2, Single Floret :—magnified. Lub bu 8. Curtis: Glazenvoot EsseaMar™ 118. as ( 3857 ) HELICHRYSUM NIVEUM. SNOWY-FLOWERED HELICHRYSUM. KR KK EEE EKER EEK EEE EE Class and Order. SynGenEsIA AZQUALIs. ( Nat. Ord.—Composirm. Senecronipe2. ) Generic Character. Capitulum multiflorum, nune homogamum, fl. omnibus tubulosis hermaphr. 5-dentatis, nunc heterogamum fl. radii uniseriatis seepé paucissimis femineis gracilibus. Invol. im- bricatum, squamis scariosis, interioribus conniventibus aut radiantibus. Recepé. planum epaleaceum, nunc nudum, aut areolatum, nunc fimbrilliferum. Achenia erostria sessi- lia, areola terminali. Pappus uniserialis setis subscabris (nec plumosis), nunc liberis, nune equaliter basi subconcre- tis, nunc inzequaliter subcoadunatis seu ramosis.—Herbe aut Suffrutices. Species presertim Capenses, in omni orbe veteri et Australasid etiam crescentes, sed nunquam in Americé ob- servate. Folia alterna. Involucra alba purpurea aut flava. Cor. lutee aut purpuree. De Cand. Specific Name and Character. Heticurysum niveum; perenne caule erecto subsimplice scabro capitulis maximis solitariis terminalibus, squa- mis utrinque niveis conniventibus ovatis mucronula- tis, foliis oblongo-spathulatis utrinque viridibus pubes- centibus basi in petiolum angustatis semiamplexicau- libus. Graham. This large and extremely ornamental species, was raised by Mr. Low of Clapton, from seed sent from Swan River by Mr. Drummonp, late of Cork, and seedlings, sent to the garden of the Caledonian Horticultural Society in October, Bd 1839, flowered very abundantly during July and August following, forming an exceedingly attractive border plant. The species has proved to be perennial, pushing, in the year after flowering, many branches from the lower part of | the stem. It has not ripened seed at Edinburgh. It has much affinity with the H. macranthum of Bentuam, but Is distinguished by its large capitula, pure white, cup-shaped involucre, and perennial root. It is in the highest degree worthy of cultivation. [Mrs. Wray of Cheltenham has also kindly communicated fine specimens of this plant.—Eb. ] Descr. Stem above three feet and a half high, some- what woody, erect, simple below, corymbose at the top, green. Leaves (seven inches long, nearly two broad) gradu- ally smaller upwards, scattered, as well as the stem, rough, without pubescence, sessile, the lower ones obovate and much attenuated at the base, the upper more nearly ellipti- cal, green on both sides, with a strong middle rib, and four to six principal veins extending nearly to the apex of the leaf, which is entire in the edges. Capitula terminal, on elongated, subsimple, corymbose branches. Involucre large, scariose, of snowy whiteness, spreading into a hemisphere ; scales elliptical, very numerous, imbricated, the outer and inner the smallest, concave, none of them radiating, the inner green at the base. Florets very numerous, yellow, cylindrical, all hermaphrodite, five-toothed. Stamens in- serted near the base of the corolla, the apices of the anthers subexserted. Stigmata revolute, truncated, hairy at the apices ; style colourless, filiform, its apex projecting above the stamens. Germen glabrous, crowned with a rough pappus, almost plumose, as long as the corolla. Receptacle naked, pitted. Graham. Fig. 1. Floret. 2. Ripe Achenium. 3. Pappus, separated from the Achenium. 4. Portion of the Pappus to show the union of the sete at their base :—magnified. : - Pub by S. Curtis Clasenupod. Essex Marl iP Witch del! ( 3858 ) ANCHUSA PETIOLATA. PETIOLATED-LEAVED ALKANET. KKK KKK KKK KEKE EEE EKRKEE Class and Order. PentanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—BoraaineEz. ) Generic Character. Calyx 5-fidus. Corolla hypoygna, infundibuliformis v. hypocraterimorpha, fauce fornicibus clausa, limbo quinque- partito. Stamina 5, corolle tubo inserta, inclusa. va- rium quadrilobum. Stylus simplex; stigma indivisum. Nuces distincte, rugose, basi excavata margine tumido — cincta, receptaculo inserte.—Herbe im hemispherie borea- lis temperatis et calidioribus indigene, in regione Mediter- ranea imprimis copiose, inter tropicos Asie et America, nec non in Capite Bone Spet rare ; floribus axillaribus solitarius ». racemosis, racemis bracteatis. Endlich. Specific Name and Character. Ancuusa petiolata ; foliis lanceolatis radicalibus longe peti- olatis caulinis sessilibus supremis bracteiformibus ova- to-acuminatis, floribus racemoso -paniculatis, corolle tubo calycis longitudine. A pretty showy perennial, raised by Mr. Murray, in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, from seeds sent from Nepal by Colonel Corvin, of the department of Engineers in the service of the Hon. the East India Company. It flowered in the greenhouse in October, 1840, but will, no doubt, be found to bear the open air unharmed during the summer and autumnal months, and will prove an interesting aa At first, I was disposed to addition to our flower borders. consider it the same as the CynoGLossuM longiflorum, from Cashmere, Cashmere, of Benruam in Royte’s Illustrations, p. 305, and of Liypt. in Botanical Register for 1840, Tab. 50, but the broader leaves, the long tube of the corolla, and the projecting nectaries and stamens, beyond the mouth of the corolla of that plant, forbid such an opinion, notwith- standing the resemblance in other respects. Descr. Stems herbaceous, erect, branched. Radical leaves five to six inches long, lanceolate, acuminate, tapering below, into a petiole, about equal in length with the blade. Cauline leaves gradually smaller upwards, and all of them sessile; the uppermost small, acuminated, and bracteiform. Racemes from the axils of the upper leaves, elongated, and thus giving a paniculated appearance to the upper part of the stem. The peduncles bear two or three small floral leaves, or bracteas. Pedicels short, at first drooping, afterwards, the corolla having fallen, erect. Calyx of five deep, erect, obtuse, lobes. Corolla with a very short tube, the limb much broader than the length of the tube, deep purple-blue, of five rounded segments, and with a dark, short ray in the centre of each. Scales of the nectary, scarcely protruded, white. Fig. 1. Flower :—magnified. ud! tu S Curtis GiaxtnwmoodEseee Mar L108 ( 3859 ) ToFIELDIA PUBENS. DoWNY-STALKED AMERICAN ASPHODEL. See sesso seoboteokabstestooke Class and Order. HexanpriaA TRIGYNIA. ( Nat. Ord.—MeEtantuacez. ) Generic Character. Involucrum caliciforme, remotiusculum, trifidum, persis- tens. Perigonium coloratum, hexaphyllum, foliols sessili- bus, subeequalibus, persistentibus. Stamina 6, perigonii foliolis basi inserta : anthere versatiles. Ovarium trilocu- lare. Ovula in loculorum angulo centrali plurima, ana- tropa. Styli 3, brevissimi, loculos terminantes ; stigmata capitata. Capsula trilocularis tripartibilis, introrsum dehis- cens. Semina in placentis septa marginantibus plurima, cymbiformia. Embryo orthotropus, in basi albuminis car- nosi inclusus, extremitate radiculari umbilico proxima.— Herbe perennes, in Europa imprimis frigidiore obvie, sed in America Boreali copiosiores, etiam in summis Andium Peru- vie jugis observate ; radice tuberoso-fibrosa, foliis gramieis, plerisque radicalibus, floribus inconspicuis racemoso-sprcatis, alternis v. oppositis, terminatisve subverticillatis. Endlich. Specific Character and Synonyms. Torterp1a* pubens; caule subnudo asperiusculo pulveru- lento-pubente, racemo multifloro e fasciculis subdis- tantibus, involucro acuto trifido, capsula vix perianthi- um superante. : ‘ . OFIELDIA nubaie Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. p. 324. Ell. Bot. v. 1. p. 424. Sm. in Linn. Trans. v. 12. p. 245. Torr. Fl. ». 1, p. 37 1. Spreng. Syst. sm oe x pee file: Pe * Sonamed by Hupson, in honor of Mr. ToFIELD, an English Botanist, who resided in Yorkshire, get. v. 2. p. 144. Roem. et Schult. v.7. p. 1570. Gray, Revis. Melanth. Am. Sept. p. 137. Torietp1a pubescens. Pers—Pursh, Fl. v. 1. p. 246. Nutt. Gen. Am. v. |. p. 236. Metantuium racemosum. Walt. Car. p. 126, non Mich. Narruecium pubens. Mich. Fl. v. 1. p. 209. Antuertcum calyculatum. Linn. Hort. Cliff. ; Gron. Vir- gin. (fide Smith.) A North American plant, but inhabiting chiefly the southern States, as Alabama and Florida, extending as far North as the Delaware, and delighting in grassy woods and moist Pine barrens. It is, we apprehend, very rare 10 the botanic gardens of Europe. Our present specimens were sent from that of Edinburgh, in July, 1840. It was, never- theless, introduced into the Royal Gardens at Kew, by Mr. Wittiam Matcou, so long ago as the year 1790. Its nearest affinity is with T. glutinosa, a much more northern plant, of which we have lately given a figure in the “ Flora Bor, Americana,” tab. 191; and we had even expressed an opinion, that the two were perhaps not really distinct. An examination, however, of the living plant of T. pubens, has satisfied us of their specific distinction. In our present plant, there are no glutinous glands, the raceme is very long, with more distant fasicles of flowers; and the little invo- lucre is deeply cut into three sharp segments, instead of being nearly entire, as it is in T. glutinosa. Descr. Root creeping, thickish, forming a rhizoma. Leaves mostly radical, distichous, linear, acute, striated, glabrous. Scape a foot to a foot and a half high, terete, glabrous below, above pubescenti- scabrous, especially among the flowers. Raceme terminal, four to five inches long. Pedicels in clusters of about three, equal in length with the flower, and subtended by small bracteas ; at their summit is a monophyllous, small, scabrous involucre, cut into three sharp, ovate segments, and immediately receiving the base of the perianth. Three outer sepals shorter, and downy on the outside; three inner, or petals, narrowe!, quite smooth. Stamens as long as the perianth. Anthers oblong, yellow, germen obovate, three lobed, crowned with three spreading styles. ———— _Fig. 1 Unexpanded Flower. 2. Ditto, fully expanded. 9. Involuere Pub by S. Curtis Glarenwood Kissecc Math ls 7. W Fiteh del! ( 3860 ) GARDOQUIA BETONICOIDES. BETONY-LIKE GARDOQUIA. REE KE EEE KEK EERE KEKE EEKK Class and Order. DipynamiA GyYMNOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Lasiars. ) Generic Character. Calyx tubulosus, 13-nervius, subincurvus, ore equali vel obliquo, dentibus brevibus rectis subequalibus vel subbila- biatis. Corolle tubus longe exsertus, rectus vel incurvus, intus nudus ; limbus bilabiatus, labium superius erectum subplanum emarginatum, inferius subpatens, lobis planis medio latiore. Stamina 4, subdidynama, inferioribus longio- ribus, laxe adscendentia, apice subdistantia, superiora sub- inde sterilia. Filamenta edeutata. Anthere biloculares, loculis distinctis parallelis vel subdivergentibus. Styli lobi subequales. Achenia sicca, levia.—Suftrutices fruticesve ramosissimi foliosi, sepe procumbentes, Flores pulchri, Sepius coccinei. Genus a Micromeria non nisi longitudine corollarum, limbique lobis suberectis, distinctum. Benth. Specific Character and Synonyms. Garpoguia betonicoides; radice repente, caule erecto, co- rollis calyce subglabro triplo longioribus, foliis ovato- cordatis grosse crenatis utrinque subglabris subtus purpurascentibus, cymis pedunculatis erectis, floribus congestis. Graham. __ Garpvoguia betonicoides. Lindl. Bot. Reg. in Misc. n. 159. The plant was received at the gardens of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, from Mr. Low, of Clapton, in October, 1839, and flowered freely during the summer and autumn following, both in the greenhouse and open border, requiring no particular treatment. ee Descr. Root creeping. Stem (in the specimen described nearly three feet high). Leaves (an inch and a half to two and a half inches long, one and a quarter to one and three quarters broad) ovato-cordate, blunt, deeply crenate, glan- dular and subglabrous on both sides, at first green on both sides, soon becoming purplish below; middle rib and dis- tantly reticulated veins prominent below, channelled above; petiole nearly as long as the leaf, channelled above. Bracts resembling much diminished, subsessile, subentire leaves ; bracteoles linear, subulate. Cymes erect, distant at the lower part of the terminal pseudo-spikes, approaching higher up, with many crowded, erect flowers. Calyces densely adpressed, subglabrous, subequal. Corolla (an inch long) agreeably perfumed, somewhat spreading, thrice as long as the calyx ; tube clavate, compressed laterally, grooved and veined, shortly glanduloso - pubescent, limb oblique, five- cleft, the lowest lobe the largest, crenate, and revolute, the others subequal, the two uppermost the flattest. Stamens didynamous ; filaments adhering to the tube of the corolla to unequal heights, the two inner the farthest exserted, the others nearly as long as the upper lobes of the corolla ; anthers dark, lobes parallel, pollen white. Pistil rather longer than the shorter stamens ; style glabrous, and co- lourless, except at the apex, where it has a faint tinge, the same as the corolla, its lobes subulate, spreading, subequal. Disk small, round, fleshy, supporting the abortive acheenia. Graham. a Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Corolla, laid open. 3. Ovary :—magnified. i ihe: Poe er ee ibn eae SO ee ea ee ee Wilerbert: det” Pub by S.Curtis Glaxenweod Essecdpr’ L1E4. ( 3861 ) ae Crocus speciosus. Snowy Crocus. KKK EK KK KEKE EEE KEKE Class and Order. TrranpRiA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—IripAceE®. ) Generic Character. Scapus latens 1- raro 2-florus ; tubus cylindricus fauce ampliat4, limbus regularis, filamenta ori vel infra faucem tubi inserta, anthere erecte, stylus gracilis. Specific Character and Synonyms. Crocus speciosus ; autumnalis, tunicis membranaceis tenu- Var. ibus, lineis raris parallelis superne confluentibus, vagi- nacearum basi persistente laceré disrupta, foliacea ex- teriore infra medium cormum affixa, scapo nudo, spa- tha occulta tubata bracteé equali non tubaté tubum amplexa, tubi parte exserta nuda elongata fauce supra- staminea pilis albis minutis hispida, sepalis ceruleo- purpureis lineis tribus et basi saturatioribus, petalis pallidioribus conspicué venosis, filamentis circ. -unc. infra faucem insertis circ. #s-unc. liberis, stigmatibus multifidis, foliorum canaliculis non fortiter nervatis cost4 dorsali deflexé et densé ciliata multim latioribus, seminibus subangulatis obscure subpurpureo - rufo- brunneis. : 1. Caucasicus, fig. 1. C. speciosus, M. von Bieb. non Wilson, neque Reichenbach ; cormo minore, gemma- florifera (in indigenis) unica uniflora (neque adhuc in cultis bifloram vidi), vagina extrafoliacea interne prox- im& apice integra, bractea tubum sinistrorsum imbri- cante prorsus involvente, germine albo, tubo tenuiore ee § parte vix purpura punctato fauce alba, limbo minore pallidiore laciniis acutioribus, filamentis albis, stigmatibus patulo-multifidis diluté aurantiacis lacinio- lis capillaribus apice crassiusculis antheras pera VOL, XIV. N bus. Variat flore maximo niveo stigmatibus saturate aurantiacis pluries et profundids fissis. Variat fig. 1 etiam flore ceruleo-purpureo stigmatibus tenuioribus paucifidis, E Caucaso.—fig. 1+, corm. nudat. Variat fig. 1* stylo parvulo ex prov. Karabagh prope mare Casp. Herb. Hooker. Var. 2. Transylvanicus, fig. 2; (C. speciosus, Bot. Reg. 25. 40. icone pro cerulescente perperam rubescente) cormo e majoribus (in cultis plurigemmato gemmis sepius bifloris) vagina interne proxima apice erosa, bracteé tubum marginibus non approximatis dimidio plus amplexa, germine flavescente, perianthio majore saturaté basin versis purpura-punctato, fauce flaves- cente, limbo obtusiore saturatiore, filamentis pallide flavescentibus subulatis, stigmatibus fasciculato-multi- fidis laciniolis superne sensim crassioribus.— Habitat m Transyloanid, unde Angliam advectus colitur. Specwm. ex Transylv. in Herb. Lindl. est. ¥ Var. 3. Laxior ; cormo modico gemma 1—2-flora, bractea tubum involvente, tubo confertids et saturatiis pur- pura-punctato limbo maximo, stigmatibus laxids effu- sis. Prostat venalis apud hortulanos Young et Pamp- lin.—Habitat ? Tauriam vel Caucasum ? The Genus Crocus extends between the Caspian and the Atlantic, as far North as 49° in S. Podolia, but Lam inform- ed that it does not cross the upper portion of the Danube in 48°. I have not been able to learn what changes of soil or elevation arrest its progress northwards from Odessa and S. Podolia, and confine it to a much lower latitude in France; probably the want of drainage and of a dry subsoil ; for it usually affects high situations. Southward it reaches 35°, or thereabouts, in the line of Tangiers, Malta, Crete, Cyprus, and Syria near Aleppo. I find no trace of it further South, and I cannot conjecture Mr. Ker’s reason for naming C _ -reticulatus of the Danube and Caucasus, C. Susianus, Susa being near lat. 32, almost three degrees below the situa- tions in which Crocus has been yet found. The Russians have not met with it East of the Caspian or Volga. Des- FONTAINES described erroneously a Crocus vernus, yellow, purple, and white, in its varieties, as found on the ridge of _ Atlas, which will be within 35°; but his descriptions were taken from Parisian garden specimens, and I learn, that the only specimen in his Herbarium, which has the appeat- ance ance of having been gathered wild, though mu maged seems more like C. versicolor; but no Srodis ieee dis- covered in the French expeditions from Algiers. ‘The beautiful autumnal Crocus here represented belongs to the division with a naked scape, wanting the involucre; and none such have been found West of Italy. ReIcHENBAcH’s C. speciosus is C. Byzantinus Parkinson and Ker, Banna- ticus of Gay. Wiutson’s (Eng. Bot.) is C. Pyreneus, Par- KINSON, (nudiflorus of Smiru, and multzfidus of Ranow 1% very different plant, with an involucrate spathe and stoloni- ferous bulbs. The first variety, kindly sent to me by Mons Gay, is from Caucasus and the hills near Tifflis; the white subvariety is a dry specimen from Caucasus. The second more conspicuous, from Transylvania, may be obtained from Mr. Osporne’s Nursery at Fulham. The third is cul- tivated at Mr. Youne’s Nursery, at Milford, near Godalmin and at Mr. Pampetin’s, Lavender Hill, near Battersea. It is probably from Tauria, or Caucasus, unless it be the C. spe- ciosus said to be found on Mount Athos. The seeds of C. spe- ciosus are of a deep purplish rust colour, larger than those of C. longiflorus, which approach them in colour. W. H. CROCORUM SYNOPSIS. TRIDACER. Exspadicee, corolliformes, agynandre, hexapetaloidee, — epigyne, triandre. IRIDEZ. Stamina sepalina. se ie | CROCUS. Cormus annuus tunicarum vaginacearum et foliacea- rum basibus circumnotatus, folia sublinearia dorso bicanaliculato costa- to, scapt 1—5 involucrati vel involucro obsoleto nudi, trigoni uni- raré bi-flori vaginis inclusi, spatha tubata vel tubum amplexa intus bracteata vel bractei obsoleta ebracteata, germen subcylindrico-sub- ta, limbus regularis, filamenta ori connectivo subdorsali super- ate loculis a vertice sublateraliter scissis, stylus (lusu interdum 2—4-lobus) sti tibus sensim dilatatis, truncatis, vel fimbriato-plicatis, vel pauci- m ti-fidis, fe tems i -eista trivalvis trilocularis reflexé dehis- cens, semina raphe rugosa subsp pallescente vel rufescente vel purpurascente. subtruncate vaginarum 3— extrafoliacearum, foltacee s@pe longeé apiculate foliorum sub-12, bases sunt inflato-tubate ; foliac t et sepius vaginacea interior, exteriores sepe depereunt ; 20na radica- _ lis (t. e. fibras radicales emittens) unica sita ; gemme cormifere ex zonis omnibus oriri queunt, vel anno prece- dente inter bases foliorum recentiorum sub lente vidende ; gemme nas- centis vagine extrafoliacee cormo futuro fundum versis, folia gradatim altiis, diversis in diversis speciebus spatiis, bast inflato-tubata inserun- tur. Fibra radicalis crassa enormis e fundo cormi nascentis interdum, uti in gladiolo, enata incrementum inusitatum portendit. Crocorum cormis annuis auctorum seriits ociits generationis obsolescit facultas. Habitant intra mare Caspium et Atlanticum gradusque, quoad novimus, latitudinis terrestris 35 et 49. W. H. §. 1. Nudi; 7. ¢., scapi involucro obsoleto. (Vidi interdum in nudis involucri obsoleti rudimentum.) §§. 1. Membranacei; cormi tunicé precipua membranacea. 1. Annulatus ; Herbert (vel, si mavis. §. Annulati. 1. Byflorus. 2. Pusillus. 3. Adamicus. 4. Chrysanthus.). Flore verno; tuni- carum vaginacearum basi annulata tantim persistente, foliacea ex- teriore dura infra medium cormum affixa, spath4 bractea tubata. Osserv. Foliorum marginibus reflexis costa dorsali canaliculis angustiore, spathe bractea cylindraceé involuté (non cylindrica), perianthii fauce lutea, filamentis sub lente subpubescentibus, stig- matibus indivisis subtruncatis odoratis, seminibus pallescentibus spheericis raphe et chalaza conspicuis. ; A; foliorum et coste dorsalis margine ciliato, canaliculis dorsalibus binervibus, filamentis et fauce pubescentibus. Var. 1. Adamicus; C. Adami, Gay, Bull. Fer. 25. p. 219. 1831. Vaginis pallidis, limbo pallidé ceruleo-violaceo, sepalis extus satu- raté 5—7-plumeo-striatis, pube tenui hinc inde ad basim petalo- rum, filamentis sub lente minutissimé pubescentibus 4-unc. infra limbum tubo insertis, stigmatibus integris plicatis truncatis subtil- iter fimbriatis pallidé aurantiacis antheras (filamentis duplo longio- res) superantibus. Habitat, teste Gay, in Tauria et Iberia. Var.2. Biflorus; Miller. Vaginis lutescentibus, limbo subalbido sepalis extus stramineis 5-striatis, foliorum margine crasso recurvo, scapo interdum (vidi ipse) bifloro. s Subvar 1. Princeps. Supra 845; passim in hortis. Sp. 5-striatum orientale, Pallas Herb. Lambert. Sp. 5-striatum ex summis Cyprt bays jugis, Sibthorp. Oxon. perperam C. vernus, §, Smith, Prodr. eC Subvar. 2. Stigmatosus ; Sabine. Limbo subpurpurascente mox al- bescente, stylo elongato. B; foliis levibus, canaliculis dorsalibus enervibus, filamentis vix sub _____ lente pubescentibus. : Var. 3. Pusillus ; Tenore. Vaginis albescentibus, foliorum canalicu- lis vix nervatis, ciliis et pube feré obsoletis, styli lobis antheras superantibus. ‘ Subvar. 1. Tenorianus ; minimus limbo albo sepalis extus straminels 3-striatis petala superantibus. S. Rocco prope Neapolim. — ~ Subvar. 2. argenteus ; C. minimus p eram supra » FG: pessime coloraté. C. argenteus, Sabine Hert. Soc. vie 7. 431, major limbo Vide infra ad calcem 3862. ‘ Wibrbere ad? Pub by S Curtis Gloxtneood EssecAprilisy. ( 3862 ) HERBERTIA PULCHELLA, ET CERULEA. Pretty, AND Brust, HerepertTia. Class and Order. Hexanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Iripacez. ) Generic Character. Perianthium rectum basi annulatum sepalorum Jaminis Magnis patentibus, petalis parvulis cymbiformibus, fila- menta monadelpha, anthere in cylindro sessiles subulate Styli lobis inter stigmatum lobos agglutinate, stylus rectus Sracilis lobis divaricantibus, stigmata lobis binis divarican- tibus, capsula oblonga operculo brevi dehiscens, semina parva angulata badia; folia plicata, bulbus ovatus. Specific Character and Synonyms. Herzertia pulchella ; (fig. 1,2. a. b. c.) foliis 5-uncialibus vel ultra, seapo floribus pedunculatis successivis brac- teato, perianthi sepalis undulatis lilacinis ungue pal- lidé lutescente vel albicante Jilacino-punctato, petalis lilacinis medio saturatioribus, antheris subulatis stig- mata superantibus. 1. var. ungue albicante. 2. var. ungue lutescente. a. petalum, 6. sepalum. ¢, germen cum genitalibus. Hereervia pulchella. Sweet Br. Fl. Gard. 222, Herzertia cerulea, (fig. 3. d. e. f.) pedunculi bracteis brevi- oribus, sepalorum unguibus albis ceruleo-punctatis laminis ceruleis macula ad basin saturata triangular, petalis acutis ceruleis medio saturatioribus, antheris et stigmatibus brevibus, a. styli lobus cum stigmate bilo- _.. bo. e. idem cum anthera. /f. anthera. | Trirurcia cerulea. Herbert, supra 3779, p. 3. Herserrsa pulchella? Lod. Bot. Cab.—W. H. 2 Seeeeies of Hersertia pul- yle, and stamina: Fig. 1 and 2 represent two varieties chella, a. the petal, 6. the sepal, c. the germen, st stamina. The figure in the “ British Flower Garden” of Sweet, by whom it was named, is so indifferent, and the description of the stigmas so inaccurate, that H. c@rulea was supposed to be generically distinct, and Hersertia to have laminaformed stigmas, till an opportunity presented itself at Spofforth of examining H. pulchella. Pulchella was found in the neighbourhood of Buenos Ayres ; cerulea was sent by Drummonp from Texas. The plant figured in the “ Botanical Cabinet” as Herserria pulchella is evi- dently not that plant. The Genus Trirurcta merges In Hersertia. W. H. stbpurpurascente (variat pallidiore) sepali sextus stram. 3-str- petala superantibus.—Pisa ; variat aliquantulum in solo Romano. Specim. ex Caucaso, Prescott, Herb. Hooker. ; Subvar. 3. Cerulescens ; perianthio aliquantulum majore petalis sub- cerulescentibus. Ossolone in ditione Neapolitana. Subvar. 4. Lineatus ; Jan. (C. biflorus, Parkinsoni, perperam, Sa- bine). Major limbo albo sepalis 3-striatis. Prope Parmam ; wpsé _ non vidi. : Subvar. 5. striatus; Herbert. Biflorus, Bot. Reg. 1987. Lim- bo purpureo petalis sepala extus straminea non striata superantl- bus, bractea tenuiore lorata. Prope Florentiam.—Specim. prope “agg lect. Herb. Hooker. Spec. orientale, Pallas. Herb, Lam- ert. Subvar. 6.