CURTIS’S BOTAN ICAL MAGAZINE; OR Flower Garden Displayed: In which the most Ornamental Fore1en PLAnTs 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 LINN£US; Their Places of Growth, Times of Flowering, and most approved Methods of Culture. CONDUCTED By SAMUEL CURTIS, F.L.S. By Sir WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K.H. LLD. F.R.A. and L.S. Vice President of the Linnean Society, and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew. VOL. XVII. OF THE NEW SERIES; Or Vol. txx. of the whole Work. ‘¢ Ambrosial gardens, in which art supplies The fervor and the force of Indian skies.’’ LONDON : Printed by Edward Couchman, 10, Throgmorton Street ; FOR THE PROPRIETOR, SAMUEL CURTIS, AT THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE WAREHOUSE, GLAZENWOOD, NEAR COGGESHALL, ESSEX: Published also bySherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 23, Paternoster Row ; Blackwood, Edinburgh ; and in Holland, by Mr. Gt. Eldering, Florist, at Haarlem: And to be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country. 1844. TO HIS HIGHNESS THE PRINCE DE SALM DYCK, OF DYCK, AUTHOR OF THE “ MONOGRAPHIE DES GENRES ALOE ET MESEMBRYANTHEMUM,” A NOBLEMAN, NO LESS DISTINGUISHED BY HIS KNOWLEDGE, THAN BY HIS SUCCESSFUL CULTIVATION OF SUCCULENT PLANTS, THE PRESENT VOLUME IS DEDICATED BY HIS HIGHNESS’ FAITHFUL AND OBEDIENT SERVANT, . W. J. HOOKER. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW, DecEMBER 1, 1844. White. dell Pub by S Curtis Glaxenwood Essex Nov! 11843 Sware Se ( 4048 ) LuUXEMBURGIA CILIOSA. FRINGE-LEAVED LUXEMBURGIA. SEK KK KK KEKE KEE EEK EERE Class and Order. MonapDeEtreuiA PoLYANDRIA. ( Nat. Ord.—SavvacEsiEz. ) Generic Character. Calycis sepala 5 subineequalia caduca. Petala 5 inequa- lia. Anthere hypogyne subsessiles lineares tetragone apice biporose in massulam concavam secundam coalite. Stylus subulatus incurvus. Ovariwm trigonum. . Capsula trivalvis, 1-locularis, oo sperma, marginibus introflexis se- miniferis. Semina marginata,—Frutices ramosi glaberrimi. Folia alterna dentata, cuspidata, nervis lateralibus parallels numerosis, petiolo basi bistipulato, stipulis ciliatis caducis. Flores terminales, racemosi, lutet. D C. Specific Character and Synonyms. Luxempureta ®* ciliosa; foliis confertis longe petiolatis ob- longo-lanceolatis glanduloso-setosis apice longe setoso- mucronatis, stipulis deciduis, corymbis multifloris, flo- ribus polyandris. i é Luxemevrer ciliosa. Gardn. Herb. Bras. n. 5677. et im Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 516. - Precrantuera ciliosa. Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Bras. v. 1. p. 40. M. Aveuste pe St. Hizaree characterized and published this beautiful Genus, under the name of LuxEemsureta, * nearly _* So named in honor of the Duke of LuxEMBURG, under whose aus- pices, its author, M. A. DE St. Hizarre, commenced his botanical researches in Brazil. VOL. XVII. B ° nearly about the same time that it was taken up by Mar- Trius and Zuccarini under that of Piecranrnera. The four species described by Sr. Hinaire (L. speciosa, L, corymbosa, L. polyandra, and L. octandra) are all inhabit- ants of Brazil; and ‘ all grow on that chain of mountains which separates the virgin forests from the discovered countries; and what is remarkable,” continues Sr. Hinarre, * is, that this chain, which forms the boundary line between two such different Floras, presents a vegetation equally distinct from both.” Our present species was first detected by Martius in the Diamond district, province of Minas Geraes; and, subse- quently, in the year 1841, by Mr. Garner, in moist, peaty soil, in open places, growing with species of ANDROoMEDA, on the Organ mountains, at an elevation of 5,000 feet above the level of the sea. Truly distinct as this species is from any other, Sreupe, in the last edition of his «« Nomen- clator,” has, I know not upon what authority, united it, together with L. polyandra, with L. corymbosa. No one could do so who has ever seen the two species growing. It is a truly handsome plant, both in its foliage, which is of a lively and glossy green, and in its fine corymb of flowers, ofa pure yellow colour. It requires a moderate stove heat, and flowers during the summer months, in the- Royal Gardens of Kew, whither seeds had been sent by Mr. GARDNER. Descr. With us it, at present, forms a beautiful shrub, three to four feet high ; but in Brazil it attains a height of eight to twelve feet, and is branched. Leaves alternate, oblong-lanceolate, tipped with a long bristle at the point, glossy bright green, elegantly and closely penninerved, the margin glanduloso-serrate, and within the serratures strongly ciliated all round the margin; the glandular serratures, Mr. Garpner observes, take their origin from an union of the primary veins with one which surrounds the leaf, while the cilié arise from the inoculation of a smaller primary vein with the lateral branches of the larger ones ; petioles an inch and more long ; stipules subulate, much ciliated, cadu- cous. Racemes many-tlowered, terminal, subcorymbose. Pedicels long, slender, jointed, with a pair of subulate, cili- ated bracteas at the joint. Calyx of five, unequal, green, deciduous sepals. Corolla large, of five hypogynous, obo- vate, spreading petals. Stamens one-sided, of several linear anthers, united into a concave mass in themselves and by their short filaments. Ovary soon inclined, as it were, from the fissure of the staminal mass, trigonal-oblong. Style - subulate. Stigma simple. | Luk by S. Curtis Glavemood Esse. Mov] 1843 ( 4049 ) AERIDES AFFINE. Rose-coLourED AERIDES; or Air-plant. Class and Order. GyNANDRIA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcutpex. ) Generic Character. Perianthium patens vel clausum. Sepala lateralia, basi sepius obliqua, cum ungue producto column connata, Labellum cum ungue columne articulatum, saceatum vel calcaratum, trilobum; lobis lateralibus nanis; limbo cucul- lato, aut subulato, aut abbreviato-tumido, aut subfornicato. Columna in ovarium recumbens, brevis, aptera. Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 2, postice sulcata ; caudicula lata vel filiformi, g¢landula peltata subrotunda.—Herbe epiphyte caulescentes. Caules subsimplices, radicantes. Folia dis- ticha, coriacea, aut subcarnosa. Flores racemosi, vel spi- cati. Lindl. Specific Character and Synonyms. Aeripes* affine; foliis canaliculatis subrecurvis retusis mu- cronatis, racemis cylindraceis multifloris erectis foliis equalibus, sepalis oblongis obtusis, petalis conformi- bus majoribus, labello cateris majore ovato membra- naceo obsolete trilobo, ungue saccato geniculato, cal- care parvo cornuto lamine supposito. Land. Arrives affine. Wallich, Cat. n. 7316. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 239. Lindl. Sert. Orchid. t. 15. Arripes multiflorum. Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 3. p. 475. = There is a peculiar delicacy and beauty in the OrcHIDEZ of the East Indies, and especially in the Genus to jt i ft e * So called by Louretro, from ap, air, because of the property these plants have of living and flourishing, if suspended in the air. the present plant belongs, which, combined with the diffi- culty of obtaining them, renders them peculiarly valuable to the cultivator, and causes them to be eagerly sought after. ArripEs affine was sent to the Royal Botanic Gar- dens of Kew by Dr. Wat ica, from the mountains of Nepal, near Sheopore. It had been previously found in Sylhet by Dr. Roxsures. Our plant, however, graceful and elegant as it is, is very inferior to the native specimen represented in Dr. Linpiey’s splendid “ Sertum Orchidaceum,” from a drawing in the possession of the Honourable the Court of Directors of the East India Company. In another respect too, it differs: the racemes of flowers are there represented erect: with us, the flowers, and indeed the leaves too, are drooping. In the Orchideous stove it blooms in April. Descr. Epiphyte. Roots large, thick, fleshy. Leaves strap-shaped, distichous, channelled, obtuse, or more fre- quently notched at the apex. Raceme from the axil of one of the leaves, pendent, many-flowered. Flowers purplish rose colour, spotted. At the base of the flowers is a small, acute bractea. Sepals obovate, obtuse. Petals nearly of the same shape, but smaller: all of them spreading. Lip larger than the sepals or petals, ovate, crisped or waved, the sides curved down: its claw curved at an angle, and prolonged into an obtuse spur. Column short, bent backward, semiterete, looking, when surmounted by the acuminated anther-case, like the head and beak of a bird. Fig. 1. Lip and Column:—magnified. i Glazemo0d Fisse wb by S. Curtes é ( 4050 ) ACROPHYLLUM VERTICILLATUM. Wohuor_- LEAVED ACROPHYLLUM. TERE KEE EEE EEE EE KEE KE Class and Order. DecanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Cunontacez. ) Generic Character. Calyx 5-partitus, persistens. Petala 5. Stamina 10. Discus hypogynus minimus. Styli setacei. Capsula glo- bosa, bilocularis, apice dehiscens; Joculis polyspermis. Semina minuta, levia.—Frutex Australasicus erectus, ramo- sus, sempervirens. Folia simplicia, terna, subsessilia, ob- longo-cordata, acuta, grosse serrata, coriacea, glabra, sub- tus glauca. Stipule paleacee, persistentes» Flores parvi, albi, copiosi, verticillati, pedicellati. Capsula membranacea, apice hians, fere Heuchere. Don. Specific Name and Synonyms. Acropuyiium * verticillatum. AcROPHYLLUM Venosum. Benth. : Catycomis verticillata. Don in Ed. New Phil. Journal, v. . 793. Catycomis. Br. My first knowledge of this plant was derived from speci- mens, gathered oe the Blue Mountains of New Holland by Mr. Arran Cunnincuam, who transmitted them to Eng- land under the name of “ Wetmannia;” a Genus to which it is, doubtless, nearly allied. In 1830, in the work Sete ee Se above Nip * I presume thus named by Mr. BENTHAM, from axpos, the summit, an $urre, leaf: from the circumstance of the leaves growing at the apex of the branches, above the whorls of flowers. above quoted, under a “ Monograph of the Cunoniacex,” Mr. Don has given to this plant the generic name of Caty- comis of Brown, and correctly described its generic distinc- tions. Catycomis is a name, mentioned by Mr. Brown in his Botany of Capt. Fiinpers’ voyage as one of five Aus- tralian Genera of the Natural Order Cunontacexz: but to us it appears that, by that term, the Genus Catuicoma (Ayprews), a plant of the same Natural Order, and from the same country, is intended. And this idea is strengthened by the fact that, Dr. Sims, in Bot. Magazine, t. 1811, quotes, under the Catuicoma serratifolia, the Genus Catycomis of “ Brown in Fiinpers’ Voyage, App. p. 540.” If this be correct, there can exist no doubt of the propriety of adopt- ing Mr. BentHam’s more recently described Genus, Acro- PHYLLUM ; and even should Mr. Brown’s Catycomis be in- tended as distinct from Caxticoma, the name is assuredly too near akin to the latter word to render it desirable that it should be adopted, especially when the two are in the same Order. The plant is peculiarly handsome; it was introduced into our gardens by Mr. Arran Cunnincuam, and with the common treatment of the greenhouse, it flowers in great profusion during the spring months. Descr. A shrub, about two feet high, with opposite branches, and leaves, which are ternate-verticillate, nearly sessile, oblong-ovate, coriaceous, acuminate, very coarsely serrated and strongly penninerved, the young ones of a rich red-purple colour. Flowers smail, in numerous, bracteated, dense whorls, below the terminal leaves. Pedicels short, hairy, red. Calyx of five, hairy, spreading, ovate, pale red sepals. Petals longer than the calyx, spathulate, spread- ing. Stamens ten, hypogynous. ‘Filaments longer than the petals (at first incurved). Anthers subglobose, two- celled, cells opening longitudinally. Germen subglobose, hairy. Styles two, subulate. Capsule two-lobed, termi- nated with two spreading, persistent styles, hairy, two- celled, each cell few-seeded. Seeds ovato-globose, attach- ed to the dissepiments on each side. _Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Flower, fully expanded. 3. Pistil. 4, Fruit: nat. size. 0. The same, magnified, showing the persistent Filaments. 6. Fruit. 7. Capsule cut through transversely. 8. Seed, All but fig. 4 magnified. 4 ws i . rhs Og eg ah, ‘ ae G4 o WH Fitch. dei pS ey PN eg en eT a aoe, eS mre eee | Swear dt ( 4051) IMPATIENS TRICORNIS. THREE-HORNED Batsam; or Touch-me-not, Class and Order. Pentanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord. —Baxsaminex. ) Generic Character. Anthere quinque, nempe tres biloculares, 2 ante petalum superius 1-loculares. Stgmata 5 coalita. Capsula pris- matico-teretiuscula elongata, valvis a basi ad apicem ex- trorsum revolutis. Cotyledones planiuscule. Pedunculi axillares ramosi multiflori. Capsule glabre. Folia alter- nu: DEC, Specific Character and Synonym. Impatiens tricornis ; annua erecta, foliis alternis lanceolatis serratis pilosis in petiolum eglandulosum longe angus- tatis, racemis axillaribus pilosis foliis multo. breviori- bus, sepalo dorsali oblongo subbilobo sinu cuspidato dorso in cornu producto, calcare acuminato incurvo, petalorum lobo altero rotundato altero elongato acuti- usculo, fructu longo lineari. Landi. Impatiens tricornis. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840. t. 9. This, like the more striking I. glanduligera, figured in our tab. 4020, was introduced to the gardens of the Horti- cultural Society by the Honourable the Directors of the East India Company, from the North of India, and comes to perfection equally with that in the open border, where indeed it seeds itself. The name of “ Three-horned,” Dr. Lino ey tells us, was given to this species from the presence of “ the spur, the horn above-mentioned, at the back of the l > ae sepal er petal), and the ape # the wr 7 Fetlses together forming three conical processes.” These several horn-like processes are more apparent in the state of the bud than in the fully expanded flower. Descr. This forms a much branched, obscurely pubes- cent herb, three to four feet high, with a very thick, succu- lent stem, rough and warted in maturity, and much branched, the stem and branches everywhere glabrous, striated or furrowed, green. Leaves four to six inches long, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, much serrated, tapering into the footstalk, strongly nerved, the nerves sunk above, elevated beneath. On one side of the base of the petiole is a large kidney-shaped gland, which is decurrent on the stem ; and a smaller spherical one on the opposite side. Peduncle axillary, thickened at the base, bearing a short panicle, or irregular raceme, of sulphur-coloured, large flowers. Sepals two, small, spreading, membranous, obo- vate, mucronate, pale greenish-brown. Petals (according to De Canpotte) four, of which the upper is broadly obcordate, pale sulphur-colour, with a green horn at the back, and a much smaller one in the sinus; two lateral ones large, obliquely two-lobed, falcate, curved upwards, spotted with ferruginous dots; lower sepal very large, cucullate, spotted, ending in a rather long, incurved spur. Fruit two inches in length, terete, angular. Fig. 1. Fruit ;—natural size. ii bitch de lith by S Curtis Glazenwood Essex Nov7 11843 Swat St ( 4052 ) Boronia Fraskri. Mr. Fraser’s Boronia. KEE KEKE EER EEK EEE EEE Class and Order: Ocranpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—RouracEz. ) Generic Character. Calyx 4-fidus persistens. Petala 4 ovata persistentia. Stamina 8, rarius 4 sepalis opposita antherifera, 4 altera abortiva, filamentis ciliatis incurvis. Styli 4 erecti approx- imati aut inter se coaliti. Carpella 4 bivalvia introrsum connata in capsulam 4-lobam 4-locularia. Semina in loculo subsolitaria ovata compressa. Embryo rectus in albumine carnoso, radicula infera (ex Gzrtn.)—Frutices Nove Hol- landie. Folia opposita. Pedunculi axillares. Flores se- pius purpurascentes. D C. Specific Name and Character. Boronia Fraseri; ramis angulatis glabris, foliis pinnatis foliolis quinis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis, pedunculis umbellatis tri- pluri-floris calycibus petalisque incanis, staminibus 8 alternis majoribus, filamentis omnibus superne incrassatis tuberculatis, tuberculis setosis, an- theris mucronatis. ita, gir 3 Boronra anemonifolia. Paxt. Mag. of Bot. t. 9. p. 123. This is the handsomest of a very handsome Genus, and appears to have been introduced to our gardens from New olland, having been recently figured in Mr. Paxron’s ‘* Magazine of Botany,” under the name of B. anemonifolia, and it is presumed intended for the plant of that name published by Atian CuNnnINGHAM ; although, as is the custom with that Work, which, it must be ap pon iedest takes away much from its usefulness, no synonym, or refer- ence, is given. The plant, however, is wholly at variance with the B. anemonifolia of A. Cunnincuam: nor does it appear to be a species taken up by any other author ; but is unquestionably one, of which I find fine specimens in my Herbarium, from the late Mr. Cuarzes Fraser, which that indefatigable Botanist collected, and noted as “ Boronia, a native of ravines on the banks of the Nepean River. _ Its height three feet. Observed in flower in September. Rare.”—With us it grows freely in a common greenhouse, and is readily increased by cuttings; and its deep rose- coloured flowers are produced in the spring months. Descr. A shrub, with numerous, opposite, angular, glabrous branches. Leaves opposite, pinuated ; pinne five, rarely three, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, jointed upon the rachis, which is itself channelled, and jointed at the setting on of the leaflets, not winged. Peduncles axillary, solitary, or two together, bearing an wmbel of three to six or eight flowers, in some cases shorter than the leaves, hoary as well as the pedicels, Calyx small, of four deep, spreading, hoary, ovate segments. Corolla of four, ovate, spreading petals, of a deep rose-red colour, downy on both sides, but beneath more so, and hoary. Stamens eight, inserted upou the large eight-lobed, fleshy disk of the germen ; all of them short, and each alternate one still shorter. Fila- ments thick, fleshy, white, club-shaped: in the upper or thickened part studded with tubercles in four rows, (fewer in the shorter filaments) and each of these tubercles has three or four stellated hairs at the point. Germen nearly hemispherical, obscurely five-angled, gradually tapering into a rather short style. Stigma dilated. Fig. 1. Upper, and 2, under side of a Petal. 3. Calyx with Stamens and Petals. 4. Shorter, and 5, larger Stamen. 6. Pistil and fleshy Disk :— magnified. ELfich da: Pub by 8: Curtis Glaxenwood Kesexe Noy? 1LSF3 Swan : ( 4053 ) a PETALIDIUM BARLERIOIDES. BARLERIA-LIKE PreTALIDIUM. KEK EKE EER EE KEE EKEKK EEE , Class and Order. DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Acanruacea. ) Generic Character. Calyx exqualis, profunde 5-partitus, bracteolis duabus valvatum inclusus. Corolla infundibuliformis, limbo sub- equali quinquefido, Stamina didynama inclusa ; antheré oblong, sagittate, locellis parallelis equalibus basi arista- tis. Stigma bifidum, laciniis filiformibus. Capsula basi brevi spatio compressa asperma, hinc in medio tetrasperma, Dissepimentum completum, adnatum, persistens. Semina retinaculis uncinatis subulatis suffulta, ovata, acuta, com- pressa, immarginata.—Inflorescentia: flores pedunculati, axillares, solitarti vel in ramulo brevi fasciculum axillarem _ exhibentes, bracteolis magnis valvatim contiguis, Barleriam mentientibus. Nees. — Specific Name and Synonyms. Peraripium * barlerioides. _ Perativium barlerioides. Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. v. 3. Rveruia barleriorides. Roth,Nov. Pl. Sp. ). JIU. Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2. p. 821. n. 21. . 2389. a. 8. | ee | ee Ruexzia bracteata. Roxb, Fl. I Rv. 3.p. AT. a ‘ a Y . th ie ur te at ions of India, ° This plant inhabits the mountai Pint at Sheikpore according to Dr. Roxsuren. It w is ae if ‘% % p 2 3 vd .£ @ 4 al is cee * So named, I presume, ines, on account of the very conspicu ous corolla, port ie? and Monghyr by Dr. Hamitron; and near Deyre by Dr. Watticu, to whom the Royal Botanical Gardens of Kew are indebted for a living plant. It requires a stove heat, and with that treatment blooms readily in a pot, during the’ summer months, when its flowers render it ornamental. It belongs to the second tribe of Nees von EsEnsBecx’s Acanruace® which he calls Ruexiies, and constitutes a Genus, of which the present is the only species yet known to us. Descr. With us it forms an upright shrub, with woody articulated stems, the joints short. Leaves opposite, on short petioles, ovate, acute, serrated, nearly glabrous, strongly veined, dark green. Peduncles axillary, one- or few-flowered, in the latter case racemose, always shorter than the leaves, bearing immediately below the flower, and concealing the calyx, a pair of large, cordate, leafy and _ Strongly veined, entire, bracteas. Calyx cut almost to the base into five linear-subulate, erect; downy segments, of which one is a little longer and broader than the rest. Corolla large, between funnel-shaped and campanulate; the tube enlarged upwards, white ; the limb of five spreading, obovate, crenulate lobes, white, within streaked with red- dish hairs, and in the lower faux clothed with scattered hairs. | Stamens four, didynamous. Anthers ovate, each lobe with an awn at the base. Germen ovate, seated, as it were, on a glandular disk, and having a protuberance on each side. Style longer than the tube of the corolla. Stigma of two subulate segments. Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil. 2. Base of the Tube of the Corolla, with the Stamens. 3. Germen:—magnified. eb by S. Cartes Wazenwood Kesar Dec 2? TI#4 ( 4054 ) CYCNOCHES VENTRICOsUM; var. Egertonidnum. VENTRICOSE-LIPPED CyCNOCHES, or SwAN-NECK; Sir Francis Egerton’s var. TKK KEK KK KKK K KEKE KKK 2 Class and Order. GyNANDRIA Monanpria. # ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. ) Generic Character. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala lateralia lanceolata, basi paululim sub labello connata; supremo angustiore. Petala \atiora, falcata, decurva. Labellum liberum, ecal- caratum, 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; caudiculd lineari ; glandulé gross4.—Habitus Cataseti (sed racemus lateralis). Lindl. Specific Character and Synonyms. CycnocuEs* ventricosum; sepalis petalisque lanceolatis re- flexis, labello integro ventricoso acuminato basi callo- so, ungue brevi, columna arcuata sepalo supremo duplo breviore. Batem. Cycnocues ventricosum. Batem. Orch. of Mex. et Guatem. tab. 5. - fi bP 4 | t : Var. Egertonianum; sepalis petalisque ovato-lanceolatis reflexis, labello columna continuo obovato margine incurvo digitis 5 clavatis utrinque instructo, epichilio lineari membranaceo digitis vix longiore. Batem. Crcnocnes Egertonianum. Batem. Orchid. of Mex. et Gua- temala. : CycNnocHES * So called by Mr. LINDLEY, from nvunve¢, 2 SWAN, and yen, a neck, from the resemblance of the column to the curved neck ofa swan. VOL. XVII. c Cycnocnes ventricosum, «, C. Egertonianum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1843, Suppl. 77, with a wood cut. The concluding plate of Mr. Bareman’s splendid work on the Orcuipacem of Mexico and Guatimala, with its accompanying pages, are devoted to a most remarkable transformation of CycnocnEs ventricosum into that kind of Cycnocues which had been called C. Egertonianum ; and a history of their transformation is there recorded. The same subject is taken up by Professor Linpiey, in the November number of the Botanical Register, 1843, (Sup- plement,) and a beautiful wood-cut is given of a portion of a raceme, bearing the flowers of the two kinds, and inter- mediate states. There can be no doubt, therefore, of the propriety of considering them as varieties of one and the same species ; a conclusion which could not be arrived at by anything short of such ocular demonstration. In one re- spect, Mr. Bareman’s figure is still more remarkable, for the same pseudo-bulb bears two racemes, one of them exhibiting perfect flowers of C. ventricosum, and the other perfect C. Egertonianum, as if from the effect of grafting. The flowers of C. ventricosum (of which a figure is prepared for this Magazine) are full four inches in diameter, with yellow- green sepals and petals, and a large, white, undivided lip : those of our variety will be best understood by an inspection of the figure. 1 may observe that, in the stove of the Royal Botanic Garden, where our figures were made, the respective varieties have hitherto continued constant, neither of them showing an approach to the other kind. Fig. 1. Front view of the Column and Lip. 2. Side view of ditto. Sweasé ft L885. Pub by S Curtis Clacerwood Evrex Deo? ( 4055 ) STATICE RYTIDOPHYLLA. RASP-LEAVED, SuruBBy Sea-LAVANDER. Class and Order. PenTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. ( Nat. Ord.—P.iumsaaine2. ) Generic Character. Flores spicato-paniculati. Calyx 1-phyllus, plicatus, subscariosus. Petala 5, subconnata. Stamina basi peta- lorum inserta. U¢riculus monospermus, calyce inclusus. Specific Name and Character. Sratice rytidophylla; frutescens erecta ramosa, caule com- presso folioso, foliis spathulatis mucronatis glaucis punctato-scabris, paniculis lateralibus elongatis scabris basi valde dilatatis, spicis patentibus plurifloris, brac- teis margine scariosis, calyce colorato basi hispidulo, limbo 5-lobo serrulato, petalis anguste cuneatis. A very beautiful species of Srarice, and easily cultivated as a hardy greenhouse plant; but of its history, I regret to say, I can get no satisfactory information. ‘The Royal Gardens of Kew are indebted for the possession of it to_ Mr. Lowe, of Clapton; and it exists in several gardens under the name of S. Dicksoniana. Mr. Macway, of Dub- lin, informs me that he raised it from South African seeds, given him by Mr. Harvey, and that he understood it to have come from Port Natal. But I find nothing of the kind among my own specimens from that part of the country; and although Mr. Harvey is aware that he sig to Mr. Mackay seeds from the Cape of Good Hope, he hac no reasoh to suppose that the collection contained any pm so distant a region as Port Natal. Respecting its — tive country and introduction we must still remain in | "doubt ; doubt ; but there can be no question about the beauty of the species, or its merits as a standard plant for culti- vation. Descr. Stem, in our plant, a foot and a half high, erect, singularly compressed, bare of leaves below, above branched and leafy. Leaves four to five inches long, spa- thulate, mucronate, often recurved, very much dilated, and amplexicaul at the base, (there streaked with red) glaucous, and on both sides rough with minute, elevated dots. Pan- icles large, (for the size of the plant,) lateral, on long peduncles, which are much branched upwards, the terminal, or spike-bearing branches, forming corymbs, and patent ; peduncles and branches rough: bracteas amplexicaul, those of the pedicels very obtuse, with a broad, coloured, membranous margin. Calyx with a few hairs at the base of the tube; the limb large, spreading, five-lobed, five- nerved, serrated, rose-coloured. Petals narrow, acuminate, deep rose. Stamens and styles much exserted, and about equal in length. Fig. 1. Flower and bracteated Pedicel. 2. Calyx :—magnijfied. nrth, 2 79% ‘ Befhitely det! PA Ay io j ay ad ; ‘ Sue bu « laarke Ginveed Rosen Dosti tad Goer2¥) ( 4056 ) CALTHA SAGITTATA. ARROW-LEAVED Fic-Marico.p. Class and Order. Potyanpria Potyeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Ranuncutace2. ) Generic Character. Calyx coloratus quinque-sepalus, sepalis suborbiculatis petaloideis. Petalao. Stamina oo. Ovaria 5—10. Capsule 5—10 (vel 00) compresse patentes I-loculares oo-sperme. —Herbe perennes glaberrime. D C. Specific Character and Synonyms. Cattua sagittata ; caule repente radicante, foliis basi late vaginantibus longe petiolatis ovato-sagittatis subacutis margine sinuato-dentatis auriculis sursum inflexis, se- palis 8—10, staminibus pistillisque numerosis. J. D. Hooker. * 4 4 Carta sagittata. Cav. Ic. 5. m. 456. t. 414. Gaud. in Freycinet’s Voyage Botan. p. 136. D’Urville Fl. des Isles Malouines in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, 2. 4. p. 615. —C. multicapsularis. Sol. MSS. in Bibl. Banks. Forst. Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 8. p. 324. ve —s First discovered by Sir J. Banxs and Dr. Soranper in Success Bay, Terra del Fuego, in 1769; again found at Port Egmont, W. Falkland Island, by Lupovic Née, who accompanied the Spanish Navigator, Mataspinas, in his voyage to South America; and more lately gathered in the Falklands by Gaupicuaup, after the wreck of Capt. 2 REY- cinet’s ship, “ L’Uranie,” and by Capt. D’Urvitie in the voyage of La Coguitte. The specimens from which the present figure was made, were collected in Hermit’s Isle, Cape Cape Horn, where it first attracted the attention of Capt. Ross, the Commander of the Antarctic Expedition, and was afterwards gathered abundantly both there and in the E. Falkland Island by the other officers. The roots from the former locality were sent home by the Botanist of the Ex- pedition from the Falkland Islands, where they had been flowering in November, 1842; and they again bloomed in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew in the months of August and September. It is rather as a Botanical curio- sity, than as an ornamental plant, that this species is here introduced. It is cultivated in moist bog-earth. Descr. Roots stout, creeping, branched, densely clothed with the very broad, membranous, sheathing bases of the petioles. The leaves are very variable in size, (as is the whole plant) including the petioles, from one or two inches to a foot and a half high, according to the moisture or dry- ness of the locality it inhabits, dark green and shining, paler beneath, erect or horizontal. Scapes an inch to a foot long, stout, erect, smooth, and succulent. Flowers an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, the sepals elliptical ovate, pale yellowish-green, nerved. Filaments shorter than the sepals, fleshy, compressed. Anthers small, innate. Carpels numerous, slightly hairy when young. The flow- Foe in warm weather, a faint honey-like smell. Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Ovary :—magnified. 00,0 : 3 i : 1 708s wan J by J: Curtis Glazenmood EissexDeet 11943 “4 ( 4057 ) VERONICA SPECIOSA. SHOWY-FLOWERED SPEEDWELL. Class and Order. > *t Diawprra Monoeynia. * ; ( NatsOrd.—Scrornunare. ) a wt * « ra nF ot by » Generic Character. Calyx 4-partitus, rard 3-partitus. Corolla subrotata. Tu- bus calyce brevior. Limbus 4-partitus, inzequalis, lobis indivisis. Stamina 2 antherifera, sterilia, nulla. Capsula valvis medio septiferis, v. bipartibilis—Herbe vel frutices. Folia opposita, quandoque verticillata vel alterna, sepeé den- tata vel incisa. lnflorescentia varia. Calyces ebracteati. Br. Specific Character and Synonyms. Veronica speciosa ; fruticosa glaberrima, foliis carnosis obo- vatis fere retusis cum mucrone calloso integerrimis subsessilibus, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis folio lon- gioribus, floribus densissime, racemoso-spicatis, pedi- cellis longitudine calycis bracteis ovato-lanceolatis pedicello dimidio brevioribus, segmentis calycinis ova- to-lanceolatis inequalibus, corolla su brotata bilabiata, labio superiore ovato inferiore tripartito lobo inter- medio minore. = ) Veronica speciosa. Rich. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. sub Tab. 3461. Ann. of Nat. Hist. v. 1. p. 457. It is with no small pleasure I here give a figure of this most beautiful Veronica, taken from a fine flowering speci- men at Mr. Knieut’s Exotic Nursery, Fulham. The Phe cies was first described by Mr. Autan Cunnincuam in t He Botanical Magazine, |. c., and he then took occasion to remark, “ Of all the plants of New Zealand, w pabe re Botanists have made us acquainted, we know of none more to be desired, wherewith to enrich our collections, than this very remarkable and beautiful Speedwell, judging both from the fine specimens we have received, and from the description given of it on its native hills by its discoverer (Ricuarp CunnincuaM). Since the country around its locality, at the mouth of the Hokianga River, is now occu- pied by Europeans, let us hope soon to receive the seeds, which we may reasonably expect will succeed, as well as the Criantuus has done, in the open borders ; the elevated grounds, occupied by our Veronica, being greatly exposed to the prevalent tempests of its weather-beaten coast, in nearly the same degree of southern latitude (about 36°) in which we believe the Cuianruus has lately been found.” Living plants have been brought over by Mr. Evcertey from Hokianga, which were purchased by our respected friend, Mr. Knieurt, in whose Exotic Nursery they have produced their fine spikes of flowers in the month of September of the present year ;—and well does the plant deserve the name of speciosa. It is at present too rare to run the risk of ex- posing it to an English winter: but it thrives well in a cool greenhouse, and the Royal Botanic Garden of Kew is in- ar REN to Mr. Knieur for the possession of this scarce plant. Descr. In its native country, this shrub attains to a height of three to six feet! It is much branched, the branches stout, the younger ones succulent, often tinged with purple, and glabrous as is every part of the plant. Leaves opposite, two to three inches long and two broad, obovate, fleshy, quite entire, nearly sessile. Peduncles from the axils of the upper leaves, solitary, bearing a spike of num- erous, crowded flowers, before expansion, red-purple, after- wards rich blue purple. Corolla two-lipped ; upper lip ovate, lower of three deep, ovate, segments, the interme- diate one the smallest. Stamens two, much protruded, aud equal in length to the style. Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and Pistil :—magnified. os sainietiensesiinitetiaheltisiinesiate Ys Swan de 1 154: ub by S. Cartes Glazrenwood Essex Dec? W Fitch. dd? ( 4058 ) STEPHANOTIS FLORIBUNDA. Copious- FLOWERING STEPHANOTIS. Class and Order. PenranpriA Dicynia. ( Nat. Ord.—AscreprApeE2. ) Generic Character. Calyx 5-sepalus, corolla brevior. Corolla hypocrateri- formis, laciniis obliquis contortis. Corona staminea sim- plex, 5-phylla, laciniis simplicibus membranaceis erectis integris, Anthere membrana superate ; masse pollinis ge- mine, erecte, basi fixe. Stigma conicum acutum. Folli- cult (ex Du Per. Tu.) duo, horizontales, crassi, acuminati, seminibus papposis.—Frutices Madagascarienses, volubiles ; foliis oppositis coriaceis Levissimis ; floribus ternatis v. um- bellatis, pedunculo communi interpetiolari. Brongn. Specific Character and Synonyms. PHANOTIs * floribunda ; foliis ellipticis retusis v. brevi ‘sime acuminato-uncinatis, floribus umbellatis numeé sis, sepalis ovatis tubo corolla quadruplo breviorib laciniis corone staminez ovatis antherarum membh brevioribus. Brongn. ‘ #: StepHanovis floribunda. Brongn. in Nowv. Amn. Nat. v. 7. p. 30. — JF ei Ai Soa A native of flada gascar, which Mrs. Lawrence had the gratification of introducing to the stoves of this country ; and few plants could have been more acceptable. It is a 3 ce so oe graceful Damn, a crown, and ovs, ores, an ear; from the five ear- _ -appen- the staminal crown. a to * graceful climber ; and when trained upon a wire globe trel- lice, with the mass of dark green foliage and the countless clusters of large white or rather cream-coloured flowers, as we have seen it in the collection at Ealing Park, few plants can be more attractive. To add to the interest of it, the blossoms exhale the most delicious fragrance. Two other species, SrepHanotis Thouarsti and S. acuminata, are also described by Bronentart ; and from them ours is readily distinguished by the copious-flowered umbels, and the greater size of the corolla. It flowers in the summer months. Descr. A climbing shrub, with opposite, elliptical, coriaceous, dark green, entire leaves, having a short, re- curved acumen, and pelioles about half an inch long. Umbels pedunculate from the axil of a leaf, many-flowered, pedicel an inch in length. Calyx small, five-lobed, spread- ing. Corolla an inch and more long, white or cream-colour- ed, hypocrateriform ; tube swelling at the base, limb spread- ing, of five ovate, obtuse, spreading segments. Staminal crown of five erect, entire, membranaceous segments. An- thers terminated by a membrane, under which they are, as it were, concealed. Pollen-masses erect. Fig. 1. Calyx and Staminal Crown. 2. Anthers and Pollen-masses. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified. S Curtis Glavempood 4 Fu bu ( 4059 ) DipLotana Damprert. DAMPIER’S DipLtovana. Cinek and Order. Portyanpria Monoeynta. ( Nat. Ord.—Ruraceg. ) Generic Character. ~ Involucrum duplex multifloram, exterius 5-lobum, inte- rius 10—15-partitum exteriore longius. Flores sessiles in- volucello calyceve 5-paleaceo instructi. Pet.o. Stam. 10 ~ Inferné villosa. Annudus glandulosus ovarium cingens. Stylus 1. Stigma 5-dent. Carpella 5 bivalvia 1-sperma trausversé striata. Semina oblongo-cylindracea, hilo late- rali, feré Correw.—Caules fruticosi ramost. Folia alterna ovalia punctato-glandulosa, ceterium foliis Corres albe si- milia. Capitula terminalia pedicellata. De Cand. Specific Character and Synonyms. Dirtorzna* Dampieri; foliis oblongo-obovatis obtusis supra scaberulis subtus stellatim pubescenti-tomentosis, ju- nioribus subferrugineis. ) Dirtorana Dampieri. Desf: Mem. Mus. 3. p. 449. t. 20. De Cand. Prodr. 1. p. 719. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841, f. 64. ‘. es ; ee A singular Rutaceous plant, with flowers collected into a capitulum like the Composite, but which, when examined, exhibit a very different structure. These flowers are fully \ | ae : ae, * * So named by Mr. Brown from Sahoo , double, and ypava, a cloak, from the sos pa or inyolucre, at first sight resembling a calyx and | corolia, | ‘ produced in the greenhouse in the month of May, and have a very pretty appearance among the rather gloomy foliage. It is a native of Western Australia. Dampier appears to have first discovered it in Hawkes’ Bay, and it is said to be the plant figured in his voyage, v. 4. t. 3. f. 3. (French ed.) It was collected during the voyage of Captain Baupin, at at Terre d’Endracht of the French voyagers, and both seeds and specimens have been sent by Mr. James Drum- mond from the Swan River Settlement, from the former of which our plants were raised at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew. Mr. Attan Cunnincuam named a plant Dr- PpLOLENA Dampieri, which he gathered at Dirk Hartog’s Island: but this proves to be the D. grandiflora of Desrontarnes ; the only other described species. A third has, however, been found in the Swan River Colony, by Mr. James Drummonp, which may be called D. angustifolia.* Descr. A moderate-sized shrub, copiously branched. The branches alternate, the younger ones clothed with stellated down. Leaves alternate, oblong, but broader upwards, entire, the younger ones rusty, the older ones scabrous above, beneath clothed with dense, stellated down. Peduncles solitary, lateral, deflexed. Head of flowers large, drooping : florets numerous, surrounded by a large double involucre. Calyx of several linear, short scales. Stamens long, red. Filaments very hairy below. Anthers yellow. Corolla none. Ovary on a large annular disk, of five lobes, hairy at the summit. Style longer than the stamens. Stigma of five small, erect, linear lobes. Fig. 1. Single Floret. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil :—magnified. * D. angustifolia (Hoox.), foliis lineari-oblongis marginibus recurvis supra glabris impresso-punctatis subtus incano-albis. DIPLOL#@NA, n. Sp. DruMMonD’s first coll. n. 14. This has much larger flowers than D. Dampieri; and the leaves are very narrow, with revolute margins. L ASFA € 4060 ) MAMMILLARIA TETRACANTHA. Four-spinep MAMMILLARIA. z Class and Order. - IcosanpriA Monoeynia. » ( Nat. Ord.—Cactes. ) _ Generic Character. Calycis tubus o tum juniorem coronantes. Petala 5—25 a calyce vix dis- tincta, eo longiora et cum sepalis in tubum concreta. Stamina filiformia pluriserialia. Stylus filiformis. Stigma 3—7-fidum radiatum. Bacca levis oblonga. Semina nidu- lantia. Cotyledones minute acuminate.—Suffrutices car- nosi subrotundi aut cylindracei, lactescentes aut succo lim- pido repleti, aphylli, tuberculis subconicis mammeformibus spiraliter dispositis, apice spinulas radiantes et tomentum demum deciduum gerentibus obtecti. Flores inter basin mammillarum sessiles, sepius in zonam transversam dispo- siti. Bacca obovata, edulis, -calyce marcescente, demum deciduo, coronata. Pfeiff. as rio adherens; lobi 5—6 colorati frue- Specific Character and Synonyms. Mammitraria tetracantha: subglobosa simplex, axillis la- natis, mammillis confertissimis gracilibus anguloso- pyramidatis, aculeis ex areola fere nuda regulariter 4 brevibus rigidis, infimo ceteris paulo longiore, juniori- bus rubellis apice nigricantibus tandem albidis. P/fedff- Mammittania tetracantha. “ Salm.” Pfeiff. Enum. Cact. niet sy E 9 The plant here figured has long been cultivated in the Cactus-house of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, under the above appellation: and it appears sufficiently to acco with that of the same name published by Preirer, the oaty ~ author, VOL, XVII. D K AA j safe Pes a Z ‘iad : 2 ie eee? Se : : 9 ~ iV tA r= ie * oe ee Soa 7 Fi, sf LAER AL MATE LIN Chae Ie AAA. — Yegt vu Re. author, so far as I can find, who has noticed it. His description, indeed, seems to have been drawn up from a young specimen “ four inches high, and three inches and a half in diameter, with the mammille and aculez small in proportion;” and the flowers were, probably, unknown to that author, since he does not mention them. It isa native of Mexico, but by whom introduced to Europe I do not learn. It flowers in July. Descr. Our plant is of a subglobose form, a little elon- gated, flattened at the top, nearly a span high, and a little less in diameter, everywhere externally formed of numer- ous mammille of a conical or pyramidal form, but some- what angular, between half and three quarters of an inch long, and about as broad at the base, terminated with a depression, from which arise four spreading aculei, longer than the mammille, moderately strong, between setaceous and subulate, at first brown tipped with a darker colour, then paler, at length almost white: these are about three- quarters of an inch in length, but the two lateral ones are frequently the shortest. The axilla between the mammille are occupied by a dense mass of white wool, as are the apices of the young mammilla. Flowers numerous, small, from the axils of the mammille, crowded about the de- pressed portion of the plant, bright full rose-colour, paler in the disk. é Fig. 1. Front view, and f, 2, side view of the Spines: slightly magnified. Ui Pitch de PD by S61 FLAT FE ~ (72 SFF Zé. Pid b Ww ‘ z ws Glazerwe tb 4 if WI Dt 3 f or. weil 4 war ( 4061 ) CLEMATIS MONTANA? var. grandiflora. Moun- TAIN VirGin’s-Bower ; large-flowered var. Class and Order. PoryanpriA Potyeynta. ( Nat. Ord.—Ranuncuacex. ) Generic Character. —Incolucrum nullum aut calyciforme sub flore. Sepala A—8 colorata. Petala nulla aut plana. Anthere lineares extrorse. Carpella 1-sperma indehiscentia stylo accreto candata. Semen pendulum.—Caules sepe sarmentosi. ‘Folia opposita, Radices fibrose, DC. & Specific Character and Synonyms. CLEMATIS montana; pedunculis ‘unifloris, involucro nullo, _foliis ternatis, toliolis ovato- acuminatis inciso-subtrifi- dis petiolulatis sepalis lato-ovalibus subovatisve. ; ee - montana. Hamilt. MSS. De Cand. Prodr. 1. p. 9. Wall. Pl. Rar, Asiat. 3. p. 12. t. 217. Don, Brit, Fl. Gard. v. 2. p. 253. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, t. 53. Crematis anemoniflora. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 192. (ad grandifionas flags aes Dae / a Nostr. A061. ae ee : val 2 This" fehlie. lpariety a the” very. Seale Cristie - montana flowered, in the open ground, in the garden of Mr. ~. Verren of Exeter, : at the same time with the ordinary form of - plant, of. ‘wipe the blossoms are not half so large. oth are well y cultivating in gardens, where there i is : The profusion of large flow- d By i, and their fragrance, are — _ Strong’ ree acm ditions Tee s a native of North- A eras be Y 2 ollected it at Chit- \ ering in April. Mr... BiinKWoORTH Buinkworru gathered it in Kamaon, and Dr. Royte notices it as prevalent in the Himalayan Mountains, at an elevation of from 5,000 to 7,000 feet above the level of the sea. In our country it flowers in early summer, and indeed, through the month of September. In a few years it ought to become a very general plant, for it strikes readily from cuttings, and from layers. Descr. A large climber, with the habit of our own well- known Traveller’s Joy, having ternate leaves, and leaf- lets not very dissimilar in form from that species ; but with a very different inflorescence, and blossoms, especially in our variety here given, nearly as large as those of CLematis florida, The petioles and peduncles spring in axillary clus- ters or fascicles, and great numbers from one common point. Leaflets ovate, acuminated, more or less incised, generally with a lateral incision on each side, forming three sharp points, sometimes also coarsely serrated, occasionally entire. Flowers solitary on each peduncle. Sepals spread- ing large, cream-coloured. Stamens and pistils ereenish- yellow. Swan se San 1 LSE Pith by 3S Curtis Glazenweod Fsesrev aes Fitch ( 4062 ) TACSONIA PINNATISTIPULA. Mrs. Marry- ATT’S TAcsontIA; or Passion-Flower. Ce eo ee ee oe Class and Order. Monapetruia PEnTANDRIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Passirtorez. ) Generic Character. Calycis tubus longus, limbus 10-lobus, faux membrana Squamulosa instructa.—Habitus Passiflore. DC. Specific Character and Synonyms. Tacsonta pinnatistipula ; foliis cordatis ultra medium trifidis subtus tomentosis lobis lanceolatis serratis, stipulis pinnatifidis. # Tacsonia pinnatistipula. Juss. Ann. Mus. 6. 393. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1536. Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. t. 156. Passirtora pinnatistipula. Cav. Ic. 5. t. 428. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 39. Passirtora pennipes. Smith, in Rees’ Cycl. n. 48. This truly handsome plant is not cultivated so much as it deserves to be in the greenhouses and conservatories of this country, considering how long it has existed in our Collections, and how readily it may be increased by cuttings. It is a native of Chili, and was introduced by Mrs. Marryarr of Wimbledon House, about the year 1830. Nor do we think the trial has fairly been made in the open air, to ascertain whether it could not at least be made to flourish during the summer months, by protecting the roots in winter. The native climate of this Passion- Flower is not so warm as that of our Passrrtora cerulea. With us, in the Royal Botanic Gardens, it is trained to the back ee. oO of a cool greenhouse, where it flowers in the summer months. The Banksian Medal was justly awarded to Mrs. Marryarr for the introduction of this charming climber. Descr. A scandent plant, growing to a great length, and bearing many elongated branches, clothed with woolly down mixed with glands. Leaves cordate, deeply three- lobed, above nearly glabrous, strongly marked with sunken nerves, beneath densely covered with white, copious wool, as on the petioles; lobes lanceolate, acute, strongly and sharply serrated. Stipules small, pinnatifid, with subulate often glandular segments. Pedunceles short, woolly. Jnvolucre of three cordate, spreading, serrated, glandular bracteas. Calyx with a cylindrical tube, about equal in length with the five-lobed, spreading limb, thickly downy on the outside, the inside almost white; lobes oblong. Petals five, oblong, rather longer and broader than the lobes of the calyx, rose-coloured. Ray (corona jilamentosa) of several spreading, blue filaments, arising from a ring-like disk at the mouth of the tube of the calyx. Torus protruded much beyond the mouth of the calyx. Stamens five ; filaments thickened upwards, bearing large yellow anthers. Germens obovate. Styles club- shaped, with thickened stigmas. : aamnsepasmoresearioneennaietianiaossnnaanns aoa aocnemsaet sai ininn en-au tenis ea sees ii . . , aie So th da! Lich by § Curtis Clavenwvod Essex Jan 11844 Sade cli . ( 4063 ) Cepuaetis Ipecacuanna. IrPECACUANHA. KEE EKEEEEE EERE EEK REE Class and Order. PentanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Rusiacez. ) Generic Character. Calyx tubus obovatus, limbus brevissimus 5-dentatus. Corolla subinfundibuliformis, lobis 5 parvis obtusiusculis. Anthere incluse. Stigma bifidum, sepius exsertum. Bacca obovato-oblonga, calycis vestigio coronata, bilocularis, dis- perma.—Frutices aut Herbe, omnes (7?) ex America, Folia ovalia acuta petiolata. Stipule utringue bine libere aut concrete et tunc aut bidentate aut partite. Capitula flo- rum terminalia aut axillaria sessilia aut pedunculata, brac- teis 2—8 cruciatim oppositis involucrata. Bracteole seu palee inter flores. D C. Specific Character and Synonyms. Crrnartis* Ipecacuanha; caule ascendente simplici, foliis obovatis acutis integerrimis brevissimis petiolatis gla- briusculis, capitulo terminali pedunculato solitario, in- volucro tetraphyllo, radice annulata. ne Ceruarus Ipecacuanha. “ Rich. Hist. Ipec. p. 21. t. 2. Hi. B. K. Nov. Gen. Am. v. 3. p. 376. Mart. Pl. Us. Brés. p.6.t.6. Med. Pl. Bras. p. 4. t. 1. et t. 8. f- 1, 2, 3. | | Crruactis emetica. Pers. Syn. 1. p. 203. Catuicocca Ipecacuanha. Brot. in Linn. Trans. v. 6. p. 137. ¢. 11. ; This interesting plant has no beauty to recommend it to cultivation as an pitemental plant ; but its value in a medicinal point of view will, Tam sure, render a figure of it acceptable to our Subscribers. The Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew are indebted to Mr. Maxoy of Liege for a living plant, which flowered in the stove in January, 1843; and from it our lowering specimen was drawn: the representation ae * From xpaan, a head, so called from the capitate flowers, which are common to the species of this Genus. root is from Marttus’s excellent plate in the “ Specimen’ above quoted. The same author has, in his “ Plantes Usuelles du Brazil,” given some information as to the native country of this valuable herb. It is found inhabiting the moist and shady forests of various parts of Brazil, especially the provinces of Pernambuco, Minas Geraes, and Bahia ; its growth extending as far South as lat. 22°. On the islands of Parahyba and the banks of two rivers, called Pomba and Xipota, it is particularly abundant. To the native Brazilians, who have used it from time immemorial, we owe our knowledge of the valuable qualities which reside in the root of Zpecacuanha. Marccraar and Pison were among the earliest to introduce the drug to Europe, in the time of Louis XIV, when a French merchant, named GRENIER, brought 130ibs. of it from Spain to Paris, and trials were made of it in the Hotel Dieu. To Hetverius, who first ascertained the efficacy of Jpecacuanha for the cure of dysentery, the French monarch gave the liberal reward of £1,000 sterling. Many years, however, elapsed, ere Naturalists had any certain knowledge of the plant which yielded this, the mildest and safest emetic in the whole» Materia Medica ; for though experience confirmed the praises which Marceraar had originally passed upon it, yet his description was too imperfect to convey much information as to its botanical affinities. In the year 1800, Dr. Gomez brought some flowering specimens to Europe, which were described and figured by Brorero in the “ Trans- actions of the Linnean Society” of London, and the name of CEPHAELIS Ipecacuanha finally secured to the plant by M. Ricuarp of Paris, The Genus was so called by Swartz: and the specific appellation is that which the natives of Minas Geraes give to the drug; though, in most parts of Brazil, it is called Poaya, a name by which they designate emetics of all kinds. The derivation of Poaya is not very clear ; that of Ipecacuanha comes from Ipe (bark), caa (plant), cua (scented), and nha (striped) : thus forming the word “ bark of a scented and striped plant.” It is unnecessary to say much about the properties of Jpecacuanha, which is commonly administered as an emetic, and if given in smaller quantities, produces perspiration, and soothes chronic coughs and ca- tarrhs. It is also valuable as a digestive tonic, and to remove dysen- tery; and not being very capable of adulteration, and easily known, it possesses additional claims to the esteem of medical practitioners; so that we must deeply regret that, through the carelessness and im- providence of the collectors, it should be daily becoming more scarce. Already the plant is entirely extirpated round Rio Janeiro and other large towns, where it once abounded. Though experiments have proved that it grows from seed and cuttings as readily as by dividing the roots, the half-ripened fruits are continually pulled up and thrown away ; while the progressive destruction of those virgin forests which it constantly and naturally inhabits, must limit its places of growth. The culture requires no other care than the shade of trees ; and we would press upon those who are interested in the continued supply of this precious remedy, the necessity for raising it extensively in Brazil. Three kinds of Jpecacuanha are known in commerce, the white, the grey, and the brown, the two latter sorts being most common; but MARTIUS assures us that they are produced from the self-same plant, and that a skilful apothecary, to whom he showed his specimens, de- tected all three growing together from one root. ——— Fig. 1. Flower, 2. The same with the Corolla laid open. 3. Calyx and Pistil :—magnified. Y \ AN) We VAY] ~~ \ i, \ Wi With da? Pub by S Carts Cuvamood Esse Jan 11844 wile € 4064. ) Gompnreéna putcnitta, Laren Fiowreep a Guopr-AMARANTH. | Class and Order. Prenranpria Monoeynia. _( Nat. Ord. —Amarantuaces. ) Generic Character. _Perianthium 5-partitum. Stamina 5, connata in tubulum subcylindraceum ovario longiorem, apicibus distinctis, cum v. absque dentibus interjectis. Anthere uniloculares. sy lus 1. Stigmata 2. Utriculus monospermus, evalvis. Br. Specific Cha acicy ing Synonyms. Gompurena pulchella; caule erectiusculo ramoso, foliisque _ lanceolatis acutis strigoso-hirtis, pedanculis el nips, capitulis hemispherico-globosis, involucris poly ph yllis, bracteis 2 int. simpliciter carinatis perianthio superne calvo triplo brevioribus, tubi staminei segmentis bi- cuspidatis. Ey BA ate Ok Gompurena pulchella. Mart. Amaranth, in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 0. 13. p. 302. Spreng. Syst. Veg. Cur. post. well-known Gompt a ; “plobosa (Bot. Mag, t. 2815) ; but the heads of flowers are much larger, and of a bright- er, though nie ; and whereas the colour of the common Globe-Everlasting is due to the eT mee zB which are longer than the pale-green flowers, here, the coloured flowers are much longer than the bracteas, and give to the heads altogether a different character. It flowered in July, in Mr. Verren’s greenhouse, and we are indebted to him for the specimens here figured. It appears to be an annual; and, in all probability, seedling plants put out in the early summer, would flourish in the open ground, and prove a very great additional or- nament to our flower borders. 3 Descr. Annual? Stems nearly erect, one to two feet high, branched, clothed with appressed and somewhat silky hairs. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, very acute, almost pungently so, two or more inches long, clothed, especially beneath, with the same kind of hairs as the stem. Peduncles elongated, monocephalous ; or the head may be more cor- rectly considered as an aggregation of smaller, sessile heads, having at the base, a polyphyllous involucre, of which the leaves resemble those of the stem, except its being shorter and broader. Of partial bracteas, there are two at the base of each flower, ovate, carinate, acute, glabrous, and quite entire. Sepals five, erect, linear, rather acute, full rose- colour, about thrice the length of the bracteas, glabrous above, lower down beset with a few long, spreading, hairs. Staminal tube a long cylindrical membrane, equal in length with the sepals, six-toothed at the apex, each tooth cut into two subulate segments, below which, and opposite to them, the sessile one-celled anthers are inserted. Germen globose ; style very short. Stigmas two, long, subulate. Fig. 1. Flower, with two Bracteas. 2. Staminal Tube laid open. 3. Pistil: —magnified, Witch del? Pub by § Curtis Clarenwood kesex, Jan TIStE ( 4065 ) CONVOLVULUS OCELLATUS. PURPLE-EYED~ BIND-WEED. Class and Order. Penranpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Convotvu.acez. ) Generic Character. Calyx 5-partitus, nudus, v. bracteis 2 minoribus imbrica- tus. Corolla campanulata, 5-plicata. Stamina limbo bre- viora. Ovarium 2-loculare, raro 3-loculare? Joculis dis- permis. Stylus indivisus. Stigmata 2, filiformia. Capsula valvata.—Herbe (raro Frutices,) volubiles v. prostrate, sepius lactescentes. Br. Specific Name and Character. Convotvutus ocellatus ; procumbens fruticosus, ramis erec- tis foliisque linearibus integerrimis sericeo-albidis, pe- dunculis solitariis axillaribus bibracteolatis unifloris folio longioribus, sepalis 5 ovatis acuminatis exteriori- bus sericeis, corolla subhypocrateriformi, capsula bilo- culari tetrasperma. , A very neat Evolvulous-like species of Bind-weed, dis- covered by Mr. Burke at Macalisberg, in the interior of Southern Africa, and raised from seeds in the greenhouse of the Right Honourable the Earl of Drrsy, at Knowsley, where it produced its pretty white flowers with a purple eye, in the month of August. I can find no Convotvutus anywhere described that corresponds with it. Indeed I Should have referred it to Evotvuxus, but for the style and stigmas, which are truly those of a Convonyutus. The corolla is, as it were, intermediate, between those two Genera, between campanulate and salver-shaped ; scarcely to be called rotate. 3 ; ee : Descr. Descr. Shrubby, the lower part especially ; procum- bent at the base, there bearing many, nearly erect, silky branches, rather thickly beset with leaves, which are, the largest of them, scarcely an inch long, sessile, linear, rather acute, entire, one-nerved, clothed on both sides, but especially beneath, with copious, appressed, silky, white, hairs. Peduncles from the axils of the leaves, and longer than they, but scarcely twice as long, bearing a pair of small, subulate bracteas above the middle, and a solitary flower. Calyx of five ovate, acuminated sepals, of which the three outer are more or less silky on the back. Corolla scarcely an inch in diameter, with a short ¢ube, a little longer than the calyx, which gradually expands into a spreading, five-angled limb; white witha deep red-purple eye. Stamens five, within the tubular part of the corolla. Germen globose. Style, including the bipartite séigma, about equal in length to the stamens. Capsule ovato- globose, two-celled, surrounded by the persistent calyx. Cells two-seeded. Fig. 1. Portion of the Peduncle, Calyx, and Pistil. 2. Fruit. 3, Trans- verse section of a Capsule :—magnijied. F0G0. ? uM } 4 Warr NF Y af) ¥ > of « SATUS GlazTenwoe 1 Ess we TCO? I. 18 a ae. a SAR ( 4066 ) _CeREUs ExTENsUS. LOoONG-sTEMMED CEREUS; or Torch-Thistle. ERK KE EEE EEE K KEE KEKE EES Class and Order. IcosanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Cacreaz. ) Generic Character. Sepala numerosissima imbricata, basi ovario adnata, in tubum elongatum concreta, exteriora breviora calyciualia, media longiora colorata, intima petaliformia. Stamina numerosissima cum tubo concreta. Stylus filiformis, apice multifidus. Bacca areolata, sepalorum reliquis squamata aut tuberculosa. Cotyledones acuminate.—Frutices car- nost, subglobosi vel elongatt, stricti, articulati vel repentes, axt ligneo interne medullifero donati, angulis verticalibus, spinarum fasciculos gerentibus vel inermibus regulariter suleati. Anguli seu ale nunc plurime nunc paucissine, rarius due tantum, et tune rami compresso-alati inermes. Flores ampli e spinarum fasciculis lateralibus trunci aut ramorum vetustiorum, aut crenis angulorum orti. Fructus ot a plerumque anno sequente maturescentes, edules. Specific Character and Synonyms. / Cereus extensus; longissime articulatus radicans viridis 3- angularis, angulis repandis obtusis, areolis remotis nudiusculis, aculeis brevissimis rectiusculis 2—3, setis Paucis deciduis, flore magno, tubo cylindraceo squa- mato, squamis magnis coloratis sensim in sepala et petala transeuntibus. : Cereus extensus. Salm Dyck in De Cand. Prodr. 3. p. 469. <“ Wendland in Otto’s G. 3. 1836. n. 39. 8. 306.” Pfeiff. Enum. Cact. p. 119. Cereus squamatus. Pfeiff. (in Otto’s G. 5. n. 48. S. 30.) ? This VOL, XVIr. B This has been long cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gar- dens of Kew, but had never flowered there, nor was its’ native country known to any one, till, in August, 1843, my friend, J. Gray, Esq., of Greenock, sent me the splendid specimen here represented, taken from a plant he had re- ceived from Trinidad ; thus, at the same tiine, establish- ing its native country, and giving the opportunity of making so fine a blossom known to the Botanical world by a good figure. How needful such figures are, is but too apparent from the confusion of synonyms, in cases where we have only recourse left to descriptions. Professor De Canpotte, who takes up this species from the Prince Ds Satm Dycx’s letter, doubts if it be not a variety of his previous species, ‘‘C. coccineus (Satm Dycx in litt.):” but the “C. coccineus De Canp.,” strange to say, is never- theless by Preirrer made a var. of the setaceus (SALM Dycx); while the C. coccineus (Sam Dyck) is placed in a different division, and retained as a quite distinct species by Preirrer. This seems to be a very shy flowering species ; aud if we consider the size and colour of the blossoms, one of the handsomest of this remarkable Genus. Descr. A repent, and, probably, a climbing species, branched, with very long joints, slender in proportion to their length, about three-fourths of an inch wide, triangular, rooting, with the angles obtuse repando-sinuate, the sides plane, the areole on the obtuse angles small, woolly, and often setose; but the wool and sete are deciduous. Two to three, and, occasionally, four, very short and stout dark-brown aculei are implanted in the areole, scarcely more than two-thirds of a line long. Flowers. very large, handsome. Tube green, moderately long, cylindrical, swollen below, beset with rather distant scales, which are large, triangular or ovate, greenish-yellow, tipped, and margined with red, then gradually become larger upwards and longer, insensibly passing into the sepals, and then again almost as insensibly become the oblongo-obovate, acute, rose-coloured petals. Stamens very numerous, the lowermost ones the longest. Anthers sul- phur-yellow. Style very thick, columnar, longer than the stamens. Stigma with about fourteen subulate, spirally- twisted, papillose rays. L067. : pay Jak Swan SG W Fitch dt Pub by S Gartis Glaxcnwd Essex Feb" LIStt € 4067 ) DINEMA POLYBULBON. MANY-BULBED © DINEMA. KEK EKER KK KKK KKK REESE Class and Order. GyNANDRIA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—OrcuinEx. ) Generic Character. Sepala et petala subequalia, herbacea, patentia. Label- lum majus, membranaceum, indivisum, unguiculatum, cum basi columne accretum. Columna nana, bicornis. Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 4, per paria caudiculis duobus repli- catis adnata.—Herba epiphyta, rhizomate repente annulato pseudo-bulbifero. Folia coriacea. Flores solitarii, termi- nales, pedunculo vaginato. Lindl. Specific Name and Synonyms, Dinema * polybulbon: » Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. U1. Epipenprum polybulbon. Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. p. 1491. Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 112. This very pretty plant is a native of Jamaica, and, according to Linpiey, of Mexico; and is a solitary species of a Genus which Dr. Linptey separates from Eripenprum and places near Isocuizus, from which it chiefly departs by its labellum being large, membranaceous, and extremely different in appearance from the petals, and in these last and the sepals being spread, not connivent. It is distin- Suished from Epmenprvm by its short two-horned column. Our figure was made from a specimen which bloomed in the Botanic Gardens of Glasgow some years ago. Descr. * So named by Dr, LrnpLEy, I presume, from the two thread-like horns of the column. Descr. The stem is slender, creeping, about the thick- ness of a sparrow’s quill, sending out roots from below, above bearing several elliptical, small, clustered pseudo- bulbs, partially sheathed with large scales at the base, and having at the summit two oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous leaves, blunt and emarginate at their apex. Flower soli- tary, peduncled from the axil of the pair of leaves. Pedun- cle one-third or one-fourth the length of the leaf, clothed with sheathing scales, tinged with red. Flower large. Sepals and petals spreading, alike, linear-subulate, pale greenish-yellow, with a red streak at the base. ip large, white, cordato-triangular, with a broad unguis. Column short, white, tinged with red, acute, having two projecting teeth in front, and crowned with two long, erect, subulate teeth. Anther-case hemispherical, red. Pollen-masses four, each plano-convex, in two pairs, with two replicate caudicles. —— Fig. 1. Column and Lip. 2. Back view of a Column, 3. Pollen-masses: —magnified, Swan Se. Lub by S. Cuttis Glazenwoed Fsgex keh” 1 1844. K#Pitth. del! C 4068 ) IPoMAA CRASSIPES. THICK-FLOWER-STALKED Iepomaa; or Bindweed. i SS oe Oo a as On os On ON Class and Order. Prentanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Convotvu.acez. ) a Generic Character. Calyx 5-partitus, nudus. Corolla campanulata vel infun- dibuliformis, 5-plicata. Ovarium 2—3 loculare, loculis dispermis. Stylus indivisus. Stigma capitatum, 2—3-lo- bum. Capsula 2—3 locularis—Herbe volubiles quence erecte. Folia indivisa vel lobata, nune pinnatifida. Se- mina tz quibusdam comosa. Br. Specific Name and Character. Ipomxa crassipes ; molliter pilosa, foliis oblongo-lanceo- latis breviter petiolatis acutis integerrimis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis unifloris medium versus bibractea- tis folio brevioribus superne incrassatis, sepalis valde inequalibus 3 ovato-acuminatis 2 subulatis, corolle tubo infundibuliformi limbo patente obsolete 5-an- gulato. a ,? Among the many handsome plants, being collected by Mr. Burke in his extended journey into the interior of Southern Africa, may be mentioned several ConvouvuLa- cE®: and of these he was so fortunate as to bring seeds, which have been reared by Mr. Jenxins, Gardener to the Earl of Dersy, at Knowsley. The present is one among them, which flowered iu August, 1843 ; and being, so-far as - I can find, perféctly new, I have named it, from the pecu- liarity of having the peduncle thickened upwards. It inha- bits the elevated country about Macalisberg. Descr. A climbing plant, with slender stems and branches, clothed in every part, save the corolla, with short, short, soft hairs. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, broad and cordate at the base, tapering to an acute point at the apex, quite entire, penninerved, petiolate. Petioles short, scarcely half an inch long. Peduncles from the axils of almost every leaf, but shorter than the leaf, solitary, single- flowered, and sensibly thickened below the calyx, bear- ing a pair of rather large, ovato-acuminated, sessile, spreading bracteas, a little above the middle. Calyx of five unequal sepals, three large, triangular and acute, two small, subulate. Corolla purple, rather large; the tube funnel-shaped, the limb spreading, plicate, obscurely five- angled. Stamens inserted near the base of the tube, two long and three short, all included. Filaments subulate, woolly at the base. Anthers linear-oblong. Germen ovate ; surrounded by an annular disk. Style longer than the short stamens. Stigmas two-lobed. Capsule globose, four-valved, four-seeded. Fig. 1. Base of the Corolla laid open. 2. Capsule and withered Style : —nat, size. 3, Capsule burst. 4. Seed :—magnified. 1060. t Fiteh, del* Pub by S Curtis Glaxenwocd Essec le 11844 Sinan Se: GADD. s+, ,2 Erica SHANNONIANA. Lapy SuHannon’s HeatTn. ERK EK EEE EK ERK KEKE KEEKE Class and Order. OctanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Enricacez, ) Generic Character. Calyx zqualis vel imbricatus, quadripartitus vel rarius quadrifidus. Corolla hypogyna tubulosa, hypoeraterimor- pha, urceolata, campanulata vel globosa, limbo brevi rarius maximo quadrifido, connivente, erecto, patente vel revoluto. Stamina 8, varius 6—7, disco hypogyno glanduloso inserta. Filamenta \ibera rarissime submonadelpha, Antheré in- clusa vel exsertz, terminales, ad insertionem filamenti ap- pendicibus duabus aristatz vel cristate, vel omnino mutice, poro orbiculari vel oblongo vel rima longitudinali dehis- centes. Ovarium quadriloculare rarius 8-loculare, loculis 2-00 ovulatis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma obtusum, capita- tum, vel peltato-dilatatum, sepe breviter 4-lobum. Capsula 4- rarius 8-locularis, loculicide quadrivalvis, dissepimentis demum fissis partim valvulis, partim columella adherenti- bus. Semina placentis axilibus aflixa, ovoidea vel com- pressa, testa adherente reticulata leviuscula vel nitida rarius in membranam tenuem expansa.—Frutices Huropai vel maxima parte Austro-Africani, rigiduli, ramosissimi ; rarius flaccidi. Folia sepissime linearia, acerosa, margin- thus omnino revolutis et sub folio coherentibus, nonnunquam latiora, rarius omnino plana, verticillata vel rarius alterna vel sparsa. Flores in pedicellis unifloris axillares, vel termi- nales, solitarii, verticillati, capitati vel umbellati, plerumque cernui. Bractezx in pedicello sepius tres, 2 oppositis, tertia «fra sitararius deficiente. DC. _ 4 Specific Character and Synonyms. — Erica Shannoniana; foliis ternis erecto-patentibus longe linearibus carinato-canaliculatis aristatis ciliatis, = | eis teis parvis remotis, sepalis lanceolatis sublinearibusve acutis, corolla costate tubo oblongo inflato apice in collum brevem leviter attenuato, limbi laciniis ovatis. Benth. Erica Shannoniana. Calyx ebracteolatus, oblongus, clavatus vel turbinato- campanulatus, teres vel 5-dentatus. Corolle petala 5, car- pophori brevis vel elongati apici hypogyné inserta, ungui- bus linearibus, laminis bifidis, excisis vel subintegris, basi nudis. Stamina 10, cum petalis inserta ; filamenta filifor- mia: Anthere biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium basi quinque-rarissime tri- quadriloculare, septis circa medium 5, apicem columella centralis sensim deli- quescentibus, superne uniloculare. Ovula plurima, colu- mella centrali cum septis connate vel superne libero funi- culis distinctis inserta, amphitropa. Stylz 5, rarissime 3, 4, filiformes, intus stigmatosi. Capsula basi quinque, rarius triquadrilocularis, apice inter stylos simplici eorundem ftumero in dentes dehiscens. Semina plurima, minuta, re- niformia, granulata vel tuberculata. Embryo annularis, albumen farinaceum cingens ; ‘cotyledonibus incunibentibus. —Herbe Europee et Asiatice amphigee, annue vel peren- nes, erecte ; foliis oppositis, linearibus vel lanceolatis ; flori- bus in dichotomiis ramorum alaribus vel in cymulas thyr- soides vel subumbellatim confertas congestis, roseis vel pur- Specific Character and Synonyms. Viscarra* aspera; calycis tubo inferne abrupte et breviter attenuato angulis clavatis rugoso -crispatis, petalis emarginatis (basi macula intense purpurea), appendi- cibus brevibus ovatis, capsula minute a gegen ae ee i we = * So named, I presume, by RéHLING, from the principal species, the Lycunis Viscaria, of previous authors. Lycunis aspera. Poir. Encycl. Bot. Suppl. v. 3. p. 537. Lycunis oculata. James Backhouse in litt. Lycunis Ceeli-Rosa. De Cand. Prodr. 1. p. 386. Viscaria oculata. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1843, tab. 53. Professor Linptey and Mr. Backuouse have rightly judged this to be a distinct species of Lycunis, or, as the group is now called, Viscaria, from L. Celi-Rosa figured at Tab. 296 of this work. It is a native of the North coast of Africa, and seeds were received by Mr. James Backuovsz of the York Nursery, which produced such beau- tiful flowers that attention was immediately directed to the plant, and it has become a great favorite in our gardens. Native specimens are in my Herbarium from Bové, gathered at Algiers, and marked (n. 108) without any further note or comment: and I have, besides, in the Herbarium of Pro- fessor Govan another native specimen, with his own MS. remark. “ Diversa forsan ab Acer. Celi-Rosa calycibus magis torulosis, angulis crispis et veluti calloso-rugosis. E Numidia.” It was gathered in Barbary by Porrer, and though doubtful whether it should be considered a species, or a variety, he gave it the provisional name of aspera, which should be retained, although that of oculata is per- haps more appropriate. It will be seen that not only are the furrows of the calyx in this species wrinkled, as in V. Celi-Rosa, but the angles themselves are remarkably so, and puckered transversely: the other characters mentioned by Dr. Linney are equally constant, the sudden contractiou of the calyx below the middle, the short notch on the petals, the fine dark eye at the base instead of the pale and almost white of the old species, and which gives such a lively appearance to our plant, the short and broad appen- dage (corona) to the claws and the dotted capsule. It ossoms in the summer and autumn months, and may be treated as a hardy annual: but the late flowers become paler and smaller in size. eae njtek 1. Stamens and Pistil, 2. Petal, 8. Immature Capsule :—mag- ny png —~ > SS ( 4076 ) PHAsto.us LoBAtus. Lopr-LEAVED KipNeEyY- BRAN, Class and Order. DiapeweHiA Decanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. ) Generic Character. Calyx campanulatus bilabiatus, labio superiore bidentato, inferiore tripartito. Corolla papilionacea, carina cum sta- minibus diadelphis styloque spiraliter contorta vel rarius incurva. Ovarii stipes toro vaginulatus. Legumen com- pressum aut cylindricum bivalve, intus isthmis cellulosis subdistinctum polyspermum. Semina hilo ovali-oblongo. — —Herbe aut suffrutices sepius volubiles. Folia pinnato- - trifoliolata, foliolis basi stipellatis. Racemi axillares. Pedi- celli sepius gemini, semper uniflori. D C. Specific Name and Character. Puasgouus (Eupnaseotus) lobatus; caule herbaceo volubili tereti, foliolis hastato-trilobis intermedio longe petio- lulato lobis lateralibus iterum sublobatis intermedio elongato, pedunculis folium eequantibus multifloris, petalis (flavis) omnibus subcontortis, carina longissime acuminata apice dense spiraliter convoluta, stylo lon- gissimo spiraliter convoluto, ‘The species of Paascoius are very numerous, and at pre- sent extremely little known; but we trust the labors of Mr. Benruam in this family will soon tend to their illustration. That gentleman has pronounced the present to be a distinct species of the ‘“‘ Eupuasrotus” group. It was raised at the Botanic Garden of Glasnevin, from seeds sent from Buenos Ayres by Mr. Tweepie, and flowered in September, 1843. Native specimens in my Herbarium, also from Mr. Tweenie, prove prove that it is a native of Rio Negro, in the Banda Oriental. It is not remarkable for beauty, but the structure of the carina and of the style is very peculiar, and renders the plant deserving of a figure in our Magazine. Descr. Stem twining and glabrous, as is every part of the plant. Leaves copious, ternate. Leaflets hastato-trilo- bate, the terminal one on a long footstalk, the lateral one almost sessile; the lateral lobes vary much in length and breadth, and the side ones are often again on the outer margin obscurely lobed, intermediate lobe always elongated. Stipules and stipelle rather small, ovate, striated, mem- branaceous. Peduncles axillary, solitary, many-flowered. Flowers in dense racemes, yellow. Pedicels short. Calyx campanulate, as in the Genus, with a pair of ovate, soon deciduous, striated bracteas at the base. Vextllum and wings more or less twisted. Keel with an extraordinary long, narrow, acuminated point, beautiful, and compactly spirally-twisted, like the shell of a Helix or Trochus. The style, concealed within this, is spirally-twisted in the same manner, and many times larger than the germen. Fig. 1. Keel of the Flower. 2. Pistil :—slightly magnified. ~ Se ~ 4 > = ( 4077 ) ACHIMENES PEDUNCULATA. LONG-STALKED ACHIMENES. KEKE KEK EERE KEKE KKK KEKE Class and Order. DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—GesneriAce%. ) Generic Character. Calycis tubus ovario adnatus, limbus 5-partitus lobis lan- ceolatis. Corolla tubuloso-infundibuliformis basi hinc sepe gibba, limbo plano 5-fido, lobus subequalibus rotundis. Stamina 4 didynama, antheris non coherentibus. Rudi- mentum stamin. quinti corolla basi inferne impositum. Nectarium glandulosum annulare tenue. Stylus in stigma vix incrassatum obliquum aut subbilobum abeuns. Cap- sula semibilocularis bivalvis, placentis parietalibus subses- silibus.—Herbe Americane erecte villose. Folia opposita aut terno-verticillata petiolata dentata. Pedicelli 1-flores axillares. Corolle coccinee aut purpuree multo quam Glox- nie minores. Radices bulbillis squamosis onuste. DC. Specific Character and Synonyms. Acuimenes pedunculata; caule erecto simplici pubescente, foliis parum inequalibus petiolatis oblique cordato- ovatis serratis supra sparse pilosulis subtus ad venas pubescentibus, pedunculis in axillis supremis folio sub- longioribus calycibusque pubescentibus, corolla nu-- tante basi gibba. Benth. Acuimengs pedunculata. Benth. in. Plante Hartw. p. 78. n. 546. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1842, iab. 31. This, again, is one of the many fine new plants introduced © to our collections through the instrumentality of the Horti- cultural Society, by their Collector, Mr. Hartwee. It was found in shaded, woody places of Santa Maria, = an and is now tolerably well known in our stoves, from the liberality with which it has been distributed by the Society. The specimen, from which our figure is taken, flowered in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, throughout the summer and autumn of 1843. The stems and foliage after- wards die down, and the scaly roots are left dry and dor- mant, to be re-potted in the following spring. Descr. Stems a foot anda half to two feet and more high, erect, simple, rounded, hairy, as is, more or less, every part of the plant, even the corolla. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, acute, serrated, penninerved. Peduncles solitary, axillary, opposite, two to three-flowered, with often a small pair of leaves beneath the lowest flowers, and two or three lanceolate bracteas. Flowers large, handsome, drooping, more like that of some GesneriA than of AcHIMENES. Calyx with the short ovate, glandularly-hairy tube, adnate with the ovary; the five ovate spreading segments free. Corolla nearly two inches long ; of a fine and bright red, yel- low beneath ; the limb in five spreading, rounded segments, richly spotted with dark red; the tube gradually dilated upwards. Stamens as in the Genus. Style nearly as long as the tube. Stigma bilamellate. Pub by S$. Curts Glaxenwood Essex April 1.1947. W Fitch delt ( 4078 ) PaAsus BICOLOR. Two-coLourep Paasvs. #£ ERR EEE EERE EK KEE EKER EKEK Class and Order. ‘GynanpriA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipves. ) Generic Character. Sepala et petala subequalia, patentia, libera. Labellum sepius cucullatum, cum basi columne adnatum, calcara- tum, integrum vel trilobum, sepius supra carinatum lamel- losum vel cristatum. Columna erecta, cum ovario contin- ua, semiteres, marginata, elongata. Anthera 8-locularis. Pollinia 8, subequalia.—Herbe terrestres ( Asiatice) cau- lescentes vel acaules, foliis latis plicatis. Scapi radicales. lores speciosi. Lindl. Specific Character and Synonyms. Puasus bicolor; acaulis, foliis lato-lanceolatis acuminatis, _ sepalis petalisque (angustioribus) oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis, labello cucullato ventricoso integro, limbo obtuso medio lamellis duabus planis, calcare subulato- cylindraceo arcuato ovarii longitudine. | : Puagsus bicolor. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 128. Ser- tum, Tab. 23. tt, epee : = ‘em i For the noble specimen here represented, I am indebted _ to Dittwyn Luewextyn, Esq., who kindly sent it in July, 1843, from his collection at Penllegare. . 2 Sin . Pub by S Curtis Claxenwoad. Fi see ick! LIN4F4¢ weet ( 4114 ) VANDA TERES. QuILL-LEAVED VANDA. KKK EEE E KEK EK EKKEK Class and Order. GynanpriA Monanprla. ( Nat. Ord.—Onrcuinex. ) Generic Character. Perianthium explanatum, patens, petalis sepalisque sub- equalibus. Labellum saccatum, vel obconico-calcaratum, cum basi columne continuum, subtrilobum: lobo medio carnoso. Coluwmna crassa, libera, abbreviata, rostello ob- tuso. Anithera bilocularis. Pollinia 2, oblique biloba, eaudicula lineari, glandula subrotunda.—Herbe epiphyte caulescentes. Folia disticha, coriacea. Spice oppositifolie. Flores speciosi. Lindl. Specific Character and Synonyms. Vanpa* teres; foliis teretibus obtusis, racemis bi- (pluri-) floris folio longioribus, sepalis petalisque suborbicula- tis parum undulatis patentibus, labello profunde trilo- bo intus pubescente basi calcare conico, lobis laterali- bus incurvis intermedio patenti-reflexo apice dilatato bilobo. Vanna teres. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 217. Bot. Reg. ¢. 1809, Nothing can exceed the beauty and delicacy of the blossoms of this plant, as they appeared in the Orchidaceous- house of the Royal Botanic Gardens in the early spring of , continuing too in great perfection for several weeks. Perhaps it is the most lovely of its tribe, and deficient only in —— ‘—eeaenmann * The Sanscrit name of this plant, or rather of the original species, is ANDA. VOL. XVII. N in foliage, which here can scarcely be distinguished from the stem either in form or colour. ‘It is a native of trees in Sylhet, where it was discovered by Dr. Watuicn, who introduced it to our English gardens, and of the Burmese Empire, where Mr. Grirrita discovered it. It grows well with us when attached to a crooked branch, and suspended im a moist stove. Descr. Epiphytal: stem rounded, terete, dark-green ; leaves also terete, elongate, obtuse, dark-green, with a depressed line on the upper side, the base forming a sheath round the stem, which is decurrent. Pedicels lateral, with one or two joints, and a small bractea at the joint, curved upwards, and bearing five to six large, showy flowers, of the most delicate waxy texture. Sepals nearly orbicular, white, with a slight tinge of rose, the upper one erect, the lateral ones placed under the base of the lip, all spreading. Petals spreading, nearly of the same shape as the sepals, slightly contorted at the base, deep rose-colour, with pale, almost white margins. Lip spreading, or standing forward at the base, ending in a conical spur ; three-lobed, beau- tifully variegated with yellow and rose-colour, and spotted and streaked with red: side-lobes incurved so as to meet over the column: terminal lobe dilated and bifid, the whole downy within. Column short. Anther-case hemi- spherical, with a beak. Pollen-masses iriangular. ip. 1 Column and Section of the Lip. 2. Column, with Anther-case laid back. 3. Pollen-masses —magnified, dete F2d. Bop A Cattis Glagnwood: Esseso tht’ LIG#E resey ( 4115 ) Ecninocactus concinnus, Neat EcuINnocactus. KKK EEE KEK KEKEKERKKE Class and Order. Icosanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Cacrex. ) Generic Character. Sepala numerosa imbricata, basi ovario adnata, in tubum brevissimum concreta, exteriora involucriformia, intima petaliformia. Stamina numerosa, calyci affixa, ineequalia, intima brevissima filiformia, antheris oblongis. Stylus cylindricus, subfistulosus, apice multifidus. Bacea sepalo- rum reliquis subsquamata, rarissime levis. Cotyledones parvule.—Frutices simplicissimi carnosi ovati aut globosi, melocactoidei aut mammillariformes, aphylli, costati aut tuberculati, costis tuberculis confluentibus quasi formatis, dorso aculeorum fasciculos gerentibus. Cephalium seu Spadix nullus. Flores e fasciculos aculeorum ad apicem costarum orti. Pfeiff. Specific Character and Synonyms. Ecuinocactus concinnus; depresso-globosus glaucescens sub-10-costatus, costis obtusis sinuato-crenatis, areolis remotiusculis lanatis, spinis setaceis 8—10 stellatim patentibus subsetaceis breviusculis unico longiore validiore paululum decurvis. CHInocactus concinnus. Hortul. | ; Ecurnocactus orthocanthus. “Link et Otto.” —Pfeiff. Enum. Cact. p. 53 ? a This, so far as I can find, has only a name in gardens and in catalogues. It does not appear in Prerrrer’s useful “ Enumeratio,” unless it be the E. orthocanthus above quoted, with the short deseription of which it seems to accord, accord, except in not having the longer spine so stout and so straight, as appears to be the case with that species. Nothing short of good figures can illustrate the various forms of the species in this intricate family. We have cultivated the present individual for some years in the collection at Kew, where it flowers in March and April. Descr. The plant is small, two inches high, three, or three and a-half inches in diameter, globose, but remark- ably depressed at the top, and even convex there, and crowded with mammillz, with their woolly and spinous areole : the sides deeply and regularly costate, the sinuses acute ; the costa prominent, very obtuse, sinuato-crenate, about twenty in number. Areole woolly, sending out, in a stellated direction, eight to ten, slender, acicular or seti- form, spreading spines, with one longer and stronger, but still slender, which is curved downwards. Flowers one or two, generally from the border of the depressed vertex or summit, large, handsome: the numerous spreading petals yellow, with a dark-red streak down the centre. The lower scales or calycine segments are villous. We aot Pub. by S! Curtis trlaxenwood poe Ot® LIRFF Swen SE ( 4116 ) CHABR#A RUNCINATA. CHANGEABLE-FLOW- ERED CHABRAEA, Se Si ae Se Ss Ss os ss as On on Os sO Os Class and Order. SynGenesia ALQuaLis. ( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. ) Generic Character. Capitulum multiflorum homogamum radiatiforme, involu- crum campanulatum, squamis oblongis stricte duplice serie dispositis sed aqualibus et seriem unicum prima fronte simulantibus. Receptaculum totum epalaceum. Corolle omnes glabre hermaphrodite bilabiate ; disci lobo ext. 3-dentato, int. bipartito lobis sape subconcretis: radii labio ext. liguleformi revoluto 3-dentato, int. minore bipartito. Anthere basi bisetose, apice appendiculate.— Achenium ovato-cylindraceum erostre papilloso-pilosulum. Pappus 1\-serialis, paleis basi in annulum subconcretis equalibus subplumosis.—Herbe Aust.-Americane suba- caules aut caulescentes. Folia pinnatisecta, segmentis ulringue 6—9 parvis obtuse et grosse dentatis. DC. Specific Character and Synonyms. Cuasrea* runcinata ; caule ramoso pedunculisque piloso- glandulosis, foliis caulinis supra glabriusculis subtus albo-lanatis pinnatifidis, lobis remotiusculis oblongis acutis integris vel subpinnatifidis, capitulis longe edunculatis solitariis, involucri hemisphzrici squamis ator glandulosis, achzeniis sericeo-villosis. Levcneria runcinata. Gill. et Don Phil. Mag. 1832. p. 389. Hook. et Arn. Comp. Bot. Mag. vol. 1. p. 35. Cuapraa rosea. De Cand. in Deless. Ic. 4 t. 90. Perpicium roseum. Poepp. Exs. n. 378. Lasiorniza rosea. Poepp. 3.2. 216. From * Thus named by Professor DE CANDOLLE in compliment to Dominicus Cuausrey, of uae author of a work entitled, ‘‘ Omnium Stirpium Seiographia, 1666,” From the garden of the Royal Botanic Society in the | Regent’s Park, whence it was obligingly sent by Mr. J. D. Sowersy. It is unquestionably the Leucneria run- cinata ot Dr. Gitttes, whose specific name we, consequently, retain, but not satisfied, thongh we follow the lamented De Canpoute in placing it in Cuasraa, that the present plant is really distinct from Leucnerta, or even from our L. senecioides (Trixis senecioides, Exot. Flora, tab. 101). We observe, indeed, no serrated nembranaceous bracteoles or inner scales of the involucres, such as are figured in the Exotic Flora; but in DeLessert’s Icones, tab. 90, at f. 1, is given a scale of this kind, as ‘“‘squama receptaculi floris ivolvens.”” We shall hope to have an opportunity of determining this point by a further examination of living plants of L. senectoides. Both are natives of Chili, the present one apparently more particularly of the Andes. The seeds were sent over by Mr. Brinees, and the plant, we believe, in several collections. The flowers are fragrant. Descr. Stems herbaceous, weak, a foot to a foot and a half high, branched from the root and again above. Leaves oblong, sessile, subamplexicaul, more or less deeply pinnatifid, the segments rather distant, ovate or oblong, lobed, or again subpinnatifid, the segments acute. Flower- ing branches subpaniculate, at the setting on of the branches leafy, leaves smaller than the inferior ones, more amplexi- caul, with more acuminated lobes, almost pungent at the tips. Flowers moderately large, white, frequently changing to rose-colour. Involucre tumid, hemispherical, of several nearly equal, lanceolate, appressed, slightly imbricated scales. Receptacle punctated. Corolla in two spreading unequal lips, the smaller one ligulate, revolute ; the tube hairy externally. Ovary oblong-obovate, silky. Pappus of several white, feathery sete. Fig. 1. Receptacle of the Flowers. 2. Floret. 3. Seta of the Pappus :— magnified, Swat ? a hE Ub. by S. Cartis Glaxenwood: Essex Ort) 11844 ( 4117 ) Preropiscus specrosus. Snowy PTreropiscus, SEK KEKE EK ERK KKKEKEKE Class and Order. DipyNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Perpatinez. ) Generic Character. Preropiscus, ‘'Hook.—Calyx parvus profunde 5-partitus. Cor. infundibuliformis, limbo patente quinquelobo, lobis subrotundis subzequalibus. Stamina 4, didynama, inclusa, prope basin tubi inserta cum rudimento quinti. Filamenta basi incrassata lanosa : Anthere loculis duobus triangula- ribus poris oblongis dehiscentibus, per paria cruciatim approximate. Germen ovatum obliquum, basi dorso glan- dula incrassata hippocrepiformi : Stylus filiformis inclusus stamina excedens: Stigma bilabiatum, segmentis subulatis Serratis, inferiore recurvato. Fructus coriaceus capsularis, indehiscens? subrotundo-compressus, marginibus lato-bi- alatus, disco subtuberculatus, bilocularis v. pseudo- 6-locu- laris, loculis duobus seminiferis ; Semina solitaria pendula oblonga, tereti-compressa, margine superne producta sub- ulata, subutriculosa. Albumen nullum vel tenuissimum. Embryo inversa. Radicula ad hilum spectans, brevis, coni- cus. Cotyledones oblonge hemispherice.—Herba Africe Australis, radice tuberosa, foliis oppositis oblongis sinuato- dentatis, petrolis brevibus utrinque uniglandulosis, floribus axillaribus solitariis speciosis purpureis. Specific Name. Preropiscus* speciosus. eee For our knowledge of this splendid new Genus of plants the Botanical world is indebted to the Right _— able * So named from Tireps;, a wing, and diexos a disk, in consequence of the broad wings to the disk of the fruit. able the Earl of Dersy. It was collected in Macalisberg, by Mr. Burke (now employed on a similar mission in North-west America, and in California), while engaged in procuring animals and plants for that distinguished noble- man, in the interior of Southern Africa. It flowered in the stove at Knowsley, in May, 1844, and rarely has a more desirable plant been introduced to our collections. The tuberous root is large, solitary, quite globose ; the upper part elevated above the earth, and producing from its summit a stem, which soon divides into several erect, rather stout, succulent branches, bearing opposite leaves, and large, handsome, red-purple flowers in the axils of those leaves. The mouth of the flower has a circle of short, downy hairs. The fruit is drawn from dried speci- mens, brought home by Mr. Burge. Fig. 1. Base of the Corolla, laid open to show the Stamens. 2. Anther. 3. Pistil. 4. Apex of Style and Stigma. 5. Fruit (nat. size.) 6. Trans- verse Section of the same. 7. Seed. 8. Vertical Section of a Seed. 9, Embryo :—all but fig. 5 more or less magnified. oe ‘i ( 4118) JUANULLOA PARASITICA. PARASITIC J UANULLOA, Class and Order. Pentanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Sotanacez. ) Generic Character. _ Calyx amplus carnosus coloratus pentagonus 5-fidus deciduus, laciniis erectis acutis. Corolla subcarnosa tubu- losa, tubo infra limbum latiore hinc subinflato, limbo pa- tente 5-partito, lobis brevibus rotundatis. Stamina 5 tubo breviora prope basin tubi inserta erecta. Filamenta filifor- mia. Anthere lineares rimis longitudinalibus dehiscentes. Ovarium conicum basi annulo magno hypogyno 5-lobo carnoso cinctum, biloculare ; ovulis numerosis placentis centralibus affixis. Stylus filiformis tubo breviore ; stigma oblongum incrassatum apice bifidum. “ Fructus: Bacca Magni cerasi magnitudine.”—Frutex “ parasiticus,” gla- berrimus ; ramis teretibus herbaceis. Folia alterna, majus- cula, carnoso-coriacea, subgeminata, (altero sepius minore ), oblongo-obovata obtusa petiolata ; flortbus ramos breves ter- minantibus pendentibus ; pedicellis brevibus crassis ; calyce corollaque aurantiacis. Specific Name and Synonyms. JUANULLOA * parasitica UANULLOA parasitica. Ruiz et Pavon, Fl. Per. 2. p. 47. t. 185. Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst. 3. p. 106. LLOA parasitica. Pers. Syn. 1. p. 218. RUGMANSIA parviflora. Hortul. | RUGMANsIA floribunda. Hortul.—Paxt. Mag. of Bot. v. 9, with a Sigure. It Se a an reememeceeancetnonee * So named by Ruiz and Pavon, in compliment to Seo iio na to and Don Antonio Uxtoa, two distinguished Spani {the Meridian. uth America with ConDAMINE, to measure a degree ol the It will surprise many of our readers, perhaps, to be told, that this fine plant, known in our stoves, we believe, for four or five years, and pretty widely dispersed under the name of Bruemansia parviflora, and B. floribunda, has nothing to do with that Genus; and is, in fact, one of the rarest of plants (speaking botanically), a Genus always spoken of by authors as “ solis Ruiz et Pavonio notum.” A reference to the figure in the Flora Peruviana of Juan- ULLOA parasitica will convince any one that the so-called Bruemansia can be no other than that remarkable ‘‘ para- site (or rather, I apprehend, an epiphyte), upon the trunks of trees in woods near Pozuzo and San Antonio de Playa Grande, in Peru.” It was there discovered by the authors of that fine work, and well figured by them. Notwith- standing its parasitic nature, it flourishes freely if planted in earth, and kept in a moist and warm stove, and recom- mends itself both by its handsome foliage and its large and richly-coloured calyces. Our plant flowered at Kew in the summer months. Descr, A shrub, with somewhat the habit of Porrianpia, woody below ; but the young branches herbaceous, terete, glabrous, as is the whole plant. Leaves alternate, often geminate, and very unequal in size, from two or three to five inches in length, somewhat succulent, dark-green, oval or nearly obovate, obtuse, on short petioles. Flowers terminal, on short, drooping branches, or they may be said to be borne in pedunculated, leafy racemes, pedicels short, thick, especially upwards, often in pairs. Calyx fleshy, orange, ample, ovate, much larger than the diameter of the corolla, with five very prominent angles, and five erect teeth or lobes. Corolla about one-third longer than the calyx, tubular, but enlarged upwards, most so on one side, somewhat fleshy, full orange ; the limb of five, short, spreading, rounded segments. Stamens and pistil as de- scribed in the generic character. 7 Fig. 1. Corolla, nat, size. 2. Pistil. 3. Section of the Ovary:—mag- nvfied, Pa ‘ CFLQAELALW OO LSS EX Apt F 10g ne omen ( 4119 ) THUNBERGIA CHRYsops. GOLDEN-EYED PourpLe THunpereia. Class and Order. Dipynam1aA GyMNOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Acanrnaces. ) Generic Character. Calyx basi bibracteolatus, brevis, cupuliformis, trun- catus vel pluridentatus. Corolla hypogyna, campanulato- infundibuliformis, fauce inflata, limbo quinquefido, patente, subequali. Stamina 4, corolle tubo inserta, didynama ; anthere biloculares, loculis parallelis, ciliato-barbatis, altero breviore basi aristato. Ovarium biloculare, loculis bi- ovulatis, Stylus simplex ; stigma infundibuliforme, trans- versim bilabiatum. Capsula e basi globosa, bilocularis, in rostrum conicum angustata, di-tetrasperma, loculicide bivalvis, valvis medio septiferis. Semina globosa, umbilico forato, annulo late calloso cincta. Embryonis exalbumi- hosi cotyledones foliacew, conduplicate, radicula bre- Vissima, infera.—Frutices Indici et Capenses ; foliis oppo- sttis, cordatis, angulatis ; floribus axillaribus pedunculatis, solitariis vel racemosis ; corollis speciosis, luteis vel ceruteis, Jauce plerumque saturatioribus. Nees. Specific Name and Character. THunpereia* chrysops ; foliis cordatis angulatis, petiolo nudo, pedunculis axillaribus brevibus unifloris, calyce truncato, bracteis ovatis ciliatis, antheris sagittatis basi glanduloso glandulis pedicellatis, stigmate foliaceo bilobo, stylo apice barbato. This Pon taeomvenmee * So named in compliment to the celebrated Naturalist and Traveller = that name, the successor of RupBECK and Linnzvus in the Botanica chair at Upsal, This most lovely new species of TuunspereiA is one of the many rarities which Mr. Wurtrretp has, not without great danger and risk, brought from the interior of Sierra Leone, to the Right Honorable the Earl of Dersy; and our stove in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, and many other stoves we believe in this country, are indebted to his Lordship for the possession of it. The same gentleman, Mr. Wairrrietp, has likewise introduced to Knowsley, and through the same distinguished nobleman to Kew, the curi- ous Naporeonea Imperialis and the African Teak, or African Oak, as it is frequently called. Our new Tuunsereis has the merit of not only being very beautiful, but easily culti- vated in a stove, readily increased by cuttings, soon flowering, and bearing a succession of blossoms to com- pensate for the short duration of each individual one. _ Descr. Stems climbing, slender, herbaceous, slightly hairy. Leaves opposite, petiolate, cordate, or sometimes ovato-cordate, acute, or slightly acuminate, angulato- dentate at the margin, five or seven-nerved with transverse veins ; petiole tereti-compressed, not at all winged. Pe- duncles axillary, solitary, single-flowered, shorter than the petiole. Bracteas two, large, ovate, appressed to the base of the flower. Calyx truncated, forming, as it were, a large, fleshy disk, within the slightly lobed or raised edge of which, the base of the corolla is inserted. Corolla sub- campanulato-infundibuliform ; the éwbe yellow, much con- tracted at the base, widening upwards, and becoming of a rich purple on the spreading five-lobed limb, of a blue cast near the mouth, which encircles the full yellow throat (or eye) of the corolla, whence the specific name. Stamens four, didynamous, included ; Anthers sagittate, the base of the lobes with pedicellated glands. Germen green, ovate, on a large, fleshy disk, besides the disk which fills the short calyx. Style filiform, as long, or nearly so, as the tube of the corolla, bearded above. Stigma of two large, leafy, yellow, plaited lobes. Fig. 1. Tube of the Corolla, laid open. 2. Stamens, 3, Calyx and Pistil. 4, Germen, cut through densnseceets —magnified. SOT ~ ils teinmrmacsioatitoarstitcamniacenctitamettint Tet ts i Te or " >: pd ea pV igehs yt eal ee 2 aH ( 4120 ) ARISTOLOCHIA ORNITHOCEPHALA. Birp’s Heap Birru-worr. KEK EERE EE ERIK RRR Class and Order. Gynanpria Hexanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Arisrorocuie®. ) Generic Character. _ Perianthium monophyllum tubulosum basi ventricosum, limbo ligulato-extenso. Anthere sex, stigmatis lateribus adnate. Stigma subsessile, sex-partitum. Capsula 6-locu- laris, polysperma. Specific Name and Character. Aristotocura ornithocephala; volubilis glabra, foliis stipu- lisque reniformi-cordatis, floribus solitariis maximis, perianthii tubo inflato obovato globoso, limbo basi brevi cylindraceo bilabiato, labio superiore lanceolato acuto deorsum complicato intus dense piloso, inferiore e basi lineari canaliculato in laminam amplissimam reniformem reticulatam extenso. There are few plants which present more striking peculi- arities of form and structure in their blossoms than the various individuals of the Genus to which the present plant longs. Ninety-two species are enumerated by Srevper in the new edition of his valuable “ N omenclator Botanicus.” Amongst them is a peculiar group inhabiting Brazil, which Martius characterizes as having flowers of a remarkably large size, variegated with dark purple brown, with the __ tube of the perianth obovate or ventricose, the limb tubular _ at the base, then two-lipped; the upper lip more or less elongated, channelled, the lower one, from a very con- tracted and channelled or cymbiform base, dilated into a very broad lamina. ‘T'o this division, besides our —_ ’ XVII. 0 here represented, will belong the A. galeata, Marr., A. mbifera, Mart., A. labiosa, Ker, Bot. Reg., and Sims, in ot. Mag. t. 2545 (excl. syn.), A. Brasiliensis, Marr. (A. ringens, Link and Orro), and A. ringens, Vaux, (not Link and Orro). To the A. cymbijfera and A. labiosa, just men- tioned, {two species certainly very nearly allied to each other,) our A. galeata bears a great affinity, as well in size as in general structure ; but may be at once known by the very narrow (not broad and cymbiform) base of the lower lip. From A. galeata it may be discriminated by the much greater size of its leaves and flowers, by the different colour and marking of the perianth, and especially by the deep sinus of the great lamina of the lower lip. It was raised in the Glasgow Botanic Garden from seeds, gathered near Crato, Brazil, by Mr. Garpner, in September, 1838. Plants communicated from Glasgow to Mr. Moore at the Glasne- vin Botanic Garden, produced their curious blossoms in the stove during the autumn of 1840 and 1841, and from these specimens our figure is taken. Flowering individuals of the same plant were kindly sent by Mr. Lirwextyn, of Penllegar, in May of the following year; also raised from Garpner’s seeds. Descr. A large, climbing shrub, with petiolated, large leaves, in shape between cordate and reniform, obtuse, with a very broad and deep sinus at the base. Stipules two at the base of each leaf-stalk, large, cordate, obtuse, glaucous, the base amplexicaul. Peduncle solitary, single-tlowered, eight to ten inches long. Perianth very large, dingy ui ; the tube at the base two inches and three quarters ong, obovate, inflated, marked with large, black-purple reticulations, at the upper end, this tube suddenly contracts and is bent down at an angle, and this may be considered the base of the limb, which now becomes two-lipped, the upper lip five inches long, (resembling, with the inflated tube, a bird’s head and beak,) lanceolate, reticulated, the sides deflexed, copiously hairy within ;—the lower lip has a narrow stalk, grooved, linear, two inches long, and suddenly expands into an immense, reniform, beautiful, reticulated, waved lamina, four inches long, six broad : the reticulations beautifully marked with deep purple. Style or column obovate, six-toothed. ee Fig. 1. Style or Column, with the Anthers :—magnified. W. Fitch deft Pub.by 5S. Cartas Glazenwiod: Essco Noe LIS ( 4121 ) Gesneria Garpnenr. Mr. Garoner’s GESNERIA,. Class and Order. Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Gesnericez. ) Generic Character. Calyx ovarii basi aduatus, limbo subinequaliter 5-par- tito libero. Corolla tubulosa ima basi 5-gibberosa aut wequaliter subtumida, limbo 5-lobo, lobis nunc in labia duo dispositis, nunc subequalibus. Stamina 4 ime corolla adnata, didynama cum quinti rudimento. Anthere juni- ores coherentes. Stylus filiformis, stigmate capitato aut bilobo. Glandule perigyne 2—5 circa ovarii basin. Cap- sula coriacea |-locularis bivalvis, valvis convexis, placentis 2 parietalibus polyspermis. Semina scobiformia.—Herbe perennes, radice tuberosa, rarius frutices. Caulis simplex aut opposite ramosus. Folia opposila aut verticillata den- tata. Pedunculi simplices uniflori aut ramosi multiflori, axillares aut in thyrsum racemumve terminalem dispositi. Species omnes in Amer. Trop. spontanee. D C. Specific Character and Synonym. Grsnerta Gardneri; caule erecto, ramis teretibus glaber- rimis herbaceis, foliis brevi-petiolatis oppositis ellip- ticis carnoso-coriaceis, utrinque subacuminatis serratis oblique venosis venis sub lente pilosiusculis subtus pallidioribus prominentibus, pedunculis solitariis uni- floris axillaribus folium equantibus, calyce prismatico semisupero, segmeutis lanceolatis acuminatis, corolla tubulosa subpubescente, limbo subequali, lobis bre- vibus patentibus rotundatis, ovario hirsuto, annulo perigyno 5-lobo. Gusneria sp. Gardn. se Het, Bese. », 5000. Discovered re Discovered by Mr. Garpner on the Organ Mountains of Brazil in March, 1841, growing two to four feet high, in rocky places; and raised from seeds, sent over to Mr. Mackay, at the College Botanic Garden, Dublin, where it produced its handsome flowers in July, 1844. It is very distinct from any species hitherto described, and remark- able for the thick and fleshy leaves, shaped not unlike those of the Elm, pale-coloured, and with prominent nerves beneath. Descr. Stems erect, herbaceous, rounded, quite gla- brous, branched. Leaves opposite, very thick and fleshy, petiolate, elliptical, acute or slightly acuminate at both ex- tremities, strongly serrated, obliquely nerved, very minutely pubescent when seen under alens. Petiole half an inch or more long, terete, flattened above. Peduncles axillary, solitary, single-flowered, erect, slender, almost as long as the leaf, glabrous. Calyx five-partite; the tube short, united with the base only of the ovary, five-angled: seg- ments subulato-lanceolate, spreading, entire, glabrous. Corolla tubular, a little curved, slightly widening upwards, subpubescent: limb of five short, obtuse, spreading lobes. Stamens four, didynamous, inserted at the base of the co- rolla, and equal in length with the tube, having a small, subulate scale, or fifth abortive stamen, between. them. Germen ovate, hairy, as well as the long style, surrounded by a glandular disc, or ring, with five nearly equal, obtuse, erect teeth. Stigma obtuse. Fig. 1. Base of Corolla, laid open to show the insertion of the Stamens. = Pistil and annular Disc. 3. Transverse section of the Ovary :—mag- 2” - Fitch: del? Pub. by S. Cartis Ghlazenwond Essex Na? 1.18#¢F¢ Swarr S« C 41og Myosotis Azorica. AZzOREAN Mouss-EAk; or Forget-me-not. Class and Order. Pentranpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Boraeine. ) Generic Character. Calyx quinquepartitus. Corolla hypogyna, hypocrateri- morpha, tubo brevi vel calycem superante, fauce fornicibus clausa, limbo quinquepartito obtuso. Stamina 5, corolle tubo inserta, inclusa; anthere peltate. Ovarium quadri- lobum. Stylus simplex ; stigma capitatum. Nuces 4, dis- tinct, leaves, vel granulate, rugulose, umbilico basilari receptaculo affixae.—Herbe notissime, in regionibus extra- ~— totius orbis obvie ; racemis simplicibus, ebracteatis. ndl. ; Specific Name and Character. Myosoris Azorica; perennis, caule basi decumbente ramo- sissimo ubique dense setoso-hirsuto pilis reflexis, ca- lyce pedicellos erectos subaquantibus profunde in seg- mentis lineares strictos diviso, fructifero patente pilis erecto-patentibus setoso, corolle limbo tubum_ vix equante lobis marginatis. H.C. W. Myosoris Azorica. H.C. Watson, MS. No. 128 of Azorian © Specimens, collected in 1842. ene This beautiful Forget-me-not is found about waterfalls, and on wet rocks with a North-east aspect, in the islands of Corvo and Flores, the most westerly of the Azores. Its proper habitat appears to be on the mountains ; though it comes down nearly to the sea shore, following the course of rocky mountain streams, where the atmosphere 1s kept humid by the spray of the water. The deep rich blue of its numerous flowers, and their long succession from the lateral branches, combine to render this species well deserving of cultivation provided it can be brought to flourish in the ? drier drier climate of our gardens. It will require a loose, peaty, or sandy soil, careful shading from the midday sun, frequent sprinkling with water, and to be covered with a glass in hot dry weather.. Under this treatment, a plant of it in my garden has completely filled with its numerous stems a square hand-glass, twenty inches to the side, and twenty- four inches in depth ; and, apparently, it would have grown larger, had space allowed the free development of the lateral branches, which are much cramped by the glass. It will bear some frost, but may likely prove more impatient of cold than our native species of the Genus. In a Wardian case it would probably succeed very well. Descr. Root fibrous. Stem thickly covered with hairs, mostly bent back so as to point towards the root, decum- bent at the base, rooting by succulent fibres, which arise under the insertion of the lower leaves, and along the angles extending downwards from their points of insertion. Lateral branches numerous, and, like the principal stems, terminating in several close racemes of flowers. The lower portions of the stems apparently endure several years, be- coming hard and somewhat woody, while the upper por- tions die back yearly. Leaves very harsh, covered with strong hairs, which, on the upper surface, point towards the apex of the leaf; but on the under surface, especially along the midrib, they are curved back so as to point towards the insertion of the leaf. Lower leaves spathulate, oblong, retuse at the extremity, horizontal, or inclined backwards. Upper leaves more oblong, scarcely retuse, patent. Raceme subsecund with numerous approximate flowers. Pedicels erect or curved upwards, about the length of the calyx, with nearly erect pubescence. Calyx deeply divided into five linear, straight teeth, with long, erect, or erecto-patent pubescence, open in fruit. Corolla about equal to that of M. repensor sylvatica, deep indigo-blue, with a purple tinge at first, and slightly burnished in the sun ; its lobes propor- tionably broader than in the European species, obcordate and emarginate ; tube whitish, about equal to (in some flowers, rather shorter than) the limb, contracted at base and top, and nearly closed by the folds of the corolla. Fruzt quite smooth and shining. In general habit, coming near- est to M. palustris, but abundantly different from all the European species Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla laid open. 3. Section of Calyx, showing the Fruit. 4. Fruit. 5, Achenium :—magnified. ett, igre 0, Ta mrs ( 4123 ) ANCECTOCHILUS SETACEUS. FRINGED ANCCTOCHILUS. EEK KKK KEKE KE KEEEK Class and Order. GynanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipacez. ) Generic Character. Perianthium ringens. Sepalum supremum cum petalis in galeam agglutinatum; lateralia patula, basi inzqualia la- bello supposita. Labellum cum columna basi connatum, Vventricoso-calcaratum, ungue rigido canaliculato inflexo fimbriato, limbo bilobo patente. Columna brevis, margin- ibus membranaceis dilatatis involutis appendiculam bila- mellatam simulantibus. Stigma basi bicallosum. Pollinia 2, pulverea, subbiloba, caudiculis brevibus, glandula ob-. longa.—Herbe tropice Asiatice, radice Jibrosa, rhizomate Jiliformi subterraneo. Caules foliosi. Folia nervosa, disco- lora, venis sepe auro-micantibus. Flores spicati, laxiusculi, glanduloso-pilosi. Blume. Specific Character and Synonyms. Aneecrocuitus * setaceus; subrepens, foliis ovatis velutinis aureo-reticulatis subtus discoloribus, sepalis extus ovariisque glanduloso-hirsutis labello medio ad margi- nes longe fimbriato, apice bilobo lobis oblongis obtu- sis patentibus, sacco labelli apice bifido. ds hig Anxacrocninus setaceus. “ Blume, Bijdr. 1.412.” Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 2010. Eearskies Roxburgii. Wall. Tent. Fi. Nep. t. 17. Four petiolatum. Rumph. Amb. 6. p. 93. t. 41.f- 2. One = * From avoxros, as is supposed, open, and ers, a dip, in allusion to the Spreading lip of the flower. >? One of the most exquisitely beautiful of all plants in the hue and marking of its leaves, not to be imitated by art. Their colour is a rich velvety green, tinged with copper, and over that appears to be laid an exquisite golden net- work ; the underside is quite different, of a reddish tinge, with obscure yellow veins, but all that is most beautiful is exposed to view. It is a native of damp, shady woods in Ceylon, Amboyna, and Java, and, probably of the Indian Islands generally, and if, as I think, there can be no doubt, the Curysosapnus Roxburgii of Waxticn be the same, also of Sylhet and Nepal, Our plants, at the Botanic Gardens of Kew were received from Ceylon, through the favor of F. Scneer, Esq., and kept in moist earth surrounded by moss, covered with a bell-glass, they flowered vigorously in May and June, 1844. Descr. The habit of the plant is a good deal that of Goopyrera, and especially G. discolor. Lower part of the stem creeping, and sending out fibres. Leaves few, wholly confined to the lower portion of the plant, ovate, spreading, dark coppery and velvety (from the presence of numerous little papilla when seen under a microscope) green: and upon this is stretched the most elegant net-work, as it were, of gold. Scape, or nearly leafless stem, a span high, hairy, © bracteated. Spike of five to six flowers, of little beauty to the naked eye, as compared with the foliage, but most cu- rious when they come to be examined. Sepals ovate, acute, spreading, green tinged with red, clothed externally, as is the ovary, with glandular hairs. Petals ovate, forming a helmet by their union with the upper sepal, white tinged with red. Lip large, spread open, and hanging, apparently, downwards, pure white, oblong, grooved, fringed at the margin with long, white cilie, and terminated by two large, oblong, obtuse, spreading lobes: at the base of the label- Inm is a sack or conical pouch, often cleft at the apex. Column with two conspicuous marginal wings, standing forward. Pollen-masses two, two-lobed, pulverous, of a long club-shape, tapering, attached to a gland. Fig. 1. Flower. 2, The same with the Galea removed. 3. 4. Column. 5. Pollen-masses. #124 W Fit-d 274 : : : : ve - UCM Pub. by S Curtis Clazepwoad Esseco Now? LISFF Sware Sc. ( 4124 ) Ecainocactus Prenrianpt. ReED-FLOWERED EcuHINocactvs. Class and Order. Icosanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Cacrez. ) Generic Character. Sepala numerosa imbricata, basi ovario adnata, in tubum brevissimum concreta, exteriora involucriformia, intima pe- taliformia. Stamina numerosa, calyci affixa, inequalia, intima brevissima, filiformia, antheris oblongis. Stylus eylindricus, subfistulosus, apice multifidus. Bacca sepalo- rum reliquiis subsquamata, rarissime levis. Cotyledones parvule.—F rutices simplicissimi carnosi, ovati aut globos, melocactoidei aut mammillarieformes, aphylli, costati aut tuberculati, costis tuberculis confluentibus quasi formatis, dorso aculeorum fasciculos gerentibus. Cephalium seu spa- dix nullus. Flores e Jasciculis aculeorum ad apicem costa- rum orti, similis floribus Cerei, sed tubo vix supra recepta- culum elongato. P, feu: Specific Character and Synonym. Ecurtnocacrus Pentlandi ; globosus vertice umbilicato sub- 12-costatus glaucus, costis elevatis remote crenatis, sinubus acutis, areolis distantibus albo-lanatis, aculeis subvalidis aqualibus paululum arcuatis stellatim pa- tentibus rufo-fuscis, floribus Jateralibus sparsis solita- ris, tubo calycino-squamoso, squamis oe petalis sepalisque rufescenti-roseis lanceolatis muc Natis. : Ecurnocacrus Pentlandi. Hortul. In the rich collection of the Royal Gardens of ee ri of its history, I regret to say, we know nothing. a aatluitialai ae ls very pretty species, more remarkable for the rose-red colour of the flowers, than for any other striking peculiarity. Descr. Plant nearly globose, sessile, about two inches across, depressed and umbilicate at the top, deeply marked with about twelve furrows, which are sharp in their sinuses, and as many prominent, obtuse ribs: of a glaucous-green tint. Ribs lobed, or remotely crenate, distantly beset with pulvinuli or little woolly tufts or areole, from which rise about six, slightly curved, spreading, rather stout spines, each half an inch long, ora little more. The flowers are large in proportion to the size of the plant, and spring from the sides upon the ribs, solitary, but three or four are expanded on one specimen at the same time. Calyx-tube green, becoming yellow above, and beset with small, pilose, and ciliated scales: limb of the calyx yellow-red upwards and within. Petals deep rose colour. Stamens numerous, nearly white, Fig. 1. Fruit. 2. Side view of the Spines :—magnified. W. Fitch del® Pub by S. Curtis Glazmmood Essex Nov? LISt# jran~ ( 4125 ) STATICE MACROPHYLLA, LARGE-LEAVED Statice; or Thrift. Sa a Se os es On on On ORR OR Class and Order, PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Pxiumpaginez. ) Generic Character. Flores spicato - paniculati. Calyx I-phyllus, plicatus, subscariosus. Petala 5, subconnata. Stamina basi petalo- rum inserta. U¢triculus monospermus, calyce inclusus. Specific Character and Synonyms. Statice macrophylla; caule fruticoso superne folioso, foliis amplis obovato-spathulatis obtusis mucronatis subses- silibus, panicula composita terminali, ramis panicule alte alatis, pedicellis anguste alatis cuneatis, calycis limbo crenato-dentato purpureo, corolla alba. STATICE macrophylla. ‘ Link’ (Steudel), Willd. (Spreng. ) Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 959. This splendid plant, far superior to the Statice arborea, or Tree Thrift, of the Canaries in the beauty of its flowers, Was introduced, we understand, from those islands by Mr. Smiru of the Botanic Garden of Hull; and it is now much dispersed among the gardens of this country, where, grown in a large pot, and kept in the greenhouse, it bears ~ large panicles of purple and white flowers during the month of April. Mr. Forrest, of the Kensington iegts exhibited a fine specimen at Chiswick in that month = t present year. Our figure was taken from the Kew p ae SPRENGEL gives it as a species of Link: SPRENGEL as -- Wittpenow ; I do not find any character, save that : Sprencet above quoted. It has no place in Roemer an CH ULTES. Descr. Descr. From an erect, shrubby stem, there spring a few short branches, clothed with large, obovato-spathulate, ob- tuse, but mucronated leaves, tapering below into a short though broad footstalk. From the apex of these branches the peduncle has its origin, this is a foot or more high, and forms at the top a large, branching, compound panicle ; branches compressed, and bordered with broad, flat, or slightly waved, foliaceous wings, broadest upwards; the pedicels, or ultimate branchlets, assume a cuneate form, from the wing narrowing below. Small, ovate, cuspidate brac- teas are at the base of the ramifications. The flowers are large (for the Genus), handsome, and two or three arise together from four or five large, imbricated, sheathing bracteas, green, with a brown, membranaceous edge. Calyx with the limb large, spreading, dentato-crenate at the margin, of a rich, purple-blue colour, with five yellow radiated lines, like a star. Petals white. Fig. 1. Flowers and Bractea :—magnified. ( 4126 ) ACHIMENES PiCTA. PAinTep ACHIMENES. EEE EEE KER EEK KEKE KER Class and Order. Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Gesneriacen. ) Generic Character. Calycis tubus ovario adnatus; limbus 5-partitus lobis lanceolatis. Corolla tubuloso-infundibuliformis basi hinc sepe gibba, limbo plano 5-fido, lobis subequalibus sub- rotundis. Stamina 4 didynama, antheris non coheren- tibus. Rudimentum stam. quinti corolle basi inferne im- positum, Nectarium glandulosum annulare tenue. Stylus m stigma vix incrassatum obliquum aut subbilobum abe- uns, Capsula semibilocularis bivalvis, placentis parieta- libus subsessilibus.—Herbe Americane erecte villosa. Folia opposita aut terna verticillata petiolata dentata. Pedicelli 1-flori axillares. D C. Specific Name and Character. Acuimenes* picta; tota hirsuta, foliis oppositis ternisque cordato-oyatis grosse serratis velutino-hirsutis_ele- gantissime albopictis, pedunculis solitariis vel binis axillaribus folio longioribus unifloris, calycis tubo turbinato laciniis ovatis patentibus, corolle tubo infundibuliformi limbi lobis rotundatis patentibus subaqualibus 3 inferioribus minoribus, se hirsuto vix calyce adnato, glandulis hypogyuis 9. . | MSS. Acuimenss picta, Bentham Gee * A classical friend has suggested that the word should niet = Written AcH&MENES, a king of Persia, “ bellorum eee - = Amm.,”” according to LytrLeron, and hence proba ly a . = original ACHIMENES coccinea, on account of the scarlet co coe a 2 Brown, however, the author of the name, writes it ACHIMENES. VOL. XVII. F One of the splendid plants introduced by the Horticul- tural Society of London from Mexico, and now, from its dispersion by that useful body, among the greatest orna- ments of our stoves during the autumnal and early winter months. Nothing can exceed the beauty of the foliage, whether we consider the velvety and orange hue of the pubescence, or the rich deep green of the groundwork, as contrasted with the milk-like spots and reticulations. Nor are the flowers wanting in charms; they are copious, though solitary, from the axils of all of the upper leaves, yellow, gorgeously tinged and spotted with red. Its treat- ment is the same as that of other species of AcHIMENES and Gesneria: and, indeed, appears to me rather referable to the latter Genus, than to Acutmenes. In habit it is surely closely allied to Gesnerta zebrina. © Descr. Root consisting of numerous, elongated, scaly, caterpillar-like-tubers. Stems erect, but little branched, a foot to two feet high, hairy, as is every part of the plant, even to the outside of the corolla, with rather long, patent hairs, herbaceous, succulent. Leaves opposite and ternately verticillate, petiolate, ovato-cordate, serrate, ofa rich velvety green, mottled and reticulated with white or pale green, always whitest in the middle. Peduncles one or two from the axils of the upper leaves, and much longer than they, single-flowered. Flowers drooping, moderately large. Ca- lyx almost entirely free; the tube obconical, or turbinate ; the segments oblong-ovate, spreading. Corolla full yellow, with rich red above, within streaked and dotted with red : the tube funnel-shaped, gibbous above: the limb spreading, of five nearly equal lobes: the two upper, however, the smallest. Ovary ovate, hairy, with five oblong, fleshy glands at the base. Style thick, and (as well as the sta- mens) included: Stigma bifid. W. Bitch dA*® Pub.ty S&S. Cartis Glagenmood Essex Deco 118F¢F¢ Sram 5e- he ( 4127.) STAPELIA CACTIFORMIS, CACTUS-LIKE STAPELIA. Si a eS eo eo no Class and Order. Pentanpria Monoeynia. | ( Nat. Ord.—Ascueprapea. ) Generic Character. Calyx quinquepartitus. Corolla rotata, quinquefida, car- hosa. Gynostegium sepius exsertum. Corona staminea duplex ; exterior foliolis y. laciniis integris v. partitis, in- terior corniculiformibus simplicibus v. bifidis. Anthere apice simplices. Masse pollinis erect ventricose, mar- gine hinc pellucido. Stigma muticum. Folliculi subey- lindracei, leaves, erecti. Semina comosa.— Plante Capen- S€8, Carnoseé, ramose, ramis aphyllis sepius tetragonis angu- lis dentatis, flortbus ut plurimum speciosis atro-sanguineo- Suttatis vel marmoratis et tune nonnunquam odore nauseoso, Slercorario, D C. Specific Name and Character. Srareria (§. Popanrues ?) cactiformis ; caule cylindraceo simplici undique mammillis areolato, mammillis inferi- oribus majoribus transversim oblongis superioribus minoribus subrotundis. angulatis medio puncto de- presso, floribus ex apice caulis subsessilibus aggregatis parvis, corolle subrotate laciniis triangulari-acutis, ? e “2 . es coronz staminee serie externa 5-fida dentibus inter jectis lobis bifidis laciniis divaricatis. One of the most remarkable of a very remarkable Genus, respecting which it is to be regretted that many — formerly known to our gardens, are lost, and scarcely any new ones have been received to take their place. ae the latter, however, may be reckoned the curious Sraperia Gordoni of Masson, (Scyrantuus Gordoni, Hook. Ic. Plant. tab. 625) which were detected by Mr. Burke on the Orange River, and other places in South Africa, and sent to his employer, the Earl of Dersy, at Knowsley, together with the subject of the present plate, lately received among a collection of plants from Little Namaqua-land, from Mr. Zeyvuer. It flowered in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, in August, 1844. Descr. The stem, or, in other words, the entire plant, has more the appearance of a Mammittarta (among Cactacge®), or some succulent South African Eupuorsta, than of a Srapenia, and is obovato-cylindrical, in the resent instance about five inches and a-half bigh, and two inches broad, of a glaucous-green color, externally even mammillate ; mammuille, in the lower and older part of the stem transversal, oblong; above, in the younger portion, nearly rotundate and smaller, somewhat angular, as it were, by pressure: all of them prominent and furnished with a small central depression. Flowers small, aggregate on the summit of the stem, nearly sessile, with transverse, red bands and spots. Calyx deeply five-toothed. Corolla nearly rotate, but approaching to campanulate, minutely puckered on the surface; the five segments triangular, acute, spreading. The general form of the flower and the structure of the staminal crown in many respects approach those of Popanrues: but there are differences, and the habit of the plant is quite at variance with that section or subgenus of Staperia. The exterior staminal corona has five principal divisions, with a short intervening tooth ; and each principal division is forked, or deeply cleft, with the segments spreading: the horns, or segments of the interior, are linear-oblong, rather short, and incurved upon the gynostegium. Fig. 1, Flower. 2. Staminal Crown :—magnified. (4128 5 ARMERIA CEPHALOTES, LARGE-HEADED Ture, . Se Ss ie ie ae a os On a Ons Os Os Os Os ON Class and Order. PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. ( Nat. Ord.—P.Lumpacines. ) Generic Character. Involucrum tubulosum scariosum reflexum, sepius in lacinias plures apice fissum. Calyx communis polyphyllus, foliolis ovatis lanceolatisve ellipticis muticis vel cuspidatis ; proprius monophyllus, integer, plicatus, scariosus. Corolla infundibuliformis. Petala basi coalita, inferne angustata. Filamenta basi connata. Capsula oblonga, membranacea, evalvis, 5-cuspidata, calyce tecta. Semen 1, oblongum, funiculo longo pendulum, Receptaculum paleaceum. Roem. Specific Character and Synonyms. Armeria cephalotes; scapo tereti glabro, bracteis lato- ovatis mucronato-acutis, calycis dentibus longe mu- cronato-aristatis, foliis lato-spathulatis tri- quinque- nerviis, Armerra latifolia. Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 1. p. 334. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. 6. p. 774. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 1. p. 961. Armerta cephalotes. Link. SrTaticE eaehaictias Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. p. 383. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 180. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 1523. ARMERIA fatifotia, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 1. p. 334. Statice Armeria, major. Jacq. Hort. Vindob. p. 16. t, 42. Statice pseudo-Armeria. Murr. Syst. p. 300. Brot. Fl. Lus, p. 488. Desf. Fl. Atl. 1. p. 275. a This fine and most desirable plant has lately been | brought into notice as something altogether new to our gardens, gardens, having been received from France under different names. But, though perhaps, long lost to our collec- tions, it was introduced to the Royal Gardens of Kew so long ago as the year 1775, by J. Nicnoras de Jacquin: and was, probably, previously to that time, detected at Algarbia, in Portugal, by Masson, while collecting for His Majesty George III. It seems to be a native of several parts of the coast of Portugal; and also, according to DesronrainEs, of Barbary also. It is, probably, not hardy enough to bear the open border; but in a cool green- house, few plants make a more striking appearance, flowering in August and September. Descr. Stems very short, frequently, however, bearing several flowering, tufts of leaves. Leaves from four to six inches long, spreading, broad-spathulate, acute, glaucous- green, three to five-nerved, tapering into a narrow petiole, which is again a little dilated at the very base. Peduncles two to three from the centre, or near the centre of the tufts of leaves, a foot to a foot and a-half long, terete, erect, moderately flexuose, the apex sheathed by the long tubular base of the lower bracteas. Heads of blossoms large (two to three inches wide), handsome full rose colour. Brac-. teas under the capitulum several, imbricated, broad-ovate, sharply acute. Flowers crowded. Calyx funnel-shaped ; the upper half scariose, five-toothed, plicate, each tooth with a rather long arista. Petals obovato-spathulate, spreading, clawed. Stamens five, exserted: Anthers pur- plish. Styles five. Fig. 1. Flower with one of its Bracteas. 2. Calyx :—magnified. .° —— ( 4129 ) LAPLACEA SEMISERRATA. SEMISERRATED- LEAVED LAPLACEA. See ce ee Class and Order. Potyanpria PEentaAaynia. ( Nat. Ord.—TErnstramiAceg. ) Generic Character. Calyx pentaphyllus. Corolla 5-polypetala, petalis ple- ruinque inequilateris. Stamina indefinita libera. Ovariwn superum, quinque- ad multiloculare. Styli quinque vel plures, breves, stigmatibus simplicibus. Capsula lignosa, quingue- ad decemlocularis, quinque- ad decemvalvyis, Semina in quovis loculo plura biseriata, apice alata. Mart. Specific Character and Synonyms. Lapiacea* semiserrata; foliis oblongo-subovatis acutis basi oblique attenuatis superne serratis coriaceis utrinque glabris, floribus in axillis superioribus soli- tariis vel aggregatis, petalis 5 ad 8. Laptacea semiserrata. St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. p. 300. &MocHARIS semiserrata. Mart. et Succ. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Bras. 1. p. 107. t. 67. Seibinyi fe aa, in Regensb. Bot.- eit. 1821. p. 299.” IcKstramia fruticosa. ‘‘ Schkrad. in Goett. Gal. Aug. 1821. p. 710. A native of various parts of Brazil, where, according to Marrius, it forms a tree thirty to forty feet in height. Sr. Hinaire says of it “ Arbor mediocris, v. sepius frutex ramosus.”’ * So named by Humpotpt in compliment to the distinguished Philoso- pher and Mathematician, LAPLACE. ramosus.”” Whatever may be its size in its native country, it is quite certain that in our stoves, it flowers readily in the autumn, when not more than a foot high; and recom- mends itself by its handsome Tea-like evergreen foliage even more than by its large, delicate white flowers. Mr. Garpner gathered it in Goyaz, and it is distributed in his collections as Lapracea, n. 3035. For our living plants in the Royal Gardens of Kew we are indebted to His Grace the Duke of Norruumsertanp, and to Mr. Maxoy of Liege. Descr. A shrub, or small tree, in its native country ; but with us bearing flowers copiously when not more than a foot high, much branched. Leaves alternate, oblong, but approaching to obovate, acute, serrated in the upper half, entire, and gradually tapering into a short foot-stalk, the two sides unequal. Peduncles short, axillary, solitary, or aggregated. Calyx of five imbricated, deciduous, rotun- date, concave sepals, silky on the outside. Corolla of five to eight obovate, white petals, silky on the outside, emarginate at the apex. Stamens numerous. Filaments subulate. Anthers shortly oval, two-celled. Ovary ovato- globose, hairy. Styles five, expanding into as many broad, spreading plates or stigmas. Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil. 3. Transverse section of the Ovary :— magnified. Ln a Pub. by S. Cartis Glaxenwood) Essex Doc™ 1. 194¢ Seance. ( 4130 ) ONCIDIUM TRICOLOR. THREE-COLOURED ONCIDIUM. FEE oraeebbeokekaoaae Class and Order. Gynanpris Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Onrcuinex. ) Generic Character. Labellum explanatum, Jobatum, basi tuberculatum. Petala patentia (2 antica nunc connata). Colwmana alata. Masse pollinis 2, postice biloba, medio aflixe processu communi stigmatis. Br. Specific Name and Character. Oncipium tricolor ; foliis crasso-coriaceis acute triquetris subcomplicato-acute carinatis, scapo paniculato multi- floro, sepalis 2 (lateralibus connatis) spathulatis peta- lisque ovatis unguiculatis undulatis labelli lobis lateralibus parvis lineari-obovatis intermedio expanso reniformi-lunato apice emarginato, crista duplici serie, serie superiore 5-lobo, inferiore trilobo, alis columue acinaciformibus crenulatis. A very beautiful and entirely new species, with foliage resembling that of Oncipium triquetrum (Tab. 3393), aud Oncipium pulchellum (Tab. 2773), but very different in the flowers, both as to form and colouring, being elegantly varied with white and yellow, and blotched with blood- coloured spots. It was sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew, in the autumn of 1843, by our Collector, Mr. Purpig, from Jamaica, and blossomed freely attached to a piece of wood in March and April of the following year. ae Descr. Epiphyte. Stemless. Leaves subdistichous, between fleshy and coriaceous, rigid, triquetrous, geo wi with a sharp, deep keel, grooved above. Scape from the axil of an outer leaf, about a foot long, soon branching out into a lax, much-divided panicle. Branches slender, racemose, Sepals spreading: two lateral ones connate, spathulate: third and petals ovate, unguiculate, waved, all of them yellow, transversely streaked and spotted with red. Labellum white; two lateral lobes small, spreading, linear-obovate ; intermediate one large, limate, waved. Column short, with a triangular stigma just be- neath the anther. Fig. 1, Column and Lip. 2. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified. ven 4131 ) BEGONIA RUBRICAULIS. ReEp-scAPED Breeonia; or Elephant’s Kar. SR ek okeksksbakekokakoole Class and Order. Monazcra Poryanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Breontacex. ) Generic Character. Masc. Calyx o. Corolla polypetala, petalis plerumque 4, inequalibus. Fam. Calyx 0. Corolla petalis 4—9 plerumque inequalibus. Styli 3 bifidi. Capsula triquetra, alata, trilocularis, polysperma. Specific Name and Character. Beeonta rubricaulis ; acaulis pubescenti-pilosa, foliis bre- vipetiolatis oblique cordatis sinuato-lobatis serratis rugosis basi profunde bilobis, lobis rotundatis imbri- catis, scapis folio pluries longioribus crassis superne paniculato-ramosis, floribus speciosis, petalis 5 obova- tis, fructu turbinato-triquetra, angulis duobus_bre- vissime alatis tertia ala maxima elongata. Our stoves are now becoming extremely rich in the plants of this highly ornamental Genus of plants ; but it is to be regretted that so many are introduced to our gardens, without any record of their native countries. Such is the case of the present species, which we have received from the excellent Curator of the Birmingham Botanic Gardens, without name or clue to its origin. I find no description that will agree with it, and have, there- fore, given it an appellation significant of the fine red colour of the flower-stalks, which, together with the glossy leaves, and large rose-coloured and white flowers, renders the species peculiarly worthy of cultivation. It is in perfection during the summer and autumnal — ESCR. Descr. Leaves few, the short, fine red petioles rising directly out of the earth, of an obliquely ovate form, from four to six inches long, slightly hairy, full and bright green, wrinkled, as it were, on the surface from the tight- ness of the reticulated veins; the margins undulate, sinuato-lobate, and everywhere closely serrated and cili- ated; the base deeply two-lobed; the lobes rounded, approximated, and the inner edge of one lapping over that of the other. Scapes rising up from among the leaves, reatly longer than they, thick, tapering upwards, hairy, full and bright red, above paniculato-ramose, with several large, handsome flowers. Peduncles and pedicels deep red, bracteated ; bracteas scariose, loose, and soon deciduous, broad oval. Male flowers rather larger than the female : each with five petals, of which two are red, blush-coloured, suffused with a deeper tinge; the three others are cream colour, scarcely tinged with blush. Stamens and stigmas yellow. Fruit triquetrous, deep red; two of the angles with very short margins or wings; of the third, the angle is produced into a much elongated, somewhat triangular, obtuse wing, a little curved upwards. Fig. 1. Immature Fruit :—magnified. LN DE X; In.which the Latin Names of the Plants contained in the Seventeenth Volume of the New Serius (or Seventieth of the Work) are alphabetically arranged. + Pi. eee x 3 4077 Achimenes pedunculata. 4072 Houlletia Brocklehurstiana. 4126 —_—___ picta. 4079 [lex platyphylla. 4050 Acrophyllum verticillatum. 4051 Impatiens tricornis. 4049 Aerides affine. 4068 Ipomea crassipes. 4123 Aneectochilus setaceus. 4118 Juanulloa parasitica. 4128 Armeria cephalotes. 4099 Lelia peduncularis, 4120 Aristolochia ornithocephala. | 4090 - superbiens. 4106 Asclepias vestita. | 4129 Laplacea semiserrata. 4113 Barleria flava. _ 4112 Lepanthes sanguinea. 4094 Barkeria spectabilis. _ 4095 Loasa Pentlandii. 4100 Begonia Meyeri. 4110 Lomatia tinctoria. 4131 Begonia rubricaulis. | 4048 Luxemburgia ciliosa. - 4088 Bolbophyllum Calamaria. | 4060 Mammillaria tetracantha. 2 Boronia Fraseri. | 4081 Maxillaria ciliata. 4056 Caltha sagittata. _ 4103 Microstylis histionantha. j 4085 Cattleya intermedia; variegata. | 4109 Miltonia Clowesii. { 4092 Morina longifolia. 4122 Myosotis Azorica. 4080 Nematanthus chloronema. - superba. 4063 Cephaelis Ipecacuanha. Cereus extensus. 4084 Pitajaya. 4096 Nephelium Longan. e: 4093 Ceropegia oculata, 4104 Odontoglossum pulchellum. — 4116 Chabreea runcinata. 4130 Oncidium tricolor. 4061 Clematis montana; var. gran- | 4086 Pentas carnea. 4053 Petalidium barlerioides. z diflora. | — 4065 Convolyulus ocellatus. 4078 Phajus bicolor. Cyenoches yentricosum; var. || 4076 Phaseolus lobatus. Egertonianum. 4117 Pterodiscus speciosus. _ 4067 Dinema polybulbon. 4108 Saccolabium guttatum. ~ 4059 Diplolena Dampieri. 4071 Scaphyglottis violacea. 4091 Disa cornuta. 4105 Siphocampylus lantanifolius. i eee grandiflora. 4127 Stapelia cactiformis. — 4102 Dryandra formosa. 4055 Statice rhytidophylla. s Drymonia punctata. | 4125 macrophylla. ~ 4115 Echinocactus concinnus. 4058 Stephanotis floribunda. «4124 Pentlandi. 4062 Tacsonia pinnatistipula. 4074 Erica jasminiflora. 4070 Tetranema Mexicanum. — 4069 ——- Shannoniana. 4111 Thomasia stipulacea. _ 4101 Eriostemon buxifolium. 4119 Thunbergia chrysops. — _ 4107 Epidendrum vitellinum. | 4097 Tropeolum Lobbianum. 3 4082 Fuchsia splendens. _ 4098 Umbilicus malacophyllus. 412L Gesneria Gardneri. 4114 Vanda teres. — | - 4064 Gomphrena pulchella. | 4057 Veronica speciosa. | 4 - 4937 Greenovia aurea. _ i 4075 Viscaria oculata. 2 B | TeN. DEX, In which the English Names of the Plants contained in the Seven- teenth Volume of the New Serres (or Seventieth of the Work) are alphabetically arranged. Pi. |, PL, 4077 Achimenes, long-stalked. | 4079 Holly, Canarian, broad-leaved. 4126 — pointed. 4063 Ipecacuanha. 4050 Acrophyllum, whorl-leaved. | 4068 Ipomea, thick-flower-stalked ; 4049 Aerides, rose-coloured; or | or Bindweed Air-plant. | 4118 Juanulloa, parasitic. 4123 Ancectochilus, fringed. | 4076 Kidney-Bean, lobe-leaved. 4106 Asclepias, hairy-stemmed. | 1429 Laplacea, semiserrated-leaved. 4051 Balsam, three-horned; or || 4090 Lelia, gorgeous. 7 Touch-me-not. , 4099 - pedunculated, 4094 Barkeria, showy. | 4112 Lepanthes, blood-coloured. 4113 Barleria, yellow. | 4095 Loasa, Mr. Pentland’s. 4100 Begonia, Mr. Meyer's; or Ele- phant’s Ear. — red-scaped; or Ele- phant’s Ear. 4065 Bind-weed, purple eyed. 4120 Birth-wort, Bird’s Head. 4071 Boat-Lip, violet. 4088 Bolbophyllum, quill -stem- med, 4052 Boronia, Mr. Fraser’s. 4131 4085 Cattleya intermediate, varie- gated-lipped. superb. 4066 Cereus, long-stemmed; or Torch-Thistle. 4084 variable; or Pitajaya. 4093 Ceropegia, ocellated. 4116 Chabrea, changeable-flowered 4054 Cycnoches, ventricose-lipped ; | or Swan-neck; Sir Francis Egerton’s var. 4067 Dinema, many-bulbed. 4059 Diplolena, Dampier’s. 4091 Disa, horned-flowered. 4073 large-flowered. 4102 Dryandra, splendid. 4089 Drymonia, spotted-flowered. 4115 Echinocactus, neat. 3 4124 — red-flowered. 4107 Epidendrum, Yolk-of-Egg. 4101 aerate: box-leaved. 4056 Fig-Marigold, arrow-leaved. 4082 Fuchsia, splendid. | 4121 Gesneria, Mr. Gardner’s. 4064 aan large-flow- e ered. 4087 Greenovia, golden. — 4074 Heath, flask-flowered. 4069 ——— Lady Shannon’s. = 4072, Houlletia, Mr. Brocklehurst’s. | 4081 | 4122 4110 4096 4048 4060 Lomatia, dyeing. Longan. Luxemburgia,. fringe-leaved. Mammillaria, four-spined. Maxillaria, fringe-lipped. Microstylis, sail-flowered. Miltonia, Mr. Clowes’. Morina, long-leaved. Mouse-ear, Azorean; or For- get-me-not. Nasturtium; or Mr. Lobb’s Indian Cress. : Nematanthus, shorter-flower- stalked. Odontoglossum, elegant. Oncidium, three-coloured. Pentas, flesh-coloured. Petalidium, Barleria-like. Phajus, two-coloured. 4117 Pterodiscus, showy. 4108 Saccolabium, spotted. 4055 Sea-Lavander, rasp-leaved, shrubby. 4105 Siphocampylus, Lantana-leaved 4057 Speedwell, showy-flowered. 4127 Stapelia, Cactus-like. 4125 Statice, large-leaved; or Thrift. 4058 Stephanotis, copious-flowering 4062 Tacsonia, Mrs. Marryatt’s ; or Passion-flower. 4103 4109 4092 4097 4080 4104 4130 4026 4053 4078 | 4070 Tetranema, Mexican. 4111 Thomasia, large-stipuled. 4128 Thrift, large-headed. 4119 Thunbergia, purple, golden- eyed. .3,...7 4098 Umbilicus, soft-leaved. 4114 Vanda, quill-leaved. 4061 Virgin’s Bower, Mountain, large-flowered, var. 4075 Viscaria, dark-eyed.