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Reeve & Co., Publishers, 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. Please send to the wndersigned the Borantcan MAGAZINE, THIRD Serres, in Monthly Volumes, or com- plete,* at 36s. per Volume. Name Address Date Conveyance * Subscribers will be good enough to indicate in which form they desire to receive the work, by striking out the words indicating the other form, ~ 74: 60 ae i as TAB, 6074, SAXIFRAGA petra TA. Native of California. Nat. Ord. SAXIFRAGACER.—Tribe SAXIFRAGER, Genus Saxirraga, Linn. ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p- 635), SaxIrraGa peltata; rhizomate crasso repente, foliis omnibus radicalibus longe petiolatis erectis amplis peltatis orbiculatis amb:tu 6—10-lobatis lobis inciso-dentatis, scapis nudis elongatis, cymis corymboso-capitatis multifloris glandulosis, calycis tubo brevissimo obconico-campanulato, ‘Sepalis oblongis obtusis, petalis ellipticis obtusis, filamentis subulatis, carpellis liberis in stylos breves attenuatis, stigmatibus dilatatis. Saxrrraga peltata, Torr. Mss. in Benth, Plant. Hartweg, p. 311; e in Bot. U. States Explor. Exped. P. y, (without teat); Engler Monog. Gatt. Saxifr.108 Walp. Ann., vol. vii. p. 891. ; One of the largest species of the genus, and a very curious one, though far from being as handsome as many others. Variable as the foliage of the Saxifrages is, the present is the only one known in which that organ is completely peltate, and like many other peltate-leaved marsh and water-loving plants, this is stated to be found on the margins of streams and mn the water itself. I have seen indigenous specimens gathered in the Sacramento Mountains by Hartweg, who dis- Covered the species ; in the Mendreino county, California, by Prof. Bolander, of San Francisco ; and others collected by Lobb without a locality. A very singular form, either a variety or different species, is in the Hookerian Herbarium from Clear Creek in North California; it has the almost glabrous cyme broken up into a distantly branched panicle, the branches of which have short rounded bracts at the base, and has inflated much rounded carpels abruptly terminated with short styles; the fruit figured in the “Botany” in the United States Exploring Expedition resembles this, and not ¢ narrower attenuated fruit of Hartweg’s, Lobb’s, and the cultivated plants. Engler in his Monograph of Savifraga JANUARY Ist, 1874, - makes a section of it (Peltophyllum) founded on the shape of the leaf, and on the carpels opening above only, but the latter is an error, for the carpels open to the base both in this plant and in that figured by Torrey. I am indebted to Messrs. Downie, Laird, & Laing for a specimen of this fine plant, which flowered with them in April 1873; it would probably attain a greater size if planted in or near water and become a very conspicuous and attractive object. Drscr. Sootstock as thick as the thumb, creeping, partly buried in the soil; green with large broad leaf-scars ; the tip clothed with the broad green stipular leaf-sheaths, which are rounded with membranous pink-margins. Leaves all subterminal, erect ; petiole one to two feet long, cylindric, as thick as a goose-quill, glandular-pubescent ; blade orbicular, peltate, six inches in diameter, 6-10-lobed, the lobes cut and sharply-toothed, upper surface dark green with a deep funnel-shaped depression at the centre where attached to the petiole, pale beneath. Scape equalling or exceeding the leaves, terete and glandular like the petiole. Cyme three to five inches in diameter ; subcapitate, repeatedly branched, ebracteolate, glandular-pubescent. Flowers one half inch in diameter, Calyzx-tube very short, between obconic and campanulate; lobes 5, reflexed, oblong, tip rounded. Petals longer than the sepals, elliptic, rounded at both ends, white or very pale pink. Stamens equalling or exceed- ing the petals, filaments broad subulate, anthers small broad. Carpels two, nearly free, narrowed into short stout styles; stigma dilated, Fruit-carpels one-third inch long, narrowed into the style. Seeds large, subcuneate, angled, compressed, brown. —J. D. 7 Fig. 1, Flower, with petals removed :—~-magnified. 6075 i oe ee ‘Vincent Brooks Day&Son Imp ee ee ee ee eee Tee Tas. 6075. XAN THORRHGA QUADRANGULATA. Native of South Australia. Nat. Ord. Juncem.—Tribe XERoTIDED. Genus Xantoorrua@a, Smith ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 152). XANTHORRHG@A quadrangulata ; trunco arboreo, foliis gracilibus e basi paulo dilatato glaberrimo filiformibus rectangule tetraquetris glaucis angulis scaberulis, scapo 2-6 pedali, spica 3-4 pedali, bracteis numerosis angustis apice rhombeo-dilatatis acuminatis, sepalis albis paulo longioribus equa- libus anguste spathulatis obtusis v. cuspidatis valvatis; petalis, lineari- oblongis obtusis cuspidatis, staminibus longe exsertis divaricatis, capsula perianthio longiore. XANTHORRH@A quadrangulata, F. Muell. Fragment. Plant. Austral., vol. iv. Dp. ii]. The Grass-gum trees are amongst the most remarkable vegetable features of that country of wonderful vegetableforms, Australia; and it is with great satisfaction that we now figure in the Botanic Magazine a second species of a genus so rare in cultivation. It is a native of South Australia, where it inhabits rocky hill-ranges, and was sent to Kew by Dr. Schomburgk, the energetic Director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden. Shortly after its arrival, the trunk which is four feet high, slowly developed its fresh green leaves, which steadily increased in number and length till the plant had the appearance given in the plate; the flower-stem and ‘Typha-like spike commenced to emerge about July of last year, and attained its full development in September, when the flowers began to expand from below upwards, and a full month elapsed before all had opened. During flowering time a copious honey-like secretion was exuded, which hung in great tear-like drops to the brown spike. A few of the ovaries have swollen, and indeed matured, but the seeds have not been fully formed. : Dr. Engelheart, of Gawlor-town, South Australia, an ardent Horticulturist, informs me that the Xanthorriwas, of which there are two species in that district (X. semiplanu and guad- JANUARY Ist, 1874. rangulata), like a rich fern-soil, mixed with a good deal of fine black sand, and drive their straggling roots into crevices of rocks 20-30 feet down amongst the accumulated vegetable soil. Young plants have a very pretty appearance, resembling a Gynerium, but growing older, and periodically subjected to bush fires, all the leaves but the central are con- sumed, and an ugly charred and blackened stump with a tuft of leaves remains. About fifteen species of Xanthorrhea have been discovered, of which the X. Hastile of New South Wales (Tab. nost. 4722), is the best known, from the uses of its long peduncles, which attain twenty feet in height, as spear-shafts, and for the rich red-brown astringent resin which forms between the densely compacted bases of the leaves, and which has been used as a substitute for gum-kino. It is often called the Black- boy, and a native boy with a tuft of grass on his head placed amongst a group of them, is, from a little distance, with diffi- culty distinguished from the surrounding trunks. Another species, X. pecoris, F. Muell., of West Australia, forms a staple fodder for cattle during a good part of the year. Several species are cultivated at Kew—viz., X. qguadrangulata, semi- plana, F. Muell., Hastile, Br. and minor, Br., with others not - in a sufficiently advanced condition for determination.— ue Fig. 1, Whole plant:—reduced in size ; 2, leaf:— of the natural size; 3, transverse section of leaf:—magnified ; 4, upper part of spike:—of the natural size; 5, flower and bracts; 6, bracts; 7, ovary; 38, fruit :-—all magnified. ni ceo e a iP er “y ee : Tas. 6076. : STEUDNERA conocast#routra. Native of South America. Nat. Ord. AroinE2.—Tribe ASTEROSTIGME. Genus Sreupnera; (Koch in Regel Gartenflora, 1869, p. 323). STEUDNERA colocasiefolia ; caudice brevi crasso vaginis brunneis tecto, foliis longe_petiolatis, petiolo tereti, lamina peltata concava ovato-oblonga acuminata basi modice emarginato-2-loba, subtus glauo-viridi maculis brunneis latis infra nervos irrorata, pedunculis petiolo brevioribus et tenuioribus viridibus, spatha ampla tota aperta late ovata acuta recurva flava disco pallide et sordide rufo-purpurea, spadice spatha multo breviore obtuso parte fceminea dorso spathe fere toto adnata, ovariis confertis staminodiis brevibus clavatis circundatis hemisphericis 2-locularibus, stigmate sessile discoideo 5-gono, antheris columne- formibus late truncatis loculis 7-8 parallelis connectivo columnari carnoso longitudinaliter adnatis, STEUDNERA colocasizfolia, Koch, 1. c. According to Regel and Koch this singular Aroid is a native of South America, whence it was imported by Linden, if, as I venture to think, the plant here figured and for Which T an indebted to Mr. Bull, is the Stewdnera colocasiafolia of Koch. Of this a comparison with Regel’s description and plate would leave no doubt in my mind, were it not that Mr. Bull’s plant has many staminodes and a 2-celled ovary, whilst Koch’s has but one or two staminodes, and a 5-celled ovary ; the number of staminodes is very likely to be variable, as is frequently the case with arrested organs, and our plants having, like Koch’s, 5 rays to the stigma would indicate the probability of there being sometimes as . _ Many cells to the ovary 4 regret having no information as to the exact habitat of his plant. Mr. Bull believes that he received his specimen tom Calcutta, but it is certainly not an Indian form. it longs to Schott’s section or tribe of Asterostigmea, and its tes are for the most part American; it, however, closely Tesembles in the form “and colouring of the foliage a very JANUARY Ist, 1874. ornamental Arvid (Colocasia Jenningsii), which I found in the Khasia mountains. The specimen here figured flowered in Mr. Bull’s nursery in May, 1873. Drscr. Rootstock one to two inches high, and one and a half in diameter, clothed with brown sheaths. eaves few, six to ten inches long, terminal, oblong-ovate, acuminate, peltate, concave, with a shallow notch at the base, midrib strong, as are two nerves that proceed backwards from the insertion of the petiole; lateral nerves numerous, spreading ; upper surface dark green, under glaucous green, with dark brown blotches between the nerves; petiole one foot long terete, green. Peduncle, shorter and more slender than the petiole, terete. Spathe four inches long, broadly-ovate, acuminate, quite open, slightly concave, recurved after opening, yellow, with a suffused pale red-purple disk. Spadiv one and a half inches long, upper one-third free, subclavate, obtuse, clothed densely with hexagonal anthers; lower two- thirds dorsally adnate to the spathe, densely clothed with ovaries, and each surrounded by five to eight short clavate staminodes. Anthers shortly columnar, apex of connective flat dilated ; cells seven to eight, linear, parallel, surrounding the thick connective. Ovary hemispheric, 2-celled; stigma discoid, 5-angled ; cells several-ovuled, ovules attached to the axis.— J. D. H. Fig. 1, Spadix and its attachment :—of the natural size; 2, anther; 3 ovary and staminodes; 4, transverse section of ovary :—all magnified. ? COTT VincentBrocks Day &Son, bup W Bitch del et hth. Tas. 6077. MESEMBRYANTHEMUM trunoatetiun. Native of South Africa. Nat. Ord. Ficoiem.—Tribe MesempryeR. Genus MrsempryantuEmum, Linn. ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p- 853). MEsEMBRYANTHEMUM truncatellum ; obconicum, 1-8 poll. diametro, acaule, glaberimum, glaucum, crassum, pallide viride, foliis ad 4 decussatim oppo- sitis latissime cuneatis basi connatis appressis apicibus dilatatis, latissime truncatis, vertice lunatis convexis pallide bruneis depresso-tuberculatis colore saturatiore irroratis, basi vestigiis membranaceis fugaceis foliorum ‘vetustorum vaginatis, floribus majusculis 14 poll. diametro solitariis sessilibus, ovario inter folia 2 summa compresso, calyce 5-6-fido seg- mentis obtusis, petalis 2-serialibus numerosissimis anguste linearibus stramineis, staminibus perplurimis segmentis calycinis equilongis, stylis ad 5 gracilibus, apicibus incurvis. MESEMBRYANTHEMUM truncatellum, Haworth Miscell. Nat., p. 22; Ait. Hort. Kew, Ed. 2, vol. iii. p. 213; Haw, Synops. Plant. Suce., 203; DC. Prodr., vol. iii. p. 417.; Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap., vol. ii. p. 392. Though differmg in some respects from the published description, of Mes. truncatellum, I have little hesitation in referring the vegetable oddity here figured to that plant. Thus Harvey, on what authority is not stated, describes it as only half an inch in size, whereas Haworth (the author of the species) calls it the “ great dotted Dumplin,” which implies that it is the largest of its allies, of which the smallest, WM. minutum, is fully half an inch in size. Again, Haworth, in his original description (Misc. Nat.), describes the ovary as never extruded beyond the surface of the plant, as in our specimen; but in his Synopsis he describes it as exserted, and in this he is followed by De Candolle and Harvey. Lastly, the calyx is said to be 5-fid in the original description, and in De Candolle’s Prodromus, and Harvey's ora; but 4-fid in the Hortus Kewensis: in our plant it is = . JANUARY Isr, 1874, M. truncatellum was introduced into Kew in 1795, by F. Masson, one of the travellers attached to the establish- ment, and is described as flowering in November; our plant was sent by Principal MacOwan, of Gill College, Somerset Kast, and flowered in October 187 3; it is a very rare species, was unknown to the Prince Salm Dyck, and is hence not included in his magnificent work; it has never before been figured. Descr. Plant forming tufts of pale glaucous green, obconic, truncate, translucent fleshy masses, one to three inches in diameter, with a flat or convex rather tubercled brown surface ; each branch on plant, consisting of four leaves in opposite pairs, placed cross-wise. Leaves very fleshy, broadly cuneate, connate to above the middle; back convex; face convex ; crown lunate, brown, mottled, convex; the first formed fleshy leaves, after developing another pair between them, shrink into a mere membranous pellicle that sheaths the base of the younger pair. Flower solitary, sessile, one and a half inches in diameter. Calya-tube sunk and tightly-wedged between the two uppermost leaves: limb 5—6-cleft, lobes obtuse, tinged purple. Petals in two series, very numerous, straw-coloured. Stamens very numerous, anthers yellow. Styles 5, slender, tips uncurved.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, flower with two sepals, and petals of same side removed :— both magnified. TT il : ars i se igtiametsers Tas. 6078. COLCHICUM speciosum. Native of the Caucasus. Nat. Ord. Metanruacea.—Tribe CoLcHicem. Genus Concuicum, Journ. 3 (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 137). CoLcuicum speciosum; robustum, hysteranthum, cormo magnit. judglandis, foliis 4-5 late elliptico-lanceolatis, perianthii late purpurei tubo crassitie penn anserine 6-12-pollicari, limbo 5 poll. diam. segmentis ellipticis apice rotundatis concoloribus non tessellatis, antheris elongatis flavis, stigmatibus subunilateralibus integris apicibus incurvis perianthii seg- mentis multo brevioribus, Cotcuicum speciosum, Stev. in Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc., vol. vii. p. 265, t. 15; Kunth Enum., vol. iv. p. 139; Hohen. Enum. Pl. Talusch., p- 23; Koch in Linnea, vol. xxii. p. 258; Ledeb. Fl. Ross., vol. iv. p. 204. The largest known species of the genus, and a very hand- Some one, a native of the countries bordering the Caucasus Tange on the south, and extending thence into Persia, if, as appears to be the case, a Ghilan plant of Aucher Eloi (n. 5370) is the same species. Ledebour in his Flora Rossica, says that it inhabits the provinces of Mingrelia, Iberia, the Suwant, Lenkoran, and the south-west shores of the Cas- pian sea. It has been for some time known to amateurs in England, though not hitherto figured in any English work. One of its nearest allies is the very broad-leaved C. dyzantinum (Tab. nost. 1122), which has a broader leaf, a much smaller paler flower, and broad short anthers; and is a native of Constantinople. C. speciosum has been cultivated for many years in Kew, but the specimen here figured, which is much more deeply coloured than the Kew ones, was sent by Messrs. Barr and Sugden, who have a fine collection of the species of this autiful genus. ; : Drscr. Corm the size of a walnut, clothed with rich chestnut-brown shining sheathes, of which one, as broad as the finger in diameter, extends four to five inches up the JANUARY Ist, 1874. scapes. Leafing-stem one foot high, with three to five leaves Leaves appearing before the flowers, a foot long, by two to four inches broad, elliptic, suberect, narrowed to the obtuse apex, of a dark green colour, paler beneath. /owers numerous. Perianth-tube six to twelve inches long, as thick as a goose- quill, pale purple; limb four to five inches in diameter, of a clear red-purple colour with a white throat; segments ellip- tic, rounded at the point, concave, without conspicuous venation -or tesselation. Azthers linear, oblong, yellow, bursting outwards. Sfyles three, subunilateral, slender, quite entire, white, tips slightly incurved.. Capsule two- thirds inch long, turgid.— J. D. H. irepntemenaieraiicdty Saar EES eS | ii Witch, del et ith Vincent Brooks Day& Sou hmp ~ “ Tas.: 6079, BAMBUSA STRIATA, Native of China. Nat. Ord. Graminrraz.—Tribe BamBusea. Genus Bampusa, Linn. ; (Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xxvi. p. 87). Bampusa striata; culmo gracili inermi, internodiis 4-2 poll. diametro viridi aureoque striatis cavitate angusto, foliis 6—8-pollicaribus 7-1 poll. latis, e basi obliqua obtusa elongato oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis subtus subglaucescentibus glabris, ligula brevi truncata ciliata, vagina _ levissima, panicule ramis gracillimis, spiculis angustis 3 poll. longis sub- ternatim fasciculatis, fasciculis remotis sessilibus, glumis oblongo- lanceolatis acuminatis compressis levibus obscure 9-11-nerviis, in- feriore longiore, palea inferiore subulato-lanceolata sub-enervi glaber- rima, superiore paulo breviore angusta 2-nervi, nervis dorso ciliatis, squamulis 3 oblongis ciliatis, antheris 6 paleis equilongis linearibus acuminatis rubris demum liliacinis, ovario styloque elongato piloso, stigmatibus 2 subulatis. ee a Bampusa striata, Loddiges ex Lindl. in Penny Cyclopedia, vol. iii. p. 357; Munro Monog. Bambus. in Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xxvi. p. 121. The plant here figured has been, I believe, long known in this country as a native of China, and was introduced by the Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney. many years ago. It is further cultivated in various tropical countries, and has been received at Kew both from the Jamaica and the Calcutta Botanic Gardens. In adopting the name s/ria/a, therefore, the only cause for hesitation is, that Lindley describes Loddiges’ plant as having the leaves narrowed at the base, which hardly applies to this, in which they are oblique and almost rounded on the lower half of the base and acute in the upper. The specimen at Kew, sent from the Calcutta Botanic Gardens, is about six feet high, but Lindley describes It ag attaining twenty feet, which from its habit it may very Well be supposed to do. It belongs to Munros third section of the genus Bambusa, which has a long hairy style, and to Which the B. vulgaris and two other species belong. JANUARY Ist, 1874. This plant flowered in November last, with Mr. Bull, who kindly sent: me the specimen here figured; its anthers stain paper of a lilac colour; it has been called B. Fortunet, which I take to be a very different plant. Descr. A graceful tufted very glabrous slender species, six to twenty feet high. Culms as thick as the thumb; | internodes four to six inches long, shining, striped yellow and green; walls thick, tube slender. Leaves six to eight inches by three-quarters to one inch long and broad, linear- oblong or oblong-lanceolate from an obtuse unequal base, glabrous, finely ciliolate on the margin, rather glaucous beneath ; sheath slender, smooth, glabrous ; ligula short, truncate, ciliate. Panicle slender, sparingly branched; branches long, with distant fascicles of about three sessile spikelets, which are three-quarters inch long, narrowly elliptic- lanceolate, 3-5-flowered. 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Native of Ceylon. Nat. Ord, Loganracra.—Tribe Facraea. Genus Facrma, Thunb. ; (DC. Prodr., vol. ix. p- 28). * Facrea zeylanica ; robusta, fruticosa, glaberrima, foliis 5—12-pollicaribus obovatis obovato-spathulatisve apice rotundatis sessilibus v. in petio- lum robustum angustatis crasse coriaceis, nervis paucis inconspicuis, cymis terminalibus 3-multifloris, floribus breviter et crasse pedicellatis, calycis ovoidei lobis rotundatis scarioso-marginatis, bracteolis paucis brevibus, corolle tubo 4-pollicari sursum infundibulari, lobis oblongis apice rotundatis, genitalibus exsertis, antheris magnis. Fraarma zeylanica, Thunb. Nov. Gen., vol. ii. p. 34; Act. Holm., 1782, p. 125, t.4; Lamk. Ill, t. 167, f. 2; Blume Rumphia, vol. ii. t. 78; 7) hwaites Enum., p. 200 et 425 ; DC. Prodr., vol. ix. p. 29; Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot., 1857, p. 98. Soanpra oppositifolia, Moon Cat., p. 15. A native of the central province of Ceylon, where, according to Dr. Thwaites, it abounds on the banks of the river at Balangodde. It is one of the handsomest species of a fine tropical Asiatic and Polynesian genus, of which some twenty Species are enumerated by Bentham in his notes on Loganiacee, published in the Linnean Journal (cited above), in 1857, to which several more are now to be added from the Malayan Islands. One species, the F. obovata, is figured in this work (Tab. 4205). The individual here figured was sent from Ceylon by Dr. Thwaites, about ten years ago, and flowered in the Royal Gardens in J uly, 1873. Descr. A very stout glabrous spreading deep green thick and coriaceous-leaved shrub. Branches as thick as the little finger, bright green, as are all the parts, except the flowers, scarcely shining. eaves variable in length and breadth, five to twelve inches long, usually obovate, and narrowed into a very short, stout, semiterete petiole, which is, how- ever, sometimes one to one and a half inches long ; blade FEBRUARY Ist, 1874. sometimes much elongated, and between obovate and spathu- late ; tip always rounded and sometimes emarginate ; margins slightly recurved; nerves few, spreading, almost invisible in the fresh state. Cymes in terminal clusters, or solitary, three or more flowered, corymbose ; peduncles and short pedicels as thick as a goosequill, smooth; bracts and bracteoles very short, triangular. Ca/yz nearly one inch long, ovoid, cleft to above the middle into rounded, appressed, overlapping lobes, with scarious margins when dry. Corolla white, leathery ; tube four inches long, funnel-shaped above ; limb three to four inches in diameter; lobes oblong, thick, spreading and recurved, nerveless. Stamens with very slender unequal filaments longer than the tube. Anthers nearly one-half inch long, broadly oblong, obtuse, pale yellow. Ovary cylindric; style slender, exserted ; stigma green, capitate.—/. D. H. Fig. 1, Specimen of natural size ; 2, ovary; 8, transverse section of ovary ; 4, top of filament and anther :—all magnified. W.Aitch del et ith “Vincent Brooks Day 5a ad Tas. 6081. GAILLARDIA AMBLYODON. Native of Texas. Nat. Ord. Composirxz.—Tribe HELENIOIDE 2, Genus GartiarpiA, Foug.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol.ii. p. 414). GamLarp1a Amblyodon; annua, ramosa, pilis patulis hirtella, foliis semi- amplexicaulibus oblongis v. inferioribus spathulatis apices versus grosse dentatis basi auriculato-bilobis, capitulis pedunculatis 24 poll. latis, in- ‘ volucri squamis 3-4-seriatis lineari-lanceolatis setaceo-acuminatis his- pidis conformibus externis basi concretis, receptaculi setis rigidis se- taceo-acuminatis achenia superantibus, ligulis 12-15 obcuneato-oblongis trifidis sanguineo-purpureis, corolle lobis extus pubescentibus, acheniis cylindraceo-vblongis, pappo radii e squamis brevibus latis exaristatis disci oblongo-oblanceolatis longe setaceo-acuminatis. Gaittarpia Amblyodon, J. Gay in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, vol. ii. p.57; Torr. § Gray Fl. N. Am., vol. ii. p. 267; Gray Chlor. Rot. Am., 32, t. 4. A very handsome October-flowering annual, a native of sandy plains in Texas and New Mexico, where it blossoms from the beginning of summer until the winter's frost cuts it off. The genus to which it belongs inhabits both tempe- rate North America and extra-tropical South America, and consists of about eight species, of which two have been already figured in this Magazine—namely, the old G. bicolor, Lam. (Tab. 1602), and its variety Drummondii (Tabs. 3368 and 3551); and the large yellow-flowered @. aristata (Tab. 2940). The present species was discovered by Berlandier in 1527, and collected subsequently by Lindheimer in 1844, and by Drummond in 1845. The specimen here figured was raised from seed by Mr. Thompson of Ipswich, and flowered in October, 1873. Derscr. An annual branching herb, two to three feet high, forming large clumps, clothed with spreading short hispid hairs. Leaves, radical subspathulate ; cauline one and a half to two and a half inches long, semi-amplexicaul, oblong, sub- acute, coarsely toothed beyond the middle, usually contracted FEBRUARY Ist, 1874. below it; pubescent and pale beneath, midrib beneath hispid, base’ 2-lobed, auricled. Heads two and a half inches dia- meter, terminal, peduncled. nvolucral scales green, rigid, 3—4-seriate, subulate-lanceolate, hispid, erecto-patent, the outer confluent at the base. Receptacle clothed with rigid bristles which exceed the achenes. ay-flowers twelve to fourteen, spreading, deep blood-red ; limb cuneate-oblong, ob- tusely 3-lobed. Disk-flowers short; lobes short, obtuse, erect, pubescent externally. Achenes cylindric-oblong, those of the ray with a pappus of few short broad scales; those of the disk with as many long rigid scales that terminate in setaceous points ; style-arms long, slender, exserted.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Ray-flower; 2, disk-flower; 3, pappus scale of the latter:—all magnified. 6082. Fitch, del et ltth V. Brooks Day&Son-[mp: | London, L. Reeve & (° Mim a a Tas. 6082. STAPELIA CorDEROYI. Native of South Africa. Nat. Ord. AscLerrapEZ.—Tribe STAPELIER. Genus Srapetia, Linn. ; (Decaisne in DC. Prodr., vol. viii. p. 652). STaPenia (Duvalia) Corderoyi ; humilis, glaberrima, glauca, ramulis brevibus obesis procumbentibus ovoideo-oblongis obtusis sub-4-costatis, costis rotundatis remote dentatis, sinubus acutis, dentibus brevibus triangulari- subulatis patentibus basi carnosis et utrinque unituberculatis, corolla 13-2 poll lata ad medium 5-loba, lobis triangularibus acuminatis sordide viridibus marginibus recurvis, apices versus fusco-purpurascen- tibus, sinubus setoso-glandulosis, fauce elevata pallide-lilacina filamentosa, Corona staminea duplici breviter stipitata purpurea, exteriore e disco crasso obtuse 5-gono, interiore e cornubus 5 brevibus crassis ovoideis . exteriore impositis. T am quite unable to identify this very curious little Stapelia with any described species, though it clearly belongs | to Haworth’s section Duvalia. In habit, size, and form of branches it agrees with S. cespitosa, Mass., but the flowers are very much larger, and of a totally different form and colour. 'T'o the same division belong S. radiata (Tab. nost. 619) and S. reclinata (Tab. nost. 1397) ; but these have, like 8. cespitosa, small dark-coloured flowers, with very narrow corolla-lobes. pes T have named this very curious and distinct species after . Mr. Justus Corderoy, of Blewberry, near Didcot, an old and an eminent cultivator of succulent plants, and for many years a valued correspondent of the Royal Gardens. It flowered at lewberry in September of last year. Descr. Branches short, procumbent, very stout, glaucous, about two inches long by three-quarters of an inch in dia- meter, very pale green and fleshy, obtusely 4—5-ribbed, the ribs Semi-cylindric with an acute sinus between them, each bearing two to four short triangular teeth, which are fleshy at the base, and there furnished with a globose tubercle on each side. Peduncles solitary or in pairs, about an inch long, FEBRUARY Ist, 1874. green, variegated with purple. Calya of five triangular- subulate green teeth, with red-brown tips. Corolla about one and a half inches in diameter, 5-lobed to about the middle ; lobes triangular-acuminate, dirty green, with purple brown tips, and a few long slender glandular purple hairs in the sinus, margin recurved ; throat surrounded with an elevated lilac coronal disk, clothed with slender spreading purplish hairs. Staminal-column on a short stipes, expanded into a broad fleshy purple obscurely 5-lobed disk (the outer corona) which bears on its summit as many egg-shaped obtuse spread- ing horns (which form the inner corona). Pollen-masses bright orange, reniform.—J/. D. H. Fig. 1, Teeth on ribs of branches; 2, flower, with the corolla removed; 3, pollen-masses :—all magnified. eigias - eidccecnencgescliiaeilins ‘ * ith DER chek ———S—S— ‘nie sneer A EE crete ws € a on, L. Reeve & | eerie ety = Nn toh, del et be} Whi ; a, Tas. 6083. | IRIS DoUGLASIANA. Native of California. Nat. Ord. Inmacex.—Tribe Iripex. Genus Ir1s, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 166). Ir1s Douglasiana; imberbis, rhizomate crassitie digitis, foliis 1-14-pedalibus 3—3 poll. latis planis anguste lineari-ensiformibus longe acuminatis scapum solidum excedentibus, spathe valvis 2-3-pollicaribus angustis acuminatis pedunculos longe superantibus, ovario angusto obtuse 3- — gono faciebus concavis, perianthii tubo 3-3 pollicari, limbi 3-4 poll. lati segmentis exterioribus obovato-spathulatis pallide lilacinis disco albido venis purpureis, interioribus erectis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis lilacinis, stigmatibus cuneato-oblongis 2-fidis, lobis acutis dentatis. Ints Douglasiana, Herbert in Hook. § Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 395; Torrey tn Whipple Rep. Bot. 35th Parallel, p. 144. Discovered by Coulter in California, and subsequently collected by David Douglas, in 1833, in New California, but unknown to me from any other locality and collector, except from a mention of the plant in one of the Reports of the United States’ surveys, quoted above, where it is stated to be found on hill-sides in the Grass Valley, California, together with a large-flowered variety (how large it is not said), and longer pedicels (one inch) at the Corte Madera, also in Cali- fornia. It is a very little known plant, being omitted in Klatt’s monograph of the genus, (published in the Linne, vol. xxxiv.), and is closely allied to 8. Zongipetala (Tab. nost, 5298), which is, however, a very much larger species, with a remarkably short perianth-tube. I am indebted to Messrs. Veitch for the specimen here figured, which flowered in his nursery last year. Derscr. Rhizome as thick as the little finger, creeping. Leaves a foot to a foot and a half long, by half to three- quarters of an inch in diameter, of a dark green colour, except at the bases and on the sheaths, which are paler, variegated with red, narrow-linear, gradually contracted into the acumi- nate tip, nerves obscure. Spathes usually two, enclosing FEBRUARY Ist, 1874. together two flowers, three to four inches long, narrow and long acuminate, without scarious margins. Peduncles shorter than the ovary, which is one to one and a half inches long, narrow-oblong, with three rounded angles and channelled faces. Perianth-tubes one-half to three-quarters of an inch long, rather stout, green; limb three to four inches in diameter ; outer segments obovate-spathulate, spreading and recurved, beardless, obtusely toothed, pale lilac, with a white disk which is veined with purple; inner segments rather shorter, lanceolate, acuminate, erect; obtusely toothed, pale lilac- purple, not veined. Stigmas one half as long as the inner segments, bifid, oblong cuneate, segments acute.—J. D. H. 6084. Which, del et hth, _ => ‘% Y Brooks Day#Son lop Tas. 6084, ODONTOGLOSSUM rosevm. Native of Peru. Nat. Ord. OrcuipE&.—Tribe VanpEm. Genus Opontoaiossum, H. B. § K.; (Lindl. fol. Orchid. Odontoglossum). _OpdontoaLossum roseum; pseudobulbis late-ovatis compressis ancipitibus apice 2-foliatis, foliis loriformibus acutis canaliculatis sessilibus dorso carinatis coriaceis enerviis, racemis breviuscule pedunculatis cernuis elongatis multifloris, rachi tenui, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis viridibus pedicellis squilongis, ovario gracili perianthio rosee 1-poll. diametro, sepalis petalisque consimilibus oblongo-ellipticis subacutis patenti- Tecurvis, labello anguste 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus brevibus rotundatis, intermedio longe producto lineari apice paulo dilatato obtuso, disco: inter lobos laterales callo 4-fido ornato, columna apice pallida mem- brancea 3-fida. OponToGLossuM roseum, Lindl. in Benth. Plant. Hartweg, p. 151; Fol. Orchid. Odontogloss. p. 23: Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann., vol. vi. t. 848 ; Gard. Chron., 1867, p. 404; André in Linden Illust. Hortie., vol. Xviii. t. 66; Bateman Monog. of Odontogloss. t. 22. In its rose-coloured flowers this forms a remarkable contrast to the prevalent colour of the genus to which it belongs. It was discovered by Hartweg near Loxa, in the Peruvian Andes, in a quite cool region, and was introduced by Mr. Linden from that region by his able collector, Mr. Wallis, in 1865. 2A, figure of a small and poor specimen is given mm Mr. Bateman’s beautiful work upon this genus, and a much finer one in the “ Illustration Horticole,” where, however, the flowers are represented as larger and of a much deeper hue than in our plant. The specimen here figured was exhibited by Mr. Linden at the Horticultural Society in April, 1871. _Duscr. Pseudobulbs two inches long by one and a half in diameter, broadly ovate, much compressed, 2-edged, pale- brown when mature. Leaves five to seven inches long, by three-quarters to one inch in diameter, strap-shaped, acute, narrowed at the base, channelled and dark-green above, paler FEBRUARY Ist, 1874. & and keeled beneath, very coriaceous, nerveless. Aacemes pro- ceeding from the base of the pseudobulb, six to eight inches long, on a peduncle of half that length, graceful, curved, many-flowered; peduncle closely clothed with appressed obtuse sheathing green bracts ; rachis rather flexuous ; flowers rather distant and distichous ; bracts about as long as the pedicels, acute, appressed, green. Ovary very slender, 3-angled, hardly distinguishable from the pedicel. Perianth one to one and a quarter inches in diameter, rose-red through- out. Sepals and petals similar, oblong-elliptic, acute, spread- ing and recurved, paler at the back. 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Opontoctossum Roezlii ; pseudobulbis parvis anguste ovatis compressis mar- ginibus acutis, foliis pedalibus elongato lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis carinatiset lineato-nervoris, scapis gracilibus foliis brevioribus 1-2 floris, floribus maximis, perianthio plano, sepalis obovato-oblongis acutis niveis, petalis sepalis consimilibus niveis fascia magna lata versus basin san- guineo-purpurea ornatis, labello maximo late obcordato in sinu apicu- lato, ima basi in unguem brevem contracto, ungue utrinque postice in spinam rectam, producto, disco 5-carinato spinisque aureo rubroque irroratis, columna breviuscula exalata. OpontocLossum Roezlii, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1873, p. 1303, cum Te. Aylog., et in Xen, Orchid., vol. ii. p. 191 (cum, tab. 182 ined.) This is a very near ally and a rival of the 0. veaillarium (Tab. nost. 6037); so near an ally indeed, that Prof. Reichen- bach suggests the possibility of its being a hybrid between that plant and O. Phalenopsis. Putting aside the different colour of the flower, the principal distinctions between this and O. vewillarium are the more slender leaves, which are nerved beneath, less robust habit, fewer-flowered scapes, the obeordate lip and longer column of this; Prof. Reichen- bach indicates the flat (not revolute) sepals and the different keels at the base of the lip (he, however, finds three keels in this, not five, as in our specimen); to these may be added the more slender and much longer floral bracts, and shorter scapes. It is stated to be a native of New Grenada, where it was dis- covered by M. Roezl, whose name it bears ; and was flowered by Mr. Bull in October last ; to whom I am indebted for the opportunity of figuring it. It is a superb plant, and in Tespect of the pearly whiteness of the flower more admired by some than even 0. veeillarium. Duscr. Pseudobulds one to two inches long, narrowly ovate, compressed. Leaves eight to twelve inches long, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acuminate, pale clear green above, paler and MARCH Ist, 1874. keeled beneath; nerves parallel. . Scapes about half the length of the leaves, slender, terete, 1-2-flowered; bracts subulate-lanceolate, half an inch long, green ; pedicels exceed- ing the bracts, gradually passing into the slender grooved ovary. Vowers three to three and a half inches across, but probably variable in size, almost as large as and closely resembling in form those of O. vewillarium ; perianth quite flat. Sepals subequal, one and a half inches long, the dorsal rather the narrowest, obovate-oblong, acute, snow-white. Petals as large as, and altogether similar to, the lateral sepals, but with a broad red-purple band across their breadth towards the base. zp very large, two to two and a quarter inches in breadth, broadly obeordate with a mucro in the notch, very shortly clawed, snow-white, with faintly yellow marblings, tinged with pale red on the disk above the base; a small spur-like horn arises on each side of the base of the claw, and is directed upwards and backwards, one on each side of the column ; and there are five short slender ridges on the disk in front of the interval between the spurs. Column not winged.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Front; and 2, side view of portion of lip and column :—magnijied. i a ee 4 a — 6086 S 4 7. i A AO ~ Reeve & L London, WFitch del et th Tas. 6086. BAUHINIA wnaratensis. © Native of Natal. Nat. Ord. Lecumimosm.—Tribe BAUHINIES. Genus Bavuinia, Lina. ; (Benth. §& Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 575). Baunita (Pauletia) natalensis ; frutex inermis, erectus, glaberrimus, ramulis gracilibus, foliis parvis gracile petiolatis, foliolis 2 liberis oblique oblongis v. obovato-oblongis apice rotundatis, basi obtusis, pedunculis 1-2-floris oppositifoliis gracilibus, stipulis setiformibus, floribus 13. poll. diam. erectis albis, calyce spathaceo late cymbiformi apiculato, petalis obovatis apice rotundatis, staminibus 5 longioribus filamentis 2 basin versus calearatis, 5 duplo minoribus antheris parvis, ovarii stipite libero, stylo elongato, stigmate capitato, legumine plano acinaciformi acuminato glaberrimo tenuiter venoso, ‘basin versus sensim angustato, margine inferiore plano. Bavutnia natalensis, Oliv. Mss. in Herb. Kew. My first knowledge of this elegant little shrub was derived from specimens collected in Natal by Mr. Moodie, and com- municated by Mr. McKen, the late energetic Curator of the D’Urban Botanic Gardens, in 1869. These were followed by pods with ripe seeds in 1870, from which the plant here figured was raised, and which flowered for the first time in September last. It is closely allied to the African and Indian B. tomentosa, Linn. (Tab. nost. 5560) and especially to a nearly glabrous and small-leaved variety of that plant from Port Natal, but the leaflets are perfectly free, the flowers much smaller and the stamens quite different. Descr. A small, glabrous, slender, leafy bush. Branchlets nearly straight, slender. Leaves alternate, somewhat, dis- tichous ; petiole very slender, quarter to a half inch long, ending in a subulate point between the leaflets, swollen at the base ; leaflets one inch long, quite free, obliquely obovate, or subovate-oblong, rounded at the apex, as also at the base on the outer side, dark green, rather paler beneath ; midrib and few nerves very slender ; stipules subulate. Peduncles \eaf- Opposed, 1~2-flowered, with two minute setaceous bracts MARcH Ist, 1874, at the base. Vower one and a half inches in diameter, pure white with a faint crimson streak along the midrib of the three smaller petals. Calyx with a short turbinate tube, and a broad spathaceous green apiculate limb, one-third inch long, which is truncate at the base. Petals erecto- patent, obovate-oblong, rounded at the apex, obscurely veined ; three upper rather smaller. Stamens ten; filaments almost free, and slightly hairy at the base; five longer equalling the style, of which two have each a lateral spur above the base ; five shorter stamens half as long as the others ; anthers all oblong, obtuse, yellow; cells ciliate at the base. Ovary stipitate, free, slender; style stout, elongate, stigma large, capitate. Pod three inches long by nearly one half inch broad, scimitar-shaped, acuminate, contracted at the base, flat, glabrous, obscurely reticulately nerved, convex edge flat, about 6-seeded, interior almost divided between the seeds by a thin down.—/. D. H. Vig. 1, Leaf and portion of stem; 2, flower, with the petals removed ; 3, long and short stamens :—all magnified. N Sitch dal ot 1a, riteh del etlith % a Tas, 6087. + . a 53 > % i ARABIS BLEPHAROPHYLLA, 3 Native of California. Nat. Ord, Crucirerz.—Tribe ARABIDER. Genus Aranis, Linn. ; (Benth. § Hook. J. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p, 69), Aranis blepharophylla ; perennis, erecta, caulibus foliosis, foliis ciliatis et sparse pilosis radicalibus rosulatis obovato-spathulatis obtusis sinuato-y. serrato-dentatis, caulinis elliptico-v, lineari-oblongis obtusis basi sim- plicibus v. subauriculatis, racemis brevibus latis obtusis, floribus gracile pedicellatis amplis roseis, petalis obovato-cordatis, siliquis 1}-pollicaribus erectis rectis v. lente curvis linearibus, valvis utringue obtusis costa nervisque lateralibus flexuosis validis, stylo brevissimo, seminibus 1-seriatis orbicularibus compressissimis exalatis brunneis. Anazis blepharophylla, Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy., p. 821, Of the large genus Arabis almost all have white flowers ; in a very few species they are yellow, and in this alone of those known to me, do the colour and size of flower together recom- mend it for cultivation. It is a native of San Francisco, in California, where it was discovered by David Douglas in 1833, and has since been collected by Bridges, Brewer, Bolander, and others, and is described as a great ornament in March on the hills of that State. It seems remarkable that so con- spicuous a plant, growing in what is now a populous State, should be so little known, but I find no other description of it than that in the Botany of Beechey’s Voyage, published thirty-five years ago; nor do I find any mention of it in the -Mmultitudinous and cumbrous records of the United States’ Surveying Expeditions. Professor Asa Gray, of Cambridge, was, I believe, the first to send ripe seeds to England—this was in 1865—from which plants were raised at Kew, and by Mr, Thompson, of Ipswich, if I recollect aright; but it was hot till quite recently that the plants throve (from seeds sent by Commissioner Watt, of the Agricultural Department of Washington) and appeared in their full beauty. The speci- men here figured flowered at Kew in J anuary, in a cool MARCH Ist, 1874, frame, where it has hitherto thriven better than in the open border or rockwork ; itis, however, doubtless quite hardy, and would succeed equally well out of doors, where, from its beauty and early flowering, it is sure to become a great favourite. Drscr. Whole plant six to ten inches high, erect. oot perennial, fusiform. Mower-stem leafy, robust. Leaves all ciliate, and sparsely hairy with long simple or forked hairs ; radical forming a lax rosette three to four inches in diameter, spreading, one to two and a half inches long, petioled, obovate-spathulate, obtuse, irregularly sinuate or toothed, dark green above, paler beneath ; cauline leaves shorter, sessile, linear-oblong, obtuse, serrate or toothed, base rounded or slightly auricled. Flowering-racemes about two inches long, and nearly as broad, rounded at the apex; pedicels half an inch long, slender, spreading, erect in fruit. lower three- quarters of an inch in diameter. Sepals erect, linear-oblong, obtuse. Petals with a short claw and broadly obovate retuse rose-coloured limb. /%/aments slender; anthers small. Pod one to one and a half inches long, nearly one-eighth of an inch. broad, erect, slightly curved, linear; valves obtuse at both ends, rather coriaceous, margined, convex over the seeds; midrib and waved lateral nerves very strong, giving the surface a grooved appearance; style very short, conical; stigma minute. Seeds, about eight to ten in each cell, 1-seriate, orbicular, much compressed, brown, not winged.— P pe Lays & Fig. 1, Flower with calyx and anthers removed; 2, ovary , 3, immature capsule :—all magnified. 6088 Vincent Brooks Day -& Sou, Smp- BERIT OC LOR CLR W Ritch, del et lith Tas. 6088, NUNNEZHARIA (CHamzporzra, A uct.) ss GEONOMFORMIS. Native of Guatemala. Nat. Ord. PALMEZ.—Tribe ARECINER. Genus NonnezuartA; Ruiz § Pay —(Caamapvorea, Willd. et auct.). Nonnezuanrta (Psilostachys) geonomeformis ; caudice gracili erecto dense annulato, foliis erecto-patentibus breviter petiolatis simplicibus obovatis apice bipartitis, vaginis brevibus apertis, spadicibus ¢ infra et inter coro- nam enatis longe pedunculatis, pedunculo erecto, masculi ramis gracilli- mis pendulis densifloris, fl. ¢ compresso-globosis, perianthio exteriore annulari brevissimo latissime 3-lobo, interiore e foliolis 8 obovato- _ triangularibus, antheris inclusis oblongis, fl. Q scrobiculis spadicis suberecti subimmersis depresso-globosis, perianthii foliolis 3 exterioribus interiora rotundata ovarium amplectentia subequantibus, staminodiis minutissimis, stigmatibus minutissimis exsertis. CitaMaporra geonomeformis, Wendland Ind. Palm., p. 12 (1854), et in Otto et Dietr. Gartenz., 1852, ex Oecrsted in Palm. Centroamer. in Natur. Foren. Vidensk. Meddels,, 1858, p. 24; Oersted, L’Amerig. Centr, Fasc. i. p. 14, t. 5 (1858). Cu. fenestrata, Hort. Houtt., ex Wendl. Ind. Palm, 12. Cu. humilis, Hort. Berlin, ex Wendl. 1.c. This little Palm was received at Kew from the Royal Gardens of Berlin in 1856, and flowered in the Palm-house in May, 1859, and repeatedly since. From its dwarf habit, abundant foliage, and graceful male inflorescence, it is one of the most elegant of the beautiful genus to which it belongs. It is a native of Guatemala, whence it was introduced by Warsiewicz, and named by Wendland. Its foliage pre- cisely accords with that of a Peruvian congener, the WV. ? geo- nomordes, Spruce (Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xi. p. 122); but the flowers are very much larger and widely different. There is no question but that, as Mr. Spruce points out, Willdenow’s generic name of Chamedorea must give place to the prior one MARCH Ist, 1874. of Nunnezharia, given to the genus nine years earlier by Ruiz and Pavon. The Kew plant, which in 1858 (when the accompanying drawing was made), had a stem only a few inches high, with four naked joints, has now a stem three and a half feet high, which presents sixty-four joints between the rootlets and lowest leaf base. It is stated to have borne sometimes male and sometimes female spadices. Drscr. Whole height about four feet. S¢em erect, as thick as the thumb, deep bright green ; internodes one-half to one inch long, not much contracted at the middle. eaves spreading, eight to twelve inches long by five or six broad, obovate, obscurely serrate, apex two-partite, with spreading triangular lobes, deep green, plaited; nerves about twelve on each side, perfectly glabrous ; petiole short, green; sheath oblong, the lower pale red-brown. Spadices (male) axillary, and from the jomts immediately below the leaves, very slender, erect, terminated by long slender alternate drooping branches, eight to ten inches long; peduncle clothed with slender, erect, orange-brown, acuminate sheaths four inches long; branches very graceful, green, clothed throughout with close-set but not crowded male flowers. Mowers (male) compressed- globose, a quarter of an inch in diameter, dark green like the branch of the spadix, in which their bases are hardly sunk. Outer perianth of three minute membranous segments, connate into a cup; inner much larger, obovate, connate at the tips for some time. Stamens six, surrounding a rudimentary ovary. Female flower (from Oersted’s description) immersed in pits of the erect branches of the spadix. Outer perianth nearly as large as the inner. Staminodes very minute.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Reduced view of whole plant ; 2, male spadix :—of the natural size ; 3, portion of ditto and flower; 4 male flower :—magnijied. 6089 W-Fitch, del et lith iit aaa Tas. 6089, ~RHIPSALIS Hoocttern. Native of Brazil ? Nat. Ord. Cactea.—Tribe Oruntien. Genus Rurpsauis, Gertn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 850), Rurpsatis Houlletit; epiphytica, pendula, ramosa, glaberrima, caulibus gracilibus, ramulis foliaceo-dilatatis planis, internodiis elliptico-lanceo- latis 1-1}-poll. diam. grosse obtuse serratis coriaceo-carnosis nervis obscuris, floribus fere 1-poll. diametro pallide flavis odoris, ovario exserto oblongo obtuse 4-5-costato, perianthii foliolis 8-12 erecto- patentibus lanceolatis acutis, exterioribus paullo minoribus, staminibus numerosis perianthio brevioribus, stylo gracili, stigmatibus 4-5. Rurpsatts Houlletii, Lemaire, Les Cactee, p. 80, nomen tantum. This Rhipsalis has been cultivated for some time in the Royal Gardens, where it flowered first in November, 1872, and it has been received also from Mr. Corderoy, who sent us flowering specimens to be named in the same month of 1873. Quite recently Mr. Green contributed a fine plant of it from Mr. Wilson Saunders’ late collection, which came from Paris, with the name I have adopted. I have failed to find any description of this species in any horticultural or botani- cal work. I may here mention that the difficulty of running down names of Garden plants is, through obvious causes, be- coming immense, and will soon be insuperable. I can recom- mend no more useful object to a Horticultural Society than the organizifg a committee for the collection and classifica- tion (with references) of the names of all plants introduced into cultivation, together with the countries the plants come from, and their date of introduction. Duscr. Stem probably many feet long, and pendulous from the branches of trees in its native woods, quite glabrous, ‘green, with a faint tinge of brown purple along the margins of the leaf-like articulations, slender and cylindric between the ‘articulations. Articulations three to six inches long, by MARCH Ist, 1874. one to one and a half broad, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, nar- rowed into the petiole-like branches, regularly coarsely ob- tusely toothed, between coriaceous and fleshy, quite flat, without scales or hairs ; midrib and lateral nerves broad and faint, the latter directed to the sinus of the teeth, and un- branched. Mowers copiously produced in the axils of the teeth, three-quarters to one inch in diameter, pale straw- coloured, odorous, opening by day. Ovary quite naked from a very early stage, sessile, oblong, with four to five obtuse ribs. 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Erica (Melastemon) Chamissonis ; erecta, ramosa, hirto-pubescens, foliis in- curvi-patentibus 3-nis } poll. longis anguste linearibus dorso sulcatis, floribus numerosis in ramulis abbreviatis terminalibus, pedicellis hirtis, bracteis minutis, calycis parvi segmentis acuminatis, corolla globoso- campanulata, lobis latis brevibus, staminibus inclusis filamentis brevibus glabris, antheris brevibus, loculis apice subacutis lateraliter anguste cristatis poris amplis apices versus lateralibus, ovario hirto, stylo gra- cili, stigmato truncato. Erica Chamissonis, Klotesch in Herb. Reg. Berol. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr., vol. vii. p. 685. Many years ago the Cape Heaths formed a conspicuous feature in the greenhouses of our grandfathers, and in the illustrated horticultural works of the day, including this Magazine, wherein about 50 are figured. These have given place to the culture of soft-wooded plants—Geraniums, Cal- ceolarias, Fuchsias, &.; and the best collections of the present day are mere ghosts of the once glorious Ericeta of Woburn, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Kew. A vast number of the species have indeed fallen out of cultivation, and a few easily propagated hybrids for decorative purposes are all that are to be seen of this lovely tribe in most of the best esta- blishments of England. No less than 186 species of Hrica were cultivated at Kew in the year 1811, now we have-not above 50, together with many hybrids and varieties. Besides the fact of their going out of fashion, there have been two main causes for their present rarity ; of these the first and most conspicuous is bad treatment. As with Australian and other Cape hard-wooded plants, their culture 1s special, unknown to most gardeners of the present day, and they will not survive the promiscuous use of the water-pot and syringe, to which they are exposed if mixed up with many other things. JULY Ist, 1874. The second is, that very few collectors have been of late years in the Heath district of the Cape, which is almost confined to the narrow strip of country between the Western coast and the coast ranges, and where were the botanizing grounds of the collectors sent out at the beginning of the century. Erica Chamissonis is one of the few Heaths that extend ~ eastward in South Africa, being found near Graham’s Town in the Albany district, about 500 miles east of Cape Town, where it grows on rocky hills at an elevation of 2000 feet, flowering in October. Seeds of it were sent to the Royal Gardens by Mr. M‘Owan. The plant here figured, raised from these, flowered in April. Drscr. A shrub with slender leafy erect branches, all parts, except the corolla, clothed with short soft spreading hairs. Zeaves about a quarter to a third of an inch long, ternate, spreading and incurved, sessile, linear, obtuse, grooved underneath from the recurvation of the margin. FVowers at the tips of short side-branches, solitary or three or four together, pendulous, rose-coloured, about a third of an inch in diameter ; pedicel half an inch long, pink, with two small basal bracts and two bracteoles above them. Calya jointed with the pedicel, small; teeth ovate, acuminate, much shorter than the corolla. Corolla between globose and campanulate ; lobes very short and broad. Stamens short, filaments gla- brous; anthers short, with narrowly crested pointed cells and lateral slits near the tip. Ovary tomentose, 4-celled ; style slender, stigma truncate; ovules many in each cell. —J. D. H. Fig. 1, Leaves; 2, flowers; 3, the same with the corolla removed; 4 and 5, stamens; 6, ovary; 7, transverse section of do, :—all magnified. 6109 ao = Witch del ot hith. Vncent Brooke Day Sauls? ete seal Tisaiiee:<, enemas * Tas. 6109. ROMANZOFFIA SITCHENSIS. Native of North-West America. Nat. Ord. Hyproteaces.—Tribe NamMex. Genus Romanzorria, Cham. ; (Ohoisy in DC. Prodr., vol. x. p. 185). RomANzorr1a sitchensis ; tota pilis crispulis aspersa, foliis reniformi-cordatis suborbiculatisve crenato-lobatis, cymis laxifloris. RomanzorFia sitchensis, Chamiss. in Linnea, vol. ii. p. 609 ; Bongard Bot. Sitch., p. 41; t.4; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am., vol. ii. p. 103; Ledeb. Flor. Ross., vol. iii. p. 181; Regel Gartenfl., vol. xxii. (1873) p. 33, t. 7 48. This very rare and interesting little plant, with the habit of a Saxifrage of the granulata group, 1s closely allied to the majestic Wigandia of our subtropical gardens, though so dissimilar in stature, habit, and general characters, and in coming from so different a climate and country. It is a native of a few distant spots over a very wide range of country in North-Western America, and has been gathered by very few collectors. First, by the late venerable Menzies, the Naturalist to Vancouver’s voyage (and introducer of Araucaia imbricata) in May, 1793, who discovered a small slender variety of it on hanging rocks at Trinidad, in California, . lat. 41° 10' N.; next by Chamisso at Sitka in the then — Russian, but now American territory of Alaschka, fully _ 1000 miles north of Trinidad, and by whom it was first described ; more lately it was gathered abundantly by Dr. Lyall on the Cascade Mountains, in lat. 69° N. in the bed of the Sallse: river, and a large flowered variety (Regel’s R. grandiflora) on the same mountains, at an elevation of 7000 feet. Lastly we have specimens collected in South California (probably in the mountains), in lat. 35°, by Dr. Bigelow, surgeon to Lieutenant Whipple’s exploration for a railway route across America in 1853-4; this is fully 1400 miles south of Sitka. Romanzofia sitchensis is a rock-plant, easy of cultivation, JULY Isr, 1874, and was, I believe, introduced into Europe by Messrs. Haage and Schmidt, of Erfurt. The specimen here figured flowered in the Royal Gardens in April last. Dezscr. A weak, green, perennial-rooted, straggling, or sub- erect herb, four to eight inches high or long, more or less covered with scattered curled short hairs, Stems many from the root, branched. Leaves subradical, petioled, one to one and a half inches in diameter, orbicular-reniform, crenate-lobed, bright green, paler beneath; petiole a half to one inch long. Cymes at the ends of the branches, few-flowered, ebracteate. Flowers variable in size, one-third to one-half inch in diameter, white; pedicels slender, spreading. Sepals oblong-ovate, sub- acute. Corolla-lobes orbicular. Stamens attached to the base of the corolla-tube. Disk annular. Ovary glabrous, style slender, stigma minute.—/. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower; 2, corolla laid open; 3, disk and ovary; 4, transverse section of ovary :—all magnified. een = Tas. 6110. IRIS o.siensts. Native of Northern Italy and Southern France. Nat. Ord. Intpacem.—Tribe Iripe4. Genus Iris, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 266). Irs olbiensis ; rhizomate crasso, caule brevi, foliis brevibus (2-6 poll.) lati- usculis acutis sensim acuminatis scapo brevioribus, floribus breviter pedicellatis magnis, spathe valvis membranaceis laxis abrupte acuminatis ovarium velantibus, perianthii tubo pollicari, limbi 3 poll. lati segmentis obovato-spathulatis decurvis apice rotundatis ungue barbato, interiori- | bus iis subequalibus erecto-incurvis conniventibus elliptico-oblongis | stipitatis, stigmatibus segmentis perianthii dimidio brevioribus bifidis lobis triangularibus acutis margine exteriore dentatis. Ints olbiensis, Hénon in Ann. Soc. Agric. Lyons; Gren. e Godr. Fl. de France, vol. iii. pt. i. p. 240; Parlatore Flor. Ital., vol. iii. p. 289. This belongs to a small group of dwarf Iris, which inhabit for the most part Southern Europe, and of which the I. pumila, L. (Tab. nost. 9, 1209 and 1261) may be taken as the type. It is a native of the South of France and North Italy, from Nismes eastwards, but apparently not advancing beyond Tuscany. It varies much in the colour of the flowers, which = are sometimes white. It is distinguished from J. pumila by the much larger flowers, which are pedicelled and less fugacious, as also by the shorter perianth-tube. The J. étalica of Par- latore appears to be only a variety of it; and it is represented by I. pseudo-pumila in Sicily. It is very closely allied to, if not a mere variety of the Z. Chamaciris, Bertoloni, which has a wider range in France and Italy. The specimen here figured flowered in the Royal Gardens in April of the present year. Descr. Rootstock prostrate, very thick and fleshy, as big as the thumb. Leaves three to six inches long by one-third to two-thirds inch in diameter, erecto-patent, straight or some- what falcate, usually narrowed almost from the base to the acuminate tip, glaucous green. Scape rather larger than the JULY Ist, 1874, a ee ’ leaves, stout, erect, closely sheathed. Spathes one to two inches long, large and rather tumid, lax, obliquely truncate and acuminate. Yowers very large for the size of the plant, usually dark purple, three and a half to four inches across the perianth were it spread out; pedicel short, stout. Perianth- tube longer than the ovary ; outer segments recurved, spathu- late-obovate, tip rounded, claw deeply bearded; inner seg- ments as long as the outer, erect and connivent, broadly elliptic-oblong with a narrow claw and cordate base. Stzymas not half the length of the inner perianth segments, their lobes triangular, acute, toothed at the outer edge—J/. D. H. See pace raielbteteiatcaasbiii 6//T Vincent Brooks DayiSon imp. eras Tor, ~> i Tas, 6111, CAMPSIDIUM cattenss, Native of Chili. Nat. Ord. Bianonracem.—Tribe BIGNONIER. Genus Campsipium, (Seemann in Bonplandia, vol. x. (1862), p, 147). Campsiprum chilense; frutex volubilis glaberrimus, foliis Oppositis impari- pinnatis, foliolis oppositis ellipticis v. ovato- v. elliptico- v. lanceolato- oblongis obtusis v. apiculatis integerrimis serratisve rachi antice sulcato, racemis terminalibus pendulis 6-10-floris, floribus coccineis gracile pedicellatis, Campsipium chilense; Reiss ¢ Seem.; ec Seem. in Bonplandia, vol. x, p. 147, t. 11; Gard. Chron., 1870, p. 1182, cum ic xylog. Tecoma Guarume, Hook. in Bot. Mag., t. 4896 in adnot. (non DC.) T. valdiviana, Philippi in Linnea, 1857, p. 14. T. mirabilis, Hort. This very beautiful climber is a native of Chili and the Archipelago of Chiloe, and was discovered on the island of Huafto by Dr. Eights, an American voyager, who sent a small collection of Chilian and Fuegian plants to Sir William Hooker some fifty years ago, amongst which is this plant. It has subsequently been collected by many botanists, most recently by Dr. Cunningham, naturalist to the surveying expedition of H.M.S. Nassau, who gathered it as far south as Wellington Island in lat. 40° S., where it would seem to be common. Its northern limit is probably Arique, near Valdivia, lat. 50° 8., where it was found by Lechler. It is not a little remarkable that so beautiful a plant, and one found through so many degrees of latitude in Chili, should have escaped the obser- vation of C, Gay, whose Flora Chilensis, published in 1 845, does not include it. The equally conspicuous Berberidopsis corallina (Tab. nost. 5343) which, like Campsidium, 1s a native of the neighbourhood of the maritime capital of Valdivia, was also unknown to that author, though he spent many years exploring that country for the Chilian govern- ment. Iam indebted to Messrs. Veitch for the plant here JULY Ist, 1874. figured, which flowered with them in April of the present ear. ? Descr. A woody perfectly glabrous slender climber, ascending trees to a height of forty to fifty feet; branches woody, angular, with pale yellowish bark, wood very hard. Leaves four to six inches long; leaflets three-quarters to one and a half inches long; sessile, usually five pairs and an odd one, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, acute obtuse apiculate or emarginate, quite entire or serrulate, base equal or oblique, coriaceous, nerves very inconspicuous ; petiole grooved on the upper surface, sometimes faintly winged between the leaflets. facemes terminal, pendulous, 6—10-flowered, peduncle short or long; pedicels slender; bracts small, linear-subulate. flowers one and ahalf to one and three-quarters inches long, Calyz green, campanulate, shortly 5-lobed; lobes triangular, acute. Corolla scarlet; tube rather ventricose ; lobes small, rounded, toothed, hairy inside towards the margins. Stamens four, inserted towards the base of the corolla-tube, filaments slender, hairy at the base; anthers oblong-linear, acute, those of the two longer stamens exserted, and of the shorter in- cluded. Disk elevated, cupular. Ovary flagon-shaped, glabrous, narrowed into the stout style; stigma of two oblong lobes ; cells two, with two placentas inserted on the septum in each; ovules very numerous. Capsule 2-valved, three to four inches long, narrowly elliptic-oblong; valves coriaceous with a removable papery endocarp. Seeds not seen.—J. D. H. : Fig. 1, Flower with corolla removed; 2. corolla laid : 3, anther; 4 ovary and disk :—all magnified. ee Hs 6/12 praratenedithtven i ARNT -* Tas. 6112. PYRUS BACOATA. Native of Siberia, Japan, and the Himalaya Mountains. Nat. Ord. Rosacrm.—Tribe Pomez. Genus Pyrus, LZ. ; (Benth. ¢ Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 626). Pyrus (Malus) baccata ; foliis ellipticis elliptico-ovatisve acutis acuminatis v. caudato-acuminatis serrulatis glabris eglandulosis, petiolo gracili, floribus umbellatis albis, pedicellis gracilibus, calycis tubo ovoideo lobis lanceo- latis intus villosis, petalis leviter concavis albis, stylis ad 5 glabris, pomo globoso apice (cicatrice calycis deciduo) late areolato. Pyrrus baccata, Linn. Mant., 75; Pall. Fl. Ross., vol. i. p. 23, t. 10; DC. Prodr., vol.ii. p. 685; Led. Fl. Ross., vol. ii. p. 97; Loud. Arboret., vol. ii. p. 892 ; Koch Dendrol., vol. i. p. 210; Regel Gartenfl., vol. ii. (1862) p. 201, t. 8364; Brandis For. Flor. of N.W. India, p. 205. Matus baccata, Desf. Arb., vol. ii. p. 141. This charming tree, though so long known in cultivation, has never before been well figured in this country. It has a very wide distribution; in Siberia it occurs in the eastern districts of Lake Baikal and in Dahuria; thence it passes by the Amur river north of China into Japan, whence we have numerous specimens. In the Himalaya it extends from the Indus to Kumaon, at elevations between 6000 and 11,000 feet, entering the Tibetan region of Piti; and it was gathered by Dr. Thomson and myself in the Moflong woods of the Khasia mountains, at an elevation of 6000 feet. Tt varies very much as to the pubescence of its parts; the Siberian and Japanese specimens being almost wholly glabrous; the Western Himalayan having more or less pubescent calyces, pedicels and petioles, and sometimes young leaves beneath ; whilst those from the dry region of Piti, on the border of Tibet, are as glabrous as the Siberian; and those from the very wet region of the Khasia are the most pubescent of any. this correlation of humidity with pubescence 1s not unusual in the vegetable kingdom. : The figure of P. éaccata is taken from Kew specimens, JULY Ist, 1874, where the species was introduced in 1784; though whence the plant here figured came is uncertain ; it will be remarked that it has a pubescent calyx-tube like the Himalayan forms. Duscr. A small tree, with grey cracked bark, and round crown. 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Figures and Descriptions of the Choicest New Flowers for the Garden, Stove, or Conservatory. Monthly, with 4 Coloured Plates, 3s. 6d. Annual Subscription, 42s. L. Reeve & Co., 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. FLORAL PLATES, BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED, 6d. AND Is. EACH, New Lists of 600 Varieties, one stamp. L. Reeve & Co., 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. NOTICE, arated ciaaitiall Tut Publishers much regret that in consequence of Dr. Hooxer’s MS. having been lost in transit through the post, the Descriptions of the Plates are unavoidably delayed till next month. The names of the Plants figured are as follows :-— Tab. 6113. Crinum Moorei, Hook. £/—Native of South , Fas a2 ” Africa. : 6114. Brachysema undulatum, Ker.—Native of Western Australia. 6115. Decabelona elegans, Decaisne.—Native of South West Africa. 6116. Kniphofia Rooperi, Lem—Native of South Africa. 6117. Achillea ageretifolia, Hook. f—Native of Greece. : 6/40 an ie ¢ & Sou mp y - S Da Vincent Brool W.Fitch, del ot lith Tas. 6113. CRIN UM Mooret. Native of South Africa. Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEH.—Tribe AMARYLLEZ. Genus Crinum, Linn. ; (Herbert Amaryllid., p. 242). Crinum Moore ; bulbo pedali anguste ovoideo collo elongato, foliis amplis 4-poll. latisensiformibus obtuse acuminatis striato-nervosis, scapo robusto, spathis late oblongo-lanceolatis herbaceis recurvis, pedicellis brevibus, perianthii tubo 3-pollicari, limbi 6-poll. diam. rosei segmentis late ellipticis apicibus incrassatis herbaceis, antheris flavis. A hardy Crinum is a rarity in English gardens, and except the beautiful C. capense, I know no other but this now in open air cultivation ; and beautiful as C. capense is, it is far exceeded in size, foliage, and colour by the subject of the present plate. : Crinum Moorei was introduced into the Glasnevin Gardens in 1863, by a friend of Dr. Moore’s, Mr. Webb, who had served on the commissariat staff of our army in South Africa, and had brought the seeds from the interior—as Dr. Moore thinks—of Natal. During the last five years the specimen from which the drawing was made has been planted in a border fronting the conservatory range at Glasnevin, without getting the slightest protection, flowering sometimes in autumn and at other times in spring. The leaves are cut up in the winter, but the bulbs are not seriously hurt, and soon recover themselves, when they push out a fresh set of their broad, peculiarly-ribbed leaves, eighteen to twenty inches long. The bulb is remarkably long, sometimes reaching eighteen inches. A closely allied species to this is the C. Colensot of Natal, which will shortly be figured, which has also broad leaves and a long bulb, but the perianth-tube is much longer, and the flower smaller, with a narrower pale limb: it has been flowered by Mr. Bull and others, and may, we hope, also prove hardy. AUGUST Ist, 1874. Descr. Bulb twelve to eighteen inches long, narrow ovoid contracted into a long neck. eaves twelve to eighteen inches long by four broad, very numerous, erecto-patent, ensi- form, with obtuse herbaceous tips, closely striated with strong nerves, deep bright green. Scape taller than the leaves, as thick as the thumb, green. Swathes six inches long, oblong- lanceolate, subacute, concave, herbaceous, reflexed. Flowers six to eight in a head, sessile or very shortly pedicelled. Ovary one inch long. Perianth-tube three inches long; limb four inches in diameter, very broadly campanulate, bright rose-red ; segments spreading nearly from the base, broadly elliptic, with a callous green obtuse tip. Stamen one and a half inch long; anthers half an inch long, yellow.—J/. D. H. Fig. 1, Reduced figure of whole plant, 61/4 See nniniaeame | tch del a iO Seay Tas. 6114. BRACHYSEMA vunpvLatum. Native of South-Western Australia. Nat. Ord. Leauminosa.—Tribe PopaLyrirz. Genus Bracuysema, Br.; (Benth. 5 Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 467). - BracuyseMa undulatum; frutex erectus, ramulis foliisque subtus sericoe- pubescentibus v. glabratis, foliis alternis subsessilibus polymorphis late oblongis ellipticis ovatis linearibusve obtusis coriaceis, floribus 1-3 pedicellatis interdum racemosis, calyce late urceolato-campanulato sericeo, lobis subacutis, vexillo cordato, alis carine squilongis breviore reflexo, ovulis 15-20, legumine basi disco interiore cincto, ovoideo crustaceo piloso. BracuyseMa undulatum, Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 642; DC. Prodr., vol. ii. p. 105; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 778; Benth. Fl. Austral., vol. ii. p. 11. B. melanopetalum, Muell. Fragm., vol. iv. p. 11. Cuorozema sericeum, Smith in Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. ix. p. 253. Popotostum? sericeum, DC. Prodr., vol. ii. p. 103. Oxy Losrum? sericeum, Benth. in Ann. Wien. Mus., vol. ii. p. 70. A long known, but rare and curious greenhouse plant, remarkable for the dark violet-blue hue of the flowers, which, however, in native specimens, vary to lilac and pink. It has a wide range in Western Australia, from King George's Sound to Champion Bay, and occurs under three principal forms :—1. With broad leaves, very silky beneath, with waved margins, and usually solitary flowers ; 2. With elliptic-oblong leaves, only slightly hairy beneath, hardly waved margins, and solitary flowers; this is the B. melanopetalum of Mueller, and that figured here; 3. With linear leaves glabrous beneath having involute margins and racemose flowers. Of these the first is the common Swan-river form, and is also found at Champion Bay; the second comes from the Tone and Don rivers, and the third from the Tone, Gordon, and Blackwood rivers. Brachysema undulatum is a hard-wooded greenhouse shrub, requiring the same treatment as Chorozemas, &c. It was AuGusT Ist, 1874. raised by Mr. Bull, with whom it flowered in April of the present year. Descr. A shrub, four to six feet high; young branches calyx, pedicels, and usually the leaves beneath clothed with appressed silky pubescence. Stems and branches very slender. Leaves one to two inches long, very shortly petioled, from linear with margins recurved to orbicular with waved margins, tip apiculate or not base, rounded, coriaceous, glabrous and dark green above, paler and usually silky beneath. Stzpules subacute, recurved. Vowers three quarters of an inch long, axillary, solitary or two or three together, shortly pedicelled or racemose. Calyx broadly campanulate with an urceolate ~ gibbous tube; lobes short, broad, subacute. Petals about twice as long as the calyx, dark purple, yellowish-green, or red ; standard reflexed, cordate, shorter than the oblong obtuse wings, which equal the obtuse keel. Ovary hairy, many- ovuled. Pod short, ovoid, crustaceous.—/. D. #1. Fig. 1, Flowers; 2, standard ; 8, wing petal; 4, kee!s; 5, ovary :—all magnified. - . ret _— ¥ 4 Soe ae ee —~Facent Brooks Day Wt} 3 . W.Fitch del et lith PAB. SL1G; DECABELON E ELEGANS. Native of Angola. Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADACE.—Tribe STAPELLE. Gen. Cuar.—Calyz brevis, 5-partitus, foliolis acuminatis, glandulis herbaceis acutis interdum introrsum interpositis. Corolla anguste campanulata, lurida; tubo externe striis maculisque brunneo-purpureis consperso, interne pilis papilleformibus deflexis instructo; limbo 5-fido, laciniis acutis, deltoideis, paullo revolutis. Gynostegium imo tubo conditum. Corone staminee lacinie 5, submonadelphe, alte bifide, in fila gracillima apice capitato-incrassate attenuate. ) by Sibthorp, and it has since been gathered on the mainland, by Prof. Orphanides, of Athens, in the middle region of Mount Olympus in Thessaly, at an elevation of 5-7000 feet. A very nearly allied plant, most probably a variety, is the Anthemis Aizoon, of Griesbach, a native of the mountains of Macedonia, which has also been gathered in the upper regions of Mount Parnassus, at an elevation of 6-7000 feet, by Prof. Orphanides, and named by him and M. Boissier Anthems Aizoides ; it differs in the smaller size, shorter more spathu- late leaves, which show no signs of double crenature. Both are obviously species of Achillea, having compressed achenes, quite different from those of Anthemis, of which they have more the habit. Lindley, in the ninth volume of Sibthorp’s Flora Greeca, observes correctly, that this is not the Lepidophorum repandum, AuGusT Ist, 1874. as suspected by De Candolle; he describes it from very im- perfect specimens, which he found in Sibthorp’s herbarium, along with Gnaphalium luteo-album, from Crete. It appears to me so unlikely that these plants should have grown together, that I suspect some confusion of habitat, and that Sibthorp did not collect his plant in Crete, where no one has found it, but on Mount Olympus, which he visited, and where he could not well have missed finding it. The Royal Gardens are indebted to Mr. Niven, of the Hull Botanic Gardens, for living plants which flowered at Kew in May. Drscr. Covered with white soft tomentum. Roots woody. Stems many, short, tufted. 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It attracted universal atten- tion, both by the beauty of its texture, and the exquisite taste with which it was designed. The dress consisted of a rich black silk tulle, on which were artistically embroidered groups of wild flowers, forming a most elegant toilette. The taste of the design, and the success with which it was carried out, are to be attributed to the originality and skillof Mr. AUGUSTUS AHLBORN.” ee Third Series. No. 357. oo VOL. XXX. SEPTEMBER. [Price 8s. 6d. colt Qs, 6d. plain. on No. 1051 OF THE ENTIRE WORK. CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, COMPRISING THE PLANTS OF THE ROYAL GARDENS OF KEW, AND OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN, WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS; BY JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D., C.B., F.R.S., L.S., & Director of the Moval Botanic Gardens of Kev. Nature and Art to adorn the page combine, And flowers exotic grace our northern clime. LONDON: L. REEVE . & CO,, 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. : 1874. ee) ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. MEETINGS AND SHOWS IN 1874. September 2. (Dahlias.) Ocsbew °F. { (Fruit and Floral Meeting.) (Fungi.) November11. (Fruit and Chrysanthemums.) December 2. (Fruit and Floral Meeting.) RE-ISSUE of the THIRD SERIES of the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. Now ready, Vols. I, to IX., price 42s. each (to Subscribers for the entire Series 36s. each), HE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, Third Series. By Sir Winutam and Dr. Hooxsr, To be continued monthly. Subscribers’ names received by the Publishers, either for the Monthly Volume or for Sets to be delivered complete at 36s, per Volume, as soon as ready. BOTANICAL PLATES; OR, PLANT PORTRAITS. IN GREAT VARIETY, BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED, 6d. and 1s. EACH. List of 2000 Species, one stamp. L. Reeve & Co., 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, THE FLORAL MAGAZINE. NEW SERIES, ENLARGED TO ROYAL QUARTO. Figures and Descriptions of the Choicest New Flowers for the Garden, Stove, or Conservatory. Monthly, with 4 Coloured Plates, 3s. 6d. Annual Subscription, 42s. L. Rezve & Co., 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. FLORAL PLATES, BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED, 6d. AND ls. EACH. New Lists of 600 Varieties, one stamp. L, Brrve & Co., 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. 6718 Tas. 6118, IRIS tTectorum. Native of Japan. Nat. Ord. IrntpaceEm.—Tribe Ir1pEx. Genus Iris, Linn, ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 266). Iris tectorum; rhizomate crasso, caule elato, foliis pedalibus 3-11 poll. latis lete viridibus, scapo subcompresso foliis subsequante, spathis oblongis acutis herbaceis 3-valvibus, floribus 3-4 poll. diam., pedicello ovario equilongo, perianthii tubo crassiusculo ore 6-glanduloso, segmentis crispato-undulatis subsequalibus exterioribus lilacinis maculatis obovato- rotundatis reflexis ungue albido venis violaceis, crista laciniata, interiori- bus unicoloribus, filamentis complanatis, stigmatibus ligulatis superne dilatatis, segmentis grosse dentatis, Iris tectorum, Mawim. Diagn. brev. Pl. Nov. Jap. Dec., viii. p, 563; Regel Garten-Fl., vol. xxi. p. 65, t. 716. I. tomiolopha, Hance in Trimen Jour. Bot. N.S., vol. i. p. 229. I. cristata, Mig. Pro. Fl. Jap., p. 805, non Ait. Although the plant here figured came from Whampoa in China, where it was cultivated by Dr. Hance, Her Britannic Majesty’s Vice-Consul at that port, there can be no question but that it is the J apanese Iris tectorum of Maximovicz, which grows in fields about Yokohama in Japan, and is likewise cultivated by the Japanese. It differs from Maximovicz’s description, but not from native specimens, in having three Spathes, which are acute or acuminate—characters which (with some others of foliage that are very variable) induced Dr. Hance to publish it as a new species, under the name of tomiolopha, in allusion to its cut crest. On the other hand it differs from Dr. Hance’s description in the spreading inner perianth-segments, a character probably due to cultivation, as it occurs in the splendid Iris Kempferi var. Hendersoni, lately exhibited in the Royal Horticultural Society by Messrs. Henderson, and which is unquestionably a form of e & levigata, with a spreading perianth. With the North American J. cristata, to which it was referred by the late SEPTEMBER, 1874, Professor Miquel, it has no near affinity, but it has with the Himalyan J. decora, Wall., of Nepal. — I am indebted to Mr. Bull for the specimen here figured, which was raised from seeds sent by Dr. Hance from his garden in Whampoa, and which flowered in April, 1874. Descr. Rootstock creeping, tuberous, annulate. Leaves about a foot long, by three-quarters to one and a quarter inches broad, ensiform, scarcely glaucous. Scape nearly terete, about as long as the leaves. F/owers three to four inches in diameter. Spathes three, herbaceous, green, erect, longer than the perianth-tube, acute. Pedicel about as long as the ovary. Perianth-tube one inch long; outer segments one and a half inches broad, obovate, margin erisped and waved, pale lilac streaked with violet; claw half as long as the limb, white ; crest running up the claw and half the limb, half an inch deep, white and lilac, deeply laciniate; inner segments rather narrower than the outer, spreading, pale lilac, claw short. Stigmas half as long as the perianth-segments recurved, lilac, segments coarsely toothed —J/. D. H. ; 6119 4 : | ‘ i Tas. 6119. BOLBOPHYLLUM DAYANUM. Native of Tenasserim. Nat. Ord. OrcnuiprEa.—Tribe DENDROBIES. Genus Bousopuyttum, Thouars ; (Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orchid., p..47). Botzoruyttum Dayanum ; rhizomate crasso cylindrico repente, pseudobulbis globoso-ovoideis sulcatis, folio oblongo obtuso crasse coriaceo-carnoso enervi costa subtus prominente floribus 2-3, 1 poll. diam. ringentibus in racemulo abbreviato subsessilibus, sepalis ovatis obtusis saturate viridibus purpureo-maculatis longe ciliatis, petalis multo minoribus lineari-oblongis acutis purpureis ciliatis, labelli parvi pallide viridis vix unguiculati lobis lateralibus parvis auriculeformibus crenulatis, terminali late oblongo obtuso crenato-dentato, disco cristis 3-elevatis centralibus crenatis ornato, et utrinque intra cristas et margines seriebus 3 spinu- larum aucto, columna apice dentata. Bo.sopuyttum Dayanum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1865, 434; Xenia Orchidacea, p. 128, t. 144. This singularly coloured species of Bolbophyllum was introduced by Mr. Day from Moulmein, and published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle for 1865, by Professor Reichenbach; and it has now again been sent to England by our old friend Mr. Parish, who has returned to the scene of his clerical and botanical labours, which he has resumed with his wonted energy and former success. Itis very much to be wished that these might culminate in a general work from his pen on the Orchids of the Tenasserim provinces, that have proved such a mine of wealth in these plants, and for which Mr. Parish s special acquirements admirably suit him. Asit is, Orchidology is falling into a hopeless condition, and but for the generous assistance of Professor Reichenbach, both cultivators and botanists would be very badly off sndeed. A synopsis of the genera and species, or even a classified catalogue of these, with synonyms and habitats and references to publications, would be a boon to Botany and Horticulture. Of Bolbophyllum alone no less than eighty-four species were brought together by Prof. Reichenbach in the sixth volume of Walper’s SEPTEMBER, 1874, « Annales,” which professes to bring the subject down to 1855; and who but Dr. Reichenbach knows how many have been published since—and where ? Dzscr. Rhizome creeping, stout, as thick as a goosequill, staooth, woody, annulate. Pseudobulbs globose-ovoid, deeply channelled, with rounded ridges. JZeaf shortly petioled, three to four inches long, by one quarter to two inches broad, thickly coriaceous, almost fleshy, oblong, tip obtuse, recurved ; midrib stout and convex below, deep green above, purplish beneath, nerveless. Jowers about three in a very shortly peduncled raceme or umbel from the base of the pseudobulb, one inch in diameter. Ovary curved, pedicel short, stout. Sepals spreading, ovate, obtuse, ciliate, with long spreading hairs, yellow-green, with six rows of dark purple spots. Petals about one quarter the size of the sepals, spreading, linear- oblong, obtuse, ciliate, purple with green edges. Li very small, shortly clawed, pale purple edged with green, lateral lobes small oblong crenulate ; midlobe broadly oblong obtuse crenate, with three longitudinal crests in the disk, of which the lateral are raised towards the base into flat erect crenate plates ; there are also three rows of spinous processes on each side of the lip—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower; 2, sepal; 3, column and lip; 4, lip :—all magnified. 120 2 4 eo et W Fitch de rooks Day & Sen, imp D Yin cen q . Tas. 6120. CINNAMODENDRON corticosvum. Native of the West Inhes. Nat. Ord. CANELLACER. Genus CinnamMopENDRON, Endl. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 121). CINNAMODENDRON corticosum ; glabcrrimum, foliis anguste elliptico-v. obovato- oblongis -lanceolatisve sepe gibbis v. inequilateris obtusis v. subacutis marginibus recurvis basi rotundatis acutisve, cymis parvis axillaribus, sepalis 5 ovato-oblongis apice recurvis rotundatis, petalis 4-5 erectis oblongis, antheris 16-20. CINNAMODENDRON corticosum, Miers Contrib. to Bot,, vol. i. p. 121, t. 24; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 109. A well known West Indian tree, as the Mountain Cin- namon of Jamaica, or Canella bark of that islana and St. Thomas, but not the true Brazilian plant of that name, which is its solitary congener, the C. awil/are of Endlicher. These two very distinct trees were indeed long confounded together, and their bark is still imported under the same name of Canella, and employed Jargely as an aromatic stimulant to purgatives and tonics, being ‘reputed to be well adapted for debilitated stomachs. The Caribs (ancient natives of the Antilles) and the negroes of the present day employ it is a condiment. As an aromatic, Pereira says that it ranks between cinnamon and cloves. Mr. Hanbury informs me that the bark was exported during the last century as “Winter’s bark” and is still found in the market ; as also that it is probably the “ Wild Cinnamon tree of Sloane, commonly but falsely called Cortex Winteranus,” though the tree that he figures Phil. Trans. xvii. 465, (1693) is certainly Canella alba. It is a local plant growing in Jamaica only in mountain Mets of the parishes of St. Thomas in the Vale and St. ohn. In the following description I have followed the view of the nature of the outer floral whorls adopted in the Genera Plantarum, though more disposed to regard the outermost SEPTEMBER, 1874, three organs as sepals, and. the innermost four or five as staminal appendages. Descr. A small or large tree, fifty feet high, branched from the base, glabrous throughout; branches terete; bark aromatic. Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, four to five inches long, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, subacute or obtuse, base rounded or acute, often very unequal-sided, one side bulging out above the middle, coriaceous, covered with pellucid dots, margins recurved, nerves 10-12 pairs, very slender, reticulations delicate ; petioles one quarter inch to one-third - inch. Cymes axillary, very shortly peduncled, 6-8-flowered, quite glabrous. lowers shortly pedicelled, one-third inch in diameter, orange-red, pedicels short, bracts at their bases deciduous. Bracteoles (or sepals) three, orbicular, green, ciliolate. Sepals (or petals) five, erect with recurved rounded tips, oblong-ovate, red. Pe/als (or staminal scales), four or five, erect, linear-oblong, unequal. Staminal column cylindric, 5-lobed at the apex ; anthers sixteen to twenty, linear. Ovary seated in a cupular disk, obtusely 3-gonous, ovoid-oblong, obscurely contracted into a columnar style whose rounded apex is divided into three to five minute stigmatic lobes. Berry ovoid, half an inch long, many-seeded. Seeds ovoid, testa brown shining, albumen fleshy and oily; embryo linear.— J. D. H. : Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, the same with bracts and three sepals removed ; 3 sta- minal column; 4, portion of do, ; 5, disk and ovary; 6, transverse section of ovary :—all magnified. 6721 th. ii WFitch,del et Vincemt Brooks Day &Saukep Tas. 6121, DROSERA WattTAKERII. Native of South Australha. Nat. Ord. DrosERACE. Genus Drosera, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 662). Drosera Whittakerii; tubere globoso corticato cortice chartaceo fragili nitido, rhizomate erecto valido subterraneo, foliis rosulatis spathulato- obovatis viridibus crassiusculis, pilis glandulosis rubris elongatis, scapis brevibus 1-floris sepalisque elongatis viridibus eglandulosis, petalis obcordato-cuneatis albis, ovario globoso, stylis in laciniis capillaribus capitellatis ad basim fissis. Drosera Whittakerii, Hook. Ic. Pl., t. 875; Planch. in Ann. Se. Nat., ser. 3, vol. ix. p. 202; Benth. Flor. Austral., vol. i. p. 462. This charming little plant was sent to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh by Mr. W. A. Mitchell, formerly an employé in that establishment, where it was flowered by Mr. McNab in July last, and sent up to Kew for figuring, with a description by my friend Dr. Balfour, who observed that the sepals were reflexed, and the flowers an inch in diameter when well grown and expanded, a statement fully borne out by the dried specimens. The glandular hairs on the leaf are in all respects like those of D. /ongifolia, and act precisely in the same manner on being brought into contact with insects ; the leaf itself, however, does not become concave, but retains the remarkable convexity of surface of each half. Drosera Whittakerii is a common Victorian and South Aus- tralian plant, and belongs to a group of very closely allied species, including D. bulbosa, zonata and rosulata, all having tuberous roots, attaining a considerable size in the first named of these. Such sorts indicate a totally different kind of treat- ment to what answers in cultivation for D. rotundifolia and its allies; itindicates a resting season, preveded by one for theripen- ing of the bulb, and followed by a growing one 1n due course. The same remark applies to almost all terrestrial Australian Orchids, objects of inconceivable beauty and interest, but which have never been successfully kept in this country. Descr. Leaves rosulate, very numerous, densely crowded, one SEPTEMBER, 1874. to one and a quarter inches long, one-half to three-quarters inch wide at the broadest part, obovate-spathulate, the petiolar part broad green, the blade tumid on the face on either side the mesial line, and studded with long red-brown glandular hairs, rather fleshy. Scapes several, about equalling the leaves, slender, erect and one-flowered, quite glabrous and not glandular. /Yower one-half inch to one inch in diameter. Sepals oblong, obtuse, green, glabrous, eglandular. Petals obcordate-cuneate, white. Stamens quite hypogynous; anther- cells separated by the connective. Ovary globose; styles split at the base into filiform capitate white filaments.— J. D. H. Fig. 1 and 2, Leaves; 3, glandular hair of do.; 4, flower; 5, petal; 6, top of pedicel, stamen, and pistil; 7 and 8, stamens; 9, ovary :—all magnified, % a 3 a wo 2 = Tas. 6122. PENTSTEMON uomiuis. Native of the Rocky Mountains. Nat. Ord, ScropHULARINEZ.—Tribe CHELONES. Genus Pentstemon, L’Her. ; (Benth. in DC. Prodr., vol. x. p. 320). Pentstemon humilis; glaberrimus, foliis radicalibus anguste lineari-lanceolatis ellipticis v. elliptico-spathulatis petiolatis integerrimis v. obscure crenatis acuminatis caulinis oblongis linearibusve, floribus racemosis breviter gracile pedicellatis, calycis lobis recurvis lanceolatis ciliatis, corolla semi-pollicari, tubo lente curvo modice inflato, limbo ceruleo 2-labiato, labii superioris lobis breviter oblongis inferioris late obovatis obtusis, - filamentis glabris, antheranum loculis divaricatis, stylo piloso. Pentsremon humilis, Nutt. in Herb. Acad. Philad. ex A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sc., October, 1862, p. 69; S. Watson Bot. 40th Parallel, pp. 220 and 454. The charming little plant here figured differs very much in stature and foliage from the indigenous specimens preserved in the Kew Herbarium, which are eight inches to a foot high, more robust, and have elliptic-ovate radical leaves, oblong- spathulate cauline ones, and flowers two-thirds of an inch long. All these, however, are differences of degree only, and I quite expect that older specimens of the cultivated plant will assume the stature and probably the foliage of the native ones. Add to these points the known variability of the species of Pentstemon, and that there is no other species to which the present bears any resemblance (except the foliage to the otherwise very different P. Hallit), and no doubt is left in my mind as to the identification of this with P. Aumi/vs. Pentstemon humilis was one of the indefatigable Nuttall’s discoveries in the Rocky mountains, and it has since been gathered by the naturalists attached to various American and English Government-exploring expeditions, amongst others, by Dr. Lyall, of the Oregon Boundary Commission, who collected it at 7000 feet above the sea, between Fort Colville and the Rocky mountains, in 1867. The plant here repre- SEPTEMBER, 1874, sented was sent for figuring by Messrs. Backhouse, of York, who flowered it in June last. Descr. Root perennial, bearing many short branches. Leaves chiefly radical, from linear-lanceolate to elliptic-oval, obtuse acute or acuminate, coriaceous, quite entire, nerveless, glabrous. Mowering-stems six to twelve inches high, erect, with two or more pairs of linear-lanceolate or oblong leaves. Panicle of three or more whorls of shortly pedicelled flowers ; bracts herbaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Flower half to two-thirds of an inch long, horizontal or drooping. Calyx small, glandular, pubescent or ciliate; segments subulate- lanceolate, recurved. Corolla-tube moderately inflated, pale reddish-purple ; throat open, not folded ; limb 2-lipped, bright blue purple ; upper lip of two shortly oblong rounded lobes ; under of three shortly broadly obovate lobes. laments glabrous ; anther-cells divergent. Style hairy —/. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower; 2, base of corolla-tube, stamens and style :—all magnified. er Pee pigmaeervenn i tpl h ee eT ee ee sew meen Tae, ma a pe a et oe er kee Ja ee en Tas. 6123. BRODI ALA VOLUBILIS. Native of California. Nat. Ord. Lin1racem.—Tribe MILLez. Genus Bropima, Smith; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xi. p. 375). Broprma (Stropholirion) volubilis ; cormo globoso, foliis synanthiis carnoso- herbaceis 1-1} pedalibus 4-4 poll. latis, seapo volubili prelongo, spathis 4—5 oblongo-lanceolatis, umbellis 15-30 floris, perianthio campanulato- infundibuliformi tubo subventricoso, segmentis suberectis obtusis, antheris sessilibus alatis, staminodiis ligulatis, ovario breviter stipitato, Bropiaa volubilis, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xi. p. 877. Srropnotirion californicum, Zorrey in Bot. Whipple Exped., p. 149, t. 23; Benth. Plant. Hartweg, 339. Rupatieya volubilis, Moriére in Bull, Soc. Linn. Norm., viii. cum ic ex Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. xi. Bibl. 25. Dicuetostemma californica, Wood in Proc. Philad. Acad., 1867, 173. It is not surprising that so remarkable a plant as this should have been erected into a genus; or that, considering the chaotic state of North American descriptive botany, it should have had two made on purpose for it; or that it should in fact have been referred by name to three other genera before Mr. Baker, in his revision of the Liliacee, reduced it to its proper position as Brodiea, reserving for it, however, as a sectional name, Torrey’s generi¢ one of Stropho- lirion. For the justice of this view I would refer to our plate of the floral structure of Brodiea multiflora (Tab. 5989), where it will be seen, that except by the twining scape, Stropholirion differs from that genus in no important par- ticular. ‘ Brodiaa volubilis was discovered by Hartweg in the Sacramento mountains, California, in 1846, and has since been found by various collectors in Sonora and other places. The scape sometimes attains twelve feet in length. The plant figured was raised and sent for figuring by Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich, in July of the present year. SEPTEMBER, 1874. Duscr. Corm the size of a walnut. Leaves a foot long, narrowly linear-lanceolate, acuminate, trigonous, acutely keeled. at the back, channelled in front, very pale green. Scape four to twelve feet long, twining amongst the branches of bushes, one quarter inch in diameter, green varied with pink. Umbel large, three to four inches in diameter, of very many (twelve to twenty) pedicelled rosy flowers ; pedicels a quarter to one inch long; spathes four or five, oblong-lanceolate, concave, shorter than the rosy pedicels, tipped with green. Flower three-quarters of an inch long. Perianth between campanulate and funnel-shaped; tube 5-lobed, tumid; seg- ments erect, ovate, obtuse. -Anthers three, opposite the inner perianth lobes; adnate to and winged by the broad filament behind it. Staminodes ligulate, notched, pubescent. 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Tacca artocarpifolia; elata, foliis amplis trisectis, segmentis petiolulatis 1}—2 pedalibus pinnatifidis, laciniis pedalibus 1—1} poll. latis sensim acu- minatis, scapo elongato, involucro §—7-phyllo, foliolis 4-8-pollicaribus caudato-acuminatis exterioribus deflexis angustioribus, interioribus: laterioribus conniventibus erectis elliptico-lanceolatis, omnibus inte- gerrimis v. exteriore 3-fido, pedicellis sterilibus pedalibus filiformibus, ovario turbinato alte 6-carinato, perianthio globoso, Tacca artocarpifolia, Seemann Flor. Vit., p. 101, in note. This very remarkable plant is a congener of the Afaccia cristata of this work (Tab. 4589), the genus dfaccia being now regarded as a synonym of Zacca, and of 7. integrifolia (Tab. 1488). It is a native of Madagascar and Johanna Islands, whence there are excellent specimens in the Hookerian Herbarium, from Mr. Justice Blackburn, Dr. Lyall, and W. 'T. Gerrard. Its nearest ally is the well known 7° pin- natifida, which, though one of the most widely cultivated and most useful plants in the Pacifie Islands, has never yet been figured in any English botanical work ; nor, as far as we know, ever been introduced into this country. The tubers of 7. pin- natifida afford the South-Sea arrowroot, said to be the best of all in cases of dysentery, and its starch is a favourite article of diet in the shape of puddings and cakes. The 7. artocarpifolia has a tuberous root, and is, no doubt, as full of starch and as wholesome as 7 pinnatifida. It flowered in the Royal Gardens in May of the present year, from roots received from Mr. Wilson Saunders in 1872. Descr. Root tuberous. Leaves about three ; petiole two feet long, stout, erect, cylindric, nearly as thick as a goose- quill, brown; base curved with thick sheathing wings ; blade two to three feet in diameter, trisect ; segments stalked, OCTOBER Ist, 1874. pinnatifid but not to the base ; pinnules three to four pairs, one and a half feet long, by one to one anda half inches broad, spreading, gradually narrowed into long acuminate points ; midrib stout, lateral nerves very slender, elongate, and run- ning parallel to the margins. Scape five to six feet high, as thick as the little finger, brown. Jnvolucre of six to seven leaves; outer narrow-lanceolate, five to six inches long, de- flexed ; inner erect, incurved, conniving, elliptic-lanceolate, all strongly nerved, green, caudate-acuminate. lowers very nu- merous, pedicels one to three inches long; sterile pendulous ones filiform, ten to twelve inches long, brown, grooved on one face. Ovary turbinate, with six strong keeled ribs, brown. Perianth glabrous, brown at the base, the rest green; seg- ments broadly ovate, conniving, coriaceous. Stamens sessile. Stigma 3-lobed, lobes convex. Fruit six inches long, ellipsoid- oblong, 6-ribbed.—J. D. H. _ Fig. 1, Reduced figures of leafing and flowering states ; 2, portion of leaf and 3, inflorescence :—of the natural size ; 4, flowers; 5, the same with the perianth-segments removed ; 6, the same with 3 stamens removed showing the stigma :—all magnified. W Fitch del et ith sepa APSR \ 4 /| meas ees 6125 Vincent Brooks “TAB, GIZo. POGONTA piscotor. Native of Java. Nat. Ord. Orcnipem.—Tribe ARETHUSE. Genus Poconta, Juss. ; (Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid., 413). Pogonta discolor; folio breviter petiolato rotundato-cordato-multinervio discolori supra et subtus ad nervos rufo-setoso, scapo subbifloro bracteis spathaceis occulto, sepalis petalisque consimilibus linearibus acuminatis pallide fusco-viridibus, labello obcordato-2-lobo albido, P. discolor, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat., vol. i. p. 32; Coll. Orchid. Archip. Ind. et Jap., 152, t. 57, f. 1; Miquel Fl. Ind.-Bat., vol. iil. p- 716. , Rirnosremon discolor, Blume Flor. Jav. Pref., vol. vi.; Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid., p. 453. CorpyLa discolor, Blume Bijd., p. 417._ The species of Pogonia have usually little to recommend them for horticultural purposes; but to this there are excep- tions, especially amongst the Indian species, some of which that have been cultivated at Kew present, like that here figured, beautifully coloured and marked leaves that per- sist for many weeks, and attract the attention of the most ordinary observer. All have tuberous roots, often formed at the end of subterranean cylindric fibres. It 1s not easy so to manage their culture as that the leaves, flowers, and new tubers should be successfully formed, and upon this their con- _tinuance under cultivation depends. The present is closely allied to the common P. plicata of Bengal, which has a rose-coloured lip. Blume describes the lip of P. discolor as entire, but it is retuse in his drawing, and distinctly 2- lobed in our specimen. Pogonia discolor is a native of damp forests in the moun- tain region of Western Java, where it flowers in November. The specimen here figured was flowered by Mr. Bull, in February last, and the leaf was fully formed in the following June. OCTOBER Ist, 1874. Descr. foot of small spherical tubers. Leaf solitary, three to five inches in diameter, nearly horizontal, orbicular-cor- date, cuspidate, convex, membranous; upper surface dark rufous green, often with paler blue-green blotches between the nerves, clothed with long rufous bristles which are disposed in ‘lines along the principal and secondary nerves; under surface pale dull purple, with bristles on the principal nerves only ; nerves radiating from the top of the petiole, eleven to sixteen, rufous above ; petiole half to one inch high. Scape solitary, two to three inches long, clothed with the loose pale dirty-green or purplish bracteal sheaths. JJowers in pairs, one and a half inches in diameter. Ovary turbinate, sharply angled, short, glabrous. Sepals and petals equal and similar, spread- ing, three-quarters of an inch long, linear, acuminate, dirty grey-green. Lip as long as the petals, white, with a green disk, convolute for nearly its whole length; limb obcordate, 2-lobed, erose; disk crested. Column erect, clavate, white. Pollen-masses oblong.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Side, and 2, front view of ovary and lip; 3 column; 4 and 5, pollen masses :—all magnified. j e te ee he MO 4 en Nt de th tch del et lith fy Ww We Son. imt Son img T}. Jay & : ooks 1 E a+; Fog VincentDr Tas. 6126. LILIUM macunatoum. Native of Japan and N.E. Asia. Nat. Ord. Liniacem.—Tribe TuLirez. Genus Litium, Linn. ; (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1871; Journ. Hort. Soc. , N.S. vol. iv. p. 39). ae > Litium (Martagon) maculatum ; glaberrimum, bulbo solitario squamis fusi- formibus apice articulatis, foliorum verticillis 1-3, foliis in verticillo 4—2() lineari-lanceolatis ellipticisve obtusis v. obtuse acuminatis, racemo 1-12 flore, floribus 2-8 poll. diametr. cernuis, perianthio aurantiaco | basi late campanulato, foliolis patenti-recurvis oblongis obtusis basim versus rima nuda nectarifera instructis medium versus punctls majus- culis atro-purpureis notatis, capsula pyriformi vertice depresso abrupte in pedicellum brevem attenuata. L. maculatum, Thunb. in Mem. Acad. Petersb., vol. iii. t. 5; Baker in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond., N.S. vol. iv. p. 45. a L. avenaceum, Fischer—F’. Schmidt Flor. Sachalin ined. ex Maa imovicz in Regel Gartenfl., vol. xiv. (1865) 290, t. 485. L. Martagon, Ledeb. Fl. Ross., vol. iv. p. 149, quoad plantam Kamtscha- ticam. A native of Kamtschatka, the Kurile and Sachalin Islands, Japan, and South Eastern Manchuria, whence it was intro- duced into the Russian Imperial Botanical Gardens, and we have dried specimens from Sitcha on the American coast. According to Maximoviez (in Gartenflora), there are two ‘varieties of it: one, with a scented orange-yellow flower, which is that figured here, and which came from Victoria Sound; the other, with red inodorous flowers, 1s found in Japan and Kamtschatka, is figured by Regel in the Gartenflora. The leaves of both varieties vary extremely, both as to the number of whorls, the number in each whorl, and in length - and breadth. ; I am indebted to G. F. Wilson, F.H.S., of Weybridge Heath, for the specimen figured, the bulb of which he pur- chased at a sale of Japan Lilies, in London, and which flowered in June of the present year. I have also seen a specimen flowered by Mr. William Saunders, F.H.S., in 1871. OCTOBER Ist, 1874. Drscr. Bulb from the size of a large nut to that of a wal- nut ; scales fleshy, fusiform. Stem two to three feet high, slender, bearing one to three whorls of four to twenty leaves at various heights above the ground, but always far above it. Leaves narrow when many, broad when few, sessile, three to six inches long by one half to one and a half inches broad, linear- or elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, with three to five principal nerves, dark green above, paler beneath ; upper leaves alternate scattered, much smaller. Flowers usually four to six (one to twenty), irregularly race- mose; peduncles two three inches long ; bracts broad, green, leafy. Perianth two three inches in diameter, campanulate at the base, orange-yellow or red, with black rounded or ob- long spots about the middle of the segments which are spread- ing and recurved with obtuse thickened points. Filaments much shorter than the perianth ; anthers linear, yellow. Ovary oblong ; style short, clavate, stigma hemispherical. “Capsule (according to Regel) pyriform.—/. D. H. Fig. 1, Ovary and style :—magnified. Which, del et lith na ene TaB. 6127. SCORZON ERA UNDULATA. Native of Algeria and Marocco. Nat. Ord. Composirm.—Tribe CrncHonacesz. Genus Scorzonera, Linn. ; (Benth, § Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 531). Scorzonera undulata; caule erecto gracili elongato ramoso glabro, foliis glabris radicalibus pedalibus anguste elongato-lanceolatis attenuato- acuminatis vix undulatis, caulinis e basi lata sessile subulato-attenuatis, capitulis 2-24 poll. diam., involucri bracteis cano-tomentellis exte- rioribus late ovatis acutis apicibus recurvis, interioribus ter longioribus ovato-oblongis anguste marginatis, ligulis roseo-purpureis, corolle tubo gracili apicem versus barbellato, achenio obconico costato costis crenulatis, pappi setis inequalibus infra medium plumosis, 5—6 ceteris longioribus robustioribus supra medium scabridis. S. undulata, Vahl. Symb., vol. ii. p. 85; Desfont. Flor. Atlant., vol. ii. p- 219; DC. Prodr., vol. vii. p..117 (in part). That this is the true Scorzonera undulata of Vahl and of Desfontaine I have little doubt, though it differs somewhat from the description of the former in its flat leaves and more branched habit, and altogether from specimens in the Her- barium of the Greek plant with which Desfontaine and De Candolle confound the Barbary one. Vahl describes it as common throughout the region of Tunis, and Desfontaine has found it in sandy places. In many respects, and especially in habit, it approaches 8. purpurea, Linn., which has smaller bracts and very narrow leaves ; and also S. hispanica, which differs chiefly, if not only, in its yellow flowers. The specimen here figured was brought by Mr. Maw from Algeria, where he recognised it as apparently the same with a plant we found between Tangiers and Tetuan in Maroceo. It flowered in July, and had a very handsome appearance. Descr. Root thick, fusiform. Stem one to two feet, slender, _ branched, glabrous or with scanty white tomentum towards the ends of the branches. Radical leaves nearly a foot long, narrowly OCTOBER Ist, 1874. linear-lanceolate, quite entire glabrous, three-quarters of an inch in diameter at the broadest part, gradually narrowed into a rather long petiole and to the acuminate apex, bright green, with a yellow midrib; margins scarcely waved ; cau/ine- leaves three to six inches long, gradually narrowed from a broad sessile base to a very fine point, erect, keeled to the midrib, margins even. Peduncies slender, green or purplish. Heads two to two and a half inches in diameter, rose- purplish ; involucre cylindric, tumid at its base, hoary with a white down; outer scales broadly ovate, with a recurved acuminate apex, green with pale margins ; inner twice or thrice as long, linear-oblong, with broad scarious margins. Flowers numerous. Corolla-tube slender, bearded below the mouth ; limb as long, linear, 5-toothed. Achenes (unripe) fimbriate, grooved, the ridges crenulate ; pappus-hairs about twenty, all plumose halfway up, five or six stronger than the oe and scabrid from above the middle to the apex.— Fig. 1, Flowers; 2, unripe achene and pappus :—both magnified. WE WV Fitc i | LA Fitch, del et. kit St. Vincent Brooks Day& San, kmp Tas, 6128, CITRUS AvURANTIUM va7. JAPONICA. Cultivated in China and Japan. The Kumquat. Nat. Ord. Rutracem.—Tribe AURANTIER. Genus Citrus, Linn. ; (Benth. § Hook.f. Gen. Pl., v. i. p. 805). a -- Citrus Aurantium var. japonica ; fruticosa, spinosa v. inermis, ramis angu- latis, petiolis cuneato-alatis v, lineari-cuneatis, foliis‘elliptico- v. oblongo- lanceolatis obtuse acuminatis apices versus crenulatis, floribus axillaribus solitariis fasciculatisve albis, fructibus globosis v. ellipsoideo-oblongis 4—6-locularibus, cortice granulato. Cirrus japonica, Thunb. Flor. Japan., 292 ; Ic.t.15; DC. Prodr., vol. i. 540 ; Sieb. § Zuce. Fl. Jap., vol. i. p. 35, t. 15; Fortune in Hort. Soc, Journ., NS. vol. ii. p. 46; Gard. Chron. 1874, 336, cum ic, xylog. ; Mig. Prolus. Fl. Jap. p. 15. C. Margarita, Zour. Fl. Coch., p. 570; DC. l.c. Kinkan, Kempf. Amen. Ezot., vol. v. p. 801. | Subvar. inermis.—C. inermis, Roxb. Fl. Ind.,'vol. iii. p. 393, C. madurensis, Lour. Fl. Coch., 570; DC. Prodr., 1.c.; Rumph. Herb. Amb., vol. ii. p- 110, t. xxx. This well-known ingredient in Chinese sweetmeats has never previously been figured from cultivated specimens in Europe, though long known from Kempfer's description and plate. According to Siebold, it is nowhere found wild in Japan ; this author says that, in common with all other spe- cies and varieties of Citrus, it has been introduced into the Island from China or India; also that it is extensively culti- vated under two varieties, one with globose, the other with oval fruit, which latter is rare. He adds, that the agreeable acid of the juice, flavoured by the aroma of the rind, renders the fruit very pleasant, but that it yields only a transient re- freshment, for it leaves a burning after-taste in the mouth. A magnificent fruiting specimen of this interesting shrub was exhibited by Mr. Bateman at the Horticultural Society in 1867, from which the accompanying drawing was taken. It belonged to the unarmed variety, and is far more luxuriant, both as to foliage and fruit, than the dried specimen, or those OCTOBER Ist, 1874. figured by Siebold and Zuccarini. As regards the cultivation of the Kumquat, Mr. Fortune, who introduced it, says in his paper published in the Journal of the Horticultural Society, quoted above, that it requires in summer plenty of water at a temperature of 80° to 100°, and a high atmospheric heat continued into autumn ; whilst in winter it should be kept cool and rather dry, for it will then bear 10° and even 15° of frost. It succeeds well grafted on Limonia trifoliata. Drscr. A shrub or small tree, four to six feet high. Branch- lets green, glabrous, compressed, trigonous. Leaves biennial ; petiole one-third to one-half inch long, narrowly cuneate or almost linear; blade three to five inches long, elliptic or ob- long-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, obtuse, crenate above the middle. lowers one to three, axillary, fascicled, three- fourths of an inch to one inch in diameter, white ; peduncles glabrous. Calyx short, five-lobed, glabrous, green, segments broad. Petals oblong, subacute. Stamens twenty or fewer, irregularly connate into bundles. Dis/: thick. Ovary 4—6- celled. Fruit two-thirds to one inch in diameter, globose or shortly ellipsoid, bright orange-yellow, 4—6-celled; rind thick, minutely tuberculate; pulp watery, sweet and aci- dulous. Seeds few, like those of the common orange, but much smaller.—J/. D. H. 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Plant., vol. i. p. 810). Passtriora (Tacsonia) manicata ; caule flexuoso subangulato, foliis 4-polli- caribus coriaceis 3-lobis serratis supra glabris subtus pubescentibus, lobis ovatis acutis intermedio producto, petiolo pollicari 3-4-glanduloso, stipulis dimidiato-ovatis faleatis grosse dentatis, pedunculo _petiolo duplo longiore, bracteis pollicaribus ellipticis acutis serrulatis liberis v. - connatis, floribus coccineis, perianthii tubo 4~1-pollicari basi dilatato limbo 4-pollicari. TAcsonta manicata, Juss. in Ann. Muss., vol. vi. p. 898, t. 59, f. 2; Lindl. Pact. Fl. Gard., vol. i. t. 26; DC. Prodr., vol. iii. p. 3384; Humb. Bonpl. § Kunth Nov. Gen., vol. ii. p. 189; Masters in Mart. Flor. Bras., vol. xiii. pars i. p. 541. This lovely plant has been for many years cultivated in England, though not so extensively as it deserves, having had the reputation of not flowering freely. It was intro- duced previous to 1850 by the Horticultural Society, through its collector Hartweg, who found it in hedges near Loxa in Peru, where, indeed, it was discovered by Humboldt and. Bonpland half a century previously. It is also a native of © the Andes of Equador and New Grenada, where it was found. by Purdie on the arid plains of Suta Marchan, and is there called Ruruba de Seneno. A similar undescribed species, or perhaps a variety of this, with white flowers, was gathered by Pearce at Puquina (in Peru ?), at an elevation of 10,000 feet. I am indebted for the accompanying drawing to Mr. E. J. Smith, of Coalport, in whose conservatory the plant flowered in July last. - I regret not being able to follow Dr. Masters in retaiming the genus Zucsonia, as is doue in his very admirable Mono- graph of South American Passiflor, in Martius’s 2 Flora Brasiliensis ;” the only character hitherto adopted being the NOVEMBER lst, 1874. comparative length of the perianth-tube of Zacsonia, which is shorter in this species than in various Brazilian plants uni- versally referred to Passiflora. Could genera be limited by geographical distribution, Zucsonia would (as Dr. Masters indicates) be defined as being confined, as far as is hitherto known, to the Andes of South America, whilst the Passiforas » are spread over the warm regions of the whole American continent, and are found also in Asia and Australia. Descr. Stem climbing, nearly terete, and as well as the petioles leaves beneath stipules bracts and perianth externally finely pubescent. Leaves about four inches long, coriaceous, 3-lobed to about the middle, finely serrate ; lobes broadly oblong, obtuse or subacute, dark green above, pale beneath, base rounded truncate or subacute; petiole about one inch long, with three to four glands. Stipules one inch in diameter, dimidiate-ovate, deeply toothed, convex, Pedunele longer than the petiole. Bracts at some distance from the calyx, elliptic- ovate, acute, serrate, pubescent, free or united from the base upwards, sometimes for half their length. Perianth-tube about half an inch long, base inflated and 10-lobed; limb four inches in diameter, vivid scarlet; corona double ; outer, at the mouth of the tube, of many series of short blue hairs, the inner row of which connives around the column ; inner, at the top of the inflated base of the perianth, formed of a sigmoidly-inflexed membrane. Styles tree—J. D. H. ein Fig. 1, Vertical section of perianth tube :—somewhat magnified. Son, Imp. ae iBrooks Day \ el ViLICEALL. Tas. 6130. CERINTHE cymnanpra. Native of Italy, Algeria, and Marocco. Nat. Ord. BorracinE#.—Tribe CERINTHER. Genus Cerintue, Linn. ; (A. DC. Prodr., vol. 10, p. 2). CERINTHE gymnandra; annua, glabra, caule subflexuoso simplici v. ramoso, foliis oblongis ovato-oblongisve apice sphacelatis obtuse arcuatis v. rotundatis basi auriculato 2-lobis, supra remote verruculosis subtus glabris, calycis foliolis lineari-oblongis erectis ciliatis, corolla curva infra medium clavato-inflato, lobis 5 triangulari-subulatis reflexis, an- therarum caudis setaceis apicibus exsertis. CrRINTHE gymnandra, Gaspar., Rendei dell Acad. Soc. Real Borbon di Nap., vol. i. p. 72, ea Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ., vol. xviii. p. 36, t. 1297; Willkom. & Lange Fl. Hisp., vol. ii. p. 512. A very rare European plant, hitherto found, as far as I am aware, only near Naples, whence I have seen specimens col- lected by Heldreich ; it is however common in some parts of Western Algeria, as at Oran and Blidah, growing in sandy places, and in Marocco. Though hardly different from C. major (Tab. nost. 333), as pointed out by Willkomm and Lange, it is a very beautiful form of the genus, well worthy of cultivation, but unfortunately annual. One of its most striking characters is the discoloration of the tips of the leaves ; these in all our specimens are of a fine pale glaucous blue, except at the very end, which is pale greenish-yellow, bounded towards the midrib by a dull dark purple band ; thus the colouring of the leaf-tip is a repetition of that of the flower, and gives a bright appearance to the whole plant. From the above-quoted figure of Cerinthe major in this Maga- zine, the present differs in the yellow tubular terminal portion of the corolla, the narrower sepals not cordate at the base, and foliage; but little dependence can be placed on these characteristics in so variable a genus. Our specimens were raised from seed sent by Messrs. Haage and Schmidt, and flowered in July. NOVEMBER Ist, 1874.’ Descr. Annual, very variable in size and stature, glabrous, . except the calyx. Stem six to twelve inches high, usually ascending from a short base, simple or branched above, rather stout, guite smooth, pale yellow-green. Leaves one to four inches long, glaucous, usually ovate-oblong and somewhat contracted in the middle, rounded or obtusely pointed; base 2-lobed, with two deep rounded auricles ; upper surface with scattered small warts, only visible in the dry state, under surface quite smooth; tips always discoloured, yellow-green with a purple band beneath it, strongly contrasting with the glaucous blue of the rest of the leaf; nerves faint. oral leaves large, distichous, imbricate, enclosing and almost con- cealing the flowers. /owers shortly pedicelled, nearly one inch long. Calyx half the length of the corolla; leaflets linear-oblong, acute, ciliate, with a purple band below the tip. Corolla curved, lower parts rather inflated, subclavate, deep red-purple except at the base; upper part cylindric, yellow; lobes short, triangular, subulate, yellow, sharply reflexed. Filaments short; anthers slender, with exserted subulate purple tips, the cells caudate at the base.—J/. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower; 2, corolla laid open; 3, stamen; 4, disk, ovary and style :— all magnified, ww a. W Fitch, del et lith “Vincent Brooks Day & Som, imp. Tas. 6131. MELALEUCA Wixtsont. Native of South Austraha. Nat. Ord. Myrracem.—Tribe LeprosPERME. Genus Mexatevca, Linn. ; (Benth. Fl. Austral., vol. iii. p. 123). MEtatevuca Wilsoni; ramulis junioribus exceptis glaberrima, foliis oppositis confertis patulis v. in ramulis junioribus imbricatis subulato-lanceolatis acutis v. acuminatis subtus convexis obscure 1-3-nerviis, floribus soli- tariis v. fasciculatis sparsis v. spicatis, calycis tubo ovoideo glabro basi rotundato lobis ovato-lanceolatis subacutis tubum squantibus, petalis calycis lobis duplo longioribus ellipticis concavis, staminum phalangiis erecto-patentibus 4—pollicaribus spathulatis, filamentis 15-20. Meratevca Wilsoni, F. Muell. Fragm., vol. ii. p. 124, t. 15; Benth. Fl. Austral., v. iii. p. 134. | This is one of that large class of hard-wooded Australian plants which, if properly cultivated, would ornament our con- servatories and greenhouses at seasons when little else worth looking at meets the eye, but which have almost throughout the country succumbed to the treatment they have received— namely, of watering in season and out of season. The genus to which it belongs contains just one hundred species, scat- tered over all parts of Australia, amongst which are some of the most brilliant-coloured plants of that gay Flora. The present is essentially a dry country species, inhabiting the desert of the Tattiave country, Port Lincoln, &c., in South Australia, as also the country around Lake Hindmarsh in the colony of Victoria. It was raised at Kew from seeds sent by Baron Muller from the Melbourne Botanic Garden, when he was director of that rich botanical establishment ; and was named by him after Mr. Charles Wilson, through whose aid, he states, this very beautiful species was discovered. ' Descr. A slender shrub, glabrous, except the puberulous young branches. eaves close set, spreading, those on the young branches imbricate, one-third to three-quarters of an NOVEMBER Ist, 1874. _inch long, subulate-lanceolate, rigid, quite entire, concave below, obscurely 3-nerved, obtuse or pungent. Fowers crowded, rarely solitary, sometimes forming cylindric spikes, rarely solitary, sessile. Bracts imbricate, membranous, equalling the calyx-tube. Calyx green, tube one-twelfth of an inch long, ovoid, rounded at the base; lobes rather shorter, erect, ovate, subacute. Pefals about twice as long as the calyx- lobes, elliptic, subacute, concave, erect. Bundles of stamens erect, then spreading, half an inch long, bright rose-red ; claw linear-spathulate ; filaments fifteen to twenty. Fruit 3-valved—/J. D. H. Fig. 1, Front and 2, back view of leaf; 3, flower and bract; 4, flower with two calyx-lobes and petals removed, showing the base of two staminal bundles, and the style ; 5, staminal bundle :—all magnified, Tas, 6132; IRIS L2&vicata. 5 ieee - es ‘ “, aoe see : Native of Japan dnd MN. Bastern Asias) = = ee ee Nat. Ord. Irntpacem.—Tribe Ine. Genus Iris, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 266). Iris levigata, ; caule elato obtuse angulato foliato, foliis }—2 poll. latis anguste lineari ensiformibus acuminatis utrinque viridibus costa prominula, scapo 1-2 flore, spathis 2—3-valvibus, valvis inequalibus herbaceis elongato-lanceolatis acuminatis, floribus breviter pedicellatis maximis, pedicello ovario longiore, perianthii tubo crassiusculo segmentis exte- rioribus recurvis magnis late elliptico-ovatis obtusis ecristatis purpureis plaga basi aurea, interioribus parvis erectis conniventibus oblongis acutis, stigmatibus recurvis lineari-oblongis apice 2-lobis et dentatis, Irts levigata, Fisch., ex Turcz. Cat. Baikal, No. 1119; Fisch. et Mey Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop.; Ledeb. Fl. Ross., vol. iv. p. 97; Klatt in Linnea, vol. xxxiv. p. 616; Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amurr., p. 271; A. Gray Bot. Jap., p. 412; Miquel Prol. Fl. Jap., 306. I. Gemelini, Ledeb. comment in Gmel. Fl. Sib. in Deutischer, Bot. Ges. Regensb., vol. iii. p. 48. I. Kempferi, Sieb. ex Lemaire Ill. Hort. t. 157. I. versicolor, Thunb. Fl. Jap., 34 (ex Miquel, l.c.) non Linn. Whether under the indigenous form here figured, or the curious garden form called £ Kempferi var. 7. G. Henderson (Gard. Chron., 1874, p. 45), this beautiful hardy plant is likely to become as great a favourite in England as it is said to be in Japan. It was originally introduced by Von Siebold from Japan, and flowered in Verschaffelt’s establishment at Ghent in 1857, when a very pale variety of it was figured by Lemaire in the “Illustration Horticole.” As it there appeared under the name of J. Kemp/feri of Siebold, I suppose that this latter author identified it with the Sziti or Itz falz of Kempfer (4men. Erot. p. 873), a plant which Kempfer describes as an Iris with large double flowers, and which flowers during many days. Hasskarl (Miguel Protus. p. 306) says that it is the Itsi Katsi of the Japanese. Whatever may be its Japanese name or the history of that of Kampferi, NOVEMBER Ist, 1874. it was no doubt first long previously described from Eastern Asiatic specimens by Fischer as /. /evigata. It is a native of East Siberia from the Baikal and Dahuria to Kamtschatka, the Amur district, and Korea, and it thence extends to the northern parts of Japan. _ Mr. E. G. Henderson’s variety, which I hope to figure soon, 1s a most remarkable and beautiful plant; it is a monstrous state, with six or more equal or unequal spreading perianth segments; for a description of which I must refer to Dr. Masters’s article in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, referred to above. _ The specimen here figured was flowered in May last by G. Maw, F.LS., in his rich garden at Benthall Hall, Shropshire, fromm roots received from Max Leichtlin of Baden Baden; it has also flowered at Kew for several years past. Descr. Stem two to three feet high, slender, obscurely angled. eaves as long, one-half to two-thirds of an inch broad, narrow and slender, acuminate. Scape 1-3-flowered. Spathes two to four inches long, narrowly lanceolate, her- baceous, the outer shorter. lowers three to five inches in diameter, varying from pale to deep red-purple; shortly pe- dicelled ; pedicel shorter than the subterete ovary. Perianth- tube about three-quarters of an inch long; outer segments shortly clawed, broadly ovate-oblong, obtuse, reflexed, not crested, with a bright 3-cuspidate orange spot at the base of the limb; inner segments one to one and a half inches long, of the same purple colour, erect, conniving, sub-acute, oblong-lanceolate. — Stigmas spreading, linear-oblong, with bifid incurved lobes.—/. D. H. ss s Tas. 6133. POLYGONATUM VULGARE var. MACRANTHUM. Native of Japan. . Ld Nat. Ord. Sminacem—Tribe CONVALLARIEZ. on Genus Poryconatum, Tournef. ; (Endl. Gen. Pl., p. 154). PoLyGonatum vulgare ; caule arcuato acuto angulato, foliis alternis breviter petiolatis late ellipticis obtusis v. obtuse acuminatis subtus glaucescentibus 6-nerviis, floribus 1—4, perianthii supra medium subinflati lobis brevi- bus late orbiculato-ovatis viridibus apice obtuse apiculatis et incrassatis, filamentis glabris. Potygonatum vulgare, Desf. ; A. Gray Bot. Jap.; p. 4138. P. officinale, All. ; Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur., 274; Miquel Prol. Fl. Jap., 148. Conva.Laria Polygonatum, Linn. ; Thunb. Fl. Jap., p. 148. Var. macranthum, floribus 1} pollicaribus. I have retained this plant as a variety of P. vulgare with much hesitation, doubting its proving even as a variety dis- tinct from some already described forms of that variable plant. Tt is certainly not the same as Morren and Decaisne’s P. japonicum, which they describe as having short solitary flowers with a campanulate perianth, and which is undoubtedly another form of P. vulgatum, a plant that extends from Western Europe (Norway and Spain) to the Western Hima- laya, North East Asia and Japan, and which I suspect exists in Eastern N. America under one or more forms. The size of the flower is perhaps the most noticeable feature of the plant here figured, though in that it is rivalled by both European and North Asiatic specimens ; the inflation of the corolla above its middle and its slight contraction at the throat are other characters, which however disappear as the corolla withers and its lobes connive. Decaisne and Morren observe that the style exceeds the stamens in their P. japonicum, which is no doubt a sexual difference. In the form of its foliage it agrees best with the N. America P. commutatum, Dietr. and Otto, which has a terete stem. Lastly, having NOVEMBER Isr, 1874. a i all an regard to the variability of the alternate-leaved Polygonatums, it would not surprise me to find that all were referable to two, the P. vulgare with a grooved stem, and P. multiflorum with terete stem. The subject of the present plate has long been cultivated at Kew under the name of P. japonicum, and it flowers in April. Duscr. Rhizomes stout, creeping. Stems one to one and a half feet high; stout, flexuous, green, angled and chan- nelled. Leaves two to three inches long, alternate, subsessile, broadly elliptic, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, light green above, glaucous beneath, 7-nerved, quite glabrous. Flowers one to four; peduncles and pedicels longer or shorter than the perianth, very slender. Perianth one and a quarter inches long, terete, tubular, white, inflated slightly beyond the middle, contracted obscurely at the throat; lobes almost orbicular, with obtuse callous points, spreading, green. Filaments almost as long as the linear anthers, glabrous. Ovary globose ; style filiform.—J. D. H. Fig, 1, Flower laid open :—somewhat magnified. HE , e 6b. | dL debcderibondeden bale ie BE Bed We PNY Tas. 6134. BLUMENBACHIA (CatopHora) ConToRTA. Native of Peru. Nat, Ord. LoasEez. Genus Biumensacnta, Schrad. ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 805). Biumensacuta (Caiophora) contorta; caule volubili pilis urentibus patulis reflexisque hispido, foliis breviter petiolatis triangulari-v.-oblongo-ovatis pinnatifidis laciniis acutis acute inciso-dentatis lobatisve utrinque his- pidis, pedunculis elongatis axillaribus, calycis lobis pinnatifido-lobatis, petalis patentibus, squamis cucullatis, staminodiis falcatis unidentatis, capsula ellipsoideo-oblonga 15 pollicari. Loasa contorta, Lamk. Dict., vol. iii. p. 579; IU. t. 426, f.2; DC. Prodr., vol. iii. p. 840; Juss. in Ann. Mus., vol. v. p. 25, t. 3, £1; Tratt. Archiv, vol. i. p. 17, t. 33. Caropnora contorta, Pres! Relig. Haenk:., vol. ii. p. 42; Walp. Rep., vol. ii. p. 227, and vol. v. p. 781. Although described by Jussieu and (copying him) by Trattinick as having a capsule a foot and a half long, “ sesqul- pedalis,’” I have no doubt but that this is Lamarck s Loasa contorta, which that author describes as having a capsule about two inches long, as indeed it 1s figured by Jussieu. Lamarck’s figure, again, a very indifferent one, represents the . calyx-lobes as entire, though that, author describes them as toothed. Presl, who founded the genus Catophora on De Candolle’s first section of Loasa, proposes besides the @. con- torta, two other species from the Andes of Peru, C. cirsitfolia and carduifolia; but judging from his description and the figures he gives of C@. cirsiifolia, I suspect that they are varieties of C. contorta, which, according to numerous specl- mens preserved in the Kew Herbarium, varies extremely in the breadth and amount of division of the leaves. B. contorta is a native of Peru and Equador, where it ascends to an elevation of 12,000 feet; should it prove as hardy as the charming B. /ateritia (Loasa lateritia, Tab. nost. 3632), it will be a very ornamental wall-plant in most parts NOVEMBER jst, 1874. of England. It is probably, like that plant, a biennial. It was raised from Peruvian seeds by Messrs. Veitch, and flowered in their grounds in July of the present year. Descr. A climber, several feet high, hispid with spreading and recurved stinging bristles and shorter spreading hairs. Leaves shortly petioled, four to six inches long, triangular- oblong or -ovate, pinnatifid to the middle or to near the base, hispid, dark green; lobes few or many, broad or narrow, pinnatifidly lobed or toothed; pale blue-green beneath. Peduncles axillary, as long as or longer than the leaves, stout, hispid. /owers one and a half to two inches in diameter. 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Rezve & Co., 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. FLORAL PLATES, BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED, 6d. AND ls. EACH. New Lists of 600 Varieties, one stamp. L. Reeve & Co., 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. Vincent Brooks Day & San imp. Witch MPM uth Tas. 6135. RHEUM OFFICINALE. Native of Eastern Tibet and Western China. Nat. Ord, Potyconace®.—Tribe PTERYGOCARPA. Genus Rueum, Linn. ; (Meissn., in DC. Prodr., v. xiv. p. 32). Rurvm officinale ; caule brevi robusto diviso apice folioso, foliis amplis or- biculari-ovatis cordatisve villosulis subpalmatim breviter 3-7-lobatis, lobis incisis lobulisque acutis, ochrea obovoidea densum fissa, petiolo robusto pubescente intus haud sulcato, ramis floriferis foliosis panicu- latim ramulosis, panicule erecte ramulis patenti-recurvis, ultimis flori- feris spiciformibus nutantibus densifloris, floribus breviter gracile pedicellatis, pedicello basin versus articulato, perianthii foliolis late oblongis apice rotundatis interioribus paulo majoribus, staminibus 9 inclusis, disco annulari crenulato, stigmatibus orbiculatis, acheenio late oblongo alis membranaceis obscure crenulatis nucleo duplo longioribus et laterioribus. Ruevo officinale, Baillon in Mém. de U' Association Francaise pour vAvance- ment des Sciences, Sept. 1, Bordeaux, 1872, p. 514, t. x. (Translated in Trimen Journ. Bot., 1872, p. 8379); Adansonia, vol. x. p. 246; Car- ridre, Rev. Hortic., 1874, p. 93; Pluck. § Hanbury, Pharmacog., p. 442; Gard. Chron., 1874, v. i. p. 346. According to the evidence hitherto obtained, this grand plant (which is certainly the handsomest of all the Rheuus, except the Himalayan £2. nodile) is that which produces much, if not all the Turkey Rhubarb of the pharmacopata. It isa native of and also cultivated in Eastern and South-eastern Tibet, and was sent thence by the French missionaries to M. Dabry, the French Consul at Hankow. M. Dabry sent plants to M. Soubeiran, Secretary of the J ardin d’Acclimatisation of Paris, where they flowered at Montmorency m 1871. An excellent history of this plant is given in Fluckiger and Hanbury’s “ Pharmacographia,” quoted above, from which it appears not to be certain that the true Turkey rhubarb of commerce is derived exclusively from this plant, though the evidence of the missionaries who discovered it, that it is the main source of that drug, is supported by the fact that there is no important discrepancy between this R. officinale and the DECEMBER. 1st, 1874. imperfect and scanty accounts and figures of the Chinese authors and early French missionaries. From the same work we learn that the drug was known to the Chinese long anterior to the Christian era, and was described in a work dedicated to _ the Emperor Shen-nung, the father of Chinese agriculture and medicine, who lived about 2700 8.c. Also that Marco Polo is the only traveller who has visited the districts yielding rhubarb, in the mountains of one of which (Tangut) he de- scribes it as growing in great abundance ; this, however, is, an error, for an account of it will be found in the Travels of Bell of Antermony (vol. i. p. 384— 387), who found it in Mongolia, growing abundantly near marmot burrows. One of its most remarkable characteristics is its stout very distinct stem, which, and not the root, is considered to be the source of the rhubarb in the view of M. Baillon, and no doubt correctly. The rhubarb plant inhabits a vast area of Eastern Tibet and Western China, abounding in high plateaus, especially in spots enriched by old encampments. The plant here figured was sent to the Royal Gardens by M. Soubeiran, and flowered An June last, both at Kew and at Mr. Hanbury’s garden at Clapham. _Descr. Stem as thick as the arm, four to ten inches high, divided into several leafing and flowering crowns. Leaves one to three feet in diameter, orbicular-ovate or cordate, shal- lowly 3- to 7-lobed, pubescent or subvillous, lobes acute and acutely irregularly toothed ; nerves stout beneath, flabellate ; petiole nearly terete ; ochrea split. /owering-stems two to five feet high, erect, stout, leafy, pubescent, bright-green, pani- culately branched ; branches spreading ; flowering branchlets spreading and drooping , three to five inches long, spiciform, very densely clothed with flowers. Flowers one-quarter inch in diameter, green; pedicels slender, fascicled, jointed near the base. Perianth-segments broadly oblong, rounded at the tips, the inner larger, erect at the edges. Stamens nine, as long as the perianth, hypogynous. Disk thick, annular, ob- securely 3-lobed, crenulate. Stigmas orbicular, peltate. Lruit half an inch long, broadly oblong, emarginate, bright red ; wings longer and broader than the nucleus.—/. D. H. _ Fig. 1, Reduced view of whole plant ; 2, portion of leaf, and 3, of flower- Ing branch, both of the natural size ; 4, flower ; 5, stamen and pistil ; 6, pistil and disk:—all magnified; 7, fruiting branchlet, not seen; 8, fruit:— magnified, Fncent Brooks D Tas, 6136. EPISCTA rotema. ‘Native of New Grenada. Nat. Ord. GrsnerIAceEx.—Tribe BEsLertem. Genus Eprscra, Mart. ; (DC. Prodr., vol. vii. p. 546). Eriscra fulgida ; repens, stolonifera, tota pilis flaccidis villose, foliis cllipticis elliptico-ovatisve subacutis basi rotundatis v. cordatis crenulato- serratis convexis superne bullatim reticulatis, petiolo brevi crassiusculo, floribus solitariis, pedunculo petiolo longiore, sepalis }—3-pollicaribus spathulato-oblongis subserratis, corolle lete lateritim tubo 14-pollicari hirsuto, limbo lobis rotundatis erosis, staminibus ‘inclusis, ovario hirsuto. ee eee -Cyrroperra fulgida, Lind. Cat. No. 90, p. 5; et in L’Illustr, Hortic., t. 131, I have little doubt as to this being the plant described by Linden as Cyrtodeira fulgida, of which the figure in the — “ Tlustration Horticole” is excellent, though in the description — the blade of the leaf is described as scarcely longer than the petiole, and although the leaves want the pale band along the midrib and principal nerves, which render Linden’s form of it so valuable for decorative purposes. It is a very close ally of the Brazilian #. reptans (Mart. Nov. Gen., t. 217) ; but #. fulgidais a much larger plant, and has shorter petioles, and differently shaped sepals, which are not entire ; it also comes from a very different country. Another congener is the Achimenes cupreata Hook. (Tab. nost. 4312), upon which Hanstein (L. v. xxvi. p. 206) founded his genus Cyrtodeira, distinguishing it from Lpiscia by the form and lesser curva- ture of the corolla-tube, a character that does not hold in the various species. Hpiscia fulgida is a native of New Gre- nada, whence it was first introduced by M. Linden. I am indebted to Mr. Williams for the specimen here figured, which flowered in his establishment in July last. Descr. Stem creeping, branched, stoloniferous, as thick as a goose-quill, and, as well as the whole plant, clothed with a soft villous pubescence. Leaves three to five inches long, DECEMBER Ist, 1874. elliptic or elliptic-ovate, acute, crenulate-serrate, convex and bullately reticulated on the upper surface, dark emerald-green, paler along the midrib, inclined to coppery, especially the young ones; petiole stout, about one-eighth the length of the blade. Peduncles axillary, solitary, stout, one to two inches long. Calyx gibbous at the base, one-half to three-quarters inch long, campanulate ; sepals spathulate-oblong, rounded and crenate towards the recurved tips. Corolla bright and almost vermilion-red; tube hirsute, one and a-half inch long, cylindric, nearly straight ; limb one inch in diameter, nearly equal; lobes rounded, irregularly toothed, pubescent towards the throat. Stamens included, filaments very slender ; anthers small, adnate to the large connective. Ovary broadly ovoid, hirsute; gland emarginate—/. D. H. Fig. 1, Cape; 2, corolla laid open; 3, top of stamen; 4 and 5, front and side view of ovary :—all magnified. 3 4 1 613] = Day & Son bap Vincent Brooks Day & Tas, 6137. BOUCEROSIA maroccana. Native of Marocco. Nat. Ord. AscLepiADEH.—Tribe SraPELiE#. Genus Boucerosta, Wight ¢ Arn. ; (Benth. 5: Hook, f. Gen, Plant., vol. ii, ined.). Boucerosta maroccana; ramis tetragonis marginibus angulato sinuatis, foliis trulliformibus acutis, corolle lobis nudis tubo intus hirsuto, corone staminew processubus 5 incurvis gynostegio incumbentibus cum 10 erectis geminatim collateralibus capitatis alternantibus. A near ally of B. Gussoniana (Apteranthes Gussoniana, Tab. nost. 5087), of Algeria, and so like it that I long hesitated before deciding upon figuring and describing it as new; be- sides, however, the differences of habit, which are more easily seen than described, there are so many other differential characters that, taken altogether, it is impossible to unite this with the Algerian plant. The angles of the stem, instead of being faintly undulate, are longitudinally divided into broadly triangular lobes, each tipped with a minute leaf, which instead of being sessile adnate and upceurved, is trowel-shaped, contracted at the base, and usually deflexed. The flowers are fewer, on longer pedicels; the corolla-lobes want the long cilia, being quite naked, and are shorter, not so reflexed, and of a clearer purple, with fewer yellow bars, and the base of the tube inside is densely velvety. But the greatest dif- ference is in the staminal crown, which in B. Gussoniana presents five capitate incurved processes, each with a knob on each side at the base; but in this the five incurved processes are inflexed and incumbent upon the stigma, whilst the lateral knobs are elevated on erect stalks. How far any or all these characters are variable can only be known by a long and careful study. ‘The probability of their proving constant is rendered more probable by the wide. difference of habit of — the two plants, the 4. Gussonana being a native of saline DECEMBER Ist, 1874. situations in Sicily, Spain, and the Algerine coast; whilst A. maroceana inhabits the much lower latitudes of Mogado in Maroceo. Here it was found on the rocky islet of Mogador by Messrs. Maw, Ball, and myself, and also else- where along the coast near the town, and introduced into Kew, where it flowered in July. The genus Apteranthes is merged in Boucerosia (itself pos- sibly referrible to Piaranthus) by Bentham in the forth- coming volume of the Genera Plantarum. Descr. Branches prostrate, six to ten inches long, by about one broad, 4-sided, the sides deeply sunk, the angles cut into broad subtriangular lobes, with an acute sinus, one-half to three-quarter inch long. eaves on the angular summits of the lobes of the stem-angles, one-tenth inch long, trowel- shaped, contracted at the base, ciliolate. Mowers two to six in an umbel, pedicel one-quarter inch long, and subulate calyx-teeth green. Corol/a one-half to two-thirds inch diameter, spreading, 5-lobed to about the middle; lobes triangular, subacute, quite glabrous, pale green outside, dark red-purple within streaked transversely towards the base and around the cup with yellow ; tube densely villous. Crown of 5 inflexed processes that cover the staminal crown, and 10 erect capitate processes in pairs between the inflexed ones. — J.D. A. 5 Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, outside, and 3, inside view of corolla; 4, gynostegium ; 9, pollen-masses :—all magnified. seo NTE Tas. 6138. ON CIDIUM ZEBRINUM. Native of Venezuela. Nat. Ord. OrcnuipE#.—Tribe VANDEA. Genus Oncipium, Swartz ; (Lindl. Fol. Orehid., Oncidium). Oncrpiem (Cyrtochilum) zebrinum ; rhizomate robusto repente, pseudobulbis compressis 4—5-pollicaribus ovato-lanceolatis levibus, foliis 6—9-polli- caribus ensiformi-lanceolatis acuminatis carinatis nervosis, panicula longissima robusta flexuosa, bracteis spathaceis ovato-oblongis obtusis, perianthii foliolis albis rubro-fasciatis, petalis sepalisque conformibus ligulato-oblanceolatis crispato-undulatis, labello parvo e basi dilatato carunculato in laminam recurvam ovatam angustato, columna brevi recurva antice tumida sulcata utrinque apicem versus unidentata. O. zebrinum, Rehb. f. in Seem. Bompland, 1854; Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Oncid. No. 16; Rchb.f. in Gard. Chron., 1872, p. 1555. : Oponroatossum zebrinum, Rchb.f. in Linnea, vol. xxii. p. 849; Lindl, Fol. Orchid. Odontoglossum, No. 40. A very attractive plant from the pure white of the perianth, with its red-purple bars, and the fine gamboge-yellow of the bars of the lip; at least such are the attractions of the variety figured here. But Reichenbach describes a form in which the whole disk of the sepals is violet, and with only one violet spot at the base of each petal. In the length of the panicle it exceeds all other species I have seen growing ; in the specimen here figured it was twelve feet long. Mr. Burbridge, who communicated the plant to me from the garden of Sir William Marriott, of Dover House, Blandford, observes, that the pseudo-bulbs are quite like those of 0. ma- cranthum (Tab. nost. 5743). Oncidium zebrinum has been sent home, living or dried, by various collectors, and was first flowered, according to Pro- fessor Reichenbach, by Mr. Bull, in 1872. Descr. Rhizome stout, creeping, as thick as a goose-quill, with lanceolate brown scarious sheaths about one inch long. Pseudo-bulbs three and a-half to four inches long, by one and DECEMBER Ist, 1874. _ a-half to one and three-quarter inch broad, narrow ovoid, com- pressed, green, grooved when old or dry. Leaves six to nine inches long, between ensiform and lanceolate, acuminate, striated, keeled, deep green, paler beneath. ' Panicle sometimes twelve feet long, peduncle and rachis green, terete, as thick as a crow-quill and upwards, very flexuous but rigid, branches six inches long. Bracts one-half to three-quarter inch long, oblong-lanceolate, brown, dry. Pedicel together with the slender ovary one inch long. Perianth one and a-half to one and three-quarter inch in diameter. Sepals and Petals very similar, narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, or somewhat spa- thulate, waved and crisped, white with violet-red bars from the base to the middle. Zip much smaller than the petals, base broad subquadrate, irregularly thickened and warted, the centre yellow, the edges barred; from this base the lip suddenly contracts into a triangular thick reflexed somewhat concave limb, which is white speckled with dull-red. Column short, tumid, and grooved in part, with a horizontal process on each side at the tip—J. D. H. Fig. 1, View of ovary, column, and lip :—magnified. 6139 Vincent Brooks Day &Sanhmp J. T Moggndge del. Witch jth. Tas. 6139. FUCHSIA PROCUMBENS. Native of New Zealand. Nat. Ord. ONAGRARIEZ. Genus Fucnsta, Linn. ; (Benth. 5° Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. 1, p. 790). Fucnsia procumbens ; elaberrima, prostata, caulibus filiformibus elongatis, foliis longe graciliter petiolatis ovatis v. orbiculato v. cordato-ovatis obtusis obscure sinuato-dentatis inter nervos non reticulatis, floribus solitariis axillaribus erectis, calycis tubo cylindraceo-campanulato basi rotundato non inflato, lobis oblongis obtusis, petalis 0. Fucnsta procumbens, 2. Cunn. in A. Cunn, Bot. Fl. Nov. Zel. in Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. iii. p. 315 Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 421; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zeld., vol. i. p. 573 Handb. New Zeald. Flor., p. 76 and 728 ; Masters in Gard. Chron., Sept. 1874. (Planta 9). F. Kirkii, Hook. f. in Ic. Plant., t. 1083 (Planta ¢ ). This curious little plant, so unlike a Fuehsia in habit and colour of the flower, was discovered in 1834 by Richard Cunningham in the northern Island of New Zealand, on the shores of the east coast, opposite the Cavalhos Islands, grow- ing on the sandy beach, where it has since been gathered by Colenso. It has also been found on the Great Barrier Islands by Mr. Kirk in two localities, both near the sea. This latter I distinguished as F. Kirkii, relymg on the length of the style and large capitate stigma, which I now find evidently a sexual character. I also attributed to the true F. procumbens lanceolate sepals ; in this latter character I now find I was deceived by the Herbarium containing a mixture of specimens of what I take to be a slender variety of F. Colensoi (Handbook of New Zealand Flora, p. 728) with those of F. procumbens. Like all New Zealand plants, the Fuchsias are extraordinarily variable, and the two small — species ( procumbens and Colensoi) are certainly bisexual. Of — the three New Zealand species, J". excorticata and Colensoi have the leaves reticulated between the nerves; the corolla-tube, © inflated at the base, then suddenly contracted and dilated DECEMBER Ist, 1874. again into a funnel-shaped limb, with lanceolate spreading lobes, and have minute petals; whereas /. procumbens has leaves without reticulation, has a cylindric corolla-tube with linear-oblong lobes which are sharply reflexed on the tube ; it has also often shorter petioles than / Colensoi, and is apetalous. /. Colensoi may be divisible into two species; one more robust with the calyx three-quarters of an inch long, the other as slender and trailing as F. procumbens, with the calyx one-third to one-half inch long; but this .can only be deter- mined by studying the plant in all its states : the larger form is possibly only a small state of /. excorticata. F. procumbens was introduced into England by the late Mr. Williams, of Hendon, many years ago; and again by Mr. J. Blackett, of Egham, from whose plant Mr. Burbridge sent me an excellent drawing in August last, in which, however, the flowers are represented as pendulous. About the same time Mr. Kinghorn, of Richmond, brought me a beautiful plant of it, from which the accompanying drawing was made by my very accomplished friend, J. I". Mogeridge, F.L.S., and which is here reproduced by Mr. Fitch. Duscr. Stems filiform, trailing, often many feet long. Leaves one-half to three-quarters of an inch long, ovate or cordate, rarely orbicular, obscurely sinuate-toothed, membranous, pale green above, almost white beneath, not reticulated be- tween the principal nerves ; petiole filiform, longer than the blade. Howers solitary, axillary, erect, pedicels one-fourth to one-half inch long. Calyz-limb longer than the pedicel, cylindric, rounded but not inflated at the base, pale orange- yellow ; lobes spreading, then reflexed on the tube, linear- oblong, obtuse, dark purple, green at the base. Stamens in the male plant on slender filaments; anthers blue; those of the female with short filaments. Ovary ovoid; style in the male plant included with a small stigma, in the female exserted with a large capitate stigma.—/. D. H. Fig, 1, Flower, with corolla laid open :—magnified. INDEX To Vol. XXX. of the Tarrp Series, or Vol. C. of the Work, nanos Thee Page ra 6117 Achillea ageratifolia. 6152 Iris levigata. 6092 Aconitum heterophyllum. 6110 Iris olbiensis. 6087 Arabis blepharophylla. 6118 Iris tectorum. 6079 Bambusa striata. 6116 Kniphofia Rooperi. 6086 Bauhinia natalensis. 6106 Lessertia perennans. 6091 Beschorneria Tonelii, 6126 Lilium maculatum. 6134 Blumenbachia contorta. | 6181 Melaleuca Wilsoni. 6119 Bolbophyllum Dayanum. 6077 Mesembryanthemum trunca- 6137 Boucerosia maroccana. tellum, 6114 Brachysema undulatum. 6088 Nunnezharia geonomeformis. 6123 Brodiza volubilis. 6085 Odontoglossum Roezlii. 6104 Calanthe curculigoides. 6084 Odontoglossum roseum. 6111 Campsidium chilense. 6138 Oncidium zebrinum. 6130 Cerinthe gymnandra. _ 6093 Panax sambucifolius. 6107 Chrysanthemum Catananche. 6129 Passiflora manicata. 6120 Cinnamodendron corticosum, 6122 Pentstemon humilis. 6128 Citrus Aurantium, var. japo- || 6125 Pogonia discolor. nica. 6138 Polygonatum vulgare, *6090 Colchicum Parkinsoni. 6112 Pyrus baccata, 6078 Colchicum speciosum. 6100 Regelia ciliata. 6113 Crinum Moorei. 6135 Rheum officinale. 6103 Crocus cancellatus. 6089 Rhipsalis Houlletii. 6115 Decabelone elegans. 6095 Rhopala Pohlii. 6121 Drosera Whittakerii. 6109 Romanzoffia sitchensis. 6097 Echinocactus Cummingii. 6102 Saxifraga florulenta. 6094 Kpidendrum criniferum. | 6074 Saxifraga peltata. 6098 Epidendrum Lindleyanum. | 6127 Scorzonera undulata. 6136 Episcia fulgida. 6099 Senecio Anteuphorbium. 6108 Erica Chamissonis. | 6101 Senecio Doronicum. 6080 Fagreea zeylanica. | 6082 Stapelia Corderoyi. 6139 Fuchsia procumbens. 6076 Steudnera colocasiefolia, 6081 Gaillardia Amblyodon. 6124 Tacca artocarpifolia. 6105 Grevillea fasciculata. 6075 Xanthorrhea quadrangulata. 6083 Iris Douglasiana, | 6096 Xiphion Sisyrinchium. 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