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KUCALYPTUS CORNUTA. Native of South-Western Australia. Nat. Ord. Mrrracem.—Tribe LEProsPERMEA. Genus Evcatyptus, L’her. ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 707). Evcatyptus cornuta; arbor, ramulis gracilibus pallide rubris, foliis 3-4- _ pollicaribus elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis glauco-viridibus, nervis obliquis intramarginali a margine remoto, pedunculis axillaribus robustis curvis modice a vertice compressis, floribus 6—40 in capitulum subglobosum coherentibus sessilibus receptaculo non immersis, calyce coni¢o-turbinato angulato operculo rubro in rostrum 2—3-pollicare obtusum robustum sensim attenuato, ovarii apice calyce non immerso conico instylum gracilem attenuato, staminibus alabastro non inflexis extimis 3-pollicaribus, fructu turbinato truncato ore non contracto. Kucatyrtus cornuta, Labill. Voy., vol. i. p. 403, t. 26; DC. Prodr., vol. iii. p. 216; Schauer in Plant. Preiss., vol. i. p. 127; F. Muell. Fragment., vol. ii. p. 39, excl. syn.; Benth. Fl. Austral., vol. iii. p. 234. Amongst the wonderful forms of Australian vegetation this is not the least striking, whether from its singular _ Structure or the colouring of its inflorescence. It is a native of South-Western Australia, where it was discovered by. Labillardiére in the beginning of the century; and from whence numerous dried specimens are in the Kew Herbarium, from Cunningham, Drummond, Oldfield, Harvey, and others, col- lected from King George’s Sound eastward to Cape Riche. It is the “ Yeit” of the colonists, and, according to Oldfield’s notes, it must be a very variable tree, as he describes some specimens as from trees 10 feet high, others from trees 30 to 40 feet high, and others still from trees of 80 to 100 feet high. The bark he describes as rough, hard, persistent, and light brown in the larger trees ; as black, and half fibrous in others; and as smooth in the smaller trees. At Kew, where two specimens are cultivated in tubs in the south octagon of the temperate house, it forms a slender tree, JANUARY Ist, 1875. about nine feet high, with smooth bark and _ spreading branches, as represented in the figure. Lucalyptus cornuta was raised at Kew, from seed sent by Drummond many years ago, and flowers annually in about June from the old wood. The flower-heads and flowers of the cultivated plant are more than twice as large as those of any wild specimen in the Herbarium. Descr. A small or large slender tree, with a bushy crown ; branchlets slender, hardly drooping, red. Leaves three to “four inches long, alternate, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, ~ acuminate, narrowed into a short red petiole ; nerves obscure, oblique, the intra-marginal remote from the margin. Mowers six to forty, in a globose head four to six inches in diameter (including the operculum), closely cohering by their calyces, but not connate or sunk in the receptacle ; peduncle very stout, curved, two inches long, compressed horizontally. Calyz half an inch long, green, turbinate, angled ; operculum one to one and a half inches long, conical at the base, narrowed into a stout obtuse curved beak, bright red. Stamens forming a dense corona, three inches long, the inner shorter, filaments flaccid, yellow; anthers linear-oblong, cells parallel. Ti of ovary conical, not sunk below the margin of the calyx- tube, narrowed into a slender curved style. Head of fruit often three inches in diameter.—/. D. H. Fig. 1, Reduced view of tree; 2, branch, leaves, and inflorescence ; 3, calyx and ovary :—of the natural size. Mucekn D vincent. brooks Day & Son inp. Tas, 6141, CROCUS ByzanTINUS, Native of Transylvania and the Banat, Nat. Ord. IrnmrEa,—Tribe Ixin@. Genus Crocus, Tourn.; (Klatt in Linnea, vol. xxxiv. p. 674). _ Crocus byzantinus; cormo parvo depresso-globoso, rete e fibris longitudi« nalibus gracilibus dense intertextis in vaginam foliorum basim cingentem producto, foliis 3-4 vernalibus }-poll. latis, floribus autumnalibus soli- tariis, perianthii tubo 4~—6-pollicari ad medium vaginis albis tecto, limbo 3-34 poll. diam. pallide purpureo v, lilacino, foliolis ellipticis _ acutis, interioribus pallidioribus v. albis dimidio minoribus, antheris flavis filamentis longioribus, stigmatibus purpureis apice capillaceo- 7-10-fidis, Crocus byzantinus, Ker in Bot. Mag., sub tab. 1111; Herbert in Bot. Reg. 1847, t. 4, f. 5; et in Journ. Hort. Soc., vol. ii. p. 269; Baker in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 1633. C. banaticus, Gay in Bull. Feruss., vol. xv. p. 220, non Heuffel. C. speciosus, Reichb. Pl. Crit., t. 1267-8, non M. Bieb. C. iridiflorus, Heuf’. Qister. Bot. Wochenb. 1857, p. 222; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ., vol. ix. t. 861, f. 802-3. C. Hubertianus, Kernike in Walp, Ann., vol. vi. p. 37. Crociris iridiflora, Schur. Sert. 1853, p. 73. Crocum montanum, Clus, Hist., vol. i. p. 209. Crocus byzantinus argenteus, Parkins. Par. p. 168, t. 169, f. 3. A late autumnal species of Crocus, remarkable for its acute perianth segments, and the small size of the three interior of these. Its synonymy is numerous and intricate, and for this I am indebted to Mr. Baker’s valuable paper on Croci in the Gardeners’ Chronicle. It is one of the eailiest introduced of the exotic species, being figured by Clusius in the very com- mencement of the seventeenth century (1601), from whom the specific name dyzantinus is adopted, he having received it from Constantinople, where however it is unknown to JANUARY IsT, 1875. Griesbach, who enumerates it amongst the “Croci inqui- rendi” in his “Spicilegium Flore Rumelice et Bithynice.” Crocus byzantinus has long been in cultivation at Kew and elsewhere, and the drawing was made partly from specimens communicated by Major Trevor Clarke, and partly from others that flowered in Kew in November last. Descr. Corm three quarters to one anda quarter inches in diameter, depressed-globose, clothed with a light brown net- work of longitudinally interlaced fibres, that extends in a sheath for a short way round the base of the leaves, and some- times also up the flowering-scape. Leaves three to four, pro- duced in spring, dark green, one-third of an inch in diameter, with a central yellow rib towards the base only. Sheaths on the scape closed, white, reaching to about halfway between the flower and corm. Perianth-tube slender, white ; limb three to three and a half inches in diameter, lilac- purple; segments elliptic-ovate, acuminate, very concave, the inner not half as large as the outer, sometimes white. - Stamens included ; anthers yellow, longer than the filaments. Stigmas purple, split at the top into from seven to ten slender segments.—/. D. H. Fig. 1, Portion of sheath of corm; 2, stigmas :—both magnified, Witch, de] et hth Tas. 6142. JAMESIA americana. Native of The Rocky Mountains. Nat, Ord. Saxirragea.—Tribe HypRance. Genus Jamesia, Torr. and Gray ;—(Benth. § Hook.f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p- 643). - JAMESIA americana ; ramulis junioribus petiolis foliis subtus et inflorescentia laxe villosis, foliis ovatis obtusis crenato-dentatis supra glabris, pani- culis brevibus terminalibus basi foliosis, calycis lobis rotundatis, petalis oblongis, JAMESIA americana, Torr. J Gray Flor. N. Am., vol. ii. p. 593; Walp. Ann., vol. ii. p. 614; A. Gray Plant. Fendl., p- 55 in nota ; Carriére in Rev. Hortic., October, 1874, p. 389 cum ic xylog. £ First described from imperfect. specimens by Torrey and Gray, in 1540, and named by them “ in commemoration of the scientific services of Dr. Edwin James, its worthy discoverer, the botanist and historian of Major Long’s expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1820, and who during the journey made an excellent collection of plants under the most unfavourable circumstances.” Those were the days when every traveller in the Rocky Mountains carried his life in his hand, and when to hold it fast required the subtlety of the savage, plus the pluck of the white man. Little was known of this plant _ for many subsequent years, not until it was gathered by Fendler in 1847, and after another long interval by ©. C. Parry, in 1861, in the very spot where James had discovered it—namely, the head-waters of Clear Creek, and on Alpine ridges east of Middle Park, in the Colorado territory, lat. 40° N. Considering the numerous collections that have been made in other parts of the Rocky Mountains, and that do not contain the Jamesia, it is evident that it is a very rare and local plant. Though so much more like a Rosaceous plant in habit and inflorescence, Jamesia is truly saxifragaceous, and closely JANUARY Ist, 1875. allied to Hydrangea ; it is quite hardy, and was raised at Kew about twelve years ago, from seed received, I believe, from Dr. Asa Gray, where, however, it has not flowered. For the plant here figured I am indebted to the Rev. Mr. Ellacombe, of Bitton, near Bristol, who flowered it in October last. Descr. A branching shrub; branches opposite, covered with a loose, papery bark ; branchlets, petioles, leaves beneath, and inflorescence clothed with soft villous pubescence. Leaves opposite, petioled, one to two inches long, ovate, obtuse, crenate-toothed, glabrous, but not shining above, with im- pressed veins; petiole one-quarter to one-third inch long. Cymes terminal, erect, shortly pyramidal, many-flowered, the lower branches leafy at the base. //owers half an inch diameter ; white, pedicels one-sixth inch long. Calyx villous, tur- binate, 5-lobed, lobes rounded or broadly ovate, acute, white. Petals 5, spreading, oblong, obtuse. Stamens 10, the alter- nate shorter; filaments linear, flattened; anthers broadly oblong. Ovary conical; styles 3-5, stout, erect, stigmas subcapitate.—/. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, the same, with the petals removed ; 3, long and short stamens; 4, ovary :—all magnified. Tas. 6143. BLUMEN BACHIA cuHvugQuiTENsIs. . Native of Peru, Nat, Ord. Loasez. Genus Biumensacuta, Schrad.; (Benth. 5° Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vo'. i. p. 805). BLUMENBACHIA chuquitensis; setis urentibus elongatis laxe conspersa, caule erecto v. subvolubile robusto folioso ramoso, foliis longe petiolatis oblongis v. oblongo-lanccolatis pinnatitidis basi pinnatis, foliolis segmen- tisve ovatis pinnatifido-lobatis subtus dense pubescentibus, pedunculis erectis foliis brevioribus 1-floris, floribus 14-8 poll. diam. 5—10-meris, sepalis crenato-lobulatis, capsula globoso-turbinata. Loasa chuquitensis, Meyen, reise um den Erde, vol. i. p. 483 in note. Walp. in Nov. Act. Acad., vol, xix. Suppl. 1, p. 339; Rep. vol. v. p. 780. A handsome Peruvian herbaceous plant, allied to the Chilian B. coronata (Caiophora coronata, Hook. & Arn.; see Haage & Schmidt in Revue Hortic. 1874, p. 58), but differing wholly in habit, this having a stout erect, or suberect and leafy stem, with the petioles and axillary peduncles shorter than the leaf-blade, and B. coronata being a tufted plant, with a short procumbent stem, very slender petioles much longer than the blade, and long scape-like peduncles rising from the ground. These two species are indeed so closely allied, that I was at first disposed to regard B. chuguitensis as an overgrown, erect, robust-branched specimen of the Chilian plant, with hypertrophied flowers; but besides the differences alluded to, this has much more entire sepals, and comes from much further north in the Andes. It was imported from Peru by Messrs. Veitch in 1863, through their collector, Mr. Pearce, and there are indigenous specimens 1n the Kew Herbarium, collected by Lechler in Peru, at San Antonio— a place I do not find in the maps. The capsule is slightly twisted when quite ripe, thus showing a passage from Blu- menbachia to Caiophora, genera that are united in the _ daNuARY Ist, 1875. Genera Plantarum. The number of petals varies in the cultivated state from 5 to 10, but all are quite symmetrical. B. chuquitensis flowered in Messrs. Veitch’s establishment in September, and is quite hardy. (When first sent to view to be named, in 1865, it was supposed to be the C. coronata, under which name Mr. Veitch tells me that he has conse- quently distributed it.) - Descr. Whole plant laxly clothed with spreading shining stinging hairs, one-fifth of an inch long, also more or less stellately pubescent, especially upon the leaves beneath. Stem stout, erect, straight or flexuous, perhaps twining when full-grown, leafy. Leaves, including the petiole, eight to ten inches long; blade oblong-lanceolate, longer than the petiole, pinnatifid, the lower segments free, all ovate, irregularly pinnatifidly lobed, recurved, concave beneath. Peduncles axillary, two to four inches long. /owers one and a half to two inches in diameter, brick-red, with five to ten petals. Calyx turbinate ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, recurved, lobulate. Petals boat-shaped, rounded at the tip, setose at the back, bright brick-red, with yellow inside and on the outer margin on either side the tip. Scales cup-shaped, with three dorsal and two interior appendages. Capsule one and a half inches long, globosely turbinate, Dannie, slightly twisted when mature.—J. D. HH. Fig. 1, Scale and appendage :—magnified. 6144. Fag aPTRRNTO VincentBrovksDay& Son imp MEG Wugley, del W Fitch lith Tas. 6144, ODONTOGLOSSUM MAXILLARE. Native of Mexico. Nat. Ord. OrcnoipE®.—Tribe VANDE. Genus Opontociossum, H. B. § K.; (Lindl. Fol. Orchid, Odontoglossum). ODONTOGLOssuM mawillare ; pseudobulbis anguste oblongis 3-pollicaribus, foliis lineari-lanceolatis subacutis carinatis, pedunculo brevi cum racemo 4—6-flore folio breviore nutante, bracteis membranaceis pedicello eequilongis, floribus 14—2-poll. diam., sepalis lanceolatis aristato-acumi- natis albis basi macula fusco-rubra notatis, petalis equilongis latioribus oblongis apiculatis albis basi purpureo-maculatis, labello parvo breviter unguiculato 3-lobo inter lobos laterales parvos retrorsum auctatos 2- calloso, lobo intermedio multo majore trulliformi recurvo margine undulato albo, disco basim versus macula 2-loba aurantiaca notato, columna brevi aptera. OponToGLossuM makxillare, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub tab. 62; Fol. Orchid. Odontoglossum, no. 23; Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann., vol. vi. p. 834; Lemaire Ill. Hortic. t. 200. ’ Dr. Lindley first described this beautiful plant under the name it bears, from a single flower procured from Mr. C. B. ‘Warner in 1847. Its native county was then unknown; but from its resemblance to O. Cervantesii and other species of Mexico, it was supposed, correctly as it has proved, to come from that country. A reference to Lindley’s figure of O. Cervantesii (Bot. Reg., 1845, t. 36) shows that O. Mazillare is indeed closely allied to that plant, but differs essentially in the much longer oblong pseudobulbs, less petioled leaves, nar- rower sepals, much shorter wingless column, obtuse anther- case, different shaped lip, and in the colouring of the whole flower. Tam indebted to Messrs. Veitch for the use of a beautiful oil- painting of this plant by Mrs. E. G. Wrigley, from which the engraving here given has been made; the specimen which accompanied it was flowered by Mr. Wrigley at Broadoaks, JANUARY Ist, 1875. Bury, Lancashire, in November last, and was procured from Messrs. Veitch, who obtained it from Roezl. Descr. Pseudobulbs about three inches long, narrowly ob- long, much compressed, pale green. Jeaves five to seven inches long, narrowly lanceolate, acute, keeled, hardly petioled. Racemes 4-6-flowered, inclined, together with the rather stout peduncle shorter than the leaves. Bracts slender, membra- nous, brown; pedicel together with the ovary one and a half inches long, slender. Perianth nearly two inches in diameter. Sepals lanceolate, aristately acuminate, white, with a red- brown lobed spot at the base. Petals broader than the sepals, oblong, apiculate, with a livid purple-brown blotch at the base. Jip much smaller than the petals, recurved, claw short, hollowed ; lateral lobes small, forming two recurved acute appendages to the claw; mid-lobe trowel-shaped, acu- minate,-with waved or crisped margins, white, with a broad 2-lobed orange blotch on the disk towards the base, behind which are two obtuse yellowish calli. Column very short, not winged ; anther-case obtuse.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower, with sepals and petals removed; 2, front view of column and lip :—magnified. 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A Genus of the Vandeous section of Orchidaceous Plants. F.R.S., F L.S., Author of ** The Orchidacee of Mexico ‘By James Batemay, and Guatemala.” L. Reeve & Co., 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. ££ v 6/4 an ( /ecosaae rr ay Tas. 6145. EPIDEN DRUM SYRINGOTHYRSIS. Native of Bolivia. Nat. Ord. OrcuipEz.—Tribe Epmenpre&. Genus Eprpenprum, Linn. ; (Lindl. Fol. Orchid., part 2, p. 1). Epipenprum (amphiglottium) syringothyrsis ; caulibus 4-pedalibus suberectis gracilibus fasciculatis foliosis, foliis alternis distichis e basi vaginante viridi elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis recurvis coriaceis dorso carinatis lete viridibus, pedunculo spatha oblonga acuta brunnea vaginata ra- chique valido purpureis, racemo magno ovoideo densifloro nutante, flori- bus horizontalibus fusco-purpureis, bracteis parvis subulatis, pedicellis cum ovario 1—14-pollicaribus gracilibus, perianthio 1 poll. diam., sepalis elliptico-lanceolatis subacutis, petalis «equilongis linearibus, labello ad apicem columne sessili parvo ad medium trilobo, lobis lateralibus subquadrato-rotundatis integris, intermedio minore subquadrato trun- cato apiculato, disco albo callis 3 lamelliformibus, columna clavata exa- lata utrinque juxta foveam biloba purpurea. EPIDENDRUM syringothyrsis, Reichb. f. mss. A very tall and handsome species, which flowered in Mr. Veitch’s fine Orchid collection in May, 1868, and again with a larger raceme than that here figured in the same month of ' the following year. It is a native of Bolivia, where it was collected, in 1866, by Messrs. Veitch’s collector, the late Mr. Pearce, and is evidently a member of the immense section to which F. evectum (Tab. nost. 5902) belongs, and of which the type is the long known YL. elongatum, Jacq. (Tab. nost. 611), which latter is one of the earliest cultivated tropical Orchids. From all its congeners that are known to me, it differs in the great size of the dense-flowered raceme, which, from its general resemblance to that of the Lilac in form and colour, has sug- gested to Professor Reichenbach, the specific name of syringo- . thyrsis. Its nearest ally is . porphyreum, Lindl., a native of Peru, which has a panicled inflorescence. Though long known under the name given above, no description of it has hitherto appeared. I have, however, confirmed the name by application to my friend Dr. Reichenbach, who at once for- FEBRUARY lst, 1875. warded me a description. Dr. Reichenbach further informs me, that he has native specimens gathered in 1845 by Mandon in the Province of Laruaja, near Sorata, at eleva- tions of 7-8000 feet. Descr. Stems tufted, about four feet high, slender, erect, or inclined, leafy, terete ; internodes one to two inches long. Leaves numerous, distichous, alternate ; sheath green, cylin- dric, three to four inches long; blade six to seven inches long, recurved, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled beneath, faintly nerved, deep green above, paler beneath. Peduncle shorter than the raceme, stout, terete, clothed with brown lax sheathing bracts, and as well as the rachis dark red- brown ; rachis stout, grooved, Panicle five to seven inches long by four broad, inclined, broadly ovoid, obtuse, dense- flowered. Flowers very numerous, horizontal; bracts small, subulate. Pedicel and ovary together one to one and a half inches long, slender and as well as the perianth dull red- purple. Perianth one inch in diameter. Sepals spreading horizontally, elliptic-lanceolate or rather broader upwards, acute. Petals as long, but narrower. Lip sessile at the end of the column, small, 3-lobed, lateral lobes quadrate with rounded angles, quite entire; midlobe smaller, quadrate, with an apiculus at the truncate apex; disk white with three tumid yellow calli. Column clavate, not winged.— Geter’ Fig. 1, Reduced view of plant; 2, portion of stem, and a panicle :—of the natural size ; 3, column and lip :—magnified. ONG Vincent Brooks Day & Sat! Tas. 6146. LILIUM canapEnst, VAR. PARVUM. Native of California. Nat. Ord. LitraceE&,—Tribe TuLirez, Genus Lizium, Linn. ; (Baker in Gard. Chron., 1871). Litium canadense, var. parvum; caule gracili stricto glabro 1-13 pedali, ‘ + foliis sparsis’ et verticillatis 14-2 pollicaribus oblongo- v. obovato-lan- ceolatis obtusis v. subacutis 1-—3-nerviis subundulatis , marginibus scaberulis glabris, floribus parvis laxe subcorymbosis nutantibus longe gracile pedicellatis, pedicellis erectis ebracteatis, perianthio tubuloso- campanulato flavo-aurantiaco, foliolis supra medium patenti-recurvis oblanceolatis subacutis medium versus purpureo-maculatis, exterioribus paulo angustioribus, staminibus perianthio brevioribus, antheris majus- culis flavis, stigmate capitato integro. s 3 +48 L. canadense var. parvum, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xiv. p. 241. L. parvum, Kellog. in Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sc., vol. ii. p. 179, t. 12; hegel Gartenji., vol. xxi. p. 163, t. 725; Duchart. Obs. 98. I follow Mr. Baker’s comprehensive account of the genus Lilium, published in the “ Journal of the Linnzan Society,” in referring this pretty Western American plant toa form of the Eastern American Z. canadense, though before being con- vinced of their identity, I should like to have more knowledge of the fruit of the two plants than I have the materials to ob- tain. The fruit of LZ. canadense is linear-oblong, nearly an inch long in its largest state; that of a small specimen of L. parvum from Scott's Mountains, near the 42nd parallel, collected by Lyall, is subspherical in outline, truncate at the top, and about half an inch in diameter. Lastly, Regel in the Garten- flora describes the margins of the outer perianth segments of Z. parvum as densely puberulous, which is not the case in the specimens before me. : The variety parvum inhabits a wide range of the mountains of Western America from British Columbia southwards, and appears to vary extraordinarily in stature and in the size of all its parts. The form here represented, was sent for FEBRUARY IsT, 1875. figuring from the fine collection of Messrs. Barr and Sugden, with whom it flowered in June of last year. Drscr. Bulb globose, of many fleshy narrow acute scales. Stem a foot to a foot and a half high, slender, erect, terete, quite glabrous. Leaves scattered or whorled or both on the same stem, one and a half to two inches long, sessile, ob- lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, glabrous with minutely roughened margins, undulate, obscurely 3-nerved, pale green, upper gradually smaller. /V/owers laxly corymbose, drooping ; pedicels three to four inches long, very slender, suberect, ebracteate. Perianth one to one and a quarter inches long, narrowly campanulate, bright orange-red with the tube greenish externally. Perianth-segments oblanceolate, spreading and recurved for the upper third, spotted with dark red-purple about the throat, subacute, the outer rather narrower, quite glabrous. Stamens shorter than the perianth, filaments slender ; anthers rather large, yellow. Ovary ob- long; style stout clavate, stigma capitate entire—/J. D. H. Fig. 1, Inner, and 2, outer, perianth segments :—magnified. W-Fitch del ct hth Vincent: Brooks Day&San imp. Tas. 6147. VERONICA pineurroura. Native of New Zealand. Nat. Ord. ScropHuLarIngex#.—T'ribe VERONICES. Genus Veronica, Linn. ; (Benth. in DC. Prodr., vol. x. p. 458). Veronica (Decussate) pinguifolia ; fruticulus glaberrimus robustus ramosus . glaucus, ramis oppositis v, suboppositis crebre cicatricatis erectis v. decumbentibus, ramulis puberulis, foliis imbricatis sessilibus erecto- patentibus obovatis v. obovato-oblongis obtusis integerrimis crasse coriaceis concavis enerviis, costa obscura subtus ecarinata, spicis con- fertis axillaribus et subterminalibus brevibus subglobosis densifloris pubescenti-pilosis, floribus sessilibus, bracteis coriaceis ciliatis, sepalis oblongis obtusis puberulis ciliatis, floribus albis, capsula obovato- oblonga obtusa compressa emarginata. V. pinguifolia, Hook. f. Handbook of New Zeal. Flora, p. 210. The shrubby Veronicas of New Zealand are a prevailing feature throughout the islands, at all elevations, and in almost all situations. Upwards of thirty species have been discovered, including some of remarkable beauty, of which /. speciosa (Tab. nost. 4057) and V. salicifolia, with their numerous varieties and hybrids, are the only ones well known in cultivation, except the less attractive V. edliptica (V. decussata, Ait., Tab. nost. 242), one of the earliest cultivated greenhouse shrubs of the Southern Hemisphere, and which inhabits New Zealand, Terra del Fuego, and the Falkland Islands. Amongst the least conspicuous of this group is the present plant, which is a native of considerable elevations (3000-5000 ft.) in the Nelson and Canterbury provinces of middle Island of New Zealand. V. pinguifolia has been cultivated for several years both at Kew, and in Mr. Isaac Anderson Henry’s garden near Edin- burgh, where it was first raised from seed. It has stood in the open air throughout the winter without protection at Kew, and flowers in midsummer. It is very closely allied to FEBRUARY Ist, 1875. V. carnosula, another New Zealand species, distinguished by its acute glabrous capsule. Drscr. A stout erect or subprostrate woody shrub, four inches to four feet high; branches closely covered with leaf scars, the branchlets pubescent. eaves one-sixth to one-half of an inch long, closely imbricate, erecto-patent, sessile, very thick and coriaceous, glaucous, obovate-oblong, obtuse, quite entire, nerveless,not keeled, midrib very obscure. lowers one-third of an inch in diameter, in almost globose crowded axillary and subterminal dense-flowered spikes, quite sessile, white. Bracts as long as the calyx, convex, oblong, obtuse, ciliate, deciduous. Sepals oblong, obtuse, ciliate and pubescent. Corolla-tube equalling the calyx, lobes broadly ovate with rounded tips, veinless, the lower lobe half the size of the others, and more contracted at the base. Filaments not exceeding the corolla; anthers blue. Ovary pubescent ; capsule obvate-oblong, emarginate, compressed, pubescent, as long as, or twice as long as the calyx.— J. D. H. Fig. 1, Side view of flower ; 2, corolla and stamen ; 3, calyx and capsule : —all magnified. cent Brooks Day & Son imp. Vin Tas, 6148. FOURCROYA Szttoa. Native of Guatemala. Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEH.—Tribe AGAVE. Genus Fourcrora, Vent. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 181). Fourcroya Selloa ; caudice brevi robusto, foliis perplurimis dense confertis undique patentibus strictis 3-pedalibus carnoso-fibrosis anguste ensi- formi-lanceolatis supra basim angustatis attenuato-acuminatis margine remote spinosis, spinis incurvis mucroneque terminali tenui deciduo castaneis, utrinque supra basim subcarinatis, subtus asperis secus costam basim versus remote spinosis, scapo 15-20 pedali stricto remote bracteato, panicule ample laxe ramis erecto-patentibus, bracteis parvis ovato-lanceolatis viridibus, floribus pendulis 2-24 poll. diam. breviter pedicellatis, ovario parvo anguste oblongo, perianthii foliolis oblongis obtusis dorso fere albis intus viridibus late albo-marginatis, filamentis Giengelatr era perianthio multoties brevioribus, antheris parvis avis. F. Selloa, K. Koch in Wochenschrift, 8 jahrg., P- 22; Jacobi in Hamburg Garten Zeit., vol. xxii. p. 408, The plant here figured was named as above by General Jacobi on his visit to Kew some years ago (in 1865, I think). It is described in his monograph of the genus published in Otto’s Gartenflora in 1866 ; as also previously by Karl Koch, but from foliage only. Iam not aware that it has flowered anywhere but at Kew, where two individuals in the spring of last year sent up flowering scapes, which pushing rapidly upwards, were allowed to protrude through the roof of the Suc- culent House, and expanded in magnificent panicles in Sep- tember. They continued flowering till N ovember, and formed bulbils in the branches of the panicle as well as flowers. At the same time, three other fine plants of the same class flowered in the same house, and required exit through the roof—namely, Ayave americana and two specimens of Dasy- lirium acrotrichum. F. Selloa is a native of Guatemala, and has long been FEBRUARY Ist, 1875. cultivated at Kew, where it was received from the Con- tinental gardens. Descr. Trunk one foot high, clothed with brown remains of old leaves. Leaves forming a nearly-rounded coma six feet in diameter, spreading on all sides, straight, rigid, bright green, narrowly lanceolate-ensiform, contracted above the base, gradually narrowed into a long, pungent, deciduous, chestnut-brown spine; margin with remote, incurved, horny, chestnut spines, a quarter of aninch long; upper surface con- cave and granular, convex and almost keeled at the con- tracted part; lower surface rough, with close set points, convex, raised along the miiddle line towards the base and there armed with a few spines. Scape fifteen to twenty feet high, slender, strict, green, with a few small sub-erect lan- ceolate-subulate bracts. Panicle four to six feet high, spread- ing, laxly branched; branches slender, erecto-patent, lax- flowered. Bracts at the bases of branches small, green. Flowers two inches in diameter, rather crowded on short branchlets, drooping, very shortly pedicelled; bracteoles small, green, subulate. Ovary oblong, half an inch long. Perianth-segments equal, elliptic-oblong, rounded at the apex, spreading and incurved, almost white externally ; internally green, with a broad white margin. Stamens about one-third the length of the perianth. i/aments fleshy, triangular- subulate, greenish white; anthers small, yellow. Style subulate. Fig. 1, Whole plant, reduced ; 2, leaf, reduced ; 3, portion of leaf; and 4, of panicle :—of the natural size. 6449 3 mn bs 4 3 oa i = Vincent Brooks Day &San, inp TAB. 6149. SENECIO macroauossvs. Native of South Africa. Nat. Ord. Composirm.—Tribe SENECIONIDEA. Genus Senecio, Linn. ; (Benth. 5 Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. ii. p. 446). SENECIO macroglossus ; alte scandens, glaberrimus, lucidus, caule volubili cylindraceo tereti, foliis petiolatis triangulari-hastatis acutis, lobis late- ralibus simplicibus dentatis v. pauci-lobulatis acuminatis, pedunculis axillaribus et terminalibus 1-flores gracilibus elongatis pauci-bracteatis, involueri squamis lineari-oblongis acuminatis, exterioribus patentibus apicibus non sphacelatis, quam interioribus erectis conniventibus equilongis angustioribus, floribus radii 8-12, ligulis pollicaribus late elliptico-oblongis apice minute 3-dentatis, disci ad 40, pappi setis gra- cilibus albis, achenio cylindrico glabro multistriato. S. macroglossus, DC. Prodr., vol, vii. p. 404; Harv. § Sond. Fl. Cap., | vol. li. p. 408. ; A remarkably handsome plant, and one fitted for dwelling- room culture, its Ivy-like glossy leaves being evergreen, its large flowers produced in mid-winter, and its habit well adapted for a trelliswork. I have indeed heard of either this or an allied species being cultivated in drawing-rooms abroad, and trained round the walls beneath the ceiling. Like most Cape plants, it wants very careful watering and plenty of fresh air. It is the largest flowered species of the enormous genus to which it belongs, and which contains nearly one thousand species, and the flowers remain for a considerable period in_ perfection. According to the Flora Capensis, S. macroglossus extends from the Keiskamma river (west of Algoa Bay) to Natal, but the only specimen we have that precisely agrees with the cultivated plant was collected by Mr. Sanderson on the Palmiet river, immediately to the east of Table Bay in the Western Cape district. The specimen figured is from a plant cultivated in the Succulent House at Kew, where it is trained upon one of the rafters, and forms a very ornamental feature, blossoming at FEBRUARY 1st, 1875. Christmas ; it was raised from seed sent by Mr. Sanderson in 1868. , Descr. Quite glabrous, lucid, shining. Sfems slender, twining, climbing trees for many feet, cylindric, terete, red- brown below; branches green. Leaves alternate, petioled, one and a half to two and a half inches in diameter, triangular, acute or acuminate with acuminate simple lobed or toothed lateral lobes, base deeply cordate with a narrow sinus, dark glossy-green above, pale beneath, rather fleshy, nerves palmate as in the Ivy. Peduncles terminal and axillary, three to five inches long, slender, green, naked or with a few scattered subulate green bracts. Heads two and a half inches across. nvolucre one inch long; outer scales or bracteoles spreading and incurved, narrow linear, acumi- nate, as long as the inner, which are broader, acute, erect, and connivent into a cylinder, tips of all green. Ray-jlowers eight to twelve, very large; limb one and a half inches long, elliptic, pale yellow, with three minute blunt teeth at the much contracted tip ; disk-flowers about forty, small. Pappus of fine soft hairs. Achene slender, terete, striate-—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Ray-; and 2, disk-flowers :—both magnified. 6150 +E YINCEL Tas. 6150. ERYTHROTIS Beppomer. Native of Malabar. Nat. Ord. ComMMELYNEA. Genus Novum, Eryturotis, Hook. f. Cuar. Gen. Sepala 3, equalia, libera, Petala 8, equalia, libera, orbiculata, membranacea, obscure unguiculata. Stamina 6, omnia fertilia et wqualia, filamentis filiformibus supra medium longe barbatis; anthe- rarum loculis connectivum marginantibus, superne divergentibus. Ovarium 3-loculare ; stylus filiformis, glaberrimus, apice non incras- satus, stigmate punctiformi; ovula in loculis 2, superposita, superiore adscendente, inferiore pendulo. Capsula . . . .—Herba Malabarica, prostrata, villosa. Folia carnosula, disticha, subimbricata, ovato-cordata, acuta. Flores parvi, rubri, ad apices ramulorum breviter racemosi, pedicellis brevibus geminis unibracteatis. A singularly beautiful little plant, and one easy of cul tiva- tion, discovered by Col. Beddome, F.L.S., on dry bare rocks, at an elevation of 38-4000 feet, in the Myhendra mountains of South Travancor, from whence he sent seeds to Kew, where plants raised from which flowered in December last. It appears to me to be a new genus, closely allied to Cyanotis, but differing in its prostrate habit, inflorescence, the arrange- ment of the bracts, perfectly free sepals, and filiform style, without an inflation below the stigma. The filaments are quite those of Cyanotis; and it is remarkable that whilst the calyx and corolla are red, the beards of the filaments are bright blue (as in Cyanotis). The brilliant colouring of the under surface of the leaves is a very unusual character in the group of Commelynee, to which itis most allied. Erythrotis Beddomei is a stove plant, but well adapted for a warm conservatory during summer, when it may be trained over the pots and made very ornamental ; the colouring of the under surface of the leaves is however very variable, and pales much in winter. : Descr. Whole plant villous, with spreading hairs that turn brown in drying. Branches starting from a primary stout erect shoot with lanceolate large spreading leaves, three to six inches FEBRUARY Ist, 1875. long, spreading from the root, appressed (except at their up- turned tips) to the ground, stout, densely leafy. Leaves one to one and one-half inches long, rather fleshy, translucent, close-set, imbricating, distichous, spreading horizontally, ovate-cordate, acute, sessile on their sheaths, green and convex above with recurved purple tips, margins recurved, bright red ‘beneath; nerves seven to nine, obscure; sheaths one quarter of an inch long, cylindric, fringed with long cilia. lowers four to eight racemed in pairs on short peduncles at the ends of the branches and branchlets, one-third of an inch in diameter, shortly pedicelled, each with one elliptic-oblong bract on the pedicel. Sepals three, perfectly free, ovate-oblong, acute, hispid on the back, Peta/s orbicular, quite free, membranous, red, nerveless, very shortly clawed. Stamens rather longer than the petals, filaments filiform, beards blue ; anthers yellow. Cells slightly diverging upwards. 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LATE COMMISSIONER oF CROWN PROPERTY, SURVEYOR AND ENGINEER OF THE COLONY. L. Reeve & Co., 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. RE-ISSUE of the THIRD SERIES of the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. Now ready, Vols. I. to XV., price 42s. each (to Subscribers for the entire Series 36s. each). : cERY BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, Third Series. Wi1i1am and Dr. Huoker. To be continued monthly. Subscribers’ names received by the Publishers, either for or for Sets to be delivered complete at 36s. per Volume, as By Sir the Monthly Volume S00n as ready, L. Reeve & Co., 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. B15 1. Tas. 6151. GUSTAVIA Graciuma. Native of New Grenada. Nat. Ord. Myrracem—Tribe LECYTHIDER. Genus Gustavia, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 721). Gustavia gracillima ; glaberrima, foliis elongato-lineari-lanceolatis (juniori- bus brevioribus et latioribus) acuminatis in petiolum pollicarem angus- tatis serratis marginibus undulatis creberrime nervosis, floribus 4-poll. diam. axillaribus solitariis v. binis roseis, pedicellis 1-13 pollicaribus medio 2-bracteolatis glabris, calyce brevissimo 4-lobo, lobis latioribus quam longis obtusis, petalis ad 8 obovato-oblongis apice rotundatis glaberrimis, filamentis purpureis, ovario pubescente ecostato. G. gracillima, Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xxx. p. 181. The genus Gustavia contains, according to Mr. Miers’ new revision of it in the Linnean Transactions, upwards of twenty species, natives of various tropical parts of the South American Continent. Of these the only one hitherto figured from living specimens in Europe is the beautiful G. casignis (Tab. nost. 5069), which flowered in Kew in 1858, and yet all the other species are as beautiful, and some, like that now figured, far more highly coloured than that superb plant. The pre- sent is a young plant which differs from the full grown state of the same in the shorter and broader leaves, which have since the drawing was made, attained on the plant a length of thirteen by one and one-half inches, and in indigenous specimens they are fifteen to eighteen inches by three-quarters to one inch. It isa native of New Grenada, where it was discovered by Purdie in the woods of Carmin, in 1545, form- ing a singular small tree flowering on its slender, lofty trunk, in July. le ccna here figured was sent by Mr. Bull from his establishment at Chelsea, where it flowered in September of last year; it was collected by Roezl in New Grenada. Descr. A tree with a slender trunk, quite glabrous every- MARCH Ist, 1875. where ; ranches with pale bark, densely leafy at the tips. Leaves close- set, spreading and recurved, fifteen to eighteen inches long by one to one and a-half inches broad, oblanceo- late in the young plants, much longer and more narrow in the old ones, acuminate, serrate, narrowed into a slender petiole about one to two inches long, margin somewhat waved, midrib prominent beneath ; veins numerous, close-set, arched, very slender. Vowers four inches in diameter, rose- red, produced from the leaf-axils in the young plant, from the wood in old ones, solitary or in pairs. Peduncle one to two inches long, stout, clavate, with small orbicular appressed bracts at the base, and two opposite ovate, small, appressed bracteoles about the middle. Calyx very short, with four broad obtuse lobes. Pefals about eight, obovate-oblong, rounded at the tip, glabrous on the back. Staminal-tube yellow; filaments dark purple; anthers numerous, most densely packed, linear. Ovary pubescent at the top, style very small, pointed.—/. D. H. Fig. 1, Peduncle, calyx, and ovary ; 2, portion of staminal tube, filaments, and anthers ; ; 3, filament and anther :—all magnified. 6152 W Fitch, del et list Vincent Brooks Day& Sou imp Tas. 6152. MASDEVALLIA CHIMARA. Native of New Grenada. Nat. Ord. Orcuipr“z.—Tribe PLEUROTHALLIDES. Genus Masprvaiia, Ruiz. § Pav.; (Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orchid., p. 192), Masbevatita Chimera ; caulibus fasciculatis, foliis 6-8-pollicaribus lineari- oblanceolatis acutis basi angustatis sed vix petiolatis carinatis, scapis curvis foliis brevoribus robustis 5—6-bracteatis, floribus horizontalibus, sepalis basi in tubum brevem late campanulatum profunde sulcatum connatis dein late ovatis in caudas tripollicares filiformi-subulatas abrupte angustatis citrinis sanguineo maculatis, intus pilis longis vestitis, marginibus reflexis, petalis brevibus cuneato-oblongis, labello breviter stipitato oblongo saccato, marginibus. inflexis dentatis, nervis intus carinatis, columna acuta. : M. Chimera, Reichb. f.-in Gard. Chron., 1872, p. 463; and 1875, p. 41, cum wc. xylog. Xen. Orchid., vol. ii. p. 195, t. 185; André Rev. Hortic., t. 117, 118. i. re bo A very singular plant, of which M. André says in the Illustration Horticole, that no name more applicable could be found for it than that given by Professor Reichenbach— namely, that of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna, which had the body of a goat, the head of a lion, and tail of a dragon, and which vomited flames of fire. Without pushing the simile to an extreme, there is enough in the grotesque and almost threatening appearance of this plant, due to the arched flower-stalk and protruded flower, like the head and body of a viper about to strike, to justify Prof. Reichen- bach’s happy fancy in giving it the trivial name alluded to. Nor is it at all destitute of beauty; and though not so gor- geously coloured as M. ignea (Tab. nost. 5962), or M. Linden (Tab. 5990), it is well worthy of cultivation, anda plant likely to lend popularity to a genus of which new species are being yearly imported, and which for number and variety of species, facility of growth and neatness of habit, would alone satisfy the wants of a moderate collector of Orchids. Indeed, MARCH Ist, 1875, it is much to be wished that Orchid fanciers, who take an intelligent interest in the Order, would; according to their means, make their collections famous for completeness in one or a few of the larger and less pretentious genera, as well as for the production of gigantic specimens of the showy kinds. As it is, England is the grave of Orchids ; of the millions im- ported but a few hundreds survive the first few years, and this very much because every collector forms a miscellaneous collection, wherein it is impossible to meet the requirements of any but the most indifferent to the treatment the gene- rality may experience. M. Chimera is a native of deep valleys in New Grenada, where it was discovered by Roezl, and imported by M. Linden in 1872. For the splendid specimen here figured I am in- debted to Mr. Bull, who flowered it in December last. Descr. Stem tufted. Leaves six to nine inches long, nar- rowly oblanceolate, acute, narrowed at the base, which is clothed with four to six sheaths, keeled. Scape shorter than the leaves, arched, stout, with five or six green appressed sheaths. Flowers eight inches long from tip to tip of the dorsal and lateral sepals, yellow, spotted with blood-red. Ovary small, curved, red-brown. Perianth-tube shortly campanulate, deeply 6-grooved. Sepals three-quarters of an inch broad, broadly obovate, hispid with soft spreading hairs on the inner surface, suddenly contracted into slender, red purple tails, three inches long, margins reflexed. Peta/s very short, one- sixth of an inch long, spathulate, expanded at the tip jnto four spreading lobes, with a thick red caruncle between the lobes. Lip one-third of an inch long, slipper-shaped, with inflexed toothed margins, and keeled ribs within, white. Column as long as the petals, acute.—J. D. H. | Fig. 1, Ovary, lip, petals and column :—magnified. Vineent Brocks Day & Sonlath Tas. 6153. COLCHICUM tourevm. Native of Kashmir and Afghanistan. Nat. Ord. MELANTHACE. Cotcuicum luteum; cormo pollicari dimidiato-globoso, tunicis levibus castaneis membranaceis, vaginatis foliis 3-4 Jinearibus obtusis demum elongatis 6 pollicaribus 4-4 poll. latis, floribus 1-3 cum foliis costaniis luteis, perianthii tubo 2-3 pollicari, limbi segmentis pollicaribus lineari-oblongis obtusis, antheris luteis linearibus fila- menta basifixa longe superantibus, stigmatibus luteis filiformibus elongatis exsertis, carpellis pollicaribus superne liberis in stylos attenuatis, C. luteum, Baker in Gard. Chron., 1874, p. 33. Melanthacew, Grif. Posth. Papers, vol. ii. p. 328. Mr. Baker, who described this pretty little plant from dried specimens preserved in the Hookerian Herbarium, re- marks that it would be a great acquisition to our stock of cultivated Colchicums, and would no doubt be hardy in our English gardens; also, that it is the only yellow-flowered kind hitherto known, all the others being of a purple colour running off into white. As a species it belongs to the Mediterranean group, with leaves and flowers produced at the same time, and both in spring. It is a native of the mountains in the extreme West of India beyond the Indus, in Hazara, at an elevation of 7000 feet, where it flowers in December and J anuary. An apparently identical plant has been gathered by Dr. Thomson, F.R.S., in the valley of Kashmir, at an elevation of 5-7000 feet, flowering in June; by Stocks in Beluchistan; and by Griffith, who 1s the discoverer of the species, in Kafferisthan, near Otipore, about the year 1840, flowering in April at an elevation of 6-7000 feet. It has also been gathered by Stocks mm upper Beluchistan, and by Henderson in the Zoji pass in Kashmir. For the specimens here I am indebted to Dr. Atchison, F.L.S., of the Indian Medical Service, an ex- MARCH Ist, 1875. cellent botanist, who communicated the bulbs by post, in 1874, to Kew, where they flowered in J anuary of the present — year, and from whom we have dried specimens from Abbot- tabad, in Hazara, with much narrower leaves than his own, the cultivated ones, or those from Kashmir and Affghanistan. Drscr. Corm one to two inches long, by three-quarters to one inch thick, almost halfmoon-shaped, slightly laterally compressed, pointed bluntly at the base; sheaths smooth, membranons, dark brown, the inner often produced upwards into a tube round the leaves. Leaves three to four, produced with the flower, sheathed at the base, narrow linear-ligulate, obtuse, concave, three to four, at length six to seven inches long, bright green. F/owers two to three, bright and almost. golden yellow. Perianth-tube two to three inches long, slender, white, sometimes purple in wild specimens ; limb one inch long, about two and a half inches broad when expanded ; segments linear-oblong, rather broader upwards, obtuse. Sfamens ex- tending two-thirds up the perianth limb; anthers linear, basifixed, much longer than the filaments. Styles filiform, exserted. Capsule two-thirds to one inch long, ovoid, of three brown leathery carpels, free at the top and narrowed into the. style-bases.—J/. D. H. 615 Vincent Brooks Day & Som, Lath Tas. 6154. THEROPOGON PALLIDUS. Native of the Himalaya Mountains. Nat. Ord. Littaceam.—Tribe SmiLaces. Genus TuERopogon, (Maxim. in Bull. Acad. St. Petersb., vol. xv. p. 89). TueERopoGon pallidus ; glaberrimus, cespitosus, foliis distichis erecto-recurvis’ gramineis acutis planis 1-3-nerviis basi membranaceo-vaginatis, scapis erectis foliis brevioribus strictis angulatis ancipitibus v. 2—3-alatis, racemis erectis vix nutantibus 6—16-floris, bracteis linearibus acutis viridibus pedicellis nudis curvis brevioribus, floribus nutantibus cam- panulatis pallide roseis cum pedicello articulatis, peranthii segmentis ovatis, filamentis brevibus dilatatis antheris acutis latioribus, ovarii globosi loculis 6—10-ovulatis, stylo stricto, stigmate punctiforme, bacca pisiformi oligosperma, seminibus compressis, testa tenuissima albumini corneo adherente. T. pallidus, Maxim. 1. ¢. Opniorocon? pallidus, Wall. Cat., 2138; Kunth. Enum., vol. v. p. 300. ?'O. mollis, Royle Ill., 382 (nomen tantum). O. brevifolius, Royle Herb. A very common Himalayan plant, from Kumaon, alt. 6000 feet, to Nepal and Sikkim, in which latter county it ascends to 10,000 feet; also common in the Khasia mountains, where it is found at 5-6000 feet towards the tops of the hills. It prefers mossy rocks, and the bases of old trees, when the roots run rather superficially in the loose soil. This plant was long regarded as a doubtful Ophiopogon, from which its soft habit at once distinguishes it, a character that makes me suspect that it is Royle’s O. mollis, a plant of which no authentic specimens are known to exist, except the plant called drevifolius in Mss. Herb. (at Kew), and which is not alluded to in his Himalayan Botany, be the same. From Ophiopogon it farther differs in its annual foliage, ber- ried fruit, broad filaments, free base of the ovary, many ovules, the seed not being exposed by the rupture of the pericarp, as in that genus, and the excessively thin adherent testa. MARCH Ist, 1875. Our specimens were received from the rich collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq., late of Reigate, raised from seed. Descr. Derisely tufted, perfectly glabrous throughout. Roots of stout fleshy tortuous fibres. Leaves distichous at the base, and then clothed with long membranous sheaths, grassy, each six to eighteen inches long, a quarter to half an inch broad, erect and recurved, acuminate, soft, with a distinct midrib and many slender nerves, margin quite entire, rather glaucous beneath. Scape shorter than the leaves, very slender, erect, with two or three sharp angles or narrow wings. Raceme two to four inches long, 6—16-flowered, erect or slightly nodding, rachis compressed, bracts linear-subulate, green, shorter than the curved pedicels, F/owers campanulate, pale rose-red, one-third inch in diameter. Perianth-segments ovate, subacute, rather fleshy, nerveless. Stamens very short ; filaments broadly orbicular-obovate, fleshy ; anther sessile on the filament, narrower than it is, ovate, acute, cells diverg- ing. Ovary globose, 3-celled; style strict, stigma minute ; ovules six to ten in each cell. Berry size of a pea, with few compressed brown very hard seeds ; testa extremely thin, ad- herent to the horny albumen.—/. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower; 2, the same cut vertically; 3, stamens; 4, tranverse section of ovary; 5, ditto entire; 6, fruit:—all but 6 magnified. 6 } Od. W.Fitch, del. et hth ‘Vincent Brooks Day & Son imp. Tas. 6158. WAHLENBERGIA Toupsrosa. Native of Juan Fernandez. Nat. Ord. CamPANULACEm.—Tribe WAHLENBERGIEX. Genus Wantenperaia, Schrad.; (Endl. Gen. Pl., p. 516). WaAHLENBERGIA tuberosa; glaberrima, rhizomate e tuberibus epigeis confertis subglobosis diametro juglandis, caulibus gracillimis erectis 6—24-polli- caribus laxe ramosis et foliosis, foliis pollicaribus patulis linearibus acutis obtusisve dentatis 1-nerviis, floribus erectis apicem versus caulis paniculatis, ovario obconico, calycis segmentis linearibus _patenti- recurvis utrinque, 1—2-dentatis, corolla campanulata 4 poll. longa alba rubro-vittata, lobis brevibus recurvis, filamentis glabris tubo corollz ter brevioribus. I find no description answering to this very curious and beautiful plant, nor any specimens in the Herbarium, which is the more remarkable as the Island from which it comes has been visited by several botanists, who have detected there two other species of Waklenbergia. These are both much taller and stouter plants, with broader serrated leaves and much larger flowers. In the whole genus, which is a tole- rably uniform one in habit, I know of no feature so remark- able as the tuberous rootstock of this, which resembles a cluster of small potatoes placed on the top of the pot; the contrast of these grotesque objects, with the exquisitely grace- ful thread-like stems and profusion of pearl white rose-— streaked blossoms, is exceedingly striking, and recommends the plant as a most desirable one for greenhouse and probably out-of-door culture. Of course care must be taken not to over- water the plant when past flower, or the tubers will soon rot. Messrs. Veitch sent the plant here figured, in full flower in September of last year, together with another specimen, nearly two feet high. They received it from Juan Fernandez, where it was discovered by their collector, Mr. Downton, in 1873. MARCH Ist, 1875. . Drscr. Quite glabrous. Rootstock of clustered subglobose woody tubers, one to one and a half inches in diameter, irre- gularly constricted on the surface concentrically. Branches many, six to twelve inches high, branched from the very | base, suberect, very slender, leafy, paniculately branched above; branchlets suberect, almost capillary, 1-flowered at the tips. Leaves scattered, numerous, one-half to three- quarters of an inch long, spreading and rather deflexed, narrow linear, uniform, obtuse or acute, slightly toothed at the margin, bright green, I-nerved. Flowers very copiously produced at the tips of the panicled branches, erect, half an inch long ; the branches that bear them forming filiform pe- duncles with one or two small recurved leaves. Ovary obconic, very short. Calya-seyments half as long as the corolla, narrowly linear, spreading and recurved, green, with one or two teeth on each side. 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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. L. Rerve & Co,, 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. Vincent Brooks Day & Son, imp TAB. 6156. PHYLLOCACTUS sarrormis. Native of Honduras. Nat. Ord. Cacre#.—Tribe EprrrHyLLe®. Genus Paytiocactus, Link. ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 849). Puytuocacrus biformis; caule tereti flexuoso, ramis complanatis oblongis lanceolatis v. elongato-lanceolatis in petiolum crassum angustatis’ crenato-serratis obtusis v. subobtusis, costa crassa, ovario cylindraceo squamulis minutis sparsis, perianthii infundibuliformis segmentis 8-12 sub-biscriatis anguste lanceolatis acuminatis roseo-purpureis exteriori- bus angustioribus staminibus 6-12, stigmatis radiis 4—5, bacca parva lageeniformi. gor Puytiocactus biformis, Labouret, Monog. Cact., p. 418. Disocactus biformis, Lindl. in Bot. Reg., 1845, t. 9; p. 77. Distsocactus biformis, Salm Dyck, Cact., p. 57; Lemaire, Les Cactées. Cereus biformis, Lindl. in Bot. Reg., 1843; Misc., p. 33. go A very pretty and distinct species of Piyllocactus, differing from all others in the few perianth segments and stamens, on which account Lindley made a new genus of it, under the name of Disocactus—from Sic, two, woc, equal, and xaxroc, in allusion to the equal number of petals and sepals in the . specimen he figured, which presented four of each. The wwoc he appears to have dropped, no doubt for the sake of euphony, but it has been taken up by Salm Dyck, and the amplified name retained by such subsequent authors as have » held to the genus being a good one. : Py For my own part, I entirely agree with Labouret in merge ing the genus into Phyllocactus, from which it differs in nothing but the fewer perianth segments, the distinction of which into an inner and outer series is not so evident in the specimen here figured. Dr. Lindley’s plant further differs from that here figured in its outer segments being more slender, almost filiform, and the inner comparatively broader and closer placed. / Phyllocactus biformis is a native of Honduras, whence it was introduced by G. Ure Skinner, Esq., in 1839. He sent it APRIL Ist, 1875. to the late Sir Charles Lemon, who had a famous collection at Carcleugh, in Cornwall; and it has been long cultivated at Kew, where it flowered in January, 1874; and I am indebted to Mr. Corderoy for another specimen which flowered with him in June; it had six narrower outer segments, four inner, and only six stamens. Descr. Stems epiphytic, two to four feet long, cylindric, as thick as a swan’s quill below, flexuous, branched. Branches leaf-like, lower broadly ovate or oblong, obtuse, two inches long, petioled, obscurely crenate ; upper three to five inches long, narrow lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, subacute, obtusely serrate; all of them bright green, thick, and fleshy, with a stout costa, and no evident nerves. owers situated in the crenatures, two to two and a half inches long. Ovary ‘half an inch long, cylindric, green, with a few minute scat- tered, triangular scales. Perianth bright red-purple, funnel- shaped, two inches in diameter; segments eight, ten, or twelve, lanceolate, long acuminate, the four or six outer narrower and shorter than the inner. Stamens six to eight, ‘ filaments of unequal length, anthers linear. Stigma with four slender papillose rays. Berry red-purple, ovoid or flagon- shaped. Seeds very minute.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower with the perianth cut vertically; 2, berry 5: 3, transverse section of ditto :—all magnified. 6157. Vincent Brooks Day & San Iup Tas. 6157. PENTSTEMON ANTIRRHINOIDES. Native of California. Nat. Ord. ScropHULARINEZ.—Tribe CHELONE. Genus Pentstemon, L’her.; (Benth. in DC. Prodr., vol. x. p. 320). Pentstemon (Breviflori) antirrhinoides ; fruticosus, subcinereus, fere glaber, ramosissimus, ramulis tenuibus virgatis, foliis parvis vix petiolatis spathulato- v. obovato-oblongis linearibus v. oblanceolatis obtusis v. subacutis integerrimis subenerviis, pedunculis gracilibus breviusculis v. subelongatis axillaribus unifloris v. terminalibus diphyllis 1-2 floris, sepalis ovatis acutis, corolla lutea nuda, labiis amplis, superiore orbicu- lato concavo emarginato marginibus recurvis, inferiore 3-lobo, lobis oblongis obtusis, filamento ananthero villoso, antheris glabris loculis divergentibus, PrENTSTEMON antirrhinoides, Benth. in DC. Prodr., vol. x. p. 594; A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad., Oct. 1862, p. 56. A very charming shrubby half-hardy plant, discovered in California by Dr. Coulter nearly half a century ago, and, as far as I am aware, found by no one since till Bolander gathered it in the Santa Maria Valley, San Diego. It is re- markable for the lemon-yellow colour of its flowers in a genus of which most of the species are red, violet, purplish, or blue, colours which rarely occur along with yellow in one group of closely allied vegetable forms, though mstances do occur (as Gentian). Pentstemon antirrhinoides flowered at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in September, 1874, from specimens sent by Mr. Niven, of the Hull Botanic Gardens. It is the twenty-fourth species figured in this work, out of upwards of fifty that have flowered in European gardens. The total number of species known in 1862 was sixty-four, of which an enumeration is given by Asa Gray in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Sciences, quoted above. ; Descr. A small, much-branched, glabrous, subcinereous shrub; dranches and branchlets slender, erect, leafy. Leaves three-fourths to one and a quarter inches long; obovate-spa- thulate, or oblong, or lanceolate, rarely linear-obovate ; obtuse APRIL Ist, 1875. or acute, quite entire, narrowed at the base into a very short petiole, nerves very indistinct. HVowers one inch in diameter, lemon-yellow, solitary and axillary in the ultimate branchlets, or more frequently terminal, with two leafy bracts, or three together—two with two leafy bracts, and the intermediate one bractless ; peduncle one-half to an inch long, very slender. Calyzx-segments ovate-oblong, acute, outer larger. Corolla glabrous, tube short, broad; limb two-lipped; upper lip orbicular, concave, arched, notched at the tip, margins re- curved ; lower 3-lobed, lobes oblong, rounded at the tip. Stamens quite glabrous ; anther-cells divaricating, antherless filament bearded. Ovary ovoid. Style slender, stigmatic- lobes minute.—/. D. H. Fig. 1, Corolla laid open; 2, top of filament and anther; 8, calyx and style; 4, ovary, ovule and base of style:—ail magnified. Tas, 6158. PYRUS pronirotia. Native of Siberia and North China. Nat. Ord. Rosacea.—Tribe Pomez&. Genus Prrus, Linn. ; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 626). Pyrus (Malus) prunifolia; foliis gracile petiolatis late elliptico- v. obovato- orbiculatis subacutis creberrime serrulatis, junioribus subtus araneosis, umbellis simplicibus, calycis tubo lanato segmentis lanceolatis reflexis, petalis obovatis unguiculatis, stylis basi connatis, bacca calyce peristente coronata subglobosa v. ovoidea levi v. costata. ; Pyrus prunifolia, Willd. Phytog., vol. i. p. 8; Sp. Pl., vol. ii. p. 1018; Art. Hort. Kew., ed. ii. vol. iii. p- 208; DC. Prodr., vol. ii. p. 685; Led. Fil. Ross., vol ii. p. 97 ; Regel. Gartenfl., 1862, p. 203, t. 364, f. 7-11; Loud, Arboret., vol. ii. p. 892; K. Koch, Dendrol., vol. i. p. 207. Matus 'prunifolia, Spach, Suites d Buffon, vol. ii. p. 151, t. 9 et 10. M. hybrida, Desf. Arb., vol. ii. p- 141; Lois. in Duham., Ed. Nov., p. 140, vol. vi. t. 42,7.4; Crarmausa cerasi folio, Mill. Gard. Dict., p. 180, t. 269. It is singular that no good figure should exist of so beau- tiful and well known a tree as this, and one introduced before 1758, which can only be accounted for by its being usually confounded with the P. baccata (Tab. nost. 6112), which was not introduced till 1784, and from which its connate styles and totally different fruit, crowned by the persistent calyx, at once distinguish it. I have seen no native specimens, and though stated by the earlier authors, including De Candolle, to be a native of Siberia, Ledebour does not seem to have known it, for he quotes De Candolle and Willdenow’s de- scription, giving Siberia with a query as its habitat; and, though described by Miller in 1760, is a native of Dahuria, whence it was introduced into the St. Petersburgh Gardens, it is not included in Turczaninov’s Flora Baical-Dahurica. Regel, however, gives Dahuria and the Baikal as its native countries ; and Karl Koch says North China, Tartary, and Southern Siberia. De Candolle, Ledebour, and Lowdon all describe the calyx as glabrous, but it is decidedly woolly, APRIL Ist, 1875. even after the petals have fallen; these latter are white and vary much in breadth. Regel enumerates four varieties of the fruit, distinguished by form (ovoid or globose), colour (greenish and red), the top being depressed or not, and the surface obtusely ribbed or smooth. Loudon quotes Knight for the statement that some of the finest cultivated apples raised by the latter were due to fertilization by the pollen of this, and that their progeny proved more hardy and their fruit matured earlier, and was higher flavoured. Loudon further regards the P. daccata as doubtless a subvariety of this, differing only in not having a persistent calyx; but the whole character of its fruit is so different, and that of the connate style of this so constant, that however like in foliage and flower, I cannot think them the same. Spach divides the species into two, one, Malus Fontaine- siana with triangular-lanceolate calyx segments; the other, M. prunifolia, with oblong-lanceolate calyx segments, and which flowers a fortnight earlier. Pyrus prunifolia has been an inhabitant of Kew for upwards of a century, and flowers in April and May, fruiting in October. Duscr. A small tree ; young shoots, petioles, leaves beneath and inflorescence cottony. Leaves two to three inches long, ovate or obovate, or nearly orbicular, subacute, rarely acu- minate, margin with small, close-set, rather unequal serra- tures; petiole often as long as the blade. Unmlbels sessile, 6—10-flowered ; peduncles, one to one and a half inches long. Flowers white, one and a half inches in diameter. Calyx-tube obconical, lobes lanceolate, villous. Petals orbicular or oblong. Styles connate below the middle. Berry about an inch in diameter, globose or ovoid, base intruded, smooth or obscurely channelled, crowned by the persistent calyx, green or amber yellow and bright red in varying proportions.— #7. DD. i, eee Fig. 1, Flower with petals reversed :—magnified. | << een naangah see d ) Vincent Brooks Day & Son, imp. Tas. 6159. MASDEVALLIA Pzristeria. Native of New Grenada. Nat. Ord. OrcHIpEm.—Tribe PLEUROTHALLIDES, Genus Maspevatiia, Ruiz. g Pav. ;—(Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid., p. 192). Maspevatiia Peristeria; caulibus fasciculatis, foliis 4—6-pollicaribus lineari-oblongis obtusis basi angustatis sed vix petiolatis carinatis, seapis strictis vaginato-bracteatis robustis, floribus adscendentibus, sepalis basi in tubum latum subcylindricum basi gibbum alte 6-costatum connatis dein a basi lata triangulari-ovata in caudas flavas rectas sesqui- pollicares abrupte angustatis fulvis creberrime sanguineo maculatis intus glaberrimis, marginibus lente recurvis, petalis parvis oblique lineari-oblongis truncato-emarginatus, labello unguiculato, lamina ee medio subdilatata subacuta papillosa apice recurva, columna subacuta. MAspEVALLIA Peristeria, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1873, p. 500. A much less striking plant than JZ Chimera,* figured in last month’s number (Tab. 6152), and yet sufficiently re- markable if judged by the standard of its congeners. Reichenbach says that it comes very near Lindley’s J. coriacea, and his own M. civilis (Tab. nost. 5476), from which latter it differs in the much larger broader leaves, longer scapes, and tails to the perianth, but agrees well in the form of the petals and lip, and in the markings of the perianth.— The lip is, as Reichenbach remarks, very singularly coloured, being covered with innumerable close-set amethystine papille on a white ground. The name is given in allusion to the likeness of the top of the column and petals to those of the Dove-plant (Peristeria elata, Tab. nost. 3116), where the anther case represents a dove’s head, and the outstretched tips of the petals its wings, as in the Church’s symbol of the Holy Spirit, whence the name of El Spirito Santo was given to the Peristeria by its discoverers the Spaniards. __* Prof. Reichenbach kindly informs me that the ¥/. Chimera of the Revue Horticole is not the true plant, but M. Nicterinia, Reichb. f. APRIL Ist, 1875, Masdevallia Peristeria is a native of New Grenada, whence it was imported by Messrs. Veitch, to whom I am indebted for the plant here figured, which flowered in April. Descr. Stems tufted. Leaves erect, four to six inches long, by one to one and a quarter inches broad, linear- oblong, or oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, deep green, keeled at the back, very coriaceous, hardly contracted into a petiole above the sheaths. Scapes two to three inches long, stout, strict, erect, clothed with rather ventricose bracts. Ovary one-third of an inch long. Perianth four to five inches from tip to tip of the sepals, which are connate into a tube two- thirds of an inch long, and as much in diameter, nearly cylindric, but gibbous at the base, with six stout ribs, dirty yellowish white externally ; free portion of the sepals spread- ing, broadly triangular ovate, glabrous, suddenly contracted into stout, subulate yellow tails one and a half inches long, honey-yellow, spotted closely with red, margins slightly re- curved. Petals white, linear-oblong, clawed, oblique at the base, tip truncate and notched, Lip with a linear claw and oblong subacute limb, which is dilated in the middle and suddenly contracted beyond it, upper surface studded with amethystine papillx, tip recurved. Column white apiculate. Di. _— Fig. 1, Side view of ovary, lip, petals and column; 2, front view of the satue; 3, limb of lip seen in front; 4, pollen :—all magnified. Tip v oe Vinceul Brooks Day & nr et Lith > =} A W Fitch de Tap, 6160. FOURCROYA vUNnDULATA. Native of Mezxico. Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AGAVE. Genus Fourcroya, Vent. ;—(Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 181). Fourcroya undulata; caule brevissimo, foliis paucis sesquipedalibus dia- metro bipollicaribus ensiformibus patentibus rigidis longe acuminatis,, apicibus spinulisque marginalibus subremotis castanels supra basim dilatatam contractis, superne plano-concavis, subtus scabris obscure carinatis, marginibus subundulatis, utrinque opacis olivaceo-viridibus non glaucis, spinulis e basi deltoidea incurvis, scapo gracili stricto una cum panicula 10-pedali, bracteis paucis subulatis, panicula elongata stricta pubescente, ramis brevibus strictis erecto-patentibus, floribus 2-nis pendulis viridibus, bracteolis minutis, pedicellis brevibus, ovarlo pubescente elongato-subcylindraceo, perianthii foliolis anguste oblongis obtusis, stylo brevi subulato. Fourcroya undulata, Jacobi Nachirtige Versuch. Systemat. Ordnung Agavee, p: 59. Though in many respects so similar to F. Selloa, figured in last month’s number of this work, this is a remarkably diffe- rent species, much smaller in all its parts, apparently never forming a stem, and with the leaves broader for their length, and more or less undulated at the margin; its spines also are more hooked. It is a native of the provinces of Chiapas and Tabasco in Mexico, where it was found by the traveller Giesbrecht, who sent it to Verschaffelt’s splendid establish- ment in Ghent (now incorporated with the no less celebrated Brussels’ one of Linden). The Kew specimen, which is here figured, flowered in the Royal Gardens in November, 1874, rather later than the other species, than which it may want a warmer climate, as that of Chiapas and Tabasco is described as hot, damp, and its hills as clothed with a tropical forest. It was received from the rich collection of W. W. Sanders, Esq., F.R.S. i Descr. Stem none, or very short indeed. Leaves forming a flat crown three feet in diameter, not very numerous, strict, spreading, one and a half feet long by two inches in diameter at the broadest part, and one-eighth of an inch APRIL Ist, 1875. thick, ensiform, long acuminate, terminated by a pungent chestnut-brown spine, obscurely keeled at the back, which is scabrid; margin subundulate with incurved chestnut-coloured stout spines, olive-green on both surfaces, but not glaucous. Scape with the panicle ten feet high, green, with few subulate bracts. Panicle elongate, slender, narrow, erect, pubescent ; branches a foot long, more erect than spreading, simple, strict. FYowers all drooping, usually in pairs ; pedicels very short, and bracts minute. Ovary cylindric, pubescent, nearly an inch long, green. Perianth two to two and a half inches in diameter, pale green; segments narrow-oblong, obtuse, obtusely keeled down the centre. Filaments subu- late, with broadly deltoid bases; anthers short, yellow. Style subulate.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Entire plant, reduced ; 2, leaf; 3, branch of panicle and flowers :— both of the natural size. W Fitch delet lath Vincent Brooks Day & Son imp Tas. 6161. CYRTOPERA SANGUINEA. Native of the Sikkim Himalaya. e Nat. Ord. Orcuiprm.—Tribe VANDER. Genus Crrrorera, (Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orchid., p. 189). Cy RTOPERA sanguinea ; tubere crasso oblongo annulato, scapo infra medium vaginato superne bracteato bracteis elongato-subulatis floralibus ovario brevioribus v. longioribus, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis brevioribus oblongis apice obtuse 3-crenulatis brunneis v. fusco- sanguineis, labello 8-lobo pallide roseo, lobis lateralibus brevibus obtusis incurvis, intermedio orbiculato recurvo basi 3-carinato, carinis in nervos papillosos ramosos desinentibus, calcare brevi conico vires- cente, anthera apice producta truncata. CyrTOPERA sanguinea, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. iii. p. 32. \ The materials at my command for describing this plant are my own specimens collected in 1848 in Sikkim, a coloured sketch of a flower made from the same by myself, a coloured drawing of the whole plant made by Judge Cath- cart’s artists in Sikkim, and the flowering specimen here figured. These show that the plant is very variable in colour and robustness, though but little in other respects. The colour of the flower as shown in my own sketch is a dull reddish purple, extending over the short spur, with a rose- red limb to the lip; colours which induced Dr. Lindley to name the species sanguinea, a name hardly justified by those hues. Cathceart’s drawing, made by native artists (and these are often very faithless to nature), represents the scape as very stout, brownish purple, with broad sheaths and no sub- ulate bracts; the bracts, pedicel, ovary, and flower are of a uniform purple-brown colour, suffused with pink, except the whole lip, which is rose-coloured. This, which passed under Dr. Lindley’s eye when he described the species, is also marked by him C. sanguinea. Mr. Fitch’s drawing speaks for the cul- tivated plant as flowered at Kew, which agrees well with my dried specimen in all except the absence of the sheathes at the base of the scape; differs much from both the drawings APRIL lst, 1875, in the singular clayey-brown colour of the flower and its green spur. I have seen no leaves, and Lindley has described the plant as aphyllous, a character which I greatly doubt. It is, of course, possible that several species are here con- founded, but the uniform shape of the perianth and lip in all renders this unlikely. C. sanguinea inhabits the tropical region of Sikkim, and is found in dense forests, at 3-5000ft. elevation; the Kew plants flowered from tubers which have been received both from the late Dr. Anderson, of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, and Mr. Gammie, of Darjeeling. Drscr. Tuber two to three inches long, oblong-cylindric, annulate, pale. Scape one to one and a half feet high, stout or slender, with three sheathing bracts below the middle, which pass into subulate bracts above; the floral longer or shorter than the ovary. Pedicels and ovary slender, green. Flower one and a half to two inches in diameter, varying from pale red-purple to brown, with the lip pale and rosy. Sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, very acuminate. Petals shorter, more elliptic, obtuse, with three small teeth at the tip. Zip shorter than the petals, produced bebind into a short, broad, obtuse projecting spur; limb 3-lobed; lateral lobes incurved, obtuse, with a purple spot within at the base of each ; mid-lobe expanded, recurved, rounded, very obtuse ; disk with three close-set keels, which give off radiating raised papillose branched nerves that almost reach the margin. Column produced at the top into a truncate or minutely- notched tip.—/. D. . 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ST: HELENA: Whusical, Bistorieal, and Copagraphienl Description of the Aslond, INCLUDING ITs GEOLOGY, FAUNA, FLORA, AND METEOROLOGY. BY JOHN CHARLES MELLISS, A.LCE., F.G.S., F.L.S. LATE COMMISSIONER OF CROWN PROPERTY, SURVEYOR AND ENGINEER OF THE COLONY. L. Reeve & Co., 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. RE-ISSUE of the THIRD SERIES of the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. Now ready, Vols. I, to XVII., price 425. each (to Subscribers for the entire Series 36s. each), HE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, Third Series. By Sir Wiitiam and Dr. Hooker. 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. L. Rezve & Co,, 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. 6162. W Fitch del et Lath Vincent: Brooks Day Son knp Tas. 6162. CROCUS cnrysaNnTHUs. Native of Asia Minor. Nat. Ord. IrntpeEm.—Tribe IxtEaz. Genus Crocus, Tourn. ; (Baker in Gard. Chron., 1873, p. 291). Crocus chrysanthus; cormo globoso tunicis Jevibus castaneis nitidis in segmenta ovata concava apice fissa solutis basi truncatis non v. obscure fibrosis, spatha basali nulla, foliis 83-5 flores vix superantibus angustis zs poll. latis, spatha propria 1-2-phylla, floribus 2 aureis, perianthii tubo aureo limbo bis terve longiore non fasciato, segmentis aureis anguste. elliptico-oblongis obtusis, antheris elongatis vitellinis exsertis filamenta puberula exccdentibus, stigmatibus vitellinis integris apice truncatis erosis. ©. chrysanthus, Herbert in Journ. Hort. Soc. vol. ii. p. 285 (non Bot. Reg., 1847, t. 4, fig. 1); Baker in Gard. Chron., 1873, p. 291. C. annulatus, var. chrysanthus, Herbert in Bot. Mag., sub t. 3861 et 3862; et in Bot. Reg., 1843, Mise., p. 27. — C. croceus, K. Koch in Linneea, vol, xix. p. 7. C. sulphureus, Griseb. Fl. Rum. et Bith., vol. ii. p. 873 (non Ker). C. mesiacus, J. Gay in Plant. Exsice, Balans. Orient., n. 33 (non Gawler). This lovely little species was first described by Herbert, in 1841, in this Magazine, as a variety of C. annulatus, with the caution, however, that it might prove a distinct species. Such it has since been justly regarded by Mr. Baker, from whose valuable enumeration of the Croci, published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, I have taken the synonymy quoted above. It is here figured, for the first time, from specimens sent me by my friend Mr. Elwes, F.L.S., who gathered it in Asia Minor, probably (he tells me) near Smyrna, in March, 1874. Here it was originally discovered by Friwaldsky , and collected later by Balansa, who observes that it is abundant on hills about 3000 feet high, flowering in March. It has also been found in Macedonia and Thrace by Grisebach. Besides its colour, C. chrysanthus has its sweet odour to recommend it; and it appears to be a very free bloomer. The abrupt bases of the coats of the corm, which are smooth MAY Ist, 1875. and shining, and break off into ovate acute concave frag- ments, are very peculiar. Drscr. Corm one-half to three-quarters of an inch in diameter, globose, with a broad fibrous base; coats smooth, shining, not at all fibrous, truncate at the base, breaking u into ovate concave segments that are split at the top into acute bristly teeth. Buds solitary, 1-2-flowered. Basal spathe none. Leaves three to five, about as tall as the flower, very narrow, about one-sixteenth of an inch broad, margins smooth recurved, costa white. Sheaths pale; floral one or two. Flowers one and three-quarters to two inches in diameter, bright golden yellow, odorous; tube two to three times as long as the limb, yellow, not striped ; segments narrowly elliptic-oblong, obtuse. _Anthers exserted, slender, longer than the somewhat pubescent filaments, bright orange- yellow. Stigmas of the same colour, quite entire, truncate, obscurely erose.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Portion of coat of corm; 2, stigmas :—Both magnified, Ey a F & e A i ° 2 a ia) te = Tas. 6163. ODONTOGLOSSUM W ARSCEWIOCZIL. Native of Costa Rica. Nat. Ord. OrcnipeEx.—Tribe VANDE. Genus Opontoaiossum, H. B. et K.; (Lindl. Fol. Orchid., Odontoglossum). OpontocLossum (Phalenopsoidea) Warscewiczii; pseudobulbis parvis an- guste oblongis compressis, foliis pedalibus anguste elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis, scapo gracili, 6—8-flore, floribus amplis albis, perianthii plani segmentis basi roseis, sepalis ovatis acutis, petalis paulo majoribus elliptico-oblongis obtusis v. subacutis, labello amplo late panduriformi apice bilobo basi in unguem brevissimum constricto, ungue simplici concavo marginibus elevatis puberulis disco basi carinis 3 brevibus obtusis puberulis, columna brevi exalata. O. Warscewiczii, Reichb. f. in Mohl et Schlecht., Bot. Zeit., 1852, p. 692; Xen. Orchid., vol. i. t. 208, t. 81; in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1875, p- 270; Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Odontogl., n. 21*. No one can compare this lovely plant with its gorgeous congeners, O. vevillarium (Tab. nost. 6037) and O. Phalaenopsis, without recognising with Professor Reichenbach their close affinity in foliage and habit, whilst in floral structure they differ materially, especially in the lip, which in O. vexillarium has the claw produced backwards into an acute horn on either side, whereas in this it is quite simple. The ridges of the claw and disk of the lip farther differ remarkably, as a comparison of the plates will show. 0. Warscewiceit was dis- covered by Joseph von Warscewicz, the Polish nobleman who has added so many fine plants to our stoves, in Costa Rica ; it was first flowered by Messrs. Veitch, in February of this year, and by them sent for figuring in this Magazine. It is a very free’ bloomer, and may, as Dr. Reichenbach suggests, rival O. vewillarium itself in the estimation of florists. Its discoverer describes it as growing at a considerable elevation, and being very scarce. Descr. Pseudobulbs tufted, small, one and a half to two inches long, oblong-ovate, compressed, margins acute. Leaves distichous, nearly a foot long, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, bright- green above, paler beneath and keeled. Scape about as long MAY Ist, 1875. as the leaves, slender, inclined or drooping, 6—8-flowered. Pedicels and ovary together one and a half inches long, slender, pale; bracts small, acute, appressed. Perianth two to two and a half inches in diameter, flat, white, with a rose- coloured blotch at the base of each segment, and two at the base of the lip. Sepals broadly ovate, acute. Petals about as large, elliptical, rounded or apiculate at the tip. Lip very broadly fiddle-shaped, with rather sharply angled sides, the broad apex 2-lobed, with a mucro in the notch; lobes some- what reflected, obtusely quadrate; claw very short, small, concave, with a raised pubescent golden-yellow annulus or border, from which three contiguous obtuse short yellow keels project upon the disk. Column very short.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Front, and 2, side view of lip and column :—both magnified. ks Day & Son! " Vincent Bro Tas. 6164. HEMICH AANA FrRurTICcosA. | Native of Guatemala and Costa Rica. Nat. Ord. ScropHULARINEH.—Tribe GRATIOLED. Genus Hemicuana, Benth. ; (in Plant. Hartweg., p. 78). Hemicu ana fruticosa ; ramulis herbaceis, subteretibus, foliis 3-5-pollicaribus oblongo-lanceolatis sub-duplicato-dentatis acuminatis basi amplexicauli- connatis pubescentibus, cymis axillaribus 3—5-floris foliis brevioribus, bracteis oblongis acutis, calycis lobis subequalibus tubo brevioribus lanceolato-subulatis, corolla aurea facie Mimuli, lobis obovato-rotundatis tubo intus puberulo brevioribus. H. fruticosa, Benth. Plant. Hartw., p- 78; Walp. Rep., vol. iii. p. 452. Leucocarrus fruticosus, Benth., 1. c. 350, et in DC. Prod., vol. x. p. 336. A very handsome rock plant, but not likely to be hardy ; found originally by Hartweg in Guatemala, and described by Bentham in 1839 as a new genus, which however he im- mediately after, but on insufficient grounds, merged into Leucocarpus. Nothing further was known of Hemichena till it was sent from Costa Rica by Endress, plants from whom flowered at Messrs. Veitchs’ establishment, July, 1873. _Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., an able ornithologist and assiduous collector of plants, next found it growing on the Volcan de Alitan in Guate- mala, at an elevation of 10,000 feet above the sea. Mr. Salvin sent seeds of it to England, which germinated and flowered at Kew, but the specimen here figured was from Mr. Veitch. Hemichena differs from Leucocarpus (one species of which, L. alatus, is figured in this work, Tab. 3067, as Mimulus perfoliatus), in the capsular fruits and anthers with parallel cells, as well as in the more deeply cleft calyx; in habit and foliage, the genera are remarkably alike. From Mimulus, with which Zeucocarpus was formerly confounded, both it and Hemichena differ in their inflorescence. Dzscr. A glandular pubescent shrub, three to five feet high ; branches terete, herbaceous, green. Leaves opposite, four to eight inches long, two to two anda half broad, oblong- MaY Ist, 1875. lanceolate,acuminate, irregularly or doubly toothed, contracted somewhat above the amplexicaul base, which unites with that of the opposite leaf, dark-green, pubescent on both surfaces, nerves very oblique. Cymes usually 3-flowered, much shorter than the leaves ; peduncle three-quarters to one inch long; pedicels very short; bracts oblong, herbaceous, caducous. Calyz half-inch long, tubular, somewhat oblique, 5-angled ; mouth 5-lobed; lobes straight, subulate-lanceolate, green. Corolla golden-yellow ; tube twice as long as the calyx, broad, smooth, terete, gradually expanded into the obscurely 2-lipped spreading limb, which is one to one and a half inches broad ; lobes nearly equal, rounded; tube puberulous within, speckled with red at the throat. Stamens inserted towards the base of the tube, filaments nearly straight, two rather longer than the rest; anthers shortly oblong, cells parallel. Ovary ovoid; style slender, stigmatic lobes flat elliptic. Capsule rather longer than the calyx, oblong; valves flat, grooved down the middle of the back, glabrous; placentas thick. Seeds very minute.—/. D. H. Fig. 1, Corolla laid open; 2, calyx and style; 3, ovary; 4, tranverse section of ditto :—all magnified. y yle; 3, ovary; 4, 6165 Vincent Brooks Day & Son imp Tas. 6165. DICHORISANDRA SAUNDERSII. Native of Brazil. Nat. Ord. ComMMELYNE A. Genus Dicuorisanpra, Mikan; (Mart. et Seubert, Flor. Bras., fasc. iv.p. 235). Dicnortsanpra Saundersii ; caule gracili terete piloso, foliis subdistichis elongato-lanceolatis longe acuminatis ciliatis basi in vaginam brevem ciliatam vix tumidam abrupte attenuatis, inflorescentia terminali, flori- bus in racemum densum subcapitatum confertis brevissime pedicellatis, 2 poll. diametro, pedicellis sepalisque oblongis obtusis glabris, petalis obovatis apice rotundatis sepalis ter majoribus violaceis, staminibus 6 subequalibus, filamentis crassis antheris linearibus brevioribus, ovario glabro. I have searched in vain amongst the published species of Dichorisandra for this pretty species. About thirty species of the genus are known, most of them, like D. Saundersi, are Brazilian, and amongst them D. gracilis, Nees et Mart. approaches nearest to this in character, but differs in its small flowers and pubescent inflorescence, as well as in having three stamens with long anthers and short filaments, and the other three with short anthers and long filaments. The other species of the genus figured in this work are D. oxypetala, Hook. (Tab. 2721), D. leucophthalmos, Hook. (Tab. 4733) which has radical inflorescence, and D. picta, Lodd. (Tab. 4760), all very different from this. : ; Dichorisandra Saundersii was introduced from Brazil by W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., and given by him to Kew, where it flowered in July, 1873; it forms a pretty stove plant about three feet high. ; Descr. Stem two to three feet high, slender, very sparingly branched ; branches slender, cylindrical, terete, pilose, as are the sheaths, with slender ascending hairs. Leaves five to six inches long, numerous, sub-bifarious, lanceolate, long-acumi- nate, recurved for the most part, 5-nerved, dark green, suddenly contracted at the base into the sheath, margins recurved in the lower part, pale beneath ; sheaths a quarter to one-third of an inch long, hardly tumid, green, mouth rounded. MAY Ist, 1875. Inflorescence terminal, nearly glabrous; peduncle very short, stout. Flowers three-quarters of an inch diameter, crowded in a dense ovoid almost capitate panicle two inches long; pedicels very short, glabrous. Sepals oblong, obtuse, concave, glabrous, white, tipped with violet. Peta/s more than twice as large as the sepals, obovate, concave, rounded at the tip, violet except at the base, which is white. Stamens 6, sub- equal ; filaments very short, stout, obovoid; anther longer than the filament, rather slender. Ovary subglobose ; style straight, or nearly so, stigma obtuse—/. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower; 2, petal and stamen; 3, apex of pedicel and stamens; 4, pistil :—all magnified. a i ch del et Lith y jon inp } u ral Vincent Brooks Tas. 6166. GALANTHUS Etwest. Native of Asia Minor. Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AMARYLLE. Genus Gaanruus, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen, Plant., p. 174). Gaantuus Elwesii ; vagine ore lateraliter fisso, foliis binis 6~8-pollicaribus 2 poll. latis planis basi carinatis semitortis valde glaucis, spatha 1} pollicari, floribus amplis 1-14 poll. diam., segmentis exterioribus late obovatis concavis albis, interioribus cuneato-oblongis medio constrictis apice 2-lobis, lobis obtusis divergentibus intus plicato-carinatis viridi- bus fascia media alba. This fine Snowdrop is very distinct from any previously described, though whether all these, namely, G. zzvalis, L., of N. Europe, G@. plicatus, M.B. (Tab. nost. 2162, a poor plate of a small specimen), of the Caucasian regions, and G. Jm- perati, Bert., of Italy (G. plicatus, Tenore not of M. Bieb.), should not, together with this, be regarded as geographical forms of one may be a matter of opinion. G. Elwesii is nearest to plicatus, but differs in its basal sheath being more or less deeply notched or even divided on one side ; in the leaves not being folded within the sheath, but twisted ; in the larger flower and fruit ; and in the form and colour of the inner perianth-segments, which in G. plicatus are not as in this constricted in the middle, and are merely notched, not. 2-lobed at the tip, and are white with two confluent green spots confined to the top. Lastly, the anther-cells are shorter and broader in G, Hlwesii than in the Kew speci- men of G. plicatus. Galanthus Elwesii is a native of the summits of Yamanlar- -dagh mountains, north of the Gulf of Smyrna, where it was. discovered by M. Balansa in 1854, and whence dried speci- mens were distributed under the name of G. plicatus, being so named by M. J. Gay of Paris. I am indebted to Mr. Elwes, of Miserdine House, Cirencester, a gentleman who to an ardent love of scientific horticulture unites the powers of a traveller, collector, and observing naturalist, for pointing MAY Ist, 1875. out its distinctive character from G. plicatus, and which Mr. Baker has confirmed. Mr. Elwes collected the specimens here figured on the mountains near Smyrna in 1874 and cultivated them in his garden at Miserdine, which bids fair soon to contain perhaps the largest and best private collection of well-named bulbous plants in the kingdom ; it flowered in February and is quite hardy. . Descr. Bulb globose, three-quarters of an inch in diameter ; tunics thick, fleshy. Sheath membranous, mouth oblique and cieft on one side. eaves two, six or eight inches long by three-quarters of an inch broad, obtuse, flat except towards the base, where they are keeled, “not-plaited, but always twisted” (Hlwes), very glaucous, sheathing the base of the flowering scape. 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HELENA: Pdvsical, Bistorical, and Topographical Description of the Ysland, INCLUDING ITS GEOLOGY, FAUNA, FLORA, AND METEOROLOGY. BY JOHN CHARLES MELLISS, A.1.C.E., F.G.S., F.L.S. LATE COMMISSIONER OF CROWN PROPERTY, SURVEYOR AND ENGINEER OF THE COLONY. L. Reeve & Co., 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. RE-ISSUE of the THIRD SERIES of the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. Now ready, Vols. I. to XVIII., price 42s. each (to Subseribers for the entire Series 36s. each), : TPTHE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, Third Series. By Sir Witutam and Dr. Hooker. To be continued monthly. Subscribers’ names received by the Publishers, either for the Monthly Volume ~or for Sets to be delivered complete at 36s. ee Volniee: as soon as edi. L. Reeve & Co., 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. 6167 remo araanccuanadl Vincent Brooks Day &Son imp 4 » 2 os J =] Ly 4 pies > Tas, 6167. KNIPHOFIA Macowan1. Native of South Africa, Nat. Ord. LiviAces.—Tribe ALOINE. Genus Knirnorta, Mench. ; (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc., vol. xi. p. 360). Knienoria . Macowani ; foliis 1—11-pedalibus rigidissimis anguste elon- 4 gato-subulatis carinatis basi } poll. latis sulcatis, marginibus crenato- denticulatis, scapo foliis equilongo, racemo 3—4-pollicari, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, floribus deflexis brevissime pedicellatis, perianthio pollicari subcylindraceo basi hemispherico supra ovarium non constricto e flavo aurantiaco-coccineo, segmentis rotundatis patenti- bus, genitalibus inclusis. K. Macowani, Baker in Trim. Jour. Bot., 1874, p. 8. We have several dried specimens of this pretty little Kniphofia, collected by its discoverer, whose name it bears, in grassy places of the Boschberg mountains in Somerset district, where it inhabits elevations of 4000 to 5000 feet. It was described from these by Mr. Baker, and flowered shortly afterwards in the Royal Gardens from roots sent by Professor Macowan. It is remarkably distinct from any of the fourteen species described by Mr. Baker in the eleventh volume of the “Linnzan Journal,” and which are alluded to under K. Rooperi (Tab. nost. 6116), and forms one of six ad- ditional species subsequently described by Mr. Baker in Dr. Trimen’s “ Journal of Botany,” quoted above. It is best treated as a greenhouse plant, though probably as hardy as the other species of the genus. Descr. Root of stout fibres. Sfem as thick as the thumb at the base, clothed with the rigid fibrous nerves of the old leaves. eaves one to one and a half feet long, suberect, one-third of an inch broad at the base, narrow subulate, strongly keeled, triangular at the back, deeply grooved, margins strongly toothed, tips flattish. Scape as long as the leaves or longer, slender, cylindric, with one subulate bract or none. aceme three to five inches long, cylindric-ovoid. Bracts one-quarter of an inch long, ovate-lanceolate, acumi- JUNE Ist, 1875, nate, white, membranous. F/owers very shortly pedicelled, deflexed, yellowish passing into bright orange-red; tube nearly cylindric, rounded at the base, not contracted above the ovary, slightly narrowed from the lower third to the throat; segments one-twelfth of an inch long, rounded, spreading. Stamens included.—J/. D. H. Fig 1, Flower, magnified. 6168 W Fitch dae Lath Imp ks Day & Son mt Broo Vint Tas. 6168. CROCUS €rewer. Native of the Greek Archipelago. Nat. Ord. Irnipem.—Tribe Ix1ez. Genus Crocus, Tourn. ; (Klatt in Linnea, vol. xxxiv. p. 674). Crocus Crewei ; cormo ovoideo-globoso, tunicis basi truncatis levigatis, ex- terioribus brevioribus in vaginam fissam basim foliorum cirgentem productis, rete e fibris tenuissimis dense intertextis, foliis binis ver- nalibus flores vix superantibus zy poll. latis canaliculatis, costa alba, spatha 2-phylla 1-flore, interiore anguste lineari, exteriore tubum perianthii vaginante, perianthii tubo 2-pollicari albo lineis 6 purpureis striato, limbo albo pollicari, segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis ex- terioribus lineis 3 purpureis notato, interioribus estriatis, fauce luteo glabro, antheris purpureis filamentis luteis equilongis stigmatibus _linearibus integerrimis. Allied to C. diforus (Tab. nost. 845), but very distinct in many characters, and with the corm of C./evigatus, Bory, whilst differing from these and all other known species in the purple anthers. It is remarkable that so distinct an undescribed plant should inhabit Syra, the best known of all the Greek islands, and one which has long been the coaling station for the Mediterranean steamers, whence the traffic diverges in one direction to Smyrna, and in the other to Constantinople and the Black Sea. This fact shows how much remains still to be done towards the investigation of the bulbous plants of the Levant, and especially in respect of such genera as Crocus, whose flowers are very fugacious. Crocus Crewei is a discovery of the gentleman, H. G. Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., to whom’ horticulture is indebted for the introduction of many new Oriental bulbs, including the Galanthus figured in the last number of this Magazine (Tab. 6166). Mr. Elwes collected seeds and corms of it on hills about 1000 feet high, growing with C. Boryi, and flowering very early, and transmitted corms to the Rev. H. Harper Crewe, who flowered them at the Rectory, Drayton Beauchamp, in March of the present year. At Mr. Elwes's JUNE Ist, 1875. ~ desire I have named it after our common friend, Mr. Crewe, whose collection of Croci is the richest in Europe. Duscr. Corm the size of a hazel-nut, ovoid-globose ; tunics very smooth, truncate and split at the base, the outer suc- cessively shorter, so that they seem to imbricate downwards ; the outermost constricted at the top into a short toothed sheath; texture very close, with no appearance of reticula- tions. Leaves two only, two to three inches long, slender, equalling or slightly exceeding the flower; midrib broad and prominent ; upper surface with a distinct white line. Proper spathes two, outer enfolding the leaves ; inner narrow, linear. Flower solitary. Perianth-tube one to two inches long, very slender, white, with six purple stripes; limb one and a half inches broad, white ; segments oblong-lanceolate, acute, the outer with three fimbriate purple stripes on the back, the inner not streaked ; throat bright-yellow, glabrous. Filaments short, yellow, equalling the slender purple anthers, which are a quarter of an inch long, and reach half-way up the limb. Stigmas slender, orange-yellow, undivided.—./. D. H. Fig. 1, Section of tunics of corm; 2, ditto of leaf seen from the back; 3, styles :—all magnified. 6169 Vincent: Brooks Day &Son inp TAB. 6169. : DRACANA Smrran. »* @ Native of Tropical Africa. Nat. Ord. Linraca.—Suborder AsparaGE®. Genus Dracana, Vand. ; (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xiv. p. 52). Dracana Smithii ; caule elato simplici gracili, foliis confertis patenti-recur- vis 3-4 pedalibus supra medium 24-3} poll. latis inferne angustatis apice acuminatis striato-nervosis lete viridibus tenuiter coriaceis, costa superne evanida subtus valida prominula, marginibus integerrimis tenuiter cartilagineis, inflorescentia paniculatim ramosa suberecta, ramis patentibus, floribus in axillis panicule et ramulorum apicibus fascicu- latis flavis, bracteis 2—5-pollicaribus lanceolatis, bracteolis minutis deltoideo-ovatis acutis, pedicellis brevissimis, perianthio }pollicari, tubo cylindraceo, segmentis tubum equantibus lineari-oblongis apicibus incurvis, filamentis crassis perianthii segmentis squantibus, antheris deltoideis loculis basi divergentibus, stylo gracili longe exserto, stigmate peltato 3-lobo. j D. Smithii, Baker MSS. The precise origin of the handsome Dracena here figured is unknown; it has been in cultivation for many years, oth at Kew and Sion House, and it appears to be so closely allied to D. fragrans that I cannot coubt its being an African species, and one probably introduced by Whitfield from. the West Coast, a quarter of a century ago. As it is, all trace , of its history is lost in both establishments. A reference to the plate of D. fragrans, published in this Magazine (Tab. 1081), will show how near to one another these plants are, this differing chiefly in its narrower, more straight, and much less undulated leaves, in the yellower flower, with a shorter perianth-tube, and in the divaricating base of the anther-cells. Mr. Baker, who I follow in keeping it distinct from D. fragrans, has proposed that the name of the late and present able Curators of the Royal Gardens (both named John Smith, and unrelated) should be attached to this plant, which is the more applicable, inasmuch as the present Curator had charge of the gardens of his Grace the Duke of Northum- JUNE Ist, 1875, berland at Sion House, where as well as at Kew, D. Smithii has been long in cultivation; it flowers in winter or early spring in both establishments. ; Descr. Sfem fifteen feet high, slender, hitherto quite unbranched, cylindric, almost smooth. eaves three to four feet. long, forming a spreading rosette on the very crown of the stem, slightly recurved, not waved, narrowly ensiform, broadest beyond the middle, acuminate, narrowed towards the base before dilating at the insertion, broadest part two and a half to three and a half inches in diameter, narrowest about one inch, bright green, striated; midrib indistinct above, very strong and prominent beneath; lateral nerves reduced to innumerable striations; margin thinly cartilagi- nous. Inflorescence of several subsessile suberect branched panicles two feet long, glabrous; rachis and branches stout, terete, green; bracts two to five inches long; bracteoles— small, crowded, ovate, acute. Flowers in crowded fascicles in the axils of the panicle, and terminating short branchlets, subsessile. Perianth pale yellow, half-inch long; tube cylindric, base conical ; segments as long as the tube, linear- oblong, with acute incurved tips. Filaments as long as the perianth-segments, rather stout; anthers broadly ovate, cells diverging at the base. Style slender, equalling the stamens ; stigma peltate, 3-lobed.—/. D. H. Fig. 1, Reduced figure of whole plant; 2, portion of panicle, and 3 of leaf :—both of the natural size ; 4, flower :—magnified, : Day & Son, imp Vincent Brooks =| Pe w Witch, Tas, 6170. BALBISIA VERTICILLATA. Native of Chili and Peru. Nat, Ord, GERANIACE®.—Tribe WENDTIEA. Genus Bausista, Cav. ; (Benth. §& Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 276), Batista verticillata ; frutex glaucus, ramis gracilibus strictis, foliis op- positis alterhisque tripartitis, segmentis lineari-oblongis obtusis acutisve integerrimis sericeo-pilosis marginibus revolutis, floribus terminalibus solitariis pedunculatis amplis aureis. B, verticillata, Cav. in Ann. Cienc. Nat., vol. vii. p. 62, t. 46; Don in Ed. New Phil. Journ., 1838, p. 277 ; Klotzsch in Linnea, vol. x. p. 481. B, peduncularis, Don in Ed. New Phil. Journ., 1833, p. 277. Lepocarron chilense, Desf. in Mem. Mus., vol. iv. p. 250; DC. Prod., vol. i. p. 702; C. Gay, Flor. Hist. Fis. et Polit. Chile Bot., vol. i. p. 394. L. argentum, Presi. Symb., vol. i. 66, t. 44; C. Gay, Le. p. 394. L. pedunculare, Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 139; C. Gay, l.c. p. 393. L, Meyenianum, Walp. Rep., vol. v. p. 380. L. cistiflorum, Meyen Reise, vol. i. p. 470; Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., vol. xix, Suppl. i. p. 316. — cistiflora, Hook. Bot. Misc., vol. ii. p. 211, t. 90; Klotzsch, sO. De : This beautiful half-hardy shrub was introduced into the Horticultural Gardens in 1825; but like so many other plants requiring occasional protection to insure its con- tinuance in the open air, it soon was lost from out of doors, and coming from a dry cool climate, it damped off when transferred to a pit; such plants indeed can be secured only through a constant repetition by cuttings, and by more care than is usually bestowed on plants with unfamiliar names. When properly grown it is an exceedingly handsome thing, flowering in August and September, and resembles a gigantic Hypericum more than an (Enothera, with which latter it has more usually been compared. The Chilian name is Flor de San José, and it has a wide range, both in Chili and Peru, growing on dry hills and ascending to 10,000 feet. Balbisia verticillata has been introduced for the second JUNE Ist, 1875. time by Messrs. Veitch, who sent the specimen here figured in September last. . Duscr. An erect shrub, three to six feet high; branches . alternate, and as well as the twigs and leaves, clothed with dense more or less silky hairs. eaves alternate and oppo- site, sessile, one-quarter to one inch long, divided to the base into narrowly lnear-oblong obtuse or acute slightly curved segments, margins quite entire and recurved; midrib very strong. lowers two to three inches in diameter, on slender terminal peduncles one to three inches long. Bracts of about ten linear leaf-like segments, placed close under the calyx. Sepals five, half an inch long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Petals five, broadly ovate-cuneate, tip rounded or retuse, golden yellow, contorted in estivation. Stamens ten, much shorter than the petals; filaments slender, yellow; anthers about as long, linear, orange-yellow. Ovary ovoid, silky, 5-celled ; stigmas five, sessile, linear, red-purple, spread- ing. Ovules many, 2-seriate in each cell. Capsule loculicidally d-valved ; valves cohering by the septa with the axis. Seeds numerous, angled; albumen thin, fleshy; cotyledons folded. —J. D. H. Fig. 1, Branch and leaves; 2, fl i ; : a all magnifi si, ; #, flower with petals removed; 3, ovary: 6771 Tas. 6171. MASDEVALLIA EstRAD®. Native of New Grenada. Nat. Ord. Orcuipex.—Tribe PLEUROTHALLIDE®. Genus Maspevatia, Ruiz § Pav. ; (Lindl. Gen. 5 Sp. Orchid., p. 192). MasprvaiLia Estrad@ ; caulibus fasciculatis, foliis 3-pollicaribus elliptico- oblongis v. spathulatis obtusis v. apice 2-dentatis in petiolum angus- tatis coriaceis vix carinatis, scapis gracilibus lente curvis foliis paulo longioribus supra medium et basin versus bracteatis, floribus adscen- dentibus, ovario brevi angulato et suleato, sepalis in tubum brevem latum campanulatum connatis in candas filiformes flavas florem exce- dentibus abrupte angustatis, supremo scaphiformi oblongo concavo. basi luteo supra medium purpureo, lateralibus oblongis planiusculis marginibus recurvis, petalis parvis dimidiato-oblongis apice obtuso. dentato basi antice in auriculam productis, labello oblongo truncato callo purpureo recurvo apiculato, columna exalata apice 3-loba. M, Estrade, Reich. f. in Gard. Chron., 1874, p. 485. Though neither so rich in colour nor grotesque in form as the species of Masdevallia lately figured in this work, the present species promises to be a favourite with cultivators from its dense habit of growth, abundant flowering, and the delicate tints of the flowers. It is a native of New Grenada, and was, according to Dr. Reichenbach’s statement in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, first observed in the garden of a New Grenada lady, Dofia Estrada, a skilful grower of Orchids. It was subsequently found by Mr. Patin, collector for Mr. Williams, of the Victoria and’ Paradise Nurseries, through whom it was thus first introduced into this country. —_. For the specimen here figured I am indebted to H. E. Cauty, Esq., of Liverpool, who sent in April last a plant with fifty-five leaves and fourteen flowers. aes Duscr. Stems densely tufted, forming a cushion-like mass of leaves. Leaves with the petioles three inches long, elliptic or cuneate-spathulate, obtuse or bifid at the tip, coriaceous, gradually narrowed into the petiole, obscurely keeled, deep green above, pale beneath. Scapes rather longer than the leaves, erect, slender, slightly curved, with one sheathing JUNE Ist, 1875. bract below the flower, and another towards the base. Flowers inclined, three inches in diameter from the tip of the upper to those of the lateral sepals. Sepals combined at the base into a short campanulate tube, then spreading, subequal, all of them abruptly contracted into siender spreading almost filiform yellow tails longer than themselves; upper sepal boat-shaped, very concave or galeate, lower half yellow, upper half violet-purple ; lateral sepals more flattened, with strongly recurved margins, violet-purple towards the lower half, the upper half white or straw-coloured. Petals very small, white, membranous, dimidiate-oblong, tip truncate and toothed, base dilated in front into an obtuse auricle. zp linear- oblong, shortly clawed, nearly white, tip provided with a terminal recurved purple callus; surface nearly smooth. Ovary angled and grooved.—/. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower with sepals removed ; 2, column and claw of lip; 3, lip :— all magnified. Tas. 6172. VIBU RNUM SanpDankwa. Native of Japan. Nat. Ord. CapriFoLiAce#.—Tribe SAMBUCEZ. Genus Visurnum, Linn.; (Benth. 5 Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. ii. p. 3). Visurnum Sandankwa ; ramis teretibus verruculosis, foliis petiolatis ellip- ticis elliptico-ovatisve obtusis v. subacutis basi rotundatis v. acutis grosse crenato-serratis v. fere integerrimis coriaceis glaberrimis, petiolo erasso 1—3-pollicari aspero, nervis paucis validis arcuatis, corymbis axillaribus v. terminalibus parvis erectis paucifloris breviter peduncu- latis glabris v. puberulis basi ebracteatis, bracteolis parvis herbaceis ovato-lanceolatis, ovario subgloboso, calycis dentibus parvis ovato- rotundatis, corolle albz tubo }-pollicari, limbi lobis suberectis concavis rotundatis. V. Sandankwa, Hassk.”Retzia, pug. i. p. 88; Mig. Prol. Fl. Jap., p. 156; Walp. Ann., vol. v. p. 96. A hardy evergreen shrub, cultivated in Japan, whence we have cultivated specimens gathered by Maximoviez at Nagaski, and native ones from the Loochoo Islands, gathered by C. Wright during the American North Pacific Exploring Expedition in 1853-6, and subsequently in the same island by Dr. Weyrich, communicated from the St. Petersburg Botanic Gardens. Hasskarl, who describes it from cultivated specimens, says that it very rarely flowers ; Miquel, in his Prolusio, gives a description of it, but no habitat ; he how- ever indicates its affinity with the Himalayan /. cylindricum, Don, and V. erubescens, Wall., to the former of which it is most nearly allied in the concave corolla limb, but differs m the short peduncle of the corymb, which is not glandular, and in the toothed leaves. V. Sandankwa has been long cultivated at the Scilly Islands, where the late proprietor, Aug. Smith, Esq., M.P., formed at Tresco Abbey a magnificent collection of half-hardy herbs, shrubs, and trees, principally procured (and this amongst them) from the Royal Gardens, Kew, and from Messrs. Veitch of the then Exeter Nurseries. This collection is now sedulously cared for by his heir, J. Dorrien Smith, Esq., JUNE Ist, 1875. who sent to Kew to be named flowering specimens of V/. Sandankwa in March last; it is not a little remarkable that a shrub, native of the Loochoo Islands, which are but little north of the tropics and within the zone of the typhoons of the Chinese Seas, should flourish in 52° N. and in the cool Atlantic Ocean. At Kew it has proved hardy, planted against a wall in a very sheltered place, but has never flowered. Duscr. A shrub four to six feet high, or small tree, branches terete, bark dark brown, warted. Leaves two to four and a half inches long, elliptic or oblong-ovate, or sub- obovate, obtuse or subacute; base rounded or cuneate ; mar- gin loosely crenate-toothed, especially above the middle, some- - times quite entire; tips of the teeth glandular ; nerves three or four on each side the midrib, strong, arched ; upper surface bright green, under paler with a few obscure glands or none ; petiole quarter to half an inch long, stout, rough. Cymes terminal and in the upper axils, short, few-flowered, shortly peduncled, suberect, pubescent, nearly globose in the cul- tivated specimens ; bracts at the base none, those at the forks small, ovate-lanceolate, herbaceous. Flowers very shortly pedicelled. Calyx-teeth small, rounded, ovate.. Corolla white, with a faint rose tinge, tube one-third to half an inch long, cylindric; lobes erecto-patent, rounded, concave. Anthers oa Preting 2 Stigma on a short stout style, 3-lobed.— Fig. 1, Flower; 2, calyx, ovary, style and stigma :—magnified. 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D \ Pye rt inceat Brooks Day 8Son Lath Tas. 6173. VANDA LIMBATA. Native of Java. Nat. Ord. Orcuipem.—Tribe VaNDEzx. Genus Vanna, Lindl. ; (Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Vanda). Vanpa limbata ; caule suberecto elato robusto, foliis distichis 6~10-pollicari- bus patenti-recurvis linearibus apice obtuse 2-lobis carinatis crasse et dure coriaceis, pedunculo elongato, racemo multifloro, floribus 2-poll. diametr., petalis sepalisque consimilibus spathulatis intus cinnamomeis disco tesselato aureo-limbatis extus albis v. pallide lilacinis, labello dorso in calear breve conicum obtusum producto, lobis lateralibus parvis rotundatis intermedio sepalis equilongo quadrato infra apicem obscure apiculatam paulo constricto lateribus deflexis pallide lilacino disco obscure 5—7-sulcato, ungue brevi callo instrueto, columna brevi cucullata. V. limbata, Blume, Rumphia, vol. iv. p.49 sub V. furva; Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Vanda, p. 6; Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann., vol. yi. p. 867. A near ally of V. insignis, as an inspection of our Plate 5759 will show, but abundantly distinct in the ieaves, form of the lip and coloration of the margins of the sepals and petals. It is almost identical with the Javanese /. furva of Blume, which is poorly figured in that author's fine work, the “Rumphia,” and which he distinguishes from /. limbata by a very slight character in the lip which I do not perceive; his figure of V. furva represents a smaller plant, with a nar- rower lip, and no golden edges to the sepals and petals. All are closely related to the old V. Rovburghii of Bengal, indifferently figured in this work (Tab. 2245), and which stands in much the same relation to its above-mentioned allies that Cypripedium Argus and the other Indian species alluded to under the Plate of that plant in this number (Tab. 6175) do to C. venustum. In both these cases the type of the group, in so far as this is represented by the first de- scribed of its species, is continental Indian, and inhabits the extreme western verge of the area occupied by the group; — and is inferior in size, in luxuriance of foliage, and especially in the brilliant colouring of the flowers to its eastern allies. JULY Ist, 1875, Many other instances of this relation between the botanical characters of Asiatic plants and their geographical distribution may be cited; and the same remark applies to the animal kingdom and especially to the insects, which are so closely correlated in form, colouring, and habits of life, with the flowers they affect. _ Vanda limbata was introduced by Messrs. Williams of Hol- loway, with whom it flowered in July of last year. Duscr. Stem in the cultivated species three feet high, as thick as the little finger, green, with long straggling roots as thick as a goosequill. Zeaves six to eight inches long, dis- tichous, linear, three-quarters to one and a half inches broad, recurved, keeled, obtusely unequally bifid at the top; dark green. taceme six to eight inches long; peduncle about as long, laxly 10-12-flowered, green; bracts minute, triangular. Pedicel and ovary nearly two inches long, white. Pertanth two inches in diameter. Sepals and petals nearly equal and similar, spathulate bright cinnamon-coloured within and _ tesselated, _ with a golden border, pale and suffused with lilac externally. Lip 3-lobed, pale lilac, produced behind into a short conic obtuse spur; lateral lobes small, rounded; midlobe as long as the sepals, quadrate, slightly fiddle-shaped, obscurely mucronate at the truncate tip, angles rounded, disk tumid, with five to seven parallel grooves, margins reflexed, claw with a prominent callus. Column short, hooded.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Ovary, lip, and column; 2, front view of lip and column :—both magnified, REY WAY pia Vincent Brook Tas. 6174. DIETES Horton1. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Nat. Ord. Intpacem.—Tribe IRIDEz. Genus Dieres, Salisb. ; (Klatt in Linnea, vol. xxxiv. p. 583). Dietes Huttoni ; rhizomatosa, vaginis basalibus brunneis scariosis, foliis ad caulem solitariis ensiformibus firmis glabris viridibus facie canaliculatis acuminatis sesquipedalibus vel bipedalibus, caule pedali sepissime bifloro bracteis pluribus navicularibus acutis cincto, spathe valvis lanceolatis acutis, pedicello bracteas superante, ovario cylindraceo, tubo supra ovarium nullo, perianthii limbo luteo, segmentis 3 exterioribus obovato-oblongis obtusis supra medium reflexis supra unguer purpureo lineatis, segmentis interioribus angustioribus brevioribus oblanceolatis erectis, stigmatibus late petaloideis, lamina perianthio duplo breviore, appendicibus apicalibus deltoideis denticulatis. Sent by Mr. Hutton from the eastern province of the Cape Colony to the Kew collection, where it flowered in the month of March of the present year. This genus Dietes is scarcely distinct from ris by any botanical character. One belongs to the Cape, and the other to the north temperate zone. Dietes catenulata, Klatt. (Morea catenulata, Ker., Bot. Reg., tab. 1074), a plant of our cool stoves, has white perianth-segments which spread from the very base when they expand. Our present plant is nearer D. bicolor, Sweet. (Iris bicolor, Lindl., Bot. Reg., tab. 1404), but is still more like an Jris than either of them, and completely connects together the two genera; and the only appreciable character in which Diefes differs from Morea, which is abundantly represented in the Cape flora, both as regards individuals and species, is that the former is rhizomatose and the latter bulbiferous. Descr. Shortly rhizomatose, with copious wiry root-fibres. Undeveloped leaves numerous, scarious, dark brown, sheathing the outside of the tufts of the stem and proper leaves. Deve- loped leaves not more than one to a stem, firm in texture, green, ensiform, one and a half or two feet long, three- quarters of an inch broad, deeply channelled down the face, JULY Ist, 1875. tapering to a long point. Stem terete, about a foot high, 2—3-flowered, covered with a close succession of lanceolate, acute, clasping bract-leaves. Pedicels two or three inches long, protruded from the bracts when developed. Ovary cylindrical, half to three-quarters of an inch long. Perianth- limb bright yellow, the outer segments obovate-oblong, obtuse, an inch and a half long, reflexing from below the middle, marked at the top of the claw with a circle of purple lines ; inner segments bright yellow, oblanceolate, rather shorter than the outer. Stigmas an inch long, broadly petaloid, with broad deltoid reflexing toothed apical appendages. Flower sweet-scented.—J. G. Baker. “> ™ ™~ ) Tap. 6175. CYPRIPEDIUM Arevs. Native of the Philippine Islands. Nat. Ord. OrcuipEm.—Tribe CyprirEDIE&. Genus Cypripepium, Lindl, ; (Endl. Gen. Plant., p. 220). Cypripepium Argus ; foliis omnibus radicalibus subdistichis oblongo-lanceo- latis acutis pallide viridibus maculis saturatioribus tesselatis, scapo. valido elongato glanduloso-pubescente rubro-fusco 1 flore, spatha ovario valde elongato multo breviore, sepalo supremo late ovato-cordato acuminato albo-purpureo striato, lateralibus connatis angustis labello suppositis, petalis lineari-oblongis obtusis undulatis margine ciliatis pallide viridibus maculis purpureis ocellatis, labelli sacco ostio retuso utrinque angulato, staminodio hippocrepiformi. Cyprirepium Argus, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 608, and 1874, p- 710. hee A very near ally indeed of the old C. darbatum of Java (Tab. nost. 4234), but differing in the very acuminate upper sepal, and the brilliant ocellated markings on the petals, as also in the much larger size, stouter habit, and longer ovary. Also allied to C. purpuratum (Tab. nost. 4901), C. Hookere (Tab. nost. 5362), and others, of which the type is the old C. venustum of Wallich (Tab. 2129). All these have a similar habit, tesselated leaves, a broad upper sepal, vari- ously-marked petals, similar sacs to the lip, and a horseshoe- shaped extremity tothe column. Allare further natives of the hotter parts of India and its Archipelago, and suggest the idea that they are races of one variable species. C. Argus 1s no doubt much the handsomest of all these; it was discovered by Mr. Wallis, Messrs. Veitch’s collector, in the Island of Luzon, one of the Philippines, and was flowered in Messrs. Veitch’s establishment in March of the present year. _ Descr. Root of stout fibres. Leaves five to eight inches long, by one to one and a half inches broad, subdistichous, oblong-lanceolate, acute, rather fleshy, nearly flat, pale green, tesselated with square dark green spots. Scape a foot high, stout, red purple, clothed with spreading glandular hairs, I-tlowered. Spathe two inches long, compressed, green, with JULY lst, 1875, a very oblique mouth, much shorter than the stout erect glandular ovary, which is sometimes four inches long. Flowers four to five inches broad across the petals. Upper sepal broadly ovate-cordate, much acuminate, white with many dark green and purple stripes ; lateral sepals combined into one ovate lanceolate blade, with a notched tip, which is placed under the lip, and is rather broader and larger than this is, pale with green stripes. Pefals longer than the upper sepal, deflexed at an angle of forty-five degrees, three inches long, linear-oblong, obtuse, whitish, faintly tinged _ with green, rose-coloured towards the tip, studded with dark purple spots, some of which are ocellated ; margins fringed with purple hairs, many of which are disposed in tufts in the marginal purple spots. Zp two inches long; sac inflated, smooth, dirty purple above ; mouth with acute raised angular margins. Staminode horseshoe-shaped with incurved points. Stigma suborbicular.—/. D. H. Fig. 1, Front; and 2, lateral view of column :—both magnified. 76. 6] Witch del et ith Vincent Brooks Day & Son Lith Tas. 6176. CROCUS miniuvs. Native of Corsica. CROCUS FL etscueri. Native of Asia Minor. Nat. Ord. In1pacrm,—Tribe Ix1ez. Genus Crocus, Linn.; (Baker in Gard. Chron., 1873). Crocus minimus; vernalis, bulbo parvo ovoideo tunicis fibroso-membranaceis, scapo brevissimo spatha basali praedito, foliis 3-5 angustissimis synanthiis albido-vittatis marginibus revolutis, spatha propria univalvi, tubo pur- pureo 2-3-pollicari, limbi segmentis oblongo-oblanceolatis obtusis purpureis sepe albo-variegatis, fauce glabra albida, antheris flavis, filamentis glabris, stigmatibus integris fulvis. C, minimus, DC. Fl. Franc., v. iii. p.243; Red. Lil., t. 81; Reich. Ic. Crit., t. 1267; Ic. Fl. Germ., t. 7953; et aliorum, (non Bot. Mag., tab. 2994). C. insularis, Gay in Bull. Feruss., 1831, p. 221; Bot. Reg., 1843, t. 21; Herbert in Journ. Hort. Soc., vol, ii. p. 261. Crocus Fleischeri ; vernalis, bulbo ovoideo tunicis fibrosis, scapo brevissimo, spatha basali nullo, foliis pluribus angustissimis glabris albo-vittatis marginibus valde revolutis, tubo albido bipollicari, spatha propria univalvi, limbi segmentis albis oblongis subacutis dorso longitudinaliter purpureo-lineatis, fauce glabra lutea, antheris citrinis, filamentis glabris, stigmatibus fulvis multifidis, — C, Fleischeri, Gay in Bull. Feruss., 1831, p. 219. C. Fleischerianus, Herbert in Journ. Hort. Soc., vol. ii. p. 278. C. candidus, “ Clarke” ex Boiss. Diag., No. 13, p. 16. These are two welcome additions to our stock of spring Crocuses grown in this country. C. minimus was in the country before, but has been lost for many years, indeed till now, when Mr. George Maw has brought it again from Corsica. It is frequent in that island, flowering in low situations in January, and upon the mountains up to March, and occurs also in Sardinia. It is the smallest of all the spring- flowering Crocuses, and is most like some of the varieties of versicolor, but it has been confounded in this country with JU LY Ist, 1875. biflorus, a form of which was figured under the name of minimus in Plate 2994 of this Magazine. Crocus Fleischeri is another interesting addition to our stock of garden bulbs, made by Mr. Elwes, in his tour in Asia Minor last spring. It is a very distinct plant, and has never been in cultivation before. The points which best mark it from other spring-flowering species are the divided stigmas and very complicated bulb-coats, the fine fibres of which are plaited in regular vertical strands. It was discovered on limestone hills near Smyrna, by the botanist whose name it bears, and we have it also from Cilicia, gathered by Aucher Eloy, and from Lycia, gathered by the late Professor Edward Forbes. The specimen drawn came from the rich collection of the Rev. H. Harpur Crewe. Drsor. of C. minimus. Corm ovoid, very small, the tunics slightly fibrous. Basal spathe present. Leaves three to five to a fascicle, reaching as high as the flower, not more thana line © broad, with a distinct white central band and very revolute edges. Proper spathe one-valved, but the valve occasionally bifid at the apex. Perianth-tube purple, about a couple of inches long. Limé an inch or less long in wild specimens, the divisions blunt oblanceolate-oblong, mixed purple and white, — the outer usually tinged with yellow on the outside, the throat white and glabrous. Azthers yellow, a quarter or half an inch long, equalling or exceeding the glabrous fila- ments. Stigmas deep orange-red, entire, gradually widening from the base to the tip. - Desor. of C. Fleischeri. Corm ovoid middle-sized, the coats made up of fine fibres plaited in regular strands. Basal spathe absent. Leaves overtopping the flower, six to twelve to a corm, very narrow, with a distinct white band and revolute edges. Proper spathe monophyllous, sometimes cleft at the tip. Tube about a couple of inches long, white with purple stripes. Perianth-limb an inch or more deep, the segments oblong subacute, pure white with lilac stripes down the back, the throat yellow, glabrous. PPR ry ee Re i a TAB, 6191. TULIPA EICHLERI. Native of Georgia. * SaEara ae Me eneks ee ae | Nat. Ord, Littacea.—Tribe TuLipex, 21! Oe Genus TuLrpa, Linn. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc.; vol.'xiv. p. 275). nS Tuutra Eichleri ; bulbo ovoideo glabro tunicis fuscis brevibus apice intus strigoso- pilosis, caule elongato unifloro sub lente dense puberulo foliis 3-5 lanceolatis glauco-viridibus superne minutissime puberulis marginibus planis levibus, _ seapo gracili, perianthio aperte campanulato 3-4 poll. diam., segmentis omni- bus conformibus obovatis cuspidatis sanguineo-coccineis basi macula magna violacea flavo-maculata, staminibus perianthio dimidio brevioribus, antheris purpureo-brunneis filamenta nigra «#quantibus, ovario obtuse 3-gono sta- ae paulo breviore, stigmatis sessilis ramis crassis horizontalibus undu- tis. T. Eichleri, Regel. Gartenfl., v. 23 (1874), n. 193, t. 799. Baker, in Gard. Chron., 1875, p. 620. When figuring the no less gorgeous Tulipa Greigi for this volume (Tab. 6177), allusion was made to three striking new Tulips, which, “though coming from different localities, re- sembled one another very closely in both a botanical and horticultural point of view.” We have here the second of these, which is the latest discovered of them, not being in- cluded in Mr. Baker’s careful monograph of the genus pub- lished only a year ago. It belongs to the group Scabriscape of Baker, all the species of which are natives of the Medi- terranean region, from Italy eastward to the Levant, and of the Caspian region extending to Turkestan. This indeed 1s the principal area inhabited by Tulipa, for very few of its species (nearly fifty are described) reach the extreme east of Asia; only one is found in India (7’. stellata, Hook.), and that is confined to the North-eastern Himalayas, and one (7. edulis, Baker) in Japan. The 7. Lichleri was dis- covered by the traveller, whose name it bears, in the Baker district of Georgia. : . I am indebted to Mr. Elwes for the fine flowering speci- men of 7. Kichleri, which flowered ‘in his rich collection last spring, and also fora bulb which he has presented to the Royal Gardens. Descr. Bulb in our specimen small, ovoid, hardly two inches long, covered with a brown, smooth tissue, which is bristly on the inner surface towards the tip. S¢em six inches high, leafy, stout, one-flowered, pubescent. Leaves alternate, lower twelve to fifteen inches long by two broad, upper smaller, sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, glaucous green, mi- nutely pubescent above, margins plane andsmooth. Scape slender. Flower three inches in diameter, broadly companu- late; perianth-segments obovate, rounded at the top with a mucro, deep scarlet, with a broad, wedge-shaped, dark violet- blue spot at the base, which is margined with yellow. Séa- mens less than half the length of the perianth-segments ; anthers violet-brown, as long as the black filaments, Ovary trigonous ; stigmas horizontal, with recurved tips, very thick, undulated, pale yellow.—J. D. H. 6192. W Fitch del et Lith Vincent Brooks Day Sei Tmp Tas. 6192. HETERA NTHERA trmosa. Native of America. Nat. Ord, PONTEDERIACEA, Genus HETERANTHERA, Ruiz and Pav. (Seubert in Mart. Flor. Bras. Ponted., p. 87.) HETERANTHERA limosa, cespitosa, subacaulis, glaberrima, foliis longe petiolatis ovatis v. oblongo- v. rotundato-ovatis obtusis striato-venosis, petiolo crasso articulato fistuloso, pedunculis sessilibus petiolis multo brevioribus unifloris, spatha angusta subulato-acuminata, perianthii tubo angusto- pollicari, limbi fere xqualis 14 poll. diam. czrulei lobis lineari-oblongis obtusis, staminibus subequalibus, filamentis antheras lineari-oblongas sub- equilongis, stigmate clavato oblique truncato apice crenato. H. limosa, Vahl, Enum. v. 2, p. 44. Pursh, Fl. N. Am., v. 1, p. 32. Benth. Pl. Hartweg, p. 25. Griseb. Fl. Brit. Ind.,p. 590. A. Gray, Bot. N. U, States, ed. 2, p. 485. Seubert in Mart. Flor. Bras., vol. 3, part 1, p. 89. H. alismoides, Humb. et Bonpl. ex Link, Jahrb., v. 3, p. 73. Le ptanthus ovalis, Mich. Fl. Bor. Am., v. 1, p. 25, t. 5. Pontederia limosa, Swartz, Prod. p. 37, Fl. Ind. Occ., v. 1, p- 611. Sloane, Hist. Jam., 1, t. 149, f. 1. . A very pretty water-plant of wide distribution, inhabiting very wet marshes from Virginia to Venezuela and Brazil, and likely to become a favourite for cultivation in tropical aquaria, where it may be grown in pots standing in the water. As far as I am aware, but one species of the genus Heteranthera had hitherto been cultivated in Europe, namely the i grammea of Vahl, a very insignificant submerged species, a native of North America, which was introduced into the Glasgow Botanical Garden half a century ago, along with Vallisnerea spiralis, and is well figured in Hooker’s “ Exotic Flora,” tab. 94, under the generic name of Leptanthus. About a dozen species of the genus are described, some of which, _—- spikes of blue flowers, are no doubt worthy of cultiva- ion, Seeds of H. limosa were sent from Santa Martha, in New Grenada, to the Royal Gardens by M. Endres, which ger- minated and flowered in the short space of a few weeks. M. Endres states that it grew in brackish pools. It flowers at Kew from May onwards. It isa plant of very wide range, from the warm temperate region of the United States (Illinois and Virginia) to Bahia in Brazil. Descr. Quite glabrous, tufted, stemless. Leaves erect, long-petioled, one to two inches long, from orbicular-ovate to almost lanceolate, obtuse, pale bright green on both surfaces, striated with numerous veins; petiole six to ten inches long, stout, cylindric, transparent, transversely jointed, fistular. Peduncle one-half to one inch long, 1-flowered, apparently springing from the side of a petiole towards its base, but in reality from a short branch that gives off a leaf and a peduncle, which latter is embraced at the base by the sheath of the petiole of the leaf. Spathe green, embracing the tube of the flower, subulate-acuminate. Perianth-tube slender, one to one and a half inch long; limb as much in diameter, bright vio.et blue; segments linear-oblong, obtuse. Filaments nearly equal, subulate, about equalling the linear-oblong anthers. Ovary narrow ; stigma clavate, obliquely truncate, crenate at the © top.—J. D. H. Fig. 1.—Perianth-tube and stamens; 2, upper part of perianth-tube laid open, with stamens and stigma; 3, ovary; 4, transverse section of ditto :—all magnified. 6193 | b | 2 = ay &Son imp i Vincent Brooks | Tas. 6193. OXALIS ARENARIA. Native of Chili. Nat. Ord. OXALIDEA, Genus OXALIs, Linn. ; Benth. and Hook., f. Gen, Pl., v. i., p. 276. OXALIS arenaria; acaulis, glaberrima, rhizomate tuberoso, foliis 3-4-foliolatis foliolis sessilibus bilobo-obcordatis subtus glaucis, scapo gracillimo petiolis multoties longiore, umbellis 3-10-floris, bracteis minutis ovato-subulatis recurvis, pedicellis gracilibus, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusisdorso apices versus 2-glandulosis, petalis sepalis triplo longioribus cuneato-obcordatis purpureis, filamentis puberulis in cupulam turbinatam basi connatis, ovario oblongo-ovoideo, stylis brevibus. O. arenaria, Bertero et Colla, Plant. rar Chil., p. 10, t. 3; Walp. Rep., i, 485 ; C. Gay, Flor. Chil., v.i., p. 454. The genus Ovalis, once a favourite amongst amateur horticulturists, has of late years experienced the neglect that has overtaken so many interesting classes of herbaceous plants. Upwards of one hundred and thirty species, chiefly natives of South Africa, have been figured as under cultiva- tion in Europe. By far the larger number of these are con- tained in the beautiful Monograph of the genus published by the elder Jacquin in 1794, from specimens cultivated in the Imperial Gardens at Vienna. In 1808 fifty-eight species were in the Kew collection, where there are now only thirty ; and no species has been figured in this Magazine for a quarter of a century, when (1850) the lovely 0. elegans of the Andes, Tab. 4490, appeared. Happily a love of the genus lingers amongst scientific horticulturists, to one of whom, G. Munby, Esq., I owe the opportunity of figuring the present species. Oxalis arenaria is a native of Chili, where it is widely distributed, being found in sandy pastures near Valparaiso, Santiago, and other localities. It has also been gathered on the Andes of Bolivia, by Mandon, in the neighbourhood of Sorata, at an elevation of between eight and nine thousand feet above the sea-level. The specimen here figured flowered with Mr. Munby in March. : Descr. Quite glabrous. Rhizome of fleshy scales forming together an ovoid tuber as large as a hazel-nut. Leaves all radical, three- to four-foliolate ; petiole very slender ; leaf- lets sessile, one-third to nearly an inch long, obcordate, with broad rounded lobes, and an open sinus, pale bright-green above, glaucous beneath. Scapes twice as long as the petioles or more, very slender. Usmbelthree- to ten-flowered ; involucral bracts very small, green, ovate-subulate or lanceo- - late, recurved; pedicels one to two inches long. Flowers one to one and a quarter inch in diameter, bright violet- purple. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, green, with a double gland near the tip on the back. Petals much longer than the sepals, cuneate-obcordate, with a shallow sinus. Stamens united into a turbinate cup at the base. Ovary ovoid-oblong; styles short.—J. D. H. Fig. 1. Flower with the perianth removed; 2, ovary :—both magnified. 6194 Witch, del et ith, Vincent Bross Day Son.bap Tas. 6194, CRASSULA Botvst. Native of South Africa. Nat. Ord, CRASsULACEZ. Genus Crassus, Linn, (Benth. and Hook., f. Gen. Pl., v. i., p. 657). CrassuLA (Squamulose) Bolusii; parvula, diffuse ramosa, ramis gracilibus laxe foliosis adscendentibus teretibus sparse patentibus pilosis'apice floriferis, foliis 1 poll. longis patulis elliptico-lanceolatis acutis marginibus ciliatis ceterum glaberrimis radicalibus pollicaribus lineari-spathulatis omnibus carnosis dorso semiteretibus facie conyexis viridibus nigro maculatis v. fasicatis, floribus corymbosis 4 unc. diameter. breviter pedicillatis, calycis segmentis ovatis acutis ciliatis, petalis oblongis subacutis dorso infra apicem mucronulatis carneis, glandulis hypogynis brevibus emarginatis, carpsllis ovoideo-lanceolatis in stylos breves attenuatis, stigmatibus puactiformibus. A very pretty little Cape succulent, apparently not in- cluded in Harvey and Sonder’s Cape Flora. It was dis- covered by Mr. H. Bolus, near Graafreinet, who sent both living and dried specimens to Kew, As a species it is closely allied to C. Cooperi (Regel Gartenfl., 1874, p. 36, t. 786), a widely distributed Cape species, but differs in the less — Straggling habit, much longer and narrower radical leaves, and in the dark blotches on the foliage. The specimen here figured is from plants sent to Kew by Mr. Bolus in 1874, which flowered in the Succulent House in July of the present year. Descr. A small, bright green, tufted, perennial herb. Stems ascending, three to five inches high, slender, leafy at the base, sparingly so higher up, very sparsely clothed with spreading short white hairs. Leaves fleshy, pale green, with dark, almost black blotches, one-third to one-half inch long, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, the lowest often one inch long, and more or less spathulately oblanceolate, upper surface convex, the lower almost semiterete, margin with a row of white rather recurved cilia, otherwise perfectly glabrous. Flowers very small, one-sixth inch diameter, in terminal corymbose cymes, very shortly pedicelled. 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PRoTeINoPHALLUS,—Spatha basi convoluta; lamina ampla cordato- orbiculari acuta explanata ad 20-costata, marginibus recurvis. Spadiz _Spa- tham longe superans, inferne continuo-androgynus organibus neutris 0; appendice elongato fusiformi subulato, sensim acuminato. Antherz conferta, filamento crasso zquilatz, 2-loculares, 2-porose. Ovaria nume- rosa, dense conferta, globosa, 2-3-locularia; stylus brevis, columnaris, stigmate capitato 3-lobo ; ovula in loculis solitaria, angulo interiori prope bari adnata, anatropa. : : Herba lata, Cochinchinensis, radice magno tuberoso. _ Folium serotinum, longe crasse petiolatum, lamina amplissema, trisecta, segmentis bipinnatifidis. Seapus elongatus, strictus, gracilis. Spathe tubus ovoideus ; lamina 1} ped. diametro, saturate luride purpurea, nervis impressis, nervulis transversis Juncts. Organa mascula cum femineis continua. Spadicis appendix pedalis et ultra, basi lobulatus, luride purpureus, lente curvus, PROTEINOPHALLUS Rivieri, Hook. f. : AMORPHOPHALLUS Rivieri, Durieu in Rev. Hortic., 1870, p. 573; 1872, p. 19; 1873, pp. 305 et 344. Gard Chron., 1873, p. 610, cum Ic. xylog. A. palmeeformis, Riv. MSS, To Mr. Bull belongs the credit of importing and first flowering in England the two most gigantic and singular herbaceous Aroids known to us of late years, namely, the Godwinia gigas (Tab. nost. 6048) and the subject of the present plate. The latter plant, though hitherto figured only by an uncoloured but excellent woodcut in the Gardener’s Chronicle, is already well known to horticulturists as a hardy plant, suited to open-air cultivation even in England—a fact strangely inconsistent (if Nature can be inconsistent) with that of its native climate being the eminently hot and humid one of Cochin-China, whence it was introduced into Europe by M. Riviére, jardinier-en-chef of the Luxemburg Palace Garden in Paris. I have been led, after careful consideration of the structure of this plant, to reject it from Amorphophallus, a genus with which I was well acquainted in India, and from which, except in the form of the leaf, it differs greatly in habit, as it does in certain floral characters. In Amorphophallus proper the spathe is almost sessile, expanded almost from the base into an irregularly-plaited, funnel-shaped limb, with a lobed lip all round; the spadix is very short, with a deformed appendix (whence the generic name); the style is very long and slender, and the ovules have longer funicles. Schott, indeed, in his “Synopsis Aroidearum,” would have excluded the present plant from the subtribe Amorphopallidew, which he charac- NovemsBer Ist, 1875. terises by the spathe not being convolute below, and by the ovules having Jong funicles, and would have included it under that of Hydrosminee (an African group), with the spathe convolute and tubular below, and the ovules attached by a broad base. My impression is, however, that these sub- tribes are not distinguishable as such. I have only further to advert to the remarkable uniformity of leaf-structure in these gigantic Aroids, that of Proteinophallus being not only characteristic of the tribe Pythoniew, but occurring amongst the Dracontiece in Godwinia, a genus as far removed as _ possible from the Amorphophalli. Descr. Root three to twelve inches in diameter, often weigh- ing several pounds. Petiole eighteen inches high, as thick as the finger, cylindric, mottled with brown; blade of leaf dark green, two feet in diameter; 3-partite, the three principal divisions shortly stalked, deltoid, deeply pinnatifid ; segments spread- ing, oblong, again pinnatifid ; ultimate lobes ovate, acuminate, convex, with a single costa and spreading lateral veins. Flowering-stem produced before the leaf, nearly three feet high and upwards of one inch in diameter, cylindric, strict, very dark brownish-green, clothed at the very base with loose erect spathes that are pale and mottled with greenish-brown. Spathe with a conyolute tube six inches long and three in diameter, limb nearly horizontal, orbicular, acuminate, four feet in circumference, about 15-nerved, the nerves deeply sunk and united by transverse venules; convolute portion contracted at the top, pale green with very dark green spots and purple edges; limb of spathe dark vinous purple, with a green lustre; margins recurved, involute, and as it were auricled at their meeting above the tube. Spadiz almost twice as long as the spathe; female portion two inches long and one and a quarter in diameter, cylindric, densely clothed with greenish-purple ovaries; male portion contiguous, three inches long, densely clothed with vertically elongate anthers; appendix fifteen inches long; cylindric, gradually tapering from the lobulate base to the acute tip, irregularly marked with longitudinal depressions of the same colour as the spathe. Anthers sessile, 2-celled, with two pores vertically placed. Ovary globose, 2-3-celled ; style short but distinct, stigma capitate 2-3-lobed; ovules one in each cell, anatropous, attached to the placenta towards its base by a broad face.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Root and leaf; 2, flowerin 1 size ; 3 : ; g stem, both one quarter the natural size ; % inflorescence one half the natural size; 4, female nies ot spadix of the natural size; 5, stamens : ‘ ig : . aati fol. ens ; 6, grey ; 7, vertiee ; 8 and 9, transverse sections of ditto, “Vincent Brodkes Day & Son tmp Tas. 6196. FERULA (EURYANGIUM) Sumsvt. Native of Turkestan. Nat. Ord, Umper.irer®.—Tribe PEUCEDANES, | Genus Ferua, Linn, (Benth, et Hook. f., Gen. Plant, vol. i., p. 917). Frervuta (Evryanarum) Sumbul ; elata, glauca, glabriuscula, caule stricto solido, foliis radicalibus patulis rigidis pro planta parvis minute sparse puberulis ambitu triangulari-deltoideis 3-pinnatim sectis, petiolo robusto lamina breviore, vagina brevi, rachibus pinnarum basi incrassatis, pinnulis polli- caribus cuneato-obovatis margine inferiore decurrente apices versus crenato- lobulatis subpinnatifidisve pallide viridibus glaucisque, inflorescentie elon- gate angustz ramis sparsis gracilibus alternis erecto-patentibus, umbellis secus ramos alternis superioribusve oppositis crassiuscule pedunculatis, bracteis ad basin ramorum et umbellarum ovato-v.-oblongo-lanceolatis flavis membranaceis, umbellis 1-2 poll. diametro, exinvolu cratis, radiis 7-10, umbellulis ad 20. floris radiis brevissimis, floribus parvis confertis flavis, calyce obsoleto, petalis incurvis ovato-acuminatis, vittis 4 dorsalibus (in carpellis immaturis) in valleculis solitariis maximis, 2 commissuralibus parvis. EurYANGIuM Sumbul, Kauffmann in Nov. Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Mosc., v. xii. (1871), p. 253, t. 24, 25; Flickiger et Hanbury, Pharmacop., p. 278. Two roots of this fetid drug were received at Kew from the Director of the Imperial Garden at Moscow in 1872, of which one rotted, and the other, planted in the Herbaceous ground amongst stones, and sheltered in winter, threw up leaves in the first year, and in the second leaves and a flowering stem nine feet high, from which materials the accompanying plate was made in July last, after which the whole plant died. : Unfortunately, owing to the wetness of the season, the flowers, which were copiously impregnated by bees, yielded no ripe fruit, though the carpels continued to swell for several days amid cloud and rain. The plant isa native of Turkestan, where it inhabits mountains east of Samarkand, at an elevation of 3000-4000 feet. It was there discovered by the celebrated oe ae Fedschenko in 1869, who sent roots to Moscow in 2 According to Fliickiger and Hanbury’s admirable work quoted above, the Sumbul plant here described—which 1s remarkable for the fetid, musky, and milky juice of its root-— was introduced into Russia in 1835 as a substitute for musk and a remedy for cholera; thence it reached Germany in 1840 and England in 1850, where it was admitted into the Pharmacopeeia in 1867. In commerce the root is imported in transverse slices one to five inches in diameter, with a dry Novemser Ist, 1875, papery bark, resinous inner surface, and spongy farinaceous central portion, which has a musky odour and bitter aromatic taste. To us the odour of the root, whether fresh or dry, is detestable, resembling putrid musk, and it is very penetrating and durable. Another kind of Sumbul is alluded to by the same authors as Indian Sumbul, it is described in Pereira’s ‘Elements of Materia Medica’; and a third has been im- ported into England from China. Both these are of unknown origin. As a genusI cannot regard Zuryangium as separable from Ferula, with which it agrees in habit, inflorescence, foliage, flowers, and form of fruit ; it differs in the great size of the solitary vitte. The vitte are, however, a most inconstant character in Ferula, varying even in the same species ; and if Narthex is included in it, so must also be Euryangium, as a section at the most. Descr. Root fusiform, a foot long, crowned with a tuft of the bristly remains of old leaves, spongy within, and full of fetid milk. Leaves puberulous, all radical, petioled ; petiole a foot long; blade three feet in diameter, deltoid in outline, 3-pinnatifid, pale green, rachis of primary and secondary segments terete, swollen at the base; ultimate pinnee laxly pin- natifid, segments rhomboid-cuneate, obtusely crenate and cut at the apex, pale green, glaucous beneath, nerves flabellate. Stems trict, erect, solid above, nine feet high, terete, obscurely striate, one inch in diameter at the base, bearing a few scattered subsessile imperfect leaves. Inflorescence sparse, elongate, oblong in outline; branches erecto-patent, alter- nate, bearing alternate or rarely opposite compound umbels one and a half to two and a half inches in diameter; rachis and branches green; bracts at the axils linear- oblong, membranous, subacute, yellow. Umbels of six to eight rays. Jnvolucre none. Partial umbels one-quarter to one-half inch in diameter, peduncles one-half to three- quarters of an inch long. Flowers one-sixth of an inch in diameter, crowded, very shortly pedicelled, outer herma- phrodite, inner smaller. Calyz-teeth very obscure. Petals tri- angular-lanceolate, yellow, incurved. Stamens seated around a disk, filaments short, incurved Anthers yellow. Disk cup- shaped, fleshy, with waved, almost sinuate margins. Stylo- pods small, sunk in the disk; styles very short, recurved, obtuse. Ovary with five very large vitte between the dorsal ridges, and two small commissural ones.—J. D. H. ae} aa Plant, much reduced ; 2, portion of leaf; 3, inflorescence of 6197 Vincent Brooks Day &5on bap Tas. 6197. CROCUS vxetucHensis. Native of Greece and Transylvania. Nat. Ord. I[rn1pE&.—Tribe Ix1Ez, Genus Crocus, Tourn. (Baker in Gard. Chron., 1873). Crocus veluchensis ; vernalis, cormo globoso tunicis fibrosis subtiliter reticulatis, spatha basali nulla, foliis 3-6 synanthiis anguste linearibus albo-vittatis, spatha propria bivalvi, perianthii tubo limbum duplo superante, fauce con- colore pilosulo, segmentis 1-14 poll. longis obtusis violaceis spe apice albo maculatis, antheris luteis filamentos albos superantibus vel equilongis, stigmate aurantiaco ramis tribus clavato-petaloideis subintegris. Crocus veluchensis, Herbert in Bot. Reg., v. 31, Misc., p. 72; Bot. Reg., v. 33, tab. 4, fig. 4.; Journ. Hort.. Soc., New Series, v. 2., p. 274; Schur FU. Transyl., p. 652. C. thessalus, Boiss, et Sprun., Diag. Pl. Ortent., No. 13, p. 17. C. exiguus, Schur Fl. Transyl,, p. 652. _ Very near Crecus Sieberi (Tab. nost. 6036), from which it mainly differs by the throat of the perianth being con- colorous instead of bright yellow. It was discovered by Signor Vrioni whilst collecting for the late Dean Herbert on Mount Veluchi ( Tymphrestus), near the northern border of Greece (not the Morea, as inadvertently stated by Herbert in his final monograph of the genus in the Journal of the Horticultural Society), and has since been found on the Parnassus range, and in the mountains of Thessaly, Thrace, and Transylvania. The abrupt white tip to the otherwise purple perianth-segments, shown in the plant drawn in the Botanical Register, is not a specific character. We have lately received from Colonel Trevor Clarke a flower of @. vernus with perfectly similar coloration. C. veluchensis is still a very rare plant in cultivation. The plate was drawn from specimens sent by the Rev. H. Harpur Crewe, who received it from Herr Leichtlin. It flowers in spring at the same time as vernus and Sieberi. : Descr. Corms very small, globose, the outer tunics made up of finely-reticulated fibres, like those of C. vernus and Stieber’. Basal spathe absent. Leaves three to six, produced at the same time as the flowers, narrow linear, with November Isr, 1875, a distinct white costal band. Proper spathe of two linear valves, which reach to the top of the tube. Perianth-tube two to three inches long, violet on the outside; throat con- colorous, finely pilose; limb one to one and a half inch deep, the divisions oblong-spathulate, obtuse, deep violet pale violet or white, without any distinct striping. Stamens reaching more than halfway up the limb. Anthers lemon- yellow, equalling or exceeding the pilose white filaments. Stigma orange-yellow, overtopping the anthers, the three clavate-petaloid forks only fringed at the tips.— J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, Fibres of tunic; 2, stigmas :—both magnified, 6798 5 g a te W ¥ Vincent Brocks Day & Soniarp Tas. 6198. CARICA CANDAMARCENSIS. Native of the Andes of Ecuador. Nat. Ord. PassIFLOREZ.—Tribe PAPAYACE, Genus Carica, Linn, (Benth, et Hook. f., Gen. Plant., v. i., p. 815). CaRICA CANDAMARCENCIS; caule gracile stricto, foliis longe petiolatis subtus petioloque molliter pubescenti-tomentellis ambitu orbiculatis profunde cor- datis sinu basi rotundato ad medium fere 5-lobis, lobis latis 3-lobulatis, lobulis ovatis oblongisve acuminatis, lobis basalibus extus auriculato- lobulatis, superne glabris saturate viridibus nervis tomentellis venulis impressis, subtus pallidis nervis validis prominentibus, corymbis axillaribus breviter pedunculatis floribus monoicis terminali sepius foeminea ceteris masculis, omnibus brevissime pedicellatis, calycis lobis triangulari-subulatis, corolle viridis tubo } pollicari, lobis linearibus revolutis, staminibus fauce tubi insertis biseriatis, filamentis crassis brevibus, antherarum loculis con- nectivo incrassato apice abrupte subulato adnatis, fructibus oblongo- obovoideis 5-locularibus apiculatis basi constrictis obscure et obtuse 5-gonis inter angulos depressis. C. candamarcensis, Hort, Belg. The graceful little tree here described was raised from seeds sent from the Ecuadorian Andes by the late Professor Jameson, of Quito, to the late Mr. Hanbury, with whom it flowered in an open border at Clapham in 1874. A speci- men received from him again both flowered and fruited abun- dantly at Kew during the past summer and autumn, in the open air, where it was stood out after being brought into bud im a greenhouse. According to Mr. Hanbury this is the species mentioned by Mr. Spruce in his and M. de Mello’s very learned and interesting paper on the Papayacee, published in the Journal of the Linnean Society quoted above, as the Chambiiru, or common Carica, of the Ecuado- rian Andes, where it is cultivated up to an elevation of 9000 feet for the sake of its edible fruit, Mr. Spruce adds that when he visited the mountain of Tunguragua in February, 1858, the ground was strewed with its ripe and rotting fruits, which were smaller and sweeter than that of the common Papaw, and were the favourite food of the bears that infest the forests of that mountain. The trunk he describes as being as stout as that of the common Papaw, and the leaves even larger; the fruits as being 8-9 inches long, and some- times nearly as broad; the flesh white (not yellow, as the common Papaw), soft, and with a pleasant flavour, being sometimes very acid in cool sites. It will be seen from our drawing and description that, as might be expected, the trunk is smaller with us than in Ecuador, November Isr, 1875. as also that the flesh is not white within, but yellow. I can vouch for the delicious scent and grateful taste of the fruit, in both which qualities it widely differs from the common Papaw, which is not, in my opinion, worth cultivating for the dessert- table, while this is so decidedly ; it, moreover, makes a much handsomer greenhouse plant than the Papaw. According to De Mello and Spruce, thirty-three or thirty- five species of Carica (including Vasconcelle) are known to them, of which upwards of twenty are Andean, and the rest natives of other parts of tropical America. The name Chambiiru is, according to Mr. Spruce, applied to ail the larger-fruited Andean species. I have found no authority for that of candamarcensis, under which specimens have been received from Belgian nurseries. Descr. Stem in our plants eight feet high, as thick at the base as the fore-arm, strict, erect, tapering upwards, tomen- tose at the top. eaves numerous, subterminal, spreading, dark green above, pale beneath; petiole one to one and a half feet long, strict, terete, horizontal, and as well as the blade beneath and its nerves above densely clothed with fine, soft, pale pubescence ; blade one and a half foot in diameter, nearly circular in outline, 5-lobed to the middle, with the terminal lobe slightly produced, deeply cordate at the base, where the sinus is rounded at the petiole, but usually closed at a distance from it by the overlapping lobules of the two basal lobes; lobes palmately spreading, pinnatifid, 3-5-lobulate, the ultimate divisions spreading, broadly oblong, suddenly acumi- nate, entire or with an acute lobule or tooth on one or both sides ; upper surface glabrous, shining, with yellowish ribs and nerves, and sunk venules; lower surface with very stout prominent ribs, nerves, and venules. Flowers green, pube- scent, in very shortly peduncled axillary corymbs, almost sessile on the peduncle. Calyz-lobes minute, subulate. Corolla- tube one-third of an inch long, terete; lobes linear, revolute. Stamens in two series at the mouth of the tube; anther-cells linear, adnate to the face of the short thickened filaments ; connective with an incurved subulate point. Fruct three inches long and upwards, oblong-obovoid, apiculate, some- what contracted at the base, obscure ; 5-angled, with hollowed sides between the angles, bright golden yellow, very fragrant and sweet, 5-celled. Seeds a quarter of an inch long, aril transparent. Fig. 1, Reduced plant ; 2, inflorescence ; 3, flower laid open; 4, two stamens; and rudimentar ; 6, fruit - ‘ + -—all but figs- 2'and 6 magnified, y ovary; 6, fruit ; 7 and 8, seeds with aril :—al/ but fig a B 3 i ze . Vincent Brooks Day 8 Son imp Tas. 6199. DENDROBIUM AM@NUM. Native of Nipal and Sikkim. Nat. Ord. Orncuiprz.—Tribe DENDROBIER, Genus Denpropium, Swartz (Lindl., Gen. et Sp. Orchid., p. 74). DENDIOBIUM amanum; caulibus gracilibus elongatis pendulis teretibus foliiferis viridibus, foliis laxis 3-4-pollicaiibus _lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis vaginisque teretibus viridibus, caulibus floriferis multo longioribus aphyllis teretibus ad nodos vix incrassatis, vaginis pallidis, internodiis 13- ad 2-polli- caribus, floribus ad nodos solitariis v. in pendunculo communi perbrevi 2-3, pedicellis gracilibus pollicaribus, ovario brevi, perianthio 2 poll. diametr. ex- planato albo apicibus foliolorum purpureo-reseis, sepalis petalisque patenti- recurvis convexis obtuse acuminatis, labello basi breviter conyoluto, limbo cucullato obscure 3-lobo, marginibus undulatis, tubo intus flavo, limbo subacuto intus pubescente marginibus erosis, calcare semi-pollicari recto truncato. D, ancenum, Wall. in Lindl, Gen. et Sp. Orchid., p. 79, et in Bot, Reg., 1874, _Misc., p. 19; Reich. f. in Walp. Ann., V. Vi., P- 286. ? Limodorum aphyllum, Roxb. Cor. Pl., v. i. p. 84, t. 41. ? Cymbidium aphyllum, Swartz in Nov. Act. Ups., v. vi. p. 78, &e.: Sp. Pl., v. iv., p. 100; Roxb, Fl. Ind., v. iii., p. 462. Willd. One of the earliest discovered, but latest imported species of the magnificent and now enormous genus to which it belongs; remarkable not only for its great beauty and the delicacy of the colours and texture of its flowers, but for its fragrance, which Wallich well described as exquisite, and not unlike that of Olea fragrans. Whilst referring this te D. amenum of Wallich, I must enter a caution as to its being considered the Limodorum aphyllum of Roxburgh, which has been referred to it by Lindley and others. In the first place, Roxburgh’s plant comes from a very different locality, namely, the Coromandel coast; in the second, it has no pink colouring towards the tips of the perianth-segments ; 1n the third place, the flowers are solitary; and in the fourth, Roxburgh makes no mention of the sweet odour so character- istic of this plant. There is a sketch of D. amcnum, but of a form with a much narrower (perhaps unexpanded) lip amongst Cathcart’s drawings of Sikkim plants preserved in the Kew Library, and I find a flower of it in Lindley’s Herbarium from Chatsworth, but no good specimens any- NovEeMBER Ist, 1875. where. I cannot but suspect its being a variety of D. primulinum, together with the Coromandel plant and other allied forms. The specimen from which the accompanying drawing was made was flowered by Mr. Bull, who received it from the Himalaya (probably Sikkim), where it was found at an elevation of 5000 feet. It flowered in June, 1874, in his. nursery. Descr. 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Ord. LinaceE£,—Tribe ‘TULIPE#, Genus CaLocnortus, Pursh. (Baker in Linn, Journ., vol. 14, p. 302). CaLocuortus (Mariposa) citrinus ; bulbo oyoideo, caule corymboso 3-4-cephalo basin versus furcato, foliis linearibus semipedalibus glauco-viridibus, floribus suberectis, sepalis 14 poll longis lanceolatis dorso viridulis facie flavidis prope basin maculatis, petalis bipollicaribus rotundato-cuneatis cuspidatis citrinis, facie haud zonatis prorsus pilis purpureis decoratis, supra unguem nudam foveola flavida dense barbata praeditis, genitalibus perianthio duplo brevioribus, antheris cylindricis apiculatis filamento lanceolato zequilongis, ovario clavato, stylis brevibus falcatis. This is a fine new species of that section of the genus Calochortus specially favoured by cultivators, which I have followed Professor Wood in calling Mariposa. The species known previously are C. venustus, Leichtlinit, Gunnison, splendens, macrocarpus, and luteus. They all come from either British Columbia, the Rocky Mountains, or California, and, with care, are hardy in our London gardens. The present plate was drawn from a plant which flowered last summer with Mr. G. F, Wilson in a cool greenhouse at Weybridge, the bulb of which was given to him by Mr. Elwes. All the species of this section agree with one another closely in their bulbs, leaves, and general habit. This one has the large flowers and acute anthers of C. splendens, but otherwise the flower is more like that of a large specimen of C. duteus, with which it agrees in ground- colour, but from which it differs considerably in decoration. Descr. Bulb ovoid, under an inch thick, with a mem- branous tunic. Stem a foot or a foot and a half high, firm, terete, glaucous, 3-4-flowered, forked low down. Leaves tolerably firm in texture, linear, glaucous, those from the bulb half a foot long, those that subtend the branches similar but smaller. Flowers permanently erect. Sepals an inch and December Ist, 1875. a half long, lanceolate, acuminate, greenish and naked on the back, yellow on the face, with a small hairy brown spot near the base. Petals round-cuneate, a couple of inches broad and deep, rounded with a cusp on the outer border, bright lemon-yellow, the claw naked, above the claw is a round, conical, hairy yellow spot with a purple border, the rest of the face is without any zone or blotch, but covered with spreading purple, gland-tipped, bristly hairs. Stamens half as long as the petals; filament erect, lanceolate; anthers cylindrical, pale purplish-brown, apiculate, diverging, one-_ half to five-eighths inch long; pollen pale brown. Ovary clavate, under an inch long; stigmas short, falcate.—— J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, pistil; 3, gland-tipped hair from the face of the petal :— all magnified. 6207 ic A nal dubhe eae AEE Vineent Brooks Day & Sat inp sz ef 3 : Tas. 6201. DIURIS axa. Native of New South Wales. Nat. Ord. OrcHIpDEZ,—Tribe NEOTTIE. Genus Diuris, Smith; (Benth., Fl. Austral., vol. vi., p. 324). Divats alba; tuberibus lobatis, caule gracillimo, foliigs paucis anguste linearibus gramineis acuminatis concavis, floribus 2-3, sepalo dorsali late ovato obtuso concavo albo, lateralibus deflexis dorsali 2-3-plo longioribus anguste linearibus obtusis viridibus linea media fusco-purpurea, petalis sepalo dor- sali longioribus unguiculatis ovatis obtusis albis ungue fusco-purpureo, labelli lobis lateralibus subquadratis unidentatis intermedio multo majore _trulliformi pallide roseo, carinis 2 a basi ad medium elevatis crassiusculis purpureo-punctulatis, staminodiis falcatis dentatis columnam brevem vix superantibus. D. alba, Br., Prodr., p. 316; Lindl., Gen. & Sp. Orchid., p. 509; Benth, Fl. Austral., vol. vi., p. 325. The beauty of the terrestrial Orchids in the Australian Colonies is proverbial. In spring and summer the meadows are in many places enamelled with them, and it is no unusual » thing to find thirty or forty species in a comparatively limited area, comprised under the genera Diuris, Thelemytra, Praso- phyllum, Glossodia, and Pterostylis, and in such quantities that bouquets may be made of them in any number, and I feel assured that in no other part of the world mayso many different forms of Orchids be found in a given small area as in the Australian Colonies. Unfortunately, though easily procured and transported to Europe, they are cultivated there with great difficulty, flowering once only, if at all, and disappearing for ever after, a result probably due to our uncongenial seasons. - Of Diuris (of which the species figured is one of the least attractive kinds) but one species has been figured from speci- mens flowered in England, namely, the D. maculata (Tab. nost. 3156), though nearly a dozen other widely distributed species, some of great beauty, remain to be introduced. D. alba is most closely allied to, if not a slender variety of D. punctata, Sm., differing in the flower not being lilac and spotted all over. It has also a more northern range, from New DEcEMBER Ist, 1875, South Wales to Rockingham Bay, whereas D. punctata ranges from the former district southward to Victoria; the flowers are usually much smaller than those here figured, but Clarence Bay specimens have them quite as large. The plant figured here flowered in August last in the open border from tubers sent by Thos. Moore, F.L.S., Director of the Sydney Botanic Garden. a Duscr. Tubers as large as nuts, lobed. Stem eight to sixteen inches high, slender. eaves shorter than the stem, usually two only, sometimes one or none, very narrow, linear, concave; sheaths about two, loose or appressed. Bracts two inches long, erect, acuminate, loosely sheathing. Fowers about two, very variable in size, two-thirds to three and a half inches in diameter from the tips of the petals to those of the lateral sepals. Dorsal sepals ovate, obtuse, concave, white : lateral deflexed, sometimes two and a half inches long, green with a brown-purple central stripe. Pedals clawed, ovate, white, the claw brown-purple with white edges. Lip with two small subquadrate toothed lateral, and a large trapezoid mid-lobe, pale rosy-coloured or nearly white; disk with two raised lobed keels that are speckled with red. Staminodes falcate. Column very short.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower with sepals and petals removed :—magnified. B % 5 oe Tas. 6202. GLADIOLUS CooPeRI. Native of Natal and the Cape. Nat. Ord. Irntpacez.—Tribe GLADIOLEZ. Genus GLapIoLus, Linn, (Klatt in Linnea, vol. 32, p. 689). GLaDIoLus Cooperi; bulbo globoso membranaceo-tunicato, foliis ensiformibus glabris acuminatis subcoriaceis valide nervatis, radicalibus sesquipedali- bus, scapo robusto bipedali crebre bracteato, spica pedali laxe 8-12-flora, bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis, exterioribus 3-4 poll. longis, floribus arcuato- ascendentibus, tubo flavido anguste infundibulari 23-3 poll. longo, limbi rubro-lutei segmentis tribus superioribus sub conformibus obovato-spathu- latis acutis 1}-2 poll longis, tribus inferioribus multo minoribus lanceolatis acutis, genitalibus arcuatis perianthio triente brevioribus, When Mr. Thomas Cooper was travelling in South Africa on behalf of Mr. Wilson Saunders, he paid special attention to these ensiform-leaved Gladioli, of the group of which @. cardinalis and G. psittacinus are the familiar garden repre- sentatives. He discovered, or at any rate brought into notice in Europe, no less than three very striking new species, of all of which bulbs were sent home and duly and success- fully cultivated at Reigate, so that they all are now esta- blished as inhabitants of our gardens, enlarging materially the groundwork upon which hybridisers can carry forward their experiments. Of these we have already figured G. Saunders, Tab. 5873, and G. dracocephalus, Tab. 5884, and this is the third. It has now been spread about in gardens for several years, but has never been botanically named or described. The plate was drawn from a specimen that flowered at Kew in September 1872. We have dried specimens in the Kew Herbarium from Natal, from Krauss and Gueinzius, and from Somerset, from Mrs. Barber. In the very decided inequality of the three upper as compared with the three lower perianth-lobes, it is most like G. _ psittacinus, Bot. Mag., Tab. 3032, from which it differs by its longer tube and spathe-valves, and decidedly acute perianth- lobes. DeceMBeER Ist, 1875, Dxscr. Bulb globose, with membranous tunics. Radi- cal leaves about half-a-dozen, developed in a distichous rosette, erect, ensiform, glabrous, acuminate, a foot or a foot and a half long by an inch broad, glaucous-green, with very strong raised ribs. Scape stout, terete, two feet high, closely bracteated by reduced leaves. Lzpanded spike a foot long, of eight to twelve arcuate-ascending flowers. Spathe-valves firm, green, lanceolate, acuminate, the outer three to four inches long, the inner one rather shorter and narrower. Perianth-tube a narrow, yellowish-green funnel, two and a half to three inches long. Limb with close, purple-red, anastomosing, vertical lines on a yellowish groundwork, the three upper segments similar in size and shape, obovate- spathulate, decidedly acute, one and a half to two inches long by an inch broad, the two outer reflexed at the tip when the flower is fully expanded, the inner one permanently, falcate ; three lower segments plain yellow or little striped with red, an inch long, lanceolate, acute, reflexing. ent- tala arching, two-thirds as long as the limb; anthers cylin- drical, purplish-yellow, half an inch long; stigmatic lobes oblanceolate, spreading.— J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, Anther and top of filaments ; 2, stigmas and upper part of style :— both magnified, 620, "03. “Tan, 6208. DECABELONE Barxtryt. Native of Little Namaqualand, S. Africa. Nat. Ord, ASCLEPIADACE®,—Tribe STaPELIE®, Genus DECABELONE, Dene. (Benth. et Hook. f., Gen. Plant, vol. ii, p. 784, ined, ; Bot. Mag., 6115). DECABELONE Barklyi; caulibus ramisque crasso-carnosis cactiformibus angulato- costatis, costis sxepissime ad 12 spinosis, spinis tenuibus erectis setis late- ralibus duabus deflexis armatis, corona staminea duplici. exteriore tubo stamineo affixa in lobos 10 filiformes apice globuliferos subequales divisa, interiore squamis apicem versus attenuatis antheris adfixis squamulis brevibus bifidis interpositis, DECaBELONE Barklyi, Dyer, MSS. Under Tab. 6115 it was mentioned that the Royal Gar- dens, Kew, possessed specimens both living and in spirit, as well as drawings and analyses, from H. E. Sir Henry Barkly, Dr. Shaw, and Mrs. Barber, of a second species of Decabelone from Little Namaqualand. As was stated there it is closely allied to D. elegans, the flowers being extremely similar, but the branches have nearly twice the number of angles; and the two lateral sete of the spines are more slender and de- flexed instead of erect. The first discovery of this interesting plant is due to H. E. Sir H. Barkly, who sent a sketch of the plant in J anuary, 1874, having found it three years previously growing in the Karoo, near the Orange River. Shortly after Dr. Shaw, who, as well as M‘Lea, had found it in the same locality, sent to Kew Specimens in spirit, and a careful analysis. Not having seen the description of Decabelone, Dr. Shaw rightly recognised the generic distinctness of the plant from other Stapeliew, and proposed that it should constitute a new genus, to be named in honour of the Governor of the Cape. I have endeavoured, as far as the specific name will allow, to give effect to Dr. Shaw’s wishes. : The present plate is partly founded upon a fine drawing for which Kew is indebted to Mrs. Barber, partly upon speci- DecemBer Ist, 1875. mens which flowered at Kew during the past year, and which were sent by Sir H. Barkly. : Duscr. Stems succulent, leafless, ceespitose, three to six inches high, with ten to twelve strongly marked angles fur- nished with processes each bearing one erect and two lateral deflexed slender white spines. Flowers borne asin D. elegans, occasionally two on a common peduncle, suberect ; pedicels one-third to one-half inch. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes quarter of an inch long, linear-deltoid. Corolla two to three inches long, narrowly campanulate, tube slightly curved, marked much as in D. elegans ; lobes deltoid, very acute, with occa- sionally an intermediate tooth. Staminal-crown double ; exterior of ten similar segments connate at the base and slightly united in pairs, tapering into filiform, capitate, dark violet processes; interior of ten dissimilar processes, five slender and adnate to the anthers, upon which they are incumbent as in D. elegans, five alternating with these and one-third as long, broadly deltoid, and bifid. Amthers as in D. elegans.—W. 1. T. D. Fig. 1, Section through exterior staminal-crown, showing andreecium viewed from above (magnified) ; 2, portion of staminal-crown viewed from within, on the right of the figure the place of attachment is shown of two anthers which have been removed, on the left an anther the form of » hich has been accidentally dis- torted by the lithographer ; 3, pair of pollen-masses viewed from above (mag- nified), | 8 3 a r W . Vincent Brooks Day & Son inp Tas. 6204. PERNETTYA PENTLANDII. Native of the Andes of South America. ‘ Nat. Ord. Ericace®.—Tribe ARBUTE. Genus Pernetrya, Gaud. (Benth. et Hook. f., Gen. Plant., vol, ii., p. 582 ined.), PERNETTYA Pentlandii; fructiculus ramosissimus, ramulis sparse setulosis glabrisve, foliis confertis breviter petiolatis ovatis acutis non mucronatis serrulatis rigide coriaceis supra levibus, siccis subtus rugulosis, pedicellis axillaribus 1-floris foliis brevioribus y. longioribus glabris puberulis v. setulosis, bracteolis parvis situ variis, calycis lobis ovatis acutis fructiferis dorso tumidis carnosis ciliolatis, corolla globoso-ovoidea glabra, bacea pisiformi. ri errr DC., Prodr., vol. vii., p. 587 ; Wedd., Chlor. Andin., vol. ii., p. 170, eb yds Cs P.’angustata et P. parvifolia, Benth., Pl. Hartweg, p. 219. ? P. purpurea, D. Don, ex. G. Don. Gen. Syst., vol. iii., p. 837; DC., Le. A little evergreen shrub, a native of the temperate and colder regions of the higher Cordilleras from Venezuela to Chili, ascending to near the limit of perpetual snow, and varying greatly in stature, habit, and size of leaf. The form figured here approaches to the var. parvifolia of Weddel (P. parvifolia, Benth.), which inhabits the Andes of Ecuador, as Pichincha and Cotopaxi, and has smaller leaves and short pedicels. The curious intumescence of the back of the fruiting sepals of this species is a remarkable character, not noticed by any author, and perhaps not. constant; it is worthy of remark, however, as showing a tendency to Gaultheria, in which the enlarged baccate fruiting calyx embraces the capsule, and in which genus the capsule becomes baccate in a few species, and thus shows a tendency towards the structure of Pernettya. In fact, except by the characters of the fruiting calyx and fruit, these two genera are not distinguishable. They have, however, very different geographical ranges, Pernettya being, with the exception of an anomalous Tas- manian species, confined to and abounding in the South Ameri- can Alps, whereas (waltheria, though equally or even more abundant on the Andean Pernettya region, extends to New Zealand, Australia, the Malayan Archipelago, and Indian Alps. December Ist, 1875. Pernettya Pentlandii was raised by J. Anderson Henry, F.L.S., from seeds sent from an elevation of 14,000 feet on the Quitonian Andes by his and our late correspondent, Dr. Jameson ; it flowered in June, fruited in November, and proved quite hardy at Trinity Lodge, Edinburgh. Descr. A rigid, branched, small shrub. Branches and branchlets angled, setulose or glabrous, leafy. Leaves crowded or sparse, two-thirds of an inch long and under, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, serrulate, not mucronate or pungent, glabrous, very coriaceous, shining, rugose beneath when dry ; petiole very short; young ciliate-toothed. Flowers solitary, axillary, drooping; pedicels puberulous, longer or shorter than the leaves, red; bracteoles minute, few, scattered. Calyz-lobes ovate, acute, tumid and fleshy, but not other- wise much enlarged in fruit. Corolla one-third of an inch long, white, ovoid-globose; teeth minute, recurved. Sta- mens ten, filaments puberulous, dilated at the base ; anthers _ with four short bristles. Berry the size of a large pea, dark blue-purple—J. D. H. Fig. 1, portion of branch, leaf, pedicel, and flower ; 2, stamens ; 3, ovary and disk ; 5, fruit; 6, the same cut across transversely :—all magnified. 6205 1 et Gath £ W Fitch a ks Day & Sonim 0 0 Tas. 6205. CALATHEA LEUCOSTACHYS. Native of Costa Rica. Nat. Ord. CANNACEA. Genus CaLaTuea, Meyer; (Endl., Gen.-Plant., p. 227). CALATHEA leucostachys; tenuiter molliter villosa, caule robusto, foliis elliptico- oblongis utrinque rotundatis apice apiculatis sessilibus v. breviter et crasse petiolatis supra viridibus subtus costa excepta glabris sanguineo-pur- pureis, pedunculo brevi robusto, spica 3-5-pollicari, bracteis longe villosis subacute imbricatis tubo campanulato stramineo, lamina dilatata ampla recurva latiore quam longa, floribus inclusis albis brevissime pedicellatis, sepalis lineari-oblongis acutis pilosis tubum corollz squantibus, corolle limbi segmentis subzequalibus oblongis subacutis valde concavis, labello petalis consimili, staminodiis petaloideis marginibus crispatis inflexis, anthera parva mucronata. This is another fine Central American species of Calathea introduced by Messrs. Veitch, to whom also is due the credit of introducing the C. tubispatha (Tab. nost. 5542) and C@. Veitchiana (Tab. 5535). As a species the present comes nearest the C. Warzewiczii, Klotzsch, (Regel Gartenflora, 1866, t. 575), especially in the form and colour of the spike, bracts, and flowers, but differs wholly in habit, in being much more villous, and in the sessile or subsessile broader leaves. The cultivated species of Calathea are now very nu- merous, and from their perenenial and _highly-coloured foliage are deservedly most desirable plants for moist stove cultivation. As many as thirty-four species, exclusive of varieties, are enumerated in the “ Supplementum ad indicem Seminum Ann. 1868, Hort. Bot. Imp. Petrop,” as being under cultivation in European gardens, and judging from the extent of the genus in our herbarium, many more are yet to be introduced. / Calathea leucostachys flowered in Mr. Veitch’s establish- ment at Chelsea in October, 1874, from plants sent from Costa Rica by Mr. Endres. Descr. Whole plant more or less villous, except the under-surface of the leaf, of which the midrib only is so; DeceMBeER Ist, 1875. hairs long, soft, spreading, but not matted. Szem short, twelve to eighteen inches high. eaves six to ten inches long, sessile or with short stout petioles, elliptic-oblong, rather variable in breadth, tip rounded and apiculate, base also rounded, rarely subcordate, upper surface deep green, under dark red-purple ; principal nerves ten to twenty pair; sheaths appressed, green. Spike three inches long and upwards, cylindric-ovoid; peduncle very robust, short. Bracts softly villous, rather closely imbricate; tube three-quarters of an inch long, campanulate, pale yellow ; blade spreading, recurved or almost revolute, white, much broader than long. Flowers hardly exceeding the bracts, sessile, white. Sepals _ pilose, upwards of an inch long, linear-oblong, acute, con- cave. Corolla-tube equalling the sepals, slender; limb one half an inch long; segments oblong, acute, very concave, nearly equal. Staminodes petaloid, with incurved crisped margins. Anther small, acute. Stigma broad on a stout, curved, torulose style.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower; 2 and 3, top of corolla-tube with its segments removed, showing the staminodes in position; 4, the same laid open, showing the style and anther :—all magnified, —— 3 Pi. 6182 6170 6143 6205 6200 6198 6153 61838 6194 6141 6162 6168 6176 6187 6197 6175 6161 62038 6189 6199 6165 6174 6184 6186 6169 6201 6145 6181 6150 6140 6196 6148 6160 INDEX To Vol. XXXI. of the Turrp Strms, or Vol. CI. of the Work. £4. Allium narcissi florum. 6166 Balbisia verticillata. | 6202 Blumenbachia Chuquitensis. | 6151 Calathea leucostachys. | 6164 Calochortus citrinus. 6192 Carica candamarcensis. 6142 Colchicum luteum. 6167 Columellia oblonga. | 6146 Crassula Bolusii. Crocus byzantinus. | 6152 Crocus chrysanthus. | 6159 Crocus Crewei. 6171 Crocus minimus. 6190 Crocus Boryi. Crocus veluchensis. Cypripedium Arcus. Cyrtopera sanguinea. Decabelone Barklyi. Delphinium Cashmirianum. Dendrobium amoenum. Dichorisandra Saundersii. Dietes Huttoni. Dion Edule. Draba Mawii. Dracena Smithii. Diuris alba. Epidendrum syringothyrsis. Eranthemum _hypocrateri- forme. Erythrotis Beddomei. Eucalyptus cornuta. Ferula (Euryangium) Sumbul. Fourcroya Selloa. Fourcroya undulata. || 6178 6179 6144 | 6163 6193 6157 6204 6156 6185 - 6195 6158 | 6149 6154 6177 6191 6180 6173 6147 6172 6155 6188 Galanthus Elwesii. Gladiolus Cooperi. Gustavia gracillima. Hemicheena fruticosa. Heteranthera limosa. Jamesia Americana. Kniphofia Macowani. Lilium Canadense, var. par- vum. Masdevallia chimera. Masdevallia peristeria. Masdevallia Estrade. Masdevallia Davisii. Mertensia alpina. Michelia Januginosa. Odontoglossum maxillare. Odontoglossum Warscewiczii. Oxalis arenaria. 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