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HIBISCUS Maninor.
Native of China and Japan.

Nat. Ord. Matvacex.—Tribe Hrstsce2.
Genus Hisiscus, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 207).

Hisiscus (Abelmoschus) Manihot; herba annua vy. 2-3-ennis, erecta, robusta,
sparse pilosa, caule simplici v. ramoso, ramis erectis, foliis amplis palmatim
5-7-lobatis lobis lineari-oblongis lanceolatisve grosse dentatis serratis v.
lobulatis, petiolo robusto, stipulis lanceolatis, bracteis parvis pinnatifidis
deciduis stipulis persistentibus instructis, pedicellis robustis florentibus
deflexis, involucelli bracteolis 4-6 ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis hirsutis
persistentibus, calyce spathaceo 5-dentato basi circumscisso hispido,
corolla 2-53 poll. diam. sulphurea fundo purpurea, tubo staminifero
undique laxe v. confertim antherifero, stigmatibus clavatis decurvis
a ig apice dilatatis retusis, capsula oblonga acuminata pentagona.
hispida.

H. Manihot, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 696. Cav. Diss. vol. iti. p. 172. Thunb. Fl. Jap.
p. 272. Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. ii. vol. iv. p. 229. Bot. Mag. t. 1702, et t.
3152 (var. 8). DC. Prodr. vol.i. p. 448. Franch, et Sav. Enum. Pl.
Jap. p. 64, Mig. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. iii. p. 19. Masters in
Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 341; in Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. ii. p. 249, fig. 74.
W. Wats. in The Garden vol. liii. (1898) p. 127, cum ic.

H. palmatus, Cav. Diff. p. 168, t. 63, fig. 1.

H. papyriferas, Salis. Prodr. p. 38+.

H. pentaphyllus, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 52; Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 212.

H. pungens, Hort.

H. fol. palmato-digitat., &c., Linn. Hort. Upsal. p. 206. Hort. Cliff. p. 300.
Bamia Manihot, Wall. Cat. n. 1926.

Abelmoschus Manihot, Medic. Malvenfam. p. 46.

Ketmia, fol. Manibot., &c., Dill, Hort. Eltham. p. 189, t. 156, fig. 189.
Alcea, fol. Manihot., &c., Pluk. Amalth. p. 7, t. 155, p. 2.

The specimens of II. Manihot, from which the figures
published on Plates 1702 and 3152 of this work were
taken, give no idea of the size and beauty of the flowers
as here represented. It is a native of China and Japan.
Linneus and, following him, Cavanilles and De Candolle,

ive India as its native country, overlooking the testimony
of the * Flora Japonica” and other works. It is, indeed,
commonly cultivated in Indian gardens, having been intro-
duced, according to Roxburgh, from China. The roots,
which are large and soft, yield a mucilage used for stiffening

Janvany Ist, 1901.

paper in Japan, on which account Salisbury unjustifiably
rejected Thunberg’s name for that of papyriyerus.

H. Manihot must have been introduced into England
before the year 1782, when Dillenius described it as a bi-
triennial, growing in Sherard’s garden at Eltham, Aiton
mentions its being cultivated in the Chelsea Garden in
1812, whence a specimen was sent to the Royal Society as
one of the fifty plants claimed annually by the Society as
a condition under which that garden was held by the
Society of Apothecaries (sce Phil. Trans. n. 333, p. 417,
n. 64). The specimen here figured is from a plant in the
Mexican compartments of the Temperate House of the
Royal Gardens, which made in three months shoots nine
feet high, flowered for two consecutive months, and
ripened seed.

Deser.—A tall, erect, stout, sparsely hairy, annual or
bi-triennial, four to nine feet: high; branches terete, erect.
Leaves up to a foot in diameter, orbicular or orbicular-
ovate in circumscription, palmately five- to seven-lobed,
lobes linear-oblong or lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely
toothed serrate or lobulate, dark green; petiole stout,
about as long as the blade; stipules lanceolate or subulate.
Bracts at the base of the pedicels small, pinnatifid, stipu-
late, deciduous, except the stipules. Flowers two to five
and a half inches in diameter, pedicels deflexed when
flowering, erect in fruit. Involucel of four to six ovate-
or ovate-lanceolate, acute, persistent, hirsute, bracteoles
half an inch to an inch long. Calyx rather longer than
the involucel, spathaceous, five-toothed, circumsciss at
the base. Corolla pale yellow, purple at the base, lobes
rounded. Staminiferous column loosely or closely covered
with anthers, Stigmas decurved, purple, tips dilated,
retuse. Capsule oblong, acute, one to two inches long,
acuminate, hispid.—J. D. H.

‘Fig. 1, portion of carpels and of staminal tube with style and stigmas;
2 aud 3, anthers; 4, seed (nat. size); 5, seed :—All but fig. 4 enlarged.

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LHOTSKYA Errcores.
Native of King George's Sound.

Nat. Ord. Myrtacex.—Tribe CHAMALAUCIE,

Genus Luortskyra, Schau.; (Benth. & Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 699.)

Luotsyka ericoides; fruticulus erectus, foliosus, ramulis erectis virgatis
glanduloso-pilosulis, foliis }-pollicaribus erecto-patentibus subconfertis
anguste linearibus fere acicularibus teretibus strictis obtusis vel apicalatis
glaberrimis, floribus axillaribus sessilibus secus ramulos confertis in
fasciculos cylindraceos dispositis 2-bracteolatis, bracteolis subulatis
calycis tubum elongatum 6-costatum costis scaberulis subzequantibus,
calycis lobis parvis ovato-rotundatis, petals calyce fere duplo longioribus
lineari-lanceolatis acutis, staminibus numerosis petalis equilongis,
antheris minimis flavis.

L. ericoides, Schauer in Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. Ed. ii. p. 439; in
Linnea, vol. x. (1835-6) p. 809; im Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. vol. xix.
Suppl. IL. (1841) p. 285; Plant. Preiss. vol. i. p. 103. Benth. Fl. Austral.
vol. iil. p. 55.

L. seabra, Zurez.in Bull. Soc, Nat. Mosc. 1862, vol. ii. p. 324,

L. hirta, Rege?, Gartenfi. vol. xii. (1863), p. 337, t. 415; iz Trans. Hort. Soe.
Russ. 1863, t. 141 ic. it.

Lhotskya is a genus of eight species, natives of South
and Western Australia, from Victoria westwards, of which
L. ericoides is confined to the King George’s Sound and
the adjoining district. The genus is so closely allied to
the much larger one of Calythriz (see tab. 3323), differing
only in the absence of a bristle terminating each calyx-
lobes, that it might well be regarded as a section of the
latter. The name it bears is that of Johann Lhotsky, a
traveller and naturalist who collected in Madeira (where I
met him in 1839), Brasil, Australia, and Tasmania. He
was author of a paper on the Botanical Geography of New
Holland, published in ‘ Hooker’s London Journal of
Botany,” vol. ii. (1843), p. 135.

The specimen here figured was raised from seeds col-
lected in Australia by Mr. James Veitch in 1898, and was
presented by him to the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it
flowered in a cool house in June, 1900. It was then about
two feet high.

Descr.—A. small, erect, nearly glabrous shrub, with
slender, strict, erect branches, covered with needle-like

JaNvuARY lst, 1901,

leaves; branches sparsely glandular-hairy. Leaves about
half an inch long, erecto-patent, strict, very narrowly
linear, almost acicular, terete, obtuse or apiculate, bright
green, quite glabrous. Flowers small, axillary, solitary
from each leaf axil, but together forming cylindrical
fascicles about the middle of the leafing branchlets, sub-
sessile, bibracteolate. Bracteoles subulate, about as long
as the calyx-tube. Calyzx-tube narrow, cylindric, five-ribbed,
ribs scaberulous; lobes very small, orbicular. Petals
about twice as long as the calyx-tube, subulate, acuminate,
white or nearly so. Stamens very many; filaments rather
longer than the petals; anthers minute, very pale yellow.
Style very slender.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, portion of branch and leaf; 2, flower and bracteoles; 3, the same
with the petals removed ; 4 and 5, anthers :—Ali enlarged,

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SARCOCHILUS titacinos.
Native of the Malayan Peninsula and Islands,

Nat. Ord. Orcu1DE&.—Tribe VANDEX.
Genus SarcocuHi.vs, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 575.)

Sarcocuitus (Cuculla) lilacinus; glaberrimus, caule scandente subrobusto
elongato basi decumbente, radicibus elongatis vaginas folioruam perforan--
tibus, foliis carnosulis alternis oblongis v. ovato-oblongis patenti-recurvis
apicibus subacutis recurvis basi cordatis amplexicaulibus dorso carinatis
enerviis pallide viridibus, pedunculis 8-10-pollicaribus robustis vaginis
2-3 obtusis ornatis, racemo 1-8-pollicari pauci- v. multifloro, rhachi
crassa compressa, bracteis distichis ovatis obtusis carnosis, floribus breviter
pedicellatis ad 14 poll. latis pallide roseo-lilacinis, sepalis petalisque
patulis late ovatis subacutis, labello sepalis dimidio breviore stipitato
saccato, lobis lateralibus brevibus incurvis terminali rotundato, disco callo
truncato pubescente instructo.

S. lilacinus, Griff. Notul. vol. iii. p. 3384; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 320, f£.2. Hook.f. Fl.
Brit. Ind vol. vi. p. 40. Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. per. ii. vol. iii.
(1893) p. 371.

S. lilacinus & amplexicaulis, Heichd. f. in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 499.

Dendrocolla amplexicaulis, Blume Bijdr. p. 288.

Airides amplexicaule, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. p. 239,

Orsidice amplexicaulis and lilacinus, Reichd. f. in Bonplandia, vol. ii. p. 93.

Eig aoe amplexicaule & T. lilacinum, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid. vol. ii,
p. 121.

Sarcochilus lilacinus is a native of swamps in the
Malayan Peninsula, from Perak southward to Singapore ;
also of Java, where it was described by Blume in 1825,
Its habit of growth, climbing amongst bushes, is very
unusual in the Order to which it belongs. The specimen
figured was sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, from
Singapore by Mr. H. N. Ridley, M.A., F.L.S., Director
of Forests and Gardens, Singapore. It flowered in a
warm house in June, 1900, the individual flowers lasting
only one day.

Descr.—Stem about as thick as a crow-quill, decumbent
below, then ascending and more or less scandent, by aid
of the long vermiform white roots, which perforate the
tubular, closely appressed leaf-sheaths. Leaves alternate,
one and a half to two inches long, oblong or ovate-oblong,

Janvaky Isr, 1901,

base cordate and amplexicaul, tip sub-acute, recurved,
pale green, keeled beneath. Peduncles eight to ten inches
long, erect, bearing two or three tubular, appressed, obtuse
sheaths. .Raceme one to eight inches long; rhachis very
stout, compressed, few- or many-flowered; bracts dis-
tichous, ovate, obtuse, fleshy. lowers very shortly pedi-
celled, about an inch and a half broad, pale rose-lilac.
Sepals and petals sub-equal, ovate, sub-acute. Lip much
shorter than the sepals, shortly clawed, saccate ; lateral
lobes short, obtuse, incurved, terminal much broader,
rounded; disk with a broad, linear, truncate, pubescent
callus. Pollinia two perfect, oblong, each with an imper-
fect, much smaller one, adnate to it, seated on a lobulate
gland.— J. D. H.

Fig. 1, lip; 2, vertical section of same; 3, column ; 4, anther; 5 and 6, pollinia:
—All enlarged.

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PYRUS TIANscHANICA.
Native of Central Asia,

Nat. Ord. Rosacem.—Tribe Powrs.
Genus Pravs, Linn. ; (Benth, & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 626.)

Pruxvs (Sorbus) tianschanica; arbor — foliis impari-pinnatis glaberrimis
(novellis tomentosis), foliolis 6~7-jagis lanceolatis acuminatis serrulatis
basin versus integerrimis subcoriaceis supra saturate viridibus opacis
subtus pallidis, nlis lanceolatis branneis caducis, paniculis corymbo-
sis axillaribus givasbale laxifloria, floribus ad } poll. diam. breviter

cellatia, bracteis minutis subvlatis caducis, calycis pubescentis lobis
triangularibas acutis, petalis albis, carpellis 5 hireutis, fructu
globoso § poll. diam.

P. tianschanica, Franch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. vi. vol. xvi. (1883) p. 287.

P. thianschanica, Rupr. ex Regel, Gartenfl. vol. xl, (1891) p. 7, f. 4.

Sorbus tianschanica, Rupr. Sert. Tiansch. p. 46.

The Mountain Ash here figured is the close ally and
Central Asiatic representative of the European P. Aucu-

it wvered by Baron Osten Sacken and Dr.
gel, during their expedition to the Tianschan

7. It has also been collected in about the same
latitude, but much further east, in the mountains of the
Chinese Province of Kansu (north of the Gobi desert), by
Przewalski.

The specimen figured is from a small tree in the
Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, which was pur-
chased in 1896 from Messrs, Transon Bros., Orleans,
France, which flowered in May, 1900, and fruited in the
following July.

Descr.—A small tree, with the habit of P. Aucuparia,
young shoots tomentose. Leaves about six inches long,
shortly petioled, impari-pinnate ; leaflets six to seven pairs
and a terminal, two inches long, lanceolate, acuminate,
serrulate, quite glabrous, rather thick in texture, upper

Jaxvant Ist, 1901.

surface dark green, not shining, tender, pale green.
Stipules half an inch long, lanceolate, pale brown, cadu-
cous. Panicles axillary, together forming a terminal
corymb, loosely many-flowered, quite glabrous. Bracts
minute, subulate, deciduous. Flowers shortly pedicelled,
three-fourths of an inch in diameter. Calyx pubescent,
lobes. broadly triangular, acute. Petals white. Carpels
five, hirsute. Berries globose, one-third of an inch in
diameter, bright right.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, carpel :—All enlarged.

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ALLIUM Ostrowsktanum.
Native of Western Turkestan.

Nat. Ord. Litiacra.—Tribe ALLIEA.

Genus Atiium, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 802.)

ALLIUM (Schenoprasum) Ostrowskianum; bulbo subgloboso, tunicis tenuibus
integris, foliis 2 supra-basilaribus umbellam superantibus ad 3 poll. latis
linearibus acuminatis concavis flaccidis glaucis, spathee valvis ovatis
acaminatis pedicellis filiformibus pollicaribus multoties brevioribus, um-
bella globosa multiflora capsulifera, perianthii segmentis basi connatis
ellipticis subacutis ad } poll. longis late roseis interioribus majoribus,
filamentis supra basin segmentorum insertis ima basi connatis exteriori-
bus triangularibus brevissime mucronatis interioribus angustioribus,
antheris oblongis apiculatis, ovario substipitato late ovoideo trilobo,
stylo brevi, stigmate minuto 8-lobo.

A. Ostrowskianum, Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. vii. (1880) p. 545;
Gartenfl. vol. xxxi. (1882) p. 225, t. 1089.

The very handsome Allium here figured was discovered
in Western Turkestan by Mr. Fetisow, who sent bulbs of it
to the Imperial Botanical Gardens of St. Petersburg,
where it was described by the monographer of the genus,
Dr. Regel. It bears the name of the Russian Minister of
Imperial Domains, Michael Nicolajewitsch von Ostrowski, a
liberal promoter of science. It has long been in cultivation
in the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it flowers annually in
an open border, but the specimen figured was communicated
by the Hon. Charles Ellis, of Trensham Hall, Haslemere,
in June of last year.

Descr.—Bulb sub-globose, outer seeds thin, entire.
Leaves two, a foot and a half to two feet long, by two-
thirds of an inch broad, linear, acuminate, concave above,
flaccid, pale green, glaucous. Scape much shorter than
the leaves, slender, terete. Umbel globose, laxly many-
flowered, about three and a half inches in diameter.
Spathes two, very short, ovate, acuminate. Pedicels an
inch long, very slender. Flowers cup-shaped. Perianth-
seyments half an inch long, bright rose-red, with a green
median nerve, elliptic, sub-acute, connate at the base,
inner much smaller. Stamens half the length of the

Janvaky Ist, 1901.

perianth-segments, inserted above the bases of the seg-
ments; filaments connate at the very base, of the outer
stamens triangular, with a minute, subulate tip, of the
inner much narrower; anthers small, oblong, apiculate.
Ovary shortly stipitate, broadly ovoid, three-lobed ; style
very short, stigma minutely three-cleft.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, three perianth-sezments and stamens; 2, ovary.

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AGAVE Pracocku.
Native of Central Mevico.

Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEX.—Tribe AGAVEX.
Genus AcavE, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 738.)

Agave (Littza) Peacockii; acaulis, foliis densissime rosulatis in catervam
subhemisphericam 4 ped. diam. congestis extimis patulis intimis erectis
omnibus ensiformi-oblanceolatis coriaceo-carnusis medio 4 poll. latis
apice in spinam rigidam fere pollicarem brunneam productis basin
versus angustatis saturate viridibus medio versus pallidis, marginibus non
corneis, spinis marginalibus inequalibus irregulariter subdistanter insertis
brunneis majoribus e basi elongata nunc fere 3 poll. longa repente
incurvis pungentibus, scapo cum inflorescentia 14 ped. alto viridi inferne
bracteis lanceolatis sparsis aucto, inflores entia valde angusta subspice-
formi stricta e fasciculis innumeris crasse pedunculatis 3-5-floris constante,
pedicellis brevibus crassis, bracteis 1-3-pollicaribus subulato-lanceolatis
bracteolisque minoribus brunneis membranaceis, floribns 2-22 poll. longis
erectis, ovario fusiformi terete saturate viridi, perianthii segmentis ovario
paullo brevioribus lineari-oblongis obtusis medio crasse coriaceis dorso
viridibus sanguineo punctatis marginibus membranaceis, filamentis seg-
mentis fere duplo longioribus robustis pallide viridibus, antheris magnis
3 poll. longis viridibus, stylo robusto filamentis longiore, stigmate clavato.

A. Peacockii, Croucher in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 1400, fig. 283. Baker, Handé.
Amaryll. p. 171.

The flowering of a previously unfigured Agave is a satis-
factory event, because without good figures made from
specimens in a flowering condition, the determination
by descriptions alone of the species of this large and econo-
mically important genus is never satisfactory. As re-
gards A. Peacockii such a figure was especially needed,
for the original description, made from a young flower-
less specimen, is quite insufficient for the identification
of the species. Fortunately there can be no doubt as
to the Agave here figured being that to which the
name Peacochkii is given, for it is the type specimen pur-
chased by the Royal Gardens at the sale in 1889 of the
rich collection of Succulents formed by the late Mr.
Peacock, of Hammersmith. It flowered in the Palm House
of the Royal Gardens in December, 1899, having thrown

up a scape which, with the inflorescence, was fourteen and
Feprvuary Ist, 1901.
a

a half feet hich. It is a native of the province of Tehua-
can, in Central Mexico, whence it was imported by Mr.
Roezl. |

Deser.—Stemless. Leaves densely rosulate, forming a
_gub-hemispheric cluster nearly four feet in diameter, the
outermost spreading horizontally, the innermost erect, all
about two feet long by four inches broad above the middle,
oblong-ensiform or oblanceolate, contracted above the base,
terminated by a rigid brown, strict spine an inch long,
thickly fleshy, strict, rigid, slightly convex above, more
so beneath; upper surface very dark green, paler to-
wards the centre; margins not cartilaginous in an old
state, beset rather distantly and irregularly with unequal,
short, brown spines, the largest of which consist of an
elongate base, sometimes half an inch long, suddenly con-
tracted into an incurved, pungent tip. Scape with the
very narrow, spiciform panicle, fourteen and a half feet
high, strict, erect, clothed below with distant subulate-
lanceolate bracts. Inflorescence of innumerable very short,
stout, sub-erect, green, bracteate peduncles, bearing clusters
of three to five bracteolate, shortly, stoutly pedicelled,
sub-erect, green flowers two to two and a half inches long.
Bracts one to three inches long, and smaller bracteoles
subulate-lanceolate, membranous, brown. Ovary fusiformly
cylindric, green, smooth. Perianth-segments not as long
as the ovary, linear-oblong, obtuse, thickly fleshy, green
with blood-red spots, margins rather broadly winged,
membranous, pale green. Filaments about twice as long
as the perianth, very stout, erect; anthers half an inch

ce we rather longer than the stamens, stigma clavate.

. Fig. 1, upper third of leaf; 2, cluster of flowers, both of nat. size; 3, leat

half nat. size; 4 and 5, stamens: 6, ti sti #
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NEILLIA Torrey.
Native of the Rocky Mountains.

Nat. Ord. Rosacea.—Tribe Srir#eEa,

Genus Neri, D. Don; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 612.)

Nuitura (Physocarpus) Torreyi; frutex humilis, ramis robustis cortice nigro
tectis, foliis ad 14 poll. latis breviter petiolatis orbiculari-ovatis apice
rotundatis basi profunde cordatis breviter trilobis crenulatis glabris vel
sparse puberulis supra saturate viridibus nervis impressis subtus pallidis
nervis prominulis, stipulis linearibus petiolo paullo brevioribus, floribus
in corymbos fere globosos terminales breviter pedunculatos congestis
brevissime pedicellatis, calycis stellato-tomentosi tubo hemispherico lobis
ovatis obtusis intus glabris, petalis orbicularibus calycis lobos vix superan-
tibus, staminibus ad 30 triseriatis petalis brevioribus, carpellis 2 stipite
brevi insidentibus stellato-tomentosis connatis apicibus liberis in stylos
filiformes attenuatis, maturis coriaceis ventro dehiscentibus, oligospermis,
seminibus obovoideo-oblongis, testa pallida nitida.

N. Torreyi, S. Wats. in Proc. Am. Acad. vol. xi. (1876) p. 186. Brew. &
Wats. in Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 171 in note.

N. malvacea, Greene in Pittonia, vol. ii. (1889) p. 30.

N. monogyna, var, malvacea, Jones in Zoe, vol. iv. (1893-4) p. 43.

Spiresa monogyna, Torrey in Ann. Lye. N. York, vol. ii. (1828) p. 194. Katon
& Wright, N. Am. Bot. p. 441.

8. opulifolia, var. y. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. vol.i. p.171. Torr. & Gray, Fl. N.
Am, vol. i. p. 414. Porter, Fl. Colorado, p. 33 (var. parvifolia.)

S. pauciflora, Nutt. in Torr. & Gr. Le.

Physocarpus Torreyi, Maaim. in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. vi. (1879) p, 221.
— Man, Bot. Rocky Mount., p. 78. S. Wats. in Bot. Calif. vol. ii.
p- *

Opulaster malvacea, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. vol. ii. p. 949.

Epicostorus montanus, Rafin. At/ant. Journ. 1832, p. 144.

Neillia Torreyt ranges over a considerable area of North
America, from British Columbia, along the Rocky Moun-
tain region, at elevations of six thousand ft. to ten
thousand ft., to New Mexico. I collected it when travel-
ling with Dr. Gray in 1879, at La Veta, in Colorado, at
above nine thousand ft. elevation. It forms, with other
American species and a Manchurian (N. amurensis) a very
distinct section of Neillia with corymbose flowers and
other characters, regarded as a genus and named
Physocarpa by Rafinesque, altered to Physocarpus and
retained as a genus by Maximovicz and others.

FEsrvary Ist, 1901.

A plant of N. Torreyi was received by the Royal
Gardens, Kew, in 1897, from Professor Sargent, of the
Arnold Arboretum, near Boston, which now forms a bush
about three feet high, which flowered in the Arboretum
in July, 1900.

Deser.—A robust shrub; bark black. Leaves one to one
and a half inches long, orbicular-ovate, shallowly three-
lobed, lobes and tip rounded, crenate, base deeply cordate,
sinus narrow, sparsely stellately pubescent, dark green
above, with deeply impressed nerves, pale beneath, with
prominent nerves; petiole much shorter than the blade.
Stipules linear, nearly as long as the petiole. Flowers —
about half an inch broad, in dense, terminal, shortly
peduncled corymbs, one to one and a half inches
in diameter, shortly pedicelled, white. Calyx stellately
tomentose ; tube hemispheric ; lobes ovate, obtuse, glabrous
within. Petals orbicular, as long as the calyx-lobes.
Stamens about thirty, triseriate. Carpels two, on a short
stipes, turgidly oblong, united at their ventral sutures 60
above the middle, narrowed into filiform styles, mature

dehiscing. Seeds not numerous, obovoid, pale, smooth,
polished.—J, D. H, °

Fig. 1, unexpanded flower; 2, section of calyx with stamens and carpels j
3, ripe carpels; 4, stellate hairs of the flowers; 5, seeds :—all enlarged.

Postscript.—As this sheet was passing throngh the press I received from
my friend Mr. B. L. Robinson, Keene af ie Ont Fechaciam, Harvat
University, U.S.A., to whom I had appliel for information as to the specific
validity of WV. malvacea as distinct from N. Torreyi, a-note to the effect, that
Mcsty the distinctions between them do not sound very strong, there seems

little difficulty in distinguishing them.” The characters of each which
he gives me are :—

N. malvacea; carpels 2-3, leaves finely pubescent upon both surfaces,
usually becoming tawny in drying.
- dV. Torreyi ; carpels 1-2, leaves smaller,
adds that the two forms have a pretty definite range, IV, malvacea, from
Oregon and tke northern Rocky Mountains, Washington, and Idaho, to Utah,
Nevada and Western Texas; N. Torreyi from S. Dakota Wyoming, and wes
Rocky Mountains of Colorado, to New Mexico, :

From this it may be concluded that the fi
N. malvacea, though the leaves are
puberulous with deciduous hairs be

essentially glabrous. Mr. Robinson

gure here given is of the form
glabrous ahove and only very sparsely
neath.—J.D.H., January 25th, 1901.

Ti Reagan OT 2

Tap. 7759.
VERONICA atavca.

Native of Greece.

Nat, Ord. ScropHULARINEZ.—Tribe DiGiITALER.

Genus Veronica, Linn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 964.)

Veronica (Veronicastrum) glauca; annua, suberecta, ramosa, caule ramisque
oppositis gracilibus subbifariam laxe pubescentibus, foliis breviter
petiolatis late ovatis obtusis crenato-dentatis basi rotundatis vel subcor-
datis supra glabris subtus pilosulis, floralibus bracteiformibus parvis
angustis 2-3-lobatis supremis integris, racemis laxifloris, pedicellis filifor-
mibus calyce 3-5-plo longioribus fructiferis patulis apice recurvis, calycis
segmentis ellipticis obtusis pubescentibus paribus valde inzequalibus
longioribus corolla brevioribus, corolla lobis subequalibus ceruleis basi
albis, capsula orbiculata trancato-subretusa glabra v. parce pilosa, loculis
6-7-spermis, seminibus cyathiformibus concavo-convexis,

V. glauca, Sibth. & Sm. Fl. Gree. i. p. 6,t. 7. Benth. in DO. Prodr. vol, x.
p. 484. Boiss, Fl. Orient. vol. iv. p. 461.

V. greeca, Sprun. Pl. Greec. exsice. ew Boiss, l.c.

V.ameena, Heldr. Herb. Norm, ex Nym. Consp. p. 548, non Stev.

Bentham, in De Candolle’s ‘‘ Prodromus,” doubts JV.
glauca being specifically distinct from V. amena, Bieb.
This arises from imperfect knowledge of the latter plant,
which he confounds with V. greca, Sprun., and hence
erroneously describes it as having pedicels twice or thrice
as long as the calyx. The fact is that V. greca is
a synonym of V. glauca. V. amena has very short
pedicels, and further differs from V. glauca in its small
size (two to three inches high), glandular hairs, lanceolate
sepals, and native country (Armenia). V. peduncularis,
Bory & Chaub. (non Bieb.), also cited in the ‘* Prodromus ”
under V. amena, differs both from that plant and from
V. glauca in the glabrous capsule two-lobed to the middle.

Veronica glauca is a native of sandy fields in Attica,
where it was discovered by Sibthorp, on Mount Hymettus,
near Athens, and it has also been collected in Crete. The
specimen figured here was raised from seeds presented to
the Royal Gardens, Kew, by the Hon. Charles Ellis, of
Frensham Hall. It flowered in June in the Herbaceous

ground, and is an annual. The flowers are smaller than
Fepruary Ist, 1901.

in the native specimens, in which, according to Boissier,
the corolla is three times as long as the calyx.

Descr.—A slender, much-branched annual, branches
opposite, loosely subifariously pubescent. Leaves one half
to three-fourths of an inch long, shortly petioled, broadly
ovate, obtuse, crenate-toothed, glabrous above, puberulous
beneath ; floral bracteiform, smaller, narrower, two to
three-lobed, uppermost entire. Pedicels half to one inch
long, very slender, fruiting spreading, tips recurved.
Calyx one-third to half an inch long, pubescent, divided to
the base into two very unequal elliptic pairs of segments.
Corolla three-fourths of an inch in diameter ; lobes bright
blue, white at the base, three upper orbicular-ovate, lower
rather longer, spathulately obovate. Filaments shorter
than the corolla-lobes. Capsule sub-orbicular, retusely
truncate. Seeds concavo-convex.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, calyx; 2, corolla and stamens; 3, ovary; 4, capsule :—AJ enlarged.

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ECHIDNOPSIS BeNtTII.

Native of Southern Arabia,

Nat. Ord. AscLePIADEm#.—Tribe CEROPEGIE.
Genus Ecurpnorsis, Hook. f.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 781 )

Ecutpnorsis, Bentii; caulibus fuscis 7-8-costatis costis mamillatis, mamil-.
lis uniseriatis folio minuto ovato cuspidato concavo coronatis, floribus
apices versus ramorum binis breviter pedicellatis, calycis segmentis del-
toideo-ovatis glabris, corolla vix 34 poll. diam. extus viridi-purpureo
maculata intus velutina saturate purpurea, tubo brevi campanulata, limbi
patentis lobis late ovatis apiculatis marginibus revolutis, corona exteriore
cupulari pentagona truncata purpurea angulis acutis parum productis,
interioris lobis erecto-conniventibus breviter clavatis obtusis basi fundo
exterioris adnatis.

E. Bentii, N. ZL. Brown in Kew Bulletin, ined.

The genus Hehidnopsis was established in this Magazine,
tab. 5930, on a South African species, H. cereiformis, of the
same habit as H. Bentii, but much larger, of a bright green
colour, with yellow flowers. Recently other species have
been added to the genus, one of which, #. Dammanniana,
a native of Arabia, is, according to Mr. N. E. Brown,
closely allied to H. Bentii, differing in the corona.

EH. Bentii was found in Southern Arabia, the exact
locality unknown, by the intrepid traveller whose name it —
bears. It was sent to Kew by him shortly before his
death, together with fragments of other plants collected
during his last expedition, probably in the Hadramaut
district, to the East of Aden. It flowered in a warm
house of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in June, 1899.

Descr.—Whole plant at present five to six inches high,
consisting of a short stem, with ascending branches of a
pale brown colour. Stem and branches one-half to three-
quarters of an inch in diameter, the latter narrowing
upwards, seven to eight-ribbed, each rib consisting of a
single series of mamille, each of which is crowned by a
minute, ovate, concave, cuspidate leaf, about one-twentieth
of an inch long. Flowers in pairs towards the tips of the
branches, very shortly pedicelled, half an inch in diameter.

Calyx-segments ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla with a
Fesrvaky lst, 1901.

short, campanulate tube, and five spreading lobes, exter-
nally green, spotted with purple, internally velvety, of a
rich, deep, vinous-purple colour; lobes ovate, apiculate,
margins revolute, Outer corona cupular, acutely five-
angled, truncate, purple; inner of five erect and conniving,
shortly clavate lobes, which are adnate at the base to the
base of the outer corona.—.J. D. H.

Fig. 1, portion of a mamilla and leaf; 2, back, and 3, front view of flower}-
4, corona; 5, pollinia :—All enlarged.

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ROSA Serapuini.
Native of Italy.

Nat. Ord. Rosacra.—Tribe Rosza.
Genus Rosa, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 625.)

Rosa (Rubiginosee) Seraphini; frutex humilis, erectus, ramosissimus, ramis
ramulisque crebre armatis, aculeis insequalibus faleato-decurvis compressis
basi dilatatis, foliis 1-2 _ longis, petiolo brevi rhachique gracili,
foliolis 7 parvis orbicularibus late ovatisve glanduloso-dentatis supra
saturate viridibus, snbtus pallidis — inter nervos paucis, stipulis
linearibus acuminatis, floribus solitariis ad 1} poll, diam., pedunculo
brevi tuboque calycis ellipsoideo glaberrimis, sepalis petalis paullo breviori-
bus patentibus parce glandulosis post anthesim reflexis appendicibus
anguste oblongo-lanceolatis, petalis lete roseis, ovariis sericeo-pilosis
pisiformibus rubris demum nigris sepalis persistentibus coronatis,

R. Seraphini, Viviani, Fl. Corsic. Sp. Nov. p. 8; Fl. Inyb. Spec. p. 67
(Serafini). Bertol. Fl. Ital. vol. v. p. 194. DU. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 625
(Serafinti). Gussone Fl. Sic. Prodr. vol. i. p. 574; Fl. Sic. Synop.i. p. 564.
Moris, Fl. Sardoa. vol. ii. p. 40. Arcang. Compend, Fl. Ital. p. 226.
Crepin in Compt. Rend. Soe. Roy. Bot. Belg. 1892, p.88. Pojero, Fl. Sic.
vol. i. pars II. p, 187.

R. apennina, Woods, Tourist’s Flora, p. 123.

R. cretica, var. Serafini, Wallr. Ros. Pl. Gen. p. 145.

R. glutinose, Sibth. & Sm. forma, Parlat. Fl. Ital. vol. x. p. 26.
R. graveolens, var. y. corsica, Gren. & Godr. Fl. Fr. vol. i. p. 561.
R. parvifolia, Sanguin. Cent. Fl. Rom. p, 70 (ex Moris, l.c.).

Rk. Seraphini is a dwarf rose of peculiar habit, closely
allied to R. agrestis, Savi, which differs from it in habit,
in the leaves narrowed to the tip, with many glands
beneath, and in the eglandular reflexed caducous sepals.
It was published as Seraphini and Serafini in the same
year by its author, of which names the former is that
usually adopted, though, according to a note by J. Gay in
the Kew Herbarium, Serafino is that of the botanist after
whom the species is named, The habitats recorded for it
by Arcangeli are stony places above one thousand six
hundred ft. elevation in the Apuan Alps, Corsica, Sar-
dinia, and Sicily; and, for two varieties, the Maritime
Alps.

The specimen figured is from a plant raised from seed
received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1894, from the

Feprvaey Ist, 1901.

Innsbriick Botanical Gardens, which flowered in June, 1900,
in the Arboretum, it being then a foot high.

Descr.—A low, densely branching and leafing bush, with
spreading or deflexed branches, closely covered with un-
equal, hooked, flattened prickles. Leaves one and a half to
two inches long; petiole and rhachis slender; leaflets
seven, orbicular, or very broadly ovate, tip rounded or
acute, acutely toothed, lateral about half an inch long,
terminal larger, all dark green, sparsely glandular beneath ;
stipules narrow, acuminate. lowers solitary, shortly
peduncled, about an inch and a ‘quarter in diameter ;
peduncle and ellipsoid calyx-tube quite smooth. Sepals
rather shorter than the bright, rose-coloured petals, margins
Sparsely glandular; appendices oblong-lanceolate. Fruit

pisiform, red, at length black, crowned with the persistent
sepals.—J. D. H.

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HYMENOCALLIS SCHIZOSTEPHANA.
Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. AMaryLurpEa#.—Tribe AMARYLLE&,

Genus Hymenocattis, Salish.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 734.)

HymeEnocatuis schizostephana; bulbo ovoideo, foliis ad 8 distichis oblongo-
lanceolatis 1-14 ped. longis 24-34 poll. latis in petiolum latum concavum
angustatis late viridibus costa subtus crassa, nervis numerosis nervulis
oblique trabeculatis, ecapo terminali ultrapedali valido compresso pallide
viridi, umbella multiflora, spathis extimis 8-10 lineari-lanceolatis obtusis
1-2 poll. longis membranaceis albis, interioribus paucis wquilongis
linearibus, floribus sessilibus, perianthii tubo 2-24-pollicari viridi, seg-
mentis 3-pollicaribus loriformibus albis, staminum corona 34 poll. longa
infundibulari 6-fida v. -partita, lobis edentatis, filamentis gracilibus,
antheris linearibus 4 poll. longis, stigmate capitellato.

Hf. schizostephana, Worsley in Gard, Chron, 1899, vol. i. p. 386.

A very distinct species of a genus numbering upwards
of thirty species, natives of the New World, and chiefly
tropical. It is a near ally of H. tubiflora, Salish. (Pancra-
tium guianense, Gawl. in Bot. Reg. t. 265), a native of
Demerara, from which it differs in the paler leaves with
trabeculate nervation, in the compressed not two-edged
scape, in the more numerous, shorter, white spathe-valves,
in the much shorter perianth-tube and segments, and in
the shorter six-fid or six-partite corona. It is also closely
allied to H. angustwm, Herb. (Pancratium angustum,
Gawl. in Bot. Reg. t. 221, referred to H. caribea, Herb.,
by Baker), in which the corona has triangular lobes between
the stamens, and which has more slender filaments, a
shorter perianth-tube, and narrower perianth-segments.

A bulb of H. schizostephana was presented to the Royal
Gardens, Kew, by A. Worsley, Esq., of Mandeville House,
Isleworth, the possessor of a fine collection of bulbous
plants and of drawings of the same. It flowered in
a warm greenhouse in June, 1899. The flowers are
fragrant.

Deser.—Bulb ovoid. Leaves about eight, distichous,
twelve to eighteen inches long by two and a half to three
and a half inches broad, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed into

Marcu Ist, 1901,

a broad petiole; nerves trabeculate. Scape about a foot —
high, stout, compressed. Umbel many-fild.; outer spathes
eight to ten, one to two inches long, linear-lanceolate, |
obtuse; inner as long, narrower ; flowers sessile. Perianth-
tube two to two and a half inches long, green; segments
rather longer, loriform, white. Staminal crown infundi-
bular, half an inch long, six-fid or -partite, edentate; —
cele slender; anthers linear. Stigma capitellate.—

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MODECCA sENENSIS.
Native of Mozambique and Delagoa Bay.

Nat, Ord. PassirLorea.—Tribe Mopxccea,
Genus Movecoa, Lam.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 818.)

Mopxrcca (Microblepharis) senensis ; glaberrima, caule gracili ramoso scandente
tereti, foliis ambitu late ovatis palmatim 5-partitis supra saturate
viridibus subtus glaucis, segmentis lateralibus paribus oppositis dispositis
sessilibus lineari-oblongis obtusis integerrimis, terminali majore trilobo
basi cuneato in petiolulum canaliculatum angustato lobis oblongis
obtusis, petiolo lamina breviore canaliculato apice utrinque glandula magna
instructo, stipulis minutis subulatis caducis, cymis axillaribus dichotomis
laxifloris cirrhiferis, bracteis minutis sparsis, floribus masce. pollicaribus,
calyce anguste campanulato in pedicellum brevem articulatum attenuato
stramineo breviter 5-lobo basi intus puberulo et glandulis 5 stipitatis
ornato, lobis ovato-oblongis obtusis recurvis, petalis medio tubi insertis.
parvis lineari-oblongis inclusis, filamentis in tubum apice 5-fidum
conpatis, antheris lineari-oblongis.

M. senensis, Mast, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. ii. p. 513.

Clemanthus senensis, Klotzsch in Peters Naturwiss. Reise in Mossambig. Bot.
p. 143.

Modecca is a genus of tropical African Asiatic, and
Australian plants, containing nearly forty known species.
It is almost unknown in cultivation, only one having
hitherto been figured in any English Horticultural work,
the M. lobata, Jacq. (Bot. Reg. t. 433), also a tropical
African species. All are unisexual climbers.

M. senensis was discovered in Mozambique by the late
Professor Peters, of Berlin, when engaged in his scientific
exploration of that unhealthy district. More recently it
has been found at Delagoa Bay, whence seeds were sent to
the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1884, by Mrs. Monteiro, from
which plants were raised that flowered in 1899. The
specimen from which the figure is taken is that of a
male plant which climbs the rafters of the Succulent House
of the Royal Gardens, Kew. The flowers are fragrant.

Deser.—A tall, slender, perfectly glabrous, rather
glaucous climber, Stem and branches terete. Leaves
broadly ovate in circumscription, three to four inches long,
palmately five-partite, pale green, glaucous beneath ;
lateral segments in opposite pairs, sessile, linear-oblong,

Marcu Ist, 1901,

obtuse, quite entire, the basal pair smallest; terminal
segment much larger, three-lobed, base cuneate, narrowed
into a channelled petiolule; lobes oblong, tips rounded;
petiole shorter than the leaf, deeply channelled in front,
and with two large, oblong glands, one on each sidejof the
apex. Cymes axillary, dichotomous, few-fld., with a
slender tendrilin the fork. Male flowers shortly pedicelled,
an inch long. Calyx narrowly campanulate, pale yellow,
five-lobed ; lobes spreading and recurved, ovate, sub-acute ;
tube pubescent within, and with stipitate glands at the
very base. Petals very small, linear-oblong, inserted half
way down the tube of the calyx. Filaments united in a
slender tube, bearing five linear anthers.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, base of leaf and apex of patiole showing the glands; 2, vertical
section of male flower; 3 and 4, stamens :—all enlarged. :

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CQSLOGYNE Verrcuit.
Native of New Guinea.

Nat. Ord. Oncurpr.x.—Tribe ErmpenpREs.
Genus Catocynek, Lindl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 518).

Catocyne (Eucwlogyne) Veitchit; pseudobulbis fasciculatis 3-4-pollicaribus
oblongo-fusiformibus nudis profunde sulcatis demum alte costatis
diphy]lis, surculis vaginis brunneis tectis, foliis 5-9-pollicaribus elliptico-
lanceolatis acutis subcoriaceis 3-nerviis supra saturate viridibus basi in

etiolam brevem brunneum angustatis, scapo basi vaginato cum racemo
acs multifloro pendulo 1-2-pedali, rhachi gracili, bracteis 3-3} poll. longis
obloagis acutis convolutis brunneis diu persistentibus, pedicellis cum
ovario bracteis wquilongis, perianthio subgloboso 43 poll. diam. albo,
sepalis petalixque erectis concavis incurvis, sepalo postico oblongo-
lanceolato acuto lateralibus connatis, petalis sepalis minoribus lanceolatis
demum reflexis, labello sepalis paullo longiore trilobo basi rotundato lobis
lateralibus obtusis colamnam velantibus terminale late ovato acuto
revoluto, disco basi 3-carinato, columna brevi apice dilatata et crenata.

C, Veitchii, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1895, p. 282.

A very distinct species of a genus of which nearly
a hundred species are now known. Mr. Rolfe indicates
the absence of markings on the lip, which bears three
rather obscure basal keels, and the short column as
characters quite different from those of any known con-
geners. It was introduced from western New Guinea by
Mr. Burke, collector for Messrs. Veitch & Sons, who pre-
sented the specimen here figured to the Royal Gardens,
Kew, where it flowered in a hot-house in August, 1900.
The anthers bore no pollinia.

Descr.—Lseudobulbs three to four inches long, oblong-
fusiform, green, naked, when old deeply grooved and
strongly ribbed, two-leaved, emitting from the base stout
surculi, clothed with red-brown imbricating scales. Leaves
five to nine inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, rather
coriaceous, narrowed at the base into a stout brown
petiole, dark green above, with three impressed nerves,
paler and three-ribbed beneath. J?aceme terminal, pendu-
lous, with the scape one to two feet long, laxly many-
flowered ; rhachis slender. Pedicels with the ovary one

Manrcn Ist, 1901,

half to three-fourths of an inch long, slender. Bracts as
long, oblong, acute, convolute, pale red-brown, very per-
sistent. Perianth white, nearly globose, the sepals and
petals being incurved and dorsally very convex, about two-
thirds of an inch in diameter. Sepals oblong-lanceolate,
acute; lateral connate. Petals smaller than the sepals,
lanceolate, acuminate, at length recurved. Lip rather
longer than tlie sepals, three-lobed; base rounded, hardly
saccate; lateral lobes concealing the column, obtuse; —
terminal short, very broadly ovate, revolute, disk with
three obscure basal keels. Column short, with an orbicular,
dilated, crenate summit.—J. D. H,

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KALANCHOE Benti.
Native of Southern Arabia.

Nat. Ord. CRAsSULACE.
Genus Katancuor, Adans,; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.)

Katancnor Bentii; frntex erectus, glaberrimus, caule elongato simplici tereti
foliisque fusco-viridibus, foliis glancis decussatim oppositis sessilibus 3-6-
poll. longis patenti-recurvis pugioniformibus crasse carnosis a latere
compressis dorso rotundatis facie sulcatis ima basi tumidis semi-amplexi-
caulibus medio ad 4 poll. latis dein sensim ad apicem acutam attenuatis,
paviculw, ramulis subcorymbosis multifloris, bracteis bracteolisque
angustis carnosis, floribus erectis pedicellatis, sepalis 4 patulis ovato-
lanceolatis 3-$ poll. longis carnosulis luride viridibus, corolla albs tubo
1} poll. longo subtetragono a basi tumido virescente 3 poll. diam. sensim
attenuato, limbi lobis } poll. longis patenti-recurvis ovatis albis iotus
papillosis alabastro roseis, disci squamulis filiformibus, antheris minutis
oblongis, carpellis angustis in stylos graciles attenuatis.

K. Beutii, 0. H. Wright mss.

Kalanchoe Bentii was raised from seeds collected by the
late Mr. Theodore Bent in the Hadramaut district of
Southern Arabia in 1894, and sent to the Royal Gardens,
Kew. It flowered in June, 1900. As a species it differs
from all others in the form of the leaves.

Descr.—Sitem in the specimen figured quite simple, three
feet high, erect, slender, one inch in diameter, scarred at
the closely set internodes, leafy for the upper third, terete,
smooth, dull olive-green; upper internodes about an inch
long. Leaves decussately opposite, thickly fleshy, three to
six inches long, spreading and recurved, dagger-shaped,
gradually contracted from the middle to the tumid, sessile,
semi-amplexicaul base, and to the acute tip, laterally com-
pressed, about half an inch thick in the middle, dorsally
rounded, deeply grooved on the upper surface, margins
rounded, dirty olive-green in colour, and glaucous. Panicle
erect, many-fid., eight inches high; rhachis, branches and
branchlets erecto-patent, terete; pedicels short; bracts
and bracteoles linear, fleshy. Flowers sub-corymbose on
the branches of the panicle, erect, an inch and a half long,
white, with pink unexpanded corolla-lobes. Sepals ovate-
lanceolate, a quarter to half an inch long, spreading, olive-

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green, fleshy. Corolla-tube obscurely four-angled, about
one-sixth of an inch in diameter in the middle, gradually
dilating downwards to the tumid base, which is one-third
of an inch diam.; lobes ovate, half an inch long, spread-
ing and recurved. Anthers minute. Disc-scales filiform,
Carpels slender, narrowed into almost filiform, erect styles,
with minute capitate stigzmas.—J. ]). H.

Fig. 1, transverse section of leaf; 2, corolla laid open; 3 and 4, anthers;
» carpels ; 6, stigmas :—all enlarged ; 7, reduced view of whole plant.

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MASDEVALLIA peorsem.
Native of New Grenada.

Nat. Ord. Orncuipem.—tTribe ErrpEnpres&.

‘Genus Masprvatiia, Ruiz & Pav.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii.
: p- 492.)

Maspevatiia (Coriaces) deorsum; caspitosa, acaulis, pendula, folio 10-13
pollicari oblanceolato obtuso coriaceo enervi medio suleato supra viridi
marginibus rufescentibus junioribus subtus rubro adspersis, pedunculo
foliis breviore robusto pallido rubro-punctato medio vagina oblonga
concolore instructo, perianthii aurei rubro maculati tubo brevi 4 poll.
diam. basi gibbo, sepalo dorsali reflexo e basi brevi late ovato repente in
caudam 24 poll. longam constricto, lateralibus ovato-lanceolatis in caudas
cauda dorsali breviores sensim angustatis, petalis parvis spathulato-
obovatis pallidis, labello oblongo-obovato obtuso supra ultra medium
papillis, elongatis sanguineis villoso, basin versus maculis luteis ornato.

M. deorsa, Rolfe in Orchid Rev. vol. viii. (1900) p. 255. Gard. Chron. 1900,
vol. i. p. 395, fig. 121, and p. 419.

A very remarkable species of a genus abounding in
curious forms, distinguished from all others, in so far as
at present known, by its strictly pendulous habit, likened
by Mr. Rolfe to that of Cattleya citrina, Lindl. (tab. 3742).
‘Several plants of it were imported from New Grenada in
1894 by Consul Lehmann, of Hamburg, of which two
flowered in 1900, one at Glassnevin, with Mr. Frederick
Moore, A.L.S.; the other in Sir Trevor Lawrence’s unique
Orchid collection at Burford Lodge, Boxhill. The figure
here given is from the latter specimen, kindly forwarded
to me by Sir Trevor for the purpose in November last.

Deser.—Whole plant pendulous, tufted. Leaf ten to
thirteen inches long, oblanceolate, obtuse, coriaceous,
bright green above, with pale rufous margins, when young
copiously dotted beneath with red. Peduncles one-flowered,
much shorter than the leaf, stout, sprinkled with red spots,
bearing an appressed sheath about the middle. Flower
very large, yellow, blotched with bright red. Tube of
perianth one-third of an inch in diameter, base rounded.
Dorsal sepal broadly ovate, very short, reflexed, suddenly
contracted into a slender tail two and a half inches long.
Lateral sepals ovate-lanceolate, an inch and a half long,

Marcu Ist, 1901.

gradually narrowed into slender tails shorter than those —
of the dorsal sepal. Petals obovate-spathulate, obtuse,
pale greenish-yellow. Lip obovate-oblong, densely villous
from beyond the middle to the tip with blood-red, elongated
papille.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, petals and lip; 2, lip; 3, column; 4, anthers; 5 and 6, pollinia:—
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CLADRASTIS ‘incrorta.
Native of the Western United States.

Nat. Ord. LEcuminos™.—Tribe SorpHore.xs.
Genus Craprastis, Raf. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 554.)

~ Ciaprastis tinctoria ; arbor 50-60-pedalis, fere omnino glabra, cortice levi, ligno
flavo, ramulis pendulis lenticellatis glabrescentibus, foliis impari-pinnatis
8-12 poll. longis, rbachi gracili basi tumido cavo alabastrum claudente,
foliolis 7-13 ovatis oblongisve 3—4 poll. longis apice rotundatis basi acutis,
stipulis obsoletis, racem's paniculisve terminalibus 12-14 poll. longis
pendulis laxifloris, rhachi gracillimo, bracteis minutis caducis, floribus
expansis ad 1 poll. longis pedicellatis albis, calyce 5-dentato, vexillo
rotundato reflexo, alis oblique oblongis, carine petalis liberis dorso arcte
imbricatis, staminibus fere liberis, legumine lineari plano-compresso,
semiuibus oblongis compressis estrophiolatis.

C. tinctoria, Raf. Fl. Kent. 1824 (er S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. N. Am. Bot. p. 210) ;
Neogenyt. (1825); Med. Fl. vol. ii. p. 210; New. Fl. N. Am. vol. iii. p. 83.
Torr. & Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. i. p. 391. Chapman, Fl. 8. U. St. p. 118.
A. Gray Man. Bot. N. U. States, Ei. 1880, p. 143.

C. lutea, Koch, Dendrol. vol. i. p.6. Sargent, Gard. & Forest, vol. ii. p. 375 ;
Silv. N. Am. vol. iii. p. 57, t. 119, 120.

Virgilia lutea, Miche. fil. Hist. Arbr. Am. Sept. vol. iii. p. 266, t. 3; Pursh

_ Fl. Am. Sept. p. 309. Nutt. Gen, N. Am. Pl. vol. i. p. 284. Loitsel.
Herb. Gen. de V Amat. t. 197. D.C. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 98. Spach. Hist.
Veg. vol. i. p. 163. Eaton, Man. Bot. N. Am. Ed. 6, p. 395. -Haton
& i oa N. Am. Bot. Ed. 8, p. 480. Loud. Arboret, Brit, vol. ii.
p- 565.

Cladrastis tinctoria, the ‘‘ yellow” or ‘‘ Gopher” wood

of N. America, is one of the rarest trees of the United
States, being confined to the western bases of the Alle-
ghany Mts. in Kentucky, Central Tennessee, and N. Carolina.
It is remarkable for its silvery closely appressed bark, like
that of the Beech, pendulous brittle branches, and pro-
fusion of delicately fragrant white flowers. Only two
other species of the genus are known, C. amurensis, Benth.
(see tab. 6551) a native of Manchuria, and C. sinensis,
Helms., of China. It is remarkable as one of the most
striking evidences of the affinity of the Flora of N.E. Asia
with that of N.H. America (to the exclusion of both Japan
and W. America). According to Eaton the bark yields a
yellow dye. According to Loudon it was introduced into
England in 1812 by John Lyon, a Scotchman, who
Aprit Ist, 1901.

travelled in Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, returning twice
to England with large contributions to our gardens. He
died in 1818, in America.

The Gopher wood is not uncommon in plantations in
various parts of Europe, flowering abundantly in the
warmer climates, but rarely in the northern. There is a
Jarge tree of it in the Royal Gardens, Kew, which flowered
in June, 1900, and from which the foliage and panicle of
the accompanying figure was taken.

Descr.—A tree fifty to sixty feet high, with smooth bark,
yellow wood and glabrous branches, foliage and flowers.
Leaves eight to twelve inches long, impari-pinnate; petiole
short, much thickened at the base, and there enclosing an
axillary bud; rhachis slender, terete; leaflets seven to
thirteen, three to four inches long, shortly petiolulate,
ovate or oblong, obtuse, rather thin, terminal largest, with
a longer petiolule ; stipules 0. Panicles or racemes twelve
to fourteen inches long, terminal, pendulous, laxly very
many flowered; rhachis and branches slender; bracts
minute, caducous; pedicels slender. lowers white, with a
yellow speckled spot at the base of the standard. Caly«
obtusely five-toothed, green. Standard orbicular, reflexed.
Wings obliquely oblong. Keel-petals free, concave. Stamens
nearly free. Ovary hairy. Pod three to four inches long,

linear, flattened. “Seeds oblong, compressed.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. calyx laid o i ; :
a : pen and stamens ; 2, wing-petal; 3, keel-petal ; A, ovary
all enlarged ; 5, legume; 6, seed: both of sy size,

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AMORPHOPHALLUS teonensts.
Native of Western tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord, Arotpes.—Tribe PytHoyrex,

Genus AmorruoruaLius, Blume; (Benth. §& Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 970.)

AMORPHOPHALLUS (Corynophallus) leonensis; tubere oblato, folio hysterantho,
petiolo 3-33 pedale, lamina ampla trisecta, segmentis primariis dichotumis
1-2-pinnatifidis ultimis 6-8 poll. longis elonguto-lineari-oblongis acutis
acuminatisve, pedunculo crasso 2-8 poll. longo vayinis 2-4 poll. longis
basi instructo, spathw crasse 4—6-pollicaris campanulate tubo 1}-poll.
diam. brevi pallidoio laminam inflatam apice rotundatam atro-purpuream
albo-striatam et maculis paucis rutundatis ornatam ampliato, ore lamina
obliquo marginibus saturate purpureis incurvis, spadice spathw sub-
wqnilongo breviter crasse stipitato, infl. fem. $ in, longa, mase. latiore et
paullo longiore, appendice magna crasse stipitata obovoidea apice
rotandata 4 poll. longa 8 poll. diam. flavo-brunnea cancellata, staminibus
dense confertis, antheris quadratis, ovariis lageniformibus in stylum
attenuatis, stigmate capitato, baccis oblongis 4 pull. longis oblengo-
obovoideis flavidis.

A. leonensis, Lemaire in Hort. Van Houtte, fase. i. p. 1, t. 3, fig. 2, A e¢ 2B;
ex. Fl, des Serres, Ser. J. vol. ii. (1846), t. 161.

Corynophallus leonensis, Engl. in DO. Monogr. Phan. vol. ii. p. 326.

C. Afzelii, Schott in CEstr. Bot. Wochenbl. 1857, p. 389; Gen. Aroid. t. 32;
Prodr. Arvid. p. 132. Masters in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 1619, fiz. 343
(sphalm. quoad spadicem).

Hydrosme Jeonensis, Eng]. Jahrb. vol. i. (1881) p. 187. Durand et Schinz,
Comp. Fl. Afr. vol. v. p 474. ee

Aram aphyllum, Hook, in W. Gray, Travels in Western Africa, p. 386, t. A.

Amorphophallus leonensis was discovered in Sierra
Leone by Dr. Afzelius, afterwards Professor of Botany at
Upsala. It was first introduced into Europe by Van Houtte
in 1845, Tubers were sent from Sierra Leone to the Royal
Gardens, Kew, by Mr. Walter Haydon, Curator of the
Botanic station in that colony, early in 1899, which
flowered in a tropical house in March of the same year,
and matured their leaves in the following May. It has
also been collected in Senegal and Gambia. Dr. Masters
describes four varieties of it as occurring in cultivation,
namely, a. spectabilis, in which the petiole is marked with
obscure Jinear-oblong spots; 8. elegans with a green
petiole, bipinnatisect Jeaf-segments, the ultimate of which
are very narrow, and y. /afifolia, in which the petiole is

Arnis Ist, 1901,

green, the leaf-sezments pinnatisect, the ultimate broader
and confluent.

Descr.—Tuber oblate. Leaf solitary, appearing after the
flowering ; petiole stout, about three feet high ; blade about
a foot across, trisect; primary segments spreading, pinna-
tifid or bipinnatifid; ultimate narrowly linear, acute or
acuminate. Peduncle three to eight inches high, very
stout. Spathe erect, six inches high, pyriform; tube cam-

panulate, an inch and three-quarters in diameter, white,

gradually dilated into the concave limb, which is convolute
from its lower half, three and a half inches broad about
the middle, rounded at the top; mouth oblique, dark
purple, streaked with dirty white, and marked with a few
orbicular spots of various size; lips almost black purple,
incurved. Spadix shortly stoutly stipitate, gradually
broader upwards for about two inches, when it suddenly
develops into the large, stoutly stipitate, pyriform, pitted,
brown, mottled appendix, the rounded top of which reaches
to the top of the spathe, and is about two and a half
inches in diameter. Fem. infl. about half an inch long, of
many, green, flagon-shaped, one-celled, one-ovuled ovaries,
each narrowed into a style with a capitate stigma. Male
infl. as long as the fem., but broader, of crowded, sub-
quadrate anthers. Berries yellow, oblong-obovoid, half an
inch long—J, D. H. 2

a, 1, section of tube of spathe with base of spadix, about twice the nal.
size; 2, stamen; 8, ovary; 4, vertical section of do.: all greatly enlarged.

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KALANCHOE FARINACEA.

Native of Sucotra.

: Nat. Ord, CRASSULACE,
Genus Katancuor, Adans.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant, vol. i. p. 659.)

Katancuor farinacea ; fruticulus robustas, 6-12-pollicaris, canle crasso erecto
v. basi decumbente subtereti transverse ruguloso, foliis 14-2-pollicaribus
confertis decussatim oppositis sessilibus obovatis apice rotundatis hasi
angustatis crasse carnosis pallide virescentibus albo-pruinatis utrinque
concoloribus marginibus subroseis, floribus in paniculas pedunculatas
terminales subcorymbosas dispositis breviter pedicellatis, calycis minuti
segmentis triangularibus, corollw 4-poll. longew tubo tereti infra medium
Havo dein lobisque oblongis obtusis recurvis flammeis, filamentis brevibus,
antheris parvis seriei superioris vix exsertis, disci sqoamulis lineari-
oblongis obtusis, carpellis angustis tubum corolla squantibus in stylos
graciles attenuatis, stigmatibus minutis.

K, farinacea, Balf. fil. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb. vol. xi. (1882) p. 512; et in
Trans, vol. xxi. (1888) p. 91.

K. farinacea is one of the many new and interesting

plants discovered in Socotra by Dr. I. B. Balfour,

during his exploration of that island in 1880, where he
describes it as being common in crevices of limestone rocks,

_It is one of four species found there by him, of which

three were new to science. More recently, in 1897, seeds
of it, from which the specimen here figured was raised,
were sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by the late Mr.
Theodore Bent. It flowered in a greenhouse in August,
1900, and continued flowering for two months.

Descr.—A stout, erect, sparingly branched, succulent
shrub, with mealy white branches, leaves, and panicle.
Leaves crowded towards the ends of the branches, sessile,
spreading, one and a half to two inches long, obovate,
narrowed at the base, concave, quite entire, tip rounded,
very thick, pale green beneath the thin covering of mealy
pubescence, margins faintly rosy. Panicle terminal, sub-
corymbiform; rhachis and branches stout; bracts small,
oblong, fleshy. Flowers shortly pedicelled, erect, one-half to
three-quarters of an inch long. Calyx minute, obtusely

four-lobed, Corvlla narrowly campanulate; tube about
Arnrit Ist, 1901.

half an inch long, terete, yellow below the middle, bright
scarlet above it, as are the ovate, sub-acute, spreading lobes.
Stamens small, the upper series hardly exserted ; filaments
very short; anthers broadly oblong. Scales of the disk
small, linear-oblong. Carpels narrowed into slender styles
with minute stigmas.—J.D.H.

Fig. 1, portion of leaf with mealy pubescence ; 2, calyx; 3, corolla laid open ;_
4, scales of the disk and carpels :—all enlarged.

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ROSA FEpTsCHENKOANA.
Native of Turkestan.

Nat. Ord. Rosacea.—Tribe Rosea.
Genus Rosa, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625.)

Rosa (Cinnamome) Fedischenkoana; frutex erectus, vage ramosus, ramis
ramulisque crebre armatis, aculeis stipularibus rigidis rectis v. recurvis
bisin versus paullo dilatatis et compressis ceteris setiformibus rectis, foliis
glaucescentibus 5-7-foliolatis, rhachi gracili sparse setaceo, foliolis polli-
caribus ellipticis acutis simpliciter serrulatis terminali paullo majore,
stipulis acuminatis petiolo adnatis apicibus liberis floribus solitariis v.
2-4-nis albis malodoris, pedunculis ovariis ellipsoideis sepalisque glandu-
loso-pilosis, sepalis lanceolatis apicibus linearibus apice simplicibus v.
paullo dilatatis, petalis sepalis bis terve longioribus, carpellis stylisque
jilis longis sparse hirsutis, fructibus ellipsoideis v. subpyrformibus setulosis
rubris sepalis persistentibus coronatis.

R. Fedtschenkoana, Regel. Del. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1876, p. 36; et in Acta
Horti Petrop, vol, v. (1877) p. 314.

A very handsome white rose, with almost black bark on
the older branches, red brown on the younger. It was
discovered in the Turkestan and Kokan regions of Central
Asia, by the Russian travellers, Fedtschenko & Korolkow,
by whom it was introduced into the Imperial Botanic
Gardens of St. Petersburgh. A plant of it was procured
for the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Mr. T. Smith’s Nursery
at Newry, in 1890, which has developed into a rambling,
very glaucous shrub of free growth, and flowered in June,
1900, fruiting in the following September.

According to Dr, Regel it is a variable plant, of which
he describes four forms, differing from one another chiefly
in the amount of glandular hairs in the calyx, and in the
form of the fruit, from globose to lageniform. The scent
of the flowers is uupleasant.

Descr.—A free-growing, very glaucous, much-branched,
closely prickly shrub ; stipular prickles straight, or slightly
recurved, compressed, and somewhat dilated at the base,
other prickles on the branches reduced to bristles, glandular
hairs none. Leaves four to five inches long; rhachis
slender, sparsely setose ; leaflets five to seven, an inch long,
elliptic, acute, simply serrulate, glaucous; stipules adnate

Aprit Ist, 1901.

to the petiole, their acuminate tips only free. Flowers
solitary, or two to four on a _ peduncle, large white;
peduncles and ellipsoid ovaries more or less glandular-
hairy. Sepals lanceolate, tips linear or slightly dilated.
Petals twice or thrice as long as the sepals. Carpels and
styles sparsely hirsute. fruit ellipsoid or ‘sub-pyriform,
crowned with the persistent sepals, red.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, bud; 1 and 3, anthers; 4, carpels :—all enlarged—i, fruit of the
natural size,

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STAPELTA nosittts.
Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Ascrmptapea.—Tribe STapEnie x.
Genus Srapetia, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii, p. 784.)

Srareria (Tridentea) nobilis; caule decumbente basi ramoso tetragono
_ ohereaag angulis dentatis faciebus concavis, foliornm rudimentis
entibus insertis >; poll. longis erectis ovatis acutis puberulis, floribus
solitariis binisve basin versus ramulorum insertis, pedunculo crasso polli-
cari velutino, sepalis } poll. longis ovato-lanceolatis acutis velutinis,
corolla ampla extus rubro-purpurea puberula intus ochracea pilis longis
laxe villosa et lineis sanguineis trabeculata, tubo campanulato 14 poll.
diam., lobis 23 poll. longis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis reflexis pilis
purpureis ciliatis, coronz exterioris brunneo-purpuree lobis } poll. longis
ascendentibus linearibus 3-dentatis glabris, interioris lobis insqualiter
bipartitis segmentis subulatis triquetris suberectis.

S. nobilis, N.#. Br. mas.

Mr. N. E. Brown, from whose description of this plant,
prepared for the forthcoming part of the Kew Bulletin,
‘the above is taken, says that it is closely allied to
S. gigantea (tab. 7068) ; differing in the stems not being
so stout, and their angles much less compressed. The
flowers are similar in colour, but those of S. nobilis are
much smaller, have a distinctly campanulate tube, and are
more hairy within.

The plant here figured was sent to the Royal Gardens,
Kew, in 1897, by Mr. T. G. Griffiths of Port Elizabeth,
Cape Colony, but of its exact native habitat I have no
information. It flowered in the Succulent House in May,
1900.

Deser.—Stem decumbent, branched at the base, about two-
thirds of an inch in diameter, pubescent, four-angled; angles
toothed, their faces concave. Leaves rudimentary, erect,
inserted on the teeth of the angles, about one-twelfth of
an inch long, ovate, acute, puberulous. Flowers solitary,
or two on the lower part of the branches; peduncle an
inch long, stout, velvety. Sepals about one-fourth of an
inch long, ovate, acute, velvety. Corolla large, red-purple
externally, internally villous with long hairs, ochraceous,

Aprit Ist, 1901.

trabeculate with blood-red cross-lines ; tube campanulate,
half an inch in diameter; lobes two and three-quarters of
an inch long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, reflexed, ciliate
with purple hairs. Outer corona purple-brown, glabrous;
lobes a quarter of an inch long, linear, ascending, three-

toothed. Inner corona with unequally bipartite lobes.—
J.D. H.

Fig. 1, corona; 2, lobe of outer corona; 3, inner corona; 4, pollinia:—

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WYETHIA mottts,
Native of Californta.

Nat. Ord. Comrosit.x.—Tribe HettantHOIDEe’.
Genus Wretuia, Nutt.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii, p. 374).

Wrest (Alarconia) mollis; herba 2-3-pedalis, erecta, robusta, floccose-
tomentosa, demum glabrescens, radice crasso, caule simplici v. parce
ramoso, foliis inferioribus pedalibus ovatis oblongis v. lineari-oblongis
acutis v. apice rotundatis basi rotundatis cuneatis vel in petiolum crassum
angustatis coriaceis nervis numerosis patalis nervulis reticulatis superiori-
bus ovato-lanceolatis, petiolo 2-4 poll. longo, capitulis pancis amplis
inferioribus longe superioribus breviter pedicellatis, pedicellis crassis,
involucri cupularis pollicaris bracteis 10-12 oblongo-'anceolatis subacutis
herbaceis, receptaouli bracteolis lineari-oblongis, floribus aurantiacis radii
10-15 ligula if poll. longa j poll. lata patenti-recurva apice bidenticulata,
achesniis linearl-oblongis compressis marginibus ciliolatis, pappi setis
brevibus subulatis rigidis scabridis lateralibus sepius longioribus.

W. mollis, A. Gray én Proc, Amer. Acad. vol. vi. (1865) p. 544; Synopt. Fl.
NV. Am. Gamopet. p. 208; et in Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 349.

Wyethia, a genus confined to Western North America,
_ Consists of about a dozen species, It is nearly allied to
Helianthus, differing in having fertile ray-flowers and in
the pappus. A. Gray describes the species as having a
balsamic odour, adding that the thick roots and the seeds
were used as food by the Indians. The name is a tribute by
Mr. Nuttall to the memory of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, who
collected the species upon which the genus was.founded,
and who subsequently accompanied its founder in one of
the first journeys made across the whole continent of
North America,

The sectional name of Alargonia is adopted from De
Candolle (Prodr., vol. v. p. 537), who gave it as a
generic one to a species, W. heleniotdes, previously described
by Nuttall. It is dedicated to the memory of Fernando
de Alargon, a noble Spanish navigator, who, in 1540,
first visited and carefully surveyed the coast of California,
W. mollis is a native of the Sierra Nevada, especially on
the eastern side, from Sierra Valley to Virginia city in
Nevada, thence westward to the Yosemite and other valleys
of the Sierra in California.

May Ist, 1901,

For the specimen here figured I am indebted to my
friend the Rev. Canon Ellacombe, of Bitton, in whose rich
collection of hardy plants it flowered in June, 1900.

Descer.—A stout, perennial herb, one to three feet high,
covered with a white, floccose tomentum. Leaves few,
coriaceous, radical a foot long, ovate- or linear-oblong,
acute, obtuse or rounded and apiculate at the tip, base
acute, rounded or narrowed into the stout petiole, upper
leaves ovate or lanceolate, acute. Heads few, shortly
stoutly pedicelled, four to five inches in diameter. Invo-
lucre cupular; bracts ten to twelve, narrow, acute, erect.
Ray-flowers ten to fifteen ; ligule an inch and a half long
by a quarter of an inch broad, spreading and recurved,
golden-yellow, as are the disk-flowers. Scales of the
receptacle linear. Achenes linear-oblong, compressed,
margins ciliolate. Pappus of a few unequal, rigid, seabrid,
persistent bristles.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1. bract of involucre ; 2, ray-flower ; 3, disk-flower ; 4, stamens; 5, “a
arms of disk-flowers :—all enlarged.

—— RA .
RON PP)

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Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltt bap

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Tas. 7773.
PYRUS a.niro.a.
Native of Japan and China.

Nat. Ord. Rosacra.—Tribe Pomea.
Genus Prrvs, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 626.)

Pyrus (Sorbus) alnifolia; arbor parva, ramis lenticellatis cortice fusco _
vestitis, foliis breviter petiolatis ovato-rotundatis acutis vel acuminatis
argute duplo-triplicato-serratis basi rotandatis cordatisve submembrana-
ceis glabris penninerviis, nervis numerosis parallelis supra impressis
subtus gracilibus prominulis, nervulis tenuissimis, corymbis breviter

dunculatis multifloris, pedunculi ramis pedicellisque brevibus puberu-
is, floribns ad 4} poll. diam. albis, calycis tomentosi lobis obtusis,

talorum ungue barbato, fructibus ellipsoideis v. subglobosis 4 poll.
ongis basi et apice rotundatis rubris.

P. alnifolia, Franch. & Sav. Enum, Pl. Jap. vol. ii. p. 350.

Sorbus alnifolia, C. Koch in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. vol. i. (1864) p. 249.
Maxim. Mel. Biol. Dec. ix. (1872) p 173.

Cratzgus alnifolia, Sieb. & Zucc. in Abhandl. Akad. Muench. vol. iv. pars IT.
(1843) p. 180. Miguel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. iii. p.40. Franch.
& Sav. le. vol. i. p. 141.

Aria tiliwfolia. Decne. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Par. Sér. 1. vol. x. (1874) p. 166.

A. alnifolia, Deene. l.c.

Pyrus alnifolia is @ small tree, first described from
Japan, where it was discovered by Siebold. It inhabits
the upper limit of the forest region in many parts of the
Archipelago, including that of the celebrated mountain
Fudji-yama. Maximovicz found it in Eastern Manchuria,
and Dr. Henry at elevations of seven thousand feet to nine
thousand five hundred feet in the Hupeh province of
China proper.

The specimen here figured is from a plant which flowered
in the Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in May,
1900. It was purchased from Mr. L. Spiith, Nurseryman
of Berlin, in 1896.

Descr.—A small tree, glabrous except the corymbs.
Leaves two to three inches long, shortly petioled, broadly
ovate or almost orbicular, acute or acuminate, sharply,
doubly or trebly serrate, base rounded or cordate, bright
green above, with many parallel immersed nerves, which are
prominent, but very slender on the pale under surface,

Mar lst, 1901,

very thin in texture ; petiole one half to three-fourths of an
inch long, slender. Corymbs two to three inches in diameter,
shortly peduncled; peduncle, branches and_ pedicels
puberulous. Flowers white, about half an inch in diameter.
Calye tomentose; lobes short, obtuse. Petals with a
bearded claw. Styles three. Fruit about half an inch
long, ellipsoid or subglobose, bright red.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, unexpanded flower; 2, vertical section of calyx with stamens and
2 styles :—both enlarged; 3, fruit, of the natural size.

ret Imp
Vincent Brooks,Day &Sonkt Gi
— MS.46, oN Fitch it,

L. Reeve & C°Lonasy

Tas. 7774,

LONICERA PYRENAICA,
Nutive of the Pyrenees.

Nat. Ord. Caprironiaceaz.—Tribe LonicEREs.
Genus Lonicera, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5.)

Lonicera (Xylosteum) pyrenaica; frutex dumosus, erectus, glaberrimus,
ramulis patentibus, foliis apices versus ramulorum fasciculatis sessilibus
obovato-cuneatis oblanceolatisve acutis giaucis caducis, pedunculis foliis
dimidio brevivribus, bracteis 2 foliaceis, bracteolis 4 minutis ovatis,
ovariis subglobosis basi tantum connatis, calycis dentibus minutis,
corullz pallide rosez tubo $ poll. longo basi gibboso lobis ovato-rotundatis,
genitalibus breviter exsertis, stylo villoso, baccis pisiformibus fere liberis
rubris,

L. pyrenaica, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 174. Duham. Arb. vol. ii. t. 110; Ed.
II. vol. i. t. 15. DC. Fl. Fr. vol. iv. p. 272; Prodr. vol. iv. p. 335.
Ait. Hort. Kew, Ed. II. vol. i. p. 379. Benth. Cat. Pl. Pyren. p. 97.
Allioni, Fl. Pedem. vol. i. p. 128. Poll, Fl. Veron. vol. i. p. 285. Reichb,
Ic. Fl. Germ, vol. xvii. t. 1175, fig. 2. Parlat, Fl. Ital. vol. al 127.
Willk. & Lange, Prodr, Fl. Hisp. vol. ii. p. 353. Gren. § Godr. Fl.
de France, vol. ii. p. 11.

Caprifolium pyrenaicum, Lam. Fl. Fr. vol. iii. p. 366.

Lonicera pedunculis bifloris, &c., Royen, Fl. Leyd. Prodr. p. 238.

Xylosteon pyrenaicum, Tournef. Instit. p. 609. Magnol. Hort. Reg. Monsp,
p- 209, cewm Ic. Rand, Hort. Med. ls. ed. 1739, p. 211.

a vel Xylostaeum Pyrenaicum, Ray, Hist, Pl. vol. iii.; Dendrol.
p- *

Lonicera pyrenaica is a very old garden plant, having,
according to Philip Miller, been in cultivation in England
since 1793. It is a native of the Eastern Pyrenees,
and of the larger Balearic Islands, at elevations in the
latter of twelve hundred feet to fourteen hundred feet.

In the Royal Gardens, Kew, it forms a small shrub in
the Rock garden, flowering profusely in May and June.

Descr.—A small, much-branched, glabrous shrub, with
close-set, short branchlets. Leaves crowded towards the
ends of the branchlets, sessile, spreading, about an inch
long, oblanceolate or cuneiformly obovate, acute, glaucous,
deciduous. Peduncles about half as long as the leaves,
each bearing two bracteate sessile flowers, shortly united
by the bases of their ovaries. Bracts leaf-like, spreading ;
bracteoles two to each flower, minute. Ovary sub-globose.
Calyz-teeth minute, triangular. Corolla pale rose-coloured

May Ist, 1901.

or nearly colourless; tube half an inch long, gibbous at the
base ; lobes shorter than the tube, orbicular-ovate. Stamens
very shortly exserted. Style slender, tomentose. Berries
pisiform, nearly free, brick-red.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, peduncle bracts bracteoles and two flowers, one unexpanded, the

other with the corolla removed; 2 and 3, anthers:—all enlarged; 4, berries
of the natural size,

MS.del,JN-Fitch ith

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Tas. 7775.
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM catamirorMe.
= Native of South Africa.

Nat. Ord. Ficoipemz.—Tribe MeseMBRYER.

Genus MesempryantHemum, Linn.; (Benth, & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i.
p. 853,

MrsEMBRYANTHEMUM (Calamiformia) calamiforme; glaberrimum, caule brevi
robusto lignoso, foliis 6-8 oppositis basi lata insertis 2-3 poll. longis
cylindraceis obtusis mucronulatisve carnosis ad } poll. diam. subglaucis
tenuissime punctatis, floribus psendo-terminalibus solitariis 2-24 poll.
latis breviter crasse pedunculatis, calycis tubo brevi crasso lobis 5 inequa-
libus 3 majoribus crasse carnosis marginibus dilatatis quasi bialatis alis
truncatis apice producto obtuso v. acuto, 2 minoribus submembrana-
ceis, petalis numero~issimis sepalis 2-3-plo longioribus sub 3-seriatis
linearibus angustissimis albis apicibus pallide roseis, filamentis inzwqui-
lonugis petalis multo brevioribus 6-8-seriatis pallidis, antheris parvis
aurantiacis, ovario conico, stigmatibus 5-8 erectis cuspidatis intus
barbatis, capsula polysperma.

M. calamiforme, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 481. Haw. Obs. Gen. Mesemb. p. 140; Misc.
Nat. p. 26; Syn. Pl. Suce. p.208: Revis. Plant. Suce.105. DC. Pl. Grasses,
t. 5; Prodr. vol. iii. p. 424. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2 vol. iii. p. 215. Salm.
cL Monogr. Mesembr. § 10, fig. 1. Harv. & Sond, Fl. Cap. vol. ii.
p- ' °

_M. calamiforme, &¢., Dil/en. Hort. Elth. p. 228, t. 186, fig. 228. .

Ficoidea capensis, humilis, &c., Bradley, Hist. Pl. Succ. Dee. ii. p. 10, fig. 19.

The genus Mesembryanthemum holds an important place
in the history of Horticulture. Dillenius, who treats of
the species known to him at great length, gives an interest-
ing account of the successive introduction of those known
to his predecessors. Of these he says 15 were known to
Bobart (1648); 20 to Breyn (1680); 39 to Ray (1686) ;
23 to Herman (1687); 2L to Plukenet (1696); 30 to
Bradley (1716); 36 to Tournefort. Dillenius himself
describes and figures 47 species, all cultivated in Sherard’s
garden at Eltham in 1732. Following Dillenius, Linneus
in the “ Hortus Cliffortianus” (1737) gives 30 species ; and
in the ‘* Species plantarum” (1758) 85, where he reduces
some of Dillenius’s species to varieties. Coming down to
later times, Aiton’s ‘‘ Hortus Kewensis” (ed. I. 1789)
contains 70 species, and Ed. II. (1811) 175. Haworth’s
**Revis. Plant. Succ.” (1821) describes 310. Harvey &

May lst, 1901.

Sonder’s ** Flora Capensis” 293, exclusive of imperfectly
known species. In the ‘‘ Index Kewensis” (1895) 375
Species are enumerated, of which 113 were, in 1899, in
cultivation in the Royal Gardens, Kew. Lastly, 25 are
figured in this Magazine.

The specimen of M. calamiforme here figured was re-
ceived in 1898, with other interesting plants, from Mr.
Chalwin, Superintendent of the Cape Town Botanical
Gardens, with the information that it is a native of the
Karroo district. It flowered in a greenhouse of the Royal
Gardens in June, 1900.

_Descr.—Glabrous. Stem short, stout, woody. Leaves
six to eight, opposite, sessile by a much-thickened base,
two to three inches long, cylindric, obtuse, about one-third
of an inch in diameter, sub-glaucous. lowers solitary,
terminal, very stoutly peduncled, two to two anda half
inches in diameter. Calyz-tube short; lobes five, unequal,
two larger, fleshy, broadly winged, wings truncate; tp
elongate, acute or obtuse; two smaller thinner. Peta
innumerable, sub-triseriate, very narrow, white with pink
tips. Stamens much shorter than the petals; anthers
small, yellow. Ovary obconic, stigmas five to eight, erect,
cuspidate.. Capsule many-seeded.—.J OH

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MANE TTIA wBreonor.

Native of Brasil,

Nat. Ord, Rupracea#.—Tribe CincHone®.

Genus Mayertta, Matis; (Benth. & Hook, f. Gen, Plant, vol. ii. p. 37.)

Manettta (Heterochroa) bicolor; frutex scandens, gracilis, ramosus, ramulis
teretibus puberulis, foliis 2-6 poll. longis breviter petiolatis ovatis ovato-
lanceolatisve acuminatis supra subscaberulis subtus pallidis nervis
tomentellis, stipulis parvis late ovatis, floribus axillaribus et terminalibus,
pedicellis corolla subsequilongis puberulis, calycis tubo parvo turbinato
cinereo-tomentoso, lobis } poll. longis ovatis oblongisve acutis reflexis
viridibus extus puberulis, corolla sepalis bis longiore cylindracea tereti a
medio ad basin sensim ampliata setulis rigidis hispida coccinea apicem
versus nuda aurea intus basin versus annulo pilorum instructa, ore
paullo dilatato 4-fido lobis parvis triangularibus patulis, antheris lineari-
oblongis infra medium tubi insertis, disco pulvinari, stylo gracili
stigmatibus 2 linearibus, capsula globoso-pyriformi tomentosa. :

M. bicolor, Paxt. Mag. Bot. vol. x. (1843) p. 27. Flore des Serres, vol. ii.
p. 445, t. 6. Dietr. Fl. Univers. t.14, Rev. Hort. Belg. vol. xxi. (1895)
p. 49.

M. luteo-rubra, Benth. in Linnaea, vol. xxiii. (1850) p. 445. Schumann in Mart,
Ft. Bras. vol. vi, pars vi. p. 174.

M. filicaulis, Wawra in Uistr. Bot. Zeitschr. vol. xxxi. (1881) p. 281; in Bot.
Reis. Pr. Sax Coburg, p. 118, t. 17.

M. pubescens, partim, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnaea, vol. iv. (1829) p. 170.

M. seabra, Herb. Pohl.

Guaguebina luteo-rubra, Vel/, F/. Flum. vol. i. t. 121; tewtu Ed. Netto, p. 46.

The beautiful and now well-known stove-climber here
figured was imported into Europe from the Organ Mts. in
Brasil by Mr. James Veitch, grandfather of the partners in
the celebrated firm of that name, and founder, I believe, of
the business, which was then carried on at Mount Radford,
near Exeter. This was about sixty years ago, when
William Lobb, then collecting for his firm in Brasil,
sent home seeds. It appears to have a very wide range
of distribution, for there are specimens in the Kew
Herbarium from Uruguay, Paraguay, St. Catherine,
Rio de Janeiro, and Minas Geraes all in Brasil. In the
Royal Gardens, I am informed that it is never out of
flower.

The genus Manettia is a very large one, consisting
of upwards of thirty species, spread over tropical America,

May Ist, 1901,

Only one has previously been figured in this work, M. cordi-
folia, Mart. t. 3202, for M. micans, Poepp. & Endl. t. 5495, 7
is only a robust form of that species. “4
Desey.— A slender, much-branched, more or less puberu-
lous climber. Leaves two to six inches long, shor
petioled, ovate or oyate-lanceolate, acuminate, sub-scah
lous and bright green above, paler beneath, with
tomentose nerves; stipules very small, broadly ovat
Flowers axillary and terminal, tetramerous ; pedicels about:
as long as the corolla. Calyx-tube small, turbinate, tome
tose; lobes ovate or oblong, acute, reflexed, gree
Corolla-tube three-quarters of an inch long, eylindr
terete, dilated towards the base, hispid with scarlet hai
except towards the apex, which is naked and golde
yellow; lobes very short, broadly triangular,
‘sessile in the middle of the tube of the coro
a ring of hairs. Style slender, stigmas

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CRINUM RHODANTHUM.
Native of Ngami Land.

Nat. Ord. AmaryLuipe#.—Tribe AMARYLLEA.
Genus Cainum, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 726.)

Crinum (Stenaster) rhodanthum; bulbo ovoideo 4 poll. diam., foliis 12-15
bipedalibus ad 2 poll. latis distichis loratis carnosulis fragilibus glauces-
centibus enerviis apice rotundatis marginibus angustissime scariosis erosis,
pedunculo brevi lato valde compresso, spathis 1—-2-pollicaribus deltoiJeis
acuminatis, umbella hemispherica fere 2-ped. diam, multiflora, pedicellis
14-2 poll. longis, perianthii tubo 3-pollicari fere rect» angusto cylindraceo,
limbi saturate rosei segmentis patenti-revolutis loratis 2} poll. longis,
filamentis erectis perianthii segmentis equilougis, antheris 3 poll. longis
fuscis, stylo gracili recto filamentis «2 quilongo, stigmate capitellato.

C. rhodanthum, Baker in Dyer, Flora of Tropical Africa, vol. vii. p. 397.

The term Ngami Land indicates the country around a
lake of that name, situated in the heart of Africa, in
about lat. S. 20°, and approximately half way between the
Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Though long known by
reports from the Bechuana tribes of S. Africa, it was
not visited by Europeans till 1849, when the intrepid
travellers, Oswell and ,Livingstone, reached it after a
perilous crossing of the desert intervening between it and
Bechuanaland. |

Though situated within the tropics, the vegetation of
Ngami Land is South African, as exemplified by a most
beautifully preserved herbarium made there by Lieut. (now
Capt.) and Mrs. Lugard, and presented to Kew, of which
an account will be communicated to the Linnean Society
by Mr. N. E. Brown. This herbarium is rich in novelties,
and is rendered exceptionally valuable from being accom-
panied by a series of coloured drawings, with analyses of
many species, by Mrs. Lugard, which are of rare excellence
in point of execution and scientific accuracy, and of which
that lady has kindly allowed copies to be taken for the
Kew collection of botanical drawings.

The exact locality of the Crinum is Mt. Kwebe, situated

a little to the eastward of the lake, which is described
JuNE Ist, 1991.

as being conspicuous for the number of Baobab trees
growing upon it. The bulb was presented by Mrs. Lugard
to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1899, where it flowered
in a tropical house.

Descr.— Bulb four inches in diameter, ovoid. Leaves
twelve to fifteen, distichous, lorate, two feet long by two
inches broad, glaucous ; rather fleshy, brittle, tip rounded ;
margins narrowly scarious, erose. Peduncle short, flat-
tened, an inch broad. Spathes two, deltoid, acuminate,
two to three inches long. Umbels hemispheric, laxly very
many-flowered, nearly two feet in diameter; pedicels
half to one inch long. Perianth-tube three inches long,
very slender, cylindric, nearly straight, pale red ; segments
of limb spreading and revolute, two and a half inches long
by one-sixth of an inch broad, lorate, obtuse, bright red.
Filaments about as long as the segments of the limb, red,
very slender; anthers one-sixth of an inch long, brown.
Style as long as the filaments, very slender, red; stigma
capitellate.—J. D. H.

Tab. 7777, umbel with top of peduncle and spathe of nat. size.
Tab. 7778, reduced view if whole plant ; fig. 1, portion of margin of leaf; 2and
3, anthers; 4, top of style and stigma :—all enlarged.

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BESCHCORNERIA Waicatt.

Native of Mexico?

Nat. Ord. AMaRYLLIDEX.—Tribe AGAVEZ.
Genus Bescuornerta, Kunth; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p, 738.)

Bescuornerta Wrightit; trunco robusto, foliis ad 60 dense confertis patenti-
recurvis ensiformibus 4~5 ped. longis crasse coriaceis medium versus
2-poll. latis basi dilatatis crassissimis margine denticulatis apice in
acumen brunneum elongatum angustitis utrinque lete viridibus dorso
costa lata percursis, pedunculo brevi robusto foliis paucis abbreviatis
erectis instructo, panicule 8-pedalis pyramidalis rhachi ramulisque
patenti-recurvis glaberrimis roseis, floribus secus ramulos in fasciculos
9-4-flores dispositis nutantibus breviter pedicellatis pubescentibus,
bracteis 3-1 poll. longis ovato-lanceolntis bracteolisque minoribus
seariosis albis roseo striatis, pedicellis glaberrimis, ovario ? poll. longo
cylindraceo, perianthii tubo ovario paullo longiore et latiore, segmentis
lineari-spathulatis viridibus marginibus flavidis apicibus patulis intus
flavis, antheris linearibus apicibus exsertis.

Beschorneria Wrightii is much the largest species of the
five that have as yet flowered at Kew, and been figured in
this work (tabs, 4642, 5203, 6641, 6091, 6768). Of these
it is most nearly allied to B. Dekosteriana, C, Koch,
Wochenschr. vii. (1864), 187 (B. Decosteriana, Baker, tab.
6768), which differs in the quite glabrous flowers. Of its
native country, or the date of its introduction into the
Royal Gardens of Kew, where it bore the erroneous name
of Furcrea Bedinghausii ? a very different plant, there is
no record. With the exception of a Texan species
(B. dubia), Mexico is the native country of the genus. I
have given it the name of Mr. Charles H. Wright, A.L.S.,
Assistant in the Kew Herbarium, who had examined and
distinguished it from its congeners. It flowered in the
Mexican division of the Temperate House of the Royal
Gardens in June, 1900.

Deser.—Stem (of the specimen figured) eighteen inches
high, six inches in diameter. Leaves about fifty, densely
crowded, spreading and recurved, ensiform, coriaceous,
four to five feet long by two inches broad about the middle;
tip narrowed into a brown, dagger-like tip; base dilated,

June Ist, 1901.

very thick, bi-convex; margins very narrowly scarious,

denticulate. Peduncle short, stout, bearing a few short,

erect leaves. Panicle pyramidal, eight feet high ; rhachis.
stout ; branches and branchlets spreading or recurved, quite
glabrous; bracts and bracteoles scarious, white, streaked with :
red. lowers fascicled on the branchlets, shortly pedicelled, ©

nodding, green, pubescent. Ovary three-fourths of an inch

long, cylindric. Perianth-tube rather longer and broader
than the ovary; segments erect, linear-spathulate, green,

with broad, yellow margins, yellow within; tips obtuse,

spreading. Anthers linear, tips only exserted. Stigma

capitellate, three-lobed.—/J/. D. H.

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CALANTHE mapacascariensis.
Native of Madagascar.

Nat. Ord. OxcupEx.—Tribe EPIDENDRE,
Genus CatantuE, Br. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 520.)

Catantue (Veratrifolia) madagascariensis; foliis paucis ad basin caulis con-
fertis sessilibus v. petiolatis ellipticis v. ovato-oblongis acuminatis
marginibus undulatis inter-nervos profunde impressos sublacunosis,

edunculo 6-12 poll. longo erecto robusto puberulo vaginis paucis laxis
instructo, racemo brevi erecto laxe multifloro, bracteis lanceolatis acutis
pedicellis paullo brevioribus viridibus, floribus 1-1} poll. latis, sepalis
petalisque patentibus concoloribus albis margines versus purpureo suffusis,
sepalis ellipticis acutis apicibus dorso viridibus, petalis paullo minoribus
subacutis, labello sepalis paullo breviore plano trilobo ad 34 poll. longo et
lato aureo lilacino v. purpureo 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus divaricatis oblongis
v. lineari-oblongis apice rotundatis terminali late obsordato lobulis
divaricatis, disco basi aureo tuberculis 2 majusculis veruccisque minoribus
aucto, calcare gracili incurvo.

C. madagascariensis, Rolfe mss.
C. sylvatica, Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxix. (1891) p. 52, non Lindl.

_ Calanthe madagascariensis is a near ally of C. veratrifolia,
Br. (tab. 2615) a species of very wide distribution, from
North and South India to Japan and Australia. It differs
from that plant in size, in the undulate leaves, in the much
broader sepals and petals, and in the more verrucose disk
of the lip with two large tubercles. The flowers vary
much in colour; a prevalent variety has white sepals and
petals, clouded with pink, and a rose-purple lip; others
have pure white sepals and petals and a yellow lip.

Mr. Warpur, a Belgian collector, was the introducer
into Europe of C. madagascariensis. The Royal Gardens,
Kew, are indebted to him for the specimen here figured,
which flowered in a warm house in August, 1890. There
are others in the Kew Herbarium from the East Betsileo
district, collected by the Rev. R. Baron, and from Fort
Dauphin by Mr. Scott Elliot, M.A., F.L.S.

Descr.—Pseudobulbs small, clustered, cylindric, annulate.
Leaves few, crowded, all radical, spreading and recurved,
three to five inches long, sessile or shortly petioled,
elliptic or oblong-ovate, acuminate; margins undulate;

June Ist, 1901

upper surface raised between the nerves and pitted ; under-
surface deeply pitted. Peduncle six to twelve inches high,
robust, puberulous, bearing a few lax sheaths. Saceme
short, erect, many-flowered ; bracts lanceolate, recurved,
green. lowers an inch or more in breadth. Sepals and —
petals alike, spreading, elliptic-ovate, acute; petals rather
smaller, and more obtuse. Lip adnate to the top of
the column, rather shorter than the sepals, flat, deeply
three-lobed ; lateral lobes spreading, oblong, tips rounded ;
terminal broadly obcordate, with spreading, rounded
lobules, and an acute sinus; disk yellow, with two large
tubercles, and many globose warts at the base ; spur longer

than the flower, slender, incurved. Ovlumn short, broad.
—J. D. H.

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NYMPHAHA Fravo-vIRENs.
Native of Mexico?

Nat. Ord. Nymenxaceaz.—Tribe NymPuxe.

Genus Nrmruza, Linn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 46.)

Nyrmeuza flavo-virens; foliis natantibus orbiculatis ad 10 poll. diam. grosse
sinuato-crenatis basi sagittatis segmentis acutis, sinu clauso v. aperto
supra laete viridibus unicoloribus v. nigro maculatis subtus pallidioribus
brunneo suffusis v. atro-sanguineis, pedunculo longe emerso, floribus 5
poll. diam. suaveclentibus, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis extus
viridibus, petalis numerosis sepalis equilongis v. paullo longioribus
anguste lanceolatis subacutis, staminibus sab 38-seriatis, filamentis
exterioribus lineari-oblongis, antheris fere pollicaribus longiuscule appen-
dicnlatis aureis, stigmatibus 12-14 conicis obtusis demum patentibus.

N. flavo-virens, Lehm. Ind. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1852, p. 9, et in Ann, Se. Nat.
Ser. IIT. vol. xix. (1853) p. 361.

N. mexicana, Hort., non Zuce.

Nymphexa flavo-virens is a near ally of the Mexican
N. gracilis, Zuce., differing from that plant in its larger
size, in the segments of the leaf being pointed, in the
narrower, sub-acute (not acuminate) petals, in the fila-
ments not being so dilated at the base, and in the more
numerous stigmas. It has been long in cultivation in
Europe, having been first described in 1852, from a plant
that flowered in the Botanical Garden of Hamburg, and
in July last a specimen was sent to be named by Mr.
Moore, A.L.S., Keeper of the Glasnevin Botanical Garden.
There is a specimen of it in the Kew Herbarium from
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described as having the under surface of the leaves of a
blood-red colour. In the Kew plant the leaves are very
pale green beneath, clouded with brown; in Mr. Moore’s
they are also pale, but pure green.

The native country of N. flavo-virens is unknown, but is
probably Mexico, both because of its affinity with J.
gracilis, and because the Kew plant was received from
W.N. Pike, of the Floral Park, New York (in 1892) as

June lst, 1901,

‘« N. mexicana true.” This last statement is an error, for
N. mexicana belongs to a section of the genus with
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the “ Wiener Illustr. Gartenzeit.,” 1889, p. 413, yellow
flowers.
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coarsely sinuate-crenate, bifid at the base nearly to th
centre; segments with pointed tips, sides parallel or divari.
cate, bright green above, paler beneath. Flowers fi
inches broad. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, external!
yellowish green, white within. Petals narrowly lanceolate,
tips sub-acute. Stamens nearly an inch long; filaments of ©
the outer oblong; anthers longer than the filaments, narrow,
terminated by an acute elongation of the connectiv:
golden-yellow. Stigmas twelve to fourteen, conical, obtuse.
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RHODODENDRON ommcatyx.
Native of China.

Nat. Ord. Extcacka.—Tribe Ruopores.
Genus RuopopEnDRON, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii, p. 599.)

RuopopEnpRon (Hurhododendron) ciliicalyx; arbuscula, foliis coriaceis 3-4
poll. longis ellipticis v. obovato-lanceolatis utrinque acutis supra pallide
viridibus subtus glaucescentibus squamulis minutis brunneis lepidotis,
junioribas basi ciliatis, nervis utrinque 6-8 subtus prominulis, petiolo
revi robusto lepidoto pilis deviduis hirsuto, floribus 3-10 corymbosis mox:
cernuis, bracteis parvis cymbiformibus ciliatis brunneis, pedicellis brevi-
bus calycibusque dense lepidotis, calycis cupularis 4 poll. longi lobis
rotundatis erectis longe setoso-ciliatis, corolla 4 poll. lata alba v. roseo
suffusa e basi breviter tubulosa aperte campanulata extus inferne parce
lanuginosa 5-6-loba, lobis rotundatis marginibus undulatis, staminibus
10-12, filamentis leviter declinatis basin versus pilosis, ovario oblongo-
ovoideo 5-loculari dense lepidoto, stylo gracili glabro, stigmate capitato.

R. ciliicalyx, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. xxxiii, (1886) p. 233,
Hemst, in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxvi. (1889) p. 21,

The plant here figured is closely allied to the Indian
Rh. formosum, Wall, (see tab. 4457), and may indeed have
to be considered as a form of that plant. In the absence
of fruit, however, it would be premature to pronounce
upon a species established by so excellent a botanist as the
late Mr. Franchet. The most prominent characters of
R. ciliicalyx, as distinguished from I. formoswm, are, its
robust habit, larger flowers, and the long bristle-like cilia
on the lobes of the calyx. Unfortunately the calyx of Mt.
formosum is an exceedingly variable organ in development,
and in being glabrous, hairy, or hirsute; and there is
in the Kew Herbarium a robust form of it, collected by
Dr. Watt in Muneypore and the Naga Hills, at elevations
of six thousand to nine thousand feet, and called by
him BR. Johnstoneanum, in which the calyx is represented
by a ring of bristles, like those of the calyx-lobes of J.
cilticalye.

Rh, ciliicalyxz is a native of the Teechapo mountains of
Yunnan, near Mo-so-yn, at an altitude of seven thousand
four hundred feet, where it was discovered by the Abbé
Delavay, who sent seeds of it to the Jardin des Plantes,

Jury Ist, 190),

Paris. From these plants were raised and distributed,
one of which, received in 1892 at the Royal Gardens, Kew,
from the late Prof. Max Cornu, flowered in the Himalayan —
division of the Temperate House in May, 1900, being then
three feet high. -
Deser.—A nearly glabrous shrub, or small tree, with
robust branches. Leaves coriaceous, three to four inches ~
long, elliptic or obovate-lanceolate, acute at both ends,
pale green and smooth above, beneath glaucous, and
covered with scattered, minute, broad, lepidote scales ;
petioles short, stout, and often the leaf-base also, ciliate,
with long hairs. Flowers three to ten, in a terminal, very
shortly peduncled corymb; bracts short, oblong, brown,
ciliate; pedicels short, lepidote. Calyx about one-sixth
of an inch long, cupular, five-lobed, lepidote; lobes
rounded, ciliate, with long, erect, unequal bristles. Corolla
with a short tube, dilating into an infundibular campanu-
late, five- to six-lobed limb, which is four inches broad across
the lobes, white, or suffused with pale rose ; lobes rounc
‘margins undulate; base externally more or less woolly. »
Stamens sub-declinate, hairy from below the middle to the
base. Anthers small. Ovary densely lepidote, five-celled ;
style glabrous. Stigma capitate.

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CHELON OPSIS mosonata.
Native of Japan and China.

Nat. Ord. Lasrata2.—Tribe StacuypE#.
Genus Cuenonorsis, Mig. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1204.)

CuHELonopsis moschata; herba moschum spirans, rhizomate lignoso, caule
subsimplici ascendente annotino 4-gono puberulo, foliis 3-6 poll. longis
breviter petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis serratis supra saturate
viridibus marginibus purpureis floralibus conformibus, verticillastris
pauci-laxifloris, bracteis bracteolisque linearibus, floribus 14 poll. longis

atulis, calyce inflato campanulato breviter bilabiato 5-dentato puberulo
ructifero accrescente dentibus erectis, corolla calyce triplo longiore
roseo-purpurea, tubo fere a hasi ampliato tereti labiis brevibus patulis
postico retuso anticique lobis lateralibus pallide flavidis, antici lobo
terminali ceteris multo majore roseo, filamentis gracilibus erectis basin
versus hirsutis, antheris parvis fasciculis stellatis 3 pilorum ornatis
quorum uno ad apicem antheres duo ad basin loculorum sitis disco
postice tumido, styli glaberrimi lobis inequalibus subulatis, nucalis basi
ealycis aucti campanulati sessilibus oblongis lata alatis atris.

C. moschata, Mig. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. vol. ii. (1865) p. 111. Masim.
Mel. Biol. Dec. ix. p. 443. Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. i. p. 378.
Hemsl. in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xxvi. (1890) p. 298.

The genus Chelonopsis consists of two species, that here
figured and C. Benthamiana, Hemsl., a native of China.
It is allied to the beautiful Melittis Melissophyllwm (the
Bastard Balm of the British Flora) which it resembles in
its lax axillary inflorescence and large flowers, but from
which it differs in the lobing of the calyx, which is greatly
enlarged in fruit, and contains nutlets and seeds of a very
different character from those of Melittis. The singular
tufts of stellate hairs on the anthers of C. moschata do
not occur in the European genus.

C. moschata is a native of the mountains of the interior
of Japan, at elevations of two thousand to seven
thousand feet, and of those of Ningpo in China. It is
described by Mr. Hemsley as very variable in the shape
and toothing of the leaves. The specimen figured was
raiséd from seeds sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in
1898, by A. K. Bulley, Esq., of West Kirby, which
flowered, when two feet high, in October, 1900, in the
Temperate House, but did not mature seed.

Jury Ist, 1901.

Deser.—A perennial herb, with musky odour. iootstock
woody. Stem ascending, four-angled, puberulous. Leaves
three to six inches long, shortly petioled, ovate-lanceolate,
acuminate, finely or coarsely serrate, green, with purple
mareins; floral leaves like the cauline, but smaller.
Flowers few, in loose, false-whorls. Bracts and bracteoles
linear. Calyx campanulate, shortly two-lipped, 5-toothed,
puberulous, much enlarged, and thinly coriaceous
in fruit. Corolla an inch and a half long; tube terete,
ventricose from the base upward; tips short, spread-
ing, the posticous and lateral lobes of the anticous lip
pale yellow, terminal much the largest, rose-purple-
coloured. Filaments slender, erect, hirsute towards the
base ; anthers small, with a star-like fascicle of hairs
at the top, and one at the base of each cell. Fruiting
calyx one half to three-fourths of an inch long, oblong-
campanulate, coriaceous, striate. Nutlets one-third of an
iuch long ; produced upward into a coriaceous wing. Seed
orbicular, compressed, black.—J. D. H. ;

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TRIS curysantua.
Native of Persia ?

Nat. Ord. Intpra.—Tribe Morzxe2.
Genus Iris, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 686.)

Iris (Pogomiris) chrysantha; rhizomate breviter repente, foliis linearibus
crassis erectis pedalibus glaucescentibus margine stramineis, pedunculo
elongato monocephalo, spathe valvis magnis lanceolatis acuminatis
chartaceis pallide viridibus, perianthii magni pallide lutei tubo
cylindrico pollicari, segmentis exterioribus oblongis emarginatis e basi
recurvatis deorsum conspicuo barbatis, segmentis interioribus latioribus
erectis obovatis, ovario magno clavato distincte stipitato, styli ramis latis
cristis quadratis integris.

This fine species of Iris belongs to the section Pogoniris,
and is easily distinguished from the species already known
by its narrow leaves, long peduncle with a single cluster
of flowers, large spathe-valves and large, pale yellow
flower, with a short tube. Its native country is rather
uncertain. Kew received it from Mr. R. I. Lynch of the
Cambridge Botanic Garden, with whom it flowered last
June. He received it from Mr. C. G. Van Tubergen, Jr.,
of the Zwanenburg Nurseries, Haarlem, under the name
of Oncocyclus, species. Mr. Van Tubergen has not himself
flowered it, and it seems likely that it was introduced
accidentally, along with a fine new species of the Onco-
cyclus section, which he has lately distributed under the
name of Jris urmiensis, and which was collected in the
neighbourhood of Lake Urmiah, in North-west Persia.

Descr.—Rhizome shortly creeping. Leaves linear, a foot
long, erect, glaucescent, thick and firm in texture, with a
narrow, pale margin. Stem slender, as long as the leaves,
bearing a single terminal cluster of flowers. Spathe-valves
lanceolate-acuminate, four inches long, pale green, charta-
ceous. LPertanth pale yellow, with a cylindrical tube above
the ovary, nearly an inch long; outer segments oblong,
emarginate, three inches long, reflexing from near the
base, furnished in the lower half with a bright yellow
beard ; inner segments erect, obovate-cuneate, as long as

Juuy lst, 1901.

the outer, and rather broader. Ovary distinctly stipitate,
clavate, narrowed gradually to both ends, not distinctly
ribbed ; style-branches convex, an inch broad, the same

colour as the perianth; crests large, quadrate, entire.—
J. G. Baker.

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CYANOTIS arrsura.
Native of Abyssinia,

Nat. Ord. Commnrinace#®.—Tribe TRADESCANTIER.

Genus Cranoris, D. Don.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 851.)

Cyranotis (Hucyanotis) hirsuta; tuberibus globosis, caulibus erectis ramosis
foliisque laxe villosis v. glabratis, foliis 2-12 poll. longis #-# poll. latis
linearibus ciliatis, spicis densifloris terminalibus et axillaribus sessilibus
v. breviter pedunculatis, bracteis foliaceis lineari-lanceolatis ciliatis spicas
spissime longe superantibus, bracteolis oblongis falcatis acutis viridibus
ciliatis, calyce ad medium 3-fido lobis ovatis acutis, petalis roseis unguibus
basin prope connatis lamina fere orbiculari 4 poll. diam., filamentis
usque ad apices pilis azureis dense barbatis, antheris minutis aareis,
ovario oblongo styloque villoso, capsula clavata 3-loba glabra valvulis
placente unitis axi centrali 0, seminibus. quadrato-pyramidatis obscure
foveolatis et rugosis,

C. hirsuta, Fisch. Mey. § Avé-Lall. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. vol. viii. (1841)
p. 57. Clarke in A. & C. DO. Monog. Phan. vol. iii. p. 254, et in FI.
Trop. Afr. vol. viii. ined.

C. abyssinica, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. vol. ii. p. 344, tab. 98. Hassk. Commel.
Ind. p. 139.

Commelina hirsuta, Hochst. in Herd. Abyss. Schimp. n. 14, non aliorum.

‘“ygomenes abyssinica, Hassk. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Athiop. p. 211.

Cyanotis hirsuta was discovered on Mt. Chiré, near
Adoa, in Abyssinia, in about 1840, by Schimper, who
describes it as having eatable tuberous roots, about the
size of a chestnut, called Burko by the natives. Tubers
were presented to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by A. B.
Wylde, Esq., the Abyssinian traveller, who collected them
at a high elevation, where the plant is said to be abundant.
The species is very variable in size, and in the length and
breadth of the leaves. It flowered almost throughout the
year in a greenhouse.

Descr.—Tubers globose, an inch or more in diameter.
Stem erect, a foot or more high, branched, and leaves and
bracts villous, with soft hairs. Leaves two to twelve
inches long by a quarter to three-fourths of an inch
broad, linear, flaccid. Spikes terminal and axillary, sessile,
or shortly peduncled, much shorter than the leaf-like bracts ;
bracteoles densely imbricate, oblong, falcate, acute, green,
ciliate. Calyx 3-lobed to the middle; lobes ovate, acute.

Juty ist, 1901.

Petals with long, nearly free claws; blade orbicular, rose-
coloured, half an inch broad. laments densely bearded
throughout their length with articulate azure hairs;
anthers minute, golden-yellow. Ovary oblong; style
villous. Capsule clavate, three-lobed, valves confluent
with the placentas leaving no free axis where the capsule

dehisces. Seeds pyramidal, four-sided, obscurely pitted.—
J.D. A,

Fig. 1, bract with spike after the fall of the corollas and stamens; 2, calyx;
3, stamen ; 4, pistil; 5, hair from stamen; 6, seed :—all enlarged,

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IMPATIENS curysantHa.
Native of the Western Himalaya.

Nat. Ord. Geranrace%.—Tribe BALSAMINE®, q
Genus Impatiens, Linn.; ( Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 277).

Impatiens chrysantha; annaa, glaberrima, caule crassiusculo ramoso, foliis
alternis ovato-oblongis-lanceolatisve acuminatis serratis crenatisve basi
in petiolum angustatis, glandulis stipularibus tuargidis, pedunculis
apices versus ramorum subcorymbosis erectis, floribus majusculis um-
bellatis aureis, bracteis 4 poll. longis verticillatis ovatis subacutis
herbaceis, pedicellis 3-2 poll. longis, sepalis lateralibus 2 ;';-3 poll. longis
late ovatis vix cuspidatis, postico (labio) saccato v. late infundibulari in
caleem incurvum abrupte attenuato, petalo antico (vexillo) orbiculari y.
transverse oblongo apice retuso cuspidato dorso gibbo incrassato,
lateralibus (petalis) rubro striolatis, lobo basilari superne in lobulum
faleatum patenti-recurvum producto, terminali oblongo obtuso, auricula
dorsali rotundata, capsulis 1-1}-pollicaribus linearibus erectis, seminibus
2-1 poll. longis obovoideis oblongisve levibus fuscis.

The genus Impatiens abounds in the temperate and sub-
_ tropical regions of the Himalaya, and contains many
' singularly beautiful species that have not been brought
under cultivation in England. Amongst these is JL.
chrysantha, which inhabits forests at elevations of five
thousand to eight thousand feet, from the district of
Pangi, on the Sutlej river, north of Simla, to Kashmir, and
westward to Mirza, in Chitral, where it was collected by
Colonel (now General) Gatacre, K.C.B.

It is a variable plant as to the margins of the leaves,
which are coarsely crenate, with lateral or basal cusps on
the crenatures, or serrate with terminal cusps. It varies
also in the form of the lip, and size and form of the seeds
A closely allied species is I. Hdgeworthii, Hook. f., &
Thoms., a native of Kulu (a province bordering on
Kashmir), which differs in the much larger lateral sepals,
- with the midrib thickly keeled dorsally.

I, chrysantha was raised from seeds collected in Pangi,
and sent from the Saharunpore Gardens to Kew by Mr.
Duthie early in 1900, plants raised from which flowered
profusely in the Herbaceous ground in October of the
same year, and fruited abundantly.

JULY Ist, 1901.

Deser.—An annual, glabrous herb, two to three feet
high, with rather stout, branched, terete, succulent stems.
Leaves alternate, three to six inches long, acute or acuminate,
crenate with terminal or lateral cusps on the crenatures, or
serrate with terminal cusps ; petiole of lower leaves long, of
upper short; stipular glands globose. Pedwncles numerous,
corymbosely disposed towards the tips of the stem and
branches, naked below, terminated by short racemes, of
which the flowers are often more or less whorled, or sub-
umbellate ; bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; pedicels one
half to one and a half inches long. Flowers golden-yellow.
Sepals small, ovate or sub-orbicular, one-tenth to one-
eighth of an inch long, obtuse or obtusely cuspidate.
Standard orbicular, two-lobed, costa dorsally thickened or
subalate. Wings with basal lobe produced upwards as
a third lobe or lobule, terminal dolabriform ; dorsal auricle
rounded. Lip two-thirds of an inch long, exclusive of the
imeurved spur, infundibular or saccate. Ovary with a long
beak, Capsules an inch to an inch and a half long, sub-
erect, linear, obtuse, torulose, few- or many-seeded.

Seed obovoid-oblon : 4 j
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BULBOPHYLLUM eranprrtorvm.
Native of New Guinea.

Nat. Ord. OrncntpE“,—Tribe ErPrIpENDRE.
Genus Butsoruyiium, Thou. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 501.)

ButsornyituM (Eubulbophyllum) grandiflorum; caudice valido repente,
pseudobulbis distantibus prismaticis monophyllis, folio 5-10 poll. longo
1-2 poll. lato elliptico v. lineari-oblongo apice emarginato basi in
petiolum brevem angustato crasse coriaceo supra saturate viridi Iucido
costa subtus obtuse carinata, scapo folio breviore robusto unifloro vaginis
paucis laxis instructo, bractea pollicari spathacea, flore ad 8 poll.
longo, pedicello robusto cum ovario bractea_ subduplo _longiore,
sepalis maximis multinerviis internervos plagis pallide brunneis albisque
tessellatis, dorsali late ovato-oblongo obtuso arcuatim incurvo lateribus
recurvis, lateralibus lineari-oblongis obtusis deflexis ultra medium incurvis,
petalis minimis triangularibus, labello minuto trilobo, lobis lateralibus
orbiculatis, terminali lingueformi crasso profunde sulcato sanguineo
punctato marginibus basin versus longe ciliatis, columna crassa antice
truncata apice contracta, anthera hemispherica, polliniis 4, 2 dimidiato-
oblongis, 2 minutis facie interiore majorum adnatis.

B. grandiflorum, Blume, Rumphia, vol. iv. p. 42 (non Rehb. f.); Rolfe in
+ Rev. vol. iii. p. 104; in Gard. a 1895, vol. i. p. 422, fig.

B. burfordiense, Hort. ex Orchid Rev. vol. iii. p. 135.

Ephippium grandiflorum, Blume, |.c. t. 195, fig. 3 and t. 199, fig. B.

The gigantic Bulbophyllum here figured was discovered
in New Guinea by Zippel, a naturalist who, in 1828,
accompanied an expedition consisting of two ships (the
Triton and Iris), which was commissioned by the Dutch
Government, under the command of Dr. Marklot, to
establish a civil and military settlement in that Archi-

elago. It is remarkable for the colouring of the sepals,
the contrast between the size of these and the minuteness
of the petals which are only a small fraction of an inch
long and broad. The pollinia are peculiar, though perhaps
not normally developed in the cultivated plant; they are
four in number, two large, oblong and strongly com-
pressed, and two very minute attached to the inner faces
of the larger. Its only near ally is B. Cominsti, Rolfe, a
native of the Solomon Islands, the flower of which is much
smaller.

Aveust Ist, 1901.

B. grandiflorum was introduced into cultivation before
1895, when a flowering specimen was exhibited at the
Royal Horticultural Society by Sir Trevor Lawrence. The
specimen here figured was purchased for the Royal
Gardens, Kew, in 1898, from Messrs. F. Sander & Co. It
flowered in a tropical orchid house in October, 1900, and
the flower lasted for three days.

Descr.—Rootstock creeping, as thick as a small goose-
quill, nodes with short sheaths. Pseudobulbs prismatic,
two to three inches long, sheathed. Leaf seven to ten
inches long by one to two broad, very coriaceous, obtuse,
tip emarginate, base narrowed into a short petiole, bright _
green and shining above, costa dorsally obtusely keeled.
Peduncle six to eight inches long, suberect, stout, bearing
two to three broad sheaths, one-flowered. Pract one and
a half inch long, spathaceous, obtuse, green; pedicel with
ovary three inches long. Perianth about eight inches
long. Sepals very broad, many-nerved, tessellated with
alternating large pale brown and yellow spots, which are
orbicular quadrate or oblong and placed between the nerves.
Dorsal sepal broadly ovate-oblong, obtuse, arcuate, and
incurved (sickle-shaped), sides reflexed, keeled dorsally ;
lateral sepals deflexed, linear-oblong, incurved and con-
niving beyond the middle. Petals very minute, triangular.
Lip minute, three-lobed, lateral lobes orbicular, terminal,
linguiform, deeply channelled above, spotted with red,

margins ciliate towards the base. Column short, stout.
Anther hemispheric.—J, D. /7.

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Tab. 7788,
PAON TA Lute.
Native of China.

Nat. Ord. Ranuncunace2.—Tribe Pmonizsz.
Genus Pasonta, Linn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 10.)

Pxonta lutea; suffrutex glaberrimus, caule brevi lignoso, foliis ternatisectis
coriaceis valide nervosis subtus glaucescentibus, segmentis obovato-
oblongis basi cuneato-decurrentibus petiolulatis vy. confluentibus supra
medium varie incisis et lobulatis, floribus ad apices ramulorum solitariis
2-4 poll. latis, sepalis extimis foliaceis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis
intimis orbicularibus valde concavis longe cuspidatis flavo-virescentibus,
petalis 6-10 orbiculatis concavis aureis integris v. extimis irregulariter
crenatis, filamentis brevibus, antheris lineari-elongatis aurantiacis, disco
crasso lobato, carpellis 3 turgidis glaberrimis, stylis brevibus recurvis,
carpellis maturis 4 poll. longis dehiscentibus cymbiformibus, seminibus
ovoideis angulatis brunneis.

P. lutea, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. xxxiii. (1886) p. 382. Henry
in Le Jardin, 1897, p. 216 cum ic.; in Journ. Soc. Nat. d@ Hortie. Ser. ILI.
vol. xiv. p. 320, et xv. p. 274. Gard. Chron. 1909, vol. i. p. 404 in

nota.

Paonia lutea is an interesting species on account of its
woody stem and yellow flowers, both rare characters in the
genus. In the first of these it resembles the Chinese
P. Moutan, Sims (tab. 2175), and in the second only P.
Wittmanniana, Stev. (tab. 6645), the yellow in the petals
of which latter is, however, more inclined to white.

The figure of P. lutea here given was taken from a
plant sent from the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, by the late
Professor Cornu to the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it
flowered in the Himalayan division of the Temperate
House in June, 1900. It is a native of the mountains of
Yunnan, where it was discoved by the Abbé Delavay in
1882. Single and double flowers occur in both native and
cultivated specimens. |

Deser.— Quite glabrous. Stem short, woody. Leaves
ternatisect, coriaceous, strongly nerved, glaucous beneath ;
segments obovate-oblong, petiolulate or confluent below,
incised or lobulate beyond the middle. Flowers terminal,
solitary, two to four inches broad. Sepals, outer
foliaceous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, inner orbicular,

Aveust Ist, 1901.

concave, cuspidate, yellowish green. Petals six to ten,
orbicular, concave, golden yellow, entire or the outer
crenate. Anthers linear, yellow. Carpels three, turgid,
glabrous, cymbiform after dehiscence. Seeds ovoid,
angular, brown.—J. D. H.

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HELICHRYSUM Gutizimt.
; Native of Eastern Tropical Africa.

Nat. Ord. Comrosira.—Tribe INULOIDER.

Genus Heticurysum, Gertn.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p, 809.)

Heuicurysum (Xerochlwna) Gulielmi; herba perennis, robusta, foliosa
lanuginosa, foliis 3-5 poll. longis sessilibus oblongo- v. lineari-lanceolatis
obtusis inferioribus recurvis superioribus patulis, costa subtus crassa,
capitulis corymbosis pedicellatis 1-14 poll. latis, pedicellis robustis
_bracteatis, involucri bracteis numerosis multiseriatis albis v. extus roseis
intus albis exterioribus brevibus lanceolatis patulis interioribus grada-
tim longioribus 4-3 poll. longis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis patenti-
incurvis, receptaculo latiusculo 4 poll. lato planiusculo glabro nudo,
disci latiusculi aurei floribus extimis paucis foemineis anguste tubulosis,
ceteris masculis numerosis breviter 5-dentatis, antheraram caudiculis
aN pappi setis sigillatim deciduis scaberulis, acheniis brevibus
glabris.

H. Gulielmi, Engler, Ueber die Hochgebirgsflora des trop. Afrik. p. 426
(1892). Gumbleton in Gard. Chron, 1900, vol. ii. p. 333, fig. 103.

The very handsome plant here figured is a conspicuous
member of the flora of Kili-manjaro in German East
Africa, where it is found with two other species at elevations
of 5000 to upwards of 9000 ft. The genus Helichrysum
is characteristic of the vegetation of the loftiest moun-

tains of tropical Africa, several inhabiting the Cameroon

mountains in the Gulf of Guinea, one of which, H. Mannit,
is figured on Tab. 5431 of this work. Others are found
on Mt. Kenia in British East Africa, and a considerable
number may be expected to occur on the lofty and snow-
capped range of Ruwenzori in Uganda.

Tam indebted to W. Gumbleton, Esq., of Belgrove, Co.
Cork, for the specimen here figured of H. Gulielmi, which,
together with the two other species from the same
locality, he raised from seeds which were collected by Dr.
Hans Meyer of Leipsic, and distributed by Mr. Max
Leichtlin. Mr. Gumbleton informs me that it attains a
height of two feet, one specimen bearing six branches,
each with fourteen to eighteen flower-heads, to be followed
by others. It flowered in a greenhouse, in October, 1900,

Aveust lst, 1901.

and continued to flower for about three months. The
name it bears is that of the German Emperor.

Desev.—A robust, leafy, branching, perennial herb,
about two feet high, covered, with the exception of the
flower-heads, with white wool. eaves three to five inches
long, sessile, linear-oblong or -lanceolate, obtuse, lower
recurved, midrib stout, beneath. lower-heads corym-
bose, an inch to an inch and a half broad; pedicels stout,
bracteate. Involucre hemispheric ; bracts in many series,
linear, outer short, spreading, inner linear-lanceolate, an
inch to an inch and a half long, spreading and incurved,
white or rose-red on the outer surface. Receptacle half an
inch broad, glabrous. Jlorets all tubular, outer series few,
female, the rest male. Anther cells with ciliate tails.
po ge hairs scaberulous. Achenes short, glabrous.—

Fig. 1, inner involucral bract; 2, male flower; 3, pappus-hair; 4, anthers ;
5, style-arms of female flower :—all enlarged.

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STROBILANTHES GOSSYPINUS.
Native of the Nilghiri Hills.

Nat. Ord. AcantHacer.—Tribe RvELLIEA,
Genus StropitaNntuEs, Blume; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 1086.)

STROBILANTHES (Endopogon) gossypinus; frutex erectus, tomento fulvo dense
lanuginoso, ramis tetragonis, foliis subcoriaceis 3-7 poll. longis ovatis
ellipticisve acutis v. acuminatis supra demum glabrescentibus, nervis
utrinsecus 10-13 confertis subtus validis, petiolo 1-14 poll. longo robusto,
spicis apices versus ramorum paniculatis brevibus oblongis 3-6-floris,
bracteis 3-}-poll. longis ellipticis obtusis, bracteolis lineari-oblongis,
calycis 4-poll. longi segmentis erectis lineari-lanceolatis inwqualibus intus
glabris, corolla }-poll. longa oblonga oblique ventricosa basi in tubum
brevem curvum angustata intus postice fascia decurrente pilosa instructa,
lobis patulis subsqualibus pallide cceruleis, staminibus 2 inclusis,
filamentis laxe pilosis, ovario glabro apice piloso, stylo glaberrimo,
stigmate lineari decurvo.

S. gossypinus, 7. Anders. in Journ, Linn, Soc. Bot. vol ix. (1867) p. 466.
Clarke in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 434. Bedd. Ie. Pl. Ind. Or. p. 45,
tab. 198.

Though a native of so long and well known an Indian-
botanical station as Sisparah Ghat, in the Nilghiri Hills,
Strobilanthes gossypinus seems to have escaped the notice of
Wight and all collectors, till Thos. Lobb found it at the
above locality, and sent dried specimens to Messrs. Veitch,
which are now preserved in the Kew Herbarium, It
appears to be a rare plant, for except from Col. Beddome,
who published an excellent figure and description of it in
his ‘** Icones,” cited above, there are no other specimens at
Kew. That botanist gives “common about Sisparah, at
4-5000 ft.,” as the one localized habitat, though adding
that he “has specimens from other localities in our
Western Mountains.”

As with others of its congeners, a plant of S. gossypinus
flowers only once in its lifetime, on reaching its maturity,
which in its native country takes six or seven years, and
then dies. Col. Beddome mentions 1869 as one such year,
The specimen here figured is from a plant now four feet
high and wide growing in the Mexican division of the
Temperate House of the Royal Gardens, Kew.

It was
Aveust Ist, 1901.

raised from seed sent by the late Mr. Jamieson, of
Ootacamund, in 1887, and flowered for the first and last
time in November, 1900. It has hence, according to Col.
Beddome’s estimate, taken twice as long a period to
mature at Kew as it would have done had it grown in the
Nilghiri Hills.

Deser,—An erect shrub, covered with a matted fulvous
tomentum. Branches four-angled. Leaves three to seven
inches long, ovate or elliptic, acute or acuminate, at length
glabrous on the upper surface; nerves about twelve
pairs, arched, close-set; petiole stout. Spikes panicled
towards the ends of the branches, oblong, few-flowered ;
bracts elliptic, obtuse; bracteoles linear-oblong. Calyz
half an inch long, segments unequal, linear-lanceolate,
erect. Corolla about three-quarters of an inch long,
gibbously ventricose, contracted below into a short curved
tube; lobes subequal, spreading, pale blue. Stamens 2,
filaments sparsely hairy; anthers included. Ovary and
style glabrous ; stigma linear, decurved.

Fig. 1, calyx with style and stigma; 2, corolla laid open showing stamens ;
3 and 4, anthers; 5, disk and ovary :—all enlaryed.

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GLADIOLUS SULPHUREUS.
Native of the Transvaal.

Nat. Ord. Intpra.—Tribe Ixina,
Genus GuapioLus, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iil. p. 709.)

GuapioLus (Eugladiolus) sulphureus; caule 1-12 pedale, foliis 14-2-pedalibus
ensiformibus medio ad 1 poll, latis firmis pallide viridibus nervis prominalis
ineequalibus costatis, floribus 6-8 suberectis secundis pallide aureis viridi
tinctis, spica erecta, rhachi valido, spathz valvis exterioribus 14-2 poll.
longis lanceolatis erectis viridibus, perianthii tubo 1}-pollicari anguste
infundibulari paullo’ decurvo, limbi segmentis tubo zwquilongis oblongis
obtusis apiculatisve patenti-recurvis interioribus paullo minoribus, stami-
nibus tubo corollz longioribus, antheris fere } poll. longis linearibus
arcuatis sulphureis, stigmatibus clavellatis recurvis.

G. sulphureus, de Graaf ex Molkenb. in Jaarboek Tuinboww, 1850, p. 89, ewm
ic. color. (non Baker).

G. Adlami, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. i. p. 233; Handb. of Irid. p. 219;
in Dyer, Fl. Capens, vol. vi. p. 156.

The publication of this very distinct species of Gladiolus
in the Jaarboek Tuinbouw so long ago as 1850, has been
overlooked hitherto by all succeeding authorities, though it
was accompanied by an excellent coloured figure. If
does not appear in the “Kew Index,” the periodical in
which it is described being so very rarely occupied with
the description of new species of plants that it was not
consulted during the laborious search for names involved
in the preparation of the “ Index.” There is, however,
an excellent specimen of the plant bearing the above
name in the Kew Herbarium, presented in 1893 by Mr.
Max Leichtlin, which was raised from Cape seed twenty
years earlier.

Mr. Molkenboer, the author of the article in the Jaar-
boek, who cites de Graaf as the author of the species,
regards it as a hybrid between G. floribundus and natalensis,
alluding no doubt to the floribundus of the Dutch gardens
(= G. flabellifer, Tausch.) and natalensis, Remw., which is
a synonym of G. psittacinus. That this is an error is now

clear.
In the description in “ Flora Capensis” of G. Adlami,

Aveust Ist, 1901.

the upper perianth-segment is said to be “ granulated all
over with minute red dots.’ ‘These were not observed
in the specimen here figured, though a red spot may be
seen at the junction of the segments.

G. sulphureus is a native of the Transvaal. Corms of it,
from one of which was produced the specimen here figured,
were obtained by the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1900, from
Mr. Max Leichtlin. It flowered in a cool house in July of

the same year.

Deser.—Stem a foot to a foot and a half high. Leaves
one and a half to two feet long, about an inch broad in the
middle, ensiform, erect, strict, firm, strongly mnerved.
Flowers six to eight, subsecund, pale golden yellow faintly
tinged with green; rhachis of spike stout, erect; spathe-
valves lanceolate, acuminate, green. Perianth-tube slightly
decurved, two inches long, narrowly infundibular above;
segments about as long as the tube, oblong, obtuse or
apiculate, spreading and recurved. Filaments longer than
the perianth-tube ; anthers about half an inch long, linear,

eee Style decurved ; stigma recurved, clavellate.—

Figs. 1 and 2, stamens; 3, stigma; both enlarged.

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EPIDENDRUM osmantHom.
Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Orcnipra.—Tribe EPrpenpReat,
Genus Errpenprvm, Linn. ; (Benth, & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 528.)

Ermenprum (Encyclium) osmanthum; pseudobulbis 3-5 poll. longis obpyri-
formibus teretibus 2-phyllis vaginis scariosis tectis demum nudis, felis
8-18 poll. longis 1}-poll. latis sessilibus loriformibus apice rotundatis
corinceis enerviis medio sulcatis costa subtus gracili, scapo gracili fusco-
viride roseo maculato laxe paniculatim ramoso ramis elongatis apices
versus paucifloris, bracteis brevissimis triangularibus late scariosis, —
ovario cum pedicello 1}-pollicari viridi, perianthio 13-2 poll. lato
. explanato, sepalis petalisque equilongis carnosis incurvis concavis apici-
bus rotundatis flavis rubrolineatis, sepalis obovato-oblongis, petalis
orbicularibus unguiculatis unguibus luteis, labello submembranaceo
sepalis triente longiore unguiculato trilobo, ungue columnam amplec-
tente, lobis lateralibus explanatis rotundatis grosse crenatis albis roseo
suffusis, terminali late obcordato crenato lateribus deflexis albo roseo
. lineato, disco breviter costato, colamna aurea apice auriculis 2 quadratis
porrectis instructa, anthera depressa.
E. osmanthum, Rodrig. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. Nov. vol. ii, (1882) p. 134. Rolfe
'. tm Orchid Rev. vol. iv. (1896) p. 291. Cogniaur in Martius Fl. Bras.
vol. iii. pars V. p. 64, t. xix. fig-2. eee.
E. Godseffianum, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1892, vol.i. p. 136. DL. Orchidoph, 1892,
p- 289. Rolfe in Orchid Rev. vol, ii. (1894) p. 323. -
E. Capartianum, DL. Lind, in Lindenia, vol. vii. p. 93, tab. 333; in Journ. des
Orch, vol. vii. (1896) p. 209; Orchid. Hxot. p. 758, .

The Brazilian species of Hpidendrum have quite lately
been described in detail by Cogniaux, in a monograph
of the Orchidex of that country, now appearing as a
volume of Martius’s * Flora Brasiliensis.” This admirably
executed work will undoubtedly prove, when finished, the
most valuable contribution to American Orchidology that

has hitherto appeared, and it has the best wishes of all

botanists for its completion. The Brazilian species of
_Epidéndrwm (of which there are one hundred and forty-one)
are grouped under five sections, to one of the largest of
which, Eneyclium, FE. osmanthum is referred It ir » native
of forests in the pruvinces of Minas Geraes, and of Pernam- —
buco, from which latter province it was introduced by
Messrs. Sander & Co.in 1899, from whom the fine
specimen here figured was purchased for the Royal
SEpremBer Ist, 1901.

Gardens, Kew. It flowered in: the Cattleya House in
October, 1900; the flowers, which are odoriferous and
aromatic, last about two months.

- Descr.—Pseudobulbs obpyriform, two-leaved, three to
five inches long, smooth. Leaves eight to ten inches long
by one and a half inches broad, loriform, tip rounded,
deeply channelled in the middle, coriaceous, sides convex,
nerves obscure, costa beneath slender. Peduncle with
sparingly branched panicle two feet long, slender, greenish
speckled with red; branches spreading, few-flowered ;
pedicels with ovary an inch and a quarter long, spreading,
green ; bracts minute, triangular. lowers one and a half .

to two inches broad. Sepals and petals widely spreading —

_ and incurved, concave, fleshy, yellow streaked with red ;
_ sepals linear-oblong; petals as long, orbicular, clawed.
Ip one-third longer than the sepals, rather membranous,
three-lobed,, claw sheathing the column; side-lobes sub-
orbicular, spreading, crenate, white suffused with rose;
~ midlobe much larger, broadly obcordate, sides deflexed,
white with crimson streaks, coarsely and irregularly
crenate; disk shortly ribbed. Column two-auricled at
the top, auricles quadrate, projecting forward.—J. D. H.

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Native of Asia Minor,

Nat. Ord. Intpex#.—Tribe Morma.

Genus Iris, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 686.)

Iris (Juno) Tauri; bulbo ovoideo 3-floro, tunica extima pallide brunnea, radici-
bus crassis, foliis 6-7 per anthesin tubo floris multo brevioribus demum
elongatis late viridibus 3-5 poll. longis ad } poll. latis linearibus acumi-
natis apice obtusis marginibus scaberulis, spathe valvis subherbaceis,
flore 3 poll. expans., perianthii tubo 4-pollicari violaceo, limbi segmentis
exterioribus 2-poll. longis obovato-spathulatis ultra medium reflexis
lateribus erectis extus sordide viridibus intus saturate violaceis striis
latis albis utrinque coste ornatis, crista aurantiaca albo marginata,
interioribus pollicaribus patenti-reflexis obovato-spathulatis undulatis
violaceis, styli ramis segmenta perianthii superantibus oblongo-obovatis
crispato-undulatis violaceis, filamentis liberis.

J. Tauri, Siehe ex G. B. Mallet in Gard. Chron. 1901, vol. i. p. 190, fig. 74, et
p- 313

According to a note in the Gardener’s Chronicle (I.c. p.
313) by Mr. Siehe of ‘‘ Hortus Orientalis,” Mersina (near
Tarsus), the discoverer of this beautiful little species, it is
a native of alpine pastures in the Eastern Taurus, at six
thousand five hundred feet elevation, and of the upper
forests of Juniperus excelsa at four thousand five hundred
feet, where it flowers, on the melting of the snow at the
end of February and the beginning of March. As stated
under J. stenophylla, Hausskn. (tab. 7734), Mr. Siehe was
the discoverer of that plant also, and in the article cited
he gives as its exact habitat (of which I had previously
no information), ‘‘in undergrowths of Pinus Laricio,
var. Bruttia, especially preferring dry, overgrown, hilly
slopes of fine red loam.” A third Iris of the same
section discovered by Mr. Siehe, is [. Bolleana, Siehe,
Gard. Chron. \.c. a hitherto undescribed species, except
in so far as that the leaves are said to be narrow and
curled, with white, membranous margins, and the flowers
clear yellow. It inhabits limestone rocks near the sea at
elevations of six hundred and fifty feet to nine hundred
and fifty feet.

A plant of [. Tauri was received at the Royal Gardens,

SEPTEMBER lst, 1901.

Kew, in 1900, from Mr. Siehe, in a batch of bulbs of
I. stenophylla. It flowered in a frame in January of the
present year.

Descr.—Bulb ovoid, three-flowered; outer coat pale
brown; roots very long, stout. Leaves six to seven, very
short at flowering time, at length three to five inches long
by half an inch broad, linear, narrowed to an obtuse tip,
bright green. Spathe-valves sub-herbaceous. Perianth-
tube four inches long, violet ; segments obovate-spathulate,
outer two inches long, reflexed from beyond the middle,
sides erect, dark violet, with broad streaks of white; crest
orange-yellow, bordered with white; inner segments an
inch long, spreading and reflexed, undulate, violet. Style-
branches longer than the perianth-segments, oblong-obovate,
crisped and undulate, violet.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, portion of style-arm and stigma :—all enlarged.

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Native of British Guiana. ea

Nat, Ord. Gerantacea.—Tribe OxaLIDEs.

Genus Oxauis, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 276.)

Oxauis (Thamnoxys) dispar; fruticulus cano-tomentellus, ramulis gracilibus
teretibus, foliis longe petiolatis pinnatim 3-foliolatis, foliolis 25-3 poll.
longis lateralibus sessilibus oppositis terminali petiolulato ovato-lanceo-
latis acutis supra puberulis subtus molliter tomentellis basi cuneatis
6-10-nerviis nervis fere rectis, a 3-4 poll. longis, petiolulo 3 poll.
longo gracili, pedunculis axillaribus gracilibus pubescentibus apice
breviter bifidis 5-10-floris, floribus subcapitatis brevissime pedicellatis
foliolis parvis suffultis, sepalis erectis 3 poll. longis oblongo-lanceo-
latis obtusis eglandulosis puberulis, petalis }4-polJ. longis obovato-
rotundatis aureis marginibus basin versus coalitis et puberulis, filamentis
basi connatis edentatis interioribus pilosis, ovario glabro stylis 5 brevibus
glabris recurvis, stigmatibus capitellatis, capsula 5-cornuta, 15-costata
costis 5 primariis puberulis.

O. dispar, V.E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, ined.

The genus Ovxalis, of which upwards of four hundred
and fifty species are known, is largely represented in Brazil
and Guiana, from which countries more than one hundred
species are described by Prognel in the second volume of
Martius’ “ Flora Brasiliensis.” Amongst the latter, the
nearest (and very near) ally of O. dispar is O. Laureole,
Progn., which has shorter petioles and leaflets, much
smaller, more racemose flowers, and filiform, pilose styles.
Another near ally is O. Noronhe, Oliv. (in Hook. Ic. PI.
t. 1226), a native of Fernando de Noronha, a small group
of oceanic islands which lie two hundred and ten miles
N.-E. of Cape St. Roque, the easternmost point of Brazil.
A description of this group, the largest island of which is
a penal settlement, is to be found in the “ Naturalists’
Voyage” of Mr. Darwin, who was, I believe, the first man
of science that ever landed on it, and make a collection
of its plants. O. Noronhex differs from O. dispar in its
shorter, broader leaflets, small flowers, slender styles, and
glabrous filaments.

0. dispar was obtained for the Royal Gardens, Kew,
from Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans. It flowered

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1901,

freely all the year round in a stove. It is a native of

Guiana.

_Descr.—A small, softly-pubescent undershrub, about two
feet high, woody at the base, with slender, spreading
branches. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, trifoliolate.
Leaflets two and a half to three inches long, ovate-lan-
ceolate, acute, base cuneate; lateral opposite, sessile ;
terminal rather larger, petiolulate, all puberulous above,
finely tomentose beneath ; nerves six to ten pairs, nearly
straight, prominent beneath. Petiole three to four inches
long, very slender; petiolule two-thirds of an inch long.
Flowers an inch across, golden-yellow, crowded at the bifid
top of the peduncle, very shortly pedicelled, sub-tended by
a few small leaflets; peduncle about as long’as the petiole,
and as slender. Sepals half an inch long, lanceolate,
pubescent. Petals orbicular-obovate, connate above the
base by their margins. Inner filaments pilose. Styles
short ; stigmas capitate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, calyx; 2, bases of three petals; 3, disk, stamens, and stigmas;
4, ovary :—all enlarged.

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IMPATIENS Tuomsoni.
Native of the Himalaya Mountains.

Nat. Ord, Gerantace#.—Tribe BALSAMINE®.
Genus Impatiens, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 277).

Impatiens Thomsoni; annua, glabra, caule simplici v. ramoso erecto superne
tetragono angulis remote muriculatis, foliis alternis 3-5 poll. longis
ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis cuspidato-serratis basi acutis supremis
sessilibus inferioribus petiolatis, glandulis stipularibus magnis, pedun-
culis apicem versus caulis subcorymbosis strictis erectis paucifloris,
floribus inter minores in racemos breves terminales dispositis roseis,
bracteis 1-3 poll. longis e basi angusta lanceolata linearibus acuminatis
v. in cornu attenuatis apice glandulosis, pedicellis 4-? poll. longis
fructiferis apice decurvis, sepalis 2 lateralibus 3-1} poll. longis oblique
ovatis falcatisve obtuse cuspidatis herbaceis, postico (labello) saccato v.
late infundibulari in calcar incurvum abrupte attenuato, petalo antico

_ (vexillo) orbiculari basi et apice retuso costa vix incrassata apice apiculato,
petalis lateralibus (alis) bilobis lobo basilari oblongo rubro-punctato
angulo superiore acuto terminali subequilongo oblongo v. dolabriformi
apice rotundato, auricula dorsali obscura, capsulis pollicaribus pendulis
lineari-clavatis 5-gonis subacutis polyspermis, seminibus }-} poll. longis
oblongis levibus fasts brunneis.

I. Thomsoni, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soe. Bot. vol. iv. (1860) p. 128; Fl. Brit.
Ind. vol. i. p. 469.

I. Thomsoni is one of the commonest sub-alpine species
of the genus in the Western Himalaya, at elevations of
eight thousand feet to twelve thousand feet, from Kumaon
to the Indus River, It also occurs rarely in Sikkim,
and no doubt inhabits the intermediate ranges of Nepal,
though it has not hitherto been collected there. It is a
very attractive plant, from the abundance of its rose-
coloured flowers amongst the deep green foliage, followed
by the red, drooping pods.

Seeds of I. Thomsoni were received at the Royal
Gardens, Kew, from Mr. Duthie, in 1900, plants raised
from which flowered in the Herbaceous Ground in August
of the same year, and continued flowering till October.

Descr,—A perfectly glabrous, erect annual, eight to
twelve inches high. Stem simple or sparingly branched,
four-angled towards the top with muricate angles.
Leaves alternate, crowded towards the top of the stem,

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1901.

three to five inches long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,
cuspidately serrate, base acute, dark green, upper sessile,
lower petioled; stipular glands large, shortly stipitate,
globose. Peduncles axillary, sub-corymbosely crowded at
the top of the stem, stout, erect, naked, unequal in height,
bearing terminal, short, few-flowered racemes; bracts
narrowly lanceolate, very variable in length and breadth,
one-tenth to one-fourth of an inch long; pedicels about
twice as long. Flowers half to three-quarters of an inch
long, pale rose-coloured, Sepals obliquely ovate, cuspi-
date, green. Standard erect, orbicular, notched at the
base and apex. Wings twice as long as the standard ;
basal lobe acute, yellow, speckled with red, terminal dola-
briform, deep rose-coloured. Lip rather longer than the -
wings, broadly funnel-shaped-or saccate, suddenly narrowed
into a slender, incurved spur. Capsule three-fourths
of an inch long, narrowly sub-clavate, five-angled, pendu-
lous from the decurved apex of the pedicel, many-seeded.
Seeds about an eighth of an inch long, linear-oblong,
smooth.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, portion of top of stem with stipular glands; 2, portion of margin of
leaf; 3, bract; 4, wing-petal ; 5, stamens :—all enlarged,

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Tas. 7796.
ARCTOTIS GumsBreront.

Native of Namaqualand,

Nat. Ord. Comrosit2.—Tribe ARCTOTIDER.

Genus Arctotis, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 458.)

Axctotis (Euarctotis) Gumbletoni; tota capitulis exceptis tenuiter albo-
lanata, caule brevi folioso, foliis 8-12-pollicaribus erectis petiolatis
angustis pinnatifidis v. pinnatisectis lobis ad 1 poll. longis oblongis apice
rotundatis integris terminali latiore crenato v. lobulato, pedunculo
robusto nudo cavo, involucri hemispherici bracteis herbaceis rigidis
extimis brevibus deltoideis in acumen setaceum pubescentem angustatis
intermediis apice ala brevi scariosa rotundata terminatis intimis longe
alatis, receptaculo lato plano setifero, fl. radii tubo brevi glabro, ligula
pollicari saturate rubro-aurantiaca basin versus maculis linearibus dis-
tinctis v. confluentibus rubro-brunneis ornata, fl. disci tubo pilis paucis
articulatis instructo, loborum apicibus incrassatis trigonis violaceis
demum atris, acheniis (immaturis) radii discique extimis uno latere
lanatis et basi pilis sericeis longe barbatis, pappi paleis 3-seriatis extimis,
brevibus laceris, intimis oblongis hyalinis.

I have in vain endeavoured to identify this beautiful
plant with any of the numerous species of Arctotis, whether
described in published works, or preserved in the Her-
barium of the Royal Gardens, Kew, but the descriptions
are so imperfect, and the herbarium specimens, in many
cases, so unsatisfactory, that it is not without hesitation
that I describe it as new to science. About thirty species
of the genus are described in Harvey & Sonder’s “ Flora
Capensis,” but as I find characters which have been over-
looked by authors, I feel convinced that the whole genus
needs a searching analysis. In the meantime I have the
pleasure of naming this beautiful plant after my friend,
W. Gumbleton, Esq., of Belgrove, Queenstown, Ireland,
who raised and flowered it, and to whom horticulture in
general and the Botanical Magazine in particular are in-
debted for procuring and liberally distributing mauy new,
rare, and interesting plants.

There are two characters of the disk-flowers in Arctotis
which deserve notice; one is the curious, almost purple-
black, thickened, pendulous tips of the corolla-lobes; the
other the irritability of the style, which protrudes the

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stigmatic arms above the anthers for the purpose of fer-
tilization by the pollen from other flowers, which being
effected, the arms are withdrawn to their former position.
This latter fact was, I believe, first made known by
Lindley in a note under his description of A. awreola (Bot.
Reg. t. 82). The singular, dark, finger-like marks at the
bases of the ligules are not peculiar to the species here
ficured.

A. Gumbletoni is a native of Namaqualand, whence
seeds of it were sent to Mr. Gumbleton by Mr. Ayres.
It is a very free grower, and keeps flowering for months
in a cool house.

Descr.—Stem very short, clothed, as are the leaves and
peduncles, with a thin, white, densely-matted tomentum.
Leaves basal, six to twelve inches long by one to one anda
half broad, long-petioled, pinnatifid or pinnatisect ; lobes
oblong, tips rounded, quite entire or obscurely crenate,
sinus rounded; lower lobes small, distant, and often
decurrent ; terminal broader, ovate lobed or lobulate.
Peduncle eight inches to a foot high, stout, striate. Head
three inches in diameter. Jnvolucre hemispheric, two-
thirds of an inch in diameter; outer bracts green, coria-
ceous, broadly ovate, cuspidate or tips setaceous, closely
appressed, tips hairy; intermediate longer, acute or
obtuse, herbaceous, with scarious tips and margins ; inner
twice as long, base green, terminating in a broad, scarious
wing, rounded at the tip. Ray-flowers deep orange-red,
tube very short ; ligule with finger-like red-brown marks
at the base. Achenes short, hairy; outer pappus scales
short, lacerate, inner much longer, oblong.—J. D. H.

Fig. I, outer bract of involucre ; 2, ray-flower with part of ligule removed ;
3, base of inner ray-flower with imperfect stamens; 4, disk-flower; 5, top of
corolla-lobe of disk-flower; 6, stamens; 7, tip of style of disk-flowers with
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HXORRHIZA Wenptanprana.
Native of the Fiji Islands.

Nat. Ord. Parma.—Tribe ARECEX,

Genus Exorruiza (Beccari in Ann. Jard. Buitenz. vol. ii. (1885) p. 128.)

Exorruiza Wendlandiana ; trunco excelso erecto stricto annulato basi radicibus
epigewis spinulosis sustentato, foliis breviuscule petiolatis lineari-oblongis
10-12 ped. longis patenti-recurvis pinnatisectis petiolo rhachique dorso
rotundatis facie acute angulatis, segmentis 2-pedalibus squidistantibus
anguste lineari-lanceolatis costatis 8-10-nerviis, nervo marginali 0,
spadice longe infra-foliaceo erecto breviter crasse pedunculato pedali
ovato-oblongo stricto confertim ramoso, ramis 8-10 pollicaribus erecto-
patulis strictis albis basi abrupte in globum pollicem diam. incrassatis,
laxifloris fructiferis kermesinis, floribus bracteatis et 2-bracteolatis ternis
2 g,intermedio ?, superioribus in ramis solitariis ¢, spathis 2 oblongis
crasse coriaceis diu persistentibus, fl. ¢ symmetricis ovoideis, sepalis
3-gonis, petalis oblongis obtusis valvatis, staminibus 6, filamentis petalis
brevioribus subulatis, antheris lineari-oblongis, pistillodio ovoideo apice
trifido, fl. 2 multo minoribus subglobosis, sepalis maris persistentibus,
petalis orbicularibus imbricatis, ovario oblongo 1-loculari stigmate crasso
ovoideo coronato, ovulo solitario parietali, fructu globoso 3 pull. diam.
levi, stigmate laterali, albumine wquabili.

E. Wendlandiana, Beccavi, l.c.

Kentia exorhiza, H. Wendl. in Bonpland. vol. ‘x. (1862) p. 191 (excel. deser.
Sruct.) etin Seem. Fl. Vitiens. p. 269, t. 73.

Areca ? exorhiza, H. Wendl. in Bonpland vol. ix. (1861) p. 260 (nomen).

Exorrhiza Wendlandiana is a native of the Fiji Islands,
where it was discovered by Dr. Seemann, when accom-
anying Col. Smythe in his mission to that archipelago in
1860-1. It appears to bea very local Palm, its only known
habitat being in humid forests, at a considerable elevation
on the mountains of Somososo, in the islet of Taviuni. In
his account of Col. Smythe’s Mission, p. 370, Dr. Seemann
mentions Kentia ? exorrhiza as being also a native of New
Caledonia ; but this is an error, the palm alluded to being
probably Cyphosperma Vieillardit, Benth. & H.f.; so also
with regard to Tonga, as another habitat, there is no
evidence whatever of the palm alluded to being a Fiji one.
For living plants of Hzorrhiza Wendlandiana the Royal
Gardens, Kew, are indebted to the late Sir J. B. Thurston,
K.C.M.G., who, when Governor of the Fijis in 1881, sent
to Kew living plants in a Ward’s case, one of which,
OctoxseR Ist, 1901.

that here represented, flowered in the Palm House in
February, 1901. Its height to the bases of the leaves is
sixteen feet, to the top of the crown twenty-four.
Descr.—A noble palm, attaining, in its native country,
sixty feet in height, with a straight annulate trunk, two
to three feet in girth towards the base, where, above
ground, it emits stout, spinous supporting roots. Leaves
ten to twelve feet long, shortly petioled, linear-oblong,
spreading and recurved, pinnatisect ; leaflets very many,
close-set equidistantly, two feet long by about two and a
half inches broad, narrowed from the middle to the acumi-
nate tip, costate, and eight to ten-nerved, bright green
above, pale yellow-green beneath; petiole and rhachis
sub-trigonous, with a flattened upper surface and rounded
under. Spadiz maturing several nodes below the lowest
leaf, shortly peduncled, erect, ovoid; branches close-set,
eight to ten inches long, slender, strict, erecto-patent,
suddenly swollen above the base into a gibbus an inch in
diameter, white, scarlet when fruiting. Spathes two, oblong,
much shorter than the spadix. Flowers sessile, scattered in
threes along the branches of the spadix, each three con-
sisting of two males, about an eighth of an inch long, and
an intermediate minute female ; upper flowers on the branch
solitary, male. Bracts and bracteoles minute. Male fl.
symmetric, sepals minute, trigonous ; petals oblong, obtuse,
valvate; stamens 6; pistillode trifid. Fem. jl. ovoid;
sepals of male; petals imbricate ; ovary ovoid, one-celled,
crowned by a sessile ovoid stigma; ovule solitary, parietal.
Fruit globose, half an inch in diameter, stigma lateral.—

J.D. H.

Fig. 1, portions of spatne and spadix with ¢ and 9 flowers; 2, stamens;
3, pistillodium ; 4, 2 flower with calyx removed; 5, ovary ; 6, vertical section
of ovary; 7, fruiting branch of spadix; 8, fruit with remains of periauth ;

= ig — of fruit; 10, embryo :—all except 7 enlarged; 11, reduced

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HABENARIA LuGARDI.

Native of Bechuanaland,

Nat. Ord. OncHIDEZ.—Tribe OPpHRYDER.

Genus Hasenania, Willd.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 624.)

Hasenanrta (Ate) Lugardii; foliis 2 radicalibus sub-oppositis terre appressis
sessilibus orbicularibus 6-8 poll. diam. carnosis fragilibus breviter acutatis
multinerviis, scapo robusto vaginis paucis lanceolatis pollicaribus
instructo, racemo 1-2 ped. longo 4-10 poll. diam. multi-laxifloro, bracteis
3-11 poll. longis lanceolatis, pedicellis 1}-2 poll. longis arcuatis, floribus
albis, sepalo dorsali } poll. longo erecto ovato acuto concavo, lateralibus
erecto-patentibus dorsali paullo longioribus ovato-lanceolatis acutis,
petalis bipartitis segmento postico oblongo falcato erecto sepalo dorsali
cohwrente, antico fere filiformi pendulo pollicari, labello ad basin 3-
partito segmentis filiformibus 1% poll. longis pendulis intermedio breviore,
caleare 5-6 poll. longo, stigmatis processubus elongatis apicibus spathu-
latis porrectis viridibus, staminodiis minutis pyriformibus granulatis
aureis, rostello prominulo acuto, antherarum tubulis brevibus, polliniis
anguste oblongis caudiculis paullo brevioribus, glandula parva orbicu-
lari.

H. Lugardii, Rolfe in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afric. vol. vii. p. 228. W. Wats. in
Gard. Chron. 1900, vol. ii. p. 322.

In habit and in the orbicular leaves appressed to the
earth, this stately Habenaria resembles two Indian
species, H. platyphylla, Spreng., and H. plantaginea, Lindl.,
from both of which it differs in the form of the petals, which
are cleft to the base into very narrow segments, a character
which refers it to the genus Ate of Lindley (reduced by all
recent authors to Habenaria). It was discovered by Major
Lugard, with Crinum rhodanthum_ (tab. 7777) and other
bulbous plants in Botletle Valley, Ngamiland. Tubers of
it were presented by that distinguished traveller to the
Royal Gardens, Kew, in February, 1899, one of which
flowered in the tropical Orchid House in October of the
following year, and is here figured.

Descr.—Leaves two, radical, sessile, appressed to the
ground, orbicular, four to six inches in diameter, fleshy,
fragile, bright green, base amplexicaul, very many-nerved.
Scape stout, with a few lanceolate acuminate sheaths.
Raceme six to twelve inches long, very many-flowered, six
inches in diameter ; rhachis stout, acutely angled; bracts

OctoBerR Ist, 1901.

about an inch long, lanceolate, acuminate, white or
greenish. Flowers white, with green stylodes and yellow
anther and staminodes ; pedicel with beaked ovary one and
a half inch long, twisted, green. Sepals ovate, acute,
dorsal erect, half an inch long; lateral rather longer, sub-
erect. Petals cleft to the base into two slender segments,
one of which is erect and coheres to the dorsal sepal,
the other is an inch long and pendulous. Lip cleft nearly
to the base into three filiform pendulous segments an inch
and a half long, and with two projecting spathulate green
stylodes at its base; spur five to six inches long, pendulous,
very slender. Anther-cells linear, tubes short, upcurved ;
pollinia linear-oblong, rather shorter than their caudicles.
Stylodes (or stigmatic processes) very large, spathulate,
green.—.]. D. H.

Figs. 1 and 2, lateral and front views of column ; 3, pollinium :—all enlarged.

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CINERARIA pentacrina.
Native of South Africa ?

Nat. Ord. Composirz.—Tribe SENECIONIDER.

Genus Cineranrta, Linn, ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 445.)

Cinzraria (Eucineraria) pentactina; glaberrima, caule gracillimo scandente
ramoso, ramis ramulisque santatia pallide rubris, foliis parvis gracile
petiolatis semi-orbiculatis # pol]. diam. breviter 5-lobis basi truncatis
pallide viridibus, lobis late triangularibus 3-crenatis obtusis, paniculis
elongatis ascendentibus laxifloris ramis ramulis distantibus pedunculisque
gracillimis pallide rubris, pedicellis squamulis sparsis minutis subulatis
instructis, involucri cylindracei } poll. longi ecalyculati bracteis 6-10
linearibus acuminatis v. lineari-oblongis acutis 3—5-nerviis marginibus late
hyalinis, receptaculo parvo convexo, floribus ra‘lii 5, ligulis lineari-oblongis
% poll. longis apice rotundatis aureis, floribus disci aurantiacis, acheniis
radii minutis vix ~; poll. longis late oblongis compressis brunneis
marginibus longe villosis, disco medio pubescente, pappo albo achznio vix
duplo longiore, pilis margine cupule persistentis insertis mollibus
scaberulis caducis.

The native country of Cineraria pentactina is unrecorded,
though it may with little doubt be regarded as South
Africa, from its close affinity with C. lobata, L’Herit.
(Sert. Angl. t. 34) which has a wide range of distribu-
tion in the southern districts of Cape Colony. From that
plant C. pentactina differs chiefly in its very slender climb-
ing habit, less divided leaves, and lax paniculate inflores- _
cence, with very long branches, peduncles, and pedicels.
It is a very elegant plant, as seen climbing a pillar of the
greenhouse in the Royal Gardens, Kew, of which it is
a very old inhabitant, flowering profusely in the summer
months.

Descv.—Quite glabrous. Stem very slender, about as
thick as a sparrow’s quill and branches dull red; branch-
lets pendulous. Leaves alternate, distant or fascicled on
short lateral shoots, semi-orbicular in outline, three-fourths
of an inch in diameter, shortly, broadly five-lobed, base
truncate, pale green on both surfaces; petiole slender,
about as long as the blade, base not auricled. Flowers in
lax, ascending, terminal panicles ; peduncles and pedicels
very slender, pale red; bracts on the pedicels minute,

OcroBeR Ist, 1901.

distant, subulate, green. Jnvolucre cylindric, about a third
of an inch long, ecalyculate ; bracts six to ten, linear,
acute, or acuminate, three- to five-nerved, green, with
scarious margins. Lay-flowers five, golden-yellow ; ligule
half an inch long, linear-oblong, tip minutely three-toothed.
Disk-flowers orange-yellow. Achenes minute, broadly ob-
long, compressed, red-brown, margins densely villous, disc
pubescent in the middle. Pappus-hairs inserted in the
mouth of persistent cup, rather longer than the achene,
white, scaberulous, caducous.—/. D. H.

Fig. 1, ray- and 2, disk-flowers ; 3, hair of pappus; 4, stamens; 5, stigmas of
ray-flower ; 6, achene with pappus :—all enlarged. .

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CALORHABDOS cavroprera.
Native of China.

Nat. Ord. ScropHULARINE#.—Tribe DIGITALEZ.

Genus Catornanpos, Benth.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 963 (ex
parte.)

CaLorHaspos cauloptera: herba erecta, fauce corolle excepta glaberrima,
caule gracili subsimplici anguste tetraptero, foliis alternis breviter petio-
latis ovate-lanceolatis acuminatis argute serrulatis basi acutis, racemo
spiciforme terminali erecto 6-8 poll. longa multi-densifloro, rhachi tetra-
gona, floribus brevissime pedicellatis unibracteatis bractea ovato-lanceolata
calyce subequilonga, calycis ¢ poll. longi segmentis Janceolatis erecto-
patulis, corolla deflexa 4 poll. lata ad medium 5-loba rubro-purpurea,
fauce annulo lato villoso aucto, lobo postico late ovato depresso apice
bidenticulato, ceteris minoribus ovatis acuminatis patulis, staminibus 2
erectis, antheris didymis aureis, capsula calyci squilonga ovvidea
bisulcata polysperma loculicida, valvis bipartitis, seminibus ovoideis.

C. cauloptera, Hance in Trimen Journ. Bot. vol. xv. (1877) p. 298. Hems!. in
Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxvi. (1890) p. 195; in Hook. Ic. Pl. vol. xxvii.
sub t. 2669.

The genus Calorhabdos was founded by Bentham on a
Nepalese plant closely allied to Veronica, C. Bruno-
niana (see Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 2669), to which was
subsequently added a Chinese and Japanese, C. avillaris.
Of these the latter has been regarded as the type
of a distinct genus (Botryoplewron) by Mr. Hemsley,
differing from C. Brunoniana in habit and in its axillary
spikes. Three additional species of Botryopetalum,
all Chinese, have since been discovered, confirming
the validity of the genus (see Hemsley, l.c. t. 2670);
and the Nepalese C. Brunoniana has been found by the
Abbé Delavay in the province of Yunnan, in China, though
in no intermediate locality, and a second species of Calor-
habdos, the subject of this plate, has been added to it.

CG. cauloptera is a native of the provinces of Ichang and
Kwangtung. Seeds of it were sent to the Royal Gardens,
Kew, in 1896, by Dr. Henry, plants raised from which
flowered in a greenhouse in August, 1900. It is remarkable
for its four-winged stem and four-angled rachis of the
spike ; those organs in C. Brunoniana, and in all the species
of Botryopleuron being perfectly terete.

OctToser lst, 1901.

Descr.—A slender, erect herb, everywhere glabrous,
except on the throat of the corolla. Stem unbranched,
narrowly four-winged. Leaves very shortly petioled, alter-
nate, three to five inches long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,
acutely serrulate, with the serratures inflexed, base acute,
deep green above, beneath pale, with prominent nerves.
Inflorescence terminal, shortly peduncled, spiciform raceme
from six to eight inches long, very slender, half an inch
broad, densely many-flowered ; bracts lanceolate, about as
long as the calyx, green. Flowers very shortly pedicelled.
Calyz about an eighth of an inch long, divided nearly to
the truncate base into five sub-equal, lanceolate, acuminate
lobes. Corolla defiexed, tube short, limb about one-third
of an inch broad, five-lobed to the middle, dark red-
purple; posticous lobe largest, depressed, broadly ovate,
tip two-toothed ; lateral lobes spreading, ovate, acuminate ;
mouth with a broad ring of purple matted hairs. Stamens
2, exserted; anthers oblong, didymous, yellow. Ovary
compressed, two-celled ; style shorter than the filaments,
erect; stigma minute.—J. D. A.

Fig. 1, portion of margin of leaf; 2, flower; 3, calyx and bract; 4, corolla
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RUBUS patmatus.
Native of Japan and China.

Nat. Ord. Rosacex.—Tribe RuBEea,
Genus Rusus, Linn; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 616.)

Ruzvus palmatus ; frutex fere glaberrimus, ramosus eglandulosus, ramis elonga-
tis gracilibus scandentibus, aculeis sparsis rectis, foliis in ramulos abbre-
viatos fasciculatis supremis solitariis longe graciliter petiolatis ambitu
orbicularibus et palmatim 5-fidis vel late ovatis pinnatifido-5-7-lobis
subcaudato-acuminatis leete viridibus lobis segmentisve ovatis v. lanceo-
latis acuminatis inciso-serratis subtus pallidis, petiolo 1-2 poll. longo
distante setoso v. aculeolato, stipulis supra-basilaribus lineari-lanceolatis
obscure denticulatis, floribus axillaribus solitariis, pedicellis gracilibus
sparse setulosis, calycis glabri v. pilosuli tubo hemispherico lobis lan-
ceolatis acuminatis parce serratis intus glabris, petalis patentibus sepalis
vix duplo:longioribus ellipticis obtusis albis, antheris aureis, carpellis
summo toro cylindraceo confertis glaberrimis, stylis elongatis filiformibus
erectis stigmate capitellato, fructu globoso flavo sapido,

R. palmatus, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 217; Ic. Pl. Jap. Dec. iv. tab. 6. Sieb. &
Zuce. Fl. Jap, Fam. Nat. face. i. p. 18. Mig.s Ann. Mus. Bot. Imgd.
Bat. vol. iii. p. 35; A. Gray, Bot. Japan, p. 387, pro parte. Maxim. in
Bull. Imp. Acad: Sc. Petersb. vol. xvii. (1872) p. 154; (Mel. Biol. viii. p. 334).
Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. i. p. 126. Hemsl. in Journ. Linn.
Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. (1886-8) p. 234.

R. coptophyllus, A. Gray, Bot. Perry Exped. Japan, p. 311.

Ttubus palmatus is a very elegant species, differing from
the typical forms of the genus in the elliptic shape of its
white spreading petals. It has several allies in Japan and
China with similar flowers, especially 2. incisus, Thunb.,
which differs in its leaves being only 3-lobed, and in the
tomentose inner surface of the calyx-lobes. Thunberg’s
figure of palmatus is excellent; De Candolle has doubtfully
referred it to Lt. microphyllus, Linn. f., also a native of
Japan, which has recurved prickles, and a villous calyx.

‘The plant of £. palmatus, from which the accompanying
figure was made, was obtained from Messrs. Veitch & Sons,
of Chelsea, in 1899. It is now twenty feet high, trained
against a pillar in the Himalaya wing of the Temperate
House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it flowered in
April of this year. There are specimens of it in the
Kew Herbarium from Yokohama, N agasaki, and the

central mountains of Japan, ascending to seven thousand
OctoBER Ist, 1901.

feet ; also from Corea, and from Chekiang in China. It
has so far proved hardy in my garden near Sunningdale,
as to have survived without injury the winter of 1900-1.
Descr.—A glabrous, much branched, eglandularshrub, with
slender, climbing branches. Prickles scattered, straight,
compressed. Leaves one to three inches long, orbicular
and palmately five or six-lobed, or broadly ovate and sub-
pinnatifidly lobed, base sub-cordate, lobes ovate or lanceo-
late, acuminate, inciso-serrate, bright green above, pale
‘beneath ; petiole one to two inches long, bearing a few
scattered minute bristles; stipules inserted above the
base of the petiole, linear, acuminate, sparingly denti-
culate. lowers solitary, axillary, one to one and a half
inches in diameter; pedicels very slender, sparsely setose.
Calyz-tube hemispheric; lobes linear-lanceolate, about half
as long as the petals, acuminate, sparingly serrate. Petals
elliptic, obtuse, pure white. Jilaments slender, erect,

anthers yellow. Carpels crowded on the top of a short, -

cylindric column, oblong, smooth; style very slender.

Fruit globose, nearly an inch in diameter, yellow, succu-
lent.—J. D. H,

Fig. 1, base of petiole and stipules; 2, base of calyx, stamens, and carpels;
3, carpel :—all enlarged.

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MUSA o.eracza.
Native of New Caledonia.

Nat. Ord. Sciraminra.—Tribe MusEx.
Genus Musa, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. Ff. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 655.)

Musa (Eumusa) oleracea; tubere subterraneo magno napiformi pluricauli,
caudice mediocri viridi-violaceo glaucescente, foliis petiolatis 1-2-pedalibus
oblongis acuminatis basi rotundatis supra saturate viridibus subtus
pallidis glaucescentibus, nervis primariis distinctis subremotis impressis,
arcnatis petiolo pedali crasso, spica cernua ad 8 poll. longa breviter
et crasse pedunculata, pedunculo rhachique viridi, bracteis paucifloris
inferioribus 6 poll, longis linearibus v. lineari-oblongis obtusis recurvis
extus fusco-purpureis glaucis intus flavo-rubris clathratim rubro striatis
apice viridibus, ovario teretiusculo viridi, perianthio 1 poll. longo, calycis
flavidi fusco picti nervosi lobis 2 exterioribus oblongis obtusis dorso infra
apicem calcaratis, interioram lobis lateralibus dorso infra apicem
calcaratis intermedio latiore ecalcarato, corolla calyce triente breviore
quadrata pallide purpurea margine superiore medio ligula instructa
v. abrupte acuminata, stigmate clavato apice lobulato.

M. oleracea, Vieill. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Sér. LV. vol. xvi. (1861) p. 46.

M. sapientum, Linn. var. oleracea, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1894, p. 250.

Poiéte incol.

Musa oleracea is a very interesting species, being, as far
as is known, unique in the genus in haying a very large
underground tuber, replete with starch, which is boiled,
toasted, or baked as an article of food by the natives
of New Caledonia, its flavour, according to M. Vieillard,
resembles that of the yam. The tuber has “eyes” like
a potato, and the plant may hence be propagated by
division,

From M. paradisiaca, M. oleracea is easily distinguished
by the tuber, the short leaves glaucous beneath, with very
well defined arching primary nerves, about three-quarters
of an inch apart, and impressed on the upper surface ; the
short spike with very few-flowered, long, narrow bracts,
which are glaucous purple externally, and red within, tho
much shorter calyx, which is dull yellow stained with
pale brown or purple, and the colour of the corolla.
It is said by M. Vieillard never to flower in New Caledonia,
where it perhaps is known only as a cultivated plant. It
did not ripen fruit at Kew.

Novemser Ist, 1901,

M. oleracea was received at the Royal Gardens, Kew,
from Mr. W. Souter, Superintendent of the Gardens of the
Brisbane <Acclimatization Society. It flowered in the
Mexican wing of the Temperate House in August, 1900,
but did not ripen fruit.

Deser.—Sitem four to seven feet high, rising from a
large underground turnip-shaped corm, green and violet,
glaucous. Leaves one to two feet long, rather shortly
stoutly petioled, oblong, acuminate, base rounded, dark
green above, pale and glaucous beneath; lateral nerves
very distant, about three-quarters of an inch apart,
arching. Spike decurved, shortly peduncled; rhachis
stout, dark green. Bracts few-flowered, lower remote,
six inches long, linear or ligulate, dull purple, and very
glaucous, externally bright pale red within, somewhat
tessellately mottled with darker red, tips obtuse, green.
Calyx about an inch long; segments strongly nerved, dull
yellow, suffused with pale, dirty purple or brown. Corolla
about one-third shorter than the calyx, quadrate, abruptly
cuspidate, or with the cusp sometimes produced into
ligule, pale dull purple.—J. D. HH.

Fig. 1, hud; 2, flower; 3, corolla; 4 and 5, stamens; 6, top of style and
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SENECIO maentricts.

Native of Australia.

Nat. Ord. Composit..—Tribe SENECIONIDE™.
Genus Senecio, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 446).

Srexucio (Radiati) magnificus; suffrutex glaberrimus, glaucus, caule erecto
rubusto ramisque teretibus foliosis, foliis grosse subremote dentatis
acutis ad }-pedalibus obovato-oblongis oblanceolatisve basi angustatis,
superioribus minoribus lanceolatis semi-amplexicaulibus, costa subtus

rominula, nervis obscuris, capitulis longe pedunculatis in corymbos
axos aphyllos dispositis, pedunculis bracteis subulatis auctis, involucri
2 poll. longi cylindracei basi obscure calyculati bracteis linearibus obtusis
herbaceis, receptacnlo plano leevi, fl. radii 8-12 ligulis 3 poll. longis lineari-
oblongis apice obtusis obscure crenatis aureis, styH ramis fuscis, fl. disci
numerosis involucro paullo longioribus aureis, achzeniis puberulis, pappi
albi setis scaberulis.

S. magnificus, F’. Muell. in Linnea, vol. xxv. (1852) p.418; Key Syst. Vict. Pl.
vol. i. p. 340. Sonder in Linnzea, l.c. p. 526. Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. iii.
p- 666.

Though hardly meriting the grandiose specific name
given to this plant by the late Baron Mueller, it is a very
conspicuous member of the enormous genus of groundsels,
and in this respect heads the list of the twenty-eight
Australian species. It is a mountain plant, native of the

Grampians in Victoria, and of the Flinder’s ‘Range in

South Australia. Seeds of it were received at the Royal
Gardens, Kew, in 1899, from Mr. Maiden, F.L.S., Director
of the Botanic Gardens of Sidney, from which plants were
raised which flowered in the Temperate House in October,
1900. 3

Descr.—A tall, stout, quite glabrous, glaucous, erect,
sparingly branched under-shrub, stem and branches terete,
leafy. Leaves rather coriaceous, coarsely sub-crenately
toothed, lower about six inches long, oblong-lanceolate or
oblanceolate, narrowed at the base; upper smaller, lan-
ceolate, semi-amp'exicaul, costa thickened beneath, nerves
obscure. Heads in loose, peduncled, leafless corymbs ;
pedicels slender, bearing scattered subulate bracts. Jn
volucre half an inch long, cylindric, green, base obscurely
ealyculate ; involucral bracts linear, obtuse, herbaceous,

NoveMBeER Ist, 1901.

green. Receptacle flat, smooth. Ray-flowers eight to
twelve, ligules two-thirds of an inch Jong, linear-oblong,
golden-yellow, tips obscurely crenate; style-arms pale
brown. WDisk-flowers very many, rather longer than the

involucre, five-toothed. Achenes short, smooth, puberulous.
—/, D. H,

Fig. 1, ray-flower with portion of ligule removed ; 2, disk-flower; 3, hair of
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LIPARIS trroatrosa.
Native of the Malay Peninsula and Sulu Archipelago.

Nat. Ord. Oncu1pEa.—Tribe Eprpenprea.

Genus Liraris, Rich.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 495.)

Liraris (Mollifolia) ¢ricallosa; caule brevi vix pseudobulboso, foliis 3-5
sessilibus 4-8 poll. longis ellipticis v. oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis
5-7-nerviis membranaceis pallide viridibus marginibus undulatis nervisque
subtus rubris, pedunculo rhachique racemi’ elongati laxe-multiflori
angulatis rubris, bracteis parvis ovato-lanceolatis, pedicellis cum ovario
1-14 poll. longis rubris, sepalis pollicaribus loriformibus obtusis citrinig.
lateralibus infra labellum positis, petalis sepalis paullo brevioribus recurvis,
ob margines revolutos filiformibus rubris, labelli breviter unguiculati
lamina suborbiculari subacuta plana deflexa 2 poll. lata aurea lineis
saturate rubris creberrime picta, ungue tricalloso, callis lateralibus
reniformibus intermedio minuto globoso, colamna minuta incurva
marginibus supra medium dilatatis, capsula ellipsoidea.

L. tricallosa, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1879, vol. i. pp. 225, 684 e¢ 1901, fig. 85.
Ridley in Journ. Linn, Soe. Bot. vol. xxii. (1886) p. 275.

L. venosa, Ridley |.c. vol. xxiv. (1888) p. 350, e¢ vol. xxxii. (1896) p. 224.

A very well-marked Liparis, discovered by Mr. Bur-
bidge, F.L.S., Curator of the Trinity College Botanic
Gardens (author of “The Gardens of the Sun’’), in the
Sulu Archipelago ; and more recently found in the Malay
Peninsula, at Perak, Johore, and Singapore. The sepals
vary in colour, being lemon-yellow in the specimen here
figured. ‘The petals and striations of the lip are lake red,
rather than carmine as described by Mr. Ridley in his
L. venosa, which is unquestionably conspecific.

L. tricallosa was introduced into cultivation by Mr.
Bull, who in 1879 flowered a plant of it received from
its discovereyx, which was described by Reichenbach as
cited above.* The specimen here figured was presented to
the Royal Gar@ens, Kew, by the Right Honourable Joseph
Chamberlain, Sécretary of State for the Colonies, in full
flower, in June, 1900.

Descr.—Stem short, stout, hardly pseudobulbous. Leaves
three to five, sessile, four to eight inches long, elliptic- or
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, five to seven-nerved, mem-
branous, margins waved, and nerves beneath red. Raceme

NovemsBeR Ist, 1901.

peduncled, six to eight inches long, loosely many-flowered,
rhachis acutely angled, red; bracts small, lanceolate ;
pedicel and ovary together one to one and a half inches
long, slender, twisted, red. Sepals an inch long, strap-
shaped, obtuse, lemon-yellow, two lateral placed under the
lip. Petals rather shorter than the sepals, arched, re-
curved, filiform, red. Lip deflexed, sub-orbicular, flat,
three-fourths of an inch broad, golden-yellow, closely
striped with red, claw very short, with two lateral

reniform calli, and a minute, globose, intermediate one.—
wot, Fy.

Fig. 1, claw of lip; 2, side, and 3, front view of column and anther;
4, anther; 5, pollinia :—al/ enlarged.

7805 —

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Tas. 7805,
TREVORIA Cnanorts.
Native of the Andes of Colombia.

Nat. Ord. Orcuipea.—Tribe VanpEx.
Genus T'revorta, (F. C, Lehm. in Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. i. p. 345.)

Trevorta Chloris; pseudobulbis fasciculatis cylindraceis v. elongato-pyri-
formibus ecostatis 1-foliatis infra medium vaginis lanceolatis brunneis
rigidis obtectis, folio subsessili oblongo-lanceolato licato, pedunculo e
basi pseudol-ulbi robusto decurvo flexuoso vaginis oiliaantaae lanceolatis
brunneis striatis ornato, spica pendula pauciflora rhachi robusta, bracteis
triangularibus brevibus cucullatis cuspidatis, floribus ad 24 poll. latis
viridibus, ovario brevi, perianthio subcampanulato, sepalis columnz basi
oblique insertis late ovatis subacutis concavis carnosulis, petalis sepalis
multo angustioribus oblongo-lanceolatis patenti-recurvis pallidis, labello
carnoso basi columnz adnato sepalis breviore 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus
auriculiformibus erectis disco processu linguzformi columne supposito
revoluto aucto, terminali stipitato ovato medio 5-sulcato, stipite tumido
obtuso callo bilobo instructo non articulato, columna brevi crassa
clinandrio terminali, anthera parva hemispherica 1-loculari, polliniis
pyriformibus apicem versus caudicul elongate affixis, glandula orbiculari
demum longe extrusa, stigmatis fovea transversa.

Trevoria Chloris, F. 0. Lehm. in Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. i. p. 345, fig. 128.
: Rolfe in Orchid, Rev. vol. viii. (1900) p. 335.

The very remarkable Orchid here figured was discovered
by Mr. F. C. Lehmann in moist woods at four thousand
eight hundred feet to five thousand five hundred feet
elevation on the western slope of the Andes of Colombia,
near Popayan, flowering in September and November.
Its nearest but not very close ally is, according to Mr.
Rolfe, Coryanthes, from which it differs conspicuously in
the structure of the lip. The name Trevoria recalls the
great services rendered to horticulture, and especially to
a knowledge of Orchids, by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.,
M.P., President of the Royal Horticultural Society of
London, to whom I am indebted for communicating the
specimen from which the accompanying figure was made,

Deser.—Pseudobulbs tufted, three inches long, cylindrie,
one half to one inch in diameter, smooth, green, one-
leaved ; sheaths brown, rather rigid, striate. Leaf oblong-
lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, seven-nerved, narrowed into
a very short petiole, bright green above, yellowish-green

Novenper Ist, 1901,

beneath, with strong nerves. Pedunele from the base of
the pseudobulb, four to five inches long, decurved, very
stout, flexuous, green, with brown-streaked sheaths, of
which the lower are short, appressed, the upper nearly an
inch long, loose, lanceolate. Spike pendulous, few-fid. ;
rhachis stout, flexuous, green; bracts like the upper
sheaths of the peduncle. Ovary short, curved, green.
Perianth sub-campanulate, about two and a half inches
broad, base rounded. Sepals inserted in the base of the
column, broadly ovate, obtuse, concave, fleshy, green.
Petals as long as the sepals, but much narrower, oblong-
lanceolate, obtuse, spreading and recurved, pale yellow-
green. Lip adnate to the base of the column, rather
shorter than the sepals, very thick, fleshy, nearly white,
three-lobed ; lateral lobes short, ear-shaped, erect, with a
revolute tongue-shaped process at the base; terminal lobe
ovate, shortly stipitate, with a two-lobed callus on the
stipes; disk five-grooved. Column very short, broad and
thick, green. Anthers hemispheric, with an upcurved
beak ; pollinia pyriform, on a long inflexed strap; gland
orbicular.—J, D, H

Fig. 1, upper part of ovary, lip, and colamn; 2, side view of column;
3, hypochile with stipes of epichile ; 4 and 5, pollinia :—all enlarged.

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Tas,. 7807,

CYRTOPODIUM patmirrons.
Native of Brazil.

Nat. Ord. Orncutpea#.—Tribe VanpEx,

Genus Cyrtopopium, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p, 541).

Cyrrtoropium palmifrons; caulibus 2-pedalibus fasciculatis suberectis com-
pressis infra medium vaginis citrinis purpureo marginatis imbricatis arcte
adpressis velatis dein foliatis (folium pinnatum referentibus) foliis 6-8 poll.
longis distichis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis 3-nerviis basi angustatis
laete viridibus subtus pallidis, vaginis caulinis consimilibus, pedunculis
basilaribus caulibus brevioribus adscendentibus vaginis distichis oblongis
acutis coloratis imbricatis laxe tectis, panicula ampla 15 poll. longa 10
lata oblonga nutante multiflora, rachi ramisque gracilibus viridibus,
bracteis axillaribus floralibusque oblongis v. ellipticis albis roseo mar-
ginatis caducis his 3-} illis $-1 poll. longis, floribus ad 1 poll. latis
Lreviter pedicellatis, sepalis suborbiculatis apice rotundatis labelloqne
-citrinis roseo maculatis, petalis paullo latioribus citrinis, labello sepalis
breviore geniculatim unguiculato subeequaliter 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus
erectis reniformi-rotundatis, terminale 2-lobulato lobulis margines versus
dixcoque basi callis globosis confertis instructo, columna parva, anthera
antice appendiculata, polliniis oblongis caudicula lata sessilibus.

C. palmifrons, Reichb. f. et Warm. in Ot. Bot. Hambd. fase. ii. p. 88. Warm. in
Vidensk. Med. Nat Foren. Kjobenh. 1884-7, p. 87, t. 6, £.3; Symb. ad FI.
Bras. Centr. vol. xxx. p. 850, t. 6, f. 3.

This very remarkable Orchid was discovered growing
on trees in the forests of Lagoa Santa, in Central Brazil,
by the Danish traveller and botanist, J. EH. B. Warming.
For the beautiful syecimen here figured, which flowered
in a tropical house in April, 1901, the Royal Gardens are
indebted to Dr. E. A. Heath, of Eaton Square. The
specific name palmifrons is in allusion to the resemblance
which the leafing stem bears to the leaf of an Arecoid
Palm, the leafless part of the stem answering to the petiole,
and the distichous narrow leaves to the pinnules of the
palm.

Deser.—Stems tufted, ascending, about two feet high,
straight or curved, compressed, closely invested by the
short, uniform sheaths of fallen leaves, each sheath is
about half an inch long, lemon-coloured, with purple
margins, the latter giving the effect of a zigzag purple

December Ist, 1°01,

line running up thestems. Leaves six to eight inches long,
distichous ; blade sessile on the sheath, linear-lanceolate,
acuminate, narrowed at the base, bright green. Peduncle
basal, stout, ascending, branching into a spreading, in-
clined, many-flowered panicle fifteen inches long by ten
inches broad. Bracts, axillary and floral elliptic or oblong,
membranous, caducous, white with rose-coloured margins,
floral one-third of an inch to half an inch long, axillary
much larger. Flowers about an inch broad, shortly pedi-
celled. Sepals sub-orbicular, lemon-coloured, spotted with
rose-pink, Petals rather broader, lemon-coloured. Lip
colour of the sepals, geniculately clawed, three-lobed ;
lobes sub-equal, lateral erect, broadly reniform, terminal
broadly bilobulate ; disk and margins covered with globose
calli. Column very short.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, portion of panicle of nat. size; 2, side view, and 3, front view of
column and lip; 4, anther; 5, pollinia:—all enlarged; 6, reduced view of
whole plant.

Mesh ee ee

Tas. 7806.
SYRINGA oprata.
Native of North China.

Nat. Ord. OLeacem.—Tribe Syrince®.

Genus Syrinea, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 675.)

Syrinea (Eusyringa) oblata; frutex fere glaberrimus, 8-10-pedalis, foliis sub-
hysteranthiis 2-33 poll. latis subcoriaceis rhombeo-ovatis orbicularibusve
acrtis v. subcuspidatis basi rotundatis v. late cordatis supra lete viridibus
marginibus spe roseo tinctis subtus pallidioribus demum rufescentibus,
petiolo 3-1 poll. longo, thyrso breviter pedunculato globoso v. oblongo
dense-multifloro, ramis ramulis calycibusque puberulis, floribus breviter
pedicellatis pallide lilacinis, calyce 7 poll. longo ad medium inequaliter
4-fido, lobis ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acutis, corolla tubo } poll. longo
nndo v. subglanduloso, limbi 3 poll. lati lobis orbiculatis v. late ellipticis
planis v. subconcavis.

S. oblata, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1859, p. 868. Fortune, Le. 1860, p. 170.
Naud. in Fl. des Serres, vol. xiii. (1858, in 1860 public.) p. 126 (sub Asculo
indica) Dippel, Handb. Laubholz. vol. i. p. 113. Sargent, Gard. & For.
vol. i. (1888) p. 221, fig. 39. Decne in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris. Sér. U1.
vol. ii. p. 40. Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxvi. (1889) p. 83.
Franch. Pl. David, p, 205.

8. ay Bunge in Mém. Sav. Etr. Pétersh. vol. ii. (1835) p. 116 (non

illd.).

Syringa oblata is so closely allied to S. vulgaris, t. 183,
that Prof. Sargent (Gard. & Forest, l.c.) who has given a
good vesumé of the characters of the Chinese species of
the genus, says that it is, perhaps, a geographical variety
of that plant. He points out as differences, its thicker
leaves, its flowering twelve days later, and the leaves
turning a dark russet-red in autumn. Before, however,
accepting this view, it is necessary to compare the fruits
and seeds of the two plants, of which those of S. oblata
are as yet unknown to me.

Fortune was the introducer of S. oblata into Kurope.
He found it in a garden at Shanghai. Some years later
the Abbé David procured specimens from a garden in
Peking; and more recently it has been collected in a wild
state in Western Kansu by Potanin, and at Moukden, in
Shingking, by the Rev. J. Webster. A plant of it was
obtained by the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1899, from Mr,
Lemoine’s Nurseries of Nancy. It flowered in the
Temperate House in April of this year. 3

Novemser Ist, 1901.

Descr.—A nearly glabrous shrub, eight to ten feet high.
Leaves not fully developed till flowering time, rhomboidal-
ovate or orbicular, two to three and a half inches in dia-_
meter, cuspidately acute or acuminate, rather coriaceous, ;
green, with often reddish margins, base rounded or openly —
cordate, russet red on maturing; petiole one half to one —
inch long. flowers in a shortly peduncled, broadly oblong
or globose, dense-flowered thyrsus, very shortly pedicelled, -
branches, pedicels, and calyces puberulous. Calyx one-—
tenth of an inch long, cleft nearly to the middle into four |
unequal, ovate-lanceolate, acute lobes. Corolla pale lilac, —
tube about half an inch long, glabrous or slightly
glandular ; limb two-thirds of an inch broad; lobes flat —
or slightly concave, orbicular or broadly elliptic. Fruit |
unknown.—J. D. H,

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Tas, 7808,
EUCALYPTUS GUNNI,
Var. MONTANA.

Native of Tasmania and Victoria.

Nat. Ord. Myrtack#.—Tribe LeprosPpERME.

Genus Eucatyrtus, L’her. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 707.)

Evucatyrtus (Strongylanthera) Gunnit; arbor altitudine varia nunc valde
elata, glaberrima, trunci cortice fragili inferne ruguloso superne ramo-
rumque levi, ramis patulis, foliis alternis petiolatis ovatis v. ovato-
lanceo!atis acuminatis rectis rigidis utrinqne pallide viridibus basi
acuminatis cuneatisve, nervis glandulisque obscuris, primariis oppositis
sessilibus rotundatis pruinosis, umbellis axillaribus lateralibusque
3-pluri-floris subsessilibus v. pedicellatis, calycis tubo ad 3—-} poll. longo
obovoideo v. turbinato, margine acuto, operculo tubo maulto breviore
hemispherico vel conico et umbonato, filamentis 3-7 poll. longis alabastro
inflexis, antheris brevibus oblongis obovatisve rimis elongatis dehiscenti-
bus, stylo brevi, capsula pyriformi truncata ore paullo constricta tereti
3-5-loculari margine angusto, valvis brevibus deltoideis leviter immersia,
seminibus inappendiculatis.

Var. montana; arbor parva, foliis ad 2 poll. longis, umbellis paucifloris,
E. Gunnii, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol, iii. (1844) p. 499 ; FI.
Tasman. vol. i. p. 134, t. 27. Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. iii. p. 246. F,
Muell. Fucalyptogr. Dec. iv.; Key Syst. Vict. Pl.i. 240. E. ligustrina,
pe in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. vol. iv. (1859) p. 134 (non D.C.). ‘Lab. nostr.

Var. elata ; arbor elata, foliis longioribus, umbellis plurifloris. EB. Stuartiana,
F. Muell. ex Mig. lc. vol. iv. (1859) p. 131; Hucalyptogr. Dec. iv. 1.
persicifolia, Mig. l.c. p..137 (non Ivdd.). HE. Baneriana, Mig. lc. p. 137
(non Schau.) K. falcifolia, Mig. lc. p. 136 (partim.) E. acervula, Hoo.
f. Fl. Tasman. vol. i. p. 135 (non Sieh). E. Gannii, F. Muell. Fragment.
vol. ii. p. 62 (non Hook. f.).

The species of Hucalyptus are notoriously variable, and
difficult of discrimination. . Gunnit forms no exception,
and has given rise to a difference of opinion as to its
limits of variation between Mr. Bentham and Baron
Mueller, both able monographers of the genus. The
species was discovered by myself in 1840, forming a
forest of small trees in a swampy soil at elevations of
three thousand to four thousand feet in the centre of
Tasmania, where it was known to stock-keepers as yielding
abundantly an agreeable sap; and hence called cider-tree
or swamp-gum. This Tasmanian mountain form was sub-
sequently found in the Victorian Alps, on the summit of the
' DecemBer lst, 1901,

Baw-Baw mountains, by Mueller, at an elevation of five
thousand feet. It is characterized by its small stature,
leaves about two inches long, and three- to four-flowered,
shortly peduncled umbels. In 1859 Miquel published an
allied species, H. Stwartiana, inhabiting low levels, charac-
terized by its great size, attaining two hundred and
fifty feet in height, longer leaves, more slender pedun-
cles, with more numerous flowers in the umbels. It is
the H. Gunnti of Mneller’s Fragmenta cited above, the
E. acervula of my “ Flora Tasmanica ” (not of Sieber), and
has other synonyms. Bentham retains both species, but
Mueller, being informed by Mr. Abbot, of Tasmania, a
very competent observer, that H. Gunnii, in descending
from the mountains to low levels, passes gradually into
ff. Stuartiana, has united the two, and in so doing has
greatly added to the geographical range of the species,
for the Stuartiana form not only ranges over Tasmania,
but from Lake Bonney and Quichen Bay, in South
Australia, to Gipp’s Land in Victoria, and to Bathurst
Plains and Two-fold Bay in New South Wales.

E. Gunnii is the only species that has withstood the
climate of the east of England. A small tree of it
(formerly misnamed L. polyanthemos) stood for many years
on a mound by the pond opposite the Palm House, in the
Royal Gardens, Kew, where it was cut almost to the
ground by severe cold in several winters, but as often sent
up from the trunk one or more branches from ten feet to
twenty feet high. A specimen in my garden, near Sun-
ningdale, at an elevation of about two hundred feet, is
now thirty feet high. It has suffered severely by frosts,
but has survived them. In the West of England and of
Scotland it is quite hardy. As a species it is remarkable
for the obscure development of oil glands, and faint odour
of the foliage, which is hence browsed upon in Australia
by cattle and sheep. Mueller gives several Colonial names
for it, besides that under which I knew it, as Red gum-
tree of Tasmania, Gumtop-tree of Sealer’s Cove, and
But-But, or Apple-scented Gum. The specimen here
figured is taken from the plant that flowered in the
Temperate House at Kew.

Descr.—A rather slender tree, variable in height, from
twenty feet to thirty feet in the mountains of Tasmania,

to two hundred and fifty feet in the low levels ; bark rather
rough, flakeing. Leaves or young plants opposite, sessile,
ovate, very glaucous ; on old plants petioled, ovate-oblong
to lanceolate, three inches to four inches long, acute,
coriaceous, pale green on both surfaces; base acute, with
the sides equal, or nearly so; nerves and oil glands very
obscure. Peduncles solitary, axillary, short, stout, sub-
terete, one- to three-flowered in the mountain form,
longer, and four- to ten-flowered in the lowland. Calya-
tube urn-shaped, turbinate or obovoid, tapering at the
base, one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch long. Oper-
culum much shorter than the calyx-tube, hemispheric
or conical and umbonate. /ilaments about as long as
the calyx-tube, inflexed in bud; anthers short, with long
slits. Style short. Capsule pyriform, terete ; mouth trun-
cate, slightly constricted, margins acute; three- to five-
celled; valves short, deltoid, incurved. Seeds inappendi-
culate.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1 and 2, calycine cup and operculum: enlarged; 3, umbel with
unexpanded flowers, and 4, with expanded flowers of var. elata, of nat. size.

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Tas. 7809.

IMPATIENS psrrractna.
Native of Burma.

Nat. Ord. GerantacEz.—Tribe BaLtsaMINEx.

Genus Impatiens, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 277.)

Impatiens (Uniflore) psittacina; annua, erecta, foliosa, ramulis teretibus
coloratis, foliis alternis breviter petiolatis ovatis argute serrulatis, dentibus
eglandulosis, basi rotundatis subtus ad insertionem petioli glandulis 2
clavellatis erectis instructis, petiolo basi eglanduloso, floribus axillaribus
solitariis 2 poll. longis pallide lilacinis roseo et kermesino pictis, pedi-
cello pollicari decurvo basi v. supra basin bracteolis 1 v. 2 minutis
subulatis instructo, sepalis 2 herbaceis oblongo-rutundatis, vexillo orbicu-
lari 3 poll. lato emarginato concavo ecostato pallide roseo, alis 14 poll.
longis lobo basilari rotundato concavo erecto terminali paullo longiore
recurvo oblique oblongo apice rotundato roseo fasciato, labello amplo
incurvo conico-campanulato albo dorso kermesino basi in calear breve
uncinato-incurvum kermesinum abrupte constricto, filamentis elongatis
gracilibus decurvis antheris brevibus, ovario elongato.

The Cockatoo Balsam.

In the absence of fruit, which did not ripen in the plant
at Kew, I am unable to determine the affinity of this
strikingly beautiful Balsam. It is described by Mr.
Hildebrand, its discoverer in the Shan States of Upper
Burma, as a pretty, compact plant, from one and a half
feet to two and a half feet high, covered with flowers
which resemble a Cockatoo suspended bya string from the
shoulders, whence its name. I find no specimen at all
resembling it in the Kew Herbarium, or in that of the
Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, Calcutta, of which the
Balsams have been entrusted to me for study and verifica-
tion. Unfortunately good collections of the Balsams of
Burma have never been made, and those that have been col-
lected (about twenty species are known to me) are mostly
dried without sufficient care. Sir Dietrich Brandis, who
spent much time on forest duties in Burma, tells me that
the genus swarms in that country, and that a rich harvest
remains for a botanist who will devote his attention to
them.

I, psittacina was raised from seed presented to the Royal

DecemBER Ist, 1901.

Gardens in 1899 by A. H. Hildebrand, Hsq., C.I.E.; it
flowered in a stove in October, 1900. The flowers assume
a blue colour on fading.

Descr.—An erect, much-branched, leafy herb. Stem
and branches rather stout, terete, coloured. Leaves two
to three inches long, ovate, acuminate, serrulate, base
rounded, with two clavate, erect glands on the under-
surface at the point of attachment of the petiole which is
eglandular. Flowers axillary, solitary, two inches long,
pendulous from an arching peduncle an inch long, which
bears one or two minute setaceous bracteoles, near, or
above the base. Sepals two, orbicular-oblong, obtuse,
green. Standard orbicular, concave, pale rose-coloured,
two-thirds of an inch broad. Wings one and a half inches
long ; basal lobe orbicular, concave, erect ; terminal longer,
obliquely oblong, recurved, suffused and streaked with
red. Lip as long as the wings, conico-campanulate, in-
curved, narrowed at the base into a short, hooked spur,
white with an irregular dash of bright carmine on the
convex surface towards the base; mouth large, with an
obtuse apex.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, undersurface of base of leaf, showing the glands; 2, wing-petal;
8, stamens; 4, young pistil :—all enlarged.

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SPIRAA MILLeFouium.
Native of California.

Nat. Ord. Rosacka.—Tribe Sprrmex.
Genus Srirxa, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 611.)

Srirza (Chamebatia) Millefoliwm; fruticulus foliosus, ereetus, ramosus,
totus petalis exceptis glandulosus et pilis stellatis pubescens, ramis
ramulisque robustis, foliis sparsis et versus apices ramulorum fasciculatis
subsessilibus linearibus lineari-oblongis v. ovato-lanceolatis 2-3 poll.
longis 3-1 poll. latis pinnatis, segmentis creberrimis lineari-oblongis
obtusis crenato-lobulatis supra saturate viridibus subtus pallidis,
stipulis linearibus integerrimis, floribus in paniculas terminales erectas
ramulosas densifloras dispositis breviter pedicellatis 4-3 poll. latis, brac-
teolis oblongis, calycis tubo hemispherico v. turbinato, lobis erectis
ovatis obtusis v. subacutis, petalis orbiculatis albis retusis calycis lobis
duplo longioribus, filamentis brevibus, carpellis 5 pilosis 6-8-ovulatis,
stylis gracilibus glabris, seminibus ;',—-4 poll. longis.

8. Millefolium, Torr. in Pacif. Rail. Rep. vol. iv. (1856) p. 83, t. 5. Coulter
in Hayd. Rep. 1872, p. 764. S. Watson, Pl. Wheeler, p. 8. Brew. §
Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 170. W. J. B. in Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. ii,
p. 237, fig. 72. Micheli in Rev. Hortic. 1900, p. 514, fig. 233. Sargeant,
Gard. & For. vol. ii. (1889) p. 508, fig. 137. ;

Chamebatiaria Millefolium, Maxim. in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. vi. (1879)
p- 225. Ooulter, Man. Bot. Rocky Mt. Region, p. 78.

Chamebatia (Sphalm. pro Chamebatiaria) foliolosa, Newberry in Pacif. Rail.
Rep. vol. vi. (1873) p. 73.

The Spirxa here figured differs much in habit from its
congeners, and is remarkable for emitting an odour of
creosote. It was discovered in West Arizona, in 1853,
by Dr. J. M. Bigelow, and has since been collected on
the Sierra Nevada of California, at ten thousand feet
elevation, in latitude 36° 30’ N., in 8. Utah, and as far
north as W. Wyoming Territory, but does not appear to
extend further north on the Sierra Nevada, or south along
the Rocky Mountains of Colorado than the positions
here given. Its resemblance in foliage to Chamebatia
foliosa, Benth., t. 5171, also a native of California, is very
striking.

The specimen of S. millefolium here figured, which is
from a bush three feet high, was raised in the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew, from seeds sent by Professor

DecemBkR Ist, 1901.

Sargent from the Arnold Arboretum, near Boston, U.S.A.,
in 189]. It flowered in the open air in July, 1901.

Deser.—A stout, erect shrub, covered with glandular
hairs and a minute stellate pubescence. Leaves two inches
to three inches long, scattered or crowded towards the
ends of the branchlets, sessile, linear-oblong or ovate-
lanceolate, very closely pinnatisect, rhachis stout ; pinnules
linear, obtuse, very dark green above, pale beneath, pinna-
tifid; lobes short, obtuse, pale green beneath. Stipules
linear, quite entire. Flowers crowded in erect, terminal,
branching panicles, the lower branches of which are sub-
tended by leaves, very shortly pedicelled, one half to
two-thirds of an inch broad. Calyz-tube hemispheric or
turbinate; lobes ovate, obtuse or sub-acute. Petals orbi-
cular, white. Filaments short, anthers yellow. Carpels
hairy, with glabrous styles, six- to eight-ovuled. Seeds
about one-tenth of an inch long.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, unexpanded flower and bracteoles ; 2, stellate hairs; 3 and 4, stamens ;
5, pistil :—all enlarged,

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ME GACLINIUM tevcornmacuts.
Native of Lagos.

Nat. Ord. OrcHipEz.—Tribe EpIpENDRE.
Genus Mxcaciinium, Lindl.; (Benth. §& Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 505.)

Mucaciinium leucorhachis; rhizomate valido repente, pseudobulbis 2-3-polli-
caribus ovoideo-oblongis compresso-4-gonis levibus 2-foliatis, foliis 4-7
poll. longis 1-1} poll. latis linearibus v. anguste oblanceolatis obtusis
crasse coriaceis lete viridibus rubro marginatis, pedunculis ascendentibus .
subfalcatis 4-6 poll. longis vaginis remotis spathaceis appressis 4
poll. longis brunneis instructis, rhachi florifera 3-5-pollicari falcata
ensiformi 4-3 poll. lata leviter compressa alba multiflora, inter-
nodiis ad ; poll. longis, bracteis distichis } poll. longis patenti-
reflexis late ovatis acutis membranaceis brunneis persistentibus, floribus
distichis breviter pedicellatis 4 poll. longis decurvis velutinis croceis,
sepalo dorsali erecto lineari-lanceolato, lateralibus brevioribus oblique
late ovatis subacutis, petalis sepalo dorsali equilongis linearibus
erectis falcatis, labello parvo lingueformi recurvo basin versus utrinque
fimbriato, columna latiuscula apice angustata bidentata.

M. leucorhachis, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1891, p. 198; et in Dyer Fl. Trop.
Afr. vol. vii. p. 37.

The genus Megaclinium is wholly African; it is closely
allied to Bulbophyllum, differing chiefly in the dilated,
flattened rhachis of the inflorescence, distichous flowers,
and in the dorsal sepal being much longer than the lateral.
Twenty species are described in the “Flora of Tropical
Africa,” of which three have been previously figured in this
work, namely, M. maximum, Lindl. Gen. § Sp. Orch. p. 47 ;
(M. purpuratum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. vi. p.
128, tab. nostr. 5936) in which the lateral sepals are nearly
as long as the dorsal, M. Lindleyi, Rolfe (M. maximum,
Lindl. in Bot. Reg. tab. 1959, tab. nostr. 4028, and M.
minutum, Rolfe (tab. nostr. 7314). All are natives of
West Tropical Africa.

M. leucorhachis was sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in
1896, from Lagos, in the Gulf of Guinea, by Mr. H.
Millen, Curator of the botanical station in that colony.
It flowered in a tropical house in April of this year.

Descr.—Rootstock stout, creeping. Pseudobulbs two
inches to three inches long, obovoid-oblong, compressed,

DreemBer Ist, 1901,

smooth. Leaves two, four to seven inches long, one to
one and a quarter inch broad, linear or narrowly oblanceo-
late, obtuse, coriaceous, bright green, margined with red.
Peduncle ascending, bearing brown, distant, appressed,
spathaceous bracts, half an inch long. Spike three to five
inches long, by a third to half an inch broad, falcate,
- compressed, many-flowered, white ; internodes one-sixth of
an inch long. Bracts a quarter of an inch long, spreading,
and reflexed, broadly ovate, acute, membranous, brown.
Flowers one-third of an inch long, shortly pedicelled,
decurved, velvety, yellow. Dorsal sepal erect, linear-
lanceolate, lateral shorter, broadly ovate, sub-acute.
Petals as long as the dorsal sepal, erect, linear, falcate.
Lip small, tongue-shaped, recurved, fimbriate towards the
base.—J, D. H.

Fig. 1, flower; 2, lip and column; 3, front view of column; 4 and 5, pol-
linia :—adl enlarged.

INDEX

To Vol. LVII. of the Tatrp Serins, or Vol. CXXVILI. of
the whole Work.

7757 Agave Peacockii. 7769 Kalanchoe farinacea.
7756 Allium Ostrowskianum. 7753 Lhotskya ericoides,
7768 Amorphophallus leonensis. 7804 Liparis tricallosa.

7796 Arctotis Gumbletoni. 7774 Lonicera pyrenaica.
7779 Beschorneria Wrightii. 7776 Manettia bicolor.

7787 Bulbophyllum grandiflorum. 7766 Masdevallia deorsum.
7780 Calanthe madagascariensis. 7811 Megaclinium leucorhachis.
7800 Calorhabdos cauloptera. 7775 Mesembryanthemum calami-
7783 Chelonopsis moschata. forme.

7799 Cineraria pentactina, 7763 Modecca senensis.

7767 Cladrastis tinctoria. 7802 Musa oleracea.

7764 Coelogyne Veitchii. | 7758 Neillia Torreyi.*

7777 Crinum rhodanthum. 7781 Nymphea flavo-virens.
7778 ~— do. do. 7794 Oxalis dispar.

7785 Cyanotis hirsuta. 7788 Peonia lutea,

7807 Cyrtopodium palmifrons. 7773 Pyrus alnifolia.

7760 Echidnopsis Bentii. 7755 ~=,,_~_‘tianschanica,
7792 Epidendrum osmanthum. 7782 Rhododendron ciliicalyx.
7808 Eucalyptus Gunnii. 7770 Rosa Fedtschenkoana,
7797 Exorrhiza Wendlandiana, 7761 _~=—«s,_:~—«sSeraphini.

7791 Gladiolus sulphureus. 7801 Rubus palmatus,

7798 Habenaria Lugardii. 7754 Sarcochilus lilacinus.
7789 Helichrysum Gulielmi. 7303 Senecio magnificus.

7752 Hibiscus Manihot. 7810 Spirea Millefolium.
7762 Hymenocallis schizostephana. | 7771 Stapelia nobilis.
7786 Impatiens chrysantha. 7790 Strobilanthes gossypinus,
7809 » Psittacina. 7806 Syringa oblata.

7795 = Thomsoni. 7805 Trevoria Chloris.

7784 Iris chrysantha. _ 7759 Veronica glauca.

7793 ,, Tauri. 7772 Wyethia mollis.

7765 Kalanchoe Bentii. |
# N. malvacea in postsoript.

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