| CURTIS'S - - BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, ea te: COMPRISING THE Plants of the Ropal Gardens of Kew, AND OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN ; WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS; BY SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D., C.B., K.C.S.L, ¥.B.S., F.L.8., Erc., D.C.L, OXON., LL.D. CANTAB., CORRESPONDENT OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE. VOL, «DL OF THE THIRD SBERIBS: (Or Vol. CXXI. of the Whole Work.) RAAA AAA AA Ae ** Nor is the mead unworthy of thy foot, Full of frosh verdure and unnumbered flowers, The negligence of Nature wide and wild.” Tomson, eee LONDON : L REEVE & CQO,, Publishers to the Home, Oolonial, and Indian Governments, 6, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1895. [All rights reserved. } . Mc. Bot. Garden, =<": a TO HARRY BOLUS, £8Q., F.L.S. Sherwood, Kenilworth, Cape Town. My pear Mr. Botus, It affords me great pleasure to offer you the dedi- cation of the 121st Volume of the Borantcan Macazine, _.in.acknowledgment of the great service you have rendered “ to South African Botany, and especially by your masterly ‘ works on the “Orchids of the Cape Peninsula,” and your ’ © Teones Orchidearum Austro-Africanarum.” I have further to beg your acceptance of it as a memento of our friend- ship. Believe me, Sincerely yours, J. D, HOOKER. TeE Care, SUNNINGDALE. Dec, 1st, 1895. 7392 Vincent Brooks Day &SonFap Tas. 7392. TALAUMA Hopesont. Native of the Hastern Himalaya. Nat. Ord. MaGnouiacea.—Tribe MaGnouiea. Genus Tatauma, Juss.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 18.) Tatauma Hodgsoni; arbor 50-60-pedalis, foliis amplis obovato-oblongis obtusis v. cuspidatis marginibus subsinuatis supra creberrime reticulatis subtus glaucis, petiolo bipollicari, floribus amplis solitaris terminalibus, pedunculo crasso 1—-2-annulato, alabastro ovoideo, bracteis caducis, sepalis 3-5-obovato-oblongis obtusis extus late cceruleo-purpurascentibus, petalis ad 6 sepalis consimilibus albis fructu magno ovoideo, carpellis subtetra- . gonis acute rostratis, rachi profunde excavato foveolis rotundato- quadratis. T. Hodgsoni, Hook. f. & Thoms. Fl. Indica, p. 75, et in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 40. Hook. f. Iilustr. Himal, Pl. t.6, Gamble, List of Trees of Dar- jeeling, p. 3, & Manual of Indian Timbers, p. 5. Talauma Hodgsoni is one of the noblest of the flowering forest trees of the Himalaya, a country which, considering its narrow area, contains perhaps more handsome magno- haceous trees than does any other of equal dimensions in India, if not of the world. Its forests produce Magnolia Campbellii, Hf. & T. (Tab. 6793), globosa, Hf. & T.; ptero- carpa, Roxb., Manglietia insignis, BL. ; Michelia Catheartii, © Hf. & T., M. Champaca, Linn., M. excelsa, Bl., M. lanu- ginosa, Wall. (Tab. 6179) and M. Kisopa, Ham. Of these the prince is, no doubt, Magnolia Campbellii, and next to it is Talawuma Hodgsoni, of which I was the fortunate dis- coverer in 1848, when I found it forming forests in the valleys of Sikkim at an elevation of 5000 to 6000 ft., and it was subsequently gathered by Dr. Thomson and myself in the Khasia hills. As a timber tree 7’. Hodgsoni is not of muchuse. Mr. Gamble, in his valuable “‘ Trees, Shrubs, and large Climbers of the Darjeeling District,” says of the wood, that it is white, but in very old trees quite black, especially the wood of the roots; as also that it is used for the handles of weapons and tools, and for other small-wood purposes. Its specific name commemorates the services to the Literature, Arts, and Sciences of India of my late dis- JaNUARY Ist, 1895. A tinguished friend, the Orientalist, Brian H. Hodgson, LL.D., F.R.S., formerly Minister at the Nepal Court, my host for many months at Darjeeling, who passed away only last year at the great age of ninety-four. Two plants of 7. Hodgsoni were received at Kew from the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, about twenty years ago, and were grown in pots in the Palm House. They were subsequently removed to the Temperate House, and planted out there, where the tallest is now 25 ft. high, with leaves 2 ft. long. Mr. Watson informs me that the plant flowered in a sunny position, and that the flowers last but a few hours after fully opening. They are at first white, then change to creamy-yellow, before fading to a dark brown. My attention was first directed to the tree in the dense Sikkim forests by seeing the petals in the ground, which resembled hen’s eggs, and had a spicy fragrance. Deser.—An erect evergreen tree, with a clean trunk off 30 to 40 feet high, and three to six feet in girth, flowering and leafing together. Leaves 8-20 inches long, by 4-9 broad, obovate-oblong, cuspidate or obtuse, coriaceous, glabrous, margins waved; costa and nerves strong; nervules closely reticulate, bright green above, pale, and more or less glaucous beneath; petiole 1-2 inches long. — Flowers solitary, terminal, fragrant, 6-7 inchesin diameter _ across the outspread sepals; peduncle 1-14 in. long, stout, green, ringed by the caducous bracts ; buds about 3 inches long, ovoid. Sepals 3-5,obovate-oblong, concave, thick and fleshy, dark vinous purple externally; suffused internally with pink. Petals about six, like the petals, but all white or faintly rose-colrd. towards the tips. Stamens numerous, — on a conical torus; filaments very short, anthers linear, — red. fruit ovoid, woody, four to six inches long, muri- cate, formed of numerous sharply beaked dehiscent carpels, which fall away from a deeply pitted woody central column. Seeds one or two in each carpel, orbicular, compressed ; outer coat of testa fleshy, red—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Apex of peduncle with stamens and carpels, some of the latter removed to show the convex receptacle:—of the nat. size; 2, stamens; 3, carpel; 4, the same laid open, showing the ovules, al/ enlarged; 5, reduced views of plant in the temperate house, Kew. 3S re of Brooks Daye" Vincent Vi TAR. 4005. ACIDANTHERA zquinoctiauis. Native of Sierra Leone. Nat. Ord. IntpEa2.—Tribe Ix1mz. Genus ActpantuErRa, Hochst.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 706.) ACIDANTHERA xegninoctialis ; cormo magno, depresso-globoso tunicis exteriori- bus scariosis brunneis fibris parallelis, caule stricto erecto elongato, foliis pluribus ensiformibus superpositis pedalibus vel sesquipedalibus vaginato, spicis distichis laxissimis simplicibus 3—6-floris, spathe valvA exteriori lanceolata elongata foliacea, perianthii tubo cylindrico apice curvato, limbi segmentis ovatis cuspidatis late imbricatis albis basi purpureo maculatis flore expanso horizantaliter patulis, genitalibus arcuatis limbo paulo brevioribus, fructu oblongo-trigono. A. equinoctialis, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xvi. p. 160; Handb. Irid. p. 188. Gladiolus equinoctialis, Herb. inedit. This is the tallest and most showy of all the known species of Acidanthera, a genus which holds an interme- diate position between Gladiolus and Ivia. The present — species for half a century has been known only from a drawing of the spike by Dean Herbert, contained in a bound quarto volume of his sketches in the Lindley library. It was rediscovered in fruit in 1892 by Mr. Scott-Elliot, in the crevices of bare gneiss rocks, near the summit of Sugarloaf Mountain, Sierra Leone, at an elevation of about three thousand feet above sea-level. In this state it was not recognized, and was distributed in his dried collection as No. 3904. In 1893 a quantity of corms was sent home by Captain Donovan, which was handed over to the Royal Gardens at Kew. ‘Those which received greenhouse treatment failed to flower, but in a warm conservatory they found themselves quite at home, and came into flower in the month of November. Seven- teen species of the genus are now known. One inhabits Mount Kilimanjaro, two the mountains of Abyssinia, one of them extending to Zambesi land, and all the others belong to different regions of the Cape Colony. Deser.—Corm large, depresso-globose; outer tunics Scariose, brown, with parallel fibres. Stem stout, stiffly Janvary Ist, 1895, a2 erect, three or four feet long. Leaves many, superposed, ensiform, a foot or a foot and a half long, glabrous, strongly ribbed. Flowers three to six in a very lax, ‘simple, distichous spike; outer spathe-valves lanceolate, foliaceous, three or four inches long in the lower flowers. Perianth tube slender, cylindrical, curved at the top, five or six inches long ; limb two inches in diameter; segments ovate, cuspidate, much imbricated, white, with a purple spot at the base. Stamens contiguous, arcuate, rather shorter than the segments of the perianth. Capsule oblong-trigonous, an inch long.—J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, Front view of anther; 2, back view of anther; 3, stigmatic lobes and upper part of style; exzlarged; 4, whole plant much reduced. N’S. del JN Fitch ith. Tas. 7394. LONICERA ALBERTI. Native of Hastern Turkestan. ‘Nat. Ord. CarrriroLtiace&.—Tribe Lonicer2&. Genus Lonicera, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5.) Lonicrra (Xylosteum) Alberti; fruticulus humilis, rigidus, ramosissimus, glaberrimus, foliis sessilibus linearibus obtusis subtus albicantibus, basi seepissime dentibus acutis 1 v. 2 utrinque auctis, floribus ramulis laterali- bus 2-nis, bracteolis in involucrum brevem stipitatum 4-lobum connatis, lobis rotundatis, ovariis liberis ovoideis, calycis dentibus 5 inzqualibus obtusis, corollz roses tubo cylindracen, lobis tubo intus piloso brevioribus subzequalibus ovatis obtusis patentibus, staminibus breviter exsertis, stigmate spathulato recurvo baccis liberis. L. Alberti,’Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop, vol. vii. (1880), p.550, and in Gartenflor. * (1881), p. 370 and 387, t. 1065. Lonicera Alberti is typical of a considerable number of the Xylosteum section of Honeysuckles that inhabit the dry mountains of Central Asia from the Altai to the Himalaya, where they form stunted, intricately branched shrubs. Inthe Himalaya there are no fewer than eighteen such species, of which hardly anyoccur below 6000 ft., many are confined to elevations between 10,000 and 12,000 ft., and one ascends to above 16,000 ft. in Tibet, north of Sikkim. J. tomentella, figured at t. 6486, is an example of one of the larger of the group. For the most part they have nothing to recommend them horticulturally, and their habit and habitat are all they have to interest a botanist. L. Alberti is the most attractive of those known to me, from its abundance of bright, rose-colrd. flowers, and sweet, though faint odour. It is one of the many discoveries of Dr. Albert Regel, a distinguished explorer of Western Turkestan, who, during arduous and often perilous services in Central Asia, made large collections of living and dried plants for his father, Dr. de Regel, the late eminent Director of the Imperial Gardens of St. Petersburgh. A plant of it was sent to Kew by Dr. Regel January Ist, 1895. from those gardens in 1880, which flowered in May, and is, as might be expected, perfectly hardy. Deser.—A small, much-branched, quite glabrous shrub 2 ft. high; branches divaricate in native specimens, less so in cultivated, bark dark. Leaves 3-11 in. long, sessile, linear, obtuse, very pale beneath, quite entire, or with one or two acute teeth on each side, near the base. Flowers in pairs, terminating short lateral branches, fragrant; bracts short, rounded, connate into a 4-lobed stipitate cup, the ovaries quite free. Calyzx-tube ovoid, contracted at the tip; lobes 4, short, obtuse, unequal. Corolla glabrous, rose-red ; tube cylindric, hairy within, }-} in. long; limb 4 in. diam., lobes equal, ovate, obtuse. Stamens shortly exserted. Stigma spathulate, recurved.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Top of flowering branch and flowers; 2, ovary and style; 3 and 4, stamens :—A// enlarged. 7895 Tas. 7395. ACACIA sPADICIGERA. Native of Central America and Cuba. Nat. Ord. Lecuminos".—Tribe AcAcIcEa. Acacia (Gummiferss) spadicigera; frutex rigidus, ramosus, stipulis spine- scentibus demum maximis 1-1} pollicaribus inflatis corneiformibus brunneis rectis curvisve basi connatis, pinnis 4-8 jugis, foliolis 15-20 -jugis lineari-oblongis obtusis, puberulis costa nunc inappendiculata, nune appendicula fusiformi carnosula caduca apice instructa, spicis axillaribus solitariis binisve crasse pedunculatis cylindraceis obtusis densifloris, pedunculo basi involucellato, floribus minimis aureis sessilibus densissime congestis squamulis longe stipitatis peltatis immixtis, calycis urceolati lobis brevibus obtusis, corolla calyce paullo longiore 5-dentata, staminibus breviter exsertis, legumine sessile oblongo recto v. falcato. A. spadicigera, Cham. et Schl. in Linnea, vol. v. (1830) p. 594. Benth. in her Linn. Soc. vol. xxx. p. 514, Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. vol. i. p. 355. A. cornigera, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iv. 1080, exel. syn. Ait. Hort. Kew, Ed. I, vol. ili, p. 441. A. Rich. Fl. Cub. vol. i. p. 462. A.? cornigera, DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 460, Hcl. Syn. Mimosa cornigera, Jacq. Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist. p. 266, The plant here figured is one of two closely allied species of Acacia, A. spadicigera and A. sphxrocephala, remarkable for their enormous horn-like stipules. Both are included under Mimosa cornigera, Linn. (Acacia cornigera, Willd.), which was founded on the Arbor cornigera of Hernandez, ** De Historia Plantarum Nove Hispanie”’ (p.86), published in 1651, who unfortunately gives no description of the plant, only two rude woodcuts of the leaves and stipules, with a brief account of the latter forming the home of a stinging ant. The history of the twin Acacie cornigere is horticulturally interesting, one of them having been in cultivation previous to 1692, in the Royal Gardens of Hampton Court, under the names of the Horn’d Acacia, or Cuckold tree, and of which a leafing branch with stipules was figured by Pluke- net in the “ Phytographia”’ in 1696, as Acacia Americana - + + aculeis cornua bovina referentibus. Plukenet does not describe the flowers, but cites Hernandez’ plant as a JANUARY Ist, 1895, synonym, relying, no doubt, on the similarity of the spines. ii the following year, 1697, Commelin, ** Hortus Medi- cus Amstelodamensis” (vol. i. p. 209, t. 207), figures an Arbor cornigera, and describes it as having a globose head of flowers (as in A. sphexrocephala) giving as the habitat Cuba and Mexico. He does not figure the flowers, but as he cites Breyn’s “ Prodomus Historiz Plantarum Rario- rum” (1680), in which the globose heads are mentioned, | he may have borrowed this particular from Breyn. Re- ferring to the latter work, I find a good description of his plant, flower, fruit, and seed, with a citation of Hernandez Arbor cornigera ; but he adds that Hermann had stated, on the authority of an English nobleman versed in Her-— baria, that his (Breyn’s) plant was not that of Hernandez; _ from which it may be surmised that the English nobleman, — knowing the Hampton Court plant, regarded it, and not— Breyn’s, as that of Hernandez. This would further render it probable that the Hampton Court plant was, if either, A, spadicigera. F In 1734 Seba, in his “ Thesaurus” (i. p. 218, t. 70, fe” 13) figures spines and leaves of an Acacia cornuta, and cites Recchus (the compiler of the Botanical chapters Hernandez) for it; giving also Hernandez’ native name, Hoitzmamaxatl, together with his description of the ants; &e. The figure answers to either species. He says 1b was sent to him by a friend in the East Indies, no doubt an error. : Linneus, in the “ Hortus Cliffortianus ” (1737, p. 908), under Mimosa aculeis alarum geminatis, cites for it Her- nandez, Plukenet, Breyn, and Commelin, with Mexico a0 Cuba as habitats, but unaccountably overlooks the de scription of the flowers given by the two last named authors. In 1753 the twins were in the Species Plantarum, included under Mimosa cornigera; all previous authorities, except ne being cited for it. ; | n 1763 Jacquin (* ist.”? p. 260) ficutind ie an Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist.” p Z spikes of yellow inod while overlooking his now, in *‘ Species first to refer Mim rnigera, Linn., as having cylindric orous flowers; and cites Commelin, description of globose heads. Willde-_ Plantarum ” (iv. 1080) was, I think, the ; osa cornigera, Linn. to Acacia, describipg » it as having flowers in cylindric spikes, and in this he is followed by De Candolle in the Prodromus, both authors citing Commelin, without looking at his description; I have found no work in which the two species were dis- criminated earlier than the 9th edition (Martyn’s, 1807) of Miller’s ‘‘Gardener’s Dictionary,” where one appears as Mimosa, n. 49, with ‘‘ flowers in cylindric spikes, yellow,” and the other, n. 44, with “ spikes globular white.” The latter, he says, was sent to Hurope in 1729, from Vera Cruz, but was cultivated at Hampton Court in 1690. Lastly, Chamisso and Schlechtendahl, in “ Linnea” (vol. v. 1830, p. 594) describe the two as Acacia spadicigera and A. spherocephala, names adopted by Bentham in his ex- haustive monograph of Acacia, and which will, no doubt, be retained; and that of A. cornigera, Willd., be sup- pressed, having regard to the fact that, by citing Com- melin, Willdenow virtually included both under it. Reverting to Hernandez’ figure or rather figures, for there are two, it is possible that they pourtray both species, their “horns” are identical; but the leaves of the right hand figure have short pinne, with fewer pinnules, as in A. spadicigera; those of the left hand one have pinnze twice as long, and very numerous pinnules, as in 4, spherocephala. Which the Hampton Court species may have been is doubtful. If Commelin’s description refers to it, it is A. spherocephala ; if the English noble- man’s opinion is worth anything, the plant was more pro- bably A. spadicigera. In conclusion, it must be remembered that there is a third Mexican Acacia, with similar horned stipules, namely, A. Hindsii, Benth., which differs from A, spadicigera in having very slender spikes of flowers. It may be one of Hernandez’s two plants. It is a native of the West Coast of Mexico, and hence less likely than the others to have been introduced at an early date. The plant from which the drawing of A. spadicigera is taken was received from M. Linden of Ghent in 1882. It is cultivated in a pot on ashelf in the Palm House, along with two allied species, A. sphxrocephala and A. Hindsii, both of which have large horn-like spines and fleshy appendages on the tips of the leaflets. Of these A. spherocephala has since flowered, and a figure of it has been prepared for this work. A. spadicigera flowered in May of last year, but produced no ovaries in any of the flowers examined. There are native specimens of it in the Kew Herbarium from Mexico, Central America, Panama, and St. Martha, in New Grenada. Far more interesting than the synonymy of these horned Acacias is the fact that when found they play a wonderful part in the economy of nature, by housing and feeding @ — tribe or tribes of ants which find their habitation in the | stipular thorns, and their food in the fleshy appendages 00 — the tips of the leaves; a hospitality which they repay. with — interest, by waging a successful war against the armies of leaf-cutting ants who would otherwise soon extirpate the — Acacias. This curious subject was carefully studied by the late observant Naturalist, Mr. Th. Belt, whose published | account of it is so interesting, that, feeling sure it will be welcome to the readers of the “ Botanical Magazine,” Is herewith extract it.—J. D. H. ‘These thorns are hollow, and are tenanted by ants — that make a small hole for their entrance and exit near one end of the thorn, and also burrow through the partl- tion that separates the two horns, so that one entrance serves for both. Here they rear their young, and in the wet season everyone of the thorns is tenanted; and hundreds of ants are to be seen running about, especially : over the young leaves. If one of these be touched, OF a branch shaken, the little ants (Pseudomyrma bicolor, — Guer.) swarm out from the hollow thorns, and attack the aggressor with jaws and sting. They sting severely, raising a little white lump that does not disappear in less_ than twenty-four hours. ** These ants form a most efficient standing army for the plant, which prevents not only the mammalia from browsing on the leaves, but delivers it from the attacks 0 : me more dangerous enemy—the leaf-cutting ants. so services the ants are not only securely houses ; = : sas i but are provided with a bountiful supply 1 | Sosa 0 secure their attendance at the right time a2 place, this food is so arranged and distributed as to effect that object with wonderful perfection. The leaves are Dr pinnate. At the base of each pair of leaflets, on the mid- rib is a crater-formed gland, which, when the leaves ar¢ young, secretes a honey-like fluid. Of this the ants are very fond, and they are constantly running about from one gland to another to sip up the honey as it is secreted. But this is not all; there is a still more wonderful pro- vision of more solid food. At the end of each leaflet there is, when the leaf first unfolds, a little yellow, pear-shaped body, united by a point, and the ants are then continually employed going from one to another examining them. When an ant finds one sufficiently advanced, it bites its small point of attachment; then, bending it down, it breaks it off, and bears it away to the nest. As these ripen successively, the ants are kept about the young leaf for some time after it unfolds ; and no caterpillar or larger animal could attempt to injure them without being attacked by the little warriors. The fruit-like bodies are about ,/, in. long, and are about 4 of the size of the ants ; so that the ant bearing one away is as heavily laden as a man bearing a large bunch of plantains. I think these facts show that the ants are really kept by the acacia as a standing army, to protect its leaves from the attacks of herbivorous mammals and insects, ‘The bull’s-horn thorn does not grow at the mines in the forest, nor are the small ants attending them found there. They seem specially adapted for the tree, and I have seen them nowhere else. Besides the Pseudomyrma, another ant lives on these Acacias; it is a small black species of Crematogaster, whose habits seem to be rather different from those of Pseudomyrma. It makes the holes of entrance to the thorns near the centre of one of each pair; and itis not so active as that species. It is also rather scarce; but when it does occur it occupies the whole tree, to the exclusion of the other. The glands on the Acacia are also frequented by a small species of wasp Polybia occidentalis). I sowed the seeds of the Acacia in my garden, and reared some young plants. Ants of many kinds were numerous ; but none of them took to the thorns for shelter, nor the glands and fruit-like bodies for food ; for, as I have already mentioned, the species that attend on the thorns are not found in the forest. The leaf-cutting ants attacked the young plants and defoliated them ; but I have never seen any of the trees out on the savannahs that are guarded by the Pseudomyrma touched by them, and have no doubt the Acacia is protected from them by its little warriors. The thorns, when they are first deve- loped, are soft, and filled with a sweetish, pulpy substance ; so that the-ant, when it makes an entrance into them, finds its new house full of food. It hollows this out, leaving ; only the hardened shell of the thorn. Strange to say, this — treatment seems to favour the development of the thorn, as it increases in size, bulging out towards the base ; whilst in my plants that were not touched by the ants, — the thorns turned yellow, and dried up into dead but pera sistent prickles. Iam not sure, however, that this may : not have been due to the habitat of the plant not sulting it. “These ants seem to lead the happiest of existences. — Protected by their stings, they fear no foe. Habitations — full of food are provided for them to commence house- — keeping with ; and cups of nectar and luscious fruits awalt — them every day. But there is a reverse to the picture. In the dry season, on the plains, the Acacie@ cease to_ grow. No young leaves are produced, and the old glands do not secrete honey. Then want and hunger overtake the ants that have revelled in luxury all the wet season; many of the thorns are depopulated, and only a few ants live through the season of scarcity. As soon, however, a3 — the first rains set in, the trees throw out numerous — vigorous shoots, and the ants multiply again with astonish- ing rapidity.”’—Belt., ‘The Naturalist in Nicaragua, p. 218 (1874). Fig. 1, Portion of leaf with pj le; § ; i ith bracts and male flowers :—Both enlarged, Se cies nipadeag hd elim: WS del. Nich Lak Tas. 7396. : CYRTOPODIUM virescens, Reichb. f. 6 Warm. = Native of Brazil. Nat. Ord. OncHIpExZ.—Tribe VanpvE&. Genus Crrtoropium, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 541, partim, Excl. Cyrtopera, Bl.). Cyrtoropium vivescens; pseudobulbis fusiformibus annulatis, foliis hyster- anthiis anguste lanceolatis acuminatis, scapo elato, vaginis remotis acutis, panicula multiflora, floribus basi dissitis, bracteis ovaria equanti- bus oblongis acutis rubro punctulatis, floribus breviter pedicellatis 1 poll. diam., sepalis late ovatis acutis petalisque concoloribus ovato-rotundatis primulino-virescentibus purpureo guttatis, labello sepalis breviore carno- sulo breviter unguiculato ambitu quadrato crenato-undulato sub- zequaliter 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus auriculeformibus rubro-purpureis, terminali 3-lobulato aureo rubro-guttato, disco inter lobos laterales cristis erectis crenatis aucto, columna mediocri pallida guttata. C. virescens, Reivhb. & Warm. in Reichb. f. Otia Botan. Hamb. p. 89. Warm. 6 rae Meddel. Nat. Fr. Kjobenh. (Symb. Fl. Bras.) 1884, p. 851, eet. es Of the American genus Cyrtopodiwm, about thirty species have been described, but few have been introduced into this country. Such as have been are very handsome plants, especially C. punctatum, Lindl., figured at t. 3507 of this work, wherein also are represented C. Woodfordii, Sims, t. 1814, and OC. Andersonii, Br. t. 1800, the type of the genus. All are terrestrial, pseudobulbous, and flower before leafing. In the ‘ Genera Plantarum” the genus Cyrtopera is erroneously merged’ in it, as pointed out under Plate 7330 of this work; the latter genus being referable to Eulophia, Br. — The only recorded locality for C. virescens is that where it was discovered by Warming, namely, Lagoa Santa in Brazil. The specimen here figured was obtained from Messrs. F. Sander & Co. of St. Albans, and flowered in awarm house in the Royal Gardens in December, 1¢93. It matured its leaves in May of the following year. Deser.—Pseudobulbs tufted, 8-4 inches long, fusiform, terete, pale green, with 4-6 narrow purple rings. Leaves about a foot long, by an inch broad, very narrowly lanceo- JANUARY Ist, 1895. : late, acuminate, plicate, bright green. Scape two to four ft. high, as thick as a goose-quill, green ; sheaths distant, acute. Racemes one to two ft. high, many-fid. ; pedicels very short, the lower sometimes two-fld.; bracts three- fourths to one inch long, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, as long as the ovary, the lowest green speckled with red-brown. lowers about an inch in diameter. Sepals ovate, acute, and rounded petals pale primrose- yellow, blotched with dark red. Lip fleshy, very shortly clawed, quadrate in outline, with crisped subcrenate margins, 8-lobed; lateral lobes ear-shaped, dark red; terminal 3-lobulate, golden-yellow with dark red spots, lobules rounded ; disk between the lateral lobes yellow, with erect, parallel, crenate, fleshy keels. Column rather stout, spotted. Anther 4-lobed; pollinia globose, sessile on a harrow, transverse membrane.—.J. D. H. 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Garden, EW 7397 pro or ga Mini Vincent Brooks Day é Son Ieap Tas. 7397. RICHARDIA Pentianpi. Native of Basutoland. Nat. Ord. AroipEa.—Tribe PHILODENDREA. Genus Ricuarpra, Kunth; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 982.) Ricuarpia Pentlandii; elata, foliis immaculatis ovato-cordatis caudato- acuminatis sinu aperto, lobis rotundatis, costa crassa, spatha crocea late infundibulari tertia parte laxe convoluta intus leviter rugulosa, ore expansa, apice abrupte recurvo subulato, marginibus recurvis, ima basi intus plaga atropurpurea picta. — R. Pentlandii, R. Whyte mss. Wats. in Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. ii. p. 123, and 1894, vol. i. p. 590. Of the eight recorded species of Richardia (all of which are African) five have now been figured in this magazine, namely, the original R. xthiopica, Kunth. (Calla xthiopica, tab. 832), CO. albo-maculata, Hook. (tab. 5140), C. hastata, Hook. (tab. 5176), C. melanoleuca (tab. 5765), and that here represented. These fall naturally into two groups, according as the leaves are cordate or hastate at the base. ‘lo the first of these belong R. xthiopica and Pent- landit ; to the latter R. albo-maculata, hastata, and melano- leuca. The differences in their spathes are well marked, that of xthiopica is white, narrow, with a long point; of Pentlandii as given above ; of albo-maculata, like xthiopica ; of hastata, greenish yellow, broadly open, with a long ‘point, and of melanoleuca white with a purple base, broad, quite open, or convolute, at the base only. ‘he spadixes of none afford good diagnostic characters. R. Pentlandii is much the largest leaved species, is the only one with a deeply gamboge yellow spathe within, which is much the largest and broadest of any. The other recorded Species are all imperfectly known, namely, R. angustiloba, : Schott, of Angola, R. Rehmaniana, Engl., and &. Elliotti- ana, Knigt (ex Wats. i Gard. Chron., July 80, 1892, p. 123), which may be a var. of albo-maculata. Feprvary Ist, 1895, For the following account of the introduction into Europe, and of the native country of Richardia Pentlandu I am indebted to the articles upon this plant by Mr Watson in the Gardener’s Chronicle cited above. He says, “This plant was introduced by Mr. Whyte, Pentland ' House, Lee, who flowered it in May, 1892, and exhibited it at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, when — it was awarded a First Class Certificate.’ Mr. Whyte wrote in June, 1892, “I did not import this plant, bub — about two years ago a friend gave me six tubers, and said : I should probably find a yellow-flowered one amongst — them. Two flowered last year, and were only of the ordinary type, the third is that which I have called h. Pentlandii, and I think there will be another of this, 0 of the other three. In May, 1892, Mr. E. H. Galpit,— F.L.S., a resident of Barberton, in South Africa, paid 4 _ visit to Kew, and brought with him six tubers of a yellow — flowered Richardia, whcih had been presented to him by — a gentleman in the Transvaal, who obtained them from — a Staats artilleryman, who got them from a Basuto chief whilst on active service. One of those (that here figured) is now (May, 1894), in flower at Kew, and proves to be identical with Mr. Whyte’s R. Pentlandii. 4 Descr.—Leaves a foot long, subsagittately ovate-cordate, _ caudate-acuminate, broadest across the rounded basal lobes, which are separated by a rounded sinus, dark green above, unspotted ; costa very stout; nerves slender F petiole two feet long, terete, quite glabrous, dark greet Pedunele longer than the leaves, dark green, quite glab- rous. Spathe five to six inches high; an inch to an inch and a half broad about the middle, and three to fou! inches across the broad mouth, loosely convolute for tw thirds of the height, then expanding into a broad, nearly horizontal limb, with recurved margins, and suddenly. narrowed into a recurved, Nbitate tip; outer surface canary-colrd., inner bright gamboge-yellow, and rugulosé; base within dark purple. Spadiz two inches long ; ovaries occupying a third of its length.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Base of spathe laid open and dix ; 2 hors: 8 All enlarged; 4, reduced view of wicks plant. SEN ey SI aS ‘ x — MS.del, JN-Fitch ith —— Tas. 7398. APHAIREMA spicata. Native of South Brazil. Nat. Ord. Samypacez.—Tribe ABATIE. Genus ApHarema, Miers. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 799.) APHEREMA spicata; herbacea, erecta, fere glaberrima, caule terete, foliis oppositis breviter petiolatis ovato-cordatis acuminatis serratis exstipu- latis, floribus parvis in racemum spiciformem multiflorum terminalem erectum puberulum dispositis aureis breviter pedicellatis, bracteis subu- latis, alabastris globosis, petalis 0, sepalis 4 ovatis valvatis persistentibus, staminibus 8-16 subperigynis filamentis filiformibus antheris didymis, loculis reniformibus, connectivo dilatato, ovario conico-ovoideo, placertis 3-4 parietalibus multiovulatis, stylo perbrevi, stigmate obscure 3—4-lobo, serene parva depresso globosa loculicide 3—4 valvi polysperma, seminibus _ oblongis. A. spicata, Miers. in Proc. R. Hort. Soc. vol. iii. (1863), p- 294. Aphzrema is a monotypic genus, founded on a plant discovered in South Brazil in the province of 8. Paulo in 1861-2 by Mr. J. Weir, when collecting for the Royal Horticultural Society. It was described from Herbarium specimens by the late excellent botanist, J. Miers, F.R.S., in the Proceedings of the said Society. Since that period it has been collected, in so far as I am aware, by only one other botanist, Dr. Fritz Miiller, who found it in the Province of Sta. Catherina, which adjoins 8. Paulo on the south. The specimen here figured agrees closely with Miers’ characters, except in respect of the stamens being more than eight and up to sixteen, and the capsule being some- times 4-valved, with as many placentes. The genus is very closely allied to Raleighia, of Gardner, if, indeed, it is not referable to it. The principal difference between them appeared to consist in Raleighia being stipulate, whilst Apherema is exstipulate ; for the more important character of the former genus, that of the stamens being very numerous and in several series, whilst Aphzerema was supposed to have only eight, is invalidated by the Fesrvary 1st, 1895. specimen here figured having sixteen. Nor is the stipular character free from doubt. In the ‘Genera Plantarum’ (i. 799) Raleighia is described, on Gardner’s authority, as having foliaceous, deciduous stipules. But this 1s an obvious oversight, for Gardner describes the leaves as exstipulate, and so I find them in the specimen in the Kew Herbarium, and so they are in the only other genus of the tribe, namely, Abatia, and in a hitherto undescribed species of Raleighia. Descr—A_ slender, glabrous shrub, or undershrub ; branches erect, terete. Leaves opposite, two to three inches long, shortly petioled, ovate-cordate, obtusely acuml- nate, crenate-serrate ; basal lobes rounded, sinus narrow, light green above, paler beneath ; nerves six to eight pairs, deeply impressed. lowers in solitary, terminal, slender, peduncled, nodding racemes, three to four inches long, shortly pedicelled, § in. broad, golden yellow; buds globose ; bracts subulate. Calyx four-partite ; lobes trian- gular-ovate, valvate. Petals 0. Stamens 8, 12, or 16, perigynous ; filaments slender; anthers yellow, didymous. Ovary broadly conico-ovoid, 3—4-celled ; style short, stigma obscurely lobed ; ovules numerous, on three or four parietal placentas, anatroprous.—J. D. ff. Fig. 1, Rachis of spike, bract, and bud; 2, flower; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, ovary; 6, the same in transverse section; 7, fruiting raceme; 8, capsules 9, transverse section of do.; 10, immature seed :—all but tig. 7 enlarged. i 5 = itch, INF JN} M.S. del. Vincent Brooks, Day ws i (pe fan [i See Tas. 7399. ALOE pracuystTacHys. Native of Zanzibar. Nat. Ord. Lintacrm.—Tribe ALOINER. Genus Atos, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 776.) Ator brachystachys; caudice elongato simplici, foliis dense rosulatis ensifor- mibus sesquipedalibus vel bipedalibus pallide viridibus immaculatis, aculeis marginalibus deltoideis concoloribus magnitudine mediocribus, pedunculo flexuoso elongato, racemo denso simplici, pedicellis elongatis ascendentibus apice articulatis, bracteis orbicularibus parvis, perianthio cylindrico pallide rubro apice viridi, lobis lingulatis tubo brevioribus, staminibus demum breviter exsertis. This new Aloe was sent by Sir Jchn Kirk in 1884 to the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Zanzibar. It flowered for the first time in the Succulent House in January, 1894, and proved to be a new species. It belongs to the true Aloes, with a long caudex, and dense rosette of ensiform leaves, Its nearest allies are A. abyssinica (Bot. Mag. t. 6620), and the Angolan A. littoralis, Baker, which has not yet been brought into cultivation. The number of Aloes known in Tropical Africa has increased very largely of late years. Descr.—Caudex long, slender, erect, simple. Leaves about twenty, crowded together at the top of the stem, all except the youngest drooping, ensiform, one and a half or two feet long, two inches broad above the dilated base, narrowed very gradually to the point, bright green, smooth » on both surfaces, unspotted, a quarter of an inch thick in the middle; marginal prickles deltoid, middle-sized, not brown at the tip in the cultivated plant. Peduncle simple, very flexuose, about as long as the leaves. Haceme dense, simple, oblong, half a foot long; pedicels ascending, an inch long, articulated at the tip; bracts orbicular, much Fesrvary Ist, 1895. shorter than the pedicels, pale green, with 5-7 distinct brown stripes. Perianth cylindrical, an inch and a quarter long, pale pink, tipped with green; lobes lingulate, shorter than the tube. Stamens finally shortly exserted.— J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, A flower, cut open; 2, stamens; 3, ovary, all enlarged; 4 whole plant, much reduced. 7400 Tas. 7400. CEPHALANTHUS NATALENSIS. Native of 8. E. Africa. Nat. Ord. Rupracem.—Tribe Navuciea. Genus Cernatantuus, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 30.) CePEaLantuus zafalensis; fruticulus ramosissimus, ramulis pedunculisque hirtello-tomentosis, foliis breviter petiolatis ovatis acutis obtusis v. obtuse acuminatis, stipulis parvis triangularibus, capitulis nutantibus, bracteolis calycis tubo brevioribus clavatis ciliatis dorso glandaliferis, ecalycis tubo brevi, limbo 5-dentato puberulo sinubus eglandulosis, corolla tubo gracili glabro superne infundibulari, limbo obliquo intus lobisque 5 brevibus ovatis pubescentibus, antheris vix exsertis, connec- tivo apice producto, stylo exserto, stigmate clavato, capitulis maturis _ succulentis. C. natalensis, Oliver in Hook. Ic. Pl. vol. xiv. p. 22, t. 1331. Cephalanthus natalensis is the only described African species of the genus, all others being Asiatic and Ameri- can; a supposed Madagascar congener being referable to the allied genus Adina, which has more than one ovule in each ovarian cell. One species, C. occidentalis, Linn., the American Button-wood or Button tree, was early intro- duced into this country by Peter Collinson, in 1735. It is a very common North American shrub, extending across the whole continent, and remarkable as being the only woody plant of the vast natural order to which it belongs, that is a native of temperate North America. As far as I am aware no properties of economic value have been attri- buted to any species of the genus, except the present, to the seeds of which the name of Quinine fruit was attached by the sender; and the fruit of which is edible. C. natalensis is a native of the mountainous regions of Natal, the Transvaal, and Basutoland, at elevations of 3000 to 45000 ft. It was discovered by the collector Gerrard about forty years ago, and has since been col- lected by Dr. Atherstone, and by Messrs. Medley Wood ~ and E. K. Galpin, the latter of whom describes the fruit Feprvuary Ist, 1895. as resembling a strawberry, and edible. It ree ie duced by Mr. Bull, who sent a specimen » a ae named as a plant yielding a good edible sore Fe a from which our figure was made was sees i Road received in 1886 from W. J. Horn, Ksq., of Ous oa ‘ Balham, who collected the seeds with those Pe aa other interesting plants, notably the showy r chat (a dantha, figured t. 7331. Mr. Watson informs me oa forms a compact little shrub, and flowers freely in spring o the Temperate House of the Royal Gardens. — escr.—A small, much-branched shrub, wi be stout, terete, hirtellous branches and branchlets. a ' about an inch long, ovate, acuminate, acute, or io boo obtuse, dark green, glabrous and shining above, er neath with red midrib and nerves, and with hairy g : at the axils of the nerves and midrib. Flowers “ numerous, in globose, terminal, peduncled heads, on saa one and a half inches in diameter ; peduncle one to an inches long, stout, decurved, hirtellous, bearing one a sears of fallen bracts. Calyces minute, densely ee ie sessile on a fleshy receptacle, surrounded by severa ‘s e clavate, truncate, ciliate bracteoles, each of which ae hae oblong, dorsal gland; tube of calyx produced abot e ovary, 5-toothed, ciliate. Corolla about one-third ae inch long; tube rose-red, glabrous, slender below - middle, then obovoid, narrowly funnel-shaped, pubes . within, as are the five short Ovate, spreading, green lo i — within the mouth of the corol ; i filaments very Short, Migerted at the entire ‘hase of “a : oblong anther; connective shortly produced. Ovary o-— . in | celled ; » Stigma clavate ; ovules one 3 style slender, exserted each cell, pendulous. Fruit succulent, edible.—J. D. H. Silla back of leaf with : a Fig. 1, Portion of the gland at the axil of the pore f the a costa ; 2, calyces and @ corolla; 3, section of portion of the receptacle °a head, with 3 Ovaries, one cut vertically, showing the ovules, also the bracteole at the base of the two other ovaries ; 4, a bracteole ; 5, upper part of corolla 2 laid open :—Al enlarged, Ss Vincent Brooks Day Tas. 7401, MUSA HILLII, F. Muell. Native of Queensland. Nat. Ord. Sctraminea%.—Tribe Muszea. Genus Musa, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 655.) Musa (Eumusa) Hillii; caudice elato robusto stolonifero, foliis longiuscule petiolatis lineari-oblongis patulis basi cuneatis, spica valida erecta densi- flora, bracteis ovatis cymbiformibus | flavo-viridibus apicibus obtusis brunneis, fl. masc. perplurimis 2-pollicaribus, calycis leviter curvi dentibus brevibus obtusis lateralibus majoribus appendice fusiformi ruguloso in- structis, corolla lineari-oblonga subacuta, A. fem. ovario ovoidei 3-gono perianthio masculo breviore, stigmate majusculo trilobo, baccis densissime confertis ovoideis 3-gonis truncatis, seminibus perplurimis parvis angulo- sis valde depressis. M., Hillii, F. Muell. Fragment. vol. ix. p. 169. Baker in Ann. Bot. vol. vii. p. 217 in Gard. Chron, 1893, ii. p. 743, in Kew Bulletin, 1894, pp. 239, 246. Four species of Plantain are now known to inhabit tropical Australia, all of them endemic, namely, M. Banksii, F, Muell. Fragm. vol. iv. p, 182 (M. Banksiana, Kurz in Journ. Agr. Hort. Soc. Ind. N.S. vol. v. (1878), p. 164); M. Fitzalani, F. Muell. 1.c. vol. ix. p. 188; M. Charlioi, W. Hill, Rep. Brisbane Bot. Gard. 1874 (undescribed), and that here figured. Whether any of these are identical with described species from the Malay or the Pacific Islands is not determinable until these are better known; and as it is only by comparison under cultivation, or by very care- fully executed drawings that the members of this noble genus can be determined, it will probably be many years before this can be realized. Much has been done of late towards a knowledge of the Plantains and Bananas by summaries of the known species which have been drawn up by Mr. Baker, and published in the “ Annals of Botany,” and by a paper in the Kew Bulletin, both cited above. From these it appears that about thirty-five species are more or less known, though possibly some of them are synonymous, or founded in error. Of these nineteen are now in culti- vation at Kew, but only six of them have hitherto been figured in this magazine. Fesrvary Ist, 1895. Seeds of M. Hillii were received at Kew from F. M. j Bailey, Esq., F.L.S., Colonial Botanist, Queensland, in’ March, 1889, from which the plant here figured was raised. — It flowered in the Palm House of the Royal Gardens in | December, 1893. : Deser.—Caudex attaining 30 ft. in height, and 18 inches in diameter at the base, stoloniferous, cylindric. Leaves as of M. sapientum, attaining 15 feet in length, base — cuneate; petiole long. Spike erect, three to four fee high, cylindric. Bracts six inches long and upwards ovate, obtuse, pale yellow-green, with a brown tip. Mat FL. very many in a bract, two inches long, narrow, slightl curved, sub 4-angled, pale yellowish. 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By GEORGE BENTHAM, F.R:S. 6th Rdition, Revised by Sir J.D, Hoorn, CB, K.CS.L, PRS, he. 10s. aoe ~ TLLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH FLORA: ee A | 807 ies of Wood Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plan _ Drawn gy W. H. FITCH, F.L.S,, avo W, G. SMITH, FS. ving an Mastrated Companion to Bentham’s “ ‘Handbook, > and other British Fl — Scan with mics Wood Engravi o ‘lés. oa 74.02 M. S del, 3.N Fitch lith Vincent Brooks,Day & Son Imp Tas. 7402. HEPTAPLEURUM venutosouy, var. erythrostachys. < Native of tropical Asia. Nat. Ord. ARALIACES. Genus Heprartevrum, Gertn. ; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 942.) HEpPTaPLEURUM venulosum; arbor parva erecta v. frutex subscandens, ramulis robustis, foliis digitatis longe petiolatis, foliolis 7-9 petiolulatis elliptico-v. ovato-oblongis obtusis acutis v. obtuse subcaudato-acuminatis glaberrimis, basi cuneatis rotundatisve, supra lete viridibus nervulis reticulatis promi- nulis, stipulis ima basi petioli adnatis, panicule ample pedunculo gracili v. robusto brevi v. elongato, ramis verticillatis glabris puberulisve, capitulis florum breviter v. longius pedunculatis, floribus 4—5-meris brevissime v. longius pedicellatis subpolygamis calycis patellefsrmis limbo obscure dentato, petalis calyptratim cohwrentibus obtusis, stami- nibus 4-5, ovario disco tumido coronato, stylo depresso obscure 4—5-lobo, baccis parvis ovoideis flavis 4-5-locularibus. H. venulosum, Seem. in Journ. Bot. iii. (1865), 80. Brand. For. Fl. N. W. & Centr. Ind. p. 249. Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burm. i. 538. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 729. Benth. Fl. Austral. iii. 384. Beddome Forester’s Man. 8. India, p. exxii, H. ellipticum, Seem. J. ¢, Paratroria.venulosa, Wight & Arn. Prodr. Fl. Penins, Ind. Or. p. 877. Wight Illustr, Pl, Ind, Or, vol. ii. p. 62, t.118. F. Muell. Fragmenta, vol, iv. p. 121. P. elliptica v. macrantha, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. p. 756. HepERA macrophylla, terebinthacea et venosa, Wall. Oat. n.n. 4918, 4920 partim, 4923. Sciaporuyiivum ellipticum, Blume Bijdr. p. 878. DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 260. Arata digitata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 22; Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 107. A. Moorei, F. Mueld. 1. ¢. vol. ii. p. 108. Unsata, Rheede Hort. Malab, vol. vii. t. 28. Var. erythrostachys, panicule robuste ramis ramulis petalisque rubellis pedunculis pedicellisque brevibus. Under the name of Heptapleurum venulosum, one or more large species of the genus, ranges from Kumaon, in the subtropical Western Himalaya, eastwards throughout the range, to Burma, and southwards in moist forests to Malabar, the Circars, and Singapore; thence extending Marcn Ist, 1895, to the Malayan Islands and tropical Australia. It has | not, however, been detected in Ceylon, As might be | expected, with so wide a range, it varies much in habit, — and in the size of the leaves and flowers, and it is very — possible that more than one species is included under the above name. Amongst the very large series of Indian — specimens that I have examined, I find the greatest differences (and they are very great) to be in the stout-— ness or the contrary of the rachis and branches of the panicle, in the length and stoutness of the peduncles of the | head of flowers, and of the pedicels of the flowers them- selves. Inthe Himalaya the peduncles and pedicels are for the most part as represented in the plate, but i Malabar, Burma, Penang, and in Wight’s figure all the — ramifications of the panicle are very slender and distinct, — the peduncles attain an inch long, and the pedicels half an inch. The flowers, too, vary greatly in size. In no case — do I find any note of the colour of the panicle and its — ramifications being red, as in the plant here figured; m_ all that I saw in the Himalaya and Khasia Hills, Iq remember no colour but green. Wight, however, figures these as violet-blue, and the flowers as green. : I regret not being able to give the native country of | var. erythrostachys. The specimen figured is from a plant cultivated in the Temperate House of the Royal Gardens, : presented by M. de Falbe, Danish Minister, from the Villa Valetta, Cannes. It flowered in April, 1894. The species is, as Mr. Watson informs me, not uncommon I such gardens as can afford it house-room, but it seldom flowers. : Descr.—A small, diffusely branching tree, or bush, with rooting lower branches, or sometimes a woody climbers branchlets stout, dark green, dotted with white. Leaves alternate ; petiole 4-8 inches long, terete ; leaflets 7-9, whorled, 5-7 inches long, elliptic- or ovate-oblong, obtuse, acute, or subcaudately obtusely acuminate, base cuneate or cordate, reticulate on both surfaces ; petiolule 1-1} in. Panicle on a short, stout, slender peduncle, glabrous oF puberulous ; branches subverticillate, 3-6 inches longs stout or slender, spreading, bearing throughout thelr Ne peduncled, globose heads of flowers about §—3 in. lam. lowers minute, polygamous; pedicels short long Calyx broadly cupular, margin obscurely 5-toothed. Petals short, obtuse, cohering in a deciduous operculum. Stamens 4-5. Disk tumid, with an obscurely 4-5-lobed very depressed central style.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower; 2, the same with the operculate corolia raised; 3, flower with the petals removed; 4, calyx, ovary and disk showing the style; 5, vertical section of ovary :—Al/ enlarged. “ MSdel INRA, Tas. 7403.- DISA SAGITTALIS. Native of South Africa. Nat. Ord. OrcuipEx.—Tribe OrpHryYDER. Genus Disa, Berg. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 630.) Disa (Coryphea) sagittalis; foliis synanthiis, radicalibus pluribus oblanceolatis acutis, caule erecto vaginis acutis membranaceis arcte vestito, racemo oblongo cylindraceo v. subcorymbiforme, floribus patentibus puberulis pallide lilacinis, bracteis ovario brevioribus, sepalis lateralibus oblongis acutis, postico erecto e basi tubuloso repente in laminam patulam alte 2-lobam recurvam dilatato, lobis cuneatis basi tortis, calcare recto elougato conico, petalis erectis linearibus basi extus in auriculam magnam dilatatis, labello lineari undulato, rostello brevi rotundato concavo, polliniarum glandula 2-loba. D. sagittalis, Sw. in Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. vol. xxi. (1800), P- = Lindl. Gen. &§ Sp. Orchid. p. 350. Bolus Ie. Orchid. Austro-African, 1. t. 32. ; Orchis sagittalis, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 399. Satyrium sagittale, Thunb. Prodr. Pl. Cap. p. 5. No genus of terrestrial Orchids requires for its satis- factory elucidation good drawings and analysis more than does Disa; for the species are very numerous, and the structural differences and complicated features of its column and sepals are greater, I think, by far, than in any other genus of the Order. To which must be added the difficulty of describing, in intelligible language, the irregular and often bizarre and even deceptive characters of these organs, which, in dried specimens especially, are apt to lead the systematist far astray. Considering his materials and opportunities, Lindley’s work on the genus in his ‘‘Genera and Species of Orchids,” is remarkably skilful; but until Mr. Bolus took the field and published his masterly researches in the ‘‘ Orchids of the Cape Penin- sula” and “Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanarum”’ hardly a dozen of the 109 described species could be said to be satisfactorily known. _ Disa sagittalis is figured and described in the last men- tioned of Mr. Bolus’ works, and a comparison of his results with those given in our figure shows a remarkably Marcu Isr, 1895, - perfect agreement in all essentials of structure. The chief differences are, the greater luxuriance of the cul- tivated specimen, its more numerous suberect, oblanceolate bright green leaves, its reticulated sheaths on the brown stem, its pale lilac sepals and petals; also the spur of its posticous sepal is rather longer and narrower, and the lamina is quite entire. The species is referred to the section Coryphxa, both by Lindley and Bolus, in which there should be two glands of the pollinia, whereas a single 2-lobed one is (correctly) represented in Bolus’ figures and in that here given. JD. sagittalis is a native of both the South Western and South Eastern regions of South Africa, extending in the East to Natal. The specimen represented was sent to the Royal Gardens by H. J. Elwes, Hsq., F.L.S., from his gardens at Coles- borne, Andoversford, which have contributed so many rarities to this work, and amongst them more terrestrial Cape Orchids than has any other contributor. It flowered early in May of the present year. Descr.—Tuber fusiform. Leaves radical, 2-4 inches long, oblanceolate, bright green. Stem 6-8 inches high, dark brown, clothed with membranous, acute, reticulate — sheaths. Flowers few or many, minutely puberulous, iD 4 — subcorymbiform raceme; about 3 of an inch long from the tip of the lip to that of the dorsal sepal, pale lilac, with red streaks on the petals and lip; pedicel spreading; with the ovary an inch long; bracts shorter than the ovary. Sepals, lateral oblong, acute, deflexed ; posticouss erect, tubular below, and produced into a straight, conical, acute spur, expanded above, and 2-lobed, lobes twisted ab the base, fan-shaped, with the margins recurved and entire. Petals erect, linear, with each a broad, rounded basal auricle. Lip linear, waved. Column very short, depresses with a short, broad, rounded, concave rostellum. Gland of the pollinia 2-lobed. Ovary straight.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower seen in front and 2 from the back; 3, posticous sepal ; de and lip, 5 dorsal and 6 lateral view of column; 7, pollinia :—~ ul 5 > i : Saas ae OL, Vo F ee (Ps Tas. 7404. VERONICA togantorpzs, Native of New Zealand. Nat. Ord. ScropHULARINE®.—Tribe DIGITALER. Genus Veronica, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 964.) Veronica (Hebe) loganioides; fruticulus humilis, basi decumbens, dein erectus, ramis virgatis, cortice fuseo, ramulis pedunculisque laxe pilosis, foliis 4-} poll. longis laxe densiusve imbricatis patenti-recurvis ovatis acuminvatis crassiusculis carinatis viridibus integerrimis v. utrinque pauci-denticulatis, floribus in racemulis ad apices ramorum corymbose congestis dispositis oppositis brevissime pedicellatis, bracteis ovato- oblongis calycibus brevioribus glaberrimis, sepalis oblongis obtusis carinatis ciliolatis, corolla 3 in. diam. alba, tubo brevissimo, lobis ovato- rotundatis, filamentis mediocribus, antheris pallidis, ovario glaberrimo apice 2-lobo. V. loganioides, Armstr. in New Zeald. Country Journal, vol. iii. et in Trans. New Zeald, Instit. vol. xiii. (1881) 352, and p. 359, Veronica loganioides is described by its author as “a most singular plant, quite different in appearance from any known Veronica * * * the corolla seems to approach that of V. linifolia, but the aspect of the plant is more that of JV. tetragona, though the leaves are not connate at the base.” And he adds, “ until the fruit is obtained the position and relationship cannot be deter- mined.” Judging from the ovary, I think that it may be safely referred to the section Hebe, or the subgenus Korronika of Armstrong, which includes all the Hebes, except those with scale-like, appressed leaves, to which he has given the subgeneric name of Pseudo-Veronica. Its nearest affinity is probably with V. epacridea (‘‘ Handb. of N. Zeald. Flora,” p. 213), a prostrate, tortuous species, with uniform small leaves in opposite pairs, and free at the base; which species, however, differs widely, having broadly, obovate-oblong obtuse leaves, and a corolla with a long tube. Mr. Armstrong describes the corolla of V’. loganioides as white, with pink stripes; but in all the Marcu Ist, 1895, . cultivated specimens that I have seen they are pure white. It appears to be a very rare plant, a native of the Southern Island, and the only native specimens in Kew Herbarium, were sent to Kew by ‘hos. Kirk, Esq., F.L.S., of Wel- lington. Mr. Armstrong gives as habitats the Rangitata Valley, where he collected it himself, and the Clyde Valley, alt. 5-6000 ft., Mr. W. Gray. The specimen figured flowered in the Rockery of the Royal Gardens, in June, 1893, and the same plant has been received from the Royal Gardens of Edinburgh, under the name of V. epacridea. Descr.—A dwarf shrub, six to twelve inches high, with many slender, terete, erect branches from a decumbent base. Stems hardly as thick as a crow-quill, branched above, naked, but annulate with scars below, leafy above, as are the branches. Leaves quadrifarious, in opposite, rather close-set pairs, about one-sixth of an inch long, erecto-patent, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, coriaceous, keeled, dull green, shining. Flowers sessile, small, in sub- terminal opposite, corymbiform spikes ; peduncle one half to two-thirds of an inch long, sparsely hairy ; bracts lanceolate, shorter than the calyx. Calyx segments erect; linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, margins ciliolate. Corolla one-fourth to nearly one-third of an inch in diam., white; tube not longer than the calyx; posticous and lateral lobes orbicular-ovate, posticous rather the largest ; anticous much the smallest, ovate. Filaments about as long as the corolla lobes; anthers oblong, erect, pale, Ovary glabrous, style slender.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, portion of s ike ; : thers; 6, ovary :—Al/ enlarged. pike; 8, calyx and style; 4 and 5, an son Fag Vincent Brooks Day & MS del. J.N.Fitch lith XITISH, COLONIAL, AND FOREIGN FLORAS. 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We.penta candida; herba erecta, puberula, tuberosa, caule simplici folioso, foliis linearibus oblongisve acutis subsessilibus basi angustatis subtus alte 5-0-costatis, costis puberulis pallide viridibus supra concavis fasciculis pilorum raris albis conspersis, vagina laxa cylindracea mem- branacea, floribus terminalibus fasciculatis sessilibus albis, calycis tubo superne fisso, limbo 5-fido puberulo, corolle tubo elongato gracili calyce duplo longiore, limbi ampli segmentis 3 orbicularibus patentibus, staminibus 6 filamentis gracilibus exsertis, antheris oblongis, ovario lineari-oblongo 3-loculari, stylo filiformi, stigmate 3-lobo, ovulis in loculis paucis subbiseriatim superpositis. . candida, Schult f.in Flora, vol. xii. (1829), p. 3, t.i. A. Roem. & Sch. Syst. vol. vii. p. 1186. Hassk. Commel. Ind. p. 3. Baker in Journ. z Linn. Soe. vol. xvii. p. 454. Clarke in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. vol. iii. p. 319. Kew Bulletin (1894), p. 135. W. Schaultesii, Schlecht. Hort. Halens. p. 14. Lampra volcanica, Benth. Pl. Hartweg, p. 95; & in Hook. Ic. Plant. vol. xiii. p- 28, t. 1236. Rugendasia majalis, Hhrend. mss. The remarkable plant here figured, which is monotypic, was discovered by Ehrenberg, between Chico and Real del Monte in Mexico; Karwinsky subsequently found it ‘in the Nevado de Tolucca, and Schiede on the Cuesta de Catingoa. Hartweg, in 1840, collected it in the crater of the Volean de Agua in Guatemala, and specimens from the same locality have lately been received at Kew from J. Donnell Smith, Esq., an excellent botanist.: The fol- lowing account is given in the Kew Bulletin cited above. “ Last year Mr. Audley C. Gosling, Her Majesty’s Minister _ to Central America, informed us that his sons had “ made the ascent of the Volcan de Agua, and at the bottom of the crater had found bulbs of the plant which Mr. Donnell Smith informs me is Weldenia candida.... I have planted these bulbs here, and they flower to perfection at 9000 ft. lower altitude than where found. The daily Maxcu Isr, 1895. range of the thermometer in this city (Guatemala) is from 9°.22° centigr. (48°-71° Fahr.), and in the crater of de Agua it is from —6° to 11° centigr. (21°-51° Fahr.). If you have not the plant in cultivation, I shall be happy to send you some bulbs. Mr. Gosling’s offer was gladly accepted, and in September, 1893, the plants were received at Kew, where they flowered in April in a cool greenhouse.” Deser.—Tubers very many, tufted, narrowly fusiform, 2-3 inches long, fleshy. Stems 1-8 inches high, as thick as a swan’s quill or less, simple or divided, leafy at the tip, the leayes passing below into tubular, hyaline, striate pale sheaths. Leaves 2-6 by 1-} in., crowded towards the top of the stem, spreading and recurved, from oblong to linear, or narrowly oblanceolate, acuminate, ecostate — nerveless smooth above, and glabrous, except for 4 few small scattered superficial tufts of white cellular hairs ; beneath pubescent on five or more prominent ribs ; sheath loose, cylindric, membranous. Flowers sessile, in terminal tufts amongst the leaves. Calye an inch long, tubular, pale green, split to about the middle, tip with 3 very narrow teeth. Corolla pure white; tube twice as long as the calyx, slender, cylindric, white ; limb one and a half inches in diameter, 3-partite; segments orbicular, spreading. Stamens 6, inserted at the mouth of the corolla, filaments slender, about half as long as its lobes; anthers basitixed, horizontal, ovate-oblong, yellow, base cordate, slits lateral. Ovary sessile, columnar, 3-groved, 3-celled; style filiform; stigma exserted, 3-lobed, lobes — ata ag ovules few in each cell, biseriately superpose? Fig. 1, Epidermis of leaves with tufts of hairs; 2, hairs from the same+ — 3, tip of calyx; 4, stamen; 5, sti . ith one cé exposed :— AI enlarged. s & sHlemas 6 oatys. % the camel 7406. Vincent Brooke Day #575 MS del, JN Fitch ith Tas. 7406. SCHINUS pspenpens. Native of South America. Nat. Ord. ANAcCARDIACEM.—Tribe ANACARDIEX. Genus Scuinus, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol.1. pp. 422, 426.) (Scurnvus et Duvava.) Scuinus (Duvaua) dependens; frutex ramis strictis flexuosisve extimis spino- sis, foliis parvis breviter petiolatis oblongis obovatisve glaberrimis integerrimis v. serrato-dentatis, floribus polygamis in racemos axillares folia subequantes dispositis, bracteis ovatis minutis ciliolatis 1-2-floris, alabastris globosis, calycis lobis ovatis ciliolatis, petalis obovato-oblongis unguiculatis, ovario globoso glabro, drupis globosis. S. dependens, Ortega, Decad. vol. viii. p. 102. DL. March. Anacard. p. 164. Engler in Mart. Fl. Bras, 387, et in Alph, DC. Monog. Phanerog, vol. iv. p. 339, 538. 8S. Huygan, Molina, Sagg. Chili, Ed. I. 169, 355, S. Bonplandianus, ZL. March. 7. ¢. Dovava dependens, DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 74. Kunth in Dict. Sc. Nat. Te. t. 47, Hook, Bot. Misc, vol. iii. p. 176. C. Gay Fl. Chil. vol. ii. p. 42. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1573. D. ovata et D. longifolia, Lindl, Bot. Reg. t. 1568, et vol. xv. (1843), t. 59. D. dentata, DC. Prodr. 1. ¢. D. cuneata, et D. inebrians, Gill. ex Hook. & Arn. in Hook, Bot, Mise, vol. iii. p. 176. -D. fasciculata et D. pracox, Griseb. in Goett. Abhandl. vol. xix. (1874), p. 116. D. ornata (sphalm. pro ovata) Philipp. f. Cat. Pl. Vase. Chil. p. 47. D. polygama, Kunth in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. i. vol. ii. p. 340. D. spinescens, Tenxore Cat. Ort. Nap. p. 85. Amyris polygama, Cav. Ic. vol. iii. p. 20, t. 239. Professor Engler, in his able monograph of the Anacar- diacex, has shown that the long-established genus Duvaua, of Kunth, can only be regarded as a subgenus of the older Schinus. Though previously placed wide apart in the Order, the only character by which they could be separated was that of leaves simple in Duvawa and compound in Schinus, which of itself is insufficient for the establish- ment of two genera. Marcu Isr, 1895, S. dependens has a very wide range in the west coast of South America, from Valdivia in latitude 40° 8S. to 19° S. in Bolivia, where it ascends to 13,000 ft. elevation. — It also extends over a great portion of the Argentine — Republic, Paraguay and Uruguay. Its northern limit in © the east coast of America is the province of Rio Grande ~ do Sul, in the extreme south of Brazil. According to © the late Dr. Gillies (confirmed by. C. Gay) the Indians ~ of the Mendozan Andes distil an intoxicating liquor from the fruit. The bark yields a balsam used as a vulnerary, and other parts of the plant afford medicines formerly much in use in Chili. Its native name is Huingan. S. dependens was introduced into the Garden of the Royal Horticultural Society before the year 1833, when it was figured in the “ Botanical Register”? by Lindley, who states that it will not bear the climate of London without protection from frost, but would probably succeed i crevices of rocks in Devonshire and Cornwall. The specimen here figured is from a plant raised at Kew from — seeds sent from the Botanical Gardens of Santiago, Chih, in 1885 ; and which has proved to be perfectly hardy. It flowers in May. Descr.—A shrub or small tree, 12-15 ft. high, abun- dantly flowering, with rigid branches, spinous at the tips; or with more or less drooping branches in favourable situations; bark brown. Leaves one-third to nearly one inch long, very shortly petioled, oblong or obovate, more — or less coriaceous, quite entire or more or less toothed, dark green above, pale beneath. Flowers yellow, is ™- diam., produced in great numbers of axillary, very shortly peduncled racemes, about as long as the leaves; bracts minute, ovate, ciliolate, 1-8-fld.; pedicels about one twelfth of an inch long, glabrous. Calya minute, 4-lobed 5 lobes rounded, ciliolate. Petals obovate-spathulate, spread- ing. Stamens in the male fl. nearly as long as the petals, anthers large ; in the female reduced to minute staminodes. Disk urceolate, 8-10 lobed. Ovary glabrous. Drupe pisiform.—J, D. H. whe Portion of raceme and flowers; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, disk Al Third HPeries. ; ee fe No, 604. VOL. Lr—arrin. Ly Price 3s, 6d. coloured, 28, Gis plain. or No. 1298 OF THE ENTIRE WORK. CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE THE PLANTS OF THE ROYAL, GARDEN S OF KEW, ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY, 1895. FLORAL BXHIBITIONS—Wednosdays, April 24, May 15. SPECIAL FLORAL FETE—Wednesday, June 12. 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G, SMITH, FLS. lorming dilustrated Companion to Rentham's “ Handbook, ” and other: British Fl : Tats sin cca with ants Wood SEs ‘10s. ode. 74.07. t gt as* ue a “ye “, LIL Mincent Brocks,Day & Son imp. Tas. 7407. MACARANGA Porreana. Native of the Philippine Islands. Nat. Ord. EvpHorprackzZ.—Tribe Crotoneas, — Genus Macaranea, Thou. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 320.) Macaranea (Eumacaranga) Porteana; caule erecto cylindraceo cicatricato, foliis amplis longe petiolatis peltatis orbiculari-ovatis acutis calloso- crenulatis ciliolatis supra lete viridibus nervis aureis, immaturis supra araneosis, subtus rufescentibus puberulis costa nervisque validis viridi- bus, nervulis transversis perplurimis elevatis rubris, stipulis maximis oblongis erectis cymbiformibus pallide flavo-virescentibus, paniculis axillaribus petiolo brevioribus breviter pedunculatis roseis hic illic folii- feris, bracteis primariis (basi ramorum inferiorum) pollicaribus ovato- lanceolatis acutis, superioribus linearibus, floralibus parvis cymbiformibus incurvis, bracteolis linearibus incurvis obtusis, floribus minutis sessilibus, masculis perplurimis polyandris, femineis hermaphroditisve ad apices ramulorum raris, perianthii segmentis ovatis, staminibus confertis, antheris 4-lobis, ovario oblongo, stylis 2 elongatis subulatis stigmatosis. M. Porteana, #. Andr? in Rev. Hortic. (1888), p. 176, fig. 36. Mappa Porteana, Hort. ex W. Wats. in Gard. Chron, (1894), vol. ii. p. 284, cum Ic. et Suppl. (1894) Sept, 8th. As grown in a large pot standing in the tank of the Victoria House at Kew, this forms one of the most stately attractions of the many noble plants that sur- round it. From a stout erect stem four-and-a-half feet high, clothed above with the large erect, pale stipules, are given off long bold, bright green petioles, two to three feet long, supporting peltate leaves, nearly three feet broad, of a lustrous dark satin green colour above, traversed by golden nerves ; beneath the young leaves are of a rusty- red hue, beautifully reticulate, with strong green nerves, and innumerable transverse parallel red nervules; the older leaves are uniformly pale green beneath. The in- florescence, consisting of axillary panicles, is of pale red, insignificant flowers. ae Macaranga is a large tropical genus, consisting of — upwards of eighty species, confined to the old world, and chiefly Malayan. M. Porteana was discovered in the Philippine Islands by M. Marius Porté, a French Botanist, APRIL Ist, 1895. : who collected there in 1860-5, and by him it was introduced into the Jardin de Plantes, Paris, whence a young plant was sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1892. The latter was only a foot high when received, but grew so rapidly as to attain the dimensions mentioned above by April, 1893, when it flowered. Deser.—Stem woody, 4-44 ft. high in the plant figured, erect, cylindric, dark brown, marked with triangular scars of fallen leaves. Leaves at the tip of stem, peltate, orbicular-ovate, acute, crenulate, dark green above, with golden nerves, young rosy beneath; petiole two to three feet long, horizontally spreading, stout, terete, green; stipules three to six inches long, free, concave, linear- oblong, acute, erect, very pale yellowish green, with rusty-brown withering edges and tips. Panicles axillary, shorter than the petioles, erect, pyramidal, laxly-branched, pale reddish, bearing here and there on the rachis small, ovate, acute, deeply toothed, reddish leaves, which are not peltate ; bracts at the base of the lower branches an inch long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, concave, upper gradually smaller. lowers sessile on the suberect branches of the panicle, bracteate and bracteolate, all male, except an occasional terminal fem. or bisexual; floral bracts § 1. long, boat-shaped, incurved, acuminate, 1—2-fld. ; bracteoles two, lateral, much smaller than the bracts, linear, obtuse- Maun rt.; sepals 3, ovate; stamens numerous, filaments shorter than the sepals; anthers 4-lobed, 4-celled. sm. FL. 5 perianth of the male; stamens fewer ; ovary oblong, with two long subulate styles.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Portion of branch with male infl orescence; 2, male branch, bracteoles and flowers ; 3, male flowers; 4 and 5, scans 6, tip of branch with four male and a bisexual terminal flower :—All enlarged. 7408. M.S. del, J.N Fitch Lith, Tas. 7408. SAINTPAULIA IonantHa. Native of Eastern tropical Africa. Nat. Ord. GusnERACEHZ.—Tribe CyRTANDRER. SarntpauLis, Herm. Wendl. in Wittmack Gartenflor. vol. xlii. (1893), p. 322, t. 1391, and Abdbild. 66, SaintPautra tonantha; acaulis, hirsutula, foliis petiolatis ovato-v. oblongo- cordatis obscure crenatis apice obtusis v. rotundatis, pedunculis radicalibus ascendentibus, floribus paucis cymosis nutantibus, alabastris pendulis, sepalis 5~7 linearibus obtusis, corolle extus pubescentis tubo brevissimo, limbo subrotato violaceo 2-labiato, labio superiore bilobo lobis rotundatis inferiore paullo majore 3-lobo lobis obovato-rotundatis, staminibus 2 ore constricto corolle insertis, filamentis crassiusculis, antheris conniven- tibus reniformi-rotundatis apicibus cohwrentibus, staminodiis 2 minimis posticis, disco angusto annulari, ovario-oblongo 1-loculari hirsuto, placentis intrusis contiguis furcatis secus ramos revolutos ovuliferis, stylo brevisculo gracili, stigmate simplicii. Sarntraviia ionantha, Herm. Wendl.; in Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort. (1894), p. 13, f. 1; in Rev. Hort. Belg. (1894), p. 109, ewm Ic. Neub. Garten.-Mag. (1894), p. 362, fig. 97. It does not often happen that a plant newly introduced into Europe can claim the honour accorded to the subject of this plate, of being within two years of its flowering figured in five first-class horticultural periodicals. Over and above its attractiveness it is interesting as being one of the few ornamental plants that have been introduced from the hilly regions of Eastern tropical Africa. /It was discovered by Baron Walter von Saint Paul, whose father, Hofmarschal Baron St. Paul, of Fischbach in Silesia, President of the Dendrological Society of Germany, has kindly sent me the following account of its habitats, &e. : —“ The Saintpaulia was discovered by my son, who lives in East Africa, where he owns plantations of Vanilla and India-rubber trees. It was found in two localities; one about an hour from Tanga, in wooded places, in the fissures of limestone rocks, as well as in rich soil with plenty of vegetable matter. This place is not more than fifty to one hundred and fifty feet above the sea level. The second place is in the primeval forest of Usambara, APRIL Ist, 1895, likewise in shady situations, but on granite rocks, two thousand five hundred feet above the sea. It is much ‘more plentiful in the former place. Several varieties have been discovered that differ slightly in colour of the flowers, but all are blue.’ Seeds were sent to his father by Baron Walter; from these plants were raised by Dr. Wendland at Herrenhausen, which flowered in 1893, and were exhibited at the International Horticultural Exhibi-— tion, held in that year in Ghent. The specimen figured here was raised from seeds obtained from a continental nurseryman, and flowered in the Royal Gardens in July, 1894, under Gloxinia treat-— ment. The affinity of Saintpaulia is, according to Mr. C. B. Clarke, who has monographed the Cyrtandrex, to be re- garded as doubtful, until the ripe fruitis known. In habit and floral characters it perfectly agrees with Boea, Comm., a tropical Asiatic genus; but in that the capsule is long, slender, and twisted, whereas in Saintpaulia, judging from the immature fruit (fig. 7) it would appear to be short and straight. Descr.—A perennial, stemless, hirsutely pubescent herb. | Leaves one and a half to two inches long, shortly stoutly petioled, ovate- or oblong-cordate, obtuse, crenate, dark green, basal sinus closed; nerves few, spreading, deeply sunk on the upper surface, much raised beneath. Flowers in stoutly peduncled cymes, nodding ; pedicels one half to one inch long; bracts small, narrow. Sepals 5-7; linear, obtuse, erect, green. Corolla an inch in diameters subrotate, pale blue; tube much shorter than the sepals ; limb bilabiate; upper lip 2-lobed, much the smallest; lower spreading, lobes: all orbicular, concave, ciliolate- Stamens 2, inserted in the contracted mouth of the tubes filaments short, stout; anthers shortly exserted, didymous, conniving ; staminodes minute conical projections in the throat of the corolla. Ovary ovoid, hirsute, style filiform, stigma purple. Ovules many, on the revolute arms of tw parietal placentas. Capsule ovoid, hairy.—J. D. #. Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, tube of corolla laid open and stamen; 3, ovary and disk; 4, transverse section of ovary; 5, hair of margin of corolla 5 6, ovules; 7, immature fruit All enlarged, I. Reeve & C° London Tas. 7409. IXTANTHES rerzioipes. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Nat. Ord. ScRopHULARINEZ.—Tribe CHELONER. Genus Ix1antues, Benth. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 987.) Ix1tantues retzioides; frutex erectus, hirsutus, foliosus, foliis subverticillatim confertis erectis lineari-oblanceolatis acutis serratis rigidis, floribus axillaribus, pedicellis brevibus 2-bracteatis, calycis labio superiore 3-fido, inferiore 2-fido, lobis brevioribus lanceolatis acutis, corolla sulphures viscido-puberule tubo inflato gibbo, labio superiore 2-fido erecto lobis rotundatis, inferiore patente 3-fido lobis obiongo-rotundatis, staminibus 2 corollx basi insertis inclusis, antherarum loculis divaricatis, staminodiis 2-3, stylo incluso apice emarginato, capsula ovoideo-tetragona septicida, seminibus curvis. I. retzioides, Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. vol. ii. (1836), p. 53; in DC. Prodr, vol. x. p. 335. Harv. Thes. Capens. vol. i. t. 99. Macowan in Gard. Chron. (1889), vol. i. p. 186, £. 19. Ivianthes retzioides is described by Professor Macowan, F.L.S. (writing from Capetown) in the above-cited article in the Gardener’s Chronicle, as one of the rarest of Western Cape plants. He says of it, “It appears to have been gathered by our predecessors Ecklon and Zeyher, and long afterwards by the late Dr. Pappe, who died in 1862. Mr. Robert Templeman, a nurseryman here, found a soli- tary plant in 1882 or 1888, and my colleague, Bolus, dropped upon the very same one some year or so after- wards, when it was almost destroyed by the cutting of a water-furrow. I have hunted for other examples every summer since. This year, after my return from an unsuc- cessful raid, the farmer, on whose property the locality is, found a small colony of the shrub, some examples being five feet high, and magnificently in flower. It grows almost in water.” There are specimens of it in the Kew Herbarium from both Ecklon and Pappe, and from Messrs. Macowan and Bolus. The latter give as its habi- tat, by streams in the mountains near the waterfall of Arai Ist, 1895, Tulbagh, alt. 1200 ft. ‘‘rarissima.’” Ecklon gives also the county of Worcester, which adjoins Tulbagh on the S.E., as ahabitat. No others are recorded. Prof. Macowan has sent to Kew dried specimens of a white-flowered variety, with the leaves rather more acutely serrated. The plant here figured was raised from seeds sent in 1891 to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Prof. Macowan, Government Botanist at Capetown, and which flowered in a cool greenhouse in June, 1894. Mr. Watson in- forms me that good plants of it were growing in the open air during the summer months, but that they would not survive the cold of an English winter. Descr.—A branching, leafy shrub, attaining seven feet in height, all parts except the interior of the corolla pubes- cent. Leaves alternate, densely subverticillatedly crowded, 3-4 inches long, by about one-third of an inch broad; sessile, very narrowly oblanceolate, acute, serrate beyond the middle, greyish green above, paler beneath; nerves short, slender, spreading. Flowers 1-3, on short axillary peduncles. Calyx three-quarters of an inch long, glandular- pubescent, obscurely 2-lipped, deeply 3-lobed, with the posticous (or upper lip) broadest, and 3-fid at the tip; the others lanceolate, acute, all valvate. Corolla sulphur- coloured, glandular-pubescent externally ; tube gibbously inflated, two-thirds of an inch long; limb one and a half inch broad, 2-lipped, 5-lobed; lobes orbicular-obovate, nearly equal; two upper erect, three lower spreading; mouth transversely oblong. Stamens two, included, in- serted at the very base of the corolla-tube, with two oF three interposed setiform staminodes; filaments slender, glabrous, incurved; anthers didymous. Ovary oblong; glandular-pubescent; style filiform, stigma purple. Cap- sule ovoid, acute, septicidal, many-seeded. Seeds curved, testa lax.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Calyx laid open, showing the two lateral lobes and one of the three connate dorsal lobes; 2, base of corolla, stamen, and staminodes from the specimen figured; both enlarged; 3, the same from native specimen :— enlarged. 74K en M-S.del J. NFitchhth Son imp Brooks, Day magi Vincent . consequently not described in the Flora of British India. Descr.—Leaves six to eight inches long by an inch broad, spreading and recurved, acute, glabrous, bright green above, pale beneath with purple spots towards the base. Scape one-fid., as long-as the leaves, stout, hirsute, green, with crowded red linear spots. Bract an inch long, oblong, obtuse, green, with dull purple blotches. Ovary one to’ one and a half inch long, green, with hirsute, dark purple ribs. 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BERKELEY, MA, F.LS. — Re-iseue, With a Supplement of nearly y 400 pages by NGTON G SMITH, , L.S8,. 2 vols., with 24 ogee, Plate A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns indigenous; to or Naturaliged in the British Isles, : *. GEORGE BEN NT bao ae * a : unhinas OP THE BRITISH ar : . i Wood Engraving, ‘with Diss sections, of Britt | : H. PITCH, 3 — Awp: W. G. a : a Mlastrated Companie t 7417 wits. en 13 TUES S op nepneyatengyene et Bien Ss SET oad Vincent Brooks, Day & SonImp. M.S. del, JN Fitch hth. Beh) ae Tas, 7417. CRINUM Scutmeert. Native of Abyssinia. Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AMARYLLER: Genus Crinum, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 726.) Crinum (Codonocrinum) Schimperi; bulbo globoso magno collo elongato, foliis 8-10 linearibus glabris recurvatis facie viridibus dorso glaucescentibus, pedunculo valido foliis breviore, umbellis paucifloris, spathe valvis 2 ovatis, pedicellis subnullis, perianthii tubo cylindrico 4-pollieari brun- neo-viridulo primum suberecto demum cernuo, limbo albo tubo wquilongo, lobis oblanceolato-oblongis acutis apice patulis, staminibus declinatis limbo brevioribus, stylo declinato staminibus longiore. O. Schimperi, Vathe inedit. ; Schum. in Gartenflora, vol. xxxviii. (1899), p. 561, tab. 1309. This fine Orinwm belongs to the same group as C. latifolium, Linn, zeylanicum, Linn, and longifolium, Thunb. (capense, Herb.). In its foliage and general habit it closely resembles C. abyssinicum, Hochst. ; but the flower is much larger. From C. scabrum, Herb., and Sanderianum, Baker, it differs by its pure white flowers. The bulbs were sent by Schimper from the mountains of Abyssinia, about twenty years ago, to the Botanical Garden at Berlin, but it was not recognized and described as a new species till 1889, and in the mean- time some of the bulbs had been distributed under the name of OC. abyssinicum, Hochst. The Royal Gardens, Kew, has received it both from the Berlin Botanical Garden and Herr Leichtlin. It flowered in an unheated frame last July, and seems likely to become one of the favourite half-hardy species of this large and difficult genus. Descr.—Bulb globose, the size of a man’s fist, with an elongated neck. Leaves eight or ten to a rosette, deve- loped at the same time as the flowers, linear, recurving, glabrous on the surfaces and edges, three feet long, two inches broad low down, tapering gradually to the point, green above, glaucous beneath., Peduncle arising from the base of the rosette of leaves, very stout, terete, two June Ist, 1895. feet long, brownish. Umbel few-flowered ; spathe-valves two broad, ovate; pedicels very short. Perianth with a cylindrical reddish-green tube four inches long, which is finally more or less curved, and a pure white permanently funnel-shaped limb of the same length, of which the oblan- ceolate-oblong acute lobes spread at the tip when the flower is fully expanded. Stamens declinate, an inch shorter than the perianth-limb; filaments white ; anthers small, whitish. Style declinate, entire, rather longer than the stamens.—J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, Back view of an anther; 2, apex of the style, both enlarged ; 3, whole plant, much reduced. 7418. AN eee NE EARL AROS tem ee ee Ex = eee > Fee A = M. $.del,J.N Fitch ith T i ue ie eet Vincent Broaks,Day & So L. Reeve & C° London Tas. 7418. TRICHOCLADUS Granpiriorvs. Native of the Transvaal. Nat. Ord. HamMamMELIDEA Genus Tricnoctapvs, Pers. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 667.) Tricnoctapus grandiflorus; frutex v. arbuscula, ramulis rubro punctatis novellis racemisque stellato-puberulis, foliis petiolatis tenuiter coriaceis ovatis subacutis v. ovato-lanceclatis subcaudato-acuminatis apicibus obtusis integerrimis reticulatis supra laete viridibus subtus pallidioribus, racemis subsessilibus brevibus axillaribus et terminalibus, rachi robusto, pedicellis brevissimis, calycis clausi demum 2-3-fidi lobis triangulari-ovatis, petalis elongatis loriformibus undulatis albis basi roseis, staminibus brevibus, filamentis subglobosis, connectivo in cornu uncinatum producto, ovario apice hirto, stylis subulatis recurvis intus stigmatosis, capsula globosa. T. grandiflorus, Oliver in Hook, Ic. Pl. vol. xv. p. 64, t. 1481. Though differing in some important points from the type of the genus T’richocladus, with which it accords in habit, and in most of its characters of flowers and fruit, it must, I think, be regarded as a congener of it. Of these characters Professor Oliver has indicated the 2-8-fid calyx, and the adhesion of the ovary to the tube of the calyx (which he regards as indications of affinity with the Malayan genus Maingaya); to which should be added the bisexual flowers, and the anthers not being univalvular in ‘dehiscence. The fruit, which Professor Oliver had not seen when describing the species, altogether resembles that of 7. crinitus, Pers. Five species of T'richocladus have been described, all South Africa, 7’. crinitus, Pers., the type of the genus; 1’. ellip- ticus and T. verticillatus, Eckl. & Zey.; T. peltatus, Meissn., and that here figured. Trichocladus grandiflorus was discovered in the Berg Plateau of the Transvaal by Mr. C. Mudd, who sent speci- mens to Messrs. Veitch in 1883, by whom they were transmitted to the Kew Herbarium. It has since then been received from Mrs. Royston, of Moodies, and from JuNE Ist, 1895, Mr. KE. E. Galpin, who collected it in wooded ravines near Barberstown, at an elevation of 3500 to 4000 feet. To Mr. Galpin the Royal Gardens are also indebted for seeds sent in 1890, a plant raised from which has now attained a height of nine feet in the Temperate House, where Mr. Watson thinks it looks as if it would grow into a good sized tree. Tt flowered for the first time in July, 1894. Deser.—A shrub or small tree, bark brown; young branches green, with red-purple spots, at first stellately pubescent. Leaves three to four inches long, shortly petioled, ovate, subacute, or ovate-lanceolate and caudately acuminate, dark green above, paler beneath, young bronzy brown, stellately pubescent. Flowers an inch and a halt in diameter, crowded in short, axillary and terminal sub- sessile racemes; rachis and pedicels short, and calyces stellately pubescent. Calye a quarter of an inch long, green, splitting irregularly into two or three triangular deciduous lobes. Petals five, one half to two-thirds of an inch long, strap-shaped, undulate, white, rose-colrd. at the base. Stamens very small; filaments subglobose, shorter than the two-celled anthers, which dehisce laterally, con- nective produced into an incurved horn. Ovary 2-celled, adnate to the calyx-tube; styles subulate. Capsule sub- globose.—J. D. H. fod 1, Bud; 2, stellate hairs; 3, tube of calyx and stamens; 4 and 5, stamens ; 6, vertical section of ovary :—All enlarged. 3 y * Vincent BrooksDay M.S.del, JN Fitch lith LReeve & C° London Tas. 7419. RIBES sracrrosum. Native of Western North America. Nat. Ord. Saxrrracea.—Tribe Ripesiee. Genus Rises, Linn. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 654.) Ripgs (Ribesia) bracteosum; fruticosum, inerme, glaberrimum, glandulosum, foliis amplis 5-7-lobatis, lobis ovatis lanceolatisve acutis v. acuminatis grosse serratis, petiolis elongatis, racemis elongatis erectis ascendentibusve multifloris, bracteis persistentibus linearibus spathulatisve infimis foliaceis, floribus flavidis, calycis lobis oblongis obtusis petalis spathulatis triplo longioribus, staminibus petalis aquilongis, baccis atris glandulosis polyspermis. R. bracteosum, Doug?l. in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. vol. i. p. 233. Bongard, Veg. Sitcha, p. 188. Torr. & Gray Fl. N. Am. vol.i. p. 550. Haton & Wright Man. Bot. p. 395. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. vol. ii. p. 201. Rothr. Fl. Alask. p. 446. S. Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 206. Mawimov, in Bull. Acad. Petersb. vol. xix. p. 253. (Mel. Biol. vol. ix. p. 222.) It is rather singular that so fine and hardy a plant as the subject of this plate, which was discovered nearly seventy years ago, and is common in what has long been an English colony, should never have been figured in any work, or found its place in our shrubberies of England ; for, so far as I can ascertain, it is in cultivation nowhere but at Kew, where there is no history of its introduction. It was discovered by David Douglas in 1826, at the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon, and has since been found along the Pacific coast of North America from Mendocino county in California to Sitka in Alaska, a range of upwards of 1200 miles. Not a few other shrubs besides trees and herbaceous plants extend through as many or more degrees of latitude on that coast, due no doubt to the equability of its temperature. R. bracteosum forms a handsome shrub when five to six feet high, with bright green leaves like those of the maple, which attain a breadth of eight to ten inches. It flowers at Kew in May. Deser.—Quite glabrous, or minutely pubescent on the raceme, and sparsely glandular. Stem four to ten feet June Ist, 1895, : high, erect, branched, terete, smooth. Leaves three to nine inches broad, palmately 5—7-cleft to or below the middle, membranous, bright green; lobes ovate or lanceo- late, acute, coarsely serrate, base truncate; petiole slender, longer than the blade. Racemes three to six inches long, shortly peduncled, erect, many-fld., length- ening in fruit often to a foot; bracts linear or spathulate, persistent, lower sometimes foliaceous; pedicels half an inch long, slender. Flowers erecto-patent. Calyw-tube turbinate, glandular ; limb a third of an inch diam. ; lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, spreading, golden yellow, with green tips and red bases, but probably variable in colour. Petals minute, spathulate. Stamens as long as the petals. Anthers didymous. Styles slender. Berries erect, globose, black, glandular.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower, pedicel, and bract; 2, gland; 3, flower with two sepals removed; all enlarged ; 4, portion of fruiting raceme of the nat. size. = La en ge Vineerit Brooks, Day & Tas. 7420. PERAPHYLLUM Rramostssimum. Native of Western North America. Nat. Ord. Rosacra.—Tribe Pome. Genus Perarnyiium, Nutt.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 628 (sub Amelanchier.) PERAPHYLLUM ramosissimum ; frutex fruticulusve ramosus rigidus, foliis coria- ceis anguste oblanceolatis acutis in petiolum brevem angustatis integer- rimis vel apicem versus denticulatis sparse sericeo-pubescentibus, floribus in corymbos paucifloros subsessiles erectos dispositis, pedicellis crassius- culis 2-bracteolatis, calycis tubo turbinato lobis lanceolatis, petalis orbicularibus patentibus roseis, staminibus petalis mquilongis, stylis elongatis tomentosis, baccis globosis. P. ramosissimum, Nutt. in Torr. & Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. i. p. 474. Walp. Rep. vol. v. p. 660. Wenzig.in Linnea, vol. xxxviii. (1856), p- 115. Brandegee. Fil. 8. W. Colorado, p. 236. S. Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. ii. p. 445. Coulter, Man, Rocky Mt. Bot. p. 89. A genus ofa single species, so closely allied to Amelan- chier, that it was reduced to the latter in the “ Genera Plantarum,” because the character taken from the fruit upon which it was founded, and which had been incor- rectly described, did not hold good. This reduction has not been accepted by American botanists, and a better knowledge of the habit of the plant affords ample characters for the retention of the genus. In Amelanchier the leaves are broad, membranous and serrate, the flowers are racemose, the calyx-tube short, and the petals oblong. In Peraphyllum the leaves are narrowly oblanceolate, flowers in subsessile corymbs, the calyx-tube cylindric, and petals orbicular. In both the fruit is globose, fleshy and edible. Peraphyllum ramosissimum seems to have a very inter- rupted distribution, being nowhere very common, but occupying a wide area, from the Blue Mountains in Oregon to 8.W. Colorado, Southern Utah, and California. It has been grown in the Arboretum of Kew for upwards of twenty years, where it forms a shrub about three feet high, but was never observed to flower till May, 1894. June Ist, 1895, | It is probably one of Dr. Asa Gray’s seed contributions to the Royal Gardens. Deser.—A much-branched shrub, two to six feet high; bark grey; branchlets short, rigid. Leaves one to two inches long, obovate-oblong, or narrowly oblanceolate, acute, obtuse, or apiculate, narrowed into a very short petiole, quite entire, or rarely sparingly toothed towards the tip, silkily pubescent, at length glabrescent. [lowers three-quarters of an inch diam., erect, in small, subsessile, erect, branched corymbs ; pedicels rather stout, one-fourth to one half in. long, with one or two small linear bracts. Calyx-tube shortly cylindric or subcampanulate, silky ; teeth narrow, erect, shorter than the tube, persistent. Petals orbicular, spreading, white, with a rose-colrd. disk. Stamens many, as long as the petals; anthers broadly oblong, yellow. Ovary 2- or incompletely 4-celled; styles 2-3, long, silky; stigmas capitate. Berry pendulous, half an inch diam., globose, fleshy. Seeds compressed, acutely margined.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower with the petals removed; 2, base of calyx and _ styles; _ 8, vertical section of ovary; 4, fruit :—All but fig. 4 enlarged. nino pie 4 Se See dury uog »9 Ae (y'syjoorg WUBOUTA ; MRUUDYL NE PSPS Tas. 7421. ROSA Louora. Native of Japan and China. Nat. Ord. Rosacka#.—Tribe Rosra. Genus Rosa, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625.) Rosa (Synstyle) Duet; frutex ramis prostratis, ramulis floriferis glabris sparse aculeatis, aculeis uncinatis, foliolis 5-9 ovatis elliptico-ovatis v. ovato-rotundatis utrinque glabris firmis mucronatis simpliciter dentatis superioribus breviter acuminatis, stipulis strictis denticulatis v. fimbriatis longe acuminatis rectis v. divaricatis auriculis angustis, petiolo glabro nudo y. aciculato v. subglanduloso, floribus solitariis v. subcorymbosis, bracteis caducis integris denticulatisve, pedicellis glabris subglandulosis v. rarius dense glanduloso-pubescentibus et aciculiferis, calycis tubo obo- voideo ellipsoideo v. globoso glabro raro glanduloso-pubescente, sepalis ovato-oblongis lanceolatisve breviter v. longius acuminatis caudatisve integris pinnatifidisve deciduis, petalis 3-3 poll. latis orbiculari-obovatis retusis albis, disco prominulo, stylis velutinis inferne connatis, fructibus parvis globosis levibus purpureis v. coccineis. R. Lucie, Franch. et Rochebr. in Bull. Soe. Bot. Belg. vol. x. (1871), p. 324, et vol. xv. (1876), p. 204. Crepin Prim. Monogr. Ros. fase 3, p. 258; et in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. vol. xiii. (1874), p. 251, & vol. xvii. (1879), p. 285 ; et in Comt. Rend. Bot. Soc. Belg. vol. xxv. ii. p.13. Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl, Jap. vol. i. p. 135, et vol. ii. p.344. Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. (1887), p. 251. R. Wichuraiana, Crepin et Desegl. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. vol. xiv. (1876), p- 204, et vol. xxvii. (1888), p. 189. J. G. Jack in Gard. & Forest. vol. iv.1 (1891), p. 44, e¢ vol. v. (1892), p. 367. Sargent I. c. vol. iv. ii. (1891), p. 570, fig. 89. R. Maximovicziana, Regel in Act. Hort. Bot. Petrop. vol. v. (1877), p. 378. R. moschata, Benth, Fl. Hongkong, p. 106. Rosa Lucie is most closely allied to R. multiflora, Thunb., figured at t. 7119 of this work, is as variable, and occupies precisely the same geographical area. It differs remarkably from that plant in its prostrate habit, much smaller, rounder leaflets; usually much larger flowers, not collected in large compound corymbs, and in its pisiform fruit. Franchet and Savat enumerate no fewer than eight _ Japanese varieties of it, differing in foliage, naked or glandular-pubescent pedicels, form and length of sepals, ‘size of the petals, &c. It is so difficult to distinguish several of these varieties from those of F. microphylla, that June Isr, 1995. | | 7 M. Crepin suggests the possibility of some of these being — of hybrid origin between the two species. The plant — which flowered at Kew, and of which a specimen is here — figured, is very much larger in all its parts than the m- — digenous ones in the Herbarium, in some of which its — flowers are not larger than the area occupied by the stamens in the plate, and are in crowded, short panicles, with almost glandular-tomentose very short peduncles and pedicels and calyx-tube. The sepals, too, of the Kew specimen are much shorter, broader, and more ovate than in the ordinary state of the plants when they are often | drawn out into caudate points, and are cut or pinnatifid — on one or both sides. The discoverer of R. Lucix was, according to Crepin, — M. Callery, whose specimens gathered in China in 1884 — are in the Herbarium of the Jardin des Plantes. It — appears to be very common in Japan, where, according to — Maries, it ascends the mountains to 7000 ft. elevation. There are specimens in Kew Herbarium from Corea and Manchuria, from various places in Hast China to as far south as Hong Kong ; Hance collected it at Whampoa; Tate — in the Quantung Provinces ; and Oldham in Formosa. j Plants of R. Luciw were received from Professor Sar- | gent, Director of the Harvard Arboretum, Boston, U.S.A, — mn 1891,* which flowered freely in August, 1894, in the Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and fruited in the — following October. It is, of course, perfectly hardy. : According to Professor Sargent, who gives a description | and excellent figure in “ Garden and Forest,” adding that — ht. Lucie was sent by Mr. Louis Spiith of Berlin in 1888 to — the Harvard Arboretum, where it produces prostrate stems — ten to fifteen feet long in a single season, and covers the ground as with a dense mat. Also that it has been very — largely used by the Parks Department of the City of Boston — for covering rocky slopes, &c., where its remarkable _ a hardiness, the brilliancy of its lustrous foliage and — e beauty of its flowers, which appear when most shrubs — we thes of bloom, certainly recommend it to the attention — e cultivators of hardy plants.” In another volume: * It must, however, have been introduced into England at an earlier periods for there is a good . “slog ‘ . raphe ENacombe in F380. specimen of it in the Kew Herbarium received from a **Garden and Forest’? 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Native of Chili and Argentaria. Nat. Ord. Composirm—Tribe SENECIONIDES. Genus Senecio, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 466.) Seyzc1o Hualtata; herba elata, robusta, junior araneosa, caule simplici erecto tereti striato, foliis radicalibus 14-2 pedalibus oblongo-ovatis obtusis basi inewqualiter cordatis marginibus undulatis dentatisque supra laete viridibus subtus saepe cerulescentibus v. purpurascentibus, costa crassa, nervis utrinque 8-10 patentibus, petiolo semipedali crasso fistuloso, foliis canlinis paucis sessilibus lanceolatis serratis, capitulis ad apices ramorum panicule ample congestis breviter v. longius pedicellatis diam. pollicaribus, involucri brevis pauci-bracteati foliolis lineari-oblongis obtusis apicibus barbellatis, radiis 12-16 late oblongis apice crenatis pallide stramineis, disci corollis aureis, acheniis glabris. 8. Hualtata, Bertero, ex DC. Prodr, vol. vi. p. 417. CO. Gay Fl. Chili, vol. iv. p- 194. Hook. & Arn. in Hook, Journ. Bot, vol. iii. (1841), p. 340. Griseb. Symb. Fl. Argent. p. 206, e¢ Pl. Lorentz. p. 145. S. fistulosus, Poepp. Lessing in Iinnea, vol. vi. (1831), p. 246. Cineraria gualtata, Gillies mss. Senecio Hualtata belongs to a group of gigantic herba- ceous Ragworts, which includes 8. sagittifolius, Baker (Tab. 7322), all natives of extra-tropical South America. Five or six species at least have been described; but it is impossible to say from Herbarium specimens how far they are all distinct. S. Hualtata is the best known of them, having a very wide distribution, and having been collected by many botanists. CC. Gay describes it as in- habiting the whole Republic of Chili, meaning, no doubt, the more temperate parts, for I find no evidence of its occurring further south than Valdivia, in lat. 40°. It crosses the Andes to the western slopes, where it fre- quents water-courses, and where it has been found as far north as Tucuman, in lat. 25°S. by Lorentz and Hierony- mus; thus giving it a range of 15° lat. Its native name in Chili generally is Hualtata or Gualtata; but at Valdivia, according to Mr. Reed, it is called “ Lengua de Vaca.” ‘The Royal Gardens, Kew, are indebted for seeds of this fine plant to Mrs. J. S. F loyer of Basingstoke, whose daughter, : JULY Ist, 1895, Mrs. Glynne Williams, sent them in 1890 from Vipos, thirty kilometres north of the city of Tucuman. The Kew plant, after having stood for several years without protection, on a slope close to the pond opposite the Palm House, in June of last year sent up its flowering stem five feet high, and flowered profusely. Deser.—A tall, very stout herb, in a young state sparingly woolly; flowering stem five feet high, terete, striate. Leaves chiefly radical, twelve to eighteen inches long, by four to six broad, oblong-ovate, broadest at the unequally truncate or cordate base, bright green above, more blue-green or purplish beneath, margin undulate and crenate-toothed, midrib very stout ; nerves eight to tel pairs, spreading ; petiole about as long as the blade, stout, hollow; upper or cauline leaves much smaller, sessile lanceolate, toothed. Head, an inch in diameter, shortly pedicelled in crowded clusters at the ends of the naked branches of a pyramidal panicle one to two ft. high. Involuere cylindric; bracts linear-oblong, green; tips brown, bearded. Ray-flowers twelve to sixteen, limb broadly obovate-oblong, pale straw-colrd., tip cremate. Disk-jlowers many, golden-yellow. Achenes (ripe, not seen) glabrous; pappus silvery.—J. D. H. Me Fig. 1, Bract of involucre; 2, fl. of the ray; 3, pappus hairs; 4, fl. of disk; 5, stamens; 6, style- i on ‘aad . d view 0 peered te yle-arms of disk f.:—Al/ enlarged ; fig. 7, reduce : 74.23 os soa fa ra — a me v} tei P= Bast Vincent Brooks Day & Sonimp Tas. 7423. PYRUS oratmaGirorta. Native of Italy. Nat. Ord. Rosaczz.—Tribe Pomem, Genus Prrvs, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 626.) Prrus crategifolia; arbor v. arbuscula, ramulis petiolis corymbisque pubes- centibus, foliis gracile petiolatis late ovatis acutis subtus lanatis demum glabratis lobulatis, lobulis utrinque 4-6 grosse dentatis, petiolo gracili, stipulis brevibus acutis caducis, corymbis terminalibus laxifloris pubes- centibus, pedicellis gracilibus elongatis roseis, calycis tomentosi tubo campanulato, lobis lanceolatis deflexis demum deciduis, petalis orbiculatis nivels, staminibus ad 15, stylis 4-5 elongatis erectis tomentosis basi connatis, baccis ellipsoideis rubris. : P. crategifolia, Targ. Tozz. exw Savi Tratt. Alb. Tose. ed. ii, vol. i. (1801), p- 169. Archang. Comp. Fl. Ital. p. 232. P, florentina, Zarg. Tozz. in Mem. Soc. Moden. vol. xx. pars. ii. (1829), p. 302» t.20. DC. Prodr, vol. ii. p. 628; Walp. Rep. Bot. vol. ii. p. 53. P. torminalis B., Penore Syill. Fl. Neap, 243. Mespilus florentina, Bertol, Amen. Ital. p. 29. Cratsgus florentina, Zuccagn. Cent. Prim. Obs. Bot. Hort. Florent. vol. i. (1806), ex Roem. Collect. 142. Bertol. Fl. Ital. vol. v. p. 142. Sorbus florentina, Nym. Syll. Fl. Europ, p. 266. A native of Italy, and apparently a rare plant, growing in woods near Florence, Bologna, and Lucca, and a few other spots in the north of the Peninsula, but local. Its nearest ally is perhaps P. torminalis, from which it differs in the more cordate base of the leaves which are inciso- serrate and tomentose beneath, in the simple terminal corymb with very long pedicels, and in the four to five filiform styles, and in the small, ellipsoid, red fruit, — P.crategifolia forms a bush about four feet high in the Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, flowering in June, and was, I believe, raised from seed received from the late Mr. Grover of Florence, one of the most acute and accomplished of Italian Botanists. Descr.—A bush or small tree, with slender branches and dark brown bark; young branches, leaves beneath, and young inflorescence copiously woolly, at length glabres- JuLy Ist, 1895, cent. Leaves thin, one and a half to two and a half inches long, broadly ovate, or almost orbicular in outline, acute, base truncate, margins cut into four to six triangular, coarsely-toothed, ovate lobes, dark green above, with as many sunk nerves as lobes, pale woolly, at length glabrate beneath; petiole one half to two-thirds ot an inch long, slender, reddish; stipules small, ovate, acute, deciduous. Corymbs terminal, lax-fld., tomentose ; rachis and long pedicels rose-pink, pedicels very slender, an inch to an inch and a half long. Flowers nod- ding, nearly an inch in diameter. Calyzx-tube narrowly campanulate, produced much beyond the ovary; lobes lanceolate, as long as the tube, reflexed, at length deci- duous. Petals inserted in the mouth of the calyx, orbi- cular, notched at the tip, pure white, spreading. Stamens ten to twenty, filaments glabrous. Styles four or five, elongate, villous, united at the base; stigmas capitate. Berry half an inch long, broadly ellipsoid, or elliptic- oblong, red.— J. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower with the petals removed ; 2, vertical section of ovary :—both enlarged ; 3, berries of the natural size. S Al 3 pa i, 4 vw a Vincent Brooks Day ® Son Imp Tas. 7424, ARISTOLOCHIA ctneuttrotta. Native of Borneo. ._ Nat. Ord. ARISTOLOCHIACER. Genus AristoLocuiA, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 121.) Aristotocnia (Diplolobus) ungulifolia; volubilis, glabra, foliis amplis ambitu suborbicularibus profunde trilobis, lobis oblongisdecurvis sinu rotundato, lateralibus oblongis apice rotundatis intermedio oblongo-lanceolato obtuso, floribus in racemos breves dispositis, perianthio basi in stipitem cylindraceam producto, dein in vesicam late oblongam dorso bigibbosam inflato, ultra. vesicam in tubum angustum recurvum producto, ore late ee limbo elongato spathulato erecto villoso marginibus revolutis. A. ungulifolia, Masters in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. (1875), p. 494; in Gard. Chron. (1880), vol. ii. p 116, f. 28. According to specimens in the Herbarium of Kew, A. ungulifolia is a native of Borneo, where it was dis- covered by Messrs. Motley and Barber in the province of Labuane. It is very distinct from any hitherto pub- lished species, and probably unique in the presence of two curious swellings in the dorsal surface of the saccate base of the perianth. These swellings correspond to depres- sions with ciliate margins in the inner surface of the same sack, and are presumably concerned in the pollinisation of the plant by insects. The Indian ally of A. ungulifolia is A. indica, Linn., a frequent plant all over tropical India. A. ungulifolia was first described by Dr. Masters, F.R.S., from specimens exhibited in 1880 at the Exhibition of the Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington, by Mr. Mortimer, gardener to Major Storer, Purley Park, Reading. he specimen here figured was received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from H. N. Ridley, M.A., F.L.8., Director of Gardens and Forests, Singapore, in November, 1894, and which flowered in a stove in the following November. : Descr.—A tall, glabrous climber, with slender, terete, Juty Ist, 1895. green stems; branches obscurely angled. Leaves six to seven inches long and broad, suborbicular in outline, abruptly narrowed into the petiole at the broad hardly cordate base, deeply 3-lobed, pale green, and convex on the upper surface, with reticulated veins; lobes sub- parallel, decurved, lateral oblong, rounded at the tip; mid-lobe longest, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at the obtuse tip ; sinus between the lobes narrow, base rounded ; petiole one to one and a half inch long, deeply grooved on the upper side; stipular leaves none. [lowers about three inches long, in few-fld. corymbs. Perianth divisible into four sections; 1, a short, narrow, terete, solid stipes, about a quarter of an inch long; 2, a dull purple, broadly obovoid, oblong bladder, nearly an inch long, with two collateral, dorsal bosses on the back below the next section; 3, acurved tube, about as long as the bladder, expanding into a small, funnel-shaped mouth, with re- curved margins, from the dorsal margin of which arises ; 4, a spathulate, erect, or reclined, tomentose, red-brown limb, an inch long, with a terminal apiculus, and revolute margins; inner surface of the bladder and mouths of the bosses villous. Colwmn cup-shaped round the six stigmas, and with a few hairs at the base—J. D. H., _ Fig. 1, Section of tube of perianth; 2, column with the ovary and pedicel like base of the perianth ; 3, column :—A/] enlarged. tad 4 5, Day &S is noent Broo. Vi Se eitecdidia ses fi rns osha Tap. 7425. NEUWILEDIA Grtrriruatt. Native of Malacca. Nat. Ord. Orcu1pEx%.—Tribe APosTASIEZ. Genus Neuwiepia, Blume; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. yol. iii. p. 635.) Nevuwiepia Grifithii ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, scapo breviusculo, racemo hispidulo, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis flores subeequantibus erectis, perianthio ovoideo albo, filamentis brevibus liberis quam antheras oblongas multo brevioribus. N. Griffithii, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid, vol. ii. (1874), p. 16. Rolfe in Journ. Tinn. Soc. vol. xxv. (1890), p. 235. Hook, f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 176. On Tab. 7368 is figured, for the first time, from living specimens, the remarkable Malayan genus of Orchidex, Neuwiedia, and under the description of it (N. Lindley) it is stated that another species, N. Griffithii, is also in culti- vation at Kew. ‘The latter has since flowered (in Sep- tember, 1894), and is here represented. N. Griffithii differs from N. Lindleyi in its much smaller size, shorter spike, broader bracts, and very small white flowers, which are much more pubescent. It was discovered by Dr. Griffith in Malacca, and it was subsequently collected there by the late Dr. Maingay, and lastly, by Mr. Ridley, to whom the Royal Gardens are indebted for living plants, as they were to him for those of N. Lindleyi. It has also been found in the province of Perak (in the Malayan Peninsula) by collectors sent by Dr. King from the Royal Botanical Gardens, Calcutta. There still remain two Javan species of Neuwiedia, which are very imperfectly known, and from dried specimens alone, N. veratrifulia and N. Zollingeri, Blume, together with N. Ourtisii of Rolfe of Penang, and N. calanthoides of New Guinea, all of which require investigation from living specimens before the species of the genus can be pronounced to be satisfactorily established. With regard to N. Lindleyi, I have, with regret, to state that the colour- ing of the flower in the plate is of far too bright a golden- yellow, and in this respect very far from a faithful repro- JuLy Ist, 1895. duction of the artist’s drawing, which is (as with all the original drawings published in the Botanical Magazine) preserved in the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens for verification of the published plates. The true colour is a pale primrose. : Descr.—Whole plant sixteen inches high, quite glabrous, except the spike. Leaves four to ten inches long by one to one and a half broad, erect, elliptic-lanceolate, acumi- nate, many-nerved. Spike shortly peduncled, four to SIX inches long in flower; rachis, bracts, and flowers hispidly pubescent; bracts green, ovate-lanceolate, about as long as the very shortly pedicelled flowers. Ovary trigonous, produced into a very short neck. 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ProcuynantueEs, Bulliana; rhizomate tuberoso fibris coronato, foliis radicalibus paucis rosulatis oblanceolatis acutis subcoriaceis persistentibus glabris margine denticulatis, pedunculo elongato foliis paucis reductis lanceolatis pradito, floribus geminis sessilibus in spicam laxam elongatam dispositis, bracteis ovatis parvis, perianthio purpureo-viridulo ad medium decurvato tubo deorsum oblongo sursum campanulato, lobis ascendentibus sub- orbicularibus, staminibus inclusis ad medium tubi insertis, stylo perianthio zequilongo apice lobis tribus patulis orbicularibus pubescentibus _ stigmatosis preedito. Bravoa Bulliana, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1884, vol. ii. p. 328; Handb. Amaryllid. p. 161. This fifth genus of Agavexe has been discovered since the publication of Bentham and Hooker’s Genera Planta- rum. Itis mtermediate between Polianthes and Bravoa, differing from both by its more coriaceous persistent leaves and greenish-brown flowers abruptly decurved and dilated at the middle. The original species, P. viridiflora, 8. Wats., which was discovered by Dr. Palmer in 1886 in the. province of Jalisco, has long pedicels, which are articulated at the middle. In the present plant the flowers are larger and quite sessile. It was imported from Mexico by Mr. — Wilham Bull, and first flowered by him in the year 1884, at which date [ described it in the Gardener’s Chronicle, under the genus Bravoa. Mr. Bull presented a plant to the Royal Gardens, Kew, and our drawing was made from this when it flowered in an unbeated frame last summer. This is the first time the genus has been figured, and the original species, so far as I am aware, has never been brought into cultivation. Descr.—Rootstock tuberous, crowned by a dense mass of fibres. Leaves few in a radical rosette, oblanceolate, acute, subcoriaceous, persistent, bright green, a foot or more long, two inches broad at the middle, denticulate on the pale horny margins. Pedunele erect, twice as long as the Aveusr Isr, 1895. : leaves, furnished with several lanceolate reduced leaves. Flowers in pairs, forming a very long, lax, simple spike, quite sessile; bracts ovate, small. Perianth brownish- green ; tube abruptly decurved and dilated at the middle, oblong in the lower half, campanulate in the upper half; lobes suborbicular, ascending. Stamens inserted at the base of the dilated upper half of the perianth; filaments filiform ; anthers linear-oblong, versatile. Style as long as the perianth ; stigmatose apex of three spreading orbicular pubescent lobes.—J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, A flower cut open to show the stamens; 2, ovary and style; 3, horizontal section of the ovary: all enlarged; 4, whole plant: much reduced, Gel, IN Fitch lith, MS Tas. 7428. SACCOLABIUM Moorzanvm. Native of New Guinea. Nat. Ord. OncH1pEZE.—Tribe VanpEx, Genus SacconaBium, Bl. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 578. Saccotanrum (Genuine) Mooreanwm ; caule brevi crasso, foliis oblongis lineari-oblongisve apice 2-lobis crasse coriaceis, pedunculis robustis decurvis viridibus purpureisve, vaginis remotis brevibus obtusis pedunculo arcte appressis brunneis, spicis densifloris oblongis, bracteis lineari-lan- ceolatis, floribus subglobosis pallide viridibus v. roseis, sepalis conniven- tibus lineari-oblongis obtusis concavis, petalis obovatis obtusis, labelli carnosi 3-lobi lobis lateralibus semi-orbicularibus erectis terminale parvo cymbiforme, calcare sepalis duplo longiore dependente clavato obtuso, columna brevi antice in brachia 2 truncata producta, anthera galeeforme vertice lobulato. S. Mooreanum, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1893, p. 64. Mr. Rolfe describes 8S. Mooreanum as allied to S. minus, Reichb. f., and to “two or three other Polynesian species, having a peculiar decurved appendage in front of the column, looking down as it were into the spur.” This appendage, which is well shown in fig. 2 of the plate, seems to be a prolongation of the sides of the column or its clinandrium, upon the truncate face of which the very large gland of the pollinia rests, and may hence be com- pared with a rostellum. Mr. Rolfe further points out the similarity of this “appendage ”’ to what occurs in Unctfera, Lindl., a genus I have reduced (Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 65) to Saccolabsum; m which it is seen to be a prolongation of the column itself into two parallel arms. This is shown in my drawings of both species of Uncifera (Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2184, 21385), in one of which, S. acuminatum, the arms are truncate with the gland of the pollinia placed exactly as in S. Mooreanum, whilst in the other, S. obtusifolium, they are more acute, or rather, more obliquely truncate. In short, except for the beaked anther and incurved spur of the former the flowers of S. Mooreanum and acuminatum are Aveust Ist, 1895. (sepals, petals, lip, spur and column) almost identical ; and if Uncifera is to be kept up, it claims both these species. Further, the remarkable characters of the pollinia of Uncifera, of the very large gland, and the broad wings of the strap, which are recurved when dry, are repeated in S. Mooreanum, the only difference being that the pollen masses are raised on an incurved stipes on the face of the strap in Uncifera, and sessile in S. Mooreanum. S. Mooreanum was imported from New Guinea by Messrs. F. Sander & Co. of St. Albans, from whom both forms were obtained by the Royal Gardens, and which flowered in the Tropical Orchid House in January of this year. Descr.—Stem stout, short. Leaves four to six inches long, distichous, oblong, 2-lobed, coriaceous; margins recurved, bright green above, paler and mottled beneath. Scape as long as the leaves, stout, decurved, green or red-purple and speckled; sheaths two or three, distant, short, obtuse, brown, appressed; bracts small, lanceolate. Sypike two to three inches long, oblong or ovoid, very dense-fid. Flowers subglobose, rose-purple or greenish white, one-third of an inch in diameter. Sepals conniving, oblong, obtuse, con- cave. Petals conniving, obovate-oblong. Lip small, side lobes rounded erect; terminal lobe cymbiform, fleshy, subacute, thickened transversely at the base; spur longer than the sepals, clavate, dependent, without internal sep- tum, or dorsal scale below the column. Colwmn short, stout, produced in front into truncate arms, on which the gland of the pollinia rests. Anther helmet-shaped, with four bosses on the crown; strap of pollinia trapeziform at the apex, with the sides recurved, bearing two sessile pollen masses; gland very large, obtuse.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Front view of white fd. var. ; Le j ‘ 3, anther; 4, pollinia, all from the same; 5, side view Be er eee f red-fld. var. :—AJl enlarged. MS. del IN Pita lth Vincent Brooks, Day & Sone: | A i a le - Tap. 7429. SPIRAIA BRACTEATA. Native of Japan. Nat. Ord. Rosacr#.—Tribe SPrrex, Genus Srirama, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 611.) Srirma bracteata; glaberrima, ramulis angulatis, foliis orbiculato-obovatis rotundatisve ad apicem rotundatam crenatis subtus glaucis nervis gracilibus, petiolis brevibus, corymbis multifloris hemisphericis foliolosis, calycis lobis ovatis fructu erectis, petalis albis truncato-orbiculatis im- bricatis, staminibus ad 20 petalis paullo brevioribus, disco elevato crenato, carpellis dorso medio lanatis maturis stylo demum deciduo parum brevioribus, seminibus breviter appendiculatis, testa levi arcte appressa. ' S. bracteata, Zahel in Wittm. Gartenzeit. vol. iii. (1884) p. 496. Strauch. Spirden, p. 45. Dippel Handb. Laubholzk, p. 468. S. nipponica, Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Peters. vol. xxxi. (1868) p.39 ; Diagn. Pl. Nov. Asiat, (Mel. Biol.) vol. xii. p. 934. S. media, F. Schmidt, Hstr. Baumz. 53, t. 54. S. media, var. rotundifolia, Nichols. in Gard. Chron. 1885, vol. i. p. 283, Fig. 26; and Gard. Dict. vol. iii. p. 477. S. rotundifolia, fl. albo, Hort. P. F. von Siebold. Spirza bracteata is well distinguished by its nearly orbi- cular leaves, its hemispheric heads of flowers, the broad imbricating petals of which so closely overlap as to re- semble a monopetalous corolla. The name is derived from the presence of numerous small leaves on the branches of the corymbs, which are concealed by the sweet-scented flowers. Another peculiarity is the great size of the glands of the disk, which surround the mouth of the calyx-tube, and resemble a string of large beads. Mr. Nicholson informs me that S. bracteata was intro- duced from Japan by Siebold, and distributed from his old nursery at Leyden, under the name of 8. rotundifolia. It was described as S. nipponica by Maximovicz, two years after it had been published by Zabel, and there are speci-— mens under that name in the Kew Herbarium, from the Imperial University of Japan, collected on Mount Fusiyama, and from M. Maries, who found it at elevations of two to- Auveust Ist, 1895. seven thousand feet in Central Japan. Maximovicz con- sidered that its nearest ally is his S. mongolica, which differs in having triple-nerved leaves. The drawing was made from a specimen that flowered in the Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in June, 1894. Descr.—A small glabrous shrub; bark on the main branches dark brown, young branches bright.red. Leaves one half to one inch long and broad, orbicular, or very broadly obovate, with a few broad crenatures on the rounded tip ; petiole very short, nerves slender, spreading. Corymbs two inches in diameter, subsessile, hemispherical ; dense- fld.; branches with small green foliaceons bracts concealed by the very shortly pedicelled flowers, which vary from a quarter to nearly half an inch in diameter. Calyz-lobes triangular-oyate, hairy within. Petals orbicular, truncate, so closely overlapping as to resemble a cupular broadly 5-lobed corolla, white. Disk a crenate ring at the mouth of the calyx-tube. Stamens shorter than the petals. Carpels dorsally woolly about the middle; styles rather | long.— J. D. H. Fig. 1, Calyx disk and carpels ; 2, petal ; 8, stamens; 4, section of calyx, showing carpels :—All enlarged. * au 3 MS. dsLInFich kth on imp = 4 Vincent Brooks,Day &S L Reeve & CoT..4 Tas. 7430. PYRUS © stxxrmensis. Native of the Himalaya. Nat. Ord. Rosacrm.—Tribe Pomes. Genus Prrvs, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 626. Prrvs (Malus) sikkimensis ; arbor parva, ramulis novellis foliis subtus calyci- busque tomentosis demum glabratis, foliis ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis serrulatis, lamina petiolo pluries longiore, stipulis setaceis, corymbis multifloris, pedunculis elongatis gracilibus, alabastris roseis, calycis tubo ellipsoideo, sepalis lanceolatis reflexis deciduis, petalis orbi- cularibus v. late obovato-oblongis, ungue brevi villoso, staminibus 25-30, stylis glabris basi connatis, baccis parvis obeonico-pyriformibus. P. sikkimensis, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. ii. p. 373. P. baccata indica, Hort. There are in the Himalaya three species of the Malus group of Pyrus; 1, the apple, which is indigenous in the Western hills, as well as cultivated up to 11,500 ft. in Tibet ; 2, the Siberian Crab, P. baccata, Linn., differing from the common N. Asian plant only in the smaller sub- pyriform fruit, a form of fruit which occurs rarely in Siberia, but which is figured in Pallas Flora Rossica. It is found from Kashmir to Kumaon, sometimes in a cultivated state, and in Bhotan and the Khasia Hills, but has not been brought from Nepal or Sikkim; 3, the plant here figured, which differs from P. baccata in the tomentose under surface of the leaves and calyx, and glabrous column of styles. The fruit also is speckled with white, as in P. Pashia, which belongs to the Pyrus proper section of the genus, but the spots are much smaller in sikkimensis. The tree from which the specimens figured were obtained has existed in the Arboretum of the Royal Gardens for many years, and all traces of its history are lost. It is evidently a very old plant, in a gnarled condition, bearing conspicuous stout branching spurs on the trunk, owing no doubt to the poverty of the soil; and it may be assumed to have been raised from seeds sent by myself from Sikkim in 1849, now forty-five years ago, before which time no Aueust lst, 1895. plants or seeds had been sent from that country. The species had, however, been discovered in Bhotan by Griffith some years earlier, and fruiting specimens collected by him are in the Kew Herbarium. I found it frequently at elevations of 7-10,000 feet in the interior of Sikkim, as a small stoutly branching tree, twenty to thirty feet high, flowering in June and July, and producing fruit of which I made an agreeable stew. The Kew tree flowers in May, and fruits in September. Descr.—A small gnarled tree, bark brown, young shoots leaves beneath (and above in a young state) and calyx more or less woolly. Leaves three to five inches long, ovate, acuminate, serrulate ; petiole much shorter than the blade; stipules subulate. Flowers corymbose, an inch in diameter ; buds rose-colrd. ; pedicels one and a half to two inches long, very slender. Calyz-tube ellipsoid; lobes lanceolate, recurved, deciduous. Petals orbicular, white, claw very short, tomentose. Stamens very many. Styles slender, connate below, glabrous. Fruit two-thirds of an inch diameter, broadly subglobosely pyriform, dark-red, speckled with white.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Calyx and stamens; 2, petal :—Both enlarged. qa e ~ ee — +. nm Ne o nwas Vincent Brooks Day* LReeve & C° London + oe Tas. 7431. PLEUROTHALLIS Scarma. Native country unknown, Nat. Ord. OrcHipE&.—Tribe EprpgnDREA. Genus PLevrotHattiis, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. J. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 488.) PLevrRoTHALLIs (Acuminatse) Scapha; glaberrima, caulibus erectis gracilibus teretibus internodiis inferioribus maculatis, 1-foliatis, vaginis appressis, folio oblongo-lanceolato crasse coriaceo suberecto basi angustato, dorso acute carinato supra saturate viridi subtus pallidiore, racemo folio multo longiore pendulo laxifloro, rachi gracillima, bracteis tubulosis albis, oblique truncatis, floribus 23-3 poll. longis gracile pedicellatis, sepalis lanceolatis in caudas filiformes lamina multo longiores recurvas angus- tatis, lateralibus connatis albis rubro striatis, dorsali rubro-purpureo, petalis sepalis equilongis e basi angusta caudato-acuminatis pallidis patenti-recurvis, labelli lobis lateralibus falciformibus decurvis, interme- dio duplo longiore lineari carnoso integerrim glaberrim, columna acuta medio dorso incrassata, anthera mitriforme. P. Scapha, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron, (1874) vol. ii. p. 162. Xen. Orchid. vol. iii. p. 86, 247, f.1. Hemsl. in Gard. Chron. (1881) vol.i. p. 784, £. 139, vol. ii. p. 42. : Pleurothallis Scapha has been long known in cultivation, having been introduced by Mr. J. Day before the year 1874, when it was described by Reichenbach. It belongs to Lindley’s section Acwminatex, characterized by the leaves narrowed at the base, the long racemes and the acuminate sepals, and to the subdivision of this with long-pedicelled flowers. Its nearest ally is P. insignis, Rolfe (Tab. 6936) which has much fewer and larger flowers, and a li bearded at the tip. ‘The native country of both these species is unknown, but P. insignis has been supposed to have been sent from Caraccas. The specimen figured was communicated to the Royal Gardens by Mr. Moore, A.L.S., Keeper of the Glasnevin — Gardens, Dublin. It flowered in a cool house in January _ of the present year. : : Deser.—Stem two to five inches high, erect, rigid, terete, as thick as a crow-quill; internodes one to one and a half inch long, lower pale brown spotted with dark red, upper — Aveust Ist, 1895. a eae ae (leaf-bearing) one to two inches long, green. Leaf four to six inches long, oblong-lanceolate, tip recurved obtuse, narrowed to the base, thickly coriaceous, keeled dorsally, dark green above, paler beneath, nerves very obscure. Raceme six to ten-fld., with the peduncle nearly a foot long, very slender, decurved and pendulous; sheaths closely appressed, streaked with brown. Flowers remote, long-pedicelled ; bracts green, tubular with obliquely trun- cate rather dilated mouths; pedicels three-fourths to an inch long, filform. Ovary one-fourth to half an inch long, green, subterete. 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Edition, plein sak D. eer ee 1, P.RS., ke. 108.64. LU Li TIONS. OF TE BRITISH FLORA: ies of Wood Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants 4 AWN BY Ww. CE FITCH, — S., anp W. G. SMITH, F.LS. an Ulustrated Companion to Bentham’s Handbook, “ and other Br itish c ~ ses nia with 1315 5 Wool psc alae 108, 6d A ae | HRNRIEETA StuERT, CovENT Gan 7432 Pet, alia “pee 4 Ue Kee corse Nast MincentBrooks,Day & Son Imp MS.dal JN Fitch lith. LReeve & C° London Tas. 7432. HELIANTHUS pesitis. Native of the Southern United States. Nat. Ord. Compostrz.—Tribe HELIANTHOIDER. Genus Hetiantuvs, Linn. ; (Benth, & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 376.) Heiantuvs debilis; annuus, hispidulus, caule e basi ramoso, ramis gracilibus, foliis longe petiolatis ovatis deltoideisve subacutis grosse inwqualiter crenato-dentatis denticulatisque e basi cuneato 3-nerviis, floribus amplis gracile peduuculatis, involucri bracteis patentibus inzequalibus herbaceis lanceolatis acuminatis scabridis, receptaculi planiusculi bracteolis tran- catis v. inequaliter 2~3-fidis-dentatisve, corollis radii sub 3-seriatis elliptico-oblongis 3-5-nervis aureis, disci corollis cylindraceis rabro-brun- neis, achzeniis obovato-oblongis hispidulis, pappi setis brevibus ineequali- bus coriaceis. H. debilis, Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. N.S. vol. viii. (1841) p. 367. Torr. & Gray Fl. N. Am, vol. ii. p. 320. Chapm. Fi. 8. Un. St. p. 229. A. Gray, Synopt. Fl. N. Am., Gamopet. part i. p. 273. H. precox, Engelm. & Gray in Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. vol. v. (1847) 221, and Pl, Lindh, vol. i. p. 18. H. debilis, var. cucumerifolius, A. Gray l.e. Gard. Chron. (1895) vol. i. p. 167, fig. 24. H. cucumerifolius, Zorr. & Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. 319. Helianthus debilis belongs to a small section of the genus in which the root is annual, chiefly natives of the Southern States of N. America, and which includes six species, the common #. annuus, Linn., being one of them. A. Gray says of the whole group that the species are ‘difficult of determination, and apparently confluent.” He includes under it H. precoz, as a variety with a more hispid stem, but Chapman retains this, describing it as erect, H. debilis being more or less decumbent, and having 15-20 ray-flowers, whereas he attributes only 10-14 to H. debilis. Chapman further describes the flowers of debilis as small, but Gray says of them that they are half an inch or more in diameter. H. cucumerifolius, Torr & Gray, is described by Gray as another form of debilis, distinguished by its greater SEPTEMBER Ist, 1895. size, usually purple-mottled stem, and more numerous broader rays, 15-20 in number, an inch and more long, and its irregularly serrate leaves with salient teeth. A careful comparison of a suite of authentically named speci- mens of debilis, precox, and cucumerifolius shows that there are no good grounds for distinguishing them as varieties, they differ considerably, but only in the size of the leaves and flowers, those of the specimen here figured are much larger than in any of the native ones, and the nearest approach to it is labelled H. debilis by Gray. In the . Gardener’s Chronicle H. debilis var. cucumerifolius is de- scribed as having stems blotched with purple (as described by Gray), and as suited to a perennial border ; but the stems of the Kew plant are speckled with white, and the plant 1s an annual. H., debilis was raised at Kew from seeds purchased from anurseryman. Itisa native of the sandy sea shores of Florida, Louisiana, and E. Texas. At Kew the plants flowered in an open border in September, 1894 _ Deser—Annual; whole plant hispidulous. Stem branch- ming from below; branches two feet long, slender, green, speckled with white. Leaves, lower opposite, upper alter- nate, three to four inches long, ovate or deltoid, subacute, more or less irregularly crenate or toothed, or acutely sublobulate and denticulate, thin , rough on both surfaces, dark green, 3-nerved from the cuneate or truncate base; petiole one to three inches long, slender. Flower-heads two to three inches in diameter, on slender peduncles. Involucre of many spreading unequal herbaceous, lanceolate acuminate scabrid bracts. Receptacle nearly flat, with narrow unequally toothed or rarely entire chaffy bracteoles. Ray-flowers twelve to twenty, bright golden yellow ; limb oblong, obtuse, three to five-nerved. Disk-flowers marooo brown ; corolla cylindric; lobes obtuse, suberect. Achen? obovate-oblong, pubescent ; pappus bristles about tw | very unequal, short, rigid.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Ovary and base of coroll rs » UV a of ray-fl.; 2, bracteole of receptacles 3, fl. of the disk; 4, stamens ; 5, style-arms All enlarged. Vincent Brooks Day 450" Tas. 7433. RUMEX aywenoserates. Native of New Mexico and Arizona. Nat. Ord. Potyconacem.—Tribe Rumicex. Genus Rumex, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 200.) Rumex hymenosepalus; glaberrima radice tuberosa, caulibus erectis elatis robustis, foluis oblongis ovato- v. lanceolato-oblongis acuminatis in petiolum crassum angustatis uudulatis pallide viribidus, reticulatim venosis, coste crassa, nervis primariis utrinque 6-10, stipnlis magnis hyalinis caducis, paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus densifloris pedi- cellis floribus hermaphrodis brevioribus basi versus articulatis, sepalis interioribus quam exterioribus multo majoribus amplis orbicularibus veno- in fructiferis basi cordatis intus e Caitogis integerrimis, akeniis 4 poll. ongis, R. hymenogepalus, Torrey Bot. Mewic. Bound. p.177. S. Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. ii. p. 8 and 479. Am. Journ. Pharm. 1876, p. 49; Aug. 1889, and April, 1893. Kew Bulletin, 1890, p. 63, and 1894. p. 167, Journ. & Trans. Pharmac. Soc. 1889, p. 187, and July, 1893, p. 42. Nugent in Foreign Off. Report, 1894, n. 1879. S. Saxei, Kellogg in Pacif. Rural Press, June, 1879. Considerable interest attaches to the plant here figured, on account of its tanning properties, which have led to its cultivation in the United States’ experimental station attached to the Agricultural College at Las Cruces, ‘‘ where the evolution of the plant from the wild to the cultivated state is being closely watched and recorded.”