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BOTANICAL REGISTER:
ORNAMENTAL FLOWER-GARDEN

AND SHRUBBERY:
COLOURED FIGURES OF PLANTS AND SHRUBS,

CULTIVATED IN BRITISH GARDENS ;

ACCOMPANIED BY THEIR

Wisto, Best Petha of Creatment in Cultivation, Propagation, Kr.

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EDITED

By JOHN LINDLEY, Ph.D. F.R.S. anp LS.

PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON,

AND THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN,
VICE-SECRETARY OF THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY,

Se. $e. &c.

NEW SERIES,
COMPLETE IN TEN VOLUMES.

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TALINUM teretifolium.

Slender-leaved Talınum.

POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. PORTULACACEE.
TALINUM. Adanson.

§ 1. Stigmas or lobes of the style short, connivent. Perennial herbs,
with a short thick and firm stem, and terete, subulate, fleshy leaves.
Flowers in a terminal, dichotomous cyme, expanding for a single day.
PHEMERANTHUS Rafinesque.

T. ciliatum; caule simplici v. ramoso, foliis aggregatis teretibus, pedunculis
elongatis, paniculà cymosä, petalis purpureis ovato-subrotundis, stami-
nibus 20.

T. teretifolium. Pursh Fl. Bor. am. 2.365. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 819. DeCand.
Prodr. 3. 386. Gray and Torrey's Flor. 1. 196.

A pretty little herbaceous plant, seldom seen in cultiva-
tion. It inhabits various parts of North America, from Texas
as far north as Pennsylvania, trailing over naked rocks, its
favourite place of resort.

In our gardens it is treated as a greenhouse plant, and then
it forms neat patches of lively purple flowers. It is, how-
ever, rather rare.

Our drawing was made in 1841, in the garden of the
Horticultural Society, where it had been raised from seeds
received from Mr. Otto of Berlin.

Fig. 1. represents the calyx and stamens, magnified, the
petals having been pulled off. ©

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STENOMESSON vitellinum.
Yolk-of-Egg Stenomesson.

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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDACEX.
STENOMESSON. Herbert.

S. vitellinum ; foliis hysteranthiis obovato-oblongis 3-nerviis petiolatis mar-
gine revolutis subtůs glaucis, umbellà 6-florá, perianthii laciniis erectis,
staminibus exsertis, coron: dentibus obtusis indivisis.

Bulbus placentiformis, collo constricto. Flores ante folia. Scapo spi-
thameus glaucus. Pedicelli forum breves, ovario paululum longiores. Stamina
alterně breviora. Stigma 3-lobum capitatum.

. . A bulbous plant from Lima, whence it was sent by John
Maclean, Esq. to the Horticultural Society, with whom it
flowered in February 1812.

The yellow flowers, and their general appearance, remind
one of the yellow Calostemma of New Holland ; only they are
larger.

It is essentially distinguished from the other known species
by its broad leaves, depressed bulbs, and the intermediate
teeth of the cup being obtuse and undivided.

The plant flowered in a cool stove, where it had been kept
"warm and moist while growing, but cooler and drier while at
rest. T ná

It is among the prettiest of the Western -American bulbs ; .
but is at present extremely rare.

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ODONTOGLOSSUM citrósmum.
Lemon-scented. Odontoglossum,

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER $ VANDEA.
ODONTOGLOSSUM. Kunth.

O. eitrosmum (Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1842. misc. 68.) ; pseudobulbis subrotundis
compressis leevibus monophyllis, folio oblongo-ligulato obtuso racemo
paulo breviore, sepalis oblongis obtusis petalisque conformibus subae-
qualibus, labello unguiculato reniformi basi bituberculato, column alis
lateralibus subtruncatis dorsaliq. rotundato denticulatis.

Although such plants as this seem as if they weakened the
genus Odontoglossum, on account of their similarity in habit
to Oncidium, yet in truth they rather confirm that genus by
showing that although the appearance of Oncidium may be
assumed, yet the main points of structure remain unaffected.
One of the most important of these points is the partial paral-
lelism of the base of the labellum with the column, and the
presence of a pair of parallel raised plates at that part. This
occurs in the original Odontoglossum, and runs through
all the numerous species published and unpublished with
which I am acquainted ; and it does not occur in any Onci-
dium. |

While however, notwithstanding its habit, this Odonto-
glossum citrosmum confirms, rather than diminishes, the pro-
priety of separating Odontoglossum from Oncidium; it has a
peculiarity of its own, which may possibly suggest to some
minds the propriety of forming it and such plants as O. brevi-
folium and pulchellum into a separate genus, characterized by
the presence of a toothed wing or membrane at the back of
the anther; and the similarity of these plants in habit might
seem to justify the measure. In that case the generic name
of Trymentum might be taken for them. I do not however

at present see the necessity of regarding them as more than a
section of Odontoglossum. |

It was imported by George Barker, Esq., of Birmingham,
from Mexico, and given to Thomas Brocklehurst, Esq., of
the Fence near Macclesfield, by whose gardener it was exhi-
bited at one of the great meetings of the Horticultural
Society at Chiswick in 1842. It has large snow-white and
rose-coloured flowers, of great beauty, exhaling a delicate
smell of lemons. |

Fig. 1. represents the column with its three wings and
the base of the lip. Fig. 2. shews the masses of pollen, theır
strap and gland.

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HOVEA racemulosa.
Spikeletted Hovea.

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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. PAPILIONACEX.
HOVEA. Supra, vol. 4. fol. 280.

H. racemulosa ; foliis oblongo-linearibus sublanceolatisve supra tenuiter reti-
culatis glabris subtůs tomentosis, racemis axillaribus laxis plurifloris rariůs
apice foliiferis, calycis longiusculi pedicellati labio superiore maximo.
Bentham supra, 1842, mise. no. 36.

Although this cannot be said to rival such species as
Hovea pungens or Celsi in the brightness of its colours, it
is by no means unattractive, when well contrasted with plants
whose colours are not bright enough to kill it. It belongs
moreover to a set of greenhouse shrubs of easy cultivation
and small size, which are well adapted for decorating the
shelves of the conservatory.

It is a native of the Swan River colony, whence the
seeds were obtained by Capt. James Mangles, R.N. It first
flowered in the garden of Robert Mangles, Esg. of Sunning
Hill.

Among the species of this genus from the East coast of
New Holland is one, called Hovea ramulosa by Allan Cun-
ningham, which approaches this very much in several respects.
But that species has solitary axillary flowers, more obtuse
. leaves, and a still more shaggy surface. As it does not seem

to have yet found its way into books, I may as well take the
present opportunity of stating its characters.

H. ramulosa ( A. Cunn. mss.) mollis, villosa, foliis oblongo-
linearibus apice rotundatis suprà glabris grossé reticulatis
subtůs ferrugineo-tomentosis, floribus axillaribus subgeminis

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raro in ramulos foliosos dispositis, calycis sessilis villosi labio
superiore maximo.

It was found by Mr. Cunningham along the upper branches
of the Brisbane River in Moreton Bay, in the year 1829.

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VAN HOUTTE'S PHLOX.

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Garden Variety.

For a knowledge of this remarkable plant we are indebted
to M. Louis van Houtte, nurseryman of Ghent, who sent it to
us in October last, in full flower; but without any account of.
its origin. ©

It is a variety of remarkable beauty, looking as if P. sua-
veolens had been crossed with P. caroliniana, leaving on a `
white ground a crimson evidence of its paternity. The ap-
pearance of the plant is beautiful, far beyond any thing yet
seen in the genus Phlox ; and we were almost going to say,
beyond any thing among the hardy perennials in cultivation.

An approach to it was exhibited last year by Mr. Mount-
Joy, nurseryman of Ealing, but it was only an approach, with
a much paler stain on the corolla. That, however, was very
pretty ; and well worth the acguisition of the lovers of gay
flowers.

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DENDROBIUM sanguinolentum.
` Blood-stained Dendrobium.

GYNANDRIA. MONANDRIA.
Nat. ord. ORcHrDACE =, $ MALAXEA.

DENDROBIUM. Swartz.

Sect. EUDENDROBIUM. Caulis teres. . Folia plana. Flores membra-
nacei patuli.

D. sanguinolentum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842. misc. 73.) ; caulibus teretibus
pendulis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis, floribus gemellis, sepalis petalisque
ovatis obtusiusculis patulis, labello trilobo glabro: laciniá intermediä
retusà nunc utrinque plicatá; ungue concavo brevi appendice cornu-
formi pubescente retrorsá aucto.

Probably there is no plant among all the species of
Dendrobium now known to our gardens which is more deli-
cately beautiful than this. Its colours too are so singular as
on that account alone to render it an object of much interest ;
for here we have the cyanie and xanthic tints in one and the
same flower. We are always prepared to find red spots on a
yellow ground, or vice versà, but it is a most unusual thing to
find clear pure violet on petals the whole remainder of whose
tint is yellow. In this plant, however, the combination oc-

curs, producing a very gay and unexpected effect.

It was sent from Ceylon, to His Grace the Duke of Nor-
thumberland, by Mr. Nightingale, and flowered at Sion in
August last. It has pendulous stems like those of D.
Pierardi, but of a delicate purple when young; the leaves
too are stained underneath and at the edges with the same
colour. The flowers are as large as those of D. aggregatum,
of a clear fawn colour, with the tips of the segments and lip
stained with a deep rich violet. There is moreover a scarlet

spot in the middle of the lip.

Fig. 1. represents the outline of the lip of this plant.
Fig. 2. shows the form of what I take to be a variety, larger,

and having the middle scarlet spot, but destitute of the violet
tips. This is not distinguishable from the other in foliage,
nor in any other way than in the manner now indicated.

Both species have a strong downy tooth near the base of
the lip, parallel with the surface and directed towards the
foot of the column.

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AGAPANTHUS umbellatus; var. maximus.
Large-flowered African Blue-Lily.

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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA,

Nat. ord. LILIACEZ.
AGAPANTHUS. Botanical Register, vol. 9. fol. 699.

A. umbellatus. Bot. Reg. l. c. e
Var. maximus ; foliis latioribus, floribus multò majoribus.

. Since the days when the commerce of the Dutch revealed
to Europe the vegetable riches of the Cape of Good Hope, and
filled the gardens of Holland with crowds of unknown forms,
the African Blue-Lily, or asit was formerly called the African
tuberous Hyacinth, has been a favourite object of cultivation.
It has now, however, become common, and, discarded from
the gardens of the great, to their own loss, has sought refuge
with humbler cultivators, with whom it still is, and we trust
always will be, a cherished favourite.

We do not find in such authors as we have an opportunity
of consulting, any precise information as to the favourite loca-
lities of Agapanthus. Mr. Harvey says, that one species is
very common on the sides of Table Mountain, but which
species, or what the kind of places it is found in, he does
not state.

‘With regard to the species, these are so little understood
that, although this may well be distinct from A. umbellatus,
we have no materials for defining it, and therefore we leave it
to our successors; possibly it may be the A. multiflorus of
Willdenow. Mr. Harvey says there are several species in the
Cape Colony; it would be well worth any one’s while to collect
and compare them, so as to settle the distinctions that exist.

The accompanying drawing was made in the nursery of
February, 1843. D

Mr. Groom, of Clapham Rise, in September last. It is a
beautiful plant.

Those who wish to grow these African Blue-Lilies in the
` best manner, should proceed with them thus :— About the end
of February the plants should be fresh potted, in a mixture
of rich loam, and well decomposed leaf-mould, or well rotted
dung, and placed in a warm part of the greenhouse, where
they will soon begin to grow freely. They will then require
to be abundantly supplied with water, and about the end of
May should be removed to the open air, if it is intended that
they should flower out of doors, The pots should be placed
in a sheltered situation, in large pans filled with water, so that
one-third of the pots is immersed ; or the pots may be placed
by the side of a pond, and the plants treated as subaquatic,
in which situation they will flower freely during the summer.
If they are retained in the greenhouse during the blooming
season, they must have plenty of air and water, or they will
become weak, and lose that beautiful deep blue colour, which
. so much distinguishes them.

When they have done flowering, in the autumn, they
should be gradually dried, by withholding water, and finally,
when the soil in the pots has become tolerably dry, and
there is danger of frost, the pots should be removed for the
winter, either into a cold pit, or under the stage of the green-
house. Or they may be placed in a cellar, but then they must
be kept very dry, and should be removed from such a situa-
tion as soon as they shew signs of vegetation.

These plants will also force freely, if well supplied with
moisture and bottom heat; but in that case the flowers be-
come very pale. They are easily increased by dividing the
old plant when in a dormant state. They seldom require
shifting when once established, if supplied once or twice, ©
during the growing season, with a little liguid manure.

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* HYPOCALYMMA robustum.
Larger Pool Myrtle.

ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. -,

Nat: ord. MvurACEX.

HYPOCALYMMA. Flores axillares, capitati. Calyx tubo campanu-
lato, cum ovario connato, limbo supero quinquepartito. ‘Corolle petala 5,
calycis fauce inserta, ejusdem laciniis alterna, breviter unguiculata, orbiculata.
Stamina 20-30; cum petalis inserta, iisdem longiora ; filamenta filiforma sub-
ulata; anthere biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium inferum,
biloculare (4-biloculare); loculis multi-ovulatis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma ca-
pitatum (simplex). Fructus... .. ——Frutices N. Hollandie austro-oc-
cidentalis, foliis oppositis exstipulatis, lineari-lanceolatis, mucronatis, floribus
axillaribus sessilibus v. brevissime pedicellatis capitatis scarioso-bracteolatis,
roseis v. persicinis. Endl. Genera Plantarum, no. 6306.

H. robustum ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis mucronatis, floribus 'axillaribus brevis-
simé pedicellatis, capitulis submultifloris. Endl. enim. plant. 50.

This is one of those beautiful little Myrtaceous plants
. peculiar to the South-west of New Holland, which might be
easily mistaken for small Almond or Peach bushes, so much
are the flowers like them, and so seldom do we find bright
rosy blossoms among the Myrtles.

It is a native of the Swan River Colony, and bas been
raised by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince & Co. of Exeter. The
ieaves when bruised smell very agreeably of lemon.

It is a greenhouse plant, and requires to be potted in a
compost consisting of loam and heath-mould, with a small
ortion of silver sand. The pot must be well drained, so as
to allow all noxious matter to pass off. Water should be freely

* From bro under, and kaìvppa a veil, in allusion we presume to the
bracts that_veil the calyx from below. .

given during summer, and plenty of air at all times, except
during frost, when the temperature should not be below 35°.
It may be propagated by cuttings in the ordinary way.

Fig. 1. represents a flower-bud, with the bracts at its
base. Fig. 2. shews a section of the flower, made perpendi-
cularly through the ovary; the partition that divides the
ovary into two cells, is seen to rise only half the height of
the cavity, and to bear an ovule and half on each side, one
and a half more being removed from each side; hence the
ovary is half bilocular, with three ovules in each cavity, two
inserted near the apex on each side, and one in the middle
near the base; this is better shewn in fig. 3. which is a trans-
verse section near the apex of the cavity of the ovary.

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CATASETUM planiceps.

Flat-headed Catasetum.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEZ $ VANDEZ.
CATASETUM. Botanical Register, vol. 20. fol. 1667.

C. planiceps ; sepalis petalisque ovatis conniventibus, labello carnoso galeato
rotundato compresso apiculato indiviso margine serrato.

Notwithstanding our unwillingness to add to the doubtful
species of this strange and changeable genus we can hardly
hesitate about regarding this as new. It is true that its habit
is that of C. maculatum, tridentatum, and semiapertum, from
the second of which it differs in its serrated lip, from the first
and last in its lip not having the edges incurved, and from all
in the singular truncate form of this helmet-shaped organ,
which is flattened from front to back and not laterally.

It is a native of the Spanish Main, whence it was im-
ported by Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered in June
1841. It is the No. 934 of their catalogue.

It may be cultivated in a similar way to the other species;
by being potted in mossy turf and potsherds mixed with some
small pieces of wood. Like other fleshy-stemmed Orchidacez,
this requires three seasons, namely, that of growth, of flower-
ing, and of rest. In spring, while in a vigorous state, plenty
of water and a humid atmosphere is requisite, at a tempera-
ture not less than 70° at night, nor yet above 80° in day, and
shaded during sunny weather. As the flowering season
advances, the water should be diminished gradually ; and in
winter, when the plant is in a dormant state, withheld alto-
gether for a few weeks, and the temperature not allowed to
rise above 60° or to fall below 50°.

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* VRIESIA psittacina.

Parrot-flowered Vriesia.

HEXANDRIA "MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. BROMELIACER.

VRIESIA. Sepala 3, convoluta, aegualia, petalis apice revolutis bre-
viora. Squame cuique petalo 2, semiadnatee, indivisee. Stamina exserta ;
3 libera petalorum basi inserta, 3 inter petala inserta iisgue basi connata ;
anthere lineares, plane, posticee. Ovarium semi-inferum, conicum; stigma
trilobum, lobis convolutis et sinuatis villosis. ——Folia plana erecta. Flores
distichi, distantes, bracteis magnis, canaliculatis, coloratis.

Vriesia psittacina; foliis oblongis acutis basi dilatatis, sepalis corolla parům
brevioribus, staminibus exsertis.
Tillandsia psittacina. Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 2841.

Although the limits of the genera of the Bromeliaceous
order are much better defined than they were a few years
ago, there are no doubt some distinct groups still concealed
among the little known species crowded together under the
name of Tillandsia. The present instance we conceive to be
one of them.

Although referred to Tillandsia this has neither a supe-
rior ovary, nor the scaleless petals that are essential to that
genus. On the contrary, it evidently belongs to Endlicher’s
second section of the order, at present consisting of Pitcairnia
and Brocchinia only. From the latter it differs in its revolute
scaled petals, and distinct filaments; from the latter in its
distinct sepals, and regular revolute petals. From both its
large channelled coloured bracts distinguish it at first sight.

' Along with it will have to be placed the Tillandsia heli-

* We have taken the opportunity of thus commemorating the merits of
Dr. W. de Vriese, Professor of Botany at Amsterdam, an excellent Botanist
and Physiologist.

conioides of Kunth, a plant with the same peculiar habit and,
as it appears from the description given of it by that author,
the same peculiarities of structure ; but differing in its leaves
being narrower, awl-shaped at the point, the bracts flesh-
coloured, and the flowers white, or nearly so.

This is an extremely pretty stove plant, for which we are
indebted to C. B. Warner, Esg. It is said by Sir W. Hooker

to be a native of the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro.

Fig. 1. represents a petal, with the two scales at its base;
and it also shews how one of the stamens is inserted into the
very base of the petal, between the scales, while the petals
themselves are united by the stamens that are intermediate
to them. Fig. 2. shews a section of one of the scales, and
indicates that they are adherent to the petals for more than
half their length. Fig. 3. is a section of the ovary. |

In cultivation this requires to be potted in leaf mould,
with a quantity of potsherds for drainage. Plenty of water
should be given during the summer months, but sparingly in
winter. Or it may be grown suspended in a wire basket, like
an Orchidaceous plant. It is propagated by suckers.

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LÍLIUM testaceum.
Yellow Japan Lily.

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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA,

Nat. ord. LILIACEA.
LILIUM, Botanical Register, vol. 2. fol. 132.

Sect. Martagon, Perigonii foliola sessilia, revoluta, sulco nectarifero
distincta. Endl. gen. 141.

L. testaceum ; foliis sparsis lanceolatis, floribus cernuis terminalibus pedun-
culis rigidis brevioribus, perigonii foliolis intüs leeviusculis v. parům
papillosis staminibus multó longioribus.

L.testaceum, Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. 51.

With the exception of the short notice in our work, last

year, in the place above quoted, we find no account of this

lant, our figure of which was made in the nursery of Messrs,
ftolliesoris, of Tooting, in June last,

It is said to be a Japanese species, and although very infe-
rior in point of a to L. speciosum, Thunbergianum, and
their varieties, is a plant that well deserves to be cultivated.

It is a handsome frame or half-hardy bulb, growing best
wben planted out in a cold pit, where the bulbs can be kept
dry during winter. s

It should be planted in the pit in autumn, or very early in
spring, and when once established should not be afterwards
disturbed, for: all these plants suffer injury by removal, in
consequence of the loss of their tender perennial fibres, and
by the bulbs becoming dry.

"Whether planted or potted, the bulbs should be placed

‚rather deep, because they make fibres above the bulb as well

as below it; and when they must be shifted it should be done

while they are dormant. The greatest care should be taken

during the operation of turning them out of the pots, and
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removing the crocks from amongst the fibres; without shaking
off much of the soil. They should be then fresh potted in a
mixture of sandy peat, loam, and a small portion of well rotted
dung or leafmould, with ample drainage. They should after-
wards be kept dry till they begin to grow, when water should
be given, but rather sparingly at first. Much damage is done
to fresh potted bulbs by keeping them damp directly after
fresh potting, and while in a state of rest.

It is easily increased by separating the scales of which the
old bulb is composed, which are to be placed in pots filled
with very sandy soil and exposed to a gentle heat. They will
be two or three years before they flower.

The plant grows from one to four feet high, according to
the strength or size of the bulbs and flowers, from July to
September, according to the manner in which it is treated,

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ONCIDÍŮM bicallosum.

Two-warted Oncidium.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE= § VANDER.
ONCIDIUM. Swartz.

Evoncıpıum; Heteranthium ; Folia plana; Pentapetala; Micropetala ;
labello pandurato ; i. e. medio constricto basi angustiore. Sertum Or-
chidaceum sub t. 48.

O. bicallosum ; bracteis ovatis membranaceis obtusis, sepalis liberis obovatis
concavis, petalis oblongis obtusis, labelli lobis lateralibus abbreviatis in-

' termedio maximo transverso emarginato subcordato, cristá bicallosä,
tuberculis distantibus uno ante alterum posito rugosis subtrilobis, co-
lumnee auriculis linearibus faleatim recurvis. Lindl. in Bentham pl.
Hartw. p. 94.

Among the numerous fine things found in Guatemala by
Mr. Skinner, there are not many which are more deserving of
cultivation than this plant, which has so much the habit of
O. Cavendishianum as to seem a mere variety of it, although
in reality quite a distinct species. It was also met with by
Mr. Hartweg. The flowers are fully two inches in diameter,
which is four times the size of O. Cavendishianum ; they
. appear in a dwarf erect raceme, not panicle; they are of a rich
yellow, with the sepals and petals bordered with cinnamon
colour; the labellum has two very small lateral lobes, and for
its crest it has a pair of distinct tubercles, the posterior
double, the anterior 3-lobed, and the two separated by a con-
siderable space. The flowers are moreover slightly scented,
which is not the case with O. Cavendishianum. Many plants
are doubtless in the country; but no one has succeeded in
flowering them except Mr. Bateman, who sent a fine specimen
to a late meeting of the Horticultural Society,

The figure at the corner of the plate shews the peculiar
arrangement of the warts on the crest of the lip. Besides .

March, 1843. F

which it indicates the unusual form of the narrow incurved

wings of the column, and a thickening of the margin of the
lip near its base.

It is a stove plant, and requires to be grown in a mixture
of turfy peat and potsherds ; so that the whole may be effi-
ciently drained. A smaller pot, inverted in the one in which
it is potted, allows the warmth to rise through the soil, and
makes the whole lighter than when it is drained at the bottom:
with potsherds. It may also be grown suspended from the
rafters of the house like other air plants, provided it is kept
moist enough during the growing season. Like all these
plants it requires a humid atmosphere, a liberal supply of
water when growing, and partial shade during bright sun-
shine in summer. A night temperature of 60” in winter and
70° in summer will be amply sufficient for its growth.

M 1 Le y Mart / 1643 P y Barclay AC.

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* PHILIBERTIÄ grandiflora.
Large-flowered Philibertia.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. ASCLEPIADACEJE.

PHILIBERTIA. Humboldt et Kunth. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla
urceolato-rotata, sinuato-quinqueloba, lobis acutis denticulis interjectis; tubus
brevis, mediante toro carnoso apici quandoque annuliformi et undulato co-
lumnee staminee adnatus. Corona staminea simplex, 5-phylla ; foliolis car-
nosis summo columnee insertis integris. Anthere membrana terminate.
Masse pollinis clavato-cylindracese, ad apicem ferč affixee. Stigma brevissi-
mum, v. breviter rostratum, apice biapiculatum. Frutices volubiles. Folia
opposita, basi cordata. Umbellee interpetiolares. Hooker & Arnott, Jour-

nal of Botany, 1* 290.

P. grandiflora ; undique tomentosa, foliis acuminatis subundulatis basi alté cor-
datis, umbellis laxis multifloris, coronze staminece lobis rostratis depressis.

P. grandiflora. Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3618.

P. gracilis. Don fide Steudel.

This pretty twining plant is a native of Buenos Ayres, or
rather of Tucuman, whence its seeds were originally sent to
the Glasgow and Glasnevin Botanic Gardens by Mr. Tweedie.
It varies a good deal in the colour of its flowers and in the
quantity of down that covers it; in wild specimens it soon
becomes woolly; but these differences do not appear to be
- specific. In respect of colour, the variety now represented
and that with pale yellow flowers, in the Botanical Magazine,
may be taken as the two extremes.

The Philibertia gracilis of the Gardens has been referred
to this species by Steudel, and with reason. It is clearly no
more than a variety of P. grandiflora.

* J.C. Philibert, after whom this genus has been named, was the
author of an Introduction to Botany published in 1799, of a Botanical Dic-
tionary dated 1802, and of some other elementary books.

P. Gilliesii, a species from Mendoza, not yet that we know
of in cultivation, is a much smaller plant, either smooth, or
with an exceedingly short close down, and with the base of
the leaves almost truncated, instead of being deeply heart-
shaped.

The accompanying drawing was made in the Nursery of .
Messrs. Rollissons, in August 1838. The same individual
had flowers of different colours, all however sweet-scented.

A pretty slender greenhouse creeper, well adapted for
training up the rafters of the greenhouse, or over ornamental
trellis-work affixed to a pot.

This, like most other plants belonging to the order Ascle-
piadacem, succeeds best when cultivated in friable loam and
sand; and if the loam is rather poor, a little leaf-mould may
be added. The soil when used should not be sifted, but
merely broken fine and mixed with the hand. The pots
should be well drained, as the plant requires to be kept nearly
dry during the season of rest.

When the plants begin to grow in the spring, they should
be fresh potted and cut back to the previous growth; being
afterwards placed in a gentle bottom heat for a few weeks,
and having the supply of water increased. During the whole
period of their progress, they should be kept in a rather moist
atmosphere, as they are subject to the attacks of the red spider.

This plant is easily increased by cuttings treated in the

ordinary way, and it flowers freely during the summer and
autumn.

When it has done flowering, it should be allowed to rest,
by gradually withholding water until the soil in the pots be-
comes tolerably dry. The pots should then be kept in the
warmest and driest part of the greenhouse during the winter.

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INDIGOFERA stachyodes.
Long-spiked Indigo.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. LeGUMINOSA, $ PAPILIONACEX.
INDIGOFERA. Botanical Register, vol. 2. fol. 104.

I. stachyodes ; frutescens, ramis pubescentibus angulatis, foliis utrinque
dense pubescentibus 18-22-jugis: foliolis linearibus acutis margine re-
curvis, racemis erectis axillaribus sessilibus foliis subaequalibus, bracteis
pilosis alabastris longioribus, calycibus cyathiformibus, ovario 7-ovulato.

Among the crowd of species now found in the genus In-
digofera it is not easy to say whether this is new or not; we
believe however that 1t may be so considered, although we are
in ignorance of its fruit.

Its seeds were collected in Bhotan, one of the independent
states in the North-east of India, by W. Griffith, Esq., at the
height of 4000 feet above the sea, and sent to Richard Hors-
man Solly, Esq., by whom they were presented to the Horti-
cultural Society. It flowered 1n the Gardens at Chiswick, in
September 1840.

Fig. 1. represents the calyx and stamens ; fig. 2. the ovary
of this species.

A handsome hardy greenhouse shrub, growing readily in
a rich open soil, chiefly composed of sandy loam, with a little

' leaf-mould.

It is easily increased by cuttings of the young wood, par-
tially matured at the base, placed in sand, with a little bottom
heat. 'The plant, when in good health, flowers during a
greater part of the summer.

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* BECIUM bicolor.

Two-coloured Becium.

DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. LABIATE.

BECIUM. Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. 44. Calyx bilabiatus ; labio supe-
riore dilatato decurrente inferiore truncato pilis brevissimis dense ciliato apice
biseto. Corolla bilabiata, tubo recto calyce longiore intus pubescente, labiis
zequalibus superiore 3-lobo laciniá media fissá, convexo apice et margine revo-
luto, inferiore oblongo concavo. Stamina libera, longissima, declinata, ante
anthesin cum stylo circinata ; suprema basi dilatata villosa inferiora levia
filiformia ; antherz ovatee, obtuse, glabra. Ovarium disco 4-dentato om-
nino immersum. Stigma 2-lobum laciniis subulatis.

B. bicolor. Lindl. l. c.

Ocymum grandiflorum. L’Herit. Stirp. 89. t. 43.

O. abyssinicum. Hort. Par. fide Benth.

O. filamentosum. Forsk. f. ZEgypt. Arab. 100. Bentham Labiat. p. 8.
Frutex pubescens. Folia ovato-lanceolata, serrata, impunctata. Verti-

cillastri subdzflori, spicati, bracteis cordatis undulatis acuminatis deciduis colo-

ratis calyce longioribus. Corolla alba venis lilacinis. Stamina lilacina.

‘From among some Abyssinian seeds sent to the Horticul-
tural Society, from Paris, has been raised a plant of a genus of
Labiatz, which does not appear to be described. It is a shrub
with downy stems, ovate-lanceolate, serrated, slightly petio-
lated leaves, and verticillasters of beautiful flowers arranged
in short spikes. The calyx has a broad upper lip, like that of
an Ocymum, the lower lip is deep, truncate, bordered with a
close fringe of white hairs, and terminated in front by a pair
of feeble teeth. The corolla is large, white, with lilac veins,
and nearly an inch long. ‘The upper lip is 3-lobed, with the
middle lobe split at the point, and the points of all rolled
back ; the lower lip is of about the same length, oblong and ,
concave. The stamens are four, declinate, bright violet, and

* From Bnxwv, one of the names assigned by Dioscorides to the Sage,
which this plant much resembles.

about an inch long. The anthers are ovate, with a distinet
pair of lobes attached to rather a convex connective. The
ovary is almost entirely buried in a fleshy 4-lobed disk ; the
style is long, violet, follows the direction of the stamens, and
ends in a stigma with two equal subulate lobes. Both the
style and filaments are twisted spirally before the corolla
expands.”

“ This plant evidently belongs to the Ocymoideous La-
biate plants, but does not agree with any of the published

genera. Its singular calyx seems by itself to mark it suffi-

ciently, independently of which the plant differs from Plectran-
thus and its allies in the egual size of the two lips of the
corolla ; and from Ocymum and its allies in the long declinate
stamens, distinctly bilabiate corolla, and whole habit.”

Such was the view we took of this plant some months ago.
Since that time it has been suggested to us by Mr. Bentham
that the plant is very near Ocymum filamentosum, and upon
turning to the descriptions of that species we find them so
much alike, that we cannot doubt their belonging to the same
genus if not the same species. It is not however quite certain
as to the latter point, because Mr. Bentham describes his
plant with appendages to the longer pair of anthers, of which
appendages we have no trace in our plant.

Be this however as it may, we regard Becium as distinet
from Ocymum for the reasons formerly given.

Fig. 1. represents the remarkable calyx ; Qa portion of
the corolla with the 4 stamens; 3. the pistil, having its ovary
plunged in a lobed disk. |

It is a half-hardy plant; but, coming from a warmer
climate than many other kinds which we commonly find in
greenhouses, it will not bear such a great degree of cold in
winter. It will flower freely in the autumn and winter in a
temperature of from 40° to 45°, and is adapted for conserva-
tories which are kept about this temperature. When potted
. in any light common soil, it grows freely and is very easily
multiplied by cuttings.

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OXYLOBÍUM capitatum.
Headed Oxylobium.

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DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. LEGUMINOS&, $ PAPILIONACER.

OXYLOBIUM. Andr. Calyx semi 5-fidus, bilabiatus, labio superiore
bifido, inferiore tripartito. Corolle vexillum alis longius, rotundatum, bre-
viter unguiculatum ; ale oblonge; carina ovato-oblonga subrecta, obtusa,
alas sequans. Stamina libera, filamentis glabris. Ovarium subsessile, densé
pluriovulatum. Stylus filiformis, incurvus. Stigma terminale, tenue vel ca-
pitatum. Legumen ovatum, acutum, sessile, coriaceum vel vix membrana-
ceum, turgidum, uniloculare, valvulis intús levibus. Semina estrophiolata.
Fruticuli vel suffrutices Australasiei. Folia verticillata aut sparsa, simplicia,
integra, subtüs sericea. Stipulee minute vel nulle. Inflorescentia racemosa,
. terminalis vel axillaris. Bractese parve. Flores lutei vel crocei. Discus sta-

minifer plerumque brevissimus. Ovarium villosissimum.——Genus characteri-
bus et habitu Callistachye valde affine, et nonnisi leguminibus absque septis,
disco parvo, et seminibus estrophiolatis distinguendum. At in plerisque Le-
guminosis septa transversalia dum extant valde fugacia et incerta sunt, nec
in Loteis characteres solidos preebent. Character e disco sumtus vix majoris
ponderis est, cum a sola majori minorive ejusdem organi evolutione pendent.
Strophiolarum defectum in solo O. cordifolio observavi in cseteris speciebus
semina matura non vidi. Bentham Commentationes, p. 6.

O. capitatum; foliis inferioribus obovatis superioribus oblongis linearibusve
mucrone recurvo, racemis densis capitatis paucifloris foliis brevioribus.

Bentham in plant. Hugel. p. 28.

Suffrutex basi procumbens. Rami teretes glabri vel apice sericei. Folia
alterna vel opposita, inferiora vix semipollicaria, late obovata vel obcor-
data, superiora 1-2 pollices longa, omnia apice obtusa vel emarginata et
mucrone recurvo aucta, supra reticulata glabra, subtus, presertim juniora,
pilis adpressis sericea, nervo medio valido, basi in petiolum brevissimum
angustata. Stipule setacee nigre, petiolo longiores. Racemi 6-10-flori
axillares et terminales. Pedicelli brevissimi ebracteati. Calyces campanu-
lati, dense sericei, tubo labiis parum breviore. Petala et Stamina prope basin
calycis inserta. Carina alis viz brevior. Stylus glaber uncinatus acutus,
stigmate subobliquo capitato. Legumen subsessile lignosum, ovoideum,
utri acutum, calyce vix duplo longius, extus dense villosum, intus nu-
dum.? Bentham l. c.

A greenhouse shrub of some beauty, imported from Swan
River by Messrs. Lowe and Co. of Clapton, with whom it

flowered in October last.
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It differs in nothing from the wild specimens in our pos-
session, except that the flowers are less numerous in the axils,
and therefore do not present an appearance to justify the name
of capitate so much as they do.

Fig. 1. represents the ovary, with the side removed to
shew the three pairs of ovules.

It should be potted in light heath soil, mixed with a little
leaf-mould and sand ; the pot must be efliciently drained.
When grown in the greenhouse, and subject to the same
treatment as the generality of these plants, it succeeds admi-
rably, and remains in bloom for several months in summer
and autumn. Like all plants of this kind, it requires an
abundant supply of water during the growing season ; but

that quantity must be reduced at other times. It is easily

multiplied by cuttings and seeds.

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DENDROBÍUM rhombeum.
Rhomb-lipped Dendrobium.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

fat. ord. ORCHIDACEA, $ MALAXE X.
DENDROBIUM. Botanical Register, vol. 7. fol. 548.

D. rhombeum ; caulibus teretibus foliosis, foliis lanceolatis acutis, racemis bre-
vibus 4-floris, sepalis ovalibus obtusis, petalis dupló latioribus ovatis,
labello rhombeo undulato acuto medio pubescente, columná utrinque
tuberculatá pone basin cornu deflexo auctä, antherá pubescente.

This pretty species has much general resemblance to
D. aureum, from which however it differs in having smaller
" blossoms, a labellum without serratures, and thé flowers in
short racemes instead of pairs.

It is a native of Manilla, whence it was sent by Mr. Cuming
to Messrs. Loddiges, in whose catalogue it stands as no. 319,
and with whom it flowered in August last.

The imported specimen is less vigorous than it may be
expected to become hereafter, in which case the number of
flowers will probably be augmented.

Here, as in some other cases, the column is furnished,
near the base, with a deflexed horn lodged in a niche just
above the insertion of the lip. This is a remarkable process,
and is represented at fig. 1. of the accompanying plate; its
nature requires to be investigated.

Like Maxillaria, the whole genus Dendrobium, with those
which are near it, requires a careful revision ; but in the ab-
sence of more complete materials from the Indian islands, and
especially of Dr. Blume's Java species, it seems premature to
undertake the operation.

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PERISTERIA Humboldti.

Humboldt's Peristeria.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE =, $ VANDEA. Div. MAXILLARIDE.
PERISTERIA. Botanical Register, vol. 23. fol. 1953.

P, Humboldti; racemo elongato pendulo multifloro, calyce patulo, sepalis
* oblongis concavis obtusis, petalis rhombeis obtusis planis minoribus,
labelli inflexi hypoehilio earnoso oblongo concavo, metachilio bilobo
laciniis erectis cuneatis carnosis margine inferiore valdě incrassato medio
appendice bilobá carnosá divaricatá utrinque bidentatá aucto, epichilio
unguiculato canaliculato apice dilatato truncato, columná utrinque in
marginem rotundatum alatum productá, stigmate et columns dorso
villosis, eaudiculä lineari, glandulá lunatá.
Anguloa superba. Humboldt, Bonpland $ Kunth, nov. gen. $ sp. pl. 1. 343.
t. 93. Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. Orch. p. 160.

For this noble plant, which has a pendulous raceme a
couple of feet long, we are indebted to John Wilmore, Esq.,
of Oldford, near Birmingham, who imported it from Porto
Cabullo, in the province of Venezuela, about three years
since. It flowered for the first time in March, 1842, and in
April was exhibited to the Horticultural Society where it was
distinguished by a silver medal. In many respects it has the
habit of Peristeria Barkeri, but the leaves have longer foot-
stalks.

When the genus Peristeria was founded nobody suspected
that the long sought Anguloa superba of Humboldt could
belong to it; still less did we imagine, when this noble spe-
cies was sent from Birmingham, that it could be the very
same. Nevertheless, upon attentively considering Hum-
boldt's figure, no doubt can be entertained of the fact; or that
Anguloa superba is nothing more than this Peristeria with
the raceme made to grow erect instead of pendulous. The
plant of that great traveller is described as an inhabitant of

April, 1843. H

trees in the temperate parts of the province of Tumbez, near
Zaruma, in Peru, and a village called Catacocha; it was also
found cultivated in the gardens of Loxa, at an elevation of
between 6 and 7000 feet above the sea.. Its Spanish name is
said to be Periguito. |

Upon comparing our plant with the original figure of
Anguloa in the Flora Peruviana it is obvious that it cannot
be referred to that little known genus, one of the most dis-
tinctive characters of which is having what Ruiz and Pavon
call a chrysalis-shaped lip (that is, we presume, a lip rolled
up in the form of a chrysalis ) seated on a long stalk; by which
circumstance in particular it is distinguished from Maxillaria.

Thus it appears that neither of Humboldt’s Anguloas
belong to the genus; A. superba being this Peristeria
Humboldti, and A. grandiflora bring Stanhopea insignis.
With respect to Pöppig’s Anguloa squalida, the figures of
this author are so bad that it is difficult to say what it is; it
may really be an Anguloa.

Fig. 1. represents a side view of a lip and column ; 2. the

lip seen from above: 3. the column in half-face, the lip being
cut off.

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CAMPANULA Leeflingii.
Lefling’s Bellflower.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. CAMPANULACEE.
CAMPANULA. Botanical Register, vol. 3. fol. 237.

C. Leflingii ; caule ramosissimo multifloro angulis scabriusculo, foliis crenu-
latis inferioribus ovatis reniformibus v. rotundo-cordatis, superioribus
ovatis amplexicaulibus, calycis glabri tubo obconico, lobis longě acumi-
natis patulis corollä subbrevioribus, capsulà obconicá nervis eminenti-
bus. Alph. DeCand. Monogr. Camp. p. 335. Brotero Phyt. Lusit.
p. 41. £. 18.

C. Broussonetiana. Römer $: Schultes syst. veg. 5. p. 104.

A beautiful little annual, found wild in sandy places all
over Portugal, also near Madrid, and in the country round
Mogador. M. Alphonse DeCandolle observes that it has

the habit of C. patula, but differs in being more branchy,
in having broader and less acute leaves, in its annual root
and deeply furrowed capsule. The latter is indeed remark-
able; fig. 1. represents a transverse section of it; the three
carpels of which it is composed adhere .only by the middle,
a circumstance by no means common among plants with an
inferior ovary, unless in the Umbelliferous order.

The accompanying drawing was made in the garden of
the Horticultural Society in July last.

A pretty little half-bardy plant, growing from six to
nine inches high, and requiring a light rich sandy soil. The
seeds should be sown either in the month of August or
March, and treated in the same way as Rhodanthe Manglesii,
or similar half-hardy annuals, If sown in the autumn it
should be potted singly, and kept in small pots placed in a
dry situation free from frost during the winter—when sown
in the spring they may be kept in a cold frame, but where

they have plenty of air, as the plants are very delicate, and
are apt to damp off. The autumn sown plants will flower
about the end of May, those raised in the spring not before
the middle of July. They continue a long time in flower.

It may be grown in the open border, if planted in a

warm and dry situation, after the danger of the spring frost
is over.

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.* CENTRADENÍA rosca.

Rose-coloured Centradenia.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. MELASTOMACEA.

. CENTRADENIA. G. Don. Calyx tubo subtetragono-campanulato,
libero, limbi quadripartiti laciniis late triangularibus, acutis. Corolle pe-
tala 4, calycis fauci inserta, ejusdem laciniis alterna, obovata. Stamina 8,
cum petalis inserta, alterna iisdem opposita minora; anthere elliptice, uni-
porose, majores connectivo in calcar elongato-cuneatum, minores in appen-
dicem glanduleformem producte. Ovarium liberum, vertice setarum verti-
cillo simplici, quadriloculare, loculis multiovulatis. Stylus brevis; stigma
subcapitatum. Capsula calyce vestita quadrilocularis, loculieide quadrivalvis.
Semina plurima, clavato-elliptica, echinata, umbilico basilari. Suffrutex
mexicanus ; ramis tetragonis, pilosis, foliis oppositis, altero minimo, altero
multo majore, ramum ex axilla explicante, oblongo-lanceolatis, acutis, valde
inequilateris, integerrimis, ciliatis, membranaceis, triplinerviis, racemis azilla-
ribus paucifloris. Endlicher Genera, no. 6178.

C. rosea ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis valdé insequilateris, racemis subcorymbosis
terminalibus foliis supremis longioribus, petalis ovario dupló longioribus.

A pretty greenhouse half shrubby plant, introduced from
Mexico by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., Nurserymen of
Exeter, by whom it was sent in flower to the Horticultural
Society in January last.

When allowed to blossom quietly in a cool greenhouse it
forms a deep green bush, studded all over with gay flesh-
coloured stars; but as the petals easily fall, the plant does
not bear travelling well.

It is a soft-wooded species, growing a foot or so high in
sandy peat, and striking readily from cuttings. As far as we

* Apparently thus called in allusion to the glandwlar appendage of
the anthers ; from xevrpov a spur, and aönv a gland.

can judge from an experience of a few weeks it seems to
require a sunny station, but not a dry atmosphere.

Mr. Bentham has pointed out its near affinity to the
Rhexia inequilateralis of Schlechtendahl, afterwards called
Plagiophyllum by him, and Centradenia by Don. Upon
turning, however, to an authentic specimen of that plant, we
find it different in some respects: its leaves are much larger
and thinner, its flowers appear to be smaller, and are arranged
in little terminal racemes much shorter than the leaves.
Neither can this be the Plagiophyllum grandifolium of
Schlechtendahl, which is described with leaves as much as
six inches long.

One of the most curious circumstances connected with this
plant is the constant abortion, and freguent loss, of one ofits two
opposite leaves. This tendency to abortion always alternates
along the branches, so that if the first imperfect leaf happens
to be on the right of the branch, the next is on the left, and
soon. ‘The smaller leaves readily fall off, and thus the others
appear to be alternate, as is in fact shewn by the artist who
prepared the accompanying drawing.

Fig. 1. represents a larger stamen ; 2. a smaller; 3. the
upper end of the ovary, style and stigma. -

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CROCUS insularis.

Corsican Crocus.

TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Nat. ord. TÍRIDACEA. -

. CROCUS. Cormus annuus tunicarum vaginacearum et foliacearum ba-
sibus circumnotatus, folia sublinearia dorso bicanaliculato costato, scapi 1-5
involucrati (vel involucro obsoleto nudi) trigoni uni- (rard bi-) flori vaginis in-
clusi, spatha tubata (vel rariüs fissa tubum simulans) intus bracteata (vel
bracteà obsoletà ebracteata) germen subcylindrico-subovale, tubus cylindricus
fauce ampliatá, limbus regularis, filamenta ori ipsi vel infra faucem tubi in-
serta, anthere connectivo subdorsali superne minore erectee sagittatee loculis a
vertice sublateraliter scissis, pollen aureum, stylus gracilis superne trilobus
(lusu interdum 2-4-lobus) stigmatibus sensim dilatatis subtruncatis vel fim-
briato-plicatis vel pauci- multi-fidis, capsula chartacea oblonga trigona apicu-
lata trivalvis trilocularis reflexč dehiscens, semina raphe rugosá subspheerica
testá durá colore brunneo, pallescente, rufescente vel rufo-purpurascente.
Observ. Tunice vaginacee subtruncate vaginarum 3-9 extrafoliacearum, foli-
acec sepe long? apiculate foliorum sub-12, bases sunt inflato-tubate ; foliacee

ersistunt et s&pius vaginacea interior, exteriores humiditate sepe depereunt ;
zona radicalis (i.e. fibras radicales emittens) unica est inter tunicas vaginaceas
(ni fallor, semper inter interiorem et interiori proximam) sita; vagine extra-

Jol. cormo futuro inferne, folia gradatim altius, diversis in diversis speciebus
^ spatiis, basi inflato-tubatd inseruntur. Habitant intra mare Caspium et At-
lanticum gradusque, quoad novimus, latitudinis terrestris 35 et 49. W.H.
Vide Bot. Mag. 67. 3861.

C. insularis; c. tun. vag. interiore fibris confertis parall. sup. retic. confluenti-
bus infra demum liberis, foliac. exter. leviore paullum infra vel supra
med. affixá, scapo involucrato, spathá plerumque uniflorá ebracteatä, fl.
verno tubi longitudine variabili limbo 2-13 unc. vel infra lilacino sepalis
extüs plüs minüs lutescentibus vel pallidé stramineis plůs minůs plu-
meo-3- (rar. 5- vel 1- vel e-) striatis, fauce leevi pallidiore (nunquam luted)
fil. albis levibus infra faucem insertis, antheris stylo coccineo subseq.
stigm. simplicibus fimbriato-truncatis vel pluries incisis, germine striato
superne purpureo, seminibus badiis rhaphe et chalazá pallidis, foliis an-
gustis leevibus suberectis, canaliculis enervibus vel uninervibus. Variat
fibris plus minis reticulate confluentibus, presertim florum magnitudine
et sepalorum striis ac colore exteriore, stigmatibusque fer? integris vel
pluries incisis suberectis, vel reflexo-patulis. In Corsicá, orientem
versus precipue, et in Sardinid ; quoad vidi, unigemmatus.

Var. 1. major ; limbo sesquiunciali.

Var. 2. medius ; limbo circiter unciali, tubo interdum valde elongato.

Var. 3. minimus ; C. minimus, Decand. limbo 2 unc. Vidi etiam specimen
magis pusillum prope Ajaccio lectum limbo vix semunciali.

Var. 4. geminiflorus ; tubo fortiori involucro geminifloro, spathá interdum
sed raro loratě bracteata. Var. rara in monte Pigno, tun. vag. ext.
tenuibus membranaceis, interiore fibr. parall. superne confluentibus prope
basin aff. foliac. sup. med. fibris confertis confluentibus, proximä altiüs,
tertiä summo cormo aff. C. versicolori aliquantulum approximatus.

C. insularis; Gay Bull. de Fer. 15. 221. Bot. Mag, 3871. p. 2. 3954. p. 2.

C. minimus ; Dec. Red. Lil. 2. 81. quoad. var. minimam.

C. corsicus ; Vanucci Tabl. Top. Bast. 1838. W. H.

Many bulbs of this pretty and variable Crocus were sent
to Spofforth, in 1840 and 1841, at my request, by Mons. Pal-
medo, the British Consul at Bastia, having been procured
through his kind offices by Signor Romagnuoli from Turiani,
and the Bocca di San Antonio, three or four leagues from
Bastia, from Corte, Mount San Lionardo, Pigno, Capo Corso,
and the Torre di Seneca. The greatest pains were taken to
discover the C. minimus of Decandolle; it is certainly one
of the smaller varieties of insularis, which name, given by
Mons. Gay, though posterior, must be preserved to the species,
because minimus is only applicable to the smaller varieties.
The species, which has sometimes a faint smell of primrose,
approaches most nearly to the Italian C. suaveolens; from which
it may be distinguished, in all its varieties, by the absence of
yellow in the throat, which is deep in both Suaveolens and
Imperatonianus. The absence or presence of yellow in the
throat seems to be an invariable feature in Croci. Insularis
produces usually only one shoot and flower, and no bract;
but the fourth rare variety found on M. Pigno and M.
d'Oleastro, approaches to C. versicolor, by,a two-flowered invo-
lucre, and sometimes, though rarely, a lorate bract, and the
leaf one- (if not two-) nerved; but it conforms too closely with
its compatriots in other respects, to be separated as a species.
They grow on the hills of schist, (talg schisteux décom-
posée, Romagn.) and are rare in the W. of the island. Ac-
cording to Mons. Gay they extend into Sardinia. The genus
reaches from the Atlantic to the Caspian; the roots of the
Pyrenees in Aguitania, Cevennes, the Swiss Alps, the Danube
to about Trajan's bridge, the high ground of S. Podolia, in
lat. 49, that N. of Odessa, Tauria, and Caucasus to the Cas-
pian Sea form its northern limits. Tangiers, Malta, Cyprus,
Crete, and Aleppo are the lowest ascertained S. limits of the
race, about lat. 35. I cannot ascertain whether it extends to
the high grounds near Damascus; nor have I been able to
learn where or by what geological formation it is stopped in
Persia and S.E. of the Caspian. The alluvial tracts of Poland
and the Ukraine, and the salt plains arrest it on the N. and
N.E. Naturalized in some parts of England, it is certainly
not indigenous. The involucre of C. imperatonianus usually
contains a secondary involucre to the second spathe.—W. H.

For the foregoing account, and the accompanying drawing
we have to return our acknowledgments to the learned Dean
of Manchester, by whom these charming plants have been
studied with peculiar care.

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CYCNOCHES pentadactylon.
Five-fingered Swan-neck.

ENE
GYNANDRIA MÖNANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEA $ VANDEE.
CYCNOCHES. Botanical Register, vol. 21. fol. 1742.

C. pentadactylon ; racemo brevi stricto, sepalis petalisque lanceolatis reflexis
supremo incurvo, labelli unguiculati margine revoluto dorso adnato, hy-
pochilio cornu recto incurvo aucto, metachilio 4-lobo medio foveato la-
ciniis 2 posticis obtusis carnosis incurvis anticis subulatis, epichilio lin-
guiformi acuto leevi. Supra misc. no. 26.

The fleshy-stemmed Orchidacez, consisting of Catase-
tum, Cyenoches, Mormodes, and Cyrtopodium, probably form
a group (Catasetidze), among which we find the most astonish-
ing deviations from ordinary structure, and the most startling
variations from what appears to be the rule in other parts of
the organic world. If we were informed that the Camelopard
. in the Zoological Gardens had shortened the vertebra of its
neck till it was no longer than a cow's, or that a Kangaroo
had exchanged its tail for the switch of a Shetland pony, a
more surprising thing would not be announced than those
changes with which we are now familiar in this group of
Orchidacee.

How Myanthus, Monachanthus, and Catasetum have been
seen to change into each other has been already told in this
work, (Vol. 23, t. 1951.) An instance is also mentioned at
the same place, of Cycnoches Loddigesii having been caught
in the very act of playing similar tricks; and with the forth-
coming number of Mr. Bateman’s Orchidacee of Mexico and
Guatemala, a yet more startling case will be recorded.

All these things are here mentioned for the sake of shew-
ing how difficult it is in such plants to judge correctly as to
what may be a species and what a sport. Influenced by these

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considerations I have till lately refrained from saying any
thing about the plant now figured. It has in some respects
so much the appearance of C. maculatum, that when I first
received it from Mr. Veitch of Exeter, in March 1842, I
hesitated whether to regard it as a variety or a distinct
species. A plant, however, obtained from Brazil direct by
Messrs. Loddiges (Cat. no. 890) has given me courage to
regard it as the latter. It has a short raceme of much larger
greenish-yellow flowers, with broad chocolate-brown blotches,
and its lip is quite remarkable, having 5 finger-like lobes,
and no more, instead of the lateral comb-like fringes of
C. maculatum. |

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ONCIDIUM microchilum.
Small-lipped Oncidium.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER § VANDEA.
ONCIDIUM. Swartz.

Evoncıpıum; Heteranthium; Folia plana; Pentapetala; Micropetala ;
labello bilobo. Sertum Orchidaceum, sub t. 48.

O. microchilum (Bateman in Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. 193.); pseudobulbis len-
ticularibus brevibus monophyllis, folio oblongo carinato carnosissimo
acuto quam scapus erectus versus apicem paniculatus guadruplů breviore,
sepalis liberis lateralibus longiůs unguiculatis, petalis oblongis subun-
dulatis retusis, labello dupld latiore quam longo lobo intermedio nano
triangulari lateralibus rotundatis planis, cristá reniformi crenata, co-
lumnz nanz alis subulatis apice glandulosis.

This most curious plant was introduced some years ago
from Guatemala by Geo. Ure Skinner, Esq. and was after-
wards found in the same country by Mr. Hartweg. When I
first published it I knew it only from report, and a single
damaged dried flower, and consequently several inaccuracies
crept into its description, which led to its being misplaced in
the enumeration of the genus published in the Sertum Orchi-
daceum. Its real situation is near O. deltoideum.

Although not a very splendid plant, it is far from being
undeserving notice. Its very glaucous flower-stem, the snow-
white lip and crimson petals, lying as it were in the middle
of dusky brown sepals, produce a singular and pleasing effect.
For the opportunity of figuring it, we are indebted to J. C.
Harter, Esq. of Broughton, near Manchester, who was so
obliging as to forward specimens, along with a drawing by
Mrs. Powell, in September last. Mr. William Ashton, the

dener to Mr. Harter, also deserves to be mentioned, as

aving succeeded in flowering the plant before any one else,
We understand that the Orchidacez of Mr. Harter's collec-

May, 1843. K

tion are hardly surpassed in health by anybody’s. Arpo-
phyllum is reported to exist there, with many new species
from Oaxaca. :

Mr. Skinner, who discovered the species, has been so kind
as to give us the following information upon that subject.

“ The Oncidium microchilum I first found on the top of
the “Cuesta” of Puentezuelas, some thirteen leagues from
Guatemala, and sent it to Mr. Bateman in 1838. It was
growing on a bare rock, with a guantity of dead leaves and
grasses about its bulbs, and its roots woven into the interstices
of the rock and mould about it; very much exposed to the
sun, except during the middle of the day, when a ledge of
rock seemed to afford it a little shade. I afterwards found
it in great abundance on the rocky banks of the river Micha-
tayal, from whence the present one now flowered came; it
was sent to Mr. Harter and Mr. Clowes in 1840, and arrived
in June of that year. I never saw it except in such situations,
generally exposed, and always among rocks. It is very
fragrant; and in its native habitat I have always observed
the sepals and petals darker and more marked than this now
flowered here. The temperature generally of the above habi-
tats is 68° to 70°; and, from being exposed, cold at nights.”

Fig. 1. represents a side view of the lip; 2. a front view
of the same part.

. It may be potted in turfy heath-mould, mixed with a few
pleces of small potsherds, which will cause superfluous water

to pass off freely. "The pot should be half filled with potsherds,

broken smaller towards the top, and the soil considerably © 4

elevated above its brim. During the summer months, while
the plant is in a growing state, plenty of water should be
given, and the temperature allowed to rise to 80° by day, and
fall to 68° at night—giving a slight shade in bright sunny
weather. In the winter season very little water is required,

and ne temperature may be allowed to fall as low as 50°
or 55°.

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IPOM(EA cymosa.
The White-cluster Ipomea.

fe nk,
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. CONVOLVULACEA.
IPOM@A. Choisy.

I. cymosa ; caule tereti, foliis ovato-cordatis apice acutis etiam acuminatis
elongatis superne nigrescentibus, pedunculis axillaribus bifido-multifloris
brevibus, sepalis coriaceis obtusis aut rariůs acutiusculis flavo-nigres-
centibus exterioribus saepe brevioribus. Choisy Convolv. orient. p. 80.

Convolvulus cymosus, Desrousseauz Encycl. bot. 3. 556.

Convolvulus pentagonus, Rozxb. ff. ind. 1. 485. Wall. ft. ind. 2. 72.

Convolvulus bifidus, Vahl. symb. 3. 31,

Convolvulus Rothii, Spreng. syst. 1. 600.

Convolvulus leevis minor, Rumph. amboin. 5. 431. £. 158.

Convolvulus blandus, Roxb. Fl. ind. 1. 470. Wall. ft. ind. 2. 50.

Ipomeea cymosa, Römer $ Schultes syst. veg. 4. 241.

Ipomeea bifida, Roth. nov. sp. 118.

Tpomeea corymbosa? Id. 109.

Ipomeea Heynii, Romer $ Schultes syst. veg. 4. 237.

Ipomeea Rothii, Id. 237:

Ipomcea blanda, Sweet Hort. Sub. Lond. ed. 2. 288.

Ipomeea radicans? Blume Bijdr. 712.

If all the above names are really, as M. Choisy states,
synonyms, it must be confessed that the Botanists who have
invented them have much to answer for. Thirteen different
names for the same plant form rather an unusual supply of
confusion even in the bewildering nomenclature of Botanists.
It is however to be said in justification, or at least palliation,
that the plant is variable in appearance, sometimes smooth,
sometimes hairy, and that, like other Ipomeeas, it occasionally
indulges in throwing out angles from its leaves.

It appears to be wild all over the tropics of Asia; the
Circars and the Moluccas according to Roxburgh, Amboyna
according to Rumphius, and apparently Java, are its favourite
countries. According to Rumphius, the flowers open about

nine in the morning, and close at two in the afternoon. The
same author tells us, that if the leaves are bruised they stain
the skin a red colour, which can only be removed by serubbing
with sand and water. He adds, that the leaves are boiled
and eaten as kitchen-garden stuff; and that they are applied
to ulcers and tumours in the manner of poultices.

It is a perennial, of great beauty, flowering most profusely
in the stove. The specimens from which the accompanying
drawing was made, and for which we are indebted to Mrs.
Lawrence, were the most lovely one can imagine, in the
month of December, when it is most difficult to procure such
things, forming festoons of snow-white yellow-eyed flowers
resting upon a deep green shining foliage.

Fig. 1. represents a stamen, whose filament is covered over

the base with yellow glands; 2. is the style and stigmas;
3. the ovary cut across.

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RHODODENDRON Rollissonii.

. Garden Variety.

In many respects this very striking plant so much resem-
bles Rhododendron nobile, the Ceylon variety of R. arboreum,
especially in its deep red flowers, and the closeness with which
they are arranged, that we supposed it must beit. But upon
comparing it with wild specimens from Ceylon we find that
the Rhododendron of that island has leaves silvery under-
neath, while in the plant before us they are rusty. It is there-
fore clear that R. Rollissonii has had some other origin, but
what that origin was we do not know.

It is among the handsomest of the crowd of varieties,
called hybrids, which tempt the buyer at every shop, and
seems in colour to resemble most a plant called Mars by
Mr. Lee, of Hammersmith; but its flowers are much more
compact.

And now a word or. two concerning the habits of the
Indian Rhododendron. There is a common belief that the
plant ought to be hardy, because it is found in Nepal. But
Dr. Royle tells us (Illustrations, p. 258) that it is only found
at the lowest elevations and in the most southern latitudes of
the Himalaya. Itis true that it sustains considerable cold in
winter in these places, but the rise and fall in temperature
are gradual, and better enable a plant to resist the climate.

If the most northern stations for the Rhododendrons are
thus comparatively mild, how much more so must those be
to the southward, and how small the chance of acclimatizing
R. nobile ; notwithstanding that Mrs. Walker assures us that
the shoots of the Rhododendron are shrivelled up in Ceylon,
as if they were scorched, in consequence of continued cold
mornings which blight every thing.

This variety is rather more tender, and requires a much
warmer situation than the old R. arboreum.

It grows freely in a mixture of sandy peat and loam. The
plants after flowering should be kept in a warm pit, and
rather close, to encourage the growth of the young shoots,
afterwards they may be placed out of doors during the sum-
mer, and the pots should have a top dressing of fresh cow-
dung and plenty of water.

Increased by grafting in the same manner as Camellias.

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ECHÍUM petreum.
The Rock Bugloss.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. BORAGINACE Z.
ECHIUM. L.

E. petræum ; caule erecto ramosissimo, foliis lineari-lanceolatis obtusis pube-
scentibus subtůs albis revolutis. ** Trattenick enum. t. 8.” Dietrich

Synopsis, 1. 600.

This is a beautiful herbaceous plant, native of rocks in
Dalmatia, where we believe it was first discovered by General
Baron v. Welden.

It is apparently a genuine Echium, having an irregular
corolla, with an erect limb, and perfectly even throat, without
any appendages. Nevertheless Reichenbach, in his Flora
excursoria, not only refers it to Lithospermum, but regards
it as a synonym of his Z. rosmarinifolium, which although
apparently not the true plant of that name is still a genuine
Lithospermum.

The plant from which our drawing was taken, was raised in
the Garden of the Horticultural Society, from seeds presented
by Baron Welden, and flowered beautifully in a cool green-
house in May. At that time it was the gayest little plant
possible, with its neat clean leaves, stiff stems, about nine
inches high, and pale blue flowers, which are pink before
they open.

Fig. 1. represents a corolla cut open; 2. shews the ovary,
style and stigma.

A pretty little hardy evergreen shrub, growing from one

to two feet high. It succeeds best in a mixture of sandy
loam and rough peat, that is rather poor. It must be kept

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ECHÍUM petreum.
The Rock Bugloss.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA.

Nat. ord. BORAGINACE Z.
ECHIUM. L.

E. petreum ; caule erecto ramosissimo, foliis lineari-lanceolatis obtusis pube-
scentibus subtůs albis revolutis. ** Trattenick enum. t. 8.” Dietrich

Synopsis, 1. 600.

This is a beautiful herbaceous plant, native of rocks in
Dalmatia, where we believe it was first discovered by General
Baron v. Welden.

It is apparently a genuine Echium, having an irregular
corolla, with an erect limb, and perfectly even throat, without
any appendages. Nevertheless Reichenbach, in his Flora
excursoria, not only refers it to Lithospermum, but regards
it as a synonym of his L. rosmarinifolium, which although
apparently not the true plant of that name is still a genuine
Lithospermum.

The plant from which our drawing was taken, was raised in
the Garden of the Horticultural Society, from seeds presented
by Baron Welden, and flowered beautifully in a cool green-
house in May. At that time it was the gayest little plant
possible, with its neat clean leaves, stiff stems, about nine
inches high, and pale blue flowers, which are pink before
they open.

Fig. 1. represents a corolla cut open ; 2. shews the ovary,
style and stigma.

A pretty little hardy evergreen shrub, growing from one

to two feet high. It succeeds best in a mixture of sandy
loam and rough peat, that is rather poor. It must be kept

in a dry, airy situation, in a cold pit, where there is plenty of
light at all times, but particularly during the winter.

It flowers freely during the months of April and May,
but is difficult to preserve through the winter, as it is very
subject to damp off, even when the plants are old.

It is increased by seed freely, or by cuttings of the young
wood.

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ECHITES atropurpurea.
Dark-purple Echites.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. APOCYNACEE.
ECHITES. L.

E. atropurpurea ; glabra, foliis petiolatis ovatis acutis, pedunculis bifloris
axillaribus foliis longioribus, sepalis lineari-ovatis, corolle glabra lobis
triangularibus undulatis patentissimis, disco biglanduloso.

E. atropurpurea. Lindley in Paxtons Magazine of Botany, 1842.

This is a handsome greenhouse climber, introduced from
South Brazil by Messrs. Veitch of Exeter. It is nearly allied
to the E. Martiana, from which it differs in having smooth
shoots and leaves, and a corolla whose lobes are not crisp.

We find the following popular account of the plant in
Paxton's Magazine of Botany.

“ The blossoms of this plant are borne on long and grace-
ful axillary peduncles, two or more appearing on each. They
have a tube nearly two inches in length, expanding, about half
way from the base, into a wide throat, which has an ample
and spreading limb, an inch and a half across. In the earlier
stages of their development, they have a pleasant odour, which
enhances the interest of the species.

* It was exhibited by Messrs. Veitch at one of the great
meetings in the Horticultural Society’s gardens, and a Banksian
medal was awarded for it. The dark tint of its flowers seems
to contrast finely with the lightness and airiness of its habit.

* In cultivation, it requires the temperature of the stove,
and may be trained to the rafters of the house, or toa wire
trellis spread entirely over the roof. If the branches are in-
termingled with those of E. suberecta and Stephanotis flora-
bundus, their flowers make a very harmonious and delightful

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combination. The plant may either be kept ina large pot,

or planted in a prepared pit or compartment, which is duly-

exposed to light, and not liable to become too wet. For soil,
the ordinary mixture of sandy loam and heath-mould will be
appropriate. From the weakness of its shoots, it will need
pruning in the winter, and may perhaps be improved by
having its branches stopped while they are growing. It is
not till after a specimen has been established for two or.three
years that it acquires the ornamental character which natu.
rally belongs to it, and it then blossoms throughout the sum-
mer in the greatest prodigality.

“Like E. suberecta, it can doubtless be trained on a barrel-
shaped trellis. The shoots must, however, be twined very
closely, on account of the scantiness of foliage ; and if, after
they have reached the prescribed height, they are turned back
over the previous coils, the trellis will be well covered, and a
good display will assuredly be the result.

“Cuttings of the young wood root with facility, when
treated in the usual way.”

Fig. 1. represents the stamen, arising from the throat of

the corolla; 2. is the ovary, with the two fleshy glands at the
base.

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DENDROBIUM taurinum.
Bull-headed Dendrobium.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER $ VANDEZ.
DENDROBIUM. Suz.

A.

$ Spatulata (Lindl.in London Journ. of Botany, 2. 235.). Cornu breve.
Petala elongata. Racemus pedunculatus oppositifolius. Caulis erectus
teres.

D. taurinum.

Whether or not it is possible to divide the great, and un-
natural genus Dendrobium by any really stable characters is
uncertain. It certainly appears to contain several distinct types
of structure, but up to the present time I have sought in vain
for any thing sufficiently precise on which to found generic
characters.

Among the sections of the genus no one is better marked
than this, which consists of species with a stiff erect habit,
racemes of flowers placed on a long peduncle opposite theleaves,
large showy flowers, and the petals remgrkably longer than the
sepals. But beyond this I can find nothing that differs from
Dendrobium ; and as the three first characters are merely of
habit, the last can hardly be regarded of enough importance
to authorise the establishment of a genus. For this reason I
proposed in the London Journal of Botany to combine them,
under the name of Dendrobia spatulata, into a new section of
the genus.

Of plants with this structure I know six completely ; and

a seventh is probably to be added. Of these the following
is an enumeration.

1. D. taurinum (the subject of the accompanying plate) ; foliis oblongis ob-
liqué emarginatis, racemo oblongo, . sepalis ovatis obtusiusculis,

June, 1843. M

linearibus contortis dupld longioribus, labello oblongo apice crispo per
axin lineis 3 elevatis intermediä apice flexuosä aucto.

A native of Manilla, whence Mr. Cuming sent it to Messrs.
Loddiges. It has large flowers, with yellowish green sepals,
rolled back at the points, very long deep purple twisted petals,
and a paler purple lip, with three elevated lines along the
middle, and a few small tubercles near the apex (fig. 2.). The
column (fig. 1.) is short and somewhat pouched at the base,
in consequence of the lip being adherent to it at that place.
The plant is five feet high. It flowered at Hackney in Octo-
ber last. I have wild specimens from Mr. Cuming; but they
are not nearly so handsome as that now figured from Messrs.

Loddiges.

2. D. Mirbelianum (Gaudich. Voyage, t. 38.) ; foliis ovato-oblongis obtusis,
racemis ovatis longé pedunculatis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acutis erec-
tis, petalis spathulatis unguiculatis obtusis longioribus, labelli trilobi
ovato-lanceolati subsessilis lobis lateralibus rotundatis intermedio lan-
ceolato undulato acuto, lineis tribus elevatis lateralibus versus basin
duplicibus.

A native of New Guinea, whence I have specimens from |
Mr. Hinds. Its racemes, including their peduncle, are more

than a foot long. The petals are an inch and half long.
Gaudichaud's figure is not a good one. |

3. D. veratrifolium (Lindl. |. c. L.); foliis oblongis obtusis amplexicaulibus
-11-nerviis, racemo terminali elongato multifloro, sepalis. undulatis
acutis, petalis spathulatis obtusis planis vix duplo longioribus, labello
oblongo obtuso membranaceo venis tribus elevatis per axin duabusque
minoribus lateralibus : lobis lateralibus nanis obtusis intermedio ob-

longo undulato.
Another species from New Guinea, where it was found by
Mr. Hinds. It is a most beautiful plant, with racemes a foot
and a half long, loaded with flowers, whose spatula-shaped
petals are an inch and more in length. The inflorescence is
very loose in this ; in D. Mirbelianum it is far more compact.

4. D. macranthum (A. Rich. Sert. Astrolab.

p. 15. t. 6.) ; foliis ellipticis apice
obliquo subbilobis, racemo lon

: gipedunculato versus apicem monophyllo,
sepalis ovato-lanceolatis, petalis pauló longioribus unguiculatis lanceola-

tis acutis, labello lanceolato trilobo per axin tricarinato laciniá inter-
mediä acuminatä lateralibus nanis rotundatis.

„A native of the island of Vanikoso. The stem is de-
scribed as two feet and more high ; the leaves from three to
four inches long, the raceme about a foot long, the flowers

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three inches in dameter. It is very near my D. veratrifolium,
but differs in having much shorter petals and a very acute lip.

5. D. antennatum (Lindl.1.c.); foliis lanceolatis carnosis obliqué emarginatis
racemo oppositifolio brevioribus, sepalis acuminatis, petalis linearibus -
dupló longioribus reflexis, labello trilobo venis 5 elevatis rectis per axin;
lobo medio ovato acuto plano 3-costato.

Also among Mr. Hind's New Guinea collections. It is a
most curious thing, with flowers having their long horn-like
petals directed backwards, and their sepals forwards. The
petals are two inches long, and scarcely half a line wide. “Fhe
leaves are succulent, brittle, and veinless when fresh.

6. D. undulatum (R. Brown Prodr. 332. L. no. 62. D. discolor, Lindl. in
Bot. Reg. 1841, t. 38.) ; foliis ovato-oblongis emarginatis, racemis lon-
gissimis, sepalis petalisque undulatis, labelli trilobi lobis acutis interme-
dio lanceolato, lineis quinque elevatis intermediä apice flexuosá.

A tropical New Holland species, with singular dingy yel-
low-brown flowers, of little beauty. It has also been found
in Java.

7. ? D. affine (Onychium affine, Decaisne herb. timor. 37.) ; ** foliis lineari-ob-
longis acutiusculis coriaceis, pedunculo foliis triplo longiore oppositi-
folio? laxifloro, floribus spicatis ; perianthio erecto, segmentis exterio-
ribus lineari-lanceolatis acutis, interioribus subobovatis rotundatis mucro-
nulatis ; labelli unguiculati lobis 3, medio lineari-lanceolato, lateralibus

subrotundis."

As M. Decaisne compares this with D. Mirbelianum, it
probably belongs to the present section, notwithstanding that
he conjectured the stem to be bulbous. The petals are said
to be obovate and mucronate. It is a native of Timor, with

acute linear-lanceolate leaves.

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* BARNADESÍÁ rosea.

Rose-coloured Barnadesia.

SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA.

Nat. ord. COMPOSITÆ, $ LABIATIFLORE.

BARNADESIA. L. Capitulum multiflorum homogamum. Javol. tur-
binatum multiseriale imbricatum, squamis interioribus radiantibus. Recept.
paleis tenuissimis piliformibus spiraliter tortis densè vestitum. Flores aut
dissimiles exteriores biligulati, labio externo amplò 4-dentato, int. filiformi,
centrales tubulosi 5-dentati, aut omnes bilabiati. Stam. filam. aut omnium
aut exteriorum monadelpha! Anthere ecaudate. © Achenium turbinatum
densè sericeo-villosum. Pappus l-serialis, nunc ubique plumosus, nunc in
peripheeriá plumosus in disco setis hirsutis subrigidis constans. —— Frutices
in Amer. austr. habitantes. Aculei sepits stipulares subulati gemini. -Folia
alterna integerrima mucronata. Capitula terminalia. Cor. purpuree villoso-
sericee. Pappus et recept. pili fulvi. DeCand. Prodr. 7. 2. o wit

B. rosea ; capitulis solitariis ovato-cylindraceis pubescentibus sessilibus, flos-
culorum labio altero oblongo emarginato extus villoso altero filiformi,
flore tubuloso centrali nullo, filamentis liberis, pilis receptaculi haud

tortilibus, pappo rigido plumoso.

The singular genus Barnadesia consists of South Ame-
rican spiny bushes, with so very similar a foliage that they
can hardly be distinguished; but differing in the size, and
form, and number of their flower-heads. That now figured,
for which we are indebted to the kindness of His Grace the
Duke of Northumberland, is of the greatest rarity, and, as
far as we can discover, undescribed.

According to DeCandolle all the species are monadelphous,
except B. laza, and in that plant there is a solitary tubular
floret in the disk ; but here the stamens are not monadel-
phous, nor is there a solitary tubular flower in the disk ; in
the place of the latter there is a space which pours forth

* So called by the younger Linnzeus, after Michael Barnadez, a Spanish
Botanist, concerning whom we have no information.

honey in abundance. It also appears that the hairs of the
receptacle are not twisted spirally as in other Barnadesias,
but are soft and straight.

The.dissections at the bottom of the plate fully explain
the structure of this plant: 1. is a perpendicular section of
the receptacle and involucrum, shewing the straight short
hairs of the former; 2. is a floret with its shaggy ovary, stiff
unequal feathery pappus, and two-lipped corolla; 3. is one
of the feathers of the pappus; 4. shews the stamens, with the
five filaments and syngenesious anthers; 5. is the style and
simple stigma.

It is a warm greenhouse plant, and should be kept during
winter in an intermediate house, between a stove and green-
house, where the temperature averages 47°, or as near as pos-
sible. It may be grown in a compost consisting of peat,
loam, and sand, in equal proportions. Water should be libe-
rally given in summer, but sparingly in winter, otherwise the
plant would naturally suffer from damp, being a native of

elevated situations. It is propagated by cuttings, or seeds, in
the usual manner.

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COMAROSTAPHYLIS arbutoides.
Arbutus-like Gritberry.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. ERIcACE =.

COMAROSTAPHYLIS. Zuce. Calyx quinquefidus. Corolla hypo-
gyna, globoso-campanulata, limbo quinquefido, reflexo. Stamina 10, ime
corollae inserta; filamenta brevia; anthere a latere compressee, dorso infra
apicem affixee, reflexo-biaristatee, apice bipoross. Ovarium disco hypogyno
cinetum, quinqueloculare, rariüs sex-novemloculare, loculis uniovulatis. Sty-
lus simplex ; stigma obtusum. Drupa globosa, papillosa, monopyrena, pu-
tamine osseo, quinqueloculari, rarius sex-novemloculari, loculis monospermis,
Semina inversa. Frutices mexicani; foliis alternis, sempervirentibus, inte-
. gerrimis v. argute serratis, racemis terminalibus simplicibus. Endl. gen.
no. 4328.

C. arbutoides; erecta, ramulis folis subter paniculisque tomentosis, foliis
lineari-oblongis integerrimis mucronulatis virentibus subtus ferrugineis,
bracteis acuminatis pedicellis brevioribus.

A native of Quezaltenango in Guatemala, this plant has
been raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society from
seeds received from Mr. Hartweg. It produced its flowers
for the first time in October, 1842; and is now (May, 1843)
again in blossom. .

: In some respects it is rather like Comarostaphylis polifolia,

but its leaves are much broader and larger and thinner, and
they are covered beneath with ferruginous down ; the flowers
are in panicles, standing high above the leaves, are four times
as large, and are white not crimson.

In appearance it resembles an Arbutus, but it has a dru-
paceous fruit, covered with the tubercles of that genus. It
differs from Arctostaphylos in the fruit not being smooth,
and in having a five-celled drupe, and from Arbutus in the
fruit not being many-seeded. It appears, with some other
plants, to form a perfectly well marked genus.

A pretty shrub, which proves rather tender for the climate
of London. It grows five or six feet high, and like the com-
mon kinds of Arbutus, thrives well in a light sandy loam,
mixed with a small portion of leaf-mould. It is increased
either by seeds or by budding. The seeds should be sown
directly they are ripe, in pans filled with light sandy loam,
and kept rather dry, until vegetation commences. If sown
in a peaty soil they vegetate guicker, but they then invariably
shank off when above ground, if not immediately transplanted
and kept rather dry. It may be budded in the usual way on
the common Arbutus, in July or August. It flowers freely
from October to May.

It was raised from seeds received from Mr. Hartweg, and
a large portion of which was distributed by the Society, under
the name of “ Arbutus sp., a half-hardy evergreen shrub, five
or six feet high, in 1840.” It is said to have been collected
at the foot of the active yolcano, Xetic, near Quezaltenango,
in Guatemala.

Fig. 1. represents the transverse section of its ovary.

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* MARCETÍA excoriata.

Loose-barked Marcetia.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. MELASTOMACEA. *

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MARCETIA. DC. Calycis tubus oblongus aut cylindraceus, lobis 4
lanceolatis. Pet. 4, ovalia acuta. Stam. 8, sequalia, antheris basi bituber-
culatis oblongis l-porosis. Ovarium liberum glabrum. Stylus filiformis.
Stigma punctiforme. Capsula 4-valvis 4-loc. calycis tubo circiter «equalis.
Semina cochleata. Suffrutices Brasiliensis. Rami teretes. Folia subcar-
nosa, oblonga, margine sepiůs revoluta, basi cordata, brevissimé aut vix petio-
lata, integerrima, sep? enervia. Flores axillares, solitarii, subsessiles, bibrac-
teati, albi aut subrubentes. DeCand. Prodr. 3. 124

M. excoriata; suffruticosa, ramosissima, foliis sub-sessilibus oblongis basi sub-
cordatis apice obtusis mucronulatis densč pubescenti-velutinis sub-3-ner-
viis, floribus axillaribus pedicellatis Sandris in racemum foliaceum sub-
digestis, antheris basi bituberculatis. DeCand. prodr. 3. 124.

This genus consists of a group of curious little Melasto-
maceous plants, having almost the habit of Heaths. "They
are all found in tropical America in mountainous places, or in
elevated sandy deserts, and give a peculiar feature to the
places where they grow. In our gardens they are almost un-
known; that which is now represented, from the collection of
His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, at Sion, being the
first that we have.met with in cultivation. DeCandolle de-
scribes eleven species.

They are warm greenhouse plants, difficult to manage, and
multiplied by cuttings. Their names occur in some of the
continental Catalogues, as for example in that of Mr. Makoy
of Liege, who has this and another, the M. rosmarinifolia ;
the price of the first being 20 francs, and of the second 15,
but he regards them both as stove plants.

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* Named after Dr. Marcet of Geneva, a chemist who was the author of
a curious paper concerning the effect of poisons upon plants.
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Fig. 1. is a view of the calyx and stamens, the petals being

removed ; 2. is one of the anthers, with its two tubercles at .
the base.

In some herbaria M. decussata is marked M. excoriata ;
but it is a very different species.

It will succeed best in a stove, potted in one half leaf-
mould, mixed with loam and sand in equal parts, A good
drainage is necessary, and plenty of water at the roots at all
times. While in flower, syringing should be dispensed with
altogether, for the moist atmosphere in a stove is guite suffi-
eient. After the flowering season is over, the plant should
be cut back, at least all slender branches should be removed,
in order to produce a supply of young wood for flowering the
following year. It is propagated by cuttings in the usual way.

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TROLLÍUS acaulis.

Stemless Globeflower.

POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.

Nat. ord. RANUNCULACER. .
i TROLLIUS. L. Calyx corollinus, penta-pendecaphyllus, foliolis æsti-
vatione imbricatis deciduis. Corolle petala 5-20, hypogyna, minima, tubu-
losa, unilabiata. Stamina indefinita, hypogyna. Ovaria plurima, libera,
‘unilocularia, ovulis ad suturam ventralem pluribus, biseriatis. Capsule fol-
liculares, coriaceæ, cylindricæ, sessiles, stylo dorsali acuminatæ, transversim
neryosæ, intus longitudinaliter dehiscentes, polyspermæ. Semina angulata.
—— Herbe in pratis montanis, frigidiusculis hemisphere borealis vigentes,
Ranunculi facie ; foliis palmatim-multifidis, floribus terminalibus, luteis, ex-
involucratis. Endl. gen. 4787.

T. acaulis ; foliis digitato-palmatis laciniis tripartitis pinnatifidis, pedunculo
brevissimo unifloro, flore stellato, sepalis 9 lanceolatis subineisis, petalis
lineari-cuneatis apice rotundatis. Lindl. Bot. Rey. 1842, misc. 56.

This is among the most curious plants that have been pro-
cured for our gardens by the liberality of the East India
Company. It has, in many respects, the appearance of a
little Eranthis, of which it will probably prove the summer
rival; for it does not flower till July.

Whether or not the flowers will always preserve their
dwarf stature, or whether as it becomes stronger this species
will elevate itself a little more, cannot at present be ascer-
tained, for we know nothing of it in a wild state.

This is remarkable in it, that the flowers are not globose
as in the old species of Trollius, but spread open, ın a starry
manner, like those of an Anemone. The petals are deep

orange; the carpels are fifteen in number.

If Don had not compared his T. pumilus with T. Ameri-
canus, and described its sepals as roundish oval, we should
have thought that plant might be the same as the present.

*

But if his description can be at all relied on, his must be a
very different species.

A neat hardy herbaceous plant, growing freely in a mix-
ture of sandy loam and peat, and in rather a damp situation.
It is increased either by seeds, or by dividing the old plants;

but the young plants grow but slowly at first, and will not
flower before the second season.

It flowers in July, and was raised from seeds received
from Dr. Royle, and stated to have been collected in Cash-
mere ; but the seeds are frequently to be found in the collec-
tions of seeds sent from the North of India.

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MORMODES luxatum.

Dislocated Mormodes.

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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEZ § VANDEZ.
MORMODES. Supra vol. 22. fol. 1861.

M. luxatum. (See the enumeration further on.)

The genus Mormodes has so entirely the habit of Catase
tum that we have no means of distinguishing those two genera
except when in flower. At that time Mormodes presents
some peculiarities of so strange a nature that, if they were
not found constant in several distinct species, we should be
tempted to regard them as monstrosities. In particular the
column, instead of being straight and standing erect in the
centre of the flower, is bent over to one side, just as if it had
been subjected to violence. There is also a great irregularity
of direction and proportion in the parts that surround the

column.

No where are these singularities so strongly marked as in
the plant now before us, whose sepals and petals, instead of
standing in an obviously alternate position with respect to
each other, are so completely broken up and twisted out of
their places that they can hardly be recognised, and the whole
floral apparatus is as it were dislocated. For example, of the
three sepals, the back one is placed almost opposite one of
the petals ; the other petal is shifted to one side, so as to
stand half behind the first; and the lip, instead of being
stationed exactly between the two petals and two lateral sepals,
turns its back to the left-hand sepal, and its face to the right-
hand petal. And then the column is bent to the left as well
as the lip, but not in the same degree, so that even these two
organs are not, as they usually are, opposite each other.

In mentioning the existence of this singular plant we
July, 1843. o

some time since spoke of it thus:—““ When Mr. Ross, the
collector to George Barker, Esg. of Birmingham, was in the
neighbourhood of Valladolid, in Mexico, there was brought
to him some masses of a plant reported to be of great beauty.
They arrived safely in England, and one of them has at last
flowered, proving to be this species; a most extraordinary
plant, of large size, of a stately habit, with a very delicious
fragrance, although powerful, but with no brilliant colours to
render it what we call handsome. Its flowers are three inches
in diameter, pale lemon-colour, fleshy, rather globular, but so
distorted by the complete dislocation of all the parts, that it
. would be difficult to ascertain their real nature, if it were not
for the token given by the labellum. The latter has a deep
brown streak drawn down its middle, and covers over the
column like a hood. The leaves of this plant are about three
feet long, narrow, deep green, with a very fine glaucous bloom
upon their underside. It is worthy to be associated with even

Sobralia macrantha in the choicest of all collections of these
plants.”

_ Fig. I. represents the lip; 2. the column ; 3. gland, cau-
dicula, and pollen-masses; 4. a pollen-mass seen from behind.

With regard to its cultivation, it is a stove-plant, which
should be potted in a compost of turfy heath-mould, mixed
with a portion of small potsherds. Water should be liberally
given in fine weather, during the summer, and the tempera-
ture kept as high as 80° by day, and 70° by night. As the
season of rest advances, watering should gradually be dis-
pensed with, so that in winter it may be treated like a Cata-
setum, that is to say, have little or no water at all for a few
weeks, while the temperature is allowed to fall to 58° by day,
and 50° at night. As the operation of watering is gradually
diminished ın autumn, so it should be increased in spring,
according to the state the plant may be in; and the house
should be slightly shaded in brieht sunny days.

The following are the specific characters of all the species
at present known to us.

MORMODES. ;
1. M. atropurpureum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t.:1861.); racemo

oblongo denso, sepalis lineari-oblongis zequalibus reflexis
basibus lateralium paulo obliguis, petalis ovatis erectis
supra columnam conniventibus, labello replicato retrorsum
arcuato cuneato trilobo: lobis lateralibus deflexis venosis
intermedio carnosiose cuspidato subtrilobo.—— Central
America. ——Flowers deep purple, on a close erect raceme.

2. M. lineatum (Bateman in Bot. Reg. 1841, misc. no. 107.
1842, t. 43.); racemo elongato multifloro, sepalis petalis-
que oblongo-linearibus abrupté acutis margine reflexis,
labello lineari incurvo carnoso sparsim piloso versus basin
utrinque dente nunc brevi nunc elongato aucto, column»
dorso et margine pubescente.—— Guatemala. —— The
flowers are deliciously fragrant; when they first appear
they are dull olive green; they afterwards acquire a brigbt
warm yellow tint, and the markings upon them increase
in intensity till they have become orange-red.

3. M. aromaticum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841, misc. 162.);
racemo brevi erecto, sepalis petalisque subrotundo-ovatis
acutis secundis concavis, labello angusté cuneato convexo
laciniä intermedia triangulari acuminata cucullatá.—-—
Mexico. This has flowers with a pale pinkish ground
sown thickly with dull wine-red specks, and a powerful
odour like that of aromatic vinegar. It differs from M.
pardinum in the small size of its flowers, and the very dis-
similar form of the lip and floral envelopes.

4. M. pardinum (Bateman Orch. Mexic. t. 14. Hooker Bot.
Mag. t. 5900. Cyclosia maculata, Klotzsch in Gartenzeit.
no. 39. 1838.— Var. Unicolor, Hooker 1. c. t. 3879. Cata-
setum citrinum, Hort.) ; foliis elongatis lanceolatis, racemo
ascendente elongato multifloro, sepalis petalisque lanceo-
latis acuminatis subsecundis, labello plano conformi acuté
tridentato unguiculato. —— Mexico. —— A beautiful spe-
cies, with bright yellow flowers, spotted with rich brown
in one variety; whole coloured with no spots whatever in

.. the other.

5. M. luxatum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. 66. 1843, t.
33.); foliis longissimis angustis subtüs glaucis racemo ob-
longo pluriés longioribus, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis petalis-
que oblongis concavis margine subscariosis carnosis IM-

curvis, labello hemispherico concavo obsoletě trilobo api-
culato supra columnam cucullato, polliniorum caudiculä

apice tuberculato. —— Mexico—— Flowers large, as much
as 33 inches in diameter, pale lemon-colour, powerfully
aromatic. |

6. M. buccinator (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. 9.) ; racemo
stricto oblongo, sepalis lineari-oblongis lateralibus reflexis
dorsali petalisque ovali-lanceolatis erectis, labello ungui-
culato carnoso nudo subrotundo-cuneato apiculato utrinque
emarginato lateribus in buccine formam revolutis.
Merico.—— Flowers pale green, with an ivory-white lip,
whose sides are so rolled back as to give it the appearance
ofa trumpet. The column is twisted sometimes to the
right, sometimes to the left. : The habit and general ap-

pearance of the flowers, except in colour, is that of M.
atropurpureum.

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PORTULACA splendens.

Garden Variety.

We presume this to be a mere variety of Portulaca Thel-
lusonii, figured at plate 31 of our volume for 1840; but if so
it is one of singular beauty. Its origin is however unknown to
us. Seeds of it were purchased of Mr. Charlwood, in Covent
Garden, for the Horticultural Society, and in the Chiswick
Garden it flowered in the autumn of 1842.

It is a charming tender annual, about a foot high, which
flowers most abundantly from July to September, if treated in
the following manner.

The seed should be sown about the middle of March in
pots filled with a mixture of sandy loam, old lime rubbish,
and well decomposed cow-dung in equal portions. The
plants should be raised on a hot-bed, and when large kr. a
should be potted off singly into small sixty-pots, filled with the
same kind of compost as that in which the seeds were sown.
The young plants when potted should be again returned to the
hot-bed, and when well established, their pots being well
filled with roots, should be re-potted into upright thirty-twos,
draining the pots well, and covering the surface of the soil
with a thin covering of fine sand.

After this the pots should be placed on the front shelf
of a greenhouse, where they are freely exposed to the sun,
but guarded from wind and rain, the first of which destroys
the flowers, and the latter the plants. (Care must also be
taken in watering the plants; as on this much depends
of the success in their management; for they are very sub-
ject to damp off close to the soil.

It is also possible to grow this Purslane in the open
ground in a fine dry season, if it is planted in a hot situation,
where it can be protected from heavy rain and wind, but it
will not, under such circumstances, display all its beautiful
effects.

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* LYCÄSTE plana.
Eiven-flowered Lycaste.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEA, $ VANDEA. MAXILLARIDA.
LYCASTE. Lindl. in hujus voluminis miscell. p. 30.

L. plana (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. 96.) bracteá supremá cucullatá
ovario longiore, sepalis oblongis planis basiin cornu brevi conico con-
natis, petalis conformibus apice tantüm recurvis, labelli trilobi lobis la-
teralibus apice crenulatis intermedio subrotundo serrato callo elevato
obtuso obsoletě trilobo, columnä pubescente, antherá villosá.

A Bolivian plant imported by Messrs. Loddiges, with
whom it flowered in October last. It is conspicuous for the
large size of its leaves, and is in fact very near L. macrophylla,
from which it differs in the petals being quite even, not un-
dulated, and in the lateral sepals being much more exactly
oblong. Added to which is a greater degree of bluntness
on the tubercle of the lip. The beauty of the flowers of L.
plana is far greater than in L. macrophylla, which wants the
rich red-wine colour of the plant before us.

Fig. 1. represents the lip spread open; 2. the column, and
8. the pollen-masses with their slender caudicula.

Like other species of Lycaste this requires to be grown
in turfy peat; the pot to be half filled with potsherds, and the
soil considerably elevated above its brim. Care must be
taken not to have its pseudobulbs imbedded in the soil, or
they will damp off. In summer, after the plant has com-
menced growing, plenty of water should be given to its roots,
and a slight syringing over head once or twice a day as the
weather permits. The house should be shaded in sunny days,
and the temperature kept about 80° by day, and 70° by night.

* A fanciful name. Lycaste was a beautiful woman.

In winter, for a few weeks, very little water is required, espe-
cially in cloudy weather; if the house is kept moist it will be
quite sufficient, and the temperature may be allowed to fall
as low as 58° by day, and 50° by night. :

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OXYLOBIUM obovatum.
Wedge-leaved Oxylobium.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. LeGUMINOSA, $ PAPILIONACEA.
OXYLOBIUM, Botanical Register, vol. 5. Jol. 392.

O. obovatum ; foliis latě obovato-cuneatis obtusis truncatis retusisve mucro-
nulatis crassis coriaceis, racemis axillaribus densé capitatis multifloris,
calycibus sericeo-villosis subferrugineis, ovario 4-ovulato. Bentham in.

Lindley's Swan River Vegetation, p. xii.
O. cuneatum. Jó.

As an addition to the hardwooded Australian shrubs with
yellow pea-flowers this is acceptable, for it forms a pretty
greenhouse plant which lasts in blossom for some time. It is
the species intended by Mr. Bentham by his O. cuneatum,
as we have ascertained by comparing it with one of the original
specimens from which his specific character was framed; but we
cannot regard it as distinguished from O. obovatum, and, as
that name has been applied to it in the nurseries, we adopt
it in preference. We have not seen the fruit.

Fig. 1. represents the calyx, and 2. a section of the ovary
of the plant.

It is best cultivated in a soil which is rather poor; com-
posed of very sandy loam and peat, and should be kept in a
cold pit where it is guite secure from frost during winter.
‘The pot must be well drained, and the plant should be seldom
shifted after it is once established: when the shifting does
take place, it should be a liberal one. (Great care must also
be taken that the plant never suffers for want of water; if
this happens it hardly ever recovers; moreover, it should
never be placed out of doors during the summer, but always
be kept in a cold pit where the lights can be put on in wet or

windy weather.
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It is increased freely by seeds, or by cuttings, put in sand
and placed on a gentle heat in the usual way.

The accompanying figure was made from specimens com-

municated by Messrs. Low and Co., of the Clapton Nursery,
in April last.

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Cucumber Dendrobium.
Jigs ae

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orcuimacra, $ MALAXIDEZ.
DENDROBIUM. Swartz.

D. cucumerinum (W. MacLeay in litt. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. 63.);
nanum, intricatum, ceespitosum, ramis brevissimis articulatis cylindra-
ceis monophyllis, foliis oblongis teretibus seriatim tuberculatis, pedun-
culis brevissimis trifloris, sepalis petalisque linearibus acuminatis obtusis,
labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus triangularibus intermedio ovato crispato
lamellis 5 undulatis in medio, clinandrio denticulato.

A native of New Holland, whence it was sent to Messrs.
Loddiges from Mr. Wm. MacLeay. Of the locality for it in
that country we are uninformed. It very much resembles a
heap of little cucumbers, whence the name has been derived.
Those bodies are apparently leaves, terminating the short
articulated stems: but they reguire further examination, for
they may be of the nature of pseudobulbs. This, however, is
a point our opportunities do not permit us to settle.

The flowers appear from the base of the cucumbers in
threes. They are dirty white, with long narrow sepals and
petals striped with pink, and a three-lobed lip, whose middle
division is crisped very much, and five wavy elevated ridges
along its middle.

Fig. 1. represents the inside of the lip; 2, the column ;
and 3. the pollen-masses.

It is very much to be wished that the genus Dendrobium
could be subdivided upon some such principles as have been
lately applied to Maxillaria ; for it consists of plants having
an extraordinary diversity of appearance; and the New
Hollanders in particular are quite a set apart. But we have
sought in vain, up to the present time, to find good generic

characters, unless the surface of the labellum is taken advan-
tage of; and for such a measure Botanists are hardly yet
prepared. Instead, therefore, of speculating upon what may
possibly be done hereafter with the genus, we take advantage
of the present opportunity to print a sketch of the geogra-
phical distribution of New Holland Orchidacex by the late
Allan Cunningham, the well known and lamented New
Holland Botanist.

Notes, for the most part geographical, on the Orchidaceous
plants of Australia. By the late Allan Cunningham.

In viewing the limited number of Orchidaceous plants
hitherto observed by Botanists in Australia, and their geo-
graphic range on that extraordinary continent, as far as its
coasts and internal country are known, I have, in order to
account in some measure for the fact of a country, possessing
so considerable an extent of intertropical coasts, which as far
as temperature goes, may be said to be favourable to the pro-
duction of the order, furnishing nevertheless so few of its
epiphytic division, been led to consider the general configura-
tion of the surface of the country; the open character gene-
rally of its forests; the attenuated ramification of its preva-
lent timbers; and the geological structure of the several
coasts and regions in their vicinity—considerations egually
referable to Filices and other portions of its cryptogamic vege-
tation—the same physical causes, that limit the existence of
the one, especially of its Epiphytes, maintaining doubtless

a like influence in regard to the extent and diffusion of species
of the other. e 3

It has been ascertained by Navigators and inland-travel-
lers that the highlands of that continent are situated upon or
near its shores, and that the most elevated country is upon
the eastern coast. There they present a range of mountains:
which extends in the direction of. the meridian, and stretch-
ing from Wilson's Promontory on the south (lat. 39°) to about
Cape Weymouth of Cook on’ the north (lat. 123°), exhibit a
Continuous chain, which has been happily termed, the spine or
backbone of the continent. This main range, in some lati-
tudes, closely invests the coast-line, whilst in other parallels
ıt retires to some distance from the shore, and there gives

space for the windings of streams which originate in its
eastern flanks, ere they are discharged into the ocean. On
other coasts, as upon one part of the north—upon the western
(as inland from the Swan River)—and on parts of the southern
shores of that continent, have been observed, ridges of hills;
but these are isolated, or rising from the surface of a compa-
ratively level country, present no trace of connexion, either
with the great eastern chain, or with each other: and they
are all of inferior elevation, no one exceeding 3000 feet of
perpendicular height above the level of the sea, and most of
them of not half that elevation. It may be here remarked,
moreover, that with reference to the face of the interior, every
observation of the traveller goes to support the theory, that
although detached hills and even some ridges have been
noticed on its ample surface, neither a chain of mountains,
nor any elevated points to form the nucleus of a second main-
range exist in the central regions of the continent, which will
one day be rather found a vast level, through which its
rivers, if they exist far from its eastern side, have, from the
prevalent disposition of the country generally to drought,
much to combat in their efforts to gain any sea coast,

From these brief remarks of the structure of the Austra-
lian continent, it will be seen that the eastern coast, or that
of New South Wales, within and beyond the tropic, is the
only shore to which we can look for Epiphytic Orchidacez and
for Filices and other of the Cryptogamic class—in fact, the
only one (if we except one or two points of the north coast,
strictly so called) on which these orders of the vegetation of
that great country have hitherto been found—its main chain,
which in some parallels has been found to measure 6000 feet
above the sea shore, furnishing in its ravines and rocky
flanks, ample shade and humidity to the sustenance of those
families; but in several islands in the Gulf of Carpentarıa,
says Mr. Brown, “ having a flora of phoenogamous plants ex-
ceeding 200 species, I did not observe a single species of
moss"— and this, evidently, because of the ordinary elevation
of those isolated spots; the consequent little shade they
afford; and the extreme dryness of the circumambient atmo-

sphere.

With the reguisite conditions of high temperature and con-

siderable humidity, which the country on its eastern coast,
especially within the tropic, provides, it is very remarkable
that so few of the Orchidacex growing on trees or rocks,
should have come within the observation of botanists attached
to voyages of discovery along that lengthened shore. In the
whole line of eastern coast, only eleven Epiphytes were re-
marked by Sir Joseph Banks and Mr. Brown; and these
have been referred by the latter able botanist to three genera;
viz. Cymbidium, Dendrobium, and to a genus intermediate to
them, named’ Sarcochilus. It may, however, be observed,
that in the voyages of both Cook and Flinders, and indeed in
that more recently, of King, upon that extensive coast,
although landings were effected on many of its head-lands,
and opportunities afforded for an examination of the botany
of the immediate shores or adjacent country, yet perhaps no
instance occurred of the remoter mountainous regions having
been visited, where for the most part those remarkable vege-
tables are more probably to be found; and that many, yet to
be discovered do exist, may be perhaps fairly inferred from
the fact of there having been found at the Illawarra —a coast
district on the south of Port Jackson, —and at Moreton-bay
(in 273 S*), nine Epiphytes not known to botanists, prior
to the exploration and examination of those most interesting
Points on the coast.

Of the terrestrial portion of the order, 104 species (now
including Phájus grandifolius, Lour., and Calanthe veratri-
folia, R. Br., lately found in the districts Just mentioned) are
known to be indigenous to the Australian continent; and of
these three-fifths are natives of Port Jackson and the neigh-
bouring country.

But ten species, of the genera Habenaria, Thelymitra,
Microtis, Caladenia, Pterostylis, Cymbidium (Geodorum) and
Phajus, have been detected in the warmer or intertropical
parts of the shores of New South Wales ; and as these plants
are only to be met with] during the rainy season, or in the
period immediately subsequent, when every vegetable be-
comes reanimated and exerts fresh life, not a single terres-
trial individual of the order was found on the north-western
coast during the several visits of Captain P. P. King, whose’
surveys could alone be carried on during the easterly or dry

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Monsoon, when the wind blows steadily off shore, and when
all minor vegetation is wholly burnt up. Such however is
the extreme aridity of that particular line of intertropical
coast, that not a single Epiphyte was observed, and but
two ferns; a Blechnum and a Gleichenia ; and one Palm, a
Livistona of Mr. Brown. Of the West coast, properly so
denominated, little or nothing is known of its Orchidaceous
vegetation. We however learn from the correspondence of
Mr. Drummond, who has charge of the public garden at the
Swan River colony, that many fine terrestrial species have
been observed, in their respective seasons, in the vieinity of
Perth and other parts of that settlement; but of what
genera, we have yet to be informed. [This was written long
before the publication of our Sketch of the Vegetation of Swan

River. ]

During the voyage of the Investigator in 1802, Mr.
Brown discovered twenty species on the south coast belong-
ing wholly to genera frequent at Port Jackson, with the
exception of the beautiful Epiblema—a genera closely allied
to Forster's Thelymitra. No Epiphyte has been seen upon
that, generally speaking, very arid coast.

From what I have advanced, it will readily appear that
the existence of Orchidaceous Epiphytes is confined to the
eastern and perhaps to the northern shores of New South
Wales; and as not the semblance of one (not even Dendro-
bium zmulum, R. Br., so frequent on the trunks of Euca-
lyptus resinifera, and in the dry forests around Port Jackson)
has been seen, either by myself or other travellers in the
interior of that country, at least between the parallels of 28°.
and 35°., their range westerly from the actual sea coast may
be truly said to be limited to the main chain, or dividing
range, beyond which, moreover, in a westerly direction,
neither Alsophila australis, nor the Corypha of Port Jack-
son have ever been observed.*

* The absence of arborescent Ferns and Palms in the interior on the
western side of the Blue Mouhtain-ranges, is to be attributed to the want of
shade from high lands, (those hills that are scattered on its surface being of
inconsiderable elevation, and generally of a sandstone rock,) and to the
nonexistence of dense humid forests. The whole internal country traversed,
beyond the meridian of 149°., declining westerly to a low level region, being

Considering the extent of interior known, at the present
day, in or about the parallel of Port Jackson, as also on the
north and south of that degree of latitude, the terrestrial part
of the family may be said to be comparatively rare in the
inland country. In their journeys through it at various sea-
sons, botanic travellers have observed but thirteen species;
and the whole of them are of genera, and indeed for the greater
part, of species, frequent on the sea coast at or near Sidney.

These genera are Diuris, Orthoceras, Calochilus, Cala-
denia, Lyperanthus, Pterostylis, Gastrodia and Dipodium.
In fine, as a general remark on the geographical range of the
family in Australia, it may be observed, that as the terrestrial
species are greatly influenced by rains that may fall in the
season when they would under such favourable circumstances
appear above the soil, and as those whose localities are in-
land, beyond the range of those genial coast-showers which
occasionally fall in the midst of a long period of dry weather,
are wholly prevented from appearing above ground for two
or three years, to which extent the droughts in that country
have continued; these facts are sufficient to explain why it is
that this group also of the order in Australia, is so much
more abundant on its immediate shores, than it is either in
the up-country, as those parts of the colony a little distant
from the coast are termed, or the more remote interior.

exceedingly thinly and generally lightly wooded, and thus its ample surface
being greatly exposed to the rays of the sun, an extreme dryness of atmosphere
is engendered, by no means favourable to the existence of a shade-loving
vegetation, affecting a lower temperature, but cooled simply by the surround-
ing air being, to a certain degree, permanently charged with humidity.

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HYBRID Narcissi.

For the very curious information conveyed in the following
pages, we are indebted to the Honourable and Very Rev.
the Dean of Manchester, whose experiments on hybridizing
plants have now assumed a precision and importance which
could scarcely have been anticipated from the early researches
into this subject. We particularly commend the facts here
detailed to the attention of those Botanists who see a genus
or species in any little variation from the habitual condition

of a plant.

Fig. 1. Narcissus, Diomedes, var. Crichtoni. Ex N. Ajace minore, (Bot.
Mag. 6.) polline N. Hermiones æquilimbæ, Melitensis (Herb. Am. pl.
48.) ; scapo humili bifloro, stylo tubum superante coroná incluso, fila-
mentis tribus 4 unc. infra faucem tubi tribus medio propiůs insertis

tenuibus, antheris tenuibus semuncialibus, perianthio luteo.

Diomedes, Haw.

2. Narcissus, Ajax, var. pallidus. Ex N. Ajace minore, polline N. Ajacis

moschati. Perianthio subconcolore pallido.

. 3. Narcissus Spofforthie; pedune. $ unc. tubo 43 unc. limbi lac. latis
pallidě sulphureis 4 une., corona brevi 4} unc.-latá crenatä plicatá sub-
sexlobatá aurantiacá medio lutescente, stylo tubum zequante, filamentis
adnatis, antheris tribus exclusis tribus semi-inclusis. Ex N. incompara-
bili v. corona margine aurantiaco (Queltia aurantiaca, Haw.) polline N.
poetici v. stellaris.

. 4. Narcissus Spofforthise v. spurius. Ex eddem capsuld cum precedente ;
coroná luteá subsemunciali magis angustatá limbi laciniis angustioribus

Genus

14-uncialibus.
5. Narcissus, Queltia, incomparabilis ; coronx margine aurantiaco. Q.

aurantiaca, Haw. Ex N. Ajace pseudonareisso v. Eboracensi, polline
N. poetici v. stellaris. Ex eädem capsulä dua: cor. marg. aurant. cæteræ
margine concolore ; Queltia aurantiaca et A. incomparabilis, Haw.
Fig. 6. Narcissus, Queltia, subconcolor ; ex N. Ajace minore, polline N. poe-
tici v. stellaris. Tubo Z unc. limbo unciali luteo, coroná parum satura-
tiore subsemunciali crenatá. Ex eádem capsulá plures, cum duabus
corona margine aurantiaco, alterá perianthio et scapo majore. Genus

Queltia, Salisb.

These hybrid Narcissi have been raised with many others

from seed at Spofforth, and are amongst those which have
already flowered. Eight years ago a collection of the various

August, 1843. a

known Nareissi was made there, for the completion of an
arrangement of Amaryllidacez; and, from a desire of seeing
the fruit of the intermediate kinds which formed the genera
Queltia, Diomedes, Philogyne, Tros, Schisanthes, and the
yellow portion of Helena of Haworth, application was made
for seed to various cultivators, and it was found that no one
had ever known a seed to have been produced by any one of
the above-mentioned plants. The white-limbed species of
Haworth’s Helena are small Italian local varieties of N. poe-
ticus, from which by the pollen of jonquill it is presumed that
the sterile tenuior and planicorona may have been produced.
The seeds described, as those of N. gracilis, (Herbert Am.
316.) proved to be jonquill seeds erroneously communicated
by the cultivator. On further investigation of the subject it
appeared that, although most of these plants had been culti-
vated above 200 years, their places of abode were unknown
to Clusius and Parkinson, and a suspicion arose that they
were artificial breeds which some cultivator had imposed
upon the public as mountain plants above two centuries ago,
and an advertisement, stating that suspicion, and requesting
a communication of their seeds, was published by the author;
* and, the seed of N. odorus being named in the list of seeds in
the bot. gard. at Naples, application was made to Prof. Tenore
for some. The result has been that, although some gentle-
men in remote parts have kindly contributed bulbs of different
sorts, no seed of any such Narcissus has been sent. Prof.

enore answered, that, although named in the list, N. odorus
bore no seed at Naples,* and Mons. Deslongchamps, though,
amidst the information which he obligingly gave concerning
the French Narcissi, he asserted that it was certainly indige-
nous in France, admitted that he had never heard of its pro-
ducing seed. The variety also, found in Madeira, grows
under chesnut trees which are not indigenous, and bears no
seed. In the spring before the publication of Amaryllidacez,

* A later communication from Pr. Tenore alludes to the production of
seed by N. odorus at some former period in the Neapolitan garden, but it
does not ‚appear to have been sown, nor is it clear whether the fact is certi-
fied by his own recollection. He suggests that it might have been produced
by the pollen of one of its parents, if the plant is an hybrid. He likewise

states that Crocus Imperatonianus does not grow on the hedge-banks near

Naples, and never descends lower than 2000 feet above the sea. W. H.

es A

the seed, from which the plants here figured were raised, had
been obtained ; but, from the possibility of the admission of
natural pollen in spite of all precautions, it was thought best
not to broach therein suspicions which could not at that time
be verified. The suspicion was that N. incomparabilis, or the
genus Queltia of Haworth, in all its varieties, was made be-
tween Ajax and N. poeticus; N. odorus, or genus Phylogyne
of Haworth, in all its varieties, between Ajax and jonquill ;
©. Macleai, or Diomedes of Haworth, between Ajax and Her-
mione; N. Gracilis and tenuior, or Helene of Haworth, be-
tween N. poeticus and jonquill; N. orientalis (his Schisanthes)
between incomparabilis and Hermione; Hermione bifrons and
compressa between H. Tazetta and jonquill; Hermione Ba-
zelman major and minor, Cypri, flexiflora, and Trewiana,
and the four-flowered N. biflorus of the Hort. Soc. between
Hermione and N. poeticus; and the result of experiments
enables me to assert that those suspicions are now veri-
fied as to the three first cases, and that I entertain no doubt
concerning the latter. Bazelman minor evidently derives the
orange margin of its cup from N. poeticus. Parkinson indeed
mentions that incomparabilis produces rarely a few seeds, but
he does not say, whether the seeds he saw were sown, or what
they produced. It is not meant to assert, that there is any
physical impossibility in these cross-bred plants reproducing
themselves by seed, but that their general habit is sterility,
and that no such reproduction is known to have taken place,
and that all must be expunged from the botanical catalogue

of natural genera or species.

Fig. 5. is the produce of the wild Yorkshire daffodil, A.
pseudonarcissus, by pollen of N. poeticus, and is decidedly a
variety of the plant called N. or Q. incomparabilis. Fig. 3.
is the produce of incomparabilis by the same N. poeticus, that
is two generations from the daffodil by the poetic narcissus ;

and in it the change is complete from the form of stamina in

the daffodil to that in the true Narcissus, and it is evident,
that one cross more (or at least two further crosses) would, out
of the wild daffodil, produce the true Pheasant-eye Narcissus.
The pollen of this doubly-crossed plant is also fertile, for,
though I have never seen natural seed of N. montanus (of
which the native place is uncertain, and which might perhaps
be made between the wild N. dubius of France and Ajax mos-

chatus minor, N. candidissimus of Red.), I obtained seed
both from it and A. minor by the pollen of fig. 3. The pollen
of N. montanus however readily fertilizes Ajax and Narcissus.
N. dubius in its wild state is two or three-flowered, and in a
weak one-flowered state was the N. pumilus of Redoute, of
which no trace can now be discovered.

I have flowered also the produce of a yellow Ajax by
jonquill raised by J. T. Alcock, Esq. which had precisely the
foliage and flower of N. odorus v. calathinus minor, Am. 814.
which variety (and not the larger as there stated) is the Cam-
pernelli of Haworth. I have raised younger plants of like
breed from various sorts of Ajax, shewing the foliage of odo-
rus, which have not yet flowered. I have also flowered what
I may call N. Ajax semiqueltia, a single seedling from A.
pseudonarcissus v. Eboracensis by pollen of Q. incomparabilis,
a very neat Ajax-like plant, of which the cup is rather ventri-
cose below, and compressed about the middle, with a regular
Crenate margin, and of the filaments three are inserted just
below the middle, and three lower, much as in N. Sabini,
which I believe to be a cross between ©. incomparabilis alba
and Ajax tubeflorus, with which last it agrees in the superior
breadth of its leaves, and the roundness of its seed-pod. N.
Sabini is naturally barren, but I have seedlings from it by N.
poeticus. The pollen of Narcissi cultivated long by offsets
becomes obsolete and sterile, and I can obtain no produce
from pollen' of Soleil d'or of the Gardens, Bazelman, double

oman, orientalis, $c.; but taking proper precautions to
avoid exposure to strong Sunshine, or high temperature, I can
obtain seed from every flower of Ajax minor, N. poeticus stel-

laris, and other free-seeding species, by any other Narcissus
which has not become sterile by age.

them, but the plant, which has been named N. cyclamineus
from a figure Rudb. Theat. flor. 20, was probably raised be-
tween a Ganymede and Ajax, though it has been long lost.
I have failed in every attempt to cross Corbularia with the
Nareissi, and I believe it to be a true genus distinguished by
assurgent anthers. A gentleman has just informed me that,
Operating at my request, he has a pod of Corbularia in pro-

gress by some other Narcissean plant, but I doubt the accu-
racy of his experiment, from the repeated results of my own.
Where the sterile Narcissi are found in a wild state, they are
remnants of ancient gardens, or found on spots where a bulb
has been accidentally dropt and found a congenial situation.
The double daffodil is accordingly found wild in many places,
and the fertile daffodils of England and Wales may have been
introduced by Roman or even Phenician gardening. They
have more the appearance of having been originally located,
than of having naturally chosen their own localities. The
exact Roman Tazetta is naturalized on Lady Grenville's estate
in Cornwall. ©

It will be observed that the Narcissi seem to be quite ano-
malous plants. I know ofno genus, which exhibits such a diver-
sity in the most important parts, as Ajax with its enormous cup,
straight anthers, and robust awl-shaped filaments inserted at
its base, and Narcissus verus with the short wide cup, curved
anthers, and filiform filaments inherent in the texture of the
tube, still less in which such plants are capable of interbreeding
ad infinitum, and imposing their mongrel produce upon botan-
ists as natural species, and even as genera connecting the widely
separate forms of the true natural sections or species. How are
we to deal with them in our nomenclature? In truth Ajax,
narcissus verus, Hermione, jonguilla, Ganymedes, should be
considered as species, of which there are (at least of the three
first) a vast many distinct and permanent local varieties. It
may perhaps be convenient, as the genus is so anomalous, to
set them down as sections, but in truth I consider the difference
between -a botanical species and permanent local variety to
be little more than nominal and arbitrary. I impregnated
nine flowers of A. minor by jonguill this spring, and others b
a fertile Hermione, N. montanus, and Spofforthie, and all |
have produced strong seed pods. Some of the old crosses
seem to have been lost, and it is not clear that any decidedly
new intermixture has been raised till lately in the last two
centuriés; which gives reason to suppose that M. Franqueville
of Cambray, mentioned by Parkinson, or some other cultivator,
at or before that period, had discovered the secret of the cross-
breeding, and made a profit by the sale of his novelties, and
that his secret died with him. It is now known that the late
Mr. Rollisson of Tooting raised many Erice by cross-breed-

ing, as for instance jasminiflora between ampullacea and
Aytoni, as well as many others which were figured by Andrews
as new species from the Cape, but which will not be found
amongst any specimens of African plants. The cultivator
thought his plants would have been undervalued, if their true
origin had been declared, and he would have lost the monopoly.
It will be observed, that the three lowest figures 1, 2, and
6, belonging to three genera of Haworth, are from sister
flowers by the application of different pollen ; that, while fig. 5
and its companions, which are not figured, furnish two species
according to him out of one seed-pod, fig. 3 and 4 would have
served him for two genera out of one seed-pod. The late Mr.
Haworth's last words to the writer were, “ I do not thank you
for your mules;” the public will however perceive, that, instead
of confounding the Botanist as he fancied, while they embellish
the garden, they offer the surest test of the accuracy of scien-
tific divisions. It is desirable to call the attention of the hum-
blest cultivators, of every labourer indeed, or operative, who
has a spot of garden, or a ledge at his window, to the infinite
variety of Nareissi that may be thus raised, and most easily in
pots at his window, if not exposed too much to sun and wind,
offering him a source of harmless and interesting amusement,
and perhaps a little profit and celebrity. The six anthers
should be carefully taken out before the flower, which is to
bear the seed, blows. This may be done through a slit cut in
the tube ; and the yellow dust from another sort must be ap-
plied to the point of the style. The two-flowered N. biflorus,
which has no ovules, may be an accidental mule, barren from
extreme old age, (perhaps many centuries) as well as from
hybridity. It will be remembered, that many years ago the
writer asserted that Crinum amabile was a sterile mule He
can now state that, although it has been long introduced into
Jamaica and flourishes there exceedingly, it is as sterile there
as in the East, and has never been known to produce a seed.
It was found impossible to make Mr. Plant’s alleged monsters
vegetate at Spofforth. They turned mouldy on the first appli-
cation of moisture, and no care could stop their decay. It is

to be hoped he may have been more successful with the root
he reserved.—W. H.

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CLOWESIA rosea.
Pink-flowered Clowesia.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. OÖRCHIDACER, $ VANDEZ.

CLOWESIA. Supra misc. 39. Flos subglobosus, patulus. Sepala
subaegualia ; lateralia paulo obliqua, in mentum breve producta, basibus con-
natis. Petala conformia, latiora, fimbriata. Labellum concavum, carnosum,
cum labello continuum nec articulatum, obsoleté trilobum, margine in fim-
briam glandulosam laceram solutum, disco laeve. Columna semiteres, clavata,
utrinque apice obtusa cornuta; clinandrio alto carnoso serrato. Stigma:
sinus transversalis. Pollinia 2, linearia, dorso sulcata, glandulá subrotundá,
caudiculä membranaceá clepsydreeformi !——Caulis carnosus, foliosus. Sca-
pus redicalis, multiflorus, erectus.

Clowesia rosea.

A short time since we gave some account of this beautiful
plant, which we then knew only from some flowers and a de-
scription furnished by a correspondent. Since then we have
had better means of examining it.

It is a native of Brazil, and first flowered at Broughton
Hall, near Manchester, with the Rev. Mr. Clowes, a zealous
cultivator of Orchidacez, after whom it is named. At a later
period (March last) we received it from Sion Gardens, by
permission of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, and
from that plant the accompanying figure was taken. Up to
the present time we have heard of it nowhere else.

It is very like a Catasetum in habit. The stems are from
21 to 4 inches long, ovate, clothed with the remains of the
bases of leaves. The leaves, which 1 have not seen, are said
to be three, lanceolate, ovate, acuminate, and at the point
twisting a little to one side. The inflorescence proceeds from
the base of the stems (not apex as was formerly stated on the
authority of Mr. Clowes's gardener, who thought apex signi-
fied the bottom), and consists of five Or SIX, probably more,
erect delicate white flowers tinged with pink. They are

remarkable for having their petals and the end of the lip
broken up at the margin into numerous delicate glandular
fringes, which give them a very rich and beautiful appearance.

As a genus Clowesia is perfectly distinct from every thing
previously described. Its flowers being extended a little into
a chin in front, suggest its belonging to the Maxillaridous
division ; but its whole habit and the singular apparatus of its
pollen-masses oppose such an arrangement. The latter
organs rest on a broad viscid gland like that of a Catasetum,
but the caudicula, or part that connects the gland and pollen-
masses, is broad, thin, and contracted in the middle so as to
resemble an hour-glass ; but whether that is the usual struc-
ture, or as we suspect merely conseguent upon the separation
of the caudicula from the anther-bed, we have not had an
opportunity of ascertaining. Upon the whole it is probable
that Clowesia must stand in the same division as Catasetum.

Fig. 1. represents the lip seen from above; 2. the column;
3. the pollen apparatus seen in front, and 4. the same behind.

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CYTISUS Weldenii.

Dalmatian Laburnum.

. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. LeGUMINOSA, Y PAPILIONACEZ.
CYTISUS. L.

C. Weldenii ; fruticosus erectus, foliis ternatis petiolatis, foliolis ellipticis
integris basi cuneatis apice obtusis retusisve glabris, racemis termina-
libus pedunculatis pyramidatis strictis, pedicellis cano-villosis, calycibus
campanulatis trilobis: lobis tomentoso-ciliatis obtusis, corollis glabris,
carina villoso-sericea, leguminibus glabris stylo mucronatis. Walpers
Repertorium Botanices Systematice, vol. 1. p. 633.

C. Weldenii. Host. Flora Austriaca, 2. 339. Bot. Reg. 1839. mise. no. 122.
Loudon Arb. Brit. p. 218. t. 343.

How different this species is from the Scotch Laburnum
wil be now apparent from the accompanying figure taken
from a plant which flowered this spring in the garden of the
Earl of Ilchester, in Dorsetshire. It is obviously distinguished
by its flowers growing in short erect racemes and not in long

drooping ones.

Although from its similarity in foliage to the Laburnum,
it is liable to be confounded with that plant, yet it is in fact
nearer Cytisus sessilifolius, of which it may be almost regarded
as a gigantic form. "To what size it will grow is unknown;
probably eight or ten feet high; but on its Dalmatian moun-
tains it 1s said to be a bush.

The poisonous quality of the common Laburnum 1s still
more concentrated in this species, as we are told by the Ger-
man botanists. The General Baron Welden, after whom it
is named, assures us that its very flowers produce headache,
and that the goats which feed on it produce poisonous milk.
[ But how is it then that the goats themselves do not die? ]

August, 1843. à R

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RENANTHERA matutina.

Morning Renanthera.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEZ. $ VANDER—SARCANTHIDE.
RENANTHERA. Bot. Reg. vol. 14. t. 1131.

R. matutina (Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 218. Aerides matutina ? Blume
Bijdr. 1. 366. tab. 24.); racemis densis cylindraceis longipedunculatis
paniculatis simplieibusque, sepalis petalisgue obovato-linearibus obtusis,
labelli limbo ovato acuto calcari obtuso subsequali.

Although this plant bears no comparison with the magni-
ficent Chinese species on which the genus was founded, yet 1t 1s
very far from being unworthy of cultivation. Indeed, by the
number of its flowers and the richness, though not brilliancy,
of their spots, it makes up in some measure for their want of
size.

"The first mention that is made of it is in Blume's Bij-
dragen, where it is referred with doubt to the genus Aerides,
and said to be found in flower in the month of September, on
trees at the foot of Mount Salak, in Java. Mr. Cuming
afterwards gathered it in the Philippines, but by no means ın
so luxuriant a state as the specimen now represented, whic
flowered at Chatsworth in December last, and was kindly
placed at our disposal by His Grace the Duke of Devonshire.
.. We have also received it from Messrs. Rollissons.

Fig. 1. represents the lip; and 2. the pollen apparatus of
this plant.

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RONDELETIA longiflora.
Long-flowered Rondeletia.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA.

Nat. ord. CINCHONACE.
RONDELETIA. Vol. 22. fol. 1905.

R. longiflora; foliis lato-lanceolatis brevi-petiolatis lineatis axillis venarum
barbatis, stipulis margine callosis incisis, pedunculis trifloris axillaribus
terminalibusque in thyrsum aggregatis, corollee tubo elongato fauce in-

flatá nudä, antheris subexsertis.
R. longiflora. Chamisso in Linnea, 9. 240. Hooker Bot. Mag. t. 3977.

If Rondeletia odorata, already figured at plate 1905 of our
22nd volume, expresses the true character of the Rondeletia
of Plumier, as we presume it does, then it is clear that this
plant is placed in a wrong genus; for it wants the deeply
enclosed stamens and faucial cup of R. odorata. However,
we will not here disturb the existing nomenclature, especially
since the species now before us, whether a Rondeletia or not,
is well described under the name of R. longiflora.

It is a shrub of great beauty, introduced by Messrs.
Veitch and Son, of Exeter, from South Brazil, and is particu-
larly well suited to greenhouse cultivation, because it does
not grow to be a large and unmanageable specimen. | In fact
it resembles the old Bouvardia triphylla in its habits, and
may be managed in the same manner. Nevertheless, we pre-
sume that it may be grown tó some size if desired, for our
wild specimens, collected by Sello, have the appearance of
coming from a large bush. é

Fig. 1. represents the ovary and calyx when cut, perpen-

dicularly.

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ONCIDÍUM uniflorum.
One-flowered Oncidium..

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEZ § VANDEE.
ONCIDIUM. Swartz.

Sect. II. Euoncidium ; Heteranthium. Folia plana; tetrapetala ; micro-
petala. Sertum Orchidaceum, t. 48.

O. uniflorum (Booth in litt.) ; czespitosum, pseudobulbis angustis linearibus
squamatis suleatis monophyllis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis obtusis undu-
latis apiculatis, scapo unifloro folio multà breviore, sepalis lateralibus
basi connatis petalisque obovato-oblongis undulatis herbaceis, labello
pandurato lobo intermedio maximo emarginato lateralibus nanis rotun-
datis sinu fimbriato, cristà pubescente polydactylä lacinià utrinque liberä
solitariá, columnee alis truncatis erosis.

. This curious little plant, allied to the rare Oncidium bar-
batum, inhabits trees in the forests of the Organ Mountains
of Brazil, where it was found in April 1841, by Mr. Gardner,

to whom I am obliged for specimens.

For its introduction to gardens we are indebted to Sir
Charles Lemon, who received it from Brazil in August 1841,
through Lieutenant Turner, of H. M. Packet “ Ranger,” and
in whose collection at Carclew it flowered in November 1842,
Mr. Booth has favoured us with a drawing, and the following -

account of it.

* Pseudobulbs when young roundish oblong, covered with
several ovate, acuminate, sheathing scales; but when full
grown they are ovate-oblong, compressed, rather more than
an inch in length, and about 3-8ths of an inch in width, be-
coming slightly furrowed, one-leaved. Leaves oblong, lanceo-
late, acute, from three to four inches long, and scarcely half
an inch broad, thin, and a good deal recurved, of a deep green.
Scape one-flowered, issuing from the base of the leaf, and so

short as to be almost hidden by the upper scale of the pseudo-
bulb which partly embraces it. Pedicel round and slender,
an inch long, somewhat curved and slightly channelled, of a
pale green, with a small, thin, pale brown-coloured bractea
at its base. lowers large in proportion to the size of the
plant and very handsome, continuing a long time in perfec-
tion. Sepals of a dingy brown, slightly spotted, oblong lan-
ceolate acute, much undulated at the margin, and spreading
so as to become recurved. They are all nearly of the same
size and form. The two lower ones are undivided and narrow
at the base. Petals similar in colour to the sepals, but rather
shorter, and almost twice as wide, recurved at the point, and
undulated at the margin. Zabellum 3-lobed, of a bright
yellow, excepting around the crest, which is blotched and
spotted with blood-red spots. The middle lobe is large and
spreading, somewhat cordate and apiculated, having a part of
the outer edge on one side of the point folded a little way over
that of the other. The margin is finely marked and undu-
lated back to the crest, where it becomes of 4 brown colour,
and is delicately fringed on either side. The lateral lobes are
also much undulated and very short. They are nearly as
broad at the extremity as they are long, and diminish gradu-
ally towards the crest at their base. Column erect, rounded
at the back, and hollowed out in front with the spreading
undulated wing on each side of the opening. In front of this
is a yellowish waxy process 2-lobed, and a little elevated.
Anther case 1-celled, hooded and conical, so as to resemble a
small cup, witha minute red spot in front, where it terminates
in a point. Pollen-masses 2, roundish-ovate, deep yellow,
attached by a pale coloured elastic membrane to the small
red coloured body just mentioned.

“ The plant appears to grow in large masses on the
branches of trees, to which it is attached by its numerous
round, filiform, ash-coloured roots. It is grown at Cárclew
in a warm moist stove, suspended from one of the rafters.”

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STANHOPEA Martiana; var. bicolor.
Two-coloured Von Martius’ Stanhopea.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER, $ VANDEX—MAXILLARIDA.
STANHOPEA. Supra fol. 1800.

S. Martiana ; labello medio parům constricto, hypochilio brevi sessili seroti-
formi, epichilio oblongo-lineari .obscuré 3-dentato, cornubus rectiusculis
apice cirrhosis, columns pubescentis subclavate marginibus parum
dilatatis. i

S. Martiana. Bateman in Bot. Reg. 1840, mise. 109. Orch: Mex. and

Guat. t. 27. "

A native of Mexico, discovered by Baron Karwinski in
1827, and afterwards by M. Galeotti. It is one of the most
distinct and magnificent species of the genus, and in the mag-
nitude of its blossoms is second only to S. tigrina. The sep
are straw-coloured, or almost white, faintly and sparingly _
marked with clusters of little vinous dots; the petals appear
transparent white, with large spots of intense crimson ; the
lip is also a clear ivory white, except a slight discoloration at
the base. 'l'he horns are of great size and strength, and taper
into a kind of tendril, besides which they are exactly parallel
with the epichilium, the form of which is almost linear, the
two edges being as nearly as possible parallel with each other,
and not a great deal broader than the column; a mark by
which the species is immediately recognized.

The present variety is a lovely plant, with large pure n
flowers, richly but sparingly spotted with crimson. In t x
original S. Martiana the sepals are straw-coloured, and am
more dotted with purple. Messrs. Rollisson have I J
flowered it, and believe they obtained it from Mexico. i: -
as fine a thing as S. tigrina would be if its flowers were white,
and is very sweet-scented.

Now that the number of species c
greatly increased, and that opportuniti
in a living state have occurred, it has
the genus should be reconsidered, partly

September, 1843.

ies of Stanhopea has been
es of examining them
become desirable that
for the sake of defin-

ing the species with more exactness, partly for the sake of
determining which of the garden plants are mere varieties,
and also with a view to the correction of a few errors. For
this reason the following enumeration of the species has been

repared, in drawing up which I am most particularly in-
debted to Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. Rucker, and Messrs. Loddiges.

* Labello apice integro.

1. S. insignis (Frost in Bot. Mag. tt. 2948 & 9. Lodd. Bot,
Cab. t. 1985. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1837. Gen. & Sp.
Orch. no. 1.) ; hypochilio globoso anticé intruso basi et
apice fisso mutico intus radiatim verruculoso extus ecari-
nato epichilio zequali, epichilio subrotundo-ovato integro,
cornubus subtriangularibus falcatis incurvis brevioribus,
columná latissimě alatá —— Brazil. ——This species is
remarkable for the globose form of the base of its lip, by
which all its varieties are readily distinguished. It is
also in almost all cases sprinkled with small violet spots,
which reach even to the tip of the labellum. In co-
lour, however, it varies very considerably. The winged
margin of the column is wider than in any other known
species.

2. S. Devoniensis (Lindl. Sert. Orch. t. 1. S. maculosa, Floral
Cabinet, t. 121? Maxillaria lyncea, Lindl. Gen. & Sp.
Orch. p. 151. Coatzonte Coxoahitl seu Lyncea, Hernand.
Thesaur. Rer. Med. Nov. Hisp. p. 266. Anguloa Her-
nandezii, Kunth. Synops. 1. 332.) ; hypochilio subglo-
boso antice gibboso basi mutico epichilio zequali, epichilio
ovato integro v. obsoleté tridentato, cornubus falcatis in-
curvis zqualibus, columná marginatä.—— Mexico. ——
Very much like S. tigrina, from which it is distinguished
by the undivided middle lobe of the lip, and the almost
wingless column. To S. insignis it approaches in form,
although so different in colour; but the lower half of the
lip is prominent in front instead of being pressed back-
wards. The flowers are yellow, with deep crimson-brown
blotches ; the lip is white with a few spots here and
there, and a deep purple stain over half the lower part.
Little doubt can be entertained that S. maculosa is a bad
specimen of this, for although its epichilium is deseribed
as 3-lobed, it. is represented as perfectly entire.

4. S. Bucephalus, (Lindl. Orch
florum, Humb. & Bonpl. Pl. Æq. p. 94. €

- eiously sweet-scented flowers, whi

3. S. oculata (Lindl. Gen. & Sp. no. 5. Bot. Reg. t. 1800.

Ceratochilus oculatus, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1764. S. Lind-
leyi, Zuccarini mss.); bracteis ovariis longè acumi-
natis duplo brevioribus, hypochilio unguiculato elongato
cymbiformi antice intruso apice carnoso aperté sulcato
mutico basi ecorni intus levi extus bicarinato, epichilio
ovatointegro, cornubus semiteretibus ascendentibus acutis,
columná late alatá. —— Mexico (not Brazil).——The
flowers are usually lemon-coloured, with a large num-
ber of lilac spots on the sepals, a smaller number on
the petals, a deep yellow eye, and two, or occasionally
four, large dark brown spots on the side of the lower part
of the lip, which is very much lengthened out as if ungui-
culate ; by the latter circumstance it is chiefly known .
from S. Wardii. Many supposed varieties occur in the
gardens, varying in colour, and in the spotting of the lip.
There is one, called Barkeriana, which is more remark-
able than the others; it looks like S. insignis with the
lip of S. oculata, and is very handsome; the sepals,
petals, and column are covered with numerous purple
freckles rather than spots, which, as the flower fades, run
together, as if their colouring matter were dissolved ; so
that at last the flower becomes of a dull wine-red tint.
This is apparently the S. Lindleyi of Zuccarini. Most

of the varieties are very sweet-scented.
‚no. 2. Epidendrum grandi-

27. Anguloa

grandiflora, H. B. K. nov. gen. et sp. 1. 345.) ; bracteis
ovario subzqualibus, hypochilio unguiculato cymbiformi
anticé intruso apice carnoso apertě sulcato mutico basi
longé angustato ecorni intus levi extüs bicarinato, epi-
chilio subrotundo-ovato cuspidato integro breviore, cor-
nubus gracilibus teretibus brevioribus, columná basi an-

gustissimá sursům alatà. —-— Quito. ——This has deli-
ich are pale yellow, with

a pair of dark eyes at the base of each petal,
crimson dots elsewhere on them and the sepals. The
lip is deep yellow, and spotless on the hypochilium, while
the epichilium. and column are thickly sown with crim-

grandiflorum

son dots. It is certainly the Epidendrum hifiorut
d to S. insignis.

of Humboldt, hitherto erroneously referred to»
Mr. Hartweg, who found it near has introduced

it into the garden of the Horticultural Society. It is 3
very near S. oculata, from which it differs in the form :
of the lip and especially in the very short ovaries, a cha-
racter pointed out to me by Mr. Loddiges.

5. S.Wardü (Loddiges in Lindl. Sertum Orchidaceum, t.20.);
bracteis ovariis longè acuminatis dupld brevioribus, hypo-
chilio exactě oblongo depresso sessili antice intruso apice
carnoso fisso (nec apertě sulcato)vix dentato, basi utringue
angulato, epichilio subrotundo-ovato integro, cornubus
semiteretibus falcatis incurvis subcirrhosis, columná latě
alatá. —— Central America —— This very fine plant 1s
quite distinct from any of the supposed varieties of S.
oculata; differing in the furrow of the anterior part of
the hypochilium being closed up and not open, and in the
exactly oblong form of the hypochilium; also from £.
Ruckeri in the absence of a strong tooth turned inwards
from the apex of the cavity of the hypochilium ; besides
which the angular condition of the base of the hypochi-
lium indicates an approach to S. guadricornis. The lip
is pale yellow, with a few fine specks, a deep yellow hypo-
chilium, the whole lower part of which is a deep chocolate
brown. The flowers are deliciously sweet.

6. S. Ruckeri ; bracteis ovariis longè acuminatis duplo bre-
vioribus, hypochilio obovato sessili anticé intruso basi
mutico apice carnoso apertě suleato et dente valido
inflexo aucto, epichilio subrotundo-ovato integro, cor-
nubus semiteretibus incurvis, columná latě alatá.—— &
Mexico. —— This is a noble species, with the habit of a
S. Wardü, and its general colour, except that it is :
paler; but the epichilium is beautifully stained with pink,
and the eyes of the hypochilium are very faint. It is
distinctly separated by the peculiar form of the hypochi-
lium, which instead of being oblong is so much narrowed
to the base as to acquire an obovate form; by the entire
want of lateral teeth on the margin; and by the presence
of a very strong inflexed tooth, in which the wide, not
closed up, fissure of the apex of the hypochilium termi-
nates. We have received it from Messrs. Loddiges, and
have named it in compliment to Sigismond Rucker, Esq.
Junr., of Wandsworth, whose skill in the management of

this noble genus is well known to the cultivators of
Orchidacez.

7. S. graveolens (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. 125);
hypochilio subcompresso saccato intus glaberrimo anticé
bidentato et inter dentes profundě sulcato, epichilio
subrotundo-ovato integerrimo, cornubus acuminatissimis
incurvis, columnz alis latissimis subquadratis,—— Peru ?
—— A species with the habit of S. saccata. The sepals
and petals are of a delicate straw colour; the lip at the
base, and the central parts of the flower generally are of
a deep rich apricot yellow, while the horns and upper
end of the lip are like ivory turning yellow. Its odour
is so powerful that it communicates itself to the fingers
after touching the flowers, and like many other smells,
though agreeable in itself, is offensive from its intensity.
These remarks are borrowed from the notice formerly
given of the plant in the Botanical Register, for by some
accident neither drawing nor specimen were preserved
of the species.

8. S. guadricornis (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 5.); hypo-
chilio oblongo basi bicorni antice saccato apice carnoso
excavato mutico, epichilio ovato integro »quali, cornubus
incurvis teretibus brevioribus, columná latě alatá.——
Central America. This has something the appearance
of S. oculata; but its lip has a rich crimson stain at the
base, instead of a pair of deep brown spots, and it has
two prominent horns standing erect on the lower edge of
the cavity of the hypochilium. This brings the species
near S. eburnea, which is however very different in other
respects. It is one of the finest of the genus.

9. S. eburnea (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1529. Gen. & Sp. no. 4.
Bot. Mag. t. 3959. S. grandiflora, Lindl. 1. c. no. 3.

` Ceratochilus grandiflorus, d. Bot. Cab. t. 1414.);
labello oblongo vix medio constricto, hypochilio pone
basin bicorni, epichilio ovato-oblongo obtuso, metac lio
dupld longiore solido plano-convexo antie® truncato
bidentato, columna longissimá apice tantum latě alatá.—
Brazil and Trinidad.——This very distinct and beau.
tiful plant always has the sepals and petals pure ivory
white; but in the colour of its lip it varies, sometimes
being nearly colourless, except in the cavity of the hypo-
chilium, which is crimson, and occasionally having deep
rich purple stains all over the lip, except the middle lobe.
Flowers extremely sweet.

* * Labello apice tridentato.

10. S. tigrina (Bateman Orch. Mex. & Guat. t.7.); hypochilio
subrotundo intus lamellis glandulosis radiato basi-mutico
apice sulco brevi aperto dente valido inflexo, epichilio
ovali zequaliter tridentato cornubus falcatis quali, co-
lumnä lanceolatä latissimé alatä. Mexico, near Xalapa.
—— Much the finest of the genus. Flowers deep orange
yellow, as much as eight inches in diameter, richly
blotched with purplish brown. The excessively broad
column, and the radiating toothed lamelle within the
cavity of the lip, are peculiar characters.

11. S. Martiana (Bateman in Bot. Reg. 1840. misc. 109.
1843. t. 44. Orch. Mex. & Guat. t. 27.); labello medio
parüm constricto, hypochilio brevi sessili scrotiformi,
cornubus apice cirrhosis rectiusculis, epichilio oblongo-
lineari obscure 3-dentato, column: pubescentis subclavatze

marginibus parüm dilatatis. —— Mexico. ——AÀ most lovely

plant, and quite different from all others. In the form
of the base of its lip it approaches S. saccata, in its mark-
ings S. figrina, but it is readily known by its downy,
wingless column, the linear middle lobe of its lip, and its
bristle-pointed horns. "The white flowers with rich crim-
son spots are quite peculiar.

12. S. saccata (Bateman Orch. Mex. & Guat. t. 15.) ; labello
medio pauló constricto, hypochilio scrotiformi anticé
omninó aperto subtus gibboso ecarinato, apice et basi
mutico intus radiatim glanduloso lamellato, epichilii ova-
lis trilobi laciniá intermediä naná, cornubus semi-lanceo-
latis latis planis incurvis equalibus, columná glabra an-
gustě marginatà,—— Guatemala.-— This has the smallest
flowers in the genus, and almost always has the sepals
and petals turned completely back on the ovary. They
are greenish-yellow, regularly speckled, but not blotched,
with brown, and are deep yellow at their base. The

same colour extends to the lip, whose hypochilium is
singularly saccate.

. There are probably other species even in cultivation; more
especially there remain for examination S. venusta, which is
apparently a variety of S. Wardii, Harrisonie from Brazil,
aurea from Guatemala, and aurantia from La Guayra, all

mentioned in Messrs. Loddiges rich catalogue, but undescribed
and unknown to me.

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SCHIZANTHUS candidus.
White Schizanthus.

DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. SCROPHULARIACE Æ.
SCHIZANTHUS. Supra vol. 9. fol. 725.

S. candidus ; foliis pinnatifidis, laciniis linearibus undulatis integris, corolle

labio inferiore 3.lobo: laciniis lateralibus setaceis intermedià bilobä
acutissimá, labio superiore alté bilobo. i:

Botanists have raised this pretty genus from one, of which
it originally consisted, to four, or, with two now to be added,
to six. There also appears a seventh on our books, but that
is not distinguishable from S. pinnatus. All of them are pro-
bably, and five of them are certainly, in the country. A short
enumeration of them will we trust be useful.

The original S. pinnatus has interruptedly pinnated leaves,
with crenated, pinnatifid, or toothed lobes, varying much in
form. The flowers are lilac, with a purple lower lip, whose
lateral lobes are at once falcate and spathulate. From this
S. porrigens was distinguished by Dr. Graham, on account of
its diverging flower-stalks, pale lower lip, and perhaps scarcely
emarginate upper lip; but as the same parcel of ‚seed pro-
duces both, and as they constantly come up intermixed in
the seed-beds, they do not appear distinct. Other varieties,
especially our S. pinnatus humilis, are known.

From this must be separated a Coquimbo plant, found by
Bridges, (no. 1355), which, with somewhat smaller but similar
flowers to S. pinnatus, has merely pinnatifid leaves, with
rounded scarcely toothed lobes. The capsules are nearly twice
as large as those of S. pinnatus. We call it S. pinnatıfidus.

S. Hookeri is something like the two last, but it is more

hairy, and very much larger in all respects ; the divisions of

the pinnate leaves are narrow, and regularly pinnatifid ; =

lower lip of the corolla consists of wy much acumina
are setaceous and

bristle-pointed pieces, the lateral of whic ; br
short ; the upper lip is almost cuspidately acuminate ; - e
colour of the flowers is lilac, with a yellow stain on the upper lip.

S. candidus, the plant now figured, has pinnatifid leaves,
with linear entire rather wavy segments. The flowers are
pure white, without a stain of any other colour ; their lower
lip has the middle lobe divided into two acuminate flat seg-
ments, and the two lateral ones setaceous and shorter. The
upper lobe is two-lobed. This was found wild near Coguimbo
by Mr. Bridges, whose no. 1356 it is. It is a very pretty
half-hardy annual, and well worth cultivation.

S. Grahami, älthough figured with large flowers, is really
a comparatively small-flowered species. Its leaves are some-
thing like those of S. candidus, but they are interruptedly
pinnatifid, and more incised. The flowers are lilac, with a
yellow upper lip, which is lanceolate acute and undivided ; the
lower lip consists of four acuminate incurved lobes, of which
the laterals are short.

Finally, S. retusus, the finest of the genus, has deep rose-
coloured flowers, with an orange yellow emarginate oblong
upper lip, and a lower with four flat acute lobes, the lateral
of which are shorter than the others.

__ The following specific characters state the more important
differences among the species.

1. S. pinnatus (Fl. Peruv. 1. t. 17. Bot. Mag. t. 2484. Hooker’s Bot.
Misc. t. 73. S. porrigeus, Graham in Bot. Misc. t. 86.) ; foliis pinnatis
laciniis pinnatifidis, corollee labio inferiore trilobo: lobo intermedio
cucullato bilobo lateralibus falcatis spathulatis obtusis, labio superiore
retuso v. emarginato.

2. S. pinnatifidus ; folis angustis pinnatifidis : laciniis rotundatis nanis in-
tegris, corollae labio inferiore trilobo : lobo intermedio cucullato bilobo
lateralibus falcatis spathulatis obtusis, labio superiore bilobo.
sula S. pinnati sed duplo major.

- 8. Hookeri (Gillies in Bot. Mag. t. 3070) ; foliis interrupt? pinnatis foliolis
linearibus serratis, corollee labio inferiore 4-lobo laciniis intermediis
falcatis setaceo-acuminatis lateralibus setaceis, labio superiore cuspidato-
acuminato. Capsula maxima.

. S. candidus ; foliis pinnatifidis laciniis linearibus undulatis integris, corollze
labio inferiore 3-lobo laciniis lateralibus setaceis intermediä bilobá acu-
tissimá, labio superiore altě bilobe.

. S. Grahami (Gillies in Bot. Mag. t. 3044); foliis interruptě pinnatis
foliolis linearibus v. oblongis serratis, corollee labio inferiore 4-lobo lobis
acuminatis incurvis lateralibus abbreviatis, labio superiore lanceolato.
Capsula minima generis. .

. S. retusus (Hooker Bot. Mag. t. 3045) ; foliis interrupté pinnatis laciniis
linearibus obtusé serratis, corollz labio inferiore 3-lobo, laciniis lateralibus
abbreviatis intermediä acutä bilobä, labio superiore oblongo retuso.

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ACACIA spectabilis.

Showy Acacia.

POLYGAMIA MONC(ECIA.

Nat. ord. LeGuUMINOSA, § MIMOSEA. —
ACACIA. Willd.

Series II. Botrycephale. Inermes, foliis bipinnatis, capitulis racemosis,
peduneulis solitariis. Benth.

A. spectabilis (Cunningham); glaucescens, glabra v. ramulis petiolisque hir-
tellis, pinnis 2-5-jugis, glandulá petiolari depressá obseurá jugalibus
nullis, foliolis 4-8-jugis obovato-oblongis obtusissimis crassiusculis obscuré

2-3-nerviis, capitulorum racemis folio longioribus supremis paniculatis,
floribus subglabris, calyce corolla dimidio breviore. Bentham in Hooker s

London Journal of Botany, 4. p. 383.

Among 340 species of Acacia enumerated by Mr. Bentham
this is one of the finest; and it certainly is the very hand-
somest we have seen from New South Wales, beautiful as
many of them are. Unfortunately our means of publication
render it impossible to represent the softness and delicacy of
surface which are among its principal characteristics. The
leaves and branches are covered with the most delicate bloom,
and the flowers, produced in large masses at the end of the
shoots, are of the clearest and softest yellow.

It is a native of Wellington Valley, and other places on
the East coast of New Holland, where it was found by the late
Mr. Allan Cunningham and by Mr. Frazer. For its intro-
duction to this country we are indebted to H. B. Lott, Esg.
who presented it to Messrs. Lucombe, Pince 8 Co. of Exeter,
from whom we received a flowering specimen last April.

It belongs to the same section of the genus as A. discolor
and dealbata, but is probably more decidedly a greenhouse
plant than they are,for it comes from the country to the north

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of Sidney, and therefore naturally inhabits warmer latitudes.
From both it is known by its broad, smooth glaucous leaflets,
and by the gland found in these species, in connection with
the petiole, being replaced. by a depression such as represented
at fig. 1.

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ERYTHROCHÍTON Brasiliensis.

Brasilian Red-coat.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. RvTACEX.

ERYTHROCHITON. Nees et Martius. Calyx magnus, coloratus,
tubulosus, tubo compresso, quinquecostato, limbi bilabiati lobis sequalibus,
integris vel superiore trifido. Corolla hypogyna, gamopetala, subhypocrate-
rimorpha, tubo calycem sequante, limbi quinquepartiti laciniis segualibus, pa-
tentibus. Stamina 5, omnia fertilia, tubo corollee breviora et eidem adgluti-
nata, limbi lobis alterna; filamenta complanata, subulato-triangularia, basi in
tubum brevissimum coalita; anthere introrsee, biloculares, lanceolatee, erectee,
mutice, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovaria 5, disco urceolato glanduloso
cincta et superata, unilocularia. Ovula gemina, sature ventrali superposite
inserta, superius adscendens, inferius pendulum. Capsula pentacocca, coccis
bivalvibus, endocarpio cartilagineo, soluto, elastice bilobo, basi membranacea
cum seminibus secedente, dispermo vel abortu monospermo. Semina reni-
formia, sinu umbilicata, testa coriacea tuberculato-muricata. Embryo . ...
Arbuscula brasiliensis ; foliis alternis, simplicibus, petiolatis, lanceolatis, lon-
gissimis, integerrimis, glabris, ramulis axillaribus subaphyllis, Jforiferis pedun-
culos longissimos mentientibus ; floribus in axilla folii bracteaformis duobus Y.
pluribus fasciculatis, breviter pedunculatis, pedunculo basi articulato, bibrac-
teolato, calycibus rubris, corollis albis. Endlich. Gen. no. 5992.

Erythrochiton brasiliense. Nees $ Martius in Nov. act. Acad. Cas. Nat.
eur. vol. 11. pp. 150 $ 166, £t. 18 c. et 22.

This fine Brazilian plant is stated by Messrs. Nees and
Martius to form a small tree, at the most 10 feet high, with
the habit of a Theophrasta, the stem being altogether un-
branched, and the long leathery leaves collected at its end.
From amongst them rises a long three-cornered flower-stalk, at
the end of which are a few large white flowers, conspicuous
for their fine red calyxes, from which circumstance the name

has been contrived ; viz. epvOpos red, and xırov a coat.

It is said to inhabit close shady places in the virgin woods
of Brazil, preferring a granitic soil ; especially near the Pre-
sidio of St. John the Baptist, in the province of Mines. For

the opportunity of figuring it we are indebted to the kind-
ness of His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, in whose
stove at Sion it flowered last July, for the first time, we

believe, in Europe.

It is one of those fragrant trees of the tropics whose foliage
is filled with a sweet volatile oil like that of the orange, and
whose aromatic tonic bark is valuable as a remedy for the
fevers of such countries. The genus is indeed very near
Galipea, one of whose species furnishes the Angostura bark
of medicine.

A diminished figure shews the habit of the plant; fig. 1.
its peculiar cup-like disk and style; fig. 2. the ovary and
disk cut through so as to display the ovules. This cup when
bruised has a sweet smell like that of a ripe pear.

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SCILLA Peruviana; var. discolor.
Dingy-flowered Peruvian Squill.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. L1LIACEX.
SCILLA. L.

S. peruviana ; foliis lato-lanceolatis patentibus planis margine ciliatis scapo
longioribus, racemis confertis conicis, bracteis lanceolatis elongatis ner-
vosis, capsulis mucronatis? Gussone Fl. Sic. 1. 415.

S. peruviana. Linn. sp. pl. 442. &c.

Var. discolor, sepalis petalisque ‚flavescenti-brunneis, ovario coeruleo. =

? Ornithogalum sieulum floribus cinereo-carneis in rotundam metam fastigi-

atis. Bonanni, t. 19. ex Gussone.
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That the Peruvian Squill does not grow in Peru is well
known, the name having been applied by Linneus in con-
sequence of some erroneous statements of Clusius or Morison.
Neither is it found in India, as one of its old synonyms
would lead us to suppose. Its real country is Portugal, about
Cintra, according to Brotero; Algiers, where Desfontaines
found it in corn-fields; Tripoli, on hill sides, according to
Della Cella; Corsica, near S. Bonifacio, where Seraphini
found it; clayey hills in Sicily, as we learn from Gussone, and
even the sterile hills outside the gate Degli angioli of Genoa,

as we are assured by Viviani.

The present plant was sent from Algiers to the Hon. and
Very Reverend the Dean of Manchester, and therefore =>
in its native country with S. peruviana. At first sight, how-
ever, it seems so different that it cannot be regarded as
the same species. We must, however, confess our inability,
after a careful examination, to discover rt other distinction
between them than that of the colour of the flowers, which
are neither white nor bright blue, as ın the previously M
states of S. peruviana, but a dirty pale fawn-colour. ^
seed.vessels have exactly the mucronate form ascribed to 5.

peruviana.
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It is in fact apparently the plant quoted from Bonanni as
the Sicilian Ornithogalum, with cinereo-carneous flowers, col-
lected into a round head; and not even distinguished by
Gussone as a variety.

No doubt as hardy as the Peruvian Sguill, and although
not so handsome still worth a place in a bulb garden.

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CIRRHOPETÄLUM chinense.
Chinese Cirrhopetalum.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEE, $. MALAXEZ.
CIRRHOPETALUM. Supra 1838. t. 11.

C. chinense. Supra 1842. misc. 29.

To what was formerly stated, concerning this singular
Chinese plant, in the place above quoted, we have nothing to
add, and therefore, instead of repeating those observations, we
fill our space with some account of the genus itself and its

numerous species.

Cirrhopetalum is a name proposed in the year 1824 for
the Bulbophyllum longiflorum of Du Petit Thouars, a Mauritius
plant, remarkable for the great length of its lower sepals. In
1825, Professor Reinwardt gave to the same or some nearly
allied species the name of Zygoglossum ; but of course Cir-
rhopetalum took precedence on account of its priority of date.
In 1830 the genus had increased in number of species to sıx,
of which two had not been examined by me. Now, by the
discoveries of Mr. Cuming and others, I am able to bring
together twenty-one; of which fourteen have been seen
alive, two in a dried state, and five are taken up upon
the credit of others. They form a most singular group, and
a complete collection of them would be a very interesting
feature in a stove. The following is an enumeration of them.

* Flowers in umbels or racemes.

1. C. vaginatum (L. no. 3. Bot. Reg. 1842. sub t. 12.); pseudobulbis
pyramidatis truncatis, folio oblongo convexo emarginato, vaginis scapi
oblongis ventricosis distantibus sepalo supremo ovato inferioribusque
longissimis pendulis ciliatis, petalis oblongis ciliatis, labello oblongo
bicarinato, columnæ auriculis setaceis, —— Sincapore.—— C. vaginatum

October, 1843. x

differs from C. Medusee in its flowers being ciliated, the petals oblong,
not triangular and acuminate, and in the distant sheaths of the scape;
to which may be added that its flowers are not speckled with pink as in
C. Medusee.

2. C. Meduse (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842. t. 12); pseudobulbis ovatis tetra-
gonis, folio oblongo convexo emarginato, vaginis scapi oblongis ventri-
cosis supremo pedunculo longiore, floribus dense capitatis, sepalo supremo
acuminato inferioribus longissimis pendulis, petalis triangularibus acumi-
natis, labello ovato acuminato bicarinato, columnee auriculis acutis.
Sincapore. This in some respects resembles C. vaginatum, but is a
much larger plant, and very different in the form of its flowers.

3. C. c@spitosum (Wallich in Bot. Reg. 1838. mise. 53.) ; pseudobulbis
ovatis monophyllis, foliis angustě ovalibus obtusis basi angustatis scapo
longioribus, scapo filiformi erecto vaginis paucis membranaceis carinatis
acutis distantibus laxč vestito apice umbellato, sepalo supremo obovato
fornicato acuto margine scabro lateralibus acuminatis convolutis tripló
longioribus, petalis ovatis apiculatis pectinato-serratis, labello minimo
solido triquetro apice recurvo angulis superioribus marginatis. East
Indies —— Flowers small, pale, yellow ochre-coloured. :

4. C. cornutum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838. misc. 138.); pseudobulbis ovatis
angulatis scapo pauld brevioribus, sepalis lateralibus in cornu connatis
superiore petalisque ovatis ciliatis, labello angusto triangulari supra sul-
cato subtůs carinato.——E. Indies. -—-Leaves six or eight inches long.
Flowers dull purple.

5. C. maculosum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841. misc. 173.) ; floribus geminis
solitariisque, sepalo supremo oblongo acuto lateralibus lineari-oblongis
obtusis margine anteriore pone basin uniplicato, petalis sepalo supremo
brevioribus oblongis obtusis, labello ovato obtuso convexo apice recurvo,
columná bidentatä ? (polliniis 4 subzequalibus). East Indies.——
This is a species with the habit of Bolbophyllum affine, or leopardinum,
but with the long lateral sepals of a Cirrhopetalum. It has the
flower-stalks and flowers of a very pale green, finely speckled with dull
Pa The ‚lateral sepals are nearly an inch long, and have a single

old on their inner margin near the base.

6. C. chinense (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842. mise. 29. 1843. t. 49.) ; foliis lan-
ceolatis, umbellá multiflorá, sepalo supremo galeato petalisgue oblongis
brevioribus obtusis serrulatis apiculatis : lateralibus lanceolatis, labello
linguiformi obtuso carnoso convexo laevi tremulo. China. Flowers

rather large, pale fawn colour, with dorsal helmet-shaped sepals and
petals spotted with crimson.

7. C. Thouarsii (L. no. 1. Bot. Reg. 1838. t. 11. Epidendrum umbellatum,
Forst. Bulbophyllum longifforum, Thouars. Zygoglossum umbellatum,
Reinw. Cymbidium umbellatum, Spreng.) ; pseudobulbis tetragonis,
folio oblongo petiolato, umbella subdimidiatä, sepalo dorsali setaceo-
acuminato lateralibus oblongo-linearibus, petalis ovatis serratis setaceo-
acuminatis, labello ovato retuso, columns auribus bidentatis.——
Otaheite, Java, Mauritius, Madagascar.—-— Flowers pale cinnamon co-
lour, with a little purple dotting about the sepals and petals.

8. C. Wallichii (L. no. 5. Bot. Reg. 1839. misc. 119.) ; foliis lanceolatis

apice. fissis scapi erecti longitudine, racemo multifloro pendulo, bracteis
linearibus acuminatis, sepalis glaberrimis supremo acuminato lateralibus
linearibus ligulatis vix acutis, petalis acuminatis subciliatis, labello . . .

Nepal.

9. C. Roxburghii (L. no. 2.); foliis lanceolatis, umbellá radiata multiflora,

10.

H.

12.

13.

14.

15.

petalis ciliatis acutis, sepalis omnibus acuminatis, lateralibus dorsali
sexiés longioribus. East Indies.——Leaves three or four inches long.
Flowers yellow ; the upper sepal and the petals veined with purple.

C. Macrei (L. no. 6. Bot. Reg. 1841. mise. 105.) ; folio oblongo pe-
tiolato, umbellà pauciflorà, petalis oblongis apiculatis falcatis nudis,
sepalis acuminatissimis, labello e lata basi angustato carnoso canaliculato
obtuso recurvo.——Ceylon.—— This has the habit of C. Thouarsii. It
has dull brownish yellow sepals, and purple petals, which are falcate and

-the point turned forwards.

C. picturatum (G. Loddiges in Bot. Reg. 1840. misc. 106.) ; pseudo-
folio oblongo convexo emarginato, floribus

bulbis oblongis angulatis,
umbellatis, sepalo supremo ciliato setaceo-acuminato lateralibus oblongis

obtusis, petalis acuminatissimis ciliatis villosis, labello lineari recurvo
secus medium elevato, column auriculis obtusis integris.—— E. :
A little plant with purple flowers, growing in flat umbels, and
deeply stained with dark red. Its habit is that of a Bolbophyllum, its

scape from five to six inches high.
mise. 107.); pseudobulbis ob-

C. auratum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840. )
longis angulatis, folio oblongo convexo, floribus umbellatis, sepalo
supremo petalisque setaceo-acuminatis fulvo-ciliatis lateralibus acutis,
labello lineari recurvo, column auriculis rotundatis integris. ——Manilla.
Very like the last, but much larger in the flowers, which are fringed
with golden yellow hairs, giving them quite a distinct appearance.

C. Cumingii ; pseudobulbis tetragonis, folio oblongo obtuso scapo bre-
viore, umbellä dimidiatä multiflorä, sepalo dorsali petalisgue ovatis acu»
minatis fimbriatis, lateralibus lineari-lanceolatis, labello ovato 3-sulcato
pone basin bituberculato. Philippines. Flowers deep purple,
whole-coloured, with long yellow hairs on the petals and back sepal.
Flowered in March, 1841, with Messrs. Loddiges.

Bot. Reg. 1839. mise. 118.); pseudobulbis ovato-
foliis ovato-subrotundis emarginatis coriaceis humi

C. nutans (Lindl. in

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pronis, scapo we elongato, umbellá multiflorá nutante, € = —
ati ¡ imis : mo acumına erali

bus acuminatis, sepalis glaberrimis : supre EA ob-

A : 5 is vix acutis, petalis ovatis acutis serruls ;
linearibus ligulate ato, columnee angulis obsolet? bidentatis.— Manilla.

icristato, column angu
Es can taba wading umbel of sail straw-coloured flowers, at the end
of a weak scape about six inches high. The leaves are from an inch
and half to two inches long, very thick, emarginate, and lying almost
flat upon the ground. The species is near C. Wallichii.
120.) ; pseudobulbis

C. fimbriatum (Lindl in Bot. Reg. 1839. misc adobulbi
ns subtetragonis, foliis ovalibus . « - - scapo erecto, bracteis lineari-

bus acuminatis, umbellá multiflora, sepalis lateralibus ligulatis vix acutis
cohsrentibus supremo petalisque ovatis acuminatis fimbriatis, labello
crasso linguiformi nudo obtuso, columns angulis cornutis edentulis,
antherá papillosá.—-—Bombay.— —4A. very pretty species, with the long
lower green sepals united into a channelled rather stiff strap, while the
upper sepal and the petals are broken up at the margin into beautiful
purple fringes.

16. ? C. elongatum (Ephippium elongatum, Blume Bijdr. p. 309.) ; “ foliis
ebulbis oblongo-lanceolatis basi carinatis, floribus in pedunculo elongato
superne dense spicatis, sepalis acuminatis." —— Java.

17. ? C. capitatum (Ephippium capitatum, Blume Bijdr. p. 309.) ; ** bulbis
oblongis compressiusculis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, floribus capitatis,
sepalis elongatis acuminatis, margine revolutis." Java.

** Flowers solitary.

18. C. antenniferum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. sub t. 49.); folio . +» -+ ©
scapo unifloro, sepalo dorsali lineari-lanceolato abruptě acuto lateralibus
coherentibus canaliculatis faleatis haud multüm longioribus, petalis in
setam tenuissimam apice clavatam productis. —— Philippines, (Cuming).
—— The flower is the largest in the genus, the back sepal measuring an
inch and half in length. I have only seen a single flower.

19. C. maxillare (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. sub t. 49.) ; folio oblongo scapi
uniflori longitudine, sepalo dorsali setaceo-acuminato ciliato lateralibus ob-
tusé acuminatis disjunctis, petalis acutissimis.—— Philippines, (Cuming).

Upper sepal 9 lines, lateral 17 lines long. Petals about 13 line.

20. C. Blumii (L. no. 4. Ephippium ciliatum, Blume Bijdr. 209. tab. 65.);
folio lineari-lanceolato, scapo unifloro, petalis pubéscentibus acutis, se-
palis omnibus acuminatis, dorsali canaliculato inferné ciliolato, labello
orbiculato longissimě cuspidato, columná bicorni.—— Java.

21. ? C. compressum (Ephippium uniflorum, Blume Bijdr. p. 309.) ; “ bulbis

oblongis compressis, foliis lato-lanceolatis, pedunculo unifloro, sepalis
ovatis acuminatis." —— Java. Probably of this genus, since it 18
associated by Blume with his Ephippium ciliatum.

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CANDOLLEA tetrandra.

Tetrandrous Candollea.

MONADELPHIA TETRANDRIA.

Nat. ord. DILLENIACES.

CANDOLLEA, Labillard. Calyx pentaphyllus, foliolis ovalibus, mu-
cronatis, persistentibus. Corolle petala 5, hypogyna, obovata v. obcordata.
Stamina hypogyna, polyadelpha ; filamenta brevia, filiformia, basibus fasci-
culatim connata, apieibus distincta ; anthere biloculares, loculis oblongis,
adnatis. Ovaria 3-6, libera, unilocularia, ovulis 2, e basi erectis. Styli ter-
minales, subulati ; stigmata simplicia. Capsule coriacee, uniloculares, intus
longitudinaliter dehiscentes, mono-dispermae. Semina erecta, arillo membra-
naceo, lacero.——Suffrutices Nove-Hollandie Austro-occidentalis ; foliis
alternis, ad apices ramulorum subconfertis, linearibus v. cuneatis, integerrimis
y. apice dentatis, sepius supra basim persistentem transversim secedentibus,

floribus ad apices ramorum solitariis v. fasciculatim racemosis. Endl. Genera,

4755.

C. tetrandra ; ramis junioribus pilosis, foliis oblongis cuneat
angustatis integerrimis, floribus solitariis in
obovatis planis emarginatis sepalis mucronatis

The plant which is called Candollea cuneiformis in gardens
is a species with leaves and flowers not half the size of the
subject of the present plate, and stamens placed from six to
nine in a parcel ; otherwise it has much the same appearance.
This species is manifestly quite distinct. The former comes,
or is said to come, from King George's Sound; this has been
raised from Swan River seeds. In country therefore they

are not very different.

Relyin n the traditionary a lication of the name G
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blished in this work in June, 1842.
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phalanges of C. cun
in the Botanical pride t. 2711, of what purports to be

that species, represents it with only four stamens; although
the figure itself is very characteristic of the small kind, with
from six to nine stamens, and not at all of this which has but
four. No doubt indeed can be well entertained about the
figure being generally intended for the C. cuneiformis of the
gardens, as seems proved by the shortness of its petals; and
it may therefore be presumed that some mistake has been
made about the number of the stamens; for the figure in
question was not made by Sir W. Hooker himself, but by
some unknown artist employed by Mr. Aiton. Upon the
whole then no reason seems to exist why this should be consi-
dered otherwise than a new species.

It is remarkable for the large size and orange colour of
the aril of its seeds, as represented in the analysis in the
accompanying plate. . In a small way this organ is like that

of the nutmeg, and will represent the nature of the mace in
that spice.

This is a greenhouse plant, and will grow freely in almost
any sort of soil, but it appears to thrive best in a compost con-
sisting of peat, loam and sand, in equal proportions. It will
bloom freelyin a pot, but where that can be accomplished it will
do much better planted out ina bed. Whether potted or
planted out, the neck of the plant (that portion of the stem
immediately above the soil) should be a little elevated, other-
wise it is liable to suffer from damp in winter. Water should
be liberally given during the summer months, and plenty of
air at all times when the weather permits, applying.no fire
heat except to keep off frost. It is easily propagated by cut-
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Small-leaved Oleaster.

TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. ELEAGNACER.
ELZEAGNUS. Supra vol. 14. fol. 1156.

_E. parvifolia ; foliis oblongis petiolatis supra viridibus adultis levibus infra
cinereo-lepidotis, floribus in axillis ramulorum brevium subsolitariis
petiolis. longioribus aut foliorum abortu corymbosis, calyce angusto in-
fundibulari laciniis acutis. — .

E. parvifolia, Wall. Cat. herb. ind. no. 4026. Royle Illustrations, p. 323.
t. 81. fig. 1.

Frutex EE floribus onustus foliis fere deficientibus, et tum flores dense
corymbosi; junior magis foliosus, floribus solitariis axillaribus. Facies
cinerea,.siccatione canescens. In spontaneis pagina foliorum superior
presertim juniorum pilis stellatis cinerea qui cultis deficiunt. Flores
albi; odor suavissimus.

Making allowance for the effects of climate, we may iden-
tify this plant with the Eleagnus parvifolia of Wallich and
Royle, a shrub from the north of India, of which abundant
specimens were distributed by the former Botanist. They are
© more grey indeed, and their silvery scales are more abundant,
but this is a mere difference in degree. Indeed the Sirmore
specimens, from the collections of Webb and Gerard, are as
green as our own. The Kamaon specimens are more loaded
with flowers, which appear moreover in short dense corymbs,
and not singly in the axils of short lateral branches ; but this
seems owing to nothing more than the abortion of the leaves
on their branches, possibly by reason of the crowds of flowers
that appear in old specimens.

It is probably the same as the Eleagnus reflexa of the
Continent, a name for which we find no warrant. The
flowers, although small afid whitish, and therefore inconspi-
cuous, are deliciously sweet.

Fig. 1. represents one of the stellate hairs on the upper
surface of the leaves.

It is a hardy evergreen shrub or small tree, succeeding
well in any good loamy soil. It flowers freely in June and
July, and is only increased by seeds or by suckers, which are
sometimes produced when the plants become old. It was
raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society from seeds
received from Dr. Royle.

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* TETRANEMA mexicanum.

Mexican Tetranema.

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

lat. ord. SCROPHULARIACEA, $ DIGITALES, Bentham.

TETRANEMA. Calyx 5-partitus, sepalis angustis acutis sestivatione
imbricatis. Corolle distincté bilabiatee, labio superiore brevi plano emarginato,
lobis latis patentibus; inferiore longiore, patente, trifido. Stamina 4, basi
declinata, dein adscendentia, corolla breviora. Antherarum loculi divaricati.
Stylus simplex; stigmate subcapitato. Capsula loculicido-bivalvis ; valvulis
integris, medio septiferis à placenta demüm libera secedentibus. Semina nu-
merosa angulata. Bentham in litt.

Tetranema mexicanum. Bentham in litteris.
Pentstemon mexicanus. Hort.

I have not succeeded in ascertaining where the name
Pentstemon mexicanus, under which this species is known in
gardens, has been published. It has possibly originated in
Belgium, whence the plant seems to have been introduced, as
is said, from Mexico. In a wild state it is unknown to me.

Mr. Bentham, who has given particular attention to this
order of plants, is of opinion that this is certainly a new genus,
very near Pentstemon, with the same calyx and corolla, but
without any trace (or very little) of the sterile stamen so con-
spicuous in Pentstemon. It also differs, he says, from Capra-
ria and Russelia, in its decidedly two-lipped corolla, and is
farther removed from other genera in many points.

The accompanying figure was made from a plant in the
possession of Mr. Mountjoy, Nurseryman, Ealing.

It is a very pretty greenhouse plant, quite peculiar in its
appearance, in consequence of its almost stemless habit and

a filament, on account of there being but four
he neighbouring genus Pentstemon has five.

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filaments in this genus, while t

the profusion of little corymbs of showy purple and white

flowers which rise up from among the leaves on long purple
scapes.

It is a tender greenhouse plant. It should be top-dressed
in autumn and kept rather dry, in an intermediate house be-
tween a stove and greenhouse, during winter. In spring it
should be re-potted in light free soil, chiefly leaf mould and
sandy loam, and placed in a greenhouse, where it will remain
in bloom the greater part of the summer. It may be propa- .
gated from seeds or cuttings, in the usual way.

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VISCARIA oculata.
Dark-eyed Viscaria.

DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. SILENACEE. (CARYOPHYLLEA).

= VISCARIA, Röhl. Calye ebracteolatus, oblongus, clavatus v. turbi-
nato-campanulatus, teres v. quinquedentatus. Corolle petala 5, carpophori
brevis v. elongati apici hypogyné inserta, unguibus linearibus, laminis bifidis,
excisis v. subintegris, basi nudis. Stamina 10, cum petalis inserta ; filamenta
filiformia ; anthere biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium basi
quinque-rarissime triquadriloculare, septis circa medium 5, apicem columellae
centralis sensim deliguescentibus superne uniloculare. Ovula plurima, co-
lumelle centrali cum septis connate v. superné libere funiculis distinctis
inserta, amphitropa. Styli 5, rarissime 3 v. 4, filiformes, intus stigmatosi.
Capsula basi quinque, rarius tri-quadrilocularis, apice inter stylos simplici
eorundem numero in dentes dehiscens. Semina plurima, minuta, reniformia,
anulata v. tuberculata. Embryo annularis, albumen farinaceum cingens ;
cotyledonibus incumbentibus. Herba Europee et arctice amphigee, annue v.
perennes, erecte ; foliis oppositis, linearibus v. lanceolatis ; floribus in dicho-
tomis ramorum alaribus v. in eymulas thyrsoideo v. subumbellatim confertas

congestis, roseis v. purpureis. Endl. Genera, 5249.

Calycis fructiferi tubus angulatus, transversim
rugosus, laciniz elongate.
V. oculata ; calycis tubo abruptě constricto, petalorum appendicibus brevibus
emarginatis, capsulá granulatä ovatá.
Lychnis oculata. Jas. Backhouse in litt.

$. EUDIANTHE, Rehb.

This plant is so like the old hardy annual called Agro-
stemma Ceeli rosa, that for some time we regarded it as a mere
variety. But upon a more minute examination we find marks
of difference that seem to belong to a species. In the first
place it has a dark eye, which the old kind has not. Then
its petals have a short and slightly emarginate appendage, and
not a long bifid one. In the form of the calyx there is this
difference, that in the plant before us 1t contracts suddenly
about the middle, while in Coeli rosa it narrows very gradu-
ally. Furthermore, the surface of the seed-vessel here 1s
rough with fine granulations, but in Ceeli rosa is smooth. It

therefore seems that the latter may be distinguished by the

following comparative specific character :— |

V. Celi Rosa ; calycis tubo sensim angustato, petalorum appendicibus elon-
gatis bipartitis, capsulà oblonga levi.

This, like the Coli rosa, is a hardy annual; it was ga-
thered by Mr. Giles Munby on dry hills, thirty miles from
Algiers, and given by him to Messrs. Backhouse, Nurserymen,
York, to whom our specimens are owing.

The genus Viscaria of Röhling, adopted by Endlicher,
Fenzl and Walpers, is distinguished from Silene by having
five styles, and from Lychnis by its ovary being imperfectly
5-celled. It includes the Agrostemma Coeli Rosa of Linnaeus,
and the Lychnides viscaria, alpina, lata and corsica of
authors. The first of these plants constitutes the sub-genus
EuDIANTHE, distinguished by its corrugated angular calyx.

This pretty annual may be sown in any good rich garden
soil, in the open border, about the end of March, in the usual
way. Afterwards the plants should be thinned so as to stand
singly, in which state they flower longer and produce much
larger ahd finer blossoms. It may also be sown in the
autumn, remain in pots in a cold frame through the winter,
and be planted out about April. It flowers a great part of
the summer and autumn, .

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DENDROBIUM aqueum.

Watery Dendrobium,

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORcH1DACEX. $ MALAXER.
DENDROBIUM. Suz.

Sect. EUDENDROBIUM ; foliis planis, floribus gemellis, labello trilobo.

D. aqueum ; foliis ovato-oblongis undulatis acuminatis, floribus patulis cornu
brevi obtuso, sepalis petalisgue ovatis, labelli trilobi pubescentis laciniá
mediä ovatä denticulatä basi altě excavatä lateralibus latioribus rotun-
datis margine anteriore serrulato. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. mise. 6.

*

Among the crowd of Indian species belonging to this large
enus, or group of genera, the plant now figured seems to be
itherto unknown to the Botanists of India. With the man-

ner of growth of D. Pierardi, its pale watery green flowers
are quite destitute of the attractive colours of that gay
species, and are entirely different in the structure of the lip,
which is furnished with a large cavity, almost a pouch, at the
base of the middle lobe, as is shewn at fig. 1. in the plate. It
is also a much stouter plant, with wavy leaves.

The figure was made in November, 1842, in the nursery
of Messrs. Loddiges, who imported it from Bombay.

This species may be grown in the same way as many other
Dendrobiums, potted in rough turfy peat, well mixed ,with
pieces of broken pots. For drainage, the pot should be nearly
half filled with potsherds, and the soil elevated one fourth the
height of the pot above its brim. Being thus potted, too
much water can scarcely be given during the growing season.
The house should be slightly shaded in sunny weather, taking
care to keep the temperature as near 80° by day as possible,
and about 68" by night. In autümn, as the young shoots be.

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come matured, water should gradually be withheld, so that in
winter the plant may only receive it in fine weather. The
temperature may then be allowed to fall as low as 50° or 55°.

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ACHIMENES hirsuta.
Hairy Achimenes.

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. GESNERACEZ.
ACHIMENES. Botanical Register, 1842. fol. 19.

A. hirsuta; caulibus hirsutis paniculatis bulbilliferis, foliis cordatis serratis
hirsutis, pedunculis solitariis foliis sequalibus, corollae limbo plano laci-
niis rotundatis serrulatis. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. misc. 103.

This pretty plant forms another acceptable addition to the |
charming genus Achimenes, and will probably become almost
as great a favourite as any of the species. In habit it bears
the nearest resemblance to A. pedunculata, and like that
beautiful thing is disposed to bear little bulbs in the axils of

its leaves and branches.

The history of its introduction is an instructive lesson to
importers of plants. How often do we find gardeners throw-
ing away the moss, and mould, and fragments that remain
after every foreign case of plants 1s examined, and the prin-
cipal part of the contents removed ; and how often perhaps do
they thus reject the most interesting species, for if accident 18
the fertile mother of new inventions, so is she also of new
introductions. Canna iridiflora was obtained from seeds accı-
dentally found in an old herbarium ; several -Orchidaceoús
plants have been picked off dried specimens ; and this Achi-
menes adds another to the list. It was hidden among a mass
of Orchidaceous plants imported from Guatemala, and sold by
auction a few months ago; Mr. Henderson, of the Pine Apple
Place Nursery, accidentally detected it; and thus a plant,

which must have been often sent home with fruitless care on
former occasions, was brought to our gardens without any

attention whatever.

November, 1843. 2A

As has been already stated, this species has the habit of
A. pedunculata, but is nevertheless a very different species.
The leaves are covered with coarse hairs; the flowers are
much larger, not at all striped, but have a deep rose-coloured
border whose lobes are notched.

Those who are fond of hybridizing have been attempting
to obtain crosses between A. longiflora and some of the red
species, but the result has been, we understand, a dingy purple,
as was to be expected. We would suggest that this would
mix readily with A. pedunculata, and that the result would be
the improvement of the size of the latter, and of the colour of
this, whose rose is hardly bright enough to satisfy the eye fas-
tidious in colour.

It should be potted in a compost, consisting of peat, loam,
and sand in equal proportions. In autumn, after flowering,
the plant will naturally die down, but tubers will be formed
at its roots, which may be kept in the soil during winter in
‘the same manner as bulbs are kept, taking care to protect
them from frost. In spring, as soon as they commence grow-
ing, they should be potted. "Three tubers in a pot will pro-
duce a large plant. Although a stove plant, it requires
plenty of air when the weather will allow, with an ample
supply of water to its roots, but very little overhead, other-

wise, instead of flowers, small scaly tubers will be formed in
the axils of the leaves.

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MORMODES aromaticum.

Aromatic Mormodes.

— — M —————

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER, $ VANDER—CATASETIDE.
MORMODES. Botanical Register, vol. 22. fol. 1861.

M. aromaticum ; racemo brevi erecto, sepalis petalisque subrotundo-ovatis
acutis secundis concavis, labello angustà cuneato convexo laciniá inter-
media triangulari acuminata cucullatá. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841,
mise. 162.

We have so recently (t. 33.) made some general obser-
vations upon the genus Mormodes, that we have nothing
further to do on the present occasion than to give a figure of
this plant, and to point out in what respect it differs from
M. pardinum, the only species to which it approaches closely.

In habit the two are similar, but M. aromaticum is the
smaller, and has shorter leaves. The spike of M. pardinum is
much longer and bears three times as many flowers; the sepals
and petals are narrower, and more taper-pointed : their dif-
ference in colour is obvious; the labellum of M. pardinum has
the same form as the sepals, except that it has three sharp-
pointed lobes, and a kind of stalk, which M. aromaticum wants.

This species, although only introduced a few years since

from Mexico, is now common, and although of little beauty,
is valued for the peculiar fragrance, which is like that of aro-
matic vinegar.

Fig. 1. represents the labellum.

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ELEUTHERINE anomala.

Anomalous Eleutherine.

MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA.

Nat. ord. IRIDACEE.

ELEUTHERINE. Herbert. Cormus acutě ovalis tunicatus ; folia
plicata; perianthium fugax regulare; filamenta libera tenuia; stylus superne
trifidus; capsula trilocularis superne dehiscens chartaceus; semina rugosa
subrotunda. Gelasini et Nemostyli affinis. Eleutherine & Nemostylis Gela-
sinis forsitan sectiones ?—W. H.

E. anomala (Herbert in litt.) ; foliis oblongis basi angustatis superioris petio-
latis floribus laxà pedunculatis longioribus, floribus hexandris.

This singular little plant appeared in a flower-pot in the
garden of the Horticultural Society in April last, but its
origin is unknown. Its similarity to the West Indian Marica
plicata renders it probable that it had been imported from
that part of the world. From Marica plicata it differs in its
dwarfishness, in the leaves tapering very evidently to the base,
while the uppermost have long channelled stalks, and are
much longer than the flowers.

The great peculiarity, however, consists in the flowers
having six stamens instead of three, a circumstance previously,
we believe, unobserved in the Iridaceous order. Whether,
however, this was an accidental circumstance in the plant
now figured, or is peculiar to the species, 1s uncertain. The
increase in number of stamens is of the same nature as their

redundancy in Vellozia and Gethyllis.

If the views of previous Botanists, as to the genus in
which this should be included, are consulted, we shall find one
placing its nearest ally in Sisyrinchium (Swartz), another in
Morea (Swartz) and a third in Marica (Ker); a pretty
good indication of its really belonging to none of them. The
regular flowers, free stamens, trifid slender-lobed style, ovate
corms, and plaited leaves are so peculiar as to have led the
Dean of Manchester to distinguish it under the name of
Eleutherine, a view we do not hesitate to adopt. It is indeed
inconceivable how it could ever have been referred to either
Morea or Marica; its relation to Sisyrinchium is more
obvious; the separate stamens, however, distinguish it. The
real affinity of the genus is, in Dr. Herbert's opinion, with
Gelasine.

The following memorandum on the subject has reached us
from that gentleman since the above was 1n type:—

“ The genus Eleutherine was founded in MS. notes for an
arrangement of the confused mass of plants heaped together
under the name Sisyrinchium, which cannot be well com-
pleted, from the difficulty of investigating the minute structure
of such fugacious flowers in dry specimens, and the egual
difficulty of obtaining and cultivating several of them. ‘The
type of the genus Eleutherine is the plant figured in the Bot.
Mag. under the name Marica plicata, and named in Sweet’s
Hort. Brit. Sisyrinchium latifolium. It has very little affinity
indeed to Marica, of which the character and species were,
not long ago, detailed in the Bot. Mag., and it is very different
from Sisyrinchium. Its affinities are to Gelasine, Nemostylis,
and Cipura, and it may be, that Nemostylis and Eleutherine
will be found to range under Gelasine as sections. The pre-
vailing colour of Gelasine and Nemostylis is blue or purple,
of Eleutherine white. Prof. Endlicher, whose view of the
genera of plants is valuable, because he has dealt with the
greater part of his subject with more knowledge and discri-
mination than he has applied to Iridacez and Amaryllidacee,
has thrown the genus Gelasine into Trichonema, and he would
probably refer this plant to the same genus. He might
as well refer it to Crocus, with which Trichonema is much
more closely allied than with these plants. Trichonema in
all its various species may be at once recognized in the dry
bulb or the fruit, and may be called the lowland Crocus, ex-
tending N. and S. from Guernsey and Jersey (of which the
native species has been set down for a Crocus by R. & Sch.)
to the Cape, E. and W. from Socotra to the Spanish peninsula.
When he shall have marched a few more Sisyrinchioid de-
tachments into the same depöt, he will find very little sub-
ordination in the corps. In arranging the hexandrous plants
it was the duty of a person undertaking such a work to have
examined the volume “ Amaryllidacez," which he must have
known from the works he quotes to have been some time pub-
lished, and he would there have found the affinities of the
various groups set forth upon a basis at least of tolerable cor-
rectness, and would not have presented such an imbroglio of
that order to the public. It is open to a person, who is fond
of generalizing, to set forth the Cyrtanthiform, Hippeastri-
form, and Amarylliform divisions of the order as genera,
Cyrtanthus, Hippeastrum, and Amaryllis, and to place Val-
lota, &c. Sprekelia, &c. Crinum, &c. as sections of them re-
spectively, but ignorance of the subject alone could induce a
person to preserve the subordinate Vallota, Cooperia, and
Griffinia, as distinet genera, and pour back the rest into the
cauldron of Amaryllidean confusion."—W. H.

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ALSTR(EMERIA lineatiflora.

Lined Alstremeria.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDACEJX.
ALSTREMERIA. Botanical Register, vol. 1839. fol. 13.

A. lineatifiora ; foliis oblongis obtusis basi angustatis superioribus verti-
cillatis, corymbi pedunculis subtrifloris, ‚sepalis obovato-cuneiformibus
cuspidatis, petalis angustioribus lanceolatis basi canaliculatis.

A. lineatiflora, 77. Peruv. 3. 60. £.289. Römer $ Schultes Syst. veg. 10.739.

A. Ligtu, var. 2. Herbert Amaryll. p. 92.

—

At last we have the pleasure of publishing the true
Alstremeria lineatiflora, from Peruvian roots presented to the
Horticultural Society by John Maclean, Esq. of Lima. It is
one of the finest of its class, and although, doubtless, very
mm A. Ligtu, peregrina, and pulcra, apparently distinct from
either.

In addition to the discriminating marks between these
beautiful species, pointed out by the learned investigator of
the genus, (Herbert Amaryllid. p. 98,) it will be found that
A. pulcra has the sepals and petals constantly serrated, which
is never the case in the other three, and that the form of their
leaves or sepals affords clear marks for further discrimination.
In A. lineatiflora the leaves are short, very blunt, and of
nearly equal size; in A: peregrina they are also of nearly
equal size, but very sharp; and in Zigtu the upper are very
narrow and taper-pointed. Then, as to the sepals ; in A.
peregrina they are deeply obcordate, in pulera narrow, spatu-
late, obovate with a little point, in Ligtu roundish obovate
with a very small point, and in lineatiflora obovately se,
Shaped with a large point. By these marks it appears that
these species may be certainly distinguished ; and that being

so, we are constrained to regard A. lineatiflora as a good
species, and not a mere variety of Lagtu.

It is necessary to add, that the A. Ligtu here spoken of
is that figured at t. 18 of our volume for 1830, and not the
A. Ligtu of the English gardens, which is A. caryophyllea.
We are aware that some doubt exists as to whether the
A. Ligtu of Feuillée, with pink flowers obliquely banded with
white, is the same plant; but his figure is so bad that it may
represent any of the neighbouring species, and nothing more
like it than our Ligtu has, that we know of, been brought
from Conception, which so many botanical travellers have
visited of late years. Feuillée says nothing about the form
of the sepals, and his artist is evidently no authority, for he
has missed the deeply obcordate form of even A. peregrina.

It is a greenhouse perennial; and thrives best in a com-
post, consisting of one-half loam, the other peat and sand.
This, like many other species of Alstroemeria, produces tube-
rous roots in a horizontal direction, consequently it requires a
large pot, which should be nearly half filled with potsherds.
In autumn the plant should be set in some airy place, where
it will receive very little wa‘er, until the beginning of January,
when it should be repotted. While in-a growing state, plenty
of water should be given, and air at all times when the weather
will permit. It may be propagated abundantly from seed.

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DUVAUA longifolia.
Long-leaved Duvaua.

— SUPPE

POLYGAMIA MONCCIA.

Nat. ord. ANACARDIACEE.
DUVAUA. Supra, vol. 19. fol. 1568.

D. longifolia ; foliis lineari-oblongis basi angustatis integerrimis, corymbis
sessilibus axillaribus, floribus 7-8-andris.

The Duvauas are a race of evergreen shrubs, smelling of
turpentine, with small green flowers, a caustic juice, and con-
siderable affinity to Rhus. We have now in our gardens the
following species, viz. D. dependens, ovata, latifolia, this
longifolia, and another or two undescribed and insufficiently
examined. They all inhabit the southern temperate regions
of South America, and are capable of living with us in the
open air through ordinary winters, especially if placed in a
north-western exposure.

The species now figured differs from D. dependens in its
leaves not being at all serrated, and decidedly narrowed, not
widened, to the base ; and also in having very short corymbs
of flowers. With the others it is not necessary to compare it.

It is much hardier than any of the others, having stood
against an exposed wall in the hard winter, 1837-8, when all
the others were either killed down to the ground or entirely

destroyed.

It grows freely in any good gar
or July; and is increased by seeds,
ripe wood taken off about August, and
way. .

. The plant from which our figure was taken was presented
to the Horticultural Society some years ago by Mr. H. Low
of Clapton, who raised it from seeds received from Buenos

A yres.

den soil; flowers in June
or by cuttings of the half-
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DENDROBIUM Ruckeri.
Mr. Rucher’s Dedo

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEZ. $ MALAxEZ—DENDROBIDZ.
DENDROBIUM. Supra, vol. 15. fol. 1291.

Sect. EuUDENDROBIUM. Caule tereti, foliis planis, floribus gemellis, labello

trilobo.

D. Ruckeri (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. misc. 38.) ; caulibus teretibus, foliis
ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis planis, floribus gemellis, sepalis patulis ob-
tusiusculis convexis margine reflexis lateralibus subtriangularibus, labelli
trilobi lobis rotundatis intermedio undulato axi elevatä villosá.

We presume this plant to be one of Mr. Cuming's discove-
ries in the Philippines, although no trace of it is to be found
among his dried specimens.

It belongs to the same set as D. Pierardi, among which
it is one of those with yellow flowers, the others being.
D. sanguinolentum, chrysanthum, Cambridgeanum, rugosum,
salaccense, Paxtoni, and aureum. Although it may not be
quite so handsome as some of these, yet it is a very fine
species, and perfectly distinct, both in colour, habit, and the
structure of the flowers.

Its leaves are exactly lanceolate, very sharp-pointed, and
a little disposed to curve backward at the end. The flowers,
although of a rich yellow nankin colour when expanded, are
almost white externally ; their lower sepals, which are really
ovate in form, are rolled back at the edge, near the middle,
so as to look as if contracted there. The petals and upper
sepal are nearly of the same size and form, linearly obovate,
acute and spreading. The labellum is deep orange, with a
white edge and a pale pink outside; when spread flat it 1s
roundish obovate, with three rounded lobes, of which the

middle one is crisp, and has a hairy ridge running along its
middle; the side lobes are hairy too near the base. The
flowers are deliciously sweet.

We owe the opportunity of figuring it to Sigismond
Rucker, Esq. Jun., with whom it flowered in February last.

Fig. 1. represents a front view of the column and base of
the labellum ; 2. shews the latter spread open.

It should be potted in rough turfy peat, mixed with pot-
sherds ; the pot to be half filled with broken pots, and the
soil considerably elevated above its brim, in order that the
roots may sustain no injury from stagnant water. In summer,
while the plant is growing, plenty of water should be given to
its roots, and it may be slightly syringed once or twice a day.
The house at this time should be shaded in sunny weather,
and kept as moist as possible, taking care not to let the tem-
perature rise above 80° by day, nor above 70° at night. In
autumn water should be very much withheld, so that the
plant may gradually receive its state of rest. In winter the
temperature should never be raised above 58° with fire heat.

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CIRRHOPETÄLUM auratum.
Gold-edged Cirrhopetalum.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER, $ MALAXEA.
CIRRHOPETALUM. Supra 1838. t. 11.

C. auratum ; pseudobulbis ovatis sulcatis, folio oblongo convexo, floribus
umbellatis, sepalo supremo petalisque setaceo-acuminatis fulvo-ciliatis
lateralibus acutis, labello lineari recurvo, column auriculis rotundatis
integris. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840. misc. 107.—1843. sub t. 49.

Among the singular species of this genus the present is
one of the most interesting. It hangs down from the branch
of a tree, or a piece of charred wood, which it soon overruns
ar its delicate green roots and egg-shaped furrowed pseudo-

ulbs.

The leaves are very thick, deep green above, and convex ;
stained with purple beneath. The flower-stem is as slender
as a small thread, and too weak to bear the umbels of flowers,
which therefore hang down gracefully, and are balanced in

the air.

The umbels, as in many others of this genus, are so
arranged that the flowers are all on one plane, and diverging
egually from the centre form a circle, whose interior 1s oceu-
pied by the lower part of the flowers, and whose circumference
is formed by the long fat strap-shaped lateral sepals, which
look like so many party-coloured ribbons collected into a

balloon.

The flowers themselves have a yellowish ground, striped
and mottled with crimson. The upper sepal and two petals,
badly drawa in the figure, are fringed with golden zeirs, and
tapered into a fine point. The lateral sepals are quite desti-
tute of hairiness, and only faintly stained with purple.

It differs from C. picturatum in its party-coloured, not
purple, flowers ; in its petals being far less taper-pointed, and

December, 1843. 2c

not villous ; and in the lip not having a central ridge, which
is conspicuous in C. picturatum.

A native of Manilla, whence it was received by Messrs.
Loddiges, with whom our drawing was made in March 1841.

Fig. 1. represents a flower much magnified, with the long
lateral sepals cut off; the petals are by no means well figured ;
they, as well as the upper sepal, taper into a fine bristle-like
point. Fig. 2. is the labellum.

It may be potted in turfy heath-mould, mixed with pieces
of small potsherds; or it may be suspended on a block of
wood, with a little sphagnum about its roots to retain moisture.
Like many species of Pleurothallis, Stelis, Ge. this requires a
humid atmosphere in winter as well as in summer; but it
should always be remembered, that the more light and heat,
the more water. is required. During the warm summer
months, when the temperature of the house (although shaded)
can scarcely be kept below 80°, the water required will be
twice as much as is necessary in winter, when the temperature
should never be raised above 50° or 55° by artificial means.

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RHODODENDRON Aprilis.

Garden Variety. |

A beautiful hybrid, raised by the Hon. and Very Rev.
the Dean of Manchester from seed of Rhododendron ponti-
cum, fertilized by the Evergreen Davurian Rhododendron.
It flowers in April, for which reason Mr. Herbert has given
it the name of Aprilis.

The figure sufficiently indicates its beauty ; yet the plant
is really handsomer, for the colours when fresh are consider-
ably brighter in the pink part. The specimen was in fact
fading when the drawing was made.

Of course a hardy shrub: but we believe not at present
in the hands of * the trade."

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Few-leaved Bossiea.

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DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSA.
BOSSI/EA. Botanical Register, vol. 1841, fol. 55.

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B. paucifolia ; glabra, inermis, ramis compressis alatis, foliis paucis obovatis
oblongis linearibusve, pedicellis folio brevioribus, legumine glabro lati-
tudine pluries longiore. Bentham in Bot. Reg. 1841. mise. 108.
Walpers Repertorium, vol. 1. 578.
B. virgata, Hooker in Bot. Mag. 1842. t. 3986.

This New Holland bush, which has been raised several
times from Swan River seeds, is one of those plants whose
appearance depends chiefly upon the way in which it is
managed. Under ordinary circumstances it is a straggling,
naked, inelegant species ; but when kept dwarf, and in very
good health, it forms a pretty compact bush, gaily sprinkled
with yellow and crimson blossoms.

It was originally raised from seeds by Robert Mangles,
Esq. of Sunning Hill; and in July, 1841, it was named and
defined in this work by Mr. Bentham. Afterwards, in De-
cember, 1842, it was figured in the Botanical Magazine
under the name of B. virgata, Sir William Hooker not being
aware that it had been already published.

Our drawing was made from a plant in the possession of
Messrs. Lowe and Co. of Clapton, in April last.

Fig. 1. represents the calyx ; 2. the ovary, cut in half, to
shew the ovules.

It is a greenhouse shrub, and will best succeed if potted
in rough peat mixed with a little loam and sand. When potted,
the stem should never be immersed in the soil, but rather a
little elevated, which will preserve the plant from damping off

in winter. In summer an ample supply of water should be
given, and air at all times. In winter it should be exposed
as much as possible to the light, and always receive air when
the weather will permit. Fire heat should never be applied,

except to keep off frost. It may be propagated from seeds or
cuttings. |

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HIBBERTIA perfoliata.
Thorough-wax Hibbertia.

POLYANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. DILLENIACEA.
HIBBERTIA. Botanical Register, vol. 4. fol. 282.

H. perfoliata; glaberrima, glaucescens, ramis subteretibus, foliis obovato-
oblongis oblongisque amplexicaulibus et perfoliatis denticulatis apiculatis
subtůs leevibus opacis, pedunculis solitariis foliis subsequalibus unifloris
basi squamatis, petalis bilobis calyce tripló longioribus, ovariis 4-5
glabris.

H. perfoliata, Hugel Enumeratio, p. 6.

This is really a beautiful Swan River shrub, particularly
well adapted to pot culture, on account of the neatness of its
appearance at allseasons. According to Baron Hugel it has
a tendency to climb, but that has not been observed in our
gardens.

When it first flowered it was of one uniform glaucous hue,
almost as much so as the fruit of the Plum when ripe and
. covered with bloom ; but that appearance has gone off, and
the foliage is now of a deep rich glossy green.

While the beautiful yellow flowers are as large and showy
as in the old Hibbertia volubilis, they are quite free from the
offensive smell of that species.

Fig. 1. represents the appearance of the ovaries.

Our drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural
Society in May last. It there proves to be a greenhouse shrub,
requiring the same treatment as many other New Holland
plants. It grows freely, if potted in a compost consisting of
peat, loam, and sand in equal proportions. The pot should
be well drained, and a few pieces of potsherds mixed through
the soil. Plenty of air and water must be given in summer,

and shade in sunny days. In winter the plant should be
placed in some airy place free from frost, and be watered in
fine weather. It may be propagated by cuttings in the usual
way.

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SAXIFRÄGA ciliata.
Fringed Saxifrage.

DECANDRIA DIGYNIA.

Nat. ord. SAXIFRAGACEE.
SAXIFRAGA. L.

S. ciliata ; foliis obovatis coriaceis grossè ciliatis denticulatis basi subauricu-
latis, petiolo magno vaginante, pedunculo rigido scabriusculo cymosó
paniculato, calyce 5-partito ventricoso hirsuto laciniis foliaceis, petalis
spathulatis unguiculatis venosis.

S. ciliata, Royle Illustr. Fl. Himal. p. 226. t.49. f. 2. Walpers Reperto-
rium, 2. 365. no. 23. nec 24.

This plant, of the section Bergenia, and very nearly allied
to S. ligulata, is like that species a native of the mountains
of Northern India. Dr. Royle speaks of it thus :—

‘ I have had some difficulty in naming this plant, as the
published descriptions, as well as the distributed specimens
of Wall. Cat. 4492. and figures of S. ligulata, to which it is
most nearly allied, do not correspond with one another ; in-
deed, two distinct species pass under that name. Dr. Wallich
(As. Res. 13. p. 398.) describes S. ligulata with leaves * basi
angustata, —crenato—dentata, dentibus crenisque ciliis longis
—uti omnes plante partes levia, carnosa, ad lentem punc-
tata.—Scapus crassus apice semel bisve furcatus.—Flores
congesti in paniculam terminalem compactam subracemosam
nudam leviter nutantem.—Calyx profunde quinquefidus ;
lacinie leviter ciliatz.’—A plant corresponding in every re-
spect with this description, except in the leaves being less

ciliated, I have found growing in Choor, Simla, and Kedar-
kanta, and with which the specimens in the East India Her-
d, as well as the

barium, 4492. 2. from Buddrinath, correspon
figure in Loddiges’ Botanical Cabinet, t. 747.

“ The plant, S. ciliata, figured in plate 49. fig. 2. is found

on the Mussooree and Suen Range, at lower elevations than
2D

S. ligulata. The leaves are ovate and obtuse at both ends,
extremely hairy on both, but especially the under surface and
along the nerves ; the peduncle is slender ; the inflorescence
an erect, but lax spreading panicle; the calyx gamosepalous,
and cup-shaped at the base, and consequently less deeply
divided than in S. ligulata, with the lacinie entire, and not
ciliate, and the petals more unguiculate.”

It must be confessed that the plant now represented does
not agree altogether with this description; in particular it.
wants the hairiness of the leaves spoken of by Dr. Royle, but
we ascribe this difference to cultivation. In fact, the plant in
the garden of the Horticultural Society, from whence this
drawing was made in March, 1848, was raised from seeds sent

under the name of S. ciliata from the Botanical Garden of
Saharunpur.

We must remark that Dr. Walpers has a second S. ciliata
from India ; the latter being $. imbricata of Royle.

This is a robust hardy perennial, reguiring the same soil
and treatment as S. crassifolia; but when planted in the open
border it must not have a situation which is damp in winter,
or fully exposed to the sun in summer. It is easily increased
by dividing the old plants; or by seeds, which should be sown
when ripe in pots filled with sandy peat and a small portion
of loam. It flowers about May in the open border.

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ONCIDIUM bicolor.

Two-coloured Oncidium.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE®. $ VANDER.
ONCIDIUM. Supra, vol. 14. fol. 1073.

$ Evoncrprum, HETERANTHIUM ; planifolia, tetrapetala, micropetala.

O. bicolor; pseudobulbis ovalibus compressimis utrinque 3-costatis, folio
solitario oblongo sessili striato, paniculà divaricatä, sepalis lateralibus
basi connatis petalisque ovatis acutis, labello maximo bilobo, disci tuber-
culo hastato 3-partito, column alis rotundatis dentatis.

This charming species of Oncidium, one of the rarest of
its genus, was obtained by Messrs. Loddiges from the Spanish
Main, and is 1243 of their catalogue. It flowered with
them in September, 1842, when the accompanying figure was
made.

Among other peculiarities of the species may be mentioned
its very thin pseudo-bulbs, and three-lobed crest of the label-
lum, the front lobe of which projects forward, while the
laterals are at right angles to it, and slightly toothed. It has
moreover a very large lip, which, although deep clear yellow
on the upper side, is almost white underneath, as also happens
in some of the Chive-leaved species.

Its nearest affinity is with O. bifolium.

MISCELLANEOUS MATTER

OF THE

BOTANICAL REGISTER.
1843.

MONSTRUM PLANTI. Plants Vegetable Monster.

* Wyar is this, of which three roots are represented in
the vignette ?—In consequence of the statement made by Mr.
Plant, nurseryman of Cheadle, (see above Plant's anisanth,
1842, fol. 37.) that he had obtained mules from a Gladiolus
by an Amaryllidaceous plant, I was anxious to investigate
minutely its correctness. It will be proper to premise, that
the mule figured as Plant's anisanth is a true Gladiolus, raised
between Glad. splendens (Anisanthus splendens, Sweet Br.
Fl. G.) and a hybrid, sold under the name of Colvilli, between
G. blandus, cardinalis, and tristis. Mr. Sweet improperly
made a genus Anisanthus of G. splendens and Cunonius,
and another genus of G. abbreviatus, thrée species of Gladio-
lus, which have the lower lip abbreviated, a feature not more
important than the conversion'of the three petals into short
bristles in Iris setosa. I always considered that something

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nearly approaching to G. abbreviatus might be raised between
G. tristis and Cunonius.

* Mr. Plant has frankly communicated all the information
he can give concerning his monsters, and has sent three of
his four roots to me. I have made a careful sketch of them,
as above represented. He states, that in 1839 he carried
from the greenhouse pollen of a plant, which by his descrip-
tion is certainly a cross-bred Hippeastrum closely akin to
H. Johnsoni, having dark red flowers striped with white, to
a flower of Gladiolus blandus in a cold frame. The seeds
produced were rather deficient in the usual foliaceous wing.
Four roots were the produce. He states, that their leaves
were less erect and more glossy than those of a Gladiolus.
In the second season 1840-1 he was ill, and they suffered
from neglect. They are now at rest after three years growth.
The appearance is quite monstrous. There is scarcely a
vestige of a regular corm, but the base is irregularly formed
and beset with yellowish fleshy substances having some affi-
nity to the scales of a Lilium, and topped with the wrinkled
remains of tubular sheaths which enveloped the base of the
leaves. One of them, from the number of those tubular
processes, seems to have formed offsets. . To the eye, in their
present state, they certainly exhibit no immediate hope of
vegetation, but in due time they will probably do so. Mr.
Plant says that they were raised in a mixture of sand and
rotten manure. The question therefore arises, whether these
strange productions are diseased Gladioli, analogous to the
monstrous turnips, like bunches of keys, which often occur
in highly manured and hot sandy soil? or mules of such
anomalous birth? or. roots of some plant unknown to me,
accidentally confounded by Mr. Plant with his seedling Gla-
dioli? Hippeastrum, the asserted male parent, has one very
extraordinary peculiarity, that its several species breed more
willingly by the pollen of any hybrid of its own genus, how-
ever complicated its origin, than by their own pollen. A
bulb of H. Organense just imported from the Organ moun-

tains having thrown up two two-flowered stems, one flower .

on each stem was touched with its own dust, and the other
by that of a triple,mule. When the flowers withered, the
germen of each of the former swelled first, but after a few
days the latter began to swell also, and from that moment the
growth of the former stopped, and they soon withered ; both

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the latter, proceeding rapidly, produced abundance of good
seed. Such has been the invariable result of six years expe-
riments, but we have failed in all attempts to mix Hippeastrum
with the nearly allied Habranthus or Zephyranthes. In the
form of its seed and capsule it has some affinity to Gladiolus.
I tried 30 years ago vainly to impregnate G. blandus by H.
crocatum. Can any person recognize the above, as the roots
of any known plant? or has Mr. Plant bred an anomalous
monster between the two natural orders Amaryllidacee and
Iridacee, though all other persons have as yet failed in
obtaining any mule vegetable between two genera decidedly
distinct in one and the same order? I do not think disease
could have produced such Gladiolus roots. Mr. Plant tried
to make a like cross last year by the Hippeastrum on a hybrid
Gladiolus, and he has sent me a bulb which is its produce,
and two seedlings from another pod not crossed by him on
the same Gladiolus stem; but it is evident, that these bulbs
are all true Gladioli, though the two pods have been evi-
dently set by the pollen of two different species or varieties
of Gladiolus, which the bees might effect without his privity.
Mr. Plant pays a great deal of attention to the state of the
stigma and pollen, but I cannot find that he has done so
more than I have done during the last thirty years, when I was
desirous of obtaining a difficult cross. Every encouragement
should be given by cultivators to Mr. Plant, who would
perhaps effect much by industry and perseverance, if his
means were equal to his zeal.”

W. Herbert, Spofforth, Oct. 1842.

1. CATASETUM Wailesii.
Hooker in Botanical Magazine, t. 3937.

C. Wailesii; ** folis oblongo-lanceolatis, perianthiis ovatis compressis con-
niventibus, sepalis petalisque acuminatis, labello subconico cucullato ore
contracto integerrimo, antheris hemispheerico-compressis umbonatis
umbone subtüs squamifero.”

This is a green-flowered species from Honduras, with all
the appearance of C. tridentatum; Sir W. Hooker, however,
assigns the following reasons for regarding it as a distinet

species.
* The strange forms exhibited in the different parts of the

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flower of the several kinds of Catasetum have often attracted
notice. In the present instance, the most striking peculiarity
is to be found in the anther-case, which, instead of being car-
ried out into a very long point or beak, is singularly short
and flattened, in the centre of which is an umbo or elevated
tubercle, and beneath this, a pretty large, membranaceous,
spreading scale. Whether this be simply a sport of nature,
ora permanent character, indicating a truly distinct species,
I will not take upon me to say.”

2. BRASSÍA brachiata.

Lindley in Bentham Plant. Hartweg. p. 94.

This fine plant has flowered in the collection of Messrs.
Rollissons, where it exists under the garden name of Brassia
Wraye. It has larger flowers than any other species, with
very dark brown spots on a pale ground. The lower sepals
are three inches long, and the lip is half the length, a good
deal waved at the edge, and rather lobed. Itis a very dis-
tinct species.

3. RENANTHERA matutina.

Lindley in Gen. and Sp. Orch. p. 218.

A very pretty plant with small cinnamon and scarlet
flowers, collected in a stiff panicle. It has the habit of the
old R. coccinea, but is not to be compared with it for beauty,
the flowers not being above half an inch across. It was ex-
hibited at the last meeting of the Horticultural Society, from
His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth, and we
have also received it from Messrs. Rollissons. It is under-

stood to have been brought from Manilla by Mr. Cuming,
from whom we have a wild specimen.

4. EPIDENDRUM auritum.

E. (Encyclium) auritum ; pseudobulbis elongatis compressis squamis vagi-

natis, folio angusto ligulato obtuso, racemo debili 3-floro folio breviore,
bracteis marcidis carinatis internodiis longioribus,
raceo, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis acutis patentibus, petalis conformibus
duplö brevioribus erectis, labello lineari convexo arcuato medio carnoso
subrugoso apice membranaceo, columnä apice tridentatä, antherä utrin-
que auriculá simpliei bifidá subulatä auctä.

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specimens from Mr. Skinner. The flowers are very pale
green, almost white, with no spots or stains upon them. It
has not much beauty. It is near E. tripunctatum. A very
singular feature in it is the presence of one or two fine pointed
horns on the anther on each side, which give it, when seen
in front, the appearance of some insect’s head.

5. CLEISOSTOMA dealbatum.

C. dealbatum ; foliis linearibus canaliculatis carnosis dealbatis, spicis sim-
plicibus glaucis, sepalis petalisque rotundatis, labelli calcare ovato emar-
ginato lobis lateralibus acutis intermedio ovato carnoso multó majore
incurvo, columns dente bilobo.

An Orchidaceous plant of little beauty, obtained from
Manilla by Messrs. Loddiges, through Mr. Cuming. The
flowers before they expand are almost white, when open they
are bright yellow, with a white lip; but they are too small
to produce much appearance.

6. DENDROBÍUM aqueum.

D. aqueum, ($ foliis planis, floribus gemellis, labello trilobo) foliis ovato-
oblongis undulatis acuminatis, floribus patulis cornu brevi obtuso, sepalis
petalisque ovatis, labelli trilobi pubescentis laciniá media ovata denticu-
latá basi alte excavatá lateralibus latioribus rotundatis margine anteriore

serrulato.

A native of Bombay, whence it was imported by Messrs.
Loddiges, with whom it flowered in November, 1842. The
habit is that of D. Pierardi: the flowers are rather larger,
and of a pale watery green colour.

7. PLEUROTHÄLLIS fetens.

P. fetens ; folio ovali coriaceo subtus concolori cauli „carinato triquetro
deni spathá univalvi acutà coriaceà striatà pauciflorà, verbe at
sessilibus tomentosis coriaceis, sepalis oblongis convexis d us
intüs papillosis lateralibus connatis, petalis oblongis acutis d -=
culatis subdiaphanis, labello lineari-oblongo obtuso leevi lineis duabus

elevatis carnosis basi excavato.

A species very near the Mexican P. aphthosa, with at
unpleasant odour. It has no_ beauty, and is a — :
Brazil, whence it was obtained by Messrs. Loddiges. e
leaves are rather narrower than in P. aphthosa, and green
not purple underneath.

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8. OBERONIA miniata.
O. miniata ; caulescens, foliis eguitantibus brevibus subfalcatis acutis, spicá
longissimá pendulá laxiflorá, bracteis linearibus convolutis laceris, pedi-
cellis filiformibus glanduloso-pilosis, sepalis ovatis erectis acutis, petalis

conformibus minoribus, labello oblongo concavo versus apicem angus-
tato retuso.

A singular epiphyte, belonging to a section of this strange
genus, of which O. anceps is the type, and of which there are
many species. That now figured was imported from Sinca-
pore by Messrs. Loddiges. It has the habit of Aporum
anceps; its flowers are extremely small, very brittle, vermi-
lion red, and loosely arranged in a nodding spike sometimes
as much as eight inches long.

9. ANGRACUM vesicatum.

A. vesicatum ; acaule, foliis canaliculatis recurvis spicee pendula sequalibus,
floribus distantibus divaricatis, sepalis ovatis, petalis linearibus acutis,

labello ovato acuto, calcare arcuato ovario longiore apice inflato diaphano.

From the Ashantee country, whence it was obtained by
Messrs. Loddiges. It bears white, inconspicuous flowers,
whose spurs look like a horn with a semi-transparent bladder

at the end. It seems to range next to A. caulescens from the
Isle of France.

10. ACIANTHERÄ punctata.
Scheidweiler in Gartenzeitung, 1842, p. 292.

“ ACIANTHERA. Sepala conniventia, lateralibus connatis, supremo galeato.
Petala minora cuneiformia, apice dilatata; labellum cum columna arti-
culatum, 3-Jobum ; lobis lateralibus acutis, intermedio plano obtuso;
Columna alata membranacea apice lacerata ; anthera apiculata, unilocu-
laris; pollinia 2, materie pulverea ad basin cohaerentia.

“ A. punctata (Scheidw.) ; foliis solitariis, ovatis, obtusis, glaucis, utringue
purpureo-punctatis ; sepalis extus villosis, intus purpureo-punctatis vel

ocellatis ; labello purpureo, petalis punctatis. Flores racemosi, racemi
pauciflori cernui, basi spathacei.”

An orchidaceous plant, stated in the work above quoted to
be a native of Brazil, and to belong to the Malaxeous divi-
sion. It is described as resembling, at first sight, a Pleuro-
thallis; very small; with oval leaves, and five or six greenish
grey flowers on a common flower-stalk.

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Scheidweiler l. c. p. 293.

* CENTRANTHERA. Sepala laterali connata, supremum galeatum ; petala
minora cuneiformia. Labellum cum columna articulatum, 3-lobum, lobis
lateralibus minimis acutis, intermedio ovato obtuso. Columna alata,
sub-membranacea apice lacerata. Anthera apiculata, unilocularis, pollinia
2 materie pulverea cohzerentia.

* C. punctata (Scheidw.) ; folio ovato, obtuso, glauco, utrinque fusco punc-
tato. Sepalis extus villosissimis, intus fusco-ocellatis ; labellum purpu-
reum. Flores racemosi, racemi radicales cernui. ——Planta epiphyta
brasiliensis, caule semiunciali, folio carnoso unciale exacte ovato."

Another new genus of Orchidacew, according to Mr.
Scheidweiler, found in Brazil, and cultivated in the German
gardens. It, like the last, is represented to be very like a
Pleurothallis ; its leaves are glaucous with brown pits.

12. LIPÁRÍS alata.

Scheidweiler l. c. p. 293.

** L. alata (Scheidw.); folis 6, oblongo-ovatis, acutis, plicatis, petiolatis,
spica erecta multiflora brevioribus. Scapo alato, squamoso, purpureo ;
alis 6, membranaceis. Sepalis petalis linearibus latioribus ; labello mu-
cronato revoluto atropurpureo. Gynostemium viride; flores ante an-
thesin purpurei."

A Mexican plant, which has flowered at Lacken, in the
garden of His Majesty the King of the Belgians. It is
stated to berather prettier than the majority of its race, with
a spike of flowers six inches long, and purple flowers half an
inch long, with a crimson lip.

13. MAXILLARIA galeata.

Scheidweiler l. c. p. 309.

* M. galeata (Scheidw.); pseudobulbis ovatis compressis diphyllis ; foliis
ovato-oblongis, acutis, plicatis; scapis radicalibus unifloris ; — su-
premo petalisque lateralibus conniventibus.subgaleatis, sepalis lateralibus
patentibus, omnibus lanceolatis acutis, labelli trilobi lobo intermedio

anthera galeata, loculorum valvulis

lingulato, lateralibus parvis acutis ; al um
Bee iaa dehiscentibus ; pollinia 4, per paria ın glan-
dulam hyalinam transversam sessilia. i
“ Scapus "ub pollices longus, purpureus ; bracteæ quatuor, ventricose,
acutæ, margine purpureæ. Flores purpurei, striato-punctati ; labellum

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cum basi producta columnee articulatum, atropurpureum, basi dilute
»
roseum,

A Brazilian species, described from the stove of Count
Aremberg. It is said to be scentless, and to have dirty purple
flowers.

14. ONCIDIUM Forkelii.
Scheidweiler I. c. p. 309.

“ O. Forkelii (Scheidw.); pseudobulbis monophyllis ; foliis coriaceis, ob-
longis, acutis ; vaginis ciliatis ; scapo erecto punctato, trifloro, foliis
breviore. Sepalis lateralibus liberis, oblongo-ovatis, acuminatis, supe-
riore ovato undulato ; petalis oblongis margine undulatis; labello trilobo,
lobis lateralibus minoribus, intermedio maximo rotundato baseos callis
duobus instructo, anteriore compresso bicorni, posterioris lamina plicata ;
gynostemio alato, alis lilacinis: Anthera carnosa galeata, pollinia duo
in glandulam bicornutam sessilia.

‘“ Folia 10-12 pollices longa, 3-4. poll. lata. Sepala extus virentia intus
fusco-maculata, petala apice virentia basi fuscata, labellum lilacinum.””

A Mexican species that has flowered in the collection of
His Majesty the King of Belgium, at Lacken. It has been
named after Mr. Forkel, the chief gardener there. It is
said to be one of the handsomest of the genus, with flowers
an inch in diameter, greenish yellow, spotted with crimson ;

the petals clear violet, the lip large and round, with small
side lobes.

15. ONCIDÍUM cuneatum.
Scheidweiler 1. c. p. 309.

“ O. cuneatum (Scheidw.); pseudobulbis subeylindrieis, arcuatis, rugosis,
apıce truncatis, monophyllis; foliis lanceolatis acutis; paniculis radicali-
bus cernuis ; sepalis lateralibus cuspidatis in unum cucullatum connatis,
superiore truncato cucullato ; petalis cuneatis apice minutissime crenu-
latis ; labello trilobo, lobis lateralibus acutis, intermedio cuneato emargi-
nato ; crista triplici; posteriore quadridentata, intermedio lamellis qua-
tuor parallelis composita, anteriore bicornuta ; columns alis linearibus,
denticulatis, recurvis, acutis."

A Brazilian plant from Count Aremberg’s collection. It
is said to be a small species with white flowers spotted with
crimson, and purple wings to the column. The leaves are
three inches long and six inches broad, the flower-stalk four
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16. LALÍA albida.
A beautiful variety of this, with a violet lip, painted at

the base with purple veins, has flowered with Mrs. Lawrence
at Ealing Park.

17. TRICHOCENTRÜM recurvum.

T. recurvum ; bracteis distichis cucullatis ovatis acutis, sepalis petalisque
ovatjs acutis, labello oblongo basi purpureo bidentato, calcare recurvo
ovarii longitudine, column alis cuneatis denticulatis, antherá pubescente.

A Guayana plant, imported by Messrs. Loddiges. It
resembles Tr. fuscum in habit, but is smaller. The lip is
white, with a deep purple spot at its base; afterwards it
changes to pure yellow. The spur is long, and curved back-
wards and upwards, so as to arch over the back ofthe flower.

18. TRICHOCENTRUM candidum.

T. candidum ; bracteis ovatis acutis, sepalis petalisque ovatis acutis, labello
oblongo emarginato basi obsoletě bidentato ecalearato gibboso, columns
alis ovatis acutis, antherá villosä.

A little Guatemala plant, with white flowers, slightly
tinged with yellow. It is remarkable for the want of a spur,
whose place is supplied by a short projection.

19. ODONTOGLOSSUM Rossii.
Lindley in Bot. Reg. 1839. t. 48.

A pretty variety of this charming plant has flowered with
Mr. Barker. It has narrower and darker coloured sepals,
smaller flowers, and the callus at the base of the lip white, not
yellow. It seems almost intermediate between O. Rossii and
O. stellatum ; especially as the lip is rather more ovate than
in the former species.

. 90. EPIDENDRUM rubrocinctum. —
; i a alis ob-

E (SPATHIUM) rubrocinctum ; >... paniculá amplá cernuá, sep
penes concavis acutis coriaceis, petalis angusté linearibus, labello trans-
verso cordato trilobo suprà tricarinato ; lobi medii trilobi dente inter-

medio minuto, columnä inappendicula
Of this I know no more than that it is a plant with the
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habit of E. nutans, from the garden of Mr. Brocklehurst,
where nothing is recorded of its origin. Mr. Bateman, who
sent it to me, states that it has a large branching panicle.
The sweet-scented flowers are a dull yellowish green, bordered
with dull purple ; the lip is more yellow than the sepals, It
is a plant of more beauty than E. nutans.

MAXILLARIA.

The original genus of this name was so loosely defined
that it was understood to comprehend all Orchidaceous plants
whose floral envelopes are so arranged that they have a
ringent appearance, and a decided extension in front in the
form of a chin. I bave no intention of discussing in this
place the history of the genus, the additions made to it, or
the limits of the new genera already formed in its vicinity ;
but I shall confine myself to the condition in which it was
left upon the publication of the ** Genera and Species of
Orchidaceous Plants" in the year 1833. At that time the
number of species, known or guessed at, was inconsiderable,
and consisted of plants extremely different in appearance, as
well as structure, but connected by the common character of
a pair of simple or two-lobed pollen-masses, having a distinct
gland with a single eaudieula, and belonging to a flower
whose lateral sepals, oblique at their base, were adherent to
the lengthened foot of the column. In fact, Maxillaria,
among Vandes, answered in many respects to Dendrobium
among Malaxex.

But experience has shewn that such a character as this
brings into association plants of very different appearance,
that it ineludes many other characters, of as much importance
as itself, and brings together a group of species inconveni-
ently large for systematical purposes. Such being the case it
has now become desirable to reconsider the distinctive marks
of Maxillaria, to see how far they are capable of sub-division,
and to endeavour to circumscribe Maxillaria proper within
more definite limits than were assigned to it in 1838.

The true Maxillarias, that is to say those intended by the
authors of the Flora Peruviana, who founded the nus, are
evidently the species with radical inflorescenee, and a psendo-
bulbous growth, such as M. picta, punctata, squalens, and the
like; they form a tolerably natural group, and have, in all

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cases, a pair of double pollen-masses resting on a crescent-
shaped gland, without any distinct caudicula ; to them it is
desirable strictly to limit the name. But a great variety of
other plants have been gradually associated with them in con-
sequence of their having the chin which so strongly marks,
among Vandex, Maxillaria proper; and, in fact, this chin
must now be considered more an indication of a division of
Vandee than of a genus.

For example, Mazillaria Warreana, has a globular flower,
expanded indeed, but only a little oblique, and by no means
ringent: this I would call WAngEA. ©

Then those species which are near M. lentiginosa, having
also a flower with nothing ringent about it, have an apparattis
of a singularly rugged nature, or at least much tuberculated,
on the lip, and a gland of an ovate form bearing two double
pollen-masses sessile; to these the name Promenma may be
assigned. Allied to them, but widely different in the small
roundish gland and long setaceous caudicula on which the
two double pollen-masses are seated, is Mazillaria cristata,
which may be called PAPHINIA. Another set, with a similar
condition of gland, caudicula, and pollen-masses, but well
distinguished by the surface of the lip, is formed by such
species as M. aromatica, macrophylla, &c. and these I would
call Lycaste. As for Mazillaria Steelii, with its long
thonged leaves and deficient pseudo-bulbs, it has nothing of
the aspect of a Maxillaria, and having a pair of double
pollen-masses sitting on a gland tapering to each end with
the form of a gliding serpent, it may be advantageously struck

off under the name of ScuTICARIA. "m
These changes having been effected, the genus Maxillaria

will remain associated with Dicrypta, Xylobium, Camaridium,
and Siagonanthus, the true value of which I shall shortly
endeavour to settle. ; :

But it is not merely as an old genus, into which far too
much alien blood has been infused, that Maxillaria has to be
considered. We. must certainly regard it as the type of a
Division of Vandez, to which a good number of other genera
will have to be associated. These genera are all, characte-
rized by having the lateral sepals more or less oblique at the
base, the consequence of which is that the flower-bud has
always, more or less visibly, a chin, and by having a labellum
which is destitute of'a.spur, or of any direct approach to one.

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It is also strictly an occidental division, saving the genus
Polystachya, unless we admit Appendicula and Cryptoglottis,
which are insular Indian. ‘Those genera however require
further examination.

I do not profess to be able of myself to settle at present

the true limits of what may be called the Maxillaridous divi-

sion of Vandez; but, in order to assist others who may be
working in the Orchidaceous mine, I will just put down what
I at present think will be the genera to be referred to it.
The tabular form being the most convenient for study, I have
adopted it, printing in italics those genera which seem certain,
and in Romans such as reguire much further examination.

Maxıztarıne. Sepala lateralia plus minus obliqua, ssepius
majora, unde alabastrus hinc gibbus. Labellum columns
appressum, ecalcaratum. Columna semiteres, basi pro-
ducta. Pollinia 2-4 (-8?).

[The genus Zygopetalum, whose lateral sepals are very
little oblique, joins this Division of Vandez to that of
Sarcanthide, in conseguence of its near affinity to
Eulophia in the last mentioned division. ]

* Labellum medio interruptum. Stanhopea, Houlletia, Peristeria, Anguloa
(Cuitlauzina ?).
* Labellum continuum.
a. Sepala lateralia divaricata incurva basi angustata; Govenia, Batemannia.
b. Sepala lateralia ascendentia ; Zygopetalum.
c. Sepala lateralia recta, sepiůs triangularia.

l Pollinia 2 ; Acropera, Chenanthe, Malachadenia.
Il Pollinia 8; v. 4 plura; Appendicula, Cryptoglottis.
Il Pollinia 4; v. 2 biloba.
1 Flores regulares clausi; Ornithidium.
11 Flores regulares expansi; Trigonidium, Psittacoglossum, Stenia,
Promenea, Warrea.
111 Flores ringentes.
1. Caudicule 2; Bifrenaria.
2. Caudicula 1.

4 Columna maxima navicularis, clinandrio cucullato.
Huntleya.

Y Y. Columna clavata, angusta,. clinandrio nudo.

GF" Glandula lunata, caudienlis brevissimis v. nullis ; -

: Mazillaria, Dicrypta, Xylobium, Camaridium,
Siagonanthus, Scuticaria.
5 Glandula ovata, caudiculá brevissimá, v. O.
©" Seaphyglottis. .
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It is not improbable that, besides these, Mazillaria
tetragona, and a few others, may require to be further
separated.

Having thus explained my notions of the manner in which
Maxillaria and the genera allied to it may be best systema-
tised, I proceed to add very brief characters of the new genera
and their species.

Promenza. Sepala patula. Labellum trilobum, medio cris-
tatum v. multo-tuberculatum. Columna brevis, semiteres.
Glandula ovata. Pollinia 4, geminata, sessilia.

l. P. stapelioides (Maxill. stapelioides, L. 146. B. R. 1839. t. 17.); pseudo-
bulbis ovatis tetragonis 1-2-phyllis, foliis tenuibus lanceolatis patentibus
pallidà glaucis reticulatis, pedunculo diffuso bifloro, sepalis petalisque
subrotundo-ovatis acutis patulis subsequalibus, labello oblongo trilobo :
laciniis lateralibus erectis linearibus obliquis obtusis intermediä ovato-
oblonga basi cucullatá, cristá transversá flexuosá carnosá intüs dente
carnoso ovato auctä. Brazil. Flowers green externally, yellowish
internally, speckled and banded with purple.

2. P. xanthina (Maxill. xanthina, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839. sub t. 17.); pseu-
dobulbis ovalibus tetragonis 1-2-phyllis, foliis angustě lanceolatis, pe-
dunculis ascendentibus unifloris pedicello sterili terminatis, bracteá ovatá
mucronatá cucullatá, sepalis petalisgue oblongis acutis patulis subsequa-
libus, labello oblongo trilobo laciniis lateralibus erectis linearibus obtu-
sissimis integris intermediä bilabiatä: labio superiore carnoso abbreviato
truncato 5-dentato inferiore oblongo acuto.—JBrazil.— Flowers yellow.

3. P. lentiginosa (Maxill. lentiginosa, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1839, misc. 93.) ;
bracteis latě ovatis acuminatis, labelli lobo medio ovato-oblongo obtuso,
cristá transversá medio processu quadrato tridentato auctá, anthers
apice incurvo ; alioquin M. stapelioidi similis. Brazil. Very like
P. stapelioides; but the sepals are more acute, the purple spots redder,
more distinct, and less run into bars; the lip is of the same colour
as the petals, and its transverse crest has a sguare three-toothed process
in the middle.

4. P. Rollissonii (Maxill. Rollissonii, Boť. Reg. sub fol. 1986.et 1838, t. 40.);
pseudobulbis subrotundis compressis bifolüs, foliis lanceolatis apice re-
curvis, scapis subunifloris diffusis laxé vaginatis, sepalis carinatis latera-
libus basi subsequalibus petalisque acutissimis, labelli lobis lateralibus
ovatis angustis acutis intermedio oblongo membranaceo apiculato mar-
gine deflexo ; callo disci elevato carnoso anticé transverso lobos laterales
labelli conjungente medio producto truncato tridentato et denticulis re-
flexis posticé fornicato truncato bilobo. Brazil.—— Flowers pale yel-

low, with purple spots on the lip. :
5. P. rante (Modli. erhiniiion; Bot. Reg. sub fol. 1802.) ; een
nullis, foliis gramineis recurvis, perianthio campanulato, ne n gem
obtusis lateralibus paululum connatis, petalis re o cum
pede longè producto column articulato trilobo : lobis lateralibus semi-
ovatis acutis ascendentibus intermedio majore reniformi, tuberculo disei
magno.carnoso truncato posticé bilobo.——Guayana; Brazil, in the prov.
of Bahia.— Flowers pale yellow; banded with dull purple.

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Scuricarta, Flores ringentes anticé in mentum rotundatum
producti, expansi. Labellum continuum, membranaceum,
trilobum, medio tuberculatum. Columna semiteres.- 'Pol-
linia 4, per paria in glandulam utrinque acuminatam me-
dio dilatatam sessilia, extus angulata.——Rhizoma árti-
eulatum, ramosum, ebulbe. Folia flagelliformia.

1. S. Steelii (Maxill. Steelii, Bot. Mag. t. 3573. Bot. Reg. t. 1986.).——
Guayana. Flowers large, yellow, spotted with purple.

Warrea. Flores subglobosi, subregulares, mento brevi: ro-
tundato. Labellum continuum, indivisum, lineis elevatis
carnosis in medium. Columna semiteres, clavata. Polli-
nia 4, per paria in caudiculam brevem linearem inserta,
poda triangulari. —— Herba terrestris, pseudobulbosa.

olia arundinacea. Scapus radicalis elatus apice racemo-
sus. Flores magni speciosi.

1. Warrea tricolor (Maxill. Warreana, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1884. L. no: 30.) ;
Folia oblongo-lanceolata acuminata plicata, scapo radicali erecto vaginato
multifloro foliis longiore. Sepala ovata concava acuta basi subzequalia,
petális minoribus conformia ; labello brevissimé unguiculato obovato-ob-
longo indiviso cucullato obtuso jugis tribus in medio elevatis cárnosis,
superficie laminse seriatim corrugatä marginibus planis. Sepala fulvo-
lutea: lateralibus basi parüm insequalibus. Labellum basi luteum, apice
pallidum, medio purpureum, cum columna sub-articulatum. Brazil.

Parminia. Flores subregulares, expansi, petaloidei, párům
‘in mentum producti. Labellum parvum, unguiculatum,
tripartitum, glandulis filiformibus apice alibique obsitum.
Columna clavata, elongata, semiteres, apice auriculata.
Pollinia 4, per paria caudicule elongate apice setacez
affixa, glandulà minutä subtriangulari ; rostello subulato.

— — Herba pseudobulbosa, scapo pendulo paucifloro.

1. Paphinia eristata (Maxill. cristata, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1811.); flores
pulcherrimi extus albi, intus purpureo interrupte fasciati ; petalis apice
omnino purpureis. — Trinidad and Guayana,

Lvcasrr. Flores ringentes, petalis sepius dissimilibus, in
mentum breve producti. Labellum medio appendice trans-
verso carnoso integro v. emarginato auctum. Columna
elongata, semiteres, sepius pilosa. Pollinia 4, per paria
caudicule anguste elongate adnata; glandulá parva sub-
rotunda ; rostello subulato. —.— Herba pseudobulbose,
foliis plicatis. Scapi radicales, erecti, uniflori. Flores
semper speciosi bracteá magna spathaceá suffulti.

1. L. macrophylla (Maxill. macrophylla, Půppig. gen. pl. 1.1. 64. Bot. Reg.
1838, misc. 175.); bracteá herbaceä cucullatá acuta ovarii longitudine,

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sepalis oblongis undulatis patentibus apice recurvis basi intůs pilosis,
petalis erectis columná longioribus oblongis carnosis apice recurvis mar-
gine postico versus apicem sublobato, labello breviore oblongo concavo
apice trilobo : laciniá intermediä subrotundá crenata pilosá, appendice
lingueeformi concayo adnato inter lacinias laterales rotundatas incurvas,
antherä villosa. Peru. Flowers greenish, with a little purple on
the lip. According to Póppig it inhabits dry thickets.

2. L. plana (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. 96.) ; bracteá supremä ventri-
cosá cucullatä ovario longiore, sepalis oblongis planis basi in cornu brevi
conico connatis, petalis conformibus apice tantům recurvis, labelli tri-
lobi lobis lateralibus apice erenulatis intermedio subrotundo serrato callo
elevato obtuso obsoletě trilobo, columná pubescente, antherá villosa.

Peru.——Nearly allied to Lycaste macrophylla, of which it has
quite the habit. It differs in the petals being quite even not undulated,
and in the lateral sepals being much more exactly oblong; the tubercle
on the lip is also much more obtuse. In colour too they are different.
L. macrophylla has olive-green sepals, and petals almost colourless. L.
plana has the sepals a deep rich madder-red inside, and the petals are
richly tipped with erimson.

3. L, costata (Maxill. costata, Bot. Reg. 1838, misc. 175.); braeteá herbaceá
cucullatá acutá ovario multo longiore, sepalis petalisgue M. macrophylla
similibus, labello trilobo concayo laciniá intermediá rotundatä serratá,
appendice carnoso emarginato adnato 5-costato inter lacinias laterales,
antherá glabrá.———Peru.—— Quite with the habit of L. macrophylla,
but certainly distinct in the foregoing characters. Its colours are
unknown. A

4, L. lanipes; bracteá obtusá cucullatá ovarii longitudine, sepalis petalisque
oblongis elongatis, labelli leevis lobis lateralibus ovatis obtusis brevibus
intermedio oblongo obtuso basi serrato, tuberculo obtuso concavo costato
glabro, columne pede villoso.—— Guayaquil.——- Found by Mr. Hartweg
at Paccha, a village on the Andes, in the vicinity of Loxa, and sent to
the Horticultural Society. It has pale green flowers, two inches and a
half long before they expand, without a trace of any other colour. It
differs from L. costata in the flowers being much larger, while the bract
is not longer than the ovary; and from L. gigantea in the very short
bract, ribbed tubercle, and rounded not acuminate middle segment of
the lip. :

5. L. wis HS bracteá herbaceá sepalis subzequali, sepalis oblongo-lanceo-
latis lateralibus falcatis, petalis conformibus pauló minoribus, labello
lanceolato acuminato laciniis lateralibus acutis intermedia oyatá acumi-
natä serratä, appendice carnoso emarginato.—— Guayaquil. —— Flower-
ing stem more than two feet high, Sepals full three inches long; green
according to Hartweg.

6. L. Deppii (Maxill. Deppii, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1612. L. no. 24.); zer
foliis breviore: vaginis ventrieosis acuminatis, sepalis oblongo-lanceo
patentissimia, petalis minoribus oblongis undulatis eonniventibus, labello

cucullato 3-lobo apice recurvo in axi calloso margine piloso subcrenato ;
laciniis lateralibus rotundatis intermediá oblongá obtusä, callo elevato
ovato. —— Mexico. —Sepals green and chocolate. Petals white. Lip

ellow. ;

7, L. Skinneri (Maxill. Skinneri, Bateman in Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. 13.) ;
bracteá herbaceů acutA cucullatà ovario mult longiore, sepalis patentibus

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Columnam convolutis apicibus reflexis; labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus
erectis truncatis, intermedio longiore ovato rotundato deflexo, appendice
carnosá linguseformi inter lacinias laterales locatä; columná subtus pu-
bescente Guatemala. The flowers measure upwards of six inches
across, from the tips of the lateral sepals, while the latter are nearly an
inch and half wide in the broadest part. The sepals are pure white,
faintly tinged with crimson at the base ;—the petals of a more rosy hue;
the lip is almost covered with spots and streaks of the most brilliant car-
mine. The column is pure white at the apex, and mottled with crimson
spots at the base ; while a number of woolly hairs are scattered on its
under side.

8. L. aromatica (Maxill. aromatica, Hooker Ex. Flor. t. 219. L. no. 20. Bot.
Reg. t. 1871. Colax aromaticus, Spreng.) ; vaginis distantibus obtusis
cucullatis ; sepalis ovato-oblongis petalisgue conformibus acutis, labelli
semicylindracei sepalis «equalis laciniis lateralibus acuminatis obtusis
intermediá cuneatä apice serrulatä; appendice magná concavá carnosá
truncata, column facie villosä.-— Mexico. —— The flowers yellowish-
orange, scarcely spotted even inside the lip, which has two rows.of hairs
along its inner face.

9. L. cruenta (Maxill. cruenta, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842. t. 13.); pedunculis
raró bifloris, vaginis distantibus obtusis cucullatis, sepalis ovatis obtusis
lateralibus basi parům productis, petalis minoribus conformibus, labello
sepalis dupló breviore concavo trilobo laciniis rotundatis intermedia
crispá pubescente: tuberculo parvo plano, columná pubescente.
Guatemala. ——Resembles L. aromatica, but its leaves are broader; the
flowers are four times as large when in health; the lip has quite a dif-
ferent form, with a deep crimson blotch at its base, and is not half the
length of the sepals; the middle lobe is rounded not unguiculate, and has
only a small tubercle in the middle instead of the large concave appen-
dage that occurs in L. aromatica.

With regard to the species that belong to true Maxillaria,
now that it has been weeded of these species, I must take
another opportunity of examining them.

21. HEXADESMIA fasciculata.
Ad. Brongn. in Ann. des Sciences, xvii. p. 44.

This plant has flowered in the garden of the Horticultural
Society, where it has been saved out of a collection formed
by Mr. Hartweg at Quezaltenango in Guatemala. It has
small green flowers of no beauty, and the habit of Epiden-
drum clavatum.

22. ONCIDÍUM suave.

O. suave; pseudobulbis ovatis compressis utringue bicostatis, foliis mem-
branaceis lineari-oblongis canaliculatis acutissimis, paniculá elongatä
ramosá, sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis acutis undulatis revolutis,

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labelli lobis Jateralibus rotundatis intermedio transverso apiculato mino-
ribus, tuberculo pubescente anticé 5-lobo apice bidentato, columne alis
rotundatis denticulatis.

A. Mexican species, from the nursery of Messrs. Loddiges,
very near O. reflexum. The flowers are much smaller; the
sepals and petals chocolate colour, tipped with yellow ; the
lip yellow, with a cinnamon-brown middle. The wings of
the column are yellow. It has a faint and agreeable odour.
It was sent to Messrs. Loddiges by Deppe in the year 1835.

23. ONCIDÍUM sphegiferum.

O. sphegiferum ; paniculá ramosá divaricatá, sepalis distinctis acutis, petalis
retusis, labelli lobo intermedio bilobo transversé oblongo unguiculato
lateralibus serratis subeequalibus, tuberculo villoso ovato pulvinato, co-

lumnee alis firmis rotundatis.

A Brazilian species, intermediate as it were between On-
cidium divaricatum and pulvinatum, of which it has quite the
appearance and colour: it is however clearly distinguished
by the lateral lobes of the lip being serrated, and by the
rounded firm purple wings of the columm. Flowered with

Messrs. Loddiges.
24. EPIDENDRUM cubense.

E. cubense (Encyclium) ; pseudobulbis teretibus elongatis, foliis rigidis hori-
zontalibus subsequilongis angusté ovalibus scapo debili paucifloro duplö
brevioribus, bracteis minimis, sepalis petalisque conniventibus lineari-
lanceolatis, labello obovato apiculato lineis tribus ramentaceis in medio,

clinandrio glabro.

A Cuba plant, rare, delicate, and beautiful. Imported by
Messrs. Loddiges. The pseudobulbs are two inches long ;
the scape six inches high ; the flowers white, with a li folded
up, white at the end, yellow in the middie, and purple, as ıs
the column, near the base.

25. ODONTOGLOSSUM constrictum.

O. constrietum ; paniculä laxá basi foliosá, sepalis petalisgue expansis lineari
lanceolotis acuminatis, labello medio consfrieto: hypochilio oblongo, .
epichilio subpandurato cuspidato serrato basi lamellis 2 serratis aucto,

columná bicirrhosá. e fe
A native of La Guayra, with the habit of Oncidium spha-
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celatum or some such plant. The flowers are yellow spotted
with brown, except the lip which is white stained with violet.
We have received it from Mr. Rucker, who first flowered it,
and from Broughton Hall.

26. CYCNÖCHES pentadactylon.

C. pentadactylon ; racemo brevi strieto, sepalis petalisgue lanceolatis reflexis
supremo incurvo, labelli unguiculati margine revoluto dorso adnato hy-
pochilio cornu recto incuryo aucto, metachilio 4-lobo medio foveato la-
ciniis 2 posticis obtusis carnosis incurvis anticis subulatis, epichilio lin-
guiformi acuto leevi.

This singular species has in some respects so much the
appearance of C. maculatum, that when I first received it
from Mr. Veitch of Exeter, in March last, I hesitated whether
to regard it as a variety or a distinct species. A plant, ob-
tained from Brazil direct by Messrs. Loddiges (Cat. no. 890)
has decided me in regarding it as the latter. It has a short
raceme of much larger greenish yellow flowers with broad
chocolate-brown blotches, and its lip is quite remarkable,
having 5 finger-like lobes, and no more, instead of the lateral
comb-like fringes of C. maculatum. Itis a very curious thing.

27. PITTOSPÖRUM bicolor.
Hooker in Journ. of Botany, vol. 1. p. 249.

_ This small shrub requires the greenhouse, being a native
of Van Diemen's Land, whence its seeds were sent by Mr.
James Backhouse. It has lately flowered in the collection of
John Willmore, Esq. of Oldfield near Birmingham, and
proves to be a plant of little beauty, with small dingy choco-
late coloured flowers, and deep green leaves silvery underneath.

28. BERBERIS pallida.
Hartweg in Bentham Pl. Hartweg. p. 34. No. 271.

“ This beautiful addition to our collection of half-hardy
evergreen shrubs was raised in the garden of Sir Charles
Lemon, Bart. M.P. at Carclew in 1831, from seeds received
from Mr. John Rule of the Real del Monte Mines, Mexico,
and flowered for the first time in January 1843. It has been

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hitherto grown in a pot in a cold frame, and seems impatient
of much heat, from which I suspect it to be a native of high
lands, and that it will ultimately prove as hardy as the well
known Berberis glumacea, or B. fascicularis. To the latter it
may be said to have some resemblance, but is less prickly and
compact in its foliage, which is of a thinner texture with

‘longer foot-stalks. Stem erect, round, pale brown, slightly

striated, becoming of a deep reddish brown colour near the
extremity of the shoots. Leaves consisting of from 2 to 4 pair
of leaflets, but generally they seem to be 3-paired, ovate-acu-
minate, about 24 inches long, and an inch broad, thin and
rigid, of a bright shining green, excepting the margin which
is a pale yellow, and furnished with moderately long, sharp,
brownish spines. ‘The leaflets themselves are almost sessile,
attached to a round, wiry, deep green footstalk, varying from
6 inches to a foot in length, swelling at the base and flattened
so as to embrace the stem. Flowers produced on a round
slender raceme, 9 inches long and of a brownish red colour,
bearing on its upper half a dozen or more gracefully drooping,
pale, straw-coloured globular flowers, each half an inch in dia-
meter, and suspended by a very slender pedicell, about an
inch long, with two minute acuminate bracts in the middle,
and another somewhat larger at the base. Sepals of 12 divi-
sions, roundish concave, pale yellow, arranged in four rows
alternately round the base of the ovarium,—the outer row
much smaller than the rest. Petals considerably narrower
than the sepals, more erect and of deeper colour, as well as
slightly cut at the margin. Filaments of the same colour as
the petals, and rather more than half their length, somewhat
curved and flattened at the extremity so as to give the anther
the appearance of being split into two distinct bodies. Ova-
rium erect, nearly round and thick in proportion to its height,
with a pale green stigma. Berries (globose, apparently
purple.—J. Z.)”

For this communication, and a drawing of the plant itself,
we are indebted to Mr. W. B. Booth. This species proves to
be the B, pallida of Hartweg, found at La Majada, San Jose
del Oro, cago: Cardonal, and Atotonilco el Grande in
the north-east of Mexico; so that we conclude the species to
about as hardy as Berberis fascicularis. It is at present a plant
of extreme rarity, the two specimens at Carclew and one in
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know, all that exist in this country. It is a valuable addition
to the Ash-leaved Berberies, or Mahonias as some call them,
and is by no means unlike B. tenuifolia, from which however
it differs in the leaflets being spiny toothed.

THE BALSAM POPLARS.

The hardiness and beauty of many of these trees render
their history of considerable interest to planters, especially as
it appears that much confusion exists respecting their real
names. We therefore extract from the Gartenzeitung the fol-
lowing revision of them by Dr. Fischer of St. Petersburgh.

29. Poputus balsamifera, L. (in part) and of all authors
except Pallas; Mich. Arb. Forest., de U Amer. sept. vol. 2.
t. 98. f.1. Du Ham. Arb. ed. fol. vol. 9. t. 50. Spach in
Ann. de Soc. Nat. vol. 15. p. 33. Loudon Arb. Brit. 3.
p- 1673. (in part).

Tree large, pyramidal, quick growing, bright green, with
round ash-coloured branches, thick when adult ; buds swollen,
abounding in balsam (resin), smelling like rhubarb.

Stipules acute, spreading, balsamiferous.

Petioles in full grown trees long, half the length of the
blade of the leaf, roundish, with a complete open furrow, most
sballow at its apex, on the strong young shoots much the
shortest for the length of the blade.

Leaves erect, spreading, flat, variously shaped ; in adult
trees oblong, acuminate, generally somewhat contracted for a
short distance at the base, never cordate; three or five-
nerved, lateral nerves much slenderer, sometimes triple-
nerved ; margin crenated, crenatures flat, in the larger leaves
sometimes double, in others almost obsolete, having a gland
beneath the apex. Leaves otherwise smooth, coriaceous,
bright green and shining above, pale green and opaque be-
neath ; veins when old rust-coloured, coarsely reticulated ;
those of the strong root-shoots very much elongated, with the
base ovate, sometimes slightly cordate, elongate-oblong, acu-
minate, nearly always somewhat triple-nerved.

N.B. This is the common North American Tacamahac
Poplar, long since introduced to Europe, and remarkable for
the quantity of suckers it throws up all round the stem.

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30. Popuzus tristis, Fisch. P. candicans, of some gardens,
and perhaps of Willdenow.

Tree middle sized, distorted, with a black and almost
mournful aspect; brancheg terete, thick, dark brown ; buds
swollen, yielding balsam abundantly, resin smelling like
rhubarb.

Stipules acute, spreading, balsamiferous.

Petioles in adult trees long, weaker and laxer than in the
allied species, with an open furrow passing to their apex,
where it is depressed and dilated, often equal to half the
length of the blade of the leaves.

Leaves in consequence of the weakness of the petioles lax,
somewhat pendulous, less flat than in the preceding, and often
more or less concave and waved, ovate, generally cordate,
acuminate, with the point less elongated and acute than in
the preceding species, with the base at the insertion of the
petiole frequently very slightly cuneate ; oblong and sometimes
oblong-lanceolate leaves are occasionally found mixed with
the rest. Basal nerves fine; lateral ones much slenderer ;
margin of the leaves coarsely crenate ; crenatures sometimes
double, sometimes incurved, never so indistinct as in the pre-
ceding species. Leaves smooth, particularly coriaceous and
strong, above shining, dark green, beneath whitish green,
opague, much reticulated, and when old rust-coloured.

Leaves of young trees, like those on the branches of adult
ones, but larger, more cordate, with large crenatures.

N.B. Willdenow’s description of Populus candicans an-
swers very well to this tree. Its dark, almost black green
leaves, with their loose drooping position, distinguish the
plant even at a distance. No species abounds so much in
balsam. It is to all appearance of American origin.

31. PopuLus longifolia, Fisch.

Trees when young elegantly pyramidal, intensely green ;
branches upright, spreading erectly, terete, dark brown ; buds
swollen, with an abundant resin, which smells of rhubarb.

Stipules spreading, acute, balsamiferous.
Petioles six times shorter than the blade of the leaf, strong,

roundish, with an open furrow passing from the base to the
apex. 3

Leaves erect, flat, oblong-lan
ally attenuated towards the apex W

ceolate or lanceolate, gradu-
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base sometimes acute ; five-nerved ; primary veins of the blade
remarkably incurved; margin closely crenated ; crenatures
glandular ; above intense but bright green, beneath paler,
and with fine reticulations. —

Leaves on young trees lanceolate and feather-nerved.

N.B. I have met with several young trees of this in the
Gorenki gardens at Moscow, where nothing was known of
their origin. The beautiful pyramidal form of this plant
when 18 to 20 feet high, and its very short leafstalks, are
remarkable features.

32. PoruLus candicans, Hort. Kew? Mich. Arb. Forest.
t. 98. f. 2. Spach. l. c. p. 33.

Tree subpyramidal, with bright green round branches,
which in adult trees are stout and brown; heads swollen,
abounding in resin smelling like rhubarb.

Stipules spreading, acute, balsamiferous.

Petioles of adult trees long, equal to half the length of the
blade of the leaf, often longer, with a very open furrow run-
ning from the base to the apex.

Leaves spreading, flat, and slightly cordate at the base,
broadly ovate or ovate-orbicular, shortly acuminate, delicately
five-nerved, deeply and flatly crenated ; crenatures connecting
a minute gland, which is sometimes obliterated, ovate-oblong
and even somewhat rhomboid leaves occur ; otherwise all are
coriaceous, above bright green and shining, beneath paler and

opaque, with very slender reticulations hardly even when old
rust-coloured.

Leaves on young trees unknown.

N.B. This tree occurs here and there planted about St.
Petersburgh.

33. Poputus pseudo-balsamifera, Fisch.

Tree large, pyramidal, bright green; branches terete,
somewhat fastigiate, but also graceful in adult trees ; buds
slender, varnished with but a little balsam which smells
slightly.

Stipules, in living specimens not seen, in dried ones appa-
rently adpressed.

Petioles long, scarcely shorter than the blade of the leaves,
roundish, slender, with an open furrow extending from the
base to the apex.

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Leaves spreading, flat, in adult trees ovate, or roundish
ovate, shortly acuminate, sometimes slightly cordate, not
rarely somewhat cuneate at the base, five-nerved, often with
an additional pair of slender nerves, closely and slightly cre-
nated ; crenatures covering very minute glands ; above bright
green, beneath whiter, minutely reticulated.

Leaves on young trees in a less degree, but by no means
shortly petiolated, ovate, oblong.

N.B. Found planted about St. Petersburgh and Moscow,
and supposed to be of foreign introduction. Probably Ame-
rican.

34. Poputus laurifolia, Ledeb. fl. Alt. vol. iv .p. 297, $c.
t.479. P. balsamifera, Pall. flor. Ross. t. 41. fig. 13. Spach.
l. c. p. 33.

Tree tall, pyramidal, bright green ; branches very angular,
grey, in adult trees stoutish. Buds swollen, yielding a balsam
smelling of storax.

Stipules erect, mucronate, balsamiferous.

Petioles at the lower end roundish, compressed towards
the apex, with a very narrow furrow, short, those of the
cordate leaves generally shorter, and of the oblong-lanceolate
leaves larger ; from half to six times shorter than the blade of
the leaves.

Leaves flat, sometimes oblong, even, lanceolate-oblong, and
attenuate at the base, sometimes ovate-oblong, rounded or
cordate at the base, acuminate, acute, triple-nerved, often with
an additional pair of nervures at the sides, closely and minutely
crenated ; crenatures remarkably glandular ; bright green, be-
neath paler, not opaque, reticulated, tolerably firm. Third rib
but little dilated towards the insertion of the petiole. Leaves
of young trees stronger and often undulated.

N.B. A specimen brought by Mardovkin from the Altai
regions had perfectly and broadly’ ovate leaves (almost like
Hibiscus syriacus), five-nerved, coarsely crenated. It was
first introduced by Ledebour from that country. It stands
the hardest frost.

- 85. PoruLus suaveolens, Fisch. P. balsamifera, Pall. flor.
Ross. t. 61. principal figures and letters, $c.

Tree with us middle sized pyramidal, in Dahuria, according

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round, grey, in adult trees thick. Buds somewhat swollen,
abounding in balsam smelling like storax.

Stipules obtuse, adpressed, balsamiferous.

Petioles short, from one third to one-sixth the length of
the blade of the leaf, flattish above with a very open furrow.

Leaves spreading-erect, extremely variable in form ; ob-
long, somewhat roundish-rhomboid, oval, ovate-elliptic, or
ovate ; apex more or less acute; base rounded, sometimes
slightly and perfectly, at others broadly cordate ; leaves five-
nerved, often seven-nerved, with the mid-rib dilated towards
the setting-off of the nervures above the base; closely and mi-
nutely crenated, crenatures glandular, often double; smooth,
above opague and green, beneath whitish green, not entirely
void of brightness, reticulated.

Leaves on suckers often lanceolate, sometimes tapering to
each end, feather-nerved.

N.B. The grey aspect of this species renders it impossible
to mistake it; besides which there is its strong odour of storax,
especially in the spring. It inhabits the eastern part of Si-
beria. I do not know whether the Balsam poplar of the
Kamtchadales is this or some other species. A single twig
collected by Langsdorff between Ochotsk and Irkutsch has
larger leaves and more slender leaf-stalks than the Davurian
plant.— Gartenzeitung, Dec. 18, 1841.

36. MAXILLÄRIA acutipetala.

Hooker in Bot. Reg. t. 3966.

M. acutipetala ; pseudo-bulbis oblongo-ovatis angulatis diphyllis, foliis Into-
linearibus acutis, scapis radicalibus uni-bifloris, sepalis petalisgue ob-
longis acutis patentibus subconformibus, labello oblongo trilobo centro
striato basigue lineis*elevatis subguingue, lobis lateralibus brevibus co-
lumnam involventibus intermedio acuto reflexo. Hooker, l. c.

_ According to Sir William Hooker this species, although
allied on the one hand to M. tenuifolia and on the other to
M. picta, is abundantly distinct from both. It was collected
in Central America by Mr. Barclay, a gardener attached to
the Sulphur surveying ship, and has flowered in the Botanic
Garden, Kew. It is very near M. picta. The flowers are
pale orange, spotted and blotched with blood colour. The
petals are smaller, but of nearly the same shape and colour as
the sepals. The lip is of a paler colour below, but coloured
and spotted like the other parts. The column is deep red purple.

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37. LISSOCHILUS roseus.

(Dendrobium roseum, Swartz. in Persoon synops. p. 528.)

L. roseus ; foliis lato-lanceolatis erectis plicatis, scapo squamis lanceolatis
acutis membranaceis distantibus vaginato, racemo denso oblongo, brac-
teis ovatis acuminatis ovario brevioribus, sepalis spathulatis acutis con-
cavis reflexis, petalis oblongis apiculatis, labelli trilobi lobis rotundatis
intermedio emarginato cum mucrone, disco lamellis tribus undulatis :
serrulatis tuberculo parvo utrinque.

A very remarkable terrestrial Orchidaceous plant, im-
ported by Sigismund Rucker, Esq. from Sierra Leone. It
has large plaited leaves, and rich rose-coloured flowers in a
close raceme at the end of a scape between three and four feet
high. Although the other species of the genus have flowers
in which yellow is the predominant colour, this has scarcely
any trace of it except in the middle of the lip. We shall take
an early opportunity of figuring it.

38. DENDROBÍUM Ruckeri.

D. Ruckeri ; caulibus teretibus, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis planis, flo-
ribus gemellis, sepalis patulis obtusiusculis convexis margine reflexis
lateralibus subtriangularibus, labelli trilobi lobis rotundatis intermedio
undulato axi elevatä villosä.

A Manilla (?) plant, which has lately flowered with Mr.
Rucker. It is sweet-scented, handsome, and distinguished
by its clear yellow nankin-coloured flowers, the lip of which
is a little stained with rose-colour.

39. CLOWESIA rosea.

We have lately received from the Rev. John Clowes, a
most zealous cultivator of Orchidaceous plants, specimens of
a Brazilian species with the habit of a Catasetum, but with a
structure quite different from that of any genus yet described.
Its flowers have the chin of the Maxillaridous division, but
they differ entirely from all the genera belonging to it in the
peculiar structure of the pollen-masses and of the petals.
To these points, however, we do not now advert more particu-
larly, because we hope soon to have the opportunity of pub-
lishing a figure of the plant. The technical characters by
which it is to be recognized by Botanists are the following.
CLowEsra. Flos subglobosus, patulus. Sepala sub-sequalia ; lateralia pauld

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obliqua, in mentum breve producta, basibus connatis. - Petala conformia,
latiora, fimbriata. Labellum concavum, carnosum, cum labello conti-
nuum nec articulatum, obsoleté trilobum, margine in fimbriam glandu-
losam laceram solutum, disco leve. Columna semiteres, clavata, utrin-
que apice obtusa cornuta ; clinandrio alto carnoso serrato. Stigma:
sinus transversalis. Pollinia 2, linearia, dorso sulcata, glandulà subro-
tundá, caudiculá membranacea clepsydreeformi !
Sp. 1. Clowesia rosea.

The account which Mr. Clowes's gardener gives of the ap-
pearance of the plant, which I have not yet seen, is this. Pseudo-
bulb 24 inches long, ovate, and tapering to a point, covered
with a thin brownish white sheathing ; each pseudo-bulb has
two or three small dark brown bands, which entirely surround
it, and are apart from each other about half an inch. Leaves
three, resting on the summit, seven inches long and one
inch across, lanceolate, ovate, and acuminate, at the point
twisting a little on one side. Both leaves and pseudo-bulbs
are in the way of Catasetum ; it wasimported a few years ago
from the interior of Brazil. The scape rises from the apex
of the pseudo-bulb.

40. CROCUSES.

For the following enumeration of all the known species
of this interesting genus the Editor is much indebted to the
Hon. and Very Rev. Dr. Herbert, Dean of Manchester.

CROCORU M SYNOPSIS.

* 1. Numi; 2 e. scapi involucro obsoleto. (Vidi in nudis raró
involucri obsoleti rudimentum. )

S 1. Membranacei; cormi tunicá pracipuá membranaceá.

1. Annulatus; Herbert. (Vel, si mavis; $ Annulati. 1. Biflorus. 2. Pu-
sillus. 3. Adamicus. 4. Chrysanthus.) Flore verno; tunicarum vagi-
nacearum basi annulatà persistente, foliaceà exteriore durà infra medium
cormum affixá, spathee bracteá tubatà, perianthii fauce luteá, stigmatibus
subtruncatis.

A; foliorum et coste dorsalis margine ciliato, filamentis et fauce pubescentibus.

Var. 1. Adamicus; C. Adami, Gay Bull. Fer.25. 219. Bot. Mag.
3868. Vaginis pallidis, limbo ceeruleo-violaceo sepalis extus saturate
5-7 -plumeo-striatis, seminibus pallidé subpurpurascentibus. Tauria
et Iberia. Variat limbo magis aut minüs ex subviolaceo coerulescente.

Var. 2 Biflorus; Miller. Vaginis lutescentibus, limbo subalbido
sepalis extus stramineis 5-striatis, foliorum margine crasso recurvo,
scapo interdum (vidi) bifloro furcato.

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Subvar. 1. Princeps. Supra 845. passim in hortis. In solo rufescente,
circa sinum Saronicum, teste Bory, Voy. d. Mor. Specimen 5-stri-
atum orientale, Pallas Herb. Sp. 5-striatum, minus, ex summis
Cypri et Cretee jugis. spec. Sibthorp.: Perperam vernus B. Smith
Pr. Fl. Gr.

Subvar. 2. Stigmatosus, Sabine ; limbo subpurpurascente mox albe-
scente sepalis 5-striatis, stylo elongato.

B; foliis leevibus, canaliculis dorsalibus enervibus, filamentis vix sub lente
pubescentibus.

Var. 3. Pusillus; Tenore. Vaginis albescentibus, fol. canaliculis vix
nervatis, ciliis et pube filam. fere obsoletis, styli lobis antheras
superantibus.

Subvar. 1. Tenorianus ; minimus limbo albo sepalis extus strami-
neis 3-striatis petala superantibus. S. Rocco prope Neapolim.

Subvar. 2. Argenteus. (C. minimus, perperam, Bot. Mag. 2994. fig.
malè coloratá. C. argenteus, Sabine, Hort. Soc. T. 7. 431.) Major
limbo subpurpurascente (variat. pallidiore, sepalis extus stram. 3-stri.

, petala superantibus.) Pisa; variat aliquantulum in solo Romano.

. Spec. ex Caucaso, Prescott.

Subvar. 3. Cerulescens; Argenteo major, limbo intus subceeruleo.
Ossolone prepe Neapolim. Variat. acutior pallidior tubo purpureo.

Subvar. 4. Lincatus; Jan. (C. biflorus Parkinsoni, Sabine.) Argenteo
major limbo albo sepalis stram. 3-stri. Prope Parmam ; ipse non
vidi.

Subvar. 5. Estriatus; Herbert. (Biflorus Bot. Reg. 1987.) Limbo
purpureo petalis sepala extus stram. non striata superantibus, fauce
aurantiacá, bracteà tenuiore loratä. Seminibus sub-badiis. Si mavis

Crocus estriatus. Prope Florentiam.—Spec. prope Tiflim lect. *
Herb. Hooker?—Sp. Orientale Pallas herb.? Ud
Subvar. 6.2 Albidus? foliis angustis, limbo albo (in fallor in siccis,
estriato) sepalis petala obtusiora styli lobis antheras superantibus.
Spec. Pallas herb.—Ex Taurià Herb. Hooker. Ex Sylv. Bononien-
sibus, ib.
Var. pall. violacea in coll. Bucari in
Anth. Ion.
C. Perianthio aureo ; cormi tunicis foliaceis duris circumscissis superne cus-
pidatis; semine, foliorum margine canaliculis et basi, ignotis.
Var. 4. Chrysanthus; Herbert ex sicco (nisi per se C. chrysanthus)
Í athá et bracteá tubum aureum amplexis

une. aureo, petalis obtusioribus sepala, stylí
Byzantium sub nomine C.

Corcyrá m. Mar. et Apr. flor.

barbatá pallidě lutescente limbo cœ-
viov sis, fol. costa deflexé

reo-rufo-brunneis.

Var. 1. Caucasicus; ib. C. speciosug, M. von Bieb. non Wilson,
neque Reichenbach. Cormo minore gemmá szeplus unica, spathá
uniflorá, stigmatibus patulo-multifidis, Ke. Variat. stigmatibus pau-

cifidis ex Karabagh, Variat. fortuito limbo albo. Prope Tifflim.

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Var. 2. Transylvanicus ; ib. (Bot. Reg. 25. 40. icone nimis rube-
scente.) Cormo magno plurigemmato, spathä biflorá, stigmatibus
fasciculato-multifidis. Lx Transylvanid.

Var. 3. Laxior; ib. Stigmatibus laxiüs effusis. Patrid incertá;
Caucaso vel Taurid? C. speciosus etiam montem Athonem inco-
lere dicitur.

3. Pulchellus; Herbert. Ex sicco (nisi sit C. speciosus, pulchellus, var.)
Fl. autumnali, cormo inter crocos minimo unigemmato unifloro tunicis
tenuibus basi feré circumscissis, spathä occulta bracteà (ni fallor, tubatá)
spatham vix sequante, tubo gracili 24 uncias exertá, limbo unciali coeru-
lescente unciali (fauce in sicco aurantiacà) stigmatibus longis paucifidis
antheras superantibus. Prope Byzantium Montbret legit. Ex con-
Jecturá med in ** forestá de Belgrade? guesitus, operá benevolá dom J.
Cartwright nuperrim? inventus et effosus est, cormo unciam sub terrá
latente. Vivos nondum accepi.

4. Tournefortianus; Gay, Bull. Fer. 25. 220. Ex sicco. Fl. autumn. ceeru-
lescente violac. striato, tunicis tenuissimis basi demum in fibras solutis,
foliaceis leevissimis supra med. affix. bracteá loratä, stigm. prof. multifi-
dis. In Cycladibus. Ipse non vidi.

5. Sibthorpianus; Herbert. (nisi sit reverä C. Tournefortiani autum. var.)
Perperam C. vernus, Smith Prod.—Spec. ex summis Crete et Cypri
jugis ; Sibth. herb. Oxon. Fl. verno? c. tunicis tenuibus nitidis demum
basi laceré circumscissis, spathis 1-2 unifloribus, bracteá latá tubum sub
sequante, limbo (subccerulescente ?) saturatius striato, stigmatibus tenui-
bus antheras vix aut non zquantibus. Cormum integrum non vidi.

Var. 1. latifolius; foliis media parte latioribus.
Var. 2. angustifolius ; fol. ang. linearibus; limbo minore.

§ 2. Squammati; tunicà sguammatá.

6. Leevigatus ; Bory. V. d. Mor. cum ic.— Spec. Sibth. herb. Oxon. perpe-
ram C. vernus, Smith, ex Cretá aut Cypro. Fl. verno, c. tun. duris
levibus enervibus infra squammeeformiter laceris, spathis sub-4 uniflori-
bus germ. feré exerto, spatham bracteamque tubo parum superante limbo
subalbido sepalis extus purpurá tristriatis, (fauce in sicco aurantiacà)
foliis angustis. In insuld Cythno (hod. Thermia ) et Milonis parte occi-
dentali juga schistosa tenet.

§ 3. Parallelo-fibrosi ; tunicarum fibris parallelis.

7. Boryanus ; fl. aut. tun. leevibus foliac. exter. infra med. affixà, germ. va-
ginas subzeq. foliis angustis, spathá bracteäque loratà acutis sequalibus,
tubo et fauce luteis, limbo 13 unc. lacteo, stigm. multifidis exasperatis
antheras aeg. vel. super.

Var. Graius; C. Boryi, Gay B. F. 25. 220. Bory. V. d. M. cum ic.
Tubo semunciam exerto. In Peloponeso in solo rufescente prope
Modon et Navarino, in Monte Eno hodie Montagna Nera, Cepha-
lonensi Oct. Nov. floridus.

Var. Caspius ; C. Caspius, Fischer M.S. cum spec. Lenxovan. Herb.
Hooker. Tubo 24 uncias exerto.

8. Lagenzeflorus ; Bot. Mag. 3869. Fl. verno, tun. vag. int. prope basin af-
fixá non circumscissá, foliac. exter. membranaceá temere circiter medium

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scepe obliqué affixá, fol. margine et costa ciliatis, spathá laxá capsulam
persistenter obvolvente bracteá loratá vél obsoletá, fil. pubescentibus
brevibus, antheris apice divaricatis stylum pallidum subsuperantibus ;
limbo circ. 14 unc. fauce luteá, capsulá oblongá seminibus purpureo-
brunneis.

Var. 1. Aureus; Smith P. Fl Gr. 1. 24.— Par. Lond. y. 106.
Engl. Bot. 2646. Bot. Mag. 2986, In Cycladibus in arenosis supra
argillam.

Subvar. 1. Trilineatus ; striis tribus externis ; fortuitus.

Subvar. 2. Sulphurascens ; sulphureo concolore pallidior ; fortuitus.

Subvar. 3. Albus; spathá bracteatá vel ebracteatá, fortuitus.

Var. 2. Lacteus ; pube filam. fortiore, folior. feré obsoletá, spathá
ebracteatá, stylo albescente. Nisi diversus sit, nomen Candidus
prioritate valet,

‘Subvar. 1. Concolor; Sabine Hort. S. Tr. v. 7. Meesiacus p. Bot.

Mag. 1111. Albo simillimus. Hab. incert. Huc forsan referen-
dus est C. Candidus fol. lanc. lin. fl. brevioribus, stigm. antheras
subaeg. profundissimě multipartitis, radicum tunicá fibroso-costatä,
corolle lac. ellipticis. In monte Gargaro m. Maio flor. Clarke
Trav. 1812.

Subvar. 2. Pennicillatus; Sabine S. T. v. 7. Bot. M. 2645. Limbo
lacteo sepalis ad basim lineis 3 coeruleis. Hab. incert.

Subvar. 3. Lutescens; Bot. Mag. 3869. Limbo pallidě, fauce satur.
luteis. Hab. incert. In agro. Suffolciano apud nos inventus, ubi
C. aureus fort? crescit.

Var. 3. Sulphureus; foliis strictis, spathà bracteata, limbo sulphu-
rascente fauce aureá (antheris apud nos senio sterilibus) spathä
bracteatä.

Subvar. 1. Concolor ; Bot. Mag. 1384.

Subvar. 2. Pallidus; Sabine Hort. S. T. v. 7.

Subvar. 3. Striatus; Sepalis extus striatis. Bot. Mag. 938.

Var. 4. Stellaris; Haworth. Tunicä vaginaceá interiore parallelo-
fibrosá, proximá tenuiter membranaceá basi crassá persistente, fo-
liaceá exter. duriore nitidá obliqué sulcatá supra med. affixá. limbo
aureo sepalis et tubo extus striatis, spathá antheris foliis ut in pree-
cedente. Habit. incert. er

Var. 5.? Syriacus ; tunicis pallidébadiis nitidis vaginaceá interiore
basi lacerá superne leviter parallelo-fibrosá, foliaceis superne sul-
catis exteriore cire. medio proximá prope med. affixa, bracteä loratä,
tubo purpurá striato, limbo vix unciali aureo sepalis extus plu-
meo-histriatis, folis angustis. Spec. ex Syrid prope Aleppo,
Russell, Herb. Banks.

Var. 6.? Luteus; Lam. Enc. 6. 385. Bot. Mag. 45. C. meesi-

acus, Ker Consule Bot. Mag. 3869. p. 3. Habit. inc. Forsan in
Hemo, vel inter Bolim et Gherizam, vel in Cycladibus orientalibus

inveniendus. : :
Var. 7. ? Olivieranus; Gay Bull. de Fer. 25. 219. ex sicco. Tunicä
vaginaceá exter. ut in aureo et luteo, foliaceis levissimis supra
medium affixis, foliorum basibus liberis, bracteä loratä, stigmatibus

4-Gexasperatis. Ipse non vidi. Hab. in insuld Chio.

C. lagenzfloro forsan adjiciendi sunt C. flavus scriptoris anon. Anthol. Ion.

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Corcyre in collibus Cephalse Ypso, Feb. Apr. et C. sulphureus ib. supra
portum Cullura et in incultis Cato-Garune.

9. Campestris ; Herbert ; Bot. Mag. 3864. ad calcem. Pallas M.S. Herb.

10.

11.

13.

Serotinus? malé Ker in Syn. B. Mag, 1267. C. hybernus Fridwalski.
Flore autumnali sero, cormo unigemmato 1 rariüs 2-floro, t. vag. int.
confertim subparallelo-fibrosá prope basin aff. foliaceis tenuiter retic.
superne setosis ext. infra med. proximá paulló supra aff. bracteá (ni
fallor) tubatá, limbo gris. coeruleo (in sicco) sepalis majoribus, stigma-
tibus truncatis. Vivum non vidi. Ni fallor in sicco, differt a Byzan-
tino, quem neque siccum vidi, spathd nudá bracteatá et tun. foliac. ext.
infra medium affixd ; cert Byzantino affinis.

$ 4. Reticulati ; tunicá precipuá reticulata.

Cancellatus; Herbert. Flore autumn. vel sstivo ; c. 1-2-floro t. latě
retic. demum cribrosis foliac. sup. setosis [scapo, ni fallor in siccó, nudo
et spathä bracteatä] tubo sup. nudo flavescente, limbo purpureo ad basim
striato. Vivum non vidi.

V. 1. Kotschianus ; minor limbo circ. 12 unc. In Syriá.

V. 2. Naupliensis ; major limbo cire. 13. Oct. prope Naupliam.

Reticulatus; M. v. Bieb.—Bot. Mag. 3865. ad calcem.—Malé Susianus
Bot. Mag. 652. prope Susam non inventus. Fl. verno : c. tun. vagin.
int.depereunte, foliac. reticulatis exteriore cribrosá prope basim aff. inferne
apiculatě circumscissá, proximä sup. med. ceteris gradatim altiůs, fol.
costä ciliatá, spatham bracteá tubatá subzq. limbi fauce et fil. leevibus,
petalis inf. subfusco notatis ; seminibus obscuré badiis.

Var. 1. Reflexus ; Susianus, Bot. Mag. 652. C. fulvus, Pallas herb.
Limbo aureo sepalis revolutis extus fusco-purpureo striatus aut suf-
fusus. Odessa; Caucasus.

Var. 2. Rectilimbus ; Similis, sepalis non revolutis, sed depressis.
Hab. incert, In hortis.

Var. 3. Immaculatus. C. fulvus, Pallas herb.— Spec. ex Byz. herb.
Hooker forsan ad Gargaricum referendum est.

Var. 4. Fariegatus; Hornsch. et Hoppe ; foliis minüs strictis, scapo
elongato, germine subalbido, limbo pallidé purpurascente extus
striato fauce flavescente, tubo saturatě 6-striato. Istria, Sylva
Lipiza dicta, Podolia australis intra Baltim et Jaorlik et. circa
Sawran Andr. Besser. Odessa, Caucasus.— Corcyra collibus Coto-
nychii teste Anth. Ionicá.

. Gargaricus; Herbert. Ex sicco Bot. Mag. 3866. f. 2. C. aureus; Clarke,

Travels, $c. 1812. Spec.Crips et Yalden Herb. Banks. Dr. Clarke herb.
Ex monte Gargaro m. Maio floridus. Tunicá vag. int. fibris superne
cribrosé retic. inferne parallelis basi non circumscissá, (spathá nescio an
bracteata) tubo aureo brevi, limbo $-unc. subcitrino rariüs subaureo vel
aureo petalis obtusis, sepalis acutioribus longioribus. :

Sieberianus; Spec. Sibth. Oxon. ex summis Cretæ et Cypri jugis. Bot.

"Mag. 3866. f. 2. C. Sieberi, Gay B. F. 25. 220. 1831. C. nivalis; Bory

V. du Mor. Fl. verno, c. tun. tenuiss. subretic.-fibrosis moll. (sec.
Gay, foliac. demum cribrosis exter. prope basim aff. spathä lati-bracteatä
tubum feré sequante, limbi uncialis fauce (ni fallor) lzevi, (purpurascente
in sicco Sibth. aurantiaco? ex sicco Gay.) stylo subalbido, stigm. vix

14.

16.

18.

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incisis antheras superantibus. In Troadis et Crete montibus, Gay.
Cormum integr. non vidi. An C. vernus in Gargaro, Clarke Trav.
In summo Taygeti jugo schistoso nive fusd statim exoritur ad ped. 6000
alt. m. Maio floridus.

Fleischerianus ; C. Fleischeri, Gay B. F. 25.—Spec. ex Smyrna mont.
herb. Hooker. Fl. verno, c. tun. vag. crassis demum meré fibrosis fib.
tenac. subtil. intertextis foliac. retic. nervatis nunquam cribrosis, exte-
riore med. aff. bracteä tubatä, stigm. multifidis, limbo albo sepalis extus
striatis; 4-florus.

* 9. INVOLUCRATI ; i. e. scapo involucrato.
$ 1. Membranacei.

. Parvulus ; Herbert. Fl. autumnali? cormo parvo tun. badià levi bas

lacerá, (involucro, ni fallor in sicco, tubato apice brevi obtuso) spathä
tubatá (ebracteatá?) apice bifido, fol. angustis hysteranthiis capsulà parvà
apiculatà seminibus pallidě badiis apiculatis. Flos ignotus. Ex Syriá
capsuld fere maturá fol. angustis subuncialibus m. Martio receptus cum
seminibus deperiit. Spec. in herb. Hooker. deposui. Si in sicco erravi,
spathá nudä est bracted tubatá, et in $ 1. $$ 1. ante C. speciosum

ponendus est.

§ 2. Parallelo-fibrosi.

Pyrenseus ; Parkinson, Par. 1629. C. nudiflorus, pessimě, Smith E. B.
1798. £. 491. C. multifidus, Ramon B. d. Sc. Soc. Phil. 1800. C. spe-
ciosus, Wilson E. B. sup. 2. 2752. Fl. autumn. c. ex basi et zonis om-
nibus stolonibus elongatis aucto, tun. fol. exter. supra rariůs infra med.
proximá summo feré cormo aff. involucro subterraneo laxo 1-2-floro, spathá
ebracteatä elongatá superne subvirescente, tubo spath. superante, fauce
leevi limbo purpureo. Hab. pascua Pyrenaica ad 6000 ped. alt. Ce-

benne pascua et Aquitaniam.

. Asturicus ; Herbert, Bot. Mag. 3998. f. 2. Fl. aut. c. ut in Pyrenzo,

spathá subvirescente 4 unc. exerto, tubo purpureo infra pallidiore spath.
14 unc. superante, limbo 14 vel 1-7; unc. purpureo lacin. (sepalis preecip.)
ad basim tristriatis, petalis 3 une. latis barbá ad basim densá pallidá,
sep. $ unc. latis, fil. albis ori ipsi insertis $ unc. antheris aureis ultra
3 unc. stylo aurant. multif. antheras non equ. primulam leviter redolente.
In collibus Asturie prope **Gijon" et “Santander.” Pyrenao omni parte

minor, éolore saturatiore, mense et plus serior.

$ 3. Subparalleli ; fibris parallelis confluentibus.

Serotinus; Salisb. P. Lond. 30. 1805. Bot. Mag. 1267. non vero herb.
Pallas ib. cit. neque Serotinus, Bertoloni. Fl. aut. sero, c. tunicä vag.
inter. fib. parall. superne confluentibus, foliac. ext. membranaceá supra
med. c. interioribus 3 gradatim altiüs affixis, involucro tubato apice acuto
interdum bracteato, spathá tubatá superne viridi-nervatá, bracteà acutá

angustá subseq. basi latiore tubum amplexá, germ. subluteo, tubo exerto
rs f ad lacin. Bee pubescente, limbo violaceo-griseo

sepalis extus striis sex pallidioribus intus maculä ad basim subluteä, c
mentis a tergo canaliculatis. Hab. in pinetis Gaditanis et Alpibus

Eliberitanis Sierr@ Nivose in Hispanid.

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19. Salzmannianus ; Bot. Mag. 3868. f. 2. C. Salzmanni, Gay B. F. 25.
220. Tingitanus, Herbert, Bot. Mag. 3868. f.2. Fl. autumnali, c. py-
riformi, tun. vag. int. submembranaceá demum in fibras parallelas sup.
acuté confluentes solutä, ext. basi persistentibus, foliac. leevissimis superne
setosé apiculatis exter. parum vel longé infra med. proximis gradatim al-
tits aff. foliorum circa 7 synanthiorum marg. crassis levibus costa vix
nervatá leevi canaliculis enervibus, spathà ebracteatá, limbo circ. 1} unc.
fil. antheras non zequantibus, stigm. coccineis 5-6-fidis anth. equ. Hab.
circ. Tingidem.

20. Clusianus ; Bot. Mag. 3868. f. 2. Gay B.F. 25. 220. Fl. autumnali,
tunicis vag. ext. basi persistentibus, interiore . . . . ? foliac. superne
retic. cancellatis inferne in fibras liberas solutis, exter. pavllo inf. med.
aff. spathà ebracteatä, per. fauce albidä stigm. multif. Hab. circa Olys-
sipem, Gay ; mihi ignotus.

21. Byzantinus; Parkinson, Par. 168. Ker Bot. Mag. 1111. p. 2. A. D. 1808.
C. Banaticus, Gay B. F. 25. 220. A. n. 1831. C. speciosus, Reichenb.
Iconol. Bot. Cent. 10. C. iridiflorus, Heuffel et Reichenb. Fl. autum.
c. tunicä obsc. rufesc. spathà 1-2-florä sepalis pallidé nigro-ceeruleis feré
albicantibus (i. e. griseo-coeruleis) petala alba superantibus, stigmat. apice
laceris seu plumeis, seminibus rotundis obscuris fol. 3-4 hysteranthiis ;
(teste Parhinson de Byzantino) sepalis lilacinis petalis albis minoribus
lanceolatis ; (teste Reichenb. de specioso perperam dicto et prope Kras-
soviam, Krajova, in Banatu et Wallachid lecto) tun. paucis vagin. de-
mum in fibras lib. sol. foliac. subtil. reticulatim nervatis, foliis hysteran-
thiis omnibus supra med. aff. spathá ebracteatá, stigm. multif. perianthio
violaceo; teste Gay,qui Banaticum eundem esse cum specioso Reich. et
iridifolio in literá monet.

22. Versicolor; Ker Bot. Mag. 1110. Fl. verno, tun. vag. 2 inter. infra non
circumscissis fibris duris parallelis confertis ac. confluent. prope basim
aff. foliac. ext. nitidà membranae. inf. med. aff. invol. apiculato spatha
dimidio breviore, spathá biflorá exertà bracteam loratam angustam
sequante, per. fauce levi, fil. leevibus 4 unc. inf. fauc. ins. stigm. sub-
truncatis, foliorum canalic. nervatis, marginibus (sepe obsolete) sub-
scabris, seminibus badiis.

$ 1. Fauce flavescente.

V.1. princeps; Bot. Mag.1110. C.insularis major; Gay in literá
cum plantá ipso teste ex Corsicd, que v. princeps ipsissimus est ;
pets > Corsicum crediderim ; fol. canaliculis uninervibus. Ex

allico?

E 2. Gallicus; germine invol. superante, per. fauce lutescente, peta-
lis extus plumeo-purpurascentibus sepalis ext. pallidě stramineis
tristiatis, fol. depressis vix subscabris canaliculis binervibus. In
confiniis Gallie et Italie circa Niceam.

Varietates cult C. versicoloris multe et perpulchre sunt, ex Gallico
proculdubio nate. :

2. Fuuce pallidé.—C. obscurus ? mihi.

V. 3. Purpurascens ; (v. lineatus, Sabine; nom. ob lineatum, Jan,
mutandum) misi potius C. obscurus, mihi, var. hortulanorum
lineatum, plumosum, et purpureum, (Sabine) ex aliá certà stirpe,
forsan ex Dalmaticá natos, complectitur, minores limbo magis
purpurd plumeo-suffuso spatiis inter strias subalbidis, fauce pal-

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lidá, foliis angustioribus. Minor, c. tun. foliac. ext. intus nitidá
infra med. proximá leevi sup. med. affixa, tubo striato fil. albis leevi-
bus fẹ une. infra faucem albam levem insertis, bracteá spatham
sequante limbo purpureo intus pallidiore petalis satur. tristriatis,
sepalis saturatioribus purpurá plumeo-suffusis intervallis inferne pal-
lidis, fol. canaliculis enervibus costá subbisulcata.

V. 4. Dalmaticus; spec. herb. Hooher. Caucasico similis minor
foliis angustis. Fauce pallida?

V. 5. Caucasicus ; spec. herb. Hooker ex montibus prope Tifflim.
Tun. ext. fib. parell. sup. confluent. germino in fauce invol. biflori
sito, bracteá ut in ceteris, limbo 12 une. (in sicco, purpurascente.)
Fauce pallida ?

24. Imperatonianus ; Bot. Mag. 3871. p. 2. C. Imperati; Tenore. Supra,

or

tei Do

1993. Fl. verno, e. tun. vag. int. fibris parall. superne et rariůs inf.
confluent. ext. tenuibus membranac. foliac. ext. crassá intus glabra ext.
confertim confluenter parallelo-fibrosä, circ. vel infra med. aff. involucro
scapos infra arct^ ampiexo 2-floro, germ? striato, spathá bracteze tubatae
acuminate seg. p. fauce leevi saturaté luted, fol. canal. enervibus marg.
levi, capsulá Ö-striatä, sem. pallidé badiis demum brunneis raphe et cha-
lazà rugosis.
V. 1. Princeps ; limbo viol. sep. ext. stramineis plumeo-3-striatis.
Habitat colles siecos dumosos et sepes prope Neapolim.
V. 2. Rupestris; "Tenore. Idem foliis depressioribus. Nescio an
ista sit var, in monte celso Pollino inventa.

Variat. species sepalis basi tantum breviter 3-striatis, vel striá mediá
elongatd, wel obsolstè plumeis, vel estriatis, et limbo albo sepalis
exte? stramineis estriatis vel breviter ad basim striatis, vel extus
subalbidis 3-siriatis.

S 3. Subreticulati; superne reticulati.

Suaveolens ; Bertoloni. Bot. Mag. 3864. Fl. verno ; t. fibris sup. retic.

foliaceá int. pall. inciso-notatá sup. med. aff. spathá semper ebracteatä,
erm. estriato, stigm. integris pallidioribus odoris: estera 24 similis.

Differt ab insulari fauce aurantio mac. et cormo. Habit. Terracinam,

montes d’Ittri, prope Fundos, et Rome vallem d’ Inferno.

26. Insularis ; nobis t. 21 hujus voluminis ; germ. sup. purpureo.
27. Cambessedesianus ; Gay, B. F. 15. 220. C. Cambessedesii. Fl. autumn.

c. t. vag. basi persistentibus, foliac. int. leevissimis, exter. basi demum in
fibros liberos solutá imo cormo aff. spathá bracteata, seminibus demum
brunneis raphe et chalazá pallidis. 4ffinis D. insulari minimo, secundum
Gay ex sicco. Habit. Majorcam mihi ignotus. Descriptio prorsus
insufficiens.

$ 5. Reticulati.

28. Odorus; Zerapha Fl. Melit. Bot. Mag. 3871. p. 3. Fl aut.c t. vag. ad

basim aff. retic, non cribrosis, foliac. nitidis vix nervatis exter. inf. med.
aff. ceteris summo c. aff. germine . striato vel superne macul. scapo
brevi involucro brevi acuminato spathá ebracteatä elongatä Sr virescente
acum. tubo purpura 6-striato vix unc. exerto, limbo une. lilacino fauce
luteá ad petalorum basim subbarbatá laciniis inferne 3-striatis sepalis

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ext. pallidioribus, fil. infra fauc. insert. antheris pallide flavis, stigm.
truneato-dentatis odoris, foliis marginibus dense ciliatis canal. enervibus.
Hab. montem Verdalam, Melitensem.

29. Longiflorus; Rafinesque Caratt. p. 84. Bot. Mag. 3871. p. 3. C. odorus,

30.

3l.

32.

Bivo Bern. St. rar. Sie. 3. p. 8. C. serotinus, Bertoloni, Desc. Differt
ab Odoro Melitensi inter alia, spathá, magis virente subobtusä tubo, lon-
giore lutescente estriato, fauce saturatiüs luteá, limbo estriato sesquiun-
ciali, c. tun. minüs retic. Habit. prata marit. Sicilie, montes Panor-
mitanos et vallis di Mazzaro, montem Stellam prope Pestum, pascua
mont. Calabrie, Serram, Morgianam, et teste Bertoloni Dalmatiam.
Si mavis, C. odorus. Var. 1. Melitensis. Var. 2. Longiflorus.

Medius; Balbi. Bot. Mag. 3871. p. 4. Bertol. Desc. 9. Gay B. F. 1827.
p.8.et 29. Fl. aut. tun. reticu. lato-cancellatis non stolonif. spathá
ebracteatá tubo preelongo exerto, limbo grandi violaceo stigm. prof. mul-
tifidis croceis foliis hysteranthiis. Non vidi: semina tamen ex pratis
prope Varese in Ligurid teneo rufo-brunnea, longiflori et speciosi se-
minibus subsimilia. A comparatione el. Bertoloni cum Pyreneo into-
lucratus esse censendus est: si nudus est, falsa est ista medietas inter
Pyreneum et longiflorun, et C. cancellatus, var. Balbisianus nuncu-
pandus erit. Plantas seminibus nuper enatas teneo.

Pallasianus. Bot. Mag. 3871. p. 4. €. Pallasii, M, a Bieb. sup. Fl. aut.
C. Thomasiano affinis minor, tubo brevi, limbo pallidiore striato, foliis
angustioribus, nescio an ciliatis. Vidi siccum c. tun. tenuiter retic.
foliis 7 feré filiformibus tubo pallido vix spatham superante, limbo un-
ciali pallidé violaceo ad basim ext. satur. striato: de bracteis nihil novi.
Hab. colles apricos Taurie flor. Sept. Oct.—In Tauriá m. Jaile jugum
inter Baidar et Aluschtam 2800, versus Nikitam 3300, montis Tschadit-
Dagh. 4240 ped. altum est.

Thomasianus ; Bot Mag. 3871. p. 4. C. Thomasii, Tenore. Fl. aut. c.

tun. superne retic. inferne parallelis, foliac. apice subsetosis, invol. ad -

basim scaporum bracteato, spathà (quoad in culto vidi, ebracteatá) in
indigenis bracteatä (Fl. Ital.) limbo sesquiunc. satur. violac. estriato peta-
lorum basi minutě barbatá, fil. subflavesc. 2 inf, faucem insertis, stigm.
truncatis odoris limbo dimidio brevioribus. Hab. Calabrie sylvas mont.
La Serra et Lucanie La Terza, Potenza alle Faje, et Montorchio.

Var. princeps ; fol. marg. et costze angulis dense ciliatis.
Var. levis; folis non ciliatis. Flor. Ital. Non vidi.

. Sativus; Zinn. Red. Lil. 173. C. autumnalis, Engl. Bot. 343. Autum-

nalis, Lam. Sativus, Royle. Fl. autumn. c. tun. fib. stipatis reticulaté
conflu. foliac. apice setosis exter. inf. basim aff. vaginis 8-9 interiore (raro
tubatá) basi tantům inflata integra longit. scissá, involucro (raro tubato)
acutě lorato scapo amplexo, bracteá ad pedem brevi, alterá longiore acutä,
(interdum obsoletis) spathá tubatá acuminata bracteä loratá æquali, ger-
mine oblongo albo, tubo exerto sup. purpureo vel purp. macul. limbo
pallidé purpureo saturatiüs venoso inferne satur. striato laciniis inf. atte-
nuatis, petal. basi minuté barbatä, fil. ori ipsi insertis, stigm. sesquiunc.
cocc. trunc. pendulis anth. longé superant. odoris fol. subundecem ses-
quipedalibus marg. et costa fortiter nervatá ciliatis canalic. enervibus.
Habitatio incerta. In Europámon nisi in cultis inventus, apricis gau-
det; apud nos mon misi post estatem calidam floridus. Ex oriente
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34, Vernus; Bot. Mag. 3874. p. 4. Willd. Fl. verno, t. vag. inter. retic. infra
med. c. proximá reticulatá basi propiůs sed non approximatů (unde Z.
radicalis a basi distat.) foliac. exter. reticulatá in fronte c. aff. involucro
tubato scapum laxč amplexo vaginis breviore, spathá tubatá acutá ebrac-
teata superne virescente tubum subæq. fauce barbatà nunquam lutea,
limbo purpureo vel albescente, stigm. capitato-multifidis eroceis interdum
albescentibus, fol. 3-4 medio sspe latioribus marg. tenuibus levibus
canal. vix nervatis. Hab. montes Gallic merid. Helvetia, Italie, Vin-
delicie, Carinthie, Hungarie Septent. et Podolie australis ; prope
Cebennas, in Pyreneis rarior ; teste Brotero Beire montes.

Var. 1. Neapolitanus; fl. magno sepalis purpureis petalis pallidio-
ribus plumeo-purpureis, Bot. Mag. 860. Subvar. culta; ib. 2240.
In Aprutii citer. m. Tittone et Spenta 5-6000 p. alt. Junio et Julio
Jf. m. Pollino Calabrie cit. 6000 p. alt. Julio fl. In Lucanie
Rivezzone 5000.

Var. 2. Albiflorus; Schult. Mant. 1. 367. fol. 2-3, flore minore see-
piüs albo, rariüs pallidó subpurpurascente.

Subv. 1. Obovatus; lac. obovatis. Alpes Vindel. prope Saltzburg

. et m. circa Tergestem.

Subv. E Acutior; lac. acutis. M. Carinthie et prope Cebennas
et alibi.

«Var. 3. Parvus; tubo saturaté purpureo limbo unciali inferne satu-
raté purpureo superne albo petalis purpurá substriatis. Hab.
jugum. Splugen dictum. :

Var. 4. Alpinus; ex Helvetiá fl. minore, in sicco subpurpurascente.

Var. 5. Podolicus; fl. majore in sicco subpurpurascente. Ex Podoliä
Merid. a Besser lectus. Color et forma variat. in cultis fauce nun-
quam luted. ;

* C.vernus; Anth. Ion. in collibus Katziari in Corcyra forsan non est C. vernus.

* C. autumnalis, Loisel. Poir. Enc. 6. 558. Montanus autumnalis, Lob. ic.
138, eodem loco cit. circa, Massiliam et alibi, nullus est. Desc. ex
sativo et Pyrenso conflata. Nescio qui sint C. autumnalis auct. anon.
Anth. Ion. in collibus et aquaticis ac incultis Misostrati in Corcyra, fl.
violaceo pallidé ecruleo-venoso et C. lineatus ib. autumnalis limbi lac.
longioribus angustioribus, in iisdem locis eodem temp. flor. W. H.

4l. THE GENUS SARCOGLOTTIS.

In Presl’s reliquie Hankeana was proposed a genus of
Orchidaceous plants called Sarcoglottis, which was reduced in
the Genera and Species of Orchidaceous plants to a section of.
Spiranthes. Dr. Klotzsch having however expressed his opi-
nion that it really is distinct, chiefly upon the ground that the
pollen-masses of Spiranthes are sessile while those of Sarco-
glottis are stalked, and that in Spiranthes both sepals and
petals spring directly from the top of the ovary, while in Sar-
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bag as far as the base of the ovary, we think it desirable
that his views should be placed before our readers. We
therefore extract the following characters of the genus and its
species :—

Sancoarorris, Presl. l. c. Perigonii foliola exteriora lateralia majora, re-
flexa, labello supposita, in saccum ampullaceum antice rima solutum,
ovario per totam longitudinem decurrentia, supremum cum interioribus
arcte-adheerens. Labeilum apice dilatatum, infra rimam anticam cum
pagina interiore sacci connatum, elongato-concaviusculum, columnam
amplectens, basi liberum, sagittatum. Columna brevis. Anthera dor-
salis, stipitata, bilocularis. Pollinia 2, pedicellata, lineari-clavata, longi-
tudinaliter profunde sulcata, glandule communi affixa.

Herbee epigææ America tropice; radicibus fasciculatis, crassis, cylindricis,
tomentosis; foliis radicalibus, magnis, lanceolatis ; scapo vaginato; spica
multiflora; floribus magnis erectis basi tortuosis. Klotzsch in Allg. Gartenz.
April 2, 1842.

1. S. picta ; foliis radicalibus oblongis, acuminatis, basi attenuatis; scapo

versus apicem floribusque villosis; floribus odoratis, perigonii foliolis

albis, acutis; labello revoluto, apice obtuso.
a variegata ; foliis maculatis, roseo-costatis.

Spiranthes (Sarcoglottis) pieta a Lindley the Genera and Species of Orchi- :

daceous plants, p. 475. Neottia picta R. Brown Hort. Kew. 5. p. 199.
Sims Botanical Magazine, t. 1562,

B immaculata; folis saturate-viridibus unicoloribusque albido-costatis. —
Both these varieties come from the West Indies.

2. S. grandiflora ; foliis radicalibus spathulatis, acutis, laete-viridibus ; scapo
versus apicem floribusque pubescentibus; perigonii foliolis flavido-viri-

dibus, exterioribus inferioribusque falcatis, obtusis; labello deflexo,
(tridentato.

ir pons B Mindy. bie Genera and Species of Orchidaceous plants,

p. 4/5. Spiranthes grandiflora, Hooker Bot. Mag. t. 2730. d

in Brazil and in the Caraccas. : m ee

3.8 rufescens ; foliis radicalibus spathulatis, acutis ; scapo glabro; floribus
villosis ; perigonii foliolis angustis, sordide-albidis, dein rufescentibus,
versus apicem glabris ; labello patentissimo, acuminato.

Spiranthes rufescens Fischer Hortu Petropolitanus. -— Native country
unknown.

The last species is S. speciosa of Presl, which Dr. Klotzsch
considers distinguished by its lip being emarginate; unless
Spiranthes cerina should also belong to Sarcoglottis ; (about

which we entertain no doubt if the gen niu ;
tually adopted.) genus Sarcoglottis is even

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42. THE GENUS RIBES.

We find in the Gartenzeitung the following useful cata-
logue of the species of hardy Ribes eultivated in the gardens
of Germany :

1. Ribes speciosum, Pursh.

Ribes speciosum, Pursh, Fl. amer. II. p. 732. Sweet Fl. gard. t. 149.
Bot. Mag. t. 3530. Bot. Reg. t. 1557.—R. stamineum, Smith in Rees.
Cycl.—R. fuchsioides, Berlandier.— Robsonia, Spach.——California.

2. Ribes Menziesii, Pursh.

R. Menziesii, Pursh Fl. amer. II. p. 732.—R. ferox, Smith in Rees.
Cycl.—— California.

3. Ribes oxyacanthoides, L.

4. Ribes setosum, Lindl.

R. setosum, Lind]. Bot. Reg. t. 1237.—R. oxyacanthoides, var. B. Tor-
rey et Asa Gray Fl. amer. I. p. 546.—— North America.

5. Ribes Cynosbati, L. North America. Of this there are two varie-
ties ; one with white flowers, smooth fruit, and thornless twigs; the
other with greener flowers, bristly fruit, and thorns.

6. Ribes gracile, Michx. —-North America.

7. Ribes rotundifolium, Michz. North America.

8. Ribes triflorum, Willd.

R. triflorum, Willd. Hort. Ber, I. t. 61. Guimpel, Otto et Hayne Hol-
zarten, t. 3.—R. stamineum, Hornem. Enum. Hort. Havn. p. 237.

North America.

9. Ribes divaricatum, Dougl.
R. divaricatum, Dougl. — Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1359.—--North America.

10. Ribes Grossularia, L.—— Europe. Of the common Gooseberry the
| author considers the R. uva crispa and reclinatum to be mere varieties.

11. Ribes orientale, Poir. Syria.

12. Ribes diacantha, Z. fl.

R. diacantha, L. fil. Suppl. p. 157. Pall. Fl. ross. II. p. 36. t. 66, ——
Dahuria.
13. Ribes saxatile, Pall. ;
R. saxatile, Pall. — Ledeb. icon. Fl. ross. alt. illustr. t. 339,—— Russia.

14. Ribes lacustre, Poir. ;

R. lacustre, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. II. p. 856. Guimpel, Otto et Hayne
Holzart. t. 136.—R. echinatum, Dougl.— North America.

15. Ribes rubrum, L. Europe. ——The author refers here the R. sylvestre

and domesticum of Wallroth.

16. Ribes petreum, JFulfen.—— Europe.

17. Ribes holosericeum, Hort. Berol. ei : ;

R. foliis trilobis supra hirtis, subtus tomentoso-holosericeis, lobis acuti-
usculis serratis; petiolis pedunculisque tomentosis; racemis erectis,
bracteis ovatis minutis pedicello multo brevioribus : calycibus pelvi-
formibus glabriusculis, laciniis margine vix ciliatis ; petalis spathulatis.
— — Native country unknown.—The fruit is smoother than that of
the currant, red, and well tasted, and is in long drooping racemes.

18. Ribes alpinum, Z. —- Europe. dee oe

19. Ribes ultra: Kit. — Croatia—This is also called R, vitifolium.

20. Ribes rigens, Micha.——North America.

North America.

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21.
22.

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24.

. Ribes nigrum, L.
. Ribes floridum, 7 Herit.

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North America.

Ribes prostratum, ? Herit.

Ribes bullatum, Nod.

R. caulibus ramisgue erectis; foliis palmato-guingue-lobis, supra hirtis,
subtus villosiusculis, demum irregulariter bullatis, lobis triangularibus
acutis subtriplicato-serratis ; racemis densis erectiusculis, pedunculis
pedicellisgue villosis, bracteis ovatis villosis, pedicellis brevioribus ;
calycibus turbinatis hirtis, laciniis obovatis ciliatis; petalis obovatis.

Native country unknown. —— Flowers purplish red.

Ribes atropurpureum, C. 4. Meyer.

R. atropurpureum, Ledeb. Fl. alt. I. p. 268. Icon. pl. Fl. ross. t. 231.

Altai.

Ribes pallidum, Nod.

R. foliis palmato-guinguelobis utringue parum pubescentibus, lobis sub-
triangularibus acutis duplicato-serratis ; racemis elongatis laxiusculis
pendulis; pedunculis pedicellibusque pubescentibus: bracteis pube-
scentibus, pedicello multo brevioribus ; calycibus glabris, laciniis spa-
thulatis ciliatis ; petalis spathulatis. Native country unknown;
also called R. caucasicum, Flowers greenish, tinged with red.

Europe.

R. floridum, l Herit. Stirp. I. p. 4. Guimp. Otto et Hayne Holzart t. 1.
—R. nigrum, f. L. —R. recurvatum, Michx. Fl. amer. I. p. 110.—R.
pensylvanicum, Lam. dict. ITI. p. 49. North America.

27. Ribes Dikuscha, Fisheher Cat..—— Native country unknown.
28. Ribes heterotrichum, C. A. Meyer. i
R. heterotrichum, Ledeb. Fl. alt. I. p 270. Icon. pl. Fl. ross. t. 235.
Altai.
29. Ribes punctatum, Ruiz et Pavon.—— Chile.
30. Ribes sanguineum, Pursh.

Ribes sanguineum, Pursh Fl. amer. I. p. 164. Bot. Reg. t. 1349. Bot.
Mag. t. 3335 —— North America.

. Ribes malvaceum, Smith.

R. malvaceum, Smith. — DeCand. Prodr. III. p. 552.— R. sanguineum,
Hook.—R. tubulosum, Eschsch.— R, tubiflorum, Meyer.—N. America.

. Ribes glutinosum, Benth.

R. glutinosum, in Trans. of the Hort. Soc. II. Ser. I. p. 476.—R. au-
gustum, Dougl.— North America.

33. Ribes aureum, Pursh.

R. aureum, Pursh Fl. amer. I. p. 164.—R. :
North Zhnárice: P palmatum, Desf. Cat

. Ribes flavum, Colla.

R. flavum, Colla hort. ripul. App. III. p. 4. t. 1. £. 9. —R. K
Bot. Reg. t. 125. North ia B aureum, Ker

. Ribes tenuiflorum, Lindl.

R. tenuiflorum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1274.——- North America.

It appears that the following are unknown in German

Gardens, viz.

Ribes niveum, Lindl. in Bot. Re

g. t. 1692.—R. irri , Douel. in Hort.
Trans. VII. p. 516.—R. hirtellum, Michx. Fl. EI p. 1H jk wi

culare, Smith in Rees Cyclop.—R. spicatum, Robson — Smith Engl.
bot. t. 1290,—R. carpathicum, Kit. in Schult. Oestr. Fl. I. P- 132. —R.

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albinervium, Michx. Fl. amer. I. p. 110.—R. acuminatum, Wall. Cat.—
R. triste, Pallas.—R. procumbens, Pallas.—R. resinosum, Pursh Fl.
amer. I. p. 163.—R. bracteosum, Dougl.—R. viscosissimum, Pursh l.c.—
R. hudsonianum, Richards. —R.glaciale, Wall.—R. inebrians, Lindl. Bot.
Reg.t. 1471.—R. cereum, Dougl. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1263.

43. PUYA recurvata.
Scheidweiler in Garten Zeitung, 1842, p. 275.

P. caule simplici altissimo, squamoso, pulverulento ; sguamis herbaceis,
lanceolatis acutis; foliis integerrimis, acutis, apice denticulatis, supra
nitidis, subtus floccoso-pulverulentis; spica terminali; bracteis imbri-
catis, arcte appressis, siccis, roseis, acutis; floribus subgaleatis sessili-
bus, recurvatis, albis; staminibus lutescentibus corollam seguantibus ;
stylo triangulari; stigmatibus lobatis, post anthesin contartis.

A Brazilian plant of the Bromeliaceous order. Its flower
stem is described as being 5 feet 3 inches high, covered with
green lanceolate scales. ‘The leaves are 32 feet long and
2 inches broad, shining green above, white with cottony wool
on the under side. The spike is about a foot long, covered
with white sessile flowers. It has flowered in the Botanical
Garden at Brussels.

44. PITCAIRNÍA undulata.
Scheidweiler in Garten Zeitung, 1842, p. 275.

P. scapo erecto, simplici, squamoso, pulverulento, coceineo ; squamis lanceo-
latis, cuspidatis, basi scariosis, apice herbaceis, integerrimis ; racemis
elongatis, simplicibus; pedicellis floribusque coceineis ; perianthii la-
ciniis exterioribus carnosis carinatis; bracteis lanceolatis siccis, foliis
lanceolatis integerrimis, longissime cuspidatis, margine undulatis vel
rugoso-undulatis, supra glaberrimis, subtus albis pulverulentis; scapum
sequantibus, staminibus inclusis.

A native of Brazil, which has flowered in the Botanical
Garden at Brussels. The leaves are dull green, here and
there striped with yellow, and the flower stem scarlet, 2} feet
high, The spike is 10 inches long; the flowers scarlet, with

bracts of the same colour.

45. CATHA paniculata.

Scheidweiler in Garten Zeitung, 1842, p. 275.
C. frutex spinosus, ramis angulatis ; foliis petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis ser-
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patentibus diphyllis ; foliolis alternis; gemmis supra axillaribus, squa-
mis ciliatis, ramis adultis floriferis, spinosis ; spinis brevioribus, axilla-
ribus, nudis, erectis; stipulis exiguis, filiformibus, ciliatis ; floribus
hermaphroditis in apice ramulorum paniculatis albis, pedicellis trifloris.
Folia ad siccitatem odorata.

A bush of the Celastraceous order, about 3 feet high,
which has been for some years in the Botanical Garden at
Brussels, but whose native country is unknown: it is sup-
posed to have come from the East Indies. The leaves smell
something like Melilot. The flowers are small, greenish
white, and scentless. It seems a plant of no interest.

46. HYDROMESTUS maculatus.
Scheidweiler in Garten Zeitung, 1842, p. 285.

Calyx bibracteolatus, quinquepartitus ; laciniis superioribus aegualibus acutis,
quinta postica obtusa. Corolla hypogyna infundibuliformis, bilabiata,
tubo longo ; labio superiore bifido, lobis obtusis revolutis inferioris tri-
fidi laciniis equalibus. Spice bracteis arcte appressis, cucullatis, aqua
limpida impletis. Stamina quatuor, zequalia, corolle tubi inserta, ex-
serta, barbata ; antherse uniloculares, apice et basi lanuginoso-barbate.
Ovarium biloculare, loculis biovulatis. Stylus simplex ; stigma bilabi-
atum, labiis ineequalibus. Capsula sessilis, tetragona, bilocularis, loculis
dispermis, dissepimento incompleto, loculicide bivalvis, valvis medio
septiferis, Semina discoidea rugosa retinaculis uncinatis suffulta.

H. maculatus; Scheidw. Suffrutex mexicanus; caule erecto glabro; foliis
cruciatum oppositis, nitidis, rugosis, undulatis, luteo maculatis, coriaceis,
obtusiusculis, basi acutis, petiolatis. Spica terminalis, quadrifariam im-
brica; flores lutei.—— Caulis 2 ped. altus ; folia 8 poll. longa, 3 poll.
lata; petioli pollicares ; spica 4-5 poll. longa.

A small Mexican bush, belonging to the Acanthaceous
order. The flowers are yellow, and like those of a Justicia.

The leaves are stiff and shining. From the Botanic Garden
at Brussels.

47. RHODOSTOMA gardenioides.

Scheidweiler in Garten Zeitung, 1842, p, 286.

Calyx tubo eylindraceo tribracteolato, cum ovario connato, limbo supero,
persistente, fisso, quinquefido ; laciniis zequalibus recurvis, acutis. Co-
rolla supera, infundibuliformis, tubo longo cylindrico, intus glabro;
limbi quinquelobi laciniis lanceolatis, plicatulis, reflexis, mucronatis.
Stamina quinque, summo tubi inserta; filamenta brevissima. Anthere
lineares, inclusse mediofixee, basi sagittatze. Ovarium inferum, biloculare,
disco epigyno carnoso. Ovula in loculis solitaria. Stylus simplex, stig-
mata duo lineares. Fructus . Patria?

Rhodostoma gardenioides; fracticulus erectus ramosus articulatus, cortice

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fusco glaberrimo; ramis oppositis, cylindricis articulatis; foliis petiolatis,
oppositis, ovato-oblongis acuminatis, undulatis, utringue glaberrimis ;
nervis alternis ; stipulis basiliaribus, acutis, exiguis, basi junctis ; flori-
bus terminalibus cymosis, albis, ante anthesin rubellis, bracteis sub
calyce et cymae ramis carnosissimis.

A little inconspicuous bush of the Cinchonaceous order,
and allied to Gardenia. It exists in the Botanic Garden at
Brussels, where its origin has been lost. It seems of no
other than Botanical interest.

48. AERÍDES virens.

A. virens ; foliis latis obliqué retusis, racemis pendulis multifloris, sepalis pe-
talisque obovatis obtusis, labelli cornu acuminato ascendente lobis late-
ralibus apice denticulatis intermedio lanceolato medio canaliculato versus
apicem denticulato.

A very fine plant from Java, with sweet-scented flowers
as large as those of A. odoratum, white, stained and spotted
with deep lilac. Itsleaves are remarkable for their bright
green colour. Messrs. Loddiges have recently flowered it.
Aerides odoratum, quinquevulnera, crispum, affine and virens,
would form such a cluster of beautiful flowers, as it would
be very difficult to match if all the vegetable kingdom were
ransacked.

49, OXYLOBIUM obovatum.
Bentham in Lindley's Sketch of Swan River, p. xii.

This pretty greenhouse shrub has been lately flowered by
Messrs. Lowe and Co. of Clapton. It has the habit of Pul-
tenza daphnoides, but is a stiffer and broader leayed plant.
Its flowers are in axillary and terminal sessile clusters, and
of a bright orange yellow, stained on the keel with crimson.

50. BOSSIZA paucifolia.
Bentham mss.

This, like the last, has been flowered by Messrs, Lowe
and Co., from the same country. As it was exhibited the
other day before the Horticultural Society, it was a pretty
leafy rather spiny bush, with gay yellow and crimson blos-

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soms, and ifit can be kept in that state it will be a good green-
house shrub. We fear, however, that it will become naked,
and leafless ; in which case it will only rank with such plants
as Bossiea Scolopendrium.

51. BOSSLÉA eriocarpa.

Bentham in Hugel's Enumeratio.

A little Swan River bush, lately flowered by Mr. Groom
of Clapham. It has been expected to prove a plant worth
cultivation, for it has a dwarf habit, and a pretty good foliage.
Its flowers, however, prove to be of a dingy nankin colour, and
therefore render it but little suited for ornamental purposes.
It is, however, a curious thing.

52. GONGORÁ truncata.

G. truncata; sepalis lateralibus rotundato-oblongis supremo obovato apicu-
lato carinato, petalis minimis ovatis acutis decurrentibus quinquenerviis,
labelli vernicati hypochilio medio compresso (unde bicamerato) margine
lævi apice bicorni, epichilio ovato canaliculato.

‚A Mexican species, quite distinct from any previously de-
scribed ; introduced from Mexico by Mr. Rucker, who received
it from Linden in 1840. The flowers are pale straw colour,

with some brownish purple speckles and a yellower lip. Before.

expansion they are almost of the form of a bean; which is
owing to their sepals being so blunt that when flattened they
are nearly half oblong. The lip has no speckles at all, and

looks as if varnished. It has a very peculiar scent, and is a
really fine thing.

53. ACACIA spectabilis.
Bentham in London Journal of Botany, 1. 383.

A most beautiful pinnated Acacia, with charming glaucous
foliage, and erect racemes of deep yellow balls of flowers,
introduced from Swan River by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and
Co. of Exeter, and just flowered by H. B. Lott, Esq., of
Tracey House, near Honiton. It is one of the very finest
species in cultivation.

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54. EPIDENDRUM arbuscula.
Lindley in Benth. Plant. Hartweg. p. 98.

For some years there has been in our gardens, to which
it has been introduced by the Horticultural Society from
Mexico, a singular Orchidaceous plant, with a large branch- ,
ing stem, leathery leaves three or four inches long, and many *
pale stout roots, and no one could tell what it was. .It has
now flowered with the Society, and proves to be the Epiden-
drum arbuscula, a species discovered by Mr. Hartweg,
flowering in April, near a place called San Juan Sacatepeguez.
It is more curious than beautiful, resembling E. nutans in
some respects, and quite destitute of brilliant colours. The
flowers are a dull chocolate, only relieved by a patch of yellow
in the middle of the labellum. The latter organ is so folded
back at the sides and front, that although it is really almost
circular, it has altogether the form of an old fashioned three-

cocked hat.

55. CEANOTHUS divaricatus.

Nuttall in Torrey and Gray's Flora, vol. 1. p. 266.

Under this name we are able to announce the introduc-
tion of another beautiful hardy shrub. It is described as a
straggling bush, in California becoming spiny, and loaded
with clusters of blue flowers. As yet it has not flowered,
but the young plants have beautiful deep green glossy leaves,
and it may be anticipated that in a country so much damper
than California, as England is, it will preserve that verdure,
which now makes it so very attractive. The plant has been
raised by the Horticultural Society, from seeds presented by
R. B. Hinds, Esq., late Surgeon of H. M.'s ship the Sulphur,
by whom it was found in California in great abundance, and

forming a most conspicuous object.

56. ERIA floribunda.
Lindl. in Wall. Cat. no. 7408.

E. floribunda (Tonss) ; caulibus carnosis subflexuosis teretibus, foliis lanceo-
ww rei rer wir oppositifoliis patulis multifloris pubescentibus

foliis brevioribus, bracteis defloratis ovatis concavis retrorsis, €

petalis 3-pló latioribus, labello angusto nudo basi saccato : eg a

ralibus ascendentibus abbreviatis intermediá cuneatá tridentatä.

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A caulescent species, with lanceolate leaves seven or eight
inches long. The flowers are small, pink, smooth, in close
spreading racemes much shorter than the leaves. The column
is dark purple at the top. Mr. Prince originally found it at
Sincapore, and communicated it to Dr. Wallich. Messrs,
Loddiges, have since received it from the same place through
Mr. Cuming. It is a pretty plant, worth cultivation.

57. PITCAIRNIA micrantha.

P. mierantha ; foliis ensiformibus acuminatis basi extüs pubescentibus, ra-
cemo tenui paniculato, floribus minutis, petalis basi nudis lanceolatis
acutis.

«This singular little species was found among some
Orchidaceous plants imported from Rio, in December, 1841,
by Lieut. Christopher Smith, of H. M. Packet “Star,” and
presented to Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. M.P. It flowered at
Carclew in March, 1843, and proves to be very distinct from
any other of the genus to which it belongs, as well as the

smallest that has yet come under my notice. It requires the ,

constant heat of a damp stove ; and thrives very well either
in loose vegetable matter, or on the decayed branch of a tree.

** Leaves numerous, flat, undulated at the margin, flaccid,
spreading and recurved, linear-lanceolate acute, from nine
inches to a foot long, and about an inch wide ; of a deep green
above, and a pale glaucous green beneath, without any spines
at the edges. Scape erect, nine inches long, issuing from the
centre of the plant, of a brownish green, remarkably slender,
round and downy, with several linear bracts along the stem,
which is half its length, covered with flowers. Flowers white,
not exceeding a quarter of an inch across, drooping and open-
ing one or two at a time in succession, from the base upward.
Pedicel round, very short, almost concealed by a brown-
coloured acuminate bract to each. Sepals three, of a pale
green, ovate acuminate, alternate with the petals, and about
half their length. Petals three, recurved, lanceolate acute.
Filaments half as long as the petals, very slender, bearing
long yellow anthers, which roll up and appear as if they were
round when the flower has been some time expanded. Ova-
rium about the length of the sepals, deep green, roundish
oblong, crowned by the style, which is round and slender, and
a little shorter than the petals.” —Wm. B. Booth.

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58. HARTWEGÍA purpurea ; var. angustifolia.

“This plant was gathered in Guatemala by George Ure
Skinner, Esg. and added to Sir Charles Lemon's collection
at Carclew in August, 1841. Although very distinct from
the original form of this species in its leaves and flowers, yet
the general habit and appearance of the two plants are so
very similar, that the present one can only be regarded as a
well-defined variety of the other. Its leaves are from three to
four inches long, and from half an inch to an inch in breadth,
oblong lanceolate acute, very thick and fleshy, hollowed along
the middle, and tapering to both ends; of a brownish green
colour, singularly marked with numerous deep brown irre-
gularly formed spots. The scape is erect, about a foot long,
round and wiry, with many joints, each of which is surrounded
by a pale brown-coloured bract, which closely embraces the
stem, and covers it half way between the joints. The flowers
are terminal, of the same bright pinkish colour as those of
the old variety ; from which, however, they differ in the form
and size of the sepals, which are not obliguely cordate, but
ovate oblong, and rather smaller than in the other. The
labellum is also very different, being much larger in every
respect, and having a notch at the point; whereas in the
original species it is small, roundish, cordate, and forms a
kind of spur where it joins the column. In this variety there
is no appearance of a spur, but it is narrowed round the
column, and has a singular indentation just opposite its point.
The column is curved, and about the same*length as the
sepals and petals. It is also of a deeper pink, and is rounded
on the upper side ; beneath it is two-edged, from being slightly
hollowed out along the middle. The anther case is somewhat
reniform, brownish pink, much darker than any other part

of the flower."— Wm. B. Booth.

59. HYMENOCALLIS Skinneriana.

H. Skinneriana ; “bulbo modico, foliis petiolatis fortiter costatis laminá dilutě
viridi lacunosä acutä pedali 5 unc. latä, scapo 43 une., p ony eal
ciali sex-florá, germine sessili, tubo erecto 24une.gracili limt oa a
ciali, coroná infra. angustá unciali dentatä, filamentis 1} unc. liberis,

antheris semuncialibus stylo 3 une. brevioribus. i EL

“These bulbs, from the exact resemblance of their foliage,
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were mistaken for Callipsyche eucrosioides, till they flowered
in the stove at Spofforth in March. Mr. Skinner found them
in a part of Guatemala little visited.”

For the above I am indebted to the Hon. and Very Rev.
the Dean of Manchester.

60. EPIDENDRUM lamellatum.

Westcott mss.

E. lamellatum ; ($ Euepidendrum) caule erecto articulato ; foliis lanceolatis
emarginatis glabris subcarnosis, corymbo sessili paucifloro, sepalis lan-
ceolatis acutis, petalis obovato-lanceolatis, columná apice alatá, labello
obovato integerrimo vel obscuré emarginato basi lamellato.

* Stem about a foot high, articulated, and much resem-
bling that of Dendrobium. The sepals and the petals are of
a delicate pink colour. The column is very short, not more
than two lines long, and having appendages at the apex as
long as the column. The labellum is united to the column
the whole length, and is entirely undivided or very slightly
notched at the end. The appendages at the apex of the
column are of a darker pink colour, and the labellum is still
darker and more brilliant, having the disc covered with a row
of scaly yellowish plates."

For the above memorandum we are indebted to Mr. West-
cott, who first named the plant in Mr. Barker's collection,
where its origin was unknown. It has been subsequently
communicated by Sir Charles Lemon, to whom it had been

sent from Hoňduras. It is a pretty species, with flowers
about the size of E. Schomburgkii.

61. GLADIOLUS splendens. W. H.

G. splendens (Anisanthus splendens, Sweet B. F. G.) ; labio inferiore quàm
maxime abbreviato viridi laciniis lateralibus interdum in eodem caule
elongatis pallidě stramineis, labii superioris lateralibus interdum (altero

vel duobus) elongatis, summo breviore, czetera G. Cunonio prorsus similis
colore multo minůs splendente.— Y, H.

Mr. Plant’s * Mule Anisanth,” figured in this work at
fol. 53 (1842), calls attention to this, which was its female
parent. G. Cunonius, and splendens, and Plant's hybrid

from the latter by pollen of a mule Gladiolus between G.
tristis and Cardinalis, being all three in flower together at

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Spofforth, a favorable opportunity occurs for examining them.
There is no visible difference between the plants of the two
former, excepting that the flower of Cunonius has the-tube
yellow, the lower lip diminished, and yellow tipt with red, the
rest of the flower scarlet, the upper segment being concave
and prolonged, the laterals compressed ; splendens has the
like form, the tube and lower lip dull green, the lower
edge of the upper laterals pale straw-colour, which is yellow
in Cunonius. On the same stem, in one flower, the two lower
laterals are prolonged 5-8ths of an inch, of a pale straw-
colour, the two upper laterals also prolonged, and the upper
segment shortened to their usual length. Another flower has
one of the upper laterals prolonged to the length of the upper
segment and entirely red, and one of the lower laterals pro-

longed 3-16ths of an inch and straw-coloured with a little

red. Plant’s mule has the upper segment scarlet, a little
speckled, largest, and concave; upper laterals similar, ex-
panding, and sub-concave ; lower lip 7-8ths of an inch shorter,
sub-erect, and conniving, pale straw-colour marked within
with red having a straw-coloured middle stripe. The expan-
sion of the upper lip and the foliage shew that it was bred as
Mr. Plant asserts. G. abbreviatus, Bot. Rep. 166, or qua-
drangularis Bot. Mag. 567, (Anthol. quadrang. Burm. fi. C.
genus Petamenes, Sal.) has the upper segment large and con-
cave, all the rest abbreviated. All the three natural sorts
have the usual seed of the Cape Gladioli with foliaceous mar-
gins. I have had many instances of seedlings amongst the
mixed produce from Cardinalis, blandus, and tristis, with the
lower lip abbreviated, sometimes only during an unfavourable
season. Cunonius and splendens which are closely akin, and
scarcely separable, are both stoloniferous, quadrangularis 1s
not, the latter having precisely the singular leaf of G. tristis
with four angles, the midrib being like the blade of the
leaf. It is evident that the genera Anisanthus and Peta-
menes cannot be supported, their distinctions depending upon
features which are variable —W. H.

62, PLEUROTHALLIS peduncularis.

P. peduncularis (§ aggregate pubescentes) ; folio elongato lanceolato plano
P basi et apice ai, floribus aggregatis, pedicellis calycibus duplo lon-
gioribus, bractea et sepalorum basi pubescentibus, sepalis acuminatis
liberis, petalis ovatis setaceis sepalis brevioribus, labello ovato bicarinato

juxta apicem lineari-cuneato.

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Imported from Rio Janeiro by Messrs Loddiges. It has
the habit of Pleurothallis ruscifolia, but is a much larger
plant. The flowers are pale straw-colour.

63. BIFRENARIA inodora.

B. inodora ; pseudobulbis tetragonis, folio oblongo acuto plicato margine
crispo basi in petiolum brevem canaliculatum angustato, pedunculis uni-
floris pseudobulbis brevioribus, sepalis oblongis obtusis cornu elongato
clavato, petalis subconformibus pauld undulatis, labelli trilobi cucullati
lobis rotundatis undulatis subdentatis intermedio piloso, callo disci cu-
neato carnoso emarginato.

“ This plant was imported from Rio in 1839, and added
to Sir Charles Lemon’s collection at Carclew, where it flowered
in April, 1848. In habit and general appearance it ap-
proaches so near to Maxillaria tetragona, as to have been
mistaken for it, but on flowering it proved to be widely dif-
ferent from that species, and much handsomer, although the
flowers are destitute of that peculiar fragrance which M. te-
iragona is said to possess. It requires similar treatment, and
flourishes in a warm, moist stove, potted in a mixture of rotten
wood and other decayed vegetable substances.

** Pseudo-bulbs of a dull brownish green, ovate-oblong,
four-angled, a good deal hollowed between them, upwards of
three inches long, and nearly the same in circumference at
the base, from which they taper to the point, where there is a
black coloured band, indicating the joint at which the leaf is
united to the pseudo-bulb. Leaves solitary, oblong-lanceolate
acute, on short foot-stalks, spreading and recurved, measuring
when full grown a foot in length, and four inches across.
They are thin and rigid, of a pale green below, rich deep green
above, slightly undulated, or crimped, at the margin, with a
prominent vein on either side of the midrib. Flowers large
and spreading, of a brownish green, with a hairy, red label-
Jum. Scape radical, very short, sacrcely half the length of
the pseudo-bulb, round and of a pale green, bearing two and
sometimes three flowers. Pedicels about two inches long,
slightly curved, and similar in size and colour to the scape,
with a brown-coloured acuminate bract at the base of each.
Sepals of a dull green, slightly tinged with red. The two
lateral ones are roundish oblong, a little recurved at the point,
upwards of two inches long, and an inch wide, and ending at

the base in a kind of spur, half the length of the pedicel.

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The upper sepal is about the same size as the other, but is
more concave and pointed. Petals oblique, ovate-acuminate,
of the same colour, but rather shorter than the sepals, and
about three-fourths of an inch wide, having their edges slightly
undulated and the point recurved. Labellum three-lobed, out-
wardly of purplish-red colour, but inwardly more pale and deli-
cate towards the base, where it tapers and forms a sort of pouch.
The two lateral lobes are erect and of a pale brownish-red,
marked with dark coloured veins. The middle lobe is roundish
oblong, recurved and undulated at the margin. Outside it is
smooth, but the inner surface is thickly covered with pale soft
hairs. In the centre of the lip is an elevated process. similar
to those in the flowers of M. aromatica, cruenta, tetragona,
and other allied species. Column about half the length of the
labellum, slightly curved, of a pale yellowish colour above
where it was rounded, and slightly tinged with red below,
where it is hollowed out so as to appear two-edged. Anther-
case large and fleshy, one-celled, containing two collateral pol-
len-masses, each of which easily splits into two roundish ovate,
slightly pointed waxy bodies of a dull yellow."— W. B. Booth.

For this memorandum, a drawing, and specimens of the
highly curious plant, I am obliged to Mr. Booth, Sir Charles
Lemon’s intelligent gardener. “The species is much the finest
yet known, its flowers being as large as those of Maxillaria
Harrisonie.

The Maxillaria tetragona above referred to, as resembling
this in habit, belongs to the genus Lycaste, in my recent enu-
meration of whose species, it was unsettled. I therefore avail
myself of the present opportunity of adding its amended

character.

64. LYCASTE tetragona.

L. tetragona (Maxillaria tetragona, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1428. Hooker Bot.
Mag. t. 3146 ); pseudobulbis ovatis tetragonis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis
plicatis basi in petiolum angustatis solitariis, scapis 1-4-floris pseudo-
bulbis brevioribus, sepalis petalisque oblongo-ovatis obtusiusculis patulis
subzequalibus, labello carnoso ventricoso trilobo erecto : lobis lateralibus
parvis acutis intermedio ovato extús convexo, disci appendice carnoso
tabulari incumbente. Brazil. Very sweet-scented. Flowers
greenish, streaked with crimson. Lip white and purple in one variety,
and green and purple in another. The appendage of the disk is very

conspicuous, and shovel-shaped.

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65. COLAX.

Several years ago I proposed the establishment, under this
name, of a genus which eventually proved the same as Maxil-
laria; and which was therefore abandoned. I would now pro-
pose to apply it to a small set of plants of the Maxillaridous
division of Vandee, at present included in the genus Maxil-
laria itself. "These species, consisting of my M. viridis and
jugosa, and the M. placanthera of Sir W. Hooker, have the
closed, scarcely ringent, flower of Promenea and Warrea, but
they have a caudicula quite unlike any thing at present known
among their race. It has no distinct gland, but consists en-
tirely of a thin wavy membrane, strengthened by an elevated
line in the middle, and gradually narrowing to the point,
where the gland is usually found. It has also a thick fleshy
crested anther, whose cells are planted on its lower side. I
cannot but regard these circumstances as sufficient to justify
the separation of the plants in which they are found as a dis-
tinct genus. The following characters will indicate the limits
of the genus and its species.

Corax. Flores subglobosi, vix ringentes, in mentum breve
producti. Sepala et petala subequalia, Labellum ungui-
culatum, trilobum, inappendiculatum, planiusculum (vix
cucullatum). Columna paulö elongata semiteres, clinan-
drio marginato. Anthera carnosa, cristata. Pollinia 4,
in paribus globosis colligata, caudicule obovate membra-
nacee adnata; glandulá nulla; rostello fisso. Herba
pseudobulbosz ; folia terminalia et radicalia, plicata. Pe-
dunculi radicales, erecti, uniflori, vaginati. Flores vire-
scentes.

1. C. viridis (Maxillaria viridis, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1510.) ; sepalis peta-
lisque conniventibus oblongo-subrotundis obtusis subeegualibus, labelli
brevis trilobi lobo medio transversé rhomboideo unguiculato plano. —— +
Brazil. Flowers green, with a dingy violet lip. "That it differs from
C. placanthera, in the manner stated under that species, I know from
having preserved the specimen from which the figure in the Botanical
Register was taken; which figure well represents the peculiar rounded
form of the sepals. I believe it is no longer in our gardens ; for C. pla-
canthera is usually cultivated under its name.

2. C. placanthera (Maxillaria placanthera, Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3173.
Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841. misc. 103.) ; sepalis lineari-oblongis obtusis
intus secus medium seriatim maculatis, petalis angustioribus omnind
conformibus maculatis, labelli angusti trilobi minutě pubescentis leevis
laciniis lateralibus acutis nanis intermediá dilatatà rotundatä cuneatä,
columná apice lobatà versus basin bisulcá pubescente. Brazil. —-

AP

— Tom

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I was certainly wrong in referring this plant to C. viridis, from which it
differs in its sepals and petals being much narrower, the flowers less
green, the lip larger, and of a different form in its upper lobe.

3. C. jugosus (Maxillaria jugosa, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841. misc. 104.) ; se-
palis oblongis incurvis obtusis, petalis conformibus concavis basi angus-
tatis, labelli sigmoidei oblongi unguiculati pilosi jugosi lobis lateralibus
nanis obtusis, intermedio semi-circulari, columnä apice lobatá bisulcá
villosissimá. Brazil. Near C. placanthera, from which it differs
in having the flower of a globose figure, with much less linear sepals
and concave oblong petals narrowed to the base. These parts are of a
rich cream colour, speckled with crimson. The lip has quite a different
form, being semicircular at the tip, deeply furrowed and closely covered
with short hair. The column has two deep furrows in front almost
buried in hairs.

: 66. CEREUS biformis.

C. biformis; ramis alatis articulatis crenatis, sterilibus oblongis sessilibus,
floridis lanceolatis basi teretibus, petalis linearibus acutissimis, stigmate
5-lobo.

A curious and very pretty plant from Honduras, commu-
nicated by Sir Charles Lemon. It has bright rose-coloured
flowers, not unlike those of Cereus flagelliformis. I hope soon
to be able to figure it, with a full description by Mr. Booth.

67. BIFRENARIA.

This genus differs from Maxillaria proper. in having its
pollen-masses attached to a short gland, by a pair of distinct
straps, or caudiculs, instead of one; a character, minute in-
deed, but constant and readily detected, although often over-
looked. On that account several species have been referred to
Maxillaria, as I have now ascertained, and it is not improbable
that others may still lie unknown among that large and trou-
blesome genus. The following are characters of all of which
I possess any certain information.

BirrENARIA, Lindl. Sepala patula, libera, subeequalia; late-
ralia cum basi productá column» connata. Petala sepalis
dupld minora. Labellum cum pede columnz articulatum,
cucullatum, trilobum, medio callosum. Columna brevis,
semiteres. Anthera subcristata. Pollinia 4, per paria in-
cumbentia, caudiculis duabus distinctis, glandula oblonga.

Herba epiphyte, pseudobulbose. Folia terminalia

subsolitaria, plicata, cartilaginea. . Pedunculi radicales,

uniflori v. racemosi, spe elongati.

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1. B. atropurpurea (L. no. 1. Maxillaria atropurpurea, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t.
1877.) ; pseudobulbis ovatis obtusis tetragonis foliis oblongo-lanceolatis
plicatis solitariis, racemis radicalibus 3-floris pseudobulbis paulo longio-
ribus, labelli lobis lateralibus brevibus divergentibus, intermedio trans-
verso sub-3-lobo revoluto suberoso ; callo in medio anticé tridentato.

Brazil. Flowers dark purple, very sweet-scented.

2. B. inodora (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. misc. 63.) ; pseudobulbis tetragonis,
folio oblongo acuto plicato margine crispo basi in petiolum brevem cana-
liculatum angustato, pedunculis unifloris pseudobulbis brevioribus, sepa-
lis oblongo-obtusis, cornu elongato clavato, petalis subconformibus
pauld undulatis, labelli trilobi cucullati lobis rotundatis undulatis subden-
tatis intermedio piloso, callo disci cuneato carnoso emarginato.
Brazil. -— Flowers as large as those of Maxillaria Harrisonie, green,
with a bright violet lip. .

3. B. racemosa (Maxillaria racemosa, Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 2789. Lodd.
Bot. Cab. t. 1318.) ; pseudobulbis ovatis compressis tetragonis mono-
phyllis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis tricostatis scapis gracilibus strictis
multifloris brevioribus, sepalis oblongis acutis; lateralibus basi valdé
elongatis, petalis linearibus spatulatis tripló minoribus, labello oblongo
cucullato indiviso undulato emarginato in axi calloso, columnä pube-
scente. Brazil. —— Flowers pale, dirty straw-colour, with a white
lip, slightly speckled with pale crimson. It is well figured in the Bota-
nical Cabinet; the representation in the Botanical Magazine appears to
have been taken from a withered specimen.

4. B. aureo-fulva (Maxillaria aureo-fulva, Knowles and Westcott Floral Cab.
t. 83. Hooker Bot. Mag. t. 3629. M. stenopetala, Knowles $ Westcott,
2. p. 112.7); pseudobulbis rotundato-ovatis angulatis rugosis monophyl-
lis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis costatis acutis scapo radicali multifloro
brevioribus, floribus longà pedicellatis, sepalis lanceolatis acuminatis la-
teralibus apice reflexis, petalis striatis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, la-
bello unguiculato trilobo in medio striato : lobis lateralibus acutis inter-
medio lanceolato acuminato. Brazil. Very pretty. Flowers
orange-coloured. It is the ** Epidendre Limodore” of Descourtilz, and
was found by that traveller in great abundance upon fallen trees encum-
bering the sandy plain through which the great public road passes from
Bananal to Ilha Grande.

5. B. vitellina (Maxillaria vitellina, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838. mise. 116.
1839, 7. 12. M. barbata, Westcott in Phytologist, p. 7.) ; pseudobulbis
ovatis obtusé angulatis monophyllis, foliis lanceolatis in petiolum cana-
liculatum angustatis, racemo cernuo foliorum longitudine, labelli cuneati
trilobi lobis lateralibus acutis anticé crenulatis intermedio bilobo rotun-
dato cordato crenulato, tubereulo disci trilobo obtusissimo, ungue pube-
scente. Brazil. Flowers bright yellow, with a purple spot in the
middle of the labellum.

6. B. aurantiaca (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1836, t. 1875.); pseudobulbis subro-
tundis compressis diphyllis, foliis oblongis plicatis racemi erecti longi-
tudine, sepalo dorsali fornicato lateralibus oblongis acutis, petalis linea-
ribus, labelli unguiculati lobis lateralibus semicordatis intermedio majore
transverso ovali subcrenulato basi bicalloso, columná pubescente.——
Demerara. Pseudobulbs and leaves beneath spotted with crimson.
Flowers orange-yellow, spotted with crimson.

— men

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68. STENOCORYNE.

With respect to the Bifrenaria (?) longicornis, formerly
described in this work, it must be regarded as still another
genus, agreeing with Bifrenaria in having two straps (caudi-
cule) to its pollen-masses, but differing in having two distinct
glands also, as is the case with a part of the plants now re-
ferred to Angrecum. For this I would propose the name of
Stenocoryne. "

STENOCORYNE. Flores ringentes, clausi, longó cornuti. Sepala basi lon-
gissimé producta, et connata. Petala conformia. Labellum longissime
unguiculatum, trilobum, disco callosum. Pollinia 4, per paria connata.
ins qualia, semiglobosa; caudiculis 2, glandulisque totidem ovalibus.

Herb» epiphytee pseudobulbose. Folia cartilaginea, solitaria.
Flores racemosi, radicales.

1. S. longicornis (Bifrenaria longicornis, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, mise.
177.); pseudobulbis elongatis tetragonis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis sub-
plicatis nitidis, racemo laxo multifloro, sepalis lateralibus ovatis acutis,
petalis ovatis acutis, labello longé unguiculato spathulato apice trilobo
laciniis rotundatis medio pubescente disco elevato calloso. Demerara.

Flowers racemose, orange, spotted with brown.

69. LANTANA.

In the Gartenzeitung for Oct. 1, 1842, is the following
useful enumeration of the species of this pretty genus, actually
in cultivation in the gardens of Germany. The authors are

Messrs. Otto and Dietrich.

A. PRICKLY SPECIES

a. Flowers white.
. Lantana alba, Vent.

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b. Flowers lilac.
. L. mutabilis, Lippold. Not the L. nivea mutabilis of the Bot. Magazine.

. L. multiflora, Hort.

L. variegata, Nov. spec. ; ; ;
L. ramis aculeatis; foliis oppositis, ovatis, acutis, crenatis, supra scabris,

subtus villosulis; capitulis hemispheericis ; pedunculis folio subbre-
vioribus ; bracteis oblongo-spathulatis, ciliatis, corollee tubo breviori-
bus. ——Native of Brazil; forming a bush several feet high.

. L. amethystina, Hort. Berol. En
«ds cri A This is probably the L. nivea mutabilis of the Bot. Mag.

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c. Flowers orange-yellow.

L. aculeata, L.
L. scabrida, Ait.

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9. L. crocea, Jacq.
10. L. Camara, L.
11. L. crenulata, O. et Dietr.

B. SmooTH SPECIES.

a. Flowers orange-yellow.

12. L. Moritziana, O. et Dietr.
13. L. glutinosa, Pöppig. =
L. glutinoso-villosa ; ramis inermibus ; foliis oppositis, ovatis, acumina-
tis, basi subcordatis, crenatis, scabriusculis ; capitulis subumbellari-
bis; pedunculis folio brevioribus; bracteis lanceolatis tubum corollee

subaequantibus. A native of Peru. It grows 2-3 feet high.

b. Flowers lilac-yellow.

.involucrata, L.
. incana, O. et Dietr.

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c. Flowers lilac.
. lilacina, Desfont.
. Sellowiana, Lk. et O.
. Radula, Swartz.
. trifolia, L.
. salvisefolia, Jacq.

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d. Flowers white.
. recta, dif. :
. teucriifolia, O. et Dietr.
. lamiifolia, O. et Dietr.
. Geroldiana, O. et Dietr.
. alba, Miller.
. brasiliensis, Lk.

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e. Doubtful Species.

27. L. cinerea, Lam. Has not yet flowered.

28. L. lavandulacea, W. Is lost from the gardens, and is probably a Lippia
or Zapania. ;

29. L. viburnoides, Vahl. Lost out of cultivation. à;

30. L. abyssinica, O. et Dietr. This is the Lippia Schimperi of Hochstetter.

31. L. annus, L. Seems to be a Lippia.

70. DENDROBÍUM planibulbe.

D. (Onychium) planibulbe; caule compresso distiché folioso erecto basi ovali
complanato, folis oblongis obtusis emarginatis, pedunculo vaginato
aphyllo, floribus terminalibus e paleis glumaceis erumpentibus, sepalis
petalisque acuminatis, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus dilatato-rotundatis
intermedio lineari pectinato basi appendice emarginatà aucto.

A singular plant, found in Manilla by Mr. Cuming, and
by him sent to Messrs. Loddiges, who have just succeeded in

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flowering it. The stems are about three inches high, flat-
tened at the base into an oblong thin-edged pseudobulb. The
leaves are a dull greenish-red. The flowers small white,
veined with purple, placed at the very extremity of a leafless
peduncle. It is very near D. Blumei.

71. EPIDENDRUM Ovulum.

E. (Encyclium) Ovulum ; pseudobulbis oviformibus diphyllis, foliis linearibus
canaliculatis acutis, scapo filiformi foliis pauló longiore 3-floro, sepa-
hs linearibus 3-veniis, petalis angustioribus spathulatis, labelli trilobi
lobis lateralibus acutis intermedio dilatato rotundato venis radiantibus
glandulosis variegato, columne tridentate dentibus lateralibus rotundatis
denticulatis.

A curious little plant, in the'way of E. Pastoris, or bractes-
cens, or aciculare, from Bolanos, for which we are indebted to
Messrs. Loddiges. The sepals and petals are olive-green; the
lip white, with crimson glandular radiating veins.

72. ERIA multiflora.

Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. p. 68.

E. multiflora (Tonse); caulibus teretibus clavatis 2-3-phyllis, foliis lineari-
lanceolatis canaliculatis, spicis multifloris, bracteis minimis sphacelatis,
floribus pubescentibus, labello cuneato-obovato indiviso basi excavato
nectarifluo supra foveam dentibus 2 membranaceis erectis aucto.

A rare little plant, for which we are indebted to Mr.
Van Houtte, of Ghent, who received it from Java. It has

small white flowers, covered externally with fine down. The

only coloured part is the column, which is deep violet. In
habit it resembles a small specimen of Eria floribunda.

73. HABROTHAMNUS fasciculatus.
Benth. in Plant. Hartweg. p. 49.

This most beautiful greenhouse plant is in the possession
of M. Van Houtte, of Ghent, to whom we are ın ebted for
specimens. It forms a bush five or six feet high, with broad
ovate-oblong leaves, and heads of crimson flowers about the
size of those of Burchellia capensis or larger. “These heads
are arranged in a panicle so as to render the branches a com-
plete mass of blossom. A specimen before us has the flowering
part ten inches long and six inches in diameter. It is from

Mexico, and will soon be figured in this work.

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74. DENDROCHILUM latifolium.

D latifolium; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis coriaceis trinerviis, pedunculis elon-
gatis apice longé spicatis, labelli leevis lobis basalibus lineari lanceolatis
acuminatis ciliatis, laciniis columná dentatá brevioribus setaceis e basi
ortis.

A plant with the habit of Dendrochilum glumaceum, but
with much broader leaves and quite a different lip. It has
long graceful spikes of green flowers, and was imported from
Manilla by Messrs. Loddiges. It is not among Cuming’s
dried specimens.

75. ANGRÄECUM Ashantense.

A. Ashantense ; caulibus repentibus, foliis distichis coriaceis ovatis apice ob-
lique erosis, spicis foliis subzequalibus, floribus resupinatis, sepalis peta-
lisque galeatis denticulatis ovato-lanceolatis obtusiusculis, labello pandu-
rato obtuso denticulato basi unidentato, calcare arcuato subcompresso
basi constricto labelli longitudine, polliniorum caudiculá acuminata
bipartibili.

A most curious plant with creeping stems, ovate leaves
obliquely toothed at the end, as if they had been eaten away,
and light cinnamon coloured flowers in spikes about four
inches long. It was imported from Ashantee by Messrs.
Loddiges, and flowered on the 15th June, 1843.

76. ONCIDIUM candidum.

O. candidum ; pseudobulbis ovalibus compressis monophyllis, folio lineari-
lanceolato basi canaliculato, racemo paucifloro flexuoso, sepalis oblongis
lateralibus connatis, petalis majoribus patentibus planis obtusis, labello
ovato-oblongo plano basi lineá convexá elevatä transversá aucto, columnze
alis rotundatis serratis tuberculo baseos elevato labello adnato.

A very curious plant sent by Mr. Hartweg from Guatemala.
It belongs to the tetrapetalous division of the genus ; and has
ivory white flowers, with a couple of small violet dots at the
base of each petal, and the usual prominence at the base of
the column, bright yellow and adnate to the lip. The
flowers are an inch in diameter.

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77. SPHAROLOBIUM acuminatum.

Bentham in Hugel's Enumeratio, p. 32.

A little Swan River shrub, with rush-like stems, and
whorls of orange-red papilionaceous flowers. It has been
flowered by Messrs. Pope and Sons, of the Handsworth
Nursery, Birmingham.

78. HYPOCALYMNA angustifolium.
Endlicher in Hugel's Enumeratio, p. 50.

À charming sweet-scented greenhouse shrub, raised from
Swan River seeds by Messrs. Pope and Sons, of the Hands-
worth Nursery, Birmingham. It has the habit of Hypoca-
lymna robustum, but the flowers are white, and the leaves
narrow and weak.

79. PLEUROTHALLIS Smithiana.

P. Smithiana ($ effusse pubescentes) folio oblongo coriaceo racemum dimidio
excedente, sepalis oblongis lateralibus ad apicem cohserentibus, petalis
obovatis et clinandrio denticulatis, labello obovato utrinque dentato
medio excavato utrinque callis 2 elevatis.

« This plant was imported from Rio in December, 1841,

by Lieut. Christopher Smith, of H. M. packet ** Star," and

added to Sir Charles Lemon's collection at Carclew, where it
flowered in May, 1843. Like others of this genus it proves
to be only interesting as a subject for the Botanist, who, on
dissecting the various parts of the flower and examining them
through the microscope, cannot fail to be highly delighted
with their singular construction, and the beautiful frosted
appearance they present.

* Stem round, erect, from two to three inches high,
brownish green, with a single joint about an inch from the
root, surrounded and embraced by a brown sheathing bract,
which extends nearly to the base of the leaf. Leaves ovate-
oblong, slightly curved and hollowed in the centre, about two
inches and a half long, and an inch broad, very thick ‚and
leáthery, of a brownish green colour. Flowers six, sometimes
seven, arranged alternately in a close raceme, issuing from a
two-valved brown spathe at the base of the leaf, and extending
about an inch and a half along the midrib. Sepals fleshy,

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striated and covered on the outside with dense brownish
pubescence. The upper one is oblong lanceolate, with three
brownish purple lines along the centre, and another round the
margin. The lower sepals are united, and appear as one
roundish ovate acuminate body, of a brownish green, marked
with numerous elevated puce-coloured spots. Petals very
small, thin and delicate, about one-fourth the length of the
upper sepal, oblong obtuse, having a purplish line along the
centre and the margin, fringed and slightly marked with the
same colour. Labellum roundish obtuse, somewhat spathu-
late, and spotted in the same manner as the lower sepals ;
attached by a small elastic membrane to the end of the
column, which is curved and elongated so as to have the
appearance of a little spur. Column about the same length
as the petals, round and striated above, hollowed on the under
side, with a thin pellicle at the extremity on either side of the
anther case, so as to make it have the appearance of being
winged. Anther-case deep brown, containing two very small
waxy pollen-masses.

The plant requires the constant heat of a moist stove,
and thrives either on a piece of wood or in a pot of decayed
vegetable matter.”—W. B. Boots.

80. STIGMAPHYLLON jatrophefolium.
Adr. de Jussieu in Ann. sc. n. s. 18. p. 288.

. We have received specimens of this pretty plant from a
Liverpool correspondent, who describes it as a free flowerer,
growing luxuriantly in a moist stove. It has palmated leaves,
and yellow flowers, much like those of the other species. As
far as we can judge it is the best of the genus yet in gardens.

81. STANHOPEA Martiana; var. bicolor.
Bateman in Bot. Reg. 1840. misc. 19.

Although it is probable that some of the so-called species
of Stanhopea are mere varieties of oculata, and that others
may be wild mules, there seems no reason to doubt that this
is really a distinct plant, for it has a lip unlike any other that
we have seen, remarkably short and saccate at the base.
The present variety is a lovely plant with large pure white
flowers richly but sparingly spotted with crimson. In the

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original S. Martiana the sepals are straw-coloured, and much
more dotted with purple. Messrs. Rollisson have lately
flowered it, and believe they obtained it from Mexico. It is
as fine a thing as S. tigrina would be if its flowers were white,
and is very sweet-scented.

82. DION edule.

The addition of a new genus to the Cycadaceous order is
indeed a fine thing; and that which is now about to be de-
scribed is quite as different from the others of the order as
Cycas is from Zamia. For our knowledge of it we are in-
debted to Mrs. Lavater, a lady long resident in Mexico, who
brought home a cone and a live plant, both of which she pre-
sented to the Horticultural Society. The cone was filled with
seeds, about the size of a Spanish chesnut, but after some
time fell to pieces, the seeds proving to be all destitute of
embryo. The plant, which is growing, has a simple stem,
like that of a Zamia, but buried in wool. The leaves are
deep and light green, about two feet long, pinnated, with
about sixty pairs of leaflets, which are shaped like the blade
of a straight sword, very sharp pointed, attached to the pe-
tiole by their whole base, with parallel simple veins, which
pass distinctly into the petiole; they are about two inches
and a half long.

Although the male and female flowers of this plant are
unknown, the fruit affords abundant marks of distinction.
It consists of woolly rigid scales, tapering to the point, and
collected into a cone the size of a child's head, which scales
are heart-shaped at the base, and bear on each lobe a single nut,
about as large as a Chesnut. So that we have in this plant the
cones and geminate seeds of Zamia and Eucephalartos, with
the flat woolly scales of a Cycas; but without the marginal
seeds and lax inflorescence of that genus. We propose to
characterize the genus thus :—-

Dion (dis et wov). Flores masculi et femineiignoti. Stro-
bilus ovatus, dense lanatus, (capitis infantis magnitudine);
e squamis constans imbricatis, densissimě lanatis, petio-
latis, altě cordatis, acuminatis, intus levibus, basi utrin-
que semen solitarium (Castanee magnitudine) gerentibus.
Arbuscula humilis Mexicana, foliis pinnatis ; foliolis
basi latá petiolo adnatis.

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We learn from the lady who brought this to England, that
the seeds are employed in Mexico as a source of arrow-root.
The plant must therefore be extremely common in some parts
of that country ; and we believe it has actually been imported
in some abundance by a collector, who sold his stock to
Messrs. Loddiges.

83. LINDLEYA mespiloides.
Humboldt § Kunth nov. gen. et sp. plant. 6. 239. t. 562.

This very rare and curious plant has just flowered in the
Garden of the Horticultural Society, where a single specimen
exists, which was raised sometime since from Mr. Hartweg's
Mexican seeds. It has something the appearance of Crategus
mexicana, but has a dry capsular fruit. It proves evergreen,
and may possibly be hardy : but of that we have as yet no ex-
perience. Humboldt compares it for habit with the common
= but it would be better likened to a small narrow-leaved

edlar.

84. SPIRANTHES rosulata.

S. (Sarcoglottis) rosulata ; foliis oblongis coriaceis rosulatis glabris, scapo
aphyllo hirsuto 2-3-vaginato, spicá ovatá hirsutä, bracteis lineari-lanceo-
latis dorso glabris, labelli oblongi rotundati venosi ungue apice excavato
basi bicruri.

A Guatemala plant, not unlike Spiranthes pieta. It has

a scape about nine inches high, and a close spike of green

flowers. The leaves are most beautifully coated on the under-

side with vesicular cells, which give them a peculiar frosted

appearance, Mr. Hartweg sent it to the Horticultural
Society from Guatemala.

85. EPIDENDRUM oollare.

E. (Aulizeum) collare ; caulibus fusiformibus elongatis apice triphyllis, foliis

coriaceis canaliculatis patentibus, racemo laxo paucifloro, ovario cunicu-

. lato, sepalis petalisque conformibus petaloideis lanceolatis, labello ovato

obtuso undulato apice recurvo basi trilamellato, clinandrio margine ele-
vato denticulato cincto.

From Guatemala, where Mr. Hartweg found it. Its
stems are 18 inches long, strong and deeply furrowed. The

flowers are white, changing to yellow and brown as they go
off. The anther-bed is surrounded by an elevated edge,

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which stands up something like the collar of a coat. It is
not pretty. |

86. TURRAA lobata.

T. lobata; folis rhombeis apice trilobis dentatisque subtus pubescentibus,
floribus solitariis axillaribus, calycibus 5-dentatis, petalis spathulatis
column: longitudine, columná viginti-dentatá laciniis subulatis, anthe-
ris 10 exsertis, ovario 5-loculari.

A very curious stove shrub, of the Meliaceous order, re-
ceived by His Grace the Duke of Devonshire from Mr. Whit-
field, who collected it at Sierra Leone. It has white axillary
flowers, about as large as orange blossoms. It is near Turrza
heterophylla of Smith, a plant from the same coast of Africa.
We shall take an early opportunity of figuring it.

87. CALATHEA villosa.

C. villosa ; foliis subtus glaucis pilosis, scapo elongato bracteisque cuspida-
tis laxis villosis, petalis.obovatis bilobis.

A Demerara plant, sent to Messrs. Loddiges by Mr. Schom-
burgk. It has thin pale green leaves, glaucous underneath,
and hairy. Its flowers are large, yellow, showy, in a loose
spike, consisting of cuspidate shaggy bracts. It is a tender
stove plant, with the habits of a perennial Canna.

88. EARINA suaveolens.

E. suaveolens ; spicá oblongá densá basi subeompositä, labello transverso
rhombeo versus basin bicalloso obsoletě trilobo laciniä intermediä rotun-
datá undulatä emarginatä.

This extremely rare Orchidaceous plant was sold the
other day among a collection of New Zealand varieties, brought
to this country by Mr. Bidwill, and is now in the possession
of Messrs, Loddiges. It is a tufted species, with stems four
to twelve inches high, clothed with narrow distichous some-
what rigid leaves, about three inches long. The stems are
terminated by dense oblong spikes of white flowers, having
a double yellow spot on the lip. In a memorandum now
before me from Mr. Bidwill, I learn that it grows near
Roturoa in New Zealand, on trees not very densely covered
with leaves ; that it is very rare even there, exceedingly beau-
tiful, and most deliciously perfumed. From Earina mucro-

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nata it differs altogether in the form of the lip and the size of
the flowers, which are collected in dense spikes, and not in
slender branched ones. As the temperature of New Zealand
is rarely above 75°, that circumstance will have to be attended
to in its cultivation.

89. ASTER cabulicus.

A, cabulicus; fruticosus, ramis ferrugineo-pubescentibus, foliis lanceolatis
brevi-petiolatis denticulatis subpubescentibus subtüs pallidis, floribus
corymboso-paniculatis, involucri squamis ovato-linearibus apiculatis, radio
vigintifloro Receptaculum convexum, areolatum. Achsenium imma-
turum compresso-tetragonum pubescens. Pappus serie simplici, pilifor-
mis, subzqualis, scabriusculus. Anthere ecaudatz. Stigma exacté
Keerlia.

Almost the only plants which the Cabul expedition has
yet added to our gardens are the pretty Erysimum Perofskia-
num and this; the seeds of which were received by the
Horticultural Society from William Griffith, Esq. now Super-
intendent of the Botanic Garden, Calcutta. It forms a small
half-shrubby bush, quite hardy, with willow-like rugose leaves,
smelling something like wormwood, and flowers, at first
white, afterwards becoming pale lilac, and resembling those
of an American Aster. Although not referable to any of the
sections admitted by DeCandolle into that genus, it does not
appear in any way distinguishable, unless the ripe fruit, at
present unknown, should afford grounds of distinction.

90. STENOMESSON aurantiacum. Herbert.

S. aurantiacum ; spathà sesquiunciali perstanter pallidé virescente, pedunculis
inzequalibus longiore, germine viridi, tubo gracili 2 unciali vel ultra in-
ferne subvirenter pallidiore superne 3; unc. lato aurantiaco, limbo auran-
tiaco semunciali, laciniarum marginibus undulatis, coroná brevi, sinubus
edentatis, filamentis 3 unc. limbo semunciam stylo brevioribus. Var. 1.
Spatiis interstamineis repandis. —Pancr. aurantiacum Humb. Kunth. 1.
280. Chillo in prov. Quito (ipse non vidi). Var. 2. Spatiis interstami-
neis acutě incisis. Ex Quito; Spofforthie floruit. W.H.

91. STENOMESSON eustephioides. Herbert.

S. enstephioides ; spathá unciali marcescente pedunculos vix superante, ger-
mine viridi, tubo 2 unciali vel ultra inferne pallidiore basi virente cam-
panulato 4 unc. lato aurantiaco, limbo semunciali aurantiaco marginibus
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alis superne setose productis, antheris limbum superantibus stylo 2 unc.
brevioribus. Ez Quito; Spofforthie floruit. W.H.

These two bulbs are only known to us by the above brief
memoranda from the Dean of Manchester.

92. RANDÍA oxypetala.

R. ozypetala ; spinescens, fruticosa, undique glaberrima ramulis tantum ju-
nioribus pubescentibus, foliis ovalibus sessilibus approximatis, floribus
terminalibus sessilibus solitariis, calycis limbo quinquedentato dentibus
setaceis, corolle brevis infundibularis lobis acuminatis arcté reflexis tubi
longitudine, ovarii loculis dispermis.

This new species of Randia has been raised in the garden
of the Horticultural Society, from seeds received from Dr.
Faleoner of Saharunpur. It forms a dense somewhat spiny
shrub, with shining small oval densely crowded leaves, and
solitary terminal stalkless flowers, which are yellowish and
sweet-scented. It approaches R. dumetorum in many respects,
but its flowers are smooth not downy, the lobes of the corolla
are turned back and pressed close to the tube, and are drawn
to a fine point; finally, the teeth of the calyx are setaceous,
and not oblong or leafy. The ovary is two-celled, and each
cell contains a pair of ovules, fixed by their middle to a pro-
minent placenta. It is not quite hardy here, but would pro-
bably prove so in the south-west of England.

93. BRONGNIARTIA sericea.

Schlechtendahl in Linnea, vol. 12. p. 336.

A downy shrub, when out of flower looking something
like an Amorpha, with leaves pubescent on the midrib and be-
neath, but smooth above when full grown. Each leaf consists
of about nine pairs of oval leaflets, terminated by a little
setaceous point. The flowers grow singly in the axils, have
a large green calyx, and dingy purple petals very little larger
than it is. It was raised in the garden of the Horticultural
Society from Mexican seeds, presented by G. F. Dickson, Esq.
It has little beauty, and is too tender for the climate of
London. We perceive no material difference between the
garden plant and that described by Professor Schlechtendahl,
except that he speaks of his flowers growing m fours; here
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his detailed description, that it was the strongest of the wild
specimens examined by him in which this character existed,
and therefore it may be presumed that the solitary flowers of
the garden plant may be owing to its being young.

94. ALSTROEM ERIA magnifica. Herbert.

A. magnifica ; perianthii sepalis apiculaté obovatis pallidissimě purpurascen-
tibus biuncialibus 14 unc. latis, petalo inferiore concolore rotundaté ob-
tuso unciam lato 13 uncialibus, superioribus angustioribus 3 unc. latis
12 longis inferne densé saturaté purpura striato-suffusis medio fulvis
superne fulvo-purpurascentibus. W. H.

Of this fine plant a single flower has been examined by the
learned Dean of Manchester, who regards it as a new species
allied to the Ligtu of Feuillé, which he considers distinct
from our A. Ligtu, figured at t. 13. of 1839; the latter,
Dr. Herbert looks upon as a very striking variety of A. pul-
chella. The plant has been raised from seeds collected near

Coquimbo by Mr. Bridges, and was sent us by Mr. Carter,
seedsman, Holborn.

95. ALSTRCEMERIA Chorillensis. Herbert.

A. Chorillensis ; caule circiter vel sub-pedali, pedunculis 2-3-floris, foliis cir-
citer 23 unc. longis 2 latis superficie superiore resupinatä costatä forti-
ter 2-4-nervatä confertim albo punctatä inferiore sursum-versä glabrä
nitente, perianthio subsesquiunciali (circiter 13) diluté roseo costis ex-
ternis apicibusque viridibus, sepalis laté spatulatis subparibus ultra sem-
unciam latis, petalis angustioribus acutis superioribus summä parte
dilutě roseà mediá luteá imá pallidá a parte roseá usque ad basim macu-
lis brevibus angustis linearibus rufescentibus obliquis notatis, genitalibus
dilutě roseis, polline pallido, capsulà subspheericá seminibus parvis ro-
tundis obscurč brunneis densà tuberculatis chalazà obscuriore orbieulari
medio depressà umbilico inconspicuo subapiculato pallidiore, Habitat
montana Chorillos dicta prope Limam in Peruvid. W.H.

_ We are unacquainted with this plant, except by the fore-
going description ; for which, and the following, we are in-
debted to the Dean of Manchester.

96. BARBACENIA Sguamata.

B. squamata ; ($ Veitchia, vel, si mavis, genus Veitchia; squamis sex petaloi-
deis stamina et limbi lacinias interpositis) foliis subtrifariam patentibus
triuncialibus canaliculatis acutis viridibus margine sub lente scabro, caule
quadrunciali subtereti unifloro nudo, germine subtrigoně angustě sub-
campanulato $ une. longo luteo rubro-striato angulis subaculeatis, tubo

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parili $ une. limbo laciniis acuté suberecté semipatentibus ultra semun-
cialibus acutis rubris, sepalorum costä lutescente, antheris fauce tubi
subsessilibus sub-}-uncialibus, squamis longitudine antheras parum su-
perantibus liberis superne latioribus erosis rubris inferne lutescentibus,
stylo erecto gracili antheris breviore pallido, stigmate parum crassiore
rubescente. Habitat Braziliam in montibus Organ dictis. Credo equi-
dem filamenta in Barbacenid purpured (cujus inter Vellosias et Barbace-
nias tantum flores recentes vidi) apice erosa et antheras superantia squamas
esse reverd filamenta mentientes et antherarum dorso adnatas, quales in
hde sectione Veitchid liberas invenimus vix ed ratione, ut crediderim, a
Barbacenid omnino distinguendá. W. H.

This neat little plant is one of the many novelties intro-
duced by the collector of Mr. Veitch, nurseryman, at Exeter,
who called it a Vellosia ; but Vellosia has numerous stamens
in fascicles. It approaches nearer to Barbacenia, from which
it is distinguished by six remarkable petaloid scales between
the segments of the limb and the anthers. Mr. Veitch well
deserves that the section of Barbacenia with free scales, or
genus if it be considered distinct, should be named after
him. W. H.

97. EPIDENDRUM diotum.

E. (Encyclium) diotum ; pseudobulbis ovatis corrugatis monophyllis, foliis
coriaceis ensatis patulis racemo duplo brevioribus, floribus distantibus,
sepalis petalisque obovatis unguiculatis undulatis acutis, labelli obtuse
rhombei tripartiti axi elevato carnoso in medio foveato, laciniis lateralibus
planis erectis rotundatis, intermediä rotundatà undulatá cuspidatá con-

vexä, clinandrio integro.

From Guatemala, where it was found by Mr. Hartweg.
Its leaves are about a foot long, spreading, and very stiff.
The raceme is about two feet high. The flowers are an inch
and a half in diameter, of a dull cinnamon colour, with a little
yellow and some chocolate veins in the lip. It is one of the
many species in the way of E. asperum. The flowers are

either scentless, or have a slight odour of Elder leaves.

98. SCLEROON oleinum.

ScLEroon. Calyx campanulatus, breviter 4-dentatus. Corolla infundibuli-
formis, limbo qüädnfido. Stamina 4. Ovarium 4-loculare, loculis uni-
ovulatis, ovulis lateraliter affixis. Stylus brevis. Stigmata distincta,
obtusa. Drupa indehiscens, calyce immutato suffulta, putamine osseo,
loculis 4 (quorum 2 sepe abortiunt) monospermis. Semina oblonga late-
raliter affixa. Embryonis recti radicula ad basin fructus spectans brevis-
sima; cotyledones crasse carnose. Plumula inconspicua. — Frutex ;

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foliis oppositis integris integerrimis, inflorescentia axillari cymosa pauci-
flora. Bentham in litt.

'There is a little Mexican shrub in our gardens, with the
appearance of an Olive, the flowers of a Verbena, and the
name of Daphne. Mr. Hartweg found it in fruit only, and
sent it to the Horticultural Garden, where it has flowered ;
and has proved to be a new genus of the Verbenaceous order,
for which Mr. Bentham has framed the preceding technical
character. Its nearest affinity seems to be with /Egiphila.
The flowers are small, greenish white, in little axillary cymes.
It has no beauty.

99. PERISTERIA.

Upon reconsidering the generie character of this genus,
and carefully studying its species, we find that it has not yet
been defined with sufficient exactness, and that we ourselves
lately, deceived by habit and a loose definition, have admitted
into it a species which ought to have been excluded. The
type of the genus is the Dove Plant, or Spirito Santo, of Pa-
nama, in which we find an erect scape; globose fleshy flowers;
equal and regular sepals united at the base, but projecting
forwards with the chin usual in the Maxillaridous section; a
lip continuous with the column, fleshy, arrow-headed at the
base, distinctly articulated in the middle, and having its epi-
chilium undivided and bent down over the face of the column;
a column short, fleshy, and wingless; and finally a pair of
furrowed pollen-masses, sessile on a,narrow gland. With
these peculiarities, most of the Peristerias afterwards published
Ae except that their scapes are pendulous, instead of being
erect.

But I find that Peristeria Humboldti, figured at t. 18 of
this volume, is in some important respects different; its upper
sepal stands a little apart, so as to give the flower somewhat
a two-lipped appearance; its labellum has no articulation in
the middle ; and its pollen-masses are placed at the end of a
narrow caudicle, terminating in a crescent-shaped gland ;
added to which the column is furnished with a pair of very
broad wings. All these circumstances induce us now to sepa-
rate Peristeria Humboldti under the name of AciwETA, in
allusion to the immoveable jointless condition of the lip.
Peristeria Barkeri is a second species of this genus.

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In addition to these we have a plant in cultivation, diseo-:
vered by Mr. Hartweg in Guatemala, the habit of which is
exactly that of a Peristeria, but which has the lip not only
articulated in the middle but also with the column, and has
the caudicle and gland of Lycaste, from which it differs, inde-
pendently of habit, in having two pollen-masses and not four.
To this plant I propose to- give the old classical name of
Lacana, which the incision between the upper and lower half
of the lip renders applicable.

The following will be the technical characters of the plants
to which these observations apply.

PERISTERIA. Hooker Bot. Mag. 3116. Perianthium globosum. Sepala
basi connata concava. Petala conformia, pauló minora. Labellum cum
columná continuum, epichilio carnoso incumbente indiviso cum hypo-
chilio sagittato levitěr articulato. Columna erecta, semiteres, aptera, c.
hypochilio continua. Anthera ecristata, bilocularis, Pollinia 2, posticé
fissa, in glandulam linearem sessilia.——Herbee subterrestres, pseudo-
bulbosw. Folia plicata. Scapi vaginati, radicales, multiflori. Flores
speciosi.

1. P. elata (Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3116); scapo erecto orgyali, racemo
laxo elongato, epichilio rotundato serrulato medio elevato calloso, hypo-
chilio maximo lobis obtusis disco unidentatis columná longioribus.
Panama.— Flowers white, with lilac specks on the base of the lip,
very sweet-scented. Stem sometimes six feet high.

2. P. pendula (Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3479. P. maculata, Hort.) ; scapo
brevi pendulo, racemo denso, epichilio rotundato integerrimo supra bi-
lamellato, hypochilio elongato lobis rotundatis callo maximo lunato in
medio, columná bicorni, rostello truncato. ——Demerara, Flowers
pale purple, spotted with lilac, with a scarcely pleasant aromatic odour.

3. P. guttata (Knowles & Westcott, Floral Cabinet, t. 70.); racemo brevi
denso pendulo, epichilio rhombeo-oblongo serrulato leviter verrucoso,
hypochilio brevi lobis acutis, columná mutica, rostello brevi.——Demerara.

Flowers deeply speckled with brownish purple, on a pale dingy
ground, rather agreeably sweet-scented with an aromatic resinous odour.

4. P. cerina (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1953.) ; scapo brevi pendulo, racemo
denso, epichilio ovato emarginato crispo serrulato, hypochilii lobis bre-

. vibus acutiusculis, columná muticá, rostello truncato.——— Central America.

Flowers yellow, unspotted, with the smell of bruised juniper leaves,

only more aromatic.

100. ACINETA.

Perianthium carnosum, patulum, sepalis basi connatis supremo subascendente.
Petala conformia, paulo minora. Labellum cum columná continuum,
carnosissimum, hypochilio oblongo concavo, epichilio haud articulato tri-
partito ascendente, basi appendice carnosá aucto. Columna erecta
utrinque in marginem latum rotundatum producta. Anthera ecristata,
bilocularis. Pollinia 2, postice sulcata, caudieulà lineari, glandulä lu-
natä. Herbee Peristerise habitu.

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1. A. Humboldtii (Peristeria Humboldtii, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843, t. 18.
Anguloa superba, H. B. K. nov. &sp. 1. 343. t.93. Lindl. g. € sp. orch.
160.); petalis quam sepala duplö minoribus, callo labelli lineari simplici
laciniá intermedia biloba lateralibus cuneatis, columná brevi alis latis-

simis. Central America. —— Racemes very long, pendulous. Flowers
of a rich purplish brown, enlivened by deep spots and blotches of the
same.

2. A. Barkeri (Peristeria Barkeria, Bateman Orch. Mex. et Guat. t. 8.);
petalis sepalis sequalibus, callo labelli duplici inferiore lineari villoso
superiore subhastato apice 3-dentato basi multidentato, laciniá inter-
mediä emarginatä lateralibus acinaciformibus, columnä elongatä alis an-
gustioribus. Mezico.—— Scape long, pendulous, lax; many-flowered.
Flowers yellow, whole coloured. The lip has certainly no articulation
in the middle, although from Mrs. Withers's figure in Mr. Bateman's
splendid plate such would seem to be the case.

101. LACANA.

Perianthium carnosum patens, sepalis subsequalibus basi subconnatis. Pe-
tala conformia minora. Labellum cum columnä et medio articulatum,
hypochilio unguiculato cuneato bilobo apice pulvinato, epichilio integro.
Columna erecta semiteres Pollinia 2, posticé fissa, caudicula setacea,
glandulá minutá.——-Herbee, Peristeris habitu.

1, Laceena dicolor.—— Guatemala Racemes long, drooping. Flowers
pale yellow, with the lip spotted with dark purple.

102. CYMBIDIUM chloranthum.

C. chloranthum ; foliis ensiformibus supra pseudobulbum breve oblongum
eguitantibus obtusis supra medium planis recurvis, racemo stricto foliis
breviore, bracteis minutissimis, sepalis petalisque obtusis, labello basi

age apice retuso emarginato laciniis lateralibus nanis triangulari-
us, lamellis distantibus arcuatis verrucosis.

‚ A Nepalese species, which has lately flowered with Messrs.
Loddiges. Its strictly erect racemes, such as those of C. ensi-
folium, separate it widely from the majority of Indian species.
The sepals and petals are green ; the lip yellowish spotted with

crimson at the base. After flowering the blossoms soon be-
come of a dusky wine colour.

103. ACHIMENES hirsuta.

A. hirsuta ; caulibus hirsutis paniculatis bulbilliferis, foliis cordatis serratis

hirsutis, pedunculis solitariis foliis aequalibus, corollee limbo plano laci-
niis rotundatis serrulatis.

. This very pretty new species of a charming genus was
raised by Mr. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, from among

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a mass of Guatemala Orchidacee bought at one of Mr.
Skinner's sales. It is in the way of A. pedunculata, but the
flowers are larger, the border is much more flat, and the
colour is a deep rich rose instead of the clear orange of A.
pedunculata. We hope soon to be able to figure this.

104. EPIDENDRUM limbätum.

E. limbatum (Encyclium) ; omninó facie E. glauci, sed sepalis petalisque sub-
rotundo-ovatis, columns appendice truncatá dentatä tenui, floribus
dupld majoribus.

A Guatemala plant, purchased by Messrs. Loddiges at one
of Mr. Skinner’s sales. It has quite the habit of E. glaucum,
but is much larger, and its flowers have roundish sepals and
petals, like those of E. squalidum. The appendage at the
back of the anther is thin, truncate and toothed, not rounded,
fleshy and entire. It flowered in August last. The name
alludes to a narrow yellowish border which surrounds the dull
purplish brown sepals and petals. It has a very slight smell,
like that of cobler’s wax.

105. ACRIOPSIS picta.

A. picta ; pseudobulbis ovatis, foliis solitariis linearibus canaliculatis patulis
emarginatis, scapo paniculato, labelli laciniis lateralibus triangularibus
intermedia elongata lineari disco bilamellato, columnee brachiis 2 glan-

dulosis. :

A rather pretty small flowered Orchidaceous plant, with
the habit of Sarcanthus pallidus. Its flowers are white and
green, with a dull purple stain at the point of the four seg-
ments of the perianth, and the same colour on the disk of the
lip, leaving a white border all round. We have received it
from M. Van Houtte of Ghent, who informs us that it was
obtained at Bantam, in the virgin forests of Datarbjaay and
Bodjomanik, on the river Tjileman, by Mr. Adolph Papeleu,
one of the partners in M. Van Houtte's Nursery.

106. VERTICORDIA densiflora.
Lindley Swan River Vegetation, p. vi.

A small heath-like shrub, with dotted scentless leaves, and
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be from the appearance of dried specimens. It is one of the.
curious race of Fringe Myrtles. The flowers are exquisitely
beautiful when viewed with a magnifying glass, but they are
not bright enough in colour, nor in sufficient mass to produce
a striking effect. It is a native of Swan River, and has been
raised in the Nursery of Messrs. Veitch of Exeter.

107. GOVENÍA fasciata.

G. fasciata; spicá elongata cylindraceà, bracteis ovario sequalibus, sepalis
angustis acutis, petalis obovato-lanceolatis dupló latioribus, labello ob-
longo apiculato intus leevi, antherze mucrone inflexo.

A discovery by Mr. Linden, who sent it from Mexico to.
Mr. Rucker. It is one of the prettiest of this genus of Or-
chidacez, having clear yellow flowers, whose sepals and petals
are beautifully marked by fine broken bands of crimson. The
long bracts, thin narrow spike of flowers, and oblong, not
ovate, lip, are the marks by which it 1s best recognized.

108. FRIESIA peduncularis.
DeCand. Prodr. 1. 520.

A neat evergreen half-hardy shrub, with deep green
leathery ovate-lanceolate serrated leaves, sometimes opposite,
sometimes alternate, and varying a good deal in the length of
their foot-stalks. The flowers are something like those of an
Andromeda speciosa, white, drooping from a slender stalk,
and composed of from four to six sepals and petals. The latter
are wedge-shaped, exactly 3-cleft, with two deep crimson
stripes in the middle. The plant, which we owe to the kind-
ness of Mr. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, will probably
become a pretty conservatory plant; or perhaps it may be as
hardy as a Camellia; but that has to be ascertained. It
belongs to the Elseocarpaceous order.

109. BOLBOPHYLLU M calamarium.

B. calamarium ; pseudobulbis tetragonis, folio oblongo plano coriaceo obtuso
basi canaliculato, scapo stricto longissimo apice florido, bracteis membra-
naceis emareidis ovarii longitudine, sepalis angusté triangularibus mar-
gine pubescentibus, petalis cornuformibus subteretibus glabris, labello
sessili mobili lineari basi sulcato margine omni tomentoso supra medium
villis longissimis crinitum, columns cornubus falcatis.

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A very singulár plant, allied to B. saltatorium, and like
that species having a moveable lip fringed with long purple
hairs, which rises and falls spontaneously as the stem sways
about in the wind. Its scape is full two feet long, stiff and
erect. . The flowers are of a dirty yellow ochre colour with a
little purple upon them ; the lip is dull purple. For our spe-
cimens we are indebted to Col. Fielding, who procured the
species from Sierra Leone.

110. MILTONIA candida; var. grandiflora.
Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838. misc. 29. — Sertum "Orch. t. 91.

Of this fine plant a most beautiful variety has flowered
with Mr. Rucker, who purchased it in Hamburgh. Its flowers
are twice as large as those of the original variety, the lip is of
a most brilliant white, and the sepals and petals are of a deep
rich brown spotted towards the extremities only with yellow.

111. CATASETUM Naso.

C. Naso; spicà brevi erecta, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis complicatis petalisgue
lanceolatis ascendentibus «equalibus, labello hemispheerico apice abrupte
in appendicem carnosum ovatum obtusum producto: marginibus basi
tenuibus laceris amplexicolumnibus : lineä intramarginali carnosä inflexà
connivente aperturam cordiformem efficiente, columná bicirrhosá.

This singular plant was received last year from Linden by
Mr. Rucker, with whom it'has lately flowered. It is a plant
whose flowers before opening might be mistaken for C. tri-
dentatum, but when expanded they are totally different. The
sepals and petals, which are very pale dull green outside, are
slightly pink inside, and richly spotted, in irregular bars, with
a deep crimson-purple. The lip is a most singular organ,
and very difficult to describe. Viewed from the side it has a
hemispherical form, and is green except at the base, where it
is extended into a black-purple lacerated margin embracing
the column, and at the point where it is extended into a long
flat horn or nose. Seen in front it is almost wholly of the
same rich black-purple, and looks as if it were a solid hemi-
sphere pierced in the middle with a large heart-shaped hole ;
but this appearance is owing to a thick fleshy rim which rises
from within the true edge of the lip, and directing itself in-
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front of the column, and produces the appearance of a junction.
The flowers have no smell.

112. MASDEVALLIA floribunda.

M. floribunda ; folio carnoso spathulato obtuso apice tridentato, scapo lon-
giore unifloro, flore bilabiato, sepalis lateralibus oblongis dorsali dupló
breviore ovato omnibus in acumen linearem obtusum productis, petalis
truncatis anticeinfra medium unidentatis lineis duabus brevibus carnosis
versus apicem incrassatis, labello ovato-oblongo leevi lineis duabus elevatis
carnosis rotundatis obsoletis.

. A little Mexican Orchidaceous plant, from the collection
of John Rogers, Esq. of Sevenoaks, flowering profusely during
a large part of the year. The leaves are olive green, about
three inches and a half long, including the stalk, of a thick
texture, and a rounded, not acute, margin. The flowers are
a dull brownish yellow, and grow singly on slender stalks five
or six inches long. The length of the sepals is about three
quarters of an inch. It is the only species of this singular
genus not found in the northern hemisphere.

113. RODRIGUEZIA carnea.

R. carnea ; pseudobulbis compressis ovalibus, foliis lanceolatis canaliculatis
acutis, racemo secundo foliis breviore ascendente, sepalo supremo forni-
cato inferiore bidentato, petalis ovatis obtusis, labello juxtà basin aurito

disco interrupté bilamellato apice cuneato emarginato, columnä elongatá
basi lanatä.

A discovery of Mr. Linden in*Columbia, in the year 1842,
very like a small pale specimen of R. secunda. It differs
however not merely in size and colour, but in having only two
instead of three raised plates on the bend of the labellum, and
in its column being unusually long and woolly. We are in-
debted for our specimen to the Rev. J. Clowes. The foliage
is much the same as that of R. secunda, but narrower.

114. BEATONIA atrata.
Herbert in litteris.

B. atrata; cormo oblongé ovato apiculato, foliis plicatis suberectis acutis
utrinque attenuatis 12-15-unc. sesquiunc. vel ultra latis glabris [margine
vix sub lente subscabro] viridibus, caule bipedali articulis foliaceo-brac-
teatis, spathà 23 unc. bivalvi æquali bracteis 2 internis minoribus, flori-
bus successivis, pedunculis teretibus unciam exsertis virescentibus, ovario

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semunciali oblongo inferne attenuato, perianthio sesguiunciam patente
antemeridiano fugaci, sepalorum ungue pallide virescente densé et minutě
fusco-purpureo notato laminá rotundatá concavá fusco-purpureá inferne
pallida, petalis brevioribus ungue angustiore pallidiore lamina pallida
superne fusco-purpureá, columná stamineä j5. unc. antheris 45. unc.
acutis divaricatis polline obscure aureo, styli lobis tenuibus depressis su-
perne bifidis stigmate minuto terminali, capsulá trigonä unciali. W.H.

This plant was imported by Sir C. Lemon in the spring
of 1843, having been sent by Mr. J. Rule, of the Real del
Monte mines. The foregoing character is taken from a de-
scription transmitted by Mr. Booth, and an examination of
the dry specimen of the plant and flower sent from Carclew
in a letter. It appears to agree in essential points with
Beatonia purpurea, and Beatonia curvata, one of Hartweg’s
plants, which flowered at Spofforth in August, 1843.— W. H.

The following is Mr. Booth's, above alluded to :—** This
plant has so great a resemblance to the old Tigridia Pavonia
in general appearance, that I suspected it to be nothing more
than a variety of that well known plant. On flowering, how-
ever, it proved to be totally different, by no means so showy,
but quite as remarkable in some respects, especially in its
flowers, which are beautifully pencilled all over with dark
coloured spots like a Fritillary.

* Bulbs ovate oblong, tapering upwards. Leaves ensiform,
plaited, nearly erect, oblong lanceolate acute, quite smooth
and of a rich deep green on both sides ; varying from twelve
to fifteen inches in length, and one and a half or two inches in
breadth, tapering gradually to both ends. Scape two feet
high, (extrafoliaceous as in other Beatonias—W. H.) round
and erect with several joints, having each a one-leaved spathe,
similar in form and colour to the leaves, but narrower and
shorter, producing several flowers one and a half inch in dia-
meter, which open in succession, one at a time, and continue
expanded during the day, finally closing again in the after-
noon. Pedicells round, pale green, an inch longer than the
spathe. Sepals ovate oblong concave, the inner half (unguis)
which is narrowest, of a pale dirty green marked with nume-
rous small dark brown spots. The outer portion (lamina) is
roundish concave and reflexed, of a very deep brown colour,
paler towards the margin, and spotted. Petals about half as
long as the sepals, but broader in proportion and more con-
cave, tapering to a narrow claw at the base, and having a
small roundish reflexed point, spotted in the same way as the

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sepals, (certainly not so in the specimen.—W. H.) Column
round, erect, brownish yellow, rather higher than the depth
of the cup, bearing at the top three large, oblong-lanceolate
anthers, which spread in the same direction as the sepals, and
split along the margin to emit the pollen which is dark co-
loured. Styles three, apparently six, owing to each of them
being divided near the base into two roundish, curved, shining
yellowish coloured bodies. Capsule triangular, an inch long,
pale green, 3-celled, containing numerous seeds in each,
attached in twos to the placenta. The plant delights in a
rich loamy soil, and is probably quite as hardy as the Tigridia
Pavonia.”

In addition to this, the learned Dean of Manchester adds,
that “ the true stigma appears to be the terminal point of each
lobe, as in other Beatonias, and not a fimbriated line along the
lobes, as in Tigridia. It appears under the lens to have be-
tween the lobes the same minute crest as B. purpurea. The
anthers are decurved as in Beatonia, not recurved as in Tigri-
dia. It seems to be in perfect accordance with B. purpurea
and B. curvata.”

115. BEATONIA curvata. -

Herbert in litteris.

B. curvata ; cormo ut in B. purpureá, foliis 7 et ultra unc. sub ¿ unc. latis
plicatis acutis glabris viridibus, caule tenui extrafoliaceo bracteä circiter
sesquiunc. infra spatham tenui acutá 33 unc., spathá 1-valvi acutá sub-
sesquiunciali, pedunculis superně exsertis curvatis, ovario trigono 4 UNC.,
perianthio unguibus crateriformiter approximatis maculä ad basim pur-
pureá, sepalinis inferne pallidé viridi-lutescentibus medio minutě pur-
pureá punctatis superne dehsius punctatis lutescentibus laminá patente
rubro-purpureá semunciam latä ultra semunc. longä apicem subacutum
versüs undulatä, unguibus petalinis magis crateriformibus densà obscuré
purpurea punctatis superne obscure rubro-purpureis cubito velut utrinque
in cratere lateraliter prominente laminá rubro-purpureä +; latá 4 unc.
longá subreflexé patente crateriformi acutá, columná stamineá ungues
subzequante pallidá, antheris sessilibus basi latiore obtusé subulatis
loculis sepala respicientibus parum decurvis polline rufescente, styli lobis
rubro-purpureis decurvis superne bifidis lobis tenuibus glabris decurvis
stigmate minuto terminali. W. H.

One of Hartweg's plants, probably from Comalapan or the
vicinity of Real del Monte. lt confirms the correctness of the
separation of Beatonia: conforming in all the important
features of difference, though differing from B. purpurea in

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important points, especially the curvature of the peduncle.
The Beatonias, whether considered as a section or a distinct
genus, have much smaller fiowers, in all tending to purple,
and they will not breed with Tigridia as far as tried.—W. H.

116, STANHOPEA guttulata.

S. guttulata ; sepalo supremo oblongo concavo apice abruptě recurvo, labelli
hypochilio angusto a latere compresso apice carnoso dente valido inflexo,
epichilii cornubus lateralibus teretibus apiculatis lobo intermedio ovato
indiviso brevioribus, columná apice tantüm abruptě alatá.

Of this very singular and most distinct species I have only
seen a single flower, from the collection of J. H. Wanklyn,
Esq. of Crumpsell House, and I am unacquainted with 'its
history. "The flower was rather small for the genus, of a clear
very pale nankin colour, closely covered all over with small
crimson and brown spots and dots, even up to the tip of the
labellum. It is to be hoped that further information con-
cerning it will soon be gained. It is a plant of the greatest
interest.

117. CYCNOCH ES ventricosum, and
CYCNOCHES Egertonianum.

* Strange things," says Mr. Bateman, in his magnificent
work on Orchidaces, now alas concluded—‘‘and no less
strange than true—have already been recorded of Orchida-
ceous plants, but the case which is represented in the accom-
panying plate casts into the shade all former frolics of this
Protean tribe. The facts are briefly as follow. |

** Among Mr. Skinner's earliest Guatemala collections,’
attention was particularly directed to the specimens of a plant
which to the habit of a Cycnoches joined the long pendulous
stems of a Gongora, and for the possession of which, in a
living state, no small anxiety was entertained. Some plants
were speedily transmitted by Mr. Skinner, but these, on flow-
ering, proved to be merely the old C. ventricosum. A mistake
was of course suspected, and Mr. Skinner being again applied
to, sent over a fresh supply of plants, for the authenticity of
which he vouched; but these were scarcely settled in the
stove, when flowers of C. ventricosum were again produced.
Mr. Skinner being importuned for the third time, and being

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then on the point of returning to this country, determined to
take one of the plants under his special protection during the
voyage, which, flowering on the passage, seemed to preclude
the possibility of further confusion or disappointment. The
specimens produced at sea were exhibited, and the plant itself
placed in the stove at Knypersley, where it commenced grow-
ing with the utmost vigour. The season of flowering soon
arrived, but brought with it a recurrence of the former scene
of astonishment and vexation, for the blossoms, instead of
those of the coveted novelty, were not distinguishable from the
old C. ventricosum. "These were still hanging to the stem
when the inexplicable plant sent forth a spike of a totally dif-
ferent character, and which was, in fact, precisely similar to
the specimens gathered in Guatemala, and to those produced
on the voyage. It is, at present, impossible to attempt any
explanation of so strange a phenomenon, especially on the
supposition that the two forms of flower are analogous to the
male and female blossoms of other tribes, for C. ventricosum
alone not unfrequently perfects seeds."

The plant here alluded to is a Cycnoches, which at one
time bears large green flowers, in a short spike, with broad
flat sepals and petals, and a convex white ovate undivided
labellum ; and at another produces small blackish simple
flowers in a very long drooping spike, with narrow sepals and
petals rolled back upon the stalk, and a circular purple label-
lum, with the edge broken up into many fingers, a lancet-
shaped appendage at the point, and a kind of horn springing
from the middle. "These things are so totally different that,
notwithstanding the strange sportings represented at fol. 1951
of this work, and the unquestionable authority of Mr. Bate-
man, there were many persons, well skilled in the habits of
Orchidacez, who felt convinced that some mistake had been
made, and that in reality it was impossible that such totally
t flowers could have been borne by one and the same
plant.

But what is impossible in nature ?

On the 15th of September last, I received from Robert
Steyner Holford, Esg. of Westonbirt, near Tetbury in Glouces-
tershire, a flower-spike bearing flowers of Cycnoches ventri-
cosum and C. Egertonianum intermized ; it was exhibited at a
meeting of the Horticultural Society, and I now produce a
figure of it. ‘The plant which bore this specimen had been

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purchased by Mr. Holford of Messrs. Rollissons of Tooting as
Cycnoches ventricosum.

Here it will be seen
that fig. 2. is nearly
Cycnoches ventricosum,
but its lip is here and
there raised intowarts,
which are the begin-
ning of the lobes of
C. Egertomanum, and
moreover some of the
dark purple of the
latte is appearing at
the base of the column
and the tips of the
sepals. At fig, 3. the
purple of Egertonia-
num is displacing the
green of ventricosum
the sepals are rolling
back, and the label-
lum is almost wholly
changed, but the sepals
are still those of C.
ventricosum. At fig. 4.
and 5. the transforma-
tion is complete.

‘Another curious
point in this instance
is that the transforma-
tions occur in no cer-

de. tain order. The lowest

E iT flower on the spike,
No. 1, is more Egertonianum than ventricosum ; the next above
it, No. 2, is almost wholly ventricosum; that which succeeds,
No. 3, is more ventricosum than Egertonianum ; and 4 and 5,
the last on the spike, are wholly Egertomanum.

What with such cases as this, the Dean of Manchester’s
Narcissi, and the singular hybrids with, which botanists
are becoming familiar, all ideas of'species and stability of
structure in the vegetable kingdom, are shaken to their
foundation.

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118. LONICERA diversifolia.
Wall. cat. herb. ind. no. 477.

L. diversifolia ; pubescens, erecta, foliis ovatis acutis, floribus geminis sessi-
libus axillaribus, corollee lobo inferiore lineari recurvo superiore cordato
convexo apice truncato tridentato.

A hardy shrub, raised in the Garden of the Horticultural
Society from seeds presented by the Honourable Court of
Directors of the East India Company. It is in the way of
Lonicera Xylosteum, the common Fly Honeysuckle, and has
bright yellow sessile flowers appearing in June.

119. EPIDENDRUM dichromum.

E. (Encyclium) dichromum ; pseudobulbis ovato-fusiformibus diphyllis, foliis
ligulatis planis apice rotundatis racemo laxo paucifloro brevioribus,
sepalis lineari-lanceolatis, petalis obovato-lanceolatis latioribus, labelli
trilobi lobo medio obcordato cum mucrone pluries costato lateralibus
duplö brevioribus rotundatis apice patulis, columná apice biauritá.

A specimen of this plant was exhibited to the Horticul-
tural Society on the 3rd Oct. by Mr. Quesnel of Havre, who
stated that it came to him from Pernambuco. Unfortunately

its colours were much changed, and it was in such a bad state '

that no positive opinion could be formed of it except that it is
new. If, as we are informed, it had, when fresh, pure white
sepals and petals, and a rich rose-coloured labellum, it must
be handsome ; but when we saw it, the flowers were of a dirty
yellow. They are a little larger than those of Epidendrum
bifidum, to which indeed the species nearly approaches ; but
its flowers do not seem to be panicled, the clan wants the
two appendages found in that species, the column has two

large ears, and the latter organ is perfectly free from the
labellum.

120. EPIDENDRUM leucochilum.
Klotzsch in Gartenzeit. 1848. p. 145.

E. (Spathium) leucochilum ; foliis distichis, coriaceis, patenti-recurvis, ob-
tusis, emarginatis, subtus costato-carinatis, basi articulato-vaginatis ;
racemo simplici, terminali, 6 floro, e spatha ancipiti pedunculo breviore
orto; floribus magnis, arcuato-pedicellatis, odoratis ; perigonii foliolis
linearibus, acutis, flavo-viridibus, versus basin attenuatis, margine re-

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curvis, interioribus patenti-arcuatis, exterioribus deflexis ; labello trilobo
albido, lobis lateralibus brevioribus, integerrimis, obligue orbicularibus,
intermedio elongato, acuminato, venis baseos 3, elevatis instructo ; Co-
lumna elongata, candida, inferne ad apicem biloba.

This is a plant found in the Caraccas by Mr. Edward
Otto, in March, 1840, growing on the stems of trees at the
height of 4500 feet above the sea. It is said to prefer a cool
house, and to have been shewn at the Botanical exhibition at
Prague by Professor Tausch. It is fully described by Messrs.
Klotzch and Edward Otto in the above mentioned place.

121. MAXILLARIA rugosa.
Scheidweiler in Gartenzeit. 1843. p. 101.

M. rugosa ; pseudobulbis oblongis compressis sulcatis monophyllis vaginatis ;

foliis lanceolotis coriaceis rugosis apice obliquis emarginatis mucronatis,
basi plicatis ; scapo unifloro vaginato erecto pseudobulbo longior, scapi
vaginis 6-8 ventricosis, marginatis, carinatis acutis, sepalis lateralibus
lanceolatis explanatis, supremo fornicato, petalis angustioribus conni-
ventibus; labello trilobo carnoso, lobis lateralibus integris, intermedio
oblongo apice sulcato, in axi callo obcordato ad basin callo oblongo

crassiore munito.

A Brazilian plant, according to its author allied to his
Maxillaria galeata, the flowers of which have appeared in
Count Aremberg’s collection. Its pseudo-bulbs are described
as being two inches high and nine lines broad; the leaf nine
inches long and fifteen lines broad; the scape 33 inches
high. The sepals are lanceolate, acute, ochraceous, purple
towards the base ; the petals are purple ; the lip dark purple;
the pollen-masses four, with a transverse transparent gland, :
and a membranous white caudicula.

122. CRYPTOSANUS seriptus.

Scheidweiler in Gartenzeit. 1843. p. 101.

Under this name is described a Brazilian Orchidaceous
plant, said to be botanically intermediate between Cymbi-
dium and Maxillaria. The pseudo-bulbs are one-leaved, com-
pressed and two-edged. The leaf is lanceolate, coriaceous,
opaque, and mucronate. The racemes are axillary; the
bracts subulate and very small; the flowers two or three on
each stalk, scentless, small, green, with sanguine spots and

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lines. Mr. Scheidweiler gives the following definition of his
new genus.

Char. gen. Perianthium explanatum, sepalis petalisque subsequalibus, sepalo
supremo fornicato, labello indiviso oblongo apiculato, disco calloso, cum
basi column accreto, saccato ; sacculi ore ciliis densis cincto ; columna
brevis clavata apice auriculata. Anthera unilocularis, pollinia duo,
pyriformia, postice sulcata ; caudicula subulata, glandula oblonga.

123. CATTLEYA Arembergii.
Scheidweiler in Gartenzeit. 1843. p. 109.

C. Arembergü ; sepalis lateralibus falcatis obtusiusculis, supremo lanceolato,
petalis latioribus undulatis, labelli trilobi lobis undulato-crispis, inter-
médio margine lilacino lamina lutea, lateralibus margine lutescentibus,
spatha herbacea compressa obtusa, pseudobulbis cylindraceis nitidis,
foliis ovatis carnosis, obsure viridibus. Caulis 8 poll. altus, fol. 4 poll.
longa, 2 poll. lata, flores inodori.

This species, says Mr. Scheidweiler, although having
much resemblance to some others, is nevertheless distin-
guished by its beautiful dull green ovate leaves, and its great
lilac flowers. It is a Brazilian species, and we presume
described from Count Aremberg's garden, though that is
not stated.

124. EPIDENDRUM glutinosum. `
Scheidweiler in Gartenzeit. 1848. p. 110.

E. glutinosum ; foliis in pseudobulbos pyriformes tunicatos glabros, binis
linearibus coriaceis obligue truncatis, racemo subsimpliei pedicellisgue
glutinosis, sepalis oblongis acuminatis petalisgue spathulatis patentibus,
labelli fere liberi trilobi lobis lateralibus oblongis obtusis integris erectis,
intermedio ovato crispato, disco calloso depresso, columna bidentata.—
Scapus terminalis pedalis, petala et sepala viridi-purpurea, extus lineis

purpureis notata, labellum albo-lutescens, lobo intermedio lineis purpu-
reis ornato.

This plant, which comes from the neighbourhood of
Rio Janeiro, and is remarkable for the glutinous condition of
its scape and peduncles is, according to Mr. Scheidweiler,
very near Epidendrum odoratissimum, which he considers
identical with the Encyclia patens of Hooker and Macradenia
lutescens of Loddiges. Its scape is a foot high. The petals
and sepals are greenish purple, marked outside with purple
lines. The lip is whitish yellow, its middle lobe being
marked with purple lines.

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195. MASDEVALLIA cuprea.

M. cuprea ; folio obovato-lanceolato basi angustato sub apice levissimé triden-
tato carinato, scapo paulo longiore triquetro bifloro, bracteis carinatis
pedicellorum longitudine, sepalis lateralibus ovato-lanceolatis tricarinatis
semiconnatis supremo lineari-lanceolató pauló longiore marginibus re-
flexis, petalis linearibus truncatis apieulatis, labello basi concavo oblongo
versus apicem convexo lineari apice obtuso reflexo.

An unknown correspondent has sent this from Hamburgh,
as a native of Chyenne. Its leaf was four inches long; the
scape a little longer; the upper sepal copper-coloured, the
lower dark purple, copper-coloured at the point. It manifestly
differs from M. guayanensis in its sepals not being caudate.

126. CROCUS pulchellus. Herbert.

Crocus pulchellus ; cormo e minimis tunicis non fibrosis, preecipuá truncatà -
dura intus glabra prope basim affixé annulo inferne circumseisso fibris
alterné brevioribus ciliato, persistente, interioribus (i.e. foliaceis) summo
cormo affixis, spathá $ unc. hyalina inclusá albescente acuta, bracteà
sequali latá loratà germine sublutescente, tubo 13-23 unc. exserto sub-
lutescente estriato fauce suberoceä, limbo 14-13 unc. laciniarum obtu-
sarum basi intus saturaté croceà subbarbatà pallidé subpurpureo, venis
preecipuis sepalorum tribus petalorum quinque purpureis, filamentis $ unc.
hispidis croceis, antheris -$- unc. cum polline albis !!! stylo pallidé croceo
lobis tribus sub sole flaccidé recumbentibus $ unc. superne furcatis rariůs
trifidis stigmatibus erosis saturatioribus, seminibus e minimis rotundatis
vel subangulaté compressis pallidě rufis hilo apiculato raphe ad chalazam
valde prominente. Obs. In specioso anthere aurea triplo ferč filamentis
longiores, fil. alba, tubus purpurascens, limbi basis extus saturate purpu-
rascens intus immaculata, stylus erectior, tunica precipua tenuis neque
annulo ad basim persistente duro, foliac. exter. medio circ. cormo affixa,
semina obscurě rufo-brunnea superficie quasi velutind hilo apiculato raphe
et chalazá inconspicuis.—W. H.

127. CROCUS nubigena. Herbert.

Crocus nubigena ; nisi potius C. nubigena, v. Troicus ; adjectis v. 2. Sib-
thorpianus ex ins. Cretá tunicis obsoletis tenuibus rect? (et forsan v. 3.
levigatus duris squammaformiter) incisis ; quod, his minis cognitis, neque
negare neque afirmare ausim. Cormi basis in speciminibus C. Sib-
thorpiani caret ; annulus in icone Boryano C. levigati et in spec. Sib-
thorpiano deest, sed curatiůs inquirendum est; a C. Tournefortiano, a me
non viso, cert? distinguendus) cormi tun. vaginaceá interiore membranacea
tenui, basi annulaté circumscissá, annulo duro persistente fibris aculei-
formibus ciliato, foliaceá exteriore membranaceá durá intus nitidá prope
basim affixá, foliaceis interioribus obsoletis basi gracili circum-bracteatá,
bracteis tunicarum fragmenta apiculata mentientibus, foliis circiter 4,

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scapo nudo, germine vix subterraneo, bracteä loratá spatham «equante,
tubo vix longiore superne (in sicco, perianthium vivum non vidi) coeruleo-
purpureo, petalis ad basim sepalis totà longitudine medio purpureis
marginem versůs et superne pallidis, fauce intus luteá, filamentis an-
theras eequantibus luteis; stylo superne subcoccineo lobis tenuibus sim-
plicibus antheras subeequantibus vel parum superantibus. In ipso feré
Gargari cacumine m. Martio florentem legit dom. Lander cujus operá
benevolá cormi apud me vivi sunt.—W. H.

128. CROCUS lageneflorus; var. Hemicus.
: Herbert. °

rocus lagenzeflorus ; v. 8. Hæmicus ; (Olivierano proximus) c. tun. vagi-
naceá interiore levi prope basim affixá inferne sub lente fibris parallelis
compacta, proxima exteriore tenui fibris paucis parallelis, inter quas zona
radicalis, foliaceá interiore levi non sulcatä fibris intus parallelis pauci-
oribus, perianthio aureo. In monte Hemo prope Adrianopolim. Vivos
a dom. Cartwright accepi, nondum floridos.

129. CROCUS lageneflorus ; var. Landerianus.
Herbert.

v. 9. Landerianus; c. t. vag. interiore superne membranaceä
inferne fibris parallelis manifestě compactä, proximá ext. tenui fibris
paucis, foliaceá exteriore summo cormo affixá curvě sulcatá, spathá
triunciali ebracteatä, perianthio aureo vel flavescente. Perianthium
vivum non vidi. Ex Kurchumlu Tepe in Troade vivos a dom. Lander
accepi. Obs. Semina in lagenzefloris rugosé oblongata pallidě badia
subpurascentia sunt ; zestate recenti intempestä capsula mihi una semi-
nibus albis exstitit, unde varietatum spem aliquam preesumo.—W. H.

130. CROCUS nivigena. Herbert.

Crocus nivigena ; (nisi potius, quod viz credo, C. nivigena, v. Odessicus ; ad-
Jecto v. 2. Sieberiano ex summo Taygeto et Crete montibus, certě inter
erocos proximo) c. tun. vaginaceis tenuibus fugacibus fibris infirmis
parallelis, in obsoletis inferne demum liberis, tunicä precipuá (i. e. ni
fallor foliaceá exteriore) fibris reticulatis non cribrosis imo feré cormo
affixá, basi cum foliaceá proximá (nescio an semper) connatä, foliis an-
gustis ; perianthio (a me non viso) albo sepalis interdum extus striatis.
In regione Steppes dictá prope Odessam nive recenter fusá m. Febr. a
dom. Yeames lectus ; cormi apud me vivi sunt operá benevolá dom.
Cartwright et Yeames.—W. H.

131. CROCUS Cartwrightianus. Herbert,

Crocus Cartwrightianus ; (nisi potius, C. Pallasiano non satis cognito, C. Pal-
lasianus v. Cartwrightianus consendus sit, cert? Pallasiano proximus)
c. tun, omnibus tenuiter membranaceis fibris extus superne subtiliter

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reticulatis, obsoletis demum inferne parallelo-fibrosis, vaginaceis cire.
quinque, duábus inter quas zona radicalis est prope basim affixis, tertià
aliquantum. supra, proximá interiore medio cormi affixá et duábus
foliaceis proximis basi spiraliter (nescio an semper) connexá, foliaceá
exteriore 4 unc. infra apicem, tertià et quartá a vaginaceis basi inter se
connatis, quintà basi semicirculari, foliis angustis plüs minüs semilineam
latis margine reflexo et costá dorsali densé minutě ciliatis canali vix
albescente ortu proteranthiis seriüs explicatis, scapo involucrato invo-
lucro bifloro spathis hyalinis parum breviore, spathae bracteá acutá tubum
involvente non, tubatà spatham eequante, germine albicante, tubo sesqui-
unciam exserto pallido, limbo albo venis intus ad petalorum basim satu-
raté alies dilutiüs purpureis, fauce extus nebulosé subpurpurascente
demum pallidä intus albä, barbá albů petaliná, sepalorum basi levi,
filamentis albis levibus 4 unc. fauci ipsi insertis, antheris aureis ultra
$ unc. stylo saturaté coccineo lobis usque ad faucem tubi feró divisis
superne crassioribus, stigmatibus breviter apice incisis. Flore autumnali,
ex insulá Teno a dom. Cartwright missus; apud me unus foco calefactus
m. Nov. floruit; ceteri forsitan foliis (more C. Imperatonii, in Italid
Sere hiemalis) autumnalibus verni evenient. —W. H.

132. CROCORUM SYNOPSI
Addenda quedam et Corrigenda.

C. chrysanthus ; pro Prope Byzantium Zege In Roumeliä.

C. speciosus; post spathä occultà insere 1-2-florä, pro barbatä lege subbar-
batá, post Tiflim adde tubo et fauce extus pallidioribus, post Transyl-
vanid adde fauce intus leviore, post 3 Laxior ; ib. insere v. Ibericus,
Tenore cat. hort. Neap.

C. Sibthorpianus ; dele (nisi sit reverá Tournefortianus autum. var.)

C. lagenzeflorus, var. 6. luteus ; adde c. tun. vag. interiore conspicue et con-
fertim parallelo-fibrosá proximá ext. basi tantum durá persistente inter
quas zona radicalis, foliaceá exteriore levi sulcatá supra medium aflixä.

C. reticulatus ; ¿ta corrige, c. tun. vaginaceá interiore tenui depereunte fibris
ad basim duris parallelis aculeiformiter persistentibus, foliaceis reticu-
latis exteriore demum cribrosá prope basim affixá, proximá seepius supra
rariús infra medium, ceteris in vertice, zona radicali inter t. vag. et
foliac. sitá. 3

Var. 5. albicans ; perianthio subalbo sepalis extus purpura striatis. Vix vivos,
prope Odessam inventos, misit dom. I. Cartwright.

C. Gargarieus; c. tun. precipud (vaginaceá, puto, interiore) fibris superne
subtiliter reticulatis inferne parallelis prope basim affixà dudum per-
sistente et demum cribrosá, interioribus ipso cormi vertice parvis incon-
spicuis, nullarum basibus, ut in reticulato, disruptě persistentibus ;
seminibus minimis subrotundis dilutě badiis non rugosıs, chalazá circu-
lari planá obseuriore, raphe et hilo inconspicuis pallidis. Vivos a dom.
Lander accept.

C. serotinus; post foliac. extus membranaceá insere superne sulcatá.

P. 33, art. 27, pro fibros liberos lege fibras liberas.

C. sativus ; post foliac. apice setosis exter. inf. pro basim lege medium.

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Vernus; Var. 4. Alpinus ; adde In Alpe Wangen, limbo albo tubo purpureo,
mense Junio floret.

Subjunge Var. 6. Lusitanieus ; mihi ignotus. In erectioribus montosis In-
teramnie in Herminio, et alibi in Beird; ft. Febr. et Mart. Brotero
Fl. L.

Observ. Zone radicalis situs in speciebus diversis variat. In lagensefloris
omnibus, et in verno, cultis etiam ac validissimis, zona rad. semper inter
vagin. interiorem et proximam ext. In bifloro, culto et validissimo, inter
tertiam et quartam a foliaceis; in pusillo tunicee vaginacex annulate pau-
ciores sunt et zona radicalis, ut in specioso quoque, inter secundam et tertiam
a foliaceis ; in sativo inter secundam et tertiam ab ipsá basi, in reticulato
inter vaginaceam inter. et foliac. exter. est.—W. H.

133. De SISYRINCHIIS spuriis tentamina.

Obstat tentamini species tot diversas vivas adquirendi, adquisitas colendi,
Jforesque ita fugaces in sicco accurate perspiciendi difficultas, precipue in
plantis inter Sisyrinchium et Tigridiam positis, ubi mazim? appropin-
quando, resiliendo, vias tritas vitando, ludit ñatura. Ita igitur laboran-
dum est, ut plantarum viz satis cognitarum phalanges vel pro Iridacearum
generibus, vel pro generis cujusdam, ubi affines cetera plenius fuerint in-
vestigate, stare possint sectionibus.

Sisyrinchium ; Linn. Syst. specie in edit. primá unied, Bermudianá scilicet ;
in herb. flore coruleo, foliis et caule gracillimis, neque apud nos cultá.
* Gynandria triandria. Spatha universalis anceps diphylla valvulis com-
pressis carinatis acuminatis. Petala sex oblonga obovato cum acumine
erecto-patentia plana. Fil. 3 brevissima e tunica styli. Antherz inferne
bifida stylo ad basim stigmatis (non reverd) affixee. Germen obovatum
inferum. Stylus subulatus rectus corolla brevior. Stigmata trifida

erecta. Capsula obov. triq. triloc. triv. Semina plana subrotunda.”—
Characterem Linnei servando, ita rectius.

134. SISYRINCHIUM. Herbert.

Involucrum diphyllum valvis compressis carinatis acuminatis. Perianthium

sexfidum regulare basi vix annulare, laciniis acuminatis vel apiculatis
planis. Filamenta brevissima columná stamineà exserta. Anthere
breves inferne bifidze erectae stylo ad basim stigmatum adpresse. Stylus
subulatus rectus. Stigmata tenuia parvula. Germen obovatum. Capsula

sphzerica triloc. triv. Semina plura subrotunda parva, testä dur& obscurá.
Species vere, mihi satis note. '

y

; $ 1. Columnä stamineá cylindrica.

1. Bermudianum ; Linn. foliis et caule gracillimis, fl. limbo eceruleo
parvulo.

2. Anceps. 3. Mucronatum. 4. Ramosum, mihi; caule ramoso, fl. laciniis
saturaté purpureis breviter apiculatis. Sudvar. 1. Chilense. 2. Nuttal-
lianum.—5. Genicnlatum, mihi; ex prov. Texas dicto, parva caule geni-
culato perianthio limbo leté ccruleo. 6. Acuminatum, mihi; caule

elongato ancipite ramoso, fl, pallidě ccruleis longè acuminatis stella
intus saturaté cceruleo-radiatà : et alia quaedam.

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. Striatum (vel si mavis latifolium) marica striata guorundum limbo lutes-
cente purpurá mac. et striato ventricoso.
$ 2. Columná stamineá ventricosá.
. Iridifolium. 2. Micranthum. 3.? Pedunculatum.
- Juncifolium ; cum aliis fl. subroseis confertis involucri valv. sup. valde
elongatá ex Chili precipué; 5. Roseum, mihi; involuc. 14-unc. fl.
subsemunc.

135. PSITHYRISMA. Herbert.

Perianthium tubatum ; stigmata brevia patentia: ceetera ut in Sisyrinchio.—
Species quedam, nunc Sisyrinchia auctorum.
1. Narcissoides, Cavan. Odoratissimum, Lindl. Bot. Reg.
2. Flexuosum.

136. ECHTHRONEMA. Herbert.

Stigmata longa patentia apice spathulatě conduplicato, filamenta elongata ex
cylindro stamineo divaricantia; antheree longe ad basim bifidee versatiles :
ceetera ut in Sisyrinchio.— Species quedam, nunc Sisyrinchia auctorum.

1. Californicum. 2. Tenuifolium. 3. Graminifolium. 4. Pumilum.
5. Maculatum. 6. Convolutum, planta Americana falsd Capensis dicta,

Ni

\

Do-

137. ERIPHILEMA. Herbert.

Perianthium ut in Sisyrinchio. Filamenta recta subulata infra majora et
connata. Stylus rectus stigmatibus simplicibus semipatentibus. Cap-
sula subrotunda. Semina parva subrotunda.

1. Grandiflorum. Sisyrinchium grandiflorum, Bot. Reg.

138. CALYDOREA. Herbert.

Perianthium dispar reflexo-petalum petalis multo minoribus basi annulatum,
filamenta subulata erecta libera, antherz suberectee [acumine recurvo]
germen obiongum, stylus superne patulo-trifidus, stigmata emarginato-
spathulata fimbriata. [Radix bulbosa; semina ex conjecturá meá an-
gulata.] Genus inter Echthronema et Herbertiam.

1. Speciosa. Sisyrinchium speciosum, Bot. Mag. 53. 3544.

139. GLUMOSIA. Herbert.

ihi dubitanti viz satis ex sicco ita. Involuc. univalve rigidum. Spathee
ee capitulum Ebern einladen: Perianthium, ut in Sisyrin-
chio, regulare. Stylus filiformis simplex. Filamenta libera n-
ad basim ?] Antherae basi bifidee. Capsula subrotunda. Semina rotun
chalazá apiculatá pauca Sisyrinchio majora. Folia subrigida nervosa.
Caulis costá rotundá alatus. i
1. Palmifolium ; Sisyrinchium palmifolium ; Linn. herbar. — minis

note. .

INDEX

TO THE

BOTANICAL REGISTER,
FOR THE YEARS 1838 TO 1843,

PART I.—SPECIES DESCRIBED.

Abies Kutrow . . 7
Abutilon striatum . ž

vitifolium
Acacia cultriformis
cyanophylla
cuneata
platyptera
biflora
urophylla
spectabilis . s
Acanthophippium striatum
Achimenes grandiflora.
——— hirsuta

— longiflora .
pedunculata .
rosea
Acanthostachys strobilacea
Acianthera punctata
Aconitum ovatum
Acriopsis picta
Aerides Brookeii
crispum
virens
ZEonium cruentum . $
ZEschynanthus maculatus .
———— grandiflorus
ZEseulus Ohiotensis . j
Ætheria occulta . x
Aganisia pulchella . .

9.9 9.9 & $». w^»
€ «9 ites ane Ark 4

Agapanthus umbellatus var.
maximus . . .
"Agave saponaria : =
Allium coeruleum . è
Alnus jorullensis we
Alstroemeria Ligtu . .
magnifica .

Chorillensis .

— lineatiflora .

—

Amaryllis Banksiana
Ammoniacum . .
Ampelygonum chinense
Amphicome arguta .
Amygdalusíncana .
Anagallis alternifolia
Anemone rivularis .
longiscapa
Angreecum armeniacum

1841

1839
1841

1840
1838
1839
1839
1841
1841
1841
1843
1838
1842
1843
1842
1842
1841
1841
1843
1840
1843
1841

1842
1843
1841
1841
1841
1838
1838
1839
1840

1843
1838
1839
1840
1840
1839
1843
1843

pl. misc.
24

53
16
114
62
64
74
10
30
64
53
68
59
103

Angrecum Ashantense . 1843
bibobum . 1840

. 1841

—— ——- gladiifolium 1840
o brevifolium . 1840

- ornithorhynchum 1840
- polystachyum . 1840

——-——— tenue > . 1840
- vesicatum . 1843

Ania bicornis . + 1842
Anigozanthus flavida - 1838
var. bicolor1838

Anizanth, Plants . . 1842
Aotus lanigera . . + 1841
Aplotaxis albescens . . 1839
Aporum Leonis $ - 1840
sinuatum , . 1841

- cuspidatum. . 1841
Aquilegia glauca 4 . 1840
—-—-——— fragrans . . 1840
— pubiflora . . 1840
Arbutus laurifolia . - 1839
Arctostaphylos nitida . 1840
Argyreia festiva ‘ . 1841
Arisema macrospatha . 1840
Aristolochia Gigas . . 1842
Armeria fasciculata . . 1841
Arpophylium spicatum . 1839
Arundina bambusefolia . 1841
densa . . 1842
Asafcetida . " * . 1839
Asagreea officinalis . + 1839
Aspasia epidendroides . 1840
- 1842

Asteracantha longifolia . 1839
Asterotrichion sidoides . 1841
Aster cabulicus . . 1843
Astragalus strobiliferus . 1840
Azalea altaclerensis . + 1842
double red Indian 1842

Azara integrifolia « +. 1840
Babiana ringens . 1838
Babingtonia Camphorosmes 1842
Beckea Camphorosme . 1841
Banisteria tenuis . . 1838
Barbacenia squamata . 1843
Barkeria elegans . . 1840
Lindleyana . . 1842

- spectabilis . . 1842
Barnadesia rosea - . 1843

q

Batatas betacea $

—

bonariensis .
Bauhinia corymbosa .
Beatonia purpurea .
- atrata

- curvata .
Becium bicolor . .

Begonia crassicanlis
- diversifolia

.
- punctata .
incana .

- papillosa

- vitifolia
Berberis empetrifolia
- trifoliata .
—— —-tenuifolia .
- coriaria e
umbellata .

- pallída
Bessera elegans
Betula Bhojpattra
Bifrenaria longicornis
—— inodora .
Bignonia picta .
Tweediana

Billardiera daphnoides
Blandfordia marginata

Bletia havanensis .
- Shepherdii .
-——— secunda . 5

Bolbophyllum cupreum
— clandestinum

—— — —— — calamarium

——— — —— adenopetalum
flavidum

— —

———— —— imbricatum

— ———— fuscum

—— ———— limbatum .

—_

sordidum

———— — — umbellatum

—

Bomarea acutifolia
Macleanica
subglobosa
punctata
uncifolia
Turneriana
variabilis
Boronia crenulata
- triphylla

- mollis

- anethifolia
—— — - faleifolia

- dichotoma
* ovata
Bossiea disticha j^
- paucifolia .

- eriocarpa .
Bouvardia splendens

Brachycome iberidifolia

Brasavola angustata
—— —— Martiana .
-— glauca .

setigerum .

| Been SE 4-9 e dla

SPECIES DESCRIBED.

1839
1840
1838
1839
1842
1843
1843
1842
1843
1842
1840
1841
1841
1841
1842
1840
1841
1833
1841
1842
1843
1839
1840
1833
1843
1842
1840
1840
1842
1838
1838
1840
1838
1841
1843
1842
1840
1841
1839
1840
1840
1838
1838
1842
1842
1842
1842
1842
1842
1842
1838
1841
1841
1841
1841
1841
1841
1841
1841
1843
1843
1840
1840
1841
1838
1839
1839

pl. misc.

56
47

15
44

21

152

99

84
114
115

44

21

44

34

73

74

20

Brasavola glauca .
—— grandiflora
venosa .
Brassia cochleata .
—— brachiata .
Lawrenceana
macrostachya
verrucosa .
Bravoa geminiflora .
Bromelia discolor .
Bromheadia palustris
Brongniartia sericea
Broughtonia aurea .
Brownæa grandiceps
Bryobium pubescens
Bulbine suavis .
Burlingtonia maculata
——— — rigida .
Calandrinia discolor .
Calanthe discolor

——

furcata .

— — —— Masuca

—— ——— bicolor
veratrifolia.

Calathea villosa >

Calectasia cyanea .

Callipsyche eucrosioides

.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.

Callistemon microstachyum

Calostemma carneum
luteum .
Calystegia sepium .
Calydorea .
Campanula grandis .
Loeflingii

Candollea tetrandra

Carpesium pubescens
Catasetum cornutum

callosum .

— — —— deltoideum

maculatum
— — —— Milleri ¿
——— Naso .

poriferum .
— abruptum .
atratum .
globiflorum

—— —— proboseideum

planiceps .
—-—- longifolium
laminatum
lanciferum
— discolor .
— — —— fuliginosum
roseo-album
————— spinosum .

—

— — —— Russellianum

saccatum .
Trulla

Wailésii ->

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.
.
B
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
B
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.
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.
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.
.
.
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.
.
.
.
.
.
.
*
LI
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CM

-— eng
fe

Catha paniculata =- .

Cattleya Aclandiæ . :
— Arembergii .
- bicolor

— ———- granulosa .
- Perrinii E
Mossie »

- Skinneri
superba
Ceanothus pallidus
divaricatus
Centaurea pulehra .

Centranthera punctata
Centradenia rosea .
Centropogon cordifolius .
Cereus leucanthus . .
speciosissimus, var.
biformis ;
Cheenanthe Barkeri .
Cheiranthus ochroleucus
Cheirostylis parvifolia
Chorozema cordatum
spectabile
-—— varium
Chysislevis . .
bractescens .

—

Cirrhea saccata è
Cirrhopetalum cornutum
chinense

cæspitosum

u Maermi .

——————— Meduse .

—— —— maculosum
A Thouarsii

—— hu tans à
—— Wallichii

—— fimbriatum

—— picturatum
_— auratum .

—— vaginatum

Citrus deliciosa è »
Cleisostoma latifolium $
dealbatum .

—— maculosum .

—— tridentatum .
roseum . á

Clematis florida, var. bicolor

lathyrifolia .
montana +.
Cleome lutea . *
Clethra mexicana M
quercifolia .

Clerodendron fragrans
——— splendens
— squamatum
Clianthus carneus . .
Clitanthus humilis . .
Clowesia rosea .
Cobea stipularis — . :
Coburgia humilis . .

SPECIES DESCRIBED.

1843
1840
1843
1838
1842
1838
1840
1840
1839
1840
1843
1839
1840
1843
1843
1841

1840
1842
1843
1838
1840
1839
1838
1841

1839
1840
1840
1841

1836
1838
1842
1843
1838
1841
1842
1841

1838
1839
1839
1839
1840
1840
1843
1840
1842
1841
1840
1843
1840
1838
1838
1838
1839
1840
1840
1841
1840
1842
1838
1841
1842
1841

1839
1843
1840
1841

1842

pl. misc.
.. 45
48 ..
.. 123
.. 148
12
2 ..
58 ..
ve Oe
se TH
20 ..
.. 55
.. 84
D8 ;s
.. 11
20 ..
.. 192
ib aera
49 ee
ee 66
0)
.. 29
.. 20
i a
45 66
49 63
.. 130
.. 191
23 3%
oo 121
.. 138
ja
< 740
>> 09
»*-T05
19 ee
se 179
Ree
os 118
110
190
.. 106
.. 107
.. 61
.. 173
12 ..
5,44
5 19
.. 5
5 OF
: 46
.. 150
2 ..
61 ee
53° ..
se 117
97 ..
.. ol
> ©
41 ..
oe 177
7 5
51. 9
SHE
99 39
.. 50
25 ..
46 ..

Coburgia versicolor . .
Codonopsis lurida .
Coelia Bauerana >
——- macrostachya .
Ceelogyne fimbriata .

prolifera .

testacea
—-— Wallichiana
——— ovalis b

—— —— Cumingü

—— ——— coronaria .
———— flaccida .
——— cristata .
dem elata .

oculata

Colea floribunda *
Columnea Schiedeana .
Comarostaphylis arbutoide
Comparettia coccinea a
rosea. .
Commelina orchioides .
Conostylis juncea . .
Convolvulus floridus :
—— verrucipes .
scoparius
Cornus grandis. .
Corvisartia indica -
Coryanthes speciosa alba .
Corycium orobanchoides .
Cosmus scabiosoides . .

Cotoneáster denticulata
Cotyledon cristatum
Crinum brachynema
Crocorum synopsis

Crocus Cartwrightianus .

nivigena . .
landerianus
lagenzflorus He-

micus . . .
nubigena .

———— insularis

pulchellus .
speciosus . .
Crotalaria undulata . .
Crucianella stylosa . .
Cryptochilus sanguineus .

Cryptosanus scriptus
Cupressus thurifera .
Cyclamen neapolitanum
Cyclosia maculata +
Cyclogyne canescens
Cyenoches ventricosum
ventricosum &
Egertonianum . .
maculatum è .
pentadactylon
Cymbidium iridifolium — .
L—— ———-— bicolor . 4
——————— ma did um .
——-—— pendulum .
m var. brevilabre
——_———- chloranthum .
= pubescens .

—

m Virescens .

Cynoglossum anchusoides
—————— ceelestinum .
— glochidiatum

—-- grandiflorum
——— longiflorum .
Cypella plumbea . .
Cypripedium barbatum .

Cyrtochilum mystacinum

stellatum .
—————— graminifolium
filipes . .
—_—-—— maculatum

—

Cyrtopodium Andersonii
cristatum

————-——- Wilmorei
Cytisus Weldenii .

Dahlia glabrata .
Daphne australis .
Daubenya fulva
Delphinium laxiflorum
- — intermedium,
var. sapphirinum . .
—— intermedium,
var. palmatifidum .
— decorum .
Dendrobium aciculare .

.
.
.
.
. >
B
.
.
.

— aduncum
———— — aqueum .
————— calcaratum
= cucumerinum

*———— denudans
= ———— — candidum
—— — discolor

——— ——— seeundum .
———— junceum .
———— formosum .
— formosum .
== suposum .
——.——— scopa . ^
— ——— — sulcatum :

SPECIES DESCRIBED.

1842
1839
1839
1841
1838
1840
1838
1841
1842
1838
1839
1839
1841
1841
1838
1840
1841
1841
1841
1841
1841
1839
1843
1842
1840
1838
1839
1838

1838

1838
1840
1840
1842
1843
1840
1842
1843
1838
1838
1841
1842
1841
1842
1838
1839
1838
1842
1838

—— — —— sanguinolentum 1842

——--— — bicameratum
—— —— — compressum
— ————— Heyneanum
—— —— —- macrophyllum

Paxtoni .
—— aureum, palli-

dum = " . é
— crumenatum
—— ———— - Jenkinsii x

——— —— linguseforme
— — — — teretifolium .
+= letragonum .

————— to rtile. :

1843
1839
1842
1839
1839
1842
1839

1839
1839
1839
1839
1839
1839
1841
1839

pl. misc.
14 ..
96 ..
.. 128
I0 3
.. 127
00 s
.. 130
++ 110
17 ..
se 00
62 ee
e 54
.. 180
59 72
44 39
.. 86
.. 87
oe 14
8 49
8 ..
8 ..
.. 122
40 ..
.. 38
29 ..
56 ..
Bd
30 ..
DA ..
DE as
64 ..
.. 188
+ 62
54 6
.» 219
. 63
87 ..
.. 156
.. 54
52 50
.. 6
+. 169
.. 11
.. 86
64 ..
e 94
ee 55
65 ..
.. 73
6 se
ee 85*
ke AD
.. 41
2. 00
.. 94
.. 56
SU x
29 e
97 ee
ee 26
«D
. 30
ee 8
. 31

Dendrobium pygmeum .

num .

A

Cambridgea-
acerosum 2
moschatum
calamiforme
excisum

elongatum .

Ruckeri
pugioniforme
planibulbe .
crassulzefolium
complanatum
herbaceum .
longicolle
plicatile i
revolutum .
rhombeum .
teres . :
taurinum $
gemellum .

Dendrochilum filiforme

Deutzia corymbosa .

glumaceum
latifolium

Dianthus Bisignani .
ferrugineus

Dicheea ochracea .

Dicrypta discolor

Dienia cordata . F.

Dinema paleaceum .

Dion edule

Diploleena Dampieri
Diplopeltis Hugelii .
Drymonia bicolor .
—————- punctata .
Davaua longifolia .
Dyckia altissima >
Earina suaveolens .
Echeandia terniflora
Echeveria acutifolia

secunda
lurida A
rosea ^

Echinacea Dicksoni .

Echinocactus Ottonis

glaucus

Eyriesii, var.
. .

Scopa

Echthronema . s
Echites atropurpurea
Echium petreum .
Eleagnus parvifolia .

Elisena longipetala .
Encyclia, note upon .
Entelea palmata .
Epacris impressa, var.
Epidendrum pictum

— m

*

—

—

Eleutherine anomala i

cubense
pachyanthum

papillosum .

collare . .
Pastoris .

pl. misc.
ee 32
os 171
.. 86
. 15
ee 26
.. 165
+. 33
ee 53
60 38
.. 34
.. 70
. 35
-. 36
+. 153
.. 172
ee 7
.. 110
a
os Hh
VO 1.
.. 192
-- 118
.. 58
.. 74
.. 49
5 «.
29 ..
15 ..
sa 4
.. 145
.. 184
5. 119
.. 89
64 ..
69 70
do
se f
oD..
.. 183
.. 88
+. 144
ae 112
57 ..
i 3»
223 s>
27 ..
42 ..
31 ..
24 ..
.. 136
27 ..
26 ..
öl ..
Ly . 2s
co ae
» 13
.. 126
19
- 43
e 24
.. 42
sí
.. 85
de cl

4

Epidendrum polyanthum ,

Schomburgkii
cinnabarinum
smaragdinum
calocheilum
latilabrum

bisetum
Grahami
tripunctatum
auritum s
articulatum .
pterocarpum
radiatum
raniferum

virgatum "
gladiatum .
glutinosum +
viviparum .
miserum .
lamellatum .
limbatum >»
leivbulbon .
microphyllum
hastatum

aciculare

lacertinum
leucochilum
phoeniceum
selligerum
tibieinis

tessellatum
tridactylum
varicosum
vesicatum
aurantiacum

aspersum
altissimum
Boothianum
cucullatum
ehloranthum
eauliflorum
calamarium
dichotomum
diotum
dichromum
eguitans
fucatum
jonosmum
longicolle
lacerum ;
lividum . è
ochraceum .
Ovulum $

eo9 ee ee A o, m t moy

variegatum
glumaceum

———

Candollei
inversum
uniflorum
Skinneri
incumbens
machrochilum

Le. MA EU 70 *

SPECIES DESCRIBED.

1842
1838
1842
1888
1841
1841
1842
1841
1841
1841
1843
1841
1841
1841
1841
1842
1841
1841
1843
1841
1841
1843
1843
1841
1841
1841
1841
1841
1843
1841
1838
1838
1838
1838
1838
1838
1838
1840
1838
1838

1840

—— ——— — Stamfordianum 1840

— —

rhizophorum .

1840

pl. misc.
53 16
25 ..
sa 44
+: AB
.. 163
.» 10
+. 148
.. 145
+. 143
ERBEN
i» d.
.. 123
^ 122
42 ..
.. 189
». 20D
oe 124
TEE
.. 62
.. 60
»» 104
.. 63
.. 71
.. 90
oe 98
.. 109
.. 120
««, 120
.. 66
dias be
.. 2
Tl
SP y i
.. 89
4 kk
. 82
» 36
— BL
ee 7
Ee >,
.. 28
E >
.. 163
.. 146
.. 97
110
.. .26
de, 19
pS Y
.. 49
.. 18
had
26 15
.. 71
ll ..
+» 60
6 ee
de
+ 135
++ a8
ee 81
.. 84
.. 85
ee 88
oo „9

Epidendrum rhizophorum. 1838
——- rubroeinctum 1843
arbuscula . . 1843

— aromaticum . 1840
bractescens . 1840

—— ——— — densiflorum . 1840
——— erispatum. . 1840
lancifolium . 1840

. 1842

——— falcatum . . 1840
— Parkinsonianum 1840
glaucum . . 1840

———————- vitellinum . 1840
—— ——— — stenopetalum 1840
— Trinitatis . . 1840
— viscidum . . 1840
Epimedium violaceum . 1840
Epiphora pubescens . . 1840
Eria clavicaulis . . 1840
—— acutifolia . . . 1842
—— bipunctata . - 1841
ferruginea . . 1839

—— bractescens . + 1841
—— longilabris . . 1841
—— armeniaca + 1841
—— pulchella . . . 1841
—— profusa . . . 1842
—— floribunda . . 1843
—— multiflora . . 1843
—— polyura . . . 1841
PE é . 1842
—— mucronata . . 1842
convallarioides . . 1841

——— paniculata . . 1842
—— pannea . . . 1842
—— nutans . . . 1840
—— planicaulis . . 1840
—— pumila . . . 1838
velutina . `: - - 1840
Erica chloroloma + . 1838
Erigeron squarrosum + 1841
Eriphilema . . . 1843
Erysimum Perofskianum . 1839
Erythrochiton Brasiliensis 1843
Eucalyptus calophylla . 1841
Eulophia squalida . + 1841
Euphorbia rigida . . 1838
veneta . . 1838

Eurybia glutinosa . . 1839
chrysotricha . 1841
Euthales macrophylla . 1840
+ 1841

Eysenhardtia amorphoides 1839
Fabiana imbricata . . 1839
Fernandezia lunifera » 1839
Friesia peduncularis . 1843
Fuchsia fulgens .. -. 1838
cylindracea . . 1838
cordifolia. - + 1841
—— radicans . + 1841
splendens . - 1842
Standish's . . 1840
Funkia Sieboldi . . 1839
Galbanum . > . 1839
Galeandra Baueri . . 1840
Gardoquia betonicoides . 1838

pl. misc.
ee 10
.» 20
+. 54
s» BB
ee 122
ee 134
.. 35
s. 152
50 ..
.. 20
.. 20
.. 56
.. 35
.. 49
+. 128
+» 190
49 ..
oe 143
.. 220
.. 32
.. 179
96
.. 46
.. 69
42 70
.. 106
.. 8
.. 56
.. 72
.. 114
32 ee
62 121
.. 33
.. 79
.. 196
oe 4
+4 147
++ 209
dě
so 92
.» 197
+ 79
47 4.
os 157
+. 164
43 ..
6 ..
..112
47
» 119
9 ..
LE 55
59 ..
«+ 147
«+ 108
Ye
66 97
70 117
66 167
70 202
67 ..
2 ..
50 ..
.. 107
49 ..
.. 159

Garrya laurifolia .
Genista bracteolata .

Geranium rubifolium -
erianthum
tuberosum e

Gesneria reflexa * *

Suttoni, white var.
—longifolia . .

discolor. .
Zebrina . .
Gladiolus erispiflorus

caucasicus .
tequinoctialis .
oppositiflorus .
splendens .

Glaucium rubrum

Glossocomia ovata
Glumosia ^
Godetia albescens

JS . .

grandiflora .

Gompholobium versicolor
Gonatanthus sarmentosus
Gongora fulva . .

Goodyera rubicunda
Govenia Gardneri
lagenophora .

bufonia ^
vitellina -
—— ——- maculata . 4
nigrita . .
truncata A

liliacea
à fasciata . .
Grammatophyllum multi-
florum á A =

var. tigrinum
Grevillea Thielemanniana
Grobya galeata .
Guaiacum officinale ,
Gunnia picta . . .
Habranthus pratensis .
Habrothamnus fasciculatus
Hemanthus magnificus .
Hakea ruscifolia

Hardenbergia digitata i
Hartwegia purpurea .
var.

angustifolia . .
Heimia salicifolia .
Helichrysum scorpioides .
Helleborus lividus .
orientalis .

olympicus :

Hemiandra emarginata .
Herbertia Drummondiana
Heteropteris undulata

Hexadesmia fasciculata .

Hexopia crucigera .
Hibbertia perfoliata

SPECIES DESCRIBED.

1840
1840
1840
1841
1842
1839
1840
1842
1841
1842
1841
1842
1842
1842
1842
1842
1843
1839
1842
1843
1841
1842
1841
1842
1839
1841
1839
1841
1841
1841
1839
1843
1839
1839
1839
1838
1843

pl. misc.
.. 53
28:5
67
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Os
10 ..
.«. 89
oe 40
ee 190
40° 5x
63 96
16 ee
ee 81
ee 82
ee 97
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.. 78
9
.. 139
.. 131
9
.. 132
Gl
49 62
ee 83
Dio
3-5
.. 4
ee 101
.. 86
.. 52
ee 92
ee 51
.. 66
13 ..
.. 107
.. 80
851%
68: ci
.. 72
+. 197
9 ..
34727
.. 73
.. 153
.. 158
60 142
ee 96
ee 58
60 ee
ee 84
54 ..
oo 119
94 ..
ss 119
08 es
.. 156
ee 83
ev 48
.. 46
se 21
ee 90
ee 94
64 ee

Hibiscus Cameroni
Wraye
Higginsia mexicana .
Hippeastrum organense,
var. compressum .
Hoitzia mexicana.
Hormidium .
Hoteia japonica
Houlletia vittata
Hovea crispa .
pungens
— —— Manglesii
racemulosa

—.

Hoya coriacea

Huntleya Meleagris

violacea
Hydromestus maculatus
Hydroteenia Meleagris

Hymenocallis Harrisiana
panamensis
rotata

Hypocalymna robustum

lium
Impatiens candida .

rosea .
glanduligera
macrochila
tricornis .
Indigofera Dosua .
stachyodes
Inga Harrisii
Ionopsis teres
Ipomeea ficifolia

cymosa
longifolia

batatoides
pendula
Purga .
— —— tyrianthina
Schiedeana
Tris deflexa $
—- fragrans .
Ismene deflexa
virescens
Isochilus lividum
grandiflorum
graminifolium
Isopogon roseus .
Isotropis striata z
Jasminum caudatum
subulatum
Juniperus tetragona
flaccida
— mexicana ,
squamosa
Lelia furfuracea
—— autumnalis

—

ear € 0797.00

Skinneriana

angustifo-

eut. 0 9 s» o. RS ee A € Wie 6.0 9 ee ee 6 eee

pl. misc,
1840 .. 3
1840 69 149
1841: „2.182
1842 .. 35
1838 .. 21
18992719
1839 .. 133
1841 69 100
1899 .. 19
1889 -.. 28
J098 0e
1842 .. 396
T849-- 4. SS
1839 18 ..
1840 .. 1
1888 .. 90
1899 34 i;
1898 5 37
1843 .. 46
1838 .. 128
1842 39 ..
1840 .. 63
1841 .. 146
1840 . 55
1843 .. 59
1843 8 ..
1668- ., 78
1840 .. 904
1841-90 ;
1841 97 22
1840 22 ..
1840 8,
1840 9 ..
1842 57 ..
1843 14 .,
1830 41 ..
1888 .. 181
1840 .. 991
3841-19 2
1843 24 ..
1839 .. 194
18440 91
1841 36 23
1840 ,. 201
1839 .. 136
1838 .. 162
1838 .. 22
1840 .. 42
1840 .. 62
1840 —1- ..
1839 .. 149
1841 12 .,
1839 .. 45
1841 Era
1841 —1 —
1842 .. 37
1839 .. 61
1842 36 ..
1842 .. 58
1839 .. 102
1839 .. 108
1839 .. J04
1839 .. 189
1839 26 ..
1890 -27. —.

dp.

SPECIES DESCRIBED.

Lælia albida . : + 1843
flava : : . 1839
ruv . . . 4 842
-—— majális . a + 1009
caulescens ; . 1841
acuminata . 1841

——— peduncularis . . 1842
—— superbiens . . 1840
—— rubescens : . 1840
Laczena bicolor s . 1843
Lalage hovexfolia . . 1841
Lathyrus Armitageanus . 1840
Lavatera maritima . . 1838
Lemonia spectabilis . . 1840
Leochilus carinatus . . 1842
cochlearis . 1842
oncidioides . 1842
Leptodermis lanceolata . 1839
Leschenaultia biloba . 1842
Leycesteria formosa . 1839
Lilium testaceum . . 1842
2 . 1843

Thunbergianum . 1839

Linaria delphinioides . 1840
glandulifera - 1841

venosa $ . 1841
Lindenia rivalis . . 1841
Lindleya mespiloides . 1843
Liparis pendula . 1838
alata . $ . 1843
spathulata . . 1840
Lissanthe stellata . . 1840
—- E . 1840
verticillata . 1840
Lissochilus parviflorus . 1838
— roseus . . 1843
Loasa lateritia . . 1838
Lobelia discolor & . 1840
— —— pyramidalis . . 1841
subnuda . . 1840
fenestralis . . 1838
multiflora . . 1840
Lonicera diversifolia . 1843
Lopezia lineata s . 1840
Luisia alpina . a . 1838
Lupinus arboreus . . 1838
Hartwegii . . 1839
Barkeri $ . 1839
bilineatus (note) . 1839
mexicanus (note) 1839
leptocarpus 1840
Lycaste plana . 1842

. 1843
. 1843
. 1841
. 1842
—————— spuria . . 1843
Macradenia mutica . - 1839
Malachadenia clavata - 1839

tetragona .
Lysimachia lobelioides

Malaxis Parthoni . 1840
Malva lucida . A 1839
mauritiana . 1839
Mandevilla suaveolens 1840
Manglesia glabrata . 1840
Marcetia excoriata . . 1843
Marianthus ceruleopunctatus 1841
Marlea begonifolia . 1838
Martynia fragrans . . 1840

I. mise.
POET
.. 143
69 ..
+. 42
1 ..
24 42
xa cop
.. 87
41 25
<+ 101
.. 75
eo. 14
.. 140
59 ..
28
ob 2
oe 22
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2: 91
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.. 15
.. 51
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.. 189
.. 2
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.. 26
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.. 37
2T 6.
sa MEI
»» 170
ee 211
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3 118
40 60
eo 101
32 ..
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56 ..
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28 2s
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Martynia fragrans .
Masdevallia infracta J
— floribunda .
—— —— — cuprea á
Matthiola odoratissima .
———— maderensis ‘
Maxillaria Colleyi . .
cruenta A
Rollissonii á

—— ———— galeata . .

aromatica
vitellina .

= porrecta
— — — macrophylla

bractescens
costata .
variabilis .
— —— Brockelhurstiana
—— candida . .
Harrisonise ð
——-—— placanthera .
jugosa . .
————— barbata . .

— ———— purpurascens
madida .
— —— — Boothiana
tenuifolia .
stapelioides
— — —— xanthina (note)
foveata .. i
—— —— acutifolia . .
acutipetala .
lentiginosa x
———— aureofulva A
—— — — stenopetala .

cucullata
rhombea
—— —— Macleei

Skinneri

—

—— rugosa .
Medicago clypeata .
Medinilla erythrophylla .
Megaclinium oxypterum .
Bufo .
Microstylis excavata .
histionantha
caulescens .
Miltonia candida . .
var. gran-

diflora . E
Mimosa marginata .
uruguensis .

Mina lobata . .

Mirbelia speciosa

Morina longifolia
Mormodes buccinator
buccinator, var
pardinum +

-

LI
.
.
.
.

.
.

—— lineatum

luxatum
—— luxatum

Mormodes aromaticum

Morna nivea $
Morrenia odorata. ‘
Mucuna pruriens . .
Narcissi ; : .
Mycaranthes obliqua
Nemaconia gracilifolia
Nemesia floribunda
Nepeta salvizfolia .
Nicotiana rotundifolia
Niphea oblonga

‚Notylia punctata .
pubescens .
aromatica . .

incurya
Barkeri
——— tenuis
micrantha
Oberonia cylindrica ‘
miniata . .
recurva .

—— Wightiana .
Octomeria gracilis . :
——-— grandiflora ,
— -——— diaphana . .
tridentata
Odontoglossum Bictoniense
—— constrictum
— —— stellatum
— Ehrenbergii
——— — pulchellum
— Clowesii
7 ——— eitrosmum

m cordatum

— grande s
maculatum
Rossii *

————

CEnothera fruticosa indica
Olinia capensis > .
acuminata . »
cymosa " à
Oncidium tetrapetalum .
candidum .
brachyphyllum .
confragosum .
— ———— cuneatum .

— — ——— ascendens
pulvinatum

—— —— Forkelii .

— — ——- Cebolleta .
—— —— pergameneum
hians .
——-—— bicolor 6
raniferum .
longifolium
——— luridum guttatum
—— Suttoni . :
———— trulliferum .
bicallosum ^

-~ Forbesii .
~~ ensatum .

SPECIES DESCRIBED.

1841
1843
1838
1838
1838
1843
1840
1839
1838
1839
1838
1841
1842
1838
1842
1841
1838
1838
1838
1838
1840
1843
1839
1839
1838
1842
1839
1839
1840
1843
1841
1841
1841
1839
1842
1843
1838
1840
1840
1839
1843

pl. misc.
.. 162
80:
9 ..
.. 129
I8.
98 —.
.. 184
. 15
39 ..
ee 123
eo 110
oo 172
es
.. 166
si TS
.. 77
ee 167
> 168
vo 109
.. 170
. 23
.. 8
.. 8
.. 9
s. BS
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.. 145
se 43
003
oe 25
oo 925
oe "785
48 ..
.. 153
+. 768
9
.. 90
.. 94
90 EE
>.
.. 19
tos
+. 212
ee 135
ee 136
-- 56
ee 76
És,
.. 92
ee 15
4 ..
.. 115
42 ..
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+ 294
60 —.
48 ..
4 ..
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sm
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T8
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.. tó

Oncidium excavatum
sphacelatum
sphegiferum
sanguineum
nanum :
unicorne .
uniflorum .
urophyllum
—— — — carinatum :
—— —-—— intermedium .
barbatum :

ares ©

—

unicornutum
—— —— Carthaginense
———— pelicanum
macrantherum .

— u Wray . .
— — ——— monoceras
Barkeri . z
— — —— nebulosum Š
—-—— Huntianum :
——— pachyphyllum .
——-——— Insleayi . è

————- jneurvum . :
leucochilum x
—— —— ornithorhynchum
—— am pliatum .
—— ——— microchilum .

měl

Wentworthianum
——5—— pallidum :

———— ramosum . .
suave c
— — ——— stramineum s

Ophelia purpurascens
Opoidia galbanifera
Ornithogalum geminiflorum
divaricatum
montanum
Oxalis Darvalliana .
Ottonis :
fruticosa :
rubrocincta .
Oxyanthus versicolor
Oxylobium capitatum

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obovatum
Pzonia (Onepia) Brownii
Panetia fulva ,
Papaveramoenum .
Passiflora hispidula

er < ;

verrucifera
Patersonia sapphirina
Paxtonia rosea a
Pedicularis megalantha
pyramidata .
Pentlandia miniata E
Pentstemon barbatum car-
neum : : A
—— — crassifolium .
gentianoides .

Peristeria guttata .
Humboldti
Peristylus goodyeroides

1839
1842
1843
1839
1842
1839
1843
1842
1840
1840
1842
1840
1840
1840
1841

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1841
1841
1841
1840
1840
1840
1840
1840
1840
1840
1840
1843
1840
1840
1840
1843
1840
1838
1840

1839 :

1838
1841
1842
1838
1840
1840
1841
1842
1840
1841
1843
1843
1839

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30 ..
.. 23
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.. 76
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sx A5
.. 46
.. 74
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.. 160
.. 144
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.. 174
10
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60 118
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.. 155
68 .
21 ..
16 ..
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se 187

Pernettya angustifolia
Pesomeria tetragona

Phacelia fimbriata . 5
Phaius grandifolius . :
bicolor ^

Wallihi . .
albus . .
Phalaenopsis amabilis .

Pharbitis Learii à
——— ostrina .
Philadelphus hirsutus
- —— Gordonianus

triflorus
laxus
————-———— mexicanus

—

Philibertia grandiflora .
Phlomis simplex 5 .
Phlox. Van Houtte's š
Pholidota articulata . :

- undulata .
conchoidea
Phycella biflora a
Physinga prostrata
Physosiphon carinatus
Picris asperrima . .
- barbarorüm . ;
Pieris ovalifolia > :
Pimelia incána . s; .
crinita ;

— ——- spectabilis
prostrata .

Pinus oocarpa .
- Llaveana
——- Hartwegii .
Devoniana . à
Russelliana . :
——- macrophylla .
pseudostrobus
- apulcensis . .
———-filifolia . :
——- Coulteri . A .

Pisonia Olfersiana . .
Pitcairnia undulata .
micrantha
Pittosporum bicolor
Placea ornata . . .
Plagianthus Lampenii .
Pleurothallis circumplexa .
marginata .
— aphthosa .
—-——— vittata . .
——— —— ophiocephala .
———— —— stenopetala .
muscoidea .

— pectinata
——— recurva
—— ——-— luteola .
gelida .
sicaria .
fragilis .
————— foetens .
——— peduncularis

—

SPECIES DESCRIBED.

pl. misc.
1840 63 .. Pleurothallis breviflora
1833 ... 6 1 = strupifolia .
1841 75:196 — bicarinata .
1839 .. 40 ————— scabripes .
1899": 91 ————-— pachyglossa .
1889 .. 58 — — — — seriata .

mM | ——— — adden. X
1838 34 .. s a
1841 56 .. inte s

1842 731° 5% Podolepis contorta .
Is 14 .. Podolobinm berberifolium
1838 .. 23 Pogonia plicata . .
1839 32... Polemonium coeruleum

1838 51 grandiflorum i 4
1839 39 .. Polygonum amplexicaule .
1830 .. .20 —

IB4I -s TIS ——-— molle ğ
1842 38 .. Polystachya zeylanica — .
1843 13 .. ——— — — clavata . i
pet i 109 — — ^ —— ramulosa š
IMS 5. . ——————— luteola . š
ABSHD 15 08 ————— reflexa . ;
AT — affinis .
1840 .. 198 —— — bracteosa

1939 .. 392 ————— cerea .

1888 .. 45 | Ponera graminifolia .

. 1898 .. 139 m

1838 .. 103 ——-— juncifolia . .
1838 .. 107 striata è F
1842 .. 50 | Populus balsamifera .

1998-2432 ——— tristis . š .

1838 .. 109 | ———— longifolia . .
1841 33 18 ———— candicans . 2
1889 .. 81 | ——-— pseudo balsamifera
1839 .. 23 -——--— laurifolia . >
1809 28 — suaveolens . :
1839 .. 95 Portulaca Thellusonii à
1839 .. 96 .
139 2. WI splendens . A

1889 .. 98 Posoqueria versicolor

1839 .. 99 Potentilla insignis .
1839 .. 100 | Pothos podophyllus .
1840 .. 132 Primula denticulata .
1840 .. 133 | Pronaya elegans

1841 .. 34 | Protealongiflora .
1843 .. 44 | Psithyrisma . ;
1843 .. 57 Psoralea obcordata .
1843 .. 27 —- brachytropis

1841 50 .. Puya Altensteinii .
1838 .. 25 coerulea . .

6;

1838 .. 27 | —— heterophylla .
1838 .. 70 | —— recurvata . .
1838 .. 71 | Quekettia microscopica .

1838 .. 133 | Quercus acutifolia .
1838 .. 48 | ———-reticulata .
1888 .. 182 | — — crassipes -
1838 .. 165 | ——-— spicata :
1889 ... 1 ————-. mexicana -
1841 ed glaucescens . *
1841 ... 2 sideroxyla .
1841 .. 182 | ————lancifolia .
1841 .. 186 | ———- petiolaris
1841 .. 187 | -———- mannifera
1841 .. 188 regia .
1843 .. 7 MÀ Brantii
1841 .. 64 | Randia oxypetala . ‘

1843 .. 62 | Renanthera matutina 2
A T

SPECIES DESCRIBED.

pl. misc. pl. misc.
Rhododendron Rollissonii 1843 25 .. Senecio odoratus + 880-4,
— =- ———- Aprilis . 1843 62 .. Severinia brevifolia . . 1841. .. 8B
Rhodorhiza k : 1841 .. I02 Sieversia elata . x v BS V. k

Rhodostoma gardenioides 1843 .. 47 Sisyrinchium junceum . 1840 .. 12
Ribes Menziesii z 13098. 4. 09 —— — majale ASS) a ee 1
Rigidella flammea . - 1840 16 64 | Sobralia macrantha . ee

immaculata . 1841 68 133 — sessilis z . ASAE. 12. ae
Rivea tilizefolia : - 1841 .. 29 | Solanum betaceum . . 1840 ... 65

Rodriguezia crispa . 23060 OF c, —— -— . + 1940, 54 A
z to ¿LO — candidum . 1898 s 195

—————— carnea . A 1849 .. 119 —— concavum . . 18M2 .. 389
— laxiflora . 1839 .. 138 —— —— macrantherum . 1840 .. 181
maculata o- 1830 .. 218 IRALA

Roepera aurantiaca . . 1838 .. 105 | ——— Rossii 2 1840 .. 34

Rondeletia longiflora k IM 44 cz — — —— uncinellum 2: 2840 15. —
Roscöea purpurea. 1840 61 .. —————— vernicatum + 41898 .. 197
lutea . x 1841 .. 159 | Sollya linearis . : 168... 18

Saccolabium gemmatum 1838 .. .88 —— — : : 494040 4 cae
— — —— — densiflorum 1898... 108 Sophronitis violacea . . 1840... -48
Blumei 1841 "za Hm Sowerbeea laxiflora . ~ ABAI 105

calceolare . 1838 .. 139 | Specklinia orbicularis + 1838 4, 41

— bifidum . 1888 .. 5 | ———— ciliaris . 1888 290

—— ————— compressum . 1840 .. 5 | ———— obovata . SIND S INE
——- ———— micranthum . 1839 ,, 52 | Sphsrolobium acuminatum 1843 ... 77
ochraceum . 1842 .. 4 | Spiræa barbata : ..4888 .. 605

Salvia Moorcroftii e ROOM- sa. I97 — fissa . . . 1842... HE

3184. 4.55, |

patens . . .. 1839 93 48 Kamschatica >
——— excelsa . . 2 Dar. es. 185 lanceolata. +: 49841... 99
tubiformis . . 1841 44 40 cuneifolia «; 4899... 87
—— — confertiflora =. IBID. 20... —— vacciniifolia . . 1839 .. .88
canescens . OO a0 S. : . 1840 17. ..
hians ; = 1840 s 115 rotundifolia . . 1840 .. 159
——— > n , BEL 90 laxiflora a + -1690 ..... 89
prunelloides . . 1840 .. 907 fissa >. . 1840 .. 170
Regla : . 1840 .. 205 | Spiranthes cerina . - 1842... 19
— . : |; IN4I 14 .. diuretica 1898 —.. 119
Saponaria perfoliata . s 3809 .. 89 —— Lindleyana . 1841 .. 38
Sarcanthus filiformis = ERAS 05 00 — rosulata . 1843 .. 84
pallidus . - 1840 .. 185 | Spironema fragrans . . 1840 47 48

- oxyphyllus 1840 .. 123 | Sprekelia eybister . . 1840 33

Schweiggeria pauciflora 1841 40 .. | ——— monopetala x ABT. bi sm =

Sarcochilus olivaceus - 1839 .. 27 | — — glauca . - 1840 .. 104 |
parvifiorus . 1838 .. 50 | o AME M S i
— unguiculatus . 1840 .. 143 | Stanhopea quadricornis . 1838 5 ..
Satyrium papillosum - 1838 .. 154 Lindleyi . +. 1838: se
-— carneum . . 1898 .. 155 aurea ; + 31841... 91
—-—— candidum . - 1838 .. 153 tenna —. .. D 1 «4
pustulatum - 1840 18 .. —— ——- oculata . . 1889 .. 118
Saussurea pulchella . — . -1842 18 .. oe. : . 1840 ,.. 80
Saxifraga ciliata NAS 08 = — —— —- graveolens .. 1840 _.. 125
Seaphyglottis reflexa « 1839 .. 21 | — guttulata . . 1843 .. 116
—— stellata . 1839 .. 60 —— —— maculosa . 4840. 55520
Scelochilus Ottonis . . Des 7. 29 —— Martiana . - 1840 .. 109
Schizanthus candidus . 1843 .. 45 | ———————- . . 1841 .. 147
Schizonotus tomentosus . 1840 .. 156 var. bicolor 1843 44 81
Schomburgkia marginata. 1839 .. 12 T Wardi |. . 1840 .. 147
— tibicinis . 1841 .. 119 | Statice arborea. s 4309.60...
Schubertia graveolens . 1838 .. 2 pectinata . + 4840. 65..

Scilla pratensis . 1839 63 .. ae var.denudata 1842 59 ..
——— Peruviana, var. dis- Stelis argentata . s RS ... 28 3
DE... O Bap. crassifolia . — . 1842 .. 12 :
Seleroon oleinum . - 1843 .. 98 | —— atropurpurea . - 1842 .. 100
Seutellaria splendens « 1841 .. 139 tristyla . $ . 1838. .. .69
Sedum miserum . . 1838 .. 122 Stenia pallida . 2 «S888 DE o
multicaule . - 1840 .. 124 | Stenochilus longifolius . 1839 .. 115
Senecio populifolius, lacteus 1839 45 .. — incanus „1889 . 116
~= crpentus =. AO VT. Stenomesson eustephioides 1843 .. 91

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SPECIES DESCRIBED.

Stenomesson vitellinum . 1843 2 ..
—————-— aurantiacum 1843 .. 90
Stenocoryne longicornis . 1843 .. 68
Stevia fascicularis . of 1800. 09 ..
Stigmaphyllon ciliatum . 1841 .. 121

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folium . 3 1848 .. 80
Strobilauthes scabra „ 1841 3E ..

Stylidium proliferum | 184) 1 768
———— pilosum . . ISAL = O
š . 1842 41 ..
———— Brunonianum . 1841 .. 95

— ——

«NAS dU ..
Tabernaemontana dichotoma 1841 53 ..
Talinum teretifolium ARAS T L

Tanacetum longifolium . 1840 .. 78
Tetranema mexicanum . 1843 652 ..

Thalietrum eultratum IO 17
Thomasia canescens MM . 903
Thuja filiformis P . 1842 20 ..
Tbysanotus intricatus 4, I898 .. 111
- : E. - 4 ..

——--———-— tennis . «2888 DU ¿e

——— proliferus c IBI ^B s
— isantherus . 1839 s. 75
Tigridia violacea . . 1841 .. 134
Tillandsia Gardneri . , 1849 Gi ..
———— rubida +848 Be. +,

Tradescantia iridescens . 1840 34 160
tumida . 384 43 sa
Trichinium alopecuroideum 1839 28 ..
-- Manglesii(note) 1839 28 ..
- Stirlingii (note) 1839 28 ..
Trichocentron iridifolium 1838 „. 178

recurvum IBS 2 44
—— ——- —— candidum 1843 .. 18

Trichonema edule . IDES .. 0
Trichosma suavis ; e 1589 21 er
Trifolium involueratum . 1840 .. 116
Trigonidium acuminatum . 1838 .. 136

Trigonidium Egertonianum 1838 .. 135
1840 .. 100
ringens + 1840, 121
tenue . - 1899 .. 59
Triptilion spinosum . . 1840 .. 129

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Triteleia aurea = » 108L - 14 A
Tritonia fucata 3 « 1898 858 ns
Trollius acaulis s „AR We -Ol
$ +: 1849 89 ...
Tropeolum azureum . 1842 65 ..

Trymalium odoratisimum 1838 .. 30
Tulipa Gesneriana . - 1838 46 ..
maleolens . + 1899 00 ..

Turrea lobata : s 1849 soc BO
Urceolina pendula . . 1888 .. 151
Valeriana Napus . - 1840 .. 180
Van Houtte's Phlox VOI8MS D. ia
Vanilla bicolor > ASIS... 08
Palmarum . = 1842 .. 78
Vanda congesta . - 1839 .. 94
——— cristata - > 42848 48 ..
——-— ters . ` DOINMAS 0.30
— violacea 4 1. eee SM
———lamellata . . 1898 .. 125
Veronica diosmeefolia o IM. 90
——-——- formosa . - 1890 s, 88
nivea e = 1948 <a 49
Verticordia densiflora + 1848 4, 108
Victoria regia . . 1838 .. 13
Viscaria oculata > . 1843 53 ..
Vriesia psittacina . . 1843 10 ..
Weinmannia venosa . . 1840 ,, 96
Xerotes longifolia . = 3880: A 4
Zichya tricolor - 1839 59 ..
angustifolia (note) 1839 52 ..
villosa A ADAL ae MI

è . 1842 8 ..
Zigadenus glaucus . . 1838 67 ..
Zygopetalum africanum . 1840 .. 139

PART 11.—GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, AND ENUMERATIONS OF
SPECIES.’

Acineta Humboldtii, 1843, misc. p. 68.

- Barkeri, 1843, mise. p. 68. .

Agardh, Recensio generis Pteridis, noticed,
1840, misc. p. 13.

Albumen, remarkson, by Drs. Schleiden and
Vogel, 1842, misc. p. 45.

Amelanchier canadensis, 1842, misc. p. 16.

American Quackery, 1842, misc. p. 16.

Amianthium muscætoxicam, 1842, misc. p.
14.

Astilbe decandra, 1842, misc. p. 16.

Bieckea, its structure, 1842, ¢. 10.

Balsamineze, their affinities and structure,
1840, t. 8.

Balsam Poplars, 1843, misc. p. 20.

Bauer, his sale, 1841, misc. p. 35.

Beet Root, observations on, by M. Decaisne,
1839, misc. p. 28.

Bifrenaria, sp. described, 1845, misc. p. 51.

Boykinia aconitifolia, 1842, misc. p. 13.

Brown, Robert, a bus medal awarded to
him, 1840, misc.

Campanula, its oes al hairs, 1840, misc.

54.

D of Good Hope, notes on its vegetation,
1832, misc. p. 52.

Circulation of the latex in plants, 1839,
misc. p. 48.

Cirrhopetalum, sp. described, 1843, ¢. 49,

Clestines in plants, 1840, mise. p. 13.

Clethra acuminata, 1842, misc. p. 13.

Clerodendron, structure of its ovary, 1842,
t. d

Coburgia, species described, 1842, misc. p.
52

Colax, sp. described, 1843, misc. p. 50.
Cordage plants, some account of, 1839,
misc. p. 5.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE,

Crocuses, described, 1843, misc. p. 26.
Cunningham, Allan, his death, 1840, misc.
p. 1.
Cyclamens, European,
misc. p. 26.
Dendrobium, sp. described, 1843, £. 28.
Dietrich, Synopsis Plantarum seu Enume-
ratio Systematica, Kc. 1842, mise. p. 7.
Diphylleia eymosa, 1842, misc. p. 13.
Encyclia, characters of, 1842, mise. p. 28.
Endlicher’s Genera Plantarum, 1839, mise.
p. 40.

described, 1842,

—————— Genera Plantarum, noticed,
1840, mise. p. 31.

—- theory of vegetable fertilization,
1839, misc. p. 4.

—— — ——- Enchiridion Botanicum, 1841,
misc. p. 85.

Epidendrum, 1842, mise. p. 27.

a - sp. described, 1842, f. 50.
Extracarpellary attachment of seeds, 1841,
mise: p. 25.

Flora de Filipinas, Blanco's, 1839, mise.
p. 75.

Frankincense tree of Sierra Leone, 1839,
misc. p. 30.

Frozen Potatoes, 1839, mise. p. 12.

Gentianacez, Grisebach’s Monograph of,
1838, misc. p. 57.

Geum radiatum, 1842, misc. p. 15.

Glycine sinensis, 1840, misc. p. 41.

Gray's Notes of a botanical excursion to the
mountains of N. Carolina, 1842, mise.
p. 11.

Guatemala Orchidaceze, 1840, mise. p. 43.

Gum, its motion in plants, 1840, misc. p. 14.

Hair-likeroots of Cotyledon eristatum, 1839,
misc. p. 84, :

Hedyotis serpyllifolia, 1842, mise. p. 12.

Henuchera villosa, 1842, misc. p. 11.

Horse-chesnuts, poisonous, 1839, misc. p. 23.

us wem Society's Garden, 1839, misc.
p. 17.

Hymenocallis and Pancratium, the distinc-
tion between, 1840, misc. p.12.

Koordistan oaks, 1841, mise. p. 24.

Kunth, Enumeratio plantarum, Vol. III.

1842, misc. p. 6.

Lantana, list of sp. of, 1843, misc, p. 53.

Lelia, sp. described, 1842, £. 62.

Ledebour's Flora Rossica, 1842, mise. p. 6.

Leiophylla, 1842, misc. p.15. ©

Link, Klotzseh, and Otto, Icones plantarum,

1840, misc. p. 87.

Leptotes bicolor, its fruit aromatic, 1840,
misc. p. 14.

Lomandra, note upon, 1839, sub t. 3.

Lycaste, sp. described, 1843, misc. p. 15.

Magnolia Fraseri, 1842, misc. p. 12.

Maxillaria, genus defined, 1843, misc.
p. 10.

Monstrum Planti, 1843, misc. p. 1.

Mormodes, sp. described, 1843, t. 33.

Moquin Tandon, Chenopodearum Mono-
graphica enumeratio, 1840, misc. p. 78.

; 98.
Sits of Koordistan, 1840, mise. p. 39.
Orchidacese of Brazil, their habits, 1839,
mise. p. 42, 21.
—— of Australia, Cunningham's
notes on, 1848, č. 37.
— of Guatemala, 1840, misc. p. 43.
Oxycoccus erectus, 1842, misc. p. 16.
Pancrátium and Hymenocallis, the dis-
tinction between, 1840, misc. p. 12.
Paphinia eristata, 1843, mise. p. 14.
Peristeria, 1843, mise. p. 66.
— sp. described, 1843, misc. p. 67.
Perrine on acelimatising tropical plants in
the United States, 1839, mise. p. 5.
Physostegia virginiana, its catalepsy ex-
plained, 1840, mise. p. 31.
Pinetum Woburnense, 1839, mise. p. 23.
Pisonai tree, 1839, misc. p. 18. :
Plant's Vegetable Monster, 1843, misc. p. 1;
Pleurothallis, sp. described, 1842, misc.
s 07.
Pallen covered with starch, 1839, mise. p. 74.
Primary distribution of the Vegetable King-
dom, 1839, mise. p. 76.
Proceedings of the Royal Asiatic Society,
1839, mise. p. 24.
Promeneea, sp. described, 1843, mise. p. 13.
Pyrularia oleifera, 1842, mise. p. 13.
Ribes, list of hardy sp. 1843, mise. p. 37.
Royle's Illustrations of the Botany, &c. of
the Himalayas, 1839, misc. p. 26.
Salep roots, their anatomy, 1841, mise. p.16.
Schauef, Chameelauciez, 1841, misc. p. 88.
Sarcoglottis, sp. described, 1843, misc. p. 35.
Scuticaria Steelii, 1843, misc. p. 14. ~
Schizanthus, sp. described, 1843, t. 45.
Seeds, extracarpellary attachment, 1840,
misc. p. 25.
Siebold's Flora Japonica, noticed, 1840,
mise. p. 4.
Solidago glomerata, 1842, mise. p. 15.
Stanhopea, sp. described, 1843, č. 44.
Starch on the outside of pollen grains, 1839,
mise. p. 14. :
Starch, new view concerning, 1841, misc.
. 48.
PR aliii plants, 1840, misc. p. 16.
Torrey and Gray's Flora of North America,
1839; mise. p. 42. 2.

1840, misc. p. 79.
— — — 1841, misc. p. 74.
Paks source of the drug, 1840, mise
p.98. . +2 "
Van en’s Land plants, 1840, misc.

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Vanilla, first produced in England, 1840,
mise. p. 66. "

Victoria regia, note upon, 1840, misc. p. 62.

Warrea tricolor, 1843, misc. p. 14.

Wight's Illustrations of Indian Botany,
1839, mise. p.29. E

Wistaria sinensis, 1840, misc. p. 14.

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