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COLOURED FIGURES OF PLANTS AND SHRUBS;
CULTIVATED IN BRITISH GARDENS;

ACCOMPANIED BY THEIR

Aistory, Best Method of Crentment in Cultivation, Propagation, &r.

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 TO THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY,

&c. &c. &c.

NEW SERIES,

COMPLETE IN TEN VOLUMES.

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LUPINUS arvensis.
Field Peruvian Lupine.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Legumınosz. $ PaAPILIONACE X.
LUPINUS. L.

L. arvensis ; biennis, decumbens, densé pubescens, foliolis 5-9 lanceolatis,
stipulis setaceis liberis, racemo subverticillato, bracteis herbaceis subu-
latis deciduis alabastris subsequalibus, calyce bracteolato, corolla glabra,
alis obtusis, legumine hirsuto brevi ancipiti tenui subtetraspermo, semi-
nibus cinereo-nebulosis.

L. arvensis, Bentham Plant. Hartweg. ined.

A gay little plant, forming one more addition to the large
genus Lupinus. The flowers are rich bright lilac, enlivened
by a yellow spot on the white centre of the vexillum. In
number the leaflets vary from 5 to 9. The seeds, by which
Lupines may be distinguished more accurately than by the
ordinary marks employed by Botanists, are oblong, smooth,
and mottled with grey of different tints. Fig. 3, represents
one of them; 2, is a ripe pod; and 1, is the ovary and style.

It is a half hardy biennial, growing from one to two feet
high, and flowering a great part of the summer and autumn.
Like other Lupines it requires a strong rich soil, and although
a half shrubby biennial, is best treated as an annual.

The seeds should be sown about the beginning of March,
in pans filled with a loamy soil, and when large enough should
be potted, placing three plants in a small pot; afterwards,
when the danger of the late spring frosts is over, they may be
planted out in the open border. The seeds may also be sown
in the open border about the middle of April, but then the

January, 1844. B

plants flower much later, and are never so fine as when
treated as above stated.

It was found growing in corn fields near Loxa, in Peru, .
by Mr. Hartweg, and flowered in the garden of the Horticul-
tural Society in the course of last autumn.

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ANGRACUM pellucidum.

Transparent Angrec.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEZ. § VANDEZ.
ANGRACUM. Thouars.

A. pellucidum ; acaule, foliis distichis oblongis subundulatis recurvis apice
obliquis basi equitantibus, racemis densis nutantibus axillaribus foliis
brevioribus, sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis, labello fimbriato cor-
dato-ovato truncato, calcare brevi lanceolato porrecto, caudiculis 2 subu-
latis, glandulá communi didymá.

We lament to see how little justice our artists have been
able to do to this beautiful plant, whose flowers are as deli-
cate and transparent as if they were flakes of snow fixed by
frost in the very act of melting. Each part of the lip is
studded and bordered with little crystalline elevations, and
the whole fabric of the blossom is as fragile as thin plates of
glass. r

It was imported from Sierra Leone by Messrs. Loddiges,
with whom it flowered in November 1842. It is number
1572 of their catalogue.

Fig. 1. represents the column and spur of the labellum,
the limb of which, spread flat to shew its true form is seen
at 2. Fig. 3. represents the pollen-masses with their straps ;
and 4. is a single pollen-mass seen from behind where the
strap fitted on.

We still regret the want of leisure to effect that reforma-
tion in the genus, the necessity of which was alluded to at
fol. 68 of our volume for 1840. A comparison of the details
of this plate and of those of A. gladifolium at the place just
quoted, will shew that the genus Angrec, as it now stands,
cannot be maintained entire,

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CROCI autom

Autumnal Crocuses.
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TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. IrıpacE.
CROCUS. Bot. Reg. 1843. fol. 21.

1. C. pulchellus ; nudus, cormi tunicá preecipuá (i. e. exterioribus obsoletis
persistente) membranaceä durä annulo ad basim fibris ciliato, perianthio
pallidé subviolaceo intus saturatius venoso fauce luted pubescente,
filam. luteis hispidis, antheris albis. In forestá Belgratensi prope By-
zantium. V.2. major; perianthio majore, annulo vix ciliato, in monte
Athone. (Fig. 1.)

2. C. longiflorus; si mavis, C. odorus (v.) longiflorus ; involucro 1-2-fl. c. t.
prec.reticulatá non cribrosä inferne parallelo-fibrosá, spathá virente, tubo
lutescente, perianthio pallidé purpureo fauce saturate luted pubescente.
In Italid et Trinacriá. Vidi sepalis extus luteo-striatis var. fortuitam.

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3. C. ; si mavis, C. odorus (v.) Melitensis ; tubo et perianthio inferne
extus saturaté purpurä striatis, fauce sublutescente pubescente. In monte
(F na BA Melitensi. C. longiflori invol. quandoque in foliolum desinit.

ig. 5.

4. C. Thomasianus; involucratus, c. tun. preec. reticulatá non cribrosä in-
ferne parallelo-fibrosä, tubo pallido, limbo saturaté violaceo, fauce pallidä
pubescente. C. sativo affinis, in Italid. (Fig. 6.)

5. C. Pallasianus ; involucratus c. tun. prec. tenuiter reticulatä, perianthio
pallidé violaceo extus ad basim striato fauce pallidá pubescente. C. sa-
tivo affinis. Neque perianthium vivum vidi, neque plantam dissecui ; icon
ez sp. sicco in Taurid a cl. Besser lecto est, cum C. Cartwrightiano com-
parandi gratid. (Fig. 2.)

6. C. Cartwrightianus ; involucratus, c. tunicis tenuiter reticulatis perianthio
albo intus purpurá venoso, fauce pubescente. In insulá Teno., C. Pal-
lasiano affinis. (Fig. 3.)

De preecedentibus pleniüs consulas Synops. Croc. nobis supra anno 1843,

Misc. p. 26. et Syn. Cr. Addenda, &c. p. 82, 83. De C. cancellato in Syn.

pro Taurid lege monte Tauro; C. serotini invol. 1-2-fl, est.—W. H.

The first of these five autumnal Croci was sent to Spofforth
by the kindness of J. Cartwright, Esq., H. M. consul-general

at Constantinople. Having seen a dried specimen of the
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plant from Roumelia, confounded with C. speciosus in Sir
W.J. Hooker's herb. I requested that search might be made
for it in the forest of Belgrade, where I thought it likely to
grow, and there it was found in flower without any leaf in
October. It differs from all known Croci in having white
anthers and pollen. The filaments are also remarkable, being *
yellow and hairy. C. longiflorus is a native of Italy and Sicily,
and flowers with us in October, or sometimes later, the leaf
accompanying the flower, which is very fragrant, of a pale red-
dish lilae, with the tube yellowish and the throat of very deep
yellow. It is closely akin to C. odorus of Mt. Verdala in Malta, _
whereof the leaves rather precede the flower, and which has the
throat very much paler, and the sepals and tube striped with
purple. C. Thomasianus has much affinity to C. sativus, and is
a native of Italy. C. Cartwrightianus was obtained last summer
from the Greek island Tino by J. Cartwright, Esq. and was
before unknown. |t is evidently akin to C. Pallasianus.
C. Pallasianus is found in Tauria, and said to grow also in
the Cyclades, but is not sufficiently known and examined.
The figure given is from a dry specimen found by Prof.
Besser in Tauria, for the sake of comparison with C. Cart-
wrightianus.

This opportunity may be taken to give some general infor-
mation concerning Croci. They grow naturally on high land
between the Atlantic and the Caspian, north of the Mediter-
ranean, one autumnal species being, however, found on the
heights near Tangiers; and a vernal species was said to have
been seen on Atlas by Desfontaines, whose confused and
evidently erroneous description was taken from plants growing
in the Jardin des Plantes, and no Crocus has been yet found
by the French in Africa since their occupation of Algiers.
C. Pyrenzus (afterwards ill-named nudiflorus by Smith) is
found abundantly on the Pyrenees in September; and the
kindred Asturicus, smaller, darker, a month later, and bearded,
near Gijon and Santander. Whether they meet in Biscay
and Navarre is not ascertained. They are distinguished from
all others by a stoloniferous bulb producing its offsets at a
distance. 1n the mountain' pine-woods of S. Spain, C. sero-
tinus grows, flowering with us in November and December,
the leaves beginning to accompany the flowers, and distin-

guished by channelled filaments. C. Salzmannianus of Tan-
giers, and one very imperfectly known near Lisbon, called
Clusianus by Gay, are probably allied to it. All the sorts
which are found West of Italy have an involucre enclosing the
flower-stalk and lower part of the flower, whence Smith's
. name for Pyrenseus was peculiarly unhappy, especially as the
flower has not only an involucre, but an unusually conspicuous
green spathe.

The remaining sorts that belong to the West of Europe
are C. versicolor, a native of the neighbourhood of Nice,
and probably extending into Savoy, though it is not named
in Italian Floras, of which the throat is pale yellow and
smooth; C. insularis (including minimus) of Corsica and
Sardinia, white-throated, but forming a link between versi-
color and suaveolens of Italy ; and C. vernus, (of which the
coats are subreticulate, the throat hairy and never yellow, and
of which the principal seats are the Alps and Apennines,)
appearing large and purple, at the height of 6,000 feet on
M. Pollino in July, and elsewhere in the S. of Italy ; small,
white with purple throat on the Splugen, larger and purple
or purple-throated white intermixed on the Wengern Alp,
5,800 feet high, piercing the yet unmelted snow on the flat
amidst short sour grass as late as June 19; elsewhere in
Switzerland on Alpine pastures even as high as 5,500 feet,
and on Mount Pilate 5,500 feet high, with a longer flower
(C. longiflorus, Hegetzchweiler,) in July and August, ex-
tending eastward by Cebennes to the Pyrenees, where it is
rare, and (if Brotero is correct) passing thence through the
N. of Spain to the mountains of Beira and Entre M. y D.;
eastward white and obovate on the Bavarian, more acute and
white on the Carinthian, Alps; and (if Besser's specimen 1s
correct) passing by the N. of Hungary into S. Podolia, which
seems to be the most northern seat of the native Croci, for
they are not known to cross the left bank of the Danube
above Vienna, and are stopped by alluvial lands to the N.
of Podolia and of the steppes near Odessa and in the
Crimea. i

Mons. Gay has named an autumnal Crocus of Majorca,
which he described imperfectly, C. Cambessedesianus, allied,
as he says, to the vernal Insularis, but perhaps more probably to

the autumnal Crocus of Malta. Dried specimens exhibit two
different varieties evidently akin to Versicolor from Dalmatia
and the hills near Tifflis, and it is probable that the small
dark varieties called Versicolor in our gardens, which have
no yellow in the throat, do not spring from the Gallic plant.
In Italy versicolor and insularis pass into Imperatonianus and
suaveolens, to which they have much affinity; while the
fragrant autumnal family of C. odorus v. longiflorus and Meli-
tensis are confined to Italy and Sicily and to Malta. On the
mountains near Genoa, and abundant near Varese in Liguria,
we find C. medius, a purple autumnal Crocus, insufficiently
known, but probably allied to C. odorus.

Near Parma originates the family of the annulate Croci,
which is best known by the plant called biflorus, or by English
nurserymen Scotch Crocus. It is not ascertained from whence
that plant was obtained. It is distinguished from all others
by the yellow leaf-sheaths of its sprout, and is stated by Bory
St. Vincent to grow round the Gulf of /Egina, but the fact is
not distinetly ascertained. The Italian varieties ranking under
the name Pusillus have the sheaths white, the external stripes
on the straw-colour fewer, the internal colour white or pale
blue, and in the Florentine plant (which differs also in its
bracte) unstreaked straw-colour without, and pale blue within.
It is stated to extend into Corfu, and similar forms appear in
dry specimens from Tauria and Tiflis. In the Crimea is
found C. Adamicus, a beautiful plant of this family, blue
striped, varying towards purple; and, according to a specimen
from the steppes near Odessa, (if the bulb and flower sent
belong to one plant) to deep purple, which I propose to call
variety leemesianus, after H. M. Consul at Odessa, Mr.
Yeames, to whom I am indebted for the discovery of this
plant and C. nivigena. A specimen found by Fridwalski
in some part of Houmelia exhibits a small plant of this
family (which has a thick membranaceous bulb-coat, and a
smooth detached ring at bottom) with a golden flower.
C. Thomasianus in Lucania exhibits the western type of the
family of C. sativus, the cultivated saffron Crocus, which
seems more closely connected with Pallasianus and Cart-
wrightianus, but of which the native spot in the east is not
ascertained. C. Byzantinus is an autumnal Crocus, with

purple sepals, and shorter whitish petals, found in Wallachia
and the Bannat, and probably advancing into Roumelia.
C. campestris of Pallas, is identical with Fridwalski's C. hy-
bernus from Roumelia. Both it and Byzantinus are imper-
fectly known, and, not having seen any specimen of the
former, I entertain some doubt of their difference. The latter
is a very late flower, and was mistaken by Mr. Ker for C.
serotinus. Byzantinus is the earliest name.

C. speciosus, the most beautiful autumnal Crocus, appears
first and in its best form in Transylvania, and extends into
Caucasus, but there is no certainty of its being found S. of
the Balkan, or even the Danube; the supposed C. speciosus -
of Mount Athos, of which I have just received a dry flower
and some living bulbs, being a large variety of C. pulchellus
of this article found in Belgrade forest near Constantinople,
and also on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus. Crocus can-
cellatus, an early purple autumnal species, with hard and
widely reticulated coat-fibres, has been gathered near Nau-
plia, and of a smaller size on Mount Taurus and in Syria.
C. Tournefortianus of Gay, with very smooth coats and an
autumnal flower, is said by him to inhabit the Cyclades, but
is imperfectly and not otherwise known. A white autumnal
Crocus, described by Pohl from Paphos, is supposed by
Mons. Gay to be a variety of the same. Crocus reticulatus,
the vernal cloth of gold Crocus, first appears with a blueish
purple-streaked flower, and is called C. variegatus, near Trieste
in Lipiza wood, differing only in colour from the golden-striped
of the Crimea. In S. Podolia and near Odessa the streaked
white v. albicans appears; and the blue is found also in
the Crimea, according to M. von Bieberstein, though probably
smaller than in the west. A small reticulate Crocus, differing
in the bulb-coats, with a pale lemon and sometimes golden
flower, is found on Gargarus ; and a specimen of a golden one
of larger size, with harder reticulation, was brought by Lady
Liston from Constantinople, of which the exact habitation is
not known. The extensive family of C. lagenzflorus, golden,
creamy, and white, with parallel-fibred coat, appears to begin
in Corfu and stretch by the Balkan to Asia Minor, Chios,
and some of the neighbouring islands. To this family belongs
the florid Crocus luteus of our gardens, of which the exact

native site is not yet ascertained. ‘The autumnal white C.
Boryanus of Cephalonia, Modon, and Navarin, appears to
. differ in little but its season of flowering from lagenzflorus,
but I have not yet seen it alive.

The southern limit of the genus runs near lat. 35°,
from Tangiers by Malta, Candia, and Cyprus to Aleppo;
there it turns northward, following, I believe, the right
bank of the Phrat to its source between Erzerum and
Trebisond, and from thence it passes between Kurdistan
and the Caspian, as far S. as Tabriz, not descending into the
plain of the Tigris and Euphrates, and is cut off from the
southern shore of the Caspian and from the rest of Persia.
Mr. Kotschy found a blue Crocus, (cancellatus) in Syria and
near Tabriz, and a white one, probably Boryanus v. Caspicus,
near Baalbec and Tabriz. I have lately learned from two
quarters that the yellow Crocus follows Mount Lebanon
southwards from Aleppo and approaches Damascus on the
hills, where it is eaten by the natives, who make a pala-
table dish of it; but it cannot cross the Euphrates, and
the alluvial plain of Damascus. The genus is stopped to
the north of the Caspian by the Volga and the salt plains.
C. sativus is a cultivated plant in Cashmere, and the Crocus-
like plant of Suleimania seems to be a Merendera or Col-
chicum.

There are yet some vernal races in the Levant; one
C. Fleischerianus on the hills near Smyrna, white-streaked
with finely interwoven fibres, and seemingly in some de-
gree akin to C. reticulatus albicans ; C. Sieberianus (named
more happily, but later, nivalis by Bory St. Vincent) on
the very summits of Crete and Taygetus, flowering between
patches of snow, at the height of above 6,000 feet on the
latter in July; C. nivigena, allied to it, on the steppes near
Odessa, which have both finely reticulated coats like C. ver-
nus, attached at the base instead of the brow of the bulb, and
differing in other respects ; and lastly, C. nubigena, from the
summit of Gargarus, (with a hard smooth coat, and at the
base a ciliated ring, as in C. pulchellus) closely allied to C.
Sibthorpianus of Cretan Ida, and seemingly to C. levigatus of.
the summit of Milo and Thermia as well as Crete, which has
a hard coat, cut at the base into the appearance of scales. As

the summits of Milo and Thermia are of schistous marble, it
may be conjectured that those of Crete and Gargarus are
similar, from the Croci they produce.

In confirmation of the report concerning the yellow Crocus
of .the mountains near Damascus, I have long observed the
avidity of mice to scratch up and eat C. luteus and lagenz-
florus aureus, and the remarkable fact, that all the lagenz-
flori, when dug up wild, are found five or six inches deep
underground as if for protection, and that the mice never touch
any other Crocus in the garden. I tried to roast C. luteus,
and found it as hard as a stone; boiled for three-quarters of
an hour or more, it became a soft pulp, of which the flavour
was insufficient, but not unpleasant. On becoming cold it
hardened, so that it might be pounded or ground for culinary
purposes, and with some seasoning might be palatable, but
from its setting hard after being boiled, it would probably be
not easily digested. It is a remarkable fact, that although the
Croci of different. localities are little distinguished from each
other by casual observers, they refuse to intermix, and I have
failed in every attempt to cross C. vernus (which produces
seedlings at Spofforth so abundantly as to be troublesome)
with any other Crocus, and I have equally failed with every
other species, (unless perhaps in obtaining seed between
Versicolor, Imperatonianus, and insularis, which are peculiarly
allied) although most, except the sorts long cultivated by off-
sets, make seed pretty freely. It will not be found that the

genus is subdivided unnecessarily.

Any vendor of bulbs can readily distinguish the bulbs of
the common yellow, the vernal, the cloth of gold, the saffron,
and that called Scotch Crocus, by their outer coat; and other
species are so distinguishable, though often more easily by the
eye than by a written description; but besides that apparent
diversity, there is a great difference as to the part of the corm
or kernel into which the several coats, or remaining bases of
the last year's leaves and leaf-sheaths, are inserted, which is
not so easily ascertained ; and also of the particular zone,
between the lines of insertion, from which the root-fibres
spring; and it is in fact more easy to ascertain the species
from a dry bulb than from a leaf or flower.

Seven species or varieties are said to be found in Corfu,
which I have not yet seen ; three belonging, 1 apprehend, to
C. lagenzflorus; one to biflorus; one to reticulatus, blue;
one said to be vernus, which is scarcely probable; and two
imperfectly known, with an autumnal purplish flower.

Four plants of C. pulchellus were found in Belgrade forest
with the limb white and throat yellow. It is curious, that, as
the climate of the Alps can delay the spring Crocus even to
August, the beginning of autumn on M. Taurus can bring
forward the autumnal in the same month. P

TURRAA lobata.

Lobed Turrea.

MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. MELIACEE.

TURRAIA, L. Calyx 5-dentatus, raro in (in T. pumila) 5-partitus,
vel (in T. tetramerá) 4-dentatus. Corolla 5-petala, petalis ab imá basi
demüm patentibus. Tubus stamineus a corollà liber, intüs ad apicem an-
theras 10, vel (in T. tetramerá) 8, sessiles vel brevissimé stipitatas gerens,
margine (quandoque reflexo) plerúmque in dentes lacinulasve forme varise
diviso. Tubus interior nullus ; sed post anthesin annulus brevissimus duplex,
exterior e basibus petalorum, interior e basi tubi staminei, persistentibus,
basin ovarii cingens. Ovarium 5-, 10-, 20-loculare, loculis sepalis (dum
numero zequalibus) oppositis, 2-ovulatis. Stylus tubi staminei longitudine
vel longior. Stigma exsertum discoideum, styli dilatationem form varie ter-
minans. Capsula 5-vel pluri-locularis, loculis 1-2-spermis. Semina infra
apicem suspensa, arillata. Arbores fruticesve, foliis simplicibus integerrimis
raro (in T. heterophylla) obtuse lobatis, vel (in T. pumila) sinuato-dentatis.
Flores (pedunculo communi abbreviato) fasciculati, pedicellati, vel rard (in
T. tetramerä) sessiles. Bennett in Horsfield's Plant. Jav. p. 180.

T. lobata ; foliis rhombeis apice trilobis dentatisque subtüs pubescentibus,
floribus solitariis axillaribus, calycibus 5-dentatis, petalis spathulatis
columns longitudine, columná viginti-dentatä intüs hirsutà laciniis
subulatis, antheris 10 exsertis, ovario 5-loculari. Lindl. in Bot. Reg.
1843. misc. 86.

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This very rare stove plant flowered at Chiswick House
last July. His Grace the Duke of Devonshire received it
from Mr. Whitfield, who collected it in Sierra Leone. The
flowers have much the appearance of those of the orange, but
have no smell.

. The nearest affinity of this plant is evidently with the T.
heterophylla of Smith, a species from the same country, and
apparently very like it. But Mr. Bennett, in his revision of
the genus in Horsfield’s Plante Javanice, p. 184, places 7.
heterophylla in a section having from ten to twenty cells to the

ovary; this however has most certainly only five cells with
two ovules in each.

Fig. 1. represents the tube of the stamens in this plant,
and the club-shaped head of the style, with five stigmas pro-
jecting beyond it. The twenty awl-shaped reflexed teeth
which form a kind of coronet to this tube, stand in pairs
between the ten anthers, and are apparently lateral processes of
the stamens, one of each pair belonging to a different stamen.

There is something very singular in the placente, which
are densely covered with entangled twisted jointed hairs, the
nature and use of which require further examination.

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CATTLEYA pumila.
Bordered Dwarf Cattleya.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE®. $ EPIDENDREA.
CATTLEYA. Lindl.

C. pumila, Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3656.

This pretty little species is stated in the Botanical Maga-
zine to be a native of the Essequibo; but we cannot confirm
that statement, which has probably originated in some mis-
take. It is most assuredly Brazilian, being the No. 657 of
Mr. Gardner’s herbarium, and having been imported by a
French dealer, from that country, under the name of C. mar-
ginata, a very good name, expressing the appearance of a
beautiful pale border to the blood-red blotch of the lip.

Our drawing was made in Mr. Loddiges' Nursery.

It should be potted in turfy heath-mould, mixed with a
few pieces of potsherds, to keep it as porous as possible. The
pot should also be well drained, and the soil considerably
elevated above its brim. In cultivation the genus Cattleya
differs from many Orchidaceous plants; the species require
very little water ; even in spring, when the plants are growing,
water once or twice a week will be sufficient, and if syringed
it must be so slightly that no water may lodge in the axils of
the leaves; but where steam can be admitted once a day, it
will be found much better. During summer the house should
be slightly shaded in sunny weather, and the temperature
allowed to rise to 80? or 85? by day, but never above 70? at.
night. In winter, when little or no water will be required,
except to keep the pseudo-bulbs from shriveling, the tempe-
rature may be as low as 65? by day and 58? by night.

There is in cultivation a plant called C. Pinellii, of which

a specimen has been received from Messrs. Rollissons, and of
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which the top of the column is figured at fig. 1. of the accom.
panying plate, which is nearly allied to this, but appears dis-
tinct. It has white sepals, and rose-coloured straight not
curved petals. It requires further examination before its true
value can be determined ; it is, however, very pretty.

Considering the number of species, or supposed species, of -
this glorious genus, now in our gardens, and the length of
time that has elapsed since any arrangement of them has
taken place, it seems desirable that they should be brought
into one view ; especially as nearly all of them exist in our
gardens. And I am the more induced to rearrange the genus,
because I find some of the remarks made at t. 22 of the
Sertum erroneous,— especially the statement that C. maxima
is a Lelia, a mistake the origin of which I cannot trace.
The division there suggested among the species is too arti-
ficial; that now proposed will be found more natural.

There is no character by which Cattleya and Lelia can
be distinguished except the number of pollen-masses, which
are four in the former, and eight in the latter. The flowers
of Lelia are usually indeed in a raceme elevated on a long
graceful stalk; but such is not the case in Lelia Perrinü,
originally described by me asa Cattleya, and subsequently
regarded by Sir W. Hooker (Bot. Mag. t. 3711) as a variety
of C. intermedia ; nor in Z. virens.

CATTLEYA.
Section I. Lip rolled round the column.
* Sepals of the texture of petals, the lateral quite straight.

1. C. superba (Lindl. Sert. Orch. t. 22. C. Schomburgküi,
Lodd. cat. no. 434.) ; caulibus clavatis sulcatis, foliis ob-
longis marginatis caule brevioribus, sepalis oblongis
acutiusculis, petalis lanceolatis acutis membranaceis fere
dupló latioribus, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus acutis —
intermedio transverso plano emarginato denticulato basi
venis elevatis rugoso, callis duobus pone basin.——

Demerara.—— Flowers deep rose-coloured, sweet scented,
with a deep crimson lip.

2. C. Skinneri (Bateman Orch. Mex. Guat. t. 13.) ; cauli-
bus clavatis foliis binis ovalibus obtusis, spathá abbre-

viatà, sepalis angustis oblongo-lanceolatis rectis, petalis
oblongis 3-pló latioribus, labello integerrimo convoluto
emarginato plano, **columná naná 3-plö longiore.”——
Guatemala.——-Flowers deep rich rose colour, with a
crimson lip, resembling those of C. Skinneri. This
species inhabits the hot damp coast, on very high trees,
and is most difficult to get at, except after a storm that
may have chanced to throw down some of the large forest
trees. It should be well watered daily, to represent the
heavy dews and the rains, which latter are from May to
November. Mr. Skinner recommends care to be taken
that it mày not imbibe too much moisture, as its habitat
is on branches of large trees seldom having any lichen,
where the heavy rains do not lie. It does not seek too
much shade, but rather, like * Epid. aurantiacum,’ ex-
posed places. Climate 80° to 85», and sometimes 95°,
during the day. Flowers in January and February ;
vulgarly called * Flor de San Sebastian,’ from its being
in season, and adorning the altars on that saint's day
(20th of January).

3. C. Walkeriana (Gardner in London Journ. Bot. 2. 662);
folis oblongo-ellipticis coriaceis marginatis caule cylin-
drico longioribus, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis acutius-
culis calloso-apiculatis, petalis ovato-lanceolatis acutis
dupló latioribus, labelli trilobi cucullati lobis lateralibus
apice valdé et obliqué truncatis basi rotundatis, inter-
medio lato rotundo emarginato edenticulato plano basi
venis elevatis rugosis.—-— Brazil ; on the stem of a tree
overhanging a small stream which falls into the Rio S.
Francisco, beyond the Diamond district. —— Flowers
about 4 inches in diameter. Near C. superba; distin-
guished by its shorter pseudobulbs, smaller leaves, larger
and rounder middle lobe of the labellum, but particularly
by the obliquely truncated lateral lobes which envelope
only the lower half of the broadly winged column, and
not the whole of it.— Gardner.

4. C. maxima (Lindl. Gen. et Sp. orch. no. 4.) ; caulibus obo-
vato-clavatis angulatis, foliis 1-2 ovato-oblongis, spathä
peduneulo multó breviore, sepalis lineari-oblongis obtu-
sis, petalis subrotundo-ovalibus undulatis membranaceis,
labelli maximi crispi oblongi obsoleté trilobi lobo medio

undulato alte emarginato, disco levi.—— Guayaquil and
Colombia.——Fine specimens, and live plants brought 1
home by Mr. Hartweg shew this to be a rival of C. labiata. ;
Its flowers are as large, and are described as being of a \
beautiful dark pink.

5. C. labiata (Lindl. coll. t. 33.) ; caulibus clavato-fusiformibus
sulcatis, foliis solitariis oblongis, spatha pedunculi longi-
tudine, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis acutis, petalis mem- |
branaceis oblongo-lanceolatis undulatis multó latioribus,
labello obovato crispo-undulato emarginato disco levi. [
Varietates sunt. a. petalis oblongo-lanceolatis undulatis,
labelli disco sanguineo. (C. labiata, Lindl. l. c. Gen.
et Sp. orch. 116. Hooker exot. fl. t. 157. Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t. 1856. Bot. Mag. t. 3998.) 8. petalis latioribus
subcrispis, labelli disco luteo sanguineo punctato aut picto.
(C. Mossie, Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3669. Bot. Reg.
1840, t. 58.)——a Brazil. P La Guayra. One of
the most noble species of this fine genus. The varieties
of what has been called C. Mossix are numerous, .and
seem to prove that no reliance can be placed on the
supposed distinctions between it and C. labiata. It must
however be confessed that the question is open to further
consideration.

6. C. crispa (Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1172. orch. no. 1. Hooker
in Bot. Mag. t. 3910.) caulibus crassis oblongis clavatis,
foliis solitariis, spathà magna herbaceá, sepalis lineari-
obovato-lanceolatis acutis, petalis latioribus oblongo-lan-
ceolatis undulatis crispis, labelli indivisi limbo ovato
acuminato quam maximé undulato-crispato. —— Brazil.

—— Flowers very large, pure white, with a large crimson
blotch in the middle of the lip.

7. C. citrina (Lindl. Gen. et Sp. orch. no. 8. Bot. Mag.
t. 3742. “ Corticoatzontecoxochitl. Hernand. Mex. 1.
p. 240." Sobralia citrina. Llave Nov. Veg. Descr. 2.
21.); caulibus ovatis squamis laxis albis membranaceis
vestitis, foliis lanceolatis glaucis, pedunculis longissimis
solitariis, floribus carnosis pendulis, sepalis oblongo-ellip-
ticis, petalis conformibus paulo latioribus, labelli trilobi
lobo intermedio ovato undulato emarginato lineä mediä
lata elevatà.—-— Mexic.——A mountain plant remark-

able for its rich clear yellow flowers, which are very
sweet scented.

8 C. pumila (Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3656. Lindl. Bot. Reg.

1844. t. 5. C. marginata, Hort.); caulibus brevibus
ovalibus sulcatis, foliis solitariis ovato-oblongis acutis,
pedunculo unifloro, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis rectis, pe-
talis ovalibus 3-pló latioribus, labello obovato indiviso
apice plicato, lineis 3 elevatis in medio. Brazil,
(Gardner, 657).—— This is said to be from the Esse-
quibo, but that appears to be a mistake. It isa very
distinct species, with peculiarly thick acute solitary leaves,
and deep rose-coloured flowers. The lip is bordered
with a pale colour, which is sometimes almost white.

9. C. Pinellii(Hort.); facie¡C. pumile sed sepalis acutis albidis,

petalis ovatis roseis, labello magis crispo, columná apice
dentibus 2 crenatis auctá.—— Brazil.——Very near C.
pumila, but the sepals are white, the petals almost ex-
actly ovate, the lip more crisp and of a brighter colour.
Requires further examination. J

** Sepals somewhat herbaceous, or more coriaceous than the

10.

petals, the latter manifestly falcate.

C. Loddigesti (Lindl. Coll. Bot. t. 37. Gen. and Sp.
no. 5. Hooker Bot. Misc. t. 186. Epidendrum vio-
laceum, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 337. Cattleya ovata, Lindl.
in Bot. Reg. t. 1919.)— Var. floribus pallidioribus; (C.
intermedia, Graham in Bot. Mag. t. 2851. L. no. 6.)—
Var. floribus subalbis; ( C. intermedia pallida, Lindl. in
Bot. Reg. t. 1919. C. vestalis Hoffsg. verzeich?) ; caulibus
elongatis teretibus, foliis 2 ovato-oblongis, spathá brevi
membranaceä, sepalis oblongis lateralibus falcatis, petalis
subconformibus, labelli lobis lateralibus rotundatis inter-
medio dilatato crispo 23 longioribus, lineis pluribus ele-
vatis lamellatis pone basin versus apicem evanescentibus.
—— Brazil and Buenos Ayres.——Flowers sometimes
clear lilae with a whitish lip, sometimes nearly white with a
crimson lip, with many intermediate gradations. It always
appeared doubtful whether C. intermedia could be dis-
tinguished, and more experience in estimating the value
of characters among these plants leads to the conclusion
that C. ovata must also be reduced to the same species.
It seems to be very common in Brazil, and to occur as

far south as Buenos Ayres. Mr. Gardner found it on

trees in marshes at the foot of the Organ mountains, (no.

5635 of his herbarium). The size of the leaves is much

affected by situation ; in all cases, however, they seem to er
be broader at the base than at the point. So far as the

character of Count Hoffmannsegg's C. vestalis can be

judged of, that plant is the pale C. intermedia.

11. C. Harrisoniana (Bateman in Bot. Reg. sub t. 1919.);
“ foliis angusté lanceolatis," sepalis oblongis apiculatis,
petalis ovalibus, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus rotundatis
intermedio angusto crispo 14 longioribus : lineis pluribus
elevatis per totam axin lamellis nullis. —— Brazil. ——]I
only know this plant from two flowers given me by Mr.

Bateman. "They have much shorter and broader sepals
than C. Loddigesii, the petals are much broader, and the |

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proportion between the middle lobe of the lip and its
lateral lobes is quite different. Besides which, certain
elevated lines run all the way from the base to near the .

apex of the lip. The flowers are lilac; the tip with a m
deep blotch within the margin. 5 |

12. C. Forbesii (Lindl. Coll. Bot. sub t. 37. Bot. Reg. t.
953. Lindl. no. 7. Bot. Cab. t. 1152.) ; caulibus elon-
gatis teretibus, foliis 2 oblongis, sepalis petalisque lineari-
oblongis obtusis subzequalibus, labelli trilobi lobo medio
cordato subrotundo-ovato arguté dentato undulato apicu-
lato: lateralibus minoribus rotundatis planis, lineis 4
elevatis pone basin lamellaque membranaceá utrinque, ;
columna basi lineis 5 elevatis quarum duz majores cris- !
tata, clinandrii cardine tuberculo corrugato acuto.—-—
Brazil.——Flowers greenish yellow. Lip with bright

orange brown veins. Very near C. Loddigesii.

13. C. maritima (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub t. 1919.) ; pedun-
culo unifloro, caule subclavato, foliis binis ovalibus ob-
tusis spatha parum longioribus, sepalis oblongis acutis,
petalis lanceolatis falcatis obtusis, labello trilobo (nudo?) ;
laciniis lateralibus erectis rotundatis intermediä dilatatá
denticulatà emarginatá.—-—Sea-beaten rocks, Buenos
Ayres.—— Flowers fine, rose-coloured, usually in threes ;
many varieties. Its small leaves, dwarf habit, and one-
flowered peduncle, mark this, of which I have only seen
one specimen with a single flower. Possibly it is one of
the many varieties of C. Loddigesii.

14. C. Arembergu (Scheidweiler in Gartenzeit. 1843. p.
109.) ; **sepalis lateralibus falcatis obtusiusculis, supremo
lanceolato, petalis latioribus undulatis, labelli trilobi lobis
undulato-crispis, intermedio margine lilacino lamina lutea,
lateralibus margine lutescentibus, spatha herbacea com-
pressa obtusa, pseudobulbis cylindraceis nitidis, foliis
ovatis carnosis, obscure viridibus."— — Brazil. — This
species is only known from the above description. It is
said to bear much resemblance to some others, but to be
distinguished by its beautiful dull green ovate leaves, and
its great lilae flowers. The stem is said to be eight
inches high, the leaves four inches long and two inches
broad; the flowers sweet-scented. It may be C. Har-
risoniana, or maritima ; but it seems to be distinct.

15. C. guttata (Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1406. Orch. no. 10.
Hort. Trans. 2 ser. 2. t. 8. C. elatior, Lindl. Orch. no.
9.) ; caulibus elongatis teretibus, foliis 2 oblongis concavis
basi pauló angustatis, spathà brevi, floribus carnosis,
sepalis lineari-oblongis acuminatis, petalis conformibus
pauló latioribus undulatis, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus
ovatis : intermedio cuneato bilobo disco tuberculato.——
Brazil. Flowers greenish yellow, beautifully spotted
with crimson ; lip white with a lilac tip. Raceme some-
times as large as a man’s head. `

16. C. granulosa (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, t. 1. C. guttata
P Russelliana, Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3693 ?) ; caulibus
teretibus gracilibus diphyllis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis
obtusis, sepalis oblongis obtusis, petalis obovato-spathu-
latis undulatis obtusissimis, labello cucullato tripartito :
laciniis lateralibus semiovatis intermediä sinu lato di-
vulsà ungue equilateri levi lamina dilatatà rotundatá
plicatá granulosá denticulatá.—— G'uatemala.—-— This
has a slender stem, terminated by two narrow leaves,
something like those of C. bicolor, but shorter. Sepals
two inches and.a half long, oblong, olive green, mottled

* with rich brown spots. Petals obovate, very much
rounded at the point, and narrowed to the base ; wavy
at the margin, and of the same colour as the sepals.
Strongly contrasted with the dingy colours of those parts
is the lip, of a pure white at the sides and point, and of
a glowing orange spotted with crimson in the middle ; its

lateral lobes curve over the column, but are divided very
deeply from the middle lobe by a wide slit; the middle
lobe itself has its surface broken up into numerous gra-
nulations, something in the way of C. guttata. It is
scarcely possible to doubt that the plant figured in the
Botanical Magazine as a variety of C. guttata, is this
species. The Brazilian origin attributed to it is no
doubt erroneous, like that of many plants from the
Woburn collection.

Section 2. Lip without the lateral lobes, and flat below the
column.

17. C. Aclandie (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840, t. 48.); caulibus.
cylindraceis striatis decumbentibus, foliis 2 oblongis, flo-
ribus subsolitariis, sepalis petalisque herbaceis lanceolatis
zequalibus incurvis maculatis, labelli plani calvi hypo-
chilio dilatato patulo subrepando epichilio orbiculari-
reniformi emarginato.—— Brazil.—-—— Flowers dull olive
green, nearly the colour of C. granulosa. Lip dull violet.
The smallest species yet known.

18. C. bicolor (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub t. 1919.) ; foliis ovato-
oblongis angustis caule tereti elato tripló brevioribus,
sepalis lanceolatis falcatis acutis, petalis parum latioribus
subundulatis obtusis, labello indiviso plano apice dilatato
rotundato crenato convexo.——Brazil.——Stems two
to three feet long. Sepals and petals tawny; läbellum
bright purple, with a lanceolate streak in the centre,
white slightly spotted with purple. The flowers are
slightly fragrant. ‘This was introduced by Mr. Pontey
of Plymouth, and flowered in his nursery in 1838.

19. C. .Domingensis (Lindl. Orch. no. 11.); caule brevi ob-
longo annulato squamoso, folio ovali-oblongo coriaceo,
scapo terminali longissimo stricto apice racemoso 7-8 floro,
sepalis lineari-lanceolatis acutis petalis oblongis obtusius-
culis tripló angustioribus, labello indiviso obovato obtusd
plicato-crispo emarginato cucullato.—— St. Domingo.
——In the absence of sufficient evidence as to this
species, which is no. 231 of Jaeger's collections, it may
be conjectured to be a Lelia rather than a Cattleya. It
is found on logwood trees in the wood near Miragoane,
in St. Domingo, where it flowers in April.

lateral lobes curve over the column, but are divided very
deeply from the middle lobe by a wide slit; the middle
lobe itself has its surface broken up into numerous gra-
nulations, something in the way of C. guttata. It is
scarcely possible to doubt that the plant figured in the
Botanical Magazine as a variety of C. guttata, is this
species. The Brazilian origin attributed to it is no
doubt erroneous, like that of many plants from the
Woburn collection.

Section 2. Lip without the lateral lobes, and flat below the
column.

17. C. Aclandie (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840, t. 48.); caulibus.
cylindraceis striatis decumbentibus, foliis 2 oblongis, flo-
ribus subsolitariis, sepalis petalisque herbaceis lanceolatis
equalibus incurvis maculatis, labelli plani calvi hypo-
chilio dilatato patulo subrepando epichilio orbiculari-
reniformi emarginato.—— Brazil.——Flowers dull olive
green, nearly the colour of C. granulosa. Lip dull violet.
The smallest species yet known.

18. C. bicolor (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub t. 1919.); foliis ovato-
oblongis angustis caule tereti elato tripló brevioribus,
sepalis lanceolatis faleatis acutis, petalis parum latioribus
subundulatis obtusis, labello indiviso plano apice dilatato
rotundato crenato convexo.——Brazil.—-—Stems two
to three feet long. Sepals and petals tawny ; läbellum
bright purple, with a lanceolate streak in the centre,
white slightly spotted with purple. The flowers are
slightly fragrant. This was introduced by Mr. Pontey
of Plymouth, and flowered in his nursery in 1838.

19. C. .Domingensis (Lindl. Orch. no. 11.); caule brevi ob-
longo annulato squamoso, folio ovali-oblongo coriaceo,
scapo terminali longissimo stricto apice racemoso 7-8 floro,
sepalis lineari-lanceolatis acutis petalis oblongis obtusius-
culis tripló angustioribus, labello indiviso obovato obtusd
plicato-crispo emarginato cucullato. St. Domingo.
——In the absence of sufficient evidence as to this
species, which is no. 231 of Jaeger's collections, it may
be conjectured to be a Lelia rather than a Cattleya. It
is found on logwood trees in the wood near Miragoane,
in St, Domingo, where it flowers in April.

EUONYMUS japonicus.
Japan Euonymus.

` TETR.-PENT.-HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. CELASTRACE X.
EUONYMUS. L.

E. japonicus ; sempervirens, foliis coriaceis oblongis basi in petiolum angus-
tatis obtusé serratis: serraturis mucronulatis, cymis paucifloris folio
dupló brevioribus, floribus quadrifidis, petalis orbiculatis indivisis.

E. japonicus, Thunb. fl. jap. p. 100. Banks ic. Kempf. t. 8. DC. prodr. 2. 4.

In all respects this corresponds with the account given by
Thunberg, of the Iso Curoggi, or black shore-tree, of the
Japanese, even to the sporting into a silver blotched variety,
also in our gardens. He says it is in Japan a bush about as
highas a man. With us it is not as yet higher than three or
four feet, but it has all the appearance of becoming much
larger.

Although no beauty is to be found in its flowers, this
plant is of the same kind of value as the common Laurel,
Phyllireas, and Alaternus, being a hardy Evergreen shrub,
with much the appearance of a small leaved Orange. It is
true that in very severe winters it is liable to be killed to the
ground, but so are the Bay, the Ilex, and others; it however
springs up again and rapidly forms a new bush. When older
it will probably become more hardy.

It is easily increased from cuttings of the half ripened
wood, placed under a hand-glass or in a close frame, and
shaded in summer.

It flowers in July and August, but has not as yet produced

fruit. There are two varieties, one with silver striped, the
other with gold striped leaves ; but the latter is very subject

to run back to the green-leaved, while the silver striped
hardly ever changes.

It is called in many places, “ Chinese Box," the name it
bore when first introduced from Belgium.

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STIGMAPHYLLON jatrophefolium.
Jatropha-leaved Stigmaphyllon.

DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Nat. ord. MALPIGHIACEZ.
STIGMAPHYLLON. Aug. de St. Hil. Supra, vol. 20. t. 1659.

S. jatrophefolium ; folis palmato-5-7-fidis-partitisve acutis serrato-ciliatis
cordatis lobis basi divergentibus glabris petiolatis, petiolo apice biglan-
duloso, samaris . . . . Adr. de Juss. Fl. Bras. merid. 3. 51. t. 170.

According to M. Auguste de St. Hilaire this little plant
is an inhabitant of rocky places near the fort of Salto on the
banks of the Uruguay, in the province of Rio Grande do Sul,
where it creeps over the surface of the soil. Our own herba-
rium contains Brazilian specimens of the plant communicated
by the Royal Herbarium of Berlin from Sellow’s collections.

The figure now given was taken from a fresh branch sent
last July anonymously from Liverpool to the Editor of the
Gardener's Chronicle. We, therefore, conclude that it will
soon make its appearance in the collections round London.
No doubt it will be a very pretty twiner, well suited for culti-
vation in pots attached to trellis. Its leaves are a clear light
green, and beautifully cut; it appears, however, from the
figure above quoted, that they are sometimes heart-shaped
and undivided.

The whole genus is worth cultivation, and some of the
species extremely handsome. They amount to 45, according
to M. Adrien de Jussieu, and are found in most of the warmer
parts of South America, especially Brazil. Some of them are

Banisterias of authors.

Of the cultivation of this plant we can of course know
nothing certain. It is however probable that it will prove
suited to a greenhouse; but as it is found trailing among
stones it will no doubt require full exposure to all the sun

February, 1844. E

light that can be obtained in this climate. Probably the
treatment given to Melons will suit it during summer.

We should add, however, that the correspondent who
sent it states that it is a free flowerer growing luxuriantly in a
moist stove.

If treated as a stove plant it requires to be potted in a
compost consisting of two parts sandy loam and one of peat,
in a rough state, but well mixed together. During the sum-
mer months an ample supply of water should be given, and
the atmosphere kept as moist as possible. In sunny weather
the house should be slightly shaded, otherwise the young
leaves will become scorched by the sun. The temperature
in summer may rise as high as 80? or 85? by day, and fall
as low as 68? at night, but in winter never above 58? with
fire heat. It may be propagated by cuttings in the usual
way.

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ANIA bicornis..

Two-horned Ania.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. OncnipAckxX. $ EPIDENDREZA.
ANIA.. Lindl. gen. $ sp. Orch. p. 129.

A. bicornis (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842. mise. 31.) ; folio oblongo-lanceolato
carnoso scapo breviore, labelli lobo medio emarginato apiculato ecalca-
rato basi bilamellato lamellà alterà versus apicem interjectà, antherä
bicorni.

Labellum cum basi producta column articulatum. Anthera 2-locularis.

To the Rev. J. Clowes, of Broughton Hall, we are in-
debted for a specimen of this terrestrial Orchidacea, which he
received from Ceylon, and flowered in March 1842.

It belongs to a little group of the Epidendreous section,
of which Bletia is the type, and is nearly allied to A. latifolia,
a Sylhet plant, at present known only from dried specimens ;
from that it differs in having much smaller flowers and
leaves, an entirely different labellum, and a 2-celled anther ;
that of A. latifolia being 8-celled. In the latter circumstance,
indeed, it correspends with the neighbouring genus Cytheris,
whose distinctive character is therefore not to be taken from
the cells of the anthers, but from its resupinate flowers, and
truly calcarate labellum. In Ania the labellum, if it appears
to have a spur, as in A. angustifolia, owes that appearance to
the extension of the foot of the column.

Fig. 1 is a view of the lip of this plant; 2 shews the
column, with its lengthened foot and. two-horned anther;
3 gives the appearance of the pollen-masses.

At first sight this plant, when in flower, resembles a
starved specimen of Eulophia macrostachya.

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CRINUM variabile, var. roseum.

Rose-coloured changeable Crinum.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDACEZ.
CRINUM. Herbert. Amaryll. p. 242.

C. variabile ; foliis leeté viridibus erecto-arcuatis crassis, floribus subsessilibus
ortu albis rubro pallidé extüs notatis dein saturaté rubris campanulato-
infundibularibus apice revolutis.

C. variabile, Herbert, l. c. 268.

Amaryllis variabilis, Jacq. A. Schenb. 4. 426.

Amaryllis revoluta (9. Supra, vol. 8. fol. 615.

This beautiful bulb flowered in April last with J. H.
Slater, Esq. of Newick Park, near Uckfield. Its leaves are
very long, and its gay rosy flowers most agreeably scented.

Upon shewing the drawing to the Dean of Manchester,
the learned investigator of this difficult genus, he suggested
the probability of its being either a variety of Crinum varia-
bile, or a mule from C. capense, of which the Gardens now
contain so many. A reference to the published figures of
the former induces us to regard it as one of its varieties,
with which it agrees in its bright green very long leaves, and
comparatively short scape.

We borrow from Mr. Herbert's work the following memo-
randum concerning C. variabile. “ This is the hardiest
known species; out of doors it preserves its leaves in winter
longer than Capense, and it shoots earlier in the spring.
Both this plant and revolutum have a slender germen, but
the idea conceived from Jacquin's plate by some persons, of
‚its cells being monospermous was erroneous. [t leaves are
deep green. The flowers turn to a rich purplish red, so that

flowers of two colours are always on the same umbel, as repre-
sented by Jacquin. The figures in the Register were taken
at too early a period for a just representation, before the ex-
. pansion of the flowers. Mr. Ker considers Am. revoluta
(Bot. Mag. 1178) to be this plant. "The plant offered at Mr.
Woodford's sale, which Mr. Wykes, his gardener, asserted
to be the one from which the figure was made, was not dis- '
tinguishable from a common glaucous-leaved C. capense ; and
I observe in Mr. Ker's description, he says of the leaves
rather glaucous, which is not the case with any bulb I ever
saw of variabile, which has the green very bright; and if the
plant had been variabile, the two decaying flowers in the
figure would have been intensely red. The figure, therefore,
if intended for C. variabile is quite incorrect, but it agrees
better with some plants that I have of C. capense. Mr. Ker
draws a peremptory distinction, that in variabile the tube is
shorter than the.limb, and in capense longer; but in his own
fig. of Capense (Am. longifolia, Bot. Mag. 18. 661.) it is
shorter. Usually, however, the tube is shorter than the limb
in Capense, but it is a very variable plant, and in some seed-
ling varieties its flowers change to red, as in variabile, which
I consider to be much more akin to it than to revolutum. It
is, therefore, best to discard all consideration of that plate,
and of Mr. Ker's description accompanying it, as far as it dis-
agrees with his amended description in the Bot. Reg. 8. 615."

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SPIRAA Reevesiana.
Mr. Reeves's Spirea.

ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA.

Nat. ord. RosACEX.
SPIRAEA. L.

S. Reevesiana ; foliis lanceolatis serratis trilobis pinnatifidisve utrinque glabris
subtus glaucescentibus, racemis capitatis terminalibus pedunculatis,
sepalis intus villosis.

S. Reevesiana, Hort.

S. corymbosa, Rozxb. fl. ind. 2. 512.

Frutex fere sempervirens, nitidus, S. chameedrifolise aspectu, foliis in
ramis vegetioribus fere pinnatifidis in planta juniore sepe trilobis, senectute
indivisis serratis.

This plant, which was introduced from China by Mr.
Reeves, whose name it bears, is generally supposed to be the
S. lanceolata of Poiret: but that species is described with
axillary sessile umbels, and must therefore be different. It is
certainly Roxburgh's S. corymbosa, a name however which,
being pre-occupied by Rafinesque, cannot well be retained.
Probably, it is also the no. 701 of Dr. Wallich's Indian Her-
barium, and if so, may be a native of the mountains of India,
as Dr. Roxburgh states.

The leaves on its strong young shoots are so deeply lobed
as to be almost pinnatifid. On the branches, when the plant
is young, they are frequently 3-lobed ; but as it becomes old
they lose their lobed character altogether.

It is a handsome hardy sub-evergreen shrub, growing in
any good garden soil from three to four feet high. It is
easily increased from cuttings of the small half-ripened twigs
any time during the summer or autumn. The cuttings should

be put in sand, and covered with a bell-glass, and placed in
an exhausted dung frame.

It forms a spreading bush, and flowers freely in May and
June. It probably would be quite evergreen in the warmer
parts of England.

Fig. 1. represents a calyx split open to shew the hairy
surface of its lobes, the ovaries, undulated disk, and stamens.

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GENISTA virgata.
Twiggy Broom.

MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. LeGumınosz. $ PAPILIONACEX. `
GENISTA. Lam.

G. virgata ; ramis virgatis teretibus striatis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis sub-
sericeis, floribus secus ramulos solitarios subracemosis, petalis sericeis
longitudine subzequalibus, leguminibus villosis 1-3-spermis compresso-
planis ad semina subtorosis. DeCand. Prodr. 2. 149.

Spartium virgatum, Ait. Hort. Kew. 3. 11.

Cytisus tener, Jacq. ic. rar. £. 147. e

Genista gracilis, Poir. suppl. 2. 715.

The plant from which this figure was taken we received
from Mr. Young, Nurseryman, Milford, in July 1843. He
states that it is a very handsome compact shrub, which resisted
the hard winter of 1836-7. It was raised from the seeds sent
by Mr. Webb from Madeira in 1825, was turned out in 1833
into the open border, and is now a very woody shrub. It is
deserving a place in all shrubberies.

In the garden of the Horticultural Society it grows about
four feet high, and is capable of enduring the ordinary winters
round London, if placed in a dry situation, and planted in a
loamy soil. It is increased by seeds or by cuttings of the young
wood after midsummer. The cuttings should be placed in a
shady situation, in light sandy soil, and covered with a hand-
glass. It flowers freely in May and June, and forms a loose
rather spreading bush, rather thin of foliage.

In the nurseries it is generally known by the name of
Spartium virgatum.

In such wild and cultivated specimens, as we have had
the opportunity of examining, the leaves were uniformly sim-

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ple ; in the specimen represented, however, the lowest on each
twig, those in fact from whose axil the twigs proceeded, were
trifoliolate. This is interesting, as shewing an occasional
passage to the 3-leaved species, even among those whose
foliage is most decidedly simple.

Fig. 1. shews the calyx and stamens ; 2. is a section of the
ovary.

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LISSOCHILUS roseus.

Rose-coloured Lissochilus.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORcHIDACER. $ VANDEX.
LISSOCHILUS. Supra, vol. 12. vol. 1002.

L. roseus (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. misc. 37. Dendrobium roseum, Swartz.
in Persoon synops. p. 523.) ; foliis lato-lanceolatis erectis plicatis, scapo
squamis lanceolatis acutis membranaceis distantibus vaginato, racemo
denso oblongo, bracteis ovatis acuminatis ovario brevioribus, sepalis
spathulatis acutis concavis reflexis, petalis oblongis apiculatis, labelli
trlobi lobis rotundatis intermedio emarginato cum mucrone, disco
lamellis tribus undulatis serrulatis tuberculo parvo utrinque.

Although the terrestrial Orchidacez of hot countries are
too often very inferior to the epiphytes, yet there are many
exceptions to that rule, among which few are more striking
than the present, which will not suffer by comparison with
the Vandas, Saccolabiums, and Dendrobiums of India.

It is a native of Sierra Leone, whence it was received by
Mr. Rucker, in whose magnificent collection of Orchidacez
it lowered in February 1843. The leaves are broad, stiff,
and plaited like a reed ; the flower-stem is between 3 and 4
feet high. "The petals are of the brightest rose colour, set
off with velvety-brown sepals, and a yellowish stain on the
lip. :

There is another plant in the same part of Africa, which
would perhaps excel even this in beauty, and it is much to be
regretted that no one should have yet been able to send it
home. Its petals, even dried, are an inch and a half long.
Sir William Hooker has a specimen in his herbarium, col-
lected near Boney, which we named some years ago Lisso-
chilus macranthus.

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

While we are writing on this subject, we would also men-
tion another most noble plant, specimens of which might cer-
tainly be procured by any of our African merchants. "When
Mr. Ansell was ill from the effects of the Niger expedition,
at Fernando Po, he found in Clarence Cove, growing on the
stems of the Oil Palm (Elais guineensis), an epiphyte with a
slender jointed stem about two feet long, having at the upper
end many stiff, plaited, lanceolate, 5-ribbed leaves, and a
terminal panicle of flowers as large as those of Vanda Rox-
burghii, with dark purple spots on a pale ground. Of that
plant we possess a dried specimen, with one of the lower
branches of the panicle in good preservation, and as it proves
to be a new genus we take this opportunity of naming it after
its discoverer

ANSELLIA.

Sepala oblonga, carnosa, «equi-patentiá, libera. Petala
conformia, recta, patula, dupló latiora. Zabellum sessile,
patulum, trilobum, bilamellatum, lobo medio. minore
verrucoso. Columna elongata, marginata, basi utrinque
auriculata. Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 4, sessilia,
basi contigua, duobus dorsalibus multo minoribus; glan-
dula angusta utrinque acuminata. Caulis elongatus,

teres, apice tantum foliosus. Folia plicata, coriacea.
Panicula terminalis.

Sp. 1. Ansellia africana.

It appears that this genus must be referred to that set of
Vandez of which Cymbidium must be taken as the type. In
fact, it is very near that genus in technical characters, though
extremely different in its manner of growth. The auricles
at the base of the column, the four pollen-masses, and the

very narrow gland fining away to each side will serve to dis-
tinguish it.

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BOLBOPHYLLUM macranthum.
Large-flowered Bolbophyllum.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE®. $ MALAXEZ.
BOLBOPHYLLUM. Supra, vol. 23. t. 1942.

B. macranthum ; foliis petiolatis oblongis planis coriaceis, floribus solitariis,
pedunculo petiolo longiore, flore plano resupinato, sepalo dorsali plano
ovato acuminato lateralibus petalisque subconformibus hinc tortis, labello
minimo unguiculato subtrilobo acuminato.

This singular plant was imported by Messrs. Loddiges
from Sincapore, and is closely allied to both B. leopardinum
and affine. From each it differs in its much more fleshy and
larger flowers, whose stalk is considerably longer than the
petiole.

The flowers appear in March, and expand so flat that they
seem as if they had been pressed between paper. In the
centre they are a pale lemon colour, but towards the tips they
are much mottled with dark chocolate-coloured spots.

Like the rest of the genus it succeeds best when tied to a
block of wood, and suspended to a rafter in a moist stove.
If the wood is charred enough to burn off the bark the block
will be found to answer the purpose much better, and all insects
that harbour about it will be destroyed. In summer the plant
should receive water twice a day at least, and the temperature
should be kept about 80° by day, and 68° at night. In winter
for a few weeks very little water will be required, only as much
as to keep the pseudo-bulbs from shriveling. The temperature
then should never be raised above 50° or 55° with fire heat.

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*NELUMBIUM Caspieum.
Caspian Nelumbium.

POLYADELPHIA POLYGYNIA.
Nat. ord. NELUMBIACEX.

NELUMBIUM, Juss. Calyx tetrapentaphyllus, foliolis imo toro in-
sertis, liberis, deciduis. Torus carnosus, obconicus, ovaria includens. Co-
rollæ petala plurima, imo toro multiseriatim inserta, oblonga, patentia.
Stamina plurima, imo toro pluriseriatim inserta, libera ; filimenta filiformia,
supra antheras in appendiculam producta; antheræ introrsæ, biloculares,
loculis linearibus, adnatis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ovaria plurima,
libera, unilocularia, tori alveolis immersa. Ovula solitaria v. gemina, ex
apice funiculi a basi loculi ad apicem adscendentis pendula. Styli breves,
simplices; stigmate peltato. Nuces plurimee, monosperme, e tori aucti
alveolis emergentes, libere. Semen inversum, exalbuminosum. Embryo
crassus, intra pericarpium germinans.—Herbee in aquis Asie calidioris et
Americz borealis vegetantes, Nymphearum facie ; rhizomate crasso, repente ;
petiolis pedunculisque emersis teretibus, tuberculato-asperis, foliorum lamina
centro peltata, orbiculata, penninervia, integerrima, glabra; floribus amplis,
albis, roseis v. flavis, seminibus edulibus.—Endl. gen. no. 5026. .

N. caspicum ; petalis obovatis obtusis magnitudine parum diversis, carpellis 9.
Nelumbium caspicum, Fisch in DeCand. Syst. 2. 45.
Nelumbium speciosum y, DeCand. l. c.

The accompanying drawing was made in the nursery of
Messrs. Rollissons-of Tooting, in August, 1843. We are
happy to have an opportunity of publishing it, not only for its
own sake, but because it affords an opportunity of pointing
out the true distinction between the Caspian and Indian
Nelumbia.

According to M. DeCandolle all the Nelumbia found in
various parts of Asia are varieties of one species, and this
opinion is generally adopted. It is however difficult to believe
that the deep red Nelumbium of India, with very sharp-
pointed petals, such as is figured in the Botanical Magazine,
t. 3916, and elsewhere, can be the same with the blunt-
petalled white-flowered plant “found at the mouth of the
Volga near Astrachan, in a part of the river called Tschulpan,
amongst reeds intermixed with Nympheas and Trapa," which,

* Dr. Carey considers this name to be derived from two Sanscrit words ;
viz. Neel blue, and Umboja generated in water. Although we have not yet
found a blue Nelumbium in these parts of Asia, yet it is said to be a native
of both Cashmere and Persia. Roxburgh,

according to Messrs. Fischer and Steven, is the locality of
this plant. M. DeCandolle indeed suspected that it must be
different, but he did not remark in the dried specimens ex-
amined by him any character beyond the bluntness of the
petals and their general uniformity in size, and upon that
distinction he was unwilling to rely. The true difference
seems to consist in the very small number of carpels, which
do not appear to exceed nine, while in the great Indian species
they are as numerous as thirty or thirty-three.

Speaking of N. speciosum and its supposed varieties, Dr.

Roxburgh writes as follows :—

*I have met with only two sorts on the coast of Coro-
mandel, one with rose-coloured flowers, the other with flowers
perfectly white, and since that time a third variety has been
brought from China with smaller rosy flowers. They grow
in such sweet water lakes, &c. as do not dry up during the
driest season, and, on the coast, flower all the year round.
In Bengal they flower during the hot season, April, May, and
June, and ripen their seed about the close of the rains.
In China there is a still more beautiful bright crimson variety,
which they call Hung-lin; I have hitherto only seen a draw-
ing of it. The white Nelumbium differs in few respects from
the red one, and may be considered as only a variety of it.

** The tender shoots of the roots between the joints of both
sorts are eaten by the natives, either simply boiled or in their
curries. The seeds are eaten raw, roasted, or boiled. "The
leaves are used to eat off instead of plates. These holy and
beautiful plants are often met with in the religious ceremonies
of the Hindoos under their Sanscrit name Padma.”

_ It is a stove aquatic, requiring to be kept dry during
winter. Before putting it into the water, which ought to be
done about the beginning of February, it should be repotted
in sandy loam mixed with pieces of sandstone, to act on the
same principle as drainage, for the water in which it is grown
requires to be renewed once or twice a week, and should
never be allowed (especially in summer) to be below 80°.
About the end of October, when the leaves begin to decay,
the pot should be lifted out of the water and dried off gra-
dually. As the soil becomes dry it will crack or leave the
sides of the pot, which should be filled up with sand, in order
to cover many roots that would otherwise be exposed.

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QUISQUALIS sinensis.

Chinese Quisqualis.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. COMBRETACEE.
QUISQUALIS. Bot. Reg. 6. t. 492.

Q. sinensis; foliis oblongis brevi-petiolatis ramulisque glabriusculis, bracteis
deciduis.
Q. indica, Lour. fl. cochinch. 1. 336. ?

This plant was exhibited before the Horticultural Society
in July, 1841, by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co. of Exeter;
who stated that it is a more compact grower than the old
Q. indica, and therefore more desirable for cultivation in pots.
It manifestly differs in its smoother leaves and branches, and
in the larger size of its flowers, which are moreover of a
much deeper rose colour.

Li

Upon comparing it with wild specimens of the genus, it
appears to be identical with the plant that is found about
Canton, and which is probably the Q. indica of Loureiro.

We presume it to be of the same nature as the true
Quisqualis indica. That plant is a stove climber, requiring
to be potted in sandy loam and peat, mixed with a few pieces
of potsherds. In summer an ample supply of water should
be given to its roots, and it should be syringed over head once
or twice a day as the weather permits, taking care always to
have the plant dry before night; and the house, when air is
given, shut up early in the afternoon, to retain as much sun
heat as. possible. During the growing season the temperature
should average 80° by day, and 68° by night; but in winter
it should never rise above 60° with fire heat. The plant
may be propagated by cuttings under ordinary treatment.

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BERBÉRIS pallida.
Pale Ash-leaved Berberry.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. BERBERACEA.
BERBERIS. Supra, vol. 17. fol. 1425.

B. pallida ($ Mahonia) ; folis 11-13 ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis undulatis
spinoso-dentatis basi rotundato-cuneato, inferioribus a caule parüm dis-
tantibus, racemis laxis folio longioribus, filamentis minuté bidentatis.
Bentham. Plant. Hartweg. p. 34. no. 268.

To the pinnated, or ash-leaved, Berberries, formerly mis-
called Mahonias, Mr. Hartweg has been able to add seven new
Mexican species, among which is the plant now represented.

In its native country it forms an evergreen shrub from
five to six feet high, and is found but sparingly near Cardonal
and Zimapan, on mountains thinly covered with Pinus
Llaveana. Mr. Hartweg also met with it near the hot springs
of Atotonilco El Grande, but nowhere in any quantity. That
gentleman informs us that it is easily distinguished by its dry
hard leaves, and pale yellow flowers; and that the wood is
also of a lighter colour than in any other species. In our
gardens its appearance is vastly improved, and it will pro-
bably prove as handsome as others.

It grows freely when potted in a mixture of sandy loam
and leaf-mould, to which is added a small portion of rough
bone-dust.

Being at present extremely rare, it has not been tried in
the open border; but the appearance of the plant leads us to
suppose that it may be at least as hardy as B. fascicularis.
Up to the present time it has been kept in a cold pit, in the
garden of the Horticultural Society, where our drawing was

made in May, 1843.

It may be increased like the other pinnated kinds, by
grafting on the common B. aquifolium either in spring or
autumn, when the young shoots are nearly hard ; but hitherto
the plant has not shewn the least disposition to make any
lateral shoots, although three feet high. It will no doubt be
increased hereafter by seeds, which are likely to be produced

freely when the plants get older ; as yet the berries have had
no seeds in them. ;

It flowers during the months of January and February, if
kept in the greenhouse, and in July ripens its long erect
spikes of deep purple berries.

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ARCTOSTAPHYLOS pungens.
Pungent Bearberry.

PRI ve NUN

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. ERICACEA.
ARCTOSTAPHYLOS. Supra, fol. 1791.

A. pungens ; erecta, ramulis racemis foliisque junioribus tenuissimé velutinis,
foliis ovalibus oblongisque mucronato-pungentibus utrinque acuminatis
coriaceis integerrimis, racemis brevibus terminalibus, bracteis acuminatis
(setis quam anthere longioribus, ovario 7-loculari.) DeCand. Prodr.
/. 984.

A. pungens, Humb. Bonpl. $ Kunth. nov. gen. Amer. 3. 836. t. 259. Hooker
in Bot. Mag. t. 3927.

A. tomentosa 5, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub t. 1791.

_ This seems to be a common Mexican shrub, for it occurs
in most collections from that country. In appearance it is
extremely like Arctostaphylos tomentosa, and an insufficient
examination of dried specimens led to the belief that it is a
mere variety of that plant. The fresh specimens shew, how-
ever, that in addition to a want of the long beard-like hairs
of the branches of A. tomentosa, this species has the awns
of the anthers longer than the anthers themselves, and only
seven cells to the ovary instead of ten.

Our drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural
Society, to which it had been introduced by Mr. Hartweg,
who found it in Mexico, at an elevation of 7000 to 9000 feet
above the sea, forming an evergreen shrub six to eight feet
high, with a reddish brown smooth stem and branches, and
very hard wood. It was common about Guanaxuato, Real del
Monte, Bolanos, and Oaxaca, and is known there under the
name of “Pinguica” or “ Manzanilla,” according to that

Botanist.

Up to the present time it has proved, in cultivation, to be a
neat little half-hardy or possibly hardy evergreen shrub, grow-
H

ing two or three feet high. But it is one of those uncertain
plants which will die suddenly during the hot weather in
July and August, especially after a few hours rain, if planted
in the open border, although it may have been previously in
the highest state of health and vigour. Mr. Gordon, who
has had the management of it in the garden of the Horticul-
tural Society, has given us the following note concerning its
management.

** It seldom can be kept alive for more than two or three .
seasons after being raised from seeds, even in pots, unless
treated in the following manner.

* The seeds should be sown in pans, filled with a mixture
of peat and loam, to which should be added a small portion of
decomposed cow-dung, and placed in a close pit or frame.
They soon come up if sown in the spring or summer, but if
sown late in the autumn the seeds lie in the soil until the
following spring before they vegetate. When up, and before
they make à rough leaf, prick them off into a fresh pan filled
with the same kind of soil as that in which the seed was
sown. Afterwards keep them shut up close and well shaded,
and finally pot them off singly when they have made three or
four proper leaves, giving them at once a shift into larger pots,
and return them to the frame, which should now have the
back turned to the sun, and be kept close for a few weeks;
air not being given at any time until the plants are fairly
started and growing again. Afterwards remove the lights en-
tirely during the night time, and keep them on quite close in the
day, during the summer and autumn. When the nights be-
come wet and. frosty, remove the plants to a cold pit for the
winter, where there is plenty of light and air and no damp."

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BROMHEADIA. palustris.

Marsh Bromheadia.

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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEÆ. $ VANDER.

BROMHEADIA, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841. misc. 184. Sepala et
petala subsequalia patentissima. Labellum cucullatum, trilobum, cum co-
lumná omninó parallelum, basi inarticulatum, secus axin elevatum pubescens.
Columna latè alata, carnosa, elongata. Anthera 2-locularis, dorso conica,
cum columnä articulata. Pollinia 2, reniformia, posticé excavata, in glan-
dulam latam, triangularem, membranaceam sessilia.——Herba caulescens,
ebulbis. Folia disticha, coriacea, emarginata. Spica terminalis, disticha,
flexuosa, multiflora, long? pedunculata, bracteis brevissimis rigidis, dentiformi-
bus. Flores speciost, recti.

Bromheadia palustris, Lindl. l.c. Hooker. Bot. Mag. t. 4001.
Grammatophyllum ? Finlaysonianum, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. no. 7561. Gen.

& Sp. Orch. p. 173.

We formerly introduced this curious plant to our readers
with a few observations which we beg permission to repeat,
with some corrections.

‘s When Mr. Finlayson was in the Malay archipelago, he
found a curious Orchidaceous plant at Sincapore with the
habit of Epidendrum elongatum ; and from specimens of it,
almost destroyed by insects, which I examined some years
since in Dr. Wallich's herbarium, I referred it with great
doubt to Grammatophyllum, under the name of G. ? Finlay-
sonianum, (Gen. & Sp. Orch. t. 178.) This plant has flowered
at Penllergare in South Wales with J. D. Llewelyn, Esq. who
received it from Cuming, with the memorandum that it had
been * dug out of a bog in Sumatra." Having now had the
advantage of examining a perfect specimen in flower, I find
that although nearly allied to Grammatophyllum, it is in fact
very distinct. I therefore avail myself of the opportunity of
adding to the list of genera the name of Sir Edward Ffrench
Bromhead, Bart. F.R.S. whose investigations of the natural
affinities of plants are well known to systematical Botanists."

In appearance the plant has the aspect of Epidendrum
elongatum, as has been already stated ; and like it has the
whole of the upper part of the stem provided with closely
pressed distant sheaths, instead of leaves, on which the spike
of flowers is arranged. The latter is very rigid, between two
and three inches long, regularly zigzag, with a short hard
tooth-like bract at each bend, so that the spike without the
flowers resembles a coarsely -toothed narrow double-edged saw.
The flowers are about an inch long, white, and rather droop-
ing, spreading quite open. The labellum, in which alone any
colour resides, is straw-coloured on the middle lobe, and violet
at the tips of the lateral lobes; along the middle, as far as the
separation of the lobes, it is convex and covered with purple
down ; while the disk of the middle lobe is broken up: into
yellow granulations.

We shall take another opportunity of pointing out in what
way Bromheadia most differs from its allied genera, Cymbi- :
dium, Grammatophyllum, Renanthera, &c.

_ Our drawing was made from a specimen communicated by
His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, in November 1841.

_ Fig. 1. represents a front view of the column; 2. the
inside of the lip; and 3. gland and pollen-masses.

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CLERODENDRON infortunatum.
Unlucky Clerodendron.

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. VERBENACEA.
CLERODENDRON. Bot. Reg. v. 5. fol. 406.

C. infortunatum ; foliis maximis subrotundis alté cordatis dentatis suprà
pilosis subtüs tomentosis, paniculá coloratá simplici pubescente, floribus
apice ramorum subsessilibus, calyce ampliato quinquefido, corolle laci-
niis planis obovatis obtusis staminibus paulo brevioribus.

C. infortunatum, Linn. fl. Zeyl. 232.

. Whoever shall investigate the true distinctions between
the beautiful species of Clerodendron with scarlet inflores-
cence, will find as ample a harvest of confusion to be reaped
as he can desire. We cannot pretend to do more than point
out some of the instances to which we refer.

Linnzus founded this species upon a Ceylon plant in Bur-
mann's Herbarium, with a specific character that applies very
well to this plant, and a description which leaves no doubt
upon our minds that we have now before us what he intended,
which was sént from Ceylon to His Grace the Duke of Nor-
thumberland by Mr. Nightingale, and which flowered at Syon
in August, 1843. But Linn®us quoted as a synonym the
Petasites agrestis of Rumphius, which is quite a different
species, and added as a variety the plant represented at t. 29
of the Thesaurus Zeylanicus, which is also different, and pro-
bably what Dr. Wallich distributed under the name of Clero- .
dendron infortunatum. The true characters of the species .
seem to lie in its very large flowers, which are clustered in
little heads at the end of the principal branches of inflores-
cence, and in the large leafy-coloured calyx, which is half
split into five segments.

Nearly allied, but very different, is the Clerodendron
squamatum, figured in this work at p. 649. That plant has

April, 1844. 1

leaves with a similar form, but they are smaller, have no
broad toothing at the margin, and are covered beneath with
depressed scaly glands instead of down: whence the name. Its
flowers are very much smaller, and are not collected into small
clusters, but are long-stalked and racemose at the end of the
panicle-branches. The following definition will distinguish it.

C. squamatum (Vahl. Symb. 2. 74. Bot. Reg. t. 649); foliis
subrotundis alté cordatis supra pilosiusculis subtús densé
glanduloso-squamatis, paniculä coloratä compositä pilo-

` siusculá, floribus (minoribus) apice ramorum racemoso-
corymbosis, calyce ampliato 5 fido, corolle laciniis obo-
vatis revolutis staminibus pluriés brevioribus.

. This is probably the C. coccineum of some gardens, as it
certainly is the Volkameria Kempferiana of Jacquin.

But there is now cultivated in the gardens of this country,
under the name of Clerodendron squamatum, quite a different
plant, resembling C. infortunatum in the form of its leaves,
and having no glandular scales on their underside, in place
of which is an abundance of soft-jointed hairs, It also differs
from both species in its calyx, (represented at fig. 2. of the
accompanying plate,) which instead of being enlarged and
half divided into five parts, is very small, and has five shallow
teeth. Its flowers are smaller than in C. infortunatum, and
larger than in C. squamatum. This may be named C. fallax,
inasmuch as it might be mistaken by an incautious observer
for either of the two species above mentioned. We have it
from the rich collection of Syon, and we propose the following
definition.

C. fallax; folis subrotundis alta cordatis subdentatis supra
pubescentibus subtus mollibus, paniculä coloratä com-
posità pilosiusculä, floribus: apice ramorum corymbosis,

calyce minimo 5-dentato, corolle laciniis obovatis planis
staminibus pauló brevioribus.

There is also in English gardens a Clerodendron, ab-
surdly called speciosissimum, which must not be omitted in
noticing these plants. It has ovate leaves, not at all cordate,
but rather truncate at the base, with few hairs on either side,
and no glands; its flowers are in dense heads like those of
C. fragrans, about the size of C. squamatum, and are sur-

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rounded by long narrow permanent bracts, which usually
have one or more oval glandular spaces on their surface ; the
calyx is not enlarged, but its teeth are extended into long
narrow tongues. In foliage, in resembles C. trichotomum,
but its inflorescence and calyx are quite dissimilar. It may
be called C. glandulosum, and thus defined.

C. glandulosum ; foliis subrotundo-ovatis basi truncatis v.
parüm cordatis pilosiusculis esquamatis subdentatis, pa-
niculä densä capitatä, bracteis lineari-lanceolatis calyce
longioribus dorso glandulà una alteräve pellucida im-
mersa notatis, calycis 5-fidi laciniis acuminatis, corolle
laciniis oblongis reflexis staminibus brevioribus, stylo
longissimo.

The singular name C. infortunatum originated with
Linnzus, who called another species fortunatum, and another
calamitosum. According to De Theis this was in consequence
of C. fortunatum being useful in medicine, while C. infortu-
natum and calamitosum are dangerous.

The plant before us is a truly splendid species, and will
be a great addition to a Botanical collection, as it is a very
free-growing plant.

It is a stove shrub, which will succeed best from a cutting
struck in autumn, and kept in an intermediate house until
the beginning of February, when it should be repotted and
induced to grow. The soil should consist of peat and sandy
loam, and if a mixture of well decomposed cow-dung is added
so much the better. In the summer season an ample supply
of water should be given, and the atmosphere kept as moist
as possible. This plant differs from many others in not re-
quiring to be topped ; nor does it need to be grown in a high
temperature, which is apt to render it tall and unsightly.

Fig. 1. is the calyx of C. infortunatum ; fig. 2. of C.
fallax.

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ERIA floribunda.
Many-flowered Eria.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE®. $ MALAXEX.
ERIA. Lindl. supra, vol. 15. fol. 1654.

$ Tonsee ; perianthio glabro v. parim pubescente.

E. Aoribunda (Tonse) (Lindl in Wall. Cat. no. 7408. Bot. Reg. 1843,
misc. 56. 1844, t. 20.) ; caulibus carnosis subflexuosis teretibus, foliis
lanceolatis acuminatis, racemis oppositifoliis patulis multifloris pubes-
centibus foliis brevioribus, bracteis defloratis ovatis concavis retrorsis,
sepalis petalis 3-pló latioribus, labello angusto nudo basi saccato : laciniis
lateralibus ascendentibus abbreviatis intermediá cuneatä tridentatä.

Labellum basi cyathiforme, melliferum, bidentatum, columns adpressum,
sursum unguiculatum, cuneatum, apiculatum, inflecum, columná paulo brevius.

Although the flowers of this plant cannot boast of large
size and rich colours, they are by no means destitute of
beauty. Arranged as they are in long drooping racemes,
glassy in texture, and delicately touched with crimson, they
are among the prettiest of the smaller kinds.

It is a native of Sincapore, whence it has been received
by Messrs. Loddiges.

Along with E. polyura, bipunctata, profusa, and some
others, it forms a small group of species, which are very diffe-
rent in habit from such plants as Æ. pannea, armeniaca, Ke.

Fig. 1. represents the column and lip seen in profile;
2. shows the pollen-masses adhering at their points by a gra-
nular mucilaginous substance.

It is a stove plant, and succeeds best when potted in turfy
peat, mixed with a few potsherds. During the summer a
liberal supply of water should be given, and the house be
kept as moist as possible. In sunny weather the plant will

be much benefited if slightly shaded, for although it enjoys a `
high temperature, yet its leaves will become pale and con-
tracted if too much exposed to the rays of the sun. In winter
very little water is required, especially if the house can be
filled with steam once a day, which is always preferable to

syringing.

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* TROCHETIA grandiflora.
Large-flowered. Trochetia.

MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.

Nat. ord. BvrrNERIACEX.

TROCHETIA, D. C. Involucellum nullum. Calyx quinquepartitus,
foliolis lanceolatis, «estivatione valvatis. Corolle petala 5, hypogyna, obovato-
subrotunda, sestivatione convolutiva, decidua. Stamina 15-30, hypogyna,
basi in urceolum connata, quinque v. septem sterilia, ligulaeformia, integra v.
irregulariter bifida, cum duobus v. tribus fertilibus brevissimis alternantia ;
filamenta subnulla; anthere introrse, biloculares, erectee, loculis longitudi-
naliter dehiscentibus. Ovarium sessile, quinqueloculare. Ovula in locu-
lorum angulo centrali plura, biseriatim adscendentia, anatropa. Stylus ter-
minalis, filiformis; stigma obtusé quinquelobum. Capsula quinquelocularis,
loculicidé quinquevalvis, valvis medio septa margine seminifera gerentibus.
Semina plurima, subrotunda, aptera. Embryo . . .. Arbusculse borbo-
nice et madagascarienses, ferrugineo-lepidote ; foliis alternis, petiolatis,
ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis, coriaceis, penninerviis, integerrimis, pedunculis
axillaribus unitrifloris. Endlicher genera, no. 5351.

T. grandiflora; foliis ovalibus acutis subdentatis, pedunculis 3-4-floris, petalis
calyce longioribus.

This noble plant was introduced by His Grace the Duke
of Northumberland from the Mauritius, and flowered at Syon
in December last. Its name is probably one of M. Bojer's,
but it has not yet found its way into any of the modern com-
pilations of species. The plant at Syon is a seedling, about
six feet high ; when struck from cuttings it wil probably
become bushy, in which case it will be very beautiful, as it
appears to be a free flowerer.

The blossoms are snow-white, with a yellow blotch at the
base of each petal, and are nearly three inches in diameter.
Their pendulous position, which occurs in all the known

* So named by DeCandolle in honour of M. Dutrochet, the celebrated
French physiologist.

species of the genus, gives them a peculiarly graceful ap-
pearance.

According to Endlicher and DeCandolle the stamens are,
in the other species, collected into a small cup ; but here at
least they are united into a column, and arranged on each
side of the sterile filament, so that in fact the filaments form
five parcels, or phalanges, each consisting of four fertile sta-
mens adhering, two on each side, to a central sterile one ; as
is represented at fig. 1.

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PHLOMIS Cashmeriana.
Cashmere Phlomis.

DIDYNAMIA GYMNOSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. LABIATA. $ STACHYDEE.
PHLOMIS. L.—Supra, fol. 1289.

P. Cashmeriana ; herbacea, erecta, caule densé floccoso tomentoso, foliis
ovato-lanceolatis obtusis versus apicem crenatis basi laté rotundatis
molliter rugosis supra pubescentibus villosisve subtüs densé albo-tomen-
tosis, bracteis subulatis ciliatis calyce longioribus, calycis floccoso-lanati
dentibus subulatis rigidis patentibus pilosis. Bentham. Gen. Sp. Lab.
p. 630.

P. Cashmeriana, Royle Illustr. p. 303. fig. 75 A. fig. 1.

To those who possess no greenhouse this good-looking
pe from the valley of Cashmere, will be welcome ; for its
arge pale lilac flowers remain for a considerable time in
beauty.

It is a hardy perennial plant, growing about two feet high,
and flowering in July and August. It requires a rich light
soll, and a situation which is rather dry in winter.

It is increased, when the plants are old, by dividing the
roots in spring, or from seeds; but it grows slowly when
young, and will not flower before the second year after the
seed is sown.

Our drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural
Society, where it was raised from seeds received from Dr.
Royle.

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SCHOMBURGKIA crispa.
Crisp-flowered Schomburgkia.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORcH1iDACEX. $ EPIDENDREZ.

SCHOMBURGKIA, Lindl. Sertum Orchidaceum, t. x. Sepala et
petala conformia, patentia, omninó libera, basi sequalia. Labellum difforme,
membranaceum, trilobum, semicucullatum, basi cum margine columns con-
natum, supra basin tumidum (intrusum): venis lamellatis. Columna alata.
Pollinia octo. Rhizoma repens, nudum, annulatum, pseudobulbigerum.
Pseudobulbi magni, elongati, 2-3-phylli. Folia coriacea. Scapi terminales
vaginati. Bractee magne, sicca, spathacee. Flores speciosi, racemosi, con-
gesti.

S. crispa, Lindl. in Sert. Orchid. t. 10.

This fine genus is remarkable for the large size of its
pseudo-bulbs, which are occasionally as much as two feet long.
It differs from Epidendrum and its allies in having eight
pollen-masses, and evidently constitutes an extremely well
marked group. But its species have been little examined
except in a dried state, for which their fleshiness renders them
ill-suited, and hence a difficulty in determining their true
limits. It is hoped that the enumeration, at the end of this
article, will render their distinctions clearer.

For the opportunity of figuring this we are indebted to
Mrs. Marryat, who received it from Mr. Schomburgk himself.
Its yellow-brown flowers distinguish it from all the others.

In cultivation it demands the same treatment as many of
the genus Cattleya. It may either be potted in turfy peat in
the usual way, or it may be tied to a block of wood (with a
little sphagnum to retain moisture) and suspended to a rafter
in a stove. In any case, care should be taken not to water
over head when the plant is in a growing state, otherwise the
glutinous substance on the scales which surround the young
shoots will retain the water and cause them to damp off. In
summer the plant should be slightly shaded, and the house
kept as moist as possible at a temperature of 80° by day, and
about 68° at night. In winter, when little water is required,
the temperature need not be raised above 56° by artificial

means.
Fig. 1. represents the lip; 2. the column seen in profile.

The species of Schomburgkia are, —

1, 8 crispa (Lindl. in Sert. Orchid. t. 10. Bot. Reg. 1844. t. 23. S. mar-
ginata, var. Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3729.) ; pseudobulbis fusiformibus,
floribus racemosis, bracteis ovario subsequalibus, labello ovato-oblongo
obtuso vix cucullato obsoleté trilobo sepalis petalisque oblongis crispis
subeequali: lamellis 5 undulatis duabusque lateralibus tenuibus rectis. En

Demerara. This plant has yellowish brown flowers, with scarcely
a trace of purple; and .by that circumstance alone it may be distin-
guished. Its lip is nearly flat, very little three-lobed, and broadest at
the base: other characters peculiar to itself. Although the author of
the species, I must plead guilty to having on one occasion, (Bot. Reg.
misc. Feb. 1839) confounded it with S. marginata, and thus misled Sir
Wm. Hooker, whose figure in the Bot. Magazine, t. 3729, undoubtedly
belongs to this species. Probably the colours in the Sertum, taken from
a drawing by Mr. Schomburgk, are much too yellow.

2. S. marginata (Lindl. in Sertum Orchid. t. 13.) ; pseudobulbis clavato-
fusiformibus, floribus racemosis, bracteis ovario subsequalibus, labello Jd
ovali acuto basi angustato trilobo parüm cucullato sepalis petalisque |
oblongis undulatis subæquali, lamellis crispis 5 continuis lateralibus in-
terruptis. Surinam, Demerara. —— Formerly in cultivation, but now
lost; unless the ** Spread Eagle" plant of Jamaica should prove to be it.
It differs from S. crispa in its flowers being distinctly purple, with only
a little yellow at the edge of the sepals and petals, and in the form and
appendages of the lip, which tapers to the base, is very distinetly three-
lobed, has an acute oval middle lobe, and is furnished with wavy plates, \
which are broken up at the sides.

3. S. undulata (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844. misc. 21.) ; pseudobulbis fusifor-

mibus, floribus dense racemosis, bracteis longissimis spathaceis, sepalis |
petalisque sequalibus linearibus undulato-crispis labello longioribus, |
labelli cucullati lobis lateralibus rotundatis intermedio ovali acuto v. |
obtuso, lamellis 5 undulatis duabusque lateralibus rectis tenuibus. ——
La Guayra. This has fine rich brownish purple sepals and petals,
and a clear violet-purplelip. From $. crispa and marginata, it is distin-
guished by its very long narrow crisp sepals and petals. The flowers
are as large as those of S. tibicinis, but the inflorescence is quite diffe-
rent. There is no yellow in them, and the lip is distinctly curved up
towards the column. Some fine specimens have been lately flowered by
Mrs. Lawrence, one of which has browner flowers, and the middle lobe
of the lip wedge-shaped and obtuse, not oval and acute; but they do
not otherwise seem to differ. The very long narrow crisp. sepals and
petals render this very obviously different from the two last, which it
quite resembles in habit.

4. S. tibicinis (Bateman. Orch. Mex & Guat.t. 30. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841.
misc. 119. Epidendrum tibicinis, Bateman in Bot. Reg. 1838. misc.
12.); pseudobulbis conicis corniformibus annulatis sulcatis 3-phyllis,
foliis oblongis coriaceis patentibus, scapo longissimo tereti distanter
squamato apice paniculato, paniculä pyramidali laxiflorá, sepalis petalis-
que undulatis erispis, labello oblongo cucullato venis per medium 5 ele-
vatis approximatis: laciniis lateralibus apice rotundatis intermedia. sub-
rhombeà emarginatä, antherä emarginatä. Honduras. This noble
plant is the cow’s-horn orchis of Honduras. The flowers when fully
expanded are about two and a half inches wide, deep pink speckled:
with white on the outside, rich chocolate red within. The lip is white
in the middle, but deep rose-colour at the sides, with a short chocolate-
red middle lobe. The flowering stem is eight or nine feet long. Its
pseudo-bulbs, between one and two feet long, are quite hollow, and as
smooth inside as the chamber of a Bamboo; at their base there is always
a small hole, which leads to the interior, and furnishes access to colonies
of ants, which are constantly found inhabiting the plant.

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CYMBIDIUM pendulum, var. brevilabre.
Short-lipped thick-leaved Cymbidium.

A
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER. $ VANDER.
CYMBIDIUM. Botanical Register, vol. 7. fol. 529.

C. pendulum (Swartz. nov. act. ups. 6. 73. Willd. Sp. pl. 4. 101. Roxb.
Fl. Ind. 3.458. L. p. 165. Bot. Reg. 1840. t. 25. C. crassifolium,
Wall. Cat. no. 7357. Epidendrum pendulum, Woxb. corom. plants, 1.
35. t. 44.) ; foliis ensiformibus distichis coriaceis obliqué obtusis,
racemis pendulis multifloris, bracteis minutis, petalis sepalisque lineari-
oblongis obtusis, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus acutis intermedio oblongo
apiculato: lamellis continuis approximatis apice confluentibus.

Var. brevilabre ; labello latiore lobis lateralibus acutioribus intermedio sub-
rotundo-oblongo. Bot. Reg. 1844. mise. 67.

Having already figured this plant, it may perhaps be
thought that the variety now given is too trifling to deserve a
separate representation. We are however rather anxious to
shew that when these Orchidaceous plants do run into ordinary
varieties, it is only within recognizable limits, as happens in
other plants, and that the masquerading dress under which
such plants as Catasetum and Cycnoches occasionally appear,
are not, as some suppose, to be taken as indications of a dis-
position to vary, which throws suspicion upon all specific dis-

tinctions in the order.

As far as our experience goes, the ordinary variations to
which Orchidacex are subject, are in all respects analogous
to what is met with in other plants, and as is exemplified by
the plant before us from Sincapore, in which, while the lip
becomes shorter, broader, and with a much blunter middle
lobe, every thing else remains so exactly the same, that nobody
can entertain a doubt about the specific identity of the plant
with Cymbidium pendulum. The vertical plates of the lip,
in particular, are quite unchanged, shewing, as we find it
always shewn, that the elevations and processes of the surface
ofthelip are of the utmost importance in considering the
limits of species. Eria bractescens and longilabris, published
in the present number, t. 29, furnish the converse of the rule.
They are much alike, and their labella vary in form in a
manner not unlike that of C. pendulum and C. p. brevilabre ;

May, 1844. L

but with a change in the form of the lip occurs in these plants
a most material'alteration in the form of the labellar pro-
cesses, and both are connected with other peculiarities in the
appearance of the two species. :

The variations that experience tells us occur in the struc-
ture of the same species of tropical Orchidacez are principally
in colour and size, just in fact as happens in those of Europe.
Our common wild Orchises have purple or white flowers
indifferently, and in some specimens they are much larger
than in others, as is more particularly shewn by Orchis lati-
folia. Just so with the epiphytes. The flowers of Catase-
tum tridentatum, for instance, are spotted or quite green, and
much larger in some varieties than in others. The well known
Oncidia ornithorhynchum and ampliatum exhibit great dif-
ferences in the size and depth of colour of their flowers; so
do Lycaste Skinneri and Cattleya Forbesii ; indeed, if one can
judge from Mr. Hartweg's collection, it is very common for
species found on the west of the Cordilleras to have much
smaller flowers than when they occur on the east side. As to
differences in form again, the greater or less breadth of the
petals and the lobes of the lip is very uncertain in Orchis
militaris and its allies; and in the same way Catasetum triden-
tatum, Cyrtochilum maculatum, and other epiphytes differ
among themselves. But so far as is yet known, there is
nothing peculiar in the tendency to variation among tropical
Orchidacez, beyond what we find in all other plants, with the
exception, as we have already said, of the masquerading
species of Catasetum and Cycnoches.

The plant now figured was drawn in July 1842, from a
specimen, received by Messrs. Loddiges from Mr. Cuming,

who found it at Sincapore. Fig. 1. represents the lip and its
peculiarities.

It should be grown in turfy heath-mould, of rather closer
texture than that commonly used for Orchidaceous plants.
The pot should be well drained, in order that all superfluous
water may pass off freely, otherwise the roots will perish.
Like some other species of the genus, this requires an ample
supply of water at all times; and the atmosphere to be kept as
moist as possible, especially during the growing season. To
prevent the leaves from being scorched, the house should be
slightly shaded in sunny weather. In summer the temperature
should never be allowed to rise much above 80° by day, nor
to fall below 68° at night; but in winter it should never be
raised higher than 64° by artificial means.

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MACLEANIA longiflora.
Lony-flowered Macleania.

—
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. VACCINIACEE.

MACLEANIA. Calyx truncatus obsoletissime 5-dentatus, 5-alatus,
inferné ovario adherens. Corolla cylindracea, limbo 5-fido. Stamina decem
basi corollae inserta, filamentis per totam longitudinem in urceolum connatis.
Anthere basi affixse, dorso mutice, apice in tubum simplicem attenuatz et
rimula singula introrsum dehiscentes. Ovarium 5-loculare, multiovulatum.
Fructus :—Bacca ? — Frutex habitu Thibaudise vel Ceratostemmatis. Flores
numerosi axillares secundi. Folia subsecunda. Rami cortice deciduo.—

Hooker Ic. 2. t. 109.

M. longiffora ; foliis sessilibus ovali-oblongis obtusis reticulatis obsoleté tri-
plinerviis, axillis trifloris, corollis cylindraceis angulatis concoloribus,

When Sir William Hooker named a plant Macleania, he
not only paid a well-merited compliment, for few British
merchants have deserved better of Botany than Mr. John
Maclean of Lima, but he founded a good genus. A less
accurate observer might indeed have referred it to Thiebaudia,
a group of plants from the same countries, and very similar
in habit; but each anther of Thiebaudia is divided into two
long tubes, which open at their point; while, on the contrary,
in Macleania the anthers have only one tube each.

The plant now described is very near M. angulata, figured
in the Botanical Magazine, t. 3979, and said to be from Peru.
But that species has shorter and broader leaves with manifest
stalks, and the flowers are also shorter, contracted at the
orifice, and yellow there. Their colour, too, is represented
as much more vivid than in our species.

A warm greenhouse shrub, which requires to be kept in
an intermediate house during winter. It may be potted in a
compost, consisting of sandy loam and peat in equal propor-
tions. Owing to its producing very fleshy roots, a large pot
or tub will be required, or where there is convenience it ı1s-

probable it would succeed well if planted out in a conserva-
tory. It requires a liberal supply of water in summer, but
very little in winter. To have this plant well furnished with
young wood from the bottom for flowering, it is necessary
to cut it well back early in autumn, in order to have the
plant clothed with leaves before winter. It israther difficult
to multiply, but may be managed under a bell glass in a
bottom heat of 80°.

Note by Mr. Hartweg.

This is one of the numerous fleshy-rooted vaccinaceous
shrubs, frequently met with in dry and exposed situations in
the Andes; the present species has been collected on the
main Cordillera near Loxa, (49 S.) at an elevation of about
8,000 feet above the sea, where it forms a neat compact ever-

green shrub, five feet high, and is called by the inhabitants
Salapa.

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BERBÉRIS tenuifolia.
Thin Ash-leaved Berberry.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNJA.

Nat. ord. BERBERACEZ.
BERBERIS. Supra, vol. 17. fol. 1425.

B. tenuifolia; foliis pinnatis ternatisque, foliolis distantibus lanceolatis
acutis tenuibus planis integerrimis racemis laxis cernuis multifloris bre-
vioribus.

B. tenuifolia, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838. mise. no. 121.

B. fraxinifolia, Hook. ic. 4. 329. 330. 1841.

This very rare plant was found by Mr. Hartweg, on his
first arrival in Mexico, at a place called Zaquapam, at the foot
of Orizaba, and was raised among the first collections that he
sent to the Horticultural Society. Considering the warm
climate of which it is a native, it was expected to prove
tender, and the event has shewn it to be so ; for we have no
species yet in our gardens so impatient of cold. In fact, it
must be regarded strictly as a greenhouse plant, to which
any amount of frost would be fatal.

It is a hard-wooded graceful plant, ve apt to run up
with a single stem, without producing lateral buds, and when
that is allowed to happen, its beauty is much impaired. For
some time, indeed, it remained in that state in the large con-
servatory of the Horticultural Society. At last, by binding it
down, so as to check the rise of the sap, the lateral buds were
enabled to expand, and now the specimen is well furnished
with branches, and is above six feet high.

Its flowers appear in the latter part of the year (October
to December), and are agreeably sweet-scented.

So far as experience has gone, it appears to be the most
easily propagated by cuttings of the half ripe wood, or by
grafting on B. aquifolium. For soil it seems to like sandy
loam and peat.

Note by Mr. Hartweg.

A Mexican plant from the eastern declivity of Orizaba,
near the sugar farm of Zaquapam, at an elevation of 3,000 feet
above the sea, where it is found, though not very plentifully,
in the outskirts of the woods bordering on the savannahs,
attaining the height of ten feet.

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* LINDLEYA mespiloides.
Medlar-like Lindleya.

ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Rosacex. $ QUILLAJÆ, Endl.

LINDLEYA. Calyx tubo turbinato, limbo quinquepartito. Corolle
petala 5, calycis fauci inserta, eiusdem laciniis alterna, brevissime ungui-
culata, patentia. Stamina 15-20, disco annulari calycis faucem marginanti `
inserta; anthers lanceolatee, basi uncinato-reflexse, cruribus insequalibus,
connatis, biloculares. Ovaria 5, in unicum quinqueloculare coalita. Ovula
in quovis loculo 2, collateralia, infra apicem affixa, pendula. Styli 5, termi-
nales; stigmata subclavata. Capsula calyce persistente suffulta, ovato-
pentagona, lignosa, quinquesuleata, quinquelocularis, loculicide quinque-
valvis, loculis di- v. abortu monospermis. Semina margine membranaceo
cincta. ... Arbor mexicana, glaberrima ; folis sparsis, simplicibus, in-
tegris, crenulatis, stipulis petiolaribus geminis, floribus ad apicem ramulorum
axillaribus, solitariis, pedunculatis, bracteatis, albis. Endl. gen. no. 6399.

L. mespiloides, Humb. Bonp. Kunth. nov. gen. pl. 6. 239. t. 562. Lis.
DeCand. Prodr. 2. 548.
Semina ovalia, tenuia, alata, testd mucilaginosd vesiculosd. Cotyledones
tenues, plane. Radicula conica, exserta, hilo proxima.

This plant is an evergreen tree of small size, looking very
much like Mespilus grandiflora, but with flowers as sweet-
scented as the Hawthorn bloom. It belongs to a small set of
Rosaceous plants, of which one, the Kageneckia crategifolia,
has been already figured at t. 1836 of this work. The late
Professor Don attempted to distinguish them as a peculiar
natural order, but unwisely, and on erroneous grounds. That
they are really nothing more than Rosaceous plants is proved
by this plant grafting readily on the common Thorn and the
larger kinds of Cotoneaster ; in which way it is propagated.

But although Lindleya and its allies are by no means to be
separated from Rosacez, they form a peculiar group, remark-

* Named thus by Humboldt and Kunth, in the year 1823, after the
present editor of the Botanical Register.

able for their capsular fruit and winged seeds, the latter a
circumstance not hitherto observed in other plants of the
order.

The botanical peculiarity of the present genus consists in
its carpels joining together at the very base into a solid pistil,
although their upper halves, as well as the styles, are entirely
distinct. And so, in like manner, when the fruit is ripe, it
becomes a hard capsule, the thick bony lobes of which sepa-
rate freely at the upper half, but not at the lower, without
violence. Fig. 3. represents it when ripe; 1. in the young
state, when some of the stigmata are entire, and others two-
lobed ; 2. shews one of the thin-winged seeds hanging to the
side of one valve of the capsule.

In our gardens the plant seems likely to prove about as
hardy as an Escallonia, but not more so. Its fine evergreen

foliage, and large sweet flowers render it very desirable that
it should be able to bear our climate.

The accompanying drawing was made in the garden of

the Horticultural Society in July 1843. It remains in flower
for a month or six weeks.

Note by Mr. Hartweg.

An evergreen slender-growing shrub, 12 to 15 feet high,
from the natural bridge called Puente de Dios, 45 miles N.E.
of Real del Monte, growing at an elevation of 6,500 feet
above the sea. It also occurs sparingly near the Hacienda de

Santa Ana, in the State of Oaxaca, always preferring a dry
chalky soil.

I never found it in flower.

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HIBISCUS Cameroni-fulgens.

—— — ——PB————

Garden Variety.

A specimen of this fine plant was sent us in August 1843,
by Messrs. Rollissons, of Tooting, who state that it is a
hybrid, between Hibiscus Cameroni and H. fulgens. H. Came-
roni is a Madagascar shrub, with heartshaped 5-lobed leaves,
buff flowers, with five deep crimson spots in the eye, and a
very small involucre; H. fulgens is a garden name for a
variety of H. Rosa Sinensis.

The produce of these two is the very handsome variety
now figured, which, as might have been anticipated, proves

worthy of so beautiful a parentage.
We presume it to be a stove shrub.

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ERIA bractescens.
Long-bracted Eria.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orncuipacex. $ MarAxEx.
ERIA. Botanical Register, vol. 11. fol. 904.

$ Tonsz ; floribus calvis v. parum pubescentibus.

E. bractescens (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841. misc. 46.) ; pseudobulbis brevibus
oblongis apice subdiphyllis, foliis oblongis undulatis basi angustatis
racemis subzequalibus, bracteis membranaceis coloratis margine revolutis
superioribus linearibus reflexis, racemis erectis, labelli trilobi lamellis
duabus abbreviatis intermediá productá lobo medio truncato rugoso
obtusé apiculato.

Among the extensive genus Eria we find a few species
particularly distinguished by their short fleshy stems, and the
membranous coloured bracts which accompany their hairless
flowers. Of these the best known are the present species,
longilabris, obesa, and a Philippine plant that may be called
ovata. They are natives of the hotter parts of India, and
are so much alike that an incautious observer might almost
regard them as varieties. They are, however, most truly
distinct, as the following definitions of them will shew.

l. E. bractescens. i

Mr. Cuming found this at Sincapore, and Mr. Griffith in
Burma, near Moulmain. It has a fleshy oblong stem, which
bears at the summit two or three leaves, from one and a half
to two inches broad, and gradually tapering to the base. Its
flowers are in the Sincapore plant greenish white, with a lip
crimson except at the end ; in the Burma plant they are more
straw colour than green. The lip is three-lobed, hes. an
abruptly truncated extremity, and As marked with z e
elevated ridges, of which the two side ones are very short,
while the middle one reaches to the end of the lip. Fig. 1.
shews this structure, and fig. 2. the pollen-masses.

2. E. longilabris (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841. misc. 69.) ; Erie
bractescentis facie sed sepalis petalisque magis acumi-
natis, labelli trilobi lamellis tribus ad apicem feré pro-

ductis zequalibus lateralibus abbreviatis lobo medio ovato
acuminato.

This is a native of Panay in the Philippines, whence it
was sent to Messrs. Loddiges by Mr. Cuming. It is very
like Eria bractescens, but is a much finer species, and bears
more flowers. It is distinguished at once by its lip, which is
not truncate, and has three equal wavy ridges prolonged
almost as far as the tip of the middle lobe, which is long and
acuminated. The form of the lip is shewn at fig. 3.

3. E. obesa (Lindl. in Wall. Cat. no. 1976. Gen. & Sp. '
no. Sl c... os , eaulibus crassis ovalibus,
sepalis petalisque lanceolatis acutis subglabris, labelli
trilobi ecallosi lobis lateralibus obsoletis rotundatis : in-
termedio ovali retuso, racemis paucifloris pubescentibus,
bracteis ovato-lanceolatis pedicello capsularum longissi-
marum vix zequalibus.

This was originally taken up from imperfect Martaban
specimens in Dr. Wallich’s herbarium. It was afterwards
met with at Moulmain and Merquy by Mr. Griffith; always
however without leaves. The pseudo-bulbous stems are about
twenty-seven inches long; the bracts ovate, reflexed, greenish
dull purple; the flowers white with a tinge of pink, and a
yellow lip; they are arranged in short spreading racemes.

4. E. ovata; foliis oblongis obtusis basi angustatis, racemis
pubescentibus multifloris, bracteis parvis ovalibus re-

flexis, sepalis petalisque acuminatis, labello ovato-oblongo
indiviso basi bicalloso.

. This plant, found in the Philippines by Mr. Cuming,
evidently differs from the three others in the shape of the lip,
which has no lobes, but an ovate-oblong form and a couple

of little diverging plates near the base. It is nearest to
E. longilabris in general appearance.

All these should be potted in turfy heath-mould, mixed
with a few pieces of potsherds. Water should be liberally
given during the growing season, and the atmosphere kept as
humid as possible. In sunny weather the house should be
slightly shaded, for although this plant succeeds well in a
high temperature, it is soon injured by the rays of the sun.
In winter very little water is required, and where steam can-

not be admitted a slight syringe over head will be sufficient
for two or three months.

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L/ELIA majalis.
The May-flower Lelia.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORcHipACExX. $ EPIDENDREX.
LALIA. Lindl. supra, 1839. misc. 42.

$ 1. Grandiflore ; Petals distinctly larger than the sepals.

L. majalis ; folio angusto scapo bifloro sequali, bracteis membranaceis ovatis,
sepalis lanceolatis, petalis oblongo-lanceolatis duplö latioribus, labelli
lobo medio rotundato emarginato plano lateralibus parvis obtusis.

L. majalis, Lindl. in Bot. Reg.1839. misc. 42. Bateman, Orch. Mex. § Guat.

4.23. '
Cattleya Grahami, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 116.

The history of this charming plant is so well given by Mr.
Bateman, that we beg to extract it from his magnificent
work on the Orchidacez of Mexico and Guatemala.

“This lovely plant abounds in the most temperate parts
of Mexico, where its exquisite beauty has rendered it a prime
favourite with the natives, from whom it has received the
familiar appellation of ‘Flor de Mayo.’ It does not however
appear to have been long known to botanists, Dr. Schiede
having been the first to send specimens to Europe, which,
through the liberality of Professor Schlechtendahl have been
extensively distributed. Living plants were first obtained by
Mr. Barker from Oaxaca through the instrumentality of Mr.
Ross: and more recently, a large supply has been received by
the Horticultural Society of London, collected by Mr. Hartweg
in San Bartolo, in situations so elevated, that the temperature
sometimes falls below the freezing point. This habitat, so
unusual for an Orchidaceous plant, will go far to explain the
ill success that has hitherto attended its cultivation, for while
it is comparatively easy to imitate the close and humid atmos-
phere in which most of the tribe are found, it is infinitely more
difficult to provide a substitute for the pure air and frequent
changes of temperature in which these mountain epiphytes

June, 1844. z

would seem to delight. Indeed, so signal, in the case of
Lelia majalis, has been failure of even the most experienced
cultivators, that although there was scarce a collection that
did not contain one or more specimens of the plant, still did it
obstinately refuse to flower, except in the solitary instance
about to be described, when it yielded to the skilful treatment

of Mr. Dillwyn Llewelyn, of Penllergare, who has favoured us
with the following note :— |

“< This ‚plant was purchased,’ says Mr. Llewelyn, “about
three years since from M. Deschamps, and soon afterwards
potted in very rough fibrous peat, being kept nearly dry ina
cool plant house, until its new buds began to swell, when 1t was
removed to a hot and damp stove, kept exclusively for Orchi-
dacex. Water was regularly given until its buds had acquired
their full size, when it was discontinued by degrees, and the
plant carried back to a lower temperature. This treatment
has been repeated, and under it the entire genus seems to thrive,
although, perhaps, from the vigour of some specimens of L.
anceps and L. autumnalis, which I have attached to pieces of
rough barked wood (with a little peat tied round the root) I

should prefer that course of treatment to the more usual one
of potting them.’

“ The mode pursued by Mr. Llewelyn is certainly the only
one under which success can be expected ; but there is yet a
point to be gained, for while the specimens at Penllergare,
however beautiful, consisted of only a solitary flower, in a wild
state three or four are borne upon a Spike."

The method of managing the plant in the Gardens of the
Hortieultural Society is as follows.

It is tied to a block of wood and suspended to a rafter in a
moist stove. When removed from one block to another, which
is sometimes necessary, it will be found beneficial to place a
slice of turfy peat or a small quantity of sphagnum between
the wood and the roots of the plant, this retains moisture in
summer so that less syringing is required. The quantity of
water necessary for it on the bare block of wood would prove
injurious to plants in pots below it. In the growing season the
temperature does not exceed 80° by day nor does it fall below
70° at night.‘ In winter 56° with fire heat is quite sufficient.

NIA c E i buo Na tur

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CEREUS crenatus.
Crenated Torch Thistle.

ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA.
Nat. ord. CACTACEJ.
CEREUS. Botanical Register, vol. 4. fol. 304.

$ 7. Alati, Pfeiffer.
C. crenatus; ramis strictis compressis biconvexis margine exacté crenatis
omnino viridibus, floribus maximis candidis, stigmate 9-radiato.

A most remarkable plant, belonging to the winged section
of Torch thistles, according to Pfeiffer, which Link regards as
a peculiar genus and calls Phyllocactus.. It is the finest thing
yet known of its class with white flowers, and will doubtless
prove invaluable as a breeder ; for its habit is beautiful, to say
nothing of its magnificent flowers, which rival the night-
flowering Cactus, but open in the day time. When pro-
duced last month at the exhibition in the Horticultural So-
ciety's Garden, it received the highest medal offered for new
plants. Let us only imagine a cross between it and C. ~
speciosissimus or Ackermanni !

For the following information concerning it we are in-
debted to Mr. Booth.

This fine species, with several others, was forwarded from
Honduras in 1839 by George Ure Skinner, Esq. and pre-
sented to Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. M, P. with whom it
flowered at Carclew in May 1843. Although similar in some
respects to .Ep. latifrons of Botanical Magazine, fol. 26927 it
proves to be perfectly distinct and far more desirable, on ac-
. count of its flowers opening in the day time and E

expanded for nearly a week, whilst those of the one refe
to open in the evening, are in perfection at midnight, and
finally close a little before sunrise. It is also proper to state
that in addition to their other recommendations the flowers
of this species are deliciously fragrant, which will no doubt
render it a most valuable acquisition to the admirers of this
singular tribe of succulents.

The plant grows about two feet high with large spreading
branches, some of which in their young state are round and
angular, with bristly hairs at the joints, resembling the young
shoots of Cereus speciosissimus. Their most usual form,

Sa Th, Hert,- vul Colleen

however, is flat and broad, tapering a little at the base, where
they are round, hard, and woody. The flat part is remarkably
thick and leathery, from one to two feet long, and about two
and a half-or three inches wide, of a rich deep green, with
large crenatures along the margin, from which it gradually
thickens towards the midrib which is prominent from the base
tothe point. The flowers are produced at the first or second
sinus from the apex of the leaf, or shoot, on which several
buds make their appearance, but only one of them comes to
maturity. The tube is round, and about four inches long,
slightly curved and angular, with three or four series of ele-
vated, ovate-acuminate, brownish green scales on the outside,
each of which are similar in form and colour but vary in size,
the inner ones being small, and the outer ones so large as to
resemble the sepals from which they are scarcely to be dis-
tinguished. The buds are long and much pointed, of a
brownish pink colour. The flowers are large and extremely
handsome, being about five inches in diameter, and of a pale
cream colour. The sepals are linear lanceolate acute, about four
inches long and three-fourths of an inch wide, ranged in two
rows of six, the one alternating with the other, and the inner
being somewhat paler than the outer, which is a deep brown.
The petals are eighteen in number, arranged in three rows,
similar to the sepals. They are ovate oblong, somewhat
pointed and taper towards the base, which is thick and fleshy,
but otherwise they are of a thin delicate texture, about three
and a half inches long and upwards of an inch broad. The
inner row is rather shorter than the rest but similar in every
other respect. The Jilaments are very numerous and about
two-thirds the length of the petals, to which many of them
are attached round the mouth of the tube. The greater
number of them, however, are placed along the throat of the
tube, which causes them to be of unequal lengths. All are of
the same pale cream colour as the petals, with a slight greenish
tinge internally. The anthers are ovate, obtuse, deep yellow. :
The style is very conspicuous, being about the thickness of a
straw and as long as the petals, with eight recurved feathery
looking stigmas half an inch long. The ovarium is at the

bottom of the tube and is comparatively small, yellowish green,
apparently five-angled. :

. The plant is easily cultivated in rich loamy soil mixed
with small bits of charcoal instead of sand, and increases freely
by cuttings of the leaves or shoots, which not unfrequently emit
roots at their extremity. It requires to be grown in a warm

greenhouse, and to be placed in a situation where it may have
plenty of light.

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* PENTAS carnea.

Flesh-coloured Pentas.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. CINCHONACEA. $ HEDYOTIDEA.

PENTAS, Benth. Calycis tubus brevis turbinatus; limbus profundé
5-fidus, laciniis angustis insequalibus, glandulis 1-2 interdum in sinubus
adjectis. Corolle tubus elongatus ; faux campanulata intus barbata ; limbus
patens, 5-fidus, laciniis ovatis glabris sestivatione leviter imbricatis. Stamina
5, infra faucem inserta. Filamenta brevia. -Anthere lineares. Discus epi-
gynus crassus. Stylus filiformis, apice bilobus. Capsula subglobosa, apice
libera, acutiuscula, loculicidé bivalvis, valvis bifidis. ^ Semina numerosa.
Benth. in Bot. Mag. t. 4086.

P. carnea; folis ovatis v. ovali-oblongis acutis basi cuneatis pilosiusculis,
corolle tubo calyce multoties longiore, styli ramis elongatis, capsule
valvulis parte adnata vix brevioribus. Benth. l. c.

Sipanea carnea, Hort.

We learn from Sir W. Hooker that tliis is supposed to be
a native of Africa, within the tropics, and that it was intro-
duced by Mr. Jacob Makoy, of Liege.

It is a soft wooded shrub, of a grey aspect, with strongly
furrowed leaves, and terminal cymes of delicate flesh-coloured
flowers. Specimens of it have been lately exhibited to the
Horticultural Society by Mr. Ayres, from the collection of
James Cook, Esq. of Brooklands, and by Mr. Glendinning of
Turnham Green. The accompanying figure was made last
September, from a plant in the possession of Messrs. Rol-
lissons.

Judging from these we should say that it will prove a
plant well worth cultivating ; with a bad foliage certainly, but
with flowers that more than compensate for it by their deli-

* So named by Mr. Bentham from re»rac, “a number five," in allusion
to the parts of the flower being in fives instead of fours.

cacy. There can be no difficulty about growing it: for it
seems to grow as freely as a Clerodendron or Ruellia, and
to require similar management.

Fig. 1. is the calyx; 2.is a corolla and ovary. divided
longitudinally.

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LONICERA diversifolia.
Various-leaved Fly Honeysuchle.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. CAPRIFOLIACEX.
LONICERA. Supra, vol. 14. £. 1179.

$ Chamsecerasus ; baccis liberis, corollis basi viz gibbis.

L. diversifolia ; erecta, dens? pubescens, foliis ovatis cordatisque oblongis
acutis breviter petiolatis, floribus geminis et quaternatis pubescentibus
subsessilibus omnind liberis, calyce cyathiformi 5-dentato, corolle tubo
hinc convexo limbo breviore, filamentis basi villosis,

L. diversifolia, Wall. Fl. Ind. 2. 169. DeCand. prodr. 4. 334.

In many respects this Himalayan shrub is much like the
common Fly Honeysuckle (L. Xylosteum); from which it
principally differs in its flowers being nearly or quite stalkless,
and much larger. Dr. Wallich first received it from the
mountains of Gurwhal; he afterwards procured it from
Kamaon ; according to Dr. Royle it is common on the moun-
tains of the North of India. In a wild state it sometimes
becomes small-leaved, and approaches the common Xylo-
steum, but its stalkless flowers still distinguish it.

By some mistake it is included by DeCandolle among
his Nintooas, a set of climbing 2-flowered species which
belong to the genus Caprifolium.

This is a hardy middle sized shrub, which thrives in any
good garden soil, and flowers during the months of May and
June. It is easily increased by cuttings of the half ripe
wood, if treated in the same way as those of the common
Honeysuckle. It was raised from seeds received from Dr.
Royle from the North of India.

There is also in the Garden of the Horticultural Society,
where the accompanying drawing was made, another Indian
species of this genus, very distinct from any thing hitherto

described. It belongs to the Isicas, whose distinctive charac-
ter resides in their having the twin ovaries completely united,
so that when the fruit is ripe all trace of its two-fold origin
disappears. It is a slender plant with deep purple branches,
quite smooth leaves, and very long stalked pale yellow flowers
stained with purple. It may be defined in the following
terms.

L. (Isica) discolor ; glaberrima, foliis petiolatis oblongis acutis
subtüs glaucis, pedunculis foliis dimidio brevioribus,
calyce 5-dentato glandulis ciliato, corolle tubo hinc
valdé convexo discolore limbo multd breviore.

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EPIDENDRUM pterocarpum.
Wing-fruited Epidendrum.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEA. $ EPIDENDREE.
EPIDENDRUM. Bot. Reg. 1838. fol. 53.

Subg. Encyclium. $ III. Labello trilobo.

E. pterocarpum (Lindl. in Hooker's Journal, 3. 82. Bot. Reg. 1841. misc,
128.) ; pseudobulbis ovalibus compressis subdiphyllis, foliis ensiformi-
bus acutis, racemo angusto, sepalis petalisque subzequalibus linearibus
acuminatis patentibus, labelli subrotundi trilobi cordati laciniis latera-
libus rotundatis intermediá multó longiore acutá basi bilineatá callo
pubescente obscuré tridentato auctá, capsulá ovata tri-alata.

We cannot say much as to the beauty of this plant, which
flowered with Messrs. Loddiges in December 1842. It how-
ever presents a remarkable instance of the formation of broad
wings by the fruit, which, when ripe, has three of them of

considerable size.

The flowers are a brownish green, with a broad, rolled up
yellow variegated lip whose middle lobe is whitish. It is a
native of Mexico, and closely allied to E. tessellatum.

Fig. 1. represents the column and lip.

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AONIUM Youngianum.
Mr. Young's Houseleek.

DODECANDRIA DODECAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. CRASSULACE X.
ZEONIUM. Botanical Register, 1841. fol. 61.

Æ. Foungianum ; caule fruticoso crasso, foliis subcartilagineis crassis lucidis
saturaté viridibus obcordato-spathulatis basi subtetragonis apice obsoleté
mucronatis margine attenuatis breviter ciliatis. Webb Histoire Natu-
relle des isles Canaries, Vol. III. p. 197.

This plant, hitherto only known from the brief Latin phrase
above quoted, flowered in June, 1843, in the nursery of Mr.
Wm. Young of Milford, near Godalming, after whom it was
named by Mr. Barker Webb, who discovered it in the
Canaries. :

It appears nearly allied to ZEonium (Sempervirum) arbo-
reum, which, according to Mr. Webb, does not grow in the
Canaries ; but we have no information concerning it.

Fig. l. represents a section of the ovaries. Fig. 2. a
young petal and stamen some time before the flower expands.

July, 1844. P

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ANDROMEDA phyllirezfolia.
Phyllirea-leaved Andromeda.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. ERICACER.
ANDROMEDA. Botanical Register, vol. 10. fol. 807.

A phyllire@folia ; foliis sempervirentibus oblongis convexis juxta apicem ser-,
ratis, racemis pilosis axillaribus nutantibus foliorum longitudine v. lon-
gioribus, sepalis ovatis corollà ovatà duplà brevioribus, filamentis apice
sigmoideis, antheris dorso bisetis.

A. phylliresefolia, Hook. ic. plant. vol. 2. t. 122.

Pieris ? phylliresefolia, DeCand. prodr. 7. 599. "

A very neat greenhouse shrub, introduced lately by
- Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered for the first time in
January last. It was originally discovered in West Florida,
at a place called Apalachicola, by the late Mr. Drummond,

from whom we have a specimen.

We place the plant, with Sir W. Hooker, in Andromeda,
for these reasons. In the first place there seems no sufficient
ground for separating from Andromeda the genera proposed
by the Dons, which, to our apprehension, are neither limited
by solid characters, nor so contrived as to form useful divi-
sions. Secondly, the plant before us will not suit any of them
exactly ; so that M. DeCandolle, who admitted the proposed
divisions, although he thrust it into Pieris, a name in which
he admits there is no common sense, does so with doubt, and
questions whether it may not form a new genus of itself.
For ourselves we cannot separate it from Andromeda poli-
folia.

One of the most striking characters in this very distinct
species is the peculiar darkness of its leaves, which thus are
able to set off the snow-white flowers to great advantage.

They look like pearls on a negro's neck.

It is a pity that the plant should not be hardy, but of that
we fear there 1s no probability.

It is a pretty dwarf evergreen shrub, probably about as
hardy as a Pernettya, and capable of enduring the mildest
winters in the open border. It requires peat soil, and the
same kind of treatment as Andromeda floribunda, like which
it may be increased by layering, which should be done when
the plant has finished its growth early in the autumn. It
only requires the young shoots to be pegged down, and lightly
covered with light sandy peat, and afterwards kept moist.

The layers require two years before they are fit for removing
from the mother plant.

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CALANTHE Masuca.
Lilac Calanthe.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE®. $ VANDER.
CALANTHE. Botanical Register, t. 720.

C. Masuca (Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p.249. Bletia Masuca, Don. Prodr.
fl. nep. 30. Amblyglottis veratrifolia ? Blame Bijdr.); scapo erecto
foliis latis oblongis petiolatis acuminatis subtus pubescentibus longiore,
racemis multifloris, labello tripartito basi tuberculis seriatis 5-cristato,
seriebus intermediis elevatioribus ; laciniis lateralibus linearibus subfal-
catis intermedià multd majore cuneatä emarginatä in unguem linearem
laciniis lateralibus sequalem angustatá, calcare longissimo falcato clavato,
columná brevi obliquä anticé bifoveatä, ovario pubescente.

For the figure of this charming plant we. have to thank
Messrs. Rollisson of Tooting, with whom it flowered in

June, 1843.

It is a native of Nepal, and may be regarded as the gayest
of the terrestrial species of that rich country, being conspi-
cuous both for the large size of their flowers and their fine

colour.

From the other purple species allied to it, this is readily
known by the leaves as well as by the flowers. C. versicolor
has leaves smooth on both sides ; C. purpurea downy on both
sides, especially beneath; while this has, down only on the
under side. C. versicolor has white sepals and petals; C. pur-
purea, and this, purple ones. While however C. purpurea
agrees in the colour of its flowers, its lip is altogether diffe-
rent, being very narrow, with the lateral lobes quite round.
In order that there may be no confusion among these nearly
allied plants, the characters of C. purpurea and versicolor are

given below.

C. Masuca should be potted in turfy heath-mould, mixed
with a few pieces of potsherds. In summer it should receive

an ample supply of water at its roots; and where it can be
avoided, little should be allowed to fall on its leaves, other-
wise the young shoots will damp off. It enjoys a humid
atmosphere and a high temperature; but as the leaves are
very delicate, they will soon become scorched if shading is
not carefully attended to. In winter little water will be re-
quired ; still it is necessary to keep the soil damp enough to
preserve the bulbs from shrivelling. "This is one of the most
difficult of Orchidaceous plants to grow well.

C. purpurea (Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. no. 2); scapo erecto
foliis latis oblongis petiolatis acuminatis - supra . pilosis
subtus tomentosis longiore, racemis laxis multifloris, la-
belli trilobi lobis lateralibus nanis rotundatis patentibus
intermedio angusto cuneato divergenti-bilobo, calcare
ovario vix breviore.

C. versicolor (Lindl. Sert. Orch. t. 42) ; foliis oblongo-lanceo-
latis erectis concavis 7-9-nerviis utrinque glaberrimis
` scapo apice pubescente brevioribus, racemo denso pyra-
midato, labelli columnz brevi accreti trilobi lobis late-
ralibus ovatis nanis intermedio cuneato bilobo multó
majore basi trituberculato secus lineam mediam verru-
coso, calcare glabro ovarii pubescentis longitudine. .

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CEANOTHUS thyrsiflorus.
Thyrse-bearing Ceañothus.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. RHAMNACEZ.
CEANOTHUS. Botanical Register, vol. 4. fol. 291.

C. thyrsiflorus; caule arboreo, ramulis inermibus angulatis, foliis ovato-
oblongis glanduloso-serratis lucidis utrinque viridibus subtus pubescen-
tibus triplinerviis, paniculis terminalibus oblongis contractis racemi-
formibus.

C. thyrsiflorus, Eschscholtz in mem. acad. Petrop. 1826. Hooker Fl. Bor.
Am. 1.125. Torrey $ Gray, Flora of North America, 1. 266.

C. divaricatus, Hort. nec Nuttall.

A perfectly hardy shrub, as this is, with evergreen foliage
of the most beautiful glossy green, and dense panicles of
bright blue flowers, is indeed an acquisition to our gardens.
In all respects this is one of the most valuable things that has
been introduced for years. The country owes it to R. B.
Hinds, Esq., who, while surgeon to the Sulphur surveying
ship, occupied himself with Botany, formed collections of
dried plants, now publishing under the auspices of the Admi-
ralty, and sent home seeds to the Horticultural Society, from
among which this was obtained. He describes it as being
common at San Francisco and Monterey, where it produces a

most beautiful effect.

A considerable number of plants have been distributed by
the Horticultural Society under the name of C. divaricatus,
which species it was at first supposed to be. Now, however,
that it has flowered, it proves to be C. thyrsiflorus, and the

first name has to be changed.

According to Messrs. Torrey and Gray, this species forms
a small tree, with a stem sometimes as thick as a mans arm.
The wild specimens, gathered in California by Douglas, for
he too found it, appear to belong to a plant of considerable

stature, and are completely loaded with dense masses of
bloom.

Our drawing was ‘made in the Garden of the Horticul-
tural Segen in May last, when it first began to flower against
a south wall.

'This shrub may be planted in any kind of soil, and is
easily increased by cuttings of the half-ripe wood, treated in
the ordinary way.

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ODONTOGLOSSUM leve.
Smooth-lipped Odontoglossum.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORcHiDACEX. $ VANDER.
ODONTOGLOSSUM. Botanical Register, 1840. fol. 30.

O. leve ; pseudobulbis compressis suleatis, foliis oblongo-ensiformibus obtusis
apice obliquis, floribus paniculatis, bracteis laxis membranaceis, sepalis
petalisque oblongo-linearibus acutis planis, labelli laminá panduriformi
apiculatä ungue levi obsoletissimé bidentato, column alis apice rotun-

datis crispis basi planis.

Both Mr. Skinner and Mr. Hartweg found this plant
abundantly in Guatemala, and sent it home to their friends,
so that it is by no means rare in collections. It is not, how-
ever, much esteemed, because of the flatness of colour in its
flowers. Nevertheless, they have cinnamon-brown blotches
on the yellow ground of the petals and sepals ; and the lip,
which is white, is banded with violet across the middle ;
besides which they are fragrant.

The name Odontoglossum, or Tooth-tongue, has been
given to these plants, because they are usually furnished with
strong teeth on the lower part of the lip, and these teeth are
not unfrequently very conspicuous. Here, however, they are
reduced to a couple of trifling notches, and might be easily

overlooked.
Our drawing was made in the garden of the Horticultural
Society in May, 1842. Fig. 1. represents the column, seen

in front, with its wings.

This species should be potted in turfy peat, and placed in
a moist stove. A liberal supply of water should be given
during the growing season, and the house be slightly shaded
in sunny weather, in order to keep the temperature as near

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80? by day as possible. In winter, like many other bulbous
Orchidaceous plants, it requires very little water for a few
weeks, but would be much benefited (especially in clear
weather) if the house in which it is grown could be filled
with steam once a day. Tbe temperature should at that time
never be raised above 60? by fire heat.

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* HINDSIA violacea.
Porcelain blue. Hindsia.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. CINCHONACES.

HINDSIA. Calycis tubus turbinatus, limbus 4-5-partitus laciniis in-
sequalibus linearibus v. apice foliaceo-dilatatis. Corolla infundibuliformis,
tubo elongato, superne paullo inflato et inter stamina intus barbato, fauce
nuda, limbi laciniis 5 ovatis, eestivatione valvata. -dnthere lineares sub apice
tubi subsessiles. Ovarium biloculare; placentse medio dissepimento affixe,
multiovulate. Styli rami longi lineares compressiusculi papilloso-hirti.
Capsula calyce corticata, septicide bivalvis, valvulis duris demum loculicide
bipartitis. Semina numerosa, non alata (matura ignota). ——Frutices austro-
americani. Folia opposita, petiolata, ovata v. sublanceolata. Stipulee utrin-
que solitaric ovate, integre, v. glanduloso-dentate intus sepius. glandulose.
Flores ad apices ramorum in cymas subfoliatas dispositi, subsessiles, speciosi,
corollis cceruleo-violaceis. Bentham MSS.

H. violacea (supra, p. 40) ; molliter pubescens, stipulis ovatis, foliis lato-
ovatis basi rotundatis, laciniis calycinis valde inzequalibus majoribus
supra medium foliaceo-dilatatis. Bentham MSS.

* The above generic character is taken from this species
and from the closely allied Rondeletia longiflora of Chamisso
and Schlechtendahl, which may be thus characterised as a

second species of Hindsia.

H. longiflora ; glabra v. tenuissime pubescens, stipulis lan-
ceolatis, foliis anguste ovatis basi longe acutatis, laciniis

calycinis parum inzqualibus non dilatatis.

** It is much to be regretted that these plants should have
been referred to Rondeletia, from which they differ so much
in appearance, and from which they may be essentially dis-
tinguished by the form of the corolla, rather funnel-shaped
than salver-shaped, without any callous contraction or beard
at the mouth of the tube, by the capsule which (according to

* See p. 40 of the miscellaneous matter of this volume.
August, 1844. R

Chamisso and Schlechtendahl) separates by the splitting of
the dissepiment into two cocci, which are loculicidally split,
and by some other minor points. Nearly the same characters
distinguish them also from Sipanea, which is quite as nearly
related as Rondeletia, though very different in habit. “They
have also been compared with Bouvardia, and in some respects
resemble the large white-flowered species of that genus, but
independently of all minor distinctions the Hindsias have the

ovules and probably the seeds of the tribe of Rondeletiez, not
of that of the Cinchonez.

« The Hindsia violacea differs from the better known
H. longiflora, chiefly by having much larger, broader, and
more downy leaves, the flowers much larger and more hairy ;
and by the calyx, of which one, two, or three divisions are

much larger than the rest, and more or less dilated and leaf-
. like above the middle.

** Both species vary in the size of the flowers, and in the
shade of their colour. In the H. longiflora also, and perhaps
in H. violacea the stamens are entirely included in the tube
of the corolla in some specimens, and in others the tips of the
anthers protrude. In the latter case the style appears to be
less prominent than in the former, so that these differences
may arise probably from a certain degree of sexuality."

For the foregoing matter we are indebted to the kindness
of Mr. Bentham, who agrees with us in regarding the Ronde-

letia longiflora wrongly referred to the genus in which it has
been placed.

This Hindsia violacea is one of the. finest things obtained
from South Brazil. It has been imported by Messrs. Veitch
and Son of Exeter, who received for it the large silver medal
at the Horticultural Society’s Garden Exhibition in May
last. It will doubtless prove a very easily cultivated green-

house plant; and is certainly unsurpassed in beauty by blue
flowering shrubs. :

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AERÍDES virens.
G reen-leaved Air plant.

—,p———————

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEE. $ VANDEZ.
AERIDES. Supra, 1842. fol. 55.

A. virens (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. misc. 48) ; foliis latis obliqué retusis,
racemis pendulis multifloris, sepalis petalisque obovatis obtusis, labelli
cornu acuminato ascendente lobis lateralibus apice denticulatis inter-
medio lanceolato medio canaliculato versus apicem denticulato.

This is a beautiful addition to that set of Aerides of
which A. odoratum was the first discoyered. Like the flowers
of that species, these are deliciously and very peculiarly sweet-
scented, and not at all inferior in size.

Each sepal and petal has a deep purple blotch at the end,

while the remainder is a delicate soft French white. The
son, and bears in the middle an

lip is speckled with crim 1
inflated, sanguine, serrated tongue; as 1$ represented at

fig. 1.

The leaves are much alike in all these plants, but here
they are of a peculiarly bright green, which circumstance
has suggested the name.

Our drawing was made in April, 1843, in the stove of
Messrs. Loddiges, who imported it from Java.

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STENOMESSON Hartwegii.

Mr. Hartweg's Stenomesson.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDACEE.
STENOMESSON. Herbert.

S. Hartwegii; foliis synanthiis ligulatis margine revolutis, umbellis 2-floris,
spatha pedicellis" breviore, floribus pendulis, perianthii laciniis ovatis
erectis, staminibus inclusis, coron® edentule filamentis 2-3 dentatis
sinubus integris acutis.

A pretty little bulbous plant found by Mr. Hartweg at
the Hacienda del Ixo, on the ascent to Antisana, in the pro-
vince of Quito, at the height of 11,800 feet above the sea.

_It has gay orange-coloured nodding flowers, growing in
pairs.

Fig. 1. represents the flower cut open so as to shew that
the filaments are 3-toothed, without any considerable space

between them.

The accompanying figure was made in the garden of the
Horticultural Society in March last ; but the plant, which
has been extensively distributed by the Society, has appeared
in many other collections.

It should be potted in a compost consisting of peat and
sandy loam in equal proportions. In spring and summer,
while the plant is in a growing state, an ample supply of
water should be given, but in autumn, when the leaves begın
to die off, this should gradually be withheld, and for a few
weeks in winter kept quite dry. Thetemperature m à warm
greenhouse will be quite sufficient.

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*HABROTHAMNUS purpureus.
Purple Habrothamnus.

PENTANDRIA MONOG'YNIA.

Nat. ord. CESTRACEE.

HABROTHAMNUS. Calyx campanulatus, quinquedentatus. Co-
rolla hypogyna, clavato-tubulosa, tubo longo, limbo quinquedentato, con-
tracto. Stamina 5, medio coroll: tubo inserta, inclusa ; filamenta simplicia.
Anthere longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium biloculare, placentis oblongis,
dissepimento adnatis, pluriovulatis. Stylus simplex ; stigma capitatum,
obsolete bilobum. Bacca calyce cincta, bilocularis. Semina pauca, angu-
lata, umbilico ventrali. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi rectus ; cotyledo-
nibus foliaceis, radicula tereti, infera. Frutices mexicani, glabri v. sub-
tomentoso-pubescentes, pilis articulatis ; foliis alternis, integerrimis, floribus
inequaliter cymosis, corollis baccisque rubris.—Endl, gen. p. 667. no. 3867.

H. purpureus; ramulis foliisque subtus pubescentibus, foliis petiolatis ovato-
lanceolatis acuminatis, cymis terminalibus, calyce obconico glabro,
corollz laciniis acutis ciliatis.

H. elegans, Hort.

H. purpureus, Supra mise. no. 19. p. 12.

The beauty of Habrothamnus fasciculatus is so striking
that attention is strongly drawn to the discovery of other
species in Mexico; and the Belgians have vest succeeded
in adding that now represented, which, although not com-
parable with H. fasciculatus, is evidently a graceful and gay-
looking plant. We received fresh specimens from Mr. Van
Houtte, Nurseryman, Ghent, in January last, and with them
a coloured figure by Mr. Van Damme. From these mate-
rials the accompanying figure has been made. We however
fear that justice has hardly been done to the colours, partly
because of the specimen having flowered in the winter, and
partly because it is probable that pressure and packing had

* So named from åßpòc, gay, and Sapvoc, a shoot or branch, in allusion

to the beauty of the species.

given too much blue to the flowers we examined. We under-
stand indeed that the corolla is really of a bright carmine.

We have not seen the plant in cultivation in this coun-
try : but it is evidently a soft-wooded species, to be treated in
the same manner as Pelargoniums.

It differs from H. fasciculatus in its small bracts, and less
conspicuous flowers, which moreover are smooth, not downy ;
from H. tomentosus in the shortness of the lobes of the corolla,
the broadness of the leaves, the smoothness of the calyx, and
the terminal, not lateral, flowers ; from H. corymbosus in not
being destitute of hairs.

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BERBERIS umbellata.
Umbellate Berberry.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Jat. ord. BERBERACER.
BERBERIS. L. Bot. Reg. 1840. fol. 27.

* Leaves simple, evergreen. Flowers racemose.
B. umbellata ; spinis gracilibus 3-partitis, foliis angustis obovato-oblongis in-
tegerrimis mueronatis subtus glaueis, racemis foliis longioribus.
. umbellata, Wall. herb. Don. syst. 1. 116.
. angulosa, Wall. Cat. no. 1475.

eu

This is a hardy sub-evergreen bush, about three feet high,
growing freely in the common garden soil, flowering abun-
dantly in June, and easily increased either by seeds or layers.

It was raised in the garden of the Horticultural Society,
from seeds received from the East India Company, at different
times, and under various names, but more particularly those
of B. Wallichiana and floribunda. It is no doubt in many
other collections under this or similar names. D. floribunda
however has spiny leaves, not at all glaucous on the under
side, and B. Wallichiana, which also differs in those respects,
has sessile fascicles of flowers, and is quite another thing.

This is easily known by its narrow, spineless leaves,
slightly glaucous beneath when fresh, and becoming more $0
when dry.

Dr. Wallich has distinguished a plant called B. angulosa
from his B. umbellata, but our specimens of it from him pre-
sent no tangible mark of distinction. As for the name ver
bellata, it is unfortunate that it has been introduced ie :
systematic works, for the shortness of the racemes, from 1 1C d
circumstance it has been taken, is apparently accidental an

unimportant.

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EPIDENDRUM radiatum.
Ray-flowered Epidendrum.

e REN. e

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEA. $ EPIDENDREX.
EPIDENDRUM. Supra, 1838. fol. 53.

$ Osmornyrum. Caulis pseudobulbosus v. fusiformis apice foliosus. Flores
racemosi. Labellum adnatum, ssepius indivisum et cochleatum. Lindl.
in Hook. Journ. 3. 81. Bot. Reg. 1842. sub folio 50.

E. radiatum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. misc. 1841. no. 123) ; pseudobulbis ovatis
compressis utrinque tricostatis triphyllis, foliis angustis elongatis acutis,
racemo denso multifloro, ovariis trialatis, sepalis linearibus petalisque
lanceolatis patentissimis, labello cochleato crenato crispo, clinandrio
trilobo laciniis lateralibus erectis carnosis intermediá truncatà apice
serratä.

Allied to both Æ. cochleatum and lancifolium, this
pretty species is distinetly known by the round form and
crisp margin of its lip, which moreover is almost notched out
in the middle, and very delicately streaked with purple. Its
petals too are both shorter and broader than in either of

those two species.

Its habit is precisely theirs; and the three, considering
their constant flowering and very neat appearance, deserve
a place in all collections. Besides, this species smells de-
liciously of cinnamon.

The accompanying figure is from a plant in the garden of
the Horticultural Society, received from Mexico from Mr.
Hartweg. We also possess specimens gathered in that
country on rocks, at the Hacienda de la Laguna, by Dr.
Schiede.

It should be potted in turfy heath-mould, mixed with
small pieces of potsherds. During the growing season an
ample supply of water should be given, and the atmosphere
kept as moist as possible. In summer when the sun 1s

September, 1844. yi

strong, the house should be slightly shaded, in order to keep
the temperature as near 80? by day as possible, without
admitting much air. For a few weeks in winter little or no

water should be given, providing the house can be filled with
steam once a day.

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ALONA coelestis.
Sky-blue Alona.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. NOLANACEX.
ALONA, Lindl. (Vide infra.)

S
A. celestis. (Vide infra.)

It has long been known to Botanists that Chile and Peru
abound in shrubby plants allied to Nolana, few of which are
yet published, but including among them some species of
remarkable beauty. Hitherto our gardens have possessed
no others than JV. prostrata, tenella, paradoza, and atriplici-
folia, of which the first and last alone remain in cultivation.
But they are annuals, and, with the exception of the last,
of small importance for the purposes of decoration. The
shrubs are still to procure. Of these one species, that now
figured, has at last been raised from some of Mr. Bridges
seeds, by Mr. Best, gardener to A. Park, Esq. of Merton
Grove, Surrey.

It proves to be a very fine thing, with pale sky-blue
flowers, each of which remains in beauty for several days.
Its habit is that of a soft-leaved heath, and it appears likely
to form a bush of some such size as a common Pelargonium.
What its proper treatment may be we are unable to tell, having

had no opportunity of studying the plant; but we presume
it will tiit with the same cultivation as Scarlet Pelar-

um : > din

iums, and we hope it will prove a capital thing for bedding

ut dag: re, We would, however, suggest >

gardeners, that as all the Nolanas appear to rag plants,
salt in small quantities may be found useful in the soil.

Our drawing was made from a plant exhibited to the

Horticultural Society in July last, when it received the silver
Knightian medal.

The genus Nolana, as at present constituted, includes
plants so different from each other in structure and general
appearance that, considering the principles adopted in the
classification of the Convolvulaceous, Boraginaceous, and
other allied orders, it is necessary to break it up into
several genera, for which good characters will be found in
the very remarkable fruit, and probably in the flowers also,

whenever an opportunity shall occur for examining them in a
fresh state.

If we regard Nolana prostrata as the original species of
Nolana, we shall find that its distinctive character resides in
the regular combination of its twenty ovaries into five nuts or
drupes, each of which is four-celled.

But there is another group, consisting principally of shrubs,
in which the ovaries are very irregularly combined, so that
while some of the nuts or drupes are four or more celled,
others have not more than one, two, or three cells. They

may be conveniently separated under the name of Alona (the
anagram of Nolana).

Corresponding with these in the irregular condition of the
fruit, but not having more than eight or ten ovaries in com-
bination, are two singular plants with all the habit of shrubby
Salsolas, and a very small hypocrateriform corolla. They

may be named Dolia (from doXuos, deceptive); they being one
thing, and looking like another.

On the other hand, in Nolana paradoxa and atriplicifolia
there is a complete breaking up of the twenty ovaries into so
many independent drupes. Those species constitute a group
bearing the same relation to the other genera as Malope to
its neighbouring Malvacezm. The name Sorema (from opos;
a heap,) may be applied to them.

Finally, under the name of Aplocarya (e7Aoos, simple,
and kapva, a nut,) it will be desirable to station a singular

scrubby shrub, in which the ovaries are five in number, and
altogether simple.

- 3 A E IT n

. The following brief characters will serve for the discri-
mination of these plants, until they can be described in
greater detail.

NoLANA, Linn.

Corolla campanulata. Ovaria 5, 4-locularia. Drupe 4-loculares, 4-spermee,
basi apertze. Herbs annue prostrate, floribus convolvulaceis.

. N. prostrata, Linn.— — Chile.

. N. tenella, Lindl. in Hort. Trans. 1827. —N. paradoxa, Bot. Mag. t. 2604.

Chile. Obs. A precedente calyce bilobo diversa.

DN ~

3. N. spathulata, Fl. Peruv. Peru.

4. N. inflata, Fl. Peruv. Peru.

9. N. ? coronata, Fl. Peruv. Peru.
ALONA.

Corolla campanulata. Ovaria plura, 1-6-locularia. Nuces v. drupe 1-6-
loculares, seminibus paucioribus, basi aperte. Plante floribus con-
spicuis, nunc fruticose teretifolie, nunc herbaceee planifolie.

le As ccelestis; fruticosa, glabriuscula, foliis teretibus fasciculatis, calycis
hirsuti longé pedunculati dentibus apice teretibus subzequalibus, corollse
plicis pilosis, nucibus quibusdam multilocularibus. Coquimbo, (herb.
Cuming, 857 ; Bridges, 1329).

2. A. rostrata ; fruticosa, ramulis pubescentibus, foliis teretibus sparsis,
calyce glabro subsessili subbilabiato in alabastro rostrato, corollee plicis
glaberrimis. Coquimbo, (herb. Bridges, 1326). A very fine species,
with flowers as large as the last.

3. A. obtusa ; fruticosa, ramulis scabriusculis, foliis teretibus sparsis, calyce
glabro breviter pedunculato subbilabiato in alabastro obtuso, corolle
plicis glaberrimis. Coquimbo, (herb. Bridges, 1327). Like the last,
but leaves shorter, flowers smaller, and calyx different.

. A. glandulosa ; fruticosa, undique corolla etiam glanduloso-scabra, foliis

brevibus teretibus sparsis subsquarrosis basi valdé productis, calycis
subsessilis angulati dentibus brevibus abrupté teretibus.—— Coquimbo,
(Maerae). Flowers smaller than in the last. rro nitus :
5. A. carnosa ; fruticosa, glabriuscula, foliis brevibus rigidis trigonis 1ncurvis
sparsis, calycis subsessilis bilobi teretis carnosi dentibus tenuibus, co-
rollà glabrà. Coquimbo, (herb. Bridges, 1328; Cuming, 863).
Flowers as large as those of A. obtusa. i
6. A. tomentosa ; fruticosa, incano-tomentosa, foliis spathulatis obtusissimis
sparsis planis margine revolutis, calycis 5-fidi breve pedunculati dentibus
triangularibus, corolla pubescenti, —— Valparaiso, on rocky cliffs, (herb.
Bridges, Cuming, 481). Flowers white, small.
7. A. revoluta.—Nolana revoluta, Fl. Peruv. 2. t. 113. f. 6.—— Peru, (herb.
Mathews, 836, 837 ; Cuming, 1068). Herbaceous, shrubby at the base.

Flowers as large as in Nolana prostrata. = : i

8. A. baccata; annua, erecta, pubescens ; foliis lineari-oblongi die ad
nosis, calycis longipedunculati laciniis triangularibus, corolla glabra. —
Coquimbo, (herb. Bridges, 1322). Flowers large, an

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dried state.

yellow. Drupes quite pulpy in the " :
9. A. longifolia re radzem f pubescens, „foliis oe
tenuibus, calycis longipedunculati laciniis insequalibus linearibus coro

dimidio tantüm brevioribus, corolla pilosiusculá, drupis siccis rugosis.
Coquimbo, (herb. Cuming, 887). A coarse half-succulent plant,
with flowers an inch anda half long. Its drupes appear to have scarcely

any pulp ; six are one-celled, and one four-celled, with the cells placed
one above the other !

Doria.

Corolla hypocrateriformis, limbo campanulato. Ovaria 8-10, varié coadu-
nata. Nuces 1-3-loculares, basi clausse.———Fruticuli erecti, ramosi,
foliis linearibus, carnosis, floribus minutis.

l. D, vermiculata ; ramis cotoneis, foliis brevissimis, calycis dentibus car-
nosis obtusis recurvis tubo corolle multó brevioribus. Coquimbo,
(herb. Cuming, 893; Bridges, 1336).

2. D. Salsoloides ; ramis calvis, folis longis linearibus, calycis dentibus
linearibus obtusis tubo corolle sequalibus v. longioribus. Chile,

(Macrae). This has quite the appearance of some of the Salsolas, or
still more of Chenopodium maritimum.

SOREMA.

Corolla campanulata. Ovaria 20, libera, cumulata. Drupe 1-loculares,
1-spermse, basi aperte. Herbs annue, prostrate, floribus convolvu-
laceis.

1. S. paradoxa.—Nolana paradoxa, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 865.——Chile.

2. S. atriplicifolia.—Nolana atriplieifolia, D. Don.——Chile, (within the
spray of the sea, Bridges ; herb. Cuming, 627).

APLOCARYA.

Corolla campanulata. Ovaria 5, omnino libera. Nuces 5, simplices, erecte,
basi omnino aperte, toroque facile separabiles. Semina (immatura)
hilo magno pulvinato. Fruticulus ramosus, floribus parvis, foliis
carnosis. :

Sp. 1. A. divaricata. Coquimbo, (herb. Cuming, 862). Fruticulus rigi-
dus, ramosus, divaricatus. Folia carnosa, lineari-spathulata retusa.

Flores parvi, solitarii, terminales. Calyx tubi corolle longitudine, 5-
dentatus.

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* CORETHROSTYLIS bracteata.
Rosy-armed Corethrostylis.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. LASYOPETALEX.

CORETHROSTYLIS, Endl. Inflorescentia cymosa, oppositifolia.
Bracteole a calyce remote, colorate. Calyx petaloideus, marcescens, ad
basim quinquepartitus, laciniis,lanceolato-acuminatis, stellato-patentibus, æsti-
vatione valvatis. Corolla nulla. Stamina 5, hypogyna, calycis laciniis
alterna; filamenta brevissima, subulata, libera ; anthere extrorsee, bilocu-
lares, ovoideo-oblongs, medio dorso inserte, loculis apiee intus poro dehi-
scentibus. Ovarium sessile, triloculare. Ovula in loculis gemina, collate-
ralia, ex anguli centralis basi adscendentia, extrorsum anatropa. Stylus
elongatus, pilorum fascieulis retrorsis hispidus, pyramidato-scopeformis,
Stigma simplex. Capsula calyce emarcido connivente tecta, trilocularis,
loculieide trivalvis, valvis medio septiferis intus glabris. Semina in loculis
solitaria, erecta, ovato-oblonga, testa durissima, raphe introrsa filiformi ad-
nata, umbilicum basilarem, strophiola cupuleformi multipartita cinctum,
cum chalaza apicali, jungente. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi orthotropus,
ejusdem fere longitudine, cotyledonibus foliaceis, ovatis, „planis, dorso
raphen respicientibus, radicula tereti, longa, umbilicum attingente, infera.
Frutices Nove-Hollandie austro-occidentalis, pilis stellatis consiti ; foliis
alternis, petiolatis, cordatis, integerrimis v. repando subsinuatis, inflorescentia
oppositifolia, eymoso-racemosa, bracteis foliaceis, bratteolis sparsis, coloratis,
alabastris acuminatis, —Endl. gen. no. 5326.

C. bracteata ; Endl. nov. stirp. mus. Vind. dec. 1. Walper's repert. 1. 337.

This is one of the most striking of the Swan River
shrubs, but owing to some difficulty in cultivating it, the
specimens that have been produced in Europe are very
inferior to the wild ones. In the latter the bracts are four
times as large as in the annexed cut, and of the most vivid rose-
colour, thus rendering the bush indescribably gay; for the
long loose clusters, adorned by these bracts, are produced in

multitudes all over the plant.

* From xopn3po», a broom, in allusion to the singularly bairy style.

We entertain no doubt that when the habits of the plant
shall have been more correctly studied it will become a
general favourite. In the meanwhile it is as well to know
that the foliage is very sweet-scented.

Our figure was made last spring from a plant belonging

to Mr. Groom of the Clapham Nursery.

Fig. 1. shows the broom.like style, with the anthers at
the base ; 2. the ovary and style after the anthers have been
pulled off; 3. an anther viewed from behind ; 4. a cross sec-
tion of the ovary.

It is a greenhouse shrub, and will succeed best if potted
in rough peat, well mixed with one-fourth silver sand.
During the summer season a liberal supply of water should
be given, and as much air as possible. In winter it should
be treated in the same manner as Cape Heaths —never apply-
ing fire heat except to keep off frost. It may be propagated
by cuttings in the usual way.

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GLOXINIA speciosa.

(Garden Varieties.)

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. GESNERACEA.
GLOXINIA. Botanical Register, vol. 3. fol. 213.

1. GLOXINIA magnifica.
2. insignis.
9. bicolor.
4 Cartoni.

For the few last months our gardens have been furnished
with some new varieties of this beautiful plant, which have
excited universal admiration ; especially those in which pink
is the predominant colour. "We have, therefore, thought it
desirable to take advantage of an opportunity afforded by
Mr. Glendinning of the Chiswick Nursery, for bringing

together the most distinct among them.

The account Mr. Glendinning has given of their origin is
as follows : —

These beautiful varieties were raised from G. speciosa
rubra fertilized with the pollen of Sinningia guttata. The
flowers, however, give little evidence of the male parent,
although the branching habit which distinguish Nos. 1, 2,
and 4, are proofs of their alliance to Sinningia, particularly
that of magniflora, which has very hairy leaves and stems,
and an erect growth.

* They were first raised in the garden of the Duke of

Northumberland at Syon, by his Grace's gardener, Mr. Car-
ton, who has been long celebrated for producing various

interesting novelties by hybridizing. The plants which

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furnished the figures were exhibited by me before the Horti-
cultural Society in Regent Street, in June last, when they
were awarded a Banksian medal. The same individuals
have continued to bloom ever since very profusely, and are
now, August 14th, still in flower. On that account, as well
as their great beauty, they are likely to prove permanent
objects of interest in our gardens."

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* ASTIRIA rosea.
Pink Astiria.

MONADELPHIA PENTAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. BUTTNERIACEA.

ASTIRIA, (Lindl. supra mise. no. 31. Maio.) Involucellum 3-phyllum,
deciduum. Petala 5 contorta. Stamina 20 ineequalia, in urceolum con-
nata; sterilibus intermixtis nullis. Ovarium 5-loculare, stylis totidem liberis
spathulatis. Ovula 2 cuique loculo, ascendentia.—-—Arbor tomentosus,
Borbonicus, Dombeyze v. Ruizise vultu,

A. rosea (Lindl. supra 1844. misc. 31.)

Arbor stellato-tomentosus. Folia longé petiolata, subrotunda, cordata,
Obsoleté serrulata. Pedunculi axillares, apice cymosi, petiolo breviores,
10-12 flori. Involucelli foliola subrotunda, calyce pauló breviora, denique
reflexa et decidua. Calyx 5 fidus, valvatus. Petala rosea valdé obliqua,
calyce paulo longiora. Antker@ lineares, erectee, extrorse.

His Grace the Duke of Northumberland received this
plant from the Mauritius, at the end of the year 1833, along
with Trochetia grandiflora, already figured in this volume
(t. 21.) It flowered at Syon at the end of March last, when

our drawing was made.

The fine broad heart-shaped leaves, and close clusters of
pink flowers, render it a rather handsome plant. Fig. 1.
represents a portion of its stamens, and 2, the ovary
styles.

From all the race of Byttneriacez, to which this belongs,
it differs in the want of sterile stamens, with the exception of
Ruizia. From Ruizia it is distinguished by having a 5-celled
and not a 10-celled ovary, and not having hairy capitate stig-

* From a privative, and ørspoç sterile, in allusion to the want of
sterile stamens. `

mata, if the figures of that genus, as given by Cavanilles,
are to be trusted. It may even be regarded as a species of
Ruizia, but, if so, we find no published species to which it
can be referred.

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* LAC/ENA bicolor.

Two-coloured .Lacena.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORcHiDACEX. $ Vanpex; MAXILLARIDA.

LACENA, Lindl. Perianthium carnosum patens, sepalis subaequa-
libus basi subconnatis. Petala conformia minora. Labellum cum columná
et in medio articulatum, hypochilio unguiculato cuneato bilobo apice pulvi-
nato, epichilio integro. Columna erecta semiteres, Pollinia 2, posticé fissa,
caudiculd setaceä, glandulá minutä.—— Herba, Peristeriæ habitu.

L. bicolor, Lindl. in Bot. Register, 1843. misc. 101.

This fine plant was sent to the Horticultural Society
from Guatemala by Mr. Hartweg, who found it in the moun-
tains of Salama, in the province of Vera Paz, also near the
village of Sunil, near Quezaltenango, in Guatemala, growing
on rocks, at an elevation of about 7000 feet above the sea.
In May, 1843, it produced its flowers, and ever since has
been in such bad health that it is doubtful if it will survive.

In habit the species is so like some of the Peristerias
with pendulous racemes, that it would certainly be mistaken
for them ; and in structure it approaches them no doubt very
closely. It is, however, essentially distinguished by the
labellum and pollen apparatus. In Peristerias the labellum,
although having a moveable joint in the middle, is continuous
with the column by a thick fleshy base ; here the articula-
tion at that part is very conspicuous. The Peristerias have
four pollen-masses; here we have but two. And, finally,
the strap by which the pollen-masses cohere is long and
slender, like that of a Lycaste, not deficient, so as to render

* TThis was one of the names of Helen, and may be applied to this plant
because of its beauty: but it may also be derived from Maxi; a cleft, in allu-

sion to the divisions of its lip.
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the pollen-masses sessile upon a crescent-shaped gland as in
Peristerias.

The flowers of this plant are formed in a pendulous
raceme, as much as eighteen inches long; the lower part
being clethed with distant short blunt scales, which extend
into bracts about half the length of the pedicels. Each
raceme consists of nine or ten flowers of a dull greenish
yellow, covered externally with short hairs; their petals have
three streaks of violet ; their lip is downy all over the upper
surface, dark purple in the middle, with two or three spots of
the same colour near the point. In the centre of the lower

half is a large shaggy hump.

Fig. 1, represents the column and petals; 2, the labellum
spread open ; 3, pollen-apparatus.

It may be grown in a wire basket like a Stanhopea, or
tied to a block of wood and suspended to a rafter, in a moist
stove. If potted in the usual way, the flower-spike will be
apt to go down into the soil and perish. Like many other
Orchidaceous plants it requires an ample supply of water
during the growing season, and shade in sunny weather, at a
temperature between 80° and 90° by day, but not above
70° at night. Towards the end of October water should
almost be withheld for a few weeks, no more being given
than will prevent the pseudo-bulbs from shriveling.

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EPIDENDRUM verrucosum.
Warted Epidendrum.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORcH1DACEX. $ EPIDENDREX.
EPIDENDRUM. Supra, 1838. fol. 53.

E. verrucosum (Encyclium, $ labello trilobo) ; pseudobulbis ovatis, foliis ensi-
formibus obtusis, scapo pedicellis ovariisque verrucosis, racemo nutante,
sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, labelli trilobi lobis late-
ralibus subfaleatis acutis nanis intermedio ovali crenulato basi serrato

bilamellato, column:e alis 2 nanis truncatis.

This beautiful and fragrant plant has been obtained from
Mexico by Messrs. Loddiges with whom it flowered in July
last. Among all the Encycliums not more than two or three
are superior to it in attractiveness.

It is not very nearly related to any kinds hitherto dis-
covered: belonging to the same set as E. tessellatum and
Candollii, from all which its stems and flower-stalks, closely
covered with minute asperities, and its rich crimson flowers,
which are as much as three inches in diameter, readily dis-
tinguish it. Its closest affinity is perhaps with E. phoeniceum,
a native of Cuba, and figured in the Sertum Orchidaceum,
t. 46, and E. Hanburii, mentioned in this work at no. 60 of
the miscellaneous matter of the present year; but both those
plants have the middle division of the lip 2-lobed ; and they
are not, that we are aware of, fragrant.

Fig. 1. represents a front view of the column; 2. the label-
lum spread open.

This plant should be potted in turfy heath-mould, mixed
with a few pieces of potsherds. When this operation 1s per-
formed, care should be taken to keep the pseudo-bulbs always
above the soil. In spring and summer, while the plant is in

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a growing state, an ample supply of water should be given,
and the temperature allowed to rise as high as 80? or 85? by
day, but not above 70° at night. In winter very little water
will be required, providing a humid atmosphere can be main-

tained. The temperature should never be raised above 66° by
fire heat.

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CRATZEGUS crenulata.

Indian Pyracantha.

ICOSANDRIA DI-PENTAGYNIA.

Nat. ord. Rosackx. $ Pome.
CRATAGUS. Supra, v. 13. fol. 1128.

C. erenulata ; spinescens, sempervirens, ramulis junioribus tomentosis, foliis
angusté oblongis nitidis crenato-serratis in petiolum angustatis corymbis
sequalibus v. longioribus, calycibus glabris laciniis subrotundis mem-
branaceo-marginatis, stylis 5 glabris, pomis depresso-globosis.

C. crenulata, Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. 509. D.C. prodr. 2. 626.

Mespilus crenulata, Don. prodr. fl. nep. 238.

This plant is the Pyracantha of the Indian mountains, and
rivals that of Caucasus in its rich scarlet haws, which are
however of a peculiar vermilion tint, and of a very depressed
figure. Their flavour too is by no means ungrateful. In
fact, if it would bear our climate with certainty, it would be
preferable to the Pyracantha itself, for its leaves have a
remarkable glossy surface, and the plant is in all respects
handsomer.

'The shrub is a native of Nepal, whence it was long since
received by Dr. Roxburgh, who named it, and says that in
the Caleutta garden it had grown to the height of from six to
eight feet in eight years ; it would have been better for us if
he had found it unkeepable. As it is we do not anticipate
its hardiness in severe winters. In the garden of the Horti-
cultural Society, where our drawing was made, it has survived
several winters, trained against a south wall.

Fig. 1. is a section of a flower, without the petals, shewing
the calyx, disk, stamens and carpels, which latter adhere to
the tube of the calyx, by their back, but are not united to
each other.

A fine hardy evergreen shrub, attaining about the same
size as the common Pyracantha, and requiring the same kind

of treatment. It grows freely in any good loamy soil and
rather dry situation, flowering abundantly in June, and pro-
ducing its fine clusters of bright red berries in September.

It is easily increased, by grafting, or by budding on the
common Thorn, or by seeds, which should be sown when ripe,
in October. It was raised for the first time true in the
garden of the Horticultural Society, from seeds, presented by
Dr. Royle, from the North of India. Most plants to be found
in collections at the present time, under this name, are not
different from the common Pyracantha.

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DENDROBIUM compressum.

Flat-stemmed Dendrobium.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Orncuipacex. $ MALAXEX—DENDROBIDX.
DENDROBIUM. Supra, vol. 15. fol. 1291.

Sect. DENDROCORYNE (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842. mise. 76); caulibus

. clavatis, szepius apice tantum foliatis.

D. compressum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842. misc. 76); caule obovato com-
presso 2-6-phyllo, foliis ovalibus acutis striatis basi dilatatis membrana-
ceis amplexicaulibus, racemis subquadrifloris cernuis, sepalis petalisque
oy erectis, cornu elongato obtuso, labello cuneato levi per axin
sulcato.

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This singular species was discovered in the island of
Ceylon by Mr. Nightingale, and by that gentleman sent to
his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, from whose col-
lection at Syon we were permitted to obtain a figure in August
1842, The year of its importation was 1840.

The curious flattened stems are not more than three or
four inches long, and resemble those of no species hitherto
discovered. They appear however to bring the plant into a
section of the genus to which the name Dendrocoryne (xopuvy
a club) may be applied, and which will also contain D. densi-
florum, tetragonum, Griffithianum, and Macrei.

The singular form of the labellum, fig. 1, which is that of
a wedge drawn out at the point, and furrowed along the mid-
dle, distinguishes this plant, independently of its habit.

It should be potted in turfy heath-mould. The pot in
which it is grown, should be half filled with potsherds, in
order that all superfluous water may pass off; the soil must be
considerably elevated above-its brim. During the growing
season an ample supply of water should be given, and the

atmosphere kept as moist as possible. "This, like many other
Orchidaceous plants, requires to be shaded in sunny weather,
to prevent the leaves from being scorched, as well as to keep
the temperature about 85? by day, without admitting much
air. In winter a humid atmosphere is necessary, but for a
few weeks water should only be given to prevent the plant
from shriveling.

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BIGNONIA Caroline.
Lady Caroline’s Bignonia.

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. BicNoNiACEX. Trib. 1. BIGNON1A4, Boer.
BIGNONIA. Bot. Reg. 3. 249.

B. Caroline ; glabra, gracilis, foliis conjugatis, foliolis cordatis acuminatis
subpubescentibus, paniculis terminalibus paucifloris, calyce campanulato
truncato obsoleté 5-dentato pubescente, corollá arcuatá tomentosa laci-
niis crispis patulis. Supra 1842. sub folio 45.

All that we know of this charming plant is that it flowered
with the Earl of Ilchester at Melbury in 1842, at which time
we were favoured with specimens ; and that it again blossomed
with his Lordship in great abundance in May 1844, when the
accompanying drawing was made.

It is a most desirable plant for conservatories, because, in
addition to the beauty of its snow-white flowers, which the
plant pours forth with exuberant luxuriance, they are sweet-
scented; an unusual circumstance with Bignonias. We pre-
sume it to be a Buenos Ayres species.

It is surprising that those who struggle and strive to outdo
their neighbours in preparing fine things for exhibition, should
not turn their attention more to the small growing Dignonias,
such as this and picta for example; and by means of the wire
trellises now employed in pot cultivation, force them to con-
fine themselves within portable dimensions. They would
make most beautiful objects, and would certainly reward the
gardener for whatever pains he might bestow upon them.
Even B. venusta itself might no doubt be compelled to submit
to such treatment, and to flower in abundance, if it had plenty
of bottom heat to enable it to form its blossom buds. Indeed,
the whole Bignoniaceous order is full of the finest, the most
indescribably lovely plants that the eye can rest upon, of

which scarcely any, and they in many cases the worst, have
found their way to Europe. Collectors in Brazil should
above all things strive to procure them, and then, if half the
pains are bestowed upon tbeir management that are given to
Heaths and Pelargoniums, we should acquire a race of plants
whose noble flowers are such as those unacquainted with them
have no conception of.

All such plants being very subject to red spider, require
syringing once or twice a day during the summer months.
They may be propagated from cuttings, in the usual way.

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OSBECKIA stellata, var.

Starry Osbeckia, with small scales.

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. MELASTOMACES.

OSBECKIA, Linn. Calyx tubo ovato v. oblongo, inferne cum ovarii
basi connato, seepe setis a basi palmatis v. pube stellata aut rarissime simplici
vestito, limbi quadri quinquefidi laciniis eum totidem appendicibus alternan-
tibus. Corolle petala 4 v. 5, calycis fauci inserta, ejusdem laciniis alterna,
ovata v. obovata. Stamina 8 v. 10, cum petalis inserta, subzequalia ; anthere
- oblongo-lineares, subarcuatee, rostratee, unipoross, connectivo ad basim in-
crassato, antice breviter bicalcarato v. biauriculato sive mutico. Ovarium
semiinferum, vertice libero, conico setosum, quadri-quinqueloculare, loculis
multiovulatis. Stylus filiformis, infra apicem incrassatus ; stigma punctiforme.
Capsula sicca, calycis tubo sursum truncato inclusa, quadri-quinquelocularis,
superne loculicede quadri-quinquevalvis. Semina plurima, cochleata.
Frutices v. suffrutices, in Asia et Africa tropica crescentes, plerumque setoso-
asperi; ramulis magis minusve tetragonis, foliis oppositis, rarissime verticil-
latis, nervosis, subintegerrimis, floribus terminalibus, sepe capitatis, bracteato-
involucratis, nunc solitariis, rarius racemosis v. subcorymbosis, purpurascentibus,
speciosis. —Endl. gen. 6221.

Sect. IV. Ospecktarıa, DC. Cal. 4-5 fidi, setis a basi palmatis per totum
tubum ornati; appendices plumose aut ssepius pectinatee ; lobi demum
cum appendicibus decidui ore calycis truncato.

O. stellata ; caule suffruticoso tetragono sursüm pilis adpressis scabro, foliis
petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis septemnerviis utrinque presertim supra
pilosis subtus viridibus, pedunculis trifloris terminalibus, bracteis ovatis
patulis citó deciduis, calycis appendicibus in setis longis solutis, petalis
4 subrotundis calyce multó longioribus.

O. stellata 9, DeCand. Prodr. 3. 142.

Of this fine plant, seldom seen now in our gardens, there
are two very distinct varieties. Of these one has the curious
fringed scales with which the calyx is coated, so closely
arranged that the whole surface is covered over with a mat
of entangled bristles. A figure of this has already been given
at plate 674 of this work. The other, with a narrower calyx,
whose scales stand wide apart, so as to shew its sides between

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them, is that now represented, of which a figure was taken
last September, from a plant in the garden of Henry Thomas
Hope, Esq. of the Deep Dene, near Dorking.

Since these two forms differ in nothing except the condi-
tion of their calyx, which however is very remarkable, we
presume they are really mere varieties, as they are usually
considered.

Fig. 1 represents one of the stamens.

The species is found in Nepal, where it seems to be com-
mon. Dr. Royle mentions it as one of those Melastomaceous
plants which advance farthest to the north, in the valleys
near Massooree, and on the banks of the Giree river.

It is a greenhouse plant, requiring to be potted in
sandy loam and peat, in equal proportions. Although it
enjoys a moist atmosphere, it is very apt to damp off if too
much water is given to its roots. After flowering it should
be cut back, within two inches of the old wood, and re-potted
as soon as it has produced a few leaves. It may be pro-
pagated from cuttings, in the usual way.

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*CRYPTANDRA suavis.

Sweet-scented Cryptandra.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. RHAMNACEE.

CRYPTANDRA, Smith. Calyz coloratus, extus seepe villosus, intus
disci indiscreti strato incrustatus, tubo campanulato, rarius cylindrico, ovarii
basi connato, superne libero, limbi quinquefidi laciniis acutis, erectis v. paten-
tibus, intus carina versus apices incrassata percursis. Corolle petala 5,
calycis fauci inserta, ejusdem laciniis alterna, parva, cucullata, subsessilia,
coriacea, persistentia. Stamina 5, cum petalis inserta, iisdem opposita et
inclusa; filamenta brevissima, anthers introrsee, biloculares, longitudinaliter
dehiscentes. Ovarium semiinferum, apice libero villosum, triloculare. Ovula
in loculis solitaria, e basi erecta, anatropa. Stylus simplex ; stigma triden-
tatum v. trilobum. Capsula semiinfera, calyce et corolla persistentibus tuni-
cata, trilocularis, tricocca, coccis bivalvibus, monospermis. Semina erecta,
funiculo brevi cupuleeformi subtensa, oblongo-trigona, testa coriacea, levi.
Embryo intra albumen carnosum orthotropus ; cotyledonibus magnis, car-
nosis, planis, radicula brevissima, infera. Suffrutices ericoidei, in Nova-
Hollandia indigeni, erecti, ramosissimi ; ramis fastigiatis v. patentibus inter-
dum spinescentibus, foliis alternis, integerrimis, glabris, floribus ad apices
ramulorum aggregatis v. solitariis, erectis v. nutantibus, basi squamulis quinque
parvis imbricato-calyculatis.—Endl. gen. 5742.

C. suavis ; pilosa, foliis obovato-linearibus, floribus in ramulos laterales axil-
laribus glabris, calycis tubo cylindraceo. Supra misc.27. hujus voluminis.

Fruticulus, pilis longis vestitus, ramulis gracilibus abortientibus in spinas
mutatis. Folia oblonga, obtusa, convexa, in petiolum brevem angustata,
subtüs glabra, in exemplaribus spontaneis linearia margine revoluta. Flores
candidi, cernui, suaveolentes, secus ramulos axillares, solitarii, pedicellati,
glabri bracteis rufis imbricatis pariter glabris calyculati. Calyx oblongus,
tubo cylindraceo ; limbo valvato 5-dentato.

The Cryptandras are little New Holland shrubs, with the
aspect of Heaths, found on barren hills and rocky places, or
in light sandy land. In a wild state they often become spiny,

* So named from xpvzroc hidden, and aynp a stamen, in allusion to the
concealment of the anthers beneath the hooded petals.

but in cultivation, when they are kept in a moist atmosphere,
they much lose this tendency.

In general their leaves are very small, like those of the
plant now before us; but in C. buxifolia, which Allan Cun-
ningham considered a Pomaderris, they acquire a tolerable
size. "Their flowers are always small.

The species now figured is a native of the Swan River,
whence we have wild specimens from Drummond. Its flowers
are very sweet smelling, like hawthorn, and though small
they render the plant attractive from the profusion in which
they are produced, all over the branches. Mrs. Wray, of
Oakfield, has had the good fortune to rear it from seed, and
to that lady are we indebted for specimens. It flowers in
January.

Fig. 1. shews the calyx cut ‘open, with the five little _
hooded petals arched over the stamens.

A neat little greenhouse shrub, requiring about the same
treatment as Cape Heaths. It should be potted in a soil
composed of sandy peat, and a small portion of loam, with
plenty of drainage. It is increased by cuttings of the young
shoots in the early part of summer; they must be put in

pne. and covered with a bell-glass, and have a slight bottom
eat.

57

*ABUTÍLON vitifolium.
Vine-leaved Abutilon.

MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.

Nat. ord. MALVACEX.

ABUTILON, Gaertn. — Involucellum nullum. Calyx quinquefidus,
swpius cupuleeformis, laciniis sestivatione valvatis. Corolle petala 5, hypo-
gyna, obovata, seepius inzequilatera, unguibus imo tubo stamineo adnata,
eestivatione convolutiva. Tubus stamineus basi dilatata fornicata ovarium
obtegens, superne angustatus, columneeformis, apice in filamenta plurima,
filiformia divisus, rarius simul infra apicem antherifer ; anthere reniformes,
sinu affixze, versatiles, rima semicirculari aperte, bivalves, septo manifesto.
Ovarium sessile, quinque-multiloculare. Ovula in loculis 4-9, angulo centrali
Inserta, adscendentia et pendula. Styli loculorum numero, filiformis, basi
plus minus coaliti; stigmata capitata. Capsula penta-polycocca, coceis haud
secedentibus, apice introrsum rima apertis. Semina in loculis pauca v. abortu
solitaria, reniformia v. subhippocrepica, testa crustacea, emarginature sinu
umbilicata. Embryo intra albumen parcum, subcarnosum homotropé ar-
cuatus ; cofyledonibus foliaceis, petiolulatis, basi auriculatis, sese plicato-in-
volventibus. Herbee, suffrutices v. frutices, nonnulle arbores, in regionibus
tropicis et subtropicis totius orbis crescentes ; foliis alternis, petiolatis, cordatis
dentatis, v. rarissime obsolete lobatis, stipulis lateralibus geminis, pedunculis
axillaribus, solitariis v. pluribus, uni-multifloris, infra apicem articulatis, inter-
dum floribus spicatis v. racemosis, rarissime corymbosis.—Endl. gen. 5292.

A. vitifolium ; foliis cordatis 5-7-lobatis lobis acuminatis serratis, pedunculis
petiolo longioribus ramoso-umbellatis, carpellis 9 apice longè biaris-
tatis.— DeCand. Prodr. 1. 472. sub Sida.

Abutilon vitifolium, Presl. relig. Hank. 2. 116.

Sida vitifolia, Cav. ic. 5. 428.

This fine Malvaceous plant is a native of Chili, whence
it appears to have been introduced about the year 1836, by
Captain Cottingham of Dublin. It was noticed in this work
‚in July 1840, when it was stated that it had proved quite
hardy in Ireland, having stood in a south border, without
protection for three years. Under such circumstances it
must be a noble looking shrub, for it is said to maintain a
stature of six feet, and to become one mass of blossom.

November, 1844. 24

With us in England it does not however prove fit for the
open ground.

It may be grown in a large pot or tub, but where it can
be planted out in a conservatory bed it will succeed much
better. The soil most suitable is heath mould mixed with
silver sand. Being a greenhouse plant, air should be given
at all times when the weather is favourable, and it must be

exposed as much to the light as possible. It is propagated
from cuttings in the usual way.

The worst of the plant is that it occupies a great deal of
room, and therefore can only be grown in large houses, and
it is, like all its family, a favourite resort of red spider.
When however the first is of no consequence, and the second
can be kept down, it is well worth growing; for we have few
plants whose flowers form such broad gay masses.

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58
HOVEA ilicifolia.
Holly-leaved Hovea.

DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.

Nat. ord. Lesumınos&. $ PAPILIONACEZ.
HOVEA. Supra, vol. 4. fol. 280.

H. ilicifolia ; ramulis tomentosis, foliis coriaceis ovalibus spinoso-dentatis
mucronatis pungentibus subtus reticulatis stipulis spinescentibus, pe-
dunculis 2-3-floris, calycibus tomentosis, bracteolis pungentibus glabris,
legumine subrotundo glabro.

H. ilicifolia, Allan Cunningham in herb-nostro.

Folia juniora leviter pubescentia. Flores atro-violacei inter minores.

Ovarium dispermum.

This is one of the less attractive species of the genus, for
which we are indebted to Robert Mangles, Esq. who raised it
from Swan River seeds, and flowered it last April.

It cannot be the Plagiolobium ilicifolium of Sweet, if that
plant is rightly described with a downy pod, for this has one
perfectly smooth. At all events it is most certainly a Hovea,
and the species named by Allan Cunningham ilicifolia, as is
proved by one of his specimens from King George's Sound,
now before us.

It is a green-house shrub, requiring the same treatment
as H. Celsi. It should be potted in heath mould mixed with
one-fourth silver sand. The pot should be well drained, and
a few pieces of potsherds mixed through the soil. In summer
water should be liberally given, and as much air as possible.
In winter it should be placed in some airy place, and watered
only in fine weather. Fire heat should never be applied
except to keep off frost. It is multiplied from seeds.

59

CHIRITA sinensis.

Chinese Chirita.

DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.

Nat. ord. CYRTANDRACEE.

CHIRITA, Buchanan. Calyx 5-fidus, zstivatione valvata. Corolla
tubulosa, bilabiata. Stamina 2 antherifera; anthere (sepius barbate)
loculis divergentibus. Stigma: labio superiore abortiente v. nano; inferiore
2-lamellato. Capsula elongata, valvis striatis. Semina inappendiculata,
pendula. Herbee v. suffrutices ; foliis oppositis sepius inequalibus, altero
in quibusdam nano v. abortiente ; pedunculis axillaribus. —Brown in Horsfield
Pl. Javan. p. 116. *

C. sinensis; acaulis, foliis pilosis oblongis obtusis crenatis in petiolum angus-
tatis, pedunculis erectis subbifloris, corolle laciniis obtusis callis duobus
linearibus in labium inferius altero lato obtuso in superius, antheris
imberbibus.

This charming little greenhouse plant is one of the first
results of any importance, from the voyage to China, by Mr.
Fortune, on account of the Horticultural Society. It was
sent home in a wooden case, and its beautiful large lilac fox-
glove-like flowers were open when it arrived.

We were accidentally unable to describe the flowers, for
whose structure we are therefore obliged to trust to our artist,
who we hope has been correct in the drawing. From this it
appears that the plant belongs to the genus Chirita, distin-
guished from Didymocarpus by its stigma, having the upper
lip abortive, and the lower two-lobed.

Those who see what this is may judge how desirable it
would be to obtain from India the other species of the genus,
among which are some still finer. And they are all so easily
cultivated, that they are just the things to introduce into
EUN Anybody who can grow a Gloxinia can manage a
irita.

Fig. 1. represents a section of a corolla; 2. the ovary;
and 3. its section.

It appears to be a stove plant, requiring to be potted in a
compost of peat loam and sand, in equal proportions. During
the summer season an ample supply of water should be given
to its roots, taking care to wet the leaves as seldom as possible.
In winter, water once a week will be quite sufficient. It may
be propagated from leaves, cut at the base of the veins, and
laid down on a pot filled with silver sand.

60

* ANGULOA uniflora.

One-flowered Anguloa.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. OrcHipacea. $ VANDEA. || MAXILLARIDE.

ANGULOA, Fl. Peruv. prodr. 118. t.26. Flores subglobosi, nunquam
patentes. Sepala lateralia invicem imbricantia, basi valde convexa, nec in
cornu producta; alterum nunc anticum nunc posticum, conforme, basi
planum. Petala sepalo dorsali sequalia, et similia. Labellum coriaceum,
unguiculatum, subconvolutum, trilobum, laminá carnosá latá planá supra
medium .auctum, hine quasi bilabiatum. Columna teres, clavata, libera ;
clinandrio nunc mutico, nunc laciniá acutá porrectà utrinque aucto. Anthera
galeata, valvis membranaceis nunc in lacinulas acutas productis. Pollinia 4,
plana, insequalia, caudiculd longá lineari, et glandulá acutá.——Herbe epi-
phyte Granatenses & Peruviane, Lycastes facie.

A. uniflora ; pedunculo unifloro radicali squamis 2 inflatis imbricatis vaginato,
flore bracteä spathaceá herbaceá parum longiore, sepalis lateralibus an-
ticis petalisque acuminatis, labelli glabri lobo medio angustissimo reflexo
lateralibus rotundatis, lamina appendiculari retusà duplo latiore, clinan-
drio lacinulis 2 acutis aucto.

A. uniflora, Fl. Peruv. syst. p. 228 Lindl. gen. $ sp. Orch. p. 160.

We some time since announced the appearance in this
country of a new species of the long lost genus Anguloa, con-
cerning which so many mistakes have been made. We are
now able, hy the kindness of Mr. Barker of Birmingham, to
publish the very Anguloa uniflora itself, which he was so for-
tunate as to flower in Aprillast. We believe he received it
among Linden's collection in Columbia; according to Ruiz
and Pavon it is found in precipitous places about Muna and
Chincao in Peru, and profusely in the woods of Tarma, where
it is called Carpales.

It is a sweet-scented plant, with large white flowers
slightly tinged with yellow, and the whole habit of a Lycaste,

* Dedicated to Don Francisco de Angulo, director-general of the mines
(of Peru), and greatly attached to Botanical pursuits, (Ruiz $ Pavon.)

to which genus this approaches very nearly. In what respect
it differs we shall endeavour to show next number, upon
figuring Anguloa Clowesii ; a species remarkably different in
some respects.

Fig. 1. represents a section of the labellum, with the plate
that lies over the middle cut in two. Fig. 2. shows the
column with the two thin sharp-pointed processes which pro-
ject forward ; it will be remarked, upon comparing this figure
with that in the centre of the flower, that there are in the
latter two additional plates, looking like lappets. Those
bodies were missing in the first flower that we saw, and were
only present in the second; they belong to the sides of the
anther, and are, it is to be supposed, accidental developments.
Fig. 3. shows the pollen-masses, with their caudicle and
glands.

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61

HYDRANGEA japonica.
Japan Hydrangea.

DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA.

Nat. ord. SAXIFRAGACEA—HYDRANGEA, DC.

HYDRANGEA, Linn. Flores omnes, fertiles, v. marginales steriles.
Floribus sterilibus : Calyx membranaceus, venosus, explanatus, quadri-quin-
quepartitus. Corolle et genitalium rudimenta. Floribus fertilibus : Calyx
tubo cum ovario connato, costato, limbo supero, quadri-quinquedentato.
Corolle petala 4-5, annuli epigyni margini inserta, sessilia, ovata, sestivatione
valvata. Stamina 8-10, cum petalis inserta; filamenta filiformia ; anthere
biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium inferum, biloculare, pla-
centis dissepimenti superne interrupti marginibus adnatis, multiovulatis.
Styli 2, distincti; stigmata subterminalia, introrsum lateralia. Capsula ca-
lycis limbo stylisque coronata, basi bi-superne subunilocularis, vertice depla-
nato inter stylos foramine aperta, semiseptis margine placentiferis. Semina
plurima, adscendentia, testa membranacea, adnata, reticulata. Embryo in
axi albuminis dense carnosi orthotropus; cotyledonibus brevissimis, obtusis,
radicula cylindrica, infera. Frutices, in America boreali, Nepalia et Ja-
ponia indigeni; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, ovatis v. oblongis, integerrimis v.
sepius dentatis aut serratis, floribus corymbosis, albis v. roseis, marginalibus
plerumque sterilibus, radiantibus, coloratis.—Endl. gen. 4668.

H. japonica ; foliis oppositis breviter petiolatis e basi rotundata v. laté cuneatä
ovato-oblongis acuminatis arguté serrulatis glabris, cyme planc densse
ramis pubescentibus, florum radiantium 4-6 pedunculis horizontaliter
patentibus, sepalis plerumque 4 oboyato-rhombeis acuminatis serratis.—

Siebold fl. japon. 1. 106. t. 53.

Japan seems to abound with Hydrangeas, Siebold having
described as many as fourteen from that country. In this
respect, as in many others, we have the indication of a near
relation between the flowers of Japan and North America.

It does not, however, appear that they are very hand-
some, and in this respect too they agree with the American
species, with the exception of H. Otaksa, which seems to be
hardly different from H. hortensis. The greater part of them
are like this, and some are not so pretty. The most interest-
ing among them are H. Belzonü, a plant with the habit of

2 B

H. arborescens, but with large blue flowers ; and H. stellata
whose barren flowers are double, and light blue or pink.

According to Siebold this H. japonica has two varieties,
called Benikaku, with rose-coloured flowers; and Konkaku,
with pale blue flowers. It does not grow more than two feet
high at the most, branched from the very bottom. The
Japanese cultivate it commonly in their gardens. It is found
wild on the mountains of Nipon.

A hardy shrub, very much resembling, and requiring the
same kind of treatment as, the common Hydrangea hortensis.
It grows freely in a mixture of loam and sandy peat, to which
is added a small portion of decayed cow-dung.

It is easily increased by cuttings of the young wood, after
the plant has flowered in July. ‘The cuttings should be put
in sand, and placed in a mild heat, and kept close for two or
three weeks. It flowers from May to July, and was presented

to the Society by Mr. H. Low, of Clapton, who imported the
first plants.

62

GAYLUSSACIA Pseudovaccinium.

Bilberry-like Gaylussacwort.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. VACCINACEX.

GAY LUSSACIA, Humboldt, Bonpland, $ Kunth. Calyx ovario ad-
natus, limbo libero quinquefido. Corolla tubulosa, basi ventricosa, ovata
aut subglobosa, limbo 5-fido. Stamina decem, limbo calycis inserta. An-
there mutiez, apice in tubulos duos producte. Stylus erectus. Stigma
depresso-capitatum. Drupa subglobosa sulcato-decagona calyce vestita de-
cem-locularis, loculis monospermis. Seminalenticularia levissima. Spermo-
dermium tenuissimum albumini arcte adherens. Albumen semini conforme,
carnosum. Embryo centralis axilis teres, albumine brevior. Frutiees ra-
mosi. Folia sparsa apice mucronato-glandulosa. Racemi axillares approxi-
mati, Flores bracteati, coccinei.—DeCand. Prod. 7. 556.

G. Pseudovaccinium ; fruticosa glaberrima pubescensve, foliis ellipticis lanceo -
latis, racemis secundis erectis bracteatis, corollis cylindraceis, ovario

glabro v. glabrescente.— De Cand. l. c.

G. Pseudovaccinium, Chamisso Y Schlechtendahl in Linnea, 1. 530., 8. 492.
Aug. de St. Hilaire, 2. 406.

Andromeda coccinea, Schrader in Götting. Anz. 1821. ii. 709.

Vaccinium brasiliense, Spreng. Syst. ii. 212.

The genus Gaylussacia, so named after M. Gay Lussac,
the eminent French Chemist and Philosopher, differs from
Vaceinium in the same way as Arctostaphylos from Ar-
butus—it has but a single seed in each cell. The species
are chiefly found in Brazil, where they are common, Peru,
and the North of India, and among them are several which,
as this species shews, would be worth introducing to cultiva-

tion.

G. Pseudovaccinium is stated to be a native of sandy
open plains in Brazil. Auguste de St. Hilaire says that he
found it on the coast from the city of Caravellos in the Pro-
vince of Porto Seguro as far as the island of St. Catharine,
and that it forms a shrub from one to two and a half feet high.
At least it is to be presumed that this is the plant he means,

December, 1844. 2€

although he describes the corolla as somewhat narrow, and
the ovary as 5-celled with 1-seeded cells; for the flowers are,
in our figure, much too globular, and M. de St. Hilaire adds,
that the fruit of his plant has ten ribs when dry in conse-
quence of its containing fen seeds ; whence it is evident that
his account of the ovary is erroneous.

The accompanying drawing was made at Messrs. Lod-
diges, in May, 1844.

Fig. 1. represents a stamen; 2. a transverse section of
the ovary.

It is a hardy and very pretty greenhouse shrub, which
should be grown in a mixture of sandy peat and leaf mould,
and treated in the same way as Cape Heaths. It may be
increased either by seeds or by layers. Seeds should be sown
in pans filled with sandy peat about February, and covered
with a bell.glass. The layering should be effected before
the plant commences its fresh growth.

63

ANGULOA Clowesii.
Mr. Clowes's Anguloa.

GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.

Nat. ord. ORcurpACEX. $ VANDER—MAXILLARIDE.
ANGULOA, Supra t. 63. hujus voluminis.

A. Clowesii (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844. misc. 29.) ; pedunculo unifloro radi-
cali laxé squamato, flore carnoso resupinato, sepalis petalisque ovatis
convexis conniventibus, labelli trilobi lobo medio piloso infundibulari
bilabiato : labio altero emarginato altero tridentato, columná integrä.

Among a lot of plants collected in Columbia by Linden
in 1842, this fine thing was received by the Rev. J. Clowes of
Broughton Hall near Manchester, with whom it flowered for
the first time in Europe in March, 1844. The old plants
had as many as five flower-scapes to a pseudo-bulb. Thus,
by the enterprise of a few English gentlemen, who had the
spirit to defray the cost of a collector in the rich country
once known as the kingdom of New Granada, has one of the
greatest botanical puzzles been at last obtained. Mr. Barker's
species was figured last number, that before us is from Mr.
Clowes, and a third species, with spotted flowers, still
undescribed, has blossomed with Mr. Rucker, all of whom
were the supporters of Mr. Linden's expedition.

The two characters upon which the authors of the Flora
Peruviana must be considered as having most relied for the
distinction of their genus Anguloa, were the ‘‘ chrysalis-
shaped" lip, and the two-horned column.

But that rolled up form of the lip, to which the name
chrysaloid was applied, is in reality common to the greater
part of the Maxillaridous division; and the two horn-like
processes which distinguish the column of the original
Anguloa are altogether of too doubtful a nature to be relied
on for generic distinction ; for they have no relation to such
organs-as the wings of Oncidium, and it is by no means

certain that they are constantly present in the same species.
If, as seems probable, they are analogous to the cirrhi of a
Catasetum, experience warns us to distrust their importance.

This being so, it becomes a question whether the genus
is distinct from Lycaste, to which it undoubtedly approaches
very nearly. The pollen-masses and gland of the two,
although dissimilar, if À. Clowesii is compared with Lycaste
Deppii, are nevertheless not so different when A. uniflora is
the subject of comparison. The funnel-shaped condition of
the middle lobe of the lip is at first sight peculiar to Anguloa,
but it is in reality only an exaggerated condition of that
kind of lip which we have in L. aromatica and its allies, in
which there is a large flat appendage resting on the surface
of the lip; the main difference consists in that appendage
being attached to the lip at the base only, while in Anguloa
it is united by the sides also. "This, however, is a difference
which may be regarded as available for generic distinction.
The main difference, however, between Anguloa and Lycaste
consists in this; that in Zycaste the lateral sepals are placed
edge to edge in the manner of a true Maxillaria, but in
Anguloa they overlap each other very considerably ; this
peculiarity causes a striking difference in the appearance of
the flowers of the two genera, and, in fact, gives that of
Anguloa somewhat the look of a Mormodes.

What Anguloa squalida of Pöppig may be, I cannot say.
I have never seen the plant, and the barbarous analyses given
by that author preclude all hope of. coming to any conclusion:
about it. It may, however, be safely asserted that no such
plant exists as is represented by Mr. Póppig.

_ Fig. 1. represents the lip of this plant cut through the
axis, to shew its funnel-shaped structure; 2. is the pollen
apparatus, two of the pollen-masses being half cut away.

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DIPLADENÍA crassinoda.
Knob-jointed Dipladenia.

PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. APOCYNACEX.

DIPLADENIA, Alph. D.C. Calyx 5-partitus, lobis basi interne utrin-
que 1-2-glandulosis; glandulis nunc ligulatis vel squamosis. Corolla hypo-
craterimorpha vel tubo basi cylindrico et superne infundibuliformi, circa
originem staminum hispida; fauce exappendiculata; lobis sestivatione sini-
strorsum convolutis. Anthere subsessiles, in superiore parte tubi vel medio
aut sub media parte ubi tubus latior fit insertee, sagittatee, medio stigmati
adheerentes, apicee acuminate vel membrana acuta terminate. G/andule
nectarii 2, cum ovariis alternantes, obtuse, singule a duabus connatis ple-
rumque constantes, quinta glandula in Echite uno ex ovariis opposita defi-
ciente. Ovaria 2, nectario seepius longiora. Stylus 1l. Stigma globulosum,
inferne membrana reflexa umbraculiformi (an semper ?) stipatum. — Folliculi
et seming ut in Echite. Frutices scandentes, vel sepius suffrutices aut
herbe bast suffrutescentes erecta, Amerieze meridionalis incole foliis oppositis,
integris, sepe angustis, utrinque basi setis glandulisve pluribus loco stipularum
stipatis, pedicellis axillaribus, nunc in racemum terminalem approximatis,
Jforatione centripeta ; corollis sepius purpureis.— Alph. DeCand. Prod. 1. 481.

`

D. crassinoda; glaberrima, caule ramoso nodoso, foliis lanceolatis acutis v.
acuminatis basi acutis utrinque nitidis coriaceis, racemis axillaribus com-
pressis subsexfloris elongatis, lobis calycinis lanceolatis acuminatis tubi
parte cylindricá paulo brevioribus pedicello duplo tripove brevioribus,
corollae tubo infra medium campanulato, lobis obovato-orbicularibus.—
Alph. DC. 1. c. 486.

Echites crassinoda, Gardner in Hook. Journ. bot. 1. 544.

Echites carassa, Hort.

Mons. Alphonse DeCandolle in his monograph of the
Apocynaceous order, has separated various plants from the
old Linnzan genus Echites, and among others the E. splendens
and atropurpurea, two well known garden species, which he
places in a genus called Dipladenia, from d:rAos, double, and
aönv, a gland, in allusion to the two tubercles which are
found at the base of their ovary. This genus, to which
twenty species in all are referred ; also contains the plant

now represented, whose resemblance to E. splendens must
strike every one.

It is a native of the more elevated parts of the Corcovado
mountain near Rio Janeiro, where it was found by Mr.
Gardner. It differs from D. splendens in its smaller and
more richly coloured flowers, in the form of its leaves, which
are smaller and not cordate at the base, and in its having at
the insertion of the leaves a ring of fleshy hard teeth, which
stand in the room of the glands, or raised lines found in
allied species.

The accompanying figure was made from a specimen
which flowered with R. G. Loraine, Esq. of Wallington, and
which gained. the Horticultural Society's Silver Knightian
medal in October last.

Fig. 1. shews the ovary, and one of the two glands that
peculiarize the genus.

It is a stove twiner, and requires to be treated in a similar
manner to D. splendens: viz. to be potted in rough heath
mould, mixed with about one-fourth silver sand. In summer
it should be grown in a damp atmosphere, and be amply
supplied with water, but in winter it must be kept rather
dry, otherwise it will be apt to damp off. It may be propa-
gated by cuttings in the usual way.

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ANEMONE obtusiloba.

Dr. Govan’s Anemone.

POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA.

Nat. ord. RANUNCULACEE.
ANEMONE, Botanical Register, vol. 3. fol. 200.

Sect. HomALOCARPOS.

Caryopsides compresso-plane ovali-orbiculate glabre, ecaudate ; pedicelli 00
umbellati aphylli 1-fori.—DeCand. Prodr. 1. 21.

A. obtusiloba ; villosa, foliis subrotundis cordatis trilobis grossé inciso-cre-
natis, umbellä pauciflorä, sepalis obtusis dorso pilosis, involucri foliolis
foliaceis supremis cuneatis trilobis, carpellis pilosis.

A. obtusiloba, Don prodr. ff. nep. 194. Royle Illustrations, p. 52. Walpers
Repertorium, 1. 29.

A. Govaniana, Wall. Cat. no. 4688. Supra, misc. 59. hujus voluminis.

This pretty Indian alpine herbaceous plant has been
already noticed at p. 45 of the Miscellaneous matter of the
present volume, under the name of A. Govaniana, which is
what Dr. Wallich called it. It, at the same time, escaped
my observation that Professor Royle had determined that
species to be the same as A. obtusiloba of Don, which name
must take precedence. It is nearly allied to A. narcissiflora,
which is however readily distinguished by its short flower-
stalks, and deeply divided leaves.

The native situation of the species is stated by Dr. Royle
to be the Choor mountain of the Himalayas, at elevations of
from 10,000 to 12,000 feet, flowering in May. In cultivation
it proves to be a hardy little alpine plant, growing about six
inches high, and well suited for pots, or a rockwork where the
situation is rather shaded and damp. It is easily increased
from seeds, which should be sown early in spring, in a soil
composed of sandy peat and leaf-mould, and a small portion
of loam; afterwards, when the young plants are large enough,
they should be potted singly in very small pots, and kept in a

cold frame, with the back turned to the sun during the
summer. Afterwards they may be treated in the ordinary
way, but they will not flower before the second season. June
and July are the blowing months.

It was raised from seeds received by the Horticultural
Society from the Honorable Court of Directors of the East
India Company. :

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IXIOLIRION montanum.
Mountain Ixia-lily.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDACEA. Divisio, CAULESCENTES.

IXIOLIRION. Cormus tunicatus. Caulis foliifer pedunculis axillaribus
et terminalibus bracteatis. Perianthium sexfidum angusté infundibuliforme
superne reflexé patens. Filamenta recta. Anthere parte inferiore affixee
recte serius versatiles. Stylus rectus, Capsula oblonga chartacea vix oper-
culata. Semina testa nigra. Habitat montes Syria, Persie septentrio-

nalis, §c.—W. H.

I. montanum ; cormo nuciformi tunicis duris membranaceis obscuré brunneis ;

foliis amplexicaulibus profundé canaliculatis acuminatis 6-11-uncialibus
& une. latis glaucis; caule subsesquipedali bracteis foliiformibus gra-
datim minoribus inferne alternis superne ssepius oppositis pedunculis
axillaribus 1-3-floris; germine viridi declinato, perianthio 1} unc. satu-
raté coeruleo-purpurascente laciniis inferne plùs minds subalbescentibus,
capsulä oblongä trisulcá sulco nervato, loculis extus dorso trinervi rotun-
dato, operculo brevissimo dehiscente dissepimento axe persistenter
3-apiculato, seminibus suberectis vix biseriatis testá nigrä ultra hilum
attenuaté productá angulaté oblongis chalazá rugosa depressä hili puncto
albescente.— W. H.

Ixiolirion montanum, Herbert Append. Herb. Amaryll. 125.

Amaryllis montana, Red. Lil. 241. Labill. Syr. dec. 2. p. 5. t. 1.

Amaryllis tatarica, Pallas, vol. 3. D. (fide Fischeri in litt.)

This long-desired and very ornamental plant was sent to
Spofforth by the kindness of J. Cartwright, Esq. He re-
ceived it at Constantinople from Colonel Shiel, who with equal
kindness exerted himself to discover it, where it was found,
on the hills in the neighbourhood of Teheran. The bulbs
are very remarkable, looking rather like large nuts with a
dark chocolate-coloured smooth coat. When they are ready
to vegetate, the fibres prepare to burst out at bottom with the
same appearance as those of a tulip. The plants are perfectly
hardy ; for, having produced leaf in the autumn, and their
growth having been encouraged by the unusual mildness of
the first portion of the winter, they were not in the least dis-
coloured by the snow and the very severe frosts of February ;

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and, having flowered beautifully in May and June, they per-
fected good seed in July. Whether or not it will be the
better to take up the bulbs to be dried in summer and reset in
the autumn, is not yet ascertained ; but it will probably not
be necessary.

Ixiolirion Tataricum is distinguished from montanum by
expanded rotate flowers, not tubularly closed in the lower
part, and circinate anthers, and is confined to the Altaic
region, while montanum extends from Syria to the southern
part of Songaria. Dr. Fischer has named it I. Ledebouri.
referring to Amaryllis Tatarica, Led. Fl. Altaica, but the
plant had been previously figured, Herb. Am. pl. 19. & pl. 90.
f. 1., as Ixiolirion Tataricum from Altaic specimens, of which
Dr. Fischer is now aware. —W. H.

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TETRATHECA hirsuta.

Hairy Tetratheca.

———b———— —

OCTO-DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

Nat. ord. TREMANDRACEA.

TETRATHECA, Smith. Calyx 4-5-partitus. Petala 4-5. Stamina
8-10; anthere biloculares, loculis szepe biloculatis, tubulo apicis dehiscentes.
Ovarium biloculare, loculis biovulatis. Stylus € stigma simplex. Capsula
bilocularis, compressa, loculicidé bivalvis. Semina in loculis solitaria, in-
versa. Frutices ericoidei, interdum juncei; foliis parvis, alternis, verti-
cillatisve, spe pilis glandulosis conspersis v. setosis.—Endl. Gen. 5644.

T. hirsuta ; ramis tomentosis nunc setosis, foliis oblongis sparsis oppositisve
subtus tomentosis supra hispidis, pedunculis setosis scabrisve, floribus
entameris — Lindley, Sketch of Swan River Flora, p. xxxviii.
Tremandra Hugelii, Hort.

Where the name has been published which this pretty
greenhouse plant bears in our gardens I have failed to ascer-
tain. It is certainly no other than Tetratheca hirsuta, and
by no means a Tremandra, if, as seems clear, the essential
character of that genus consists in its anthers not terminating
in a tube nor opening by a pore at the point.

Messrs. Rollissons received it from Baron Hugel in the
summer of 1843, and flowered it last March, when the
accompanying drawing was made; it has since spread to
many collections.

Fig. 1. represents the stamens, with the calyx and corolla
removed; 2. is an ovary, style, and stigma, with one side of
a cell cut away to shew the curious ovule with its hooked
point.

It is a very nice greenhouse plant, gay with a starry
blossoms. It grows freely in a compost of peat loam and
sand in equal proportions, and if a few potsherds are mixed
with it so much the better. In summer plenty of air and
water should be given, and shade in sunny weather. In

winter the plant should be placed in some airy part of the
house where it will be secure from damp. Fire heat should |
not be applied except to keep off frost. It may be propa- $
gated by cuttings in the usual way.

MISCELLANEOUS MATTER

OF THE

BOTANICAL REGISTER.
1844.

1. CELOGYNE fuscescens.
Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. Orch. p. 41.

A plant of this rare species flowered at Sion in the end of
last November. Its blossoms are perhaps the largest in the
genus, but want the brilliancy necessary to render them very
striking. They are of a pale greenish yellow, without any
markings except on the lip, which has a few brown spots
towards the base, a broad brown band along the middle of
each side lobe, and three vermilion coloured streaks in the
centre. . We fear that brighter suns than those of November
will hardly destroy the green sufficiently to render this com-
parable with some species, notwithstanding its large flowers.

2. LELIA virens.

L. virens; sepalis suberectis ovatis petalisque lanceolatis subzequalibus, labello
oblongo obsoleté trilobo cucullato apice ovato crispo lineà obsoletä ele-
vatá versus basin, column. cardine unidentato.

A Brazilian plant, of which 1 have only seen a single
flower. Mr. Loddiges, whose number 647 it is, informs me
that it has quite the habit of Cattleya crispa. The flowers
are very pale yellowish green, of no beauty, and about the size
of Maxillaria alba, which they are something like. The
number of pollen-masses is certainly eight, which makes the
plant a Lelia and not a Cattleya.

A.—1844. a

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3. WARREA cyanea.

W. cyanea; spicà brevi, bracteis ovarii longitudine, sepalis ovatis acutis,
petalis subconformibus, labello subrotundo-cuneato apiculato undulato
lineis quinque elevatis.

The purest blue known in the vegetable kingdom colours
the lip of this beautiful flower, which is otherwise white. It
has quite the habit of Warrea tricolor, but is very much smaller
in all its parts. Its most distinctive character is found in the
form of its lip, which has a distinct point, and five ribs, not
three, near the base. Messrs. Loddiges imported it from
Columbia, and it is no. 860 of their last catalogue.

4. HEXADESMÍA crurigera.

(Hexopia crurigera, Bateman mss.)

H. erurigera ; caule fusiformi, foliis exacte linearibus, racemis flexuosis pau-
cifloris, bracteis ovatis membranaceis, mento valdé producto, labello
obovato alté bilobo.

A small-flowered inconspicuous Epiphyte, of no beauty,
introduced from Guatemala to Mr. Bateman, with whom it
flowered some years since, when it received the name of
Hexopia. Its flowers are not half the size of H. fasciculata.

5. HEXADESMIA micrantha.

H. micrantha ; racemo multifloro, bracteis linearibus acuminatis membra-
naceis, sepalis acuminatis, labelli trilobi laciniis lateralibus rotundatis

intermediä apiculatà.

The flowers of this are very much smaller than even those
of H. crurigera, and white with a very little green. It is from
Guatemala, and is the no. 389 of Messrs. Loddiges' catalogue.

6. ALSTROEM ERIA Chorillensis.

A. Chorillensis ; supra 1843, misc. 95, e£ cum icone sub nomine A. lineati-

flore, 1 843, 58 ; una eademque est, foliis oblongis obtusis basi angus-
tatis nitidé glaberrimis.

A. lineatiffora; Flor. Peruv. 3. 60. 289 (A. ligtu v. 2. lineatiflora, Herb.
Am. 92. quoad A. ligtu Feuillé, Obs. 710.) folis ovatis acutis feré
biuncias latis, planta Chilensis valida foliosissima,

The plant figured above, 1843, 58, is the identical species
described in the same vol. Misc. 95, under the name A. Cho-

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rillensis, and grows on the heights near the coast of Peru, a
little to the N. of Lima, at Chorillos, intermixed with a Pit-
cairnia and a white Anthericum. A. lineatiflora of Ruiz is a
vigorous Chilian (not a Peruvian) plant, with acute oval
leaves an inch and three quarters wide. There can be no
doubt of the difference between the Chorillensis and the Ligtu
of Bot. Reg. 1839, 13; but the form and texture of the leaves
separate Chorillensis more widely from Ruiz's lineatiflora,
which is not stated to have glossy leaves. I consider the Ligtu
of the Bot. Mag. not to be the true plant of Feuillé, which I
still hope to obtain from Conception, whence we have had few
plants; and I have long named it A. Lindleyana, allied to A.
pulchra, not, as printed by mistake, 1843, misc. 94, to pul-
chella.—W. H.

7. CROCUS vernus.

It is stated by Dr. B. Biasoletto of Trieste ( Relazione,
$c. 1841) that Crocus vernus, which appears always to affect
very elevated flat places, is found in profusion in Dalmatia,
on a flat between the highest point of the Triglaw, and of
Sweti Jure (St. George) which is 5521 feet high, flowering
amidst withered grass in June. He also cites C. biflorus
Mill. C. Pallasianus, and C. minimus of Rchb. ic. pl. cit. as

- found in either Istria or Dalmatia; but the accurate recog-

nition of the species may perhaps be doubted. W.-H.

8. CROCUS Cartwrightianus.
Supra 3.
Our colourer has inadvertently left out the purple star

‘and prolonged purple lines on the inside of this flower, and
the dark purple lines at the base of the limb of C. Pallasianus.

9. MAXILLARÍA Meleagris.

M. Meleagris; caulescens; pseudobulbis ovalibus ancipitibus, foliis solitariis

angustis obtusis emarginatis undulatis, sepalis petalisque acuminatis,

- - Jabelli oblongi lobo medio subemarginato sub apice carinato lateralibus
nanis duplo longiore, tuberculo transverso subcrenato basi 3-costato.

B.—1844. b

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A caulescent species of little beauty. Its flowers are
spotted with purple upon a yellowish white ground ; the lip
is dark purple. Our specimen is from Messrs. Loddiges,
who imported it from Oaxaca. We have also received it from
Mr. Brocklehurst's garden at the Fence.

10. TROCHETIA grandiflora.
Bojer’s MSS. ?

This is a very handsome stove shrub which was received,
under the name it now bears, from the Mauritius in 1839, by
His Grace the Duke of Northumberland. It has oblong dark
green leaves covered over on the under side with brown
hairy stars. The flowers are large, white, quite pendulous,
and appear in threes. We regard it as a great acquisition.
The name is probably one of M. Bojer's; for we do not find it
in the most recent compilations of species. - A figure of it will
soon appear in our pages.

11. ONCIDIUM oblongatum.

O. oblongatum ; facie et structurá O. reflexi; sed petalis oblongis obtusis

apiculatis patulis planis, labello alt& bilobo, columnee alis rotundatis
crenulatis dimidiatis,

It is almost impossible to find words that will well dis-
tinguish the Oncidiums allied to O. reflexum ; and yet they
appear to merit distinction. This, which is from Messrs.
Loddiges, has very much the appearance of O. Wentworthia-
num, with the same clouded pseudo-bulbs and speckled
flower-stem ; but its petals are perfectly flat, not at all reflexed
or wavy, obtuse with a little point and clear yellow, with a
few reddish brown bars near the base. It is a very hand-*
some species, on account of its flowers having as much yellow

E them, and being as large, as the best variety of O. sphacela-
um.

12. MAXILLARIA coneava.

M. concava; acaulis, racemosa,

cad. seudobulbis oblongis al ~ hi
gesmini 3-costatis nitidis in s ongis alté sulcatis, foliis

petiolum angustatis, bracteis setaceis, sepalis

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lateralibus falcatis acuminatis sub apice carinatis, petalis duplo mino-
ribus obtusis apice plano-convexis, labello oblongo obsoleté trilobo apice
carnoso concavo rotundato extüs scabriusculo, tuberculo lineari apice
obtusé 3-dentato.

At first sight this species might be mistaken for M. brac-
tescens ; but its flowers are smaller; the bracts very small
and setaceous, and the lip of quite another form. It has
little beauty, and was found in Guatemala by Mr. Hartweg,
by whom it was sent to the Horticultural Society in 1841.

13. BRASSIA.

This genus consists of American Epiphytes, with pseudo-
bulbs and a radical spiked inflorescence, of which many species
are in our gardeng. Its great features area very dwarf wing-
less column, a sessile flat undivided labellum, with two (or
occasionally more) short plates at its base, and a spreading
perianth. Recent discoveries have considerably enlarged it,
so that from consisting of a single species, as it did when
first defined in 1813, or of two, as was the case when the
Genera and Species of Orchidacex were published in 1833,
we have now fourteen well defined and clearly known. Of
these the following is an enumeration : :

1. B. Lanceana (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1754.) ; sepalis lateralibus elongatis
labello oblongo undulato acuminato subrepando vix duplo longioribus :
callo baseos simplici canaliculato truncato pubescente dentibus 2 liberis
membranaceis in fronte. Surinam. A charming species, with
bright yellow flowers spotted with lively brown, and very sweet-scented.

2. B. Lawrenceana (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841. misc. 6. t. 18.); sepalis late-
ralibus elongatis labello oblongo apice lanceolato subundulato plus duplö
longioribus: callo baseos simplici canaliculato truncato pubescente.——
Brazil ? This plant is I fear only a variety of the last, and is
perhaps from the same country, for there is no proof of its being Bra-
zilian, as is stated. The principal differences that distinguish it from
B. Lanceana are, the lateral sepals being more than twice as long as the
lip, and the want of free extra tubercles in front of the callus at the
base of thelip. The flowers are pale yellow, faintly spotted with brown,
and very sweet-scented.

3. B. angusta ; pseudobulbis oblongis ancipitibus, foliis binis oblongis sessi-
libus subundulatis racemi longitudine, sepalis linearibus acuminatis
lateralibus caudatis, petalis linearibus acuminatis, labello lineari-lanceo-
lato acuminato lamellis baseos connatis pubescentibus anticé denticulo
auctis. Brazil.——The first knowledge I had of this plant was
derived from a specimen sent by Mr. W. Masters of Canterbury, who

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had received it from Brazil ; at that time I took it for a starved specimen
of B. Lawrenceana. Since that time it has flowered in the garden of
the Horticultural Society, with the same peculiarity of structure; and
hence I conclude it to be a distinct species. It is readily known by its
having extremely narrow sepals and lip, which are of a pale dull yellow,
with little marking, except.a few brown spots at the base of the sepals,
petals, and lip. In this respect it varies, for in some cases the spots at
the base of the petals are few and distinct, in others they are run toge-
ther into one brown stain.

4. B. maerostachya (Lindl. Sertum. Orch. t. 6.) ; pseudobulbis compressis
margine obtusis 2-3-phyllis, scapo nutante multifioro, sepalis linearibus
acuminatis lateralibus longissimis, labello oblongo-lanceolato acuminato
petalis longiore: lamellis baseos liberis villosis dentibus tribus liberis
in fronte. —— Demerara. No species can be compared with this most
graceful and brilliant plant, whose long nodding racemes of flowers bend
gently over the rich and verdant foliage, while the slender sepals are so
long, so light, and so delicate as to be agitated by every impulse given
them by the air. They are of a clear golden yellow, slightly spotted
with brown, and many degrees darker than the lip.,

5. B. caudata (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 832. Epidendrum caudatum, L.
Malaxis caudata, W.) ; pseudobulbis compressis margine acutis, scapo
erecto, sepalis ovato-linearibus acuminatis lateralibus longissimis, labello
ovato acuminato petalorum longitudine, lamellis baseos liberis villosis
denticulis 2 liberis in fronte. —— West Indies. Very nearly allied to
Br. macrostachya, from which it is distinguished by its pseudo-bulbs
being acute at the margin, not obtuse, by its flowers being smaller,
greener, and much more mottled with deep brown, and by its labellum
being ovate, acuminate, and the same length as the petals, not oblong-
lanceolate, and longer than them. The little free teeth, too, in front
of the calli at the base of the lip, are much smaller.

6. B. bidens ; pseudobulbis angustis ancipitibus, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis
scapo stricto multifloro sequalibus, sepalis acuminatis lateralibus labello
duplo longioribus, labello rhombeo undulato petalis breviore: lamellis
baseos leevibus rectis appendice membranaceá bilobá in fronte. ?
The native country of this species is unknown. I had it from the col-
lection of Mr. R. Harrison in 1837, It is allied most nearly to B. cau-
data, from which it differs in the form of its lip, and in having two large
teeth connected at their base in front of the calli, which are quite smooth.
The lip is spotted with brown on a yellow ground. The sepals and
petals appear from the dried specimen to be unspotted.

7. B. cochleata (Knowles & Westcott, Floral Cabinet, t. 53.) ; sepalis peta-
lisque subzequalibus linearibus acuminatis, labello elongato cochleato. acu-
minato. Demerara. Now known only from the above figure.
We have seen no specimen. Possibly it is the B. Henchmanni of Mr.
Loddiges’ catalogue, or his B. cuspidata, (no. 1467), both of which are
unknown to me.

8. B. verrucosa (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840. misc. 66. Bateman Orch. Mex.
& Guat. t. 22.) ; foliis scapis gracilibus duplo brevioribus, sepalis late-
ralibus acuminatis labello unguieulato obovato apiculato verrucoso plus
duplo longioribus ; lamellis baseos liberis villosis apice recurvis, —

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Guatemala. Flowers on long slender scapes, paie green except the
lip, which is white with green warts. The pseudo-bulbs are rounder at
the edge, and more furrowed than is usual in this genus.

9. B. guttata (Lindl. in Plant. Hartweg. p. 94. B. Wraye, Bot. Mag.

10.

11.

12.

13.

14.

t. 4003.); pseudobulbis oblongis ancipitibus diphyllis, foliis oblongis
obtusis racemo multifloro brevioribus, bracteis membranaceis patentibus
squmeeformibus, sepalis linearibus acuminatis, petalis conformibus bre-
vioribus, labello supra basin cordato ovato crispo, lamellis baseos con-
natis pubescentibus edentulis apice divergentibus. Guatemala.
A fine species with broad leaves, and large greenish yellow flowers spotted
with green ; they vary greatly in size; in Mr. Hartweg's wild specimens
from the Chono they are very small, in a specimen found by Mr. Skinner
at San Salvador twice as large, in the plant figured in the Botanical
Magazine larger still, and in a specimen before me from the garden of
the Horticultural Society they are considerably larger than even the last.
In the gardens the name of Br. Wrayee is also applied to B. brachiata, a
far handsomer species.

B. brachiata (Lindl. in Plant. Hartweg. p. 94.) ; pseudobulbis oblongis
angustis compressis diphyllis, foliis obtusis racemo multifloro brevioribus,
bracteis patentibus squameeformibus, sepalis petalisque brevioribus linea-
ribus acuminatis longissimis, labello supra basin cordato subrhomboideo
acuminato crispo, lamellis baseos bidentatis obtusis. —— Guatemala.
A most noble species, with very large flowers, having brown spots on a
pale ground. In a specimen which flowered with Mr. Bateman the
lower sepals were fully five inches long. The lip is much waved at the
edge, and rather lobed. It is sometimes called B. Wraye.

B. aristata; racemo secundo nutante multifloro, sepalis linearibus strictis
acuminatis lateralibus labello quadrupló longioribus, petalis ex ovatá
basi acuminatis aristatis, labello obovato basi angustato sub apice aristato
secus medium verrucoso : lamellis baseos glabris apice liberis divergen-
tibus rotundatis. Guatemala. Flowers the smallest in the genus,
apparently whole-coloured. Very distinct in the petals, ending in bristle
oints, and in the presence of a distinct awn beneath the point of the
labellum. Only known to me by a dried specimen from Mr. Skinner,
without leaves.
B. peruviana (Pöppig & Endl. gen. & sp. 2. p. 12. t. 117.) ; foliis elon-
gatis acutissimis, “ sepalis anguste linearibus acuminatissimis aequalibus;
floribus resupinatis, labello oblongo lanceolato acuto undulato crenulato"
sepalis subzequali.— Peru, in dry thickets on the eastern face of the
Andes, in the district of Chihuamccala, towards Cuchero. The
flowers are represented as growing in one-sided spikes, not exceeding ten
in number, about an inch apart, yellowish-green spotted with purple.
B. maculata (Brown. in Hort. Kew. 5. 215. Bot. Mag. t. 1691.); se-
palis petalisque linearibus acuminatis sequalibus, labello postico sub-
rotundo.——Jamaica.——Sepals and petals dull olive brown, with
purple blotches. Lip cream colour, very large, spotted with purple.

*o- * *

B. Clowesii (Miltonia Clowesii, Lindl in Sert. Orchid. t. 34. Odonto-
glossum. Clowesii, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1839. misc. 153.) ; pseudobulbis

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ovalibus diphyllis, foliis ensiformibus angustis erectis scapo longioribus,
racemo paucifloro laxo, bracteis minimis setaceis, sepalis petalisque lan-
ceolatis sequalibus, labelli cordati in medio constrieti apice subrotundo
acuto basi lamellis 5 insequalibus abruptis quincuncialibus auctá.
Brazil. A fine species, with the sepals blotched with chocolate brown
upon a yellow ground. Lip white at the tip, violet-coloured at the base.
Now that the true limits of the genera allied to Brassia are better under-
stood, this plant it is hoped will rest without further change. It is
evidently a transition from Brassia to Miltonia ; but upon the whole is
better placed in the former than the latter genus, on account of its
column having no trace of wings.

14. MAXILLARIA corrugata.

M. corrugata ; pseudobulbis ovatis subimbricatis, foliis lanceolatis solitariis
breviter petiolatis, racemis paucifloris petiolo multo longioribus, bracteis
minimis, sepalis petalisque obtusiusculis, labello oblongo utrinque emar-
ginato (ideoque obsoleté trilobo) venis elevatis flexuosis corrugato, tuber-
culo mediano obtusé tricarinato.

This plant, belonging to the same division of Maxillaria
as M. squalens, was found by Linden between Maracaibo and
Bogota, and has just flowered in Mr. Barker's collection. It
has pale brownish purple flowers of no beauty; and alip with
numerous purple elevated zigzag veins on a pale yellow
ground. "The long tubercle in the middle, which in these
plants is usually undivided, or merely 3-lobed at the ex-

tremity, is here broken up into 3 distinct contiguous elevated
ribs.

15. ZYGOPETALUM.

This genus, founded by Sir W. Hooker on the Z. Mac£aii,
is extremely near Eulophia, from which it principally differs
in having a deep ridge or bridge lying across the labellum
near the base. The union of the sepals and petals, from
which the name is derived, is too inconsiderable to merit atten-
tion, and is not constant among the species now known. The
presence of blue, or some marked shade of that colour, upon
the labellum, is another characteristic feature, by which the
genus is to be distinguished from Eulophia, in which that tint
is, as far as I am aware, unknown.

In consequence of the additions that have been of late
years made to the genus, all of which, with one exception, are

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in our gardens, it seems desirable to amend the generic cha-
racter, and to bring together all that is now known concern-
ing them.

ZYGOPETALUM.
(Hooker. in Bot. Mag. t. 2748. Lindl. Orch. no. 113.)

Perianthium explanatum, sepalis petalisque ascendentibus, subsequalibus,
cum ungue producto column connatis. Labellum muticum, planum,
indivisum, patens, ungue ascendente : cristá magná transversä carnosä.
Columna brevis, arcuata, marginata, seepius utrinque subdilatata, nunc
in cucullum expansa. Anthera subbilocularis carnosa, nunc vertice
rostrato. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia, in glandulam transversam subsessilia.

Herbs terrestres, subacaules, foliis plicatis patentibus. Flores

speciosi, suaveolentes, labello coerulescente.

1. Z. Mackaii (Hooker. Bot. Mag. t. 2748. Lod. Bot. Cab. t. 1664. Eulo-
phia Mackaiana, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1433.) ; foliis lorato-lanceolatis
striatis apice recurvis racemo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque oblongo-
lanceolatis acutis, labello obcordato glaberrimo, callo crassissimo bilobo.

Brazil. Known from all the genus by its blue-veined perfectly

smooth lip, and two-lobed crest. The blotches on the sepals and petals

are somewhat smaller than in the other species.

2. Z. intermedium (Lodd. Cat. no. 1136. Z. velutinum, Hoffmannsegg in
Bot. Zeit. 1. 835.2); foliis ensiformibus racemo brevioribus, sepalis
petalisque oblongis acutissimis, labello subrotundo undulato basi angus-
tato alté bilobo pubescente, callo crenulato indiviso. — — Brazil.
This is generally confounded in collections with Z. Mackaii, from which
itis readily known by its downy labellum. It is perhaps the finest of
the genus. 5

3. Z. brachypetalum ; foliis ensiformi-lanceolatis scapo elato multifloro bre-
vioribus, sepalis petalisque oblongis obtusis, labello transverso sub-
rotundo emarginato basi vix angustato pubescente, callo integerrimo.

Brazil. Flowers most like those of Z. intermedium, but less

than half the size. The sepals and petals are short, stiff, convex, and

hardly acute, very much more brown than green, in consequence of the
blotches running together. The lip is entirely covered with blue veins
and spots, firm, hardly at all narrowed to the base, and very little
emarginate. I received it from Mr, Waterhouse, of Halifax, in Decem-

ber, 1840.

4. Z. crinitum (Lodd. B. Cab. t. 1687. Bot Mag. t. 3402. Z. pubescens, Hffsgg.
in Bot. Zeit. 1. 835. ?) ; foliis lato-lanceolatis, bracteis cucullatis, sepalis
petalisque lineari-lanceolatis acutissimis, labello obovato emarginato basi
longè angustato venis villosissimis, callo angusto incurvo emarginato.
— Brazil.———"There are varieties of this with pink, blue, and almost
colourless veins to the lip. They all agree in having those veins quite
shaggy, and a lip which, instead of being broader than long, narrows
very sensibly towards the base. From the manner in which Count

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scarcely at all verging upon blue, and having a broad white margin,"
I presume he must have had in view some variety, perhaps the pink one,
of this.

5. Z. stenochilum (Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1923.) ; foliis latioribus racemo sequa-

libus v. longioribus, sepalis oblongis acuminatis, petalis brevioribus
dupló angustioribus, labello angusto oblongo obtuso villoso, callo emar-
ginato. Brazil. Of this very distinct species the sepals are
blotched, and somewhat striped with brown. The lip is white, with
blue or violet veins in the middle only. Its small petals and very narrow
lip readily indicate it.

6. Z. mazillare (Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1776. L.no.2. Bot. Mag. t. 3686.) ;

foliis lineari-lanceolatis undulatis acuminatis racemo flexuoso longiori-
bus, sepalis petalisque ovato-oblongis acutis, labello glabro obovato,
cristá unguliformi maximä crenatä. Brazil.——Sepals and petals
green, with blotches and broken bands of chocolate brown. Lip violet,
with a deep blue bridge. According to Mr. Gardner this species always
occurs on Tree-ferns.

7. 2. Murrayanum (Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3674.) ; pseudobulbis ovatis pro-

funde sulcatis, racemis foliis brevioribus, sepalis petalisque ovato-lanceo-
latis, labelli 3-lobi lobis lateralibus ovatis erectis intermedio ovato-
lanceolato reflexo glabro, callo integro sulcato. — Brazil. À species
of little beauty. "The sepals and petals are pale green and unspotted.
The lip is white, with some dark claret-coloured spots at the base. It
was found on the Organ Mountains, **at the height of about 4000 feet
above the sea."

8. Z. gramineum; folis lineari-lanceolatis, scapo subunifloro capillari brevi

ascendente, vaginulis laxis uná in medio duabus sub pedicello, labello
subrotundo fimbriato tenui supra basin appendicibus 2 ovato-lanceatis
acutis aucto. Flores 3 Z. Murrayani magnitudine, magis membranacei.
Scapus 2-pollicaris. Folia spithamea.— Popayan; in woods rare:
——tThis is much smaller than the other species, and is the only one
yet found west of the Andes. It is not in cultivation.

9. Z. cochleare (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1857.) ; foliis obovato-oblongis pe-

dunculis unifloris multd longioribus, sepalis petalisque ovato-lanceolatis
conniventibus inferioribus multó majoribus, labello cochleato subrotundo
bilobo velutino, cristá arcuatà erenatä, antherä ecristatà.— - Trinidad.
—— Leaves unusually broad in this genus. Flowers pure white, except
the lip, which is of a rich lapis lazuli blue, and very fragrant. Remark-
able in this genus for its solitary flowers.

10. Z. rostratum (Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 2819.) ; foliis lato-lanceolatis

patentibus scapo paucifloro longioribus, sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceo-
latis undulatis acuminatis, labello subrotundo-ovato, callo baseos lunato
crenato, columnä apice cucullatä dentatá, antherá rostratä. Deme-
rara. The broad short leaves of this plant readily distinguish it.
The sepals and petals are greenish, dashed with purple, but not at all
blotched. The lip is white, with a violet crest, and a few pink radiating
lines. - It has no scent.

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16. CLEISOSTÓMA decipiens.

C. decipiens; folis distichis loratis obliqué emarginatis leviter undulatis,
spicis recurvis compositis, sepalis petalisque oblongis rotundatis, labelli
laminá rotundatá transversá sacco subventricoso pubescente.

This little epiphyte, which was received from Ceylon by Col.
Fielding, is so like Saccolabium micranthum, that it might
easily be mistaken for it. The one is, however, a genuine
Saccolabium, the other a true Cleisostoma. S. micranthum
has pink flowers with a tooth proceeding from the base of the
blade of the labellum ; C. decipiens has dirty ochre-coloured
flowers, with a tooth springing from the back of the spur just
below the column. Itis an insignificant plant. Our speci-
men was communicated by Messrs. Loddiges.

17. SPIRANTHES lobata.

S. lobata (Sarcoglottis) ; foliis oblongis acutis immaculatis, scapo rufescente
ovarioque pubescente, sepalis lateralibus deflexis, labello trilobo cucullato
lobo medio reniformi lateralibus ascendentibus rotundatis ; ungue utrin-
que villoso : callis elongatis liberis gyratis.

A fine species of that section of the terrestrial genus
Spiranthes to which the name of Sarcoglottis has been
applied. It is near S. picta, but has yellow flowers, spotless
leaves, a brown hairy scape, and a three-lobed lip, the lateral
segments of which are erect, in the manner of a Bletia. For
a specimen we are indebted to Sir C. Lemon, who received it
from Mr. Rule, of the Real del Monte mines.

18. DENDROBIUM Kingianum.
Bidwill MSS.

D. (Desmotrichum) Kingianum ; pseudobplbis ovatis in collum longum ex-
tensis apice bifoliis, foliis ovalibus emarginatis, pedunculo termina
(2-floro foliis zequali ?), sepalis ovatis mento emarginato, petalis obovatis
apiculatis dupld brevioribus, labelli trilobi pubescentis laciniis lateralibus
acutis intermediä paulo longiore transversé rhombeä angulis lateralibus
rotundatis apiculi acuto axi elevat trilineatä apice tridentatà.

This curious epiphyte was bought by the Messrs. Lod-
diges at the sale of Mr. Bidwill’s New Holland Plants. It
has pseudo-bulbs between four and five inches long, tapered
from an ovate base into a very long and narrow neck, on the

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top of which stand two oblong emarginate dark-green rather
wavy leaves. * Between these is a flower-stalk having two
pink flowers gaily spotted with crimson in the inside. It will
probably flower more profusely when in better health, and will
then be a plant of considerable interest.

19. HABROTHAMNUS purpureus.

H. purpureus ; ramis petiolisque tomentosis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acumi-
natis subtus pubescentibus supra glabriusculis, cymis terminalibus co-
rymbosis, calyce glabro, corollee laciniis acutissimis.

We last year (No. 73) mentioned the existence in Europe,
in a living state, of the magnificent Habrothamnus fascicu-
latus, one of the finest of all the gorgeous forms of Mexican
vegetation. It is with great satisfaction that we are enabled
now to announce another species, also in the possession of Mr.
Van Houtte, Nurseryman, Ghent, to whom we are indebted
for a fresh specimen. ‘Though not so handsome as the other,
it promises to be a very desirable species, and will no doubt
soon form a decoration of our English exhibition rooms.
The flowers are more purple than scarlet, about 2 of an inch
long, and in terminal clusters. Mr. Van Houtte gives us the
following information concerning its habits. « This plant is
from a district cooler than that which produces H. fascicu-
latus, and at the utmost does not require more protection than
is afforded by a common greenhouse (orangerie). In the
stove it runs away into a multitude of slender shoots, from
which indeed it is easily propagated, and becomes a rambling
shrub, with an appearance by no means agreeable. Both the
species of this genus should be kept as cool as possible, re-
quire to be skilfully pruned, and so arranged as to grow
strong and short-jointed. Otherwise the flowers are badly

coloured, as always, indeed, happens when the plants are
grown in much heat.” i

20. SPIRANTHES diaphana,

S. diaphana; foliis hysteranthiis (7), vaginis inflatis acuminatis glabris dia-
phanis, floribus capitatis extüs tomentosis, labello apice plano oblongo
integerrimo.

For a fresh specimen and drawing of this new species of
terrestrial Orchidacex I am obliged to Mr. Van Houtte of

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Ghent. It is a curious plant, flowering without leaves, about
8 inches high, smooth, with 3 or 4 large semi-transparent
loose sheaths, streaked with rose-colour. The flowers are
enclosed in a head of such sheaths, are downy outside, white,
with green streaks outside, and a yellow blotch below the
point of the white lip. Probably a native of Mexico.

21. SCHOMBURGKIA undulata.

S. undulata ; floribus dense racemosis, bracteis longissimis spathaceis, sepalis
petalisque sequalibus undulato-crispis labello longioribus, labelli lobis
lateralibus rotundatis intermedio ovali acuto trilamellato lineis minoribus
elevatis interjectis.

This is a beautiful species received by Mr. Rucker from
Linden, who gathered it in La Guayra. It has fine rich
brownish purple sepals and petals, and a clear violet-purple
lip. From S.'crispa it differs in having the middle lobe of
the lip oval acute, and only 3-ribbed, while the side lobes are
much smaller and flatter; from S. marginata, with which it
corresponds in the form of the lip, it is distinguished by its
very long narrow crisp sepals and petals. The flowers are as
large as those of S. tibicinis, but the inflorescence is quite
different. Unless my memory fails me, there is a represen-
tation of this plant among Plumier’s figures, which I have not
just now an opportunity of consulting.

22. COBURGIA miniata.

C. miniata ; foliis virentibus 3-pedalibus scapo compresso sequalibus,” peri-
anthii tubo anguste clavato limbo triplo longiore, ovario pedicello sub-
zequali, filamentis basi membranaceis utrinque dilatatis vix in coronulam

brevissimam connatis.

The leaves of this plant are full three feet long, and less
than an inch broad, bright green, but nevertheless coated by
a bloom too thin to render them distinctly glaucous. The
scape is of the same height, very slightly glaucous. The
flowers, when young, are almost white, with a vermilion tinge
on the back, and a little green at their points. When full
grown they are two inches and a half long, and the vermilion
colour overspreads them almost entirely. The filaments are
very slightly dilated at the base into membrane, and scarcely
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that we know of. It flowered in the nursery of Mr. Groom,
who received the bulbs from Peru.

23. ERIA cochleata.

E. cochleata (Tonse) ; foliis lanceolatis coriaceis- 5-costatis, sepalis glabrius-
culis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis, labello basi costis 5 apice 3 undulatis
lineato : lobis lateralibus obtusis intermedio oblongo-spathulato, scapo
elongato radicali multifloro ovarioque alté costato cochleari glabris.

A plant from Manilla, with very much the appearance of
E. stellata, from which it differs in having smaller flowers, a
smooth scape, and a shining ovary with high ribs, which are
twisted so as to have the appearance of a very deep-threaded
screw. The sepals are very pale green, the’ petals and lip
white, the latter painted with crimson veins and margin.
From Messrs. Loddiges.

24. The Section of EPIDENDRUM named
Á MPHIGLOTTIUM.

Many years ago, in the Transactions of the Horticultural
Society, Richard Anthony Salisbury proposed the name of
Amphiglottis for the Epidendrum elongatum of Jacquin.
More recent writers have, however, preferred to retain that
species in the genus where it was first stationed. In the
year 1841, in attempting to form natural subdivisions of the
great genus Epidendrum, I proposed, in Hooker's Journal of
Botany (vol. 3. p. 81.) several sections, among which was one
of which the aforesaid Epidendrum elongatum was taken as
the type, and to which the name of Amphiglottium was ap-
plied: Salisbury's name being a little altered, so as to be of
the same gender as Epidendrum, in order to enable those
who prefer to regard the plants collected under it as a dis-
tinct genus, to do so without at all disturbing the nomen-
clature. |

The characters by which it was proposed to distinguish
the section Amphiglottium were the long leafy stem, with
distichous leaves, the want of any tendency to form pseudo-
bulbs, a terminal peduncle covered with close sheaths, and a
labellum entirely united to the column. Three years addi-
tional experience has brought me acquainted with many more
species than I then possessed, and, not having induced me to

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modify my views, it will now be as well to give an enumera-
tion of what is at present known about this section, more
especially as the greater part of the species is to be found
in cultivation.

$. AMPHIGLOTTIUM.

Ampnıcuorris, Salisbury in Hort. Trans. 1. 261. AMPHIGLOTTIUM, Lindl.
in Hooker. Journ. Bot. 3. 81. (1841.)

A. Flowers in spikes or racemes.
* Lip in no degree lobed.

1. E. Shinneri ( Bateman in Bot. Reg. fol. 1881 .) ; foliis dis-
tichis lancéolatis acuminatis, caule apice longè aphyllo
squamoso, racemo cylindraceo multifloro, floribus cer-
nuis, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis, petalis ovalibus acutis,
labello ovato acuminato integerrimo basi callo sulcato
cristato. ——Gatemala.—-— One of the most beautiful
of its race. Flowers large, deep rose colour, in long
racemes. It is difficult to cultivate. Mr. Skinner says
that it inhabits a middling temperature, and will thrive
best in a climate graduated from 56° to 70°. He directs
us not to put it in earth, but to permit it to have free
scope for the young roots and shoots, which it throws
out in August.

9. E. biforatum (Lindl. in Lodd. cat. ed. 2. no. 566. Bot.
Reg. 1842. sub t. 25.); foliis elongato-lanceolatis pedun-
culo squamato longioribus, racemo paucifloro cernuo,
bracteis carinatis rigidis floribus brevioribus, labello sub-
rotundo-ovato per medium elevato basi biforato.
Brazil. The habit of this is something like that of
E. fuscatum, but its entire lip, with a central ridge and
two pores at the base distinguish it. The only specimen
I have examined was out of health, and possibly the
Aower-stem, which in it was very short, may lengthen
out under more favourable circumstances. p

8. E. setiferum (Lindl. in Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. 4.) ; foliis dis-
tichis lanceolatis acutis, caule simplici squamis lineari-
lanceolatis acuminatis sub floribus foliaceis vaginato,
racemo cernuo, bracteis longissimis setaceis, petalis
linearibus obovatis obtusis sepalis angustioribus, labello
cordato integerrimo reticulato acuto basi trituberculato.

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— -——Brazil. — —With the habit of E. fuscatum and bifo-
ratum, but with much shorter leaves, and longe bracts
than the latter. The flower-stem is about ten inches
long in the Brazilian specimens. (Not in cultivation.)

** Lip more or less lobed, but in no degree fringed.

4. E. cornutum (Lindl. in Hooker's Journal, 3. 86.) ; foliis

gramineis lineari-lanceolatis acutissimis, racemo elongato
cylindraceo cernuo, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis
striatis, petalis filiformibus, labelli trilobi laciniis latera-
libus nanis rotundatis intermedià cornutà basi 3-callosa.
—— Peru, Columbia.——Spathaceous bracts acuminate,
imbricated, as long as the flower.stem. * Flowers white,
very fragrant. (Not in cultivation.)

5. E. ovalifolium (L. no. 59) ; foliis distichis ovali-lanceolatis

acutis, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis, petalis linearibus,
labelli trilobi cordati lobis lateralibus rotundatis : inter-
medio lineari bilobo disco 3.carinato basi bituberculato,
racemo elongato. —— Mexico. ——A Mexican species
with green flowers like those of E. nutans, but not
panicled, nor proceeding from a spathe, and smelling

very like a sliced cucumber. Some of the old stems are
three feet long. |

6. E. Clowesii (Bateman in litt.); foliis lanceolatis racemo

longioribus (an semper ?), bracteis minimis mucronatis,
sepalis oblongo-linearibus, petalis filiformibus reflexis,
labelli trilobi 3-carinati ecallosi lobis subundulatis rotun-
datis intermedio bilobo.—— Guatemala.——Nearly allied
to E. ovalifolium, from which it differs in having three
distinct raised lines on the lip, but no basal calli, and a

very short raceme overtopped by the leaves. Flowers
yellowish white.

7. E. fuscatum (Swartz, L. no. 38. B. R. t. 67. B. M. t.

2844. Bot. Cab. t. 887. Ep. anceps, Jacq. Amer. 224.
t. 138. Amphiglottis lurida, Salisb.—V An. B, floribus
minoribus magis'viridibus. E. virescens, Lodd. Bot.
Cab. t, 1867. E. musciferum, Lindl. in Hooker's Jour-
nal, 1. 6.—Var. y, floribus multo majoribus, labello
violaceo luteo-marginato. E. viridipurpureum, Hooker in
Bot. Mag. t. 3666.); foliis oblongis undulatis apice
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noso cordato trilobo laciniis rotundatis intermediä emar-
ginatä apice calloso basi 2-tuberculato, spicä globosä
recurvä.—— Jamaica, Panama, Martinique, Guayana,
f Grenada. —— One of the most common of all plants in
some of the tropical parts of America, and varying
greatly in the size of its flowers and length of the flower-
stem. Hence have arisen several species, proposed by
myself and others, which a better acquaintance with
these plants induces me to believe mere varieties. In
colour the flowers vary from dull greenish purple to green
| and almost yellow. Sir W. Hooker’s E. viridipurpureum
has unusually large flowers, and a flower-stem shorter
than common ; but in real structure I perceive no differ-
ence. There is a little difference among these plants in
the degree of lobing observable in the lip; but I find no
limit to that kind of variation.
8. E. orchidiflorum (L. no. 29.); folis distichis lineari-
| oblongis obtusis, caule apice nudo obtusé vaginato, ra-

cemo brevi terminali, floribus carnosis, sepalo supremo
obovato lateralibus oblongis dimidiatis, petalis linearibus
cuneatis, labello subrotundo basi bicalloso apice triden-
tato: dente intermedia minore.——Bahia. Leaves
very small, fleshy and shining. Flower-stem a foot long,
stout, clothed with blunt somewhat rough sheaths.
Flowers as large as in the Ep. viridipurpureum of
Hooker. (Not in cultivation.)
9. E. fruticosum (L. no. 22.) ; foliis distichis ovato-oblongis
acutis, caule ramoso fruticoso, racemo terminali nutante,
sepalis cartilagineis petalisque membranaceis ovato-lan-
ceolatis acutis erectis, labello subrotundo cordato retuso
apiculato undulato callis 5 magnis confluentibus in disco.
— — Mezico.—-— Stem branching, without a trace of
shéaths, as thick as a crow-quill. Bracts linear-lanceo-
late, about as long as the ovary. (Not in cultivation.)
10. E. campestre ; foliis distichis lineari-lanceolatis, pedunculi
elongàti squamis distantibus appressis, racemo cylin-
draceo, sepalis lateralibus faleatis labello duplö brevio-
ribus, petalis conformibus angustioribus, labello subro-
tundo obsolet® 4-lobo margine integerrimo | basi lineis
duabus elevatis confluentibus alterá intermedia axin per-
currente, clinandrio 4-lobo : laciniis quadratis.——
| Brazil; in dry upland Campos, Serro do Frio, Diamond

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District, Gardner 5207.— — Nearly related to Epiden-
drum elongatum. Remarkable for its short falcate late-
ral sepals and round lip, without any sort of fringing.
(Not in cultivation.)

*** Lip distinctly fringed m. or less, and usually deeply
| obed.

l| Zip with a concave lobed tubercle occupying the disk.

11. E. xanthinum (E. ellipticum B flavum, Lindl. in Ann. Nat.
Hist. vol. 4.); foliis distichis oblongis carnosis, caule
longé aphyllo, sepalis petalisque patentibus lineari-lan-
ceolatis zequalibus, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus trun-
catis grossé serratis intermedio cuneato denticulato, callo
concavo acuto serrato.—— Brazil._—This is very like
E. ellipticum, of which I formerly considered it a variety.
Its yellow flowers are however peculiar; and upon further
examination I find the central tubercle of the lip desti-
tute of the shoulders that run off into the side lobes in
E. ellipticum. According to Martius its stems are three
feet high. Mr. Gardner's (no. 5205), from the province
of Mines, are not half that size. (Not in cultivation.)

12. E. elongatum (Jacq. B. M. t. 611. L. no. 54. Amphi-
glottis secunda, Salisb. E. secundum, Linn. L. no. 57);
foliis distichis oblongo-lanceolatis acutiusculis, caule apice
longé aphyllo nunc ramoso squamoso, sepalis petalisque
patentibus lineari-lanceolatis «equalibus, labelli trilobi
lobis lateralibus truncatis denticulatis: intermedio dupló
majore dilatato cuneato emarginato biloboque denticulato
basi calloso: callo carnoso concavo acuminato crenato
utrinque verrucá crenatä aucto.— — West Indies.
Flowers bright rose colour. Leaves longer and thinner
than in E. ellipticum. It can hardly be doubted that the
Ep. secundum of Linnzus belongs here ; its character
having been taken from a crushed and damaged specimen.

13. E. ellipticum (Graham in Hook. Exot. Bot. t. 207: L.
no. 56. Bot. Cab. t. 1216. E. crassifolium, È. no. 55.);
foliis distichis ellipticis obtusis concavis succulentis, caule
apice longé aphyllo nunc ramoso squamoso, sepalis peta-
lisque patentibus lineari-lanceolatis «equalibus, labelli
trilobi lobis lateralibus rotundatis laciniatis : intermedio
minore truncato apice denticulato basi calloso, callo con-
cavo plicato acuminato utrinque in lobos laterales decur-

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rente. ——Brazil.——Very near E. elongatum, from
which it differs in its elliptical blunt succulent leaves,
small middle segment of the labellum, paler flowers, and
especially in the form of the tubercle, which is deeply
furrowed, or plaited, and shoulders off to the lateral lobes
of the lip, and is not furnished there with a free tubercle
as in E. elongatum. Flowers light rose colour.

E. ibaguense (Humb. et Kunth. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1. 352.
L. nó. 53.); foliis distichis oblongis obtusis carnosis,
caule simplici apice aphyllo nunc ramoso, sepalis sub-
oblongis acutis patentibus, petalis conformibus pauló
minoribus, labelli trilobi lobo intermedio obcordato cre-
nulato-fimbriato lateralibus fimbriatis ovatis dimidiatis
apice rotundatis, callo concavo carnoso trilobo apiculato.
— — Peru. A very fine species, with orange-coloured
flowers. The leaves are an inch and a quarter broad,
and the stems as thick as a swan's quill, and apparently
often branched. When old they become as smooth as
bamboo. (Not in cultivation.) |

E. cochlidium (Lindl. in Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. 4.); foliis
distichis ovato-oblongis obtusis emarginatisque coriaceis,
sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis patentibus sequali-
bus, labelli laciniis laceris subzqualibus callo carnoso
maximo excavato trilobo parüm majoribus.—— Peru.
— — Only known from a-specimen found by Mathews in
Peru. The flowers seem to be yellow. ‘The very large
tubercle which covers the whole centre of the lip is very
remarkable. (Not in cultivation.)

E. dichotomum (Presl. Rel. Henk. 101. L. no. 58;
foliis distichis lanceolato-oblongis obtusis, caule apice,
aphyllo squamoso ramoso, sepalis petalisque lanceolatis
acutis reflexis, labelli tripartiti laciniis fimbriatis : late-
ralibus rotundatis patentissimis intermediä majore obcor-
datä, callo concavo crenulato indiviso tuberculis 2 prope
basin. Peru. —— A very fine species with yellowish ?
flowers, which are perhaps the largest of any in this
section. Mathews found it in Peru, and it is no. 1024
of his collections. The unlobed tubercle, with a pair of
calli near its base, affords a good mark of distinction.
(Not in cultivation.) a
E. lacerum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838. misc. 18.); foliis
distichis lineari-oblongis obtusis, caule simplici apice

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aphyllo laxé squamato, sepalis petalisque patentibus
lineari-lanceolatis sequalibus acutis, labelli trilobi lobis
zequalibus laceris pectinatis intermedio apice mucronato
integro : lamellis duabus membranaceis sub apice conni-
ventibus duabusque callosis parallelis e basi ortis.— —
Cuba.——A very slender species with narrow grassy
leaves, pale rosy flowers, and a distinct entire point to
the middle lobe of the lip. The tubercle is very pecu-
liar, not fleshy as in the allied species, but consisting of
a pair of plates converging just below the apex, and
another pair of more fleshy calli near the base.

\| || Zip with a distinct middle elevated ridge, and two calli
at the base. —

18. E. Blepharistes (Barker in litt.) ; sepalis ovalibus, petalis
acuminatis, labelli quadrilobi laciniis »qualibus lineari-
bus apice multifidis lineä mediä elevatä callisque duobus
semiliberis arcuatis ad basin. La Guayra. This
plant was received by Mr. Barker from Linden. It is
closely allied to E. elongatum ; but differs in the struc-
ture of the labellum, which approaches nearer to that of

` E. Sehomburgkii. The sepals and lip are a rich rose
colour; the column has the deepest tint of the garnet,
which gives the flowers a very gay appearance.

19. E. imatophyllum (L. no. 52.); foliis distichis ligulatis
obtusis subemarginatis, caule simplici apice aphyllo vagi-
nato, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis patentibus, petalis duplo
latioribus serratis, labelli trilobi carinati basi bicornis lobis
lateralibus nanis laciniatis: intermedio cuneato-rotun-
datosubundulato basi serrato. — — Demerara.—— Flowers
pale rose colour, larger than in E. ellipticum. Leaves
very long, strap-shaped. The column is sometimes
green, and the same colour occurs to a small extent in
the sepals.

20. E. radicans (Pavon. Mss. L. no. 35. E. rhizophorum,
Bateman in Bot. Reg. 1838. misc. 10.); foliis distichis
subcordatis ovatis obtusis, caule simplici apice aphyllo
vaginato, sepalis petalisque lanceolatis acutis patentibus,
labelli carinati basi bicallosi lobis lateralibus rotundatis
denticulatis intermedio cuneato apice fimbriato emar-
ginato utrinque integro. — — Mexico, Guatemala.—-—One
of the finest of its race ; with flowers as much as 14 inch

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across, according to Mr. Skinner. It is in gardens, and
has long white roots proceeding from the sides of the
stem ; but it has not flowered.

E. cinnabarinum (L. p. 106. Bot. Reg. 1842, t. 25.) ; foliis
distichis oblongis apice sub-recurvis, sepalis petalisque
lanceolatis subzqualibus, labello trilobo carinato basi
bituberculato : laciniis lateralibus inciso-laceris interme-
diä basi obcuneatä sub apice constrictà apice cuneatà trun-
catä angulis acuminatis simplicibus fissisque.— — Brazil.
— —-n this section of Amphiglottium are three species
of great beauty, so nearly related to each other that their
limits are. with difficulty determined. They all have
bright scarlet or crimson flowers, a pair of tubercles at
the base of the labellum, and a ridged line running from
between the tubercles to nearly the apex of the lip. They
however differ thus: E. radicans has the lateral lobes of
the labellum rounded and toothletted only, not lacerated,
and it produces coarse pale green roots from its stems ;
E. cinnabarinum has the lateral lobes of the labellum
deeply lacerated, while the central lobe is contracted in the
middle, and then suddenly wedge-shaped, with its angles
prolonged into one or two fine teeth; E. Schomburgküi
has the lateral lobes only toothed, with the centre lobe
gradually widened to the point, and there toothletted,
without being at all truncate; the lobes of the lip are
confluent in what I take to be a variety of that species.
E. Schomburgkü (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, misc. no.
16. t. 53.) ; foliis distichis oblongis obtusis margine san-

guineo-punctatis, caule simplici apice aphyllo, sepalis
petalisque lineari-lanceolatis acutis zequalibus patentis-
simis, columná clavatä elongatä, labelli trilobi carinati
basi bicallosi lobis lateralibus latis rotundatis laceris:
intermedio cuneato apice triangulari crispo medio et
utrinque acuminato. — — Demerara. —— Flowers rich
scarlet. Leaves sometimes bordered with crimson. Very
handsome. 1 have a dried specimen of what I suppose
to be a variety of this plant, with all the lobes of the lip
run together into one, a little toothed at the edge, and

more so at the point. It may however be distinct.

E.? flexuosum, (Meyer Fl. Essequeb. p. 260. L. no. 34.) ;

foliis distichis carnosis lanceolatis emarginatis, caule

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flexuoso, sepalis lanceolatis, petalis rhomboideis, labello
acuminato subquadrato margine lacero. Essequebo.
——Stem two or three feet high, compressed, zigzag
from sheath to sheath. Leaves six inches long. Flowers
purple. A doubtful plant, of which little is known. (Not
in cultivation.)

B. Flowers panicled.

24. E. Martianum (Lindl. in Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 4.); foliis
distichis angustis lanceolatis, caule apice ramoso squamis
concavis obtusiusculis vaginato, racemis corymbosis, peta-
lis linearibus obovatis obtusis sepalis multo angustioribus,
labello cordato subrepando basi bituberculato axi elevata.

Brazil.—— Allied to E. fuscatum. Stem from 13 to
2 feet high. Flowering stem stiff, erect, branched, much
longer than the leaves, which are narrow and sharp
pointed. (Not in cultivation.)

25. E. laxum, (Poppig et Endlich. n. g. et sp. 2. p. 2);
** caulibus basi repentibus, adscendentibus, ancipitibus ;
foliis lanceolato-oblongis, acutis ; panicula terminali elon-
gata, laxa, multiflora; sepalis erectis, subzequalibus, lance-
olatis, acutis ; labelli columna triplo longioris, ovalis, sub-
cordati, apice breviter trifidi, nudi laciniis integerrimis,
intermedia majore, acutiore."—-— Peru.——Stems above
a foot high on a long creeping rhizoma. Leaves seldom
more than three on each, with a spiny point. Panicle a
foot long or more. Flowers small, pale green. (Not in
cultivation.)

26. E. rubrocinctum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1848, misc. 20.
E. densiflorum, Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3791??); foliis
oblongo-ligulatis acuminatis apice carinatis paniculä
amplà cernuà subsessili parum brevioribus, sepalis
oblongis concavis acutis coriaceis, petalis angusté linea-
ribus, labello transverso cordato trilobo suprà tricarinato;
lobi medii trilobi dente intermedio minuto, columná
inappendiculatá.—— Brazil. If E. densiflorum is the
same as this, which I suspect, then the name of rubro-
cinctum must be changed, but I am not certain. The
sweet-scented flowers are adull yellowish green, bordered
with dull purple ; the lip is more yellow than the sepals.
It has much the habit of E. nutans, but is a plant of
more beauty. Not having seen sufficient specimens, I

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formerly regarded it as a species of the section Spathium.
It is however an Amphiglottium with a nearly sessile
panicle, and only two or three herbaceous sheaths at the
base. It connects Spathium and Amphiglottium.

E. pallidiflorum (Hooker Bot. Mag. t. 2980. L. no. 41.);

folis distichis oblongis linearibus obtusis pedunculo
distanter vaginato brevioribus, floribus paniculatis,
sepalis petalisque lanceolatis obtusis patentibus, labelli
trilobi lobis subequalibus rotundatis : intermedii trisulci
9.callosi marginibus involutis. —— St. Vincents.
Flowers pale yellowish white, with a purple stain on the
end of the column. The specimen figured in the Bota-
nical Magazine was very weak. Its inflorescence is
really a loose panicle.

28. E. gladiatum (L. no. 47 .); foliis paucis distichis gladiifor-

29.

mibus, racemis subsessilibus terminalibus fasciculatis co-

, rymbosis recurvis, sepalis oblongis obtusis margine reflexis

petalisque spatulatis patulis, labelli trilobi carinati basi
bitubereulati lobis lateralibus subquadratis rotundatis
intermedio multó minore emarginato.— — Mexico.
A small species, not more than eight or twelve inches high.
The leaves are three or four inches long, and as many
lines broad. Mr. Hartweg found it in Mexico, and
therefore the habitat of Peru given by me formerly, on '
authority of Pavon's herbarium, was probably a mistake.
E. anisatum (La Llave. L. no. 62.) ; foliis distichis ellip-
tico-lanceolatis, sepalis petalisque patentibus linearibus
obtusis, labelli tripartiti laciniis lateralibus obtusis inter-
mediá profundé biloba: lobis acutis.— — Mexico.
'l'his is very near E. gladiatum, and is perhaps the same
species. The flowers are described as being of a dingy
colour, and emitting a smell of Anise at night. The lip
is said to have three purple lines at the base. (Not in
cultivation.)

30. E. polyanthum (L. no. 50. Bateman Orch. Mex. et

Guat. t. 94. E. bisetum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841.
misc. 148.); foliis distichis ovali-lanceolatis acuminatis,
caule ramoso, racemis plurimis multifloris cernuis basi
spathaceis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acutis striatis, petalis
linearibus reflexis, labelli trilobi tricostati lobis latera-
libus subcuneatis retusis: intermedio lineari retuso,
ovario scabro. —— Mexico, Guayaquil.— — Flowersbright

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flexuoso, sepalis lanceolatis, petalis rhomboideis, labello
acuminato subquadrato margine lacero. Essequebo.
——Stem two or three feet high, compressed, zigzag
from sheath to sheath. Leaves six inches long. Flowers
purple. A doubtful plant, of which little is known. (Not
in cultivation.)

B. Flowers panicled.
E. Martianum (Lindl. in Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 4.); foliis

distichis angustis lanceolatis, caule apice ramoso squamis
concavis obtusiusculis vaginato, racemis corymbosis, peta-
lis linearibus obovatis obtusis sepalis multo angustioribus,
labello cordato subrepando basi bituberculato axi elevata.
Brazil.—— Allied to E. fuscatum. Stem from 13 to
2 feet high. Flowering stem stiff, erect, branched, much
longer than the leaves, which are narrow and sharp
pointed. (Not in cultivation.)

E. laxum, (Pöppig et Endlich. n. g. et sp. 2. p. 2);
** caulibus basi repentibus, adscendentibus, ancipitibus ;
foliis lanceolato-oblongis, acutis ; panicula terminali elon-
gata, laxa, multiflora; sepalis erectis, subzequalibus, lance-
olatis, acutis ; labelli columna triplo longioris, ovalis, sub-
cordati, apice breviter trifidi, nudi laciniis integerrimis,
intermedia majore, acutiore.”—— Peru.—— Stems above
a foot high on a long creeping rhizoma. Leaves seldom
more than three on each, with a spiny point. Panicle a
foot long or more. Flowers small, pale green. (Not in
cultivation.)

E. rubrocinctum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843, misc. 20.
E. densiflorum, Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3791??); foliis
oblongo-ligulatis acuminatis apice carinatis paniculä
amplà cernuá subsessili parum brevioribus, sepalis
oblongis concavis acutis coriaceis, petalis angusté linea-
ribus, labello transverso cordato trilobo suprà tricarinato;
lobi medii trilobi dente intermedio minuto, columná
inappendiculatá.—— Brazil. If E. densiflorum is the
same as this, which I suspect, then the name of rubro-
cinctum must be changed, but I am not certain. The
sweet-scented flowers are a dull yellowish green, bordered
with dull purple; the lip is more yellow than the sepals.
It has much the habit of E. nutans, but is a plant of
more beauty. Not having seen sufficient specimens, I

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formerly regarded it as a species of the section Spathium.
It is however an Amphiglottium with a nearly sessile
panicle, and only two or three herbaceous sheaths at the
base. It connects Spathium and Amphiglottium.

27. E. pallidiflorum (Hooker Bot. Mag. t. 2980. L. no. 41.);
foliis distichis oblongis linearibus obtusis pedunculo
distanter vaginato brevioribus, floribus paniculatis,
sepalis petalisque lanceolatis obtusis patentibus, labelli
trilobi lobis subzequalibus rotundatis : intermedii trisulei
2.callosi marginibus involutis. —— St. Vincents.
Flowers pale yellowish white, with a purple stain on the
end of the column. The specimen figured in the Bota-
nical Magazine was very weak. Its inflorescence is
really a loose panicle. .

28. E. gladiatum (L. no. 47.) ; foliis paucis distichis gladiifor-
mibus, racemis subsessilibus terminalibus fasciculatis co-

F . rymbosis recurvis, sepalis oblongis obtusis margine reflexis

| petalisque spatulatis patulis, labelli trilobi carinati basi
bituberculati lobis lateralibus. subquadratis rotundatis
intermedio multó minore emarginato.— — Mexico.
A small species, not more than eight or twelve inches high.
The leaves are three or four inches long, and as many
lines broad. Mr. Hartweg found it in Mexico, and
therefore the habitat of Peru given by me formerly, on :
authority of Pavon’s herbarium, was probably a mistake.

99. E. anisatum (La Llave. L. no. 62.) 5 foliis distichis ellip-
tico-lanceolatis, sepalis petalisque patentibus linearibus

} obtusis, labelli tripartiti laciniis lateralibus obtusis Inter-

medià profundé bilobà: lobis acutis. Mexico.
This is very near E. gladiatum, and is perhaps the same
species. The flowers are described as being of a dingy
colour, and emitting a smell of Anise at night. The lip
is said to have three purple lines at the base. (Not in
cultivation.)

30. E. polyanthum (L. no. 50. Bateman Orch. Mex. et

: Guat. t. 94. E. bisetum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841.

y misc. 148.); foliis distichis ovali-lanceolatis acuminatis,

caule ramoso, racemis plurimis multifloris cernuis basi
spathaceis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acutis striatis, petalis
linearibus reflexis, labelli trilobi tricostati lobis latera-
libus subeuneatis retusis: intermedio lineari retuso,
ovario scabro. —— Mexico, Guayaquil.— — Flowers bright

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orange, or salmon-colour, with a strong smell of cowslips.
The ovaries are rough with elevated points, the sepals
are brownish orange, the lip dull fawn colour. The petals
are in the form of two fine bristles.

E. Henkeanum (Presl. Rel. Henk. 100. L. no. 40.) ;
folis distichis ovato-lanceolatis nervosis acutis, spicá
panieulatá, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis acutiusculis in ba-
sin attenuatis, petalis spatulatis, labelli trilobi lobis late-
ralibus rotundatis, medio minore obcordato.— — Peru.
Scape a foot high. Sepals ten lines long. Leaves
ten lines broad. (Not in cultivation).

32. E. porphyreum (Lindl. in Hook. Journal, 3. 86.) ; foliis

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distichis oblongis acutissimis, squamis spathaceis dense
imbricatis acuminatis pedunculo longioribus, paniculä
simplici multiflorä, sepalis oblongis acutis lateralibus
faleatis, petalis lineari-spathulatis, labelli trilobi laciniis
lateralibus rotundatis intermediá quadratä bidentatá :
disci axi elevatà apicem versus bicallosá basi bicornutä.
Peru. — A fine species, with an oval panicle and
large flowers like those of E. nutans, but purple or dark
orange. (Not in cultivation). .

E. leve ; foliis distichis lanceolatis apiculatis, paniculä
simplici multiflorä, sepalis oblongis levibus, petalis fili-
formibus, labelli quadrilobi laciniis posticis cuneato-ro-
tundatis anticis linearibus divaricatis, disco callis tribus
et lamellis duabus.— — Popayan, Pasto.—-—A very fine
species in the way of E. paniculatum ; but its leaves are
lanceolate, the panicle simple, the flowers larger, and
the sepals smooth. It is one of Mr. Hartweg's disco-
veries. (Not in cultivation).

34. E. paniculatum (Fl. Peruv. L. no. 61.); foliis distichis

oblongis acuminatis, caule apice vaginis acuminatissimis
membranaceis vestito, paniculà confertà compositä, sepalis
oblongis venis extüs varicosis, petalis filiformibus, labelli
quadrilobi laciniis posticis brevibus oblongis obtusis :
anticis linearibus divaricatis, disco callis tribus et tuber-
culis duabus. Guayaquil, Peru. A most noble
looking species when dried; its panicle, which is eight
or nine inches long and nearly a foot broad, being
crowded with flowers. Mr. Hartweg found it in woods
on the western declivity of Pichincha. (Not in culti-
vation).

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95. BUDDLEA Lindleyana.

Fortune in litteris.

B. Lindleyana ; glabra, fruticosa, folis ovatis acuminatis serratis, racemis
verticillatim spicatis tomentosis, calycis dentibus brevibus triangularibus,
corollze tubo elongato infra medium ventricoso laciniis obtusis.

Seeds of this shrub, found by Mr. Fortune in Chusan,
have been sent by him to the Horticultural Society, in whose
garden they have been raised. He describes it as a handsome
small bush, and, from a coloured figure which he has sent
home, it appears to merit the description. Its flowers are in
close terminal racemes, about two inches long, and are them-
selves nearly three-quarters of an inch in length. Their
colour is a rich violet or lilac. "This plant affords a striking
illustration of the rapid communication that now exists be-
tween England and the East. Its seeds were put into the
post in Chusan on the 13th November, 1843, and on the
4th March, 1844, they were actually growing in the garden
of the Horticultural Society.

96. STENOMESSON aurantiacum.
Herbert Amaryll. 198.

This pretty bulbous plant has been raised in the garden of
the Horticultural Society, where it was sent by Mr. Hartweg,
who found it by the road from the Hacienda del Isco, on the
ascent to Antisana, at an elevation of 11,000 feet above the
sea. It has pretty drooping orange- coloured flowers, and
narrow leaves with the edge remarkably rolled back. It will
certainly be easy to grow in a greenhouse, if not hardy.

/ 97. CRYPTANDRA suavis.

C. suavis ; pilosa, foliis obovato-linearibus, floribus in ramulos laterales axil-
laribus glabris, calycis tubo cylindraceo. :

A pretty little greenhouse Swan River bush, raised by
Mrs. Wray from seeds. It has small foliage like a broad-
leaved heath, and minute white flowers appearing Jn profusion
from the little side branches. It is as fragrant as Hawthorn,
and therefore worth cultivation.

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28. MILTONIA cuneata.

M. cuneata; pseudobulbis ovato-oblongis, foliis*oblongis striatis subundu-
latis, racemo plurifloro, sepalis petalisque lanceolatis undulatis, labello
cuneato rotundato basi bilamellato utrinque subrepando, columnä medio
bidentatà, clinandrio integerrimo.

A beautiful Epiphyte, allied to M. candida, with flowers
nearly four inches in diameter; the sepals and petals are a
rich brown tipped with green. The lip is pure white, with a

tinge of pink near the base. It has lately flowered with
Messrs. Rollissons.

29. ANGULOA Clowesii.

A. Clowesii ; pedunculo unifloro radicali laxé squamato, flore carnoso resupi-
nato, sepalis petalisque ovatis convexis conniventibus, labelli trilobi lobo
medio piloso infundibulari bilabiato: labio altero emarginato altero tri-
dentato, columná integrä.

At last a genuine species of the genus Anguloa, which has

hitherto puzzled every one, has made its appearance in the

collection of the Rev. J. Clowes, of Broughton Hall near
Manchester, who obtained it from Linden's Columbian col-
lections. It is indeed a noble plant. 'The flowers are four
inches in diameter, of a clear lemon colour, with a pure white
lip. We refrain from doing more than announcing it, because

it will soon be published with a plate in an early number of
this work.

30. GONGORA maculata, var. tricolor.

This also is from Mr. Clowes's collection, where it was
received from Liverpool, with a statement that it came from
Peru. It isa most beautiful variety of G. maculata. The
ground colour of every part of the flower, except the lip, is
clear yellow; the column and petals are delicately banded
with rich sienna brown, and a few large clear distinct blotches
of the same colour occur on the sepals, The lip itself is
white, with a cinnamon stain on the ends of the lateral tuber-
cles and the sides of its upper half.

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31. ASTYRIA rosea.

This is a fine steve plant from the Mauritius, with the
habit of a Dombeya, and with nearly the same structure, but
essentially distinguished by the want of sterile stamens. The
only species known to us has large soft cordate crenated
leaves, and dense panicles of large pinkish flowers seated on
a woolly footstalk, much shorter than that of the leaf. It
has blossomed with his Grace the Duke of Northumberland,
and will shortly be figured in this work; till which time a
full account of the plant is deferred.

329. HYPOCALYMMA suavis.

H. suavis ; foliis oppositis filiformibus plano-convexis glandulosis mucronatis,
floribus geminis axillaribus sessilibus, staminibus corollà longioribus.

This plant is very near H. angustifolium, and may be a
mere variety. It seems, however, to differ in having longer
leaves and stamens, in addition to which the flowers are
white not pink. Itis a graceful greenhouse shrub, very sweet-
scented, and altogether a very nice plant. It was raised in
the garden of the Horticultural Society from Swan River
seeds.

33. ANDROMEDA phillyreefolia.
. Hooker. Ic. Plant. 2. t. 122.

For the introduction of this beautiful greenhouse shrub
we are indebted to Messrs. Loddiges, with whom it flowered
in January last. It is a narrow-leaved evergreen, with convex
leaves serrated near the point, and short horizontal racemes
of white lowers. In habit it is not very unlike a large broad-

leaved form of Andromeda polifolia.

34. DENDROCHILU M ? abbreviatum. ?

Blume Bijdragen, 398. Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. 35.

D. abbreviatum ; pseudobulbis ovatis diphyllis, foliis oblongis basi angustatis
racemo «equalibus, ovario hexaptero bractese striatee oblonge acute citó
deciduse longitudine, labello saccato cordato apice dilatato retuso den-

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ticulo interjecto interne bicalloso, column truncate denticulate angulis
anticis dentiformibus.

Messrs. Loddiges having imported this little Orchidaceous
plant from Java, it is to be presumed that it must be one of
those enumerated by Dr. Blume; and as none of his defini-
tions suit it well, except that of D. abbreviatum, we must
conclude that this must be what he intended by that name.
Nevertheless, it is difficult to reconcile his statement that the
lip of that plant has a reflexed tooth on each side at the base,
unless we suppose that he intended to describe the heart-
shaped base of the lip. The plant has little beauty. The
flowers are small, green, with a white lip, having a yellow
stain in its middle. The column is a deep cinnamon brown,
truncated and notched, with the front angles a little lengthened
into teeth. The lateral lobes of the column, found in other
species, are deficient in this. The pollen is white, separates
into 4 soft masses, having as many thread-like tails by which
they adhere to the point of the stigma, which will even come
off with them, like the gland of Vandex. ‘This structure

requires to be investigated with more care than we have yet
been able to give it.

35. NARCISSUS montanus.

In our last vol. at p- 3, 4, 5, of art. 33, it was stated that
the native place of this plant was unknown, and that it might
perhaps be made by crossing N. dubius with pollen of the
whitest musk daffodil, N. candidissimus of Redouté. Culti-
vated above 200 years ago by Parkinson, who received it as
a mountain plant from a collector whose honesty he praises, it
was understood to have been brought from the Pyrenées; but,
as it did not appear to have been found since, and seems to be
sterile by its own pollen, I suspected it of fraudulent hybrid
origin. Thinking, however, that the yellow and red cup of
N. poeticus could not be sufficiently discharged by a cross with
the musk daffodil, I fancied that N. dubius must be the female
parent. It appears however that I had underrated the power,
always predominant, of the male type,and that I had already
made the plant, having obtained a single seedling from N.
poeticus v. stellaris, by the whitest Ajax moschatus. It has
now flowered, and does not differ more from N. montanus
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seedlings from one capsule, certainly not more than might be
expected considering the varieties of the two parents, especially
of N. poeticus which differ greatly from each, and the impro-
bability of the two having proceeded from precisely the same
varieties. The Spofforth mule has the tube green, above five-
eighths of an inch, at first perpendicularly curved, afterwards
rising half the right-angle, cup three-eighths long, five to six
eighths wide, so indented as to look fringed, at first faintly
tinged with yellow, turning the next day pure white, limb
stellate acute, an inch long, white, anthers all out of the
tube, equalling the style, shorter than the cup; leaves
glaucous, one-quarter wide, about nine inches high or more.
N. montanus poculiformis has thé limb less stellate, it and the
cup about an eighth of an inch longer, the white not so clear,
the tube scarcely five-eighths, and is subject to great dis-
turbances and deficiencies. 1 have two flowers of it now
before me, of which one has only three segments and three
anthers and the cup split, the other has seven segments, three
anthers, and the cup split in two places. The Spofforth mule
has the flower very perfect and neat. Haworth's galanthifolius
is a third variety a little smaller. It has taken two centuries
to unmask the many frauds of Parkinson's supposed collector.
The leaf of N. montanus in the figure quoted is twice as broad
asitshould be. In the same manner the figure of N.trilobatus
Bot. Mag. is probably Ganymedes concolor of Sweet, exagge-
rated in size and colour, for no such plant is either forthcoming
or remembered by any nurseryman or cultivator that I have

nown. Whenever the cross between dubius and candidis-
simus shall be obtained, it will probably have the cup pure

white, and will be perhaps two-flowered. By crossing the

paper white, or the unicolor of Tenore with N. poeticus a
white-cupped N. biflorus would be obtained. W.H.

36. ASPARAGUS lucidus.

A. lucidus; ramis longissimis aculeis rectis scandentibus, folis solitariis
linearibus faleatis lucidis, pedunculis unifloris.

This is a scrambling plant of the most vivid green, form-

ing an entangled mass many feet in length, when cultivated

in the stove, but in its natural state not even a foot high. It
is a native of Macao, whence it was received by his Grace the
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little green flowers at Syon. It is nearly allied to A. falcatus,
from which it differs in its smaller solitary leaves, and in the
flowers not growing in racemes.

37. CROCUS medius.
Balbis. -

C. medius; cormi tunicis tenuiter cribrosè reticulatis, vaginaceá interiore
prope basim, foliaceis brevibus summo cormo affixis, foliis 2-3, flore
autumnali, scapo involucrato, spathà longé exsertà ebracteatä, tubo
spatham superante, limbo purpureo.— W. H.

Bulbs of this have been received by the Dean of Man-
chester from meadows about Varése, on the mountains of
Liguria. These having flowered at Spofforth, Mr. Herbert
has favoured us with the true character of the plant.

38. ONCIDIUM lacerum.

O. (TERETIFOLIA) lacerum ; foliis longis teretibus carinatis, paniculá con-
tractà multiflorá, sepalis petalisque conformibus obovatis concavis, labelli
elongati laciniis lateralibus linearibus refractis intermedia longé et
angusté unguiculatá bilobá margine lacerá, cristee dente altero trans-

verso altero majore compresso a fronte, column brevis pubescentis alis
semiovatis.

Panama has furnished this very pretty species to Messrs.
Loddiges, who flowered it in April 1844. It has very much
the habit of O. longifolium, but has rather denser flowers,
with a lacerated and rather crisp middle lobe to the lip, and a
crest consisting of one transverse tubercle, like that of O.

nudum, and another larger, compressed, rounded, and at right
angles to it in front.

39. TULÍPA humilis.

T. humilis ; foliis tribus (rariüs quatuor) humum prope divaricantibus 4
biformibus feré linearibus send: rectis ids margine strat io
scapo sesquiunciali leevi purpurascente, perianthio subsesquiunciali laciniis
acutis, petalis latioribus pallidissimé purpurascentibus inferne lætè luteis
extus viridi striatis, sepalis intus veluti petala extus virescentibus margine
purpurascente basi livido-virente, filamentis luteis inferne complanatis
prope basim uti petalorum margines albo pubescentibus antheras longi-
tudine superantibus, germen petalinis ferà sepalinis sequantibus.— W. H.

This beautiful little Tulip is undescribed as far as I know.
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not tricolor, of which I have no description, because I have
two little bulbs of it, and its leaves are bright green; but it
may have been named in the Petersburg Acts. I received it
from Mr. Kotschy, who collected it on Mount Elburz. It
flowered at Spofforth in April, 1844.—W. H:

40. The Species of CATASETUM.

This genus was founded by Louis Claude Richard upon
two plants from tropical America, one of which he called
C. macrocarpon, the other C. maculatum. Among the pecu-
liarities of the genus were two long feelers or cirrhi directed
downwards from the column into the cavity of the lip, and a
large fleshy helmet-shaped lip.

As soon as the attraction of European gardeners began to
be turned to the cultivation of tropical Orchidacez, other
species of the genus were made known, and now it has become
a very considerable group, the greater part of which is scat-
tered through various writings. In the course of gathering
together these materials certain plants were obtained, which
appeared to form distinct genera; one was called Myanthus,
the other Monachanthus. Myanthus was thought to be dis-
tinguished by having a flat lip, and Monachanthus by want of
feelers on the column. But, strange to say, both these flowers
were afterwards ascertained to be monsters of genuine Cata-
seta, as was fully explained at tab. 1951 of the Botanical
Register.

The following are, we believe, all the Cataseta now on
record, divided into two sets, one of which has a plane lip,
and answers to Myanthus ; the other a helmetted lip, answer-
ing to the original Catasetum.

$ 1. Labellum galeatum ; Catasetum.

1. C. tridentatum (Hooker Exot. EL.t. 00. 91. Leno. 2.
C. macrocarpon H. B. K. 7. 158. t. 631. C. Claveringü
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1344.—— var. floribus majoribus
sepalis petalisque acutis. C. Claveringü Lindl. Bot. Reg.
t. 840. C. floribundum Hooker Exot. Fl. t. 151.
var. floribus viridibus concoloribus. C. Wailesii, Hooker
in Bot. Mag. t. 3997.) ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acumi-
natis, perianthiis compressis conniventibus, sepalis peta-
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margine levi.—— All parts of tropical South America,
east of the Andes —— There is no doubt that C. macro-
carpon is this plant, whose name should therefore, accord-
ing to the strict laws of priority, be changed. But the
name macrocarpon is unmeaning, and much incon-
venience would arise from the restitution of it. Itisa
very common variable plant, sometimes even losing its
spots, as in C. Wailesii from Honduras. ——Monstrous
Forms. Monachanthus viridis, Lindl. no. 1. Bot. Reg.
t. 1752, from Brazil is a monster with no cirrhi to the
column, and the lip perfectly undivided. C. cristatum
L. no. 7. is another monster, as is proved, at plate 1951
of the Botanical Register. |

2. C. maculatum (H. B. K. 7. 157. t. 630.) ; ** foliolis calycinis
duobus interioribus maculatis, labello ciliato." Tur-
baco in New Grenada.——All that can be said about this
species is that it certainly is not the C. maculatum of our
gardens. At the time T referred the latter to it I was 4
not aware that it had been figured. Nothing like it in
a cultivated state has yet been seen.

8. C. integerrimum (Hooker Bot. Mag. t. 3893. C. macula-
tum Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841. t. 62. Bateman Orch. .
Mex. et Guat. t. 11. nec H. B. K.) ; sepalis petalisque
conniventibus, labello carnoso galeato basi inflexo late-
ribus suis invicem imbricantibus margine levi vel serrato.
— — Guatemala.——This is very nearly the same as C.
tridentatum, from which it differs in its helmet-shaped
lip, having the lower edges brought together so as to press
upon the column, instead of being wide apart, and being
generally serrated, although sometimes smooth. It is
certainly not the species so named by Humboldt, which
was found near Turbaco in New Grenada. That plant
Is represented with the labellum quite open, not con-
tracted and curved inwards near the column, and sur-
rounded by a broad plaited border, called in the descrip-
tion “ ciliatum.”

4. C. planiceps (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. t. 9.); sepalis 1
petalisque ovatis conniventibus, labello carnoso galeato |
rotundato compresso apiculato indiviso margine serrato.

Spanish Main.— Flowers green and yellow. The
habit is that of C. integerrimum, tridentatum,. and semi-
apertum, from the second of which it differs from its ser-

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rated lip, from the first and the 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.

5. C. fuliginosum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841. misc. no. 168);
C. tridentati vultu, sepalis petalisque oblongis acutis re-
flexis, labello cucullato carnoso integerrimo v. minuté
serrulato patente, columnä brevi ecirrhosà apice in setam
productä, antherá parva (effoeta ?). ? This sin-
gular plant has the habit of C. tridentatum, but its flowers
are in a dense erect raceme, and of a deep green colour,
spotted with a dull blackish purple, so as to look as if
they were soiled with soot. The sepals and petals are
spotted, oblong, acute, and reflexed, so as to hang down-
wards. The lip, on the other hand, is fleshy, hooded,
stained with pale purple, and either entire at the margin,
or very slightly serrated ; but it does not cover over the
column as is usual in the hooded Catasetums: on the
contrary it spreads away at almost right angles. The
column itself is short, deep green, and produced at the
point into a straight bristle, in front of which is placed a
small and imperfect anther. Judging from the evidence
we possess concerning C. tridentatum and cristatum, we
should suspect it to be a male form of C. atratum, or
some such species. That, however, must remain for
future inquiry.

6. C. luridum (Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 156. Bot. Reg.
t. 1667. C. abruptum, Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 5939.
Anguloa lurida, Link in Verhandl. des Vereins. z. bef.
des Gartenb. in dem Königl. Preuss. Staat. 1. p. 289.
t. 6.); caulibus defoliatis angustis sulcatis, perianthio
subgloboso parum maculato, sepalis petalisque oblongis
apice rotundatis, labello cucullato carnoso mutico apice
pauló producto truncato, racemo brevi nutante.——

- Brazil. ——Flowers green, globose, with a blunt shovel-
shaped lip, having some brown spots on a yellowish
ground. :

7. C. semiapertum (Hooker. Exot. Fl. t. 213. ‚Bot. Reg. t.
1708.); foliis oblongo-lanceolatis multiplicatis racemo
compacto longioribus, perianthiis subpatentibus, labello
galeato apice incurvo : lateribus denticulatis. —— Brazil.

Flowers small, green, whole coloured.

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8. C. purum (Nees ab Esenb. Plantarum in h. med. Bonnens.

Icon. p. 1. t. 1. L. no. 5.); folüs lineari-lanceolatis,
perianthio patente obsoleté punctato, labello ventricoso
apice incurvo concolore ciliato integerrimo.—— Brazil.
—— Much like the two last, from which its very narrow
leaves seem to distinguish it. Flowers green, and
scarcely spotted, about as large as those of C. Hookeri.

9. C. Hookeri (Lindl. Coll. Bot. t. 40. Gen. & Sp. no. 3.);

foliis lanceolatis triplicatis, perianthiis globosis, labello
apice incurvo: lateribus denticulatis.——.Brazil.——
Flowers 'small, yellowish brown. Petals green. Lip
green, yellow at the point, spotted with purple inside.

10. C. globiflorum (Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3949.) spicá

elongatà multiflorä, perianthio globoso, sepalis petalisque
subconformibus ovatis acutis concavis arctissimé imbri-
catis, labello hemisphzrico-globoso, ore contracto oblongo
inferne dilatato basi columns longitudine denticulato,
columne brevis setis rectiusculis.—— Brazil.——Much
like C. Hookeri, and perhaps a variety of it. The sepals
and petals are olive-brown, and closely applied to a
glaucous globular labellum, the greater part of which is
uncovered.

11. C. longifolium (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1839. misc. 154.

Sertum Orchid. t. 31.); foliis longissimis gramineis,
racemo cylindraceo pendulo multifloro, sepalis ovatis
subrotundis petalorum conformium dorso applicitis, la-
bello urceolari a tergo incurvo limbo truncato apiculato
intus cereaceo glabro margine fimbriato.—— Demerara.
—— Leaves very long and narrow. Flowers bright
orange, a little bordered with violet, in a drooping ra-
ceme, over which they are closely packed for the length
of a foot or more; they are extremely beautiful, and the

species is beyond comparison the handsomest of its
genus.

12. C. discolor (Monachanthus discolor Lindl. in Bot. Reg.

"

t. 1735. M. Bushnani Hooker, Bot. Mag. t. 3832.
MM. roseo-albus Hooker, 1. c. t. 3786.) ; racemo laxo mul-
tifloro, labello hemispherico marginibus planis medio fim-
briatis.—— Brazil. —— Leaves rather narrow. Flowers
in a loose erect raceme, dull pale purple, with the inside
of the lip yellow. They vary in colour to yellowish
green, or French-white ; and sometimes the lip, which

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is usually whole coloured, is tipped and banded with red.
In M. roseo-albus the fringes of the lip are unusually
long.

13. C. atratum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838. misc. 114. t. 63.);
racemo decurvo, sepalis petalisque patentibus ovatis
acutis, labello carnoso cucullato margine tenui pectinato
apice rotundato reflexo crasso denticulato.—— Brazil.
— Flowers deep green outside; sepals rich purple
inside; petals spotted with the same colour; lip dull
green, fringed, with a yellow recurved flap at the end.

14. C. Russellianum (Hooker in Bot. Mag. t.3777.) ; pseudo-
bulbo elliptico magno, foliis lato-lanceolatis, racemo
amplo, labello membranaceo anticé inflato ore contracto
margine anteriore producto undulato fimbriato disco
membrana cristato, columná nuda (ecirrhosá).—— Gua-
temala.——A large species with green flowers, a little
relieved by the greater whiteness of the labellum, which
is almost membranous. It is very near C. laminatum.
The absence of eirrhi from the column, if constant, is

remarkable.

$9. Labellum planum, sepius foveatum v. saccatum ;
Myanthus.

15. C. laminatum (Lindl. in Ann. nat. hist. vol. 4. p. 384.
Bentham, Plante Hartwegiane, p. 72. Sertum Orchi-
daceum, t. 38.—Var. 1. maculatum ; labello, columnä
petalisque purpureo-fusco maculatis, Sert. Orch. t. 38.—
Var. 9. eburneum ; labello eburneo columnä petalisque
immaculatis, Bot. Reg. 1841. t. 5. f. 4.) ; labello lan-
ceolato basi saccato apice marginibusque incurvo basin
versus fimbriato per axin lamellà unicá carnosä altà in-
tegrá v. denticulatá basi bilobá instructo, columnä cir-
rhatá.—-—— Mexico.—-—— Flowers spread open, large, pur-
ple, or greenish spotted with that colour. Lip sometimes
pure white, sometimes speckled with purple, with a
deep plate running along its middle from end to end.

16. C. tabulare; vegetatione sepalis petalisque omnino C.
laminati, labello oblongo antico concavo basi cornuto
fimbriato extüs sub apice lineis serrulatis elevatis striato
secus medium eristä tabulari latá transversé corrugatä
anticà dentatá aucto.—— Grenada.-—-——This is very like
the Guatemala C. laminatum ; but the structure of the

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lip is different, In place of the thin knife-like crest of
that species, there is a broad raised oblong fleshy table
of a yellowish brown colour, closely wrinkled across and
broken up into asperities, which, at the front of the table
where it forms a kind of cliff above the lip, are extended
into strong teeth. On the outside of the lip near the
point the veins are raised and somewhat toothed. ‘The
colour and size of the flowers are much the same as in
C. laminatum. :
C. saccatum (Lindley in Botanical Register, 1840. misc.
179. Sertum Orch. t. 41.); sepalis lanceolatis paten-
tibus dorsali petalisque fornicatis, labello subrotundo
abrupté acuminato fimbriato medio saccato: ostio con-
tracto reniformi posticé dentato, columna cirrhatá.——
Demerara.——This has very large flowers, with rich
purple-spotted sepals and petals, and a bright yellow lip
covered closely with crimson dots. The latter is pierced
in the middle by a narrow aperture, that leads into a
conical chamber or bag, which is not observed till the
back of the lip is turned up.

C. Naso (Lindl.in Bot. Reg. 1843. misc. 111.); spicà
brevi erectä, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis complicatis peta-
lisque lanceolatis ascendentibus :equalibus, labello hemi-
sphzrico apice abrupté in appendicem carnosum ovatum
obtusum producto: marginibus basi tenuibus laceris am-
plexicolumnibus : lineá intramarginali carnosá inflexá
connivente ostium cordiforme efficiente. — — Caraccas.
—— This is a singular plant whose flowers before opening
might be mistaken for C. tridentatum, but when ex-
panded 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 mar-
gin 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 hemisphere pierced in the middle with
a large heart-shaped hole; but this appearance is owing
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edge of the lip, and directing itself inwards horizontally
with an uneven outline, at last touches in front of the:
column and presents the appearance of a junction.

C. Trulla (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840. misc. 176. 1841. t.
34.) ; sepalis petalisque patentibus ovalibus planis, labello:
latě ovato acuminato obtuso subcordato concavo fimbriato
apice levi, columnä brevi.—— Tropical America.——
Flowers green, unspotted ; lip of the same colour, but
whitish near the base, with a deep brown spot in the
middle.

C. callosum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840. mise. 183. 1841.
t. 5. f. 1.); petalis concoloribus lineari-lanceolatis sepalo
dorsali conformi suppositis, labello ovato-oblongo obtuso:
basin versus saccato supra saceum callo magno (auran-
tiaco) instructo margine obsoleté crenato, column
acuminate cirrhis vix ultra callum extensis. La
Guayra.—— Exactly like Catasetum tridentatum, var.
floribundum in habit, but its flowers are different. The
sepals and petals are of a dull reddish brown, without:
spots; the column is of the same colour, which may
perhaps be best compared to that of old spoilt port wine.
The lip is green, flat, with a yellow tubercle near the
base above the hollow, and a stain of the same colour
near the apex.

C. poriferum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1858. misc. 164.) ;
labello plano cordato-ovato truncato crenato, lobo apicis
elevato carnoso ovato medio nectarifero, dente baseos
ovato incurvo, columnä cirrhosà. Demerara.
Similar in appearance to C. deltoideum, like which its
flowers are richly spotted with deep purple broken fascie,
closely arranged upon a clear green ground. The lip is
dull green, nearly flat, deeply cordate, truncate at the
apex, with an obscurely crenated margin. At its base is
an elevated yellow-tipped broad tooth, and at its apex an '
ovate yellow fleshy raised lobe, with a pore in the middle
secreting honey.

99. C. deltoideum (Lindl. Bot. Reg. 184 . misc. 157. Myan-

thus deltoideus Bot. Reg. t. 1896.); labello imberbi sagit-
tato triangulari, angulis posticis rotundatis dentatis apice
dilatato calloso margine recurvo basi tuberculato.
Demerara.—— Flowers deep green, spotted with purple.
Lip purple, flat, fleshy, with a dash of green in the

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centre, ——Monstrous STATE. This has been observed
to sport in the same way as C. tridentatum. A case is
mentioned in the Botanical Register for 1840, misc. 157.
where the scape became three times as stout as usual,
the length of the raceme much reduced, the sepals and
petals retaining their form and colour ; but the labellum,
instead of being arrow-headed, flat, deep purple, toothed
at the base, and placed in front of the flower, was of
exactly the same form as that of Monachanthus viridis,
hooded, undivided, and of a dull greenish colour tinged
with dull purple. The column too, in like manner lost
its cirrhi, shortened, and its lengthened beak disappeared.

23. C. trifidum (Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3262. Myanthus

cernuus, Lindl. p. 155. Bot. Reg. t. 1721.); racemis
elongatis cernuis multifloris, sepalis petalisque lanceo-
latis convergentibus, labello transverso plano alté trifido
lacini& intermedià minore. —— Brazil, Trinidad.——
Flowers green, with a few purple spots.

24. C. cornutum (Lindl Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. 182. 1841.

t. 5. f. 2,); petalis maculatis lineari-lanceolatis sepalo
dorsali conformi suppositis, labello subcordato-ovato basin
versus saccato sub sacco cornu valido inflexo instructo
processibus teretibus rigidis fimbriato basi dentato,
columns acuminate cirrhis cornu labelli attingentibus.
——— Demerara.—— Flowers dull green, richly spotted
with deep blackish purple.

25. C. lanciferum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841. t. 5. f. 5.);

petalis maculatis lineari-lanceolatis sepalo dorsali con-
formi suppositis, labello subcordato-ovato fimbriato basin
versus saccato sub sacco cornu tripartito instructo, sub
apice lamina lineari-lanceolatä aucto, columne cirrhis

. vix columná longioribus.—— Brazil.—— Very like C.

cristatum ; but the margin only of the lip is broken up

into fringes ; and at the point is a broad lancet-shaped
spine.

. C. barbatum (Myanthus barbatus, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.

1778. C. spinosum, Lindl, Bot. Reg. 1841. misc. 136.
Myanthus spinosus, Hooker Bot. Mag. t. 3802, ©. pro-
boscideum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1839. misc. 140. 1841. t.
5. f. 3.); petalis versus apicem serratis, labelli infra
medium saccati margine pilis tenuibus succulentis albis
long? fimbriato apice angusté attenuato recurvo supra ad

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basin spinà tripartitä infra apicem spiná magná dentatä
porrectá, cristo pilis opacis subulatis apice ssepe bifidis
per paria tria quatuorve basi connatis. —— Brazil,
Demerara.——Sepals and petals narrow, green, blotched
with purple. Lip green or pink, with narrow delicate
fibres arising from its margin. No doubt the supposed
species quoted above are mere varieties of the same
natural form.

27. C. cristatum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 966.) ; foliis oblongo-
lanceolatis perianthiis explanatis, sepalo supremo peta-
lisque conniventibus, labello fimbriato cristatoque ex-
panso cristee pilis crassis lucidis compressis obtusissimis
emarginatisque simplicibus. Brazil. —— Both this
and the last have a strong smell of Tarragon; they are
probably varieties of each other.——MoxsTROUS STATE.
— Has been found to sport into C. tridentatum ; see
Botanical Reg. t. 1951.

41. LYCASTE crinita.

L. crinita ; sepalis petalisque intus erinitis, labello intus villoso alte trilobo
laciniis angustis obtusis intermedià ovali, appendice lineari adnato ;
facie L. cruente.

This plant is much like L. cruenta, and has flowers of
nearly the same colour ; but it differs in being smaller, with
the interior clothed with very long silky hairs, and in the
very different form of the lobes of the lip; which is more-
over destitute of the crimson stain that gives its name to
L. cruenta. The appendage of the lip is moreover long and
elevated, not very short and inconspicuous. We have received
a specimen from Messrs. Loddiges.

49. VANDA furva.

V. furva (Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 215. V. Roxburghii unicolor, Hooker
in Bot. Mag. t. 3416. Angrecum furvum, Rumph. Amb. 6. t. 46. f. ].
Epidendrum furvum, Linn. sp. pl. 1348. Cymbidium furvum, Willd.
Sp. Pl. 4. 103.) ; caule alto, folis laxis membranaceis apice obliqué
tridentatis, racemis lateralibus plurifloris, floribus distantibus, , sepalis

etalisque oblongo-obovatis undulatis unicoloribus obtusis, labelli trilobi
lobis lateralibus obtusis intermedio cuneato bilobo.

I am indebted to Mr. Loddiges for suggesting that this is
in all probability the Vanda furva about which there has been
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with Rumphius's figure; but it comes from China, and not
from Amboyna. It has the habit of V. Roxburghii, to which
Sir W. Hooker has referred it; but it differs not only in the
whole colour of its sepals and petals, and the other characters
above indicated, but also in being a large lax growing plant,
five or six feet high, with much thinner and longer leaves.
The former is a short growing plant, with the leaves very
closely set together. The middle lobe of the lip of V. Rox-
burghii is oblong and contracted at the point; here it is
wedge-shaped and two-lobed.

49. HINDSIA violacea.
Bentham MSS.

H. violacea ; incano-tomentosa, foliis ovalibus acutis suleatis subtüs rugosis
longé petiolatis, pedunculis brevibus 2-floris, bracteis calycisque laciniis
exterioribus hirsutis spathulatis acutis, corollz 4-5-lobz tubo longissimo
laciniis ovalibus acutis carnosis fauce nudà, stigmatibus filiformibus
exsertis.

A most beautiful plant imported by Messrs. Veiteh and
Sons from South Brazil, and exhibited by them at the late
meeting in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, on which
occasion it received the large silver medal. We presume it
to be a hardy stove or tender greenhouse shrub. Its habit
is not unlike that of H. longiflora, but it is infinitely hand-
somer. ‘The flowers are of the most intense violet or ultra-
marine, two inches and a half long, and in clusters near the
ends of the branches. Jt was only excelled at the late exhi-
bition by the Cereus crenatus ; and will doubtless prove a
most useful as well as beautiful addition to our hothouses.

We long ago pointed out the probability that the plant
called Rondeletia longiflora by Chamisso and Schlechtendahl
would prove to be really a different genus ; and we are glad to
find our suspicions confirmed by Mr. Bentham, who proposes to
name this species and the R. longiflora after R. B. Hinds, Esq.
the zealous and indefatigable naturalist, whose plants, collected
for his private use, are now in course of publication at the
public expense.

Hınosıa will be found to differ from Rondeletia in its
funnel-shaped, not strictly hypocrateriform, corolla, which is
moreover destitute of that faucial coronet which in R. odorata
is so conspicuous.

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44, HEXADESMIA bicornis.

H. bicornis ; caulibus fusiformibus elongatis, foliis linearibus obliqué biden-
tatis, floribus subsolitariis cernuis, labello ovato retuso subserrato,
columná utrinque bicorni.

An addition to the insignificant genus Hexadesmia, sent
to Mr. Loddiges from Columbia by Linden. It is very like
H. fasciculata, but differs in the leaves and column.

45. DENDROBIUM criniferum.

D. criniferum ; caulibus teretibus erectis ramosis, foliis oblongis subundulatis
emarginatis, floribus axillaribus lateralibusque solitariis cernuis, sepalis
ovatis, petalis linearibus acuminatis, labelli trilobi crenulati lobis latera-
libus nanis intermedio apice in filis intricatis multifido lamellis binis
undulatis.

An orchidaceous plant with small yellowish flowers of
little beauty, introduced by His Grace the Duke of Nor-
thumberland, who received it from Mr. Power in Ceylon. 1t
is closely allied to D. Scopa, but is readily distinguished by its
slender stems, wavy leaves, and the shortness of the lateral
lobes of the labellum. The breaking up the point of the lip
into numerous threads is remarkable, and resembles what
occurs in the bearded Bolbophylla, which are no doubt the
Desmotricha of Blume.

46. COLLETIA serratifolia.
Vent. Choix. t. 15. DeCand. Prod. 2. 28.

'l'his is a half hardy Peruvian shrub, with oblong serrated
deciduous deep green leaves, and small, short-stalked, axillary
white flowers. It is a plant of little interest, except as indi-
cating how very different are the species of Colletia from
each other in habit.

47. LYCASTE aromatica ; var. retusa.

L. aromatica (Supra 1843. misc. p. 16.; var. retusa; floribus vitellinis,
labelli lobo medio dilatato retuso.)

We have received a flower of this from Geo. Barker, Esq.
of Birmingham, who obtained it from Lima. It differs from
L. aromatica in having very clear yolk-of-egg-yellow flowers,
without a tinge of green, and the middle lobe of the lip
dilated and almost 2-lobed.

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48. LYCASTE gigantea.
Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1848. misc. p. 16.

This very fine plant, formerly described from Mr. Hart-
weg’s dried specimens, has just flowered with Mr. Barker.
It proves to have a very different aspect from any of the
species associated with it; its flowers, whose sepals are 34
inches long, being of a warm yellowish olive, and its lip a
deep rich morone, bordered with orange, and looking like
the finest velvet. As we shall soon figure it, a more particular
account is deferred.

49. ASPASIA lunata.
Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub t. 1907.

We have received this curious Brazilian epiphyte from
J. C. Lyons, Esq. of Ladiston near Mullingar, by whom it
was obtained from the country about Rio. It has exactly the
structure of the other Aspasias, and not a double caudicula,
as appeared from the drawing ofM. Descourlitz, on which the
species was founded. The flowers have long narrow sepals
and petals, yellowish blotched with brown; the lip is large
and white, and is stained in the middle with pale purple,
which had not, in the specimens sent us, that distinct
crescent form from which the name has been derived. The

anther has a large tumour in front, and a serrated sharp-

ridged crest, which gives the column much the appearance
of a parrot's head.

50. MYOPORUM ascendens.
R. Brown Prodromus, p. 371.

We have received from an anonymous correspondent a
flowering specimen of this very pretty shrub, which he states
that he purchased in a nursery under the name of Anthocercis
multiflora. It forms a compact evergreen bush, with obovate
serrated leaves, from amongst which appear multitudes of
white flowers delicately spotted with violet, and as large as

those of a Leptospermum. It is quite an acquisition to our

gardens. Being a native of the mountains of Tasmannia,

(Van Diemen's Land), it is not impossible that it may prove
hardy. .

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51. LYCASTE Barringtoniæ.

L. Barringtonie (Epidendrum Barringtonie, Smith. ic. pict. t. 25. Dendro-
bium Barringtonie, Swartz. Nov. Act. Ups. 6. 82. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4.
132. Hooker Exot, Fl. t. 119. Colaz Barringtonie, Lindl. Bot. Reg.
897. Dendrobium ciliatum, Swartz. Pers. Syn. 2. 523. Maxillaria
ciliata, Fl. Peruv. Syst. p. 221. ? Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1206. Maxillaria
Barringtonie, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1824. Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch.
no. 23.); pseudobulbis oblongis compressis costatis, foliis subternis
oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis plicatis, scapo radicali vaginato unifloro
erecto pseudobulbo vix longiore, bracteà ovarii longitudine, sepalis peta-
lisque ovato-lanceolatis obtusis, labelli trilobi lobo medio ovato rotun-
dato fimbriato apice concavo, callo lato omnind adnato alte sulcato apice

dentato.

An examination of fresh specimens of this old plant,
enables me to state that it is a true Lycaste, readily distin-
guished by its stout flower-stems, drooping flowers, and very
deeply furrowed callus. The blossoms appear to vary in
colour from green to a tawny yellow.

52. FRITILLARIA Kotschyana.
Herbert in litteris.

F. Kotschiana; caule unifloro 5-6-unc. purpureo superne glauco rorato, foliis
4-6 viridibus glauco roratis semiamplexicaulibus gradatim minoribus
acutioribus imo semunciam lato triunciali obtuso [variat foliis 6 omnibus
alternis, vel mediis subobtusis, vel tertio et quarto angustis subsequalibus
oppositis] summo angustiore in pedunculo brevi curvato, perianthio
pendulo 13 unc. unciam patente viridi purpura [intus preecipué] tessel-
lato nectarii foveolis - brevibus viridibus petalis rectis latioribus sepalis
apice recurvis, antheris pallidé luteis stigmata tenuia superantibus peri-
anthio brevioribus.—W. Herbert.

From a mountain called Hazartschall, in the neighbour-

hood of Mount Elburz, whence it was sent by M. Kotschy to
the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Manchester, with whom

it flowered at Spofforth in April last.

53. HYMENOCALLIS bistubata.

Herbert in litteris.

H. distubata ; foliis viridibus subpetiolatis 21-uncialibus 4 une. latis acutis,
scapo ancipite 17-unc. spathá luem triunciali octoflorä, germine ses-
sili, tubo 53 unc. limbo pendulé recurvo 3} une. corona ultra biunciali
inferne cylindrica superne rotatá 1} unc. patente spatiis interstamineis

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dentatis dentibus bis incisis, filamentis 3-14 unc. tantüm liberis crateri-
formiter dispositis, stylo circiter biunciam excluso.—W. Herbert.

This is one of Mr. Hartweg's discoveries ; but it is uncer-
tain where the bulbs were found. Among the various forms
of the genus it is known by the long cylinder of its crown,
which gives it a sort of ** hose in hose" appearance, whence its
specific name. It blossomed at Spofforth in April last.

54. DENDROBIUM chlorops. _

D. chlorops ; caulibus teretibus, floribus laxé corymbosis, pedicellis filiformi-
bus glaucescentibus, sepalis lineari-oblongis, petalis duplo latioribus
obovatis, labelli trilobi plani lobis lateralibus nanis acutis intermedio
lineari-oblongo apice pauló latiore basi villoso, cornu brevi conico.

A species from Bombay, with the habit of D. Heyneanum.
It has small flowers of a pale nankin colour, while the base of
the lip is a light pea green ; this gives the flower the appear-
ance of having a green eye, whence the specifie name. It

has lately flowered with Messrs. Loddiges.

55. CATASETUM ochraceum.

C. ochraceum ; sepalis petalisque ovatis secundis, labello cucullato integer-

rimo levi apice in rostrum brevem latum obtusum carnosum contracto,
cirrhis brevibus.

A new species in the way of C. luridum, with deep yellow
ochre-coloured flowers. The lip is hooded, but contracted at
the point into a kind of beak, thick at the edges and short.
Mr. Hartweg sent it to the Horticultural Society from the
Hacienda del Hospicio, in the province of Bogota. |

56. BOLBOPHYLLUM Cheiri.

B. Cheiri ; folis oblongis coriaceis basi canaliculatis apice emarginatis,
floribus solitariis (magnis), sepalis lanceolatis lateralibus basi ventricosis
petalisque e lata basi linearibus acuminatis in manüs speciem velut
digiti conniventibus, labello mobili basi ovato concavo apice longé ros-
trato, columnä edentulä, polliniis 4 geminatis.

This very singular species was sent from Manilla to
Mr. Loddiges, with whom it blossomed a few days since.

The flowers are very large for the genus, the sepals being as
much as an inch and a half long,a clear olive green, neatly

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marked with brownish stripes. The lip is jointed so loosely
with its support that it falls forward every time the flower is
waved by the wind; a phenomenon common, if not universal,
among the Bolbophylla, but in none of them more remarkable
than in this case. Both sepals and petals are so arranged |
that they converge very much like the human fingers when
they are brought together without being bent; this circum-
stance has suggested the specific name. |

57. VANDA parviflora.

V. parviflora; racemo simplici, sepalis oblongis, petalis linearibus spathu-
latis, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus ascendentibus acutis intermedio
oblongo canaliculato spongioso bilamellato apice circulari denticulato,
calcare angusto obtuso.

This little plant is a native of Bombay, whence Messrs.
Loddiges received it. ‘The flowers are small, pale ochre-
coloured, with a lip sprinkled all over with extremely fine
purple points; the middle lobe of the lip is rather spongy,
has two broad ridges, between which runs a channel, and at the
point it is almost exactly circular, with a a few small toothings.
'The four pollen-masses adhere to a narrow strap connected
with a broad gland; but the rostellum is not in any degree
extended into a beak. The habit of the plant is, I am
informed, that of Vanda lamellata.

58. SPATHOGLOTTIS plicata.
Blume Bijdragen, p. 401. t. 76.

This very pretty plant has flowered with Messrs. Loddiges,
who received it from Penang. It has light purple flowers,
and has quite the appearance of Paxtonia.

59. ANEMONE Govaniana.
Wall. Cat. No. 4688.

This pretty little alpine plant, from great heights on the
mountains of Nepal, has flowered in the Garden of the
Horticultural Society, where it was raised from seeds pre-
sented by the East India Company. It has woolly palmated
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stalked flowers of the Omalocarpus section, and not unlike
those of A. rivularis, but the anthers are yellow, and the
ovaries tail-less and smooth. It isa hardy herbaceous plant,
well worth cultivation. |

60. EPIDENDRUM Hanburii.

E. (Encyclium) Hanburii ; pseudobulbis ovatis, foliis ensiformibus coriaceis
recurvis, floribus racemosis distantibus, sepalis petalisque spathulatis
patentibus, labelli tripartiti lobis lateralibus falcatis obtusis nanis erectis
intermedio oblongo bilobo venis elevatis dichotomis sulcato ungue obtusé
bicarinato glabriusculo.

A Mexican plant, with something the appearance of
E. porphyreum, but far less handsome. The leaves are very
coriaceous, shorter than the raceme, which is about two feet
long. The sepals and petals are deep dull purple, the lip is
pale rose, with crimson radiating veins. We owe it to

R. Hanbury, Esq. of Stamford Hill,

61. PHYSÜRUS pictus.
Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. Orch. p. 504.

Messrs. Loddiges have flowered this beautiful little thing,
which rivals the Wana Rajah of Ceylon (Anectochilus
setaceus) in the singular beauty of the foliage. The leaves
are curiously veined, and appear as if covered with a film of
silver, especially when they are turned so as to allow the light
to strike them obliquely. The flowers are small, white, in a
short spike, and have a -bar of blackish brown along the
middle of each petal and sepal. It is a native of Brazil,
where it has been found by several travellers. Martius met

with it on the hills of Botofogo near Rio Janeiro, growing.

among decayed leaves.

62. DENDROBIUM.

When we some time since succeeded in breaking up the
old genus Maxillaria, we had hoped to find some means of
performing the same good office for Dendrobium (the Maxil-
laria of the East), which, as at present limited, is composed
of species exceedingly different from each other in general
appearance. We must confess, however, that up to the

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present time, we. have met with little or no success; the
peculiarity of habit being accompanied with almost no differ-
ences in the structure of the flowers. Indeed, it is not an easy
matter to say how Bolbophyllum and Cirrhopetalum are to
be strictly defined.
- Under these circumstances, we think the most useful
course to be taken will be to collect the species into groups,
which shall be so limited as to bring together no species that
do not quite correspond in habit; and then it is to be hoped
that the arrangement will be but little disturbed, in case
distinctions good enough for genera should be hereafter made
out. In doing this I shall endeavour to observe as nearly as
possible ‘the course already taken by Blume, whose plants,
however, I have never had the advantage of examining.
Among the crowd of species which constitute this genus,
there is a large set, of which D. Pierardi may be taken as
the example, all which have thin flat leaves, slender stems,
and flowers growing uniformly in pairs from the sides of the
stem opposite the leaves. They may be regarded as consti-
tuting Dendrobium proper, and therefore the first step will
be to place them in one group, of which the following is the
enumeration. | ; 3

Sect. 1. EUuDENDROBIUM. Stems slender; Leaves, thin
and flat; Flowers in pairs, or threes, opposite the leaves.
(Grastidium Blume.)
A. Lip undivided.

1. D. macrophyllum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1839. p. 36. Sertum
. . Orchidaceum, t. 35. Dendrobium macranthum, Bot. Mag.
t. 3970); caulibus pendulis, foliis ovato-oblongis obtusis
nervosis basi subeordatis, sepalis lanceolatis lateralibus
parüm productis, petalis oblongis acutis, labello pubes-
cente convoluto denticulato subunguiculato ovato callo
baseos elevato transverso obsoleté trilobo. —— Manilla.
This is one of the handsomest species. "The flowers
are nine inches in circumference. ‘The sepals and petals
are a clear and bright rose-colour, the lip is downy and
deeply stained with two large broad blood-red blotches
. . at its base. |
2. D. moniliforme (Fu Ran, Kempf. amen. t. 865. Epi-
dendrum moniliforme, Linn. sp. pl. 1352. Dendrobium
moniliforme, Swartz act. Holm. 1800. p. 246. Willd.

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no. 19. Bot. Reg. t. 1314. L. no. 40) ; caulibus erectis
ramosis, internodiis tumidis, foliis oblongis obliqué
emarginatis obtusis, floribus geminatis foliis longioribus,
sepalis petalisque oblongis acutis, labello cucullato acuto
serrulato intus pubescente.— —-Japan. —. This is very
near D. cerulescens, from which it is mainly distin-

guished by its stem contracted at every joint, and its

serrated lip.

3. D. cerulescens (Lindl. Sertum, t. 17); facie omnino D.
nobilis, floribus nunc ternatis, petalis angustioribus mar-
gine reflexis vald& undulatis, labello ovali acuminato
intus villoso——.E. Zndies.—— The form of the petals,
and especially of the lip, principally distinguish this
from D. nobile. Its flowers are also smaller.

4. D. nobile (Lindl. Gen. no. 94. Sertum, t. 3); caulibus

teretibus: erectis, foliis oblongis oblique emarginatis
obtusis, floribus geminatis, sepalis ovalibus, petalis duplo
majoribus undulatis, labello ovato subrotundo cucullato
villoso.—— China.—-— Flowers large, showy, violet, with
a very dark purple stain in the interior of the lip.
* * *

5. D. pulchellum (Roxb. L. 35. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1935) ;
caulibus teretibus pendulis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis
subplicatis, racemis lateralibus strictis multifloris, bracteis
brevibus ovatis obtusis, sepalis ovatis acuminatis sub-
costatis, petalis oblongis obtusis tenuioribus et latioribus,
labello unguiculäto cochleariformi obtusissimo ciliato.

Sylhet. Sepals whitish. Petals pink. Lip pink

at the edge with a yellow centre. A most charming
species.

6. D. Devonianum (Paxton Mag. 7. 169) ; caulibus pendulis,
foliis ovato-lanceolatis acutis, pedunculis | 2-3-floris,
sepalis oblongis acutis integris, petalis dupló latioribus
fimbriatis, labello maximo cochleariformi margine
plumoso_—_Khoseea Hills of India.—— The King of
Dendrobiums. Sepals rose-colour. Petals and lip
lemon-colour, tipped with purple, the latter with a broad

- yellow blotch in the middle. `

7. D. Pierardi (Roxb.! Fl.ind. 3. 482. Hooker Exotic

- Flora, t. 9. Bot. Reg. t. 1756); caulibus. pendulis
glabris, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acutis, floribus geminatis,
sepalis acuminatis membranaceis, petalis sepalo supremo

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majoribus acuminatis, labello cucullato dilatato subtrun-
cato pubescente ciliato.— — E. Indies. Flowers deli-
cate pink, with a pale yellow lip, not sweet-scented.

8. D. cucullatum (R. Brown in Bot. Reg. t. 548. ibid. t. 1756,

fig. 2); facie omnino D. Pierardi sed labello subrotundo-
ovato basi in unguem brevem convoluto E. Indies.
— Extremely like D. Pierardi, but it has larger
flowers, with a broad roundish ovate lip, the base of
which is rolled up into a sort of short stalk ; while in
D. Pierardi the lip is rounded and very blunt, with its
base rolled into a much longer stalk which quite conceals
the column. It is moreover remarkably incurved.

9. D. transparens (Wallich. Cat. no. 2008); caulibus pen-

dulis teretibus, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis apice
obliquis, floribus geminatis, sepalis acuminatis, petalis
obtusis sepalo supremo majoribus, labello oblongo undu-
lato ciliolato obtuso intüs levissimé pubescente.——
Nepal.——Flowers pale rose-colour, with a lip of the
same tint. Very like D. Pierardi, from which it is
distinguished by its leaves being longer and emarginate
at the apex, by the petals being obtuse and the labellum
much less hairy, and pink not yellow. The stems are
also far shorter.

10. D. amenum (Wall. L. no. 21. -Limodorum aphyllum,

41.

Roxb. eorom. 1. t. 41. Cymbidium aphyllum, Willd. sp.
f 4); caulibus pendulis gracilibus nebulosis floriferis
aphyllis, foliis lanceolatis acutis, floribus geminatis race-
mum spurium formantibus longé pedunculatis divaricatis,
sepalis oblongis obtusis, petalis obtüsis sepalo supremo
pauló majoribus, labelli cucullati limbo ovato obtuso
crenulato leviter eiliato: disco villoso.— — Nepal.——
This lovely species is abundantly distinguished by its
slender stems, leafless, and clouded with dusky brown
when in blossom ; and also by its delicate white flowers,
the tips of whose segments are remarkably blunt and

tinged with delicate violet. Dr. Wallich remarks in his

MSS. that its fragrance is exquisite, not unlike that of
Olea fragrans. :

D. Aeterocarpum (Wall. L. no. 20); caulibus teretibus
pendulis, foliis oblongis acutis planis, floribus geminatis
odoratis racemum spurium formantibus, sepalis lineari-
oblongis acutis, petalis ovatis acutis sepalo supremo

12.

13.
14.

15.

16.

17:

18.

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majoribus, labello unguiculato, limbo subpanduriformi
holosericeo medio elongato acuminato plano. — —N epal.

—— Very near D. cucullatum from which it is distin-
guished by its pale yellow fragrant flowers, and the
form of the labellum.

D. macrostachyum (L. no. 19. Bot. Reg. t. 1865); cauli-
bus teretibus pendulis flagelliformibus, foliis ovato-lan-
ceolatis submembranaceis, floribus ternatis racemum
spurium formantibus, sepalis ovatis acutis, petalis lanceo-
latis sepalo supremo subzqualibus, labello cucullato
venoso : limbo ovato obtuso ciliato intüs pubescente.

Ceylon. — Flowers pale yellow, smaller than in D.
Pierardi. Lip streaked with purple veins.
* * *

D. foliosum (Ad. Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. t. 41).

D. gemellum (L. no. 98. Pedilonum biflorum, Blume,
p. 322); folis membranaceis lanceolatis acuminatis,
pedunculis oppositifoliis subbifloris, labello ovali acuto
apice subcrispo lamellis tribus serrulatis inconspicuis.
— —BSincapore, Java. ——A long-stemmed grassy-leaved
plant, with small pale yellowish green flowers, growing
in pairs from short rigid two-valved truncated com.
pressed spathes, placed opposite the leaves. In this
respect it is like D. biflorum, of which it has all the
habit; but the lip is perfectly entire and not three-lobed.
D. rugosum (L. no. 57. Grastidium rugosum, Blume,
p- 333); foliis subcoriaceis lanceolatis apice emarginatis,
sepalis et labelli limbo acuminatis, labello intüs membra.
naceo-rugoso. — Java. —— Flowers pale yellow,

D. salaccense (L. no. 56. Grastidium salaccense, Blume,
p. 333); foliis membranaceis lineari-lanceolatis obliqué
retusis, sepalis acutis, labello obtuso intüs 1-lineato.
—— Java.—Flowers deep yellow,

D. acuminatissimum (L. no. 55. Grastidium acuminatissi-
mum, Blume, p. 385); foliis membranaceis linearibus sepa-

alisque acuminatissimis.—— Java. —— Flowers greenish.
* + 3 *

D. chrysanthum (Wall. Cat. no. 2012. . Bot. Reg. 1299

& 25); caulibus teretibus pendulis, foliis contortis ovato-

lanceolatis acuminatis, floribus inter folia nascentibus,

sepalis carnosis oblongis obtusis:. venis extüs tuber-

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culatis, petalis obovatis retusis carnosis sepalo supremo
latioribus, labello cucullato denticulato retuso obsoleté
trilobo.—— Nepal. —— Flowers dark yellow, occasion-
ally in threes, marked externally with distinct warts.
Lip with a deep purple spot on each side.

19. D. Paxtoni (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. Misc. 1839, no. 56);
caulibus teretibus sulcatis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acu-
minatis apice hine obsoleté emarginatis, pedunculis
bifloris, sepalis oblongis acutis lateralibus basi parüm
productis, petalis latioribus obovatis acutis serrulatis,
labello unguiculato ovato concavo indiviso villoso margine
multifido fimbriato.—-— Khoseea Hills of India.——
This has orange-yellow flowers, with a deep brown spot
in the middle of the lip. It differs from D. chrysan-
thum in having the petals serrated, and the surface and
edge of the lip hairy.

20. D. ochreatum (Lindl. in Wall. Cat. no. 7410. Bot. Reg.
sub fol. 1756. D. Cambridgeanum, Paxton, Mag. Bot.
vi. 965); caulibus pendulis medio incrassatis, foliis
ovalibus acutissimis, pedunculis bifloris, petalis lanceo-
latis sepalis latioribus, labello cucullato rotundato indi-
viso supra piloso.——Khoseea Hills of India.——A
beautiful species, with large rich yellow flowers, having
a deep purple stain in the middle of the lip, which is
entire and hairy.

21. D. aureum (Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 78. Dot. Reg.
1839. t. 20); caulibus erectis teretibus clavatis inter-
nodiis brevibus, foliis lineari-oblongis apice obliquis emar-
ginatis, pedunculis subbifloris aggregatis lateralibus, se-
palis lineari-ovatis acuminatis obtusis, petalis latioribus
ovatis acutis undulatis, labello ovali undulato obtusius-
culo indiviso medio serrulato per axim pubescente. ——
` Ceylon.— — The species varies with pale yellow and white
Aowers. In both varieties the fragrance is remarkable,
forming a something intermediate between violets and
primroses.

22, D. sulcatum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838. t.65); caule erecto

| clavato suleato subflexuoso compresso, foliis oblongis
acutis 3-nerviis, pedunculis lateralibus trifloris, bracteis
minimis acutis appressis, petalis oblongis obtusis glabris
sepalis subzqualibus, labello obcordato hirsuto ungue
canaliculato sulcato.
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23. D. nutans (L. no. 73.); caulibus erectis subelavatis his-

26.

pidis apice foliosis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis apice valdé
obliqué uncinato-bilobis, pedunculis subterminalibus bi-
floris foliis brevioribus, bracteis minimis, petalis sepa-
lisque lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis «*qualibus membra-
naceis, labello conformi carnoso crenulato indiviso, cap-
sulis oblongis nutantibus. Ceylon. — —Leaves small.
See small, white, slightly tinged with green; lip
yellow.

» D. candidum (Wallich in Bot. Reg. 1838, misc. 54); cau-

libus erectis flexuosis teretibus, foliis ovato-lanceolatis
apice obliquis obtusis, pedunculis axillaribus erectis
bifloris, sepalis patulis lateralibus basi parüm productis,
petalis conformibus, labello ovato-lanceolato obtuso medio
barbato supra basin calloso lateribus erectis cucullatis.
-— Khooseea Hills of India.—— Flowers small, pure
white, sweet-scented. Stems about a foot high.

. D. stuposum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838. misc. 94) ; caule

erecto tereti, foliis lineari-oblongis obliqué emarginatis,
peduneulis bifloris, bracteis obtusis cucullatis, sepalis
petalisque erectis lateralibus carinatis, labello oblongo
cucullato obtuso sub apice calloso stuposo.—— E. Indies.
— — Flowers white, small. Lip with a deep orange callus
below its point, where it is thickly covered with a coarse
tow-like hairiness.

B. Lip 3-lobed.

D. Ruckeri (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. misc. 38. t. 60);
caulibus teretibus, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis
planis, floribus gemellis, sepalis patulis obtusiusculis
convexis margine reflexis lateralibus subtriangularibus,
labelli trilobi lobis rotundatis intermedio undulato axi
elevata villosà. —— Philippines? —— A fine species.

Flowers large, yellow. Lip white outside, yellow and
brown inside.

. D. sanguinolentum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. 73.

1843. t. 6); caulibus teretibus pendulis, foliis ovato-
lanceolatis, floribus gemellis, sepalis petalisque ovatis
obtusiusculis patulis, labello trilobo glabro : laciniá inter-
mediä retusá nunc utrinque plicatä; ungue concavo brevi
appendice cornuformi pubescente retrorsä aucto.

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Ceylon.—— This 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.
* + *

98. D. revolutum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. 110); cau-

libus obtusé ancipitibus, folis ovato-oblongis obtusis
apice obliquis emarginatis basi subcarinatis, floribus
solitariis oppositifoliis, sepalis petalisque acutissimis revo-
lutis, labello carnoso convexo obtuso subtrilobo aut
rhombeo per medium exarato (s. lamellis duabus inflexis
parallelis instructo) lineis tribus discoloribus. ——Sinca-
pore.——Flowers straw-coloured, and about the size of
those of D. Pierardi, but their lip is fleshy, convex,
almost lozenge-shaped, and marked with 3 brown lines.

29. D. ezcisum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841. misc. 165); foliis

lineari-oblongis obliqué retusis, floribus (solitariis ?)
oppositifoliis basi squamatis, sepalis petalisque acumi-
natis, labello oblongo acuto carnoso basi utrinque exciso :
disco latè glanduloso, cornu pedicello feré dupló breviore.
——Sincapore.——A small species with the habit of D.
pulchellum, but with white inconspicuous flowers.

30. D. aqueum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. misc. 6. t. 54);

31.

foliis ovato-oblongis undulatis acuminatis, floribus patulis
cornu brevi obtuso, sepalis petalisque ovatis, labelli tri-
lobi pubescentis laciniä mediä ovatä denticulatä basi alte
excavatä lateralibus latioribus rotundatis margine ante-
riore serrulato. —— Bombay.——With the manner of
growth of D. Pierardi, the pale watery green flowers of
this 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. It is also a much
stouter plant with wavy leaves.

D. longicornu (Lindl. in Wall. Cat. no. 1997. Bot. Reg.
t. 1315. Gen. et Sp. Orch. no. 26); caulibus erectis
hispidis flexuosis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis apice valdé
obliquis, floribus fascieulatis v. solitariis terminalibus,
bracteis ovatis acuminatis hispidis pedicello multo brevio-

33.

34.

35.

36.

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ribus, sepalis lateralibus in calcare longo acuminato con-
natis, petalis sepalo supremo conformibus, labello infun-
dibulari cucullato integro dentato basi cum pede column
acereto.—-—— Nepal. Flowers large, white. Lip yellow,

with orange-coloured veins. A very fine species.
* * *

. D. tridentiferum (Lindl. in Hooker's Journal of Botany,

vol. 3); foliis oblongo-lanceolatis obliqué emarginatis,
gemmis paleaceis, floribus geminis, sepalis lateralibus
ovatis carnosis obliquis, petalis lanceolato-oblongis acutis
membranaceis, labello carnoso trifido basi tuberculo car-
noso lineáque utrinque elevatá acuto : lobis acutis latera-
libus antrorsum curvis intermedio ovato, cornu brevi
obtuso.——New Guinea. —— A. broad-leaved species
looking like D. biflorum to which it is nearly allied. It
has fleshy flowers as large as those of D. Pierardi.

D. Luzonense ; folis distichis angusté lanceolatis apice
oblique emarginatis, pedunculis brevibus 2-floris, labello
spathulato obtusissimo laciniis lateralibus obsoletis den-
ticulatis.—— Luzon.—— A small-flowered plant, with
very closely set distichous leaves.

D. Cunninghamii (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. sub t. 1756. D. biflo-
rum, Ach. Rich. sub Astrolab. t. 26) ; caulibus gracilibus
pendulis ramosis vaginis foliorum corneis transversim
corrugatis squamatis, foliis ovato-linearibus obtusiusculis,
pedunculis oppositifoliis bifloris foliis multd brevioribus,
sepalis ovatis acutis, petalis oblongis acutis latioribus,
labelli trilobi lobo intermedio subrotundo undulato basi
5-lamellato lateralibus nanis acutis.—— New Zealand.
— — Stems very slender, much branched. Flowers white.
D. biflorum (Epidendrum biflorum, Forst.! Prodr. n. 318.
Dendrobium biflorum, Swartz. act. Holm. 1800. p. 246.
Willd. no. 17. and no. 18) ; caule pendulo gracili tereti,
foliis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis planis, pedunculis
bifloris lateralibus e paleis corneis erumpentibus, sepalis
petalisque acuminatissimis, labello rhomboideo medio
bilamellato trilobo lobis lateralibus acutis nanis inter-
medio deltoideo acuminato margine fimbriato.—-—— Society
Islands.—— Leaves very narrow and grassy. Flowers
very small, with setaceous points.

D. calcaratum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840. misc. 219);
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bilobis, floribus resupinatis, sepalis ovatis lateralibus
revolutis basi in cornu conicum pedicelli longitudine pro-
ductis, petalis lineari-lanceolatis, labelli linearis carnosi
levis trilobi laciniá intermediá subrotundä marginibus
incurvis ungue cum column: pede in calcar verum con-
nato.——Sincapore.——A slender inconspicuous species,
allied to D. revolutum and biflorum ; with green flowers
growing in pairs opposite the leaves.

37. D. bilobum (Lindl. in Hook. Journ. Bot. vol. 3); foliis
linearibus obtusis apice subequalibus bilobis, floribus
membranaceis minutis (solitariis ?), sepalis obtusis, peta-
lis dupló minoribus apiculatis, labello libero elongato
obovato apice carnoso trilobo: latinià mediä verrucosä,

cornu elongato obtuso.——New Guinea.——A small
inconspicuous species, with the appearance of Isochilus
linearis.

* * *

38. D. pugioniforme (A. Cunn. in Bot. Reg. 1839. misc. 34);
caulibus repentibus nodoso-articulatis radicalibus setoso-
stipulatis, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis apice attenuatis
acutis carnosis infra fere convexis carinatis levibus niten-
tibus, floribus (resupinatis) subsolitariis axillaribus,
perianthii foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis patentibus,
labello longitudinaliter tricarinato, lobo intermedio dila-
tato undulato-crispato apice acuto recurvato.——/. Hol-
land.—-—A beautiful epiphyte, hanging loosely from the
stems of trees, so as to swing freely to the wind that
sweeps through the forests on the summit of the belt of
mountain bounding the coast district of Illawarra, on the

west (lat. 342 S.)

Very nearly allied to this section of the genus are those
Dendrobia, which, with slender stems and thin flat leaves,
have flowers growing in racemes. They form a group
which may be subdivided upon the same principle as the
last.

Sect. II. Sracnyosrum. Stems slender; Leaves thin
and flat ; Flowers in racemes.
A. Lip undivided.

39. D. aduncum (Lindl in Bot. Reg. 1842. misc. 62);
caulibus pendulis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis acutis integris,

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floribus ternis patentibus, sepalis petalisque ovatis obtusis

lateralibus dupló latioribus, cornu rotundato, labello

unguiculato ovato concavo apiculato columnae arcte
appresso intüs villoso disco glabro, columná apice bialatà
sub stigmate villosa, antherä glanbulosä. ——-.Hast Indies.

This is a beautiful species allied to D. Pierardi,
near which it should perhaps be placed, rather than in
this division. The flowers are almost transparent, of
the most delicate pink, and nearly as large as in D.
moschatum.

40. D. formosum (Roxb. fl. ind. 3. 485. L. p Sio- Wall. pl.
as. rar. t. 39. Bot. Reg. 1839. t. 64) ; caulibus tereti-
bus pendulis pilosis, foliis distichis ovatis apice obliqué
emarginatis obtusis, racemo brevi terminali 4-5-floro,
bracteis brevibus ovatis, (floribus maximis), sepalis
oblongis acutis : lateralibus basi long& productis, petalis
duplo latioribus acutis, labello obovato dilatato retuso
cum basi columnz in calcar obtusum connato. — East
Indies.— —One of the finest of the genus, with very
large white flowers in terminal racemes.

41. D. rhombeum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. t. 17); caulibus
teretibus foliosis, foliis lanceolatis acutis, racemis brevi-
bus 4-floris, sepalis ovalibus obtusis, petalis dupló latiori-
bus ovatis, labello rhombeo undulato acuto medio pubes-
cente, columnä utrinque tuberculatà pone basin cornu
deflexo auctä, antherá pubescente.___ Manilla. This
species has much general resemblance to D. aureum,
from which however it differs in having smaller blossoms,
a labellum without serratures, and the flowers in short
racemes instead of pairs. 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, whose nature requires
to be investigated. Is it the unguiculus of Blume ?

42. D. fimbriatum (Hooker. Exot. Fl. 71. Wall. Cat. no.
2011. L. no. 38); caulibus teretibus pendulis, foliis
ovato-lanceolatis, racemis lateralibus multifloris, sepalis
oblongis undulatis patentissimis, petalis majoribus undu-
latis ciliatis, labello indiviso rotundato convexo fimbriato,
fimbriis laceris. Nepal, Burma. . Flowers very
deep yellow, sometimes stained with crimson at the base
of the lip. It has much the appearance of Dendrobium

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| chrysanthum, from which it is distinguishable both by

its inflorescence and the different shape of its petals.

| 48. D. polyanthum (Wall. Cat. no. 2009. L. no. 31); cauli-

; bus teretibus pendulis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis apice
integris, racemis 3.4-floris lateralibus foliis brevioribus,
sepalis lanceolatis: lateralibus supremo subequalibus,
petalis majoribus oblongis . undulatis, obtusis, labello
obovato cucullato ciliato, capsulis fusiformibus apteris.
— — Moolmayne. This plant is evidently very near
D. moschatum. It however appears to have smaller
flowers, with far narrower segments, and, as far as can
be ascertained from dried specimens, they are nearly
colourless, except the lip, which is yellow.

44. D. moschatum (Wallich in L. no. 36. Hooker in Dot.
Mag. t. 3837. Cymbidium moschatum, Willd. Epiden-
drum moschatum, Hamilt. in Symes’ Ava, 3. 315. c. ic.
D. Calceolus, Hooker ex. fl. t. 184. L. no. 37. D.
cupreum, Herbert in Bot. Reg. t. 1779. D. clavatum,
Wall. cat. no. 2004); caulibus teretibus pendulis, foliis
lineari-lanceolatis oblongisque, racemis lateralibus laxis
5-6-Horis, bracteis pedicellis 3-pló brevioribus, sepalis
patentissimis petalisque oblongis obtusis latioribus venosis
reticulatis, labello unguiculato calceolari obtusissimo
margine abrupté inflexo pubescente.—— Burma, Pegu,
Ava, Sylhet. This beautiful plant, with large nankin
coloured flowers, stained and veined with crimson, is
readily known by its labellum, whose edge is turned
inwards and delicately fringed with hairs. Its odour is
compared by some to musk, by others to rhubarb, and
by others to wood-roof.

45. D. calcaratum (A. Richard Sert. Astrolab. t. 7) ; caule
ramoso quasi, articulato florifero aphyllo, foliis lineari-
lanceolatis acutis, floribus spicato-corymbosis, bracteisline-
aribus acutis glabris, sepalis lateralibus in cornu clavatum
fissum productis, labello lineari subspathulato plano
acuto.—— Vanikoro.—— Known to me only by the figure
and description in the Voyage of the Astrolabe. It has
the habit of D. ramosum. Possibly it should be referred
to the $ Pedilonum.

46. D. flavescens (L. no. 48. Onychium flavescens, Blume,
p. 325); ebulbe, foliis paucis lineari-lanceolatis obtusis
basi canaliculatis, floribus alternis subspicatis terminali-

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bus pubentibus, labello intús pubescente, limbo emargi-
nato plicato. ——Java.—— Flowers small, yellow.

47. D. nudum (L. no. 49. Onychium nudum, Blume, p. 325);
foliis lineari-lanceolatis insequali-acuminatis membrana-
ceis, racemis paucifloris, sepalis interioribus lanceolatis
dorsali angustioribus.———Java.——Stems jointed, zig-
zag at the upper part, Flowers pale purple, changing
to yellow. Labellum with a little claw at the base;
according to Blume.

48. D. ramosum (L. no. 34); caulibus pendulis gracilibus
ramosis glabris, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis apice inte-
gerrimis, floribus subracemosis, bracteis membranaceis
reflexis obtusis, sepalis lateralibus magnis in cornu elon-
gatum rectum connatis, petalis minoribus, labello cucul-
lato acuto crispo.— — India. This plant is only
known by some imperfect specimens distributed by
Dr. Wallich. It is much more slender than D. Pierardi,
has an evident tendency to branch, and appears to be a
distinct species. It however requires further examina-
tion. It is near D. herbaceum ; but the flowers have a
long and conspicuous spur.

49. D. herbaceum (Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. 153) ; cauli-
bus ramosis teretibus glabris, foliis lineari-lanceolatis
acuminatis apice obliqué bilobis, racemo paucifloro ter-
minali, sepalis lateralibus basi paulo productis dorsali
petalisque linearibus, labello lanceolato integerrimo nudo,
clinandrio biauri. East Indies. — — A small branch-
ing plant, with leaves from two to three inches long, and
inconspicuous greenish flowers.

50. D. mutabile (L. no. 50. Onychium mutabile, Blume,
p. 324); folis lineari-lanceolatis obtusis oblique retusis
membranaceis.— — Java. — — Flowers, pale rose-colour,
in very close racemes. Column downy in front. Petals
broader than the upper sepal. Labellum with three
sulphur yellow glands, furnished at the base with a free
claw, according to Dr. Blume.

51. D. sclerophyllum (.D. rigidum, L. no. 51. nec R. Br.
Onychium rigidum, Blume, p. 324); foliis lato-lanceo-
latis obliqué retusis rigidis.— Java. Flowers
whitish, with three yellow glands, Dr. Blume doubts
whether it may not be a variety of his D. mutabile, but
he says that its parts are more firm.

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D. auriferum (L. no. 39); caulibus teretibus pendulis,
foliis oblongis obtusis integris, racemis lateralibus hori-
zontalibus clavatis foliorum longitudine, bracteis cucul-
latis densé imbricatis, sepalis petalis labelloque lineari-
lanceolatis conniventibus acuminatissimis. —— China.
— — Stem slender, throwing out very long roots from its
sides. Leaves oblong-lanceolate. Flowers about an inch
long, bright yellow, arising from short broad imbricated
bracts, which are much longer than the spaces between
them. Known only from a drawing in the possession
of the Horticultural Society.

B. Lip 3-lobed.

53. D. barbatulum (L. no. 44. D. chlorops, Lindl. in Bot.

Reg. 1844. misc. 54) ; caulibus teretibus, floribus laxé
corymbosis, pedicellis filiformibus glaucescentibus, sepalis
lineari-oblongis, petalis duplo latioribus obovatis, labelli
trilobi plani lobis lateralibus nanis acutis intermedio
lineari-oblongo apice pauló latiore basi villoso, cornu
brevi conico.——Bombay.——A species with the habit
of D. Heyneanum. It has small flowers of a pale nankin
colour, while the base of the lip is a light pea green;
this gives the flower the appearance of having a green
eye. When dried the parts of the flower become ex-
tremely thin and difficult to examine; and I was thus
led to suppose that the lip was undivided. I have how-
ever ascertained that it is really three-lobed, and that my
D. chlorops is the same species, more correctly defined.

54. D. lancifolium (Ach. Richard Sert. Astrolab. t. 8) ; caule

erecto ramoso folioso tereti glabro, foliis angusté lanceo-
lato-linearibus acutis, floribus purpurascentibus sepiús
quaternis pedicellatis subspicatis, sepalis lanceolatis acu-
tis, labelli unguiculati trilobi lobo medio latiore ovato
margine subcrispo lateralibus obtusis suberispis planis.
Moluccas-—-—Only known to us by M. Richard's
description. It is a branching species, having little
resemblance to the plants here placed near it.

55. D. bicameratum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1839. misc. 85);

caulibus fusiformibus, foliis lineari-lanceolatis apice ob-
liqué bidentatis, pedunculis lateralibus squamatis 4-floris,
floribus concavis subcarnosis, sepalis petalisque subro-
tundo-ovatis acutis, labelli trilobi lacinià intermediá ro-

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tundatä apiculatà carnosä lateralibus triangularibus acutis
breviore, columns facie excavatä semibiloculari.-——
North of India.—— The stems grow nearly upright, and
are rather short, fusiform and furrowed when old. "The
flowers are a little smaller than those of Maxillaria stape-
lioides, and like them in form; their colour is dull
yellow, spotted and streaked with purple. In the only
specimen I have ever seen the flowers grew in fours, on
a very short peduncle, closely covered with ovate concave
bracts, speckled with purple. The excavation of the
face of the column, and its division into two cells are
remarkable.

56. D. elongatum (A. Cunn. Bot. Reg. 1839. misc. 33) ; cau-

57.

58.

libus teretibus sulcatis elongatis erectis 4-5-phyllis, foliis
ovato- lanceolatis acutiusculis apice obliquis emarginatis,
racemo terminali multifloro, foliolis perianthii ovatis ob-
tusiusculis, labelli disco 3-carinato lobo intermedio lato
cordiformi.——Shaded dark woods, on the banks of the
Brisbane River, New Holland.——This plant has erect
stems about a foot and a half high, at the end of which
grow about four lanceolate leaves, from the midst of
which springs a raceme of yellowish flowers spotted
with red. ‘They seem unwilling or unable to expand.
D. bicolor (L. no. 74) ; caulibus erectis elongatis sub-
clavatis apice foliosis, foliis lanceolatis acutis, racemo
brevi erecto terminali v. subterminali 3-4-floro foliis
multo breviore, bracteis oblongis obtusis petaloideis ve-
nosis, petalis sepalisque oblongis obtusis zequalibus, labello
trilobo obtuso: lobis lateralibus erectis rotundatis.——
Ceylon.——Bracts large, oblong, petaloid, veiny, two-
coloured, green at the point, brownish red at the base.
Flowers nearly white. This is scarcely known except
from a drawing, and I am by no means sure that it is
not an Eria.

D. catenatum (L. no. 41. Epidendrum monile, Thunb.
Fl. Jap.); caulibus teretibus erectis: internodiis tumi-
dis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis acutis, racemis lateralibus
4-5-floris, sepalis petalisque lanceolatis acuminatis, labello
oblongo apice trilobo.—— Japan, China.—-—' This has
regularly jointed stems, 5 or 6 inches high, small narrow
leaves and flowers with green sepals and white petals. I
only know it from a Chinese drawing in the possession of
the Horticultural Society.

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61.

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D. denudans (Don. Prodr. 34. Wall. Cat. no. 2014.
L. no. 42); caulibus brevibus cespitosis erectis vaginis
laxis foliorum vestitis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis submem-
branaceis apice obliquis emarginatis, racemis lateralibus
terminalibusque nutantibus multifloris, sepalis acumi-
natis: lateralibus basi incurvis, petalis minoribus, labelli
trilobioblongi lobo medio acuminato crispo lateralibus ser-
ratis, disco bilamellato.—-—— Nepal. —— Flowers greenish
white, Lip green, whole-coloured. This species is the
most variable that I know in point of size. Some of
Dr. Wallich's specimens are not more than an inch and
half high, with two or three leaves and as many flowers
on each individual, while others are six or seven inches
high, with numerous distichous leaves, and three or four

- long nodding racemes, each consisting of eight or nine

flowers. The species is always distinguishable by the
loose membranous sheaths which clothe the stem when
the leaves have fallen off.

D. alpestre (Royle Illustr. t. 88. fig. 2); caulibus bre-
vissimis ovatis 3-4-phyllis, foliis lineari-oblongis, racemis
3-5-floris erectis, sepalis acuminatis cornu brevi obtuso,
petalis minoribus, labelli trilobi lanceolati lobo medio
acuminato crispo basi angustato lateralibus laceris, disco
bilamellato. Himalayas.——— Stems and leaves only a
few inches high. Flowers white, with a purplish lip.
D. cuspidatum (Lindl. no. 43) ; caulibus brevibus erectis
3-5-phyllis, foliis lineari-oblongis apice obliquis emar-
ginatis, racemis terminalibus 3-4-floris foliis brevioribus,
bracteis lineari-ovatis acutis, petalis sepalisque lineari-
lanceolatis acuminatis equalibus: horum lateralibus basi
incurvis cornu referentibus, labelli trilobi petalis dupló
brevioris lobis lateralibus maximis erectis rotundatis in-
tegerrimis : intermedio ovato acuminato. Tavoy.——
This resembles in many respects D. denudans, from
which it is abundäntly distinguished by the loose sheaths
of the fallen leaves not covering the stem, and by the
peculiar form of the lip. My specimens are from three
to four inches high. ‘The flowers appear to be white.

62. D. microbolbon (Ach. Richard. Ann. Sc. n. s. 15. t. 8);

caulibus parvis ovatis aggregatis diphyllis, foliis oblongo-
linearibus. submembranaceis acutis, scapo gracili foliis
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obtusis, labello crasso erecto arcuato subcanaliculato
quasi trilobo, lobis lateralibus minimis medio rotundato

obsoleté crenulato.—-— Nilgherries.—— About three or
four inches high. Lip pale green. Sepals whitish flesh-
colour.

63. D. pygmeum (Lindl. no. 45. Dendrobium pusillum, Don.
Prodr. 35); caulibus erectis ceespitosis vaginis laxis
foliorum vestitis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, racemis sub-
erectis terminalibus multifloris foliorum longitudine,
rachi angulato, bracteis membranaceis acuminatis, sepalis
inferioribus ovatis acuminatis ad basin cornu incurvo
connatis: supremo petalisque lineari-spatulatis acutis,
labello unguiculato cuneatointegro: callis duobus longi-
tudinalibus in disco ; margine anteriore carnoso crispo
plicato lobo intermedio ovato. ——— Martaban. A very
small plant, forming tufts. Very near D. microbulbon,
but different in the form of the lip; and the flowers are
much smaller.

Nearty allied to the racemose Dendrobia just described
is that curious race, already enumerated at t. 98 of our volume
for last year, under the name of Spatulata. They are plants
with hard stiff slender stems, clothed with coriaceous dis-
tichous leaves, and bear their flowers in long lateral many-
flowered racemes. They are all remarkable for having the
petals considerably longer than the sepals. In order to pre-
serve some uniformity in nomenclature I would propose the
name Ceratobium for them.

Sect. IL CERATOBIUM. Stems erect, slender. Leaves
coriaceous, distichous. Racemes lateral, many-flowered. Pe-
tals much longer than the sepals.

64. D. taurinum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. t. 98.) ; foliis
oblongis obliqué emarginatis, racemo oblongo, sepalis
ovatis obtusiusculis, petalis linearibus contortis dupld
longioribus, labello oblongo apice crispo per axin lineis
3 elevatis intermedia apice flexuosá aucto.— — Manilla.
—— This 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. The stem is five feet high.

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65. D. Mirbelianum (Gaudich. Voyage, t. 88.) ; foliis ovato-
oblongis obtusis, racemis ovatis longè pedunculatis, sepa-
lis ovato-lanceolatis acutis erectis, petalis spathulatis
unguiculatis obtusis longioribus, labelli trilobi ovato-
lanceolati subsessilis lobis lateralibus rotundatis inter-
medio lanceolato undulato acuto, lineis tribus elevatis
lateralibus versus basin duplicibus.—-—— New Guinea. — —
The racemes, including their peduncle, are more than a
foot long. The petals are an inch and a half long.

66. D. veratrifolium (Lindl. in London Jour. Bot. 2. 235.) ;
folis oblongis obtusis amplexicaulibus 9-11-nerviis,
racemo terminali elongato multifloro, sepalis undulatis
acutis, petalis spathulatis obtusis planis vix dupld longio-
ribus, labello oblongo obtuso membranaceo venis-tribus
elevatis per axin duabusque minoribus lateralibus : lobis
lateralibus nanis obtusis intermedio oblongo undulato.
—-— New Guinea.——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.

67. D. macranthum (A. Rich. Sert. Astrolab. p. 15. t. 6.) ;
foliis ellipticis apice obliquo subbilobis, racemo longi-
pedunculato versus apicem monophyllo, sepalis ovato-
lanceolatis, petalis pauló longioribus unguiculatis lanceo-
latis acutis, labello lanceolato trilobo per axin tricarinato
lacinià intermedià acuminatä lateralibus nanis rotun-
datis. Vanikoro.— —'lhe stem is described as two
feet and more high; the leaves from three to four inches
long, the raceme about a foot long, the flowers three
inches in diameter. It is very near D. veratrifolium,
but differs in having much shorter petals, and a very
acute lip.

68. D. antennatum (Lindl. in London Journ. Bot. 2. 235) ;
foliis lanceolatis carnosis obliqué emarginatis racemo
oppositifolio brevioribus, sepalis acuminatis, petalis linea-
ribus dupló longioribus reflexis, labello trilobo venis
5 elevatis rectis per axin ; lobo medio ovato acuto plano
3-costato.——New Guinea. —-— This 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.

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The leaves are succulent, brittle, and veinless when
fresh. .

69. D. undulatum (R. Brown, Prodr. 332. L. no. 69. D. dis-
color, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841. t. 52); foliis ovato-
oblongis emarginatis, racemis longissimis, sepalis peta-
lisque undulatis, labelli trilobi lobis acutis intermedio
lanceolato, lineis quinque elevatis intermediä apice
fluxuosá.—— Java, Tropical New Holland.—— A species
with singular dingy yellow-brown flowers, of little beauty.

70? D. affine (Onychium affine, Decaisne herb. timor. 37);
foliis lineari-oblongis acutiusculis coriaceis, pedunculo
foliis triplo longiore oppositifolio? laxifloro, floribus
spicatis; perianthio erecto, segmentis exterioribus lineari-
lanceolatis acutis, interioribus subobovatis rotundatis
mucronulatis ; labelli unguiculati lobis 3, medio lineari-
lanceolato, lateralibus subrotundis.—— Timor.—-—Since
M. Decaisne compares this with D. Mirbelianum, it pro-
bably belongs to the present section. The petals are
said to be obovate and mucronate.

Next after these species must be placed those plants which
Dr. Blume calls Pedilonum, of which one species only is
known to me. In that I long since (Bot. Reg. 1839, misc.
169) stated that the structure is of the following singular
nature :— In the first place the lateral sepals and the base of
the lip are so united into a spur, that their separate nature is
entirely concealed towards the point of the spur. In the next
place the rostellum is a deep two-lobed lip curved down over
the stigmatic surface. The pollen-masses are in two pairs,
and deep purple; and, which is extremely curious, they lie
upon a loose hard transverse crustaceous gland, which seems
to replace the gland and caudicula of Vandes, and which
projects beyond the anterior edge of the anther, resting upon
the two-lobed rostellum. The anther-bed itself is deeply
excavated, and three-lobed, the anther adhering to the back
lobe which is the narrowest.

Should these characters, all or any of them, prove common
to the plants now collected into this section, there will be no
doubt about their forming a perfectly distinct genus. In the

mean while I would not extend its definition beyond that of
Dr. Blume.

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Sect. IV. Peprtonum (Blume, Sect. 2.) Stems erect.

Racemes lateral. Lateral sepals united into a pouch, with
which the base of the labellum is entirely coherent, without
any articulation. ‘The flowers are said to be in all cases
purplish.

71.

12:

74.

D. secundum (Wallich. Cat. no. 1996. L. no. 29. Bot.
Reg. t. 1291. Pedilonum secundum, Blume, p. 322);
caulibus erectis, foliis oblongis apice obliqué retusis,
racemis lateralibus terminalibus quesecundis, sepalis
ovatis: lateralibus basi in cornu longum obtusum incur-
vum connatis, petalis supremo pauló minoribus, labello
integerrimo acuto apice tumido. —— Malacca, Java,
Burma.——F lowers very closely arranged in a one-sided
spike, of various shades of purple. Pollen purple.

D. erosum (L. no. 52. Pedilonum erosum, Blume, p. 323);
foliis subcoriaceis lanceolatis obtusis, racemis brevibus
oppositifoliis subterminalibusye, sepalis obtusis, dorsali
interioribus latiore, labelli limbo rotundato concavo
eroso.——Java.—-—

. D. hymenophyllum (L. no. 53. Pedilonum undulatum,

Blume, p. 392. t. 36); foliis membranaceis lanceolatis
inzquali-acuminatis, pedicellis brevibus, sepalo dorsali
interioribus obtusis zequali, sacco calcariformi longissimo,
limbo labelli undulato.——Java.——Sepals purplish.
Labellum yellow.

D. Kuhlii (L. no. 58. Pedilonum Kuhlü, Blume, p.321);
foliis submembranaceis lanceolatis apice inequali-obtusis,
sepalo dorsali interioribus lato-lanceolatis latiori, labelli
limbo spatulato acuto. Java.——Flowers pale pur-
plish.

75. D. Hasseltii (L. no. 59. Pedilonum Hasselti, Blume,

p. 321); foliis rigidis lanceolatis profundé obliqué emar-
ginatis, sepalo dorsali interioribus lato-lanceolatis quali,
labelli limbo lineari-acuto.— -— Java. Flowers deep
purple.

We shall take au early opportunity of going on with the

enumeration of this genus.

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63. HYDROTANIA lobata.
Herbert in litt.

H. lobata ; caule foliigero pedali vel ultra, foliis plicatis viridibus subpedalibus
acutis 2 unc. latis, spathà multiflora biunciali vel ultra bivalvi, pedun-
culos rectos spatham superantes bracteis latis subsequantibus, germine
brevi viridi, perianthii majori parte lutescentis laciniis 14 uncialibus
fissurá profundé lobatis bis (i.e. ungue cymbiformi et lamina cymbi-
formi) lati-cymbiformibus, sepalorum unguibus semunciam latis et lami-
narum 3 unc. latarum basi confert® brunneo-punctatis, petalorum
angustiorum unguibus inferné sinu laterali utrinque angustatis brunneo-
punctatis fasciá transversá mediá aurantiacá, summá conferté purpureo-
punctatá globulis hyalinis pruinosá, columná stamineá $ unc. subeylin-
dricà luteo-virente, styli decidui lobis lutescentibus brevi parte integris
superne bifidis (pessulà medià nullä) superne bifidis subtortuosé de-
curvis, antheris subrufescentibus dorso styli loborum parti integre
adpressis loculis despicientibus, capsulà sulcatä rotundaté trigonä oper-
culo obtuso.— W. H.

“This very pretty little plant, with speckled yellow flowers,
was sent to Spofforth by J. Maclean, Esq. who found it on the
hills above Lima. It has the habit and hardiness of Tigridia,
and flowers freely at the same time in the border where the
bulbs were set at the end of April, and seems likely to ripen
its seed. It differs from Hydrotzenia Meleagris and the de-
scribed species of Beatonia in not having the little peg-like
point in the fork of the style-lobes; it agrees with Hydro-
tenia in having the band across the lower part of the petals
frosted with white globules, from which that plant received
its name, and also in having the stem leaf-bearing and terminal
as in Tigridia, instead of being extrafoliaceous, and accom-
panying or almost preceding the leaves as in the three de-
scribed Beatonias; it seems, however, to me that Hydrotznia -
and Beatonia should be considered as sections of one genus,
both having species with flowers pendulous and erect. Hydro-
tenia has the precedence in date, but the name by its meaning
is limited, and cannot well embrace the Beatonias. Qu. Pan-
pinta ? $ Hydrotznia; caule foliigero, petalorum ungui-
bus globulis hyalinis fasciatis; $ Beatonia; c. extrafoliaceo,
unguibus non gl. h. fasciatis."— W. Herbert.

64. CALOSCORDUM.
Herbert.

CALOSCORDUM ; (vel, si mavis, Allium, $ Caloscordum.) Tubus cum pedun-
culo articulatus subsexangularis inferne ampliatus germen breve com-

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prehendens ore membranä inconspicuä staminiferá munito, limbus tubum
longé superans reflexé patens laciniis uninervibus, filamenta vix inferne
dilatata petalina ore tubi sepalina parum infra inserta, antherse parvule,
stylus cylindricus brevis citó marcescens non deciduus, stigmata tria
brevia tenuia patentia, capsula subrotunda, folialinearia, semina obovata,
rugosa, nigra, hilo albido ; odor alliaceus nullus.— W. H.

Sp. 1. C. Neriniflorum ; bulbo parvulo, foliis dodrantalibus 4*; uncise latis
subglaucis crassis dorso rotundato superficie subcanaliculaté planá, caule
7-unc. vel infra tenui, spathá 2 unc. univalvi latà 1-2-bracteatá, pedun-
eulis subduodecim 24 unc. vel infra, perianthio vix semunciali roseo-
purpurascente strià medià obscuriore. Habitat insulam Chusan dictam.
Allium Chinense fl. dilute violaceis proculdubio Caloscordi species.

This plant was sent to Spofforth by J. Trevor Alcock,
Esq. who received it from Chusan when that island was
occupied by our troops, and it has since flowered three seasons.
The foregoing description renders it almost necessary to ad-
vert to Prof. Kunth’s Enumeratio, &c. art. Asphodelez.
'The name Pseudoscordum was proposed (Herbert Amarylli-
dacez, Prelim. Tr. p. 11 & Index) for the scentless race of
Allium, as a genus distinguished from the rest; Prof. Kunth
has thought fit to separate them by the name Nothoscordum,
an alteration without cause which is not admissible ; but in
fact all these plants (as well as Hesperocordum, which does
not appear very clearly separable from Allium senescens and
some other species,) are perhaps to be considered rather as
sections of Allium. The public, when told that Prof. Kunth's
character of Pseudoscordum (named by him Nothoscordum)
extends to twenty-six closely printed lines, may perbaps ex-
pect to find that its separation from Allium is strictly defined ;
but it will be found that it is not directly distinguished there-
from by him in any one respect, and even the important fact
of the absence of the alliaceous scent is omitted ; the plant
being contrasted not with Allium, but with Dr. Lindley's
Hesperocordum, which name he has also thought fit to alter
without reason to Hesperoscordium. And here it is neces-
sary to pause and enter a protest on behalf of the publie
against Prof. Kunth's work altogether, as compiled on such
an injudicious plan, that as to generic characters 1t per-
plexes, instead of assisting, the inquirer. If the compiler
and arranger of such a work has any useful and legitimate
office, it is to simplify and render manifest the important
points by which vegetables are connected with each other,
and, subordinate to those demarcations, the lesser points
by which they are distinguished. . Prof. Kunth, on the con-

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trary, has heaped together in each character every feature
he could pick up whether trivial or important, without refe-
rence to the character óf the plants most nearly allied, except
occasionally in a subsidiary remark; and he absolutely con-
founds his reader, who has to compare these long characters
with each other word by word to ascertain wherein they differ,
and to his distress finds that they are not prepared in anti-
thesis to each other, and that, although in most respects
they may be substantially one, the same point is perhaps
expressed in different words, while, concerning other points
stated as to one genus, it does not appear how the fact stands
with respect to others allied thereto. The further evil is,
that as the Professor cannot have personally inspected such a
multitude of features in every species of every genus, the facts
asserted concerning the whole genus will be found in many
respects incorrect ; and, if they were correct, the reader has
no means of judging which are the real points, a departure
from which must cause a plant to be removed from the genus.
Such a work therefore becomes a public encumbrance, and
Professor Kunth is earnestly entreated in his further volumes
to pursue the plain course of simplifying the generic charac-
ters, inserting no features which are not essential, and from
whieh a departure would not be inconsistent with generic
identity ; and to place all minor points in the mass of sub-
sidiary observations, amongst which any accidental inaccuracy
will not disturb the basis of classification. Prof. Kunth, in
attempting to distinguish Pseudoscordum from Hesperoscor-
dum of Dr. Lindley, gives three points, spathe with only two
valves, (though Dr. Lindley did not mention the absence of
secondary valves or bractes as characteristic of Hesperoscor-
dum), style persistent and not articulate, (a fact which seems
to be incorrect, for I have Hesp. lacteum now before my eyes,
perfecting its seed with the style firmly persistent on eve

capsule), and the want of three glands on the summit of the
ovary ; but he omits the main feature, viz. the membranaceous
dilatation and connection of the filaments, and the articula-
tion of the perianth with the footstalk, which is correct,
though he puts a? to it in the character, and adds to “stigma
simplex" therein, that it is three-lobed in the figure, which
is not the case, for it is merely triangular even in the mag-
nified figure. The facts concerning Pseudoscordum as a
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tubus turbinatus germine brevior, pedicello continuatus,
lacinie limbi subequales tubo valde longiores, filamenta
complanata apice filiformi, sepalina ori tubi petalina supra
inserta, anthere parvula, stigma trigonum, stylus persistens,
germen obtusum breve trisulcum, odor alliaceus nullus.
Quoad, vidi, petala sepalis parum augustiora. Caloscordum
is therefore distinguished therefrom thus, — tubi germen
comprehendentis formá et articulo, filamentis profundiüs
insertis non membranaceé dilatatis, stylo marcescente, limbi
flexu. The subject cannot be dropped, without adverting
to the next genera Triteleia and Brodiza, concerning the
frst of which Professor Kunth says, that it differs in
nothing but a trifid stigma and emarginate anthers from
Pseudoscordum, and is rather a section thereof, entirely dis-
carding the connection of the latter with Allium. Such
trivial differences would not even constitute a section. Ger-
men tenuiter productum basi longé stipitatà, tubus longé
infundibuliformis limbum valde longitudine superans, are
amongst other differences which separate Triteleia from Al-
lium and its subordinates. Concerning Brodisa, which Prof.
Kunth has confined to one species, grandiflora, elevating
congesta into a genus which he names Dichelostemma, it
must be remembered that both were figured and described by
Salisbury in Paradisus Londinensis under the name Hookera,
in compliment to the excellent artist of that work, and that
Salisbury therein accused Sir J. E. Smith of having read a
paper, wherein he named the plants Brodiza without noticing
his name and definition after it had been published. I do
not know the correct facts, so as to decide whether the name
Brodiea did properly supersede Hookera, but if congesta is
not of the same genus (as Prof. Kunth asserts) with gran-
diflora, on which Salisbury founded Hookera, that name
should remain to the latter plant, and Smith's Brodiza be
confined to congesta. Professor Kunth's new character for
congesta is contained in 21 lines, ending thus, It is dis-
tinguished from Brodiea by the habit and form of the sterile
stamens. Let us see what difference he states. None
distinctly ! but on comparing the two descriptions we find
that in the latter they are merely stated to be “ petaloid,
much longer, lance-spathulate ;" in the former they are stated
to be also petaloid, and their length is not noticed, leaving no
point but lance-spathulate for contrast with his description,

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(as to congesta) ** bifid, shortly cuspidate between lobes tend-
ing to the shape of a knife, having the appearance of a triple
crown.” The upshot of this is merely that the barren sta-
mens in one are entire, and in the other split into two acute
lobes at the end, with sometimes an irregular side-tooth, a
very good specific feature. Who ever thought of separating
Iris into genera on account of the indentures of the margin of
its crests? I shall perhaps surprise the reader by stating,
that, as far as I know, the asserted hypogynous scales in
Brodiea seem to be a fallacy, and that no such thing has
existed in any of the flowers I have examined of either species.
The perianth is thick, and Salisbury was deceived by remain-
ing fragments thereof when he thought he had pulled it off,
and others have, I suppose, taken them for granted. There-
fore “squamæ hypogyne nulle" in other genera is superfluity.
The supposed scales in Pyrolirion, which deceived Ruiz, were
an articulate base to the alternate filaments. The difference
stated by Kunth that B. congesta has the sepals, and grandi-
flora the petals, widest, is incorrect: the petals are widest in
both. Prof. Endlicher places Triteleia and Hesperoscordum,
with genera intervening between them, in Agapanthez, and
Allium in Asphodelez, dividing the original Asphodelez into
suborders, which Prof. Kunth wisely, (because they are not
correct) but, I believe, silently, rejects. On examination of
the characters of those new suborders, (as well as of Aloinex
which intervenes) it will be found that there is no true dis-
tinction, the one suborder by alternatives admitted in its
character comprising the points to which the other is limited,
while other distinctions are incorrectly assumed. The only
positive difference, asserted is in the seeds, and that in some
respects inaccurately, in others insignificantly. It is not a
fact that his Agapanthex have a black or pale membrana-
ceous, and his Asphodelex a black crustaceous shell, nor are
those distinctions true even as to genera. Some of the Cape
Ornithogala have a less crustaceous shell, more compressed
and less globose, than most other Ornithogala, or the genera
Triteleia, Brodiza, and above all Calliprora, in his Agapan-
thee; and Scilla amena in his Asphodelez has the shell
rufous brown amongst its black-seeded congeners.

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65. CESTRUM aurantiacum.

C. aurantiacum; glabrum, foliis petiolatis ovalibus acutis undulatis, floribus
sessilibus spicatis, bracteis deciduis, calyce lucido 5-costato 5d-entato,
corollá glabrá infundibulari limbo reflexo, filamentis basi pubescentibus
denticulo auctis.

This beautiful shrub rivals Jacquinia aurantiaca in colour.
It has smooth, wavy, light green leaves, and spikes of glow-
ing orange-coloured flowers, a full inch long. The Horticul-
tural Society raised it from Guatemala seeds communicated
by G. U. Skinner, Esq., and it has lately flowered in the
Chiswick Gardens. Its native place is said to be Chimalapa.
It will form a most beautiful greenhouse shrub, and as its
habit is good, while its flowers do not easily drop off, it will
doubtless become a favourite with exhibitors.

66. MAXILLARIA scabrilinguis.

M. scabrilinguis (Cyrtopera scabrilinguis, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. no. 3.) ; pseudo-
bulbis ovatis elongatis sulcatis, foliis basi angustatis scapo erecto multi-
floro longioribus, bracteis acutissimis ovario brevioribus, sepalis petalisque
lineari-oblongis acutis lateralibus falcatis, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus
rotundatis intermedio ovato carnosissimo subtereti obtuso longiore:
utráque facie papillis densissimis versus callum oblongum tricostatum
decrescentibus obsitä, antherä pubescente.

By an error, resulting from the examination of insufficient
specimens, this plant, which is nearly allied to M. squalens,
was referred to Cyrtopera in the “Genera and Species of
Orchidaceous Plants." It is a native of the neighbourhood
of Loxa, where Mr. Hartweg found it, and it has flowered
recently in the Garden of the Horticultural Society. The
flowers are dull purplish yellow. The labellum is remarkable
for having all its end, inside and out, covered over with stiff
short pale tubercules, terminated by a purple stain.

67. DICHAA glauca.
Lindl. Gen. $ Sp. Orch. no. 7.

'This, the finest of its curious genus, and delightfully
sweet-scented, has flowered with Messrs. Loddiges, who have
received it from Oaxaca, where, as in other parts of Mexico,
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an imbricated manner, are quite blue with bloom on the
underside. The flowers are pure white, except a spot of
yellow at the very base of each division.

68. HABROTHAMNUS cyaneus.

H. cyaneus; incano-tomentosus, foliis ovato-oblongis undulatis acuminatis
etiolatis, floribus aggregatis axillaribus pedunculatis, calyce ventricoso
asi obtuso 5-dentato irregulari, corollà cylindraceà truncatä 5-dentatä

margine albo pubescente, staminibus corolle longitudine, filamentis
infra medium villosis.

This promises to be a plant of some importance, notwith-
standing a coarse grey downy foliage; for it produces in
great profusion clusters of long flowers of a deep porcelain
blue colour. The corolla has so abrupt a termination that it
looks as if it had been eaten off by some insect. Mr. Hart-
weg found it forming a shrub four to six feet high, on the
mountains of Yangana, near Loxa. It has lately flowered in
the garden of the Horticultural Society.

69. GALEANDRA cristata.

G. cristata ; sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis reflexis, labello convoluto
margine crispo intus pubescente et basi bicarinato calcare acuminato
horizontali, antherze cristá rhombeá unguiculatá.

A native of Cayenne, whence it was received by Messrs.
Loddiges (Cat. 1308) in 1840. It has the habit of G.
Devoniana, but the flowers are much smaller and paler, and
the anther has a very singular crest, resembling a purple
lozenge mounted on a white shaft,

70. BOLBOPHYLLUM recurvum.
Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 58. no. 30.

It is a very curious fact that this little plant, originally
brought from Sierra Leone, should prove to be also an inha-
bitant of the New World. . 'That it is so has been ascertained
by Messrs. Loddiges, who received it from Guiana in 1839 ;
the specimens that have just flowered having proved to be
identical in all respects with the African plant. Angrecum

t (Eceoclades maculatum is another instance of the same
ind.

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71. CAMAROTIS obtusa.

C. obtusa; labello calceiformi lobulo terminali truncato obsolet& tridentato
inflexo intus appendice biloba canaliculatá aucto, columnä tort, rostello
ungue labelli vix longiore.

I have only seen a few flowers of this, which was given
by Mr. Bateman to Messrs. Loddiges. It isof Indian origin,
and has dull dirty rose-coloured flowers, with a yellow lip.
They are much larger than in C. purpurea, but by no means
so handsome. The little lobe at the end of the lip is fleshy,
slightly 3-lobed, and furnished with a singular 2-lobed chan-
nelled appendage. The column is twisted half round, as in
Mormodes.

72. ARALIA macroph ylla.

A. macrophylla ; levis, inermis, herbacea, foliis tripinnatis, foliolis petiolatis
cordatis oblongis serratis acuminatis nunc trilobis, umbellis composito-
racemosis.

This is an herbaceous plant from the North of India,
looking like A. racemosa, but much larger in all its parts.
The flowers, which are greenish-yellow, have been produced
in the garden of the Horticultural Society, where the plant
has been raised from seeds presented by the East India Com-

pany.
73. BOLBOPHYLLUM pileatum.

B. pileatum ; ..... floribus solitariis glabris, sepalis oblongis obtusis late-
ralibus convexis longioribus, petalis conformibus dupló angustioribus,
labello linguiformi obtuso levi pone basin bijugato inter juga subaspera
nectare lucido obducto, columná tereti.muticä, antherá conicà cum dente
postico columnse subulato articulatá, polliniis 4 inzequalibus.

A native of Sincapore, and No. 178 of Messrs. Loddiges'
last catalogue, by whom it was received from Sincapore in the
year 1840. It has a large yellow-ochre-coloured flower, with
a nearly flat moveable labellum stained with two purple
ridges near the base, between which is a little bright yellow
valley, secreting a a matter along its whole length.
The anther is conical, like an old-fashioned high-crowned
hat.

74. PILUMNA laxa.

Among the curious plants that have flowered this year with
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chased at Mr. Skinner's sale, and which, if there is no
mistake in the matter, must have come from Guatemala. It
is, however, so exactly like specimens found in Popayan by
Mr. Hartweg, that we cannot help suspecting some error.
Its general appearance may be understood by its having been
mistaken for a Trichopilia. Its flowers are produced in loose
erect racemes, out of broad obtuse short membranous spotted
bracts. The stalks and ovary are an inch and half long;
the latter with three very stout and strong ribs. "The sepals
and petals are a pale watery green, erect, linear-lanceolate,
equal, faintly tinged with purple. The lip is cream-colour,
rolled round the column at the base, to which it also is
united at the lower end. The column has a singular fringed
hood, overlying the anther, and a nearly vertical stigma,
closed in by fleshy inflected cheeks. In these circumstances it
differs from Aspasia, to which the genus is nearly akin.
Mr. Hartweg found in the same country another species, of
which and the present the foliowing are the technical cha-
racters.

PiLUMNA. Ovarium tricostatum. Sepala et petala eequalia
patula obliqué inserta. Zabedlum basi columne adnatum,
subintegrum, unguiculatum, convolutum, inappendi-
culatum. Columna clavata, teres, clinandrio cucullo
dentato membranaceo circumdato; buccis duabus car-
nosis semiclausum. Stigma verticale. Pollinia 2, postice
fissa, caudicule brevi et glandule ovate adnata.— —
Herb» epiphyte, pseudobulbis vaginatis, foliis coriaceis,
pedunculis radicalibus.—— Genus Aspasis proximum,
clinandrio cucullato, columnä tereti, nec non stigmate
verticali nec faciali diversum.

Sp. 1. Pilumna lara; folio lineari-oblongo, racemo laxo
multifloro breviore, bracteis laxis cucullatis obtusis,
sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis, labello oblongo in-
diviso rotundato medio constricto per axin unilamellato.
——In the woods of Timbio near Popayan.

Sp. 2. Pilumna fragrans; folio lato oblongo, racemo 2-3-
floro breviore, bracteis lanceolatis erectis obtusis, sepalis
petalisque oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis, labello oblongo
apiculato subtrilobo levi.t— Near the city of Popayan.
— — Flowers large, white, sweet-scented, with an orange-
coloured spot on the lip, according to Mr. Hartweg.

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75. EPIDENDRUM purum.

E. purum ($ Euepidendrum) ; caule elongato tereti, foliis ensiformibus ob-
tusis, floribus paniculatis ramis (3) racemosis gracilibus foliis paulo
erectioribus, sepalis angusté lanceolatis, petalis linearibus, labelli tri-
partiti basi 5-costati laciniis ovatis acutis.

A Caraccas plant, sent by Linden to Mr. Rucker, with
whom it flowered in the beginning of September. The leaves
are not half an inch wide, and six or eight inches long. The
flowers are in a thin panicled raceme, of a light pale green
colour, and about the size of those of E. nutans.

76. ONCIDIUM spilopterum.

O. spilopterum (Euoncidia, Pentapetala, micropetala, pandurata) ; pseudo-
bulbis compressis oblongis diphyllis, foliis erectis oblongis scapo erecto
racemoso brevioribus, sepalis ovatis acutis liberis, petalis conformibus
latioribus, labello maximo trilobo subrotundo emarginato apiculato lobis
lateralibus nanis obtusis, cristá anticé trilobá jugis quibusdam verru-
cisque utrinque pone basin quasi 5-lobá, columne alis semicordatis
crenulatis maculatis.

A handsome Oncidium, with quite a peculiar habit,
imported from Brazil by Messrs. Loddiges. Its flowers are
large and yellow, with small brownish purple sepals and
petals; the base of the labellum is the same colour; while
the wings of the column are clear yellow, spotted with crim-
son. The flowers grow in an erect raceme, longer than the
leaves. It may be stationed between O. Lanceanum and

Carthaginense.

77. HABENARIA candida.

H. eandida; caule diphyllo, folis undulatis acuminatis, spicá pauciflorä
(4-5), bracteis acuminatis herbaceis ovario brevioribus, sepalis ovatis
acutis subzequalibus dorsali horizontali, petalis indivisis galeatis obtusis,
labello integerrimo ensiformi, caleare pendulo ovario dupló longiore

apice bilobo.

'The flowers of this rare Orchidaceous plant are scentless
and snow-white, without the least trace or stain, except on the
spur, which is pale green. They are of the size of those in
Cynorchis fastigiata, of which the plant has the habit. Messrs.
Loddiges received it from Sierra Leone, and it is No. 1901
of their last catalogue.

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78. WARREA bidentata.

W. bidentata; bracteis pedicello 4-plo brevioribus, labelli apice bidentati
venis valdé convexis flabellatis lamellis altis intermedià duplö majore.

At first sight we took this for Warrea tricolor. Its lip is
however regular, slit at the end, the veins are much more con-
vex, and the central plates thinner and deeper than in that
species. The bracts too are not half the length. Sent from
the Caraccas to Sigismund Rucker, Esq. with whom it
flowered in the beginning of September.

79. ERIA vestita.

(Dendrobium vestitum, Wall. Cat. no. 9005. Lindl. gen.
$ sp. no. 33.)

E. caulibus pendulis villis deciduis densé vestitis, foliis coriaceis lanceolatis
apice obliquis obtusis integris suprà sparsé subtüs densissimé villosis,
racemis elongatis multifloris flexuosis bracteis ovatis coriaceis persis-
tentibus floribus capsulisque villosis, sepalis lanceolatis lateralibus in
cornu obtuso porrecto connatis mucronulatis, petalis conformibus obtusis
brevioribus glabris, labelli trilobi laciniis lateralibus obtusis intermedia
subrotundä crispá emarginatä pilosá per axin lined elevatá interruptá
velutinà dentibusque paucis auctá, lamellis 7 quarum dus lanceolatse
sinus fere attingentes et quinque parvee dentiformes.

This singular plant, with the structure of a woolly Eria,
and the habit of a pendulous Dendrobium, is a native of the
Indian Archipelago. Dr. Wallich's collectors had it from
Sincapore, and Mr. Cuming sent it from Manilla (?) to
Messrs. Loddiges. It is singularly clothed with a thick
reddish brown hairiness. The flowers are reddish brown
externally, white inside, and hang down in pendulous spikes,
which are longer than the leaves.

80. AMARYLLIS Slateriana.
(Herbert MSS. Amaryllis. Banksiana, supra 1842. t. 11.)

In the opinion of the Dean of Manchester this is not the
plant to which he. gave the name of Banksiana in his work
on Amaryllidacez (p. 279. t. 32. f. 2.), and he proposes that
it should bear the name of James. Henry Slater, Esq. of
Newick Park, near Uckfield, to whom we are indebted for
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Cape bulbs has conduced so much to our knowledge of these
beautiful things. We are most happy to give effect to Dr.
Herbert’s recommendation, for certainly, be its name what it
may, it is one of the finest species we yet possess. “ The
flowers are very much smaller than those of A. Banksiana,”’
but we are not sufficiently acquainted with the genus to be
able to draw up a satisfactory specific character.

81. NAPOLEONA imperialis.
Palisot de Beauvois Fl. d' Oware et de Benin, 2. 88.

Among the most remarkable plants that have hitherto.
been discovered ranks this rare species, of which living plants
have been lately brought from Sierra Leone by Mr. Whit-
field. That indefatigable collector having given me a dried.
specimen with a seed, and the Earl of Derby having most.
kindly placed in my hands a bottle containing the flowers in
different states, an opportunity has arisen for clearing up the.
history of one of the most obscure genera in the records of
Systematical Botany.

Napoleona was so named by the late M. Palisot de Beau-
vois, who first found it in the kingdom of Oware, in Western
Africa, where it was common, especially in the woods behind
the King of Oware's residence. From fragments preserved
by that naturalist a good figure, so far as general appearance
goes, was published ; but with extremely inaccurate and in-
complete details. The flowers were represented as being sky
blue, with a sort of 5-rayed star of a pink colour in the
middle, and upon the whole the account which he gave of it
was so unsatisfactory, that the very existence of the plant has
been doubted by some people. In what De Beauvois was
right and in what wrong, the following description will shew.

It forms a bush about as large as a Camellia, according to
Mr. Whitfield. The wood is soft, whitish, with large medul-
lary rays, an abundance of dotted vessels, intermingled with
brittle acicular tubes of woody tissue, very like what is found
in the germinating radicle of a Mangrove. No hairs are to
be found on any part of the plant. :

The leaves are alternate, leathery, between three and six

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and narrowed at the base into a thick channelled petiole about
3 of an inch long ; there is no trace of stipules. -

The flowers grow in threes, sessile in the axil of the
leaves, and are surrounded at their base by several round
imbricated scales, as in Camellias ; when expanded they mea-
sure two inches in diameter ; Mr. Whitfield states that when
decaying they assume a bluish tint, which has probably led
to De Beauvois' error in representing them as almost wholly
blue in their perfect state.

The calyz is a thick leathery cup, divided into five ovate
segments, having a perfectly valvate »stivation.

Within this is placed the corolla, which consists of three
distinct rings, each of which is monopetalous. The first ring
is apricot colour, divided into five lobes, each of which has
seven stiff ribs, between which the texture is membranous ;
the lobes have seven broad teeth, corresponding with the points
of the ribs, and much curled and crumpled ; by means of the
ribs and intervening membrane, this part of the corolla is
strongly plaited both before and after expansion ; when fully
blown it turns quite back over the calyx, so as to hide it com-
pletely. The second ring is very small and thin ; it is in fact
a narrów membrane, stationed at the foot of the first ring,
and cut into an indefinite number of fine narrow sharp-pointed
segments; this ring was overlooked by De Beauvois. The
third ring is rich crimson, according to Mr. Whitfield, mem-
branous, but erect, and assuming the form of a cup, whose
edge is cut into many fine segments, turned downwards, so as
not to be at all conspicuous. De Beauvois makes this a flat
star of many points, which is altogether an error.

The stamens are in number 20, standing erect in the form
of another cup, of a rich apricot colour, and unequally united
at their base; they have linear-lanceolate filaments, which
are much thinner next the anthers, and are there turned
inwards; the anther itself is oblong, 2-celled, and erect; it is
difficult to conceive how De Beauvois could have made out
of this five petal-like filaments, each of which bears two
anthers.

Next the stamens comes a deep fleshy cup or disk, standin

as high as the stigma, and having ten sides, of which the
narrowest are alternate with the lobes of the stigma, and two-
ribbed in the inside.

The ovary is buried beneath the mass formed by the base

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of the corolla, stamens and disk, so that unless you cut into
the very base of the ovary the cells may be overlooked ; it
has five cells, in each of which two ovules hang from the top
of an axile placenta, which is so attached to the partitions
that there is a clear opening from the hollow centre of the
style, over the ovules, into the cells of the ovary ; the ovules
are oblong, with a depression in the middle on each side, and
a foramen next the base, the nucleus being curved like
a horse-shoe, so that its base and apex are both nearly in
contact; the style is 5-angled, or rather 5-winged, and ter-
minated by a table-shaped stigma, with five sides, five rays,
and a small elevation at each angle, which elevations are per-
haps the true stigmatic surfaces.

The fruit, according to De Beauvois, is a soft spherical
berry, surmounted by the calyx, one-celled, many-seeded, the
seeds lying in a fleshy matter; this is evidently incorrect.
Mr. Whitfield found it to be as large as a Pomegranate, and
very like one, containing a mucilaginous pulp which is
eatable, and a rind so full of tannin, that the natives make an
ink from it. l E

The seeds (of which I have seen one, dead and without its
skin) are large amygdaloid bodies, kidney-shaped, and as
much as 14 inch long, with the taste (in that state) of a
Spanish chesnut, but with a bitter aftertaste; at their con-
traction the plano-convex cotyledons hold together by an axis
whose radicle and plumule are both immersed in the substance
of the cotyledons.

Such being the true structure of this plant, its generic
character may be stated thus.

NAPOLEONA.
(Palisot de Beauvois fl. d Oware et de Benin, vol.2. p. 99. 1.78.)

Calyx adherens, coriaceus, 5-fidus, «stivatione valvatus.
Corolla e verticillis tribus plicatis monopetalis constans,
quorum exterior maximus, 5-lobus reflexus, laciniis 7-
costatis dentibusque totidem crispis acuminatis; secundus
ascendens, annuliformis, alté multipartitus, laciniis line-
aribus acuminatis crispis ; tertius erectus, cyathiformis,
plicatus, margine multifido inflexo. Stamina 20, corollee
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monadelpha; filamentis lineari-lanceolatis, membrana-
ceis, apice tenuiori incurvis; antheris deflexis, oblongis,
bilocularibus, basi fixis. Discus cyathiformis, altus, car-
nosus, 10-angularis, subplicatus. Ovarium adhærens, car-
nosum, loculis 5, in imá basi pedunculo proximä sepul-
tis ; ovulis 20, campylotropis, superpositis, per paria apici
placentee axilis semiliberz affixis. Stylus pentagonus,
angulis subalatis; stigma disciforme, pentagonum, 5-ra-
diatum, intra angulos glandulam verruciformem (an
verum stigma) gerens. Fructus (Mali Punici magnitu-
dine, pulpá mucosa farctus, cortice austerá Dom Whit-
field). Semina fab; magnitudine, reniformia, exalbu-
minosa; cotyledonibus plano-convexis, radiculà immersä.

In the total absence of all correct information as to the real
structure of this curious genus, Botanists have been unable to
arrive at any satisfactory conclusion as to its affinities. AI
that they have been able to settle is its not belonging to
any known natural order.

Palisot de Beauvois stated (1807) that in the opinion of
Jussieu, it constituted a new order between Cucurbitacee and
Passiflorace@; a view that was probably taken in consequence
of the double-ringed corolla, which is analogous to the
coronet of the Passion-flowers, and the plaited corolla with an
ler ovary, which brings to mind the flowers of the Gourd

ribe.

Desfontaines, on the contrary (1820), refers it, and another
genus which he calls Asteranthus, without any doubt, to
Symplocacee, because of its monopetalous perigynous corolla,
lts stamens inserted in the base of the corolla, its oblong two-
celled anthers, single style, inferior ovary, axillary solitary
flowers, shrubby stem, and alternate leaves. :

Him follows Dr. Robert Brown (1822), who formed it
and Asteranthus into an order called Belvisiee, without, how-
ever, attempting to settle its position in the natural system.
He objected to approximating it to Symplocacez, doubted its
affinity to Passifloraceze, and compared its structure with that
. of Raftlesia,

| Latterly no one seems to have attempted to suggest any-
thing new as to its relationship. Endlicher puts it next
Symplocacex. Meisner next Passifloracez, adding to what
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mistake (?) that probably originated in De Beauvois' descrip-
tion of them ** Semina in pulpä carnosä nidulantia." Finally,
I myself, feeling that these could not be its true affinities,
placed it in the Campanul alliance, with marks of great doubt.

It is obvious, from the foregoing description, that Napo-
leona has nothing to do with any of the orders to which it
has been referred. From Cucurbitacee it differs utterly in
its hermaphrodite flowers, axile placentation, highly developed
corola, and whole habit; it has in fact no resemblance to
that order. Passifloracex seem at first sight to claim a much
nearer relationship ; because of the triple-rowed corolla of
Napoleona, which much resembles the coronet of a Passion-
flower; but there the resemblance ceases. The tendrils, parietal
placentze, free ovary, distinct styles, polypetalous corolla, 1m-
bricated calyx of Passifloracew, are all most essentially at
variance with the genus. Symplocacez were a far better
guess, for the monopetalous corolla, indefinite. epipetalous
stamens, axile placentze, adherent calyx, and definite seeds of
Napoleona find there a parallel; but the ovary of that genus
is wholly adherent, with a great epigynous disk, the calyx is
valvate, and the seeds have no albumen, to say nothing of the
lacerated condition of the corolla, which is not to be wholly
disregarded in a consideration of this kind.

'To me it appears that the true affinity is in the neigh-
bourhood of the Mangroves (Rhizophoracez); for the follow-
ing reasons. The ovary is in both inferior, few-seeded, with
axile placente ; both have a coriaceous valvate calyx; both
have large amygdaloid seeds without albumen. The placenta
of Kandelia is almost the same as that of Napoleona, and in
the former genus the petals are broken up into numerous
fringes quite analogous to those of the genus in question. To
this may be added the great resemblance that exists between
the wood of Napoleona and of young Rhizophora, in conse-
quence of both consisting in part of slender acicular tubes,
which give the wood, when broken across, the appearance of
containing slender bristles. Finally, the ribbing, which is so
conspicuous in the outer corolla of Napoleona, is repeated in
the calyx of Bruguiera gymnorhiza. It is true that the one
genus is monopetalous and the other polypetalous, but I cannot
attribute much importance to that character 1n a case where
the stamens adhere so slightly to the corolla.

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phoracez will prove most nearly related to Napoleona, the
affinity of the genus to some Myrtacez, is not to be overlooked ;
as, for example, to Verticordias, in which there is the same
tendency to a multiplication of the series of the corolla, to
Careyas, whose fruit has a very similar structure, and to
Barringtonias to which Napoleona is very similar in foliage ;
but these affinities are less striking than that of the Mangrove
tribe. They shew, however, pretty clearly that Belvisiacee,
for so it is most convenient to call the order of which Napo-
leona is the most conspicuous member, belongs to the great
Myrtal alliance.

82. The Section of EPIDENDRUM named
SPATHIUM.

This is one of the divisions of Epidendrum proposed in
Hooker's Journal of Botany, vol. 3. p. 81, and is distinguished
by its stem being slender leafy and erect, its flowers placed
on a long peduncle, which proceeds from a spathe consisting
of one or more equitant bracts, and by its labellum being
wholly attached to the corolla. It differs from $ AuLtzeum
in its stem being covered with leaves and not pseudobulbous,
with two or three leaves at the end only. It is also very
near $ AuPHIGLOTTIUM, from which it is distinguished by the
branches not being excessively lengthened and covered with
close pressed scales below the flowers. In their stead there
is usually a long sheathing spathe, like that of Cattleya, out
of which the inflorescence proceeds: occasionally there are
several of such spathes. E. (Amphiglottium) cornutum is
one of the connecting links between the two sections.

S SPATHIUM.
SPATHIUM, Lindl. in Hooker s Journal of Botany, 8.81. (1841).
* Lip undivided,

l. E. grandiflorum (Lindl. in Hook. Journ. 8. 86) ; foliis
distichis ensiformibus obtusis, racemo denso terminali
basi flexuoso e spathà duplici orto, sepalo dorsali ovali
lateralibus duplo latioribus dimidiatis, petalis linearibus,
labello subrotundo cordato emarginato margine postico

crispo venis baseos 2 elevatis. Peru. A plant with
the inflorescence of E. variegatum. Flowers coriaceous,

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about twice as large as in that species.—(Not in culti-
vation.)

2. E. Scutella ; folis coriaceis ovato-lanceolatis distichis,
spathä brevi lata acinaciformi pedunculo quali, racemo
umbellato paucifloro, sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis,
labello oblongo cordato plano ecalloso. In the woods
of Guayan, on the western slope of Pichincha, rare.
(Hartweg.) Flowers greenish yellow, very large. Lip
Ys an inch long. Spathe very broad, about half an inch

ong.

3. E. mancum; folis 3-4 oblongis obtusis carnosis oblique
emarginatis supremo spathe longitudine, racemo stricto
multifloro foliis multó longiore, floribus carnosis, sepalis
subrotundo-oblongis obtusissimis, petalis spathulatis apice
concavis, labello minimo postico carnoso concavo indiviso
callo magno margine membranaceo in medio. On the
Cordillera, near Loxa, flowering in July. (Hartweg.)
Flowers rather small, orange and yellow.

4. E. adenoglossum (Lindl in Hook. Journ. 3. 86); foliis

- earnosis lineari-oblongis obtusis, racemo elongato sim-
plici terminali e spathä ancipiti pedunculo breviore orto,
sepalis ovatis reticulatis, petalis linearibus 3-veniis acutis,
labello lineari basi callis 3 instructo. Peru.
Flowers small, in a thin spike. —(Not in cultivation.)

5. E.ventricosum (Lindl. in Hook. Journ. 8. 86) ; foliis lineari-
lanceolatis acutis, racemis angustis multifloris e spathä
lineari ortis, floribus membranaceis, sepalis subsequalibus
oblongis acutis, petalis filiformibus, columnä ventricosä,
labello ovato cordato acutissimo basi bicalloso. Peru.

A slender plant, with the stem about six inches up

to the commencement of the spathe. Racemes from 4—5

inches long, including the spathe which covers the whole

peduncle. Flowers purple, small, membranous.—(Not
in cultivation.)

** Lip more or less three-lobed.

6. E. brachyglossum ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis apice rotundatis
obliquis, racemo elongato simplici terminali nutante e
spathá ancipiti pedunculo breviore orto, floribus carnosis,
sepalis obovatis concavis, petalis linearibus S-venus acutis,
labello brevi trilobo : laciniis lateralibus nanis intermediä
ovatà : callis duobus lamelleformibus tuberculoque inter-

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jecto instructo. On the western face of the Andes, near
Nanegal. (Hartweg.)——A slender creeping rooted
plant, with small flowers and the appearance of E. adeno-
glossum, but the leaves are narrower and the lip has a
different form.

7. E. leucochilum (Klotzsch in Gartenzeit. 1843. p. 145);
foliis distichis coriaceis patenti-recurvis obtusis emargi-
natis subtus costato-carinatis, racemo simplici terminali
6-floro e spathä ancipiti pedunculo breviore orto floribus
magnis arcuato-pedicellatis odoratis perigonii foliolis line-
aribus acutis versus basin attenuatis margine recurvis in-
terioribus patenti-arcuatis exterioribus deflexis, labelli
trilobi lobis lateralibus brevioribus integerrimis oblique
orbicularibus intermedio elongato acuminato venis baseos
3 elevatis instructo, columna elongata candida inferne ad
apicem biloba. Caraccas. Found by Mr. Edward
Otto, 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.
Klotzsch aud Edward Otto in the above-mentioned place.
The flowers are yellowish green with a white lip.

8. E. armeniacum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1867. Encyclia ma-
crostachya, Poppig. & Endl. n. g. et sp. 2. t. 114);
caulibus teretibus erectis indivisis, foliis lanceolatis coria-
ceis acutis subplicatis, racemis pedunculatis cylindraceis
nutantibus, sepalis patulis ovatis acutis, petalis setaceis,
labelli subcucullati laciniis lateralibus rotundatis inter-
medià ovatà acuminatá : callo magno oblongo in discum.

Brazil and Peru.— — Flowerssmall, apricot coloured,

in a slender drooping spike.

9. E. nutans (Swartz Prodr. 121. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1. 1499.
Willd. no. 13. Hooker Exot. Bot. 1. t. 50 optimé.
Lindl. gen. et sp. orch. no. 44); foliis oblongis distichis
undulatis obtusis, paniculä nutante multiflora, sepalis ob-
longo-lanceolatis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis obtusis
patentibus, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus cordatis ovatis:
intermedio transverso truncato apiculato basi bicalloso
venis tribus elevatis. West Indies, and Brazil.
This well known plant has been found by Dr. Von
Martius on the Corcovado in Brazil, in rocky places. Its
green flowers are sweet-scented in an evening. Many
varieties are found in our gardens.

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10. E. refractum (Lindl. in Ann. Nat. Hist. xii.) ; folio car-
noso ovato-oblongo coriaceo obtuso, pedunculo elongato
spathis plurimis falcatis obtusis distinctis vaginato, racemo
brevi 4—5-floro cernuo, floribus carnosis, sepalis oblongis
acutis dorsali refracto, petalis ovalibus subconformibus,
labello subrotundo cordato trilobo basi biverrucoso per
medium calloso, lacinia intermedia abbreviata truncata.
— — Caraccas. —— A very singular plant, with six or
seven herbaceous, equitant, distinct falcate spathes on a
peduncle about nine inches long. "The sepals are about
three-quarters of an inch long.

11. E. geminiflorum (Humb. et Kunth. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Pl.
1. 354. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. no. 26); caule repente
ramoso, foliis oblongis obtusis coriaceis, pedunculis
subbifloris, sepalis lanceolatis acuminatis patulis margine
revolutis, petalis conformibus planis, labello ovato cor-
dato subcucullato trilobo : lobis lateralibus rotundatis ab

g- intermedio sinu brevi sejunctis.——Popayan.-——Stem

i with dwarf, stiff, erect side branches. Flowers middle-

sized, very fleshy, with extremely sharp pointed divisions.

(Not in cultivation.)

Es e^) BRETTEN

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*** Lip three-parted.

12. E. longiflorum (Humb. et Kunth. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Pl. 1.
354. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. no. 45) ; foliis oblongis obtusis
striatis coriaceis, racemi nutantis pedunculo spathä max-
ima breviore, sepalis petalisque lanceolato-linearibus
acuminatis margine revolutis, labelli tripartiti laciniis
lateralibus ovatis oblique truncatis revolutis : intermediä
lanceolatá acuminatä margine revolutá duplö longiore.
—-— New Granada and Popayan. A most noble
plant, with its yellow flowers more than four inches
across. Some of the leaves are about a foot long. (Not
in cultivation.) j

13. E. spathaceum (Lindl. in Hook. Journ. 3. 85); foliis....,

A racemis alternis densissimis pendulis spathis foliaceis fal-

Y catis conduplicatis vix longioribus, sepalis rigidis striatis

acutis, petalis filiformibus, labelli trilobi laciniis latera-

libus subintegris intermediá ovali obtusá basi bilamellatä
brevioribus. Peru. Obtained by Mr. Mathews out of
the herbarium of Ruiz and Pavon, preserved at Lima.

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one and a half foot long, and consist of dense racemes
proceeding from the axil of falcate spathes, so as to have
.a great resemblance to that of some Palm. _ Perhaps
this ought to be rather referred to Amphiglottium ; but
its large sheathing spathes, full six inches long, under
each branch of the inflorescence, seem to justify its being
placed in this section. (Not in cultivation.)

14. E. excisum ; folis latis oblongis apice rotundatis excisis,
spatha lata coriaceà pedunculo longiore, floribus laxé
paniculatis, petalis filiformibus, labello hastato basi bical-
loso laciniis lateralibus cordatis crenulatis intermediá
lineari divergenti bilobá. On the ascent to Sotara,
near the village of Totoro, in Popayan. (Hartweg.)——
This is very much like E. floribundum, of which it has
quite the habit, but it has a great sheathing spathe.— (In
cultivation ?)

15. E. cylindraceum ; caule ramoso, ramulis basi vaginatis
glabris, foliis cuique ramulo 2 ovato-oblongis, pedun-
culo spathis 2-3 equitantibus elongatis herbaceis vestito,
racemo elongato cylindraceo, sepalis obovatis acutis dorso
scabris, petalis linearibus levibus, labelli 3-partiti basi
tricallosi laciniis lateralibus angustis antrorsum falcatis
postice serrulatis intermediá lineari basi latiore apice in
lobos 2 subrotundos serrulatos divisà.— — In the woods
of Pitayo, in the province of Popayan, at the height of
10,500 feet. (Hartweg.) Flowers small, in a ver
dense cylindrical raceme, about six inches long. (Notin
cultivation ?)

16. E. Trinitatis ; caulibus foliosis ancipitibus, foliis lineari-
lanceolatis glaucescentibus apice obtusis obliqué emar-
ginatis, racemo terminali nutante peduneulato basi
vaginis herbaceis equitantibus imbricato, sepalis peta-
lisque lineari-lanceolatis, petalis piliformibus, labelli
lobis lateralibus concavis denticulatis intermedio lineari-
lanceolato acuminato basi 3-calloso. Trinidad.——
Flowers small, in a long raceme, pale greenish yellow,

with a deep apricot-yellow lip. Not very ornamental,
but pretty.

**** Lip siz-parted.

17. E. raniferum (L. no. 64. Bot. Reg. 1842. t. 42.); foliis
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divaricatis multifloris, sepalis ligulatis convexis obtusis
petalisque linearibus cuneatis mucronulatis patentis-
simis, labelli sexlobi basi 3-callosi laciniis integerrimis
dentatisque: posticis rotundatis —intermediis linearibus
—anticis linearibus obtusis retrosum falcatis. —— Mexico
and British Guayana (Schomburgk, no. 424.)——
Although a good deal like E. nutans, this species is
really very distinct, and indeed far handsomer ; in con-
sequence of the rich purplish brown spots with which the
sepals and petals are profusely decorated. Like so many
of the order this species varies a good deal in the amount
of toothing observable in its lip. In the original speci-
mens the divisions were perfectly entire ; in other plants
they are all toothed, or both the one and the other.

83. CALIPHRURÍA Hartwegiana.

ÁMARYLLIDACEE ; $ PANCRATIFORMES. CALIPHRURIA; Herbert.
Germen breve trisule® obovatum; tubus angusté subinfundibuliformis
subsulcatus rectus fer; limbus regularis sepalis parum latioribus reflex?
stellatus ; filamenta laciniarum basi inserta seta utrinque subparallelà
munita; antherz subsagittatee dorso infra medium supra lobos affixze
rectee apice parum curvato introrsum verse ; stylus rectus stigmate sub-
recurvé trilobo lobo inferiore parum protruso; ovarium loculis 2-3-
spermis ; ovula subquadraté oblonga in loculis transverse posita.— W. H.

Caliphruria Hartwegiana ; bulbo ovato, folis petiolatis subdepressis peren-
nibus petiolo subbiunciali superficie planá dorso rotundato laminà sex-
unciali vel ultra acuminaté ovali interdum subplicate canaliculatä satu-
raté viridi, scapo vix compresse subtereti pedali colore glauco florido
superfuso, spathà acutà bivalvi intus bracteatá pedunculos parum cur-
vatos sequante, umbellà 7-florà, germine subdeclinato, tubo semunciali
viridi, limbo semunciali albo stylum album zequante, filamentis cum setis

lateralibus albis, antheris luteis.—W. H.

This plant, found in New Granada near Guaduas by
Mr. Hartweg, is evidently akin to Eurycles of Amboyna and
Australia, forming a link between that genus and Griffinia.
It is not improbable, that the white bristle on each side the
filament may be found obsolete in other species, for the genus
Stenomesson shews great diversity of such appendages, even
in plants which are evidently varieties of one species, and
differ in no other respect. "This plant, except im the inflo-
rescence, has much the appearance of an Eucrosia, but with
the blade of the leaf more horizontally depressed. I appre-

hend that it will have fleshy sceds.—W. H.

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84. HABRANTHUS nobilis.

H. nobilis (Herbert) ; foliis suberassis subobtusis ultra + unc. latis viridibus,
scapo subcompresso subpedali viridi, spathà biunciali valvis acuminatis
marcescentibus, pedunculis sex insequalibus 3-23-unc. viridibus, germine
4 unc. viridi, tubo brevi (vix ultra 4 unc.) virescente membranä fauciali
minuté barbatà, limbo saturaté rubro 24 unc. vel infra costä extus vires-
cente intus albescente, filamento sepalino superiore elongato, stylo
superne rubro inferne pallido antheras luteas superante limbo semun-
ciam breviore.

This fine species flowered out of doors in front of the
pine-stove of the Rev. F. Belfield, jun. at Primley Hill, near
Torquay, in October, having been cultivated there a few
years. "Though of much stronger habit, it should perhaps be
considered a variety of H. kermesinus.—W. H.

85. TRIMEZIA Meridensis.

Trimezia ; Salisbury, absque charactere. Perianthium valde dispar basi
laciniarum coherens, ungues sepalini lati crateriformes petalini angus-
tiores incurvi, laminz sepalinze semipatentes petalinse recurve, filamenta
filiformia spiree modo torta disci papillis inserta. antheree styli lobis firmé
adheerentes partibiles sublateraliter fissze connectivo lineari, stylus inferne
linearis superne trilobus lobis laminseformibus cucullatis stigmatibus
mollibus bilobis lobis bifariis; semina glabra, badia, subrotunda, testä
dura.—W. H.

T. Meridensis (Herbert); perianthio lzeté luteo fasciä subfuscä transversá leviter
pubescente ad laminarum sepalinarum basim maculis quinque contiguis
constante, macula magna unguis sepalini medio tribusque parvulis ad
utrumque latus tribusque ad basim medise magnitudinis, maculà rotundá
ad lam. petalinarum basim leviter pubescente sex parvulis in ungue
media biseriatim dispositis, ad basim unà. Cætera ut in T. Martinicensi.
Ex montibus Meride prope Maracaibo.—W. H.

This plant, handsomer than the old species, long called Iris
Martinicensis, was imported by Mr. Harris, having been
found on the snowy mountains of Merida by his collector

Mr. Mackenzie.—W. H.

86. BELLEVALIA Syriàca.

B. Syriaca (Herbert) ; foliis 12-14 glaueis vix semunciam latis subpedalibus
canalieulatis subacutis margine sub lente scabro, scapo 5-10-unciali su-
perne purpurascente, pedunculis suberecté patentibus seepissime tribus
feré pariter insertis, inferis $ unc. superioribus gradatim brevioribus,
bracteis brevissimis bilobis, tubo 4 unc. pallidé coerulescente, limbo pari

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subalbescente apice subrufescente, filamentis albis complanato-subulatis,
antheris fusco-purpureis, seminibus rotundis.— W. H.

Bulbs of this plant, received by the Hon. W. Fox Strang-
ways from Aleppo, (whether found near Aleppo or Damascus
is not ascertained) were sent four years ago to Spofforth.
They remained sulky two years; one sprouted and flowered
in the third and fourth year, and another in the fourth, the
rest having perished. They are hardy, and have ripened
seed. Allied to B. Romana and dubia.—W. H.

87. GLADIÓLUS festivus.

G. festivus (Herbert) ; caule precoce sesquipedali bracteato decemfloro, floribus
confertis (i.e. semunciam distantibus) secundis bracteis subsequalibus
$ unc. longis, perianthio sesquiunciali, tubo bracteas sequante inferne
tenuiter cylindrico albo, limbo pallidé roseo, petalo superiore laciniis
ceteris valde majore concavo incurvato plus semunc. lato, sepalis supe-
rioribus } unc. latis compressis, labio inferiore superius fere «equante
laciniis obtusis inferne pallidis mediá costá luteá, petalis inferioribus
inferne et mediá parte a lineá luteá marginem tenus albo-lutescentibus ;
foliis hysteranthiis leevibus angustis acutis.— W. H.

This Cape species has flowered in the Royal Botanic
Garden, Kew.

88. PLANTIA flava.

PrLaNTIA ; Herbert. Cormus tunicatus 5 folium sublineare amplexicaule ;
caulis multiflorus bracteis foliiformibus superne spicaté breviter ramosus ;
involucrum bivalve pedunculos et germen oblongum gracile includens ;
perianthium non tubatum sexfidum laciniis distinctis germine articulatis
regularibus ; filamentorum columna monadelpha inferne ampliata stylum
amplexa ; antherz breves dorsi ime parti affixee subsessiles stigmatum
lobos interpositee ; stylus tenuis superne trilobus erectus ; stigmata
biloba lobis brevibus acutis depressé divaricantibus ; capsula obovata
triloc. triv. trisule. Semina angulata testá brunneä.—W. H.

P. flava (Herbert); folio unico angusto elongato, ramis brevissimis, involucris
circiter 4-floris vel ultra valvà exteriore et interiore acuminatis ultra un-

cialibus pedunculos et germen gracile oblongum acumine superantibus,
perianthio pallidé flavo stellà saturatiore laciniis subconniventibus petalis

minoribus inferne magis angustatis, genitalibus flavis.—W. H.

This pretty and florid little plant was first introduced into
this country as a Morza by Synott ; and has been since raised
at Spofforth from Cape seed under the name of Sisyrinchium.
It is named after Mr. Plant, a zealous and industrious expe-
rimental cultivator and nurseryman at Cheadle, to whom we
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now believes that he has succeeded in crossing Lilium lancez-
folium with Chalcedonicum. It forms a genus between
Sisyrinchium and Homeria —W. H.

89. BIDWELLIA glaucescens.

BipwrLL:A; Herbert. [Vel, si mavis, Asphodeli sectio, Bidwellia.] Ab
Asphodelo et Asphodeline filamentis superne clavatis cum acumine secer-
nenda, cetera fer& conformis.—W. H.

B. glaucescens (Herbert) ; foliis angustis glaucis crassis linearibus superne
planis dorso rotundato, caule inferne simplici medio 2-4-divaricaté furcato
pedunculis brevibus bracteatis subalternatim dispositis duobus termina-
libus, germine brevi bracteam subsequante, perianthio regulari sub sole
patente subtortiliter deciduo basi brevi sexsulcatà ovario adnatà pedun-
culo continuatà laciniis =>, unc. uninervibus albis costa et intus lin^à
subrubrä striatis petalis latioribus, filamentis basi dilatatä pubescente
concavé ovarium tegente mediä parte filiformibus superne clavatis cum
acumine, antheris brevibus versatilibus introrsis dorso supra lobos affixis
inferne bilobis latioribus superne acutis, stylo tenui stigmate lobis tribus
brevibus rotundis fimbriatis, capsulá subrotundá utrinque attenuata tri-
valvi valvis medio septiferis loculis dispermis dehiscente, seminibus testá
subfuscá dorso rotundo transversé tricostato angulata loculi dimidio
conformibus (i. e. corporis obovati quarta pars) sulcis 2 dorsalibus 3-4
lateralibus transversis hilo subalbido inconspicuo a tertià parte anguli
interioris pendulis. Obs. Genus occidentale Americanum, mihi Tri-
hesperus, simili ratione ob filamenta triformia inferne filiformia superne
clavata cum acumine,.(seu sectio, si mavis,) a Phalangio seu Antherico
secernendum est. Spec. 1. Glaucus, Bot. Mag. 3610, et alter apud me
ex Lime vicinia in colle Chorillos dicto v. foliis non glaucis. 2. Lati-
folius, Humb. et K. 1. 276.—W. H.

This plant was introduced, with others, into Europe by
Mr. Bidwell of Sydney. It is a native of an elevated tract
of table-land called New England, on the south-eastern moun-
tains of the Australian continent. —W. H.

90. LEOCHILUS herbaceus.

L. herbaceus ; labello obovato emarginato apice denticulato medio convexo
leevi basi excavato villoso.

An inconspicuous plant from La Guayra, imported by
George Wailes, Esq., of Newcastle. Its sepals and petals
are green, with a single red stripe along the middle. The
lip is white slightly tinged with green, and irregularly
banded with pale purple. It differs from L. oncidioides in
the form and surface of the lip. I believe, too, that the
flowers are in pairs; but I have only seen fragments.

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91. LEOCHILUS sanguinolentus.

L. sanguinolentus; labello pandurato sepalis multó majore apice bilobo:
laciniis subrotundis imbricatis superficie planá levi supra basin 3-tuber-
culatà basi ipsa villosa, column alis abbreviatis, clinandrii dorso elevato,
antherä parvá.

This also comes from La Guayra, whence Mr. Barker
received it. Although the flowers are small they are very
beautiful, having a deep crimson lip richly studded with clear
purple spots. In the smallness of its anthers, the extension
of the anther-bed behind into an elevated rim, and in the
shortness of the column wings, it is somewhat different from
the rest of the genus. I have only seen a couple of flowers.

99. EPIDENDRUM ceratistes.

E. ceratistes (Encyclium 111.*); pseudobulbis conicis 2-3-phyllis, foliis
ensiformibus strictis scapo duplo brevioribus, paniculá longá cernuä
racemiformi ramulis levibus divaricatis, sepalis petalisque obovatis
acutissimis subconformibus (herbaceis), labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus
erectis obtusis ovatis apice recurvis intermedio subrotundo unguiculato
acuminato crispo striato, ungue medio depresso versus basin 4-costato,
columnä bicornutä, antherä tricostatä.

A native of the Spanish Main, whence it was brought by
Mr. Hartweg to the Horticultural Society, with whom it
flowered in October last. Its panicle is very narrow, and
about three feet long; the leaves resemble those of E. vir-
gatum, but are not so glaucous; the flowers are extremely
similar to those of E. selligerum, but they are a clear green
with a whitish lip, and the column has two horn-like arms.
It is rather sweet-scented.

93. PHYCELLA obtusa.

P. obtusa ; folio synanthio sesquipedali horizontali oblongo in petiolum longé
angustato (4 poll. lato), scapo stricto tereti glauco subspirali, umbellà
6-florá pedunculis tubo brevioribus, tubo cylindraceo basi abrupté obtuso
sexcostato (carneo) apice (viridi) patulo, staminibus stylo multö bre-

vioribus.

This species is so very like P. chloracra, that it might
be mistaken for it; but it has stamens considerably shorter
than the style, and the tube, instead of being green at the

92

bottom, where it gradually tapers into the ovary, is wholly
flesh colour, and ends above the ovary in six abrupt prominent

ribs. Mr. Hartweg sent it to the Horticultural Society from
Peru.

FOR THE YEARS 1838 TO 1844.

INDEX

TO THE

BOTANICAL REGISTER,

PART I.—SPECIES DESCRIBED.

Abies Kutrow
Abutilon striatum

——

Acacia cultriformis
cyanophylla
cuneata
platyptera .
biflora . »
urophylla .
spectabilis .

vitifolium .

Acanthophippium striatum

Achimenes grandiflora
hirsuta
longiflora
pedunculata
rosea.

——

Acanthostachys strobilacea

Acianthera punctata
Aconitum ovatum
Aeriopsis picta .
Aerides Brookeii
crispum
virens .
ZEonium cruentum .
Youngianum
ZEschynanthus maculatus

ZEsculus Ohiotensis .
ZEtheria occulta à
Aganisia pulchella .

Agapanthus umbellatus var.

maximus. .
Agave saponaria

Allium ceruleum .
Alnus jorullensis — .
Alona ccelestis .
Alstroemeria Ligtu .

— magnifica
— Chorillensis
— lineatiflora
Amaryllis Banksiana
Slateriana

Ammoniacum . »
Ampelygonum chinense

.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.

grandiflorus

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1841
1839
1841
1840
1844
1838
1839
1839
1841
1841
1841
1843
1838
1842
1843
1842
1842
1841
1841
1843
1840
1843
1841
1842
1843
1844
1841
1844
1841
1841
1838
1838
1839
1840

1843
1838
1839
1840
1840
1844
1839
1843
1843
1844
1843
1842
1844
1839
1838

pl. misc,
oo 24
v. DÀ
.. 16
«e. 114
5] 0%
.. 62
.. 64
.. 74
.. 10
.. 30
.. 64
46 53
«> 68
gee OD
55 103
19. ..
31 ..
65 ..
2498
sa 10
.. 118
22: 105
.. 116
55 ee
va 4B
4 u
6 ..
SD ..
28 ..
49 ..
öl ee
s~ 178
412.08
32 ee
7-5
se 141
65 ..
DE- s
58
46 ..
13 oe
<. 94
oo 95
oo 68
58...
1-16
. 80
.. 105
ve 118

Amphicome arguta . . 1898
Amygdalus incana . . 1839
Anagallis alternifolia . 1840
Andromeda phillyredefolia 1844
— — 1844
Anemone rivularis . . 1842
—À Govaniana . 1844
—— —— longiscapa 1842
Angrecum armeniacum . 1839
Ashantense . 1843
-— bilobum „ 1840
— . 1841
— —— — gladiifoium . 1840
— brevifolium . 1840
— ornithorhynchum 1840
—————— pellucidum . 1844
——— polystachyum 1840
———-— tenue. . 1840
— vesicatum . 1843
Anguloa Clowesii . . 1844
— uniflora. . 1844
Ania bieornis . . 1842
— a . . 1844
Anigozanthus flavida . 1838
— var. bicolor 1838
Anizanth, Plant's . . 1842
Aotus lanigera . . . 1841
Aplotaxis albescens . . 1839
Aporum Leonis = . 1840
— sinuatum . . 1841
— —— cuspidatum . . 1841
Aquilegia glauca. . 1840
fragrans . . 1840
pubiflora . . 1840
Aralia macrophylla . . 1844
Arbutus laurifolia - . 1839
Arctostaphylos nitida . 1840
pungens . 1844
Argyreia festiva P . 1841
Arisema macrospatha . 1840
Aristolochia Gigas + .: 1842
Armeria fasciculata . . 1841
Arpophyllum spicatum . 1839
Arundina bambuseefolia . 1841
— — —— densa . . 1842
Asafoetida wr aoo e 1000
Asagrıea officinalis. - . 1839
Asparagus lucidus . . 1844
Aspasia epidendroides > Se

SPECIES DESCRIBED.

pl. misc. pl. misc.
Aspasia lunata o . 1844 .. 49 | Bolbophyllum sordidum . 1840 .. 217
Asteracantha longifolia . 1839 .. 117 | ———— umbellatum 1838 .. 102
Asterotrichion sidoides . 1841 .. 35 | ————— setigerum . 1838 .. 24
Aster cabulicus : . 1849 .. 89 | Bomarea acutifolia .

. 1841 47...
Lindleyana nr. ur - diehotoma . 1841 47 55
spectabilis « 1849. is 45 - ovata . 1841. A75.
1843 29 -° | Bossicea disticha 4 . 1841 55 67
1839 .. 152 - paucifolia . .- 1841....- 108

. 1849 .. 91
Astragalus strobiliferus . 1840 .. 71 Macleanica i 71849: 2.99
Astyria rosea . : . 1844 49 31 | ————- subglobosa 1842... 86
Azalea altaclerensis . . 1842 27 .. ————— punctata . ..1849.... .82
double red Indian 1842 56 .. uncifolia . . 11848... 88
Azara integrifolia . 3 1840 .. 10 - Turneriana 1849; .. 89
Babiana ringens : . 1888 .. 19 | ———— variabilis 151849 0.2.00
Babingtonia Camphorosme 1842 10 .. Boronia crenulata . = 1898 12%
Bæckea Camphorosme . 1841 .. 140 | ———- triphylla . 2071841 434 a
Banisteria tenuis : 1898 =. 191 ——— - mollis š : 1841 +47.
Barbacenia squamata 211849... 08 - anethifolia . . 1841-47.
Barkeria elegans .. C HNO 4 84 - falcifolia .

Barnadesia rosea
Batatas betacea á

-— 1840 56 .. : . 1843 63 50
bonariensis . 1838. ... 99 -eriocarpa . 1843. seOl
Bauhinia corymbosa . ni 1889. 47.0. Bouvardia splendens . 1840 37 ..
Beatonia purpurea . . 1842 .. 84 | Brachycome iberidifolia . 1840 .. 148
- atrata s 1-1 E 2.14 . 1841 9 wo

- curvata . . 1843 .. 115 | Brasavola angustata 1888: «07
Becium bicolor ^ . 1842. .. 44 | —— ——— Martiana . . ,1889: --5-—
: 221943 15... glauca x 2771899 «6.67

Begonia crassicaulis . 1842.44. 21 — —— . .. 1840 44 89
— — —- diversifolia . . 1840 .. 44 | ———— grandiflora . 1889 .. 14
- punctata . . 1841 .. 34 | ————— venosa : . 1840 39 24

- incana : -. 3841 .. 73 | Brassia Cochleate —~ + . 1840--..--37

- papillosa . » 1841 oe TA brachiata . 9 BAB eer

- vitifolia 5 e 1842 20 Lawrenceana 2 73841.-18- 6
Berberis empetrifolia S; 1840. 27... Lanceana . 71844-0549
- trifoliata . + 1841.22. 149 macrostachya «33888 ¿20.81

- tenuifolia +. 1898 75.121 verrucosa . 201840. 55 OB

- i 4, 31844...26... Bravoa geminiflora . ¿13838 05298

- eoriaria . « 1841..40 .... Bromelia discolor . + ©1838... 85

- umbellata 1842 .....49 Bromheadia palustris 31841 +» :184

1844 44 ..
1843 .. 28 Brongniartia sericea
1844 18 .. Broughtonia aurea .
1839 34 .. Brown:ea grandiceps
1810 .. 169 Bryobium pubescens
1844 .. 89 | Buddlea Lindleyana .

1844 18 ..
1843 we 93
1840 .. 22
1841 30 ..
1838 ,. 145
1844 ... 25

- pallida

Bessera elegans e
Betula Bhojpattra

Bidwellia glaucescens
Bifrenaria longicornis

inodora . - 1843 .. 63 | Burlingtonia maculata

RIO... 327 Bulbine suavis . i EB 8

1839 44: ..

Bignonia picta . ` 1842 45 .. — rigida 1841... —11

Caroline . 1844 54... Calandrinia discolor 1889 4 ..
Tweediana

Biliardiera daphnoides
Billevalia Syriaca . .
Blandfordia marginata 1842 .. 93 Masuca .
Bletia havanensis . . 1898. ......95 .
- Shepherdii . . 1838 .. 73 bicolor.
——- secunda . . . 1840 .. 120 veratrifolia
Bolbophyllum eupreum . 1838 .. 183 | Calathea villosa
— —— —— —— clandestinum 1841 .. 166 | Calectasia cyanea .
— ————- calamarium 1843 .. 109 | Caliphruria Herbertiana
— — — ——— Cheiri . 1844 .. 56 | Callipsyche eucrosioides 1842 .. 49
—— adenopetalum 1842 .. 95 | Callistemon microstachyum 1838 7
—— flavidum . 1840 .. 195 | Caloscordum Neriniflorum 1844 .. 64
———————— imbricatum 1841 .. 65 | Calostemma carneum . 1840 26
—— —— fuscum «4899 co 10 luteum « 1840 19...
————————- limbatum . 1840 .. 171 | Calystegia sepium . . 1898 .. 104

1840 .. 38 1838 .. 32
1844 .. 86 1838 .... 34
1842 .. 52
1844 37 ..
1838 .. 38
1839 .. 39
1843 .. 87
1841 .. 13
1844 ... 83

furcata

1840 .45 ... Calanthe discolor . + 1840 55

— macranthum 1844 13 .. Calydorea ; è 1843 .. 138
recurvum . 1844 .. 70 Camarotis obtusa 1044 .. 71
——--—-——-pileatum . 1844 .. 73 ' Campanula grandis . 1842 .. 41

—

Campanula Loflingii

Candollea tetrandra

Carpesium pubescens
Jatasetum cornutum

callosum
deltoideum
maculatum

— — —— Milleri
Naso
ochraceum
poriferum .
abruptum .
atratum >.
globiflorum

proboscideum

planiceps .
longifolium
laminatum
lanciferum
discolor .
fuliginosum
roseo-album
-———— spinosum

Russellianum

— ———— saccatum .
Pelle

—— —

tridentatum
Wailesii -
Catha paniculata.
Cattleya Aclandie .
- Arembergii
- bicolor s
——- granulosa
—— —- Perini -
—— ——- pumila .
———- Mossi® .
Skinneri +»

- superba
Ceanothus pallidus
divaricatus
Thyrsiflorus
Centaurea pulchra .

Centranthera punctata
Centradenia rosea -

Centropogon cordifolius

Cereus leucanthus »
———- crenatus . å

———- speciosissimus, var.

- biformis . à
Cestrum aurantiacum
Cheenanthe Barkeri .

Cheiranthus ochroleucus

Cheirostylis parvifolia
Chirita sinensis *
Chorozema cordatum
— spectabile
varium .

Chysis levis . “>

bractescens .

ESOINw B- 9 ome Tou

BOR WM. .* 49 Wow om ow" X € $5?

SPECIES DESCRIBED.

pl. misc.
1842 ..
1843 19 ..
1842 .. 39
1843 50...
1838 .. 123
1840 .. 182
1841 0...
1840 .. 183
1841... 5...
1840 .. 157
1840 62 ..
1840 .. 99
1838 .. 149
1843 111
1844 .. oo
1838 164
1842 .. 24
1838 63 114
1849 .. 48

Hd Ve!
MA DB
MAL... 13
1841 .. 168
1840 .. 135
1840 .. 196
1840 .. 19
1840 .. 179
1840 .. 176
1841 94 ..
1844 .. 40
MS e d
1843 .. 45
1840 48 ..
1849 .. 193
1838 .. 148
108 i
ae ye
Ty Ge ees
1840 58 ..
1840 .. 83
1858 cell
1840 90 +
1848... .55
1844 38 ...
1839 .. 84
1840 98 ..
TU Sortie 1
1843 90 ..
1841 .. 192
1840 13 ..
1844 31 ..
1849 49 ..
1843 .. 66
1844 .. 65
1838 .. 60
1840 .. 29
1839 .. 20
1844 59 ..
1838 10 ..
1841 45 66
1839 49 63
1840 ... 130
1840 .. 181
1841 23 ...

Cirrhea saccata :

Cirrhopetalum cornutum

—— chinense

——— ceepitosum

—— Macrei
Medusae

——————— maculosum

—— Thouarsii

————— ——- nutans

————— Wallichii

—— fimbriatum
——————— pieturatum

——— ———— auratum

Citrus deliciosa
Cleisostoma latifolium
dealbatum
decipiens
maculosum

roseum .

Clematis florida, var. bicolor

lathyrifolia
- montana
Cleome lutea . 2

Clethra mexicana :
quercifolia — .
Clerodendron fragans

-—— splendens

Clianthus carneus .
Clianthus humilis .
Clowesia rosea "
Cobeea stipularis

Coburgia humilis -
miniata .
versicolor
Codonopsis lurida

Coelia Bauerana .
—— - macrostachya .

Coelogyne fimbriata .

fuscescens

——_— prolifera .
—— — testacea .
— ——— Wallichiana

ironia AD *
e M QE DEA

—— elata hd
Colea floribunda x

Colletia serratifolia
Columnea Schiedeana

Comarostaphylis arbutoides

Comparettia coccinea
——À— rosea .
Commelina orchioides
Conostylis juncea +

squamatum

vaginatum

—— tridentatum .

——- infortunatum

P 5» 199 te » A Sn,

1836
1838
1842
1843
1838
1841
1842
1841
1838
1839
1839
1839
1840
1840
1843
1840
1842
1841
1840
1844
1844
1840
1838
1838
1838
1839
1840

SPECIES DESCRIBED.

pl. misc, pl. misc

Convolvulus floridus . 1840 .. 199 | Cyrtochilum maculatum . 1841 .. 87
~—verrucipes . 1841 .. 45 251841. «H4
—————- scoparius . 1841 43 152 | Cyrtopodium Andersonii . 1841 8 49
Corethrostylis bracteata . 1844 47 .. ——————— cristatum . 1841 8 ..
Cornus grandis : . 1840 .. 59 —— Wilmorei . 1841 8 ..
Corvisartia indica . . 1842 .. 61 | Cytisus Weldenii . . 1839 .. 122
Coryanthes speciosa alba . 1840 .. 75 > . 1843 40 ..
Corycium orobanchoides . 1838 45 .. 21842: .. 98
Cosmus scabiosoides 1835 15: s: Dahlia glabrata . 1840 29 ..
Cotoneaster denticulata . 1840 .. 58 | Daphne australis . . 1838 56 ..
Cotyledon eristatum . 1839 .. 184 | Daubenya fulva - 1889 53 . ..

Crateegus crenulata . 1844 652 .. Delphinium laxiflorum . 1838 30 ..

Crinum brachynema 511849... - 98 intermedium,
variabile var. roseum 1844 9 .. var. sapphirinum . ec 1898. 52 ...

Crocorum synopsis . 251849... 189 — intermedium,
Crocus Cartwrightianus . 1843 .. 131 var. palmatifidum . 1888 38 ..
e TOt an 8 — decorum . « 1040: .64.-4~
nivigena : . 1843 .. 130 | Dendrobium aciculare . 1840 .. 188
— —— landerianus . . 1843 .. 129 —— aduncum 0.1842 eo GD
— ——- lageneeflorus Hæ- — aqueum . 1848 54 6
micus . i + 1843 .. 128 | ————- calcaratum . 1840 .. 219
nubigena . .: 1843. .. 197 —————— cucumerinum 1842 .. 63
medius : 251844 ....87 1843 37 ..
insularis . + 1848 21 .. —— —— —— chlorops . 1844 .. 54
pulchellus . . 1843 .. 126 | ————— denudans . 1838 .. 156
‚speciosus $ 1899-40... ——————— candidum . 1838 .. 54
vernus é $64844 7 —— ———— discolor . 1841 682 650
Crotalaria undulata. . 1840 .. 32 | .———— —- scoMMS 5
Crucianella stylosa . (51888 65-5. ———— ——— seeundum . 1841 .. 169
Cryptandra suavis . . 1844 56 27 | ———— junceum 2018429... H
Cryptochilus sanguineus . 1838 23 .. —— ——— formosum . 1838 .. 86
Cry ptosanus scriptus + 1843... 42-192 ———— - — formosum . 1839 64 ..
Cupressus thurifera . «* 1889 .. 101 ————— stuposum 1898 .., .94
Cyclamen neapolitanum . 1838 49 .. —————— scopa . 2: 1842... 0b
Cyclosia maculata . 4521899. 34 —— — ——— sulcatum 1838.65...
Cyclogyne canescens - 1840 .. 68 | ————— sanguinolentum 1842 .. 73
Cyenoches ventricosum . 1840 .. 98 — 1843 6 -.
— —- —— ventricosum & ————— bicameratum 1839 .. 85*
Egertonianum . - 1849 .. 117 | —— — ——- compressum 1842 .. 76
——-—— maculatum =. 1840... - 8 . 1844 53 ..
-——- pentadactylon 1843 22 26 | ~—-——— Heyneanum . 1839 .. 41
Cymbidium iridifoium . 1839 .. 37 | ————— macrophylum 1839 .. 56
—-— bicolor . + 1889 .. 69 1842. .. 94
5 SURETA madidum . 1840 .. 6 | —————- Paxtoni «> 1899. ... 56

————

pendulum . 1840 25 .. — ——— aurem, palli-

var. brevilabre 1842 .. 67 dum . x 1 4,:1888. 20: <
1844 22 .. —————— crumenatum 1839. 22 ..
— ——— chloranthum . 1848 .. 108 — Jenkinsii N 100 WE y PRA
———— pubescens . 1840 .. 177 | ———-—— lingueforme 1839 .. 26

—

«3841 98 ., ————— teretifolium . 1839 .. 29
virescens + 1838 .. 59 | ————— tetragonum . 1839 .. 30
Cynoglossum anchusoides 1842 14 ., — . 1841 .. 8
———-——- celestinum . 1839 36 .. _— —— tortil . sri BBO a M
———- glochidiatum 1839 .. 128 —— pygmeum . 1839 .. 32

EAS : 74841-15744 — Cambridgea-
-——— ——- grandiflorum 1838 .. 127 num . . . 2: 1845
— - longiflorum . 1840 50 .. ——- acerosum . 1841 .,. 86
Cypella plumbea . 1838 .. 130 —— Kingianum . 1844 ,. 18
Cypripedium barbatum . 1841 .. 110 | ————— moschatum . 1841 .. 15
2218049. Y —— —— ——— calamiforme . 1841 .. 26
Cyrtochilum mystacinum 1838 .. 38 | ————— criniferum . 1844 .. 45
— «1889 62:3, ————— excisum $5841. ... 105
——————— stellatum . 1839 .. 54 | ——— ——— elongatum . 1839 .. 33
—— —— —— graminifolium. 1841 .. 180 | = virus SAL. .....58
—— filipes . . 1841 59 72 —————— Ruckeri . 1843 60 38

-—-———— maculatum . 1838 44 39 ——— ———— pugioniforme 1839 .. 34
——— — . 1840 .. 86 | ————— planibulbe . 1843 .. 70
——— —- crassulefolium 1839 .. 53

Dendrobium

complanatum
herbaceum
longicolle
macrophyllum
plicatile .
revolutum
rhombeum
teres.
taurinum .
gemellum

Dendrochilum filiforme

abbreviatum

—— — — —— glumaceum
— —— — — — latifolium .
Deutzia corymbosa

Dianthus Bisignani .

ferrugineus

Dichza ochracea

glauca

Dicrypta discolor . -
Dienia cordata . .
Dinema paleaceum .

Dion edule

Dipladenia crassinoda
Diplolena Dampieri .
Diplopeltis Hugelii .
Drymonia bicolor

—— punctata . å

Duvaua longifolia.
Dyckia altissima

Earina suaveolens
Echeandia terniflora
Echeveria acutifolia .
——-——- secunda
——-—— lurida

— — —— rosea .
Echinacea Dicksoni . š
Echinocactus Ottonis "

—

glaucus

- Eyriesii, var.

——- Scopa . .

Echthronema . .
Echites atropurpurea
Echium petræum . .
Eleagnus parvifolia .
Eleutherine anamola .
Elisena longipetala . -
Encyclia, note upon b
Entelea palmata ‘ .
Epacris impressa, var. -
Epidendrum pictum

Pastorls $
polyanthum

Schomburgkii
ceratistes .

cinnabarinum
smaragdinum
calocheilum .
latilabrum .

bisetum *

SPECIES DESCRIBED.

1839
1840
1840
1844
1840
1840
1843
1840
1843
1840
1840
1844
1841

1843
1839
1840
1838
1839
1839
1844
1839

1838
1840
1843
1844
1841

1839
1838
1842
1343
1841

1843
1839
1842
1838

1840
1841

1842
1838

1838

1838
1839
1843
1843

pl. misc.
.. 158
.. 172
ee 62
ee y
oe 110
17...
e LLE
98 ..
.. 192
eo 113
("094
OS
coda
23:540
5 ..

29 s..
15 ..
oer ML
67

ee 145
ee 134
.. 112
9008
64 ee
64 ee
69 70
4 ee

ver 74
59 oe
.. 183
oer BB
.. 144
29 ..
(7119
57 ..
1 ee

92 ..
27 ..
42 .
st’.
24 ..
.. 136
97 ..
26 ..
5l oe
07 ..
se"
13

.. 126
19 ..
.. 43
.. 24
.. 42
vec]
.. 85
v9
evo
53 16
vis. 09
De...
E 44
.. 181
. . 163
VIO 70
ve 148

Epidendrum Grahami
tripunctatum
auritum
articulatum
———— pterocarpum

—_————. radiatum

— raniferum
virgatum
————-—— gladiatum
——— glutinosum .
—————— viviparum
coran ml miserum
—————- flamellatum .

limbatum .
ie leiobulbon
——————— microphyllum
nic «d hastatum
in sans BCICUlATE
— u Jacertinum
> = Mia eochilum
—— ———— pheeniceum .
——— —— selligerum
ra Si di bleinis
—— ————— tessellatum .
mi i tridactylum .

varicosum .
—————— verrucosum .
———— ——— vesicatum
———— —— aurantiacum .

——— ——— aspersum
— —— ——- altissimum
——————- Boothianum .

nn CugulAtum : «
Ei Chioranthum
ii n SEIT OFM <<

-L-———— calamarium .
dichotomum .
diotum
dichromum .
equitans .
fucatum
ionosmum
longicolle
lacerum
lividum
ochraceum .
Ovulum

incumbens -

— — —— rhizophorum

m rubrocinctum

machrochilum 1840
Stamfordianum]840

1838
1843
1844

SPECIES DESCRIBED.

' pl. misc. pl. misc.
Epidendrum arbuscula 1843 .. 54 | Fuchsia Standish's . 4 1840... 3...
—— aromaticum . 1840 .. 93 Funkia Sieboldi 1859 00. r
—— ————— bractescens . 1840 .. 122 Galbanum . . 1839 <. 107
— ————— densiflorum . 1840 .. 134 | Galeandra Baueri . . 1840 49 .. ,
——————— purum 1844 .. 75 | = — cristata ... 1841. 2.2.69
——— ———— crispatum . 1840 . 85 | Gardoquia betonicoides . 1838 .. 159
— —— lancifolium 1840 .. 152 Garrya laurifolia 1840 .. 53
. 1842 50 .. | GaylussaciaPseudo-vaccinium 1842 62 ..
—— ———— falcatum 1840 .. 20 | Genista bracteolata . a 1640 25 2.
—— —— — Parkinsonianum1840 .. 20 virgata T 2,1844. 1]
—— — glaucum 2451840; 0.00 Geranium rubifolium x 1840... 67, aa
—— ———— vitellnum . 1840 .. 3 erianthum 1841 eo)
—— — stenopetalum 1840 .. 49 — : 1842 527
— Trinitatis . 1840 . 128 ———— tuberosum $:1889. 107...
viscidum . 1840 .. 190 | Gesneria reflexa : 2441840. 009
Epimedium violaceum . 1840 43 .. | —— Suttoni, white var. 1842 .. 40
Epiphora pubescens . . 1840 .. 143 | ———— longifolia . +. 1841... 190
Eria clavicaulis 1840 . . 220 e 5,1842. 40, u,
cochleata å 4001844... 28 — discolor . . 1841 63 96
—— acutifolia à . 1842 .. 82 | — Zebrina » 41842. 16.00
—— bipunctata . . 1841 .. 179 | Gladiolus erispiflorus .,18942 ,. 81
——— ferruginea b . 1839 35 .. | -————— caucasicus | ,1842..,... 82
— bractescens . »::1841.. ......46 —— —— equinoctialis . 1842 .. 97
— _ — . +: 1844 3239. .. — festivus ESC E |
longilabris E 181 .. I — oppositiflorus . 1842 .. 98
armeniaca à + 1841 . 42 70 — splendens . eu ABAS ei} |
—— pulchella è . 1841 .. 106 | Glaucium rubrum A 1 > R
profusa . : . 1842 .. 3 | Glossocomia ovata . . 1842 3 ..
—— floribunda x . 1843 .. 56 | Gloxinia speciosa .,,1844 .48. ..
a ———— = 1844 20 .. | Glumosia $ : +g 149. uuu LOB
—— multiflora > 1843 .. 72 | Godetia albescens . 1841 .. 131
—— polyura . 1841... 114 —— . 1842... 9...
—— . : . 1842 32 .. | ——— grandiflora . 1841 .. 182
—— mucronata . 1849 .. 27 A 1942. 61.:..-
convallarioides . . 1841 62 121 | Gompholobium versicolor 1839 43 62
——— paniculata a . 1812 .. 33 | Gonatanthus sarmentosus . 1841 .. 83
—— pannea . b . 1842 .. 79 | Gongora fulva : 1839 öl ..
—— nutans . - 4131840. .....196 --— bufonia . idt 2. S
——— planicaulis = « 1840.......4 | ———vitellina . 2:841. u
— pumila . E 1898 ..—..147 {| —— maculata . si ABEL. cee 101
—— velutina . P + 1840 .. 209 | ——— — maculata var tri-
—— vestita . 4/1844... 79 color A : | ADA cet 90
Erica chloroloma . «$898.17... . -— nigrita , ui) o MD
Erigeron squarrosum $oJ841. .....09 | ————— truncata ., . 1843 .. 52
Eriphilema A 4 e 1849... . 187 Goodyera rubicunda 1839. .. 92
Erysimum Perofskianum . 1839 .. 79 | Govenia Gardneri . 55553899... 4... 01
Erythrochiton Brasiliensis 1843 47 .. lagenophora OOO... 00
Eucalyptus calophylla . 1841 .. 157 liliacea . ‘ 35,4898 , 13...
Eulophia squalida . * 1841 .. 164 fasciata $ - 1843 ,.. 107
Euonymus japonicus - 1844 6 .. | Grammatophyllum multi-
Euphorbia rigida 4O1898..43... . florum . > . 1838 .. 80
veneta . ¡OO << 1839 65 ..
Eurybia glutinosa . 95524899... 119 ——-—— var.tigrinum 1842 69 ..
ehrysotricha - 1841 .. 47 | Grevillea Thielemanniana , 1839 .. 72
Euthales macrophylla . 18 «. 119 | Grobya galeata . — . . 1840 .. 197 4
3188 3 .. | Guaiacum officinale . sc BS É
Eysenhardtia amorphoides 1839 . . 55 | Gunnia picta . A BON 2 2
Fabiana imbricata . . 1839 59 .. | Habenaria candida . . 1844 .. 77
Fernandezia lunifera . 1839 147 | Habranthus pratensis oin D S :
Friesia peduncularis 1843 .. . 108 | —— —— nobilis .. . 1844 .. 84 ;
Fritillaria Kotschyana . 1844 .. 52 | Habrothamnus fasciculatus 1843 .. 73
Fuchsia fulgens s 1898... l e ——— purpureus . 1844 43 19 |
cylindracea . . 1838 66 97 —— cyaneus . 1844 .. 68 e
cordifolia . . 1841 70 117 | Hemanthus magnificus . 1841 .. 153 f
—— —— radicans . + -1841 66 167 | Hakea ruscifolia . .- 1841 .. 158 $
— —— corymbiflora .. 1840 70 202 | Hardenbergia digitata . . 1840 60 142
-——— splendens A 1862.82...

Hartwegia purpurea .

var.
angustifolia . . .

Heimia salicifolia .

Helichrysum scorpioides .

Helleborus lividus.

orientalis . .

^ .

——— olympicus .

Hemiandra emarginata
Herbertia Drummondiana
Heteropteris undulata
Hexadesmia fasciculata

——- bicornis . .

micrantha

Hexopia crucigera .

Hibbertia perfoliata . .

Hibiscus Cameroni . :

— — ——- Cameroni fulgens

— Wraye

Higginsia mexicana .

Hindsia violacea

Hippeastrum organense,
var. compressum . .

Hoitzia mexicana

Hormidium

Hoteia japonica

Houlletia vittata

Hovea crispa .

pungens

— — Manglesii .

racemulosa . .

ilicifolia : e
Hoya coriacea .

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Huntleya Meleagris .

——————- violacea
Hydrangea japonica .
Hydromestus maculatus

Hydrotzenia Meleagris .

Eat lobata . bd
Hymenocallis Harrisiana .
= bistubata

——— panamensis
OOE rotata .
—— Skinneriana
Hypocalymna robustum .
—-- augustifo-
lium . x :
— suavis
Impatiens candida .

glanduligera -
—————— macrochila .

—À tricornis ~
Indigofera Dosua .
——-——— stachyodes

Inga Harrisii . .
lonopsis teres . .
Tpomeea ficifolia .

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Ipomea ficifolia .
————- cymosa .
longifolia

9.9 &

. ——— batatoides

— —— pendula .
Purga
tyrianthina
-——— Schiedeana
Iris deflexa " .
—- fragrans
Ismene deflexa .
— virescens
Isochilus lividum
grandiflorum
graminifolium
Isopogon roseus
Isotropis striata
Ixiolirion montanum
Jasminum caudatum
——-——-— subulatum
Juniperus tetragona .
flaccida
——- — mexicana .
—— ——- squamosa .
Lelia furfuracea
—— autumnalis
albida e P

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majalis i

——— canlescens
—— acuminata
—— peduncularis
—— superbiens
—— rubescens >
—— virens . $
Lacæna bicolor Š

Lemonia spectabilis .
Leochilus carinatus .
cochlearis .
herbaceus .
———- oncidioides

Leptodermis lanceolata
Leschenaultia biloba
Leycesteria formosa .
Lilium testaceum =.

. Thunbergiannm
Linaria delphinioides
glandulifera .
venosa . a
Lindenia rivalis
Lindleya mespiloides

Liparis pendula

u alata .

——— spathulata .
Lissanthe stellata .

—

sanguinolentns .

pl. misc.
1 .

Lissanthe verticillata
Lissochilus parviflorus
roseus .

Loasa lateritia . c
Lobelia discolor
pyramidalis .
subnuda .
—— fenestralis .
multiflora
Lonicera diversifolia

Lopezia lineata
Luisia alpina . :
Lupinus arboreus .
- afvensis .
Hartwegii .
Barkeri .

—— ——- bilineatus (note).
—— — mexicanus (note)

leptocarpus
Lycaste plana . .

Barringtonise

erinita 1844

—— aromatica var.retusa 1844

gigantea.
tetragona .
Lysimachia lobelioides

—

spuria .
Macleania longiflora .
Macradenia mutica .
Malachadenia clavata
Malaxis Parthoni .
Malva lucida
mauritiana .
Mandevilla sauveolens
Manglesia glabrata
Marcetia excoriata .

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Marianthus cceruleopunctatus1841

Marlea begonifolia .
Martynia fragrans .

Masdevallia infracta à
floribunda

eupre
Matthiola odoratissima
maderensis
Maxillaria Colleyi .
cruenta .
Rollissonii
galeata .
aromatica
vitellina .

porrecta .

bractescens
concava .
corrugata
costata .
variabilis .

candida .
Harrisonis
placanthera

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Brockelhurstiana 1841

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Maxillaria jugosa .
barbata

madida .
Boothiana

tenuifolia .
stapelioides

foveata
acutifolia .
acutipetala
lentiginosa
aureofulva
stenopetala

cueullata .
rhombea .
Macleei

Meleagris
Skinneri .

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rugosa
Medicago elypeata

Microstylis excavata

diflora . :
cuneata .
Mimosa marginata .
uruguensis ,

Mina lobata .

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Mirbelia speciosa
Morina longifolia
Mormodes buccinator

pardinum

lineatum .

luxatum .

aromatieum
Morna nivea . .
Morrenia odorata .
Mucuna pruriens ,
Napoleona imperialis
Narcissi , 4 *
Narcissus montanus
Mycaranthes obliqua
Nelumbium Caspicum
Myoporum ascendens
Nemaconia gracilifolia
Nemesia floribunda .
Nepeta salvisefolia .
Nicotiana rotundifolia
Niphea oblonga .

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Notylia punetata 2
— —— pubescens .
— — aromatica .

purpurascens

xanthina (note

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Barkeri .
tenuis . :

micrantha
Oberonia cylindriea
miniata
———— recurva .
Wightiana
Octomeria gracilis . .
——- grandiflora.
diaphana.
tridentata
Odontoglossum Bietoniense
constrictum
stellatum .
Ehrenbergii
pulchellum
Clowesii .
leve. .
citrosmum

cordatum .
grande

maculatum
Rossii á

CEnothera fruticosa indica
Olinia capensis . .
acuminata . à
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Oncidium tetrapetalum
candidum .
——— —— brachyphyllum
confragosum
cuneatum .
ascendens .
pulvinatum
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—— — hians $
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raniferum .
longifolium

— ——— luridum guttatum
——— Suttoni .

— ———— trulliferum

——— ——— bicallosum

—

—

—

—— ——- Forbesii

— — —— ensatum
———-—— excavatum
— —— sphacelatum
sphegiferum
spilopterum
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—— —— uniflorum .
——— —— urophyllum
—— —— carinatum.
intermedium
-——— barbatum .
———— — unicornutum
Carthaginense
—— —— pelicanum .
—— —— macrantherum

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Oncidium Wraye . .
—— —— monoceras
———— Barkeri . .
—-— —— nebulosum .
-————— Huntianum .
pachyphyllum .
—— —— Insleayi >
———— incurvum . .
lacerum s
—— ——- leucochilum P
——— ornithorhynchum
———— oblongatum
—— —— ampliatum
— ——— — microchilum

— ———— Wentworthianum
———— pallidum

— — —— ramosum .
——-—— suave `
—— — —— stramineum

Ophelia purpurascens .
Opoidia galbanifera . .
Ornithogalum geminiflorum
divaricatum

montanum
Osbeckia stellata, var. .
Oxalis Darvalliana . s
— Ottonis . . .
— —- fruticosa s ^

———— rubrocincta -
Oxyanthus versicolor
Oxylobium capitatum

— obovatum ‘
Pzxonia (Onzepia) Brownii
Panetia fulva . . .
Papaver amoenum . ‘
Passiflora hispidula .

— — —
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— onychina . .
—— —— verrucifera e
Patersonia sapphirina .
Paxtonia rosea . . .
Pedicularis megalantha .
pyramidata .
Pentas carnea . e .
Pentlandia miniata . »
Pentstemon barbatum car-
neum . . . »
crassifolium .
——— —— gentianoides .
Peristeria guttata . >»
— Humboldti
Peristylus goodyeroides
Pernettya angustifolia
Pesomeria tetragona .
Phacelia fimbriata .
Phaius grandifolius .

bicolor
Wallichii
—— albus
Phalsenopsis amabilis
Pharbitis Learii š
—— —— ostrina é
Philadelphus hirsutus
— ——-- Gordonianus

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Philadelphus Gordonianus

———— —- triflorus
———— — laxus
—————— — mexicanus

— —

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Philibertia grandiflora)
Phlomis simplex
- Cashmeriana
Phlox Van Houtte's
Pholidota articulata
undulata .
— conchoidea
Phycella biflora .
—— — obtusa ‘
Physinga prostrata .
Physosiphon carinatus
Physurus pictus
Picris asperrima
- barbarorum
Pieris ovalifolia
Pilumnalaxa .
Pimelia incana .
crinita .
spectabilis
— —— prostrata
Pinus oocarpa . è
Llaveana ;
—— - Hartwegii .
—— - Devoniana pa
- Russelliana .
—— - macrophylla .
— —- pseudostrobus .
—— - apulcensis
——- filifolia .
——- Coulteri . :
Pisonia Olfersiana
Pitcairnia undulata .
micrantha .
Pittosporum bicolor .
Placea ornata .
Plagianthus Lampenii
Plautia flava .

Pleurothallis circumplexa

marginata
aphthosa
vittata .

———— —— ophiocephala
——— stenopetala

—— ———- muscoidea
—— —- pectinata
recurva .
—— ———— luteola .
————— picta

— ———- gelida
——— sicaria .
fragilis .

—— — feten .

—— —— peduncularis

———- — breviflora
————.— strupifolia
—— — bicarinata
o beipes

————- pachyglossa

—— riata .
——— — Smithiana

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Pleurothallis villosa .
— ciliata
Podolepis contorta .

Podolobium berberifolium *

Pogonia plicata

Polemonium coeruleum

grandiflorum :

Polygonum amplexicaule

moll .
Polystachya zeylanica
clavata .
ramulosa
luteola
— — ——— reflexa
bracteosa
— cerea .
Ponera graminifolia .
——— juncifolia
——— striata .
Populus balsamifera
tristis .
— ——- longifolia
———— candicans: .

— — — laurifolia .
— suaveolens .
Portulaca Thellusonii
— splendens .
Posoqueria versicolor
Potentilla insignis .
Pothos podophyllus .
Primula denticulata .

Pronaya elegans
Protea longiflora
Psithyrisma . -
Psoralea obcordata .
— brachytropis
Puya Altensteinii .
—- cerulea . .
— heterophylla .
recurvata . .
Quekettia microscopica
Quercus acutifolia .
——— reticulata .
——crassipes .

spicata

— ——— mexicana
— glaucescens
— sideroxyla .
— lancifolia .
=~ petiolaris .
mannifera .

regia
Brantii
Quisqualis sinensis
Randia oxypetala .
Renanthera matutina

Rhododendron Rollissonii

Aprilis
Rhodorhiza š

Rhodostoma gardenioides

Ribes Menziesii :
Rigidella flammea .
immaculata

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1840 .. 76
1898 .. 117
1839 46 ..
1841 +66
1838 .. 144
1849 .. 71
1838 .. 142
1838 .. 143
1841 .. 43
1840 .. 102
1840 .. 208
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1842 .. 17
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1849 ;,. 30
1843 .. 31
1843 .. 32
1843 .. 33
1848 .. 34
1848, .. 35
1889 .. 114
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1843 34 ..
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1841 587 ..
1041 .. 176
1849 47 ..
1840 .. 200
1841 .. 136
1843 .. 135
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1841 .. 76
1840 .. 210
1840 11 ..
1840 71 ..
1843 .. 43
1899 ..-.-8
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1840 .. 161
1840 .. 162
1840 .. 163
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1840 .. 165
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1840 .. 167
1840 .. 168
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1040 . 379
1840 .. 74
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1849 .. 92
1843 41 3
1843 25 ..
1843 62 ..
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1843 .. 47
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Rivea tiliefolia
Rodriguezia crispa

—— carnea.
— laxiflora .
— maculata
Roepera auräntiaca `. .

Rondeletia longiflora .
Roscóea purpurea
lutea.
Saccolabium gemmatum
-—— densiflorum
— —— Blumei
———— — calceolare
——— bifidum
——— —— compressum .
——-———— micranthum .
—————— ochraceum
Salvia Mooreroftü .
patens . . .
— ——— excelsa . A 3
———— tubiformis
———— confertiflora
————— canescens
hians .
prunelloides .
mn Regla: ,
Saponaria perfoliata
Sarcanthus filiformis
———- pallidus .
- oxyphyllus
Sareochilus olivaceus
—— ——— parviflorus
; unguiculatus .
Satyrium papillosum .
~ carneum .
———— candidum .
———— pustulatum
Saussurea pulchella .
Saxifraga ciliata .
Scaphyglottis reflexa
stellata
Scelochilus Ottonis . ‘
Schizanthus candidus .
Schizonotus tomentosus .
Schomburgkia marginata .
— tibicinis .
~~ undulata .
crispa "

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Schubertia graveolens
Schweiggeria pauciflora
Scilla pratensis
-——- Peruviana, var. dis-
color . A s .
Scleroon oleinum . 4
Scutellaria splendens .
Sedum miserum ; ‘
— —— multicaule . :
Senecio populifolius, lacteu
———— cruentus .
odoratus .
Severinia brevifolia .
Sieversia elata .
Sisyrinchium junceum
majale .
Sobralia macrantha. -

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1840
1842
1843
1839

1839 |

1842
1843

pl. misc.

54
42
61

Sobralia sessilis 1841
Solanum betaceum . . 1840
* . 1840
candidum . < 1899
concavum , 1842
macrantherum . 1840

+ . 1841

—— —— Rossii A . 1840
——.——— uncinellum 1840
vernicatum . 1838

Sollya linearis . . . 1889
——- $ " . 1840
Sophronitis violacea . 1840
Sowerbea laxiflora . + 1841
Spathoglottis plicata 1844
Specklinia orbicularis . 1838
——--—— ciliaris . . 1838
obovata . 1839
Spheerolobium acuminatum 1843
Spireea barbata . 1838
fissa . . . 1842
Kamschatica 1841
lanceolata 1841
cuneifolia . . 1839
vacciniifolia . 1839
i 1840
Reevesiana . . 1844
rotundifolia . 1840
laxiflora = . 1839
nisse. , . 1840
Spiranthes cerina . + 1842
- diuretica . 1838
Lindleyana . 1841
ió cas LOA e . 1844
rosulata . . 1843
Spironema fragrans . . 1840
Sprekelia cybister . . 1840
— —— glauca oe
———— —- E . 1881
Stanhopea quadricornis 1838
Lindleyi . . 1838

aurea . . 1841
—————— tigrina . . 1839
oculata . . 1839

iles ie . . 1840
——— veolens . 1840
pústaleta . . 1843
———— maculosa . . 1840
————— Martiana . 1840
> . 1841

var,bicolor 1843

— Wardi . . 1840
Statice arborea < . 1839
—— pectinata . + 1840
monopetala . . 1841

— ——— rar.denudata “pe

telis argentata . è 2
d leen T . 1842
—— atropurpurea . . 1842
u A . . $ . 1838
Stenia pallida . : . 1838
Stenochilus longifolius . 1839
incanus . : š E

omesson eustephioides

e — Hartwegil . 1844
————- vitellinum . 1843
A — aurantiacum 1843

SPECIES DESCRIBED.

Stenomesson aurantiacum 1844 ..

Stenocoryne longicornis . 1843 .. 68
Stevia fascicularis . „1838 59°.
Stigmaphyllon ciliatum . 1841 .. 121
—— jatrophe-
folium . 5 s 1843. 5.80
1844 7...
Strobilanthes scabra > LOSE {Oe oe

—

Stylidium proliferum SINAI 7/8
— pilosum . : 194] .. 79

- -.1842 41 >.
— Brunonianum . 1841 .. 9

. 1849. 15...
Tabernsemontana dichotoma 1841 53 ..
Talinum teretifolium . LOS EA
Tanacetum longifolium . 1840 .. 78

Tetranema mexicanum . 1843 52 ..
Thalictrum cultratum a AO > 1 V'i
Thomasia canescens 1840: 0. 200
Thuja filiformis : . 1842 20 ..
Thysanotus intrieatus 4,4898. .. U1
Rd A.

— tenuis 4. ARAS OD ere
proliferus «; 1898... 8...

isantherus . 1839 .. 75

Tigridia violacea . OEL en EL YT
Tillandsia Gardneri . Sma 00...

— —— rubida n « 'In49 G3. ..
Tradescantia iridescens . 1840 34 160
—-- tumida 4. 1840. 49 ..
Tremandra Hugelii . : 844 67 ..
Trichinium alopecuroideum 1839 28 +.
— Manglesii (note) 1839 283 .
— —— Stirlingii (note) 1839 28 ..
Trichocentron iridifolium 1338
——— recurvum . 1843 .. 17
candidum . 1843 .. 18
Trichonema edule . 01049. 6... 90
Trichosma suayis s 241849 .21
Trifolium involucratum . 1840 .. 116
Trigonidium acuminatum . 1838 .. 136
—— Egertonianum 1838 .. 135

— —— 1840 .. 100
ringens - 1840 .. 121
tenue . . 1839
Trimezia meridensis . . 1844

——

pl. misc.

Triptilion spinosum . . 414840 ... 138
: s 1841. 22 ..

Triteleia aurea : 1841... 101
Tritonia fucata . . 1838 35 +.
Trochetia grandiflora «7844 .. 10
4,3844 21 es

Trollius acaulis : MS .2 X0
— —— = <: 1843 32-3
Tropæolum azureum ». 1842 65 —.

Trymalium odoratissimum 1838 .. 30
Tulipa Gesneriana . . 1838 46 ..

— humilis : ^. A844 re: 38
—-—— maleolens . . 18908. 66 >.
Turrea lobata s «04849. ....98
—— —— - 22844 ...4 5%
Urceolina pendula . + -1098 ci- 10%
Valeriana Napus F . 1840 .. 180
Van Houtte's Phlox . 204843. 5. 5
Vanilla bicolor x 1898: . ; :0B8
—— — Palmarum « 1849. oido
Vanda congesta ^, ABDO ov. 94

cristata Š 2.4849. 48 ne
teres. < 1.1842 0 25

furva . s: IBA. ¿AS
parviflora . - 1844 ... 57
violacea i IB. 989
lamellata * 4.1898 .., 1209
Veronica diosmeefolia +. 18490. 4... 30
formosa «1889-85

nivea 2 » 5842-5. 48
Verticordia densiflora . 1843 .. 106
Victoria regia . . 2 DSBS. 00% 19
Viscaria oculata (A949... 59 —.,
Vriseia psittacina . » 3948. 10...
Warrea cyanea . e . 1844 .. 3
bidentata . 2-1844 . .... 28
Weinmannia venosa . 2. 1840 5: 38
Xeroteslongifolia . 01899 9 4%
Zichya tricolor . . . 1839 52 ..

angustifolia (note) 18389 52 ..

villosa ABA e 8E

—P— . . . 1 842 68 ..
Zigadenus glaucus . s1839 67 s
Zygopetalum africanum . 1840 .. 139
Mackaii 451844. .. .15

PART II. — GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, AND ENUMERATIONS OF
SPECIES.

Acineta Humboldtii, 1843, misc. p. 68.

Barkeri, 1843, misc. p. 68.

Agardh, Recensio generis Pteridis, noticed,
1840, misc. p. 13.

Albumen, remarks on, by Drs. Schleiden
and Vogel, 1842, misc. p. 45.

Alona, sp. described, 1844, £. 46.

Amelanchier canadensis, 1842, misc. p. 16.

American Quackery, 1842, misc. p. 16.

meli. muscetoxicum, 1842, misc. p.

Ansellia africana, 1844, £. 12,

Astilbe decandra, 1842, misc. p. 16.

Beckea, its structure, 1842, £. 10.

Balsaminee, their affinities and structure,
1840, t. 8.

Balsam Poplars, 1843, misc. p. 20.

Bauer, his sale, 1841, mise. p. 35.

Beet Root, observations on, by M. Decaisne,
1839, mise. p. 28.

Bifrenaria, sp. described, 1843, mise. p. 51.

Boykinia aconitifolia, 1842, misc. p. 13.

Brassia, sp. described, 1844, misc. p.5.

Brown, Robert, a Copley medal awarded to
him, 1840, misc. p. 3.

Calanthe, sp. described, 1844, £. 37.

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GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Campanula, its collecting hairs, 1840, misc.
. 94.

Cape of Good Hope, notes on its vegetation,
1832, misc. p. 52.

Catasetum, sp. described, 1844, misc. p.31.

Cattleya, sp. described, 1844, t. 5.

Circulation of the latex in plants, 1839,
misc. p. 48.

Cirrhopetalum, sp. described, 1843, t. 49.

Clerodendron, sp. noticed, 1844, £. 19.

Clestines in plants, 1840, misc. p. 13.

Clethra acuminata, 1842, misc. p. 13.

Room) structure of its ovary, 1842,
I4.

unite, species deseribed, 1842, misc. p.

Colax, sp. described, 1843, misc. p. 50.

Cordage plants, some account of, 1839,
mise. p. 5.

Crocuses, described, 1843, misc. p. 26.

——— autumnal kinds, 1844, 7. 3.

Cunningham, Allan, his death, 1840, misc.
2». 1.

Cyclamens, Europeans, described, 1842,
misc. p. 26.

Dendrobium, sp. described, 1843, t. 28.

77 —— arranged in groups, 1844, mise.
p.41.

Dietrich, Synopsis Plantarum seu Enume-
ratio Systematica, &c, 1842, misc. p. 7.

Diphylleia cymosa, 1842, misc. p. 13.

Encyclia, charactersof, 1842, misc. p. 28.

Endlicher's Genera Plantarum, 1839, misc.
p. 40.

—— ——-—— Genera Plantarum, noticed,
1840, misc. p. 31.

— theory of vegetable fertilization,
1839, mise. p. 4.

———-—— Enchiridion Botanicum, 1841,
misc. p. 85.

Epidendrum, 1842, misc. p. 27.

~~ section of, named Spathium,
1844, misc. p. 82.

semp De sp. described, 1842, ¢. 50.

Eria, sp. described, 1844, 2. 29.

——-section of, named Amphiglottium,
1844. misc. p. 14.

Extracarpellary attachment of seeds, 1841,

misc. p. 25. ;
Flora de Filipinas, Blanco's, 1839, misc.
p. 75.
Frankincense tree of Sierra Leone, 1839,
misc. p. 30.

Frozen Potatoes, 1839, misc. p. 12.
Gentianaeecz, Grisebach’s Monograph of,
1839, misc. p. 57.
Geum radiatum, 1842, misc. p. 15.
Glycine sinensis, 1840, misc. p. 41.
ray's Notes of a botanical excursion to the
mountains of N. Carolina, 1842, misc.
p. 11. *
Guatemala Orchidaces, 1840, mise. p. 43.
Gum, its motion in plants, 1840, misc. p. 14.
Hair-like roots of Cotyledon cristatum,
1839, mise. P» 84.
Hedyotis serpyllifolia, 1842, misc. p. 12.

- Heuchera villosa, 1842, misc. p. 11.

Horse-chesnuts, poisonous,1839, misc. p.23.

Hortieultural Society's Garden, 1839, misel.
Hymenocallis and Pancratium, the distinc-
tion between, 1840, misc. p. 12.
Koordistan oaks, 1841, misc. p. 24.
Kunth, Enumeratio plantarum, Vol. III.
1842, misc. p. 6.
Lantana, list of sp. of, 1843, misc. p. 59.
L:elia, sp. described, 1842, £. 62,
Ledebour's Flora Rossica, 1842, misc. p. 6.
Leiophylla, 1842, mise. p. 15.
Link, Klotzsch, 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, mise. p. 15.
Magnolia Fraseri, 1842, mise. p.12.
Maxillaria, genus defined, 1843, misc.
p. 10.
Monstrum Planti, 1842, misc. p. 1.
Mormodes, sp. described, 1843, t. 33.
Moquin Tandon, Chenopodearum Mono-
graphica enumeratio, 1840, misc. p. 78.
Myrtle, derivation of the name, 1839, misc.
p. 28.
Nolana, division of the genus, 1844, t. 46,
Oaks of Koordistan, 1840, misc. p. 39.
Orchidacez of Brazil, their habits, 1839,
misc. p. 42, 21.
— of Australia, Cunningham's
notes on, 1843, t. 37.
of Guatemala, 1840, misc. p. 43.
Oxycoccus erectus, 1842, misc. p. 16.
Pancratium and Hymenocallis, the dis-
tinction between, 1840, mise. p. 12.
Paphinia cristata, 1843, misc. p. 14.
Peristeria, 1843, misc. p. 66.
sp. described, 1843, mise. p. 67.
Perrine on acclimatising tropical plants in
the United States, 1839, misc. p. 5.
Physostegia virginiana, its catalepsy ex-
plained, 1840, misc. p. 91. —
Pinetum Woburnense, 1830, misc. p. 23.
Pisonai tree, 1839, misc. p. 18. $
Plant’s Vegetable Monster, 1843, mise. p. 1.
Pleurothallis, sp. described, 1842, misc.
87.
Pdilen covered with starch, 1839, misc. p. 74.
Primary distribution of the Vegetable King-
dom, 1839, misc. p. 76. ——
Proceedings of the Royal Asiatic Society,
1839, misc. p. 24. :
Promenea, sp. described, 1843, mise. p. 13.
Pyrularia oleifera, 1842, misc. p. 13.
Ribes, list of hardy sp. 1843, misc. p. 37.
Royle's Illustrations of the Botany, &e. of
the Himalayas, 1839, misc. p. 26.
Salep roots, their anatomy, 1841, misc. p. 16.
Schauer, Chamelauciee, 1841, mise. p. 88.
Schomburgkia, sp. described, 1844, t. 24.
Sarcoglottis, sp. described, 1843, misc. p. 95.
Senticaría Steelii, 1843, misc. p. 14.
Schizanthus, sp. described, 1843, t. 45.
Seeds, extracarpellary attachment, 1840,

Siebold's Flora Japonica, noticed, 1840,
misc, p. 4.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Solidago glomerata, 1842, misc. p. 15.

Stanhopea, sp. described, 1843, 7. 44.

Starch on the outside of pollen grains, 1839,
misc. p. 74. ;

Stareh, new view concerning, 1841, misc.
p. 48.

Tasmannian plants, 1840, misc. p. 16.

Torrey and Gray's Flora of North America,
1839, misc. p. 42.2.

1840, misc. p. 79.

= 1841, mise. p. 74.

Tragacanth, source of the drug, 1840, mise.
p. 38.

Van Diemen's Land Plants, 1840, misc.
p. 16.

Vanilla, first produced in England, 1840,
misc. p. 66.

Victoria regia, note upon, 1840, misc. p. 62.

Warrea tricolor, 1843, misc. p. 14.

Wight's Illustrations of Indian Botany,
1839, misc. p. 29.

Wistaria sinensis, 1840, misc. p. 14.

Zygopetalum, sp. described, 1844, misc.
p. 8.

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