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SOBRALIA xanruotevca.

Native of Central America,

Nat. Ord. OrncuipEA.—Tribe NeEortize.
Genus Sopraia, Ruiz & Pav. ; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 590.)

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- Sopratra zantholeuca; elata, caulibus fusco-maculatis, foliis lanceolatis
attenuato-acuminatis 8-10-nerviis, bracteis paucis 1-2-pollicaribus line-
aribus viridibus acutis, floribus maximis terminalibus sessilibus citrinis,
sepulis 43-pollicaribus lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis consimilibus
paullo brevioribus, labelli sepalis aquilongi tubo cylindraceo, lamina
ampla rotundata, marginibus late recurvis crispato-undulatis et crenatis,
fauce aurea luteo striolata. :

antholeuca (Reichb. f.?) in Hort. Verschaff. (1889). Warner and
W illiams, iG tlie oak Wi; 8.200. 2. ire in Rev. Hortie, 1890,
p.12cum Ie. Sander, Reichenbachia, vol. i. p. 201, t. 44. Garden. vol.

xxii. p. 508, t. 366. Williams Orchid Growers’ Man. Ed. 6, p. 576.
Gard. Chron. (1889), i. p. 8, f. 1. 5

This magnificent species, which rivals in the size of its
flowers 8S. macrantha, Lindl. (Plate 4446), and is of a
much stouter habit, is a native of the same country,
Guatemala, where it was discovered by Mr. H. Von
Tirkheim, at Alta Paz, in the province of St. Christobas,
at an elevation of 4500 feet above the sea. There is a
specimen of it in the Herbarium of Kew collected by its
discoverer, and presented, with a fine Herbarium from the
same country, by Capt. John Donnell Smith, of Baltimore,
author of a valuable ‘ Catalogue of Guatemalan Plants,” of
which three parts with good drawings of new species
have already appeared. The flowers of the native speci-
men are of the same dimensions as those of the cultivated
one here figured, as are others taken from plants grown
in this country. In the “Gardener’s Chronicle” cited
above, mention is made, and an excellent wood-engraving
given, of a specimen in the collection of T. Harcourt
Pownall, Esq., of Drinkstone Park, Bury St. Edmund’s,
_ bearing eight opened flowers, and in the same work it is -
_ stated that at later periods the same plant bore in sueces-

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sive years fifty-six and sixty-eight flowers between the
months of July and September.

The only other yellow-flowered speciesof thegenus hither-
to figured is 8. chlorantha, Hook. (Plate 4682), a native of
Para, it has broader elliptic-oblong subcoriaceous obscurely
nerved leaves, and much smaller flowers, with a narrower
lip than 8. wantholeuca.

There is a doubt as to the authority of the name zantho-
leuca, but I think it may be traced to Mr. Vershaffelt’s
Nursery, and that Reichenbach applied it in or about
1880.

The plant here figured was obtained from Messrs. F.
Sander and Co. in 1892, and flowered in the cool orchid
house of the Royal Gardens, in July, 1893, the stem being
then two feet high.

Descr.—Stems tufted, two feet high, as thick as a goose-
quill, clothed with the appressed leaf sheaths which are
pale greenish speckled with red-brown. ‘Leaves 6-7 inches
long, spreading and drooping, sessile on the sheaths, lan-
ceolate, narrowed into long points, plaited with parallel
deeply sunk nerves which answer to as many strong nerves
beneath, dark green. Bracts few, 1-2 inches long, con-
volute, acute. Flowers solitary, terminal, colour lemon-
yellow, with a golden throat to the lip streaked with darker
yellow; ovary short. Sepals 33-43 inches long, linear-
lanceolate, acuminate, spreading and recurved. Petals
similar, but rather shorter. Lip not longer than the
sepals ; tube cylindric, lamina orbicular, spreading with
broad recurved, crispily waved crenate margins. Column
long.—J. D. H.

Figs. 1 and 2, column; 3, anther; 4 and 5, pollinia :—A// enlarged.

TAR. 700;
KALANCHOE MARMORATA.

Native of Abyssinia.

Nat. Ord. CrassuLacez.

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

KatancHok marmorata; glaberrima, caule robusto ramoso tereti, foliis
magnis crassissimis obovatis v. obovate-oblongis subsessilibus crenatis
maculatis apice rotundatis, cymis trichotomis, floribus crasse pedicellatis

edunculis pedicellisque albo virescentibus v. purpurascentibus, calycis
aciniis pollicaribus lanceolatis flavo-viridibus, corolla tubo 4-pollicari
angulato basi inflato, limbi 2-poll. lati lobis ovatis caudato-acuminatis
albis, squamulis linearibus, antheris sessilibus biseriatis, stylis filiformibus.

K. marmorata, Baker in Gard. Chron. (1892) vol. ii. p. 300.

K. grandiflora, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. vol. i. p. 310. Sprenger in Garten-

_ flora, t. 1394, Walp. Ann. Bot. vol. ii. p. (non Wight & Arn.).

Specimens of this noble species were sent to Kew for
figuring in this work by my friend Thos. Hanbury, Esq.,
F.L.S., from his garden at Palazzo Orengo, Mortola, near
Ventimiglia. Unfortunately an octavo plate does not
admit of a full-sized figure of the fully developed leaves,
which attain a length of eight to ten inches by four to five
in breadth, are obovate, narrowed into a very broad short
petiole, and are of a light green blotched with purple ; the
midrib in the upper surface towards the base bears
sometimes short thick ear-shaped lobes.

K. marmorata was discovered in 1839 or thereabouts by
M. Petit, a botanist sent out with a French expedition of
discovery into Abyssinia, in the province of Ifat, and was
published by A. Richard as K. grandiflora, overlooking the
fact that this name had been previously applied by Wight
to an Indian species which is figured on Plate 5460 of this
work. —

Mr. Hanbury sends me the following information re-

garding his plant, communicated to him by Professor
_ Penzig, Director of the “ Genoa Botanical Gardens.” K.
Janvary Isr, 1894, -

marmorata was found, firstly in seed only, by Professor
Schweinfurth, on Mt. Lalamba, near Keren, in March,
1891 ; and ona second expedition to the same mountain
the specimens were procured which were received at the
Genoa Gardens. The plant grew at the fort, and in the
fissures of a coarse dark granite, north ot the fort, and at
above 9500 feet alt. The species sustains, dryness so
well, that specimens collected March 20th, and packed in
a little moss, bore the long journey very well, and arrived
(at Genoa) in a capital state on the 1st May.”

Mr. Hanbury further informs me that K. marmorata
has not flowered at Genoa, but has abundantly in the drier
and sunnier climate of Mortola.

Deser.—A very stout low branching shrub. Leaves
opposite, six to eight inches long, obovate, narrowed into a
short broad petiole, pale green blotched with purple, mar-
gins undulate or crenate; young smaller, orange-green
with blood-red spots, and more deeply crenate. Flowers
in large branched compound panicles; peduncles stout,
pedicels one to one and a half inch long, and small subulate
bracts pale flesh-coloured. Sepals one to one and a half
inch long, lanceolate, erect. Corolla creamy-white, tube
three inches long or more, slender, obscurely angled and
twisted; lobes ovate, caudate-acuminate. Stamens eight,
in two rows within the mouth of the corolla, filaments
adnate to the corolla; anthers oblong, tipped by the con-~
nective. Disk of 4 erect threads. Ovary ovate-lanceolate,

tapering into 4 filiform styles with small capitate stigmas.
—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Upper part of corolla laid open, showing the stamens; 2 and 3, ,
anthers; 4, ovary and disk threads :—Al/ enlarged.

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ERYTHROXYLON Coca.

Native of South America,

Nat. Ord. Linrz.—Tribe ERYTHROXYLES.

Genus ErytHroxyton, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 244.)

Erxytaroxyton Coca; frutex ramulis gracilibus rufo-brunneis, foliis ellipticis
v. elliptico v. obovato-oblongis apice rotundatis acutis retusisve seepissime
apiculatis membranaceis utrinque plica obscura notatis glaberrimis basi
in petiolum brevem angustatis, stipulis dimidiato-lanceolatis ramulis
appressis, floribus fasciculatis breviter pedicellatis } poll. diam., calycis
dentibus acutis, petalis stramineis intus appendice biloba lata instructis,

_ staminibus_petalis brevioribus, drupa lineari-oblonga.

E, Coca, Lamk. Dict. vol. ii. p. 893. Cav. Diss. vol. viii. p. 402, t. 229. Ruiz.
§2Pav. Fl. Peruv. Tab. ined, 398. DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 575. Hook.

_ Comp. Bot. Mag. vol. i. p. 161, and vol. ii. p. 25, t. 21. Martius, in

_ Muench, Abhandl, vol. iii. p. 367, t. 6. Bentl. & Trimen, Medicin. Pl.

vol. i. t. 40 (var. novo-granatensis. Kew Bulletin, 1889, p. 5. —

The literature, historical, commercial, botanical and
pbarmaceutical, of the Coca plant, is very extensive, and
is fully given in an article in the Kew Bulletin cited
above, from which most of the following information is
culled.

Erythrozylon Coca, Lamk., of which the figure here given
represents one of several more or less distinct cultivated
varieties, was first brought to notice in a posthumous work
printed in Seville in 1580, on the Medicinal substances of
the Spanish West Indies, by Nicholas Monardes, a Spaniard.
It was described and named botanically, first by La-
marck (Dict. vol. ii. p. 393) in 1786, from specimens col-
lected by Joseph Jussieu in Peru; and was first figured
by Cavanilles (Diss. viii. t. 229) in 1790. This was fol-
lowed by a graphic account of the cultivation, value and
properties of the Coca plant by Poeppig in his Travels in
Chili and Peru, who gave details regarding the value of
the leaf used as a masticatory in maintaining and restoring
muscular strength, which I can well remember being re-
garded as highly coloured if not fabulous. Poeppig’s
account was translated for Sir W. Hooker’s ‘ Companion —
January Ist, 1894. :

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to the Botanical Magazine,” where there is also a figure
of one variety of the plant, collected by Mr. Matthews
of Lima, at Chinchao in Peru. The latter publication was
mainly instrumental in directing the attention of the
medical faculty to theCoca, the therapeutical history of which
will be found in Bentley and Trimen’s work cited above.
It is enough to say that the trials made in England with the
dried leaf, or with the active alkaloid * Cocaine ” procured
from the leaf, were not up to that time encouraging. More
recently very careful experiments have been made with
Cocaine by Dr. H. H. Rusby, of New York, and published
in the ‘‘ Therapeutic Gazette,” under the title of * Coca at
home and abroad.” Dr. Rusby says, “The effects of —
Cocaine as a nerve stimulus applied to intellectual and
emotional activity are ruinous. It takes away appetite,
abolishes the sensations of hunger and thirst, lessens waste
during exertion, and decreases the exhaustion of ill-fed
labourers and travellers. Beyond this Cocaine has no
supporting or nourishing power whatever, and its essential
action is enfeebling. Every attempt made to support by
it athletic competition has resulted in failure, or even
disaster.” Comparatively recently a more excellent pro-
perty has been found in Cocaine, namely, that of an
anesthetic, especially useful in operations on the eye. :

Nevertheless the use of the leaf prevails throughout
almost the whole length and breadth of South America. .
Its cultivation covers an enormous area; Bolivia produces
7,500,000 pounds of the dried leaf annually, Peru
15,000,000, and the produce of the Argentine Province,
together with Paraguay and parts of Brazil, must be
enormously greater.

As is to be expected in the case of a plant cultivated
over so great an area, it has given origin to different local
forms, amongst which none can be regarded scientifically
as the type, owing to the fact that the native country of
the species has not been satisfactorily ascertained.

In such a case recourse must be had to the principle
of priority, and the first satisfactorily designated or de-
picted form must be regarded as the type, namely, the
H. Coca of Lamarck, who describes and figures a Peruvian
specimen with elliptic ovate acute leaves. With this form
that here figured sufficiently accords. Specimens of it have

been received from the Botanical Gardens of Demerara,
Ceylon, Darjeeling, Alipore (Calcutta), and the Jardin des
Plantes; and dried leaves from Peru and various other
sources ; it is distinguished by the rather large leaves
with an acute or rounded apiculate apex. Another form,
var. novo-granatensis, with smaller leaves, often retuse
at the apex with an apiculus, is figured in Bentley and
Trimen’s Medicinal Plants, vol. i. t. 40. It is cultivated
in New Grenada, and was presented to Kew in 1869 by
A. Dixon, Esq., of Cherkley Court, Leatherhead, who
raised it from seeds sent him by the Bishop of Huanuco,
a town in Peru, N.E. of Lima. A third, also in cultivation
at Kew, is var. Spruceana, with acute leaves very much
smaller than in that here figured, and of a very bright pale
green colour. It was raised from seeds sent from the
Botanical Gardens of Java.

The plant here figured was received from the Botanical
_ Garden of Demerara in 1884, and flowered in the Royal

Gardens, Kew, in April, 1893.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Portion of branch with stipules; 2, section of young leaf showing
venation; 3, flower with the petals removed; 4, petal; 5 and 6, stamens;
7, ovary ; 8, fruit from a Herbarium species :—All but fig. 8 enlarged.

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PRUNUS HUMILIS.
Native of Northern China.

Nat. Ord. Rosacra.—Tribe PRUNE.
Genus Prunus, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 609.)

Pronvus (Cerasus) humilis; fruticosa, ramosissima, inermis, glaberrimas,
ramulis gracilibus, foliis oblongis ovato-oblongisve obtusis v. acutis crenu-
latis puberulis basi eglandulosis, subtus rugosis, stipulis linearibus
glandulosis, pedunculis 1-2-floris erectis, pedicellis brevibus, calycibus
campanulatis, lobis oblongis obtusis ciliolatis tubo subzequilongis, petalis
orbicularibus crenulatis albis ungue rubro, staminibus petalis duplo
longioribus, ovariis 1-2, drupis globoso ovoideis rubris, putamine levi.

P. humilis, Pups Einum. Pl, Chin. Bor. p. 23. Maxim. in Mel. Biol. vol. xi.

_ —p. 682, et Fl. As. Or. Fragm. p.11. Bretschn. Early Researches into the
ee or China, p. 31. Hance in Journ. Bot. 1875, p.131. Debeaux FI.

— Chef. p. 52. Franch. Pl. David, p. 104. Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol.

xxill. p. 218, ; ;
P. japonica, Carr. in Rev. Hortic. 1873, p. 457, f. 41 (non Thunb.). —
P. Bungei, Walp. Rep. Bot. vol. ii. p. 9.

The earliest account of this pretty dwarf cherry is that
of a French missionary, Dominicus Parennin, who in 1733
communicated to the Academy of Sciences, Paris, an
account of the drugs, &c., of Northern China, and of
which communication a resumé is given by the indefatigable
and learned Dr. Bretschneider, late Physician to the
Russian Legation, Peking, in a brochure published at
Shanghai in 1881, entitled ‘Early European Researches into
the Flora of China.” Of the wild fruits of the country
Father Parennin says there are very few, adding that
two only are worthy of notice. One, “the fruit of the
Oulana, as the Tartars call it, is of the size of a great
red cherry, and is produced on a little stem 38 or 4 inches
high. The other fruit has the appearance of small raisins.
It is produced in clusters on a fine tree 25 ft. or more in
height. After the first frost these berries become red, and
are then of an acidulated sweet taste.” With respect to
these fruits, Dr. Bretschneider adds, that “ Oolana is the
Mongol and Manchurian name of Prunus humilis, frequent

JaNvARY Ist, 1894.

on the mountains of N. China and 8S. Mongolia; and as
for the other fruit mentioned, it is difficult to say what
is meant, for Father Parennin gives no native name, Per-
haps it may be Sorbus Aucuparia.”

There are many specimens of P. humilis in the Kew
Herbarium, and amongst these one from T. L. Bullock,
Esq., who describes the shrub as a foot high, growing
in the upper part of Mt. Conolly, Peking, and said to bear
a fruit called Oliura; and another from Mr. John Ross,
who also calls it a shrub, but gives Ow-li as its name.
It has been suggested that it is the parent of the cultivated
Prunus japonica.

The plant from which the specimen figured was taken
was raised in the Royal Gardens, from seeds sent by Dr.
Bretschneider from Peking, which flowered in the open
ground in 1886, but did not ripen its fruit till 1892,
when the bushes of it, which had attained 3 to 4 feet in
height, were covered with fruit. I have retained the name
of P. humilis given by Bunge, though it has been changed
into P. Bunget by Walpers, because of there being an
earlier Cerasus humilis, Moris, a native of Sardinia, but
there is reason to believe that this latter plant is only a
variety of P. prostrata, Labill.

Deser—A shrub, attaining four feet in height, with
slender erect branches covered with dark brown bark,
Leaves one and a half to two inches long, shortly petioled,
elliptic ovate, subacute, serrulate, bright green aboye, nerves
reticulate; stipules linear, strongly glandular-ciliate.
Flowers half an inch in diameter, solitary or in pairs on a
short peduncle; pedicel § in. long, bracteate at the base.
Calye campanulate, 5-lobed to the middle; lobes as long as
the tube, oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. Petals about twice as
long as the calyx-lobes, orbicular, crenulate, with a short
red claw. Stamens rather longer than the petals.
Ovaries one or two. Drupe half an inch long, ovoidly
globose, bright red; stone smooth, elliptic ovoid, turgid.

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Fig. 1, Portion of branch with petiole and stipules; 2, flower with the
petals removed ; 3, petal; 4, ovaries; 5, section of ovary :—All enlarged.

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AESCHYNANTHUS oscontca.

Native of the Malayan Peninsula and Islands.

Nat. Ord. GesneRacEm.—Tribe CyRTANDREZ.
Genus Aiscuynantuts, Jack. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol, ii. p. 1013.)

AGscHyNaNntTHUS (Holocalyx) obconica; caule gracili elongato ramoso, ramis
pendulis subpilosis, foliis ovato-rotundatis v. elliptico-ovatis subacutis
ciliolatis coriaceis, pedunculis brevibus bifloris, pedicellis pedunculo
triplo longioribus calycibusque sanguineis pubescentibus, calyce amplo
campanulato margine recurvo obscure 4-lobo, corolle tubo curvo vix
exserto sanguineo villoso, limbi lobis late ovatis obtusis flavidis marginibus ©
vittaque media lata sanguineis, lobo postico erecto fornicato lateralibus
patulis, filamentis exsertis glandulosis, ovario cylindraceo puberulo,
stigmate disciforme, disco annulari. :

“fi. obconica, C. B. Clarke in DO. Monogr. Phanerog. vol. v. pars. i. p. 50;
in Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 342.

Ai, obconica belongs to a small section of the genus, all
natives of the Malayan region, and is closely allied to
A. tricolor, Hook., tab. 5031 of this work, differing in the
very much larger broader calyx, and in the shorter corolla-
tube. It was imported by Messrs. Veitch from the Malayan
Peninsula, and there is a specimen of it in the Kew
Herbarium from Borneo, collected at Banjarmassin by Motley
(n. 687), which has been by an oversight included under
44. tricolor in the monograph of Cyrtandreex cited above.
In the type specimen described by Mr. Clarke, which was
collected by Beccari, at Klang in Sangalore, and which I
have not seen, the leaves are elliptic or oblong, or rarely
rhomboid, acuminate and narrowed at both ends.

The specimen figured was sent, in flower, to the Royal
Gardens by Messrs. Veitch in July, 1893.

Stem slender, elongate, branched, terete, puberulous or
sparsely hairy. eaves 2-24 in. by 14 broad, orbicular-
ovate, obtuse or subacute, glabrous, margins ciliolate,
fleshy; nerves few, distant; petiole + in., puberulous.
Flowers in pairs in a short green upcuryed peduncle with
= January Ist, 1894,

a pair of small green bracts at the base; and a smaller
pair of dark red ones at the apex of each ; pedicels $—4 in.
long, blood-red, and obscurely-pubescent like the calyx.
Calyx broadly campanulate, nearly 1 in. diam., with a re-
curved nearly entire margin. Corolla short, villous with
cellular hairs, tube hardly exserted, blood-red, glandular
within. Lobes spreading, shortly ovate, often yellow with
very broad blood-red margins, and a broad central red
band. Filaments exserted, white, glandular. Ovary puberu-

lous, cylindric, stigma sessile, disciform. Disk annular.—
J. Do,

Fig. 1, Ovary and disk; 2, hairs of corolla:—Both enlarged.

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Native of Polynesia.

Nat. Ord. Myrtacraz.—Tribe LecyTHIDEZ.
Genus Barrinctonia, Forst.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 720.)

Barrinetonta (Butonica) samoensis: arbor, foliis subverticillatis breviter
petiolatis oblanceolatis acuminatis remote denticulatis flaccidis, racemo
terminali pendulo, floribus amplis (staminibus inclusis 3 poll. diam.)
_breviter crasse pedunculatis roseis, calycis tubo turbinato obscure 4-gono,
lobis rotundatis ciliolatis, petalis fere 1 poll. longis ovato-oblongis reflexis

_ marginibus recurvis, staminibus numerosissimis 1-poll. longis, fructu

-ovoideo tetragono. :

B. samoensis, A. Gray, in Bot. Un. St. Eupl. Exped. p. 508. Walp. Ann. Bot.
vol. iv. p. 852. :

B. excelsa, A. Gray 1. c. (non Blume).

B. racemosa, Gaud. in Freyc. Voy. Bot. p. 483, t. 107, excl. syn.; (non Blume).

B. acutangula, Blume Bijdr. p. 1097 (non Rozb.), ' aM

B. insignis, Mig. Fl. Ned. Ind. vol. i. p. 488.

Stravadium insigne, Blume in Van Houtte Fl. des Serres, vol. vii. p. 24,
t. 654, 655.

Butonica samoensis, Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. ii. Bot. vol. i. p. 75. t.
xiv. fig. 20-25.

According to Miers B. samoensis has been found only in
the New Hebrides, Navigator’s, and the Ladrone or
Marianne group of Islands, growing as a tall, handsome
tree, overlooking the habitat of Java given by Miquel.

- Miers remarks upon Van Houtte’s figure in the “ Flora
des Serres,” that ‘it does not seem to have been made
from any cultivated specimen, as he would lead us to sup-
pose; its originality may indeed be doubted, after what I
have shown in regard to his drawing tab. 409 under B.
speciosa. From the resemblance of the former in the form
and size of the leaf and the size of the flowers, we may
infer that it is a made-up drawing with its details borrowed
from Gaudichaud.”

B. samoensis was received from M. Louis Van Houtte,
of Ghent, in 1891, and flowered in a stove of the Royal

_ Fepruary Ist, 1894.

Gardens in May, 1893. The flowers, as Mr. Watson in-
forms me, opened in the evening, and invariably fell on the
following morning.

Descr.—A tall, handsome tree. Leaves sessile, sub-
whorled, 1-2 ft. long, spreading and decurved, thin,
oblanceolate, narrowed into a very short petiole, margins
undulate and toothed, bright green, with many spreading
nerves, pale beneath, midrib very broad, and raised be-
neath. Flowers in long simple axillary pendulous racemes
2 ft. long, rachis dark red-brown, terete. Flowers shortly,
stoutly pedicelled; pedicels dark green, terete. Calyx-tube
turbinate, angular; lobes four, rounded. Petals before ex-
pansion forming a scarlet ball about the size of a large
pea ; when expanded, 3} in. long, ovate, subacute, recurved, —
pale flesh-coloured. Stamens innumerable, erecto-patent,
forming a brush three inches in diameter, of very slender
filaments with minute yellow anthers. Ovary turbinate,
4-angled; style filiform pink, stigma most minute. Fruit
(according to Gaudichaud’s drawing, 3 inches long by
1j in. broad, with four ribbed angles, which are decurrent
on the pedicel.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and pistil; 2, stamens; 3, section of ovary; 4, ovule;
5, reduced view of whole plant :—A// enlarged.

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VERONICA tycoroptorpss.
Native of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. ScrorpHutaRINE®.—Tribe DicitTaLez.
Genus Veronica, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 964.)

Veronica (Hebe) lycopodicides; fruticulus caespitosus glaber, ramulis
erectis adultis tetragonis, foliis dimorphis adultis squamzformis densis-
sime quadrifariam imbricatis crasse coriaceis deltoideo-ovatis concavis
obtuse cuspidato-acuminatis, foliis primordialibus adultis duplo longiori-
bus patulis in petiolum angustatis ovatis acute 3-5-lobis, floribus in
capitulum terminalem ovoideum congestis sessilibus albis, bracteis folii-
formibus ciliolatis calyci 4-partito ot begat sepalis inzqualibus
oblongis obtusis tubum corolle wquantibus, corolla lobo postico rotun-
dato erecto, lateralibus oblongis obtusis, antico minore lineari-oblongo,
filamentis longe exsertis, antheris obovoideis magnis cceruleo-purpureis.

V. lycopodioides, Hook. f. Handb. of N. Zeal. Fl. p. 211. Armstr. in Trans.
N. Zeal. Institute, vol. xiii. (1880), p. 357.

V. lycopodioides is a member of a curious group of New
Zealand Speedwells, in which the minute leaves are densely
imbricated on branches which hence resemble those of
some species of Lycopodium and Cypress. Of these there are
eight known species, besides that figured here, namely, V.
tetragona, V. tetrasticha, V. Hectori, V. salicornioides, V.
cupressoides, V. Haastii, V. epacridea, and V. Armstrongit, all
of them mountain plants, and with the exception of the
first (which is found in the Northern Island) all are con-
fined to the Middle Island, not extending to the Chatham
Islands, Stewart’s Island, or the Islets south of New
Zealand. This isolation of so abnormal a group is very
interesting, especially if taken into account with a singular
habit, which some (probably all) have, of being dimorphic
as regards their foliage.

My attention was first called to this case of dimorphism
so long ago as 1870, by Mr. T. W. Kirk, F.L.S. (now
Curator of the Wellington Museum) who sent me a
Specimen of V. cupressotdes with minute, spreading, lobulate
_ leaves, and who afterwards published an account of this

_ Fasuvary Ist, 1894,

and of @ similar dimorphism in V. Armstrongii, Kirk, in
the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute (vol. xi.
(1878) p. 464). Mr. Kirk there states that almost all the
Veronicas with appressed leaves have in a seedling state
more or less lobulate, rarely linear, leaves, and that a re-
version to this condition occurs in adult plants when
ah shaded. More recently in 1888, Mr. N. E.
rown described, and figured in detail, various early and
late conditions of V. cupressoides, with valuable observations
respecting them, and it only remains to add that V. lyco-
podioides exhibits the same propensity to return when
grown in shade to what is, no doubt, its seedling condi-
tion, as shown in the accompanying plate. :
I am indebted to Sir E. Loder, of Leonardslee, Horsham,
for flowering specimens of V. lycopodioides, and to Prof, Bal-
four for good examples of its dimorphic condition. In both
cases the specimens were received in the middle of June.
Descr.—A small shrub, twelve to sixteen inches high,
with erect stiff four-angled branches clothed with densely
imbricating leaves, together about one-sixth of an inch in
diameter. Leaves most densely quadrifariously imbricated,
about as long as the branches are broad, triangular or
deltoidly ovate, ciliolate, narrowed into a stout obtuse
cusp or point, thickly coriaceous. Flowers about one-third
of an inch in diameter, crowded towards the end of the
branches, axillary, subsessile, white. Sepals free, elliptic,
obtuse, ciliolate, as long as the corolla-tube. Corolla 4-
lobed, lobes obtuse, concave, dorsal largest obovate, —
anticous smallest linear-oblong. Stamens far exserted ;
pat eae broadly ovate, blueish purple. Style filiform.

Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, bracts; 3, tip of branch bracts and flowers; 4, calyx and
style; 5, ovary,—all enlarged ; 6, branch with reverted foliage of nat. size;
7, portion of the same enlarged.

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PEN TARHAPHIA LONGIFLORA.

Native of the West Indies.

Nat. Ord. Gesneracre®.—Tribe GesnEREX.
Genus Pentarnaruta, Lindl. ; (Benth. & Hook. f: Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1005.)

Prytarnaruta (Eupentarhaphia) longiflora; frutex 6-8-pedalis, erecta, glabra,
foliis lanceolatis v. oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis serratis basi cuneatis
‘supra saturate subtus pallide viridibus, pedunculis supra-axillaribus elon-
s ee patentibus apice ad 4-floris, pedicellis adscendentibus bracteolatis,
_ floribus erectis, calycis segmentis elongato-subulatis corolla triente brevi-
oribus, corolle tubo 1-14 pollicari incurvo subinflato coccineo, limbi lobo

stico erecto bilobo, lateralibus anticoque oblongis patulis, genitalibus
onge exsertis coccineis. :

¢ ec es Lindl, in Bot. Reg. sub t. 1110. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind.
p- 460.

P. exserta, Decne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. iii. vol. vi. p- 104,t. 10. Walp. Le.
736 (excl. Syn. Sw.).

P. florida, Decne, 1. c, 106, t. 7. Walp. l.c.

P. Herminieri, Decne, J. ¢. 106. Walp. l. ¢.

P. Lindleyana, Deene, l.c. 108. Walp. l. ¢. 735,

P. montana, Deene, l.c. 105. Walp. 1. c. 736.

P. Swartzii, Decne, 1.c.103. Walp. l.c. 735.

Conradia ventricosa, Mart. Nov. Gen. & Sp. iii. 88, DO. 1. ¢.

Gesneria ventricosa, Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 89, et Fl. Ind. Oce. p- 1026.
G. corymbosa, Balb, et Bert. ex DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 525.

The genus Pentarhaphia was founded by Lindley in
1827 on the Gesneria ventricosa of Swartz, in allusion to
the five needle-shaped calyx-segments, Swartz’s specific
name being at the same time suppressed from (it may be sup-
posed) its being considered inapplicable ; a very arbitrary
proceeding, I think, the corolla being really subventricose.
Considerable additions have been made to the genus since
its establishment, chiefly through the suppression of
Conradia, Martius (which was not published till 1829) and

_ the inclusion of several small, too closely allied and sup-

_ posed monotypic genera. About forty species are known,
| Fesrvary Isr, 1894.

all tropical American, amongst which there are great
differences in habit, calyx and corolla.

P. longiflora is an exceedingly handsome stove shrub,
flowering freely throughout the summer and autumn. It
is a native of several of the West India Islands, as Ja-
maica, Dominica, Montserrat, St. Domingo, Martinique,
St. Vincent, and St. Lucia. Though an exceedingly well-
marked species, very constant in habit and characters, |
and confined in its distribution to the West India Islands,
it has been subdivided by Decaisne into six species in a
monograph of the genus cited above, and where, strange
to say, Lindley’s specific name (of longiflora) is overlooked,
the Swartzian Gesneria ventricosa being replaced by P.
Swartzit.

P. longiflora has long been in cultivation at Kew, where
it forms a handsome stove-shrub, about four feet high,
flowering profusely in the summer and autumn months.

Descr.— A small, sparingly branched shrub, with brownish
bark and terete green shoots. Leaves three to five inches

long, petioled, ovate- or oblong lanceolate, acuminate, serru-

late, dark green above, pale beneath, and there finely reticu-
lated between the strong arching nerves; petiole 4-3 of an -
inch long. Flowers in long-peduncled axillary or supra-
axillary few-fld. cymes; peduncle half as long as the leaves, —
horizontally spreading, bearing at the end three to six

erect pedicelled flowers ; pedicels ascending, about 4 inch
long, with a single subulate bract about the middle. Calyz-
tube subcampanulate, green, lobes twice or thrice as long,, @
erect, very narrowly linear, Corolla one and a half inch

long, bright scarlet, tube slightly curved, and obscurely

gibbous, one-third inch in diameter, narrowed at the
base; lobes small, dorsal erect, obcordate, concave, lateral
spreading, ovate-oblong, tips rounded. Stamens far ex-
serted, red; anthers small, cohering ; staminode small,

capitate. Style longer than the stamens ; stigma disciform,
red.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and ovary; 2, base of corolla laid open with stamens and
staminodes; 3 and 4, anthers :—AJ/ enlarged,

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DYCKI A DrsmeEtiana.

Native probably of Southern Brazil,

Nat. Ord. BromEtiscez.—Tribe PitcalnNIe&.
Genus Dycxta, Schulies; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 667.)

Dycxta Desmetiana, acaulis, foliis 20-30 dense rosulatis ensiformibus crassis
rigidis bipedalibus facie obscure viridibus dorso subtiliter striatis aculeis
marginalibus ascendentibus uncinatis, pedunculo elongato foliis pluribus
reductis preedito, floribus in racemis laxis racemosis dispositis, pedicellis
brevibus crassis ascendentibus, bracteis ovatis parvis, sepalis ovatis
viridibus, petalis ovatis acuminatis rubris calyce duplo longioribus,
staminibus petalis distincte brevioribus filamentis applanatis, ovario
ovoideo stylo brevi apice stigmatoso tricuspidato.

Bromelia Desmetiana, Hort. :

This new Dyckia differs from all the species previously
known by its red flowers. It has been in cultivation in the
Cactus house at Kew for several years, under the name of
Bromelia Desmetiana, but only flowered last February for
the first time, and proved to be not a Bromelia, but a
Dyckia. It was purchased several years ago at the sale of
the collection of the late Mr. J. T. Peacock, of Sudbury
House, Hammersmith, and, I believe, was procured by him
from De Smet, of Ghent. The Dyckias all inhabit the
South of Brazil and the neighbouring regions, and are
amongst the few Bromeliacee that require cool treatment.
Thirty-five species are now known, only a small proportion
of which have been brought into cultivation.

Descr.—Acaulescent. Leaves twenty or thirty in a
dense rosette, ensiform, thick, rigid, recurving, two feet
long, two inches broad at the base, narrowed gradually to
along point, dull green, and faintly striated on the face,
distinctly striated with green and white on the back;
marginal prickles uncinate, ascending, pungent. Peduncle
two feet long, bearing many small, linear reduced leaves.

_ Panicle lax, rhomboid, two feet long ; racemes lax, the end
-- Fesrvary Ist, 1894.

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one eight or nine inches long ; pedicels short, thick, ascend-
ing ; bracts small, ovate. Sepals ovate, greenish, a quarter
of an (inch long. Petals ovate, acuminate, pinkish red,
twice as long as the sepals. Stamens much shorter than
the petals ; filaments flattened. Ovary ovoid; style short,
tricuspidate at the stigmatic apex.—J. G. Baker.

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ELAAGNUS motrttrrora.

Native of Japan,

Nat. Ord. EtmaGnacez.
Genus Exmaenvs,Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol, iii, p. 204.)

Exzacyus multiflora; fraticosa, ramulis fuscis novellis lepidotis, foliis
breviter petiolatis ovato- v. obovato-oblongis lanceolatisve obtusis, supra
viridibus stellulatim puberulis, subtus floribusque dense argenteo-lepi-
dotis rubro-fusco punctulatis, floribus solitartis fasciculatisve szpius
longe pedicellatis pallide stramineis, perianthio basi (ovarium tegente)
auguste ellipsoideo, dein constricto breviter columnari, demum in tubum
anguste campanulatum dilatato, lobis late ovatis subacutis, stylo apice
recurvo uno latere late stigmatifero, fructibus aurantiaco-rubris oblongis
utrinque rotundatis sarcocarpio carnoso endocarpio sulcato.

E. nay +7 aes Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 66. Schlecht. in DO. Prodr. vol. xiv.

p- 614.

E. longipes, A. Gray, in Mem. Am. Acad. N.S. vol. vi. (1858-9) p. 405.
Miquel Prolus, Fl. Jap. 189. Maxim. Mel. Biol. Pars viii. p. 559, 560,
and in Bull. Acad. St, Petersb. vol. xv. (1871) p. 377. Franch. & Savat
Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. ip. 408. Masters in Gard. Chron. (1878) p. 1015, f. -
206. Belg. Hortic. (1883) t. xvi. Lavalle, Arbor. Segrez. p. 189, & Ic.
Sel. p. 9, t.iv. Garden & Forest (1888) p. 499.

. edulis, Siebold in Rev. Hortic. (1869) p. 300, and (1876) p. 18.

. rotundifolia, Gagn. in Rev. Hortic, (1870-1) p. 540.

. crispa, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 66.

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In no genus of shrubby flowering plants are the species
more difficult of definition by characters of habit and
foliage than are those of Hlxagnus. Asa Gray, when
determining the Japanese collection of Perry’s expedition,
instituted H. longipes, to contain Thunberg’s multiflora and
crispa. An unfortunate name, because the pedicels are
long only in one form of the plant, on which account and
in deference to the priority of Thunberg’s name, I
have reverted to the name of multiflora. According
to Maximoviez, whose knowledge of Japanese plants,
derived from lengthened botanical explorations in the
Archipelago, was unrivalled, there are four principal forms
of £. longipes, namely,—a hortensis ; unarmed, with elliptic
leaves, very long pedicels, and large edible fruit ; B ovata,

Feprvary Ist, 1894. :

with acuminate leaves, strongly clavate pedicels an inch
long, and moderately sized edible fruit; y multiflora,
spinous, with small variable leaves, shorter peduncles, and
small austere fruit ; 5 crispa, tall, spinous, with sublan-
leolate leaves and short pedicels. The plant here figured
is no doubt the var. hortensis, though its fruits are very
austere, and is, perhaps, only known as a cultivated
form.

Franchet and Savat say of H. longipes that it is a hedge
and mountain unarmed or spinous plant; with leaves
elliptic to lanceolate, pedicels short or long, solitary or
fascicled, and fruit austere or eatable. I find no notice of
the fruit being used for sherbet, as is that of the European
E. hortensis.

Ei. multiflora forms a large bush in the Royal Gardens,
Kew, where it has been established for many years. It
was probably introduced by one of the collectors, Oldham
or Wilford, who were sent by the Royal Gardens to Japan
about the middle of the century. It flowers in April and
fruits abundantly in July. The beautiful fruits are, though
very austere, greedily sought by birds.

Duscr. A ramous shrub, four to six feet high, with
spreading rigid branches, clothed with brown bark ; shoots
densely lepidote. Leaves one to three inches long, ovate
or obovate-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, green above and
covered with a deciduous stellate pubescence, beneath
silvery-white with lepidote scales and dotted with red-
brown. lowers solitary or few, lepidote like the leaves
beneath, pendulous on lepidote pedicels as long as the
perianth. Perianth one-half to two-thirds of an inch long,
pale straw coloured, base ellipsoid where it covers the
ovary, then contracted shortly cylindric, again dilating,
and campanulate with four ovate lobes. . Anthers small,
sessile at the mouth of the tube. Style included, stigma
linear. Fruit oblong, half an inch long, oblong, rounded

at both ends, yellowish-red, dotted; flesh yellowish,
austere.—J. D. H. 7

Figs. 1 and 2, Flower; 3, upper part of perianth laid open; 4, vertical section
of lower part of perianth showing the ovary; 5, the same with the ovary
bisected showing the ovule ; 6, lepidote scales from the under-surface of the
leaves and of the fruit; 7, stellate hairs from the upper surface of the
leaves ; 8, endocarp of the fruit; 9, the same laid open vertically, showing
the seed; 10, section of seed showing the embryo :—A// enlarged.

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THOMSONIA NAPALENSIS.

Native of the Himalaya Mountains.

Nat. Ord. Anoripz#.—Tribe PyrHoninz.
Genus Toomsonta, Wallich.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 971.)

Tuomsonia napalensis; tubere magno, folio hysterantho amplo longe petiolato
3-secto, segmentis simplicibus v. furcatis pinnatipartitis, foliolis paucis
oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis nervis utrinque cost# permultis in unum
intra-marginalem abeuntibus, pedunculo elato crasso marmorato, spatha
magna erecta oblonga obtusa cymbiformi basi convoluta extus viridi,
spadice crassa spathz zquilonga tota cylindracea, inflorescentia foeminea
brevi cum mascula elongata continua, appendicé spadice sequilonga rugu-
losa, antheris dense compactis rimis apicalibus dehiscentibus, ovariis
2-3-locularibus confertis globosis, stylo elongato, stigmate disciformi,
ovulis in loculis solitariis subbasilaribus erectis.

T. napalensis, Wall. Pl. As. Rar. vol. i. p. 83, t. 92. Blume, Rumphia, vol.
i. p. 150. Engler in DO. Monogr. Phanerog. vol. ii. p. 307. Hook. f. Fl.
Brit. Ind, vol. vi. p. 578. :

Pythonium Wallichianum, Schott & Endl. Meletem. p. 17. Schott Syn.
Aroid. p. 36; Gen. Aroid. t. 25; Prodr. Aroid. p. 128. Kunth* Enum.
Pl, vol. iii. p. 30.

Arum grandiflorum, Herb. Ham,
Aroid, Wall. Cat. n. 8949.

The genus Thomsonia is so very closely allied to Amor-
phophallus that it might very well be reduced to a section
of the latter, differing only in the tuberculate appendage
of the spadix, the tubercles being merely arrested male
flowers. Only one species is known, though another, 1’.
Hookeri, Engler, 1.c. p. 807 (Allopythion Hookeri, Gen.
Aroid. p. 24, t. 24) was founded by Schott on a very bad
specimen of a spathe collected by me in the Khasia hills,
and the leaf of probably another plant altogether. The
name Thomsonia was given by Dr. Wallich, in honour of
the late Dr. Anthony Todd Thomson, Professor of Materia
Medica in University College, London.

* The P. Wallichianum, Kirtikar, in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soe. vol. vil.
(1892), p. 512, t. D., a native of Bombay, is founded on the inflorescence of
Amorphophallus commutatus and foliage of another plant.

Marcu Ist, 1894.

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T. napalensis is a native of the Himalaya Mountains,
from Nepal eastwards to Assam and the Khasia hills;
ascending in both to 5000 ft. Its tubers were sent in
February 1891, to the Royal Gardens, by Mr. J. A.
Gammie, Resident Manager of the Cinchona Plantations
at Mungpo, in the Sikkim Himalaya. It flowered in a
stove in March, 1898, and matured its leaf in July of the
same year,

Descr.—A tall, stout, tuberous aroid, two to four feet
high, flowering before leafing. Tuber several inches across.
Peduncle and petiole pale grey, marbled with dark-green.
Leaf two feet across and more, trisect, the segments
simple, pinnatifid or pinnatisect, oblong-lanceolate, the
terminal obovate, all very many-nerved, dark green above,
_ pale beneath, margins waved or subcrenate. Spathe 6-12
in. long, erect, cymbiform, obtuse, open, convolute at the
base only, bright green, paler within. Spadixz almost as
long as the spathe, sessile, very stout, cylindric, obtuse,
upper half greenish-yellow, tubercled, lower for the most
part male, female towards the base only. Male fl. of
crowded columnar flattened anthers, with terminal parallel
slits, the upper imperfect. Fem. jl. of crowded, globose,
sessile ovaries, each with a stout, columnar curved style,
and 38-lobed, broad, disciform stigma.—J. D. H.

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HYDN OPHYTUM toncirtorvum.
Native of the Fiji Islands,

Nat. Ord. Rusracra.—Tribe Psycuorrie2.
Genus Hrpnopuyrtuu, Jacg. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol ii. p. 132.)

HypyopuytuM longiflorum ; fruticulus glaberrimus, ramulis crassiusculis tereti-
bus, foliis brevissime petiolatis ellipticis subacutis coriaceis costa crassa,
stipulis ovatis deciduis, floribus axillaribus confertis sessilibus, corolle
albee tubo semipollicari gracili limbi lobis ovatis triplo longiore, antheris
: ore corollz subsessilibus, stigmate didymo.
Hi. longifloram, A. Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. vol. iv. (1860), p. 42 (Bot.
Contrib. (1858), No. 10). Seem. Fl. Vit. 438. Beccari, Malesia, vol. ii.
p. 172, t. 45, £. 5-7.
Myrmecodia vitiensis, Seem. in Bonplandia, vol. ix. (1861), p. 256. A.
in Bonplandia, vol. x. (1862), p36. »P rang

Under Tab. 6883 of this Magazine (Myrmecodia Beccarii)
I have given some particulars of the history of the two
genera of Rubiaceous insect-harbouring plants, Myrmecodia
and Hydnophytum. Of these the first had then for the
first time been flowered in Europe, and it is now followed
by the second. Many attempts had previously been made
to bring or send living plants of both home to England ;
the first of which was at my request, by Mr. Wallace
about thirty-five years ago, from whom specimens of a
Myrmecodia were received at the Royal Gardens, from the
Malay Peninsula, but in a dying state. Subsequently
specimens of a Hydnophytum were imported at various
times from Queensland, but none of them survived the
voyage, with the exception of the specimen of H. Beccarii,
imported by Messrs. Veitch, and figured at t. 6883. Hydno-

7 = phytum differs from Myrmecodia, not only in the tubers
never being prickly, but also in distribution; for though

both find their western limit in the Malayan Archipelago,
Hydnophytum alone extends eastward beyond tropical
Australia, into the Polynesian Islands, where six species
have been found in the Fiji group alone. It is not known
whether any of these Fijian species harbour ants, as de

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many of both genera in the Malay Archipelago, &c. Nor
is there sufficient reason for assuming that they should,
the tuberous. rootstock being a provision for the plant
itself, and not for insects to nest in, similar to what occurs
in many of the Himalayan epiphytic vacciniaceous plants,
as may be seen on reference to the figure of Pentapterygium
serpens, at t. 6777 of this magazine.

A. longiflorum was received at Kew in August, 1891,
from Mr. D. Yeoward, Curator of the Botanical Station at
Fiji, and it flowered in the Royal Gardens in February of
the present year.

Descr.—Tuber attaining several inches in diameter,
smooth, simple or lobed, emitting stout cylindric branching
glabrous stems from or near the crown. Leaves two to
two and a half inches long, subsessile, elliptic, obtuse,
softly coriaceous, bright green, shining above, paler be-
neath, midrib strong; nerves few, obliquely ascending.
Flowers few, in small axillary clusters of two to five,
sessile, half an inch long, white. Calyx-tube subglobose ;
limb very short, truncate, very obscurely 4-toothed.
Corolla-tube cylindric, walls thick, glabrous within; limb
of four ovate spreading valvate thick segments, with
thickened inflexed tips. Anthers subsessile at the mouth

of the corolla-tube. Style very slender, exserted ; stigma
large, capitate, 4-lobed.— J. D. H, -

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HIPPEASTRUM sracuyanprum.
Native of Argentaria.

Nat. Ord. AMaryYLLipEs.—Tribe AMARYLLE,
Genus Hirrgastrum, Herb. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 724.)

Hirrzastrum (Habranthus) brachyandrum ; bulbo ovoideo, foliis 3-4 linearibus
viridibus erectis subpedalibus ante anthesin productis, pedunculo elon-
gato gracili unifloro, pedicello elongato, spath4 1-2-valvi deorsum tubulosa,
ovario parvo oblongo, perianthio erecto infundibulari 3-4-pollicari sursum

_pallide rubro deorsum saturate vinosus, tubo brevi cylindrico, lobis
oblongo-lanceolatis flore expanso sursum late patulis, staminibus stylo-
que perianthio duplo_ brevioribus, antheris linearibus, stylo apice
stigmatoso profunde trifurcato.

Hippeastrum (Habranthus) brachyandrum, Baker Handb. Amaryll. p. 42.
Gard. Chron. (1890), vol. ii. p. 154.

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This new Amaryllis is one of the finest of all the known
species of the section Habranthus. I first described it in
1888, from a dried specimen collected by Signor Parodi on
the banks of the great river Parana, where it leaves
Paraguay to enter the territory of the Argentine Republic.
Soon afterwards it was introduced in a living state from
Buenos Ayres by Mr. A. C. Bartholomew of Reading,
who first flowered it in 1890. He presented a plant to the
Royal Gardens, Kew, of which the seed ripened. The
seedlings were planted in a border with a southern ex-
posure, and have nearly all flowered. The first flowers
opened in July, and they continued till September, so that
the plant proves to be a valuable acquisition to horticul-
ture. Our drawing was made from one of the Kew plants
last July. :

Descr.—Bulb ovoid, tunicated, above one inch in
diameter. Leaves three or four, erect, linear, pale green,
glabrous, developed before the flowers appear. Peduncle
slender, a foot long, bearing always only a single flower;
pedicel erect, two inches long; spathe as long as the
pedicel, tubular at the base, one- or two valved. Ovary

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small, oblong; style as long as the stamens, deeply three-
forked at the stigmatose apex. Perianth funnel-shaped,
three or four inches long, pale pink at the top, passing
gradually into deep claret-red downwards ; tube short,
cylindrical ; lobes oblong-lanceolate, one inch broad at the
middle, spreading in the upper half when the flower is
fully expanded. Stamens half as long as the lobes of the
perianth ; anthers large, linear, versatile.—J. G@. Baker.

Fig. 1, Anther front view; 2, anther back view: 3, apex of style :—A/I
enlarged,

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PTYCHOSPERMA etzcans.
Native of tropical, Australia,

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Nat. Ord. Patmz:—Tribe ARECER.
Genus Prycuosrerma, Labill. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 891.

PrycHosrerMa elegans; caudice mediocri annulato levi, foliis 6-7-pedalibus:
multifoliolatis, foliolis 2-pedalibus elongato-ensiformibus uni-costatis
apice angustatis acutis uno latere dentatis, petiolo brevi supra concavo
subtus convyexo margine sulcato, spadice supra-foliaceo subbipedali
latiore quam longo breviter pedunculato patulo, ramis patulis divisis,
rachi compressa, ramulis spicisve fere pedalibus gracilibus cylindraceis,
floribus ternis intermedio foamineo ; fl. mase. oblongis, sepalis orbiculari-
bus petalis lineari-oblongis pluries brevioribus, staminibus numerosis,
filamentis gracilibus,’stylodio gracili; fl. foem. depresso-hemisphericis,
sepalis late reniformibus accrescentibus, petalisque rotundatis imbricatis,
staminodiis minimis, ovario oblongo 1-loculari, stigmatibus 3 sessilibus,
fructu parvo ovoideo-oblongo calyce accreto insidente, albumine grosse
ruminato.

P. elegans, Blume Rumphia, vol. ii. p. 118. Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. vii.
p. 141.

P. Seaforthia, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 21.

PP. Capitis Yorki, Wendl. & Drude in Linnea, vol. xxxix. p. 217.

Seaforthia elegans, Br. Prodr. p. 267. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. vol. iii. p. 181,
t. 105, 106, 109 (not Bot. Mag. t. 4961.*)

PinanGa, Smithii, Hort.

Ptychosperma elegans is a native of the tropical east -
coast of Australia, and some of its outlying islands, from
Sandy Isld. in lat. 25 8. to Cape York (the extreme north
of the continent) in lat. 11° N. It was discovered by Sir
Joseph Banks during Cook’s first voyage in 1770, at the
mouth of the Endeavour River, and his specimens are now
in the British Museum. It is possible that more than one
species is included under the name, for my friend Dr. Wend-
land, in answer to a request of mine for any information
he might be able to give me regarding Pinanga Smithii,
observes that Ptychosperma elegans, Mart. is a very tall-
growing palm, and must be different from Pinanga Smithit.
On the other hand, Mueller (Fragmenta, vol. v. p. 48)

* Which is a good figure of P. Alexandra, with the fruit of P. elegans
copied from Martius. pe
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speaks of it as a smaller palm than the P. Alerandrx
(which attains 70-80 ft.), and at vol. viii. p. 222 of the
same work he gives 50 ft. as the height of a specimen from
Whitsunday Island, with the trunk 46 inches in
diameter. This latter (4 inches) is that of the trunk of
the Kew plant, from which it may be inferred that,
as this is its first year of flowering, it will attain a much
greater height. But the fact is that the Ptychosperme of
Australia require to be carefully studied in their native
country, and until this is done P. elegans must be regarded
as doubtfully identified. :

There is no available record of the introduction of P.
elegans into Kew, where it has been established in the
Palm House for a great many years, but it may be pre-
sumed that the first imported seeds were received from
Allan Cunningham, collected possibly at Sandy (not .
Sunday, as in Fl, Austral.) Island, during King’s voyage
( 1818), to which Cunningham was attached as botanist in
the interests of Kew. The name of Pinanga Smithu,
in all probability originated in some continental gardens
to which a young plant had been contributed from Kew,
and to which was given the name of the late Curator of
that establishment, whose:-success as a raiser of Palms
was famous). The specimen figured is now 18 feet in
height, with a trunk four inches in diameter at the base
above the roots; the leaves are 6} ft. long, and the leaflets
2 ft. long by 3 inches wide. It flowered in May, 1893,
and did not mature fruit.

Descr.—A rather slender palm, “ variously described as
low, or very tall,” Benth.; trunk in the Kew specimen
13 feet high, and 4 inches diam. at the base above the
rooting portion. Leaves 6} ft. long, recurved; rachis
semilunar in cross section; leaflets 2 ft. long by (the
broadest) 3 inches broad, linear, tip very obliquely truncate
and toothed, bright green, paler beneath ; sheath 18 by 24
in. long by 6-7 in. broad. Spadix 12-18 inches long, in-
serted below the leaves, very shortly peduncled, broadly
triangular, repeatedly divided into strict branchlets ;
peduncle compressed ; branchlets slender, terete. Flowers
sessile, ternate, a fem. between two males. Male fl. oblong,
and obtuse in bud, when expanded 2 in. in diam. ; sepals —
orbicular ; petals oblong, obtuse ; stamens very numerous,

Tas. 7346.
PELARGONIUM Drvmmonpu.
Native of Western Australia,

Nat. Ord. Grrantace#.—Tribe GERANIER.
Genus PeLarconium, Linn.; (Benth, & Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 273.)

Pezarconiuom Drummondii; suffrutescens, tota molliter patentim pilosa,
caule robusto erecto ramoso, foliis longe petiolatis cordato-rotundatis
5-lobis crenato-dentatis rugosis fragrantibus, stipulis amplis crenatis, —
floribus 1 poll. diam. ad apicem pedunculi elongati congestis brevissime
pedicellatis, bracteis brevibus, calycis tubo obconico, lobis ovato-oblongis
accrescentibus, petalis sepalis duplo longioribus obovato-spathulatis
roseis 2 posticis conniventibus maculis dentriticis rubris notatis,
ocr cem fertilibus ad 8 exsertis, capsulis 1}-pollicaribus patentim
pilosis.

P. Drummondii, Turez. in Bull. Mosc. (1858), vol. i. p. 421.

Bentham in the “ Flora Australiensis ” (vol. i. p. 299)
has included Pelargonium Drummondii under P. australis,
as a robust, large-flowered form of that exceedingly
variable plant. Though not disposed to pronounce an
opposite view with any approach to conviction, I cannot
but think that more evidence in support of an assent is
required than is afforded by the copious suites of speci-
mens of P. australis from all parts of its wide range of
distribution, which are contained in the Kew Herbarium.
P. australis inhabits all the temperate shores and many
inland districts of Australia, New Zealand, and the Islet
of Tristan d’Acunha, and sports into eight more or less
distinguishable forms connected by intermediates (besides
that of Drummondii) which have been brought under one
by Bentham ; they are P. glomeratum, Jacq., inodorum,
Willd., littorale, Hueg., crinitwm, Nees, stenanthum, Turcz.,
erodiodes, Hook., clandestinum, L’Her., and acugnaticum,
Thou. In its typical form it is a slender, decumbent
plant, with leaves 1-13 rarely 2 in. diam., and flowers
about } to 3 in. diam., and, as Bentham observes, it cannot
be separated from the S. African var. anceps of P. grossu-
lartoides (P. anceps, Ait.). In support of which view it
may be confidently assumed that Tristan d’Acunha owes
its possession of the species to transport from the neigh-
bouring continent of Africa (the headquarters of the
genus), and not to remote Australia.

Maxcu Isr, 1894,

To me it appears that P. Drummondii is far more dis-
tinct from any form known to me of australis, than any
form of the latter is from grossularioides; and that if
Drummondii is to be merged in australis, so should both be
in grossularioides.

To return to the subject of the plate, it differs from
australis chiefly in the greater size of all its parts ; but this
difference is excessive, the largest flowers that I have
seen of P. australis not exceeding half an inch in diameter,
the fruiting sepals 1 inch, and the capsules }-+, whereas the
dimensions of the same organs in P. Drummondii are
respectively one to one and a quarter, one half, and one
and a half inch. Another character assigned to australis
is that its leaves are inodorous, whereas those of Drum-
mondti are fragrant; before, however, any stress can be
laid on this point, the fragrance, or the contrary, of all
forms of australis must be ascertained.

P. Drummondii was raised from seeds sent to the
Royal Gardens, Kew, by Miss Bunbury, of Bunbury, West
Australia, a lady who exhibited a beautiful series of
paintings of the plants of that country at the late Colonial
and Indian Exhibition, and who has contributed valuable
collections of seeds to Kew. The seeds were sown in
March, 1892, and plants raised flowered in May of the
following year.

Descr.—An undershrub 2 ft. or more high, clothed with
a soft, more or less glandular fragrant pubescence;
branches robust, terete. Leaves long-petioled, three to
five inches in diameter, orbicular-cordate, 5-lobed, crenate-
toothed, upper surface pale green, bullate between the
deeply sunk nerves; petiole three to five inches long;
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cles three to six inches long, stout; many-fid. ; bracts and
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ee rosy red, two posterior conniving and marked

ps the middle with dendritic red streaks. Perfect
stamens about eight, exserted. Capsule one to one and a
half inch long, softly hairy.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Cal i
aa 6. pe sip and ovary; 2, stamens and pistil; 3, base of young ovary :-—

anthers small, oblong; pistillode slender. Fem.
very small, hemispheric; sepals and petals imbricate’;
staminodes minute; ovary oblong, 1-celled, stigmas 3
sessile. Jruit seated on the accrescent calyx, $ in. long,
oblong, crowned with the stigmas. Seed ruminate—
J. Ded.

Fig. 1, Male fl.; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, pistillode; 5, immature fem. fl.; all
enlarged; 6, fruit; 7, the same, cut vertically, and 8, transversely, of the
nat, size; 9, reduced figure of the Palm.

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BEGONIA scasripa.

Native of Venezuela.

Nat. Ord. Brconracez.

Genus Brconia, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 841.)

Beconta scabrida; fruticosa, patentim pilosa, foliis oblique ovato- v. rotundato-
cordatis acutis dentatis supra sparsim subtus ad nervos pilosis, petiolo
crasso limbo breviore piloso, stipulis majusculis oblongis obtusis, cyma
ampla, longe pedunculata dichotome ramosa, pedunculo piloso, ramis
ramulisque divaricatis glabris, bracteis minutis linearibus patulis, floribus
albis umbellulatis, masc. sepalis ovato-rotundatis, petalis multo minoribus
oblongis, staminibus innumeris antheris filamentis longioribus, 71. fem.,
bracteolis minutis ovario appressis, sepalis 5 oblongis obtusis concavis,
ovarii glabri ala majore ovata obtusa superne truncata, placentis
tripartitis. ,

B. scabrida, A.DC. in DC Prodr. vol. xv. pt. i. p. 367,
Wageneria scabrida, Klotzsch in Herb. Berol.

A fine bushy Begonia, long cultivated at Kew under the
above name, differing somewhat from A. De Candolles’ de-
scription of B. scabrida, in the small size of the petals of the
male flowers; and if it is rightly placed in the section to
which Klotzsch referred it (Wageneria) in the more impor-
tant character of the bipartite placentas. But M. de
Candolle does not appear to have verified this latter point ;
all he says is, “it would appear that Klotzsch saw entire
placentas, from the fact of his having placed it in his genus
Wageneria.” Its nearest affinity is with B. dichotoma,
Jacq. (Collectanea, p. 250; Icon. Rarior. vol. ii. p. 18, tab.
619), which it very strongly resembles in all respects, but
has flowers more than twice as large.

B. scabrida was no doubt received at Kew upon the
distribution of the species after its introduction by the col-
lector Moritz, who visited Venezuela about the year 1837.
It is a noble plant, flowering annually profusely in early
spring. ;

Descr.—A bush five feet high, and as much in diameter ;
branches stout, cylindric, green, copiously hairy. Leaves
a foot and more in diam., from ovate to orbicular-cordate, .
acute, very oblique, irregularly toothed, deep green and

Apri Ist, 1894. :

hairy above, pale beneath and hairy on the nerves only ;
petiole shorter than the blade, stout, hairy; stipules an
inch long, oblong, tip rounded. Cyme a foot broad and
more; peduncle long, stout, hairy, green or reddish;
branches divaricate, repeatedly divided, glabrous ; bracts
at the angles very small, slender, spreading, brown.
Flowers umbelled in the ultimate branches of the cyme;
bracteoles setaceous. Male jl. three-fourths of an inch in
diameter ; sepals orbicular-ovate, concave; petals not half
as large, oblong, obtuse; stamens very many, in a hemi-
spheric head; anthers linear-oblong, obtuse, filaments
short. Fem. jl.; sepals 5, about one quarter of an inch long,
oblong, obtuse, concave ; styles 3, shortly united, bipar-
tite ; segments erect, obtuse, straight or slightly twisted,
clothed all over with stigmatic hairs. Capsule (young)
two-thirds of an inch broad, two wings narrow, the third
much longer oblong obtuse, upper margin truncate.—

J.D. H

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VERONICA cupressorpes.
Native of New Zealand,

Nat. Ord. ScropHuLtarinex.—Tribe DieiraLex.
Genus Veronica, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 964.).

Veronica (Hebe) eupressoides; fructiculus ramosissimus, ramis cylindraceis
cortice atro, ramulis pseud-articulatis viridibus foliisque decussatim
oppositis minutissime hirtellis, foliis minutis lepidiformibus paribus
remotis ramulis appressis crasse coriaceis ovatis obtusis minute ciliolatis,
floribus parvis in capitula pauciflora terminalia aggregatis sessilibus,
bracteis foliis consimilibus sed duplo majoribus, calyce subcampanulato
cylindraceo breviter inequaliter 4-lobo, lobis obtusis ciliolatis, corolle
violaceze tubo brevi lobis obovato-oblongis obtusis antico multo minore
lineari-oblongo, filamentis elongatis, antheris magnis rubro-fuscis, ovario
glaberrimo 4-lobo. '

V. cupressoides, Hook. f. Handh. N. Zeal. Fl. 212. T. Kirk in Trans. .
N. Zeald. Inst. vol. xi. (1878), p. 464. Armstr. vol. xiii. (1830), p. 351.
N.E. Br.in Gard. Chron. (1888), vol. i. p. 2), £. 4-7 (Excl. F.).

In pursuance of my intention of illustrating, as far
as I can, all the hardy New Zealand Speedwells in.
this magazine, a figure is here given of one of the
most curious of the group, and at the same time one
of the most polymorphous. As stated under V. lycopo-
dioides (Tab. 7338), its heteromorphism (first observed by
Mr. Kirk) is the subject of a valuable notice by Mr. N. E.
Brown in the Gardener’s Chronicle cited above, who has
described and figured the abnormal state with dilated flat
entire lobed or pinnatifid leaves, as occurring under cultiva-
tion in Hurope.

V. cupressoides is a native of the mountainous districts
of the Upper Wairau Valley, in the Middle Island of New
Zealand, where it was discovered by the late Dr. Sinclair,
at an elevation of 4000 ft.; and on Mt. Tarndale in the
Canterbury Alps. It has subsequently been collected in
the Wai-au-na Ashburton Valleys by the late Sir J. Haast,
Mr. Travers and others; and much further south, on river
flats of the Otago district, by Sir James Hector. It has
been successfully cultivated for some years in England and

Scotland, and specimens have been received at Kew from
_ Aprit Ist, 1894, '

various sources, that here figured flowered in the Royal .
Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh in June 1893.

Deser.—A dwarf, rather tortuous shrub, 6-12 inches high,
with a rather stout stem, clothed with black bark, and
numerous decussate divaricating green branches with
cypress-like foliage; branchlets one half to one inch long,
most minutely puberulous, terete, contracted at the nodes.
Leaves ;y-4 of an inch long, rather shorter than the inter-
nodes, to which they are appressed, shortly oblong, tip
rounded, very coriaceous, concave ventrally, dorsally
convex, very minutely ciliolate. Flowers few, small,
capitate, quite sessile; bracts about twice as.long as the
leaves, as long as the calyx-tube, green. Calya-tube sub-
campanulate, cylindric, glabrous, mouth more or less regu-
larly 2-lipped, lips 2-lobed, lower lip largest, lobes very
obtuse. Corolla 4 in diam., very pale bluish, tube very
short, lobes oblong, dorsal the largest, broadly oblong-
obovate, anticous smallest, linear-oblong. Stamens far

exserted, anthers very large, red-brown. Ovary 4-lobed,
quite glabrous.— J. D. H.

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AMORPHOPHALLUS Etxiorn.

Native of Sierra Leone.

Nat. Ord. Anomwsa.—Tribe PYTHONIER.
Genus AmorPHorHaLtus, Blume ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 970.)

AmorrnorHaLtus (Podophallus) Zlliotii; tubere globoso depresso, petiolo
elato, laminz ample trisect~# segmentis pinnatisectis lineari-lanceolatis
acuminatis, spathz longe pedunculate tubo latissimo doliiforme cylin-
draceo vix longiore quam lato basi truncato profunde intruso et in conum
sulcatum spadicem fulcientem producto, lamina tubo continua eo equi-
longa galeata acuta ore valde contracto marginibus incurvis, spadice
inclusa longiuscule stipitata, inflorescentia mascula conoidea basi
verticilla dua ovarioram gerente, appendice stipitato erecto conoideo
obtuso, antheris parvis biporosis, ovariis obovoideis apice contractis
stigmate minuto coronatis.

The genus Amorphophallus presents many and great
differences in the form of the spathe and spadix, and in
the arrangements of the organs of the latter, and espe-
cially in the structure of the ovary. In all these respects
A. Elliotii differs very much from its congeners. In no
species that I know of is the aperture of the spathe so
contracted ; in none is the base of the tube so intruded
as to present within a cone at the base of the spadix, or is
the spadix raised on so long a stipes, or are the ovaries con-
- fined to two whorls at the base of the males, nor does any
present a single-celled ovary, or a punctiform stigma. It
may well be asked whether modifications so many, and
that of the ovary so important are not, if taken to-
gether, of generic value. Having regard to the variations
in the structure of other species, and the great proba-
bility of still further modifications being found in as yet
undiscovered species, I do not think it would be expedient,
at present, at any rate, to create a genus for A. Elliott, and
I have therefore restricted myself to proposing a section
from it, with the name of Podophallus, in allusion to the
stipitate spadix and appendix. 7

A. Elliotii was discovered in forests of Sierra Leone by
Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot, Botanist to the Sierra Leone

Aprit Ist, 1894,

Boundary Commission, by whom it was sent with many
other living plants to the Royal Gardens in 1892. It
flowered in a stovein April of the same year, and produced
its leaf in the following August.

Descr.—Tuber about 4 inches in diameter, oblate, bear-
ing a few bulbils. Petiole a foot high, rather slender,
pale greyish blue, with elongate reddish-brown blotches ;
lamina about 18 inches broad, trisect; divisions sessile,
pinnatisect; segments 4-8 in. long, linear-lanceolate,
acuminate, quite entire, bright green, pale beneath.
Pedunele like the petiole. Spathe very short and broad ;
tube 2 inches long, and nearly as broad, cylindric, barrel-
shaped, dull pink, with pale green spots; base truncate
and deeply intruded, drawn up in the middle into a
broad cone that supports the spadix; lamina con-
tinuous with the tube, but hardly as long, galeate, in-
curved, with an acute point, dull green, copiously blotched
and marbled with dull purple, deep purple within ; mouth
contracted, with incurved margins. Spadiz included, stipes
half an inch long; male infl. a cone 8 of an inch long,
with two whorls of ovaries at its base; anthers minute ;
appendix stipitate, 1 in. long, erect, conoid, obtuse, pale
purple. Ovaries globosely ovoid, tip contracted with a
punctiform stigma, 1-celled, 1-ovuled.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Section of tube of spath J
1, 8 pathe of nat. size ; 2 and 3, anthers ; 4, ovary
oho, «5 na and 6, transverse section of do. ; all enlarged; 7, reduced

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TRICHOPUS zeytanicus.

Native of Southern India and Ceylon.

Nat. Ord. DroscorrEacrs.

Genus Tricnorus Gertn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 745.)

Tricuorus zeylanicus ; herba glaberrima, rhizomate brevi, caulibus simplici-
bus fastigiatis flexuosis trigonis apice bractatis monophyllis paucifloris,
petiolo elongato cauli simillimo trigono, lamina lineari-lanceolata |
oblonga v. ovata acuta acuminata v. obtusa, basi cuneata retusa v.
(sepissime) profunde cordata sinu acuto lobis cordatis, e basi 5-9-
costata et transverse venosa, pedunculis gracilibus, floribus nutantibus
atro-purpureis, perianthii tubo campanulato, lobis 6 ovato-lanceolatis
biseriatis patentibus, staminibus 6, filamentis brevissimis, antheris latis
loculis remotis divaricatis, connectivo in processim erectus elongato,
ovarioinfero 3-gonu 3-loculari, loculis 2-ovulatis, stigmatibus 3 crassis
bilobis lobis pyriformibus reflexis, fructu indehiscente trialato, seminibus
rugosis sulco ventrali profundo exaratis.

T. zeylanicus, Gerin. Fruct, vol. i. p. 44, t.14. Beccari in Nuov. Giorn. Bot.
Ital. vol. ii. p. 13, t. 3. Beddome Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. p. 68, t. 290. Hook. f.
Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 297. Trim. Cat. Ceyl. Pl. 93.

T. travancoricus, Bedd. mss. l. c.

TRIcHOPODIUM cordatum, intermedium et angustifolium, Lindl. Bot. Req. sub
t. 1543.

T. zeylanicum, Thw. Enum. Pl. Zeyl. pp. 291, 448.

Popiantuvs arifolius, Schnitzl. in Bot. Zeit. vol. 1. (1843), p. 739.

One of the most curious of Indian plants, the affinities
of which were long regarded as doubtful, it being first
supposed to belong to the Order Aristolochiacee ; and, though
now definitey placed in Dioscoreacex, it ranks as a very
anomalous member of the Order, and the only one that is
not a climber. Beccari, who has studied its relationship
with both Orders, in a very elaborate paper, referred to
above, has decided on the latter Order as its true place in
the system.

Trichopus zeylanicus was long supposed to be confined
to the Island of Ceylon; more recently it has been found
(like so many other Cingalese plants) to extend to Travan-
core, and quite lately Mr. Ridley, ¥.L.S., Superintendent
of the Singapore Botanical Gardens, has sent a living

_ Aprit Ist, 1894,

plant to Kew from Pahang, in the Malayan Peninsula.
This, which flowered in June, 1893, is here represented ;
its flowers are a good deal larger than those of the Ceylon
plant, but not than the Travancore one.

Deser.—Roots of wiry fibres from a short horizontal |
stock. Stems many from the rootstock, 4-8 inches long,
simple, erect, wiry, flexuous, green, trigonous, bearing at
the top a tuft of green bracts, a solitary long-petioled leaf,
and one or more long-peduncled flowers. Leaves 2-8
inches long, from linear-lanceolate to ovate- or triangular-
cordate, obtuse, acute, or acuminate, 5—-9-nerved from the
base, dark green above, pale beneath ; base cuneate, retuse,
or more often deeply 2-lobed, lobes rounded, sinus acute;
nerves deeply sunk above, slender but prominent beneath,
venation transverse, loose; petiole like a continuation of
the stem, 1-8 inches long. Peduncles 1-3 inches long,
slender, erect, green, or mottled with red-purple. lowers
cernuous, 3-3 in. diam., dark purple. Perianth salver-
shaped, with a short tube and six-ovate-lanceolate obtuse,
nearly flat lobes. Stamens 6, sunk in the tube of the
perianth ; filaments very short, incurved; anther of two
oblong cells, adnate to two diverging lobes of the connec-
tive, which is produced upwards into a subulate process,
and dorsally below into two tubercles. Ovary inferior,
turbinate, 3-keeled, 3-celled, cells 2-ovuled; ovules super-
posed, pendulous; stigmas 3, subsessile on the top of the
Ovary, each of two pyriform horizontal lobes. Truit
subrhomboid, coriaceous, 8-winged, crowned with the
withered perianth, indehiscent. Seeds oblong, trans-

lng 3 rugose, and deeply grooved in the ventral face.—

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LOWIA maxitrariorpss.

Native of the Malay Peninsula.

Nat. Ord. Sciraminr#.—Tribe Low1Ea.
Genus Lowt1a (Scortech. in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. vol. xviii. p. 308, tab. 11.)

Low1a mazillarioides; acaulis, rhizomate breviter repente, foliis distichis
longe petiolatis oblongis acutis, floribus in paniculam laxam radicalem
dispositis, bracteis binis, floribus per paria evolutis bractea interiori
longiori tubuloso, calycis tubo cylindrico, lobis 3 oblanceolatis eequali-
bus patulis atro-brunneis, petalis 2 superioribus minutis oblongis, inferiori
(labello) porrecto oblongo cuspidato basi cuneato, staminibus 5, filamentis
brevibus crassis, antheris linearibus apice emarginatis, styli ramis stig-
ope brevibus, fructu oblongo acuto chartaceo, seminibus atro-brunneis
globosis.

Protamomum maxillarioides, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. Bot. vol.
lii. p. 383, tab. 66.

The genus Lowia, which was named by Father Scorte-
chini after Sir Hugh Low, C.M.G., forms a very interest-
ing connecting link between the Gingers and the Bananas.
It has the habit and foliage of the former; but five
stamens are developed instead of one, and I quite agree
with Mr. Ridley that it should be regarded as forming a
distinct tribe of the natural order Scitaminex. The ori-
ginal species, L. longiflora, Scortech., a native of Perak, has
linear calyx-lobes four inches long. A second species from
Borneo was described by Mr. N. E. Brown, in the Gar-
dener’s Chronicle for 1886, under the name of Orchidantha
borneensis. I cannot separate Mr. Ridley’s plant from
these generically. L. longiflora has a small appendage to
the anther; but this is wanting in the Bornean species, as
well as in the present plant, and the general plan of
structure in all the three is identical.

Since he took charge of the Botanical Gardens of
Singapore, Mr. Ridley has made several expeditions to the
east side of the Malay Peninsula, the botany of which was
before almost unknown. He has there discovered a large
number of novelties, a full account of which will be found
in the part of the “‘ Transactions of the Linnean Society ”

Apri Ist, 1894.

above cited. The present plant came from the island of |
Palau Tawar. Our drawing was made from a living
plant which he sent home, and which flowered at Kew in
June, 1893.

Deser.—Acaulescent. Rootstock shortly creeping, tufts
crowded. Leaves distichous : petiole long, erect; blade
oblong, acute, moderately firm, eight or nine inches long,
the laxly-disposed parallel main veins connected by fine
cross-bars. Inflorescence a lax panicle, with two or three
branches, which springs direct from the rootstock ;
flowers in successive pairs ; bracts two, the outer short,
the inner one longer and tubular. Calyx dark brown,
finally nearly black, tube cylindrical; lobes three, equal,
spreading, oblanceolate, an inch and a half long,
Petals three; two upper small, ascending, oblong,
cuspidate ; lower much larger, spreading, obovate, with
@ cuneate base. Stamens five, erect, an eighth of an
inch long; filaments shorter than the linear emarginate
anthers, Ovary 3-celled ; style short, with three small
toothed stigmatose branches, which are channelled down
the face. Capsule oblong, acute, chartaceous, two inches

cee A fee the size of a pea, cee tain dark brown.—

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GYN ERIUM saccaarorpss.

Native of Tropical America,

Nat. Ord. Graminez.—Tribe Frstucra.
Genus Gynerium, Humb. & Bonpl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl.vol. iii. p. 1178.)

Gynerium saccharoides; caulibus cespitosis 10-15 pedalibus robustis, foliis
distichis 4-5-pedalibus 1-2 poll. latis patenti-decurvis planis serrulatis
_glabris caudato-attenuatis coriaceis multistriatis, costa valida, vaginis
patentim subbifariam pilosis ore ciliato, panicula 5-6-pedali cernua
ramosissima effusa ramis ramulis pedicellisque gracilibus glabris,
spiculis masculis glaberrimis glumis I. et II. lanceolatis, III. et IV.
brevibus subzqualibus oblongis, femineis laxe villosis glumis I. et II.
anguste lanceolatis IT. multoties longiore.

G. saccharoides, Humb. & Bonpl. Pl. Atguinoct. vol. ii. p. 112, +. 215. H. B.
& K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. vol. i.p. 149, Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. ii. p. 462.
Kunth Enum, Pl. vol. i. p. 252, & Suppl. p. 194. Steud. Syn. Gram. 197
[W. Wats.] in Gard. Chron. (1888), ii. 416.

G. sagittatum, Beauv. Agrostogr. p. 138, et t. xxiv. f. 6 procerum.
Arundo sagittata, Pers. Syn. vol. i. p. 102?

A. saccharoides, Griseb. Fl. Brit. Fl. Ind. 530.

Saccharum sagittatum, Aub/. Pl. Guian. vol. i. p. 50?

The magnificent grass here figured is that which
yields the ornamental feathery grass used for the decora-
tion of rooms, and which, after being imported into
London, are dyed of various colours, and sold as “ Uva-
grass.” It has a wide range in distribution, abounding
along river banks in the West Indies, Guiana, Brazil, and
no doubt all intervening countries. The genus to which
it belongs is a very small one, most closely allied to the
European Arundo, containing only three or four species,
amongst which is the G. argentewm, the so-called ‘‘ Pampas
Grass” of our gardens. These two noble grasses, one a
native of tropical, the other of temperate 8. America, are
equally attractive, and yet so different in habit and
appearance, that they can never be regarded as rivals for
decorative purposes. )

For the following note on Gynerium saccharoides, as
grown at Kew, I am indebted to Mr. Watson, premising

May Ist, 1894,

riginal plant was sent to the Royal Gardens in
1875 be Dr. ae of Rio de J aneiro, and flowered, for
the first time, several years ago :—* It is planted ina large
pot, submerged in the tank of the Victoria House, where
it produces numerous erect stems, the tallest of which re
twelve feet high, solid, one inch in diameter, clot io
below with the tightly-clasping brown leaf-sheaths, an
bearing above the middle distichous leaves four to five
feet long, and an inch in width. Stolons are produ
abundantly from the base, which, if not removed as t a
appear, would soon occupy the whole tank. It tom
from September, 1898, producing only a single panicle,
which was female.” og

In the following description the characters of the e
panicle and spikelets are taken from the living Kew
plant, those of the male spikelets from Herbarium
Specimens.

Descer.—Stems densely tufted, simple, twelve to rae?
feet hich, erect, solid, an inch or more in diameter at the
base. Leaves four to five feet long, distichous, spreading
and decurved, linear, narrowed into a long flagelliform
tip, serrulate, Striated, many-nerved, bright green, not
glaucous; midrib stout; base semi-amplexicaul ; sheaths
hirsute with two broad bands of long spreading or de-
flexed hairs ; ligule a ring of hairs. Panicle of the female
plant drooping, five to six fect long, excessively branched ;
branches, branchlets, and pedicels very slender, glabrous.
Male spikelets quite glabrous, much’ smaller than the
female, 2-fid., lanceolate, glumes I. and IL subequal, III.
and IV. equal, ovate, tip rounded or subaristate, each
diandrous. Fem, spikelets loosely clothed with very long,
flexuous hairs ; glumes extremely narrow, I. linear-lan-
ceolate, acuminate ; IT. twice as long, gradually narrowed
into a long, strict, subulate point; III. and IV. equal,

longer than gl. L., shorter than II., very narrowly
Subulate. Ovary short, oblong; styles and stigmas very
short.—J, D, H.

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mens and rudimentary ° ovary from the ean CS
elet; 7, flowering glumes from do.; 8, tip of palea;
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Tax. 7353.
SESBANIA puyicra.
Native of South Brazil and Argentina.

Nat. Ord. Lecumrnos#.—Tribe GALEGE.

Genus Srspanta, Pers.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 502.)

Sespanta (Daubentonia) punicea ; frutex v. arbuscula glabra, foliis pinnatis,
rachi gracili, foliolis 8-15-jugis oppositis oblongis obovato-oblongisve
obtusis apiculatis, stipulis subulatis, racemis nutantibus multifloris,
bracteolis setaceis, floribus aurantiaco-coccineis, calyce turbinato trun-
cato sub 5-dentato, vexillo amplo rotundato reflexo, alis faleato-oblongis
obtusis, carine petalis alis wquilongis valde incurvis unguibus, calyce
duplo longioribus, legumine stipitato crasso tetragono et tetraptero
4-10-spermo.

S. punicea, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. xv. pars i. p. 43.

- Davsentonta punicea, DC. Mem. Legum, p. 285; Prodr. vol. ii. p. 267,
Piscrp1a punicea, Cav. Icon. iv. t. 316.

lisCHYNOMENE miniata, Orteg. Nov. Pl. Hort. Bot. Matr. Dec. p. 28.

It is singular that so beautiful a plant as that here
figured, and one occurring abundantly over a very large
area in the longest settled and most accessible regions of
temperate South America (being of frequent occurrence
close to the city of Buenos Ayres) should not have become
long ago a favourite in English conservatories. It was
introduced into Europe in the last century, and was
figured by Cavanilles in 1797, as a native of New Spain
(Mexico). It was again published by Ortega in his
‘** Descriptions of new and rare plants of the Madrid.
Botanical Gardens” in the year 1800, as Alschynomyne
miniata, with the same locality, and the name is to be
found in Loudon’s “Hortus Britannicus’” (1830) as
Daubentonia punicea (that given to it by De Candolle
in 1825) where it is mentioned as a ‘‘moist stove”
plant, introduced in 1820, and still as a native of New
Spain. i

In so far as I have ascertained the first person who
solved the problem of the genus and native country of
S. punicea was Bentham, whose unrivalled knowledge of
May Ist, 1894,

the Leguminose led him to identify an Argentine plant,
with the supposed Mexican Piscidia of Cavanilles, and
Daubentonia of De Candolle, and refer it to its proper
genus Sesbania. This is in Martius’ “ Flora Brasiliensis,
where S, punicea is stated to extend from the Rio Grande
do Sul in Brazil southward to Buenos Ayres, and westwards
to the Parana river. According to a statement in the
Kew Herbarium it occurs frequently on river banks.

Seeds of S. punicea were obligingly sent to the Royal
Gardens by A. Christie, Esq., of Trinity Lodge, Forest
Hill, in 1889; from these plants were raised and placed in
the Temperate House, where the specimen here figured
flowered in October, 1898.

Deser.—A laxly branched glabrous bush or small tree,
with slender terete branches, drooping leaves, and racemes
of large orange-red flowers. Leaves six to eight inches

long ; short petiole and long rachis very slender ; leaflets,
eight to fifteen pairs with an odd one, opposite, subsessile,
oblong or obovate-oblong, tip rounded, apiculate, nerves
spreading; stipules setaceous, caducous. Flowers large,
mm a drooping, shortly peduncled raceme six to ten
inches long, scarlet in bud, but paleing as they open to
orange; bracteoles setaceous; pedicels one-fourth to half
an inch long. Calyx turbinate, truncate, very shortly
lobed. Standard orbicular, nearly an inch broad, recurved.
Wings two-thirds of an inch long, oblong, obtuse. Keel-
petals as long as the wings, strongly falcate, claws very
long ; limb oblong, obtuse. Ovary slender, strongly im-
curved, style long, stigma terminal. Legume stipitate, two
to four inches long, acuminate, 4-angled; angles with
Pai wings. Seeds 4 to 10, globosely reniform.—

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Fig. 1, Flowers with the petals removed; 2, keel-petal; 3, pistil :—all en-

larged; 4, fruit. and 5, transverse section of do. (from Herbarium specimen)
of the natural size, ,

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Tas. 7354.
OSTEOMELES anruyiurpirorta.
Native of Eastern Asta and the Pacific Islands.

Nat. Ord. Rosacz#.—Tribe Pomrz.
Genus Ostrometes, Lindl; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p. 628.)

: ae OstzometEs anthyllidifolia; fraticulus sempervirens, ramulis rigidis, foliis

pinnatis breviter petiolatis, foliolis ad 12-jugis parvis sessilibus alternis
oblongis obovato-oblongisve obtusis apiculatis coriaceis utrinque v. subtus
subsericeo pilosis v. fere glaberrimis et lucidis, rachi trigono medio
sulcato, floribus in corymbos terminales axillares paucifloros dispositis
albis, sepalis ovatis subacutis, petalis sepalis duplo longioribus obovato-
oblongis patulis, staminibus subbiseriatis petalis brevioribus, drupis
pisiformibus coccineis sepalis persistentibus coronatis. :

O. anthyllidifolia, Lindl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. p. 98, t. 8. DO. Prodr.
vol. il. p. 633. A. Gray in Mem. Am. Acad. N.S. vi. (1857), 388. Mazxim.
in Mel. Biol. vol. ix. p. 182. Hemsl. in Bot. Challenger Exped. vol. i.
Introd. p. 18, in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xxiii., p. 265, and vol. xxviii.
p. 56. Gard. Chron. (1893), p. 743. Lemoine Prix Cour. n. 124 (1893),
p. iii.

O. subrotunda, C. Koch in Mig. Ann. Mus. Bot. Imgd. Bat. vol. i. p. 250.
Mig. |. c. p. Al.

Pyrus anthyllidifolia, Smith in Rees Cyclop. vol. xxix. n. 29.

The genus Osteomeles was founded by Lindley on the
lant here figured, which was discovered in Hawaii
(Sandwich Islands) by Archibald Menzies, the surgeon and
naturalist who accompanied Captain Vancouver, R.N., in
his voyage to survey the coasts of N.W. America in 1792.
Lindley’s figure, in the “ Linnewan Transactions,” repre-
sents a different form of the plant from that given in our
plate, the leaflets and petals being more distant, obovate-
spathulate, and the filaments longer. The same species
has been found to extend westward as far as Burma,
availing itself, as it were, by stepping-stones, across the
Pacific of Bonin, and the Loo-choo Islds., and thence ex-
tending to China, where it inhabits the mountains of Yun-
nan, and the Shan States, where it was found by Col. Sir
Henry Collett, K.C.B., when serving in the last Burmese
war. What is even more curious, is the southern extension
of this pecular little shrub far into the Southern hemisphere,

May lst, 1894,

namely, to Pitcairn’s Isid. (23° S. and 150° W.), and
Mangaia Isld. 22°S. 158° W. It varies a good deal in
the hairiness of its leaves, in the Sandwich Islands
especially, from nearly glabrous to silkily tomentose
beneath, and in the breadth of the leaflets. The genus
is closely allied to Crategus and Cotoneaster; and in
the uni-ovulate cells of the ovary to Amelanchier. All
the other species (about seven) are Andean, and have
simple leaves. |

A plant of Osteomeles anthyllidifolia was received in
March, 1892, at Kew, from the Jardin des Plantes, Paris,
where it was raised from seed sent by the Abbé Delavay
from Yunnan. It flowered in a cool greenhouse in May
of the following year, and, as Mr. Watson informs me, was
transferred to the open border against a south-east wall
In October of the same year, where it grows freely, fruits,
and forms an elegant evergreen (not deciduous, as de-
scribed in Floras) little shrub. Hitherto it has proved
perfectly hardy, carrying healthy evergreen leaves, not-
withstanding. the frosts (22° in one night) of last ©
December.

Descr.—A small evergreen bush, five or six ft. high,
much branched ; branches stout, clothed with a dark
brownish-black bark, branchlets, leaves, pedicels and calyx
——— softly hairy. Leaves two to four inches long, by
42 inch broad, spreading and recurved, shortly petioled,
lmpari-pinnate ; pinnules in pairs, 1-1 in. long, opposite
and alternate, elliptic, apiculate, yellowish green, paler be-
neath ; rachis trigonous, channelled on the upper surface ;
stipules small, subulate, deciduous. Flowers in short,
subsessile, terminal corymbs, shortly pedicelled, about two-
thirds of an inch in diameter, white ; bracteoles minute.
Calye-tube broadly turbinates; lobes ovate, subacute, per-
sistent. Petals obovate-oblong, twice as long as the sepals,
concave. Stamens very many, shorter than the petals;
anthers small, didymous, yellow. Ovary 5-celled; styles
hairy, stigmas small, oblique. Drupe globose, crowned

by the calyx, dark red ; ea
obovate.—J. D. H. ; pyrenes five, crustaceous, dimidiate- .

Fig. 1, Portion of leaf; 2, verti nti ie
‘ 3 2, ical section of flower; 3, stamen; 4, fruiting
corymb of the natural size ; 5, pyrene :—All but fig. 4 enlarged.

LJ N.Fitch Ith

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Tap. 7855.
HILLIA TETRANDRA.

Native of Jamaica, Cuba and Mexico.

Nat. Ord. Rusracezx.—Tribe CincHonez.

Genus Hirita, Jacg.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 39.)

Hiri fetrandra; frutex glaberrimus, ramulis teretibus, foliis sessilibus
ellipticis obovatis v. spathulato-oblanceolatis obtusis basi cuneatis
pallide viridibus lucidis, costa infra medium crassa nervis erecto-paten-
tibug, floribus solitariis terminalibus sessilibus 2-tracteatis et 4 bracteolatis
tetrameris albis, bracteis pollicaribus late-oblongis membranaceis albis
caducis, calycis tubo cylindraceo 8-sulcato, lobis 2-4 linearibus erectis
obtusis, corolla magne albe tubo gracili 24-pollicari, lobis ovato-
rotundatis recurvis triplo longiore, fauce modice dilatata, staminibus
fauce corollz inclusis, antheris sessilibus lineari-oblongis, stylo brevi,
stigmatibus linearibus, capsule valvis demum tortis.

H. tetrandra, Swartz Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 58; Fl. Ind. Oce. vol. i. p. 680;
Ie. Pl. Ind. Oce. t. xi. DC. Prodr.vol. iv. p. 351. Ait. Hort. Kew Ed. 2,
vol, ii. p. 315. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 325.

PH. tuxtlensis, 4/7. Mex. ined. e« DC. 1.c.

The genus Hillia commemorates the services rendered
to Botany by the more sumptuous than scientific works of
the all but forgotten Sir John Hill, who was successively
apothecary, botanist, stage actor, dramatist, novelist,
essayist, physician, quack doctor, and translator of ‘* Theo-
phrastus on Gems,” but who is perhaps best remembered
as the traducer of the Royal Society, for election to which
body he vainly tried to get proposers. He died in
1775. His best claim for recognition is his ‘‘ Hortus
Kewensis,” a catalogue of the plants cultivated in the
Royal Gardens, Kew, of which the first edition was pub-
lished in 1779, and dedicated to Augusta, Princess of
Wales.

The only two species of Hillia, H. longiflora and that
here figured, have long been known in cultivation. The
former was introduced in 1789, and is figured on t. 721
of this work. (Jf. tetrandra was brought to Kew in 1793
from Jamaica in H.M. Providence by Captain Bligh, on
his return from his second voyage, when he introduced
the Bread-fruit tree into that island. Like H. longiflora
it is an epiphyte, growing on mossy tree-trunks in the

Mar Isr, 1894.

mountainous districts of Jamaica and Cuba. It has been
very recently collected near the city of Teapa, in Mexico
(growing there also on trunks of trees) by Mr. J. B;
Rovirosa, from whom there are specimens in the Kew
Herbarium. The H. tuztlensis of Mexico, alluded to by
De Candolle, as having two bracts and two calyx lobes,
will in all probability prove to be H. tetrandra.
Hf. tetrandra was obtained by the Royal Gardens from
Messrs. V. Lemoine and Son, of Nancy, in March, 1893,
and it flowered in October of the same year, when only
about a foot in height. :
Descr.—-A. low shrub, described as three to four ft.
in height; branches terete, smooth, branchlets green.
Leaves sessile, 2-3 inches long, variable in breadth, from
broadly elliptic to spathulate or oblanceolate, obtuse, or
rounded at the tip, base cuneate, pale green on both sur-
faces, rather deeper above; midrib thickened below the
middle, suddenly slender beyond it; nerves 6-8 pairs,
obliquely ascending ; stipules oblong, caducous. Flowers
solitary, terminal, sessile, white, fragrant, bibracteate.
Bracts an inch long, oblong, rounded at the tip, erect,
concave, veined, white, membranous, caducous ; bracteoles
4, minute, in opposite pairs, oblong, obtuse, one pair much
the largest. Calyz-tube cylindric, 8-grooved ; sepals 2 or
4, half an inch long, narrowly linear-oblong, obtuse,
erect, green. Corolla-tube 23 in. long, cylindric, slightly
swollen below the mouth; lobes nearly an inch broad,
broadly ovate, obtuse, recurved. Anthers 4, sessile, in-
serted half an inch below the mouth of the tube, linear.
Ovary 2-celled ; Style equalling the calyx-lobes, stigmas

cape Capsule several inches long, slender, terete.—

Fig. 1, Bracteoles ovary, cal i
, , » Calyx-segments, disk and style; 2, upper portion
aoa and stamens; 3, transverse section fr the eed pA

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TIGRIDIA VIOLACEA.
Native of Mewico.

Nat. Ord. Inippa.—Tribe Morera.
Genus Tierip1a, Ker. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 690.)

‘Tierip14 violacea; bulbo oblongo parvo tunicis membranaceis brunneis, foliis
2-3 linearibus erectis glabris plicatis, caule gracili 1-2-cephalo, spathe
valvis oblongo-lanceolatis viridibus, floribus 4—5-nis, pedicellis elongatis,
perianthio violaceo segmentis exterioribus lamina orbiculari ungue lato
cuneato pallido punctis parvis violaceis decorato, segmentis interioribus
multo minoribus, antheris arcuatis oblongo-lanceolatis .columné filamen-
torum equilongis, styli ramis profundo bifidis patulis.

T. violacea, Schiede, ex Schlecht. in Otto & Dietr. Gartenzeit (1 858), p. 233.
Klotzsch in Ice. Pl. Rar. Hort. Berol. 50, t. 20. Planch. in Flore des
nigh t. 998. Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xvi. p. 136; Handb. Irid.
p. 68.

Beatonia purpurea, Herb. in Bot. Mag. sub t. 3779.

In addition to Tigridia Pavonia and its near ally T,
Pringle (Bot. Mag. tab. 7089) there are six small-flowered
species, which behave in the same way in their flowering
as the old well-known type of the genus. They nearly all
inhabit the mountains of Mexico. Though the present
plant was introduced into cultivation by Ehrenberg more
than fifty years ago, it is still but little known. The wild
specimens in the Kew Herbarium are from Yucatan,
gathered by Linden and Chiapas, gathered by Ghiesbreght.
The Royal Gardens received the bulbs not long ago from
Messrs. Pringle and Horsford, of Vermont. It flowered
in a bed in the open air last July.

Descr.—Bulb oblong, under an inch in diameter ; outer
tunics brown, membranous, produced above its neck.
Basal leaves two or three, erect, linear, glabrous, very
plicate, a foot long, narrowed gradually to the point.
Stem slender, erect, bearing one or two clusters of flowers.
Outer spathe-valves oblong-lanceolate, subequal, green,
two inches long. Flowers four or five in each spathe,
- fugitive, opening successively; pedicels long, finally stiffly
erect. Perianth two inches in diameter ; outer segments

May Isr, 1894,

with a suborbicular violet blade, and broad whitish
cuneate claw, spotted with violet; inner segments much
smaller than the outer. Filaments united in a short
cylindrical column; anthers arcuate, oblong-lanceolate,

Style-branches deeply bifid, spreading, subulate.—J, G.,
Baker,

Fig. 1, Inner segment of perianth ;2, stamens and style; 3, style with the
stamens cut away :—A// paired.

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SANSEVIERIA Kirk.

Native of South-east Tropical Africa,

Nat. Ord. Hamoporacez.—Tribe OpHIoPoGoNEZ.
Genus SaNSEVIERIA, Thunb. ; (Benth, et Hook. f: Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 679.)
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- Sanseviernta Krrxu; rhizomatosa, foliis in rosulaa 3-4 oblanceolatis 2-3-peda-

_ Tibus rigide coriaceis sordide viridibus obscure albo maculatis rubro-
brunneo marginatis dimidio superiori subplanis deorsum crassis facie
canaliculatis dorso convexis striis 5 subtilibus verticalibus percursis,

» pedunculo foliis breviori, racemo congesto subgloboso, bracteis primariis
ovatis, perianthii tubo viridulo cylindrico 4—-5-pollicari, lobis oblanceolatis
tubo 4-5-plo brevioribus, staminibus lobis zquilongis, stylo protruso
apice stigmatoso capitato.

Sansevieria Kirkii, Baker in Kew Bullet. 1887, No. 5, p. 3, fig. 3, et p. 8.

This new species of Bowstring Hemp is intermediate in
the character of the leaf between S. guineensis and S..
zeylanica, whilst in flower it substantially agrees with
S. longiflora, Sims (Bot. Mag. t. 2634). It was sent
(living plants) by Sir John Kirk, F.R.S., in 1881 to the Royal
Gardens, Kew, from the neighbourhood of the coast of the
African mainland opposite the island of Zanzibar. It
was briefly described provisionally in the first volume of
the Kew Bulletin, but at that time the flower was not
known. It flowered for the first time in the Palm House
at Kew in February, 1893, after having been in cultivation
twelve years. Messrs. Ide and Christy reported upon the
leaves which they examined in 1887 that they yielded fibre
1.69 per cent. in weight, as compared with the green leaf,
and that the fibre was rather stout, but very clean and
good in colour, and of fair strength, and that its value in
the market at that date was 27/. per ton.

« Deser.—Rootstock a stout rhizome. Leaves not more
than three or four to a tuft, oblanceolate, two or three ~
feet long, three inches broad above the middle, narrowed
gradually to an inch above the base, rigidly coriaceous,
dull green, obscurely mottled with white, bordered with a

JUNE Ist, 1894.

narrow red-brown line, nearly flat on both sides in the
upper half, thickened and deeply channelled down the face
towards the base, rounded on the back, and marked with
five slender vertical grooves. Peduwncle much shorter than
the leaves, bearing several ascending ovate, greenish
bract leaves. Inflorescence a densely congested subglobose
raceme, six or eight inches in diameter; primary bracts
ovate, greenish; flowers about six to each primary bract.
Perianth-tube cylindrical, greenish-white, four or five inches
long; lobes oblanceolate, about an inch long. Stamens as
long as the perianth-lobes. Style protruded beyond the
tip of the lobes ; stigma capitate.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Base of the leaf, life size; 2, perianth-lobe and two stamens;
3, anther; 4, ovary, 5, stigma; 6, vertical section of ovary :—al/ enlarged ;
7, whole plant, much reduced.

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CAMPANULA sxcisa.
Native of the Valais Alps,

Nat. Ord. CampanuLaces.—Tribe CamPANULEA.

Genus Campanuta, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 561.)

CampaNnvuLa (Eucodon) eacisa; perennis, glaberrima gracillima, caulibus sub-
simplicibus paucifloris, foliis (radicalibus 0) sparsis linearibus obtusis
remote denticulatis, floribus longe gracile pedicellatis nntantibus,
ealycis glabri tubo brevi turbinato lobis setaceis patulis corolla cam-
panulata coerulea triplo brevioribus, corolle lobis ovatis subacutis
marginibus infra medium incurvis sinubus rotundatis, filamentis
brevibus dilatatis ciliatis, capsula pedicellata nutante obconica.

C. excisa, Schleich. ex Murrith, Guid, du Voy. en Valais, pp. 33, 35.
DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. (1814) P. 86. Lodd. Bot. Cab.t. 561. Reichb.
Pi. Crit, vol. i. t. 78. Gaud. £l. Helvet, vol. ii. p. 147, +. 2. A.DC. in
DO. Prodr, vol, vii. p. 472. Masters in Gard. Chron, (1898) vol. ii. p. 307,
£. 53.

A very elegant plant, of which the published figures,
with the exception of the woodcut in the Gardener's
Chronicle, are so exceptionally bad, that it would be im-
possible to recognize the species by them. Its habit is
that of our common Harebell, C. rotundifolia, but it wants
the broad radical leaves of that plant, and the lobes of the
corolla which are separated by a wide rounded sinus are
involute at the base, giving a dark shade of colour to each

sinus, which is difficult to represent in a drawing, without

giving the idea of there being deep blue spots between each
pair of lobes.

Though abundant in some part of the Alps, especially in
the Monte Rosa district of the Valais, C. ewcisa is by no
means a common Swiss plant. It is mentioned in A. de
Candolle’s “ Geographie Botanique” (p. 587) as an example
of his “‘ Espéces a aire trés petite,” though its limits are
not so narrow as the author supposed. There are many
specimens of it in the Kew Herbarium from the above
region, and only one from East or West of it, namely from
Mt. Cenis. None of the native examples are much more
than half the height which the specimens grown at Kew

JunE Ist, 1894.

have attained, and which were brought by Mrs. Thiselton
Dyer from the Simplon and Saasthal Valleys in 1892, and
flowered in the rock-work of the Royal Gardens in June,
1893. :
Deser.—Quite glabrous. Stems very slender, erect from
a perennial root, 2-8 inches high, nearly simple except at
the tip, leafy all the way up, few-flowered. Leaves all
cauline (except no doubt in seedling or very young states)
about an inch long by one-tenth of an inch broad,
narrowly linear or slightly enlarging upwards, remotely
toothed. Flowers nodding, pale bright violet-blue, with
five translucent spots between the base of the corolla lobes.
Calyz-tube very short, turbinate, ribbed; lobes subulate,
horizontally spreading. Corolla two-thirds of an inch long,
exactly campanulate, 5-angled, divided for one-third way
into 5 cordately ovate acuminate suberect lobes, with in-
curved margins at the base, and rising into an interposed
mucro between the adjacent lobes ; the interspaces hence
represent a cordiform perforation of the corolla tube.
Filaments yery short, broad, ciliate ; anthers linear-oblong:

oe oe stout; stigma cylindric, with 3 recurved lobes.

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CARAGUATA CONIFERA.

Native of Heuador.

Nat. Ord. Brometiacem.—Tribe WiLaNDstex.
Genus Caraguata, Lindl; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 668.)

Caracuata conifera ; acaulis, foliig 15-20 dense rosulatis lanceolatis charta-
ceis viridibus immaculatis parce lepidotis 2-3-pedalibus basi dilatatis
apice deltoide acuminato, pedunculo valido erebre foliato foliis longiori,
floribus in capitnlum densum simplicem globosum aggregatis, bracteis
primariis unifloris ovato-lanceolatis dense imbricatis splendide rubris
apice spe luteo maculatis, calycis tubo brevi lobis oblongis, corolla
lutew tubo subeylindrico calyce longiori lobis oblongis, staminibus lobis
brevioribus, filamentis brevissimis applanatis, stylo elongato ramis
stigmatosis undulatis,

Caraguata conifera, dudré Enum. Bromel. p.5 ; Bromel, Andr. p. 47, tab. 15.
Baker Handb. Bromel. p. 145,

The genus Caraguata has ‘entirely the habit of Tilland-
sia, from which it differs only by its gamopetalous corolla,
At the date of the publication of the third volume of
Bentham and Hooker’s ‘“‘ Genera Plantarum ” (1883) only
five species were known, now the number has been raised to
about forty, principally by discoveries made by our ex-
cellent correspondent, Monsieur Edouard André in his
explorations of New Grenada and Heuador. The Royal
Gardens are indebted to him for the specimen of the pre-
sent plant, from which our drawing has been made. It
was discovered in 1882 by Monsieur H. Poortman near
Zamora, in Southern Heuador. It is nearly allied to the
old well-known West Indian C. lingulata, on which
Lindley founded the genus, but is much larger im all its
parts, with persistent bracts of the most brilliant scarlet.
Jt was sent by M. André to Kew in August, 1893, and
was drawn when in full flower in September.

Deser.—Acaulescent. Leaves about twenty in a dense
rosette, lanceolate, chartaceous, bright green, very slightly
lepidote, two or three feet long, two inches broad at the
middle, dilated at the base, narrowed: to a deltoid acumi-

JunE Ist, 1894,

nate tip. Pedunele stiffly erect, central, overtopping the
leaves, hidden by the imbricated ascending lanceolate bract-
leaves. Inflorescence a dense, simple, globose capitulum,
about three inches in diameter ; bracts densely imbricated,
ovate-lanceolate, erect, one-flowered, about two inches
long, bright scarlet, often tipped with yellow. Caly# an
inch long ; tube short ; lobes oblong. Corolla pale yellow ;
tube subcylindrical, longer than the calyx; lobes oblong.
Stamens inserted at the throat of the corolla-tube, shorter
than the lobes; filaments very short, flattened. Ovary
ovoid; style long, with three short, much undulated
stigmatose branches. Capsule cylindrical, apiculate, an
inch and a half long.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Bract and flower; 2, vertical section of corolla, with stamens;
3, front view of anther; 4, back view of anther; 5, pistil:—all more or less
enlarged,

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VERONICA ANOMALA.
Native of New Zealand,

Nat. Ord. ScRoPHULARINEZ.—Tribe DiciTaLEa.
Genus Veronica, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 964.)

Veronica (Hebe) anomala; frutex erectus, ramosissimus, glaberrimus,
ramulis gracilibus erectis dense foliosis, foliis parvis (4-3 poll. longis)
sessilibus patulis ellipticis subacutis integerrimis carinatis saturate viri-
dibus nitidis, floribus in spicas breves subsessiles paniculatas subpuberulas
ad apices ramulorum confertas dispositis oppositis albis, bracteis ovatis
calycem zquantibus, calycis oblongi fere 4-partiti lobis lineari-oblongis
obtusis ciliolatis, corolla tubo gracili calyce duplo longiore, lobis 3
posticis ovato-oblongis obtusis, antico anguste lineari, filamentis elongatis,
antheris oblongis ceruleis, ovario glaberrimo,

V. anomala, Armstrong in Trans. N. Zeald. Instit. vol. iv. (1872) p. 291.

Veronica anomala is one of the most attractive of the
New Zealand shrubby Speedwells, owing to its graceful
habit, its deep green polished leaves, and copious in-
florescence. It was named anomala in reference to the
peculiarity of the corolla, which is described by its author
as having three nearly equal lobes, or two unequal ones,
the longer forked at the tip. This reduction of the lobes
to three, which I have never found to be the case in any
specimen cultivated in this country, was no doubt due (in
Mr. Armstrong’s native plant) to the entire suppression of
the anticous lobe, which, as shown in the accompanying
drawing, and in all the plants I have seen under cultiva-
tion in Kngland, is reduced to a linear blade very much
narrower than the other three. P. anomala is a native of
the New Zealand Alps, it was discovered by Mr. Armstrong
in the valley of the Rakaia river, in the Ashburton Pro-
vince of the South Island, at an elevation of 4000 ft.; and
it has been since found in the Broken River Valley by Mr.
Kirk, F.L.S., and at the sea level in the extreme south,
namely, Paterson’s inlet, Stewart’s Island, by the same
botanist. It flowered at Kew in 1886, and since then in
the Botanical Gardens of Cambridge and Edinburgh, and in
my own near Sunningdale. It is perfectly hardy.

June Ist, 1894.

Descr.—A slender shrub, three to four feet high, erect,
‘ with erect fastigiate densely leafy purplish branches and
branchlets ; branches slender, and leaves perfectly glabrous.
Leaves one-third to one inch long, subsessile, spreading,
elliptic, subacute, quite entire, coriaceous, keeled, deep
green, and shining above, pale beneath, midrib obscure.
Flower white, in very short sessile spikes that are crowded
together, forming short terminal panicles at the ends of —
the branches, opposite, quite sessile ; bracts as long as the
calyx, ovate, most minutely puberulous. Calyx § in. long,
oblong, cylindric, base rounded ; segments linear-oblong,
obtuse, erect, margins ciliolate. Corolla-tube twice as long
as the calyx; lobes 4 (rarely 3) spreading; three dorsal,
oblong, obtuse, the anticous very narrowly linear. Fla-

ments long. Anthers oblong, blue. Ovary quite glabrous.
“J. DAH. . :

Fig. 1, Portion of spike with bracts and flowers ; 2, calyx and style ; 3 and

4, anthers ; 5, ovary and disk; 6, fruiting branchlet ; 7, fruit with calyx :—
All but f. 6 enlarged.

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RHODODENDRON trroratom.
Native of China.

Nat. Ord. Ertcacr®.—Tribe RHoDOREM.

Genus Ruopovenpron, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol.ii. p. 599.)

Ruopopenpron (Eurhododendron) irroratum ; frutex ramosus, ramulis crassius-
culis, ultimis puberulis, foliis breviter petiolatis oblongis lanceolatisve
mucronatis basi cuneatis glaucis glaberrimis rigidis nervis utrinque
costs 12-15, floribus laxe glomeratis, pedicellis glandulosis, caly ce
minimo cupulari dense glanduloso lobis obscuris rotundatis, corolla cam-
panulata alba extus glabra intus basin versus puberula, lobis 5-
rotundatis, staminibus 10 inclusis, filamentis inferne brevissime ciliatis,
ovario glandulis minutis fuscis obtecto, stylo gracili ad apicem usque
glanduloso.

R. irroratum, Franchet in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vol. xxxiv. (1887) p. 280.
Hemstl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. (1889) p. 26.

Rhododendron irroratum, belongs to that group of the
genus which includes most .of the American species, to-
gether with the European &. ponticum, and the Himalayan
H. arboreum, and which is characterized by the large
shrubby habit, terminal inflorescence, small calyx, and
campanulate 5-lobed corolla. In habit and foliage it re-
sembles R. ponticwm a good deal, differing in the long
- corolla-tube, and cupular calyx. It was discovered in

woods at Peetsaolo, near Lankong, in the mountainous
district of Yunnan, at an elevation of about 8000 ft.
by the Abbé Delavay, who sent seeds to the Jardin des
Plantes. Of the seedlings there raised one was sent to the
Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1890, which flowered in a small
greenhouse in September, 1898, when only a foot high, and
snbranched. It is certainly in its present condition the
least ornamental species of the genus known to me; it 1s
to be hoped that it may prove more attractive as it grows
older, or afford better coloured varieties. The flowers are
described by Franchet as white, but those of our plant
have the corolla-lobes suffused with rose, and faint spots
of the same colour occur within the tube.

June Ist, 1894.

Deser.—-A glabrous shrub several feet high, with robust
stems, branches, and branchlets, the youngest shoots
minutely puberulous. Leaves spreading and deflexed,
three to four inches long, oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or
oblanceolate, obtuse, apiculate, base acute or cuneate,
margins recurved; nerves 12 to 15 pairs, very slender;
upper surface convex, bright green, under pale green, with
very slender nerves and reticulating nervules ; petiole very
short. Flowers many, in terminal heads, very shortly
pedicelled ; bracts 4 to 3 inch long, oblong, concave,
yellow brown, tips ciliate. Pedicel very glandular. Calyz
cupular, glandular, obscurely 5-lobed, the lobes ciliate.
Corolla one and a half inch long, rather narrowly cam-
panulate, tube white, with 5 furrows and as many gibbosi-
ties at the retuse base ; lobes 5, short, rounded, spreading
and recurved, suffused with rose. Stamens 10, filaments
glabrous, anthers shortly oblong. Ovary conical, ten-
furrowed and ten-celled, minutely glandular ; style strict,
Ee os from the base to the tip, stigma small.

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HOULLETIA LANDSBERGL
Native of Costa Rica.

Nat. Ord. OrncHIDEx.—Tribe VaNDE.

Genus Hovtietia, Brongn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 550.)

Hovtret1a Landsbergi; pseudobulbis ovoideis obtuse angulatis, folio ovato-
lanceolato acuto in petiolum angustato ad 9-nervi, scapo crasso decurvo
3-vaginato paucifloro, floribus amplis 3 poll. latis rabro-aurantiacis maculis
saturatioribus creberrime ornatis, sepalis obtusislateralibus ovato-oblongis,
dorsali elliptico, petalis saturatius coloratis subtriangulari-ovatis basi
angustatis margine interiore medio late emarginato et in cornu pro-
ducto, labelli albi purpureo adspersi hypochilo sublineari carnoso basi
concavo subbilobo, medio utrinque in cornu elongatum erectum dein
incurvum album producto, epichilo hypochilo breviore late hastato-ovoideo
apice rotundato angulis posticis in cornua patentia alba productis.

H. Landsbergi, Linden & Reich. f. in Regel Gartenfl. (1855) 2, cum Ie.

Though published and figured so long ago as 1855, Houl-
letia Landsbergi is a very little known plant, and has been
erroneously supposed to be a native of Brazil. The genus
to which it belongs is a small one, numbering only eight
published species, and is closely allied to Stanhopea, differ-
ing technically chiefly in the very narrow stalk of the
pollinia, but very much otherwise in form of flower. Two
other species are figured in this work, both with longer
more terete petioles and erect racemes, H. Brocklehurstiana,
Lindl. t. 4072, with the upper half of each sepal and petal
dark red, and a blue epichile; and H. picta, Lindl. and
Reich. f., t. 6305, with the corresponding parts of the sepals
and petals chestnut-brown, and the epichile yellow mottled
with almost black brown. The specimen of H. Landsbergi
here figured differs somewhat from the figure in the
Gartenflora, which has much paler sepals and petals, the
epichile of the lip is white with a yellow tip and a few
minute purple spots, the petals are much smaller, more
obovate-oblong, with a shallow notch in the inner margin,
which is not produced into a horn.

H. Landsbergi was obtained by the Royal Gardens, Kew,
in the summer of 1891, from Mr. Richard Pfau, of the

Juxy Ist, 1894.

Central American Nurseries, San Jose, Costa Rica. It
flowered in an ‘‘ intermediate’? house in September, 1893,

Deser.—Pseudobulbs an inch long, ovoid, obtusely angled,
dark green. Leaf nearly a foot long, by four inches broad,
elliptic-ovate, acute, about 9-nerved, narrowed into a
ribbed petiole, pale green. Peduncle about four inches
long, stout, strongly decurved, lower part dark red brown,
upper violet; spathes three at the flexure, short, obtuse ;
bracts half as long as the ovary, oblong, inflated. Flowers
three inches across the petals, longer from the tip of the
dorsal sepal to that of the epichile. Sepals reddish-orange,
densely tesselate with rounded red-brown spots, obtuse,
dorsal elliptic, lateral ovate-oblong. Petals darker coloured
than the sepals, triangular-ovate, with a broad excised
notch in the inner margin, and there produced into an
acute horn. Lip with a white, narrow, fleshy hypochile,
barred towards the base with blood-red, and having on
each side, about the middle, a long erect incurved horn ;
epichile not half the length of the hypochile, broadly
hastately ovate, white mottled with violet purple; tip
rounded, posterior angles produced into large white erect

incurved horns. Column golden-yellow, sprinkled with
red.—J. D. H.

Figs. 1 and 2, front and si : : : 6
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GASTROCHILUS Cortisit.
Native of Malay Peninsula.

Nat. Ord. Scrraminrz.—Tribe ZINGIBERE.
Genus Gastrocnitus, Wall.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 642.)

_ Gastrocuitus Curtisii ; acaulis, foliis 3-4 oblongis acutis dorso pubescentibus,
petiolo canaliculato demum alato, floribus 3-4 centralibus sessilibus,
bracteis pallidis scariosis convolutis, calycis tubo cylindrico dentibus
lanceolatis erectis, corolla tubo cylindrico apice ampliato calyce duplo
longiori lobis porrectis oblongo-lanceolatis albis, staminodiis su rioribus
oblongo-lanceolatis, labello oblongo apice et marginibus rubellis decur-
vatis, genitalibus e tubo breviter exsertis.

This new species of Gastrochilus is nearly allied to G.
longiflora, Wall. (Bot. Mag. t. 4010), but the flowers are
smaller and the labellum is very different. It closely
resembles the well-known Kempferia pandurata, Roxb.
(Bot. Reg. tab. 178), and requires similar treatment.
Gastrochilus is only distinguished from Kempferia by the
want of a crest to the anther, and I think it would be
better regarded as a subgenus, now that the difference
of habit has been so completely broken down by new dis-
coveries. The present plant is a native of the forests of
Penang, where it was discovered by Mr. Chas. Curtis,
Assistant Superintendent of the Garden and Forests De-
partment, Straits Settlements. It was sent by him to the
Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1893, and flowered freely in a
warm conservatory last summer.

Deser.—Acaulescent. Rootstock fleshy. Produced leaves
about four to a tuft, petiole four to six inches long, deeply
channelled down the face, winged on the edges in the
lower half; blade oblong, acute, bright green, a foot long,
five or six inches broad at the middle, pubescent on the
back. Flowers white, contemporary with the leaves,
sessile, central ; bracts white, scariose, convolute, as long
as the calyx. Calyx white, scariose; tube cylindrical ;
teeth lanceolate, erect, Corolla-tube two inches long,
rather dilated at the top ; lobes standing forward, oblong-

Juty 1st, 1894.

lanceolate, an inch long. Upper staminodes about as long
as the corolla-lobes; labellum rather longer, oblong, with
a deflexed tip and deflexed reddish edges; fertile stamen
and style but little protruded from the corolla-tube.—
J. G. Baker. *

Figs. 1 and 2, bracts; 3, a complete flower, both life size; 4 and 5, fertile
stamen and style; 6, section of filament; 7, ovary; 8, section of ovary; 9,
ovule:—All enlarged.

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COLOCASTA anriquorum.
Native of India.

Nat. Ord. Anorpra.—Tribe Conocasiex.
Genus Cotocasia, Schott ; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p- 974.)

Cotocasia antiquorum ; caulebasi tuberoso stolones elongatos tuberiferos emit-
tente, foliis erectis amplis longe petiolatis peltatis ovato-cordatis sinu
rotundato v. triangulari, lobo antico latitudine paullo longiore acuto,
posticis antico duplo brevioribus obtusis, nervis lateralibus utringue 4-7,

unculis pluribus petiolo brevoribus, spathx tubo oblongo viridi lamina

ineari-lanceolata flavida 3-5-plo breviore, inflorescentia foeminea, sterili
zquilonga, mascula fertili duplo longiore, appendice brevi.
C. antiquorum, Schott Meletem. vol. i. p. 18; Syn. Aroid. p.40; Prodr. p. 48.
Kunth Enum, Pl. vol. iii. p. 372. Engler Monvgr. Arac. p. 491. Benth.
Fil. Austral. vol. vii. p. 155. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 523.
C. esculenta and C. acris, Schott Meletem. p.18. Kunth 1c.
C. himalensis, Royle Il/. Bot. Himal. 407 (nomen). Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. ii.
. 372, :

C. nympheifolia, Kunth 7. ¢.

C. Fontanesii, Schott in Gistr. Bot. Wockhenbl. iv. (1854), p. 409.

C, pruinipes, Koch & Bouché Ind, Sem. Hort. Berol. (1854), App. p. 4.

C. euchlora, C. Koch & Lind. l.c. App.

Caladium esculentum, Vent. Hort. Cels. subt.30. Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iv. p. 489.

C. colocasioides, Brongn. in Nouv. Ann, Mus. Paris, vol. iii. p. 156. Kunth l.c.

C. acre, Br. Prody. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 336.

C. nympheifolium, Vent. 1. c. Griff: Notul. Pl. Asiat. vol. iii. p. 144; Icon.
2.40, byt 2

C. violaceum, Hort. ex Engl. in DC. Monog. Phan. vol. ii. p. 492.

C. aquatile and C. vicorum, Rumph. Amboin. vol. v. t. 110, f. 1, and p.318.

Alocasia Dussii, Hort. Dammann.

A. illustris, Bull, Cat. (1873), p.4. Floral Mag. (1874), p. 107 (folium).

Arum Colocasia, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 965. Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. iti. p. 494.
Wight. Ic. Plant. Ind. Or. t. 786, f£.1. Catesby Hist. Carolina, vol. ii.
t. 45.

A. esculentum, Linn. 1. c. Sloane Hist. Jamaica, vol. i. t. 106. Forst:
Prodr. Fl. Ind, Austr. n. 328 & Pl. Esecul. p. 27.

A. nympheifolium, Roxb. fc. 495. Wight. lc. f. 2.

A. peltatum, Lam. Encyel. vol. iii. p. 13.

A. colocasioides, Desfont. Cat. Hort. Paris, Ed. 3. vol. vii. p. 7 & 385.

A. egypticum, Rumph. Amboin. vol. v. t. 109, 110, f. i.

Weli-ila & Sar Kuchoo, Rheede Hort. Malad, vol. xi. t. 22.

It is singular that, in so far as I can ascertain, there is
no good figure of this, one of the most widely cultivated

JuLy Ist, 1894.

tropical esculent plants to be found in any modern work
that has appeared in the British Isles; nor indeed in the
British Empire, except in Wight’s Icones, published in the
Madras Presidency more than fifty years ago. There are
several rude representations of it in works of last century,
as that in Rheede’s “ Hortus Malabaricus,” dating 1703,
when Malabar was under Dutch rule; in Sloane’s
“History of Jamaica” (1725); in Catesby’s “ History of
Carolina” (1743), and in Rumphius Herbarium Amboin-
ense, 1747. :

Colocasia antiquorum is best known to English-speaking
people as the “ Kuchoo” of India, the ‘ Tarro”’ or
“Taro” of the Pacific Islands, “ Kandalla” of Ceylon,
and “* Hddoes”’ of tropical Africa. It is unquestionably a
native of India, as is vouched by its Sanscrit name
(Kuchoo) as given by Roxburgh, who states that two
varieties are cultivated in the neighbourhood of Calcutta,
and that three wild forms are found in most parts of India.
z hese varieties are (1) the “ Kala (dark) Kuchoo” (Cala-
dium aquatile, Rumph., of which the roots never swell,
but the leaves and footstalks are eaten by Bengalis. It
frequents wet places. (2) “Char Kuchoo” grows in dry
ground, dunghills, &c., with dark purple or bluish-black
clouds in the disk of the leaf. This is probably the Alo-
casia illustris cited above; and (3) the ‘Bun Kuchoo”
(Caladium vicorum, Rumph.) grows like the last in dry
ground, but has uniformly green leaves, and like it is
rarely eaten. Besides these there is the “Sar Kuchoo”
(Caladium nympheifolium, Roxb.—Rheede, vol. xi. t. 22),
which Roxburgh distinguishes as a distinct species, from
its larger size, the roots often growing to the thickness of
a man’s arm, the peduncle, petioles and leaves of a reddish
colour, the leaves narrower in proportion, and the short
appendix of the spadix. No doubt it is a large aquatic
variety of C. antiquorum, and is so regarded by most Indian
botanists. It is rarely cultivated in Bengal, but abounds
wild in watery places ; every part of it is eaten by the
Hindoos.

According to de Candolle (‘Origine des Plantes Culti-
vées,” p. 59) the Colocasia was first known in Europe
through its having been cultivated in Egypt, though pro-
bably comparatively recently, as it does not appear on any

of the monuments of that country. Pliny mentions it as
Arum Algypticum. Prosper Alpinus (“ Hist. Adgypt-
Naturel ’’), who saw it in cultivation in Egypt in the 16th
century, says that its name there is the Arabic one of
Culcas, in which De Candolle recognizes an analogy with
the Sanscrit one, Koutschoir ; which he thinks renders
it probable that it was introduced into Egypt from India
or Ceylon. Clusius mentions it as cultivated in Portugal,
under the name of Alcoleaz, and as having been introduced
from Africa. In Italy it is naturalized and called Aro dt
Egitto. Finally, the name Colocasia was, according to De
Candolle, a Greek one, and applied to the Nelumbium,
under which Dioscorides speaks of it; adding that it
was transferred to this Aroid by modern writers.

The part of C. antiguorum chiefly used is the tuberous
base of the stem, which is long and white, weighing from
a quarter of a pound to eighty pounds ; but all parts are
utilized, after being well boiled to separate the acrid matter
common to most Aroids. Its area of cultivation extends
from §. Europe, where it is infrequent, all over tropical
Africa and Asia, to Japan, Australia, the hotter parts of
New Zealand, and Polynesia. In the Himalaya it forms an
important article of food, and is productive up to 7 500 ft.
elevation.

Tubers of the specimen here figured were received at the
Royal Gardens from Messrs. Dammann and Co., Nursery-
men, of Naples, in the spring of 1893, under the name of
Alocasia Dussii ; they flowered in the Aroid House (No. 1)
in May, 1893.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Spadix of the natural size ; 2, stamens ; 3, ovary ; 4, vertical, and 5,
transverse section of the same; 6, ovules:—AJI enlarged; 7, reduced view of
whole plant.

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ABSCHYNANTHUS HItpepranpil.

Native of Burma.

Nat. Ord. GEsNERACE.—Tribe CyRTANDREZ.
Genus Alscurnantuus, Jack.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1013).

Aiscurnantuvs (Haplotrichium) Hildebrandii ; humilis, czspitosus, ramulis e
caule repente ramoso ascendentibus foliosis puberulis, oliis pollicaribus
breviter petiolatis oppositis supremis confertis carnosis ovatis v. obovato-
oblongis obtusis marginibus ciliolatis et remote glanduloso-punctatis
utringue hirtulis subtus albescentibus, pedunculis in axillis supremis
brevibus, calycis segmentis subsequalibus corolla multoties brevioribus
ovato-lanceolatis acutis, corollw pollicaris aureo-coccinew glanduloso-
pubescentis tubo lente curvo compresso superne inflato bilabiato basi intus
papilloso, labio superiore galeato breviter obtuse 3-lobo, inferiore lineari
obtuso, filamentis longe exsertis styloque glanduloso-pubescentibus, disco
cylindrico, ovario glaberrimo.

A. Hildebrandii, Hems/. in Herb. Kew.

A very distinct species of a genus that is abundant in
the moister forest-clad districts of British India, in the
eastern provinces especially, extending from the Central
Himalaya to Burma, and southwards to Ceylon and Singa-
pore. About twenty-five Indian species are known, a
number which will no doubt be considerably increased
when the eastern province of Burma shall have been ex-
plored botanically. A. Hildebrandu belongs to the section
Haplotrichium, im which the seeds have one long hair at
each extremity. Specifically it is nearest to d. gracilis,
Parish (a hirsute, pendulous, widely distributed species,
from Sikkim to Burma), in the form of the corolla, but it
differs totally in habit, and in the absence of long hairs on
the stem, leaves, and flowers, which are replaced by a
short glandular-pubescence.

A, Hildebrandii is a native of Burma, whence living
plants were sent to the Royal Gardens by H. H. Hildebrand,
Esq., who found the plant near Fort Stedman.

Deser.—A dwarf, leafy species. Stems loosely tufted,
creeping, subterrestrial, about as thick as a crowquill, and

Jvxy Ist, 1894.

covered with black-brown bark; branches suberect, two to
four inches high, green, puberulous, leafy. Leaves rather
crowded, opposite and alternate, about an inch long,
rather fleshy, ovate, subacute, narrowed into a very short
petiole, minutely hairy on both surfaces, bright green
above, silvery beneath; margins reddish, ciliolate, and
bearing distant minute circular glands. Flowers few, from
the upper leaf axils; peduncles shorter than the leaves,
and as well as the calyx and corolla, filaments, and style,
glandular-hairy. Calyx very small, 4-partite, segments
ovate-lanceolate. Corolla about an inch long, orange-
scarlet, laterally compressed, curved; tube narrow for
half its length, then dilated into a hooded deeply 2-lipped
limb; upper lip 4-toothed, teeth rounded, lateral largest,
and margins recurved, intermediate connate below ; lower
lip linear, obtuse, recurved. Stamens exserted for nearly
half their length, filaments purple; anthers oblong,
glabrous; staminode minute. Disk cylindric, glabrous,
mouth crenulate. Ovary narrow, quite glabrous; style
exserted, as long as the stamens, stigma minute. Capsule

25 in. long, very slender. Seeds with the hairs half an
inch long.—J, D. H.

‘ Fig. 1, Portion of margin of leaf; 2, segments of calyx, disk and ovary;
, corolla laid open and stamens; 4 and 5, anthers :—Al/ enlarged.

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SPATHOGLOTTIS aractuis.

Native of Borneo.

Nat. Ord. Oncuipr#.—Tribe DENDROBIEZ.
Genus Spatnoctortis, Blume; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 571.)

SPATHOGLOTTIS GRACILIS; elata, pseudobulbis vestigiis foliorum vestitis, foliis
2-3-pedalibus lineari-lanceolatis, scapo gracili apice florifero, bracteis
cymbiformibus obtusis herbaceis, floribus amplis, sepalis petalisque con-
similibus late oblongis obtusis utrinque aureis dorso rubro striatis,
labello sepalis multo minore, lobis lateralibus erectis incurvis sub-
spathulato-oblongis apice rotundato-truncatis intus sanguineo aspersis,
lobo intermedio angusto basin versus auriculis 2 triangularibus pilosis
defiexis instructo apice dilatato obcordato.

S. gracilis, Rolfe in Herb. Kew.

Spathoglottis gracilis belongs to a small group of species,
of which the type, if the first described member of it may
be so considered, is the Malayan (Mount Ophir) S. awrea,
Lindl. (in Pawt. Fl. Garden, vol. i. p. 16, and Journ. Hort.
Soe. vol. v. p. 834). The other members of the group are
three, S. Kimballiana, Hort. Sander, and 8S. Wrayr (FI.
Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 818, and Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2086). Of
these S§. aurea has the middle of the lip very narrow,
moderately dilated at the tip, and ending in a narrow or
dilated acute point, and the side lobes are long and
narrow; it inhabits Borneo and the Philippine Islds., as
well as Mount Ophir. 8S. Kimballiana is a larger plant
than gracilis, with larger flowers; the sepals are pale
brown dorsally, and the midlobe of the lip is much broader
and obovate-spathulate ; it is well figured in the Gardener’s
Chronicle for 1888, vol. ii. p. 93, fig. 9 (repeated in
‘ Veitch’s Manual of Orchids,” pt. vi. p. 6), and described
by Reichenbach as a variety of aurea. Lastly, S. Wrayi, a
native of Perak, in the Malayan Peninsula, has the large
flowers of S. Kimballiana, short side lobes of the lip, its
auricles at the base of the side lobes are glabrous, and the
middle of the lip is narrowly spathulate. Considering the
characters of the above three plants, it may well be

Jury Ist, 1884.

doubted whether they are not varieties of one; and all the
more irom the fact of 8. gracile and Kimballiana having been
received from Borneo in the same clump by Messrs. Sander.
To decide this point a comparison of living specimens of all
from various localities'is wanted, and the amount of dilata-
tion of the midlobe and side lobes of the lip must be studied ;
meanwhile I have provisionally adopted Mr. Rolfe’s con-
viction that they will prove very distinct species, and I
have adopted his name for that here figured.

I am indebted to Messrs. Sander for flowers of both
gracilis and Kimballiana, which they received from Borneo
through their collector, Mr. Forstermann. The figure of
the former species was from a specimen which they com-
municated to the Royal Gardens, and which flowered there
in February last.

Descr.—Stem a pseudobulb, as thick as the thumb,
clothed with the remains of old leaf-sheaths, and sending
out roots thicker than a duck’s quill. Leaves 2-3 ft. long,
lanceolate, acuminate, plaited, narrowed into a rigid elon-
gate petiole. Peduncle as long as the leaves, or longer,
stout, erect, with a few cymbiform obtuse sheaths ; raceme
short; bracts boat-shaped, green, coriaceous, tip rounded ;
flowers few, two and a half in. diam., bright yellow. Sepals
broadly oblong, tip rounded, dorsally keeled and streaked
with red. Petals rather larger, obovate-oblong. Lip
shorter than the sepals, 3-lobed, hairy towards the base ;
_ lateral lobes incurved, obliquely spathulate-oblong, spotted

with red below the middle, tip truncate or rounded ; disk
with two erect dimidiate-ovate, and two small conical de-
curved auricles ; midlobe very narrow, fleshy, with a short

conical auricle at the base on each side, and a dilated
broadly obcordate tip.—J. D. H. :

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LEPTACTINA Manni.

Native of Tropical West Africa.

Nat. Ord. Rusiacza.—Tribe GaRDENIEZ. __
Genus Lepractina, Hook. f.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 85.)

LEpractina, Manni ; frutex 12-pedalis, ramosus, fere glaberrimus, ramulis
crassis, foliis 5-8 poll. longis oblongis obovato-oblongisve obtusis basi
in petiolum brevem alatum angustatis, nervis utrinque ad 9 patentibus,
stipulis amplis ramo latioribus oblongo-rotundatis recurvis quasi inflatis
persistentibus, floribus magnis in fasciculos terminales inter folia summa
congestis sessilibus, calycis tubo brevi puberulo 10-costato, lobis amplis
erectis lineari-oblongis obtusis herbaceis ciliolatis, corollz tubo 4-pollicari
angusto tereti, fauce vix dilatato intus sericeo, lobis 5 2-pollicaribus
anguste lanceolatis apice obtusis patenti-recurvis albis, stylo superne
hirsuto, ramis cylindraceis.

L. Mannii, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Pi. vol. vi. (1871), p. 78, tab. 1092. Hiern,
in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. iii. p. 88.

The genus Leptactina was established by myself when
preparing the Rubiacex for the “ Genera Plantarum,” upon
four tropical West African plants, and was published in the
‘‘Tcones Plantarum” cited above. To these two other
species have been added, also from tropical Africa, namely
L. heinsioides, Hiern, (in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Africa, vol. ii.
p. 88), and L. tetraloba, N.E. Br. in Gard. Chron. (1885),
vol. il. p. 391. The genus is a near ally of Gardenia and
Randia, differing from both in the terminal inflorescence,
and from the first named in the 2-celled ovary and folia-
ceous calyxlobes.

Leptactina Mannii was discovered by Gustav Mann, Ksq.
(late Inspector of Forests in Assam), when on a misson
under the Royal Gardens, Kew, to investigate the timber
resources of Western tropical Africa in 1862. He found
it on the banks of the Kongue or Gaboon river, in lat.
1°N. The specimen figured is that of a plant sent to
the Royal Gardens, Kew, from the Jardin des Plantes in
December, 1898, by. Prof. Maxim Cornu, which flowered

Aveust Isr, 1894,

in a stove in September of the following year, when about
four feet high.

Deser—A branching shrub, about 6 ft. high, with

stout glabrous branches, and green, terete branchlets, as
thick as a swan’s-quill. Leaves 5-8 inches long, the
uppermost part as large as the lower, oblong, or obovate
oblong, obtuse, narrowed into a short, broad petiole, dark
green above, with about nine nerves on each side of the
midrib, paler beneath. Stipules large, broader than the
branch, very broadly obovate, convex, and being reflexed
from below the middle appear as green globose bodies —
hetween the insertions of the leaves. Flowers crowded in
clusters between the uppermost pairs of leaves, sessile.
Calyx tube + of an inch long, obconical, deeply 10-grooved, —
with rounded ribs, puberulous, green; segments 1-14 in. —
long, linear-oblong, obtuse, erect, bright green, indis-
tinctly nerved, margins ciliolate. Disk tumid, girt with a
ring of conical glands. Corolla white; tube four inches
long, slender, terete, throat hardly dilated, silky within ;
lobes five and a half inches long, elongate-lanceolate,
with obtuse tips, spreading and recurved. Anthers linear,

sessile in the throat of the corolla, dorsally inserted,
connective shortly produced, obtuse. Style very long,
hirsute in the upper part within the throat; stigmatic

ot oo hairy. Ovary 2-celled, cells many-ovuled. : 4

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NEUWIEDIA Linptevrt.

Native of the Malayan Peninsula.

Nat. Ord. Orcu1pe#.—Tribe APosTASIEA.
Genus Nevwiepia, Blume; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 635).

Nevwiep1a Lindleyi; elata, foliis lineari-lanceolatis oblanceolatisve acumi-
natis, scapo 2-3-pedali, racemo elongato puberulo dense multifloro,
bracteis lineari-lanceolatis flores subzequantibus membranaceis erectis et
recurvis.

N. Lindleyi, Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxv. p. 232, 241, t. 48, £. 10-12.
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 175.

The singular Malayan genus Newwiedia is here for the
first time figured from aliving specimen. It was founded
by Blume in 1834 on a Javan plant (N. veratrifolia) of
which only two specimens were seen, a flowering and a
fruiting, and of which the descriptions (his own, and a
later by Reichenbach) are very incomplete, and are in-
sufficient to distinguish it from some later described
_ Species. The genus comprises five more or less imper-
_ fectly distinguished species, namely N. Zollingeri of Java

and N. Grifithii of Malacca, both of Reichenbach,
N. calanthoides, Ridley, from New Guinea, N. Ourtisit,
Rolfe, of Penang and Sumatra, and the subject of the
accompanying plate. The tribe to which it belongs,
Apostasiex, has been the subject. of an elaborate memoir
by Mr. Rolfe, in the Journal of the Linnzan Society, cited
above. In it Mr. Rolfe rightly separates the Apostasiex

from Cypripediee, with which they are united in the
‘Genera Plantarum,” and the above enumerated species
are all described.
_ N. Lindleyi was received at the Royal Gardens, Kew,
in July, 1887, from Mr. Ridley, F.L.S., Superintendent
- of the Singapore Gardens, and (as Mr. Watson informs
me) developed its flowers very slowly in midwinter, 1893-4.
_ Aveust Ist, 1894,

N. Griffithit is also in cultivation at Kew, and will, I hope,
appear in this work in due course, when it flowers.
Descr.—A tall, stout, erect herb, 38-4 feet high. Stem
as thick as the thumb at the base, emitting very stout
cylindric roots. Leaves numerous towards the base of the
stem, 12-16 in. long, and 2 inches broad, narrowly lan-
ceolate, acuminate, plicate. Scape about a foot high,
terete, green, loosely clothed with narrowly lanceolate
acuminate membranous green bracts tipped with brown,
the lower 8 inches long, the upper passing into floral
bracts. Raceme 6-12 inches long, dense-flowered ; bracts
like the cauline, but smaller, rather shorter than the
flowers, and as well as these puberulous. Flowers very
shortly pedicelled; ovary oblong, obtusely trigonous,
shortly stoutly beaked ; perianth an inch long, decurved,
subcylindric, golden yellow. Sepals linear-oblong, con-
cave, tip rounded and mucronate. Petals rather broader _
than the sepals, dorsally keeled, keel rounded and exserted
from the rounded tip of the petal as a green mucro like _
that of the sepals. Lip like the petals, mucronate below |
the concave tip, and with a thick rounded, fleshy callus,
which occupies nearly all its inner surface from the base

to the apex. Filaments 38, subequal, stout, united for
more than half their length

column. Anthers large,
rather shorter than the st
Ovary 3-celled.—J. D. H.

subequal, linear-oblong. Style
amens ; stigma globose, 3-lobed.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, Ji ; 8 and 4, front and :
of style and stigma ooail enlarged. ront and back views of column; 5, top

with’ the style in a terete

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DERMATOBOTRYS Saunpersi.
Native of Natal and Zululand. ;

Nat. Ord. ScroPHULABINEZ.—Tribe CHELONE P

Genus Dzermatosorrys, Bolus in Hook. Ic. Plant. t 1940.

Dermatozporrys Saundersii; fruticulus glaber, ramis crassiusculis sub-
tetragonis, foliis ad apices ramulorum paucis oppositis subsessilibus
ovatis acutis repando-dentatis carnosulis, floribus infra folia subverticil-
latim dispositis breviter pedicellatis, bractea parva, calyce parvo 5-partito
segmentis linearibus, corolla tubulosa bipollicari a basi angusta sursum
sensim dilatata, fauce aperta, tubo basi intus piloso, lobis 5 parvis
patentibus ovatis, antheris 5 ore tubi subsessilibus ellipticis, disco
inconspicuo, ovario 2-loculari multiovulato, ovulis placentis septo affixis
confertis, stylo filiformi, stigmate simplici, bacca ovoidea, seminibus
numerosis placentis septo adnatis immersis, testa serobiculata, em-
bryone in albumine corneo recto.

D. Saundersii, Bolus, l.c. Kath. Saunders in Kew Bulletin, 1893, p. 367.

Dermatobotrys is a very singular monotypic genus, as to
which, though its floral and seminal characters have been
clearly made out, the position in the natural system of
plants is not quite definitely established. Mr. Bolus, its
author, referred it with little hesitation to Solanacex ; and
both in habit and certain characters, as the regular
quinquefid corolla, with five equal stamens at its mouth,
it recalls the tribe Cestrinex of that Order, whilst
it resembles no known Scrophularineous plant. On the
other hand, in a note appended to M. Bolus’s description,
Professor Oliver cites the more or less quadrangular stem,
bilabiate zstivation of the corolla and straight embryo
as characters foreign to Solanacex, and in favour of
Scrophularinee. Under this view Professor Oliver refers
Dermatobotrys doubtfully to the tribe Chelonex of the
latter order ; where its position would be near to the Cape
genus Phygelius (see tab. 4881) which has scarlet flowers,
a long incurved corolla tube with 5 subequal lobes, but
which differs in having 4 didynamous stamens, capsular
fruit, and other discrepant characters.

Dermatobotrys was first collected, but in a fruiting

Aveust Ist, 1894.

state only in Natal, by the collector Gerrard, about twenty
years ago, and more lately by Mr. J. Medley Wood, the
energetic Curator of the Natal Botanical Gardens, who
describes it'as having a tendency to fix itself on dead trees.
Mr. Bolus’s description and figures are from fresh specimens
and a drawing sent to him by Mrs. Katherine Saunders
from Hshowe in Zululand. To this latter invaluable
correspondent the Royal Gardens of Kew are indebted for
seeds, from which a large number of plants were raised in
1892, and which flowered in December, 1893; as also for
living plants, with the observation that the shrub is
epiphytic, growing normally on trees, though also on the
ground. Mr. Watson informs me that at Kew the leaves
are deciduous in autumn, the plant starting into new
growth, and flowering in winter. |
Descr.—An epiphytic small shrub, with a long naked
stem as thick as the wrist in old plants, and stout, sub-
quadrangular naked brown branches, bearing short, termi-
nal leafy shoots. Leaves 2-6 in. long, rather fleshy, ovate
or oblong, subacute, coarsely toothed, base narrowed into
a short petiole, young, and often the nerves and margins of
the old red. Flowers in clusters below the leaves ; pedicels
very short, spreading, and puberulous. Flowers 2 inches
long, drooping. Calyz very small, 5-partite, persistent,
puberulous, green; segments linear, puberulous. Corolla
tubular, trumpet-shaped, pale red, tube gradually dilated
from a slender base to the naked throat, hairy at the base
within; lobes 5, short, ovate, spreading, yellow within.
Anthers 5, sessile at the mouth of the corolla-tube, broadly
oblong. Ovary ovoid, confluent with the disk, glabrous,
-celled ; ovules many, on spongy axile placentas; style
very slender, stigma simple. Fruit an ovoid green,
2-celled, many-seeded, green drupe nearly an inch long,
tip rounded, apiculate by the style-base.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Calyx and style: 2 la lai : isk 5 g
verse section of otarye Al} Clete’: ee ee

Tas. 7370.

VERONICA AMPLEXICAULIS.
Native of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. ScroPpHULARINEX.—Tribe DIGITALEX.

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

Veronica (Hebe) amplewicaulis; fruticulus erectus, ramis subrobustis cortice

atro, foliis decussatim oppositis quadrifariam imbricatis sessilibus coria-
ceis late oblongis concavis uttinque rotundatis v. basi subcordatis
glaucis enerviis et ecarinatis, pedunculis axillaribus foliis longioribus
robustis pubescentibus spicas 1 v. 3 breves multi-densifloras gerentibus,
floribus oppositis parvis albis, bracteis oblongis obtusis ciliatis calycem
zquantibus, sepalis lineari-oblongis obtusis ciliatis, corolla tubo calyce
incluso, limbi lobo dorsali erecto ovato-oblongo obtuso, ceteris decurvis
lineari oblongis obtusis, filamentis longe exsertis, antheris coeruleis, ovario
apice hirtello.

V. amplexicaulis, Armstrong in Trans. N. Zeald. Institute, vol, xiii. (1889),
p. 352

The subject of this plate is another of the hardy New
Zealand evergreen shrubby Speedwells. Its nearest ally
is V. pinguifolia, Hook. f., from which it differs in the
much larger, broader leaves, which are rounded or sub-
cordate at the base. It appears to be a very local plant,
there being no recorded locality for it but the Alps of the
Canterbury Province, where it was discovered by its de-
scriber, Mr. Armstrong, and from whence dried specimens
were sent to Kew in 1887 by Mrs. Hetley. The specimen
figured was kindly sent by Dr. Balfour, from the Edinburgh
Botanical Gardens in June, 1893, and the capsule in
August of the same year. The species has been in cultiva-
tion there and at Kew and elsewhere for a good many
years, flowering annually in June, and is like its New
Zealand dwarf fruiticose allies, perfectly hardy.

Deser.—An erect or decumbent shrub, 1-2 ft. high,
branching from the base; branches about as thick as a
crow-quill, bark nearly black, branchlets green, puberulous.
Leaves 2-1 in. long, sessile, quadrifariously imbricate,
-elliptic-oblong, rounded at both ends, or base cordate,
concaye, very coriaceous, glaucous, nerveless, and not

AvuGust Ist, 1894,

keeled, margins quite smooth. Flowers about } in. diam.,

sessile, in short, dense-fld. conical, solitary or ternate
spikes; peduncle, axillary stout, pubescent, longer than
the leaves, simple or forked, bibracteate at the fork,
and bearing three spikes. Bracts as long as the calyx,
coriaceous, oblong, concave, ciliate. Sepals linear-oblong,
obtuse, ciliate. Corolla-tube very short, included in the
calyx-tube, spreading, posticous lobe broadest, concave,
erect, the other three linear-oblong, obtuse, decurved.
Stamens exserted, anthers blue. Ovary 4-lobed, tops of
lobes hispid. Capsule rather longer than the sepals, —
oblong, 4-lobed.—J. D. H. oe

Fig. 1, Portion of spike; 2, calyx; 3, stamen ; 4, disk and ovary ; 5, capsule:
—All enlarged. :

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DENDROBIUM ATROVIOLACEUM.
Native of New Guinea.

Nat. Ord. OncumEs.—Tribe DENDROBIER.

Genus Denprosium, Sw.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 498.)

Denprosium (Stachyobium) atro-violaceum ; pseudobulbis fusiformibus sessili-
bus sulcatis demum stipitatis 2-foliis, foliis oblongis obtusis crasse coria-
ceis supra lete viridibus subtus pallidis nervis 5-7 viridibus percursis,
pedunculo multifloro, floribus amplis, sepalis petalisque subtortis margini-
bus recurvis primulinis purpureo-maculatis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis
subacutis, petalis obovato-oblongis acutis ob margines infra medium
revolutas quasi spathulatis, labelli lobis lateralibus amplis auriculeformi-
bus violaceis albo striatis, intermedio cordiformi obtuso recurvo, disco
postice violaceo albo striato bilamellato.

D. atro-violaceum, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1890, vol. i. p. 512.

Of all Dendrobes known to me I cannot recall amongst
recent discoveries one so strikingly unlike its congeners in
coloration, and at the same time so beautiful in this
respect, as D. atroviolaceum. As Mr. Rolfe observes in
his description of it, cited above, its nearest ally is
D. macrophyllum, A. Rich. (Tab. 5649) a noble species,
with broad leaves, over a foot long, and hairy inflorescence.
_ Technically, both belong to the section Stachyobium, of

Dendrobium, and to the rather heterogeneous subsection
of Speciose ; but whether or no they may be included in
the latter, they with a few other far Hastern species form
a small group distinguished by the long clavate stem or
pseudobulb, with two, rarely three terminal coriaceous
leaves, and a terminal raceme of flowers, with a deeply
3-lobed lip. The group includes species with hairy and
with glabrous inflorescence. Of the hairy flowered are
the original D. macrophyllum, which ranges from Java to
the Philippines and New Guinea; and D. Gordoni, Horne
(Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 372), from the Fiji Islands ; and of
the glabrous-flowered are D. atro-violaceum, D.chloropterum,
Reichb. f. & 8. Moore (in Trim. Jowrn. Bot. 1878, 187, t.
196) from New Guinea, and D. trigrinum, Rolfe (Annals of
Botany, vol.v. p. 507) from the Solomon Islands. In Veitch’s

Aveust Isr, 1894.

Manual (Dendrob. p. 60) D. macrophyllum is referred to
the sub-section Calostachyx of sect. Hudendrobium, which
is, I think, an error.

D. atroviolaceum was introduced from New Guinea in
1890; and the specimen here figured was received from
F. Wigan, Esq., of Clare Lawn, Hast Sheen, in December
of last year.

Descr.—Pseudobulbs tufted, 8-12 inches long, fusiform,
deeply channelled, young smaller, green, sessile; older
raised on an inclined 2-5-jointed stipes, yellow brown, with
an oblong, obtuse, basal sheath. Leaves two, terminal on
the pseudobulb, 3-5 inches long, spreading, sessile, oblong,
obtuse, convex, very coriaceous, dark green above, very
pale almost: silvery beneath, with green parallel nerves.
Peduncle from between the leaves, erect ; green, with few
distant, closely appressed sheaths. Raceme many-fid., in-
clined; bracts small, pale, } in. long, sheathing the
pedicel, which, together with the slender ovary, is an inch
long. Flowers many, 8 inches in diameter. Sepals and
petals primrose yellow on both surfaces, with claret-colrd.
Spots, more or less twisted, and with recurved margins,
sepals ovate, subacute ; petals oblong, acute, but appearing
spathulate, the margins being revolute for the lower two-
thirds of their length. Mentum short, incurved. Lip
about as long as the sepals, 3-lobed, lateral lobes ear- or
fan-shaped, erect, with strongly recurved margins; disk
violet, striped with white, 2-lamellate between the lobes ;
mid-lobe heart-shaped, strongly recurved, basal _ half
dark violet, streaked with white, terminal half yellow,
spotted like the petals. Column very short; anther

depressed ; pollinia bi rtit
gland.—J. D. fee partite, seated on a rather large

Fig. 1, Lip with one lateral lobe : ; va 4
3; anther ; 4 and 5, pollinia ;—All i 2, column and base of lip;

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SALVIA MACROSTACHYA.
Native of Ecuador.

Nat. Ord. Laprata.—Tribe MonarpEex.

Genus Satv1a, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1194.

Satvia (Calosphace) macrostachya ; fruticosa, elata, hirsuto-tomentosa, foliis
petiolatis ovato-roundatis acutis crenatis basi profunde cordatis auriculis
rotundatis imbricatis utrinque pubescenti-villosis, floralibus late ovatis
herbaceis calycem superantibus glanduloso-villosis persistentibus, petiolo
3-5-pollicari, spicis densis, rachi robusto, verticillastris imbricatis multi-
floris, floribus sessilibus, calyce paullo recurvo tubuloso glanduloso-piloso,
labio superiore brevi ovato integro dentibusque labii inferioris acutis,
corollz pallide ccerule tubo calyce wquilongo, labio superiore oblongo
obtuso, inferiore longiore lobis lateralibus brevibus rotundatis, intermedio
multo majore late obcordato, connectivi ramo postico longe exserto
glabro quam antico lineari-oblongo duplo longiore, staminodiis 2 fili-
formibus apice furcatis, disco crasso antice in processum carnosum
nuculas superantem producto.

S. macrostachya, Kunth in Humb. Bonpl. & Kunth Nov. Gen. & Sp. Pl.
Amer. vol. ii. p. 298. Benth. Lab. Gen. & Sp. 273; et in DC. Prodr. vol.

xii. p. 322; et Plant. Hartweg, p. 243.

A stately Sage, discovered near Quito, the capital of

_ Ecuador, by Humboldt, nearly a century ago, at an eleva-

_ tion of 10,000 ft., and more recently found in New Grenada,
near the city of Popayan, at about the same elevation. It
has also been collected by Hartweg in the valley of Cuenca,
a province of Ecuador, 8.E. of Guyaquil, between 8000
and 9009 ft. above the sea, whence probably the error of
Tafalla, who is the authority for its being found near the
hot, insalubrious town of Guyaquil itself, on the seacoast
of Ecuador.

The plant figured was raised from seed sent to the
Royal Gardens, Kew, from the Botanical Gardens of
Quito, in 1893, which attained six feet in height, flowered
in a cool greenhouse in the month of March, and formed
a very striking object.

_Deser.—Siem six feet and more high, shrubby below,
erect, strict, branched, hirsute with soft spreading hairs,
which are glandular on the inflorescence; branches stout,

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nearly as broad, orbicular-cordate with overlapping basal
lobes, obtuse or acute, crenate, dark green, many nerved
and reticulate, pubescent on both surfaces ; petiole three to
five inches long, rather slender. Spike afoot or more long,
sessile, robust, very many and dense-flowered ; whorls
crowded, many-flowered ; floral bracts green, herbaceous,
persistent, broadly ovate-cordate, two inches long, pale
green, tips recurved. lowers shortly pedicelled, pedicels
calyx and corolla sparsely glandular hairy. Calyx nearly
an inch long, broadly tubular, shortly 2-lipped, upper lip.
and teeth of the lower acute. Corolla pale blue; tube
hardly longer than the calyx, funnel-shaped, glabrous
within; limb one and a half inches across the upper and
lower lips; upper lip oblong, obtuse, erect; side lobes of
the lower short, rounded; mid-lobe large very broadly
obcordate, deeply 2-lobed. Stamens far exserted, filaments
short, included ; upper branch of the connective glabrous
more than twice as long as the linear-oblong obtuse
deflexed lower; anther-cells linear-oblong; staminodes
small, filiform, ascending, bifid at the tip. Disc very thick,
fleshy, produced behind into an oblong obtuse column
overtopping the oblong hairy, notched nutlets.—J. D. H.

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RHODODENDRON ScatiprpEenBACcHII.

Native of Manchuria and Japan.

Nat. Ord. Ertcem.—Tribe Ruoporez.

Genus RuopopenpRon, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 599.)

Ruopopenpron (Azalea) Schlippenbachii ; fruticosa, ramulis robustis glandu-
loso-setulosis, foliis ad apices ramulorum sessilibus subverticillatis
patulis breviter petiolatis late obovatis subsinuato-lobatis apice obtusis
rotundatis v. emarginatis submembranaceis ciliatis, supra pilosis pilis
appressis caducis, subtus pallidis costa nervisque pilosis, floribus preecoci-
bus v. subpreecocibus umbellatis, pedicellis calyce parum longioribus
glanduloso-pilosis, sepalis 4 poll. longis oblongis glanduloso-ciliatis,
corolla rotato-infundibulari, tubo brevissimo limbi rosei lobis ovatis 3
posticis maculatis, staminibus 10 declinatis superioribus sensim longioribus,
filamentis basi puberulis, stylo basi glanduloso-piloso, capsula ovoidea
scabrida 5-loculari, stigmate 5 lobo.

R. Schlippenbachii, Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Se. Petersh. vol. xv. (1871)
p- 226 (Mel. Biol. vol. vii. p. 333), and in Mem. Acad. Se. Petersb. vol. xvi.
(1870) (Rhod. As. Or.) 29, t. 11. fig. 7-13). Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl.
Japan, vol. i. p. 289. Hemsl.in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1889) 30. Gard.
Chron. 1894, vol. i. p. 462, fig. 58.

R. Schlippenbachii was, according to its author, the
lamented Maximovicz, discovered by Baron Schlippenbach
amongst shrubs on the shores of Possjet Sound in Russian
Manchuria. It is also a native of Korea and its Islands,
where Oldham collected it on Herschel Island in 1868.
It is in cultivation in the city of Jedo, Japan, where it was
probably procured from T'su-sima, and is called by the
Japanese horticulturalists Kurofune tsutsusi. From the
texture of the foliage it is referable to the Azalea group of
the genus, amongst which it is the largest leaved.

Descr.—A shrub about three to five feet high, densely
or loosely branched and leafy. Branches smooth; young
branchlets setose with crisped glandular hairs. Leaves
subquinately as it were whorled at the ends of the branch-
lets, sessile, of a thin texture and (as in Azalea) produced

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1894,

more or less after flowering, two to four inches long,
obovate, narrowed into a very short petiole; tip rounded,
or truncate and emarginate with an apiculate gland in the
sinus; margins entire, obscurely undulate or sinuate and
ciliate, very young tomentose beneath. Flowers produced
before the leaves, umbellate; pedicels and calyces
glandular-hairy. Calyx lobes about one-sixth of an inch
long, broadly oblong or rounded, persistent. Corolla three
inches in diameter, pale rose-coloured, tube none or very
shortly infundibular; lobes broadly ovate, spreading, the
three upper speckled with red-brown towards the base.
Stamens 10, filaments very slender, pubescent below;
anthers small. Ovary short, conical, obtuse, densely

glandular, 5-celled; style slender, glandular-pubescent
below the middle; stigma small, truncate. Capsule two-
thirds of an inch long, oblong, obtuse glandular.—J. Ui. H.

Fig. 1, Tip of young leaf; 2, calyx and style; 3 stamen; 4, ovary :—adl
enlarged ; 5, capsules, of the natural size. A oo é

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FRITILLARIA avrza.

Native of Asia Minor.

Nat. Ord. Littacra.—Tribe TULIPEa.
Genus Fartiparia, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 817).

Friritarta (Monocodon) aurea ; bulbo parvo squamis paucis crassis, caule

spithamzo monocephalo, foliis 6-10 lanceolatis ascendentibus glaucescen-
tibus infimis szpissime oppositis reliquis alternis, perianthio cernuo
breviter pedunculato late campanulato citrino intus minute tessellato,
segmentis oblongis diu late imbricatis supra basin nectario orbiculari
viridi profunde impresso preeditis, staminibus perianthio distincte brevi
oribus antheris lineari-oblongis citrinis, stylo trifurcato.

F. aurea, Schott in Gister. Bot. Wochenbl. (1854), vol. iv. p. 187; Walp. Ann.
vol. vi. p. 106. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 259; in Gard. Chron.
1876, p. 720. Boiss, Fl. Orient. vol. v. p. 183. Regel Gartenf. tab. 840, fig. 1.
Rev. Hort. 1878, p. 287, with figure. Garden, July 23, 1892, with figure.

This pretty little Fritillary is easily recognized by its
dwarf habit and large drooping bright yellow flower,
faintly tessellated inside. In bulb and stigmas it agrees
with our indigenous F’. Meleagris, but the nectary is
orbicular instead of linear and is more deeply impressed.
It was first found by Kotschy in the Cilician ‘Taurus, from
which locality we have, in the Kew herbarium, dried speci-
mens collected by Mrs. A. EH. Danford in 1876. In the
same year it was brought into cultivation by Leichtlin,
but it has been very little known till lately, when a good
supply of bulbs has been sent to Kew and various cul-
tivators by Mr. Whittall, of Smyrna. Our drawing was
made from plants received from him which flowered in the
Alpine House at Kew in March and April. The specimens
show considerable variation in the size and tessellation of
the flower.

Descr.—Bulb small, with a few thick scales. Stem one-
flowered, a span long. Leaves seven to ten, ascending,
lanceolate, glaucescent, two or three inches long, the lowest
pair usually opposite, the others alternate. Slower solitary,
cernuous, shortly peduncled, campanulate, an inch and a

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1894.

half in diameter, bright yellow, with small dark brown
distant cross-bars between the vertical ribs; segments
oblong, obtuse, much imbricated, each furnished with a
glistening orbicular deeply impressed nectary a_ short
distance above the base. Stamens much shorter than the
perianth ; anthers linear-oblong, pale yellow, about as long
as the glabrous filaments. Style as long as the ovary,
shortly three-cleft.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, front view of stamen; 2, back view of stamens; 3, pistil :—All
enlarged.

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TROCHODENDRON aratiorpzs, Sieb. & Zuce.
Native of Japan.

Nat. Ord. Macnoriacrm.—Tribe TROCHODENDRE.

Genus Trocnopenpron,Sieb. & Zuce.; (Benth.& Hook. f.Gen.Plant.vol.i.p.954.)

TROCHODENDRON aralioides ; frutex v. arbor parva, sempervirens, 8-16 pedalis,
glaberrima, ramis teretibus cortice aromatico, ramulis robustis, gemmis
perulatis, foliis spurie verticillatis longe petiolatis exstipulatis obovatis
ovatis v. oblongo-ovatis rarius rhombeis longe obtuse acuminatis cuspi-
datisve crenato-serratis coriaceis supra lucidis, floribus in racemos ter-
minales erectos sessiles dispositis, rachi stricta, pedicellis 1-2-pollicaribus
patentibus, bracteis linearibus caducis, bracteolis pedicello positis brevibus
linearibus, calycis tubo patelleformi muriculato limbo integerrimo,
corolla 0, staminibus perplurimis ore calycis uniseriatim verticillatis,
filamentis gracilibus patenti-recurvis, antheris oblongis apiculatis, ovariis
ad 10 verticillatis basibus calycis tubo immersis dorso gibbis, stylis
brevibus crassis recurvis, stigmatibus oblongis sulcatis, ovulis numerosis
angulo interiore insertis, carpellis maturis 2-valvibus, seminibus paucis
pendulis linearibus.

T. aralioides, Sieb. & Zucc. Fl. Jap. vol. i. p. 83, t. 39, 40. Miquel Ann. Mus.
LInugd. Bat. vol. i. (Prolus, Fl. Japon) p. 258. Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl.
Japan, vol. i. p.19. Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. i. p. 716, fig. 91. Seemann
Journ. Bot. vol. ii. (1864), p. 237. Hichler in Flora, 1864, p. 449, e¢ 1865,
p- 12, et in Seem. Journ. Bot. vol. iii. (1865), p. 150.

GyYMNANTHUS paradoxus, Jungh. in Hoev. & de Vriese Tidschr. vol. vii. (1840),
p. 308.

A very singular plant, with the habit of an Aralioid and
especially of some species of Heptapleurum, which induced
Mr. Bentham (who had seen no specimens) when describing
the Magnoliacee for the “ Genera Plantarum” to suggest
its belonging to that family. It had, however, been rightly
placed in Magnoliacee by Siebold and Zuccarini, though
it does not belong to the tribe Winteracex to which these
authors had referred it. As determined by Kichler, it forms
along with the Japanese and Himalayan genus Huptelea, a
distinct tribe of Magnoliacex, the Trochodendrex, distin-
guished conspicuously by the absence of sepals and petals,
and which ranks with some authors as a separate Order.
T. aralioides is a native of moist alpine woods in the
Islands of Yéso and Nippon, where it is found with species
SerteMBer Ist, 1894.

of Camellia and Ilex, flowering in spring and ripening its
fruit in sammer. The bark and foliage are very aromatic.
The specimen figured was sent to Kew by Messrs. Veitch,
‘who flowered it at Combe Wood Nursery in April of the
present year. The fruit represented is from a Herbarium
Specimen.

A form with very different leaves, oblanceolate with
long points, was separated under the name of 7’. longi-
foliwm, and published by Maximovicz in the “ Index
Seminum Hort. Petrop. in 1805, p. 84,’ but it was sub-
sequently reduced by the same author (Melanges. Biolog.
pt. vil. p. 871) to a variety of aralioides.

Deser.—An evergreen, large shrub or small tree, twelve
to sixteen feet high, glabrous all over, with rather stout
stems ; bark aromatic; branches terete, green with brown
annular scars. Leaves three to four inches long, long-
petioled, ovate or oblong-ovate, obtusely acuminate, cre-
nate-serrate, coriaceous, bright green and shining above;
petiole one to one and a half inches long. Flowers in
erect terminal sessile racemes, long pedicelled ; rachis of
raceme stout, green; pedicels one to one and a half inches
long, green, horizontally spreading ; bracts linear, cadu-
cous ; bracteoles on the pedicels, setaceous. Flowers three-
quarters of an inch diam. across the stamens. Calyx-tube
depressed hemispheric, limb 0. Petals 0. Stamens very many
in a whorl on the mouth of the calyx-tube, filaments slender
all of one length, spreading and recurved ; anthers adnate,
erect, oblong, obtuse. Carpels about ten, connate in a
whorl, the bases confluent with the calyx-tube ; styles short,
recurved, stigmas oblong. Fruit one-half to three-quarters
of an inch in diam., formed of the calyx and about ten
rather fleshy follicular few-seeded carpels.—J, D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower with the stamens recurved; 2, anther before dehiscence ;

yah al section of anther before dehiscence; 4, longitudinal view of
: . aiter dehiscence ; 5, vertical section through a carpel :—all enlarged.
» traits from a Herbarium specimen, of the nat. size,

7376

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SOBRALIA szssILIs.

Native of British Guiana.

Nat. Ord. OrcH1pEm.—Tribe N EOTTIER.

Genus Sopratta, Ruiz et Pav.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p.590.)

Sopratia sessilis; caulibus gracilibus brunneo-hispidulis, foliis paucis
3-4-pollicaribus ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis supra lete viridibus
nervis impressis, subtus rufo-brunneis valide costatis, floribus solitariis
sessilibus, bracteis lineari-lanceolatis erectis punctatis, floribus roseis
3 poll, diam., perianthii tubo pollicari, sepalis petalisque consimilibus
linearibus acutis recurris v. revolutis dorso marginibusque pallidis, labello
petalis sequilongo, tubo basi sub-gibboso, limbo recurvo ovato erose-
dentato saturate roseo apice albido basi lamellis 2 brevibus aucto, columna
facie medio versus auguste 2-alata apice bicruri, cruribus incurvis
antheram subrostratam marginantibus,

S. sessilis, Lindl. Bot. Reg. vol. xlvii. (1841), t. 17; e¢ Misc. p. 3 (non Bot. Mag.
t. 4570, que S. decurva, Batem). Fol. Orchid. Sobralia, n. 6,

3. Galeottiana, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 1.c. n. 5 partim (non A. Rich.)

Sobralia sessilis is a Guiana species discovered by the
late Sir Robert Schomburgk in about 1840, from whom it
was received by Messrs. Loddiges, who again communi-
cated specimens to Dr. Lindley that were figured in the
Botanical Register in 1841. A very similar but different
plant was figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 4570)
under the same name, from being supposed to be the same
species. The latter is S. decora, Bateman (Orchids of
Mexico and Guatemala, t. 26) a native of Guatemala, which
has a green stem, leaves pale beneath, pale sepals and
petals, and a pale pink lip with a more orbicular termina-
tion. The plate with its erroneous name was pirated in
Lemaire’s Jardin Fleuriste (vol. i. t. 104). These species
are further confounded by Lindley, who, in the Folia
Orchidacea, besides keeping up S. sessilis and decora,
takes up A. Richards’ 8S, Galeottiana of Mexico, adding
Demerara to its habitat. The fact is, as Mr. Rolfe has
ascertained, Richards’ Galeottiana is Bateman’s decora
(published two years earlier) and the Demerara plant is
sessilis.

SEPTEMBER IsT, 1894,

There are native specimens of S. sessilis in the Kew
Herbarium from the Mazaruni river, collected and_ sent by
Mr. Jenman, F.L.S., Government Botanist and Superin-
tendent of the Botanical Garden of Georgetown, Demerara,
who states that it attains four feet in height. The speci-
men here figured was communicated by Sir John Kirk,
G.C.M.G., F.R.S., &c., which flowered in a stove in the
Royal Garden in April last. ’

Deser. Stems three to four feet high, loosely tufted and
rooting, as thick as a crow-quill, dark green and thickly
eranulate with red-brown short tubercle based hairs.
Leaves few, three to four inches long ovate-lanccolate,
acuminate, many-nerved spreading and recurved, dark
green above with sunk nerves, red-brown beneath with
strong ribs. Flowers solitary, terminal, sessile, three inches
across the petals, rose-red, with a much deeper coloured
lip. Bracts linear lanceolate erect, dark green, spotted
with brown, about equalling the perianth-tube. Perianth-
tube nearly an inch long, rather slender funnel-shaped at
the lip. Sepals and petals subsimilar, linear acute spread-
ing and recurved or almost revolute, margins and under-
surface pale. Lip as long as the sepals, tube broad rather
gibbous at the base, tip expanding into an ovate recurved
obtuse limb with recurved erose margins ; disk at the base
within, with two short lamella. Column rather stout, with
two narrow short wings on the face about the middle; top
subclavate, terminating in two incurved and recurved
semilunar horns, which form an arch and almost meet

over the anther. Anther shortly obtusely beaked.—
J. DD,

Fig. 1, Side, and 2, front view of column; 3, anther :—AJI enlarged.

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URARIA orrnita.
Native of the East Indies.

Nat. Ord. Lecumrnos2.—Tribe HEeDYSAREZ.
Genus Urania, Desv.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. v. i. p. 521.)

Unrakta, crinita ; suffruticosa, pilis uncinatis hirsuta, caule e basi decumbente
erecto elato, foliolis 2—4-jugis (rarissime solitariis) oblongis acutis supra
glabris v. scaberulis subtus puberulis et reticulatis, stipulis e basi late
cordata repente cuspidatis, racemis 1-2-pedalibus breviter pedunculatis
strictis cylindraceis multi-densifloris, pedunculo bracteis ovato-lanceolatis
imbricatis velato, bracteis floralibus bifloris caducis, pedicellis filiformibus
decurvis floribus subequilongis hirsutis, calycis segmentis lanceolato-
subulatis pilis basi tuberculatis ciliatis, 2 supremis brevioribus vexillo
ovato, carina alisque apicibus rotundatis, legumine minuto cycloideo 3-4-
articulato.

U. crinita, Desv. Journ. Bot. vol. iii. p. 122, t. 5, £: 19. DC. Prodr. vol. it.
p. 324. Wall. Pl. As. Rar. vol. ii. p. 8; Cat. n. 5675. Thw. Enum. Pl.
Zeyl. p. 85, 411. Trim. Cat. Ceyl. Pl.p. 24, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 81; Pl.
Jungh. p. 214. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. vol. i. p. 268. Hassk. Pl, Jav. Rar.
p. 851. Baker in Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind, vol. i. p. 155.

U. macrostachya, Wall. 1. c. t. 110.

U. picta, Wight Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 411 (non Desv.).

U. comosa, DC. l.c.
- Doopta crinita, Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 369.
Hepysanum crinitum, Linn. Mant. p. 102. Burm. Fl. Ind. p. 169, t. 56,
Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 57.
HH. comosum, Vahl, Sym. vol. ii. p. 84.

H. lanseum, Noronh. Vert. Bat. Gen. vol. v. p. 77.

The genus Uraria consists of eight or ten species, all
natives of the Old World, the handsomest of which is
that here figured. It is a native of British India, from

Bengal and Assam, eastward through Burma to China,
and southward to Malacca and the Malay Islands, extending
to Timor Laut, but not into Australia, nor is it indigenous
in Ceylon. In the Flora of British India it is erroneously
stated to be a native of the Himalaya (ascending to 9000
ft.). It was no doubt there confounded with U. picta.
Seeds of it were sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in

OctoBER Ist, 1894.

November, 1892, by Mr. Ford, F.L.S. (Superintendent of |
the Botanical Garden of Hong-kong). Plants reared from |
this source flowered in September, 1898. Mr. Watson in-
forms me that a group of these, each bearing a tall raceme
of rose-purple flowers, was a great attraction to visitors.
The plants died down to the base after flowering.

Deser, A tall suffruticose plant, covered except the °
leaflets and perianth with hooked hairs, woody, and often —
decumbent below, and sending up annual herbaceous leafing
and flowering branches five feet high, with spikes of pink-
purple flowers twenty inches long. Leaves alternate, —
spreading and drooping; petiole and rachis terete;
leaflets two to four pairs, rarely solitary, four to six inches
long by one and a half to two inches broad, linear-oblong
acute, bright green, smooth or scaberulous above, pubes
cent and finely reticulate beneath; nerves six to ten
pairs; stipules broadly cordate, suddenly narrowed into a
long subulate point, ciliate, pink; stipels subulate. Raceme
one to two feet, shortly peduncled, cylindric; peduncle
clothed with ovate-lanceolate persistent bracts. Flowers
in densely crowded pairs ; pedicels half an inch to an inch
long, filiform, decurved, ciliate; flower-bracts two-flowered,
ovate-lanceolate, caducous, upper more slender, uppermost
forming a pink brush terminating the raceme. Calya one-
sixth inch long; segments subulate, fringed with tubercle-
based hairs, two upper shorter connate below. Standard
ovate, violet-purple within, pale blue externally; wings —
pale rose, shortly clawed, tips rounded ; keel-petals semi-—
circular, with subulate curved claws, tips rounded. Pods
very small, on incurved pedicels, each twisted on itself,

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SENECIO taxtronivs.

Vative of New Zealand.

Nat. Ord. Composita.—Tribe SENECIONIDER.

Genus Senecio Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 446.)

Szyzcro lawifolius; arbuscula eglandulosa, ramis foliis subtus paniculisque
tomento albido appresso opertis, foliis 13-2} poll. longis coriaceis elliptico-
oblongis obovatisve obtusis acutisve in petiolum angustatis integerrimis
supra glabris nervis creberrime reticulatis, supremis minoribus sub-
sessilibus obovatis, petiolo }-$ poll. longo, paniculis terminalibus laxi-
floris ramis gracilibus bracteis paucis linearibus instructis, capitulis
suberectis gracile pedicellatis 1-poll. diam. aureis, involucri campanulati
bracteis lineari-oblongis subacutis membranaceis, extimis paucis linearibus
patulis, fi. radii 12-15 ligulis ellipticis apice 3-dentatis, acheniis cylin-
air h sulcatis glabris apice dilatatis, pappi setis inzequalibus scaberulis
albis.

8. laxifolius, Buchanan in Trans. N. Zeald. Instit. vol. ii. (1870) p. 89.
S. latifolius, Mast. in Gard. Chron. (1894) ii. fig. 48, non Banks & Sol.

M. Buchanan, the describer of this species, compares it
with S. Monro, distinguishing it by its habit, its larger
flat acute leaves, which are never wrinkled on the margin,
long-peduncled corymbs, larger flowers, and absence of
glandular pubescence on the involucre and pedicels. It is
much nearer S. Greyii, Hook. f. (Handb. of N. Zeal. FI.
p- 161), differing in the laxer habit, smaller leaves, eglan-
dular involucres and especially in the almost glabrous
achenes; it may be said to represent in the Southern
Island S. Greyii, which is confined to the Northern. 3

S. laxifolius was discovered by Mr. Travers in the
mountains of the Nelson province, where it has since been
gathered by several collectors; it extends from thence to
the Canterbury Alps, where it was found by Mrs. Hetley.
The figure is taken from a specimen kindly communicated
by W. Gumbleton, Esq., of Belgrove, Queenstown, Co. Cork,
in June of the present year under the name of S. Greyii.

OctoBer Ist, 1894,

Descr. A small much branched shrub; branches leaves
beneath petioles, corymbs and involucre clothed with dense
pale buff or white appressed tomentum. Leaves one and
a half to two and a half inches long, elliptic-oblong or
linear-oblong, rarely ovate or obovate, obtuse or acute,
quite entire or very obscurely crenate, base acute, corla- —
ceous, glabrous above with finely reticulate nervules;
petiole one-half to three-quarters of an inch long, slender.
Heads about one inch in diameter, in very loose terminal
subcorymbiform panicles, with rather slender erect long
pedicels, and small scattered often obovate petioled or
sessile leaves, the uppermost of which are linear. Involucre
eglandular, shortly campanulate, base broad; outer bracts
few linear spreading, inner erect, linear-oblong, acuminate ; _
receptacle nearly flat. Ray-flowers twelve to fifteen;
ligules one-third of an inch long, spreading, elliptic-
oblong, tip minutely 3-toothed, 2-nerved, golden-yellow;
tube quite glabrous; style-arms very short, obtuse; ovary
short glabrous. Disk flowers more numerous than those —
of the ray, tubular, slightly dilated above the middle, teeth —
short. Stamens shortly exserted ; anther-cells shortly free _
at the base and acute, connective obtuse; style-arms ex- '
serted, short, truncate; ovary short, glabrous. Pappus-
hairs unequal, scaberulous, white. Achene narrow, with
a dilated white apex, sparingly ribbed, quite glabrous or
with a few very short obscure hairs.—J. D. H.

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IRIS aTROPURPUREA, var. ATROFUSCA.

Native of Palestine.

Nat. Ord. Inrpra.—Tribe Morara.
Genus Inis, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 686.)

_ Iris (Oncocyclus) atropurpurea, var. atrofusca; rhizomate crasso cylindrico,
foliis ensiformibus flaccidis pallide viridibus, caule pedali unifloro, spathe
valvis magnis lanceolatis ventricosis pallide viridibus, pedicello bre-
vissimo, perianthii tubo elongato cylindrico, limbo atrofusco, segmentis
exterioribus obovato-cuneatis reflexis ungue velutino-piloso, segmentis
interioribus majoribus erectis obovatis unguiculatis, styli ramis dorso
rig appendicibus magnis quadratis reflexis, antheris magnis lineari-

us albis.

I. atrofusca, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. i. p. 384.

A full account of the Irises of the subgenus Oncocyclus,
by Professor Michael Foster, with directions for their
cultivation, appeared lately in the Garden (1893, vol. i.
p- 180). They all inhabit Palestine, Syria, and Asia
Minor, and require less humidity and more sunshine than
we can give them in England, and in their native homes
die down to the rootstock and remain at rest for a large
part of the year. As above cited, I described the present
plant in 1893 as a species, from specimens procured from
the east of the Jordan by Messrs. Herb and Wulle of
Naples. Now after studying fuller material I look upon
it as a variety of atropurpurea, Baker, which was first
imported in 1889 from Palestine by Messrs. Dammann
and Co. Our plate was drawn from specimens flowered
in Gloucestershire in April, 1894, by H. J. Elwes, Esq.

Descr. Rootstock thick, fleshy, cylindrical. Leaves about
six to a stem, ensiform, weak, pale green, the outer some-
times a foot long at the flowering season. Peduncle one-
flowered, a foot long, nearly hidden by the sheathing inner
leaves. Spathe-valves lanceolate, pale green, ventricose,
three or four inches long; pedicel very short. Perianth-

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tube cylindrical, green, two or two and a half inches long ;
limb dark brown; outer segments obovate-cuneate, re-
flexed, three inches long by half as broad, with a velvety
cushion of hairs spread all over the claw; inner segments
erect, obovate, unguiculate, longer and broader than the
inner. Style-branches paler brown, very convex; appen-
dages large, quadrate, reflexed. Anthers large, linear
white. Capsule and seeds not seen.—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, Face of anther; 2, back of anther ; 3, apex of style, with its appen-
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TRICHOCENTRUM TIGRINUM.

Native of Central America.

Nat. Ord. OrncuipEx.—Tribe VaNnpEa.
Genus TricnocentruM, Poepp.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 559.)

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-‘TrIcHocEenTRUM, tigrinum ; foliis sessilibus oblongis obtusis luride viridibus
rubro maculatis, pedunculis flexuosis 1-2-floris, bracteis ovatis acutis
roseis, sepalis lateralibus linearibus obtusis dorsalique oblongo subacutis
aureis rubro punctatis, petalis sepalis lateralibus consimilibus et con-
coloribus, labello sepalis multo majore cuneato-obovato retuso lateribus
recurvis albo basin versus roseo striato, disco basi 3-calloso, callis brevibus
aureis compressis acutis et pone callos dentibus 2 erectis instructo,
columna alba apice 2-auriculata, auriculis palmatim fimbriatis, anthera
pubescente.

T. tigrinum, Lind. & Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. (1869) p. 892. EH. André in
lllustr. Hortic. vol. xxiv. (1877) p. 93, t. 282. Warner Orchid. Album, t.
484, Lindenia, vol. i. p. 53, t. 24. William’s Orchid Growers’ Man. Ed. 6,
p. 589.

According to a statement in Warner’s Orchid Album,
T. tigrinum is a native of Central America, where it was
discovered by Mr. Richard Pfau, when collecting for M.
Linden, who received it in 1869. It is well figured in the
works cited; in one of which (Lindenia) a slight variety
with more spots on the sepals and petals is called var.
splendens. The genus contains about twenty-four described
species, all natives of tropical America, of which two have
been figured in this work, namely 7’. fuscum, Lindl. t.
3969 ; and 7’. albo-purpwreum, Reichb. f., t. 5688.

The plant figured was obtained from Messrs. F. Sander
and Co. of St. Albans, in 1898, and flowered in a warm
house of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in May of the fol-
lowing year.

Deser. Stemless. Leaves sessile, two and a half to
three and a half inches long, oblong, obtuse, very coria-
ceous, obscurely keeled, dull green speckled with red, the
younger pale green flushed with red beneath. Peduneles

Octoper Ist, 1894.

two to three inches long, flexuous, dull green, one-flowered
or with the rudiment of a second flower; bracts one-third
to one-half of an inch long, ovate, acute, concave, mem-
branous, dullred. lowers pendulous, or with the pedicel
upcurved and then ascending ; pedicel with ovary one to
one and a half inches long. Perianth nearly three inches
across the petals. Lateral sepals broadly linear, and
broader dorsal obtuse, golden yellow speckled with red.
Petals like the lateral sepals, and of the same colour.
Lip much larger than the sepals, cuneately obovate, emar-
ginate, sides recurved, white streaked with rose towards
the base; disk near the base with three elongate laterally
compressed triangular acute golden calli, behind which
are two erect subulate teeth. Colwmn stout, white, tip
with a projecting fimbriate auricle on each side. Anther
pubescent; pollinia pyriform sessile on the tip of a linear
truncate strap which is seated on a depressed orbicular
gland.—J. D. H.

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IMPATIENS AURIOOMA.

Native of the Comoro Islands.

Nat. Ord. GeRaANIACER—Tribe BALSAMINER.
Genus Impatiens, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol.i. p.277.)

_ ‘Iwpattens, awricoma ; glaberrima, caule erecto, foliis alternis longe petiolatis

lanceolatis acuminatis crenatis sinubus aristulatis supra laete viridibus
subtus pallidis, petiolo roseo basi 2-tuberculoso, pedunculis axillaribus
erectis petiolis longioribus unifloris, floribus aureis, sepalis 3 dorso
carinatis, lateralibus orbiculatis apice mucronatis, dorsali erecto galeato
marginibus recurvis dorso infra apicem mucronato, petalis 5, lateralibus
per paria in laminas 2-lobas connatis, lobo superiore transverse oblongo
marginibus recurvis, inferiore minore rotundato, petalo dorsali late cym-
biformi mucronato dorso obtuse 2-carinato et 2-calcarato, calearibus parvis
divaricatis uncinatis obtusis. :

I. auricoma, Poisson, Le Jardin, 1893, p. 58; 1894, p. 9, f. 3. Baillon in
Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, p. 598. 8. Mottet in Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. i.
p- 556.

A handsome perennial Balsam, introduced accidentally
with tree-fern trunks from the Comoro Islands by M.
Humblot, traveller to M. Landry, the well-known cultivator
of Palms in Paris. It is described as growing to two feet
in height in M. Landry’s nurseries, branching from the
base, and flowering profusely in the open air in summer, and
throughout the winter if taken up, potted, and kept in a
temperate house. Plants of it in the Royal Gardens, Kew,
from one of which the figure was made, were obtained
from the nurseries of M. Godefroy-Lebeuf, of Argenteuil,
which, when about six inches high, flowered in April of
the present year, and continued flowering for more than
a month; they were all unbranched.

Descr. A somewhat succulent erect quite glabrous
perennial herb, six inches to two feet high, simple or
branched from the base. Stem and _ branches terete,
reddish, nearly as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves six inches
long, alternate, spreading and decurved, lanceolate, acu-
minate, crenate with short red bristles between the crena-

OctoseR Ist, 1894.

tures, bright green above with a pale red midrib, pale
green beneath ; nerves six to ten pairs, strong beneath ;
petiole one and a half to two inches long, stout, red, with
two small tubercles (stipular) at the base and a few red
bristles towards the top on each side of the median furrow.
Peduneles solitary or binate in the leaf-axils, erect, longer
than the petioles, pale reddish. Flowers one inch long ;
perianth concave, golden yellow, streaked with red within.
Sepals three, two lateral orbicular, apiculate, concave,
greenish yellow, dorsally keeled; dorsal erect, galeate,
with recurved margins and a minute dorsal spur below
the tip. Petals five; lateral connate in pairs, upper
lobes of each pair transversely oblong with recurved
margins, lower much smaller, rounded; dorsal petal
hemispheric, tip beaked, obtusely two keeled on the back,
the keels ending in two divergent recurved very short
spurs.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Spurred petal; 2, stamens; 3, ovary :—AJ/ enlarged.

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STERCULIA auvstro-cALEDONICA.
Native of New Caledonia.

Nat. Ord. StercuLracrz.—Tribe STERCULIEA.
Genus Srercuri, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 217.)

Srercutma (Chrysodactylon) austro-caledonica; trunco subsimplici apice
foliifero, foliis glaberrimis longe-petiolatis junioribus ovato-cordatis
senioribus orbiculatis ad medium palmatim 5-lobis lobis oblongis obtusis
integerrimis sinubus rotundatis, petiolo apice incrassato, panicula trunco
longe infra folia enata sessili thyrsiformi puberula, floribus parvis aroma-
ticis, calycis tubo brevi turbinato lobis patentibus ovatis apicibus incurvis
lobulatis, lobulis aureis, antheris 10 simplici serie annulatim confertis
sessilibus, carpellis maturis 5 oblongis crasse stipitatis polyspermis,
seminibus clavatis radicula hilo proxime.

The very remarkable plant here figured will, I doubt
not, be regarded as the type of a genus, when the hetero-
geneous collection of materials now included under Ster-
_culia shall have been critically studied. As with other
genera of unisexual trees with large leaves and fruits,
many of its species are very imperfectly known, and recent
collectors in tropical regions have added many to the
- number of these since the period when Schott, Endlicher
and Brown published the results of their studies of the
species known to them half acentury ago. Schott in 1832
-(Meletemata, p. 32) classified the number known to him
under thirteen genera. Endlicher about 1838 (Gen. Plant.
vol. i. p. 994) referred all but one of them back to
_Sterculia, which he divided into ten sections. In 1844
Brown admitted ten genera, and lastly, Bentham in the
“Genera Plantarum” (vol. i. p. 217, 1862) proposed
eight sections of the genus, more or less in accordance
with those of Endlicher and the genera of Schott and
‘Brown.
In as far as I know the genus, S. austro-caledonica

Novemser Ist, 1894.

differs from all described ones in habit and the lobulate
calyx-lobes, and from most in the uniseriate anthers forming
a ring on the summit of the andrewcium. Of these
characters by far the most important is that of habit; for,
instead of forming a branching tree, this species has an
erect, simple, or nearly simple trunk, with a terminal crown
of leaves, as in many species of Aralia, and the inflorescence
proceeds directly from the trunk far below the insertion of
the leaves. Whether or no these characters are of generic
value cannot be determined satisfactorily, till the whole
genus is fully investigated, but I in the meantime propose
for it, as a sectional name, Chrysodactylon, in allusion to
the golden colour of the finger-like tips of the calyx-lobes,
which with the golden anthers contrast remarkably with the
red of the perianth. This name, not being preoccupied, »
is at the service of any botanist who may work up the
us and place the plant in its proper relation to its
allies.

S. austro-caledonica has been cultivated for many years
in the Palm House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, under the
above name, and was probably received from the Jardin ©
des Plantes. There are specimens of it in Kew Herbarium
received from M. Lenormand, collected by Vieillard (No. |
2347, 2394) with the following note, ‘‘ Arbre presque
simple, bois de Montagnes 4 Kauala.” It flowered at Kew
for the first time in the Water Lily House in April of

eon and the flowers had a penetrating aromatic
smell.

Descr.—Trunk 10 ft. high and upwards, slender, simple, — .

bearing at the
spreading leaves ;

glabrous, of two forms, with intermediates, the earlier

summit a crown of large, long-petioled — "
bark pale brown, smooth. Leaves quite

4-6 inches long, oblong-cordate, quite entire; the later s
nearly 2 feet in diameter, suborbicular in outline, deeply

palmately 5-lobed, with 5-7
the petiole, dark green abov
_ obtuse, sinus rounded
petiole 1-2 ft. long,

obconic. Inflorescence a bright red, sessile, horizontal,

pyramidal, pubescent thyrsus, springing f he side of
: » Springing from the side 0

pe trunk, half way between the root and leaves; rachis, —
ranches, and branchlets rather stout, ebracteate, uniformly ©

red. Flowers 4 inch in diameter ; tube of calyx turbinate ; —

-strong nerves radiating from
e, paler beneath ; lobesoblong, __
; base rounded, truncate or cordate;
stout, terete, top much thickened, ~

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lobes 5, ovate, spreading, with incurved 5-lobulate tips, very
dark red on opening, paler afterwards, the lobules golden-
yellow. Anthers 10 ina ring on the top of the column.
Fruit of 3-5 oblong, stipitate, coriaceous follicles, 14 in.
long, or less, many-seeded.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, androscium; 3 and 4, anthers: al/ enlarged; 5, reduced
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STAPHYLEA ocotoutca.

Native of the Southern Caucasus.

Nat. Ord. Sapinpace#.—Sub Ord. StapuHyiem.
Genus STAPHYLEA, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 412.)

Stapuy.ea colchica ; frutex ramulis gracilibus teretibus, foliis longe petiolatis
3-5-foliolatis, foliolis approximatis ovato-oblongis acuminatis serrulatis
ima basi subtus puberulis, lateralibus sessilibus, terminali petiolulato,
stipulis anguste linearibus fere filiformibus membranaceis, stipellis subu-
latis, racemis terminalibus suberectis oblongis basi subcompositis, sepalis
linearibus obtusis revolutis pallide virescentibus, petalis paullo latioribus
subspathulatis erectis albis apicibus recurvis, filamentis glabris, capsule
lobis apice divergentibus seminibus diam. grani piperis.

S. colchica, Steven in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. vol. ii. (1848), p. 276 Walp. Ann.
vol. ii. p. 262. Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. i. p. 954. Gard. Chron. (1887),
vol. ii. p. 713, f. 137 ; (1891), vol. ii. p. 161, f. 22. Gartenfl. (1888) p. 501,
cum Ic, Grilli in Bull. Soc. Tose, Ort. vol. v. (1890), p. 235, £. 10.

The genus Staphylea, consisting of only five species, has
a very wide range geographically, extending round the
globe; though represented in each successive area by a
different species. The type of the genus is the well-
known Bladder-nut, 8. pinnata, Linn., of our shrubberies,
a native of Western Europe, extending thence to Asia
Minor and Syria. In the South Caucasian region it is
succeeded by the species here figured, to which it is very
closely allied. Thence in proceeding Eastward there is
a break, no representative having been as yet found in
Persia. In Affghanistan the Himalayan S. Hmodi appears,
as a small tree, which extends to Kashmir, and thence to
the borders of Nepal; but no further Eastwards in Asia,
_ where it is succeeded by the closely allied arboreous

genus T'urpinia, which reaches the coast of China. In
China, as Mr. Hemsby informs me, there are three species,
the S. Bumalda, Sieb. of Japan, another closely resembling
_ &. Emodi, and a third which is undescribed. In Japan the
S. Bumalda, Sieb. and Zucc. takes up the roll; to be
continued in Western North America by S. Bolanderi,
November Ist, 1894.

A. Gray, of California, and in Eastern by the Ameri-
can Bladder-nut, S. trifolia, Linn. There are two
notable features in this distribution, one that the
limits of no two species overlap, and the other, and
the far more remarkable, that the S. Hmodi, which is
confined to a comparatively very narrow range in the
Himalaya and Affghanistan, is so closely allied to the
Eastern American S. trifolia, that Mr. Hiern, in the “ Flora
of British India,” says of the former, ‘‘ probably a form
of trifolia, differing only in the less pubescent foliage, and
anther-tips less obtuse.’’ It is, in fact, another instance of
the well-known affinity of the N.E. American Flora with
the Asiatic,

S. colchica is closely allied to 8. pinnata, which has long-
peduncled, drooping racemes, broader sepals, which are
not revolute, and connivent styles of the fruit; the seeds
also are much larger, being the size of a pea, whilst those
of S. colchica are described as no bigger than a pepper-
corn. Both species have long been in cultivation at Kew,
where they flower in May. The specimen of VS. colchica here
figured was sent to Kew for naming from the garden of W.
Brockbank, Esq., of Brockhurst, Didsbury. It has of late
years been largely grown for forcing, pot-plants of it being
very ornamental. 7 :

Deser.—A shrub, six to ten feet high ; branches opposite,
slender, green, terete. Leaves opposite, 3—5-foliolate ;
leaflets 23-83 in. long, ovate-oblong, acuminate, serrulate,
bright green, glabrous, except a faint pubescence beneath
towards the base, lateral sessile, terminal petiolulate ;
petiole 2-3 in. long, slender ; stipules nearly an inch long,
filiform, deciduous ; stipels subulate. tacemes oblong,
more or less compound ; bracts filiform. Sepals very pale
green, revolute, linear, obtuse. Petals as long, erect,
narrowly spathulate, white, tips recurved. Filaments

anti 2 = apiculate. Capsule with spreading styles.

Fig. 1, Portion of leaf; 2, petal; 3, stamens and ovary; 4, ovary and disk ;
» transverse section of ovary :—Al/ enlarged. ;

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SESBANIA EXASPERATA,

Native of tropical America.

Nat. Ord. Lecuminos%.—Tribe GaLEGER.
Genus Sespanta, Pers. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 502.)

SzsBanra (Eusesbania) exasperata; fruticosa, ramis ramulisque acuta angulatis
glabris v. aculeolis minimis exasperatis, foliorum rache 6-—8-pollicari,
foliolis 30-50-jugis oblongis lineari-oblongisve obtusis mucrouatis ciliolatis
glaberrimisve, racemis longe pedunculatis 3-5-floribus, pedicellis }-3 poll.
longis, bracteis subulatis caducis, floribus amplis aureis, calycis tubo corolla
multoties breviore turbinato dentibus triangulari-ovatis, vexillo orbi-
culari apice bilobo dorso creberrime punctato ungue intus 2-callosa, alis
oblongis vexillo paullo brevioribus, carine petalis dolabriformibus alis
zequilongis sed multo latioribus, legumine 8-10-pollicari anguste lineari
recto bi-convexo longe rostrato polyspermo, seminibus ? poll. longis
oblongis, testa brunnea.

S. exasperata, Humb. Bonpl. & Kunth Nov. Gen. & Sp. Amer. vol. vi. p. 534.
Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. xv. pars. i. p. 42. iseb. Hl. Brit. W. Ind.
p. 184.

S. macrocarpa, Mig. Meissn. et auct. plur. quoad, stirp. Austro-Americanam
(non Muhib.).

Lotus palustris, Vell. Fl. Flum. vol. vii. p. 137, text 315.

A very widely distributed tropical American plant, from
Jamaica and other West Indian Islands, to South Brazil and
_ Paraguay, and from the coast to the Upper Amazon
river. Considering how very handsome its flowers are, it
is singular that it should not have been earlier introduced
into cultivation. Its habit is, no doubt, forbidding, for,
like the other shrubby Sesbaniex, it is of an unattractive
habit, and is poor in foliage. It is described in all works
as having an unspotted standard; this may be from the
spots disappearing in dried specimens, or in poor varieties ;
but, as grown at Kew, the spots are a very attractive
character. The leaves are said to be sensitive.

The plant figured was raised from seeds sent to the Royal
Gardens by Sejior A. Sampaio, of San Paulo, in South
Brazil, which flowered in a greenhouse in April of this
year.

Descr.—A glabrous shrub, eight to ten feet high (or

NovemBer lst, 1894.

more?) with slender, acutely angled, sparingly leafy, un-
armed or sparingly muricate branches and_ branchlets.
Leaves six to ten inches long, scattered ; petiole and rachis
slender; leaflets 30 to 50 pairs, opposite and alternate; —
one half to one and a half inches long, from oblong to
linear, tips rounded and apiculate, bright green above, pale
beneath. Racemes shorter than the leaves, few-fld. ; bracts
small, caducous; pedicels one half to three-fourths of an inch
long; bracteoles minute, caducous. Flowers an inch broad ;
standard and wings golden-yellow, speckled with red on |
the back of the standard, and with a red streak on the
wings; keel sulphur-yellow. Calyx green; tube small,
turbinate, teeth triangular. Standard recurved, orbicular,
deeply notched, bi-convex, with two connate oblong calli
at the very base. Wings spathulate-oblong, obtuse, much
narrower than the keel, but as long. Keel-petals hatchet-
shaped, with a slender claw. Filaments and ovary quite
glabrous. Pod ten inches long, by one-fourth of an inch
broad, linear, stipitate, strict, ending in a straight acute,
dagger-like beak, margins thickened, valves convex, slightly
constricted at the narrow septum between the verynumerous
seeds. Seeds oblong, rounded at both ends.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Bud; 2, Calyx and ovary; 3, base of standard; 4, wing-petal;
5, keel-petal; 6, stamens 37, pod; 8, portion of ditto with one valve removed;
9, seed :—All but figs. 7 and 8 enlarged.

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ORNITHOCHILUS ruscvs.
Native of the Hast Indies and China.

Nat. Ord. OncnipEm—Tribe VanvDEz.
Genus Ornitnocuitus, Wallich. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 581.)

Ornirnocniwws fuseus ; herba epiphytica acaulis, radicibus crassis, foliis paucis
elliptico-oblongis acutis planiusculis coriaceis, pedunculo valido, racemo
simplici v. parce ramoso elongato pendulo multifloro, bracteis parvis
acutis, floribus parvis longe pedicellatis, sepalis oblique oblongis obtusis
aureis rubro-striatis demum reflexis, petalis paullo minoribus concoloribus,
labello sepalis majore breviter unguiculato, hypochilo latiusculo patente
lobis lateralibus angustis rotundatis, disco carinato et lamina fimbriata
transversa orem calcaris claudente instructo, epichilo inflexo erecto rubro
marginibus inferne incurvis superne in laminam reniformem recurvam
fimbriatam dilatato, caleare ovario remoto sepalis squilongo incurvo
obtuso, columna brevi, rostello demum forcipato.

O. fuscus, Wall. in Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. p. 242. Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind.
vol. vi. p. 76.

O. Eublepharum, Hance in Journ. Bot. vol. xxii. (1884), p. 364.

Brides difforme, Wall. ex Lindl. l. c. Lindl. Sert. Orchid. frontisp. fig. 7, et
in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. iii. p. 41. Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 889. Reachb. f.
in Gard. Chron, (1865), p. 698.

A. Hystrix, Lindl. in Journ. Lian. Soe. 1. ¢. p. 42 (non Gen. & Sp. Orchid.)

A sineular Orchid, the flowers of which, owing especially
to the complicated nature of the lip, are (as with many
other Orchids), most difficult to describe in intelligible,
and, at the same time, accurate language. It was first
made known by Wallich about sixty years ago as a native
of Nepal, and it has since been found in the Eastern
Himalaya and Khasia hills, at elevations of 4-5000 ft., in
- Burma, and more recently in China. According to a series
of drawings made in India, and preserved at Kew, there is
much variation in the colour of the flower, from dull green
to orange-yellow, in the breadth of the sepals, and in the
lip, the fimbriated midlobe (epichil) of which is more or less
ith the side lobes fimbriate, and the midlobe

3-lobulate, wi e, and 1
either entire or fimbriate. The description in “ Genera

Plantarum” and in the clavis of genera of Orchids in the
« Flora of British India” (vol. v. p. 672), both taken from

NovemBeEr Ist, 1894.

dried specimens, are very faulty, for there is no true
mentum ; what was taken for a mentum is the inflexed
narrow claw of the lip; nor is the lip usually saccate at the
base, though so represented in some of the drawings, but
at the distal end of the hypochil, under the insertion of
the epichil.

O. fuscus flowered in the Royal Gardens in May last. The
specimen was received in 1892 from C. Ford, Esq., F.L.S.,
Superintendent of the Hong Kong Botanical Gardens.

Descr.—Stem 0 ; roots very stout, vermiform. Leaves few, -
4—6 inches long, sessile, spreading, elliptic-oblong, acute,
subrecurved, flat, coriaceous, bright pale green. Racemes
simple or branched at the base, about a foot long, arising close
to the bases of the leaves, pendulous, very many-flowered ;
peduncle as thick as a duck’s quill, curved, terete, with a
few very short broad brown sheaths; floral bracts very
small, subulate, dark brown ; pedicels spreading, with the
slender ovary 3-1 in. long; perianth about 3 of an inch
long from the tip of the reflexed sepals to that of the lip.
Sepals } in. long, Spreading or reflexed, oblong-ovate,
obtuse, golden-yellow streaked with red. Petals like the
sepals, but smaller. Lip nearly as large as the rest of the
flower, consisting of three parts, a concave, expanded,
horizontal hypochil, suddenly contracted at the base into a
narrow geniculate claw, an erect epichil, and a rather long
spine beneath the latter; the hypochil has rounded sidelobes,
a flat ridge crenate at the dilated base on the disk ; and at
the base of the epichil a flat, fimbriate flap overhangs
the mouth of the horn-like obtuse spur ; epichil at right
angles to the hypochil, its margins infolded, so as to be
tubular, then expanding into a broad, recurved, dark red,
simple or 3-lobed fimbriate limb, the tube dorsally bears
an acute spur. Column very short, with a broad fimbriate
semi-lunar disk below the clinandrium ; top contracted; |
anther oblong, obtusely beaked in front ; pollinia pyriform,
Separately sessile on a flat strap, the truncate top of which
18 seated on a quadrate gland.—J. D. H. |

Fig. 1, Lip and column; 2. lip: 3 ; : 6, pollinia :—
All greatly enlarged. > > 1p 3 > column : 4, anther 3 5 and > Pp ‘

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ALOE Kirxrm.

Native of Zanzibar.

Nat. Ord. Linracr™.—Tribe ALOINEZ.

Genus Atoz, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 776.)

Ator, Kirkii; caudice brevi valido, foliis 30-40 dense rosulatis lanceolatis
subpedalibus patulis viridibus brevibus immaculatis, aculeis marginalibus
magnis patulis deltoideis, pedunculo stricto erecto trifurcato, racemis
densis oblongo-cylindricis, pedicellis brevibus, superioribus ascendentibus,
inferioribus cernuis, bracteis ovatis parvis, perianthio cylindrico rubro-
eae oe viridulo, lobis lingulatis tubo brevioribus, staminibus brevissime
exsertis.-

This is another new Aloe, sent from Zanzibar by Sir
John Kirk to the Royal Gardens, Kew. It was received
from him in 1881, and flowered for the first time in the
Succulent House in January, 1894. It belongs to the group
of true Aloes with a very short caudex, and dense rosette
of unspotted leaves, of which A. brevifolia, Serra, glauca,
and heteracantha are the best known garden representatives.
Its nearest ally is A. Hildebrandtii, Baker in Bot. Mag.
Tab. 6981, which also is a native of South-Hast tropical
Africa.

Descr.—Caudex short, stout, erect. Leaves thirty to
forty in a dense rosette, spreading, lanceolate, nearly a foot
long, two inches broad above the dilated base, tapering
gradually to the point, a quarter of an inch thick in the
middle, bright green, without any spots or dots, very
smooth on both surfaces; marginal teeth large, deltoid,
spreading, scarcely tipped with brown in the cultivated

plant. Inflorescence two feet long, with three branches ;
peduncle stiffly erect, branched at the middle; racemes
dense, oblong-cylindrical, the end one nearly a foot long ;
pedicels short, the upper ascending, the lower cernuous ;

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bracts very small, ovate. Perianth cylindrical, above an
inch long, reddish-yellow, tipped with brown; lobes
lingulate, rather shorter than the tube. Stamens finally
very shortly exserted—J. G. Baker.

Fig. 1, A flower ; 2, an anther, front view; 3, an anther, back view; 4, ovary
and style, all enlarged ; 5, whole plant much reduced.

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7387,

M.S.del, JN Fitchhth Vincent Brooks Day & San imp.

LReeve & C2 Landon.

Tas. 7387.
EULOPHTELLA ELIZABETH.

Native of Madagascar.

Nat. Ord. OrncuipE#.—Tribe VaNnDEz.

Genus Evtopnienwa ; (Rolfe in Lindenia, vol. iii. p. 29.)

Evrornrenia Elizabethz ; pseudobulbis e rhizomate repente crassis cylindraceis
viridibus annulatim cicatricosis, vestigiis folioram scopiformibus brunneis
instructis, foliis bipedalibus elongato-lanceolatis acuminatis plicatis
deciduis, scapo crasso decurvo basi vaginis brevibus obtusis striatis
operto dein elongato nudo rufo-brunneo, racemo pendulo multifloro,
floribus suberectis albis extus roseo irroratis, bracteis ovatis subacutis
rufo-brunneis, pedicellis una cum ovariis 1-1} pollicaribus roseis decurvis
dein ascendentibus, sepalis rotundatis dorso roseo irroratis, petalis obovato-
rotundatis, labello sessili parvo 3-lobo albo disco aureo, lobis oblongis
margine interiore crenatis, disco inter lobos callo hippocrepiforme
carinisque 2 antice dentatis instructo, lobo terminali rotundato crenu-
lato retuso v. emarginatco, disco setoso, columna mediocri apice contracta
basi in pedem producta, anthera parva tumida postice deorsum producta,
polliniis globosis in glandula transversa sessillibus.

E. Elisabethe, Linden & Rolfe, l.c. vol. vii. p. 77, t. 325, and in Orchid
Review, vol. i. (1893), p. 207. Linden Illustr. Hortic. vol. xl. (1893), p. 39,
t. 173, £.2, & Journ. Orchid. (1892), p. 95, fig. 11. Le Jardin (1893),
p. 111, fig. 43. Journ. Hortic. Ser. 3, vol. xxv. p. 209. Neub, Gard.
Mag. (1894), p. 2, t. 1.

Eulophiella is a remarkable genus, manifestly belonging
to the Sub-Tribe Cyrtopodiex, and to be placed near Cyrto-
podium, from which it differs in habit, and in the absence
of a mentum, the perianth being hemispherical and equally
rounded at the base. Its native country was for some time

doubtful, and supposed to be the Congo region. Latterly
it has been sent to Messrs. Sander & Co. of St. Albans,
from Madagascar, by M. L. Hamelin, a French gentleman
resident in that island, who is believed to be the discoverer
of the plant. It was first flowered by Linden. The
specific name Elizabethx is given in compliment to H.M.
the Queen of Roumelia (“‘ Carmen Sylva.”)

The Royal Gardens are indebted to Messrs. Sander for
a plant received in 1898, which had not, however, flowered

DecemBeER Ist, 1894.

when, in April, 1894, the raceme here represented was
kindly sent by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bt. Mr. Watson
informs me that it requires a very hot and damp stove.
Deser.—Rhizome creeping and rooting, sending up tufts
of leaves, and compressed green, annulate pseudobulbs
four to six inches high, and one inch broad ; the transverse
scars at the nodes of which are brown, and bear a thin
bunch of brown, flexuous fibres, an inch long. Leaves
nearly two feet long, by one and a half broad, narrowly
lanceolate, gradually finely acuminate, plicate, with five or
more stout ribs beneath. Scape from the base of the
leafing pseudobulbs very stout, as thick at the base as a
goose-quill, and there decurved, furnished with short, ovate,
obtuse, brown, striated scale-like sheaths, pale red-brown,
as are the rachis of the raceme, bracts, pedicels, and ovaries.
Racemes many-fid.; bracts two-thirds of an inch long,
Spreading, ovate, acute; peduncle stout, with the ovary
curved, and ascending from the drooping rachis. Flowers
suberect, one and a half inch in diameter, hemispheric.
Sepals orbicular, white within, suffused with rose across
the middle dorsally. Petals smaller than the sepals,
broadly obovate, white. Lip much smaller than the sepals,
white, with a golden disk, 3-lobed; lateral lobes oblong,
obtuse, crenulate in front; midlobe orbicular, emarginate
or retuse, crenulate; disk with a horse-shoe callus towards
the base, and 2 ridges between the lateral lobes, setose on
the mid-lobe. Column concave in front, tip contracted.
Anther small, gibbous, produced posteriorly into a short,
deflexed, obtuse beak ; pollinia 2, subglobose, sessile on a
broad transverse gland.—J.D.H.

Fig. 1, Lip and column; 2, lip with one lateral lobe removed; 3, column; —
4, anther; &, pollinia';—All enlarged, :

7388.

M.S.del, IN Bech lith,

__L. Reeve & C2 London.

Tas. 7388.
DAPHNE CAUCASIOA.

Native of the Caucasus.

Nat. Ord. Taymerzacex.—EvtHyMELEER.
Genus Dapung, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 190.)

_ Daruyes (Endaphne) caucasica; frutex humilis, erectus, ramulis glabris, foliis
deciduis sparsis sessilibus lanceolatis oblanceolatisve obtusis apiculatis
glaucis glabris basi angustatis pallide viridibns, favciculis forum termina-
libus ebracteatis, floribus albis brevissime pedicellatis, calycis subsericeo-
canescentis tubo lobis duplo longiore cylindraceo, lobis ovatis obtusis
marginibus demum recurvis, ovario obovoideo parce piloso.
D. caucasica, Pall. F7. Ross. vol. i p. 53. Georgi Beschreib. d. Russ. Reich.
vol. ili. p. 937. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. vol. iii. p- 549; Fl. Alt. vol. ii. p. 71.
Meissn. in DO. Prodr, vol. xiv. pt. i. p. 531.

_D. altaica, Pall. 1. c. t. 35. Ledeb. l. c. 548. Bot. Mag. t. 1875 (var.)
D. caucasica, var. 8 cognata, 0. Koch in Linnea, vol. xxii. (1827), p. 614.
D. Cneorum, Guldenst. It. vol. i. p. 191 (ex Ledeb, 1. c. non Linn.).

D. salicifolia, Lam. Encycl. vol. iii. p. 438. M. Bieb. Fi. Taur. Caue. vol. i.
p. 299. Hichw. Fl. Taur. Cauc. p. 22, 26. Kalenicz. in Bull. Soc.
Natural Mosc. (1849), p. 809.

D. euphorbioides, Pusch. ex Steud. Nom. Ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 483.
_ D. oleoides, Tchern. in Herb. DC. ex Meissn. l.c. 532 (non Linn.).

__-‘The species of Daphne are notoriously difficult of dis-
crimination by available characters of habit, flowers or
foliage, of which fact the S. European and Oriental
D. oleoides, Schreb., which has fifteen recorded names, is a
conspicuous instance. In the case of the plant here
figured, I am in doubt whether to call it D. caucasica, or
D. altaica, Pall. According to Meissner’s characters of
these species they differ only in the former having leaves
lanceolate, 2-5 flowers in a head and a glabrous ovary, and
the latter leaves lanceolate or oblong, 2-20 flowers in a
head, and an ovary puberulous at the top. Thus the
character of the leaves and number of flowers are of no
avail, and in the plant here figured the ovary agrees with
neither, having merely a few hairs on its surface.
Referring to Herbarium specimens, I find no appreciable
_ difference between the Caucasian and Altaic ones, and it is

DEcEMBER IsT, 1894.

hence no violent assumption to make, that as D. oleoides
extends from Spain to the Himalaya, so may caucasica
extend from the Caucasus to the Altai. If this be so, the
choice of names becomes a question, for both were published
in the same book by Pallas. Of the two D. altaica is the
better known, the broad-leaved form of it having been
figured in this magazine (t. 1875), from a plant that
flowered in the Cambridge Botanical Garden in 1817.
The latter are described as not being fragrant, whereas
those of D. caucasica are decidedly so. On the other hand,
Pallas’s plate of D. altaica is quite erroneous, and contrary
to his description, in figuring the clusters of flowers as
supported by a long peduncle.

Plants of D. caucasica were procured by the Royal
Gardens in 1893, under the name of salicifolia, from Mr.
T. Smith of Newry, whose nursery is famous for the
number of rare shrubs it contains, many of them, though
hardy in Ireland, unfortunately not so at Kew. In the
case of D. caucasica, however, it stood the winter of
1893-4, and flowered in May of the latter year, but has not
fruited.

Deser—A dwarf shrub, quite glabrous, except the
perianth. Leaves one to one and a half inches long,
deciduous, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, subacute or
obtuse and apiculate, pale green above, subglaucous
beneath. Flowers subsessile, in terminal clusters of two to
twenty, white, fragrant, ebracteate. Perianth tube half an
inch long, cylindric, silkily pubescent ; lobes ovate or nearly
orbicular, about half as long as the tube, margins at first ©
involute, then revolute. Stamens included, except the —
tips of the four upper anthers. Ovary obovoid, sparsely

ee t; style very short; stigma broad, hemispheric. _

Fig. 1, Flower; 2, the same, with the suth laid open: & oe:
4, vertical section of the same :—All sitieped.: ao pen;

7389

Vincent Brooks, Day & Sonimp |

Tas. 7389.
ERYCINA rcutnata, Lindl.
Native of Mexico. .

Nat. Ord. OncoipEx.—Tribe VanpEa,

_ Genus Enycrna, Lindl. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 565.)

Eryctna echinata; herba epiphytica, caule brevi apice pseudobulbum soli-
tarium monophyllum gerente, foliis e basi lata’ sessilibus distichis
imbricatis ovatis acutis apiculatis sursum sensim majoribus, pedunculo
axillari gracili decurvo, racemo simplici v. paniculatim ramoso pauci-
floro, bracteis patentibus lanceolatis vaginato, pedicellis brevibus muri-
culatis, sepalis parvis subherbaceis postico ovato acuminato galeato
recurvo basi tumido, lateralibus lanceolatis basi connatis divaricatis,
petalis ovatis acutis reflexis, labello basi columne adnato sepalis petalisque
multoties majore plano aureo profunde 3-lobo sinubus rotundatis, lobis
lateralibus basi contractis flabelliformibus, intermedio ungniculato
transverse oblongo, disco ad basin lobi medii callis 2 et appendicibus 2
erectis elongatis linguzformibus instructo, columna_ brevissima apoda
exalata basi utrinque tumida, rostello elongato sigmoideo erecto, anthera
incumbente elongata longe rostrata, polliniis 2 ovoideis apice stipitis
gracilis geniculatim inflexi sessilibus, glandula magna ovata, capsula
echinata.

E. echinata, Lindl. Fol. Orchid. 1853. Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p.
739. Hemsl. Biol. Cent. Amer. vol. ili. p. 289.

~ Oncidium echinatum, Humb. Bonpl. & Kunth, Nov. Gen. et. Sp. Amer. vol. i.
p. 345, t. 79.

A very singular little Orchid, belonging to the South
American subtribe Oncidiex, and with the aspect of a
small Oncidium, but differing remarkably from that genus
in the structure of the lip and column, the former being
almost equally 8-lobed, and the latter being very short,
thick, and without wings. The vertical position of the
clinandrium, too, with the very long anther at its back, and

the long rostellum, are quite unlike any Oncidium.
Bentham rightly compares the appendages of the lip and
the rostellum to those of the Brazilian genus Zygostates,
Lindl., in which the column, though longer, is as in Hrycina
footless, the rostellum very long, and the clinandrium lies

at the back of the column.

Brycina echinata was discovered by Humboldt at the
beginning of the century, at or near Acapulco, on the
west coast of Mexico, and it has since been collected by
Galeotti at the Laguna de Tututepec in the province of

DecempzR lst, 1894.

Oaxaca, at an elevation of 4000ft. The plant figured was
received at the Royal Gardens from Messrs. F. Sander &
Co. of St. Albans in 1892, and flowered in a warm house
in April, 1894.

Descr.—A small epiphyte. Stems tufted, two to six
inches high, clothed throughout with distichous, imbricat-
ing, persistent, acute bracts below, and leaves above, and
terminating in a small oblong, 2-leaved pseudobulb, which
is sunk between the uppermost pair of leaves. Leaves two
to four inches long, ovate-oblong, acuminate, bright green,
with a few brown stripes, jointed on the compressed short
sheaths. Racemes axillary from the base of the pseudobulb,
slender, decurved, loosely many-flowered ; peduncle long,
with many lanceolate, spreading, amplexicaul, rigid sheaths
one-third of an inch long; bracts like the sheaths, but
smaller; pedicels as long as the bracts, slender. Flowers
two-thirds of an inch in diam. Sepals very small, dorsal
galeate acuminate; lateral connate at the base, linear-
oblong, herbaceous, diverging, concealed under the lip.
Petals ovate, acuminate, green, reflexed. Lip very large,
flat, deeply 3-lobed, lobes subequal.—J. D. H.

Fig. 1, Front, and 2, back view of flower; 3, column and base of lip;
4 anther cap; 5 and 6, pollinia :—AJl enlurged.

7390.

M Sael, J. NFitchiith. Vincent Brooks Day &San

an age TL, Reeve & Ceili onde.

Puate 7390.

STROPHANTHUS PETERSIANUS
var. GRANDIFLORUS.

Native of Delagoa Bay.

Nat. Ord. Apocynacrs.—Tribe Ecurtiwes.
Genus Stropnantuus, DC. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p- 714.)

Stroppantuus Petersianus ;.frutex scandens, glaberrimus, ramis gracilibus
brunneis albo-maculatis, foliis petiolatis ovatis obtuse acuminatis undu-
latis, cymis paucifloris, foribus subsessilibus, calycis lobis ovatis recurvis,
glandulis basi 5 inaqualibus, corolla flavide v. purpurascentis tubo
calyce duplo longiore infundibulari-campanulato, lobis lanceolatis in
caudas longissimas tortas pendulas productis, appendicibus oris tubo fere
zquilongis snbulatis flexuosis, filamentis connectivis intus villosis,
antherarum aristis loculis quilongis v. brevioribus.

S. Petersianus, Klotzsch in Peters’ Reise Mossamb, Rot. p. 276.

S. sarmentosus, AD.C. var. verrucosus, Pax in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. xv.
(1893), p. 374.

Var. grandiflorus, V.H. Brown in Kew Bullet. (1892), p. 126; floribus
majoribus,

Except in the much larger size of the flowers there
seems to be nothing to distinguish this handsome plant
from that found by Dr. Peters, whence it follows that
S. Petersianus has a very wide distribution (of 20°) in
tropical Africa, varying much in both the size and colour
of the flowers, the breadth of the calyx-lobes and the
length of the tails of the corolla-lobes. The Southern
limit, as far as is ascertained is the North bank of the
Limpopo river, where it was found by Mr. St.V. W.
Erskine, who made good drawings of the flowers, repre-
senting the corolla as rose-purple externally. Its Northern
limits are Mombasa, where it was found by Hildebrandt,
and Zanzibar (Kirk). The type of the species, so far as
first publication is concerned, is a small flowered state,
which was discovered by Dr. Peters near Tette, on the
Zambesi river, about 300 miles from its mouth. Herbarium
specimens of the large flowered variety here figured were
sent to Kew in 1876, by the late J. J. Monteiro, Esq. (a
first-rate Naturalist, and valued correspondent), whose

DecEemBer Ist, 1894,

work is the only really good English one of its kind
known to me that relates to the Natural history of any part
of tropical Africa. The species appears to extend to the
West Coast, for a var. amboense (Schinz in Verhandl. Bot.
Ver. Prov. Brandenb. xxx. (1889), p. 259, is described
as a native of Amboland (Ovampoland), in the
German territory of Damara Land. Finally, Pax, as
referred to above, regards it as a variety of the West
African S. sarmentosus, AD.C. It is a species of this
genus, believed to be S. hispidus, DC., the root of which
is said to yield the arrow-poison of some African tribes,
and the seeds of which are reputed to be a valuable
medicine in the treatment of certain cases of heart disease.
The plant from which the specimen figured is taken
was raised from seeds sent to the Royal Gardens in 1884
by Mrs. Monteiro, herself a valued correspondent of the
Royal Gardens. It flowered in a stove, where it was
trained to a rafter, for the first time in May, 1894.
Descr.—A slender climber, quite glabrous; branches
brown, speckled with white, terete, smooth. Leaves three’
to five inches long, ovate, obtusely acuminate, undulate,
bright green above, pale beneath, base rounded or
narrowed ; petiole about half an inch long. Flowers soli-
tary, a few in a subterminal cyme, very shortly pedicelled.
Calyz-lobes two-thirds of an inch long, ovate, acute, re-
curved green, suffused with red, glands at the base within
regular in form and disposition. Corolla-tube twice as
long as the calyx, between infundibular and campanulate,
upwards of an inch long, and as broad across the mouth,
dull yellow with broken red streaks; lobes reflexed, lan-
ceolate, narrowed into slender loosely twisted pendulous
tails eight inches long, inner surface yellow, outer dull
red ; appendages of the mouth two-thirds of an inch long,
subulate, erect, flexuous, yellow. Filaments woolly in
the inner face; awn of anther as long as the cells; con-
nective with a boss on the inner face. Ovary ellipsoid;
style long, slender, tip very unequally 2-fid.—J. D. H.

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GMELINA Hystrerx.
Native of the Philippine Islands.

Nat. Ord, Verpenacrz.—Tribe Viticea.
Genus Guexina, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 1153.)

Guetina Hystrix; fratex scandens, spinosus, ramulis junioribus hispido-
pubescentibus, foliis glabris subtus sparse glandulosis, aliis elliptico-
oblongis obtusis v. subacutis aliis minoribus latioribus obtuse lobatis, spicis
strobiliformibus terminalibus breviusculis, bracteis amplis tumidis ovato-
rotundatis acuminatis 5-nervis pulcherrime rubro-venulosis, calyce brevi
obtuse 5-dentato hirto pauci-glanduloso, corolle aurez tubo e basi —
angusto campanulato infra orem inflato curvo, limbi labio superiore 3-
lobo, lobis brevibus late ovato-rotundatis recurvis inferiore triplo longiore
ovato obtuso, filamentis anticis glandulosis, posticis multo minoribus
glabris, drupa obovoidea.

G. Hystrix, Schult. ex Kurz in Journ, As. Soc. Beng. vol. xxxix. (1870) pt. ii.
p. 81. Villar, in Blanco #1. filip. vol. iii, Nov. App. p. 159.

A very little known plant, of which the first published
description is by the late S. Kurz, a first-rate Indian
Botanist, and author of ‘*‘ The Forest Flora of Burma,”
who was for some time an employé in the Herbarium of
the Botanic Garden of Buitenzorg (Batavia), and latterly
Curator of that of the Calcutta Gardens. Kurz’s description
of it is apparently made from specimens grown in the
gardens of Bankok, Siam, and preserved in the Buitenzorg
Herbarium ; and as to the name and authority of Schult,
he says, ‘‘ I found it attached to the plant in the Library
of the Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg, but I am unable, at
present, to give a reference to the work in which it
occurred.” The Kew Herbarium contains several specimens
of it from Siam, collected by the late Sir R. Schomburgk,
and the late Mr. Murton, when Superintendent of the
Botanic Gardens of Bankok, who says of it, “ apparently
wild at Bankok.” There are also specimens sent from the
Natal Botanic Gardens as a Siam plant. On the other
hand, there are undoubtedly indigenous specimens from
the Philippine Islands, from Cuming (No. 1913), and from

DeEcEMBER Ist, 1894,

Vidal, collected in the Province of Laguna (No. 3439) ;
and the latter author gives, in his edition of Blanco’s
“Flora de Filipinas,” several localities for it in the
Archipelago. I think, therefore, it may be assumed that
this beautiful plant has been introduced into Siam from
the Philippines ; and from Siam into India and Natal.
Plants of Gmelina Hystrie were sent to Kew from the
gardens of H.H. the Gaekwar of Baroda, by Mr. Goldring,
Superintendent of his Highnegs’s gardens and plantations,
who says of it, “that it: forms a sturdy shrub, and that
the bracts there are higher coloured than those repre-
sented in the plate.” At Kew the plant is grown in the
Water-Lily House, trained against the glass roof, where it
has the habit of a Bougainvillea, and flowers freely.
Descr.—A scandent stout shrub, more or less spinescent,
no doubt according as it is grown in a damp or drier
climate ; branchlets and shoots hispidly pubescent. Leaves
petioled, dimorphic, bright green above, pale below, where
there occur scattered globose glands; in one form of the
leaves these are 4-6 in, long, elliptic-oblong, subacute, in
the other they are shorter, broader, and with shallow
lobes ; petiole appressed hairy, about half an inch long.
Flowers subsessile, in short, dense, terminal, drooping,
cone-like, sessile spikes, formed of very large imbricating,
convex, broadly ovate, acuminate bracts, one to one and a
half inches long and broad, beautifully veined with red.
Calyx small, cup-shaped, strigose; lobes four, very short
and broad. Corolla nearly three inches long, golden-
yellow ; tube curved, campanulate, and gibbously inflated
rom @ narrow base; limb 2-lipped ; upper lip of 3 short,
broad, rounded recurved lobes 3 lower much longer, pro-
truded, Ovary obtuse. Stamens 4, the two anticous much
the largest, ‘with glandular “filaments. Anthers subreni-

tivo slender, D rupe nearly an inch long,

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tg Buds 2 Calyx and style; 3, portion of corolla and stamens;

4, back of anther ; 5, verti 1 “i y : aa
All but 6 more or less onloeged: ion of ovary ; 6, drupe (from the Herbarium) :

INDEX

To Vol. L. of the Tarrp Seriss, or Vol. CXX. of
the whole Work.

7365 Aschynanthus Hildebrandii.

7336 . obeonica.

7386 Aloe Kirkii.

7349 Amorphophallus Elliotii.

7337 Barringtonia samoensis.

7347 Begonia scabrida.

7358 Campanula excisa.

7359 Caraguata conifera.

7364 Colocasia antiquorum.

7388 Daphne caucasica.

7371 Dendrobium atroviolaceum.

7369 Dermatobotrys Saundersii.

7340 Dyckia Desmetiana.

7341 Eleagnus multiflora.

7389 Erycina echinata.

7334 Erythroxylon Coca.

7387 Eulophiella Elizabeth.

7374 Fritillaria aurea.

7363 Gastrochilus Curtisii.

7391 Gmelina Hystrix.

7352 Gynerium saccharoides.

7355 Hillia tetrandra.

7344 Hippeastrum brachyandrum.

7362 Houlletia Landsbergi.

7343 Hydnophytum longiflorum.

7381 Impatiens auricoma.

7379 Iris atropurpurea, var, atro-
fusea.

7333 Kalanchoe marmorata.

7367 Leptactina Mannii.

7351 Lowia maxillarioides.

7368 Neuwiedia Lindleyi.

7385 Ornithochilus fuscus.
7354 Osteomeles anthyllidifolia,
7346 Pelargonium Drummondii.
7339 Pentarhaphia longiflora,
7335 Prunus humilis.

7345 Ptychosperma elegans.
7361 Rhododendfon irroratum.
7373 eS Schlippenbachii.
7372 Salvia macrostachya,
7357 Sansevieria Kirkii.

7378 Senecio laxifolius.

7384 Sesbania exasperata.

7353 ‘ punicea,
7376 Sobralia sessilis.
7332 ,, xantholeuca.

7366 Spathoglottis gracilis.

7383 Staphylea colchica.

7382 Sterculia austro-caledonica,

7390 Strophanthus Petersianus, var.
grandiflorus,

7342 Thomsonia napalensis.

7356 Tigridia violacea.

7380 Trichocentrum tigrinum.

7350 Trichopus zeylanicus.

7375 Trochodendron aralioides.

7377 Uraria crinita.

7370 Veronica amplexicaulis.

7360 » anomala,
7348 » __ cupressoides.
7338 » _ lyeopodioides.

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