CURTIS'S
‘BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,
COMPRISING THE
Plants of the Ropal Gardens of Hew AND OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN; WITH SUITABLE DESCRIPTIONS ;
BY | SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K.H., D.C.L. Oxon., ; F.L.S., CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE
OF FRANCE, AND DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL GARDENS ©F KEW.
VOL. XVI. OF THE THIRD SERIES; (Or Vol. LXXXVI. of the Whole Work.)
a
OPAPP
“* So sits enthroned in vegetable pride Imperial Kew, by Thames’s glittering side.”’
LONDON: LOVELL REEVE, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1860. fay yes] oe a.
TO
G. H. K. THWAITES, ESQ., F.L.S.,
THE ABLE AUTHOR OF ‘ENUMERATIO PLANTARUM ZEYLANIE”
AND THE TALENTED SUPERINTENDENT OF
THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, PERADENIA, CEYLON,
Ghe present Volume is Dedicated,
IN TESTIMONY OF THE HIGHEST ESTEEM AND REGARD,
BY
HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND .
THE AUTHOR.
Roya GarpEns, Krew, December 1, 1860.
PALIN GENERAL INDEX,
TO
THE PLANTS CONTAINED IN THE FIRST SIXTEEN VOLUMES OF THE THIRD SERIES,
(Or from Vol. LXXI. to LXXXVI. inclusive, of the whole Work,)
OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE, Vol.| No.
Abelia floribunda. 72 | 4260 | Alschynanthus Lobbianus. uniflora. 73 | 4328 longiflorus.
Abies bracteata. 72 | 4264 | —— pulcher.
Abutilon insigne. 72 | 4236 purpurascens.
Acacia argyrophylla. 73 | 4320 | ——- speciosus.
—— celastrifolia. 84 | 5031 tricolor.
—— Cyenorum. 84 | 5077 | Ausculus Californica.
—— Drummondii. 85 | 5117 Indica.
—— hispidissima. 83 | 5012 | Agapetes buxifolia. leptoneura. 82 | 4934 | Agave Celsii. oncinophylla. 83 | 5006 densiflora.
—— wrophylla. 85 | 5097 Jacquiniana.
Acanthophippium Javanicum. || 85 | 5122 maculosa,
Achimenes argyrostigma. 82 | 4950 striata.
—— cupreata. 86 | 5213 yucceefolia.
—— heterophylla. 81 | 4864 | Akebia quinata.
—— hirsuta. ; 81 | 4842 | Albuca Gardeni. ocellata. 74 | 4411 | Allamanda Aubletii.
Acroclinium roseum. 77 | 4594 neriifolia.
Adenocalymna comosum. 74 | 4351 Schottii.
Adhatoda eydonizefolia. 77 | 4598 | Allium Caspium.
Aichmea discolor. 75 | 4452 | Alloplectus capitatus. mucroniflora. 74 | 4371 concolor.
Agiphila grandifiora. 72 | 4216 dichrous.
Aerides crispum. ~ 72 | 4250 repens. cylindricum. 80 | 4769 | Allosorus calomelanos. odoratum. 79 | 4698 cordatus. Wightianum. 80 | 4762 flexuosus.
Aischynanthus cordifolius. 76 | 4548 | Almeida rubra. fulgens. 86 | 5190 | Alocasia metallica. Javanicus, 86 | 5210 | Aloe albo-cincta.
No. 4453 4764 4603 5187 4890 5025 44.00 4341 4159 4370 4145 4761 5170 4295 4782 5113 4313 4807 4291 4180 4507 5208
4226 4377 4965 4200 4146 4224 4899 5087 4693 4407 4897 4635 4595 5139 4940 4229 4388 4361 422] 4368 4467 4918 4409 4413 4911 5175 4557 4959 4544 4773 4248
INDEX TO VOLS.
Amherstia nobilis. Amomum Danielli. Granum-Paradisi. Amorphophallus dubius. Amphicome Emodi. Ananas bracteatus. Anastatica hierochuntica. Anemone Japonica. Angrecum apiculatum. caudatum. distichum. eburneum. eburneum ; var’. virens. funale.
pertusum. sesquipedale. Anguloa Clowesii. uniflora. Anigozanthos fuliginosa. pulcherrimus. tyrianthinus.
Aneectochilus setaceus; var.
inornatus. Anona palustris. Anopterus glandulosus. Ansellia Africana, Anthocercis ilicifolia. Aotus gracillima. Aphelandra aurantiaca. variegata. Apteranthes Gussoniana. Aquilegia Kanaoriensis. —— leptoceras. Aralia papyrifera. Araucaria columnaris. Arbutus mollis. Areca sapida. Argyreia hirsuta. Ariopsis peltata. Arisema Murrayi. Aristolochia anguicida. gigantea. grandiflora, macradenia. —— Thwaitesii. Arnebia echioides. Asclepias Douglasii. Asplenium Hemionitis, Astelia Cunninghamii. Aster Sikkimensis. Astilbe rubra, Astrapea viscosa. Astrocaryum rostratum. Asystasia Coromandeliana,
LXXI. TO
-| Barnadesia rosea.
| —— thyrsoidea.
LXXXVI.
Asystasia scandens. Ataccia cristata. Azalea ameena.
—— crispiflora. ovata. occidentalis, Azara Gilliesii. Backhousia myrtifolia. Banksia Victoriz. ee Barbacenia squamata. ee Barkeria elegans.
er ee ee ee
Befaria sestuans.
coarctata.
Mathewsii.
Begonia albo-coccinea. biserrata. Bowringiana. cinnabarina.
frigida.
fuchsioides.
Griffithii. heracleifolia; var. nigri- eans.
hernandizefolia. laciniata.
microptera. Natalensis.
Rex.
—— rubrovenia.
— Thwaitesii.
—— urophylla.
Wageneria. Wageneriana. xanthina.
xanthina ; var. Lazuli. xanthina ; var. pictifolia. Benthamia fragifera. Berberis concinna.
Bealei.
Bealei; var. planifolia. —— Darwinii.
ilicifolia.
——-. Wallichiana. Bertolonia maculata. Beschorneria tubiflora.
—— yuccoides.
Bifrenaria Hadwenii. Billbergia Liboniana. macrocalyx. rhodocyanea.
Wetherelli. Blandfordia flammea.
No. 4166 4532 5050 4267 4810 4223 5133 4481 4652 44.74 4734
| 4741
4717 4605 4339 4287
4839 4670 5147 4793 4834 4410 4392 5000 5199
5042 4714 4541 4671 4669 4973 4157
| 5154]
4158 4525 4929 4500 5181 4238 4188 5192 4808 | 4976 5044 5152
4555 4879
| 5068
INDEX TO VOLS, LXXI. TO
Bolbophyllum Careyanum. Lobbii. Neilgherrense. uwmbellatum. Bougainvillea spectabilis. Bouvardia longiflora. Brachychiton Bidwilli. Brachysema aphyllum. —— lanceolatum. Brassavola Digbyana. lineata.
Bravoa geminiflora.
Brillantaisia Owariensis.
Browallia Jamesoni.
speciosa.
Brunfelsia nitida ; rav. Jamai- censis.
Brownea grandiceps.
Brya Ebenus.
Bryophyllum proliferum.
Buddleia crispa.
Burlingtonia decora.
Burtonia villosa.
pulchella.
scabra.
Caladium bicolor; var. Neu- mannii.
Calanthe Dominii (hybrida).
gracilis.
Masuca.
vestita.
—— viridi-fusca.
Callathea villosa ; var. pardina.
Calceolaria alba.
amplexicaulis.
flexuosa.
— floribunda.
el Pavonii.
Calliandra brevipes.
heematocephala. —
Harrisii.
Tweediei.
Callixene polyphylla.
Calycanthus occidentalis.
Camellia reticulata ; flore pleno.
rosveflora. :
—— Sasanqua; var. anemo-| niflora.
Campanula colorata.
peasbeliona.
strigosa.
Vidalii.
Camptosema rubicundum.
No
| 4530
4854 4729 4582 4386 4796 4953 5202 4219
4792 4596 5039 4009 4700 5048 5032 4902 5150
4270 4916
-| 4806
4811 5177 4815 4664 5127 5165 4660 4618 4675 4552 4611 5173 4499 4779 4417 4814 4707 44.43 4498 4349 4758 4338 5171 4845
LXXXVI.
Campylobotrys discolor. Canna Warszewiczii. Cantua bicolor. buxifolia. pyrifolia. Cassiope fastigiata. Castanea chrysophylla. Catasetum atratum, callosum; var. grandi- florum. Naso, varr. Catheartia villosa. Cattleya Aclandie.
bie elegans. —— granulosa. —-— luteola. maxima. ——- Schilleriana ; var. con-
color.
Skinneri. Skinneri ; var. parviflora. Ceanothus floribundus. Lobbianus. Oreganus. — papillosus. —— rigidus. Veitchianus. — velutinus. verrucosus. Cedronella cana. Centrosolenia bractescens. —— glabra. —— picta. Centrostemma multiflorum. Cephalotaxus Fortuni. Ceratostema longiflorum. Cereus Leeanus. — Lemairii. — MacDonaldie. —— reductus. —— Tweediei. Ceropegia Cumingiana. —— Thwaitesii. Cheenestes lanceolata. Chamebatia foliolosa. Chameedorea elegans (mas). © Ernesti-Augusti (mas). Chamerops Fortuni. Cheilanthes farinosa. Cheirostemon platanoides. Chirita Moonii. —— Sinensis. —— Walkeriz.
No. 4182 5095
4602 4576 5186 4753 4996 4391] 4.4.22 4977 4418 4237 4763 5207 4922 4794 44.95 4398 4269 4485 4355 4880 4354 4255 4259 5051 4895 4536 5180 4942 5018
4712 4645 5001 4440 4691 4661 5084 5072 4889 4785 44.96 4917 4754 4690 4247 5033 4927 4514 4294, 4330 5118
INDEX TO VOLS. LXXI. TO
Chirita Zeylanica. Chrysanthemum carinatum ; var. pictum.
Chrysobactron Hookeri.
Chysis aurea; var. maculata.
bractescens.
Cirrhopetalum cornutum.
—— Cumingii.
fimbriatum.
Macraei.
Meduse.
— nutans.
Thouarsii.
Cissus discolor.
velutinus.
Clavija ornata.
Clematis barbellata.
graveolens.
indivisa ; var. lobata.
tubulosa.
Clerodendron Bethuneanum.
capitatum.
—— fetidum.
— scandens.
sinuatum.
—— smilacifolium.
Clianthus Dampieri.
Clivia Gardeni.
Coccoloba macrophylla.
Cocos plumosa.
Codonopsis rotundifolia.
rotundifolia ; var. gran-
diflora.
Ceelia macrostachya.
Ceelogyne Cumingii.
elata.
—— fuliginosa.
maculata.
— ochracea.
—— par.durata. Schilleriana.
——- speciosa.
—— testacea.
Wallichii.
Coffea Benghalensis.
Coleus Blumei. —
Macrei.
Collania Andinamarcana.
Colletia cruciata.
Collinsia verna.
Colquhounia coccinea.
Columnea aureo-nitens.
crassifolia.
—— scandens.
| No.
4980 5027 4888 4279 4912 4379 4658 5029 4979 4838 4822 5205
4710°
4143 44.70 4208 4362 4435 4667 4479 4215 4907 5126 4844 4141 4234 5024 4990 4901 4468 4444
—— cretaceum.
/-—— cymbidioides.
LXXXVI.
Comparettia falcata. Cordia ipomeeeflora. superba. Cordyline Rumphii. Correa cardinalis. Corynocarpus levigata. Coscinium fenestratum. Cosmanthus grandiflorus. Costus Afer. Crawfurdia fasciculata. Crescentia macrophylla. Crinum giganteum. Crossandra flava. Cryptadenia uniflora. Cupania Cunninghami. Cuphea cordata. silenoides. Curcuma cordata. Roscoeana. Cychnoches barbatum. Loddigesii. Cymbidium chloranthum. eburneum. giganteum. ochroleucum. _ Cypripedium barbatum. Fairieanum. hirsutissimum. purpuratum. Cyrtanthera aurantiaca. catalpzefolia. Cyrtanthus sanguineus. Cyrtochilum citrinum. Cyrtodeira cupreata ; var. viri difolia. Dasylirium glaucophyllum. Hartwegianum. acrotrichum. Datura chlorantha ; flore pleno cornigera. Daviesia physodes. Delphinium cardinale. Dendrobium albo-sanguineum Amboinense, —— aqueum. —— bigibbum. Cambridgeanum. — Chrysotoxum. -—-— crepidatum. crepidatum ; var. labell glabro,
——- cucumerinum.
INDEX TO VOLS. LXXI. TO
Dendrobium Devonianum.
Falconeri.
Falconeri; sepalis pe-
talisque obtusioribus.
Farmeri.
fimbriatum ; var. ocu- latum.
—— heterocarpum.
—— heterocarpum ; var. Hen- shalii.
— Ki um.
—— Macarthie.
— moniliforme.
nobile; var. pallidiflorum.
—— pulchellum.
secundum.
teretifolium.
—— tortile.
transparens.
Dendrochilum glumaceum.
Dendromecon rigidum.
Desfontainia spinosa.
Dianthus Seguieri; var. Cau- }
casicus.
Diastema ochroleuca. Dichorisandra leucophthalmos. picta. Dictyanthus Pavonii. Didymocarpus crinita. — Humboldtiana. rimulzfolia. Dielytra spectabilis. Dillenia speciosa. Dipladenia acuminata. flava.
| —— Harrisii.
Diplothemium litiorale. Dipteracanthus calvescens. ——? Herbstii.
spectabilis.
Disemma aurantia.
Dissotis Irvingiana. Dombeya mollis.
viburniflora.
Doronicum Bourgei.
Draceena Draco.
elliptica; var. maculata. Drimys Winteri.
Dryandra carduacea ; var. an-
No. 4373 4326 4311 4184 4632 4181 4177 4162 4290 4486 4364
4562 4559 4165 4567 4687 4521 4547
5020 4856 4903 4572 4225
LXXXVI.
Echinocactus chlorophthalmus. cinnabarinus. hexeedrophorus. Leeanus. longihamatus. —— multiflorus. —— myriostigma. oxygonus. —— pectiniferus. rhodophthalmus. rhodophthalmus ; ellipticus. streptocaulon. Visnaga. Williamsii. Echinopsis campylacantha. cristata. ——- cristata; var. purpurea. Echites Franciscea; var. flori- bus sulphureis. Eichornia tricolor. Embothrium coccineum. Encephalartus Caffer. Epidendram linearifolium. longicolle. —— Stamfordianum. verrucosum. Epigynium acuminatum. leucobotrys. Epimedium pinnatum. Epipogon Gmelini. Episcia bicolor. melittifolia. Eranthemum albiflorum. Eremurus spectabilis. Eria Dillwynii. Eriogonum compositum. Eriopsis rutidobulbon. Eriostemon intermedium. Erodium pelargoniiflorum. Erythrochiton Brasiliense. Escallonia macrantha. — Organensis. — pterocladon. Eschscholtzia tenuifolia. — Espeletia argentea. Eucalyptus coccifera.
var.
No. 5141 4202 4771 4340 44.23 4280 4186 5089 4616 4995 4587 5163 4205 4189 4583 4790 4209 4546 4246 5052 4731 4506 4.233 4174 5096 4375 4261 4218 4701
4610 4948 4847 4987 4791 4322 4343 4307 4185 4461 5034 4697 4776 4860 4858 4831 4195 4240 5036 5070 4242 4217 4380
| 4348
INDEX TO VOLS.
Evelyna Caravata.
Evolvulus purpureo-ceruleus. |
Exacum macranthum. —— tetragonum ; 8. bicolor. Zeylanicum. Exogonium Purga. Exostemma longiflorum. Fieldia australis. FitzRoya Patagonica. Forsythia suspensa. viridissima. Fourcroya flavo-viridis. Fagreea obovata. Franciscea acuminata. calycina. eximia. — hydrangezformis. Freziera theoides. Friesia peduncularis. Fritillaria Greeca. — oxypetala. Fuchsia bacillaris. macrantha. —— serratifolia. simplicicaulis. spectabilis. Fugosia hakezefolia. heterophylla. Galeandra Baueri; var. flori- bus luteis. Devoniana. Galipea macrophylla. Garcinia Mangostana. Gardenia citriodora. globosa. longistyla. nitida. malleifera. Stanleyana. Gautheria bracteata. discolor. ferruginea. Gentiana Fortuni. Genetyllis macrostegia. tulipifera. Geonoma corallifera. Genista (Teline) Spachiana. Gesneria bulbosa ; var. lateritia. cinnabarina. Donklarii. elliptica ; var. lutea. —— Hondensis. —— Libanensis. —— partina.
LXXI. TO
| }No
4431 5115 4152 4504 4342 4735 4876 4430 4213 4395 4677 4767
4363 5019 4171 4258 4179
4472 4539 4151 4607 5028 5179 5157 5007 4628 4651 5069 5155 5220 4706 4511 5123 5196 4201 4183 4745 4528 4643 4644 4.192 4574 4804 4516 4207 4774 4873 44,75 4685 4581 5166 4421
LXXXVI.
Gesneria picta.
purpurea.
Schiedeana.
Seemanni.
triflora.
Gilia (Leptosiphon) lutea.
dianthoides.
Gloxinia fimbriata.
pallidiflora.
Gmelina Rheedii.
Goethea strictiflora.
Goldfussia glomerata; va7’. spe- ciosa.
isophylla.
Thomsoni.
Gompholobium barbigerum.
venustum.
versicolor; var. caulibus purpureis.
Gonolobus Martianus.
Gordonia Javanica.
Govenia utriculata.
Grammanthes chlorzeflora.
Grammatocarpus volubilis,
Grammatophyllum Ellisii.
speciosum.
Grevillea alpestris.
Grindelia grandiflora.
Guichenotia macrantha.
Gustavia insignis.
Gutierrezia gymnospermoides.
Guzmannia tricolor.
Gymnostachyum Ceylanicum.,
Gynoxys fragrans.
Gynura bicolor.
Habenaria Salaccensis.
Habrothamnus corymbosus.
— fasciculatus.
Heemanthus insignis.
Hakea cucullata.
myrtoides.
Scoparia.
Hebecladus biflorus.
Hebeclinium ianthinum.
Hedera glomerulata.
Hedychium chrysoleucum.
Heinsia jasminiflora.
Heintzia tigrina.
Helianthemum Tuberaria.
Heliconia angustifolia,
pulverulenta.
Helleborus atro-rubens.
Heterocentron Mexicanum.
Heterotrichum macrodon. °
INDEX TO VOLS. LXXI. TO
Heterotropa asaroides.
Hexacentris Mysorensis.
Hibiscus ferox.
erossularizfolius.
radiatus ; 8. flore pur- pureo.
Hindsia violacea.
Howardia Caracasensis.
Hoya bella.
campanulata.
—— cinnamomifolia.
—— coriacea.
—— coronaria.
Cumingiana.
fraterna.
—— imperialis.
—— (Otostemma) lacunosa.
purpureo-fusca.
Hydrangea Japonica ; var. ece- rulea.
cyanema.
Hydromestus maculatus.
Hypericum oblongifolium.
Hypocyrta glabra.
gracilis.
leucostoma.
Hypoxis latifolia.
Ilex cornuta.
Illairea canarinoides.
Imantophyllum ? miniatum.
Impatiens cornigera.
fasciculata.
—— Hookeriana.
—— Jerdoniz.
macrophylla.
—— pulcherrima.
|— repens.
Indigofera decora. Inga macrophylla. Ipomeea muricata. —— pulchella. simplex. Ismelia Broussonetii. Isopogon attenuatus. spheerocephalus. Isotoma senecioides ; va7. sub- _ pinnatifida.
Ixora barbata. Griffithii.
—— Javanica. jucunda.
—— laxiflora.
No. 4523 44.08 4649 4376 5092 5046 4620
LXXXVI. 7
Ixora salicifolia.
Jambosa Malaccensis. Jasminum nudiflorum. Jatropha podagrica. Juanulloa eximia. Kefersteinia graminea. Klugia Notoniana. Kniphofia uvaria.
Kopsia fruticosa, Lacepedea insignis. Lelia acuminata. cinnabarina. xanthina.
Lagetta lintearia. Lapageria rosea ; var. albiflora. Lardizabala biternata. Leianthus longifolius. umbellatus. Leperiza latifolia. Leptodactylon Californicum. Leschenaultia arcuata. splendens. Leuchtenbergia Principis. Leucothée neriifolia. pulchra.
Liebigia speciosa.
Lilium giganteum. roseum.
—— Wallichianum. Linum grandiflorum. pubescens ; 8. Sibthor- pianum.
isianthus acutangulus. pulcher. Lithospermum canescens. Littonia modesta.
Llavea cordifolia.
Loasa picta.
Lobelia splendens ; var. ignea. —— Texensis.
— thapsoidea.
—— trigonocaulis.
Lopezia macrophylla. Lopimia malacophylla. Luculia Pinciana.
Lupinus Menziesii. Luvunga scandens.
Lycaste fulvescens.
Lycium fuchsioides.
Lyonia Jamaicensis. Lysimachia nutans. Machzranthera tanacetifolia. Macleania punctata.
INDEX TO VOLS.
Malachadenia clavata. Malcomia littorea. Malva involucrata. Mamuillaria clava. Mangifera Indica. Marsdenia maculata. Martynia fragrans. Masdevallia fenestrata. Wageneriana. Maxillaria acicularis. leptosepala. macrobulbon. Warreana. Meconopsis Wallichii. Medinilla Javanensis, magnifica. Sieboldiana. speciosa. Melastoma denticulatum. Metrosideros. buxifolia. florida. tomentosa. Methonica grandiflora, virescens.
| Metternichia Principis. | Meyenia erecta. | Microsperma bartonioides.
Miltonia spectabilis. spectabilis ; var. purpu- reo-violacea. Mirbelia Meisneri. Mitraria coccinea. Momordica mixta. Monocera grandiflora. Monocheetum ensiferum. Monstera Adansonii. Mormodes atro-purpurea, —. Cartoni. lentiginosa. Moricandia Ramburii. Mucuna prurita.. Myosotidium nobile. Myrtus bullata. orbiculata. Negelia multiflora. Napoleona imperialis. Narthex Asafcetida. Nematanthus ionema. Nepenthes ampullaria. Rafflesiana. —— villosa. Neptunia plena. Nicotiana fragrans. Niphzea albo-lineata.
LXXI. TO
84
79 82 80 75
Fol.
4357 5085 5076 4894 44.90 4636 4367 4553 4508 4549 4951 4436 5014 4736 4749 4836 44.06 4752 4565 4958 4666 4599 4946 4910
LXXXVI.
Niphea albo-lineata ; var. reti culata.
Notholena sinuata.
Nyctanthes arbor-tristis.
Nymphea Amazonum.
ampla.
dentata.
Devoniensis (hybrida).
elegans,
gigantea.
micrantha.
Oberonia acaulis.
iridifolia.
Ochna atro-purpurea.
Odontoglossum hastilabium.
hastilabium ; var. —
tum. maculatum. membranaceum. (Enothera bistorta; var. Veitch jana. Olearia Gunniana. Oncidium bicallosum. inecurvum. longipes. phymatochilum. Ophelia corymbosa. Opuntia Salmiana. Orchis foliosa. Orobus Fischeri. Orothamnus Zeyheri. Osbeckia aspera. Ouvirandra Bernieriana. fenestralis. Oxalis elegans. Oxyanthus tubiflorus. Oxypetalum solanoides. Oxyspora vagans, Pachira alba. longiflora. Pachyphytum bracteosum. Pachystigma pteleoides. Pandanus Candelabrum. pygmezus. Papaver pilosum. Paphinia cristata. Passiflora amabilis. Meduszea. —— penduliflora. tinifolia. Paulownia imperialis. Pedicularis mollis. Pelargonium Endlicherianum. Pentapterygium flavum.
Ss.
INDEX Pol. Pentapterygium rugosum. 76 Pentaraphia Cubensis. 77 Pentstemon baccharifolius. 76 centhranthifolius. 80 cordifolius. 17. cyananthus. 74 Gordoni. 86 Jaffrayanus. 86 Wrightii. 82 Peristeria Barkeri. 86 Humboldtii; var. fulva. | 73 Pernettya furens. 79 Persea gratissima. 79 Pesomeria tetragona. 83 Phalenopsis amabilis. 77 grandiflora. 78 rosea. 17 Pharbitis cathartica. 71 Philesia buxifolia. 81 Philodendron erubescens. 88 Phrynium sanguineum. 83 Phygelius Capensis. 84 Phyllarthron Bojerianum. 82 Phyllocactus anguliger. 82 Physochlaina grandiflora. 81 Physosiphon Loddigesii. 83
Phytelephas macrocarpa.
Phytolacca icosandra. Pilumna fragrans. Pimelia macrocephala. Pinguicula orchidioides. Pistia Stratiotes. Pitcairnia echinata.
—— exscapa. oboe ee
Pleurothallis bicarinata. Plocostemma lasianthum. Plumieria Jamesoni. Podocarpus neriifolia. Polygala Hilairiana. Polygonatum punctatum. roseum.
Polygonum vacciniifolium. Polystachya bracteosa.
reece lanceolata.
Portlandia platantha. Potentilla ambigua. Primula capitata. — mollis.
—— dSikki
Stuartii. — Psammisia penduleeflora. Pteris Cretica.
| —— heterophylla. 33 | —— quadriaurita. 9 | Puya Altensteinii; var. gigantea.
—— Chiliensis. sulphurea.
—— virescens. Pyxidanthera barbulata. Ranunculus cortuszefolius. spicatus.
Reevesia thrysoidea. Rheum acuminatum. Rhipsalis sarmentacea. Rhododendron album. argenteum. Blandfordizeflorum.
—— Brookeanum. — Californicum. | — pr aca
5 ie
— Kendrickii; var. lati- folium.
| —— Keysii.
— ~ lepidotum. -lepidotum ; var. chlo- rivitheenns —— Maddeni. ——- Moulmainense.
Bhododensil Niagirioum. niveum.
—— Nuttallii. * —— retusum.
= Smithii.
—— Stepherdii. Thomsoni. -——— Veitchianum. | —-— virgatum. —— Wilsoni (hyb |—— Windsorii,
Rhodoleia Championi. Rhynchospermum jasminoides. | Rhynchoglossum Zeylanicum. Ribes subvestitum.
Richardia albo-maculata. hastata.
Rosa sericea. Roscoea purpurea. Rondeletia versicolor. Roupellia grata. Rubus b:florus.
/_—— nutans.
i. Ruellia lilacina.
leueantha. ta.
scalperetolia. Sandersonia aurantiaca. Sanseviera cylindrica. Sarcanthus filiformis. Parishii. Sauromatium guttatum. Saxifraga cili flagellari
urascens. | Sceevola attenuata. | Scheeria lanata. Mexicana. Scheenia oppositifolia. Schomburgkia Lyonsi. —— tibicinus; var. grandiflora. Sciodacalyx Warszewiczii. Seolopendrium Krebsii. Scutellaria cordifolia. _ incarnata. —— incarnata ; var. Trionai. — macrantha.
—_—_——
Houiatlarie Ventenatii.
hia ery Semeiandra grandiflora. Senecio preecox. Sida graveolens. (Abutilon) integerrima. —— peonieeflora. ——- (Abutilon) venosa. — vitifolia. Sinningia velutina. Youngiana. Siphocampylos coccineus. glandulosus. manattiseflorus. —— microstoma. Skimmia Japonica. | Smeathmannia levigata. —— pubescens. a Smithia purpurea. Sobralia chlorantha. — fragrans. macrantha. sessilis. Solandra levis. Solanum macranthum. runcinatum. Sonchus gummifer. radicatus. Sonerila elegans. z margaritacea. —— speciosa. —— stricta. Spathodea campanulata. —— levis. Spheerostema propinquum. Spirea Douglasii. Fortunei. —— grandiflora. Rableans. Spraguea umbellata. Stachytarpheta aristata. Stangeria paradoxa. Stanhopea ecornuta.
igrina, Statice Bonduelli.
Stemonacanthus macrophyllus. Stenocarpus Cunninghami. Stephanophysum Baikiei. Stifftia chrysantha.
Stokesia cyanea.
Strelitzia augusta.
INDEX.
Streptocarpus Gardeni.
Talinum polyandrum. 17 Tamarindus officinalis. 76 Tecoma fulva. 73 Tetrazygia eleagnoides. 86 Theophrastus Jussizi. 86 Thermopsis barbata. ‘ 75 Thibaudia macrantha. 76
Pinchinchensis, 8.glabra.|| 73 —— pulcherrima. 74 Thyrsacanthus bracteolatus. 85 —— Indicus. . —— Schomburgkianus.
strictus. Thunbergia coccinea.
Harrisii.
laurifolia.
Natalensis.
Tillandsia bulbosa ; var. picta. orenia Asiatica.
edentula.
- hirsuta.
Torreya Myristica.
Tradescantia papplors 08 var. va-
— thus.
Strobilanthes lactatus.
Stylidium mucronifolium.
—— saxifragoides.
Stylophorum diphyllun..
Swainsona Greyana.
Symphoricarpus microphyllus. 82
Syphocampylus Orbignianus. || 71
Tabernzemontana longiflora. 83
Tachiadenus earinatus. 17
Tacsonia mollissima. ® 188 sanguinea. 78
Talauma Candollii. 79
_— Smithii.
*
val Tetiein aurea. Tropzeolum crenatiflor
speciosum. —— umbellatum. Trycirtis pilosa. Tupa crassicaulis. . Tupidanthus calyptratus. Turnera ulmiflora.
Tydea amabilis.
‘Ullucus tuberosus. — Uroskinnera apartabilis. Vaccinium erythrinum. — —— ovatum. *.
—— Rollisoni.
Valoradia plumbaginoides. Vanda cristata.
*
- suavis.
tricolor.
Veronica formosa.
Victoria regia.
Vriesia glaucophylla.
—— psittacina; var. bracteata.
rubro-.
a *
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GRAMMATOPHYLLUM spxctosum.
Showy Grammatophyllum.
Nat. Ord. Orncu1pE#.—GyYNaNnpDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. GRamMATOPHYLLUM, Bl. Perianthium explanatum, patens, sepalis
petalisque subeequalibus. Labellum cum columna articulatum, nanum, trilobum, cucullatum. Columna arcuata, erecta, semiteres, basi callosa. Anthera subbilo- cularis. ‘Pollinia 2, globosa, basi sulcata, in extremitatibus glandule arcuate sessilia.—Herbe epiphyte, caulescentes. Caules simplices, incrassati. Folia line- aria, disticha, striata. Peduneuli radicales, longissimi, (v. terminales ?) multifiorr. Flores speciosissimi. Lindl.
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GRAMMATOPHYLLUM speciosum ; scapo multifloro pseudobulbisque longissimis, foliis distichis patenti-recurvis basi dilatatis equitantibus, bracteis herbaceis, sepalis petalisque patentissimis subobovato-oblongis undulatis obtusissimis, labelli lobis obtusis intermedio rubro-lineato, lineis ciliatis.
GRaMMATOPHYLLUM speciosum. Bl. Bijdr. p. 377. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p- 173 (in part.). Bl. Rumphia, v. 4. p. 47. 4.191. Pact. Fl. Gard. t. 69
(imperfect specimen).
Great was the surprise of botanists and horticulturists when the first knowledge of this gigantic Orchideous plant was placed before the European public in the ‘Rumphia’ above quoted, and expectations were not disappointed when the living plant was introduced by the late Messrs. Loddiges, and at length flowered, though imperfectly, in their stoves at Hackney, which happened in 1852, when the figure above quoted was published in Paxton’s
‘Flower Garden.’ The specimen now before us exceeds in size all that was anti-
~ eipated by the most sanguine, and this under the skilful manage-
ment of Mr. Carson, gardener to W. G. Farmer, Esq., of Non- such Park, Ewell, in October, 1859. It was taken from a plant of which the old pseudobulbs, or stems, were from nine to ten feet long, and the scape six feet, throwing out its noble flower- ing scape from the base. The species is a native, Blume tells us, of Java and other islands in the Indian Ocean (Mr. Finlayson detected it in Cochin China), and from its vigorous vegetation,
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and the remarkable size of the flowers, it richly merits the title of the “ Queen of Orchideous plants.” | Duscr. Stems, or pseudobulbs, clustered, erect, five to eight and ten feet high, tereti-compressed, striated below, and a few, large, appressed scales there take the. place of /eaves. ‘These latter occupy the rest of the stem, and are distichous, one and a half to two feet long, from a broad, sheathing, equitant base, lorate, acute, coriaceo-membranaceous, striated. Scape nearly the size of one’s finger, and: from four to six feet long, radical, erect, many-flowered, terete, quite glabrous. Flowers distant, expanding from the base upwards on the panicle, each with a large, broad, ovato-lanceolate, concave, greenish dract, full an inch long. Ovary pedicelliform, as long as the flower is broad, thick, fleshy, terete, four to six inches, almost white : flower-bud two and a half inches long, independent of the ovary, clavate. Expanded flower nearly six inches across. Sepa/s and petals much spreading and slightly reflexed, undulated, broad- oblong or subobovate, yellow, richly spotted and blotched with deep: red-purple. Zip small for the size of the flower, three- lobed, an inch and a half long; the lobes obtuse, the side lobes convolute over the column; the disc sulcated, with three plates more elevated in the centre, marked with red streaks, and where the red streaks are, the lines are ciliated: middle lobe entire. Column curved a little downwards, semiterete, partially spotted with red.
Fig. 1. Front view of the lip. 2. Column. 3. Pollen-masses and caudicle : —magnified.
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TAB. 5158.
STATICE BonpveE.ti.
Bonduelle’s Statice.
Nat. Ord. PLUMBAGINE®.—PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 3776.)
Sratice (§ Pteroclados) Bonduelli; foliis radicalibus patentibus pubescenti- hirsutis ciliatis spathulatis sinuato-runcinatis, lobis rotundatis terminali sub- rhombeo longe mucronato, scapis teretibus, ramis angulatis dichotome cy- mosis, pedunculis obpyramidalibus trialatis, floribus glomeratis (flavis), brac- teis interioribus patenti-spinosis, calycis limbo demum campanulato 5- dentato.
Sratice Bonduelli. Lestid. in Annal. des Sc. Nat. ser. 3. v. 16. p. 81. ¢. 17.
This pretty yellow-flowered Statice was received at the Royal
Gardens of Kew from Mr. Thomson of Ipswich, and proves to
be a species described and accurately figured by Lestiboudois in the ‘Annales des Sciences Naturelles’ above quoted, under the name of S. Bonduelli. Tt was detected in North Africa, in the desert of Djebel-Amour, on the banks of the Mzi, between Tagemont and El-Aghouat, by M. Bonduelle, chirurgien aide- major, after whom it is named. It is one of the prettier of a very pretty genus, and is among the few of the yellow-flowered | species known to us; is easily cultivated in a greenhouse, and flowers readily during the summer months.
Dzscr. Perennial. eaves radical, spreading, three to. five inches long, spathulate, sinuato-lyrate, hairy and ciliated, termi- nated by a subulate point, tapering below into a short, winged petiole: lobes of the leaves oval or rounded, separated by obtuse sinuses ; terminal one larger than the rest, subrhomboid. Scapes ° a foot and more tall, several from the same root, branched upwards in a compoundly dichotomous manner, rounded, hairy ; the dranches triangular, moderately spreading: éracts two or three together, linear, half an inch to an inch long, below the branches.and at the bases of all the dichotomies, uppermost ones subulate : w/timate branchlets, which may be considered the
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peduncle, broad, obpyramidate, an inch long, ancipitate, trialate, forked at the apex, slightly hairy. #VZowers inserted at the base of the fork of the peduncle, clustered, surrounded by scariose bracts, of which the interior are furnished with hard, green, spreading spines, some subulate, others semi-hastate, all very sharp. Calye at first cylindrical, at length infundibuliform, yel- low, the Zimb campanulate, scariose, five-toothed, and minutely crenulated. Petals five; the long claws approximated into a tube, longer than the clayx, the /amine spreading, obovate, bifid, pale-yellow. Stamens and style included.
Fig. 1. Peduncle, with flowers. 2. Flower, with an inner bractea. 3. Calyx, after the fall of the corolla :—magnijied. 7
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LLAVEA corDIFOLIA.
Cordate-leaved Llavea.
Nat. Ord. Frtices.—CryproGaMia FILicks.
Gen. Char. Pinna steriles et fertiles in eadem fronde. Sori lineares vel ob- longi in venas pinnularum transmutarum siliquiformium. Involucrum e margini- bus incurvis membranaceis dilatatis pinnularum soros tegentes.—Filix Mexicana. Caudex brevis, crassus, sguamosus. Frons subampla, tripinnata, elegantissima.
Luavea cordifolia.
Luavea cordifolia. Lagasca, Gen. et Sp. Plant. p. 33. Dict. Se. Nat. v. 27. p. 89. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 2. p. 125.
CERATODACTYLIS osmundioides. J. Sm. in Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 36. Fée, Gen. Fil. p. 228.
Auxosorus Karwinskii. Kze. in Linnea, v. 13. p. 138. Benth. Plant. Hartw. p. 64, Kze. in Schkuhr, Fil. Suppl. p. 7. ¢.4. Hook. Ie. Plant. Rar. v. 4. t. 387, 388.
BorryocramMe Karwinskii. Fée, Gen. Fil. p. 166. ¢. 15 C.
.
One of the most beautiful, and, in a state of cultivation, rarest of Ferns, native of Mexico, with a very peculiar habit; for, with a fruc- tification in many respects resembling that of our well-known Cryptogramme crispa, Br., it bears on one and the same frond two kinds of pinnules; the lower portion consists of sterile pin- nules only, the upper portion forms a graceful drooping panicle of pod-shaped fertile pinnules. No fern-collection suitable to a warm greenhouse should be without this charming plant. It is a solitary species of the genus.
Descr. Caudex or rhizome short, thick, mostly concealed underground. Fronds tufted, including the stipes, from a foot and a half to two feet long, moderately broad, tripinnate, lower pinnae: sterile, the rest fertile. Pinnules of the sterile pinne an inch or more long, ovate or cordate-ovate, petiolate, between coriaceous and membranaceous, firm, delicate, bright-green, some- what acute, serrated with subspinulose teeth, the margins slightly
thickened. eins pinnately two to three times forked, ultimate veialets terminating within the margin, and clavate. About the ==
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upper half of the frond forms a panicle of fertile, linear, pedi- cellate, pod-shaped, torulose pinaules, which are generally acute ; the margins revolute upon the back of the pinne, the edges meeting there and forming the zzvolucres to the sori, which are in lines upon the branches of the veins. Capsules nume- rous, crowded, pedicellate. Sfipes a span or more long, clothed, and thickly at the base, with subulate, falcate, delicate, whitish, membranaceous scales. Rachis free from scales, slender, flexuose.
Fig. 1. Portion of a sterile pinna, showing the venation. 2. Fertile pinna, seen from beneath, showing the margin rolled in and constituting the involucre. 3. Portion of the fertile pinna, with the involucre forced back, showing a sorus:
—magnified.
Tas. 5160.
BEGONIA FriGipDa.
Frigid Begonia.
Nat. Ord. BEGoNIACE®.—Mone@cia POLYANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4172.)
Beconta frigida ; suffruticosa erecta glabra, foliis longe petiolatis ineequaliter oblique cordatis brevi-acuminatis brevissime sinuato-lobatis serratisque, lobis acutis supra intense viridibus subtus rubro-roseis, stipulis ovatis acu- minatis roseis integerrimis, pedunculis axillaribus folia excedentibus bis di- chotomis, floribus parvis albis, masculis 4-sepalis quorum 2 ovatis 2 multo minoribus linearibus, staminibus 9 erectis, foemineis sepalis 4—5 eequalibus lineari-oblongis, capsula membranacea 3-alata, alis 2 majoribus.
Beeonta frigida. Hortul. Alf. De Cand. in Ann. des Sc. Nat. 4th Ser. v. 11. p. 51.
The foliage of this small species of Begonia, which we re- ceived from Continental gardens under the name here adopted, is more attractive than the flowers, which are unusually small and insignificant, and quite colourless ; but our artist, Mr. Fitch, while making the drawing, detected a curious morphological - structure, in the fact of one of the flowers having an zz/ferior perianth of four very unequal sepals (such as are indicative of a male flower) ; and above their point of insertion are four stamens (apparently perfect), alternating with four superior, free, ovate ovaries, each with a short style, and two, downy, linear stigmas. It is to be regretted that no section was made of these ovaries, which from situation and in form so little resemble the three- celled, inferior fruit of Begonia. Indeed, all the flowers had an imperfect appearance, a weak and starving aspect, as if likely to prove abortive; for they are not only small, but the stamens were few in each flower, never more than nine: in the female flower the petals vary from four to five, and the fruit was in one instance four-sided and four-winged.
De Candolle, in his admirable “ Mémoire sur la Famille. des - Bégoniacées” in the Annales, |.c., makes brief mention of this species as cultivated in the garden of M. Boissier at Geneva, and refers it to a section, “ Dasysteles,’ whose character is “ Flores
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masc. disepali, dipetali. Stamina libera, antheris oblongis, fila- mento longioribus. V. fem. lobis tribus, eequalibus. Svy/i tres, liberi, bifidi, a basi usque ad apicem ramorum undique papillosi, ramis erectis lmearibus. Placent@ integree. Capsula subsequa- liter trialata.”’ 7
Dezscr. Stem, in our plant, not more than a span high, gla- brous, as are the /eaves, which are from three to five inches long, long-petioled, unequally cordate, shortly acuminate, sinuate at the margin with small, sharp angles or lobes, and serrated, slightly pilose ; upper side dark coppery-green, beneath deep rose-red, especially upon the veins. Stipules half an inch long, membranaceous, pale rose-colour, deciduous, ovato-acuminate. Peduncles longer than the leaves, twice dichotomous. Flowers white, small. A/ale flowers with four, spreading sepals, two oval, and two very small linear ones. Stamens nine. Female flowers larger. Sepals four to five, equal, oblong-oval, spreading. Cap- sule with two large and one small and very narrow wing.
Fig. 1. Male flower. 2. A stamen. 3. Female flower. 4. Transformed hermaphrodite ? flower :—magnified.
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Tas. 5161, DIDYMOCARPUS prRIMULAFOLIA.
Primrose-leaved Didymocarpus.
Nat. Ord. CyRTANDRACEH.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4757.)
Dipymocarpus primulefolia ; acaulis, folis radicalibus patentibus ovalibus obovatisve obtusis serratis in petiolum longum alatum decurrentibus rugosis supra pubescentibus subtus tomentoso-albidis, scapis axillaribus folia sequantibus apice dichotome cymoso-paucifloris, calycis villosi lobis lineari-oblongis erectis obtusis, corolle tubo curvato subtus precipue insig- niter inflato limbi lobis 5 patentibus eequalibus.
DipyMocarPus primuleefolia. Gardn. Contrib. to Fl. of Ceylon, p. 18.
Raised from seeds which were sent from Ceylon by our ex- cellent friend Mr. Thwaites, to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it flowered in November, 1859. It was well named by the lamented Gardner, “ primulefolia,’ for not only the leaves, but the front view of the flower calls to mind some or other of the Primrose tribe. The colour of the leaves however, from the copious down, is peculiarly hoary, almost white. It is an inha- bitant of shady rocks, in forests, on the Hantane range, near Kandy. A near ally of this is D. Humboldtiana, of Gardner, figured at our Tab. 4757. That has much broader leaves and shorter petioles.
Descr. Herbaceous, stemless. Whole plant covered with hoary down or short hairs, thicker (quite tomentose) on the under side of the leaves. eaves (the blade) three to four inches
long, all radical, elliptical or subobovate, patent, rugose with
strongly reticulated veins, crenato-serrate, tapering at the base —
. into a long, winged petiole, longer than the blade. Scapes
about as long as the leaves, erect or nearly so, dichotomously divided at the apex into a few-flowered cyme of moderately sized, pale-lilac-coloured flowers, soon passing into white. Calyx monophyllous, cut into five, deep, nearly erect, linear-oblong,
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obtuse, very hairy /oles. Corolla short, with the tude at first curved downwards, then upwards, singularly broad, and inflated or ventricose beneath; limb of five, spreading, nearly equal, rounded segments, crenated at the margin. Stamens two, perfect, quite included, inserted near the base of the tube; filaments short ; anthers yellow, reniform, applied to each other face to face, and slightly conjoined: there are besides in our plant three filiform aéortive stamens. Ovary oblong, pubescent and glandu-
lose. Style as long as the tube of the corolla. Stigma subcapi- tate, depressed.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Corolla, laid open, showing “the stamens. 4. Pistil :—magnified.
Tas. 5162.
STATICE BRASSICAFOLIA.
Cabbage-leaved Statice.
Nat. Ord. PLUMBAGINE%.—PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 3776.)
Sratice (Pteroclados) Jrassicafolia ; basi suffrutescente, foliis parce et brevis- sime velutinis margine ciliatulis petiolatis lyratis lobo terminali maximo ovato-rotundo sepe irregulariter lobato obtusissimo cuspidato basi subcor- dato lateralibus 2—4-auriculeformibus parvis rotundatis alternis basi spe confluentibus, seapo angulato superne paniculato-corymboso, ramis bialatis © alis latissimis grosse undulato-lobatis subdichotomis in auriculas amplas abeuntibus, spiculis bifloris 2-3 ad ramulorum apicem fasciculatis, ramuli floralis alis tribus a basi sursum dilatatis glabris in auriculas breves faleatas acutiusculas cujus altera sape obsolete abeuntibus, bracteis duabus inferi- oribus rufo-membranaceis ovatis acutis puberulis, interiore triplo majore rubello-coriacea dorso coriacea elevatim plurinervi glabra apice angustis- sime albo-membranacea ciliatula, calycis tubo glabro limbo obtusissime 5-denticulato-sinuato. Boiss.
SraTice brassicefolia. Webb in. Bourg. Plant. Canar. Exsicc. n. 136. Phyt. Canar. v. 3. p.181. t. 195. Boiss. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 12. p. 637.
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A very pretty new Statice, recently detected by M. Bourgeau in the Canaries, but only in the island of Gomora, and at a spot — called El Risco de las Sulas, Lugar de Agulo, flowering in great perfection early in April: with us, even in a cool greenhouse, blossoming early in August. It evidently belongs to the same group of the extensive genus Statice with the well-known S. — arborea of Willdenow, and of Bot. Mag. t. 3776; but very dif- ferent, and of a more humble character in point of size. In this group of the genus, Teneriffe and the adjacent islands are extremely rich.
Dzscr. The root or rhizome is stout and woody, and some- times rises above the surface of the ground, but never to the ex-. tent of becoming a subarborescent stem, as is the case in S. ar- horea. Leaves all radical, roughly hairy, with small sete, va- rying much in size, from six inches to a span and more long,
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lyrato-pinnatifid, or even below subpinnate. The terminal /ode very large, broadly obovate, somewhat waved, tipped with a long subulate dristle ; below that lobe the petiole is winged and sinuato-lobate, the lobes small, subtriangular, and the lowest ones wide apart and distinct. Scape a foot or a foot and a half high, dichotomously panicled above, very singularly and broadly winged, as’seen in the figure, and as is, together with the inflo- rescence, sufficiently amply described in the above specific cha- racter. :
Fig. 1. Flowers and outer bract. 2. Inner bract. 3. Calyx, separate from the rest of the flower. 4. Portion of a leaf, to show the sete :—all more or less magnified.
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FOURCROYA FLAvo-viriDIs.
Yellow-green Fourcroya.
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACE®.—HEXANDRIA MOoNnoGyYNIA.
Gen. Char. Perigonium corollinum, superum, deciduum, hexaphyllo-partitum ; foliolis equalibus, patentiusculis. Stamina 6, epigyna; filamenta basi cuneato- dilatata, sstivatione erecta, sub anthesi inclusa; anthere ovate, medio dorso affine, erectee. Ovarium inferum, triloculare. Ovuda plurima, in loculorum an- gulo centrali biseriata, horizontalia. Stylus triqueter, basi strumoso-incrassatus, subexsertus, cavus, apice pervius. Stigma obtusum, fimbriatum. Capsula co- riacea, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis. Semina plurima, plano-compressa.— Herbe in America calidiore cis equatorem indigene, longece, semel florentes ; caudice interdum giganteo, apice folioso; scapo terminali, paniculatim ramoso, multifioro. Endl.
Fourcroya flavo-viridis ; acaulis, foliis pallide flavo-viridibus subsesquipedalibus bipedalibusve lanceolatis carnosis acuminatis subtortuosis spinosis, spinulis mediocribus falcatis, seapo subbiorgyali apice laxe racemoso-paniculato, floribus subaggregatis nutantibus 3 uncias longis, perianthio infundibuli- formi-hypocrateriformi, tubo viridi, limbo flavescente 4 uncias lato, stami- nibus limbi laciniis lanceolatis 3 interioribus latioribus brevioribus, fila- mentis infra medium valde dilatatis, stylo staminibus brevioribus basi erecto-trilobis.
The brief account we have of Mourcroya tuberosa might be considered sufficiently to correspond with our present plant to justify us in attaching the name to it, were it not for the absence of a swollen base or rhizome from which the roots spring. We have plants that have not yet flowered, which in that particular better correspond with 7. tuberosa, and I am bound to consider a new species, which Mr. Repper sent, twelve or, fourteen years ago, along with Cereus senilis and other Mexican succulents, from Real del Monte. It may be considered a Fourcroya gigantea in miniature; the flowers however being quite as large and of the same structure as F. gigantea, already given in Bot. Mag., Tab. 2250.
Descr. ‘The root is coarsely fibrous, without stem or cau- dex. Leaves all radical, more or less spreading, and some-
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what tortuose, about two-feet long, lanceolate, pungently acumi- nate, pale-green, very smooth and even, spinulose at the margin : the spines or teeth falcate, sharp ; superior ones pointing towards the apex, inferior ones the reverse. Scape twelve to fourteen feet high, naked below but bracteated above, forming a long lax racemose panicle ; pedicels aggregated on short bracteated pe- duncles, drooping ; bracteas ovato-lanceolate, long-acuminate. Pe- rianth pale-yellowish-green ; the ¢wbe incorporated with the ob- tusely triangular ovary. The spread of the limb is nearly four inches ; three outer seyals narrower, three inner subcorolloid and a little waved. Filaments, as in the genus, singularly dilated below the middle, and the style has at its base three large erect lobes, characteristic of the genus Fourcroya.
Fig. 1. Apex of a leaf,—nat. size. 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil. 4. Transverse section of ovary :—magnified.
Tas. 5164, SPIRAXBA FortTuNEI.
Fortune's Spirea.
Nat. Ord. Rosacrz.—Icosanpria D1-PENTAGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4795.)
Spirza Fortunei; frutex erectus, ramulis glabratis, foliis lanceolatis longe acuminatis grosse subduplicato-serratis supra glabris subtus glaucis gla- berrimis v. pilosulis, cymis laxis, ramis patentibus calycibusque pubes- centibus, calycis lobis patentibus tubo intus tomentosis disco glandulis suberectis ornato, ovariis glaberrimis.
Sprr#a Fortunei. Planchon, Flore des Serres, v. 9. p. 871. Spirma callosa. Lindl. et Paat. Fl. Gard. v. 2. p. 113, cum ic. aylogr.
This handsome shrub is evidently the S. callosa of Lindley, a native of North China and Japan, but whether of Thunberg or not appears doubtful, for the latter author describes the leaves as eglandular, whereas this and all its allies have the serratures tipped with a gland. Planchon, who points out this difference, adds that the S. ca//osa has much smaller, somewhat pilose leaves, and larger callosities (axillary buds) at the base of the petiole. Notwithstanding these differences we suspect this will prove to be Thunberg’s plant, for the leaves vary extremely in size, as do those of its allies. There are sometimes a few hairs on the leaves beneath. Our specimens have the large callosities alluded to, and we cannot but suspect some error in regard to — the eglandular serratures. We have a cultivated specimen, in- troduced from Japan to this country by T. Lobb, in which the inflorescence and calyx are nearly glabrous.
The S. Fortunei flowered this year in the Royal Gardens, Kew ; but we have figured in preference the specimens sent by Mr. Noble, of Bagshot, for reasons which will be stated under S. Nobleana (hereafter to be figured). As a species it is very nearly related to some forms of the Himalayan 8. bella itself, a a most variable plant, but in which the glands of the disc are always much larger. :
Descr. A straggling shrub, three to five feet high, with reddish glabrous éranches and puberulous branchlets. Leaves
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three to six inches long, rather membranous, elliptic-lanceolate _or oblong-lanceolate, with a long acumen, irregularly acutely serrate ; the serratures tipped with a gland ; deep green, glabrous above, glaucous and glabrous or obscurely pilose beneath. n- florescence a lax cyme, with slender patent branches. Calya tomentose with spreading lobes and hairy tube inside. Desc with a row of suberect small glands. Stamens not very long. Ovaries quite glabrous. —J/. D. H.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Ditto, with petals and stamens removed. 3. Portion of calyx, gland, and stamens :—all magnified.
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CEANOTHUS ve vutTINus.
Velvety Ceanothus.
Nat. Ord. RHAMNE®.—PENTANDRIA Monoaynia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4660.)
CEANOTHUS velutinus; frutex, ramis erectis, foliis coriaceis orbiculari-ellipticis cordatisve obtusis glanduloso-crenatis supra glabris intense viridibus ver- nicosis subtus canescenti-tomentosis trinerviis, paniculis pedunculatis axil- laribus, floribus densis albis.
CranoTuus velutinus. Douglas, in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. p. 125. t. 45. Torrey and Gray, Fl. of N. Am. v. 1. p. 265.
This is a plant of which the figure makes very little show upon white paper, for there is nothing gay and no variety of colour ; but in a garden it proves to be a very handsome evergreen orna- mental shrub, derived from the Oregon Territory, with leaves whose upper surface is very dark green, rendered glossy by ap- parently an aromatic resin, which the plant exudes in hot wea- ther, the under side velvety with whitish down, or sometimes slightly ferruginous. It was first detected by the lamented - Douglas, and has been lately reared from seed by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, with whom it flowered in the open air in the early winter months. It may be expected to be quite hardy, for it is found among the Rocky Mountains at considerable elevation above the sea.
Descr. Shruéd, eight to ten feet high on its native hills, with nearly glabrous, terete ranches, and rather long-petioled /eaves of a singularly dark and vernicose green above, pale and canes- cent or sometimes subferruginous with velvety down, beneath ; the largest of them are nearly three inches long; their form is elliptical-rotundate or elliptical-cordate, the margin glanduloso- crenulate ; there are three principal longitudinal nerves, which are prominent beneath. Peduacles axillary, bearing erect, thyr- soid panicles of dense white flowers, overtopping the leaves, with
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a pair of dracteas where the branches commence. Calyx small, five-lobed. Petals long-clawed, cucullate. Stamens with in- curved filaments; anthers subglobose. Dise very conspicuous. Fruit a capsule, about the size of a small pea.
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HETEROCENTRON Mexicanum.
Mexican Heterocentron.
Nat. Ord. MELASTOMACE®.—OctTANDRIA MonoGYNIA.
Gen. Char. HeterocentRON, Hook. et Arn. Flos tetramerus. Calycis dentes triangulari-acuti, tubum campanulatum subsequantes. Petala obovata. Stamina 8, alternatim ineequalia, haud omuino conformia; antheris lineari-oblongis, 1- porosis, loculis undulatis ; 4 majorum connectivo infra loculos longe producto et ultra filamenti insertionem in appendices duas rectas calcariformes conniventes antice porrecto; 4 minorum connectivum brevissime ante vix productum sed infra loculas bituberculatum. Ovarium costis 8 parum conspicuis basi adherens, superne liberum, apice setis coronatum, 4-loculare. Stylus filiformis, stigmate punctiformi. Capsula 4-valvis. Semina cochleata.—Sufirutices fruticesve Mexi- cani, monticole, erecti, ramosi, inter Melastomeas foliis multiplinerviis et Sere omnino penninerviis memorabiles ; floribus paniculatis, albis ante roseis. Naudin.
Hererocentron Mericanum ; suffruticosum pilis scabriusculum, caule ramisque tetragonis, foliis ellipticis obtusis penninerviis obtusis integerrimis in petiolum longiusculum decurrentibus, panicula foliosa ampla terminali mul- tiflora, calycis tubo globoso echinato-tuberculato.
HererocenTRon Mexicanum. Hook. et Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 290. Naud. Melast. Tent. p. 248. :
Metastoma subtriplinervium. Link. Ic. Pl. Rar., p. 47. t. 24 (flore albo).
Heteronoma subtriplinervium. Hort.
A very beautiful Mexican Melastomaceous plant, inhabiting mountains about Xalape, at altitudes of six to eight thousand feet, and although hitherto kept in the stove with us, there is no doubt of its succeeding well in a cool greenhouse. It has been ~ circulated, judging by the appellation which we have received with it, as “ Heteronoma subtriplinervium, ’—the genus of which is quite different ; and the specific name implies a character, common to most of the Order Melastomacee, but quite at variance with the species and the genus to which our plant be-. longs. Our plants have flowered in the autumnal and early winter months, and prove exceedingly ornamental at that un- favourable portion of the year. We owe the possession of our
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living plants to Messrs. Hugh Low and Son, of the Clapton Nursery.
Descr. Suffruticose. A foot and rather more high, with four-anguled stem and branches, and opposite /eaves, slightly scabrous above, with short sete, elliptical in form, obtuse, entire, penninerved, tapering at the base into a moderately long petiole. Panicle very compound, terminal, spreading, formed of the nu- merous flowering branches, each of which forms a corymé of many flowers, of a bright rose-colour, nearly an inch in diameter. Tube of the calyx globose, tuberculato-muricate ; /imé of five, spreading, ovate, large, at length reflexed segments. Pefals four, spreading, rhombeo-orbicular, a little concave, shortly unguiculate. Stamens of two kinds: four smaller ones, with a very minute connectivum and an erect anther ; four longer ones, with a long connectivum, as long as the anther, bifid at the base, attached transversely to the apex of the filament, and remarkably deflexed.’ Ovary quite concealed within the muricated calyx- tube, four-celled.
Fig. 1. Calyx, with the capsule bursting at the apex. 2. Fruit (and calyx- tube), cut through transversely. 3. One of the four lesser stamens. 4. One of the four larger ones :—all more or less magnified.
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TORENIA HIrsvuTA.
Hairy Torenia.
Nat. Ord. ScROPHULARIACE®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, plicatus v. alatus, apice oblique 5-dentatus v. bi- labiatus. Corolla ringens, labio superiore emarginato vel bifido, inferiore trifido majore. Stamina postica fertilia, antica arcuata antherifera, basi appendice den- tiformi vel filiformi aucta. Anthere per paria arcte approximate vel coherentes. Stylus apice bilamellatus. Capsula oblonga, calycem non excedens.—Herbee gerontogee, tropice, vel parce ex orbe veteri allate etiam America tropica vigentes. Folia opposita. Racemi dreves, pauciflori, fasciculaformes, vel rarius elongati, ter- minales vel ramo excurrente falso axillares, vel in dichotomia ramorum siti. Benth. in De Cand.
TorENIA hirsuta; diffusa, foliis petiolatis ovatis serrato-crenatis basi subcordatis, calycibus, elongatis 5-costatis exalatis basi obtusis, corolla calyce vix duplo longiore, filamentorum anticorum appendice subulata. Benth.
Torenta hirsuta. Lamb. Ilust. t. 523. f.2. Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. v. 10. p. £10.
TorENIA cordifolia. Benth. in Wall. Cat. n. 3954 (non Rowb.).
From the stove of the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it was received from Messrs. Hugh Low and Son, of Clapton, who appear to be the first who have introduced the plant to our stoves. It certainly has many points in common with 7. Asia- tica, figured at our Tab. 4249, and is perhaps more beautiful than that favourite plant. The flowers are equally large, as well as more highly coloured, and more inclined to a reddish than a blue purple. The plant is not so straggling, but more compact, the leaves shorter, less acuminate, less sharply serrated ; and they, and the whole plant (and even the corollas), are hoary with fine, short, canescent hairs. The calyx is considerably different in shape, both in the state of bud, and after its full expansion, much less acuminated at the apex; more obtuse at the base, and the upper lip is always deeply bipartite (as accurately re- presented in the otherwise indifferent figure of Lamarck), which seems never to be the case with 7. Asiatica. It flowers at dif-
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ferent seasons, and requires the protection of a stove. Our draw- ing was made in December, 1859.
- “Drscr. Stem herbaceous, four-sided, and, as well as the fo- liage, hoary with copious short hairs. Zeaves opposite, short- petiolate, cordato-ovate, crenato-serrate, shortly acuminate. Pe- duncles solitary, axillary in the upper leaves, longer than they, single-flowered. Flowers inclined, large. Calyx oblong; angu- lar, scarcely winged, downy, blunt at the base, two-lipped, up- per lip deeply bifid, lower lip trifid, segments acuminate. Co- yolla more than twice as long as the calyx, tube gibbous above. Corolla rich purple; upper lip entire, lower lip three-lobed, la- teral lobes very deep purple, middle lobe white, with a purple margin. Stamens and pistil included: their structure the same as that in 7. Asiatica. ‘
Fig. 1. Portion of the leaf. 2. Corolla, laid open. 3. Calyx and _pistil. 4. Pistil, with its hypogynous cup or dise :—magnified.
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NARTHEX Asaratipa.
Asafetida.
Nat. Ord. UMBELLIFERZ.—PENTANDRIA DiGyYNIA.
Gen. Char. Calycis margo obsoletus. Petala oblonga, apice una inflexa. Sty- lopodium urceolatum. Styli recurvi. Fructus a dorso plano-compressus, mar- gine dilatato; mericarpia jugis primariis 5, 3 intermediis filiformibus, 2 laterali- bus obsoletioribus margini contiguis immersis. Vi¢¢e in valleculis dorsalibus ; plerumque solitariz: (lateralibus nunc 1}-23-vittatis) ; commissuralibus 0-6, va- riis. Semen complanatum.—Herba gigantea Tibetica ; radice crassa, fibris inter- textis rigidis coronata; caule robusto, ramoso; foliis bipinnatis, laciniis lineari- oblongis, obtusis, integerrimis v. serratis, glabris v. pubescentibus, petiolo lato, amplo, vaginante, inflato; umbellis compositis ; involucris 0; floribus flavis, interdum unisecualibus v. sterilibus.
NartTHEX Asafetida. ; NarTHEX Asafcetida. Falconer in Linn. Soc. Trans. v. 20. p. 285.
A plant as rare as it is interesting, for the opportunity of figuring which we are indebted to Professor Balfour, who pub- lished the following record of its introduction and flowering in the Edinburgh Garden in the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle’ for June 1859, p. 487. “This season another of the Asafcetida plants, Var- thex Asafetida, raised from seeds sent home by Sir John M‘Neill and Dr. Falconer, has produced a flowering stem. The specimen was planted out in front of the houses in the garden about five years ago. It began to show symptoms of developing a flower- ing stem at the end of February and beginning of March; none of the large radical leaves were produced, but the flowering axis shot up at once from the under-ground stem. At the time when. this took place none of the other specimens in the open ground of the garden had shown any leaves. Warned by the untimely fate of the plant last year, which was suddenly destroyed by an intense frost on 13th April, when the thermometer fell to 22°, Mr. M‘Nab secured the present specimen from injury by getting a glazed wooden frame about eight feet high erected around it, and connecting it with the adjoining stove so that a moderate degree of heat might be supplied in the event of severe frost MARCH Ist, 1860.
occurring during the night. In this way the plant has been com- pletely protected from the effects both of very high wind and of cold. It has progressed vigorously and rapidly. On the 13th April its height was seven feet eight inches. This height has been reached in about forty-five days. The last thirty inches of growth have been accomplished in eleven days, 7. e. from 2nd to the 13th of April. The first anther expanded at eleven a.m. on the 7th of April, and in the course of that day the anthers appeared by hundreds: the plant has flowered well, and promises to bear fruit. At present there are forty-five compound umbels on it, some of which are five or six inches across.”
The plant here figured for the first time from perfect spe- cimens is one of the several now known to yield the well known fetid gum-resin asafcetida, though whether it be, as Falconer supposed, 4. Disgunensis, indicated by Keempfer and figured in his ‘Ameenitates Exoticee’ (p. 535), is still a disputed point. That it yields excellent asafoetida in the form of a copious milky juice, which is collected and exported to Europe in great abun- dance, is clearly made out by Dr. Falconer, who discovered it in western Tibet, north of Kashmire, in 1838, and sent seeds to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh in 1839, where the plant flowered and ripened its fruit last year.
It would be impossible to discuss here the vexed question of the history of the origin of all the Asafcetidas, nor would the dis- cussion be very profitable; it is certain that Keempfer had two plants (species or varieties) in view, from different countries,— that his descriptions and drawings and specimens (in the British Museum) do not tally,—and that though Dr. Falconer considers his plant one of Keempfer’s, other botanists do not. Just now too we have received at the Museum of the Royal Gardens su- perb specimens of a very different gigantic Umbellifer from the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg, asa true Asafetida of com- merce ; it was collected by M. Borsczhow in sandy places on the steppes east of the Caspian, where it attains a height of nine feet ! and yields abundance of excellent asafcetida. Professor Bunge has called this plant Scorodosma fetidum (characterized generically by the absence of vittee), and M. Borsczhow, who recently visited this country, informs us he believes it to be the Khorassan plant figured by Keempfer, and of which fruits are in the British Mu- seum. The same gentleman kindly informs us further, that he considers the Tibetan plant to be quite distinct (in which we entirely concur), and that the Scorodosma is probably also found in eastern Persia.
Referring to our herbarium, we find various plants (varieties, genera, or species), all yielding the asafcetida of commerce or an entirely similar gum-resin :—(1) Dr. Faleoner’s plant (leaves,
fruit, and root), from Tibet. (2) A very similar one, collected by Drs. Falconer and Thomson in the southern damp valleys of the same mountain (and elsewhere in Kashmire) in whose northern dry valleys Falconer obtains his Varthex, also by Dr. Thomson in Piti (Tibet). (3) A flowering specimen, gathered in Turkistan by Dr. Lord (19th April, 1838), and given to Dr. Falconer : it is much injured by insects. (4) Leaves and roots of a quite similar plant sent by Dr. Stocks, from Doobund, in Beloochistan, as, certainly, the Asafcetida of commerce. (5) Another similar plant from the banks of the Zenderad, in the Baktiyari mountains of Persia, collected by the late W. Loftus (June 7, 1852), of which excellent specimens are in the British Museum. (6) The Scoro- dosma of Bunge, of which we know the fruit, root, and stems, but have not seen leaves. Lastly, we have imperfect fragments of Oriental Umbellifers from Aucher-Eloi and others, which may belong to some of the above.
It remains to observe that the characters upon which Narther and Scorodosma have been separated from Feru/a seem to us un- worthy of generic importance. ‘The number and length of the vittee vary extremely in the Edinburgh and native specimens. : The habit of the species is entirely the same with that of varions Ferulas, which themselves vary greatly in habit and vitte. We may add that the individual species or varieties further differ in the smoothness or pubescence of the leaflets, their entire or serrated margins, in the shape of the mericarps, and in the position of the smaller umbels of male flowers, which are often extra-alary. Plants growing in arid climates (and, like the Narthex, on the borders of moist ones) are eminently variable, both as to sensible properties, form of organs, and habit; and we suspect that the discrepancies between the specimens and descriptions of several of the above enumerated plants (exclud- ing the Scorodosma) may be attributed to climate.
We have to express our obligations to various gentlemen for the trouble they have taken to obtain specimens and information on this interesting subject, to Drs. Falconer, Balfour, Christison, to M. Borsczhow and Mr. Hanbury, and especially to Mr. Ben- nett, of the British Museum, who has further aided us in examin- ing the specimens ; and he considers the characters of the vitte of little value when unaccompanied with others of importance.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Ovary. 3. Transverse section of mericarp. 4. Ripe fruit (all from the Edinburgh Garden pliant). 5. Fruit of native specimen, col- lected by Falconer. 6. Transverse section of ditto. 7. Fruit of Scorodosma fetidum :—all but 4, 5, and 7 magnified.
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Tas. 5169. SPIRASA NosBLEANA,
Mr. Noble’s Spirea.
Nat. Ord. Rosace#.—Icosanpria Di-PENTAGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4795.)
Sprrma Nobleana; frutex erectus, ramis cano-puberulis, foliis lineari-oblongis oblongo-lanceolatisve acutis grosse subduplicato-serratis supra glabris sub- tus dense pubescentibus, paniculis brevibus densifloris pedicellis calycibusque tomentosis, calycis lobis patentibus tubo intus glabro, disco glandulis in- structo, ovariis glabris.
In the summer of 1859, Mr. Chas. Noble sent us numerous fine specimens of three Spireas, S. callosa, 8. Douglasii, and the present, with the following remarks :—‘ The third must, I believe, be a hybrid between the two above named: the history of it is this. I had callosa and Douglasii growing side by side. I raised young plants from the seed of S Douglasir, supposing them to be true; but their growth and flower appear to be ex- actly intermediate between the two; and what appears remark- able is, that the whole of the bed, containing several hundreds, are quite the same.” A careful examination of the specimens seemed in many respects to confirm Mr. Noble’s view, the sup- posed hybrid having the leaves precisely intermediate, approach- ing Douglasii in shape and pubescence, but cad/osa in toothing and green under-surface ; the inflorescence is intermediate be- tween the long thyrsus of Douglasit and broad cyme of callosa. The calyx has the patent lobes of cadlosa and glabrous tube inside of Douglasii ; and the flowers have the evident ring of glands of callosa, but the colour and stamens of Dowglasit. On referring to our herbarium, however, we find the wild speci- mens from William Lobb of the supposed hybrid from the moun- tains of California, where S. ca//osa (a native of Japan) has never been found; and what is more remarkable, the specimens bear the same number (391) as Lobb has attached to 8S. Douglasi. The question hence arises, may not the seeds of both have arrived in one packet, and been sown, and their differences not
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having been observed, those of the present alone may have been collected and raised? The plant is, on the whole, very much nearer to Douglasii than to callosa, showing no approach to the lanceolate leaf of the latter; and the inflorescence, though so much shorter than in Dowglasit, is by no means cymose. Such are the facts of this curious case, which we must leave to the future to decide. We have figured these species from Mr. Noble’s specimens, and must own that were it not for the patent calyx-lobes and evident series of glands, we should have regarded this as a variety of S. Douglasiv.
Descr. An erect sirwb, intermediate in habit between S. cal- losa and Douglasit. Branches and branchlets reddish, pube- -rulous. Leaves two to five inches long, linear-oblong, acute, coarsely duplicato-serrate from below the middle upwards, ser- ratures tipped with minute glands; upper surface deep-green, glabrous, under paler, densely pubescent. Jnflorescence a broad, short, subconical ¢hyrsus of densely-crowded flowers, very similar to, but rather deeper coloured than 8. Douglasit. Calyzx-lobes patent, the tube glabrous within. Dzsc with a series of small, suberect glands. Ovaries glabrous. J. D. H.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same, with petals and stamens removed :—oth magnified.
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Lvory Angrecum ; greenish-flowered variety.
Nat. Ord. Orcutrx®.—GyYNANDRIA Mono@ynia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4761.)
ANara&cum eburneum ; caule simplici elato, foliis coriaceis lucidis apice obliquis 7-10-striatis, spicis multifloris elongatis secundis, labello orbiculari-cordato cuspidato basi jugo elevato cristatis, caleare sepalo supremo parallelo et di- midio longiore, ovario scabro.
An@R&cuM eburneum. Thouars, Orchid. Afric. t.65. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4761 (which see for synonyms and description).
Var. B. virens; floribus minoribus, labello cordiformi medio virescente. Angreecum virens. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1847; under t.19, in Paxt, Flower Garden, v. 1. p. 25. f. 9,10. (Tas. Nosrr. 5170.)
This plant having blossomed in the Royal Gardens at the same time as, and in the same stove with, Angraecum eburneum (see Tab. 4761), the differences to be seen are so trifling that we dare not venture to give it as a species. Indeed, Dr. Lindley, on first describing it from very imperfect materials, observes that “it is very like a small state of Angraecum eburneum ;” and “it is published chiefly to draw attention to its locality, which is said to be Serampore ; but whether it is really a native of the continent of India, or a plant received from the old Botanical Garden of that settlement, as is more probable, I do not know.” Again, in describing and figuring the 4. virens in Paxton’s ‘Flower Garden,’ along with a very-accurate figure from Bourbon specimens, the chief characteristic mark is made to depend upon colour ; “the sepals and petals and spur are greenish, and the lip itself, though white, is nevertheless conspicuously tinged with green in the middle ;” not however to such a degree as in the plant which flowered with Mr. Loddiges, and which gave rise to the name which this plant bears. We may then safely con- sider it a variety and a less beautiful form of the noble Angre- cum eburneum, and further, that the statement of the plant being a native of Serampore originated in error.
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Tarn. 5171. CHAMZEBATIA Fo.Lio.Losa.
Leafteted Chamebatia.
Nat. Ord. Rosack®.—IcOSANDRIA MonoGyYnIA.
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus turbinato-campanulatus ; Jimbus persistens, laciniis 5 wstivatione valvatis. Petala 5. Stamina numerosa, pluriseriata, ad faucem calycis inserta. Ovarium in fundo calycis unicum, erectum, liberum: stylus ex apice ovarii erectus, latere interiore fere ad medium fissus et stigmatifer. Ovula 2, erecta, anatropa. Achenium siccum, calyce inclusum. Semen unicum, erec- tum.—Frutex Californicus, ramosissimus ; foliis tripinnatisectis, segmentis ultimis confertis numerosissimis ; stipulis lineari-lanceolatis; floribus cymosis, albis. Torrey.
CHamMazsBatTiA foliolosa.
Cuammpatta foliolosa. Benth. Plant. Hartw. p. 308. Torrey, Plante Fremon- tiana, p. 11. t. 6.
This is certainly one of the most remarkable of Rosaceous plants, in its flowers resembling a shrubby Potentilla, but with leaves more resembling the very compound foliage of some species of Milfoil (Achillea). It is a native of the “higher parts of the Sierra Nevada, as well as the sides of the foot-hills (m great abundance), and the mountains of the Sacramento, in California, and was first discovered by Colonel Fremont, in 1844,” after- wards gathered by Mr. Hartweg and Mr. Shelton; and Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, have the credit of importing living plants, sent by their collector from California, which there is every reason to believe will prove hardy in our gardens and shrubberies, and assuredly highly ornamental. In our figure the flowers alone are taken from dried specimens. The genus is allied to Cercocarpus and Purshia.
Descr. “A shrub, growing from two to three feet high, of an agreeable balsamic odour, with very smooth bark, and nume- rous upright branches.” Leaves broad-oval or elliptic, nearly sessile, very closely and compactly tripinnatifid, the margin ci- liated ; primary lobes approximate, linear, oblong, obtuse, patent;
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ultimate segments oval, acute, tipped with a glandular mucro, sometimes having a similar small lobe at the inferior base. S#i- pules minute, subulate, adnate to the short petiole. Peduncles terminal, on the branches cymose, glanduloso-hirsute, few-flow- ered, bracteated; the dractee toothed or pinnatifid. Flowers white, half an inch wide. Calyz quinquefid, externally glandu- loso-pilose ; ‘whe turbinate ; segments reflexed. Petals obcor- date, shortly unguiculate. Stamens numerous. Ovary single, free, hairy, with one erect ovule ; style erect, glabrous. Stigma with a cleft on one side.
Fig. 1. Portion of a leaf. 2. Flower. 3. Calyx laid open, showing the sta- mens and pistil. 4. Stamen. 5. Pistil, 6. Vertical section of ovary :—all magnified. J. Flower-bud,—unat. size. ;
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Nat. Ord. OncHIDE#.—GYNANDRIA MonaANDRIA.
Gen. Ohar. Sepala et petala conformia, patentia, omnino libera, basi zequalia. Labellum difforme, membranaceum, trilobum, semicucullatum, basi cum margine column connatum, supra basin tumidum (intrusum) : venis lamellatis. Colum- na alata. Pollinia 8.—Rhizoma repens, nudum, annulatum, pseudobulbigerum. Pseudobulbi magni, elongati, bi-triphylli. Folia coriacea. Scapi terminales, va- ginati. Bracteer magne, sicce, spathacee. Flores speciosi, racemost, congesti. Lindl.
Scnompurexta Lyonsi; sepalis petalisque ovatis obtusissimis crispis, labello in- diviso conformi unguiculato concavo margine crassulo, costis quinque sub- eequalibus acutis, anthera bicornuta. Lindl.
Scnompuraxia Lyonsi. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. September 2, 1853, p. 615.
The spike of this Schomburgkia was sent to us by Messrs. Rollison and Son, of the Tooting Nurseries, in August of last year (1859). Dr. Lindley considers it “the prettiest of the genus.” It is remarkable for the great length of the reflexed bracts, the uniformity of the sepals and petals, and the copious purple spots on the generally pure-white ground ; and these spots arranged in parallel lines. In our specimen the lip is equally white with the sepals and petals, and scarcely spotted at all: in the specimens described by Dr. Lindley from Mr. Lyons’ plant, the lip was dull-violet, with a yellowish edge, and deep-crimson ribs. At the time that description was published its native country was not known; but Dr. Lindley has since seen a native specimen in Dr, Alexander Prior’s herbarium, which that gentleman had ga- thered from “the trunk of a tree brought down from hills in St. Ann’s parish, Jamaica.”
Duscr. The foliage of this species has not been seen by us, but Messrs. Rollison describe it as exactly resembling that of S. crispa, Brocklehurstiana, and marginata. he scape is sheathed with bracteas. ‘I'he spike a span and more long: éracteas, the lower ones at least, more than three mches long, membranace- MARCH Ist, 1860.
ous, convolute, acuminate, refracted. Pedicels (with the ovary) of the same length as the bracts. V/owers nearly two inches across: sepals and petals spreading, nearly uniform, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, crisped, obtuse, white, prettily marked with lines of purple spots, leaving a broader white line down the centre. zp larger than the petals, recurved, acute, and apicu- late, much crisped at the margin, white, scarcely spotted, the disc with elevated longitudinal lines or plaits. Column curved, bidentate. Anther-case hemispherical, with two, conspicuous, curved horns.
Fig. 1. Column and anther. 2. Lip :—magnified.
Tas: d173a CENTROSTEMMA MULTIFLORUM.
Many-flowered Centrostemma.
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Nat. Ord. ASCLEPIADE®.—PENTANDRIA DieyNIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla 5-fida, abrupte reflexa, ngo- lanceolatis, fauce annulo piloso ornata. Gynostegium inferne angu sulca- tum, corollz faucem longe superans. Corona staminea summo gyno: 1 5-phylla, foliolis dimidia superiori parte gynostegio adnatis stigma infer. in cornu calearatum productis. Anthere parve, membrana ov adpressa terminate. Masse pollinis erectee, oblong, basi et apice obtuse, com- presse. Stigma subdepressum, papilla acutiuscula, Styli elongati. Follreuls leeves, oblongi, attenuati. Semina comosa.—Frutices Moluccani, volubiles ; folia opposita, coriacea ; umbelle interpetiolares v. terminales, pedunculate, multiflore ; flores majusculi, pedicellis gracilibus habituque proprio. Decaisne.
CentRosTeMMA multiflorum ; foliis oblongis vel lineari-oblongis acuminatis basi in petiolum attenuatis, corolle fauce annulo barbato albo cincta, corone staminez foliolis arcuato-recurvis acutis lobis superioribus brevioribus stig- ma super acutis. Decaisne.
CENTROSTEMMA multiflorum. Dene. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 1838, v. 9. p. 272, et in De Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 634. Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. p. 43. :
Hoya multiflora. Bl. Cat. Hort. Buitenz. p. 49.
Cyrroceras Lindleyanum. Dene. in De Cand. Crrroceras floribundum. Maund’s Botani. Hoya coriacea. Lind. Bot. Reg. 1839, ¢.
Drawn from a fine plant which flowered at Messrs. Hugh Low and Son’s Nursery, Clapton, in July, 1859, having been received from Borneo. The leaves seem to be subject to a little variation; those on the specimen represented by Mr. Bemnett being longer and narrower, and especially attenuated from near the middle to the base: but the three figures I have quoted seem all to belong to one and the same species, though pub- lished under as many different names. Yet Decaisne records two supposed species, and Blume as many as four, apparently established on very slight grounds. ‘The genus, itself but
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| slightly differing from Hoya, appears peculiar to the Malay
a ac : Islands.
- Descr. A glabrous climber, with terete stems, and opposite,
_ subcoriaceous, oval or subelliptical, penniveined /eaves, shortly -acuminated at the apex, and more or less attenuated at the base.
Petiole short. Peduncles interpetiolary and terminal, shorter than the leaves, bearing a moderately spreading, many-rayed, slightly drooping wmbel: the pedicels or rays as long as the pe- duncle. Calyx small, five-parted. Corolla rotate, white, deeply five-lobed ; lobes linear-oblong, singularly deflexed, tipped with
buff-colour, the margins revolute. Gynostegium and folioles of the corona staminea as in the genus.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Folioles of the corona staminea :—magnified,
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Tas. 5174. VANDA svavIis.
Fragrant Vanda.
Nat. Ord. Orncu1pE#.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. Sepala explanata, omnia basi equalia et angustata, seepius peta- loidea. Petala sepalis conformia, seepius basi torta. Ladellum basi saccatum vel calearatum, e basi column apode continuum carnosum, sepius sepalis multo brevius, subtrilobum aut integrum, ante calcar sepius callosum, auriculis nanis v. obsoletis. Columna crassa, nana, libera, apoda; elinandrio verticali. Stigma transversum ; vostello obtuso v. retuso. Pollinia cereacea, plano-convexa, ge- minata, v. 2 alte bipartita; caudicula lorata aut cuneata, pollinis Jongiore ; glan- dula magna, subrotunda vel triangulari. Anthera ovata, bilocularis, valvulis: semiliberis.—Herbe epiphyte Asie tropice. Folia coriacea, disticha, apice ob- liqua. Flores sepius racemosi, conspicui. Pedunculi laterales. Lindl.
Vanpa suavis; foliis loratis flaccide recurvis apice oblique dentatis, racemis laxis elongatis, sepalis petilisque spathulatis retrorsis convexis valde undu- latis sublobatis apice rotundatis, labello convexo trilobo lacinia media an- gusta alte bifida 3-costata lateralibus longis ovatis acutis patulis, auriculis erectis rotundatis. Lindl.
Vanna suavis. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 351. Paxton’s Flower Garden, t. 42. f.3. Reichenb. Xenia Orchid. v. 1. p. 26. t.12. Lindl. Folia Orchid. part 4. p. 5 (excl. var. B flava, according to Reichenbach).
An extremely lovely Orchideous plant, the flowers richly blotched and spotted with blood-purple on a pure white ground, so clear and distinct that they look as if they were made of porcelain. Dr. Lindley refers to it my Vanda tricolor (Bot. Mag. Tab. 4434) which [ had taken to be the V. fricolor of Lind- ley, but which that author makes var. fava of his more beau- tiful Y. suavis. Dr. Reichenbach, on the other hand, maintains that it is the true ¢ricolor. The differences in fact are more in colour than in structure ; so that the description at our Tab. 4434 may answer for the present species. Here the ground colour of the flower is pure china-white, the exterior spotless: the inner face of the sepals and petals is streaked and spotted with purple. The lip is deep purple in the lower half, with three white lines or streaks on the disk; the rest of the lip is paler purple, the whole destitute of spots. The species inhabits Java, but is yet, we believe, rare, and much prized, as it deserves to be, in collec- tions.
Fig. 1. Column and lip, magnified. APRIL Ist, 1860,
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Tas. 5175. ASTELIA CuNNINGHAMII.
Allan Cunningham's Astelia.
Nat. Ord. Juncp#.—Die@cia Hexanpria.
Gen. Ohar. Flores polygami, dioici. Perianthium subglumaceum, campanu- latum v.rotatum, 6-partitum. Stamina 6. Ovarium trigonum, 1- v. 3-loculare ; ovulis paucis v. plurimis ; stylo brevi v. sub-0 ; stigmate trilobo. Semina plu- rima v. pauca ; ¢esfa crustacea, atra, nitida ; embryo brevis.—Herbe sepe magne, plerumque sericee, insulis Australasia et maris Pacifici incolentes.
AsteLIa Cunninghamii ; foliis elongato-subulatis utrinque sericeis, paniculis se- riceo-villosis ; masc. effusis, ramis elongatis, perianthii glabrati laciniis subu- lato-lanceolatis, antheris late oblongis; fem. panicula subcoarctata, ramis brevioribus, ovario globoso 1-loculari, placentis parietalibus, stigmate ses- sili 3-lobo, bacca globosa perianthio persistente suffulta, seminibus 6-8 curvis teretibus atris.
A, Cunninghamii. J. Hook. Flora of New Zealand, v. 1. p. 259.
The curious half-hardy plants, of which one sex only is figured here, was introduced by Dr. Sinclair, R.N., late Colonial Secre- tary of New Zealand, to the Royal Gardens, where it flowered last February. Though boasting no brilliancy of flower, this forms a beautiful object from the copious long bright silvery hairs with which all its parts are clothed. Without the female flowers
it is almost impossible to name the New Zealand species of this
nus accurately, but we have little hesitation in referring the | present to 4. Cunninghamii, which is common throughout the Northern Island, usually forming enormous masses on the branches of gigantic forest-trees.
Descr. A tufted silky perennial, with long, linear-subulate, acuminate Jeaves, and large, almost woolly panicles of greenish flowers. Perianth, in the male plant, of six equal lobes that are subulate, lanceolate, and finally reflexed, silky when young, gla- brous when old, bearing on their bases six erect stamens, with short filaments and anthers. Ovary trigonous, globose, with a short, three-lobed stigma.
Fig. 1. Male flower. 2. Ovary of ditto :—both magnified.
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RICHARDIA wastTatTa.
Halbert-leaved Richardia.
Nat. Ord. Arorpr“#.—Monea@cra Monanpria.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5140.)
Ricnarpta /astata; foliis subflaccidis hastato-ovatis amplis immaculatis, venis opacis, spatha viridi-lutea apice erecta intus basi atro-purpurea, petiolis glandulosis.
At our Tab. 5140 we published one of two kinds of Azchar- dia, received by Messrs. Veitch from the Cape, allied to, and yet very distinct from, the well-known Richardia, or Calla, Aithio- pica. Under the first of these we showed the differences be- tween it and R. dthiopica. Our present plant, from Natal, has been received by others, as well as by Mr. Veitch, as a “red-" or a “ yellow-flowered Calla,” but in reality the flower, or rather the spatha, is a greenish-yellow, with no tinge whatever approach- ing to red. It is indeed too closely allied to our 2. albo-macu- lata above quoted. The spathas are rather dirty yellow-green instead of white, broader in the tube, and also in the limb; the petioles are here glandular in their lower half; the ma/e portion of the spadix is longer than the female, and the leaves are destitute of the peculiar white pellucid spots so characteristic of 2. albo- maculata. But I cannot say how far these characters are con- stant ; if they are not, it would be better to unite the two under the name here given, and constitute the var. a/4o-maculata of the other.
The present kind has proved hardy in the Messrs. Veitch’s Nursery, at Exeter.
Fig. 1. Column or spadix of flowers. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 4, Trans- verse section of an ovary with two, and 5, one with three cells :—all but fig. 1
magnified.
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CEANOTHUS OreGanvs.
Oregon Ceanothus.
Nat. Ord. RoHaMNEX.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (See above, Tas. 4660.)
Creanotuus Oreganus ; fruticosa glabriuscula, foliis firmis ellipticis obtusis nune basi subcordatis longiuscule petiolatis 3-nerviis junioribus subtus leniter pubescentibus serratis, paniculis lateralibus, ramis corymbosis thyrsoideis.
Cranoruus Oreganus. Nutt. MSS. Torrey and Gray, Fl. N. Am. v. 1. p. 205.
CEANOTHUs sanguineus. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am.v.1. p. 125 (not of Pursh, according to Nuttall).
Here is another hardy Ceanothus, allied to, but very distinct from, C. velutinus, figured at our Tab. 5165, recently imported to our gardens and shrubberies by Messrs. Veitch of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, from the Oregon territory, through their col- lector, Mr. William Lobb. It was first detected by Douglas in woods of the Oregon, frequent from the Blue Mountains to the sea; found there also by Nuttall and Tolmie, and Dr. Scouler. I had mistaken it, in my Fl. Bor. Am., for the C. sanguineus of Pursh, an indifferently described plant, and a native, it appears, © of more southern latitudes, near the. Rocky Mountains, on the banks of the Missouri, and which is said to resemble considerably the C. Americanus. C. Oreganus flowers in May, and bears co- pious lateral paniclés, which are entirely white.
Descr. A shrub, four to twelve feet high, with dranches gla- brous, much tinged with red on one side. Leaves alternate, firm, subcoriaceo-membranaceous, two to two and a half inches long, petiolate, elliptical, obtuse, three-nerved, rarely subcordate at the base, serrated at the margin, paler beneath, where the young leaves are slightly pubescent. Petioles half to three- quarters of an inch long, pale green, with a pair of deciduous stipules at the base. Panicles axillary, often appearing quite lateral from the deciduous leaves ; their branches form dense
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ds, and the collected corymbs a compact ¢Ayrsus, three to
r inches long, of numerous, white, rather long-pedicelled
Calyx with five segments inflexed upon the ovary,
tween which the spreading, spathulate, long-clawed petals, with
the lamin very concave and emarginate, are protruded. Ovary
depressed, half-sunk in a glandular diss: or ring. Style short, with three branches, each crowned with a capitate stigma.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil and glandular ring :—magnified.
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AZARA GILLIESII.
Dr. Gillies’ Azara.
Nat. Ord. Brxinp#.—PoLyaNpRIA Monoeynia.
Gen. Char. Calyx 4—6-partitus, laciniis estivatione imbricatis. Petala nulla. Stamina numerosa, calycis fundo inserta. Filamenta filiformia. _Anthere didymo-
globose, biloculares, latere dehiscentes. _ Ovarium-superum uniloculare. Stylus
simplex. Stigma obtusum. Bacca coriacea stylo apiculata, unilocularis poly- sperma. Semina subrotunda, placentis tribus parietalibus horizontaliter affixa.— Frutices Chilenses. Folia gemina, inequalia. Popp. et Endl.
Azara (§ Almeja) Gilliesii ; foliis geminis longe petiolatis majoribus elliptico-
ovatis coriaceis rigidis remote spinoso-serratis minoribus rotundatis seepissime deciduis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis petiolo brevioribus, floribus densis capitato-racemosis, calycibus 4—5-fidis intus dense barbatis ad basin glan- dulis 4.
Azara Gilliesii. Hook. et Arn. Bot. Misc. v.3.p.144. Gay, Fl. Chil. v. 1. p. 198. A. intermedia, ejusd. p. 195.
The handsomest perhaps of all the species of Azara, a genus of shrubs peculiar to Chili, and remarkable for having in the normal state geminate leaves, extremely unequal im size, the lesser one stipuliform. Our living plant of this species, however, does not exhibit, nor do some of our native specimens, these stipulary leaves: others are furnished with them. The leaves have the colour and texture of the Holly, and like them are evergreen ; the flowers are minute, but collected into oblong or elliptical heads, resembling golden catkins, from the numerous rich orange-coloured stamens. The species was many years ago communicated to us from Chili by the late Dr. Gilles, and we further possess specimens from Bridges, gathered at Valparaiso and Quillota, and from the Cordillera of St. Iago, gathered by M. Ph. Germain. Seeds were received at the Royal Gardens from Mr. Bridges, and plants have for. some time flowered with us in the winter months, and from one of these our figure is made. With us it is kept in a cool greenhouse, but it is quite likely it will bear the open air in a sheltered situation in the mid- dle, especially the south, of England.
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Descr. A shrub, said to attain a height of ten to fifteen feet :
in its native country, with terete, suberect, glabrous dranches, richly tinged with red. eaves of two kinds on some specimens, in pairs, long-petiolate, the Zarger ones two and a half to three inches long, broad-ovate elliptical subtruncate at the base, acute, dark glossy-green, with strong, distant, subspinose serratures ; petioles half to three-quarters of an inch long, red; the smadler leaves nearly orbicular. Peduncles solitary, axillary, shorter than the pedicels. lowers small, numerous in very dense, amentiform, elliptical heads. Rachis stout, fleshy, to which the short pedicels are attached. Flowers dicecious? or polygamous. Calyx four- or five-cleft, woolly within, and having four con- spicuous fleshy glands. Corolla none. Stamens numerous.
Filaments long, and, as well es the anthers, golden-orange.
Ovary oblong, one-celled, with two or three parietal receptacles. Style slightly tapering. Stigma minute.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx, showing the four glands and pistil (abortive ?). 3. Section of a flower. 4. Anther. 5. Gland. 6, 7. Ovaries, cut through transversely :—magnified.
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Tan. O19. GRAMMATOPHYLLUM Exnuistt.
Mr. Ellis’s Grammatophyllum.
Nat. Ord. Orncurpacem.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5157.)
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM JZilisii; pseudobulbis angulatis clavato-fusiformibus poly- phyliis, foliis lato-loratis recurvis basi canaliculatis, racemo multifloro re- curvo, sepalis patentibus acutis lateralibus gibbosis, petalis duplo breviori- bus oblongis obtusis erectis apice revolutis, labello petalis aequali mobili basi sacculato trilobo jugo medio elevato ultra isthmum 3-lamellato lineis- que 3 elevatis arcuatis utrinque, lobo medio ovato acuto lateralibus brevibus subfalcatis, anthera tuberculo pedicellato cristata. Lindl.
GRAMMATOPHYLLUM Ellisii. Lindl. MS.
The Rev. William Ellis, in a letter addressed to Dr. Lindley, from Hoddesdon, dated August 23rd, 1859, writes :—‘* Among the plants which I brought from Madagascar was a large-bulbed plant, something like Anguloa Clowesiana, only the bulbs are square instead of being round. I found it growing on a branch of a tree about the size of a man’s leg, and stretching over a river at about twenty-five feet above the water. The roots were abundant, but short, white, fleshy, and matted together, a little larger than the roots of Anselia Africana. The bulbs were seven or eight inches long, and one and a quarter inch square, but last year it made a bulb eleven inches long and nearly two inches wide on each of the four sides. The leaves are one and a half to two feet long, about the size, but not so curved as those of Angrecum sesquipedale, and less fleshy than the A. ebur- neum, but, like all the Angreecums, growing on opposite sides of the crown of the bulb: each bulb has five or six leaves. The flower-spike, as in the case of the Anguloa, comes up with the young growth, and this year two young bulbs were accompanied by a flower-spike ; each one damped off, but the other reached about two feet in length, and at the end furthest from the bulb bore between thirty and forty flowers. The flowers began to | open three weeks ago, and as they opened slowly, I thought it would last longer, but on my return on Saturday from the coun- try I found the flowers fading rapidly. I have therefore cut the
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spike, and send it to you; some of the flowers are, I hope, yet in a state of sufficient preservation to enable you to determine its species. Mrs.’ Ellis has also made a coloured drawing of some of the flowers, and a sketch of the whole plant.” Such is the first notice of this fine plant on its blossoming in Mr. Ellis’s Orchideous house ; and from the spike there mentioned, aided by the very beautiful drawing of Mrs. Ellis, the accompanying plate has been executed ; the dissections are by Mrs. Crease; and I am indebted to Dr. Lindley for the specific name and character and the following remarks :—
“The genus Grammatophyllum is so nearly allied to Cymbi- dium that the two may possibly be united hereafter. They differ, however, first, in the presence of a sac at the base of both the column and lip; and, secondly, usually in the pollen-masses of Grammatophyllum being attached towards each extremity of a lunate gland. The first of these characters is the more impor- tant; the second can only be regarded as subordinate. It is in the first that the plant before us corresponds with Grammato- phyllum ; in the second it approaches Cymbidium. As to habit, the first of these two genera includes very dissimilar plants ; G. speciosum (see our Tab. 5157) being caulescent, this and G. multiflorum being pseudobulbous ; a circumstance exactly analo- gous to what occurs in the great genera Dendrobium, Hpiden- drum, Oncidium, etc.
As a species, G. Eilisii is very distinctly characterized by its broad leaves, short petals, gibbous lateral sepals, and smooth lip, which has one stout median rib, separating at the isthmus into three short slender ridges. The anther is moreover crested with a small pedicellate tubercle.
Fig. 1, 2. Oblique and front view of -a flower, with the sepals removed. 3. Labellum, laid open :—wat. size. 4. Front view of the column. - 5. Pollen- masses (one cut through transversely) :—magnijied.
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COCOS pLuMosSA.
Feathery-flowered Cocoa-nut.
Nat. Ord. Patma.—Monecra HexanpDRia.
Gen. Char. (essentialis). Monoica in eodem spadice. Spatha simplex. Flores sessiles, bracteolati. Masc.: Calyx triphyllus. Corolla tripetala. Stamina 6. Rudimentum pistilli. Foem.: Calyx triphyllus et corolla 3-petala, convoluta. Ovarium triloculare. Stigmata tria sessilia. -Drupa monosperma, putamine basi triporo. Embryo in albumine cavo, intra porum basilaris. Mart.
Cocos plumosa,* Hook. ; elata; caudice 30-40-pedali et ultra crassiusculo cylin- draceo annuloso-articulato, articulis pedalibus et ultra, frondibus 12—14- pedalibus, pinnis sesquipedalibus solitariis vel 2-4-aggregatis linearibus acuminatis apicibus deflexis, petiolis inermibus basi dilatata amplexante fimbriato-fibrosa, spatha bi-tripedali fusiformi sublignoso, spadicis ramis longis pendentibus, floribus copiosis sessilibus.
This truly noble Palm, long cultivated at Kew, produced its blossoms in the summer and autumn of 1859, probably for the first time in Europe, and was received many years ago from Messrs. Loddiges as a Brazilian species to which Von Mar- tius had given the name of Cocos coronata, equally a native of Brazil, but whose character assuredly does not accord with the specific character given by Martius of that Palm: for we do not find the base of the petiole “spinescent” at the margin, nor does the caudex at the setting on of the persistent petioles become “ crasso-capitate,” nor are the branches of the spadix “erect,” but singularly and gracefully drooping. Nor does it accord with any other described species of the genus; so that I am compelled, as it were, against my will, to give it a new name, and to notice it as a new species, to which I give an appellation characteristic of the beautiful and elegant branches of the pa- nicle. Descr. The Palm, now under consideration, forms a striking feature in the Palm-stove of the Royal Gardens, where it has, including its crown of leaves, attained a height of between fifty and sixty feet. The caudew, or trunk, forms a graceful erect
* Cocos plumosa of Lodd, Cat. (without character or description). C. comosa,
Mart. may Ist, 1860.
column of about forty fect high, and ten to twelve inches in dia- meter, more slender upwards, jointed as it were with annular scars of the fallen leaf-stalks; these rings are a foot to fourteen inches apart. Crown of leaves or Jronds extremely beautiful ; each leaf is twelve to fifteen feet, petiolate, lanceolate, pinnate, re- curved ; pinnee numerous on the rachis, solitary, or more usually two to four aggregated, springing from near each other. Petiole subtriangular at the base, very much dilated, of a greyish-brown colour, keeled, at the margin fimbriatedly fibrous, amplexicaul. Spadia axillary ; two spadices during the autumn arose from axils of the leaf-stalks, substipitate, two and a half to three feet long, ligneous at first, at length bursting open laterally, concave and fusiform, almost woody, very erect, rigid, firm, dark dirty- green externally, within tawny, acute and apiculated. As this spatha bursts longitudinally on one side, the spadia emerges. This is nearly as long as the spatha, and clothed with numerous, long, gracefully drooping, wax-like branches, loaded with flowers of two kinds, which are sessile on the branches: some female, but mostly male. owers in bud conical: the sepals com- pactly imbricated. Sepals six, three outer (calyx), three inner (petals) ovate, concave, moderately patent, with minute bracteas at the base. AMJale flowers with six, oblong, yellow anthers on short filaments. Female with a short downy ovary, crowned with three stigmas. Frwit a dull orange-flowered apiculated drupe, about the size of an acorn of the English Oak.
Fig. 1. Flowering specimen of Cocos plumosa, Hook.,—greatly reduced. 2. Spatha and spadix of flowers, also much reduced. 3. Portion of a drooping flowering branch,—zat. size. 4. Male tlower,—smagnified. 5. Female flower un expanded. 6. Pistil from the female flower,—magnified. 1. Drupe,—nat. size.
Tas. 5181. CALLIANDRA H&MATOCEPHALA.
Red-headed Calliandra.
Nat. Ord. Lecumrnos®.—PoLyGaMIa POLYANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4238.)
CALLIANDRA hematocephala ; frutex, stipulis e basi lata acuminatis nunc sub- falcatis adpressis persistentibus, pinnis unijugis, foliolis 7-10-jugis oblongo- lanceolatis acuminatis basi ineequilateris subcordatis binerviis accrescentibus, pedunculis petiolo communi longioribus folio multo brevioribus, floribus dense sanguineis, calyce corolla: quartam partem longo, legumine subfalcato recto e basi angustissima sensim apicem versus dilatato glaberrimo nitidis- simo, valvis subcoriaceis, seminibus 4—5. Hassk.
CALLTANDRA heematocephala. Hassk. in Retz. v. 1. pp. 216, 144. Walp. Ann. v. 4. p. 654. Hassk. Hort. Bogor. v. 1. p. 260.
Inca hematoxylon. Hort. Calcutt.
A most lovely shrub with us, but eventually forming a tree thirty to forty feet high, according to Hasskarl, the native country of which does not appear to be known. We have specimens in our herbarium from the Calcutta Botanical Garden, with the un- published name of Inga hematoxylon. Hasskarl received it at the Botanic Garden of Buitenzorg from the same source and under the same name; and has rightly referred it to the genus Cal- liandra. It has been sent to the Botanic Gardens of Kew, by Mr. Duncan, from the Mauritius Garden, in 1857, and pro- duced its lovely heads of flowers, for the first time in the stove, in February, 1860. Hasskarl speaks of its affinity with C. ma- crophylla’ and C. nitida, and still more with C. Surinamensis,
Benth., which differs in the pubescent branches and petioles, and in the more obtuse and smaller leaflets. Descr. Shrub, with glabrous, terete, green branches, and
‘copious petiolate unijugate eaves: each pinna is about five inches long and pari-pinnulate, with seven to ten pairs of oppo- site pinnul lowest and shortest an inch long, gradually ls to one and a half inch long, all of them more
or less spreading, oblong-lanceolate, scarcely acuminate, two- nerved, the base unequally sided ; some of them, especially the superior ones, slightly falcate. Stipules small, green, from a broad base subulate. Petioles about an inch long. Peduncles as long as the petioles, bearing a capitulum of small flowers, of which the calyx and corolla are almost concealed by the quantity of rich coloured filaments of the stamens, which radiate from a centre and form a ball of scarlet threads. Calyx minute, five- lobed. Corolla small, infundibuliform. Stamens united into four bundles. Anthers minute, abortive. Ovary oblong. Style a little longer than the stamens. .
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Portion of a bundle of stamens. 3. Pistil :-—magnified.
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Tas. 5182. BEGONIA Bowrinactana.
Bowring’s Begonia.
Nat. Ord. BeconIacr®.—Monecra PoLyanpRia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4172.)
Begonia (Diplochonium) Bowringianum ; caule herbaceo erecto ramoso, foliis late inzequaliter cordatis inequaliter irregulariter 5-7-lobis, lobis latis bre- vibus acutis dentatis lobatisve supra hispidulis subtus ramulisque novellis rufo-lanatis, pedunculis folio brevioribus paucifloris, capsule alis 2 angustis tertia elongata. Benth.
Brconta Bowringiana. Champ. in Benth. Florul. Hongk. Kew Gard. Mise. v. 4. p- 120.
The present species of Begonia is very deficient in brightness, as compared with many of the species with richly-coloured fo- liage, which are such favourites with cultivators of stove plants of the present day ; and yet it is so nearly allied to a very hand- some species, namely the B. /aciniata, Roxb. and of this work (Tab. 5021), that I was at first disposed to believe the two were specifically identical. The latter-mentioned Begonia is, however, remarkable for the variegated foliage, both on the upper and under side, the larger white petals, with the outer sepals rufo- tomentose, the peduncles longer than the leaves, bearing more numerous flowers, and the very hispid fruit. The present is the only species of the genus yet detected in Hongkong, where it was discovered by the late Colonel Champion; and seeds were sent to us by Mr. Wilford in 1858.
Descr. Rhizome “thick fleshy ;” the stem short, nearly as thick as one’s finger, flexuose, jointed, tinged with red, slightly woolly, swollen at the joints. eaves rather large, six to ten inches long, four to six inches broad, very unequally cordate, petiolate, green, and slightly hairy above, dull rufous and some- what woolly beneath, the pubescence deciduous, the margin very regularly cut into acute or acuminated lobes, and, besides, un- equally serrated: pefioles longer than the leaves, terete, thick, woolly, especially on the anterior side below the blade. Stipules large, membranaceous, reddish, cordato-ovate, acuminate. Pe- duncles much shorter than the petioles, axillary, reddish, woolly, bearing three or four flowers, of which the majority are male.
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Bracteas resembling the stipules.. Perianth pale rose-colour. Male flower large ; sepals four, two large and broad, two (oppo- site ones) oblong and narrow, all spreading and subtomentose at the back. Female flowers smaller than the male, of five, spread- ing, equal, obovate sepals. Fruit villous, at length glabrous, with two short and one very long, oblong, deflexed, striated wings.
Fig. 1. Stamen, magnified. 2. Female flower, nat. size. 3. Fruit, ditto. 4. _ Transverse section of the capsule, ditto.
Tas. 5183.
PTERIS QUADRIAURITA ; cum vars.
Four-eared Brake ; with vars.
Nat. Ord. Frurces.—CrryptTocamia Fitices.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 3247.)
Preris (§ Eupteris) quadriaurita ; caudice brevi repente, frondibus ovatis ovat o-
cordatisve acuminatis seepe amplis subcoriaceo-membranaceis _pinnatis, pinnis 5-21 magisve sepe oppositis lanceolatis profunde fere ad rachin pinnatifidis, rachide supra spinulosa, segmentis oblongis obtusis subinteger- rimis terminali elongato, pinnis infimis (rarius pluribus) bipartitis quan- doquidem latere inferiori iterum pinnatis, venis furcatis, stipitibus elongatis stramineis fuscisve leevibus v. scabriusculis.
Prenis quadriaurita. Retz, Obs. v. 6. p- 38. Willd. Sp. Pl. p. 383. 4g. Sp. Gen. Pterid. p. 24. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 2. p. 179. ¢. 134 B. (which see for . copious synonyms and remarks).
Var. argyrea ; viridis, linea lata centrali alba.
Preris (Pyrophylla) argyrea. 7. Moore in Gard. Chron. Aug. 1859, p. 671.
Var. tricolor ; intense purpurea demum viridis, linea lata centrali alba vel rosea, rachibus costisque rubris.
Preis tricolor. Linden in Gard. Chron. Feb, 1860, p. 123. . Moore in Gard. Chron. March 1860, p. 217.
Pteris quadriaurita of Retz, the species here figured, is one of the most common of tropical Ferns, in Asia, Africa, and America, Pacific Islands, etc., and two very interesting varieties arising from the peculiar colouring of the foliage have been latélf: intro- duced to our Ferneries by Mr. Linden, of both of whiéh"we have here given as much as can be fairly represented in so small a plate. One has the ordinary green colour of Pferis quadri- aurita, except that a broad white line runs through the centre of all the pinnee. This Mr. 'T. Moore raises to the rank of a species, under the name of Pteris argyrea. Of it we possess native spe- cimens in our herbarium from Nilghiri, gathered by Mr. M‘Ivor (his n. 22); from Moulmein, communicated by the Rev. GC. 8. P. Parish (his n. 141), and we have beautiful living plants from Messrs. Veitch. The other, and infinitely the most beautiful, is
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of a deep rich brown-purple colour, with a similar central broad line or band to the one just mentioned, but instead of being white is of a rich rose-colour. This is the only state in which I have myself seen this variety, and such as is here fignred, from a re- cent specimen sent to me by Mr. Linden : but this colour under- goes a change. It would appear that “the fronds are of a beau- tiful red colour, and when fully developed a rich deep-green, with attractive silvery markings along the sides of the midribs, which are red.”
The Pteris aspericaulis of Wallich, a name which has been given to this in some gardens, is a very trifling var. of P. gua- driaurita, with a rough surface to the stipites, a character not apparent in any specimens of the coloured varieties, though as likely to be found in them as in the ordinary green state of the plant. No species can be more variable in size than this, from five or six inches to three feet. in length.
Our Plate represents a small specimen of P. guadriaurita, var. argyrea, and a young one of var. tricolor. Fig. 1. A lateral fertile pinna of the green or or- state :—all nat. size. 2. Portion of a fertile segment,— magnified.
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PHALENOPSIS GranpIrLora.
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Large-flowered Indian Butterfly-plant.
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Nat. Ord. OrcHIpE®.—GYNANDRIA MonoGynta.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4297.)
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PHALENOPs!s grandiflora ; foliis longis, sepalis lateralibus internum phyllum su- premum non tegentibus apice mucronatis, labello phyllis lateralibus externis multo breviori, lobo medio lineari-hastato, lobis lateralibus oblique cuneatis obtusangulis, cirrhis flavis. Lind/.
PHALENOPsIS grandiflora. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 39, with a woodcut of the flower. Walp. Ann. Bot. v. 3. p. 561.
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Dr. Lindley first distinguished this as a species from the well- ee known and universal favourite, Phalenopsis amabilis, in the oe ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ above quoted, and we cannot do better Le than transcribe his remarks thereupon :—‘“ A small plant of this noble epiphyte was exhibited on the 7th of September, last year - (1847), before the Horticultural Society, by J. H. Schroder, Esq., ‘of Stratford Green, when it received the silver Banksian medal. it was not supposed at that time to be a distinct species from the Phalenopsis amabilis, but was regarded merely as a fine variety. Upon a comparison of it with the Manilla species, it proves however to possess so many points of difference, that no doubt can be entertained of its being really distinct. Its flowers are four times as large, the petals do not overlap the back sepal, nor have they the small point which is invariably present in Pha- lenopsis amabilis ; the lip is very narrow, much shorter than the lanceolate sepals, and its chief lateral lobes are somewhat wedge- shaped, with the angles rounded off. The distribution of colour, too, is different; there is a large stain of deep yellow on the front edge of the chief lateral lobes of the lip, and the cirrhi are yellow, not white.” Such are the distinguishing characters given by the botanist who has made the Orchideous plants almost the study of his life,
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—to which he adds, in the specific definition, “ the longer leaves
‘mucronated at the point.” Whether these marks are perma-— nent or not, the Phalenopsis grandiflora is eminently deserving of a figure in the pages of this Magazine, the more so as no co- loured figure of it has yet been published. It is a native of Java, and said to have been introduced to Europe by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of the Nurseries, Exeter and Chelsea. Our figure is taken from a fine flowering specimen in the Royal Gar- dens of Kew.
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SCUTELLARIA rncarnata, var. 7rianat.
Flesh-coloured Skull-cap, var. Trianai.
Nat. Ord. Laprat2.—DipyNaM1A GYMNOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TAB. 4268.)
ScurTeLLaRia Ventenatii ; perennis erecta ramosa, ramis obtuse tetragonis, foliis sublonge petiolatis crassiusculis ovato-lanceolatis acutis grosse serratis pen- ninerviis vix' reticulatis atro-viridibus, racemis terminalibus elongatis sub- secundis, bracteis valde deciduis, calyce parvo, corollis elongatis incarnatis calyce multoties longioribus, labio superiore quadrilobo.
ScuTELLARIA incarnata. Vent. Choizx des Pl. t. 29: upper figure. Benth. Lab. p. 429. De Cand. Prodr. v.12. p.416. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4268.
B. Trianai, foliis minoribus, floribus intense roseo-coccineis. ScuTeLLaria Trianai, Planch. et Lind. in Lind. Cat. for 1855, n. 10. p. 6.
The red-flowered Scutellari@ recommend themselves to cul- tivation by their beauty, and they are, I believe, chiefly natives of tropical America. Some are already in cultivation in our stoves, and greatly admired from the rich colour of their co- rollas. The present species has been introduced to our collec- tions from Bogota, and circulated under the name of S. Zrianat of Klotzsch and Linden, and under that name is mentioned in Linden’s Catalogue, but unfortunately without any specific cha- racter. We fear, however, it is merely a highly coloured variety of S. zncarnata, Vent., and of this work, Tab. 4268; and ¢hat, Mr. Bentham, whose knowledge of the extensive family of Ladév- ate entitles his opinion to great respect, believes may not be truly distinct from 8. Ventenatii (Bot. Mag., Tab. 4271); and his own S. Hartwegi he thinks may be the same also.
The present variety chiefly differs from 8. cxcarnata in the smaller glabrous foliage, and the much richer rose-scarlet of the corollas. It flowers in the spring in the stoves of the Royal Gar- dens of Kew.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla, laid open. 3. Calyx, including the pistil. 4. Ovary, on its large receptacle (or gynophore), with part of the style :—magnified. JUNE lst, 1860,
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CHYSIS sBRACTESCENS.
Bracteated Chysis.
Nat. Ord. OrncH1IDE®.—GyNANDRIA MoNoGYNIA.
Gen. Char, Sepala paulo connata; laterali pedi producto columne adnato et calear simulantia. Petala sepala conformia. Labellum trilobum, patulum, venis basi callosis. Columna marginata, canaliculata, mutica. Anthera subrotunda, opercularis, glabra. Pollinia 8, in laminam luteam semifusa ; quatuor exteriori- bus tenuibus, quatuor interiora crassiora abscondentibus. Rostel/um laminatum, convexum.—Herbe epiphyte, occidentales ab arboribus pendula ; caulibus Cyrto- 0 pitta ; foliis nervosis, basi vaginantibus ; racemis lateralibus multifloris.
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Cuysis bractescens ; bracteis cucullatis venosis foliaceis ovario longioribus, sepa- lis petalisque ovatis obtusis, labelli lobis lateralibus obtusis intermedio mi- nore carnoso bilobo hypochilio plicato, lamellis 5 carnosis subzequalibus pa- rallelis basi pubescentibus, columna latissima carnosa eymbiformi antice pubescente. Lindl.
Cuysis bractescens. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840; Misc. n. 131; e¢ 1841, ¢. 23.
Chysis bractescens is a Mexican plant introduced by Mr. George Baker, with whom it blossomed in 1840. So many intermediate forms exist between this and the original C. aurea, on which the genus was founded, that we cannot but question if the two are really distinct. The main character of this is made to depend on the “large, white, not yellow, flowers, and the great leafy bracts” of the plant now figured, whence too the specific name; but the bracts are certainly variable in diffe- rent individuals, and the colour of the sepals and petals no less so. Our C. bractescens has the flowers much larger and of a purer white than Dr. Lindley’s figure represents, but the label- lum is more yellow than his figure exhibits them; and we have given a figure of a very deeply coloured C. aurea at our Tab. 4576, of which we were uncertain whether it should be referred to that or to the present species. Our very noble specimen here figured was drawn from a plant in the Royal Gardens of Kew, in 1847.
Fig. 1. Front view of the labellum. 2. Column. 3. Pollen-masses :—mag- nified.
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AMORPHOPHALLLUS pvstvs.
Smooth-headed Amorphophallus.
Nat. Ord. ArorpE®.—Mona@cr1a Monanpria.
Gen, Char. Spatha basi convoluta; limbo plano, patente. Spadix inferne continuo androgynus, genitalibus rudimentalibus nullis, appendice sterili elon- gata leevigata v. depresso-dilatata granuloso-verrucosa. Anthere distincte, fila- mento brevissimo, loculis duobus oppositis, apice poro duplici dehiscentes. Ovaria plurima libera, bi-tri-quadrilocularia. Ovu/a in loculis solitaria, basilaria, ana- tropa. Stylus distinctus v. nullus. Stigma capitatum, indivisum vel emarginato- aut depresso-lobatum. Bacce mono-oligosperme. Semina albuminosa(?). Em- bryo (?).—Herbee Indice ; tubere radicali, carnoso ; scapo radicali, brevi ; foliis serotinis, subsolitariis, bipinnatifido-decompositis. Endl.
AMORPHOPHALLUS dudius ; spathe lato-infundibuliformis limbo subpatente ob- liquo acutiusculo undulato-crispato, spadice subcylindraceo infra apicem dilatato, appendice conico-rotundato levi.
AMORPHOPHALLUS dubius. Blume, Rumph. v. 1. p. 142. Schott, Synops. Aroid. p. 38.
Dracontium Zeylanicum ramoso folio caule ex viridi et flavo variegato aspero. Herm. Parad. Bat. p. 89.
Scuena. Hort. Malab. p. 35. f. 18.
_ This is a very singular Aroideous plant, which we owe to our friend Mr. Thwaites, who sent the tubers from Ceylon. It will be at once seen that in all essential generic characters it ac- cords with the still more remarkable species of this family which we published under the name of Arum campanulutum, at 'Tab. 2812 of this work, now Amorphophallus campanulatus, Bl. As a species, our present plant is abundantly different; (1) in size, for our figure of 4. campanulatus, though reduced to one-fourth its natural size, greatly exceeds the natural size of this; (2) the floral portion of the spadix is here broad spindle-shaped, there singularly dilated upwards; and (3) the terminal appendage, there forming an enormous wrinkled expansion, is here conico- globose, quite smooth and even on the surface. A second species of this genus (for all of the others attributed to it now belong to Conophallus, Bl.) is derived from Rheede, in Hort. Malabaricus, above quoted, which agrees well enough with our plant to justify
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me in considering it the same, 4. dudius, Bl.: and that is also a: native of Ceylon. Our plant flowered in a warm stove in June 1858, and gave out so abominable a stench as almost to render the atmosphere of it insupportable.
Dzscr. From a rounded depressed tuber, about four to five inches in diameter, the flowering portion first arises. A very short stem or scape, bearing four to five membranaceous, green- ish-brown 4éracts, is termmated by a somewhat funnel-shaped spatha, six inches long and four wide at the oblique mouth, green, clouded with dull-purple, the limb somewhat expanded, undulato-crispate, subacute. Spadix two'and a half inches long (not including the terminal appendage), subcylindrical, but a little dilated below the apex, the greater portion densely covered with oblong yellow anthers, opening by two pores, and one-third of the base with globose ovaries, bearing a long sfy/e and a peltate subplicate stigma. Terminal appendage (or flowerless portion of the spadix) twice as broad as the spadix, conico-subrotund, of a reddish-brown colour, quite smooth on the surface. The flower is succeeded by a large petioled compound solitary leaf, exactly, except that it is smalller, like that described under J. campanu- latus above quoted. :
Fig. 1. Flower plant,—anat. size. 2. Spadix, ditto. 3,4. Anthers, 5, Section
of an anther. 6. Pistil. 7. Section of ovary :—magnified. 8. Leaf,—very much reduced.
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TRADESCANTIA WarszZEwWICZIANA.
Warszewicz’s Spiderwort.
Nat. Ord. ComMELYNE%.—HExanpDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Gen. Char. Flores vegulares. Sepala 6, libera, patentia; tria exteriora navi- cularia, persistentia ; tria interiora majora, petaloidea, breviter unguiculata, mar- cescendo persistentia. Stamina 6, subhypogyna, omnia fertilia. Filamenta li- bera, plerumque barbata. Anthere conformes ; loculis reniformibus, connectivo varia forma distinctis, interdum tres sepalis exterioribus opposite robustiores, loculis replicatis extrorse filamentisque brevioribus sustentate. Ovarium sessile, triloculare; ovula in loculis 2, superposita. Stylus 1. Stigma simplex, obtu- sum, infundibulare vel peltato-ampliatum. Capsula trilocularis, trivalvis, valvis medio septiferis. Semina bina, superposita, angulata.—Herbee Americana, erecte vel diffuse, sepe repentes. Folia indivisa. Vagine integre. Pedunculi axillares et terminales, solitarii, gemini vel plures, apice umbellato-pauci-multiflori, sepe brevissimi, subnulli, folioque duplici, involucrati. Kth. :
TRADESCANTIA Warszewicziana; caule robusto erecto subarborescente dicho- tomo, ramis dense foliosis, foliis lato-lanceolatis acuminatis striatis basi vagi- natis, pedunculis axillaribus foliis multo longioribus subpaniculatim ramosis ramis bracteatis, floribus bracteatis in racemis secundis scorpioideis disposi-
_ tis, sepalis petalisque lilacinis, staminibus conformibus, filamentis imberbibus, stigmate obtuso.
TRADESCANTIA Warszewicziana. “ Kunth et Bouché, Index Seminum in Hort. Bot. Berol. 1847, p. 11.” Walp. Ann. Bot. v. 1. p. 886.
This is really a handsome stove-plant, and deserving a place in every collection, especially when it is old enough to form a dichotomous, subarborescent, stout stem, with recurved leaves, having a good deal the appearance of an Aloe, still more of some Dracena; and the flowers are not only numerous and of a bright purplish rose-colour, but by the constant succession of flowers, the blossoming (in the spring and early summer) is of long duration. It is said to be a native of Guatemala, and is of easy propagation by cuttings.
Descr. Sfem in our plants a foot or foot and a half long, stout, forked, terete, having a subarborescent character, and marked with the scars of fallen leaves. ‘The branches are leafy, chiefly towards the apex. Zeaves a span to a foot long, from JUNE Ist, 1860.
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an entire sheathing base, broad-lanceolate, acuminate, striated, recurved. Peduncle axillary, one to one and a half foot long, terete, purplish above, forming a not very copiously branched panicle of purple-lilac densely crowded but small flowers : bracts are at all the divisions and subdivisions of the panicles, large and broad, sheathing in the lower ramifications, small, and more coloured (lilac) at the base of the pedicels, where they are densely imbricated in secund scorpioid racemes. Pedicels lilac. Sepals and petals uniform, the latter the largest. Stamens all uniform, beardless.
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Fig. 1. Reduced figure of an entire plant. 2. Leaf,—nat. size. 3. Panicle,— nat. size. 4. Flower. 5. Stamen. 6. Pistil :—smagnified.
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Tap. 5199.
VANDA GIGANTEA.
2 Gigantic Vanda.
Nat. Ord. Orcurpp#2.—GyYNANDRIA Monoe@yNia.
Gen. Char. Sepala explanata, omnia basi equalia et angustata ; seepius peta- _ Joidea.- Petala sepalis conformia, sepius basi torta. Labellum basi saccatum v. | _ calcaratum, cum basi columns apode continuum, carnosum, sepius sepalis multo brevius, subtrilobum aut integrum, ante calcar seepius callosum, auriculis nanis V. obsoletis. Columna crassa nana, libera, apoda; clinandrio verticali. Stigma transversum ; rostello obtuso vel retuso. Pollinia cereacea, plano-convexa, gemi- nata v. 2 alte bipartita; caudicula auriculata vy. cuneata; glandula magna, sub- rotunda vy. triangulari. Anthera ovata, bilocularis, valvis semiliberis.—Herbee epiphyte Asie tropice. Folia coriacea, disticha, apice obliqua. Flores sepius racemost, conspicui. Pedunculi Jaterales. Lindt.
Vanpa (§ Fieldia) gigantea ; foliis late loratis apice obtusissimis emarginatis subzequalibus, racemis foliis duplo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque oblongo- obovatis obtusis eequalibus, labello incurvo canaliculato dolabriformi obtuso,
Bes callo conico in medio, auriculis nanis rotundatis. Lindl.
-Vanpa gigantea. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. n. 7326. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 215.
a > Folia Orchidacea, part 4, Vanda, p. 2.
ANDA Lindleyana. Griff. Notul. part 3. p. 353.
We are indebted for a splendid specimen of the rare Orchida- ceous plant here figured to Messrs. Veitch and Sons, in whose Orchid House, King’s Road, Chelsea, it produced its noble pen- dent spike of golden-yellow blossoms, we believe for the first time in Europe, in April of the present year, 1860. Mr. Griffith ob- serves of it: “It is the only plant of its kind I have hitherto seen capable of rivalling the American Vandee.” Dr. Lindley remarks that “this is surely an exaggeration ;” probably judg- ing only from dried and shrivelled specimens or from imperfect drawings, for to our mind few even of the Malayan Orchidaceous plants, so famous for their size and beauty, can vie with this in richness of colour, “deep-yellow,” as Dr. Lindley says, “ with cinnamon-brown blotches.” Of the truth of this some notion. — may be formed from the portion here represented. The large,
- copious, distichous, rich-green leaves set off these large golden flowers to great advantage. It would need an imperial folio
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plate to do justice to the whole plant. It is an inhabitant.-of the Burman Empire, growing on Lagerstremia Regina, on the banks of the Tenasserim river, near Barlavo, according to Griffith. Descr. A large species, with copious foliage growing in a dis- tichous manner. Leaves broadly lorate, recurved, a foot and a half long, very obtuse, and deeply and unequally emarginate at the apex. Raceme large, drooping. lowers three inches lon in their greatest diameter, golden-yellow, richly spotted and blotched with cimmamon-brown. Column and lip white, the the latter small in proportion to the petals, thick and fleshy. Column short.
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Bronze-leaved Alocasia.
Nat. Ord. Arorpp#.—Mona@cia MonanDrRIA.
Gen. Char. Spathe tubus persistens ; lamina cucullato-cymbiformis. Spadix appendiculatus, spatha paulo brevior, inferne ovariis (ovaridiisque interdum), medio floribus neutris, infra apicem synandriis dense obsitus. Ovaria subastyla (an semper?). Stigma depresso-hemisphericum. Synandria breviter stipitata, loculis sub vertice aperientibus: Fructus spathe tubo irregulariter disrupto et revoluto involucratus. Bacea rotundato-obovata (rubra). Semen depresso-hemi- sphericum.—Rhizome plerumque elatum, arborescens, approximato- tenuterque cicatrizatum. Folia juvenilis plante peltata, vetustioris sepe ad petiolum usque bipartita. Costa et ven utrinque elevato-prominentes. Pedunculi breviusculi plures ex una axilla. Spadices suaveolentes !—Indice. Schott.
Axocasta metallica; acaulis dense cespitosa, foliis longe petiolatis cordato- ovatis peltatis subbullatis cuspidatim brevissime acuminatis sepe viridi- eeruginosis nitore metallico nitidissimis subtus intense purpureis, scapis rubris bracteatis petiolo subduplo brevioribus, spathe lanceolate subcylin- draceee dimidio inferiore (seu tubo) oblongo, lamina cucullato-cymbiformi Pee sublonge acuminata, ovariis laxiusculis, stylo distincto, stigmate 3-4-lobo.
Axocasta metallica. Schott, “C@str. Bot. Wochbl. v. 4. p. 410.” Syn. Aroid. v. 1. p. 46.
In former days plants for horticultural purposes were valued in proportion to the beauty of the flowers: now, none are more highly prized than those which possess richness of colouring in the foliage or some other parts of the plant, whether that colour- ing is the normal state or condition, or to be reckoned among the freaks and sports of Nature, as is presumed to be the case with the now numerous varieties, depending on colour, of the well-known Caladium bicolor among Aroidee. The plant we have now the gratification of describing and figuring belongs to that family of plants, but exhibits a foliage and hue which no- thing of the kind can exceed, if it can equal, and to which the pencil even of our accomplished artist, Mr. Fitch, can scarcely do justice ; for there is a degree of metallic lustre of the leaves on the ample foliage which must be seen to be understood; and
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this, too, is accompanied by a rich and very different colouring (rich red) in the scapes that rise copiously beneath the foliage, but never overtdp it. We think we cannot be mistaken in re- ferring this noble plant (which in all Europe is perhaps only in possession of Messrs low, of the Clapton Nursery, who received it from Borneo) to the Alocasia metallica of Schott, equally a Bornean plant, notwithstanding some discrepancies in the spe- cific as well as in the generic characters. Our plant has a very distinct style to the ovary, and the stigma is not “ depresso- hemisphzericum,” but clearly three- or four-lobed.
Descr. From a large underground tuber or rhizome a cluster of foliage springs, of which the petioles are two feet long, rounded, and green, but with the sheaths tinged with rose-colour. The blade of the leaves is from twelve to eighteen inches long, a foot wide, with a firm, somewhat succulent texture, and of a form, so common in Aroideous plants, ovato- or elliptico-cordate, peltate, waved at the margin, somewhat bullate on the surface, suddenly and somewhat mucronately acuminate at the apex; the upper surface of a rich bronze-colour, extremely glossy and metallic, exhibiting a beautiful play of light and colour, while the under side is a very dark purple, and equally glossy ; veins pinnated, exceedingly prominent, falcately curved, springing from a very stout costa: from the point of attachment of the petiole, two stout veins take a downward direction towards the sinus of the blade, an inch and a half apart, and send out four or five spread- ing and curved side-veins. Seapes, several arising from the axils of several of the petioles, much shorter than they, red rose- colour. Spatha five inches long, the base or ¢ube cylindrical, purple-red, the /amina (there is a constriction between the tube and it) cucullate. or cymbiform, much acuminated. Spadiz in- cluded, shorter than the spatha: from below, for about one-third of the length, occupied with the somewhat scattered pistils. Ovary globose ; style thick, as long as ‘the ovary; stigma three or four-lobed. ‘The middle of the spadix is occupied by a com- pact mass of stamens, except at the base, where are some abortive bodies (stamens or ovaries, or both?). The apex of the spadix is formed by the fleshy appendage.
. Fig. 1. Plant in flower, on a very reduced scale. 2. Spadix,—mnat. size. 3.
are Eb 4. Single stamen,—more magnified. 5, Pistils and two abortive bodies (imperfect stamen and pistil). 6, 7, and 8. Sections of ovaries. 9. Ovule :—all magnified.
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ACACIA Drummonpit.
Drummond’s Acacia.
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Nat. Ord. Lecuminos#.—PotyGaMIA POLYANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4306.)
Acacta (Pulchelle:) Drummondii; inermis, ramis pedunculis petiolisque tenui- ter puberulis, stipulis subulatis, pinnis bijugis, glandulis verruceformibus sepe obsoletis, foliolis 2-6-jugis oblongo-linearibus glabris, spicis cylin- dricis folia superantibus. Benth.
Acacta Drummondii. Benth. in Lindl. Sw. Riv. Bot. p. 61; in Hook. Lond.: Journ. of Bot. v. 1. p. 388. Walp. Rep. Bot. Syst. v. 1. p. 908.
In foliage the present species (one of a very extensive genus) very much resembles the Acacia Cycnorum (of our Tab. 4653); but there the branches and rachises of the leaves are densely patenti-hirsute, and the flowers are collected into globose, deep- yellow Aeads. Here the flowers are in cylindrical spikes, and of a pale lemon-yellow colour. The leaflets, too, are here much broader. It forms a good-sized bush, and flowers copiously in the early spring months. This and its numerous allies are not encouraged in our ornamental greenhouses so much as they de- serve to be, for they render them gay at a season when compa- ratively few other plants are in blossom; and as soon as they have done flowering, they may be removed to the open air, which will greatly strengthen and benefit them; and they give place to the more gaudy summer flowers: so that by means of plants of temperate regions of the southern hemisphere in the winter, and those of the northern hemisphere in the sum- mer, a perpetual flowering season may be maintained through almost the entire year. Acacia Drummondii is a native of Swan
River.
Fig. 1. Leaflet. 2. Flower :—magnified.
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Tas. 5192.
CALLIXENE potypHyLta.
Many-leaved Callizxene.
Nat. Ord. Smrtace®.—HeExanpria MonoGyNia.
Gen. Char. Flores hermaphroditi. Perigonium corollinum, sex-partitum, pa- tens, deciduum, laciniis eequilongis, tribus interioribus basi biglandulosis. Sfa- mina 6, basi laciniarum inserta ; filamenta libera, basi dilatata, anthers: ovate in- cumbentes. Ovarium triloculare. Ovu/a in loculis pauca, amphitropa. Stylus cras- sus, trisulcus; stigma obsolete trilobum. Bacca trilocularis, pulposa. Semina in loculis subterna, subglobosa, ¢esta membranacea, tenui, cum nucleo connata, umbilico ventrali punctiformi. Hmbryo excentricus, in basi albuminis carnosi re- spectu umbilici semi-transversus, extremitate radiculari centripeta.—Suffrutex Magellanicus, ramosus, basi nodosus, triphyllus, squamatus, superne foliatus ; foliis alternis, semi-amplexicaulibus, ellipticis, nervosis, coriaceis, margine crassioribus ; floribus terminalibus solitariis, folio stipatis, pedicellis brevibus, basi squamis 2-4 cinctis. Endl.
CALLIXENE polyphylla; elata valde pinnatim ramosa, foliis numerosis oblongis acutis mucronatis distichis 5—7-nerviis transversimque (sub lente) venosis subtus glaucis, pedunculis folium subsequantibus infra medium bracteatis, floribus pendentibus petalis acutis (siccitate maculatis).
CALLIXENE polyphylla. Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 684. Hook. fil. Fl. Antarct. v. 2. p. 355.
Luzuriaca erecta. Kth. En. Plant. v. 5. p. 280.
' The first species of this very pretty genus (Callimene margi- nata) being detected by Commerson, on the inhospitable shores of the Magalhaens Strait, was appropriately named Callivene, from xarndos, something beautiful, and Eevos, a stranger. All the known species inhabit high southern latitudes of South America: and the present seems to be confined to the extreme south of Chili ; Cape Tres Montes, where it was discovered by C. Darwin, Esq., Isle of Huaffo, Dr. Fights, an officer in the United States’ Service, and Valdivia, where it is called “ Asajur,” Mr. Bridges. It be- longs to the same natural family as our well-known Lily-of-the- valley, and is generally seen running over the trunks of trees néar the ground, enlivening them with bright-green, Box-like leaves, glaucous beneath, and the gracefully-drooping flowers of the same pure white as the Lily-of-the-valley, but much larger, and instead of being of one piece, cut into six eventually spreading
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petals. We owe the possession of this plant at the Royal Gardens to Mr. Standish. It may be kept in a cool greenhouse in an ordinary frame or pit.
Duscr. The root seems creeping. The stem slender, angled, copiously branched in a pinnated manner, a foot or a foot and a half long. Leaves very numerous, oval or oblong, mucronate, striated, glaucous beneath. Peduncles single : flowers one from the axil of each leaf, pendent, and these in a measure concealed by the foliage. The anthers are curious, sagittate, opening by a pore at the base of each cell, bent down upon the filament, so that the base of the anther becomes superior.
Fig. 1. Leaf and flower. 2. Stamens and pistil. 3. Pistil. 4. Section of . Ovary. 5. Single stamen :—all more or less magnified,
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“Tan. 5193. ONCIDIUM tonaiPEs.
Long-stalked Oncidium.
Nat. Ord. OrcutpE®.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4824.)
Oncrprum (Tetrapetala, Macropetala) Jongipes; pseudobulbis ovalibus diphyl- lis, foliis angustis tenuibus, scapo bi- (pluri-)floro foliis eequali, pedunculis elongatis, sepalis lateralibus elongatis pendulis basi connatis dorsali bre- viore latiore refracto, petalis oblongis planis, labelli lobis lateralibus parvis obtusis intermedio transverso apiculato sinu convexo serrato, crista pubes- cente depressa basi simplici truncata papilla utrinque adpressa apice 3- loba, columne alis minimis sinuatis. Lindl.
OncrpruM longipes. Lindley, in Paxton’s Fl. Garden, v. 1. n. 76. Folia Or- chid. Oncid. p. 15. n. 45.
Oncrpium Janeirense. “Reichenb. fil. in Bonpl. Ap. 1, 1854.”
A Brazilian plant, reared by Messrs. Loddiges from pseudo- bulbs received from Rio Janeiro. Dr. Lindley considers it iden- tical with his Oncidium longipes; but its flowers are so much brighter, and attractive for the size of the plant, that it is quite worthy of cultivation. It differs moreover in the form of the crest of the lip, which is accurately represented at our figure 2. Its flowers appear in April, and continue long in blossom.
Descr. From a creeping cavdea, about as thick as a writing- pen, pseudobulbs arise in clusters, oblong, tapering upwards, sheathed with brownish scales, bearing two, linear, apiculated, somewhat fleshy /eaves, linear-oblong, tapering much at the base, apiculate at the point, bright green. Peduncle or scape slender, arising from between the leaves, bearing a raceme, three to four inches long, of several loug-pedicellate flowers. Sepals and petals all spreading, dark, almost blood-red-brown within, brownish-green on the outside ; superior or dorsal sepal spathu- late, the margins waved and reflexed, lateral sepals narrower, united at their base, deflexed. Zadel/um large in proportion to the size of the flower, bright, almost golden yellow, with a broad blood-coloured ring at the base surrounding the crest, three-
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lobed, lateral lobe small rounded, terminal one large and two- lobed; the margin fimbriated between the principal lobes. Crest a slightly downy, elevated, oblong, fleshy disc, lobed at the margin, whitish, and spotted; the apex with three teeth or small lobes, the two inferior curved and subspiniform. Column rather short, with two small wing-like lobes beneath the anther.
Fig. 1. Front view. 2, Lateral view of a flower :—magnified.
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Tas. 5194, PTERIS Cretica, L.
Cretan Pteris.
Nat. Ord. Friices.—CryproGaMi1a Finices,
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4925.)
Preris (Eupteris) Cret¢ica ; fronde circumscriptione ovata subcoriaceo-membra- nacea pinnata, pinnis 3-24 remotis digitalibus ad spithameam sterilibus lanceolatis spinuloso-serratis fertilibus oblongo-linearibus apice serratis in- fimis bi- rarius tri-partitis, venis plerisque furcatis approximatis horizonta- liter patentibus, involucris marginalibus angustis, stipite elongato.
Preris Cretica. Linn. Mart. p. 130. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 96. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 314. Schk. Fil. t. 90. Ag. Pterid. p.9. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 2. p. 160.
PrERIs semiserrata. Forsk. Descr. 186.
Preris serraria. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 96. ¢. 289.
Preris pentaphylla. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 362.
Preris heterophylla. Poir. (fide Desv.)
Preris nervosa. 7h. Fl. Jap. p. 332. Wail. Cat. n. 96.
Preris vittata. Bory in Belanger Voy.
Preris multiaurita. 4g. Plerid. p. 12 (taller form, with numerous pinne).,
Preis triphylla. Mart. et Gal. Fl. Mex. p. 51 to p. 81 (var. with three pinne only), not of Agardh. :
Var. stenophylia ; frondibus digitatis vel digitato-pinnatis, pinnis 3-5 subinte- gerrimis. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 2. p. 160.
Prerts stenophylla. Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 130. 4g. Sp. Pterid. p. 11. Preris digitata. Wall, Cat. n. 91.
Preris teeniosa. J. Si. in Hook. Journ. Bot. v. 3. p. 405.
Var. albo-lineata ; pinnis linea media lata alba. (Tas. Nostr. 5194.)
Pteris Cretica is far from being peculiar to Crete, as its name would seem to imply; on the contrary, few Ferns have a more extensive geographical distribution, from Turcomania in Uralian Siberia throughout the south of Europe, the Mediterranean and its islands, Arabia, and Abyssinia. It is frequent in various parts of India, and there generally quite maintaining the European
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form, from the hot plains to the Himalayas, at elevations of 6000 feet ; Bourbon, Penang, Java, Luzon, Ceylon. We possess speci- mens from the Sandwich Islands, from the Feejees and Loochoo. ‘It appears in the United States, upon rocks on the Apalacha river (very rare), south through Mexico to Guatemala. In South America it has been detected at Entre Rios by Mr. ‘Tweedie. It is no wonder that a plant which is so widely diffused should vary from its genuine type, and have given rise to the notion that there are several distinct species. ‘The most interesting state of the plant, however, is that which we have here repre- sented, where the whole length of the centre is white, with a jagged edge, bordered on each side by dark-green. This, we believe, has never yet been recorded. We were lately favoured with healthy living plants of this from our valued correspondent, Mr. Binnendyk, of the Buitenzorg Botanic Garden, Java, m which country it is a native.
Fig. 1. Portion of a sterile pinna. 2. Portion of a fertile ditto :—magnified.
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Tas. 5195.
CYRTODEIRA cupreata, var. viridifolia.
Coppery Cyrtodeira ; green-leaved var.
Nat. Ord. GESNERIACE#.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA.
Gen. Char. CyrtopEIRa, Hanst. Calyx parvulus, foliolis anguste lanceolatis patentibus v. recurvatis. Corolle tubus basi postice gibbus, sursum dein de- orsum curvatus, leviter ampliatus. Annulus et glandula. Stigma stomato- morphum. ilamenta inter se et cum corolla basi connata. Hanst.
CYRTODEIRA cupreata ; repens stolonifera undique pubescenti-hirsuta, foliis ellip- ticis petiolatis serratis reticulatim venosis (cupreatis v. viridibus), pedunculis axillaribus solitariis unifloris petiolo longioribus, calycis laxi profunde 5- partiti laciniis lineari-spathulatis subsecundis, corolla tubo calycem sub- duplo superante curvato, ore fimbriato-glanduloso, limbi patentis lobis rotun- datis planis crenatis, staminibus styloque inclusis.
Var. cupreata ; foliis cupreatis.
ACHIMENES cupreata. Hook, Bot. Mag. t. 4312.
CyrTopEIRa cupreata. Hanst. Gesn. in Linnea, v. 26. p. 207. t. 2. f. 39.
Var. viridifolia ; foliis viridibus. (Tas. Nostr. 5195.)
Tapina (Achimenes) splendens. Triana, in Lind. Cat. 1857 (name only).
The Natural Order of Gesneriacee has recently occupied the attention of Dr. Oersted and Dr. Hanstein, and the result of their studies has been the establishment, in the view of the latter author, of sixty-seven genera, divided into two principal, and twelve sub-tribes.. These are accompanied by well executed figures of the flowers of each genus. Our <Achimenes cupreata (Bot. Mag. Tab. 4312) there constitutes a new genus, with the character given above. ‘That plant, native of New Grenada, is remarkable for the coppery colour of the foliage. Our present plant, from the same region, differs, and differs only from it in the much larger flowers, and in the absence of the coppery tinge to the foliage. I cannot therefore agree with M. Triana, who has constituted of it a new species, and who has referred it to the genus Zapina, Mart., with which it does not correspond. Mr. Linden observes of it (for there is no specific character or de- scription),—‘‘ Cette jolie plante rappelle par le port Vl Achime- nes cupreata, dont il différe toutefois par la teinte argentée des
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feuilles, et par des fleurs d’un éclat peu commun dans le regne végétal, et dont le vif écarlate trouve a peine une comparaison dans la fleur du Pelargonium zonale.” Our plant, which flowered copiously in the hothouse, in the spring of 1560, was received from the nursery of Messrs. Henderson, Wellington Road. Superior as this is to our Achimenes cupreata above referred to, in the size and beauty of the flowers, and different as is the colour of the leaves, they nevertheless are the only differences.
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Tas. 5196.
HABENARIA SaLaccensIis.
Salakian Habenaria.
Nat. Ord. OrcurpE#.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. ‘ ®
Gen. Char. (§ Ophrydex). Perigonii galeati foliola subequilonga, exteriora cum interioribus multo angustioribus integris bi-trifidisve conniventia. La- belliem elongatum, pendulum, integrum v. bi-trifidum, elongato-calcaratum. An- thera erecta, loculis solutis, basi divergentibus, canalibus stigmaticis adherenti- bus, rostello plano, anthere adnato, processubus duobus stigmaticis, variis seepius ori stigmatis adnatis. Polliniarum glandule nudee.—Herbe habitu Orchidis, majuscule, inter tropicos totius orbis obvie ; im America, ubi etiam in extratropicis utriusque hemispherii occurrunt, frequentiores; in Asia temperata rare. Endl.
Hasenarta (§ Erostres) Salaccensis, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis striatis, racemo laxo plurifloro, bracteis membranaceis lineari-subulatis ovario longissimo pedunculiformi brevioribus, labello tripartito, laciniis linearibus, basi biglan- duloso, calcare filiformi recurvo ovario multo breviore, sepalis ovato-lanceo- latis herbaceis.
Hagpenarta Salaccensis. Bl. Bijdr. p. 403. Tabell. Orch. f. 18 (flower only). Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 308.
A rare and apparently little-known species of Habenaria, found by Blume on Mount Salak, in Java, and lately sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew, in a living state, by M. Binnendyk, of the Botanic Garden of Buitenzorg, Java. It flowered with us, in the stove, in April, 1860. Dr. Lindley only knew it from Blume’s figure of the flower and the very brief specific character above referred to.
Descr. The roof, in our living specimen, consists of a large (for the size of the plant), fusiform, fleshy ¢wJer, and three or four shorter yet thick fleshy fibres. Stem twelve to fourteen inches high, at the base partially clothed with two to three sheathing scales, leafy upwards ; lower leaves four to five inches long, lan- ceolate, acuminate, striated, the superior ones becoming gradually smaller, bracteiform. Raceme ovate, five to six inches long. Pe- dicels short, clothed with two or three narrow-lanceolate bracts; ovary ‘elongated and resembling the pedicel, but angled and
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slightly twisted. Sepals spreading, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, green. Petals reddish, very narrow, linear-subulate, bipartite at the base. Zip elongated, tri-partite, segments narrow-linear, mid- dle one longer : at the base are two, large, oblong, fleshy glands. Spur retlexed, narrow, almost subulate, tipped with orange, shorter than the ovary. Column short. Base of the anther-cells long and divergent.
Fig. 1. Base of the stem, with root,—mat. size. 2. Side view of aflower. 3. Front view of ditto :—magnified.
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Tas. 5197. IXORA sucunpDa.
Mr. Thwaites’s Ixora.
Nat. Ord. Ruprace®.—TETRANDRIA Monoaynia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4325.)
Txora jucunda ; foliis glabris lanceolatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis basi an- gustatis petiolatis, corymbis primariis elongatis, bracteolis parvis acutis, segmentis calycinis truncatulis ovario brevioribus. Thwaites.
Ixora jucunda. Thwaites, Enum. Plant. Zeyl. p. 155.
Izora is a genus of plants almost peculiar to tropical Asia, of which thirty-four kinds are enumerated by De Candolle, in the fourth volume of his ‘ Prodromus,’ which appeared in 1830. Many additions have been since made by Wallich and Wight and Bentham, etc. But it must be confessed that many of the species are so described that they are very difficult of determi- nation. It is very fortunate therefore when, as in the present instance, we have the discoverer and describer of the species as the authority for the name. ‘This is one of the many interesting plants of Ceylon we have received from our valued friend Mr. Thwaites. Of it he enumerates two varieties, differing in the breadth of the leaves, and much more remarkably in the length of the tube of the corolla, sometimes only two to three lines long ; sometimes, as in our plant, fourteen lines long. It is not an uncommon species, attaining on the hills an elevation of 4,000 feet. It first produced its flowers with us, in the stove, in May, 1860.
Dzscr. A shrub, with much the aspect of Irvora acuminata, . Boxb. ; in its native country from ten to twenty feet high, with - subcoriaceous, opposite /eaves, three to seven or eight inches long, and, according to Thwaites, one to four inches broad, obscurely penniveined, broad-lanceolate, but varying from narrow-lanceo- late to ovato-lanceolate on the same or on different specimens, rather abruptly acuminate, tapering below into a short petiole
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scarcely two lines long. Stipules ovate, sharply acuminate, red- dish. Corgmb terminal, short-peduncled, trichotomous, pedicels very short. owers very compact, erect. Calyw small, slightly downy, subtended by a minute, oblong, acute bracteole, at the base of the inferior ovary : limb of four, close-placed, small, erect, lanceolate teeth or segments. Corolla white, or rather inclining to cream-colour in our plant, long, hypocrateriform: fwde very slender, terete, fourteen lines long : “limb spreading, almost three- quarters of an inch in diameter, of four obovate, rather acute lobes. Anthers subulate, quite exserted. Style as long as the tube of the corolla. Stigma bipartite.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Pistil :—magnified.
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Tas. 5198.
PENTAPTERYGIUM RUGOSUM.
Rugose Pentapterygium.
Nat. Ord. VaccrnrIaceE®.—DECANDRIA Monoeynta.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4910.)
PENTAPTERYGIUM rugosum ; ramis foliisque glabris, ramulis petiolisque juniori- bus pubescentibus, foliis coriaceis subsessilibus lanceolatis v. ovato-lanceo- latis acuminatis basi cordatis serratis superne rugoso-venosis subtus pal- lidioribus, floribus in corymbos foliis brevioribus breve pedunculatis aggre- gatis nutantibus, pedicellis pilosulis, calycibus glabris, lobis late ovato-tri- angularibus obtusis subfoliaceis corolla alba transverse purpureo-fasciata ter brevioribus.
Vaccinrum rugosum. Hook. et Thoms. Ms.
This remarkable and beautiful plant was originally detected by Griffith in the temperate regions of the Khasya mountains, where it has since been gathered by Drs. Hooker and Thomson, who have distributed it in their Indian Herbarium under the name of Vaccinium rugosum. It was also found by Dr. Hooker in the Sikkim-Himalaya mountains, and by Mr. Booth in the Bhotan Himalaya. The plant here figured was sent by Mr. Thomas Lobb to Messrs. Veitch and Son, with whom it flowered in May of the present year. It succeeds well ina common green- house. At Tab. 4910 will be found figured another species of this genus, together with some observations on its congeners, in- cluding this. The beautiful transversely fasciated colouring of the corolla on a white ground, exactly recalls that of the Thibau- dia macrantha (Tab. 4566), but the colour of the flower probably varies, as we find that it is described in the notes to the wild specimens as varying from deep-red to purple.
Descr. A glabrous shud, often epiphytical, forming a large tuberous rhizome or caudex on the trunks of lofty trees. Branches covered with circular pale pustules. Zeaves almost sessile, sub- cordate at the base, very coriaceous and rugose, almost lacunose on the under surface, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, deep bright-green above, pale beneath, the young ones
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purplish. JVowers pendulous, in few-flowered corymbs, about an inch long. Calyx and base of the pedicel deep-red, lobes of the calyx almost membranaceous. Corolla with a strongly five- angled tube, having a prominent rib at each angle, nearly white, beautifully marbled between the angles with slender, waving, transverse, purple or blood-red bands, giving it an exquisitely beautiful and china-like appearance, the mouth contracted and greenish. Anthers with minute spurs at the back, about the middle. Berry fleshy, insipid. The calyx-lobes vary a good
deal in length and breadth, and the peduncles and pedicels also in length. —
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx-tube and ovary, style and stigma. 3. Anthers :— all magnified.
Tas. 5199,
CALADIUM sicotor, var. Newnannis.
Two-coloured Caladium ; Neumann’s var.
Nat. Ord. AnoripE®.—Mone@cra MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. Spatha ventricosa, basi convoluta. Spadix apice omnino stamini- fer, quandoque mucronatus, mucrone nudo, medio glandulosus, basi tectus ger- ‘minibus. Anthere sessiles, in spiram dense disposite, peltate, sub pelta ad am- bitum multiloculares vel pluries sulcate, sulcis pollen concatenatum emittentibus. Glandule seu anthere steriles multiplici serie adnate spadici, inaquales, ob- long, angulose, obtuse,.ad ambitum sulcate. Germina numerosa, sessilia, subrotunda, depressa; sfyli nulli; stigmata umbilicata, viscoso humore referta. Vent.
CaLapiuM Jicolor ; foliis peltatis ovato-sagittatis, lobis profundis paululum di- varicatis bicoloribus, spatha erecta basi subglobosa medio coarctata apice ovato-acuminata.
a. foliis disco rubicundo.
Catapium bicolor. Vent. Pl. Nouv. ¢. 30. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 488. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 311. Kerr, in Bot. Mag. t. 2543. Hook. Er. .
_ Fl. t. 26. Schott, Syn. Aroid. p. 54. Arvo bicolor. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 3. p. 316. Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 820. B. foliis maculatis maculis roseo-sanguineis ocellatis ocellis limboque albis.
CaLapium Neumannii. Ch. Lem. in Fl. des Serres, 1860, p. 104.
In proportion as the cultivation of plants peculiar for coloured foliage increases in favour with the public, so, it would appear, do their varieties; and among the more beautiful of them will rank numerous Aroidee. Ventenat first described what is assuredly the normal state of this species of Caladium (that indeed on which the genus itself is founded), Jicolor, peculiar in the rich red colour of the disc of the leaf, and running up, as it were, along the principal veins, and disappearing at some little distance from the margin. Here, in a plant no ways differing specifically, we have the red collected in spots of unequal sizes and forms over the whole disc of the leaf, but never touching the margin; and these spots are of a deep rose-red, freckled and margined with
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oS white. It is a plant that loves heat and plenty of moisture, and the offsets should be frequently removed : indeed it succeeds best in a warm stove, with the pots standing in a pan of water. Fig. 1. Spatha, laid open. 2. Anther. 3. Pistil. 4. Vertical section of the re ovary. 5. ‘Transverse section of the ovary :—magnified. 1 4 iy: 4 ¥
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ROSA SERICEA.
Stlky-leaved Rose.
Nat. Ord. Rosacr#.—Icosanpria D1-PENTAGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4030.)
Rosa (§ Canine) sericea; ramis. villoso-glandulosis, aculeis validis stipularibus e basi dilatata compresse subulatis rectis, foliolis 7—9 parvis ovalibus ser- ratis, floribus plerisque tetrapetalis, fructibus turbinatis calycibusque externe pubescentibus. ?
Rosa sericea. Lindl. Monogr. Ros. p. 105. ¢.12. Royle, Fl. Himal. p. 208. t. 42. f.1. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 613. Wall. Cat. p. 695,
Rosa tetrapetala. Royle, 1. c. p. 23. Rosa Wallichii. Zrattin. Ros. v. 2. p. 193.
A white-flowered, usually tetrapetalous Rose of Himalaya, first detected by Dr. Wallich at Gossam Them, but since found abundantly in northern India. Dr. Lindley speaks of it as “a Rose which, together with R. macrophylla, found in the same district, exhibits the nearest approach among Indian Roses to those of Europe.”’ Introduced by Dr. Hooker and Mr. Strachey into our gardens, where it proves perfectly hardy, and is best treated by nailing against a wall. Thus situated, its blossoms are abundant in the early summer.
Descr. A moderate-sized dush. Branches numerous, stout, green when young, at length brown, clothed with copious, rather short, spreading, glandulose hairs or sete; the glands clammy, and yielding an aromatic odour. Prickles rather distant, large, strong, dark purple, from a very broad dilated base, laterally compressed, subulate, very pungent, straight, generally appearing below the base of a stipule. Zeaves about four inches long, long-petiolate, petiole with a pair of lanceolate stipules, decur- rent, and forming a broad wing to the base of the petiole. Leaflets seven to nine, small, from half to three-quarters of an
-inch long at the utmost, oval or subobovate, strongly serrated
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at the base, silky, or rather glanduloso-hirsuta in our specimens, beneath. Flowers solitary, upon the peduncles a little drooping, moderately large in cultivated specimens, small in native ones. Peduncle and calyzx-tube villose, the hairs tipped with a gland ; the limb of four, rarely five, ovato-lanceolate, acuminated seg- ments, shorter than the petals, pubescenti-villous on the outside. Petals broad-obcordate, four, rarely five, spreading, white. /ruit globoso-turbinate, rather small, glandular, crowned with the per- sistent calyx-segments. Stamens numerous. Styles free.
Fig. 1. Flower, from which the petals are removed,—magnified. 2. Fruit,— nat. size.
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YUCCA CANALICULATA.
Channel-leaved Yucca, or Adam’s Needle.
Nat. Ord. Litrace®.—Herxanpria MonoGynia.
Gen. Char. Perigonium hexaphyllum ; foliola eequilonga, interiora latiora, cam- panulato-conniventia, ima basi connata, marcescendo-persistentia. Stamina 6, perigonii foliolis basi inserta; filamenta brevia, plana, apice latiora. Ovarium triloculare. Ovula in loculis plurima, horizontalia, biseriata, anatropa; stigmata 3, sessilia, basi subconnata, apice patentia. Capsula oblonga, obtuse hexagona, subbaccata, vertice primum forata, demum loculicido-subtrivalvis, trilocularis, v. ' septis secundariis incomplete sexlocularis. Semina plurima, biseriata, horizontalia, obovata, compressiuscula. Testa coriacea, nigra. Embryo axilis, dimidio albumine breviore, extremitate radiculari umbilico proxima.—Plante in America tropica cis equatorem et in boreali calidiore indigene ; caudice sepius arborescente, interdum hypogao; foliis in apice caudicis confertis, lineari-lanceolatis, crassis, rigidis, margine sepius spinuloso-serratis ; scapo ¢ foliorum centro bracteato, paniculato, Endl,
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Yucca canaliculuta ; caule sesquipedali crasso, foliis densis bipedalibus lanceolatis erassis supra basin. latioribus sensim spinoso-acumiuatis rigidissimis insig- niter concavo-canaliculatis subtus asperis superne levibus marginibus in- tegerrimis rubro-subcartilagineis, panicula ampla compacta densiflora, flori- bus sulphureis, perianthio globoso, foliolis late ovatis acutis concavis acutius- culis basi subito angustis.
We were much struck with the beauty of this Yucca in the cool greenhouse of W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., Hillfield, Reigate, in the summer of the present year. His flowering specimen had been purchased at the sale of the collection of the late Ro- bert Bevan, Esq., of Bury St. Edmund’s; name and locality un- known. A young plant of the same kind had been received by Mr. Saunders, from Paris. It appears to be quite undescribed, and is probably of Mexican origin. It belongs to the section “ foliis margine integerrimis,” and may rank next to Yucca gloriosa, Linn., differing however remarkably from that in the form and colour of the flowers, and still more in the singularly straight, rigid, very concavo-canaliculated foliage. We know of
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no species, either, with such densely flowered panicles. The plant is probably of considerable age, and has perhaps attained - its ordinary size.
Drscr. Sfem-erect, eighteen inches high, three to four inches in diameter, unbranched, transversely marked with the scars of fallen foliage. Leaves nearly two feet long, spreading on all sides, numerous, twenty to twenty-four inches long, closely im- bricated on the trunk, lanceolate, firm and hard, coriaceous, sub- glaucous, contracted at the base, then dilated and gradually tapering to a rigid spinulose point, very concave in its whole length (canaliculato-concava), almost semicylindrical, asperous beneath, smooth above, the margins entire, with a subcar- tilaginous and red-brown line at the very edge of the younger leaves. Panicle terminal, a large compound raceme, each branch thickly clothed with large, sulphur-coloured, drooping, globose flowers. Folioles or sepals subconnivent, broad-ovate, scarcely acute, contracted at the very base. Stamens and pistil as in the genus.
Fig. 1. Flowering plant,—much reduced. 2. Portion of a leaf and of a panicle, —nat, size. 3. Pistil. 4. Stamen :—magnified.
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CATASETUM arratum.
Dark-flowered Catasetum.
Nat. Ord. OncH1ipE®.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4792.)
CatTasEetum atratum ; racemo decurvo, sepalis petalisque patentibus ovatis acu- tis, labello carnoso cucullato margine tenui-pectinato apice rotundato reflexo crasso denticulato. Lindl.
CaTasetum atratum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1838; Misc. n. 114; and same volume, t. 63.
A singular species, imported by Messrs. Loddiges from Brazil more than twenty years ago, and of which Dr. Lindley candidly says: “Had this been known when the now-abolished genus Myanthus was proposed, that error would not have been com- mitted, for the species is neither exactly a J/yanthus nor exactly a Catasetum.” It flowered in the Royal Gardens of Kew in May, 1860.
Descr. Fully-formed pseudobulbs of this Catasetum are about five inches long, oblong, jointed, partially sheathed with white striated membranaceous scales. Leaves terminal, three, broad- lanceolate, tapering downwards, submembranaceous, striated, dark-green above, paler below, and there having three prominent ribs. Scape from the bottom of a young pseudobulb, bracteated, pendent, as is the raceme of large numerous flowers, of which the ground-colour is a lurid green. Sepals and petals equal, spreading, ovate, acute, concave, blotched with copious, trans- verse, oblong, purple-brown spots, which are sometimes con- fluent ; externally these spots are faint and obscure. Lzp about as long as the sepals and petals, fleshy, ovate, cucullate, but the deep cavity is confined to the centre of the lip; the margin is not only open, but spreading, and somewhat reflexed, beautifully fringed with brown bristles, and marked with a few brown spots ; the apex is pale yellow-green, spotless, and much reflexed. Co- Juma semiterete, acuminate, pale yellow-green.
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BESCHORNERIA yuccorpss.
Yucca-leaved Beschorneria.
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BESCHORNERIA yuccoides ; foliis pedalibus sesquipedalibusque lanceolatis inferne angustatis basi dilatato-vaginatis apice acuminatissimis, scapo 3—4-pedali gracili bracteato racemoso-paniculato corallino, ramis gracillimis elongatis floribusque pendentibus, bracteis roseis, sepalis clausis rectis.
BEscHORNERIA yuccoides. Hortul.
Some years ago Lord Ilchester distributed seeds of a Beschor- neria, which was considered to be different from the only de- scribed one, B. tubiflora (see our Tab. 4642), and which we have since understood bears the name of B. yuccoides in gardens. A plant of this was in perfection in the succulent-house of our friend Mr. Wilson Saunders at the same time with the Yucca — canaliculata, given in the present number. The accompanying — figure will show better than words can do how very different this is from B. tubifora. It is indeed a most striking plant, distinguished by the long, slender, coral-like scape and panicle, with its gracefully slender drooping branches, of the same colour, bearing racemes of large pendent green flowers, in shape not much unlike those of some long-flowered Fuchsia, but of a dark yellow-green colour, tinged with red. It is a highly ornamental plant, and continues a long time in blossom. It requires a cool greenhouse, and is probably a native of Mexico.
Drscr. Leaves radical (but the falling away of the older ones at length causes an imperfect stem to appear, thick and short), a foot to a foot and a half long, subcoriaceous, glaucous-green, lanceolate, narrowed below the middle, dilated at the very base, the apex pungently and narrow-acuminated, asperous beneath and at the margin. Scape three to four feet long, the upper half
forming a panicle of slender drooping (as it were from the weight
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of the flowers) branches, of a rich coral-red colour. Bracteas
- membranaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, deep rose-colour. //owers pendent, nearly three inches long, including the inferior ovary, which is cylindrical, narrower than the perianth. Sepals linear- oblong, dark-green, with a yellow tinge, straight, approximating so as to form a fude. Stamens scarcely exserted. Filaments subulate. Anthers linear. Style filiform, dilated, and trisul- cate at the base. x 3
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PSAMMISIA PENDULIFLORA.
Pendulous-flowered Psammisia.
Nat. Ord. EricAce®.—DeEcanpRIA MonoGynIa.
Gen. Char. Psammista. Calyx urceolato-campanulatus ; limbo cupuleformi, breviter et late 5-dentato. Corolla tubulosa, basi ventricosa, limbo 5-fido. Sta- mina 10, distincta, inclusa, equilonga. Anthere biloculares, oblongo-lineares, apice breviter bifida, dorso supra medium affixee, basi liberee, scabree, alternatim latiores, subinde ad apicem connectivi dentibus 2 divergentibus aucte, angus- tiores semper edentule ; ¢wbulis levibus, anthera ipsa brevioribus, apice foramine dehiscentibus. Filamenta lata, brevia. Ovarium 5-loculare, loculis multi-ovu- latis. Stylus filiformis, strictus, plerumque exsertus. Stigma obtusum. Bacca coriacea, subexsucca, 5-locularis, calycis limbo cupuleeformi 5-dentato coronata, loculis polyspermis ; placentis in axi centrali versus apicem sitis, pendulis.— Frutices Americani, ramosi; foliis coriaceis, 3-5—1-plinerviis, magnis ; racemis axillaribus, robustis, corymbosis, solitariis, tegmentis destitutis ; pedicellis robustis, sensim incrassatis, apice articulatis bractea parva squamaformi suffultis ; calycis limbo eupuleformi, coriaceo. Kl.
PsamMMISIA pendulifiora ; ramis teretibus, foliis breviter petiolatis ellipticis acu- minatis subdistichis glabris 3—5-plinerviis, racemis axillaribus subcorym- bosis pendulis, corolla coccinea infra apicem subito contracta viridescente.
Psammista penduliflora. K?. in Linnea, v. 24. p. 43. Decaisne, in Revue Hor- ticole, 1854, p. 5. #. 1.
Tuipaupia penduliflora. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 562.
Most of the South American Vacciniacee which have been arranged under Zhibaudia, are considered by Dr. Klotzsch to be sufficiently distinct to constitute a separate genus, to which he has given the name of Psammisia (from Psammis, a king of Egypt): and he enumerates no less than seventeen species, of which one, Ps. Hookeriana, K1., has been figured in this work, Tab. 4344, under the name of Zhibaudia Pichinchensis, var. B glabra, Hook. ‘The species are eminently handsome, and wor- thy of cultivation in a warm greenhouse. We owe the posses- sion of our present plant to Mr. Linden, who received it from the mountains of Caraccas. In some collections it bears the
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name of Ps. sclerophylla, but that is a very different species, and is figured in the ‘ Flore des Serres,’ tom. viil. t. 825.
Dzscr. An evergreen shrvd, with terete, green branches, tinged with red. Leaves about four inches long, glossy-green, shortly petioled, elliptical, very entire, much and rather finely acumi- nated, subdistichous, the base obtuse, three- to five-nerved, faintly reticulated between the almost parallel nerves, dark glossy-green, the older ones tinged with brown. Racemes solitary, axillary, many-flowered, secund, and drooping. Pedicels thick, clavate, eventually red, with two small bracteas. Calya« with its base articulated upon the pedicel, scabrous ; twde globose, dimé of five broad acute segments. Corolla large, rich scarlet, pitcher-shaped, suddenly contracted into a greenish five-lobed apex. Stamens ten, included. Ovary incorporated with the calyx-tube: an an- nular disc surrounding the base of the filiform s¢y/e, which is a little longer than the corolla. Stigma obtuse.
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CRINUM GiGanTEuM.
Large-flowered Crinum, or Cape-Coast Lily.
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDE®.—HExANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Gen. Char. Perigonium superum corollaceum; tubo elongato, gracili; fauce haud ampliata ; limbo 6-partito ; Jaciniis subzequalibus, multinerviis, erectis, pa- tentibus vel reflexis. Stamina 6, summo tubo inserta, elongata. Filamenta fili- formia, patentia vel declinata. dnthere lineares, versatiles. Ovarium inferum triloculare ; ovuda plurima, in loculorum angulo centrali affixa, biseriata, hori- zontalia, anatropa. Columna stylina filiformis, erecta vel inclinata. Stigma ob- tusum, obsolete trilobum vel trifidum. Capsula membranacea, depresso-spheerica, tri- vel abortu 1—2-locularis, irregulariter rampens. Semina pauca vel solitaria, angulato-subglobosa, sepe in bulbillos carnosos mutata—Herbe Jduldifere, scapigere ; bulbo tunicato, columnari vel spherico. Folia multifaria. Scapus solidus, umbellato-multiflorus. Spatha diphylla. Flores pedicellati vel sessiles, — bracteis linecribus ramentaceis interstincti. Endl.
Crinum giganteum ; sessiliflorum, foliis plurimis oblongo-lingulatis obsolete striatis undulatis margine scabris, floris limbo nutante obsolete bilabiato tubo breviore.
Crinum giganteum. Andr. Bot. Repos. t.169. Redouté, Liliae. t. 181. Her- bert, in Bot. Mag. sub fol. 2121. Schultz, Syst. v. 7. p. 854. Kunth, Enum. v. 5. p. 569.
Crinum petiolatum. Herb. App. p. 22. Var. 1. spectabile, Herbert, Amaryl. p. 260.
AMARYLLIS gigantea. dit. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. p. 226. Gawl. in Journ. of Se. v. 3. p. 368. ¢. 44. f. 8, 14, 15.
AMARYLLIS ornata, 8. Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 923 (leaves very unlike those of our plant). ;
AMARYLLIS candida. Traut. Tabul. ¢. 488. AMARYLLIS latifolia. Lam. Encycl. v. 1. p. 41.
This fine plant has been long known in England, but much misunderstood ; and no figure (though there are not a few) has yet done justice to the Jarge and delicate texture of the flowers ; among the worst of the figures is that given by Mr. Gawler, in this work, under the name of Amaryllis ornata, B. Tt is a native of Sierra Leone, and no doubt other parts of the coast of tropical Western Africa. Bulbs were sent to us recently by
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Capt. Babington, from Sierra Leone. The late Mr. Herbert can hardly have seen a fair or well-cultivated specimen or he would not have cavilled at the original name and changed it to C. pe- tiolatum.
Descr. Build very large, a fully grown one being as big as a child’s head. Leaves one to two and even three feet long, four inches wide, lingulate, broadest above the middle, obsoletely striated, but having a strong central rib and two depressed lines between the costa and margin. Scape two to three feet long, plano-convex, erect. Spyatha two-valved, ligulate. Umbel of from five to thirteen sessile flowers. Tube of the perianth eight to nine inches long, terete, green. Flowers six to seven inches across, inclined. Sepals broad, ovato-concave, white, tinged with yellow-green externally. Filaments four to five inches long, declined, then ascending. dnthers one inch long,
dark-purple. Ovary oval. Style filiform, curved upwards. Stigma obscurely three-lobed.
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ERODIUM pELARGONIIFLORUM.
Pelargonium-flowered Stork’ s-bill.
Nat. Ord. GeRaNIACE#.—MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA.
Gen. Char. Sepala 5, eequalia, in calcar seu tubum nectariferum nulla producta. Petala 5, regularia aut irregularia. Stamina decem, filamentis basi monadelphis, 5 antheriferis, 5 alternis sterilibus. Glandule 5 ad basin staminum sterilium. Carpellorum ariste intus barbate, demum elastice. spiraliter torte.—Herbe aut sufirutices, foliis variis, pedunculis sepius multi-rarissime 1-floris. De Cand.
Erovium pelargoniiforum ; perenne viride totum pilis papillaribus nitidis con- spersum viscidulum, rhizomate squamis petiolaribus et stipularibus ve- tustis vestito, caulibus fragilibus adscendentibus elongatis ramosis, foliis teneris radicalibus longe petiolatis ovato-cordatis obsolete 3-lobis indivi- sisque acutiuscule dentatis, stipulis bracteisque oblongis oblonge acuminatis valde hispidis albo-membranaceis, pedunculis umbellatim 8—10-floris, pedi- cellis longe hispidis flore triplo longioribus, sepalis oblongis albis viridi- 3—5-lineatis ad costas longe papilloso-ciliatis mucrone eis dimidio breviori terminatis, petalis obovatis basi subciliatis albis 2 inferioribus macula pur- purea in 5 lineas ramulosas superne extensa insignitis, carpellis parce et adpresse hirsutis, cauda adpresse hirsuta eis quadruplo longiori. Boiss,
Eropium pelargoniiflorum. Boiss. e¢ Heldr. in Pl. Exsic. Anatol. 1846; et in Diagnos. Plant. Orient. Nov. v. 8. p. 118. Walp. Annal. v. 2. p. 234. v. 4. p. 395. Regel’s Garten-Flora, v. 1. p. 195. t. 19.
From the collection of W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., Hillfield, Reigate, where the shelves of a very cool, airy greenhouse were enlivened by its sparkling blossoms. In the days when the Geraniacee were cultivated extensively as botanical objects, this would have been very much prized; but that time is gone by, and their place is taken by the “General Tom Thumb,” the ** Golden Chain,” and others, which render our flower-beds, in summer, objects of such universal admiration. The present is a recently-discovered species, by Heldreich, of the Hrodium ge- nus, in Anatolia, growing on shady rocks and among caves be- tween Karaman and Ermenek, at an elevation of 3,000 feet above the level of the sea. It may therefore be expected to suc-
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ceed in the open air in summer, but at its period of rest in the winter the roots will require protection. The above specific cha- racter of Boissier may well be considered to serve for a descrip- tion also.
Fig. 1. Lower leaf, showing the stipules,—nat. size. 2. Flower, from which _ the petals are removed. 3. Pistil:—magnified.
‘Tan, 5207, CISSUS vELUTINUS.
Velvety-leaved Cissus.
Nat. Ord. AMPELIDE®.—TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4763.)
Cissus velutinus ; caule scandente angulato ruberrimo, foliis petiolatis cordato- oblongis obtuse acuminatis denticulatis supra purpureo-viridibus ad venis sepissime albo pictis, subtus eximie sanguineis, pedunculis petiolo duplo triplove longioribus cymisque laxis ruberrimis.
Cissus velutinus. Linden, Cat.
In specific character the present species nearly approaches the Cissus discolor of Blume, to which, perhaps, it is too nearly re- lated, and is scarcely inferior to it in beauty. It wants, indeed, the warm, deep purple glow which prevails in the young foliage of the latter plant: but, on the other hand, the inflorescence is larger in the present species, and of the same coral-red all over, instead of the cymes and flowers being white, as in C. discolor. The leaves, though frequently marked with white lines followmg . the course of the veins, often lose them in age; and they are never spotted with transverse blotches, so conspicuous in discolor. Of its native country we are ignorant; probably the Malay Islands. It flowers at various seasons of the year in a warm stove, and readily increases by cuttings. The specific name is better merited in the young shoots of the plant, which are clothed with a soft velvety pubescence, but which is deciduous, and in age the foliage is generally quite glabrous.
Descr. Habit and mode of growth entirely that of C. discolor (see our Tab. 4763). Leaves the same in form, but considera- bly different in colour and markings. The deep purple hue is almost entirely wanting, and the white blotches of C. discolor give place to broad lines of white following the course of the costa, veins, and veinlets, yet becoming obsolete in age. ‘The chief distinction resides in the length of the peduncle, which is _ twice at least that of the other in the larger and laxer cyme, and in the flowers being of the same intense coral-red as the pe-
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ANCECTOCHILUS setaceus, var. tnornatus.
Fringed Anectochilus ; var.
Nat. Ord. OrcHuipE#®.—GyNANDRIA Monoayntia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4123.)
ANG®CTOCHILUS setaceus ; subrepens, foliis rotundato-ovatis velutinis plerumque aureo-reticulatis subtus discoloribus, sepalis extus ovariisque glanduloso- hirsutis, labello medio ad marginem longe fimbriato apice bilobo, lobis ob- longis obtusis patentibus, sacco labelli apice bifido.
a. aureo-reticulatus ; canle bracteisque subcarneo, foliis supra pulcherrime aureo- reticulatis.
ANGCTOCHILUS setaceus. Blume, Bijdr.v.1.p.412. Tabelien, 15. Lindi. Bot. Reg. t. 2010. Gen, et Sp. Orchid. p. 499. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4123. Wight, Le. Ind. Or. v. 5. #. 1731.
CurysoBaPnus Roxburgii. Wall. Tent. Fl. Nepal. t. 17. Folium petolatum. Rumph. Amb. v. 6. p. 93. t. 41. f. 3.
B. inornatus; caule bracteisque viridibus, foliis supra purpureo-cupreis (venis aureis omnino obsoletis). (Tas. Nostr. 5208.)
The ordinary state of this plant, with its beautiful golden net- work on the upper side of the leaves, is familiar, to all cultivators of rare Orchideous plants, as well as to such as frequent the gar- dens of those that are curious in them, for it is one of the most interesting of the family; a native, too, of very extensive regions in the East Indies, both on the continent and in the islands. In Ceylon its foliage is so attractive that the plant is known by the native name of Wana Rajah, or King of the Woods. Rumphius, in Herb, Amboyn, accurately describes the leaves as “ cordifor- mia quasi, crassiuscula sed flaccida, mollia ad tactum instar serici densioris, ac quodammodo splendentia, quam elegantissime picta, leete rabentilus et intricatis flavis lineis distincta, ita ut can- cellata sint, atque ignotos referant characteres, ac si penicillo a perito pictore picta | essent, inferius folia rubent, seu purpurascunt sine characteribus.”’
But this is not always the condition of the foliage. In a valu- able case of plants lately received from the Botanic Garden of
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“waa the present remarkable ‘variety, in which the leaves, 1 of a rich coppery hue and velvety character, are wholly e of reticulations. The structure of the flower is the
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Tas. 5209. SALVIA scABIOS&FOLIA.
Scabious-leaved Sage.
Nat. Ord. Laprat#.—D1anpRIA MonoGyNIa.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4874.)
Satvr1a (§ Eusphace) scabiosefolia ; caule herbaceo, ramis diffusis piloso-lanatis, foliis pinnatisectis segmentis subgeminis, integris bisectis vel pinnatisectis oblongis linearibusve acutis integerrimis, racemis simplicibus, verticillastris 6-10-floris distinctis, foliis floralibus lanceolatis ovatis vel ovato-rotundatis acuminatis, calycibus ample campanulatis striatis villosis, labio superiore brevissime tridentato, inferiore bifido, dentibus ovatis acutis, corollis calyce duplo longioribus, labio superiore bifido. Benth.
SaLvia scabioseefolia. Lam. Journ. Hist. Nat. n. 14. p. 44. t. 27. S. pinifolia. Pall. Ind. Taur.
S. Taurice. Habl. Phys. Beschr. Taur. p. 207.
S. scabrosa. Pers. Syn. Pl. v. 1. p. 29.
8. Habliziana. Willd. in Schrad. Journ. Bot. v. 1. p. 289. t. 2. Jacq. Fil. Eel. v. l.p. 9.4.8. Bot. Mag. t.1429. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 1. p. 538.
S. vulnerariefolia. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. p. 149.
A remarkable-looking Sage, now rare in our gardens, but in- troduced from ‘Tauria into the gardens of Kew as early as 1798, by John Bell, Esq., and published under the name of S. Haé/i- ziana. It was not till after our plate was engraved that I dis- covered that this plant, recently received under the correct name of S. scabiosefolia, was the same as the Hadliziana already given in an early volume of this work, as above quoted. Our subscri- bers, however, will here find a more accurate representation, with analysis ; and we have profited by Mr. Bentham’s synonymy and remarks in his monograph of the extensive genus in De Can- dolle’s ‘ Prodromus.’
Duscr. :“ Stems diffuse, one to one and a half foot high, patently hairy or woolly at the base, subglabrous above, often purplish. Leaves numerous, sometimes almost glabrous, often hoary and pilose ; segments three to five pair, often geminate or ternate, but opposite, and thence apparently whorled. Raceme four to
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six inches or more long. Lower floral leaves ovato-lanceolate, longer than the calyx ; superior ones broader and shorter. Fracti- Jerous calyces seven to eight lines long, shortly pedicellate, erect, softly piloso-pubescent, with abbreviated teeth. Corolle beautiful white ; the ¢zvde within furnished with a hairy ring. Sfy/e shortly inserted. The species varies with the leaves often very narrow and more glabrous, the verticillastra sometimes all six-flowered, sometimes ten- or more flowered; also in the size and form of the floral leaves.” Benth. /. c.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Stamen. 3. Pistil and hypogynous gland :—magnified.
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ALOE a.uso-cinctTa.
White-margined Aloe.
Nat. Ord. ASPHODELE2®.—HEXANDRIA Monocyntra.
Gen. Char. Corolla tubuloso-6-fida vel hexapetalo-partita, carnosula, basi nee- tarifera, in tubum connivens; Jimbo regulari, patulo, vel recurvo-bilabiato ; daciniis ligulatis, exterioribus interiores aquales vel longiores imbricatim obtegen- tibus. Stamina hypogyna, assurgentia, tubo eequalia, vel exserta. Stylus exser- tus v. subnullus, trisuleus. Stigma simplex, v. 3, minuta, replicata. Capsula membranacea, scariosa, rotunde vel acute trigona, 3-locularis, 8-valvis, valvis
medio septigeris. Semina numerosa, biserialia, subrotundo-complanata, v. tri- gona, alata angulosave. Gawl.
ALOE albo-cincta; caule 2~-3-pedali subarboreo erasso simplici, foliis magnis 12-16-uncialibus lato-lanceolatis sensim acuminatis crassis integerrimis cartilagineo-rubro- v. albo-marginatis glaucis obscure striatis lineari-macu- latisque, pedunculo seu scapo subbipedali apice paniculatim patenti-cymoso, bracteis ad basin ramorum, floribus racemosis omnibus etiam ante anthesin pendulis clavatis rubro-aurantiacis basi ventricosis.
ALOE albo-cincta. Haworth, Suppl. Pl. Succul. p. 43. Ram. et Sch. Syst. Veget.v. 7. p. 698. Kth. Enum. Plant. v. 4. p. 525,
.
If the African Aloes have lost caste among cultivators of the present day, there are few, we think, who could have seen the present species, as we saw it in the summer of the present year, in Mr. Wilson Saunders’s succulent-house at Hillfield, who would not deem it highly deserving of a place in their green- house. It is the handsomest we know of the genus by far, striking in its foliage, and still more so in its drooping flowers, which form a spreading, compound, almost umbellate cyme, of a rich yellowish-red colour. Our friend has long had it in culti- vation under the name here given, and it seems quite correctly so; but this is the first instance known of the flowering of the plant. Had Haworth been acquainted with the inflorescence, he would never have made the remark, “Fortasse est mere junior 4. striate (A. paniculate, Jacg.).” Myr. Wilson Saunders
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has lately received young plants from his collector Mr. Cooper, found in Algoa Bay.
Descr. The stem forms a cylindrical truzk two and a half feet high, and stout. Leaves few, spreading, a foot to eighteen inches long, and six inches wide, almost an inch thick at the base, quite entire at the margin, and there cartilagmous and white or tinged with red. The green of a glaucous hue, faintly striated, and marked with obscure, whitish, elongated spots. Scape or peduncle elongated, compressed, panicled at the top, bearing numerous racemes, arranged in a broad, flattened cyme, of drooping flowers, an inch and a quarter long clavate, and sin- gularly inflato-globose at the base. Stamens scarcely exserted. Ovary oblong ; style as long as the stamens ; stigma obtuse.
Fig. 1. Flowering plant, much reduced. 2. Apex of a leaf. 3. Portion of a panicle :—nat. size. 4. Flower. 5. Pistil :—magnified.
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SONCHUS rapicatus.
Long-rooted Sow-thistle.
Nat. Ord. Composit#.—SyYNGENESIA ASQUALIS.
Gen. Char. Capitulum wmulti- vel pauci-florum. Jnvolucrum imbricatum, basi
_yentricosum demumque spongiosum. eceptaculum nudum. Achenia com-
presso-tetragona, ovato-oblonga, longitudinaliter striata, plerumque transverse muricato-granulata, rarius glabra, alutacea, brunnea v. nigrescentia, erostrata, vel rostro brevi robusto terminata, basi plerumque prominentiis 4 notata. Pap- pus persistens v. caducus; se¢is vero basi non in annulum ut in Picridio concre- tis, vel singulis vel pluribus basi connatis, niveis, mollibus, digitis facile adhe- rentibus, distanter breve antrorso-extrorso-denticulatis v. subsimplicibus (saltem sub lente, magis auctis vero denticulis confertioribus munitis quam sete cras- siores), ineequalibus, intimis nempe pluribus, ceteris crassioribus, rarissime sub- equalibus. Schuléz.
Soncuus radicatus ; fruticosus glaber glaucus, foliis fere omnibus radicalibus lyratis lobis rotundatis superficialiter et minute sinuatis, caulinis paucis cordatis, auriculis rotundatis, pedicellis subnudis, involucri subimbricati squamis exterioribus ovatis, interioribus linearibus, receptaculo favoso, acheniis brunneis glabris striatis, pappi subuniserialis caduci setis falcatis. Webb.
Soncuus radicatus. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. v. 3. p. 116; ed. 2. v. 4. p. 436. Willd. Sp. Pl.v.3. p. 1511. De Cand. Prodr. v.71. p. 188. Webb, Phy- togr. Canar. v. 3. p. 436. t. 128.
No less than sixteen species of Sonchus or Sow-thistle, be- sides the present one, inhabit the Canary Islands. But we must not judge of them from the weedy nature of our British species, for in the subgenus Dendrosonchus of Mr. Webb, to which our plant belongs, are some which are described as arboreous, and which, from their size and peculiarity of form, constitute strik- ing features in the landscape. Our present species is of a much humbler character, yet shrubby, and remarkable for the deeply lyrate leaves, very hoary, or as it were frosted with short down, and for the large size of the flowers. S. radicatus was intro- duced into Kew Gardens by Masson in 1780. Plants were reared, from seed sent by Mr. Webb, in his garden at Milford ; and it has been, through Dr. Bolle, very recently imported by
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‘Mr. Wilson Saunders, in whose greenhouse at Hillfield our drawing was made by Mr. Fitch, in July, 1860.
Our Plate represents the apex of a stem, with leaves and a portion of a flow- ering peduncle,—nat. size. Fig. 1. Floret. 2. Apex of a style, and stigmas. 3. Hairs of the pappus :—maguified.
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PHALAENOPSIS rosea.
Rose-coloured Phalenopsis.
Nat. Ord. Orcutpr®%.—GyNANDRIA MONANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4297.)
PuHaL#£noprsts rosea ; foliis oblongis coriaceis acutis apice recurvis, scapo cernuo ramoso tortuoso subclavato, floribus subcarnosis, sepalis ovatis, petalis ova- libus paulo latioribus, labello ascendente tripartito, laciniis lateralibus lineari- spathulatis lunatis, intermedia crista lunata rotundata depressa emarginata (cirrhis nullis). Lend.
Puatenopsis rosea. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 671 (with woodcut of flower), and in Paxt. Fl. Gard. v. 2. t. 72.
SravuRoGLortis equestris. Schauer, in Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. v. 19. Suppl. — p. 432.
PHALENopsIs equestris. Reich. Fil. in Linnea, 1849, p. 864.
‘The name Phalenopsis, from our long familiarity with the well- known species P. amabilis (see our Tab, 4297), and its close affinity with P. grandiflora (Lab. 5184), which we have lately ventured to consider scarcely different from amadilis, leads the mind to flowers of large size and of the purest whiteness. To those who thus form their ideas the present species will prove a disappointment. The flowers are small, the whites are not clear white, and the rose tints are not bright-rose. The organic structure of the flower is however the same, wanting indeed the cirrhi to the lip, which is so remarkable in them; and the foliage bears a great resemblance to that of P. amadilis. It was im- ported from Manilla into England, by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of the Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, through their zealous collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb, who describes the spike of flowers from twelve to eighteen inches long. It does not appear to attain such a size with us. We are indebted to Mr. R. Bullen, gardener to John Butler, Esq., of Woolwich, for the opportunity of figuring this still rare species from that gentleman’s collection.
Dzscr. From a very short sfem or caudex, attached to its place of growth by a few stout vermicular fleshy fibres, there arise a few (three to four) oblong, thick coriaceo-carnose Jeaves,
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which spread in two opposite directions; these are of a dark, full-green colour, and unequally notched at the apex. Scape springing from the base of the short stem and from the axil formed by the persistent base of a fallen leaf, dark purplish- black, terete, slightly thickened upwards, bearing a few, remote, small, appressed dracts ; this scape is about a foot long, and is terminated by a spike or raceme of twelve or fourteen fleshy flowers, the largest of them not an inch and a half in their broadest diameter. Buds ovate, greenish-yellow, with a red line at the suture of the sepals. Sepa/s and petals patent, nearly uni- form in size and shape, subovate, obtuse, and in colour white, tinged with pink in the centre. zp rose-colour, scarcely larger than the sepals, spreading, three-lobed: lateral lobes small, lu- nate; middle one exactly ovate; at its base is a downy, fleshy, prominent, furrowed gland. Pollen-masses two, attached to a long caudicle, with a gland at its base.
Fig. 1. Side view of column and lip. 2. Front view of lip. 3. Pollen- masses :—magnified,
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AGAVE yucc&Fo.tia.
Yucca-leaved Agave.
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACERZ.—HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4934.)
AGAVE yuccefolia ; trunco erecto brevi, foliis glaucis coriaceo-carnosis lorato- attenuatis supra canaliculato-concavis subtus obtuse carinatis marginibus cartilagineo-serrulatis, exterioribus recurvis, scapo longissimo (20-pedali) bracteato, spica terminali solitaria cylindrica multiflora, perianthio viridi, tubo medio contracto, limbi lobis patentissimis, staminibus corolla duplo longioribus.
AGAVE yucceefolia. Red. Pl. Liliac. v. 6. p. 328. t. 328 e¢ 329. Haw. Suppl. p. 41. Willd. Enum. Suppl. p.19. Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 125. Kth Enum. Pil, v. 5. p. 830.
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This very distinct species of Agave, long cultivated in the Royal Gardens of Kew, but whose native country is hitherto unrecorded, was received by us from the Rio del Monte district, Mexico, and is remarkable for the great length of the flower- stem or scape in proportion to the rest of the plant,—so tall, that long before the flowers began to expand, we were obliged to remove the plant from a greenhouse fifteen feet high to a loftier building, and support the continually elongating scape against the wall. The flowers did not expand till this had at- tained a height of twenty feet. The distance of the flowers from the spectator renders them inconspicuous ; but when more closely inspected, they are by no means insignificantly small, of a bright yellow-green, with much exserted yellow large stamens, ‘whose filaments and anthers are partially tinged with red. Its flowers are produced in a cool greenhouse, in the summer months.
Descr. Stem or caudex in our plant short, erect, about two to three inches thick, scarred with the persistent bases of fallen foliage. Leaves numerous, outer and older ones curved, inner and younger ones more erect, one to one and a half foot long, nearly two inches wide in the broadest part, lorato-acuminate, coriaceo-carnose, glaucous, canaliculato-concave above, very ob-
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tusely keeled beneath, the margin cartilaginous and. minutely
denticulate ; scape rising from the centre of the foliage, gradually elongating till it has attained a height of twenty feet, one and a half or two inches diameter, erect, but not strict, clothed all the way with subulate, leafy scales, the lowest ones passing gradually into leaves. Spike cylindrical, terminal, oblong, simple, six to eight inches long. Flowers often two together, numerous, erect, subtended by small bracts. Perianth about an inch long, in- fundibuliform, green: the ¢wde a little contracted above. the ovary ; /imd of six, spreading, oval, obtuse segments. Sfamens inserted some way down the tube, yellow, tinged with red: ji/a-
ments twice as long as the perianth, stout, erect; anthers large, versatile.
Fig. 1. Much reduced flowering-plant. 2. Portion of a leaf. 3. A flowering spike :—nat. size.
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Tas. 5214, ONCIDIUM puymartocHinum.
Warted-lipped Oncidium.
Nat. Ord. Orcu1pE#.—GyYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4824.)
Oncrp1uM phymatochilum ; racemo subpaniculato, sepalis linearibus acuminatis apice recurvis lateralibus longissimis, labelli auriculis convexis dilatatis cre- natis, lobo intermedio unguiculato ovato acuminato basi multituberculato, columna alis semicordatis acuminatis. Lind.
Oncrp1um phymatochilum. Lindl. in Paaton’s Fl. Gard. v. 1. p. 78. n. 123, and under t. 18 (woodcut of flowers only), and in Folia Orchidacea, Oncidium, p. 54. 2. 191. ;
The present elegant and delicate species of Oncidiwm seems to have been introduced nearly at the same time (1847) both by the late Mr. Clowes and Messrs. Loddiges, and, it is sus- pected, from Mexico; but of that there is no certainty. It is rather a free flowerer in the stove, and our drawing was made at Kew from Mr. Clowes’s plant, in May, 1860. The lip is pure white, the rest of the flower pale yellow-green, spotted with orange-red on the upper side, chocolate-brown beneath.
Duscr. Pseudobulé broad-fusiform, four to five inches long, purplish-brown, somewhat compressed, having at the base four, large, distichous, imbricating, carinated, and subequitant sca/es, of the same colour, the longest of them the length of the pseudo- bulb. This latter bears a large, membranaceous, solitary, obo- vato-lanceolate, acute /eaf from its apex, twelve to fourteen inches long, and three inches broad, striated, with prominent veins on the under side. Scape rather slender, a foot and more long, terete, green, arising from the base of the pseudobulb, and with-
in the larger scale, eated with appressed, green, acuminated
than a foot long, pendent, slightly com- igzag, slender. /owers moderately nume- sepals nearly uniform in shape and colour, very delicate and flaccid, sometimes a little
es. Panicle
them pale-green, with blotches of deep-orange on the upper side, dull chocolate-colour on the under. Zip moderately large, but much shorter than the sepals and petals, trowel-shaped, three- lobed, two /ateral lobes forming small, spreading, rounded au- ricles ; there is a contraction and thickening of the substance be- tween these lobes and the terminal lobe, and that portion is tubercularly crested, yellow, spotted with orange: ¢erminal lobe broad-ovate, finely acuminated, spotless. Colwmn small and narrow, its auricles semicordate, and often cut or laciniated. Anther-case conical.
Fig. 1. Column and lip,—magnified.
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‘Tas. 5215,
DIANTHUS Secautrert; var. Caucasicus.
Seguier’s Pink ; Caucasian Var.
Nat. Ord. CARYOPHYLLEH.—DECANDRIA DIGYNIA.
Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus, 5-dentatus, basi squamis 2-4 oppositis imbri- catis. Petala 5, longe unguiculata. Stamina 10. Styli 2. Capsula 1-locularis. Semina compressa, hinc convexa, inde concava, peltata. Hmbryo vix curvatus.
Dranruvs ({ Caryophyllum) Seguieri ; caule superne bifido, floribus subfascicu- lato-aggregatis v. paniculatis, floribus laxe dispositis, squamis calycinis membranaceis ovatis (preesertim inferioribus) abrupte in acumen lanceolato- subulatum tubum equans vel eodem duplo triplove brevius alternatis, brac- teis lanceolatis, foliis oblongo-linearibus linearibusve attenuato-acuminatis sub-3-5-nerviis cauleque scabris glabrisve, vaginis folii latitudinem sube- quantibus. Lede.
Drantuvs Seguieri. Vill, Delph. v. 3.p.594. Koch, Syn.p.96. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. v. 1. p. 277. a. floribus fasciculato-aggregatis. Ledeb. 1. c. . D. collinus, Waldst. et Kit. Pl. Rar. Hung. v. 1. p. 36. ¢. 8. D. collinus rutheni- cus, Fisch. Cat. Hort. Gorenk. 1808, p. 26. D. asper, Willd. En. Hort.
Berol. p. 466. De Cand. Prodr.v.1. p. 357. D. Fischeri, Spreng. Cat. Hort. Hal. 1810. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 365.
8. floribus brevius pedunculatis approximatis non vero fasciculato-aggregatis. Ledeb. 1. e. ’
D. montanus, Bieb. Fl. Taur. Caucas. v. 1. p. 828, v. 3. p. 299. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 359. D. discolor, Sims, Bot. Mag. ¢t.1161. D. collinus Caucasicus, Fisch. Cat. Hort. Gorenk. 1808, p. 96.
y. floribus solitariis longius pedunculatis laxe dispositis paniculatis. Ledeb. 1. c.
a, squamis calycinis tubum dimidium superantibus v. totum eequantibus. Ledeb. lc. p. 278 (under this Ledebour includes the following names with refer- ences).
D.ruthenicus, Rem. in Poiret, Encycl. D. Caucaseus, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 795 ? D. Caucasicus, De Cand. Prodr.v. 1. p. 363. Bieberst. Fl. Taur. Caucas. v. 1. pp. 227, 299. 0. A. Meyer, etc. D. involucratus, Pallas in Herb. Willd. n. 8526. D. guttatus, Bieberst. Fl. Tauric. Caucas. v. 1. p. 382, v. 3. p. 300. De Cand. Prodr.v.1.p. 358. D. pratensis, Bieberst. Fl. Tauric. Caucas. v. 1. p. 328, v. 8. p. 300. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 358. D. chloroleucus, D. tataricus and D. ochroleucus of Fisch. OD. ibiricus, Willd. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 863. D. Willdenovii, Link, ete.
8. squamis calycinis tubum dimidium squantibus v. brevioribus. Ledeb, 1. c. p. 278. (Las. Nostr. 3215.)
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D. deltoides, Georgi. D. versicolor, Fisch. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 358. D. dentosus, Fisch. et Reichenb. Pl. Crit. v. 6. p. 32.4. 546. Ledeb. Fl. Alta. v. 2. p. 134. Karel. et Kiril. Enum. Pl. Fl. Altaic. n. 144, ete.
This very pretty species of Pink is not uncommon in gar- dens, but it has gone under so many different names, that it is difficult to say which is its most correct one. It is a native of the south of Europe, and especially of a great part of Russia and
Siberia. I here adopt the specific character and synonymy of Ledebour, and must refer to him for a more perfect list of the latter than I have thought it necessary or convenient to give here. My own herbarium contains authentic specimens from numerous authors which amply justify Ledebour in uniting so many species into one. The chief differences consist in the more or less compact flowers, and the relative length of the bracts and the calyx.
Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Pistil :—magnified.
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Tas. 5216,
: METHONICA GRANDIFLORA.
Large yellow-lowered African Methonica.
"Nat. Ord. Uvunartex.—HeExanpria MonoeGynia.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4938.)
Metuonica grandiflora ; scandens, floribus diametro 8-pollicaribus, petalis an- guste lanceolatis vix undulatis primum reflexis rectiusculis demum horizon- taliter patentibus, styli ramis elongatis unciam longis.
At our Tab. 4938 we gave a figure of an African species of Methonica, Herm. (Gloriosa, Linn. and some authors), M. vires- cens, Lindl., which we cannot but regard as distinct from the well known Gloriosa superba, derived from extratropical Africa, which, after long cultivation, and in the same stove as the J/e- thonica superba of India, retains all its characters, and these are mainly to be sought in the shape and direction of the petals, as explained in the description of the plate just referred to.
We have now the pleasure of representing a second (but tro- pical) African species, of which specimens and living roots were sent to us in the spring of this year (1860) from the island of Fernando Po, by our energetic plant-collector there, M. Gustav Mann. The growth from these tuberous roots has been ve rapid, and the rafters of the stove were soon clothed with the leafy branches and the copious flowers, such as are here repre-_ sented, from the month of July till the end of September. These flowers are as distinct from J/. virescens as that is from M7. su- perba. Indeed, this very western species agrees in the general structure of the flower better with the latter than with the for- mer; but in our cultivated plant it is nearly twice the size of either of the other species, and the petals (totally different in co- Jour) altogether want the remarkably crisped character of those of MW. gloriosa. Here, too, the branches of the style are singu- larly elongated. Future researches may teach us whether the
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three are or are not in reality forms of one and the same species.
The following notes, derived entirely from native samples in my herbarium, may help to clear up some of the difficulties at- tending the discrimination of the species, if, as I am inclined to believe, they be really such.
1. Methonica superba, Lam. (Gloriosa superba, Zinn.).—All my Indian specimens, and the species seems to be exclusively Indian, and from various parts of that extensive region, Ceylon and the Madras Peninsula in the west, to Bengal and the Malay Peninsula, Tavoy (Wallich), Siam (Schomburgk), Banjermassing, Borneo (Jo#/ey) in the east, and to Kumaon (elev. 4,800 feet, in the north, Strachey and Winterbottom) ; all, without a single exception, exhibit the very narrow, refracted, and yet tolerably
straight, deeply undulato-crispate petals, so characteristic of this species.
2. M. virescens, Lindl. (see our Tab. 4938).—Of this my de-
cided native specimens, with quite spathulate petals, scarcely un- dulated, and never crisped, as in MM. superba, are from South Africa, viz. Albany and Natal. My others are cultivated speci-
mens from native roots; but all agree in the broad superior part
of the petal, with the apices recurved over the centre of the flower. ‘These petals are seldom seen in a horizontal position, _ In this respect agreeing with J. superba.
3. MW. Abyssinica, Achil. Richard, from Abyssinia, as its name imphes.—I have received this, with the above name attached, from the Mus. Herb. Paris (x. 346), and also from Dr. Hochstetter, under the name of Clinostylis speciosa, Hochst., in “ Flora, 1844, p- 46.” The height of each of my two specimens, including the rather long and stout tuber, is under two feet, and there appears no disposition to branch* or to be scandent; the leaves appear to be nearly all opposite, and the upper ones alone are cirrhife- rous, with small and very weak téndrils. Can this be due toa dry soil and burning climate? ‘he petals are very broad-lan- ceolate, (not dilated upwards,) apparently of a uniform orange- colour ; one of the flowers has the refracted petals with recurved apices, as in AZ. virescens. But the stamens and style and anthers are shorter; and I may have erred in considering this a form of MZ. virescens, under our Tab. 4938.
4. M. grandiftora, Hook.—Specimens in my herbarium, which I would confidently refer to this, and agreeing with the charac- ters here given, are from tropical, and chiefly tropical Western, Africa; Fernando Po, x. 72, W. Gustav Mann; Sierra Leone, Mr. Morson, from the Herb. of Robert Brown ; Great Bassa
* [ find among a collection of Abyssinian plants, lately the property of Mr.
Robert Brown, a specimen evidently of the same pl : _- a t, gathered by Dr. Rohr, at Alia Amba, which is branched a) subscandent. ee ee
river, Dr. Vogel; very fine specimens, with all the flowers appa- rently yellow, but accompanied by the remark of Vogel, “ flowers red; when young yellow.” Good specimens from the late A/r. Barter, n. 164, from Aboh, with flowers apparently all over deep red; and again, z. 1517, “ Niger,” with rather smaller flowers ; petals, with the lower half and more, yellow, the rest deep red, and a red line down to the base; and they are accompanied by this remark,—‘“ A very variable plant in size and in the colour of its flowers, but the differences appear to be dependent merely upon the place of growth ; thus, in deep shady ravines, the plant grows twelve feet high, with flowers pale yellow or almost green. In hot sandy plains it does not attain four feet in height, and the flowers are deep crimson. In general, however, the flowers are yellow, and not unfrequently have a crimson line up the centre. Negro girls place this flower in their hair with very pretty effect.” Lastly, I possess, from Mozambique, on the east coast of tropical Africa, specimens gathered by Forbes, of which the flowers seem to be yellow, and which I can in no way distinguish from the J/. grandifiora here figured. Even should these not prove perma- nently distinct, all the kinds are eminently deserving of cultiva- tion. ‘They are ready flowerers, and the foliage, as well as the differently coloured petals, render them highly ornamental.
Descr. General habit of the plant and foliage resembling the other species of the genus, but the growth is with us more vigo- rous and rampant. ower-buds before expansion full three inches long. Pefa/s, soon after the bursting of the bud, closely refracted and nearly straight, but before they attain their full size they fall into a horizontal position, and remain so at least for a day, at which period the flower seems to be in its most perfect state, measuring eight inches across, all over of a sul- phur-yellow colour, green only at the broad claws: in witherin the petals become tawny, and are marcescent. Their shape is narrow-lanceolate, scarcely waved at the margin: at the superior base is an elevated fleshy elongated xectary, deeply channelled and very downy. ‘The ji/aments are more than two inches long, the anthers three quarters of an inch. Séy/e three inches long ; its branches one inch long: these are, both in J/. gloriosa and M. virescens, very short. An unripe capsu/e measures three inches in length, and is deeply trisulcate.
Fig. 1. A leaf from an older part of the plant,—zat. size. 2, Pistil,—slightly magnified.
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Tas. 5217. SARCANTHUS Parisuit.
Mr. Parish’s Sarcanthus.
Nat. Ord. OrcHIDE®.—GYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4693.)
SaRCANTHUS Parishii ; foliis loratis apice oblique bilobis obtusis, spicis simpli- cibus, sepalis petalisque breviter oblongis obtusis planis ‘aureis vittis 2 parallelis rubris, labelli caleare ovario zequilongo curvato cbtuso in labellum brevissimum subtrulliforme roseum producto.
Sent by the Rev. C. 8. P. Parish, of Moulmaine, toMessrs. Low, of the Clapton Nursery, with whom it flowered in August of the present year.
Descr. Plant small, with the stem short, and apparently not tending to elongate, as in its curious terete-leaved congeners, 8. Jiliformis and 8. teretifolius. Leaves distichous, spreading, or recurved, four to five inches long, three-quarters of an inch broad, rather firm and fleshy, deep-green, keeled at the back from being somewhat longitudinally complicate, the apex very unequally and bluntly bilobed, with a shallow acute sinus. Spikes as long as the leaves, slender and flexuose, quite simple in our plant, shortly peduncled. Vowers rather loosely disposed, small, brightly-co- loured, about one-third of an inch across. Sepals and petals shortly oblong, blunt, plane, golden-yellow, with two broad lon- gitudinal red bands that do not extend beyond two-thirds of their length. zp short, small, of irregular figure, pale rose- coloured, produced anteriorly into a short, broad, rather concave, trulliform lamina, and posteriorly into a curved, stout, cylindrical spur as long as the ovary.—J. D. #7.
Fig. 1. Front view of a flower. 2. Side view of the column and lip. 3, 4. Front and side view of the pollen-masses :—magnified.
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Tas. 5218.
CYRTANTHUS (GASTRONEMA) saneurnevs.
Red-flowered Cyrtanthus.
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACE®.—HEXANDRIA Monoaynta.
Gen, Char. Perigonium superum, corollaceum, elongato-tubuloso-infundibu- lare, limbo 6-fidum curvatum, interdum parum ventricosum ; laciniis brevibus, subequilongis, multinerviis; exterioridus calloso-acutis ; interioribus latioribus, obtusis. Stamina 6, supra medium tubi libera, recta (in Gastronemate conni- ventia, 3 deflexa), inclusa, alterna longiora. Anthere lineares, dorso infra medium affixee, mobiles. Ovarium inferum, trigonum, triloculare ; ovu/a in loculis crebra, biseriata, funiculata, horizontalia (in siceo adscendentia, Endl.). Columna stylina filiformis, erecta vel declinata, stamina superans, exserta. Stigma leviter trifidum. Capsula trigono-ovata, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis. Semina plurima, paleaceo- compressa, testa nigra.—Herbze Capenses, bulbifere, scapigere. Bulbus tuni- catus. Folia elongata, angusta, plana vel subcanaliculata. Scapus teretiusculus vel compressiusculus, fistulosus. Spatha 2-polyphylla, uni-multiflora. Flores pedi- cellati, bracteis linearibus scariosis interstincti, sepée penduli. Kth.
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CyRTANTHUS (GASTRONEMA) sanguineus ; foliis solitariis lineari-spathulatis ob- tusis viridibus, caule unifloro longioribus, spatha diphylla tubo perianthii eequali, flore sessili vel pedunculato suberecto, tubo tereti in faucem obco- nicam ampliato, limbi patuli recurvi laciniis oblongis equalibus concolo- ribus. Lindl.
GASTRONEMA sanguineum. Lindl. in Journ. of Hort. Soc. of Lond. v. 3. p. 315 (with a woodcut).
This is, as Dr. Lindley says, who first named and described it, a very handsome plant, deserving general cultivation, even in the most select collections. It is a native of Caffraria, and was imported by Messrs. Backhouse, the eminent nurserymen of York, and presented by them to the Horticultural Society of London in 1846. Dr. Lindley adopts the genus Gastronema of Herbert, which scarcely differs from Cyrtanthus but in the “ fila- ments of the stamens being connivent, of which two are de- flexed ;” so that it is now generally considered a section of Cyr- tanthus. It flowered in the greenhouse at Kew in August of the present year (1860).
Descr. The bulbous root we have not seen. The /eaves are dark green, scarcely glaucous, radical, lanceolate, tapering into a
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rounded petiole, slightly keeled at the back, and with a depressed line in front. The stem or scape is terete, subglaucous, hollow, three to four inches high, supports a solitary flower, and bears at its summit two long, whitish, linear, membranaceous bracteas. Peduncle (in our plant ; wanting in the figure given by Lindley, where the ovary is sessile) two or more inches long, one-flowered. Perianth \arge, infundibuliform, tubular at the base, the limb very broad, of six oblong, spreading, recurved, mucronate seg- ments, bright orange-red within, externally yellowish, with six red streaks. Sfamens six, inserted at the throat, three longer than the rest, all connivent. Ovary oblong, dark-green. Style as long as the tube. Stigma three-cleft, the segments linear.
Fig. 1. Flower, laid open. 2. Pistil :—magnified.
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Tas. 5219.
SONCHUS GuMMIFER.
Gum-bearing Sow-thistle.
Nat. Ord. Composit&®.—SYNGENESIA AQUALIS.
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 5211.)
Soncuus gummifer ; fruticosus glaber glaucescens ; foliis subpectinato-pinnati- partitis, pinnis cum lobo terminali oblongo-triangulari acutis dente uno alterove munitis, radicalibus (seu inferioribus) minute auriculatis, caulinis parvis cordato-auriculatis ; corymbi compositi (vel pauciflori) pedicellis sub- nudis (apice insigniter dilatatis spongiosis coloratis), capitulis post anthesin cernuis ; involueri imbricati squamis exterioribus ovatis acutis interioribus linearibus, receptaculo areolato floribus glabris, acheniis striatis glabris, pappo caduco niveo subuniseriali. Wedd.
Soncuus gummifer. Link (ex Webb, qui specimen herbarii Berolin. comparavit) in Buch. Canar.. p.146 et 164. Webb, Canar. t. 129. Spreng. Syst. Veget. p. 647. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 188.
This is another of the fruticose Sonchuses, which appear to be almost peculiar to the Canary Islands, and which our friend Mr. Wilson Saunders has lately introduced to his and other English gardens. The Sonchus radicatus of Aiton is given at our Tab. 5211: the present species is very different in its fo- liage, and in the much taller shrubby stem. I refer it to the S. gunmifer of Link and Webb with some degree of doubt, for the flowers are larger, and fewer upon a panicle, and there is at the apex of the pedicels a remarkable coloured expansion of a spongy nature, somewhat resembling the apophysis of a Splach- num, which is neither figured nor described by Webb. In all other respects the two appear to be identical, and the distinct presence of this apophysis may be due to the specimen from which our figure is taken being a living one. It flowered in Mr. Saunders’s greenhouse at Reigate in July, 1860. It was received by that gentleman from Dr. Bolle, who found it in rocky places. In regard to the specific name of gummifer, Mr.
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Webb observes, |. c.: “ Omnes Cichoriacee vulneratee succum fundunt lacteum, in gummi sic dictum coagulans, precipue Soncht, non vero pre aliis species nostra, quare nomen Linkii spe- cificum non characteristicum.”.
Descr. Stem fruticose, but greenish, two to three feet high, erect or flexuose, nearly as stout as one’s finger. Leaves approxi- mate, broad-lanceolate, glaucous green, lanceolato-runcinato-pin- natifid rather than pinnate, winged below, auriculate, and semi- amplexicaul ; the segments subovate, acute, often deflexed, here and there irregularly toothed. Panicle terminal (in our speci- men few-flowered). Pedice/s two to three inches long, foliaceo- bracteated at the base, just beneath the flower expanding into a large spongy red-brown, turbinate or hemispherical apophysis, which supports the capitulum. Involucre small, of a few imbri- cated green scales, with a whitish margin, outer ones short, interior ones oblong. Yorets all uniform, yellow. Corolla with the tube pubescent. Ovary narrow, oblong, crowned with a white silky pappus. Style downy. Branches of the stigma long-linear, revolute.
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Tar. 5220. GUZMANNIA rrico.or.
Three-coloured Guzmannia.
Nat. Ord. BromeLtaceE&.—HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Gen. Ohar. Perigonit liberi sexpartiti lacinie exteriores calycinze zquales, basi coherentes, spiraliter convolute, interiores petaloidee, inferne teneriores in tubum convolute, apice firmiores, erectee, basi intus nude. Stamina 6, hypogyna; fila- menta basi perigonii laciniis interioribus agglutinata, superne latiora, apice con- nata; authere dorso affixee, utrinque acute, in cylindrum coalite. Ovarium liberum, triloculare. Ovula in loculorum angulo centrali prope basim plurima biseriata, adscendentia, anatropa. Stylus filiformis ; stigmata 3, linearia, brevia, erecta. Capsula cartilaginea, oblongo-cylindracea, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis, valvis endocarpio mox soluto duplicatis, explanatis vel tortis. Semina plurima, e basi dissepimentorum erecta, oblonga, acuminata, pilis papposis stipata.— Herba Americana tropica; foliis radicalibus lineari-ensiformibus cartilagineis, planis, basi involutis ; scapo inferne squamoso, floribus spicatis inter bracteas la- tentibus. Endl.
GuzMANNIA ¢ricolor.
GuzMannia tricolor. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per. et Chil. v. 3. p. 88. ¢. 261. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 462. Lindl. Coll. Bot. t. 8. Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 163 (bis). Reem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. v. 7. p. 1281.
POURRETTIA sympaganthera. Ruiz et Pav. Syst. p. 82.
When in flower this is a very gay-coloured and handsome Bromeliaceous plant, and deserves the name guadricolor as much as or better than ¢ricolor, for it exhibits in its inflorescence four very striking and different colours; the numerous and large closely imbricated bracts are, below, yellow-green, deeply and longitudinally streaked with purplish-black ; the superior bracts are bright red, and the flowers are pure white. It was first described as a native of Peru, but has since been found in Guayaquil, in St. Domingo, and in Jamaica. It is easily culti- vated in a moist stove, and blossoms in the summer months. Only one species of this pretty genus is known.
Duscr. This quite resembles a 7i//andsia or Bromelia in its mode of growth, and is everywhere glabrous. eaves all radical, broad, linear-ensiform, involute, and broad and concave at the
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sheathing base, the rest broadly channelled, minutely striated, the margin quite entire, the apex rather apiculate than acumi- nate ; colour a full green; their length varies from one to two feet. Scape as long as the leaves, central, erect, almost resem- bling, with its young inflorescence, a head of Asparagus, below, at the very base, clothed with long, sterile, acuminated dracteas, above with short, ovate, acute, closely imbricated fertile ones, these of a bright and pale yellow-green, richly streaked with blackish- purple ; towards the apex of the spike they are tinged with red,