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The pags serie tah! 12s, ee abn price os. 6d. mnsutAR’ Fioras. i, JN Fitch ith Vincent Brooks, Day &SonLt4 imp Tap. 7682, ACALYPHA uarspipa. Native of New Guinea. Nat. Ord. EupHorspiace#.—Tribe Crotrone. Genus AcatypnHa, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 311.) AcatypHa (Euacalypha) hispida; frutex dioicus, 10-15-pedalis, foliis longe petiolatis late ovato-cordatis v. rhombeo-ovatis, acuminatis subacute v. obtuse crenato-serratis basi rotundatis vel late cuneatis utrinque glabris puberulisve supra laete viridibus subtus pallidis, petiolo lamina breviore pubescenti-tomentellis, spicis femineis longissimis pendulis fere a basi densissime floriferis, floribus in glomerulos bracteatos et hbracteolatos confertissimis, bracteis inconspicuis, bracteolis minutis subulatis lan- ceolatisve, sepalis 4 ovatis acutis hispidis, ovario minuto pilis albis stellatim hispido, stylo brevi, stigmatibus 3 longissimis sanguineis in lacinias valde elongatas capillares fissis. A. hispida, Burm. Fl. Ind. p. 203 (sphalm, 303), t. 61, fig. 1 (excl. cit. Rheede). Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. ii. (1843), p. 232; Muell. Arg.in DO. Prodr. vol. xv. pars. II. p. 815. Schum. in Notizblatt K. Bot. Gart. et Mus. Berl. vol. ii. p. 127. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 417. A. densiflora, Bl. Bijd. p. 628. Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat, vol. i. pars II. p. 405. A, Sanderi, V.H. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1896, vol. ii. p. 392; 1898, vol, i. p. 248, fig. 98. André im Rev, Hortic. vol. lxx. (1898), p. 458, cum ic. Gartenfl. 1898, p. 276. A. rubra, Noronh. ex Hassk. in Hoev. et de Vr. Tijdschr. Nat. Ges. vol. xi. (1844), p. 216 nomen tantum. Caturus spiciflorus, Row. Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 760, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb, pp. 45, 115, t. 14, fig. 45 (non Linn.). > Cauda felis, Rumph. Herb. Amb. vol. iv. t. 36. It is singular that so remarkable and ornamental a plant as that here figured, and one so long known in cultivation — In India and the Malay Islands, should have been only quite _ recently introduced into Europe. Rumphius, writing in _ 1690, described and figured it for his ‘‘ Herbarium Amboy- nense”’ (published in 1750), as rare in Amboyna, and known only in gardens and where planted in shrubberies. Roxburgh, upwards of sixty years ago, described it (under the wrong name of Caturus spiciflorus, Willd.) from speci- mens growing in the Garden of the Honourable East India Company, Calcutta. It is entered in works on Malayan botany as cultivated in Singapore and Java; and Bentham is the authority for its being found in the Fiji Islands, _ of which it has never been proved to be a native. Under | January Ist, 1899, these circumstances its discovery, no doubt in a wild state, on the shores of the Bismarck Archipelago, in Eastern New Guinea, by Mr. Micholitz, when collecting for Messrs. Sander in 1896, is a notable one in the annals of horticul- ture. Hitherto, only the female plant has been described, for it appears to me doubtful whether that figured at tab. 37 of Herb. Amboin., which has been considered to be the male (but which is not described as such by Rumphius) can safely be referred to the same species. Acalypha hispida cannot fail to become an exceptionally popular stove plant, not only because of its great beauty and striking habit, but from its flowering literally all the year round. The largest plant now at Kew, procured from Messrs. Sander in 1898, has been in fine condition ever since, having now upwards of fifty flowering spikes, and others still to expand. It must, however, be borne in mind, that the introduction of the male plant and pollina- tion of the female thereby, would in all probability check further flowering of the female for a definite period devoted to the maturation of seed. : Desevr.—An erect, dioecious shrub, ten to fifteen feet high, with brown bark, and spreading leafy green branches. Leaves eight to ten inches long, opposite and alternate, broadly ovate or rhombic-ovate, acuminate, base rounded or broadly cuneate, often notched at the insertion of the petiole, surfaces glabrous or puberulous, upper dark green, lower pale, margins irregularly acutely or obtusely crenate- toothed ; nerves eight to ten pairs, petiole one-fifth to one- fourth shorter than the blade, terete, tomentosely pubescent. Female spikes axillary, pendulous, twelve to eighteen inches long by one in diameter, terete, shortly peduncled, obtuse, flexuous, scarlet. lowers minute, sessile in densely crowded glomerules, minutely bracteate and bracteolate. Sepals four, ovate, hispidly pubescent. Ovary three- lobed, hispid with white, stellately spreading hairs, style very short, stigmas three, each forming a brush of very long capillary scarlet filaments.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Female flowers, with bract and bracteoles; 2, sepals; 3, ovary with style and stigmas; 4, peri and ovary with stigmas removed; 5, transverse section of the same :—A// enlarged. AL. T. t*bnp 7 Lid Vineent Brooks Day & So i | : | § H : i ‘ 5 , x ewe] 1 Tas.. 7683: LEWISIA Twexpyt. Native of Washington Territory. Nat. Ord. PortTULACER. Genus Lewista, Pursh.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 159.) Lewista (Oreobroma) Tweedyi; herba acaulis, glaberrima, multiflora, caudice brevissimo radiceque elongato carnuso, foliis omnibus radicalibus patenti-recurvis late ovatis obovatisve carnosulis apice rotundatis basi in petiolum crassum anguste alatum angustatis, supra saturate viridibus subtus pallidis, pedunculis foliis paullo longioribus 1- rarissime 2-floris eglandulosis hinc illinc bracteatis, floribus amplis, sepalis orbiculari- oblongis, petalis 8 14-2-pollicaribus sepalis quadruplo longioribus anguste obovato-oblongis obtusis, staminibus ad 20, filamentis basi pilosis, antheris parvis aureis, ovario oblongo, stylo gracili, stigmatibus 3 brevibus recurvis, capsula polysperma basi circumscisse 3 valvi, valvis a basi ad apicem dehiscentibus, seminibus globosis granulatis, arillo laxo. L. Tweedyi, B. Robins. in A. Gray, Synopt. Fl. N. Am. vol. i. p. 268. Calandrinia Tweedyi, A. Gray, in Am. Acad. Arts § Sc. vol. xxii. (1887), p. 277. Oreobroma Tweedyi, Howell in Erythea, vol. i. p, 32 (1898). Owing to the difficulty of defining the limits of the closely allied genera Lewisia, Pursh, and Calandrinia, H. B. K., the plant here figured has by American authors been placed under both, and also referred to a separate genus, Oreobroma, Howell. I have here adopted Mr. B. Robinson’s view, who, after an examination of all the N. American species of the two genera, separates them according to the dehiscence of the capsule, which in Calandrinia dehisces from the apex to the base, and in Lewisia in the opposite direction. Oreobroma, the chief character of which is the fleshy roots (eaten by the Indians), he reduces to a section of Lewisia. The type of the genus Lewisia is L. rediviva, figured at tab. 5395 of this work. It differs greatly from L. Tweedyi in the leaves being cylindric, the bracts of the peduncles collected in a whorl, the very numerous petals, and the eight filiform style branches. L. Tweedyi is a native of the alpine region of the Wenatchee Mts. in Washington State, at an elevation of six thousand to seven thousand feet. The specimen figured January Ist, 1899, was purchased from Mr, A. J. Johnson of Columbia Nursery, Astoria, Oregon, in January, 1898. It flowered in the following May in the Alpine House of the Royal Gardens, Kew. Deser.—A glabrous, rather succulent, many-flowered, stemless herb, with a stout fleshy root. Leaves many, all radical, two to three and a half inches long, including the short, narrowly winged petiole, spreading and recurved, blade one and a half to two inches long, broadly ovate or obovate, obtuse, base narrowed into the petiole, bright green above, paler beneath, Peduwneles rather longer than the leaves, one- rarely two-flowered, bearing one or a few small green bracts. Flowers three inches in diameter. Sepals about half an inch long, orbicular-oblong, obtuse, green, clouded with pink. Petals eight, one and a half to two inches long, narrowly oboyate-oblong, obtuse, straw- coloured, passing into bright pink in the tips and sides above the middle. Stamens about 20, filaments hairy, anthers small. Ovary oblong, style long, slender, stigmas three, very short, recurved. Capsule not seen—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Stamens; 2, a stamen, showing insertion of Hamauts 3, ovary; 4, longitudinal section of the same, showing ovules :—AU/ enlarged. Pate VC" ¢. Tas. 7684. LILIUM rvupetivm. Native of Japan. Nat. Ord. LitiaceE2.—Tribe TuLIrPEz. Genus Litium, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 816.) Linium (Eulirion) rubellum; bulbo globoso squamis multis lanceolatis, caule gracili ad apicem foliato, foliis alternis laxe dispositis oblongo-lanceolatis vel lanceolatis viridibus glabris distincte 3-5-nervatis, floribus paucis corymbosis, perianthio infundibulari rubello immaculato segmentis oblanceolato-oblongis obtusis supra medinm patulis, staminibus perianthio 2-3-plo brevioribus, stylo staminibus longiore. L. rubellum, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1898, vol. ii. p. 321, fig. 128. This beautiful Lily is allied most closely to L. japonicum, Thunb. (LZ. Krameri, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 6058), from which it differs by its broad leaves, like those of L. speciosum, and smaller pink flowers. Although it is new to cultivation, and had not received any botanical name, there is a good figure of it in the Honzo Zufu (vol. li., tab. 6), a work of. coloured drawings in ninety-six volumes, published in 1828 by the Japanese artist Iwasaki Tsunemasa, for an account of which see Dickins in Journal of Botany, 1887, p. 147. Kew first received it in flower from Messrs. Bunting of Chelmsford in February, 1498. Their stock of the plant was purchased by Messrs. Wallace of Colchester, by whom it was exhibited at the Temple show of the Royal Horticultural Society in May. Probably it will grow larger under cultivation. At any rate, it is a very distinct plant, and sure to be a general favourite. Deser.—Bulb globose, middle-sized; scales many, lan- ceolate. Stem slender, terete, green, spotted with red- brown, laxly leafy from the apex to the base. Leaves all alternate, about twenty to a stem, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, two to three inches long, firm, bright green, distinctly three-nerved or five-nerved. Flowers few, __ corymbose. Perianth funnel-shaped, pink, unspotted, _ three inches long, three inches in diameter when expanded ; _ segments oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, spreading in the January Ist, 1899, upper half, the three inner an inch broad, the outer narrower. Stamens less than half as long as the perianth ; anthers small, linear, bright yellow. Style arcuate, much overtopping the anthers. —/. (. Baker. Fig. 1, Front view of anther; 2, back view of anther; 3, pistil :—A/1 more or less enlarged. 1030 a... aes Tas. 7635. GAULTHERIA rricnorHyiua. Native of the Himalaya and W. China. Nat. Ord. Ericacra#.—Tribe ANDROMEDE. Genus Gauituerta, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 582.) GaULTHERIA trichophylla; fruticulus sempervirens, humilis, coespitosus, ramosissimus, caulibus subterraneis filiformibus vage ramosis elongatis intertextis repentibus nudis, emersis erectis setosis foliosis 4—6-pollicaribus, foliis 2-3 poll. longis, subsessilibus patulis ovato-oblongis subacutis obtusisve obscure crenato-dentatis coriaceis supra saturate viridibus nervis impressis, subtus pallidis nervis prominulis, crenis setula nigra decidua instructis, floribus axillaribus solitariis breviter pedicellatis roseis, pedicellis bracteolatis calyceque glabris, sepalis ovatis, corolla globosa rosea ore constricto, lobis parvis ovatis revolutis, filamentis globosis puberulis, antherarum loculis aristato-acuminatis, connectivo dorso 2-cuspidato, disci dentibus 10 obtusis, ovario glaberrimo, baccis parvis pendulis turbinatis obtuse 5-lobis azureis. G. trichophylla, Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal. p. 260, t. 63, f. 3. DO. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 592. Clarke in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 457. This, the smallest known species of its genus, is a common plant in the alpine and sub-alpine regions of the Himalaya, from Kashmir to Bhotan, in moist peaty places, at elevations of ten to thirteen thousand feet, where it sometimes forms bright green patches of considerable area, studded with pink bells, followed by dark blue berries. Quite recently it has been collected on the mountains of Western Szechuen, on the Tibetan frontier of China, at elevations of nine to thirteen thousand feet by Mr. A. E. Pratt. Therefore it no doubt extends continucusly from Bhotan to this region, as do many other Himalayan plants. The Royal Gardens are indebted to the Hon. Charles Kllis, of Frensham Hall, Haslemere, for this interesting little plant. It flowers both in the Arboretum and in the Rock Garden early in May. Descr,—__A dwarf, tufted, evergreen shrub, with wiry, much-branched, creeping, underground stems, and erect leafing dark brown slender branches, bearing scattered black bristles. Leaves one-sixth to half an inch long, _very shortly petioled, spreading, ovate-oblong, subacute or January 1st, 1899. 1 obtuse, entire or obscurely crenulate, with a rigid black deciduous bristle on the margin, or in each crenature, coriaceous, dark green shining above, with impressed nerves, pale beneath, with prominent nerves. lowers very shortly pedicelled, solitary, axillary, nodding, pink, about as long as the leaves; pedicel bracteolate. Sepals ovate. Corolla globosely campanulate, mouth contracted, with five revolute teeth. Filaments globose, puberulous, anther- cells sub-aristately acuminate, connective with a_ bifid dorsal spur. Berry turbinate, 5-lobed, blue.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, flower with pedicel and bracteoles; 3 and 4, stamens; lg ees disk; 6, transverse section of ovary :—A/l/ enlarged ; 7, fruit of . size, ee eae er ee MS.del, JN. Fitch hth. Tas. 7636. MECONOPSIS uereropuyita. Native of California. Nat. Ord. ParpavERACEa.—Tribe HuPAPAVERES. Genus Meconopsis, Vig.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 52.) Merconopsis heterophylla; herba erecta, fere glaberrima, carnosula, pallide viridis, caule 1-2-pedali gracili parce ramoso, foliis radicalibus 3-5- pollicaribus patentibus petiolatis linearibus pinnatipartitis sparse pilosis segmentis 4—]-pollicaribus suboppositis ovalibus oblongis lineari-oblongisve obtusis integerrimis v. grosse pauci-erenatis rhachi valida, foliis caulinis majoribus, supremis longioribus simplicibus integris v. crenatis, floribus longe pedunculatis 2 poll. latis, sepalis lineari-oblongis glaberrimis, petalis orbicularibus rubro-aurantiacis basi rubro-purpureis, filamentis breviusculis, antheris parvis oblongis aureis, capsula turbinata crasse costata vertice convexa, stylo brevi, stigmate capitato 4-6-lobo, seminibus orbicularibus compressis. M. heterophylla, Benth. in Trans. Hort. Soc. Ser. 11. vol. i. (1835), p. 408. Torr. § Gray, Fl. N. Am. vol.i. p. 61. Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p- 320. Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 732. Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. i. p. 22. M. crassifolia, Benth. l.c. Torr. & Gray l.c. Hook. § Arn. Le. Meconopsis heterophylla is the sole American representa- tive, as M. cambrica is the sole European, of a genus which is well represented only in the loftier Himalaya and the mountains of W.China. Both the European and American species are of very limited range, the former to Wales, Ireland, and the Pyrenees, the latter to a very few localities in W. America, from Clear Lake, in lat. 42° N. to San Quintin Bay in the California Peninsula, lat. 303° N. It also inhabits the Humboldt range in W. Nevada. As might be anticipated from the remoteness of its native country from those of its Old World congeners, and especially from its inhabiting so much hotter and drier a climate than these do, it exhibits some structural pecu- liarities. Such are the pinnatipartite foliage, the re- markable elongate obconical truncate smooth capsule, and smooth, orbicular seeds. 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HOOKER, C.B., before the British Associat peep cenent of Balance at Nottingham, August 27, 1966. * oi reaity, Second Edition, OF BRITISH MOSSE! are known - be natives of the British Isles. EPHUR G, BUTLER, Ph. Ds, F.LS., F. Z.8., F.E.S. The whois forme a large and handsome volume of between 300 and 400 pages, with 60 Pintes, ¥, W, FROWBAWEK, beautifully coloared by hand. "HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA: __ A Description of the Flowering Planis.and Ferns Indigenous ‘to or Leal ged in ree British eines 6th ity Revised y Sir J. 1, Hooks, ee, LF. BS, fe, ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH FLORA. A Series of Wood Engravings, with Dissections, of Brifi nt Ave BY Ww. H. FITCH, Head AND. Ww. G. SMITH, LS. 7647 - wimp Vincent Brooks Day & Son | 5S 4c, NPBA. oe Reg tReeve & C2 london. nig States Tas. 7647. IMPATIENS ROYLEI, var. PALLIDIFLORA. 2 Native of the Himalaya, Nat. Ord. GrrantaceE®.—Tribe BaLsaMINES. Genus Impatiens, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 277.) I. Roylei, Walp. Rep. i. 475. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 468. 1. glandulifera, Royle Illustr. Bot. Himal. p. 151, t. 28, £. 2 (non Arn.) I. glanduligera, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, t. 22. Hook, Bot. Mag. t. 4020. Var. pallidiflora; elatior, 5-6-pedalis, foliis majoribus 6-8 poll. longis, floribus majoribus in corymbos amplos 6-10 poll. latos dispositis lide roseis rubro maculatis. The plant here figured may be assumed to be Himalayan, but of this I have no certain knowledge. It appeared for the first time in the shrubberies of my garden near Sunningdale three or four years ago, and rapidly increased, so as to become a weed, until 1598, when the long- continued drought decimated the plants, and prevented the seeding of the few that were spared. How or whence it was introduced I cannot form an idea. I have never raised an Indian Balsam in ‘my garden, nor had I at that time received the seeds of any, and it is not in the Kew collec- tion, or in that of other botanical gardens to which I have directed inquiries. On the other hand, [ have seen it in several cottage gardens, one at Marlow being the nearest to my place (about fifteen miles in a straight line). Also I saw it growing in profusion in a cottage garden near Mr. Mitford’s residence, Batsford Park, Worcestershire, but not a specimen of it was to be found in that gentleman’s fine garden, or in his magnificent miscellaneous collection of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, where I. Roylei abounds in a naturalized state. In stature, foliage, inflorescence, flowers and fruit, my plant altogether agrees with one which I found in the upper valleys of the Sikkim Himalaya, and of which I made a coloured drawing on the spot, differing only in having subulate stipuliform glands, whereas in the Sikkim plant these are — APRIL Ist, 1899. flat or pulvinate. The latter I referred, on this account, to Wallich’s I. sulcata.* _ Since the publication of the first volume of the ‘Flora of British India” in 1873, very large collections of Himalayan species of Impatiens have been received at Kew, which, together with those of the Herbaria of the Calcutta and Saharunpore Gardens, kindly lent by Messrs. Prain and Duthie, will, I hope, enable me to revise the species (124) published in that work, introducing some new ones, and correcting the characters and synonymy of others. Unfortunately the plants of this genus wither so rapidly after being gathered, and suffer so greatly from _ the pressure in transformation into Herbarium specimen that a great many examples in all herbaria are quit insufficient for correct determination. Furthermore, fruit- ing specimens are essential, and it is only from living ones, or carefully executed drawings, that dependable 4 characters can be obtained. J Descr.—Habit, foliage, inflorescence, flower and fruit of I. Roylei, but leaves larger, attaining eight inches im — length, with petioles of the lower three to four inches Jong, corymbs of flower much larger, more spreadingy Sometimes ten inches in diameter, peduncles longer, nd more robust, bracts and flowers larger, the latter very pale _ Tose, speckled with dark red, especially on the stan ; bia y if the Sane on tea, Fdgw., is referred to I. suleata, erto e ightly named, for I. gigantea has, 1 find, ‘ elongated s. Wallich’ rightly ’ giga ee ae Metiauee of the Sikkim p men of I. sulcata not being in fruit, t acai nt with it is not sure. Fig 1, Section of lower : é . te part of stem; 2, one wing petal; 3, stamens; >> capsule; 5, seeds on placentas: 6 4 ho oe icle; Sead 5--All iadeooe ?, P 7 — ~ ys ea “ape plumule and radicle; ‘+ e V/A . Pk hy ph 7 Fm w, ane SS = Se wc’ eas Tas. 7648. : CEREUS Paxrontanus. | Native of Brasil ? Nat. Ord, Cactea.—Tribe Ecu1nocactex. Genus Cereus, Haw.; (Benth, & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 849.) Cereus (Colubrini) Pawtonianus; caule gracili colamnari 5-6-gono flexuoso ad 1 poll. diam. parce ramoso luride viridi, costis compressis obtusis sinuatis vix lobatis, pulvillis subeonfertis vix } poll. distantibus par- vulis glabris, aculeis 8-10 acicularibus radiantibus levibus 2 interiori- bus longioribus inéequilongis longiore } poll. longo, floribus amplis, 3-4 poll. diam., calycis tubo 23 poll. longo cylindraceo } poll. diam. levi glabro pallide viridi bracteolis paucis dentiformibus brunneis instructo, perianthii segmentis 4—5-seriatis patenti-incurvis lanceolatis subacutis exterioribus dorso viridibus brunneo marginatis et variegatis, interioribu albis, filamentis brevibus, antheris minutis, stylo valido exserto, stigmati- bus 12 linearibus fere $ poll. longis obtusis radiantibus. C. Paxtonianus, Monv. ew Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck, Fd. If. p. 211. Foerst. Handb. Cact. p. 727. Labouret, Monogr. Cact. p. 371. K. Schumann, Gesam. Beschr. der Kakteen, p. 135, C. Cavendishii, Monv. 1.c. Rev. Hortic. 1857, p. 521. The name Cereus Paztonianus first appeared in Mon- ville’s trade catalogue of Cactex, from which it was taken up by Prinée Salm-Dyck, together with C. Cavendishii, which was assumed to bea different species. Of course both came from the magnificent collection of the Duke of © Devonshire at Chatsworth, of which Mr. (afterwards Sir Joseph) Paxton was the keeper, whence the names. Their native country was and is unknown. Differing a little in habit and colour, they came to be regarded as different species, and it was many years before either flowered; and until C. Pazxtonianus did so at Kew, C. Cavendishii alone had done so. The flower of the latter is briefly described in the ‘ Revue Horticole,” 1857, p. 521, and the description precisely accords with that of the plant here figured. Schumann was the first to unite the two plants under the one name. The specimen here figured of Cereus Paxtonianus was purchased for the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Mr. A. Benecke, dealer in Cacti, &c., Birkenwerder, near Berlin, Aprit 1st, 1899, in whose catalogue-it appears as ‘ (. Paxtonianus, Monv., Syn. C. Cavendishit, Mony.” It flowered for the first time in the Cactus House in September, 1898. Descr.—Stem of the Kew specimen four feet high, and about an inch in diameter, erect, flexuous, branching to- wards the top, five to six angled, very lurid green, angles compressed, sinuate, studded with spine-bearing pulvilli at intervals of about a quarter of an inch, the larger spines of which cross one another. Pulvilli glabrous, bearing about twelve radiating, smooth, straight, dark brown spines of unequal length, two of which are more than twice as long as the others, the longest being about a quarter of an inch long. Flowers three to four inches in diameter, white. Calyw-tube two and a half inches long by about half an inch in diameter, cylindric, funnel-shaped below the sepals, quite smooth, unarmed, pale bright — green, bearing few distant minute brown tooth-like scales, which become much longer upwards passing into the outer sepals. Perianth-segments very many, in several series; _linear-lanceolate, sub-acute, spreading and incurved; outer segments (sepals) dorsally green, edged, and clouded towards the tip, and sometimes on the inner surface # with light brown, inner segments (petals) quite white. Stamens very numerous, many-seriate, filaments slender; shortly exserted at the mouth of the perianth, anthers - Ininute, yellow. Style stout, much longer than the stamens, bearing a dozen linear obtuse stout, radiating stigmas, about half an inch long.—J. D. H. “bg Fig. 1, Pulvill ith spines; 2 ; ; :—Both — etoeak us with spines; 2, summit of style and stigmas bt Re ee ae Tas. 7649, SILENE Forrvunet. Native of China and Formosa. Nat, Ord. Canyornytiace2.—Tribe Smrevex. Genus Sitenz, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 147.) oblanceolatis subacutis acuminatisve, basi angustatis ciliolatis v. in v. ad apices ramorum ternis breviter pedicellatis, bibracteolatis, Tine 1j-pollicari angusto cylindraceo striato basi ‘Satie inflato, dentibus parvis erectis - ovatis albo-marginatis et ciliolatis, petalis albis v. roseis, w ungue supra medium dentata, lamina flabelliformi } poll. pee bifida Manes oft lacinia lineari quasi auriculata, lobis multifidis, antheris brevibus exsertis, _ gynophoro elongato capsula oblonga bis longiore, capsule dentibus recurvis, seminibus tuberculatis dorso canaliculatis ventne planis. S. Fortunei, Vis. Ind. Sem. Hort. Patav. (1847), ex Linnza, vol. xxiv. (1851) p. 181. Rohkrb. Monogr. Silene, p. 222. Mazim. Fl. As. Or. Fragm., p. 6. Franch. Pl. David. pars i. p. 47. Forbes et Hemsl. in Jowrn. Linn. Soe. vol. xxiii. (1886) p. 65. Williams in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xxxii. (1896) p- 178. 8. fissipetala, Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. vol. xvii. (1854) pars II. p. 371. ?S. sinensis, Hook, ex Bosse, Handb. Blumengart. Ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 371,em Williams l.c. PS. chinensis, Hook, er Rossi, 1. c. Ed. 3, vol. iii. p. 445. Lychnis Fortunei, Hort. Silene Fortunei appears to be a common plant in China, where it was first found by Fortune. It also occurs _ in the Island of Formosa, on sandy downs near Tamsing. One of its nearest allies in the great genus Silene (numbering 390 species in Mr. Williams’ ‘encsland monograph in the Linnean Journal) is the West European 8. italica, a denizen of some southern English counties. With regard to the authority ‘‘ Hook.” given by Bosse for his S. sinensis or _ chinensis, Mr. Williams has suggested to me that it is __ possibly an error for Hort. It is a garden name not _ Introduced into the Index Kewensis. The plant here figured was raised from seeds collected in Arrit Ist, 1899. the Province of Shensi by Father Piccoli, of the Jesuit Mission in Hankow, which were received at the Royal Gardens through George Murray, Esq., F.RS., Keeper of the Botanical Department of the British Museum. It flowered in the Herbaceous collection in September, 1898. Deser.—An erect, nearly glabrous, slender perennial, one to three feet high, branching and puberulous below, above and flowering branches very viscid. Leaves one to two and a half inches long, spreading and recurved, linear-oblanceolate, sub-acute or acuminate, nerveless, midrib deeply impressed above, base ciliate, contracted — sometimes into a very short petiole. Flowers erect, i rather large panicles with opposite erecto-patent branche in axillary pairs, or ternate at the tips of the branches; pedicels about half an inch long, with two small opposite linear obtuse bracteoles below the middle. Caly# an inch and a quarter long; tube narrow, cylindric, striate with close-set nerves, selioir fruiting inflated above the middle, base rounded; teeth small, erect, ovate, obtuse, _ Margins white, ciliolate. Petals white or rose-red, claw _ rather broad, margins toothed ; limb fan-shaped, half an inch long or more, bifid, base with a long linear segment es each side; lobes unequally lacerate. Anthers shortly _ exserted, broadly oblong. Gynophore twice as long as the _ capsule, slender, glabrous, Styles three, very short. Seeds = eRe flat on one surface, tubercled on the other.— Fig. 1, Cal amen 8 yx-tube laid open with gynophore and ovary; 2, petal and stamen :—all enlarged ; 4, calyx and ripe capsule, nat. size. MS.aclINBitch lith, Tas. 7650. YUCCA nama. Native of the South-Western United States. Nat. Ord. Littacra2.—Tribe Dracayea, Genus Yucca, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 778.) Yucca elata; caule fruticoso interdum furcato, foliis dense rosulatis lineari- bus strictis pallide viridibus pungentibus margine copiose filiferis, pedunculo foliis subduplo longiore, racemis multis laxis in paniculam densam rhomboideam dispositis, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis scariosis pedi- cellis longioribus, perianthio amplo albo extus leviter viride tincto, staminibus perianthio subtriplo brevioribus filamentis pubescentibus, stylo brevi columnari pubescente, fructa magno oblongo coriaceo tarde dehiscente, seminibus discoideis nigris. Y. elata, Engelm. in Coult. Bot. Gaz. vol. vii. (1882) p.17; Collected Works, . 299. Sergeant in Garden & Forest, 1889, p. 568, fig. 146. Trelease in eport Missouri Gard. 1893, p. 201, tab. 10, 15, 22. Y. angustifolia var. elata, Engelm. Notes on Yucca, p. 50. S, Wats. in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xiv, p. 253. Y. constricta, Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xviii. p. 229, non Buckley. This shrubby Yucca is peculiar to the desert region of Arizona and the neighbouring states west of the goaer | Mountains. In the wild state the stem reaches a lengt of ten or twelve feet. In leaf and flower it closel resembles Y. angustifolia, Pursh (Bot. Mag. tab. 2236), but that is more hardy, and never has a long stem. The peduncle of the present plant is longer, and the inflores-— _ cence much more compound. It was first discovered by | the botanists of the Mexican boundary survey more than thirty years ago, but has only lately been introduced into cultivation. The plant in the Royal Gardens, Kew, from which the present drawing was made, is growing in the large Temperate House, and flowered for the first time in- Yuccas, in 1893, from Mr. J. N. Gilerease, of Sierra Blanca, Texas. + ee forked at the top, covered down to the base with reflexed : withered leaves. Leaves densely rosulate, stiffly erect Aprit 1st, 1899, a the summer of 1896. It was purchased, along with other Descr.—Trunk, of the Kew plant, about a yard Jong, - spreading, linear from a_ suddenly-dilated base, one and a half or two feet long, pale green, pungent, copiously filiferous on the margin. Peduncle twice as long as the leaves, furnished with copious spreading, linear bracts leafy. Inflorescence an ample, dense, rhomboid panicle; racemes lax, the lower six or nine inches long ; pedicels in pairs, articulated at the apex; bracts ovate- lanceolate, scariose, longer than the pedicels. Perianth white, two inches long, hardly at all tinged with green on the outside when mature. Stamens one-third the length of the perianth ; filaments pubescent. Ovary with a short, pubescent, columnar style. Capsule oblong, coriaceous, - two inches or more long, finally dehiscent. Seeds large, black, discoid.—J. G. Baker. : Fig. 1, Stamen ; 2, pistil, both enlarged; 3, whole plant, much reduced. 7651 VE ent eagke Day & con itn. S.del. JNFitch lth. C Tas. 7651. INCARVILLEA varraBiILis. Native of Western China. Nat. Ord. Bignonracea.—Tribe TEcomMEx. Genus IncaRvILLEA, Juss. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1049.) IncaRVILLEA variabilis; perennis, caule gracili erecto ramoso angulato folioso glabro v. puberulo, foliis omnibus alternis, ambitu ovatis pin- natis, foliolis oppositis ovato-lanceolatis pinnatifidis pinnatisectisve incisis, floribus in racemos graciles dispositis breviter pedicellatis, pedi- cellis basi foliolo tripartito bracteatis, calyeis brevis tubo obconico pentagono, lobis brevibus in tubereulos crassos globosos seta valida scabrida instructos desinentibus et cum lobulis late ovatis membranaceis alternantibus, corolla tubo pollicari infundibulari, limbi 1-14 poll. lati lobis rotundatis patenti-recurvis, staminodiis 0, stigmatis lobis orbiculatis, capsula bipollicari anguste fusiformi utrinque altenuata terete ternuiter coriacea, seminibus ala hyalina cinctis. Incarvillea variabilis, Batalin in Act. Hort. Petrop. vol. xii. (1892) p. 177, et vol. xiv. (1895) pp. 178, 18>. Of the beautiful genus Incarvillea only one species was known in 1876, the date of the publication of the third part of vol. ii. of the “‘Genera Plantarum;” since which time, so great has been the influx of new plants from Western China and LHastern Tibet, that Dr. Batalin enumerates nine species from Eastern Tibet and China alone, in a paper published three years ago in the * Acta” of the Imperial Botanical Gardens of St. Petersburg. Amongst these is his I. variabilis, a well-named species, of which he enumerates 4 varieties, distinguished chiefly by the amount of the division of the leaves, and the form of their segments. With none of these varieties does the plant here figured perfectly accord, whilst approaching nearest to var. y fumarizxfolia, itself a protean form in foliage as the suite of authentically named specimens in the Kew Herbarium demonstrates. From this the plant here figured differs in the shorter, more equally pinnate leaves, with the leaflets much shorter, broader, and more uniform in shape and incision. The curious character of the seti- form or horned calyx-lobes, each lobe seated on a large tubercle, is common to several species. JI. variabilis is remarkable in having no trace of a staminode between APRIL Ist, 1899. the shorter stamens, in either the cultivated or wild specimens. I. variabilis was discovered by Mr. Potanin on the mountains of the Chinese provinces of Szechuen and Kansu. A _ yellow-flowered variety is described by Mr. Batalin as inhabiting the valley of the Po-ho river in Eastern Tibet. The Royal -Gardens received seeds of I. variabilis from Mr. W. Thompson of Haslemere, Ipswich, plants from which flowered in the Herbaceous ground in August, 1898. Its nearest ally is I. sinensis, Lamk., which has smaller flowers and a much larger pod. Descr.—A slender, perennial, glabrous, or faintly pubes- cent herb, twelve to eighteen inches high. Leaves all alternate, two to four inches long, shortly petioled, ovate in outline, pinnate; leaflets six to eight pairs, opposite, shortly petiolulate, ovate-lanceolate, pinnatifidly cut into obtusely toothed pinnules. Flowers in loose, erect racemes, shortly pedicelled, with a tripartite leafy bract at the base of each pedicel. Calyx small, tube obconic, five-angled, lobes setiform, as long as the tube, scabrid, seated on a globose tubercle, alternating with as many short, mem- branous teeth. Corolla bright rose-purple, tube an inch long, slightly curved, limb more than an inch across the orbicular spreading and recurved lobes. Follicle an inch long, narrowly fusiform, acuminate. Seeds surrounded with a hyaline wing.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Calyx, style, and stigma; 2, portion of calyx laid open, showing disk and ovary; 3, portion of corolla laid open and stamens; 4, anther :—A/Z enlarged. 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Plant. vol. ii. p. 906.) * Nicotiana sylvestris; herba eiata, robusta, foliosa, ramosa, glanduloso- puberula, foliis pedalibus amplis omnibus basi cordatis semi-amplexi- caulibus lyrato-obovatis-oblongisve obtusis v. cuspidatis costa crassa, nervis patalis subtus prominulis, inflorescentia subcapitata, e cymis— brevibus fasciculatis multifloris subsessilibus composita, floribus breve icellatis nutantibus, calyce ovoideo 5-fido basi rotundato, lobis tubo revioribus erectis inzqualibus lanceolatis ovatis v. triangularibus, corolla alba tubo gracili 3-pollicari tereti glanduloso-puberulo medium versus paulo inflato, limbi 14 poll. lati lobis triangularibus obtusiusculis patenti-recurvis, filamentis medio tubi insertis filiformibus glabris, antheris vix exsertis oblongis, capsula corolla paulo longiore. N. sylvestris, Spegaz. et Comes in Gartenflora (1898) p. 180, fig. 38. Nicotiana sylvestr's belongs to the group of tall her- baceous species that abound in South America, but amongst which I find none with the characters above described. In foliage it closely resembles NV. tomentosa, Ruiz & Pav., figured at tab. 7252 of this work, but in inflorescence and flowers it entirely differs. a8 N. sylvestris is a native of the Province of Salta, a — country of lofty mountains with fertile valleys, on the confines of Bolivia, in lat. 26° S., where it grows at an elevation of 5000 to 6000 feet above the sea. Seeds were received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Messrs. Dammann & Co. of Naples, in 1898, plants raised from which flowered in the herbaceous collection in August of the same year. Descr.—A tall, stout, branching, closely leafy, glandular- puberulous herb, five feet high. Leaves a foot long and upwards, lyrate-obovate from a cordate semi-amplexicaul base two inches broad, cuspidate, upper part six inches broad, dark green above, paler beneath, midrib very stout, and spreading nerves prominent beneath. Inflorescence terminal, peduncled, almost hemispheric, formed of sub- May Ist, 1899. sessile fascicles of short, many- and dense-flowered nod- ding cymes, two to three inches long, flowering to the base; pedicels shorter than the calyces, except the lowest in the cyme. Calyx one-half to two-thirds of an inch long, ovoid, terete, cleft to about one-third into five, unequal, broad or narrow, erect lobes. Corolla white, tube three inches long, very slender, terete, glandular-pubescent, slightly inflated about the middle; limb an inch and a half broad, of five triangular, sub-acute, spreading and re- curved lobes. Stamens inserted where the inflation of the corolla-tube commences ; filaments very slender, glabrous ; anthers oblong, tips hardly exserted from the mouth of — the corolla.. Style very slender, glabrous, stigma included. Capsule four-toothed.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2, portion of corolla-tube and stamens; 3, imma- ture capsule ; 4, calyx and capsule :-—AJ/ enlarged. M.S. del. IN Fitch lith a, Tas. 7653. CYRTANTHUS parvirtorvs. Native of Cape Colony. Nat. Ord. AMarYLLIDE#.—Tribe AMARYLLEA. Genus Cyrtantuvs, Ait.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 729.) Crrtantuus (Monella) parviflorus; bulbo globoso tunicis membranaceis supra colluam productis, foliis 3-6 linearibus viridibus suberectis floribus costaneis facie canaliculatis, scapo gracili tereti elongato, umbellis 6-12-floris, pedicellis flore aequilongis vel brevioribus, spathew valvis 2 parvis oppositis lanceolatis, fluribus inodoris splendide rubris, perianthii tubo subcylindrico curvato ad basin attenuato, lobis brevissimis late ovatis, staminibus biseriatis filamentis brevissimis, stylo perianthio zequilongo apice stigmatoso tricuspidato. C. parviflorus, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1891, vol. i. p. 104; ef in Dyer Fl. Cap. vol. vi. p. 221. This pretty little Cyrtanthus was first introduced into cultivation by Mr. James O’Brien of Harrow, in 1889. In a wild state it is widely distributed through the eastern provinces of Cape Colony, from Port Elizabeth northward to the Transvaal, where Mr, E. Galpin has found it at an altitude of 4500 feet above sea-level. It is nearly allied to the well-known C. angustifolius, Ait. (Bot. Mag. t. 271), but the flowers are much smaller and brighter in colour. It flowers freely in a cool house at Kew in April and May. The bulbs were presented to the Royal Gardens by E. H. Woodall, Esq., of St. Nicholas House, Scarborough. Descr.—Bulb globose, about an inch in diameter, with the outer brown, membranous tunics produced some distance above its neck. Leaves three to six to a bulb, contemporary with the flowers, linear, sub-erect, green, channelled down the face. Pedunele slender, terete. Flowers inodorous, bright red, six to twelve in an umbet; pedicels as long as, or shorter than the flowers ; spathe- valves two, small, opposite, lanceolate. Perianth sub- cylindrical, curved, about an inch long, narrowed to the base; lobes very small, broadly ovate. Stamens inserted May Ist, 1899. —— in two rows above the middle of the perianth-tube; filaments very short. Style reaching to the tip of the perianth, distinctly tricuspidate at the stigmatose apex. —J. G. Baker. Fig. 1, A flower opened out to show the stamens; 2, back view of anther; 3 front view of anther; 4, pistil:—AJl enlarged. _5.del. JN Fitch eh Tas. 7654. ALNUS niripa. Native of the Western Himalaya. Nat. Ord. Curutirera.—Tribe BETULEA. Genus Anus, Geertn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iti. p. 404.) Anus (Clethropsis) nitida; arbor elata, ramulis brunneis novellis puberulis, foliis ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis integerrimis v. crenato- serratis glaberrimis lete viridibus lucidis basi rotundatis v. cuneatis subtus pallidioribus punctulis resiniferis notatis, axillis nervorum bar- bellatis, infl. masc. et fem. cowtaneis, spicis masc. apices versus -ramulorum solitariis v. paucis elongatis filiformibus puberulis, floribus glomeratis bracteatis miuutis tetrandris, sepalis 4 obovatis apicibus dentatis, spicis fem. 1-2-pcllicaribus axillaribus solitariis binisve erectis breviter pedunculatis florentibus sanguineis maturis oblongis obtusis -viridibus, bracteis minutis arcte imbricatis, bracteolis quadrifidis demum in laminam 4-fidam stipitatam connatis, ovariis minimis orbicularibus compressis, stylis 2 linearibus obtusis complanatis, nuculis orbicularibus obcordatisve stylis coronatis marginibus incrassatis. A. nitida, Endl. Gen. Pl. Suppl. iv. pars II. p. 20. Regel in DO. Prodr. vol. xvi. pars I. p. 181, et Monogr. Bet. p. 82, t. 14, fig. 23-30. Brand. For. Flor, p. 460, t. 57. Gamble Man. Ind. Timbers, p. 373. Hook, f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. p. 600. Clethropsis nitida, Spach in Ann. Se. Nat. Sér. IL. vol. xv. p. 202; et in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. p. 158, t. 159. The Western Himalayan Alder (A. nitida) is a very handsome tree, that does not occur-east of the Sutlej river, but extends from thence westward, at elevations of 4000 to 9000 ft., to Kashmir and Afghanistan. In the Eastern Himalaya it is replaced by A. nepalensis, Don, which, commencing from a little westward of the Sutlej (in Chamba) extends thence throughout the range to Burma and Western China. It has not as yet been introduced into England. The wood of A. nitida is used in the manufacture of bedsteads, and the lithe branches form ropes for the construction of suspension bridges, and for tying loads of wood. The bark is used for dyeing and tanning purposes. Seeds of A. nitida were sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, together with those of many other western Himalayan plants, by the late R. Ellis, Esq., of the Forest Depart- ment, from Pangi, in 1882, from which the plant here May Ist, 1899, figured was raised. It flowered in the Arboretum in September, 1897. Descr.—A tall, fast-growing, deciduous tree, attaining a hundred feet in height, with a trunk ten to fifteen feet in girth, covered with rough brown furrowed bark ; wood soft, reddish. Leaves four to five inches long, ovate, acuminate, entire or serrate, bright green, and polished above, pale beneath, nerves eight to ten pairs, arched; petiole about an inch long, slender. J/ale and fem. inflorescence cre- taneous. Male spikes solitary or few, towards the tops of the branchlets, shortly peduncled, four to six inches long, very slender, pendulous. Flowers small, in globose clusters, surrounded by minute green bracts; perianth- scales four, obovate, tips toothed. Stamens four, anthers didymous, red. em. spikes axillary, and at the base ot the males, one to two inches long, sub-sessile, strict, linear, blood-red. Flowers minute, in broad, short, im- bricating bracts; bracteoles four, orbicular, which even- tually coalesce, and are raised on a hardened stipes. Ovary very minute, orbicular, compressed, with two linear, flattened stigmas. Nutlets orbicular or obcordate, crowned with the persistent stigmas.—J. D. H. __ Fig. 1, Clusters of male f.; 2, bracteole; 3, male A. and v ———s and bract ; 5, two fem. fl.; 6, a fem. fl.; 7, young os are ie ‘ bes catty col 9, — bracteoles; 10, longitudinal section of nutlet:—4J/ 2) An ee a pew yaa Ey sleet pte » MS. del, JN Fitch ith Tas. 7655. DAHLIA MAXIMILIANA. Native of Mezxico. Nat. Ord. Composit2.—Tribe HELIANTHOIDER. Genus Dautia, Cav.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 386.) Danita Mazimiliana; elata, ramosa, caule fistuloso? lenticellato, foliis plerisque bipinnatis superioribus pinnatis v. 3-foliolatis, summis interdum unifoliolatis, petiolo gracili inferioram fistuloso, foliolis paucis 3-5-poll. longis sessilibus v. graciliter petiolulatis ovatis ovato-oblongisve acutis acuminatis caudatisve grosse serratis basi acutis obtusis v. repente angustatis et in petiolulam decurrentibus glabris v. utrinque puberulis, terminali paullo majore oblongo sessili v. (interdum longe) petiolulato, floribus in axillis superioribus solitariis et ad apices ramuJorum sub- corymbosis, pedunculis elongatis gracilibus, capitulis ad 3-poll. latis, involucri bracteis exterioribus 5-7 herbaceis lineari-oblongis patentibus tortis 3-nerviis basi tumidis, interioribus erectis oblongis snbmembrana- ceis obtusis acutisve, fl. radii ad 8 tubo brevi puberulo, limbo elliptico obtuso multinervi roseo-purpureo, disci floribus aurantiacis. D. Maximiliana, Hort. in Gard. Chron, 1879, vol. i. p. 216; Hemsl. in Gard. Chron. 1879, vol. ii. p. 525, et Biolog. Cent. Am, Bot. vol. ii. p. 197. The earliest notice which I find of this plant is that specimens of it were exhibited at a show of the Royal Horticultural Society in February, 1879, by Mr. Green, gardener to Sir George Macleay, K.C.M.G., of Pendel Court, Bletchingly. There are excellent specimens, com- municated by Sir George, preserved in the Herbarium at Kew. As stated in the Gardener’s Chronicle of that date, it attains eight feet in height, four feet in diameter, and blooms for a long-time. This was followed by Mr. Hemsley’s notice of the plant as D. Mawimiliana, Hort., in October of the same year, in his account of the known species of Dahlia, with the observations that the stem, seven feet high, is lenticellate, the leaves bipin- nate, with relatively slender petioles, and the flowers unknown. In December of the following year I received some flowers of it as D. Mawzimiliana?, from EK. H. Woodall, Esq., of St. Nicholas House, Scarborough, with the information that the plant producing them was eight feet high, had excited great admiration, from the delica mauve colour of its anemone-like flowers, and that, as May lst, 1899, . succeeds the chrysanthemum, it should prove a valuable addition to winter-flowering conservatory plants. Up to the present time there has been no description of the species but that I here give. Of the origin or introduction of the species I have found no record. It is regarded as Mexican, probably correctly, as that country is the head- quarters of the genus. — As a species it is difficult to assign to D. Maximiliana botanical characters that would by words distinguish 16 from some of the forms of the common D. variabilis, Desf., than which it is a very much larger plant, with a more branching fistular ? stem; the foliage more resembles that of D. imperialis, but is less divided, and with comparatively slender petioles. The flowers are totally unlike those of D. imperialis, and, except in the lovely colour, resemble those of D. variabilis. The specimen from which the accompanying figure was made was kindly sent in February of this year (along with other interesting plants to be figured in this work) by Commendatore Hanbury, F.L.S., from his unrivalled garden at Palazzo Orengo, La Mortola, Ventimiglia. _ Descr,—Stem six to eight feet high, copiously branched, fistular, glabrous, green, lenticellate; branches long, spreading, leafing and flowering. Leaves spreading, lower two to three feet long, bipinnate, with slender, fistular petioles, and few sessile or petiolulate leaflets, one to three inches long; leaflets few, ovate, or oblong-ovate, coarsely _ serrate, from acute to caudate-acuminate, thin, glabrous or — puberulous on both surfaces, terminal rather the largest, oblong, base rounded, obtuse, or acute, or suddenly narrowed and decurrent on the petiole. Flowers copiously produced in the axils of the upper leaves, and in loose corymbs terminating the main stem and branches. IJn- voluere, ray, and disk-florets as in D. variabilis, with rays of a lovely mauve colour,—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Inner involucral bract and disk flower; 2, ovary, tube, and part of the corolla with style of a ray-flowar; 3, stamens :—A// enlarged, ‘Tas. 7656. VERONICA Dterrensacuit. Native of the Chatham Islands. Nat. Ord. ScROPHULARINEX.—Tribe DrerraLe2. Genus Veronica, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 964.) Veronica (Hebe) Dieffenbachii; frutex glaber v. puberulus, ramosns, ramis elongatis divaricatis teretibus viridibus, foliis 3—-4-pollicaribus sessilibus patenti-recurvis lineari-oblongis acutis coriaceis enerviis basi late cor- datis semiamplexicaulibus costa valida marginibus recurvis supra levibus subtus pallidis, racemis axillaribus oppositis foliis squilongis breviter pedunculatis cylindraceis obtusis densifloris,-rhachi robusto viridi, floribus parvis, pedicellis ad 3 poll. longis basi bracteis minutis ovatis instructis, sepalis , poll. longis ovata oblongis obtusis ciliolatis, corollze lilacinze tubo peas be duplo longiore, limbi } poll. lati lobis lateralibus et dorsali orbiculatis, antico minore, filamentis corolle lobis paullo longioribus, antheris oblongis ceruleis, stylo brevi, capsulis parvis ovatis obtusis dorso compressis, seminibus orbiculatis plano- convexis. V. Dieffenbachii, Benth. in DC. Prodr. vol. x. p. 459. Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. vol. i. p. 191; Handb. Fl. NN. Zeal. p. 206. F. Muell. Vegetation of Chatham Isids. (sub V. salicifolia) p. 45. Armstrong in Trans. J. Zeal. Instit. vol. xiii. (1880) p. 351. Kirk, l.c. xxviii. (1895) p. 531. Gard. Chron, 1898, vol. ii. p. 154, fig. 41. A very handsome and well-marked, shrubby Speedwell, confined to the Chatham Islds., where it was discovered by Dr. Dieffenbach, the first naturalist who visited that in- teresting dependency of New Zealand, now nearly sixty years ago. Asa species it stands between J. speciosa, R. Cunn. (see tab. 4057), and V. macroura, Hook. f. (a plant not hitherto figured), and, as I have observed in FI. Nov. Zel., it quite resembles what a cross between these two species might yield. The only indigenous specimen that I have seen is Dieffenbach’s in Herb. Kew, and I have no other information as to the habit of the plant in its native country than an observation by Kirk, in his enumeration of the N. Zealand species of Veronica, in the “‘ Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,” who says of it, “The rather stout branches are given off in a divaricating manner, so that a single specimen may cover an area many yards in diameter. The stem and leaves are sometimes pubescent.’ May Ist, 1899. Sir F. von Mueller, in his little volume on the “ Vegeta- tion of the Chatham Islds.,”’ has the hardihood to refer this and twenty other well characterized New Zealand species of Veronica to V. salicifolia! Under the same inspiration, in the same work, he reduces thirty-five species of Hpilo- bium, including EH. alpinum, L., to H. tetragonum, L. It is unfortunate that Mueller never visited either New ~ Zealand or the Chatham Islds., for a little knowledge of the species of both genera in their native countries might have modified his views. The figure of V. Dieffenbachii was made from a specimen sent me by Robert Lindsay, Esq., of Kaimes Lodge, Murray-field, Midlothian, in August, 1898, The plant 1s cultivated at Kew, where it flowers freely in a sheltered border in October. Deser.—A glabrous or puberulous shrub, with long, divaricating, terete, green, leafy branches. Leaves sessile, spreading, and recurved, three to four inches long, linear- ~~ oblong, acute, coriaceous, midrib stout otherwise, veinless, base broadly cordate, semi-amplexicaul, margins recurved, bright green above, pale beneath. Flowers very small, bright lilac, crowded in axillary, opposite, shortly pedun- cled, sub-erect, cylindric dense racemes; peduncle and rhachis stout, terete; pedicels about one-tenth of an inch long, with a minute bract at the base. Sepals about as long as the pedicels, narrowly oblong, acute, ciliolate. 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Yucca (Hesperoyucca) Whipplet; caule brevissimo ahaa ot stolonifero, foliis numerosissimis densissime confertis patentibus lineari-subulatis falcatis v. strictis rigidis 10-20 poll. longis a basi 4 poll. lata sensim angustatis glaucis striatis dorso carinatis, apicem trigonum pungen- tem versus concavis, marginibus serrulato-asperis, scapo 4-12-pedali robusto stricto, bracteis 6-9 poll. longis e basi lata foliaceis recurvis inferioribus confertis foliiformibus, supremis ad basin panicule latioribus, panicula cylindracea densiflora, perianthii 2-4 poll. diam. subglobosi seg- mentis incurvis albo-virescentibus apices versus rubro-purpureo margina- tis exterioribus oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis interioribus multolatioribus, filamentis erectis sursum incrassatis levibus, antheris didymis, ovario oblongo, stylo brevi, stigmate crasso trilobo, capsula globoso-ovoidea 1-2 poll. longa, erecta, obtusa, loculicide 3-valvi, valvis integris, seminibus parvis valde compressis levibus anguste marginatis. Y. Whipplei, Torr. in Bot. Mex, Bound. p. 222 (textu). Bot. Bxped. Ives, p. 29. Bot. Works Engelmann, pp. 277, 296, 297, 298, 307. Gard. Chron. 1876, vol. ii. p. 197, fig. 42. S. Wats. in. Bot. Calif. vol. ii p. 164, e¢ in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xiv. p. 254. Baker, Rivist. Yucchi, Beaucarn. e Dasylir. in Bull. R. Soc. Tosc. di Ortic. 1881-2, p. 23. The Cactus Journal, June, 1899, p. 73 cum ic. Y. graminifolia, Wood in Proc. Acad. Sc. Philadelph. 1868, p. 167. Y. aloifolia, Torr. Pacific R. Rep. vol. iv. p. 147. PAgave californica, Hort. Kew. ex Jacobi, Agave, App. p. 117. Lemaire, Iii. Hortic. 1863, sub tab, 372. : Yucca Whipplei is a native of rocky mountains in California, from San Bernardino to Monterey, extending thence eastwards to N.W. Arizona. It is a very stately species, attaining twice the height of an ordinary man, with copious bright green foliage, a stout, bracteate - scape, and a noble panicle of large, sub-globose flowers. The figure here given was drawn by Lady Thiselton-Dyer, during a visit to the Commendatore Hanbury, Palazzo Orengo, Ventimiglia, in April, 1891, when the plant was flowering for the first time in that gentleman’s magnificent garden. From a record, preserved at the Palazzo, and communicated to me by Commendatore Hanbury, it appears JuLy Ist, 1899. that ripe seeds of this Yucca were received in January, 1882, from Ludwig Winter, of Bordighera. These would give the age of the specimen at first flowering as nine years. It flowered a second time in the autumn or winter of 1896, but not since, though it is alive and well. Descr.—Stoloniferous. Stem very short and prostrate, or none. Leaves most densely crowded, in an almost globose mass, two to three feet in diameter, spreading on all sides, linear-subulate, ten to twenty inches long, sud- denly tapering from a base about half an inch broad to a trigonous pungent tip, rigid, straight, or curved, glaucous- green, striate, dorsally keeled, margins minutely serrulate. Scape four to twelve feet high, very stout, erect, loosely covered above, densely below, with erect or recurved foliaceous bracts, six to nine inches long. Panicle erect, cylindric, dense-flowered, two to four inches in diameter, quite glabrous; branches many-flowered; floral bracts small. Flowers globose, two to two and a half inches in diameter, pendulous from stout, decurved pedicels, an inch and a half long; perianth-segments incurved, concave, acute, greenish-white, margined with dull purple, outer broadly oblong-lanceolate, inner narrower. Stamens about half as long as the perianth-segments ; filaments stout, thickened in the middle, quite smooth ; anthers didymous. Ovary oblong, laterally six-lobed ; style very short, stigma three-lobed. Capsule two and a half inches long, broadly oblong, trigonous —J. D, H. de r 1, Stamen; 2, ovary; 3, capsule :—All enlarged; 4, reduced view of Yat: HT.D. del, JN-Fitchiith a, BT : Vincent Bracks,Day &5on. i : -_ Tas. 7668. ACACIA SPHHEROCEPHALA. Native of Mexico. Nat. Ord. Lecuminos&.—Tribe AcaciEz. Genus Acacia, Willd.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 594.) Acacia (Gummifere) spherocephala; frutex rigidus, ramosus, stipulis spinescentibus demum maximis 1}-pollicaribus corniformibus rectis curvisve ima basi connatis, foliis bi-pinnatis, pinnis 2-3-jugis, foliolis - 20-30-jugis oblongis subacutis $-} poll. longis glaberrimis saturate viridibus apicibus nudis v. appendicula fusiformi carnosula caduca flavida instructis, spicis globosis ochroleucis in paniculas ramosas ramis ramulis- que robustis glaberrimis dispositis breviter pedicellatis, floribus densissime congestis, squamulis peltatis gracillime stipitatis immixtis, calycis urceolati puberuli lobis brevibus rotundatis, corolla calyce paullo longiore ore vix lobato, staminibus breviter exsertis. A. spherocephala, Cham. § Schlecht. in Linnea, vol. v. (1830), p. 594. enth, in Trans, Linn. Soc. vol. xxx. p. 514. Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. vol. i. p. 355, Acacia No. 12, Mill. Gard. Dict. Ed. ITI. (1737). Acacia spinosa, &c., Mill. Fig. Plant. vol. i. p. 4, t. 6 (1755). ? Mimosa campeachyana, Mill. Gard. Dict. Ed. viii. (1768) No. 20; ed. Martyn, No. 75 (1807). M. cornigera, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 520, pro parte. Arbor cornigera, Commel. Hort. Med. Amstelod. vol. i. p. 209, t. 207. ~~ This is one of the two plants long known in cultivation under the name of Mimosa cornigera, the intricate syno- nymy of which I have discussed under Acacia spadicigera, tab. 7395. Though very different in inflorescence, these two species come from the same country, closely resemble one another in habit of growth, foliage, the stipules, and in the more remarkable character of bearing on the tips of some of their leaflets, fleshy, oblong appen- | dages, that supply food to stinging ants which nest in the accrescent hollow stipules. Under the same tab. I have extracted from the late Mr. Belt’s ‘‘ Naturalist in Nicaragua,’ that gentleman’s fascinating description of the habits of these ants, of which there are at least two species belonging to different genera. To that full description I must refer for the functions of the organs of A, sphexrocephala. JuLy Ist, 1899, Whether A. spherocephala or A. spadicigera was the species cultivated as the Cuckold tree so long ago as 1692, in the Royal Gardens of Hampton Court, remains doubtful ; as also whether or no it is the ‘‘ Arbor cornigera”’ of Her- nandez, *‘ Rerum Med. Nov. Hisp. Thes.,”’ p. 86, published in 1651. The former species was certainly known to Breyn in 1680, and it may be reasonably surmised that the Hamp- ton Court plant was procured from Amsterdam. It has long been known in European gardens, and there are specimens in the Kew Herbarium from the Montpellier and Liverpool Botanical Gardens, collected early in the century ; how long it has been at Kew is not known. The A. cornigera of Aiton’s “ Hortus Kewensis” is certainly A. spadicigera, for the spadix-like inflorescence is described in that work. A, sphexrocephala is a native of Mexico and Central America, and there are specimens in the Kew Herbarium — collected in Texas. Descr.—A shrub with the habit and characters of A. spadicigera, Cham. & Schlecht. tab. 7395, but with fewer leaflets, and with panicled, globose heads of flowers ; the fruit is unknown.—J. D. H. oe. eta stipules, of the nat. size ; 2, flower; 3, stamens ; 4, pistil:— 7664 Vincent BrocoksDay &Sonitimp | \ \, bit Spd bo bh ED. del, IN Fitch lith Tas. 7664, MASDEVALLIA muscosa. Native of Colombia and_ Ecuador, Nat. Ord. OncuipEm.—Tribe EripenpREa&. Genus Maspnevatiia, Ruiz & Pav.; ( — & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p- 492.) MAsDEVALLIA muscosa ; caespitosa, folio 1}-2 pollicari ovato-oblongo y. oblan- ceolato in petiolum 4-1 poll. longum sulcatum angustato coriaceo glaberrimo supra papilloso saturate viridi subtus pallidiore purpureo suffuso petiolo ima basi vaginato, scapo unifloro 5-6-pollicari gracillimo pilis glanduligeris laxis patentibus obsito, medium versus vagina parva cylindracea obtusa glaberrima instructo, bractea vagina simili } poll. longa membranacea brunnea, pedicello brevi decurvo glaberrimo, ovario hispido, sepalis basi pallide flavis purpureo striatis in tubum campanulatum gibbum connatis sursum in caudas pollicares apicibus clavellatis productis, petalis poll. longis linearibus apicibus rotundatis margine superiore supra medium unidentatis, labelli } poll. longi ungne limbo equilongo tomentoso aureo rubro punctulato, limbo triangalari- obovato velutino lateribus rotnndatis purpureo basi aureo marginibus incurvis setulosis, columna anguste alata, anthera dorsali. M. muscosa, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1875, vol. i. p. 460; 1881, vol. ii p. 336. Bean wm Gard. Chron. 1887, vol. i. p. 836. Veitch Man. Orchid. part v. p. 54. Woodward, Masdevall, t. 39. F. Oliver in Ann, Bot. vol. i. (1887-8), p. 237, tab. xii. M. muscosa is a very interesting plant, being the only one of the seventy or eighty species of Masdevallia that have been described or enumerated, in which the lip has been shown to be sensitive, and to entrap insects in the flower. This discovery was made by Mr. Bean, when foreman of the Orchid Collection of the Royal Gardens in 1887, and is described by him in the Gardeners Chronicle for that year (vol. i. p. 836) ; and later by Prof. F. Oliver, in an elaborate paper, illustrated with anatomical details, which appeared in the “Annals of Botany’”’ of the same year. It may briefly be described as follows. The claw of the lip is sensitive, and on being touched, however lightly, by an insect alighting on the blade, the latter springs up, imprisoning the insect between it and the column. The insect is then in a position to detach the pollen, which on its release by the blade falling back, is carried off. On visiting the lip of another flower the insect Jury Ist, 1899, is in a position to place the pollen on its stigmatic surface, and thus effect cross-fertilization. In the Australian genus Pterostylis (see tab. 6351) the lip plays the same part as in this Masdevallia. The filament of the stamen in Stylidiwm is similarly irritable. M. muscosa is a native of the Andes of Colombia and © Ecuador, at elevations of 5850 to 7475 ft., where the mean temperature ranges from 59° to 62° Fahr., flowering in September and October. The specimen here figured flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in May, 1887. Descr.—Leaves one and a half to two inches long, oval- or -oblanceolate-oblong, coriaceous, deep green and papil- lose on the surface, clouded with purple beneath, tip minutely three-toothed, base narrowed into a channelled petiole shorter than the blade. Scape five to six inches high, one-flowered, very slender, covered with flexuous, glandular hairs, girt at about the middle by a small, tubular, obtuse, brown, membranous sheath. Bract a quarter of an inch long, like the sheath on the scape; pedicel rather longer than the bract, glabrous. Ovary decurved, hispid. Sepals yellow, streaked with purple, united into a campanulate tube gibbous at the base, then suddenly narrowed from a triangular base into slender, erect, or recurved tails one inch long, with clavellate tips. Petals small, linear, yellow, with a red midline, tip rounded, outer margin toothed above the base. Lip small, claw as long as the blade, tomentose with yellow hairs; blade triangular, golden-yellow towards the base, purple beyond it. Anther dorsal on the top of the column.—J. D. A. Fig. 1, Lip; 2, transverse section of Al i i ition of the anther :—Both enlarged. ion of Hower, showing the dorsal position 0 Tan. 7665. 7 CRASSULA pyraMipALis. Native of the Oape of Good Hope. Nat. Ord. CrassuLAcEa. Genus Orassuna, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 657.) Crassuta (Pyramidella) pyramidalis; nana, caulibus 2-8 pollicaribus foliis omnino velatis cum foliis tetragonis simplicibus vel ramulis brevissi- mis instructis, foliis quadrifariam imbricatis horizontalibus arctissime imbricatis carnosulis triangulari-ovatis basi subcordatis liberis semi- am plexicaulibus marginibus puberulis, floribus pentameris, in capitula globosa terminalia $-1 poll. diam. confertis albis pentameris, sepalis parvis anguste spathulatis marginibus ciliatis, corolle glaberrime tubo ovoideo sepalis duplo longiore, lobis tubo longioribus linearibus obtusis recurvis, filamentis brevibus, antheris longiusculis ovato-oblongis, squamulis e stipite gracili sursum dilatatis truncatis rubro-aurantiacis, carpellis ovoideis, stylis brevibus. C. pyramidalis, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 189. Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 287, et in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. vol. vi. p. 336, t. 5b. DC. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 388. Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. tii. p. 338. Burbidge in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 289, fig. 108, et 1885, vol. i. p. 545, fig. 101 (icon. iterat.). C. quadrangula, Hndi. ex Walp. Rep. vol. ii. p. 253. Tetraphyle pyramidalis & quadrangula, Eckl. & Zeyh. Enum, p. 292, 293. The plant here figured is that known in gardens as Crassula pyramidalis, Linn. f. and of Thunberg’s ‘ Flora Capensis,”’ but it differs from the description of these authors in the leaves being much larger than one line long, and not being connate, as also in the heads of flowers being sometimes upwards of an inch across, and © not merely “ larger than a pea.” It is possible that in its native state the plant never assumes the size which it does under cultivation, but this small size would not account for the leaves being connate. It must be left to Cape botanists to settle the question by a visit to the spot where Thunberg discovered C. pyramidalis, namely, near Olifant’s River, by the thermal springs, ‘‘(Juxta flum. Olyfant’s orientalem, prope thermas,” fl. Octob.). Other habitats given by Harvey in the “ Flora Capensis’’ are Karroo, between Uitenhage and Graaf Reynet; Kleplaat river; Juty Ist, 1899. Driekoppen, Zwaanepoetsport berge, and Gamka river, all in the South-western region of the Cape Colony. CO. pyramidalis has been long in cultivation at Kew, where it flowers in the Succulent House in May and June, Descr.—Stems two to three inches high, entirely hidden from base to tip by the leaves, which are most densely quadrifariously imbricate, together forming a rather acutely four-angled, green column. Leaves spreading almost horizontally, nearly half an inch broad, those of each series being closely appressed to one another, broadly triangular, with rounded sides, thinly fleshy, green, margins puberulous in a young state, base con- tracted and semi-amplexicaul, with a semi-lunar insertion. Plowers capitately corymbose, forming a sessile head an — inch in diameter or less, pentamerous, very shortly pedi- celled, white. Sepals very small, narrowly spathulate, with ciliate margins. Petals united below into a tube twice as long as the sepals; free portions as long as the tube, linear, obtuse, sub-flexuously spreading. Stamens in- serted in the corolla-tube, filaments very short, anthers large, ovate-oblong. Hypogynous scales dilated upwards from a very narrow base, truncate. Carpels narrowed into short styles—J. D. H. — Fig. 1, Top of stem and leaves; 2, flower: 3 ; J cei 5, hypogynous glands and carpels :—All one p oy corolla Tr D.del ING io. r Tas. 7666. ROSA XANTHINA. Native of Central Asia and Afyhanistan. Nat. Ord. Rosacea.—Tribe Roszz. Genus Rosa, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625.) Rosa (Pimpinellifoliw) wanthina; frutex 3-4-pedalis, erectus, ramosissimus, spinosus, fere eglandulosus, ramulis rubris glabris, aculeis semipollicaribus homomorphis confertis rectis rigidis basi compressis et valde dilatatis, foliis ramulis floriferis confertis 3-1 poll. longis 6-9-foliolatis, foliolis ovato-oblongis oblongis v. orbicularibus ad } poll. longis serrulato-dentatis subtus praecipue glandulosis, stipulis oblongis subacutis integerrimis, floribus in ramulos brevissimos terminales solitariis ad 1 poll. diam. aureis, pedunculis brevibus glaberrimis v. glanduloso-pilosis, sepalis lanceolatis integerrimis v. apices versus paucidentatis extus glandulosis intus tomentosis, petalis sepalis longioribus obovato-oblongis, stylis liberis lanuginosis apicibus glabris, fructibus globosis ad 3} poll.. diam. gracile pedunculatis glaberrimis nitidis sepalis reflexis coronatis, acheniis primum villosis demum glabris. R. xanthina, Lindl. Ros. Monog. p. 132 (nomen). Crépin in Comptes rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. vol. xxv. pars ii. p. 14. Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Par. Ser. II. vol. v. (Plant. David.), p. 117, t. 15/2. Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ, Linn, Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. p. 255. Koehne, Deutsch. Dendrolog. p. 300, R. platyacantha, Schrenk in Bull. Acad. Petersb. vol. x. (1842), p. 254. — Tedeb. Fl. Ross. vol. ii. p. 75. R. pimpinellifolia, var. platyacantha, Crép. Mater., fase. v. p. 319. R. Ecae, Aitchis. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xviii. (1880), p. 54, et xix. (1882), p- 162, t. viii. Oliv. in Hook, Ic. Plant. vol. xiv. p. 21, t. 1829, Christ. in Boiss. Fl. Orient. Suppl. p. 207. The discovery of Rosa xanthina,a central Asiatic species, in a single valley of Afghanistan, is a noteworthy fact in geographical distribution, for no other collector in that country had met with it. In the Kuram Valley of Afghanistan it abounds, both wild, and cultivated (for hedges), forming with Amygdalus eburnea the greater part of the scrub in the stony ridges of the Harieb district, at an elevation of six thousand to seven thousand feet, where it was found by the late Dr. Aitchison, F.R.S., when accompanying General (now Lord) Roberts, on the survey of that valley. It is a plant of very wide distribution. Lat. 33° N. is its southern as well as its western limit, Jutx 1st, 1899, so far as is known, but it reappears in Turkestan, and spreads into Soongaria, the Altai Mts., Mongolia, and N. China, its northern limit being probably about lat. 45° N. ‘The specific name Hcae is derived from the initials of Mrs. Aitchison’s name, given before the plant was identified with Lindley’s Rosa xanthina. The specimen figured is from a plant raised at the Royal Gardens from seed sent by Dr. Aitchison in 1880. It flowers in June. Deser.—A rigid, erect shrub, three to four feet high, stem and branches armed with crowded, straight prickles about half an inch long, with dilated, compressed bases, branches and branchlets leafy, glandular, red when young. Leaves small, hardly an inch long, crowded on the branch lets, rhachis eglandular, stipules oblong, entire, sub-acute; leaflets five to nine, about a quarter of an inch long, from oblong to orbicular, serrulate-toothed, glandular beneath. Flowers peduncled, solitary at the base of the branchlets, about an inch in diameter, golden-yellow ;. peduncles glabrous, or glandular-hairy. Calyx tube globose; sepals lanceolate, entire, or toothed towards the tips, glandular externally, tomentose within. Petals orbicular. Styles free, tomentose, tips glabrous. Fruit globose, about a _ quarter of an inch in diameter, glabrous, crowned with the reflexed sepals. Achenes at length glabrous.—J. D. H. Fig. 1 and 2, Petals; 3, fruit, both of nat. size; 4, carpel, enlarged. 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ALOok (Eualoe) Schweinfurthii; acaulis v. caulescens, foliis perplurimis con- fertis incurvo-erectis 2-25-pedalibus a basi compressa biconvexa 7 poll. _ lata sensim in apicem angustatis medium versus 2 poll. latis plano- -convexis pallide viridibus marginibus rubris et aculeis brevibus remotis deltoideis incurvis rubris armatis, scapis pedalibus, inflorescentiwe pani- culate ramis ascendentibus simplicibus robustis fusco-rubris apicibus floriferis infimis 6-pollicaribus, omnibus bracteis parvis late ovatis acuminatis conspersis, floruam racemulis 3-4-pollicaribus erectis densi- floris, pedicellis gracilibus erectis apice decurvis, bracteis iis ramuloram consimilibus, floribus 1} poll, longis pendulis, perianthio cylindraceo recto v. lente curvo basi rotundato infra medium corallino dein aureo, lobis parvis ovatis recurvis, antheris exsertis flavidis, ovario oblongo, stylo recto deflexo, stigmate punctiforme, capsula parva late oblonga obtusa obtuse trigona, valvis coriaceis transverse reticulatis, seminibus parvis late alatis. A. Schweinfurthii, Baker in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xviii. (1885) p.175; in Fi. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 467. Gard. Chron, 1898, vol. i. p. 197, fig. 76. : Aloe Schweinfurthii is certainly the handsomest of all the species hitherto figured in this work. Of these its nearest tropical African ally is A. Kirkii, Baker, tab. _ 7386, which differs conspicuously in the short pedicels of the flowers, and in the spines of the leaves. Amongst the South African species it comes nearest to A. virens, Haw. tab. 1355, a much smaller plant, with a simple raceme, leaves dorsally tubercled, and bright red flowers, with perianth-segments longer than the tube. The discoverer of this stately plant is Dr. Schwein- furth, who found it in the granite hill of Makporvu, in the Nyam Nyam county of N.E. tropical Africa, lat. 4° 45’ N., long. 28° 30° E.; that is on the confines of the Bahr el Ghazal. It was described originally by Mr. Baker, from dried specimens (distributed by its discoverer, Ser. iil. n. 167 of his Herbarium) as being caulescent; with close set mar- Auvueust lst, 1899. ginal teeth on the leaves, a compressed peduncle, and a short, campanulate perianth-tube. For the specimen from which the accompanying figure | was made, and for a sketch of the whole plant, I am in- debted to Commendatore Hanbury, F.L.S., who flowered it in his renowned garden of Pal. Orengo, La Mortola, in February of this year. I have also received a photograph of the whole plant through the kindness of Miss Wilmott, of Gt. Warley, Essex, with which Mr. Hanbury’s sketch given here, perfectly corresponds. Descr.—Stemless (as grown at La Mortola). Leaves two — to three feet long, very numerous, all radical, sub-erect and incurved, tapering from a compressed base seven inches broad to an acute tip, section above the base biconvex, about an inch thick, and across the middle plano-convex, pale green, margins red, armed with rather distant short deltoid incurved red spines about one-sixth of an — inch long, and as broad. Peduncle about a foot high, — terete, red-brown, naked, branching above into a panicle as long as the leaves ; branches of panicle rather distant, ascending, pale red-brown, lower a span long, girt at the very base by two short appressed bracts, an inner annular, and an outer broadly ovate acute, bearing above solitary acuminate bracts a quarter to a third of an inch long, of the colour of the branch. Flowers in short oblong racemes, three to four inches long, terminating the branches, crowded, pendulous ; pedicels about as long — as the flowers, very slender, erect with decurved tips} bracts like those on the branch, but narrower and paler: Perianth about an inch long, cylindric, straight or slightly curved, bright red in the lower half, golden-yellow in the upper; lobes very short, obtuse, recurved. Stamens shortly exserted, anthers dull yellow. Capsule two-thirds of an inch long, broadly oblong, obtuse at both ends, valves very coriaceous, transversely wrinkled. Seeds many, ODe — fifth of an inch long, oblong, surrounded by a hyaline — — wing.—J, D. H, ‘ bg 1, Transverse section of a leaf towards the base; 2, upper part of a eaf; 3, portion of a panicle :—all of the nat. size; 4,a flower; 5, pistil : Both enlarged. MS a6, INFiong, Tas. 7668, HELIOPHILA scanpens, Native of Natal. Nat. Ord. Crucirerx.—Tribe SisyMBRIExX. Genus Henioruia, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 81.) Hettornita (Selenocarpwa) scandens; perennis, glaberrima, caule elongato gracili volubile ramoso folioso, foliis sparsis elliptico-oblongis v. lanceolatis acuminatis in petiolum angustatis, racemis subcorymbosis laxifloris, pedicellis gracilibus ebracteatis, floribus fere 1 poll. diam., sepalis sub- zquilongis oblongis obtusis 2 lateralibus multo latioribus dorso breviter crasse alatis, petalis spathulatis albis v. pallide roseis, filameatis nadis, antheris 4 majoribus recurvis, ovario subgloboso, stylo brevi, stigmate didymo, silicula 1}-pollicari elliptico-oblonga utrinque acuta 1-3-sperma complanata, valvis membranaceis enerviis, seminibus orbicularibus valde compressis } poll. latis. H. scandens, Harv. Thes. Capens. vol. ii. p. 44, t. 166. In the whole large natural Order of Crucifere, embracing about 180 genera, only two of these are recorded as bearing scandent species. They are the 8. African genus Helio- phila, and the Peruvian Cremolobus, DC., and in these the scandent habit is quite exceptional. Heliophila itself is rather an anomalous genus. It consists of nearly seventy species, confined to Africa South of the tropic, and as monographed in the ‘‘ Flora Capensis”’ of Harvey & Sonder, it presents so much variety in the form of the fruit, as to have been broken up into six genera, some of which will, no doubt, be re-established. Amongst these is Seleno-— carpea, Kekl. & Zey., to which H. scandens belongs, dis- tinguished by its flat pods. These are beautiful objects in HH. scandens, the membranous valves being veined, and the septum between the cells, one of which is usually empty, is of a silvery appearance, of extreme tenuity, and nerve- less. The orbicular flat seeds have a membranous testa, with a very narrow, delicate, hyaline border. The con- torted and convolute narrow cotyledons are exceedingly curious. H., scandens inhabits shady places amongst shrubs near D’Urban, and at Inanda, in Natal. A plant of it was received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Mr. J. Medley Wood, Curator of the Botanical Garden of D’Urban, in Aveust Ist, 1899, 1885, which flowered in the Succulent House in the follow- ing year, and has continued to do so about midwinter ever since. It now forms a climber on one of the rafters of the house, about fifteen feet high, with a woody stem covered with brown bark. The fragrant flowers are said to vary from white to pinkish, and the racemes are some- times ten to fifteen-fid. Descr.—A tall, slender, sparingly branched, woody climber, with pale brown bark; young branches terete, green. Leaves scattered, one and a half to two inches long, elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, pale green, — penninerved ; base acute, narrowed into a slender petiole. Flowers in pendulous or ascending sub-corymbiform, loose — racemes, fragrant ; pedicels ebracteate, slender, one half to nearly an inch long. Sepals pale green, oblong, obtuse, two lateral with thickened dorsal wings. Anthers large, those of the longest stamens recurved, tips exserted. Petals spathulate, white, limb oblong, longer than the claw. Style short, stigma capitate. Pod one to two and a half inches long, elliptic-oblong, quite flat, very shortly stipi- tate, one- to two-seeded, tipped by a short, straight style; valves membranous, delicately veined, septum hyaline. Seeds orbicular, flat, about one-eighth of an inch in diameter, shortly thickly winged ; F contorted, BE as t3 D-H ged; embryo convolute an Fig. 1, Calyx-and stamens: 2. to i +4 . $b oe we ; 2, top of pedicel and pistil; 3, ripe fruit; 4, seed; 5, embryo :—all enlarged, except fig. 3, which is at nak size, : Pg es nymerronbestig apa NODC TREAT: _SSS Sag 8 S ‘ nes on at — —— i se as M.S.del J.N Fitch lith Tan. 7669. ASTER Picco.t. Native of Northern China. Nat. Ord. Comrosir#.—Tribe AsTEROIDER, Genus AstEr, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 271.) Asrer (Hisutsua) Piccolit; herba perennis, 3-pedalis, suberecta, ramosa, foliosa, ramulis pedunculisque teretibus scaberulo-puberulis, foliis sessili- bus inferioribus 3-4 poll, sonia oblongo-oblanceolatis acutis apiculatis grosse subineequaliter serratis, superioribus minoribus ovatis subintegris, omnibus supra saturate viridibus nervis impressis margines versus scaberulis, subtus pallidis alte 3-costatis nervis grosse reticulatis, capitulis subcorymbosis 1}-2-poll. diam., pedunculis 3-4 poll longis robustis foliis 1-2 parvis oblongis bracteatis, involucro subhemispherico basi foliolo instructo, bracteis exterioribus 3-4 seriatis, superioribus sensim longioribus late oblongis herbaceis apicibus rotundatis recurvis purpureis, interioribus 1-2-seriatis obovato-oblongis obtusis albis marginibus late membranaceis scariosis fimbriatis, receptaculo conico-hemispherico, fl. radii biseriatis, tubo gianduloso-puberulo, ligula incurvo-patula lineari-oblonga apice 5-denti- culata pallide lilacina, fl. radii tubulosis aureis, tubo glanduloso-puberulo, lobis revolutis glabris, acheniis immaturis obovato-oblongis compressis annulo minuto coronatis, pappo 0. Aster Piccolii is a very interesting as well as handsome plant, being referable to the much misunderstood Chinese genus Hisutsua, which was founded by De Candolle (Prodr, xi. 44) on Matricaria cantoniensis, Lour., an epappose plant, erroneously but doubtfully referred by its author to the tribe Senecionider. Hisutsua was next taken up by Hooker & Arnott (Fl. Bot. Beech. Voy.,” p. 265), who referred to it as H. serrata, a plant which belongs to Blume’s genus Asteromoca. Bentham followed, in the Flora of Hong Kong,” p. 174, where he brings together as synonyms of H. cantoniensis, two very different plants, H. serrata, H. & A., and Asteromoea indica, Blume, referring all three, erroneously, I think, to the N. American genus Boltonia (as B. indica, Benth.). With regard to Asteromoea, it was founded by Blume on Aster indicus, L., a plant differing from Aster and Hisutsua in its imperfect pappus. It has been referred by Schult. Bip. to the genus Calimeris of Nees, which does not differ from Aster; quite recently it has been rightly regarded as a section of the latter genus by Mr. Makino in the Tokyo Botanical Maga- - -Aveosr Isr, 1899, zine (July 20th, 1898, p. 60, English part). Hitsusoa re- mains as a sectional name for a few species of Aster — wholly, or almost wholly, wanting a pappus, and which — includes besides H. cantoniensis, DO. (syn. H. pekinensis, Hance), A. Piccolii, one, or perhaps more, unpublished Chinese plants. Aster Piccolit was raised at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, from seeds collected in the province of Shensi, in H, China, by Father Piccoli, of the Jesuit Mission, Hankow, and which were sent to Kew in 1897 by G. Murray, Hsq,., F.R.S., Keeper of the Herbarium of the British Museum. It flowered in the Herbaceous collection in September, 1898, and is quite hardy. wi Deser.—A stout, leafy, hispidly scaberulous, sub-erect, perennial herb, two to three feet high; stem and branches terete, green. Leaves three to four inches long, sessile, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, acute or apiculate, coarsely unequally serrate, dark green above, paler beneath, three- nerved at the base, nerves impressed above, very stout beneath. Heads many, sub-corymbose, two inches in diameter; peduncles with a-small oblong leaf at the base of the involucre, otherwise naked, or with one or two sessile leaves at or above the middle. Involuere sub- hemispheric, outer bracts three- to four-seriate, broadly oblong, herbaceous, with purple, reflexed, rounded tips; inner one- to two-seriate, obovate-oblong, obtuse, margins broadly scarious, fimbriate. fteceptacle conico-hemispheri¢. Ray-flowers biseriate, tube (and of the disk-fl.) glandular, ligule linear, lilac-purple. Dish-flowers golden-yellow; pappus 0.—J. D. H. Fig. flower; enlarged, 1, Section of involucre showing the receptacle; 2, inner bract; 3, Tay 4, disk-Hower; 5, stamens; 6, style-arms of disk-flowers :— MS.del, JN Fitch lith Vincent Brooke Day & Son Lt“imp ap. 7670. EPHEDRA AttissiMa. Native of N. Africa. Nat. Ord. GnetacEz. Genus Eruepra, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 418.) EruEpRa altissima; suffrutex dioica, scandens, ramossissima, caule basi lignoso, ramis dependentibus ramulisque divaricatis oppositis et ternatim verticillatis gracilibus glaucis aliis persistentibus teretibus aliis tenuiori- bus compressis et tetragonis, foliis 2-natis v. 3-4 natim verticillatis linearibus v. setaceis basi breviter connatis, spicis masculis solitaris binis ternatis fasciculatis v. paniculatis ovoideis v. subglobosis ad 2 poll. diam., bracteis floralibus plurimis late ovatis orbicularibusve mem brana- ceis basi connatis, perianthio obovoideo bilabiato, staminum columna exserta, antheris 1~3 sessilibus, galbulis foemineis solitariis globosis ad } poll. diam., fructiferis majoribus, bracteis 2-3 paribus, infimis minutis supremis multo majoribus ad }? connatis herbaceis obtusis marginibus membranaceis fimbrillatis demum carnosis rubris, integumento anguste ellipsoideo, apice exserto, tubillo elongato recto v. torto, seminibus 1-3 fere 2 poll. longis, solitariis trigonis v. angulatis, binis plano-convexis. E. altissima, Desf. FU. Atlant. vol. ii. p. 371, t. 253. Parl. in DC. Prodr. vol. xvi. pars ii. p. 356. C. A. Meyer, Ephed. p. 67. Endl. Syn. Conif. p. 261. Ball, Spicil. Fl. Maroce. (Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot. vol. xvi.) p. 669. Stapf, Ephed. p. 46, t. ii. et ix. fig. 1-15. Gard. Chron. 1890, vel. i. p. 791, fig. 129. Upwards of thirty species of Ephedra have been described, of which seven are cultivated in the Royal Gardens, but not L, altissima, which is not hardy. Of these, the latter is the only one figured from living specimens in any _ English botanical work ; first in the Gardeners’ Chronicle (1.c.), nine years ago, and now in this magazine; in both cases from a plant cultivated in Commendatore Hanbury’s garden at La Mortola, where it is a very attractive shrub when in fruit in December. It is a native of the North African coast, from the city of Marocco to Sus, on the Atlantic side, and extending to Tunis on the Mediterranean Descr.—A tall, dicecious, glabrous, scandent, excessively branched, green, almost leafless glaucous green shrub; stem woody at the base, very slender, branches and branch- lets drooping or pendulous, opposite or ternately whorled, the ultimate opposite, divaricate, compressed, and four- angled, bearing small ovate acuminate brown scales at the axils. Leaves minute, linear or setaceous. Male AvGust Ist, 1899. cones in very lax panicles, solitary, binate, or ternate at the ends of decurved branchlets, sessile, ovoid-oblong, about one-sixth of an inch long, many-fid., yellow, with red-brown anthers; bracts in several series, orbicular; stamens 1-3, exserted from a bilabiate tubular perianth. — Fem. cones much larger, solitary at the ends of the branchlets, one-half to three-quarters of an inch long; bracts in about three pairs, orbicular, lower pair or pairs very small, uppermost pair much larger, connate for two- _ thirds of their length, swelling greatly, and forming a — red fleshy cup as the seed ripens. Integument of the se thin, tip exserted, terminating in a usually twisted tubulus Seeds one to three, ellipsoid, if solitary angular, if binate plano-convex, if three trigonous.—J. D. H. ; Fig. 1, Male cone; 2, bracts of the same; 3, bract and perianth; 4, unripe fem. cone ; 5, ripe ditto, with peduncle and portion of stem ; 6, single ripe fem. cone ; 7, seed : all enlarged ; 8, panicle of male spikes of the zat. size. MS del IN Fite tith PIPPI PLETE TD ae Pe s ry bev th 47 At ag Vincent BrodksDay&SonLitimp Tas. 7671. MUSSASNDA oapsorirera. Native of Socotra. Nat. Ord. Rustacrs.—Tribe Muss #NDE. Genus Mussenna, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 64.) Muss2£nDa capsulifera; frutex, ramulis teretibus calycibus tuboque corolle strigilloso-puberulis, foliis 14-23 poll. longis elliptico-oblongis obovatis v. rarius oblongo-lanceolatis acutis obtusisve subcoriaceis glaberrimis v. subtus secus nervos puberulis basi in petiolum brevem angustatis lete viridibus, stipulis minutis utrinqne solitariis dentiformibus integerrimis, floribus corymboso-cymosis breviter pedicellatis pentameris albis odoris, bracteolis minimis, calycis tubo ovoideo, limbi segmentis linearibus sequali- bus persistentibus, corolle tubo 1-1 poll. longo gracili tereti intus piloso, fauce paullo dilatato strigoso-piloso, limbi } poll. diam. segmentis patulis cuneiformibus cordatisve apice retusis sinu obtuse cuspidatis alabastro apice 5-cornuto reduplicatim valvatis, staminibus infra faucem corolle insertis, filamentis brevissimis, antheris linearibus, connectivo apice pro- ducto, disco pulvinari, stylo filiformi, sti, matibus brevibus oblongis intus papillosis, capsula parva breviter oblonga calycis segmentis coronata, loculicide polysperma, valvis coriaceis, seminibus striatis angulatis et foveolatis. M. capsulifera, Balf. f. in Proc. R. 8. Edinb, vol. xi. (1882), p. 836, et in Trans. Soc. ejusd. vol. xxxi. (1888), p. 116, Tab. xxix. Od el Ksth, Arad. A very interesting plant, discovered by Dr. Balfour on hills about 800 feet high in Socotra, in 1880, and since then collected there by Dr. Schweinfurth, and in 1887 by Mr. Bent, from whose specimens seeds were taken, which produced in the Royal Gardens, Kew, the specimen here figured. As pointed out by Dr. Balfour, it differs from the type of Mussenda, not only in the absence of a dilated calycine segment, but in the loculicidal capsule. Its very near ally in the latter character is the M. luteola, Del., of Nile land. In the obconic flower-bud crowned by the five cusps of the lobes of the corolla, it is quite peculiar. M. capsulifera has been described as a tree ; but judging from the dried specimens I should think it was rather a small shrub, especially as the Kew specimen is fully deve- loped and flowering at eighteen inches high in a stove, first in April, 1899, and now in July. The latter further differs from the description in the quite entire stipules, and Aveust Ist, 1899. white, not yellow corolla. There is a remarkable difference between the hairs in the outer and inner surfaces of th tube of the corolla. The former are stiff, subulate, acute, the latter are cylindric, flaccid, very thin-walled tubes surmounted by 1-3 very minute globular cells. Descr.—An erect shrub, branches slender, terete, as wel as the pedicels, calyx, and corolla-tube minutely strigillose. Leaves one and a half to two and a half inches long, opposite, oblong-lanceolate or obovate, obtuse or acute, nar rowed into avery short petiole, nerves five to six pairs, very slender. 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Vol. IL. 123.; large paper, with 46 Colored Plates, 63s. ager AM, 12s.; large paper, with 56 Coionred Plates, G39... Vol. . gpl el seas ah with oe oleae Plates, age We Rees “Chird Series, No, 657. XOL. LV.—SEPTEMBER. | Price 38. 6d; coloured, Me 6a or No. 135] or rue Entire worx, | CURTIS'S ops BOTANICAL MAGAZI THE PLANT S OF THE ROYAL GARDENS or KEW, AND OF OTHER BK six JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D, GSI, CB, PRS Late Director of the Woval Boianie Garvens of Kew. ARRANGEMENTS. 1899. ition of Chrysanthemums, Early in November. H Fone PHYCOMYGETES AND ‘smuad By GEO Ree MASSEE (POND: WEEDS) % OF ‘THE 3 Coloured Plate handsome cloth 8 n “s te uel BB bat. , cate, mhie: L et; By ARTHUR G. BUTLER, PhD. ee forms a} Re and handsome volume of bel ef es oe S60. and 400 wi b ‘ F. W, eee MEAN E beantifu « sgedat by ha: : 5 7672 Mincent Brooks,Day & Son. LttImp Tas. 7672. COLEUS tuyrsorpevs. Native of British Central Africa. Nat. Ord. Lasiat#,—Tribe OcimorpEes. Genus Coteus, Lour.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1176.) Coteus (paniculate) thyrsoideus; suffrutex elatus, ramosus, caule ramis petiolis aque inflorescentia laxe pilosis, foliis longe petiolatis amplis ovatis ovato- cordatisve subacutis marginibus grosse inciso- v. lobulato-crenatis, crenis obtusis, supra late viridibus, utrinque puberulis, subtus pallidioribus, ramulos inflorescentia elongata paniculeeformi, cymis, multifloris pedun- culos 4-1-pollicares terminantibus, pedicellis brevibus, calycis tubo brevis- simo setuloso, segmentis obtusis postico oblongo-obovato lateralibus anticisque lineari-oblongis fere duplo longiore, corollw 3-poll. longa tubo medium versus defracto, fauce bapdins ampliata, limbi lete czrulei labio inferiore cymbiformi acuto, superiore 4-lobulato lobulis rotundatis, fila- mentis basi monadelphis labium inferius corolla wquantibus. C. thyrsoides, Baker in Kew Bulletin ined. Recent collectors in Eastern and Central tropical Africa have largely extended our knowledge of the Flora of those regions, in every case tending to prove its close affinity with that of British India. In respect of the natural order Labiatz this affinity is very marked, as evidenced by the ocimoid genera Coleus and Plectranthus, of which there are many undescribed African species in herbaria, over and above those published of late by Schweinfurth and Engler in their monographs of African plants. Coleus thyrsoideus inhabits the plateau east of the northern extremity of Lake Nyassa, in the Mozambique district, at elevations of six thousand to seven thousand feet, and the Tanganyika plateau at two thousand feet to three thousand feet. Plants of it were raised at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from seeds taken from a Herbarium speci- men collected by Mr. A. Whyte in British Central Africa. These, sown in April, 1897, produced bushy plants three feet high, that flowered in a stove in February of the following year. It is a very ornamental plant; the copious branches terminating in racemes six inches to ten inches long, of bright blue flowers. Deser.—A_ rather tall, leafy, much branched perennial undershrub, two to three feet high, the branches termi- SepTEMBER Ist, 1899. nating in narrow, erect, panicle-like — Kee ae inches long, of bright blue flowers. oT a eh Lape rescence sparsely pubescent, with a eee wate corm leaves up to seven inches long by four broad, ov to, brighe acuminate, margin coarsely lobulate and aaee oa green above, and reticulately nerved, paler ar : ae prominent pubescent nerves, base decurrent on nese ; which is two inches long, or more, stout ; gO ae and lower floral smaller, shorter-petioled, a anal deeply cleft. Raceme about three inches _ eS lets sub-erect or spreading, one inch long to eee bearing dense fid. dichotomous cymes of sa ie Shortly pedicelled flowers; bracteoles porate oe Calyx very small, tube sub-globose, 4 du on ette a Stellately spreading hairs; dorsal sepal ag pia puberulous, nearly as long as the corolla-tube : e ied flexure, lateral about half as long, and two small ae ee Segments linear, obtuse. Corolla about half an aie i: i tube suddenly deflexed a little above the short ae ascending, and again deflexed forming a sub-camp ot lid laterally compressed throat; mouth two-lipped ; NP de a reflexed, obovate, broadly shortly four-cleft, lobes oe ae lower lip rather longer, cymbiform, sub-acute. [1 : bbe connate at the base, forming an open concave . ee adnate to throat and base of the lower lip of the corolla. J.D. H. Fig. 1, Flower; 2, the same, insertion of the stam : the with half the lower lip removed, short ens; 3, section of calyx, showing the disk an ovary :—All enlarged. bed 7673 Vincent Brooks, Day &Son Itt M.S. del, IN-Fitch ih Tan. 70158. BEGONIA SINENSIS. Native of China and Japan. Nat. Ord. BEGonrIACcES. Genus Beeonta, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 841.) Berconia sinensis; pilosula, tubero subgloboso, canle annuo erecto herbaceo ramoso, foliis 3-5-poll. longis oblique ovato-cordatis longe acuminatis basi palmatim 5-9-nerviis grosse sublobulato-dentatis creberrime in- zequaliter argute serratis serrulatisque membranaceis supra lete viri- dibus subtus pallidis junioribus roseo irroratis, petiolis 1-2-poll. longis, stipulis majusculis ovatis acuminatis herbaceis recarvis, axillis sepe bulbilliferis, pedunculis dichotomis inferioribus petiolis longioribus, cymis bisexualibus, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis caducis, floribus roseis breviuscule pedicellatis ad } poll. latis, fl. masc. bibracteolatis, sepalis 2 fere orbiculatis concavis, petalis 2 multo minoribus ovalibus, fl. fem. ebrac- teolatis, sepalis 2, petalis 1 v. 2 parvis, staminum columna brevissima, . filamentis brevibus, antheris oblongis, ovario obconico 3-gono, stigmatibus - veniformibus undique papillosis, placentis 3 bipartitis, segmentis extus tantum ovuliferis, capsula 3-alata, alis 2 angustis tertia trigona. -B. sinensis, A.DC. in Ann. Soc. Nat. Ser. iv. vol. ii. p. 125; in DO. Prodr. vol. xv. pars i, p. 313. Hance in Jowrn. Bot. vol. xii. (1874) p. 260, Hems\. § Forbes in Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xxiii. (1887) p. 323. PB. Evansiana, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 627, non Bot. Mag. t. 1473, nec Bonpl. Malm. t. 63. Begonia sine nomine, Buc’hoz, Coll. Prec, des Fleurs, Parti. t. xxxv. Begonia sinensis is well described by A. de Candolle, but is placed in the section Knesebeckia, from his character of which it differs in the segments of the placentas being ovuliferous on the outer faces only. He rightly compares it with B. Hvansiana, Andr. (non Bot. Mag. t. 1473), but _ overlooks the fact that two plants are confounded under ~~ ~“that name. One, the original, figured by Andrews (Bot. Rep. t. 627) said to have been found at the waterfall of Penang, with hardly any stipes to the head of stamens; the other, that of Bonpland (Jard. Malm. t. 63, and of this magazine, t. 1473), a much larger-flowered plant, with a long stipes supporting the head of stamens. Unfortunately de Candolle has selected the latter as Andrews’ species. Clarke, in “ Flora Brit. Ind.,” vol. ii. p. 638, cites B. sinensis (from the description) as a synonym of B. Hvan- siana, with which he unites the Bot. Mag. plant and B. obliqua, Thunb. With regard to “the waterfall in Penang” which Andrews gives as the habitat of B. Hvan- siana, this is no doubt an error; for OC. Curtis, in his Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of that SEPTEMBER Ist, 1899, Island, says, ‘The plant has not been met with here, and could hardly be overlooked.” Aiton (Hort. Kew, ed. I. v. 313), who describes B. Hvansiana as B. discolor (quoting both Bot. Rep. and Bot. Mag.), gives China as the native country whence it was introduced in 1804 by the Hon. E. I. Company. Though retaining the name of B. sinensis for this plant, I do not feel sure that it is not B. Hvansiana of Andrews, from the figure of which it differs only in the deeply irregularly cut margins of the leaves. It is a widely diffused Chinese plant, there being specimens in Kew Herbarium from the neighbourhood of Peking, the provinces of Hupeh and Kwangtung, and Island of Formosa. Seeds of B. sinensis, collected in Yunnan by Dr. Henry, M.A., F.L.S., of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, were received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1898 ; plants raised from which flowered in October of the following year in a greenhouse. 3 Deser—Tuber brown, about the size of a large cob- nut, giving off copious long flexuous brown fibres from 1ts crown. Stem one and a half to two feet high, rather slender, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, simple or sparingly branched, pale green. Leaves three to five inches long, more or less unequal-sided, ovate-cordate, acuminate, margin acutely lobulate, lobules coarsely, very irregularly, acutely serrate and serrulate, palmately five to nine-nerved at the base, thin, bright green above, paler, and often rose-colrd. beneath, with hairy veins, axils often bulbiferous; petiole one to two inches long; stipules ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, green, Flowers moncecious, in axillary 22 _ terminal peduncled cymes, male rather shortly pedicelled, female with much longer decurved pedicels. Male ft three-fourths of an inch in diam., bright rose-red ; sepals two, orbicular-ovate; petals two, very much smaller, oblong ; carey numerous, in avery shortly stipitate head, anthers ‘ long, obtuse. Female jl. rather larger, sepals and petals ike the male, but petals broader, very unequal, or one only; styles short, stigmas reniform, papillose all over. vary with two short and one long wing; placentas bifid, arms ovuliferous on the outer surfaces.—J. D. H Fig. 1, Portion 3, styles and sti he nat. size. of stem with stipules and bulbils; 2, staminal columns; gmas; 4, transverse section of ovary: all enlarged; 5, tuber of 7 o g ie % « c E % ¢ i £ 7 f “ r . Tas. 7674. CALATHEA piorta. Native of Brazil. Nat. Ord. ScrtaMINEzZ.—Tribe MaranTE&. Genus CatatuEa, G. F, W. Mey; ont & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii p. 653.) Catatnea (Eucalathea) picta; caule robusto basin versus paucifoliato dein elongato nudo infra pedunculum terminalem crassum bifoliato, foliis 6-8-pollicaribus patentibus petiolatis ovato-oblongis lanceolatisve acumi- natis supra saturate viridibus costam versus albo-variegatis, subtus rubro- pureis, petiolo crasso fusco-purpureo, vagine auriculis rotundatis, in- Rarcocantes terminali strobiliformi 4 poll. longa ad 1}-poll. diam., bracteis quaquaversum laxe imbricatis, 1-14 poll. latis late obovato-rotundatis acutis erecto-patentibus basi breviter vaginantibus stramineis rubro marginatis infima majore, floribus ad 1} poll. longis bracteis paullo longioribus albis, sepalis linearibus acutis, corolla tubo sepalis squilongo lobis zquilongis late ovatis obtusis postico paullo latiore suberecto lateralibus patenti-recurvis, androscii breviter exserti lobis subaquilongis, labello apice 3-lobo. C. picta, Hook. f. Maranta (Calathea) picta, Bull. Cat. New Pl. (1898) No. 324, p. 6, et ic. p. 4. A very handsome species of a large tropical chiefly S. American genus, of which nothing more is known than that it was imported from Brazil by Mr. Bull, when it re- ceived an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. The figure given by Mr. Bull in his Catalogue is evidently of a plant in a very young state, with much broader leaves than those of the flowering specimen here figured, and with much more pronounced white markings on the leaves, extending in a fan-shape from the midrib more than half way across the blade. It flowered in a stove in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in December, 1898. Descv.—Quite glabrous. Stem three to four feet high, very stout, with a few leaves towards the base, above which it is naked till just below the peduncle of the in- florescence, where two smaller sub-opposite leaves appear. Leaves (lower) six to eight inches long, by two to two and a half broad, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base sub-acute, rather thick, dark velvety green above, with SEPTEMBER Ist, 1899, pale, fan-like blotches of pale green, extending between the nerves from the midrib to about half way across the blade, beneath of a fine vinous purple ; petiole about an inch long, very stout, purplish brown, auricles of sheath rounded. Spike cylindric, four inches long by one and a half in diameter, erect; peduncle two inches long, stout, terete, dirty green. Bracts large, loosely imbricate, one to one and a half inches broad, orbicular-obovate, suddenly acute, base shortly sheathing, bright straw-coloured, margined with red.. Flowers rather longer than the bracts, white. Sepals linear, acute. Corolla-tube one and a half inches long, lobes broadly ovate, obtuse.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Flower-bud with the corolla-lobes spread out; 2, androecium; 3, staminode; 4, ¢ £ ; ieee d view of ea duae op of style and stigma :—All enlarged. 5, Reduced vi NA) JZ ay) Ra — Ce Ni4 ! gi» aed A ~“s MS.del, JS.NFitchiith.. Vineent Brooks Day & Sonit?imp Tas. 7675. ASPARAGUS SCANDENS. Native of South Africa. Nat. Ord. Lin1acr#.—Tribe ASPARAGER. Genus Asraracus, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ili. p. 765.) Asparacus (Aspargopsis) scandens; glaberrimus, gracilis, scandens, caule tereti ramoso, ramis dependentibus gracillimis, ramulis simplicibus 3-3- poll. longis multinodis, internodiis cladodiis brevioribus, foliis ad basin ramulorum minutis subulatis vix spinescentibus, cladodiis 3-4 poll. longis ternis (floriferis ssepius solitariis) lineari-subulatis leviter incurvis acuminatis trigonis, floribus solitariis, pedicellis cladodiis fere duplo longioribus medio articulatis, floribus ad 3 poll. latis bisexualibus, perianthii segmentis exterioribus obovato-oblongis obtusis, interioribus paullo angustioribus, staminibus segmentis perianthii equilongis, antheris oblongis, baccis globosis 4-} poll. diam. rubris apiculatis monospermis. A. scandens, Thunb. Prodr. Fl. Cap. p. 63; Fl. Cap. ed. Sch. p. 334. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. IT. vol. ii. p. 273. Baker in Saund. Refug. Bot. vol. i. t. 21; in Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 622; in Fl. Capens. vol. vi. p. 268. Wats. in Gard. Chron. 1898, vol. i. p. 178. A. pectinatus, Red. Liliac. vol. vii. t. 407. Asparacopsis scandens, Kunth, Enum. Pl. vol. v. p. 78. Dracana volubilis, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 204. It is noteworthy that of a genus containing nearly 150 reputed species, some long known as ornamental green- house plants, easy of culture, not one should have hitherto found a place in “‘ The Botanical Magazine.” Fourteen are recorded as cultivated at Kew in 181], by Aiton, in the second edition of the ‘‘ Hortus Kewensis.” There are now twenty-five in cultivation in European gardens, as enume- rated in Mr. Watson’s list, published last year in the Gardener’s Chronicle. The headquarters of the genus is South Africa, from which country Mr. Baker describes forty-four species in the “ Flora Capensis”’ (1896). A. scandens is a native of the coast region.of the Cape Colony, extending from Capetown itself to King William’s Town, and inland no further than Somerset. It was in- troduced into England by the Kew collector, Mr. Mason, in 1795, and flowers and fruits annually in the Royal Gardens in summer and winter respectively. The figure was made from a fruiting specimen sent by Mr. Leech, of the SEPTEMBER Ist, 1899, gardens, Woodhall, Dulwich, under the name of A, deflewus; but it is not the A. deflewus, Baker, of Angola, nor the var. deflecus, Baker, of A. scandens, which has zigzag branches — and smaller cladodes. | Descr.—A very slender, diffusely branching, unarmed ~ climber, with dependent filiform branches. Ultimate branchlets simple, one half to three inches long, sub-tri- gonous, with few or many internodes bearing normally three cladodes in a whorl, which are longer than the internodes. Leaves at the axils of the branches and branchlets, minute, membranous, rarely sub-spinescent. Cladodes one-third to half an inch long, rather broadly subulate, acuminate, trigonous, slightly incurved, the flower-bearing often soli- tary. Flowers solitary, rarely binate, axillary, pendulous ; pedicels about twice as long as the cladodes, but very variable in length, filiform, jointed about the middle; perianth about a fourth of an inch in diameter, outer segments oblong-obovate, obtuse, spreading and incurved, inner rather smaller and narrower. Stamens not longer than the’perianth-segments, anthers oblong, yellow. Ovary oblong, stigma erect. Berry globose, one-sixth to one- oe Cha ong in diam., apiculate, bright red, one- Fig. 1, Portion of branchlet with clad. : : : 4, seed; 5, section of do., showing embryo i etacrra.” hone: aa MS del IN Fitch lith be I Tap. 7676. DORSTENIA PaItuipsiz. Native of Somaliland. Nat. Ord. Urticacex.—Tribe Mores, Genus Dorstenta, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 366.) Dorstenta Phillipsie; caule 8-4-pollicari crassitie digiti minimi erecto lignoso cylindrico basi dilatato conico 1} poll. diam., superne } in. diam., undique grosse cicatricato, apice in ramos breves crassos cylindricos desinente, ramis foliis et inflorescentia terminatis, foliis 1}—-2-pollicaribus breviter crasse que petiolatis lineari-oblongis acutis argute dentatis satu- rate viridibus glaberrimis, costa valida, nervis utrinque 8-10 patulis, pedun- .eulis axillaribus 1}-2-pollicaribus, receptaculo carnoso late campanulato puberalo, disco plano $-} poll. lato margine incrassato in lacinias 6-8 crassas subulatas radiatas flexuosas pollicares fisso, fl. masc. non immersis, erianthio minimo papilloso, stamivibus 2, fl. fem. alveolis profundis immersis, stylo filiformi integro exserto, stigmate punctiforme. D. Phillipsie, Hook. f. This remarkable plant belongs to a section of the genus Dorstenia, the species of which have the habit of diminutive trees, with very stout, leafless, cylindric, scarred trunks, sparingly, shortly branched above, and terminal clusters of leaves. The type of the section is D. fetida, Schweinf. & Engler (Monogr. Afr. Pl. p. 26) which is Kosaria fetida of Forskahl’s Fl. Aigypt. Arab., well figured at tab. 20 of his Icones, a native of Arabia Felix. (Other synonyms are Cosaria Forskahlii, Gmel., and Dorstenia radiata, Lamk.). A few other species are natives of Nileland, Abyssinia, and Arabia. Amongst the latter is D. arabica, Hemsl. (Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2503), collected in S.W. Arabia by the late Mr. Bent. D. Phiilipsiz is closely allied to D. fetida, but differs in the stem being erect from a dilated conical base, in the sharply toothed leaves, in the long peduncles of the receptacle, and in the much larger size of the latter, which has thickened margins, and fewer, much longer rays. D, Phillipsix is another of the new and very interesting plants brought by Mrs. Lort Phillips and Miss Edith Cole from Somaliland, of which Kleinia pendula, t. 7659, and Kalanchoe flammea, t. 7595, are other examples. A plant was presented to the Botanic Garden of the University SerremBer Isr, 1899. of Cambridge, which flowered there in November, 1898, and was sent to me for figuring by the Curator, Mr. Lynch, A.L.S. | Descr.— Stem three and a half inches high, erect from a conical base an inch and a half in diameter, thence tapering upwards to half an inch diam., terminating in short, thick, spreading branches with leafy tips, whole surface of stem pale brown, covered with large quadrate scars. Leaves one and a half to two inches long, shortly stoutly petioled, linear-oblong, acute, sharply toothed, dark green, glabrous, paler beneath, nerves eight or ten pairs, spread- ing, prominent beneath. Pedwncles axillary, one and a half to two inches long, stout, smooth. 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PROWRAWK, boner aheskie tend "HANDBOOK OF THE BRITISH FLORA: : A Description of the Flowering Plants and Ferns indigenous to or Naturalized in the British Isles.” * Br GEORGE BENTHAM, F.R.S . Edition, Revised by Sir J. D. Hooxer, C.B.. G.C.S.I., F-B.S., es 9s. net. - LLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRITISH FLORA. 4 ‘Series of Wood Engravings, with Dissections, of British Plants. “Draws by W. H, FITCH, F.L.8.,anp W. G. SMITH, F.L.8. Forming an Tilustrated Companion ta Bentham’s * Handbook, and other: British #loras.— 3 ath neeenre with 1815. Wood. eaemrines, 9s. net. Se ae BLL. ne & CO. ino., 6, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN: a Vincent Brooks,Day & Son Lttimp L Reeve & C® T.ondon. MS.del JN. Fitch hth Tas. 7677. LONICERA HIitpEsranDIana, Native of the Shan Hills, and Munnepore. Nat. Ord. CapriroLtiacE#.—Tribe LoNIcEREs. Genus Lonicera, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 5.) Lonicera (Xylosteum) Hildebrandii; frutex glaberrimus, alte scandens, ramis ramulisque teretibus, foliis amplis breviter petiolatis late ovatis ovalibus v. orbiculari-oblongis cuspidatis, remote glandulosis, basi rotun- datis vy. acutis et in petiolum decurrentibus, supra lete viridibus subtus pallidis, nervis utrinque costw 4-5, pesiolo ad }-poll. longo, floribus geminis pedunculo tereti petiolo subduplo longiore, bracteis dentiformibus, bracteolis minutis ciliolatis, calycis tubo oblongo, limbo 5-dentato, corolle tubo 4 poll. longo cylindraceo, limbi bilabiati tubo triente breviore, labiis revolutis, superiore cuneiformi 4-fido lobis apice incurvis, inferiore anguste lineari, filamentis gracilibus sparsim puberulis, antheris versatili- bus lunatis, stylo glaberrimo, stigmate capitato. : L. Hildebrandiana, Coll. & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxviii. (1891) pp. 6 and 64, t. xi. N. H. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1898, vol. ii. p. 210, fig. 58. Kew Bulletin, 1898, p. 317. It is remarkable that by far the largest flowered species of Rose and of Honeysuckle, both almost exclusively genera of temperate climates, should inhabit the same country, and that a thoroughly tropical one (lat. 21° N.). The Rose, Rosa gigantea, Collett, has not hitherto flowered in England, though it has been in cultivation since 1888, when it was introduced by seed collected by Col. Sir H. Collett, K.C.B., in the Shan hills. Its discoverer was Dr. George Watt, F.L.S., who found it in Munnepore in 1882. Lonicera Hildebrandiana, of which also Sir H. Collett is the discoverer, has proved more amenable; _ it flowered with Mr. Moore, A.L.S., in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, in August, 1898; and profusely in the new south wing of the Temperate House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the present year. The plant in the latter case was received in 1894 from A. H, Hildebrand Hsq., C.I.E. Its nearest ally is L. Braceana, Hemal, (Journ, Linn. Soe. I.c. in footnote) a native of the Khasia hills, at elevations of 3000 to 5600 ft., which differs in the much smaller, narrower, acutely acuminate, longer OcroBEer Ist, 1899, petioled leaves, smaller flowers with larger calyx-lobes, and a corolla-tube of less than three inches long. é The flowers of L. Iildebrandiana change colour with age, which has given rise to strange discrepancies in the descriptions of them. Sir H. Collett was told that the flowers were crimson, and much used for decorating temples. Those of Mr. Moore’s plant are described in the. Gardener’s Chronicle, at p. 210, as of a brilliant flame colour, and under fig. 58 as orange- scarlet. In the Kew plant the buds are white, faintly tinged with pink, the fully opened flowers a eolden-buff - (as in the figure here given) passing into yellow-brown in age. Referring to Mr. Moore, that gentleman kindly informs me that at Glasnevin the flowers were of a soft yellow when first opened, gradually getting darker, so that the fully opened were reddish-orange on the sides fully exposed to the light, and almost wholly of that colour when they fall off. L. Hildebrandiana is a native of the Shan hills, at an elevation of about 5000 ft., near Pwehla, lat. 21° N., long. 97° E., and, as stated above, of Munnepore. Deser.—A tall, woody, glabrous climber, with terete branches and branchlets. Leaves five to six inches long; broadly ovate, oblong or orbicular-oblong, broadly euspt- date, bright green above, paler beneath, marked with a few distantly scattered brown glands ; base rounded, or shortly narrowed into a petiole half an inch long or more; nerves four to five pairs, Flowers geminate, on a stout terete peduncle about twice as long as the petiole. Bracts very short, tooth-like ; bracteoles very minute, ciliolate. Caly®- tube oblong, terete; limb very shortly five-toothed. Corolla seven inches long; tube four inches, cylindric 5 lips revolute, upper cuneate, shortly four-lobed, lobes with incurved tips; lower narrowly linear. Filaments and style very slender; anthers crescent-shaped. Stigma globose. Fruit an inch long, ovoid—J, D. H. Pe 1, Top of peduncle, with bracts, bracteoles, and an ovary; 2, top of ament and anther; 8, top of style and stigma :—AUl enlarged. Eisen aneasstihoatimaniie See Pinas Nene ee CT SPE a Tas. 7678. KALANCHOE tayrsif.ora. Native of South Africa. Nat. Ord. CRASSULACE. Genus Katancuor, Adans. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659.) Katancuor thyrsiflora; herba crasse carnosa, glaberrima, glauca, caule erecto tereti folioso, foliis decussatim oppositis sessilibus obovato-spathulatis obtusis integerrimis ‘enerviis utrinque concoloribus inferioribus 3-4 poll. longis superioribus gradatim minoribus, inflorescentia terminali sessili oblonga cylindracea 6 poll. longa glauca e racemulis suberectis axi_ communi densissime confertis constante, floribus 34 poll. longis breviter edicellatis, bracteolis parvis oblongis obtusis, sepalis corolla ter breviori- Sas linearibus obtusis, corollz tubo ovoileo-oblongo tereti glauco-viridi ore constricto, lobis 4 parvis orbiculari-ovatis subacuti-patenti-recurvis intus aureis, disci glandulis oblongis retusis, staminibus 8 ore corollw biseri- atis, filamentis brevibus, antheris fere rotundatis apiculatis, carpellis 3 elongatis in stylos breves attenuatis, stigmatibus parvis subsimplicibus truncatis. K. thyrsiflora, Harv. § Sond. Fl. Capens. vol, ii. p, 380. K. alternans, Eckl. §& Zey. ex Harv. & Sond. lc. Kalanchoe thyrsiflora was introduced from the Cape of Good Hope into the gardens of Commendatore Hanbury, La Mortola, by whom seeds were distributed to various botanical gardens in 1891. It has been in cultivation at the Royal Gardens, Kew, since 1891, and was first flowered in the Cambridge University Botanical Gardens by Mr. Lynch, to whom I am indebted for sending me the fine ‘specimen here figured. It is a native of the castern districts of the Cape Colony, where it was found first by Ecklon & Zeyher. There are also specimens in the Kew Herbarium from the Kei and Vaal rivers, from Basutoland, and from Inanda in Natal. In its native country it flowers in May; in England, in December. Descr.—A very stout, erect, pale glaucous green, quite glabrous, leafy herb, one to two and a half feet hich. Stem simple, terete, smooth, nearly an inch in diameter below the middle, and half an inch below the inflorescence. Leaves decussately opposite, in rather close pairs, lowest three to four inches long, gradually smaller upwards, sessile, obovate-spathulate, quite entire, tip rounded, thiek OcToBER Ist, 1899. : : fleshy, uniformly coloured on both surfaces. Inflorescence an erect, sessile, cylindric, thyrsiform, most dense-flowered glaucous panicle, six to twelve inches high, and three in diameter, formed of crowded, few-flowered, bracteate racemes; bracts oblong or cylindric, obtuse. Flowers shortly pedicelled, about half an inch long. Sepals about one-third the length of the corolla, linear, obtuse, fleshy. Corolla-tube ovoid-oblong, terete, glaucous green, mouth constricted ; lobes small, broadly ovate, spreading and recurved, bright yellow within. Stamens eight, in two series at the mouth of the corolla; filaments very short, anthers small, broad. Glands oblong, truncate, retuse. Carpels three, narrowed into short, recurved styles, with truncate stigmas.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Top of pedicel with two sepals, hypogynous glands and ovaries; 2, corolla laid open; 3, stamen:—AU/ enlarged. Tas. 7679. STYLIDIUM orasstrotivum. Native of South-western Australia. Nat. Ord. SryLiwiEa. Genus Styzipium, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iv. p, 29.) Sryiiprum (Thyrsiformes) crassifolium ; perennee acaule, rhizomate indurato ebulboso, foliis coespitosis radicalibus 4~8-pollicaribus anguste lineari- oblanceolatis acutis crasse coriaceis glaberrimis, supra saturate viridibus enerviis, subtus pallidis obtuse subcarinatis, seapo robusto, inflorescentia angusta valde elongata 1-2 pedali glanduloso-pubescente multi-laxiflora basi ramosa, ramis brevibus paucifloris, bracteis bracteolisque parvis subulatis, floribus breviter pedicellatis, ovario stricto $-2 poll. longo, calycis bilabiati lobis brevibus acutis, petalis paribus oppositis patulis dispositis subeequalibus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis roseis basi appendi- cibus setaceis instructis, labello parvo oblongo decurvo appendicibus utrinque 2 patentibus setiformibus instructo, columna apice (ad basin antherarum) fimbriata, capsula lineari v. lineari-oblongi 4-3 poll. longa. S. crassifolium, Br. Prodr. p. 571. DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 385. Sond. in Lehm. Pl. Preiss, vol. i. p. 384. Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. iv. p. 29. 8S. leptobotrys, DC. /.c. p. 783. Sond. Lc. p. 384? Dampiera? innandata, De Vriese in Lehm. Pl. Preiss. vol. i. p. 404, Of nearly ninety species of Stylidiwm described by Ben- tham in the “ Flora Australiensis,” S. crassifolium is the twelfth that has been figured in this magazine. It is a native of the south-western extremity of Australia, extend- ing from Phillips flats on the south coast, westward and northward to Fremantle on the west coast. It was raised at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from seeds received in 1898 from Quartermaster-Sergeant B. T. Goadby, of the West Australian Engineers, collected at Albany, King George’s Sound, where it grows on wet land, flowering in November. It thrives in a greenhouse, producing in spring racemes nearly two feet high. Ben- tham describes it as having no appendages, or very small ones on the lip, but there is a pair of long setiform ones on either side of that organ in the specimen here figured. Descr.—A tall, rigid, erect, nearly glabrous herb, with radical leaves four to eight inches long, and a narrow ° inflorescence up to two feet long. Leaves tufted, narrowly OcroBER Ist, 1899, linear-oblanceolate, acute, thickly coriaceous, hard, as much as half an inch at the broadest part, concave, dark green, and shining on the upper surface, pale, and almost green beneath. Scape with the sub-paniculate raceme erect or — inclined ; branches very short, rather distant, about three- flawered ; bracts and bracteoles small, coriaceous, green. Calyx-tube three-quarters of an inch long, cylindric, pubescent, limb small, two-lipped, lobes free, dentiform. Corolla of four spreading, oblong, pink lobes in opposite, spreading pairs, each about half an inch long, bearing a setiform appendage, and a very small, obovate, deflexed lip, armed with a pair of bristles on either side towards the base. Column sigmoid, about as long as the petals, white. Anthers brown. Capsule narrow, half an inch long, or rather longer.—J. D. H. _Fig. 1, Branch of panicle with buds and flower; 2, fruit, and 3, dorsal view of anthers :—A// enlarged. i jj VincentBrooks Day & Son Le imp { MS.4el INFILL Tas. 7680. BERLANDIERA TomentTosa. Native of the Southern United States. Nat. Ord. Composit#2.—Tribe HELIANTHOIDES, Genus Bertanviera, DC.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 350.) BERLANDIERA tomentosa; tota pannoso-tomentosa, canescens v. glabrata, caule 1-14-pedali simplici v. ramoso, foliis inferioribus oblongis v. ovato- oblongis obtusis crenatis basi in petiolum sewpissime elongatum superne anguste alatum angustatis, supra Jete viridibus, nervis subtus validis, supremis sessilibus dentatis, capitulis subeorymbosis 1-2 poll. latis, involucri hemispherici bracteis orbicularibus. herbaceis villosis, fl. radii ‘ ad 8 fem., corollae tubo brevissimo limbo aureo oyali-oblongo 2-lobo, lobis rotundatis, styli ramis filiformibus elongatis obtusis brunneis, fl. disci masc., ovario gracili stipitiformi elongato piloso, corolla tubo cylindraceo glaberrimo lobis 4 brevibus intus pubescentibus brunneis, antheris exsertis, stylo columnari integro pubescente, acheniis late obovatis compressis facie interiore villosis. B. tomentosa, Nutt. mn Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. Ser. ii. vol. vii. (1841) p. 343. Torr. & Gr. Fl. N. Am. vol. ii. p. 282. Chapm. Fl. 8. U. States, p. 221. Gray Synopt. Flor. N. Am, vol. ii. pt. i. p. 243, B. pumila, Nutt. l.c. Silphiam pumilum, Micha. Fl. Bor. Am, vol. ii. p. 246. S. tomentosum pumilum & reticulatum ? Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. vol. ii. pp. 578, 579. S. asteriscus, var. pumilum, Wood, Class-book of Bot. p. 442. Polymnia caroliniana, Poir. Dict. vol. v. p. 505. J. L. Berlandier was a Genevese botanist who explored parts of Texas and Mexico, and who died at Matamoros on the Gulf of Mexico in 1851. The genus named after him consists of four species, natives of the south-eastern United States. B. tomentosa inhabits Pine barrens from N. Carolina to Florida, and westward to Arkansas and Missouri. Seeds of it were presented to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1898, by the Rev. L. H. Lighthipe of Jackson- ville, Florida, plants from which flowered in a cool green- house in May and June of this year. The flowers proved very persistent. Descr.—A slender, herbaceous, sparsely leafy perennial, twelve to twenty-four inches high, more or less hoary or cottony, or glabrate. Lower leaves oblong, or ovate- oblong, obtuse, crenate, narrowed into a petiole two to OctToBER Ist, 1899, three inches long, which is winged above the middle, pale green above, with a reddish costa, and five to seven pairs of slender nerves, paler beneath, with stouter nerves; upper leaves small, sessile, acutely toothed. Heads few, in a ter- minal corymb, rather shortly peduncled, one and a half to two inches in diameter. Jnvolucre of about three series of orbicular, green, spreading, tomentose bracts. ay-flowers about eight, tube of corolla hardly any; limb broadly ovate- oblong, ending in two rounded lobes; style-arms two, filiform, brown. Disk-flowers enveloped in green bracteoles, stipitate by the imperfect, slender, cylindric, hairy ovary ; corolla-lobes four, dark red-brown, pubescent. Style columnar, entire, pubescent. Achenes broadly obovate, compressed, villous on the inner surface.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Invol. bract and ray-flower; 2, bracteole of outer series of disk- flowers; 3, inner disk-flower and bracteole; 4, anthers; 5, style of disk- flower :—All enlarged. S.del. JN-Pitch kit M. Tas. 7681, RHODODENDRON opitaratvum. vative of Jupan. Nat. Ord. Ertcacex.—Tribe RuoporEx. Genus RuopopEenDron, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 599.) RHODODENDRON (Azalea) di/atatum; frutex fere glaberrimus, ramis ramulisque ternis gracilibus cortice atro-fusco indutis, novellis roseis, foliis apicibus ramulorum solum evolutis ternis petiolatis 1}-2-pollicaribus rhombeo- ovatis subacutis basi acutis tenuiter chartaceis supra lete viridibus sanguineo-tinctis, subtus pallide viridibas subglaucis, nervis utrinque cost 3-5 supra gracillimis subtus prominulis ultimis reticulatis, petiolo 4-3 poll. longo gracile roseo, floribus preecocibus apicibus ramulorum binis, geminis apbyllis bracteis multiseriatim imbricatis ovatis viridibus demum recurvis tectis, pedicellis breviusculis rubris setulosis et glandulosis, calyce truncato glanduloso, corolla profunde bilabiata rosea 2-poll. diam., intus basin versus ecolorata, tubo brevi campanulato, Jabio superiore ad medium trifido lobis ovato-oblongis obtusis, inferiore bipartito segmentis oblongis obtusis, staminibus 5 declinatis filamentis 3 corolla longioribus 2 brevioribus omnibus glaberrimis roseis, antheris parvis fuscis, ovario oblongo lepidoto, stylo filiformi declinato stigmate minuto. R. dilatatum, Mig. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. i. p. 34. Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. ii. p. 164. Maxim. Rhod. As. Or. in Mem, Acad. Petersb. ser. vii. vol. xvi. No. 9, pp. 25, 27. Aza ea dilatata, Hort. The nearest, and indeed very near ally of Rhododendron dilatatum is R. rhombicum, Mig. (see tab. 6972), also a native of Japan, which differs in being of a stouter habit, with more persistent pubescent leaves, hirsute branchlets, smaller flowers, ten much shorter stamens, and the ovary and lower part of the style villous. : fk. dilatatum was discovered by Siebold early in the century. There are native specimens in the Kew Her- barium from the mountains of Okayama and Hakone, in the province of Sagami, Nippon; and a cultivated one from Messrs. Veitch, dated April, 1885, who were, no doubt, the introducers of the species into England. The drawing here given is from a plant which flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in April, 1899, and was in full leaf in June of the same year. It was procured in 1893 from the Yokohama Gardeners’ Association in Japan, and appears to be hardy. Both foliage and flowers are quite inodorous. OctToBER Ist, 1899. Descr.—A small, much-branched, nearly glabrous bush. Branches very slender, leafy at the tips only, covered with a very dark brown bark, young branchlets red. Leaves — ternate, one and a half to two inches long, rhombic-ovate, sub-acute, base cuneate, thin in texture, bright green above clouded with blood-red, very pale beneath, nerves three to five pairs, very slender above, stouter, and with reticulate branches beneath ; petiole one-third to one-half an inch, long, very slender, red. Inflorescence terminal, clothed with imbricating, ovate, pale green, recurved, glabrous bracts. lowers geminate; pedicels short, red, setulose, and glandular. Calyx truncate. Corolla two inches in diameter, deeply two-lipped, bright rose colour, fading to white towards the base within, tube very short ; lips divaricate, upper erect, three-cleft to the middle, lobes shortly ovate-oblong, obtuse ; lower lip deflexed, bipartite, segments oblong, obtuse. Stamens 5, declinate and in- curved, filaments very slender, rose-red, three longer than the corolla, two upper shorter ; anthers small, pale brown. Ovary oblong, truncate, glandular; style very slender, stigma minute.—J. D. H. Ail Store calyx, and ovary ; 2 and 3, back and front view of anther :— VOL. LY.—NOVEMBER. on No, 1353 OF THE ENTINE WORK, CURTIS'S ot ata Se it THE PLANTS OF 1HH ROYAL GARDENS oF KE v. AND OF OTHER BOVANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN GREAT ‘BRITAIN, | SUITABLE SEREPTIONS: Seg JOSEPH DALTON. HOOKER, QLD, GOSL, CB, PRS, Late Director of the Royal Boranic Grarvens of ew. ; enon Rennie Sig : Walbire aad Art to adorn the page combine, And flowers exotic grace our northern clime. ernest ifn need iat Shee LONeD Wx LOVELL REEVE & CO. nn: ‘PUBLISHERS TO THE HOME, COLONIAL AND INDIAN GOVERNMENTS, 6, HEN RIETTA, STREET, COVENT GARDEN, 1899. - tan oe reserved.) es e: : 3 ts) : Chrysanthemums Early in Mqveniaer Ce ene -PURGL _PHYCOMYCETES AND USTILAGINEE. By GEORGE MASSEE Botany to ~ London Society for the Extension of University Teachings i Crown 8vo, with 8 Plates, 6s. 6d. net. Para 4-6. with 12 Plates, 16s. plain, 21s. coloured, net. POTAMOGETONS shite td WEEDS) (OF THE ges and handsome + volume of bet: as Ga Sean F M.S.dal JN Fitch ith Tas. 7683. CYPHOMANDRA BETACEA. N. Grenada and Peru. Nat. Ord. SoLanacea.—Tribe SoLaNnE&. Genus CyrHomanpra, Sendén.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 889.) CrpHomanpra betacea; arbuscula molliter pubescens, contusa odore ingrato, caule superne ramoso, cortice pallido, ramis crassis, foliis amplis longe petiolatis 4-8 poll. longis ovato-cordatis acuminatis mollibus supra luride viridibus subtus pallidis, nervis utrinque coste 5-9 subtus prominulis pallide purpureis, petiolo 4-12 poll. longo crassiusculo tereti, cymis seepius supra- vel extra-alaribus corymbiformibus laxe di- tri-chotome ramosis, peduneulo valido petiolo breviore viridi, floribus longiuscule pedicellatis, pedicellis flexuosis fructiferis elongatis crassis, calyce parvo crateriforme 5-lobo, lobis rotundatis, corolla pollicem diametro rutato-campanulata alba roseo pallide tincta, segmentis lanceolatis recurvis, filamentis brevibus, antheris oblongis corolla dimidio brevioribus, stylo brevi columnari, stigmate simplici, bacca carnosa 2-3-pollicari ovoidea flavida v. aurea rubro-tincta 2-loculari polysperma, seminibus orbicularibus compressis. C. betacea, Senditn. in Flora, vol. xxviii. (1845) p. 172, t. 1; et in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. x. p. 119. Dunal in DC. Prodr. vol. xiii. pars i. p. 393. Morris in Gard. Chron. 1884, vol. i. p. 510; 1887, vol. i. -p. 386, fig. 77; 1899, vol. i. p. 15, fig. 104 (the Kew plant). Journ. Hortic, ser. 3, vol. xxxi. p. 470. Kew Bulletin, Aug. 1887, p.2. Maiden in Agric. Gazette N.S. Wales, vol. v. (1894) p. 214, ewm ie. : Soranum betaceum, Cav. Ic. vol. vi. p. 15, t. 524. Anal. Hist. Nat. Madr. vol. i. (1799) p. 44. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. ii. vol. i. p. 400. Dunal, Hist. Solan. p. 169. Andrews, Bot. Rep. vol. viii. t. 511. Rev. Hortic. 1880, p. 150; 1881, p. 470. 8. crassifolium, Ortega, Hort. Matr. Dee. ix. p. 117. 8. obliqnum, Bert. in Herb. DC. ex Dunal in DC. Prodr. Lc. PIoNANDRA betacea, Miers in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. iv. (1845) p. 358. Cyphomandra betacea is the Tomate de la Paz of Mexico and Central America, known also as the Tree Tomato and Vegetable Mercury in the West Indies, the latter name being given for the real or supposed value of the fruit in relieving disorders of the liver. It is a native of New Grenada, and Peru, whence it has been intro- duced into other parts of tropical and sub-tropical S. America, the West Indies, Spain, and, of late years, into India, China, Australia, and S. Africa. Its ex- tended cultivation is due to the facility with which it is grown, adapting itself to many soils and climates, to the great beauty of its abundantly produced edible fruits, NovemBER -lst, 1899, and to the value of these, when perfectly ripe, as a sub- stitute for the Tomato, for making preserves, and even for dessert. In the latter case it is the sub-acid pulp alone which is eaten. This resembles that of Passiflora edulis, Sims (t. 1989), but whereas the rind of the fruit of the Pass ‘flora is tasteless, that of Cyphomandra is very dis- agreeable, Other differences between the fruits of these plants are that the pulp of that of Cyphomandra is less watery, more acid, and has an aromatic flavour. According to Aiton, Cyphomandia betacea was introduced into England in 1803, by Sir James Edward Smith. It has been long (perhaps ever since that date) in cultivation at Kew, where it flowers and ripens its fruit abundantly in the Temperate House. Descr.—A small, erect tree, with pale bark, soft wood, and stout branches. Leaves four to eight inches long, ovate-cordate, acuminate, softly puberulous, lurid geeen above, paler beneath, with five to nine pairs of spreading nerves ; petiole four to twelve inches long, stout, terete, pubescent. Cymes up to five inches broad, sub- corymbiform, di- tri-chotomously divided ; peduncle shorter than the petiole, green; pedicels an inch long, flexuous, fruiting thickened upwards. Flowers an inch in diameter. Calye cupular, obtusely 5-lobed. Corolla campanulate- rotate; segments recurved, lanceolate, white with a pink tinge. Filaments much shorter than the oblong anthers, which are about half as long as the corolla, Style short, columnar, stigma small. Berry two to three inches long, ovoid, fleshy, orange-yellow, often suffused with red, two- celled, many-seeded. Seeds orbicular, compressed, nar- rowly winged all round.—J. D. H. Fig. 1, Calyx, stamens, and style; 2 4, seed of nat. » Stamen; 3, pistil: all enlarged; size; 5, the same, enlarged. vw. LS. del .t ae See N Fitch lith Ts a ‘Imp 3roocks Day & Son Lt* as Vincen Tas, 7683. CARLUDOVICA Lavcuzana. © Native of New Grenada, Nat. Ord. Panpane&.—Tribe CaRLUDOVICEA, Genus Cartupovica, Ruiz & Pav.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p- 953.) Cartupovica Laucheana; caule brevissimo, foliis subdistichis cuneiformi- oblongis basi acutis lete viridibus coriaceis profunde bifidis laciniis lineari- oblongis acuminatis plicatim 5-7-costatis, petiolo lamina breviore in vaginam margine scariosam brunneam sensim desinente, pedunculo brevi crasso, cataphyllis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis scariosis brunneis, spadice 4-6-pollicari oblongo cylindraceo 2-2} poll. diam. staminodiis flexuosis albis densissime crinito, spathis spadice subzequilongis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis pallide primulinis apice fuscis, fl. masc. basi compresso cuneato, perianthii segmentis ad 12 brevibus ovatis recurvis, staminibus per- plurimis, antheris oblongis filamento basi mammilleeformi paullo longiori- bus, fl. fem. perianthii segmentis 4 orbiculari-ovatis cuspidatis, stigmatibus 4 sessilibus brevibus uncinatim recurvis marginibus glandulosis, stamino- diis longissimis filiformibus flexuosis apicibus incrassatis. Sartmia Laucheana, Hort. Sand. ex Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. i. pp. 442, 481, fig. 72. Rev. Hort. Belg. vol. xix, (1893) p. 194, fig. 39. Of the large and curious genus Carludovica, containing thirty-eight described species, according to the census in the Kew Index, very few are to be found in cultivation. Five only before that here figured have appeared in this Magazine, namely, C. latifolia, Ruiz & Pavon, t. 2950-1 (Ludovia latifolia, Pers.), C. ensiformis, Hk. f. t. 6418, C. rotundifolia, Wendl. t. 7083, C. caput-Meduse, t. 7118, and C. microcephala, Hort. Berol. t. 7263. In the character of the bifid leaf C. Laucheana agrees with CO. ensiformis, but it differs in the much shorter, broader leaf-lobes with many more nerves in each, in the stouter, shorter petiole and peduncle, in the very much larger spadix, and in the uncinate stigmas. Another nearly allied species is QC. plicata, Klotzsch (Linnea, vol. xx. (1847) p. 468), which has more oblong leaves, with longer petioles. CG. Laucheana was imported from Antioquia, New Grenada, by Messrs. Sander & Co., of St. Albans. A plant of it received from that firm by the Royal Gardens, NoveEMBER Ist, 1899, Kew, in 1895, flowered in a stove in May, 1897. As in other species of the genus, it is remarkable for the envelope of milk-white, thread-like staminodes of the female flowers, which thickly clothe the spadix, wholly concealing the flowers. The function of this envelope may possibly be, like the spathe of many Aroidex, to protect the flowers from the attacks of insects from without, whilst fertilization is effected under it by minute pollen-feeding insects. Descer.—Stem very short. Leaves eight to twelve inches long, cuneiformly oblong, coriaceous, bright green, split to ‘the middle or below it into two linear-oblong, acuminate lobes, each plicately five to seven-ribbed, base acute ; petiole stout, shorter than the blade, dilating gradually downwards into a coriaceous sheath, with narrow, scarious, brown margins. Peduncle very short, stout, erect, bearing __ below several brown, scarious sheaths, and under the spadix two oblong-lanceolate, acuminate spathes, six inches long, | of a pale yellowish colour, with scarious tips. Spadiz as long as the spathes, oblong, cylindric, two to two and a half inches in diameter, including the dense ° envelope of waving, white, filiform staminodes. Male ji. cuneiform, fleshy, with about twelve marginal, broadly ovate, short, recurved lobes. Stamens very many, crowded, filaments rather shorter than the oblong (swollen, with short, tender tips) anthers. Fem. fl. with four, small, very broadly ovate, cuspidate, ereet, fleshy lobes ; staminodes four, upward of an i inch long, whi ous, tips thickened. Stigmas fo g¢, white, flexu p ur, uncinate, |; ressed, glandular on the margin.—J, DH. spo es Fig. 1, Petiole and infloresc J » Pet ence of zat. size; 2, male fi.; 3, stamens; 4, fem. f.; all enlarged :—5, reduced view of whole plant. ar: 7CB4 Vincent Brooke Day & Son Llp MS.del INTitd, Tith. Tas. 7684. HIDALGOA Wercxktel. Native of Costa Rica. Nat. Ord. Composita.—Tribe HELIANTHOIDE A. Genus Hinaxeoa, Llav. § Lewx.; (Benth. & Hvok. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 386.) Hipatcoa Wercklei; herba suffrnticosa, ope petiolorum scandens, fere glaberrima, foliis oppositis longe petiolatis ternatim pinnatisectis supra parce pilosis, pinnulis 3 late ovatis trisectis grosse dentato-serratis, dentibus apice discoloribus, petiolo 13-2-pollicari basin versus volubili, stipulis orbicularibus herbaceis, capitulis 2} poll. diam. axillaribus soli- tariis, pedunculo 3-4-pollicari nudo, involucri bracteis herbaceis biseriatis linearibus, exterioribus 5 stellatim patentibus, interioribus duplo longiori- bus et latioribus obtusis in tubum cylindricum dispositis, fl. radii ad 10 femineis, corolle tubo brevissimo, limbo patente oblongo 3-dentato miniato, fl. disci capitulo exsertis flavidis, tubo angusto elongato lobis 5 revolutis intus papillosis, antheris elongatis basi obtusis connectivo apice breviter unguiculato, styli fl. radii ramis filiformibus longe exsertis, fl. disci stylo nisi basin versus ubique papilloso apice breviter bilobo, acheeniis apice bicornutis, disci angustis sterilibus, radii latioribus compressis. Cuitpsia Wercklei, Childs, Cat. Rar. Fl. &., 1899, p. 1 cum ie. (New York.) The genus Hidalgoa is closely allied to Dahlia and Coreopsis, but differs from both in habit, in the large fertile achene of the ray-flowers, and in the sterile disk-flowers, the styles of which are entire or veryshortly two-lobed. Only two species have hitherto been recognized, the H. ternata, Llav. & Lex. of Mexico and Central America, and a closely allied one (or possibly a variety) from Guayaquil. From both of these H. Wercklei differs in its more compound leaves and much larger heads, the ray-flowers of which are bright scarlet... According to Mr. John Lewis Childs, of Floral Park, New York, who published it as Childsia Wercklei, with a coloured illustration, on the back of his sale-catalogue, cited above, it is a native of Costa Rica, where it was discovered on a mountain, by Mr. Carlo Werckle, in 1598.