CURTIS’S BOTAN ICAL MAGAZINE;
OR
Flower Garden Btsplaped:
In which the most Ornamental Fore1en Punts cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented and coloured. - To which are added, THEIR NAMES, CLASS, ORDER, GENERIC AND SPECIFIC CHARACTERS,
ACCORDING TO THE SYSTEM OF LINNA2&US;
Their Places of Growth, Times of Flowering, and most approved Methods of Culture.
CONDUCTED
By SAMUEL CURTIS, F. L. 8. By Str WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K. H.
LL D. F.R.A. and L.S. Vice President of the Linnean Society, and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew.
VOL. XVI. 2
OF THE NEW “S858 8125; Or Vol. tx1Xx. of the whole Work.
‘The Spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns.”
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1843.
TO
MRS. SHERBOURNE,
OF HURST HOUSE, PRESCOTT, LANCASHIRE, A ZEALOUS AND SUCCESSFUL COLLECTOR OF PLANTS, AND ESPECIALLY OF TROPICAL ESCULENT FRUITS,
THE PRESENT VOLUME IS DEDICATED,
WITH SENTIMENTS OF
GREAT RESPECT AND ESTEEM, BY
THE AUTHOR,
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW, Ocrozer 1, 1843,
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BrROWNEA COCCINEA. SCARLET-FLOWERED | BrownEa.
Class and Order.
MonapexpoiA DeEcANDRIA.
( Nat. Ord.—Lecuminos2. )
Generic Character.
Bracteole 2 connate vaginam bifidam constituentes. Sepala 5 concreta in calycem 5-fidum coloratum, tubo per- sistente, lobis longis sepe varie coherentibus. Petala 5 unguiculata. Stam. 10—15 in vaginam hinc longitudina- liter fissam monadelpha. Ovariwm stipite calycis adnato instructum, stylo filiformi. Leguwmen uniloculare poly- spermum acinaciforme compressum. Semina ovata fibris fungosis obvoluta.
_ Specific Character and Synonyms.
Brownea * coccinea ; foliolis 2—5-jugis ovali-oblongis acu- ‘minatis, floribus fasciculatis, ramis petiolisque gla- bris. DC.
Brownea coccinea. Jacq. Amer. p. 194. t. 121. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. p. 715. De Cand. Prodr. ». 2. p. 477.
Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 75. Few
* So named in compliment to Dr. Patrick Browne, an e Naturalist, and Author of a History of Testes. Born in Ireland, county of Mayo, in 1720, he was sent to Antigua when only sev of age; but the climate disagreeing with him, he returned less than a year’s time, and studied Physic, and especially Bot Paris, afterwards in Leyden, where he took his Doctor’s degree, an intimacy with Gronovius, and commenced a correspt wi Liynus and other distinguished Naturalists. He then practised Medicine for a short time in London, and went again to the West Indies, first to Antigua, and afterwards to Jamaica, where he spent his time in ons and preserving specimens of the plants, buds, and shells of that eee) a8" 4 a whic
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Few things can exceed the elegance or the richness of colouring in the beautiful flowers of this shrub; but unfortunately they are rarely produced in our stoves, and very quickly drop, scarcely lasting more than twenty-four hours. The specimen described produced several fasciculi in short succession, in February, 1842, in the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.
It is a native of Jamaica, and was introduced to our gardens so long ago as 1793, by Admiral BiytH; but has never been recorded as having flowered till now. Six other species are enumerated, all inhabiting the continent of South America.
Descr. Trunk (in the specimen described, an old plant, ten feet high) erect, brown and rough with the dark disquamating cuticle, branched; branches pendulous, twigs glaucous and warted. Leaves alternate, abruptly pinnated, pendulous: petiole (three to nine inches long) slender, green, and shining; pinne in two to five pairs, subop- posite, flat, oblong, acuminate, green and glabrous on both sides, subcoriaceous, the most distant (six to eight inches long, two and a half to three and a quarter inches broad,) the largest, gradually smaller towards the plant, mid-rib prominent below, flat above, veins oblique, curved and terminating before teaching the edges. Flower-bud large, globular, terminal or subsessile in the axil of the petioles, incased with large, round, rose-coloured scales which are villous on the outside, shining within. Flowers fascicled, of uniform, brilliant vermillion-rose colour, pendulous, the terminal ones expanding first, and the others in Succession downwards. Calyx coloured like all the parts of the flower; _
the throat of the calyx, as long as th emarginate or entire, nervation pinniform. Stamens inserted with the
phous and pubescent on their outside to the middle, cleft to the base, free above the apices of the calyx-limb; anthers versatile, small; pollen orange-yellow, granules oblong. _Pistil shorter than the stamens; Stigma small,
capitate, dark; style straight, filiform, glabrous; germen densely
pubescent, stipitate, the footstalk adherent to the calyx-tube; ovules numerous. Graham. x
which he gave to the world in 756, in his valuable ‘ Civil and Natural History of Jamaica.” The copper plates were all burnt in a great fire in Cornhill, in 1765, and the work never came to a second edition, although various corrections and addition
S were i rag Ta pin om made by the Author, which he sent ne ee Fig. 1. Flower, slightly magnified.
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( 3965 ) ILtictum RELIGIOsuM. Sacrep ANISEED TREE.
KEE KEKE EEE KEKE EE EEE Class and Order.
PotyAnpriA Potyeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Maenousacez. )
Generic Character.
Carpella verticillatim disposita, rarissime abortu soli- taria—Folia pellucido-punctata. De Cand.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
ILuicium* religiosum ; arboreum, sempervirens, totum gla- brum, foliis ellipticis integerrimis utrinque attenuatis “9 paps it staminibus 18—20, capsulis carnosis. Sie- old.
Itucrum religiosum. Sieb. Fl. Jap. v. 1. p. 1. t. 1.
{uticrum Anisatum. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 235. et reliquorum auctorum, exclusis Loureiro Flor. Cochinch. p. 432. et Gertn. Carp. 1. p. 338. t. 69.
Somo vulgo Skimi. Fanna Skimmi, &c. Kampf. Amen. Exot. p. 880. cum icone.
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I am not aware that the sacred Aniseed Tree of the Japanese has ever been cultivated in Europe, till it was lately introduced into Holland by the distinguished Japan- ese Traveller and Botanist, Dr. Srenonp. We are in- debted to Mr. Maxoy of Liege for a fine young plant, Which he presented to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew,
and which flowered in great perfection in the greenhouse in March,
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* Ab illiciendo, denoting an enticing plant, from its being very fragrant and aromatic,
March, 1842. Dr. Sresotp has determined that there are two species, one the I. Anisatum of Loureiro, the Chinese kind ; and the other that here figured, the “ Fanna Skimmi vel xo? °fox%v Fanna, i. e. Flos dicta,” of Kzmprer’s Ameni- tates Exotice. It would appear that the two have been confounded by most authors, and that Lourerro’s name of Anisatum has been incorrectly given to the Japan kind. By the Japanese this plant is held sacred ; they strew wreaths of it and branches over the tombs of their friends, and their priests burn the bark as a perfume upon the altars of their deities. A singular use is made of the pulverized bark by the public watchmen. Hollow tubes, graduated on the outside, are filled with this substance, which is lighted at one extremity, and burns gradually and uniformly : so that when the fire has reached a certain mark, the watchmen strike the hour upon a bell, and thus announce it to the public.
Descr. Kamprer speaks of the trunk as attaining to the height of a Cherry-tree : while our flowering plant is not more than three feet high. It has rounded, glabrous stems and branches: the latter, in their younger state, green, more or less spotted with brown. Leaves alternate, ellip- tical, coriaceous, entire, acute at both extremities, and shortly petiolated; palish green, penninerved, but the nerves are scarcely visible beneath. Flowers from the axils of the leaves, solitary, or two together. Peduncle short, issuing from a scaly bud. Flowers yellow green, destitute of fragrance. Petals numerous, linear, the inner-
most ones very narrow. Stamens about twenty. Filaments short, dilated.
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MAXILLARIA ACUTIPETALA. SHARP-PETALED MAXILLARIA.
Class and Order.
GYNANDRIA MonanprIiA. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuine. )
Generic Character.
Perianthium connivens, raro patens. Sepala lateralia cum basi columne connata. Petala subconformia. Label- lum trilobum, cucullatum, sessile, cum basi producta co- lumne articulatum. Columna semiteres aptera. Anthera subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia v. integra, caudi- cula brevi, glandula transversa.—Epiphyte ( Americaneé ). pseudo-bulbos@, acaules v. caulescentes. Folia spicati v. coriacea. Pedunculi radicales, axillares v. terminales, uni-
v. multiflori. Lindl.
Specific Name and Character.
Maxintaria acutipetala ; pseudo-bulbis oblongo-ovatis an- gulatis diphyllis, foliis lato-linearibus acutis, scapis radicalibus uni- bifloris, sepalis petalisque oblongis acutis patentibus subconformibus, labello oblongo tri- loba centro striato basique lineis elevatis subquinque, lobis lateralibus brevibus columnam involventibus in-— termedio acuto reflexo. vale te
Allied, on the one hand, to M. tenuifolia, Linptey, Bot. — Reg. 1839, t. 8, and, on the other, to M. picta, Hoox., Bot. Mag. t, 3154, but abundantly distinct from both. It was sent to the Royal Gardens at Kew by Mr. Barcray, their Collector, in H. M. Surveying Ship, the Sulphur, from Central America, and I am not aware of its being in any
other collection. It flowers in March and April, and the very
very prettily marked blossoms render it a desirable plant in every Orchideous stove.
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs clustered, oblongo-ovate, deeply furrowed, with prominent angles ; the younger ones clothed with brown, acuminated scales. Leaves two from the sum- mit of the pseudo-bulb : linear-oblong, or almost ligulate, acute, quite smooth. Peduncles from the base of the pseudo-bulbs, clothed with sheathing scales, erect, shorter than the leaves, one or two-flowered. Flowers pale orange spotted and blotched with blood-colour. Sepals oblong- acute, patent, an inch and a half long. Petals smaller, but of nearly the same shape and colour, equally spreading. Lip articulated on the base of the decurrent column, of a paler color below, the rest coloured and spotted like the petals and sepals, oblong, the lower half with its two lobes embracing the column; the middle-lobe reflexed, acute. Column deep red-purple. Anther-case of the same colour,
conical. Pollen-masses four, united by a horseshoe-shaped gland.
Fig. 1. Column and Lip. 2 Anther-case.
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( 3967 ) OTHONNA FRUTESCENS. SHRUBBY OTHONNA.
KEKE KEKE EEE EE EEKEREKE Class and Order.
SynGENEsIA NECESSARIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. )
Generic Character.
Capitulum radiatum, fl. radii ligulatis foemineis, radii masculis tubulosis 5-denticulatis. Receptaculum convexum subconicumve foveolatum, interdum pilosiusculum. Jnvol. sqguameé uniseriales inter se lateribus plus minus concrete ante explic. eximie valvate. Styli fl. masc. apice stigma- tibus in cornu concretis. Achenia radii fertilia ovalia hirta aut glabra papillosa pappo piloso multiseriali dense coro- nata; disci abortiva cylindracea glabriuscula, pappo I- seriali depauperato.—F rutices aut herbe capenses, Folia varie incisa aut integra, carnosa aut membranacea, Capi- tula ad apices pedunculorum solitaria, flava aut in paucissi- mis cyanea. DC.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Ornonna * frutescens; fruticosa glabra erecta cicatricibus fol. glabris, foliis subpetiolatis crassiusculis aveniis glaucescentibus integerrimis dentatisve, infer. obovatis ovalibusve, super. oblongis, summis ovatis grosse den- tatis, pedunculis nudis aut foliola 1—2 gerentibus erectis folio multo longioribus, involucro cylindraced, Squamis circ, 8 concretis, ligulis 8 invol. duplo fere longioribus, achzniis glabris. D C.
Ornonna frutescens. Linn. Mant. p. 288. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. p. 2381. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 625. De Cand. Prod. v. 6. P.ATS. 4
Cinerarta Othonnites. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. p. 1244.
Jacopza Africana frutescens, crassis et succulentis foliis. Commel. Hort. 2. p. 147. t. 76.
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* Obowm, a linen cloth or napkin ; so called from the cottony clothing of Some of the species. ‘
A handsome showy plant, a native of South Africa, with a stout stem, singularly glaucous and fleshy leaves, and copious handsome yellow flowers. It was grown in the Dutch Gardens in the days of Commetinus (nearly two hundred years ago), but does not appear to have been cultivated in England till now, when we find it in the Birmingham Botanic Garden. It is a greenhouse plant, and flowers during the latter end of summer.
Descr. Stem erect, two or three feet high, nearly as thick as one’s finger, suffruticose, but succulent, rounded, glabrous, purplish-green. Leaves alternate, sessile, obo- vate, acute, entire or obscurely angulato-dentate, and somewhat thick and fleshy, glaucous-green. Panicles terminal, many-flowered, bearing small leaves or bracteas at the setting on of their branches, which are oblong-acute. Involucre turbinate, of one leaf, thick and fleshy at the base, cut into about eight equal, spreading, acute teeth. Ray of about eight ligulate female florets, yellow, spreading much longer than the breadth of the disk, obscurely three-toothed at the apex. Germen oblong-obovate, furrowed as it ripens into perfect fruit, downy towards the top, and bearing a pappus of numerous scabrous hairs. Disk yellow, of many
tubular-male florets. Germen elongated, slender, abortive. Pappus of few hairs.
Fig. 1. Involucre laid open, from which are removed all the Florets but one tubular and one ligulate one. 2, Nearly mature Achenium with the
Corolla still attached to it. 3. Hair from th , = magnified. Tom the Pappus, 4. Stigmas:
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BEGONIA HYDROCOTYLIFOLIA. PENNY-WoRT- LEAVED BEGoNIA.
KEE KEKE KEKE KKK KKK KKEKE Class and Order.
MonaeciA PoLyanpriA. ( Nat. Ord.—Becontracez. )
Generic Character.
Masc. Cal. 0. Cor. polypetala, petalis plerumque 4, inequalibus.—Fam. Cal.o. Cor. petalis 4—9, plerumque inequalibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Caps. triquetra, alata, trilo- cularis, polysperma. :
Specific Character and Synonym.
Brconta hydrocotylifolia ; pubescens, caule crasso brevi repente squamoso, foliis. petiolatis cordato-rotundatis, pedunculis axillaribus folio multoties longioribus, flo- ribus racemoso-paniculatis omnibus dipetalis, fructus _ alis subeequalibus. oe
Beconra hydrocotylifolia. Hort. Berl.
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This is one of the many pretty Beeonias with which our stoves have been enriched through the liberality of the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin. As far as my investiga- tions will allow me to judge, it is not a species anywhere described : and I give it under the name by which we have received it from M. Orro. It flowers with us during the suinmer season. é ; ‘
Descr. The stem is short, thick, succulent, but peren- nial, creeping and throwing out fibrous radicles from be- _ heath; above, especially towards the apex, throwing up Several leaves, which have petioles, two or more inches long, thick and fleshy, hairy: the blade about two inches
across, rotundate cordate, entire, nearly equilateral, above convex,
convex, shining and nearly glabrous, the margin and be- neath pubescent. At the base of the petioles are membran- aceous, fringed stipules, which soon become brown, and give a scaly appearance to the stem. Peduncles axillary, eight to ten inches to a foot high, clothed with spreading hairs, and bearing a compound raceme or panicle at the apex, pale red. Flowers, of both kinds, with two spreading, deep rose-coloured, rounded petals. Stamens and styles,
as in the Genus. Fruit oval, triquetrous, with three mode- rately broad, nearly equal wings.
Fig. 1. Male Flower. 2. Female ditto. 3. Transverse Section of a Cap- sule :—magnified.,
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TRICHOCENTRUM FuscuM. BROWN-FLOW- ERED ‘TRICHOCENTRUM.
KKK KEE KEK EEE EER EE Class and Order.
GyNnANDRIA MonanpRIA. ( Nat. Ord.—OrcuIDEZ.)
Generic Character.
Perianthium patens, liberum, equale. Labellum sessile, cum basi columne connatum, planum, bilobum, basi lamel- losum. Columna nana, semiteres, crassa, utrinque alata. Anthera bilocularis, mutica. Pollinia 2, complicata; cau- diculé cuneata ; glandulé minuté.—Herbe epiphyte Ameri- cane acaules ; foliis planis (aut nullis ?), floribus radicalt- bus. Lindl. :
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Tricnocentrum* fuscum; foliis oblongis acutis oblique tortis racemo longioribus, labello glabro bilobo basi bilamellato venis quibusdam callosis, alis columne serratis, Lindl.
Trichocenrrum fuscum. Lindl, Bot. Reg. t. 1951.
Acorpium fuscum. Lindl. in Hort.
A native of Mexico, and first introduced to our col- lections, as it would appear, by Mr. Kyieurt of the King’s Road, Chelsea. Our plant, here figured, flowered in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, in September, 1841, and we shortly afterwards received flowering specimens from
Mr. Moors of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden. Descr.
_ * So named by Dr. Popria from Ops& rpixos, a hair, and xevrpov, a spur ; i Consequence of the long and narrow spur of the Jabellum.
Descr. To this orchideous plant there is no stem nor pseudo-bulb. The leaves spring, with a very short petiole, directly from the fibrous roots, and are oblong-acute,spread- ing, somewhat twisted, thick and leathery, the colour a purplish-green, sprinkled copiously with minute dots. The flowers are also radical, on short peduncles. The calyx and petals are spreading, nearly alike in form and colour, ovate, acute, purple-green. Labellum much longer than the petals, porrected, somewhat cuneate waved, with a long slender spur at the base. At the apex it is two-lobed and white: lower down blotched with rose-colour and spotted with red. Colwmn short, having on each side a broad, obovate, acute, serrated wing, of a pale yellow colour,
dotted and tipped with red. Anther-case hemispherical. Pollen-masses yellow.
Fig. 1. Flower, the Petals and Sepals being removed. 2. The Column and Anther. 3, Anther Case, 4. Pollen-mass :—magnified,
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DENDROBIUM MACRANTHUM. LARGE- FLOWERED DENDROBIUM.
EEE KEE E REE EK EEK ERE EE Class and Order.
GynanpriaA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEz. )
Generic Character.
Sepala membranacea, erecta vel patentia, lateralibus ma- joribus obliquis cum basi producta columnz connatis. Petala sepalo supremo sepius majora nunc minora, semper membranacea. Labellum cum pede columne articulatum vel connatum, semper sessile, indivisum vel trilobum, sz- pius membranaceum, nunc appendiculatum. Columna semiteres, basi longe producto. Anthera bilocularis. Pol- linia 4, per paria collateralia.—Herbe epiphyte, nunc cau- lescentes, nunc rhizomate repente pseudo-bulbifero. Folia plana, sepius venosa. Flores solitarii fasciculat, vel race- mosi, speciost. Land.
Specific Character and Synonym.
Denprosium macranthum ; foliis ovato-oblongis obtusis nervosis basi subcordatis, sepalis lanceolatis Jateralibus basi productis, petalis oblongis acutis, labello pubes- Seente convoluto denticulato subunguiculato ovato callo baseos elevato transverso obsolete trilobo.
Denprogium macranthum. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. Misc. 1839,
p. 36. (sub nom. D. macrophylli).
justi lossoms of No il can do justice to the beauty of the b S this aces slat of which specimens and a 2 were kindly sent to me by Dittwyy tk es Penllegar, in April of the present year, 1842.
: ; : e that of that it has flowered in any other ee Messrs.
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Messrs. Loppices, who appear to have introduced it to our gardens from Manilla. 1 think there can be no doubt that it is the Denprosrum “ macrophyllum” of Liypiey’s miscel- laneous notices above quoted : but the name I suspect is a misprint for D. macranthum; which I infer, not only be- cause there is a Denprosium macrophyllum (from New Guinea) of Ricnarp; but because LinprLEy speaks particu- larly of the large size of the flowers ; “ they are nine inches in circumference, and will probably be still larger when the plant becomes more healthy.” The flowers of our plant are full five inches in their extreme diameter.
Descr. Stems or pseudo-bulbs pendent, leafy. Leaves alternate, oblong, acute, nerved, slightly cordate and semi- amplexicaul at the base. Flowers solitary from the axils of the leaves, large, very handsome. Sepals lanceolate, acu- minate, spreading. Petals also spreading, oblong-acute ; both sepals and petals of a delicate, rich lilac colour, with darker nerves. Lip large, ovate, with the two side lobes convolute, large, downy; the middle lobe broadly ovate, downy towards the apex: the whole lip coloured like the Sepals, except that there is a broad, deep blotch within the side lobes. At the base of the lip is a callous, three-lobed excrescence. Column short. Anther-case deep purple. Pollen-masses as in the other species of the Genus.
Fig. 1. Column. 2. Upper part of ditto, with Anther-case, 3, Lip. 4. Pollen-masses :—magnified.
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( 3971 ) GLOXINIA TUBIFLORA. 'TUBE-FLOWERED GLOXINIA
Ske HS EE SICSeek Class and Order.
DipynamMiA ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—GeEsnERIACEz. )
Generic Character.
Calycis tubus imo ovario adnatus ; limbus 5-fidus aut 5- partitus. Corolla infundibuliformis aut campanulato-sub- ringens, hinc postice ad basin gibba, aut subcalcarata, tubo ventricoso, limbo patulo subbilabiato, lobis 5 rotun- datis. Stamina 4 didynama cum quinti rudimento. Anthere coherentes. Glandule 5 perigyne. Stylus in stigma or- biculatum concavum subinfundibuliforme abeuns. Cap- sula 1-locularis bivalvis, placentis 2 parietalibus bilobis, seminibus numerosis oblongis.—Herbe vel suffrutices, spe- cies Australi-Americane, plereque Brasilienses. Folia oppo- sita, interdum radicalia, petiolata, crenata. Flores ampli, axillares, aut radicales, pedicellati, sepius nutantes. D C.
Specific Name and Character.
Groxin1a tubiflora; caulescens pubescens, foliis oblongis subacuminatis brevi-petiolatis subcrenatis, panicula terminali, pedicellis elongatis, corolla subhypocrateri- formi, tubo elongato sursum curvato, lim o patente lobis 5 subaequalibus, glandulis ad basin ovarii 4, unica
duplo majore.
This very fine and new plant seems to have nearly as strong a claim to be considered a Gesneria as a GLOXINIA, or, rather, it appears almost to unite the two Genera. It is one of the many interesting novelties, reared by Mr. Moore
of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden from seeds, sent by Mr. e nevin -
Tweepiz from Buenos-Ayres. I do not think, however, the species inhabits any portion of the Argentine provinces, at least I have never found it in any of the numerous collec- tions I have received from Mr. Tweepie. It is probable he obtained the seeds from South Brazil, or, it has been sus- pected, from Paraguay.
Descr. Judging from the specimens sent to me, the stem is short, leafy ; the leaves opposite, oblong, acuminate, reticulated, downy, obscurely crenated, petiolated : petiole short, thick. Panicle of several flowers. Pedicels oppo- site, bracteated, two inches long.. Calyx half-superior, with five nearly spreading, acuminated segments. Corolla ‘wal white, downy: the tube four inches long, a little en- arged and curved upwards, at the base above, with a very conspicuous, broad spur or gibbosity : the Jimb an inch and a half broad, spreading, equally five-lobed. Stamens four, didynamous, with the rudiment of a fifth. Anther united into across. Germen downy, half-inferior, with four glands, three (lower ones) equal in size, the fourth double as large
as the others. Style about the length of the tube, curved. Stigma entire.
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BITS,
( 3972 ) MAMMILLARIA PYCNACANTHA. DENSELY- SPINED MAMMILLARIA.
Class and Order.
_ Potyanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Cacrez. )
Generic Character.
— Calycis tubus ovario adherens; lobi 5—6 colorati fruc- tum juniorem coronantes. Petala 5—25 a calyce vix dis- tincta, eo longiora et cum sepalis in tubum concreta. Stamina filiformia pluriserialia. Stylus filiformis. Stigma 3—7-fidum radiatum. Bacca levis oblonga. Semina nidu- lantia. Cotyledones minute, acuminate.—Suffrutices car- nost, subrotundi aut cylindracet, lactescentes aut succo lim- pido repleti, aphylli, tuberculis subconicis mammeformibus spiraliter dispositis, apice spinulas radiantes et tomentum demum deciduum gerentibus. Flores inter basin mammuil- larum sessiles, sepius in zonam transversam dispositi. Bac- ca obovata, edulis, calyce marcescente, demum deciduo, coro- nata. Prfeiff.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
MaAmMMILLARIA pycnacantha ; subrotundo-cylindracea, mam- millis latiusculis superne obscure bilobis, aculeis 12—16 pallidis patenti-recurvatis demum fuscatis seriet interioris robustioribus, lana floccosa in axillis areolis- que superioribus et circa flores.
Mammintaria pycnacantha. Mart.—Lehm. in Act. Nov. - Cur. 0. 16. p. 325. t. 17. Pfeiff. Enum. Cact. p. 16.
From the collection in the Royal Gardens of Kew: a native, it is said, of the neighbourhood of Oaxaca, Mexico. The plant, figured by Leamann, in the work above quoted,
represents a young plant, more elongated than usual. In P young Pp 8 pores
other respects it quite accords with our specimens. When well grown the form is almost globose. It flowers copiously, in July, from the summit, and numerous offsets are produc- ed also from the apex, by which the plant may be easily increased.
Descr. Plant about six inches high, and almost the same in breadth, of a rounded form, but nearly straight at the sides so as to be somewhat cylindrical. Mammille large, nearly an inch broad at the base, hemispherical, but broader than long, and obscurely two-lobed, dark green, slightly glaucous: the axille, especially the upper ones, where they are less crowded, filled with dense, white wool. Spines 12—16, woolly at the base, spreading and recurved, pale brown. Flowers five or six, opening at a time, on the top of the plant, and making a handsome appearance when spreading under the influence of the sun, of a deep sulphur yellow colour, two and a half or three inches in diameter.
Petals \inear-oblong, acuminated, serrated. Anthers orange- coloured. Stigmas yellow.
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SIPHOCAMPYLUS 'BETULZFOLIUs. Brircu- LEAVED SIPHOCAMPYLUS.
SKK EK KEKE KKK KEKE EK Class and Order.
Pentanpria Monoeyni. ( Nat. Ord.—Losetacez. )
Generic Character.
Calyx 5-lobus, tubo turbinato aut hemispherico. Corolla tubo superne sepius ventricoso, pleruinque recurvo, integro vel (rarissime) basi fisso et superne solum integro ; lobis 5 tubo brevioribus bilabiatis falcatis, duobus superioribus spe majoribus supra faucem reflexis, inferioribus subbrevi- oribus. Stamina connata, antheris 2 inferioribus apice bar- batis, aut (rarius) omnibus hirsutis.—Frutices, suffrutices, vel herb, ex America presertim meridionali, non nunquam scandentes, caulibus ramisq. sepius erectis, foliis alternis aut verticillatis, pedicellis axillaribus, floribus rubris vel sordide albidis, corollis plerumque pubescentibus latere superiore paulo majore, convexitas corolla sursum spectans. D C.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Sipuocampy.us* betulefolius ; caule ramoso tereti glabro, foliis petiolatis ovato-acuminatis subcordato-triangu- laribus subduplicato-acute serratis superne glabris subtus nervo et petiolis tenuissime pubescentibus, pe- dicellis folio longioribus glabris, tubo calycis glabri obverse pyramidato lobis angustis acutis serrulatis tubo sublongioribus corolla plus sexies brevioribus, corolla subarcuata glabra superne dilatata lobis anguste lan- ceolatis acutis, antheris glabris 2 inf. 7 agg barbatis,
capsula obverse pyramidata infera. D S1PHOCAMPYLUS
* So named by Pout from ofr, a tube, and xapavdos, bent or curved, as more or less characteristic of the tube of the corolla.
Sippocamprivs betulefolius. Don, Dict. 3. p. 704. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 399. Gardn. Herb. Brasil. n. 463.
This elegant and very graceful plant, its flowers richly varied with bright red and yellow, is another of the rarities with which Mr. Garpner has enriched our collections from Brazil. He detected the species in the Organ Mountains, where Sexo, its original discoverer, had, probably, previ- ously procured it. It flowered, for the first time in Europe, in the Royal Botanic Garden of Kew, in July, 1842, and continued for a long time in great beauty. It is easily pro- pagated by cuttings, and will no doubt become a general favourite in our stoves, and may probably, like the S. bicolor, be found hardy enough to bear the greenhouse, or even, in the summer months, the open border. :
Descr. Perennial. Stem woody at the base, branched, two to three feet high; branches rounded. Leaves alter- nate, petiolate, three to four inches long, cordate, acumi- nated, doubly serrated, nearly glabrous. Peduncles soli- tary, single-flowered, axillary, about as long as the leaves, thickened upwards into the furrowed, inferior germen. Calycine segments subulate, serrulate, with few and distant serratures, Corolla two and a half to three inches long, slightly curved, bright vermillion red, the limb deep yellow,
cut into five nearly equal segments. Stamens and style a little exserted.
Fig. 1. Anther and Stigma :—magnified.
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ECHINOCACTUS CENTETERIUS. VARIEGATED- FLOWERED EI\CHINOCACTUS.
KEKE KEE KK KKK KK KKK KEK Class and Order.
Icosanpria Monoeyntia. ( Nat. Ord.—Cacrea. )
Generic Character.
Sepala numerosa, imbricata, basi ovario adnata; in tubum brevissimum concreta, exteriora involucriformia, intima petaliformia. Stamina numerosa, calyci affixa, inequalia, intima brevissima, filiformia, antheris oblongis. Stylus cylindricus, subfistulosus, apice multifidus. Bacca sepalo- rum reliquiis subsquamata, rarissime levis. Cotyledones parvule.—Frutices s¢mplicissimi carnosi, ovati aut globosi, melocactoidei aut mammillarieformes, aphylli, costati aut tuberculati, costis tuberculis confluentibus quasi formatis, dorso aculeorum fasciculos gerentibus. Flores e fasciculis aculeorum ad apicem costarum orti, similes floribus Cerei, _ sed tubo vix supra receptaculum elongato. Prfeiff:
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Ecutnocactus centeterius ; subglobosus obscure viridis tu- berculatus apice vix umbilicatus, tuberculis in series 15 subverticales dispositis confluentibus oblongis infra areolam acuato-prominentibus (gibbosis), areolis ova- libus cano-tomentosis, aculeis exterioribus 1O—12 gra- cilibus rectiusculis bifarie patentibus, centralibus 4 decussatis validioribus nigrescentibus tandem fusco- cinereis. Pfeiff: ;
Ecuinocacrus centeterius. ‘ Lehm.”—Pfeiff. Enum. Cact. p. 65.
This has been for some time cultivated in the Royal
Botanic Gardens of Kew, under the name here adopted. If it
it be the same with the. E. centeterius * of Lenmann and Preirrer, the plant from which the latter author’s descrip- tion was made is but young, for it is mentioned as two inches and three quarters high, and three inches broad, with flowers an inch and a half in diameter. In other respects, the two plants appear to be the same. The best of descriptions, however, give but an imperfect idea of the distinguishing marks in this extensive and curious family. In the specimen before us, the height is above six inches, and the breadth somewhat less. The flowers are copious, five to seven or eight from the summit of the plant: each is nearly three inches across; the petals are deep straw colour, with a reddish streak down the centre. The Jilaments are reddish ; the anthers yellow. Stigmas about eight- or nine-rayed, yellow, tinged with red, protruded beyond the stamens. It flowers copiously in July.
_ * xevrernpius, id quo pungere possumus :—so called, I presume, from the copious spines.
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( 3975 )
STELIS ATROPURPUREA. DARK-FLOWERED STELIS.
KEKE KEK EERE EEE EEK ER RK Class and Order.
GyYNANDRIA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipea. )
Generic Character.
Sepala globoso-conniventia, zqualia, valvata, basibus subconnata. Petala nana. Labellum nanum petalis con- forme. Columna nana, mutica, cum ovario continua. An- thera \-locularis. Pollinia 2, ovata, cereacea, distincta, nune ad apicem materie viscida coherentia.—Herbe epi- phyte habitu Pleurothallis. Lindl.
Specific Name and Character.
STELIs * atropurpurea ; folio oblongo-subspathulato retuso, pedunculo squamato folio longiore, spica nutante, flo- ribus sessilibus, sepalis trinerviis petalisque (triplo mi- noribus) rotundato-ovatis obtusissimis atro-purpureis labello patulo equantibus late ovatis basi canaliculatis bituberculatis. |
This new Srenis, as I believe it to be, was sent by Mr. Parkinson from Mexico, to His Grace the late Duke of Bedford, and it flowered in the stove of the Orchideous house of that nobleman at Woburn, in February, 1839. It has little beauty to recommend it in comparison with many of this family of plants, which are such universal favorites.
Descr. Stems tufted, short, sheathed with scales, and bearing a solitary leaf, which is articulated upon the apex.
Leaf
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* The Greek name of some parasitical plant found growing upon trees, and so made applicable to a Epiphytal Orchideous plant.
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Leaf about three inches long, oblong, retuse, tapering gradually into a petiole. Peduncle from the base of the leaf-stalk, taller than the leaf, scaly. Spike three to four inches long, drooping. Flowers sessile, numerous, each arising from a membranous, sheathing scale, of a sin- Sularly dark, sanguineous, or blood-red colour. Sepals spreading, equal, broadly ovate, very obtuse, three-nerved. Petals of the same shape, but not one-third of the size, and destitute of the nerves. Lip about the size of the petals, ovate, recurved towards the apex, the base grooved, from the turning up of the sides, and on each side furnished with
a tubercle. Column short, mottled with purple. Anther- case downy.
Fig. 1. Portion of a Spike with two Flowers. 2. Flower from which the Sepals
are removed. 3. Column and Lip. 4. Anther-case, 5. Pollen- masses :—magnified.
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EcHITES SPLENDENS. SpLENDID-FLOWERED EcuiteEs.
KEKE KKK KKK KKK EEE EEK EK Class and Order.
PentanpriaA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Apocynez. )
Generic Character.
Cal. 5-partitus, laciniis intus squamula instructis. Corolla hypocrateriformis aut infundibuliformis, tubo plus minus elongato, limbo 5-partito, laciniis subinequilateris, fauce nuda. Stamina inclusa, antheris sagittatis, raro hastatis v. subcordatis. Ovaria 2, glandulis 5 hypogynis cincta aut superata. Stylus 1. Stigma capitatum. Follicult 2, cylin- dracei, angusti, seminibus comosis. Mart. et Stadelm.
Specific Name and Character.
Ecurres splendens ; scandens, caule glabro, foliis ellipticis acuminatis undulatis basi cordatis supra venis reticula- tis impressis, subtus precipue pubescentibus, venis elevatis, racemis axillaribus sublonge pedunculatis, bracteis calycinisque laciniis subulatis, corolla infun- dibuliformi glabro, laciniis rotundatis subacutis, stami-
nibus supra medium tubi insertis.
Of the many handsome species of this Genus which the late researches of Botanists and Travellers in Brazil have made known to us, this is unquestionably the most beauti- ful, and may vie with the choicest productions of Flora which have been of late years introduced to our gardens. It was sent from the Organ Mountains to Messrs. Verrcn of the Mount Radford Nursery, Exeter, last year ( 1841), by their zealous collector, Mr. Loss; and already has pro- duced such copious and richly coloured blossoms, as have
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gratified every one who has seen them. Dried native speci- mens were sent home at the same time with the living plants, and they, as well as the cultivated ones, show, that Mr. Garpner, though he botanized extensively in the same tract, did not meet with it ; and that it is a species unde- scribed even by the authors (Martius and Srapetmever) of the “ Ecurres of Brazil,” published in the Botanische Zei- tung*. In the excellent work now quoted, it would be placed in their second group of the climbing species. “ B. Corolla infundibuliformi ; calycis laciniis acutis. Sta- mina supra medium tubi inserta.’’ But, in that section, there is not one species that agrees with it.
Descr. ‘The stems are climbing, and, in the old plants, probably of great length; branches rounded, glabrous. Leaves in opposite, remote pairs, very large, from four to six or eight inches in length, nearly sessile, elliptical, sub- coriaceous, waved, acuminate, cordate at the base ; above almost glabrous, and strongly marked with deeply im- pressed, reticulated veins; beneath pale-coloured, decidedly downy, especially on the veins. Racemes axillary, of four to six very large and extremely showy flowers. Peduncles elongated, shorter, however, than the leaves. Pedicels about an inch long. Bracteas small, subulate. Calyx small, deeply cut into five slightly recurved, subulate, segments, tipped with red. Corolla between funnel-shaped and salver-shaped : the éube white, spreading upwards ; the limb flat, four inches across, beautiful rose-colour, deeper at the margins of the five, rounded lobes ; and with a very deep star-shaped eye. Stamens inserted above the middle
of the tube. Glands two, each two-lobed, at the base of the germen.
* Beiblatter zur Flora. 1841. Enrster Band.
Fig. 1. Tube of the Corolla laid open. 2. Pistil :—magnified.
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RoNDELETIA LONGIFLORA. BLUE-FLOWERED RonDELETIA.
TREK KEKE EEE EEK EEE KEK Class and Order. —
Pentanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Rustacez. )
Generic Character.
Cal. tubus subglobosus, limbus 4—5-partitus, lobis ob- longis linearibusve acutis persistentibus. Cor. tubo cylin- drico vix apice subventricoso, limbo patente 4—5-lobo, lobis subrotundis. Anthere 4—5 in apice tubi incluse, sessiles. Stigma bifidum. Capsula globosa calyce coro- nata bilocularis, ex apice dehiscens in valvulas 2 szpius apice fissas, unde sepe 4-valvis videtur, nune loculicido- rarius septicido-dehiscens, Placente centrales. Semina plurima minima ovato-angulata, sepe 2 tantum in loculo maturescentia. D C.
Specific Character and Synonym.
Ronperetia (Penramera) longiflora; foliis lato-lanceolatis in petiolum brevem attenuatis acuminatis, margine re- flexo venisque utrinsecus 7—10 subtus prominulis seabro-strigillosis, axillis venarum barbatis, caterum glabris, panicula terminali foliosa fastigiata, ramis cymoso-trifloris, corolla tubo bipollicari fauce inflata, laciniis ellipticis acuminatis acutis. Cham.
RonDELETIA longiflora. Cham. in Linnea, »v. 9. p. 240.
It is but a few months ago that we figured a RonpELeTIA (Tab. 3933) remarkable for its bright colours of red and yellow, a native of Havana and Mexico: and now there has recently been introduced to our gardens, through the exer- tions of Mr. Verrcn of Exeter, a Brazilian species, with
copious purple-blue flowers, which is no less ies oe aon
tivation in our stoves. It was sent with the subject of our preceding plate, by Mr. Verrcn’s Collector, from the Organ Mountains, and thoaeh of much humbler growth, may almost rank with it in beauty. It flowered in August, 1842, in the stove of Mount Radford Nursery, and the blossoms have an agreeable odour, like that of the Auricula.
Descr. Shrubby, branched: branches rounded, with two opposite, prominent lines. Leaves broadly lanceolate, two to three inches long, acuminate, entire, tapering at the base into a short footstalk, slightly scabrous. Stipules interpetiolar, cordate, aristate. Flowers collected in threes at the extremity of short branches, and three again spring- ing from a main branch, the whole forming a terminal, compound corymb, with copious flowers. Calyx-tube short : Segments linear, erect. Corolla salver-shaped, purplish- blue: the tube very long, slightly curved, and enlarged upwards. Limb of five, spreading, ovate, acute segments. Stamens five, a little exserted. Style nearly as long as the tube of the corolla. Stigmas two, linear, downy.
Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil :—magnified.
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KKK EER KEK KKK KEK KEKE Class and Order.
PentanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Convotvutacex. )
Generic Character.
Calyx 5-partitus, nudus. Corolla campanulata v. in- fundibuliformis, 5-plicata. Ovarium 2—3-loculare, locu- lis dispermis. Stylus indivisus. Stigma capitatum, 2—3- lobum., Capsula 2—3-locularis.—Herbe volubiles, quan- doque erecte. Folia indivisa v. lobata, nunc pinnatifida. Semina in quibusdam comosa. Br,
Specific Name and Character.
Iromza Tweediei; volubilis glabra, foliis cordatis acutis integerrimis basi profunde bilobis petioli longitudine, pedunculis axillaribus bi- unifloris, sepalis ovatis acu- tis imbricatis inequalibus, corolla tubo elongato su- perne in limbum ampliato.
A very pretty Convolvulaceous plant, sent some years ago, by Mr. Tween1e, from woods of the Parana, to the Royal Botanic Garden of Glasgow. It is No. 120 of Mr. Tweepie’s collections of dried plants. At the time the drawing was made, the structure of the stigma was neglect- ed to be observed. The genera of this family have lately been studied by Cuoisy, and the result of his labours, in part, laid before the public. That able Botanist keeps Convotvutus and Ipomma distinct; but Enpxicuer in his “Genera” unites them ; making of them, however, differ- ent sections, distinguished, the one (Convotvutus), by the “ Stigmata lineari-cylindrica,” and the other (Ipomma), by the “* Stigmata capitato-globosa.” 1 think it will be found
that our present plant belongs to the latter. Descr.
Descr. Stems climbing, terete, glabrous, as is the entire plant. Leaves alternate, cordate, acuminate, entire, deeply two-lobed at the base, the lobes rounded, very obtuse. Petiole slender, about equal in length with the leaf. Pe- duncles solitary, axillary, an inch or more long, generally two-flowered. Calyx of five imbricated leaves, which are ovate, acute, unequal. Corolla scarcely more than an inch long, red-purple, with five pale, star-shaped lines, funnel- shaped, the tube gradually enlarging upwards into the five rounded segments or lobes of the moderately spreading
limb. Capsule globose, surrounded by the five imbricated sepals of the calyx.
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MACLEANIA ANGULATA. ANGLED-FLOWERED MACLEANIA.
KKK KKK KEKE KKK RK KKK KEK Class and Order.
DecanpriaA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Enricez. )
Generic Character.
Cal. truncatus checlétionare 5-dentatus, 5-alatus, inferne ovario adherens. Cor. urceolata vel subcylindracea. Stam. 10. Filamenta in tubum connata. Anthere basi affixe, dorso mutice, apice in tubum simplicem attenuate et ri- mula singula introrsum dehiscentes. Ovariwm 5-loculare, multiovulatum. Bacca ?—Frutices habitu Thibaudie vel Ceratostemmatis.
Specific Name and Character.
Macteania* angulata; foliis ovatis obtusis, axillis trifloris, corolla ovato-urceolata pentagona.
In the “ Icones Plantarum,” vol. 2. tab. 109, I esta- blished the Genus MacieaniA upon a very handsome shrub found by Mr. Maruews at Jambrosbamba in the Andes of Peru. In June, 1842, I was favored by Mr. Fores with a second species of the same Genus, which had flow- ered in the stove of His Grace the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn, and which had been raised from seeds sent by Mr. M‘Lean himself from the Peruvian Andes. It is an evergreen shrub of great beauty, and well deserving a
place in every collection. Descr.
* Named in compliment to Jonn M‘LzEan, Esgq., of Lima, a Peruvian merchant, who has rendered great service to Botany, by his own individual exertions, and by his patronage of the late Mr. MatHews. (See Lond. Journal of Bot. v. 1. p. 393.)
Descr. A shrub, with rounded branches, and leaves which are alternate, ovate, somewhat coriaceous, entire, obtuse, on very short petioles, penninerved, two or four of the lower, lateral nerves much longer than the rest, and running nearly parallel. The leaves on the young shoots are very delicate, and have a deep tinge of red. Flowers three together, from the axils of the leaves. Peduncles about an inch long, rather thickened, especially upwards, Calyx cup-shaped, truncated, with five, obscure, mucro- nated lobes, and as many sharp, wing-like angles. Corolla nearly an inch long, bright red, the Limb yellow. Its form is ovato-urceolate, with five prominent angles : the neck, or mouth, contracted, the limb of five, erecto-patent teeth. Stamens ten. Filaments united into a thick, fleshy tube, which is broader upwards, and then again contracted where the anthers are set on. Aftthers linear, slightly downy, tapering into a rather short, slightly incurved tube, which opens by a longitudinal fissure at the apex. Ovary united with nearly the whole of the calyx. Style almost as long as the corolla. Stigma capitate.
Fig. 1. Two of the Anthers and portion of the filamentous Tube, 2 Calyx, Stamens, and Pistil magnified.
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ACHIMENES LONGIFLORA. [LONG-FLOWERED ACHIMENES.
KEKE KEKE EEE ERE KKK REE KEK Class and Order.
DipynamMiA ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—GesneriAce2. )
Generic Character.
Cal. tubus ovario adnatus, limbus 5-partitus lobis lanceo- latis. Cor. tubuloso-infundibuliformis basi hine seepe gib- ba, limbo plano 5-fido, lobis subequalibus subrotundis. Stam. 4 didynama, antheris non coherentibus. Rudimenta stam. quinti corolla basi inferne impositum, Nectarium glandulosum angulare tenue. Stylus in stigma vix incras- satum obliquum aut subbilobum abeuns. Capsula semibi- locul. bivalvis, placentis parietalibus subsessilibus.—Herbe Americane erecte villose. Folia opposita aut terno-verti- cillata petiolata dentata. Pedicelli uniflori axillares. Cor. coccinee aut purpuree multo quam Gloxinie minores. Radices saltem specierum rite cognitarum, bulbillis squamo- sis onuste. D C.
Specific Character and Synonyms. ~
Acuimenss* longiflora ; foliis 3—4-natim verticillatis ovatis oblongisve grosse serratis cauleque hirsutis, pedicellis unifloris calyce brevioribus, calycis laciniis lanceo- latis erectis corolla tubo 4-plo. brevioribus, corolle ee amplo patente. Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 89. n.
Acuimenss longiflora. De Cand. Prodr.7. p. 536. _For- tune in Hort. Trans. v. 2. N. S. p. 508. t. 14. Land.
Bot. . 1842, ¢. 9. ot. Reg. 184 ; Dr.
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* Aname given by Patrick Browne, of unknown origin.
Dr. Linptey, in describing this species, after paying a well-merited compliment to the Horticultural Society of London for the many choice productions which it has heen the means of introducing to this country from all parts of the world, says of the plant itself, “ More beautiful than the gayest of the stove herbaceous plants, as easy to cultivate as the commonest of perennials, more prodigal of flowers than the finest of the Groxinias, ever blooming, except during the few months when it sinks into its winter rest, this Acuimenes longiflora is an invaluable gift by the poe to every one who has a warm greenhouse.” It has, indeed, only to be treated as the common AcHIMENEs coccinea (better known as Cyritta pulchella), and it will thrive as readily. Our plant, presented by the Horticultural Society to the Royal Botanic Garden, from which the present draw- ing was made, has been unceasingly flowering for a period of four months, and it is but now (October 4th) beginning to sink into its state of winter rest.
Descr. The roots of this plant are fibrous, proceeding from: subterraneous, filiform stolones, which bear copious scaly buds, or new plants for the succeeding year. Stems purple, erect, herbaceous, one to two feet high, rounded, clothed with patent hairs. Leaves opposite, more generally ternately or quaternately verticillate, between ovate and oblong, acute or somewhat acuminate, serrated, hairy, paler and often purplish beneath. Flowers solitary, but one springs from the axil of almost every leaf. Peduncles short, about equal in length with the calyx. Calyx cut into five deep, lanceolate segments. Corolla salver-shaped. Tube very long and slender, gracefully curved, pale reddish purple. Limb very large, spreading, rich violet blue, pale and almost white beneath: this limb is cut into five broad, obcordate segments, with the lower segment (from luxuri- ance) frequently again divided, so as to present six seg- ments. Style and stamens included.
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MAXILLARIA DECOLOR. PALE-YELLOW - MAXILLARIA.
KEK KEKE KEKE EEK KEK EE EEE Class and Order.
GyNANDRIA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuinez. )
Generic Character.
Perianthium connivens, raro patens. Sepala lateralia cum basi producta columne. Petala subconformia. La- bellum trilobum, cucullatum, sessile, cum basi producta columne articulatum. Columna semiteres, aptera. An- thera subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia v. integra, caudicula brevi, glandula transversa.—Epiphyte ( Ameri- cané) pseudo-bulbose, acaules v. caulescentes. Folia pli- cata v. coriacea. Pedunculi radicales, axillares v. termi- nales, uni- v. multifiori. Lindl.
Specific Character and Synonym.
Maxitraria decolor ; pseudo-bulbis oblongis compressis, © foliis solitariis oblongo-lanceolatis plicatis utrinque acuminatis, scapo radicali multifloro vaginato foliis” breviore, sepalis ovato-oblongis obtusis patentibus, petalis duplo minoribus conniventibus, labello postico obsolete trilobo obtuso cucullato, callis 5 elevatis goes equilongis ultra medium procurrentibus.
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Maxittaria decolor. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1549.
A native of Jamaica; drawn from a specimen which flow- ered in the stove of the Botanic Garden of Glasgow, in the spring of 1840. It possesses little beauty to recommend it, in comparison with other epiphytal Orchideous plants, and very much resembles our M. pallidiflora, figured at ‘Tab.
2806 of this work ; but it may be readily known from it by the very different bulbs, and the callosities within the lip. Descr. Pseudo-bulbs clustered, elliptical, compressed, and more or less longitudinally wrinkled, bearing a solitary leaf at the apex, which is broadly lanceolate, membrana- ceous, striated and plaited, tapering below into a rounded stalk, Scape much shorter than the leaf, bearing a droop- ing raceme of several pale-coloured flowers. Sepals and petals nearly uniform, pale, rather dull ochreous yellow. Lip white, obovate, obscurely three-lobed ; within, on the disk, for nearly three-fourths of its length, having about
five elevated lines or plates. Column and anther -case white. Pollen-masses yellow.
Fig. 1. Lip. 2. Column. 3. Pollen-masses :—magnified.
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SAURAUJA SPECTABILIS. Suowy SAvuRAUJA.
Class and Order.
PotyanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—TERnstTRO@MIACE. )
Generic Character.
Calyx extus ebracteolatus. Petala sepalis alterna basi plus minus inter se in corollam monopetalam coalita, Sta- mina numerosa, ime corolla adherentia. Anthere dorso inserte incumbentes nec adnate. Styli 3—5 ex ovario distincti. Capsula 5-locularis.
Specific Name and Character.
Saurausa* spectabilis ; ramis pedunculis calycibus folio- rum nervisque appresso-ferrugineo-setosis, foliis obo- vato-lanceolatis brevi-acuminatis basi cuneatis petiola- tis duplicato-serratis, axillis venarum nudis, paniculis amplis ramosissimis, petalis obcordatis calyce duplo majoribus.
This fine and undescribed species of Sauravsa was raised by Mr. Knigur, of the Exotic Nursery, King’s Road, Chel- sea, from seeds, imported from the republic of Bolivia, in 1838. One seedling only was.reared, and this is now (1842) twenty inches high, bearing seven branches, with large and delicate foliage, and no less than thirty-seven panicles of fragrant flowers, such as that here represented : some fully expanded, others coming in succession, sO that its beauty is of long duration ; and we scarcely ever saw any stove plant more truly elegant and graceful. se
* So named by WILLDENOW, in compliment to some Botanist of the name of Sauraso, but who is otherwise unknown to fame. VOL. XVI, E
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The Genus Savravsa seems to differ in no particular from Apatetia, De Canp., and Patava, R. and P., and the species 3 of-which, twenty-six being enumerated by STEUDEL in his“ “ Nomenclator” (to which may be added 8. barbigera and S. pedunculata, lately figured in Hoox. Ic. Plant. tab. 431,
3 and A41 and 142), have a considerable resemblance one . with another, and inhabit the tropical parts both of the Old and of the New world. Our species is, perhaps, most nearly allied to S. pedunculata; but differs in its foliage, panicles, &c.
Descr. This fine plant would appear to attain to the size of a large shrub; its young branches, peduncles, and petioles sparingly clothed with short, appressed, scattered, ferruginous bristles. Leaves from six and eight inches toa foot long, obovato-lanceolate, cuneate below, shortly acu- minate at the apex, duplicato-serrate, glabrous, except on the principal nerves, which, on both sides, are beset with the same short, appressed, ferruginous bristles, which clothe the other parts of the plant, pale beneath. Panicles axil- lary, copious, very large, and many times branched. Flow- ers about three-quarters of an inch broad when fully ex- panded, exceedingly numerous and fragrant. Calyx of five ovate, spreading sepals. Corolla of five, spreading, obcor- date petals, united at their bases by means of the numer- Ous slamens. Filaments subulate, with long, spreading hairs at the swollen base. Anthers opening with two
oblique pores at the apex. Germen roundish, glabrous. Styles 5. Stigmas capitate.
Fig. 1. Flower.
| 2. Two of the Petals and Stamens. 8. Stamen. 4. Calyx and Pistil,
5. Section of the Germen —magnified.
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CLEMATIS CH@RULEA; 6. grandiflora. VioLet- BLUE TRAVELLER'S Joy; large-flowered var.
Class and Order.
PotyanpriA Potyeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Ranuncu.acez. )
Generic Character.
Involucrum nullum aut calyciforme subflore. Sepala 4—8 colorata. Petala nulla aut sepalis breviora. Caryop- sides oo in caudam sepius barbato-plumosam ee —Radices perenne. Folia exacte opposite. D C.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Ciematis cerulea; scandens patentim pilosa, foliis ternatis quinatisve (rarius simplicibus), foliolis longe petiolatis ovatis acutis integerrimis, pedunculis unifloris, sepalis 6 lato-lanceolatis pallide purpureis subtus viridibus lato purpureo-marginatis.
Crematis cerulea. Hortul.—Lindl. Bot. Reg. tab. 1955.
(8.) grandiflora; floribus duplo majoribus.
Professor Linptey has adopted a garden name for this plant, which, being a native of Japan, and introduced to the Horticultural Society of London (and by them liberally dispersed) through the medium of Holland, is, probably, so called by its discoverer, Dr. Sresotp. The variety here figured is twice the size of that represented in the Botanical Register, and flowered in a pot in the greenhouse during the summer months. The species, however, proves hardy, and we have seen it blossoming profusely, trained against a wall, in the beautiful gardens of Mrs. Lawrence, at
Ealing Park. Desa
Descr. A slender, graceful, climbing plant, its petioles serving as tendrils. These petioles, as well as the young stems and branches, are clothed with patent hairs. Leaves rarely simple, ternate, or quinato-pinnate ; leaflets on long _ petiolules, ovato-acuminate, quite entire, with frequently three, nearly parallel, principal nerves, which are branched and reticulated. Peduncles solitary, single-flowered ; the Jlowers, in the present instance, five and six inches across. Sepals of a delicate lilac-blue colour, that is, blue with a considerable tinge of purple or lilac, not really blue (or ceruleous), beneath with a central green band. Stamens numerous ; filaments green; anthers dark purple.
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MAMMILLARIA TURBINATA. ‘Top-SHAPED MAMMILLARIA.
KK KKK KKK KEK EEE EERE EE Class and Order.
IcosaANDRIA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Cacrez. )
Generic Character.
Calycis tubus ovario adherens ; lobi 5—6 colorati fruc- tum juniorem coronantes. Petala 5—25 a calyce vix dis- tincta, eo longiora et cum sepalis in tubum concreta. Stamina filiformia pluriserialia. Stylus filiformis. _ Stagma 3—7-fidum radiatum. Baccalevis oblonga. Semina nidu- lantia. Cotyledones minute acuminate.—Suffrutices car- nosi subrotundi aut cylindracei lactescentes aut succo limpido repleti, aphylli, tuberculis subconicis mammeformibus spira- liter dispositis, apice spinulas radiantes et tomentum demum deciduum gerentibus obtecti. Flores inter basin mammilla- rum sessiles, sepius in zonam transversam dispositi. Bacca obovata edulis, calyce marcescente, demum deciduo, coronata.
Pfeiff. | Specific Name and Character.
Mamnitraria turbinata; glauca, subrotunda vertice de- pressa basi contracta, mammillis obtusis conicis tetra- gonis apice umbilicatis, supremis spinis 3-4 erectis acicularibus mammilla quadruplo longioribus, reliquis nudis.
Mammitzaria turbinata. Hortul.
One of the most distinct of all the species of this numer- ous Genus, and not likely to be confounded with any other. It is, too, of rare occurrence in collections, and only known
to us from having been received from the stoves of — 4EE
Ler and Kennepy at Hammersmith, where it bears the name here retained. It is, probably, a native of Mexico, and flowers with us in June.
Descr. Our plant is as large as a moderately sized apple, globose, but depressed at the summit, and contract- ed at the base, of a singularly pale glaucous hue. At the contraction, the tubercles, or mammille, are flattened, and lengthened out transversely ; the rest are prominent, sub- hemispherical, but obtusely quadrangular and umbilicated at the top, whence, in the upper ones, arises a fascicle of from three to five erect, slender, almost filiform spznes, about four times the length of the mammille ; the rest of the mammillz are spineless, the spines being deciduous. Flowers from the upper part of the plant, among the spine-bearing mammille, of a moderate size, about an inch in diameter. The petals are of a pale yellow or straw-colour, on the outside tipped with red. Anthers and stigmas yellow.
Fig. 1. 2. Mammille, with Spines, from the upper part of the plant:— magnified.
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TROPEOLUM AZUREUM. BLUE-FLOWERED InpIAN CREss.
KKK KKK KEE KEKE EE EEE Class and Order.
OctranprRIA Monoeynlia. ( Nat. Ord.—Tropzo.ez. )
Generic Character.
Calyx 5-partitus, lobo superiore calcarato. Petala 5 in- equalia, 3 inferiora minora aut evanida. Stamina 8 ab ipsa basi libera. Carpella 3 suberosa reniformia indehis- centia hinc suleata rotundata. Semina magna exalbumi- nosa, loculum suum implentia et hujus cavitati conformia.
DC. Specific Character and Synonym.
Tropxo.ium azureum ; foliis peltatis profunde 5-lobis, lobis lineari-lanceolatis obtusis, petalis unguiculatis lato- cuneatis bilobis serratis uniformibus patentibus, calycis petalis duplo minoris calcare conico brevi.
ROPRoLuM azureum. Meers.
It does not commonly happen, that Genera that have bright-red or orange-coloured flowers, also produce species with blossoms of a blue colour. LescHENAULTIA Was, for a long time, only known to us with bright scarlet flowers, in the instance of the L. formosa. At length, Mr. Drum- MOND sent from the Swan River Settlement a species bear- ing blue flowers, We have all been familiar with Tropxora with red, orange, and yellow-coloured flowers, and, recently, tubers of a species with blue flowers have been received from Chili, and it has been the good fortune of Mr. Verrcn, of the Mount Radford Nursery, Exeter, to be the first to
blossom both the blue LescHENAULTIA and the blue esteh
otuM. The latter, from which our present drawing was made, excited very great interest at the meeting of the London Horticultural Society on the 4th of October of the present year, 1842, and, after some high compliments had been paid to the successful cultivator, the Society’s silver medal was awarded to Mr. Veircu, for this interesting addi- tion to our greenhouse plants. The tubers were sent over, only two months previously to the day of exhibition, from Chili, by Mr. Verrcn’s Collector, Mr. Logs. I am not aware that a description is anywhere given of this plant ; but there is no reason to doubt its being the T. azwreum of Mr. Miers’ “ Travels.” The species has not the gay ap- pearance that we are accustomed to see in the species of Indian Cress previously known to us: but it is a graceful and elegant plant, and with the foliage somewhat resem- bling that of T. tricolorum, it has flowers much more like those of the common violet. In the structure of the blos- soms, however, it very much resembles T. brachyceras (Bot. Mag. tab. 3851).
~Descr. Roots tuberous. Stems slender, herbaceous, much branched and twining, glabrous, as is every part of the plant. Leaves alternate, peltate, divided almost to the base into about five, lanceolate or linear segments ; their petioles cirrhiform. Peduncles flexuose, slender, longer than the leaves. Calyx of five deep, almost ovate, slightly spreading segments, tapering at the base into a short, coni- cal spur. Petals five, clawed, nearly equal, obcordate, vio- let-blue colour (deep violet when dry), emarginate and slightly erose. Stamens eight, oblique. Germen three- lobed. Style short, thick. Stigma dentate.
Fig. 1. Calyx. 2. Flower cut open. 3. Pistil:—magnified.
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REE KEK EEE EEK EERE EEK Class and Order.
DiapELPHIA DeEcANpRIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Lecuminosz. )
Generic Character.
Calyx bilabiatus, labio superiore majore semibifido ob- tuso. Stamina omnia connexa. Legumen plano-compres- sum pedicellatum polyspermum margine utroque incrassa- tum. Semina strophiolata.—Frutices Australasici?. Rami sépe compresst. Folia nulla aut simplicia alterna. Flores flavi, carina sepe purpurea aut fusca. D C.
Specific Name and Character.
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Bossiza virgata ; glaberrima, ramis elongatis virgatis anci- piti-alatis alis submembranaceis adultis etiam foliosis, foliis petiolatis ellipticis linearibusque, calycis dentibus
rectis, leguminibus glabris.
A Swan River species, detected and introduced to this country by Mr. James Drummonp, by seeds, received by Mr. Murray in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where the plant flowered in June, 1842. Specimens have also been sent over for the Herbarium, marked in Mr. Drummonp’s first collections, No. 56. The species, is, perhaps, most nearly allied to B. Scolopendrium, and to B. ensata; but inay be known from both by its bearing leaves, and pretty copiously, at the same time with the flowers. These flowers are highly ornamental, and the plant has a very lively appearance when in blossom. I may mention too, that the Wings of the stem are of a much thinner texture than in B. Scolopendrium. ;
Descr. This seems to be rather a tall growing plant,
With o i twi branches, flattened and ith elongated, upright, twiggy bra batipitate
ancipitate, from the presence of two broad wings, which are not very thick nor rigid, but rather foliaceous, slightly in- dented where the leaves are set on. Leaves alternate, rather closely placed on the young branches, remote on the older ones, very variable in shape; some oval or even obovate, some elliptical, or cuneate, or linear, obtuse or acute, and even mucronated, of a thin and delicate texture jointed upon a short, slender petiole. Stipules minute, subulate. Flowers axillary, or from where a leaf has been, solitary, peduncled ; peduncle about as long as the flower, with two minute, nearly opposite bracteas. Calyx obovato-cyliudri- cal, tapering into the peduncle, two-lipped, upper lip singu- larly truncate with two teeth, lower of three subulate, nearly equal, straight teeth. The corolla is beautifully variegated with red and yellow. Standard orbicular, emarginate, with a pale yellow spot in the centre, surrounded by a deep red stain, which gradually melts into the orange. Wings red, yellow at the base and claws. Keel yellow-red at the very
obtuse apex. Filaments white. Anthers yellow. lmma- ture legumen glabrous.
Fig. 1. Calyx and Stamens. 2. Standard. 3. One of the Wings. 4. Keel :—magnified.
Note on ALSTR@MERIA psittacina ; var. Errembaulti,
. Tab, 3944.
By the Hon. and Very Reverend the Dean of Manchester.
A letter from Mr, Vannontre of Ghent informs me, that this plant was raised by Mr. ERREMBAULT DU MEsNItL, at Tournay, from seed, sent to him from England, by Sir —— Oakes, meaning, doubtless, Lady Oaxes of Mitcham, from whose garden ALSTR@MERIA heman- tha, var. pilosa, was figured, Bot. Reg., 1410. The hybrid production must, therefore, have been accidental, and it may possibly have been obtained from that plant by pollen of A. psittacina, the colour being discharged, through the weak and sickly constitution of the plant. Crosses raised two different years from A. aurea, by pulchra, at Spof-
forth, have curled leaves, and show no disposition to flower, and half
of them have died. The name, it seems, should be spelt Errem- baulti. W. H.
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LATHYRUS NERVOsUS. NERVE-LEAVED Latuyrus; or EverLAstTiInG Pra.
Class and Order.
DiApELPHIA DecanpriA. ( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminos2. )
Generic Character.
Calyx campanulatus 5-fidus, lobis 2 superioribus brevio- ribus. Corolla papilionacea. Stamina diadelpha. Stylus complanatus, apice dilatatus, antice villosus aut pubescens. Legumen oblongum, polyspermum, bivalve, 1-loculare. Semina globosa aut angulata—Herbe sepius scandentes. Stipule semisagittate. Petioli apice in cirrhum ramosum abeuntes. Foliola 1—3 juga. Pedunculi axillares. D C.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Latuyrus nervosus ; glaberrimus, caulibus scandentibus acute angulatis striatis, foliis unijugis elliptico-ovatis acutis mucronatis nervosis internodio longioribus cir- rhis elongatis bis trifidis petiolis brevissimis, stipulis = eagdies wthec ge del: Mla nervosis, pedunculis mul- tifloris.
Laruyrus nervosus. Lam. Dict. 2. p. 708. De Cand. Prodr. 2. p. 370. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 3. p. 263. Vogel, in Linnea, 13. p. 32.
Larnyrvs trigonus. Vogel, in Linnea, 13, p. 31 (fide Herb. nostr.).
A handsome and very desirable greenhouse plant, dis- covered by Cameron, in rocky places, at Monte Video. SELLow gathered it in the same locality, and it appears, In a memoir of some Lecuminos# of South Brazil, in the thir-
teenth volume of the Linnaa, by the late lamented Dr. VoGeEL,
Voeet, both under the name of nervosus and trigonus. Mr. Tweepie has the credit of introducing the living plant fo our gardens, having sent seeds to His Grace the late Duke of Bedford, from Puerto Bravo, in South Brazil. If trained neatly to a trellis in a pot, this makes a very pretty appearance in the greenhouse, with its glaucous foliage and large blue flowers. We learn that, in summer, it flowers well in the open border.
Descr. Lamarck describes the stems as one foot long in its native state. In cultivation, they attain a length of two and more feet, and are rather stout, triangular, and striated. Leaves glaucous-glabrous (as is every part of the plant,) unijugate ; leaflets elliptical-ovate, mucronate, many-nerved, with the nerves prominent, especially in the dry state, lon- ger than the internodes in the upper part of the stem. Petioles very short, almost none. T'endrils very long, gene- rally twice divided in a trichotomous manner. Stipules nearly two-thirds the size of the leaflets, ovato-triangular, semisagittate, resembling the leaflets in texture and vena- tion. Peduncle axillary, as long as the tendrils, many- flowered. Flowers large, handsome, pale purplish-blue. Calyx with five teeth, two-lipped, upper Lip shortest, biden- tate, lower one with three subulate teeth, of which the middle one is much the longest. The pod is described as two inches and a half long, linear, glabrous, containing seven or eight seeds.
Fig. 1. Calyx, Stamens, and Pistil. 2, Standard of the Corolla. 3. Pistil :—magnified.
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Diospyros Sapotra. Sapotra DATE-PLUM.
KKK KK ERE EEK EEE EE REE EE Class and Order.
Potyeamia Diacia. ( Nat. Ord.—Esenacez. )
Generic Character.
Flores polygami. Calyx profunde 4-rarius 3—6-fidus. Corolla hypogyna, urceolata, 4- nunc 3—6-fida. Mase. Stamina ime corolla inserta, ejusdem laciniis dupla v. rarius quadrupla ; filamenta duplicata, anthere lanceolate. Ovarii rudimentum. Hermaphrod. Fam. Stamina effceta, pauciora. Ovarium 8—12 loculare. Ovula in loculis soli- taria, pendula. Stylus 2-plurifidus ; stagmata simplicia vel bifida. Bacca globosa, calyce patente demum reflexo sti- pata, plurilocularis, loculis monospermis. Semina inversa. Embryo intra albumen cartilagineum obliquus Vv. axilis, rectus; cotyledonibus foliaceis, radicula supera.—Arbores vel frutices, inter tropicos crescente ; foliis alternis nteger- rimis ; pedunculis axillaribus paucifloris. Endl.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Diospyros* Sapota; foliis bifariis oblongo-lanceolatis obtu- siusculis basi attenuatis glaberrimis, pedunculis in ramis junioribus axillaribus, floribus sericeis masc. 3- multifi.hermaphr. I-floris, corolla urceolato, limbo 5-lobo patente, florum hermaphr. stam. sub-16, stylo 5-fido, bacca globosa subtetrasperma.
Diosprros Sapota. Roxb. Flora Indica, v. 2. p- 535.
Diosryros edulis. Loddiges’ Cat.
Sarorre Negro. Sonnerat, Voy. 4 la Nouv. Guin. p. 45. <
tab. 14, 15, et 16.
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In the rich and well cultivated collection of tropical fruits at Syon House, which has so long engaged the attention of the noble proprietor, this rare and very little known plant has produced ripe fruit, which is the more interesting, since, in the Calcutta Botanic Garden, whence it has been sent to Europe, Dr. Roxsuren informs us that, though it grows most Juxuriantly, and blossoms in the hot season, it has never perfected its fruit. The Syon plant was received from Mr. Loppiees, who had it direct from the Calcutta Botanic Garden, and, as he informs me, under the name of edulis. There is, however, no such name in Watticn’s Catalogue, nor among the many specimens of Diospyros sent by Dr. Watticu to this country : but I find it identical with Dr. Watuicu’s specimens of D. Sapota (Roxs.) in my Herbarium :—and this at once leads us to a knowledge of the history and native country of the plant. Dr. Roxsurex himself appears to have erred in this latter particular : for he states it to be a native of the Mauritius, because it was thence introduced, by the late Hyder Ally, into his garden at Seringapatam ; from whence, in 1804, Dr. Berry of Madras sent Dr. Roxsurex good specimens and the entire ripe fruit. Dr. Roxsuren most correctly refers it to the little known Sarorre-neero of Sonnerat’s learned voyage, where the admirable figures of the flowering specimen and fruit, given in three separate plates, leave not a doubt on the subject. Again, on referring to Bosrr’s “ Hortus Mauritianus,” I find the “‘ Saporre-Negro” is mentioned as an introduced plant. He calls it, indeed, D. decandra, Lam. (which can have nothing to do with it) ; but the name, in conjunction with his description of the fruit, rond, un peu déprimé, de la grosseur d’une pomme, noir a sa parfaite maturité, et d’un géut assez agréable,” clearly shows what plant he had in view. We must look, therefore, to Son- NERAT for the native country, and for the best, and, indeed, the only history of this plant. He had arrived at Lucon, the principal of the Philippine Islands, on which Manilla is situated, and his vessel had come to an anchor at Cavite, situated at the head of a bay three leagues distant S. E. of Manilla. Thence he made excursions to a small settle- ment near Culamba, where was a hot spring (69° of Reav- muR), in which were fish and aquatic animals, and where certain shrubs, whose roots penetrated the water, while the branches were saturated with the steam, were growing vigourously. “ Quitting,” he continues, “ the village, tra- versed by the stream of hot water, as mentioned above, I
pursued
pursued my way towards the East, and, after walking three hours, found myself in an immense plain. The only inha- bited part, that I could see, consisted of a small village. A rill of clear, pure, and well-tasted water, proceeding from the summit of an adjacent mountain, traversed this village, and diffusing itself over the plain, increased its fertility. — Wide fields were enamelled with flowers, whose varied hues and sweet perfume delighted alike the eye and scent. It were difficult for imagination to conceive a sweeter abode, and the inhabitants received me so kindly, and offered me so many marks of friendship, that, attracted also by the simplicity of their manners, I staid for some time in this happy spot. I investigated the productions of its fertile soil and gathered several plants, which sufficed to confer upon me the reputation of a skilful physician in the opinion of the inhabitants, who, fond of life, as all men are, and cre- dulous as to the means of prolonging it, quickly brought me their sick, and begged for medicines. Of these 1 order- ed but few ; but enquired what they were themselves in the habit of using, and found that the number of their remedies was small, their Pharmacopeia consisting of the seeds of JampBoux-meEpica*, with the oil extracted from the same . fruit, and of Sarorra negro. They bruise the seeds and fruit of the Sarorra, and, mixing them with the oil, com- pose a kind of liniment, with which they rub their wounds, or that part of the body which is the seat of the pain.”
The fruit-bearing plant at His Grace the Duke of North- umberland’s, is about ten feet high. Its flowers are ee duced copiously in the autumnal months, and the fruit ripens in April of the following year.
Descr. A tall, handsome shrub, with numerous, spread- ing, smooth branches and copious evergreen foliage. The leaves are alternate and bifarious, petiolated, oblong-lance-- olate, subcoriaceous, six to eight inches long, glabrous, entire, penninerved, rather obtuse at the point, attenuated at the base. Petiole scarcely an inch long. Peduncles very short, axillary; those producing male-blossoms many-flow- ered ; those with perfect blossoms, single-flowered. Calyx ample, large, cut into five, deep, ovate laciniew, whose mar- gins and sinuses are revolute, externally slighty ary.
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* The Jampoux-Mepica is the Tacamoxa of the Isle of France, and is common at Madagascar, where the natives call it Foura, and also employ it iM most of their remedies. Sonnerat.
Corolla urceolate, thick and fleshy, twice as long as the calyx, and more silky, yellowish-white. Stamens about sixteen, in two ranks, arising from the base of the tube of the corolla. -Pistil: Germen ovate, tapering into a short, thick style, with five erect stigmas : but the number appears inconstant. Fruit a large, globose berry, of an olive but yellowish-green colour when ripe, filled with a dark, soft, and paste-like pulp. The flavour of this is agreeable ; but not so pleasant to the eye. Near the centre of this pulp are. four or five cells, each containing a large, rather irregular, oval, compressed seed. Albumen between horny and fleshy. Embryo inverted, the radicle turned towards the hilum.
Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil. 2. Corolla laid open: magnified. 3. Fruit. 4. Section of ditto: nat. size. 5. Seed, ditto. 6. Seed laid open: magnified.
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CALLISTEMON PINIFOLIUM. PINE-LEAVED CALLISTEMON.
Class and Order.
Icosanpr1A Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Myrracez. )
Generic Character.
Calycis tubus semisphericus, limbus 5-partitus, lobis ob- tusis. Petala 5. Stamina numerosa, filamentis liberis elon- gatis, antheris incumbentibus. Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum. Capsula 3-locularis polysperma connata et In- clusa calycis tubo incrassato et basi ramo adnato.—Frutices Nove Hollandie. Inflorescentia Melaleuce. Stamina libe- ra Metrosideri. Folia elongata rigida alterna. D C.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
CaLuistemon * pinifolium ; foliis lineari-filiformibus acerosis rigidis mucronatis canaliculatis tuberculato-scabris, calycibus glabris.
Caxusremon pinifolium. De Cand. Prod. v.3. p. 223. ;
Mertrosiperos pinifolia. Wendl. « Coll. 1. p. 53. t. 26. Willd. Enum. p. 513.
Merrosiperos viridiflora. Cels. (not Sims.)
A tall-growing shrub, or small tree, native of New Hol- land, and introduced to the Royal Gardens of Kew by the —
late Mr. Cunnincuam, many years ago :—so that our finest — Specimen has now attained a height of nine feet ; and pro- ducing its pale yellow-green flowers, as it does, among the dark foliage, at a season when the young tufts of leaves “
* From xaos, beautiful, and crnper, a stamen ; from the length and beauty of the copious stamens. .*
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of alilac colour, and of the most delicate feathery character, the appearance of the plant is very striking. Planted ina large tub, it stands out abroad the whole summer, and in winter is kept in a cool greenhouse.
It flowers in July.
Descr. A small tree, with spreading, greenish-brown, angular branches. Leaves spreading, alternate, linear, fili- form, acerose, three to four or five inches long, the young ones forming tufts at the extremity of the branches, and sheathed at the base by several long, imbricated, membra- naceous scales. These young leaves are of the most deli- cate texture, waving with the slightest breeze, ofa pale-lilac colour, and feathery from the copious soft hairs with which they are clothed. As they advance in age, the sheathing scales fall away, the hairs disappear, and the leaves become harsh, and dart green, grooved above, minutely granulated on the surface, and besides beset with numerous tubercles: the apex is mucronated. Flowers copious, sessile, axillary. Calyx of four green, obtuse lobes, glabrous. Corolla ot four very concave, green petals, twice the length of the calyx. Filaments erect, four times as long as the corolla, numerous, yellow-green. Anthers yellow.
Fig. 1. Germen and Calyx. 2. Petal. 3, 4. Upper and under side of portions of the Leaf :—magnijied.
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BEGONIA COCCINEA. SCARLET-FLOWERED Begonia ; or Elephant’s Ear.
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MonezcraA PoxnyAanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—BeconiaceEz. )
Generic Character.
Masc. Calyx 0. Corolla polypetala, petalis pleramque 4, inequalibus——Fam. Calyx o. Corolla petalis g; plerumque inequalibus. Styli 3, bifidi. Capsula trique- tra, alata, trilocularis, polysperma.
Specific Name and Character.
Breonia coccinea ; foliis obliquis oblongo-ovatis acumina- tis carnosis sinuatis serratis rubro-marginatis, stipulis amplis obovatis concavis coloratis deciduis, paniculis nutantibus, floribus intense coccineis, masc, petalis 4 rotundatis quorum 2 minimis, foem. petalis 5—6 zqua- libus ovatis, capsula pyriformi, alis 3 equalibus.
Unquestionably the most beautiful of the many handsome species of Breconra now known to our collections, and, apparently, a very free flowerer. It was imported by Mr. Verrcu of the Exotic Nursery, from the Organ Mountains of Brazil, that rich storehouse of vegetable beauties: being there detected by Mr. Lose in 1841. It blossomed at Mr. VEITCH’s Nursery soon after it was received, namely, in April, 1842, when it was exhibited at the apartments of the Horticultural Society. When the plants become larger, and the blossoms, consequently, more copious, It will be a truly splendid species: and, like most 0 the Brconias, its
Owers continue a long time in perfection. — : _ Descr. The plant from which our drawing and descrip-
tion w cely a foot high, with a rather stout, ere made, was scarcely gh, seat
knotted stem. Leaves alternate, very oblique, or inequi- lateral, between ovate and oblong, shortly acuminate, con- caye, very thick and fleshy, the margin sinuated and tooth- ed, bordered with red. Petioles scarcely an inch long: at the base of the upper ones are very large, concave, obovate, membranaceous, coloured stipules, which soon fall away as the leaves attain maturity. Peduncles axillary and termi- nal, rather short, red, bearing a dichotomous, spreading, and drooping panicle: its branches everywhere red, and with oblong, concave, red, deciduous bracteas. Flowers bright scarlet, exceedingly beautiful. Male flowers of four rounded, spreading petals, or sepals ; female, of five or six spreading, oblong-ovate, and equally-sized ones. Stamens and styles yellow. Germen and nearly-mature fruit clavate, or narrowly pyriform, triangular, with three almost equal, of phe and, below, decurrent wings. The germens and young fruz are both red.
Fig. 1. Section of a Germen. 2. Female Flower ;—slightly magnified.
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SEK KEE KKK KEEEKKEK Class and Order.
GyNANDRIA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—OrcuinEz. )
Generic Character.
Sepala et petala subequalia, patentia, libera. Labellum sepius cucullatum, cum basi columne adnatum, calcara- tum, integrum vel trilobum, sepius supra carinatum lamel- Josum vel cristatum. Colwmna erecta, cum ovario continua, semiteres, marginata, elongata. Anthera 8-locularis. Pol- linia 8 subequalia.—Herbe terrestres (Asiatice), caules- centes vel acaules, foliis latis plicatis. Scapi radicales. Flores speciosi. Lindl.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Puasus albus; caulescens, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis subtus glaucis, sepalis petalisque oblongo-lanceolatis acutis subaqualibus, labello oblongo cucullato denti- culato apice rotundato, disco 5-cristato, calcare recti- usculo emarginato, (bracteis cucullatis herbaceis per- sistentibus imbricatis floribus equalibus). Lindl.
Puasus albus. Lindl. in Wall. Plant. Asiat. Rar. ». 2. t. 198. Gen. et Spec. Orchid. p. 128. Bot. Reg. 1838.
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This truly beautiful plant is stated by Dr. Watxicn (to whom our stoves are indebted for its introduction), to be a native of trees on Mount Chandaghiry in Nepal, and in the neighbourhood of Silhet. The specimen here figured flowered in the Royal Botanic Garden of Kew, in July,
Like that represented by Dr. Linoxey, it differs from Dr. Waxticu’s figure, in the want of a yellow disk to —
the labellum. Descr
Descr. It is a caulescent species, with rather remote oblong -lanceolate, somewhat distichous leaves, striated, waved, and having long, sheathing bases, which clothe the entire stem. The raceme of flowers springs, as it were, from the sheathing base of the upper leaf, and is drooping. It consists of from six to eight large, delicate flowers, with large, concave, ovate, deciduous bracteas. Petals and sepals spreading, nearly equal, oblong-lanceolate, acumi- nate, white. Zip shorter than the perianth, oblong, the sides involute, the apex spreading and much waved and ciliated : the whole white ; but on the disk of the labellum are five longitudinal lines of soft, erect, short, purple spines.
Column semicyliudrical, dilated upwards. Pollen-masses eight, yellow.
Fig. 1. Column. 2. Pollen-masses. 3. Lip :—magnvfied.
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Inex Paracuavensis. Marte, or Para- GUAY TEA.
ERK KEK KEE EEE EKER ERE Class and Order. * 'TetTRANDRIA Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Aguiro.iacez. )
Generic Character.
Calyx 4—5-dentatus, persistens. Petala 4—5, hypo- gyna (ex Kunth), sepalis alterna, hunc libera, nunc basi in corollam rotatam subcoalita. Stamina 4—5, petalis alterna hypogyna. Ovarium sessile, 4-loculare, stigmatibus sessili-
us 4—}5 nunc distinctis nunc in 1 coalitis coronatum. Bacca 4—5-pyrena, nucleis oblongis apice umbilicatis 1- spermis. Semen inversum ; albumen carnosum, Embryo m apice nidulans.—Frutices sempervirentes, foliis sepius coriaceis, pedunculis multifloris, floribus hermaphroditis ra- rissime abortu dioicis aut polygamis. D C. f
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Specific Character and Syononyms. a : Ga a idtex* Paraguayensis; glaberrima, foliis cuneato-lanceo-
latove ovatis obtusiusculis obtuse inzqualiter serratis inferne integerrimis, racemis axillaribus paniculatis, pedicellis subumbellatis, calyce pubescente, drupis (siccis) suboctosulcatis. :
(#.) foliis latioribus fere obovatis. (Tas. nostr. 3992). Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. v. 1. p. 35. Tab, I. HL. {uex Paraguayensis. Lamb. Pin. Tab. HU. cum deser.
(1824). Spreng. Syst. Veget. cur. post. p. 48. (excl. Syn. St. Hil.) Se = (8.) foliis minoribus superne angustioribus subtus— nigro-punctulatis. Hook. 1. c. ; inex Maté. A. J. Gomes, in Herb. Lindl. (y-) foliis longioribus angustioribus sensim acuminatis fere =" oblongo-lanceolatis subtus copiose nigro-punctulatis. —
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Inex Paraguariensis. Aug. St. Hil. Mém. du Mus. d’ Hist. Nat. v. 9. p. 351. (1822) note. De Cand. Prodr. ». 2. p.15. Aug. St. Hil. Voy. dans le district des Diamans et sur le littoral du Brésil et du Parag. v. 1. p. xl.
If the plant here represented does not exhibit magnificent or splendidly-coloured flowers, it must yet be acknowledged to be a production of some public and commercial interest, since it has afforded for a century and a half, the common beverage of an equally large portion of the inhabitants of South America, as the Tea of Chinain the old World. Yet, strange to say, till within these few years, the plant has been quite unknown to Botanists, and all the plantations of it have been the property of one individual, the late celebrat- ed Dr. Francia, Dictator of Paraguay. There is not here space sufficient to enter into the history of this useful shrub; but it is of the less consequence, as all that I have been able to collect on the subject is given in the first volume of the ‘* London Journal of Botany,” p. 30 and following pages, accompanied by three plates, two representing the plant itself, and one the Maté-cup from which the infusion 1s drunk, In that Memoir, it is mentioned that the Glasgow Botanic Garden possessed a living individual of the Para- guay Tea. This has lately bloomed, in June, 1842, and it is from the flowering specimen, kindly communicated by my good friend, Mr. Murray, that the accompanying draw- ing was made. The Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew also now possess a growing plant, through the kindness of Messrs. Lucompe and Pince of Exeter. It may be cultivat- ed successfully in a warm greenhouse. Its native country seems to be Paraguay, but extending as far North as the Organ Mountains of Brazil.
Descr. The plant here figured has attained a height of about six feet. It is everywhere glabrous. The leaves are opposite, petiolated, broadly obovate or nearly ovate, subcoriaceous, acuminated, serrated in the upper half, rather suddenly tapering at the base into the petiole, which is little more than half an inch long. Peduncles axillary, gene- rally bearing three branches, and, at the apex of each branch, an um- bellate cluster of flowers. Calyx of four rounded lobes, downy on the outside. Corolla rotate, pale green; the four lobes spreading. Sta- mens four, alternating with the lobes of the corolla. Germen depress- ed, concave in the centre, from which arises a short style, with an
obscurely trifid stigma :—but, in this case, the pistil is, possibly, abor- ve,
Fig, 1. Flower and Flower-bud :—magnified,
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ACHIMENES MULTIFLORA. MANY-FLOWERED ACHIMENES.
KK KEE EE KKK KKK KKKKESK Class and Order.
Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Gesneriace. )
Generic Character.
Calycis tubus ovario aduatus, limbus 5-partitus, lobis lan- ceolatis. Corolla tubuloso-infundibuliformis basi hinc sepe gibba, limbo plano 5-fido, lobis subequalibus subrotundis. Stamina 4 didynama, antheris non coherentibus. Rudi- mentum stamin, quinti corolle basi inferne impositum. Nectarium glandulosum annulare tenue. Stylus in stigma vix incrassatum obliquum aut subbilobum abeuns. Cap- sula semibilocularis, bivalvis, placentis parietalibus subses- silibus.—Herba Americane erecte villose. Folia opposita aut terno-verticillata petiolata dentata. Pedicelli 1-flori, axillares. Corolle coccinee aut purpuree multo quam Gloxinize minores. Radices, saltem specierum rite cogni- tarum, bulbillis squamosis onuste. D C.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Achimenes multiflora; tota hirsuta, foliis petiolatis oppo- sitis ternisve ovatis acutis basi obtusis argute subdupli- cato-serratis, pedunculis axillaribus 3—5-floris, calycis lobis linearibus hirsutis, corolle2 tubo infundibuliformi decurvo limbi lobis rotundatis inferiore precipue fim- briato. : bee
(z.) corolle lobo inferiore solummodo fimbriato.
Acuimenes multiflora. Gardn. Herb. Braz. n. 3873. in
Hook. Ic. Pl. Tab. 468. Ne (8.) corolle lobis omnibus grosse fimbriatis. ( Tab. nostr.
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This very beautiful stove plant inhabits dry banks, in
woods, on the Serra de Santa Brida, and near Villa de Arayos,
Arayos, in the province of Goyaz, Brazil, and seeds were sent home from thence by Mr. Garpner, its discoverer. The plants flowered first at the Royal Botanic Garden of Glasgow, and then at Kew, where our figure was made. The autumn has been its season of blossoming with us, and it continues long in that state, a succession of flowers continually expanding. The fringe on the limb of the corolla is extremely variable. In the figure taken from the dried specimen in “ Icones Plantarum” above quoted, the lower lobe is alone fringed, and that imperfectly. In our plant, all the lobes are deeply so. The whole habit of the species is so extremely like that of Groxin1a tcthyostoma (Garon. in Ic. Plant. t. 472), that it seems contrary to nature to place it in a different Genus; but Mr. GARDNER observes that, the bifid stigma, and entire annulus of this plant, prove it to belong to AcuImENEs.
Descr. An annual, according to Mr. GARDNER ; every- where hairy, except the corolla. Stem simple, about a foot high. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, ovate, rather coarsely serrate. Peduncles axillary, solitary, bracteated, three-flowered. Calyx half-superior, five-cleft, the seg- ments broadly linear. Corolla nearly two inches long, deep lilac within, paler without, especially the tube : this latter is funnel-shaped, curved downwards, slightly gibbous at the base ; the Limb oblique, of five nearly equal, rounded lobes, strongly fimbriated at the margin. Stamens four, didyna- mous, with the rudiment of.a fifth: anthers cordate, united into a cross. Germen ovate, the free part hairy, surround- ed by an entire annular disk. Style about equal in length with the tube. Stigma clavate, bifid.
Fig. 1. Pistil. 2. Stamens :—magnified.
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AcRONYCHIA CUNNINGHAMI. Mr. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM’s ACRONYCHIA.
SEEKER EEK EEK EEE EE EK Class and Order.
OctanpriaA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Rutacea. )
Generic Character.
Calyx brevis, quadripartitus, laciniis estivatione imbri- catis. Corolle petala 4, ad basin disci hypogyni inserta, calyce majora, xstivatione valvata. Stamina 8, sub disco Inserta, omnia corolla, alterna petalis opposita reliquis bre- viora. Ovarium sessile, basi disco carnoso, truncato, octa- gono, levi, adnatum, quadriloculare. Ovula in locnlis gemina, angulo centrali infra apicem collateraliter inserta, amphitropa. Stylus brevissimus vel subnullus, ovario con- tinuus ; stigma capitatum, quadrilobum. Fructus bacce- formis, subglobosus, quadrilocularis, sarcocarpio crasso, subcarnoso, endocarpio tenui, crustaceo, loculis abortu mo- hospermis. Semina inversa, nucumentacea, atra, dorso convexa, facie acuta; umbilico lineari. Embryo intra albu- men carnosum rectus ; cotyledonibus ellipticis ; radicula bre- vi supera.—Arbores vel arbuscula, in Asia et Australasia tropica et subtropica indigene ; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, simplicibus, integerrimis, minutissime pellucido -punctatis, aromaticis, petiolo apice interdum tumido et subgeniculato, inflorescentiis axillaribus cymoso-paniculatis, pauci-multi- Jloris, folio brevioribus, petalis et filamentis glanduloso-punc- tatts. Endl.
Specific Name and Character.
Acronycuia * Cunninghami ; foliis oblongis utrinque acu- tis, cymis axillaribus, filamentis margine fimbriato cili- atis alternis brevioribus omnibus inferne in tubum
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A tall, handsome, evergreen shrub, a native of Moreton Bay, New Holland, where it was detected by Mr. Atzan Cunnineuam, and by him introduced to the Royal Gardens at Kew, where it receives the ordinary treatment of green- _house plants, and blossoms in the months of May and June.
The flowers at first sight have a good deal the appearance of those of the Orange, and the odour bears a still greater resemblance to those much prized flowers; but it 1s com- bined with the aromatic warmth of Ginger. The foliage when bruised diffuses a very terebinthaceous smell, arising from the numerous pellucid glands, with which it abounds. The Genus to which I have referred it, is the same with Cyrminosma, Gzrrn., (of which a species is given at Tas. 3322 of the present work, the C. oblongifolia, A. C.,) and JAMBOLIFERA, Linn. ; and, at first sight, would seem to have as strong a claim to be referred to AURANTIACEH @S to Ruracez. Ewnpuicner places it in the “ Genera XAN- THOXYLIs affinia.” Had it the beautiful and delicious fruit of the Orange, it would be equally worthy of cultivation. The fragrant and Orange-like flowers, will, however, always recommend it as a desirable greenhouse plant.
As regards the species, it possesses, probably, much the largest flowers of any yet known to us, and by these, and the nature of the stamens, and the different forms of the leaves, it may readily be distin- guished from A. Endlicheri, and A, Baueri (from Norfolk Island), figured in Scuott’s “ Rutacezx,” Tab, 2 and 3.
Descr. A shrub, with us about six or seven feet high, everywhere glabrous; the branches terete, green. Leaves opposite, or nearly So, petiolate, the blade articulated on the petiole, three to five inches long, oblong, coriaceous, entire, acute at both ends, penninerved and reticu- lated between the principal nerves, dark green above, paler and rather glossy beneath; when held between the eye and the light, they are seen to be full of pellucid dots, which contain a fragrant, essential oil. Petiole from half an inch to an inch long, flat above, rounded beneath. Peduncle axillary, much shorter than the leaf, bearing a cyme of from three to five or six cream-coloured flowers. Calyx of four rounded, concave sepals, membranaceous at the margin. Corolla of four mode- rately spreading, ovate, thickish petals, four times as long as the calyx. Stamens eight, alternately longer, broadly subulate, the margins dense- ly ciliato-fimbriate, and so interwoven in the lower part of the filaments, that these latter seem below to be united into a tube; but by a little force, they may be separated, and then it is seen that there is no actual union of the filaments. Germen subglobose, four-lobed, densely clothed with reddish hairs, four-celled, the cells two-seeded, the seeds, or ovules, collateral. This germen is seated on a large orange-coloured, fleshy disk, four-lobed, the lobes again two-lobed. Style about as long
as the stamens, white, filiform, with a few spreading hairs at the base. Stigma capitate, obscurely two- (or, perhaps, four-) lobed.
Fig, 1. Flower, from which the Petals are removed. 2, Pisti], and Glandular Disk. 3- Two of the Stamens. 4. Germen cut through transversely, showing ths atrangement of the Ovules in the Cells :—magnified.
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EEE EE EEK EEK EK EKEKEKK Class and Order.
Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—GesneriAceg. )
Generic Character.
Calyx ovarii basi adnatus, limbo subinzqualiter 5-partito libero. Corolla tubulosa; limbo 5-lobo, lobis nunc in labio duo dispositis, nunc subequalibus. Stamina 4 didynama, cum quinti rudimento. Anthere juniores coherentes. Sty- lus filiformis, stigmate capitato aut bilobo. Glandule pe- rigyne 2—5. apsula coriacea, bivalvis, valvis convexis, Placentis 2 parietalibus polyspermis. Semina scobiformia. —Herbe perennes, radice tuberosa, rarius frutices. Cau- lis simplex aut opposite ramosus. Folia opposita aut verti- eillata, dentata. Pedunculi simplices uniflori, aut ramosi multiflori axillares aut in thyrsum racemumve terminalem dispositi.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Gesweria (Eversnerta) polyantha ; herbacea, foliis oppo- sitis petiolatis amplis cordato-ovatis crenatis utrinque pubescenti-scabris, panicula_ terminali ramosissima, pedicellis (calycibusque) glabris elongatis gracilibus aggregatis, floribus pendulis, corolla glaberrime tubo curvato sursum ampliato, limbo patente lobis rotun- datis subequalibus, glandulis hypogynis 2 oblongis approximatis.
Gesneria polyantha. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 528.
Gesneria discolor. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841, t. 63.
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Of the many beautiful Gesnerta with which South Ame-
rica has, of late years, enriched our stoves, few aboard a richer
richer and handsomer appearance than the one now figured, of which roots were sent from the Organ Mountains of Brazil to Messrs. Verrcu of the Mount Radford Nursery, Exeter, by their Collector, Mr. Loss. The plants produc- ed their rich and copiously flowered panicles in August (1842), and from the first that blossomed the present draw- ing was made. The same species I find in Mr. Garpner’s rich Brazilian Collections from the same locality, marked No. 467 of his distributed plants: but my specimen bears the remark, “‘ I found only a single plant of this species, growing on a rock, by the side of a small stream, far ina virgin forest, February, 1837.” It is a tall growing species, and one of the leaves, exclusive of the petiole, is a foot long, and nine inches broad. :
Descr. The entire plant I have not seen, but it would appear to attain a height of some feet, with opposite, large, cordato-ovate, rather membranaceous leaves, with a rather deep sinus at the base, the apex rather obtuse, the margin irregularly crenate, the surface on both sides pubescent with numerous short hairs. The panicle is terminal, large, much branched, tinged with purple, glabrous, especially the secondary branches and pedicels, which latter are often aggregate ; at the setting on of the branches and pedicels are small, subulate bracts. Flowers drooping. Calyx gla- brous ; the tube almost wholly adnate with the base of the germen, the limb of five moderately spreading, ovate, acute lobes, tipped with red. Corolla two inches long, rich scar- let, the mouth with yellow rays, glabrous ; the tube curved, gradually enlarging upwards: the limb of five, spreading, nearly equal, rounded lobes. The free part of the germen is oblongo-ovate, a little constricted above the middle; it tapers into a style the length of the tube of the corolla.
Hypogynous glands, two approximate, large in proportion to the size of the germen.
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3986 LATHYRUS PUBESCENS. Downy Soutu Ame- ricaN Latnyrus; or Everlasting Pea.
Class and Order.
DiApeLeHia DeEcanpnria. ( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosa. )
Generic Character.
Calyx campanulatus 5-fidus, lobis 2 superioribus brevi- oribus. Corolla papilionacea. Stamina diadelpha. Stylus complanatus, apice dilatatus, antice villosus aut pubescens. Legumen oblongum, polyspermum, bivalve, 1-loculare. Semina globosa aut avgulata—Herbe sepius scandentes. Stipule semisagittate. Petioli apice in cirrhum ramosum abeuntes. Foliola 1—3 juga. Pedunculi axillares. D C.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Laruyrus pubescens ; superne molliter subsericeo-pubes- cens, caule quadrangulari anguste alato, foliis tirrhosis unijugis, foliolis oblongo-lanccolatis nervosis mucrona- tis petiolum duplo superantibus, stipulis semisagittato- ovatis petiolum subequantibus, cirrhis trifidis, pedun- culis folium multoties superantibus multifloris, calyci- bus germinuibusque sericeis, dentibus calycinis lato- lanceolatis subaqualibus. !
Latuyrus pubescens. Hook. et Arn. in Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 21. Hook. Bot. Misc. v. 3. p. 198.
Laruyrus acutifolius? Vogel, in Linnea, 0. 13. p..27.
A hardy greenhouse plant, perhaps even able to bear cultivation entirely in the open border. It is grown, we believe, in several collections, and was introduced by Mr. Tweepie from Buenos Ayres ; but whether it is found wild
near that place, or only in the interior of the Argentine | : province,
province, does not appear. Mr. Bairp gathered it on islands in the Parana. If, as I suspect, it be the same with the L. acutifolius of Voget, it is also found in South Brazil. Dr. Gixuits detected the plant about Mendoza; and it extends, we know, as far westward as Conception and Valparaiso on the shores of the Pacific. In general habit it is nearly allied to L. nervosus (Bot. Mag. t. 3987), the flowers being very similar, though the leaves are widely different. Trained in a pot, and placed in a cool greenhouse, it bears its large purplish-blue flowers in May.
Descr. Stems two to three feet long, trailing, four- angled, the angles moderately winged. Leaves unijugate, glaucous; leaflets narrow oblong-lanceolate, striated, hairy, almost silky, which is the case with all the upper part of the plant, acute and mucronate. Petiole half the length of the leaflets, at the base of which is a pair of ovate, semi- sagittate, striated stipules, nearly equal in length with the
etiole. Peduncle axillary, many times longer than the eaves, bearing a capitate raceme of several flowers. Calyx and germen silky. The rest of the inflorescence is very similar to that of L. nervosus above mentioned.
Fig. 1. Flower, from which the Petals are removed. 2. Pistil :—mag- nified.
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Ecuites wirstta. Harry-FLOWERED EcuitTEs.
KKK KEKE EEK EK KEKE KEEKKE Class and Order.
PenTANDRIA Dicynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Apocynez. )
Generic Character.
Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis intus squamula instructis. Co- rolla hypocrateriformis aut infundibuliformis, tubo plus minus elongato, limbo 5-partito, laciniis subinequilateralis, fauce nuda. Stamina inclusa, antheris sagittatis, raro hasta- tis vel subcordatis, Ovaria 2, glandulis 5 hypogynis cincta aut superata. Stylus 1. Stigma capitatum. Folliculi 2, cylindracei, angusti, seminibus comosis. Mart. et Stadelm.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Ecuires hirsuta ; foliis late ovatis ovato-oblongis v. oblon- gis cuspidatis basi contracta auriculato-cordatis, race- mis lateralibus elongatis multifloris, corolla tubo ex- tus albo-villoso e medio infundibuliformi, limbi laci- niis obovatis hinc dente laterali longiusculo, folliculis semipedalibus subtorulosis hirsutis. Stadelm.
Ecuires hirsuta. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per. p. 19. t. 136. Spreng. Syst. Veget.v. 9. Vell. Fl. Flum. v. 3, t. 44. Stadelmeyer, Echit. Brasil. in Biebl. zur Flora, oder
Bot. Zeit. 1841, Erst. Band. p. 1.
The South American species of Ecurres are numerous, little known, ‘iL aencetloail : yet, I have reason to believe that this is correctly referred to E. hirsuta of Ruiz and Pavon, and that it is a species widely dispersed throughout South America, and especially frequent in Brazil. Less
beautiful, unquestionably, than the E. splendens (Bot. me a + ap.
tab. 3976), it is yet a very handsome plant, bearing its deli- cate yellow and rim-chloured blossoms of a large size in the month of September, in the stove of Messrs. Verrcu of Exeter, where alone, we believe, it at present exists in this country. It was sent by their Collector, Mr. Loss, from the Organ Mountains of the Brazils, during the preceding foe and is a highly valuable acquisition to our hothouse plants,
Descr. A twining Shrub, with downy and terete branches. Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong-obovate, cuspidato-acu- minate, entire, slightly waved at the margin, somewhat contracted at the base, and auriculato-cordate, slightly downy above, beneath almost hairy, especially upon the veins and midrib. Petiole about an inch in length, downy, terete. Peduncle axillary, scarcely so long as the leaf, stout in proportion to its length, the upper half constituting a raceme of flowers, large and handsome. The lower blos- soms, at least in this country, fall away as the corolla with- ers, leaving a toothed rachis. Pedicels very short. Calyx five-partite, the seginents subulate. Corolla between funnel- shaped and rotate, sulphur-yellow, the faux delicate, stri- ated with deep rose colour : the tube hairy on the outside, grauan'y enlarging upwards ; the limb spreading, nearly
orizontally, in five broadly-obovate, waved lobes, ob- liquely imbricated, and bearing a tooth on one side. _Sta- mens situated near the summit of the tube. Germen sur- rounded by hypogynous glands. Style slender, filiform, as
long as the tube of the corolla. Stigma umbraculiform, with five angles.
Fig. 1. Tube of the Corolla laid o howing the Stamens. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil :—magnified. ae sae
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CATTLEYA LABIATA. CRIMSON-LIPPED | CATTLEYA.
SEEKER KK KKK KER EEE Class and Order.
-GynanpRIA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—OrcHIDEz. )
Generic Character.
Sepala membranacea vel carnosa, patentia, equalia. Pe- tala sepius majora. Labellum cucullatum columnam in- volvens, trilobum vel indivisum. Columna clavata, elon- gata, semiteres, marginata, cum labello articulata. Anthera carnosa, 4-locularis, septorum marginibus membranacels. Pollinia 4, caudiculis totidem replicatis—Herbe epiphyte (Americane,) pseudo-bulbose. Folia solitaria vel bina, cori- acea. Flores terminales, speciosissimi, sepe e spatha magna
erumpentes. Lindl.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Cartieya labiata; pseudo-bulbis sulcatis, sepalis oblongo- lanceolatis, petalis lato-ellipticis undulatis, labelli obo- vati obtusi indivisi lamina superne tota coccinea.
Carrieya labiata. Lindl. Coll. Bot. t. 33. Hook, Exot. Fi. tab. 157. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1856. Lindl. Gen. et Sp.
Orchid. p. 116. Bot. Reg. t. 1859.
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Dr. Liyptey, whose judgment, esp aety 1 cerns Orchideous plants, is entitled to the highest ene.
has pronounced the C. Mossi of our Bot. ¥ tab. 3669, to be a mere variety of his C. /abiata. He may t, and le number of
if tried by the same standard, a considerable number ¢ Orchideous plants will have to be abolished ; for there is no uestion that, in a state of cultivation at least, +e
this family are liable to very great variation. fe had,
indeed, looked upon the very large size of the blossoms in C. Mossi as one of the marks of specific distinction, when compared with C. /abiata: but, in the present instance, by skilful management, the true C. labiata presents flowers nearly, if not quite, equal in magnitude to those of C. Mossie; but the uniform deep blotch on the lamina. of its labellum remains unaltered. We are indebted to Mr. Moss, of Otterspool, for the present splendid specimen, which he received from Trinidad ; but it had been sent to that island from the Spanish Main. The species is too well known, and has been too often described, to require any further elucidation than that afforded by our figure.
We are requested by the Very Reverend the Dean of MANcHESTER to insert the following in some vacant space.
CROCORUM SYNOPSIS.
Supra ad calcem N. 3867, fol. 2, dele in Occidente colles Eispaniea usque ad Gijon et Santander. Post ideoque biflorus gaudet, insere 3. Asturicus ; Herbert. Autumnalis, cormo ut in Pyreneo (paral- lelo-fibroso stolonifero) minore, spatha pallida herbaced % une. humo exserté, tubo purpureo infra pallidiore spatham 1} une. superante, limbo 14 vel 1,3; unc. purpureo, laciniis ad basim (se- palis precipué) saturatiis tristriatis, petalis 2 unc. latis barba ad basim dens@ pallida, sepalis =5. unc. latis, filamentis albis ori ipsi insertis 8; unc. antheris aureis ultra 2 unc., stylo aurantiaco mul- tifido antheris breviore, primulam leviter redolente. Mascitur in collibus Asturie prope “ Gijon” et “ Santander.” Floruit Spof- Sorthie, Nov, 2, 1842, Pyrenzo affinis, mense et plus mense sertor, omnt parte minor, colore saturatiore, fauce barbatd filamentis ori wnsertis, §c., secernendus.
Pro 3. Serotinus ; lege 4. Serotinus ; et numeros specierum usque - er en ratione corrige.—Respice etiam corrigenda et addenda, : , fol. 2.
C. Imperatorianus ; supra in Crocorum Synopsi (ad calcem N. 3867. fol. 2.).—Dele omnia que de habitatione emictitie rita dicte limbo albo sepalis stamineis estriatis predicantur, errore non meo, sed amici cujusdam botanici diu in Italia commoranti. Varietatem esse fortuitam rar inter lilacinos legendam monet Cl. Tenore. W. Z.
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( 3999 ) Fucusia aupestris. Mowontain Fucusia. Class and Order.
Ocranpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Onageranriz. )
Generic Character.
Calycis tubus basi ovario adherens, superne productus in tubum cylindraceum 4-lobum post anthesin articulatim de- ciduum. Petala 4 summo tubo inserta lobis alterna, rarius 0. Stamina 8. Ovarium glandula urceolata coronatum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum. Bacca oblongo- aut ovato-globosa 4-locularis 4-valvis polysperma.—Frutices. Folia sepius opposita. Pediculi axillares 1-flori, interdum ad apices ramorum racemosi. Flores sepius nutantes, rubri rarius albi, interdum 5-fidi 10-andri. D C. i
Specific Character and Synonym.
Fucusra alpestris ; caule tereti subscandente, ramis dense
pubescentibus, foliis oppositis petiolatis oblongo-lan- ceolatis basi rotundatis acuminatis margine subrevo- lutis vix dentatis utrinque petiolisque pubescentibus, stipulis interpetiolaribus membranaceis demum de- flexis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis unifloris, laci- niis calycinis lanceolatis acuminatis petala cuneata duplo longioribus, bacca oblonga quadrangularis.
Fucusia alpestris. Gard. Herb. Brasil. n. 5706. —
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Sent, in August, 1842, from the Glasgow Botanic Garden, by the able Curator, Mr. Murray, together with the fol- lowing history and description from the pen of Mr. Garpner. ss
This very distinct species of Fucusia I found during my ast visit to the Organ Mountains, growing in moist, bushy,
rocky places, at an elevation of upwards of five ee" ee
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feet above the level of the sea. A plant of it, which I brought home alive with me last year, has been in flower for some time in the Glasgow Botanic Garden, and I am in- debted to Miss Murray for the characteristic figure which accompanies this description. It differs from F. integri- Jolia, Sr. Hix., (see Bot. Mag. t. 3948,) in having narrower and more acuminated leaves, smaller and paler coloured flowers, besides being nearly all over densely pubescent, in which latter respect it agrees with F. montana, and F. pu- bescens of St. Hinatre, but they are otherwise very distinct species. From the elevation at which it grows, I have no doubt that it will succeed better in the greenhouse than in the stove.
Descr. In its native place of growth, the plant has a rambling, subscandent habit, the branches being sometimes twelve to eighteen or twenty feet in length. The branches are round, and densely pubescent. The leaves, both in the wild and cultivated plant, are opposite, never ternate, ob- long-lanceolate, acuminate, their margins slightly revolute and distantly subdentate, pubescent both above and below, the younger ones with a reddish tinge throughout, which, in the older foliage, is confined to the margins, the midrib, and the larger veins on the upper surface, but is very conspicu- ous on the under surface and petioles, in length they are from two and a half to four and a half inches, and from ten to eighteen lines broad; petiole four to six lines long, pubes- cent, rounded below, above channelled. Pedicels solitary in the axils of the upper leaves. Flowers, including the sta- mens, from an inch and a half to two inches long, of a pale crimson colour. Calycine segments acuminated, and slightly reflexed. Petals broadly cuneate, obtuse, deep purple. Stamens much exserted, of the same colour as the calyx. Style longer than the stamens. Stigma clavate, bilobed. Germen oblong, smooth, green. Fruit oblong, quadran- gular, of a dark purple colour when ripe. G. Gardner.
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¢( 4000 ) FuUcHSIA CORYMBIFLORA. CLUSTER-FLOW- ERED Fucusia.
Class and Order.
Octanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—OnaerarizZ. )
Generic Character.
Calycis tubus basi ovario adherens, superne productus in tubum cylindraceum 4-lobum post anthesin articulatim deciduum. Petala 4 summo tubo inserta lobis alterna, rarius 0. Stamina 8. Ovarium glandula urceolata coro- natum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum. Bacca ob- longo- aut ovato-globosa 4-locularis 4-valvis polysperma. —Frutices. Folia s@pius opposita. Pediculi_axzdlares 1-flori, interdum ad apices ramorum racemosi. Flores s@- plus nutantes, rubri rarius albi, interdum 5-fidi, 10-andri.
Specific Character and Synonyms. ‘i
Fucusia corymbiflora ; pubescens, foliis oppositis ternisque © petiolatis ovato-oblongis acuminatis reticulatim veno- sis, corymbis longissimis terminalibus pendulis, pedi- cellis basi foliolosis, calycis tubo longissimo infundibu- liformi laciniis acuminatis reflexis, petalis acuminatis staminum longitudine. fp es
Fucusia corymbiflora. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. Sp. SE. t. 325. f.a. De Cand. Prod. v. 3. p. 39. Spreng. Syst.
Veget. 2. p. 235. )
Commenced in the year 1786,—it “may be said of the Boranicat MaGazinE,” What, assuredly, can be said of no other periodical work of descriptive Natural History, that
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it has run a course of unprecedented length, appearing in monthly numbers with the utmost regularity; and, notwith- standing the injury it has sustained by a host of rival publi- cations, the majority of which have been but of ephemeral duration, it has maintained its ground, we trust we may say, with undiminished usefulness, and with increased beauty of execution, through a period of fifty-seven years ! In this extended work has been given a mass of Botanical and Horticultural information, accompanied by rour THOUSAND coloured plates, which, as has been justly said by a most competent judge* of the earlier volumes, have “‘ more diffused a taste for unsophisticated nature and science than any other publication.” ‘It was designed,” the same author continues, “ to be a general depository of garden plants, whether previously figured or not in other works ; but it has often had the advantage of giving entire novelties to the public, and it is in every respect worthy of its author. Its sale has been extensive beyond all former example, and it has rewarded its contriver with pecuniary emolument, as well as with merited celebrity, and is still continued with unabated utility.” This was written in 1819 :—the latter part of the sentence we trust is still not undeserved : we wish we could say that the surviving heirs of the family of Mr. Curtis, to whom the copyright devolved, now derived equal advantage from it: for, assuredly, as this kind of work originated in the late Mr. Curtis, and led to the “numerous imitators who have followed in his wake, and was commenced with so much energy and taste ; so, nei- ther, has anything been wanting on the part of the pre- sent proprietor to make it still equally worthy of the public patronage. 3 :
The splendid plant here represented has now been for some time known in our gardens; but is not on that account the less deserving a figure in the present work, nor of the high number of plates to which the work has at- tained. It is the most splendid of all our known species of Fucusia, of free growth, and a ready and constant flow- erer, except in the winter months, when, in the greenhouse at least, it loses most of its foliage, and has a shabby appearance : but, in the spring, it is rapidly clothed again with leaves, and the plants may then be put into the open
border
as
* Sir James E. Situ,
: in his Memoi : } Cyclopedia, Art. Curtis. emoir of Mr. Samuet Curtis, in REES
border with safety, and are soon loaded with their pendent, copious, large, and graceful flowers.
Till recently, the species was scarcely known but by the figure of Ruiz and Pavon, its original discoverers, who found it at Chincao and Muna, in Peru. It has probably an extensive range in the Andes of Peru ; for I possess fine native specimens, gathered by the late Mr. Marsews in Chacapoyas, and a very nearly allied species, or, probably, a variety, from the western side of the great volcano of Pichincha, in Columbia, collected by Dr. Jamuson.
Descr. With good management, this plant attains a height, with us, of four or five feet, its new branches soft and succulent, and, as well as the petioles, deeply tinged with purple. The leaves are large, sometimes a span long, between ovate and oblong, acute at both ends, obscurely serrated at the margin, downy, especially beneath ; above, the nerves are deeply impressed, and the primary lateral ones are united by transverse ones, so that the surface may be said to be reticulated. Peduncle terminal, long, grace- fully drooping among the leaves, bearing a corymb of numerous large, red flowers. Pedicels slender, with a small leaf at the base of each, racemose, the lower ones elongat- ed, so that the flowers form a corymb resembling a tassel of rich scarlet flowers. Tube of the calyx very long, funnel-shaped ; the segments acuminated, at length re- flexed. Petals deep red, lanceolate, acuminate, spreading. Stamens about as long as the petals, rather shorter than the style with its capitate stigma. Germen oblong, be- coming a berry of a rich purple colour, by no means unpleasant in taste, the flavour a good deal resembling that of well ripened figs.
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BroMHEADIA PALUSTRIS. Marsu Brom- HEADIA.
KKK KKK KEKE KEKE EEK REE EK Class and Order.
GynanpriA Monanpria, ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuiwez. )
Generic Character.
~ Perianthium (candidum) sesquipollicare, cylindraceo- ‘connivens, laciniis omnibus lineari-oblongis curvis canali-
~ culatis obtusiusculis. Labellum cucullatum, trilobum, cum
_ columna omnino parallelum, basi inarticulatum ; lacinia intermedia retusa flavescente disco luteo-glandulosa, latera-_
libus ovatis brevioribus violaceis ; axi elevata pubescente. — Columna late alata, obtusa, carnosa. Anthera 2-locularis,
3
longitudinaliter dehiscens, dorso conica et cum columna_ articulata. Pollinia duo, reniformia, postice excavata, in glandulam latam triangularem membranaceam sessilia.— Herba parasitica, caulescens, ebulbis. Folia disticha, ob- longo-linearia, emarginata. Spica terminalis, disticha, flex- uosa, multiflora, lo pedunculata, bracteis brevissimis, rigidis, dentiformibus. Lindl. Lek
whecific “Na : ce ,
- Bromugapia* palustris. _ : ROMHEADIA palustris. Lindl. in Wall.
Bot. Reg. 1841, p. 89. F y 29h Grammatornytium Finlaysonianum. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. a | r 4 ji
Orch. p. 173.
flowering specimen of
‘fi 1 which our drawing was
We owe the possession a m
this in Kew Gardens, and
_ _ * So named by Dr. LINDLEY, in compliment to BroMHEAD, Bart., F. R. S., “ whose investiga ions” of plants are well known to systematic Botanists.
made, to His Grace the Duke of Northumberland. It has flowered likewise with J. D. Liewetyn, Esq. of Penllegar, who received the living plants from Mr. Cumine, with the memorandum, as Dr. Linpiey assures us, that they were dug out ofa bog in Sumatra :—a strange habitat for a plant of this kind ; but which has given rise to the specific name. It was, however, many years ago, detected at Sin- gapore by Mr. Fintayson; and from his imperfect speci- mens it was, firstly, referred by Dr. Linptey to Grammato- PHYLLUM; and, afterwards, when the structure of the flowers was known from living specimens, it was deemed worthy to constitute a new Genus. It is a tall growing, graceful plant, with very delicate flowers.
Descr. Roots consisting of stout, fleshy fibres. Stem three and four feet high, terete, erect, below clothed with long, sheathing, striated scales, there leafy, with a few dis- tichous, oblong, fleshy or rather coriaceous, obtuse, faintly striated leaves :—above naked again, in what may be called the terminal peduncle, which is also beset with sheathing scales. This peduncle bears tw6 or three spikes, densely clothed with short, sheathing, distichous, imbricated herba- ceous, tooth-like scales. From each of these scales a flower proceeds. Sepals and calyx white, oblong-acuminate, nearly equal, spreading, concave. Lip parallel with the column, oblong, canaliculate, three-lobed, the side lobes involute, white externally, within streaked with purple, and having a pulvinate, oblong disk: the intermediate lobe is rounded, acute, yellow in the middle. Column elongated, semi- terete, the margin sharp and winged. Anther sunk in the
apex of the column. Pollen-masses on a large, triangular gland.
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LOBELIA SPLENDENS; var. @., atro-sanguinea. Surmine Loses; dark purple-leaved var.
SERIE HEHEHE Class and Order.
PenranpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Lose.iacez. )
Generic Character.
Corolla tubo hine fisso (raro integro) ; limbo 5-partito. Anthere connate. Stigma bilobum (nune indivisum). Cap- sula bilocularis (raro trilocularis), apice supero bivalvi.— Herbe vel Suffrutices, plere@que lactescentes. Folia alterna, integra vel laciniata, raro fistulosa. Flores racemost, ter- minales vel axillares, solitarii, pedicellis bibracteatis vel nudis. Anthere sepius barbate. Br. Sar
Specific Character and Synonyms. aa
Losexia splendens; glabra, caule erecto simplici, foliis ses- silibus lanceolatis acuminatis denticulatis, racemo ter- minali, bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis dentatis pedi- cello longioribus, tubo calycis hemispherico, lobis
- linearibus acuminatis tubo corolle glabra subequa- libus, antheris dorso glabris infer. 2 apice barbatis. De Cand. ic i ew Oe
Lozenia splendens. Willd. Hort. Berol. t. 86. Ker, Bot.
- Reg. t. 60. Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. Am. 3. p. 311.
~ Spreng. Syst. Veget. 1. pp. 712.
Rapuntium splendens. Presl., Prodr. Mon. Lobel. p. 26.
(G.) caule foliisque atro-sanguineis,
The oriéfin LORELLA fulgens, to which this plant is un- doubtedly to be referred, has the stem and foliage slightly
tinged with purple: and figure given in - ogo Register represents the dark purple, and the leaves . eh a ie ee blotched
blotched with the same colour: but there has lately appear- ed in our gardens a variety, as here figured, with the whole stem and leaves dark sanguineous purple. It is a plant of great beauty, and, if not sufficiently hardy to bear our winters, may easily be protected after its old decaying flowering stems are cut away, by a covering of tan or Fern, In the summer it makes a splendid appearance, with its long spikes of vivid scarlet flowers, almost too dazzling to be looked upon. It readily increases by the roots, which, in the autumn, abound in short, creeping stolones, and richly deserves a place in every garden. It is a native of Mexico, and flowers during the summer and autumn months.
Descr. In many respects this species resembles the well known L. fulgens, but may readily be distinguished by its strong purple tinge, and by the much longer and more acuminated foliage, which is smooth and glossy, destitute of any kind of pubescence.
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( 4003 ) BrassiA Wrayva. Mrs. Wravy’s Brassia,
KKK KER KK KKK KEKE KEKE RK ER Class and Order.
GyNANDRIA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEz. )
Generic Character.
Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et Petala angusta, li- bera, equalia; his nunc minoribus. Labellum planum, indivisum, ecalcaratum, columna continuum, basi bi-cris- tatum. Columna libera, aptera, nana. Anthera 1-locularis. Pollinia 2, postice sulcata; caudicula brevi; glandula crassa,—Epiphyte pseudo-bulbose. Folia pergamenea. Sca- pl radicales vaginati. Flores speciosi, spicatz. Lindl.
Specific Name and Character.
Brassia Wraye ; pseudo-bulbis levibus, folio ligulato cori- aceo enervi, sepalis lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis con- formibus minoribus, labello latissime obovato acuto sepalis lateralibus duplo breviore, basi callo triden- tato. .
Brassia Wraye. Skinner MSS.
This new species of Brassi1a was sent to the splendid col- lection of J. C. Harter, Esq., of Broughton New Hall, near Manchester, by G. U. Skinner, Esq., from Guatemala, in — 1840. It has now (October, 1842) flowered, for the first time, under the skilful management of Mr. WiLuiAM Asuton, gardener to Mr. Harter. It had been communi- cated by Mr. Sxinner to that and other collections, under the name of Oncin1um Wraye, to which Genus, previous its having flowered, it had been supposed to belong, a Mr. Skinner properly preserves the same spe fic ap = lation, now it is proved to be a new species of Brassta.*
“Desc.
—
* Since the above was written, Dr. LinpLEY mentio is in his Miscell. of the Bot, Register for 1843, that a fine plant has flowered at Messrs. RoLii-
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong, compressed, two-edged, bearing at the apex one or two oblong, coriaceous, obtuse, nerveless leaves. Scape from the base of the bulbs, thrice as long as the leaves. Flowers numerous, racemed. Brac- teas small, squamiform. Sepals unequal ; the lateral ones two inches long, the upper one nearly equalling the petals, about an inch in length; all of them, including the petals, linear-subulate, yellow-green, with a few large, brown blotches. Lip two-thirds the length of the lateral sepals, broadly obovate, acute, a little waved, the lower half with the margins revolute: the colour is yellow, tinged with green, and spotted with small blotches of brown, and, at the base above, is an oblong, yellow callosity, or tubercle, with three small teeth. Column and anther, as in the Genus.
son’s, under the name Brassta Wray, which is B. brachvata, LINDL,, in BentHam’s “ Plante Hartwegiane,” p. 94; but the description is too much at variance with the present plant, to induce me to suppose it can be
sa same, especially since it is said the sepals are sometimes six inches ong.
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( 4004 )
TrECOMA JASMINOIDES. JASMINE-LEAVED TECOMA.
Class and Order.
Dipynami1A ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Bienontacez. )
Generic Character.
Calyx campanulatus, quinquedentatus. Corolla hypo- gyna tubo brevi, fauce campanulata, limbo quinquelobo- bilabiato. Stamina corolle tubo inserta, quatuor fertilia didynama, cum quinti rudimento ; anthere biloculares, lo- culis divaricato-patentibus. Ovarium biloculare, ovulis ad dissepimenti margines utrinque plurimis, horizontalibus, anatropis. Stylus simplex ; stegma bilamellatum. Capsula elliptico-oblonga, v. elongato-siliqueformis, bilocularis, bivalvis, valvis dissepimento marginibus utrinque semini- fero contrariis. Semina plurima, transversa, compressa, utrinque in alam membranaceam expansa. Embryonis exalbuminosi orthotropi radicula centrifuga.—Arbores v. Frutices, interdum scandentes, in America tropica et boreali calidiore, rarius in Capite Bone-Spei, et in Nova Hollandia crescentes ; foliis oppositis, impari-pinnatis vel interdum digitatis, foliolis serratis, incisis aut rarius integerrumis ; flo- ribus terminalibus, paniculatis, flavis vel incarnatis. Endl.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Trcoma jasminoides ; foliis pinnatis foliolis bi-trijugis cum impari ovato-lanceolatis glabris nitidis, panicula termi- nali, corolla infundibuliformi-campanulata, limbi plani _ lobis subzqualibus rotundatis undulato-crenatis.
Txcoma jasminoides. All. Cunn. in Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 582: Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 2002. Don, Gard. Dict. v.
4. p. 225.
A climbing shrub of humble growth, a native of Moreton
Bay, on the North-eastern coast of New Holland, where it was
was discovered by the late ArLan CUNNINGHAM, and named by him in Loupon’s “ Hortus Britannicus.” Mr. C. also introduced it to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, where it is treated as a greenhouse plant, and bears its lovely blossoms, milk-white with a deep rose-coloured eye, in the month of August. / Descr. Stem climbing, glabrous. Leaves impari-pin- nate, with from five to seven, or, occasionally, even nine leaflets, which are sessile or nearly so, between ovate and lanceolate, tapering, yet blunt at the point, quite glabrous. Panicle terminal, subcorymbose, of several large, hand- some, showy flowers. Calyx very small, campanulate, of five nearly equal, broad, but acute teeth. Corolla between funnel and bell-shaped, very delicate milk-white, the throat rose-red, the limb of five nearly equal, spreading, rounded, somewhat waved and crenated lobes. Style and stamens
quite included within the tube of the corolla. Stigma two- lipped.
Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil: magnified.
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ANDROSACE LANUGINOSA. SHAGGY-LEAVED ANDROSACE.
KEKE KEE KEKE KEKE KEK Class and Order.
Pentanpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Primuacez.)
Generic Character.
Calyx quinquefidus vel quinquedentatus, demum sepius auctus. Corolla hypogyna, infundibuliformis vel hypocra- terimorpha, tubo calycem vix superante ovato, apice con- tracto, fauce fornicibus brevibus instructa. Stamina 5, corolle tubo inserta, ejusdem laciniis opposita, inclusa ; fila- menta brevissima ; antheré ovate, biloculares, longitudina- liter dehiscentes. Ovariwm uniloculare, placenta basilari globosa, substipitata. Ovula 5 v. indefinita peltatim am- phitropha. Stylus filiformis inclusus ; stigma obtusum vel Subglobosum. Capsula unilocularis, apice vel juxta totam longitudinem quinquevalvis. Semina 5 vel indefinita, pla- cente basilari globose libere stipitate inserta, dorso com- planato rugulosa, ventre convexo umbilicata. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi rectus, umbilico parallelus—Herbe in temperatis et frigidis hemisphere borealis obvie, plurime alpicole sepissime cespitose, pedunculis solitariis vel um- bellatis. Endl. ff
Specific Character and Synonyms. " i
Anprosace* lanuginosa ; caulescens demum procumbens tota pilis longis sericeo-lanosa, foliis sparsis obovato- lanceolatis acutis, pedunculo terminali elongato, um- bello multifloro, calyce tubum corolle ventricosum
= ANDROSACE
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leaf of * From avp, arpos, a man, and capxos, a buckler, the large hollow leaf of the common species having been thought to resemble an ancient buckler.
Anprosace lanuginosa. Wall. Fl. Indica, v. 2. p. 15. n. 615. Royle, Bot. of Himal. Mts. v. 1. p. 310. (8.) glabrior, Wall, Cat. l. c.
Seeds of this charming alpine plant were communicated to our kind friend, J. T. Mackay, Esq., from the Himalaya Mountains by Dr. Royte, and they flowered in the open air in the Dublin Botanic Garden in August, 1842, when the plants promised to be hardy. The flowers are of a delicate rose colour with a yellow eye, while the foliage and branches and young portions of the stem are densely clothed with long, silky hairs. Dr. Roy.e speaks of it as growing about Choon. Dr. Govan found it on the Sirmore Moun- tains, and R. Buinxworrn at Kamoon, where the var. f. also grows. Specimens from the latter country are in our Her- barium, given by Dr. Waxticu, and we possess beautiful eae sent us by the late Countess of Da.novusin, from Simla.
Descr. Stems five to six or eight inches long, often procumbent at the base, and there naked; above, branched in a proliferous manner, and leafy; the leaves scattered, alternate, nearly an inch long, between oblong and obo- vate, acute, clothed, as well as the branches, with long, soft, silky hairs. Pedunele terminal, often as long as the stem, soon appearing lateral from the proliferous shoots. Umbel of inany small flowers. Involucral leaves few, linear. Pedicels generally short, but varying in length from two lines to three-fourths of an inch. Calyx deeply cut into five oblong, blunt segments, close pressed to the tube of the corolla, and equal to it in length. Corolla: tube short, ven- tricose, yellow. Limb of five rose-purple, spreading, round- ed segments; the eye yellow: the mouth contracted, and furnished with a crenated ring. Stamens small, concealed
within the tube. Germen turbinate. Style short. Stigma capitate.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Cal
x and Pisti i i ; 4: Pietl magnifier: y istil. 3, Corolla, with Tube laid open
( 4006 ) PoinciANA Gituitsit. Dr. GILLIES’ PoINCIANA.
KKK KKK KEKE KEKE EERE Class and Order.
DecanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminosz. )
Generic. Character.
Calycis sepala 5 inequalia, basi in cupulam subpersisten- tem coalita, inferiore fornicato. Petala 5 stipitata, supe- riore difformi. Stamina 10, longissima, omnia secunda, filamentis basi hirsutis. Stylus longissimus. Legumen plano-compressum bivalve submultiloculare isthmis spongi- osis. Semina obovata compressa, endopleura in aqua gela~ tinosa, cotyledonibus planis, plumula ovali.—Frutices aut arbores elegantissime, aculeateé aut inermes. Folia abrupte — pinnata. Flores paniculato-corymbosi. Pedicelli longi bast
ebracteatit. D C.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Porncrana * Gilliesii ; inermis, foliolis oblongis, calycibus glandulosis apicibus dentato-ciliatis, leguminibus aci- naciformibus glandulosis unilocularibus exsuccis.
Poinciana Gilliesii. Hook. in Bot. Misc. v. 1. p. 129. ¢. 34. et vol. 3. p. 208. Don, Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v. 2.p.433. Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. v. 4. t. 311. ‘
Casapinia Gilliesii. Wall. MSS.
When I first described this charming plant, a native of
Mendoza, South America, in the Botanical Miscellany | above
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* Named in compliment to M. de PoInct, who was Governor General of the Antilles, about the middle of the seventeenth century. VOL. XVI. i
above quoted, I little thought I should one day have the pleasure of figuring it from plants flourishing in the open air, and without any covering in the winter. Yet such is the case. Seeds were introduced by Dr. Gixties in 1829, and young plants, both at Mr. Knieuv’s Nursery, and at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, were removed to a South aspect in front of a stove. They have, with us at least, attained to a height of six or seven feet, and bear their rich yellow blossoms, with the singularly long and thick scarlet stamens, during the summer months, and, indeed, till cut off by the early autumnal frosts. In such a situation, no shrub can be more deserving of cultivation. In its native country, the late Dr. Gitues, its discoverer, informed me that, “ it is called by the natives Mal de Ojos, and that it is very abundant in the cultivated plains of Mendoza, where it has the benefit of the water used in irrigation ; seeming to be incapable of living on the dry arid lands which are not under cultivation. Along the southern frontier of the pro- vince of Mendoza, between the rivers Diamante and Atuel, it is found abundantly, with other shrubs, in sheltered Situations: also among thickets along the western side of the Rio Quarto, near the western boundary of the Pampas ; those plants growing in Buenos Ayres (where it is not un- common), owing their origin to the seeds sent from Men- doza. They do not ascend further than to the foot of the mountains, neither are any traces of them to be seen in the province of San Juan, which follows Mendoza to the North, along the foot of the Cordillera of the Andes.”
Descr. Stems erect, much branched; branches rounded, nearly glabrous. Leaves alternate, abruptly bipinnate; the Jeaflets small, scarcely half an inch long, oblong, obtuse, glabrous. Stipules two, ovate, acuminate, at the base of the main rachis. Raceme terminal, of several, large, handsome Jlowers ; the lowest buds expanding first, leaving the upper part densely imbricated with the curious, deciduous bracteas ; these latter are ovate, cuspidato-acuminate, glandular at the back, serrated at the margin. Peduncle an inch long, glandular, thickened upwards. Calyx: tube short, turbinate, appearing externally to be the top of the peduncle ; Zim of five, oblong, nearly equal, green Segments, glandular on the outside, serrated at the point. Petals five, large, nearly equal, sessile, Spreading, obcordate, yellow. Stamens
ten, free, arising from the top of the calyx-tube, four to five inches
long, bright red. _Anthers Versatile, oblong.
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PLteromMA BENTHAMIANUM. Mr. BENTHAM’S PLEROMA.
KKK KKK KEK EK EEK KEREEEE Class and Order.
DecanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—MEtastomace2. )
Generic Character.
Cal. tubus ovatus, junior bracteis 2 deciduis involutus, lobi 5 decidui. Pet. 5 obcordata. Stam. 10. Filamenta pilosa v. glabra. Anthere elongate basi arcuate, connec- tivo stipitiformi basi breve biauriculateo. Ovarium calyci adnatum, apice setosum. Capsula baccata subsicca 5-locu- laris. Semina cochleata.—Frutices Australi-Americani, sepissime setis appressis scabri. Folia subrigida, 5-nervia. Flores ampli purpurei, in racemum paniculumve dispositi.
Specific Character and Synonym.
Pieroma* Benthamianum; ramis alato-tetragonis petiolis- que adpresse villosis, foliis petiolatis oblongo-lanceo- latis basi rotundatis vel vix cordatis acutis 9-nerviis in- tegerrimis supra setis minimis asperis subtus adpresse sericeo-villosis, panicula terminali glanduloso-pilosa, calycis glanduloso-setosi tubo ovato-globoso lobis ro- tundatis ciliatis, filamentis glanduloso-pilosulis, stylo villoso. |
Pieroma Benthamianum. Gardn. Herb. Bras. n. 410.
This species of Preroma, which I dedicate to my excel- lent friend, G. Bentuam, Esq., is, certainly, the most beau- tiful of the Genus which has yet flowered in this country. The plant, which was brought home by myself from the Organ Mountains, flowered in the autumn of 1842, in the
Glasgow
* So named by Mr. D. Don, from TWanpwya, fulness, probably from the copious seeds in the cells of the fruit.
Glasgow Botanic Garden, and, unlike many of its conge- ners, is not of very tardy growth, flowering freely at from a foot and a half to two feet high—a circumstance, which, along with the fine colour of the flower, cannot fail to render it popular among cultivators. In its native country it grows abundantly in a rather boggy soil, at an elevation of upwards of 3,000 feet above the sea level.
From its hairy stamens, this plant would be referred to the Genus Lastanpra, were it not that Mr. Benraam has satisfactorily shown (Hook. Journ. Bot. 2. p. 288) that Preroma and Lasianpra are not generically distinct ; and Pteroma being the older name, it must be retained. His observations on this subject are, “‘ PLeroma of Don is, evi- dently, the same Genus as Lastanpra of DE CANDOLLE, including, according to Cuamisso, Dirostecium of Don ; and the former name, being the older, should be retained. The original species have now all been re-examined, and are all found to have a dry, dehiscent fruit, although the calyx is more completely and more permanently adherent than in most capsular Genera. The separation of PLERoMA from Osecxta is, as observed by Martius, but very slight; both Genera being distinguished from CuzrogastrA by the same character, the deciduous lobes of the calyx. In Os- BECKIA the calyx is usually more or less covered with palmate, or stellate, hairs, or appendages, and the stamens are smooth ; in Preroma, the hairs, or bristles of the calyx, are usually simple, and the filaments more or less hairy; but neither of these characters is constant. In habit, Os- BECKIA agrees rather with some sections of CHZTOGASTRA, and, as in that Genus, the flowers are sometimes penta- merous, and sometimes tetramerous; but the OsBeckiA ca- mescens, EK. Mey., appears really to be nearer PLeRoMA than Ospecxia, although a native of South-East Africa.”
Descr. The plant is shrubby, with four-sided branches winged at the angles, and, together with the petioles, covered with adpressed hairs. The leaves are of an oblong- lanceolate shape, rounded, or somewhat cordate at the base, acute, nine-nerved, entire, the upper surface rough with small sete, while the lower is covered with adpressed, silky hairs. The flowers, which measure about two inches across, are of a beautiful dark purple colour, almost white in the centre. Stamens ten. Filaments covered with glandular
hairs. Ovary five-celled, als detisel oll wes ten ane eG. Gardest © densely covered with g
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Fig. 1, 2. Stamens. — 3. Transverse Section of the Ovary :—magnified.
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Amicia ZyGomeris. YOKE-LEAVED AmICIA.
KEK KEKE ERE KEKE KE EEE Class and Order.
DiapELPHIA DeEcANDRIA. ( Nat. Ord.—LeeuminoszZ. )
Generic Character.
Calyx campanulatus, 5-fidus, lobis 2 super. rotundatis maximis, lateralibus minutis, inferiore oblongo carinato concavo. Corolle vexillum orbiculatum, ale carina adpli- cate. Stamina 10, monadelpha, tubo superne fisso. Le- gumen \lineare compressum pluri-articulatum, articulis utringue truncatis.—Frutices. Ramuli et petioli pubes- — centes. Folia abrupte bijuga pellucido-punctata. Pedun- culi axillares 4—6-flori. Bractee 2, orbiculate, opposite ad originem pedicellorum. Flores flavi. De Cand.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Amicta Sygomeris ; foliis bijugis cuneato-obcordatis trun- cato-retusis, legumine biarticulato.
Amicia Zygomeris. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 315. Lin- nea, v. 5. p. 582, et v. 12. p. 308. Spreng. Syst. Veget. c. p. 294. %,
Amiciz sp. Hort.
The Genus Amrcia was 80 named by Messrs. Humpotpr- and Kunrx in honor of Joun Baptiste Amici, of Modena, who has so much distinguished himself by his riya tas observations, especially on the movement of the fluids in plants. It is chiefly distinguished from Porretia by the
| ay sry form of its calyx. There is another remarkable ea
ture in the entire plant, leaves, calyx, and even we an-
corolla ; that they are everywhere filled with pellucid, g dular
dular dots, resembling those of Hypericum. The first dis- covered species (by Humpotpr) is a native of New Grenada ; the second, and only other yet known, (the one here figured,) is a native of Mexico, was first taken up by De Canpo.te, and afterwards more fully described in the ** Linnea,” from specimens gathered by ScurepE in woods at Jalacingo ; and I possess fine native specimens collected by M. Gateortt, upon the Cordillera of Mexico, near the Pacific, growing in woods and by river-sides, at an eleva- tion of from 5,500 to 8,000 feet above the level of the sea. It is No. 3180 of M. Gatgorri’s, Mexican Collections. ScHLECHTENDAL Calls it, and deservedly, “ planta pulcher- rima ;”’ its flowers are large, copious, and the foliage ex- tremely delicate. It was introduced to this country from Paris by Messrs. Roxutsons of the Tooting Nursery, and by them kindly given to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where it blossomed copiously during the early winter months. This blossoming was probably hastened by its growth being checked from cuttings being taken from the plant. Descr. A tall, free growing shrub, the young branches and petioles clothed with patent, deciduous hairs. Leaves on long petioles, bijugate ; leaflets large, frequently two inches long, obcordate or almost cuneate, shortly petiolate, entire, truncate or slightly retuse at the top, pale green above, slightly glaucous beneath ; where the glandular dots are very conspicuous, even when not held up between the eye and the light, by their brown colour. The stipules are very deciduous, and only present on the young branches, but are large, orbicular, membranous, and very beautify
coloured, pale yellow-green, tinged and veined with red. Pedicels short, with la
e r X, opposite, coloured bracteas, resem- bling the stipules.
) Calyx most conspicuously dotted with glands, two-lipped; upper lip of two exceedingly large, veined, orbicular, conduplicate lobes, lower very small, deeply cut into three reflexed, acuminated lobes. Standard of the corolla large, broadly obcordate. Wings small, not half so long as the keel. “Filaments of the stamens much curved, very unequal in length. Germen of two terete joints, the upper tapering into the long, curved style.
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( 4009 ) PassirLorA AcTiniA. SEA+ANEMONE Passion-F LOWER.
oe Oe oe a oe oo Oe oe Oe Class and Order.
MonapDELPHIA PENTANDRIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Passirtorez. )
Generic Character.
Calycis tubus brevissimus, faux corona filamentosa multi- plici ornata. Bacca sepius pulposa, rarius submembra- nacea. D C,
Specific Name and Character.
Passirtora Actinia ; scandens, foliis integerrimis ovatis ob- tusis emarginatis subtus glaucis, etiolis pluri-glan- dulosis, pedicellis solitariis axillaribus, involucri sub flore triphylli foliolis ovato-cordatis acutis integerri- mis, sepalis petalisque oblongis coronam filamentosam
subzequantibus.
I can nowhere find the description of any Passion-Flower which accords with this, and which was sent last year from the Organ Mountains of Brazil to Mr. Verrcn of Exeter, b his Collector, Mr. Loss. It produced its handsome, an highly fragrant blossoms; first, in November, 1842, and again, more profusely, in February of the present year: on both which occasions, the plant was exhibited at the meet- ings of the Horticultural Society, where it could not fail to be much admired. The name, as will be at once seen, is suggested by the resemblance of the flower to those marine animals, so common upon our rocky coasts, known by the name of Sea-Anemone (Activia). The plant deserves a place in every stove.
Descr. Siem climbing; branches rounded, green, gla-
brous, as i rt of the plant. Leaves about three as Is every part P Mars
inches long, ovate, obtuse, and emarginate at the point, dark green above, pale and glaucous beneath. Petioles scarcely half so long as the leaves, flexuose, beset with four to six rounded, fleshy glands. Tendrils unbranched. Pe- dunceles axillary, single-flowered, rather longer than the pe- tioles ; at the top of which, and just under the calyx, is a large, three-leaved involucre ; leaflets half the length of the calyx, between ovate and cordate, acute, entire, glaucous. Calyx with a short tube, limb of five greenish, oblong lobes. Petals oblong, rather longer than the calyx, nearly white. Nectary, or filamentous crown, of numerous spreading, in- curved, worm-like filaments, beautifully banded with red, blue, and white: within this, on the disc, are three circles _ very minute processes. Stamens and Pistil as in the enus.
( 4010 ) GASTROCHILUS LONGIFLORA. LOoNG-FLOW- ERED GASTROCHILUS.
BR RAE RR ROE OR OR Oe OO ON OS Oe Class and Order.
MonanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Scrraminez. )
Generic Character.
Calyx tubulosus, hine fissus. Corolle tubus elongatus, filiformis, limbi lacinie exteriores equales patentes, interi- ores laterales latiores, basi cum filamento in tubo connate ; labellum maximum, saccatum. Filamentum lineare, ultra anther mutice loculos connectivo longiores haud produc- tum. Ovarium inferum, triloculare. Ovula in loculorum angulo centrali plurima, horizontalia, anatropa. Stylus filiformis ; stigma capitato-convexum, Capsula —.—Herbe Indice, acaules, vel caulescentes ; radice repente vel fibroso- ramosa, tuberibus subsessilibus fasciculatis ; spica radical v. terminali imbricata, floribus nutantibus. Endl.
Specific Character and Synonym. GAsTROCHILUS longiflora ; foliis oblongo-cordatis longe peti- olatis, spicis radicalibus, tubo corolla longissimo ex-
serto. / Gastrocuinus longiflora. Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. bi 1. pp.
22. tab. 25.
An equally rare, though less showy, species, with that figured at our Tan. 3930, requiring the same treatment, and flowering about the same time, July and August. It is likewise a native of Rangoon; and also of Martaban in the East Indies, and is one of the many treasures for the pos-
session of which the Royal Botan: c Ga
indebted to Dr. WaLLIcH. >entlem: n, in bi
tion above quoted, observes that the present species “ has the habit of Kampreria. Its flowers are smaller than those _ of G. pulcherrima, from which it differs abundantly in being stemless, and having long-petioled, cordate leaves, radical spikes, and flowers with very long tubes.” Descr. Leaves all radical, erect, somewhat bifarious, broadly oblong, much acuminated at the point, costate at the base, and generally unequal, with copious, oblique nerves, and slightly plaited. Petioles about equal in length with the limb, deeply grooved, the margins from the base upwards membranaceous, and terminating, below the limb, in a tooth-like process. Spikes several, from the base of the petioles, radical, and partly concealed by the earth. Bracteas several, sheathing, striated, one to two-flowered. Flowers on short pedicels, pale-yellow, tipped and more or less tinged with red. General structure of the flower sim- ilar to that described under G. pulcherrima, only the calyx
is, at the base, elongated into a slender, exserted tube, three inches long.
Fig. 1. Inner view of the upper portion of the Corolla, with the Anther and Apex of the Style ;—-slightly magnified.
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SENECIO CALAMIFOLIUS. QUILL-LEAVED Carpe GROUNDSEL.
Class and Order.
SyNGENESIA F'RUSTRANEA. ( Nat. Ord.—Composir2. )
Generic Character.
Capitulum homogamum, discoideum aut heterogamum, Jl. radii ligulatis foemineis. Invol. 1-serialis, nunc nudi nune squamellis accessoriis calyculati, squame sepius apice spha- celate margine subscariose, dorso frequenter binervate. Recept. epaleaceum nudum alveolatumve. Style fl. herm. rami truncati apiceque solo penicillati! Achenium erostre |
-exalatum teretiusculum aut sulcato-angulatum. ‘Pappus Zo
pilosus pluriserialis caducus, setis rectis subequalibus ten-— uissimis vix scabris.—Herbe aut Frutices innumert, poly-— -morphi. Folia alterna. Capitula solitaria corymbosa, aut ‘paniculata. Cor. disci fere semper lute, rarissime purpu-_ ree. Ligule etiam flave rarius purpurascentes aut albi.
DC
| Specific Name and Character. Senecio calamifolius ; fruticosus arachnoideo-pubescens, — foliis ad apices ramorum dense fasciculatis elongatis ~ eylindraceis apice hinc planis sepe dilatato-spathulatis, pedunculis axillaribus subcorymboso-paniculatis, pedi- cellis bracteatis, involucri turbinati foliolis subbiseria- _libus pubescentibus apice sphacelatis basi squamel- latis, radii flosculis subduodecim,
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An old inhabitant of the greenhouse of the Royal Gar- dens at Kew, having been introduced from the Cape. by Mr. Bowir: but it seems never to have been described by any author. Few species are better marked. The leaves
indeed
indeed are more like those of some MrsemBpryANTHEMUM, or Fig-Marigold, than of any Groundsel. It blossoms in August, and from its copious, large yellow flowers, has a lively appearance.
Descr. Stem shrubby, branched, woody, a foot or more high, nearly of the thickness of the finger, clothed with a rough, pale-green, downy bark. The branches are termi- nated by dense fascicles of glaucous-green, fleshy, cylin- drical leaves, three to five inches long and three lines broad, curved, the apex flat, or, as it were, scooped out on one side, and more or less dilated, so as to be almost spoon- shaped :—the whole is clothed with a cobwebby, compact substance, lying close to the surface. From the axil of the leaves arises a peduncle a foot long, paniculated, bearing a small leaf at the setting on of the first, or lowest, branches ; the leaves upwards gradually pass into subulate, appressed scales, or bracteas.. The peduncle and its branches are red- dish, striated, downy. Pedicels single-flowered ; the flower large, full yellow. Involucre shortly cylindrical, or almost turbinate, downy. Scales, or leaflets, subulate, in two rows, sphacelate at the point; the base having a few appressed,
short, subulate scales. Florets of the ray and of the disk as in other species of the Genus.
Fig. 1. Floret of the Disk. 2. Ditto of the Ray :—magnijfied.
( 4012 ) ACHIMENES GRANDIFLORA. LARGE-FLOW- ERED ACHIMENES.
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Class , and Order.
DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—GEsNERIACEZ. )
Generic Character.
Calycis tubus ovario adnatus, limbus 5-partitus, lobis lanceolatis. Corolla tubuloso -infundibuliformis basi hine sepe gibba, limbo plano 5-fido, lobis subaqualibus sub- rotundis. Stamina 4, didynama, antheris non coherentibus. Rudimentum staminis quinti corolle basi inferne impo-
‘situm. Nectarium glandulosum annulare tenue. Stylus
in stigma vix incrassatum obliquum aut subbilobum abeuns.
Capsula semibilocularis, bivalvis, placentis parietalibus bn
subsessilibus.—Herbe Americane erecta, villose. Folia opposita aut terno-verticillata petiolata dentata. Pedicelli l-flori, axillares. Corolle coccineé aul purpuree multo quam Gloxinie minores. Radices, saltem specierum rie cognitarum, bulbillis squamosis onuste. D C. )
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Acuiments grandiflora; pilis patentibus hispida, foliis oppo- sitis equalibus ovatis acutis basi obliquis sparse serra- tis DC.
Acuimenrs grandiflora. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 536.
Lindl. Bot. Reg. Misc. 1842, n. 59. Trevinania grandiflora. Linnea, v. 8. p. 247.
The drawing of this fine plant was sent to us in January - last, by M. Van Hovrre, of Ghent. Never having seen a flowering specimen of the plant, I abstain from offering any
description.
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description. It would seem to vie with A. longiflora in the size and beauty of its flowers. Their colour is much more verging to red, and the leaves are rusty-coloured below. It was discovered by Scurepr and Deprr in Mexico, gTow- ing in shady places, near the Hacienda de la Laguna, in
Barranza de loselos. Its period of flowering in Europe -« has not been stated to me.
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DENDROBIUM CRUMENATUM. SWEET-SMELLING CLUB-STEMMED DENDROBIUM.
KKK EEE KEE EEE EERE RERER EE Class and Order.
GyNANDRIA MonanprIia. ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuine2. )
Generic Character
Sepala membranacea, erecta, vel patentia, lateralibus majoribus obliquis cum basi producta columnz connatis. Petala sepalo supremo sepius majora nunc minora, semper membranacea. Labellum cum pede columna -articulatum vel connatum, semper sessile, indivisum vel trilobum, sepius membranaceum, nunc appendiculatum. Colwmna semiteres, basi longe producto. Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 4, per paria collateralia—Herbe epiphyte, nunc _caulescentes, nunc rhizomate repente pseudo-bulbifero. Folia plana, se- pius venosa. Flores solitarii, fasciculati vel racemost, spe-
ctost. Lindl.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
DenprRogium crumenatum ; caulibus cespitosis erectis basi incrassatis teretibus, foliis ovato-oblongis obtusis emar- ginatis, racemo terminali (3-) multifloro, sepalis peta- lisque ovatis acuminatis subundulatis _conformibus, labello cucullato trilobo, lobis lateralibus truncatis intermedio ovato acuto, disco lamellato. Lindl. =
Denprozium crumenatum. Swartz, Act. Holm. 1800. p. 246. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 137._ Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 88. Bot. Reg. 1839, t. 22. 4
Ancracum crumenatum. Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6. p. 105. t. sit a mB :
oats crumenatum. Blum. Bidr. p. 326.
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A native of various islands in the Malay Archi lago,
first figured by Rumpuivs, and recommending itself for cul- tivation
tivation by the pure white of its blossoms, and their delicious fragrance. Buume, indeed, says, that the flowers vary from white to pink; but of the latter hue we have never seen them. Our specimen, here figured, flowered at Kew in April, 1842. Descr. Stems tufted, erect, a foot and a half or more long, thickened, or clubbed and furrowed at the base, forming an imperfect pseudo-bulb ; the rest rounded, and gradually tapering to an acuminated point. The lower one has a few remote, sheathing scales ; the middle part is eafy, the leaves gradually becoming smaller, and flowers taking their place upwards. Leaves oblong, obtuse, coria- ceous, distichous, semiamplexicaul at the base, and sheath- ing. Pedicels curved downwards, with sheathing bracts at the base. Sepals and petals oblong, attenuated, pure white. Lip articulated on the very decurrent base of the column, three-lobed, the middle lobe broadly oblong, waved and crenate, pure white, but on the disk is a yellow crest, form- ed of several parallel, crenated lamelle. Column short. Anther-case hemispherical. Pollen-masses as in the Genus.
Fig. 1. Column and Petals. 2. Column with the Anther-case separating from it :—magnified.
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STIGMAPHYLLUM HETEROPHYLLUM. VARIOUS- LEAVED STIGMAPHYLLUM.
Jee Class and Order. ,
DecanpRiA T'RIGYNIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Matpieniacea. )
Generic Character.
Calyx quinquepartitus, laciniis quatuor basi extus bi- glandulosis. Corolle petala 5, hypogyna, calyce longiora, unguiculata, seepissime denticulato-ciliata, inequalia, Sta-_ mina 10, hypogyna, dissimilia et inequalia, quatuor subin- teriora calycis laciniis glanduliferis opposita minora vel — sterilia, vel subexteriora semper fertilia, alterna crassiora ¢ majora stylis opposita ; filamenta basibus connata ; anthere introrse, biloculares, connectivo crasso, glanduleformi, loculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, staminum quatuor interiorum nullis vel effeetis. Ovaria 3, angulo centrali coalita, dorso gibba, unilocularia; ovulo unico, pendulo, reclinato. Styli 3, divaricati, apice introrsum in cucullum foliaceum expansi, vel rarius tantum compresso-dilatati, intus mamilla stigmatica instructi. Samare 3 vel abortu pauciores, in axi coalite, apice in alam, margine antico Superiore crassiorem expanse, latere sepe cristata, inde- hiscentes, monosperma. Semen inversum.— Embryonis ex- albuminosi, cotyledones apice inflexe, radicula brevissima, supera.—Frutices Americe Tropica, plerumque scandentes ; radice in multis tuberosa; foliis oppositis vel ternatim verti- cillatis, in summis ramis remotioribus vel interdum alternis, petiolatis, integerrimis, dentatis vel. varie lobatis, interdum ciliatis, petiolo plus minus elongato, apice biglanduloso, basi bistipulato, stipulis minutis, deciduis, inflorescentus umbelli- formibus, in apice ramulorum terminalibus, vel s@pius in ramulis axillaribus, plerumque dichotomis, pedunculos com~ _munes mentientibus quasi axillaribus, pedicellis cum pedun- culis subequalibus, basi bracteatis et apwe bibracteolatis,
- articulatis, apice sepissime incrassatis, ante anthesin recur-
vs, floribus luteis. Endl. Spee ific
Specific Name and Character.
Srigmapuyiium* heterophyllum; parce pilosum, foliis ovatis obtusis cum mucrone v, subcordatis trilobis lobis ob- longis obtusis lateralibus patentibus, petiolo infra api- cem biglanduloso, umbellis axillaribus plurifloris, sty- lis apice foliaceis.
A showy, handsome climber, hitherto cultivated in the stove by Mr. Veircu, who raised it from seeds sent from Buenos Ayres by Mr. Tweepie: but I have reason to be- lieve, on the authority of specimens in my Herbarium, that its native country is Tucuman, whence the seeds were brought by Mr. Tweepie, and reared by him about Buenos Ayres. It is a ready flowerer, and promises to be worthy of cultivation in every stove or warm greenhouse, making a beautiful object, if trained against trellis work. At Exeter it flowered in December, 1842. ;
Descr. Stem branched, climbing. Leaves opposite, mostly ovate, waved, entire, very obtuse with a mucro ; not unfrequently broader, almost cordate, deeply three-lobed ; the lobes oblong-obtuse, with a mucro, the side ones spread- ing; colour dark green above, pale below. There are a few scattered, appressed hairs, fixed by their middle, chiefly on the under side of the leaves. Petioles about half or three quarters of an inch long, with a large, depressed gland on either side near the apex. Peduncles solitary, axillary, thickened, shorter than the leaf, and bearing an umbel of several rich yellow flowers. Calyx of five erect sepals, each with two large glands on the back. Petals orbicular, clawed, waved and ciliated at the margin. Stamens ten.
Styles three, each expanding into a foliaceous, green stigma,
* So called from ctyue, the sti. d ; a bei broad and leafy. igma, and Pvarcr, a leaf: the stigmas being
Fig. 1. Flower, from which the Petals have fallen. 2. Petal :—magnified.
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( 4015 ) SIPHOCAMPYLOS LONGEPEDUNCULATUS. LoNG FLOWER-STALKED SIPHOCAMPYLOS. JERSE Class and Order. 7’ PENTANDRIA Mouteawun
( Nat. Ord.—Loseniacez. )~
Generic Character.
Calyx 5-lobus, tubo turbinato aut hemispherico. Co- rolla tubo superne sepius ventricoso, plerumque recurvo,
integro vel (rarissime) basi fisso et superne solum integro ; -lobis 5 tubo brevioribus bilabiatis falcatis, duobus superio- ribus spe majoribus supra faucem reflexis, inferioribus subbrevioribus. Stamina connata, antheris 2 inferioribus
apice barbatis aut (rarius) omnibus hirsutis.— Frutices, suffrutices, vel herb, ex America presertim meridionali, nonnunquam. scandentes ; caulibus ramisque sepius erectis ; foliis alternis aut verticillatis, pedicellis axillaribus ; floribus rubris vel sordide albidis, corollis plerumque pubescentibus,. latere superiore paulo majore. Convexitas corolle sursum
Specitans. DC. ye Sp s »C pp
_ Specific Character and Synonyms.
SiPHOCAMPYLOS longepedunculatus ; subscandens, glabrius- culus, foliis alternis ovato-acuminatis membranaceis argute dentatis basi subcordatis, pedicellis folio longio- ribus (y. brevioribus), corolla lobis acumiatis, anthe- ‘ris glabris 2. infer. apice barbatis, “ capsula elongata obovoidea.” i ™
Sipnocampyzos longepedunculatus. Pohl, Pl. Bras. ». 2. p. 109. t.172. De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 401.
Lozetia pedicellaris. Presl. Prodr, Lob. p. 34.
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This is another fine Srpnocampyos, for which our stoves
are indebted to Mr. GARDNER, who sent home seeds, as well as
as specimens, from the Organ Mountains of Brazil. It was first detected in the province of Rio Janeiro by Pout, and figured by him in his splendid work on the Plants of Brazil. The colouring being done from a dried individual, that of the flower is, probably, inaccurate. The length of the peduncle I find to be highly variable : for whereas the dried native specimens sent home by Mr. Garpner (his n. 465) exhibit them as long as, or even longer than, the leaves ; in our flowering plant, raised from his seeds, the peduncles are scarcely more than half the length of the leaf. The stems are long and trailing rather than climbing, and should be fastetied to wire trellice, when the plant makes a hand- some appearance. Ours flowered in January, 1823, and _ that of the Glasgow Botanic Garden about the same time. Descr. Shrubby. Stems scandent, rounded, glabrous, as is the whole plant. Leaves alternate, on short petioles, three to four inches long, ovato-acuminate, sharply denticu- lated, of a thin and membranous texture. Pedunele axil- lary, single-flowered, varying much in length, sometimes considerably exceeding the leaves, flexuose. Flower large. Calyx-tube turbinate, short ; its five segments linear-subu- late, spreading, entire. Corolla nearly three inches long ; the éube contracted near the base, slightly enlarged up- wards, curved, dark purplish-red, the segments yellow.
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( 4016 ) Erica IrsyAna. Mr. Irsy’s Hearn.
KKK EEE KEKE KEKE KEE REE Class and Order.
Ocranpria Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Entcacez. )
Generic Character.
Calyx equalis vel imbricatus, quadripartitus, vel rarius quadrifidus. Corolla hypogyna tubulosa, hypocraterimor- pha, urceolata, campanulata vel globosa, limbo brevi rarius maximo quadrifido, connivente, erecto, patente vel revolu- to. Stamina 8, rarius 6—7, disco hypogyno glanduloso inserta, Filamenta libera, rarissime submonadelpha. _An- there incluse vel exserte, terminales, ad insertionem fila- menti appendicibus duabus aristate vel cristate, vel omnino Mutice, poro orbiculari vel oblongo vel rima longitudinali dehiscentes. Ovarium quadriloculare rarius 8-loculare, loculis 200 ovulatis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma obtusum, capitatum vel peltato-dilatatum, sepe breviter 4-lobum. Capsula 4-rarius 8-locularis, loculicide quadrivalvis, disse- Ppimentis demum fissis partim valvulis, partim columelle adherentibus. Semina_ placentis axilibus affixa, ovoidea vel compressa, testa adhzrente reticulata leviuscula vel nitida, rarius in membranam tenuem expansa.—Frutices Europei vel maxima parte Austro-Africant, rigiduli, ramo- Sissimi; rarius flaccidi. Folia sepissime linearia, acerosa, marginibus omnino revolutis et sub folio coherentibus pagi- nam inferiorem veram omnino occultantibus, rarius omnino plana verticillata vel rarius alterna vel sparsa. Flores in pedicellis uniflores axillares vel terminales, solitarii, verticil-
lati, capitati vel umbellati, plerumque cernut. D C.
Specifie Character and Synonyms. —
Erica Irbyana ; foiiis ternis erectis lineari-lanceolatis tri- gonis ciliatis rigidis, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis acutis,
corollz viscose tubo oblongo basi subattenuato versus apicem
apicem longiuscule et leviter attenuato, limbi laciniis ovatis.
Erica Irbyana. Andrews’ Heaths, t.219. Lodd. Bot. Cab. é. 816. (forma hybrida a germina parum diversa. Benth). De Cand. Prodr. v.17. p. 645.
Evrrtoma Irbyana. G. Don, Mill. Dict. Gard. v. 3.p. 816.
Var. Bandonia. Andr. Heaths, t..205.
Catusta Bandonia. G. Don, Mill. Gard. Dict. v. 3. p. 813.
A most lovely plant, brought to great perfection in the greenhouse of the College Botanic Garden, Dublin, by our friend Mr. Macway: but hybridized, as are so many of our Cape Heaths at this time in our collections, that it is impos- sible to pronounce upon the limits of the species. The present one was sent as E. Bandonia of Anprews : but that is considered by Mr. Benruam in De Canpo.te’s Prodromus above quoted, as a form of E. Irbyana with patent leaves, which is by no means the case with our plant. It differs from the E. Irbyana of Lopp. Bot. Cabinet, in its still more erect foliage and shorter and broader corollas: in short, it seems pretty well to accord with the original E. Irbyana. :
Descr. A shrub, with flexuose branches, clothed with erect, imbricated leaves, which are linear-lanceolate, aris- tate at the point, plane or slightly concave in front, carinate at the back, with a furrow on the keel, the margin entire, but ciliated. Flowers in sessile umbels at the apex of the branches. Pedicels red, bearing several erect, membranous, subulate bracteas. Calyx of five linear-subulate sepals. Tube of the corolla rather more than twice the length of the calyx, oblong-urceolate, remarkably. glutinous, white or nearly so, the faux deep rose colour ; the four spreading segments of the limb ovate, white. Stamens eight, as long as the tube of the corolla, erect, all of them singularly flex- uose near the middle. Anthers awnless. Germen oblong- clavate, with eight glands at the base. Style a little longer than the stamens. Stigma dilated with five obtuse points.
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Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Stamens and Pistil, 3. Anther. 4. Pistil :—magnified.
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( 4017 ) CATASETUM VIRIDI-FLAVUM. YELLOW-GREEN CATASETUM.
Class and Order.
GynanpriA Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEz. )
Generic Character.
- Perianthium sepius globosum, nunc explanatum. Se- pala et petala subequalia. Labellum crassum, carnosum, nudum, ventricosum vel explanatum, fimbriatum; sub apice saccatum. obsolete trilobum. Columna erecta, aptera, libera, apice utrinque cirrhosa. Anthera subbilocularis, antice truncata, Pollinia 2, postice biloba vel sulcata ; caudicula maxima nuda demum elastice contractili; glan- dula cartilaginea subquadrata.—Herbe terrestres vel ept- phyte; caulibus brevibus fusiformibus vestigiis foliorum vestitis, Folia basi vaginantia, plicata. Scapi radicales. oes speciosi, racemosi, virides, nunc purpureo-maculate.
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Specific Name and Character.
Carasetum viridi-flavum ; foliis oblongis acutis, sepalis patentibus petalisque ovatis acutis concavis, labello subconico-saccato cucullato, ore contracto integro ciliato, anthera columnaque acuminatis.
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Every district of tropical South America seems to afford a Caraserum, different from what is found in other places ; but how far these are to be defined as specifically distinct it is not easy to say. The present, quite unlike in the general appearance of its flowers any other known to us, 1s yet with difficulty to be distinguished in words. It was discovered by Mr. Barcray, (while employed as Government Botanist
on the Pacific side of South America, in H. M. wei ed ip
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NEMATANTHUS LONGIPES. LONG FLOWER- STALKED NEMATANTHUS. 3
SERRE REE KEK EE KKEK Class and Order.
DipynamiA ANGIOSPERMIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Gesneriacez. )
Generic Character.
Calyx liber obliquus ultra medium 5-fidus seu 5-partitus, lobis lanceolato-linearibus subequalibus, summo paululum minore. Corolla infundibuliformi-campanulata obliqua basi postice gibba, fauce patula, limbo zqualiter 5-lobo. Stamina 4 didynama cum quinto rudimentario aut nullo. Anthere coherentes. Annulus hypogynus et glandula pos- tica. Capsula pyramidalis coriacea 1-locularis 2-valvis, placentis 2 parietalibus bilamellatis. Semina innumerosa oblonga —Frutices Brasilienses simplices aut parce ramosi, supra arbores scandentes sepe radicantes, epidermide nitida cinereo-testacea. Folia opposita (altero sepe minore ) petio- lata crassiuscula oblonga aut ovali-lanceolata utringue acu-— minata subintegerrima, juniora ciliata. Gemmatio nuda Joliis complicatis. \ Pedicelli axillares 1-flori solitarii ebrac- teati filiformes penduli. Corolle punicee ample. DC. —
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Nematantnus * longipes ; pedicellis folio longioribus, caly-
cibus ultra medium quinquefidis. __ | EMATANTHUs longipes. De Cand. Prodr. 7. p. 544. Gard.
in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. v. 1. p. 178. (and in Herb. Braz.) n. 72. (2.) a
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* From mya, ares, a thread, and arbos, a flower ; from the pendent thread- like peduncles on which the flowers are suspended. VOL. XVI. L
The Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew are indebted to Messrs. Rotutsons of Tooting for the possession of this truly beautiful plant. It seems to have been introduced from Brazil to Paris, and probably by the late lamented M. GuitteMin, to the Jardin des Plantes, whence it was sent to Messrs. Roxtisons by Mr. Neumann of that establish- ment. Our young plant soon flowered in the winter, December and January of last year, and again it is in high beauty in the present month of May. It is a climber, thriving well in the moist heat of our Orchideous house, and makes a most handsome appearance, if trained about the wire trellices which are now so commonly and so success- fully attached to the pots which contain climbing plants. It has been found by Mr. Garpner in woods of the Corco- vado, Brazil, and is n. 72 (2) of his Collection : and is per- fectly distinct from the N. chloromena, (Marr. Noy. Gen. Bras. v. 3. p. 47. t. 219,) which is n. 5531 of Mr. Garpner; but De Canpoxze seems to think it possible that the N. corticola, Scurav. (N. ionema Marr.) may be the same, though the colour of the flower is described as very dif- ferent.
Drscr. A soft- wooded, half-shrubby, climbing, and radicant plant ; with opposite, fleshy, elliptical or subovate, petiolated glabrous leaves, entire, or sometimes here and there serrated. From the axils of these leaves the long, slender peduncles, twice or thrice the length of the leaves, hang down, apparently drooping with the weight of the large richly-coloured flowers. Calyx hairy, deeply cut, for more than three-quarters of the way down, into five lanceo- late, coarsely serrated segments. Corolla rich scarlet, ob- liquely protruded between two of the segments, gibbous at the base, inflated at the throat, but there laterally, singularly pinched or compressed. Limb of five short, revolute, lobes. Stamens as long as the corolla, Anthers united. Pollen yellow. Ovary free, oblong, and, as well as the lower part
rie Beer hairy. On one side, at the base, is a large,
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PoLysporRA AXILLARIS. AXILLARY PoLy-— SPORA.
SEEKER EEK EEE EEE EE REREEEE Class and Order.
MonapetpuiA PonyanpRia. ( Nat. Ord.—TERNsTR@MIACES. )
Generic Character
Calyx bracteatus. Sepala 5. Petala 5—6. Stamina numerosa basi monadelpha et cum petalis connata. lus simplex angulatus. Stigma lobatum. Ovarium 5-loculare. Ovula biseriatim inserta ex angulo centrali. Capsula ob- longa, lignosa, 5-locularis, 5-valvis, polysperma. Semina imbricata superne alata.—Frutex Chinensis ; foliis obovatis glabris integris v. serratis; floribus axillaribus solitarus subsessilibus. Don.
Specific Name and Synonyms.
e Potyspora * axillaris. * 1c Potyspora axillaris. Don, Dict. of Gard. and Bot. v. 1. p. ‘Cametzia axillaris. Roxb.—Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 349. Sims Bot. Mag. t. 2047. . :
Gorponia anomala. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 3. Pp: 126. |
__ So little justice has been done to this extremely beautiful plant, by any figure which has yet been given to it, that our readers will not be displeased at seeing the present representation, taken froma specimen which flowered in the
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in November, 1842. a
* So named by SWEET, apparently from sonus, many, and omopa, a seed” from the numerous seeds in the cells of the capsule.
plant was given to us by Mr. Makoy of Liege. _ It is said to be a native of Pulo Penang ; but I possess fruit-bear- ing specimens, from which the accompanying capsule was drawn, brought to me by Mr. Livinesrone from China, where, however, it is probably only cultivated. Much as the general appearance resembles CAMELLIA, the fruit is quite different, and seems to justify Mr. Sweer in consti- tuting a new Genus of it. Enpicuer, indeed, refers it to Gorpont, to which it has a near affinity.
Descr. Shrubby, branched. Leaves alternate, oblong- obovate, obtuse, coriaceous, dark glossy green above, paler below, the margin quite entire, except some of the lower leaves, which are more or less serrated. Petioles short. Flowers clustered upon short, terminal branches, on which the leaves appear to be reduced to foliaceous bracteas. Calyx of five imbricated, obcordate sepals, with two or three scales at the base, green below, the rest dark brown. Petals \arge, cream-coloured, broadly -obcordate, nearly equal, with a sixth external and smaller one on the outside, tipped with brown. Stamens numerous. Filaments yellow, united by their bases among themselves, and to the petals. Anthers yellow, oblong, two-celled, opening longitudinally, orange-yellow as well as the pollen. Ovary nearly glo- bose, silky, tapering into a thickened, angular style, as long as the stamens, five-celled : each cell with two rows of ovules attached to the inner angle. Stigma lobed. Capsule oblong-obovate, brown, marked near the top with five obsolete furrows, very hard and woody, and though, in my
specimens, apparently mature, difficult to force open. Seeds with a broad wing above.
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IMPATIENS GLANDULIGERA. ‘GLANDULAR. BausaM; or Touch me not. SI sskeskeokskeokokeskokskakae Class and Order.
Pentanpria Monoeynia.
( Nat. Ord.—Batsaminea. )
Generic Character.
Antheré quinque, nempe 3-loculares, 2 ante petalum superius I-loculares. Stigmata 5 coalita. Capsula prisma- tico-teretiuscula elongata, valvis 4 bast ad apicem extror-
sum revolutis. Cotyledones planiuscula. Pedunculi axil-_ lares ramosi multiflori. Capsule glabre. Folia alterna, +
Specific Character and Synonyms.
IMPATIENS glanduligera ; annua erecta, foliis verticillatis ternatis ovato-lanceolatis argute serratis serraturis ba- seos glandulosis, stipulis teretibus clavatis glandulosis, pedunculis axillaribus subterminalibus 3-floris, sepalo dorsali integro mutico, calcare brevi inflexo, petalo- rum lobo altero rotundato altero dimidiato oblongo
obtuso subfalcato, fructu brevi gh ah Lindl. Impatiens glanduligera. Royle Iustr. Himal. Mount. 151. «6.28.72. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, t.22. Pies.
This is one of many desirable hardy plants of the North of India which have of late years been introduced to
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through Dr. Royre. The present was, indeed, first de- scribed by that gentleman, who obtained the species from Cashmere seed. Notwithstanding the peculiarity of climate which prevails in the hill country of India, where this plant
is a native, almost all seasons in this country seem to be f % ~ favorable
favorable to its growth : for, though a moist atmosphere sin- gularly favors the rapid growth of this plant, yet, dry as was the summer of last year, in my own private garden, it came to great perfection. And this summer, there is a most abundant crop of self-sown plants, which only require to be thinned out, and thus an annual supply may without diffi- culty be kept up. In the earlier stage of the plant, its coarse dark foliage is very unpromising ; but when the copious flowers come to perfection, it will be seen that few annuals are better worthy of a place in every good-sized flower garden. The flowers are in the greatest perfection im autumn.
Descr. An annual plant, six to ten or twelve feet high, with a very thick somewhat hollow stem, and copious branches and foliage. Leaves three to five inches long, ovate, or between ovate and lanceolate, sharply serrated, the serratures at the base glandular, and decurrent upon | the petiole. Stipules clothed with thick, glandular hairs. The peduncles, with their three or more flowers, are so copious towards the top of the plant from the axils of the leaves, that they may be said to form a large, leafy panicle. Flowers large, dark purple, succeeded by the seed-vessels of the same hue, which, when ripe, or nearly so, burst on
the slightest touch with a remarkably elastic force, and disperse the seed far and wide.
Fig. 1. Ripe Seed-vessel :—nat. size.
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BRASSAVOLA VENOSA. VEIN-LIPPED BRASSAVOLA.
KKK KEK KR EEE EEE EERE €lass and Order.
GyNANDRIA MonANDRIA. ( Nat. Ord —Orcnipes. )
Generic Character.
Sepala et petala subequalia, libera, acuminata. Label- lum cucullatum, integrum, columnam involvens. Columna_ marginata, clavata, stigmate infundibulari, clinandrio pos-— tice tridentato. Pollinia 8, subequalia, quibusdam aliis
fparvis interjectis. Anthera 4-locularis, septis marginatis, loculis semibipartitis —Herbe caulescentes, epiphyte, apice folium unicum v. alterum, semicylindraceum, carnosum, supra sulcatum, apice subulatum gerentes. Flores termt- nales, magni, speciosi. Lindl.
Specific Character and Synonyms. eee
Brassavoza venosa ; folio lineari-lanceolato coriaceo-car- noso superne canaliculato, sepalis petalisque lineari- lanceolatis, labelli ungue elongato serrato, lamina cor-
data acuminata yenosa basi subserrata.
Brassavota venosa: Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840. Misc. n. 24. @1.39. % i | Ps
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‘In the form and serratures of the lip, we fear the species of BrassAvota, as is the case with so many other Orchidez, are very liable to vary. That this plant is identical with the B. venosa of Dr. Linvtey, there is, probably, little _ doubt, but the labellum is not so serrated, and the lamina _ less disposed to be three-lobed. It was drawn in July, from
iy lant that flowered in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew.
Much as it resembles B: nodosa, (Bot. Mag. e Oe
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Dr. Linpey observes, it seems to us still more closely allied to B. cordata, (Bot. Mag. t. 3782,) differing chiefly in the size of the flower and breadth of the leaf, to which Dr. Linvuey adds, “ in the firmness of the lip, which is more or less evidently lobed at the side,’’ (a variable character,) “ and has the veins distinctly elevated.”
It flowered in the stove of the Royal Botanic Gardens, and is certainly the finest of all the Brassavotas.
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CESTRUM VIRIDIFLORUM. GREEN-FLOWERED CESTRUM.
KEKE EEE EKER EE EEE ER
Class and Order.
PentanpriaA Monoeynta. ( Nat. Ord.—SoaneEz. )
Generic Character.
_ Calyx tubuloso-campanulatus, 5-dentatus. Corolla in- fundibuliformis limbo plicato 5-fido, Stamina tubo inserta subdenticulata. Bacca 1-locularis, polysperma.
Specific Name and Character.
Cestrum viridiflorum; totum pilis stellatis tomentosum, filamentis edentulis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis breviter petiolatis supra demum nudis, spicis simplicibus axil- laribus pedunculatis folio brevioribus, bracteis lineari- lanceolatis calycem zquantibus deciduis, calycis cylin- dracei dentibus tubum dimidio equantibus, corolle tubo elongato gracili superne campanulato, limbo quinquepartito patente.
My first knowledge of this highly fragrant Cestrrum was from specimens, sent by Mr. Tweenre from Porto Alegre in South Brazil, where it is seen in woods, and it was re- marked that it diffused a sweet scent at night, as is fre- quently the case with flowers of this peculiar colour. It was afterwards, in 1836, transmitted by the same indefatigable collector from woods of St. Janvier, and on the eastern side of the Cordillera, in Tucuman. At the same time seeds of it were sent by Mr. Tweepie to Mr. D. Moore of the Glas- nevin Botanic Garden, where flowering plants were produc- ed last year. This able cultivator observes that, “‘ though
the flowers are not very showy, they are produced very | abundantly,
abundantly, and the plant appears to be of easy culture in a cool stove, flowering when eighteen inches or two feet high. I should, therefore, say, seeing how deliciously fragrant its blossoms are at night, (less, however, in the day,) that it possesses sufficient merit to render it rather a general favorite in collections. It flowers in the autumn and early winter, and, probably, will do so for many months in the year.” It is nearly allied to C. strzgzllatum (Ruiz and Pavon) of Peru, and that has cordate leaves.
Descr. A straggling shrub, everywhere, except the upper surface of the old leaves and the inside of the corolla, clothed with a dense, stellate tomentum; but especially on the underside of the foliage. Leaves alternate, three, four, and five inches long, ovato-lanceolate, entire, penninerved. Spikes of flowers axillary, sometimes sessile or nearly so, but more generally pedunculated, always shorter than the leaves. Calyx bracteated, tubular, with the five teeth about one-half the length of the tube. Corolla pale yellowish- green, the tube twice the length of the calyx, very slender, dilated and campanulate at the apex, where the limb is set on, which forms five spreading, ovate lobes. Fila- ments short, arising from the top of the slender part of the tube, without teeth. Anthers two-lobed. Ovary on a fleshy base. Style rather longer than the tube of the corolla. Stigma capitate, depressed.
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil. :—magnified.
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LoMATIA ILICIFOLIA. HoLLY-LEAVED LoMATIA.
ROR OR OR RON On ROR On Oo oe ee
Class and Order.
TrerrANpDRIA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Proreaces. )
Generic Character.
Perianthium irregulare, foliolis distinctis secundis. Sta- mina apicibus cavis perianthii immersa. Glandule hypo- gyn 3, secunde. Ovarium pedicellatum, polyspermum. Stylus persistens. Stigma obliquum, dilatatum, subrotun- dum, planiusculum. Folliculus ovali-oblongus. Semina apice alata; ala marginata, disco evasculoso.—Frutices. Folia alterna, in plerisque divisa v. dentata, rarius integer- rima, quandoque in eodem frutice varia, Racemi terminales, interdum axillares, elongati, laxi, nunc abbreviati, corym- bosi, paribus pedicellorum unibracteatis. Flores ochroleuct. Involucrum nullum. Seminis nucleus farina sulphurea con- spersus. Br.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Lomaria ilicifolia ; foliis ovatis oblongis elliptico-lanceola- _ tisve spinoso-dentatis reticulatis, adultis glabriusculis,
- racemis. elongatis, perianthiis pilis appressis, pistillis
~ glaberrimis. | Br.
Lomaria ilicifolia. Br. Prodr. 1. p. 390. Suppl. p. 33.
(a.) ovata ; foliis oblongo-ovatis, racemis terminalibus et e summisalis. Br. Suppl. l. c.
(8.) glabrata ; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis, racemis termina- libus, petiolis ramulisque adultis glabris. Br. lc.
(y.) axillaris ; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis, petiolis ramulis- que pubescentibus, racemis axillaribus. Br. l. c.
(3.) pmnatifida ; foliis non raro pinnatifidis. (Tab. nostr. 4023.
Apparently
Apparently a very variable species, and of extensive loca- lity in Australia. Mr. Brown mentions his first var. «. as an inhabitant of the southern and eastern coasts, 8. as a native of Port Jackson, and y. of Wilson’s Promontory, also on the south coast. Our cultivated plant in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew has the leaves extremely variable on differ- ent parts of the same specimen, whence I have been led to constitute a fourth variety. It is an ornamental plant, both in its copious evergreen foliage and in its long compound spikes of white flowers, which are plentifully produced in August. With us, it thrives well in a peaty or heath soil, simply protected by a frame. 3
Descr. A low evergreen shrub, with alternate leaves, very variable in form, but in our specimens generally be- tween ovate and lanceolate, four to eight inches long, cori- aceous, harsh and rigid, waved, acuminate at both extre- mities, and often pinnatifid, penninerved, and strongly reticulated. The margins sinuato-dentate, or almost spinu- lose. In our plant the raceme is terminal, so much branch- ed as almost to become a panicle. Pedicels single-flowered, solitary, or two or three together, three-quarters of an inch to an inch long, glabrous, or slightly pubescent. Flowers yellowish-white. Perianth a little silky, irregular : the sepals at first opening only on one side, all leaning one way and recurved at the apex, at length spreading open in four unequal pieces, each bearing an anther in a hollow of the revolute extremity. Ovary on a long pedicel, which has
three yellow glands at the base. Style curved. Stigma dilated.
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PuarsBitis TyrRIANTHINA. 'TYRIAN-PURPLE GAYBINE.
KEK KEKE KEE EEE KEKE KEK EEK Class and Order.
PentanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Convotvutacez. )
Generic Character.
Calyx 5-sepalus. Corolla campanulata, aut campanu- lato-infundibuliformis. Stylus 1. Stigma capitato-granu- nia Ovarium 3-, rarius 4-, loculare, loculis dispermis.
hois.
Specific Character and Synonym.
Puarsitis Tyrianthina ; radice tuberosa, caule volubili fru- ticoso verrucoso, foliis subrotundis cordatis acuminatis molliter villosis, pedunculis multifloris folio longiori- bus, corolla infundibulari calyce villoso 4-plo longiore. Lindl.
Ipomma Tyrianthina. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, Miscell.
n. 162.
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Our first knowledge of this exquisitely coloured flower is derived from the Miscellaneous portion of Dr. Linptey’s Botanical Register, where that author gives the above specific character, with the remark that “ this is a most beautiful plant, for which our gardens are indebted to Georee Freperick Dickson, Esq., who obtained the seeds from Mexico, and presented them to the Horticultural Society. One of the houses in the garden at Chiswick was richly ornamented with it in October last (1838). Neither Ipomza rubro-cerulea, nor \. Horsfallie, nor any of the other noble species which have found their way to Europe of late years, can exceed this in the richness of its colour, which is of a peculiar tint, resembling nothing -
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much as the deepest purple ever seen in the finest varieties of Perunta violacea. As the flowers are fully two inches and a half long, and grow in clusters upon the end of long, graceful peduncles, the rich effect of this species may be easily imagined.”
It may well be supposed that such a plant, cultivated in Mrs. Lawrence’s stove, with all the skill for which that princely establishment is celebrated, would be an object worthy of attention, and it was there that our figure was made in October of last year, from a truly splendid specimen, cultivated in a large pot; and having its branches, with their copious foliage, trained round a basket trellice, its numerous flowers, of the most perfectly sym- metrical form, were set off to great advantage.
Descr. The figure, difficult as the colour is to be imi- tated by art, will give a better idea of the plant than mere words can do. It is, like many of the Genus, a twiner, woody below; the younger branches herbaceous, and having the hairs erecto-patent. Leaves large, heart-shaped, with a deep narrow sinus at the base, the apex acuminated, the margin entire; hairy on both sides, but especially beneath. Petiole one inch and a half long. Peduncle elongated, hairy, bearing about three to four flowers ; pedicels an inch long, hairy, bracteated. Calyx of five imbricated, elliptical-lanceolate, appressed, hairy sepals. Corolla, in our specimen, full four inches across its spread- ing limb, the tube funnel-shaped, equalling in length the breadth of the limb; and externally the corolla is of the same vivid Tyrian purple as the inner surface.
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BEGONIA ACUMINATA. POINT-LEAVED | Beconia; or Elephant’s Ear. |
SKK KKK KKK EEK EEE EE Class and Order.
MonazciaA PoLyanpriA. ( Nat. Ord.—Brecontscez. )
Generic Character.
Masc. Calyx o. Corolla polypetala, petalis plerumque 4, inequalibus. Fam. Calyx o. Corolla petalis 4—9, plerumque inequalibus. Styli 3 bifidi. Capsula triquetra, alata, trilocularis, polysperma.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Brconta acuminata; caulescens, foliis hispidis subplicatis semicordato-ovatis acuminatis lobatis inciso-serratis, capsule ala maxima oblique triangulari-ovata reliquis parvis acutangulis subequalibus.
Beconra acuminata. Dryand. in Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 1. p. 166. t. 14. f.5,6. Willd. Sp. Pl.v.4. p.417. Hort. Kew. ed. 3. v. 5. p. 284. Ker, in Bot. Reg. t. 364. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 626. ,
The various species of Beconra have not been valued by Horticulturists in general, according to their merits. As stove plants, few families present a greater variety of colour and form in their foliage than they do: they are easily increased, ready flowerers, and the blossoms are highly beautiful, A collection of various species, grouped together, as is now the case in the Royal Gardens of Kew, is at all seasons of the year attractive; and from among this group the present one, though far indeed from being the handsomest, is selected. It was introduced to
this establishment by Sir Josern Banks, from Jamaica, in
in 1790, and flowers, more or less copiously, from May to December.
Descr. Our plant rises with several weak, though rather stout, fleshy, semi-pellucid, reddish stems, having a few scattered patent hairs, to the height of three or four feet, branched. Leaves on short, rounded petioles, two to three inches long, succulent, very oblique, or, in other words, semi-cordato-ovate, hispid, plaited at the nerves, acuminate, lobed and inciso-serrate at the margin. Stipules ovate, membranous, deciduous. Peduncles axillary, longer than the leaves, hispid, bearing three to five flowers. Male jlowers consisting of four, white petals, two large and acute, two about half that size and obtuse. Female flowers with five white petals, of which two are smaller. Fruit with one large and two small membranous wings.
Fig. 1. Section of a Capsule :—magnified.
( 4026 ) Ospeck1A CHINENSIS. CHINESE OSBECKIA.
Class and Order.
DecanpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Metasromaces. )
Generic Character.
Calycis tubus ovatus sepius setis stellatis aut pube stel- lata vestitus ; lobi 4—5 persistentes aut decidui; appen- dices inter lobos extus orte forma et magnitudine varie. Petala 4—5. Stamina 8—10, filamentis glabris, antheris subequalibus breve rostratis connectivo basi breve biauri- culato. Ovarium apice setosum. Capsula 4—}-locularis. Semina cochleata.—Herbe aut sepius suffrutices, Ameri- cani, Africani, aut Asiatict. Folia integerruma 3—5 nervia. Flores terminales. D C.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Ospecxia Chinensis; herbacea, caule tetraquetro, foliis subsessilibus lanceolato-oblongis 3-nerviis hispidulis subcrenulatis, floribus cymosis terminalibus paucis, calycis hemispherici lobis 4—5 linearibus acutis seto- sis deciduis.
Ospecx1a Chinensis. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 490. Osbeck’s ie: (Engl. ed.) p. 342. t. 2. Bot. Reg. t. 542. e@ Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 41. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 312.
A very lovely plant, with spreading branches, dark co- loured copious foliage, and bearing abundance of flowers ua moist warm stove. It
in the spring months when kept iu a
is considered to be identical with the plant of Loureiro and Ospecx, and consequently of Linn 2s ; though I have not the means of identifying this point. Nor do I know
_ through what channel it was first introduced to peat si lens ;
dens ; probably by Messrs. Convitt, of the King’s Road, Chelsea, where’ it was described by Mr. Ker, in 1821. Osseckx gathered it on hills, not far from Canton, flow- ering in September. It is there known by a name which is equivalent to plume of golden roses, from which we may infer that it is much prized by the Chinese, by whom it is sold in the apothecaries’ shops, being taken in infusion for the colic, and used in fomentations for sprains and swellings.
Descr. A shrub,with rather slender, copious, decussate, four-sided, hispid, spreading branches. Leaves opposite, ovato-lanceolate, nearly sessile, entire, three-nerved, cili- ated on the margin, and chiefly on the nerves beneath, which are very prominent. Cymes of three flowers, simple or compound. Flowers very handsome. Calyx-tube ovate, quite naked, limb of five recurved, acute segments, hispid at the apex with simple hairs, and at the sinus is generally a stellated tuft of hair. Corolla of five large, rich, palish- purple, broadly-obovate petals. Stamens ten. Filaments thickened upwards. Anthers oblong, corrugated in front, yellow, terminating in a longish beak, opening by a single pore. Germen subglobose, the lower part united with the base of the tube of the calyx, the rest free: the apex tipped with rigid, erect hairs. Style as long as the sta- mens, curved at the apex. Stigma capitate.
Fig. 1. Section of a Calyx (with Stamens) and Germen. 2. Stamen: magnified.
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CANAVALIA ENSIFORMIS. OVERLOOK: or JamAicA Horse-BeEan.
TEER KEKE KKK KKKEK Class and Order.
DiapeteuiaA DEcANDRIA. ( Nat. Ord.—Lereuminosz. )
Generic Character.
Calyx tubulosus bilabiatus, labius infer. dentibus 3 acutis parvis, super. lobis 2 amplis rotundatis. Corolle vexillum amplum bicallosum, callis parallelis ; ale stipitate oblon- $e auriculate ; carina dipetala. Stamina monadelpha aut decimo subadherente. Legumen compressum tricarinatum nempe infra et juxta suturam superiorem nervo protube- rante suture parallelo utrinque instructum, mucrone inflexo terminatum, membranis cellulosis inter semina donatum. Semina ovali-oblonga, hilo lineari.—Herbe aut suffrutices, ramis volubilibus, foliis pinnato-trifoliatis. Racemi axillares “op ie pedicellis ternis. Flores ampli purpurascentes. —
Specific Character and Synonyms.
CANAVALIA ensiformis; foliolis ovatis acutis, leguminibus latitudine quintuplo et ultra longioribus. P Canavauia ensiformis. De Cand. Prodr. 2. p. 404. Mac- Jad. Fl. Jam. 1. p. 292. J Doticuos ensiformis. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1022. Lam. Dict. 2. p. 295. Spreng. Syst. Veget.v.3.p.250. ~ Douicuos acinaciformis. Jacq. Coll. 1. p. 114. Ic. Rar. t.
_ Where there is ample room in a warm stove this climber 4s well worthy ofa place. It has generally been considered to be a native of Jamaica; sometimes of the East Indies ;
_ but, in this latter case, it seems to have been grr . wit
with the C. gladiata, a truly Indian plant. Our friend, Dr. M‘Fapyen, whose book, above quoted, is full of valuable remarks, observes, “ Stoane considers this species to be indigenous to the island of Jamaica, and says that the seeds were, in his time, used by some as food, and given to fatten hogs. I do not find, however, on enquiry, that any use is, at present, made of them, except that they are commonly planted by the Negroes, along the margin of their provision grounds, from a superstitious notion, pro- bably of African origin, but very generally entertained, that the “ Overlook” fulfils the part of a watchman, and, from some dreaded power ascribed to it, protects the property from plunder. Even the better informed adopt the practice, although, they themselves may not place confidence in any particular influence which this humble plant can exercise, either in preventing theft, or in punish- ing it when committed.” The above notion of its being a native of Africa, seems to be confirmed by the fact, that the seeds from which our present plant was raised, were sent to Mr. Veircn, of Mount Radford, Exeter, from Ashan- tee, together with those of many other native plants. It flowered in Mr. Verrcn’s Nursery, in November, 1842.
Descr. It is said to be an annual, and in Jamaica is yearly planted along the margin of provision grounds. The stems are several feet in length. Leaves large, rotun- dato-ovate, acute. Peduncles axillary, in our specimens, a span and more long, terminated by a raceme of large, handsome, purple flowers: these flowers are seated upon globular, fleshy excrescences. The calyx is cylindrical, green dotted with brown; the upper lip of two large, rounded lobes, the lower of three small teeth. Vezillum large, obovate. Ale smaller than the carina, which latter is very obtuse. Ovary linear, silky, stipitate, arising from a glandular ring. The legume is described by Dr. M‘Fapyen as about a foot long, scimitar-shaped, with three keels or elevated lines along the outside. Seeds oblong, plump, white, with the hilum brown.
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MEGACLINIUM MAXIMUM. LaArcest Meaa- CLINIUM.
KER KEKE EK EEK KEKE KK KKK EKK Class and Order.
GynanpRis Monanpria. ( Nat. Ord.—Onrcuipea. )
Generic Character.
_Pollinia 4, cereacea equalia geminatim coherentia, cau- dicula glandulaque nullis. Anthera terminalis, opercularis, persistens minuta unilocularis. Stigma parvum intrusum, rostello emarginato. Colwmna plana, abbreviata, apice bi- cuspidata. Labellum integerrimum cum pede columne elastice articulatum. Sepala exteriora basi connata: supe- riore difformi, interioribus nanis.—Herbe epiphyte, oligo- Phylle, cespitose, bulbose, (Africae et Asie inter tropicos ). Scapi radicales simplices: rachidibus dilatatis. Lindl.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Meeactinium* maximum; sepalo supremo acuto lateralibus margine involutis acuminatissimis reflexis, labello line- ari revoluto. Lindl. . ce
Mercacunium maximum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1909. Gen. — et Sp. Orchid. p. 47. a ef Lal
table kingdom, for which the Orchideous ep feed 7 remarkable. In the species of this Genus, the rachis, or stalk immediately bearing the flowers, is broad, flat, a
his, or Sword-shaped, and upon each side of this, the very
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_* So named by Dr. Linpiey from psyas, large, and xAwn, a bed, in allu- Sion to the broad, sword-shaped bed or rachis of the flowers.
gular blossoms are inserted, and the appearance of these flowers is more like little tadpoles, than any production of the vegetable kingdom. The present kind was, as we are informed by Dr. Linptey, first collected by Smearuman in Sierra Leone ; and afterwards living specimens were sent to Mr. Loppiegs, through whose means the plant is now known in our Collections. With us, its flowering season is June and July.
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong, broad at the base, lon- gitudinally marked with obtuse angles, and having a few sheathing scales. Leaves two or three, terminating the pseudo-bulb, ligulate, rather coriaceous. Scape arising from the base of the pseudo-bulb, much longer than the leaves, for more than half its length from the apex, sin- gularly dilated and flattened, forming a sword-shaped rachis, toothed at the margin, along the middle of which, on the two opposite sides, the flowers are produced in a line from the base to the apex. These are sessile, and arise singly from a sort of articulation, at the centre of which is a small subulate, reflexed bractea. The perianth is yellow- green, variously spotted with blood-coloured dots, gen- erally minute, some larger. Upper sepal erect, obovate or broadly spathulate, thick and fleshy at the sides, almost destitute of spots: the side sepals are spreading, triangular, with a very broad base, the apex having the sides involute, so as to form a narrow point. Petals spreading, very small, spotless, linear. Lip also small, linear, reflexed, dotted. Column short. Anther hemispherical. Pollen- masses of two cereaceous, yellow lobes.
Fig. 1. Front view of a Flower. 2, Anther-case. 3, 4. Pollen-masses : —magnified.
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( 4029 ) CorRR#A PULCHELLA. Pretty Corr.
SKK KEKE EEE EKER EEE Class and Order.
OcranprRiA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—Rutacez. )
Generic Character.
Calyx 4-dentatus persistens. Petala 4 basi subconni- ventia aut in tubum longe coalita. Stamina 8 sub disco hypogyno? 8-glanduloso inserta. _Ovariwm 8-sulcatum. Stylus 1 persistens. Capsula 4-cocca, loculis truncatis com- pressis. Semina in loculis 2—3 nitida intus adfixa, cotyle- donibus ovalibus extus connexis.—Frutices, foliis oppositis integris pube squamosa (Hippophaes more) obtectis, pedi- cellis 1-floris. DC.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Corraa pulchella ; stellato-pubescens, foliis breviter petio- latis cordato-ovatis obtusis undulatis adultis glabris, floribus solitariis pendulis, calyce truncato vix dentato, corolla tubulosa (roseo-coccinea) fauce paululum dila- tata.
Corrza pulchella. Mackay in Sw. Fl. Australas. Tab. I. Bot. Reg. t. 1224. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1684.
For our plants of this very beautiful species of Corrxa, the Royal Gardens are indebted to Messrs. Lowe of Clap-— ton. It was first introduced at their nursery in 1824, by their collector, Mr. Baxter, from Kangaroo Island, on the South coast of New Holland. It is among the handsomest of all the species, and the flowers are well ‘relieved by the dark green foliage. With us, its copious blossoms are pro- duced in a cool greenhouse, during the early spring months.
Descr. This forms a firm, but gracefully growing
shrub, a foot and a half to two feet high, the decussate branches
branches and young foliage clothed with rusty, stellated tomentum. Leaves almost sessile, cordato-ovate, obtuse, waved, entire, in age losing their tomentum, dark green above, paler beneath: Flowers solitary, pendulous. Pe- duncles short. Calyx hemispherical, truncate, with five very minute teeth, downy. Corolla nearly two inches long, tubular, red, slightly downy, somewhat dilated, and having four moderately spreading teeth. Stamens protruded. Anthers ovate, yellow. Ovary four-lobed, hairy or silky, four glandular depressions are at its base.
Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil. 2. Ovary :—magnijied.
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( 4030) Rosa Brunonit. Mr. Brown’s Rose.
KEE KEE EEE EERE EEE EERE Class and Order.
Icosanpria Poxyeyntia. ( Nat. Ord.—Rosacrz. )
Generic Character.
Calycis tubus apice contractus, limbo 5-partito, lobis per estivationem apice subspiraliter imbricatis spe pinnatim rectis, Pet. 5. Stam.oo. Carpella plurima calycis tubo demum baccato inserta et in eo inclusa, sicca indehiscentia subcrustacea, é latere interiore stylum gerentia, stylis e ca- lycis tubo coarctato exsertis, nune omnind liberis, nunc in stylum columnarem accretis. Semen in achenio solitarium exalbuminosum inversum. Embryo rectus, cotyledonibus planiusculis—Frutices aut arbuscule ; foliis sepiits impari- punnatis, foliolis serratis, stipulis petiolo adnatis.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Rosa Brunonii; aculeis caulinis validis arcuatis, foliolis 5—7 lanceolatis utrinque pilosis subtus glandulosis discoloribus, stipulis adnatis angustis acutis integerri- mis, floribus corymbosis, pedunculis calycibusque pilo- sis hispidulisque, sepalis subintegris, stylis in colum- nam longissimam pubescentem coherentibus, fructibus ovatis.
Rosa Brunonii. Lindl. Monogr. Ros. p. 120. t. 14. De Cand. Prodr. 2. p. 598. |
Rosa Brownii. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 556.
Rosa Brunonis. Wail. Cat. n. 689.
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A native of Nepal and Kamoon, whence it has been sent Dr. Watticu to the Royal Gardens of Kew, where, Planted against a wall facing the West, it proves per- fectly hardy, and, in the summer months, it makes a handsome
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handsome appearance with its large corymbs of white or slightly cream-coloured, fragrant flowers, which, in age, assume another tint, being then singularly spotted with dingy purple. Our plant seems less glandular and downy than that figured and described by Dr. Linvuey, and is probably the var. depilata, Linpt., in Wat. Cat., from Kamoon. Dr. Linprey, in his “‘ Rosarum Monographia,” alludes to its affinity with R. moschata, a species supposed to be peculiar to Africa, and De Canpo.te says, “ an var. R. moschate?’”’ but the latter, having been now found in Nepal, satisfies Dr. Linprey that the distinguishing features do not depend on climate, and that the two are truly dis- tinct. But Serinex (in De Canpoxze) has strangely trans- ferred Dr. Linp.ey’s var. of moschata, given in Bot. Reg., t. 829, to the present species.
Descr. It isa much spreading, and probably, if suffered to grow naturally, a climbing shrub, with long, slender, young branches, nearly glabrous, and beset with rather stout, hooked prickles. Stipules linear, acute, quite entire. Petioles and leaves indistinctly (to the naked eye) hairy and glandular. Leaflets five to seven, broadly lanceolate, plane, acuminate, serrated, the serratures simple, close. Flowers in large, copious-flowered corymbs. Bracteas narrow-lan- ceolate, the sides involute. Peduncles nearly glabrous, or with minute hairs and glands, and even short sete. Calyx -tube ovato-turbinate, downy and setose ; sepals shorter than the petals, lanceolate, acuminate, entire, and slightly pinnatifid. Petals roundish, approaching to ob- cordate, yellowish-white or cream-coloured, when old blotched with small, purplish spots.
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ErRANTHEMUM MONTANUM. MOUNTAIN ERANTHEMUM.
KEKE KEE EEE EKER EERE Class and Order.
DianpriA Monoeynia. ( Nat. Ord.—AcanTHAceEz. )
Generic Character.
Cal. 5-fidus, equalis. Cor. hypocrateriformis, v. elon- eato-infundibuliformis, tubo longo gracili, limbo subequali. Stamina duo fertilia circa os tubi adnata, longe decur- rentia ; duo sterilia brevissima, filamentis longiorum basi connexa ; in speciebus nonnullis anomalis hee rudimenta omnind desunt. Anthere exserte, bilocellate, mutice, locellis parallelis contiguis, texture densioris. Capsula in- ferné compressa, valvulis contiguis, asperma ; superius bilo- cularis tetrasperma. Dissepimentum adnatum. Semina discoidea, retinaculis suffulta—Inflorescentia: spica, brac- teis communibus majoribus aut minoribus, bracteolis omnium
parvis oppositis.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
ErantHemum montanum ; caule teretiusculo (tetragono) foliisque oblongis utrinque attenuatis repando-crenatis (integerrimisque) glabris, pedunculis terminalibus tri- chotomis spicisque pubescenti-viscidis, bracteis lanceo- lato-attenuatis ciliatis. Nees.
Eranrnemum montanum. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1. p. 110. ed. Cur. Wall. p. 110. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veget. 1. p. 150. Wall. Cat. n. 2492. b. c. d. (not a.) Wight Ie. Pl. Ind. Or. 0. 2.p. 466. Wight, Cat. n. 2004.
Justicia montana. Roxb. Pl. Corom. 2. t. 177.
“A very beautiful flowering shrub,” as Dr. Roxpureu
justly calls it, a native of the Circar mountains. It - zs oun
found by Dr. Wieut, probably not unfrequently in the Madras Peninsula; and I possess numerous specimens from Colonel and Mrs. Warxer, gathered in Ceylon. It is allied to E. strictum; but abundantly distinct in the very different bracteas, larger size, in the colour of the flower, and the much longer tube. Nees described four varie- ties, chiefly differing in the nature of the bracteas, and in the hairiness about them and the calyx : the stem also seems to vary. Nees von Esenseck describes it as “ teretiusculus.” Roxsureu says that the young shoots are four-sided. In ours the branches are acutely tetragonal. It flowers copi- ously in the stove in April and May.
Descr. Stems weak. Branches four-sided, erect. Leaves petioled, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, membranaceous, four to six inches long, entire, or, sometimes, according to Nexs, repando-crenate, glabrous, strongly nerved. Panicle trifid, much longer than the leaves. Bracteas linear-lance- olate, alternate, more or less glanduloso-ciliate. Calyx five-partite, clothed with patent hairs, glandular at their apices ; segments subulate, erect. Corolla lilac, or rose- purple. Tube very long, curved. Limb of five deep, nearly regular, patent, obcordate, waved lobes, striated and reti- culated with deeper blue lines on one side at the faux. Stamens two, slightly exserted. Style very long, slender,
filiform, exserted. Stigma of two very unequal, subulate segments.
Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil. 2. Ovary. 3. Immature Fruit :—magnified.
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ACACIA DENTIFERA. ‘TOOTH-BEARING ACACIA.
KLEE MELEE EEE EEE EEE Class and Order.
Potyeamia Monaccia. ( Nat. Ord.—Leeuminos#. )
Generic Character.
Flores polygami. Calyx 4—5-dentatus. Petala 4—5, nune libera, nunc in corollam 4—5 fidam coalita, Stam. numero varia 10—800. Legumen continuum exsuccum bivalve.—Frutices aut arbores, habitu et foliatione valde varie. Spine stipulares, sparse aut nulle. Flores flavz, — albi aut rarius rubri, capitati aut spicati, decandri aut poly- andri, eleutherandri aut monadelphi, petalis 4—5 liberis coalitisve constantes. D C.
Specific Character and Synonym.
Acacia dentifera ; ramis angulatis, phyllodiis_elongato- lineari-lanceolatis faleatis acutissimis penninervils ¢- glandulosis inferne attenuatis, racemis demum foliatis capitulis numerosis multifloris globosis majusculis pe- dicello duplo brevioribus, leguminibus elongatis line- aribus teretibus strictis.
Acacta dentifera, Benth. in Botanist, 4. t. 179. et m Hook.
Lond. Journ. of Bot. v. 1. p. 363.
A new and very graceful species of Acacta from the Swan River, with unusually long racemes of flowers, longer than the leaves, of a full yellow colour, and highly fragrant. These racemes, however, Mr. Bentuam observes, run out into leafy branches, and thus the species would appear to belong to the division with solitary capitula. The seeds
were received from Mr. Drummonp ; the flowering or oO
of the plant, in an airy greenhouse, is March and April, after which it produces pods tolerably copiously.
Descr. Stem five to seven feet high in our specimens: the branches chiefly at the top, gracefully drooping, angled. Phyllodia five to six inches long, linear-lanceolate, elon- gate, falcate, moderately thin, coming to a very acute, mucronate point at the apex ; at the base gradually atten- uated, but sessile ; dark full green, not in the least glau- cous, with no apparent gland, furnished with an evident costa, and some oblique veins, and, besides, obscurely reticulated. Heads of flowers rather large, deep full yellow, arranged in very long racemes, often much exceeding the leaves. Pedicels twice as long as the heads. Flowers numerous, fifteen to twenty in a head.
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BrassavOLa GLAUcA. GLAucoUS BRASSAVOLA.
KKK KEK KKK KEKE EEE EEE Class and Order. —
GynanpriA MOonNANDRIA. | ( Nat. Ord.—Orcuipez. )
Generic Character.
Sepala et petala subequalia, libera, acuminata. Label- lum cucullatum, integrum, columnam involvens. Columna marginata, clavata, stigmate infundibulari, clinandrio pos- ticé tridentato, Pollinia 8, subequalia, quibusdam aliis parvis interjectis. Anthera 4-locularis, septis marginatis, loculis semibipartitis.—Herbe caulescentes, epiphyte, apice folium unicum v. alterum, semicylindraceum, carnosum, supra sulcatum, apice subulatum gerentes. Flores termi- nales, magni, speciosi. Lindl. |
Specific Character and Synonyms.
Brassavoia glauca ; foliis coriaceis oblongis obtusis plani- usculis glaucis, spatha uniflora, sepalis petalisque line- ari-lanceolatis obtusis herbaceis, labello subsessili sub- rotundo acuto margine lobato, clinandrio dentato, dente dorsali apice glanduloso. Lindl.
Brassavora glauca. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839. Misc. n. 67. et 1840, ¢.44. Batem. Orchid. Mex. et Guatem. t. 16.
The specimen from which our figure is taken blossomed in the month of February, 1843, in the rich collection of Orchidaceez at Woburn Abbey. At first sight, as Dr. Linptey well observes, the flowers rather resemble those of a Carrzeya than a Brassavota : but it appears truly to be- long to the latter Genus. A well grown plant of it makes
a handsome appearance, with its large flowers and earn : ar
dark green leaves, which latter, in our specimen, are not so glaucous as they are represented by others. The flowers are fragrant. It was sent to Woburn by Mr. Sxinner from Guatemala ; and was likewise detected by Mr? Hencuman and by Mr. Hartwec in Mexico.
Descr. Stem creeping, jointed, rooting, sending up at intervals oblong pseudo-bulbs, which are, however, wholly concealed by sheathing, membranous scales, are compress- ed, and bear at the extremity one oblong, very thick, and coriaceous leaf. From the base of this leaf, and aris- ing from a long, compressed, membranous sheath, springs a single large flower, which is fragrant. Calyx and sepals uniform, spreading, oblong - lanceolate, obtuse, yellow- green. Lip with a short claw, involving the column, soon a rite hp into a large, cordate, three-lobed limb, of a yellowish-white colour, with short red streaks at the base ; lobes large, rounded, the middle one much the largest and apiculate. Colwmn white, short, the margin at the top (or clinandrium) which surrounds the anther, toothed: the middle tooth tipped with a gland. Anther-case eight-celled. Pollen-masses eight, as in the Genus.
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