va pr cgene ~ eae ee gt Oat ed in wn wee % | gee el be 2 ~ aa a) > = a =) eal a H OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY . BSOo Sa br N. \ DEC 3: $3 2002 k merit cons i : ay Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2021 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alternates | https://archive.org/details/refugiumbotanicu01unse REFUGIUM BOTANICUM. AVM Biro Ue LONDON: E. NEWMAN, PRINTER, DEVONSHIRE STREET, BISHOPSGATE. ‘% REFUGIUM BOTANICUM; OR, FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS FROM LIVING SPECIMENS, OF LITTLE KNOWN OR NEW PLANTS OF BOTANICAL INTEREST. EDITED BY Wee Wi DIss ONE SATU DE RS; (RS RY Seba Ly Ss: THE DESCRIPTIONS BY BeeeG. RETCHENBACH: PROFESSOR OF BOTANY, AND DIRECTOR OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN AT HAMBURGH 3 Jee son Ke ele able, ASSISTANT CURATOR OF THE KEW HERBARIUM; AND OTHER BOTANISTS. Es EG aie Cre Le Hey ee 5 Vor W oe Es. a PT Ge Ed: Ve 0. Tice 1’ LONDON: i HeNe VA Ne VY OOo PATE RN OS THR ROaw. M.DCCC. LXIX. ADVERTISEMENT. It is proposed to continue the ‘ Refugium’ in the following manner. Part I. Vol. ii., already in the press, containing Orchids by Prof. Reichen- bach, will be published as soon as possible; and it is intended to devote the whole of Vol. 11. to plants of the natural order Orchidacere. Part I. Vol. iii. is in preparation, and will be shortly in the printer’s hands. The © Parts constituting this Volume will contain plants other than Orchids, and will appear alternately with those of Vol. i1., and at intervals of about four months. W. Witson SAUNDERS. February, 1869. \ a y ; Sie 7690 PRE AC B. Tue object of the present publication is to describe and figure, from living specimens, a series of plants in which I take much interest, and to the study and cultivation of which I have devoted many years. I allude chiefly to succulent plants generally, bulbous plants of various F’amilies, Orchids, Aroids, Bromeliads, Geraniacee, &c., &c., all which I have grown for the sake of better understanding them, having felt that a thorough knowledge of their characters and peculiarities of erowth could not be obtained from dried specimens, however well preserved. During the time I have been cultivating and studying the plants in question, I have felt most forcibly how inadequate words are to describe a plant properly, and that a faithful figure, with good dissections, gave a much clearer and more definite idea of the plant than words could possibly convey. A deep sense of this has induced me to commence the pub- lication of the ‘ Refugium,’ which I hope to make worthy of the attention of botanists, as Mr. J. G. Baker, of the Royal Her- barium, Kew, has kindly consented to undertake the descriptions 3 from the living plants, and Mr. W. H. Fitch will give the figures ? aS) — Y; and dissections. I propose devoting a considerable portion of the work to the smaller Orchids, and I have much pleasure in 2 stating that my friend Professor H. G. Reichenbach, of Ham- SS <- burgh, will give me all the assistance in his power to make this part of the ‘ Refugium’ valuable to those who study this remark- able Family of plants. I shall endeavour to publish yearly three Parts of this work, each containing 24 Plates, and forming together one volume. W. WILSON SAUNDERS. Hillfield, Reigate. ERRATA. Tab. 7 is OTHONNA caRNoSA, Less., not KLEINIA CRASSULEFOLIA. The English description is correct, except that the phyllaries are not more than eight in number; but the Latin diagnosis must be rejected. In the title to Tab. 47, for MyrsipHyLLUM FALCATUM, read FALCIFORME, EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. Tab. 1.—OxXaALIS MEGALORHIZA. 1, separate petal ; 2, centre of the flower ; 3, pistil: all magnified. Tab. 2.—PoTentTiLLA GARIEPENSIS. 1, flower complete; 2, side view of ditto; 3, petal; 4, heap of pistils ; 5, single pistil; 6, single stamen: all magnified. Tab. 8.—RULINGIA PARVIFLORA. 1, single cyme and leaf; 2, calyx and bract ; 3, flower complete ; 4, ver- tical section of flower, showing the alternate barren and fertile stamens ; 5, single petal; 6, front and back view of stamen; 7, ovary; 8, horizontal section of ditto: all magnified. 9, cyme with fruit, natural size; 10, single flower, mature; 11, hair from fruit ; 12, seeds: all magnified. Tab. 4.—MonsonIA BIFLORA. 1, portion of stem, with leaf; 2, flower from above ; 3, single petal: all magnified. Tab. 5.—PELARGONIUM GROSSULARIOIDES. 1, side view of flower ; 2, front view of ditto: magnified. Tab. 6.—AIZOON SARMENTOSUM. 1, single flower, with bracts; 2, flower from above; 3, pistil and two stamens; 4, horizontal section of ovary: all magnified. Tab. 7.—KLEINIA CRASSULEFOLIA. 1, vertical section of flower, showing the receptacle and half the invo- lucre; 2, ligulate flower complete; 3, top of its pistil; 4, tubular flower ; 5, anther; 6, top of pistil of tubular flower; 7, single bristle of pappus : all magnified. Tab. 8.—GooDENIA OVATA. 1, single flower, with petals removed: magnified. Tab. 9.—BRAcHYSTELMA ARNOTTII. 1, portion of stem, with a single umbel of flowers; 2, single flower com- plete ; 3, centre of flower from above ; 4, ditto from the side; 5, two views of the pollen-masses : all magnified. Tab. 10.—CEROPEGIA MULTIFLORA. 1, detached leaf; 2, flower complete ; 3, centre of flower, contained in the ball at the base ; 4, pollen-masses: all magnified. Tab. 38.—FLEURYA ZSTUANS. 1, raceme of female flowers; 2, male flower expanded; 3, developed female flower ; 4, fruit: all magnified. Tab. 39.—EUPHORBIA TETRAGONA. 1, complete flower, with pair of bract-like leaves; 2, scale from the throat of the involucre; 38, male flower; 4, its bract; 5, developed female flower: all magnified. Tab. 40.—PEPEROMIA MAGNOLIEFOLIA. 1, part of a spike; 2, a single flower; 3, lateral view of the same; all magnified. Tab. 41.—PEPEROMIA MICROPHYLLA. 1, spike with uppermost whorl of leaves; 2, front view of flowers; 3, side view of flower; 4, pistil: all magnified. Tab. 42.—TRITELEIA AUREA. 1, pistil; 2, horizontal section of ovary ; 3, stamen: all magnified. Tab. 43.—TRITELEIA CONSPICUA. 1, flower opened out; 2, stamen; 3, horizontal section of ovary: all magnified. Tab. 44.—ALBUCA FASTIGIATA. 1, petal from inner row; 2, stamens and pistil; 3, stamen opposite inner petal ; 4, pistil; 5, horizontal section of ovary : all magnified. Tab. 45.—ALBUCA CAUDATA. : 1, petal from inner row; 2, stamens and pistil; 3, pistil: all magnified. Tab. 46.—PH#DRANASSA CARMIOLI. 1, vertical section of flower; 2, anther and part of filament; 3, stigma and part of style; 4, horizontal section of ovary: all magnified. Tab. 47.—MyrsIPHYLLUM FALCATUM. 1, portion of branch with flowers ; 2, separate flower; 3, pistil; 4, hori- zontal section of ovary: all magnified. Tab. 48.—TRADESCENTIA DISCOLOR var. CONCOLOR. 1, side view of closed flower; 2, expanded flower; 3, stamen; 4, moni- liform hair of filament ; 5, pistil: all magnified. Tab. 49.—CoTONEASTER MICROPHYLLA. 1, leaf; 2, berry: both natural size. Tab. 50.—CoToNEASTER THYMZFOLIA. 1, leaf; 2, berry: both natural size. 3, flower, magnified. Tab. 51.—CoToNEASTER CONGESTA. 1, leaf; 2, berry: both natural size. 3, flower, magnified. Tab. 52.—CoToNEASTKR BUXIFOLIA. 1, leaf; 2, berry: both natural size. 8, entire flower; 4, petal: both inagnified. Tab. 53.—CoToNEASTER PROSTRATA. 1, leaf; 2, berry: beth natural size. Tab. 54.—CorTonEASTER ROTUNDIFOLIA. 1, leaf, natural size; 2, leaves with flower, magnified; 8, berry, na- tural size. Tab. 55.—CoTonEASTER SIMONSIT. 1, tuft of leaves and berries ; 2, single leaf; 8, berry : all magnified. Tab, 56.—CoTyYLEDON NODULOSA. 1, leaf, natural size; 2, entire flower; 8, carpels; 4, single petal with stamen : all magnified. Tab. 57.—CoryLEDON NUDA. 1, entire flower; 2, carpels: both magnified. Tab. 58.—CoTyLEDON LINGU&FOLIA. 1, entire flower ; 2, petal. with stamen; 3, carpels: all magnified. Tab. 59.—CoTYLEDON LURIDA. 1, leaf; 2, flower: both natural size. 8, petal with stamens, magnified ; 4, carpels, natural size ; 5, single carpel, magnified. Tab. 60.—CoTYLEDON ADUNCA. 1, flower ; 2, single petal, inside view; 3, single stamen; 4, carpels: all magnified. Tab. 61.—CotTyLEDON GLaUCcA. “ 1, leaf, natural size; 2, single flower; 38, petal, inside view, with sta- mens ; 4, sepals and carpels; 5, single carpel: all magnified. Tab. 62.—CoTYLEDON PUMILA. 1, leaf, natural size. 2, entire flower; 3, vertical section of the same : both magnified. Tab. 63.—CorTryLEDON STOLONIFERA. 1, entire flower, magnified ; 2, carpels, natural size. Tab. 64.—CoTYLEDON FULGENS. 1, entire flower; 2, carpels and inner row of stamens; 3, petal, inside view, with one of the outer row of stamens: all magnified. Tab. 65.—CoTyYLEDON GIBBIFLORA var. METALLICA. 1, entire plant, much reduced; 2, flower with the corolla taken away, magnified. Tab. 66.—CoTYLEDON PULVERULENTA. 1, entire plant, about one-third the natural size. 2, leaf of rosette ; 3 and 4, bract-like stem-leaves; 5, branch of panicle: all natural size. 6, entire flower ; 7, portion of corolla; 8, carpels; 9, horizontal section of carpels ; 10, seed: all magnified. Tab. 67.—COTYLEDON AGAVOIDES. 1, front view of leaf; 2, side view of leaf: both natural size. 3, entire flower, magnified. . Tab. 68.—CovyLEDON CYMOSA. 1, leaf, natural size. 2, entire flower; 38, inside view of petal: both magnified. Tab. 69.—CoTYLEDON CASPITOSA. 1, leaf of rosette; 2, bract-like stem-leaf: both natural size. 3, entire flower; 4, petal with stamens ; 5, carpels; 6, single carpel: all magnified. Tab. 70.—CoTYLEDON CALIFORNICA. 1, entire flower; 2, corolla; 3, vertical section of corolla: all magnified. Tab. 71.—CoTyYLEDON FARINOSA. 1, entire flower, magnified. Tab. 72.—CoryLEpoN CooPERt. 1, single flower ; 2, the same opened; 3, stamen: all magnified. og WL SSS SESS JN. Fiteh int. aan W.HLF. del.et ith. Refugium Botaniewn. | |lpril, 1868. TAB. 1. Natural Order GERANIACE. Tribe OxXALIDE. Genus Oxatis, L. Sect. Caprine, D.C. Acaules aut stipite nudo apice tantuin folioso donatis, pedunculis uni-, bi-, vel seepius multifloris, foliis radicalibus petiolatis plurifoliatis sepius trifoliatis. O. MEGALORHIZA (Jacquin Oxalis No. 12). Radice carnoso crasso, caule brevissimo crasso, squamato, squamis brunneis ciliatis, foliis longe petiolatis trifoliolatis, foliolis sessilibus obcordatis carnosis sub- glabris, pedunculo multifloro petiolis longiore, sepalis marginibus crispatis, petalis obovatis luteis glabris calyce duplo longioribus.— D.C. Prodr. i. p. 695 ; C. Gay, Fl. Chil. i. p. 441. O. bicolor, Savi, Encye. iv. p. 687. A native of Chili and Peru. foot fleshy, at least an inch thick, divided at the crown. Stems short, thick, fleshy, simple, clothed with small imbricated pale brown ciliated membranous scales. Petioles glabrous, slen- der, fleshy, spreading or drooping, 4 to 6 inches long. Leaves ternate, the leaflets sessile, obcordate, half an inch deep by three- quarters of an inch broad, emarginate at the apex, glaucous-green above, bright purplish violet beneath, fleshy in texture but thin. Peduncle slender, terete, naked, 6 to 12 inches long, the main branches all springing from one point, simple or branched again, the flowers 4 to 8in number. Calyx irregular, the sepals fleshy, flat and naked in the middle, the edges crisped and hairy, the base irregularly gibbous, slightly tinted like the under side of the leaves. racts small, villose, blunt, lanceolate. Petals twice as long as the calyx, obovate-unguiculate, bright yellow, shghtly tinted with red on the outside.—J. G. B. This plant I received from my friend Mr. D. Hanbury, who informs me that four serons of the stems were imported into London, in the spring of 1864, from some Port in the Pacific. It was called a sort of Rhatany-root. The name Chullco is applied in Peru, I learn, to many species of Oxalis, some of which have edible tubers. The plant is of rather a lax habit, producing a quantity of yellow flowers at the top of a short fleshy stem. It erows well in a mixture of sandy loam and leaf-mould, and requires a greenhouse temperature.—W. W. 8. fide ey aie kaw wh ie lice | | ere yaks 5 = hae ¢ ve , +e | hae aye ATE LiRRA “Y = | OF THe ae : UNIVERSITY. OF iLinuis. J.N Fitchamp. W.H.F del. et hth. Refugiun Botanicwn. | [| April, 1868. TAB. 2. Natural Order Rosace2x. Tribe DryapDE. Genus Porentiuya, L. P. Garrepvensis (i. Meyer). Caule diffuso ascendente vel decumbente piloso, foliis pinnatis paucijugis supra subglabris infra parce pilo- sis, segmentis obovatis vel oblongis, profunde serratis, stipulis ovatis integris, pedunculis oppositifoliis brevibus unifloris, bracteis calyce excedentibus, petalis luteis, carpellis canaliculatis glabris.—Harv. & Sond. fl. Cap. vol. ii. p. 288. A native of the Cape of Good Hope, being the only species of the large genus Potentilla that is known there. It is very rare, having been only, to our knowledge, gathered by Drege and Cooper, from whom our specimens were procured. We obtained it in the Orange River Free State. Root perennial. Stems a foot or more long, herbaceous, diffuse, branched, hairy, decumbent or ascending. Stipules ovate, entire, hairy, spreading or even reflexed. Petioles densely hairy, the lower ones more than an inch long. Lully-developed leaves two inches or more long, an inch broad, pinnate, the divisions of the lower two-thirds reaching down to the rachis, the lowest distant, obovate, deeply inciso-dentate, the upper divisions not reaching quite down to the rachis, the terminal one ternate, texture her- baceous, both sides bright green, the upper surface subglabrous, the lower slightly hairy on the veins and the margin a little ciliated. lowers solitary on short axillary peduncles, three- quarters of an inch broad when fully expanded. The bracts ovate, slightly exceeding the ovate sepals, both hairy. The petals bright yellow, obovate, about a quarter of an inch deep. Calyx reflexed when old. ‘The carpels very numerous, roundish, naked. The stamens slightly exceeding the styles.—J. G. B. This interesting plant was raised from seed by Mr. Thos. Cooper, and the drawing was made from a plant of his growing. It thrives on light sandy loam, and requires the temperature of the greenhouse.--W. W. S. 4 vie Pe ats z ori >’ ie cd vata ‘ as = Rae 7 — LIBRARY OF TH _. UNIVERSITy of WLLINDES, Ni: Fitch mp. W.H.F. delet. th. Refuyium Botanicum.| | April, 1868. TAB, 3: Natural Order STERCULIACE. Sub-order ByTTNERIESR. Genus Ruuinar, RA. Br. R. parvirtora (Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 12.) Foliis parvis ovatis obtusis crenato-lobatis vel subhastatis marginibus undulatis, infra hirsutis, cymis paucifloris breviter pedunculatis, calycis parvis hirsutis lobis ovatis obtusis patentibus, petalis rotundato-ovatis obtusis dorso ecqualiter rotundatis. — Steetz in Pl. Preiss. ii. p. 856; Benth. Fl. Austr. 1. p. 240. BR. corylifolia, Steud. in Pl. Preiss. 1. p. 237, non Graham. R. nana, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1852, i. 150. A native of Western Australia: A copiously branched low shrub, not more than 12 to 18 inches high, the twigs slender, clothed densely with spreading grey hairs. Petioles very short. Leaves ovate, bluntish, deeply lobed, sometimes hastate, half to three-quarters of an inch long by more than half as broad, the lobes subcrenate, the surface crisped, especially towards the edge, the upper surface green and slightly hispid, the lower densely coated with grey tomentum. lowers in crowded few-flowered close short-stalked axillary and terminal cymes. Bracts small, lanceolate, scariose. Pedicels short, densely hairy, as are the blunt scarcely angular buds. Calyx spreading to about a quarter of an inch, the lobes ovate, blunt. Petals broad- ovate, blunt, spreading, white. Capsule round, about two lines in diameter, densely hispid. The genus, which includes fourteen species, is confined to Australia, with the exception of one that belongs to Madagascar. —J.G. B. This pretty little dwarf shrubby plant is a native of Western Australia, and was reared from seeds presented to me by S. Solly, Esq., F.R.S. The branches spread nearly horizontally in all directions, and at the flowering season are densely covered with small pinkish-white flowers. It requires a green- house temperature. Grows freely in sandy peat, requiring but little pot room.— W.. W. S. i’ ask a ri J Z nA ‘@ te). tA ciel" pee ae ‘or Lie ietaerrin Td 4 SEPA DH OR +, ya Gis] whitth age. a die ee a; ‘ } 40 a7 a LU. &, + S ( asco + teh amp. JN WEF. delet ith. Refugium Botanicum. | ‘April, 1868. TAB. 4. Natural Order GERANIACE. Tribe GERANIER. Genus Monsonta, Linn. fil. M. Birrora (D.C. Prodr. i. p. 255). Radice annuo, caule herbaceo ramoso diffuso piloso, petiolis foliis oblongis grossé inciso-dentatis subequalibus, stipulis et bracteis longis subulatis, pedunculis gemi- natis, sepalis ovatis acuminatis petalis ceruleis obovatis margine exterlore parce inciso-crenatis subeequantibus. —- Harv. and Sond. fl. Cap. vol. i. p. 255. M. angustifolia, G. Meyer; A. Rich. F1. Abyss. vol. i. p. 115. A native of the Cape of Good Hope, and occurring also in Abyssinia. An annual, with copiously branched erect hairy stems, about a foot high. Stipules spreading, subulate, ciliated, a quarter to three-eighths of an inch long. Upper leaves opposite. Petioles one-half to three-fourths of an inch long, hairy lke the branches, the blade more than an inch long by about half an inch broad, oblong, deeply inciso-dentate, almost pinnatifid, the base sub- cuneate, the apex subtruncate but toothed, texture herbaceous, both sides green and slightly hairy. lowers in pairs on axillary peduncles, which are sometimes an inch long, but often shorter. Bracts like the stipules. Pedicels usually about an inch long, at first erect, reflexed after the flower falls. Calyx three-eighths of an inch deep, hairy. The sepals oblong, with a mucro. Petals obovate, slightly exceeding the sepals, purplish blue, flabellately veined, the outer edge subtruncate and a little inciso-crenate. Stamens 10, united in a tube at the base, alternately longer and shorter. Carpels hairy, equalling the calyx, the beak ultimately three or four times as long.—J. G. B. This annual species of Monsonia requires to be cultivated in a greenhouse temperature, and seems to prefer a light rich loam. The flowers are produced but sparingly. It was raised from seed obtained from South Africa by Mr. T. Cooper, and the figure was drawn from a plant of his cultivation.—W. W. S. LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY Gr ILLINGIS. WHR deles ich. | JN Fitchimp Refugium Botanicun.| | dpril, 1868. TAB. 5; Natural Order GERANIACEX. Tribe PELARGONIE2. Genus PenarGonium, L’ Herit. Sect. Peristera. Caule herbaceo, gracili, diffuso, foliis lobatis vel pin- natifidis, floribus parvis, petalis sepalis brevioribus aut equalibus. P. GrossuLaRioipes (Ait. Hort. Kew, vol. ii. p. 42). Caule subgla- bro, petiolis inferioribus foliis duplo longioribus, foliis subglabris rotundato-cordatis parce palmatisectis lobis inciso-serratis, pedunculis longis filiformibus, umbellis 8—8 floris, sepalis lanceolatis nervatis, petalis purpureis cuneatis sepalis subequantibus.—Cav. Diss. i. 119, fig.2; D.C. Prodr. i. p. 660; Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. p. 289, Geranium anceps, Jacq. Coll. iv. t. 22, fig. 8. P. nummularifolia, Ecklon and Zeyher. A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Under the name of P. grossularioides Dr. Harvey brings together, in the ‘Cape Flora,’ a large number of allied forms. As we shall probably have occasion to refer afterwards to some of these, we now figure and describe what may be regarded as the typical plant as a standard for comparison. Stems copiously branched, diffuse, herbaceous, nearly glabrous, angular, furrowed. Stipules small, ovate, membranous. Lower petioles two to three inches long. Leaves roundish in general outline, an inch and a half to two inches each way, the base deeply cordate, the edge palmately lobed about a third of the way down, the divisions irregularly inciso-dentate, texture herbaceous, veining flabellate, surfaces thinly hairy. lowers in copious 38- to 8-flowered umbels on long slender peduncles. DBracts minute, lanceolate, membranous. Pedicels a quarter of an inch long. The calyx about the same. Sepals lanceolate, nerved. The petals bright purple, equalling the sepals in length, and nearly equal to one another in breadth, cuneato-ligulate, about a line broad. Fertile stamens five. The stigmas the same colour as the petals. =v. G. DB. This plant was raised from seeds sent from South Africa by Mr. Thos. Cooper. It grows freely in a light rich soil, and thrives well in the open air during the summer time, where it spreads on the ground and produces a pleasing effect. The plant requires a warm pit or cool greenhouse during the winter.—W. W. S. W.HLF. del. et hth. J.N Fitch nap Refugium Botanicum.| . [April, 1868. TAB. 6. Natural Order FicompE”. Tribe TETRAGONIER. Genus Arzoon, L. A. SARMENTOsUM (Linn. fil. Suppl. 260). Caule herbaceo, diffuso, sar- mentoso, glabro, foliis oppositis semicylindricis glabris, floribus terminalibus solitariis vel paucis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis extus viri- dibus villosis intus albidis, bracteis lanceolatis brevioribus.—T'hunb. Fl. Cap. p. 416; Burm. Afr. t. 26, fig. 2; D.C. Prodr. vol. ui. p. 454; Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. p. 471. A native of the cape of Good Hope; not uncommon. Stems many from the same root, half a foot to a foot long, firm, naked, often rooting. Leaves opposite, the lower ones often with tufts of small leaves in their axils, sessile, an inch long, fleshy but firm, a line broad, naked, bright green, slightly channelled on the face, semicircular on the back, the lower nodes about half an inch apart. Flowers terminal, solitary, or more usually in pairs or several, and, if so, subpaniculate, the central one sessile and the lateral ones stalked. ully-expanded flowers five-eighths to three-fourths of an inch broad, with two green lanceolate bracts close to them on the outside and exceeding them, the divisions of the single floral envelope ovate-lanceolate, white within, three or four lines deep, green and adpressed-hairy on the outside, but becoming white towards the edges. Stamens more than twenty, about half as long as the calyx. Capsule depresso-globose, obscurely pentagonal.—J. G. B. Seeds of this plant were sent to me from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Thos. Cooper. It grows well in any hght garden soil, and requires a cool greenhouse treatment.—W. W. S. 7 , It Ube | j bel thes a Pi ya ei pol’) BA hy Va 4F Ye. ames ‘ : y x pe lames de aa hy ee ; ) hd i sl td i » " . a 58 iT a = ; ia 2 ae: 4 a ee S on 7 i ‘ase LBRaRy OF THE UNIVERSiTy o¢ RLinuss } , we - irae : wt x ee Nat eee i : 10 haan : - 7 eo | 2 i “ee 7 > ) 2 tch, imp : JN. W.H.F del. et Lith. Refugium Botanicum. | [April, 1868. Deets Natural Order ComposiITz. Sub-order TuBULIFLOR&. Tribe SENECIONE. Genus Kierra, L. K. crassuL&FOLIA (D.C. Prodr. vi. p. 336). Caule suffruticoso glabro carnoso, foliis paulo supra collum confertis, semiteretibus acutius- culis integerrimis, ramo florido annuo erecto nudo apice bifido aut subdichotomo, pedicellis elongatis squamellosis unicephalis, capi- tulis hemisphericis discoideis homogamis, involucro circa 12-phyllo disco vix breviore, acheniis adpresse puberis. — Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 317. A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Root fruticose, perennial, the stems dying down to it in the winter, the portion that bears the leaves three or four inches high, four or five lines thick, fleshy, naked. Leaves subcylin- drical, narrowed to a point, two to three inches long, nearly a quarter of an inch thick, fleshy, naked, crowded, sessile, quite entire. Peduncle six to eight inches high, quite naked. Heads three to six, subcorymbose, solitary, on arcuate slender pedicels, _two to three inches long, with a small lanceolate bract at the base, and two or three others. Phyllaries about 12, fleshy, naked, linear-oblong, green and thickened in the middle, mem- branous towards the edge. Heads an inch across, the flowers bright yellow, the outer row ligulate, female, the middle ones about 30, tubular, perfect. Receptacle convex. Achenes pubescent. Pappus white. The genus Kleinia differs from Senecio only in having a tip to the branches of the style in the discoid flowers. In Senecio these are truncate.—J. G. B. I am indebted to the Royal Gardens at Kew for this interesting plant. It produces its blossoms rather freely when grown in a light and airy greenhouse. It requires but little moisture during the winter season, and should be potted in sandy peat and loam. —W,W.S. vn i" ier ue is on W ee it oe ab sit ape, Fe . ose “LTBRARY “OE THE UNIVERSITY OF F ILLNY! 4. Nee J.N. Kitch mp. W.H-F delet. hth. Refugium Botanicum. | [April, 1868. TAB. 8, Natural Order GooDENIACES. Genus GoopEntA, Smith. Sect. OcHRosantuHus, G. Don.— Capsula bilocularis vel septo abbreviato subunilocularis. Corolla bilabiata flava, lobis alatis stigmatis labia corolle parallela. G. ovata (Smith. Linn. Trans. vol. i. p. 34). Caule suffruticoso erecto glabro, petiolis brevibus, foliis ovatis serratis, cymis axillaribus trifloris pedunculis petiolis longioribus, corolle segmentis obovatis subeequalibus, seminibus uniserialibus.— Brown, Prodr. El. Austr. pavios D.C. Prodr. vii. p. 614. A native of Australia. An undershrub, with long almost woody terete naked branches. Leaves alternate. The petioles a quarter to half an inch long, the blade ovate, two to three inches long by about half as broad, the point acute, the base cordate, the edges regularly, sharply, but not deeply toothed. lowers in three-flowered cymes from the axils of the leaves. The main peduncle slightly exceeding the petiole. The pedicels equal, about half an inch long, with a pair of linear bracts where they fork, and each with a similar pair about the middle. Calyx green, naked, herbaceous, seven to eight lines deep, the slender tube about equalling the five linear- subulate teeth. Corolla bilabiate, the tube about equalling the calyx, the divisions obovate, three-eighths of an inch deep, sub- equal, yellow, veined towards the throat with red. Stamens con- siderably shorter than the calyx-teeth, equalling the stigma, the cup or involucre of which is bearded round the edge at the base. Seeds in a single row.—ZJ. G. B. This plant was raised from seeds kindly presented to me by S. Solly, Esq., F.R.S., who obtained them from Australia. Its golden yellow flowers are produced freely, during the winter months, on upright or spreading branches, forming a small bush some two to three feet high. It is well worth cultivating as an ornamental plant, and grows freely in a mixture of sandy loam and peat. ‘The temperature should be that of a cool greenhouse. —W.W.S. Te ‘) I + Re ATOM al) Wl J sre. AG) a} Refugium Botanieum.| ) April, 1868. TAB. 9. Natural Order AscLEPIADACE. Tribe STAPELIES. Genus Bracuystetma, R. Br. B.? ARNortit, n.sp. Radice napiformi, caule erecto ramoso puberulo, foliis subsessilibus ovato-spathulatis crispis, corolla rotata segmentis lanceolatis reflexis, corona subbiseriata, dentibus exterioribus erectis emarginatis, interioribus truncatis staminibus oppositis, stigmate peltate. Root napiform, between fleshy and corky, two to three inches thick, projecting a little above the soil, the top nearly flat, the outer coat membranous, naked, pale brown. Stem four to six inches high, erect, slightly branched, slender, herbaceous, finely gray-pubescent. eaves nearly sessile, in opposite pairs, ovate- spathulate, erecto-patent, crisped, one-fourth to three-eighths of an inch long, folded together, dull green above, densely gray- pubescent beneath. Flowers one to three from the axils of the leaves. Pedicels at first very short and ascending, becoming three to four lines long and considerably deflexed by the time the flowers expand, finely gray-pubescent. Calyx not more than half a line deep, cleft nearly to the base, finely gray-pubescent, the teeth linear. Corolla five-cleft three-quarters of the way down, the divisions velvety, bright brown, lanceolate, retlexed, an eighth of an inch deep, the tip green. Staminal corona subbiseriate, the outer row consisting of five erect greenish horns, which are alter- nate with the stamens, dilated and emarginate at the apex, the inner row of short truncate greenish processes inflexed against the back of the dilated yellow connectives. Stigma peltate. A very curious little plant, sent by Dr. Arnott from the Pro- vince of Colesberg, in South Africa, to the Royal Gardens at Kew, which we are indebted to Dr. Hooker for the opportunity of figuring. From Brachystelma, as defined in De Candolle’s ‘Prodromus,’ it differs by its almost rotate corolla, and by the character of the corona, which in Brachystelma consists of five teeth opposite the stamens. Our plant has the teeth alternate, with the stamens and short intermediate processes inflexed against them, so that it is intermediate between Brachystelma and Harvey’s Decaceras, which has ten equal teeth.—J. G. B. * a adel th 4 liptask ¥ ‘ pi) pay ny’ ee Luan thy MA? rt uy ra ta ue thule a toe id bie ve ‘ 4 vi) Saltire oe cay 8 eet ROT Pica’ 1) a ‘chal ‘yaetiadiet ‘b> #7 iniih sod han & its A son! woe ats : ee ae ws =< 7 ” , Ve Leh iop, JNA ELF del.et ith. = y Refugium Botanricum. | April, 1868, “ « if Pp ? TAB. 10. Natural Order ASCLEPIADACE®. Tribe STAPELIES. Genus Crroreaia, Linn. C. MULTIFLORA, n.sp. Radice napiformi, caule volubile glabro, foliis linearibus subteretis sulcatis, floribus 4—-6 pedicellatis in foliorum axillis sine pedunculo communi, corolla basi ventricosa, limbi laciniis lanceolatis piloso-ciliatis, corone staminoides dentibus exte- rioribus connatis, interioribus lingulatis. — Systrepha multiflora, Burchell, MSS. Root napiform, between fleshy and corky, three or four inches thick, projecting a little above the soil, the top nearly flat, the outer coat membranous, pale brown, naked. Stem firm, wide- twining, slender, string-like, naked. Leaves opposite, reflexed, about an inch long, nearly as thick as broad, channelled on the face, naked. Flowers in clusters of four to six from the axils, without any common peduncle, the pedicels finally three-eighths to one-half of an inch long, swollen at the apex. Calyx naked, a line deep, cut half-way down, the teeth linear. Corolla half to three-quarters of an inch long, greenish purple, swollen into a globe at the base, above this a narrow tube half an inch long, the divisions lanceolate, erecto-patent, an eighth of an inch deep, densely gray-pilose on the inner side, the tips connected by a web of slender threads which meet in the centre. Corona in the ball, pure white, plaited, the outer row truncate, the inner con- sisting of five connivent linear pure white teeth. Pollen-masses yellow, ovoid, spreading. From the Province of Colesberg, sent, like the preceding, by Dr. Arnott, and also grown at Kew. ‘There are dried specimens in Dr. Burchell’s collections, and he has given the plant a name in manuscript. In characters and habit it comes nearest to C’.. linearis, EK. Meyer.—J. G. B. Ne ; ® ) q { » ° : : : = ‘ : i . 2 ) a owe, |! ? iy : io : , - ( » \ ipa ih ¥ ea sha ‘ ¥ 4 . ? ‘ i ~ ya éu 6 | ria te ue ee re S 8 3 td Oe me 4 Pf 5 ® a. - , ? . 7 ; Ps 44 i @ Pew) 6 ® e . « ¢ i af ¥ nid | ‘ a ae av ee i ry s } }. ' 5 3 : gies ’ i a ‘ | | ; 4 ‘ i r at i j Pn J i Kj 4 : : ahi 1% ; - i a j ~~ f ba Ce ¥ ef Beet 1 ea ee yi ‘ly ae ing y4 ui : mt ’ 7 ! % ely é pute if p, aeevelia 7! j rr“ J Ye aide on é . Pi . f ; , AY ict i } j a ‘ re . } y Y j ™M i if Li d @ ' WE Wy Seer eli) poe 'v ; : ry Ope i a Se tp | G54 at bial bit, a? 12,8 tiles p « ’ ry ak can ata ’ ‘ i 4 | ¢ a i ATR Ae ot est W.H-F. del. et. ith. Refugiuin Botanicum. | [ April, 1868. TAB. 11. Natural Order PoLyGoNAcEm. Genus Ponycaonum, Linn. Sect. Cepuaropiton, Meisn. Flores capitati. Calyx semicorollinus, 4—5 partitus. Stamina 8 vel rarius 6. Glandule vel squamee perigyne nulle. Styli 3 vel raro Q, filiformi, semiconnati, stigmatibus capi- tatis. Achanium calyce parum aucto sicco vel rarius subcarnoso totuin Inclusum, trigonum. P. capiratum (Hamilt. in Don. Prodr. Fl. Nep. p.73). Caule radi- cante ramoso cum ochreis foliisque pube purpurascente hispidulo, foliis ovatis vel ellipticis subacutis, petiolo brevissimo utrinque foliaceo-auriculato, capitulis geminatis vel solitariis majusculis densifloris, bracteis paleaceis ovatis acutis nudis, floribus quinque- fidis octandris hemitrigynis, achenio obtuse trigono obsolete granu- Jato.— Meisn. Monogr. p. 82; D.C. Prodr. xiv. p. 129; Bab. in Linn. Trans. vol. xviii. p. 107. P. repens, Wall. Cat. 1699 ; Meisn. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. p. 60. Not uncommon in the North of India. A perennial, with firm slender diffusely spreading stems, mo- derately densely clothed with short deflexed gray hairs. Ochree herbaceous, short, the lower part clasping the stem firmly, the upper part reflexed. Nodes about half an inch apart. Petioles very short, with a foliaceous wing. Leaves ovate or elliptical, the largest two inches long by about an inch broad, the point sub- ‘acute, the base rounded with a haft, texture herbaceous, not at all rigid, upper surface full green, lower rather paler, both sides moderately thickly clothed with short spreading gray hairs like those of the stem, an oblique dark blotch running down from the middle of the leaf to the base on both sides of the midrib. Flowers in dense rounded heads, about half an inch broad, on peduncles a quarter to an inch long, the separate flowers sessile, with a small ovate membranous bracteole clasped round them, the perianth pink, the tube rather longer than the five blunt ovate divisions. Stamens five to eight, inserted in the throat of the tube. Style tripartite about half-way down. Nut obtusely trigonous, faintly granulated.—J. G. B. The seeds of this plant I obtained, some years since, from Nepal, through the late Dr. Royle. It is easy of cultivation and nearly hardy, and well suited, from its trailing habit, for hanging- baskets, where its pretty pink flowers and dark spotted leaves produce an elegant effect. It does well in a cool conservatory.— W.W.S. LiRWASY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WLLh W.HLF. del.et. hth. Refugium Botanicum.| (April, 1868. TAB. 12. Natural Order PIPERACEZ. Genus Prergromia, R. & P. Sect. Microriver, Miquel. Bacca sessilis. Caulescentes ramose. Flores seepe remotiusculi. Ovarium ovatum, oblongum, apice stigmati- ferum. P. petiucipa (fH. B. K. Nov. Gen. Tom. i. p. 64). Succulento-pellucida glabra, ramis levibus dichotomis, foliis deltoideo-cordatis, obtusius- cule acuminatis, glabris, quinquenervis, amentis breviter peduncu- culatis axillaribus terminalibusve filiformibus erectis, folio bis terve superantibus, bracteis oblongis excentrice peltatis, ovario oblongo- cylindrico, apice stigmatifero.— Pl. Avquin. Tom. ii. p. 58; Kunth, Synop. 1. p. 117; Miquel, Systema, p. 79; Griseb. Flora, p. 165. Piper pellucidum, Linn. Syst. Veg. Hort. Cliff. tab. 4; Plumier, bay be Extends from the West Indies southward to Brazil and Peru. Stem erect, about two feet high, copiously branched, weak, fleshy, about a quarter of an inch thick at the base, like the rest of the plant naked, and in colour a very pale pellucid green. Internodes one to two inches long. Leaves alternate, the lower ones stalked, the upper nearly sessile, cordate-ovate, the larger ones an inch and a half long by more than half as broad, often decurved, the texture thin but fleshy, the under surface very pale and shining, the veins prominent. Spikes short-stalked, copious, one to two inches long, under a line think, narrowed gradually upwards. Flowers with a considerable space between them, the bract oblong, obtuse, green, attached a little above its base. Ovary oblong, with a single two-celled anther on each side, crowned with the stigma. Berry oblong, longitudinally striated when dry. STAGE Be This delicate and fragile species of Peperomia, well named from its almost transparent stems, was obtained from chance seeds, which germinated in earth which was sent, with other plants, from Trinidad. It grows rapidly in turfy peat with plenty of drainage, and requires a damp stove-heat and not too much light. It seeds very freely. —W. W. S. Ry OAL & Pict. Dia Let Deu - ofp a pres + ; ; a a f ti p ive ee vet a5 ne . i) ONT] 2, * a] - ie ah i 1 a) v1 oe LIBRARY eee. ' - | | OF THE | | | YNIVERSITY OF ALLINUIS, Si a ice Fe 4 ————————___—_—__— Refugium Botanicum.| | April, 1868. TAB. 13. Natural Order PIPERACEA. Genus Prperomis, Rh & P. Sect. AcrocaRpiDium, Miquel. Bacca parte inferiore contracta pseudo- pedicellata. Herbee American spe tener, ramose, repentes, radicantes. P. nummucarirotia (H. B. K. Nov. Gen. Tom. i. p. 66). Caule fili- forme, ramisque pilosulis, foliis alternis orbiculatis vel ovati-rotun- datis convexo-concavis trinerviis carnosis punctatis pubescentibus et ciliatis, pedunculis puberulis, baccis oblongis.—Pl. A’quin. Tom. ii. p: 54; Kunth. Synop. i. p. 118; Griseb. Fl. Brit. West. Ind. p. 164. Piper nummularifolium, Swartz. Fl. Ind. Oce. i. p.72. Acro- carpidium nummularifolium, Miquel in Diar. Instit. Nederl. 1848 ; Syst. Pip. p. 52. A native of Tropical America, from the West Indies and Mexico southward to Brazil. Stems wide-trailing and rooting, slender, green, fleshy, fragile, naked. Nodes an inch or more distant on the well-grown shoots. The leaves on short petioles, alternate, spreading or deflexed, roundish or broad-obovate, one-half to five-eighths of an inch long by usually rather less broad, the apex hardly at all pointed, the base rounded, texture fleshy, both sides bright green, both the edge and surfaces finely and inconspicuously hairy, the veins thin and not anastomosing. Spikes terminal, on short leafy stalks from the axils of the leaves of the main stem, half to one inch long, under a line thick. lowers with a considerable space between them ‘The bracts green, roundish. The ovary central, with a two-celled anther on each side of it. Berry oblong.— Gres As Peperomia pellucida, the present plant was obtained from Trinidad, and under similar circumstances. It 1s an interesting and elegant trailing plant, growing well and rapidly on mossy blocks of wood suspended in the shade. It is very impatient of cold, and requires a damp stove.—W. W.S. piv. hare»? ¢ n Sy ve ( wi My i. ‘iG eat D shina m4 / ies -______<.g W.H.LF del.et-kth. Refugium Botanicum.| [dpril, 1868. TAB, 14. Natural Order ARoIDER. Genus AntTHuRIUM, Schott. Sect. AcAMPTOPHYLLUM. Caudex abbreviatus, contractus. Lamina cori- acea, stricta, oblonga vel lanceolata basi acuta vel obtusa. Costa crassa, venis tenuibus, pseudoneuro continuo, impunctata. Pe- dunculi longi, stricti. Spadix longus, multiflorus. Ovarii locula- menta uniovulata. Bacca colorata. A. LANcEoLATUM (Aunth. Enum. iii. p. 71). Petiolis brevibus teretibus apice incrassato, foliis lanceolatis basin versus angustatis, apice acutatis pseudoneuris marginibus approximatis, pedunculo foltis ex- cedente, spatha lanceolata deflexa, spadice sessili cylindrico.— Schott, Prodr. p. 479; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 508. Pothos lanceolata, Linn. Sp. p. 13873. A. Willdenowti, Kth. and Schott. loc. cit. A native of the West Indies, figured long ago by Plumier. Rootstock erect, two to three inches high, the leaves whorled round it, sending out copious adventitious rootlets from the sides. Petioles one to three inches long, flat on the face, rounded on the back, swollen at the base of the leaf, firm, naked, erect. Leaves lanceolate, about a foot long, two inches broad, narrowed from the middle downwards, slightly rounded at the base, texture firm, the midrib keel-lke, colour dark green, both sides naked, the veins immersed, the main ones parallel, united within a short distance of the edge. Pedwnele firm, erect, terete, slightly ex- ceeding the leaves, purplish brown towards the base. Spathe lanceolate, deflexed, green, slightly enrolled, about three inches long by half an inch broad. Spadix sessile, cylindrical, marone- coloured, four to five inches long, one-fourth to three-eighths of an inch thick. Ovary oblong, two-seeded.—J. G. B. I am indebted to the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew for this plant, which thrives well in the shade of a damp stove. It should be grown in decayed Sphagnum or in turfy peat, where the succulent roots can be well supplied with moisture.— W. W. S. * # a ’, ip aaah nA - Th. HE J.N.Fitchimp. W.H.F. del. et ith. Refugium Botanicum. | (April, 1868. TAB. 15. Natural Order AROIDE. Genus ZOMICARPER, Schott. Genus Zomicarpa, Schott. Spathe persistentis tubus ad basin brevis- sime cucullatus, ceterum convolutus. Spadicis feminea pars spatha dorso adnata, mascula appendiculata, libera. Anthere rimula ovali, vertice aperientes, locellis subpersistentibus. Z. Rireperrana, Schott, Prodr. Aroid. p. 122. Foliis tri-quinquepartitis segmentis ovatis, spadice spatham duplo longiore, spathz dimidio sterili clavato, organis neutris subulato-mucronatis paucis. A native of Brazil. Scape about a foot high, naked, terete, olive-green. Petioles four to six inches long, like the scape but more slender. Leaves ternate, the central division ovate, entire, about three inches long by half as broad, the lateral divisions larger, varying from unequal-sided, with a large deltoid auricle at the base on the lower side, to cut down nearly to the base into two subequal ovate or ovate-lanceolate divisions, texture fleshy, colour dark green above, lower surface paler, the whole uniform, or, in the variety figured, variegated with white in the middle. Spadix three to four inches long, green, fleshy, the lower part rolled round the spathe, the upper flattened out, the apex deflexed. Spathe about half as long as the spadix, the part which bears the ovules attached on one side with, in our specimen, three broadly flask- shaped green fleshy ovules ; on the other, above this one, with a large number of small crowded roundish anthers, all round the upper half barren, green, cylindrical, with a few spiny processes at the base. Berries round, the seeds oblong-clavate, in a circle from the base.—J. G. B. I received the tubers of this curious little Arad from Mr. Reed, who obtained them near Bahia. It grows freely in a moist stove. The soil should be a mixture of sandy loam and leaf- mould, kept well watered when the plant is growing. When the leaves begin to fade the plant wants a season of warm moderately dry rest.—V. W. S. ) a i nn) Py Wont =. E—E see J. N.Eitch imap W. -W.8.del: W. H.F hth Refugiun Botanicum.| [ April, 1868. TAB. 16. Natural Order Liniacem. Tribe ScInLEs. Genus Uroperauum, Ker. U. Wetwitscui, n. sp. Bulbo rotundato, foliis linearibus duobus plani- usculis scapo subequantibus, pedicellis secundis nutantibus vel patulis floribus delapsis bracteas superantibus, perianthiis cylindricis viridibus, segmentis interioribus connatis exterioribus longioribus recurvatis, capsula sequaliter oblonga. A native of Angola, received from Dr. Welwitsch. It comes nearest to the Mozambique U. longifoliwm, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 974, Bulbs nearly spherical, waxy white. Scape about a foot high, erect, slender, terete, glaucous-green, naked. Leaves linear, about two lines broad, equalling or slightly exceeding the scape, sheathing it at the base, flat upwards, recurved, fleshy in texture, minutely ribbed, glaucous-green, naked. Faceme secund, four- to six-flowered, three to four inches long. Bracts small, mem- branous, lanceolate-acuminate, equalling the flowering but shorter than the fruiting pedicels, which are finally two lines long. Flowers at first cernuous, finally erecto-patent, green throughout, the inner segments of the perianth five-eighths of an inch long, connate at the edges, shortly patulous at the tips, the outer segments three-fourths to seven-eighths of an inch long, reaching down within a quarter of an inch of the base, the outer third reflexed, the tip cylindrical. Stamens six, equal, one to each seoment from the throat of the united tube. Ovary equally ovate, bluntly triquetrous, hardly at all sulcate.—J. G. B. This new species of Uropetalum was kindly presented to me by my friend Dr. Wellwitsch, who has done so much for the Botany of a very little known region of South Africa. It thrives well treated in the same way as an Jxia, in sandy loam and peat, and grown exposed to the light in a cool greenhouse.—W. W. S. ‘ a a citi Ae shale ie al? Ln iat 7) F k iBRARY aa OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLING ‘ . “ * - sine eT ee TOT Peiiecress TI eg ee ERES ree eens With dal stats 2 ai, Wao Refugium Botanicum.| (April, 1868. TAB. 17. Natural Order Lini1acem. Tribe ScILLEA. Genus Uroprerauum, Ker. U. umBonatum, n. sp. Bulbo ovato, foliis linearibus duobus supra planiusculis infra convexis scapo subeequantibus, pedicellis secundis nutantibus floribus delapsis bracteas duplo brevioribus, perianthiis cylindricis viridibus, segmentibus interioribus connatis, exterioribus longioribus recurvatis, capsula obovata oblonga supra umbonata. A native of the Cape of Good Hope, collected by Mr. Hutton. Bulb ovate, white, much smaller than in the preceding. Scape about a foot high, erect, slender, terete, naked. Leaves linear, about a quarter of an inch broad, equalling or slightly exceeding the scape, sheathing it at the base, hemispherically convex in the lower part, flat towards the point, recurved, fleshy in texture, minutely ribbed, glaucous-green, naked. Staceme secund, ulti- mately nearly as long as the scape, with six to nine flowers. Bracts lanceolate-acuminate, scariose, twice as long as the pedi- cels, which are ultimately two and a half to three lines long. Flowers at first cernuous, finally erecto-patent, green throughout, the inner segments of the perianth half an inch long, connate at the edges, shortly patulous at the tips, the outer ones recurved, half as long again, the tips cylindrical. Stamens six, equal, one to each segment from the throat of the united tube. Ovary obovate-oblong, umbonate upwards, more deeply sulcate than in the preceding. From our U. Welwitschi it differs by its smaller and differently shaped bulb, larger bracts, more numerous and shorter flowers, and differently shaped ovary. It has narrower leaves than U. longifolum, more numerous flowers, outer divisions of the perianth longer, and inner with less spreading tips.— vaGe ls. 7 I received the bulbs of this plant, some years since, from Mr. Plant, who found them in the Natal district of S.E. Africa. It requires the same treatment as the preceding species, and flowers freely.—W. W. S. £16. Liki W.H.F del et hth. J.N Hitchrmp. Refugium Botanicum. | (April, 1868. TAB. 18. Natural Order LintacE®. Tribe ScILLE. Genus Drimia, Jacq. D. Coopert, n. sp. Foliis oblongo-lanceolatis immaculatis patulis scapo duplo longioribus, racemis multifloris densis scapis eequantibus, pedicellis nutantibus floribus equantibus, perianthiis viridibus extus purpurascentibus, tubo laciniis lanceolatis eequante. An inhabitant of the Cape of Good Hope, imported by Mr. Cooper. Several bulbs diverging from a common centre, an inch and a half to two inches thick, the coats membranous, dark purplish, truncate upwards. Leaves about six, four to five inches long, by an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half broad when full- grown, oblong-lanceolate, blunt, succulent in texture, entirely without spots, the veins fine and immersed, both sides bright green, naked, glossy, uniform in colour. Scape two to three inches long, erect, terete, green. taceme equalling or finally exceeding the scape, densely thirty- to forty-flowered, the pedicels cernuous, nearly as long as the perianth, which is campanulate, three-eighths of an inch deep at first, one-fourth of an inch deep when fully expanded, green on the inside, but purplish red on the outside towards the base, the divisions reaching about half-way down, spreading when the flower is fully developed. Stamens six, inserted at the base of the segments and about equalling them. Ovary roundish, three-celled, with two ovules in each cell. Of the published species it comes nearest to D. Gawleri and lanceefolia, from both of which its denser and more copiously flowered racemes, shorter pedicels and leaves, twice as long as the scape, will readily distinguish it.—J. G. B. Through the exertions of Mr. T. Cooper, I have received this and a number of other species of Drimia from South Africa, several of which are new to Science. Many of them are well worth cultivating on account of their beautiful leaves, marked with either dark spots or lines. The species do well in a mixture of decayed turf and sandy loam, with plenty of drainage. They require a light airy greenhouse, and a season of moderately dry rest when the leaves fade.—W. W. S. ft. itp, eee fea ews Vi) TSR ee iat .an | Per xe - Le ry nba tar ene Ladd dahl poy? ty ILLINOIS. ‘ iy a) -p: Th oe W.H.F. del. et bth. Refugium Botanicum.| | April, 1868. TAB. 19. Natural Order Lin1ace®. Tribe ScILLE&. Genus Drimta, Jacq. D. APERTIFLORA, n. sp. Foliis ligulato-lanceolatis inferne maculatis erectis scapo equantibus, racemis expansis sublaxis scapis mul- toties brevioribus, pedicellis nutantibus floribus duplo longioribus perianthii laciniis purpurascentibus ligulatis fere ad basin liberis. Another new species, also brought by Mr. Cooper from the Cape. It is much nearer the old D. lanceefolia than the pre- ceding, but has much longer leaves spotted only below, a longer scape, a more numerously flowered and closer raceme, and larger flowers. Bulb ovate, an inch and a half to two inches thick, the coats membranous, purplish brown, truncate upwards. Leaves five or six, erect, igulate-lanceolate, eight or nine inches long when fully developed, about an inch broad, marked with dark purple blotches in the lower part, narrowed gradually from the middle down- wards, and upwards to an acute point, texture succulent, colour bright green. Scape terete, equalling the leaves, blotched in the lower part. Raceme at first crowded, about four inches long and moderately lax when fully expanded, the bracts very small and inconspicuous, the pedicels finally half an inch long, slightly cernuous. Perianth purple, about a quarter of an inch deep, the divisions ligulate, reaching down nearly to the base, exceeding the stamens. Ovary with six sulcations, those between the three cells the most conspicuous.—J. G. B. This is another of the species of Drimia which were sent to me by Mr. T. Cooper, from South Africa. It requires the same treatment as recommended for D. Cooperi.—W. W. 8. as as ‘win LIBRARY OF THE | i UNIVERSITY OF InLEwy . LA i_— 07 GF EGET. pore ees SUEY Ao Tone. ao el A ua uoqey’ NL eee a tis Refugium Botanieum.| | April, 1868. TAB. 20. Natural Order LiniacEm. Tribe ScILLEA. Genus ORNITHOGALUM. O. vHYRSOIDES (Jacq. Vind. iii. p. 17, t. 28). Foliis lanceolatis scapo brevioribus reflexis, racemis multifloris densis ovato-thyrsoideis, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis pedicellis brevioribus, perianthii segmentis albis late-oblongis subsequalibus patentibus, filamentis alternis in- ferne rotundato-dilatatis. — Thunb. Prodr. p. 62; Fl. Cap. 315; Ait. Hort. Kew, edit. 2, vol. ii. p. 261. Redoute, Liliac. t. 338 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1164; Kunth, Enum. vol. iv. p. 353. A native of the Cape of Good Hope. The species is well known, but none of the figures which have appeared already give an idea of the plant in its full state of development. Bulb roundish, about two inches thick, the coat brown-mem- branous, truncate upwards. Leaves three or four, contemporaneous with the flowers, lanceolate, six to eight inches long, an inch and a half to two inches broad, clasping the stem at the base, the apex reflexed, texture moderately fleshy, both sides full green and naked, the venation not conspicuous. Scape about a foot high, a quarter to three-eighths of an inch thick, firm, erect, terete, naked. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, pale green, about an inch long. lowers in a lax or dense terminal thyrsus, in our speci- men about fifty in number, but sometimes as few as a dozen. Pedicels an inch and a half to two inches long, the upper ones ascending, the lower ones spreading. Perianth pure white, two inches broad when fully expanded, the divisions ovate, bluntish, subequal. Stamens one opposite each segment, similar, but the alternate filaments different, three being slightly dilated below, but the other three much more dilated and prolonged into a con- spicuous tooth on each side at the apex. Ovary bluntly trigonous, the stigma slightly exceeding the stamens.—J. G. B. A remarkably fine species of Ornithogalum, from South Africa, sent to this country, some years since, by Mr. T. Cooper. It flowers freely, cultivated in rich turfy loam, and with a liberal supply of water during the season of growth. Cool greenhouse treatment seems to suit the plant best, with plenty of light and air. When at rest it should be dry and moderately warm.— Wows. : : } IRRARY | SUL eee “OF. THE. | ae | ; UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOLS, : cy ‘ ; j nah ae a) i d ee Aone % 4¢% 7 iy Cort SC 2 ) TS Fi FR \ ALAN ere LU: ‘i ARS XX \e oe SSSA SEUSS nN eh WW) (2 SSIS SSSI M MI I - ASK ow SA Al ’ a erage iJ aN \ \) i Se Ln aroeenr es one AN BNET ing baa * Pieterdoay W.H.F. del.et. Hth. J.N. Fitch,inp. Refugium Botanicum. | (April, 1868. TAB, al, Natural Order Lin1ace#. Tribe ASPARAGEX. Genus Asparagus, Linn. Section Asparacopsis, Kunth. Flores hermaphroditi, ovarium liberum triloculare, ovula in loculis 3--9, bacca globosa, abortu 1—2 sperma. A. SCANDENS (Thunb. Prodr. 63). Glabra, caulibus herbaceis, ramo- sissimis, inermibus, volubilibus, ramis angulatis, ramulis acutan- gulis, foliis subternis, planis, linearibus, subfalcatis, stipulis profunde dentatis, pedicellis solitariis pendulis supra medium articulatis, peri- anthio segmentis inzequalibus patentibus. — Art. Hort. Kew, edit. 2, vol. u. p. 273; Schult. Syst. vol. vii. p. 825. Asparagopsis scan- dens, Kunth, Enum. vol. v. p. 78. A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Stems several feet high, climbing, herbaceous, the main branches horizontal, the branchlets naked, slender, deeply channelled. Leaves linear, dark green, glossy, naked, firm in texture, slightly falcate, three or four lines long, those of the ultimate shoots spreading nearly in a plane, usually in threes, casually in twos and fours. Stipules lanceolate-acuminate, membranous, deeply toothed. Pedicels from the axils of the clusters of leaves, slender, drooping, naked, articulated above the centre, solitary or casually geminate, three or four lines long. Expanded flowers four lines across, white, except that the keel has a slight greenish tinge, oblong, patent, slightly toothed, the alternate ones rather smaller. Stamens rather shorter than the segments of the perianth, one from the base of each. Ovary bluntly trigonous, with shallow sulcations. Berry round, four lines thick.—J. G. B. This elegant plant, of delicate fern-like foliage, is of very rapid growth, and very suitable for conservatory decoration. It will easily climb up a small cord, and then can be moved without difficulty from place to place, and be shown in situations where it will produce the best effect. It makes fresh growth from the ground every year. I find a rich turfy loam suits it well. — ee Meas! Lil nh ANY UNIVERSIT ALLINUIS, te a met rain, TT Wr we tenner SOMA VOT mat matt N AED JN Ritch ip HF del. et ith. V \] Refugium Botanicum.]} [April, 1868. TAB. 22, Natural Order AMARYLLIDACES. Tribe PANCRATIE. Genus STENOMESSON, Herb. S. sUSPENSUM, n.sp. Foliis linearibus scapo equantibus, spathis bivalvis pedicellis subzquantibus, floribus 4—6 nutantibus coccineis, tubo cernuo gracili segmentis oblongis imbricatis duplo longiore, corona longe exserta sine dentibus interstamineis. A native of Peru, gathered by Mr. Fraser. Bulb ovate, an inch thick, the coats dark brown, papyraceous, truncate upwards. Leaves two, linear, acute, a foot long, half an inch broad, glaucous-green, flat, fleshy, naked, the midrib pro- minent beneath. Scape firm, erect, naked, equalling the leaves. Spathe two-leaved, lanceolate, an inch and a half long. lowers four to six, drooping, the pedicels about an inch long, scarcely protruding from the clasping spathes. Perianth an inch anda half long, the tube half its length, not more than an eighth of an inch thick below, but dilated upwards, the divisions half an inch deep, oblong, imbricated, the outer ones blunt, the inner ones subacute, both bright scarlet on both sides like the tube. Stamens equalling the perianth, the filaments dilated at the base and quite close together, without any teeth between them, ex- ceeding the corona. Style slightly exserted. Capsule hardly at all angular. Like S. Hartwegii, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1844, t. 22, this differs from the character of Stenomesson, as laid down in Kunth, by the staminal corona being entirely without teeth between the stamens, but we do not separate it, from a belief that when the Order is revised it will be found best to join these with the true Steno- messons and Coburgias in one genus, regarding the nature of the fringe of the staminal corona as furnishing characters of sectional value only.—J. G. B. I received this interesting bulbous plant, some years since, from Mr. Fraser, who collected it in Peru. It requires warm greenhouse treatment, and should be grown in a mixture of loam and peat. It should be kept well watered while growing, and allowed to rest dry and warm.—W. W.S. eS Aone iiteacee deni aee aL el 4 ty i h}wue Per eit _- RY ya < ” pa or HS pat t ‘ 4 1 W.W. Saunders, del,.W.H-F hth. JN Fitch; \\ amp. Refugium Botanicum. | [April, 1868. TAB. 23. Natural Order IRIpAcER. Tribe GLADIOLE®. Genus Guapiouus, Linn. G. tristis (Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 42). Bulbo fibroso, scapo 3—4 foliato, foliis inferne longe vaginantibus superne linearibus profunde bisul- catis, spathis inseqnalibus, floribus 2—8, corolle segmentis tubo subsequalibus ovatis longe caudatis maculis parvis copiosis rufo- brunneis, filamentis antheris duplo longioribus, stigmatibus diver- gentibus obcordatis, capsula oblonga, seminibus late alatis. — Mlatt, Linn. vol. xxxii, p. 715; Bot. Mag. t. 1098. G. elongatus, Ecklon, non Thunb. A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Bulb clothed with a dense network of brown fibres. Stem erect, terete, simple, naked, with three to four leaves and two to eight flowers. Leaves with long cylindrical sheaths below, the free part four to six inches long by about two lines broad, almost tetragonous, with two deep regular channels on both sides between the raised edges and the broad raised midrib. Valves of the spathe unequal, the outer one ovate-lanceolate, about equalling the tube of the corolla, the inner one smaller. Flowers cernuous, secund or dis- tichous, two to three inches deep. Corolla-tube infundibuliform, rather shorter than the divisions, which are ovate with remark- ably long narrow tail-like points, the groundwork yellow, the three upper ones minutely spotted all over both externally and internally with small reddish brown dots, the three lower ones narrower and spotted only on the outer half, all, especially the upper ones, with a darker keel. Jilaments twice as long as the yellow anthers. Stigmas obcordate, spreading, papillose. Capsule oblong. Seeds broadly winged.—J. G. B. Mr. Thos. Cooper sent me bulbs of this plant from Natal. It will thrive in a mixture of rich sandy loam and leaf-mould, and should be kept in a pit or greenhouse from which the frost is excluded.—W. W. S. 2 HBRARY ‘ EOF THE . “UNIVERSITY OF ftLineis, =“ S ra W.H.F.dele Refugium Botanicum.| (April, 1868. TAB. 24. Natural Order IrnmacEes. Tribe SisyrRIncHIER. Genus Homers, Vent. H. riexvosa (Sweet. Hort. Brit. p. 395). Bulbo seepe duplici comoso imbricato ; scapo tereti flexuoso pluriarticulato ramoso basi tri- fohato, foliis fistuloso-vaginantibus convoluto-linearibus scapo_bre- vioribus, spathis multifloris multivalvibus, valvis exterioribus herbaceis cucullato-convolutis basi articulos involventibus cuspi- datis subeequantibus ; floribus remote appresso-spicatis luteis ; peri- anthii laciniis subspathulato-oblongis sequaliter explanatis, unguibus in cyathum clausis, stigmate sexfido ramis patentibus.— Morea flexuosa, Linn. Suppl. 100; Thunb. Diss. No. 12; Prodr. 11; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 243; Bot. Mag. 695. Ixia longifolia, Jacq. Hort. Vind. vol. ili. t. 90. H. spicata, Sweet. F. W. Klatt, Linn. xxxiv. p-. 626. _A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Bulb three-quarters of an inch thick, often double, the coats brown, fibrous. Scape twelve to eighteen inches high, firm, slender, naked, dark green, with numerous articulations. Leaves three, one from each of the lowest articulations, convolute, sub- fistulose, shorter than the scape, dark green, naked; upper arti- culations each with a short clasping spathe-like bract, mem- branous at the borders. Flowers in a spike sometimes a foot long, distant, the spathes about equalling the pedicels, the flowers bright yellow, an inch and a half broad when fully expanded, the divisions oblong-spathulate, with a green streak down the middle reaching three-quarters of the way down, nearly equal, the stamens united into a tube below, the style densely six-cleft with spreading rays. Capsule half an inch long, hardly at all sulcate. We figure this principally for the sake of showing clearly the character of the style, which is very anomalous. Dr. F. W. Klatt, of Hamburg, who has recently contributed to the ‘ Linnea’ an elaborate monograph of the Iridacee, unites together three of Sweet's Homerie—spicata, flexuosa and virgata—as one species. —J, G. Jey. This is an old and well-known plant, brought forward again to point out some peculiarities of structure. It flowers freely treated as an Imia.—W. W. S. SN Fitchimp. W.H. Kitch, del.et. hth. F Mued, / Billardiera cymosa Refugium Botanicun.| ‘August, 1868. TAB. 25, Natural Order PrrrospoRAcE®. Genus BILLARDIERA, Smith. B. cymosa (Ff. Muell, Trans. Vict. Inst. i. p. 29). Caulibus flexuosis subglabris, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis subsessilibus, floribus in cymis subsimplicibus 4—6 floris sessilibus vel breviter pedunculatis aggre- gatis, pedicellis calyce longioribus, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis subgla- bris vel paullulum sericeis, corolla segmentis patulis violaceis oblongo-lanceolatis tubo sequantibus, baccis glabris oblongis. — Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. i. p. 124. B. cymosa and pseudo-cymosa, Klatt, Linnea, xxvii. p. 571. A native of the colonies of Victoria and South Australia. A low shrub, with firm, slender, diffuse or slightly climbing branches. ‘The old stems bright brown and naked, the young ones green and inconspicuously gray-silky upwards. Stipules none. Leaves sessile or nearly so, alternate, oblong-lanceolate, the largest fifteen to eighteen lines long by about half an inch broad, the point acute or subobtuse, the edge quite entire, the base narrowed, the texture chartaceous, the colour a uniform pale green on both sides, the veins not conspicuous. flowers in short-stalked or sessile terminal cymes of four or six flowers each. Bracts lanceolate. Pedicels three to six lines long, firm, erect, usually slightly silky, often bracteolate. Calyx an eighth of an inch deep, cut down to the base, subglabrous or incon- spicuously silky; the sepals linear-lanceolate. Corolla half an inch deep, divided about half-way down, the tube greenish-white on the outside, the divisions spreading horizontally when the flower is fully expanded, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate or cuspi- date, violet-coloured, a line and a half or two lines broad. Ovary clavate, finely silky, completely two-celled, with a short style and a broad hollow stigma. Fruit a small oblong berry, with numerous seeds enveloped in pulp.—J. G. B. This is a neat and pretty little sub-climbing plant, which thrives well in a dry airy greenhouse, grown in sandy turfy peat, and not too much potroom. It is impatient of much moisture at the root. I am indebted to my friend 8. Solly, Esq., F.R.S., for the seeds of this plant, which he received from South Australia—VW. HW. S. Suse ry x ‘came ng yee aS ie rae 4 ih jit, Mond ONES ten, vote ae en aby iy ine cH. ee tia ie a Kyihagss FS ie ia : . ‘i iF 3 ’ = ES Fy fy SSSA SOMA Y ENG Fitch,mp. W.H. Fitch, del.et. hth. sanths., arch. ZN Maherma ch Refugium Botanicum.| [dugust, 1868. TAB, 26, Natural Order STERCULIACES. Genus Maunernia, Linn. M. curysantua (Planchon in Herb. Hook.) Caulibus decumbentibus griseo-pubescentibus, stipulis profunde incisis, foliis breviter petio- latis cordato-oblongis obtusis crenulatis sursum rugosis demum sub- glabris deorsum dense griseo-lanosis, pedunculis elongatis plerisque bifloris, calycibus turbinatis dense griseo-vestitis dentibus deltoideis tubo equantibus, petalis obovato-spathulatis calyce multo excedenti- bus. — Turez. Mose. Bull. 1858, p. 219. Harv. Fl. Cap. vol. 1. p. 218. A native of Cape Colony. A low shrub, with slender, woody, prostrate stems, densely clothed with spreading gray woolly hairs. Stipules and bracts often cut more than half-way down into linear teeth. Petioles spreading, alternate, a quarter to half an inch long, firm, clothed like the stems. Leaves oblong or rather ovate, an inch and a half to three inches long, an inch to an inch and a half or more broad, blunt, the base cordate, the edge crenulate, the texture thick but pliable, the upper surface dull green and corrugated like a sage-leaf, slightly downy at first, but becoming naked; the under surface densely matted with gray woolly down, lke that of the stems. J lowers on peduncles one to two inches long, from the axils of the leaves, usually two together ; the pedicels cernuous. Calyx turbinate, half an inch deep, densely gray-woolly like the rest of the plant, with deltoid teeth which reach about half down. Petals half as long again as the calyx, obovate-spathulate, pubescent, in our specimens pure white. Ovary obovate, densely tomentose.—J. G. B. This plant was reared from seeds sent from South Africa by Mr. Thos. Cooper. It requires greenhouse treatment in winter, but is admirably adapted for decorating rock-work in the open air in the summer time. It will thrive well on lght sandy loam or any good garden soil. It flowers freely, and produces a very pretty effect when allowed to spread at its pleasure.—W. W. S. _ | ’ + : ; _ j i3 ; ¢ s ae. ee 4% ia oa 7 7 t Sea eS A ret aa) eee ral ee pA Read Pe a v1 ih. (ie ie ie iereern > ‘. he: : \¢ LD t Fl P y ihe mph ser 1 liek =) oe) RORY Yt A OCT eee ew ou Covi! 1ef Ser ty peyote EM . i ¥ 7 4 Ri tile Sine. 2.4 A Tat» . : . 4 4 . F y : Prey Th j a ane : d , - . . - _ a re P * a ’ ee te th> ge- rr a eat set) » «2 hie a ey ; ‘ . ‘ Th .y 4 aa doe ° i é : "e's , 1 : | > pee’ * rag . ‘ if . it Lal re 7 b, s : j ' pf (MF F ® 9s ! ety: \ ete Z ~ 7 eS panes ip cat pe eo ee yee 1 taf ‘ i : 1 JOPrs eisai le aan "Sa : » | 7a er 4)" i. oe) } 4 Aw iin lie @ Uh i. uy VE SITY fe 7 YG J.N. Fitch, imp : W.H. Fitch, del.et hth. Acacia strigosa, Auk. Refugium Botanicum.| ‘August, 1868. TAB. 31. Natural Order LEGuUMINOSA. Sub-order MrmosE&. Tribe ACACIER. Genus Acacia, Willd. A. stricosa (Link. Enum. Hort. Berol. vol. ii. p.444). Ramis strigosis, sti- pulis minutis scariosis linearibus, foliis subsessilibus sequaliter bipin- natis, pinnis plerisque bijugis, foliolis 4—6 jugis sessilibus oblongis- strigosis, pedunculis foliis equantibus, capitulis parvis congestis globosis 12—-15 floris, calycibus turbinatis truncatis, corollis stami- nibus duplo brevioribus, seminibus transversis.—D.C. Prodr. vol. ii. p- 466; Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. ii. p. 419. A. ciliata, R. Br. non Willd. A. Browniana, Wendland, Flora, 1819, p. 139. A native of Western Australia. An unarmed shrub, attaining a height of two to four feet, with slender striated woody branches, which are naked when old, but more or less densely clothed when young with spreading gray hairs. Stipules minute, linear, scariose. Leaves nearly or quite sessile, the fully-developed ones bipinnate, with two opposite pairs of pinne, the main rachis two or three lines long, tipped with a bristle, the pinne with four or five pairs of oblong obtuse sessile leaflets, which are an eighth of an inch or two lines long, firm in texture, full-green in colour when young, more or less hispid on both sides, the edges revolute when dry. Lowers in dense rounded heads from the axils of the leaves, on slender firm pubescent peduncles three to six lines long, which about equal the leaves; flowers twelve to fifteen in a head; the calyx turbi- nate, green, pubescent, half as long as the corolla. Petals boat- shaped, not more than half as long as the very numerous yellow stamens when the flower is fully expanded. Pod about an inch long and a quarter of an inch broad, leathery in texture and dark brown in colour, naked, narrowed at both ends, the faces flattened and valves much thickened, containing six or eight transverse seeds.—J. G. B. This is a very ornamental small species of Acacia, growing freely in a cool greenhouse or conservatory, and producing a large quantity of bright yellow flowers. It thrives in a soil of sandy peat and leaf-mould. It was raised from seed obtained from South Australia by my friend 8. Solly, Esq., F.R.S.—W. W. S. ” LIBRARY OF THE TY OF ILuNgic ' 5 2 UNIVERSS fags uh es gi ah yh aN WW AN AG { KI oe i vi ih yy. AGE hole) I | hp, an (ZZ Ee) sit iG Al PR auf rag ., / ae Be EE aa spe Ei. aN he Wee is Ls ge RY \} or A ‘S qi) i y LAA t) Qe; =A iy ~ “ \ . 2 Bp VAI er Y = < CNC > > 5 ‘Gita Vy x gq RS cy . i Q \ . \ ~ rOostt . " Nei AM 7 eS q oe AS Sxl 6 NY KES 9) - S ee SOS yeu 7 Z ‘ We SF fix W.H. Fitch, del, et Hth. J.N, Fitch, mp ; Sedum spectabile, Aoreaw. Refugiwn Botanicum. | August, 1868. TAB. 32. Natural Order CrassuLACcER. Genus Srpum, Linn. S. SPECTABILE (Boreau, Monogr. de quelques Sedums, p. 7). Foliis ternis vel oppositis pallide virentibus patulis obovato-spathulatis denticu- latis basi subcuneatis, corymbis amplis densis subplanis ramis pri- marlis oppositis, pedicellis floribus brevioribus, sepalis lanceolatis petalis triplo brevioribus, petalis pro genere magnis lanceolatis patulis lilacino-roseis, staminibus longioribus petalis multo exceden- tibus, carpellis rostratis petalis concoloribus squantibus. — Ana- campseros spectabile, Jordan and Fourreau, Ic. Fl. Eur. p. 37, t. 100. Sedum Fabaria, Lemaire, Illust, Hort. vol. viii. t. 271, non Koch. A native of Japan. Stems several from a root, glaucous-green, ascending, a quarter of an inch thick at the base. Leaves usually in whorls of three, sometimes in pairs, and on weak shoots occasionally solitary, obovate-spathulate, spreading nearly horizontally, two and a half to three inches long when well-developed, by about half as broad, bluntly and distantly toothed, cuneately narrowed at the base, nearly flat, in colour a pale bright slightly glaucous-green, the whorls about an inch and a half apart. Main branches of the corymb arising from the same point, the bracts of which are like the leaves, but only about half as long. Corymb almost flat- topped, in well-developed plants four or five inches across. Bracteoles small, linear. Ultimate pedicels three or four lnes long, pale glaucous-green. Calyx an eighth of an inch deep, the divisions lanceolate, a very pale green and not at all spotted. Petals lanceolate, three-eighths of an inch deep, narrowed gra- dually to an acute point, magenta-red, spreading, when the flower is fully expanded, from three-quarters of the way down, so that the corolla then measures quite half an inch across. Stamens generally in two sets of five each, those opposite the petals attached a short distance above their base and considerably exceeding them, the inner row attached quite at the bottom of the corolla, just equalling both it and the long-pointed carpels, which are both the same length and the same colour as the petals. /y- pogynous scales spathulate, conspicuously emarginate at the apex. This is the plant commonly cultivated in English gardens as Sedum Fabaria, a name to which it has no sort of claim, the true plant of Koch being a totally different species of the same group, which grows wild in many parts of England, and is very near the common 8. T’elephiwm, coinciding with it in general habit and the size and colour of its flowers, differing from it principally in the insertion of the stamens and narrower leaves.—J. G. B. This fine and beautiful species of Sedwm is quite hardy, and produces its large heads of delicate rose-coloured flowers freely in the open air. It is also a most useful plant for conservatory decoration when grown in pots, as its flowers are of long duration. A strong loamy soil seems to suit it best, and it will accommodate itself to either sun or shade.—W. W. 8. W. H.Eitch, del et hth. J.N. Fitch, mp. Sedum alboroseum, Saker Refugiwn Botanieum. | fAugust, 1868. TAB, 33, Natural Order CRASSULACER. Genus Srepum, Linn. S. ALBO-ROSEUM, 7. sp. Foliis sparsis pallide virentibus oblongo-spathu- latis subacutis ascendentibus denticulatis basi angustatis, corymbis amplis densis rotundatis ramis primariis alternis, pedicellis floribus dimidio brevioribus, sepalis deltoideis pallide viridibus immaculatis petalis triplo brevioribus, petalis albis lanceolatis patulis, stami- nibus et carpellis rostratis roseis petalis sequantibus. A native of Japan. Stems several from a root, ascending, about a foot and a half long, glaucous-green, quite naked, like the whole plant. Leaves close, arranged in spires of four, never opposite, ascending and slightly convex in the lower part, oblong-spathulate, the largest about two inches and a half long by half as broad, the point sub- acute, the edge of the upper two-thirds slightly inciso-crenate, the lower third entire, the base so much narrowed that when the leaves fall off they leave a roundish scar, the colour a pale bright slightly glaucous-green. Corymb three or four inches broad when well-developed, its separate divisions rounded, and the peduncles arising from different points, the lowest two or three inches long, with large leaf-like bracts. Ultimate pedicels not more than a line and a half or two lines long. Calyx about a line deep, pale green ; the sepals deltoid, not at all spotted. Petals lanceolate, pure white, three times as long as the calyx, spreading when the flower is fully expanded from two-thirds of the way down, so that the corolla measures about four lines across. Stamens equal, the outer row inserted very near the base of the petals, slightly pinkish, lke the rose-pink long-beaked carpels just equalling the sepals. Hypogynous scales ligulate-spathulate, emarginate at the apex. This handsome species, though it has been introduced many years, does not appear to have been anywhere described. — JG. Bb. A tall-growing Sedum, suitable for the open border or for rock- work. It is perfectly hardy, thriving in any good soil, and in its variegated form very ornamental, and producing a pleasing effect as a pot-plant.—W. W. S. VANE asad 139 q ESAS yi Nae i \ ANS Li 7 CS) SQ SY eu zt Ls R pv Ge TEX ay y " SS aon TS aA \s BN NY Sali SSS 5 NGA oon ? : b ¥; i fy 4 Sei a Z es x pes Ga) 0 oSSh 1 “\p Aaa \ « alla ry AS Oo W.H Fitch, del et. Lith. Sedum cordifoluam, Baker. Refugium Botanicum. | [August, 1868. TAB. 34. Natural Order CRASSULACE®. Genus Srpum, Linn. S. CORDIFOLIUM, n.sp. Foliis sparsis oblongis subpatulis obtusis den- ticulatis prasino-viridibus castaneo-tinctis basi late rotundato-cor- datis, corymbis amplis densis ramis primariis alternis, pedicellis floribus multo brevioribus, sepalis lanceolato-deltoideis pallide viri- dibus maculatis petalis triplo brevioribus, petalis albis paullulum roseo-tinctis lanceolatis patulis, staminibus petalis paulo longioribus, carpellis albis rostratis petalis sequantibus. Native country not known. Stems as long as in the two preceding, but not so thick and succulent, more or less deeply tinged with reddish brown. Leaves scattered, cordate-oblong, the lower ones spreading, the upper ones ascending and rather convex, the largest about three inches long by half as broad, the point bluntish, the edge denticulate, the base broadly cordate with rounded lobes which clasp the stem slightly, the colour a deeper green than in the other two and more or less tinged with reddish brown about the edge and centre. Corymbs four or five inches broad, the separate divisions nearly flat-topped, not arising nearly from the same point, and the outer ones falling considerably short of the central ones. Ultimate pedicels about two lines long, pale green. Calyx a line deep, the divisions lanceolate-deltoid, pale green spotted with reddish brown. Petals three times as long as the calyx, white with a sheght reddish tinge, lanceolate, spreading from two-thirds of the way down when the flower is expanded, so that it is just the same size as that of the preceding. Stamens equal, slightly exceeding the petals, the inner row inserted near the base; the anthers tinged with pink. Carpels equalling the petals, pure white. This also has been grown for some time in this country, but does not appear to be described. MM. Jordan and Fourreau have lately figured about twenty forms of this group of Sedum (which, following Haworth, they define as a genus under the name of Anacampseros), which, with the exception of S. spectabile, are from Central or Southern Europe, but this is not amongst them.—J. G. B. Another tall-growing Sedum, useful as a border or rock-work plant, quite hardy, and growing freely in any good garden soil. Both this and Sedum albo-rosewm are easily propagated by diyi- sions of the root or by the leaves inserted in sand.—W. W. S. a ee ee ee a Lite, i¥ OF The UNIVERSITY ne “! ILLING Lb, 38, WH Bitch, delet ith. JN Fitch, imp. o otyledon maculata, Sadyck. Refugiunm Botanicum. | f August, 1868. TAB. 35. Natural Order CrAssuLACE®. Genus CoTyLepon, Linn. C. macutata (Salm-dyck. Obs. p. 5). Caulescens, foliis obovato-spathu- latis eegre duplo longioribus quam latis, glauco-viridibus semper brunneo-maculatis, deorsum faciebus utrinque paullulum convexis, floribus simpliciter racemosis, solitariis vel deorsum geminatis bre- viter pedicellatis, calycibus corollis quadruplo brevioribus, segmentis lanceolatis roseis decurvatis tubo quadruplo brevioribus. — D. C. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 398, C. hemispherica, Harv. Fl. Cap. u. p. 376, ex parte. A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Caulescent; the stem often branched, four to six inches long, six to eight lines thick, below marked with the roundish scars of the fallen leaves, the old skin grayish. Leaves moderately close together in the upper part of the stem, ascending in various directions, obovate-spathulate, the largest two and a half to three inches long by an inch and a half broad, the colour a very glaucous-green, and both sides conspicuously spotted from the youngest stage with reddish brown, the edge horn-like, entire, with a very faint mucro at the apex, the lower part a quarter of an inch thick and both sides slightly convex, the upper half flat on the face. Scape fifteen to eighteen inches high including the flowering part, erect, terete, glaucous with a tinge of purple, without any leaves, and the raceme taking up its upper two-thirds. Flowers in a lax simple raceme a foot long, in the upper part solitary and near together, in the lower part slightly stalked, usually in pairs, with a space of about half an inch between them. Calyx between campanulate and tubular, about two lines deep, with lanceolate divisions reaching a third of the way down. Corolla quite tubular, about nine lines long, the tube green on the outside, the divisions lanceolate, reaching a quarter of the way down, rose-pink on both sides, finally rather decurved, the throat white, slightly spotted. Stamens in two sets, the longest just equalling the tube, the others very little shorter, and the carpels equalling the shorter filaments. Hypogynous scales broader than deep, the apex emarginate.—J. G. B. This remarkable and interesting species of Cotyledon should be srown in a warm well-ventilated greenhouse, and requires but little water during the winter months. It should be potted in sandy loam and peat, with plenty of drainage. When the plant has attained a certain age it flowers pretty freely. It was sent to me from South Africa by Mr. Thos. Cooper.—IlV. W. S. - g7= 2 ee en ion oii oe pace Be. pe a wy ee #4 if - - 7 Fl, 36 ae W.H. Fitch, del et ith. JN. Fitchmp. Cotyle don rhombifoha, Haw. Refugium Botanicum. | (August, 1865. TAB. 36. Natural Order CrASSULACEA. Genus CoTyLepon, Linn. C. rHomBIFoLIA (Haworth, Phil. Mag. 1825, July, No. 327, p 388). Caulescens, foliis late obovato-spathulatis sesqui longioribus quam latis, glauco-viridibus i1mmaculatis vel maculis obscuris viridibus paucis preditis, facie superiore plano, inferiore paullulum convexo, racemis simplicibus vel furcatis, floribus solitariis vel deorsum geminatis sessilibus, calycibus corollis quintuplo brevioribus, corolle segmentis deltoideis roseis patulis tubo quintuplo brevioribus. — D.C. Prodr. loc. cit. C. hemispherica, Harv. Fl. Cap. i. p. 376, ex parte. A native of the Cape of Good Hope. General habit of the preceding; the stem the same colour; the deaves the same kind of glaucous-green, with a horny edge, but not at all spotted or only very faintly so, when old, with a few blotches of darker green, broader upwards, the broadest part fully three-quarters of the distance from the base to the apex, the apex more broadly rounded, the base also broader, and the upper face in the lower part flat; the raceme often, but not invariably, branched ; the flowers the same size and colour and arranged in the same way, but not at all stalked; the calyx shorter in proportion, and consequently more strictly campanu- late; the corolla-tube thicker and less graceful; the segments shorter in proportion, rather deltoid than lanceolate, and not decurved. ; This and the preceding may perhaps be two varieties of a single species, but assuredly they are radically different from C. hemispherica, with which Dr. Harvey has combined them. Of the true hemispherica a good figure will be found in DeCandolle’s ‘Plantes Grasses,’ t. 87, so that we have not thought it worth while to reproduce it here. In this the leaves are barely an inch long, not at all spathulate, at least twice as thick as in our plants, consequently very much more convex on the back (whence the name), slightly convex on the face, in colour a pale apple-green, and marked with rows of distinctly visible minute papille, which these two do not exhibit.—J. G. B. This species requires much the same soil and treatment as C. maculata, just described. Mr. Thos. Cooper found it in South Y Africa, and I received my plants from him.—]JV’. W. S. 4 y va thik Pre SSiaT - ¥ 4 Me X > nee pont 8 hs, LivRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINUIS ] Z nS SC ta Wi apn bx ¥ as a N Fitch, amp ; Mer. ne 7 ii. ag ar or inten they, W.H. Fitch, del. et ith. Solanum robustum, Wend. Refugium Botanicum.} [August, 1868. TAB. 37. Natural Order SoLANAcE. Genus SoLanum, Linn. Sect. Leprosremum. Antheris elongatis, apice attenuatis, poris termi- nalibus minutis retrorsis posticis vel sursum spectantibus. Sub-sect. AcantHopHora. Caule aculeato, aculeis acutissimis, rectis, rarius apice recurvis ; cymis brevibus paucifloris ; corollis quinque- partitis. S. Ropustum (Wendland, Flora, 1844, p. 784). Ramis dense tomen- toso-lanuginosis alatis aculeatis, aculeis compressis latissimis, foliis ovato-ellipticis pinnatifidis, supra viridibus velutinis, subtus ochraceo- ferrugineis tomentoso-lanuginosis, utrinque aculeatis, petiolis alatis et secundum caulem decurrentibus, floribus cymosis confertis, baccis elobosis parvis ferrugineo-hirsutis. — Sendt. in End. and Mart. F'l. Bras. fase. vi. p. 72, t. 5, fig. 88—48 ; Dunal in D.C. Prodr. vol. xl. part I. p. 257. S. alatum, Seemann and Schmidt, non Mench. A native of the Province of Minas Geraes, in Brazil. Shrubby, attaining a height of four or five feet, with copiously- branched woody main stems, the ultimate branches a quarter of an inch thick, densely ferrugineo-tomentose, winged to a breadth of one and a half line to two lines, densely armed with formidable prickles, which are woody in texture, very much compressed late- rally, deltoid-cuspidate, slightly hooked towards the point, the largest half an inch long and as broad at the base. Leaves ovate- oblong, six or eight inches long by half as broad, pinnatifid half- way down to the midrib in the lower two-thirds with bluntish ovate-deltoid lobes, the base narrowed into the wings of the stem, texture herbaceous, the upper surface green and softly pubescent, the lower clothed with loose orange-ferruginous tomentum, the principal veins on both sides armed with sharp straight prickles. Flowers in close scorpioid cymes of about a dozen flowers each, on firm woody peduncles one or two inches long, which, like the short pedicels and calyx, are clothed with orange-ferruginous tomentum. Calyx eight or nine lines long, the teeth lanceolate, reaching more than half-way down. Corolla-segments ovate, white with a slight tinge of green, equalling the calyx; the bright orange- yellow stamens two-thirds as long. Ovary subglobose, woolly ; the style half as long as the stamens. erry globoso-depressed, hairy like the calyx, about half an inch in diameter.—J. G. B. A strong-growing species of Solanwm, with large fine foliage and numerous ferruginous prickles. It delights in a very rich loamy soil, and requires protection during the winter, but in summer it may be bedded out, and then it is seen in perfection, if not too much exposed to the wind. It grows rapidly and pro- duces a fine effect.—_ W.. W. S. ) TIBRARY | OF. THE UNIVERSITY OF ELLINULS,- Lt, 36. A Pes Fitch mp : Fleurya aestuans, Gand. Refugium Botanicum.] [dugust, 1868. TAB. 38. Natural Order Urricace®. Tribe UrrIcE&. Genus Fieurya, Gaudich. EF. asruans (Gaudich, Voy. de VUran. p. 196). Caulibus inter spinulos glabratis vel pubescentibus, foliis ovatis basi cordatis vel rotundatis, grosse inciso-serratis, paniculis valde compositis ramis omnium gra- duum thyrsoideis, androgynis vel rarius unisexualibus, florum mas- culorum perianthiis equaliter quadripartitis, foemineorum see- mentis lateralibus valde auctis, pedunculis ultimis haud dilatatis, stigmatibus brevissimis uncinatis. — G'riseb. Flor. Brit. W. Ind. p. 154. Urtica estuans, Linn. Sp. Plant. p. 1897; Jacq. Hort. Schen. vol. ii. t. 388. Ff. wstuans and cordata, Weddell. Urtic. p. 111—2. A native of the tropical zone all round the world. An annual nettle-like plant with slightly stinging hairs, co- piously branched, and attaining a height of three or four feet when well-developed. Stems quite herbaceous and easily com- pressible, the main ones a quarter of an inch in thickness, usually not pubescent, but copiously clothed with spreading filiform bristly gland-tipped hairs, the longest an eighth of an inch long. Stipules membranous, bifid to the middle, the divisions filiform. Petioles weak, herbaceous, one to four inches long. Leaves ovate, five or six inches long when full-grown by three or four inches broad, the point acute, the edge all round with deltoid serrations to a depth of above a line, the base broadly rounded or slightly cordate, the veins prominent, texture quite membranaceo- papyraceous, the upper surface dark green, the lower much paler, both more or less furnished with bristly hairs like those of the stem. Flowers in thyrsoid subdeltoid panicles three to five inches long, on herbaceous erect peduncles one or two inches long from the axils of the leaves; all the branches of the panicle deltoid, with a naked space between them, the ultimate clusters crowded ; pedicels exceeding the flowers ; the male and female flowers dif- ferent, but occurring in the same clusters. Female calyx with the two lateral divisions much larger than the other two; the fruit when developed deflexed, ovate in general outline but unequal-sided, tipped at the end of the nearly straight upper edge by a short uncinate style; fully-developed fruit not more than half a line long and considerably exceeding the calyx. Male perianth with four or casually five ovate boat-shaped segments reaching down nearly to the base, the stamens equalling them in number and slightly exceeding them in length.— J. G. B. This plant, although it has a nettle-like appearance, and stinging very unpleasantly when handled, produces very fine distinct foliage of a dark green colour, and is quite worth growing as a good contrast among other plants. It requires plenty of pot- room, and should be grown in strong turfy loam and _ peat. It was obtained from Trinidad, and first made its appearance by chance in earth imported with plants from that island.— W. W. S. LiRfaRY = » ms Anh “Ar —. a hide UNIVER: UE THE rl et mr ye aN TT Y ne f= TING Ia ; > ¢ , ¥en ' D ' ss ¢ a v ’ C ys a. ‘ LU, IF. JN. Fite hump. r W.H. Fitch, del.et ith. Euphorbia tetragona, aw. Refugium Botanicun.) [August, 1868. TAB. 39. Natural Order HupHoRBIACEX. Tribe KupHorBie. Genus Evpnorsis, Linn. Sect. DiAcanruium. Foliis sparsis vel obsoletis, floralibus oppositis, aculeis stipularibus, cymis axillaribus vel supra-axillaribus, glan- dulis exappendiculatis. Frutices gerontogei, carnosi, pulvinis ele- vatis tuberculati vel costati. EK. TETRAGONA (Haworth, Phil. Mag. 1826, p. 275). Fruticosa, tetra- gona, ramis facie planiusculis angulis obsolete dentatis, aculeis lig- nosis pungentibus deflexis geminatis, floribus in axillaris aculearum breviter pedunculatis, involucris parvis turbinato-campanulatis lobis rotundatis cuspidatis, foliis ad involucri basin ovatis squamiformi- bus, stylis brevibus liberis indivisis, capsule depressee coccis sublig- nosis dorso rotundatis, seminibus globosis levibus.— Boiss. in D.C. Prodr. vol. xv. part II. p. 84. A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Root oblong, attaining a couple of inches in thickness, almost woody in texture, with an irregularly-cracked pale brown skin. Stems radiating from its crown, eight to twelve in number, always simple, dark green, naked, leathery in texture, tetragonous, two to five inches long, about half an inch in thickness both ways, the four faces slightly concave. Prickles in pairs which are confluent at the base, hard, straight, woody, sharp, two or three lines long, deflexed and divergent, placed in rows about a quarter of an inch apart on the angles of the stem. lowers from the axils of the spines, on short thick peduncles ; the leaves existing only in the form of a pair of opposite ovate membranous scales at the base of the involucre. Jnvolucre turbinate, about a line long, green, naked, coriaceous, the divisions roundish with a point, the scales of the throat roundish and fimbriated, membranous with red tips. Male flowers numerous, the longest exserted, the anthers crimson ; females solitary, long-stalked, much exserted, cernuous, the style short, thick and undivided. Capsule depresso-globose, the cocci almost woody, rounded at the back, an eighth of an inch deep ; the seeds smooth and globose.—J. G. B. This remarkable dwarf spiny species of Huphorbia was sent from South Africa, where it was obtained by Mr. Thos. Cooper. It requires the temperature of a warm greenhouse, and should be kept close to the light and moderately watered during the winter months. A light sandy loam with plenty of drainage seems to suit it best.—W. W.S. e : ~ T ” i. 7 © iacaaioeni eh ve ga is j + LiRRARY 1 Filer ‘ 7, a. OF THE Le UNIVERS:7 ¥ OF the daisy! t = = v s Ps ier of gna a=. oFoS2 é — > SADE arene ae he Pes : =< 3 ——— Se nae KER EES tas SLES SS SSL LI SLO an SLEEPS LE Raa ccna Zz 7 Sr a = = —= Fa = BLL ZL SSE SSS SSeS SSS SSS SDSS aoa ar, SES SS > S23 A ave SxS SSS atone. the Z Syo5 SSS SSS SSS SSS Seg G KFLZ SSS SSS SSS SSS “it 1 r ot H ay cy 6 4 aC. Db liars Je en, eeLT, Ly ) inte e tLeeto “1: magne 1 ea. WeOnGa Nis “—) dan AS, it Refugium Botanicwn.) jdugust, 1868. TAB. 40. Natural Order PIPERACEA. Genus Peperomia, Ruiz d Pavon. P. macnoLi#Foria (A. Dietr. Sp. tom. i.) Caulibus ramosis robustis ascendentibus glabris, foliis sparsis alternis magnis crassis obovatis obtusis glabris, deorsum in petiolum crassum profunde canalicula- tum attenuatis, nervo medio crasso, venis lateralibus primariis 4—5, amentis ex axillis foliorum pedunculatis magnis, floribus confertis, ovariis ovatis apice stigmatiferis, baccis immersis rostellatis. — Miquel, Syst. Peper. p. 97. Piper magnoliafolium, Jacq. Ic. t. 218. A native of the West Indies. Stems almost woody at the base, considerably branched, pro- cumbent or ascending, the principal branches four to six lines thick, roundish, succulent in texture, quite naked, green, more or less tinged with red. Leaves solitary, alternate, ascending, ob- ovate, five or six inches long when well-developed by two and a half to three inches broad two-thirds of the way up, the point blunt, the lower half narrowed gradually into a short thick deeply channelled semiterete succulent petiole, the texture of the leaf unusually thick and succulent but firm, both surfaces quite naked, the upper one a dark shining green, the lower paler, the midrib and four or five oblique veins on each side conspicuous. Spikes six or seven inches long, not more than two lines thick when in flower, on succulent peduncles coloured like the stems, two or three inches long from the axils of the leaves. Flowers very minute, in close whorls round the spikes of about eight flowers each. DBracts short-stalked, fleshy, glabrous, roundish. Anthers oblong, bright yellow, dehiscing longitudinally down the centre, slightly exceeding the ovate ovary. Berry ovate, brown, immersed, patent, half a line long.—J. G. B. This fine species of Peperomia I obtained from Belize. It should be grown in a moist stove, potted in a mixture of turfy peat and Sphagnum. It is a free-flowering plant, and its fine glossy leaves have a very pleasing effect.—W. W. S. ve 7 A : » - ‘ ‘z ‘on ’ ; tone hou Ey ea tay epee Wh a : : ; ; : a ois - mt Sh ys | ree ng ST id Aes ee ek ek ia } Sorry te a i og . ot sy : | wir) ’ 1 eee ee PY Oe ms AEA eis) o: , : fe ei vier Tae Tea vii oi hea. ire bh ." 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FLATS W. H. Fitch, del. et. hth, J.N. Fitch mp. Peperomma miucrophyilla, A.B. XK. Refugium Botanicum. | i August, 18638. TAB. 41. Natural Order PIPERACE. Genus Prergromia, Ruiz & Pavon. P. MioRoPHYLLA (H. B. K. Nov. Gen. vol. i. p. 69, tab. 15, fig. 2). Caulibus debilibus ramosis subtetragonis ascendentibus, foliis verti- cillatis quaternis parvis obovato-oblongis breviter petiolatis, uni- nervis, pilosiusculis, pellucido-punctatis, amentis parvis terminali- bus pedunculatis, floribus confertis, ovariis urceolatis apice stigma- tiferis stylo conspicuo.-—Miquel, Syst. Piper. p. 167. A native of the Columbian Andes and Mexico. Stems succulent, slender, trailing, branched, leafless in the lower part. Branches ascending, four to six inches long, not more than half a line in thickness, green tinged with red, a little pubescent, subquadrangular, with succulent adventitious rootlets from the nodes, which are slightly swollen, and four to six lines apart. Leaves in whorls usually of four, casually of five leaves each, obovate-oblong, three or four lines long by about half as broad, the point blunt, the lower half narrowed gradually into a short distinct petiole, the texture succulent, colour a pale green, the upper surface convex and the edge deflexed, only the midrib visible, both sides conspicuously pellucido-punctate, minutely and deciduously hairy, and the edge, especially in the upper part, minutely ciliated. Spikes about half an inch long and an eighth of an inch in thickness, on peduncles of about their own length from the summit of the branches. Flowers minute, crowded, about eight in a whorl. Bracts round-peltate, equalling the oblong stamens. Ovary flask-shaped, with an entirely terminal penicillate stigma and a conspicuous style.—J. G. B. A neat dwarf trailing Peperomia, growing freely in a damp stove. I received it from Mexico, clinging to an orchid which had evidently been obtained from the branch of a tree. It thrives in a mixture of turfy loam and Sphagnum.—W. W. S. —— W.H. Kitch, delet. hth. Tritelelra aurea, Zid. J .N. Fitch, amp. Refugium Betaricum.} (dugust, 1868. TAB, 42. Natural Order Liniacem. Tribe ScILLEX. Genus Tritevers, Hook. T. aurea (Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841, p. 78). Foliis lineart-filiformibus erectis scapo equantibus, floribus 4—6 umbellatis, spathis mem- branaceis bivalvis divisionibus lanceolatis pedicellis triplo vel quadruplo brevioribus, perigoniis aureis fere ad basin 6-partitis seg- mentis equalibus oblongo-lanceolatis patulis, staminibus eequalibus flore multo brevioribus, stylo ovario oblongo trisulcato equali.— Kunth, Monoe. vol. iv. p. 469. A native of Monte Video and Buenos Ayres. Bulb round, four to six lines thick, with loose membranous outer coats. Leaves several from a root, contemporaneous with the flowers, erect, three or four inches long, under a line in breadth, pale green, quite naked, linear-filiform, convex on the back, the midrib forming a slight keel, the face deeply chan- nelled. Scapes one to three from a root, about equalling the leaves, erect, slender, naked. Spathe white, membranous, four to six lines deep, cleft half or two-thirds of the way down into two ovate-lanceolate valves. Flowers three to six in an wmbel, on slender erect naked pedicels which are ultimately an inch and a half or two inches long. Perianth bright yellow, pale green at the base outside, half an inch deep, six-parted nearly to the base, the divisions oblong-lanceolate, naked, a line and a half or two lines broad, spreading considerably when the flower is expanded. Stamens six, equal, arising from nearly the base of the perianth and falling considerably short of it. Ovary oblong, deeply three- erooved, with an erect style about its own length, which equals the stamen ; the papillose stigma deeply trisulcate.—J. G. B. This pretty free-flowering bulb I obtained from one of the Continental nurseries. I find it succeeds well in sandy loam and peat, requiring only the protection of a cold frame in the winter, with but little water when at rest. It flowers in the early spring months.—W. W. S. LU. 43. JN. Fitch, ump. W.H. Fitch, del. et hth. Triteleia conspicua, Laker: Refugium Botanicuin. } (August, 1868. TAB. 48. Natural Order Lin1ace®. Tribe ScILLEz. Genus Trirevera, Lindl. T. conspicua, n. sp. FFoliis linearibus planis flaccidis scapo unifloro subeequantibus, spathis membranaceis profunde bivalvatis divisioni- bus lanceolatis pedicellis triplo brevioribus, perigonil segmentis oblongo-ellipticis albis violaceo-costatis subeequalibus valde imbri- catis tubo infundibuliformi longioribus, staminibus ineequalibus, lon- gioribus tubo equantibus, stylo ovario obovato-oblongo longiore. Native country not clearly known. Bulb oblong, half an inch thick, with loose white membranous outer coats and numerous bulblets and thick white fleshy root- lets. Leaves all radical, contemporaneous with the flowers, linear, nine or ten inches long, three to three and a half lines broad, flaccid in texture, a rather pale green, quite naked, with a distinct keel and a very faint glaucous bloom on the under side. Scape erect, terete, pale green, slender, equalling the leaves. Spathe quite membranous, white with a faint tinge of green or violet, twelve to fifteen lines deep, two-cleft about half-way down, the divisions lanceolate. Peduncle slightly drooping, about three inches long from the base of the spathe. Flowers always solitary, the tube infundibuliform, half to five-eighths of an inch deep, with the purplish green keels of the segments continuous to its base. Segments nearly equal, spreading horizontally when the flower is fully expanded, oblong, rounded at the apex with a slight often quite cuspidate point, three-quarters of an inch deep, five lines broad, pure white with a distinct keel of purplish green on the outside. Stamens in two sets of three each, the anthers of the longest just attaining the throat of the flower, the top of those of the shorter set just reaching the base of the others. Ovary obovate-oblong, rather shorter than the erect style, which equals the shorter stamens ; the papillose stagma densely trisulcate. Comes very near 7’. uniflora, Lindley, good figures of which will be found in Bot. Mag. 3327, and Bot. Reg. 1921, and with the same alliaceous scent, but a more showy plant, with broader, paler and more flaccid leaves, a longer peduncle, considerably larger and less deeply-colour flowers, with the segments not nar- rowly oblong-lanceolate, narrowed from just above half-way up to an acute point, but as broad a short distance from the point as at the middle, and consequently considerably more imbricated. — VB ERS Sy This species of T’riteleia | obtained from one of the nurseries in Belgium, under the name of 7’. uniflora, a name it generally bears in collections. It is a very useful plant for conservatory decoration during the spring months, producing its fine white flowers very freely. It should be grown in a cool frame during winter, and brought into a warmer temperature as the flower- buds appear. If planted under a warm south wall it will stand the winter. Rich sandy loam and leaf-mould seems to be the soil best suited for the plant.—W. W. S. FZ LF (GI _ WH Fitch, delet ith. Albuca fastigiata, Dry ey, + LU. 44 Refugium Botanicum. | iclugust, 1863. TAB. 44. Natural Order LILiIacEs. Tribe ScILLER. Genus AnBuca, Linn. A. Fastietata (Dryand. in Act. Holm. 1784, p. 296). Foliis linearibus scapo excedentibus, floribus numerosis late thyrsoideis, pedicellis inferioribus longissimis, superioribus brevibus, omnibus . erecto- patentibus, perigonii segmentis albis plus minus cucullatis et viridi- carinatis, interioribus coherentibus, stylo obtuse trigono ovario paulo longiore. — Thunb. Prodr. p. 65; Hjus. Fl. Cap. p. 381; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. p. 101; Andrews, Bot. Rep. t. 450; Red. Lil. t.474: Bot. Reg. t. 277; Roem. and Schult. vii. p. 498; Kunth, lv. p. 375. A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Bulb two or three inches thick, crowned with the brown fibrous upper free part of its outer coats, producing only a single stem. Leaves twelve to eighteen inches long, linear-lanceolate, about three-quarters of an inch broad in the lower part, flaccid, recurved, glabrous, bright green, the edge slightly ciliated, clasping the stem at the base but not dilated. Scape about a foot high, naked, firm, subterete. Flowers in an ample broad many- flowered subdeltoid thyrsoid raceme twelve to eighteen inches long and sometimes a foot broad in the lower part; the pedwneles green, naked, erecto-patent, nearly straight or slightly curved upwards, the lower ones reaching a length of four to six inches, the upper ones growing gradually shorter, till at last the upper- most flowers are nearly sessile. Bracts lanceolate-acuminate, about an inch long, membranous with a more or less herbaceous centre. Perianth about an inch deep; the segments ligulate- oblong with a green keel on the outside, the rest pure white, all more or less hooded at the point, the outer three loose and curving round as the flower grows, the three inner ones cohering permanently, broader in the lower part than the outer ones and the hood crested with a yellow tubercle. Ovary and style deeply three-grooved, the latter a little the longest in the flower and hairy upwards. Stamens all fertile.—J. G. B. A tall-growing species of Albuca, of easy cultivation in a cool greenhouse or frame. It requires rich sandy loam, with plenty of pot-room. I received the plant from South Africa, where it was collected by Mr. Thos. Cooper.—W. W. 8. ae eR gen aaa ugh ae ne oe tree | ‘ae vA OG ; LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSi Ty ‘ "7 CF HLInare OS. a Nees i Piloucay Cana tas Jacg PON Messengel ; poe i Resa yieeet on NaARs Ba Oe ill ET cnn delet th. W. H Fitch Refugium Botanicum.| (August, 1868. TAB. 45. Natural Order Lin1Ace&. Tribe ScILLE#. Genus AuBuca, Linn. A. caupata (Jacq. Coll. iv. p. 203). Foliis linearibus scapo duplo bre- vioribus, floribus paucis laxis late thyrsoideis, pedicellis longissimis erecto-patentibus vel patentibus, perigonii segmentis albis plus minus cucullatis et viridi-carinatis, interioribus coherentibus, stylo triquetro trisulcato ovario paulo longiore.—Jacq. Icon. vol. ii. p. 20, t. 442; Willd. Sp. Plant. vol. ii. p. 102; Kunth, Monocot. vol. iv. p- 875. A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Bulb two or three inches thick, round or oblong, crowned as in the preceding with brown fibres. Leaves about a foot long, four lines broad, more rigid than in the preceding, clasping the stem at the base and more or less concave on the face upwards, and keeled on the back. Scape two feet including the flowering part, erect, firm, terete, naked, the same colour as the leaves. Flowers eight to fifteen in number, arranged in a broad thyrsoid raceme ; the bracts quite similar to those of the preceding; the lower pedicels three or four inches long, spreading from the axis at right angles or somewhat ascending, the upper ones erecto-patent and about two inches long. Segments of the perianth the same colour and shape and arranged in the same way as in the pre- ceding. Stamens all fertile; the anthers yellow; the inner /ila- ments more flattened upwards than the outer ones. Style tri- quetrous, deeply three-grooved, exceeding the oblong ovary. Allied to A. fastigiata, from which it may be readily dis- tinguished by the ditterent leaves and racemes.—J. G. B. This Albuca was also sent to me from South Africa by Mr. Thos. Cooper. It 1s not quite so free to grow flower as Albuca fastigiata when treated in a similar manner.—W. W. S. Pati, ie 4 Orin ee a ra ip r fh iy Library OF THE | OE UNIVERSITY OF WLINGIS, om be vo rere Oe eae : n rf oy a wt * LU, 46. i J.N. Fitch, map. W.H Fitch, del et hth Pheedranassa Carmmoh, Zaker. Refugium Botanicum.| [dugust, 1868. TAB. 46. Natural Order AMARYLLIDACE2. Genus Puapranassa, Herb. P. CarMtout, n. sp. Foliis lanceolatis erectis scapo subeequantibus sur- sum angustalis deorsum ad petiolum longe attenuatis, umbellis 6—8 floris, pedunculis perianthio subduplo brevioribus, floribus bipollicaribus, germine oblongo viridi apice constricto, tubo sub- cylindraceo rubro, segmentis lanceolato-deltoideis viridibus margine pallidioribus tubo subquadruplo brevioribus. A native of Costa Rica, discovered and sent by M. Carmiol. Bulb two to three inches in thickness, roundish, tunicated, narrowed suddenly at the neck, with membranous brown outer coats. Scape above two feet high, quite straight, terete, pale glaucous-green with a deciduous bloom. Leaf erect, including the petiole about as long as the scape, lanceolate, rather over three inches broad, narrowed gradually to an acute point and below very gradually into a petiole three or four inches long which is nearly or quite as thick as the stem, the texture firm but not very thick, the upper surface a very bright grass-green, the lower covered with a dense glaucous bloom like that of the stem, the midrib channelled on the upper surface and very prominent below, the veins clearly visible, about twenty on each side of the midrib. Flowers six to eight in a cernuous wmbel, contem- poraneous with the leaves; the spathe in four or six linear divi- sions about equalling the pedicels, which are ultimately an inch long. Perianth rather over two inches long, the germen a quarter of an inch long, oblong, green, constricted at the apex, the tube fifteen to eighteen inches long, cylindrical, slightly dilated up- wards, bright red, the divisions lanceolate-deltoid, about four lines deep, scarcely spreading, green with a paler edge. Stamens subequal, exserted to a length of three or four lines, inserted in the tube about the same distance above the ovary. Style rather shorter than the stamens. Ovary bluntly trigonous, the ovules in two long rows in each of the cells.—J. G. B. This interesting bulb I received last year from Mons. Jules Carmiol, of Costa Rica. It makes one or two large handsome leaves, during the season of growth, which are covered with dense white bloom on the under side. It seems to flower freely, and should be grown in a damp stove.—W. W.S. LU.47, WH Bitch delet Lith. JN. Fitchimp. Myrstphyllam faleatum, Auzt/v, Refugium Botanicum.] fAugust, 1868. TAB. 47. Natural Order Lintace2. Tribe ASPARAGER. Genus Myrsrenyitiuum, Willd. M. Fraucirorme (Kunth, Monocot. v. p. 107). Caulibus volubilibus, ramis ramulisque divaricatis glabris angulatis, cladodiis sessilibus ovato-oblongis vel oblongis utrinque attenuatis, pedunculis solitaris axillaribus floribus duplo vel triplo longioribus. A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Climbing indefinitely and copiously branched; the stems slen- der, firm, bright green, spreading at right angles or nearly so, angular, quite naked. Leaves (stipule-like) minute, scariose, lanceolate-acuminate. Cladodia (leaf-like) ovate or oblong, quite sessile, nine to eighteen lines long, five or six lines broad, nar- rowed to both ends from the middle or a little rounded at the base, firm in texture and often falcately curved, bright green, quite naked, conspicuously parallel-veined, the edges thickened and a little rough. Peduncles solitary or very rarely geminate, four or five lines long, from the axils of the leaves, very slender, cernuous. Perianth a quarter of an inch deep, with a distinct neck, the divisions equal, lgulate-oblong, white with a green keel, reaching three-quarters of the way down, recurved when the flower expands. Stamens six, equal, shghtly shorter than the flower, inserted near its base. Ovary sessile, oblong, naked, slightly exceeding the erect style. Fruit a globose naked three- celled finally black berry a quarter of an inch in diameter.— SAC Ra of Mr. Thos. Cooper sent me this elegant climbing plant from South Africa. I have grown it several years; and when in full vigour, and its small whitish flowers, which are produced pro- fusely, show among the bright green foliage, it is a most charming object. It grows very freely, making an annual shoot of many feet, and climbing beautifully up a cord or among slender branches. It thrives in a mixture of turfy loam and leaf-mould, requiring plenty of water while growing.—W. W. S. i eee LIBRARY | | hye - OF THE i UNIVERSITY. OF ILLINOIS, i ‘ 1 4 : = 7 ; ) . * ¥ « ‘ @ Ld + | . ® | . Le ( * AL ‘ p 5 rT =, | i o | | & | | | % . a a “=. a pe ® : - . ; ae | | | | « | , : : ae aa m4) e F Nl et te, 5 ii jie = & « + ’ _ eas = | : , ; é i > > 2 » - : a, ie ; 4 > < é ; | | | : i 1. 7 ie re } , ¥ a - > F ; } . ; 7 : J ? eo ae re te = a 2 ; sea i ae LU.40. e 8 ; as = = ‘ Be ae ol e, O 5 O M4 ae na & = ee iS Be. e) eS me) B a 8 2) Lee) Oo a ® ef Refugium Botanic. | ' [ August, 1868. TAB. 48. Natural Order COMMELYNACER. Genus TraprscantiA, Linn. T. piscotor Smith, Ic. Inedit. t.10. Wiild. Sp. Plant. vol. ii. p.18 ; Ker. in Bot. Mag. t. 1192, and Hook. Bot. Mag. 5079 (a variegated variety); Red. Lal. t. 168. Var. concolor. Foliis utrinque concoloribus. Leaves about a foot long, fifteen lines broad in the lower part, arising from a short thick erect stem, dilated and clasping it at the base, erect, firm, subrigid in texture, convex on the back in the lower part and concave on the face, narrowed gradually from above the middle to an acute point, prominently parallel-veined, the edge purple, both sides in this variety a uniform pale green. Flowers on short stout ascending axillary peduncles, in wmbels which scarcely emerge from the large two-valved spathes. Pedicels stout, pale green, naked. Sepals firmer and slightly shorter than the petals, ovate and not quite equal. Petals pure white tinged at the tip with pink, as broad as deep, broadly pointed, connected at the base; the expanded flower eight or nine lines broad. Stamens six, hypogynous, subequal; the filaments curiously bearded at the middle with moniliform hairs; the anthers narrow, pinkish, the broad connective yellow and obversely deltoid. Ovary white, small, sessile, roundish, naked, three-celled, with only a single ovule in each cell; the style slender, erect, twice as long as the ovary. Capsule purplish, fleshy, obliquely obovate, three- or by abortion two-celled, the dehiscence loculicidal. — J.G. B. I received this plant from Belize a few years since, sent with a collection of orchids. It grows and flowers freely in a damp stove, potted in a mixture of loam and peat.—W. W. S. Refugium Botanicum.} | February, 1869. Natural Order RosacE”. Tribe PomEm. Genus CoronEeaster, Medik. Strips C. MICROPHYLLE. Frutices humiles vel mediocres, ramis griseis vel castaneis plus minus hispidis, foliis firmis sempervirentibus parvis, perbreviter petiolatis, obovato-oblongis vel rotundatis, supra glabris, infra plerisque plus minus albo-sericeis, mucronatis, integris, floribus parvis solitariis vel paucis subcymosis, breviter petiolatis, calycibus campanulatis, primum plus minus albo-sericeis, dentibus lanceolato-deltoideis, stylis et nuculis geminatis, fructibus rotundatis vel turbinatis pen- dulis coccineis demum omnino glabrescentibus. Under this head we propose to describe and figure all the forms of Cotoneaster with which we are acquainted as_ being under cultivation, of the group of which C. microphylla of Wal- lich is the most widely-distributed and best-known representa- tive. Although the extremes of the series differ from one another widely, there is a very gradual transition between them by means of the intermediate gradations. We find seven plants main- taining, in the gardens, a distinct individuality ; and as there is not anywhere an account of them in print, we have thought it best to figure and describe all of them together, that thus their mutual relationship may be shown, and, their characteristics being defined in a form available for reference, our readers may be encouraged to experimentise upon the permanence of the forms, by raising them from seed and observing how far they keep their characters or what changes take place. All the seven plants which we are going to describe are low or middle-sized shrubs, with rigid dull gray or occasionally chesnut- coloured branches, more or less densely clothed with strong ascending gray hairs, which occasionally, but not usually, disap- pear as the branches mature. The stipules are linear, and equal or slightly exceed the petioles, which are half a line to a line long. The leaves vary in shape from oblanceolate to round, and are firm in texture, some quite naked above, but clothed below, usually permanently, with a more or less dense coating of adpressed white silky hairs. ‘The flowers are small, under half an inch across when fully expanded, and are solitary or more usually two to four or even six together in erect short-stalked cymes terminal on short branchlets. The calyx is campanulate, with pubescence like that of the lower side of the leaves, and five rotundato-deltoid or lanceolate teeth which reach about a third of the way down when the plant is in flower. The petals are roundish, white or pink; the styles two in number; and the scarlet naked drooping fruit contains two bony seeds, which are pressed against one another by their flat faces, but rounded on the back. As these characters are common to all the forms, we shall not repeat any of them under each. ae Pt ba a er ha, v7) is - , : Var’ b - a vs 7 lis 5 / iy . AS a 7 J y rs 1 ; | if: De iru Uae ae 1 RN Saat | me kt x ; by : t ur rok ve ' ‘ : 4 5 6 a a . ‘. | Bors P an : Ayn af : 5 } : « ~ . ‘ : o> Pg ley Co ; as Sena Oey t ; a ; L hs De) ad , o ar 7% | | i LU 49 ‘Die ~y S : ey as ar e AS J.N Fitch mp. W.EL Fitch, del et hth. Cotoneaster microphylia, Wald. Refuyium Botanicum. | (Debruary, 1869. TAB. 49. C. MicropHyiya (Wall. Cat. No. 662). Frutex humilis ramis strictis brevibus patentibus, foliis parvis oblongo-obovatis, duplo longiori- bus quam latis, apice rotundatis, emarginatis vel mucronatis, basi subcuneatis, supra nitide saturate viridibus, infra pallidis glauces- centibus, tenuiter albo-sericeis, fructibus coccineis, depresso-glo- bosis..—Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1114. The wild specimens of this form we have seen are from Bho- tan, 7500—10,000 feet, Griffith ; Cashmere, 8000 feet, Falconer ; Simla, 8—10,000 feet, Dr. Thomson; Sikkim, 9—14,000 feet, Dr. Hooker ; Kumaon, 7000 feet, Strachey and Winterbottom. Bush three to four feet high in a good situation; the branches short, stiff, crowded and spreading. Leaves obovate-oblong, three-eighths of an inch long by about half as broad when fully mature, a shining dark green and quite naked above, flat, and often with the edge a little decurved and the slight mucro bent down, or the apex sometimes emarginate, the under side glau- cous and permanently thinly silky, the base subcuneate or a little rounded. Fully-expanded flower three-eighths of an inch across. Berry depresso-globose, crimson, not shining, a quarter of an inch deep by rather more broad.—J. G. B. This now very common evergreen undershrub has a drooping and very graceful habit of growth, and seems to be quite hardy. It is valuable for planting on steep banks and rock-work, where it produces a very pleasing effect at all times, but particularly late in the autumn, when it is covered with small red berries, a beautiful contrast to its small glossy green leaves. It will grow well, trained against a wall, and will mount, with good manage- ment, to a height of ten or twelve feet. In this situation it 1s often attacked by a small brown scale-insect, which does the plant much injury, causing the leaves to turn yellow and drop oif, and eventually the plant dies of exhaustion, without the scale be removed. The plant seems to thrive in almost any soil, and is freely increased by cuttings, layers and seeds.—W. W. S. ee RY, jae r vy Wear ry fs LibA ARY Bran at | nates oF THE | _ NIVERSITY 50. = S - a TS Wi NOY; T= W.H. Fitch, del.et hth. J.N.Fitchimp. Cotoneaster thymeasfoha, Hort. Refugiun Botanicum. | (February, 1869. TAB. 50. C. taymarouia (Hort.) Frutex humilis, ramis strictis brevibus con- gestis, sepe decurvatis, foliis perparvis, oblongo-obovatis, duplo longioribus quam latis, apice rotundatis egre mucronatis, basi paul- lulum rotundatis, supra nitide saturate viridibus, infra pallidis glaucescentibus, tenuiter albo-sericeis, fructibus perparvis, coccineis, depresso-globosis. Collected by Dr. Thomson at Simla, at 10,000 feet; and by Dr. Royle in the North-western Himalayas. A bush under a foot high, with congested crowded often de- curved branches. Leaves obovate-oblong, under a quarter of an inch long by an eighth of an inch broad, a bright shining dark ereen and naked above, flattish, with the edges and very faint mucro often slightly decurved or the apex slightly emarginate, the lower half a little rounded to the base, the lower side glau- cous and permanently thinly white-silky. Expanded flower not more than a quarter of an inch across. Berry depresso-globose, crimson, not shining, two lines deep by an eighth of an inch broad. This form is, so far as we know, unpublished, but it is grown not uncommonly in gardens under the above name. It is ex- ceedingly lke microphylla in the shape and clothing of the leaves and shape and colour of the berry, but all upon a smaller scale.—J. G. B. A very pretty neat little evergreen undershrub, having very small leaves and purplish red berries. It is quite hardy, likes a light rich garden soil, and is readily increased by cuttings, layers or seeds. My plants were raised from seed kindly furnished me by the late Dr. Royle, who procured them from Northern India. —W.W. S. Hoot 2 Vy mee LIBRARY Ripeentiar¢ Fst : Ja OF THE . : UNIVERSITY OF ILLINU!S, - 7 ~~ TY wt Pabas J.N.Fitchamp. W.H. Fitch, del et th. Cotoneaster congesta, Saker Refugium Botanicum.| (February, 1869. TA Bes OL, C. concesta (Baker). Frutex humilis, ramis strictis brevibus congestis decurvatis, foliis parvis oblongo-obovatis duplo longioribus quam latis, apice rotundatis inconspicue mucronatis vel emarginatis, basi paul- lulum rotundatis, supra modice nitide gramineo-viridibus, infra pal- lidioribus, demum calvatis, fructibus coccineis, depresso-globosis. Sent by Dr. Royle to Mr. Saunders, from the Western Himalayas. A bush under a foot high, with rigid decurved remarkably con- gested branches, which are thinly silky only when very young. Petioles more slender and rather longer than in microphylla, and not nearly so silky. Leaves obovate-oblong, measuring about five lines long by half as broad when fully developed, nearly flat, the apex broadly rounded and inconspicuously mucronate or emarginate, the lower half slightly rounded towards the base, the upper surface a much paler green than in any of the others, the lower surface only very thinly glaucous-silky in the young state, and soon growing quite glabrous. Expanded flower about four lines across. Berry depresso- globose, crimson, not shining, over a quarter of an inch broad by a quarter of an inch deep. Berry and leaves the same size and shape as those of C.. micro- phylla, but the growth of the plant remarkably congested, with the main branches decurved, the leaves much paler than in any of the other forms, and soon becoming naked below.—J. G. B. This little hardy evergreen shrub forms a compact rounded mass of branches and foliage, and thrives well on sunny rock- work or a steep dry bank with a southern aspect. It is of slow growth, and with me scarcely attains a foot in height. It is easily propagated by cuttings and seeds. I raised this species from seeds which came from the North of India, and were kindly presented to me by the late Dr. Royle.—W. W. 8. PU OF WH. Fitch, del et hth, TN. Fitch imp fon i = vars Cotoneaster buxitoha, Waw. Refugium Botanicwn. | [Pebruary, 1869. TAB. 52. C. puxiroura (Wall. Cat. 661). Frutex mediocris vel altus, ramis elon- gatis vel erecto-patentibus, foliis oblongis vel paullulum obovatis duplo longioribus quam latis e medio utrinque rotundato-attenuatis, apice mucronatis, supra saturate viridibus, infra glaucescentibus, conspicue albo-sericeis, margine ciliatis, fructibus coccineis, de- presso-globosis.— Wight. Ic. t. 992. C. marginata, Hort. A native of the temperate region both of the Neilgherries and Himalayas. A bush attaining sometimes a height of six or eight feet, with elongated, not crowded, usually ascending branches. Leaves oblong or slightly obovate, measuring three-quarters of an inch long by three-eighths or rather more broad when fully developed, distinctly mucronate, slightly rounded, especially upwards, from the middle to both ends, the apex subdeltoid, the upper surface a duller green than in microphylla, the lower decidedly glaucous and permanently white-silky, with the edge more distinctly cili- ated than in either of the other forms, from which it is often called marginata in gardens. Flowers over three-eighths of an inch across when fully expanded. Berry dull crimson, depresso- globose, a quarter of an inch deep by rather over a quarter of an inch broad. A larger laxer bush than microphylla, with duller leaves, twice the length and breadth of those of that form when fully deve- loped, and much more oblong in shape; the berry similar in size and shape, but a duller crimson.—J. G. B. This evergreen species grows freely in any good garden soil, and is quite hardy. It is well suited for covering walls, and when properly managed produces a very pleasing effect, from the abundance of its box- -Shaped shining leaves and crimson berries. Like most of the other species of this section of Cotoneaster, it is freely increased by cuttings, layers or seeds. This is another species which I raised from seed furnished to me by the late Dr. Royle. ‘The seeds were from the North of India.—W. W. S. e t + . . : - ; re * \ ’ ’ ® t . ¥ : \ , ; oj 7 i ¢ ee. | Te ; : Le wey ee ry. a i>, W.H. ditch, del. et. ith. ’ J.N Miteh nap. Cotoneaster prostrata, Baker. Refugium Botanicwin. | [iebruary, 1869. TAB. 53. C. prostrata (Baker). Frutex ramis elongatis omnino prostratis, foliis oblongo vel obovato-rotundatis sesqui longioribus quam latis, mucro- natis, utrinque rotundato-attenuatis, supra saturate viridibus, infra tenuiter albo-sericeis, fructibus coccineis, depresso-globosis. Sent to Mr. Saunders by Dr. Royle, from the Western Hima- layas. An entirely prostrate bush, with elongated branches and longer nodes than in any of the other forms. Leaves rotundato-oblong or rotundato-obovate, six or seven lines long by four lines broad when fully developed, mucronate, rounded to both ends from the middle or a little above it, the upper surface dark green, the lower slightly glaucous and thinly white-silky. Flower over three-eighths of an inch across when fully expanded. Berry rather brighter than in buxifolia, globose or with a slight turbi- nate tendency, measuring three-eighths of an inch each way. Intermediate in the leaves and drupe between buaxifolia and rotundifolia, and differing from both by its entirely prostrate habit.—J. G. B. With me, planted on a bank facing the south, this species has a prostrate straggling habit, growing freely, with largish berries and leaves, both of which are sparingly produced. It is quite hardy, but drops many of its leaves in the autumn. Any good garden soil seems to suit the plant, which may be easily increased by layers, cuttings or seeds. It is the least effective as a decora- tive plant of any of the section of Cotoneaster now under con- sideration. I obtained seeds of this species from the same source as most of the preceding species, viz., the late Dr. Royle, and they were from Northern India.—W. W. S. LU. I4 eR een acl oisiee TN eh see Cotoneaster rotundifoha WZ. Refugium Botanicum. | |Pebruary, 1869. TAB. 54. C. rorunpironta (Wall. Cat. No. 663). Frutex humilis, ramis strictis patentibus sepe elongatis, foliis rotundatis vel rotundato-obovatis, subsequilongis et latis, seepe horizontaliter distichis, distincte mu- cronatis, utrinque rotundatis, supra saturate nitide viridibus, infra pallidioribus, cite calvatis, fructibus turbinatis, saturate coccineis.— C. microphylla var. uvaursi, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1187. The wild specimens we have seen were gathered by Dr. Hooker in Sikkim, at 9—1100 feet; and by Griffith in Bhotan, at 8000—-9500 feet. A bush one or two feet high, with wide-spreading long straight rigid branches. Well-developed leaves measuring half an inch each way, round or with a slight obovate tendency, distinctly mucronate, rounded from the middle to both ends, the upper surface a dark shining green, the lower much paler, at first shehtly silky, but becoming quite naked when mature, the vena- tion more distinct than in any of the other forms. lower three- eighths of an inch across when expanded. Serry turbinate, a brighter scarlet than in the other forms, more than a quarter of an inch deep by a quarter of an inch broad. Easily recognisable by its round leaves soon naked beneath, and bright-coloured turbinate fruit. The leaves of the elongated branches are often quite horizontal, and spread distichously.— Ip AOR 8x This is the most beautiful of the smaller Cotoneasters, with brilliant shining scarlet berries clothing the branches in autumn. It is a dwarf undershrub, growing two to three feet in height, with ascending branches. ‘The leaves are not all retained on the plant during the winter, many of them falling before the new season of growth commences. It is well worthy of cultivation, is hardy, grows freely in any good garden light soil, and can be freely increased by seeds, layers or cuttings. 1 am indebted to the late Dr. Royle for my plants, which were raised from seeds he presented to me.—W. W. 8S.’ oe Ubrary . a7 | We dees, OF THE. | | ce | UNIVERSITY OF ILLINO! =, Tia | J.N.Fitchimp. W.-H Fitch, del. et ith. ee Hort. ) Simonsu Cotoneaster Refugium Botanicum. | (February, 1869. TAB. 55. C. Simonsit (Hort.) Frutex mediocris, ramis paucis erecto-patentibus, foliis oblongis, apice subdeltoideo-mucronatis, basi paullulum rotun- datis, sesqui longioribus quam latis, supra subobscure saturate viri- dibus, infra pallide viridibus, primum tenuiter albo-sericeis, demum calvatis, fructibus turbinatis, saturate coccineis. A native of Khasia. A middle-sized bush, with a few elongated erecto-patent branches. Fully-grown leaves an inch long by about five-eighths of an inch broad, oblong, deltoidly narrowed from above the middle to a mucronate apex, the lower half slightly rounded, the upper surface a duller green than in the last, the lower pale green, thinly silky when young, but nearly or quite naked when mature. Berries bright scarlet, turbinate, three-eighths of an inch deep by a quarter of an inch broad. This has the drupe of rotundifolia, but the habit is different, and the leaves are different in shape and texture, and not at all distichous.—J. G. B. I am quite unacquainted with the origin of this plant. I first saw it at a nursery at Weymouth, from whence I obtained my stock. It seems to come nearest in habit to Cotyledon buxifolia (see Tab. 52), and is supposed to be from India. It appears to be quite hardy, grows freely in any good soil, and may be increased by seeds or cuttings.—W. W. S. Refugium Botanicum.] [Irebruary, 1869. Natural Order CRASSULACER. Genus CoryLepon, Linn. Calyx quinquepartitus, corolle tubo sequalis vel brevior. Corolle tubus cylindricus, urceolatus vel brevis, teres vel pentagonus, limbi lobis parvis vel elongatis patentibus. Stamina 10, rarissime 5, prope basin corolle pleraque inserta, filamentis elongatis filiformibus, antheris oblongis inclusis vel paullulum exsertis. Squamule hypo- gynee lineares, oblong vel quadrate. Ovarii carpella 5, libera, in stylos filiformes vel subulatos interdum exsertos attenuata, stig- matis oblique capitellatis. Ovula in carpellis indefinita. YFolliculi polyspermi. Herbe vel subfrutices ramose vel subscapigere, ha- bitu valde varize. Folia opposita vel alterna, sessilia vel petiolata, seepe crassissime carnosa, in paucis peltata, sparsa vel rosulata. Flores erecti vel penduli, parvi vel ampli, spicati, racemosi, cymosi vel paniculati. Corolle lobi eestivatione torti. — Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. 1. p. 659. It is in the illustration of those tribes of plants of which dried specimens cannot be effectually preserved, or in which the dis- tinctive characters are lost in herbarium examples, that we hope to make our little publication most useful, especially as it naturally happens not unfrequently, in groups or genera of this character, that the horticulturists have outrun the botanists, and that plants which are well known amongst cultivators have never been named or scientifically described. Perhaps we can scarcely find anywhere a better illustration of this than in the American representatives of the genus Cotyledon, several of which are widely grown in gardens under the generic name of Echeveria. In the first place, let us explain why this name has no nghtful claim to be used as generic. In the ‘ Prodromus,’ De Candolle divided the Linnean genus Cotyledon into four, in one of which, Pistorinia, he placed a single species with the filaments adnate to the corolla-tube, and in the other three he attempted to separate generically the African and American from the Asiatic and European species, restricting the name Cotyledon to the plants of the Cape, and calling the New-World species Hcheveria, and the rest of those of the Old World Umbilicus. His characters of the three are as follows :— CorvLepon, D.C. bull. philom. 1801, n. 49, p. 1. Cotyledones capeiises, Linn., Burm., Haw. Calyx 5-partitus, tubo corolla multo brevior. Corolla gamopetala, tubo ovato cylindraceo, limbo 5-lobo patenti- reflexo aut revoluto, lobis obtusis. Stamina 10, imo tubo adnata, ceterum libera, exserta aut subinclusa. Squamee ovales. Carpella 5, in stylos subulatos producta. Frutices carnosi capenses. Folia seepius sparsa. Flores laxe paniculati, purpurascentes vel auran- tiaci. Unpstticus, D.C. in bull. philom. 1801, n. 49. Cotyledonis, spec., Auct. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla gamopetala, campanulata, 5-fida, lobis ovatis acutis erectis tubi circiter longitudine. Stamina 10, corollz inserta. Squamz 5, obtuse. Carpella 5, apice attenuata, stylis subulatis. Herbe Europe Australis aut Orientis indigens. Folia rosulata aut alterna, integerrima aut subdentata. Flores albidi aut flavi, racemosi nec cymosi. Kicurverta, D.C. MSS. Cotyledones americana, Auct. Calyx 5-par- titus, sepalis folia referentibus, erectis, ima basi subconeretis. Petala 5 inferne coalita erecta crassa rigidula ad nervam medium crassiora et fere basi trigona acuta. Stamina 10, petalis brevioria, basi cum petalis concreta. Squame 5, breves, obtuse. Carpella 5, in stylos subulatos abeuntia. rutices carnosi Mexicani. Yolia alterna caulina aut rosulata subopposita integerrima enervia. I*lores secus rachin aut secus cyme ramos sessiles, coccinei aut flavi.— D.C. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 461. The principal distinction relied upon is the shape of the corolla and the depth to which it is divided, and the proportion which the calyx bears to it. DeCandolle knew only four American species, and we are now acquainted with upwards of thirty. The pentagonal character of the corolla to which he alludes may be well seen in our plate of C. gibbiflora, Tab. 65, but not above half the species now known show this clearly. As may be seen from our figures also (compare those of C. aloides and gibbifiora), the calyx varies from a sixth as long as the corolla to quite as long, and the lobes are very variable in shape. It might be possible to separate the American from the Cape species by the one sole character of the fission of the corolla. In the Cape plants it is never divided more than half-way down and generally not more than a third or a quarter, and in the American ones it is always cleft nearly down to the base, but when the European and Asiatic species have to be considered they completely break down the line of demarcation, and render it quite impossible to give any general character which will separate the species of the three geographical areas. In the best- known European species, C. Umbilicus (Umbilicus pendulinus, D.C.), for instance, there is a perfectly tubular corolla, with lobes that do not reach above a quarter of the way down, and a calyx not more than a quarter as long as the tube. But the Pyrenean U. sedoides, D.C., has a campanulate corolla sht nearly to the base, with a calyx half its length; and the Siberian U. spinosus, malacophyllus and leucanthus, and Himalayan U. oreades and spathulatus, have also the petals as nearly free as in the American plants, and the calyx in some of them is quite as long as the corolla. Many of the Asiatic species have cymose or paniculate flowers, and in the Siberian U. Lievenit we have a cyme, calyx and corolla quite identical with that of the American C. cespitosa. So that the three Candollean genera quite break down for want of characters, and it is the same with the more recently proposed Pachyphytum of Klotzsch; and we endorse cordially the view taken by Bentham and Hooker, in their ‘Genera Plantarum,’ of the classification and nomenclature of these plants. So many of these American Cotyledons still remain unde- scribed, and the descriptions of the others are scattered so widely and drawn up with so little uniformity of plan that we have con- cluded that the only way of dealing with the plants effectually would be to pass all the New- World species under review, and to attempt to classify them in systematic order. ‘The following therefore is as complete a monograph as we can furnish of the American species, and we give figures, so far as we have been able to procure them, of those which have not been adequately figured already. § Spicate. 1. C. puBEscens (Baker). Longe caulescens, dense griseo-pubescens, foliis aggregatis, obovato-spathulatis, acutis, duplo longioribus quam latis, e basi tertii superioris spathulatim angustatis, utrinque pal- lide viridibus, ramorum floriferorum paueis, valde reductis, floribus 15—25, subdense spicatis, bracteis linearibus, inferioribus floribus excedentibus, sepalis linearibus ineequalibus patulis, corolla flavo- rubra subequantibus. — Hecheveria pubescens, Schlecht. Linn. xiii. p- 411; Hort. Hal. t.9; Walp. Rep. ii. p. 295. Mexico. Stems grayish or reddish brown, like the rest of the plant between shaggy and velvety with gray pubescence, often one or two feet high and an inch thick, marked with the round scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves obovate-spathulate, eight to twelve ag- sregated towards the apex of the stem in a lax rosette, the largest three to three and a half inches long by an inch and a half broad, spathulately narrowed from two-thirds of the way up, the point subacute, the base subterete, two to three lines thick, the lamina half as thick, the face concave, the colour a pale green, tinged with red when fading, and both sides so densely pubescent that in some lights they look nearly white. Flowering branches, including the spike, about a foot long, their leaves few and much reduced. Spike occupying about half the branch, composed of fifteen to twenty-five flowers, the upper part dense, the lower laxer. Bracts linear, the lower ones exceeding the flowers. Sepals linear, unequal, spreading, about as long as the corolla, which is subpentagonal, five-eighths of an inch deep, bright red on the outside, yellow in the throat within. 2. C. cocoinga (Cav. Ic. i. p. 54, t. 170). Longe caulescens, griseo- pubescens, foliis aggregatis, oblanceolato-spathulatis, triple vel quadruplo longioribus quam latis, acutis, e basi tertii superioris spathulatim angustatis, utrinque pallide viridibus, ramorum flori- ferorum paucis, valde reductis, floribus 15—25, subdense spicatis, bracteis linearibus, inferioribus floribus excedentibus, sepalis lineari- bus patulis inzequalibus corolla flavo-rubra subsquantibus. — Bot. Mag. t. 2572; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 882; Echeveria coccinea, D.C. Prodr. ui. p. 401. Mexico. Stems grayish or reddish brown, finely gray-pubescent like the rest of the plant, often one or two feet long, and an inch thick, marked with round scars. eaves oblanceolate-spathulate, eight to twelve aggregated towards the apex of the stem, the largest three to four inches long by three-fourths of an inch to one inch broad, the point acute, the lower three-quarters spathulately nar- rowed to a terete base, the lamina an eighth of an inch thick, both sides gray-pubescent, when fading tinged with red. Flowering branches, including the spike, about a foot long, their leaves few and much reduced; the spike about half the length, of fifteen to twenty-five flowers. Sepals and corolla as in the last species. Very near the last, with which in general habit and the arrangement and character of the flowers it quite agrees, but the leaves considerably narrower and the pubescence finer. 3. OC. RosEaTA (Baker). Caulescens, glabra, foliis sublaxis, oblanceolato- spathulatis, triplo vel quadruplo longioribus quam latis, acutis, e basi tertii superioris spathulatim angustatis, utrinque glauco-viridi- bus, infra et margine rubro-tinctis, ramorum floriferorum numerosis, lanceolato-spathulatis, roseis, floribus 30—70 dense spicatis, brac- teis et sepalis linearibus roseis corolla pallide flavé equantibus. — Hicheveria rosea, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 28, t. 22; Walp. Rep. i. p. 259. Courantia echeveroides, Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. vol. i. Suppl. p. 91. Mexico. Stem glabrous, pale green, slightly glaucous, a foot or more high, a quarter to half an inch thick, the scars roundish. Leaves twenty to thirty spread over three or four inches at the apex of the stem, oblanceolate-spathulate, the largest two and a half to three inches long by three-fourths of an inch broad three-quarters of the way up, the point acute, the lower part spathulately nar- rowed to a terete base, the lamina a line thick, both sides quite glabrous, glaucous-green with a reddish tinge at the edge and beneath, especially when old. Flowering branch a foot high, the leaves dense, spreading, lanceolate-spathulate, deeply tinged with red; the spike dense, 80- to 50- or even 70-flowered; the bracts rose-red, linear, equalling the flowers. Sepals linear, rose-red, equalling the corolla, which is pale yellow and but slightly penta- gonal. ilaments joined together from the base to the middle. A very well-marked species, not closely allied to any other. There is already a C. rosea of Lessing from Siberia. On account of the peculiar structure of the stamens Lemaire has proposed it as the type of a new genus. 4. C. mucronata (Baker). Acaulis, glabra, foliis dense rosulatis, an- guste obovato-spathulatis, triplo vel quadruplo longioribus quam latis, acutis, utrinque viridibus, ramorum floriferorum paucis re- ductis, floribus 20—30 laxe spicatis, bracteis lanceolatis, sepalis lanceolatis ascendentibus subequalibus corolla flavo-rubra ultra duplo brevioribus. — Hcheveria mucronata, Schlecht. Linn. xii. p. 41h Hort. Hal. p.,19, t.)10; Mexico. Glabrous, not at all caulescent. Leaves in a dense rosette, narrowly obovate-spathulate, the largest three to four inches long by an inch broad three-quarters of the way up, the point acute, both sides green. Flowering branch, including the raceme, a foot and a half to two feet long, with a few distant spreading reduced leaves in the lower half, the flowers twenty to thirty in a narrow spike about a foot long. Bracts lanceolate, the lower ones equal- ling the sepals, which are also lanceolate, thick, subequal, ascending, a quarter of an inch long. Corolla five-eighths of an inch deep, subpentagonal, urceolate, mixed red and yellow. Of this we have not seen either living or dried specimens, but judging from Schlechtendahl’s excellent figure and descriptions it seems a very well-marked species. §§ Racemose. 5. C. quirensts (Baker). Caulescens, glabra, foliis laxis, oblanceolatis, quadruplo longioribus quam latis, apice rotundatis, obtuse apicu- latis, deorsum e basi tertii superioris subspathulatim angustatis, utrinque pallide nitide viridibus, demum rubro tinctis, ramorum floriferorum numerosis, paullulum reductis, floribus 4—8, equi- lateraliter racemosis, bracteis oblanceolato-spathulatis pedicellis erecto-patentibus longioribus, sepalis lanceolatis subsequalibus co- rolla flavo-rubra duplo brevioribus.—Sedum quitense, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. vi. p. 46. Hcheveria quitensis, Lindl. Journ. Hort. Soc. vii. p: 269. Andes of New Granada. Stem six to nine inches high, one-fourth of an inch thick, gray when mature, naked, light green when young, the scars roundish. Leaves twenty-five to thirty, spreading, not aggregated, ob- lanceolate, the largest an inch or rather more long by three- eighths of an inch broad five-sixths of the way up, the apex rounded with a slight point, the lower three-quarters slightly spathulately narrowed, the blade one-eighth of an inch thick, the colour a shining bright hght green, finally tinged with red. Flowering branches half a foot long, with several tolerably close erecto-patent leaves, like those of the stem, but smaller. Flowers four to eight in a tolerably close raceme an inch and a half to two inches long. Lower bracts oblanceolate, half an inch to five- eighths of an inch long. Pedicels erecto-patent, the lowest one- fourth to three-eighths of an inch long. Sepals lanceolate, ascending, slightly unequal, about half as long as the corolla, which is reddish yellow, half an inch deep, decidedly pentagonal. A very distinct species. ‘ S =. > - ; ei Mi - ; Z d . ip pe =O, fae a Ay te: ‘| aan adie terse 3 eer) bie * J ae | Se eh ee iF ckscl Biel Pas mre)? | r » 7 a a 7 i ¢ = nals ig. ka. a. ( a a 1 \ rh tree. - ¢ i. a yy ee ba cf : ue 4 ir , ee ; ot a 7 . a ed } : tite eee bre 8 ae Sena i me Td Sas wear Cee ee er ~ we * . cae - oe s Js —— ; 7 za - _ ee ee ee i H ¢ A . . a = : a 5 _ ees es - LibRARY | f a ‘ eS ores OF THE | 7 rag! el ae epee UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, f= ‘ y ee ea en wae 5 ahs ad ice’ i= oa =. 7 See aye . - _ 4 7 ; is ‘ Ve i. 7 : LOG W.W'S. del, Fitch, ith. J N. Fitch amp. Cotyledon nodulosa, Baker. Refugium Botanicum.| [Mebruary, 1869. TAB. 56. 6. C. Nopunosa (Baker). Caulescens, glabra, foliis rosulatis, obovato- spathulatis, triplo longioribus quam latis, acutis, e basi tertii superioris deorsum spathulatim angustatis, utrinque subglauco- viridibus, infra et margine rubro-tinctis, ramorum floriferorum numerosis, ascendentibus, floribus 4—6, laxe equilateraliter race- mosis, bracteis minimis, pedicellis brevibus, demum erecto-patenti- bus, sepalis patulis, linearibus, corolla rubro-straminea paulo bre- vioribus. Mexico. Stems naked, grayish brown, attaining a height of six or eight inches and a thickness of half an inch, tumid, gouty, the scars twice as broad as deep. Leaves obovate-spathulate, aggregated at the apex of the stem in a dense rosette, the largest two inches to two inches and a half long by three-fourths of an inch broad three-quarters of the way up, the apex subdeltoid with a mucro, the lower two-thirds spathulately narrowed to a base two to three lines broad, the colour a dull apple-green with a slight glaucous tinge, the under surface and edge more or less tinged with red. Flowering branches six to nine inches long, their leaves close and ascending, gradually diminishing upwards, but the lowest not much smaller than those of the rosette. lowers four to six in a lax raceme three to four inches long. Bracts linear, the lower ones not more than half an inch long. Pedicels finally erecto-patent, the lowest two to three lines long. Sepals three-eighths of an inch long, linear, spreading. Corolla half an inch long, decidedly pentagonal, straw-yellow tinged with red.—J. G. B. This species should be grown in a mixture of light sandy loam and leaf-mould, and during the winter months it requires but little water. A warm, dry, light greenhouse is found to be the most suitable for its healthy cultivation. The plant flowers freely, and may be increased by seeds or cuttings. I obtained it some years since, with other plants which I understood came from Mexico.—W. W.S. W.H Fitch del et. hth, JN Fitchimp. Cotyledon nuda, Aaker. Refugium Botanicum.} | Hebruary, 1869. TAB. 57. ¥Y. C. nupa (Baker). Caulescens, glabra, foliis obovato-spathulatis, sub- laxis, duplo longioribus quam latis, sursum rotundatis, apice mu- cronatis, deorsum e basi tertii superioris spathulatim angustatis, pallide glauco-viridibus, paullulum rubro-tinctis, ramorum florifero- rum numerosis ascendentibus, floribus 10—1L5, subdense eequila- teraliter racemosis, pedicellis brevibus, erecto-patentibus, sepalis crassis, linearibus, patulis, ineequalibus, corolla flavo-rubra sequan- tibus. Mexico. Stems glabrous, glaucous-green, attaining a height of six or eight inches and a thickness of three-eighths of an inch, the scars roundish. eaves obovate-spathulate, twelve to fifteen ag- sregated towards the apex of the stem, the largest above two inches long by an inch broad three-quarters of the way up, the apex rounded and mucronate, the lower two-thirds spathulately nar- rowed to a roundish base. Flowering branch six to twelve inches long, its leaves numerous and ascending. Raceme 12- to 20- flowered, moderately dense, more than an inch in thickness. Bracts linear, falling as the flowers expand, three to four lines long. Pedicels one-eighth of an inch long, at first spreading, finally erecto-patent. Sepals thick, linear, unequal, spreading horizontally, the longest equalling the corolla, which is under half an inch long, decidedly pentagonal, pink in the lower part, straw-coloured upwards and within.—/J. G. B. This species does well, treated and grown in a similar manner to the foregoing. I have had the plant for some years, but have no information as to its origin. —W. |W. 8. i ; Fyy ik wie ; * ( io W.W.8. del. Fitch, ith. JN Fitch imp. Cotyledon Iméusefoha, Aaher Refugium Botanicum. | [ February, 1869, TAB. 58. 8. C. tincuarotta (Baker). Longe caulescens, glabra, foliis laxis, per- crassis, obovato-spathulatis, duplo longioribus quam latis, apice rotundatis, obtuse apiculatis, deorsum e basi tertii superioris spathulatim augustatis, utrinque pallide viridibus, ramorum flori- ferorum paucis, reductis, floribus 20—30 in racemum nutantem modice confertum interdum infra compositum dispositis, bracteis ovatis, pedicellis patentibus excedentibus, sepalis percrassis, lineari- bus, obtusis, equalibus, corolla obscure straminea paulo brevioribus. E'cheveria linguefolia, Lemaire, Illust. Hort. vol. x., Suppl. p. 81. Pachyphytum Lingua, Hort. Mexico. Stems attaining a height of twelve to eighteen inches, three- fourths to one inch thick, light green, the scars roundish-oblong. Leaves laxly aggregated towards the summit of the stem, obovate- spathulate, when fully developed two to two and a half inches long by one to one and a quarter inch broad three-quarters of the way up, the apex rounded to a blunt point, the lower two-thirds spathulately narrowed, the centre of the lamina half an inch thick, the face decidedly flattened, the back rounded, both sides a bright ight apple-green, not glaucous. lowering branch more than a foot long, its leaves few and scattered, oblong, an inch or less long. Flowers twenty to thirty in a moderately close drooping equilateral raceme, which is sometimes a little com- pound towards the base. Bracts narrow-oblong, very thick, three-eighths to half an inch long, exceeding the simple pedicels, which are spreading or the lower ones deflexed. Sepals linear- lanceolate, equal, very thick, appressed to the corolla, which is dull straw-coloured, three-eighths of an inch long and hardly at all pentagonal.—J. G. B. This robust and remarkable species will grow freely in any ordinary greenhouse, if kept moderately dry at the roots during the winter months. It should be potted in a mixture of turfy loam and sand, and is easily increased by cuttings or by the leaves, which will root readily if placed in light sandy soil, the larger portion of the leaf being above the ground. My plants were obtained from one of the Belgium nurseries.—W. W. S. 9. C. cananicutata (Baker). Breviter caulescens, glabra, foliis dense rosulatis oblongo-ligulatis e centro utrinque attenuatis, purpureo- viridibus, concavis, ramorum floriferorum numerosis, sursum de- crescentibus, floribus 12—20 sublaxe sequilateraliter racemosis, bracteis linearibus pedicellis erecto-patentibus subeequantibus, sepalis parvis, linearibus patulis vel recurvatis corolla saturate rubra multo. brevioribus.—H’cheveria canaliculata, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4986. Mexico. Stems glabrous, attaining a height of four to six inches and a thickness of an inch or more, the scars three or four times as broad as deep. Leaves twelve to twenty aggregated in a dense rosette, the largest four to five inches long by an inch broad at the middle, ligulate-oblong, acute, not at all spathulate down- wards, the face concave, both sides a glaucous-green much tinged with purple. Flowering branch, including the raceme, a foot and a half to two feet long, its leaves numerous and moderately close, gradually diminishing upwards. Jlowers twelve to twenty in a moderately dense equilateral raceme six to nine inches long. Bracts linear, the lower one half to five-eighths of an inch long, equalling the erecto-patent lanceolate pedicels. Sepals subequal, linear, glaucous, horizontally spreading or reflexed, about four lines long. Corolla bright red, yellowish within, nearly an inch deep, decidedly pentagonal. 10. C. peruviANA (Baker). Acaulis vel breviter caulescens, glabra, foliis dense rosulatis, obovato-spathulatis, acutis, glaucis, floribus 20—30 in racemum laxum eequilaterale dispositis, bracteis lineari- bus, pedicellis erecto-patentibus, sepalis lanceolatis eequalibus ascen- dentibus corolla rubra duplo brevioribus.— Hcheveria peruviana, Meyen Reise, i. p. 448; Walp. Rep. v. p. 794. Andes of Peru. Not at all or very shortly caulescent, glabrous. The leaves in a dense rosette, obovate-spathulate, the largest in a dried speci- men two inches long by an inch broad two-thirds of the way up, acute, very glaucous. Flowers twenty to thirty in a lax erect equilateral raceme about a foot long. Bracts linear, exceeding the erecto-patent pedicels, which are a quarter to half an inch long. Sepals lanceolate, ascending, equal, a quarter of an inch long. Corolla reddish, half an inch long. We have not seen this living, but have examined a dried spe- cimen from the Cordilleras of Peru, Lechler, 1775.—J. G. B. : iBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY GF ILLINOIS Tian W.W.S. del. Fitch, hth. J.N.Fitchimap. @ Cotyledon banda, Baker Refugium Botantcum. | [february, 1869. TAB, 59. 11. C. nurma (Baker). Acaulis, glabra, foliis dense rosulatis oblongo- ligulatis, triplo vel quadruplo longioribus quam latis, acutis, facie concavis, glauco-viridibus, plus minus luride purpureo tinctis, ra- morum floriferorum laxis, valde reductis, floribus 12—20 in race- mum erectum equilaterale deorsum lJaxum dispositis, bracteis parvis linearibus deciduis, pedicellis brevibus patentibus, sepalis linearibus horizontaliter patulis corolla rubra duplo brevioribus.— Echeveria lurida, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 27,t.1; Walp. Rep. ii. p. 259. Ei. racemosa, Schlecht. et Cham. Linn. v. p. 554; Bot. Mag. t. 3570; Walp. Rep. i. p. 259. Mexico. Not at all caulescent, glabrous. The leaves fifteen to twenty in a dense rosette, ligulate-oblong, the largest three to four inches long by an inch broad three-quarters of the way up, the face concave, the point acute, both sides glaucous-green, deeply tinged with dull purple, especially when old, the edge carti- laginous. lowering branches twelve to eighteen inches long, the leaves lax, ascending and much reduced. JS'lowers twelve to twenty in an erect equilateral raceme, lax in the lower half. Bracts small, linear-lanceolate, falling as the flowers expand. Pedicels two to three lines, spreading or the lowest cernuous. Sepals thick, linear, spreading horizontally, subequal, a quarter of an inch long. Corolla bright red, half to five-eighths of an inch deep, decidedly pentagonal.—J. G. B. This is a dull-coloured species, requiring a warm dry green- house treatment. It is most impatient of water in the winter season, and should be grown in sandy leaf-mould in well-drained small pots. It may be increased by offsets, seeds or leaves, treated as recommended under Cotyledon linguefolia. I am indebted to the Royal Gardens, Kew, for this interesting species. Wal. S. Ln) oe | oa SS S$$ Secunde. 12. C. Pacuypuytum (Baker). Caulescens, glabra, foliis percrassis, ageregatis, oblanceolato-subspathulatis, triplo vel quadruplo longi- oribus quam latis, apice rotundatis, egre apiculatis, deorsum e basi tertil superioris subspathulatim angustatis, utrinque farinoso-glau- cis, paullulum purpureo tinctis, ramorum floriferorum paucis, valde reductis, floribus 12—18 in racemum confertum secundum adun- cum dispositis, bracteis magnis, oblongis, basi biauriculatis, imbri- catis, persistentibus, pedicellis brevibus crassis, sepalis magnis, val- vatis, oblongo-spathulatis, corolla saturate rubra paullulum ex- cedentibus. — Pachyphytum bracteosum, Klotzsch in Otto et Dietr. Allg. Gart. 9 Jahr. p. 9; Ic. Pl. Rar. Hort. Der. p. 107, t. 43; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4951. Mexico. Glabrous ; the stem attaining a height of six to twelve inches and a thickness of an inch and a half, very glaucous, the scars roundish. Leaves oblanceolate-subspathulate, twenty to forty ageregated towards the apex of the stem, spreading over a space of four to eight inches, the lower ones spreading horizontally, the largest three to four inches long by about an inch broad three- quarters of the way up, the apex rounded, bluntly pointed, the lower two-thirds slightly spathulate, the base subterete, half an inch thick, the centre of the blade a quarter of an inch thick, both sides exceedingly glauco-farinose, with a slight purplish bloom towards the edge. Flowermg branches a foot and a half to two feet long, a quarter of an inch thick, firm, terete, farinose, with a few scattered much-reduced leaves, which usually fall before the flowers expand. lowers twelve to eighteen in a close decurved secund raceme four to six inches long, which finally becomes nearly erect. Bracts oblong, an inch long, closely tiled over one another in two rows, sharply spurred on each side at the base. Pedicels very thick, two to three lines long, the lower ones patent, the upper ones ascending. Calyx deeply campanu- late, eight to nine lines long, the divisions oblong-spathulate, often unequal, valvate, completely enclosing the bright red corolla. A very distinct species, remarkable for its large bracts and calyx.—J. G. B. Piha | ) OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, | LU. 60. W.W.S. del. Fitch, kth, SN Fitch, map. Cotyledon adunca, Daker Refugium Botanicum.]} [ February, 1869. TAB. 60. 13. C. apunoa (Baker). Longe caulescens, glabra, foliis percrassis, laxis, oblongis, duplo longioribus quam latis, apice apiculatis, facie explanatis, dorso rotundatis, utrinque pallide glauco-viridibus, ra- morum floriferorum subnullis, floribus 12—18 in racemum laxum secundum aduncum dispositis, bracteis crassis, lanceolatis, parvis, pedicellis erecto-patentibus, sepalis lanceolatis qualibus corolla rubro-aurantiaca egre duplo brevioribus.— Pachyphytum roseun, Hort. Mexico. Stems attaining a height of two to four feet and a thickness of half to three-quarters of an inch, glabrous, pale grayish brown, the scars roundish. Leaves narrow-oblong, the upper ones close, the lower lax, eighteen lines to two inches long by three-quarters of an inch broad, the apex apiculate, the blade half an inch thick in the centre, the face flattened, the back rounded, both sides a pale glaucous-green, not at all tinged with purple. Flowering branch a foot or more long, with a few minute bract-like leaves, the upper part permanently decurved. Raceme secund, 12- to 18- flowered, six to eight inches long when fully developed. Bracts lanceolate, not more than three to four lines long. Pedicels erecto-patent, the lower ones finally six to seven lines long, but the upper much shorter. Calyx three-eighths of an inch deep, the teeth equal, lanceolate, adpressed to the corolla, which is very slightly pentagonal, five-eighths of an inch deep, rose-pink upwards, pale yellow downwards and within.—J. G. B. A tall-growing species, attaining at times a height of four feet, and requiring an ordinary greenhouse treatment. It thrives, grown in turfy loam and sand, with plenty of drainage, and sup- plied with but little water during the winter season. It is easily increased by seeds, cuttings, or by the leaves, planted in nearly dry sand. I am indebted to the Royal Gardens at Kew for this fine species.—W. W. S. 14. C. secunpa (Baker). Acaulis, glabra, foliis dense rosulatis, obovato- cuneatis, egre duplo longioribus quam latis, apice rotundatis con- spicue mucronatis, dimidio inferiore cuneatis, utrinque pallide viri- dibus, primum subglaucis, demum saturate rubro tinctis, ramorum floriferorum subnullis, floribus 12—15 in racemum secundum deor- sum laxum dispositis, bracteis oblongis pedicellis erecto-patentibus brevioribus, sepalis sequalibus lanceolatis ascendentibus corolla rubro-aurantiaca duplo brevioribus.—Hcheveria secunda, Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxiv. Suppl. p. 59, vol. xxvi. t.57; Schlecht. Hort. Hal. p. 20. EH. spilota, Kunze, MSS. Mexico. Glabrous, not at all caulescent, stoloniferous from the crown of the root. The leaves fifty or more in a very dense rosette, the outer ones slightly ascending, broadly obovate-cuneate, an inch and a half to an inch and three-quarters long by an inch broad three-quarters of the way up, the apex rounded with a very distinct mucro, the lower two-thirds cuneately narrowed to a broad base, the colour a pale apple-green, with a slight glaucous tinge when young, the upper part of the old leaves deeply tinged with scarlet. lowering branch a foot high, slender, terete, pinkish glaucous, with only a few distant small bract-like leaves. Flowers twelve to fifteen in a secund raceme, which is finally four to six inches long. Bracts oblong, two to three lines long. Pedicels slender, erecto-patent, the lowest three to four lines long. Sepals lanceolate, equal, two lines long, at first spreading, finally ascending. Corolla three-eighths of an inch deep, hardly at all pentagonal, bright red downwards, bright yellow upwards and within. We have seen a single specimen with the lowest pedicel forked. Schlechtendahl (‘ Linnea,’ xii. p. 411) describes an Hcheveria bifida from Mexico which resembles this, but has a pair of secund racemes three to six inches long.—J. G. B. hoa hee sbi | i ro i j4tag: — ' > Ap! n ‘ona Go teiihe LL | (oo ne . = “a rey é , ate ; vir ‘ uu’ Ae: LIBRARY oD, ‘OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, 2 PL6L W.W.S. del Fitch, hth. JN Fitch.rmp. Cotyledon glauca, Laker Refugium Botanicum.] [Pebruary, 1869. TAB. 61. 15. C. atauca (Baker). Acaulis, glabra, foliis dense rosulatis, obovato- cuneatis, ultra duplo longioribus quam latis, apice rotundatis, con- spicue mucronatis, deorsum e basi tertii superioris cuneato-angus- tatis, utrinque farinoso-glaucis, demum margine paullulum rubro tinctis, ramorum floriferorum subnullis, floribus 12—20 in race- mum secundum deorsum laxum dispositis, bracteis oblongis pedicel- lis erecto-patentibus brevioribus, sepalis sequalibus lanceolatis ascen- dentibus, corolla rubro-aurantiaca duplo brevioribus. — H’cheveria glauca, Hort. Mexico. Glabrous, not at all or very shortly caulescent, densely stolo- niferous from the crown of the root. The leaves forty to fifty in a very dense rosette, the outer ones almost horizontal, quite two inches long by three-fourths to seven-eighths of an inch broad five-sixths of the way up, the point more or less rounded to a decided mucro, the lower three-quarters cuneately narrowed, both sides extremely glaucous, only the edges of the fading leaves a little tinged with red. Flowering branches a foot high, slender, terete, pinkish glaucous, with only a few distant small bract-like leaves. Flowers twelve to twenty in a secund raceme which is finally four to six inches long. Bracts ovate-oblong, two lines long. Pedicels, sepals and corolla just as in C. secunda. on RACISM oF A very pretty compact dwarf-growing species, requiring a dry and light situation in the greenhouse during the winter, and during the summer it does very well in the open air, growing freely on rock-work, or as an edging, in which situation, from its glaucous appearance, it produces a very pleasing effect. It is easily increased by offsets and seeds. The plant originally came to me from Mons. Van Houtte’s nursery at Ghent.—W. W. S. LIBRARY — ek OF THE — > oUNIVERSIFY OF ILLINGIS, , 7 + % qvac T Mplasee he a @ a) ; nine 08 5 i ay ; a ae, Oe Payur W.-H. Batch, del. et. hth. Cotyledon pumila, Baker. to. Che Joins Fitch, map pa, Aer Refugium Botanicum. | [ February, 1869. TAB. 62. 16. C. pumins (Baker). Acaulis, glabra, foliis dense rosulatis, oblan- ceolato-cuneatis, triplo longioribus quam latis, apice subdeltoideis, mucronatis, utrinque glaucis, demum rubro-tinctis, ramorum flori- ferorum subnullis, floribus 8—12 in racemum secundum deorsum laxum dispositis, bracteis lanceolatis, pedicellis erecto-patentibus eequantibus, sepalis eequalibus lanceolatis corolla saturate rubro- aurantiaca, duplo brevioribus.— Hcheveria pumila, ‘‘ Van Houtte, Cat. 1846 ;” Schlecht. Hort. Hal. p. 20. Mexico. Not at all caulescent, glabrous, copiously stoloniferous from the crown of the root. The leaves fifty to sixty in a very dense rosette, the outer ones spreading, an inch and a half to two inches long by six to seven lines broad five-sixths of the way up, the apex subdeltoid with a mucro, the lower three-quarters cuneately narrowed to a broad base, both sides a very pale glaucous-green, the old leaves tinged with red upwards. JL lower- ing branches six to nine inches long, slender, terete, pinkish glaucous, with only a few distant bract-like leaves. Raceme 8- to 12-flowered, finally two to three inches long. Sracts lanceolate, about equalling the erecto-patent pedicels, the lowest of which are at last three lines long. Calyx and corolla of the two preceding. This and the two preceding are closely allied, and quite agree in general habit, calyx and corolla.—J. G. B. This species is very nearly allied to C. glauca, requiring the same treatment, and is a still more useful plant for edgings to borders during the summer months. It has much the same glaucous-green tint as the species just alluded to, but its leaves are longer, narrower, more pointed, and produced in such num- bers as to form a very regular compact rosette. This species, with the old C. secunda and C. glauca, have all the same habit. I received it from Mons. Van Houtte, of Ghent, many years since.—W. W. S. 17. C. srrictirritora (Baker). Acaulis, glabra, foliis rosulatis, oblan- ceolato-spathulatis triplo longioribus quam latis, apice acutis, deorsum e basi tertii superioris spathulatim attenuatis, ramorum floriferorum valde reductis, floribus 15—20 in racemum elongatum laxum secundum demum omnino erectum dispositis, pedicellis bre- vibus erecto-patentibus, sepalis equalibus lanceolatis ascendentibus corolla rubra duplo brevioribus. — Hcheveria strictifiora, A. Gray, Plant. Wright, i. p. 76. Gathered by Mr. C. Wright in an expedition from Western Texas to New Mexico, and in the United States’ survey of the Mexican boundary under Major W. H. Emory. Not at all caulescent, glabrous. The leaves in a sparse (?) rosette, oblanceolate-spathulate, the largest in dried specimens three inches long by an inch broad two-thirds of the way up, nar- rowed gradually to an acute point and spathulately downwards to a narrow base. Flowering branch a foot and a half to two feet long, its leaves few and bract-like. lowers fifteen to twenty in a secund raceme, which is finally a foot long and quite erect. The pedicels much shorter and stouter than the three preceding. Calyx ascending, the divisions lanceolate, equal, about half as long as the red corolla, which is five-eighths of an inch long. Studied upon dried specimens only. Allied to the three pre- ceding, but the leaves quite a different shape, the flowering branch stronger and more rigid and pedicels shorter. S888 Gibbiflore. 18. C. BracrEoLata (Baker). Longe caulescens, glabra, foliis sparsis, oblanceolato-spathulatis, triplo longioribus quam latis, apice rotun- datis, egre apiculatis, utrinque pallide nitide viridibus, ramorum floriferorum paucis, valde reductis, floribus in racemis laxis sub- secundis 10—12-floris simplicibus vel ad basin furcatis dispo- sitis, bracteis oblanceolatis pedicellis erecto-patentibus longioribus, sepalis linearibus ineequalibus corolla flavo-rubra sequantibus. — E'cheverta bracteolata, Link, Klotzsch et Otto Ic. Plant. ii. t. 68; Walp. Rep. i. p. 259; Lemaire, Illust. Hort. vol. x. Suppl. p. 78. Andes of New Granada, introduced in 1840. Glabrous; the stems attaining a height of a foot and a thick- ness of three-eighths of an inch, bright green, the scars roundish. Leaves oblanceolate-spathulate, not rosulate, twenty to thirty, the lower ones decurved, the upper horizontal, the largest two and a half to three inches long by three-quarters of an inch broad three-quarters of the way up, the apex rounded and faintly apicu- late, both sides a bright light shining green, not at all glaucous, the old ones with a faint reddish tinge. LTlowering branch a foot and a half to two feet long, with a few much-reduced leaves. Flowers ten to twelve in lax drooping subsecund racemes which are either simple or branched at the base. Bracts oblanceolate- spathulate, the lower ones longer than the pedicels. Pedicels ascending, the lower ones bracteolate, three-eighths to half an inch long. Sepals linear, unequal, the longest about equalling the yellowish red corolla, which is decidedly pentagonal, under half an inch long. 19. C. Scurertt (Baker). Caulescens, glabra, foliis rosulatis, magnis, oblongo-spathulatis, triplo longioribus quam latis, acutis, utrinque elauco-viridibus, ramorum floriferorum numerosis, valde reductis, floribus 30—40 in racemis tribus secundis nutantibus dispositis, bracteis oblanceolatis pedicellis erecto-patentibus multo excedenti- bus, sepalis patulis, linearibus, ineequalibus, corolla saturate rubro- auriantiaca brevioribus. — Meheverta Scheerit, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 31, t. 27. Mexico. Caulescent, glabrous. Leaves rosulate, oblongo-spathulate, the largest six to seven inches long by more than two inches broad three-quarters of the way up, the point acute, the lower two- thirds spathulately narrowed, both sides glaucous-green. Leaves of the flowering branch numerous, but much reduced. Flowers ina trifid raceme with secund drooping branches six to eight inches long, with ten to twelve flowers each. Bracts half an inch to an inch jong, the upper ones imbricated. Pedicels erecto- patent, the lowest a quarter of an inch long. Sepals linear, spreading, very unequal, a quarter to three-eighths of an inch long. Corolla five-eighths to three-fourths of an inch long, red and yellow, decidedly pentagonal. We have not seen this, and have compiled the description from Lindley’s figure and notes.—d. G. B. | ETBRARY - | OF THE — _\YNIVERSITY. OF YLLINO!S. ie Lobe W.H Fitch, del.et th. | IN Bitch imp. — Lotyledon stolomfera, Baker. Refugium Botanicum.] [ February, 1869. TAB. 63. 20. C. stoLoniFERA (Baker). Breviter caulescens, glabra, valde stolo- nifera, foliis dense rosulatis obovato-spathulatis, duplo longioribus quam latis, apice subdeltoideis mucronatis, utrinque pallide nitide viridibus, ramorum floriferorum paucis, valde reductis, floribus 4—6 in cymum confertum parvum dispositis, bracteis oblanceolatis pedicellis erectis brevibus multo excedentibus, sepalis linearibus insequalibus corolla rubro-aurantiaca brevioribus. Mexico. Glabrous, shortly caulescent, very copiously stoloniferous. Leaves thirty to forty in a dense rosette, obovate-spathulate, the largest two to two and a half inches long by about half as broad five-sixths of the way up, the apex rounded and decidedly apicu- late, the lower three-quarters spathulately narrowed to a broad base, both sides a pale bright green with a very slight glaucous tinge, the centre of the blade one-eighth of an inch thick. Flowering branches six to eight inches long, with a few oblong- spathulate leaves under an inch long. J lowers four to six in a close cyme, the bracts that subtend the main branches half an inch long. Ultimate pedicels a line and a half to two lines long. Sepals thick, linear, very unequal, usually shorter than the yel- lowish-red decidedly pentagonal corolla, which is half an inch long.—J. G. B. This species may be treated much in the same manner as the two foregoing during the winter, but I have not tried it out-of- doors during the summer, although I think it would then stand the open air, in dry situations, well. It throws out from near the base numerous shoots or stolons, from whence its name, and by these it may be easily increased. I received it from Mexico, a few years since.—W. W. S. ayiP 7 i] ee ‘ S ’ a _ . te Pe q. + oy Aer x: f, af 1 y Qj itt " ih arr ale aoe a ok tal =: = > FLEA. W.#L. Fitch, del. et. hth. Cotyledon fulgens, Baker. | Refugium Botanicum.] [ February, 1869. TAB. 64. 21. C. rutcrens (Baker). Caulescens, glabra, foliis rosulatis obovato- spathulatis, ultra duplo longioribus quam latis, apice rotundatis apiculatis, utrinque glauco-viridibus, demum margine egre crispatis, ramorum floriferorum paucis, valde reductis, floribus 15—20 in paniculam cymosam ramis paucis nutantibus racemosis dispositis, bracteis pedicellis erecto-patentibus multo longioribus, sepalis lan- ceolatis inzequalibus corolla saturate rubra multo brevioribus. — Lcheveria fulgens, Lemaire, Jard. Fleur. t. 244. Mexico. Glabrous. The stems attaining a height of four to six inches. The leaves eight to twelve in a rosette at the apex, the largest about four inches long by an inch and a half to an inch and three-quarters broad three-quarters of the way up, the apex rounded and slightly pointed, the lower three-quarters spathu- lately narrowed to a broad base, the centre of the blade one- eighth of an inch thick, both sides a pale glaucous-green, the edge only slightly crisped when old. Flowering branches twelve to eighteen inches long, with several ascending lanceolate-spathu- late leaves an inch or more long. Flowers twelve to twenty in an irregular panicle, with nutant racemose branches two to three inches long, the flowers of which do not reach down to the base. Main bracts oblanceolate-spathulate, three-quarters of an inch to° an inch long. Pedicels erecto-patent, three to four lnes long. Sepals lanceolate, very unequal, spreading or slightly ascending, considerably shorter than the pentagonal corolla, which is bright coral-red on the outside, yellow in the throat, half to five-eighths of an inch long. Very near C. retusa, but shortly caulescent; the leaves nar- rower and more glaucous, hardly at all crisped at the edge; and the cyme not so close.—J. G. B. A beautiful species, producing, when well-grown, many coral- red flowers at the same time, which are of long duration. It requires a warm greenhouse treatment, and should be potted in rich light loam and leaf-mould, the pots well drained. It is freely increased by seeds, cuttings, or by the leaves, inserted in sand. The source from whence my plants were obtained is doubtful.— W.W.S. 22. C. retusA (Baker). Aigre caulescens, glabra, foliis dense rosulatts, obovato-spathulatis, duplo longioribus quam latis, apice rotundatis, demum retusis, utrinque subglauco-viridibus, demum margine cris- patis, ramorum floriferorum paucis, valde reductis, floribus 10—15 in paniculam cymosam ramis paucis racemosis brevibus dispositis, bracteis pedicellis erecto-patentibus multo longioribus, sepalis lan- ceolatis inzequalibus corolla saturate rubra multo brevioribus. — Echeveria retusa, Lindl. Bot. Reg. vol. xxiii. t. 57; Paat. Fl. Gard. t.73; Walp. Ann. iii. p. 823. Mexico. Glabrous, acaulescent or very shortly caulescent. The leaves ten to fifteen in a dense rosette, obovate-spathulate, the largest three inches long by rather over half as broad three-quarters of the way up, the apex rounded, bluntly pointed, finally sometimes retuse, the lower three-quarters spathulately narrowed to a broad base, both sides a pale slightly glaucous-green, the edge of the old leaves much crisped and conspicuously tinged with red. Flowering branches six to twelve inches long, with four to six oblong-spathulate leaves, the lowest an inch or more long. Flowers ten to fifteen in a small panicle, with a few short race- mose branches, the lowest horizontal, two to three inches long, with flowers down to the base. Main bracts three-quarters to an inch long. Pedicels cernuous, a quarter of an inch long. Sepals lanceolate, unequal, much shorter than the bright red pentagonal corolla, which is half to five-eighths of an inch long. 23. C. ciBBrrLora (Moc. et Sess.) Longe caulescens, glabra, foliis rosu- latis, magnis, obovato-spathulatis, triplo longioribus quam latis, apice subdeltoideis, apiculatis, utrinque pallide glauco-viridibus, de- mum roseo tinctis, ramorum floriferorum paucis, valde reductis, floribus 80—60 in paniculam thyrsoideam laxam ramis patentibus racemosis seepe nutantibus dispositis, bracteis lanceolatis, pedicellis erecto-patentibus multo excedentibus, sepalis linearibus patulis in- eequalibus, corolla saturate rubro-aurantiaca plerisque brevioribus. -— EK cheveria gibbiflora, D.C. Prodr. ii. p. 401; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1247. Keheveria grandifolia, Haw. Tayl. Phil. Mag. 1828 ; Sweet. Fl. Gard. t. 275; Walp. Rep. ii. p. 935. Mexico. Glabrous. The stems a foot to two feet long, an inch to an inch and a half thick, the scars an inch broad by one-eighth of an inch deep. Leaves twelve to twenty in a close rosette at the apex, obovate-spathulate, the largest six or seven inches long by two and a half inches broad five-sixths of the way up, the apex subdeltoid, bluntly pointed, the blade a line and a half to two lines thick in the middle, the base acutely keeled beneath and distinctly channelled above, both sides a pale glaucous-green, tinged with pink when old. lowering branch a foot to two feet long, the leaves few and much reduced. Flowers thirty to sixty in a lax panicle with racemose branches, the lowest horizontal, sometimes afoot long. Bracts oblanceolate-spathulate, an inch to two inches long. Lower pedicels a quarter to three-eighths of an inch long, the upper ones shorter. Sepals thick, linear, very unequal, spreading, usually shorter than the decidedly pen- tagonal corolla, which is five-eighths of an inch long, bright red on the outside, yellow within and at the base.—J. G. B. pIBRARY | OF THE: HNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Layo ‘BOTPeyoul Tea’ Or» WT eLoT{IggGTS wop epiyoo ‘chuar'ypsytr" NC TAH 3° PP PIT AM — | ! | i) “yy 1 a at od ., o OF THE cas ne wm 4 La! = - —' ¥ OF ILLINOIS Refugium Botanicum.] (February, 1869. TAB. 65. Var. meratiica (Baker). — Echeveria metallica, Lemaire, Illust. Hort. vol. x. Suppl. p. 81. General habit and flowers as in the type, but the leaves broader, the largest seven to*seven and a half inches long by five to five and a half inches broad five-sixths of the way up, much rounded towards the apex, with a faint apiculus, not at all con- cave, when young a decided purplish lilac edged with glaucous- green, passing into a brownish bronzy green as they fade, the edge not at all crisped. Var. crispata (Baker). — Echeveria metallica var. crispata, Hort. Like the last, but the well-developed leaves scarcely longer than broad, and the margin considerably crisped. We are not acquainted with the “ #. Bernhardyana, Forst. Hort. Germ.” mentioned by Lemaire (Illust. Hort. vol. x. Suppl. p: 78), but suppose, from the short notice, that it may be a variety of this species.—J. G. B. C. gibbiflora var. metallica is a very striking variety, with large leaves of a beautiful purplish metallic hue. When well-grown it is a very handsome plant, well suited for conservatory decoration, and for bedding out in the open air during the summer months. It thrives best in an airy, light, warm greenhouse, grown in well- drained pots filled with light turfy loam and leaf-mould. The plant was introduced from Mexico, some years since, by the late Hugh Cuming (who kindly sent to me his whole stock), then consisting of two stick-like succulent stems of about a foot in length. It is easily increased by seeds, and the leaves, properly treated, will root, but not freely —W. W. S. ae) ¥ Naf a 2 : of i eae ans’ ra i he ; 7 yr Pes, % J i ert i. © BAS e Tes, 2. a eee ee 7 ‘ ILLINOIS. ~ . OF THE UNIVERSITY Of >. x= at < i ond \ W.W.S.del, Fitch, hth. Cotyledon pulverulenta, Barer Refugium Botanicum. | [ebruary, 1869. TAB. 66. SSS$§ Ceespitosee. 24, C. PULVERULENTA (Baker). Caulescens, glabra, foliis dense rosu- latis, oblongo-spathulatis, acutis, triplo vel quadruplo longioribus quam latis, utrinque farinosis, ramorum floriferorum numerosis, parvis, cordatis, floribus in racemis tribus secundis nutantibus multifloris dispositis, bracteis ovatis amplexicaulibus pedicellis sub- eequantibus, sepalis lanceolatis eequalibus ascendentibus corolla obscure rubro-aurantiaca duplo brevioribus.— Echeveria pulveru- lenta, Nuttall in Torr. et Gray, Flora N. Am. p. 560; Walp. Rep. li. p. 259. California. Glabrous. The stem eight to twelve inches long, an inch thick. The leaves twenty to thirty in a dense rosette, oblong- spathulate, the largest three to four inches long by an inch broad a little above the middle, the apex subdeltoid-acuminate, the centre of the blade one-eighth of an inch thick, both sides quite white-pulverulent, slightly tinged with pink when fading. Flowering branches two to three feet long, with numerous small ascending ovate-amplexicaul leaves. lowers, in the only living example we have seen, in a panicle branched from the base, with three drooping racemose branches, the longest a foot long. Bracts ovate-amplexicaul, the lowest about equalling the ascend- ing pedicels, which are one-fourth to three-eighths of an inch long. Sepals lanceolate, three to three and a half lines long, adpressed to the dull reddish-yellow corolla, which is five-eighths of an inch long, and scarcely at all pentagonal.—J. G. B. A very remarkable species, having the leaves entirely covered with meal-like powder, which gives them a very white delicate appearance. It should be grown in a dry, warm, light green- house, should be carefully watered at all times, and potted in very light turfy loam, peat, sand and a little leaf-mould, well mixed. ‘The plant is of rare occurrence in collections, owing to the difficulty there is of keeping it in a healthy condition. I am indebted to the Royal Gardens at Kew for my plant. I have had it many years under cultivation, during which time it has only flowered once.—W. W. S. Liete alee y Ss - ~ i «tl 7 hie i . | ILLINO c c : © > = Go oe he = = — ASRS RL A ET EO . > ATEN tings, J.N.Fiteh, map. W.WS. del Fitch lth. Cotyledon agavoides, Laker Refugium Botanicum.] [ February, 1869. TAB. 67. 25. C. acavoiDEs (Baker). Acaulis, glabra, foliis dense rosulatis, per- crassis, ovatis, spinoso-aristatis, utrinque pallide glauco-viridibus papillosis demum paullulum rubro tinctis, ramorum floriferorum subnullis, floribus 4—6 in cymum laxum dispositis, bracteis per- parvis, pedicellis gracilibus elongatis, sepalis deltoideis ascendenti- bus eequalibus corolla aurantiaca 6-plo brevioribus. — EH. agavoides, Lemaire, Il, Hort. vol. x., Suppl. p. 78. Mexico. Glabrous, not at all caulescent. The leaves fifteen to twenty in a dense rosette, ovate, an inch and a half to two inches long by an inch broad half-way up, narrowed above to a rigid spiny point, the centre of the blade three-eighths of an inch thick, the upper surface slightly concave, the back much rounded, both sides a very pale glaucous-green, and distinctly reticulated with papilla, the old ones faintly tinged with red at the edge. Flowering branch eight to twelve inches long, slender, with only a very few small bract-like leaves. Flowers four to six in a sparse cyme. ‘The bracts linear, very minute. The pedicels half to three-fourths of an inch long. Calyx under one-eighth of an inch deep, the lobes deltoid, equal, ascending. Corolla orange, half to five-eighths of an inch deep, scarcely at all pentagonal. A very distinct species.—J. G. B. This is another species hitherto rare in collections, and diffi- cult of increase except by seeds. The plant requires much the same treatment as the last, and greatly resembles an Aloe of the section Haworthia, notwithstanding that it has been hkened to an Agave, whence its name. Il have raised the plant from Northern Mexican seeds, presented to me by H. Moberly, Esq. I am also indebted to the Royal Gardens at Kew for a plant of this interesting species.—W. W. 8. e i a : bude Cc = -—— be ot o < a > par — e; \ we ae =z > .Y F268 W.W.8.del.Fitchhth ~" CO EE J.N.itch imp. ® otyle don cymosa, Laker Refugiwn Botanicum.] [February, 1869. TAB. 68. 26. C. cymosa (Baker). Acaulis, glabra, foliis rosulatis oblongo-lanceo- latis, triplo longioribus quam latis, ex apice tertii inferioris ad apicem acutum sensim attenuatis, utrinque pallide glauco-viridibus, ramorum floriferorum paucis, valde reductis, floribus 20—30 in cymum ramis erecto-patentibus dispositis, bracteis lanceolatis, supe- rioribus pedicellis longis gracilibus erecto-patentibus squantibus, sepalis lanceolatis eequalibus ascendentibus corolla flava triplo bre- vioribus.—LHcheverta cymosa, “ Hort. Angl.” ; Lemaire, Illust. Hort. vol. x. Suppl. p. 79. Mexico. Glabrous, not at all or very shortly caulescent. The leaves twenty to thirty in a dense rosette, oblong-lanceolate, the largest four inches or more long by an inch broad a third of the way up, narrowed downwards to a broad base, and gradually upwards to an acute point, not more than a line thick in the centre, both sides a pale glaucous-green,’ faintly tinged with red when old. Flowering branch a foot or more long, with a few much-reduced leaves. Flowers twenty to thirty in a dichotomously-forked cyme with erecto-patent branches. Bracts lanceolate, three-eighths to three-fourths of an inch long. Ultimate pedicels erecto-patent, three to four lines long. Calyx under a quarter of an inch deep, the divisions equal, lanceolate, ascending. Corolla yellow, five- eighths of an inch deep, hardly at all pentagonal.—J. G. B. A dwarf species, of slow growth, requiring careful watering to keep it in health, to receive which the plant must be potted in light sandy loam and leaf-mould, and kept in small pots, placed near the light in a warm greenhouse. It may be increased by seeds. I obtained my plants in 1855, from the collection of Mons. L. Van Houtte at Ghent.—W. W. S. ih i; wege valee ihe ol i ney eo | my 13 on a ay : ia oleae : e art Ww LIBRARY OF THE “UNIVERSITY OF ILLING/S LU.69 a m9, J.N. Fitch Cotyledon cééspitosa, Haworth. W. EL Mitch, del. et. hth. Refugium Botanicum.| (February, 1869. TAB. 69. 27. C. casPirosa (Haworth, Misc. p. 180). Acaulis, glabra, foliis dense rosulatis, ligulato-lanceolatis, triplo vel quadruplo longioribus quam latis, acutis, utrinque glauco-viridibus, ramorum floriferorum nume- rosis, valde reductis, ovato-amplexicaulibus, floribus 20—40 in cymum copiose ramosum ramis scorpioideis dispositis, bracteis ovatis pedicellis sequantibus, sepalis lanceolatis equalibus ascenden- tibus corolla straminea plus duplo brevioribus. — Sedum Cotyledon, Jacq. Eclog.1.t. 17. Echeveria cespitosa, D.C. Prodr. ii. p. 401. C. linguiformis, Ait. Hort. Kew, edit. 2, vol. ii. p. 109. CC. reflexa, Willd. Enum. Suppl. p. 24. Mexico and California. Glabrous, not at all caulescent. The leaves twenty to thirty in a dense rosette, ligulate-lanceolate, the largest two and a half to three inches long by three-quarters of an inch broad two-thirds of the way up, narrowed very slightly downwards, gradually upwards to an acute point, the centre of the blade one-eighth of an inch thick, both sides glaucous-green, faintly tinged with red when fading. lowering branch a foot or more long, with numerous ovate-amplexicaul spreading much-reduced leaves. [lowers twenty to thirty in a copiously-compound cyme with scorpioid branches, the lower ones horizontal. Bracts minute, the lower ones equal- ling the pedicels, which are two to three lines long. Sepals lan- ceolate, ascending, equal, two to two and a half lines long. Corolla pale straw-yellow, four and a half to five lines long, hardly at all pentagonal. So far as we can judge from the descriptions, EL. laxa, Lindl. Journ. Hort. Soc. iv. p. 292, H. campanulata, Kunze, Delect. Sem. Hort. Lips. adn. p.7, and EH. lanceolata, Nuttall in Torrey & Gray’s Flora N. Am. p. 561, do not differ from this materially.— Ji sD. This plant I find very impatient of moisture at the roots during the winter season, and requires great care in its culti- vation. It should be grown in small pots, and treated much in the same way as the last. I obtained the plant in 1855, at the nursery of Mons. L. Van Houtte at Ghent: it was reared from seeds received from California.—W, W. 8. nt ik ~ wy 4 st feet 4 a ye - ! x a ’ at Ce Sa ee a , oy} ; : : a ‘ + ( bees i a & ‘ lbsaiy ath 4 ; ® 4 18, r aes vi 4 . : his ipa 4 : «, MeL! 4 ‘ Wa v | api ¥ $y 7 ; \ upd aD : . ‘7 ‘ ; ‘ ; as . : a jet ae eee th ny gv ied lala | ‘ = ve it sh ola F y 4 j oe ‘a 7 4 af al @ ¢ ( ta Pa § i 1 . t Ne a ie al Poi oi f t . ; “A Ls “f es { 5 7 ala ] & ‘ } ? ‘be i "7 x i4 is * ; } e .? P : his ‘ és , > Loe oJ ‘ » ; Dua ' 4| x 4 i San Pr | ice 7) in ity ie tale ‘ : ah ans ee Oi , 7 , , At ‘ee ) ae if ? | “7 ( Ty. Pech. pe awe : my yihe ial : ' » « » r ‘ i’ ‘ 7m , ‘ j 7 ) a) a he a i i | ob al 4 re of ‘ ‘giv - é va merges ae ta Th i ed Ae el st ri ‘th14 Oe m ri ; ; DON) BR Te ee ap yey: a). se etm. | Lat adine a Ke. Lain Ba Nai Ob a a hha Ag Z| 4 te We a Sf: ae | daal re. 8 ods ae Pe Pepsin lai a ta te AeA? hike © pied, en ; We LIBRARY OF THE - UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, W.H. Fitch, del.et. hth. Cotyledon californica, Laker. $$ ai EE Se a ae & JN. Fitch mp. Se ad ene id) Refugium Botanicum. | [Pebruary, 1869. TAB. 70. 28. C. catirornica (Baker). Acaulis, glabra, foliis dense rosulatis, ligulato-lanceolatis, triplo longioribus quam latis, acutis, utrinque glauco-farinosis, ramorum floriferorum numerosis, valde reductis, ovato-amplexicaulibus, floribus 12—20 in cymum ramis geminatis vel tribus racemosis dispositis, bracteis ovatis pedicellis subpatenti- bus zquantibus, sepalis lanceolato-deltoideis eequalibus corolla stra- minea triplo brevioribus.—Heheveria californica, Hort. California. Not caulescent or very slightly so. The leaves twenty to thirty in a dense rosette, ligulate-lanceolate, the largest two to two and a half inches long by three-fourths to seven-eighths of an inch broad three-quarters of the way up, narrowed from this to an acute point and downwards to a broad base, the blade one-eighth of an inch thick in the middle, both sides very glaucous, still so when old, with a very faint reddish tinge. Flowering branch a foot long, the stem glaucous and deeply tinged with red, the leaves numerous, ovate-amplexicaul, under an inch long. Flowers twelve to twenty in a bifid or trifid raceme, the bracts thick, ovate, one-fourth to three-eighths of an inch long, the pedicels spreading, short, thick, two to three lines long. Corolla two to two and a half lines long, the divisions lJanceolate-deltoid, equal, adpressed to the pale straw-yellow corolla, which is five-eighths of an inch deep, the divisions hardly at all pentagonal. Midway between cespitosa and farinosa.—J. G. B. A very pretty dwarf species, easily increased by offsets and seeds. It is not difficult of cultivation, grown in small well- drained pots, filled with sandy loam and peat, in an ordinary greenhouse. ‘This is another species I obtained from M. L. Van Houtte, of Ghent, in 1855, who gives California as its native country.—W. W. S. - in - 7 4 as ; =a ee a, - oa pale a 7 a. oa 8 oy ote = 7 _ _ LiBRANY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINULS, yee W.H. Fitch, del.et.hth TN. Fitch, imp. Cotyledon farmosa, Baker: fefugium Botanieum. | [February, 1869. Lebar iis 29. C. rarinosa (Baker). Glabra, breviter vel segre caulescens, foliis ‘ i ice crassis ligulato-le 1S, 6 u n- dense rosulatis, modice crassis ligulato-lanceolatis, quadruplo lon gioribus quam latis, acutis, basi dilatatis, utrinque primum omnino . Fi . . . . . : 1 glauco-viridibus, rat loriferorum numerosis farinosis, demum glauco-viridibus, ramorum floriferoruam numerosis, parvis, ovato-amplexicaulibus, floribus 20—30 im cymum copiose ramosum ramis scorpioideis patentibus dispositis, bracteis ovatis, parvis, pedicellis crassis, brevibus, erecto-patentibus, sepalis lanceo- 1S, ibus, nti rolla flava ultr reviori- latis, eequalibus, ascendentibus, corolla flava ultra duplo brevior .— Kcheveria farinosa, Lindl. Journ. Hort. Soc. iv. p. 292; bus Echeveria nosa, Lindl. Journ. Hort. Soc. 1 292 Walp. Ann. u. p. 669. California. Glabrous, slightly rosulate. The leaves twenty to thirty in a dense rosette, ligulate-lanceolate, the longest two and a half to three inches long by five-eighths to three-quarters of an inch broad half-way up, hardly narrowed downwards, the base dilated, narrowed upwards to an acute point, the centre two lines thick, not at all coneave on the faee, both sides quite white-farinose when young, fading to a decidedly glaucous-green with a very faint reddish tinge. Flowering branch a foot high, stout, with numerous cordate-amplexicaul leaves under an inch long. Flowers twenty to thirty in a cyme, with scorpioid spreading main branches, the thick cordate-amplexicaul bracts two to three lines long. Pedicels thick, ascending, not more than one-eighth of an inch long. Sepals a quarter of an inch long, broad- lanceolate, equal, ascending. Corolla yellow, half to five-eighths of an inch long, searcely at all pentagonal. This and the three preceding nearly coincide in ealyx and eorolla:—F. G. DB: A delicate and beautiful species, the leaves of which are densely covered, when in good condition, with a white meal-like powder. It 1s most impatient of water, either at the roots or on the leaves, and requires much attention to keep it in health. I find it does well, grown in small well-drained pots, in a mixture of turfy loam, peat, sand and leaf-mould, and kept in a dry, airy, light greenhouse. It can be increased by cuttings and seeds. My plant came from the collection of Mons. L. V. Houtte at Ghent, in 1855, and was stated to be from California.—W. IV. S. Imperfectly-known Species. 30. C. sussprcata (Baker). Columbia; rocks near the snow-line, Chevada de Santa Marta, gathered by the late Mr. Purdie. Caulescent, glabrous. The leaves densely rosulate, oblong, slightly spathulate, acute, the largest in a dried specimen two inches long by an inch broad. Flowering branch erect, about a foot high. Flowers thirty to forty in a dense equilateral raceme, the upper ones subsessile, the lower spreading or slightly cer- nuous. Calyx-teeth ascending, lanceolate, a quarter of an inch long. Corolla red, pentagonal, half an inch long. Near C. coccinea, but glabrous, and the flowers slightly stalked. 31. C. Spruce: (Baker). Andes of Ecuador, Spruce, 5463. Caulescent, glabrous, densely rosulate. The leaves lanceolate, not at all spathulate, narrowed gradually from below the middle to an acute point, the largest in a dried specimen half an inch long by half as broad.. The flowering branch erect, upwards of a foot long. The flowers ten to twelve in a lax equilateral raceme about half as long. The patent cernuous pedicels three-eighths of an inch long. The calyx a quarter of an inch deep, with linear reflexed divisions. ‘The corolla red, half an inch long, decidedly pentagonal. 32. C. susutironra (Baker), —- Echeveria teretifolia, D.C. Prodr. iu. p. a0 Le DCs Crass: to 6. Mexico. Leaves of flowering branch numerous, ascending, quite terete, an inch or more long. Flowers in geminate secund spikes three to four inches long, of six to eight flowers each. Bracts like the leaves, but three to four lines long. Calyx sessile, with thick linear unequal divisions, not more than half as long as the red- dish yellow pentagonal corolla, which is under half an inch long. Apparently a very distinct plant. ‘There is already a Cape C. teretifolia, Thunb. 38. C. Gravit (Baker). Foliis radicalibus obovato-lingulatis, caulinis sparsis parvulis lanceolatis canaliculatis, omnibus mucronato-acutis, floribus laxe paniculatis, undequaque versis, petalis apice breviter recurvis sepalis duplo superantibus. — E’cheveria paniculata, A. Gray, Pl. Wright, p. 16. New Mexico, Wislizenus. Flowering stems a foot long, above the rosulate and apparently radical tuft of leaves, the latter two to three inches long, the scattered or subopposite stem-leaves from half an inch to an inch long. Flowers half an inch long, disposed in a loose elongated panicle ; the proper terminal flowers are on very short peduncles, the lateral ones mostly with long bracteate peduncles. Bracts small, linear. 34. C. acutrroLia (Baker).—Echeveria acutifolia, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 28, t. 29; Walp. Rep. ii. p. 259. Mexico. General habit, calyx and corolla of C. gibbiflora, but the leaves more concave and more acute, and flowers in a narrow congested panicle, with the lower branches only 3- to 4-flowered. Very likely a form of gibbiflora. A plant which approaches it closely was found by Salvin and Godman in Guatemala. There are several other species in the collection of Mr. Saunders, which have not flowered yet, of which we hope to be able to give an account in future Numbers.—J. G. B. ur a pe. ee u | r s e+ ~a — a \ —— } a] x ay Sy va ee — % e aay ee « S r oo i > > ’ & rt = n aan) rig -* a2 Vow eS. 7 od , rn / » o e ar 2@ j a @ waite one: ¢ ee ‘4a “an af ~ + a pay ® t. « ‘4 - } a Boek ao ine mae , > une IN Fitch imp. 4] ub. oh, delet h c S. 7 Ist W. Cotyledon Co operl, Laker. Refugium Botanicum. | | february, 1869. TAB. 72. CU. Cooprert (Baker). igre caulescens, glabra, foliis aggregatis, triplo longioribus quam latis dimidio inferiore teretibus, quartc superiore cite spathulatim dilatatis, utrinque pallide glauco-viridibus, maculis saturatioribus et purpureis, scapis erectis subnudis, floribus 6—10, laxe spicatis, calycis dentibus tubum campanulatum equantibus, ealyce corolla tubulosa rubra segmentis lanceolato-deltoideis demum reflexis quadruplo breviore. Cape of Good Hope, imported by Mr. Cooper. Glabrous, scarcely at all caulescent. The leaves five to six ageregated near the base, oblanceolate-spathulate, two inches long by five-eighths to three-fourths of an inch broad three- quarters of the way up, the lower half nearly as thick as broad, the exterior quarter suddenly spathulately dilated laterally, nar- rowed to the apex horizontally, both sides a pale glaucous-green with spots of darker green, and towards the edge also of purple. Seape about a foot high including the spike, the lower three- quarters nearly naked. Flowers six to ten in a lax spike, quite sessile, the bracts thick, lanceolate, shorter than the calyx, which is one-eighth of an inch deep, with deltoid teeth equalling the campanulate tube. Corolla red, tubular, five-eighths of an inch deep, the lanceolate-deltoid divisions not reaching a quarter of the way down.—J. G. B. A small and remarkable species, but little known. It grows slowly, and should be kept in a warm, dry, light greenhouse, potted im sandy loam and leaf-mould, with good drainage and little pot-room. I received it from South Africa, where it was discovered on the Zuurberg Range, by Mr. Thos. Cooper, in 1860.—W. W. S. ° — é 7 ‘ oon ey Vere & g i‘. 2 af ae, hiv j 7 gc 39S el ian oP ¥ yr “) 7 ie 4 Analytical Table of the American species of Cotyledon (Echeverria, D.C.) § Sprcatz.—F lowers in spikes. Caulescent. Leaves and the whole plant pubescent. Leaves obovate-spathulate 1. pubescens. Leaves oblanceolate-spathulate . 2. coccinea. Leaves and whole plant glabrous 3. roseata. Not caulescent . : : : 4, mucronata. §§ Racemosa#.—F lowers in equilateral racemes. Caulescent. Leaves not densely rosulate. Blade 3—2 lines thick. Flowers 4—8 ; leaves four times as long as broad. 5. quitensis. Flowers 10—15 ; leaves twice as long as broad. 7. nuda. Blade half an inch thick 8 Leaves densely rosulate. Pedicels erecto-patent. . linguaefolia. Flowers 4—6 in a lax short raceme . ; . 6. nodulosa. Flowers 12 —20 in a lax long raceme ‘ . 9. canaliculata. Flowers 80—40 in a dense raceme . d . 980. subspicata. Pedicels long, spreading. ‘ :, ; . 381. Spruce. Not caulescent. Leaves twice as long as broad. : ; : . 10. peruviana. Leaves 83—4 times as long as broad. : ; - 11. lurida. §$§ Secunpz.—F lowers in secund racemes. Caulescent ; leaves not rosulate. Sepals valvate, oblong-spathulate, exceeding the corolla. : 12. Pachyphytum. Sepals lanceolate, much shorter than the corolla. 13. adunca. Sepals thick, linear, unequal, the longest about equalling the corolla. 18. bracteolata. Caulescent ; leaves densely rosulate. Lower pedicels 83—4 lines long. Leaves hardly at all glaucous’. : . 14. secunda. Leaves very glaucous. Leaves obovate-cuneate . : ; : . 1d. glauca. Leaves oblanceolate-cuneate . > . 16. pumila. Lower pedicels 14—2 lines long. . . 17. strictiflora, &$§ GIBBIFLORE.—Inflorescence compound. Sepals linear, unequal. Corolla red, decidedly pentagonal. Flowers in bifid or trifid racemes. Leaves terete : : 5 . : : . 982. subulifolia. Leaves flat, spathulate. Leaves of main stem scattered, 2—8 inches long. 18. bracteolata. Leaves of main stem rosulate, 6—7 inches long . 19. Scheer. Flowers in short cymose panicles. Flowers 4—6; leaves 830—40 in a rosette : . 20. stolonifera. Flowers 19—20 ; leaves 8—15 in a rosette. Leaves slightly crisped at the edge when old . QL. fulgens. Leaves much crisped at the edge when old . - 22. retusa. Flowers in elongated narrow panicles. Leaves obovate-lingulate, 2—3 inches long . . 33. Grayt. Leaves obovate-spathulate, 4—5 inches long . 04. acutifolia. Flowers in a lax thyrsoid panicle, with long horizontal lower branches. 23. gibbiflora. S§$S§ Caspirosm.—Inflorescence compound. Sepals lanceolate or deltoid, equal, ascending, 2—6 times shorter than the corolla, which is scarcely at all pentagonal and usually pale yellow. Flowers in long bifid or trifid racemes : . 24. pulverulenta. Flowers in cymes. Cymes 4—6 flowered; leaves very thick, spine pointed. 25. agavoides. Cymes 20—40 flowered ; leaves 13—2 lines thick, not aristate. Stem-leaves few, lanceolate ; branches of cyme erecto-patent. 26. cymosa. Stem-leaves many, small, cordate-amplexicaul; branches of cyme scorpioid. Leaves pale glaucous-green - 5 . 27. caespitosa. Leaves glauco-farinose_. : ; . 28. californica. Leaves quite white, with palvoriere mealiness. 29. farinosa. —J. G. B. INDEX TO VOLUME I. Plate. No. Acacia strigosa, Link. aL Albuca caudata, Jacq. . ~ 45 ,, fastigiata, Dry. . 44 Aizoon sarmentosum, L., rite 6 Anthurium lanceolatum, Kunth. 14 Asparagus scandens, Thunb. weal Billardiera cymosa, F. Muell. 25 Brachystelma Arnottii, Baker. 9 Ceropegia multiflora, Baker . 10 Cotoneaster buxifolia, Wall. . 52 congesta, Baker . 51 microphylla, Wall. 49 - prostrata, Baker. 53 ns rotundifolia, Wall. 54 - Simonsii, Hort . 55 Z thymefolia, Hort 50 Cotyledon (EKcheveria) acutifolia, Baker. ms adunea, Baker . 60 agavoides, Baker 67 . bracteolata, Baker a ceespitosa, Cav. . 69 ¥, californica, Baker 70 coccinea, Cay. Cooperi, Baker . am 125 (Eecheveria) cymosa, Baker . 68 > farinosa, Baker . 71 a fulgens, Baker . 64 Bt gibbiflora, M & S. ,» var. metallica, Hort. 65 ne glauca, Baker . 61 Pa Grayul, Baker A linguefolia, Baker 58 p lurida, Baker . 59 maculata, Salmdyck . . 35 (Kcheveria) mucronata, Baker Fe nodulosa, Baker 56 "a nuda, Baker ee 5G 95 Pachyphytum, Baker 7 peruviana, Baker 3 pubescens, Baker £ pulverulenta, Bkr. 66 rf pumila, Baker . 62 retusa, Baker rhombifolia, Haw. : 2 30 (Echeveria) roseata, Baker . 54 13 25 18 27 28 26 29 21 23 15 33 11 12 10 24 22 Plate. No. Cotyledon (Echeveria) Scheerii, Baker . 19 “a secunda, Baker . 14 7" Sprucei, Baker 31 be stolonifera, Baker 63 20 be strictiflora, Baker 17 as subspicata, Baker 30 subulifolia, Baker 32 Drimia apertiflora, Baker . 19 » Cooperi, Baker . ay ia Euphorbia tetragona, Haw. . 39 Fleurya estuans, Gaud. 2 ac Gladiolus tristis, Thunb. « 28 Goodenia ovata, Smith . ee Homeria flexuosa, Sweet. 5 ph! Mahernia chrysantha, Planch. 26 Monsonia biflora, D.C. 4 Myrsiphyllum falciforme, Knth. AT Ornithogalum thyrsoides, Jacq. 20 Othonna earnosa, Less. . bie Oa Oxalis megalorhiza, Jacq. . 1 Pelargonium fumarioides, L’Ht. 29 4 grossularioides, Ait. 5 < hispidum, Willd. 30 = rutefolium, Baker 27 re sisonifolium, Bker. 28 Peperomia magnoliefolia, Dietr. 40 He microphylla, H.B.K. 41 » nummularifolia, H.B.K. 13 a pellucida, H.B.K. 12 Phedranassa Carmioli, Baker. 46 Polygonum capitatum, Hamilt. 11 Potentilla gariepensis, K.Meyer 2 Rulingia parviflora, Endl. .. 3 Sedum alboroseum, Baker . 33 » cordifolium, Baker . 34 » spectabile, Boreau. . 32 Solanum robustum, Wendl. . 37 Stenomesson suspensum, Baker 22 Tradescantia discolor, Sm., 48 var. concolor, Baker} ; Triteleia aurea, Lindl. . of, 42 Fe conspicua, Baker . 48 Uropetalum umbonatum, Baker 17 re Welwitschii, Baker 16 Zomicarpa Riedeliana, Schott, 15 me wa j wed BC Altar in nyae 6. ¢.600 VA Bee i f nity? ah es 27) ’ "78 pit < =e 5 at i 13.0 : i 1 ike (es ee Sih 14 a roe. a, ' Ir ae od \ ew a 4 he A ogy : ¥ . ” ‘ : 7 a ‘a te »* P| ¢ t ~ oa . ; A . 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