NOTES ON RUBI. 85 



43. H. Roezli. — Amaryllis Boezli, Eegel, ' Gartenflora,' 1874, p. 

 290, t. 809. Andes of Bolivia, Pioezl. 



44. H. sUjlosum, Herb.; Kunth Enum. v., p. 523. Amari/Uis 

 staminea, Seubert in Marl. Fl. Bras., iii,, ^. 150. French Guiana, 

 Hon. Brooks. North Brazil, Burchell, 9819-2. Gardner, 1167 ! 



45. H. breviflorum, Herb. ; Kunth Enum. v., p. 520. Buenos 

 Ayres, Tweedie ! 



46. H. vittatian, Herb. ; Kunth Enum. v., p. 520. Tropical 

 America. 



47. H. rutihim, Herb. App. p. 31. H. bidlndosuni, Herb. ; 

 Kunth Enum. v., p. 527, with the eleven varieties there noted. 

 South Brazil, Gardner, 5210 ! Weir, 48 ! 314 ! Glaziou, 8991 ! &c. 

 I cannot clearly distinguish from this H. Martianum, Eoem. ; 

 Kunth Enum., v., p. 525 ; and H. ylaucescens,- Herb. ; Kunth 

 Enum. v., j). 526. 



NOTES ON BUBI. 



(No I.) 



By Charles C. Babington, F.R.S., &c. 



1. EuBus Leesii, Bah. — I have often expressed doubt con- 

 cerning the right of this curious plant to sioecific rank, chiefly on 

 account of its being invariably nearly, if not totally, barren. I 

 have never known a dru^De, although apparently perfect, to 

 germinate ; but Dr. Focke tells me that he has once done so, and 

 obtained the true plant. Until recently, I should have said that all 

 the specimens which I have seen were very constant in the character 

 of their foliage ; but a plant sent to me by Mr. H. Bromwich (gathered 

 "in a bog at Woodloes, near Warwick," in July and September, 

 1876), and issued also by the Botan. Exchange Club as ft. Leesii, is 

 considerably different. It has the leaves of the barren stem (the 

 "cane" of gardeners), simple and three-lobed, but nevertheless 

 bearing a wonderful resemblance to those of the typical it. Leesii. 

 On the specimen distributed by that " Club " the leaves all have 

 this structure ; but those received direct from Mr. Bromwich have 

 a few leaves of the usual character of those of B. Leesii, viz., 

 ternate, with all the leaflets sub-sessile but quite distinct. 

 Unfortunately, in the otherwise beautiful plate in the ' Suppl. to 

 Eng. Bot.,' t. 2981, the terminal leaflet is represented as possessing 

 a rather long stalk. The introduction of that stalk is a mistake 

 of the ariist, who probably had the ternate form of B. Idaius in his 

 mind. The true B. Leesii has never a stalk more than one-sixth of 

 an inch in length. Unfortunately, this error escaped the notice 

 of the author of the text which accompanies that plate (Mr. Lees), 

 and also the editor of the new ' English Botany.' 



Continental authors who have noticed B. Leesii are agreed in 

 considering it as a form of B. Idfzus, similar to the form of 

 Flay aria vesca called F. monophylla. The plate in ' Fl. Dan.' 

 (Suppl. t. 138) of the B. hlmis c. anomalns of Arrhenius, 



