391 



and 



6, 



C sfanche lutea.-Eefeience was made to TourDcfort's 

 -PJiehpae Lusitamca, flore lufeo (CistancJie luteo, UolfinVg- 

 Link), m tlie article " The Genus riielipaea," K.B. No » 

 p. 2m, and it was stated that " a drawing and a carbon impros- 

 ^lonof It marked ' D. Tourn. e Portugalia D. Slierard ' is in 

 Morison s Herbarium, and tliat a description was published bv 

 Bobart^ ni Morison's Plantarum Ilii^toria, vol. iii. (109!>), 

 J). 502." To this was added the remark "whether Tourncfoit 

 had it from Grislej, or collected it himself when in Portuo.,1 

 m 1688, as is most likely, is uncertain." Professor Hcuriqn'i-s, 

 of Coimbra, has since been so kind as to call our attention ii 

 his paper " Explora^ao Botauica em Portugal par Tourucfort ' 

 (in Bol. Soc. Brot. vol. viii. pp. 191-261), which contains an 

 enumeration bj Tournefort of the plants he collected in Portii- 

 gal in 1689. Prom the list it is evident that Tournefort col- 

 lected this Cistanche between Villa Nova de Portimao and Lagos 

 in the Province of Algarve in 1689. The entry (p. 221) runs 

 " Orobanche palustris maximo digitalis flore luteo. Orobanchc 

 elegantissima verna flore luteo Grisley." On p. 257, Prof. 

 Henriques identifies this plant with '" Phclvpaca Lusit. flore 

 luteo, Corol. 47— P. lusitanica, Tournef." Tournefort travelled 

 twice in the Iberian Peninsula, and it was durincr his second 



journey that he visited Portugal. He started in October, 1688, 

 but did not reach Portugal until the following year. 



o. s. 



Botanical Magazine for September.— The plants figured are 



Topulus lasiocarpa, Oliver (t. 8625); Gladiolus Melleri, Baker 

 »(t. 8626); Ornithohnea Lacei, Craib (t. 8627) and Metrosidcros 

 ■diffusa, Smith (t. 8628). 



The Poplar is without doubt the finest species of the genus 

 with its leaves measuring as much as 14 inches long by 9 inches 

 wide, and having midrib, veins and petiole a rich red. Like 

 its closest ally P. glauca, Haines, the flowers are polygamous, 

 and the catkins are from 4-6 inches in length. F. lasiocarpa 

 was first collected by Mr. A. Henry in Hupeh, and was intro- 

 duced to cultivation by Messrs. Veitch & Sons, who received 

 a living plant from Mr. E. H. Wilson. The specimens figured 

 came from the gardens of Mr. P. C. Stern and Sir Harry Teitch, 

 where the tree flowered in 1914. 



Gladiolus Melleri was discovered in 18G1 by Mr. C. J. Meller 

 in Nyasaland during Dr. Livingstone's Zambesi expedition. 

 The plant figured was sent to Kew in 1913 by Mr. A. Hislop 

 from Eusape, Rhodesia. Its nearest ally, G. Buchanani, Baker, 

 also from Nyasaland, differs especially in having several -n-ell- 

 developed leaves instead of the single elongated leaf charac- 

 teristic of G. Melleri, and in G. Melleri the stamens are shorter 

 than the upper perianth segments. 



The genus Ornithohoea now contains at least six species, all 

 natives of the Indo-Chinese region. Three of these have now 

 flowered under cultivation, the one under notice having been 

 raised at Kew from seed collected by Mr. J. H. Lace in Upper 



