GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 



Siebold. A hardy plant of the order of Crowfoots. Flowers 



ACONITUM SINENSE. 



deep violet j appearing in 

 the autumn. Native of 

 Japan. (Fig. 112; a 

 represents a flower of A. 

 autumnale by way of 

 contrast.) 



We have now two perfectly- 

 distinct autumnal Asiatic 

 Monkshoods in cultivation ; 

 one the A. autumnale, the other 

 Siebold 's A. sinense. The latter 

 forms a stem from one and a 

 half to two feet high, slightly- 

 downy, round, with regularly 

 five-parted leaves, the segments 

 of which are incised, marked 

 with a deep middle vein, and 

 recurved a little ; the flowers 

 few, deep violet, on woolly and 

 glandular peduncles ; the hel- 

 met hemispherical, with no 

 visible peak. The former is 

 similar in foliage, except that 

 the lobes of the leaves are 

 much longer, and quite falcate, 

 the flowers larger, in a close 

 erect raceme, pale violet, with 

 a pubescent stalk, and a more 

 compressed helmet, with along 

 curved peak. (This is not 

 shown at a, in consequence of 

 the foreshortening.) Either of 

 them may be the A. Napellus 

 of Thunberg. Both are dis- 

 tinguished from the A. japoni- 

 cum by the deep falcate divi- 

 sions of the leaves, and long 

 racemes of flowers. They are 

 very useful autumn plants, are 

 quite hardy, but worth a green- 

 house, in which, in England, 

 they are seen to most advan- 

 tage. The specimen figured is 

 a very small one. We have 

 one before us from Prof. De Vriese, with a branched inflorescence, and eight flowers open at once. 



Nepenthes angustifolia. M. T. Masters. In this we have another new species of 



