Plate 147. 



BOLLEA P ATI NT. 



The remarkable and beautiful new plant which we now figure for the first time belongs to a 

 new genus of Orchidacese, recently established by Professor Reichenbach ; and this species is 

 named in honour of the discoverer, Mons. C. Patin, the young Belgian collector who found 

 it in 1873 in the forests of New Granada. Mr. B. S. Williams, of Upper Holloway, holds 

 the entire stock of this novelty, but the individual plant from which our coloured Plate was 

 taken lately flowered in the choice collection of G. Herriott, Esq., Cholmeley Park, Highgate, 

 to whose courtesy therefore we are indebted for the opportunity of figuring it. In the 

 Gardeners Chronicle for July 11th, 1874, will be found Professor Beichenbach's original 

 description of Bollea Lalindei (which we hope soon to illustrate), and the subject of our 

 present Plate, B. Patini. The flowers of the latter are larger than the former and less 

 bright in colour; the Professor, however, had not seen fresh flowers, but drew up his 

 description from hand-coloured photographs, dry flowers, and a dried plant, so that our 

 coloured figure now gives a truer idea of the original than can be gathered from Professor 

 Reichenbach's description, drawn up as it was from somewhat insufficient materials. 



Plate 148. 



ILEMANTHUS KOUPERL 



This is one of the most truly beautiful plants of the group to which it belongs, forming c ne 

 of a section of tuberous-rooted Amaryllidaceae. A cool or warm greenhouse is variously required 

 for their culture. The present species is the most stately and attractive plant in the genus 

 Ha?manthus. The growth is vigorous, rising from two to three feet in height, the leaves are 

 sheathing at the base spotted or barred, expanding upwards to a rich self green, broadly oblong 

 or sword-shaped, with an outline more or less undulate at the margin. The erect stout flower- 

 scapes are subcylindrical, nearly flat on one side and prominently furrowed or grooved on the 

 upper portion ; they are also densely spotted with chocolate brown on the lower half. The 

 flowers are borne in large densely-crowded, somewhat depressed hemispherical umbels of 

 brilliant flame, or salmon-scarlet coloured blossoms, each umbel or cluster being from five to 

 seven inches across, and bearing an immense number of closely -packed flowers. By the dis- 

 tinct character of its growth and bloom it produces an unique and splendid effect, either 

 singly or in an exhibition group, for which it must be considered a very beautiful and 

 attractive object. The origin of the fine plant here figured is somewhat uncertain ; its name 

 refers to Captain liouper, who is supposed to have forwarded it with other plants to his 

 father, the late Rev.Wm. Eouper of Wichhall, near Brighton, from the Cape of Good Hope, at 

 the period of the first Caffir War. //. insignia figured in the Botanical Magazine, t. 4745, 

 is altogether smaller, with a head of flowers less than 2f inches in diameter, with much larger 

 bracts, and the individual flowers quite different in shape. H. puniceus, Bot. Mag. t. 1315, 

 is much smaller still, and furnished with spotted bracts, the flower-scapes being only half 

 the height of those of //. Bouperi. We have only to say, in conclusion, that the original 

 plant from which our figure was taken, was exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society's 

 Show, on May 16th last, where it attracted great attention; four of these great flowers were 

 growing in one pot, each scape being fully a yard high, and perfectly leafless to the ground 

 line ; the grand leafy growth, though of course from the same tuber, being separate from the 

 flower-scape. 



