Species novae in Gardener’s Chronicle, 3. ser., XLVII (1910) descriptae. 99 
Orchids, would have overlooked a plant of such size as an ordinaiy 
species of Zygopetalum. 
100. X Narcissus Fosteri (N. Bulbocodium var. citrinum 9 X N. tri- 
andrum 3) R. J. Lynch, l. c., p. 342, fig. 146. — Scapo bifloro; floribus 
proxime horizontalibus, perianthii tubo infundibulari minime curvato; seg- 
mentis lanceolatis patentibus; corona magna turbinato-campanulata seg- 
mentis aequilonga; staminibus declinatis. — This is a beautiful hybrid 
raised by the late Sir Michael Foster. — This hybrid differs from both 
pavents in having a slightly, or even more than slightly, curved tube 
and in having distinctly spreading perianth segments. In no nearly 
allied plant can I find a curved perianth tube, and while the perianth 
segments are strongly reflexed in all N. íriandrus forms, they tend to be 
erect in N. Bulbocodium, so that the hybrid in having spreading perianth 
segments is intermediate. From N. Bulbocodium citrinus, and indeed from 
all other forms of that species, it differs conspicuously in being two- 
flowered, in having spreading or slightly deflexed instead of ascending 
flowers, in having an infundibuliform and not an obconic tube, and in 
having perianth segments which are slightly recurved rather than as- 
cending. — From N. triandrus it diflers in having a slightly curved and 
funnel-shaped tube (not cylindrie as in that species) which is ?/, inch. 
long instead of from !/; to 3/4 inch. long; in having a large obconie or 
campanulate top-shaped corona instead of a cup-shaped corona one-third 
only as large; in having perianth segments which are lanceolate instead 
of oblong, only half as wide as in friandrus forms, and also in having 
declinate stamens which are never declinate in any form of N. triandrus. 
In N. triandrus the flowers are sharply deflexed by the bending of the 
pedicel and not at all by any curvature of the perianth tube, which may 
be detected more or less in N. Fosteri. Briefly, to define this plant it 
may be said that there is no other twin-flowered Narcissus with a large 
corona and declinate stamens. But hybrids may have been raised of 
which I have no information. 
101. Aster Falconeri Hutchinson, l. c., p. 398, fig. 179. — A. diplo- 
Stephioides var. Falconeri C. B. Clarke, Composit. Indic., p. 45. — Planta 
circiter 40 em alta. Folia radicalia numerosa, oblongo-oblanceolata vel 
oblanceolata, inferne sensim attenuata, apice subacuta vel mucronulata, 
15—20 cm longa, 4—5 cm lata, tenuiter chartacea, remote denticulata, 
dentibus circiter 12 mm distantibus, nervis lateralibus utrinque 6 supra 
paulo immersis subtus leviter elevatis, nervis transversis paucis cum 
costa subparallelis. Caulis monocephalus, ad apicem dense foliatus, cir- 
citer 40 cm altus. Folia caulinia lanceolata ad apicem acutum sensim 
acuminata, basi rotundata et semiamplexicaulia, majora 8 cm longa, 3 cm 
lata, minora 4 cm longa, 1 cm lata, integra, utrinque parce pubescentia, 
nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 5 e costa crassa ascendentibus. Capi- 
tulum bracteis foliaceis exterioribus 4 cinctum, 9 cm diametro, Involucri 
bracteae sub 3-seriatae, exteriores, virides, lineari-lanceolatae, acutae, cir- 
citer 2 cm longae, 3 mm latae, extus dense pilosae, intus glabrae, in- 
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