New and Rare Plants 



213 



spread out, forming a delightful clump. Its 

 foliage is abundant, and dark green, above 

 which its large flowers stand up. They are 

 not thin and flimsy, but of good substance, rich 

 violet in colour, with a small yellow eye, this 

 being sun-ounded by rays of purple. For the 



appreciated Violas, which we strongly recom- 

 mend especially to the attention of our ama- 

 teur readers. 



We have been favoured by the kindness 

 of the Messrs Veitch, of Chelsea, with the 



Fig. 2.— Aralia Osyana. 



illustration of this Violet we are indebted to 

 Mr B. S. Williams, of the Victoria Nursery, 

 Upper Holloway, London, who, in this plant, 

 has the good fortune of this year distributing 



following illustrations of new plants. They 

 will prove to those who have not grown them, 

 and who are in a position to grow them, valu- 

 able helps for the various purposes of plant 



the third variety of these improved and highly decoration. The Vanda ccerulescens was 



