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Oxcidium macropus (Gard. Chron., 186S, p. 12.5). — Orchidaceoe. The bulbs 

 of this species are similar to 0. macranthum, and the flowers yellow, with blotches 

 and bars over the surface, of little value to cultivators. 



Oncidicm Porrigens {Gard. Chron., 1868, p. 125). — Orchidacese. A species 

 of no merit. Sepals and petals brown ; lips cinnamon. 



Acacia. Ausfeldii (Gartenflora, t. 550). — Leginroincscc. A greenhouse ever- 

 green shrub, with linear phyllodes, and axillary peduncles bearing rnairy-flowered 

 capitules of yellow blossoms. Native of Australia. 



Pbunus Padum (Neerl. Plant., t. 48). — Rosacea?. An early-flowering plum, 

 with large semi-double flowers, white, or more or less tinted with rose. 



Crataegus Oxyacantha coccinea flore-pleno. — Rosacea;. A fine sport 

 from the double pink thorn, with crimson ilowers. 



Codieum (Croton) Veitchiaxum (Rev. Sort., 1867, 189). — Enphorbiaceoe. A 

 beautiful stove evergreen shrub, with blightly undulated leaves, which have red 

 footstalks, and when young are green, traversed by a hroad band of yellow, which 

 passes with age into rose and carmine purple, the intensity of these colours increasing 

 as the leaves become older. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Sons from the South 

 Sea Islands. 



Dichokisandra musaica (Flore des Serren, t. 1711-12). — Commelynaceje. 

 This most remarkable stove perennial was exhibited at the International Exhibition 

 of 1866. The leaves are ovate acute, deep reddish purple beneath, dark green above, 

 beautifully marked with close broken transverse irregular white lines. The flowers 

 are white and blue. 



HiEMADiCTTOx nutans maxima (Flore des Serres, t. 1728). — Apocynacece. Dis- 

 tributed under the name of Eehites rubro-venosa. The dark olive-green sur- 

 face of the leaf is traversed by red veins. The bright red midrib has a narrow bar 

 of pale bright green on each side, which adds very greatly to its beauty. 



Polymnia pyramidalis (Rev. Sort., 1867, 211). — CompositEe. A tall-growing 

 shrubby perennial, recommended for summer flower-gardening, having been used 

 for this purpose in Paris ; it grows ten feet high in a season, forms a pyramidal head, 

 bears large cordate leaves, and is decorated with yellow flower-heads, having a dark 

 brown disk. Native of New Grenada. 



Allamanda nobilis (Gard. Chron., 1868, p. 180). — Apocynacea;. A magni- 

 ficent species, introduced from Rio Branco, Brazil, by Mr. Bull. The flowers are an 

 immense size, and of a clear bright yellow, without markings of any kind. It has 

 a trailing habit, and will eventually become one of the leading kinds for exhibition. 



L.ELLA albida, var. Tuckeri (Gard. Chron., 1868, p. 208). — Orchidacece. A 

 grand variety of this well-known and beautiful species, The flowers are large, and 

 of a lovely amethyst colour, with purple lip. 



L/Elia albida, var. brunxea ( Gard. Chron., 1868, p. 208). — Orchidacese. The 

 sepals and petals are chesnut brown, with lip of same colour. 



Ljelia albida, var. ochracea_( Grarrf. Chron., 1868, p. 208). — Oichidaceae. 

 Rather a poor variety, with pale brown sepals and petals, and rather darker 

 coloured lip. 



Begonia nigrovenia (Gartenflora, t. 545). — Begoniacece.A. stove perennial, with 

 a creeping rhizome. Bright green leaves, with the principal ribs dark red. The 

 flowers are small and numerous. 



Clematis Lady Bovill (Floral Mag., t. 370). — Raminculacere. One of the 

 fine hybrids raised at the Woking Nursery. It is distinct in habit from the rest of 

 the novelties which have rendered that place so famous, having more of the cha- 

 racter of lanuginosa manifest in the plant. The buds and exterior of the sepals are 

 quite woolly. The flowers are large, with short, broad, concave sepals, and the 

 colour is a pale greyish blue. 



Miconia Teysmanniaxa (Gartenflora, t. 537). — Melastomaceae, A stove shrub 

 of considerable size, with elliptic-ovate five-nerved leaves, of a metallic green, and 

 a terminal panicle of small white flowers. Native of the Eastern Archipelago. 



Saxchezia nobilis variegata (La Beige Sort., 1867, 14). — Acanthaceje. 

 One of the finest of stove plants which have lately been introduced. It is of 

 free growth, with large oblong leaves, boldly striped with rich golden yellow, and 

 bearing, like the type, fine yellow flowers, issuing from crimson bracts. Native 

 of Bolivia. 



Eupatorium Haageanum (Gartenflora, t. 555). — Compositas. An erect shrubby 



