FEBRUARY. 47 



Vanda Jenkinsi. A stove epiphytal Orchid. The small scentless flowers 

 are of little beauty. Assam. Messrs. Jackson $■ Son. 



Vanda Lowii. (Gard. Chron. 1858, 175.) A fine stove epiphyte producing 

 a long drooping spike nearly three feet long, set with large blossoms, yellow 

 mottled with brown. Borneo. The native plants are said to have spikes ten to 

 twelve feet long. Messrs. Veitch § Son. 



STOVE PLANTS. 

 Here we have a second species of Lattice-plant or Lace-leaf, in the 

 curious and elegant OuvirandraBerneriana, whose strap shaped perforated 

 leaves are extremely elegant, as seen floating in pure water. Nepenthes 

 villosa is one of the finest Pitcher-plants yet known, and is very remark- 

 able for the form and colour of the rim to its pitchers. The Ges- 

 neras are all valuable additions for decorative purposes ; while Cyano- 

 phyllum magnificum and the new Caladiums are charming additions to 

 the now favourite class of fine-foliaged plants. 



JEschynanthus tricolor. (Bot. Mag. t. 5031.) A beautiful Cyrtan- 

 draceous stove shrub, with slender branches, adapted for suspending ; it has 

 short ovate leaves, and small umbels of flowers either axillary or terminal, richly 

 coloured, being scarlet with broad distinct longitudinal stripes of yellow and 

 black. Borneo. Messrs. Low $ Son. 



Begonia Wageneriana. (Bot. Mag. t. 5047.) A small-flowered narrow- 

 petalled species of the sub-shrubby section, quite distinct from one figured a 

 few months previously under the same name, in the same work. Venezuela. 

 Kew Botanic Garden. 



Billbergia Liboniana. (Bot. Mag. t. 5090.) A handsome stove Brome- 

 liaceous perennial, with Pine-apple-like leaves and loose erect spikes of flowers, 

 which are two inches long — the lower half, or sepals, rich orange-scarlet — the 

 upper half, or projecting petals, violet-blue. Brazil. Kew Botanic Garden. 

 Caladium Cantrini, ~i Fine additions to stove variegated leaved plants, 



Caladium argyrites, especially the three first. Like most of the spe- 



Caladium argyrospilum, cies, they are extremely handsome. One, appa- 

 Caladium Newmanni, rently quite new, has triangular, or, rather, 



Caladium Houlleti, arrow-shaped leaves, ten inches long, seven inches 



Caladium tiolaceum. J broad at the base, with 20-30 well defined crim- 

 son spots, extremely brilliant and effective, spread over their surface. Another 

 is similar, but more obtuse in the form of the leaves. On one small kind, a 

 perfect gem, the leaves are three inches long and one and a half inch wide, their 

 surface handsomely mottled with white. In another, the leaves are nearly 

 heart-shaped, deep green, with white spots set at regular intervals. In another, 

 they are arrow-shaped, seven and a half inches long, prettily blotched with flesh 

 colour. {Gard. Chron. 1858, 314.) Amazon River. M. Chantin. Messrs. 

 Low $ Son. 



Cordia ipom(E;EFlora. (Bot. Mag. t. 5027) A fine stove shrub, or small 

 tree of the Boraginaceous family, having obovate-Ianceolate leaves a foot or 

 more in length, and lax terminal panicles of large white Convolvulus-like 

 flowers. Native country unknown ; probably West Indian. Kew Botanic Garden. 

 Cyanophyllum magnificum. A Melastomaceous plant, splendid as regards 

 its foliage. The leaves are two feet long, deep velvety green, with ivory-like 

 veins above and tinted bluish purple beneath. Tropical America. M. Linden. 

 Fagr^ea morind^folia. A fine stove plant, with large Magnolia-like leaves 

 and terminal spikes of trumpet-shaped rosy flowers, having a white mouth. 

 Java. Messrs. Rollisson. 



Gesnera cinnabarina. (Bot. Mag. t. 5036.) This fine stove tuberous 

 perennial has been figured again as above quoted. Its richly variegated leaves 

 and brilliant vermilion flowers render it one of the most ornamental of its family. 

 Its habit is that of G. zebrina, and like that it belongs to the group Naegelia. 

 It was first published in the Illustrated Bouquet (t. 6) of Messrs. E. G. Henderson. 

 Gesnera Donkelaari (Bot. Mag. t. 5(170.) A beautiful dwarf stove plant, 



