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tlie parentage of which is unknown. The flowers are cream colour, the three keels 

 of the lio yellowish white. 



CiRRHOPETALVM Papudii {Ncerl Plant., 1866, t. 4-5).— Orchidaceae. A 

 curious stove epiphyte, with a creeping rhizome, compressed pseudo bulbs, solitary 

 elliptical leaves and flower-scapes, cont<iinin;i an umbel of from eight to ten large 

 flowers, which are brownish red, with a purple lip. 



Hydbaxgea. Japonica macrosepala. Hydrangea with hroad sepals {Oartenjl. 

 t. 520).— flydrangacea). A variety somewhat resembling the var. rosalba of Van 

 Houtte, but having the segments of the sterile flowers one and one-third inch 

 broad. 



Ibis K^mpferi {Neerl. Plant., t. 33-34). — Iridaceae. Two fine new varieties 

 of /. Koempferi are here figured ; their names are P. Vox Siebold and A. Von' 

 Humboldt. The first is a deep purple with golden blotch, the second pure white, 

 with golden feather. They are grand additions to the splendid series of Irises in 

 cultivation, and will be distributed with others equally as good, and of the qualities 

 of which these figures afford hopeful suggestions. 



Ophiopogox Japonicus argenteo-stkiatus, Silver-striped leaved Japanese 

 Ophiopogon {Neerl. Plant., t. 31). — Liliticese. A pretty dwarf herbaceous peren- 

 nial, with linear lanceolate leaves elegantly striped, and racemose spikes of deep 

 blue berries about tlie size of currants. As the flowers are not described, we sup- 

 pose them to be inconspicuous. 



Lamprococcus Weilbachii (lieerl. Plant., t. 26). — Bromeliaceaj. A stove 

 herb with ligulate leaves, and an erect scape bearing crimson spathes and purple 

 flowers. A plant of no use except to botanists. 



ViiiEsiA brachystachvs {Gartenjl. t. 518), — Bromeliacege. — A stove plant with 

 ligulate leaves and a spike of yellow flowers issuing from reddish bracts. Scarcely 

 ornamental. 



Vanda Bensoxii {Gard. Chron.^ 1867, 180). — Orchidaceae. An interesting 

 novelty, and a new type among vandas. The flowers are comparable to those of a 

 well-developed V. Roxburghii, white outside, yellow inside, spotted and streaked 

 with brown. The lip is ruby, with some purple and yellow spots. The flowers 

 smell like sliced cucumbers. The petals are hastate, and the lip is dilated at the 

 end like a mallet. 



Phajus iruohatus (Gar(7. CAro»., 1867, 264).— Orchidaceee. A hybrid raised 

 from P. vestitus and P. Tankervillioe, by Mr. Dominy, of Messrs. Veitch's Nursery, 

 Chelsea. The sepnls and petals are creamy white, with a rosy hue ; the lip, which is 

 nearly circular, is of the same creamy white, with a yellow tinge. 



Cotoneaster Fontanesii {Pev. ILort. 18(57, 33). — Rosacese. A handsome 

 shrub, with oval elliptic leaves, and numerous small white flowers, which are 

 succeeded by spherical fruit of a coral red colour. 



Gkiffinia Blumenavia {Rev. Hart., 1867, 32). — Araaryllidaceffi. A Brazilian 

 bulbous plant, with ovate elliptic leaves and an umbel of white flowers, the upper 

 segments of which have a broad central stripe of rose colour. 



Hemebocallis Middendorfi, Middendorfs Bay Lilg {Gartenjl. t. 522). — 

 Liliaceae. A hardy perennial, resembling H. fulva. 



Ulmus campkstris aurba. Golden-leaved JElm {La Belg. Hort.y 1866, t. 19). 

 — Ulmaceae. A hardy deciduous tree, the leaves of which are of a deep golden 

 yellow. 



AxTHrRiUM PEDATiFiDUM {Gartenjl., t. 501). — A handsome stove perennial, 

 with roundish leaves divided into nine to eleven segments. 



Bletia hyacinthixa albo-striata (GaWe?//^., t. 527). — Orchidaceae. A well- 

 known ornamental greenhouse plant, bearing rich carmine purple flowers. 



EuPATouiUM RiPAuiuM {Gartenjl., t. 525). — Compositoe. A pretty sub-shrubby 

 cool greenhouse plant, growing one to two feet high, with oblong coarsely-toothed 

 leaves, and terminal corymbs of small white flowers. 



Hemerocallis fulva kwanso {Gartenjl., t. 500). — A splendid hardy" her- 

 baceous perennial ; it is a variety of II. Julva, the leaves are striped with white, 

 and the tawny-red flowers are tilled out with a tuft of small petal id segments. 



Hydrangea panicclata floribunda {Gartenjl,^ t. 530). — A fine hardy 

 shrub, with grand pyramidal panicles of white flowers ; extremely showy and 

 interesting. 



