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PINANOA- To tho species described on p. 130, 

 Vol. III., the following fihould now be added: 



P. decora (comely). L pinnate, green, tinged brown ; pinnae 

 ycs-sUc, IjLuiuUy lanceolate, long-acuminate, sometimes bifid and 

 rounded at tho apex; sheaths marked brown. Caudex tall. 

 Borneo. 1886. Unarmed. (I. U. 1886, 114.) 



P« leplda (pretty), I., when first developed, brownish-crimson, 

 gradually changing to deep, lustroua green, with faint darker 

 mottling ; segments unequal, prominently veined above ; petigles 

 short, rufescont. East Indies, 1888. This Palm is only known 

 in a young state in gardens. ^ 



P. Sanderiana (Sander's). I. two-lobed, spreading, glossy, 

 mottled green ; petioles mottled or freckled with brownish 

 pubescence, destitute of spines. Indian Archipelago, 1885. 



P. spoctabilis (remarkable). I, dark green, with paler raottlings, 

 silvery beneath, pinnate; young ones two-lobed. Kast Indies, 

 1886. 



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Fig. 59. Flower and Portiox of Stem of PHYtL0\:ACTU3 



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garden Pinks 

 The following 



FINK. ^ The recent additions to the 

 have been neither numerous nor important. 



are, nerhaps, the best : 



Show or Laced Pinks, Empress of India, medium lacing, 

 dark red; Eurydice, rosy-red lacing; Minerva, very bright 

 dark red lacing; Modesty, reddish-purple lacing; Pandora, 

 broad lacing of rosy-red ; Kosv Morn, large flowers, beautiful 

 rose lacing; Tottie, bright red lacing. 





PXNXTS. To the species and varieties described on 

 pp. 141-6, Vol. III., the following should now be added: 



P. koraiensis variegata (variegated). In thi:s garden form the 

 young leaves are whitish-yellow in colour. The plant is said to 

 be a vigorous grower. 



PIPER. To the species described on pp. 147-8, 

 Vol. III., the following should now be added : 



P» rubro-venosum (red-veined). I. alternate, entire, highly 

 glabrous, tive-nerved ; nerves marked on the upper surface by 

 irregular lines of rose-colour; stipules adnate to the petioles. 

 ^886. (I. 11. 1886, 33.) ^^ 



PIPTANTHITS. To the species described on p. 148, 

 Vol. III., the following variety should now be added: 



P. tomentosns (downy). This resembles P. nepalensh\ but 



it is clothed in all its parts with 

 silky tomentum. Yun-nan, China, 



1887. 



FITCAIRNIA. To the spe. 



cies described on pp. 150-1, Vol. 

 III., the following should now bo 

 added : 



P, arcuata (arched), fi. 5in.- long ; 



sepals carmine and yellow ; petals 

 pale yellow ; bracts lanceolate, 

 brownish-red on the lower part of 

 the stem, bright carmine on the 

 narrow-cylindric spike. I. petiolate, 

 lanceolate, acute, 2ift. to ^ft. long, 

 3in. to 4in. broad; petioles spiny. 

 Stem arching, as long as the leaves. 

 Andes of Columbia, 1886. Syn. 

 Netimannia arcuata (R. II. 1886, 

 p. 108). 



P. nigra (black). Jl. violet, long, sub- 

 tended by large, recurving, rich coral- 

 red bracts ; spike elongated. L 

 petiolate, oblong - elliptic, acute, 

 green. 1885. A handtiome and very 

 distinct plant. Syn. Neumannla 

 niura (R. H. 1881. p. 390). 



p. Boezlii (Roezl's). /., sepals 

 coral-red ; petals cinnabar-red, thrice 

 as long as the sepals, connlvent in a 

 helmet; bracts downy, i. long-lan- 

 ceolate, ascending, arcuate, sessile, 

 furfurescent on both sides, chan- 

 nelled, unarmed. 1885. Stems red. 

 Andes of Peru. Plant tufted. (B. If. 

 1885. 18-19.) ,. 



PITTOSPORUM. To the 



species described on pp. 153-4, 



Vol. III., the following should 



now be added ; 



P. engenioidesvariegatnin (varie- 

 gated). /. elliptic-oblong, pale green, 

 bordered white. Stems and branches 

 blackish ■ purple. New Zealand. 

 Greenhouse, evergreen shrub. 



P. flavnm (yellow). A synonym of 

 Uymenosponcm flavum: 



^. rliytldocarpnm (wrinkled - 



fruited). Jl. white, disposed in ter- 

 minal, crowded umbels. I. obovate 

 or oblanceolate, shortly acuminate. 

 Fiji, 1887. A pretty and useful, 

 greenhouse shrub. 



PLATTCLINIS. To the spe- 

 cies described on p. 158, Vol. III., 

 the following should now be 



added : 



p cnctLxnerina (cucumber - like). 



n Ught, pellucid green, arranged 

 in a graceful, distichous raceme ; hp 

 with a toothed, brown auricle on 

 each side of the base, running out 

 into a narrow, aristate process ; 



middle lobe obcuneate. retuse, apiculate, with two brown 

 minaie *""/;/",., . shininff. Pseudo-bulbs cucumber-like, 

 atTengtb furroS tnfted fsSS. Sv«. DenJroclaluv, cncu- 

 meriimm. 



FIiEBANDRA (from pleres, full, and aner, Andros, 

 a male ; in allusion to the numeroas stamens). Including 

 Baheria and Nesopanax. Ord. Araliacem. A small genus 

 (four species) of stove, unarmed, glabrous trees, natives 



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