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Azalea — continued, 



colours are both ricli and varied. The subjoined lists 

 comprise the best of the most recent additions. 



Donble-llowered. Ami du Cceur, coral-red, ]arg:e flower ; Baron 

 N. DE Rothschild, rich violet-purple, dark blotch ; Cajielli^*:- 

 FLORA TLKNA, salmon-red and orangey Deutsche Perle, white, 



Serfect form; Empress of India, rosy-salmon and carmine; 

 OHANNA GoTTscft.vLK, larfre, white, fine form; Louise Pvnaert, 

 white, excellent quality ; Madeleine, large, white, semi-double; 

 NiOBE, white, good quality; Pharailde Mathilde, large, 

 white, cerise spots ;,PRKSiDE>T Oswald de Kerchove, salmon- 

 pink ; Sakimtala, white, free in growth ; Theodore Riemers, 

 large, Ulac tint^ Vervaeneana, pink, white margin, sometimes 

 striped salmon. 



Single-flowered, Antigone, white, striped and blotched violet ; 



y Apollo, large, white, carmine stiipes; Candidissima, very 

 line, pure white; COMTESSE DE Flandre, large, rose-colour; 

 FiJRSaN Bariatinski, white, striped red; Gkandis, red, tinged 

 violet^, Jean Vervaexe, salmon, edged and striped white ; MONS. 

 Paul de Schryv]6r, magenta; Mons. Thibaut, orange-red, fine 

 form; Neige ET Cerise, white, striped and spotted cerise; 



/ Perfectio.n de Gand, rosy-purple, large; Princess Clemen- 

 tine, white, greenish-yellow spots ; Stella, orange -scarlet, 

 tinged violet. 



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BABIAITA. The species number nearly thirty. To 

 those described on p. 152, Vol. I., the following should now 

 be added : 



B. socotrana (Socotran). ft. solitary, almost sessile ; perianth tube 

 liin. long, very slender, the limb pale violet-l)lue, liu. broad, two- 

 lipped, the segments elliptic, acute. September. L bifarious, 

 3iii. to 4iiL long,^|in. broad, narrow-lanceolate ; petioles broad, 

 compressed, h. 3iu. to 4in. Socotra, 1880. (B. M. 6585.) 



SJGHiIA. California is the home of this genus. To 

 the species described on p. 153, Vol. I., the following 

 should now be added ; 



B. gracilis (slender). jL-heads bright yellow, solitary, radiate. 

 L t'Pposite, linear, h, 6ft. to 10ft. California, 1887. A hardy 

 annual, branching from the base. (R. G. 1887, p. 392.) 



Included under Flerandra (which see). 



B AMBUS A. About two dozen species have been 

 referred to this genus, natives of tropical or sub-tropical 

 Asia, one being broadly dispersed through tropical 

 America. To the species described on pp. 155-6, Vol. L, 

 the following should now be added : 



B. Castilloill (Castillon*s). h variegated. Stems square, 

 curiously varie;rated, one side of each intemode being dark 

 green, and the other side yellow, these colonrs alternatinii at the 

 next internode. Japan, 1886. Hardy. (R. H. 1886, p. 513.) 



B. Wieseneri (Wiesener's'). Stems brownish-black or dark olive- 

 green. Japan, 1887. Garden variety. A fine, hardy Bamboo, 

 resembling in habit and vigour Arundinaria japonica (this 

 being the correct name of the plant described on p. 118, Vol I 



as A. Met alee), ' 



This genus is now included, by the 

 authors of the "Genera Plantarum," under Epidendrum. 

 To ttie species described on p. 158, Vol. I., the following 

 should now be added : 



(Barkeriola). A synonym of Epidendriim 



B. Barkeriola 



Barkerioi<i. 



.. cyclotella (circular), fi, very showy, disposed in a terminal 

 raceme; sepals and petals deep magenta; lip white, margined 

 mngenta. broad, emarginate. February and March. I. distichous 

 liculate.oblong acute. Stems as thick as a quill. Mexico! 



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L elegans nobilior (nobler). A fine, large-fiowered variety 

 haviug a blackish-purple spot on the lip. 1886. 



^ y.^^^F^^^P^'^riers), fl. fine rosy-purple, with a small, 

 whitish disk on the Up, equal in shape to those of B. Lindleuana- 

 ho rounded, acute, muuh like that of B, SkinnerU 1885 A tine' 

 plant, intermediate in character between the two species named. 



This 



genus embraces about sixty 

 species of herbs and shrubs, mostly natives of Asia and 

 tropical and South Africa, the few American ones being 

 principally Mexican or Columbian. To those described on 

 p. 158. Vol. L, the following should now be added : 



&- ^epens (creeping). /J. axillary, solitary, sessile or shortly 

 pedicellate; corolla pale, rather dull rosy-red, 2in. lone the 

 tube funnel-shaped, the limb IJin. in diameter, of five oblong 

 lobes. July. L opposite, appearing as if fascicled, lin. to 2Hn 

 long, eIhptic-ovat« orobovate; petioles iin. to Mn. long. Stems 

 CK M 69M i ^^* prostrate. Eastern tropical Africa, 1875 



BABROTIA. Included untter Faudanus (which see). 



BATBMAITXIA. According to Bentham and Hooker, 

 this is now a monotypic genus, the only true species being 

 B, Colleyi. Several of the species have been transferred 



to Zygopetalum (which see), 



BEGONIA. Of this vast genus about 330 species are 

 known ; they are mostly natives of tropical America and 

 tropical and sub-tropical Asia an(i Africa^ and are rarely 

 found in the Pacific Islands. To the species and varieties 

 described on pp. 170-9, Vol. I., the following should now be 

 added : 



B, albo-picta (white-painted). I. shortly stalked, small, elliptic- 

 lance date, glossy green, freely spotted with bright silvery-white. 

 Brazil. Plant of shrubby habit. 



B. Amelise (Amelia's), fi. bright rose-coloured, disposed in ter- 

 minal, trichotoraously-branched cymes. I, obliquely cordate- 

 ovate, crenulate, shining green. 1885. Habit robust, compact, 

 and branching. A greenhouse, garden hybrid between B, 

 Bruantii and B. Lynchiana, (R. H. 1885, p. 512, f. 89-90.) 



B. Beddomel (Beddome's). T. Jl. pale rose-coloured, cymose, 

 the males l^in. in diameter, the females smaller and darker; 

 scape shorter than the petioles, brown - scaly. December. I. 

 radical, erect; blade horizontal, 4in. to 6in. in diameter, mem- 

 branous and pellucid, broadly and obliquely ovate-cordate or 

 orbicular-cordate, obscurely lobed and denticulate, ciliolate, pale 

 green with white spots above, dull red-purple beneath ; petioles 

 hairy, 4in. to 6in. long. Xssam, 1883. (B. M. 6767.) 



B. Bismarcki (Bismarck's). Jl. light satiny-rose, IJin. across 

 panicles large, diooping, many-flowered. November and Decem- 

 ber. I. large, lobed, very acuminate, oblique, 6in. long. ^1888. 

 Garden variety. 



B. Carrieri (Carrifere's). This is said to be a hybrid between B, 

 semper fior ens and B. Schmidtiana. The flowers are nearly as large 

 as those of B. sempcrflorens rosea^ and are produced much more 

 plentifully. I. roundish-ovate, of a bright, cheerful green. Small 

 plants appear to flower with great freedom. 1884. 



B. castaneaefolia (Castanea-leaved). A synonym of B, fruticosa, 



B. ClementiilBB (Princess Clementine's). Z. large, deflexed, 

 roundish-ovate, cordate at the base, the margin lobed ; upper 

 surface bronzy-green, irregularly banded greenish- white : under 

 surface rose-coloured, with rit)s of a darker hue. A hybrid, said 

 to be raised between B, diadema and B, Rex. , (G. C. ser. iii., 

 vol. iii., p. 265.) 



B. compta (adorned). I. of a satiny green, a silvery tinge running 

 along the course of the midrib, obliquely ovate, angular. Brazil, 

 1886. A pretty, stove plant. 



B. cyclopliylla (round-leaved). T. ft, rose-coloured and rose- 

 scented, disposed in a trichotomous cyme, the males lin. to IJin. 

 in diameter ; scape 6in. high, slender, glabrous. April. L 

 solitary, 6in. broad, orbicular-cordate, with overlapping basa! 

 lobes, obtuse or sub-acute, palmately seven to nine-nerved, 

 obscurely denticulate; petiole shorter than the blade. South 

 China, 1885. (B. M. 6926.) 



B. decora (decorative), I, dark green, profusely dotted with 

 silvery-grey, something in the way of those of B, maculata, but 

 the spots more minute, obliquely lanceolate. Brazil, 1886. 

 Stove, shrubby variety, 



B. diadema (diadem). I deeply digitate -lobed ; lobes irregular, 

 glossy, quite glabrous, light green, irregularly marked with 

 white blotches ; under surface with a red zone near the stalk. 

 A handsome foliage plant. Borneo, 1883. (I. H. xxix. 446.) 



B. egregia (notable). Jl. white, Jin. across, many in a gracefully 

 drooping, corymbose cyme Sin. to 4in. in diameter ; peduncle S^^-in. 

 to 3in. long. Winter. I. peltate. Sin. to llin. long, 2iin. to 4in. 

 broad, obliquely oblong, acuminate, obtusely rounded at the un- 

 equal base, hairy ; petioles 2Ain. to Sin. long. Stem woody 

 below, h, 3ft. to 4ft. Brazil, 1887. 



B. frnticosa (shrubby). Jl. piuk, small, sub-umbellate; cymes 

 often shorter than the leaves. February. L ovate-oblong, 2in. 

 to Sin. long, seven to nine lines broad, penninerved, shortly 

 petiolate. obtuse or sub-acute at base, repandly serrate- toothed, 

 glabrous, and, as well as the stipules and bracts, persistent. 

 k. Sft. Brazil, 1838. Syn. B, castanecejolia. 



B. fl alba (white). A large and robust variety, with white 

 flowers. 



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B. gracilis racemiflora (racemose-flowered). A useful, de- 

 corative variety, of bushy habit, having darker flowers than the 

 type, and red stems. 1836. 



B. Hoegeana (iloege's). jl, white, disposed in lax, axillary 

 cymes, only half as large as those of B. nitida (which this 

 plant somewhat resembles), l, broadly ovate, rounded at base/ 

 scarcely oblique. Mexico, 1886. A very glabrous, greenhouse 



climber, 



^W^^^^^ OOCcinea (red). Ji, bright scarlet, freely produced. 

 Winter. A desirable hybrid, of dwarf, compact habit. 



males IJin. 

 and numerous 



^: '^o^^Stpni (Johnston'sX fi- pale rose-coloured; 

 to Im. in diameter, with four broadly oblong sepals, s 



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