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section certainly, but it requires a somewhat elastic imagination 

 to make it agree with M. Ephippium at all, except in colour. The 

 flowers, when viewed laterally, are oblong-obovate, and not sub- 

 orbicular ; the tails are also much shorter, and spirally twisted, 

 especially those of the lateral sepals, and the leaves are, in com- 

 parison, much broader and more obtuse than in M. Ephippium. 



As in the preceding parts, hybrids — natural and artificial — are 

 described at the end of the species, but they are not yet very 

 numerous iu this genus. 



The coloured maps, which formed such a conspicuous feature in 

 other parts of this work, are absent from this, Messrs. Veitch 

 deeming them unnecessary, as the habitats of the Masdevallias could 

 be seen by reference to the maps which accompanied the descriptions 

 of Odontoglossums and Cattleyas. We regret the absence of the 

 maps, as it is awkward to have to refer back to another part for this 

 information. 



We were particularly struck with the cut of Mi racemosa, reduced 

 to half natural size, showing a spike of fourteen flowers open at 

 once. We have seldom seen more than one, or very rarely two or 

 three, flowers open at once on cultivated plants. The lowest flower 

 opens first, and as soon as it is over the one above it, and so on to 

 the top of the raceme. But the illustration may have been made 

 from a wild herbarium specimen. John Weathers. 



Articles in Journals. 



Bot. Centralblatt (Nos. 49-52). — S. Kostowzen, ' Ein interes- 

 santer Wohnort wilder Pflanzenf'ormen.' 



Botaniska Notiser (Haft. 6). — B. Jonson, ' Positivt heliotropiska 

 luftrotsfasciationer hos Aloe bremfolia.' — L. M. Neuman, « Studier 

 ofver Skanes och Hallands flora.' — B. Coster, ' Ajuga pyramid alis x 

 reptans.' — J. R. Jungner, ' Om Papaveraceerna i Upsala Botaniska 

 Tradgand jemte nya hybrida former.' 



Bot. Zeitung (Nos. 47-49). — H. Solms-Lambach, ' Die Heimath 

 und der Ursprung des Carica Papaya.' — (Nos. 50-52). F. Hegel- 

 maier, ' Ueber dur Keimsack einiger Compositen und dessen 

 Umhullung.' 



Bulletin Bot. Soc. France (xxxvi. 6 : Dec. 1). — A. Pomel, 

 Cyclamen sal dense, n. sp. — P. Fliche, 'Notes sur la flore de la Corse.' 

 —Memoir of Paul Antoine Sagot (1821-1888).— L. Guignard, ' Sur 

 les antherozoides des Marsiliacees et des Equisetacees.' — D. Clos, 

 ' Convolvulus temcissimus.' — L. Mangin, ' Observations sur le de- 



veloppement du Pollen.' . Hy, ' Sur les modes de ramification 



et de cortication dans la famille de Characees.' 



Bull. Torrey Bot. Club (Dec). — J. Schrenk, ' Floating-tissue of 

 Nessaa verticiLlata ' (3 plates). — N. L. Britton, ' Plants collected by 

 Rusby in S. America' [GalacUa montana, Bauhinia Rusbyi, Calli- 

 andra Boliviano,, spp.nn.). — L. H. Bailey, 'Classification of Slight 

 Varieties.' 



Gardeners' 1 Chronicle (Dec. 7). — Stapelia erectijiora N. E. Br., 

 n. sp. — (Dec. 14). Stapelia Desmetiana N. E. Br., n. sp. — (Dec. 21). 

 Massonia amygdalina Baker, n. sp. — (Dec. 28). N. E. Brown, 

 ' Poulowilhemia spcciosa' (fig. 100). 



