NEW PLANTS, ETC., EUUM THE SOCIETY'S 

 GARDEN. 



1. Btllbergia bifbons.* 



Received from M. de Jonghe, of Brussels ; understood to 

 be a Brazilian plant. 



This plant has the foliage of a Pitcairnia more than a Billbergia. 

 The leaves are long, narrow, fine-pointed, channelled, recurved, 

 quite spineless, and deep clear green on the upper side, although 

 white with meal on the under. The flowers are in oblong heads ; 

 in one plant brilliant fiery red and very handsome, in another 

 dirty greenish yellow. Thei'e does not, however, appear to be 

 any other difference of moment. In the crimson state the spike 

 is longer, the scape scarcely leafy at the base, and the spathes 

 below the ilowers large and blunt ; in the white state, the base of 

 the scape bears a few leaves, the spike is not more than half the 

 length, and the spathes are rather more acute. The two seem, 

 however, to be mere varieties of one and the same species. 



A dry stove plant, requiring the same treatment and soil as 

 Tillandsias, or others of the Bromeliaceous Order, with plenty of 

 moisture during the growing season. It is increased by offsets. 

 The two varieties are handsome, and if potted together, so as to 

 force the spikes to intermingle, should produce a very gay effect. 

 The flowers will keep six weeks in a sitting-room without wholly 

 losing their beauty. 



3. Odontoglossum Insleayi, var. B. macranthum. Lindley, 

 Folia Orchidacea, p. 4, No. 8. 



This very fine variety of 0. Insleayi has flowered in several 

 gardens in England. Although less rich in colour than the 

 original, the size is most remarkable. A specimen from Sir 



* B. bifrons; foliis integerrirnis canaliculars setaceo-aeuminatis supra 

 glabris subtus albotomentosis, scapo tomentoso nudo vel basi folioso,spathis 

 ante flores concavis acutiusculis, spied oblonga, ovario calycique la^vi, 

 Bquamis faucialibus ovatis obtusis indivisis. 



Var. a. spica oblonga. flonbus flammeis, scapo basi nudo. 



Var. b. albijlora, spica breviore, floribus albidis, scapo basi folioso. — J.L. 



