83 



*Trlllium rivale. [G. C. 1914, Iv. 224.) 



Liliaceae. H. A very small species 

 having stems only about 3 in. high. 

 Rootstock creeping. Flo^vers erect, 

 cup-shaped^ about 1 in. across, white, 

 richly dotted with rose. The 3 bracts 

 are stalked and are borne about 2 in. 

 below the flower. Western North 

 America. (J. Eox.) 



^Ulmus Shirasawana. {B, S, D, F, 



1914, 27, ff.) Urticaceae. H. A new 

 species in cultivation as U. parvi- 

 folia. Its distinguishing characters 

 are : Leaves deciduous, ovate or 

 ovate - lanceolate, crenate - dentate, 

 with fewer (8-10) pairs of bifur- 

 cate nerves. Flowers greenish- or 

 yellowish white. Fruit distinctly 

 stalked, abruptly contracted at the 

 apex into a beak. Japan. (P. L. 

 de Vilmorin, Verrieresde-Buisson^ 

 France; Kew.) 



Ulmus Sleboldii. (/?. S. D. F. 1911, 



26, ff.) H. This has been confused 

 with U. parvifolia, from which it 

 differs in the more prominent teeth 

 of its ovate or ovate-lanceolate de- 

 ciduous leaves, which have small 

 tufts of hairs in the axils of the 

 principal veins beneath, in having a 

 yellowish instead of red perianth and 

 a fruit twice as large, with a much 

 longer stalk. Syn. U. japonica, Sie- 

 bold, not of Sargent. Japan. (Mont- 

 pellier B. G. ; Arboretum Segrezi- 

 anum, etc.) 



Vanda coerulea RogersII. {0. R. 



1914,31.) Orchidaoeae. S. " A dis- 

 tinct, nearly white variety, with 

 flowers of moderate size and an un- 

 usually long spur." (0. 0. Wrigley.) 



Vanda coerulescens, var. Hennisi- 



ana. {Ordns, 1914, 83.) S. Flowers 

 similar in colour to those of F. 

 coerulea, with a dark blue lip which 

 is scarcely lobed in front, and a 

 slender spur about J in, long. (W. 

 Hennis, Hildesheim, Germany.) 



Vanda Lowii, var. Le Molnierii. (i?. 



H, B. 19U. 29, f.) S. In this variety 

 the first flowers are dull yellow, 

 marked with numerous large purple- 

 brown spots; the other flowers have 

 numerous brown-red almost round 

 sometimes confluent blotches on a 

 somewhat greenish - vellow ground. 

 (R. Le Moinier, St, "Maurice, Lille. 

 France.) [Arachimnthc Lowii, var.] 



Vanda striata. {0, R. 1914, ^^0.) G. 



Allied to V, cristata. from which it 

 differs in its smaller flowers and the 





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more obtuse spur of the lip. A re- 

 introduction ; it was in cultivation in 

 1874. North-West Himalaya. (E. R. 

 J^. Troup.) 



Veronica gigantea. {Bean, T. it S. 



ii. 639.) Scrophulariaceae. H. A 

 tree sometimes 25 ft. high, forming 

 a well-defined trunk. Leaves 2-4 in. 



long, f-i in. broad, minutely hairy 

 on the margins. Eaceraes about as 

 long as the leaves. Flowers white, 

 1-5° in. across. Corolla-tube about 

 as long as the calyx. Syn. V. suUci- 

 folia, var. gigantea, Cheeseman. 

 Chatham Islands. (Captain A. A. 

 Dorrien Smith.) 



*Viburnum kansuense. {Bean, T. J> 



S. ii. 651.) Caprifoliaceae. H. A 

 deciduous shrub 4-8 ft. high, belong- 

 ing to the Opuhis group, but it is 

 distinct in having no showy sterile 

 flowers, and the leaves are frequently 

 small and deeply lobed, suggesting a 

 small maple leaf. Western China. 

 (Arnold Arboretum.) 



Vitis armata, var. cyanocarpa. {PL 



Wils. i. 104; G. C. 1914, Iv. 3/3.) 

 Ampelidaceae. H. Differs from the 

 type in having fewer prickles or 

 sometimes almost none on the 

 branches of the current year. It is 

 possibly the same as the plant m 

 cultivation under the varietal name 

 Vcitchii. Central China. 

 Arboretum; Hon. Vicary bibbs.) 



(Arnold 



Vitis himalayana, var. rubrifolia. 



{Cr. C. 1914, Iv. 373.) H. A clinging 

 variety with dark purple leaves 

 having silver-white veins. Western 

 China. (Arnold Arboretum; Hon. 

 Vicary Gibbs.) [= PartUnocissus 

 himalayana, var. ruhrifoha, Gagnep. 

 in PI. Vils. i. 101- ] 



Xanthorrhoea unduiatifolia. (B T 



1914, 193.) Juncaceae. G. 1 tie 

 specimen described has a trunk about 

 ?ft hi-h and 12 in. in diameter. 

 ? eaves Tn a large elegant crown, 

 IZSe sword-shaped, reflexed, rhom- 

 bo'darin section, p .ft. long Scape 



qSte erect, 0-li"<l"^'.uf "f Jdeit 

 fong, with a deiise spike o goldeii^ 



yellow flowers. Austiaii.*. \ 

 J3. G.) 



Xylosma Acuifolium. {KB^^ ^4, 



^'/Xrt axm^rv -cemes of very 

 Siall^'flowe'S. Country unknown. 



(Melbourne B. G.) 



