72 



Maranta Alberti. (Ji. h. B. 1906, 



20.) Scitamineae. S. Leaves curiously 



variegated. (Pynaert & Van Geert, 

 Ghent.) 



Masdevallia igneo-Estradae. ( a. c. 



1900, xxxix. 223 ; O. R. 1906, 146.) 

 Orchidaceae. G. A garden hybrid. 

 (Sir Trevor Lawrence.) 



Masdevallia peruviana, (k. b. 



1906, 112.) G. Allied to M. atro- 

 purpurea but the light brown tube of 

 the sepals* is broad and not constricted, 

 the tails are shorter, and the lip 

 keeled in the middle. The apex of 

 the lateral sepals is red-purple, fading 1 

 to whitish near the base. Petals and 

 lip white, tinged with lilac. Peru 

 (Glasnevin B. G.) 



Masdevallia Tonduzii. (B. h. _#. 



1906,82.) G. A new species. Leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, 3-toothed at the 

 apex. Peduncle erect, terete, slender, 

 1 -flowered. Sepals connate at the 

 base, triangular, 3-nerved, whitish, 

 softly pilose and citron-coloured 

 inside, elongated into very slender flat 

 yellow tails. Petals linear at the 

 base, oblong above. Lip oblong, cor- 

 date at the base, white. (Hort. 

 Chambesy, near Geneva.) 



Maxillaria Binoti. {Orch, i. 25, f. 13.) 



Orchidaceae. G. Pseudobulbs ovoid 

 compressed, HI in. long, 2-leavei 

 Leaves sessile, lanceolate, obtuse' 

 Peduncles solitary or geminate; 

 slender, about 1* in. long. Flowers 

 yellow, suberect. Sepals oblono- 

 about J in. Ion- Petals oblong 

 slightly shorter than the sepals. Lip 

 obovate, densely and minutely purple- 

 dotted towards the middle, about as 

 Ion? as the petals. Brazil. (Brussels 



£>. vr.) 



Maxillaria Ferdinandiana 



luteola. 



from 



£Orek i. 26.) G. 

 the type in having 

 flowers larger in every part 

 (Brussels B. G.) ' 



var. 



Differs 

 yellow 

 Brazil. 



*Meconopsis discigera. (.1. b. 



356, t. 24, f. 12.) Papaveraceae' H 

 Plant clothed with spreading dark 

 golden-brown barbed hairs. Leaves 

 m a radical tuft, spathulate, 4-6 i n 

 long, subacute, sparingly and coarsely 

 toothed or slightly lobed towards the 

 apex. Stem to 1 ft. high, simnle 

 scape-like, Flowecs rafe^ose Tn 

 pedicels I m. long. Sepals and petals 

 unknown. Ovary bearing at the 

 summit a disk with inefsed lobes. 





Style elongated. 



Western Sikkim. 

 B. G.) 



Stigma club-shaped. 

 (Kew ; Edinburgh 



Meconopsis Henrici. 



350.) H. 

 less 



oblong, to 6 in. long. 





(A. B. xx. 329, 



Apparently biennial, more 



or less hairy, or sometimes quite 



glabrous. Leaves lanceolate, entire. 



Flowers large, deep purple-violet, 1 or 



sometimes 2 on each stem. Petals 



6-8, broadly obovate, clawed at the 



base. Western China, (J. Veitch & 

 Sons.) 



Meconopsis pseudointegrifolia. 



(A. J9. xx. 353, t. 25.) H. Closely 

 allied to M. integrifolia under which 

 name it has been cultivated [see note 

 in list of 1904 under 31. integri folia 

 and Flora and Sylva, 1905, 80, t. col.], 

 but it differs in all the scapes being 

 simple, radical, and 1-flowered, and in 

 having a distinct style with a nar- 

 rower stigma. South-west Tibet. 

 (A. K. Bulley ; Kew.) 



Medinilla chionantha. (a^. b. 1906, 



73.) Melastomaceae. S. A glabrous 

 shrub. Leaves subsessile, lanceolate- 



„ Flowers in 

 axillary cymes. Calyx snow-white, 



4J lin. long. Petals elliptic, snow- 

 white, fleshy, about f in. long, obtuse. 

 Perak. (J. Veitch & Sons.) 



Miltonia Clowesii rosefieldiensis. 



(0. C. 1906, xl. 265 ; G. M. 1906, 697.) 

 Orchidaceae. S. A well-marked 

 variety, with very large flowers. Se- 

 pals and petals Indian yellow, with 

 broad chestnut-brown bands. Lip 

 tinged with lilac at the base, changing 

 to white on the broad front lobe. (De 

 B. Crawshay.) 



Miltonia Hyeana. (<9. r. 1906, 276.) 



o. A garden hybrid between J/. 

 Bleuam and M. vexillaria Leopolds 



(J. Hye de Crom, Ghent.) 



Mimosa Denhardti. (£. a 1906, 



48.) Leguminosae. G. A 

 species with leaves almost as sensitive 

 as those of M. pudina. (M . Buysman, 

 Middelburg, Holland.) 



My oporum rosmarinifolium. ( g. a 



1906, xl. 216.) Myoporaceae. G.orH? 

 A new name for M. parvijlorum, an 

 old garden plant. (8. W. Fi'tzherbert.) 



Nepeta Veitchii. qg. a i906, xl. 334, 



h. 133, 134.) Labiatae. EL A new 

 species. A handsome herbaceous 

 perennial covered with minute rather 



