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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING. 
Azalea —continued. 
colours are both rich and varied. The subjoined lists 
comprise the best of the most recent additions. 
Double-flowered. Ami Du Ca@urR, coral-red, large ower ; BARON 
N. DE ROTHSCHILD, rich violet-purple, dark blotch; CAMELLLE- 
FLORA PLENA, salmon-red and orange ; DEUTSCHE PERLE, white, 
perfect form; EMPRESS OF INDIA, rosy-salmon and carmine; 
JOHANNA GOTTSCHALK, large, white, fine form; LOUISE PYNAERT, 
white, excellent quality ; MADELEINE, large, white, semi-double ; 
NIOBE, white, good quality; PHARAILDE MATHILDE, large, 
white, cerise spots ; PRESIDENT OSWALD DE KERCHOVE, salmon- 
pink ; SAKIMTALA, white, free in growth ; THEODORE RIEMERS, 
large, lilac tint; VERVAENEANA, pink, white margin, sometimes 
striped salmon, 
Single-flowered. ANTIGONE, white, striped and blotched violet ; 
APOLLO, large, white, carmine stripes; CANDIDISSIMA, very 
fine, pure white; COMTESSE DE FLANDRE, large, rose-colour ; 
FURSTIN BARIATINSKI, white, striped red; GRANDIS, red, tinged 
violet ; JEAN VERVAENE, salmon, edged and striped white ; MONS. 
PAUL DE SCHRY , magenta; MONS. THIBAU‘, orange-red, fine 
form; NEIGE Et CERISE, white, striped and spotted cerise ; 
PERFECTION DE GAND, rosy-purple, large; PRINCESS CLEMEN- 
TINE, white, greenish-yellow spots; STELLA, orange-scarlet, 
tinged violet. 
BABIANA. The species number nearly thirty. To 
those described on p. 152, Vol. I., the following should now 
be added: 
B.socotrana (Socotran). /l. solitary, almost sessile ; perianth tube 
ljin. long, very slender, the limb pale violet-blue, lin. broad, two- 
lipped, the segments elliptic, acute. September. J. bifarious, 
Sin. to 4in. long, jin. broad, narrow-lanceolate; petioles broad, 
compressed. h, din. to4in. Socotra, 1880. (B. M. 6585.) 
BRIA. 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). /l.-heads bright yellow. solitary, radiate. 
1. opposite, linear. A, 6ft. to 10ft. California, 1887. A hardy 
annual, branching from the base. (R. G. 1887, p. 392.) 
BAKERIA. Included under Plerandra (which see). 
BAMBUSA. 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. I., 
the following should now be added: 
B. Castilloni (Castillon’s). J. variegated. Stems square, 
curiously variegated, one side of each internode being dark 
green, and the other side yellow, these colours alternatiny 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. L., 
as A. Metake). 
BARKERIA. This genus is now included, by the 
authors of the “Genera Plantarum,’ under Epidendrum. 
To the species described on p. 158, Vol. I., the following 
should now be added : 
B. Barkeriola (Buarkeriola). A 
Barkeriola. 
B. cyclotella (circular). #1. very showy, disposed in a terminal 
raceme; sepals and petals deep magenta; lip white, margined 
magenta, broad, emarginate. February and March. J. distichous, 
ligulate-oblong, acute. Stems as thick as a quill. Mexico. 
(W. O. A. iv. 148.) 
B. elegans nobilior (nobler). A fine, large-flowered variety, 
having a blackish-purple spot on the lip. 1886. 
B. Vanneriana (Vanner's). jl. fine rosy-purple, with a small, 
whitish disk on the lip, equal in shape to those of B. Lindleyana; 
lip rounded, acute, much like that of B. Skinneri. 1885. A tine 
plant, intermediate in character between the two species named. 
BARLERIA. 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. J., the following should now be added: 
B. repens (creeping). /. axillary, solitary, sessile or shortly 
pedicellate ; corolla pale, rather dull rosy-red, 2in. long, the 
tube funnel-shaped, the limb lin. in diameter, of five oblong 
lobes. July. J. opposite, appearing as if fascicled, lin. to 2hin. 
long, elliptic-ovate or obovate; petioles Lin. to Jin. long. Stems 
lft. to 2ft. long, prostrate. Eastern tropical Africa, 1875. 
(B. M. 6954.) 
synonym of Epidendrum 
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BARROTIA. Included under Pandanus (which see). 
BATEMANNIA. 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 and 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). 7. shortly stalked, small, elliptic- 
lanceolate, glossy green, freely spotted with bright silvery-white. 
Brazil. Plant of shrubby habit. 
B. Ameliz (Amelia’s). /l. bright rose-coloured, disposed in ter- 
minal, trichotomously-branched cymes. Jl. obliquely cordate- 
ovate, crenulate, shining green. 1885. Habit robust, compact, 
and branching. A greenhouse, garden hybrid between 2B. 
Bruantit and B, Lynchiana. (R. H. 1885, p. 512,-f. 89-90.) 
B. Beddomei (Beddome’s). T. . pale rose-coloured, cymose, 
the males l}in. in diameter, the females smaller and darker; 
scape shorter than the petioles, brown - scaly. December. 1. 
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. Assam, 1883. (B. M. 6767.) 
B. Bismarcki (Bismarck’s). fl. light satiny-rose, 1}in. across 
panicles large, drooping, many-flowered. November and Decem- 
ber. J. large, lobed, very acuminate, oblique, 6in. long. 1888. 
Garden variety. 
B. Carrieri (Carriére’s). This is said to be a hybrid between B. 
semperjlorens and B. Schmidtiana. The flowers are nearly as large 
as those of B. semperflorens rosea, and are produced much more 
plentifully. /. roundish-ovate, of a bright, cheerful green. Small 
plants appear to flower with great freedom, 1884. 
B. castanezfolia (Castanea-leaved). A synonym of B. fruticosa. 
B. Clementinz (Princess Clementine’s). J. large, defiexed, 
roundish-ovate, cordate at the base, the margin lobed; upper 
surface bronzy-green, irregularly banded greenish-white ; under 
surface rose-coloured, with ribs 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). 
along the course of the midrib, obliquely ovate, angular. 
1886. A pretty, stove plant. 
B. cyclophylla (round-leaved). T. jl. rose-coloured and rose- 
scented, disposed in a trichotomous cyme, the males lin. to 1jin. 
in diameter; scape 6in. high, slender, glabrous. April. J. 
solitary, 6in. broad, orbicular-cordate, with overlapping basal 
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). /. 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). /. 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, sin. across, many ina gracefully 
drooping, corymbose cyme Sin. to 4in. in diameter ; peduncle 24in. 
to 3in. long. Winter. J. peltate, 8in. to llin. long, 2hin. to 4in. 
broad, obliquely oblong, acuminate, obtusely rounded at the un- 
equal base, hairy; petioles 2sin. to din. long. Stem woody 
below. Ah. 3ft. to 4ft. Brazil, 1887. 
B. fruticosa (shrubby). jl. pink, small, sub-umbellate; cymes 
often shorter than the leaves. February. J/. ovate-oblong, 2in. 
to 3in. 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. 
hk. 3ft. Brazil, 1838. Syn. B. castanewyfolia. 
B. f. alba (white). A large and robust variety, with white 
flowers. 
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 (Hoege’s). jl. white, disposed in lax, axillary 
cymes, only half as large as those of 5. nitida (which this 
plant somewhat resembles). J. broadly ovate, rounded at base, 
searcely oblique. Mexico, 1886. A very glabrous, greenhouse 
climber. 
B. hybrida coccinea (red). 1. bright scarlet, freely produced. 
Winter. A desirable hybrid, of dwarf, compact habit. 
B. Johnstoni (Johnston’s). jl. pale rose-coloured; males lin. 
to 2in. in diameter, with four broadly oblong sepals, and numerous 
1. of a satiny green, a silvery tinge running 
Brazil, 
