SUPPLEMENT. 
591 
PINANGA. To the species described on p. 130, 
Vol. III., the following should now be added: 
P. decora (comely). J. pinnate, green, tinged brown; pinne 
sessile, broadly lanceolate, long-acuminate, sometimes bifid and 
rounded at the apex; sheaths marked brown. Caudex tall. 
Borneo, 1886. Unarmed. (I. H. 1886, 114.) 
P. lepida (pretty). 1., when first developed, brownish-crimson, 
pranually changing to deep, lustrous green, with faint darker 
mottling ; segments unequal, prominently veined above ; petioles 
short, rufescent. East Indies, 1888. This Palm is only known 
in a young state in gardens. 
P. Sanderiana (Sander’s). J. two-lobed, spreading, glossy, 
mottled green; petioles mottled or freckled with brownish 
pubescence, destitute of spines. Indian Archipelago, 1885. 
P. spectabilis (remarkable). 
ee beneath, pinnate; young ones two-lobed. 
886. 
1, dark green, with paler mottlings, 
East Indies, 
Fic. 59. FLOWER AND PORTION OF STEM OF PHYLLOCACTUS fl. 
ROSEUS GRANDIFLORUS. 
PINE. The recent additions to the garden Pinks 
have been neither numerous nor important. The following 
are, perhaps, the best: 
Show or Laced Pinks. Empress or INDIA, medium lacing, 
dark red; EURYDICE, rosy-red lacing ; MINERVA, very bright 
dark red lacing; Mopesrty, reddish-purple lacing; PANDORA, 
broad lacing of rosy-red; Rosy Morn, large flowers, beautiful 
rose lacing; Torrik, bright red lacing. 
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PINUS. ‘To the species and varieties described on 
pp. 141-6, Vol. III., the following should now be added: 
P. koraiensis variegata (variegated). In this garden form the 
young leaves are whitish-yellow in colour. The plant is said to 
be a vigorous grower. 
PIPER. To the species described on pp. 147-8, 
Vol. III., the following should now be added: 
P. rubro-venosum (red-veined). J. alternate, entire, highly 
glabrous, five-nerved ; nerves marked on the upper surface by 
Irregular lines of rose-colour; stipules adnate to the petioles. 
1886. (I. H. 1886, 33.) 
PIPTANTHUS. To the species described on p. 148, 
Vol. III., the following variety should now be added: 
P. tomentosus (downy). This resembles P. nepalensis, but 
it is clothed in all its parts with 
Sees tomentum. Yun-nan, China, 
PITCAIRNIA. To the spe- 
cies described on pp. 150-1, Vol. 
III., the following should now be 
added : 
P. arcuata (arched), i. 3in. long; 
sepals carmine and yellow; petals 
pale yellow; bracts lanceolate, 
brownish-red on the lower part of 
the stem, bright carmine on the 
narrow-cylindric spike. Jl. petiolate, 
lanceolate, acute, 24ft. to 35ft. long, 
Sin. to 4in. broad; petioles spiny. 
Stem arching, as long as the leaves. 
Andes of Columbia, 1886. SYN. 
Neumannia arcuata (R. H. 1886, 
p. 108). 
P. nigra (black). ji. violet, long, sub- 
tended by large, recurving, rich coral- 
red bracts; spike elongated. t. 
petiolate, oblong - elliptic, acute, 
green. 1883. A handsome and very 
distinet plant. Syy. Newmannia 
nigra (R. H. 1881, p. 390). 
P. Roézlii (Roézl's). fl., sepals 
coral-red ; petals cinnabar-red, thrice 
as long as the sepals, connivent ina 
helmet; bracts downy. J. long-lan- 
ceolate, ascending, arcuate, sessile, 
furfurescent on both sides, chan- 
nelled, unarmed. 1885. Stems red. 
Andes of Peru. Plant tufted. (B. H. 
1885, 18-19.) 
PITTOSPORUM. To the 
species described on pp. 153-4, 
Vol. III., the following should 
now be added: 
P. eugenioides variegatum (varie- 
gated). 1. elliptic-oblong, pale green, 
bordered white. Stems and branches 
blackish - purple. New Zealand. 
Greenhouse, evergreen shrub. 
P. flavum (yellow). A synonym of 
Hymenosporum flavum. 
P. rhytidocarpum § (wrinkled - 
fruited). (/. white, disposed in ter- 
minal, crowded umbels. J. obovate 
or oblanceolate, shortly acuminate. 
Fiji, 1887. A pretty and useful, 
greenhouse shrub. 
PLATYCLINIS. Tothe spe- 
cies described on p. 158, Vol. IIT., 
the following should now be 
added: 
P. cucumerina (cucumber - like). 
light, pellucid green, arranged 
ina graceful, distichous raceme ; lip 
with a toothed, brown auricle on 
each side of the base, running out 
into a narrow, aristate process ; 
middle lobe obcuneate, retuse, apiculate, with two brown 
stripes on the disk. J. shining. Pseudo-bulbs cucumber-like, 
at length furrowed, tufted. 1885. Syn. Dendrochilum cucu- 
merinum., 
PLERANDRA (from pleres, full, and aner, andros, 
a male; in allusion to the numerous stamens). Including 
Bakeria and Nesopanav. Orv. Araliacee. A small genus 
(four species) of stove, unarmed, glabrous trees, natives 
