THi; ILLUSTRATION IIORTICOLE. 



ian horticulturists 

 plants (too brief a 

 ins a quantity of 

 iiltural notes, new 

 and kitchen gar- 

 th 44 illustrations 

 alle, president of 



year for by Messrs 

 of Ghent, assisted 

 careful perusal and 



Me. Eoezl. — This 

 » traverses the New 

 ity as to appear to 

 •(led quite a cargo of 

 es, of Zurich, which 

 ewand rare species. 

 ', Lindl.; A. raagni- 

 arpa, Roezl; Pinus 

 rra Nevada of Cali- 

 orado , he has sent : 



Abies concolor, Engelmann; A. concolor violacea, Roezl.; 

 A. UfoUa, Murray; A. Douglasii, Lindl.; A. Dougiasii 

 ; glauca, Roezl.; Picea commutata Parlatorei , Roezl; Pi nus 

 ! aristata, Engelm.; Pinus flewilis, James; and P. refleaca, 

 I Torrey. He has also sent seeds of Yucca angustifolia , Pursh- 

 Opuntia arborescens , Engelm.. and <). ('n,;vt nchica, Engelm. 

 j and Bigel. We strongly suspect, however, that the latter 

 plant is nothing more than O. vulgaris, Mill., notwith- 

 ! standing the statements of botanists to the contrary. 

 — Obituaky. - Comte Jaubert , a deputy in the National 

 Assembly of France , a member of the Institute of France 

 and a distinguished botanist, died at Montpellier in December 

 last. He was born in 1798, and occupied some of the highest 

 posts in his country. He was Minister for Public Works 

 under Louis-Philippe , and a free member of the Academy 

 of Sciences. It was owing to his liberality that Mr. Boreau 

 was able to publish his Flore du centre de la France, which 

 has since reached its third edition. In conjunction with 

 Spach, Jaubert published under the title Illustrationes 

 Plantarum orien Scent folio volumes, con- 



taining coloured plates and descriptions of five hundred 

 species of plants collected by himself on his travels in the 

 East. Comte Jaubert pleaded the cause of science in the 

 Assembly and advanced it in every way in his power. Moreover, 

 we mourn in him the loss of an excellent and fatherly 





Andke, 



DIEFFENBAOHIA ANTIOQUIENSIS , linden 



ST ANDRE. 



Nat. Oed. ABOIDEAE, 

 For ETYMOLOGY and GENERIC CHARACTER, see PI Sort., 1874, plate 167 



* ersctoa, robustus, simplex, succulentus, D. imp erialis habitn, cylindraceus annulatus; folia 



longo, subtereti, superne libero gracili, e basi usque ad medium vaginato 



elliptica basi subcordata apice acuta, plana, marginibus . 



linente, nervis subparallehs immersis, 



idi-luteis e •]< -o-.-i nt issiinirt tota siipcriicie 



assurgentia petiolo er.vto vix amplexicauli 35-40 

 vagina* inaririnibus eonvoliitis, apice biaurito ligulato; fol. 



^ " ' ' - " — longe mucronata, costa supra baud elevata, infra 

 P '' " '' ~" 1 "''' nin ' l ''- vinfl ^ maculi.s pt-nnultis geograplticis primum luteolis mc 



•i-. Lin, 



hr.rt. 



Andv, 



allatn. 1 >7_\ 



Ad ■ 



descr. — E. A. 



quia, and w< 



which it is 



Although 



?s to the same group as D. 

 ree-like habit of growth. It is 

 >wing in the province of Antio- 

 after the delightful region of 



i habit 



,n D. imperialis, it has 

 ytout. firm stem, bearing a crown of erect leaves, with 

 elegant , relatively slender petioles , the convolute sheath of 

 which extends to only half their length. 



The blade of the leaf is elliptical in outline , rounded at 

 the base and abruptly terminating in a long channeled mucro. 

 It is elegantly though irregularly sprinkled over with yellow 

 blotches, eventually changing to a yellowish green, and 

 with well defined outlines in the adult leaves. 



It is a charming plant, and was greatly admired in 

 Mr. Linden's group of New Plants at the late international 

 exhibition at Florence. 



E. A. 



