mtitf impwfectreporl 



figures and descriptions of the best varieties of grapes for 



sinate.1 by a the table and the wine-press. During the last fifteen years, 

 • Mr. Mas took an active part at the most important fruit 

 ■ «, . and much more valuable work vas expected from 

 that beaut ""try. him, when he died at the age of 59 years. 



serious loss ^d. Andre. 



A K rriprl off hv Mr. Andre" travelling. — Early in November last, our 



,,„,. |,j, n-turn editor. Mr. Ed. Andre, left Europe on a mission of scien- 



titic exploration to equatorial America. Botany and horti- 



i .,. culture are the principal objects of his journey, and a part 



thf 'it' the project is to explore some little known regions of 



Columbia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. We hope that he 



ii-dnis udiniiiinu tbe tuwu will succeed in collecting some valuable plants, and that he 



rii.. will return home laden with interesting informations respect- 



and Boon ing that paradise of vegetation. Before starting he had 



•,,i -.cured th( 'services of a distinguished botanist to conduct 



the publication of the Illustration Horticole during the f orth- 



1 ei.niing year: and we ourselves have taken every possible 



i. irhich baa earned Its author a worthy repu- precaution to ensure for it its usual attractions, to say 



I which hi . i.'hth \nlmne. nothing of the interesting coniinunications Mr. Andre will 



fail to send us from America. 



i J. Linden. 



PL. CCXXV. 



AIIAUA (?) VEITOHI, hort. angl. 



ALIACEAE. 



efer this plant with certitude to the genus Ardlia without flowers, 



n ulis subereis vittata, longe petiolata, petiolo filiformi 

 leiicauh' itiprda ovato-obtusa subereis vittata, lobis 10-12 liberis, 

 uMiitHsime undulatis, costa utrinque prominula, supra atroviridi- 

 \\U\<: f!<»;s.... — In Nova-Caledonia. — E. A. 

 11 (cum.%). - The Garden, 1875, p. 483 (cum fig.). — Gard. 

 iaux ft JIarchal, Plantes ornementales , II, pi. xlviti. 

 pinky white veins and bordered with the same tinge , dul 

 violet beneath ; midrib prominent on both surfaces. 

 This elegant Araliaceae, a native of New Caledonia, has 

 j taken its place in the first rank of decorative plants, on 

 j account of the grace and beauty of its foliage; indeed for 

 the dinner-table, side-board, window, and other in-door 

 purposes it has few rivals. 



tuns discovered by Mr. Puncher, who disposed of some 

 ^pecunens of it to Mr. John Gould Veitch; and subsequently 

 introduced both living plants and seeds to Mr. Linden's 

 istablishment at Ghent. Ed. Andbe. 



