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few of them are good, most of them are of no account. The 

 cream of them are Aylingii, H. Ballantine, Pollettianum, Vi- 

 pani and Osbornei. Cattleyas and laeHas have added nothing 

 particularly noteworthy. 



"Stove and Greenhouse Plants. — The most interesting new 

 plants in this department are the following : HeliampJiora nu- 

 ta?is, which has been successfully introduced from Roraima 

 by Messrs. Veitch and which flowered in their nursery last 

 year. It is a near ally of sarracenia, having erect, pitcher- 

 like leaves and regular white flowers not at all like those of 

 sarracenia and darlingtonia. Hitherto, however, the heliam- 

 phora has not shown a disposition to grow freely under culti- 

 vation. Messrs. Veitch have also distributed three new 

 nepenthes of good quality — namely, N. stcnopJiylla, a narrow 

 pitchered species not unlike TV". Curtisii, and two varieties of 

 the excellent N. Bui'kci, Tx^^xa^d prolific a and excel/ens. 



''Clematis Stanleyi'^ must be numbered among the prizes of 

 last year, but it needs no more than mention in these pages. 

 Hcemanthus Lindeni is a handsome species in the way of H. 

 Kalbreyeri 2iX\di H. pimiceus. Mr. ^\\\V s Sonerila orientalis and 

 varieties are pretty additions to this class of stove plants ; they 

 have prettily marked foliage, a free branching habit, and pro- 

 duce bunches of bright-rose attractive flowers in profusion. 

 A new fern in the way of Ptcj'is Cretica, but far more elegant, 

 has been introduced by Mr. Bull and distributed under the 

 name of Fteris ensifonnis, var. Victor cc. This will become 

 popular as a table plant, as its fronds are semi-erect, very 

 graceful and prettily mottled with silvery gray on a bright green 

 ground. 



'' Calla Ellioitiana is a plant which ought not to be lost sight 

 of, as it has all the charm of the common C. ^-Ethiopica, differ- 

 ing onl}^ in the clear sulphur-yellow of the spathe. C. yEthio- 

 pica, var. Little Gem, is remarkable in having small flowers/ 

 and leaves scarcel}' a foot high. 



''Cineraria lanata, a tall, handsome-flowered greenhouse 

 plant, and Dipladejiia atropurpurea, with rich purplish-maroon 

 flowers, were reintroduced into gardens last year after an ab- 

 sence long enough to make them practically new. 



" Hardy Plants. — Liliiim Henryi is the most interesting and 

 promising of these. It has already been noted in Garde ft and 



* Figured and described in Gard & For., Oct. 22, 1890, 512, 513. 



