ГЮвсвмвив 14, 1895. 
THE GARDENERS’ 
— 
time to look after something besides Orchids. Dr. 
Srarr describes several new Melastomads, some of 
which must be worthy of introduction, Mr, Bax 
describes and figures (t. 2423) a curious little Aloe 
from Natal with linear spotted leaves, margined with 
small whitish spines. 
New GARDEN PLANTS OF THE YEAR 1894 
A an appendix to the Kew Bulletin has been 
published, an alphabstical list of plants newly-intro- 
duced into British gardens, compiled from the 
several horticultural journals of Earope, and from 
some of the nurserymen's catalogues, 
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Fig, 190.—CcEPHALOTAXUS DRUPACEA, 
edd 
PLANT PORTRAITS. 
Death b vIOLACEA, Revue de Horticulture, Belge, 
Breonta . Josepa ELrAT, flower red, striped and 
Marbled Ne Il ustration Horticole, November 15, t. 45. 
Сатазетџ C Lindenia. t. CDLXXXVII. 
EULOPHIA CONGOENSIS, Cogniauz Linde nid. t, CDLXXXVI. 
LILIUM BIONDI, sp. n., Nuovo Giorn, Bot. It Z., 
November, 1895, t. viii. x 
| Liv CHINENSE, n. sp., Baroni, Nuovo Giorn. Bot. „ 
November, 1895, P. 333, t. vi 
_ „ом sULPHURE 
Horticole, December 1, 
Nrupua, MARLIACEA IGNEA, Hort., Garden, October = 
m Üboxroarossuw CITROSMUM, Revue de I’ Horticulture Be!ge, 
 PENNIS&TUM RUPPELLIANUM, an ornamental grass, highly 
CHRONICLE. 
717 
spokeh of by М. Rodigas, Bulletin @ Arboriculture, §c., 
Novemter, p. 337. 
Lo grapes BALDSCHUANICUM, Regel, Le Jardin, p. 231, 
RICHARDIA PENTLANDI, Garden, Novem 
ber 2. 
RIVERS’ TRANSPARENT Gace, Bulletin Ф Arboriculture, 
$c , November. 
RosE MARCHIONESS 
OF LONDONDERRY, H. P., Hosen 
mber, 1895. 
1 MOSELLA,$ POLYANTHA, Roten Zeitung, September, 
SACCOLABIUM AMPULLACEUM, Lindenia, t. CDLXXXV. 
E М ndré, Кери:  Hortico!e, 
so Mev. Hort., 1895, p. 181. 
VANDA PARISHII VaR. MARRIOTTIANA, Rchb, f., Lindenia, 
t. CDLXXXVIII. 
ILLARSIA NYMPHOIDES, Garden, October 19 
A, B., SECTIONS OF SEEDS; C., LEAF, 
a " 
T 
CEPHALOTAXUS DRUPACEA. 
the opportunity of figuring. 
We are glad а have А Maris ic aes 
et seen in the genus. As to t 
M pulis » d recall what was said in these 
pages on January 26, 1884, p. 113. jik 
“ C, drupacea (fig. 120), in British gardens 
dwarfeat form, forming a low bush with greeniah- 
yellow shoots and leaves, The latter are very gene- 
rally upturned, and this not only when the flowers are 
being produced, but on the aterile branches, 
perfectly linear and straight-sided, rarely falcate, 
abruptly pointed at the tip, rounded at the base, 
with a very short petiole. The male catkins are 
stalked, each stalk immediately after ite origin 
in the axil of the leaf being abruptly bent down- 
wards out of the way of the leaves. The atalk 
of th catkins is about ; inch long, about the 
pping ovate acute 
bracts which pass into the scales of the catkin, The 
scales of the terminal leaf-bud of the shoot are almost 
all distinctly acuminate, The seed-bearing peduncles 
іп the native specimens are approximate, and th 
Lerry-like seed itself ovoid, We have a rough sketch 
of the seed of this plant, derived probably from the 
3 f the late Sir Frederick Pollock. at Honnalow 
It is ovoid, and rather pointed at both ends, smaller 
than in pedunculata proper (see fig. 119). In Japan, 
spreading tree of small stature. No Chinese epeci- 
mens are in the Kew Herbarium; but Messrs, Veitch 
in their Manual, mention it as having been discovered 
in North China by Mr, Fortune in 1849, althongh 
Fortune does not mention it in his communications 
d 
Bot. France, 1891, 
April 24, p. 181), pointa out & character which is 
peculiar to this genus, and that is the existence of а 
reain-canal in the centre of the pith, This character 
is зо easily observed that it is useful to the gardener, 
е otax 
on of a branch and 
observing whether there is a reain-canalin the centre, 
a cross-cut course, presents the 
appearance of a blackish dot in the centre of the 
pith, 
NOTICES OF Books, 
INSECTS AND INSECTICIDES. By Clarence Weed, 
D. Se. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Triisner, & Co.). 
Tuis ia a second edition of a book that has already 
received favourable notice in these columns. It is 
written by an American professor, but much of it is 
applicable to the old country, Here, however, we 
United} States, and even ies, can 
count] experiment atations;by the sco the 
hundred, we in this coun have a difficulty 
in employing the fingers of two hands in computing 
the number of similar institutions, nor have we & 
single State entomologist. 
AGRICULTURE: PRACTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC, By 
James Muir, (Macmillan & Co.). — 
H 
The stimulant 
atitute manures are only required in relatively 
ular stages of growth only. 
