40 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[January 8, 1887, 
Standing on the margin of the lawn, beyond 
the pet is a row of pyramidal shrubs in big boxes 
—fine Bays, golden Euonymuses, the silvery 
Eurya califolia, and handsome standard Portugal 
same aspect, a few steps lead up to a small par- 
is on one side a wall covered with single Ivy-leaf 
Pelargoniums and Heliotropes, in rich bloom 
and very beautiful; whilst on the other is a 
ide, 
igher lawn beyond. It is 
very obvious that paani ing f rares bees as 
these can hardly be described in such te 
ums ; but ond are good 
bolda ind of shrubs, beautiful grassy 
umps of Pampas-grass, and an abund- 
Я 
ias, 
entrance эзле лиин 
e, as also are 
projections of the house 
t side. No t YA spar 
he walls Арен with luxuriant foliage, 
Magnolias especially doing grandly in various 
Та a back garden, wall coverings consist of 
half-pyramids of Heliotro rope and scar 
goniums are so f 
4 to 5 feet broad at the base, perfectly 
ed een these, of which there are six, 
-1 
18 
een the pyramids and 
Mia with Bg op agus v as presenting a 
distinctive hue of greenery 
Wales, Prin » Condor, 
Violette Hátive, and Walbarton Admirable. It 
is thus noticeable that h 
| grown. 
. house, and below the Kingston road, where, too, 
everything seem admir one. 
a rama чыкк s has 
sg at, bat che ees 
á well served 
Profit, whose qm for 
ass us on both sides, bri 
; paler and pitted—reticulate зика The stipules 
` and spotted with dull 
Coombe Warren seems almost кашар. 
acti 
although now largely removed from its 
supervision, Puit, also charge of the fine icis 
of Minley Man 
SAFFRON. 
THE fol vanae d Е of Saffron in Egypt w 
probably inven о bear out the untenable den 
vation of some "Greek з. apes of — 
from kpokós and —“The sovereign pow 
of genuine байы i is „Жын BE кА the eg 
he croco 
ie is боса 
Saffron-fearer, knowing himself 
to be all poison, and it all er dress Fuller, 
Worthies of. England, about 1661, v 4 р- 336, 
reprint of 1811. “ For which cause those among th e 
Egyptians that had the charge to look to the bees i 
their gardens were wont to smear their Va 
Ww - 
ceived he would presently run away." m Coryat's 
Crudities, hastily si ارو‎ i з in Five Months Travels, 
y Mr. Maw in his 4 Mono- 
graph of the Genus Oro 
PLANTS NEW OR NOTEWORTHY. 
——— 
ARISTOLOCHIA HIANS.* 
Tuts would appear to be either a rare or a local 
species, since it is but poorly represented in 9 
rden 
for the Botanical Magazine. In 
habit and foliage it is almost the same as A. brasi- 
liensis (A. ornithocephala), but the leaves are less 
glaucous and more finely pitted—reticulate beneath; 
the flowers, however, are quite distinct in colour an 
in the proportions of their lobes, although in hri 
they are very similar 
dus eaves are found sh in outline, каш; cordate 
the base, and very obtusely го sia ета е арех, 
right gre ims e, much 
the same form as the leaves, and about 1 inch 
in diameter, with wavy margins. The flower is of 
e same form as that of A. ЕЛЫ but the 
beak-like lobe is very much longer than the broad 
reniform lobe, which is also smaller than the corre- 
sponding lobe. of 
margin of the beak light. yellowish-green. 
inside of the broad lobe is dull yellowish-green veined 
le-brown. The inside of 
the beak is thickly covered with straight, stiffish, 
brownish-purple hairs ; and the inside of the inflated 
and having the lower half nearly glabrous and un- 
spotted, but with a few very fine cobwebby hairs 
just around the base, where there isa dark brownish- 
purple ring. Stigmas six.  Anthers тшт А 
native of Venezuela. N. E. Brown, Kew 
CarrLEYA x Sororta, hybr. 
This was kindly sent me by Mr. B. S. Williams, 
who informs me it w: 
to be forgiven for my keenness in declaring it a 
ybrid, which, indeed, is a gue 
The flower looks like a good extra strong flower of 
Cattleya m and has greenish-yellow tips 
tothe sepals. There are small, very much darker 
spots on the penis more numerous inside than 
ıt 0 de: FIL 17. 4 з $a |; 1. Ф э 
oo r 
* Aristolochia hians. Willdenow, in Mem. de la Soc, d. 
Nitar de Mote WE. аа, DC., Ennis vov; part 1, 
p. 472. 
of that of Cattleya Walkeriana. The side lacini 
lacinia is triangular retuse emarginate (or trapezoid), 
with small lobules at the sides. It is white, with 
white, with some purple lines in front and some yellow 
at the base 
I Anot: help thinking of Cattleya Walkeriana 
from the eo of the lip, and then of Cattleya 
dme Mr. B. S. Williams has sent me several 
mes fine varieties of the first species, so that he 
a command of a рү: азия whence to obtain 
it. It is none of those numerous novelties 
raised at the Royal Exotic жа ше of Messrs. Veitch 
& Sons, by Messrs. Dominy and Seden. Only Cattleya 
Brabantiz is comparable to it in its lip. H. G. Rchb. f. 
CYPRIPEDIUM PLUNERUM, 200. hybr. 
comes from Mr. Norman - -Cookson, who is 
celebrated for his rich stores of new hybrids. 
it from my indefatigable correspondent, Mr. 
Sander, who states that it is asserted to come ad 
Cypripedium venustum (?) and villosum. As to me 
I doubt this 
Leaves shaped nearly as in Cypripedium venustum, 
light green 
much shorter than the stalked ovary. Upper sepal 
nearly triangular yet rounded on both sides, whitish, 
with remarkably dark green nerves (seventeen). 
Lateral “is” ene a asi smaller body, white, 
with seven long gree and a few short ones. 
Pet jals Мек» at the} em po» | acute, Superior 
blackish, the anterior part of the lip mauve- -brown 
of the mid nerve. 
purpuratum, having a хер 
marked horn-like apiculus on each side; the retu 
apiculus between the two great protruded shanks, 
ochre, with some dark а nervations. 
My reason for not believing in Cypripediam = 
losum as one of the parents is that ther 
bea fresh ‘form of barbatum Hookerz like 
the patens ener by Mr. Seden for Messrs. James 
Veitch & Sons b 
surprises, "m. 
shall admit, with _ hopeless resignation, that : 
Or is ita marmorophyllum (Hookerz-barbatum 4 
that has nearly lost its marble? Very likely so. 
H. G. Rehb. f. 
ANGRECUM AVICULARIUM, 7. sp.* 
This is Angrecum was kindly sent me by Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, Bart., M.P., Р. » It is probably of 
tropical African origin, and may have been im 
by Mr. F. Sander. 'The leaves are short 
cuneate, oblong-elliptical, орин at the eau nearly 
4 inches ms ed 2} wide at the widest diam 
Th un more handball in length, and bears 
fifteen aoe rg flowers, which are smaller by а 
Angrec avicularium, т. sp.—Foliis 
Poa apice, contracto obtuse 
subsecundo, laxi teis 
and broad, 
eter. | 
=< 
ae TES m 
сз о cop n wo a S ANTIQUAE ШТ ee рн» qi Hi it P 612 abt y 
D 
