Saccolabium Hendersonianum, Rchb. 
Marcu 12, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
, t. 275, is a 
orneo, of aide dwarf 
1 racemes about 
5 inches long, densely covered with small rose-pink 
flowers. Wt requ aires to be grown оп а blo ck w ith 
12441 
and a few small miis of charcoal, near the glass in 
the East India-house, and kept moist, but not wetted, 
Insects should be carefully looked after 
‘Oncidium superbiens, Lindl., t. 276—A handsome 
margins, and bind 
eo 
CHRONICLE, 
qaunteins of Eastern Tropical Africa, The leaves are 
nt grass-like, the. flowers in 
flower about 2 inches across, 
slightly irregularly six-parted, the segments oblong- 
lanceolate, reddish-pink, the three lower ones with a 
yellow blotch at the base, above which is a deltoid 
spot of pon crimson. The plant flowered at Kew in 
October 
Cory ydalis olpakonekian, t. 6924.—One of the 
РЕ ане of Dr. DE REGEL, from жоо 
Turkestan. The figure was isum from a plant grown 
y Mr. Erw 
Begonia cyclophyl la, Hook. f., t. 6926.—This is a 
new species, from Soest ens Ching and flowered at 
353 
Ont ion into a slender cylinder which m Пу 
upwards into a broad funnel-like throat, tlie 
mouth a which is over-arched b 
e spots t 
a pla o the eia for 
tha lance of its form and va опену of its 
structur 
CHISWICK "MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT 
CIATION.—On Friday evening, the 4th inst, Mr 
х delivere e 
is subje the“ Florists? Tulip and its 
Characteristics," trs he illustrated by diagrams cf 
AUGUSTE VAN GEERT. 
with a narrow edging of yellow. Petals stalked, cor- 
date, » Ovate-acute, yellow, with transverse chocolate 
bars ; lid shorter than the в segments, hastate, acumi- 
nate, Sil i 
THE “BOTANICAL MAGAZINE."—The March 
rage of this periodical contains coloured figures 
Xanthoceras Bits Ae t. 6923. Fi eady figured 
in the Gardene Chronicle, and of the merits of 
A аа hardy shrub it would be 18. to speak too 
r gne $ grandifora t. 6924.—4 near ally of 
accordin eca cruenta, Natal, the present plant, 
bast cd KER, being a native of the Zam- 
and offering another illustration of 
the Roto between the Cape flora and that of the 
Kew in April, 1886. is а tuberous е m 
ducing only a single leaf about 6 inches 
orbicular, cordate, palmately 7—9 nerved, tered 
ү ymes 
with hai rs are borne on c sup- 
rted on a leafless scape uprising direct from the 
tuber. 'The flowers are rather over an inch across, 
rose-pin nt ale flowers the anthers are in 
k. 
globose heads; the female flowers have the usual 
3- d ovary, j^ "ez MIR by à ь style and a 
twisted stigmas. The bracts 
lanceolate, and кем at the edges with long hairs. 
Ceropegia Monteiroe, Hook. E t. 6927.—A new 
Kew 
MONTE 
каве К lanceolate succulent leaves, and 
cymes of greenish flowers, each about 2} inches long ; 
the ا‎ tube balloon-shaped beneath, suddenly 
the Breeder Tulip in its seedling form of bybleemen, 
bizarre, and rose, an afterwards appeared 
breaking into feather or flame. 
PROFESSOR EICHLER.—We hear with deep 
Pini e the дем, of Dr. 
any in 
fesso 
Director of tis Royal Botan 
LER was, we believe, born in Casse 
an 
Editor of the monumental F/ora у т чыр ЗЫН оп ү 
death of Von Manrivs. From Graz he removed to 
Kiel, the botanic garden of which city he found in a 
