ууй 4, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
733 
E O НААБИШИЕ ЧИРИ 
Mag., t. 6011), with estes of the same character 
as in the former, but wit h leaves of a very different 
shape. It is in flower at the Botanic Garden a 
Coimbra, and these notes are drawn up from 
sketch and specimens sent to me b t by our 
р 
valued correspondent, its director, Dr. Henriques, 
after whom I have named it 
Acaulescent, with a лла reete a em 4 - 
in diameter. Leaves oblong-la la ght gree 
9 feet long, 5 inches — at the m és narrow aa 
gradually to the base and p t apex, continuously 
margined by a bro ad da т гавал horny bo кезу? rom 
arise spreading deltoid prickles with a very 
а 
y green, oblong-trigonous, above 1 inch long ; 
hs sagt — leaves of the — are Acute 
short n. S. Steelii, though otherw 
similar. 
epals and 
Maie with oe ачен the م‎ rend in енн 
ith flesh-coloured radiating lin А the 
(e "^" un. Жы ом Magazine t. 
e Bifrenaria Hadw 
referred to Bifrenaria on 
0 mies stipitate pollen masses, 
while S. Steelii was originally placed in Maxillaria 
on the assumption indien жы sessile. Both, how- 
ever, agree in this ou though in Hadwenii they 
fact is, this species 1 was 
acconnt of its pos 
e н — beri in исар The pollinary 
appar i singular this genus. 
iis masses are e four i in umber, in two pairs, each 
pair being connec e crescent-shaped 
ith th 
gland by a short rere siet stipes. В. Hadwenii 
riant _ no wonder our American cousins think of 
it as lace where the good Yankees go to. 
Indeed. Pare is Г to overflowing, and the big cara- 
ing the strangers ачр et — 
to 
excellent music, and white-aproned waiters dispensed 
excellent “ bock.” 
perianth-tube very short ; segments lanceolate, 
1 inch long, tinged with dark brown. Style purplish- 
brown, exserted 4—1} inch beyond the tip of the 
at кам reaching nearly to the tip of 
yle 
According to the sequence followed in my mono- 
be 
n. о doubt it is a native of Socios. 
SCUTICARIA HADWENII. 
e species of iin genus are well worthy of 
о 
wers, not only on account 
iine) = ty of their ун but also of their sin- 
ынд abit and appearance S. Steelii, the Dema- 
E Tepresentative of the genus, is a well-known 
ا‎ . Hadwenii, which hails from Rio Janeiro, 
бее appear to be quite so common, though the 
ers are not less beautiful. The remarkable 
(SEE P. 732.) 
Fic, 139.—rFICUS BENJAMINA, 
first lowered 1 ч. this Kou їп June, 1851, in E 
collection of Is acu sq., of Li verpool, afte 
whom it was named. R. А A. R. 
FoREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. 
PARIS. 
Tae boulevards, esee newer ones, are 
e now а flower show нини, for though the 
eather has bee as bad as in eg and "s Horse 
ned of the Tui ries garden and t treets 
are as full of rich. M. and "oae tinted 
been bel The 
in the squares is completed. My visit to the cd 
show was effected on one of those br 
sunny days when—except for the de afening roar of 
the traffic—it would be difficult to believe oneself in 
the heart of a great city, everything so bright and 
Close to the entrance was a group of Marguerites, 
consisting of some six or eight monster plants, uu 
lessly dome-shaped. One I measured was 8 m 
and that was not the n 
six years old, and was profusely 
must not say it was as ugly as it was 
big, for pio people did not think so, as I noticed 
most of them were marked vendu, one for a famous 
restaurant. Hard by was a large bed ч ч їп 
flower, wonder fully rich in colour ese were far 
better big seeing than the huge [a ы 
Marguerite 
ر‎ eg St. Oue 
were worth passin od e for the siz 
muc rare. came from 
quality, but resplendent with colour. The tent w 
similarly lined with Roses in enormous quantities, 
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