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v for him, until sad experience proved his 
ack of sd ordinary negro intelligence. Не was 
working here for his food and shelter, until some 
one should pee the mountains, di iscover his merit, 
and offer him 
such dice b 
(He rode а on 
THE 
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distinct Daffodil has been certified and re-named at 
South Kensington, spring, 1886. It has been re- 
introduced from Ireland as a remnant of old gardens 
a n to Parkinson as one of the 
gre fo 
pure white, twisted, and shorter than trumpet, 
recogn 
perfumed oak ped and the foliage is glau 
and narrow. My son of seven years 37) M the he 
bulbs when out of flower from mixed cernu 
: The other 
Fic, 159.—wancissvs LEDA. 
went forth in state.) 
given by any negress who may be 
otis be eras 
8. Murra, 
NARCISSUS LEDA. 
6 hide a Bri hey sig т t much P 
We hay 
either M ul grown as a bed, as se fig. 158, o 
& pot, ny 159, for еей еве n. 
land, to whom we are 
photogr aphs from which the engravings 
says of it in his list of Daffodils, 1886: 
piment s. € in cooking is 
ay. 
Mr 
indebted for the dites 
were taken, 
—'*'This fine 
simply by the foliage.” Tt was shown again at + 
Congress this spring, and elicited much admirati 
Анороранопон Mas. Isaac DAVIES. — This 
Davies, Brook n rsery, Dri h 
flowers are white, or delicate blush; 8 
ment has a heavy blotch of maroon эе side-spots 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS, 
Kay ر ر‎ eee adus 
GLOSSA, 
SIR D. HOOKER has stated, in the Botanical 
two varieties 
Jos 
Magazine pde 1878, that he has seen 
0 
a 
E xh 
convolute, more n lip; 
* there is né farther distinction ы tween di lobes, 
and there are no spo 
I believe all my Жани specimens : 
Hooker! Т. Thom mpson! T. Anderson! B. C ke!) 
ae с the first variety, which ought to be pow 
the type, since it formed the subject of a эчеп 
pe ав Эт. Lindley. I have the stro 
pression that Mr. B. Clarke’s 2 7,843 (May 10, 1876) 
had white flowers, viz., sepals ir petals white, in 
lieu of fine rose-purple. 
Now I have a lovely thing at hand that might 
perhaps better answer to Sir Joseph D. Hooker's 
It has a far more 
all abruptly — À — 
whet or scoop, as Sir Joseph said), yet 
the Май sey sinet of the lip Peli lobes.. It is distinct 
in its very sh anterior lacinia, and in its most 
pallid rose ain че petals. The lip is white, - 
light spas on the disc with sev hes reddish-bro 
spots. I would not regard it a distinct species, ав as 
it answers pea well to the dut pen in the 
characteristic rows of filiform pro 
this I 
ea? How very few 
living got are there in Europe ? 
I hav thank for a liberal supply of this pres 
Sir Trevor декси, art, М.Р., Р.К.Н.5. 
aL ا‎ would ner to manage the plant a 
great ability. H. G. Rchb. f. 
об LONGIFOLIUM VAR. FaAnINIANUM, Baker.* 
WHEN i, whose name is well know to the 
public in conne en with the Westminster Aquarium, 
went a few years ago to explore the Kalahari desert, 
he brought back - him a quantity of bulbs, which 
folium, Thunb. (Bot, Mag., t. 661), best known in 
English gardens under Herbert's name of Crinum 
— The new species is rem — for its nar- 
ү long- -necked bulb, very long, 
fume shaped 
us the plant grew in thousands in a stream mixed 
ith Жайын, апа chet the whole i 'the long neck was 
Bulb ampulleform, ; з os inches in diameter, nar- 
rowed gradually into 
eck } foot long; outer 
ure brown. Leaves ا‎ ма twelve to a bulb nsi- 
form, the outer 2 inches broad low down, narrowed 
gradually to -— то» е Pete: а length 
0 
modera in texture, rather 
laucous, сағ vers af nor denticulate on 
edge. Р le lateral as regards T rosette of 
leaves, stout, stiffly erect, compressed, 2 feet long. 
* Crinum ст gros тағ. енун жер ж Baker. — Bulbo 
ampulleformi callo elongato, foliis ensiformibus 3—4 dal- 
ibu uminatis gf ter entibus anata integro apo 
vali mpresso bipedali, umbellis 5—6 floris; spathæ 
alvis lanceolatis acuminatis; pedicellis elongatis; ovario 
lol is multis superpositis; perianthio, tubo curvato 
3}—4 pollicari, limbi segmentis A atis rubellis 
viridulo 
diu conniventibus; genitalibus limbo breviori 
