16 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. ГАтосът 9, 1910. 
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ORCHID NOTES AND GLEANINGS TREES AND SHRUBS. г discriminating species or groups of species, E 
= Belineider in his critical work on and 
| | ҮП А shrubs (ZU. Handb. der Lasikols lio) has 
TWIN-FLOWERED LYCASTE DEPPEI. THE AMERICAN AND CHINESE TULIP relied on them very much, and they are a valu- 
A TWO-FLOWERED inflorescence of this profuse- TREES. ч i ar Sii ot in p ©. а 
Bes { s he flov n ees of which are т 
defen soa WEN "n pes ended a A sHORT time ago there was some discussion со mporaneous. І dot E 
imio owie. TH MÁS species before, and fre- in this Journal us Gard. Chron., Vol. LXV., acm al in the case of Bebes and Cotoneaster, 
quently in the case of Lycaste Giorn ts some Рр. 128, 144) т garding the differences between and when gga icm is thoroughly classified 
plants of which, when specially well grown, the American Tu ip Tree (Liriodendron tulip- they will no doubt pro of great value in the 
habitually produce o flow on m. - ifera, L.) and the Chinese s chinense, der inr grouping of species: The function of papillae as 
xamination of the pper part the spike. I have lately had occasion to make tudy o a rule appears to be the checking of excessive 
witn the sheath rolled back, frequently dis- these two trees, and have с ий a differ- transpiration by maintaining a film of moist 
closes a rudimentary bud, which, however, is ence in the leaves, ueri so far as my obser- air in contact with the epidermal cells and 
rarely matured, as tne production of the normal vations go, 5 to quite а яой ps stomata. At least, this seems to be their 
ower is usually a sufficient effort for the plant. . chinense the шг, surface of the lea nction in Rhododen In writing of % 
In the instance now recorded the first flower ccnstantly covered with very numerous papillae, hododendron I may mention "а remarkable | 
is slightly pressed back, the second.bloom pro- a feature absent from the Ameri an L. tu Pero case in which the papillae have almost wholly 
ceeding directly on a short stem by the side of bone papillae, when exainiied wit disappeared in cultivation under certain condis? 
it, thus bringing the flower on a level with power of the microscope (although тае, they tions. In wild specimens of Rhododendron 
Е ciliicalyx, the lower surface of the leaves ig” 
тагодор Р " ^ constantly covered with a dense film of 
: apillae; but in the cultivated examples of thi 
species in the Himalayan t Kew th 
have almost entirely disappeared. That this is 
a change due to the environment seems certain, 
r R. ciliicalyx grows on the dry, wind-swept 
i gorges of Western Yünnan. at an altitude of 
about 7, ft., where changes of climate both 
in re heat and cold are probably nearly 
in our own country, which is saying a g 
deal considering the samples of wea we have 
had this . eiliicalyx has cast off its 
papill i more or less equable, humid 
atmosphere of the Kew Himalayan House, where 
were no longer needed. J. Hutchinson. 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS. 
NEW LIL 
A SPECIMEN of an ст Lily uw from 
ae Related b bap Farrer has been received = 
t Kew from Major F. C. Stern Tnvestigatiol 
pel led У Ње Эн мэ ны that it belongs 40 
an undescribed species and it seems appropriate] ^ 
to name it Lilium Farreri,* after the mire] 
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the tufts of white c at the nodes, E) 
FIG. 35:—RHODODENDRON SP: f FARRER'S NO. 812 (see p. 75). а о. caule leevés whick off i 
persed equally ouzhout a great pi 
«s first. A suggestion of fasciation is visible are not very evident through a ns), Stem, its one-flowered else eum 
the upper p part of the stem from which the appear as single, slender, — аа. shaped rescence, and m relatively ama : | 
fers proceed. cells protruding from the epidermis, and they revolute periant ts are white ah 
DONTIODA METEOR. are probably covered, ag in bang. {ойе Earle spots and e rer) lower the 
с 7 hich i s tube less than half an inch + ае e 
A РЕ RAY of a very Sr ie hybrid between to the lower surface the glaucous bloom-like Bivens have a very 8 trong and ple E 
Odontoglossum | Edwardi and Odontioda earan r: ot the Chines : В. 1 ill, B.Sc. п (Liliaceae 
Vuybtekene rms Pescatori X Cochlioda - remarked. upon y Mr. Bean he protr Pl ge oe Farreri, Turri i 
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MENU rotrud А > ffinis 
No one | nc Messrs, Stuart/Low and. Co., apex of the midrib of the leaves of L. tulipifera — Tulipeae); І. D artrei, Franchet, е bella 
-e ohne , Suss sa Y^ with fate E ме d eie to be a fairly good distinguishing feature, meint 0 - агре aga o dear 
qn ol рурат egt i s a oti M m ro as pointed out by Mr. Vicary Gibbs (Gard. UR, teat 8 rin 3218 
brig at dark, тш by od of н it fic e Chron., 1919, p. 144), but it is not of much Vir nm зед ue aa 8 dm altus, rigid 
таар ensely tá PA. DM кш? TE зар use unless vay a ag are at hand for com- iets m in s d builatarv rum lin 
e Fe (Oden. е edwoardii Cochli Sagar parison , too, as shown by Mr. Bean, p ата Ате рна itus,- i run 
liana). The introduction of Odm. - Pescatorei m a difference i in i the lobing of the leaves, althou b £ axillis pilis albis 
the production of Oda. Meteor variations on the same tree may be piei alioqui glaber. Folia caulina n 
increasing the size and shape of the ay ent while nearly link up this difference. If, PES con s longitudinem „dispers 
retaining the ruby red tint instead of the "purple — leaves of the two species be ванне, lata, apice acuta, т 
or claret colouring 0f most of the hybrids of they n, as a rule, be distinguished by their 8.5 em. longa, 1 cm. lata, 
vu Edwardi. The flowers € 2E those 8 3-5 pagina utraque glabra, margin 
Odm. Thompsonianum in size, but . with Ра AC . as distinct from ordinary clothing bullatarum lineis instructa. Flores 
dim sepals and petals. hairs, have been much used by recent authors 6 in am laxa aggregati, odorissim! ; 
