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An even more remarkable phenomenon is presented by the 
at present unique case of a trigeneric hybrid :—Sophro-cattleya 
Veitchii, a garden hybrid between Lelio-cattleya elegans and 
Sophronitis grandiflora. 
The number of names enumerated under Croton largely repre- 
sents mere forms cultivated for the beauty of their foliage of 
Codieum variegatum, formerly known as Croton pictus. In 
point of fact the two genera are widely distinct, and belong 
to two different groups of Kuphorbiacee. 
The publications from which the list has been compiled, with 
the abbreviations used to indicate them, are as follows :— 
Acta Hort. Petrop.—Acta Horti Petropolitani. 
American Florist. 
B. H.—La Belgique Horticole. 
B. M.—Botanical Magazine. 
B. T. O—Bulletino della Società Toscana di Orticoltura. 
Bull Cat.—W. Bull, Catalogue of New, Beautiful and Rare 
Plants. 
Bull. Mus. Paris.—Bulletin du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, 
Paris. 
Cat. Comp. Cont. d@Hort.—Catalogue de la Compagnie 
Continentale d’ Horticulture. 
Cat. Nat. Arb. Zisch.—Catalogue des National-Arboretums 
zu Zoéschen. 
Damm. Cat.—Dammann, General Price List and Catalogue 
of Bulbs. 
Engros-Cat. des Nat. Arb. Zésch—FEngros-Catalogue des 
National-Arboretums zu Zéschen. 
Fl. and P.—Florist and Pomologist. 
Fil. des S.—Flore des Serres. 
F. M.—¥loral Magazine. 
G. and F.—Garden and Forest. 
Fard.—The Garden. 
Gard. World.—Gardening World. 
Garten-Zeitung. 
G. C.—Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
Gfl—tartenflora. 
G. M.—Gardeners’ Magazine. 
H. G.—Hamburger Garten- und Blumenzeitung. 
Icones Plantarum,—Hooker’s Icones Plantarum, 
