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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 261. 



Peristeria Lindeni, Lindenia, t. 3 28, is an attractive spe- 

 cies in the way of P. pendula, with flowers globular in 

 shape, one and a half inches in diameter and colored pale 

 green and purple, mottled with a darker shade of the same 

 color. They are borne on a short raceme, which is repre- 

 sented as erect. 



Stanhopea Moliana, Lindenia, t. 331, is a large-flowered 

 species, similar to S. Wardii, white-spotted and mottled 

 with reddish purple. It is said to be Peruvian. 



Stauropsis Warocqueana, Lindenia, t. 319, is a large, 

 Vanda-like plant, from New Guinea, not unlike the old V. 

 gigantea, now called Stauropsis, but with large-branched 

 racemes of flowers an inch in diameter and colored buff- 

 yellow with brown spots. 



Stove and Greenhouse Plants. — Most of the new plants 

 vv'hich may be classed under this heading are chiefly re- 

 markable for their ornamental leaves. 



Alocasia Dussii (Dammann & Co.) has large olive-green 

 leaves with red nerves and petioles. Ampelovitis Roman- 

 etti is described as a vine with lobed leaves, glaucous on 

 the under side, and long bunches of black grape-like fruits. 

 It is probably Chinese. 



Costus Lucanusianus is a new species from the Came- 

 roons and is figured in Garienflora, t. 1379, where it is 

 shown as a tall-stemmed plant with lanceolate leaves and 

 terminal heads of yellow and purple flowers. 



Crinum Abyssinicum, C. Yemense and C. yuccsefolium 

 are three white-flowered species which have been intro- 

 duced from Africa and are offered by Messrs. Dammann 

 & Co. Cyrtosperma ferox (Linden), from Borneo, is not 

 unlike C. Johnstonei, which used to be called an Alocasia, 

 and is remarkable for its spiny leaf-stalks and sagittate 

 blades. Dichorisandra angustifolia (Linden), from Ecua- 

 dor, has prettily variegated foliage, and is not unlike D. 

 vittata, but the leaves are more distinctly lined with white 

 and are purple beneath. D. musaica, van gigantea (Lin- 

 den), has stems two feet high and leaves nine inches long 

 by five inches broad. Dieffenbachia meleagris, D. olbia 

 and D. picturata are three new Lindenian introductions 

 which may be recommended to growers of ornamental- 

 leaved Aroids, the best of them being the first-named, 

 which has the leaf-stalks very prettily marked with trans- 

 verse zigzag lines. 



Heliconia spectabilis (Linden) is probably the same as 

 H. metallica, a handsome foliage-plant for the stove, with 

 long lanceolate leaves, dark green above, purplish beneath. 



Impatiens Micholitzii is a new introduction from New 

 Guinea and described as a dwarf branching plant with 

 white and rose flowers. Labisia smaragdina (Linden) is 

 a Bornean plant, with a short stem and numerous lance- 

 shaped obtuse leaves of a pleasing deep green color and 

 panicles of small pink flowers. It is very like an Ardisia. 

 Musa Martini is described by Monsieur Andre as a hand- 

 some species which may be grown in as low a tempera- 

 ture as M. Ensete. It has reddish leaf-stalks and veins and 

 rose-colored flowers. It was introduced into France from 

 Teneriffe. There is a figure of it in the Revue deTHoriicul- 

 lute Beige, 1892, p. 107. 



Peperomia metallica (Linden) is a pretty addition to the 

 variegated plants of this genus, its lanceolate leaves being 

 dark green, striped with gray above and tinged with red 

 beneath. It is Peruvian. 



Senecio sagittifolius is one of the most interesting 

 species in the enormous genus Senecio, and, moreover, 

 it is one that is likely to take a prominent place among gar- 

 den-plants. It was discovered in Ecuador by Monsieur 

 Ed Andre, and introduced by him into France. He also 

 figured and described it in the Revue Horticole, 1892, t. 16, 

 17. Young plants of it are now offered by Monsieur Bru- 

 ant, of Poitiers, who publishes a figure of it in his plant 

 catalogue for this' year. It has huge green radicle leaves, 

 three feet or more long and about a foot wide, sagittate, 

 with toothed margins and a curiously crested midrib. 

 These leaves are arranged in a rosette, from the centre of 

 which is developed a stem, eight to ten feet high, clothed 



with erect lanceolate leaves, and bearing at the top an 

 enormous corymb of Marguerite-like flowers, which are 

 white, with a yellow disk, and measure an inch and a half 

 across. A specimen grown in the open air inTourainelast 

 summer developed leaves a yard long. It was removed 

 into a temperate house for the winter, where it produced a 

 stem eight feet high which bore a corymb of 140 flowers. 

 A young plant of it has grown rapidly in a warm green- 

 house at Kew. It appears to push up suckers freely. 



Tradescantia Reginae and T. superba are two Lindenian 

 introductions from Peru. They have prettily marked fo- 

 liage, the former gray-green and purple, with transverse 

 lines of dark green, the latter dark green, with whitish 

 stripes along the midrib. Smilax argyroea, from Bolivia 

 (Linden), is a pretty little stove-climber with prickly stems 

 and small lanceolate leaves, green, attractively spotted 

 with white. It is an improvement on S. maculata. 



Hardy Herbaceous Plants.— Gypsophila Raddiana. This 

 is a new species which has been introduced from Persia 

 into the Botanic Gardens of St. Petersburg, where it flow- 

 ered last year, and was figured in the Garienflora, t. 1365. It 

 is dwarf and tufted in habit and has pink flowers. The 

 Gypsophilas are most useful plants for the rockery or bor- 

 der and as a source of cut flowers. Iris Madonna (Dam- 

 mann & Co.) is described as a half-hardy evergreen species 

 from Arabia, with large lilac-blue flowers. Ixiolirion ma- 

 cranthum and I. Sintenisi are two of Herr Max Leichtlin's 

 introductions, and are said to have large blue-purple flow- 

 ers. Podachsenium Andinum is a large-leaved composite from 

 the Andes of Colombia, and is recommended by Monsieur 

 Andre for sub-tropical bedding. It bears lax corymbs of 

 white and yellow Daisy-like flowers. Possibly it is not hardy. 

 Primula calycantha, from Yun-nan, is described by Herr 

 Max Leichtlin as having smooth gray-green leaves and 

 numerous reddish blue flowers in umbels. 



Hardy Trees and Shrubs. — Acer palmatum, var. Alkii, is 

 figured in the Garienflora, t. 1363, and described as a hand- 

 somely variegated variety. A. Trautvetteri, var. irythro- 

 carpa, from the Caucasus, is remarkable for its red fruits. 

 It is cultivated in the arboretum at Zoschen. 



Cytisus schipkaensis is another Zoschen plant, introduced 

 from the Balkan Mountains. It is a compact shrub, only 

 about a foot high, with numerous white flowers. 



Fraxinus raibocarpa is a species from central Asia, which 

 has been known in botanic gardens several years, but hith- 

 erto has not been happy in cultivation. It is a tall tree of 

 graceful habit, with few and rather small leaflets and is 

 remarkable for its sickle-shaped samarae. It was introduced 

 to St. Petersburg and described by Dr. Regel. 



Prunus praecox is an early-flowering seedling from P. 

 Japonica (Sinensis), var. sphoerica, and is described and 

 figured by Carriere in the Revue Horticole, 1892, p. 488, figs. 

 142-3. 



Prunus Salzeri is nearly related to P. Padus and has pale 

 yellow fruits. It is said to come true from seed, and is a 

 native of Carinthia and Styria. It is cultivated at Zoschen. 



Quercus Macedonica is described as "a magnificent Oak 

 of the Cerris group, bearing large edible acorns." It is in 

 the Kew collection. Q. Schochianaissaid tobeahybrid be- 

 tween Q. phellos and Q. palustris. It is grown at Zoschen. 



Robinia Neo-Mexicana, var. luxurians, is described by 

 Dr. Dieck as a beautiful tree, taller than the type and with 

 branched racemes, which were produced at Zoschen twice 

 in the year, namely, in June and again in August, on the 

 youngest branches. 



Londun. 



W. Watson. 



Cultural Department. 



Snowdrops. 



TREATING of the Snowdrops in cultivation in the order of 

 their flowering, we have, as the pioneer of the genus, the 

 early Galanthus octobrensis, blooming in Britain in October or 

 early in November. This is a pretty but delicate flower, par- 

 taking of the character of G. nivalis, of which it is in reality 

 only a variety or sub-species. This Snowdrop was first in- 



