May 3, 1893.] 



Garden and Forest. 



195 



Vriesia tessellata^ var. SANDERiE.-This is a fine varie- rich green, with a net-work of darker lines all over the 

 gated Bromehad, differing from the type, which is itself a surface 

 handsome stove-plant, in having broad bands of creamy Alocasia Watsoniana is a beautiful Aroid, one of the 



F'S- 3'-— Prunus Maximowiczii.— See page 193. 



Tdm^fradon'of ^uZV^^ ^'T'' . l^ -'^ certain to win the handsomest, in fact, the leaf-blades neariy two feet lon<^ by 



type ha thi?tv to TortvlVZ:-""'"'' ^".. Bromeliads. The one foot wide, with long ear-like lobes, the front side oUvl 



four inches wide chlnnefed rT/ """T"' ^^^,1^'^^^.^ ^f'S gyeen, with silvery gray, feather-like veins, the back rich 



lour mcnes wide, channeled, recurved, smooth, spineless, vinous purple ; the leaf-stalks are two feet long and rose- 



