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and elegant bright green pinnate leaves, as delicate as those 

 of Cocos Weddelliana, and likely to prove as useful. Nepen- 

 thes receive more attention now than they ever did, and in 

 addition to the numerous seedlings and hybrids in cultivation, 

 we possess many distinct and beautiful species. To the latter 

 Messrs. Veitch have added N. Curtisii, var. superba, remark- 

 able for the rich brown-purple blotches on its long, elegant, 

 narrow pitchers ; and N. Burkei, a Bornean species recently 

 described by Dr. Masters, and which is peculiar in having 

 cylindric pitchers, inflated at the base, and wholly destitute of 

 wings. Sarracenia decora, a hybrid with pitchers nine inches 

 long, colored reddish brown and tessellated with white, and S. 

 Wrigleyana, a prettily marked hybrid from S. psittacina and 

 5. variolaris, are two distinct additions to the many side-sad- 

 dle-flowers which are cultivated in English gardens. Amo- 

 viuni tnagnificum has been already mentioned (vol. Hi., p. 8); it 

 is likely to become a useful plant in furnishing large tropical 



the beauty and useful character of these two plants. E. Makoy- 

 anum was introduced in 1885 from Brazil, by Messrs. Makoy 

 & Co., of Belgium. Solatium pensile is a lovely climber from 

 Demerara, which festooned the rafters of one of the stoves at 

 Kew this year with long pendent racemes of purple-blue 

 flowers, as fine as those of the S. Dulcamara, the Bitter-sweet 

 of our hedgerows. Tecoma Smithii is a beautiful flowered 

 hybrid from T. Capensis and T. velutina, raised in the Mel- 

 bourne Botanic Gardens, and sent this year to Kew, and to Mr. 

 Bull. It is described as being one of the most beautiful of all 

 the Tecomas, the flowers being large, in enormous panicles, 

 and colored bright orange and chestnut. It will be a useful 

 plant for the greenhouse or conservatory, but like all Tecomas, 

 its flowering depends much on its enjoying plenty of sunlight 

 at all times. Protea nana is a charming greenhouse pfant, 

 with linear Heath-like foliage and nodding terminal cup-shaped 

 flowers, like magnificent Genethylles tulipifera, and colored 





' Fig. 5. — PhaUenopsis F. L. Ames.— See page 28. 



houses. Dracaena marnwrata is a large species in the way of 

 D. Lindeni, but with curiously mottled leaves. It has been 

 introduced from Singapore to Kew and flowered and named 

 this year. Allamanda violacea is not new to cultivation, but 

 it had been lost sight of for many years until this year, when 

 plants of it flowered at Kew. The best colored variety of this 

 very interesting species is a first-rate stove flowering plant. 

 Echites atropurpurea is another tropical Dog"-bane which was 

 in cultivation at the beginning of the present century, and then 

 disappeared again until this year, when it flowered in a garden 

 at Crovdon and was sent to Kew as a new plant. It is a free- 

 growing climber, small leaved, with numerous racemes of 

 dark purple flowers, similar in shape to those of Dipladenia 

 Boliviensis. Epiphyllum Makoyanum, a variety of what was 

 introduced in 1885 as E. Russellianum, var. Gaertneri, but 

 which is almost certainly a third species of the genus, was cer- 

 tificated this year as a new plant. Whatever the decision in 

 regard to names may be, there can be but one opinion as to 



rich blood crimson. The Proteas are worthy plants for the 

 greenhouse, and especially for countries where the climatic 

 conditions resemble those of the Cape, where these plants 

 abound. This species and P. longiflora, with oblong leaves 

 and erect, large white flowers, have been introduced and 

 flowered this year for the first time at Kew. Another Cape 

 plant, but of a very different nature from the Proteas, is Dro- 

 sera cistiflora, whose flowers were first developed this year at 

 Kew, and were the delight of both botanists and gardeners. 

 A Sundew, with linear leaves on an erect stem, five inches 

 high, and terminated by a poppy-scarlet flower, cup-like and 

 two inches across, could not fail to cause some excitement 

 amongst those who were familiar with the comparatively very 

 small flowers of the common Sundews. It is satisfactory to 

 be able to state that the plant at Kew is growing freely, and 

 promises to be as easy to cultivate as D. Capensis and other 

 Cape species. Another Cape Sundew, of much greater botani- 

 cal interest even than the Cistus-Howered Drosera, is Roridula 



