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of the Deccan Peninsula, and grow together in quantity. 

 Its appearance is therefore very interesting. — Gardeners 

 Chronicle, March 5th, p. 298. 



Pelexia Travassosii, Rolfe. — An elegant species, one of 

 the prettiest of the genus, with white flowers lined with 

 brownish red. The leaves are olive-green, with silvery 

 nerves and a few white spots. It was sent from Brazil by 

 Senor Travassos, and flowered in the Kew collection and 

 elsewhere. — Gardeners Chronicle, March 12th, p. 330. 



Cypripedium X Brysa, Veitch. — A secondary hybrid raised 

 from C. X Sedeni candidulum crossed with the pollen of C. 

 Boissierianum, and said to be like a large form of the former, 

 with a greenish tinge. Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, of 

 Chelsea, received an award of merit from the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society for it on March 8th last. — Gardeners 

 Chronicle, March 12th, pp. 343, 344. 



Cypripedium x Ianthe, Veitch. — A secondary hybrid 

 raised in the establishment of Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, 

 of Chelsea, from C. x Harrisianum crossed with the pollen 

 of C. veuustum. It received an award of merit from the 

 Royal Horticultural Society on March Sth last. — Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, March 12th, pp. 343, 344- 



Dendrobiuih. densiflorum, var. clavatum, Rolfe. — A dis- 

 tinct geographical variety from the Shan States, remarkable 

 for its very clavate pseudo-bulbs, which taper to a very slen- 

 der base. The flowers are white, with an orange-yellow 

 lip. Its peculiarity may be due to the comparative dry- 

 ness of the region it inhabits. It was imported by Messrs. 

 F. Sander&Co., of St. Albans. — Gardeners Chronicle, March 

 26th, p. 394. 



Cypripedium Calceolus X macranthos, Barbe)^ — A natural 

 hybrid between C. Calceolus and C. macranthos, imported 

 from the Birch-forests of western Siberia, where the two 

 species grow intermixed. It flowered with Monsieur Bar- 

 bey at Valleyres. It is precisely intermediate in character, 

 as the flowers are smaller and paler in color than C. ma- 

 cranthos, with all the organs of the flovi'er modified in the 

 direction of the other parent. It is specially interesting as 

 the first natural hybrid in the genus. — Gardeners' Chroriicle, 

 March 26th, p. 394. 



Pelexia Wendlandiana, Kranzlin. — A species, remarkable 

 for its long filiform sepals, which appeared in the collection 

 of Monsieur Wendland at Herrenhausen. It bears a ra- 

 ceme of about twenty greenish brown flowers, with a white 

 lip. — Gardeners' Chronicle, April 2d, p. 426. 



Cypripedium x Cleopatra, O'Brien. — A secondar}' hybrid 

 raised in the collection of C. Winn, Esq., of Birmingham, 

 from C. Hookerse crossed with the pollen of C. x oenan- 

 thum superbum. It has the general characters of the 

 mother plant, but modified in the direction of the other 

 parent, especially in the purplish crimson coloring of the 

 upper half of the dorsal sepal and the outer halves of the 

 petals. — Gardeners' Chronicle, April 9th, p. 458. 



Calanthe vestita, var. Fournieri, Rolfe. — A well-marked 

 geographical variety, imported from Borneo by Monsieur 

 Fournier, of Marseilles. The flowers, which vary from 

 pure white and blush to deep rose-pink, are smaller than 

 those of the type, while the pseudo-bulbs are constructed in 

 the middle, like those of the variety Turneri. It recently 

 flowered with Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans. — Gar- 

 deners' Chronicle, April i6th, p. 4S8. 



Cypripedium x Lawrebellum. — A hybrid raised in the col- 

 lection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart, M. P., from C. Law- 

 renceanum crossed with the pollen of C. bellatulum. The 

 flower is intermediate in shape, the color rich rosy crimson, 

 with a tinge of green at the base of the sepals and petals, a 

 pure white margin and some purple-brown lines on the 

 upper sepal, and some chocolate spots on the petals. It 

 was awarded a first-class certificate by the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society on April izth last. — Gardeners' Chronicle, April 

 i6th, pp. 502, 503 ; April 30th, pp. 560, 561, fig. 82. 



Dendrobium X Adrastea, Veitch. — A hybrid raised from 

 D. Pierardii crossed with the pollen of D. superbum. The 

 sepals and petals are pale pink and the lip primrose. It 

 was raised by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, 



and exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety on April 12th last. — Gardeners' Chronicle, April i6th, 



P- 503. 



L«lio-Cattleya Marriottiana. — A hybrid raised in the 

 collection of Sir William Marriott, of Blandford, l)etween 

 La?lia flava and Cattleya Skinneri. It bears upright spikes 

 of yellowish pink flowers, the younger ones having a 

 brownish tint. It received an award of merit from the 

 Royal Horticultural Society on April 12th last. — Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, April i6th, p. 503. 

 Kcw. R- A. Rolfe. 



Begonia Gloire de Lorraine. 



THIS is the name given to a new winter-flowering 

 Begonia raised, by the Messrs. Lemoine from B. 

 Socotrana, as the seed-parent, and B. Dregei, as the pollen- 

 parent. The seeds, which ripened in February, 1891, were 

 sown at once and came up in the spring. The young seed- 

 lings began to flower about the middle of November and 

 are still in bloom. Although B. Socotrana is bulbiferous 

 and B. Dregei tuberous, the hybrid forms neither tubers nor 

 bulblets, but the base of the stem is throwing out many 

 shoots, which will insure the rapid multiplication of the 

 plant. 



The leaves are rather small, nearly regular, of a clear 

 green ; the flowers almost exclusively male, with four pe- 

 tals, are large, and borne in broad panicles, covering the 

 whole superior part of the plant. They are of a fresh 

 rose color, and, being not deciduous, remain a very long 

 time on the plant. This novelty (see page 247) was exhib- 

 ited in February before the National Horticultural Society of 

 France, in Paris, and was awarded a first-class certificate 

 with a special mention, and it is highly commended in the 

 French horticultural journals. It is probable that older and 

 stronger plants will make admirable specimens. 



Grape " Proligere de Varna." 



'T'HIS Grape already forms the larger part of some of tlie 

 -•- vineyards about Varna, France. It is native to the shores 

 of the Black Sea, and appears to be quite variable. There are 

 already several distinct varieties grown in the vineyards of 

 Varna, some of them being excellent for table use. The grape 

 makes a red wine of fairly g-ood quality, but it could undoubt- 

 edly be much improved. The most interesting feature of the 

 Orape is its productiveness, and it is this which suggested the 

 name Proligere de Varna. Instead of bearing only two or 

 three bunclies upon evfcry shoot, as most Grapes do, it has 

 from four to eight. One might almost say that every tendril 

 is transformed into a grape-cluster. 



The plant, as growing in the vineyards, may be briefly de- 

 scribed as follows: The canes are very vigorous and attain a 

 length of several metres ; they are commonly cut back. The 

 wood is yellowish red, downy ; internodes of unequal lengths, 

 longitudinally grooved ; buds large, white, [)ubescent. Peti- 

 oles robust, cylindrical, tomentose, reddish Ijrown, and from 

 seven to eigh't'centimetres long. Leaves orbicular, thirteen to 

 fifteen centimetres in diameter, the central sinuses of the lower 

 ones oval and almost closed, those of the upper leaves being 

 considerably larger, dentate, the teeth short, strong, mucro- 

 nate ; the lower surface puliescent, veins prominent ; upper 

 surface glabrous, but not glossy, showing a net-work of fine 

 non-protruding veins. Chisters three to eight upon each 

 shoot ; peduncles green and red, short, very strong. The 

 lower clusters are ten to fifteen centimetres long and quite com- 

 pact ; the upper ones are smaller, more open, and sometimes 

 bear a tendril. Pedicels short (four or five milh'metres), 

 rugose, tlie inner extremity slightly enlarged. Berries almost 

 spherical or slightly oblong, the longitudinal diameter being 

 sixteen millimetres, the transverse fifteen millimetres ; color 

 a uniform black ; skin moderately thick and rich in tannin ; 

 flesh deep grayish red, sweet and piquant to the taste. Seeds 

 greenisli brown, rounded, not rugose. — Ed. Andre, in Revue 

 Horticole. 



[No doubt this Grape would flourish in California, and it 

 would be worth testing in the. southern Atlantic states. 

 Even if it is nothing more than a variety of Vitis vinifera, 

 it is sufticientl}'" distinct to suggest to hybridizers the idea 

 of crossing it upon some of our native species. — Ed.J 



