March 31, 1897.] 



Garden and Forest. 



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from Mexico many years ago, and was figured in The 

 Botanical Magazine, t. 4045. It is cultivated in continental 

 gardens under the name of C. erythrophsea. 



Didymocarpus Humboldtiana. — This is a tropical repre- 

 sentative of the Pyrenean Ramondia. It is, therefore, too 

 small to find general favor among cultivators of showy 

 things only; nevertheless it deserves a place among choice 

 tropical plants. It is by far the most tractable under arti- 



branched peduncles rise to a height of three or four inches 

 and bear numerous broad-tubed Gloxinia-shaped flowers 

 nearly an inch long and colored pale purple in the type, 

 white, with a blotch of yellow in the variety alba. It has 

 been flowering since last autumn, and is now ripening 

 seeds. It is a native of Ceylon. There are about seventy 

 species known, all natives of tropical Asia. 



Primula obconica rosea. — This is a considerable improve- 



Fig. 15 — The Cypress-tree of Tule. — See page 123. 



ficial treatment of all the species of Didymocarpus that I 

 have tried (D. Malayana, Messrs. Veitchs' recent introduc- 

 tion, I only know from experience with small seedlings up 

 to the present), for it grows and keeps healthy when kept 

 on a shelf in a warm house and treated the same as 

 Gloxinias. It has broadly elliptic, wrinkled, hairy leaves 

 three inches long, which lie flat on the ground, Ramondia- 

 like, forming a tuft, from the centre of which the slender, 



ment upon the type, both in regard I" the size and color ot 

 its flowers. Messrs. Ware, of Tottenham, exhibited a batch 

 of it in flower at the last meeting of the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society, from whom it received a certificate. It has 

 large, well-formed trusses of flowers, each an inch across 

 and colored clear rosy pink. Along with it were well- 

 grown examples of the type and of the variety grandillora. 

 the flowers of which are pale lilac, almost white in tact, 



