Garden and Forest. 



[Number 306 



of these plants, the most noteworthy being one called 

 Amesiana, which is a seedling in the way of N. Chilsoni, 

 but the pitchers are much larger. It obtained a -first-class 

 certificate. N. Wrigleyana superba, also shown as new, is 

 very similar to one grown at Kew as N. Hookerse. A most 

 distinct and beautiful hybrid is N. mixta, which Messrs. 

 Veitch raised from N. Northiana and N. Curtisii, also shown 

 in splendid condition. The hybrid has longer pitchers than 

 N. Curtisii, colored pale red-brown, with a rich mottling of 

 deep purple. N. Dicksoniana and N. cincta were also rep- 

 resented by specimens with very large pitchers. The most 

 striking of all, however, was a beautifully grown specimen 

 of the extraordinary N. Barkei excellens, carrying nine big 

 pitchers whose "tight waists" and rich coloration are pe- 

 culiarly attractive. 



The following plants were shown by Kew : Bomarea 

 Patacoensis, a large cluster of flowers of rich orange-red 

 color. This plant has been in flower since last March, and 

 it has still numerous buds to open. Calpurnea aurea, the 

 Natal Laburnum, an elegant tree from Natal, with all the 

 appearance of the common Laburnum. It is grown in a 

 cold greenhouse at Kew, where it flowers at various sea- 

 sons. Manettia bicolor, a plant which I perceive is a 

 favorite in America, but is scarcely known here notwith- 

 standing its good nature under ordinary cultivation and its 

 attractive numerous crimson and yellow flowers. Senecio 

 macroglossus, the Cape Ivy, a beautiful greenhouse climber 

 with Ivy-like leaves and golden-yellow "leaves as large as 

 Paris Daisies. Brownea Crawfordii, the magnificent hybrid 

 of Irish origin, which is a glorious picture in winter in the 

 Palm-house at Kew, where it produces numerous enor- 

 mous heads of bright red flowers. 



Chrysanthemums.— A large collection of cut flowers, many 

 of them very fine, were shown by Mr. R. Owen, of Maiden- 

 head. Among them were numerous unnamed or newly 

 named English seedlings, some of which showed consid- 

 erable promise. Mr. Owen is one of the leading growers 

 and raisers of Chrysanthemums in England. 



Lonicera Hildebrandiana. — The introduction of this ex- 

 traordinary Honeysuckle by means of seeds sent from 

 Burma, from which a batch of young plants has been 

 raised at Kew, is decidedly good news. For its discovery 

 we are indebted to General Collett, who found it in upper 

 Burma about five years ago. He speaks of it as " a con- 

 spicuous shrub with large dark glossy leaves and fine crim- 

 son flowers seven inches long, and by far the largest of 

 any known species of Honeysuckle." It is likely to require 

 the same treatment as Rosa gigantea, which was also dis- 

 covered by General Collett in the same region. 



Incarvillea Delavayi.— In the Revue Horticole, for De- 

 cember, there is a colored figure of this plant, which has 

 been introduced from China, and is, I believe, being dis- 

 tributed by a Continental nurseryman. To any one. ac- 

 quainted with the Indian Amphicome Emoidi, the resem- 

 blance to it of this new Incarvillea will, no doubt, occur. 

 Whether, however, it is an Amphicome or an Incarvillea, 

 it is certainly a beautiful plant as represented by the pic- 

 ture here mentioned. It grows less than a foot in height 

 and has pinnate dark green leaves, like those of Tecoma 

 grandiflora, and large erect racemes of rich red and yellow 

 flowers as large as those of Gloxinias. I have lately seen 

 specimens of another Incarvillea, also from China, with 

 even larger flowers than those of I. Delavayi, which it 

 resembles in habit. This has been named I. grandiflora by 

 Mr. Hemsley. It is a plant which ought certainly to be 

 secured for gardens. 



The rose-colored Calla.— I referred to this plant a few 

 weeks ago in consequence of a notice of it from Messrs. 

 Krelage & Son, of Haarlem, with whom it had flowered. 

 As I then anticipated, it proved to be Richardia Rehmanni, 

 Mr. N. E. Brown having lately determined it from speci- 

 mens supplied by Messrs. Krelage. This species is chiefly 

 remarkable for its lanceolate instead of sagittate leaf-blades. 

 The flower or spathe is as large as that of the dwarf variety 

 of R. GEthiopica. At the last meeting of the Royal Horti- 



cultural Society a colored picture and letter from Mr. Med- 

 ley Wood, of Natal, were communicated by the Director 

 of Kew. From this it appears that there is a form of 

 Richardia Rehmanni the spathes of which are four inches 

 long and of a dull rose-purple color. The drawing had 

 been prepared from a plant grown by Mr. Wood, to whom 

 Kew is indebted for tubers which are likely to flower 

 shortly. 



London. W. WdiSOfl. 



New or Little-known Plants. 



Fraxinus Bungeana. 



THIS is the north China representative of the Manna 

 Ashes, so called because the manna of the Pharma- 

 copoeia is derived from one of the species, Fraxinus Ornus 

 of southern Europe and Asia Minor. The Manna Ashes, 

 which are also called Flowering Ashes, form a natural 

 group, distinguished from the Ash-trees of our woods by the 

 flowers,^ which are furnished with a white corolla deeply 

 parted into two or four, or rarely into five or six, narrow 

 divisions, and by the position of the inflorescence, which is 

 produced at the end of a short leafy branch, or in the axil 

 of a new leaf, while in our ordinary Ash-trees the flowers 

 have no petals and the inflorescence is developed from a 

 separate bud in the axil of one of the upper leaves of the 

 previous year, or at the base of a young shoot. 



Of the Flowering Ashes, three species are found within 

 the territory of the United States. Fraxinus cuspidata and 

 Fraxinus Greggii inhabit north-eastern Mexico and cross 

 the Rio Grande into western Texas, the forms ranging 

 through southern New Mexico to Arizona, and Fraxinus 

 diptera in western California. None of them attain the 

 size of trees in the United States, although in some 

 parts of Mexico the Texas species are tree-like in habit. 

 Fraxinus cuspidata is sometimes planted in the streets and 

 plazas of the cities of Nuevo Leon, where, in early spring, 

 when it is covered with its large clusters of pure white and 

 very fragrant flowers, it is an attractive little tree well worth 

 introducing into other countries with temperate climates. 

 Fraxinus Greggii is very common on the limestone foot- 

 hills of the Sierra Madre, where it often becomes twenty 

 feet tall, and produces well-formed trunks (see the illus- 

 tration on p. 451. vol. ii., of this journal), although north 

 of the Rio Grande it is unusual to find it more than two or 

 three feet high. The flowers of this species, which pro- 

 duces very small leaves, with wing-marginate stalks, are not 

 known. It is probably not cultivated even in Mexico. In 

 Europe and western Asia the group is represented by Frax- 

 inus Ornus, a handsome small tree, which, unfortunately, is 

 not hardy in our northern gardens; and in the Himalaya 

 region by Fraxinus floribunda, a large and stately tree, the 

 largest, perhaps, of the Manna Ashes, and a favorite shade- 

 tree in many cities of northern India. But the largest num- 

 ber of species of these trees is found in western Asia, where 

 there appear to be at least five or six, although some of 

 them are still very imperfectly known. 



Two of these Asiatic Manna Ashes are now well-estab- 

 lished in the Arnold Arboretum — Fraxinus longicuspis, a 

 small tree of northern Japan, which has not flowered here 

 yet, and Fraxinus Bungeana, of which a figure from a 

 drawing made by Mr. Faxon, in the Arboretum, appears 

 on page 5 of this issue. 



Fraxinus Bungeana,* as it appears in the Arboretum, is 

 a shrub with slender, spreading, ashy gray stems three or 

 four feet tall, slender, terete, dark gray branchlets marked 

 by occasional pale lenticels, and stout, obtuse winter buds 

 covered with dark puberulous scales. The leaves are two 

 and a half to four inches long, with slender grooved 



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 Ft Amur^ 4 7 4.-Hance. Jour Lmn Sec., x ii.. 8 3 .-Francnet. PI. David, i, 203.- 

 Wenzig, Bot.Jarb.. iv., 170.-F0r.bes & Heraslev, Jour. Lin,,. Soc. xxvi , S4 



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Ml. B,oL, ix., 300.— t rancl.et & Savatier, Eiium. PL Jai. ii. 4,4. 

 Fraxinus Ornus, var. Bungeana, Hance, Jour. Bo/., xiii., I33 in part (1875). 



