November ii, 1891.] 



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533 



breath of air ; and also from being furnished with a num- 

 ber of little streamers or banner-like appendages which, 

 when blown by a breath of wind, wriggle about in a very 

 odd manner." Mr. Hemsley has pointed out a peculiarity 

 in the mode of growth of this species in that the flower- 

 scape is not formed at the base of a fully formed pseudo- 



Eucryphia Billardieri, var. Milligani (t. 7200), a native of 

 Tasmania and a member of the Rose family, with pale 

 narrow leaves and small solitary white flowers. 



Epiphyllum Gcertneri (t. 7201) : this is the species so long 

 supposed to be a variety of the well-known E. Russetl- 

 ianum now a universal favorite in gardens where green- 



Fia;. 82. — A New Hybrid Rose. — See page 532. 



bulb, but is developed together with a young leaf, which 

 afterward forms a pseudo-bulb, and is enclosed in the 

 sheaths with it. 



Xapokona Miersii (t. 7199) : this is the representative of 

 a small genus of west tropical Africa which, in the struc- 

 ture of its flowers, is one of the most curious of flowering 

 plants. 



house plants are grown. It differs from that plant in the 

 much larger, broader, thicker crenulate articulations of the 

 stems, broadly truncate at the top, regularly crenate on 

 the sides, with tufts of long hairs both in the crenatures 

 and around the base of the flowers. These present even 

 greater differences in their more brilliant coloring, in the 

 length and narrowness of the petals, in the almost terete 



