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T. tricolor. — The flowers of this variety are white, 

 beautifully spotted with light purple, the tube bright 

 scarlet. 



T. Vesuvius. — Flowers bright crimson, streaked and veined 

 with blackish maroon ; very handsome. 



Ukoeolina. 



U. pendula. — A peculiar but handsome plant, very re- 

 markable both for the colour and shape of its flowers. It 

 is a member of the Amaryllidacece, and a native of the high 

 mountain regions of Peru, and will therefore stand in the 

 cool house well during the time it is in bloom, though, as 

 with us it is generally growing during the winter months, 

 it will no doubt be benefited by being kept in the stove or 

 intermediate house in its growing season. In general 

 appearance the plant resembles an Eucharis, but the flowers 

 are produced on a scape from twelve to fifteen inches long, 

 from the summit of which they depend most gracefully ; 

 they are of a bright golden yellow, tipped with green and 

 white. The Urceolina should be potted in a compost con- 

 sisting mainly of fibrous loam, with some good decomposed 

 manure, a little peat, and some silver sand being added. 

 It has beeij distributed under the name of U. aurea, but we 

 believe the name adopted by us is the correct one. This 

 plant is of easy culture, and should be in every collection ; 

 it will make a charming companion for Eucharis grandiflora, 

 independent of its own merits. 



Uteiculaeia. 



A very curious genus belonging to the natural order Lenti- 

 hulariacecB. It takes its name from utriculus, a little bladder, 

 applied to the inflated appendages of the roots, which some- 



