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NOVELTIES. 
SELENIPEDIUM SARGENTIANUM, Rolfe.—A new Selenipedium has appeared 
among the importations of Messrs. F. Sander and Co., of St. Albans, from 
the Pernambuco district, making the fourth Brazilian species now known. 
One, however, S. Isabelianum, Rodr., belongs to the section Foliosz, and 
is allied to S. Chica, Rchb. f., the fruits of both being used like Vanilla. 
The second is S. vittatum, Rchb. f., which is still very rare in cultivation, 
and the third, S. paulistanum,' is, I believe, only known in Europe by 
description. The present one, however, is more nearly allied to §S. 
Lindleyanum, from Mount Roraima, in British Guiana, to which it bears a 
general resemblance in shape and colour, though it differs in a variety of 
particulars, and especially in the presence of a pair of small white tubercles 
on the inner margin of the side lobes of the lip, by which it may at once be 
distinguished from every other. It is dedicated to Prof. C. S. Sargent, 
Director of the Harvard University Arboretum, and editor of Garden and 
Florist. Its characters are set forth in the accompanying description :— 
Lycaste Rosstana, Rolfe.—This is a yellow Lycaste allied to L. 
cruenta, Lindl., but the flowers are a little smaller, and the lip is without 
the basal cavity and the broad transverse maroon band seen in that species. 
The crest is also different in shape, and the disc bears numerous longish 
hairs which are not present in that species; yet it is quite different from L. 
crinita, Lindl., which also has a hairy disc. It appeared in the collection 
of H. J. Ross, Esq., of Florence, Italy, in June of the present year :— 
Sepals lanceolate-oblong, subacute, nearly 14 lin. long, greenish yellow with a few white 
hairs at base. Petals elliptical-oblong, subacute, 8 lin. broad, deep orange-yellow with a few 
light brown spots near the hairy base. Lip three-lobed, faintly barred with transverse brown 
lobes rounded ; crest rounded in front, 2 lin. broad ; free apex scarcely as long, with some 
longish hairs on the disc. Column g lin. long, yellow, its face hairy and mottled with light 
red-brown, which is darker and more suffused near the base. Habitat not recorded. 
"S. paulistanum, Rolfe. Cypripedium paulistanum, Rodr. Gen., e¢ Sp. Orch. nov., 1. 
(1877), p. 203.— Hab. S. Paulo, Brazil. 
