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A. gigas a year or two ago. This year another species, A. 

 clypteata, has been illustrated in The Gardener's Chronicle. It 

 has been known for a good many years on the continent, but 



yellowish white, heavily mottled with purple. Another flow- 

 ering plant deserving of note is Thunbergia grandi flora var. 

 alba, a white variety of the species, introduced to Kew. Two 

 curious but extremely beautiful species of Utricularia or blad- 

 derworts, viz., U. Humboldtii and U. longifolia, have received 

 first-class certificates from the Royal Horticultural Society. 

 The former has pale lavender-blue flowers, the latter pale 

 mauve. These plants are semi-aquatic, and being frequently- 

 grown with orchids and of somewhat similar appearance, are 

 very often thought to belong to that family. ^ 



those whose beauty is in the foliage— a section that has always 

 been a more important one in the house than the flowering 

 group. Aglaoncma costal 'tan is a new and pretty addition to 

 the aroid family, introduced by Messrs. Veitch from the 

 Malayan region. Its leaves are dark, glossy green mottled 

 with spots of a clear ivory white. Two new dichorisaudras 

 have been exhibited by Linden, of 'Brussels: D. angustifoha 

 has long, narrow leaves, which are deep green penciled with 



the old musaica, but they are similar in marking. ^ 



and covered with a glaucous bloom. Maranta Sandcriana lias 

 shining bronze-colored leaves, striped obliquely with cream 

 color and pink. These two were conspicuous in a group of 

 twelve new plants shown by Messrs. Sander at the Inter- 

 national Exhibition of Horticulture in London, May 27, 1892. 

 ^ -'Otie ol the most ^promising palms introduced in recent 



group. A new podocarpus, P. pcctinatns, has been imported 



U.ng by one-eighth wide; 1 dark green, marked with a white 

 line at each side of the mid-rib, the under surface being 



