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expansion, are given. Male specimens are known neither in Italy, 

 Palermo, nor the Eiviera. But in Mr. Hanbury's garden at La Mortola are 

 some plants which, although they have not flowered, are suspected of 

 being male. Miquel mentions a male specimen cultivated in the Botanic 

 Garden of St. Petersburg which flowered twice before 1839. About 

 1850 there is mention of one in flower at Sheffield. In 1891 Nicholson 

 describes a male plant flowering in the neighbourhood of London. 

 Travellers assert that in their native countries the male plants are rare as 

 compared witii the female ; Thunberg saw none in Japan, Kegel searched 

 in vain for them in Surinam, and in some parts of Japan the plant 

 even now fails to mature its fruit owing to the absence of male indivi- 

 duals. The author mentions the propagation of Cycas by bulbs, and the 

 preference given to the female plants in the East, owing to its producing 

 a better quality of sago and in greater quantity than the male. A short 

 diagnostic sketch of the characters is given. Accompanying the article 

 is a good photograph of a male cone, and two woodcuts of stamens. 



W. C. W. 



Cyclamen pseud-ibepicum nov. sp. By Frederick Hildebrand 

 {Gartenflora, p. 573, 1/11/1901). — A detailed account of an apparently 

 undescribed species of Cyclamen sent to the author by C. G. von Tubergen, 

 jun., of Haarlem. Its origin is at present unknown. The plant resembles 

 C. ibericum in its -flower, but the corm has a corky surface instead of a 

 hairy one. The flowers, which appear in spring, are fragrant, reddish- 

 violet, with a pure white ring round the throat of the corolla, flecked with 

 a dark-violet spot.—/. P. 



Cyclamens of Dresden, The Frilled. By Franz Ledien {Garden^ 

 No. 1,580, p. 139; 1/3/1902). — An illustrated notice of a new race of 

 Cyclamens raised and fixed in the nursery of Alwin Richter at Dresden. 

 The parent type, C. ])ersicum giganteum, was imported from England 

 some twenty years ago. A full description of the flowers and the colours 

 is given.— A\ T. C. 



Cymbidium x eburneo-Lowianum mureauense (Otto Ballif 

 in Chron. Orch. p. 323; 5/1901).— Raised by M. C. Vive, of Mureaux 

 (Seine-et-Oise, France), out of C. Lowianum concolor by C. eburneum. 

 Segments of the flowers cream-white, lip narrowly margined with purple ; 

 the peculiar yellow tint of the flowers recalls that of the parent C. L. con- 

 color.— C. C. H. 



Cypripedium x Albertianum rotundiflorum (L. Linden in 

 xvi. pi. 734 ; 1/5/1901).— A hybrid raised from C. Sjncerianum 

 and C. insigne Wallcicei, and hence a variety of Papliiopedilum x Leeanum. 

 Flower large and broad, with the upper, sepal, petals, lip, and staminode 

 strongly sufi:used with rosy purple. — C. C. H. 



Cypripedium x bruxellense, L. Lind. (L. Linden in Lind. 

 xvi. pi. 751 ; 5/9/1901). — A hybrid between C. Bothschildianum and 

 C. venustum, raised by Messrs. Linden, of Brussels. Fairly intermediate 

 in form and colour ; petals long and broad, covered with large spots, 

 staminode curiously near to C. Bothschildianum. — C. C. H. 



