732 JOURNAL OF THE EOYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Bougainvillaea spectabilis var. lateritia {Bull Bot. Dep. Trin. 

 No. 32, p. 409 ; January 1902). — Records the production of flowers, 

 identical in every way with those of the typical form, by a seedling 

 raised from this, the brick-red-flowered variety. — E. A. B. 



Broom, Common, Varieties of the. By W. Goldring (Garden, 

 No. 1,590, p. 299 ; 10 5 1902). — Description of the four varieties, with an 

 illustration of the " Moonlight Broom " (Cytisus scoparius var. pallidus) . 

 This shrub, beautiful as it is and brighter than any other native flower, 

 by its abundance as a wildling in some places, is seldom considered 

 worthy of cultivation in the sens 3 that it should be in a garden. Yet no 

 shrub produces such a glowing effect of rich yellow, and is so valuable to 

 the planter in districts where it is not abundant in a wild state. People 

 often ask how Brooms are to be pruned when the plants get " leggy," as 

 in a few years they do. The answer is that nothing can be done to 

 make dwarf bushy plants from "leggy" plants. The better plan is to 

 start afresh with new plants, as " leggy " ones, if cut hard back to the old 

 wood, do not break afresh in a satisfactory way. The pruning of Brooms 

 must be continually carried out while the plants are still dwarf, and the 

 cutting away of straggling branches must take place so as to leave 

 vigorous green-barked growth below the cut-away parts. By doing this, 

 shapely bushes may be kept for years. — E. T C. 



Bryophyllum crenatum. By Sir J. D. Hooker (Bot. Mag. tab. 

 7,856). — Nat. ord. Crassidaccce. Native of Central Madagascar. A 

 plant at Kew is now 5 feet high. Flowers orange-red. — G. H. 



Bulb Mite. By G. Abbey (Journ. Hart. p. 272; September 18, 

 1902).- — An illustration of a bulb attacked by the mite is given. Soft 

 soap and paraffin or fir-tree oil are recommended as the best remedies. 



C. W. D. 



Burmannia Dalzieli. By A. B. Rendle {Journ. Bot. 477, p. 311 ; 

 tab. 411 ; 9 1902). — Description of a new species resembling B. tuberosa, 

 a Malayan species, found by Mr. John M. Dalziel ; parasitic on roots in 

 damp woods in China, from specimens in the British Museum Herbarium. 



G. S. B. 



Byblis gigfantea Lindl. By Dr. Hermann Ross {Gtartenflora^ 

 p. 337; pi. 1500; 1/7 02). — riate and description of this Australian 

 insectivorous plant belonging to the Lcntibulariaccce. — P. 



Byblis gigantea. By Sir J. D. Hooker {Bot. Mag. tab. 7846).— 

 Nat. ord. (?). Native of West Australia. Leaves 6-12 inches long, very 

 narrowly linear, terete. Flowers solitary, red-purple, nearly 1| inch in 

 diameter. Whole plant covered with glandular hairs. — G. H. 



Calanthe Masuca var. sinensis. By A. B. Rendle (Journ. Bot. 

 177, p. 310; 9/1902). — Description of a new variety, collected in China 

 by Mr. John M. Dalziel, of an Orchid described by Lindley from India 

 and Java, growing in wet woods at an altitude of 2,000 feet, from a 

 specimen in the British Museum Herbarium. — G. S. B. 



