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A woody climber, branching from the ground. Branches grooved ; tendrils opposite, revolute. Leaves one and a 

 half to two inches long, divided to the middle or usually deeper ; lobes parallel, oblong, with the outer edge, base, and 

 tip rounded, and the inner edge nearly straight, two to four nerved, bright pale green ; petiole one-half to one inch. 

 Corymbs terminal and on short subterminal branches, shortly peduncled, many-flowered ; bracts small, filiform. 

 Flowers rosy, one inch in diameter. Petals spreading, obovate-orbicular, margins crisped and crenulate. Stamens three, 

 perfect as long as the petals ; anthers and stout filaments bright red ; imperfect filiform with twisted tips. — Botanical 

 Magazine, 6621. 



Nepenthes lanata. This is not a plant of very recent introduction, having been in 

 commerce for a good many years, but nevertheless it is a species we can with confidence 

 recommend to cultivators of this singular genus, as it is one of the most distinct kinds, differ- 

 ing much in its general appearance from all others in cultivation both in form and colour. 

 In habit it is remarkably stout, the leaves in proportion to the pitchers are unusually broad, 

 but comparatively short. The colour is pale olive-green suffused with red. It thrives with 

 similar treatment as to heat, soil, and moisture, to that under which the other kinds from hot 

 countries succeed, but in the important matter of shade it differs from all others that we have 

 grown, as it will not do without it receives considerably thicker shade during the summer 

 months ; this is even better than hanging it further from the glass. The following descrip- 

 tion of this remarkable species is given by Dr. Masters in the Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., 

 vol. xvii., p. 178 : — 



Habit rather vigorous ; leaves deep green, glabrous above, paler and thickly covered with blackish hairs beneath. 

 The midrib is reddish and depressed on the upper surface, greenish and very prominent beneath. In form the leaves, 

 which are more than one foot long by two inches in breadth, are oblong obtuse, gradually tapering at the base into a 

 broad leaf-stalk. The tendril, like the pitcher, is thinly covered with coarse black hairs. The pitchers measure about 

 six by one and a half inches, are cylindrical, not in the least ventricose, winged on the posterior side next to the axis of 

 the plant, the wings toothed and fringed ; the mouth of the pitcher is ovate acute, prolonged anteriorly into a triangular 

 neck ; the peristome is finely and evenly ribbed, the ribs being ultimately of a reddish -brown colour ; the lid is oblong 

 or suborbicular, glandular on the under surface, with seven or nine nerves, three or four on each side of the central 

 nerve, which latter is prominent at the base, but becomes obscure towards the middle of the lid. 



Telopea speciossima. This old but very scarce plant was flowered during the spring 

 of 1882 in Sir George MacLeay's noted garden at Bletchingly, and was exhibited by his 

 gardener, Mr. Green, at one of the Royal Horticultural Society's South Kensington Meet- 

 ings. It is a Protead from New South Wales. Its blooming is a rare occurrence in this 

 country, probably through its not being rightly treated. The flower-head forms almost a 

 ball, some four inches across and as much in depth ; the close mass of individual flowers is sur- 

 rounded at the base by a number of bracts, which are lanceolate in form, turning upwards ; 

 the whole are red in colour. It is a most singular and showy flower. 



Tacsonia Parritje. The description that this plant — which is not yet distributed — 

 receives is such as to lead us to expect something altogether out of the ordinary character 

 that this most interesting and beautiful genus has yet afforded. Its colour alone, orange 

 shaded with salmon, cannot fail to give it a distinct appearance. It seems to have been in- 

 troduced by Messrs. Shuttle worth, Carder, and Co., from Tolima. Dr. Masters describes 

 it as follows : — 



Leaves glabrous above, three-lobed, pilose beneath, the stipules entire, subulate acuminate, the leaf-stalks channelled 

 on the upper surface and provided with' a variable number of sessile glands. Flower-stalks cylindrical, longer than the 

 leaves. Flower-tube long, slender, and glabrous, distended and sulcate at the base ; the five sepals are of a rosy-orange 

 tint, oblong-hooded, and provided with a remarkably deep wing terminating in an acute point, the wing being much 

 deeper than in any other Tacsonia of which we have any knowledge. The oblong-flat petals are considerably shorter 

 than the sepals, and are of a rich orange colour. — Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xvii., p. 218. 



