GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 



Nepenthes Dojrmanniana. This is another of the fine hybrid Nepenthes which 

 Mr. B. S. Williams, of the Holloway Nurseries, has been the means of bringing before the 

 gardening public. It is thus described by Dr. Masters in the Gardener's Chronicle, 

 p. 525, vol. xvii. : — 



Leaves broadly lance-shaped, acute at the apex, and finely ciliate at the edges. Pitchers six inches long, by three 

 in breadth, flask-shaped, pointed at the base, distended below the middle, tapering upwards into a broad tube, the rim 

 of which is broad, finely -ribbed and slightly oblique ; wings deep fringed at the edges and rounded at the base. Ground 

 colour green, heavily spotted with deep red blotches. A very fine variety. 



Pinguicula caudata. The Pinguiculas known in cultivation are mainly plants more 

 of an interesting than an effective character, bearing somewhat insignificant flowers, but in 

 this species the leaves attain a size that give it a conspicuous appearance, and the flowers also 

 are remarkably handsome, rising well above the compact spreading tuft of leaves which form 

 a crown, making the plant look not unlike a dwarf growing Echeveria. .The scapes rise 

 to a height of six or seven inches, bearing the flowers on their apex. The colour of the 

 flowers is an intensely vivid violet-purple, reminding us of some of the dark shaded kinds of 

 Masdevallia. This seems identical with the plant shown some time previous by Mr. Sander 

 under the name of P. Balceriana, but is very much larger and finer than when first seen. It 

 is a beautiful plant, requiring little room. It comes from Mexico, where, we understand, it 

 occupies shady moist places. 



More or less glandular-pubescent in the leaves above scapes and calyx. Leaves in the young plant small, ovate, 

 acute, densely imbricate in an orbicular rosette ; in the older plant few, spreading and recurved, one to four inches 

 long by one and a half to three inches broad, obovate, obtuse, with a thick obscure midrib, dull pale green with dirty 

 purplish margins. Scapes five to seven inches long. Flower deep bright violet-purple. Calyx-lobes oblong or obovate- 

 oblong, obtuse. Corolla one to two inches in diameter; tube very short indeed ; limb spreading, deeply lobed ; four 

 lateral lobes obovate, with rounded tips ; lower lobe cuneate-obovate, tip broad, retuse. Stamens very short, included 

 in the tube, filaments glandular. Ovary depressed-globose glandular ; stigma sessile, very broad, transversely two- 

 lipped. - Botanical Magazine, 6624. 



Hoya globulosa. Although this species has much the general character, in its habit of 

 growth, and conformation of its flowers, with several others of the family — the Cunningham 

 Hoya (H. Cunnmghami) , for instance — still, from the cultivator's point of view, it is sufficiently 

 distinct to make it an acceptable addition to our warm house climbers. One advantage 

 possessed by this and other twining Hoyas is that they are not such coarse rampant growers 

 as many stove climbers are, consequently do not too much shade the plants grown beneath 

 them in the houses where they are suspended on the rafters overhead. Hoya globulosa will 

 no doubt succeed under like conditions to most of the other species, thriving in ordinary loam 



