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into the larger leaves of the fronds. Fronds triangular- ovate, recurved, of a clear grass-green ahove, paler beneath, 

 eight to ten inches long, dichotomously branched with numerous (twelve or more) successive furcations, the principal 

 branches about seven, the ultimate ones about four and a half lines -wide. Leaves close-set, spreading, fixed at the 

 posterior angles of the quadrangular rachis, oblong, subfalcate, unequal at the base, where the anterior side is 

 larger, rounded, and prominently ciliate, the rest of the margin entire, distinctly one-nerved, the nerve prominent 

 beneath ; smaller intermediate leaves ovate, cuspidate, serrulate, carinate, investing the two anterior angles of the 

 elevated rachis, the base decurrent on the outer side. Amenta usually in pairs, terminating the ultimate branches, 

 slender, one to one and a half inches long, tetragonal, the bracts ovate-acuminate, carinate, with a dark green keel, the 

 margins serrulate. —Gardener's Chronic'e, N.S., vol. xviii., p. 40. 



Tulipa Didieri. The present race of garden Tulips, the work of many generations of 

 Dutch and English hybridisers and seedling-raisers, is well known to every one at all 

 acquainted with gardening; but not so the many grand species now in cultivation, which, 

 although only known to the comparatively few who make a speciality of hardy bulbous 

 plants, cannot fail to be fully appreciated as their acquaintance becomes more general. 

 Bright and effective as many of them are, the subject of our notice may claim a position 

 besides the best. In general appearance it is like T. Gesneriana, ano trier very handsome 

 spesies, but, from a cultural point of view, by trie large deep purple blotch edged with yellow 

 in the centre of the flower, it is much more effective. It is found indigenous in Savoy and 

 Italy, and flowered at Kew in the open air in May, 1881. 



Bulb ovoid, an inch in diameter. Stem erect, one-flowered, a foot or a foot and a half long. Leaves three or four 

 to a stem, rather glaucous, the lower oblong-lanceolate, half a foot long, one and a half to two inches broad, the others 

 about an inch broad. Perianth erect, campanulate, bright crimson, two to two and a half inches long ; segments an 

 inch and a quarter to an inch and a half broad, with a large cuneate purple blotch with a yellow border covering the 

 whole claw to a height of nearly an inch ; three outer segments oblong, subacute ; three inner rather broader, obovate- 

 oblong, cuspidate. Stamens about an inch long ; anthers about as long as the glabrous filament. Pistil a third as long 

 as the perianth ; stigmas large, deeply channelled. Scent of the flower very faint. —Botanical Magazine, 6G39. 



Pints Bungeana. This interesting Pinus (the Lace-Bark Pine of China) produced 

 cones in 1882 in Mr. Kinghorn's Nursery, at Richmond, where we saw it during the 

 summer. The plant in question is a healthy specimen from ten to twelve feet high. In its 

 native country it is represented to attain a medium height. The branches are slender in 

 appearance, not unlike the Weymouth Pine {Pinus strobus) ; the smooth bark has a 

 greyish hue. It belongs to the three-leaved section, leaves about three inches long, pale 

 green in colour. An interesting species, remarkable on account of the outer bark peeling 

 off in flakes — like that of the Birch — showing the colour of the inner bark, which is a 

 light greyish-white. Dr. Masters thus describes it : — 



Leaves in bundles or tufts of three, with very short deciduous sheaths at the base; they are from three to 

 three and a half inches long, pale bright green, rigid, somewhat three-angled, owing to the prominence of the 

 midrib above. On cross section a double layer of hypoderm cells is seen, with resin canals beneath the surface 

 (peripheral). Cones latetal, two to two and a half inches long, ovate ovoid obtuse, scales with a fiat four-sided 

 top marked with a transverse ridge, from whose centre protrudes a small hooked prickle.— Gardener's Chronicle, 

 N.S., vol. xviii., p. 8. 



