GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 



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And rosace foliosa. A pretty and extremely free- flowering' species of these interesting 

 plants, from the upper regions — 8,000 to 12,000 feet— of the Western Himalaya. The 

 plant, we understand, was raised from seed by Isaac Anderson Henry, Esq., an enthusiastic 

 cultivator of hardy plants, with whom it commenced to flower in the spring of 1882, con- 

 tinuing to bloom all through the summer. In the form of the flowers it is like some of the 

 later introduced Primulas ; the flowers appear in closely tufted umbels, are individually about 

 half an inch in diameter, and of a light flesh colour. 



Whole plant hairy. Root-stock woody, about the size of a nut, without stolons, sending up one or more 

 short stems, two inches high, red in colour. Leaves two or three inches long, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse 

 or acute, deep green, hairy on both surfaces, narrowed into a petiole half as long as the blade or longer. Scape 

 solitary, stout, erect, three to five inches high. Umbel many flowered ; bracts linear, or obovate, and sometimes 

 leafy in cultivated ones ; pedicels one-fourth to three-fourths of an inch long. Calyx lobes oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtuse. Corolla one-third to half an inch in diameter, pale flesh-coloured ; mouth contracted, thickened, 

 greenish; lobes orbicular-obovate, tips rounded. Stamens minute, filaments very short. Ovary turbinate. — 

 Botanical Magazine, 6661. 



Phal^enopsis speclosa (Rehh.,/.), var. Christiana (Korb. Berkeley). We have not 

 seen this plant, but from the account which Professor Reichenbach gives of it, it will no 

 doubt be an acceptable addition to the numerous species that have in recent years been 

 discovered. In general appearance it will doubtless be like P. Lwdclemaymiana , and if it 

 turns out to be as easily managed and as little liable to get out of health as that well- 

 known kind, it is sure to be highly esteemed. The great Orchid authority thus speaks 

 of it : — 



This is a charmingly distinct variety — quite a surprise. Instead of the flowers being either blotched or barred 

 with rosy-purple, the sepals and column are rosy-purple, the petals being pure white, giving the plant a most elegant 

 and singular appearance. Sometimes the whole of the flowers on the stem will be the same, but occasionally 

 Nature forgets her pretty fashion, and an odd petal is also rosy-purple. — Gardeners Chronicle, N.S., vol. xviii. , 

 p. 745. 



Primula Sikkimensis. Hooker. A yellow-flowered Primrose from Sikkim- Himalaya, 

 with something the appearance of an Oxlip. Flowers in May. Introduced at Kew. 



" Among the drawings sent home by Dr. Hooker from Sikkim-Himalaya is one of a yellow Primula of which that 

 traveller relates, ' It is the pride of all the Alpine Primulas, inhabits wet boggy places at elevations of from 12,000 

 to 17,000 feet at Lachen and Lachong, covering acres with a yellow carpet in May and June.'" It is, perhaps, the 

 tallest Primula in cultivation, and very different from any hitherto described. Stemless. Leaves all from the root, 

 erecto-patent, eight to nine inches to a foot long (including the petiole), obovato-oblong, thin and submembranaceous, 

 but strongly reticulato-venose, not farinose, obtuse, the margin doubly and sharply toothed, the thickened midrib and 



