GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 



Crawfuudia LUTEO-vntmis. A singular and very pretty climbing plant of the 

 Gentian order; a native of the Sikkim Himalaya. Introduced to Kew, where it has 

 flowered. The flowers are not showy, the principal beauty of the plant consisting in 

 its bright red fruit, which are an inch long, and produced freely from the axils of 

 the leaves, springing from the joints of the shoots. A greenhouse, or at least the pro- 

 tection of a frame, will be required to grow it successfully. 



Stem slender, twining. Leaves petioled, one and a half to three and a half inches long, ovate, ovate-cordate, 

 or ovate-lanceolate, bright green above, pale beneath, mottled with red as they get old. Flowers clustered in the 

 leaf axils and terminal, one and a half inches long. Calyx with a five-angled oblong tube, rounded at the base' 

 green. Corolla between funnel and bell shaped, tube green, limb white. Stamens inserted half-way down the 

 tube. Ovary stipitate, slender. Fruit an inch long, bright red, , fleshy. Seeds numerous— Botanical Magazine, 

 6539. 



Anguloa media. II. G. Reichenhach, f. In these times of hybrid Orchid raising, 

 when not a few of the most popular and beautiful species have contributed, by the 

 aid of the hybridist, to the production of still greater variety, it is no wonder that 

 the handsome Anguloas have been brought to add to the. already numerous and 

 charming crosses existent. For such the plant under notice would appear to be. 

 Anguloas are now much better grown under the cooler treatment found to suit them, 

 than they used to be with the over-warmth they often were subjected to. Associated 

 with the warmer division of the cool section of Orchids, their bulbs and leaves get a 

 size not attainable under conditions of more heat. 



Sepals and petals orange yellow outside, spotted with brown inside. The side sepals have an orange hne clown 

 the middle and an orange colour at the base, with brown pallid spots and lines. Lip, like A. Gloivesii, has the 

 very short anterior latinise, side lacinia3 reddish brown, disk ochre-coloured. Column yellow, with numerous brown 

 spots.— Gardeners Chronicle, N.S., vol. xvi., p. 38. 



CiiiNUM Forbesianum. Amongst the many cultivated species of Crinum, this is 

 one of the largest growers. It was introduced over half a century ago, but afterwards 

 lost sight of until again received at Kew, where it flowered in 1878. In the colour 

 of the flowers it seems to be near C. ornatum, which has conspicuous feathery red 

 markings down the middle of each petal. It comes from Delagoa Bay, and will very 

 likely succeed under the treatment of alternate growth and rest, during which latter 

 process the soil should be kept dry. 



Bulb very large. Leaves lanceolate-lorate, decumbent, three feet long, four inches broad, acute, glaucous, 

 distinctly ciliated. Scape ancipitous, pale green. Flowers thirty or forty in a dense umbel; spathe-valves 

 lanceolate-deltoid, three inches long. Perianth funnel-shaped ; ovary oblong ; tube cylindrical, three inches long ; 



