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Epidendrum antennieertjm. A singular Orchid with, inconspicuous long-tailed flowers. 

 Native of Xalapa. Introduced by M. Quesnel. Flowered by M. Pes- 

 catore. (Fig. 108 ; a, diminished ; 6, magnified.) 



E. antemiiferum (Amphiglottium) foliis coriaceis oblongis acutis, pedunculo gracillimo 

 apice subpaniculato, j>etalis longissimis filiformibus, labello ovato leviter dentato basi 

 trituberculato. 



This plant was originally found near Xalapa, by Henchman, who brought home a small 

 dried specimen without leaves, which was given us by the late Mr. George Loddiges. 

 Among the plants purchased of M. Quesnel by M. Pescatore, it was found alive marked as 

 a native of Gabon, a place in the province of Eio Janeiro ; but this locality is doubtful. In 

 many other species of the genus, especially among the Amphiglots, there is that tendency 

 to lengthen the petals, of which so striking an example was given in the long-tailed Lady's 

 Slipper (page 59) ; but in no other known species does it occur in anything like the same 

 degree as here ; and it is to be observed that in this Epidendrum the lengthening is an 

 after-growth, the petals being straight and short before the flowers expand. In the 

 annexed cut the flower at b is magnified : its real size is that of Epidendrum elongatum, 



Dendrobium (Pedilonum) Curtisii. II. G. Reichenhacli , f. 

 A distinct and very pretty Dendrobium, which flowered with Messrs. 

 Veitch. It is, we understand, one of Mr. Curtis's discoveries in 

 Burinah, and is evidently a free bloomer. No doubt it will require 

 a warm moist atmosphere during the growing season, in common 

 with others from the hot country of which it is a native. 



Pseudo-bulbs two and a half feet long. Flowers in the way of D. cumulatum. 

 Lip ligulate acute, bearing an angle on each side in front of the centre, and a retrorse 

 retuse flat horn at the base. Colour white, orange in the middle, amethyst at the top.— 

 Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xvi., p. 102. 



Senecio stenocephala, var. comosa. An herbaceous perennial, 

 from the neighbourhood of Hakone, and likely to be hardy. It was 

 shown during the summer of 1881 by Mr. Bull, at South Kensington. 



The flowers, which are yellow, are borne on moderately tall, erect stems, each of 

 which is furnished with several leaves. Flower heads six inches long. Bracts linear. 

 Involucre cylindrical, three times longer than broad. The yellow oblanceolate three- 

 toothed ray-florets are female only, solitary in the species, 

 three in the variety comosa, bent downwards ; florets of the 

 disk hermaphrodite, twice as long as the greyish-brown pappus ; 

 achenes glabrous.— Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xvi., p. 300. 



Gynerium argenteum. JSfees [alias Arundo 

 dioica, Sprengel ; alias Arundo Selloana, Sc failles) . 

 A tall reedy perennial, with harsh serrated leaves, 

 and large erect silky plumes of flowers. Belongs 

 to Grasses. Native of Brazil and Monte Video. 

 (Fig. 109.) 



This noble plant is now called the Pampas Grass, in conse- 

 quence of its inhabiting the vast plains of S. America so named. 

 Although but a Grass, it will probably form one of the most 

 useful objects of garden decoration obtained for many years. In 

 stature it rivals the Bamboo, being described as growing in its 

 native plains several times as high as a man. The leaves are 

 hard, wiry, very rough at the edge, not half an inch broad at 

 the widest part, of a dull grey-green colour, much paler below. 

 They are edged by shax-p points or teeth, little less hard than 

 the teeth of a file. The flowers appear in panicles from one and 

 a half to two and a half feet long, resembling those of the 



