GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 



Ixora regina. Amongst the many seedling varieties o£ these fine evergreen stove 

 plants which have been raised in recent years, this is one of the most distinct. It was 

 awarded a First Class Certificate by the Floral Committee, before whom it was shown by the 

 raiser, Mr. John Eraser, of the Lea Bridge Road Nurseries. Like the rest of the Ixoras, 

 which are the finest of stove plants, it will require a warm stove to grow it well, with 

 moderate pot room, using good fibrous peat Avith a medium amount of sand added. Even in 

 the winter season all the species and varieties require that the soil should be kept fairly moist, 

 as being evergreen, they will not bear it getting too dry. 



The flowers are bright orange, with, a slight tinge of pink. It is a profuse bloomer, the trusses of flower literally 

 covering the plant. 



Nepenthes Rajah. Hoo7c,f. Long written and spoken of, living plants are at last 

 available. It is twenty-five years since we first saw dried pitchers of this wonderful plant 

 brought home by the collector Henshel, on returning from his long trip in the East, where 

 he had been out for the Messrs. Rollisson. Messrs. Veitch have now succeeded in raising 

 plants from seeds brought by Mr. Burbidge from Borneo, who also secured well-dried 

 pitchers that, although, as they undoubtedly are, to some extent shrunk, give a fair 

 idea of the remarkable size and form of this prince of pitcher plants. A fine young 

 example v/as exhibited by Messrs. Veitch, before the Floral Committee of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society at South Kensington, in October, 1881, and was unanimously 

 voted a First Class Certificate. The colour is dull purple, the whole character of the plant 

 strong and vigorous, promising to be one of the greatest acquisitions that have ever been 

 introduced, and a welcome addition to our already numerous plants possessing singular 

 leaf development. Like others of the family, it will require a high temperature to grow 

 it successfully, accompanied by a moist atmosphere, and the soil during the growing season 

 all but saturated with water. 



Leaves coriaceous, glabrous, oblong, tapering at the base into a conduplicate channelled-leaved stalk, apex rounded, 

 tendril given off, not from the apex as usual, but from the under-surface, a short distance below the apex. Pitchers 

 dull purple, pilosulous, broadly cylindric or slightly saccate, slightly dilated at the base, ribbed ribs slightly fringed ; 

 mouth very broad, oval, purplish, closely ribbed, ribs ending in sharp comb-like points ; lid suborbicular, spurred 

 at the back, smooth within. Borneo, Kina Balou; altitude 5,000 feet.-— Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xvi., p. 492. 



Kniphopia uvaria, var. maxima. Most people at all acquainted with herbaceous plants 

 know the common Kniphofia uvaria, or, as more generally called, the Red-hot Poker 

 Plant, of which this is a distinct form. It comes from the Orange Free State. Like 

 the red kind, it will thrive out of doors in ordinary garden soil, but should have some 

 protection in winter. 



