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plant, keeping it well raised up so that no water may 

 lodge about the stems. The best time to pot these plants 

 is about the beginning of November, after the shoots 

 have nicely risen to the surface. After potting, place in 

 a cool, moist, bat airy house or pit, not in too much 

 sunshine, and syringe overhead six or seven times daily ; 

 it is better to syringe than to water — in fact, the Disa 

 should never be watered with a pot during this stage, 

 but be kept continually wet in the foliage by syringing ; 

 the soil by this means will be kept sufficiently wet 

 without any additional watering. When the flower- 

 buds are nearly ready for expanding the syringe should 

 be laid aside and the water-pot called into use, com- 

 mencing again with the syringe as soon as the young 

 shoots make their appearance after the blossoming period 

 is over." 



ADIANTUM SEE MANN I. 



The true Adiantum Seemanni may now be seen in fine 

 condition in Messrs. Veitch and Sons Nursery at Chel- 

 sea. It is not only an exceedingly handsome and 

 compact plant (with some of the pinna) four inches long 

 and two and a half inches broad), but it is a very in- 

 teresting fern on account of the singular error made by 

 Dr. Seemann in sending home from Central America a 

 second species of Adiantum (really A. Wilsoni) under 

 the impression that it was the true A. Seemanni itself, 

 so named by Sir William Hooker in honour of Dr. 

 Seemann, the discoverer. Messrs. Veitch and Sons' 

 plant was found in Central America by their collector 

 Zahn, and has been exhibited under the provisional 

 name of A. Zahnii, but on a careful examination of the 

 plant by Mr. Moore, a gentleman who has probably a 

 better acquaintance with ferns than any one else 

 in this country, he has discovered that Messrs. 

 Veitch and Sons' A. Zahnii is really the true A. Seemanni 

 of Sir William Hooker, and the plants for some time in 

 the possession of Mr. Bull, previously supposed to be 

 A. Seemanni (and sent to Mr. Bull by Dr. Seemann 

 himself), really belong to A. Wilsoni. The fronds of 

 Messrs. Veitch's plant are more than two feet long, with 

 a slender, shining, black stipe, a thread-like petiole an 

 inch long, each stipe supporting from four to eight of 

 the magnificent pinnae above-mentioned. The plant 

 has been awarded a certificate by the Botanic Society. 



NEW ANTHUBJUMS. 



Messes. Veitch & Sons have in one of their new 

 plant houses three magnificent new Anthuriums, with 

 foliage of an immense size ; two of these plants have 

 been already described by Dr. Masters as new species in 

 the Gardeners' Chronicle for April 3rd last. The first, 



A. cuspidatum, has bright green leaves one foot seven 

 inches long and one foot broad. The plant was found 

 by Wallis in Columbia. The second is A. IVallisii, is 

 from the same place, and was discovered by the same 

 collector; in this the cordate elongate, oblong deep 

 green leaves are no less than two feet two inches long 

 and ten inches broad ; in both these plants the inflo- 

 rescence is small in comparison with the rest of the 

 plant. The third plant pushes its inflorescence right 

 above the gigantic deeply cordate leaves, which in this 

 instance are even larger than those of either of the 

 others, being no less than two feet two inches long 

 and one foot two inches broad. 



STENOSPERMATIUM WALLISII. 

 Under the above name Dr. Masters has recently de- 

 scribed (Gardeners' Chronicle, May 1st, 1875) the mag- 

 nificent new Aroid, exhibited by Messrs. Veitch and 

 Sons at the Royal Horticultural Society, under the pro- 

 visional name of Stenospermatium Wallisii. The plant 

 was introduced from Columbia by Wallis, and is, says 

 Dr. Masters, " one of the most beautiful and remarkable 

 stove Aroids known/' It is fully illustrated in the number 

 of the Gardeners' Chronicle above emoted ; and the plant 

 is said to be new alike to science and to gardens, forming 

 a new member of a genus which includes only three or 

 four species, natives of Peru, Columbia, and the Amazon 

 district. Judging from the profuse aerial roots, the plant 

 is probably a climber, but its most striking character 

 resides in its large ivory-white drooping spathes ; these 

 snowy spathes hang over in the most elegant manner, 

 displaying within, a large yellow and handsome pendu- 

 lous spadix. The leaves are thick, and of a deep green 

 colour, not unlike those of the common India-rubber 

 plant, so that, considered as a decorative plant of the 

 first class, few other Aroids can approach this fine 

 species. When the spathe is fully opened, it is studded 

 with small transparent indentations, caused by the pres- 

 sure of the flowers when in the bud state, and the 

 spathe is, moreover, tinged with a vinous tint where 

 touched by the pendulous spadix. 



CYPRIPEDIUM JAPONICUM. 



This great novelty from Japan has recently flowered 

 for the first time in this country, in one of the fern- 

 houses of the New Plant and Bulb Company, Colchester, 

 and the first bloom was kindly sent on to us for por- 

 traiture. As we shall shortly give a coloured figure 

 of this extremely curious, beautiful, and hardy plant, 

 we shall defer a full description till we give the figure ; 

 in the meanwhile we may as well say that the plant 



