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THE NEW PLANTS OF 1870. 
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leaves, and white flowers, having a yellow corona; and Dioscorea retusa , a 
tuberous-rooted South African yam, with handsome digitate leaves, and pendent 
catkin-like racemes of dull yellow flowers, not showy, but extremely elegant. 
Among Succulents, Cereus fulgidus , the origin of which is unknown, a species 
having tall angular stems, and long, showy, orange-scarlet flowers, may claim the 
first place. Another very fine plant in its class is Aloe ( Gasteria ) Croucheri , 
which has unequally trigonous, dark-green leaves, marked with whitish spots, and 
bears panicled racemes of pale-rosy, curved flowers, greenish-white at the tips. 
Of the interesting group of Agave the following may be noted :— A. Elemeetianci , 
A. filamentosa , A. heteracantha , A. horrida , and A. Bessereriana , species very 
various in character, but all desirable and ornamental. 
Hardy Herbaceous Perennials have yielded some real gems for the outer 
garden. Campanula Raineri is a close dwarf species from Switzerland, with 
large, conspicuous, blue, funnel-shaped flowers. In Delphinium nudicaide , from 
California, we have a second orange-red Larkspur, which promises to be manage¬ 
able, and is very showy when in blossom. Eritrichium nanum is a densely tufted 
rock plant, from the European Alps, which becomes covered with a sheet of bril¬ 
liant azure blossoms. Iris violacea is a fine Caucasian species, with deep violet- 
purple flowers; and Iris iberica , from the same country, and in the way of I. susiana, 
is a noble species, of dwarf habit, with very large flowers, the erect segments white, 
the deflexed ones yellowish-green with dark purple reticulations. Kniphofia for 
Tritoma) prcecox , a South African plant, is said to be like K. Uvaria, but early- 
flowering, producing its blossoms about the middle of May. Mimidus Tilingii 
is a Californian species of Monkey-flower, with showy yellow blossoms closed in 
the throat. CE/iothera marginata , another native of California, is a remarkably 
showy plant, of dwarf habit, with lanceolate leaves, and the pure white flowers 
as much as 4 in. across. 
The hardy Bulbs, a favourite class of plants, have received some good acces¬ 
sions. Most prominent is the Brodicea coccinea , which we figured last year, quite 
hardy, and one of the finest of border bulbs, its long tubular blood-red flowers 
tipped with green being extremely handsome ; it is a Californian plant, as also 
is Calochortus Leichtlinii , which has large expanded white flowers, each of its 
three petals having a deep purple blotch. Liliums seem to have engaged special 
attention, having received many accessions, the most important of which are 
L. tigrinum jlore-pleno , the double Tiger Lily, and L. tigrinum splendens , a variety 
immensely superior to the ordinary form. L. Thunbergianum jlore-pleno is 
another interesting double-flowered Lily ; and L. longijlorum albo-marginatum 
has white-edged leaves. The White Hoop-Petticoat, Narcissus monophyllus , 
forms a welcome addition to its family; while in Grape Hyacinths, Muscari 
grandifolium and M. Ileldreichii , the former with dark-blue, the latter with 
light-blue flowers, have to be added to our lists. 
Godetia Whitneyi and Leptosiphon roseus are the only two annuals we have 
