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alluded to, both of them, moreover, having been found in New Caledonia. 
Sanchezia nobilis variegata, one of the finest novelties of the season, we shall 
take another opportunity to describe ; meanwhile no grower of stove plants 
can do wrong in obtaining it. The Marantas of the above groups will be 
found noticed in a separate article (p. 124). DalechampiaIioezliana rosea (p. 80), 
Lomaria ciliata (p. 89), and Dichorisandra mosaica (p. 38), we have already 
described. The companion to the latter, D. undatci , is of less interest, though 
the dark green leaves longitudinally banded with grey, are curiously crimped 
in a series of transverse undulations. Messrs. Yeitch’s Begonia boliviensis, a 
native, as its name implies, of Bolivia, promises to be a useful decorative 
plant, and is certainly very distinct. It is a herbaceous tuberous-rooted 
species, of dwarf branching habit, with narrowly lanceolate and very un¬ 
equal-sided leaves, and drooping orange scarlet flowers, of which the sepals 
and the narrower petals are oblong-lanceolate, an inch or more in length, 
while the filaments of the stamens are united into a column. 
Gripnia hyacinthina maxima (Flore des Serres, t. 1G67-8), is, according 
to M. Yan Houtte’s figure, a very great improvement on the specific type 
which was met with in cultivation some years since. The new form is said 
to be from Brazil, and is fully twice as large as the older one in every part, 
the fiownrs, which resemble those of the old form in having some of their 
segments tipped and edged with blue, measuring over 4 inches across. It 
has, too, a stout bulb with a long tapered neck, and hence will probably 
be found less difficult to cultivate. Mr. Williams has flowered the Agave 
schidigera (Bot. Mag., t. 5641), a Mexican species, the margins of whose leaves 
throw off curious ribbon-like white filaments, closely resembling carpenters’ 
shavings. Mr. Fitch’s drawing represents it as producing a simple erect 
flowering stem, 6 feet high, the upper part of which becomes a cylindrical 
spike of smallish and not very crowded yellowish green flowers. The plant 
is nearly related to A. filifera, the two being, from their symmetry of growth 
and white variegation, amongst the most ornamental of their singular race. 
We may add that a beautiful coloured figure of Dalechanqna Iioezliana rosea 
has been published in the “ Botanical Magazine ” (t. 5640), and another of 
Magnolia Lennei, figured by us in our volume for 1864, in the “ Flore des 
Serres (t. 1693-4). This last is there stated to be of Italian origin, and to 
be the offspring of M. Yulan and M. purpurea. 
Among Orchids there is but little to record. The most important is 
Odontoglossum triumplians, a New Grenada species, for the use of the figure of 
which on the opposite page we are indebted to the editors of the Gardeners ’ 
Chronicle. The flowers, which it will be seen, are of large size, have a pure 
golden yellow ground, and are marked by dark cinnamon brown blotches, 
while the lip is usually almost white, marked also with brownish blotches ; 
the flowers, however, vary in tint and in marking, as is found to be the 
case with many other Orchids, a very notable example of which we have 
lately alluded to in Cattleya Warscewiczii. The Guatemalan Epidendrum 
cnemidophorum , which has pendent racemes of large flowers hanging from 
the ends of the long reed-like stems, proves to be a rather handsome ac¬ 
quisition, the flowers being yellowish and richly spotted, and has recently 
been exhibited from Oulton Park. Another species of the same genus, 
Epidendrum ebumeum (Bot. Mag., t. 5643), from Panama, flowered by 
T. B. Tuffnell, Esq., of Spring Grove, proves to be a rather showy plant, its 
broadly cordate ivory white lip being conspicuous ; but it does not reach 
the highest rank in this aristocratic family. 
Of Hardy Plants M. Yan Houtte figures the very beautiful Doclecathcon 
