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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[March, 
an inch in length. Ist-class Certificate R.H.S., Feb. 
13. Introduced from Cochin-China ; Veitch & Sons. 
Calanthe Stevensii. —A pretty terrestrial 
Orchid from Cochin-China. It has stout jointed 
greyish bulbs, and erect hairy scapes drooping at the 
tip, about 8—10 flowered, the sepals and petals 
white, spreading, the lip three-lobed, the middle lobe 
bifid, white with a rosy-purple central spot, the white 
parts changing to buff as the flowers become aged.— 
Veitch & Sons. 
ChaMjEPEUCE SPRENGERI, Wittmach, Garten- 
Zeitung , 1883, 439, fig. 103.—A very pretty new 
Herring-bone Thistle, which is regarded as a hybrid 
between C. diacantha $ and C. Casabonse $. It was 
raised by MM. Dammann & Co., at Portici, near 
Naples, and has the habit of diacantha, but with some¬ 
what broader darker green linear-lanceolate leaves 
smooth on the upper side with pallid white nerves, the 
side veins running out into 2 or 3 marginal spines. The 
involucralleaves are green and smooth as in Casabonae, 
and the fragrant flowers which are white are in this 
respect unlike either parent. This novelty, if sown 
in March, forms in the first year handsome tufts of a 
picturesque character, furnished with an abundance of 
its pretty spine-edged foliage; in the second summer 
it produces flowers, some of the lower lateral buds not 
being developed till the third year. It is to be re¬ 
commended for rockwork and for carpet bedding.— 
Italian Gardens. 
Crat^gus Oxyacantha semperfloeens, 
Bruant, Cat. PI. Nouv., 1882, 8.—A perpetual- 
blooming Hawthorn, selected from a bed of seedling 
thorns, in which it had attracted notice from its 
being found to blossom throughout the sum¬ 
mer season, a habit maintained in the grafted 
plants, which do not cease to show their perfumed 
white flowers from spring until the close of the 
autumn. It forms a dwarf very bushy shrub. 
Specimens sent to M. Andre in August were 
reported by him to be in full bloom, the specimens 
showing at one time the results of three flowerings, 
namely fully grown fruits, recently set fruits, and 
abundant corymbs of blossoms. “ May in bloom,” 
says the fortunate raiser, “ taken to the flower-mar¬ 
kets in winter, would not fail to surpass everything 
else there,” and he hence suggests it may be a good 
shrub for forcing in pots. Kaised at Poictiers by M. 
G. Bruant. 
HeNDROBIUM FORMOSUM BeRKELEYI, Belli. f. 
{Flora, 1882, N. s., iv., 534; Id. Gard. Chron., N. s., 
xix., 110.)—This beautiful variety of the old I), for- 
mosum, itoxb., was noticed last year in the Flora, 
and subsequently in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, as 
above quoted. It bears flowers very freely from the 
sides as well as from the top of the stem. The petals 
are shorter and narrower than in the type, which 
gives it a very elegant funnel-shaped form. Some of 
the plants have a blood-red spot at the base of the 
column, which has a very good effect. It lacks the 
sweet scent of the old form, but is notwithstanding a 
very elegant plant.—Lt.-Col. E. S. Berkeley. 
Microglossa albescens, Clarice ( Bot'. Mag., t. 
6672).—A fine hardy or half-hardy shrubby Indian 
Aster, formerly cultivated as Aster cabulicus, but 
even now very little known. It grows 2—4 feet high, 
and has slender branches clothed as well as the under 
surface of the leaves with whitish pubescence; the 
leaves are lanceolate-acuminate, shortly petioled, 3-—5 
inches long, and the numerous flower heads, each 
about one-third of an inch across, form broad 
corymbiform panicles of a pleasing and showy char¬ 
acter ; the ray-florets are said to be pale blue, but 
are represented as light purple. It inhabits the 
Himalayan range, and flourishes at Kew against 
a south wall. 
Mimulus lttteus vaeiegatus, Lemoine, Cat. PI. 
Nouv., 1883.—A hardy and free-growing bedding 
plant, which can also be treated as an aquatic. It is 
described as a pretty variety, having the foliage 
spotted and bordered with white.—M. Lemoine, 
Nancy. 
Mimulus moschatus ruber. —A fine hybrid 
Musk, raised by Mr. Clapham, whose name is so 
intimately associated with the improvement of 
Mimuli. It is very dwarf and compact in habit, 
and produces comparatively large flowers of a reddish 
buff colour. It is very distinct and a remarkable 
novelty, richly scented with the odour of musk.—11. 
Dean. 
Odontoglossum crispum aureum magnifi- 
cum.—A finely-marked variety, possibly a hybrid 
between crispum and Andersonianum. It bears stout 
erect spikes branched at the base, and the individual 
flowers, which are creamy yellow, are three inches 
across, the sepals and petals blotched with chocolate 
red, the lip being of a similar colour. Very distinct 
and showy. Ist-class Certificate B.1I.S., Eeb. 13 ; C. 
Dorman, Esq. 
Odontoglossum crispum Scottii. — A fine 
creamy-yellow variety approaching Andersonianum, 
It has flat ovate pseudo bulbs, ligulate leaves, and 
large showy flowers, the sepals entire with large 
bold spots of chestnut brown, the petals coarsely 
toothed with fewer and smaller spots near the base, 
and the lip with prominent yellow crests ; Ist-class 
Certificate E.H.S., Feb. 13; G. F. Wilson, Esq. 
The variety was named after the exhibitor’s son, 
Mr. Scott Wilson. 
Phaljenopsis leucorrhoda alba. —A charm- 
ingly-delicate white-flowered form of this somewhat 
rare species. It has slightly mottled oblong leaves, 
and drooping spikes of pure w'hite flowers having 
the cirrhi of the lip well developed, the lower side 
of the base of sepals spotted with purple, and the 
upper side of the lateral lobes of the lip marked with 
deeper rosy purple dots and streaks ; Ist-class Cer¬ 
tificate B.H.S., Feb. 13.—Low & Co. 
Philadelphus ROSiEFLORUs plenus, Lemoine, 
Cat. Pi. Nouv., 1883, 3.—The single forms of 
Mock Orange rank amongst our finest hardy decidu¬ 
ous shrubs, and some handsome double varieties are 
already known. That named above is said to be the 
finest double-flowered variety yet obtained, the 
flowers being very large, full, pure white, with the 
wide rounded petals spread out and regularly im¬ 
bricated. Of garden origin.—M. Lemoine. 
Pleuropetalum costaeicense, Wendland MS. 
{Bot. Mag., t. 6674).—A subshrubby Amapanthad, of 
a showy character when in fruit and then worthy of 
stove culture—which it requires. It is of stoutish 
growth, with glabrous stems and leaves, the latter 
elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, 4—5 inches long, dark 
green paler beneath; the small green then red 
flowers grow in very large terminal and axillary 
panicles, and are succeeded by globose rosy red 
berries about the size of peas, and of a very showy 
character. The plant is interesting also for its struc¬ 
ture, and as it retains its brilliant berries for several 
months, is well worth a place in extensive collections; 
Central America.—Kew. 
Primula floribunda, Wallich {Gard. Chron., 
N. s., xix., 113, fig. 17).—A dwarf half-hardy per¬ 
ennial, with the general aspect of P. verticillata, but 
smaller. It forms tufts of spreading elliptic glandu¬ 
lar-pubescent coarsely toothed leaves, narrowed into 
a broad winged petiole, and numerous erect scapes 
4—8 inches high bearing whorls of small -clear 
chrome yellow flowers, with the limb from a quarter 
to half-an-inch in diameter. It is a native of the 
Western Himalaya from Kumaon to Kashmir, 
reaching an altitude of 6,500 feet.— J. Dickson & 
Sons, Chester. 
Spieanthes colorata maculata, N. F. Brown 
{Gard. Chron., N. s., xix., 210).—An exceeding^ 
