1883 .] 
REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
45 
cwt. 2 qr. empty, and 16 cwt. full. The larger sizes 
may be fitted with moveable shafts for pony or mule, 
in addition to the handle. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Botanical Magazine for February con¬ 
tains:— Billbergia Porteana, Brongn. [t. 6670], a 
Brazilian Bromeliad, of considerable beauty, now 
pretty well known In gardens, stemless, with long 
lorate leaves marked with whitish bands at the back, 
and a farinose peduncle bearing a lax drooping spike 
having at the base numerous large bright red bracts, 
the flowers having a farinose ovary with small deltoid 
calyx lobes, long green petals which in age roll up 
spirally, and purple filaments with long basifixed 
green anthers; Ivew.— Pogonia Gammieana , Hook, 
f. [t. 6671], a dwarf terrestrial Orchid, from N. 
India, tuberous and stemless, the leaves roundish- 
cordate acuminate, plaited when young and marked 
between the ribs with shallow pits deep green paler 
beneath, the petiole streaked with reddish brown; the 
flowers are in erect racemes or scapes 6—8 inches 
high, and are drooping with the streaked pinkish 
sepals and petals connivent or half-closed, the lip 
pale green ; Kew.— Microglossa albescens , Clarke 
[t. 6672], a hardy Himalayan shrubby Aster, re¬ 
joicing in no fewer than five generic names; it is 
erect-growing 2—4 feet high, with petiolate lanceo¬ 
late leaves bearing white pubescence beneath, and 
large corymbiferous masses of small azure flower- 
heads (shown as purple in the figure) ; known as 
Aster cabulicus ; Kew. —- Pseudodracontium La- 
courii, N. E. Brown [t. 6673], a distinct-looking 
Arad, figured by M. Linden as Amorphophallus 
Lacouri. It has three-parted leaves, each division 
of two or more oblong or elliptic lanceolate acumi¬ 
nate segments, green spotted with white, on slender 
erect petioles banded transversely with greyish-red 
and olive, as also are the scapes which support a pale 
green boat-shaped spathe 3 inches long, enclosing a 
spadix of about the same length, having a straw- 
coloured stipitate, bluntly - conical appendage; 
Cochin-China; sent by M. Linden to Kew.— Pleuro- 
petalum custaricense, Wendl. MS. [t. 6674], a hand¬ 
some half shrubby Amaranthaceous plant, with ellip¬ 
tic-lanceolate leaves 4—5 inches long, and small 
greenish flowers, becoming red, in branched pan¬ 
icles, succeeded by globose blood-red shining berries 
about the size of peas; Central America; sent to 
Kew by M. Wendland. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (Jan. 27—Eeb. 17) 
contains figures of— Masdevallia torta, Rchb. f. 
(p. 110), a curious Orchid, with stout cuneate 
ligulate acute bidentate leaves, and ochraceous 
flowers, striped and spotted with purple, the tubular 
portion wide, and the tails sulphur-coloured, the 
lateral ones twisted ; "VV. Bull.— Odontoglossum Jen- 
ningsianumparcegutiatum, Rchb. f. (p. 110), a white- 
flowered plant, with very few brown blotches; 
Veitch & Sons.— Liparis grossa, Rchb. f. (p. 110), 
a botanical curiosity, near L. pacliypus; with, thick 
pyriform two-leaved pseudobulbs, broadly ligulate 
obtuse leaves, and an erect raceme of brownish 
yellow flowers having a white lip and greenish 
column; Birmah ; Low & Co.— Lcelia anceps Perci- 
valiana, Rchb. f. (p. 110), a distinct variety, iu 
which the lip is truncate at the extremity, and the 
lateral angles and anterior margin mauve-purple; 
the front lobe of the lip white for two-thirds of its 
lower portion, and bearing thereon three keels, of 
which the anterior ends only are sulphur-coloured, 
the disk b ing light orange, the remaining anterior 
third being mauve-purple; R. P. Perciva), Esq.—- 
Dendrubium formosum Berkeleyi , Rchb. f. (p. 110), 
a very elegant variety, more fully described at p. 42 ; 
Lieut.-Col. E. S. Berkeley.— Odontoglossum macula- 
tum antennatum, Rchb. f. (p. 110), an interesting 
variety, in which an antenna-like styliform tomen- 
tose process is produced on each side of the base of the 
stigmatic hollow ; W. Bull.— Primula Jloribunda, 
Wall. (p. 113, fig. 17), apretty dwarf-growing yellow- 
flowered Indian Primrose, recently exhibited at 
South Kensington by Messrs James Dickson & 
Sons of Chester; see further p. 42. — Lcelia 
Crawshayana, Rchb. f. (p. 142), an exceedingly 
handsome epiphyte, supposed to be a natural hybrid 
(possibly albida X anceps, or as others think anceps 
X autumnalis); the pseudobulbs and leaves re¬ 
semble those of autumnalis, while the flowers, which 
grow about two on a long peduncle, have the sepals 
and petals shorter than in anceps, and of a fine 
deep purple or amethyst; the lip open at the base 
so as not to cover the column, the side lobes being 
bluntly angled, and the middle lobe cuneate ab¬ 
ruptly blunt, the tips of the former and the greater 
portion of the latter of the finest purple, the disk 
with a well-marked yellow median line, three keels, 
and dark purple divaricate veins ; D. B. Crawshay, 
Esq.— Lcelia irrorata Scottiana, Rchb. f. (p. 142), 
another supposed natural hybrid ( ? purpurata x 
Cattleya intermedia), the flowers of which have long 
narrow acute sepals and somewhat broader acute 
petals, both of a light rose colour, and a lip with long 
white side lobes lightly washed with purple at the 
edge, and an oblong middle lobe of the finest purple,, 
with a broad reddish-brown median line; H. J. 
Scott, Esq.— Trichoglottis cochlearis, Rchb. f. (p. 
142), allied to T. pallida, with thick leaves much like 
those of Sarcanthus rostratus, unequal-sided and acu¬ 
minate at the point, and flowers in short racemes, 
white with purple bars inside and outside the sepals 
and petals ; the thick spoon-like lip with a few purple 
blotches; the tip of the column is penicillate at each 
corner ; from Sumatra; Veitch & Sons.— Agave mexi- 
cana, Lam. (p. 142, fig. 22), a representation of a speci¬ 
men which flowered in the garden of Baron Ricasoli, 
at Casa Bianca, in Tuscany. The scape was about 25 ft. 
high, including the thyrsoid panicle consisting of 
forty-six branches each bearing near the extremity 
a tuft of its greenish-yellow flowers. — Agave 
Alibertii, Baker (p. 176), a remarkable species 
having a bulbous rootstock, and racemes of greenish 
flowers; see p. 41. — Odontoglossum tripudians 
Harryanum , Rchb. f. (p. 210), a very fine variety, ttie 
finest yet seen, having the sepals aud petals almost 
