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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[March, 
blackish inside, only tipped with light yellow, and 
with a few yellow markings at the base of the petals ; 
the lip light yellow, the base being almost wholly 
covered by the richest mauve; Yeitch & Sons.— 
Odontoglossum triumphans cinctum, Bchb. f. (p. 
210), a grand variety, with a finely developed 
inflorescence; the sepals and petals are yellow with 
maroon blotches ; the petals having small projecting 
angles ; the broad lip is neatly undulate retuse and 
emarginate, the claw and extreme base yellow, 
with the keels reduced, the rest white with 
predominant maroon blotches, one occupying the 
whole of the front portion, and smaller ones standing 
on each side; Yeitch & Sons.— Spiranthes colorata 
maculata, N. E. Brown (p. 210), a spotted leaved 
variety of the old Stenorhynchus speciosus; see 
p. 43. — Zamia Fischeri, Miquel (p. 212, fig. 29), 
though said to have been some forty years in 
European gardens, is scarcely known outside botanic 
gardens. It is a small neat-growing Cycad, with short 
fleshy stems, which bear a spreading crown of leaves 
composed of about seventeen pairs of narrowly 
lanceolate leaflets 2— 2\ inches long, and slightly 
toothed towards the tapering apex ; the female 
cones are cylindrical with a short apiculus, about 
2 inches long, and shortly stalked ; Kew. 
La Belgique Horticole (Oct.—Dec.) contains 
figures of Masdevallia Chimcera, lichb. f. [t. 13], 
“one of the most fantastic productions of the 
vegetable kingdom”; found in New Grenada by M. 
B. Itoezl.— Vriesea tessellata, E. Morren [tt. 14— - 
16], a fine species now flowering for the first time 
in Europe. Its bold rigid leathery channelled lorate 
leaves are beautifully tessellated, and its erectly 
branching flower scape forms a tall lax panicle of 
numerous small yellow flowers, which are not of a 
conspicuous character. It was formerly described 
as Tillandsia tessellata, and is a native of Brazil. 
This number also contains a systematic enumeration 
of the ornamental New Plants of 1881. 
The Gartenflora (Dec.—Jan.) contains Odonto¬ 
glossum Murellianum cinctum, lichb. f. [t. 1101], 
a variety with ovoid ribbed ancipitous pseudobulbs, 
cuneate oblong leaves, and lax racemes of white 
flowers, the sepals and petals having a mauve- 
coloured border, and the lip a few reddish-brown 
blotches on the side lobes and column, and a border 
of mauve-coloured spots along the edge of the front 
lobe ; J. S. Bockett, Esq.— JEthionema grandijlorum, 
Boiss. et Ilohenacker [t. 1102], a very pretty dwarf 
simple stemmed alpine perennial, forming a tuft 6—8 
inches high, with oblong linear leaves, and a profusion 
of large reddish-purple cruciferous flowers; Elbruz 
Mts.; Haage et Schmidt.— Tricliocentrum Pfaui, 
lichb. f. [t. 1103], a pretty Central American Orchid, 
of which the figure—a wood-cut—is reproduced 
from the Gardeners’ Chronicle. — Aphelandra pumila 
splendens, liegel [t. 1104], a handsome dwarf stove 
Acanthad, with lustrous velvety ovate leaves, and 
spikes of orange-scarlet flowers issuing from acute 
green bracts; liio Doce, Brazil; St. Petersburgli 
Botanic Gardens.— Delphinium cashmerianum, Boyle 
[t. 1105], a distinct hardy perennial, with 5-lobed 
hairy leaves, roundish in outline, and lax few-flowered 
racemes of deep purple flowers; Kashmir.— Aerides 
odoratum, Loureiro [t. 1106], a grand old Indian 
Orchid, of which a fine specimen is here represented 
by a woodcut from the Gardeners’ Chronicle. — Spi¬ 
ranthes euphlebia, lichb. f. (p. 3, 1883), a Brazilian 
terrestrial Orchid, with rosulate cuneate oblong un¬ 
dulated leaves, and a many-slieathed peduncle bearing 
a dense raceme of flowers, with the broad sepals and 
lip white veined with purple brown.— Rosa Alberti, 
Hegel (p. 15), a dwarf rose resembling B. pimpinelli- 
folia, the branches densely clothed with straight 
acicular spines ; the leaves have ovate acute sharply 
toothed leaflets, smooth above, pubescent beneath, 
and the flowers are white; Thianschan; raised in 
the St. Petersburgh Botanic Gardens. 
L’Illustration Horticole (liv. 1—2) figures 
Cypripedium Spicerianum, Bchb. f. [t. 473], one of 
the most striking and distinct of the Indian Lady’s 
Slippers ; it is remarkable for its bold white dorsal 
sepal with a purple keel, projected forwards over the 
lip.— Cherry Bigarreau des Capucins [t. 474], a 
large oblong obtuse pale red or amber variety with 
sweet white juicy crackling flesh.— Yucca gloriosa 
recurvifolia fol. var., Hort. [t. 475], a handsome 
hardy Yucca, with the leaves banded with yellow down 
the centre, noticed at p. 27.— Dendrobium bigibbum, 
Lindl. [t. 476], a fine Australian Dendrobe well- 
known in English gardens.— Arabia Gemma, Linden 
[t. 477], an extremely elegant stove shrub, with 
long spreading pinnate olive green leaves bearing 
numerous leaflets which are cut into small narrow 
lobes at the baseband terminate in a larger ovate seg¬ 
ment which is deeply toothed; New Caledonia; 
Compagnie Continentale d’Horticulture.— Cypripe¬ 
dium Lawrenceanum, Bchb. f. [t. 478], a rather 
highly coloured portrait of one of the finest of the 
Lady’s Slippers, discovered in Borneo, by Mr. P. ~W. 
Burbidge. 
Bevue Horticole (Feb. 1—16) contains 
coloured figures of Fuchsia Abel Carrihre, a hybrid 
obtained by crossing a form of globosa with corymbi- 
flora, retaining the twiggy habit and moderate foliage 
of the former, with something of the corymbiform 
inflorescence of the latter ; the leaves are ovate, the 
flowers short, suggestive of F. globosa, of a brilliant 
red, the corolla also of a rich blood-red ; it is remark¬ 
able for its extreme floriferousne-s; raised by M. 
Aubin, of Bagnolet, France. The other plate re¬ 
presents a group of hybrid Hellebores. 
Garten-Zeitung (Feb.) gives a coloured figure 
of Passijlora hybrida floribunda, Haage et Schmidt, • 
a cross between P. Loudoni and P. priuceps coccinea, 
with three-lobed haves, and racemes of 10—12 
coppery carmine flowers; the plate is suggestive of 
a badly coloured princeps. 
Bevue de l’Horticulture Belge et 
Etrangere (Jan.—Feb.) contains a group of Phlox 
decussata, consisting of the following varieties:— 
Marquise de Vogue, white, with deep red eye and 
purple throat; Chdtiment, crimson purple with violet 
throat; P.Lierval, rosy carmine, the segments edged 
with white; Corsaire, pale rose with vermilion 
throat; M. Pauchier, rosy lilac striped all over with 
lines of bright rose ; M. Queneson, bright rose with 
very dark eye. They are all first class varieties.— 
Group of Masdevallias including, Lindeni, Veitch- 
iana, amabilis lineata, and tovarensis. 
Bulletin d’ Arboriculture (Jan.— Feb.) 
issues plates of Pear Fondante Thirriot, a large 
pyriform fruit, greenish-yellow, nearly covered with 
brown dots, buttery, and having an agreeable per¬ 
fumed flavour, said to be a pear of the first rank. 
—Pear Forelle, a well-known variety of German 
origin, brilliantly coloured, and of excellent quality. 
Journal des Boses (Feb.) pourtrays H.P. 
Rose Madame Moreau, a large full bright carmine 
variety, of vigorous growth, raised from seed by M. 
Moreau, an amateur cultivator, and sent out in 1864 
by M. J. M. Gonod, of Monplaisir, Lyon. 
Jt appears that the Olive Tree thrives 
and bears well in California, and that it is 
profitable to cultivate it. The trees begin to 
pay at three years, and when five years old will pay 
all expenses of tillage and harvesting with a surplus, 
while the sixth year the crop will pay for the land, 
the trees, and the tillage for the five years previous, 
and, with good care, the increase is larger from year 
to year for a century longer. 
