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flexuosa ; Dr. Cam.— Odontoglossum Jenningsianum 
limbatum, Rchb. f. (p. 808), a pretty variety having a 
sulphur-coloured margin around the sepals and petals, 
where O. Ruckerianum (also called Edithiac) shows the 
edge mauve colour; C. Winn, Esq.— Cattleya Scho- 
Jieldiana, Rchb. f. (p. 808), a fine novelty allied to 
granulosa, with slender stems 16 inches high and 
j inch in circumference, two leaves 6 inches long, 
and light greenish-yellow flowers, of which the petals 
are peculiar in being narrow at the base and very 
broad and blunt at the tip; the lip has the side lobes 
whitish, and the middle lobe rich amethyst purple 
covered over with lamellae and papulae; G. Law 
Schofield,Esq.— Cyrtosperma Johnstoni, N. E.Brown 
(p. 808), a remarkable and handsome Aroid the leaves 
of which are semi-erect, arrow-shaped, veined with 
red, on mottled petioles which bear irregular w'horls 
of stiff spines and flesh-coloured bands above the 
spines; the peduncles, which resemble the petioles, 
bear an ovate-lanceolate brownish spathe 5 inches 
long, enclosing a terete spadix two inches long; 
Solomon Isles.— Dendrobium ionopus, Rchb. f. (p. 
808), an Eastern Dendrobe of the Pedilonum sec¬ 
tion, with yellow flowers smaller than those of I). 
cumulatum, in short racemes ; it has two purple 
blotches on the flat three-lobed anterior part of the 
lip, and four red blotches on the trifid border of the 
androclinium.— Ccelogyne (Pleione) birmanica (p. 
840), a Burmah plant closely allied to C. prsecox, 
but differing in the more depressed bluish purple 
pseudobulbs, in the lip of the flower which is denti¬ 
culate not fimbriate, in the disk bearing three in¬ 
stead of four or five keels, and in the subentire not 
fringed anther bed; the white disk has several round 
or oblong brownish blotches; it flowers later than C. 
prsecox itself; Low & Co .—Agave Victoria Regina , 
T. Moore (p. 841, figs. 148, 149), this fine Mexican 
Agave has recently flowered in the Cambridge 
Botanic Garden, IJ. S.— Masdevallia porcelliceps, 
Rchb. f. (vol. xix., p. 10), the pig’s-head Masdevallia, 
so called from the resemblance of its minute buds to 
a young pig’s head; it is one of the interesting tiny 
species, with cuneate oblong-ligulate leaves, and 
yellowish flowers speckled with brown, the petals 
white, and the lip covered with brown warts; allied 
to M. campyloglossa; J. O’Brien.— Anthurium crassi- 
folium, N. E. Brown (p. 10), a fine plant supposed 
to be from Colombia, acautescent, with large ovate 
lanceolate bright green leaves as thick as cardboard, 
obtuse shortly mucronate, rounded and then shortly 
cuneate at the base, the under side yellowish green 
dotted with brown; the spathe is broadly-oblong, 
reflexed, light green; sent by Mr. Williams to 
Kew.— Lalia elegans prasiata indica, Rchb. f. (p. 
10), an unusually long name for a fine variety, in 
which the glaucous green sepals are margined with 
brown, the purple petals are green at the base, and the 
lip is splendidly coloured with “ the most brilliant 
white and the purest warm purple.”— Ribes Lobbii , 
Asa Gray (p. 11, fig. 1), a Californian species, with 
deep reddish-purple flowers, suggestive of fuchsia 
blossoms, figured in Rot. Mag. some 25 years ago as 
R. subvestitum; hardy; Kew.— Schaueria Jlavicoma } 
N. E. Brown, and S. calycotricha, Nees (p. 14), two 
handsome stove Acanthads usually confounded but 
distinguished by Mr. Brown, the former having the 
lanceolate leaves, narrower longer and more acumi¬ 
nate than those of the latter, the calyx being ciliate 
with numerous distinctly visible gland-tipped hairs ; 
while in the latter the leaves are broadly ovate with 
an obtuse or subcordate base, and the calyx is 
glabrous or very slightly puberulous; both are from 
Brazil, and are handsome decorative pi ants.— Calanthe 
lentiginosa, Rchb. f. (p. 44), a lovely hybrid Orchid 
between C. labrosa and, as is supposed, C. Veitchii; 
it has obpyriform bulbs, and white flowers chang¬ 
ing to ochrey-white ; the lip, which has three blunt 
keels, is large four-lobed, plaited, with numerous 
purple spots, and the flowers have a long curved 
hairy spur. Yeitch & Sons.— Trichocentrum Pfavi 
zonatum, Rchb. f. (p. 44), an interesting variety 
with flowers larger than in the type, which appears to 
yield many variations both in the form and colouring 
of the flowers.— Odontoglossum hebraicum lineoli- 
gerum, Rchb. f. (p. 44), a very pretty Orchid, which 
has been mistaken for a yellow crispum, the flowers 
being of a sulphur yellow with hieroglyphic markings 
of red-brown resembling Hebrew letters, and which 
in this case run out into lines and spots.— Alpinia 
mutica, Roxb. (p. 44), a noble Scitamineous plant 
from Bornea, noticed at p. 10; W. Bull.— Justicia 
campylostemon , T. Anders, (p. 44), a small shrubby 
Acanthad, about two feet high, with ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate leaves, and small white flowers spotted 
with purple; Natal; Kew. —Dendrobium chrysanthum 
anophthalmum, Rchb. f. (p. 44), a pretty variety 
without the usual dark spots on the brilliant yellow 
lip ; G. Marriott.— Pinus contorta, Hort. (p. 45, fig. 
5), a handsome hardy pine of bushy habit, with the old 
branches spreading deflexed or twisted, the leaf tufts 
each containing a pair of linear acute often twisted 
leaves densely set upon the branches; the elongate 
ovoid cones grow in pairs ; from California; Barron & 
Son.— Vitis gongylodes, Baker (p. 53, fig 8), a fine 
stove creeper from Para, with winged quadrangular 
stems, bold ternate leaves, and divaricate compound 
heads of inconspicuous flowers ; the extremity of 
almost every branch after a time swells into a tuber, 
quadrangular and winged like the stems, which be¬ 
comes disarticulated,falls to the ground, and produces 
a young plant; it has also adhesive disks at the ends 
of the tendrils; Cambridge Botanic Gardens.— Lalia 
anceps Calvertiana, Rchb. f. (p. 78), a beautiful 
variety in the way of Dawsoni, with narrower petals, 
and having the side lobes of the lip with a fine rosy 
edge, and the middle lobe wholly of a fine magenta 
purple, the purple lines on the yellow disk being 
lighter and not confluent; Joseph Calvert, Esq.— 
JLaplocarpha Leichtlinii , N. E. Brown (p. 78), ihe 
Gorteria acaulis of gardens ; a free-flowering peren¬ 
nial requiring protection in winter, producing nume¬ 
rous short shoots from the crown; the leaves are 
6—12 inches long, lyrate pinnatisect, the scape a 
foot long, tomentose, and the flower-heads 2—2£ 
inches across, the ray florets bright yellow stained 
with purple on the outer side; South Africa ; Kew. 
The Garden (Oct. 21—Jan. 16) contains plates of 
Imantophyllum miniatum Martha Reimers [pi. 359], 
the finest of all the varieties of this gorgeous plant; 
its massive heads of blossom contain numerous large 
flowers which are of an orange red colour, with a 
yellow centre ; of continental origin.— Viola pedata 
bicolor [pi. 360], a charming North American 
Violet, with slender pedately cut leaves, and moderate- 
sized lilac-blue white-centred flowers in whioh the 
two upper petals are of a deep velvety violet colour, 
forming a strong and beautiful contrast.— Telopia 
speciosissima [pi. 361], the Waratah of New South 
Wales, a grand Proteaceous plant, with bluish-green 
leathery cuneate-oblong toothed leaves, and large 
corymbose heads of peculiarly-shaped crimson 
flowers, surrounded by bracts of the same colour; a 
fine old plant now rarely met with.— Exacum 
macranthum [pi. 362], a very handsome stove 
perennial, growing about 2 feet high, and bearing, 
through the summer months, large deep blue flowers 
in axillary and terminal corymbs ; one of the hand¬ 
somest of the Gentianworts.— Cereus (Echinocereus) 
gonacanthus, Engelmann [pi. 363], a handsome 
Cereus from Colorado, with seven-ribbed stems, 
three to four inches high, simple or sparingly 
branched from the base, the areoles large orbicular 
distant, with robust angled straight or variously 
curved spines, the flowers near the apex, scarlet. 
