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REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
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variety, a robust grower, the liaulm standing up well, 
like that of Magnum Bonum; a white kidney, broad 
tubers, a heavy cropper, splendid table quality, and 
a good keeper; a cross between Vicar of Lileham 
and Woodstock Kidney. This should displace all 
inferior main-crop varieties.— It. Dean. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (Nov. 25 — Dec. 16) 
contains descriptions of Trichomanes LLartii, Baker 
(p. 680), a new species from Sierra Leone, introduced 
by Dr. W. H. Hart. It is allied to the least divided 
forms of T. rigidum, especially T. Boivinii, and has 
tufted stipes, deltoid tripinnatifid fibrillose fronds, 
with the ultimate segments oblong-obtuse, and the 
sori placed on exserted receptacles in narrowly 
funnel-shaped involucres, which are truncate, not 
dilated at the mouth.—Trinity College Botanic 
Garden, Dublin. Spiraea bullata, Maxim, (p. 680), 
a very pretty dwarf shrub, 12—18 inches high, with 
erect wiry branches clothed with reddish down, 
subsessile glabrous ovate oblong crenate leaves, half- 
an-inch long, and dense terminal corymbs of rosy- 
lilac flowers.—Dodger McClelland & Co. Odonto- 
glossum marginellum , Rchb. f. (p. 680), a curious 
species in the way of O. angustatum and O. tetraplasi- 
um, with light ochre-coloured flowers, the lanceolate 
sepals and petals as well as the column marked with 
brown spots, the lip blackish red-brown, with a 
yellow front edge and yellow tips to a few of the 
calli.—Dr. Wallace and Dr. Boddaert. Dendrobium 
Eimanni, Rchb. f. (p. 680), a stately Dendrobe from 
the Moluccas, with cylindrato-fusiform stems, broad 
oblong very leathery leaves, and zigzag racemes of 
yellow flowers, having a white lip with purple 
reticulations.—F. Sander & Co. Phalcenopsis violacea 
Schroederiana, Rchb. f. (p. 6S0), a variety in which 
the flowers are large and more brilliantly coloured 
than in the type. The lower half of the sepals and 
petals is covered with broken purple-mauve lines. 
—Veitch & Sons. Finns latisquama, Engelmann 
(p. 712, fig. 125), a new Pine from the mountains 
south of Saltello, Mexico, and belonging to the 
group of Pinasters. The leaves, which are short, 
very slender and serrulate, grow in fives, and the cones 
are ovate-cylindrical, 3 inches long, with very broad 
obliquely rhomboid shining chestnut-brown scales. 
It is most nearly allied to the cembroid or nut-pines. 
Discovered by Dr. E. Palmer, in 1880. JEucharis 
Sanderi (p. 712), a bulbous stove plant likely to 
prove ornamental and useful. The flowers by com¬ 
parison with the older kinds have a shorter tube, and 
a less spreading limb to the perianth, while the corona 
is almost suppressed.—F. Sander & Co. Calanthe 
bracteosa, Rchb. f. (p. 712), a terrestrial tropical 
Orchid from the Samoan Islands and Viti. The 
long-petioled leaves are oblong-lanceclate; and the 
hairy peduncle supports a rich spike of slender- 
spurred white flowers, remarkable for the free 
development of the bracts, which equal or overtop 
the flowers.—Compagnie Continental d’Horticulture. 
Pellionia Daveauana viridis , N. E. Brown (p. 712), 
like the type, except in having the leaves of a 
uniform bright green ; from Cochin China. Pellionia 
pulchra, N. E. Brown (p. 712), a creeping stemmed 
stove plant from Cochin China, with alternate 
petiolate stipulate obliquely-oblong obtuse leaves, 
which are blackish along the mid-rib and veins, 
the interspaces being green, affording a pretty 
variegation. — Compagnie Continentale d’Horti- 
culture. Pteris serrulata Cowani, T. Moore (p. 744), 
a dwarfish variety of the crested form of P. serrulata, 
remarkable for its ramose stipes, its short obloDg 
blunt-ended multifid branches, its flabellately- 
crested pinnae, wflth one or two pinnules on the 
posterior side of the lower ones.—J. Cowan. 
Lastrea Hopeana, T. Moore (p. 744), an elegant 
South Sea Island Fern, growing 1\ to 2 feet high, 
with slender stipes, the fronds ovate or subdeltoid in 
outline, pinnato-pinnatifid, the fronds and pinnae 
caudate, the latter cut deeply into narrow evenly-set 
segments ; a graceful stove fern, useful for decorative 
purposes.—Yeitch & Sons. Lastrea prolifica, T. 
Moore (p. 744), an interesting and ornamental hardy 
evergreen fern, with coriaceous dark green deltoid 
bipinnate fronds, in which the pinnules are usually 
linear acute and somewhat falcate, but are apt to 
vary. The under surface bears throughout large sori 
which are red-centred with lead-coloured margins, 
and the upper surface gemmiparous in the axils 
of the segments and on the margins. From 
Japan.—Bull and Yeitch & Sons. Phalcenopsis 
speciosa, Rchb. f. (p. 775, figs. 130—132), one of the 
pretty small-flowered species, allied to P. tetraspis; 
it has white flowers blotched and streaked with rosy 
purple. There are some varieties as P. s. imperatrix, 
Berkeley, a form with deep rosy purple flowers, 
having the two side lobes of the lip yellow, and the 
column white; and P. s. Christiana , Berkeley (fig. 
131), with the sepals and column rosy purple, and 
the petals white. All the varieties are sweet-scented. 
Polgstichum vestitum grandidens, T. Moore (p. 776), 
a rather striking variety of a fine evergreen green¬ 
house fern. It was raised by Mr. Anderson, at 
Singleton Park, Kendal, and has lanceolate or ovate 
fronds with a narrowed and extended apex ; the 
bipinnate fronds have the pinnules unequal, but for 
the most part cuneate or obovate with the edges 
inciso-dentate, as in the British P. angulare grandi¬ 
dens ; the fronds are also proliferous at the apex ; a 
distinct and interesting variety. Agave bracteosa, 
S. Watson (p. 776, figs. 138—139), a stemless Agave, 
with a rosette of 10—15 lanceolate or broadly-linear 
fleshy greyish-green leaves 18 to 22 inches long, 
narrowed gradually to the herbaceous point, and 
serrulate with cartilaginous teeth at the edge. The 
flower stem grows about 3 feet high, of which about 
half consists of a dense spike of small short-tubed 
flowers which grow in pairs, and amongst which the 
bracts are conspicuous. Found near Monterey bv 
Dr. E. Palmer.—Cambridge Botanic Garden, U.S. 
Grammatophgllum elegans , Rchb. f. (p. 776), a very 
elegant species from the South Sea Islands, near G. 
Fenzlianum, the pseudobulbs in the way of those of 
G. multiflorum, the peduncle erect, a foot high, with 
seven fine flowers of which the oblong rounded 
sepals are sepia brown with light yellow edges, the 
smaller petals of similar colour, and the lip ochre 
with the front edge brown.—B. S. Williams. Lcelia 
amanda, Rchb. f. (p. 776), a very fine Orchid, with 
thin fusiform bulbs, cuneate ligulate acute leaves, 
and handsome flowers growing in pairs. The sepals 
are oblong ligulate, the petals broader and wavy, 
both of a light rose, with darker tinted nerves at the 
base of the latter; the lip with a cordiform base, 
which covers the base of the column, trifid in front, 
and of a rich dark purple, ihe disk marked with a 
very rich purple venation ; it is doubtless of hybrid 
origin.—Bull. Lcelia monophylla, N. E. Brown 
(p. 782), the West Indian Trigonidiummonophyllum, 
a remarkable plant, with a single leaf and a slender 
one or two-fiowered peduncle bearing an orange- 
scarlet flower, about as large as a floriD, the lip 
remarkable for its very small size.—Kew r . 
The Botanical Magazine for December con¬ 
tains :— Haniamelis japnnica, Siebold et Zucc. [t. 
6659], a hardy Japanese deciduous shrub; it has 
obovate - elliptic sinuately-toothed strongly - nerved 
leaves, and rather attractive flowers, which appear on 
the leafless twigs in spring in close globose heads, 
and consist of a revolute dull-red calyx, and long 
strap-shaped wavy golden-yellow petals, which render 
the leafless boughs really attractive and ornamental. 
—Yeitch & Sons. Fallugia paradoxa, Endlicher 
