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large, fragrant, full, globular, and stout in texture, 
the margins of the petals are reflexed, the colour 
yellow here and there passing to a creamy tint, and 
more or less suffused or tinted with rose. It is a 
handsome and d'-sirable variety in its section; lst- 
class Certificate R.H.S., June 12.—H. Bennett. 
Trop.eoc.um: (coiiPAcruM). Lustrous: a dwarf- 
growing form, with dark bronzy green foliage, and 
very finely formed flowers of a deep scailet colour; 
very fine and effective, and remarkably free ; lst- 
class Certificate, E.H.S., June 12.—R. Dean. 
NEW APPLIANCES. 
The Patent Reliance Rotary Valve of the 
Thames Bank Iron Co. successfully passed the scrutiny 
of the judges at the recent show of implements, &c., 
at South Kensington, and gained a Certificate of 
Merit. We were hence led to expect there was 
something in it, and on examination we find that it 
is a very useful invention, as the aunexed figures 
show. It will be seen that the handle is the indi- 
Three-way T Valve. 
cator, and that one half turn either way opens or 
shuts the valve, which cannot be strained or in¬ 
jured by over-turning. These valves dispense with 
the necessity for the ordinary complicated three 
valves, with their three handles—often turned the 
wrong way, and thus put out of order—and have 
complete control over the three waterways. It is a 
Tu ree-avay H Valve. 
most simple and effectual contrivance, and reduces 
misadventure to a minimum. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (May 19—June 
16) contains the following descriptions and illustra¬ 
tions of novelties :—Lendrobium Larveyanum , Rchb. 
f. (p. 624), a fine Birmese Dendrobe, with sulcate 
fusiform stems, and a lateral inflorescence of four 
deep yellow flowers having two orange blotches, the 
oblong petals ornamented with numerous close fringes, 
the lip round with an obscure callus, a rough surface, 
and strong fringes; E. Harvey.— Cattleya maxima, 
BacJchhouse’s var. (p. 624), a clumsy designation 
for a fine Cattleya, flowered 14 years ago by Messrs. 
Backhouse, and known by its stiff upright leaves, 
and dark-tinted rosy flowers; Sander & Co.— Cattleya 
maxima Loctoris, Rchb. f. (p. 624), named after Dr. 
Lindlpy, a variety with pale rose flowers figured in 
Hot. Reg .—G-reyia Sutherlandi (p. 624, fig. 100), an 
interesting and showy plant from Natal, with or¬ 
bicular-ovate fleshy notched leaves, and clusters of 
scarlet flowers, having a remarkable cup-shaped disk 
with stalked glands on its edge ; Rodger McLelland 
& C J.—Phalcenopsis Sanderiana , Rchb. f. (p. 656), 
a very fine new species comparable to a rose-coloured 
amabilis, with flattened roots, long leaves green or 
mottled, and panicles of broad-petalled flowers 
variable in tint, but with the sepals and petals 
varying from whitish-rose to rose-purple, and the 
lip white with cinnamon or purple stripes and 
yellow stems, having the callus white with brown 
or purple freckles, nearly horse-shoe shaped, with 
one blunt angle outwards on each side, “ and 
over it the narrower ascending blunt-angled arm 
emarginate.” Reichenbach calls it “ the finest 
Pbalmnopsis imaginable;” Sir N. M. deRothschild, 
W. Lee, Sander & Co.— Odontoylossum crispum 
guttatum xanthoglossum, Rchb. f. (p. 656), a fine 
yellow-lipped variety with a few cinnamon lines and 
a great 5-lobed cinnamon-blotch on the anterior part 
of the disk ; D. Todd.— Centrum Harticegiipubescens, 
N. E. Brown (p. 656), a very fine greenhouse plant 
resembling C. (Habrothamnus) fasciculatum, having 
elliptic or elliptic ovate leaves, and dense terminal 
panicles of bright crimson tubular flowers an inch 
long; differs from C. Hartwegii by its soft hairy 
calyx ; W. Bull.— Lendrobium Antelope , Rchb. f. 
(p. 656), an Eastern species allied to D. Burbidgei, 
with slender stems, 30 inches long, bearing short 
racemes of yellowish flowers; sent by Mr. Curtis 
from the Moluccas; Veitch & Sons.— Lendrobium 
infundibulum ornatissimum, Rchb. f. (p. 656), a 
grand variety, with very large white flowers having 
the blotches at the base of the column, and the lines 
on the disk of the lip cinnabar instead of yellow; it 
is nearest to D. Jamesianum, but that has a much 
narrower lip; G. Neville Wyatt.— Lendrobium 
cariniferum lateritium, Rchb. f. (p. 656), a variety in 
which the sepals are pale yellow, the petals white, 
and the lip brick red, with the anterior part yellowish; 
G. Neville Wyatt.— Saxifraga Camposii, Boiss. (p. 
670), the proper name of the Saxifraga commonly 
grown as S. Wallacei.— Rodriguezia luteola, N. E. 
Brown (p. 688), a small neat flowered epiphyde, with 
distichous cuneate-ligulate leaves, and 7—9 flowered 
distichous racemes of small yellow flowers, of which 
the sepals and petals are connivent; Eaton Hall.— 
Colax jugosus punctatus, Rchb. f. (p. 688), a variety 
in which the dorsal sepal bears numerous reddish- 
black hieroglyphical markings, the lateral ones being 
less thickly spotted; W. Lee.— Odontoglussum Cora- 
dinei hemileucum, Rchb. f. (p. 688), a pretty variety 
in which the sepals and petals are white with 
cinnamon blotches, and the lip and calli wholly light 
yellow ; W. Bull.— Cattleya guttata pliaenicoptera, 
Rchb. f. (p. 688), a variety in which the sepals and 
petals are of the deepest magenta purple, and the 
lip white or whitish, with the warts apparently 
distinctly arranged; Sander & Co.— Pritchardia 
Vuylsteheana , Wendland (p. 692, fig. 114), a 
fine new greenhouse fan palm, of short thick¬ 
set habit, with large deep green crowded leaves, 
introduced from one of the Pomotou Isles, in the 
Dangerous Archipelago.— Oncidium saltabundum, 
Rchb. f. (p. 720), a New Grenada species near O. 
porrigens; it has a zigzag inflorescence, bearing 
small short-lipped flowers, which are ochre- 
coloured blotched with brown ; Yeitch & Sons.— 
Odontoglossum elegans , Pollett’s variety, Rchb. f. 
(p. 720, fig. 118), another clumsy name for a very 
