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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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fine variety of O. elegans, tlie flowers panicled, 
stellate, tlie sepals and petals white, with spots of 
the deepest chocolate, and the lip with a golden 
yellow disk and chocolate margins and blotches; 
H. M. Pollett.— Adiantum novce-caledonice, Keyser- 
ling (p. 720), a distinct new Maidenhair fern, grow¬ 
ing about a foot high, the caudex tufted, the stipes 
black, the fronds tripinnate, and pedately-pentangular 
in outline, the lower pair of pinnules having the 
posterior pinnules larger than the anterior ones, tlie 
pinnae narrow lanceolate, the pinnules lanceolate 
attenuated, and the sori circular with cordate- 
orbicular indusia; from New Caledonia; W. & J. 
Birkenhead.— Cattleya nobilior, Echb. f. (p. 728, 
fig. 120), a fine novelty, closely allied to C. Walkeriana, 
but larger in its parts, and producing finer flowers of 
a pleasing rose colour, the lip very prominent, having 
its lateral lobes rolled over tlie column, and the 
central lobe expanded, reniform emarginate and 
beautifully veined ; Brazil; Compagnie Continen¬ 
tal. 
Flore des Serres (Nos. 10, 11, 12, vol. xxiii.) 
contains figures of: — Anthurium andegavense, 
Devansaye [tt. 2454—5], a grand hybrid between 
A. Soherzerianum and A. S. album, in which the ex¬ 
terior of the large oval spathes is bright scarlet thickly 
dotted with white, and the inner surface is white 
irregularly but freely blotched with scarlet; A. de la 
Devansaye.— Cypella ccerulea, Seub. [t. 2456], the 
old Marica cserulea.— Oncidium cucullatum, Lindl. 
[t. 2457], a pretty white-lipped purple-spotted 
species from New Grenada and Peru.— Lysionotus 
ternifolia, Wall. [tt. 2458—9], a beautiful Indian 
Cyrtandraceous plant, with the aspect of a Chirita; 
it is a perennial herb, with usually ternate lanceo¬ 
late-oblong leaves, and numerous axillary cymes of 
large bilabiate lilac flowers ; Van Houtte. — San- 
chezia longiflora ,Hook. fil. [t. 2460], the fine purple- 
tubed Acanthad, introduced by Messrs. Veitch some 
years since, and figured in B. M. as Ancylogyne 
longiflora. — Dendrobium Farmeri alhflorum, E. 
Morr. [t. 2461], a pretty variety of this beautiful 
Indian Orchid, with the sepals and petals nearly 
white.— Double Tuberous Begonias : Mdlle. Bertha 
Frcebel, orange ; Mdlle. Jeanne Pecquereau, yellow; 
Mad. Valerie Guequier, salmony pink; Princesse 
Stephanie, rich scarlet; Mdlle. Alice Guilmot, rose 
pink ; Princess Clementina, white. They are all fine 
double flowers, especially that named Princesse 
Stephanie, which has remarkably smooth petals.— 
Ferine pudica, Hook. fil. [t. 2464], a pretty bulb 
from S. Africa, the flowers white faintly streaked with 
red.— Oncidium phymatochilum [t. 2465], a pretty 
Brazilian Oncid, with subpaniculate racemes of nar¬ 
row yellow cross-barred sepals and petals, and a white 
lip. — Bhododendron Dalhousice Victorianum [tt. 
2466—67], a white flowered hybrid, raised by M. 
Victor Cuvelier, between E. Nuttallii, and E. 
Dalhousise, with la r ge fragrant flowers in immense 
heads, at first yellowish, and becoming creamy- 
white on their full expansion ; L. Van Hout*e.— 
Bose H. P., Lena Turner [t. 2468], a vigorous and 
floriferous rose, the flowers having the petals closely 
imbricated, of a rich deep carmine, the central ones 
fiery red; raised by M. Eugene Verdier.— Odonto- 
glossum Krameri, Echb. f. [t. 2469], a charming 
Costa Eica Orchid with pinkish flowers, having 
conspicuous purple and yellow markings on the 
disk.— Camellia Madame L. Van Houtte, Van Houtte 
[tt. 2470—1], a charming variety named after the 
late Madame Van Houtte; it is very free blooming, 
with medium-sized neatly imbricated flowers of a’ 
rich shaded rose, slightly veined with carmine; of 
first-rate merit ; E. Van Houtte. — Franthemum 
Cooperi, IIooU [t. 2472], a pretty Acanthaceous stove 
shrub from New Caledonia, with bilabiate white 
flowers having the lower segment mottled with 
purple.— Lcelia grandis, Lindl. [t. 2473], a very 
distinct and striking plant, with clavate monophyllous 
stems, and two flowered peduncles, the flowers large, 
with the lanceolate sepals and petals of a pronounced 
nankin colour, and the lip white streaked with rose. 
—Arum Dioscoridis spectabile [tt. 2474—5], a stout- 
growing Arad from the South of Europe and Asia 
Minor, with green halberd-shaped leaves, and 
blackish-purple spathes greenish at the tip, sur¬ 
rounding an almost black spadix.— Bolbophyllum 
lemniscatum, Hook. fil. [t. 2476], a charming little 
Orchid, whose beauty is of the most refined order 
when seen under a microscope; found by Eev. C. 
Parish in Moulmein.— Azalea (indica ) Baron Na¬ 
thaniel de Bothschild, Van Houtte [tt. 2477—8], a 
superb new variety, with very large flowers of the 
finest form and substance, double, and of a rich 
violet purple, quite distinct from anything in cul¬ 
tivation, and a decided acquisition; L.Van Houtte.— 
Cattleya luteola , Lindl. [t. 2479], a pretty dwarf 
growing Brazilian species, with ovate-oblong furrowed 
solitary elliptic lance-shaped leaves, and racemes of pale 
yellow flowers, having an orange-coloured lip.— Pear 
Beurre Wamberchies, a new variety obtained by M. 
Joseph Wamberchies, of Eessaix, remarkable for its 
keeping qualities, its ripening season being in May 
or June.—The number closes with a portrait and 
appreciative memoir of M. Decaisne, the latter from 
the pen of Dr. Planchon. 
The Gartenflora (May) contains Silenevirginica, 
Lin. [t. 1116, fig. 1], a very old but probably long-lost 
garden plant, a herbaceous perennial, growing from 1| 
to 2 feet high, with oval-lanceolate leaves, the lower 
ones tapered downwards into a long stalk, and bright 
scarlet flowers in tricliotomous panicles, the petals 
narrow bifid and slashed at the sides.— Linaria 
aparinoides aureo-purpurea, Eegel [t. 1116, fig. 2], a 
pretty annual, with erect twiggy stems 1£- to 2 feet 
high, subulate leaves, and short racemes of pleasing 
flowers which have a violet-purple corolla with an 
orange-coloured palate, and a spur twice as long as 
the tube. It is the L. reticulata aureo-purpurea of 
Huber & Co. The typical form is described by Dr. 
Eegel as having pale yellow flowers.— Susarium 
Segettii, Philippi [t. 1117, fig. 1], a curious new 
Iridaceous plant, of small stature, with a slender 
creeping rhizome, terete simple stems about 6 inches 
high, terete rigid subfistulous leaves as tall as the 
scape, which bears within a scarious spathe of two 
bracts, a fascicle of subsessile monophyllous hypo- 
crater i form flowers having a very slender tube and 
six-parted blue perianth ; Chili and Patagonia.— 
Umbilicus Lieveni, Ledeb. [t. 1117, fig. 2], a hardy 
perennial, with simple erect stems a foot hiirh, clothed 
with blunt subterete leaves, and terminated by cymes 
of unilateral umbels of small pale piuk flowers; 
native of the Altai and Ural Mountains, and more 
recently found in Eastern Turkestan.—Under 1.1118 
is given a plate purporting to represent a largeEig tree, 
Ficus Carica, at Grimston Park, but the figure is a 
portrait of a large Sycamore tree, Acer Pseudo- 
Platanus, as stated when it was originally published 
in the Gardeners’ Chronicle in 1881. 
The Garten-Zeitung (June) has coloured figures 
of Anthurium Andreanum, which is now well known 
and generally appreciated ; and Philodendron calo- 
phyllum, Brongn., a fine Arad, of Brazilian origin, 
with spreading oblong lance-shaped leaves, and stout 
ovate-lanceolate spathes deep red within and w r hitish 
on the outside, the base w r rapped round the cylindri¬ 
cal white spadix which equals the spathe in length. 
There is a fine figure of this plant in L’Illustration 
Horticole, 3 ser., t, 76. 
L’Illustration Horticole (5 liv.) contains the 
following subjects:— Cattleya nobilior, Echb. f. [t. 
435], a very handsome dwarf Orchid, allied to Catt¬ 
le}^ Walkeriana,— Chamcerops hystrix, Fraser [t. 
