1883 .] 
GABDEN GOSSIP. 
127 
white flowers, the flowers becoming greenish as they 
wither. 
Journal des Hoses (July) contains a coloured 
plate of Tea Hose Madame Azelie Imbert, a large 
yellow rose of good form, with the edges of the 
petals recurved and paler, and the centre full, with 
a flush of salmony-red which also occurs on the 
exterior of the hud. This Hose was raised by M. 
Levet pere, of Lyons, from Madame Ealcot, and was 
put into commerce in 1870, so that it is now well 
known and fully appreciated. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (June 23—July 7) 
contains, Masdevallia Carderi , Hchb. f. (p. 784), a 
species allied to M. Houtteana with vegetative organs 
like those of M. Chimacra, but very small, and having 
short fleshy flowers which are whitish outside, ochre- 
orange at the base, with a blackish mauve-purple 
zone above, and long yellow tails spotted with 
blackish purple, the interior surface clothed with 
short ferruginous hairs; the petals are linear, the lip 
pandurate ; Shuttleworth & Carder.— Masdevallia 
tridactylites , Hchb. f. (p. 784), is a lovely gem of 
the lovely triaristella group, with csespitose stems 
hearing semiterete acute channelled leaves, and 
capillary pedicels supporting the curious flowers, 
which have the upper odd sepal yellow, and the 
lateral connate navicular ones brownish purple, having 
“ sigmoid bluot upright orange tails ”; the small 
petals are white, and the lip purple at the base, 
white in front ; W. Lee, E<q.— Odontoglossum 
odoratum striatum hemileucum, Hchb. f. (p. 784), a 
lovely variety with the disc of the petals and the 
whole of the lip of the purest white, which forms a 
fine contrast to the yellow portions, the cinnamon 
blotches and stripes being well developed ; Heath & 
Sons.— Colax jugosus rufinus , Hchb. f. (p. 784), a 
variety in which the sepals are pale yellowish green, 
the petals full of very small blackish-purple speckles, 
and cinnamon instead of blue-mauve markings on 
the lip ; W. Lee, Esq.— Cypripedium pubescens , 
Willd. (p. 784, fig. 128), a good woodcut illustration. 
— Ranunculus amplexicaulis,~Lm. (p. 788, fig. 129), a 
well-known hardy perennial. —Othonna cheirifolia, 
Lin. (p. 789, fig. 130), an old-fashioned greenhouse 
shrub, from Algiers.— Oncidium nigratum , Lindl. (p. 
790), an old but little known species, with ancipitous 
shining green pear-shaped pseudobulbs, ligulate acute 
leaves, and panicled flowers with linear-lanceolate much 
undulated sepals and petals, white with blackish purple 
blotches, and a blunt triangular yellowish lip with a 
few light cinnamon spots; Yeitch & Sons.— Pole- 
monium Richardsoni, Graham (p. 793, fig. 132), a 
hardy blue-flowered perennial, introduced many years 
since.— Calanthe Forstermanni, Hchb. f. (p. 814), a 
tall plant, with petiolate oblong-lanceolate acute 
leaves, three feet high, and bracteate penduncles bear¬ 
ing a dense cvlindric raceme of yellow flowers, with 
a whitish-yellow reniform lip and a clavate spur 
half as long as the ovary ; Birmah ; E. Sander.— 
Saccolabium Rerkeleyi, Hchb. f. (p. 814), a species 
intermediate between S. littorale and S. gur- 
whaliauum. The leaves are proemorse, and the flowers 
white with amethyst lines and spots, the acute lobed 
tip of the lip being amethyst; India; Lieut.-Col. 
Berkeley. —Odontoglossum tentaculatum, Hchb. f. 
(p. 814), intermediate between O. ligulare and O. 
rubens, with narrow petalled yellow flowers spotted 
with white, the pandurate lanceolate lip whitish, with 
a cinnamon-coloured dash on the disc, its great 
peculiarity being the long tentacular bristles of the 
columnar wings; Baron Schroder.— Odontoglossum 
ferrugineum, Rchb. f. (p. 814), a curious plant, with 
dark cinnamon sepals and petals tipped with yellow, 
and a subcordate whitish-yellow lip, with a brown 
spot on the disc, and three pairs of lamelke at 
the base; E. Harvey, Esq.— Dendrobium dixanthum 
stenopetalum, Rchb. f. (p. 814), a narrow-petalled 
form obtained from Birmah; H. Gaskell, Esq.— 
Primula Stuartii, Wall. (p. 824, fig. 138), a fine 
Himalayan Primrose, with oblong-lanceolate denticu¬ 
late leaves, and umbels of yellow flowers.— Fpidendrum 
ionocentrum, Hchb. f. (vol. xx. p. 8), a curious and 
rare species in the way of E. Brassavolse, but with 
shorter broader pseudobulbs ; the flowers are in long 
racemes, the sepals and petals lemon-coloured and 
greenish brown, and the lip white with a violet centre. 
— Warscewiczella picta, Hchb. f. (p. 8), a species 
resembling W. discolor, differing in the rhomboid 
blunt undulated lip, which is yellowish white with 
numerous deep purple marginal lines ; the petals are 
white, and the sepals pale greenish or yellowish 
white. — Odontoglossum Ruckerianum splendens , 
Hchb. f. (p. 8), a very fine variety, with flowers 
larger than in the type; the sepals and petals are 
much broader, and the blotches larger and of the 
warmest mauve; Right Hon. J. Chamberlain.— 
Hoy a linearis sikkimensis, Hook. f. (p. 8, figs. 1, 2), 
an interesting stove plant adapted for baskets, the 
long weak hairy branches being naturally pendulous 
in habit; the opposite leaves are fleshy, subterete, 
hairy; and the waxy-white flowers grow in terminal 
umbels, and have a star-shaped yellowish corona; 
M. Dunn, Dalkeith.— Cypripedium Curtisii, Hchb. f. 
(p. 8), a fine species from the island of Sonda, allied 
to C. ciliolare and C. superbiens, but distinguished 
by its very large lip, with sharp acute side angles ; 
the back sepal is elliptic acute, the petals narrowish 
distantly ciliolate and the front lobe of the lip 
or slipper large and obtusely conical; E. Sander. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
HE Indian Azaleas were among the 
most gorgeous of the flowering plants 
at the Ghent Quinquennial Exhibition. 
We quite agree with one of our contem¬ 
poraries, that the noble group of forty specimen 
plants, which won the Gold Medal of the highest 
value for M. de Ghellinck de Walle, were superb, 
and probably they were never surpassed. The 
smallest were not less than 3 feet in diameter, 
while the largest plant, an example of the white 
Magnifies, occupying the centre position, was at 
least 6 feet through, and such a mass of large, 
well-developed, and perfectly fresh blossoms that 
scarcely a leaf could be seen. It is difficult to 
single out a few, but a special word of praise must 
be accorded to Eugene Mazel, salmon shaded with 
violet; Coloris nova, intense rose; Belle Gantoise, 
peach-pink, with rosy spots ; Coccinea major, a very 
fine red; MacMahoD, salmon; Hooibrinkii, semi- 
double, violet-purple ; Modele, bright rose ; Marquis 
of Lome, salmon red; Comtesse de Elandres, pale 
rose, extra fine in size; Hoi d’Hollande, orange- 
scarlet ; Hoi des Blancs, a grand white; and Com¬ 
tesse Eugenie, pink margined with white, and with 
a wine-coloured blotch—all good sorts, as well as 
grand plants. Erom some of the other collections 
might be added Oswald de Kerchove, bright, rose, 
and pretty in its crisped margins; Souvenir de 
Meyerbeer, rose, semi-double; Hoi Leopold, salmon ; 
Madame Louis Van Houtte, and Ferdinand Kegel- 
jan, salmon-pink, extra fine. 
— Che American Wonder Pea is a very- 
dwarf, very early, and very prolific variety. 
A correspondent of the Journal of Horti¬ 
culture says : It is the most useful Pea I have ever 
grown, and this year it has been particularly satisfac- 
