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REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
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[t. 6701], a stout-growing stove soft-wooded shrub, 
with largish ovate-oblong acuminate leaves, and 
short dense terminal spikes of white flowers having 
a lemon tinge on the lower segment; found by Mr. 
Curtis in N. W. Borneo; Yeitch & Sons.— Saxifraga 
marg'mata, Sternb. [t. 6702], a dwarf rock plant 
from S. Italy and Greece, tufted, with rosettes of 
cuneate-obovate obtuse leaves, ciliate at the base, and 
having the margins pitted and secreting lime; the 
short flower stems bear linear erect leaves and ter¬ 
minate in a corymb of largish white flowers; pre¬ 
sented by Mr. G. Maw to Kew. — Campanula 
Jacobcea, Chr. Smith [t. 6703], a fruticulose Bell¬ 
flower from the torrid and arid Cape de Yerd Islands, 
requiring frame culture; it grows 2—3 feet high, 
with angular branches, sessile oblong-ovate serni- 
amplexicaul leaves, and nodding blue or greenish 
flowers ; M. Leichtlin ; Kew. — Licuala grandis, 
Wendl. [t. 6704], one of the most strikingly hand¬ 
some of Palms, a native of New Britain. It has a 
bold crown of about a score of bright green leaves of 
a rounded cup-shaped form, folded up in innumer¬ 
able plaits, and doubly cut round the margin. The 
trunk is comparatively short, and the crown of 
fronds ample. It is the Pritchardia grandis of 
gardens; introduced by Mr. AY. Bull.— Aloe pra- 
tensis, Baker [t. 6705], a dwarf acaulescent species 
allied to A. humilis, the stout simple peduncle bearing 
a dense raceme of bright red flowers tipped with 
green; S. Africa; Justus Corderoy, Esq.— Dendro- 
bium revolution, Lindl. [t. 6706], a curious epiphyte, 
from the Malay peninsula, with distichous semi- 
amplexicaul oblong or ovate-obloDg blunt or emargi- 
nate leaves, and small solitary axillary flowers with 
white curved sepals and petals, and an oblong quadrate 
greenish-yellow lip with a red band in the centre; 
Messrs. Loddiges & C. Peeke,Esq.— Allium Macleanii, 
Baker [t. 6707], a tall-growing Allium, with globose 
bulbs, 4—5 lanceolate glabrous leaves a foot long, 
and large globose umbels of purple flowers; native 
of Cabul; Kew. —Fymphcea odor at a minor Jl. roseis, 
Hook. f. [t. 6708], a beautiful small Water-lily, 
with orbicular leaves split at the base, and sweet- 
scented flowers of a delicate rose colour; United 
States; Kew. 
Garten-Zeitung (July—Aug.) contains portraits 
of Caraguata Furstenbergiana, Kirclihoff et AVitt- 
mack, a handsome Bromeliad, with long spreading 
or recurved ligulate greyish-green leaves, and a 
central cylindrical spike of yellow flowers in the 
axils of close set slightly spreading rose-coloured 
bracts; found by Roezl in Ecuador. —Pancratium 
Sickenkergeri, Ascherson & Schweinfurtb, a new 
Amaryllid with bulbs as large as one’s fist, 3—6 
acute hysteranthous leaves, and an umbel of 3—6 
white flowers with narrow perianth segments; it is 
found in Egypt and the deserts of Arabia. 
L’Illustration Horticole (7 liv.) figures 
Triesea heliconioides [t. 490], a very handsome 
Bromeliad, known in gardens as Yriesea Fallcen- 
bergii, and Friesea bellula, but whose correct name 
according to Prof. Morren is V. heliconioides; it is 
a pretty dwarf species, with green recurved leaves, 
and distichous spikes of flowers, the conspicuous 
parts of which are the scarlet yellowish-green tipped 
boat-shaped bracts; New Grenada ; M. Linden.— 
Dipladenia splendens profusa, Hort. Williams [t. 
491], one of the fine seedling varieties of Dipladenia 
raised in English gardens; the flowers are large 
and of an intense carmine red.— Panax fruticosum 
Deleauana, N. E. Brown [t. 492], a Polynesian 
shrub, with an erect green stem mottled with brown, 
and numerous digitately compound leaves, the 
divisions of which are 3—5 ternately or biternately 
divided, with cuneate-linear or obliquely subelliptio 
segments, toothed or lobate, the teeth white apiculate; 
it is a much dissected form of a very variable species. 
Revue de L’Horticulture Belge, &c. (April) 
contains a figure of the Golden Heliotrope Albert 
Delaux, the foliage of which is handsomely tinted 
with golden yellow, while the flowers are large, of a 
deep purple. The numbers for July and August 
contain respectively Carnation Madame Fdouard 
Pynaert, a large and showy flower with the petals 
deep salmony-buff at the base, paler at the edges, 
and like that called Souvenir de la Malmaison is an 
issue from Dianthus lignosus; and the two Double 
Bouvardias: Alfred Neuner, white, and President 
Garfield, rosy-pink; both are valuable and desirable 
decorative plants. 
Revue Horticole (July 1—Aug. 16) has char¬ 
acteristic figures of Billbergea thyrsoidea splendida 
(fastuosa on plate), a truly splendid Bromeliad 
which M. Andre identifies with the var. splendida. 
It has green serrated leaves, recurved at the tip, 
and a flowering stem clothed with large rosy-scarlet 
bracts, and terminating in a short spike of numerous 
flowers which are of a brilliant scarlet, with the tips 
violet; Dr. Chaumier — Liatris pycnostachya, Mich., 
a very showy perennial with tuberous roots, stout 
erect stems crowded with linear leaves, and ter¬ 
minating in a long spike of rosy flowers ; it belongs 
to the Composite, and coming from the south¬ 
eastern States of North America, sometimes requires 
slight protection in winter. — Pear Marguerite 
Marillot, a handsome variety raised by M. Marillot, 
of Craponne, near Lyons. The fruit is large oblong 
pyriform, brownish yellow at maturity, with a fine 
melting sugary flesh, and comes into use in October 
and November.— Begonia Martiana gracilis is a fine 
variety with very abundant rosy-pink flowers, which 
in favourable sunny positions forms a compact bush 
from three to four feet high, and flowers on until 
interrupted by frost. 
Bulletin d’Arboriculture de Floricul¬ 
ture, &c. (June—July) figures Pear Doyen de 
Pamegnies, a variety raised by M. BouziD, at Ra- 
megnies-Cliiu, near Tournai, described as a fertile 
pyramidal tree, with turbinate fruit, of large size, 
smooth green, becoming yellow at maturity, with 
flue buttery melting sugary flesh, of excellent quality, 
ripe in October and November.— Prunus Pissardi, 
a handsome-looking hardy reddish-purple leaved 
Plum, of the Myrobalan group, introduced to French 
gardens from Persia, through the agency of M. 
Pissard, head gardener to the Shah. The fruits are 
small roundish-oval, and deep or purple red when 
they first appear, but as yet they have not set. French 
gardens. 
La Belgique Horticole (Mar.—April) con¬ 
tains a good figure of the handsome Cypripedum 
barbatum Warnerianum [t. 7], a variety with large 
highly-coloured flowers, and mottled leaves.— Guz- 
mania Devansayana, Morren [t. 8—9], a tall-leaved 
Bromeliad, with the bases of the leaves enlarged and 
fuscous, and the upper part handsomely striate 
with reddish-brown; the flower scape is about half 
the length of the leaves, and terminates in a small 
oval spike of yellow flowers with closely imbricated 
scarlet bracts; native of Ecuador; MM. Jacob- 
Makoy. 
Gartenflora (July) contains figures of Hedy- 
sarum multijugum, Maxim, [t. 1122], a hardy 
fruticose species from S. Mongolia, of slender habit, 
with pinnate leaves consisting of 20—40 oblong obtuse 
leaflets, and loose axillary racemes of small pink 
flowers ; it forms a dense shrub 2—5 feet high, 
and flowers freely in summer; St. Petersburgh.— 
Pescatorea Lehmanni, Rchb. f. [t. 1123], a beautiful 
epiphytal Orchid, with large flowers shaded by the 
leaves, of a deep violet colour striped with white 
towards the base; found in Columbia, and now in 
general cultivation. — Taccarum Warmingianum , 
Engl, [t.1124], a giant Arad with tail-stalked pedato- 
