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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[OCTOBEE, 
a lst-class Certificate B.H.S., September 11; in¬ 
troduced by Messrs. Yeitch & Sons, and flowered by 
Baron Schroder. 
Vriesea heliconioides, IAndley ( L’lllust . 
Sort., t. 490).—A very handsome species of Bro- 
meliaceae, introduced from New Grenada, and 
known in various gardens under tbe names of V. 
FalJcenbergii and V. bellula. It forms a tuft of 
moderate-sized recurved leaves which are green on 
the upper surface, and stained with violet-red be¬ 
neath, and produces a short erect spike of flowers, 
having boat-shaped distichous and spreading bracts 
of a bright rose, tipped with pale-greenish yellow, 
from which issue the white flowers; New Grenada 
and the Talley of the Magdalena; Compagnie Con¬ 
tinental d’Horticulture. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Botanical Magazine for September con¬ 
tains plates of Crinum Hildebrandtii ,Vatke [t. 6709], 
a well-marked new species, allied to C. erubescens, 
with ovoid bulbs, lanceolate leaves, and umbels of 
6—10 long-tubed narrow-lobed white flowers, on 
slender ancipitous scapes; Comoro Islands ; Kew.— 
Tulip a KolpakowsJcyana, Ilegel [t. 6710], a showy 
hardy bulb, a near ally of the common garden tulip, 
with ovoid bulbs, one-flowered stems, lanceolate 
glaucous unspotted leaves, and large campanulate 
cherry red slightly scented flowers. The flowers 
vary to yellow flamed with red, or pure yellow with 
a blackish eye; Turkestan; H. J. Elwes, Esq.— 
Leucojum hyemale, D.C. [t. 6711], also called 
Galanthus autumnalis and Acis hyemalis, a graceful 
little Snow-flake from the Maritime Alps, with small 
globose bulbs, 2—4 cotemporary erect linear leaves, 
and one or two-flowered peduncles of small drooping 
white flowers; G. Maw, Esq.— PrimulaJloribunda, 
Wall. [t. 6712], a neat little glandulose-pubescent 
Himalayan Primrose, with a woody rootstock, ovate 
or elliptic leaves narrowing into a broad petiole, 
conduplicate in vernation, the flowers which are in 
superposed leafy whorls being small and yellow ; 
Edinburgh and Kew.— Senecio concolor , D.C. 
[t. 6713], an herbaceous perennial greenhouse species 
of groundsel, having a tuft of narrowly oblanceolate 
entire or toothed greyish hairy leaves, narrowed into 
a long leafy petiole, and loose corymbs of dull purple 
flowers with a white disk. 
TheGAKDENEKs’ Chronicle (Aug. 18—Sept. 15) 
describes as novelties the following plants :— Lycaste 
Smeeana, Bchb. f. (p. 198), a species or natural 
hybrid resembling L. Deppei in its pseudobulbs and 
habit of growth, but in the sepals petals and lip re¬ 
calling L. Skinneri. The flowers are white, with a 
light purple border to the triangular acute undulated 
front lobe of the lip, which also has rows of small 
purple stripes and spots over its surface; there are 
some purple spots on the inner face of the sepals.— 
Peristeria ephippium, Bchb. f. (p. 181), a fine Orchid, 
allied to P. pendula, having spotless flowers of some 
pallid colour—white ochre or light yellow—not 
determinable from the dried plant; imported from 
Western South America by Mr. E. Sander.— Odon- 
toylossum velleum, Bchb. f. (p. 181), p, fine species 
recalling O. Karwinskii, producing dense (not lax) 
racemes of yellowish flowers, having the sepals and 
petals marked with sepia brown spots and lines, 
while the ligulate andulate hairy blade of tbe lip 
is white covered with numerous purple-mauve lines 
and blotches ; E. Sander. —Chrysanthemum corym- 
bosum (p. 200, fig. 31), a hardy herbaceous tall-growing 
perennial with profuse beads of w hite flowers, “ the 
best and most effective of its near allies” in tbe 
herbaceous garden at Kew. — Veitchia Johannis 
(p. 205, fig. 32), an interesting palm of the pinnate¬ 
leaved type, with theleaf-segments obliquely truncate, 
minutely dentate, the midrib terminating in a small 
curve; it is found in Fiji and the New Hebrides, 
and was first introduced by Mr. John G. Veitch after 
whom it is named.— Armenia cephalotes bracteata 
(p. 213, fig. 34), is a striking form of the broad¬ 
leaved Thrift, with rich rose-pink flowers, the heads 
of which are surrounded by recurved green leaf-like 
bracts upwards of an inch long.— Vanilla Pfaviana, 
Bchb. f. (p. 230), a Mexican climbing Orchid, with 
slender zigzag stems, having oblong suddenly 
acuminate fleshy shining leaves six inches long, and 
green flowers with a three-parted white lip; M. 
Efau.— Masdevallia calura , Bchb. f. (p. 230), a 
rather pretty species allied to M. marginella, having 
very thick distinctly stalked leaves, and bluish-purple 
flowers with a well-developed cupula, and long tails 
covered on the inner surface with blunt warts ; the 
petals and lip are brownish-purple; E. Sander.— 
Duvalia angustiloba, N. E. Brown (p. 230), a 
curious very floriferous Asclepiad, with glabrous sub- 
globose or oblong obtuse-angled dentate stems an 
inch long, and numerous cymes arising from about 
the middle of the younger stems, the flowers star-like, 
chocolate-purple with a white corona; S. Africa; Kew. 
—Doronium plantagineum excelsum , N. E. Brown (p. 
230; 296, fig. 43), a showy tall hardy perennial, 
which originated as a chance seedling with the late 
Eev. H. llarpur-Crewe ; it grows five feet high, and 
has broadly ovate, acute roughly hairy leaves 4—8 
inches long, and yellow flower heads with a yellow ray 
3—4 inches in diameter; blooms from March till 
October; C. W.Dod.— Iris Milesii, M. Foster (p.231), 
a Himalayan species of the Evansia section, with stout 
sword-shaped leaves 2—3 feet long, and rather small 
fugaceous flowers of a reddish-purple or plum 
colour, on scapes 3 feet high or more.— Sarcanthus 
belephorus, Bchb. f. (p. 262), a small flowered 
species, with ligulate undulated bilobed leaves, 
and panicles of ochre-coloured flowers, smaller than 
in S. rostratus; E. Sander.— Phalcenopsis Valentini, 
Bchb. f. (p. 262), a very pretty Malayan Orchid 
with flowers in the way of E. violacea but smaller, 
the leaves light green not crispy, the flowers 
purple, the petals and lateral sepals white at the 
base, the lip with a pandurate front lobe mauve 
and yellow, the side lacinisc white with purple spoG, 
and the column yellow; it looks like a cross between 
cornu cervi and violacea ; Low & Co.— Vanda Rox- 
burghii Wrightiana, Bchb. f. (p. 262), a pretty sub- 
variety of V. Boxburgbii purpurea, the purple-lipped 
type, differing in the very short lip, and the anterior 
teeth of the side lobes; E. Wright, Esq.— Cypri- 
pedium tonsum, Bchb. f. (p.262), a dwarf tessellated¬ 
leaved Lady’s Slipper from the Sonda Isles, allied 
to C. javanicum; it has narrow ligulate acute 
minutely bidentate leaves, marked as in C. Dayanum, 
and flowers of which the back sepal is white with 
green nerves, the petals oblong ligulate acute, green 
washed with sepia, with a few dark blotches on the 
edge near the upper sepal, and some large ones in the 
central line, w 7 hile the lip is greenish washed with 
sepia; collected by Mr. Curtis; Veitch & Sons.— 
Masdevallia gemmata, Bchb. f. (p. 294), a lovely 
dwarf Orchid, with tufts of fleshy cuneate-linear 
leaves, 2—4 inches long, obscurely three-toothed at 
the apex, and solitary ochre-coloured flowers having 
orange tails, the lateral sepals having the inner 
halves large and more projecting, purple in the 
anterior part, where they are studded with gem-like 
papillae; J. O’Brien. — Masdevallia Gaskelliana, 
Bchb. f. (p. 294), a small saccolabiate species allied 
to M. radiosa; the leaves are rather thin lanceo¬ 
late-acute, about 4 inches long, densely tufted; 
the flower cup is yellowish, hairy, full of mauve 
spots, exteriorly purple-mauve, as are also tbe 
tails, the long narrow calceolar lip being yellow; 
II. Gaskell, Esq. ; E. Sander.— Ccelogyne prcecox 
tenera, Bchb. f. (p. 294), a fine variety pro- 
