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flowers. drawn to represent the distinctions to be 
found in the pollen masses of the two genera.— 
Pentstemon barbatu-s labrosus, A. Gray (p. 536, fig. 
91) , a handsome hardy herbaceous perennial, with 
long oblanceolate root leaves and tall branching 
steins, 2—5 ft. high, bearing slender panicles of 
bright crimson-scarlet flowers, which differ from 
those of P. barbatus in wanting the fringe of hairs 
to the flowers ; California; AV. Thompson.— Ci/cas 
Beddomei , Dyer (p. 556), a fine new Cycad, with 
stems (in young plants ?) a few inches high, leaves 
about three feet long, and male comes with taper- 
pointed scales ; India ; Kew.— Vanda hastifera, 
lichb. f. (p. 556), a fine epiphyte, bearing lax ra¬ 
cemes of flowers, which have the undulate sepals and 
petals light yellow with fine red blotches, the lip 
which is hastate and hairy at the base and dilated 
blunt tumid and shining in front, is white marked 
with brown and mauve, and the column is white; 
Sundaic peninsula ; Sander & Co.— Oncidium trifur- 
catum, Lindl. (p. 556), “a fine old Orchid of Lind- 
leyan nobility 5 '’ with flowers resembling those of O. 
serratum, but the petals are free ; the reniform dorsal 
sepal and petals are brown with the wavy margins 
light yellow, the lip is crimson-lake, with three pale 
yellow calli and has very long deflexed side lobes, 
and on the column beneath the stigmatic hollow two 
sword-like blades ; Peru ; Sander & Co.— Stelis 
zonata, Echb. f. (p. 556), near S. muscifera but 
smaller ; it has short stems, thick cuneate oblong 
leaves, and one-sided racemes of ochre-coloured 
flowers, the petals having a mauve midzone, and 
the column mauve with an ochre zone; Demarara; 
Veitch & Sons.— Nuphar advena , Aiton (p. 556, fig. 
92) , a fine hardy aquatic with yellow flowers much like 
those of N. lutea, but larger, and larger bolder leaves, 
which rise out of the water instead of floating on the 
surface. — Fuchsia exoniensis (p. 560, fig. 101), a 
garden variety raised in 1842 by the late Mr. Pince 
of Exeter. The variety here figured appears to be 
that cultivated as E. corallina, the true exoniensis, 
according to the very natural-looking figure, being at 
least half an inch longer in the tube of the flower. It is 
a good strong-growing hardy free-blooming sort, still 
well worthy of attention.— Salvia discolor, H.B.K. 
(p. 588), a cool stove or greenhouse suffruticose 
plant, of erect habit, with long stalked ovate-oblong 
leaves, and large terminal panicles of tubular two¬ 
lipped blackish purple flowers of which the upper 
lip is entire. It has been wrongly identified as the 
Salvia mexicana minor, and comes from the Andes 
of Peru ; Canned & Sons.— Odontoglossum Pesca- 
torei Schroderianum, Echb. f. (p. 588), a splendid 
form of this lovely Odontoglot, which when offered 
as O. P. Yeitchianum was purchased for seventy 
guineas. It comes very near to that beautiful plant, 
but Prof, Eeichenbach declares it to be different, 
in having more purple in the bands of colour by 
which it is marked, and the markings not reaching 
so far towards the ends of the sepals and petals; 
New Grenada; now in the possession of Baron 
Schroder, after whom it is named.— Masdevallia 
brevis , Echb. f. (p. 588), an interesting species allied 
to M. ochthodes but more slender, with smaller 
cuneate oblong leaves and shorter flowers, the upper 
sepal yellow with three rows of purple spots, and the 
tail dark purple, the lateral sepals ventricose with 
lemon-coloured keels running out into lemon-coloured 
tails, the anterior superior area orange with purple, 
the rest brown; British Guiana; Yeitch & Sons.—• 
Saccolabium Witteanum, Echb. f. (p. 618), a curious 
epiphyte, with cuneate-oblong obliquely bidentate 
leaves, and elongate racemes of orange-coloured 
flowers having a white lip with some purple dashes 
and a green-tipped spur; Java; H. Witte.— Dendro- 
bium linear ifolium, Teysm. & Bin. (p. 618), a neat 
looking plant, with ovoid fusiform pseudobulbs, from 
which proceed a slender shining stem, with linear 
bidentate leaves, and numerous white flowers with 
radiating purple-mauve veins on the side lobes of the 
lip ; Sumatra ; H. Witte.— Crinurn zeylanicum re- 
ductum, Baker (p. 618), a dwarf compact-growing and 
very floriferous hothouse bulb from Zanzibar; the 
bulb is two inches in diameter, with a two-inch neck, 
ensiform ciliated leaves, and peduncles under a foot 
long, supporting umbels of four green-tubed white 
flowers having a red central band, and declinate 
stamens; Kew.— Medinilla Curtisii, Hort. (p. 621, 
fig. 108), a pretty Sumatrian dwarfish stove shrub, 
with sessile fleshy ovate acuminate leaves, and abun¬ 
dant cymes of small white flowers, the bunches of 
which are coral-coloured, quadrangular, and right- 
angled ; Veitch & Sons.— Euphorbia canariensis, Lin. 
(p. 628, fig. 112), a portrait of a fine tree of this 
remarkable cactus-like spurge, growing in the 
Botanic Garden at Capetown, S. Africa. 
The Botanical Magazine for November con¬ 
tains coloured figures of the following subjects:—• 
Sarmienta repens, E. & P. [t. 6720], a smad creeping 
half hardy or cool greenhouse plant, with slender 
flexuous branching stems, ovate leaves, and pendulous 
scarlet ventricose-tubular flowers nearly an inch 
long; introduced some 20 years since from Chili; 
Veitch & Sons.— Rhamnus libanotica, Boiss. [t. 6721], 
a deciduous shrub, of robust habit, having oblong or 
ovate leaves rounded at the base, and denticulate at 
the edge, and small cymes of minute green flowers in 
June; Asia Minor and Syria; Kew. — Tritonia 
Pottsii, Benth. [t. 6722], a pretty half hardy bulb- 
tuber, having the bulbs connected by long slender 
rhizomes, with slender erect branched stems 3—4 
feet high, linear green leaves a foot or more in 
height, and long panicles of funnel-shaped flowers 
yellow in the lower and deep red in the upper half; 
known better as Montbretia Pottsii; S. Africa.— 
Angrcecum Scottianum, Echb. f. [t. 6723], a pretty 
slender growing epiphyte with terete rooting stems, 
semicylindrical recurved leaves, and white flowers 
with narrow linear sepals and petals, a transverse 
oblong apiculate lip, and a yellowish-brown spur 
4—5 inches long; Comoro Islands ; Kew.— Rosa 
alpina, Lin. [t. 6724], one of the most elegant of 
the single roses, forming a low bush, with slender 
branches, crowded leaves with large flat stipules, and 
pink or rose-red flowers 2.) inches across ; Pyrenees ; 
Kew. — Fritillaria pallidijlora, Schrenk [t. 6725], a 
hardy bulbous perennial, with a stout stem 6—15 
inches high, sessile glaucous green leaves 2—3 inches 
long, the lowest opposite oblong, the upper lanceo¬ 
late, with yellowish green drooping flowers, one to 
six from the axils of the upper leaves; Siberia; 
Kew. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
— ^ supposed new species of Potato, Sola- 
num Ohrondi, has recently been discovered by 
M. Ohrond, a surgeon in the French navy, in 
the island of Goritti at the mouth of the Eiver Plate, 
and its introduction into the French Gardens is 
announced and the plant figured in a recent number 
of the Revue Horticole. From observations already 
made great expectations are raised as to the value of 
the novelty as an esculent, either by process of 
improvement or by intercrossing with the Solanum 
tuberosum. The plant is described as very dwarf 
in habit, about a foot high, vigorous, with erect 
reddish-purple hairy stems, irregularly pinnate 
leaves, and small corymbs of flow'ers, which are 
whitish-lilac inside and purplish-blue outside. The 
underground stolons are numerous, filiform, those 
nearest the surface producing new stems; while 
the tubercules are scattered, oblong or irregularly 
