20 
THE FLOBIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ February, 
lion, anon in another, but on the whole, with 
little annual diminution of the attacking forces. 
And as in the case of an attacking army seeking 
to make good its footing on unfamiliar soil, some 
of its units are struck down and sink into 
oblivion, and others win their way to fame, so 
with the array of novelties which threaten 
our gardens ; some are at once defeated by 
better productions, and others come to be 
useful or ornamental in their particular line. 
Thus it comes to pass that the novelties are 
welcomed, though they turn out many a trusty 
subject, perchance better than themselves, for 
in our garden domains the fancy which loves 
to look on new faces is as wide-spread as it is in 
society at large. The popular favourites come 
and go in rapid succession. 
We cannot in our limited space attempt a 
complete muster-roll of the Novelties of 1878, 
but we propose to briefly notice a few of the 
most important of them, under their respective 
heads :— 
Stove Floweeing Plants. 
Conophallus Titanum is the most notable plant 
of the year ; it is a gigantic Arad, found in 
Sumatra by Dr. Beccari, and already introduced 
to Florence. Tubers nearly 5 ft. in circumference ; 
leaf 45 ft. in circumscription, on a stalk 10 ft. 
high; spadix tapering, 6 ft. long, livid towards 
the top, the campanulate wavy spathe 3 ft. across, 
bright black purple. A veritable vegetable Anak. 
IxoEA SPLENDEKS ; a Splendid garden variety, raised 
by Messrs. Cole, of Manchester: Cinchonaceaa 
Leaves blnnt-tippod ; flowers in large, dense, 
cymose heads, brilliant carmine-scarlet ; quite 
A1 amongst Ixoras. 
Xeronema Mooebi : New Caledonia: Lihaceco.—A 
very fine perennial, of Iris-like habit, having the 
scape bent abruptly into a horizontal position, a 
little below the raceme of bright crimson flowers, 
which thus come to stand erect on the upper side; 
should it be a free-bloomer, it will be a very showy 
plant. 
Erakthemu-M LAxiFLOEUM : New Hebrides : Acau- 
thaceae.—Half-shrubby, and free-flowering, with 
ovate-oblong leaves, and large purple flowers, in 
axillary cymes. 
Euellia (Arrhostoxylum) acutangula : Brazil ; 
Acanthaceae.—A stout-growing under-shrub, with 
quadrangular branches, large elliptic-ovate leaves, 
and erect cymes of bright, unequally-lobed orange- 
scarlet flowers; one of the more showy of the 
Acanthads. 
Chevallibra (EEchmea) Veitchii ; New Grenada: 
Bromeliacem.—A distinct and showy acaulescent 
perennial, with lorate, saw-edged leaves, and a cen¬ 
tral, erect, ohlong head, of which the crowded 
recurved crimson hracts form the conspicuous 
portion. M. Morren reports that his plant of this 
Chevalliera has been blooming for 21 months. 
Stove Bui.bs. 
CeiNUJI Mac'owAni : Nomau’s Land : Amaryllidacea'. 
—Allied to C. latifolium, and producing umbels 
of large blush-coloured lily-like flowers. 
Ha;manthus rupestius ; H. Mannh ; H. Kalekeyeei : 
West Africa: Amaryllidacem.—These three spe¬ 
cies are of similar dwarfish habit, and produce 
their flowers before the foliage is developed; they 
all have showy umbellate heads of crimson or 
crimson-scarlet flowers, which render them valu¬ 
able as decorative plants. 
Stove Foliage Plants. 
DiEErENBACHiASHUTTLEWoRTHii: Columbia: Ai'acGEO. 
—A very effective plant; stems erect, leafy, the 
leaves large, ovate-lanceolate, bright green, with 
a broad feathered silvery band on each side of 
and including the midrib. 
Alocasia Johnstoni : Solomon Isles : Aracea;.— 
A very distinct-looking plant, the spiny stems 
being mottled with red and blackish green, and 
the blade arrow-shaped, with reddish veins. 
It has been suggested that it is a species of 
Cyrtosporma or Lasia. 
Massangka Lindeni : Peru : Bromeliacese.—Leaves 
decurved, ligulate-oblong, acuminate, pale green, 
marked with numerous transverse irregular broken 
hues of a deep brownish purple, the marking being 
sufficiently abundant to be attractive. 
Oespbdesia Bonplandii : Columbia; Ochnaoem. 
■—A magnificent foliage plant; leaves tongue¬ 
shaped crenulated, 3 feet long; flowers large 
bright orange-yellow, in panicles. 
Dayidsonia pruriens : N.E. Tropical Australia: 
Saxifragacem.—A bold, distinct, half-shrubby 
plant, with very large unequally-pinnate leaves, of 
a bright red while young, the hairy leaflets 
biserrate, and connected by a narrow wing, which 
is also doubly-toothed. 
Croton.—N ew forms of Codimum, popularly called 
Crotons, continue to appear. Amongst the best 
are C. Mortii, Williamsii, roseo-pictus, and reginse, 
with broadish leaves; C. gloriosus, Challengei’, 
nobilis, princep,s, and Prince of Wales, with nar¬ 
rower drooping leaves; and C. Katoni, one of the 
trilobed section, which has the leaves thickly 
dotted with yellow spots. 
Palms. 
Kentia Luciani : New Caledonia; Keniia Wend- 
landiana : Queensland ; Areca purpurea : Mau¬ 
ritius ; Areca gracilis ; Loxococcus (Ptyoho- 
sperma) rupicola : Ceylon; Oalyptronoma 
S wARTZii: AVest Indies; Plectocomia himalay- 
ANA : India. These are amongst the mo.st orna¬ 
mental of the additions which have been made to 
the pinnate-leaved series. 
Oycads. 
Cycas siamensis : Cochin China.—A fine novelty, 
resembling C. circinalis, having a stout glabres- 
cent trunk, marked with circular furrows, and 
flat pinnate leaves, divided into about sixty-five 
pairs of segments. 
Zamia ajiplieolia ; New Grenada.—An exceedingly 
ornamental species, which has the few very large 
lance-shaped leaf-segments each 11 inches long, 
growing in pairs. 
Encephalaetos Feiderici-Guilielmi : S. Africa.— 
A very handsome plant, with a, woolly trunk, 
bearing a crown of leaves, each having about 120 
pairs of closely-set oblong-linear segments. The 
leaf-segments each terminate in a translucent 
spine. 
Bowenia spectabilis serrulata : Queensland.— 
The beautiful genus Bowenia is distinguished by 
its bipinnate leaves; this is a remarkably hand¬ 
some form of the original B. spectabilis, with the 
edges of the leaflets toothed. 
Ferns. 
Auiantuii cy'closorum : Peru.—A deciduous species 
of ornamental chai’acter, with bread tripinnate 
fronds, and specially remarkable for its cycloid 
indusia. 
Adiaktum belldm : Bermuda.—A pretty little 
plant, very like A. fragile, but obviously dif¬ 
ferent, in not having deciduous, articulated piii- 
nules. 
