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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
These are five-lobed, yellow, streaked with carmine, and without that offensive 
odour which the dowers of many of the Stapelias exhale. The flowers are 
produced abundantly in the end of August and during the following two 
months. It requires a greenhouse temperature, free loamy soil mixed with 
leaf mould, and copious waterings during the season of growth. 
Flore des Serres (Nos. 179 and 180) contains plates of Phalcenopsis 
sumatrana , P. rosea , and Sarmienta repens , a Gesneraceous plant, a native of 
Chili, where it is found climbing on the bark of trees and on moss-covered 
rocks. The flowers are scarlet, resembling those of Mitraria coccinea, but of 
less size, and borne singly or in pairs on long peduncles. Other plates are re¬ 
presentations of Ipomcea Horsjallice, Cypripedium Pearcei, referred by Professor 
Reichenbach to Selenipedium; and Hydrangea japonica rosalba , with what 
are familiarly known as the flowers in two states, snow white as produced in 
winter, or white suffused with rose, and shaded with bright red, as produced in 
summer. Cratcegus oxyacantha Gumpperi bicolor , with white flowers broadly 
edged with rose, is the subject of the next plate. It is, apparently, a very or¬ 
namental variety of the Hawthorn, and is stated to be of German origin. Odon- 
toglossum Bluntii follows. This is stated by Mr. Bateman to be not specifi¬ 
cally distinct from O. Alexandra?, whilst Professor Reichenbach maintains the 
contrary. However this may be, O. Bluntii is the better of the two, and as 
both were described about the same time Mr. Bateman claims for Bluntii the 
name of Alexandra in the event of their merely proving to be varieties of one 
species. Evagil Pippin , a pretty golden yellow Apple, of good flavour ; Azalea 
indica Roi des Beautes, rose, edged with white ; Calathea , or Maranta , 
Veitchii, and Podophyllum Emodi form the subjects of the remaining plates. 
There is also a portrait of the late Hr. Lindley. 
L’Illustration Horticole for January, February, and March, has plates 
of the following : — 
Hyophorbe Verschaffelti , known in commerce as Areca Verschaffelti, 
a very handsome Palm, found in the Mauritius and Reunion, whence its 
seeds were sent to M. Verschaffelt, who first exhibited it in 1859, and sub¬ 
sequently at the Brussels Exhibition in 1864. His largest plant is now nearly 
10 feet high, but it sustained a severe check from exposure during the exhibi¬ 
tion, and a still larger plant died from that cause. The leaves are from 6 to 
9 feet in length, and gracefully curving downwards, the leaflets are linear-lan¬ 
ceolate, from half an inch to 2 inches in breadth, according to their age, and 
from 18 inches to 2 feet in length, smooth, shining on both sides, with a 
raised whitish central nervure, and curve downwards towards their extremity. 
The common petiole is marked with a broad bright orange line extending 
throughout its length. 
Hyophorbe amaricaulis ( Areca speciosa ), equally handsome with the pre¬ 
ceding, but apparently not attaining so large a size ; only young plants, how¬ 
ever, have been observed. The leaves of the largest of these measure from 
3 to 5 feet in length and about 2 feet in breadth; and the leaflets, which 
are smooth and shining on the upper side, are about 18 inches long, have a 
whitish central nervure and a very fine reddish line at their margin ; on the 
under side are numerous chaffy scales. The leafstalks are broadly lined with 
rose on a brown ground. 
Trichinium Manglesii , figured and described in our Volume for 1865. 
Camellia Roma risorta, raised some years ago by M. Del-Grande, of Florence, 
but only recently sent out. The flowers are very large, bright rose, with nu¬ 
merous crimson streaks and lines, each petal lightly edged with white. 
Bougainvillcea lateritia, reproduced from a plate in the “ Floral Magazine ” 
last year. 
