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sidered to be the prettiest species of the unattractive genus to which it belongs. 
It grows less than a foot high, has fusiform pseudo-bulbs an inch or more in 
length, each producing two or three oblong-lanceolate leaves from 3 to 5 inches 
in length. The flowers are borne in erect spikes twice the length of the leaves, 
and are of a golden yellow, but streaked with red lines along the centre of the 
sepals. 
Lobelia nicotians folia. —A native of the Neilgherry and other mountains 
of the Indian Peninsula and Ceylon. Seeds of it were sent to Kew by the 
late Mr. Allan Black, and it there flowered in a temperate-house in January 
last, attracting much attention bv its striking habit and inflorescence. At Kew 
it attained 6 feet in height; but in its native country it is said to grow 10 and 
even 12 feet high. The leaves are narrow-lanceolate, 1 to 2 feet long, and the 
flowers, which are an inch across, are produced in dense racemes a foot or more 
in length, forming pyramidal summits of a pale lilac colou**. 
Ancylogyne longfolia. —“ A most beautiful plant, with something of the 
inflorescence of Russellia juncea, introduced by Messrs. Veitch &, Sons from 
Guayaquil, where it was discovered by Mr. Pearce. It is undoubtedly one of 
the finest tropical Acanthaceae ever introduced into this country, and cannot 
fail to be a most important accession to our stoves.” It is a glabrous, ap¬ 
parently suflruticose plant, with four-angled stems, ovate-oblong leaves from 
4 to 10 inches in length, and drooping, elongated, branehed panicles of bright 
purple flowers about 2 inches in length, and having conspicuous yellow 
anthers. 
Anyrcecum Chailluanum. —Sent from the Gaboon country by M. Du Chaillu. 
It has stout stems from 4 to 6 inches long, broad leathery leaves, and greenish 
white flowers, of which the petals, sepals, and lip resemble each other, being 
narrow and about 1^ inch in length. The spur is long, flexuose, and of a 
yellowish green colour. 
The Floral Magazine for May and June contains the following 
plates:— 
Tacsonia Van- Volxemii. —Figured in our present Number. 
Rose Black Prince. —A large, deep, globular flower, scarlet shaded with 
black, and which has been described as a very dark Gloire de Santenay. It 
received a first-class certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society’s Floral 
Committee in March last, when it was exhibited by Mr. William Paul, of 
Waltham Cross. 
Rhododendron Denisonii. —A free-flowering hybrid Rhododendron raised by 
Mr. Bousie, late of Stoke Park, Slough, and in colour white, with a lemon 
blotch, and spotted with the same colour at the base of the petals. It requires 
a greenhouse temperature. 
Hyacinth Sir Henry Havelock. —A splendid new variety exhibited by Mr. 
William Paul, in March last, and noticed in these pages at the time. “ The 
colour of the flower,” says the Editor, “ is entirely new, nearer to Haydn than 
to any other variety, but of a darker and more intense colour, and possessed of 
a brilliancy, the absence of which in Haydn is its greatest fault. In one stage 
of the flower the colour, which it is alike difficult to paint or to describe, is 
that of a ripe Orleans Plum. The spike of the flower is long and massive. 
The flowers individually are of good average size and form,—certainly in 
advance of others in that class.” 
Tropceolums Beauty and Attraction. —The former is a large flower of a deli¬ 
cate sulphur colour, with a maroon crimson blotch towards the base of each 
petal; and the latter orange, with scarlet blotches. Both were exhibited by 
Mr. Williams, of the Fortis Green Nursery, Hornsey, at a meeting of the 
Floral Committee in April last. 
