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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[Januaey, 
racemes of small flowers, whicli have incurved seg¬ 
ments and a conspicuously incurved spur, and are of 
a pale pink with darker tips, the pedicels being of 
the same colour, and the rachis viscid ; Andaman 
Islands ; Lieut.-Col. Berkeley.— Papaver HooTceri, 
Baker [t. 6729], a showy branching annual 3—4 
feet high, hairy, with lanceolate or ovate bipinna’ifid 
leaves, and large single fl jwers varying from bright 
rose to pale crimson with a white or black spot at the 
base of the petals ; much like P. lihoe is but said to 
be larger; Indian Gardens, Kew.— Medinilla Cur- 
Hook. fil. [t. 6730], a pretty free-flowering stove 
shrub, with slender cylindrio branches, sessile oblong 
or ovate-oblong three-nerved leaves with a scarlet 
costa and margin, and nodding cymes of small white 
flowers w'hich contrast wdth the coralline peduncle 
rachis and pedicels, and the purple anthers ; W. 
Sumatra; Veitch & Sons. 
Gartenflora (Oct.—Nov.) figures Priva Jcevis, 
Juss. [t. 1131], a Chilian Verbenaceous plant, 
1 —15 ft. high, with toothed leaves, and long spikes 
of lilac flowers; introduced by Messrs. Haage & 
Schmidt.— Stenanthium occidentale, As a Gray [t. 
1132, fig. 1], a slender bulbous plant, with linear 
leaves and small greenish purple flowers. —Primula 
longiscapa, Ledeb. [t. 1132, fig. 2], a Primrose with 
spathulate leaves, and small rosy-red flowers on long 
scapes; Altai; St. Petersburgh Bot. Gard.—Tab. 1133 
is a view of an English Bock Garden.— Allium 
ovifiorum, Begel [t. 1134], a pretty species of Allium 
with short ebulbous stems from which the roots are 
produced, flaccid linear carinate glabrous leaves and 
nodding umbels of deep violet purple flowers; Sikkim; 
H. J. Elwes, Esq ; see p. 9.— Passijlora rubra, Lin. 
[t. 1135, fig. 1—2], aW. Indian species with bilobed 
leaves and small pale red narrow petalled flowers.— 
Linaria pilosalon gicalcarata, Begel [t. 1135, fig. 3], 
a dwarf herbaceous perennial alaptel for sheltered 
rockeries ; from Sicily and South Italy ; it has 
something the aspect of a dw'arfed and hairy 
L. Cymbalaria, and is grown by Messrs. Backhouse 
& Son as L. Cymbalaria maxima ; the stems are 
abbreviated, the leaves roundish angulately toothed, 
the flow'ers lilac with a pale yellow palate, and re¬ 
markable for their long spur. —Phalcenopsis Stuart- 
iana, Bohb. f. [t. 1136], a copy of the woodcut figure 
in the Q-ardeners^ Chronicle of this fine new species, 
with rosy-liiac flowers, allied to P. Schilleriana, and 
now pretty well known in gardens. 
Gai{ten-Zeitung (Nov.—D ec) contains figures 
of Orndhogalum arabicum L., a pretty white- 
flowered buib, the Caruelia arabica of Parlatore, 
a showy species with white flowers set off by the 
biackish-green germen in their centre. These 
flowers the Botanical Magazine, t. 728, telis us are 
very difficuit to obtain after the first season of growth 
in this country. The plate in the December number 
represents foliage of four variegated forms of Maples, 
named respectively, Acer Pseudo-Platanus fol. atro- 
purpureis, A. P. fol. purpureis Prinz llandjerg, A. 
dasycarpum pulverulent urn, A.d.fol. albo-variegatis, 
and A. d. lutescens. 
L’Illusteation Horticole (11—121iv,) figures 
CoditBum {Croton) Van Oosterzeei, Bodigas [t. 502], 
a small growing narrow-leaved variety, with linear 
lanceolate acuminate leaves 3—4 inches long, of a 
bright dark green above, pale beneath, with a row of 
unequal-sized mostly oblong yellow blotches on each 
side between the midrib and margin; Botanic 
Garden, Batavia; Comp. Cont. d’Hort.— Fuchsias 
[t. 503], 1 Fritz, short-tubed double dark; 2 Mathilde, 
single striped-purple corolla; 3 Juliet, long-tubed 
double purple; raised by M. Malon; Comp. Cont. 
d’Hort.—Plate [t. 504] represents a park-keeper’s 
residence on the estate of M. Montagut of Antonne, 
from a design by M. Henri Lusseau.— Fcheveria 
metallica decora, Bodigas [t. 505], a charming variety 
of this very effective succulent greenhouse or half- 
hardy perennial, in which the leaves are freely striped 
with rose-c dour and creamy white on the soft 
glaucous and iridescent purple ground colour. Ob¬ 
tained by M. Dubergue et fil; Comp. Cont. d’Hort ; 
see p. 10.— Tapeinotes Carolince major, Bodigsa 
[t. 506], a very fine Gesneriad differing from the 
type in the larger size of all its parts. It is of sub- 
shrubby habit, with oblong-lanceolate velvety green 
leaves, and axillary clusters of ventricose white 
flowers. M. de Costa, of Bahia; Comp. Cont. d’Hort; 
see p. 10.— Batataspaniculata, Choisy [t. 507], a fine 
hothouse climber, with thick fleshy roots, smooth 
stems climbing to a cansiderable length, large pal¬ 
mate leaves, and panicles of handsome rosy-pink 
flowers very freely produced; India and South 
America. 
JOURNAL DES BosES (Nov.—Dec.) contains coloured 
figures of K.P. Rose Secretaire J. Nicolas, a fine 
crimson variety raised by M. Joseph Schwartz, 
of Lyons, and recently sent out by him; and 
the Tea Rose Jean Pernet. The former is of 
vigorous growth, with good foliage, and globular- 
cupped flowers consisting of imbricated concave 
petals of a fine deep red with velvety purple reflec¬ 
tions, the reverse being of a pale amaranth; and when 
exhibited last 3 "ear before the Association Horticole 
L 3 mnuaise, and the Sociote d’Horticulture Pratique 
du Bhone, it was awarded a prize of the first class. 
The latter is an outcome of B. devoniensis, obtained 
in 1865 by M. Pernet pere, and sent out by him in 
1867; it is more vigorous than its parent, and has 
stout straight thorns, deep green leaves, and middle- 
sized or large flowers of a fine lively yellow. 
Bulletin d’Aeboeicultuee, &c., for Nov. con¬ 
tains a coloured representation of the Apple Bar- 
thelemy du Mortier, which is said to be one of the 
best of the Belgian sorts, and which was exhibited 
by the raiser M. Van Wassenhove, in 1872, before 
the Societe Boyal d’Horticulture de Tournai, when 
a silver medal was awarded to it by the jury, which 
award was ratified subsequently by the Society itself. 
The fruit is large roundish, somewhat narrowed to 
the apex, and is of a fine golden yellow, freckled 
with fiery red which gives it a very handsome 
appearance; and the flesh is fine, solid, sugary, and 
having an aroma resembling that of the Calvilles. 
As to its season, M. Pyche, a distinguished pomo- 
logical amateur, saj's, it is good in September, better 
near the end of the year, and may be kept till April. 
—The Deo. number has a plate of the Pear Triomphe 
de Tournai, a variety raised from seeds by M. Darrus 
de Naghin ; this having been tested on March 28, 
1882, and March 6 , 1883, was awarded a medal by 
the Societe d’Horticulture de Tournai, for excep¬ 
tional merit. The fruit resembles in form that (J 
Bon Chretien d’hiver, that is oblong-pyriform, yel¬ 
lowish at maturity, finely marbled netted and dotted 
with light brown; the stalk long, the eye half-closed, 
and the flesh yellowdsh-white, firm, buttery, very 
juicy, sugary and perfumed. 
Bevue de L’Hoeticultuee Belge, &c. (Nov. 
—Dec.), contains ;—A plate of the fine new Begonia 
olbia, recently imported from Brazil by M. Ed. 
Pynaert-Van Geert, a tufted plant, with short erect 
stems, olbiquely-ovate deeply lobed leaves, the under 
side of which is of a deep blood-red, and the upper 
side rich dark green freely marked throughout with 
small silvery spots ; the flowers are white, and grow 
in small clusters from the leaf axils.—The December 
number gives a fine coloured figure of Lcelia majalis, 
a well-known species introduced nearly half a century 
ago. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (Nov. 24—Dec. 15) 
contains notes of the following novelties;— Zygo- 
petalmn Burlcei, Bchb. f. (p. 684), an interesting and 
very pretty epiphyte with three-leaved tetragonal 
