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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[February, 
KEGISTEE OF NOVELTIES. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Bilbeegia Windii, Makoy {Oard. Cliron., N.S., 
XX., 791).—A rather pretty hybrid Bromeliad, raised 
at Liege, in the establishment of MM. Jacob-Makoy, 
between Bilbergia Baraquiniana and B. nntans. It 
has a pendulous cylindrical glabrous peduncle a foot 
long, furnished with broadly lanceolate, acuminate, 
boat-shaped bracts of a rich bright rosy-crimson. 
The flowers are few, racemose, each about three 
inches in length, the sepals half an inch long, oblong 
obtuse, iridescent, reddish at the base, blue at the tips, 
the corolla protruding beyond the calyx, greenish- 
yellow, its strap-shaped lobes two inches long, and 
rolled up ciroinately like the fronds of a Bern; its 
six stamens with slender yellow filaments, and its 
elongated style with flattened blue stigmas ; Belgian 
gardens. 
Cattleya CALUvriiATA, E. Andre (Bev. Rort., 
1883, 564, with tab.).—A beautiful and novel hybrid 
Cattleya raised by M. Bleu, between C. amethystina 
and C. Aclandisc, the former being the seed-bearing 
parent. The pseudobulbs are three to four inches 
long; the leaves are oblong, emarginate, of a deep 
green sometimes spotted with violet; and the flowers 
which resemble those of C. Aclandim in form have 
the sepals and petals whitish, tinted with rose and 
spotted with violet, and the lip with the large side 
lobes white, and the wedge-shaped centre as well as 
the column, of a rich velvety violet-red or magenta 
rose. The name comes from the Greek kalymma, a 
veil or hood. Erench gardens; M. Bleu. 
Cypeipedittm Leeanum, Feitch {Qard. Ckron., 
N.S., xxi., 50).—A very distinct and charming Lady’s 
Slipper, the first of tbeC. Spicerianum crosses, which 
in its neat habit and many other features partakes 
more of C. Spicerianum than of its other parent 0. 
insigne Maulei. The plant is quite dw'arf and com¬ 
pact growing, with bright green ligulate leaves, and 
rather long flower scapes. The flowers have the 
dorsal sepal large and flat, not reflexed at the sides, 
broadly oval, pure white, with a dotted central bar of 
bright purplish-red, the base being bright emerald- 
green, from which radiate small mauve spots upw^ards 
into the pure white. The petals are marked by 
reddish-brown longitudinal stripes; and the pouch 
is of a shining brownish-red. The staminode is like 
that of C. insigne Maulei, the only point perhaps in 
which the hybrid suffers by comparison with C. 
Spicerianum. This little treasure, named after TV. 
Lee, Esq., of Downside, Leatherhead, is due to the 
skill and untiring patience of Mr. Seden; Veitch & 
Sons. 
Ipovkea Thomsoniana, Masters {Gard. Chron., 
N.S., xxi., 818, fig. 147).—A stove climber of great 
beauty, noticed at p. 93 (1883) under the name of 
I. Horsfallim alba. It resembles that species in its 
general habit, but differs in the thick fleshy ternate 
leaves, the leaflets of which are stalked, rounded at 
the base, and entire not wavy at the edge; the 
flowers are nearly double the size and pure white. 
The plant is of a very free-flowering habit. Intro¬ 
duced by seed from the East (not AVest) Indies; 
Ireland & Thomson. 
IsMENE Andeeana, Baker {Gard. Ckron., N.s., 
xxi., 11).—A handsome new Amaryllidaceous plant, 
having a bulb as large as an apple, several pale green 
glabrous linear leaves, under an inch broad, cotem¬ 
porary with the flowers, which are solitary on slender 
peduncles shorter than the leaves, the perianth tube 
green cylindrical, erect, 4^—5 inches long, curved at 
top, the limb white with linear segments 3—4 inches 
long, and the corona broadly funnel-shaped 3—4 
inches broad at the throat, white with green stripes, 
the marginal processes rounded, and the anthers 
yellow. Banks of the Eio Ambocas, Ecuador; M. 
Ed. Andre. 
Lotus pelioehtnchus, {Bot.Mag., 
t. 6733).—A most remarkable greenhonse shrub of 
the Leguminous order, but not having at first sight 
any resemblance to the ordinary type of pea-flowered 
plants, and far more suggestive of Ipomopsis. It is 
a slender much-branched shrubby plant clothed 
with short silky hairs; the branches are slender, 
decurved, with filiform branchlets, hearing filiform 
leaves ; the flowers grow one or two in the axils, and 
are orange scarlet, with the vexillum uncinate re¬ 
curved, the wings much longer dimidiate-lanceolate, 
and the keel still longer incurved and beaked ; grows 
on rocks in Teneriffe, where it is called Pigeon’s 
beak; Kew. 
PHiEDEANASSA Lehjianni, Hegel {Gartenjl., t. 
1138).—An interesting stove Amaryllidaceous plant, 
with ovate bulbs, elliptic lanceolate petiolate leaves, 
and three-flow'ered umbels of drooping tubulose 
scarlet flowers the short green base constricted and 
connate, the upper part of the perianth connivent, in 
a triangular tube-like form about an inch long, scarlet. 
ColomEa ; St. Petersburg Botanic Garden. 
Peimula peolifeea, Wallick {But. Mag.., t. 
6732).—This very striking Primrose is also known 
under the name of P. imperialis and Cankrienia 
ckrysantha. The narrowly obovate-oblong leaves are 
the largest of any known Prinaula, being sometimes 
as much as eighteen inches long. The scape varies 
from six to tw^enty inches high, and bears from two 
to six superposed whorls of faintly sweet-scented 
flowers of a pale golden yellow, and three-fourths of 
an inch across. In Sikkim it grows at elevations 
of 12,000—16,000 feet, in Java it occurs on the 
loftiest mountains 8,000—9,000 feet high, and in 
the Khasia mountains of E. Bengal, at 4,000—6,000 
feet. It blooms in the open borders during the 
summer months; Isaac Anderson-Henry, Esq. 
NEAA" ELOAVEES. 
Amaryllis, Miss Evelyn Molford. — A fine new 
winter-flowering variety, of very large size and fine 
form, six inches across, of a brilliant crimson scarlet, 
having a short, whitish stripe half way down each 
of the perianth segments; it has some of the aulica 
blood in it, and this cross has no doubt given it its 
winter blooming qualities ; B. S. AVilliams. 
Antirrhinums. — Argus, white tube, yellow 
mouth, bright crimson lips, the lower one tinted 
with white, distinct and handsome. Bride, white 
tube, the rosy lips veined wdth white. Coronet, 
canary yellow, striped with crimson. Firefly, white 
tube, golden yellow lips and mouth, mottled and 
striped with crimson. Goldfinch, golden yellow, 
striped and mottled with crimson. PwZia, yellow, 
striped with crimson, fine white tube. Phidias, 
white, mottled with crimson, white tube, very pleas¬ 
ing. The Moor, a rich dark crimson self. Vulcan, 
lilac and crimson striped with yellow, mouth white, 
tube extra fine; B. B. Laird & Sons, Edinburgh. 
Cyclamens (persicnm).—Crimson Beauty, a 
charming variety, of excellent habit, and of a very 
pleasing shade of rosy crimson; flowers of large size 
and excellent form; Ist-class Certificate R.H.S., 
January 8. Amethyst, deep violet purple, a shade of 
colour that will no doubt soon be developed into a 
rich lustrous purple ; extra fine form and substance. 
Mrs. K. Little, certainly the brightest and deepest 
crimson yet seen, rich in colour and very striking. 
All from H. Little, Hillingdon. 
Delphiniums. — Cleopatra, dark blue, vdth fine 
white eye, magnificent spike two and a half feet 
in length ; a vigorous grower. Liadem, azure blue, 
with metallic shade, semi-double; extra fine. D. P. 
Laird, light azure blue, white eye, slight metallic 
tinge; very fine. Glenlyon, dark blue, black centre; 
