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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[Febetjaet, 
Lendy .—Saccolahium giganteum illustre, Hulib. f. (p. 
44), a variety said to have broader leaves, and richer 
coloured flowers, with a brighter lip ; the flowers 
are blush white tipped and spotted with amethyst; 
Sander & Co .—Botivardia ucahra, Kook, et Arn. (p. 
44), a very pretty and attractive species; it grow'S 
12—18 inches high, with terete hairy herbaceous steins, 
whorls of ovate acuminate leaves, and dense corym¬ 
bose cymes of bright pink flowers with the throat of 
the tube whitish; the corolla lobes are broadly 
elliptic ovate and spreading ; Mexico .—Pinm muri- 
cata, Don (p. 49, figs. 7—9), a remarkable two¬ 
leaved species, which has the peculiarity of re¬ 
taining its cones for an indefinite number of years, 
the fruit scales also remaining closed till a forest 
fire or some other injury causes them to open; 
California ; D. T. Fish .—Cypripedium Leeanum, Kort. 
Veitch (p. 50), a charming hybrid between C. Spi- 
cerianum and C. insigne Maulei, with the dwarf com¬ 
pact habit of the former, and flowers of an inter¬ 
mediate character, the dorsal sepal being white with a 
central band of purplish-red; see p. 28 ; Yeitch & Sons. 
—Calanthe porphyrea, Echb. f. (p. 76), an exquisite 
hybrid, raised from C. vestita rubro-oculata crossed 
with Limatodes labrosa. It has a constricted fusi¬ 
form bulb, and a hairy peduncle bearing a zigzag 
raceme of very handsome flowers; the sepals and 
petals are oblong acute of the most exquisite dazzling 
purple ; the lip is three-lobed, the anterior lobe being 
emarginate, protruded, and of a fine purpfie, while 
the base is yellowi-h with small purple spots; the 
spur is ochre-coloured; Sir T. Lawrence.-— Pe^catorea 
KlahocJiorum ornatissima, Echb. f. (p. 76), a very 
fine variety with dark mauve-purple tips to the T'etals 
and numerous spots near their base, with a solitar}'' 
spot at the base of the upprersepal; SirT. Lawrence. 
—Lalia albida siPpJiurea, Echb. f. (p. 76), a large 
flow ered variety, with sulphur-coloured flowers, with 
orange crests and dark purple reticulations at the 
base of the lip, and dense dark purple lines in front 
of the column, the anterior lobe of the lip tinted 
with light mauve on each side ; Heath & Son. 
The Botanical Magazine (Jan.) contains 
figures of Decaisnea insignis. Hook. f. et Thoms, 
[t. 6731], a dioecious Aralia-like tall deciduous 
shrub belonging to the Lardizabalads, requiring 
greenhouse protection ; the leaves are 2—3 feet long, 
wi.h many pairs of ovate or elliptic acuminate leaf¬ 
lets, and the drooping green flowers grow in terminal 
and axillary racemes a foot long ; Sikkim ; Kew.— 
Primula prolifera, Wallich [t. 6732], a large-leaved 
Primrose, allied to P. japonica, w'ith several super¬ 
posed whorls of yellow flow'ers; see p. 28; Moun¬ 
tains of India and Java; I. Anderson-Henry, Fcq. 
—Lotus peliorhynchus, Hook. f. [t. 6733], a slender 
cano-sericeous much branched greenhouse shrub, 
with filiform leaves, and axillary scarlet flowens, 
having an uncinate recurved standard, long dimi¬ 
diate lanceolate wing.s, and a still longer incurved 
beaked keel; they are quite unlike those of the 
ordinary forms of Legumino-fo, to which order the 
plant belongs ; Tenerifle; Kewn— Ilorhia Coxdter- 
iana, Eoyle [t. 6734], an elegant greeidiouse herb, 
6—18 inches high, of pierennial (or biennial?) 
duration, with long linear-ohlanceolate spiny-edged 
radical leaves, the stem having the leaves whorled, 
and being terminated by interrupted spikes of long- 
tubed pale greenish - yellow bilabiate flowers ; 
Himalayas ; KewL— Phacelia camganularia, A. Gray 
[t. 6735], a blue flowered annual figured in our voh 
for 1883, plate 595. 
Revue Horticole (Nov. 1—Jan. 16) figures 
Philodendron Mamei, a rather handsome Arad from 
Ecuador (see p. 185); and Pomarea Kdlhreycri, a 
beautiful species of the group of climbing Alstro- 
merias. There are also w'oodcut figures (figs. 99 and 
100) of the Solanum Ohrondii, the new Potato, 
which Mr. Baker identifies with S. Commersoni.-— 
Antlmrium ferrierense, Bergman, a beautiful hybrid 
between A. Andreanum and A. ornatum, of stout 
habit, with large deflexed cordate cuspidate deep 
green leaves, and erect spathes of the same form, of 
a delicate rosy-carmine, the spadix white tipped 
with yellow. M. Duoharte suggests that it ought to 
be called A. ornato-Andreanum; raised at Ferrieres 
by M. F. Bergman.—A woodcut (figs. 106—107) 
reprresents Phyllanthus Chantrieri, Ed. Andre, an 
erect stove shrub from Cochin-China, with flatly 
spreading branches having the appearance of long 
pinnate leaves; the true leaves are brilliant lustrous 
green, obliquely distichous, subsessile, unequal¬ 
sided, trapezoidal, acuminate, and from their axils 
the small brick-red yellow-fringed flowers are pro¬ 
duced, the males growing from the under, the females 
from theupperside.— Cattleya Ed. Andre, 
a fine hybrid raised between C. Aclandise (not Ack- 
lindim) and C. intermedia, with blush-white 
flov/ers spotted all over with purple, and a rich 
purple-crimson lip; see p. 28; raised by M. Bleu ; 
French gardens.— Impatiens SuUani, Hook, f., a 
free-growing free-flowering Balsam from Zanzibar, 
now [iretty well known.— Malus microcarpa Davidii, 
Carriere, is described as a very ornamental tree with 
a roundish head and drooping branches; in spring 
wholly beautiful with its rosy flowers, and very orna¬ 
mental in autumn with its numerous highly-coloured 
bright red ivuit.—PassiJlora atomaria. Planch., a 
free-growing climbing stove plant, with three- 
parted blunt-lobed leaves, and white flowers, about 
two inches across ; N. Grenada; E. Andre. 
Gartenflora (Dec.) contains plates of Anguloa 
uniflora, Euiz. & Pav. [t. 1137], a bold-looking 
epiphyte, with large iflicate leaves, and solitary 
obliquely-set whitish flowers, from Colombia.— 
Pheedranassa Lehmanni, Eegel [t. 1138], a pretty 
Colombian Amarydlid requiring stove culture ; it has 
narrow linear cotemporaneous leaves, and nodding 
scarlet tubulose flowers, an inch long, in three- 
flowered umbels.— Stanhnpea florida, Echb. f. [t. 
1139], an uucoloured figure reproduced from the 
G-ardeners’ Chronicle. 
Eevue de L’Horticulture Belge, &c. (Jan.) 
has a handsome figure of JEschynanthus Lohbianus, 
which by some oversight has been named M. tricolor. 
This is a family of Cyrtandraceous plants, which em¬ 
braces many splendid stove species, far too seldom 
met with in gardens now-a-days, and soqie of which 
will run Me ivy over the damp walls of a plant stove. 
The Billetin d’Arboriculture, &c. (Jan.), 
gMes a well-marked figure of the Belgian Apple 
lieinelte rouge etoilie, which is more fully noticed at 
p. 29. 
The Journal des Eoses (Jan) figures M. 
Schwartz’s II. P. Rose Colonel Felix Breton, astrong 
growing variety, with medium-sized flow'ers, full and 
regularly imbricated, and of a deep velvety garnet 
crimson, the outer petals taking on a purplish tint. 
It was sent out in 1883, and has been exhibited 
before the Association Horticole Lyonnaise, and the 
Societe d’Horticulture Rhone, and 
awarded a prize of the first class. 
GAEDEN GOSSIP. 
THE TUBEEOUS-PtOOTED SPECIES OF SoLA- 
Nuii, KNOWN AS PoTATos, formed the 
subject of a paper read by Mr. J. G. 
Baker, of Kew, at a meeting of the Lin- 
nean Society on January 17. Out of the 700 species of 
Solanum known to botanists, about twenty are esti¬ 
mated to produce tubers, and of these only one, the 
common Potato, Solanum tuberosum, has as yet been 
