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THE FLORIST AND POBIOLOGIST. 
[!Maech, 
REGISTEE OF NOVELTIES. 
NEW FLOWERS. 
Cinerarias. — Great Eastern, a large stout flower, 
fully three inches in diameter, and of a bright crim¬ 
son colour, extra fine. Lottie Williams, deep 
maroon purple, with a ring of light crimson round 
the disk, which is white j large, finely formed pip ; 
Ist-class Certificate to both, R.H.S., February 12; 
J. James. 
Cyclamen {persicum giganteum).—Dame LlancJie, 
a beautiful pure white variety, of large size, great 
smoothness and substance, and perfect quality ; Ist- 
class Certificate R.H.S., February 12. Baroness 
Burdett Coutts, a fine pure white variety, with very 
massive, smooth, flat, finely-rounded petals; broad, 
and highly attractive. Crimson King, a beautiful 
crimson-flowered variety, very bright and effective ; 
large flowers, and very striking. Mont Blanc, with 
long, tall, somewhat spiral-shaped petals, narrower 
than those of the variety Baroness Burdett Coutts. 
Bose Perfection, remarkable for the size of its flowers, 
the colour pale pinkish-rose, with a crimson ha-e. 
Prince of Wales, deep bright rose, approaching crim¬ 
son, very large and fine ; the foregoing from Mr. H. 
B. Smith. Delicatum, wdth long pure white smooth 
petals, the base delicate rosy pink, a beautiful and 
attractive variety, and wonderfully free; Ist-class 
Certificate R.H.S., February 12; H. Edmonds. 
Cardinal, rich deep bright crimson, very fine in 
colour and quality. Bose Queen, bright rose, with 
crimson base. King of delicate blush, with 
pale purple base; pretty and pleadng; R. Clarke. 
Epacris. — Diadem, flowers deep rose, three- 
quarters of an inch long, and set very thickly on the 
flower spikes; very fine and distinct. The Premier, 
soft delicate pink, a little broader in the tube than 
the foregoing ; very fine and distinct; Ist-class Cer¬ 
tificate to both the foregoing, R.H.S., February 12. 
Her Majesty ,y\^Q the foregoing in general character, 
hut pure white; very pleasing. Bose Perfection, 
delicate pink ; very pleasing; Veitch & Sons. 
Narcissus, palUdtis praecox.- —-An extremely 
early variety, flowering in January; the sepals and 
petals nearly white, the mouth yellow; distinct and 
very pleasing; Ist-class Certificate R.H.S.,February 
12 ; Barr & Son. 
Primula sinensis, JEmperor. —A fine salmon- 
carmine coloured variety, intense in hue, and with a 
pip of great size and substance; Ist-class Certificate 
R.H.S., February 12; H. Cannell & Son. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Botanical Magazine (Feb.) contains figures 
of Nymphcea alba rubra, Caspary [t. 6736], the 
beautiful Swedish Water-lily figured in our volume 
for 1879, t. 487, under the name of N. alba rosea. 
— Tilia petiolaris, Be Candolle [t. 6737], a beautiful 
hardy deciduous tree, growing 50 feet high, and 
cultivated in this country under the erroneous 
names of T. americana pendula, T. alba peudula, T. 
argentea pendula, &c. The under surface of’the 
leaves, which are of the usual roundish cordate 
form, with an acute point, is beautifully silvered, 
and the flowers, produced in July, are deliciously 
fragrant. It differs from T. alba, the 'VFhite Ifime, 
in having five-lobed depressed-spherical glandular 
fruits, instead of smooth ellipsoid ones ; but like that 
tree perfects seeds in this country. — Pentstemon 
labrosus. Mast. [t. 6738], a fine hardy perennial of 
tall slender twiggy habit, with narrow-tubed scarlet 
flowers; noted at p. 185 (1883) as P. barbatus labrosus; 
W. Thompson. Gladiolus Quartinianus, A. Rich, 
[t. 6739], a Tropical African plant found in Abys¬ 
sinia, Angola, and the Zambezi country, related to 
G. psitlacinus, but far less showy, the habit being 
more slender and the flowers smaller and less 
brightly coloured; they are dull yellow, more or 
less streaked with red; flowered at Kew in October. 
—Masdevallia Schlimii, Lind. [t. 6740], a remark¬ 
able Venezuelan Orchid, rather showy, with long- 
stalked obovate elliptic leaves, and erect slender 
scapes bearing about five mottled yellow and pur¬ 
plish-red flowers, with long yellow tails to the 
sepals, which are united into a short tube at the 
base; Sir T. Lawrence.— Notospartium Carmicheelice, 
Hook. f. [t. 6741], a handsome New Zealand shrub, 
the Pink Broom of the colonists; it is a small 
ramous tree, wdth long slender weeping cord-like leaf¬ 
less branches, producing near the tops numerous 
many-flowered racemes of bright rosy-lilac flowers, 
succeeded by small torulose pods ; Kew. 
L’ Illustration Hoeticole (1—2 liv.) contains 
Trichocentrum porphyrio, Rchb. f. [t. 508], a pretty 
dwarf Orchid, without pseudobulbs, having cuneate 
oblong acute leaves, and large flowers with cuneate 
oblong incurved brownish sepals and petals edged 
with yellow and a broad obcuneate porphyry-red 
emarginate lip with a white anterior edge, a sulphur- 
coloured blotch on the disk and three purple lines be¬ 
hind.— Camellia M. Baymond Lemoinier [t. 509], 
one of the pceony-flowered varieties, with the irregu¬ 
lar-shaped flowers at first white venosely streaked 
with rose, but afterwards becoming flushed with rose, 
the veins being still apparent; obtained from C. 
speciosa; M. Lemoinier.— Anthurium splendidum, 
Hort. Bull [t. 510], already noticed and figured by 
us at p. 52, of our volume for 1883.—Gosjfws igneus, 
N. E. Brown [t. 511], a handsome stove plant with 
erect glabrous stems, elliptic acuminate smooth leaves, 
the upper ones subrosulate, and flowers set above 
the leaves, of a bright orange scarlet, and two 
inches acro.-s; Brazil; Comj). Cont. d’Hort.— Pri¬ 
mula sinensis [t. 512], a group of novel varieties 
of the Chinese Primrose.—Model of a verandah 
[t. 513], a handsome structure designed by M. 
Lusseau. 
Garteneloea (Jan.) figures Gentiana Walujewi, 
Reg. et Schmal. [t. 1140], a hardy herbaceous peren¬ 
nial, with lanceolate coriacious 5—7 nerved leaves, 
and erect stems, bearing the numerous white flowers 
in terminal and axillary cymes; gathered in Turkistan 
by A. Regel; St. Petersburgh Botanic Garden.— 
Lycaste coxtata, Lindl. [t. 1141], a Columbian 
epiphyte, with ovate conical pseudobulbs, bearing a 
pair of stalked lanceolate leaves, and pale yellow 
flowers with oblong lanceolate sepals, shorter petaB, 
and a three-lobed concave lip which is fimbriato- 
laciniate except at the tip, yellowish on the disk in 
front of the five veins which form the crest; St. 
Petersburgh Botanic Garden.— PLydrosme Teuszii, 
Engl. [t. 1142], a very remarkable Arad from 
Tropical West Africa. The leaf stalk is nearly two 
feet in length, green, and terminates in a bidi- 
chotomous lamina, the segments of which are elongate 
linear-lanceolate acuminate. The spathe supported 
by a short peduncle, has a short ovoid tube striped 
inside wdth purple, and an oblong trisected lamina, 
green outside and dark purple within, from which 
projects the slender green spadix; Royal Botanic 
Garden, Berlin. 
The Journal des Roses (Feb.) contains a 
coloured figure of Bose Souvenir du Bosieriste 
Bambaux, a Tea Rose raised from seed by the late 
M. Rambaux, and premiated by both the Association 
Hortioole Lyonnaise, and the Societe d’Horticulture 
du Rhone. The figure shows a slender free-bloom¬ 
ing variety, with small leaves, and loose medium¬ 
sized fiowers of a very pale yellow, unequally tipped 
with bright carmine around the edges of the petals. 
It is said to be of vigorous growth, forming a very 
free and continuous flowering bush. 
Revue Hoeticole (Feb. 1—16) gives the fol¬ 
lowing coloured illustrations :— Baisin Due d’Anjou, 
