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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
NEW PLA.NTS. 
Adiantum EHODOPhyllum, T. Moore {Gard. 
Chron., N.S., xxi., 3(2).—A beautiful hybrid fern 
raised by Mr. Bause, and one of the most oruamental 
of Maidenhairs. TQe fronds are evergreen, tri¬ 
angular, tripinnate, elegan'ly spreading, about a foot 
long, tbe pinnae few pinnate or bipinnate, the upper 
undivided ones 1| inch long, and as well as the 1 inch 
pinnules rhombeo-trapezoid, and set on hair-like 
black pedicels ; the margins are inciso-lobate. The 
sori occupy the apices of the lobes, but are much 
broken up so as to vary in form from round to reni- 
form, oblong, or elongate reniform, the indusia 
being smooth and narrow. In aspect it is midway 
between A. Victorise and the larger pinnuled forms 
of A. tenerum, and being free in growth and mode¬ 
rately bold in character, with a gracefully curving 
contour it will make a fine decorative fern, the more 
BO as all the young fronds grow up of a brilliant tint 
of rosy-purple which lasts for a considerable time and 
then pa<ses through soft coppery shades till the full 
green of the mature fronds is acquired; Isf-class 
Certificate R.H.S., March 25; E.B.S., March 26; 
Veitch & Sons. 
Begonia Caeeieei, Sort .—A new hybrid 
variety said to be a cross between B. semperflorens 
and B. Schmidtii, and exhibiting the charac eristics 
of B. semperflorens rosea in a remarkable degree. 
The flowers are nearly as large as those of that plant, 
pure white, and produced much more plentifully. 
The foliage is roundish-ovate, of a bright cheerful 
green. Quite small plants appear to fl<>wer with 
great freedom; Ist-olass Certihcate R.H.S., March 
11; H. Cannell & Sons. 
Begonia hvTiBv.^s,i,E. Morren {Belg. Sort.,1^%^, 
1.13), a very handsome branched subshrubby species, 
with cylindrical green stems deflexed at the tips, and 
alternate, distichous, smooth, entire leaves, peltately 
at ached to fleshy petioles, at the base of which are 
la’-ge ovate persistent b ight red stipules ; the leaves 
are narrow elongate oblong-rhomboid, the upper and 
lower ends acute, dark green above and shining, 
with irregular oblong blotches of white between the 
primary veins, deep red on the under surface. The 
monoecious flowers grow in axillary nodding cymes, 
which are ab mt six-flowered, the blossoms being f 
large size, whim tinged with green. Of Brazilian 
origin, having been sent by M. Binot of Petropolis 
attached to a fern stem. It is allied to B. argyro- 
stigma, but differs essentially in its peltate leaves with 
an acute upper lobe, and in the form and dimensions 
of it' flowers; Brus-els Botanic Garden. 
CaTTLEYA TEIANiE SPLENDIDISSIMA, Sort. Wil¬ 
liams .—A really splendid variety of this varied and 
beau'iful Cattleya. The plant is of the usual habit, 
and bears freely its charming blossoms, having the 
sepals white and narrow as usual, and the petals 
very broad transparent white, while the lip was an 
intense dark purple magenta coloured fully to the 
fimbriated undated edge; Ist-class Certificate E.H.S., 
March 11; S. America; B. S. Williams. 
Canna LILIIFLOEA, Warscewicz {Flore des Sevres, 
X., t. 1055—6; Mev. Sort., 1884, p. 132, with 
tab.).—An exceedingly fine variety, introduced by 
Warscewicz some thirty years since, but not sutti- 
ciently appreciated. It is a plant of vigorous 
growth, at'aining 6—10 feet high or more when 
grown under glass. Tbe stems are stout, erect; the 
leaves are large, musseform, oblong acuminate, of 
a tender green ; and the flowers which are also very 
large grow in a short terminal raceme, the indivi¬ 
dual blossoms measuring 4—5 inches in length. 
The perianth is tubulose, terminating in petaloid 
lobes of which the three external are linear-oblong 
convolute, reflexed, tinged with green, and the three 
[April, 
inner ones straight and extended, recurved at the 
end, white, with a slight tint of yellowish green. 
The expanded flowers nave a tine penetrating odour 
of ho (oysuckle. M. Andre. 
Cypripedium GoDEFttOY.®, Oodefroy-Leheuf 
{UOrcdiidoghile,^. 830).—A fine new L .dy’s SI pper 
presumably from Eastern Asia, and closely related 
to C. niveum and C. concolor. It is robust in habit, 
with ligulata obi «ng leaves, some green some spotted, 
and wuite flowers blotched with chocolate spots. A 
figure and iflore complete particulars will be found at 
p. 38. 
Bichopogon steictus, Baker {Bot. Mag., t. 
6746).—An interestinggreenhou-e herbaceous peren¬ 
nial, with a stout creeping rootstock, the root fibres 
of which bear fleshy ellipsoid tubers at the end. 
The leaves are grass-like, concave, a foot and a half 
long; and the stem is erect, taller than the leaves, ter¬ 
minating in a raceme or panicle of purple flowers, 
in the best forms an inch and a half across, having 
the three outer segments paler elliptic-oblong, and 
the three inner ones broader, obcordate with three 
central ribs and an erose margin ; thev are scented 
like the heliotrope but fainter. It belongs to the 
group of Asphodels in the order Liliacese ; native of 
South East Australia and Tasmania; Cambridge 
Botanic Garden. 
Dieffenbachia Jenhanni, Sort. Veitch. —A 
handsome dwarrish Araceous stove piaut of the orna¬ 
mental fo'iaged class. The leaves are long and narrow 
for the genus, oblong-lanceolate in outline, of a pea- 
green colour, with oblique elongate blotches parallel 
with the primary veins extending from the centre 
nearly to the margin, and mingled with smaller 
blotches over the surface. It is a most striking 
plant, and has been imroduced lately from British 
Guiana; Veitch & Sons. 
Kalanchoe yKQ^ k, Balfourf. {Gartevflora, 
t. 1143).—A distinct and haudsome stove succulent, 
belonging to the Crassulaceous order. The whole 
plant is covered with a mealy powder which gives 
it a greyish-white colour. It has stout erect stems, 
with thick fleshy opposite roundish-spathulate 
outer leaves, and terminal umbelliform panicles of 
numerous erect vermilion-scarlet flowers, whose 
peria ith is tubular and about an inch long, with a 
spreading limb of short ovate lobes. Found in the 
island ot Socotra by Dr. I. B. Balfour; Haage & 
Schmidt. 
Oncidiem JonesianEM, Rchb.f. {Gard. Chron., 
N.S., XX., 781).—A pretty epiphytal Orchid, with 
shortish, terete, subulate, channelled leaves, and 
racemes of moderate sized flowers wh ch have 
cuneate oblong wavy sejials and petals of a light ochre 
colour with numerous sepia brown blotches, and an 
elegant lip having small bright yellow auricles with 
a few brown blotches on the anterior edge, and a 
broad white subreniform bilobed blade with a few 
small brilliant purple blotches near the base, and a 
callus of two patellar bodies traversed by a strong 
keel that exceeds them in front, and spotted and 
lined with brown ; Paraguay; Horsman & Co. 
Pbimela sapphieina, Sook. fil et Thomson. — 
A small-growing plant, with obovate spathulate obtuse 
pinnatifidly-toothed leaves, with white hairs on the 
upper surface. The leaves form rosettes a quarter 
to half an inch in diameter. The flower scapes pro¬ 
duced in spring are one to two inches high, the 
flowers sessile, nodding, of a bright or pale blue, 
scarcely so large as those of P. cipitata, but ot a 
darker colour; they are said to have a peculiir 
glandular disk, which almost covers the stamens and 
pis.il; much like a small Androsace in habit. It is 
found in the Sikkim Himalaya at an altitude of 
13,000—15,000 feet, whence it was introduced by 
Mr. Elwes; Edinburgh Botanic Garden. 
Telipa Osteowskiana, Begel (^Gartenflora, 
