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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[April, 
NEW VEGETABLE. 
Capsicum (Mango-pepper) Golden Dawn .—A 
new Capsicum conlbinint^ the deciirative with the 
useful. It is designated a New Americm Mango- 
Pepper, and is similar in shape and size to tbe 
better-known Sweet Bell, a mdd-flavoured succulent 
Capsicum, whici is highly esteemed by many epi¬ 
cures. The fruit, which is oblong in shape and blunt- 
ended, is of a bright golden yellow, thus forming 
a striking contrast with the red-fruited sorts. It is, 
we are assured, entirely free from the fiery flavour 
so common in this family, and is altogether a great 
culinary acquisition. The plant, moreover, is of 
ornamental character, and therefore useful for the 
autumn decoration of the conservatory or green¬ 
house ; Carter & Co. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
^ La Belgique Horticolk (May—July, 1883, 
just published) contains coloured figures of the fol¬ 
lowing plants :—Schlumbergera Lindeni, E. Morr. 
[t. 10—12], a handsome leaved Peruvian Bromeliad, 
with insignificant flowers. The leaves^are fasciculate, 
recurved, light greeji above, with both surfaces 
marked by transverse lines collected together in 
bauds, those of th- upper side dark green, and those 
of the under surface brownish red; the flowers are 
whitish, issuing from close-set green bracts on short 
branches along a tall straggling scape whose bracts 
are ornamented with green hier 'glyphic markings ; 
Peru; M. Linden.— Begonia Lubbemi, E. M -rr. 
[t. 13], a distinct and handsome suffruticose kind 
from Brazil, with branched stems, and pehate oblong 
rhomboidal distichous leaves wnich are dark green 
boldly blotched with white on the upper side, and 
carmine red behind ; the flowers are large white, in 
axilkry cymes; M. Lubbers.—Cycas Seemanni, A. 
Br. (p. 183), a new species from tne Piji Isles. It 
has a robust stem, growing 30 fc. high, with pinnate 
leaves, having spineless petioles, and 50—70 rather 
large flat, slightly decurrent leaf segments, glabrous 
on both sides; the fertile fronds bi-ar 6—8 ovules 
with a somewhat cordate terminal lobe having fine 
crenatures in front; the fruits or nuts black, 
roundish, miooth.—Canistrum roseum, E. Morr. 
[t. 14—15], an interesting Bromeliad, with a dwarf 
rosette of spreading ligulate serrate leaves of a palish 
green, irregularly blotched with darker green, and 
from the centre, on a short stalk, a cyathiiorin 
involucre of rose-coloured bracts surrounding the 
small greenish-white flowers; Brazil; introduced by 
the Comte de Germiny. 
The Botanical Magazine (Mar.) figures— 
Kniphofia foliosa, Hochst. [t. 6742], an Ab^sJnian 
species, the stoutest of the whole genus, and synony¬ 
mous with K. Qwtrtiniana. ft is a slemless plant 
with a short rootstock, ensiform acuminate recurved 
strongly, iuflexed leaves two feet long, and dense 
erect cylindrical racemes of bright yellow flowers 
sometimes tinged with red, and having much 
exserted stamens and style; H. J. Elwes, Esq.—■ 
Picea ajanensis, Pisch. [t. 6743], a fine hardy 
Spruce Eir from Japan and the Amoor region. It 
is au erect tree with horizontal rigid and densely- 
leafy branches, imbricated two-ranked compressed 
linear acute bright green leaves, glaucous beneath, 
and obloug-cyliudraceous cones terminating the 
young branches, erect and purplish-red while young, 
and deflexed 1—2 inches long when mature. It 
has been called “ the handsomest of all the Piceas.” 
— Tinnea cethiopica dentata, Hook. f. [t. 6744], 
a stove shrub with small ovate or oblong-obovate 
leaves, and few small scattered rusty-brown flqwers; 
of botanical interest only; Kew.— Citrus medica 
acida, Brandis [t. 6745], the West Indian Lime, a 
spiny shrub with leaves 1—2 inches long, small 
flowers, and small subglobose rarely ellipsoid um- 
bonate or mammillate fruit, .containing a very acid 
pulp. According to Sir J. D. Hooker the pretty’ 
little Bijou Lemon of gardens is the same plant; Earl 
Hucie.— Dichopogonstrichis, Baker [t. 6746], a pretty 
greenhouse herbaceous (tlant producing tubers at 
the ends of the roots, and having grassy leaves, 
a branching stem 2—3 ft. high, and purple aspho- 
delaceous flowers in loose racemes which sometimes 
develop into panicles; native of Australia and Tas¬ 
mania ; Cambridge Botanic Garden. 
The Journal des Roses (Mar.) figures a very 
fine variety of the Jacqueminot t}pe, named Rose 
Comte'ise de Camondo, a vigorous growing sort viith 
bold leaves, and lar^e full cupped neatly imbricated 
flowers of a fine bright crimson shaded with car¬ 
mine and vermilion. It was sent into commerce in 
1880 by M. Leveque. 
Revue Horticole (Mar. 1—16) has coloured 
figures of a group of fancy Carnations with 
Variously coloured flaked or streaked flowers; ai d of 
Canna Uliijlora, an extremely handsome pure white 
tall-growing Canna with very large and fragrant 
flowers; from Veraguas; E. Andre. 
