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EEGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
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undulate mauve-coloured, and the lip also mauve, 
linear-triangular in front and white-tipped, with two 
projecting angular lobes at the base, where there is 
some peculiar orange calli; W. Bull.— Lczlia anceps 
Leeana, Hort. Sand. (p. 445), a small-flowered form 
with white narrow sepals and petals, the interior of 
the side lobes of the lip yellow' with reddish oblique 
stripes; F. Sander.— Dendrohium nobile Tollianum, 
Kchb. f. (p. 445), a fine variety with pendulous 
stems ; the petals have a pretty purple border, and 
spots and streaks of purple on the disk and at the 
base; the flowers show a tendency to become 
twisted; G. Toll; "W. Lee. — Calanthe pro- 
boscidea, Echb. f. (p. 476), a near ally of C. 
furcata with white flowers changing to light 
ochre, and very little smaller than those of that 
species ; Sunda Islands; Veitch & Sons. — Cypri- 
pedium porphyrochlamys, Echb. f. (p. 476), a new 
hybrid raised between C. barbatum biflorum and 
0. hirsutissimum; it has linear-ligulate leaves, and 
flowers with a blunt elliptic shining upper sepal 
reddish-purple with white borders, descendiog broad 
ligulate petals yellowish at the base, and freckles of 
pure mauve on their exterior half, the' lip of a 
deeper colour than in barbatum; Veitch & Sons.— 
Finns karamana, Masters (p. 481, fig. 91), a form 
of P. Laricio, cultivated under the name of P. 
neglecta; the branches are remote, the lower ones 
spreading, the upper 'ascending, all thicker and 
longer in proportion to the trunk than in Laricio 
itself; Karamania. —Odontoglossum Shuttleworthii, 
Hort. (p. 481), a very pretty hybrid of O. crispum, 
with the ground colour pure white, the sepals 
reddish-brown tipped with white, and the petals and 
lip white blotched and spotted with reddish brown, 
the lip having a bright yellow base; Shuttleworth 
& Co.— Dendrobinm profusum^ Echb. f. (p. 510), 
an elegant species, with the general habit of I), 
superbum, but more slender, and bearing on the 
leafy or leafless stems slender peduncles of 7—9 
flowers about as large as those of 1). amoenum, with 
yellowish-green sepals purple at the base inside, and 
purple dots on the joetals, the pandurate lip >ellow 
with a dark spot in the middle ; Philippine Islands; 
Consul Kienast.— Aerides ifoJefjaw, Echb.f. (p. 510), 
a fine species with the habit of A. quinquevulnerum, 
having erect species of whitish-green flowers lipped 
with white, the lip rosy, with yellow side lobes, and 
a short conical spur; Philippine Islands; Consul 
Kienast.— Tulipa Grisebachiana, Pant. (p. 542), a 
new Tulip from the Herzegovina, related to T. 
sylvestris, having three erect lorate glaucous leaves 
and bright lemon- 3 mllow flowers with a green keel 
to the petals; M. Leichtlin.— Saccolabiuni minla- 
tum citrinum, Echb. f. (p. 542), a fine variety with 
dark stripes on the leaves, and lemon coloured 
flowers with a dark centre; Philippine Islands; 
Con-^ul Kienast & Herr Eobelin. — Nepenthes 
cincta, Mast. (p. 576, fig. 110), a very distinct and 
handsome Pitcner-plant with stout cylindrical stems, 
approximate leathery oblong-lanceolate glabrous 
leaves, which have tw'o ribs on each side parallel 
with the margin, and slightly ventricose pitchers, 
7 — 8 inches long, green flushed with red, and 
marked with numerous irregular purple blotches, 
the rim very oblique, lobed, finely ribbed, with a 
narrow whitish band around the top of the tube, and 
the wings deep and fringed with long sharp teeth ; 
Borneo; Veitch & Sons. —Lcelia Crawshayana leu- 
copter a, Echb. f. (p. 577), a lovely novelty, with 
fusiform or ovate stems, thick linear-lanceolate 
leaves, and blossoms like those of a small-flowered L. 
autumnalis, having light rosy sepals and petals, 
the lip with a fine mauve-purple middle lobe with 
sulphur keels to the disk and white side lobes; 
Borneo ; Veitch & Sons.— Primula dolomitis. Baker 
(p. 577), a charming little plant of the Auricula 
type, with 6—8 broad-oblong imbricated leathery 
leaves in a basal rosette, and a 2—3 inch scape bearing 
an umbel of bright lemon-yellow flowers; it comes 
from Panereggio in the Tyrol; J. T. D. Llewelyn, 
E.sq.— Dendrobinm nobile Schneiderianum, Echb. f. 
(p. 577), an interesting variety in which the flowers 
have a 3 mllowish hue over the lip, and a dark mauve- 
purple mark at its base, the anterior part like the tail 
of a heath-cock ; O. Schneider, Esq.— Vriesia kiero- 
glyphica, E. Morr. (p. 577, fig. Ill), a fine Brazilian 
Bromeliad with handsomely marked leaves growing 
in aspreading tuft, oblong acute, channelled, 3 mllow- 
ish-green marked by irregularly sinuous transverse 
broadish deep green bars; Compagnie Continentale. 
— Odontoglossum Schillerianum, Echb. f. (p. 577), a 
fine species forming a connecting link between O. 
nseviumand O. luteo-purpureum. The flowers have 
cuneate-oblong acute sepals and petals, the lateral 
sepals directed downwards, all yellow blotched with 
brown iu small or large patches, the lip with an 
oblong acute undulated velvety blade, yellow in 
front, white at the base, where there are upright 
side lobes, and two strong blunt calli on the disk ; 
Sander & Co.— Masdevallia anchorifera, Echb. f. 
(p. 577), a pretty species allied to M. ochthodes, 
with racemes of numerous distichous flowers, which 
are purple with ochre-coloured borders and purple 
spots; the petals and lip orange; the lateral sepals 
have the tails curved backward, suggesting the 
flukes of an anchor; Costa Eica; Sander & Co.— 
Dendrobinm cruentum, Echb. f. (p. 604), a species 
allied to B. tridentiforme with slender roundish 
furrowed stems, having nigro-hirsute sheaths, 
oblong obtuse bilobed leaves, and white flowers, with 
a strongly marked cinnabar callus, and three similar 
cinnabar ascending lines, with two interposed small 
teeth from the base to the middle of tue column; 
Sander & Co.— Dendrobinm purp^ireum Moseleyi, 
Hemsley (p. 604), a singularly distinct Dendrobe, 
having dense clusters of white flowers tipped with 
green; Aru Islands; Kew. —Olearia macrodonta. 
Baker (p. 604), a New Zealand shrub which has 
hitherto been confounded with O. dentata, but has 
smaller and less showy flower-heads; Veitch & Sons. 
The Botanical Magazine (April—May) con¬ 
tains the following illustrations :— Torenia Fournierl, 
Lind. [t. 6747], a handmme plant from CochinChina 
suitable for warm greenhouses and plant stoves ; the 
flowers are lilac and pale violet in the way of 
T. asiatica, but differing wholly in having a terminal 
andracemoseinflorescence; Kew.— Oxalis articulata, 
Savigny [t. 6748], a stout, flesby-stemmed dwarf 
plant, with trifoliate hairy stalked leaves and um¬ 
bels of pale lilac sweet-scented flowers; S. Brazil; 
Kew.— CoffeairavancorensiSjNf 'i'^hXt & Arn. [t. 6749], 
a S. Indian shrub, with slender branches, broadly 
ovate or lanceolate leaves, and sweet-scented white 
flowers having a long slender tube and five-lobed 
spreading limb ; Kew. —Acanthomintha ilicifoUa^ 
A. Gray [t. 6750], a dwarf annual herb of the Labiate 
order, with small ovate stalked leaves, and small 
lilac-purple flowers with a yellow palate, set between 
opposite roundish spiny-toothed bracts; Lower 
California; Kew.— Labichea lanceolata, Benth. [t. 
6751] , an Australian shrub allied to Cassia, with 
usually trifoliate sometimes simple leaves, and golden 
yellow flowers with four petals, one of which has 
two small crimson spots near the base. Of these 
Australian plants the editor remarks, few remain iu 
our collections, the rest having been “ for the most 
part watered to death, having been treated like 
Geraniums and other greenhouse stufl ; S. W. 
Australia; Kew.— Leiophyllum buxifoliumy Elliott []t. 
6752] , a pretty little dwarf shining-leaved American 
shrub known in the United States as the Sand 
Myrtle; its small leathery leaves are ovale blunt, 
and its pretty pink blossoms in numerous little 
