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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[August, 
the females with eight smaller petals; flowered in 
December. As=am; Kew. 
Eegonia Lyncheana, HooTc fil. {Hot. Mag., t. 
6758).^—A beautiful species with tuberous rhizomes, 
tall thick fleshy branching stems, large roundish 
oblong-ovate oblique bright green ciliolate leaves, 
and stout axillary peduncles bearing large corymbi- 
form panicles 6—8 inches across of bright scarlet 
flowers, produced from early winter onwards. It is 
sometimes known as E. Eoezlii, hut is not the E. 
Eoezliiof Eegel. Mexico;CambridgeEotanicGarden. 
Eeassia antheeotes, Rchb. f. {Qard. Chron., 
N. s., xii.,7S2).—A handsome epiphytal Orchid, with 
obloug monophyllous pseudobulbs, ligulate oblong 
acute leaves, and many-flowered radical scapes of 
large showy flowers, measuring about six inches in 
their longitudinal direction, the linear sepals and 
petals greenish yellow, heavily blotched with dark 
purple brown, and the panduriform lip extended into a 
long caudate apex, bright yellow with smaller spots 
of x^urple and an orange-coloured crest on the disk. 
Ist-class Certificate from the li.H.S. last June. 
Cypeipedium geande, Rchh. f. {Gard. Chron., 
N. s., xviii., 488).—A noble hybrid Lady’s Slipper— 
it has been called “ a giant,” growing three feet or 
more in height, robust in growth, with long and 
broad bright green shining leaves, and branching 
spikes bearing several large flowers, W'hich have 
oblong-lanceolate sepals of a bi'ownish colour with 
darker veins, tail-like narrow twisted petals nine 
inches long of a rosy hue, and a bold lip pale 
greenish yellow spotted on the margin. It is the 
result of a cross between Cypripedium Eoezlii 
and C. caudatum, and was awarded a Ist-class 
Certificate by the Eloral Committee of the E.H.S. 
on May 13; exhibited by Sir Trevor Lawrence, 
Eart. 
Deymonia MAEilOEATA, Mort. Bull {Bot. Mag., 
t. 6763).—A stove Gesneriad, probably scandent 
like its congeners, with thick tetragonal stems, and 
large elliptic ovate leaves, which are bullate, green 
mottled with light grey above, and of a light 
vinous purple beneath; the flowers grow in axil¬ 
lary fascicles, and are yellow, an inch and a half 
long, with a foliaceous rosy-purple calyx, and very 
abundant. The filaments are singularly twisted. 
Supposed to be from Guiana; Kew. 
La;lia Dominiana eosea, Sort. Veitch {Gard. 
Chron., N. s., xvi., 108).—A charming epiphyte, of 
hybrid origin, the result of a cross between L. 
exoniensis and Cattleya Dowiana, the latter being 
the pollen parent. The flowers are smaller than in 
either parent, the lanceolate sepals and broader un¬ 
dulated petals are rose-tinted or “ like claret freely 
diluted with water,” the lip is large flat and whole 
coloured of the deepest ruby-crimson with a peculiarly 
rich velvety appearance. This plant which was raised 
by Mr. Dominy in Messrs. Veitch’s establishment at 
Chelsea, was with one other the whole outcome of the 
cross, and was fifteen years before it rewarded its 
raisers with the development of its flowers. It was 
awarded a Ist-class Certificate on June 24 by the 
E.H.S.; Eaiun Schroder. 
Odontoglossxjm ckispum Veitchianttm, Bchb. 
f. {Gard. Chron., N. s., xxii., p. 7).—The most 
beautiful perhaps of all the forms of O. Alexandra) 
yet known. It was shown and certificated at the 
Eoyal Eotanic Society’s summer showq as O. crispum 
mirahile, but Messrs. Veitch’s name has been 
associated with it by the suggestion of Earon 
Schroder, now the fortunate possessor of the plant, 
and it was certificated on June 24 under this name 
at South Kensington. The habit is that of the 
type but the flowers have the sepals and petals 
unusually broad, the petals toothletted, and the 
margins freely crisped. The ground colour is white, 
with a zone of a mauve-purple tint inside the white 
border, and the surface blotched with purple-brown. 
Professor Eeichenbach observes that it includes and 
connects the characters of O. Chesterton! and fastu- 
osum; New Grenada. 
Passifloea cceeulea Constance Elliott, 
Masters {Gard. Chron., N. s., xxi., 700, fig. 133).— 
A seedling variety of P. ccerulea, as hardy as the 
type and having similarly beautiful pedatifid 
foliage. The flowers are white “almost without a 
trace of blue,” the sepals being white inside, greenish 
outside, the petals white, and the corona ivory w’hite 
faintly tinged with yellow towards the tip. It 
received a Ist-class Certificate from the Eoyal 
Horticultural Society last May, A garden variety. 
Lucombe, Pince & Co. 
Peimula dolomitis, Baker {Gard. Chron., 
N. s., xxi., 577).—A beautiful dwarf alpine species 
of the Auricula section, and closely allied to P. 
ciliata, from which it differs by its more distinctly 
crenate leaves, and longer corolla tube. It has 6 
■—8 broad oblong sessile dull green minutely 
hairy leaves in a basal rosette, w'hite and minutely 
ciliated on the margin; and a terete green scape 
2 — 3 inches long terminating in an umbel of 
8—10 fiowers of a uniform bright lemon-yellow 
having a cylindrical tube and a broadly funnel- 
shaped limb of obovate deejAy emarginate segments. 
It comes from the Tyrol, and was shown by J. T. D. 
Llewelyn, Esq., at the Auricula Show of 1884. 
Tulipa Albeeti, Regel {Bot. Mag., t. 6761).— 
A handsome new Tulip from Central Asia, and 
related to T. Gesneriana, the Tulip of the florists. 
The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, those of the stem 
smaller and lance-shaped, all of a glaucous green; 
while the large bell-shaped flowers on downy stalks 
have bright red flowers marked at the base on each 
petal by a bifid obtuse yellow blotch broadly edged 
with reddish brown, the three interior or petaline 
segments being more obovate than the outer ones. 
Turkestan ; H. J. Elwes, Esq. 
NEW ELOAVEES. 
Antieehinum Rowsham Bet. — A singular 
variety of the Snapdragon, having short petals and 
protruded stamens, thickly set on erect spikes, the 
colour deep crimson; Ist-class Certificate E.H.S., 
June 24; J. King. 
Eegonias {Tuberous).—Ser Majesty, a single- 
flowered variety, having large and finely-formed 
flowers, the petals white, flushed at the edge with 
delicate pink; a floWer of very fine properties and 
quality. Torey Laing, one of the same section, 
also with very large and finely formed flowers, of 
perfect shape; colour orange-red and primrose ; this 
is one of the most distinctly coloured varieties of the 
present day; Ist-class Certificates E.H.S., June 24. 
The former also certificated by the E.E.S., and both 
at the Crystal Palace Eose Show; Laing & Co. 
Carnations. — Celia, a pale pink self-coloured 
variety, which is said to retain its colour well when 
grown in the open air; good form and very effective; 
Ist-class Certificate E.H.S., July 8 ; A’’eitch & Sons. 
Martha, a fancy variety, with a yellow ground and 
rosy scarlet and purple shadings; very pretty and 
distinct; Ist-class Certificate E.H.S., July 8; G. 
Duffield. Madame Carle, a pure white tree variety, 
having medium-sized double flowers, freely produced; 
^N. Eealby. 
Delphinium: Gloire de Nancy. —A very fine 
double variety, with a large branching spike of 
fiowers of a dark lilac colour ; fine and distinct; Ist- 
class Certificate E.H.S., July 8; AV. Eealby. 
Ieis Kasmpfeei. — Earl Granville, a remarkably 
fine flower, measuring eight inches in diameter; 
colour rich purple brightened with lilac, of splendid 
quality. Mary Anderson, pale lilac, veined with 
purple; extra fine quality. Frincess Maud, pure 
