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white with slight yellow blotches on the outer 
segments; extra fine in size and substance; Ist-class 
Certificates R.H.S., July 8; Veitch & Sons. 
Pink Picturata, a somewhat ragged-looking 
variety, pure ground, and broad lacing of pale 
purple; how it was this variety was thought good 
enough for the award of a Certificate is inexplicable; 
Ist-class Certificate E.H.S., June 24; C. Turner. 
Pelaegonixjms {Large-flowered or Slioiv). —The 
following are Mr. E. B. Poster’s new varieties of 
the present year:— Magnate, of great size and fine 
quality, having rich dark top petals with a wire 
edge of bright crimson, and salmon-carmine lower 
petals, veined with dark ; white throat; flower of 
great size and very fine form. Man of Arms, dark 
top petals with a wire edge of crimson, bright orange 
carmine lower petals with many heavily pencilled 
dark lines. Both had Ist-class Certificates at B.B.S., 
June 18. Purpureum, rosy purple lower petals, 
glossy dark top petals with narrow margin of rosy 
crimson, white throat, distinct, good habit, and very 
free; Ist-class Certificate E-.H.S., June 24. The 
following also were shown :— Democracy, rich dark 
top petals with narrow margin of crimson, rich pink 
lower petals with slight dark lines and blotches, 
large white throat, fine form, and good quality. 
Outlaiv, rich dark top petals and wire edge of 
crimson, lively orange lower petals with slight dark 
blotches, and white throat; finely formed flowers pro¬ 
duced in bold trusses. Lively, a bright orange 
crimson self with a rich black spot on each top 
petal, and broad margin of deep bright scarlet; very 
showy and effective. Rising Sun, rich dark top 
petals with margin of deep crimson and orange, 
crimson lower petals with slight dark pencillings, 
white throat, fine form, and very free. Chief 
Secretary, large dark blotch on top petals, with 
broad margin of shaded crimson, warm pink lower 
petals, and white throat. Czar, shaded crimson 
lower petals, with dark lines, rich dark top petals 
and white throat, distinct, fine form and very 
free. Fair Rosamond, glossy dark top petals with 
slight wire edge of deep rose, orange lower petals 
wilh slight dark lines and stains, white throat. 
Patrician, glossy dark top petals with slight wire 
edge of crimson rose, rosj^ pink lower petals with 
slight dark blotches on each, white throat. Gloiv- 
worm, bright scarlet, pure in colour and very striking, 
dark blotch on top petals, fine in colour, bold and 
showy. Democrat, dark top petals, deep rosy pink 
lower petals shaded with orange, white threat and 
good form ; C. Turner. 
Pelaegonitjms {Fancy). — Phyllis, deep purplish 
rose, each pretal having a wire edge of white, large 
white throat; Ist-class Certificate R.B.S., June 18. 
Murillo, in the w'ay of the foregoing, but with more 
of puce in the colour, white throat, and also edged 
with white ; very free and good form; C. Turner. 
Pkimula capitata. —This is what is known as 
Hooker’s variety of this beautiful Himalayan Prim¬ 
rose ; the flower heads are of an intense purple 
colour, much deeper than is seen in the form usually 
grown; Ist-class Certificate B.H.S., June 24; J. T. 
D. Llewlyn. 
_ Rose Sunset. —A Tea-scented variety, apparently 
distinct from any other variety in cultivation; the 
flowers are large, full, and finely shaped, of a rich 
apricot colour, and most densely perfumed ; Ist-class 
Certificate R.H.S., June 24; W. Paul & Son. 
A^ebbena Striata. — A distinct variety with 
much novelty of marking, the lavender-pink and 
white quarterings being regular, and the pip stout 
and of fine form ; Ist-class Certificate R.H.S., June 
24 ; W. H. Stacey. The following are new varieties 
by the same raiser :— Fantastic, having pencillings 
and flakes of bright crimson on a white ground. 
Hamlet, orange crimson, large and finely formed pip. 
Orion, fine in colour, being of a lively orange 
crimson. Ophelia, rich pucy rose, fine both in pip 
and truss. Lilacina, pale lilac mauve, very distinct 
and pleasing. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Botanical Magazine (June—July) con¬ 
tains figures of Begonia Lyncheana, Hook. f. [t. 
6758], a tall growing fleshy stemmed Mexican 
species, with obliquely roundish-ovate angulate 
leaves, and large corymbs of scarlet flowers of a very 
showy character; Cambridge Botanic Garden.— 
Trichocaulon piliferum, N. E. Brown [t. 6759], a 
short fleshy stemmed Stapelia, very like a Mam- 
millaria in general aspect, and dotted here and there 
■with small pentangular brown flowers; S. Africa; 
Kew.— Meconopsis Wallichii fusco-purpurea. Hook, 
f. [t. 6760], a beautiful Indian poppy of biennial 
habit, tall and ■ erect growing, the pinnate leaves 
clothed with golden hairs, and the flowers of a rich 
brownish purple; G. E. Wilson, Esq. — Tulipa 
Alberti, Regel. [t. 6761], a fine showy Tulip with 
oblong-lanceolate glaucous leaves, puberulous pe¬ 
duncles, and large red flowers marked at the base 
with six bifid wedge-shaped yellow blotches, bluntly 
rounded and bordered with red-brown; Turkestan; 
Kew.— Steudnera colocasicefolia, C. Koch [t. 6762], 
a fine stove Arad, supposed to be from Burmah; it 
has large ovate leaves of a deep bluish-green, and 
reddish-purple spathes yellow externally; Kew.— 
Drymonia marmorata, Hort. Bull [t. 6763], a stove 
Gesnerad, having the broad elliptic-ovate leaves 
mottled with grey and rugose, and the axillary 
flowers yellow with leafy rose-coloured calyx; 
Guiana ; Kew.— Hypericum empetrifolium, Willd. 
[t. 6764], a small erect twiggy greenhouse ever¬ 
green shrub, with small ternate narrow 'linear 
leaves, and cymose panicles of pretty yellow flowers; 
it is related to H. Coris, but is a more woody plant; 
Greece; Kew.— Caraguata sanguinea, Andre [t. 
6765], a fine Bromeliacecus plant from New 
Grenada, noticed at p. 9.— Solanum Jamesii, Torrey 
[t. 6766], a tuber-bearing species of Solanum re¬ 
lated to the common potato; it grow'S about a foot 
high, has branched stems, pinnate leaves, with 
5—9 rather small leaflets, and small cymes of white 
flowers; it produces small tubers of good flavour 
and texture, and is being grown as a “ means of 
improving or rendering disease-proof our cultivated 
species”; Arizona and Mexico; Kew.— Begonia 
Beddo'inei, Hook. f. [t. 6767], a dwarf Indian 
rbizomatous species, with large oblique roundish- 
ovate angularly lobate leaves, which aie pellucid pale 
green and marked by silvery dots; the flowers small, 
pale pink; Assam ; Kew. 
The Gaedenees’ Cheonicle (May 17—July 5) 
contains the following novelties : — Jilasdevallia 
flaveola, Rchb. f. (p. 638), a curious little plant, 
with spathulate leaves and slender peduncles bearing 
2—3 light yellow flowers, which appear to have two 
orange zones on the perigone; the tails are narrow 
at the base,^lilated above; Costa Rica; E. Sander. 
—Odontoglossum Pescatorei Lowianum, Rchb. f. 
(p. 638), a grand variety, with very long sepals and 
petals, which are of a light mauve with numerous 
spots and dots of deeper mauve ; Sir T. Lawrence.— 
Dendrohium dactyliferum, Rchb. f. (p. 638), a species 
allied to I), macrostachyum, with elongate sulcate 
stems rhizophorous at the base, and in the upper part 
bearing short racemes of ochre-white flowers having 
the lobes of the lip bordered by dark brown; E. 
Sander.— Lachenalia flstulosa. Baker, L. lilacina. 
Baker, and L. odoratissima. Baker (p. 668), three 
new greenhouse bulbs, the first with flowers half an 
inch long white edged with purple; the second 
bright lilac with a little blue at the base ; the third 
white with green tips, and very sweet scented ; Cape 
Colony ; T. S. Ware.— Hymenocallis eucharidifoUa, 
