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[Atjqtjst, 
Baker (p. 700), a fine stove bulb, with thin bright 
green leaves a foot long, and 4—5 fiowered umbels 
of green-tubed flowers Wving linear perianth seg¬ 
ments, and a funnel-shaped white corona with two 
marginal teeth between each pair of stamens; South 
America ; Kew.— Fritillaria Schliemanni, Ascber^ 
son & Sintenis (p. 795), a small half-hardy bulb 
allied to F. tulipifolia, growing a foot high, and 
having 6—8 alternate leaves, the lower oblong- 
lanceolate, the upper lanceolate acute, and a solitary 
drooping flower of a yellowish-green colour without 
any distinct tessellation; Asia Minor; Troy.— Iris 
Kerneriana (p. 795), a new species closely allied 
to I. spuria and I. Guldenstadtiana; also found 
near Troy. — Coelogyne Dayana, Bchb. f. (p. 
826), a very fine new Orchid closely allied 
to C. tomentosa, having slender pyriform pseudo¬ 
bulbs, petiolate oblong acuminate leaves, and 
drooping racemes of numerous flowers, which 
are of a pale ochre, the three-lobed oblong lip 
having the lateral lobes marked with dark brown 
longitudinal stripes, and the middle lobe with a 
crescent-shaped blotch of the same colour opening 
towards the base; there are two plaited keels 
extending from the base of the lip to the base 
of the mid-lobes, where they divide into six keels 
covered with denticulate indulations; Borneo ; 
Veitch & Sons.— Cattleya intricata, Bchb. f. (vol. 
xxii., p. 7), a fine supposed natural hybrid, with the 
habit of Cattleya intermedia, the narrow sepals and 
petals of the lightest white rose, the lip like that 
of Lselia elegans picta, only the sharp-angled side 
lobes are white and the free blade of the stalked 
mid-lobe of the deepest purple; Low & Co.— 
Cattleya Mossice Arnoldiana, Hort. Sander (p. 7), 
a very fine thing, the sepals and petals of the lightest 
white rose, the lip narrow approaching C. Li'idde- 
maniana, having dark purple basilar stripes, a 
light midline and fine orange stripes on a lighter 
ground, and the anterior space sulphur with a 
few slight purple lines; Sander & Co.— Odonto- 
glossum VuylsteTceanum, Bchb. f. (p. 7), a very 
fine natural hybrid, in the way of 0. mulus 
sulphureum; the sulphur yellow flowers have the 
dorsal sepal, the petals which have the sharp edges of 
those of O. Wilckeanum, and the dilated lip blotched 
with the deepest orange, the lateral sepals being of 
that colour except at their base ; it is a grand thing. 
M. Vuylsteke. — Odontoglossnm crispum Veitcli- 
ianwm., Echb. f. (p. 7), one of the finest of the 
crispums (Alexandra;), the large tootbletted flowers 
being freely blotched with brown on a white ground, 
and having a mauve or purple-tinted zone within the 
edge; Veitch & Sons. 
Gaetenfloea (March — May) contains figures 
of Tropmolmn digitatum, Karst, [t. 1146j,an elegant 
species, with peltate pedately 5—7 lobed leaves, and 
orange yellow dentate - ciliate flowers with a 
scarlet tube and green sepals; Columbia.— TuUpa 
Elwesii, Eeg. [t. 1147, fig. 1], a four-leaved Tulip 
with the leaves linear-lanceolate, and* the flow'ers 
white ; native country not known.— Stenomesson 
incarnatum. Baker [t. 1147, fig. 2], the Coburgia 
incarnata of Sweet, a stout Amaryllid with scarlet 
tubular flow^ers having the segments marked with 
green.—Group of Terrestrial Orchids [t. 1149], 
including Serapins cordigera, Orchis longicruris, &c. 
— Mthionema coridifolium, I)C. [t. 1150], a pretty 
little half shrubby rock plant with purplish-rose 
flowers from N. E. Lebanon. —Adiantum farleyense, 
Moore [t. 1151], a fine hothouse fern from the 
"West Indies; should be potted in loam.— Scutellaria 
Lehmanni, Eeg. [t. 1152, fig. 1], a soft-wooded stove 
plant with obscurely tetragonal stems, opposite 
cordate-ovate leaves and short terminal racemes of 
crimson scarlet flowers, with the corolla tube over 
half an inch long; Western Cordilleras; St. Peters- 
burgh Botanic Garden.— Calimeris Alberti, Eeg. 
[t. 1152, fig. 2], a hardy perennial Composite, with 
erect corymbosely-branched stems, sparsely clothed 
with linear acute leaves, and terminating in solitary 
heads an inch and a half across, having numerous 
narrow linear pale lilac florets ; Turkestan; St. 
Petersburgh Garden. — Pentachcete aurea, Nutt, 
[t. 1153], a pretty dwarf annual 6—8 inches high, 
of slender branching habit, with alternate filiform 
leaves and golden ra 3 md flower-heads, having about 
two rows of acutely linear florets and a small compact 
orange disk; California; Haage & Schmidt. — 
Oxytropis ochroleuca, Bunge [t. 1154, fig. 1], a 
hardy perennial, with short erect stems, pinnate 
leaves, and short racemes of small yellowish white 
flowers; Thian Schan ; St. Petersburgh.— Oxytropis 
frigida racemosa, Eeg. [t. 1154, fig. 2], a hardy 
perennial with radical tufts of pinnate leaves, and 
racemes of pale violet flowers on scapes longer than 
the leaves; East Turkestan. 
La Belgique Hoeticole (Aug.—Dec.) contains 
plates of Elceagnus longipes [t. 16], a Japanese shrub 
with deciduous elliptic or oval leaves, and numerous 
long-stalked axillary small white fragrant flowers, 
succeeded by oblong fruits of a reddish hue, which 
are edible.— Anoplophytum amoenum, E. Morr. [t. 17], 
a small epiphytal Bromeliad, with branching stems, 
clothed with snbulate leaves, and few-flowered spikes 
of flowers of which the sepals are rosy and the petals 
bluish-lilac ; Brazil; Liege.— Cypripedium Spiceri- 
anum, Echb. f. [t. 18], a charming Lady’s Slipper, of 
Indian origin, with handsome green leaves and greenish 
flowers the dorsal sepal overarching white with a bold 
central crimson stripe; now pretty well known.— 
Aphelandra MargaritcB, E. Morr. [t. 19], a handsome 
dwarf stove plant with cylindrical hairy stems, 
decussate elliptic leaves marked on the face with 
about half a dozen bands of white on each side, and 
short terminal spikes of orange-coloured flowers; 
S. America; MM. Jacob-Makoy. 
Eevue Hoeticole (April 1—July 16) has the 
following coloured plates :— Prunus sinensis, a pretty 
slender bushy-habited hardy deciduous shrub, clothed 
in spring with small blush-white flowers, conspicuously 
staminate, and followed by globose red fruits as large 
as marbles; it is often confounded with P. japonica, 
which has smaller flowers.—Coloured Designs for 
Elower-beds—11 designsof varied figures.— Anthurium 
Scherzerianum Yervaeneum, said to be the best of 
the white-spotted forms.—Group of Hybrid Alstrce- 
merias. —Parterre in the Parc de la Chaumette.— 
Douming Peach, an early variety with a reddish- 
brown velvet}' skin, as figured.— Tropceolum Madame 
Gunter and Cardinale, the first yellow with red spots, 
and dwarf in habit, the second a scarlet self belonging 
to the Lobbianum group.— Yucca Whipplei violacea, 
a very fine variety raised in the Jardin d’acclima- 
tation, at Hyeres, and flowered for the first time in 
May, 1883; the flowers are drooping, two inches 
long and an inch across, greenish-white in the basal 
half, deep purple at the tip, the colours blending 
together in the middle part of the flower; the anthers, 
not shown in the figure, are described as being purple. 
It is very handsome and quite novel. 
L’Illusteation Hoeticole (6 liv.) contains a 
double page figure of Azalea {indica) Vervaeneana 
[t. 523], a very large semidouble flower of good 
outline carnation rose, with a broad and very 
irregular white margin, and having a few scarlet 
flakes, and a large blotch of deep crimson spots, the 
ro.sy ground colour in some places extending nearly 
to the edge, and in other parts falling far short of 
it. Eaised by M. Joseph Vervaene by crossing 
Kdnigin der M^eissen with pollen of versicolor; it 
is a very handsome kind.— Odontoglossum nebulosum 
guttatum, Echb. f. [t. 524], a splendid variety in 
which the lower half of the sepals and petals and 
