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[October, 
obovate like a well-shaped Doyenne, but sometimes 
is narrowed to both ends. Stalk reddish set in a 
deep irregular basin. JEye large, in a deep depression. 
Skin at first deep green changing to yellow at 
maturity sprinkled with small grey dots. Flesh 
tender and melting, without any grittiness, the 
juice remarkably sugary and delicately perfumed 
with a flavour difficult to characterise. The fruit is 
exceptionally late, not rinening till May and to be 
had till the middle of June. It is a very early 
blooming hardy tree and exceptionally fertile, so 
much so that when grown on a wall the half of its 
fruits must be taken off. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Botanical Magazine (Aug.—Sept.) con¬ 
tains figures of Beschorneria Decosteriana, Hort. 
Leicht. [t. 6768], a fine Amaryilidaceous plant of the 
Agave group having a rosette of twenty or more 
oblanceolate leaves 2—2^ ft. long, thickened and 
dilated at the base, dull green above, glaucesent 
and obscurely keeled beneath ; the flowering stem is 
twice as long as the leaves, erect, and terminating in 
a deltoid panicle of drooping tubulose flowers which 
are green, inch long, and cut nearlj’’ to the base 
into six closely imbricated oblanceolate segments ; 
Mexico ; Kew. —Rhododendron multicolor, Miquel 
[t. 6769], the pretty little Sumatran shrub, intro¬ 
duced as R. Curtisii, and figured by us at p. 613; 
here a pale yellow and a dull red form are repre¬ 
sented; Yeitch & Sons.— Berber is congestijlora 
hakeoides, Hook. f. [t. 6770, as congestifolia], a large 
bushy hardy or nearly hardy shrub, with decurved 
branches, roundish or broadly-oblong shortly- 
stalked spinuloso-dentate leaves bearing in 
their axils globose masses of deep golden yellow 
flowers; Chili; Veitch & Sons. —Odontoglossum 
Fdwardi, Bchb. f. [t. 6771], a very distinct species 
remarkable for its purple flowers ; the pseudobulbs 
are ellipsoid, and produce strap-shaped leaves in 
pairs from their apex, and suberect panicles 2 ft. long 
bearing several alternate branches furnished witn 
flowers the dark purple colour of which is relieved 
by the bright yellow calli of the lip; Ecuador; 
Kew.— Salvia discolor, Kuuth [t. 6772], a bold 
habit soft-wooded Sage, 3—4 ft. high, clothed 
with white tomentum, the stalked leaves ovate- 
oblong, or oblong-lanceolate leaves very white 
beneath, and the branches terminating in whorled 
spike-like collections of dark purple bilabiate 
flowers of which the lower lip is bifid, the 
dark colour contrasting strongly with the downy 
white calyces; Peru; Cannell & Sons.— Philo¬ 
dendron Selloum, C. Koch [t. 6773], a scandent 
subarborescent stove Arad, with subcoriaceous 
ovate-sagittate deeply pinnatifid leaves, and narrow 
oblong spathes a foot long, very stout, dark green 
on the outside, pale yellow within, the spadix 
pale yellow as long as the spathe which has a 
partially expanded concave apiculate lamina; 
Brazil; Kew.— Cereus paucispinus, Engelm. [t. 
6774], a succulent greenhouse plant, 5—9 inches 
high, the stem deformed, constricted and divided in 
5— 7 deep grooves ; the mamillse are hemispherical 
or elongate with a small areola from which spring 
3—7 stout radiating spines tumid at the base; the 
flowers are 2^ inches in diameter dark brownish red, 
the petals j^ellow towards the base ; hardy in a 
frame in the climate of Surrey; New Mexico; E. G. 
Loder, Esq.— Iris tingitana, Boiss. [t. 6775, not t. 
5981], a pretty bulbous Iris, with linear, channelled 
leaves, and large bright lilac flowers; Marocco; Kew. 
— Ravenia llildehrandtii [t. 6776], an African Palm, 
the description of which is deferred.— Pentaptery- 
gium serpens, Klotzsch [t. 6777], a beautiful Vaccini- 
aceous plant of epiphytal habit, with a large tuberous 
rootstock, and long pendulous branches clothed 
with ovate lanceolate leaves, and handsome tubulose 
five-angled, bright red flowers; India, Darjeeling; 
Kew. « 
L’Illusteation Horticole (7—8 liv.) contains ’ 
Lcelia elegans alba, Lind. [t. 526], a very fine variety 
with sepals and petals of a pure white, while the 
front lobe of the lip is a carmine magenta, the 
incurved side lobes being white ; it is a very charm¬ 
ing variety; St. Catherine; Comp. Cont. d’Hort.— 
Aphelandra atrovirens, N. E. Brown [t. 527], a 
dwarf habited Acanthad, with elliptic-ovate leaves 
of a shining dark or blackish green above, purple 
beneath, and terminal spikes of small yellow flow'ers ; 
Bahia ; Comp. Cont. d’Hort.— Calceolaria arach- 
noideo-crenatiflora, Bodigas [t. 528], a group of fine 
hybrid Calceolarias such as are common in gardens, 
and which M. Kodigas attributes to the cross fertil¬ 
isation of C. crenatiflora and C. arachnoidea, to 
which he might have added C. corj^biflora and 
C. purpurea, and probably some others.— Dianthus 
Caryophyllus [t. 529], a group of fancy Carnations. 
-—Cypripedium ciliolare, Bchb. f. [t. 530], a fine 
and somewhat novel species, with handsomely 
mottled bright green leaves, and large flowers a good 
deal stained with reddish brown, rhe broad obtuse 
petals being very conspicuously fringe 1 with black 
nairs; Philippine Islands ; H. Low & Co.— Gunnera 
manicata, Lind. [t. 531], a figure of an entire plant 
before arriving at the flowering stage. It is a noble 
species, with a clear green foliage measuring a yard 
and a half in diameter, and excellent for summer 
bedding; Brazil; Comp. Cont. d’Hort. 
La. Belgique Horticole (Jan.—Eeb.) opens 
with a portrait and memoir of M. Thuret, and has 
the following coloured representation of plants:— 
Billbergia Sanderiana, E. Morr. [t. 1—2], a bril¬ 
liant addition to the genus, having shortish mucronate 
strongly armed leaves (which are longer with smaller 
spines as grown in heat) and a nodding scape bear¬ 
ing a loose elongate panicle of handsome flowers, 
which have large rosy-pink bracts, short glaucous 
green sepals tipped with blue, and brighter green 
petals three times as long, with a spreading blue 
limb about equalling the yellow stamens; Brazil near 
Bio de Janeiro; E. Sander. — Masdevallia hella, 
Bchb. f. [t. 3], a tufted growing species of a gro¬ 
tesque and rather handsome appearance, with elliptic 
leaves attenuated into the petioles, and large flowers 
of a triangular form yellowish inside mottled with 
reddish purple, the petals small, and the lip rather 
large pure white ; the exterior of a mottled-reddish- 
purple ; Colombia; M. Oscar Lamarche de Bossius. 
Gartenfloea (June—Aug.) contains figures of 
Sedum Sempervivum, L. [t. 1155], a handsome half 
hardy succulent biennial with heads of starry scarlet 
flowers. — Allium Semenovi, Begel [t. 1156], a 
hardy bulb from Turkestan, with flstulose leaves 
and small heads of yellow flowers ; St. Petersburgh.— 
The t. 1157 is a view of the Palm House at Syon.— 
Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus [t. 1158] represents 
several forms of this spring Daffodil of which two 
appear to be unfamiliar here, namely, Regina Mar¬ 
garita (fig. 5), with very narrow elongate recurved 
white sepals and a lemon yellow slightly expanded 
toothed cup ; and Br. Regel (fig. 6), a fine double 
yellow form referred to L. praecox plenus; it has the 
sepaline segments spreading, and the corolla com¬ 
pactly imbricated, full, deeper yellow, with a regular 
crenated border.— Cattleya Whitei, Bchb. f. [t.l059], 
with pale rose sepals and petals, and the lip with 
side lobes of the same, the lip being of a much deeper 
rose and veiny.—T. 1160 gives a view of the interior 
of the fern house in the Boyal Botanic Garden at St. 
Petersburgh; and t. 1161 represents a magnificent 
Todea harbara in the same house.— Lonicera Maacki, 
Maxim, [t. 1162], a fine white-flowered Ely Honey¬ 
suckle from Mandschuria (see p. 157).— Mutisiahrevi. 
