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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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with carnation-coloured flowers, is a remarkably handsome greenhouse climber. 
These are the more important acquisitions in the Greenhouse section. 
New Stove Plants are, as usual, very abundant, and we can only glance at a 
few of them. In the flowering section we find the following specially worthy of 
note :— Dipladenia insignis, the finest of all the Dipladenias, with very high- 
coloured rosy-carmine flowers. Glonerict jasminijlora, a Brazilian evergreen shrub, 
with corymbose panicles of long-tubed freely-produced white flowers. Ixora Colei, 
a splendid exhibition plant, with immense heads of pure white flowers. Ixora 
amabilis, a remarkably free deep orange-coloured variety. Begonia Chelsoni, a 
hybrid from boliviensis, with bright orange-tinted red flowers. Bomarea chonta- 
lensis, a grand stove climber from Nicaragua, with waxy rose-coloured and yellow 
flowers blotched with brown, one of the last contributions of the lamented 
Seemann. Aristolochia cordijlora, another stove climber, from Mexico, with 
creamy purple-blotched flowers, having an immense cordiform limb. AEchmea 
Marice Begince, Vriesia corallina, and Bromelia Fernandice, three grand Brome- 
liacese, the first with great rosy-pink bracts, and blue flowers, the second with 
green flowers in the axils of distichous purplish-red bracts, the third with a 
great globose head of numerous recurved cinnabar-red bracts, subtending greenish- 
white flowers. 
Stove foliage-plants again are very numerous, the best being :— Paullinia 
ihalictrifolia , a woody Sapindaceous climber, with triternately pinnate leaves, like 
fronds of some elegant Adiantum. Sphcerogijne imperialism a noble Melastomad 
from Peru. Nepenthes Sedeni , a pretty hybrid pitcher-plant. Maranta Mazellii , 
a handsome species, with broad rotundate leaves, marked by two grey bands. 
Several Dracaenas, as D. amabilis, with green leaves and pink and white variega¬ 
tions, far superior to Guilfoylei; D. Wisemannii, with bronzy, red-margined 
leaves breaking out into white ; D. splendens , a dwarf, dense-growing form, with 
short, broad, recurved bronzy leaves breaking into rosy carmine ; and D. magnifica , 
a very handsome sort, with erect broad bronzy leaves, margined with red, and 
having a pinkish bloom. Several Arads, as Dieffenbacliia imperialis, bold-leaved, 
dark green, with gray rib and distinct yellow spots ; D. Bausei and D. Bowmanni , 
both of stocky habit, yellowish green blotched with dark green, the former also 
spotted with white ; Alocasia Marshallii, like Jenningsii, but with a central 
silvery band added ; and Xanthosoma Lindeni, with erect sagittate-hastate, deep 
green leaves, the ribs and veins of which are ivory-white. 
Amongst exotic Orchids, we can only mention these :— Phaius Marshallian, a 
charming terrestrial species, with large white flowers having a lemon-tinted lip. 
Sobralia macrantlia albida, a variety with creamy-white flowers and rosy lip. Onci- 
dium aurosum, with a crowded erect panicle of golden-yellow flowers, spotted with 
rich brown. Epidendrum FrederickGuilielmi, a tall species, with short broad racemes 
of deep crimson flowers. The curious Epidendrum Pseudepidendrum, with bright 
green flowers, having a bright vermilion-orange lip. Masdevallia Lindeni, 
M, Ilarryana, and M. ignea, three beautiful dwarf cool-house species, the first with 
