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a lovely New Grenada Orchid, with thin lanceolate 
leaves, and large showy flowers, white tipped with 
rosy purple, which seem to vary considerably in 
different plants according to the figures published. 
Salvia brasiliensis , M. Issanchou [t. 432], a variety 
of S. splendens in which the calyx is yellow striped 
with red, and the corolla white stained with rose at 
the base. Cycas siamensis , Miq. [t. 433], a handsome 
Cycad, with an erect simple trunk, 8 to 10 feet high, 
and a crown of about forty spreading leaves, having 
close set broadly-linear leaflets. 
Revue de l’Hoeticultuee Belge, for De¬ 
cember, figures Ophiopogon Jaburan aureo-variegalis, 
a very handsome greenhouse perennial, with broad 
linear leaves striped with yellow, and long spikes of 
deep purple flowers. 
Revue Hokticole, for December (1,16), figures 
Oncidium Weltoni superbum, a finely-coloured variety 
of a beautiful orchid, the sepals and petals crisped 
and edged with white, the lip deep violet-rose broadly 
edged with white; and Solatium betaceum coccinemn, 
with bunches of smooth egg-shaped scarlet fruit, as 
large as a bantam’s egg, raised by M. Alliaume, 
gardener at the Military Hospital at Vincennes. 
M. Carriere suggests that as the fruit is eatable it 
might be crossed with the Tomato. 
Gaeten-zeitung, for January, which replaces the 
Berlin Monatsschrift, opens with a figure of Nymphaa 
zanzibariensis, Casp. [tab.], a fine water-lily collected 
by the African traveller Hildebrandt, aDd which has 
deep violet-coloured flowers. The number also con¬ 
tains a woodcut of Clematis Max Leiehtlin, a large 
white variety of the lanuginosa section, the result of 
a cross between C. Lawsoniana and C. Thomas Moore. 
Bulletins d’Aeboeicultube, etc., for Decem¬ 
ber, contains a plate of the Peach Belle Imperiale, a 
variety bearing large fruit, of the finest quality. 
The Gabdenebs’ Chbonicle (November 19— 
December 17) describes or figures the following 
novelties :— Taccarum IVarmingianum, Eng. (p. 654, 
fig. 134), a noble Brazilian tuberous-rooted Arad, 
with a solitary three-parted bipinnatifid leaf, 2J feet 
across, on a stout green white-lined petiole 3 to 3) 
feet high, and a coppery-brown oblong spathe 15 in. 
long, on a scape 8 in. long. Adiantum cuneatum 
grandiceps, Moore (p. 685), a finely tasselled form of 
this useful decorative species. Adiantum Lathomi, 
Hort. (p. 685), a fine large-growing decorative fern 
of drooping habit, probably a sport from A. Ghies- 
breghtii; raised by Mr. Bause for the General Horti¬ 
cultural Company. Nepenthes madagascariensis, 
Poir. (p. 685), a very handsome pitcher plant from 
Madagascar; the pitchers are small (2£ to 4 or 6 
in. long), flask-shaped, with a narrow border and 
a pair of fringed wings, crimson, the lid transversely 
oblong, with a small spur at the back. Polystachya 
hypocrita, Rclib. f. (p. 685), a tropical West African 
Orchid, with panicles of pale green flowers, having a 
whitish crispy lip. Aulacophyllum Wallisii (p. 685), 
a remarkably fine Cycad, of which, according to Mr. 
Thiselton Dyer, the plant known in gardens as 
Zamia amplifolia is a juvenile form. Saccolabium 
Orceffti, Rclib. f. (p. 716), a very fine Eiji Orchid, 
with broad ligulate bilobed leaves, and spikes of con¬ 
spicuous deep purple flowers; flowered by T. Christy, 
Esq. Masdevallia inflata, Rchb. f. (p. 716), a curious 
little Orchid, closely allied to M. corniculata, with 
orange yellow flowers. Lcelia Perrinii irrorata, 
Rchb. f. (p. 717), a fine variety of the lightest rose 
colour, the lip nearly white with a pale yellow disk 
and light purple apex; flowered by W. Lee, Esq. 
Lycaste Pteppei punctatissima, Rchb. f. (p. 717), a 
variety with whitish-green purple-spotted sepals and 
petals, and a yellow lip with dark purple radiating 
lines ; flowered by Mr. B. S. Williams. Stetis grossi- 
libris, Rchb. f. (p. 717), a curious little Orchid, with 
short racemes of light green flowers, the lip forming 
a thick fleshy mass; flowered by Mr. Bull. Micro- 
siylis ventilabrum, Rchb. f. (p. 717), an interesting 
Orchid from the Sunda Isles, allied to M. Rheedii; 
the leaves are green with brownish nervation, and 
the racemose flowers yellow, with a broad square lip. 
Trichocentrum Hoegei, Rchb. f. (p. 717), a small 
Mexican Orchid, with horny oblong acute leaves, and 
a solitary large greenish yellow flower, having the 
emarginato undulate lip white with purple lines at 
the base; the lip has a clavate spur. Nepenthes 
Northiana, Hook. f. (p. 717, fig. 144, and supplement 
sheet), the noblest of the introduced species of pitcher 
plant found by Miss North at Sarawak, and imported 
by Messrs. Veitch & Son; the adult pitchers, of which 
dried specimens only are in this country, are from 12 
inches to 16 inches in length, 3 inches to 5 inches in 
width, elongate, cylindrical, slightly-curved, purple- 
spotted, the mouth elliptic oblique, surrounded by an 
everted finely-ribbed margin, 2 inches broad; the 
lid ovate-oblong, shining and dotted with black 
within. As in N. Rafl'esiana, the upper pitchers 
swinging unsupported are trumpet-shaped, while 
those which rest on the ground are larger and 
more distended. Phalcenopsis Stuartiana. Rclib. f. 
(p. 748, fig. 149), a grand novelty introduced by 
Messrs. Low & Co., related to 1\ Schilleriana, with 
the young leaves marmoraie, the flowers in large 
panicles (sometimes 120 flowers), creamy white, 
handsomely spotted with yellow and cinnamon red 
on the lateral sepals and lip. Nepenthes Mastersiana, 
Hort. (p. 748, fig. 148), a garden hybrid between N. 
sanguinea and N. khasyana, the former being the 
seed parent; it is a handsome plant, with cylindrical 
or slightly distended claret-red pitchers. Angrcecum 
fastuosum, Rchb. f. (pp. 748, 844), a fine Madagascar 
Orchid, with cuneate-oblong blunt leaves, and 
racemose flowers, supposed to be white, as large as 
those of A. caudatum, and having a filiform spur 2 to 
3 inches long. Nepenthes Veitchii, Hook. f. (p. 780, 
fig. 152), the true plant, not the one usually grown 
for it (which is N. villosa); the pitchers are 12 inches 
long, cylindrical, with two lacimate wings, a remark¬ 
ably broad finely-ribbed creamy olive border, and a 
small lid; introduced from Borneo by Messrs. Yeitch. 
Dendrochilum uncatum, Rchb. f. (p. 780), an elegant 
little Orchid from the Philippine Islands, with nodding 
racemes of hyaline green flowers ; Low & Co. Vanda 
Boxallii Cobbiana, Rchb. f. (p. 780), a variety with 
large milk-white flowers, with small purple stripes 
at the base, the inner half of the lateral sepals being 
dark purple brown; Low & Co. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
§ HE following are the dates of the Royal 
Hoeticultubal Society’s Exhibitions 
2^5 and the meetings of the Fruit and 
Floral Committees in 1882 :—January 10, 
February 14, March 14 and 28, April 11 and 25, 
May 9 and 23, June 13 and 27, July 11 and 25, 
August 8 and 22, September 12, October 10, Novem¬ 
ber 14, December 12. National Auricula Society’s 
Show, April 25; Great Summer Show, May 23, 24, 
and 25; Pelargonium Society’s Showq June. 27; 
National Rose Society’s Exhibition, July 4; National 
Carnation and Picotee Socie v’s Show, July 25; Ex¬ 
hibition of British Bee-keepers’ Association, August 
3 to 8; Artisans’ and Cottagers’ Show, August 7. 
— {JDhe arrangements of the Royal Botanic 
Society for 1882 include an Exhibition of 
Spring Flowers on March 29 and April 26 ; 
