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THE FLORIST AND POMOLCGIST. 
[February, 
REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Aster Novie Angliie pulchellus. — A very 
fine variety quite distinct from the ordinary form, 
and far handsomer; grows about 4 feet high, the 
flowers of a pale magenta.—T. S. Ware. 
Astragalus adsurgens, Pall. —One of the 
showiest of the Astragali; grows about a foot high, 
and is smothered with beautiful carmine-violet 
flowers ; a very pleasing and valuable acquisition for 
rockwork or borders.— T. S. Ware. 
Athyriuh Filix-fcemina velutinum, Stansf. 
—A beautiful dwarf densely ramose form of Lady 
fern, dwarfer than its parent A. F.-f acrocladon , 
as well as closer and more compact in habit; this 
and the finely divided apices give the plant the 
appearance of a ball of green velvet.—F. W. and H. 
Stansfield. 
Bertolonia .enea, Sort. Pull. —A dwarf stove 
shrub with ornamental foliage, the leaves close set on a 
short stem cordate-ovate, seven-ribbed, fringed with 
hairs, olive-green with a silvery central bar, the 
younger ones of a coppery hue, the surface scattered 
over with papillae, each being a hair; a garden 
hybrid.—W. Bull. 
Bomarea Shuttleivorthii, Masters. —A hand¬ 
some climbing Alstromeria from Columbia. It has 
a horizontal rhizome producing stout roots which 
bear oblong-ovoid tubers, ovate-lanceolate leaves, and 
umbellate pendulous cymes of funnel-shaped flowers, 
2 5 inches long, with orange red outer and yellow inner 
segments, all spotted near the tip and equal in 
length.—Shuttleworth, Carder & Co. 
Calendula officinalis ochroleuca. —A new 
and distinct variety of the old double Marigold, of 
hardy and vigorous habit, and flowering abundantly, 
the flower-heads being fully double and of a yellowish- 
white colour.—Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie. 
Calochortus Benthamii, Palcer. — A very 
dwarf and compact-growing species, recently intro¬ 
duced from California, and perfectly hardy; the 
flowers are golden yellow with a black centre and 
beautifully bearded.—T. S. Ware. 
Colchicum MONTANUM, Pinnceus. — A pretty 
dwarf-growing bulb, from Smyrna, and the Medi¬ 
terranean region. It has short fleshy linear- 
lanceolate leaves like those of Scilla bifolia, and 1—4 
small crocus-like flowers, with a long pallid tube to 
the perianth, which has oblong concave segments 
of a pleasing bluish-lilac colour ; introduced mixed 
with Chionocloxa .—H. Harpur-Crewe. 
Columnea Kalbreyerana, Sort. VeitcTi .— A 
very remarkable stove gesneraceous plant from 
New Grenada. It is of low shrubby habit, the thick 
fleshy stems closely set with distichous oblong- 
acute leaves, a foot long or more, and two or 
three inches broad, oblique at the base, glabrous, 
creamy orange beneath ; the yellow flowers are borne 
in short racemes below the leaves, the yellow calyx 
being nearly two inches long ; Botanical Certificate 
R.H.S., January, 1882.—Yeitch & Sons. 
Davallia fijiensis pluaiosa. —Perhaps the 
most charming of all ferns. I). fijiensis, as its name 
implies, is a Fiji plant—an evergreen stove fern, of 
which several forms have been introduced. The 
fronds in all cases are large and spreading, cut into 
multitudinous very narrow segments, and rising 
some 2 or 3 feet on smooth petioles from a thickish 
rhizome; but in this variety they are extremely 
narrow, and all the parts of the frond have a specially 
graceful drooping plumy appearance; lst-class Cer¬ 
tificate R.H.S., November, 1881.—W. Bull. 
Davallia Lorrainei, Sance .—A very elegant 
stove evergreen fern in the way of I). dissecta, with 
a pale tawny freely creeping slender rhizome, and 
finely divided triangular fronds nearly a foot broad 
and long, having the apex and pinnae much 
attenuated; it will form a fine basket fern; lst-class 
Certificate R.H.S., July, 1881.—W. Bull. 
Erica hyemalis alba, Sort. — A new variety, 
differing only from the species in its colour, which 
is pure white; it is an excellent companion, but 
increasedly valuable on account of the purity of its 
blossoms; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., January, 
1882.—F. R. Kinghorn. 
Eucalyptus ficifolia, F. Muell .—A beautiful 
greenhouse evergreen shrub of moderate but free 
growth, with ovate or ovate-lanceolate leaves contain¬ 
ing an essential oil valuable as a febrifuge, and pro¬ 
ducing, while the plants are of manageable size, a 
profusion of trusses of beautiful crimson flowers.— 
W. Bull. 
IIesperocallis undulata, A. Gray. — A 
Californian Liliaceous plant allied to Semerocallis, 
with long lance-shaped undulated leaves, broadly 
edged with white, and loose racemes of sweet- 
scented w r hitish flowers, which are produced in 
February or March.—T. S. Ware. 
Ianthe bugulifolia, Griseb. —A hardy peren¬ 
nial, allied to Verbascum, though distinct, with long- 
stalked oval radical leaves, and erect flower-spikes 
about two feet high, bearing curious bee-shaped 
flowers, which are yellow, with the filaments clothed 
with dark purple hairs ; altogether it is a very 
interesting plant.—T. S. Ware. 
Ljelia anceps Yeitchii, Sort. —A beautiful 
sport from Z. anceps; the large flowers have four 
white sepals and petals, the lip is distinctly coloured, 
the lower half golden yellow, the upper part white, 
pencilled with rich bluish-purple; lst-class Certi¬ 
ficate R.H.S., Jan., 1882.—Yeitch & Sons. 
Linaria maroccana hybrida. —A very pretty 
annual, one foot high, with slender upright branches, 
and terminal spikes of flowers, which vary from rose 
to red and from lilac to violet, the knver petal being 
usually white.—Yilmorin-Andrieux & Cie. 
Odontoglossum vexillarium rubellum. 
Sort. Pull. —Avery beautiful variety of this charm¬ 
ing orchid, ■which appears to have the property of 
blooming in autumn ; it is, at least, a distinct form, 
having the pseudobulbs blunter and the leaves 
broader than usual, while the large-sized flowers are 
similar in colouring, bright rose uniformly marked 
with three crimson lines at the base of the lip ; lst- 
class Certificate R.H.S., October, 1881—W. Bull. 
Ranax elegans. Sort. — An elegant warm 
greenhouse shrub from Queensland, with erect stem, 
and evergreen leaves pinnate at the apex and bipinnate 
at the base; as the plants gain age the leaves become 
more distinctly bipinnate; the leaflets are about 3 in. 
long, smaller in the more divided parts.—W. Bull. 
Fentstemon CoBjEA purpurea.— A charming 
variety of the well-known P. Cobcea, having the 
flowers much larger, and of a rich purple colour, 
sparingly shaded with violet; it grows 3£—-4 feet 
high, and when established will produce 4 — 6 
spikes of flowers ; one of the choicest of border 
plants.—T. S. Ware. 
PhalaiNopsis Stuartiana, Pclib.fil. —A splendid 
stove epiphyte, from Borneo, with large white blos¬ 
soms like those of P. amabilis , but having the lower 
half of the lateral sepals and the lip yellow spotted 
with crimson. Two varieties have been already 
separated : P. S. nobilis, which has the parts of the 
flower longer, and the callus of the lip orange- 
coloured ; and P. S. punctatissima , which has the 
upper sepal, petals, and upper and inner side of the 
lateral sepals dotted with small mauve spots.— 
Low & Co. 
Scabiosa atropurpurea fl.-pleno. —A new 
double variety of this handsome ornamental annual, 
with double purple and white flowers, beautiful and 
distinct in colour.—Yilmorin-Andrieux & Cie. 
