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REGISTER OF NOVELTIES, 
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roseum, Moore [t. 20], a charming hybrid, sister of 
I). Ainswortbii, with deeper-coloured flowers, the 
sepals and petals tinted with magenta rose, the lip 
almost wholly covered by mulberry crimson feathered 
blotches; raised by Mr. Mitchell, and named after 
his employer Dr. Ainsworth. Part YI. contains :—■ 
Aerides Lobbii, Lemaire [t. 21], a beautiful Moul- 
mein plant with long drooping spikes of brightly- 
coloured, white and rosy-purple flowers; from the 
collection of C. J. Hill, Esq. Cypripedium Law- 
renceanum, Rohb. f. [t. 22], from Borneo, one of the 
noblest of the Laity’s Slippers, with chequered 
foliage, and very large flowers, in the way of those of 
C. barbatum majus; figured from Mr. Pollett’s collec¬ 
tion. Lcelia xanthina, Lindl. [t. 23], a Brazilian 
species, with short clavate monophyllous stems, and 
showy golden-yellow flowers flushed with olive-green, 
the lip white in front, with stout crimson veins cross¬ 
ing the disk ; figured from Mr. Williams’ collection. 
Masdevallia Harryana ccerulescens, Hort. [t. 24], a 
very richly-coloured variety in which the bright ma¬ 
genta flowers are more distinctly flushed with a 
bluish tint than in the ordinary varieties. 
Botanical Magazine. —The number for Janu¬ 
ary contains figures of the following plants :— Pit- 
cairnia corallina, Lind, et Andre [t. 6600], a fine 
decorative stove perennial, with tufts of leaves of 
which the outer rudimentary ones are dry, hard, and 
spiny, and the inner, 6—8 in number, petiolate lan¬ 
ceolate and plicate, 2—3 feet long and furfuraceous 
beneath, while the flowers are in pendulous racemes, 
the peduncle, axis, pedicels, calyx, and corolla being 
all of the same brilliant coral-red colour; from New 
Grenada, flowered at Pendell Court, near Bletching- 
ley. Abelia spathulata, Sieb. et. Zucc. [1. (>601], 
a low branched free-flowering hardy shrub of con¬ 
siderable beauty, introduced from Japan by Messrs. 
Veitcli; it has opposite downy branches, elliptic-lan¬ 
ceolate leaves, and large greyish-white flowers with 
red calyx-lobes, in pairs at the tips of the short branch- 
lets; the flowers are an inch long, between funnel 
and bell-shaped with a spreading limb. Lespedeza 
bicolor, Turcz. [t. 6602], a beautiful hardy shrub 
suitable for planting at the foot of a wall as it is 
frequently cut to tne ground by frost, but springs 
again from the roots; it produces shoots 3 to 4 
feet long, with short slender branches, trifoliolate 
leaves, and numerous axillary drooping racemes 
6—9 inches long of bright rose purple papilionace¬ 
ous flowers; it was introduced to St. Petersburgh in 
1858, from N. China and Japan, and is also cultivated 
under the name of Desmodium penduliflorum, under 
which it was subsequently received through the Bel¬ 
gian gardens. Saxifraga diversifolia, Wall. [t. 6603], 
an Indian Saxifrage, a good deal resembling our 
native Parnassia in foliage and general habit, the 
stems ending in a loose corymb of yellow flowers. 
Cambessedesia paraguayensis, Hook. fil. [t. G604], a 
rather handsome stove plant, with a vroody rootstock, 
and erect annual quadrangular stems, furnished with 
small sessile elliptic-ovate three-nerved leaves, and 
a large terminal corymbose panicle of rosy-red 
melastomaceous flowers; native of Paraguay, and 
flowered by Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son. 
L’Illustration Horticole (11 and 12 liv.) 
contains figures of 6 varieties of Begonia hybrida 
(discolor—rex) [t. 434] named Mad. J. Moens, 
Mad. C. Weber, Mad. E. van Meerbeke, Souvenir de 
Mad. la Baronne de Bleichroder, Mad. N. Funck, 
and Baron A. de Vriere, raised by M. J. Moens—all 
with handsomely variegated leaves. Masdevallia 
Shuttleworthii, Rchb. f. [t. 435], a pleasing little 
cool Orchid from Colombia, with long-tailed sepals, 
yellow almost covered with rosy-red dots. Oynura 
aurantiaca, D.C. [t. 436], a stout-growing Composite 
from Java, having thick erect hairy stems, and large 
sublyrate leaves, which are densely clothed with purple 
and dark violet hairs, which give them the appear¬ 
ance of being clothed with rich velvet; the flo wer-h eads 
are orange-coloured. Bouvardia Alfred Neuner, Hort. 
[t. 437], a very fine double white-flowered sport from 
jD. Davisoni; the flowers are in terminal corymbs, 
pure white, and distinctly double, and being of free- 
blooming habit it will thus doubtless become a 
valuable decorative plant; it is said that when pro¬ 
pagated from side shoots the flowers revert to the 
single state, but this is probably owing to excessive 
propagation to meet the demand for so striking a 
novelty. Rose (H.P.) Guillaume Gillemot [t. 438], 
a very remarkable flower judging from its portrait, 
which shows it to be of large size, with broad shell 
petals, rather thin, but not showing any stamens, the 
colour a bright carmine rose ; the flowers very abun¬ 
dant, freely perpetual, and very sweet; awarded the 
prize reserved for a seedling rose, by the Societe 
Horticole de Lyon. —The 1 liv. (1882) contains Alo- 
casia Putzeysii, N. E. Brown [t. 439], a fine Arad from 
Java, in the way of A. Thibautiana, but remarkable 
for having a white border, and the prominent ribs of 
the ovate-sagittate leaves stouter and whiter, and for 
having the transverse venation also picked out in 
finer white lines; the petioles are pale reddish 
purple, and the back of the leaves deep purple 
violet, the upper surface having a rich deep green 
ground colour; it was introduced by M. Linden, and 
was shown as A. Lindeni at the Exhibition in Ant¬ 
werp in August, 1881. The Nectarine Peach [t. 
410], one of Mr. Rivers’ fine acquisitions. Hibiscus 
rosa sinensis, var. Lncien Linden, N. E. Brown [t. 
441], a splendid variety introduced by M. Linden, 
with double flowers, of a pale yellow colour prettily 
variegated with bright red. 
Belgique Horticole for October, 1881, contains 
representations of Anoplophytum incanum, E. Morr. 
[t. 11—12],the Tillandsiaargenteaoi gardens,a dwarf 
Brazilian plant remarkable for its lepidotely-hoary or 
silvery rosulate lanceolate leaves, and for its inconspi¬ 
cuous rosy flowers, scarcely enlarging from the silvery- 
haired bracts. JEchmea Glaziovii, Baker [t. 13], a 
distinct-looking Brazilian Bromeliad, with erect 
ligulate spiny-edged leaves, and a crowed panicle of 
flowers rising out of the centre, the calices rose- 
coloured, and the projected corollas purple, thus having 
rather a pleasing effect. Montbretia crocosmicejlora, 
Lemoine [t. 14], a pretty hybrid between M. Pottsii 
and Tritonia (Grocosmia) aurea ; it grows about 2.) 
feet high, and has the habit of a Gladiolus, the 
equitant leaves being sword-shaped drooping at the 
point, and the inflorescence panicled, consisting of 
about four dense spikes of large deep orange red 
flowers of large size, having the centre yellow. 
Revue Horticole (Jan. 1—16) contains plates 
of Tillandsia Lindeni splendida, a fine form of this 
charming Bromeliad, with the flat spike of rosy- 
coloured bracts, and the deep blue flower of T. L. 
vera but producing numerous spikes and having the 
flower larger and more freely developed; flowered by 
Messrs. Thibaut et Keteleer; and Imantophyllum 
miniatum Madame Tan Houtte, a brilliant variety of 
this noble plant, with the large flowers of a bright 
cinnabar red with yellow throat; M. Truffaut. 
Revue de l’Hoiiticulture Belge for Jan., 
1882, figures a fine sample of Yallota purpurea, the 
well-known Scarborough Lily. 
Bulletin d’Arboriculture, &e., for Jan., 1882, 
has a figure of the handsome Fear Jules d'Airoles, a 
seedling raised by M. Leon Leclerc, and ripening 
in November and December; the fruit is large, 
elongate conical, yellowish-green on the shaded, 
bright red on the exposed surface, with a fine wdiite 
sugary juicy flesh, and a delicious aromatic flavour; 
fertile as a pyramid on the quince. 
