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REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
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dwarf compact-growing bush, about six inche9 high, 
producing conspicuous and effective showy bluish- 
purple flowers thickly enough to hide the foliage 
when in full bloom—during July and August. It 
is a perennial; but may be successfully treated like 
an annual, as it flowers and seeds the first season, 
and will by its great abundance of bloom prove a 
remarkably attractive border plant. — Ilaage & 
Schmidt. 
Mascarenhasia CuRNOWIANA, Uemsley ( Garden , 
1882, pi. 323).—A handsome evergreen stove shrub, 
of climbing and trailing habit, furnished with oppo¬ 
site, stalked, thinly coriaceous leaves about 4 in. in 
length, of an oblong acuminate form, and a dark 
green colour. It bears numerous small clusters of 
bright rosy-carmine flowers which have a slender 
tube, and a spreading limb, fully two inches across, 
of five oblong pointed segments ; it grows and blooms 
leri, Moore. —A very much divided Polypody 
raised from spores by the late Mr. G. Fowler, of 
Burnley, and differing from the old type of cornu¬ 
biense only in being permanently decompound, like 
the old cornubiense when in its best character.— 
F. W. & II. Stansfield. 
Polypodium vulgake variabile cristatum, 
Moore .—A remarkable variety of Polypody, of 
robust and vigorous growing habit, with the fronds 
irregularly branched, crested, cornute, and conglom¬ 
erate. It was found by Mr. Job Mullins, of Bea- 
minster, and was sent to us under the name of 
giomeratum (Jones).—F. AY. & H. Stansfield. 
POLYSTICIIUM ANGULARE PERSERRATUM, Patey. 
- -This beautiful novelty is in the way of P. angulare 
Baylire, but is a larger-growing plant and a great 
improvement on that handsome variety, Hie pin¬ 
nules being very deeply laciniate or incised. It 
i|fe|Ag 
CARTER’S COMPACT FRENCH GOLD-STRIPED MARIGOLD. {See p. 38.) 
freely in an open loamy compost under the ordinary 
conditions of a moist plant stove, and is a decided 
acquisition to our collections; lst-class Certificate 
K.H.S., August, 1881. The genus was named by 
De Candolle after Mascarenhas, the Portuguese 
navigator who discovered the island of Bourbon.— 
Low & Co. 
M.iSDEVALLIA LUDIBUNDA, Reichenbach fil. 
{Oard. Chron., N. s., xvii., 179).—A charming little 
species of Masdevallia allied to M. Sstradce, which it 
resembles in habit. The flowers are light yellow 
with the tail portion darker, the sepals spotted out¬ 
side with brown, and on the interior surface with 
purple ; the small petals and the pandurate lip are all 
light ochre-coloured. It was introduced from New 
Grenada by Mr. F. Sander, and flowered in the 
collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P. 
Polypodium vulgare cornubiense Fow- 
was found by Mr. G. S. Patey, of East Hendred, 
near Wantage; and is probably the finest of all 
the incised varieties of P. angulare. —F. AY. & II. 
Stansfield. 
Quesnelia Yan IIouttei, Morren {Belg. Sort., 
1881, t. 18).—A remarkably pretty bromeliaceous 
stove perennial, almost stemless, with a tuft of 
numerous somewhat erect coriaceous elongate linear- 
oblong acute leaves, very spiny at the margin and 
broadly sheathing at the base; the flower-spike is 
elongately cone-shaped, bearing numerous flowers, 
which are white tipped with dark blue, and emerge 
each from the axil of a small bright rosy red 
acuminate bract, the distinct colouring of red, 
white, and blue being very attractive; it was pro¬ 
visionally named Schinostachgs 7 an Soutteana in 
M. Van Houtte’s Catalogue for 1878, and flowered 
for the first time in Europe in M. Yan Houtte’s 
