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REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
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out doing mischief. When the implement is not in 
use the india-rubber spring should be released, to 
preserve it, and the plate extended to the points 
of the prongs in order to shield them, from injury.— 
Albert Smith, Goudhurst. 
NEW BOOKS, &o. 
The Botanical Magazine for February con¬ 
tain? :— Zepliyranthes citrina, Baker [t. 6605], a 
rather pretty amaryllidaoeous bulb from tropical 
America, requiring stove treatment; it has largish 
round bulbs, narrow linear leaves, contemporary 
with the yellow funnel-shaped flowers about 2 inches 
long on ancipitous scapes; flowered by Messrs. 
Veitch, supposed to be from Demerara. Pitcairnia 
alia, Hasskarl [t. 6606], a very ornamental stove 
bromeliad, acaulescent, with tufts of linear-lorate re¬ 
curved leaves 2—3 feet long, a paniculate inflores¬ 
cence 5 or 6 feet high, made up of narrow coral-red 
flowers, which are fully 2 inches in length, the petals 
being twice as long as the sepals; the leaves are 
white-lepidot9 on the under surface; native of the 
West Indies, flowered at Kew. Selenia a/urea, 
Nuttall [t. 6607], a dwarfish weedy glabrous annual, 
from Arkansas and Texas, having few spare-looking 
piunatifid leaves, and racemes of yellow flowers; 
flowered at Kew. Slerculia discolor, Benth. [t. 
6608], a shrubby greenhouse plant of arboreous 
character, with hoary tomentose branches, large 
palmatifid leaves, and rosy-red funnel-bell-shaped 
flowers (calyx) disposed in terminal contracted spi- 
oate panicles; native of New South Wales: Kew. 
Parnassia nubicola. Wall. [t. 6609], a dwarf her¬ 
baceous perennial from the Himalaya Mountains, 
with stalked ovate or elliptic-ovate 5—7-ribbed 
leaves, and solitary greenish-white flowers on rather 
tall scapes : Kew. Sempervitum Moggridgei, Hort. 
De Smet [t. 6810], a small hardy succulent peren¬ 
nial, the leaves elongate-cuneate or oblanceolate, 
collected into rosettes 2 inches across, with a few 
cobwebby hairs at the tips, and 3—4-forked cymes 
of starry rose-coloured flowers; received at Kew 
under the above name from M. De Smet, and closely 
allied to iS. arachnoideum. 
L’Illustbation Horticole (2 liv.) contains 
coloured figures of Nephrodium Podigasianum, 
Moore [t. 442], a fine evergreen stove fern from 
the Samoan Islands, with tall bipinnatifid fronds, 
remarkable for their gracefully arching habit, and 
for their gradually diminishing pinnae, which extend 
nearly to the base of the stipes; it will form a hand¬ 
some addition to the larger-growing decorative spe¬ 
cies. Oncidium incurvum album, Robb. f. [t. 444], 
a pretty variety which bloomed some time since in 
the establishment of M. J. Linden ; the flowers are 
white, ornamented with bands and spots of purple; 
native of Mexico. This number also contains a 
coloured plan of the new park recently formed at 
Ghent. 
Gaetenflora for December, 1881, and January, 
1882, contains figures of Lonicera Alberti, Hegel 
[t. 1065], an elegant dwarf branching shrub, with 
opposite linear-oblong glaucous leaves, bearing pretty 
rosy-lilac fragrant flowers in pairs in their axils; 
sent from the mountains of Eastern Turkestan by 
Mr. A. Regel to the St. Petersburgh Botanic Garden. 
Maxillaria hyacinthina, Rchb. f. [t. 1066], a stove 
epiphyte, with oblong sulcate pseudobulbs, with 
broadish plicate leaves, and short dense hyacinth-like 
spikes of smail white flowers blotched with yellow at 
the base of the lip ; St. Petersburgh Botanic Garden. 
Lycopodium dichotomum, Sw. [t. 1067], one of the 
larger tropical species of Club-moss, with the stout 
dichotomous branches bristling with linear-acuminate 
spreading leaves of a bright green colour; native 
of the West Indies. Incarvillea compacta, Maxim. 
[t. 1068], a beautiful dwarf herbaceous peren¬ 
nial, with rosulate pinnatisect fleshy leaves with 
subcordate-ovate segments, the very short stem 
terminating in a dense congested head of large 
tubular bright rosy-pink flowers with a five-lobed 
spreading limb; it was found in the province of 
Kansu, in north-western China, in the northern 
portion of the Thibetian Mountains, at an elevation 
of 8,000 feet, and seeds were transmitted to St. 
Petersburgh Botanic Garden in 1880, by M. 
Przewalski. Gentiana Fetisoivi, Regel et Winkler 
[t. 1069, fig. 1—5], a handsome hardy perennial, 
with tall erect stems, bearing narrow lanceolate five- 
nerved entire decussate leaves, the radical ones 
rosulate, the flowers are crowded at the upper ends 
of the shoots, sessile, deep blue, the interior of the 
tube whitish; it came from Mount Juldus in 
Turkestan, and seed? were sent to St. Petersburgh 
Botanic Garden by M. Fetisow. Gentiana Olivieii, 
Griseb. [t. 1069, fig. 6, 7], a low tufted herbaceous 
plant, with oblong root leaves, from amongst which 
spring the slender span-high flowering stems which 
bear opposite linear leaves, and are terminated in 
dense glomerate racemes of large handsome deep blue 
tubular flowers, which are an inch and a half in 
length; widely distributed over the mountains of 
Turkestan, at a height of from 5,000 to 8,000 feet, 
and sent thence to St. Petersburgh. Veratrum 
Maaclcii, Regel [t. 1070], a stately hardy perennial, 
with an erect stem, growing 3 to 4 feet high, 
furnished below with oblong-lanceolate, and above 
with linear-lanceolate leaves, and terminating in 
a racemed pyramidate panicle of numerous small 
star-shaped blackisli-purple flowers.; it is nearly 
allied to V. nigrum, and was introduced by M. Giil- 
denstsedt some eight years since to the St. Peters¬ 
burgh Botanic Garden from the Ussur region of 
Amurland. 
Belgique Horticole (Nov.—Dec., 1881) gives 
illustrations of Movement in plants [t. 15]. JDraccena 
Massangeana, Hort. Jacob-Makoy [t. 16], a very 
ornamental form of a well-known temperate stove 
plant, having a tall stout erect stem, terminated by a 
loose rosette of elongate elliptic wavy recurved leaves, 
which are dark green at the margin, and marked 
down the centre by broad bands of golden green ; 
the flowers are small yellowish white fragrant, and 
produced in a large panicle from the heart of the 
plant; it is sometimes known as D.fragrans tnedio- 
variegata, and is probably a variety of the Sou'll 
African D.fragrans, which has appeared under culti¬ 
vation ; it is nowin the bands of MM. Jacob-Makoy, 
of Liege. Cryptawthus Peuckeri, Morren [t. 17], an 
ornamental-leaved stove plant, belonging to the 
bromeliaceous order; it forms a low dense tuft, with 
the leaves flat, coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, undulate 
spinescent, elegantly marked with transverse streaks 
of coppery rose and pale green, the under side 
greyish, the small white flowers in a dense panicle 
nestling amongst the leaves; it was discovered in 
Brazil and brought to Europe by M. S. de Beucker, 
of Antwerp. Quesnelia Van Ilouttei, Morren 
[t. 18], a pretty bromeliaceous stove perennial, 
remarkable for its tricolouredinflorescence ; the leaves 
are erect and spiny; and the flowers grow in an 
elongated cone-shaped head, the white and blue 
corodas being set off by the rosy-red bracts; intro¬ 
duced from Brazil by M. Van Houtte; see p. 37. 
Bulletin d’Arboriculture, &c., tor Feb., 
1882, contains a handsome figure of Apple Rambour 
Papeleu, for description of which see p. 38. 
Garten-Zeitung, for Feb., contains a coloured 
plate of Abies Eichleri, of which a description is 
given at p. 36. The number also contains plans and 
descriptions of the Great Palm-house at Ilerren- 
hausen. 
