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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[Makch, 
Iconography of Indian Azaleas. —Part 4 
contains plates of Heine de Portugal (10), a fine 
double wuite; Jean Vervaene (11), line salmon-rose, 
with white border ; Generalpostmeisier Stephan (12), 
a brilliant crimson. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (January . 28— 
February 18) describes the following novelties : — 
Piper borneense, X. E. Brown (p. 108), a new stove 
Pepper from Western Borneo, of lit le hoiticultural 
importance, with hairy stems, and elliptic leaves 
striped between the numerous nerves with silvery - 
grev bars : Veitch & Sons. Chlorophytum Kirlcii, 
Baker (p. 108), a stove evergreen herb, resembling 
C. datum in habit, with the leaves subdhtichous, 
lorate, bright green, lj — 2 feet long, and the small 
white flowers in short erect spikrs ; E. Tropical 
Africa : Ivevv. Odontoglossum mirandum, Echb. f. 
(p. 143), a upw Odomoglot iu the way of O. Lind - 
leyanum, and sometimes called O. Lindleyanum 
compaction ; but the bulbs are plumper, the inflo¬ 
rescence more rigid, and the cohmrs of the flowers 
much b ighter; Now Grenada: W. Lee, E<q. 
Nepenthes rubro-maculata, Hort. Veitch (p. 143, 
fig. 24), is a handsome hybrid pitcher-planf, raised 
between the cross-bred N. hybrida and a Bornean 
species, probably N. lanata; it has somewhat cylin¬ 
drical pitchers, 5 — 6 in. long, yellowbli-green spotted 
wi'h cl t ret and fimbriately winged, the mouth having 
a broad flat deep red rim : Vei oh. Ne enthes Wrig- 
leyana, Hort. Veitch (p. 143, fig. 23), is another 
handsome hybrid raised between N. phyllamphora 
and N. Hooker i, and somewhat resembles N. Rat- 
cliffiana; the pitchers are flask-shaped, pale green 
with crimson blotches, furnished with narrow ciliate 
wings, the month having a green-ribbed rim : Veitch. 
Pomarea vitellma , Masters (p. 143, fig. 26), a beau¬ 
tiful conservatory climber, introduced from Ocana, 
ai d bearing rich yolk-of-egg-culoured flowers in 
drooping umbellate cymes; see aho p. 36. Mas- 
devallia Fraseri , Echb. f. (p. 143), a handsome 
hybrid raised between M. iqnea and M. coccinea by 
Mr. Eraser. I n has long-stalked leaves, and resembles 
M. coccinea in the colour of the flowers: Veitch. 
Odontoglossu/mcriatatellum, Rchb. f. (p. 143); under 
Ihe foregoing name Prof. Eeichenbacli refers to a 
very handsome form of this fine yellow and brown 
Odontoglot received by Mr. E. Sander from Mr. F. 
C. Lehmann who sent it under the name of O. Leh- 
manni. Ficus elastica aureo-marginata, Ilort. (p. 
143), a striking variety of the well-known India- 
rubber plant in which the leaves are handsomely 
margined with golden-yellow; very effective when 
well developed, the yellow band being about an inch 
broad. Nepenthes lanata, Hort. (p. 178) ; some 
confusion appears to exist as to this species of 
Pitcher-plant, which was figured a few years ago 
under the name of N. lanata in the Illustration 
Horticole (t. 261), the accompanying description 
being that of another kind, apparently N. Veitchii. 
The pitchers are oylindrico-tubulose, thinly covered 
with coarse black hairs, greenish, winged on the 
posterior side, the wings toothed and fringed, the 
mouth having a narrow finely ribbed reddish-brown 
rim; it was introduced from Sarawak through Mr. 
Lobb to the rich collection of Messrs. Veitch. 
Nepenthes RatcliJJiana, Hort. Veitch (p. 178, fig. 28) 
a hybrid between N. phyllamphora and N. Rookeri 
wi'h serrulate leaves, and flask-shaped pitchers which 
are green spotted with red, the mouth surrounded 
by a ribb’d partie loured rim ; the pitchers are 
freely produced, brightly col mred and attractive. 
Nepenthes intermedia, Ilort. Veitch (p. 178, fig. 29), 
a fine hybrid between N. Rafflesianum and an un¬ 
named Bornean species ; the pitchers are rather large 
and di-tinct in form, somewhat cylindrical, pointed 
at the base and tapering upwards, green irregularly 
blotched with red, furnished with broad fringed 
wings, and having a broad, fiattish, particoloured 
rim at the mouth, which is oblique and prolonged at 
the back; raised by Mr. Court at Messrs. Veitoh’s 
nurse;ies. Dendrobium Christyanum , Echb. f. (p. 
178), a Siamese species of the nigro-hirsute section ; 
it has short fusiform stems, bearing fine ivory white 
flowers, the base of the column and the disk of the 
lip cinnabar, thus resembling D. Jamesianum, though 
smaller in all its parts, distinguished by its blunt 
angular chin ; introduce! by Mr. T. Christy. Odon- 
toglossum histrionicum, Echb. f. (p. 178), a supposed 
wild hybrid of considerable beauty, in some points 
resembling O. mulus, with sulphur-yellow flowers 
transversely barred with brown, the sepals ligulate, 
wavy and acute, the broader petals whitish with light 
sulphur at the tip, the lip trifid, the side lobes oblong, 
yellow, with a reddish border of confluent spots, the 
front lobe oblong, refuse, wavy and toothletted, 
yellow, with a lew brown spots and streaks; on the 
disk there are four calli on each side, the anterior 
ones lamelliform, the wings of the column are cut 
into many falcate tenth ; introduced by Mr.IV. Bull. 
Masdevattia ludibunda, Echb. f. (p. 179), a lovely 
species from New Grenada ; flowers light yellow 
spotted with purple: see p. 37. Masdevallia 
polysticta crassicaudata, Echb. f. (p. 179), a curious 
variety of M. polysticta, flowered by Sir Trevor 
Lawrence ; it has the tails of the perianth segments 
much shorter and stouter than in the type. Bomarea 
conferta, Beuth. (p. 186, fig. 31), a superb conser¬ 
vatory perennial with fleshy tuberous roots, soft 
dim! ing stems, and den-ely crowded drooping 
clusters of rich crimson flowers ; see p. 36. Col'um- 
nea Kalbreyeriana, Masters (p. 216, fig. 32), a 
remarkable stove gesnerad, with elongated drooping 
lanceolate anisophyllous leaves, the alternate ones on 
either side of the stem being long and short, the 
under surface of both being of a deep claret red; 
flowers yellow striped inside with red; noticed at 
p. 26. Cattleya Dormaniana, Echb. f. (p. 216), a 
tine hybrid, the parents of which are considered by 
Eeichenbacli to he Lcdia pumila and Cattleya 
bicolor; it is remarkable for its greenish-yellow 
sepals and petals, which are margined with cinnamon 
brown; Prof.Eeichenbach also refers to a somewhat 
similar plant, Lcdia Bormcmiana, which has more 
than the normal number of poilinia. Arabia quinque- 
folia gracilis, Hort. (p. 217), a handsome greenhouse 
shrub, of slender habit, with long cylindrical leaf¬ 
stalks supporting a palmate blade of five linear 
remotely toothed segments ; raised in the nursery of 
Messrs. Eodger, McClelland & Co., of Newry. Odon- 
toglossum Wilckeanum pallidum, Echb. f. (p. 217), a 
variety with light sulphur-coloured flowers, with one 
large brown spot on each sepal, the petals being 
spotless, and the acute fimbriate lip marked with a 
few brown spots: IV. Bull. Qncidium Lanceanum 
louvrexianum, Echb. f. (p. 218), a magnificent 
variety with yellowish green spotted flowers, the lip 
mauve-coloured tipped with white ; flowered with 
Mons. D. Massange, of Louvrex. Cypripedium dis¬ 
color, Echb. f. (p. 218), a hybrid of the C. venustum 
tvpe, raised in the collection of Mr. E. IVarner. 
Cypripedium Williamsianum , Echb. f. (p. 21S), one 
of the same hatch of hybrids as the foregoing, and a 
very handsome plant; the leaves are nicely tes¬ 
sellated, the flowers showy, the dorsal sepal large 
white with a dark middle line, and green veins, the 
petals a tawny red, the lip ochre-yellow, something 
like that of C. vitlosum. Lycaste sulphurea, Echb. f. 
(p. 218), a species allied to L. cruenta, with the 
flowers pale sulphur-coloured, the petals having a 
large dark purple blotch at the base, and the obtuse- 
angled callus being orange-yellow; flowered with 
Mr. Bull. Tacsonia Parr it on, Masters (p. 218, fig. 
