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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[Apbil, 
REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Asparagus plumosus nanus, Hort. —One of the 
most elegant of decorative plants for the stove or 
warm conservatory, a native of South Africa. The 
slender tufted gracefully arching stems throw out in 
all directions from the upper portions the bright green 
branches, which are finer than the fronds of the 
most delicate fern. Por bouquets the cut sprays are 
more effective and enduring than ferns, lst-cla*s 
Certificate B.H.S., June 22, 1880, at the Great 
Exhibition at Manchester, August, 18S1; and at 
B.B.S., March 29, 1882.—Veitch & Sons. 
Asparagus tenuissimus. — A setni-scandent 
South African plant, of a strikingly elegant cha¬ 
racter, adapted for the warm conservatory. It is of 
a lighter green than A. plumosus , and the foliage is 
remarkable for its extreme tenuity and its delicate 
appearance. It is a beautiful adjunct to a bouquet, 
and has the advantage of keeping well in wafer. It 
makes an extremely beautiful specimen plant; lst- 
class Certificate B.H.S., April 26, 1881, and E.B.S., 
April 27, 1881.—Veitch & Sons. 
Briza spicata, Sihthorp— A neat-habited annual 
Totter Grass, growing from eight inches to a foot 
high, and having the ovate spikelets, which are about 
the size of those of Briza media, attached by short 
stalks so as to produce a narrow linear-oblong or 
spike-like inflorescence. It comes from Greece and 
Asia Minor.—Haage & Schmidt. 
Coslogyne glandulosa, Hindi. —A very neat 
and elegant Orchid from the Nilgherries, having 
ovate sulcate pseudobulbs, oblong lanceolate leaves, 
and a nodding raceme of pure white flowers 11 inch 
in diameter, with the front lobe of the lip ovate 
marked on the disk with yellow lines.—Mrs. Bussell 
Sturgis. 
Cypripedium insigne punctatum yiolaceum, 
B. G. Henderson (Gardener , 1882, 58, 142).—The 
finest of all the forms of this very useful ornamental 
Orchid. The flowers are large, the upper sepal broad 
and flat beautifully spotted with purple on a white 
ground, a small portion at the base pea-green; lip 
shorter and darker than in other forms; a seedling 
raised by Mr. O’Brien at the Pine-apple Nursery, 
and sent out about 1869. 
Davai.lia eeegans polydactyla, Moore .— 
A distinct and handsome evergreen stove fern, re¬ 
sembling I). elegans in its general habit and appear¬ 
ance, but differing in the many-fingered dilated apex 
of the frond, and of the pinnae, which are all multi- 
fidly divided or crested in such a manner as to give 
the plant an extremely ornamental character. It is 
a sport raised from spores in Messrs. Veitch’s nur¬ 
sery ; lst-class Certificate E.H.S., April 26, 1881, 
and B.B.S., April 27, 1881.—Veitch & Sons. 
t Delphinium azureum album. —A fine hardy 
North American perennial, with tuberous roots, erect 
stems two to three feet high, large deepR 3—5 
parted leaves, the divisions of which are cleft into 
narrow lobes, and long wand-like racemes of creamy- 
white very effective flowers. It is quite hardv, and 
of easy culture.—W. Thompson. 
Dendrobium Leechianum, Bchb. f. (Gard. 
Cthron., n. s., xvii., 256, fig. 35 ; Journ. Sort., 3 ser., 
iv., 233, fig. 45).—A very handsome and most de¬ 
sirable hybrid Orchid, raised by Mr. Swan, in the 
garden of W. Leech, Esq., at Pallowfield. It is the 
result of a cross between I). nobile and D. aureum 
(heterocarpum), and bears some considerable re¬ 
semblance to D. Ainsworthii and I), suamssimum, 
which were the separate results of two similar crosses. 
It was raised in 1876, and is remarkable for its 
free-blooming habit, young stems of four to six inches 
high blooming abundantly. The flowers are fully 
three inches across, white with all the parts tipped 
heavily with bright rosy purple, the sepals being 
oblong, and the petals broader and more ovate with 
a distinctly wavy margin; the expanded lip has the 
whole of the disk or basal portion occupied by 
a dark maroon crimson blotch, which at the edges 
breaks out into numerous lines or stripes of the same 
colour extending towards the margin. The flowers 
are very fragrant.—IV. Swan. 
Galeandra nivalis.— A very rare and interesting 
epiphytal Orchid, with erect spindle-shaped stems 
or pseudobulbs of a glaucous green colour, linear- 
lanceolate leaves, and a nodding raceme of flowers, 
in which llie sepals and petals are narrow, reflexed, 
and of a rich olive tint, while the funnel-shaped lip 
with its singular basal spur has the anterior portion 
expanded into a broad squarish flat lobe, which is 
white with a central rosy-purple bar or stripe.—Sir 
T. Lawrence. 
Gynura AURANTIACA, Be Candolle (Illust. Hort., 
t. 436).—A new soft-wooded composite, likely to be 
an attractive object in modern summer bedding ar¬ 
rangements where a bold habit and richly coloured 
foliage are desired. The beauty of the plant is to be 
sought in its coloured hairs. The stout stem and 
broad leaves are clothed with dense soft hairs, which 
are of a deep violet-purple, and on a side view give 
the surface the appearance of the richest velvet. 
The flowers are of a brilliant orange colour.—Com- 
pagnie Continentale d’Horticulture. 
Ixora Westii, Hort. Veitch. —A very fine and 
distinct hybrid, raised from I. odorata crossed with 
I. amboinensis, by Mr. West, one of Messrs. Veitch’s 
foremen, after whom it is named. It is a stove shrub 
of good habit, with leaves of intermediate character 
and large subglobose trusses, 4—6 inches in diameter, 
of j ale rose flowers, which with age become a clear 
bright rose ; a novel, showy, and very desirable stove 
flowering plant; lst-class Certificate at the Great 
Exhibition at Manchester, August, 1881.—Veitch & 
Sons. 
Kjempferia Gilbertii. —A stove perennial of 
deciduous habit from the fleshy roots of which are 
produced in a tufted manner the oblong-lanceolate 
deep green slightly undulated leaves which are 
bordered by an irregular margin of white, such as 
oocurs in some of the Funkias. The showy flowers 
are purple and white. A native of India.—W. Bull. 
Nerine excellens, Moore. —A handsome green¬ 
house bulb, of hybrid origin and of the easiest cul¬ 
ture. The leaves are of a bright green more than 
half an inch wide and of the usual linear-oblong or 
lorate form. The flowers are freely produced, 2£—3 
inches across, and grow in umbels of about nine to¬ 
gether, the decimate oblong acute undulated peri¬ 
anth segments being reflexed, of a bright rosy pink 
with a bright carmine-crimson stripe or rib in the 
centre.—IV. Bull. 
Odontoglossum crispuji Stevensii. —One of 
the grandest varieties of O. crispum (Alexandrce ) 
which has yet been seen. The flowers are large, 
three inches across, with oblong-lanceolate sepals, 
and petals similar in form but wavy at the edges, the 
lip oblong and crisped, all the divisions being white 
and heavily barred with light cinnamon brown, the 
lip having also a clear yellow disk; a very beautiful 
form; lst-class Certificate E.H.S., March, 1882.—Z. 
Stevens. 
CEnothera ALBICAULIS, Nuttall (Gartenjl., t. 
1041).—One of the most beautiful of the Evening 
Primroses ; it has a perennial running rootstock from 
which grow up the erect stems 12—15 in. high, 
forming compactly branched bushes, which are 
covered with linear lance-shaped leaves, and large 
fragrant flowers, 2—3 in. across, opening white and 
