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REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
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NEW BOOKS, &c. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (Feb. 25 —Mar. 18) 
publishes the following novelties :— Dendrobium 
Leechianum, Rchb. f. (p. 256, fig. 35), a very hand¬ 
some hybrid from 1). mobile crossed by D. aureum 
( heterocarpum ); see p. 52. DendrocMlum arachnites, 
Rclib. f. (p. 256), is a curious botanical species with 
bulbs like small gherkins, solitary cuneate-oblong 
leaves, and loose racemes of light greenish flowers; 
Philippine Islands: Eow & Co. Odontoglo ssurn 
acmninatissimum, Rclib. f. (p. 256), which is suspected 
to be of hybrid origin, has great pear-shaped pseudo¬ 
bulbs, linear-ligulate leaves, and few-flowered 
racemes of stellate orange-coloured flowers having a 
few large crimson bars, and a dark yellow lip with a 
broad cinnamon bar, and bearing a double lamellar keel 
with six to seven teeth on each side. Dioscorea 
multicolor, Lind, et Andre (p. 257), which was figured 
from specimens of the leaves only in III list ration Horti- 
cole (xviii., 52, t. 53) under the names of chrysophylla, 
sagittaria, melanoleuca, metallica, Eldorado, and pris- 
matica, has recently flowered at Kew. It is an orna¬ 
mental-leaved stove climber, with largish cordate leaves 
of a rich green variegated with pale spots and blotches, 
and in the young state having a metallic hue. The 
flowers grow in gracefully branched panicles, the 
numerous branches 1J —2j inches long, thickly 
covered with the minute dark purple flowers. Intro¬ 
duced from the Rio Negro, N. Brazil, by M. 
Baraquin in 1868. Nepenthes Kennedyana, F. von 
Muell. (p. 257, fig. 36), a species from N. Tropical 
Australia, with reddish, elongate cylindrical pitchers 
slightly dilated below the middle, and having deep 
sharply fringed wings, and an oblique mouth with a 
narrow finely-ribbed rim. Ochna multiflora (p. 294) 
though not new, is here noticed as being in flower at 
the Victoria Nursery, Holloway. The flowers are 
yellow with five roundish petals ; as these fall off the 
thalamus begins to swell and at length becomes a 
large pentangular body, bearing a black seed-vessel on 
each angle; the sepals grow on and with the thalamus 
or seed-bed assume a brilliant crimson colour. 
Polystachya dixantha (p. 294) is a West African 
Orchid, with two-leaved stems, and racemes of ochre- 
coloured flowers. Lygodictyon Forsteri, J. Smith 
(p. 331, figs. 46, 47), a pretty climbing Fern synony¬ 
mous with Hydroglossum scandens, Presl. The form 
here figured is the var. Fulcheri (for which see page 
59). . Fria vittala (p. 330), an Indian (Sikkim) 
Orchid, with oblong cylindrical pseudobulbs, a pair 
of thin oblong-lanceolate leaves, and racemes of green 
flowers striped with red. JBolbophyllum cupreum 
Jlamm, Rchb. f. (p 330), a variety with light yellow 
flowers : Mrs. Russell Sturgis. Fpidendrum cingillum, 
Rchb. f. (p. 330), a curious epiphyte with rigid stems, 
grassy leaves, and few ochre-coloured flowers : Mrs. 
Russell Sturgis. Phalcenopsis Schilleriana vestalis, 
Rchb. f. (p. 330), is a white-flowered form of that 
fine species : Low & Co. Freesia Leichtlinii major 
(p. 331) is a hybrid between F. refracta alba and F. 
Leichtlinii; it has flowers larger than the latter, of a 
pule cream colour with a bright orange blotch at the 
base of the lower segment, the base of the tube being 
also yellow ; the flowers are fragrant: C. Smith & Son. 
Odontoglossum Peseatorei Jlaveolum (p. 331), a re¬ 
markable variety, with sulphur-yellow on all the parts 
of the flower, the petals very blunt oblong : Veitch & 
Sons. Bolbophyllum mandibulare, Rchb. f. (p. 366), 
a species of the Sarcopodium group with glaucous 
pseudobulbs, cuneate-oblong leaves, and racemes of 
brownish flowers washed with light green, the 
petals striped with purple and the lip straw-coloured 
with purple freckles; Borneo: Veitch & Sons. Dendro¬ 
bium mobile nobilius, Rchb. f. (p. 366), a grand variety 
flowered by Sir T. Lawrence; sepals and petals 
resplendent purple; lip darker and more richly 
marked than in other forms, all of which it far 
excels. Masdevallia Shuttleworthii xanthocorys, 
Rchb. f. (p. 366), a fine variety with the odd sepal 
nearly yellow, and the spots on the lateral sepals less 
numerous: Sir T. Lawrence. Cattleya Triance 
formosa, Ilort. (p. 369), a very fine variety, with white 
sepals and petals having the faintest suffusion of pink, 
and a lip yellow in the centre, with a broad well- 
defined margin of pale lilac-purple : Veitch & Sons. 
The Botanical Magazine for March contains:— 
Catalpa Kcempferi, Sieb. et Zucc. [t. 6611], a fine 
hardy Japanese tree, with long-stalked cordate 
obscurely-lobed leaves, and panicles of yellowish- 
white obliquely campanulate flowers spotted with red 
dots, the blossoms smaller in size than those of C. 
syringsefolia. Mascarenhasia Curnowiana, Hemsley, 
[t. 6612], noticed at p. 37. Wahlenbergia saxicola, 
A. Be Candolle [t. 6613], a dwarf half-hardy perennial 
from New Zealand, of tufted habit, with obovate or 
oblanceolate leaves, and long-stalked pale lilac bell¬ 
shaped flowers. Talauma Candollei Galeottiana 
[t. 6614], the Magnolia Galeottiana of M. Van 
Houtt.e’s nursery, a stove shrub, with large magnolia¬ 
like nodding yellow deliciously fragrant flowers. 
Scutellaria Jlartwegii, Benth. [t. 6615], a soft- 
wooded subshrubby stove plant, of erect slender 
habit, with ovate acuminate leaves purple beneath, and 
long terminal racemes of long-tubed scarlet flowers 
with the lower lip violet purple. 
Correspondance Botanique. — The 9th edi¬ 
tion of Professor Morren’s Correspondance Botanique, 
“ a directory of the gardens of the world,” has 
been recently issued, and will be found invaluable to 
those ■who have to maintain a correspondence with 
the botanists and botanic gardens in this and other 
countries. It gives the names of the professors, 
directors, and curators connected with the various 
universities and botanic gardens, as well as those of 
the more prominent individuals connected with 
garden botany in each country, the whole being 
arranged geographically. It is always a welcome 
brochure, and we owe many thanks to M. Morren for 
his labours herein. 
Hulme’s Familiar Wild Flowers, 3rd 
series (Cassell & Co.), has lately been issued. The 
volume, like its predecessors, is well calculated to 
excite a love for our beautiful native plants, and to 
throw an especial interest about a country walk. 
The forty coloured pictures, though small, are faith¬ 
ful so far as they go, aud the text is popular and 
readable without being particularly learned, and 
adorned with pretty initials and tail pieces contain¬ 
ing further representations of the plants. It is a 
very commendable effort to extend a knowledge of 
our wild flowers amongst a class which would per¬ 
haps not be otherwise attracted towards them. 
The Garden (Feb. 18—Mar. 18) figures in 
colours:— Disa grandiflora superba and Disa Barellii 
[pi. 324], two really superb temperate terrestrial 
Orchids, from specimens grown by Mr. Bedford, 
gardener to Major Barton, Straffan, Kildare. Nym- 
phcea tuberosa [pi. 325], a handsome hardy North 
American Water Lily, in the way of our N. alba, 
but having the leaves elevated above the surface of 
the water. Phalcenopsis intermedia Poriei [pi. 326], 
a rare and lovely Orchid from the Philippines. 
Begonia socotrana [pi. 327], the rosy-flowered peltate¬ 
leaved species brought by Hr. Balfour from Socotra. 
Stone’s Apple [pi. 328], a valuable apple largely- 
grown in the neighbourhood of Maidstone, and 
figured by us in our volume for 1878, t. 467. It is 
sometimes called Loddington, from the name of the 
farm on which it originated. 
Flore des Serres (liv. 7, 8, 9, vol. xxiii.) con¬ 
tains figures of the beautiful Bosanowia ornata, 
L. Van Houtte [tt. 2423—4], described at p. 181, 
