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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[April, 
Cyclamen Athinsii, Horfc. [t. 2425], a well-known 
ornamental garden plant, here said to be synonymous 
with C.ibericum album. Viola pedunculata, Torrey 
& Gray [t. 2426], a handsome Californian Violet, 
with rhombeo-cordate leaves, and flat pansy-like 
bright yellow flowers on very long stalks. Amaryllis 
reticulata vittata, Van Houtte [tt. 2427—8], a fine 
hybrid with white flowers, having the surface covered 
with reticulated lines of a bright rosy carmine, except 
where a clear white band passes down the centre of 
each segment; the leaves have a yellowish central 
stripe; a hybrid raised between A. reticulata striati- 
folia, and one of M. Van Houtte’s fine garden 
varieties : Van Houtte. Streptocarpus bifloro- 
polyanthus, Duchartre [t. 2429], a showy hybrid, 
raised by M. Lemoine and by him called 8. poly- 
anthusgrandiJlorus,and having rosulate ovate-oblong 
rugose leaves, and 2—4 flowered scapes of large 
handsome pale lilac flowers. Pleroma macranthum, 
Hookf. [t. 2430], the Lasiandra macrantha of gardens. 
Iris Kcempferi, Siebold [tt. 2431—6], Three double 
plates are devoted to fifteen varieties of this hand¬ 
some Iris. Sanchezia nobilis , Hook f. [t. 2437], a 
fine stove Acanthad with scarlet bracts and yellow 
tubular flowers. Peperomia argyrea, Iiort. [t. 2438], 
the Peperomia Saundersii of Cas. He Candolle, and 
P. arifolia argyreia , Hook f. Rhododendron Ellen 
Cook [tt. 2439—40], a hardy variety raised by Mr. 
Standish, with flowers of a violet rose, marbled and 
streaked with deeper rose, the upper segment with a 
blotch of dark spots. Saxifraga peltata , Torrey 
[t. 2441], a handsome and. characteristic hardy 
perennial from North America. Sonerila speciosa, 
Zenk. [t. 2442], a stove plant of erect habit, with 
scorpioid heads of rosy-purple flowers. Crinum 
giganteum, Andr. [tt. 2443—4],a large white-flowered 
stove bulb from the Island of St. Thomas. Azara 
Gilliesii , Hk. and Arn. [t. 2445], a Chilian shrub 
with ovate leaves and dense oblong heads of yellow 
flowers. Bryophyllum proliferum , Bowie [t. 2446], 
Thunbergia coccinea, "Wall. [tt. 2447—8], a stove 
climber of the Hexacentris group. Baptisia leu- 
cophtza, Nuttall [t. 2449], a North American hardy 
perennial with spikes of white flowers. Pirns c0711- 
munis, Lin. _ [tt. 2450—1], Vignes du Soudan 
[tt. 2452—3j consisting of photographic figures of 
Yitis Lecardii, V. Hardyi, V. Faidherbii ,. V. Chan- 
tinii, and V. Durandii. 
L’Illustration Horticole (3 liv.) contains 
coloured figures of Aglaonema pictum, Kunth [t. 
445], a dwarf stove Arad, with elliptic-ovate or oblong- 
lanceolate leaves of a deep velvety-green, boldly 
clouded and blotched with white and greenish-w liite, 
producing a striking variegation. Begonia diadema, 
Iiort. Lind. [t. 446], a quite novel form of Begonia 
from Borneo, with short erect stems, and digitately- 
lobed leaves of a deep green freely mottled with white 
in a very effective manner. The number contains a 
portion of a very interesting list of the plants intro¬ 
duced or first sent into commerce by M. Linden. 
Gartenfloea (Feb.—Mar.) gives figures of Viola 
altaica, Pall. [t. 1071], a handsome plate of blue, 
yellow, and white varieties; from this plant, in part, 
it is supposed our garden pansies have been raised. 
Crinum SchmidtV, Regel [t. 1072], a noble species from 
Port Natal, with fine umbels of 8—10 white flowers, 
the flowers drooping, with a greenish tube and re¬ 
curving limb segments. Olearia ramulosa, Benth. 
[t. 1073 a, 5], a simple-looking somewdiat heath-like 
shrub of the composite order. Symplocos Samuntra, 
D. Don [t. 1073 c—g ], a styracaceous shrub from 
Nepal, of little horticultural interest. Anacyclus 
radiatuspurpurascens [t. 1074], a neat hardy annual 
composite, with finely-cut bipinnatifid leaves, and 
radiate flower-heads nearly two inches across, with 
white or yellow florets stained on the outer side with 
purplish-red. Bollea codestis, Rchb. f. [t. 1075], a 
distinct and effective Orchid, with bold lanceolate- 
oblong leaves, beneath which nestle the showy violet- 
purple flowers. Anthurium Gustavi, Hegel [t. 1076], 
a bold-habited stove Arad, from New Grenada, with 
large leathery bright green cordate-ovate leave*, 
and erect green spathes with an exserted spadix. 
Revue Horticole (Peb.—Mar.) figures the 
following :— Tulip Roi des Bleus,a, curious variety 
with a many-flowered stem, and small double bluish 
violet flowers. Erigeron aurantiacus , Regel, a fine 
hardy herbaceous plant from Turkestan, with 
flower-heads nearly as large and of as deep an 
orange as those of the pot marigold. Spircea Fortunei 
rubra, Carriere, a very neat hardy shrub, introduced 
direct from Japan by M. Viesener, and having neat 
ovate leaves, and small subcorymbiform heads of very 
bright red flowers. Montbretia crocosmiatflora, 
raised by M. Lemoine, a hybrid between M. Potsii 
and Tritonia (Crocosmia) aurea, already referred to 
at p. 31. 
Garten-Zeitung (Mar.) contains a coloured 
figure of Linaria maritima, a tufted plant bearing 
a profusion of deep purplish-lilac flowers, more fully 
described with a woodcut, at p. 36. 
Revue de l’Horticultuhe Belge (Feb.—Mar.) 
figures a coloured group of the varieties of Abutilon 
named G. Helaux, La Candeur, Pur d Or, Bouchar- 
lat nine, E. G. Henderson and Son, M. B. Modesle. 
In the March number is a figure of Tydata Le 
Vesuve, Duval, a high-coloured and extremely flori- 
ferous variety, with flowers of a fiery-crimson colour 
streaked with deeper crimson. 
Journal des Roses (Mar.).—The coloured 
plate in this number is a portrait of Mr. W. Paul’s H. 
P. Rose Star of Waltham, a variety with fine broad- 
pefalled smooth flowers, of the cupped form, and of a 
deep bright carmine colour. 
Iconography of Indian Azaleas (Nos. 5—6). 
—The varieties figured in these numbers are:—13. 
Fiirstin Bariatinsky, a large white with bright red 
stripes. 14. Frangois de Vos, with double bright 
red flowers flushed with orange-scarlet. 15. Empereur 
du Bresil, a large double flower of a salmony-rose 
with paler edges, and with a blotch of purple spots on 
the upper segment. 16. Franklin, a large even-mar¬ 
gined flower of an opaque white. 17. Argus, a large 
smooth flower of a clear salmon-rose, with a heavy 
spotting of blackish-crimson, and a tuft of petaloi'd 
segments. 18. Amoena Caldwellii , a pretty variety 
with hose-in-hose flowers, larger than in the type, 
and of a brighter magenta-purple colour. 
The Orchid Album (part VIII.) contains the 
following figures :— Codogyne Massangeana, Rchb. f. 
[t. 29], a fine Assam Orchid, with long drooping 
racemes of oclire-coloured flowers, having the lip 
yellow at the disk and handsomely marked with 
maroon-brown bordered with white : M. D. Massange. 
Lcelia elegans alba, Williams [t. 30], a charming 
and very rare Variety of this fine Brazilian species, in 
which the large expanded flowers are pure white, 
with the front lobe of the lip of a rich crimson- 
purple, as is the anterior edge of the lateral lobes; 
flowered by W. Lee, Esq. Calanthe Veitchii, Lindley 
[t. 31], a well-marked hybrid raised by Messrs. 
Veitch, and one of the finest of decorative Orchids, its 
tall spikes of rich rosy-pink flowers being very effec¬ 
tive ; the flowers have a white eye, and are sometimes 
produced as many as fifty on a stem. Oncidium 
hcematochilum, Lindley [t. 32], is one of the oldest 
of Orchids, and one now seen very rarely, but withal 
a beautiful plant, having the leaves mottled with 
red, and the yellowish-green flowers thickly spotted 
with rich brown, the lip being crimson with a 
yellow margin, which is closely dotted with deep 
rose-crimson; it is from New Grenada. 
