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an inciso-crenate margin; distinct in character; 
lst-class Certificate R.B.S., March, and R.H.S., April, 
1882—W. Bull. 
Andromeda japonica. —An old and almost 
forgotten evergreen shrub, not quite hardy, having 
dark green lanceolate obovate leaves, and large 
drooping panicles of white pitcher-shaped blossoms; 
lst-class Certificate R.H.S., March, 1882.—A. 
Waterer. 
Anthdrium Kalbreteri, Masters ( Gard. 
Chron., N. s., xvi., 116, fig. 27).—A remarkable climb¬ 
ing Arad from New Grenada. It has cylindrio 
leaf-stalks, thickened at the top, where they each 
bear, in palmate fashion, nine obovate oblong acumi¬ 
nate sinuate leaflets, thick in substance, glabrous and 
rich deep green, the distal leaflets, those farthest from 
the stem, being twice the length of those next the 
axis; a remarkably handsome stove foliage plant.— 
Veitch & Sons. 
Anthurium Lucien Linden, Kort. —A neat- 
growing stove perennial of the Arad type, with 
ovate acuminate slender-stalked dark-green leaves 
about a foot high, and somewhat taller scapes bear¬ 
ing oval-lanceolate erect white spathes which exceed 
the spadices; it is in the way of A. Patini, but has 
the spathes more erect; rather pretty.—B. S. 
Williams. 
Anthurium Scherzerianum Woodbridgei.—- 
One of the finest and most brilliantly-coloured forms 
yet obtained. It is of bold vigorous habit with 
spreading dark green leaves, and broad spathes, 
nearly six inches long, of the most intense crimson- 
scarlet ; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., April, 1882.— 
J. Woodbridge, Syon House Gardens. 
Begonia Mabtiana gracilis. —A very orna¬ 
mental plant with tuberculous rhizomes, and pubes¬ 
cent fleshy branching stems, 2 ft. in height, bearing 
shining obliquely heart-shaped leaves, and shortly 
stalked brilliant rose-coloured flowers, as broad as a 
five-franc piece. It was discovered by l)r. Parry 
near San Luis de Potosi, in Mexico. On account of 
its compact habit and brightly-coloured flowers it is 
recommended as a valuable decorative and market 
plant.—M. Lemoine. 
Cattleya luteola, Gardn. —The same as C. 
Kolfordi of gardens, according to Rchb. A fine 
yellow-flowered species from Brazil, with oval ancipi- 
tous, monophyllous pseudobulbs, and flowers 2 inches 
across of the colour of those of Loelia flava, the 
sepals narrow oval and blunt, the lip cucullate 
rounded and crenulate, velvety inside, white with a 
yellow disk.— Var. fastuosa has a large purple blotch 
on the lip; Par. lepida is marked on the lip with 
purple veins.—F. Sander. 
Cattleya Mendelii Jamesiana, Kort. —A very 
fine form of this beautiful Orchid, producing large 
flowers, about 5 inches across, the broad sepals 
and petals of a delicate rosy tint, marked with 
purple at the tips, while the large beautifully crisped 
lip is rich velvety purplish-rose in the front half, the 
discal portion golden yellow, and the throat pencilled 
with crimson on a whitish ground ; lst-class Certifi¬ 
cate R.H.S., April, 1882.—H. James. 
Cattleya Wallisii, 1Ichb.f .—A very chaste and 
beautiful species found by Mr. Seidl on high trees 
in the Upper Brazils. The flowers are large, 4—5 
inches in diameter, sweet scented; the sepals and 
petals are white, the lip being also white with a large 
golden-yellow centre.—F. Sander. 
Chionodoxa Lucilie alba, —A pure white- 
flowered variety of this beautiful new bulbous plant 
differing in no way from the type except in colour, 
and therefore a charming addition to hardy flowers. 
—T. S. Ware. 
Crinum Makoyanuh. —A noble-habited stove 
Amaryllid, having a large bulb with a long neck a 
foot or more in length, bearing a spreading tuft of 
strap-shaped leaves, and a tall flower-stem supporting 
an umbel of shallow cup-shaped flowers of a delicate 
pink colour, and running about six inches across; 
lst-class Certificate R.H.8. and R.B.S., April, 1882. 
—B. S. Williams. 
Cvclanthus discolor, Kort. Bull. —A remark¬ 
able stove plant with distinctive sheathing leaf-stalks 
supporting a bifid leaf-blade, tne two divisions of 
which are lanceolate with a tapered point curved and 
more or less frilled at the edge. These leaves while 
young are streaked with a tawny orange hue which 
passes off as they become matured ; from the United 
States of Colombia.—W. Bull. 
Cypripedium albo-purpureum, PM. f. —One 
of the finest hybrid Cypripediums, raised between C. 
Schlimii and C. JJominii. The flowers are larger 
than those of C. Sedeni, whitish with pink on the 
borders of the lip and many spots of the same colour 
under it; the sepals have a slight pinkish tinge on 
their borders; the petals are wholly pinkish and 
twisted, hanging down and much exceeding the 
length of the lip ; lst-class Certificate at Manchester, 
August, 1881.—Veitch & Sons. 
Cypripedium calurum, Echb.f .—A free-grow¬ 
ing hybrid with handsome foliage, raised between 
C. long folium and C. Sedeni, and having the char¬ 
acteristic scape of the Selenipedium section. The 
flower scapes appear at all seasons, and the flowers 
measure fully three inches from the tip of the dorsal 
sepal to the bottom of the pouch; the petals being 
rosy-edged and half as long again, narrower and 
more twisted, the distal half more deeply coloured, 
the infolded lateral lobes of the rosy lip as well as 
the interior of the sac, having larger and fewer 
spots, and the staminode being larger; lst-class 
Certificate E.B.S., March, 1882.—Veitch & Sons. 
Cypripedium insigne aureum, Kort. —A dis¬ 
tinct and striking variety of this fine old Orchid, 
remarkable for the golden glow which pervades its 
flowers, the colouring of which in other respects is of 
the normal character, but the marked suffusion of 
golden-yellow imparts to the flowers a distinct and 
attractive appearance. It is said to be a later 
bloomer than other varieties; lst-class Certificate 
R.B.S., March, 1882.—W. Bull; E. G. Henderson 
& Son. 
Dendrobium supebbum Dearei.— A variety 
of the Dendrobe commonly but falsely called 
E. macrophylliim in gardens. It has pendent stems 
like the type, from which it differs in bearing pure 
white flowers, the lip not being blotched as in D. s. 
Euttoni ; grown in the collection of Lieut.-Col. 
Deare, Englefield Green; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., 
April, 1882.—Mr. Fagg. 
Erica Maweana.— A very pleasing hardy Heath 
with suberect much-branched stems, forming soft 
ornamental bushes 1—1| ft. high; the flowers are 
autumnal, purplish-crimson, in clusters, after the 
style of those of E. Tetralix and E. ciliaris. — 
Backhouse & Son. 
Gentiana arvernensis, Backhouse. — A beau¬ 
tiful Alpine Gentian allied to G. Pneumonanthe, but 
more robust and tufted in habit, with firmer broader 
leaves, and much deeper blue flower j , which fea¬ 
tures sufficiently distinguish it. It is of easy 
culture, highly ornamental, and lasts many weeks 
in bloom.—Backhouse & Son. 
Leea AMABILIS, Kort. Veitch (Gard. Chron., 
N. S., xvii., 492, fig. 77; Journ. Kort., 3 s., iv., 283, 
fig. 56).—A handsome stove foliage plant of fruti- 
cose or semiscandent habit, introduced from North 
Borneo. The leaves comist of 4—6 lanceolate sharply 
pointed leaflets and a terminal one, 6 inches long, 
and when first expanded are bright crimson tinged 
with a rich shade of brown and marked with a pale 
rose band, but when mature are of a deep velvety 
bronze-green shaded with brown, relieved by a broad 
