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May, 
silvery white central band. The coloration of this 
pimt is novel and striking; lst-class Certificate 
R.H.S., March, 1882. 
Nepenthes Morgans, Rort. Veitch. —A beau¬ 
tiful hybrid obtained by Mr. Taplin, formerly gar¬ 
dener to the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth. 
The plant was raised in America and named in com¬ 
pliment to Mrs. Morgan of New York. It is of a 
dwarf neat habit, with smooth pale green leaves 
having red midribs ; the pitchers are flask-shaped, 
with two ciliolate narrowish wings, and when fully 
grown are 6 —8 inches in length. On the younger 
plants the ]itchers are beautifully mottled with 
bright red and pale green ; in the older plants they 
are almost self-coloured and blood-red; the lid is 
always pale green ; lst-class Certificate at Manchester, 
August, 1881.—Veitch & Sons. 
Odontoglossttm Leeanum, Pchb. f (G-ard. 
Chron., n. s., xvii., 525).—A very pretty cool stove 
epiphyte, related to 0. deltoglossum, and supposed 
to be a wild hybrid; it lias flattened pseudobulbs, 
oblong leaves, and arching racemes of pleasing 
flowers in which the wavy lanceo'ate acuminate 
sepals and petals are bright 3 el ow with numerous 
cinnamon spots, and the lip is bright yellow at the 
base, white upwards with a few spots, and a thick 
linear keel at the base going out into two tootbletted 
limellte; the column also is white; native of New 
Grenada; lst-class Certificate R.B.S., March, 1882. 
—Veitch & Sons. 
Odontoglossttm membranaceum eoseum.—A 
very striking variety, in which the flowers are of a 
darkish tint of nwy-lilao instead of white.—IV. Lee. 
Odontoglossttm Pescatoeei Veitchii, Rort. 
■—By far the most beautiful form of O. Pescatorei 
which has yet appeared. It is of the usual habit 
of growth, but llie flowers are 2 | inches across, with 
bruad sepals and pe'als, which together with the lip 
are white and heavily blotched with rich purple, 
which give to the blossoms a remarkably distinct and 
striking effect; the crest on the disk is orange- 
yellow; lst-class Certificate R.II.S. and R.B.S., 
March, 1882.—Veitch & Sons. 
Peimula latifolia, Lapeyr .— A beautiful dwarf 
herbaceous perennial of Auricula-like habit, in the 
way of P. cilia ta, from the Swiss Alps—Orisons and 
Valais, with fleshy obovate ciliate leaves, serrato- 
dentate on the upper part, and pioiucing umbels of 
ten or twelve very pretty magenta-rose flowers, three- 
fourths of an inch across, and having a conspicuous 
ye low centre; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., April, 
1882.—R. Dean. 
Ranunculus Heldreichianus, Bossier. —An 
attractive early-flowering Grecian Buttercup, a hardy 
perennial, growing about a foot high, the leaves 
tripartite with deeply incised lobes, the flowers about 
an inch across, numerous, of a pale chrome-yellow 
shining as if varnished.—G. F. Wilson. 
Rhododendron Forsterianuh.—A very beau¬ 
tiful greenhouse evergreen shrub raised by Mr. Otto 
Forster, Lebenhof, Austria; it is a hybrid raised 
from R. Veitchianun crossed with P. Fdgeworthii, 
and very much resembles the latter in its short-tubed 
much-expanded flowers, which are pure white with 
a yellow spot, undulated at the edges, very sweet 
scented, and nearly six inches across; Ihe elliptic 
leaves are hairy and rugose; it is said to he quite 
barren ; lst-class Certificate R.II.S., April, 1882.— 
Veitch & Sons. 
Saxifraga sancta, Grisebaeh .— A very pretty 
dense-growing, spreading, tufted, rigid, Alpine peren¬ 
nial from Mount Athos, resembling S. Burseriana, 
but with deeper green leaves, which are ligulate- 
lanceolate acuminate and ciliato-dentate; the bright 
yellow flowers are borne in short dense spikes in the 
early spring.—Backhouse & Son. 
Zamia Montana, A. Brawn ( Oard. Chron., N. S,, 
xvii., 460).—A fine new Cycad, a native of New 
Grenada, and forming very handsome specimens. It 
has bulky stems 4—5 feet high, producing a sym¬ 
metrical erect terminal tuft of leaves 4—5 ft. Iona-, 
piunate, with oblanceolate leaflets a foot or more in 
length, and 2—4 inches wide, abruptly acuminate. 
The inflorescence is unknown. It has been recently 
imported from Antioquia.—Shuttleworth, Carder & 
Co. 
Zephyranthes CITRINA, Baker (Bot. Mag., t. 
0608).—An interesting new stove bulb, with 3—4 
linear leaves, and funnel-shaped yellow flowers; it is 
distinguished by the rounded lobes of its stigma, and 
is a valuable acquisition horticuliurally, because ad the 
species of the genus which are in cultivation already', 
have eiilier wnite, or more or less decidedly red 
flowers; a native of British Guiana.—-Veitch & Sons. 
Zephyranthes macrosiphon, Baker ( Gard. 
Chron., N. s., xvi., 70).—A pretty new Zephyranthes, 
and one of the largest flowered species of the genus, 
in this respect being nearly upon a par with Z. cari- 
nata with which it agrees in the bright red colour of 
its flowers; the flower scapes are slender, about a 
foot high, and bear a single bright rose-coloured, 
funnel-shaped flower of great beauty; native of 
Mexico.—Veitch & Sons. 
NEW FLOWERS. 
Abutilon, Royal Scarlet .— Dwarf, branching, 
and extremely floriferous; flowers of waxy texture, 
brilliant fiery scarlet, the brightest in colour yet 
obtained; a fine novelty and a valuable acquisition, 
both as regards its habit and its splendid colour.— 
Veitch & Sons. 
Amaryllis. — Duke of Albany : very rich bright 
vermilion, with lemon throat; extra fine colour and 
shape; lst-class Certificate R.II.S., Ma'ch; R.B.S., 
March, 1882. The Giant .- a very' large variety, 
34 ft. high, with six flowers in the umbel, the 
flower white flamed with rich carmine and striped 
with dark, the segments margined with white ; very 
fine and striking; lst-class Certificate R.II.S., March ; 
R.B.S., March, 1882. Indian Chief: a very fine 
variety, with deep claret-cri mson flowers, the segments 
barred with white, the base green; lst-class Cer¬ 
tificate R.B.S., March, 1882. Shakespeare: light 
scarlet with white bar on each segment, greenish and 
stained with red at the base, tine shape; lst-class 
Certificate R.B.S., March, 1882.—All from Messrs. 
Veitch & Sons. Miss Addle .- a grand variety of 
fine shape and substance, the flowers intense scarlet; 
lst-class Certificate R. Caledonian H.S., April, 1S82. 
—Mr. Palmer. 
Azalea, Mrs. F. Corbet .— One of the small-flow- 
ored group, but very distinct and pretty'; the flowers 
are double, and of a bright carmine red. Useful as 
a small decorative bush for greenhouses ; lst-class 
Certificate R.B.S., March, 1882.—T. Todman. 
Begonias.—M. Lemoine announces of the tuber¬ 
ous group :—Fclair : a single-flowered sort of 
medium size obtained by crossing a descendant of 
Pearcei with Davisii; flowers large brilliant orange 
flushed with cinnabar. Fulgurant .- a double- 
flowered variety obtained by crossing Louis Bouchat 
with Davisii ; of dwarf but vigorous habit, abundant 
flowering, the colour a rich crimson. Fclat .- of the 
same habit and origin as the preceding, with the 
flowers reddish orange. 
Bouvardia, Priory Beauty .—One of the most 
beautiful of Bouvardias, producing freely its compact 
trusses of delicate pale satin rose flowers, a shade of 
colour quite distinct from the pale flesh of Intermedia 
or the light pink of Maiden’s Blush; it is a sport 
from B. elegans, with which it agrees in habit.— 
Veitch & Sons. 
Carnation (Perpetual), Alice Duffield .—A 
variety with large full-double flowers, white faintly 
