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bright as to entitle it to be regarded, as not much 
inferior to E. Frederici Guilielmi; a glorious thing, 
bought by Sir T. Lawrence, Bt., at Mr. Day’s sale; 
the present specimen comes from Dr. Wallace. 
Leelia Leeana, Rchb. f. (p. 492), a fino tropical 
Orchid, which Prof. Reiehenbach suspects may be a 
hybrid ; it has short tumid furrowed monophyllous 
pseudobulbs, cuneate-oblong obtuse very leathery 
leaves, and spatheless llovrers of which the sepals and 
petals are rose-coloured, while the lip is white, with 
the tips of tbe side lacinire purple ; flowered by W. 
Lee, Esq. OdontogJossum Sanderianum, Rchb. f. 
(p. 492), a fine Orchid allied to 0. nevadense ; it has 
light ochre-coloured sepals and petals with brown 
marks and stripes, and a large nearly pandurate lip 
not quite white, but having tne most delicate hue of 
sulphur, and marked with a large purple-crimson 
blotch between the callus, and a few spots of ihe 
same colour in front; the flowers are finely hawthorn 
scented; flowered by Mr. Gaskell, Wootton Wood, 
Liverpool. Leea cimabilis (p. 492, fig. 77), a beautiful 
variegated stove plant, noticed at p. 75. Polystichum 
acroxtichoides grand! ceps (p. 492), a tasselled variety 
of the N. American P. acrostichoides,and a desirable 
evergreen plant for the hardy fernery'.—W. & S. 
Birkenhead. Octomeria sochlearis (p. 492). Cata- 
setum pileatum (p. 492), a Venezuelan species with 
rather large flowers with ligbt reddish sepals, white 
petals, and a broad white lip-. Azalea Oldhami 
otherwise Rhododendron Oldhami (p. 524), a dwarf 
evergreen greenhouse shrub, with slender branches, 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate leaves, and trusses of 
funnel-shaped reddish salmon-colouicd flowers about 
2 inches across ; introduced from Formo-a.—Veitch 
& Sons. Thrixsperum Sillemianum (p. 524), a 
Burmah Orchid with the habit of Vanda teres, and 
bearing white flowers, the lip striped with parallel 
purple liQes. Nepenthes Dormanniana, Ilort. Wil¬ 
liams (p. 525, fig. 81), a fine hybrid pitcher plant, 
believed to be of American origin, with broadly 
lance-shaped leaves, ciliate at the edge, and flask- 
shaped pitchers 6 in. in length by 3 in. in breadth, 
with deep fringed wings and a broad finely ribbed 
rim ; they are green heavily spotted with dull crimson. 
-—B. S. Williams. Masdevallia Rstradce delicata (p. 
525), a paler variety. OdontogJossum sceptrum (p. 
525), a fine plant allied to O. luieo-purpureum. The 
flowers are of tbe clearest dark lemon yellow marked 
with rich blackish purple spots, the anterior part of 
the lip nearly circular much toothed and very wavy 
at the base, and the bristle-like calli very downy 
arranged almost in a circle; flowered by It. F. 
Peroival, Esq. OdontogJossum Juteo - purpnreiim 
ampliss mum (p. 525), a variety with very conspicuous 
flowers, the sepals and petals very broad, of a clear 
light yellow, with a few cinnamon spots and streaks 
at the base, and a few very large cinnamon blotches 
on the disc of tbe lip.—AT. E. Brymer, Esq. Odonto- 
glossum Leeanum (p. 525), a supposed hybrid ranking 
near O. deltoglossum; the flowers are yellow spotted 
with brown ; see p. 76. 
The Garden (Mar. 25—Apr. 22) publishes 
coloured plates of the following subjects :— Nerine 
pulehella, Plantii, pudica, pumilis, filifolia, and 
corusca [pi. 329], a pretty group of very elegant 
greenhouse bulbous plants, of which N. pulehella 
with large rosy-pink flowers, and N. corusca with 
large crimson-scarlet flowers are the most attractive; 
they are closely allied to the Guernsey lily; Odon- 
toglossum excel lens and Pescatorei [pi. 330], the 
former a fine yellow-flowered plant, with the lance- 
shaped sepals spotted with large irregular blotches 
of chocola'e brown, the ovate pt-tals undulated and 
not spotted, and the lip broad retuse and wavy 
with chocolate spots, a yellow disk, and bifurcate 
orange-coloured crest; Lilium Leichtlinii [pi. 331], 
one of the most beautiful of the yellow lilies with 
spotted recurved flowers, and according to Mr. 
G. F. AVilson one of the four best Lilies in culti¬ 
vation. Vanda ceerulea [pi. 332], the Barford Lodge 
variety, remarkable for its short thick leaves, and 
very broad lateral sepals; flowered at Ashgrove, 
Pontypool. Bignonia venusta , otherwise Pyrostegia 
ignea [pi. 333], a grand old stove evergreen climber, 
with the lower leaves teruate, the upper conjugate 
and tendrilled, great corymbose racemes of long- 
tubed orange-scarlet flowers, profusely produced 
during the autumn months. 
The Orchid Album (Parts IX.—X.) contains 
figures of the following Orchids :— Caitleya superba 
splendens, Lemairo [t. 33], a superb variety with 
highly-coloured flowers, the lip of a deep magenta; 
from the Rio Negro; AV. Lee, Esq. Paphinia 
cristata, Lind ley [t. 34], flowered at the A’ictoria 
Nursery', the flowers beautifully marked with trans¬ 
verse piurple lines. Odontoglossmn Andersonianum , 
Rchb. f. [t. 35], one of the best forms of this beau¬ 
tiful ally of A. Alexandras, from a plant flowered by 
Alessrs. AV. Thomson & Son, of Clovenfords. Cypri- 
pedium politum, Rclib. f. [t. 36], a neat and showy 
Lady’s Slipper, raised by' R. AA'arner, Esq., between 
C. barbatum superbum and C. vonustum, as is sup¬ 
posed ; the flowers heavily stained with wine red. 
Cypripedium ehloroneurum, Rchb. f. [t. 37], another 
of Air. AA T arner’s hybrids, remarkable for its broad 
petals and green conspicuously veined dorsal sepal. 
Dendrobium bigibbum, Lindley [t. 38], a very finely- 
coloured form of this show r y North Australian Orchid, 
from the collection of the Alarquis of Lothian, at 
Newbattle Abbey. Phalcenopsis Stuartiana nobilis, 
Rchb. f. [t. 39], a beautiful Orchid from the Eastern 
Archipelago, resembling P. Stuartiana, but having 
larger flowers, marked with fewer and larger spots 
on the yellow portions of the sepals and lip. Odonto- 
glossum Krameri, Rchb. f. [t. 40], a lovely little 
epiphyte from Costa Rica, once plentiful but now 
rare in gardens; it is dwarf-growing, with com¬ 
paratively large rosy blue flowers, the broad roundish 
lip of which is marked by concentric bands of yellow 
aud blue. There are some judicious remarks on 
Shading Orchids (see p. 70), and notes on rare species 
or varieties flowered in various collections. 
The Botanical Magazine for April * contains 
Anthurium Andreanum, Lind. [t. 6616], one of the 
grandest plants recently introduced, now becoming 
known amongst the growers of stove plants. Andro- 
sace rotundifolia macrocalyx, Hooker, f. [t. 6617], a 
Himalayan Primrose-wort, with roundish-cordate 
radical leaves, the umbels of pretty rosy flow'ers 
surrounded by leafy bracts, and with the calyx also 
enlarged and foliaceous. Amorpha canescens, Nutt, 
[t. 6618], a small erect shrub, the “lead plant” of 
North America, which has pinnate leaves aud loDg 
spikes of small purple flow'ers. Peperomia resedeeflora, 
Andre [t. 6619], a singular and pretty stove herb, 
with erect branching stems, orbicular corda'e 7—9 
nerved leaves, and conical terminal racemes of white 
elavellate amenta; introduced from Bogota—Cam¬ 
bridge Botanic Garden. Aloe abyssiniea Peacochii , 
Baker [t. 6620], a fine yellow-flowered Aloe, more 
fully described ante p. 74. Bauhinia corymbose, r, 
Roxb. [t. 6621], a magnificent shrubby stove climber, 
requiring ample space for its development; the 
leaves are bipartite with dimidiate-oblong segments, 
and the flowers rosy-pink with bright red filaments, 
profusely produced in terminal corymbs. 
Iconography of Indian Azaleas (No. 7) con¬ 
tains figures of the following varieties: —19. Bern- 
hard Andreas alba, a good double white, saul to be 
u«eful for forcing; 20. Apollo, one of the most re¬ 
splendent of vermilion reds, and finelv shaped; 
21. Imperatrice des Index, a very large salmon-rose 
with white margins and carmine spotting, and a 
central tuft of peialoid bodies of the same colour. 
