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REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
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Sikkitn Himalaya.—Cranston Nursery Co. Dulophia 
pulchra, Lindl. (p. 732), a Madagascar terrestrial 
Orchid with oblong acute leaves, and a stem 2 feet 
high, bearing a long spike of yellowish-green purple- 
striped flowers.—Herr Kittel. Cryptochilus lutea, 
Lindl. (p. 733), an Indian Orchid, of which “the 
inflorescence is very curious ; the bracts stand in a 
bipectinate order, and the light yellow urceolate 
tridentate flowers hang down in two rows, just as if 
they were small sulphur-coloured flowers of some new 
lily of the valley.”—Herr Beuary. Dendrobium 
secundum niveum, Rchb. f. (p. 733), flowers snow- 
white.—Maule & Son. Anguloa dabia , Rchb. f. 
(p. 764), a Columbian plant, possibly a natural hybrid 
between A. uniflora and Clowesii; the flowers are 
like those of uniflora, lemon-coloured with small 
purple spots.—B. S. Williams. Oncidium unicorne 
latum, Rchb. f. (p. 764), a pretty variety, with 
a broad pandurate white lip blotched with numerous 
purple-mauve spots.—B. S. Williams. Dendrobium 
JBughii, Rchb. f. (p. 764), a pretty novelty from 
Singapore, found by and named after Mr. Hugh Low, 
son of Mr. Stuart Low, of Clapton ; it has slender 
stems, linear acuminate leaves, and solitary flowers, in 
the way of those of D. revolutum, of the purest white, 
with a sulphur wart on the disk of the lip and an 
orange blotch under each horn at the summit of the 
column.—Low & Co. Masdevallia urostachya, Rchb. 
f. (p. 764), a fine species in the way of M. Schlimii, 
with many-flowered racemes of dark cinnamon- 
coloured flowers marked with small orange spots; 
discovered thirty years ago, but now first introduced 
alive.—F. Sander. Rhododendron grande, Wight 
(p. 767, with fig.), a noble Indian species which 
includes Hooker’s R. argenteum, and Booth’s R. 
longifolium ; it forms an evergreen tree, with bluntly - 
oblong leaves, and heads of 25—30 large ivory-white 
flowers with deep purple spots at the base.—J. H. 
Mangles. Oncidium meliosmum, Rchb. f. (p. 796), a 
fine Oncid, with oblong anci pitous pseudobulbs, oblong 
ligulate leaves, and short-branched panicles of the 
richest yellow flowers, with blotches of the most 
exquisite crimson.—W. Bull. Cattleya labiata 
Percivaliana, Rchb. f. (p. 796), a line new West 
South American Cattleya, with strong ancipitous 
ribbed stems, broad leaves, and large showy flowers of 
which the anterior half of the lip is of the richest 
deepest purple.—F. Sander. Acrochcene Rimanni 
Rchb. f. (p. 796), a tropical Asian Orchid, with 
flowers of the finest lilac-purple nearly equal to those 
of Dendrobium Kingianum, with a lip of the darkest 
purple.—F. Sander. Dendrobium Dalhousianum 
Rossianum, Rchb. f. (p. 796), a giant flowered 
variety with nankin-coloured flowers, and an ex¬ 
aggerated beard on the anterior part of the lip. 
Birmah.—II. J. Ross. Pieris japonica, D. Bon 
(p. 796, fig. 120), a hardy or nearly hardy evergreen 
Japanese shrub, with dark green lanceolate leaves, and 
long drooping clusters of urceolate white flowers ; it 
is known as Andromeda japonica and is not new, but 
seldom seen.—A. Waterer. Cattleya Sanderiana 
(p. 802), a superb Cattleya with flowers upwards of 
8 inches across, the sepals rosy-lilac narrowed at the 
base, the petals broader oblong wavy, the lip folded 
at the base and expanding into a nearly semicircular 
lobe 3 inches across, curled at the edtre, deep rosy- 
lilac w ith numerous small pale spots, the throat and 
interior of the tube golden yellow with radiating 
stripes of orange brown.—W. F. Brymer. 
The Botanical Magazine (June).—The plants 
figured are: Aplielandra Chamissoniana, Nees 
[t. 6627], a pretty S. Brazilian Acanthad, with 
elliptic-lanceolate leaves pinnately marked with white 
along the course of the costa and main veins, and 
bearing terminal-oblong spikes of yellow flowers sub¬ 
tended by recurved spmy-toothed bracts; called A. 
punctata by Mr. Bull. Ccelia bella, Rchb. f. [t. 
6628], a pretty dwarf Orchid from Guatemala, having 
the funnel-shaped long-spurred fleshy flowers white, 
with rosy-purple tipped sepals, and a yellow lip. 
Scrophularia chrysantha, Jaub. et Spach. [t. 6629], 
a cheerful looking yellow-flowered biennial, of the 
vernalis ty pe ; from Asia Minor. Dracaena Goldieana, 
Hort. [t. 6630], a noble stove shrub from W. Tropical 
Africa, introduced by Rev. Mr. Goldie through the 
Glasgow (not Edinburgh) Botanic Garden; the 
leaves are beautifully marked with irregular trans¬ 
verse bands of grey, and the white flowers grow in 
small sessile terminal clusters ; it is a true Dracaena. 
Stachyurus prcecox, Sieb. et. Zucc. [t. 6631], a slender 
straggling Ternstromiaceous deciduous shrub, from 
Japan, with ovate-lanceolate leaves, and axillary 
spikes of small green flowers. Billbergia Eupliemiee, 
E. Morr. [t. 6632], a pretty Brazilian bromeliad, with 
lanceolate rigid suberect leaves, and drooping 6—12 
flowered racemes of greenish flowers tipped with 
violet. 
Gartenflora (June) figures Gaillardiapulchella 
Lorenziana, Hort. [t. 1083], the handsome annual 
mentioned at p. 13 asG. picta Lorenziana, the former 
being the more correct name. Scabiosa caucasica 
heterophylla, Ledebour [t. 1084], a pretty hardy 
perennial, with variable pinnatifid leaves, and heads 
of pale rose or pink flowers. Cereus hypogaeus, 
Weber [t. 1085], a 7—8 ribbed species from Chili, 
with clavate or ovate-oblong stems cylindrical above, 
and medium-sized purplish flowers having the petals 
margined with yellow. 
Garten-Zeitung (June) contains a figure of 
Nicotiana ajjinis, a very ornamental plant, with 
long-tubed white flowers, noticed at p. 106. N. 
longiflora, Sweet [2 ser., t. 196] is not, as Dr. Witt- 
mack seems to infer, the same as N. undulata. The 
figure in Garten-Zeitung represents the flower much 
too short in the tube. 
The Journal des Roses for June figures the 
fine single red Japan Rose, Rosa rugosa, which it 
appears was cultivated in 1838 in the Jardin des 
Plantes under the name of R. kamtschatica. Vent. 
When reintroduced to Europe about 1870 it was 
called R. Regeliana, by Linden ; and in 1874, R. 
Andrese, by Lange, in the Botanic Garden, Copen¬ 
hagen. As a free-blooming distinct and striking 
hardy flowering shrub, it has few equals. 
European Ferns, by James Britten, F.L.S., 
with Coloured Illustrations from Nature by D. 
Blair, F.L.S. London : Cassell, Fetter, Galpin, & 
Co. This is a handsome book, a popular book, and a 
good book, and therefore one which we commend to 
the notice of all who are interested in ferns. It is 
well written, and sound as to its teaching, and it is 
profusely illustrated both as regards the coloured 
plates and the woodcut figures. The book by taking 
all the European Ferns within its scope, occupies 
new ground, since there has been no previous work on 
the subject of ferns limited to this area. 
The introductory portion occupying some 44 
quarto pages treats of the structure, classification, 
geographical distribution, cultivation, bibliography, 
and geological distribution of tbe Fern family, of all 
which such details are given as are likely to be 
useful and interesting to general readers. The 
number of species given as European is 73, of which 
these not familiar as British are Onoclea Stru- 
thiopteris, Woodsia glabella, Dicksonia Culcitu, 
Davallia canariensis, Cystopteris sudetica; Pteris 
arguta, longifolia, andcretica; Cheilanthes fragrans, 
hispanica, and Szovitzii; Woodwardia radicans ; As- 
plenium Hemionitis, Heuffleri, Petrarchaj, Seelosii, 
and fissum; Athyrium crenatum; Scolopondrium 
Hemionitis; Notholsena Marantic, and lanuginosa; 
Gymnogramma Pozoi, and tbe Bolryclriums—matri- 
carisefolium, ternatum, simplex, and virginicum. 
The coloured plates are 30 in number and represent 
