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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[September, 
REGISTER OF NOVELTIES. 
NEW PLANTS. 
Cattleya Whitei, Sort. —A fine and distinct 
Brazilian species with stout dwarf pseudobulbs 
bearing one or two thick oblong leaves, and a short 
scape supporting about two large handsome flowers 
with the sepals and petals of a dilute dull purple 
colour, and the beautifully fringed lip a rich magenta- 
purple blotched with orange in the central part; lst- 
class Certificate R.I1.S., July 25.—Low & Co. 
CoMPARETTIA falcata VERA, Hort. Lawrence .— 
Under this name a very pretty Ecuadorian Orchid of 
dwarfish habit was recently shown, which is probably, 
as suggested in Gard. Chron., the C. speciosa, 
Rchb., which has a broad lip of a rich orange colour 
even when dried; it bears a curving raceme of 
numerous flowers which have a broad conspicuous 
emarginate lip and a long slender spur; the colour 
of the lip is remarkable and very effective—a bright 
apricot or clear reddish orange; lst-class Certificate 
R.II.S., J uly 25.—Sir T. Lawrence, Bart. 
Comparettia macroplectron, Rchb.fet Triana 
(Gard. Chron., n. s., x., 524).—A new Grenadan 
species of ornamental character, with small very 
short pseudobulbs, oblong-ligulate leathery leave-', 
and short drooping racemes of flowers, which are 
falcately spurred, and of which the oblong dorsal 
sepal and the ovate petals are pale pink, and the lip 
is broadly-oblong or roundish two-lobed, the colour 
bright rosy pink with numerous deeper coloured 
pencillings ; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., July 25.— 
F. A. Philbrick, Esq., Q.C. 
Cypripedium Morganianum, Rchb. f. (Gard. 
Chron., N. s., xiv., 134).—One of the most beautiful 
of the Lady’s Slippers, and a hybrid raised between 
C. Veitohii (mother) and C. Stonei. The leaves are 
ligulate obtuse, green; the peduncle three or more 
flowered, the dorsal sepal elliptic apiculate delicately 
tinted with rose, the petals long broadly ligulate 
slightly twisted, whitish sulphur with numerous 
brown mauve blotches and stripes, and the lip 
brownish mauve; it is said to be more attractive 
than C. Stonei platytsenium, to which it bears 
some resemblance.—Veitch & Sons. 
Cypripedium nitens, Rchb. f. (Gard. Chron., 
N. s., ix., 398).—A pretty hybrid Lady’s Slipper, 
bred between C. villosum and C. insignis Maulei; it 
has dark green leaves, a hairy peduncle, and hand¬ 
some flowers, having the upper sepal ovate obtuse 
coloured as in Maulei, and ligulate-oblong wavy 
petals of a shining light brown and ochre as in 
villosum, the lip being subconical in the way of 
villosum.-—Yeitch & Sons. 
Cypripedium veenixium, Hort. Veitch. —A 
hybrid raised between C. Argus and C. villosum, the 
latter being the pollen parent. The plant is of robust 
habit, the leaves being as large asthoseof C. villosum 
with the hieroglyphic markings of those of C. Argus; 
the flowers are from four to five inches across, in 
shape coming nearest to those of the pollen parent, 
with the petals longer, narrower, and less deflexed; 
in colour they present a remarkable combination of 
ochreous brown, crimson, and green, with fainter 
spots on the petals than in C. Argus, and with the 
glossy varnished surface of C. villosum.—Veitch & 
Sons. 
Grevillea annulifera, F. von Muell .—An 
ornamental evergreen greenhouse shrub, introduced 
from Western Australia, and flowered at Kew in 
July last. It is a glabrous shrub, with the rigid 
pinnate leaves cut into linear pungent segments 
which are divergent and ascending; the white flowers 
grow in rather large many-flowered racemes from 
3—5 of which are collected at the ends of the branches. 
The odour is unpleasant. Introduced in 1880. 
HesperaloE yuccifolia, Fngelm. —A very strik¬ 
ing and interesting Texan liliaceous plant, producing 
a rosette of long narrow channelled dry-textured 
leaves whose margins are fringed with whitish 
threads, and from the heart or centre a flower stem 
3—4 ft. high, terminating in fascicles of pale rose- 
coloured flowers loosely disposed in racemes, and 
remaining for a long time in bloom.—T. S. Ware. 
Lastrea Montana cokonans, Stansf. —A finely 
crested variety of the native fern sometimes called 
L. Oreopteris ; the apex of the frond is developed 
into a larger, and the apices of the pinnse in smaller 
roundish crispy tufts, which give it a very elegant 
appearance ; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., Aug. 8.—F. 
W. & H. Stansfield. 
PHAL2ENOFSIS VIOLACEA ScHRODERI, Hort. — A 
very charming variety of this somewhat new Bornean 
species. The foliage is of a bright green, and the 
inflorescence a short erect raceme ; it differs from the 
type in having larger flowers, the sepals and petals 
being broad and wholly purple instead of green, the 
lip also being of a deeper amethyst purple; lst-class 
Certificate R.H.S., Aug. 8.—Veitch & Sons. 
SCOLOPENDRIUM VULGARE CRISPUM MULTIFI- 
dum, Stansf. —A fine evergreen hardy fern, with 
erect vigorous strongly crisped sterile fronds, which 
differ from the ordinary, form in being multifidly 
divided at the apex; it is a sterile form; lst-class 
Certificate 11.11.S., Aug. 8.—F. W. & H. Stansfield. 
Stapelia pulchella, Masson (Gard. Chron., 
n. s., xviii., 199).—A pretty succulent greenhouse 
plant, introduced about four years since by II. 
Buckley, Esq., to the Birmingham Botanic Garden. 
It has four-angled stems 2—4 inches high, furnished 
with stout teeth, and star-shaped flowers about two 
inches in diameter, of a sulphur yellow, covered with 
numerous purple-brown dots.—W. B. Latham. 
Tulipa Didieri, Jordan (Bot. Mag., t. 6639).— 
“ One of the finest of all the known Tulips.” It is a 
hardy or nearly hardy bulb, a native of Italy, and has 
an erect stem 1 —If, ft. high, with 3 or 4 somewhat 
glaucous oblong lanceolate leaves, and campanulate 
flowers, of a bright crimson with a cuneate purple 
blotch an inch high bordered with yellow covering 
the base of each segment; flowers in May.—Kew. 
NEW FLOWERS. 
Dahlia (Bouquet), Gem. —A charming variety of 
dwarf habit, with abundant double flower-lieads of 
small size and perfect form, the colour a bright 
crimson scarlet; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., J uly 
25.—Turner. 
Fuchsias.— Bountiful, clear red tube and sepals, 
dark purple corolla, very free and fine, excellent 
habit. Fllen Lye, white tube and sepals, deep pink 
corolla margined with orange, very stout and fine 
shape, excellent habit. Final, brilliant red tube 
and sepals, dark purple corolla, very fine in all its 
parts, a grand show variety. Freedom, creamy 
while tube and sepals, magenta pink corolla, very 
fine shape, and wonderfully free and good. Harriet 
Lye, creamy white tube and sepals, lilac pink corolla 
edged with bright rose, extra fine show variety, and 
excellent habit. Henry Broolc, brilliant coral red 
tube and sepals, large and finely formed purple 
corolla, fine and free habit; one of the best yet 
raised by Mr. Lye. Mr. Hooper Taylor , red tube 
and sepals, rich blue corolla, one of the most striking 
blue-petalled varieties yet raised, extra fine for show 
purposes. Mrs. Bright, white tube and sepals, clear 
magenta scarlet corolla, capital habit, an extra fine 
exhibition and decorative variety. Mrs. King, white 
tube and sepals, rich carmine corolla dashed with 
pink, good habit, very fine and free. Rival, bright 
red tube and sepals, rich bright purple corolla; a 
very fine variety indeed for exhibition and decorative 
