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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[September, 
(p. 102), a pretty New Grenadan novelty coming near 
M. Estradse, with flowers of a reddish-mauve or 
purple colour, the lip nearly square, and the tails of 
the sepals short.—Shuttleworth & Carder. Odonto- 
glossum Andersonianum teniae guttulatum, Rchb. f. 
(p. 102), a pretty sub-variety of the var. tenue, 
beautifully spotted with small brown spots on the 
sepals and. petals, the lip white with a yellow base 
and a few brown lines.—Low & Co. Cypripedium 
nigritum , Rchb. f. (p. 102), a Bornean species with 
light green dark-veined leaves, and dark flowers near 
those of C. barbatum, but with oblong acute dorsal 
sepal, and narrower petals.—New Plant & Bulb Co. 
Phalcenopsis fasaiata , Rchb. f. (p. 134) a Philippine 
Island species, with leaves and roots like those of P. 
Luddemanniana ; the flowers are sulphur yellow with 
cinnamon coloured bars, the lip with the divaricate 
lateral divisions sulphur-coloured, and the oblong 
ligulate keeled median division orange with the 
anterior part light purple.—Low & Co. Saccolabium 
fragrans, Par. & Rchb. f. (p. 134), a tiny Burmese 
plant, with oblong acute rugose dark green leaves, 
and racemes of numerous white flowers, having the 
tips of the sepals and petals and the whole of the lip 
of a fine mauve purple, the anther orange; the whole 
plant is not an inch high; the flowers have a most 
powerful perfume of violets. — Williams. Vanda 
Vipani, Rchb. f. (p. 134), a curious epiphyte, with 
linear decurved unequally bidentate leaves, and few 
flowered racemes, the flowers having the outer sur¬ 
face whitish, and the inner greenish in the sepals, 
ochreous in the petals and marked with close brown- 
purple lines, the lip being olive-green with the side 
auricles yellow. Burmah.—Capt. Vipan. Grevillea 
annulifera, P. v. Muell. (p. 134), a handsome green¬ 
house evergreen shrub from W. Australia; it has 
rigid pinnate leaves, with linear pungent lobes, and 
terminal racemes of white flowers.—New. Sarcan- 
thus striolatus , Rchb. f. (p. 168), a Philippine Island 
species with short ligulate obtuse unequally bilobed 
leaves, and panicles of small orange-coloured flowers, 
the lower part of the spur whitish.—Low & Co. 
Ornithocephalus grandijlorus, Lindl. (p. 168), a 
Brazilian species, with oblong obtuse leaves, and an 
erect raceme of many fine white flowers.—De Witte. 
Stapelia tsomoensis, N. E. Brown (p. 168), a free 
flowering greenhouse succulent from S. Africa; it 
has almost glabrous 4-angled repand-dentate stems, 
and flowers 3 in. in diameter, of a dull smoky purple, 
with some of the ridges yellowish.—Kew, and Bir¬ 
mingham Botanic Garden. Nepenthes coccinea, 
Sort. (p. 169, fig. 29), a fine American hybrid, with 
large flask-shaped pitchers, which are crimson speckled 
with yellow, distended at the base, and having broad 
toothed wings, the rim finely ribbed, the ribs 
red and black. Nesperaloe yuccifolia, Engelrn. (p. 
199), an interesting greenhouse liliacese, with narrow 
dry thread-edged leaves, and fascicled racemes of pale 
rose flowers. Texas.—Ware. Begonia lineata , N. 
E. Brown (p. 199), a pretty speoies introduced from 
Java, with a tuberous rootstock, oblique cordate-ovate 
leaves, which die down annually, and dichotomous 
cymes of pale pinkish flowers about an inch across. 
—Veitch & Sons. Stapelia pulchella, Masson (p. 
199), a pretty member of an interesting family of 
greenhouse succulents, with quadrangular toothed 
stems and sulphur-coloured flowers dotted with 
purple-brown; native of S. Africa.—Birmingham 
Botanic Garden. Masdevallia Meroglyphica, Rchb. 
f. (p. 230), a New Grenadan species with pallid 
flowers as large as those of M. Estradse, which are 
funnel-shaped at the base, the dorsal sepal being flat 
with three dark lines and numerous small dark spots, 
and the lateral ones nearly square with a dark pur¬ 
plish area, and having long tails which are suddenly 
deflexed.—Sander. Pachysandra terminalis, Sieb. 
et Zucc. (p. 230), a hardy Japanese subevergreen 
perennial with the broadly-oblong leaves crowded 
towards the ends of the branches, green, with a 
whitish marginal variegation which so curbs their 
growth that they become concave, and haviDg erect 
petioles the terminal group resembles a vase in 
shape.—G. Paul. 
The Orchid Album (Parts XI. — XIII.) gives 
illustrations of the following species and varieties :— 
Angr cecum eburneum, Du Pet. Th. [t. 41], a grand 
African species, with large white-lipped flowers, the 
specimen grown by D. B. Crawshay, Esq. Dendro- 
bium superbum, Rchb. f. [t. 42], a finely-coloured 
form of this showy Orchid grown at Sandringham ; 
more familiarly known as D. macrophyllum. Odonto- 
gloss'um Alexandrce Jlaveolum, Williams & Moore 
[t. 43], a pretty primrose-coloured variety, with a 
deeper yellow red spotted lip, flowered by G. Hardy, 
Esq. Lcelia anceps Dawsoni, Anderson [t. 44], one 
of the most charming of Orchids, with white flowers, 
and rich purple lip, from the collection of the late R. 
B. Dodgson, Esq. Cattleya Triance, Lind & Rchb. f. 
[t. 45], a well-known beautiful species, of which 
many varieties are in cultivation; the figure repre¬ 
sents the type form grown in Mr. Hodgson’s collec¬ 
tion. Milionia ctmeata, Lindley [t. 46], a distinct 
and pleasing plant, with brown-sepalled flowers, and 
a large white lip, from the collection of W. Cobb, 
Esq. Odontoglossum Alexandrce, Bateman [t. 47], 
a charming form of this lovely species, with large 
richly rose-tinted flowers, from the collection of 
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. Vanda ccerulescens 
Griff, [t. 48], a remarkably neat and pleasing Orchid, 
one of the few blue-flowered species, the flowers 
being mauve-blue with rich violet-blue lip, from the 
collection of C. Dorman, Esq. This completes the 
first volume, which is dedicated, by permission, to 
H.R.H. the Princess of Wales. 
The new volume opens with a splendid figure of 
Lcelia autumnalis atrorubens, Backh. [t. 49], a 
variety in which the large showy flowers are of a 
brilliant purple crimson, paler towards the centre, 
with the lateral lobes of the lip white ; flowered by 
W. Thompson, Esq. Zygopetalum Clayii, Rchb. f. 
[t. 50], a fine hybrid raised between Z. crinitum and 
maxillare, with purple-brown green barred flowers, 
having a broad violet-purple lip; flowered by Mr. 
Williams. Coelia bella, Rchb. f. [t. 51], a scarce 
and pretty dwarf growing species, from the collection 
of J. C. Bowring, Esq.; it has the sepals and petals 
white tipped with rosy purple, and. the lip clear 
yellow. Odontoglossum macidatum, one of the hand¬ 
somer species of this prolific genus, in which the 
narrow sepals are rich brown, the broad petals 
yellow brown-spotted near the base, and the lip also 
yellow cordiform and spotted both at the base and 
margin; figured from the collection of W. Salt, Esq. 
ICONOGBAPHY OF INDIAN AZALEAS (Nos. 8—11). 
The varieties figured are : — 22. Dame Mathilde, large 
salmon edged with white; 23. Frau Johanna Andrea 
Winkler, white with red stripes; 24. Souvenir du 
Prince Albert, pinky-rose edged with white, semi¬ 
double, late blooming; 25. Deutsche Perle, a good 
double white; 26. Vicomte de Forceville, bright rose, 
cup-shaped; 27. Comte • de Chambord, salmony- 
rose edged with white, large and fine shape; 28. 
Begierangsrath von Fschwege, compact double 
pinkish rose, very effective; 29. Noble Belgique, 
white edged pale pink striped with red ; 30. Docteur 
de Mil, fine double bright red; 31. Sigismund 
Pucker, large, veiny lilac-rose, edged with white, fine 
shape; 32. Concordia, deep rosy-red, double; 33. 
Cordon Bleu, rose flushed with violet, and with orange 
tint in centre. Of these 12 fine varieties—all good 
—five are fixed sports. 
The Gahden (July 22—Aug. 19) contains figures 
of Cattleya Triance [pi. 346], a poor washy represen¬ 
tation of three forms of this beautiful plant.—Back- 
