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son much flic-lied with violet-purple; distinct and 
good.—T. S. "Ware. Walter Ware, shaded crimson, 
flowers of good form.—T. S. Ware. W. H. Baxter, 
a very handsome variety, with the florets of a deep 
crimson, and having a conspicuous zone of yellow at 
their base.—Messrs. Jeffries. White Star, pure 
white, the florets slightly reflexed, stout, and of fine 
form; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., Oct. 10.—T. S. 
"Ware. Yellow Gem, pale yellow; fine florets and 
form ; a medium-sized teflexed flower of model form ; 
lst-olass Certificate R.H.S., Oct. 10.—H. Canned & 
Son. 
Lobelia, White Emperor, a pure white flowered 
variety of the Speciosa type, compact, pure in colour, 
and with flowers of good form.—W. & J. Tirown. 
Pentstemon, Mrs. M { Far lane, a very handsome 
variety, having a densely crowded spike of flowers, 
which are individually large, with an open throat 
and spreading limb; the colour is reddish purple, 
with a deep claret throat.— H. Cannell & Son. 
Rose (hybrid h.p.), Earl of Pembroke. — A 
beautiful dark reddish crimson Rose, of good form 
and substance, with a delightful perfume like that of 
La France ; the flow'ers are large, of great depth, and 
quite full; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., Oct. 10.—- 
H. Bennett. 
NEW FRUIT. 
Melon, Burghley Pet .—A green-flesh variety of 
very great excellence, the result of a ero-s between 
Victory of Bath and Dickson’s Exquisite, and of 
remarkably fine flavour; lst-class Certificate R.H.S., 
Oct. 10.—R. Gilbert. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Botanical Magazine for October contains 
plates of Albnea Nelsoni, N. E. Brown [t. G619J, a 
Natal plant with bulbs as large as an apple, com¬ 
posed of bright-green sj ales, tapering concave leaves 
3—4 feet loug, and a scape 4—5 feet high beating 
obloDg floweis an inch and a-half long, white, with 
linear-oblong perianth segmen's having the lips in¬ 
curved and hooded. Sent by Mr. Nelson to his 
father's nursery at Rotherham. Flowers in J uly. 
—Kew. Lilium Parryi, Watson [t. 6650], a hand¬ 
some S. Californian Lily, with stems 2—3 leet high, 
bearing wdiorls of eight or more narrow lanceolate 
leaves, and many-flowered racemes, with the flowers 
in whorls of 3—6 or more, three inches in diameter, 
golden yellow with minute purple spots near the 
base. JJaberlea rliodopensis, Frivaldsky [t. 6651], a 
charming dwarf hardy perennial Gesnerad lrum 
Roumelia, described at p. 171. Opuntia Davisii, 
Engelmann [t. 6652], a curious small shrubby 
succulent, much branched, with cylindric-tuberculate 
spiny branches and pale bronzy-green flowers, 2) 
inches across, having a peculiar metallic lustre. 
New Mexico. — Mr. Loder. Celmisia spectabilis, 
Hooker f. [t. 6653], a handsome New Zealand 
mountain Composite, with a woody rootstock, 
numerous lanceolate plaited leaves hairy on the 
ribs with silky hairs, and densely matted w ith buff 
wool beneath, the scapes numerous, longer than the 
leaves and terminating each in a flower bud 2 inches 
across of numerous white or pale lilac flortts.— 
Veitch & Sons. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (Sept. 23— Oct. 
21) contains Masdevallia erythrochcete, Rchb. f. 
(p. 392), a new Central American Sacoilabiate allied 
to M. Houtteana, but larger, the leaves cuneate- 
ligulate a foot long, the pedunc es four inches high 
with numerous sheaths, and bearii g the large 
white and light yellow flowers which have long 
reddish-purple tails; the sepals covered inside with 
ha ; rs, the upper one shorter.—F. Sander. Curcuma 
si matrana, Miq. (p. 393), a showy stove plant, whose 
bright green elliptic leaves bave dark violet pe'ioles, 
and which bears a spike six inches long, of orange 
red bracts with yellow flowers. From Sumatra.— 
Veitch & Sons. Microstylis trilobulata, Kurz (p. 
393), an insignificant Orchid from the Andaman 
Islands, 6—12 inches high with a few elliptic-lanceo¬ 
late leaves, and racemes of' small dull brownish- 
purple flowers, having the sessile lip cordate at the 
base and three-lobed at the apex.—Lt.-Col. E. S. 
Berkeley. JDendrobium bursigerum, Lilidl. (p. 424), 
a Philippine Island species allied to I), secundum, 
but having the yellow area of the lip more elong¬ 
ated. Cirrhopetalum ornatissimum, Rchb. f. (p. 
424), a pretty species supposed to be Indian, with 
ovoid aigular pseudobulbs, oblong-ligulate leaves, 
and a terminal umbel of straw-coloured flowers with 
purple longitudinal lines. Senecio lagopus, Raoul 
(p. 424), a New Zealand plant 6—12 inrhes high, 
with elliptic obluse radical leaves, densely woolly 
beneath, and bright yellow radiate flow'er-lieads 
about 1 inch across; suitable for rockwork. Ne¬ 
penthes RaJJlesiana insignis. Mast. (p. 425, fig. 69), a 
noble pitcher-plant, with robust cylindrical stems, 
bearing oblong leaves l.V foot long, and remarkably' 
handsome flask-shaped pitchers 9 inches long by 4 
inches broad, green, heavily mottled with purplish 
brown spots and thickly beset with small stelliform 
Lairs, the wings broad and sharply toothed, and the 
rim deeply and evenly ribbed and prolonged into a 
stalk supporting a large ovate-oblong lid ; Borneo.— 
"VV. Bull. Nepenthes Rafflesiana nigro-purpiirea, 
Mast. (p. 425, fig. 70), a self-coloured form, with 
bag-shaped purplish-brown pitchers, noticed fully at 
p. 171, Houlletia chrysantha , Lind, et Andre (p. 437, 
fig. 73), a very handsome Orchid from New Grenada, 
with elongate ovate pseudobulbs, solitary narrow 
elliptic leaves, and pendulous peduncles, bearing 4— 
5 flowered racemes of flowers 1 i inch across, golden 
yellow spotted with blood red, the base of the lip 
having a blackish-red blotch covering the indistinct 
crest. See H. Wallisii infra. —Kew. Dendrobimn 
formosum sulphuratum, Rchb. f. (p. 437), a variety in 
which the throat of the lip is clear sulphur yellow, 
inslead of the usual orange colour.—Heath & Son. 
Odontoglossum histrionicum bellum, Rchb. f. (p. 437), 
a very tine variety with all the tints e-pecially the 
yellow lighter than in the type ; the anterior part of 
the lip is white, and the petals have a few long 
narrow chocolate blotches on their edges.—Heath & 
S.m. Cattleya Roezlii, Rchb. f. (p. 457), a fine 
spec'es of the C. labiata series, differing from C. 
Mossim in the more slender stems, with usually two 
nearly equal joints, and 2—3 flowered scapes of 
flowers, very like those of C. Warscewiczii, but with 
two bright yellow eyes below the rich purple bp 
blade.—F. Sander. ‘ Pleurofhallis spectrilingi is, 
Rchb. f. (p. 457), a curious little Orchid, with small 
spathulate leaves, and corymbs of small hyaline 
flowers with a dark olive-green lip.—J. O'Brien. 
Cirrhopetalum delitescens, Hance (p. 461), a little 
Chinese Orchid from Victoria Peak, Hong Kong, 
having small ovate compressed pseudobulbs an inch 
long, solitary oval oblong leaves, and three-flowered 
scapes bearing dark lurid purple flowers.—Kew. 
Vanda Mookeriana, Rchb. f. (p. 488), a grand 
Orchid from Borneo ar.d Singapore, described at p. 
155. Angrcecum bilobum Kirkii, Rchb. f. (p. 48S), 
a minor variety, with narrower divergently bifid 
leaves, and white flowers, having a cuspida'e lie. 
Tropical Africa.—B. S. Williams. Angrcecum fus- 
catum, Rchb. f. (p. 488), a Madagascar Orchid, 
related to A. bilobum ; with cuneate-oblong leaves, 
and lax racemes of many flowers, which have e chreous 
sepals, white petals, a'ud an acuminate white lip 
with along filiform flexuous brown spur.—Low & Co. 
Cypripedium cardinale, Rchb. f. (p. 488), a new 
hybrid between C. Sedeni and C. Schlimii, the 
flowers of which have longer upper sepals, acute 
