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[November, 
undulate straight petals, all these parts tinted with 
purple, and a glorious purple lip, with a white 
stamiuode.—Yeitch & Sons. Cypripedium grande, 
Echb. f. (p. 488), a hybrid raised between C. 
Eoezlii and C. caudatum, a giaut plant, with the 
habit of the latter, 1—3 flowered, the large flowers 
resembling those of C. Hartwegii, but with ob'ong- 
lanceolate sepals.—Yeitch & Sons. Cypripedium 
ciliare, Echb. f. (p. 488), a Philippine Island 
species, allied to C. superbiens, which it resembles in 
tue leave*, while the hairs on the edges of the sepals 
and petals are much denser and more numerous, the 
petals themselves broad and short, the lip with a short 
claw, and a very broad short stamiuode ; the colours 
are not noted.—Low & Co. Houlletia Wallisii, 
Lind, and Echb. f. (p. 494), the corrected name 
of II. clirysantha noted above as being described in 
G. C., 437, fig. 73. Oncidium prcetextum Leeanum, 
Echb. f. (p. 494), a most remarkable form of this 
Brazilian species, in which the petals are replaced by 
organs like the lip, having the callosity of the lip at 
the base, “ differing only from the genuine lip in 
being blotched on their yellow disk, as on the lip of O. 
Porbesii Borwickianum, instead of being spotless.”— 
AY. Lee, Esq. Phalcenopsis antennifera, Echb. f. 
(p. 520), a species resembling P. Esmeralda in 
growth, but stronger, with leaves six inches long, and 
flower spikes over 2 feet, the flowers having the sepals 
and petals light rose, and the side lobes of the lip orange- 
red striped, the middle one pure amethyst.—B. S. 
AVilliams. Saccolabium flexum , Echb. f. (p. 520), 
an interesting Orchid from New Guinea, which 
“ has most probably scarlet flowers, in small racemes, 
not unlike those of Dendrobium secundum, but the 
flowers themselves must be compared to those of 
S. ampullaceum.”—Yeitch & Sons. Saccolabium 
calopterum, Echb. f. (p. 520), a fine New Guinea 
Orchid, with panicles of flowers “much like those of 
Yanda coerulescens ” ; they are said to be rich purple 
and probably white at the base of the sepals and 
petals.—Veitch & Sons. Dendrobium vandiflorum, 
a curious species, with racemes of white flowers ; 
from New Guinea.—Veitch & Sons. Dendrobium 
Macfarlanei, Echb. f. (p. 520), a fine species with 
handsome flowers, the rhomboid petals of which are 
much larger than the sepal*, and the lip has a 
great purple blotch at the base of each side lobe ; 
from New Guinea.—Yeitch & Sons. Dendrobium 
pleiostachyum, Echb. f. (p. 520), a Dendrobe with 
lurrowed flexuous stems, with many short dense one¬ 
sided racemes of flowers apparently white; from 
New Guinea.—Veitch & Sons. Cypripedium reticu- 
latum, Echb. f. (p. 520), a remarkably distinct 
Lady’s Slipper from Ecuador, more fully described 
at p. 171. Aerides Hmerici, Echb. f. (p. 525), a 
beautiful Indian Orchid, whose flowers, which grow 
in racemes, have a stripe of pink down each of the 
white sepals and petals; it is allied to A. virens, but 
lacks its fragrance.—Lt. Col. Berkeley. Oclonto- 
glossum hystrix Leeanum, Burbidge (p. 526), one 
of the most distinct and beautiful of its race, re¬ 
sembling 0. crispum inhabit and mode of flowering, 
the flowers pale sulphur yellow, heavily blotched with 
cinnabar ; probably “ a native hybrid between crispum 
and Lindleyanum, or between triumplians and hystrix, 
which it resembles in form aod size of flowers.” 
The Garden (Sept. 23—Oct. 14) contains co¬ 
loured plates of— Cattleya citrina [pi. 355], a fine 
variety flowered by Sir AV. Marriott, Bt., Down House, 
Blandford. Rose Alfred K. Williams [pi. 356J, one 
of the finest and most perfect and symmetrical in 
shape of all the h.p. crimson Roses ; it was sent out by 
Schwartz in 1877. Celsia cretica [pi. 357], a fine 
old hardy or nearly hardy biennial, now rarely 
met with in gardens, but well deserving a place ; it 
closely resembles the Verbascums, the erect steins 
being covered in succession with the long yellow 
rotate flowers which have two reddish-brown blotches 
at the base of the upper segments. Arctotis aureola 
[pi. 358], a handsome Cape Composite, with irre¬ 
gularly pinnatifid cottony leaves, and large flower- 
heads made up of about a score of linear-ligulate 
florets an inch and a half in length ; the stems are 
erect in habit with an inclination to become naked; 
it flowers in the greenhouse during the early part of 
the year; also known as A. grandifiora. 
The Garten-Zeitung for October contains a 
capital illustration of Lachenalia Nelsoni [p. 421], 
the beautiful hybrid between L. aurea and luteola 
for which we are indebted to the late Eev. J. G. 
Nelson. There is also a description and figure of 
Angrcecum Eichlerianum, Kranzlin [p. 431, fig. 192], 
a new species from Loango in S. AV. Africa; it has 
a tall stem, distant unequal-sided elliptic leaves blunt 
at the apex, and large solitary helmet-shaped flowers, 
which have green oval-lanceolate acuminate sepals 
and petals, and a large white cuueate-obcordate lip, 
deeply emarginate with an apiculus, the spur ex¬ 
tinguisher-shaped, about as long as the lateral sepals. 
La Belgique Horticole (June—July) contains 
figures of Phytarrhiza monadelpha, E. Morren [t. 
7], a dwarf-growing Bromeliad, from South America, 
with a rosulate tuft of numerous lanceolate chan¬ 
nelled leaves of a coppery-brown hue, from the centre 
of which springs up the loose simple spike of small 
lilac flowers, whose stamens cohere by their short 
filaments.—Linden. Kerchoveajloribunda, Jorissenne 
[t. 8], a rather pretty Marantaceous plant, of sub- 
shrubby habit, growing 3—4 feet high, with tri- 
chotomous or quadriehotomous stems, elliptic un¬ 
equal-sided leaves having hairy sheathing petioles, 
and terminal branching cymes of small purplish blue 
flowers emerging from lanceolate rose-coloured bracts. 
Brazil.—Jacob-Makoy & Co. 
L’Illustration Horticole (9—10 liv.) figures 
Aerides japonicum, Lind, and Echb. f. [t. 461], a pretty 
dwarf-growing epiphyte, with oblong ligulate obtuse 
emarginate leaves, and drooping 6—8 flowered spikes 
of elegant flowers as large as those of A. odoratum, 
the dorsal sepal and petals white, the lateral sepals 
white with concentrio bands of brownish-purple 
near the base, the lip spathulate, cochleate, white 
blotched heavily and spotted with amethyst 
purple ; from Japan, as its name implies. —- 
Linden. New Sonerilas [t. 462] ; 1 Comtesse 
de Flandre, 4 Madame Legrelle, 5 Madame Sec- 
retan, varieties with dark green leaves variously 
spotted and blotched with white, the green prepon¬ 
derating, the red stalks in No. 1 and 5 being con¬ 
spicuous ; 2 Madame Alfred Mame, 3 Madame 
Charles Heine, 6 Princesse Mathilde, varieties with 
silvery grey leaves and green ribs more or less 
marked, the silvery hue greatly predominating ; 
they are all dwarf stove herbs of ornamental charac¬ 
ter, produced by the cross fertilisation of S. Hender- 
soni and S. margaritacea in the establishment of 
M. Linden. Ixora splendida, Eodigas [t. 463], a 
woodcut figure of a fine orange-crimson variety. 
Heliconia aureo - striata, HorC. [t. 464], a fine 
Musaceous plant, of moderate stature, with large 
oval acuminate leaves of a bright green closely 
marked with orange stripes along the course of the 
veins, these stripes being sometimes broken up into 
lines of small blotches ; the stalks, midribs, and 
margins of the leaves are prettily flushed with light 
red. Solomon Isle*.—Yeitch & Sons, AV. Bull, 
and M. Linden. Alicante Grape [t. 465] ; this 
plate is deferred. Schismatoglottis longispatha, 
Ilort. [t. 466], a woodcut figure of a Bornean Arad, 
having stalked obliquely ovate leaves of considerable 
size (four inches long) of a bright green with a broad 
central band of silvery grey, the midrib itself being 
