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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[December, 
together, large broad and thick-backed, containing 
12—14 immense peas of fine flavour. It is very 
hardy, and the earliest of the large wrinkled marrows, 
coming in with William I.; raised by Mr. Culver- 
well, Tnorpeperrow.—C. Sharpe & Co. 
Rhubarb. — Kershaw’s Paragon, a remarkably 
early and prolific variety, which, it is said, never 
seeds. The leaves are small, so that it bunches well. 
It is an enormous cropper, the stalks being very 
abundant, and of a beautiful bright-red colour; and 
the flavour is excellent. In mild seasons it is ready 
to pull in February.—C. Kershaw. Ruby, a new 
forcing variety, which has received a high character 
from Mr. Knight, of Greenlands. Its qualities as 
regards earliness, productiveness, and thorough good¬ 
ness are, he says, exceptional and astonishing. The 
colour of the stalks is an intense red throughout 
their length and breadth, even in the early forced 
condition, and the flavour is everything that can be 
desired. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Botanical Magazine. At p. 173 for 
AUmea read Albuca. The number for November 
contains:— Hnceplialartos villosus, Lemaire [t. 6654], 
a fine Natal Cycad, with a short woolly trunk, and 
bold pinnate leaves 5 feet long, of 60—90 pairs of 
linear lanceolate leaflets, with spiny apex and teeth, 
the lower ones reduced to digitate or single spines ; 
the male cones are cylindrical, pale yellow, the females 
ovoid-cylindrical, greenish orange. E. nobilis is a 
variety.—Kew. Agave univitta, Haworth [t. 6655], 
a pretty Mexican succulent, in which the pungent 
green leaves, which grow in rosettes of 50 or more, 
have a pale stripe down the centre, and the pale green 
flowers grow in a close cylindrical spike 7—8 feet 
high.—Kew. TJtricularia Endresii, Rchb. f., a 
pretty little semi-epiphytal Lentibulariaceous per¬ 
ennial from Costa Rica, with creeping rhizomes, 
deciduous lanceolate leaves, and erect scapes support¬ 
ing 4—5 large spurred pale lilac Orchid-like flowers, 
beautifully ciliolate ; requires a cool orchid-house.— 
Kew. Ficus stipulata, Thunb. [t. 6657], the little 
creeping Ficus better known by its garden name 
F. repens, which so freely clothes the back walls of 
hothouses; the fruiting state is here figured, with 
oblong triple-nerved leaves 3 inches long, and 
stipitate pyriform or top-shaped fruit 2—3 inches 
long from the leaf axils ; native of China and Japan ; 
grown at Kylemore Castle, Galway. Huernia 
oculata, Hook. f. [t. 6658], a curious succulent from 
Dammara Land, related to Stapelia ; it has 5-angled 
spinosely-dentate teeth, and cup-shaped flowers, of 
which the limb is deep violet-purple, and the throat 
white.—Kew. 
The Orchid Album (Parts 14—16) contains— 
Ada aurantiaca, Lindl. [t. 53], a dwarf New Gre¬ 
nadan species, with bright cinnabar-red half-closed 
flowers, in drooping spikes.—B. S. Williams. Coelo- 
gyne cristata alba, Moore [t. 54], a pure white 
variety of this charming Coelogyne, called also C. c. 
hololeuca, which is one of the best for decorative 
uses.—W. Bull. Scuticaria Steel'd, Lindl. [t. 55], 
a singular plant from British Guiana, with drooping 
rush-like leaves, and short radical spikes of large 
fragrant yellow flowers blotched with deep reddish- 
brown ; flowered by W. M'Donald, Esq., Woodlands, 
Perth. Saccolabium giganteum, Lindl. [t. 56], the 
Vanda densiflora of some, a noble plant, with blunt 
broadly lorate leaves, and dense drooping racemes 
of white flowers freely spotted with amethyst, and 
having a delicious fragrance; Burmah.—B. S. Wil¬ 
liams. Peseatoria Lehmanni, Rchb. f. [t. 57], a fine 
and distinct species from Ecuador, stemless, with 
lorate-lanceolate leaves, and large showy flowers on 
scapes much shorter than the leaves, white tipped 
with purple and marked with purple lines, the lip 
deep mauve-purple bristling with papillae, and with a 
ruff of chestnut brown at the base.—Vervaet & Co. 
Odontoglossum triumphans, Rchb. f. [t. 58], a beau¬ 
tiful New Grenadan species, with ovate-oblong 
pseudobulbs, oblong-lanceolate leaves, and racemes 
of large golden-yellow flowers, handsomely and 
thickly transverse blotched with rich brownish crim¬ 
son.—E. Wright, Esq , Gravelly Hall, Birmingham. 
Vanda Poxburghii, R. Br. [t. 59], an Indian epiphyte 
with two-ranked ligulate obliquely-tridentate leaves, 
and erect racemes of pretty pale-green chequered 
flowers having a violet purple lip.—W. Lee, Esq., 
Leat.herhead. Lcelia Perrinii, Lindl. [t. 60J, an old 
Brazilian species of great beauty, the flowers large 
of a pale rosy tint, with the lip intense velvety 
purple-crimson.—B. S. Williams. Vanda Parishii 
Marriottiana, Rchb. f. [t. 61],a dwarf stout-growing 
plant from Moulmein, with broad blunt distichous 
leaves, and erect spikes of very handsome bronzy- 
brown flowers richly flushed with magenta.—H. J. 
Ross, Esq., Castagnolo. Masdevallia ignga, Rchb. 
f. [t. 62], a tufted-growing cool-house Orchid, with 
evergreen erect elliptic-oblong leaves narrowed iuto 
a long petiole, and tall scapes bearing each a hand¬ 
some flower of a vivid cinnabar-red marked by thin 
crimson lines, the narrow upper sepal bent down 
between the two broader lateral ones ; New Grenada. 
—C. Dorman, Esq., Lawrie Park, Sydenham. Caelo- 
gyne pandurata, Lindl. [t. 63], from Borneo, a re¬ 
markable epiphyte with large compressed oblong 
ovate pseudobulbs, broadly lanceolate leaves, and 
long drooping spikes of numerous large pale-green 
flowers which have the lip marked with blackish 
veins and warted crests; flowered by Baron Schroder, 
The Dell, Staines. Odontoglossum Roexlii, Rchb. f. 
[t. 64], a charming epiphyte from Colombia, with 
narrowly ovate compressed pseudobulbs, linear-lan¬ 
ceolate leaves, and short scapes bearing 3—6 large 
flatly expanded white flowers, of which the two petals 
have a purple spot at the base, and the broad lip 
hears a yellow disk and keels.—D. Todd, Esq., East- 
wood Park, Glasgow. 
Iconography of Indian Azaleas (No. 12) 
contains figures of the following varieties:— Big- 
noniceflora plena [t. 34], a fine semidouble variety of 
a pure deep rose colour, raised by Mr. C. Schulz, but 
to which the name of begoniseflora would have seemed 
more appropriate. Konigia Cleopatra [t. 35], an¬ 
other of Mr. C. Schulz’s varieties, with large white 
flowers striped with carmine rose. Heinrich Heine 
[t. 36], which has been regarded as the best of the 
violet-coloured sorts; its flowers are slightly semi¬ 
double, of fine form, and of a beautiful deep violet 
with metallic reflections. This also is a seedling raised 
by Mr. C. Schulz. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle (Oct. 28—Nov. 18) 
contains notes on the following novelties:— Masde¬ 
vallia platyglossa, Rchb. f. (p. 552), a dwarf tufted 
plant with cuneate-ligulate three-nerved leaves, and 
small light yellowish flowers with short tails, and a 
broad warted lip.—Sir T. Lawrence, Bart. Cypri- 
pedium macropterum, Rchb. f. (p. 552), a fine new 
hybrid raised between C. Lowii and C. superbiens; 
the scape is three-flowered; the sepals light green 
with the nerves sepia brown at the base; the long 
petals dilated from the cuneate semi-sagittate base, 
pale ochre colour with blackish purple spots, mauve 
purple in front, hairy on the upper edge; the lip 
ochre-brown beneath, resembling that of C. Lowii.— 
Yeitch & Sons. Odontoglossum brachypterum, Rchb. 
f. (p. 552), a New Grenada species near O. Kalbreyeri 
and 0. Horsmanni; the sepals and petals broadly 
ligulate, light yellow with a few cinnamon blotches, 
the lip pandurate emarginate, light yellow with 
a long cinnamon blotch on the disk in front of the 
callus of five parallel keels; it has narrow leaves.— 
Yeitch & Sons. Hendrobium linguella, Rchb. f. (p. 
