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552), an elegant small flowered species in the way of 
D. aduncum, with rosy flowers, the front part of the 
lip yellow; Malayan Archipelago.—Vcitch & Sons. 
Dendrobiitm leucolophotum, Echb. f. (p. 552), a 
Malayan Dendrobe allied to D. barbatulum, with stout 
cylindrical polyphyllous stem, oblong ligulate acumi¬ 
nate leaves, and very long racemes of fine large white 
flowers with a trifid lip.—Veitch & Sons. Bomarea 
WilUamsicB , Mast. (p. 553), a fine species, with long 
rose-coloured flowers of great beauty; see p. 180. 
Aerides Emericii, Echb. f. (p. 586), an Indian species 
related to A. virens, having similar flowers perhaps a 
little smaller, but the leaves are longer and narrower; 
the sepals and petals are white with a central purple- 
lilac stripe, the lip white with the middle lobe purple- 
lilac, the inner part of the spur freckled with the 
same colour; it differs in having an ascendent adher¬ 
ing lamella under the lip, forming a kind of pouch 
in the spur, whereas in A. virens there are two 
descending teeth in the same place.—Col. Berkeley. 
Cattleya WTiitei, Hort. Low (p. 586), a fine new 
Cattleya found growing on trees with C. labiata and 
C. Schilleriana, and supposed to be a natural hybrid. 
It has the pseudobulbs and foliage of C. labiata, a 
2-flowered peduncle, and pale rosy-lilac flowers, the 
petals broader than the sepals and undulate, the 
throat of the lip orange with purple lines, the anterior 
part rich magenta with darker veins, and a very 
narrow white margin.—H. Gaskell, Esq. Phalce- 
nopsis Reichenbachiana, Echb. f. and Sander (p. 586), a 
new species from the far east of tropical Asia, allied 
to P. pallens. The roots are stout, grey; the leaves 
keeled, the peduncle bearing 10—25"flowers equal to 
those of a fine P. sumatrana, the sepals and petals 
shining whitish-green with brown blotches and bars, 
the lip with orange and white side lobes, and a cen¬ 
tral lobe of mauve blue, and the column white and 
lilac.—P. Sander. Eria rhodoptera, Echb. f. (p. 
586), an epiphyte with cylindrical sulcate stems 
bearing at top two ligulate acute leaves, and racemes 
of pallid ochre flowers with the petals and side lobes 
of the lip purple.—E. G. Henderson & Son. Pleo- 
peltis fossa, Moore (p. 586), an interesting Javanese 
evergreen fern, of dwarf habit with leathery recurved 
linear-lanceolate or ovate fronds, having the margin 
sinuately toothed, or cut into longer or shorter 
simple or bifid lobes, those on the broader fronds be¬ 
coming multifidly flabellate ; the sori form bosses on 
the upper side.—Veitch & Sons. Odontoglossum 
mulus pallens, Echb. f. (p. 590), the plant noticed 
at p. 174 as 0. hystrix Leeanum, according to 
Prof. Eeichenbach. Woodsia scopulina, Eaton (p. 
616), a pretty dwarf N. American fern, with elegantly 
cut fronds 6—8 inches high, pinnate-pinnatifid, and 
having submarginal sori; extends from Oregon to 
California.—W. & J. Birkenhead. Comparettia 
macroplectron, Echb. f. and Triana (p. 616), is again 
noticed as having produced with Baron Hruby and 
Sir Trevor Lawrence a fine paniculate inflorescence 
which must add greatly to its charms; it appears to 
differ in the coloration of the spur. Odontoglossum 
mulus Holfordianum, Echb. f. (p. 616), an unusually 
fine variety, with whitish flowers, the sepals and 
petals marked with deep purple brown, and the large 
fiddle-shaped lip with a light ochre-coloured disk hav¬ 
ing a large pandurate transverse purple spot before the 
basilar callus in the front part of the disk, a similar 
smaller spot on each side of the middle part, and on 
each side a radiating spot on the base.—E. S. Holford, 
Esq. Stapelia namaquensis tridentata, N. E. Brown 
(p. 648), a greenhouse succulent from Namaqua 
land, with short thick procumbent quadrangular 
toothed stems, which are striped and mottled with 
purple, the flowers 3 inches across, very rugose, 
pale greenish-yellow with irregular dark purple-brown 
marks. — Kew. Davallia tenuifolia Veitchiana, 
Moore (p. 648), a much divided plumy form of this 
elegant species, brought by Dr. Veitch from China ; 
certificated by E.B.S. and E.H.S.—Veitch & Sons. 
Pernettyafloribunda, Hort. (p. 649, fig. 113), a hand¬ 
some hardy evergreen shrub, with ovate leaves and 
pitcher-shaped white flowers, smaller than in P. 
mucronata, the flowers succeeded by handsome crim¬ 
son berries of considerable size.—E. & A. Dickson & 
Sous. 
HARDY PHLOXES. 
TN the light gravelly soil of our garden at 
(i Loxford Hall, the rose does not succeed 
A) so well as we should like, and many 
blanks are formed in the beds during the 
season. A few years ago I tried the plan of 
filling these blanks with Phloxes, and have had 
no reason to regret doing so. The cultural 
conditions required by the rose are the same 
as the Phlox delights in—viz., a rich soil, and 
mulching over the surface. Our rose beds 
have indeed been quite a blaze of beauty with 
the gorgeous spikes of phloxes, and the air 
was laden with the perfume of their flowers. 
The Phloxes are in flower as soon as the last 
roses are over, and have to be cut before the 
September bloom of the roses comes on. 
The Phlox is one of the very best plants in 
existence for making a show in the herbaceous 
border; and, further, it is very valuable when 
grown in pots to help to make the greenhouse 
or conservatory gay in its season. It requires 
as little attention as any flower grown in our 
gardens ; indeed, the Phlox is too easily grown, 
and people will not be at the trouble to give it 
the small amount of attention it needs. The 
plants are too often put out in the borders, and 
left in the same place for years without any 
attention ; the result being that they dwindle 
yearly until the spikes are not a fourth the size 
they ought to be. 
To grow the Phlox well, young plants must 
be raised each or every second year from 
cuttings, and the best time to put them in is 
about the month of March. At that time the 
shoots on the old plant will have grown a 
few inches ; they should be thinned out and 
put into small pots, one cutting in the centre 
of each. They form roots very readily if they 
can be plunged in a hot-bed. When the plants 
are well rooted, and inured to the open air, they 
may either be planted out in rich, deeply 
worked soil, or be potted into 5-inch or 6-inch 
pots ; they will most likely produce each a 
good spike the first year, but they will flower 
strongest the second season. After three 
