THE GARDENING WORLD. 
443 
May 28, 1904. 
Notes on the Illustrations in this Issue. 
/abis aiibrietioid.es. 
Lost of the species of Arabis in cultivation have white 
Lera so that the plant under notice is a pleasing exception, 
'lie specific name is derived from the resemblance of the plant 
am Aubrietia, of which it. has the habit, size and colour of the 
wers The flowers are produced in short racemes just 
’ino- above the foliage, and are white when they first expand, 
it soon deepen to a delicate pink. Both colours are, there- 
re, present in a patch of the plant, and thus present a pleas- 
ct variation. The stems are very numerous, forming a com- 
matted tuft similar to that of an Aubrietia. The leaved 
L oblanceolate, slightly toothed, downy, and grey. The 
hole plant forms a dense carpet only 3 in. to 5 in, high, 
lie seed-pods are elongated and otherwise structurally the 
une as an Arabis, and that is how we are able to separate the 
[ant from an. Aubrietia, which has a short, flattened pod. The 
>ecies has long been known to science, a.s it. wa.s described 
y Boissier in his “ Flora Orientalis I., 175," and is a native 
f Cilicia, in Asia Minor. 
At. least three other species are in cultivation with coloured 
o^-ers_namely, A. blepharophylla and A. rosea,, with rosy- 
urple flowers, and A. veirna, with small purple and white 
lowers. These are, however, different in, habit. . A. « 
lubriefioides was introduced in 1901. Our illustration 
,vas taken in the nursery of Messrs. Barr and Sons, 
Ditton Hill, Surrey, where we have had the plant under 
observation for some time past. 
Fritillaria Elwesii. 
There is a considerable divergence of opinion as to 
vhat F. Elwesii really is. We have seen hundreds of 
julbs of recent importation giving rise to flowersi such 
is that represented by our illustration, but the form 
if the flowers doesi not quite agree with Boissiei s de¬ 
scription in his “ Flora, Orientalis Y., 171. As ha 
limself was liable to> deception in the matter, we aie 
somewhat doubtful if the real F. Elwesii is anything 
nore than a form of F. acmopetala. Besides the two 
lames we have just given, we> must add another 
lamely, F. acutiloba. Both in form and coloiu the 
ilants which we represent exactly agree with the plant 
lamed F. acutiloba in the collection at Kew, where it 
ias been grown since 1896, having been sent, by bigisi- 
nund, under that name. This being the case, we shall 
describe the, flower according to the form which we illus- 
petala had got flat leaves, but we are afraid this is not a 
constant character, as the plants at Kew have grooved leaves. 
If F. Elwesii is really distinct, we must depend upon Bois- 
sier’s description, which saysi that the segments are blunt, not 
apiculate, and the bell-shaped elongated flowers are somewhat 
prolonged at the base. The plants at Kew under the name of 
F. Elwesii are about 18 in. high, and the whole of the outside 
of the inner segments was coloured a dark brownish-purple, 
and the flowers on established plants bloomed and faded about, 
ten days before those of F. acmopetala and F. acutiloba.. All 
the same, even this plant does not seem to differ from the plant 
under’ notice, except in flowering earlier, and in the greater 
amount of colour on the inner segments. 
Boissier’s F. acmopetala had broader and flat leaves, and 
these we have seen on plants under a different name, so that it 
is doubtful whether this character is constant. Taking a 
general view of the matter, these flowers 1 have a, quaint and 
quiet beauty, and, owing to i their size, might well find a place 
in any collection of herbaceous, plants that is at all well repre¬ 
sented. Compared with our . own Fritillary, they have a 
beauty all their own, and are certainly far more stately on, 
account of their greater height. 
The specimens from which our illustration was taken were 
furnished us by Messrs. B. Wallace and Co., Ivilnfield Gardens, 
ARABISi AUBR1F.TIOIDES ;i FlOWERSiFINK. 
rate. 
Strong plants bear onei or two bell-shaped, elongated 
flowers. The outer segments are narrowly oblong/ and 
greenish-yellow, with a large purple-brown blotch on the out¬ 
side corresponding to, the nectary on the inner face ; the tip 
is recurved, blunt, and the edges are more or less shaded with 
reddish-brown. The inner segments-are obovate, light green, 
tinted with yellow, and suddenly narrowed at the apex into a 
prolonged tip or cusp that is downy at the apex; the top of 
these segments is sharply recurved and reddish-brown on both 
surfaces, striated with yellow. At the base on the outside is 
an iron-brown or purple-brown blotch over the nectary, so 
that altogether there are six of these blotches to, a, flower. 
Tlie nectaries at, the base inside have a deep, orbicular brown 
base, with a green prolongation, thus making the whole nectary 
ovate in outline. The stemsi are 18 in. to 2 ft. high, with 
numerous linear grooved glaucous and erect leaves. That is 
the plant which is\ generally understood as F. Elwesii in 
gardens at the present day. 
A plant was figured in the “ Botanical Magazine, t. 6321, 
under the name of F. acmopetala. That was, considered by 
Boissier as F. Elwesii, and the figure would correspond fairly 
well to the plant we have now under notice, except that the 
segments, and especially the inner ones, are more decidedly 
pointed. When Boissier was describing F. Elwesii, he thought 
at first he had got F. lycia, but that is now placed as a 
synonym of F. acmopetala. He said, however, that F. acmo 
Colchester, whose collection of bulbs has long been both ex¬ 
tensive and noted for their great, number of species and 
varieties of these highly interesting garden plants. 
lymbidium lowio-eburneum concolor. 
Asi may be, gleaned from the name, this hybrid has been 
raised between C. lowianum concolor and C. ebumeum. . Both 
of the species mentioned have been used in the production of 
hybrids, using first, one and then the other a.s the seed parent, 
and the plants under cultivation are closely similar. The two 
species were, of course, at first used, and these gave rise to 
flowers with nearly white sepals and petals. The lip was also 
white, with the addition of a Y-shaped crimson, blotch on the 
terminal lobe. In the variety under notice, however,, this 
blotch has been washed out, so that the hybrid is practically 
white. This variety is the most recent of the several hybrids 
which have been raised, and is therefore yet scarce and choice. 
By the use of C. lowianum concolor we get a larger number of 
flowers on a stem in the hybrid than in C. ebumeum. The 
hybrid plants are also of robust constitution, and are .very 
telling in a collection of Orchids when in bloom Our illus¬ 
tration was prepared from a photograph sent us by Mr H. . 
Chapman:, gardener to Norman C. C'ook son, Esq., Oak wood, 
Wvlam-on-Tyne, in whose collection the plant flowered. 
The common Laburnum (L. yulgarel is everywhere a picture 
of beauty in the southern counties of England at piesent. 
