Coelogyne Pandurata

A fine epiphyte, flowers large, pale green, the lip yelowish green, with broad black veins, and stains. Borneo. Stove epiphyte. Messrs. Low.

Coutarea Diertilloides

Showy; flowers like Wiegela rosea, white inside, pink without, in rich terminal panicles. Columbia. Stove shrub. M. Linden, Brussels.

Cymbidium Pendulum Atropurpureum

A variety of well-known Orchid with deep purple flowers, the lip ribbed with yellow. Borneo. Stove epiphyte. J. Knowles, Esq.

Cypripedium Villosum

A fine showy Orchid somewhat resembling C. insigne; flowers green, brown, and purple. Moulmein. Stove perennial. Messrs. Veitch.

Dendrobium Macrophyllum Giganteum

A remarkably showy plant, having the light rosy-colored flowers four times as large as usual. Appears to have been obtained, without history, from the Continent. Messrs. Veitch.

Desfontainia Spinosa

A lovely glossy, holly-like, evergreen shrub, with long tabular flowers of scarlet and yellow. Valdivia. Hardy evergreen shrub. Messrs. Veitch.

Dichorieandra Pieta

Neat and pretty; the leaves longitudinally blotched with brown, and pink beneath; the flowers white and purple. Supposed to come from Brazil. Stove perennial. Messrs. Low.

Diervilla Middendorflana

The so-called yellow Wiegela; a hardy shrub, with primrose-colored flowers, half as large as those of W. rosea. Received on the Continent eta Russia.

Dracaema Elliptica Maculata

Variegated leaves; flowers greenish. Ornamental in foliage and habit Java. Stove evergreen shrub. Messrs. Low.

Eckites Pellieri

See Neriandra suberecta.

Embothrium Lanceolotum

A fine evergreen proteaceous shrub, allied to Telopea. From Chili. Probably half-hardy. Messrs. Standish & Noble.

Escallonia Densa

Pretty; flowers numerous, pinkish-white. Merida. Green-house shrub. M. Linden, Brussels.

Esehscholteda Tenuifolia

Neat and desirable, the habit being compact and dwarf; the flowers are yellow, an inch across. California. Hardy annual Messrs. Veitch.

Eugenia Oleoides

Graceful; flowers white in axillary panicles. History not given. Green-house evergreen shrub. M. Linden, Brussels.

Franciscea Eximia

One of the finest of the Francisceas; flowers large, rich lilac-purple, paler after expansion. Brazil. Stove evergreen shrub. Chelsea Bot. Garden.

Fraxinus Dipetala

A fine tree, with purple branches, green foliage, and elegant white flowers. New Mexico. Hardy tree. F. Scheer, Esq.

Gesnera Donckelaariana

A very showy plant, bearing panicles of rich crimson Gloxinia-like flowers. A hybrid, said to have been raised between Gesnera discolor and Gloxinia rubra, in the Ghent Bot. Garden.

Gomphrena Coccinea

Ornamental, requiring the treatment of tender annuals; flower-heads brilliant orange color. Mexico. Warm green-house perennial. M. Vilmorin, Paris.

Gonolobus Pyrrhotrichus

Curious; the flowers dull green with obscure netting, and fine bright yellow coronal teeth. Brazil. Coarse stove climber. Messrs. Weeks & Co.

Gentiana Fortuni

A very beautiful herbaceous plant, the flowers of which are deep blue, spotted with white. Northern China. Supposed to be quite hardy. Messrs. Standish & Noble.

Goldfussia Glomerata Speeiosa

Coarse, but showy; flowers deep purple. Sylhet. Soft-wooded stove shrub. Kew Bot. Garden.

Gardenia Globosa

A neat shrub with fragrant white flowers. Caffraria. Green-house evergreen shrub. Messrs. Backhouse.

Hedaromna Tulipiferum

A plant of considerable promise; resembles a broad-leaved Diosma; flowers surrounded by a cup-shaped involucre which is greenish white, stained with dull red, in which involucre resides the beauty of the plant New Holland. Greenhouse evergreen shrub. Messrs. Garraway.

Hexacentris Mysorensis Lutea

Showy; flowers large yellow, in pendant racemes. India. Stove evergreen climber. Messrs. Veitch.

Hippeastrum Formosissmum

Very showy; the flowers deep crimson, like the Jacobean Lily in color, but larger, and of the form of H. vittatum. History unknown. Stove bulb. G. Leach Esq.

Hydrolea Axurea

A pretty little plant, covered with a multitude of beautiful azure flowers, against which the stamens stand out like silver stars. Mexico. Green-house branching perennial M. Linden, Brussels.

Hypoxis Latifolia

Interesting. A bulbo-tuberous plant, with star-shaped yellow flowers. Natal. Green-house perennial. Kern Bot. Garden.

Imantophyllum Miniatum

A splendid Amaryllidaceous plant, allied to 'Clivia; flowers large, in a fine umbel, vermillion colored. Natal. Green-house perennial. Messrs. Backhouse.

Kniphqfia Uvaria

An old name, proposed to be revived, for one of the handsomest of border flowers, bearing a dense ovate cylindrical head of rich orange scarlet flowers. From the Cape, introduced long since, and known as Tritoma.

Laurelia Aromatica

A handsome, fragrant, fleshy-leaved evergreen shrub, from the mountains of Chili. Hardiness not ascertained. Messrs. Standish & Noble.

Leptosiphon Luteus Aureus

A deeper colored variety of this exceedingly pretty half-hardy annual California. Messrs. Veitch.

Linum Grandiflorum

A splendid annual when obtained true, but a large-flowered common flax is often sold under this name; flowers large crimson. Algiers. Introduced from Paris.

Lobelia Ghiesbreghti

Said to be pretty; flowers red, expanding in succession the whole summer. Mexico. Green-house perennial. M. Linden, Brussels.

Lomaria Chilensis

A fine, robust-looking, hardy fern, of ornamental character. Chili. Messrs. Veitch, and Messrs. Standish & Noble.

Lomatia Ferruginea

A fine evergreen proteaceous shrub, also called Embothrium ferru-gineum ; fine dark, twice-divided foliage. Chili. Green-house evergreen shrub. Messrs. Veitch, and Messrs. Standish & Noble.