. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. inch long, having subulate lobes2 lines long. The corolla consists of four petalsnearly 1 inch in length, and over J inch in plant flowers in March. Lagerstrccmia Fordii waa fir8t found by Mr. Forda few years ago on Lantao Island. In August last,I found it for the first time in Hong Kong, on thesouth side of the island, growing near the was only one plant of it, and this was about10 feet higb, thriving in very little soil on the top ofa rock. It is not such a showy species as ao
. The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. inch long, having subulate lobes2 lines long. The corolla consists of four petalsnearly 1 inch in length, and over J inch in plant flowers in March. Lagerstrccmia Fordii waa fir8t found by Mr. Forda few years ago on Lantao Island. In August last,I found it for the first time in Hong Kong, on thesouth side of the island, growing near the was only one plant of it, and this was about10 feet higb, thriving in very little soil on the top ofa rock. It is not such a showy species as aome ofthe other Lagerstroemias, but nevertheless, is aplant well worth cultivating. The flowers are pro-duced in panicles 3 or 4 inchee long, at the end ofthe branchea. The calyx is about 3 linea long,. FlQ. 57.—A NEW STYLE OKCHLD-BiSKET. downy white on the cuteide, and the tube petals are white, the limba being about 2 linesacroei, orbicular in ahape, and crimpled on longthin claws. The leaves are lanceolate, 3 to 4 incheslong, and 1 to 1J inches wide, on petioles of aquarter of an inch. When ripe, the capaulea aredark brown in colour, oval in ahape, and about§ inch in length. Pachystoma chincnse, when aeen growing amongatlong graaa, ia a pretty little Orchid when in flower,although it is destitute of leaves at the time. Itproduces its scapes ranging from 9 inches to 2 feethigh, and bearing from six to twelve flowers in flower is subtended by a light brown lanceolatebract, | inch long. The eepals are nearly 1 inchlong, and J inch wide, narrow oblong in shape, andof a light lilac colour. The petals are the aamelength and colour as the sepals, but only ^ inchin width. The lip is three-lobed, saccate at thebase, and crested in the centre. The middle lobe isei
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