. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. enclosing several scapes. Proper leavesfrom five to eight to a corm, appearing with andreaching to the flowers, and produced to 10 inches inlength at maturity, ^^—^V inch broad, with a prominentciliated keel. Proper spathe diphyllous, reaching nearlyto the throat. Perianth : throat glabrous ; segmentsfrom I—1{ inch long and ^ inch broad, in the type, ofa uniform rich orange colour, but varying with theouter surface of the outer segments, suffused andfeathered with bronze markings ; in var. albidus pu
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. enclosing several scapes. Proper leavesfrom five to eight to a corm, appearing with andreaching to the flowers, and produced to 10 inches inlength at maturity, ^^—^V inch broad, with a prominentciliated keel. Proper spathe diphyllous, reaching nearlyto the throat. Perianth : throat glabrous ; segmentsfrom I—1{ inch long and ^ inch broad, in the type, ofa uniform rich orange colour, but varying with theouter surface of the outer segments, suffused andfeathered with bronze markings ; in var. albidus purewhite, with a yellow base ; and in var. cccrulescens,white, with external markings and featheiings of bluish-lilac and purple ; a pale sulphur-coloured variety is also -found on the Bithynian Olympus. Anthers orange,generally with a black spot at the base, and about twiceas long as the papillose yellow filament ; the styledividing near to or above the summit of the anthers, andproduced into spreading, entire, scarlet stigmata, which December 17, 1881.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 781 I. Fig. 152.—nepenthes veitchii. (see r. 780.) generally exceed the anthers. Seed bright red, ripening flowering from January to March, according to itsto brown, or cream-coloured, ripening to buff. range of elevation, which is considerable, as it is found from a little above the sea-Ievel to an alti- C. chrysanthus is an abundant species in Western tude of between 3000 and 4000 feet. It is very Bilhynia, Greece, Macedonia, Thrace, and Roumelia; variable in the colouring and markings of the flowers, and also in the colour, size, and height of the stigmata,which vary from yellow to orange-scarlet, and aresometimes below, and occasionally high above thesummit of the anthers. 63. X C. Danfordia, new species, Maw. — Cormabout i inch broad and high. Corm tunic cori-aceous, resembling ,that of C. chrjsanthus; thebasal tunic consisting of a coriaceous plate, surroundedby short pointed rays, succeed
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