var. variegata (Hook. F.). Maximowiczii (Hort., in part). 22. Arundinaria spathiflora (Trin.). Himalaya. syn. Thamnocalamus spathiflorus (Munro). 23. Arundinaria Veitchii (N. E. Brown). Japan. syn. Arundinaria Kurilensis var. paniculata (Schmidt). Bambusa albo-marginata (Hort.). B. tessellata (Hort., not Munro). 24. Bambusa angustifolia (Mitford). Japan. Frauchet & 28. Bambusa quadrangularis (Fenzi). China. Probably not indigenous in Japan. 29. Bambusa tessellata (Munro). China, Japan. syn. B. Ragamowski (Hort.). 30. Phyllostachys aurea (A. and C. Rivière). Japan. syn. Bambusa aurea (Hort.). B. sterilis (Hort.). Japan. 31. Phyllostachys Boryana (Mitford). Japan. B. Castillonis (Marliac). 83. Phyllostachys fastuosa (Kew). Japan. syn. Bambusa fastuosa (Marliac). 34. Phyllostachys flexuosa (A. and C. Rivière). North China. syn. Bambusa flexuosa (Hort., not Munro). 35. Phyllostachys fulva (Mitford). Japan. 37. Phyllostachys heterocycla (Mitford). Japan. E 38. Phyllostachys Marliacea (Mitford). Japan. syn. Bambusa Marliacea (Hort.). 39. Phyllostachys mitis (A. and C. Rivière). China, not indigenous in Japan. syn. Bambusa mitis (Hort., not Poir.). 40. Phyllostachys nigra (Munro). China. Japan. syn. Bambusa nigra (Lodd). 41. Phyllostachys nigro-punctata (Hort.). China. Japan. 42. Phyllostachys Quilioi (A. and C. Rivière). Japan. B. Quilioi (Hort.) 43. Phyllostachys ruscifolia (Kew). Japan. syn. P. Kumasaca (Munro). P. Kumasasa (Mitford). Bambusa ruscifolia (Siebold). B. viminalis (Hort.). 44. Phyllostachys sulphurea (A. and C. Rivière). Japan. syn. Bambusa sulphurea (Hort.). 45. Phyllostachys violescens (A. and C. Rivière). Japan. syn. Bambusa violescens (Hort.). 46. Phyllostachys viridiglaucescens (A. and C. Rivière). (N.B. Of these Arundinaria falcata and A. Falconeri are only hardy in the most favoured localities in the British Isles.) United States of North America, one species: Arundinaria macrosperma. China and Japan the remaining forty species. HARDY HYBRID WATER-LILIES. By Mons. R. LATOUR MARLIAC. [August 9, 1898.] In order to keep within my subject, which is only to talk to you about the grand results obtained by crossing the native Waterlilies of the northern and temperate regions with those of the tropics (results which open up a new and beautiful method of decorating pieces of water), I shall refrain from giving a very detailed or complete history of the numerous original species of natural origin, which are sufficiently described in botanical works, more especially as these original species are destined, for the most part, to be relegated in the future to collections that are entirely scientific, and will disappear from ornamental collections, to which they will not be admitted on account of their manifest inferiority. Several years at least have passed away since the lakes and pools of equatorial countries alone had the privilege of exhibiting a wonderful clothing of many-coloured Water-lilies, principally night-flowering-the charming and lesser stars of the waters, looked at only by the innumerable stars of the heavens which came out each night and bathed their sparkling light by the side of their elegant petals. Formerly all countries outside the tropics, and notably those of the European continent, only had for their share, as the principal objects of decoration in aquatic flowers, some few yellow Nuphars and white Nymphæas-very pretty, it is true, but too much alike to excite any violent rapture over their cultivation. Amongst the number of typical Nymphæas I will only mention the following:-N. alba, indigenous to Europe; N. pygmæa alba, of Northern Asia; N. odorata alba, from North America; N. odorata rosea, also from America (the Cape Cod Water-lily), which being crossed one by one with those which originated in the tropics or thereabouts, such as the Indian N. rubra and its descendants, N. devoniensis, N. Ortgiesiana rubra, N. flava, from Florida; N. mexicana, from Mexico, &c., have become the foundation of the wonderful series of many-coloured hybrids which, whilst inheriting from their paternal side the |