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whity-brown margin, and bear coarse irregular reversed marginal spines. The 

 pretty little Cymbidium tigrinum came from Messrs. Veitch. and Sons' collection ; it 

 has loner olive-coloured sepals and petals, and a white lip, transversely barred with 

 purple. A beautiful variety of Odontoglossum Alexandra, called Warneri, • 

 obtained a first-class certificate, as did most of the preceding ; it has the sepals 

 tinted with rose, and bearing a few large bronzy spots, the petals pure white, 

 and the lip yellow at the base and white at the tip, having a great central 

 blotch of bronzy brown. A beautiful little stove basket Fern, Davallia hemiptera, 

 from Borneo, which has a creeping rhizome, linear fronds, and dimidiate lobate 

 pinnae, came from Messrs. Veitch, who had received for it a first-class award on 

 a previous occasion. 



At the meeting held in the early part of May, Messrs. Standish and Co. had 

 a fine distinct new half-hardy Fern, Struthiopteris orientalis, a species which 

 has been found on the mountains of India, but in this case was imported from 

 Japan ; it has spreading ovate pinnato-pinnatifid sterile fronds of a pale-green 

 colour, and the erect fertile fronds have leathery pinnae, which bear dark brown 

 sori, covered with entire or lobed involucres. The very distinct Vancla Deni- 

 soniana, a new species, from Moulmein, with acutely and unequally bilobed 

 leaves, and waxy flowers, of which the sepals and petals are obovate, whitish 

 with a creamy tinge at the tips, and the lip is dilated and two-lobed at the apex, 

 with a stain of yellow and a few red lines near the orifice of the spur, came from 

 Messrs. Veitch ; who also had Brassia Lawrenceana longissima, a Costa Eica plant, 

 with the lateral sepals six inches long, yellowish-green, with dark blotches near 

 the base, and a greenish-yellow cordiform lip dotted with brown. The Society's 

 Chiswick collection furnished Dieffenbachia nebulosa, a hybrid between D. Weirii 

 and D. maculata, remarkable for its stocky habit and spreading leaves, which are 

 coloured in a clouded manner with yellowish-green in the centre, darker green 

 at the edges, and spotted here and there with white dots. Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, 

 produced Geonoma zamorensis, a good looking Palm, with a few pairs of broad 

 pinnae and a bilobed apex ; also Podocarpus Maid variegata, a Japanese shrub, 

 with linear leaves edged with white. Dendrobium xanthophlebium, an Indian 

 species with slender stems, oblong acute leaves, and moderate-sized whitish 

 flowers in pairs, having the three-lobed lip covered over with bright orange 

 reticulations, came from Mr. Bateman's garden. These all obtained first-class 

 certificates. Croton Wrigleyanum, a sport from variegatum, with large central 

 blotches of yellow, instead of the usual yellow venation, was sent by Mr. Shaw, of 

 Manchester. Acer rufinerve variegatum, a fine Japanese Maple, which had been 

 provisionally named Acer japonicum argenteum, and which came from Messrs. 

 Standish and Co., had large palmatifid leaves, variously edged or mottled with 

 white, and promises to be a very ornamental tree. The Peruvian Epidendrum 

 syringothyrsum, from Messrs. Veitch and Sons, will probably develop into a very 

 handsome species. In its imported state it has tall reedy stems, clothed with 



