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flower-spikes contain about six large deep-yellow flowers, which mea- 

 sure about 2J inches across, and are produced on stems some 3 to 4 

 feet in length. It is placed by Professor Eeichenbach as near D. 

 fimbriatum, and has a lip fringed something in the same way. At a 

 later meeting Mr Denning, gardener to Lord Londesborough, sent a 

 fine specimen of this species, which received a special certificate. 



New Palms have received fine additions in Calamus cinnamomea, 

 shown also as Dsemonorops cinnamomea ; Livistonia altissima and L. 

 rotundifolia, two very elegant species ; and also in Corypha Martian a : 

 and new Ferns in Adiantum Peruvianum, a new and extremely effective 

 species ; in Athyrium Filix-Fcemina Blakeii, a very handsome crested 

 plumose form, raised by Mr Parsons of Danesbury; Platycerium 

 alicorne majus ; Adiantum capillus Veneris maximum; Polystichum 

 angulare congestum; Scolopendrium vulgare Iveryanum, and S. vul- 

 gare lacerato-cristatum, the two latter being dense, crispy, ornamental 

 forms, well adapted for general decoration. 



Wigandia imperialis, a noble foliaged plant for subtropical work, in 

 the way of W. caracasana, but distinct from it, was exhibited by 

 Messrs E. G. Henderson & Son, and awarded a first-class certificate. 

 The same award was made to Messrs Veitch & Sons for Daphne 

 elegantissima, a variegated form of D. indica, the leaves broadly 

 margined with yellow ; to Messrs J. & C. Lee for Thuja semper-aurea, 

 a welcome addition to the class of hardy ornamental plants; to George 

 F. Wilson, Esq., F.E.S., for Lilium Leichtlinii, the flowers yellow, 

 deeply spotted with dark, and the petals much recurved ; to Messrs 

 Ivery & Son for a white woolly-leaved Cineraria, named asplenifolia, 

 likely to prove useful as a hardy silvery-foliaged bedding-plant; to 

 Messrs Blackhouse & Son, York, for Senecio argenteus, with hand- 

 somely-cut frosted foliage, and compact in growth ; to Messrs E. G. 

 Henderson & Son for Thymus citriodorus aurea, a golden-leaved form 

 of the common Lemon Thyme, that will be very useful for bedding 

 purposes, and thoroughly hardy ; and for Alternanthera magnifica, a 

 vigorous-growing form of A. paronychioides, and nicely coloured ; and 

 to Mr Green, gardener to W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., for Agave Bes- 

 seriana Candida, a handsome compact-growing species. In addition, 

 Mr Green has exhibited male and female specimens of Stangeria para- 

 doxa, the latter bearing ripe fruit, produced for the first time in this 

 country, the two plants being rarely got in flower at the same time ; 

 Griffinia dryades, a new Brazilian species, with flowers of a bright 

 cerulean blue, with white passing down the middle to the base of the 

 segments ; a good flowering specimen of the handsome pale mauve- 

 coloured Gloxinia insignis, that well deserves a much more extended 

 cultivation ; and a splendid example of Miltonia Morelliana, with very 



