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It is a tuberous plant, requiring- a good rich sandy soil, and to 

 be treated like the ordinary kinds of Pelargoniums ; but it must 

 be kept rather dry in winter. 



As has been stated, its value will be as a breeder; the flowers 

 are too insignificant to render it of importance otherwise in a 

 gardening point of view. 



3. Vanda longifolia. Lindley's Genera and Species of 

 Orchidaceous Plants, p. 215. 



Presented to the Society by the Honourable Court of 

 Directors of the East India Company in 1847. Flowered 

 Sept. 3, 1852. 



This is a very fine looking plant when not in flower, with 

 deep green distichous leathery wavy leaves, as much as a foot and 

 a half long and 2 inches wide, obliquely rounded at the end. Its 

 habit is almost that of Angraecum eburneum. Very thick 

 greyish-green roots protrude from its stem, and have a tendency 

 to branch wherever the first point is injured. But the flowers 

 are insignificant, very much like those of Vanda multiflora in 

 form and colour, except that they are paler ; they, however, 

 have a pleasant perfume. These flowers appear in a corymb at 

 the end of a short stift" ascending peduncle not one quarter the 

 length of the leaves ; they are very fleshy, and are banded with 

 red upon a dull yellow ground ; the lip is white. Inside the 

 pouch of the lip are numerous yellowish hairs, concealing an 

 erect fleshy plate, which partially divides the hollow of the lip 

 into two halves. 



It is not worth cultivating for the flowers, but the foliage is 

 very fine, and serves to set off" other Orchids. 



4. Astragalus ponticus. Pallas, Astragalogia, p. 14, t. 11. 



Raised from seeds received from H. C Calvert, Esq., of 

 Erzeroom, March 26th, 1850. 



A decumbent perennial of a bright lively green colour. Stems 

 about 2 feet long, slightly downy. Leaves almost smooth, of 

 the texture of the Garden Pea, about a foot long, composed of 

 17 or 18 pairs of ovate-oblong, obtuse, or emarginate leaflets. 

 The flowers are bright yellow, in nearly sessile ovate heads, with 

 short calyx tube, much less hairy than in the allied species. 



The cultivators of hardy herbaceous plants will understand 

 what tliis is when it is compared with Astragalus alopecuroides, 

 which it is a good deal like. 



It is a hai'dy, half-shrubby plant, growing freely in peat-soil, 



