XIV PROCEEDINGS. 



31arch 4, 185\. (Regent Street.) 

 Awards. Banksian Medal: To Mr. Franklin, Gardener to 

 Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S., for a nice specimen of the Sweet 

 Trichopil (Tricliopilia suavis). To Mr. Loddiges, F.H.S., 

 for the beautiful Cymbidium eburneum and the dark variety 

 of Dendrobium nobile. To Mr. Blake, Gardener to J. H. 

 Schroder, Esq., F.H.S., for plants of the large-flowered 

 Phalsenopsis, Coelogyne cristata, Epidendrum odoratissi- 

 mum, and Ly caste Skinneri. 



Certificate of Merit : To Mr. Glendinning, F.H.S., for a 

 species of Labichea from Swan River. It somewhat re- 

 sembled Heimia salicifolia ; but the flowers, besides having 

 a dark-brown spot in the centre, are larger and handsomer 

 than those of that plant. It will be found a useful addition 

 to the greenhouse. To Mr. Cole, Gardener to H. Colyer, < 

 Esq., of Dartford, for a young and very healthy specimen 

 of the pale variety of Rhododendron javanicum. Mr. Cole 

 finds that the best M'ay of managing this fine species is to 

 grow it quickly in the stove until it has assumed the form 

 of a good-sized bush ; after which he thinks it will succeed 

 in a greenhouse, treated like au Indian Azalea. 



Miscellaneous Subjects of Exhibition. Mr. Wells, Gar- 

 dener to E. Hussey, Esq., of Scotney Castle, Lamberliurst, 

 sent two examples of new Rhododendrons in flower, said 

 to be from Sikkini-Himalaya. They consisted of a little 

 alpine species, with scurfy leaves and small pale lemon- 

 coloured flowers, which possessed a scent something like that 

 of the buds of the Balsam Poj)lar. In manner of growth 

 they resembled the ferruginous Rhododendron of our gardens, 

 but were very inferior in beauty to that species. It is pro- 

 bable that these plants were nothing more than the R. 

 lepidotum of the Himalayas. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Polygala Dal- 

 maisiana, Boronia tetrandra, and TEschynanthus longiflorus. 

 The latter is the handsomest of all the ^schynanths, except 

 perhaps speciosus. 



Books Presented. 



The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. VII., No. 25. From the 



Society. 

 The AthenEeum for February. From the Editor. 



March 18, 1851. (Regent Street.) 

 Elections. Henry Bentley, Esq., Richmond, Surrey ; Pro- 

 fessor Wheatstone, King's College, London ; Mrs. Knox, 9, 

 Hyde Park Gate, South ; William Fisher Hobbs, Esq., 



