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thick coating of brown fur in which this plant is enveloped it was 

 thought that it might possiblj' prove hardy, but such has not been 

 the case, for it was killed last winter in the Society's Garden and 

 elsewhere, while E. ciliatum and some other Sikkim kinds have 

 survived. 



The same firm also furnished an Indigofera, apparently a bad 

 variety of I. decora, but hardy ; and several small plants of a 

 white semi-double Chinese Azalea called narcissiflora, a free 

 blooming kind, even in a very young state. 



Messrs. Weeks and Co. showed Aphelandra lateritia, a hand- 

 some stove plant from Guatemala, where it was found by 

 Mr. Skinner. The leaves are in texture like those of Passiflora 

 laurifolia, and have stalks fully as long as the blade. The 

 flowers form a cone-like head four or five inches long, with dull 

 scarlet corollas, the tube of which is rather yellow. It was 

 stated to be very different from any of the species described in 

 De Candolle's Prodromus. 



From Messrs. Henderson came a large plant of Maranta 

 sanguinea. 



Mr. Gaines sent Rhododendron aureum and Pu dilectum, the 

 former one of the best of the yellow kinds. 



J. Allnutt, Esq., F.H.S., produced a dish of Keen's Seedling 

 Strawberry. 



From Mr. John Edwards, F.H.S., came three punnets of 

 Potatoes, the first containing Lapstone Kidney ; the second, the 

 Fluke, a Lancashire kind, said never to have been attacked by 

 disease ; and the third a Seedling from the Fluke. 



IV.— ARTICLES FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 



Beautiful clusters of cut flowers of the white Glycine sinensis, 

 and also of the ordinary form of that plant, both of which were 

 found by Mr. Fortune in the woods of Chusan, the only place 

 where it has yet been seen wild ; Indigofera decora and fruits of 

 Citrus japonica or Cum-quat, from a plant which has just begun 

 to bear in the Garden ; the fruit is small, oblong, and orange- 

 coloured ; it is preserved in sugar by the Chinese. The rind is 

 extremely fragrant. 



The Garden also supplied some Neapolitan Cabbage Lettuces, 



