PEOCEEDINGS. XV 



summer ; so that the surface is always covered by a rich 

 decaying material which absorbs heat from the sun, and 

 detains the natural dampness of the border. 



The Vines are managed upon Mr. Crawshay's plan. 



JBanksian Medals: To Mr. James Donald, gardener to Mrs. 

 Lawrence, of Ealing Park, F.H.S., for good plants of Cat- 

 tleya labiata, Angraecum bilobum, and a tall cylindrically- 

 trained -Dipladenia crassinoda, bearing seven unusually 

 highly-coloured blossoms. To Messrs. Veitch and Son, of 

 Exeter, for Clerodendron macrophyllum, a noble-looking 

 plant with large handsome leaves and a great panicle loaded 

 with white flowers from the pot to its top ; also cut speci- 

 mens, placed in pots, of -ZEschynanthus miniatus, a species 

 in the way of, but distinct from, and better coloured than 

 radicans ; Salvia oppositiflora, a scarlet-flowered species ; and 

 a Fuchsia, in the way of Corymbiflora, named Dependens. 



Certificates of Merit : To Mr. Catleugh, of Chelsea, for a very 

 fine plant of Mr. Fortune's Torenia concolor, 4 feet high, 

 and 3 feet through, exceedingly well grown, but hardly 

 sufficiently advanced in bloom. To Mr. Low, of the Clap- 

 ton Nursery, F.H.S., for an Eria (Fig. A), producing from 

 the old stems little nodding spikes, between 3 and 4 inches 

 long, densely crowded with cream-coloured flowers. " I 

 have sent," wrote Mr. Low, " one of my Borneo plants. My 

 son says he found it on the banks of the Sarawak river, grow- 

 ing in large masses on trees, the branches of which were fully 

 exposed to the sun. The flower-spikes are not unfrequently 

 from 8 to 10 inches in length, each stem having several, 

 and giving to a large mass in flower a very neat and beau- 

 tiful appearance." ^In the absence of leaves, there was no 

 means of determining how far it might be distinct from 

 E. floribunda ; its flower-spikes were much more dense, and 

 the flowers were wholly destitute of the pink tinge so con- 

 spicuous in that species. It may be called provisionally 

 E. leucostachya. Fig. 1 in the accompanying cut repre- 

 sents the form of its column and lip. — To Mr. Craggs, 

 gardener to Sir Thomas Acland, Bart., M.P., Killerton, 

 Devon, for Laelia Perrinii, a good plant, but somewhat 

 shaken by travelling. 

 Miscellaneous subjects of Exhibition. Cut specimens of 

 Cycnoches Loddigesii, Oncidium Pinellianum* (Fig. B) and 



* This is a very beautiful Brazilian species, of which no account appears 

 to have yet been given publicly. The name, ■which is of foreign origin, 

 occurs in Messrs. Loddiges' catalogue, where it is said to have been intro- 

 duced in 1 84 1 , but I do not find it elsewhere. The flowers are a very bright 

 yellow, with dark-brown blotches aud spots on the sepals, petals, and base of 



