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Also, for the singularly rich and beautiful Clianthus Dampieri, 

 whose brilliant crimson flowers with a large black shining boss, 

 were particularly attractive. — 2nd class Do., Messrs. Veitch 

 & Son, for Begonia amabilis, an elegant dwarf Assam species, 

 with smallish oblique, cordate-ovate leaves of a shining dark olive 

 green, and having a silvery belt just within the margin, the 

 under surface stained with red, opposite the green parts above. 

 Also, for Caladium Chautini, a very ornamental kind, with mode- 

 rate sized ovately arrow-shaped leaves, of which the centre and the 

 main ribs are red, the surface between them being tliickly flecked 

 with white on a green ground.— 3rd class Do., Messrs. Veitch 

 & SoK, for Begonia Clueen Victoria, one of the dwarf variegated 

 kinds, having moderate-sized leaves of a dark reddish-tinted green 

 about the principal veins, the surface between them being a light 

 green spangled with silver.— Messrs. Veitch also had Begonia 

 argentea, a plant similar to the last-named in habit, but with 

 the surface of an uniform silvery yellowish-green, studded with 

 small green points. — Various other miscellaneous novelties were 

 contributed for the decoration of the hall. Messrs. E. G. Hen- 

 derson & Son, St. John's Wood, sent the following among others ; 

 Caladium argyrites, a beautiful little plant, with small ovately 

 arrow-shaped leaves of a bright green, marked with large blotches 

 and smaller flecks of pure white ; Caladium Chantini, previously 

 mentioned ; Begonia reginse, a curious dwarf sort, with fawn- 

 coloured leaves, having a broad silvery irregular band half-way 

 between the mid-rib and margin ; Maranta fasciata, a dwarf 

 compact species with glossy roundish-oblong dark green leaves, 

 obliquely banded with gray; Campylobotrys argyroneura, a 

 pretty dwarf plant, with singularly crumpled deeply-furrowed 

 leaves, having a brown metallic lustre on their suface ; Aucuba 

 himalaica, a fine new evergreen shrub, with glossy green distantly 

 pale-toothed leaves. — Messrs. A.Henderson & Co.,Edgware Road, 

 contributed among others the following : — Caladium Neumanni ; 

 leaves ovately arrow-shaped, dark green with numerous angular 

 red spots ; Caladium argyrospilum, similar in form to the fore- 

 going, but with the basal lobes more rounded, dark green with 

 white flecks.— Messrs. Eraser sent Musschia Wollastoni, a fine 

 Madeira campanulaceous shrub, not yet in flower. — Mr. Stand- 

 ISH, F.H.S., contributed specimens of the new hardy Chinese 

 shrub Exochorda, otherwise Spiraea grandiflora, laden with large 

 wbite flowers, untouched by the cold, although cut from an open- 

 air bush; together with Cynoglossum nobile, under the name of 



