iO EXHIBITION IN ST. JAMES S HALL, 



Myosotis nobilis, a remarkable dwarf herbaceous plant fn 

 Chatham Islands, having large cordate plicately-ribbed leaves, and 

 clusters of blue forget-me-not-like flowers, edged with white. 



ORNAMENTAL PLANTS, introduced within ten j 

 in flower: 1st Prize. Messrs. Veitch & Son, for the 

 and handsome crimson flowered hardy Philesia buxifolia.— 

 Mr. WooLLEY, for Dendrobium litttiflomin, an elegant 

 purple-flowered Indian species. — 3rd. Messrs. A. Henders 

 Co , for Datura chlorantha, a showy double yellow-flowered 

 with angular toothed leaves, and the habit of D. arborea. 



ORNAMENTAL PLANTS, introduced within ten years, 

 not in flower: 1st Prize, Messrs. Veitch & Son, for Welling- 

 tonia gigantea, the noble and hardy Californian conifer, known as 

 the Mammoth Tree. — Ist class Certificate, Messrs. A. Henderson 

 & Co., for Caladium Chantini, previously noticed. Also, to 

 Messrs. Veitch & Son, for Farfugium grande, the yellow- 

 blotched-leaved Chinese coltsfoot; for CyanophyUmn magmficum, 

 a really magnificent roelastomaceous plant -with ovate-lanceolate 

 leaves more than a foot long and six inches broad, of a fine rich 

 velvety brownish-green, purple beneath, and with ivory-like ribs 

 above ; and for Olea ilicifolia, one of the finest of hardy ever- 

 greens, having flat holly-like prickly-edged leaves ; an introduc- 

 tion from Japan. — 2nd class Po., Messrs. A Henderson & Co., 

 for Caladium Houlletii, a species with medium-sized ovately 

 arrow-shaped leaves, of which the centre rib and base of the 

 principal veins are pale red while young, this colour appearing to 

 fade out, the green intermediate spaces being white-blotched. 



Several Miscellaneous collections were contributed. Especially prominent 

 was a fine group of ornamental-leaved aud other plants, from Messrs. Veitch 

 k Son, in vhich Theophrasta macropliylla, T. imperialis, and Aralia Sieboldi 

 were eminently conspicuous. Collections of similar plants were sent by Messrs. 

 A. Henderson & Co., and by Messrs. E. G. Hendekson & Son. Mr. Hallt, 



trum race of A^llids ^came^ from MessS^ eI^G. HENrtRsoN k SoN^Tnd 

 , F.H.S.,^Battersea, who also had a large bush of Leptospermum 



Webber & Co., Covent 



_ , , Litchis from China, Shai 



Pommeloes from the West Indies, Oranges from Adelaide in South I 

 he sort called the Navel Orange, large, round, and thick- " " 

 ■ich, sweet, and juicy. T' ' ' -• ' ■ • 

 it Adelaide from Rio ; the 



PINEAPPLES, large b 



