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covered with conspicuous spreading orange-red hairs. It was 

 awarded a First-Class Ceetificate of Merit, as a beautiful- 

 leaved plant, associating in character with the variegated species 

 of AiKBctochilus. 



Clerodendron calamitosum:— from Messrs. Veitch & Son, 

 Chelsea. A dwarf growing and very free flowering stove shrub, 

 of neat habit. The two plants exhibited were from one-and-a- 

 half to two feet high, branched, furnished with moderate-sized 

 stalked elhptic coarsely crenate-serrate leaves, and bearing from 

 their axils three-flowered peduncles, so that the apices of the 

 branches became long leafy flower- panicles ; the flowers were 

 white, with a long slender tube, and somewhat scented. It was 

 Commended as a useful free-blooming decorative plant, available 

 during the autumnal months. 



CaladiumVeitchii: — from Messrs. Veitch & Son. This 

 plant had been produced at the meeting, held on September 8th 

 (see p. 77), and had received a First-Class Certificate of Merit. 

 It was now again produced, and in blossom. The flower-scapes 

 were much shorter than the leaves, about six or eight inches high, 

 supporting greenish-white spathes. The whole beauty of the 

 plant, therefore, resides in its finely-tinted foliage. 



Tritoma Uvaria var. ' grandiflora ' :— from Messrs. E.G. Hen- 

 derson & Son, St. John's Wood. This appeared to be a robust 

 late-flowered form of the beautiful perennial Tritoma Uvaria. It 

 was of very vigorous habit, with stiff arching leaves roughish on 

 the edge, and resembling though stronger than the kind falsely 

 called T. Burchellii in many trade collections. The flower scapes 

 were very tall, bearing a close spike of flowers upwards of a foot 

 long and nine inches in circumference, the colour being of a deep 

 orange red, less brilliant than the early-blooming (August) form 

 of the species distinguished as T. Uvaria xar. glaucescens, but use- 

 ful as continuing the blooming of the species till a late period of 

 the autumn. Being already distributed among cultivators, it was 

 not considered eligible for reward, though admired as a fine late- 

 blooming variety. Various other kinds, namely,. T. Uvaria van 

 glaucescens, T. Uvaria var. serotina, T. Burchellii, and T. Rooperi, 

 were sent for comparison. The two first of these are forms 

 blooming in succession in autumn, while T. Rooperi is a fine 

 distinct plant, usually blooming early in summer. The true 

 T, Burchellii, as here exhibited, was very inferior to the rest. 



Lapageria rosea superba :— from Messrs. E. G. Henderson 

 & Son. This was one of the fine flowered states of the species, 



