130 EEPORTS OF THE FLORAL COMMITTEE, 



surface. Though somewhat dull-looking, it was Commended ou 

 account of its distinctness from other plants of the variegated 

 class, and its apparently free habit of growth. A native of Java. 



Besides the foregoing, those enumerated below were also brought 

 under notice by Messrs. Veitch & Son :— 



Alalia Sieboldii, a fine ornamental species, having a strongly- 

 marked and imposing character. It grows with a simple erect 

 stem, on which are borne the broad dark green glossy leaves, on 

 long deflexed footstalks ; these leaves are deeply palmate-lobed 

 into about nine elliptic-lanceolate acuminate coarsely serrated 

 lobes. The inflorescence forms a large branched terminal panicle ; 

 and the flowers are small, pale greenish, produced in umbels 

 resembling those of the Ivy, to which the genus is closely related. 

 This being the first time the plant had been exhibited in bloom, 

 the special thanks of the Committee were given to Mr. Veitch 

 for its production. 



Cordyline from New Zealand :— This was a young plant, of 

 one of the beautiful crimson-ribbed Cordylines, or Dramnas, 

 found in New Zealand. One of these having broad leaves is con- 

 sidered by botanists to be the true C. indivisa, while the C. in- 

 divisa of gardens is said to be properly C. australis. The genus, 

 of which there are now several species in cultivation, seems much 

 in need of a thorough revision. The plant shown had long 

 narrowish leaves, an inch and a quarter wide, the midrib crimson, 

 and the stouter veins tinged with reddish-orange ; but it was not 

 thought sufficiently developed to justify an opinion as to its orna- 

 mental qualities. 



Selaginella Griffithii:— This plant had been received from 

 Borneo, through Mr. Lobb. It was of dwarf and elegant habit, and 

 dissimilar from others in cultivation, but was not thought suffi- 

 ciently different in general aspect to be an acquisition in small 

 collections. It is one of the low-growing, pinnately-branched 

 kinds ; the stems 8 to 10 inches high, spreading and some- 

 what drooping, the branches producing a pyramidate outline ; the 

 leaves are somewhat distant, ovately-subfalcate, and conspicuously 



Drynaria quercifolia;— This is a fine and scarce Fern, remark- 

 able for the dissimilarity between its dwarf sessile oak-like sterile 

 fronds, and the taller more developed form which bears the fructi- 

 fication ; it was shown in a very characteristic state. 



Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son, St. John's Wood, con- 

 tributed the following new plants : — 



