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nished with numerous alternate branches, which are quite flat, 

 bipinnate, and plumy or fern-like, 6 inches or more iu length, 

 narrow lanceolate, the pinnae approximate, an inch or more 

 in length, about an eighth of an inch wide and crowded with 

 small even pinnules or leaves which are oblong acute, one-nerved, 

 entire. The fructitication forms little tail-like quadrangular 

 spikes projecting from the ends of the pinnae. It is a native of 

 India and the East, and ^Yas introduced from Penang, through 

 Mr. LoBB. For this introduction, which is one of the most dis- 

 tinct and beautiful iu the whole family, a Fiest Class Certi- 

 ficate was awarded. 



Selaginella conferta (Moore) .-—from Messrs. Veitch & Sok. 

 This species, a native of Borneo, was distinct from the fore- 

 similar from some kinds already in cultivation. It was considered 

 to merit a First Class Certificate. The stems of this plant 

 grow about a foot high, and are alternately branched, the branches 

 close, overlapping, ovate acuminate in outline, tripinnate, the 

 short crowded branchlets terminating in numerous quadrangular 

 spikes of fructification ; the leaves are ovate or oblong-ovate, 

 somewhat falcate, one-nerved, eatire. 



IsBlia albida, ^ar. labello-piirpurea:-from Robert Warner, 

 Esq,, Broomfield, near Chelmsford. This plant was Commended 

 as a pretty and graceful small-growing new Orchid. It was 

 furnished with oblong, tapering, pseudo bulbs, upwards of 2 inches 

 long and about an inch in diameter, which bore a couple of 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, hard, thickisb, somewhat keeled leaves, 

 eight inches long, and three-fourths of an inch wide, and also, a 

 slender terminal flower-spike '2 feet in length, supporting near its 

 extremity several cinnamon-scented flowers, upwards of ^ inches 

 in expansion. The sepals were lanceolate ; the petals broader, 

 ovate-obtuse, wavy, both transparent white, tinged at the edge 

 with light mauve purple; the lip was furnished with three raised 

 yellow crests which extend from the base half-way down the 

 centre, three-lobed, the lateral lobes ti'ansversely veined with 

 purple, erect and meeting the column, the middle lobe flat, 

 roundish refuse, of a deep mauve purple. 



Tydsea, Countess of Ilchester :-from Messrs. E. G-. Hen- 

 derson & Son, St. John's Wood. This was Commended as a 

 meritorious winter-flowering variety in a group which has now 



ing; the leaves elliptic, acuminate, hairy, asperous on the upper 



