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section, but too similar to some others in cultivation to require 

 especial reward. 



Begonia Duchesse de Brabant :— from M. Lindkx. A new 

 Belgian hybrid of the variegated group. The leaves were dark 

 green, marked as in B. Rex with a broad vandjked silvery zone, 

 a few silvery dots being sprinkled on the green portions. It was 

 not thought to be equal to varieties already produced. 



Ueplielaphyllum pulchrum : — from M. Linden. This plant 

 which had previously been Commended as a variegated-leaved 

 orchid, apparently of free growth, was now exhibited in bloom. 

 The flower scape was a few inches high, and bore a few dull- 

 looking flowers, of which the sepals and petals were brownish 

 and reflexed, and the lip larger dull straw-colour. 



CameUia reticulata, var. flore-pleno :— from Mr. Standish, 

 Bagshot. Of this fine variety, sent by Mr. Fortune from China, 

 a partly opened bud was produced ; and also a bloom of the 

 variety called Princess Frederic WiUiam of Prussia, which 

 proves to be one of the most constant and beautiful of the carna- 

 tion-striped varieties, the flowers being finely imbricated, and 

 evenly and constantly flaked with bright pink. 



March 8th. — The Rev. Joshua Djx in the Chair. 



Messrs. Carter & Co., Holborn : 245 sorts of Flower seeds. 



Me. Thompson, Ipswich : 33 sorts of Flower seeds. 



M. Van Houtte, Ghent: 30 sorts of Flower seeds. 



MM. ViLMORiN & CiE., Paris : 12 sorts of Flower seeds. 



Mr. Vkitch, Chelsea : 63 sorts of Flower seeds; 22 kinds of 

 Variegated Begonia, 10 Tydeeas, 34 Achimenes. 



Various interesting plants were on this occasion exhibited : — 



B-hododendron Brookeanum, rar. flavum : — from Messrs 

 Veitch & Son, Exeter and Chelsea. This fine plant, imported 

 from Penang, was furnished with broadish long-lanceolate glossy 

 leaves, and terminal heads of *ne waxy-looking clear pale-yellow 

 flowers, the segments of which were a little wavy and somewhat 

 obliquely retuse. It formed a very handsome plant, somewhat 

 intermediate in character between i?. javanicum and R. Brooke- 

 anum. A First-Class CERTiricATE of Merit was unanimously 



