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awarded to it, as being one of the finest yellow-flowered Ehoclo- 

 dendrons yet known in cultivation. 



Cymbidium giganteam, var. discolor :— from Messrs. Veitch 

 & Sox. This was a very distinct and ornamental plant, of terres- 

 trial habit. The long strap-shaped striated distichous leaves 

 were about 1^ inch wide in the broadest part, and narrowed 

 gradually towards the equitant base. The pleasantly fragrant 

 flowers grew on a pendent scape, which in this case was about 

 2 feet long, and bore several flowers, each measuring, when 

 spread out, nearly 6 inches across. The sepals and petals were 

 oblong acute, the latter, as well as the lateral sepals, slightly 

 decurved or falcate, yellowish-green. The lip was somewhat • 

 shorter than the petals, three-lobed, the lateral lobes narrow, 

 erect, and appressed to the column, pointed in front, ciliated, 

 yellowish, and marked inside with short streaks of reddish- 

 purple ; the middle lobe was recurved and spreading, about an 

 inch and a quarter broad, narrowing towards the point, frilled as 

 well as ciliated at the margin, and bearing on the disc a pair 

 of contiguous sharp ridges, which were furnished with numerous 

 short hyaline hairs along the top, the ridges extending backwards 

 as far as the column, but not produced along the middle lobe 

 towards the apex, this portion of the lip having a smooth surface ; 

 the colour of the conspicuous part of the lip in the young flowers 

 was greenish- white, with a deep reddish-purple central streak, and 

 a row of short oblong transverse reddish-purple blotches along the 

 margm, but in the older unfaded flowers, the ground colour becomes 

 suffused with purple. The front of the column is strongly marked 

 with broken red lines, the hinder part clear yellow. This was 

 awarded a " Fiest-Class Certificate of Merit, as a plant of 

 distinct and showy character. It had been imported by Messrs. 

 Veitch from " Pucheme," where Mr. T. Lobb found it growing 

 on mossy trees in the forests, at an elevation of T500 feet, 

 flowering in winter, when snow falls. 



Primula sinensis atro-rosea plena :— from Mr. C. Tuenee, 

 of Slough. This beautiful plant was awarded a First Class 

 Certificate of Meeit. It proved to be a variety of vigorous 

 habit, producing umbels of numerous large double flowers.^which 

 were fully an inch and a half in diameter, and of a deep rose-colour, 

 fringed on the margins of the segments, as in the variety called 

 fimbnata, of whidi this is a double-flowered form, accidentally 

 produced amongst -seedlings of the common fringed sort. 



Cineraria Miss Eyles :— from Mr. Turner. This variety 



