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sum : — from Messrs. Veitch & Son. A curious 

 lax-growing vacciniaceous shrub. Tlie leaves were sessile, nearly 

 four inches long and an inch broad, oblong lauce-shaped, ending 

 in a longish point, having coarse shallow distant rounded 

 serratures and a rugose surface. The flowers grew in short 

 pendent racemes from the older parts of the branches, and were 

 of very curious structure and marking; they Jiad a large and 

 conspicuous five-angled dull reddish calyx ; the corollas were 

 about an inch long, tubular, slightly inflated and contracted at the 

 mouth where they were greenish, the rest being of a semitrans- 

 parent dull white, winged with five elevated angles, and marked 

 between the wings with wavy transverse reddish purple lines. 

 The species was considered to be deserving the attention of those 

 who take interest in plants of curious structure and aspect. 



Clerodendron [•Pphyllomega] :— from Messrs. Veitch & Son. 

 This species, which had been introduced from India, was a stately 

 plant, of erect habit, hearing ample smooth stalked oblong acumi- 

 nate feather-veined leaves, and a large dense oblong terminal 

 panicle of orange-red blossoms, the flowers having a slender tube 

 about an inch long and a five-parted limb of about the same 

 expansion. It was a distinct and showy species, quite worthy of 

 cultivation where a variety in this class of plants is desired, but 

 it was thought to be not equal in brilliancy and attractiveness to 

 some of the fine species of this genus already in cultivation. 



Solanum laciniatum :— from Mr. Standish, of Bagshot. A 

 free growing subshrubby species, with elegant pinnatifid leaves 

 having a few oblong acuminate lobes; it branches freely, and 

 produces in abundance lateral corymbose racemes of flowers of a 

 bluish mauve colour, two inches across and nearly circular in 

 outline. It was awarded a Spkcial Certificate as a useful 



In the class of Florists' Flowers there were produced :— 

 Variegated Pelargonium Flower of Spring :— from Mr. C. 

 Turner, of Slough. This variety, which was dwarfish and 

 branching in habit, had the convex leaves bordered with creamy 

 white, and irregularly blotched with grayish green ; the flowers 

 were large and of improved form, orange-scarlet with a cerise 

 tinge, which was stated to be more fully developed in the summer 

 blooms. It was considered an acquisition ; and was awarded a 



Cineraria Magenta :— from M r. C. Turner. A deep purpli sh 



