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silvery central bar, the reins showing narrow silvery lines, and 

 the recurved edge being also silvery. It was Commendkd. 



Maranta argyraea {Linden) :— from M. Linden. This was 

 one of the smaller narrow-leaved species, and was Commended as 

 a distinct plant of elegant character. The leaves were oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, palish green, with broad oblique grayish bands 

 on the upper surface, and dull purplish beneath. 



Mierolepia hirsuta, var. angusta {Moore) •.—{rom Messrs, 

 Veitch & Son, of Chelsea. This was Commended as a new 

 Fern of graceful habit, and distinct from others in cultivation. 

 The rhizome was creeping, upwards of a quarter of an inch in 

 thickness, and clothed with black hair-like scales, half an inch 

 long. The fronds were a foot and a half long, of herbaceous 

 texture, hairy, pinnate, narrow, elongate-lanceolate, tapering down 

 to the short stipes, the lower pinnae being very much diminished ; 

 the pinnae are oblong acuminate, regularly bipinnatifid, the 

 larger segments being oblong obtuse, contiguous, but separated 

 nearly to the base, decurrent behind, the smaller secondary ones 

 ovate, subfalcate, toothed. It was introduced by Messrs. Veitch 

 from Borneo, where Mr. Lobb found it on damp trees, the locaUty 

 being 1000 feet above the sea. 



Of this class of subjects there were also exhibibited : — 

 Begonia Madame Linden :;— from M. Linden. A Belgian 

 hybrid, with smallish leaves four to five inches long, obliquely 

 ovate, with obscure angulate lobes, the surface about the main 

 veins being green, and the rest dotted over with close small 

 silvery spots, which at a little distance from the ribs become so 

 crowded as to cover the surface. It had a distinct and bi-iglit 

 silvery appearance, but was decided to be not enough advanced 

 for a decided opinion to be pronounced as to its merits. 



Costus elegans :— from Messrs. Veitch & Son. A soft, hairy, 

 Tradescantia-like plant, growing about a foot high ; the numerous 

 stems bearing moderate-sized obovate hairy-surfaced leaves, pale 

 beneath, and of two shades of green above, the larger proportion 

 of the surface being yellowish green, with distant obscure blotches 

 of a deeper shade ranged in oblique lines. It was a pretty free- 

 growing stove plant, affording a nice variety in the 



Messrs. Veitch & Son also contributed a fine plai 



