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maia stems are too much weakened thereby. With me, it only 

 blooms from that part of the stem which is two years old. It 

 appears to be its natural habit to grow on year after year from the 

 points of the old growth, so that it will not do to keep it growing 

 in autumn like other Dendrobes till the terminal leaf appears, for 

 in the case of this plant there is no such leaf. 1 have seen 

 persons attempt to make it grow upwards by tying up its stems, 

 but it refuses to grow in that way, being contrary to its nature : 

 besides, it spoils the appearance of the plant, which, when 

 allowed to droop in its natural form, and adorned with its large 

 wonderfully-coloured exquisitely-scented flowers, is one of the 



striped with pale rose-colour. 



Gesnera gloxiniaeflora : — from Messrs. E. G. Henderson & 

 Son, St. John's Wood. A handsome erect-growing hybrid, pro- 

 ducing large ovate hairy dark-coloured leaves, and numerous 

 axillary flowers, as large as those of a Gloxinia, deep rich rose- 

 colour, with a paler tube and deeper throat. It is a fine orna- 

 mental variety, introduced from the Continental gardens, and 

 with the two following was contributed for inspection only. 



ImatophyllTim eyrtanthiflorum : — from Messrs. E. G. Hen- 

 DEESON & Son. This is in habit very like Olivia (or Imato- 

 phyllum) noUlis, but the flowers are paler coloured. It has 

 distichous lorate bluntish leaves, and an erect flower-scape, 

 bearing numerous drooping tube-funnel-shaped flowers, which are 

 throughout of a pale flame colour. 



Hydrangea cyauema: — from Messrs. E. G. Henderson & 

 Son. a dwarf shrub, with ovate coarsely and sharply serrated 

 hairy leaves, and loose corymbs of flowers, of which the perfect 

 ones are small with blue petals and stamens, and the external 

 neutral ones pinkish, with large unequal ovate or inversely 

 wedge-shaped toothed sepals. 



Interval. 

 June 16. Fine specimens, in flower, of the Akebia quinata 

 were received from Sir Thomas Dsk 

 Killerton, near Exeter, where we are 

 climber flourishes in the open air with 

 m its native country. Although introduced by Mr. Fortune for 



