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tinctly spotted or blotched with patches of very pale green and 

 deep sap green, occupying alternating oblong spaces between the 

 longitudinal veins. The flowers were large, on a hairy scape ; 

 the sepals white, with green veins, hairy externally, and fringed 

 with short purple hairs along the margin; the petals linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, dull purplish tinged with green, ciliated with long 

 purple hairs ; while the lip was large brownish-purple, with a dull 

 opaque surface, and a few purple warts near the base. It was 

 stated to be a native of Borneo. 



Lastrea deltoidea -.—from Mr. R. Sm : an erect-growing fern, 

 with stiff fronds standing up around the crown. These fronds 

 were pinnate, the pinnae in the upper half being lengthened 

 out to a narrow point, and pinnatifid, the rest in the lower part 

 of the frond being small and obliquely deltoid. It is a plant of 

 distinct character, and was Commended. 



Nephrodium moUe, var. polydactylnm : — from Mr. E. Sim : 

 a curious sport which has been raised along with the fine crested 

 variety known as corymbiferum. It differs from tliat plant in 

 having the points of the pinnse spread out into a small tuft of flat 

 segments, instead of being dilated and crispy. It was Com- 

 mended as a distinct and curious plant. 



In this class of subjects there were some further exhibitions : — 

 Gleicheaia, near Spelunca :— from Mr. R. Sim. This was 

 hardly enough advanced, and was therefore passed over for the 

 present. The plant had been imported in 1859 from New South 

 Wales, and was in general habit like that known in gardens as 

 G. Speluncm. In this however the rachis was quite smooth, so 

 that it will perhaps prove to be the true Spelunm, while that 

 which already bears this name in gardens may be a glaucous- 

 leaved variety of some other kind. A plant of the latter was sent 

 for comparison. 



litobrochia (areolata) :— from Mr. R. StM : a plant raised from 

 spores received from India. It appeared to be a fern of mode- 

 rate size, the fronds being about two feet long, with pinnate- 

 pinnatifid fronds, the lowest pinnte of which are bipartite; the 

 segments of the pinnge falcate, bluntisb, and rather distant. The 

 fronds were proliferous on the rachis, and remarkable for the 

 large areoles along both the costs and costules. The fructifica- 

 tion was pteroid, and the venation that of Litobrochia. It is 

 diverse in character from other garden species, and apparently 

 distinct from those previously described, but as it may not have 



