216 REPOETS OF THE FLORAL COMMITTEE, 



reached its fall developmeat, the name here employed is 

 provisional. 



Athyrium foliolosum .-—from Mr. R. Sm. This, wl 

 also been raised from Indian spores, was an elei 

 species, with a lax spreading habit, and will form a nice addition 

 to large collections of this family. 



Pteris quadriaurita :— from Mr. R. Sim : the plant produced 

 was one of the forms referred to this species. It had been raised 

 from Indian spores. 



Pteris cretiea, var. prolifera :— from Mr. R. Sim. This was 

 a dwarf-looking plant, resembling a somewhat depauperated 

 cretiea, and proliferous on the costae of the pinnae. Mr. Sim stated 

 that the primordial fronds in this form are streaked like those of 

 P. aspericaidis, diSering only in being narrower; this marking 

 had however disappeared. 



Cypripedium purpuratnm, var. obscurum: — from Mr. Stone, 

 gardener to J. Day, Esq. Imported from Borneo. The plant 

 had faintly blotched leaves, notched at the end with a spine-like 

 central tooth. The flowers were rather small, the scape villous, 

 the sepals green, veiny, and ciliated with short uncoloured hairs ; 

 the petals glabrous, fringed with short cilise, dotted with purplish 

 warts below, purplish towards the tips, the lip olive-brown. It 

 was thought to be inferior to several other kmds of similar aspect 



Dianthus chinensis laciniatus : — from Messre. E. G. Hen- 

 DEBsoN & Son, St. John's Wood : several plants showing various 

 shades of crimson in the flowers were produced. These were 

 single, as in Heddewigii, which they much resembled, except that 

 the margin was more deeply notched. 



Phlox Drummondii Queen Victoria :— from Messrs. E. G. 

 Henoebson & Son : a flesh-coloured variety, with a distinct 

 rose-coloured eye. 



Tropaeolum Miss Nelson :— from Messrs. E. G. Henbebson 

 & Son. Described as a valuable new dwarf variety, adapted for 

 bedding, having the flowers of an orange scarlet. It was regarded 

 as inferior to the variety called Brilliant. 



Begonias :— from Mr. Sqdibbs, gardener to Mm. Turner, 

 Rook's Nest, Godstone : Great Eastern, a large-leaved showy 

 variety, in the way of B. Rex, having a green centre, and a grevish 

 zone, exterior to which, and within the brownish-tidied margin, is 

 a portion coloured bright green ; the hairs on the young stalks 

 were richly coloured, being of a bright crimson. Mrs. Tarner, 



