27 REPOKTS OF THE FLOKAL COM^flTTEE, 



Court, Old Broinpton. A tall-growing shrubby variety, of free- 

 blooming habit, the flowers bronzy, with a bold distinct yellow 

 upper lip. It was stated to be an excellent variety for bedding, 

 and the plants exhibited, which had been just lifted from the 

 open border, were little affected by the rain of the previous day. 

 Verbenas -.—from Messrs. Woods & Son, Woodbridge : Grand 

 Eastern, a remarkably large light lilac-tinted rose, commended at 

 a former meeting. It was again shown in excellent condition, 

 some plants, which were also produced, showing it to be a vigorous- 

 growing variety, and a free bloomer. The trusses, stated to have 

 been cut from the open ground, were remarkably fine, and fully con- 

 firmed the award which had been made to it. — From Mr. G. Smith: 

 Jupiter, bright orange-scarlet, with white eye, bold and attractive. 

 Leader, a light lavender-purple, with large compact truss, pro- 

 bably a good bedding variety. Cato, blush-pink, with deep red 

 eye. Picta, delicate pink, with carmine centre, a very effective 

 variety. Black Prince, bright crimson-purple, of fine form, but 

 rather small, the eye white ; an attractive sort. Fair Oriana. 

 white with pink centre, truss good ; promises to be a fine light 

 kind. Formosa, light blush, with pink centre, rather too much 

 cupped. Jewess, Magnet, and Champion, varieties closely 

 resembling others already in cultivation. 



August 23.— The Rev. Joshua Dix, in the Chair. 

 The following plants and flowers were exhibited : — 

 Epigynium lencobotrys : — from Messrs. E. Gr. Hendebson, 

 & Son, St. John's Wood. A charming conservatory shrub, bear- 

 ing clusters of wax-like drooping racemes of berries, which are 

 white, marked with a black ring and a circle of black dots about 

 the apex. It forms a branching shrub, 3 to 6 feet in height but 

 blossoming when of smaller size, of erect habit, with whorled 

 branches, furnished with oblong lanceolate obscurely-toothed 

 leaves collected into a kind of whorl at the ends of the short 

 growths. The flowers appear in drooping racemes, three or four 

 together, from the axils of the crowded upper leaves, and are trans- 

 parent white, conic-pentangular, and succeeded by globular pure 



pedicel, which gives them the appearance of being bluntly pear- 

 shaped. It was awarded a Fisst-Class Cektificate. The 

 plant is a native of the Duppla Hills, in India, where it is fo und 

 epiphytal on a species of oak. 



