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ficate. The continental kind was now shown by Mr. Rivers, 

 with the object of arranging the nomenclature so as to avoid 

 confusion. The plant, however, bore so strong a resemblance to 

 that rewarded on the occasion referred to, that the Committee 

 thought it desirable to have the two plants exhibited side by side 

 at the next meeting, for the purpose of clearing up any doubts 

 respecting their distinctness. 



Hybrid Gesneras: — from Mr. Bousie, gardener to Lord 

 Taunton, Stoke Park, Slough. These were hybrids produced 

 between cinnabarina and zehrina, and partook of the characters 

 of both parents. They were individually very handsome kinds, 

 with rich red and green-shaded velvety leaves, in some instances 

 covered with red hairs, and they bore large orange-scarlet spotted- 

 mouthed flowers, of various shades, in erect racemes standing 

 above the foliage. They were considered less brilliant, both as 

 to flower and foliage, than the best forms of the rather variable 



Celosia (cristata) coccinea : — from Messrs. Veitch & Son, 

 Chelsea. This was shown as an Amaranthus raised from imported 

 seeds, said to have been received from China. It is a common 

 annual plant in India and China, and is probably the parent of 

 the garden Cockscomb. The plants exhibited were tall, branch- 

 ing, and free-flowering in habit, and appeared to be desirable 

 subjects for the decoration of warm conservatories along with 

 C. aurea, with which their deep Magenta-coloured inflorescence 

 affords a marked contrast. They varied from two to three feet 

 high, branching more or less iveely, sometimes abundantly, and 

 were furnished with alternate elliptic lance-shaped stalked leaves. 

 The inflorescence sprung both from the ends of the stems and 

 branches, as well as from the axils of the leaves, the terminal 

 spikes behig the larger in size. The spikes, which were sparingly 

 furnished with perfect flowers at the base, were generally nar- 

 rowish, elongated, and branched, but more or less dilated at the 

 apex into the cockscomb form. The colour was of a bright reddish- 

 rose, varying sometimes with a more empurpled, or with a lighter 

 orange-tinted hue. Though comparatively little known, it was 

 mentioned that this form of Cockscomb is imported annually from 

 Germany along with the seeds of other flowers. It is ; 



autumnal decorative plant deserving o 



nded cultivj 



Clerodendron calamitosum :— fiom Messrs. Veitch & Son. 

 This, which was Commended last year, was again shown in a freely- 

 bloomed condition, and proves an interesting dwarf stove bush. 



