396 KEPORTS OF THE FLORAL COMMITTEE, 



variety. Before I commenced to propagate it, I showed it to 

 several persons in the trade, and all advised me to get a stock of 

 it, and send it out." Both Mr. Rivers's and Mr. Chowder's 

 plants were now again exhibited, and after much discussion as to 



the variety of Taxus haccata exhibited by Mr. Rivers under 

 the name of erecta, and that raised by Mr. Crowd r:R, and 

 exhibited under the same name, are apparently not identical, but 

 very similar in appearance ; and that a letter to this effect be 

 addressed to Mr. Crowder." [Mr. Crowder's variety being, as 

 nearly as could be ascertained, from the different conditions 

 under which the two plants were exhibited, dissimilar to that 

 obtained from the continent by Mr. Rivers, and yet resembling 

 it in general character, it is now proposed to distinguish the 

 former by the designation — erecta CrowderL In either form 

 this is a very elegant evergreen.] 



Thibaudia macrantha : — from Messrs. Veitch & Son, 

 Exeter. This very remarkable and beautiful shrub was intro- 

 duced from Moulmein, by Mr. Thomas Lobb, and was figured 

 some years since from specimens flowered by Mr. Veitch at 

 Exeter. A cut specimen was now exhibited, producing two or 

 three together from the older woody portions of the stems, its 

 large, drooping, pentagonal flask-shaped flowers, white marked 

 with transverse wavy V-shaped red lines, and hanging by red fleshy 

 stalks ; the flowers measured 2i inches long, and 1 inch in dia- 

 meter, " the texture and marking resembling some handsome 

 piece of china or porcelain." The leaves were lanceolate and 

 entire. The plant was stated to require an intermediate bouse. 

 A First-Class Certificate was awarded to this exhibition. 



Cypripedium insigne var. Maulei:— from Messrs. Matjle & 

 Sons, Stapleton Road Nurseries, Bristol. This handsome plant 

 was stated to have been imported about four years since by way of 

 Lahore, and to have now flowered for the first time. The habit 

 was stated to be different from that of the usual forms of this 

 species, the leaves being longer and narrower ; but, as in them, 

 unspotted green, paler beneath, notched at the tip, and the two 

 sides unequal. The tall flower-scapes exhibited were downy with 

 purple hairs, as also was the ovary. The flowers were large, the 

 dorsal sepal downy, arching, and wavv, nearly 2 inches broad, 

 greenish for about one-third of its length at tlie base, the rest 

 white; the white portion marked with purple, and the green part 

 with brownish spots, the spots being larger and fewer than in the 



