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Cottage Maid, Yellow Prince, Gloria SoHs, White and YeUow 

 Pottebakker, Scarlet Due Van Thol, Canary Bird, Vermilion 

 Brilliant, Standard Royal; and of double-Howered sorts: 

 Imperator, Tonrnsol, Yellow Tournsol, and Bex Eubrorum. 



The following additional subjects were exhibited : — 

 Calamus Verschaffeltii :— from Mr. W. Bull. A beautiful 

 plumy Palm, introduced by M. Verschaffelt, from Madagascar. 

 The leaves were pinnate, arching, with narrow leaflets, glaucous 

 beneath, the stalks brownish, and clothed with long, slender 

 spines which pointed backwards. It was much admired as a 

 species of elegant habit, but being small and not in perfect 



exhibited again later in the season, when more fully developed. 



Areca Verschaffeltii: — from Mr. W. Bull. Another hand- 

 some Palm from Madagascar, introduced by M. Vebschaffelt. 

 It was of more vigorous growth than the foregoing, having also 

 pinnate leaves, and being further remarkable for having a con- 

 spicuous yellow keel to the thick rachis of the gracefully drooping 

 leaves. An opinion having been expressed that the plant was 



be exhibited again, in company with the plant so named. 



Rhodea japonica macrophylla fol. anreis marginatis ;— from 

 Mr. W. Bull. A bold-looking perennial, with broad lanceolate 

 somewhat two-ranked and secund leaves, which in their best state 

 were broadly margined with yellow, but on some of the leaves the 

 margin was narrower. Before forming any judgment on this 

 plant, it was requested that it might be shown in company with 

 another variety sent out under the name of Orontium japonicum, 

 by M. Van Houtte. 



Pteris (aspericaulis) mbro-nervia :— from Mr. W. Bull. A 

 vigorous-growing hot-house fern, with the character of an enlarged 

 Pteris aspericaulis, and in addition having a rather conspicuous 

 red midrib. It is a pretty second-class fern, but it was thouglit 

 that there are already so many ferns more or less resembhtig 

 this in character, and some of them, as Pteris tricolor and 

 P. anjijrcBa, superior to it in beauty, that, judging from this m 

 the state in which it was exhibited, no award was necessary. 



Azalea crispiflora rosea :— f rom Mr. Todman. Clapham. This 

 was a bright rose-coloured variety, of good average properties, 

 with the edges of the corolla crispy or waved, but less regularly 

 so than in crispiflora itself. 



