564 REPORTS OF THE FLORAL COMMITTEE, 



now awarded a First-Class Cebtificate. It was a handsome 

 rose-coloured sort, remarkable for the substance and smoothness 

 of. its flowers, the upper segment of which was nicely spotted. 



Epacris Vesta:— from Messrs. Vkitch & Son, Exeter and 

 Chelsea. This was a pretty as well as novel variety, of free- 

 blooming habit, with the erect growth and genei*al character of 

 the impressa section ; the flowers had a white tube, which was 

 tipped with pink, the tips being very bright and distinct in the 

 bud. The variety was Commended. 



Symphytum tnberosnm variegatum superbum .- — from Mr. 

 Salter, F.R.H.S., Versailles Nursery, Hammersmith. A baud- 

 some variety of a hardy herbaceous perennial, in which the leaves 

 were broadly margined with cream-colour. It was Commended. 



Veronica Chamaedrys var. piilclierrima : — from Mr. Salter. 

 This was a very elegant dwarf hardy variegated herbaceous 

 plant. The small neat ovate leaves were broadly margined with 

 cream-colour. The variety was Commended, as a pretty addition 

 to the class of hardy variegated plants. 



Of this class of plants there were, besides, exhibited :— 



Citheroxylon nivenm:— from Mr. W. Bull. This was a Silver 

 Palm from New Grenada, but was not sufl&ciently developed to 

 admit of an opinion being formed as to its ultimate character. 

 The leaves of the young plants exhibited were scarcely divided, 

 broadish, white and pulverulent beneath. 



Epacris rosea : — from Mr. Ktnghorn. A variety with the 

 habit and foliage of grandiflora, the flowers having long crimson 

 tubes, and large reflexed limb segments. It was considered too 

 dull in colour. 



Azaleas :— from Mr. Todman, gardener to R. Hudson, Esq., 

 Clapham : Flag of Truce, a fine double white variety, which had 

 already received a first-class certificate, and was now again pro- 

 duced in fine bloom. Prince Consort, a bright rose- coloured, 

 nicely spotted gay variety, having wavy-margined segments. — 

 From Mr. W. Bull: President Claeys. This was a foreign 

 variety, raised by M. Van den Cruysse, It had prettily coloured 

 flowers, but they were too small, as shown, compared with exist- 

 ing varieties. The colour was a pale salmon-red, broadly edged 

 with white, the upper segments moderately spotted. 



Statice propinqua :— from Mr. Williams, Paradise Nursery. 

 Holloway. A suffruticose variety closely resembling 8. profusa, 

 and of similar origin. 



