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flat flabellate dark green spray, which from the small size of its 

 scale-like foliage had a good deal of general resemblance to some 

 of the smaller circinate species of Selaginella. There were both 

 green-leaved and variegated-leaved forms, the latter being blotched 

 with white ; and of these the green-leaved or typical form had 

 received a Silver Banksian Medal, and the variegated-leaved form 

 {R. ohtusa variegata) a Certificate of Merit. 



Thujopsis dolabrata variegata: this was a fine variegated 

 variety of Thujopsis dolabrata, apparently of a lax and spreading 

 habit, the branches flattened and glaucous beneath, very much 

 resembling those of some of the free-growing kinds of Selaginella. 

 This variety diff'ered from the ordinary form in having its twigs 

 freely blotched with white, producing a pretty and well-marked 

 variegation. It had obtained a Silver Banksian Medal at the 

 exhibition already alluded to. 



Aucuba japonica : of this species, which is familiar in English 

 gardens in the variegated state, there was included in this fine 

 collection the original or green-leaved state, both male and female 

 plants ; the latter bore orange-coloured oblong-ovate berries, about 

 the size of the pomes of the large-fruited species of Cratcsgus. 

 It had^previously obtained a Certificate of Merit. 



Setinospora lycopodioides : under this provisional name was 

 included, on June 5th, in the miscellaneous portion of the group, 

 a rather pretty-looking plant (others of which, shown by Mr. 

 Veitch as Cryptomeria sp., had received a Certificate of Merit). 

 It is apparently a plant of spreading growth, with the branches 

 terete and leafy all round : distinguishable, therefore, from the 

 Retlnospora and Thujopsis, already mentioned, by a feature 

 analogous to the difference which exists between the true species 

 of Lycopodium and those now referred to Selaginella. The 

 leaves of this plant are small obtuse green scales, which produce 

 a kind of papillate appearance on the branches. 



Bambusa variegata : a pretty tufted striped-leaved Grass, 

 apparently dwarf, and perhaps useful in formal gardens. This 

 had already received a Certificate of Merit. 



Podocarpus variegatus : a dense-growing little bushy shrub, 

 thickly clothed with short broad ovate shining leaves, variously 

 striped with white. It was a neat-looking plant, and had received 

 a Certificate of Merit on June 5th. 



There were, however, besides these, already rewarded, many 

 other good-looking plants in this Japanese group, about which 

 more information and experience as to their hardiness is required. 



