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and a half in length, and having a drooping habit. Its slender 

 small-pinnuled drooping fronds, render it adapted for cultivation 

 in suspended baskets, in which it would form a good match with 

 Pteris scaberida. The rachis is rough with distant raised points, 

 which sometimes become small prickles. 



Calandrinia sp. : —from Messrs. Veitch & Son, Chelsea and 

 Exeter. A pretty dwarf rock plant from South Chili, having the 

 general aspect of C. umbellata, but of a more erect habit, and 

 stated to produce larger flowers, which, as in that species, are 

 very brilliant in sunshine. It was stated to be quite hardy. The 

 leaves were narrow linear acute, upwards of two inches long, 

 slightly narrowed below, and dilated at the base, thickish in 

 texture, and clothed with long white appressed hairs, which give 

 the herbage a grayish colour. The flowering stems and calyces 

 are smooth, and the flowers of a rich deep rose-purple. It was 

 Commended, as an elegant rock plant. 



Primula sp. :— from Messrs. Veitch & Son. A dwarf her- 

 baceous perennial, from the snow line of the Andes, and quite 

 hardy. It forms a little branching tuft of short stems, clothed 

 with wedge-shaped or spathulate leaves three-fourths of an inch 

 long, tapered into a stalk-like base, and toothed at the bluntly- 

 rounded apex. The flowers are small, in small umbels on a 

 scape about three inches high, of a purplish rose colour with a 

 yellow eye, the limb segments obcordate and deeply biparted. 

 It was Commended as a pretty dwarf hardy plant for rockeries. 



NemopMla discoidalis, var. elegans : —from Messrs. Chakl- 

 wooD & Cummins, Covent Garden. In this variety, which was a 

 very pretty one, the flowers were of a bright chocolate or light 

 reddish-maroon, conspicuously bordered with white. The colours 

 were distinctly marked and very effective. It was Commended 

 as a desirable annual for general cultivation. With it was shown 

 another pretty but ineffective variety of the same species, in 

 which the flowers were white, with a few chocolate-coloured spots. 



The remaining subjects brought under the notice of the Com- 

 mittee were the following : — ■ 



Jlialaenopsis Schilleriana :— from Mr. W. Bull, F.R.H.S., 

 Chelsea. A fine Manilla orchid, \yith the leaves mottled with 

 white, as in some of the Cypripediuvis, and bearing pretty pale 

 rose-coloured flowers. The plant shown was a very small one, and 

 was not thought to indicate sufficiently the merits of the plant to 

 receive any award. 



