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rather dull-looking in its flowers. The stems Avcre slender, 

 dark-coloured, terete, bearing ovate-lauceolate leaves, which were 

 opposite on the stems, and collected in a semi-whorled manner 

 l)eneath the shortly cymose inflorescence -which terminated the 

 short lateral branches. The cymes were few-flowered, the flowers 

 l]ell-shaped, green outside, and dull-brown within half-way down, 

 the base being green speckled with brown. It was a curious and 

 interesting plant, but not of a very showy character. 



Veronica Anderson! variegata nana:— from Mr. G. McIktosu. 

 Hammersmith. These were young plants of an apparently dwarf 

 form of variegated Veronica, having the leaves edged with cream- 

 colour. The small plants shown were not unlike the variegated 



any opinion being formed as to their use as objects of ornament. 

 Mr. Mcintosh also produced a loose habited variety of Thuja 

 orkntalis. 



Gymnogramma trifoliata :— from Mr. W. Bull. This was a 

 line erect habited feni, with the pinnae lance-shaped like v.illow 

 leaves ; these, when the plant has reached a mature age, growing 

 in threes, whence the name. The pinnae were more or less clothed 

 with a whitish powder, which clothing is, in some forms of the 

 ypecies, yellowish. 



lonopsis sp. :— from Mr. B. S. Wiixluis, Holloway. An 

 orchid of slender habit, with elongated oblong leaves, and ;i 

 drooping branched panicle of pretty little blush-coloured flowers. 

 oi which the lip was comparatively large, veiny, with a purple spot 

 m the centre, and the rest of the parts very small. 



Phalsenopsis Schilleriana:— from Mr. B= S. Williams. 

 A species with variegated leaves, but not in bloom. Though a 

 nteresting and valuable plant, it was not enough advanced 



LTAMS. Under this designation was again produced a curious 

 unnamed plant, which had already appeared at the opening 

 exhibition. It grew flat against a board, and consisted of 

 roundish green bodies mottled with gray, alternately larger and 

 smaller, just overlapping each other by the edge, and forming a 

 string of variegated convex discs, which have been compared to a 

 The pliint is supposed to be some species 





