68-S REPORTS OP THE FLORAL COMMITTEE, 



Derby (Pope), a fine bloom, showing that the va 

 the character stamped on it bj' the award previously made. — 

 From Mr. G-. Wheeler, Warminster : Ringleader, a seedling 

 of 1860; the flowers were coarse and quilly, of a deep buflf 

 colour. — From Messrs. Chater & Co., Bi'aintree : Xing' of the 

 Dwarfs, a bedding variety of good habit, being dwarf, about 

 '2 feet high, densely branched, and throwing the flower-heads 

 well up on stout footstalks ; the colour was a dark claret. 



Antirrhinnms :^from Mr. Salter : a collection of Seedling 

 varieties, among which the following were the most striking: 

 Lineata superba, closely reticulated with rosy veins, the palate 

 yellow; Versaillaise, white tube, and purple crimson lips; 

 Surpass Empress, Avhite with purplish tube. 



nrtnlH'r ^.—The Rev. Joshua Di.x. F.R.H.S., in the Chair. 



The numerous interesting subjects shown on this occasion were 

 as follows : 



BongainviUaea glabra:— from Mr. Daniels, gardener to the 

 llev. C. E. PiCCK Keene, Swyncombe House, Henley-on-Thames. 

 This was exhibited under the names of B. splendens and Mr. 

 Duncan's variety of BougainvilUca, but proved to be the plant 

 named above. Respecting it, Mr. Daniels wrote : — 



" You will find it very beautiful, and it is much less difficult 

 to cultivate and to bloom than B. speciosa. The plant in my 

 possession is now five feet in height, and well furnished with 

 branches, at the point of every one of which there is a panicle of 

 lilossoms like the one sent. It is not yet a year old, and has 

 been grown in a greenhouse the greater part of the summer. I 

 have not the least doubt but it will do well in a warm conserva- 

 toiy, being much hardier than B. speciosa:' 



The plant proved to be very distinct from the species exhi- 

 bited on a former occasion, and decidedly inferior to it in beauty. 

 It was nevertheless a very handsome plant ; and relying on Mr. 

 Daniels' statement of its greater hardiness, and more cultivable 

 character, having regard moreover to the probability of its being 

 an autumn-blooming plant, the Committee unanimously awarded 

 it a FiRST-Ci.ASS Certificate. The branches in the specimens 

 Cihibited were slender, and, as well as the leaves, nearly smooth, 

 having none of the hairiness of B. speciosa, but merely a slight and 

 very fine pubescence ; and they were furnished with short curved 

 supra-axillary spines. The leaves were thin, elliptic, acuminate, 



