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and connected together on the rachis by a narrow leafy wing; 

 they were- also slightly glaucous beneath. It is a fine tree fern, 

 new to gardens, and was awarded a FiRST-CrASS Certificate. 



Stenogaster conciimuni : — From Messrs. Veitch & Son. This 

 pretty little stove herbaceous plant forms a tuft of small distinctly- 

 stalked roundish heart-shaped leaves, which are toothed on the 

 margin, and from which rise up numerous peduncles two or three 

 inches high, each bearing a solitary flower. These flowers have a 

 longish curved tube, which is purple on the upper side and 

 white beneath, and a five-lobed limb, of which the three lower 

 segments are larger, white, edged with lilac purple, and also 

 spotted with the same colour at the base, while the two upper 

 ones are wholly purple, darker at the base. The specimen now 

 exhibited, to which a First-Class Certificate . was awarded, was 

 stated to have been continuously in bloom for several months. 

 It is remarkable for its neat habit, and for the pleasing character 

 of the small but elegant flowers. 



Dendrobinm Lowii : — from Messrs. Low & Co., Clapton. 

 This was a plant recently brought from Borneo by Mr. Hugh 

 Low, juu., and but weakly bloomed, but a dried specimen which 

 accompanied the plant showed it to be one of floriferous habit. 

 It was granted a First-Class Certificate, as a distinct and 

 handsome species of a very beautiful genus of epiphytal orchids. 

 The flowers were of moderate size, in pairs, and very distinctly 

 resupinate, somewhat reminding one in the contour presented by 

 their narrow posterior spur, their obliquely slanting sepals and 

 petals, and their erect recurved lip, of some of the forms seen in 

 the flowers of Tropi£olum. The plant was of the habit of 

 D. speciosum, the leaves (on the dried specimens) oblong, and 

 the flowers of a pale buff-yellow, marked on the lip with half a 

 dozen bold crimson lines, on which lines are fringes of long red 

 hairs ; the spur was uppermost and posterior, an inch long ; the 

 sepals ovate, oblong, apiculate, the petals larger, broad, oblong, 

 and plaited, and the lip 3-lobed, the basal lobes dwarfish, bluntly 

 falcate and incurved, so as to meet the column, the middle lobe 

 stalked, obovate and crispy, recurved upwards so as to meet the 

 eye, and show off the bright coloured fringed longitudinal parallel 



Agave americana var. elegantissima : — from Mr. W. Bull, 

 F.R.H.S., Chelsea. This was a young plant of a very rare and 

 beautiful variety of American aloe, in which the leaves were 

 finely marked with longitudinal stripes and bands of creamy 



