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grow in compound terminal secund racemes, and are of a light or 

 lilac purple, not unlike those of some of the Eutocas. 



Eucharis amazonica :— from E. Kosher, Esq., F.R.H.S., St. 

 John's Wood. This plant, now a well-known stove perennial, 

 was sent in order to draw attention to its great merits as an 

 ornamental plant ; it bears one of the most lovely flowers in 

 cultivation. The broad ovate dark green leaves set off to very 

 great advantage the large pure white amaryllidaceous flowers. 

 Mr. RosHEB adopts the plan of dividing the roots after blooming 

 and growing on the vigorous young suckers, by which means he 

 succeeds in having plants in bloom during several months of the 

 year in succession, the plants being kept in moderately small 

 pots and confined to single crowns. 



" Anaectochilus, sp." : — from Messrs. Osborn & Son, Fulham. 

 This plant, probably a Physanis, was exhibited at the last 

 meeting, when it was reserved for comparison with the plant 

 called in gardens A. querceticola, from which it now proved to be 

 quite distinct. The leaves were lanceolate, dark green, marked 

 with a row of elongated longitudinal silvery spots, each side the 

 midrib, and a second incomplete row of smaller spots outside the 

 first. A. querceticola has broader, more ovate, larger leaves, of a 

 paler green, marked with one larger and about three smaller rows 

 of silvery spots, which are oblong and oblique on each side the 

 midrib. Messrs. Osborn's plant was stated to be from Guayaquil. 



Solanum pseudo-Capsicum : — from Mrs. Alexandeb Red- 

 grave, Eagle Lodge, Old Brompton. This exhibition consisted 

 of a group of nine dwarf tree-like well-fruited plants, which 

 were sent by Mrs. Redgrave as samples of the hardy nature of 

 this old fashioned greenhouse species, which when loaded with 

 its bright orange coloured fruits forms a very pretty object for 

 table decoration, as well as for the ornamentation of the green- 

 house or conservatory. The plants, which were well furnished 

 with fruit, some of which had acquired the orange colour indicative 

 of ripeness, were accompanied by the following memorandum : — 



er. In May last, they were planted out, in the open garden, without any 

 the ' middle of Octoljer, when they were potted, and placed in the 



