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The subjects of exhibition were as follows : 



Angraecum sesqiiipedale:— from ilessrs. Veitch & Son, 



Exeter and Chelsea. This noble-looking orchid was awarded a 

 Fiest-Class Certificate: It is a plant of bold habit, with broadly 

 4orate obtuse unefjually bifid glaucous-tinted leaves disposed iu 

 two ranks like those of an Aerides, and produces its ivory-like 

 flowers iu axillary drooping racemes. The flowers were very large 

 and fleshy, white, each having a greenish-white tail-like dependent 

 spur nearly a foot in length. The plant exhibited bore two racemes 

 of these remarkable flowers. 



The remaining subjects consisted of 



Parochetus communis:— from Mr. John Pottle, F.R.H.S, 



gardener to B. D. Colvin, Esq,, Little Bealings, Woodbridge, 

 Suffolk, The seeds of this plant had been given to Mr. Pottle 

 as those of a Parochetus from the Neilgherry Hills. The plant 

 was of trailing habit, and had trifoliate leaves of a bright lively 

 green very much resembling in size and form those of an 

 Oxalis or the Dutch Clover. The flowers grew on two-flowered 

 peduncles from the axils, and were comparatively large and of a 

 pretty light-blue colour, very much resembling, both in Size 

 and form, those of Lord Anson's Pea. It has proved quite 

 hardy, having stood out-doors with Mr. Pottle through the 



winter of 1800-1. As shown, the flowers were not sufiiciently 

 abundant, though they had e"vidently been produced freely, and 

 it was stated that a considerable number had been fully blown at 

 8lie time. The specimen exhibited, after having been kept 

 through the winter as a hardy plant, was started in heat in 

 spring, and at length planted out along with Verbenas ; and thus 

 treated, it began flowering in September last, and had continued 

 to the present date. Now that the cultivation of plants in 

 suspended baskets has become fashionable, this plant may furnish 

 a useful subject for that mode of treatment, for which it is 

 evidently well adapted, on account of its free growth, its long 

 trailing stems, neat foliage, and pretty though probably not over- 

 abundant flowers. 



ImatophyUum Gardneriannm : — from Messrs, E. G, Hen- 

 derson & Son, St. John's Wood. A bold-habited stove 

 ■^Ifennial, with long lorate leaves and terminal umbels of erectly- 

 stalked drooping flowers, which have a curved tube of a pale 

 flauie-red tipped with green. Though a fine bold-looking i^lant, 



