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12^ KEPORT OF FLOKAL COMMITTEE, FEB. 18, 1862. 



plant exhibited by Mr, McMorland, which was a very beautifully 

 grown specimen, with a fine head of flowers, this dark tip was 

 altogether wanting, and the whole lip was suffused with a very 

 delicate lilac-rose tint, varied only by the usual rather large 

 orange-coloured blotch near the centre. The plant was mono- 

 phylious, and in respect to its habit of growth and flowering, had 

 a good deal of the character of C. lahiata rather than that 

 of C, Mossi^. The individual flowers were large and well 

 formed, the sepals and petals white, the former lanceolate, the 

 latter much broader with a frilled margin, and the lip rather large, 

 delicate lilac-rose, with a large orange blotch towards the point. 

 Though admitted to he a distinct and handsome plant, the 

 Committee decided that its pallid lip rendered It so much less 

 effective than C, Warc^eiviczii itself, that an award was not 

 necessary. Mr. B. Wabner sent for comparison some cut 

 flowers of C. Way'scziviczii^ and of a plant quite like Mr. Mc 

 MoBLA^n's, received by him as C. Trianm, 



lilium Fortuni (Lindley) : — from Mr. Stakdish, Bagshot. 

 I'his was a Japanese plant, introduced by Mr. Fortune. 

 The plant was weakly, having been but recently imported 

 too weak, indeed, for any correct opinion to be formed on its 

 merits as an ornamental plant, although doubtless it will prove, 

 ^hen more vigorously bloomed, to be a desirable as it is a distinct- 

 looking kind. It had a slender erect stem, nearly 3 feet 

 high, furnished plentifully with longish linear-lanceolate leaves, 

 and terminating in a large solitary flower, the segments of which 



with 



ifimhriat 



ULL 



Chelsea. This semi-double variety was exhibited last sum- 

 mer, and then received a Commendation. It was at that time 

 stated to'^be reproducible in the double form from its seeds, and 

 the half-dozen plants now produced were exhibited as part of the 

 seedling progeny of those shown last year. The flowers were 

 of average size, fringed, and having a small petaloid tuft in 



the eye. The duplicated form is thus evidently reproducible 

 from seeds. 



Calamus micrantha: — from Mr. W. Bull. An elegant 



pinnate-leaved, prickly-stalked palm, introduced from Java, Mr. 



Bull also showed Rhopala crenata, Gymnogramma Laucheana, 

 Ehynchosia alho-nitens, and Cnpania Pindaiba, all exhibited 



