REPORT OF FLORAL SUB-COMMITTEE. 245 



XXXI.-llEPORT OF FLORAL SUB-COMMITTEE. 



The Sub-Committee of the Floral Cosdcittee, appointed to 

 examine the New Plants and Flowers shown at this meeting, 

 reported thereon as follows ; 



Camellia Comtesse Lavinia Maggi: — from Messrs, Vkitoh 



& Son, Exeter and Chelsea. A fine variety, of robust habit, 

 with much the colour and markings of tricolor, but the stripes 

 brighter, and the flowers altogether superior in form, being quite 

 double, with neatly imbricated petals. The colour was blush 

 white, with bold streaks and splashes of bright rosy carmine. A 

 FiKST-CLAss Certificate was awarded. 



Phyllagathis rotundifolia : — from Messrs. Veitch & Son. 



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A dwarf-growing stove plant, native of Java, and valuable for 

 its ornamental foliage, which was broadly cordate, moderately 

 large, longitudinally ribbed as in other Melastomads, dark green, 

 with a metallic tinge, and sprinkled with hairs. A First-class 

 CERTiFiCATii; was given to this. 



Rhododendron Princess Alice: — from Messrs. Veitch & Son. 



A very fine variety of dwarf habit, with flat clean-looking, slightly 

 rugose, rather small, oblong lanceolate acuminate leaves and 

 moderate-sized flowers of bell-shaped outline, white, with a flush 

 of pink outside. The flowers were delicately scented, like those 

 of its parent, B. Edgworthii. This received a First-class 

 Certificate for its general good properties. It was a hybrid 

 raised between iJ. Edyworthii and It. ciliatum. 



Bhododendron S esteriannm : — from Messrs. Veitch & Son. 



A variety of rather tall habit, though evidently capable of behig 

 grown bushy. It had convex and somewhat rough-looking rugose 

 leaves of moderate size, and oval oblong acute form, and bore its 

 flowers about three in a head, these latter being very large and 

 much expanded, with broad, rounded, obtuse segments, and pure 

 white. It was stated to bo a hybrid between B. EdgwortJdi and 

 -R- Gibso)iK It was thought worthy a First-class Certificate. 



Rhododendron Countess of Haddington : — from Mr. Parker, 



Tooting. This was a dwarf bushy and vigorous-habited variety, 

 evidently bred from B. Balhousim. It had rather small stout 

 dark-green convex ciliated leaves, and large long-tubed flowers of 



