364 REPORTS OF THE FLORAL COMMITTEE, 



high, with a red stem, and having the leaves distinctly striped 

 with clear white on dark green ; the flowers white with a greenish- 

 tinted spreading liinh* It was awarded a FrasT-CiiAss Ckr- 



TTFICATE, 



Genista Everestiana : — from Mr. C, Everest, Albert Nurserj% 

 Reading. This was a seedling raised by Mr. Everest, who 

 describes the parent plant as being four years old, about three feet 

 high, and the same in diameter — a complete mass of flowers. It 

 was evidently a close-habited free-growing plant, with smallish 

 leaves, the leaflets of which were short, obovate, and blunt-ended. 

 The flowers were produced in long spikes, and were very sweet- 

 scented and of a rich orange-yellow colour, c[uite distinct from, 

 and much superior to, that of other Genistas in cultivation. It 

 was awarded a First Class Certificate. The plant was a seed- 

 ling from G. fragrans. Mr. Everest stated that he had been 

 in the habit of raising Genistas from seeds for many years, and 

 had found them to sport considerably, 



Cyrtomium anomophyllum :— from Mr. Standish. This fern, 

 which had been imported from China through Mr. Fortune, was 

 an elegant pinnated species, of erect habit, differing from G, 

 falcatum in its smaller-sized pinnae of thinner texture, and from 

 C. caryotideum, to which it was most closely allied, in its narrower 

 fronds and more numerous pinnee. It was regarded as distinct 

 in character from its allies, and worthy a Second-Class Certi- 

 ficate, which was awarded to it. The same plant is known to 

 occur in Southern India, and in Japan. 



. Lithospermnin fraticosum: — from Messrs. J. & C. Lee, 

 Hammersmith. This was a dwarf freely-branched slender- 

 growing sufFruticose perennial, from the South of Europe, and 

 well adapted for summer rock- work. It had small linear-lanceolate 

 hairy leaves, and bore at the ends of the short twiggy branches 

 several salver-shaped bright blue flowers, rather over half an inch 

 across. A Second-Class Certificate was given to it. 



Clematis reginse:— from Isaac Anderson Henry, Esq., Edin- 

 burgh. This was a very fine hybrid, raised from C. azurea 



grandijl 



It had cordate leaflets. 



slightly furnished, as were the stalks both of the leaves and 

 flowers, with short woolly hairs. The flowers were large, of a 

 deep mauve or light violet colour, about four inches and a half 

 across, and consisting of eight broadly oval sepals, which mea- 

 sured about an inch and a half across, and were somewhat woolly 

 behind. Mr. Henry stated that one flower on the plant had a 



