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and Chelsea. A dsvarf trailing Chilian herb, suitable for growing 

 in baskets. It had fleshy oblong convex leaves, about an inch 

 long, and toothed towards the apex, and numerous drooping 

 tubular axillary flowers, of a light scarlet, remiuding one of 



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inflated about the middle, very much constricted at the base, 

 and moderately so just beneath the limb of five obtuse erect 

 segments. It received a Silver Knightian Medal. 



Clerodendron Thomsonse : — from Messrs. Jackson & Son-, 

 Kingston. A hothouse climber, of rather slender habit and 

 moderate growth, bearing oblong ovate acute leaves, and cymoso 

 panicles of remarkably handsome flowers, consisting of a large 

 white inflated five-angled calyx, with the crimson-scarlet corolla 

 just protruding from the points of its segments. It has lately 

 been introduced from Old Calabar, and was awarded a Silver 

 IvNiaHTiAN Medal. 



Dendrobium salacceuse r^^from lilessrs. Low & Co, Clapton. 

 A very distinct looking Dendrobe, with upright rod-like leafless 

 stems, from the nodes of which were produced short crowded 

 racemes of small orange-coloured flowers, the segments of which 

 had each three or four distinct red stripes on their face. When 

 well established it must be a very handsome plant. It was 

 granted a Silver Bankstan Medal. 



Lselia '* Schilleriana" : — from Messrs. Veitcii & Son. 



A bright-looking plant, something in the way of L. piirpurata, 

 and said to be a small light-coloured form of L. Warnen. It had 

 slender stems, thickest in the upper part, and bearing a pair of 

 oblong mucronate leaves, the flowers consisting of white sepals and 

 petals, and a lip which w^as white towards the base, and in front 

 very much frilled, and of a bright purple colour, which colour 

 extended to the points of the side lobes, and was continued down 

 the centre almost to the base. It was awarded a Silver Bakk- 



siAx Medal. 



Stenoffastra mnltiflora:— from Messrs. Veitch & Son. A 





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pretty little dwarf tufted herb, larger in its parts than S. concinnal 

 It had roundish ovate crenate radical leaves, purplish behind, 

 and numerous flowers springing from the crowded axils of smaller 

 leaves which clothed a short erect stem ; the flowers had a long 

 slender tube and spreading oblicLue limb, and were of a reddish- 

 lilac colour, becoming deeper in age. It received a Bronze 

 Medal. 

 Calceolaria sp, :— from Messrs. Veitch & Son. A herbaceous 



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