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and having ovcUe lanceolate acutely-serrated leaves, and compact- 

 trusses of rather small clear deep yellow flowers^ having a moderate- 

 sized upper and a larger concave lower lip. 



Cycnochcs c7tl or ocJiilo^^ heading a fine spike of its curious greenish- 

 yellow flowers, ^~~~ 



Class xxiv. — New ou Rake Tender Plants kot in 



Floaver. 



Lomaria gibba :— from Messrs. Veitch & Son. One of the 



most graceful of the Loraarias, having a stout erect caudex, from 

 ^vhich proceeds a deiise spreading plumy head of light green 

 fronds, about a couple of feet in length, pinnatifid almost to the 

 rachis into linear acute undulated segments, 'n'hich are gibbously 

 decurrent at the base. The fertile fronds have numerous nar- 

 rower segments, more strongly decurrent on the rachis. The 

 plant becomes arborescent, and is a native of New Caledonia, 

 \Yhence it was obtained by Sir D. Cooper, by whom it was intro- 

 duced to England. It was awarded a Silver Knightian 

 Medal. . 



Dracsena sp. : — from Messrs. Yettch & Son. A dwarf stocky 

 habited plant with broad elliptic leaves, a foot long and upwards 

 of four inches broad, dark green, very much blotched with yellow- 

 green disposed in roundish patches, which become variously con- 

 fluent. It was awarded a Silver Knightian Medal. 



Adiantum tinctum : — from Messrs. Vettch & Son. A 



slender bipiunate fern, with broadish pinnules, introduced from 

 Pei'u. The younger were strongly tinged with rosy red, which 

 gave the plants a very pretty appearance. It w\as awarded a 

 Bronze Medal. 



Polybotrya apiifolia: — from Messrs. Veitch & Son. A 



curious and interesting dimorphous stove fern of the acrostichoid 

 race, found in the Philippine Islands. The sterile fronds are of 

 a grayish-green, and tripinuate ; the fertile ones entirely soriferous, 

 and also compound, with the parts much contracted. It was 

 awai'ded a Bronze Medal. 



In the same class were shown 



Proin Mr. Bull :— 



Begonia longipUa. 

 AnthuHum lettconeicrum. 



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new garden fern. 



scarce 



From Messrs. Veitch & Son : — 



Sphcerogyne latifoUa, awarded a priee at a former show^ as also was 



Alocoda zebrina, 



pr2 



