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each j'ear increased in depth," The younger growths were very 

 distiDctly tinged with the golden yellow hue. The variety called 

 finedonensis, which has a silvery cast, was sent for contrast. A 

 First-Class Okrtificate was awarded. 



Caladiiim lowii :— from Messrs, Low & Co., Clapton. A very 

 beautiful stove plant, imported from Borneo as C. VeitcliU, but 

 proving to be intermediate iu aspect between that species and 

 Alocasia metallica:^ that is to say, resembling the latter in the 

 form of the leaves, the former in their marking. The leaves on 

 the plants shown, which were apparently not fully grown, were 

 upwards of a foot long and about six inches broad, ovate sagittate, 

 with a short caudate point, full green in front, the central rib and 

 primary veins, which latter emerge at a right angle and pass out to 

 the pallid margin, whitish, giving a distinct variegation to the 

 surface, while the stalks and the hinder part of the leaves were of 

 deep purple. It was awarded a First-Class Certificate. 



Cypripedium Stonii:— from J. Day, Esq., Tottenham. A most 

 beautiful and distinct plant, remarkable among the species of 

 Lady's-slipper for the exact slipper-like form of the lip when seen 

 ■ in profile. It had been recently imported from Borneo, by Messrs. 

 Low & Co. The leaves were long ligulate and wholly green. 

 The flower-stems, supporting two flowers, were of a dark purple. 

 The flowers themselves consisted of a pair of ovate acuminate 

 sepals creamy white on the inner face, bordered by a line of 

 blackish purple, and stained behind with the same colour ; a pair of 

 narrow linear petals, 4| inches long, yellowish at the base, becoming 

 spotted with large dots of deep purple about the middle, and 

 wholly purple as well as twisted at the tip ; and a slipper-shaped 

 lip which was white at the base, and purplish and rather veiny in 

 .fz'ont. The sterile stamen was large roundish-oblong, slightly 

 emarginato in front, yellow, and shaggy pubescent towards tho 

 margin. This also received a First-Ciass Certificate. 



CapressusBarkeri:— from Mr. Barker, Nurseryman, Godal- 

 ming. This wag a seedling raised by Mr. Barker/and was under- 

 stood to be a variety of C Goveniana, It had the main stem 

 erect, and the branches very slender and quite drooping, forming 

 an evergreen shrub of remarkable elegance. The parent plant 

 was stated to have stood out for several years fully exposed. It 

 was awarded a First-Class Certificate* 



LitobrocManobilis: — from Mr. Bull, Chelsea. A noble 

 Fern already noticed at p. 45 1 (as Litohrochia grandk), and p. 546. 



