984 REPORTS OF THE FLORAL COMMITTEE. 
SILVER KNIGHTIAN MEDAL AND FIRST. CLASS CERTIFICATE. 
ATIUM AMBOINENSE.— Messrs. VEITCH & Son, Exeter and Chelsea. This w 
nek stove bulb, introduced from the Philippine Islands It had bold оф 
ribbed 1 а 1 1 
= х 
оп farther examination. The mos were about two feet hig supporte wi 
m everal erect white ers, the perianth segments of ‘which were sti 
oblong- -elliptic, and the staminal el very small. 
SILVER BANKSIAN MEDAL AND SECOND-CLASS CERTIFICATE. 
MELIA ScEPTRUM.—Messrs. Укттон & SON в "a 3 plant, 2 with d 
e lea 
ed 
upper bracts amongst the flowers being white. The cete uide ura 
Dee oe and the blossoms were white dq pers purple, It wasa ы 
о pian 
BRONZE MEDAL AND COMMENDATION. 
CENTAUREA ARGENTEA,—Mr. Butt, Chelsea. A rare pra d white cottony 
leaves, useful for r flower-garden purposes, but of no interest as wering plant, E 
which c racter it was shown, the flowers аф p e она” mu a ike those о 
common Knapweed. The leaves, which were very е t, were Roh e with the 
segments .pinnatifid, - ране being numerous t9 narrow, the whole surface 
clothed with white cott ony hairs 
Besides these ihor were shown :— 
Мг. BULL.—Caladium Wightii. A stove plant, tolerably n known, its handsome 
green leaves being blotched with distinct patches of red and white. The spathe was 
white in the upper or open part, and green in the lower portion, which is closed 
aroun of the spadix. 
d the base of th 
Messrs. Уктон & Sox с т». sp. (2). From the te Islands. А 
warf plant, with longish narrow lea eaves, and single-flowered pes, the flowers 
white, with long narrow recury: mw perianth segments, and the губе cup very 
large and prominent. It is the same ne as sg о recorded i in Vol. IL, p. 246, ав а 
species of Hymenocallis. Eleocarpus d. 8. Lapageria rosea, var, albiflora, which 
carried off a fading award at one of the a of last year, 
Class 25, for New ов Rare TENDER PLANTS NOT IN Fiower, was more fully 
represented, Та this the following awards were made 
SILVER KNIGHTIAN MEDAL AND FIRST-CLASS CERTIFICATE. 
Мазы (1) СооРЕвг (Moore).—Messrs, Verron & Sox, А very beautiful Fern’ 
of t eous group; but as yet only doubtfully named, not “having borne 
fructification. It is, however, quite unlike all th species of this group hitherto 
made known. Fr тве, purplish, massive rootstock rise the purple stipites, 
occas 
pairs of branches, of oblong аа = сон, the leaflets ts, or pinnules, being 
in ban oblong acuminate, nn 
colou 
he margin, and of a motley half 
ariegated green pound b й аге wm gracefully spreading 
Md < i thes тешу gas hare iiw. T comes from e 
Uv —Messrs, Jackson & Son Kingsto f this, which is 
one of ake. есту lattice leaf ре: i Madagascar, : Ye healthy Fit in a large 
deep glass pan, was shown. ев, all d rged, were long, narrow, an 
ribbon-like in form, full of holes быс». д, the vida quadrangular system of net- 
work of wish they are com They ar жине longer and narrower than in 
О. fenestralis, an admirable sample of which; shown by Mr. Bull, served fo : 
comparison. 
