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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
‘poisonous. Some vga of Gaultheria, however, 
od an excellent Ё 
r plants ме were—Andromeda hyp- 
urite of Linnzus, ап ри кеш; 
nosa var. acaulis, áláó 
ton 
Pyrenees; a specimen of common Calla sethiopica, 
having d only th the leaf white, but the spaee before 
і ga ж Berkeley to a cone 
of ‘Wellingto nia, gathered by himself at the Pr 
ys в, at Orton Longuey omes 
of bea 
A desi especi y to call the 
atten the meeting to a tribe of plants that 
had hi en kept in obscurity. ey are to 
ngli so widely ees d 
to eae 
and this he aecomplished with 
no other bon pimdin than a faithful dog. Dr. 
No 
Bateman first saw the plant described of which he 
Dr. Террі stated in this 
t t 
The genus и had been so called дут а 
wd a botanist, M. Thibaut, and is only on 
y ge nera of Ме узр е " 
"i ch he ‘a refer 
represented, not only in the tropics, +" 
islands. In the north of Engl and and in Scotland 
the Vaceinieze ented: # ext to the Heath, the cha- 
racteristic feature of ihe; vegetation. К 
е Bil 
all Vae a 
distinguished honour of givin oa of one of 
beautiful tribe. 
The. Сау 'endishia nobilis had фе emen by Dr. 
ре б for dried specimens had been sent to him 
from Peru; but he b dieved it had not yet been 
d that some of 
Dr. Hooker ^s Him alayan pl: ful p 
caught his (Mr. keen! 8) attention, and he found 
that both of them ccinieæ, which grew at 
an altitude of 6 “000 « or x1, ids feet, giving hene 
to the beauty o 
= 
et 
5 
Ф 
т having th 
sees that tro — 
be grown in comparative shade, and о: 
as to allow thei ic blanda to — down mp =” 
of Indian Dendrobes; thus treated they a à 
architec 
an idea of the orn 
niee when grown like Epiph ytes. 
ie was placed on a bracket 
fruit 
by the бно ог eee of t 
Slipper with which we are ат эур" 
exhibited at the meeting; Mr. 
owii; the dark variety of C. рые 
ит supporte, 
commen twenty ос of Lady 
the genus he 
oa f'the eastern hem 
SE inthe fi ;t 0] 
when the 
hey ti no epic nage 
