436 TKAXSACTIONS AND PKOCEEDTNGS OF THE [Sess. Lix. 



III. On Plants in the Plant Houses. By Pt. L. 

 Harrow. 



About two hundred and twenty plants have flowered 

 since the last meetmg of this Society, rather more than 

 two hundred of these being species. This exceeds the 

 number recorded for the month of May 1894 by nearly 

 a hundred species. Of these a large number are new to 

 the collections, to which they have recently been added. 

 Of those most worthy of note the following may be 

 mentioned : — 



Gcelogyne Dayana, Echb. A species from North Borneo, 

 introduced by Messrs. Veitch, and flowered by them at 

 their nursery at Chelsea in 1884. The pseudobulbs are 

 long, with large deep green leaves. The inflorescences are 

 produced with the young growth, the pendulous racemes 

 varying in length with the strength of the plant, but 

 sometimes more than two feet long. The sepals and petals 

 are dull yellow, the lip dark brown streaked with white. 

 It is stated to grow in the hot districts on the branches of 

 trees near the coast. 



Alhcrta magna, E. Mey. This is an erect bush-like 

 rubiaceous plant from South Africa. The opposite ovate 

 foliage is coriaceous, the inflorescences terminal panicles 

 of bright crimson flowers ; the tube of the corolla being 

 about an inch long. Two of the lobes of the calyx 

 enlarge after flowering, and assume a scarlet colour. The 

 plant has been in cultivation for several years, but was 

 recorded at Kew last year as having flowered for the first 

 time in this country. 



Orthosiplwn stamineus, Benth. This is an old introduction 

 to our gardens, but is seldom met with in cultivation. It 

 is a native of Malaya, India, and other tropical countries. 

 Of a herbaceous habit, it grows a foot or more high, and 

 bears ovate deeply-toothed leaves, and crowded terminal 

 racemes of lilac-coloured flowers. The corolla is bilabiate, 

 and has long conspicuous filaments and style projecting 

 about two inches beyond the mouth of the corolla. The 

 plant belongs to the natural order Labiatte. 



Adcnocalymna nitiduon, Mart. This climbing plant, of 



