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III. — Notes on Plants in the Plant Houses. By. 

 E. L. Harrow. 



Since the last meeting of the Society in July, a succes- 

 sion of plants in flower has been kept up, comparing well 

 with that of previous years. The plants occupying the 

 new houses erected in 1894 show the good effect of their 

 better accommodation. Of the plants which have flowered 

 during the months since July may be mentioned : — 

 Dijdadcnia insignis, Hort., with racemes of rich purple 

 flowers ; Bouga.invillea glabra, Choisy, in the corridor was 

 for some weeks a mass of colour ; jEscliynantlius ohconicus, 

 C. B. Clarke, introduced recently by Messrs. Veitch, from 

 Malacca, has a blood-red large calyx enveloping the corolla. 

 Besides these Passifloras, Allamandas, Bignonias, and other 

 genera, have been attractive in the stoves. Among Orchids 

 the most noticeable in flower have been : — Oncidmm 

 Lanwanum, Lindl. ; 0. varicosum, Lindl., var. Itogersii, Hort. ; 

 Odontoglossum citrosmum, Lindl. ; Cattleya guttata Zeopoldii, 

 Hort. ; Vanda Kimhalliana ; Bhyncliostylis retusa, var. guttata, 

 Hchb. f. ; and Catasetum Clirutyanum, Echb. f. During the 

 past year the collection of Orchids has been more than 

 doubled in species, and several genera not hitherto in- 

 cluded have been added, so that the exhibition of this 

 interesting group of plants will be more attractive in the 

 coming and succeeding years than it has been in the past, 

 and we shall hope to be able to show at the meetings of 

 this Society many interesting forms. 



The reconstruction of another section of the plant houses 

 has been completed since the Society last met, and satis- 

 factory accommodation is now provided for the large group 

 of Succulent Plants and for Economic Plants, These 

 houses when opened to the public, as they will be in course 

 of the spring, should prove to be not the least instructive 

 and attractive of the rauge. 



Of the plants flowered during October, the few following 

 may be noted : — 



Monodora grandiflora, Benth. One of the Anonacete, 

 a native of tropical Africa. One plant in the Palm House 

 is about 20 feet high, and this is its first recorded flowering 

 here. The large coriaceous light-sreen leaves are shed and 



