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ing a convex kind of trellis, four feet in height, and with a prodigious quantity 

 of flowers; and a new plant, seemingly allied to Coelogyne, with bold upright 

 racemes of very showy purplish blossoms. Mr. Clark, gardener to T. Smith, 

 Esq., Shirley Park, furnished another collection of climbers, among which were 

 Hardenbergia monophylla and longeracemosa, in a magnificent flowering con- 

 dition ; Manettia bicolor, three feet high, and beautifully grown, having pleasing 

 red and yellow flowers; Kennedya nigricans, dwarf and handsome, with numer- 

 ous racemes of its curious blackish and yellow bluoms; Zichya glabrata, four 

 feet broad, unusually verdant and free-flowering ; Tropaolum tricolorum, sup- 

 ported by a branching and bushy stick, without any training, and having a 

 highly natural and delightful aspect ; Mauraudya Barclayana, on a narrow cy- 

 lindrical trellis, which expands greatly at the top, where the flowers were abundant 

 and large ; and Hoya carnosa, trained to a barrel-shaped trellis, on which, while 

 in the healthiest possible state, it was producing many bunches of its sweet coat- 

 like blossoms. Zichya glabrata, Kennedya prostrata, and Brachysema latif'olium, 

 were from Mr. Clarke, gardenerto W. Block, Esq., but in no way remarkable. 



There was quite an average display, both in numbers and quality, of the 

 charming tribe of Orchidacece, and these obtained, as in former years, a con- 

 siderable amount of the visitors' attention. Mr. Goode, gardener to Mrs. Law- 

 rence, contributed a variety of Stanhopea tigrina, probably S. Devoniana, with 

 very dark blotches in the flower ; a fine plant of the elegant Oncidium divarica- 

 turn ; O. luridum, particularly healthy, and flowering liberally ; O. papilio, the 

 much-admired butterfly-plant, in high health ; Deudrobium cupreum, an im- . 

 mense plant, with many noble racemes of its pale coppery yellow-coloured 

 flowers ; Bletia superba, a species with large and remarkably rich purplish crim- 

 son blossoms ; Epidendrum crassifolium, indicating how beautiful the species is 

 when properly managed ; Chysis aurea, perfectly healthy ; a new species of 

 Epidendrum, near E. selligerum ; and the stately Cyrtopera Andersonii, throw- 

 ing up several strong spikes of showy yellow blooms. Maxillaria Deppii, with 

 nearly twenty of its interesting blossoms, which come up before the leaves ; M. 

 aromatica, flowering in its ordinary profusion, and shedding a delicious aro- 

 matic fragrance ; Cattleya intermedia, with a good scape of bloom ; a variety of 

 C. Mossia?, very splendid, with three flowers on one of the scapes; a species of 

 Catasetum, with strange dingy brown flowers ; Oncidium pulchellum, one of the 

 prettiest of the genus ; O. stramineum, small but pleasing; an apparently new 

 species of Epidendrum, with dense and short upright spikes of whitish flowers ; 

 E. macrochilum, particularly robust; E. primulinum, with gracefully-spreading 

 panicles of pretty blossoms; an enormous plant of Acanthophippium bicolor, the 

 blossoms of which formed quite a bed on the surface of the pot and around the 

 pseudo-bulbs; the delicate white-flowered Burlingtonia venusta ; the brownish- 

 flowered variety of Vanda Roxburghii, Camarotis purpurea, with its long racemes 

 of deep pink blossom ; and the strange Coryanthes macrantha, were from Mr. 

 Mylam, gardener to S. Rucker, Esq., Wandsworth. Mr. Hunt, gardener 

 to Miss Traill, supplied a nice plant of the lovely Dendrobium pulchellum, 

 another of D. Pierardii, trained in an upright manner, to the shape of a 

 cone, but not looking so well as when suffered to hang down naturally, and 

 Oncidium flexuosum, fixed round a low trellis, which prevents it from rambling 

 so much as it would otherwise do. Brassia verrucosa, a rather scarce species, 

 with curious little warty substances on the lip of the flower, was sent, in a very 

 verdant state, by Mr. Edmonds, gardener to the Duke of Devonshire, at Chis- 

 wick. Dendrobium densiflorum, bearing two racemes of flowers on one of its 

 splendid stems, and one on another, came from Mr. Gunner, gardener to Sir G. 

 Larpent, Bart. G. Barker, Esq., of Birmingham, furnished Peristeria Hum- 

 boldti, a new species, with long pendant scapes of yellowish flowers, which are 

 much spotted and blotched with chocolate, and Cycnoches pentadactylon, ano- 

 ther new plant, having the flowers banded with dark brown like those of C. ma- 

 culatum, but altogether larger and darker. Both these last are handsome plants, 

 though their flowers are wanting in any very decided or showy colour. 



A variety of valuable plants was exhibited as single specimens. Doryanthes 

 excelsa was shown in flower by Mr. Hardie, gardener to J. Jarrett, Esq. It had 

 a tall flower-stein, 15 or 20 feet in height, surmounted by a large bunch of very 



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