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beautifully striped with brofid bands and lines of pure white, and 

 are gracefully recurved. It is a superior plant for exhibition or 

 decorative purposes. 



At the Annual Exhibition Hovey & Co. exhibited a splendid speci- 

 men of Pandanus rejlexus, a fine stove evergreen plant. William 

 Gray, Jr., showed a very fine specimen of Platycerium grande. 

 " This fine fern should be grown on a large block, upon which 

 it forms a beautiful coronet. The sterile fronds or shields are erect 

 and permanent, alternately overlapping each other, rounded on the 

 lower edge, the upper part much divided or forked. The fertile 

 fronds rise from the sinus of the sterile ones, are coriaceous in 

 texture, mau}^ times dichotomousty forked, and densely clothed 

 with white, stellate scales ; they measure from one to three feet 

 in length, and the sori foriu a dense, irregular patch near the 

 sinus of the first division. It requires a stove temperature. It is 

 a native of the Malay Islands, and of various parts of Australia." 

 " The Garden," Vol. Ill, p. 275, where it is also figured. 



Specimen Flowering Plants. — Hove}- & Co. exhibited Lapa- 

 geria alba^ and AUamanda Schottii, and William Gray, Jr., Cypri 

 pjedium Roezlii. The last named is a native of New Grenada ; the 

 sepals of the flower are of a delicate pink color, streaked with red, 

 the greenish, attenuated petals being margined with bright pink or 

 red ; the lip is of a clear greenish yellow tint ; the leaves are glossy 

 bright green. We believe it is the first time it has been exhibited. 



Variegated Leaved Plants were shown by Hovey & Co. and 

 William Gra} , Jr., and although there was nothing new in either 

 collection, the plants were well grown specimens of good standard 

 species and varieties. 



Specimen Variegated Leaved Plants. — William Gray, Jr., 

 exhibited a fine plant of Pliorviium Colensoi , and J. B. Moore, a 

 fine plant of Croton mterru2ytn7n. 



Caladiums were shown by C. M. Atkinson, Hovey & Co., J. B. 

 Moore, and W. T. Andrews. The plants were not as large as 

 some that have been shown in former years, but the foliage was 

 particularly fine, and some of the varieties were verv showy, and 

 highly ornamental. The very fine collection from W. T. Andrews 

 was a great attraction ; the following named varieties were very 

 striking : 



Barillet. Dr. Lindley. 



De Ilinnboldt. Due de Morny. 



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