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purplish violet ; the spikes of bloom are very large and of a dazzling 

 vermilion color. 



Cfpripedium niveum. 



Lycopodium Japonicum (new) . 



3Iandevillea suaveolens, a beautiful white flowering sweet scented 

 climber. 



Narcissus Bulhocodium. 



Rogiera cordata. 



Tacsonia Biichanani. 



Thunbergia Harrisi and T. laurifolia, two beautiful stove ever- 

 green climbers. 



C. M. Atkinson has shown, 



Anthurium /Scherzeriavum, a very handsome plant. 



Bletia TankervilUce or Phaius grandifolius, a very fine plant with 

 twelve spikes of flowers and at least two hundred and fifty blooms. 



Dioncea Muscipnla (Venus' Fl^'-trap) , a very interesting plant, 

 and the best specimen ever shown. A ver}^ excellent article on the 

 Dioncea ma}' be found in the " Gardener's Monthly," Vol. X, 

 p. 229. 



Franciscea calycina major, a very handsome stove evergreen 

 shrub. 



Rhododendron Mrs. Shuttleworth , also very fine. 



Sarracenia Dnim^nondi, a very fine plant indeed. This is an 

 evergreen perennial from Florida, the leaves or pitchers of which 

 grow quite erect, and from a foot to two and a half feet high ; they 

 are of a bright green color, and at the upper expanded end are varie- 

 gated in a reticulated form with white, red, and green, the hood, or 

 lid, which is much undulated, being similarly marked ; the flower 

 is crimson purple. 



/Sarracenia flava, an attractive species, also from Florida, with 

 erect leaves, about two feet high, and having at the apex a large 

 open throat, with a broad lid of a uniform bright green color. One 

 of the best. 



Sarracenia varioJaris, a free growing erect plant, though not so 

 attractive as some others, but worthy of a place in ever}- collection. 

 The flowers are of an apple green tint. 



These three plants were exceedingly interesting and attracted 

 much attention. 



Toxicophlcea spectabilis. 



Thyrsacantlms rutilans, a Aery handsome plant, in fine ])looni. 



