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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 158. 



Messrs. Veitch, who exhibited the plant certificated, also 

 showed H. arborea in good condition. 



Several of Mr. Cannell's Primulas obtained certificates. 



The annual general meeting of the Society was held last 

 Tuesday, when the statements made by the President, Sir 

 Trevor Lawrence, with regard to the work and position of the 



it does not appear to have ever been cultivated or, at any rate, 

 flowered in England. It has small Orchid-like tubers, a stem, 

 only two or three inches long clothed with about six leaves, 

 which are oblong, acute, wavy, and three inches long. The 

 scape is six inches long, one-flowered, and the flower is as 

 large as that of D. grandiflora, but very different inform. The 



Fig. 20. — Lycium Chinense. — See page 100. 



Society gave unqualified satisfaction. With a balance in hand, 

 a rapidly increasing constituency, and general enthusiasm 

 among the leaders of the Society the prospect is exception- 

 ally hopeful. Of the ,£40,000 required to build a hall and offices 

 for the Society in London ^27,000 has already been promised. 

 Disa longicornu.— Tubers of this interesting Orchid were 

 sold at an auction sale in London last week. Although col- 

 lected on Table Mountain, and described by Thunberg in 1773, 



upper sepal forms a large trumpet-shaped, long-spurred, wide- 

 mouthed hood, and the three lower segments are oblong and 

 spreading. The whole flower suggests a Columbine, and is 

 colored lilac-blue. According to Bolus, this species is found 

 only on Table Mountain, where it grows "among moss or . 

 grass in clefts of steep rocks on the sides turned from the sun, 

 where the water drips in early summer, at an altitude of 2,100 

 to 3,coo feet. It flowers in December and January." The 



