PROCEEDINGS. 



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April 16, 1850. (Regent Street.) 

 Election. Courtland Skinner Shaw, Esq., M.D., Cheltenham. 



Awards. Large Silver Medal : To Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, 

 for Dampier's Clianth (C. Dampieri). This beautiful 

 greenhouse plant has been raised from New Holland seeds 

 by Messrs. Veitch, under the name of Kennedya speciosa. 

 It formed a stout decumbent herbaceous perennial, of a 

 pallid aspect, covered with long hairs. From the axils of 

 the pinnated leaves, and shorter than they, arise angular 

 peduncles, having on the end four or five quasiumbellate 

 flowers of the most brilliant scarlet. The latter have a deep 

 purple stain, convex, and shining at the base of the standard, 

 a peculiarity which gives the blossoms an interesting ap- 

 pearance. 



Banksian Medals : To Messrs. Henderson, of Pine-apple 

 Place, for a collection of Cinerarias and late-flowering 

 Hyacinths. It was stated that " the latter had been grown 

 in the hardiest manner, the only shelter they received being 

 a cold frame without any covering." To Mrs. Lawrence, 

 F.H.S., for four Orchids ; but more especially for Cattleya 

 Skinneri and Trichopilia suavis. 



Certificates of Merit : To Mrs. Lawrence, for a well-flowered 

 specimen of Erica nitida. To Messrs. Fairbairn, Clapham, 

 for a pink-flowered seedling Azalea called " Dilecta." To 

 Mr. Henderson, Wellington Road, for Epimedium colchi- 

 cum, and Ceanothus papillosus, a beautiful hardy blue- 

 flowered species introduced by the Society from California. 

 To Mr. Ayres, Blackheath, for an example of Pimelea 

 Verse haffeltii. The owner stated that it was sent for the 

 purpose of showing that this Pimelea is a much finer thing 

 than many might be led to infer it would be from the plants 

 exhibited before the Society at a former Meeting. " It has, 

 in addition to its pretty appearance, the estimable property 

 of being (in the evening) deliciously scented, and if an ad- 

 mixture of the scents of the Hawthorn and Heliotrope can 

 be imagined, something of the fragrance of this plant will 

 be realized." For his own part he considers it quite equal 

 to the best of the Pimeleas, and under gogd management he 

 has no doubt it will make a first-rate exhibition plant. To 

 Mr. Jones, Gardener to Sir John Guest, Bart., M.P., for a 

 Ripley Queen Pine Apple, weighing 4 lbs. 2 oz. 



Miscellaneous Subjects of Exhibition. Dendrobium Far- 



