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the flowers were chocolate-striped; an Acineta, provisionally named 

 A. Arcei, from Central America, bearing large pendulous racemes 

 of showy yellow flowers, different from those of any species yet in 

 cultivation ; well-bloomed examples of Disa yrandiflora, one of the 

 handsomest of terrestrial Cape Orchids ; a pinkish-lilac variety 

 of Ionopsis paniculata; Mttonia, or, as it also called, Gymnostacliyum 

 Ver sclw ffieltii, and a variety of the same from Equador, with 

 leaves veined with even brighter red than itself; and Tricliomanes 

 concinnum, 8b handsome Eern, with finely cut elegant fronds. 

 Erom Mr. Bull came a variety of Broussonetia papyrifera, with 

 leaves beautifully variegated with white ; this was stated to be as 

 hardy as the common Paper Mulberry, which is so called on 

 account of its fibrous inner bark being used by the Japanese and 

 Chinese for making paper ; the natives also in Otaheite and other 

 South-Sea Islands manufacture a large portion of their clothing 

 from its bark : with it came a basket of cut blooms of Allamanda 

 Hendersoni ; Tradescantia vittata, a creeping stove-plant resem- 

 bling Oyanotis vittata in habit, but with pretty white and green 

 leaves ; and Sarcoglottis zehrina, with white- striped foliage. Mr. 

 Parker showed on this occasion Fleopeltis incurvata, a noble- 

 looking evergreen stove-Eern from Java, in which* the fronds are 

 pinnatifid and the fertile ones remarkably contracted as compared 

 with the broad coriaceous sterile ones ; Notliocliloena cretacea, a 

 beautiful dwarf silver Eern ; the white-blossomed variety of 

 Agapantlius umbellatus; and a prettily marked Goody era pubescens, 

 called intermedia. Erom Messrs. E. Gr. Henderson and Son came 

 Allamanda Sclwttii Hendersoni ; Christine, a Nosegay Pelargonium, 

 a variety with fine trusses of rosy pink, white-eyed flowers, and 

 nearly plain leaves ; and the tricolor-leaved varieties called Lucy 

 Grieve, Lady Cullum, and Countess of Tyrconnel. Mr. Henderson, 

 Sion Nursery, Thornton Heath, contributed a remarkably strong 

 shoot of the climbing variety of Rosa devoniensis, which bore 

 twenty-seven flowers and buds. Mr. Chater, of Saffron Walden, 

 contributed various Hollyhocks, both in a cut state and in the form 

 of spikes ; among the latter were beautiful examples of E. Speed, 

 white flushed with red ; _F. Chater, fine yellow ; and speciosa, buff 

 suffused with rose. Messrs. Cutbush had a noble variety of 

 Lilium auratum, called splendidum, remarkable for the great 

 amount of reddish brown which had replaced the yellow in the 

 upper part of the band. Mr. Turner furnished basketfuls of 

 Nosegay Pelargoniums, the best of which were Duchess of Suther- 



