EXTEACTS FBOM PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



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MISCELLANEOUS MATTER. 



August 7. — Mr. Hodge, gardener to E. Wright, Esq., sent a fine 

 edit specimen of Vanda Loioii or, as it is now called by some 

 authorities, Renanthera Lowii. This magnificent and remarkable 

 species is a native of Borneo, where it was found by Mr. Low, jun., 

 in compliment to whom it was first named. It grows to a con- 

 siderable height, and from near the top of its stem it sends out 

 several long, slender, pendulous flower-spikes, often 10 or 12 feet 

 in length, clothed with numerous yellow and rich reddish-brown 

 blossoms of considerable size. The spike exhibited was some 7 or 8 

 feet in length, and it was ornamented with thirty handsome fully 

 developed flowers. The first two or three blossoms at the base of 

 the spike differ from the rest not onty in colour but also in texture, 

 and are much less handsome than the others. This Renanthera 

 has been in the country many years, but it was long before it 

 produced flowers. A plant of it in Mr. Eucker's garden at "Wands- 

 worth, has borne no fewer than twelve flower-spikes at one time, 

 which, owing to their great length, had to be festooned over the 

 pathway, a position in which they had a very striking appearance. 

 Messrs. Yeitch and Sons exhibited Vanda JBensonii, so named in 

 compliment to Lieut.-Col. Benson, Deputy Adjutant- G-eneral at 

 Eangoon, an enthusiastic collector of plants. This blossoms freely, 

 and is a truly beautiful species, in the way of V. Roxlurgliii, but 

 having the yellowish sepals and petals spotted, rather than tes- 

 selated, and the less rose-coloured. They had also a remarkable 

 Bolbopliyllum, caMe&reticulatim, from Borneo, the leaves of which 

 looked as if they were covered all over with beautiful network, and 



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