EXTRACTS FROM PROCEEDINGS. 



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• A second flower-spike of Kob. Steiger Hyacinth from the bulb 

 exhibited on a former occasion at the H.H.S. produced twenty- 

 three flowers, which may be classed thus for colour : — 



Twelve had more crimson than green in the flowers. 



Five were entirely green. 



Six mostly green, with red points to divisions of the corolla. 



One flower only had the original crimson-purple colour, with 

 scarcely a tinge of green. 



The more pronounced crimson tint was accompanied with a 

 stouter and more normal shape of flower, which had also a more 

 horizontal tendency. One flower of the spike was of the same 

 elongated upright form as in the first spike. 



The greater amount of colour was developed in the lower flowers 

 of the spike except in three instances. These three were the 

 most abnormal of all, green and vertical, and were placed as nearly 

 as possible on the same plane. 



The most normal flower was, as regards position, very little 

 above the three most abnormal ones just mentioned. 



The greater part of the crimson colour was developed on the 

 tubes of the corolla. 



This second flower-stem was slightly flattened and abnormal in 

 the upper part. 



Pollen in good condition was produced on one of the party- 

 coloured flowers. 



FLOBAL COMMITTEE. 

 Mat 4, 1869. 



In addition to a very fine plant of Dendrohium Falconeri, and a 

 charming tuft of Masdevallia Veitcliiana from the garden of E. 

 Salt, Esq., both of which received Special Certificates, the follow- 

 ing awards were made to novelties: — First-class Certificates to 

 Vanda Dennisoniana, a Moulmein plant, with acutely bilobed 

 leaves, and short spikes of large waxy-looking cream-coloured 

 flowers, from Messrs. Veitch and Sons ; to Brassia Laurenceana 

 longissima from Costa Bica, a showy species, remarkable for the 

 very long sepals of its prettily spotted flowers, also from Messrs. 

 Veitch ; to Dendrohium xantliopJilehium, and also to D. transparens, 

 the former with curious whitish flowers having the lip veined 

 with bright orange, the latter with charming white purple-eyed 



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