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purple flowers in long slender spikes ; Maxillaria nigrescens, a 

 species with peculiar brownish-coloured flowers, narrow acute 

 sepals and petals ; the attractive Oncidiuin tigrinum was bear- 

 ing a long spike of flowers with large yellow labellums and 

 narrow sepals and petals marked with chocolate bars and spots. 

 Among other plants were the hybrid Nepenthes, N. Outramiana, 

 obtained from a cross between N. Sedeni and N. Hookeri ; the 

 pitchers are freely produced, of medium size and thickly marked 

 with red. A first-class certificate was awarded for it. A good 

 specimen of the narrow-leaved Croton Rodeckiana, excellently 

 coloured, was also exhibited. The group was backed up with 

 Katakidozamia Hopei, Panax excelsa compacta, Hyphorbe ex- 

 celsa, and the following, for each of which first-class certificates 

 were awarded: — Cocos elegantissimus, a very graceful species 

 with slender drooping bright green leaves, and Calamus densus, 

 a distinct and handsome plant. 



Mr. "W. Bull, Chelsea, was accorded a vote of thanks for a 

 number of new and rare plants, of which the most noticeable 

 were the following: — Tillandsia Lindeni genuina, with fine 

 purple flowers on a broad flattened spike ; Masdevallia velifera, 

 small flowers of a curious yellowish brown tinge; Cycnoches 

 "Warscewiczii, an extraordinary Orchid, one of Mr. Bull's recent 

 introductions. The flowers have no beauty whatever in a 

 horticultural point of view, as they are of a pale green colour, 

 but they are interesting from being of two very different forms. 

 One form (female) is 2 or 3 inches in diameter, with ovate sepals and 

 petals and a heart-shaped labellum, and are borne on a short 

 stiff spike. The other form (male) is small, with a peculiar stalked 

 filamentous labellum, and the flowers are borne on a long pendu- 

 lous spike. A botanical certificate was awarded for this peculiar 

 plant. The very fine Oncidium varicosum with a dense panicle 

 of bright yellow flowers, Eollea ccelestis, Oncidium ornithor- 

 hynchum, 0. macranthum, and Pleione lagenaria were also in 

 good condition. A first-class certificate was awarded for Adiantum 

 mundulum, an elegant little compact Maidenhair Fern with 

 bipinnate fronds ; and similar awards were granted to Polystichum 

 lentum, a pretty Pern with bright green pinnate fronds, the 



