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usual white flowers, only closer and more compact in form and 

 purer in colour, and with a small red eye, but much less promi- 

 nent than in the usual red-eyed sort : it was regarded as a desirable 

 acquisition, and was called Turneri. Mr. Williams also sent two 

 fine plants of Angrcecum ebnrneum — the one being the variety called 

 superbum, with a very broad pure white lip, and the other virens, 

 in which the lip is smaller and of a greenish white. 



Mr. Earley, gardener to Felix Pry or, Esq., Digswell, sent a 

 hybrid Begonia, which he called Earley's hybrid. It had short 

 stout erect rough stems, acutely lobed serrated leaves, and deep- 

 rosy-pink flowers. Mr. Earley stated that the male parent was 

 B. ricinifolia, and added, " the leaves shine very beautifully by 

 artificial light, and in small pots are well adapted, with the addi- 

 tion of their bold spikes of flowers, for table or indoor decoration, 

 the spikes rising well above the foliage, and requiring no artificial 

 support." Mr. Reynolds, gardener to Dr. Sankey, Sandy well 

 Park, near Cheltenham, sent Selaginella denticulata variegata, a 

 plant with yellowish-green tips, which it was thought was not in 

 condition. 



From the Society's Gardens, at South Kensington, came a 

 beautiful little plant of Sophromtis grandiflora with nine expanded 

 flowers, a plant of Odontoglossum hystrix introduced by Mr. Weir, 

 and one of Mr. "Weir's Cattleyas from Bogota, which proved to be 

 the same as C. Warscewiczii delicata. 



Erom Chiswick Garden was contributed Palicourea discolor, 

 one of Mr. Weir's introductions, with opposite elliptic-acuminate 

 leaves of a dark velvety bottle-green, with a distinct white midrib, 

 which in age becomes somewhat pinkish ; Draccena fragrans, a 

 good old plant, which opens its blossoms in the evening, and then 

 deliciously scents the house in which it stands ; Clivia nobilis, 

 another good old plant ; Saxifraga tricolor, with handsomely 

 variegated leaves ; Bycnostacliys urticcefolia, a labiate with bright- 

 blue flowers ; also a collection of sixteen varieties of Yellow- 

 leaved Pelargoniums. 



Mr. Berkeley first drew attention to the supposed new species 

 of Calantlic. It was clearly a form of C. vestita, differing only in 

 the rosy streak on the lip, which is yellow in the older form. This 

 is the species which, with Limatodes rosea, was the parent which 

 gave rise to the beautiful hybrid Calantlie Vmtchii, which attracted 

 so much notice at a former Meeting. 



One of the Odontoglossa exhibited by Mr. Low at the last De- 

 cember Meeting was O. hystrix, a species, in common with O. 



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