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very rare in cultivation. The plant exhibited was about 15 inches high. 

 Leaves opposite, rigidly spreading, a little lleshy and brittle ; beautifully 

 mottled with light and dark green, the paler shade following the main 

 net-veins ; the margin broken into about six saw-like lobes terminating in 

 bristles, a few bristles also rising from the centre of the divisions of the 

 upper surface of the leaf, and the lower surface scabrid, especially on the 

 veins ; leaves about 12 inches in length by 4 in width. Inflorescence 

 about 8 inches in length, the spike close-flowered, erect, with pinkish 

 bracts and calyces and white corolla, of which the lip was over an inch in 

 diameter. 



Award of Merit. 



To Sarcococca ruscifolia (votes, 12 for), from Messrs. J. Veitch. A 

 hardy evergreen shrub recently introduced from China, where it was 

 found at altitudes of 6,000 to 10,000 feet. Leaves ovate, acute, glossy dark 

 green above, pale green below, shortly stalked, about 1J inch in length by 

 \ inch in width. Flowers insignificant, greenish-white, in small close 

 axillary clusters, scented. A close relation of the Box, which it resembles 

 in the colour and texture of the foliage, but which it out-distances in the 

 vigour of its growth. Judging from the freedom with which branching 

 had taken place on a shoot from which the tip had been removed it would 

 appear to be very amenable to trimming. 



Other Exhibits. 



Mr. H. Haskins, Bournemouth : Chrysanthemum seedling. 



Mr. W. Pingo Horton, Seaford : miscellaneous flowers. 



Mr. F. J. McBean, Plumpton, Sussex : Chrysanthemum sport. 



Messrs. Paul, Cheshunt : Calceolaria and Montanoa. 



Mr. H. Prothero, Stonehouse : Chrysanthemum seedling. 



Mr. G. Reuthe, Keston : hardy flowers. 



