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tinge, bore witness to the " Tea " character. The flowers are 

 large and semi-double. 



Rosa sancta. — This was an interesting Rose, having been 

 introduced from convents in Abyssinia, and is the same as has 

 been discovered dried in chaplets found in the tombs of Egypt ; 

 so that it was probably introduced and cultivated there from 

 the earliest antiquity. The only wild Rose in Egypt now is 

 B. involucrata, Roxb., white-flowered, and with obovate leaflets. 

 It still grows semi-wild in a garden on Rhoda Island, Cairo. 



Philadelphus coronaria x P. microphylla. — A hybrid 

 supplied by Mr. Veitch. It has flowers intermediate in size 

 borne on slender branches, with small leaves, more nearly 

 resembling P. microphylla. 



Campanula mirabilis. — This is a new and remarkable 

 species, introduced by Mr. Jackson from the Caucasus. Its 

 round, sub-fleshy leaves with ciliated margins, &c, indicate a 

 probable habitat of a cool and dry mountainous environment. 



Black Currant x Gooseberry. — A fruiting spray was sup- 

 plied by Mr. Culverwell, of Thorpe Perron, Bedale. It is a 

 remarkable hybrid, showing fruit with all the habit of the Black 

 Currant, but green and resembling small Gooseberries. There 

 are no spines of the Gooseberry, nor smell of the Currant, the 

 hybrid partaking partly of some of the parental characters but 

 losing others. 



Lupinus polyphyllus. — A new yellow-flowered seedling, 

 probably an accidental hybrid, of considerable beauty, was shown 

 by Mr. Kelway. 



THE NEPENTHES OF AUSTRALIA. 



Since the publication in our Journal of Mr. Veitch's paper on 

 Nepenthes ("Journal Royal Hort. Soc," vol. xxi. p. 22G) we have 

 been in correspondence with Mr. L. A. Bernays, F.R.H.S., a 

 Member of Parliament in Queensland, and also with Mr. F. 

 Manson Bailey, the Government Botanist at Brisbane. Mr. 

 Bernays very courteously draws attention to the fact that there 

 are some described and some as yet undescribcd species of 

 Nepenthes in Queensland ; and Mr. Bailey most kindly sends 

 descriptions and drawings of five. Writing under date of 



