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smooth, and coloured alike on both sides, with short stalks ; obtuse or slightly cordate at the base, slightly scabrous 

 above. Flowers solitary, brownish-red, larger than usual, Avith a subacid unpleasant odour. Bracts numerous, subu- 

 late, revolute, green. Sepals and petals linear -lanceolate, obtuse, the outer spreading or even rolled back, the inner 

 erect, few, of unequal lengths, incurved, completely concealing the stamens. This species is rather tender, with a 

 handsomer foliage than other "Carolina Allspices," but without their delicious fragrance. It is more an object of 

 botanical than horticultural interest. It flowers in June and July. — Journal of Hort. Soc, vol. vi. 



Selaginella grandis. Moore. At the second fortnightly meeting in May, 1882, 

 of the Royal Horticultural Society, this fine Selaginella was exhibited by Messrs. Veitch, 

 of Chelsea, under the provisional name of S. platyphylla, where it received a First Class 

 Certificate, an honour which the plant was highly deserving of, for it is one of the most 

 distinct and beautiful of the family. Its broad dense fronds curve over towards the 

 extremities, giving them the appearance of massive ostrich feathers. It comes from 

 Borneo, where it was collected by Mr. Curtis, consequently it will no doubt require a 

 considerable amount of heat to grow it satisfactorily. The beauty of the fronds is still 

 further enhanced by the long elegant fertile appendages produced at their extremities. 



Stem erect from a creeping, rooting base, as thick as a-straw, six to twelve inches high, obscurely tetragonal, com- 

 pressed, clothed with ovate-acuminate, serrulated leaves, the lateral ones becoming longer upwards, and merging 



