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THE PL0SIS1 AND POXOLOGIST. 



The cordate leaflets are slightly furnished, as are the stalks both of the leaves and flowers, 

 with woolly pubescence ; and the flowers are large, of a deep mauve or light violet colour 

 about 4 T inches across, and consisting of eight broadly-oval sepals, which measure about 

 14 men across, and are somewhat woolly behind. 



Ceerodendron Thomson^.— Messrs. Jackson & Son, Kingston: Silver Knightian 

 Medal, May 21.— A hothouse climber from Old Calabar, of rather slender habit and moderate 

 growth, bearing oblong, ovate, acute leaves and cyniose panicles of remarkably handsome 

 flowers, which consist of a large, loose, white, five-cornered calyx, with the crimson- scarlet 

 corolla just protruding from the points of its appressed segments. 



Crinum, sp.— Mrs. Speke, St. George's Road, London : Silver Banksian Medal, June 11. 

 — - 1 his was stated to have been received from near the great central African Lake Victoria 

 -Nyanza. The plant has broad lorate leaves slightly crisped at the edge, and large white 

 flowers marked down the centre of the segments with a broad deep red streak. 



Cypkieeditjm barbatum, var. grande. —Mr. Williams : Second-class Certificate, April 1. 

 —This fine variety is most remarkable for its very broad dorsal sepal, which measures 

 nearly %\ inches across, and is white with strong veins green below changing to purple in the 

 upper part. The lip of a deep brown purple, and the petals pale rose-culoured towards the 

 tips, greenish-brown towards the base, and slightly warty on the upper margin. 



Cyrtomium anomophyllum.— Mr, Standish : Second-class Certificate, April 22.— This 

 Chinese and Japanese Fern is an elegant pinnated species of erect habit, differing from 

 0. falcatum in its smaller-sized pinnae, of thinner texture ; and from C. cari/oticleum, to which 

 it is most closely allied, in its narrower fronds and more numerous pinnaa. 



Dammara, sp.— Messrs. Veitch & Son: Silver Banksian Medal, May 21.— An evergreen 

 shrub exhibited as a J apanese Dammara j it had lance-shaped green shining leaves. 



Delphinium bicolor grandiflorum.— Messrs. Downie, Laird, & Laing, Sydenham 

 and Edinburgh : Commendation, June 11.— A showy variety with large flowers. The sepals 

 a dark blue ; the petals creamy white. 



Dendrobium cucublatum, var, Majus. — Messrs. Low & Co., Clapton: First-class 

 Certificate, March 19. — A fine epiphyte from Mouknein. The long, slender, drooping stems 

 were furnished with lanceolate oblong leaves, and numerous large flowers. The sepals and 

 petals pale purplish, and the pubescent lip broadly cordate, concave, and cream-coloured. 



Dendrobium Falconeri.— Mr. Sherratt, gardener to J. Bateman, Esq., Knypersley 

 Hall: Silver Knightian Medal, June 11. — A rare and beautiful Indian Orchid, the white 

 flowers tipped with rich rose purple, and marked on the lip with a deep sanguineous purple 

 spot surrounded by yellow", 



Dendrobium nodatum.— Messrs. Low & Co., Clapton : Silver Banksian Medal, July 2.— 

 A pretty epiphyte from Moulmein, having dwarfish moniliform stems, oblong lanceolate 

 leaves ; pale creamy yellow flowers, with a cordate lip of a deep orange yellow, creamy at 

 the acute tip and marked with two small deep crimson spots at the base. 



Dendrobium saeao.nse.' — Messrs. Low & Co., Clapton: Silver Banksian Medal, 

 May 31. A distinct and handsome Indian epiphyte with upright rod-like leafless stems, 

 bearing short crowded racemes of small orange-coloured flowers from their nodes. The 

 segments are each marked with three or four distinct red stripes on their face. 



Draccena Ghtesbreghtii.— Mr. Bull, Chelsea : Second-class Certificate, April 22.— An 

 elegant conservatory plant from Mexico, with long, green, narrow leaves, erect at the base, 

 and then arching outwards, so as to form a pretty head. 



Dracgena, sp. — Messrs. Veitch & Son : Silver Knightian Medal, July 2.— A dwarf- 

 habited stove plant with broad elliptic leaves, dark green, much blotched with yellow green 

 disposed in roundish patches which become variously confluent. 



Epidendrum prismatocarpum.— R. Warner, Esq., Broomfield : Bronze Medal, July 2. 

 A neat and pretty epiphyte, with the flowers in an erect raceme. The sepals and petals pale 

 greenish-yellow ; the former marked with large conspicuous deep brown blotches, the latter 

 racily spotted. The lip small, pale rose colour. 



Eranthemum_ verbenaceum.— The Society: Second-class Certificate, April 22.— A 

 stove Acanthad, with ovate-lanceolate leaves nearly covered with didl silvery variegation. 



Eurya angustiiolia. — Mr. Standish: First-class Certificate, May 6.— A compact 

 Japanese bush provisionally so named, with narrow or lanceolate acuminate leaves, broadest 

 above the centre, and having an irregular edge of cream colour, distinct, of ornamental 

 character. 



Ficus Cooperi.— Messrs. Veitch & Son : Silver Banksian Medal, May 21.— A bold erect 

 shrub from New South Wales, with large, elliptic, dark green leaves, narrowed and subcordate 

 at the base, acuminate at the apex, the midrib and principal veins conspicuously marked 

 out by red lines both above and below. 



Genista Everestiana.— Mr. C. Everest, Albert Nursery, Beading : First-class Certifi- 

 cate, April 22.— A seedling raised by Mr. Everest, and forming a fine, close-habited, free- 

 growing bush, with small leaves having short obovate blunt-ended leaflets. The flowers pro- 



