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teresting to our readers. As they are better studied, and more information acquired of their 

 uses, they may serve for other purposes, of which I am at present in comparative ignorance. 

 But if, in this one class of trees, there are so many useful indications, it is surely a legitimate 

 conclusion that Victoria presents a wide field for the operations of industry and science, and 

 abundant promise of the rich reward which is due to exertion and intelligence. 



Kinnahaird. Bobert Murray, F.B.H.S. 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



FLORAL COMMITTEE AWARDS, &C. 

 (Continued from page 189, 1862.) 

 Lithospermum fruticosum. — Messrs. J. & 0. Lee, Hammersmith : Second-class Certi- 

 ficate, April 22. — A dwarf suffruticose perennial from the south of Europe, well adapted for 

 summer rockwork. The leaves small, linear-lanceolate, hairy : the flowers bright blue, 

 borne at the ends of the short twiggy branches. 



Litobrochia nobilis. — Messrs. Veitch & Son: Silver Banksian Medal, June 11. — A 

 noble stove Fern of the Doryopteris group, and looking like a gigantic Litobrochia pahnata. 

 The fronds, many of them measuring a foot across the lamina, which was palinately bipin- 

 natifid, were supported on black stipites. 



Lomaria gibba. — Messrs. Veitch & Son : Silver Knightian Medal, July 2. — A very 

 graceful Australian Fern, producing a dense plumy head of light green fronds about a couple 

 of feet in length, pinnatifld almost to the rachis into linear acute undulated segments, which 

 are gibbously decurrent at the base. The fertile fronds have narrower segments more strongly 

 decurrent on the rachis. 



Lomatia elegantissima. — Mr. Bull : Second-class Certificate, April 22. — A slender 

 evergreen shrub from New Zealand, with very elegant finely-dissected leaves, ovate-trian- 

 gular in outline, tripinnate, with small linear-acute sometimes trifid segments. 



Lonicera brachtpoda, var. aureo-reticulata. — Mr. Standish, Bagshot : Silver 

 Knightian Medal, July 2. — A beautiful Japanese climber, having the ovate leaves of a 

 lively green netted with gulden yellow. 



Luzula sylvatica, var. aureo-vittata. — Mr. Salter, Versailles Nursery, Hammer- 

 smith : Commended, April 1. — An elegant dwarf hardy herbaceous plant, with the loosely- 

 spreading grassy leaves green, strongly marked with yellow bands or stripes. 



Microlepia scabra. — Mr. Standish : Second-class Certificate, May 6. — A distinct- 

 looking Fern, adapted for baskets, having a creeping rhizome, and narrowish pinnato-pin- 

 natifid hairy fronds, 1-2 feet long; the pinnas lanceolate falcate, pinnatifldly lobed, and 

 acutely auricled at the anterior base. 



Musa vittata. — Messrs. Veitch & Son : First-class Certificate, April 1 ; Messrs. 

 Low & Co., Messrs. Jackson & Son, Messrs. Veitch & Son, Messrs. J. & C. Lee, and Mr. 

 Bull: Silver Banksian Medal, May 21. — A fine new form of Plantain from the island of 

 St. Thomas, in the Gulf of Guinea. The leaves variegated with greyish-green, and yellowish- 

 white, irregularly disposed in bands or sections passing from the midrib towards the margin. 

 A good-looking stove plant. 



Nepenthes Dominiana. — Messrs. Veitch &Son: First-class Certificate, June 11. — A 

 cross between N. Rqfflesiana and an unnamed sort. In the hybrid the pitchers are shortish, 

 green, slightly blotched with red, and fringed with long cilia) down the back. 



Nolan A lanceolata. — Messrs. Veitch & Son: Bronze Medal, June 11. — A rather 

 showy annual plant, with long-stalked lanceolate greyish radicle-leaves and trailing branches 

 bearing large pale blue Convolvulus-like flowers, the throat of which was white, marked with 

 five greenish blotches. 



Oreopanax dactylifolium, — Mr. Bull: Bronze Medal, June 11. — A bold-looking 

 shrub, with palmately-lobed leaves clothed with rusty pubescence. 



Osmanthtjs ilicipolius POL. variegatis. — Mr. Standish ; Second-class Certificate, 

 May 6. — A Holly-like shrub, with broad obovate leaves irregularly margined with creamy 

 white, and set at the edge with coarse spiny teeth. It will piobably be a useful hardy shrub. 



Osmanthtjs ilicipolius variegattjs aureus. — Mr. Standish: Bronze Medal, May 21. — 

 A dwarf evergreen shrub, with flat spiny-edged leaves of a dark green colour very prettily 

 margined in an irregular manner with paler or yellowish- green. This promises to be a very 

 ornamental shrub. 



Osmunda regalis var. cristata. — Messrs. Osborn & Sons, Fulham : Silver Banksian 

 Medal, June 11. — A handsomely-crested variety of the Eoyal Fern, having the tips of the 

 pinnae and pinnules, as well of the inflorescence, dilated and crisped. 



Ourisia coccinea.— Messrs. Veitch & Son : Silver Knightian Medal, May 31. — A dwarf 

 hardy perennial from Chili. The leaves cordate, somewhat like those of a Mitetta ; and the 



