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cultivated, but bearing male flowers, the plant being a male, and tbe first which has been 

 exhibited in blossom in England. It is hoped now that the two forms are introduced to our 

 gardens we may get bushes of this most useful shrub laden with its conspicuous orange-red 

 berries. 



Azalea Flag of Truce. — Messrs. Smith [Spec. C.]. — This was a group of young plants 

 showing that the variety, a double pure white, rather improves under cultivation. It is a 

 very fine thing. 



Camellia J ubilje rosea. — Messrs. Lee. — An imbricated flower, rather flat but showy, 

 of a rosy pink colour ; a sport from the variety called Jubilaa. 



Camellia Napoleon III.— Messrs. Lee [Com.]. — A pleasing double-cupped variety 

 with veined pink flowers, paler at the edges ; as shown, the blossoms were scarcely of 

 average size. 



Cineraria John Spencer. — Mr. Turner [Com.]. — A deep crimson self, the "pips" 

 large and very showy, and the disk of nearly the same colour as the ray. It was rewarded 

 as a very telling decorative variety, but was deficient in some of the technical merits sought 

 for by florists. 



Hebeclinium maceophyllum. — Messrs. A. Henderson & Co. — A Mexican plant, 

 remarkable for its gigantic cordate green leaves, and its large corymbs of reddish-lilac 

 Ageratum-like flower-heads. It is said to be much used in the warmer parts of the continent 

 as an out-door summer-foliaged plant ; but it remains to be seen whether it is adapted for a 

 similar purpose in our climate. Also IlebeoUnium atrorubens, a plant resembling II. ianthinnm, 

 but having dark red stems and branches, and reddish-lilac flower-heads. 



Nephelaphyllum cordatum. — Mr. Bull. — A dwarf East Indian Orchid, with the leaves 

 more cordate, as well as paler, than those of N. pulchrum. 



Pandanus elegantissimus. — Messrs. Yeitch & Son, Exeter and Chelsea; Mr, Bull, 

 Chelsea [F.C.C.]. — A small-growing and very elegant- habited species of Screw Pine, the 

 gracefully arching leaves of which were narrow, deep green, with a row of red spiny teeth 

 on the keel and on either margini 



Primula sinensis plore pleno.— Messrs. F. & A. Smith, Didwich [Spec, C.].— Under the 

 names of delicata and rubra grandiflora, Messrs. Smith last year exhibited two remarkably 

 fine double Chinese Primroses, which, were said to have the property of increasing themselves 

 from seeds. A group of seedlings from these plants were now shown all perfectly double, 

 and showing the two colours of the originals. 



Rhododendron Romain de Smet. — Messrs. Veitch & Son ; Messrs. Lee, Hammersmith 

 [Com.].— A Belgian hybrid, shoAvn by Mr. Veitch as a good forcing variety. The flowers 

 were blush, spotted thickly on each of the segments with black. It was considered to be an 

 improvement on the varieties of this character, of which several are known. 



Skimmia japonica vera. — Mr. Standish, Bagshot [F.C.C.]. — This was exhibited as the 

 true Skimmia japonica, and is distinct from the plant generally known and cultivated under 

 this name. It differs most notably in being of larger size and freer habit, and is to be 

 regarded as a fine evergreen shrub well clothed with smooth-surfaced elliptic danceolate 

 leaves of a full green colour. The small greenish fragrant flowers form thyrsoid panicles 

 at the ends of the branches considerably larger than in the kind first introduced. Should 

 these be succeeded, as in the dwarfer plant, by a crop of bright red berries, this shrub will 

 be a great acquisition for our shrubberies ; but no information was afforded as to its berry- 

 bearing qualities. The plant was introduced from Japan by Mr. Fortune. 



Trichomanes spicatum. — Mr. Bull [F.C.C.]. — A curious little West Indian Film Fern 

 referred by some pteridologists to the genus Feea on account of the dimorphous character of 

 its fronds. The sterile fronds are spreading in a tuft from the crown, and pinnatifidly 

 divided, in size, form, and position much resembling those of a medium-sized plant of 

 JBlechnum spicant, but differing entirely in their transparent texture. In the centre rise the 

 fertile fronds, which are reduced to a two-ranked spike of soriferous cysts, from which the 

 receptacle projects. It is a very pretty dwarf plant, of much interest from these peculiarities 

 of structure. 



March 31st, 1863. 



Amaryllis Brilliant. — Messr?. E. G. Henderson & Son [S.C.C.]. — One of the 

 Hippeastrum series, a handsome variety with well-formed and well-expanded flowers of a 

 deep rich crimson, and having a slightly-marked white stripe down each of the segments. 



Amaryllis Fire King. — Mr. W. Bull, Chelsea [Com.]. — A showy variety, with the 

 flowers of a very bright scarlet marked with a white star, but rather small in size. 



Anthurium Scherzerianum. — Messrs. Veitch & Son [F.C.C.]. — This had already 

 received one of the minor prizes at the summer shows of last year, but Avas now shown in a 

 finer condition, meriting one of the highest awards at the disposal of the Committee. The 

 lance-acuminate, deep green, fleshy-looking stalked leaves form a beautiful surrounding to 

 the bright scarlet inflorescence, which is elevated on a slender scape, and consists of an 

 ovate, reflexed, deep scarlet spathe, and a vermiform paler scarlet spadix. 



