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point so as to become bifid, and they are unequal in length, set on distichously in three rows 

 on each side of the branchlet, the leaves alternating in the rows. 



Acer sp. — Mr. Standish [Com. and B.]. — A Japanese tree, with broad-lobed, slender- 

 stalked, palmate leaves, thickly marked with cream-coloured variegation, so that they were 

 more yellow than green. It will make a fine ornamental tree. 



Alocasia Lowii.— Mr. Bull, Chelsea [F.C.O. and S.K.]. — A remarkably fine stove 

 plant, with large broadly arrow-shaped leaves, marked out by white ribs. It will be found 

 noticed at p. 689 of the second volume of these "Proceedings." 



Areca dealbata. — Mr. Bull [S.C.O. and S.B.]. — A beautiful dwarf Palm, with 

 graceful pinnate leaves, silvery beneath, and composed of numerous long, narrow, acuminate 

 leaflets ; the stalks of the leaves or fronds are spiny, and the midrib has tawny spine-like 

 bristles scattered along its upper surface. 



Athyritjm Filix-fcsmina var. Applebyanum. — Mr. Ivery, Dorking [Com, and B.]. — 

 A very interesting garden sport of the Lady-Fem, the fronds of which showed the peculiar- 

 ities of Frizellics and Fielclice about equally balanced, and were in addition multifidly forked 

 at the end. 



Athyritjm Filix-fcemina var. diffissum. — Mr. Bull [Com. and B,]. — A pretty form of 

 Lady-Pern in which the fronds are very much dissected. 



'Clematis Florida var. Standishii. — Mr. Standish [S.C.C. and S.B.]. — The fine deep 

 violet-coloured Japanese Clematis already noticed above. 



Clematis Forttjnei. — Mr. Standish, Ascot [F.C.C. and S.K.]. — This fine and remark- 

 able double-flowered Japanese Clematis, with white blossoms and unguiculate sepals, had 

 already obtained an award at one of the ordinary meetings of the Committee, and is noticed 

 at p. 113. It was the best of the novelties now exhibited. 



Dendrobitjm Parishii. — Messrs. Low & Co,, Clapton [F.C.C. and S.K.]. — A very 

 showy epiphyte with thick deflexed stems, bearing a profusion of bright clear rosy-mauve 

 flowers, whose fringed lip is marked on each side with a dark crimson purple blotch, the 

 centre portion being of the same colour as the sepals and petals. The flowers appear to grow 

 in pairs, but in the plant exhibited one only on each peduncle was developed. 



Dieffenbackia Vebschaffelti. — M. A. Yerschaff'elt, Ghent [Com. andB.]. — A Brazilian 

 plant, having a distinct erect green-ringed stem like D. seguina, and erect ovate-oblong leaves, 

 which are green, with a few irregular white blotches ; the stalks and thick midribs are white 

 and ivory-like, and arc brought distinctly into view by their erect position. It is a desirable 

 stove herb. 



Dracophyllum sp. — Messrs. Yeitch & Son, Exeter and Chelsea [S.C.C. and S.B.] — A 

 greenhouse evergreen shrub of very desirable habit, introduced from King George's Sound, 

 and bearing compact heads of white flowers. 



Eranthemum (? Sp.). — Messrs. Veitch & Son [S.C.O. and S.B.]. — A beautiful low- 

 o-rowing stove herb with the habit of E. leuconewmm, the stems branching and spreading, 

 each branch bearing a few obtuse oval leaves, which are dark green so thickly veined with 

 pink that the name of rubronervium has been suggested. The plant was showing blossom, 

 the flowering stems being 3 or 4 inches high, terminated by a spike in which the imbricated 

 quadrifavious bracts gave some resemblance to a wheat-ear. 



Euonymus ovatus aureo-vartegatits. — Mr. Bull [Com. and B.]. — A handsome ever- 

 green shrub with dark green oblong obtuse leaves having a shining surface, and marked in 

 the centre with a blotch of bright golden yellow. 



Lastrea Montana var. cRisTATA.— Mr. Williams, Holloway [Com. and B.]. — A pretty 

 hardy Fern, in which the fronds and pinna) are crested at the tips, and the pinnules become 

 somewhat crispy. It is a rare variety. 



Miconia ? argyroneura.— Messrs. Yeitch & Son [S.C.C. and S.B.]. — A bold-habited 

 stove shrub introduced from Peru, and furnished with elliptic, rugose, dark green leaves 

 marked by a broad central silvery bar, the terete stem and the surface of the leaves hairy. 

 It is very beautiful in the state of young plants, in which it was chiefly exhibited, and is 

 likely to be a useful decorative plant of moderate growth. 



Odontoglosstjm Uro-Sxinneri. — Mr. Penny, gardener to H. H. Gibbs, Esq., St. 

 Dunstan's, Eegent's Park [Com. and B.].— A rare species with large compressed pseudo- 

 bulbs, long lorate leaves, and an upright raceme of olive-brown blotched green flowers, 

 having a large cordate white lip thickly spotted with dots of pale lilacy pink. 



Pane-anus elegantissimtjs. — Mr. Bull, Messrs. Veitch & Son, and Mr. Young [S.C.C. 

 and S.B.]. — An elegant form of Screw Pine from the Mauritius, having narrow arching 

 leaves, the keel and margins of which are bordered by red spiny serratures. It is a very 

 graceful plant, already noticed at p. 108. 



Pelargonium Artist. — G. W. Hoyle, Esq. [F.C.C.].— A fine variety approaching 

 Diadem in character, but more rosy and less purple. It is also of excellent form and good 

 habit, and a free-blooming sort. The colour is deep rose on the lower petals, slightly spotted ; 

 dark maroon with a rosy edge on the upper, the throat white. It is quite a first-class flower. 



