CCXlviii PROCEEDiNdS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Floeal Committee, December 19, 1911. 



Mr. H. B. May, V.M.H., in the Chair, and seventeen 

 members present. 



Awards Recommended :— 



Award of Merit. 



To Buddleia officinalis (votes, unanimous), from Messrs. J. Veitch, 

 Chelsea. A new species collected in China by Mr. E. H. Wilson. 

 The flowers are borne in small terminal heads and are pale lilac in 

 colour, with a zone of orange cadmium in the middle. The stems and 

 the under-surfaces of the leaves are covered with soft woolly hairs 

 which are also prominent on the calyx and the tube of the corolla. The 

 leaves are lanceolate and dark green. The flowers have a very pleasing 

 fragrance. The plant is not quite hardy at Coombe Wood, and the 

 specimen exhibited was pot-grown and about 3 feet high. 



Other Exhibits. 



P. Bullivant, Esq., Beckenham : Chrysanthemum 'Mrs. Browne 

 Bullivant. ' 



Mr. W. Iggulden, Frome : Chrysanthemum 'Christmas Bronze.' 

 Messrs. Wells, Merstham : Chrysanthemums. 



