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Burlingtonia fragrans. A fine specimen of this 
rare and highly fragrant species was exliibited with 
the above, with a flower spike having upon it half a 
score of its delicate yellow and white flowers. Also 
Arpophyllum giganteum, a very interesting plant;, 
with a perpendicular spike of minute, waxy, 
purplish-crimson flowers. 
Trichopilia tortilis. A superb mass of this 
beautiful, but extremely curious Mexican orchid, 
composed of more than forty of its handsome 
white and deep crimson flowers, forming a globular 
mass of inflorescence nearly twelve inches in 
diameter, was exhibited in the group of J. Schroeder, 
Esq., Stratford, which also contained a good 
Cattleya Skinner i, with seven spikes. 
Vanda cristata. A fine specimen, with deeply 
channelled foliage, and large, whitish, mottled and 
dark-brown striped flowers protruding solitarily on 
long peduncles. In the same exhibition was a 
well-managed plant of 
Oncidium ampliatum major. 
Calantlie veratrifolia. A good plant, exquisitely 
bloomed. 
Oncidium stramineum. A neat, well-bloomed 
specimen of this pretty species was exhibited by 
Mr. Beck, of Isleworth, who also had that fine 
epiphyte, 
Saccolabium guttatum, exhibiting a couple of 
racemes of its white, rose-spotted and rosy purple- 
lipped flowers, and a fine specimen, in capital 
condition, of 
Epidendrum crassifolium. 
Dendrohium fimhriatum. A good plant of this 
old orchid, exhibiting more than thirty pendulous 
racemes of its rich yellow, fringed florescence, 
which, contrasted with the dark-green foliage, com- 
posed an object of singular grace and beauty, was 
shown at the Chiswick meeting by Mr, JBruce, 
gardener to B. Miller, Esq. 
Dendrohium Wallicliianum. A first-rate speci- 
men, full of flowers of this capital orchid, was 
exhibited from the Duchess Dowager of Northum- 
berland's collection, by Mr. Iveson. 
Erica Cavendishii. An immense plant, of pyra- 
midical growth, of this magnificent heath, com- 
posed from the base to the apex of robust perpen- 
dicular branches and stiflf laterals profusely clad 
with bright yellow florescence, was exhibited as a 
superior specimen of cultivation, at Chiswick, by 
Messrs. Fairburn, of Clapham Nursery. 
Pimelea spectabilis. Admirable specimens of 
culture of this most beautiful of Pimeleas were 
numerous at the Chiswick meeting ; but the grand 
plant, exhibited by Mr. May, gardener to Mrs. 
Lawrence, Ealing Park, far outshone them all both 
in size and display of flowers. It was at least six 
feet in diameter. 
Gompholohlmn polymorphum. A'"good specimen 
of this beautiful but rarely well-managed legumi- 
nous plant, trained over a broad shield-like trellis, 
was exhibited by Mr. Campbell, gardener to C. 
Huggins, Esq., Norwood. 
Ixora coccinea. A gorgeous specimen of this 
fine stove-plant, in first-rate condition, forming a 
rich combination of foliage and scarlet-crimson 
flower-heads, was exhibited from the collection of 
J. Coster, Esq., Streatham. 
Nemophila maculata. A nice-trained plant of 
this showy Californian annual, with numerous 
white flowers having bluish-purple blotches at 
their central margins, we noticed in a pot in the 
large conservatory at Chiswick. Although quite 
hardy, and adapted for flower-garden decoration, it 
is nevertheless an ornamental spring plant for the 
greenhouse or conservatory, when trained over a 
shield-like or globular wire trellis in the manner 
we noticed at Chiswick. Some of the individual 
flov^ers upon the plant alluded to were as large as 
a crown-piece. 
Rondeletia. A new erect-growing species, with 
large shining Ixora-like foliage and corymbose 
heads of pink and white flowers, was exhibited at 
the Horticultural Society's Eooms in Eegent Street, 
by Mr. Smith, gardener to Mr. Anderson, Regent's 
Park. Mr. Smith said he had accidentally dis- 
covered it in soil adhering to a South American 
importation of Orchids, with which it had appa- 
rently been introduced and then germinated. 
Being quite shrubby, and by no means tender, it 
may ultimately prove a useful greenhouse plant 
when well cultivated. 
Cyclamen Persiciim. Although as "old as the 
hills," we cannot refrain from noticing the most re- 
markable specimen ive ever beheld, which was also 
present at the last meeting of the Horticultural 
Society in Regent Street. It was growing in fertile 
soil in a large pot, and composed a deliciously- 
fragrant mass of white florescence and dark foliage 
full eighteen inches in diameter, the produce of an 
individual bulb. The specimen was forwarded to 
the Meeting Rooms by Mr. Myatt, Deptford, and 
sufiiciently exemplified what gratifying results an 
extensive rooting medium, in conjunction with 
good cultivation, will secure. 
Coleonema pulchra. This elegant greenhouse 
plant is not so extensively diffused as it deserves 
to be, or if not uncommonly met with in collec- 
tions, it is rarely seen otherwise than a neglected 
specimen. 
It is, however, deserving of a better fate and 
more extensive patronage, as those who require 
ocular demonstration to convince them, may per- 
ceive by a visit to Messrs, Henderson's, Pine 
Apple Place. 
In their nursery we recently saw a fine specimen 
three or four feet in height, and four or more feet 
through, composed of long slender plume-like 
branches, exhibiting all the grace of the giant 
feather grass, with the additional beauty of a pro- 
fusion of small Boronia-like flowers of a pinkish 
hue clothing their extremities. To cultivate it 
well, abundance of pot room must be afforded it, 
as the roots are numerous ; and during the forma- 
tion of the specimen frequent " stopping " must be 
resorted to, as the growth of the young shoots is 
rapid. 
The observations we have above made in refer- 
ence to the Chiswick exhibition in the aggregate 
are generally applicable to the first meeting of 
the Royal Botanic Society, held on the 16th May, 
so that it will be unnecessary to repeat them here. 
Many of the superb collections and remarkable 
" specimens" brought together on the former occa- 
sion, were reproduced here, we thought in finer 
