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Clapham ; this is a very lovely kind, the 
flowers being large, tubular, rose-coloured 
tipped with white ; Messrs. Eollison of Toot- 
ing and Mr. Eobertson, each had smaller 
plants. E. Massonii — red and green — from 
Mr. May of Beckenham, three feet by three ; 
also a splendid plant, two feet and a half by 
three from Mr. Hunt ; and some smaller ones 
of the same kind from Mr. Jackson, of King- 
ston. Mr. Robertson had a splendidly grown 
E. gemmifera in the way of Massoni, but 
smaller ; this plant was two feet and half 
high, by four feet across. Mr. Hunt had E. 
retorta major, three feet by three, in perfect 
health. Of E. Cavendishiana, the best of 
the yellow tube-flowered sorts, Mr. Robertson 
had one two feet and a half by three feet ; 
and Messrs. Fairbairn had one two feet by 
two. Messrs. Rollison had a very good small 
E. Coventryana ; also of E. gnaphalioides, 
a rare and peculiar species with small silky 
looking flowers ; the latter was also sent by 
Messrs. Veitch of Exeter. Mr. Scott, of Leigh 
Park, Havant, sent a fine E. ventricosa, five 
feet by four, covered with deep pink flowers. 
Of the varieties of E. tricolor — one of the 
light coloured rare tubular kinds — Mr. Hunt 
had a good E. tricolor elegans four feet by 
four ; and Mr. Epps had E. tricolor rubra, 
one foot and a half by two and a half. E. 
odorata rosea, a bell-flowered white variety, 
was sent, in fine state, by Mr. May and Mr. 
Hunt ; the former was three feet by three ; 
the latter, two feet by two. Of the class with 
large tubular flowers much swollen at the 
base, and contracted at the tip, there was a 
good E. ampullacea vittata, four feet by three, 
from Mr. May ; and several persons sent va- 
rieties of E. inflata/andjasminiflora. Of newer 
varieties in this way, all with palish coloured 
bloom, were E. Dunbariana from Messrs. 
Fairbairn, E. Whartoniana, and E. Kings- 
cotiana, from Messrs. Rollison. Messrs. Veitch 
sent a small plant of the beautiful and rare 
E. obbata. 
Orchids. — These singular plants were nu- 
merous and very fine. The most beautiful 
plant was a Saccolabium guttatum, from Mr. 
Rae, of Reading ; this was growing in a large 
wire basket, and had twenty-one long densely 
covered drooping racemes of beautiful spotted 
flowers, of which the predominant colour was 
a delicate pale purplish rose. Mr. Plant, of 
Stratford, had a smaller specimen of the same 
with five racemes. The next most remark- 
able specimen was an Aerides odoratum major, 
from Mr. My lam, of Wandsworth, which bad 
about forty drooping racemes, of white fra- 
grant flowers blotched with rosy purple ; 
another plant of the same, from Mr. Mylam, 
had twenty-seven racemes. Mr. Eae had 
one with thirty-eight racemes ; and Mr. 
Carson produced one with eleven racemes. 
There were many fine plants of Cattleya 
Mossias, with large specious flowers. Sobralia 
macrantha, a very rare species, with large 
deep rose-coloured flowers, was sent by Mr. 
Mylam ; as also was Anguloa Clowesii, a plant 
with three large cup-shaped clear yellow 
flowers. Mr. Rae sent Anguloa uniflora, 
which has whitish flowers. There were a few 
Stanhopeas. Messrs. Rollison sent S. ocu- 
lata, and S. saccata ; and Mr. Robertson and 
Mr. Rae also sent S. oculata. From Mr. 
Mylam was Vanda teres, with three bunches 
of showy bloom, borne on plants with terete 
(quill-like) leaves. Burlingtonia venusta, a 
small species w r ith dense drooping racemes of 
white flowers marked with yellow, was sent 
by Mr. Mylam and Mr. Don, of Stoekwell ; 
the former's plant having twelve, the latter's 
five racemes of bloom. Mr. Don had a good 
Brassia Lanceana ; as had Mr. Eyles, of Roe- 
hampton. jMr. Robertson sent a large Den- 
drobium cupreum, Barkeria spectabilis, a 
pretty and rare species, and the gay } r olk-of- 
egg-coloured Epidendrum vitellinum,with three 
stems of bloom. Mr. Mylam sent Cyrto- 
chilum stellatum, with seventeen blooming 
stems ; and Oncidium crispum, with four ; 
and Mr. Carson sent a Cattleya granulosa. 
Nero Plants. — The highest award was made 
to Mr. Robertson, for Tetratlieca (or Tre- 
mandra) vcriieillata ; this is a very slender 
shrub, the branches of which are furnished 
with whorls of linear hairy leaves, and 
axillary flowers, the latter being three-quar- 
ters of an inch across, of a dark purple colour, 
with a black centre ; it will form a very pretty 
delicate green-house shrub. Messrs. Veitch 
had a new species of Balsam (Balscanina sp.) 
from Java ; this is a pretty delicate stove- 
plant, with elliptic lance-shaped leaves, either 
in pairs, or three or four in a whorl ; the 
flowers are axillary ; they are large and flat, 
of a pretty pale rose-colour, with a deeper eye, 
and furnished with a long spur. Messrs. 
Veitch also had a good plant of Chirita zey- 
lanica, noticed at page 30, of the present vol. ; 
and JEscliynanihvs pulcher, a stove plant, 
with oval pointed leaves, and large curved 
tubular deep scarlet flowers ; Calandrinia 
umbellata, noticed at p. 28 ; L'nju^nmijapo- 
nieum, an evergreen shrub, with oval shining 
leaves, and large thyrses of white flowers ; 
and Dichorisandra ovalifoHtt, an upright 
growing plant, with oval leaves, and a dense 
spike of purple flowers. From Mr. Mylam 
was a new species of Pitcher plant, (Nepenthe* 
sp.) which has lance-shaped leaves, bearing 
fringed pitchers three inches long, swollen at 
the base, and of a brownish-green colour. 
Mr. Green sent a Tvopmolwrn. with very 
glaucous nine-cleft leaves, and loose compara- 
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