HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
861 
thera coccinea, with many large branching 
panicles of scarlet flowers. Mr. Bassett had 
a fine Aerides odoratum, with thirty-three 
bunches of blossom. Mr. Mylam of Wands- 
worth had a very large mass of Miltonia spec- 
tabilis, and a Calanthe Masuca : the latter 
was also sent by Messrs. Rollisson, who, in 
addition, had Sobralia macrantha, with two 
expanded flowers, and a Sobralia called decora, 
with small very pale-coloured blossoms ; also, 
Acineta citrina, and Oncidium nebulosum. 
Dendrobium formosum, and D. densiflorum, 
came from Mr. Mylam ; and the pretty little 
Camarotis purpurea, from Mr. Jack of Car- 
shalton. Mr. Beck sent Anajctochilus setaceus, 
and Physurus pictus, growing in a very orna- 
mental basket manufactured of green slate ; 
the former of these plants has its leaves 
covered with a delicate net-work of gold on a 
dark velvet-like ground; the net-work of the 
other is like silver. 
New Plants. — The most remarkable, ac- 
cording to the award of the judges, was a new 
species of Ixora (Ixora sp.) from Java, sent 
by Messrs. Veitch of Exeter : it is in the 
way of I. crocata, but has larger and differ- 
ently formed ovate lance- shaped leaves; 
the flowers are also different in form, though 
similar in colour : it is a good stove shrub. 
The next award was made to an Echinocactus- 
like plant, (Echinopsis nov. sp.) from Bolivia ; 
the flowers are of a beautiful rose-colour, 
four inches across when fully expanded, and 
the tube is perhaps six inches long. There 
were no less than three new species of .ZEschy- 
nanthus : one the^". pulchra, noticed at page 
323, and now shown by the same : JE. Pos- 
chianvx, exhibited by Messrs. Henderson, at 
the Royal Botanic Society's exhibition, and 
described at page 368 ; this was here shown by 
Messrs. Henderson, and Mr. Jack : and 2E. 
Lobhii from Java, resembling the last in 
trailing habit, but in this the flowers are 
deeper-coloured and hairy, and the calyx tube 
is of an entire dark lurid chocolate colour ; they 
are all three valuable additions to this gay 
family. Clematis glandulosa was also sent 
by Messrs. Veitch: this is a robust creeper, 
with very large cordate .lanceolate leaves, and 
singular-looking flowers, of which the outside 
is rust-coloured, the inside dark purple, with 
a tuft of white threads in the centre. Messrs. 
Veitch again produced the Balsam (Pa.lsa- 
mina latifolia), mentioned at page 322 ; it 
seems to be of marked dwarf habit : also, 
Cuphea cordata, a plant of trailing habit, with 
scarlet flowers, remarkable for having two 
petals at the. end of the tube-like part of the 
flower, expanded like wings. Another of this 
genus, called Cuphea miniata, was sent by 
Mr. .lack ; this has oval hairy leaves, and in 
the flowers, the mouth of (he tube-like part is 
purple, and the two expanded petals of a vivid 
crimson. A new Hoya (Iloya sjt.) from East 
India, was from Messrs. Rollisson ; it has 
oval fleshy leaves, and bunches of small 
whitish waxy flowers, with a pale-pink centre ; 
not so show r y as H. carnosa. From Mr. 
Jackson of Kingston, was a handsome sub- 
shrubby Lycopodium, of very elegant branch- 
ing habit, much more graceful than L. stolo- 
niferum ; it was named Lycopodium ccesium. 
From Mr. Robertson, was Pavetta Porbo- 
nica, a stove shrub with handsome mottled 
leaves, and red veins. Of novelties placed on 
the tables, from the Society's collection, were 
Acldmcnes patens, described at page 316 ; 
Aster Calndieus, a hardy shrubby Aster with 
pale-bluish coloured flowers ; and some fine 
young plants of Cryptomeiia japonica, a new 
hardy Conifer, three feet high, and showing a 
very elegant habit of growth. 
Seedlings. — Scarcely any were shown. 
There were three Pelargoniums from Mr. 
Gaines : — Chieftain, a light-red in the way of 
Duchess of Leinster ; Mary, Queen of Scots, 
white, with dark upper petals edged with 
white ; and Mrs. Brock, a red of little merit. 
A certificate of merit was given to a Seedling 
Pieutee, shown by Mr. Edmonds, of Wands- 
worth-road, named Edmonds' Mrs. Reeves ; 
it is a flower of good properties, with a distinct 
purple-rose edge. 
Other objects of a miscellaneous character, 
deserving of notice, were the following : — 
A beautiful set.of blooms of different varieties 
of Hollyhocks of almost all shades of colour ; 
these were from Mr. Cole of Bath : they were 
shown in stands, each single bloom resting on a 
single leaf. Some fine plants of Lobelia erinus 
grandiflora, and L. bellidifolia, forming a dense 
mass of blooms, about a foot in diameter ; 
these were from Mi - . Robinson of Pimlico. 
There were also three or four collections 
shown as new hardy Evergreens, which, 
though consisting in a great measure of plants 
not very remarkable for novelty, contained 
many plants of interest. Among these were 
Podocarpus taxifolia, Taxodium elegantissima, 
T. Harringtonia, T. nucifera, T. Mackoyi, 
Abies pygrooea, Thuja filifolia, Cryptomeria 
japonica, Quercus glabra, Aucuba japonica 
aurea, Buxus sempervirens latifolia, Ilex lati- 
folia, I. ciliata, Azalea ovata, a new striped- 
leaved Irish Ivy, a Balm of Gilead Fir with 
variegated loaves, and Berheris cuncatus. A 
group of plants of this character from the 
Society's collection, contained Pinus Chilgoza, 
Garrya laurifolia, Berheris Fortuni, a very 
singularly distinct pinnate-leaved species, re- 
cently sent by Mr. Fortune from China, and 
Euonymus fimbriatus, a species with large 
leaves, beautifully, deeply, and evenly ser- 
ial.. 1. 
