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dens, shown as speciosissimns, A. pulcherrima, 
and A. rubra plena. All the Hoveas in the 
room were grown and trained unnaturally, 
long ill-grown gawky plants, bent down and 
twisted about to appear dwarf; there were 
no exceptions ; the winner's specimen was 
the best looking, but equally improperly 
trained. It was announced in the meeting that 
the United Gardeners' paper had involved the 
managers to the extent of a thousand pounds, 
and that it had been sold to an utter stranger 
to the gardening interests, and many of the 
parties present attributed it to the manner in 
which the Floral part had been misconducted ; 
nor did there appear the slightest sympathy on 
the part of the numerous gardeners and ama- 
teurs present, and they were very numerous. 
It seemed the unanimous opinion that two papers 
were necessary, and that the Journal had long 
ceased to be useful in any way, while the 
Midland Florist, the Horticultural Magazine, 
the Cabinet, and the Florist, were said to 
have contributed to the failure of the Journal. 
Some of the country growers were up, and 
seemed quite gratified with the flowers and 
plants. 
STANNIA FORMOSA. 
Stannia formosa, Karsten (beautiful Stan- 
nia). — CinchonaceaB § Cinchoneas-Gardeni- 
deae. This beautiful tree, which belongs to 
the group of Gardenias, grows from twelve to 
twenty feet high. "When full grown, it has 
a roundish head, with a slender stem, having 
the bark whitish ; and at the time of the 
ripening of its fruit, by the form and size of 
the latter, it may not inaptly be compared to 
one of our apple trees. When in flower, 
however, it looks like nothing which we had in 
Europe, from the brilliancy and size of the 
corymbs of snow-white flowers, which admi- 
rably contrast with the fresh smooth green 
around them. The branches are nearly four- 
sided, or quadrilateral ; the leaves are op- 
posite, shortly petioled, from four to six 
inches long, oval, and sometimes elliptical in 
form, of a stiff and somewhat coriaceous tex- 
ture, entire, and of a shining gi-een colour. 
Between the petioles are the stipules, which 
are of a longish triangular form, rounded at 
the apex, and fall off at the same time as the 
leaves. The flowers are developed at the 
extremities of the branches, and grow in 
clusters of ten or twelve, forming a small 
compact trichotomous head. The calyx, which 
adheres to the ovary, is proportionably small, 
from one to two lines in diameter ; its " free 
border " is five-parted, the lobes obtuse. The 
flowers consist of a slender tube, about four 
inches long, terminating in a flat limb nearly 
two inches in diameter ; the tube of the 
corolla is cylindrical, smooth on the exterior, 
and within furrowed, through the adhering 
stamens ; these become free near the mouth 
of the tube, and between them are some 
unequal callosities, which, with the base of 
the interior, are studded with hairs. The 
stamens alternate with the parts of the limb, 
which latter are longish-oval, rounded or ob- 
tuse at the points, smooth and entire. The 
free ends of the filaments are of unequal 
length ; the anthers are from three to 
four lines long, longish-obtuse, two-celled ; 
before their opening they all hang together 
in an ellipsoid-like body, but subsequently 
they are bent back. The two-celled fruit 
has a fleshy circular scar at the apex ; 
each cell contains numerous small rough 
ovules. 
The Stannia belongs to the gi*oup of 
true Gardenideas, and is allied to the Gyno- 
pachys of Bliime, a Java sumach-tree, whose 
seeds, nevertheless, are quite differently 
formed ; it also comes near the Burchellia of 
R. Brown, an African shrub, in which the 
anthers are almost sessile; while it is. con- 
nected with Posoqueria of Aublet, a shrub 
found growing in Guiana, the fruit of which is 
a fleshy berry. From these, and all the other 
Gardenias, Stannia is distinguished by the 
unequal length of the stamens. 
Dr. Karsten found this magnificent plant 
on the mountains of Tovar, in the district of 
Caracas, where it was growing at an altitude 
of from 5,000 to 6,000 (German) feet above 
the level of the sea. It was growing in an 
