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EOYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY'S MAT EXHIBITION. 
bloomed specimen, ti-ained upon a cylindrieal trellis, of Clerodendron splendens, loaded with splendid 
clusters of its brilliant orange scarlet flowers ; this, in September, the natural blooming season of the 
plant, -would have been fine, but on the 8th May it was pre-eminently so. Two charming plants of 
Aphelexis spectabDis grandiflora were also there, and a large specimen of Stephanotis floribmida also pro- 
mised to be vei-y fine. In Mr. Green's group we noticed a plant rarely seen of Acrophyllum yenosnm, 
and a remarkably well bloomed specimen of Leschenaultia formosa. Mr. Taylor had a very promis- 
ing plant of Eriostemon buxifolium, and a very nicely 
bloomed example of Erica Albertus, a creamy yellow 
heath, but Httle known. In the smaller groups, Mr. 
Croxford, gardener to H. H. Barnes, Esq., produced 
some promising plants, especially Epacris grandiflora, 
Chorozema Henchmanni and Leschenaultia biloba 
major, all admirably bloomed. Mr. Laybank, gar- 
dener to T. Maudsley, Esq., had a remarkably fine 
Tropasolum tricolor. Erica Batemaimiana, a very 
charming variety, and Chorozema angustifolia. 
Messrs. Eraser's gi"oup contained a remarkably high 
coloured Erica propendens, and Mr. Daniels had E. 
Sindryana beautifully bloomed. 
Single specimen plants were less numerous, and, 
with one or two exceptions, less meritorious than 
usual. The noble sj^ecimen of Pimelea spectabilis, 
pre^^ously named, and a monstrous plant of Den- 
drobium ccBrulescens, from the nm'sery of Messrs. 
Lucombe Piuce & Co., were the most remarkable. 
The Dendrobe was upwards of foxu- feet in height, 
and quite as much in diameter, and was a mass of 
flowers from the pot to the extremity of its numerous 
pseudo-branches. The same gentlemen also sent a 
noble plant of Hoya imperialis, in fine condition. It 
was trained upon a pyi'amidal treUis and was pro- 
ducing, and promised to produce for some time to 
come a fine display of its lai'ge and singular flowers. 
AYith it was a nice specimen of the singular 
Erica brunioides. From Messrs. Veitch was a well 
bloomed specimen of Boronia spathulata, and, though 
pretty, we doubt whether it will come much into 
cultivation. Messrs. Rollisson had a noble specimen 
of Epacris miniata, and fi-om Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, we noticed a very lovely plant 
of Adenandi'a fi-agrans. Messrs. Lane and Son, of Great Berkhampstead, sent a very finely bloomed 
specimen of Pihododendron formosum, or Gibsoni, which is not improved at all by the slight colour it 
attains when bloomed at its natui-al season. 
New Plants were scarce, but Messrs. Lucombe Pince & Co. sent a nice specimen of Gai'denia 
malleifera, or '\^^3itfieldii which proves to be a fine thing, the flowers being large, and produced in con- 
siderable abundance ; they are bell-shaped, and of a rich cream colom'. With tlus plant, fi-om the same 
finn, was Clerodendron Bethunianum, ■svith one panicle of flowers, but bearing e"sddence of being out of 
season, and not doing justice to this very beautiful species. Messrs. Veitch sent their Medinilla bracteata, 
noticed at page 167, the flowers much deeper in colour than when we then saw them, but stiU, in om- 
opinion, not improved thereby. For a stove conservatory, where it can be allowed ii'ee scope, this wiU be 
a noble plant, but the fohage, though fine, is too coarse to render it a desu-able pot plant. With it was 
Fuchsia spectabilis, a lovely flower, but too shy in producing them to become a general favouiitc. Jlessrs. 
Veitch had also Dcnth'obium cretaceum, white veined in the throat with pale purple ; Dendrobium, a 
species from the centre of India, a very pretty small flowered kind, in the way of nobile, with a rich 
violctp-urple thi'oat ; Saccolabium miniatum, a dull orange-red species, not very attractive ; and with these 
was a very pretty New Holland plant, Stylidium cihare. Messrs. Rollisson sent Cypripedium Lowii, 
a fine species ; and Messrs. Henderson, a very nice Acacia, called Grandis, which may be classed as one 
of the very best of the late kinds. Mr. Taylor had Pimelea Neippergiana, a pretty wlute species, and 
Dillwynia Henchmanni. Messrs. Lucombe Pince and Co. sent also Fagus antaretica, the ever- (^k, 
HOTA iMPEfi-iALis : eslubjted by Messrs Lucombe & Pince. 
