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hardy out-of-doors. Milla longipes, with umbellate, erect, funnel- 
shaped, brownish flowers ; M. Murray ana, with umbels of blue 
flowers ; M. laxa, with flowers of similar character, but larger 
and paler ; Calliprora lutea, a yellow-flowered Milla-like plant; 
Brodicea congesta, Allium Palmeri, Tricoccum Murrayanum, Scilla 
peruviana, various species of Gladiolus, with rich scarlet or 
crimson flowers, with a large white spot in the centre of the 
three upper petals. 
Polyandrous Horse Radish. —The Rev. George Hen slow 
showed flowers of Horse Radish, with an unusual number of 
stamens, on which he promised a further report. 
Echeveria earunculata .—From Mr. Bull came a plant of 
this singular form, wherein the leaf is hypertrophied, and 
produces a warted, lobed fleshy mass on its upper surface, 
similar to what may occasionally be seen in the Cabbage. The 
same exhibitor also sent a specimen of Acacia, splicerocephala, 
showing the stout thorns which serve as a nest for ants, and 
the curious glandular processes on the leaves which furnish 
food for the said ants, who repay the shelter and food provided 
for them by driving off the leaf-eating ants and other noxious 
intruders. 
Denclrobium formosum giganteum. —Mr Jennings called atten¬ 
tion to the peculiar mode of flowering of a specimen of this plant. 
Usually the flowers appear at the extremity of the elongated 
pseudobulbs at the end of the growing season, but in this case 
the flowers appeared to come from the base of the pseudobulbs, 
or rather, in reality, from very shortened arrested bulbs. 
Japanese Plants, dc .—Dr. Masters gave an account of a visit 
he had lately paid to Messrs Yeitch’s nursery at Combe Wood, 
and showed specimens of various hardy Japanese, Chilian and 
New Zealand plants, which he had gathered there, among which 
may be mentioned the very elegant quite hardy evergreen 
Quercus cuspidata and its variegated varieties, Daphne Genkwa , 
Rhus semi-alata, Sterculia platani folia, various forms of Vitis 
hetemphylla, Elceagnusmacropliylla, a splendid evergreen Elceagnus,. 
with broad ovate acute leaves, shining on the upper, silvery on 
the lower surface ; Pratia angulata , a pretty little creeping plant 
from New Zealand, with the foliage of Wahlenbergia hederacea , 
and white flowers like those of a Lobelia —admirably adapted 
for rockeries ; Styrax obassia, a norble Japanese shrub, with large 
