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all others yet exhibited, wanting the red colour of the bracts, which, if it 
could be brought out, as in the wild specimens, would form so fine a 
back ground to its white flowers. Mr. Groom was awarded a Banksian 
medal for a collection of Auriculas, which included Oliver’s Lovely Ann, 
Cockup’s Eclipse, Taylor’s Ploughboy, and Grunes’s Privateer. Mr. 
Green, gardener to Sir Edmund Antrobus, exhibited a magnificent 
specimen of the white Indian Azalea, which filled the centre of the 
principal table, and formed a bank of dazzling whiteness from the large 
size and profusion of the flowers; near it stood plants of the double red 
and double purple Indian Azaleas, the former of which was by far the 
handsomest. Mr. Green also brought eight fine seedling Calceolarias; 
for which and the white Indian Azalea he was awarded a Knightian 
medal. Messrs. Brown, of Slough, sent a good specimen of Zichya gla- 
brata , which, however, from the dingy colour of its flowers, did not 
attract much attention. Messrs. Yeitch, of Exeter, sent two large plants 
of the beautiful Lechenaultia biloba , a new kind of Stylidium with lilac 
flowers, and cut flowers of Marianthus coeruleo-punctatus. Mr. Rivers, 
of Sawbridgeworth, exhibited cut flowers of his new Perpetual Rose, 
Prince Albert, which is a handsome, deep purplish variety. Some 
seedling Cinerarias of great beauty, and a specimen of Oncidium 
sanguineum , which is very inferior to most of the other species of 
the genus, its flowers being of a dull red and green, were sent by Messrs. 
Henderson, of Pine-Apple Place. Cut flowers of Cattleya SJcinnerii , 
of a brilliant deep purple, a spike of Lcclia cinnabarina , with bright 
orange flowers, and a vigorous spike of Epidendrum Stamfordianum , 
which, contrary to its usual habit, had begun to throw off lateral branches, 
were exhibited by J. Bateman, Esq., and gained a Knightian medal. Mr. 
Gaines, of Battersea, showed a good collection of Pansies, and a seedling 
Cineraria , called Victoria Regina, which somewhat resembles that called 
the King. Sir P. G. Egerton sent a blossom of a handsome seedling 
Cactus , said to have been originated between C. speciosus and C. speciosis- 
simus ; the flower was large, and of a fine bright red. A certificate of merit 
was awarded to it, as well as to a collection of cut flowers from T. Brockle- 
hurst, Esq., among which were blossoms of Gloxinia rubra ; a spike of 
the pretty Oncidium pulchellum , having pinkish-white flowers, with a 
yellow spot in the centre ; a handsome variety of Gongora maculata , mar¬ 
gined with red • and a spike of the noble Phaius Wallichii. With these 
was sent a fruit of the Momordica balsamina , in an unripe state ; it was 
curiously wrinkled and furrowed; in a ripe state it becomes a bright orange, 
and when it changes to that colour, it splits into three divisions, and 
exhibits the seeds imbedded in a crimson pulp, and it then becomes highly 
