The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . 3). Monstrous Foxglove.—Rev. G. Henslow showed adrawing of flowers of a Digitalis in which the petalswere deeply split into linear segments and partly con-verted into stamens. Plants Exhibited. — From Mr. W. Bull, Anti-gramme brasiliense, a Fern which in the young statehas small obovate lanceolate fronds, pale green incolour, with a central white stripe. From Mr. Bulla flowering specimen of the extraordinary Masdevalliachimcera. From Messrs. Veitch a specimen of An-thurium Kalbreyeri, a climbing Aroid
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . 3). Monstrous Foxglove.—Rev. G. Henslow showed adrawing of flowers of a Digitalis in which the petalswere deeply split into linear segments and partly con-verted into stamens. Plants Exhibited. — From Mr. W. Bull, Anti-gramme brasiliense, a Fern which in the young statehas small obovate lanceolate fronds, pale green incolour, with a central white stripe. From Mr. Bulla flowering specimen of the extraordinary Masdevalliachimcera. From Messrs. Veitch a specimen of An-thurium Kalbreyeri, a climbing Aroid with handsomeshining digitate foliage, the segments obovate oblong,sinuately lobed. A Botanical Certificate was unani-mously awarded. From Mr. Bull a flowering plantof Cienkowskya Kirkil, a handsome Scitamineousplant with stalked oblong acute leaves, milky on theunder surface, and erect club-shaped spikes of largepale violet fiowers, with a yellow eye. See ante,p. 57, and Bot. Mag.^ t. 5994. Floral Committee.—^J. Mcintosh, Esq., in thechair. At a small and comparatively unimportant. Fig. 23.—ONCEDIUM GAKDNERIANLM. meeting held to-day First-class Certificates wereawarded to Messrs. James Neitch & Sons for LoeliaPhilbrickiana X, a very fine hybrid, with rich purpleand chestnut-brown spotted flowers, raised betweenCattleya AclandicC and L. elegans, and described inour columns two years ago, vol. xii., p. 102 ; forCarnation Gloire de Nancy, a Continental novelty ofthe Malmaison type, having large, paper-white,deliciously fragrant blossoms ; and for Croton rubro-lineatus, a bold handsome leaved plant from theSouth Sea Islands, with long linear erect leaves, golden-yellow, crimson and green in colour. To Mr. WilliamBull, for Oncidium Gardnerianum (fig. 23), a wellflowered plant with lemon-yellow flowers, spotted andbarred with chestnut-brown on the sepals and petals,and the broad yellow lip margined with the samecolour; for Iris Kiempferi var. Seraph, a semi-doubleflower, wi
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