The large silver medal was awarded to Messrs. Veitch & Son, of Exeter, for a beautiful new Gesnerwort, named Agalmyla staminea (Fig. A), obtained rom Java, through their collector, Mr. Thomas Lobb. The plant exhibited was the first that had bloomed in this country; it was a stout, herbaceous, creeping-stemmed plant, with large elliptic leaves, from the axil of which was produced a dense cluster of rich velvety crimson flowers, like those of some AEschynanthus. Though beautiful, even in the condition in which it was shown, it, however, conveyed no sufficient idea of what it may be expected to become when better grown; for, in a dried specimen from Java, which was also exhibited along with it, instead of one bunch of flowers on a branch, it had seven, clothing the shoot for about two feet with its gay blossoms. Being a plant of easy cultivation, it will no doubt become one of the gayest inhabitants of our stoves. With it was a branch of Medinilla speciosa, bearing a fine cluster of purplish red fruit, of which the accompanying wood cut will give some idea, and which are nearly as handsome as its semi-transparent pink flowers of summer.

This is also a Java plant, whose broad concave fleshy leaves, large bunches of flowers in summer, and fruit in autumn, deservedly place it among stove plants of first rate character. - Horticultural Society's Journal.

Fig. A.

[A colored portrait of the Agalmyla staminea is in the fifteenth volume of "Paxton's Flower Garden:" The generic name is derived from agalma, an ornament, and hule, a forest, for it is a beautiful decoration of its native woods. It requires a moist, warm stove, with liberal watering and syringing during its period of growth. When at rest it must be kept nearly dry. A soil of two parts turfy peat, one part loam, and one part sand, with good drainage, suits it. It is propagated by cuttings planted in sand under a glass in heat.

Medinilla speciosa is beautifully represented in the "Botanical Magazine," t. 4321. As its name (showy) implies, it is one of the most beautiful of the genus. It produces a fine panicle of delicate rose-colored flowers, drooping gracefully from among rich green and ample foliage].