2 PHOCEEDINGS OF THE 



A statement w.-is made from the Cliair, announcing tiie instal- 

 lation of an electric exhaust-fan to aid in the hetter ventilation 

 of the Meeting Kooni, and tliat a new boiler for central heating 

 was in position, and would be available in a few days. 



The first exhibition was by Dr. P. Tn. Jcstesen, of photographs 

 of llajjlesia Arnoldi taken in [Sumatra in 1920. (Communicated 

 by Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.]M.(i.) The lantern-slides were 

 explained by Dr. A. B. Kendle, F.K.S., Sec.L.S., who also showed 

 the plates illustrating Koberfc Brown's classical memoir in the 

 13th volume of the Society's Transactions, a century ago. 'Mr. II. 

 N. EiuLEY mentioned that he had never seen a flower a yard in 

 diameter as usually quoted, nor of Ji. IJasseltii ; as usually met 

 with sporadically in the forest, they were about 18 inches across. 

 The plant is parasitic on vines (Cissus) ; the (lower opens early 

 and has a rattier faint carrion smell for an hour or two. The 

 JMalays call it •' Kurubut," almost the same name as they give to 

 Thottea rjrandijlora ; it is collected and sold as an astringent. 



Dr. A. B. Eendle sliowed specimens, bearing fruit, of a hybrid 

 between the sweet orange Citrus Aurantium var. sinensis and 

 C. trifoliata, the wild orange of Cliina and Japan, which had been 

 sent by Mr. Kichard H. Beamisli, F.L.S., from his garden at 

 Glounthane, Co. Cork. The hybrids between these species are 

 known as Citrange, and have been made with a view to impart 

 the greater hardiness of C. trifoliata to the sweet orange. The 

 hybrid shows transitions between the unifoliate leaf of the sweet 

 orange and the trifoliate leaf of the other species ; it is evergreen 

 like the sweet orange while C. trifoliata has deciduous leaves. 

 The fruit, which is larger than in C. trifoliata, has a soft hairiness 

 recalling the hairy diameter of the fruit of that species. Mr. C. 

 C. Lacaita added a few remarks. 



The General Secretary then gave an account of the recently- 

 completed Catalogue of the Linnean Herbarium. He stated that 

 his first reference to the Elerbarium was made nearly 50 years 

 ago, when he found that Mr. E. Kippist, at that time Librarian, 

 could not explain certain signs employed by Linnaeus, the meaning 

 of which had been lost. The speaker's first published contribution 

 to a knowledge of the herbarium was made in 18S8, upon the 

 Centenary Anniversary of the Society, when he was commissioned 

 by the President, Mr! AV. Caiiuuthees, P.E.S., to draw up an 

 account of the growth of the collections, their purchase by Dr. J. 

 E. Smith, and lastly, their acquisition and tenure by the Society. 

 In turn followed an account of the Banksian desiderata supplied 

 from the Linnean stores ; the List of the genera with the number 

 of sheets in each, and the Index issued in 1913. A diversion to 

 the zoological collections came to publication in the next year; 

 then Tulbagh's considerable collection in 1918, and finally the 

 present MS. which had taken more than two years to compile. 

 The guiding idea has been to supply the answer to future enquiries 



