xlviii PROCEEDINGS) OF THE 



June 5tli, 1873. 

 George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The President nominated George Busk, Esq., J. D. Hooker, 

 M.D., John Miers, Esq., and W. W. Saunders, Esq., Vice-Presi- 

 dents for the ensuing year. 



Frederick Hovenden, Esq., John Ellor Taylor, Esq., and F. 

 Buchanan White, M.D., were elected Eellows. 



Dr. Prior, F.L.S., exhibited a mallet and ball used at Mont- 

 pellier in the ancient game of" Jeu de Mail ; " the handle of the 

 mallet made of Celiis australis (Micocoulier), the head of Quercus 

 Ilex. 



The following paper was read, viz. : — 



" On the Lecythidace*," by John Miers, Esq., F.E.S.,V.P.L.S., 

 &c. 



June 19th, 1873. 

 George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



John Kinton Bond, Esq., B.A., John C. Bowring, Esq., Thomas 

 E. Cheeseman, Esq., and William Saville Kent, Esq., were elected 

 Fellows. 



Dr. Hooker, V.P.L.S., exhibited an extensive series of photo- 

 graphic views, taken in the Botanic Garden, Adelaide, and pre- 

 sented to the Kew Museum by the South Australian Government. 



Mr. Daniel Hanbury, F.L.S., exhibited a plant of Amomum 

 Melegueta, Eoscoe (" Grains of Paradise ") which had borne fruit 

 in his garden at Clapham. The fruit diflered considerably, both 

 in form and colour, from that figured iu Koscoe's ' Scitamineae.' 



The President exhibited, on the part of Mr. G. C. Joad, F.L.S., 

 plants of Medicago trihuloides, Lam., from Algeria, in which some 

 of the fruits had been singularly modified by the action of a species 

 of Smut ( Ustilago). 



