vi PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



By J. D. Macdonald, M.D., F.E.S., &c. Communicated by W. 

 T. T. Dyer, M.A., F.L.S. 



March 4th, 1875. 



Prof. Allman, M.D., LL.D., P.E.S., President, ia the Chair. 



Wniiam John Joshua Scofield, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



Mr. Thomas Atthey and Mr. William Botting Hemsley were 

 elected Associates. 



Mr. Hanbury, Treas. L.S., exhibited a drawing of an exceedingly 

 beautiful Fungus, apparently an undescribed species, belonging 

 to the section Hymenophallus, from Central America. 



Dr. Hooker, Pros. E.S., exhibited a specimen of a remarkable 

 Fungus (Polyporus destructor) obtaiaed from the timber of the 

 ship ' Egmont.' 



Mr. Baker, F.L.S., exhibited specimens of a new species of 

 Cape Drimia, in which the bulb was represented by a dense 

 epigseous rosette of fleshy obovate-spathulate scales, like the 

 leaves of some species of Saioorthia, flat on the face and hemi- 

 spherical at back ; also, on behalf of Mr. Hemsley, a set of 

 specimens of Flatamcs, to illustrate the difference between the 

 oriental and occidental species. 



Mr, Jackson, A.L.S., exhibited, from the Museum of the Royal 

 G-ardens, Kew, stems of Hydnophytum formicarii/m from Sumatra, 

 oi Myrmecodia armataivova Java, of another species of Myrmecodia 

 from Australia, and of some other E-ubiaceous and Melastoma- 

 ceous plants in which ants form their nests. 



Professor Dickson made some observations, illustrated by mi- 

 croscopic specimens, on the development of the embryo in Tro- 

 ■pcEolum speciosum. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Notes on the Gamopetalous Orders belonging to the Cam- 



