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December 21. 



E. Forster, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



Joseph Rix, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



Read a further portion of Dr. Buchanan Hamilton's Commentary 

 on the 8th part of Van Rheede's Hortus Malabariciis . 



January 18, 1848. 



N. Wallich, Esq., M.D., in the Chair. 



Arthur Adams, Esq., J. V. G. Gutch, Esq., Robert Hudson, Esq., 

 George Ransome, Esq., and John Ellerton Stocks, Esq., M.D., were 

 elected Fellows. 



Read a paper " On the genus Atamisquea." By John Miers, Esq., 

 F.R.S., F.L.S. &c. 



Of this Capparideous genus, named by Mr. Miers in his ' Travels 

 in Chile,' vol. ii. p. 529, and subsequently characterized by Sir W. 

 J. Hooker in his ' Botanical Miscellany,' Mr. Miers gives the follow- 

 ing more complete character, derived from the living plant. 



Atamisquea, Miers. 



Char. Gen. Sepala 2, ovoidea, concava, aestivatione marginibus subim- 

 bricatis, in torum cavnosum, cyathiformem persistentem demuni indu- 

 ratum dentibus erectis notatum coalita, decidua. Petala 6, e margine 

 tori orta, inasqualia, lineari-spathulata, reflexa; 2 superiora erectiora, 

 sestivatione subimbricata ; 2 lateralia breviora, exteriova. Stamina 9, 

 quorum 6 fertilia longiora ; filamenta ffistivatione replicata, demum 

 recta, reclinata, glabra, basi glandulosa, lepidota ; antherce oblongae, 

 2-loculares, basifixse, erectae, demum curvatee. Tliecaphorum decli- 

 natura ; basi glabrum, disco staminifero cinctum, hinc geniculatum ; 

 ind^ gracile, elongatum, et cum ovario lepidotum. Ovarium ovatum ; 

 stylus brevissimus ; stigma obtuse 2-lobum. Bacca ovoidea, subcar- 

 nosa, dense lepidota. Seinina 2 (vel abortu 1), exalbumijiosa, cochleato- 

 reniformia, funiculo libero erecto bifurcato ex imo loculo orto latevali- 

 ter appensa ; testa coriacea, loculo altero incompleto hilo opposito. 



