\ARY 



LINXEAX SOCIETY OF LOXDOX. 9 



April 2n(], 1891. 



Prof. Chaeles Stewaet, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Rev. Prof. Heuslow exhibited specimens of Oxalis 

 cernua, Thunberg, a native of the Cape of Good Hope ; and 

 gave an account of its introduction into the countries bordering 

 the Mediterraneau, and the Canaries and Madeira, tracing its 

 present northern distribution. (See Appendix, p. 31.) 



Mr. A. Barton Eendle, bavins: examined the specimens of 

 " Monchona " exhibited by Mr. Christy at a previous Meeting, 

 expressed the opinion that this trade product was the preserved 

 fruit of a palm, belonging to a species apparently undescribed. 

 It was stated somewhat vaguely by the importer to have come 

 from the South Pacific. Mr. Eendle also exhibited another 

 specimen of an orange within an orange, which differed from that 

 shown at a former Meeting, in that the inner orange possessed a 

 rind, and was not entirely enveloped by the outer one. 



The President exhibited an abnormal specimen of a butterfly 

 {^Gonepteryx Mhamni) possessing five wings, or two hinder ones 

 on one side. 



The following papers were read ■ — 



1. " On Variation in the Ploral Symmetry of certain Plants 

 having Irregular Corollas." By W. and Anna Batesou. (Com- 

 municated by Francis Darwin, P.L.S.) 



2. " On two new Genera of Orchids from the East Indies." 

 By H. X. Eidley, M.A., F.L.S. 



April 16th, 1891. 



Prof. Chables Stewaet, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



William Duppa Crotch, Esq., Joseph Alfred Hill, Esq., Walter 

 Bessemer Lougsdon, Esq., Dr. James Oliver, and Arthur Smith 

 Woodward, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



The President announced that the following Auditors to 



examine the Treasurer's accounts had been nominated by the 



Council : — 



T7 4-L n •; J I^i'- Dukinfield H. Scott. 

 ±or the Council i -,^ ^ •, ai i 1 • 1 



[ Dr. John Jieiklejohn. 



TT^x #7.^ -p'^n^,..c I ^^^- John Jenner Weir. 

 ^''"^^^^^^^^"^1 Mr. Ernest Clarke. 



And by a show of hands these were elected. 



