XXXVl PE0CEEDING8. 



Cheshire. It was stated to have been obtained from the 

 north of India ; but, unlike the Indian species, which gene- 

 rally have loose heads of flower, if the Ceylon R. zeylani- 

 cum be excepted, its flower-heads were close and compact, 

 the individual flowers being short and round, and freer from 

 spots than most other Indian kinds. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Euonymus fim- 

 briatus, a greenhouse shrub from the north of India, whose 

 flowers exhibit no great beauty, but whose pale green 

 fringed leaves are handsome, especially in early spring ; 

 also fruit from a plant in the conservatory of what the 

 French call the Hermaphrodite Orange, being an orange 

 and a lemon apparently combined in the same fruit, a sin- 

 gular production grown in Syria and Egypt, concerning the 

 origin of which much speculation has been indulged in, but 

 as yet without eliciting anything satisfactory. Most of the 

 specimens were irregular in form, the larger portion of the 

 surface exhibiting the rough, spongy exterior of the lemon, 

 the other portions having the colour and thin smooth skin 

 of the orange. This peculiarity, however, is never found 

 to extend below the surface; on cutting one of the fruit 

 open the interior proved to be all of one kind, and looked 

 like that of a sweet lemon. 



May 1, 1848. (Kegent Street. — Anniversary.) 



The following Fellows of the Society, viz. — 

 J. E. Denison, Esq., M.P. 

 J. H. Schroder, Esq. 

 Dr. Daniel, 

 were elected new Members of the Council, in the room of — 

 Col. Baker, 

 R. H. Solly, Esq. 

 T. Edgar, Esq. 

 The following Fellows of the Society were elected officers 

 for the ensuing year, viz. — 



The Duke of Devonshire, President. 

 Robert Hutton, Esq., Treasurer. 

 J. R. Gowen, Esq., Secretary. 

 The Annual Report from the Council and Auditors was read 

 (see p. 170). 



It was moved by .Joseph Dobinson, Esq., seconded by R. S. 

 Streatfield, Esq., and carried unanimously, that the Report read 

 be adopted. 



Mr. Robert Gordon delivered to the Chairman a letter addressed 



