REPORT OF FRUIT COMMITTEE, 



are purple.— I only saw a few plants of this : 

 they were growing together in a forest about 

 i 01- 4 miles from the river Parahyba, cover- 

 ing some prostrate bamboos, over which they 

 were scrambling with their very beautiful 

 foliage. {In good condition, and already 

 starting into growth.) 



Plants of a shrub about i) feet high. The 

 leaves are lanceolate, or oblong lanceolate, 

 regularly striped along the midrib and 

 primary veins with white. From the Sierra 

 dos Mendos. Elevation, 2500 feet. 



Creeping Trichomanes, from the Sierra dos 

 Mendos. In the moister parts of the forests 

 this clothes the lower parts of the trunks of 

 the trees with a drapery of its delicate 



Another creeping I'eru, from the same localities 

 as the last. — T send these two Ferns by way 

 of experiment, but T doubt whether they will 

 reach home alive." (Dead.) 



LXXXVIIL— BEPOET OF THP] FRUIT COM- 

 MITTEE, Aug. 13th, 1861. 



The Fruit Committee met, Mr. Edmokds in the chair. 



A brancli of Piuus pinaster was received from Thomas 

 Bboadwood, Esq, of Holmbush, near Crawley, bearing a 

 cluster containing 17 large full-grown cones. 



A collection of Grapes was received from the Society's Garden 

 at Chiswick, which consisted of the following, and wliich were all 

 from Vines grown in pots, in a pit heated with hot water : — 



Early White Malvasia and Burchardf s Amber Cluster :— 

 These proved to be synonymous. When the latter variety 

 fruited in the Garden during the past two seasons, the Early 

 White Malvasia was not in the collection, and as it could not be 

 identified, it was supposed to be a distitict sort. After a close com - 

 parison this season there can be no doubt that the two are perfectly 

 identical. There is every appearance tiiat Tarly Kienzheim 

 will also prove synonymous witli Early White Malvasin. 



