PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 219 
103. Arctagrostis latifolia, Griseb. Colpodium latifolium, R. Br. 
Cinna Brownii, 4, 66. 
104. Equisetum arvense, L. 
Var. arctica, Ledeb. l. c. iv. p. 436. E. arcticum, Rupr. distr. 
Crypt. vase. p. 21. ; 
105. Cystopteris fragilis, Bernh. Woodsia ilvensis, Baer, l. c. iii. 
p. 181. 
Proceedings of Societies. 
Lixnzan Socrety.—April 18¢h, G. Bentham, Esq., F.R.S., in the 
chair. The following communications were read:—“ On Begonella, a 
new of Begoniacee from New Granada,” by Prof. Oliver. B 
Whitei, the only species, was described. It is an erect herb, with thin 
velvety leaves, the wers have a gamophyllous perianth, and are 
monocious; there are four stamens, apparently didynamous, the ovary 
is th new gen si 
at of Begonia. “On three ne ra of plants in the Malayan 
herbarium of the late Dr. Maingay," by the same ingaya, referred to 
Hamamelidew, and Ctenolophon and Pteleocarpa (with two species) to 
Olacinee. “Note on the determination of Camellia? — Scottiana, 
all. and Ternstremia coriacea, Wall" by Professor Thiselton Dyer. 
In the ‘Journal of the Asiatic Society’ (iv. p. 42) it is stated in an official 
letter from the committee of tea culture, on the subject of the recent 
discovery of the Tea plant in Assam, that * so far back as 1826 the late 
ingenious Mr. David Scott sent down from Munipore specimens of the 
leaves of a shrub which he insisted was a real tea." In Dr. Wallich's 
: J a : 
Chinaman that is here says that it” (the plant to which the is 
is ” 3 
Through a similar error Ternstreemia ? coriacea, l. whi 
appears to be Adinandra acuminata, Korth, is identified by Choisy with 
Polyspora azillaria, Don (Gordonia anomala, Spreng) “ On Zoopsis," by 
Dr. Lindberg, communicated by Dr. Braithwaite. : j 
May 2nd, G. Bentham, Esq., F.R.S.,in the chair. John Miers, Esq., exhi- 
Miers, Esq., and communicated by D. Hanbury, Esq. Alibertia edulis is 
a small Rubiaceous tree, found near Campinas, which produ 
pos. $ 
globose berry, the pulp of which is of good flavour and edible. The 
male plant seems to be the Gardenia sessilis of Velloso. 
