82: ' PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES, 
snow-clad mountains, the flora is altogether changed, as is the 
fauna, man himself included. In Pangi the atmosphere is dry in 
summer, infinitely drier than in the Ravee Basin ; and a comparison 
of the plants found in the former but not in the latter area shows, 
by the marked atmospheric alterations and diminutions in the 
degree of humidity, a corresponding change in the vegetation, and 
birds and butterflies attest new climatic conditions. While several 
batrachians are common in the Ravee Basin, not one is known to 
change of flora, and assumes a Thibetan type. The author 
describes three new species, Ranunculus pangiensis, Arabis pangiensis, 
and 4. bijuga.—lI. “ Notes on a Collection of Flowering Plants made 
by Mr. L. Kitching in Madagascar in 1879,” by J. G. Baker. The prin- 
cipal districts in which these were obtained were the northern and 
eastern slopes of the mountains of Ankaratra, the highest range in 
the island, at an elevation of 10,000 feet or more. The flowering 
plants of Madagascar are much less known than are the ferns, 
though the collections of Bojer, Lyall, and Needer still lie at Kew 
a, ae 
partially undetermined. r. Baker describes two new genera of 
plants : (1), Kitchingia (Crassulacew), a succulent perennial glabrous 
herb, wit 8 , humerous opposite sessile or petiolated 
leaves, a slender scape, small red laxly racemose flowers, and 
peculiar small spurred bracts; it comes between Muscari and 
Urginea, Of sixty species described thirty are new to science. © 
November 18th.—Robert M‘Lachlan, Ksq., F.R.S., in the chair. 
—Lieut.-Col. H. Godwin-Austin was elected a Fellow of the 
paper was read “On a proliferous condition of 
Ww 
x behomeatise Fungi,” principally received from Baron F. von 
ueller. 
