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The following Presents were announced ; 



Flora Batata, No. 114, from His Majesty the King of 

 Holland. 



It was also stated that the Society's copy of the Flora 

 Crcpca, had been recently completed by the purchase of ten fasci- 

 culi, from Vol. l\\ fasc. 2, to \'ol. IX. fasc. 1. 



Sept. 4, 1838. 

 ORDINARY MEETING. 



The following were elected Fellows of the Society ; 



Tobias Frere, Esq., Odiham, Southampton. 



Charles Muriel, Esq., Wellington Street, London Bridge. 



James Webster Gordon, Esq., Madeira. 



The following objects were exhibited j 



From James Bateman, Esq., F.H.S., flowers of "the Soap 

 Plant" of Peru, of which the following account w as read : — It was 

 picked up last year by Mr. Skinner, on a sandy plain in Peru, and, 

 from its tuberous roots producing an excellent lather when used for 

 w^ashing, has obtained the denomination of the ' Soap plant.' It 

 has a thick tuberous tap-root, of a deep yellowish colour ■ and 

 though it had been wrapped up in paper for more than half a year 

 in a close box, it immediately vegetated when plunged about three 

 months since in a border in the open air here." It has since been 

 described in the Botanical Register, for 1838, misc. No. 141, 

 under the name of Agave saponaria. 



From Mr. George Mills,F. H. S., Gardener to Madame de Roths- 

 child at Gunnersbury Park, a very handsome specimen of the 

 Fuchsia fulgens. 



From John Luscombe,Esq. of Coombe Royal, near Kingsbridge 

 in Devonshire, a basket of the Nonsuch Plum ,• a fine variety raised 

 between the Green Gage and Coe's Seedling, and an abundant 

 and never failing bearer. 



From Mrs. Marryat F.H.S., a fine specimen of Musa speciosa ; 

 flowers of Salvia leucantha, a little known Mexican half hardy 

 herbaceous plant, with white hairy flowers situated amongst deep 

 rose coloured bracts and calyxes ; six varieties of the dwarf Cocks- 

 comb ; Amaryllis calyptrata, a green flowered Brazilian bulb ; and 

 Lavatera maritima, a pretty half hardy kind of Tree mallow, inha- 

 biting the South of Europe, and apparently lost to the gardens 



