PROCEEDINGS 



or THK 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



1838. 



No. IV. 



August 21, 1838. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



The following candidates were elected Fellows of the Society j 

 Major Mac Douall, ^d Regt. Life Guards, 20, Park Lane. 

 John Walbank Childers, Esq. M. P. 40, Eaton Place. 



The following objects were exhibited ; 



From Messrs. Mountjoy, Nurserymen, Ealing, Passiflora nigel- 

 liflora, a species nearly related to the well known P.fcetida. The 

 flowers were surrounded by a curious glandular fringed involucre, 

 which, it was stated, produces some curious phenomena of mo- 

 tion, and presents a beautiful appearance if viewed in water 

 under a microscope. The oily matter contained in the glands is 

 apparently expelled with some force into the water, where it 

 causes eddies and a disturbance of a remarkable kind. 



From Sir Henry Martin, Bart, specimens of West Indian Fruits, 

 sent from his estate in the island of Antigua, in a supersatu- 

 rated solution of salt. The forms of the several kinds were pre- 

 served, but the colour and every other quality was destroyed, 

 and the specimens had also acquired an offensive smell. 



From the Misses Gamier, of Wickham, a plant of Crinum 

 (Commelyni?) imported by them from Rio Janeiro. 



From Mr. Patrick Flanagan, F. H. S., Gardener to Sir Thomas 

 Hare, Bart., fruit of four kinds of Grapes, the Hampton Court 

 and Green Persian Melons, and a specimen of the Black Antigua 

 Pine Apple. 



