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PROCEEDINGS. 



pyramid, 1 foot in height and 18 inches in circumference, 

 surmounted by a rather small crown. 

 Certificates of Merit: To Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Exeter, 

 for Tromsdorffia speciosa, a soft-wooded Gesneraceous- 

 looking plant from Java ; it is erect growing, with large 

 opposite obovate leaves, from whose axils spring clusters 

 of Chirita-like flowers — pale blush, with the tube shaded 

 with violet : the plant had been grown in a stove, but in 

 a specimen from the greenhouse, sent along with it, the 

 tube was much deeper coloured. To Mr. Mitchell, gardener 

 to E. Lawford, Esq., for large bunches of Black Hamburgh 

 Grapes, with finely swelled berries, but hardly sufficiently 

 coloured ; they were produced in a greenhouse, without 

 the aid of fire-heat. To Mr. Josling, of St. Albans, for a 

 Seedling Grape, some account of which has been given at 

 p. 296, vol. i. ; it is an excellent variety, rich and sugar}', 

 with a Frontignan flavour, and deserving of extensive 

 cultivation. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden. Spathoglottis 

 Fortuni, one of the first plants Mr. Fortune met with on 

 the granitic mountains of Hong Kong ; Iochroma tubulo- 

 sum, a half-hardy shrub with long tubular deep porcelain- 

 blue flowers, found by Mr. Hartweg on the mountains of 

 Yangana, near Loxa ; Mr. Fortune's Abelia rupestris ; and 

 a new pale yellow-blossomed Clematis graveolens from 

 Chinese Tartary, which promises to become a useful 

 addition to the arboretum wall. 



Books Presented. 



Flora Batava, Nos. 142, 143, and Index, &c. From His Majesty the King of Hol- 

 land. 



Voyage Botanique le long des Cotes Septentrionales de la Norvege depuis Drontheim 



jusqu'au Cap Nord. Par Ch. Martins. From the Author. 

 The Athenaeum for June and July. From the Editor. 



The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. 16, Part 1. From 



the Society. 



The Botanical Register for August and September. From the Publishers. 

 Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, Vol. 4, No. 5. From the 

 Society. 



Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, Tome 1 1 , 



Parti. From the Society. 

 Seven Parts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society. From the Society. 



October 6, 1846. (Regent Street.) 



Elections. Joseph James Ward Rigley, Esq., 29, Lansdown 

 Place, Cheltenham ; Samuel Morton Peto, Esq., Somer- 

 leyton Hall, Suffolk, and 47, Russell Square, London ; 

 William F. Cooke, Esq., 345, Strand, and Elliot Hill, 

 Blackheath; Lionel Place, Esq., R.N., Elstead Park, 



