IX PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Psocidse, called Stenopsocus cruciatus, the other an Aphis. The 

 species of Psocus are not known to feed on living tissues, but only 

 dry dead bark. There were no signs of the twigs having been 

 gnawed by any insect. 



Plants and Specimens Exhibited. — Mr. Linden sent Anthurium 

 Andreanum, a highly remarkable species from Colombia, with thick 

 scarlet corrugated spathe, and an ivory-white spadix tipped with 

 yellow, which is described upon page lix. 



Mr. B. S. Williams sent Eria extinctoria, to which a Botanical 

 Certificate was awarded. 



Messrs. Backhouse sent a potful of a handsome yellow-flowered 

 Fritillary from the Riviera, under the name of F. Moggridgei 

 (Boiss., in Moggr. Oont. Ment., t. 25), and which is considered by 

 Mr. Baker (Journ. Linn. Soc. Botany, xiv., p. 255) to be a variety 

 of F. delphinensis of Grenier. Mr. B. S. Williams sent, under the 

 name of Nephrodium, Lastrea membranifolia, a Fern distributed 

 throughout the hotter parts of India and Australia. Messrs. Veitch 

 sent a Masdevallia, M. Chelsonix , a hybrid raised in their 

 establishment between M. amabilis and M. Veitchiana, As an 

 ornamental plant it presented no advantage over its parents. M. 

 "Wageneriana, a new species, was also shown. The yellow- 

 flowered variety of Chrysanthemum frutescens, called Etoile d'Or, 

 was shown, and its history commented pn. The Cranston Company 

 sent cut flowers of a very pretty Hoy a, with flowers in globose um- 

 bels ; the leaves are oblong-acuminate and downy on the under- 

 surface. The species is belived to be new, and will be named at 

 Kew. Flowers of Abutilon Sellowianum were shown from Mr. 

 George. 



Catalogus JPlantarum. — Dr. Masters showed a copy of a folio 

 work under this title, drawn up by a society of gardeners in 1730, 

 including Philip Miller, Thomas Fairchild, and other notable gar- 

 den botanists of the day. The work is illustrated by twenty-one 

 coloured plates, from the pencil of the famous flower-painter, Van 

 Huysum. The purport of the book was to furnish an illustrated 

 and descriptive " catalogue of trees and shrubs, both exotic and 

 domestic, which are hardy enough to bear the cold of our climate in 

 the open air." Only one part was issued, apparently under the 



