CViii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



P. Thornton, Esq., High Cross, Framfield, exhibited High Cross 

 Hybrid Melon, a handsome green-fleshed variety, which unfortu- 

 nately was not ripe, though it promised a fine flavour. Mr. A. 

 Hopkins, gardener to R. Johnson, Esq., Kemnal Manor, Chisle- 

 hurst, sent Omant's Favourite Melon, the flavour of which was not 

 agreeable. 



SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 

 Sir J. D. Hooker, K.C.S.I., in the Chair. 



The meeting was thinly attended, and but few subjects were 

 brought before it. 



Coccus on Acacia. — Mr. MacLachlan reported that he had ex- 

 amined the specimens referred to him at the last committee, and 

 had consulted M. Signoret upon the matter, with the result that 

 the insect was determined to be a species of Pulvinaria allied to that 

 which causes so much injury to the Sugar-cane in Mauritius. 



Malformed Peach Blossom. — Dr. Masters reported that he had 

 examined the flowers submitted to him at the last meeting, and 

 found that it was produced on a stout stalk proceeding from the 

 shoot of the year, a most unusual position in the case of the Peach. 

 The sepals, petals, and stamens were all enlarged and thickened, but 

 otherwise normal. The carpels were two in number. 



Aristoloclda iiiigulifolia. — Dr. Masters reported that the Aristo- 

 lochia referred to him at the previous meeting was a species which 

 he had named a few years since from dried Bornean specimens as A. 

 ungulifolia. The present specimen was reported to have come 

 from Java. 



Alleged Hybrid Pelargonium.— Mr. P. Fry, Addington, sent 

 specimens of a Pelargonium with very large proliferous trusses, and 

 which it was supposed had originated as a cross between a Zonal 

 Pelargonium and Geranium pratense — a view which the committee 

 did not endorse. 



Plants Shown.— Mr, Bull sent a Lily, referred by Mr. Elwes to 

 L. columbianum, and which had the peculiar bulb ofL. Washingto- 

 niauum and the foliage of L. Humboldtii. Other plants exhibited 



