XCiv PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



as in the Gooseberry. It has no glands as the Black Currant. 

 The inflorescence is a many -flowered raceme, intermediate in 

 length between the many-flowered Currant and the few-flowered 

 Gooseberry. The flowers are larger than those of either parent, 

 with the sepal lobes erect, and not reflexed as in them. The 

 stamens are contabescent, and the style is villous in the middle, 

 whereas those of the parents are glabrous. The stigma or apex 

 of the style is deeply cleft, those of the parents being sub-capitate 

 and obscurely two-lobed. 



Lcslia, two-lipped. — Dr. Masters also showed the not un- 

 common production of two labella in this Orchid. It is probably 

 due to chorisis. 



Antirrhinum ivith Virescent Corolla. — He exhibited a speci- 

 men with the corolla in the form of a calyx, but undertook to 

 examine it further and report upon it. 



Bigener Orchid. — Mr. Veitch exhibited an interesting plant 

 called Epiphronitis Veitchi, being a bigener between Epidendrum 

 radicans, the male parent, and Sophronitis grandiflora, the 

 female. It received a first-class certificate, and was unanimously 

 awarded a botanical certificate by the Scientific Committee. 



Calceolarias dying off. — Mr. Henslow showed plants which 

 had suddenly died in his garden. They had decayed in the 

 lower part of the stem, having the cortex split for a length of 

 about an inch. Mr. Wiiks said he was familiar with the fact, 

 and attributed it to the plants having first suffered from drought 

 and then being overwatered ; the sap was thus unable to rise, and 

 burst the tissues. Mr. Henslow observed that this interpretation 

 corresponded with the conditions of the case in question. It was 

 a small crimson-flowered variety with hairy foliage. The common 

 yellow-coloured species showed no signs of injury whatever. 



PistaciaLentiscus, Galls on. — Mr. Henslow exhibited branches 

 of this plant from Malta covered with flat galls formed from the 

 metamorphoses of the leaflets, which had assumed a ' ' legu- 

 minous " shape. It is not uncommon in the Mediterranean 

 regions. Mr. McLachlan observed that at least four species of 

 aphides made galls on the Pistacia. Mr. Dod observed that 

 Cicero speaks of the Lentiscus bearing fruit thrice a year ; but 

 this was probably to be explained by the gum being collected 

 three times annually. 



Orange, Pistilody of Stamens in. — Mr. Henslow showed 



