SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. 



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Colour in seeds of Amaryllis. — Mr. A. Worsley showed some seeds 

 of Amaryllis x Parkeri, some of which were reddish tinged, some 

 without the red tint. He remarked that he had seen no true albino 

 of Amaryllis Belladonna, but A. x Parkeri gave about 60 per cent, 

 albino seeds on two occasions on which they were gathered. These 

 seeds gave white-flowered plants. 



Effect of light &c. on Orchids. — Mr. Gurney Fowler sent a number 

 of young Orchid plants to draw attention to the short, stout, and sturdy 

 new pseudo-bulbs formed since the plants were removed to their new 

 quarters at Pembury, Kent, and away from the smoke area in which 

 they were grown heretofore. Sir E verard im Thurn said the appearance 

 of the plants reminded him of that shown by Cattleya superba when 

 growing wild on the outer branches of trees where much light gained 

 access to it. 



Mr. Fowler also sent a plant bearing flowers on both an old and a 

 new growth ; the flowers on the former opened about three days 

 before those on the latter. 



Albino seeds of Crinum Moorei. — Mr. Worsley said he had grown 

 albino seeds of Crinum Moorei received from Australia last spring 

 and had found the bulb formed to have reached a larger size than the 

 seed, although he had been unable to detect the presence of any 

 chlorophyll in the plants. The increased size was probably due to 

 an increased amount of water. Mr. Chittenden said that the seed he 

 took germinated, and the plant, which was a perfect albino, had now 

 its second set of shoots, which were rather more weakly than the first. 



Conifer growing under Spray of Waterfall. — Sir Everard im Thurn 

 showed a specimen and photograph taken in the Blue Mountains, 

 Australia, of the Conifer Pherosphaera Fitzgeraldii growing in the 

 spray of a waterfall, a remarkable situation for a plant of this family, 

 but apparently normal for this species. 



Acrotriche fasciculi flora. — Dr. A. B. Rendle, F.R.S., showed a dried 

 specimen of a remarkable Epacrid, Acrotriche fasciculiflora Benth., 

 which he had collected at the top of Mount Lofty, in South Australia. 

 It produces an enormous number of flowers in a great fascicle on the 

 old wood just above the base of the stem, forming a covering 3 or 4 

 inches through. 



Myrtle fruiting. — Mr. CD. Lang worthy sent a shoot of the common 

 Myrtle picked from the open and bearing a large number of ripe 

 fruits. 



Scientific Committee, January 19. 1915. 



Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., in the Chair, and nine 



members present. 



Albino Crinum Moorei. — Mr. F. J. Chittenden, F.L.S., showed the 

 albino plant raised from the albino seed exhibited last April and 

 mentioned at the last meeting. (It has since died, apparently of 

 starvation from lack of chlorophyll.) 



