SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, APRIL 10. 



have more than once stated, what the enclosed bulb seems to me 

 to fully demonstrate, that if a flower-bud is once formed within 

 the bulb, it will come forth in some form or other, provided 

 always, of course, that the bulbs are free of maggot. The 

 variety enclosed is Rugilobus, which in the open beds were fully 

 developed a week ago, so that the coming of its flower differs but 

 little from bulbs planted in due season." 



Suntara Oranges. — Dr. Bonavia sent specimens, together 

 with the following communication : — 



" There is at present in the London shops a loose-skinned 

 Orange from India, that commonly known there as the Suntara 

 Orange, of which there are many varieties. The Suntara 

 Orange is the Citrus aurantium sinense of Rumphius, while the 

 Valencia Orange or Portugal Orange, of which also there are 

 many varieties, is the Citrus aurantium sinense of Gallesio. The 

 Mandarin or Tangerine Orange is a sub-section of the Suntara 

 type, and is a different thing from the latter. In a Piccadilly 

 shop the Suntara Orange has been rightly ticketed as an Indian 

 Orange ; but in a Bond Street shop they ticketed it as Mandarin 

 Orange from South Australia. This is manifestly erroneous. 

 The Australian seasons are just the opposite of our seasons. 

 Their spring is in September, and their Oranges do not ripen till 

 July. So that these Suntara could not have come from Australia. 

 The Suntara Oranges in Ceylon are called Mandarins by the Eng- 

 lish. Oranges may be thus classed : — I. Cling-skins, including 

 Citrus aurantium sinense of Gallesio, Portugal Orange, St. Michaels, 

 Blood Orange, Jaffa Orange, Navel Orange, Florida Orange, and 

 many others. II. Free-skins, Citrus aurantium sinense of Rum- 

 phius, Suntara Orange of India, of which there are numerous 

 varieties. The Mandarin [Citrus nobilis of Loureiro(?)] I consider a 

 sub-section of the Suntara type, but as different from it as any two 

 distinct varieties of Apple or Pear. (See pp. 44 and 53, and pi. cviii. 

 of ' Oranges and Lemons of India and Ceylon.' — G. Bonavia." 



The Bermuda Juniper. — Dr. Masters made some comments 

 on fresh specimens received from Bermuda through the kind- 

 ness of Arthur Haycock, Esq. The history of this tree is given 

 in the Gardeners' Chronicle for May 26, 1883, by Mr. W. B. Hems- 

 ley. Juniperus bermudiana is the only tree of any size in the 

 island, where it is still abundant. It is quite distinct from the 

 "Red Cedar" (Juniperus Yirginiana) of the United States, though 



