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brown streaks and splashes ; dark greyish-brown, with pale grey- 

 mottling; pale pink, with dark grey-brown streaks and splashes; dark 

 dun, with whitish dots; dark red-brown; dark grey, with whitish 

 mottling; red brown, with whitish streaks and patches; and grey, with 

 white dots and markings. The original colour of the testa does not 

 appear to have been reproduced. 



The seed will be grown, and the behaviour of the seedlings followed. I 

 A probable explanation is that the crop was cross-pollinated in 1^7, 

 and segregation occurred in 1909. There is, of course, a possibility 

 that crossing occurred also in 1908, as bees were present within a short 

 distance, and other Beans were growing about fifteen yards away; 

 but Beans are usually self -pollinated. 



Virescent Cyclamen. — ^Mr. Fabius, Emsworth, sent a plant of 

 Cyclamen bearing rosettes of small, leathery, green leaves in place of 

 flowers. All the flowers were modified in this way. No trace of similar ' 

 malformation had been noticed in the strain before. It had been raised 

 at Emsworth, and all the plants for seed purposes were hand-pollinated. | 

 Mr. Bowles and Mr. Hill took examples to endeavour to root the 

 rosettes and note their subsequent behaviour. 



Eriodendron anfractuosum. — Mr. E. H. Seed, Mombasa, British 

 East Africa, sent pods and seed of this wild Cotton tree, which grows 

 abundantly in the neighbourhood of Mombasa. The trees bear when 

 about four or five years old, and attain a height of from 40 feet to 70 feet, 

 growing very quickly. The pods are about 3 inches in length, and | 

 when ripe burst open, so that the white cotton-like substance is set free 

 and distributed by gusts of wind, carrying the seed with it. The cotton 

 is beautifully soft and silky, but the fibres are not very long, and are 

 probably unsuitable for spinning, but it is used for making life-buoys 

 in Africa, and for a variety of other purposes in India, where the species 

 also grows. The tree is valuable also for its timber. A few of the 

 natives collect the pods and sell them to Indians in Mombasa, but it is 

 probable that many other uses might be made of the material than at 

 present. 



Orchid hyhrid between albinos. — Mr. Thwaites, Streatham Hill, 

 showed a flowering plant of Cattleya Gashelliana alba ? x 0. Mendelii 

 alba . The flowers were not pure white, as in the parents (although 

 they appeared to be so in the bud), but had a faint and very pleasing 

 pearly-pink flush over them. So far, two plants have flowered with the 

 same character; others are in bud. 



Scientific Committee, January 2o, 1910. 



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

 eleven members present. 



Isolo7na erianthum. — Mr. Odell showed a specimen of an Isolorna, 

 probably /. erianthum, figured in Botanical Magazine ?907 ; but the 

 flowers were of a deeper red than in the figure. 



