CXxii PROCEEDINGS OF THE KOYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



a plant from the Himalayan region, which does not open its flower-heads 

 to any extent. 



Potato with aerial tubers. — From Mr. Bevan, of East Finchley, came 

 potato stems bearing tubers in the axils of the foliage leaves, a condition 

 of things which frequently follows from injury to the soft bast tissues 

 near the base of the stem preventing the downward flow of food from the 

 leaves. 



Double Sweet Peas. — Mrs. A. P. Rigby, of Pentre Mawr, Trefnant, 

 N. Wales, sent several flowers of sweet peas having two or three 

 standards instead of but one. The variation had occurred last year, and 

 seed had been produced from the flowers, which had this year given rise 

 to a proportion of plants bearing double flowers. Other varieties than 

 the first-named had also produced double flowers this year. 



Wheat-ear Carnation. — From Mr. B. Nash, of The Gardens, Oakleigh, 

 Cheam, came specimens of the wheat-ear carnation, which, instead of 

 flowers, bears a long series of bracts repeated again and again. 



East African Sandal Wood.— Mr. F. H. Seed, of the Agricultural 

 Department, Mombasa, British East Africa, sent seed of the East 

 African sandal wood tree (Brachylaena sp.), called by the natives 

 "Muhugu." "The seed," writes Mr Seed, "is as light as thistle-down. 

 The natives reported that this tree did not produce seed, but it was found 

 that the thistle-down lightness of the seed caused it to be caught on the 

 tops of the long native grasses and undergrowth. The Forestry Depart- 

 ment has now arrested this loss by clearing the ground around the trees, 

 so that the seed will reach the earth. The tree is considerably larger 

 than the Indian sandal. 



" One square piece and two small pieces were sent to be valued in 

 Bombay Market during the year 1908, and an order was received from a 

 merchant there offering half-a-guinea a cubic foot." 



British alpine plants.— Mr. Fraser, F.L.S., showed a flowering plant 

 of Saxifraga cernua. The plant bore six flowers and some buds. It 

 was 7 inches high and had ten stems arising from the base. It had been 

 collected at the top of Ben Lawers, and is very rarely seen in cultivation. 

 Numerous bulbils were borne in the axils of the stem leaves, and it is by 

 these the plant is propagated. He also showed Draba rupestris flowering 

 for the second time this year, flowering specimens of Salix Arbuscula x 

 herbacea (flowering for the second time this year), and Alchemilla alpina, 

 the last having flowered continuously since May. 



Scientific Committee, August 31, 1909. 



Mr. G. Massee, F.L.S.. V.M.H. in the Chair, with six members present 

 and Messrs. H. Alexander, E. H. Wilson, and F. N. Meyer (of the 

 U.S.A. Dep. Agr.), visitors. 



Malformations in Trifolium. — Mr. Fraser, F.L.S., showed specimens 

 of Trifolium hybridum with the pedicels elongated, the calyx with 

 elongated teeth, the petals widely separated and the stamens exposed, 

 and the pistil developed into a trifoliate leaf consisting of a stalk bent in 



