XXXviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



to which were the suckers of the parasite Osyris alha, a plant belonging 

 to the family Santalaceae. This parasite attaches itself to the roots of 

 a large number of plants, over sixty hosts being known, but up to 

 now it has not been recorded as attacking the vine. The specimen came 

 from Montpellier. 



Cafiiellia Tuckiana. — Mr. Bennett-Poe, V.M.H., showed flowers of 

 a seedling Ca^nellia, which he had raised from seed ripened in South 

 France, now flowering for the first time in a cold greenhouse. The 

 flowers were single, about three inches in diameter, of a delicate pink, 

 with numerous yellow stamens. It had been identified as Camellia 

 Tucliiana. 



Beetles in Beans. — Canon Fowler showed French Beans attacked 

 by the beetle Bruchus lentis. This and other species of Bruchu's are 

 well-known pests of various species of Bean and Pea, boring holes 

 into the cotyledons, but they appear rarely to interfere with 

 germination. 



Athyrium with hulbijerous sori. — Mr. Druery, V.M.H., showed 

 portions of the fronds of Athyrium Filix-foemina plumosum with large 

 numbers of small plants arising from the sori, each sorus producing 

 several bulbils. 



Snowdrops. — Mr. Bowles showed specimens and drawings of a 

 double green Snowdrop in which both stamens and ovary were aborted 

 and replaced by rather narrow, foliose segments. He also exhibited 

 the double yellow form of Galanthus nivalis, and drawings of the white 

 form of G. Elwesii — poculiformis — recently shown by him, to demon- 

 strate that there were a few small green lines on the inner perianth pieces 

 of that flower. 



Malformed Orchids.— Mrs. Taylor, of Bowerdens, Henley-on- 

 Thames, sent two abnormal flowers from a newly imported plant of 

 Bendrohium W ardianiim gigantewm. In one of them two stamens of 

 the outer whorl had developed and become petaloid and bore pollen 

 sacs on their inner edges near the base. In the other the column 

 bore at its apex three stamens, the usual one fully, the other two 

 partially developed, and three lips, inside one another, but the two 

 inner and progressively smaller ones arising slightly to the right and left 

 respectively of the normal one. Mr. Gurney Fowler sent an Odonto- 

 glossum with four symmetrically disposed outer perianth pieces, six 

 inner perianth pieces, including two lips, and two normal columns, 

 side by side. The ovary also was double, but fused into one. 



Scientific Committee, Apeil 2, 1912. 



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



members present. 



Schomburgkia Lueddemanii , Prill. — Sir Frederick Moore sent a 

 flowering spike of this uncommon species, figured in the Bat. Mag. 

 t. 8427. Some discussion arose regarding its distinctness from 



