SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, APEIL 25. 



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Extract from the Minutes of Council, April 11, 1911. 

 The following recommendation from the Scientific Committee was 

 read : — 



The Scientific Committee are of opinion that the intention 

 of the award of the Botanical Certificate would be best served if the 

 recommendation of its award were restricted to their Committee, and 

 they respectfully ask the Council to make an ordinance to this effect. 



Sir Daniel Morris proposed, Mr. Bowles seconded, and it was 

 carried that with regard to Botanical Certificates the other Committees 

 should recommend to the Scientific Committee any plants they con- 

 sidered worthy of such Certificate, and that the Secretary of the 

 Scientific Committee should subsequently report to the Council what 

 plants had been sent up to them and what they recommended, the 

 Council taking care to inform the several Committees of any awards 

 which they confirmed. 



Yellow Clivia. — Mr. E. Hooper-Pearson showed a flower of Clivia 

 citrina apparently a form of C. miniata which Mr. Worsley said 

 occurred wild in South Africa. 



Bomarea. — Mr, Elwes, F.E.S., showed a form of Bomarea which 

 he had raised from seed gathered in the Botanic Garden at Eio Janeiro. 



Shot-hole Borer. — Mr. Chittenden, F.L.S., showed a piece of 

 plum wood riddled by the shot-hole borer, Xylehorus dispar. The 

 beetles were present in great numbers, both males and females, in the 

 proportion of one male to ten or eleven females, as usual arranged in 

 rows in the tunnels. The beetles had caused the death of four plum 

 trees in the garden at Wisley, by boring into the wood. 



Malformations of Flowers, &c. — Mr. W. van de Wyre, of Corfe 

 Castle, sent the following floral malformations: — 



(1) Richardia africana with the leaf below the inflorescence partly 

 white. 



(2) Iris reticulata with its parts in fours. 



(3) Flowers of seedling Polyanthus with flowers inside one another, 

 each having both calyx and corolla, and so differing from the ordinary 

 hose in hose form. 



(4) Green primrose with stamens foliar and green. The original 

 plant was found wild in Ireland and had been in the possession of the 

 sender for ten years, but had always, until 1911, been single. It had 

 been growing in the same position for three years without division. Now 

 every division of the original plant has developed more or less doubling. 



Scientific Committee, April 25, 1911. 



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

 eleven members present. 



Gongora sp. — Mr. O'Brien, V.M.H., brought forward a species of 

 Gongora, introduced by the late Mr. Tracy from Peru. It was appar- 

 ently a new species, and was referred to Kew. 



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