xliv PROCEEDINGS^OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
like, which he attributed to the effect of screening. Members remarked 
that similar occurrences were to be seen in Tropaeolums grown in 
pots when kept on the dry side, and the general criticism of the results 
obtained was that while these aberrations may be the direct result 
of the treatment the plants had been subjected to, the possibility of 
an inclination to vary in these directions, irrespective of external 
conditions such as lighting, being innate in the strain experimented 
with, had not been excluded. 
Kitchingia uniflora. — Mr. W. E. Ledger showed a well-flowered 
plant of this rare Crassulaceous species from (in all probability) Mada- 
gascar. It differed in appearance in several minute characters from 
the figure in the Bot. Mag. (t. 8286), which had been drawn from the 
Kew plant, of which the present was a piece, owing, probably, to 
flowering at a different season, to differences in temperature and light, 
&c. It has roundish, fleshy leaves about J inch in diameter, and 
urceolate pink flowers, |-f inch long, borne on slender pedicels. A 
Botanical Certificate was unanimously recommended to this plant. 
Rhododendron irroratum. — A Botanical Certificate was also recom- 
mended to Rhododendron irroratum, a new Chinese species with white 
flowers, freely spotted inside the corolla with purplish-pink spots, 
sent by Mr. E. J. P. Magor, of Lamellan, St. Tudy, Cornwall. 
Jasminum primulinum. — Mr. W. B. Fletcher sent specimens of 
single and double flowers of this species, with the following history : — 
Jasminum primulinum rarely fruits ; indeed, Wilson, who collected 
it in China for Messrs. Veitch, searched in vain for seeds, and was 
obliged to send plants over to England in order to introduce it. The 
form introduced had hose-in-hose flowers, and Mr. Fletcher had 
pollinated the flowers with pollen from /. nudiflorum and its own pollen, 
with the result that a few seeds were secured, and these gave one 
single-flowered plant, one of the original form, two double-flowered 
(triplex) forms, and one with such poor flowers that it was promptly 
destroyed. Mr. Fletcher also crossed /. nudiflorum ? with /. primu- 
linum (J and secured one plant, which, after flowering once or 
twice, died. He drew attention to the fact that in seedlings of /. 
primulinum the first leaves formed above the cotyledons are trifoliate, 
while in /. nudiflorum they are simple. The hybrid, with nudiflorum 
as its seed-parent, had its first leaves trifoliate. 
Hyacinth many-spiked. — Examples of Hyacinth bulbs throwing 
several instead of one spike of flowers are frequently before the Com- 
mittee, fourteen spikes being the most observed so far. They are 
derived from the same stock as the single-spiked bulbs, and are picked 
out at the time the bulbs are lifted by the growers, and sold as miniature 
Hyacinths. They represent a stage at which the bulb is beginning 
to produce a number of small ones. 
