CXXViii PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
flowers of Primula sikkimmsis with a purple tube to the corolla, another 
with very widely spreading petals, and another with very pale flowers, 
all from Mr. Farrer's garden at Clapham, Yorks. 
Scientific Committee, July 18, 1916. 
Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S., in the Chair, and eight 
members present. 
Fasciation in Tropaeolum majus. — Col. H. E. Rawson, C.B., 
showed a fasciated specimen of Tropaeolum majus which he had had 
growing for two years and ten months, and which had hitherto grown 
normally. When, however, it had been moved to a different aspect 
it had become fasciated. Col. Rawson attributed this to change in 
illumination. 
A curious Meconopsis. — Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., showed a 
Meconopsis from the garden of Mr. Dimsdale of Ravenshill, Eastleach, 
Lechlade. It was thought to be a seedling which Mr. Elwes had given 
him from Meconopsis latifolia, but it bore curiously-shaped leaves. Sir 
David Prain, to whom it was referred, said it was a form which he had 
not seen before, but save for the absence of bracts on the pedicels it 
agrees in essentials with Mr. Hay's M. decora, with blue flowers. It 
has the peculiar hairs of M. decora, which look simple at first sight, 
but which have very minute protuberances as seen under a low power. 
Sir David Prain considers it probable that M. decora is a hybrid 
between M. latifolia and M. Wallichii. Mr. Elwes wrote later that 
he had seen a specimen in Mr. Grove's garden which had thrown 
out side shoots very like Mr. Dimsdale's plant, and the pistil resembling 
that of latifolia (see p. cxxix.) 
Various Plants. — Mr. Elwes also raised the question as to which 
flower opened first in Lilium giganteum, and said that at Wisley he 
had found that the bottom flower did not first open, as had been 
reported, nor did it in the specimen he showed. He also showed 
Crinum lineare, which he thought was probably a desert form of 
C. capense ; Iris Taitii, from the Tagus valley, a late-flowering 
form of the Xiphium group, with an exceedingly short tube ; Cam- 
panula alliariaefolia, which, he said, makes a decorative plant when 
starved in a pot ; Burbank's hybrid Lily (L. Parry i X L. pardalinum) ; 
Blandfordia princeps ; Arisaema curvatum, hardy at Colesborne ; and 
some hybrid Calceolarias raised in the John Innes Horticultural 
Institution at Merton. 
Hybrid Calceolarias. — Mr. E. J. Allard said that the hybrid 
Calceolarias which Mr. Elwes showed had for one of their parents 
Calceolaria cana, a Chilian species, obtained from plants raised at 
Kew from Chilian seed. Crossed with C. angustifolia X C. herbacea, 
it gave pink spotted flowers, while the same hybrid crossed C. integri- 
folia X C. cana gave dwarfed forms. C. integrifolia X C. alba gave 
cream unspotted forms, since C. alba behaves as a dominant white. 
