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a very robust and striking plant for its foliage, but the flowers are 
small, hardy ; Vallota x Gastronema sanguined* — I have raised this 
plant from both parents and find them easier to grow than either 
and very showy ; Alstroemeria Hookeri, introduced by me from 
Chilian Andes at 9,000 feet, a very dwarf and pretty species ; Yucca 
rupicola, one of the tallest and hardiest of the genus. 
Scientific Committee, September 12, 1916. 
Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., in the Chair, with eight members present 
and Mr. Hayes, visitor. 
Cyrtanthus epiphyticus, J. M. Wood, in Kew Bull. 1913, p. 182. — 
Mr. Ledger exhibited a flowering plant of this new species, remarkable 
for its robust growth, but more especially on account of its epiphytic 
habit. The flowers, of a bright orange-scarlet colour, are of the 
narrow-tubed funnel shape characteristic of the subgenus Monella. 
In sending the bulbs to Mr. Ledger in February 1913 Dr. Medley 
Wood wrote : "I am sending you ... a new species of Cyrtanthus 
which was procured for me by my nephew, Mr. J. W. Haygarth. This 
plant is unique in the genus by the fact that it grows not on the ground, 
but in masses of moss on the trunks and branches of ' Yellow-wood ' 
(Podocarpus) trees at 50 or 60 feet from the ground (in the forest of 
Ensikeni, Natal; at 1,200 m. alt.). ... It will be a splendid plant 
for hanging baskets. I had at first intended a different specific name 
for it on account of its habit — the peduncles first bend downwards 
from the branch on which it grows, then upwards with a graceful 
curve, and then outwards to the umbel, almost exactly like the 
neck of a swan, but ... I came to the conclusion that this was only 
caused by the position in which it found itself, so that in other 
circumstances it would grow like its fellows." 
Mr. Ledger exhibited these bulbs in a dry state before the Committee 
on March 4, 1913, under the name of C. dendrophilus — a MS. name 
given by Dr. J. Medley Wood, which he changed to C. epiphyticus 
before publication. 
Various Flowers. — Mr. Elwes exhibited flowers of Incarvillea 
(Forrest, No. 12,000), Gloriosa Leopoldii, Hymenocallis, Ismene Mac- 
leanii, Kniphofia (seedlings from K. MacOwanii), Agapanthus, and 
Gladioli. 
Inflorescence of Rhododendron barbatum.- — Mr. W. C. Worsdell, 
F.L.S., showed an inflorescence of Rhododendron barbatum received 
from Mr. E. A. Bowles at St. Keverne, Cornwall, in which the majority 
of the bracts had changed into foliage leaves, the venation of which 
was quite different from that of the ordinary foliage leaves, being more 
like that of the bracts and with the petals broader and flatter ; one of 
the prophylls of a flower had become changed into a foliage leaf. He 
also showed leaves of Lilac damaged and curled by grubs, probably 
those of a leaf-miner. 
