dxX PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
downy palmate leaves and racemes of drooping fragrant white 
flowers ; Corylopsis pauciflora fol. var., an elegant semi-scandent 
shrub, with leaves like those of a Lime, but beautifully variegated 
with pink and cream colour; Acer nikoense, a Maple new to 
gardens, with ternately compound leaves and red hairy stems : 
Veronica Traversii, a New Zealand species, which proves quite 
hardy at Combe Wood, and which bears London smoke better 
than most plants; Boldoa fragrans, a Chilian plant, with aromatic 
leaves, generally grown as a greenhouse plant, but which is quite 
hardy at Combe Wood; DracocephalumRuyschiana var. japonicum, 
the Japanese form of a common European plant, very beautiful 
as a hardy herbaceous perennial; Eucryplvia pinnatifiolia , a 
remarkable Chilian shrub, with pinnate leaves and large white 
flowers ; Conanclron ramondioides, a very remarkable plant, allied 
to Ramondia pyrenaica, intermediate in some respects between 
Gesneracece, Solanacece, and Scropliulariacece , with a single leaf and 
a scape of white flowers, marked with yellow spots and with the 
anthers combined into a tube ; Actinidia kolomickta , a semi- 
scandent shrub, with ovate, acuminate, serrate leaves and white 
flowers, like those of a Philadelphus ; Abies bifida, the plant 
generally grown as A. firma ; Grevillea rosmarinifolia and G. 
sulphurea, both hardy in this locality ; Escallonia Philippiana, a 
very pretty evergreen species, with a profusion of small white 
starry blossoms; Nandma domestica, Xanthoceras sorbifolia, 
Staphylea colchica, ELymenanthera crassifolia, Azara microphylla , 
Maackia amurensis , with foliage like that of a Wistaria ; Drimys 
Winteri, Abies canadensis var. parvifolia, a curious variety of the 
Hemlock Spruce, with short leaves and long spreading branches ; 
a dwarf variety of Retinospora filifera, Acacia Nemu, Viburnum 
Sieboldi, &c. All the plants above mentioned have proved hardy 
at Combe Wood. 
Gall on Rhododendrons. —Specimens of small apple-like galls 
on the leaves and shoots of X Rhododendron Wilsoni were shown 
by Dr. Masters, and referred to Dr. Cooke, who reports that 
the fungus which causes the gall is Eaobasidium Rhododendri. 
Double Begonia. —Dr. Masters showed flowers of a double 
Begonia X B. Veitchii, in which the petals assumed more or less 
of the aspect of open carpels, bearing ovules on their margins, 
and terminating above in coiled stigmas.—This was the last 
meeting of the present session. 
