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ORDINARY MEETINGS, 
4th April, 1916—Mr. W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S., Presi- 
dent, in the chair, and 50 members and visitors present. 
Misses Annie Hastingden and Ethel Turner, and Monsieur 
Chayet and Mr. A. EH. Watson were duly elected mem- 
bers. 
Rev. J. Oberlin flarris read an interesting paper on 
“Silk Culture.’’ 
The Hon. Secretary announced that he had received 
three designs for the outside cover of The Australian 
Naturalist, which would be dealt with by the Committee 
appointed to make the selection. 
Mr. Shiress exhibited a flower-spike from a Calliste- 
mon, a hybrid raised by Mr. Cheel from C. acuminatus 
and C. lanceolatus, at present flowering in the Botanic. 
Gardens, and remarked that whilst the foliage of the 
plant represented the staminate parent, C. lanceolatus, 
the flower-spike, which was eight inches in length, took 
after C. acwminatus, the mother plant. 
Mr. Cheel contributed a note on a specimen of Vitex 
luteus, exhibited by Miss Hinder at a previous meeting. 
The plant, which is a native of North Island, New Zea- 
land, is prized as producing the most valuable hardwood 
in that Dominion. _The mechanism for securing pollina- 
tion is one of the most interesting and remarkable adap- 
tations of floral structure to the habits of honeysucking 
birds that has so far been noticed in the New Zealand 
flora. Particulars are given by D. Petrie, M.A., in a 
very interesting paper in Trans, New Zealand  Inst., 
Vol. xxxvii. (1914), p. 409. 
Mr. A. A. Hamilton exhibited a panicle of flowers 
of Humea elegans, a herbaceous biennial, with stem- 
clasping leaves and bearing large pendulous sprays of 
diminutive red flowers. Santalum obtusifolium, with its 
blue-black berries, from Audley, National Park, Heli- 
