corolla is ivory-white streaked with red, the bracts are very 
large and broad, the anthers are densely bearded at the 
back, and amongst the numerous specimens in the Her- 
barium at Kew none show any signs of having been in- 
creased by suckers from the rootstock. H. eburnea is a very 
handsome species, and it is to be hoped that Mr. Ford, who 
has sent dried specimens, will procure living plants of it. 
It must be observed that the drawing here given of 
C. depressa was taken from a very young specimen, the 
first that flowered, and it conveys no idea of the dimension 
which the plant attains; nor does it show the mode of 
increase by suckers, for this is in all states (as grown at 
Kew) concealed by the dense foliage. 
C. depressa is a native of a district on the North river 
of the Canton (Kwantung) Province of China, where it 
was procured by Mr. C. Ford, Superintendent of the Hong 
Kong Botanical Gardens, who sent living plants of it to 
Kew in 1889, which flowered in June, 1891.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of leaf showing the pubescence of the surface; 2, calyx and 
style; 3, tube of corolla laid open; 4, top of pedicel, disk and ovary; 5, trans- 
verse section of ovary :—all enlarged, 
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