purple, and that in which the flowers are yellow. In 
China, where the section has its headquarters, the number 
of species belonging to either group cannot yet be safely 
estimated; of those in cultivation the best known 
members of the group with yellow flowers are P. Cock- 
burnana, Hemsl., P. Bulleyana, Forrest, and P. serrati- 
folia, Franch. ; the most familiar among those with purple 
flowers are P. Beesiana, Forrest, P. Poissoni, Franch., and 
P. pulverulenta, Duthie.. The known species with yellow 
flowers which occur outside China are P. imperialis, 
Jungh., a native of Java which has the further interest 
attaching to most southern Asiatic species of the genus ; 
P. prolifera, Wall., which occurs in the Khasia Hills, east 
of the Brahmaputra valley; and P. Smithiana, Craib, a 
native of Sikkim in the Eastern Himalaya. The extra- 
Chinese species with purple flowers so far known are 
P. japonica, A. Gray, which is restricted to J apan; and 
the subject of our illustration, P. Miyabeana, which is 
endemic in Formosa, and is readily distinguished from 
all the other known members of the section Candelabra in 
having the calyx farinose within. The plant figured is 
one which was raised from seed received at Kew in 1913 
from Mr. W. R. Price, who met with the species on 
Mount Morrison in Formosa, growing at an elevation of 
7000 feet above sea-level. The plant has been cultivated 
at Kew in a frame, where it flowered in May, 1914, and 
ripened its seeds in July. It may prove to be hardy, at 
least in the warmer districts of the British Islands. It 
will probably be best to treat it as a biennial under the 
conditions given to its near ally P. Poissoni, figured at 
t. 7216 of this work, like which it behaves under culti- 
vation. A marked feature of the members of the section 
Candelabra is the readiness with which several of them 
lend themselves to hybridisation. 
Descriprion.—//erb, under cultivation apparently 
biennial. Leaves oblong-obovate or wide oblanceolate, 
when young acute, later obtuse or rounded, somewhat 
narrowed at the base, up to 8 in. long, from 14-2 in. 
wide, somewhat firmly papery, glabrous on both surfaces, 
beneath at first somewhat mealy, at length nearly or 
quite efarinose ; lateral nerves about 10 on each side, the 
