154 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Sikkim and Bhotan is 10,000 to 12,000 feet. This will be figured in 
an early number of the * Botanical Magazine.’ 
5. R. niveum, Hook. fil. Sik. Rhod. Consp. Sp. p- 4. n. 21.—Almost 
while I am writing these notes, I receive information from Messrs. 
Standish and Noble that Dr. Hooker's R. niveum is now in flower with 
them at Bagshot. The blossom has not yet been seen by us; nor did 
Dr. Hooker find it in flower in its native country ; so that he has given 
no figure of it, and has derived the character from the foliage and fruit. 
The former is covered beneath by a snow-white tomentum, unlike the 
silvery compact clothing of R. arboreum, and the capsules are shorter, 
more cylindrical, and more blunt than in that species. It inhabits 
Sikkim-Himalaya, at elevations of from 10,000 to 12,000 feet above 
the level of the sea. 
Extracts from the Report on the Royal Botanie Garden at Peradenia, 
Ceylon, from October 1851, to September 1852, inclusive; by G. H. 
K. Tuwarrss, Eseo., Superintendent. 
Every attention has been given, during the past year, to keeping the 
drives and walks in good repair. The lake now contains several 
species of water-lilies, including a healthy young plant of the gigantic 
Victoria regia, raised from seed received from Kew. A number of 
species of indigenous trees are being raised from seed, and planted out 
upon the grass, as they become large enough for that purpose; and in 
the course of a few years, an extensive and highly interesting Arbore- 
tum will in this way be formed. 
The flower-borders have received. their due attention, and exhibit a 
decided improvement, owing to the removal from them of useless trees 
with which they were encumbered. i 
Seeds of the best varieties of Cotton have been sent to various parts 
of the island; and it is to be hoped and expected, that it will be found 
to succeed where the climate is more certain, and therefore more suit- 
able for its cultivation, than in this immediate locality; the experi- 
ment made in this Garden with Cottons having failed entirely this past 
season, owing apparently to the unfavourableness of the weather. A 
strong desire has been manifested by some of the Kandyan population 
to take up the cultivation of Cotton; and at the request of a native 
