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grave to be easily set aside on any occasion; but on the present I ven- 
ture to differ from my friend, by uniting his two species into one. I 
place comparatively little value on the form of leaves or petioles in this 
genus; and the floral leaf is often seen long-petioled, in cases even, 
where they are ordinarily almost sessile. The perfectly drooping spike 
is characteristic, as also, as far as I know, the villous capsules. I be- 
lieve I had the species very many years ago, from Archdeacon Haw- 
tayne, and it was entered into the Calcutta Garden catalogue for H. 
acuminatum. I omitted to take notice of the particular direction of the 
spike. 
7. H. villosum ; folis lanceolatis breviter ipitidslis, spicà elongatá 
densiflora, bracteis 1—3-floris, calyce tuboque dimidio exserto villosis, 
laciniis limbi linearibus labelloque oblongo bilobo stamine dimidio 
brevioribus, anther’ minutá sagittata. 
H. villosum, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. p. 12. + Cat. Herb. n. 6545. 
Roem. et Schult. Mant. p. 15. Spreng. Syst. p. 9. Dietr. Spec. 
p.94. Dietr. Syn. p. 9. Rose. l. c. n. 56. 
Patria. Napalia, J ug. kasian. (preeter coll. in Cat. Hb. citat.), Grif- 
fith in Hb. Hook. et Lindl. Hook. fil. et Thoms. Assam (verisim. 
montes confin.), Mack in Herb. Hook. 
The very minute sagittate anthers is a permanent character, which 
at once distinguishes the species from all others. The spike is long and 
cylindric; or oval, with flowers altogether larger. . This latter state is 
well represented in Roscoe's figure; the former I had drawn and en- 
graved many years ago, as mentioned by that author. They differ not 
even as varieties, I believe. — 
(To be continued.) 
Kew Garpen Museum; or, a Notice of the Origin and some of the 
Contents of the Muszum or Economic Borany attached to the 
Royan Garpgens or Kew; Jy the Director, Sin W, J. Hooker, 
K.H., F.R.A., and L.S. 
In the year 1847, in obedience to the gracious commands of Her 
Majesty Queen Victoria, those grounds at Kew, including about four- 
teen acres, which had been devoted to the kitchen and forcing depart- 
ment, were added to the Royal Botanie Garden, e with the 
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