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Taiwania cryptomerioides, Hayata.—A healthy young plant 
of this new and very interesting conifer was received in December 
last from the Arnold Arboretum. It is one of a few living plants 
introduced to that institution by Mr. E. H. Wilson during his 
recent visit to Formosa. Seeds also were collected by Mr. Wilson 
and widely distributed by the Arboretum, but of those received at 
Kew not one germinated ; nor have we learnt that any better result 
has been obtained elsewhere. It seems, therefore, that the plant 
just received will represent the first introduction of this tree in 
a living state to Britain. 
Lavwania cryptomerioides was originally described by Hayata 
in the Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. xxxvii. p- 330 
6500 feet elevation. There are some ver good cone-bearing shoots 
preserved in the Kew Herbarium, collected in 1912 by Mr. W. R. 
rice. The tree has two distinct types of foliage—juvenile and 
adult. The young plant at Kew has nothing but the former, the 
leaves being awl-shaped, flattish but slightly thickened up the 
middle, $-} inch long, 2 inch wide at the base, tapering 
gradually to the slender, sharply-pointed apex. Several lines of 
stomata on each surface give the leaves a greyish tinge. At this 
stage the leaves in shape and arrangement strongly suggest Cryp- 
tomeria. On the adult, cone-bearing shoots the leaves are quite 
different, and in shape, size and arrangement are very like those 
at the back, incurved and bluntish at the apex. e cones are 
oval 2—} inch long, the scales roundish-obovate, 4 — 5, i 
California and Australia and is, In its young state, one of the 
most beautiful of all conifers. It will have to be grown in the 
Temperate House at Kew, and is only likely to be hardy in this 
country in the south-western counties, the Scilly Isles and 
similarly mild localities. Wes. B. 
Bluff et Fingerhuth, Compendium Florae Germaniae. ed. 2. 
—The first section of Bluff and Fingerhuth’s Compendium, ed. 1, 
edition. 
The second edition, edited by Bluff, C. G. Nees and Schauer, 
appeared in 1836-8, and was very favourably noticed, the reviewer 
* Flora, 1825, i. Beilage, pp. 90-93. 
ft Ib., ii. pp. 714-718, 
tT Ib., ii. pp. 640, 685. 
