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Blattaria, Linn. var. grandiflorum, ‘Vurrill (t. 8863), found in a 
cornfield in Lincolnshire; Rhododendron strigillosum, Franch. 
(t. 8864), from Western China; Fritillaria pontica, Wahlenb. 
(t. 8865), a native of the Orient; Melaleuca Radula, Lindl. (t. 
8866), a native of Western Australia; Kniphofia Snowdeni, C. H. 
Wright (t. 8867), from Uganda; Erica sessiliflora, Linn. f. (t. 
8), a native of South Africa; Syringa reflera, C. K. Schneider 
(t. 8869), from Central China; Phlomis spectabilis, Fale. ex 
Benth. (t. 8870), a native of the Western Himalaya, Afghanistan 
and Baluchistan; thododendron Sargentianum, Rehder & EK. H. 
Wils. (t. 8871), from Szechuan, South-Western China; Mesem- 
bryanthemum dichroum, Rolfe (t. 8872), from South Africa; and 
Odontoglossum Humeanum, Reichb. f. (t. 8873), a native of 
Southern Mexico. 
The volume is dedicated to the Rev. William Wilks, M.A., 
V.M.H., **To whose labour and care as Secretary for over three 
decades of the Royal Horticultural Society gardencraft every- 
where is greatly beholden.’’ 
The publishers of the Botanical Magazine, who with great 
public spirit have continued to issue the work throughout the 
war, have at last felt it incumbent upon them to give very careful 
consideration to its position. With much reluctance they have 
come to realise that the continuance of the work is dependent on 
its paying its footing all round. This it is not able to do. They 
have therefore resolved to terminate the Fourth Series of the 
Botanical Magazine with the present volume, and before com- 
mitting themselves further, to ascertain in some way whether the 
Magazine is really worth continuing, and if so under what con- 
ditions it might be possible to do so. 
Flowering Plants of South Africa.—The publication of the 
first number of ‘‘ The Flowering Plants of South Africa ’’ marks 
yet another phase of the work which comes under the scope of 
the Botanical Survey of the Union, the Director of which move- 
ment, Dr. I. B. Pole-Evans, has edited the work in question. 
The magazine, which contains hand-coloured figures with des- 
magazine. 
The Bahama Flora.—A copy of their recently published 
ne entitled The Bahama Flora has been presented to Kew by 
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es not only the flowering plants 
he cellular Cryptogams, with a 
