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at Kew, compiled by Alexander Smitli in 1848, lias been prebonted 

 by Mr. J. B. Jackson. From Messrs. James Yeitch and Suns 

 has been received a memorandum book containing notes on the 

 seeds collected for them in China by Mr. W. Pnrdom. 



Numerous other contributions made to the library during the 

 year, received as presentations from institutions, authors and 

 other sources, which it has not been possible to particularise in 

 this note, will be included in the supplement to the catalogue 

 forming Appendix II. to the Kew Bulletin, 1915. 



Botanical Magazine for January.— The plants figured are 



Encephalartos Uildehrandtii, A. Braun & Bouche (tt. 8592 «& 

 B593); Cotoneaster pannosa, Franch. (t. 8594); Mesemhryan- 



thecatum 



osum 



The handsome Encephalartos was first discoA^ered by Sir John 

 Kirk near Dar-es-Salam on the East African Coast in 1868, and 

 seeds, some of which germinated, wore sent by him to Kew in 

 1870. The plates, giving figures of both male and female cones, 

 W€re prepared from material obtained from two plants grown on 

 from stems received from Sir John Kirk in 1884. The same Cycad 

 was found later by J. M. Hildebrandt, after whom it was named, 

 on the part of the coast opposite the island of Zanzibar and at other 

 places as far north as Mombasa. The stem is sometimes very 

 short, but may reach a height of 20 feet. The cones are cylindric, 

 the male pedunculate, 8-18 inches long, Avhile the female is sub- 

 sessile and up to 2 feet long. Some interesting points in connec- 

 tion with this plant, including its affinities with the Natal E. 

 villosus, Lem., are discussed in an article by Dr. 0. Stapf in the 

 Kew Bulletin, 1914, p. 386. 



Cotoneaster pannosa is a native of South-Wostern Yunnan, 

 where it was originally found by the late Abbe Delavay at alti- 

 tudes of about 8000 feet above "sea-level, and through him was 

 introduced to the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, where some young 

 plants were raised in 1888. The material figured Avas furnished 

 by a plant received from the Jardin des Plantes in 1894. The 

 species is closely allied to C. Franchetii, Bois, and has sometimes 

 been confused with it, but it is distinguished by its smaller leaves 

 with longer petioles, more spreading petals of a purer white, and 

 smaller fruits of a duller deeper red. It is very ornamental in 

 the fruiting stage and succeeds in a naturally poor soil. 



The curious and pretty little Mesembryanthemum thecatuvi is 

 a new species discovered by Prof, H. H. W. Pearson in the Yan 

 Rhynsdorp Division of Cape Colony during the Percy Sladen 

 Expedition to the Orange River in 1910-11. Its leaA-es are con- 

 solidated into obconic bodies about | inch thick, which are bluish- 

 green with dull green mnrkings. The flowers are rose-purple with 

 a yellow eye, and each lasts from four to six days, opening in the 

 morning and closing at night. 



Mesembryanthemum stylosum is also a new species and is a 

 native of Little Namaqualand, where it was collected during the 

 expedition named in the preceding paragraph. Tt formed part of 



