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The Rhododendron is a Western Gliiiiese species and grows at 

 siltituJes of 6000-10^000 feet abo-ve sea-level. Originally found 

 T>j tlie late Abbe David in the neighbourhood of Moupine, 

 ^zecliuan, in 1870, its appearance in the living collections at Kew 

 :re>inlts frojn seeds received from the Arnold Arboretum for which 

 they were collected in 1908 by Mr. E. H. Wilson, who met with 

 tlie species growing as an epiphyte, often on evergreen oaks and 

 -other broad-Jeaved trees, on Mount Omi and on neighbouring 

 mountains. It is of dwarf habit, suitable for the rock-garden, and 

 flowers when only a tevr years old* Amongst the species of the 

 .section Lepidorh odium it is easily recognised by the subverticillato 

 somewhat cordate glandular leaves, the large leafy calyx, the 

 black-pilose twigs and petioles, the large white corollas spotted 

 with red on the inside of the upper part of the tube, and by the 



large carmine anthers. 



The Eugenia, under the name of Plinia pcdunculata, Linn., was 

 illustrated in the Botanical Magazine as long ago as 1799 (t. 473), 

 l)ut that illustration does not show tlie edible brightly coloured 

 fruits, whicli are iiot always obtained on cultivated plants. It 

 ■tippears to have been growui in the Apothecaries Garden, Chelsea, 

 in 1759. The species is a native of tropical South America, and 

 is cultivated in most warm countries. As Eugenia Michcln, 

 Lamk,, the plant from which the material for the figure was pre- 

 pared was presented to Kew bv the Director of the Jardm Colo- 

 nial, Paris, and grown in the'Palm House; it fruited freely m 



Mav. 1914. 



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Botanical Magazine for March.— The plants figured are 



eirrhopetahim Fletcherianvm, Eolfe (t. 8600); Rhododendron 

 ^^tamineum, Francli. (t. 8601); Pingmcula i'.VFf,^^^' ^•, f ' 

 BrandegcG (t. 8602), and Lotus campylocladus, Webb ct iiortli., 



fonua v/Jlosior, Snrague (t. 8003). . 



The Cirrhoprfalvm is a recent introduction from New bumoa, 

 whence it was first imported to England by Messrs Hugh Low 

 & Co., of Enfiold. A lilant acquired by the Rev J. C. B. ^letcliei 

 ilundhan. Vicarage, Colcheter, was exhibited last year at a meet- 

 ing of the Rovnl Horticultural Society under the name ot mujo- 

 phylluw. Fleichcrinnnm. The drawing was made ^ ^'^f / , ^^^IJ".' 

 colour sketch of the plant and a single flower pr^^Ji^ted by Mr 

 Fletcher, and from a living plnnt lent to Kew by ^essis Stuar 

 Low & Co. It is a remarkable species, ha.mg long F f ^,^^; 

 leaves resembling those of PhaJae,wpsis Schillenana and lar^e 

 flowers suffused and blotched with purple. ri. y,;n^ 



Rhododendron sfamineum belongs to the '^^^^f ,^^^f;°^.;j''tI^eir 

 t^«m, the species of which are disFinguished by having Ui.n 

 flower, produced from axillary buds which are cro^.ded a th 

 -n.lsof the branches. With this character f^e alyys to ^^^ 



^glandular persistent leaves and long ^^'^^''YlX^hZ hv- 

 Proni its allies, 7?. sfamineinn may be recognised %'^' ^'^''-;' ■^. 

 ^xserted stamens. For its introduction +«.'^"^^'^; i°^ ]\'in 1900 

 dcbted to Messrs. James Veitch & Sons who recenod jt in ^ 



jrom their collector, Mr. E. H. Wilson by -J^fj ^^^'e o-t- 

 1^ rocky shady ravines in Western China, its leaves 



