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of plants 5 or ft. high are amongst the Biost promiueut floral 

 ■eftects at Kew during tlie spring months. In a few gardens 

 plants are to be found approaching a height of 20 ft., but as a 

 rule the maximum height is not attained here. There appears 

 to be some doubt whether the root nodules are produced in 

 this cGuntrj, the thorough examination of the roots of old plants 

 being too risky an operation to undertake unless the plants are 

 to be destroyed. In Museum Xo. 1, a series of nodules and pipe 

 blocks made from this wood may be seen. 



^?^..?.^^^^^^ ^^^^ *' Briar" is a corruption of the French 

 word Bruyere," meaning heath. 



W. D. 



Mahoii 



—In Kew Bulletin, 1914, Mr. Sprague 



enumer 



the Asiatic species of Mahoma, has left out M. conhim and 

 lelerred one of the type specimens of this species to J/. For- 



tunei. bchneider also appears to have re-described M. .un- 

 fusa as a new species, M. Zemanii, from a fruit-bearing specimen 

 collected by Wilson (Sargent, PI. Wilson, vol. i. p. 378). I 

 have not had the opportunity of examining the type of M. 

 Zernann hut have no doubt of its identity with m! confusa, 

 judging from his description and notes (I.e. p. 879). Schneider 



U^ Tl'f^'°''l ^\ ^'' "^^^^^ *^'^^ ^^ specimen collected by Henr>- 

 (no J.iol), which consists of three leaves only, resembles his M. 



t^l Tl TT T ;°* ^r^l ^^^^ *^ examine tnis particular speci- 

 nien, biit Henry s No. 3351a actually represents J/, confusa, nndi 



M. conf 



noil tl<lt?i'l Q '^ *^' *"?r^^^^ ^^^^'^ ^'^^ «f the basal pair, as 

 Tvit tl^e l^;f/rf r ?".? ^^' Schneider respectively, but also in 

 neiJlv fl ? Lt f^ "-^ ?^ ^P'? ""'"'^ *^^« ^tiimen, with a broad, 



^niTil^ ^j^^X""' '''V''^'''.^%^^ *^« °t^«^' «r«<^i^« the petal .s 

 *ntiie, and the connective apiculate-triano-ular! 



n. T. 



