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The Gentian is a sLowy biennial whicli was raised from seed 

 aeeeived from the Ebyal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1912, 

 .and flowered at Kew in September, 1914. It is a native of Siberia 

 and differs from the typical form, which is figured at t. 639 of the 

 Botanical Magazine under the erroneous name of Gentiana ciliata, 

 in having a larger corolla and longer more acuminate sepals. Its 

 leaves are linear-lanceolate, up to 2^ in. long and over ^ m. broad, 

 and its solitary Howers have a bright blue corolla 2|— 3 in. long, 

 with four spreading lobes 1| in. long and 1 in. broad; these lobes 

 -are fimbriate below the middle and entire in the upper part and at 

 the base. 



Zygopetalum Prainiamim is a Peruvian species recently dis- 

 covered by Mr. L. Forget and introduced by Messrs. F. Sander 

 and Sons, of St. Albans, in whose collection it first flowered in 

 September, 1914. The plant was then purchased for Kew. It is 

 a close ally of Z. Biirlei, Reichb. f., a native of Mount Roraima 

 iu British Guiana, but it has larger pseudobulbs and leaves, and 

 its showy flowers differ in colour, having fewer green markings on 

 the petals. 



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.been mtrodiiced from Western North America by David Douglas 

 m 1826. It is found in British Columbia, Washing-ton, Oregon 

 and Nevada, and extends eastwards as far as Michigan. In 

 botanical works as well as in gardens it has often been confused 

 with A. alnifoJia, Nutt., but it dilfers in being a oaespitose shrub 

 instead of a small tree, its lea^es are toothed farther down the 

 margin, its hypanthium is woolly or even quite glabrous, and 

 It flowers about a fortnight earlier. The Kew plant which fur- 

 mshed the material for the figure was obtained in 1906 from a 

 Lontmental nursery as A. oa'yodon, Koehne, a name which must 

 :be reo-arded as a synonym of A. florida. 



rrimula pycnoloha is a very distinct though scarcely an orna- 

 niental species winch was raised by Messrs. James Yeitch & Sons 

 from seeds sent from- Szechuan, Western China, by Mr. E. H. 

 1 lif^' \^}^.^\^V'^E was made from a plant ],resented to Kew 

 by Messrs. ^ eitch in 1912. Pax and Kuuth include the species in 

 tie same section as that to which P. dnensls, Sabine, belongs. 

 clnLr large broadly cordate or ovate-cordate leaves anS a 



raclm^nf'^ uV\^ ms. long bearing a rather dense terminal 



-cal^x. Propagation is easily effected by means of root-buds. 



4^.TT'T\ ^^^^^''!'^ «««• Jiine.-The plants figured are 



lJnr.irn^l^ ^^•' ^li'^'P"^" ^Uata, Lambert (t. 8615), and 



JJoTstema yambvyaensts, De Wild. (t. 8G1G) 



lected bv Mr r "^ 7" ""^^^^"^^ aescribed from material col- 



n cultiv.fi ; ( \tP'''\ '"^ ^''^''^ G^i^^"«> a^d fir^t flowered 

 m cultnation in 1890, wlieu the late Dr. Master^* received a 



pre^eu llte;in'j\r'l^ ^or the figure was\btained ^va. 



jvew m J une, 1913, by the Bev. A. Miles-Moss, who 



