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found it in the State of Para, Biazil. It lias grown well in a 

 tropical house and flowered for the fir.st iime in Febniarj^, 1914. 

 The flowers, as is usual in the gemis, have a disagreeable 'odour, 

 and are characterised by the dense patch of hairs in the throat of 

 the lono--tailed perianth, which has a pale cream ground colour 

 W' it h brown streaks and reticulations on the outside. 



HijTpeastrvw, Elwesii has been introduced into cultivation by 

 Mr. H. J. Elwes, who found it himself near Lake Nahuel-Huapi, 

 on the Eio Limay, in Argentina, in 1902. A plant brought to 

 England by Mr. Elwes first flowered in his garden at Colesborne 

 m September, 1903. It flowered again last vear, when the 

 plate, which was partly prepared from material supplied in 1903, 

 was completed. The species is allied to II. Ananuca, Phil., from 

 which it may be easily distinguished by its uniformly pale yellow 

 periantb-lobes and the tube claret-colourod inside, while iu 

 //. Ananuca the lobes are yellow with vivid red midribs. 



Phellpaca foliata is a handsome parasitic herb belonging to the 

 Oiohanchaceae, a native of the Crimea and Caucasus, its host 

 always being Centavrea dealhata, AVilld. It has numerous 

 synonyms including Orohanche cocci nca, M. Bieb. and A no plan- 

 thus coccinetis, "Walp. The plant has been in cultivation for 

 many years, at least as long ago as 1879, when its large bright 

 scarlet flowers, which make a striking- contrast to the silverv 

 grey foliage of ilie liost, Avere produced in the Imperial Botanic 

 Garden, Petrograd. Seeds of tlie plants from wliicli the material 

 for the figure was obtained were received in 1911 from the 

 Botanic Garden, Tiflis. and together with some of thoHe of the 

 Centaurea were sown in a pot* The seedlings of the host plant 

 germinated in 1911, and were jdanted out iu the Rock Garden 

 later in the same' year and grew alone till May, 1914, when tlie 

 Phelipiiea made its appearance. 



The Dorstcnia is a plant mainly of hotanical interest and u 

 native of the Belgian Congo, in some districts of wln'ch it is 



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plentiful. It first appeared in Europe at the Coloninl Garden, 

 Laeken, near Brussels, and reached England in 1910, when a 

 plant was exhibited at a meeting of the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons on behalf of the Director 

 of the State Botanic Garden, Brussels. The plant was after^ 

 wards presented to Kew and was used in preparing the figure. 



Marshall's Arbustum Americaniim.— A copy of this rare work 



was presented to Kcw iu 1902 by the K^ew York Botanical Garden. 

 The title is ''Arbustum Araericanum : The American Grove, or 

 an Alphabetical Catalogue of Forest Trees and Shrubs natives of 

 the American United States." The book was published at Fhila- 



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It is 



ssay pub- 



lished in the Western Hemisphere,"* and forms a small octavo 

 volume of nearly 200 pages. It was well received m Europe, and 

 wn« i,.r,.,c7o+^.l ;„fn Vrpneh .ind German in 17*8. It contains 



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Memorials of John Bartiam aud Hompbry Marshall, 



