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to Mr. E. H. Wilson and Mr. P. K. Ward, The plant figured 

 was raised at tlie Eoyal Botanic Gardens, Ediiitnrgh. 



The rhododendron is one of a number of closely allied forms 

 from China, and it has been found desirable to include under the 

 name 7t: concinnum not only R. yaiithiyiuin, Bur. & Tranch., but 

 7?, Bentliamianum^ Hemsl., and R. coomhense, Uemsl., already 

 figured at t. 8280. The leaves are conspicuously mucronate and 



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densely lepidote below, and tlie calyx lobes are remarkably po 

 inorpbic in sbape, sometimes bein^ scarcely present. Tlie plant 

 was collected by Mr. E. H. Wilson at Ta-cbien-lu, Western 

 Szecbuan, tlie home also of tbe otber forms in rinded in this 

 species, and tlie plant figured was presented to Kew in 1908 by 

 Messrs. J. Veitcb and Song. 



Botanical Magazine for August.— Tbe plants figured are 



Alpinia mutica, Eoxb. (t. 8621); Rhododendron Souliei, Francb. 

 (t. 8622); Corylus mandshurica, Maxim, (t. 8623) and Scnccio 



glastifolius, Linn, f. (t. 8624). , 



Alfinia mutica is an interesting plant formerly grown m Eng- 

 land, but lost to cultivation for many years. Its reintroduction 

 is due to Mr. H. N. Eidley, whilst Director of tbe Botanic 

 Gardens-, Singapore, and tbe figure bas been prepared from a 

 plant sent by him to Kew. Tbe species was described by 

 Roxburffb from Penang in 1810. It was regularly grown at 



Calcutta, and its introduction to England must bave taken 

 place at tbe time of its discoTcry, since it is recorded as having 

 been grown in Bayswater before 1812. At tbe Liverpool Botanic 

 Garden it flowered regularly, but soon after 1828 it became rare 

 and eventually disappeared from British collections Its nearest 

 ally is A. calcarata, Eoxb. but it is distinguished troni that 

 species by the differently-shaped labellum with basal hirsute 

 glands instead of spurs as in A. calcarata. 



Tbe Ehododendron is of remarkable beauty with its rosy- 

 flushed flowers and handsome leaves borne on purple petioles. 

 A native of China, it was collected by Mr. £ H Wilson at 

 about 12,000 ft. near Ta-chien-lu in Western Szecbuan, where 

 it occurs in upland thickets and woods. Our plant was raised 

 from seed presented by Prof. Sargent, ArnoUl Arboretum, n 

 1909. R. SouUei belongs to the section^ ^^''^'.f^^^f^f '^'^j , ^^ 

 leaves being destitute of glands, and itie easily d^^t/^g^;^ \^^ 

 from all others by its lolg-petioled, wide-basel lea. es calj x 

 lobes edged with vU glands, and flat ^aucer-shaped flowers 



The M^anchurian Ha" el belongs to a group having he nvoucre 

 prolonged into a_ tube, sometimes as ^^f /^, ^^/^nied fo 



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V. mandsiuTica, but m ine latiei t^^ ^^ cnecies 



and often somewhat deeply lobed in the^upper part. Ou^ species 



is common in the mountains of E. ^f ^7^""^' -^^^^ It was 

 collected in 1855 by Maximowicz near the Amur E ver^ it ^a 

 introduced to Kew by seed received from the late W. 



Schneider in 1882. . , Cnnth African Coast 



f:^non^. nln.tifnhu., is a nativo of the boutn Ainca 



.benecio gtastifolius is ^ "atxv. ^^ ^^ 



from Eiversdale to Algoa Bay. It is nearly ax 



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