4;"55 



Artabotrys burmanicus, A.DC.~The liistory attacLIn? to this 



A. DC A misidentification has led to the name being at ilie pro- 

 sent day attached to a plant totally different fiom Dial origins II v 

 described by De Candolle, 



The synonymy and distribution of the two species is ns 



iollows : — 



Artabotrys uniflorus, Craib, comb. nov. A. hurmanicus, 

 Hook, f . et Th,, El 



. Ind., i. p. 129; Kurz, Tor. Fl. Brit. linrmUj 



fc Th. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit, Tnd., i. p. 55; King 

 in Ann. Hoy. Bot. Gard. Ciilc, iv. p. 47 t. 62 [omnes qitoad 



1. p. 32; Hook. f. et 



flantas i^etaJa triquetra Jiahcyites) von A. DC- Ropnlopctalvyn 



'fl 



IN' 

 i 



Grim 



A barren specimen from Pegu — Kurz 18G3~— may also beh)ng 

 here. 



A. burmanicus, A. DC, Mem., p. 36; auct. siqira citati quoad 

 plantam AVallichianam tantum. 



Wall. Cat. 6418. Maiulalay, Zibingyi, .5fi0 m., Lace 51S5. 



Besides tlie Burmese plants King, I.e. quotes also a plant from 

 Manipur. Unfortunately this plant is in fruit only, but it cer- 

 tainly belongs to neither of the above species. Finet and 

 Oagnepain in Lecomte's Fl. Gen. Indo-Chine record and describe 

 a plant as A. burmanicus, but whatever their plant mav be their 

 clescription nialces A. burinanicn.; an impossible identificaiiou. 



XLVII.-MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Botanical Magazine for November.— The plants figured are 



Rhododendron carneinn, Hutchinson (t. 8634); SieveUngia 

 Shepluardii, l^nlfe (t. 8635); Anemone ohtusifolia, Bon, forma 

 paUda, Craib (t. SOJje) and J' ote7itiUa davurica, Nestl. var. 



Vcifchii, Jesson (t. 863T). 

 Ehodcndron carncum is an attractive pink-fiowered species 



found in the Northern Shan States by Major C. W 

 an altitude of 7500 ft. From the* seed sent by lu 



im to Col. F. B. 



an altitude ot <oUU it. rrom uie s.ft;u scj.. i-j ^x^" , , , i 

 Longe, Hullv Lodge, Norwich, the subject of the plate has been 

 grown. In "Surma it grows to a height of about 3 /t on open 

 grassy hillsides. This species is most nearly allied to /^. 

 feitchianum, Hook., but in the latter the calyx-lobes are ciliate 

 and usually nuudi larger, and the corolla is white with subeiect 



Eoirhenbacb fouiu 



pecies 



from Costa IJica. Now six species of tins interesting genus ore 

 known inhabiting Costa Rica, British Guiann, Ecuador Colom- 

 bia and Peru. The species figured was collected m Colombia 



flowered scapes. 



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