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rowly obovate to narrowly oval, up 

 to 7^ in. long and 2^ in. broad. 

 Panicles up to 14 in. long and 3^ in. 

 broad at the base. Flowers white, 

 J-f in. broad. The plant usually 

 met with in cultivation as .4. chinen- 

 sis is A, turbinata. North China. 

 (Arnold Arboretum.) 



^Aesculus Wilsonii. (PL WiU. i. 



498 ; Bean, T. & S. I 169 ; K. B. 

 1914, 50.) H, Very closely allied 

 to A. chinensis from which it may 

 be distinguished by the ioljowing 

 characters : Leaflets with longer 

 petioles, usually nut so tapering at 

 the base, but rounded or slightlj^ 

 cordate, more downy at first, and 

 with more numerous pairs of veins. 

 Fruit ovoid or pear-shaped, bearing 

 vn apical mucro, seed larger. The 

 panicle is sometimes 10 in. long and 

 4 in. across at the base. Central 

 China. (Arnold Arboretum.) 



^Amelanchier rubescens. [Bean, T, 



<k S. i. 190.) llosaceae. H. A shrub 

 w'ith downy branclilets. Leaves 

 orbicular or broadly obovate, |-in. 

 long, glaucous and covered with a 

 fine close down beneath, sharply 



in. 

 across, 3 to 6 together in a short 

 raceme. South - western United 

 States. 



toothed. Flowers pure white, 



1 5 



26 



(Kew.) 



^Anemone rupicola. (G, M. 1914, 



C42 f.) Eanunculaceae. H. Eoot- 

 stock long, slender, woody. Leaves 

 long stalked, 3-partite ; segments 

 sharply and coarsely toothed or 

 S-looed. Scape 12 in. lonc^. Involn- 

 cral leaves almost sessile, 3-lobed to 

 the middle, with toothed and cut seg- 

 ments. Flowers showy, white, 1-2 in. 

 across. A re-introduction. See Uooh. 

 f. FL Brit. Jnd. i. 8. Himalava. 

 (Bees, Ltd.) 



Mngraecum birrimense. (A. B. 1914, 



214.) Orehidaceae. S. Flowers 

 smaller than in.4. ®?VA/er/a/iW/n, with 

 narrower lip and a straight spur. The 

 flowers are showy and have sub- 

 spreading linear-lanceolate sepals and 



petals li-H i"- l<^i^g- ^^^^P obovate, 

 1 in. long and broad. Gold Coast, 



(Kew.) 



Aquilegia desertorum. [G. C. 1914, 



Iv. 67.) Ranuneulac?ae. H. *'A 

 fJwarf species with led flowers of 

 the type of A, cajwdfn.^i.^, and with 

 an enormous root." New Mexico. 

 (T. D. A. Cockerell, Boulder, Colo- 

 rado, U.S.A.) 



^Aristolochia gigantea. 



8542. ) Aristolochiaceae. 

 is the true A. gigantea. 



[B. 



S. 



The 



M. t. 



This 



plant 



figured in B. M. t. 4221 under that 

 name is A. grand i flora var. Hookeri; 

 in that the apex ■ of the large 

 perianth-limb is long-tailed, while in 

 A. gigantea it is obtuse. Perianth- 

 limb elliptic, deeply cordate, 9 in. 



in. broad, brownish- 

 purple with pale yellow reticulations. 

 Its flowers are fragrant. Brazil. 

 (Sir Frank Crisp.) 



long, 



6^1 



Arundina subsessilfs. 



Orehidaceae* 

 herbaceous 



{K. B. 

 S. A 



g- 



1914, 

 374.) Orehidaceae* S- A com- 

 pletely herbaceous species easily 

 distinguished by having the flowers 

 subsessile at the apes of the 

 branches. The flowers are nearly 

 white, with purple at the tips of 

 the sepals and petals and on the 



limb of the lip, and yellow keels. 

 Upper Burma. (H, J. Elwes.) 



*Aster batangensis. (G. C. 1914, 



Ivi. 186, f. 74.) Compositae, H. 



A compact little shrubby plant 



about 1 ft. high, very free-flowerin 

 Flower-heads bright purple, IJ in. 



across ; ray - florets longer and 



narrower than is usual in the genus. 



It flowers in May and June. 



Western China. (Bees, Ltd.) 



^Begonia Bunchii. [HaageJb Schmidt, 

 Cat. 1914, 211, name only.) Be'goni- 

 aeeae. G. Very similar to B. 

 mctalUca var. crispa. Leaves reni- 

 form, up to 3^ in. long and 6 in. 

 broad, lobed, undulate and crisped 

 on the margin, shining yellowi^sh- 

 green and glabrous above, rose- 

 purple beneath, and very sparingly 

 furnished with brown chaffy hairs 

 on the principal veins, ciliate and 

 with tufts of brown hairs here and 

 there on the margin; petiole up to 

 4J in. long, sparingly clothed with 

 long slender chaffy hairs. Inflores- 

 cence a lax cyme. Peduncle erect, 

 about 5 in. long. Flowers (all 

 female in Kew plant) pale rose. 

 Perianth-segments 2, suborbiculai*, 



about i in. across. Fruit rather 

 broadly and subequally 3 - winged, 

 (Haage & Schmidt, Erfurt.) 



*Begonia Icphoptera. {K, B, 1014, 



28.) Cr. A new species differing 

 from 5, ciliata in its larger leaves 

 and bracts, in having vivid scarlet 

 flowers, and a capsule of which the 

 iipper wing terminates in a thick- 

 ened toothed and pilose crest. Only 

 the male flowers are known. These 

 l>ave 2 segments which are broadly 

 elliptic and 5-7$ in. long. Peru. 

 (F. Sander & Sons.) 



Begonia venusta, iF. H, 1914, 134; 



Lpynoine, Cat. 1914, n. 187, 3.) G. 

 Garden hybrid between J?, dixova 



A 2 



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