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“ The names of Hooker, Elwes, Bayley Balfour and Prejewalsky 
will always be inseparably associated with the Himalayo-Chinese 
region. 
Mr. Elwes’s intiiivante association with the Botahical Maigidine 
began in 1875 and continued to the last days of his life. It is 
not unfitting to note here that largely through his generosity and 
by his active interest this venerable publication, after a short 
lapse, has now been launched again on what we all hope will be 
another century of unbroken prosperity and even greater use- 
fulness. The recently issued part contains a new Aeschynanthus 
from his collections, and several plates in the parts now in the 
press were prepared from material furnished by him. He had 
a particular wish that the number of his plants figured in the 
Magazine should reach a hundred, and it was a great satisfaction 
to him to know that during this past year the century was attained. 
. {In July last he wrote: “I believe I am right in saying that no 
private garden has contributed so many species to the Botanical 
Magazine.” So long ago as 187 7 Sir Joseph Hooker dedicated 
a volume to him, “an honour,” he declared, “‘ which at such 
an early period T did not deserve.” Sir Jo oseph’s fine tribute 
to the zeal, intelligence and success with which Mr. Elwes had 
pursued horticultural botany, and to the liberal spirit in which 
he had laboured to advance its best interests, might have 
been expressed not only with reference to what he had so far 
accomplished, but what one having a knowledge of his character 
and talents might have expected from him during his subsequent 
life. 
A glance at the list of plants which Elwes contributed to the 
Botanical Magazine reveals the fact that nearly all are herbs, 
and that rather more than two-thirds of them are petaloid 
monocotyledons. Many were collected by himself, and chiefly 
uring his travels in Northern India, the Near East, South 
America and Formosa, a great number being new aneeomartions 
not a few of which have become garden favourites. 
In the issue of the Magazine for May 1, 1875, two of the 
five plants figured—Crocus chrysanthus (t. 6162) and Galanthus 
Elwesii (t. 6166)—were from Elwes, and these were the first 
of his contributions to the publication. The fine Snowdrop was 
first collected by Balansa in 1854, and dried specimens were 
distributed under the name of Galanthus plicatus. Elwes intro- 
duced it into English gardens twenty years later from the 
mountains near Smyrna, and was the first to point out its 
distinctive characters. 
Among the plants which Elwes supplied for the Botanical 
Magazine, the following, arranged in families as in Bentham and 
Hooker’s Genera Plantarum, deserve particular mention: Three 
bow . ) ngaria ; 
{t. 8115), of which Elwes brought ‘halen seeds 
