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flattened, smooth and rather rigid ; the longest measures 3°5 cm. 
The stems are smooth, terete, and of a pale green colour.. The most 
remarkable feature is that the majority of the stems are apparently 
barren, and these apparently barren stems exceed the flowering ones 
in length, the longest measuring 5°5 cm. and having a diameter of 
15mm. The apex of each is marked with a prominent scar. This 
suggests that these stems at one time bore an inflorescence. This 
inflorescence probably shed its nuts and glumes, and then the naked 
rhachis broke off at the lowest joint. A similar appearance is met 
with in Carex aphylla, Kunth, a South American species. 
The internal structure shows the presence of a large number 
(about 30) of vascular bundles arranged near the periphery and 
alternately larger and smaller. Each bundle is surrounded by a 
sclerenchymatic cylinder more developed in the radial direction, and 
is separated from its neighbour by an aerenchymatous canal. The 
centre is occupied by colourless, more or less broken up parenchyma 
(pith). This internal structure is similar to that of C. monostachya, 
but in that species the outline is triangular, whereas in C. runsso- 
roensis it is circular, Another great difference is that in C. mono- 
stachya the leaf blades are fully developed, often being as long as 
the stem, are flattened, and have a prominent midrib. 
W,. B.2T. 
Botanical Magazine for August.The plants figured are Bulbo- 
phyllum virescens, J. J. Smith (t. 8327); Patrinia triloba, Miq. 
(t. 8328) ; Pterostyrax hispidum, Sieb. et Luce. (t. 8329) 5 Gamogyne 
pulchra, N. E. Br. (t. 8030); and Psoralea ajfinis, Eckl. et Zeyh. 
(t. 8331). 
rom whom the plant figured was purchased in 1905. Patrinia 
triloba is a pretty valerianaceous plant with palmately lobed loaves 
and ternate cymes of small yellow flowers. It is a native of Japan, 
and thrives well in the Rock Garden at Kew, where it was raised 
from seed communicated by the Tokyo Botanic Garden. Pterostyrax 
is a small genus of Styracew, and is closely allied to Halesza, to 
which it is united in Bentham and Hooker’s Genera Plantarum, It 
differs, however, in several well-marked characters, including the 
position of the inflorescence, the shape of the corolla and the sod 
of its lobes, and in the absence of the broad wings of path am 
P. hispidum is a tree bearing long axillary pendulous or poi: ial 
panicles of white flowers, and is a native of Japan. The materia 
or the figure was obtained from Canon Ellacombe of Bitton, near 
Bristol, who is the owner of a very fine specimen. The fat fe = 
quite hardy at Kew. Gamogyne pulchra, an araceous plant iso%: 
alaya, was received from the Singapore Botanic Garden in ding 
It is a small herb with lanceolate leaves and bright crimson nodding 
convolute spathes less than 2 inches long, borne on peduncles about 
