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tube and spreading limb. The habit of the hybrid is erect and 
slender as in Ff, Armstrongi. 
Gladiolus (G. dracocephalus x G. primulinus). 
e cross was made in 1906, and the seedlings flowered in 
1909-10. 
The seedlings all showed the predominance of the male parent in 
the long slender inflorescence, glaucous foliage, and in the ground 
colour of the flower, which is yellow. The red stripes which are 
so characteristic of the mother plant are only faintly developed in 
the hybrid. 
The reverse cross was made but no good seeds were obtained. 
Gladiolus (G. Colvillei albus x @. primulinus). 
The cross was made in 1906, but only one plant flowered this 
ear. 
Habit intermediate ; leaves glaucous; flowers buff-coloured, 
large and reflexed as in G. Colvillei, with deeper markings in the 
roat. 
The seedlings are mostly weak and difficult to grow. 
Gladiolus (G. primulinus x Lemoine’s Hybrid—white variety). 
e cross was made in 1906, and seedlings flowered in 18 months 
to two years from the date of germination. 
abit of seedlings intermediate ; flowers with bright scarlet 
ground-colour, heavily blotched with pale lemon-yellow on the lip 
and throat. A few of the seedlings showed distinct striation with 
a darker shade of red. e flowers are about 3 inches in diameter 
and show the spreading or reflexed segments of the male parent. 
Kalanchoe kewensis (K. flammea x K. Bentii). 
Crossed in 1901 and flowered in 1902, The flowers are bright 
rose-pink in large corymbose cymes about a foot in diameter. 
Plant 2-4 feet high. The remarkable feature of this plant is that 
although both its parents have simple leaves, the hybrid has 
several leaves with one or two pairs of pinnae. It is described 
and figured in the Annals of Botany, xvii., pp. 435-441, pl. 21-23. 
Kniphofia kewensis (K. pauciflora x K. Macowani). 
eeds sown in October, 1892. The plants flowered in October, 
1893, the inflorescence being longer and looser than in K. pauciflora, 
while the flowers are tinged with red. It was published under 
the name of K. pauciflora x Macowani in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
1893, xiv., 424. 
Lilium kewense (L, Brownii var. chloraster x L. Henryi). 
Raised in July, 1897, seeds were sown the following November, 
and the first flower opened July 19th, 1900. The hybrid resembles 
DL. a in apnpd pee: flowers are pale buff, with a few brown 
spots on the inner side of the segments, i i red 
in The Garden, 1900, lviii., 99." senicmersaas nape 
ong. Flowers in threes in the axils of each b 
coloured calyx and white petals. It flowered in 1895 and was 
figured for the Kew collection of drawings. 
