o » handsome shrubby or "" 
California, where it is abunda 
specimens, bearing long racemes of bright rose-purple flowers, 
were communicated by Sir Thomas Hanbury, K.C.V.O., of La 
Mortola. Ceropegia fu sea, C. Bolle, is a native of the Gran.'. 
Canary, where ii has recently been re-discovered through the 
instrumentality of Mr. Walter Ledger, of Wimbledon, who sent 
the plant to Kew from which the drawing was prepared. It is 
somewhat anomalous in habit, and when not in flower might easily 
be mistaken for one of the succulent-stemnn -.1 Euphorbias. 
Botanical Magazine for April— Xq>r<i ,t h >* 1'huihnuiihunt, Willd., 
is interesting as being the Host widely distribut. d of all the .species 
of the genus and the first to be cultivated at Kew. having been 
introduced in 178i». It is found over a verv wide area in Eastern 
Tropical Asia and Western Polynesia. Its pitchers are nearly 
cylindrical, and are from i» to 7 inches long. The Kew plant figured 
came from the Island of Hainan. South China, and was sent 
by Mr. C. Ford, I.S.O., in 1894. Gtadtohu oarmitmu, 0. H. 
Wright, is anew South African species allied to <i. hirxutus, .laeq. 
Bulbs were received at Kew in VM\ from the Hon. Sir C. 
Abercrombie Smith, ('out roller and Auditor General, < 'ape of Good 
Hope. Ligustnim sti n il<i>h<iti>i m. Hems!., is a distinct species 
with small suborbicular or ovate leaves and large terminal in- 
florescences. A plant purchased from Messrs. James Veitch & Sons 
in iS'jT tiowered at Kew in July, U«.)5. It is a native of Central 
China. Ci/pr/jtcrfiHm tibetkHw, King, is a terrestrial species, 
native of Eastern Tibei and Western China. The cultivated plant. 
Wen rec< ived bv Messrs. \ el i W. - - - hueli in ^pril. 
the 
following June. Cullnpsi* Vyh ilesS plant 
belongs to the Aroifhw and is a native of German East Africa. 
The plant figured was received, from the Berlin Botanic Gardens 
in 1905. 
Botanical Magazine for May.-Z/7/^/, Dwhnri,'* /, !• ranch., is a fine 
addition to the number* re vioosly brought into 
cultivation, several of which, like the present one. are natives of 
China. Bulbs of L. Duchartrei were introduced from West 
Szechuen by Messrs. dames Veitch * Sons, who supplied i In- 
material figured. Primula <;>rl.l,ii nn>in<i. lletnsl., is another of 
Messrs. Vei: China, where it grows at high 
altitudes in West Szechuen. It is chiefly remarkable on account of 
the colour of the flowers — a rich orange-red, which is not accurately 
represented in the figure. LkfrosUu-ftt/t/imii't <. f.'olfe, - a distinct 
new species from Tropical West Africa, allied to the South African 
L. an-uota, Reichb. f. It is peculiar in having a hooked tip to the 
spur. This interest ng plant was included in a small collection of 
