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Columna brevissima ; pollinia subglobosa ; stipites basi filiformes, 
apice dilatati et obovati; glandula ovato-oblonga. 
TropicaL Arrica. Gold Coast, J. Anderson. 
Collected by Mr. J. Anderson, and sent to Kew in 1907. It 
flowered in the collection in February, 1910. It is a very small 
plant with equitant leaves, a short inflorescence clothed with 
imbricating bracts, and small white flowers. 
350. Bonatea sudanensis, Rolfe ; affinis B. Phillipsiz, Rolfe, caulis 
parte supera haud vaginata, sepalo postico incurvo venis reticulatis 
differt. 
Folia radicalia non visa; caulina segsilia, elliptico-oblonga, 
apiculata, 17-22 em. longa, 3-3°5 em. lata, supra ad vaginas haud 
reducta. Racemi5-flori. Bracteae oblongo-lanceolatae, acuminatae, 
convolutae, 3 cm. longae, reticulato-venosae. Pedicelli 4-5 em. 
‘longi. Flores magni. Sepalum posticum et petalorum lobi postici 
in galeam conniventes ; galea elliptico-lanceolata, acuminata, incurva, 
2 cm. longa, venis reticulatis; sepala lateralia petalorum lobis 
anticis labello et processibus stigmaticis elongatis supra medium 
adnata, circa 2°5 cm. longa, basi angusta, sursum dilatata, falcato- 
triangularia, deflexa, oblique apiculato-acuminata, reticulato-venosa. 
Petala profunde bipartita ; lobus posticus linearis, acutus, 2 em, 
longus, lobus anticus elongato-linearis, 3 cm. longus. Labellum 
4 cm. longum, tripartitum, lobis linearibus ; calcar incurvum, cylin- 
dricum, circiter 10 em. longum. Columna 1 em. longa, Fe 
Rostellum galeatum, apiculatum, apice incurvum, marginibus 
denticulatis, lobis lateralibus incurvis et in lobos 2 laterales 
longissimos rectos ascendentes productis. Pollinia lineari-oblonga, 
basi in caudiculas longissimas extensa. Stigmata spathulata, circiter 
2°3 cm. longa. 
Supan. LErkowit, F. S. Sillitoe, 1464. 
XXIV—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Rosa gigantea—At last this Burmese rose has flowered at Kew, 
the large plant of it in the Himalayan section of the Temperate 
House having, during May, developed a few flowers on the 
young growths at the top. This plant has grown with exceptional 
vigour every year since it was planted at the foot of a pillar 
15 years ago, and it has now a stem which measures 7 inches im 
circumference a few feet from the ground. For years there was a 
plant of it in the Succulent House (No. 5), a position chosen for it by 
the late Sir Henry Collett, but although it made a strong growth of 
stem and branches there it never flowered. There is a good figure 
of this rose in the Botanical Magazine, t. 7972 ( 1904), which was 
prepared from a plant grown ina greenhouse in the garden of the 
Duke of Northumberland, Albury Park, Guildford. The flowers 
are single, white, and 6 inches across. | 
