cup being formed by the under side of the leaf, a condition 
hitherto unknown. The Low plant was rm-ivrd from the Roval 
Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, in 1902, and flowered for the first time 
in 1905. It is a native of India, but the precise locality is 
unknown. Tin- variety of the rare Brazilian ('u/u.<rfit„> (jalrrihnn 
was figured from material sent to Kew by Sir Trevor Lawrence, 
Bart,, with whom it flowered in February last, The female 
flowers of this species are unknown, h'ihrs rihurnifnUiim is a 
very distinct species belonging to the section Ribesia, and is a native 
of Lower California and Santa Catalina Island. The persistent 
leathery leaves are ovate-orbicular, sharply toothed and gland- 
dotted.' Its small flowers are rosy, followed by small, oblong, red 
fruits, which often remain on the plant till the succeeding year. 
The Kew plant— now about seven feet high, trained on a wall- 
was raised from seed received from the Harvard Botanic Garden 
in 1897. Linospadix Micholitzii, a New Guinea species, is unique 
in the genus by reason of its unisexual spadices. Its introduction 
to our gardens' is due to Messrs. Sander &, Sons, by whom a plant 
was sent to Kew in 1896. The Mexican Cerem Scheerii has been 
in cultivation at Kew for many years. The plant figured flowered 
in 19DU und during the two succeeding years. It has since died. 
The species Mr. Frederick Scheer, 
of Kew, the author of " Kew and its Gardens," published in 1810. 
Botanical Magazine for Oct V juml are — 
OJnuufn,,/,,**,,,,, murium, Lindl., Abh'* M'trusn, Masters, lihnu-i 
gr(filh\ Ilemsl.. Chlnruni rin*";,*, Lindl.. and 
t<>ni<-f,((„, Li, m . The (j ( /i,nto:/h,.fsitm is a Colombian species 
allied to O. </h,rinsum, Lindl. and Reichh.. from which it differs 
in having undulate sepals and petals, and sul-hastate lateral lobes 
of the lip. The plant figured flowered at Kew in 1 
Ahirs Marina is a handsome Japanese species which wa< first 
introduced to cultivation bv Messrs. James \circh iV. Nms 
through their collector, the late Mr. Charles Marie-, 
was prepared ■>> Kew by Messrs. D Stalker 4: 
Son. who procured it from a tree growing on the estate of the hart 
of Elgin, at Dumphail, near Nairn. This is believed to be tne 
first occasion on which the tree has produced cones 
Blakea gran! is. a Melastomaceous plant, native of Costa hie... 
has rose-white flowers about an inch and 
The Kew plant which furnished the material l^m-d -- 
purchased from Messrs. Lemoine & Sons, ot .Nancy in 1. 4. 
Ohloraea rirescens has been re-introduced from Cnn 
Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., who sent plants 
Kew, where they 
iiowmv.i in April, 1903'.' Its flowers are 
with -reem and arc arranged in a dense raceme, fenr to six incne. 
Pas* flJa is°a small-flowered ^^h M^ 
leaves prettily variegated with purple, a 
Leuado;, Peru, and Brazil. The ti,ure was ] ,i ■■ ^ pared from a 
plant received from the State Botanic Gardens, Brussels, in 1904, 
under the name of P. macuiata. 
