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There remain a few specimens which are intermediate in 

 character .Irving 76, from Abeokuta, Lagos, has Tower-bnas 



niranfp with amnn v»o^„« i«„ ~ 7t n ' ,.. to , \ " . " u ^^ uaab 



Hollandii 



Hnl^J" Hll / S ' G °l d ° 0a8t C ° l0ny ' is intermediate between va? 

 CamevooL ™' iomentom ; as is also Bates > ™> from Batanga, 



The question naturally arises whether some at least of the inter- 

 mediate forms may not be the result of hybridisation, but this can 

 only be solved by the study of the living plants in their natural 

 Habitat, accompanied by the preparation of a complete series of 

 specimens illustrating all stages of development.—! 1 . A. S. 



Botanical Magazine for May—The plants figured are Tillandsia 

 tflo/ni, Hort,, x Philadelphus purpureo-nmculatus, Lemoine, Puya 

 molacea, Mez, Liparis tabularis, Rolfe and Prunus tomentosa, 

 inunb. The material from which the Tillandsia was figured was 

 supplied by Mr. F. W. Moore, of the Royal Botanic Garden, 

 iriasnevin. The species is South American, but its exact country 

 ot origin is not recorded and altogether very little is known 

 ot its history. It is a tall growing shrub, reaching a height of 

 o feet, and flowers only once during its life which may cover a 

 period of 20 years. The Philadelphus is a garden hybrid raised 

 by Messrs. Lemoine of Nancy from seeds of P. Lemoinei, a 

 hybrid of which P. boulteri, S. Wats, is one of the parents. The 

 rather large flowers have white petals with a bright purple-red 

 base, a colour which is absent in all the other hardy species or 

 hybrids in cultivation. A plant from which the drawing was 

 prepared was purchased from Messrs. James Veitch & Sons in 

 1905. The handsome Puya violacea is a Chilian species which 

 has been in cultivation in Europe since 1.S33. Its bright, deep 

 yjolet flowers are rarely produced, and it was not till the year 

 1847 that they appeared on a cultivated plant. That now figured 

 was presented to Kew by the late Mr. J. Anderson Henry, of 

 Edinburgh, in 1879. It flowered in the Mexican House in June 

 last year. Liparvt tabularis is a somewhat ornamental Orchid 

 with large sheathing leaves and large reddish purple flowers, and 

 is a native of Penang. It flowered in April, 1906, in the collection 

 of Mr. H. T. Pitt, of Stamford Hill, by whom a plant was 

 presented to Kew. Prunus tomentosa is a dwarf- growing species 

 native of the mountains of Northern and Western China and, 

 according to Bretschneider, cultivated at Peking for its edible, 

 cherry-like fruits. It has long been in cultivation at Kew, but 

 only occasionally ripens a few fruits. It is, however, a very 

 attractive early-flowering shrub. 



'Biak'; an Opium Substitute.-lu the Kew Bulletin, 1907, 

 P- 199, there is a short note on " Anti-opium plants." Under this 

 heading Mitragyne speciosa, Korth., is referred to, as well as 

 Gombretum sundaicum, Miq. The Mitragyne, however, is used 

 not as a remedy but as a substitute for opium (Ridley, * Malay 



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