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Catalogue Plantarum Americanaruin, published in 1703, as 

 Euonymus latifolim racemosus fructu pentagono atropurpureo ; 

 the figure and description were published in 1757 in his 

 posthumous Plantarum Americanarum Fasciculi, p. 119, t. 127, 

 edited by Burmann, who called it Prunus floribiis racemosis foliis 

 ovatis obtusis. In 1797 Vahl, who had received specimens 

 collected at Montserrat by Dr. John Ryan, recognised that it 

 belonged to an undescribed genus, to which he gave the name 

 Pilocarpus (Eclogae Americanae, p. 29, t. 10). 



Detailed synonymy of P. racemosus is given by Urban in Engl. 

 Bot. Jahrb. vol. xxL, p. 553 (1896). 



Botanical Magazine for June.— The plants figured are Pandanus 



Houlletii, Carr., Rhododendron micranthum, Turcz., Bulbophyllum 



fascinator, Rolfe, Ghirita barbata, Sprague, and Genista glabres- 



cens, Briq., all of which are in cultivation at Kew. The Pandanus 



is a native of Singapore and was first introduced into cultivation 



in 1865. A male plant flowered in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 



in 1868. The plant now figured is also a male, and was received 



from the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, in 1905. Rhododendron 



micranthum is remarkable for the small size of its white flowers, 



which are only a quarter of an inch long. In this country, where 



it has been introduced from Central China by Messrs. James 



Veitch & Sons, it is proving quite hardy. The plant figured 



was grown in the garden of Mr. J. C. Williams, Caerhays Castle, 



Gorran, Cornwall. The Bulbophyllum is a native of Annam, 



where it was discovered by Mr. W. Micholitz, and sent by him to 



Messrs. Sander & Sons. It is remarkable in having the united 



lateral sepals prolonged into caudate appendages which are as 



much as seven inches long. Ghirita barbata is a new name tor a 



plant which has been in cultivation since 1895 under the name ot 



G. hamosa, and as such is figured in the " Revue Horticole, 



1895, fig. 161, and 1896, p. 184 (coloured plate). It is shown, 



however, that it differs from the true G. hamosa, K.Br-, in tne 



leaves, in the size and shape of the calyx, and in haying very 



woolly, not glabrous, anthers. Mr. J. Sallier, of Neuilly, beine, 



France, who first brought the plant into commerce, received " 



from the late Prof. H. Baillon, with the information that it naa 



been introduced by means of seed from the "mountains or 



India." The Genista, a native of Central Europe, is one ot _tne 



most attractive of the dwarfer species. It has been grown at ivew 



since 1896 whan it, was obtained from Mr. L. Spath, ot Benin. 



Botanical Magazine for July.-The issue for tins month con pi ia* 



figures and descriptions of Begonia ^^^^^ff 



perakensis, Rolte, Did ymocarpus cyanea, Jg^Olmna rat nutos , 



Benth., var. communis, Be/nth., and ^^^J^^ 

 Hemsl. and E. H. Wilson, all of which are m cultivation at Kev> 

 The Begonia is a new species from Yunnan, where seeds . ot « 

 we collected by Dr. A. Henry, and sent to W [r. A . K - J; u 



passed into the hands of Messrs. F. Sander and Son, to 





