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it is to be hoped that they may be issued to the public, as supple- 

 mentary to these New Genera and Species of Cyperaceae, now 

 issued as the eighth volume of the Kew Bulletin, Additional 

 Series. 



Botanical Magazine for August.— The plants figured and described 



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Pall and Poly st achy a Lawrenceana, KraenzL, all from specimens 

 which have flowered at Kew. Gaesalpinia japonica was introduced 

 into this country from Japan by Messrs, James Veitch & Sons, 

 and flowered for the first time in their Coombe Wood nursery in 

 1887. It is hardy only in sheltered positions in the south of 

 England. The material used for the illustration was produced by 

 a plant growing in a recess under the south wall of the Temperate 

 House. Indigo f era hebepetala, a species widely distributed in 

 the North- Western Himalaya, is not generally known in gardens, 

 although it has been in cultivation at Kew since 1881, when it was 

 received with many other plants as a bequest by the late Mr. G. C. 

 Joad. It is hardy at Kew, where its crimson and rose-coloured 

 flowers, borne in long axillary racemes, are produced freely during 

 August and September. Eucryphia is an ornamental-flowering 



shrub from South Chile, which thrives out of doors in the milder 

 parts of the British Isles. Its large white flowers have the appear- 

 ance of those of a Philadelphia, and the Saxifragaceae, amongst 

 several other orders, has been considered by botanists to contain 

 the nearest affinities to the genus, which, in several respects, is an 

 anomaly. It is now placed in a separate order— the Eucryphi 

 aceae— near to Ternstroemiaceae. The plant flowered in Messrs. 

 Veitch's Coombe Wood nursery in 1897, though it appears to have 

 been first introduced in 1848 (not in 1878 as stated in the Magazine). 

 The Rhododendron is a very small undershrub, only about 6 in 

 high, with rather large bright carmine-purple flowers. It is 



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though quite hardy in Britain it is not easily cultivated. The Kew 

 plants were raised from seed received from the Imperial Botanic 

 Garden, St. Petersburg, in 1900. Poly stocky a Lawrenceana is an 

 East Tropical African species singular amongst all those in culti- 

 vation in having a rose-pink lip which renders the plant much 

 more attractive than most of its congeners. The plant figured was 

 received from the Royal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, in 1903, and 

 flowered in June, 1906. 



Madagascar Rubber Plants.-In "Le Caoutchouc et la Gutta 

 1 ercha, of 15th June, 1908, Prof. H. Jumelle gives an account of 

 two rubber plants of the Fort-Dauphin Division (cercle), Southern 

 Madagascar, known to the natives as " Vahyvanda " and " Kidroa " 

 respectively These had not hitherto been determined botanically, 

 but were dealt with under their native names by Jumelle in the 

 supplementary chapter of his book, « Les Ressou'rces Agricoles et 

 torestu-res des Colonies Franceses" (Marseille, 1907). The 

 account there giyro was based on information supplied by 



