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Standard* being furnished with a dorsal curved horn. 7". athero- 

 depaia has armed sepals. In short, each species exhibits some 

 interesting character. Many, indeed most of these species were 

 described and figured from very fragmentary material, but 

 Miss Smith has been quite successful in building them up. 



W. B. H. 



Botanical Magazine for October.— The handsome Globe Thistle, 

 Echinops Toitmefortii, Ledeb., figured on plate 8,217, is a native 



of Armenia and Persia, and was first described from plants raised 

 in the Dorpat Botanic Gardens from seeds collected on Mount 

 Ararat. Its globose heads of white flowers are sometimes as much 

 as live inches in diameter. The plant figured originally came 

 from the garden of Canon Ellacombe at Bitton, Gloucestershire. 

 Rosa sericea, Lindl., var. jderacantha, Franch., a white-flowered 

 species with elegant foliage, is remarkable for the large com- 

 pressed decurrent red prickles which clothe its branches. It is a 

 native <>f Western China and Manipur, and was first introduced 

 into European gardens by Mr. Maurice L. de Vilmorin. The Kew 

 plant from which the drawing was prepared was purchased from 

 Messrs. Paul of Cheshunt, in 1906. Anisotes diversifolius is a 

 representative of a small genus of Acanthaceae allied to Justicia, 

 natives of Arabia, Tropical Africa and Socotra, the last named being 

 the home of the species now figured from a specimen presented 

 to the gardens by Colonel Beddome. Its flowers are two-lipped, 

 flame-coloured or yellow, l|-2 in. long. Lewisia Cotyledon is an 

 acaulescent perennial, with rosulate fleshy leaves and flowers about 

 an inch and a quarter in diameter, white, densely lined \*ith red. 

 It is an attractive plant resembling in its flowers certain species of 

 Oxalts. The specimen figured came from the Siskiyou Moun- 

 tains, Oregon, and was presented bv Mr. P. B. Randulph, of 

 Seattle, Washington, in 1906. The last plate is given to an inter- 

 esting Asclepiad, Raphionacme utilis, Brown & Stapf, the tubers 

 of which yield a large quantity of rubber reputed to be of good 

 quality. It is a native of the interior of Angola, and has been 

 identified with the "Ecanda" or "Marianga" Rubber-plant. 

 Some tubers were presented to Kew in 1907 by the Companhia de 

 Mozambique, and in the Kew Bulletin, 1908, pp. 209-215, 

 where the plant is originally described, particulars relating to its 

 held culture are supplied. 



Botanical Magazine for November.-The plants figured are: 



Mmsaenda eryth, phylla, Schum. et Thonn , Meconopsis sinnata, 

 t^ain, var. latifoha, Prain, Berheris ynnnanensis, Franch., 

 Lobn,mea mayninca, Klotzsch et Hanst., and Pyrus sinensis, 

 Lm.U. lheMussaenda, a Tropical African species, has been sent 

 to kew by Mr. H N. Ridley, Director of the Singapore Botanic 

 <r miens. It was in-st introduce,! into cultivation by Mr. Gustav 



rnfw'V m' and I 8eCond time in 1886 > b y Mr. W. Micholitz, 



Wo, fi^i r T'T- ^ l V der & Sons ' lmt ** does not a PP^ to have 

 Tn I 1£ I i : h * he V ml Probably soon disappeared from gardens. 

 In tins str.king plant one of the calyx-lobes in some of the 



