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flowers is as much as five inches long and four inches broad, and 

 of a brilliant crimson colour. The pretty Meconopsis, with large 

 light-blue flowers, was raised at Kew from seeds sent from 

 Kashmir, in 1906, by Lieut.-Col. Appleton. It differs from the 

 type, which is not in cultivation, by having broader leaves and a 

 shorter capsule. Berberis yunnanensis is one of Mr. Maurice L. 

 de Vilmorin's introductions from China, and Kew is indebted to 

 him for the plant from which the drawing was made. Its lemon- 

 yellow flowers and red ellipsoid berries are larger than is usual in 

 the cultivated species. Columned magnified is a Central American 

 species which w r as brought into cultivation by Messrs. V. Lemoine 

 & Sons, of Nancy, about four years ago. The figure was prepared 

 from specimens presented by Col. Beddome and Mr. W. E. 

 Gumbleton. Pyrus sinensis is a native of Manchuria and Korea, 

 and for a considerable time has been cultivated in Northern China 

 and Japan. It was introduced into this country in 1820, and has 

 been grown at Kew since 187."). when the late Prof. Decaisne 

 presented to the establishment a collection of grafts of Pyrus, 

 including some of P. sinensis. Its white flowers are produced 

 freely at Kew, but fruits, which are very astringent, do not ripen 

 very freely. 



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(t, 8227), supposed to be a native of Central America, was 

 procured by Mr. C. P. Railill of the Tropical Department, Kew, 

 from the Birmingham Botanic Garden, where it has been grown 

 for many years under the name of E. (Hebeclinium) ianthnium 

 from which it may be distinguished by the arachnoid-tomentose 

 inflorescence, the larger subumbellate capitula, and the fewer 

 bracts of the involucre. Corytholoma macropodum, Sprague 

 (t. 8228), is a South Brazilian Gesneraceous plant, with sub- 

 jmbellate cinnabar-red flowers, for which Kew is indebted to 

 Mr. G. H. Weigt, Director, Botanical Parks, Piracicaba, Brazil, 

 who communicated seeds in 1906. The stems, which arise from 

 asubglobose tuber, bear only one or 'wo pairs of shortly stalked 



snborbicular leaves. Eria hyacinthoides, Lindl. (t. 8229), is a 

 pretty Javan species, which produces in May several spikes of 

 white flowers. The plant figured was presented to Kew by 



ir£n F ' W - M <x»«. of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, in 

 TO. Cytisus decumbent, Spach (t. 8230), is a small trailing 

 shrub with bright yellow flowers, a native of South Europe, 

 ^here it is widely distributed. The Kew plants originated from 

 seeds received from the Goettingen Botanic Garden in 1WJ&. 

 filnscus aponnnwL Sprague & Hutchinson (t.8231), was recently 



described for the first time in the Kew Bulletin from dried 

 specimens sent to Kew by several collectors in Tropical Eas Africa, 

 "has now been introduced into cultivation by Lady Hindlip, wlio 

 collected seeds in British East Africa and who, in 1905, presented 

 Jottings to Kew. The volume of the Magazine completed with 

 "lis issue is dedicated to Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, O.M., G.O.b.l., 



^B who for the remarkably long period of forty yeaw iwaa ite 



editor, and to whom the publication so largely owes the hi; 

 Position it holds amongst the botanical and horticultural literatu 



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