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on account of the repeated dichotomy of the pinnules. The stems 
are more slender than is usual in the genus, and have a distinctly 
thickened base. Sazifraga scardica, Griseb., has been introduced 
from the Balkan Peninsula by Mr. R. Farrer, of Ingleborough, 
and a living plant, from which the drawing was prepared, has been 
presented by Mr. BE. H. Jenkins, of Hampton Hill. At t. 8058 a 
variety was figured for which the name S. scardica var. obtusa, 
prague, is now proposed. It is the plant usually met with in 
cultivation, and differs from the type figured in this month’s issue 
by having the lower leaves subacute, with 5-11 intramarginal pits, 
green 1~3-flowered stems, and green obtuse calyx-lobes, which are 
relatively free from pubescence. Pseuderanthemum seticalyx, Stapf, 
is an Acanthaceous plant from Tropical Africa, seeds having been 
sent to Kew by Mr. J. M. Purves, of the Forestry and Botanical 
Department, Nyasaland Protectorate. It is the Hranthemum 
seticalyx, C. B. Clarke, of the Flora of Tropical Africa, vol. v. p. 
172. “Its salver-shaped corollae have a slender pale red tube and a 
limb 1 in. across, cinnabar-red above, paler beneath. Nigella 
integrifolia, Regel, is a somewhat inconspicuous annual, which has 
been grown at Kew since 1894, when sceds were received from the 
Imperial Botanic Gardens, St. Petersburg. Flowering specimens 
were also received in 1907 from Mr. W. E. Gumbleton. Its small 
dark blue bell-shaped flowers resemble those of a Campanula, It 
is a native of Turkestan. The Japanese Rubus Koehneanus, 
Focke, was purchased from Mr. L. Spiith, of Berlin, under the 
name of R. moriifolius, from which, however, it proves to be dis- 
tinct. It forms a bush about 3 ft. high, and has fine lobed leaves 
end produces an abundance of pretty white flowers and orange-red 
Tuits,. _ 
~_— 
Flora Capensis.—The issue of the concluding part of the first 
section of Vol. LV. of this work, edited by Sir W. T. Thiselton- 
Dyer, has now to be recorded. The section includes 1168 pages, 
and has appeared in six parts, the dates of publication of whic 
have been as follows :— 
Part ra te pp. 193-336, » August, 1905. 
Part IIL, pp. 337-480, a October, 1906. 
Part IV., pp. 481-672, 9 November, 1907. 
Part V., pp. 673-864, » March, 1908. 
Part VI., pp. 865-end, » February, 1909. 
The orders dealt with are Corollifloral, from Vacciniaceae to 
Gentiananceae. : 
The editor’s preface, in which the history of the production of 
very important volume has been given m detail, is reproduced 
elow :— 
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preveting one, which is now completed, was delayed by unavo1 ble 
ifficulties. It comprises two of the most important orders in the 
