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Botanical Magazine for April—The plants figured and described 
are: Impatiens Hawkeri, Bull ; Microloma tenuifolium, K, Schum. ; 
Arbutus Menziesii, Pursh ; Strophanthus Preussii, Engl. and Pax ; 
and Anthurium trinerve, Miq. Impatiens Hawkeri, a native of 
Eastern New Guinea, was first brought into commerce in 1886, 
having been introduced by the late Mr. W. Bull of Chelsea. This 
and the closely allied Z Herzogii, K. Schum., are the only species 
at present known from the island, though it is estimated that in 
Asia and its islands there are altogether about 500 species. The 
two named are the most easterly representatives of the genus in 
sia. Microloma is a genus of Asclepiadaceae which comprises 
ten species, all of which are confined to South Africa. M. tenui- 
folium, known as the Coral Climber of South Africa, has ver 
slender twining stems, linear leaves, 
crimson wax-like flowers. The specimen figured was grown in 
Mr. Gumbleton’s garden at Belgrove, near Queenstown, Ireland. 
which is illustrated from a specimen raised at Kew from seeds 
communicated by Mr. W. H. Johnson in 1902, when he was 
Curator of the Botanic Station at Aburi, Gold Coast. The lobes 
of the yellowish-white or pale orange corolla taper at the apex into 
filiform crimson appendages, which are as much as a foot in length, 
and give to the plant a most extraordinary appearance. Anthurium 
trinerve is noteworthy from a gardener’s point of view on account 
of its free production of spikes of pretty lilac fruits, which are 
certainly attractive. It is a native of Brazil and Guiana, and has 
for many years been in cultivation at Kew. 
Botanical Magazine for May.—Dendrobium Bronckartii, Wildem., 
is a recent introduction from the Mountains of Annam, Indo-China, 
and the plant figured was purchased in 1906 from Mr. Verdonck of 
Ghent. It resembles the well-known D. thyrsijlorum., Reichb. f., 
but it is larger in growth, the racemes are larger and laxer, and the 
flowers are light rose-coloured, with a large orange blotch on 
the disk of the lip. Larix occidentalis, Nutt., of Western North 
America, has been figured from a specimen growing at Kew which 
was received in 1881, as a seedling, from the Arnold Arboretum. 
It has now reached a height of 36 feet, and the trunk near the 
ground measures 26 inches in girth. Though it has proved too 
tender for successful cultivation at Weenen, in North-West Hanover, 
it is quite hardy at Kew, and hopes are entertained that it will 
become a valuable forest-tree in this country, as a substitute for the 
European Larch, which has suffered considerably in many districts 
from the attacks of Peziza Willkommii. Mussaenda Treutleri, 
tapf, is an old garden plant, but appears under the erroneous 
