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named, or in part not named at all, Professor Urban, of Dahlem- 
Berlin, the greatest living authority on the flora of the West 
Indies, was applied to and asked to undertake the revision of the 
collection. To this proposition he very generously agreed, and the 
collection was submitted to him in instalments. e work has now 
been completed. It is of much importance to have the authority 
of Professor Urban for the names attached to the species of 
this collection, and in recognition of his kindness and courtesy a set 
of duplicates, selected from Alexander Prior’s Jamaica collection, 
is being transferred to the “ Krug et Urban Herbarium” of West 
Indian plants, which is deposited in the Museum of the Botanic 
Gardens at Dahlem-Berlin. — 
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Botanical Magazine for July.— Coelogyne venusta, Rolfe, is a close 
ally of C. Dayana, Reichb. f., but it is a smaller plant, and is 
distinguished from all the species allied to it by the large size of 
the anterior lobe of the labellum as compared with the lateral lobes. 
November 1907, probably for the first time in Europe. Rubus 
canadensis, Linn., is widely distributed in Eastern North America, 
and is popularly known as the “Thornless Blackberry.” It 
resembles in habit the common Raspberry, but has black fruits 
similar to those of the Blackberry, At Kew, where a plant 
presented by Professor Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum has been 
grown since 1902, it has borne the name of Rubus Millspaughii, 
proposed for it by Dr. Britton. Pyrus Ringo, Wenzig, is of 
Japanese origin, and is believed by Mr. C. K. Schneider to represent 
a cross between P. spectabilis and some form of the common apple. 
It has been in cultivation at Kew for many years, and as an 
ornameatal tree, with its abundant pendulous fruits which become 
bright yellow in the autumn, it has no equal in the genus. Mahonia 
arguta, Hutchinson, was described for the first time last year, 
though it has been cultivated at Glasnevin for upwards of thirty 
a native of Central America, from the fact of its affinity to 
M, paniculata, Oerst., and other Central American species. Its 
slender arching panicles of pale yellow flowers are a foot long 
more, 
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- Botanical Magazine for August.— Caralluma Nebrowniti, Berger, 
is nearly allied to C. lateritia, N. E. Br., but differs in having much 
longer pedicels, a more tugose corolla of a blackish-crimson colour 
flecked with very small yellowish spots on the disk and at the base 
