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XLIX.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. J. W. GaLLacunr, whose appointment as Mycologist to 
the Agricultural Department of the Federated Malay States was 
recorded in Kew Bulletin, 1907, p. 100, has been appointed Director 
of the Department in succession to Mr. J. B. Carruthers, whose 
transfer to Trinidad was announced in Kew Bulletin, 1909, p. 150. 
. J. W. CamPBELL, formerly Superintendent of Experimental 
Plantations in the Federated Malay States (K.B., 1906, p- 383), 
has been appointed Assistant Director, Agricultural Department, 
Federated Malay States. 
handsome flowers in house No. 1 during August and the early days 
of September. The Kew specimen was raised from seeds received 
in 1894 and peered for the first time in cultivation in 1907. It is 
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was also described and figured later on in Trans. Linn. Soc., 
vol. xxv., t. 41. In the figure the flowers are pendulous ; they are, 
however, erect, and in this respect the figure is’ erroneous, having 
been drawn from dried specimens. The plant is stated to reach to 
a height of 30-40 feet in W. Tropical Africa, 
flowers are ten inches across when fully expanded, and 
are remarkable as being the largest produced by any member of 
apes as hes as four inches in diameter. The flowers are borne 
t gts " ake on the tips, or in the axils of the upper leaves of 
ripene wood of the current year. The calyx is 4 to 5 inches 
ating margins. The lower petal or lip is boat-shaped lemon- 
1at more fleshy in character than the 
th : ‘a. The 10 stamens are in two series, 
e five longest bein fag in length to the petals, the other five 
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an inch long, primrose- ow i 
Pe A yellow in colour. Ovary a slender legume 
wo inches one, style slender, slightly uhioster than the petals, 
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