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The flowers commence to expand durin the afternoon and aré 
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fully open about 7 o’clock in the evening, remaining fresh until 
next morning, when they quickly fade and fall to pieces. 
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Ipswich, it never increased. The present plant was received from 
Herr Max Leichtlin, of Baden Baden, in 1907. It is most nearly 
allied to the well known S. lacin‘atum and has the same kind o 
foliage, but the whole plant only reaches the height of between two 
and three feet. The stems are very rigid, and the white flowers, 
about three inches in diameter, are borne on long peduncles. ‘The 
whole plant is very scabrid. 
Gentiana Freyniana, Bornm.—This new species was received from 
Herr F. Sundermann in 1906, and this year it has flowered freely 
for the first time in the rock-garden. It is closely allied to the 
well-known G. septemfida, and resembles that species in habit, but 
has much larger flowers. It also comes from Asia Minor, and ae 
G. septemfida is so variable, three varieties being figured in the 
Botanical Magazine, tt. 1229, 1410, and 6497, it may perhaps be 
regarded as a variety of that species with larger flowers having a 
more dilated tube. The intermediate lobes are also less ae ot 
: : ; “ Remedies 
Remedies for Snake-Bite.—In a note on the subject of “ R 
for Snake-bite” in a previous pee of the nan rms? aee 
No. 3, p. 156) two species of Acanthaceae were se 
specially efficacious. Specimens of these plants had been geet 
rom Dr, Arnold Lawson, and their names were hr hist of 
Prionitis, Linn, and Justicia Gendarussa, Linn. ae bl “avtorin 
ese, however, proves to be a different species, probably 
lupulina, Lindl. . icine i 
As previously described (Kew Bull., loc. moe Oe er tia 
taken in the form of an extract made by pounding together with 
twigs in rice-spirit, A small sample of this solution, together with 
the leaves and twigs (of Barleria lupulina i Sees 
been prepared, were sent to Kew by Dr. : “lec i 
2 santiniel which was insufficient for any eS aiene% 
was handed to Dr. P. Haas, who kindly me Salitices were 
for alkaloid- and potassium-constituents. : . "g studying the 
Specially sought for because Boorsma sacle 
en van Nederlandsch-Indie, 
ia, 1899. 
* Boorsma, Onderzoek naar de Plantenstoff 
Mededeel. uit ’s Lands Plantentuin XXXI, Batavia 
