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diameter, which bore a scape eight feet high. Its fruits aoe 
ficially resemble those of Rumex. Matthiola wang oa tg 
Sicilian species, has been referred by some authors to MV. tristis, 
from which it differs in the colour of the flowers; these, in 
M. coronopifolia, are purple. The Kew ae were raised from 
seed obtained from Mr. Siindermann, of Lindau, Bavaria. Passi- 
flora capsularis, from Brazil, is an elegant apaeies with rose-red 
flowers about two inches in diameter. The specimen drawn was 
taken ie a plant presented to Kew by the late ee Allman, 
F.R.S., in 1896. Volume 126 of the Magazine, rv mpleted, is 
dedicated to Major D. Prain, Superintendent of she: Raval Botanic 
Garden, Calcutta. 
Botanical Magazine for January.—Hibiscus ioe has been 
ured twice before in the Magazine, but from specimens with 
cay small flowers. Those depicted in the present plate are 
five inches in diameter, pale yellow with a crimson blotch at the 
base “of each petal. This species, of which there is a fine plant in 
the Mex go House at Kew, is a native of China and Japan. 
Lhotskya cides ig a slender-growing myrtaceous plant with 
heath-like “eaves and small white flowers. The type of the 
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by means of its long aerial roots. Its rose-lilac flowers last only a 
day. Kew received the plant drawn from H. N. Ridley , Esq., 
M.A., F.L.S., Director a the Ganiets and Forest Degartncae 
Straits Settlements. e Central Asiatic Pyrus tianschanica 
elongs to the section oa and is closely allied to P. Aucu- 
paria, yee in its leaves, in having larger flowers, and fruits 
of five carpels. The Kew specimen was obtained by purchase in 
1896. Alliwm Pe Ndebele a Cagis ie species from 
Western Turkestan, was fi om a specime ened 
by the Hon. Charles Ellis, of Peenbiats Hall, Haale it has 
a lax-flowered umbel about three and a half inches in Pinas ; 
the perianth segments are bright rose-red with a green median 
nerve. 
Flora of Tropical Africa.—Part III. ee Vol. V., edited 
by bea Director, was published in’ mber. It brings the 
rtion of the work included down s Plantaginee. It is 
cabinapalitedt by the following preface 
The seventh volume of the Flora of sacs Africa was com- 
pleted in 1898. The circumstances under which the work was 
resumed are stated in the preface. 
— choice of the next instalment to = taken up was mainly 
mined by the assistance [ able to secure from 
pened ot Amongst these I am m haps especially indebted to 
my friend Mr. C. B. Clarke, F.R.S., who not merely undertook the 
difficult task of elaborating the Aca nthacee, which occupy 
