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Hammersmith. Nei/lia Torreyi is a rosaceous shrub which is 
widely distributed in North America, ranging from British 
Columbia, along the Rocky Mountain region, to New Mexico. 
The form figured has been called NV. es and chiefly differs 
from the type in having fruits of 2 or 3 carpels instead of 1 or 2. 
e Kew plant was received from Protcaion Sargent, Director of 
the Arnold Arboretum. Veronica glauca, a native of eens 
where it grows in sandy fields, is a es ret free-flow 
annual, of which seeds were received from Hon. Charles Ellis, ‘oft 
death. Rosa Seraphini is bat) allied to R. agrestis. It ig a 
dwarf species with rather small flowers of a bright rese-colour, 
and is a native of tay Comes, ee and Sicily. Seeds from 
whic e Kew plant ere sed were obtained from the 
Piisnetek Botanic aad oda ne 
Botanical Magazine for March.—Hymenocallis schizostephana is 
a distinet species, with fragrant flowers, from Brazil, a bull of 
of Isleworth. The perianth tube is green, 25 inches long, and 
its narrow, white segments are ples longer. Modecca senensis, 
m Mozambique and Delagoa Bay, is a unisexual climbing plant 
: Pusai 
“ep a in 1884. Its mage re f 
iio K Veitch & wnat of Chelsea, by bitahe a — was 
ew. 
feat { e y 
collected by the late Mr. J. Theodore Bent. Its.flowers are an inch 
and a half long, boi with pink on the unexpanded corolla-lobes, 
The Kew plant has a stem three feet high. Its leaves are thick 
dagger-shaped, spreading and ed, in form differing from all 
other species. Masdevallia deorsum, a native of New Grenada, is 
remar ng trictly Hed with habit. Its flowers are 
from ee tree growing in the RoyalGardens. Asnorphophallus 
ropical Africa, whence tubers 
were sent to Kew by Mr. Walter Haydon, Curator of the Botanic 
Station, Sierra Leone. Four varieties are known in cultivation. 
