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The plant producesa very stout peduncle from three to eight inches 
high, bearing an erect, pyriform spathe, the predominating colour 
of which is purple. Ts spadix is much thickened towards the 
top and nearly fills the mouth of the spathe, which it slightly 
exceeds in a Kalanchoe basen from Socotra, was raised 
from seeds sent to Kew by the late Mr. J. Theodore Bent, in 1897. 
some white flowers with an unpleasant odour. The calyx is coated 
with red renee hairs. Kew obtained a plant of this species 
from Mr. T. Smith, of Newry. Stapelia nobilis isan exceedingly 
fine new species raleaals allied to S. gigantea. It was sent to Kew 
by Mr, T. G, Griffiths, of Port Elizabeth. 
Botanical Magazine for May.—\Wvyethia mollis, from California, 
is a stout perennial herb with large heads of golden-yellow flowers. 
The genus closely approaches Helianthus, but differs in havi 
fertile ray-florets and a pappus cf a few, Mea rigid, leer 
bristles. The specimen drawn was gro in the gar of the 
Rev. Canon Ellacombe, of Bitton. Pon us alnifolia, itive of 
Japan 2 and China, is a small tree with white flowers about half an 
iameter, and ellipsoid or subglobose, bright-red fruits. 
A wink of this, which flowered in the Kew Arboretum in May, 
1900, was Artes from Mr. L. Spath, of Berlin. Lonicera 
pyrenaica is old inhabitant of British garde ens, having, 
papsinere Philip Miller, been cultivated in England since 1793. 
It gro ew in the Roc arden, where it forms a small 
shrub and iowa frcely in May and June. Mesemby -yanthemum 
calamiforme was figured from a specimen sent to Kew b 
Mr. Chalwin, Superintendent of the Cape Town Botanic Gardens, 
Tt has thick cylindric leaves 2 to 3 inches long, and rather large 
terminal flowers with white and pink petals. The beautiful 
Manettia bicolor, from Brazil, is a well-known stove-climber, and 
has been in cultivation at Kew for many years. 
Hooker’s Icones Plantarum.—The concluding part of the seventh 
volume of the fourth series (plates 2676-2700) was issued in 
February. It opens with a continuation of plates illustrating 
rubber-yielding plicit The first is Castilloa australis, Hemsl., 
a native of Peru; but the exact locality is unknown. It is not 
unlike the original C. elastica, Cerv., and C. Tunu, Hemsl., 
represented by plate 2651; but it is quite distinct. Castilloa is 
one of rigs now much en aging the attention of travellers 
and merch interested in the caoutchouc trade. The new 
Journal tig iculture that Sete aaa y, has taken up the 
subject very warmly. Eight more plates illustrate the genus 
Sapium, Among the species figured i is S. swberosum, Muell. Arg., 
a native of Barbados. The drawing was made from the type 
in the Berlin herbarium, obligingly lent for the purpose by 
Dr, A, Engler, the Director of that establishment, who diss 
