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aud a rose-purple lip; sometimes, however, the oo and petals 
se pa white and the lip yellow. A specimen of this species 
as presented to Kew by Mr. Warpur, a Belgian collector. 
pact shee Jflavo-virens resembles the Mexican JN. aise ger is 
probably a native of the same country. Its fl ite 
with golden-yellow stamens. The Kew plant was opened vireo 
r. W. N. Pike, of the Floral Park, New York. 
Botanical ree for July.— Rhododendron ores is one of 
the numerous plants discovered in ina hy the late Abbé 
Delavay, who iar seeds to the Jardin des hee Paris, whence 
a plant was received at Kew in 1892. It has large flowers, white, 
or white suffused with rose, and resembles very closely the Indian 
Rk. formosum, differing in its robustness, larger flowers, and i 
having long cilia on the lobes of the c calyx. Chelonopsis moschat 
is a handsome Labiate from Japan and Chin genus 
consists of only two species, and is allied to the North pn 
Physostegia, and Melittis. The specimen drawn was raised from 
seeds sent to Kew by A. K. Bulley, Esq., of West Kirby. © Iris 
chrysantha is a new species belonging to the section Pogoniris, 
and is characterised by having narrow leaves, a long peduncle 
with a single cluster of large pale yellow flowers, large spathe- 
valves, and a short perianth-tube. A Specimen was sent to 
by Mr. R. 1. Lynch, of the Cambridge Botanic Garden. Its native 
Pp : 
- B. Wyle - ae the Abyssinian traveller. Impatiens 
chrysantha is a new species from the Western Himalaya and is 
closely allied to I. Edgeworthii. The Kew plants were raised 
ceived from J. F. Duthie, Esq., Director of the 
Botanical Department of Naritisee India, 
Botanical Magazine for August.—Bulboph, yllum grandiflorum 
was discovered i in New Guinea nearly three- : ‘ 
c me Sarraceni 
its sepals are very large, contrasting remarkably with the eiitinds 
petals. The Kew plant was purchased from Messrs. Sander & Co. 
in 1898. Peonia lutea is a native of the mountains of Yunnan, 
where it was discovered by the late Abbé Delavay. Its most note- 
n 
5,000 to upwards of 9,000 feet. It is a handsome plant, having 
white woolly stems and leaves, and flower-heads with white 
