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Catalog,, delfe Piante dm Giardini d'Acclimazione delle Isole 

 Borromee- Sir D. Brandts, Indian Trees; M. T.Dawr, R,p„ r t „n 

 a botanical mission through the forest districts of Bttdda and the 

 western and Nile provinces of Uganda; e! A. Finet a ad 

 £.&agnepmn, Contributions a la fore de PAsie oriental, ■ 



</. dAscensrw Guimarces, Monograph!,, das Orobanchaceas porta- 

 t/uezas; H.B. Guppy, Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific 

 11., Plant dispersal ; M. Hard,/, Bsquisse de la geoqraphu et d 

 In vegetation des Highlands d'Ecosse j S. Jdvorka, Specie 

 Hungaricae generis Onosma ; Sir H H. Johnston, Liberia ; C. 



G. Lloyd, The Tylostomeae ; J. H. Maiden, Wattle* and Wattle- 



barks, ed. 3 ; J. S. Medvedeff, Trees and Shrubs »r the Caucasus 



(in Russian) ; 0. A. Meneves, Madeira Ferns, translated In/ H. 



Gilbert ; F. Niedenzu, De genere Hiraea ; J. Palacky, Catalogo x 

 plantarum madagascariensium ; D. Praia, Noviciae indicae • 

 F. Sander and Sons, Orchid Hybrids ; Sir R. Struchey, Catalogue 

 of the Plants of Kumaon . . . revised and supple an; /fed by 

 J. F : Dutlue. In addition to the above, publications have ben 

 received in exchange as in previous years, and a great number of 

 pamphlets have been presented by their respective authors. 



Botanical Magazine for December —The plants figured are : 



Aechmea gigas, E. Morren, Pontederia cordata, Linn., var. lanci- 



folia , Moron g, Vanda Waisoni, Rolfe, Coreopsis Granfii, Oliv., 



and Rhododendron Fordii, Hemsl. The Aechmea is probably a 



native of Brazil. The Kew plant, which flowered for the first 



time in March last, was purchased from the widow of the late 



frof. E. Morren of Liege. The peduncle bears a number of large 



crimson bracts, armed on the margin witli very numerous sharp 



teeth, and is terminated by a dense inflorescence of white and pale 



green flowers. The Pontederia flowers annually in the Water Lily 



House at Kew, where it has been cultivated for many years. It is 



a native of Temperate America. Vanda Watsoni is an attractive 



species from the interior of Annam, whence it was introduced to 



cultivation by Messrs. Sander and Sons, of St, Albans, at whose 



request it was named in compliment to Mr. W. Watson, of Kew. 



was 



and from a living plant in the Kew collection previously received 

 from them. It belongs to the small group, characterised by 

 having narrow or acute leaves and racemes of moderate-sized 



K 



m e* , a na 



Reichb. L, are included. Coreopsis Grantii, a species from Eastern 

 Tropical Africa, has elegant deeply cut leaves and rather large 

 bright yellow flower-heads, which are produced in the winter 



months 



received 



from Mr. M. T. Dawe, Director of the Scientific and Forestry 

 Department, P]ntebbe, Uganda. It requires the protection of a 

 greenhouse in the winter. The Rhododendron is a native of 

 Lantao Island, which lies a little to the west of Hong Kong. The 

 plant figured was raised from seed received in 1894 from 

 Mr. C. Ford, I.S.O., F.L.S., who was then Superintendent of the 

 Hong Kong Botanic Garden. The volume of the Magazine just 

 completed is dedicated to H. N. Ridley, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., 



