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A memorial of the late Charles Baron Clarke, F. R. S._Mr .lames 

 Ramsay Drummond, who is engaged at the Herbarium on a Flora 

 of the Punjab, has presented the establishment with one of the com- 

 pound microscopes which belonged to the late Mr. C. B. Clarke. 

 It is not the very large one, familiar to everybody, which Mr. Clarke 

 used at the Herbarium; but a smaller, practical one which h« 

 carried about with him when travelling abroad or visiting other 

 establishments in this country. The donor has performed a gracious 

 act which is highly appreciated by the staff and other frequenter- 

 of the Herbarium. Attached to the box is a small plate bearing i he 

 inscription .— " In Recollection of Charles Baron Clarke, F. R. S.. 

 Ex- President of the Linnean Societv. From J. H. D., Deer. 



Botanical Magazine for January. — The plants figured are: 

 Lornatia ferruginea, R. Br., Aconitum gymnandrum, Maxim.. 

 Viburnum Carles/'/, Hemsl.. Tricuqpidaria dependent. Ruiz <-t 

 Pav.. and Renanthera annamemis, Rolfe, all of which are in cul- 

 tivation at Kew. Lornatia ferruginea is a handsome plant with 



foliage not unlike that of GreviUea robusta, A. Cunn.. and loose 

 racemes of showy yellow and crimson flowers. If is a native of 

 Southern Chili and Patagonia, and is hardy in the British Islands, 

 at least in the warmer parts. The material figured was from a 

 fine specimen growing in the garden of Earl Annesley, Castle- 

 wellan, Co. Down, Ireland. Aconitum gymnandrum is remarkable 



in having long-clawed lateral sepals. It is an annual, a native of 

 Tibet and Western China, and was raised at Kew from seed sent 

 by the Director of the Botanical Survey of India. This was col- 



lected 

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of 1904. The 

 almost round. 



cted at Gyantse during the Lhassa Kvpedition < 



- iburnum is a dwarf shrub, with ovate-rot undate or »»«^ B , 



toothed leaves, and rather larsre terminal cymes of pink and white 

 flowers. The Kew plant was obtained from Messrs. L. Boehmer 

 and Co., of Yokohama, in 1902. It is a native of Corea, and is 



hardy in this country. Tricmpidaria dependens is an attractive 



species, for the introduction of which English horticulture is in- 

 debted to Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S. It is of rapid growth, and is 

 readily propagated by cuttings. The synonymy of this and of 

 another species. T. lanceolata, which has been long in cultivation. 

 and is figured in the Magazine, t. 7,1 d0, under the name 7. depen- 



dens, 



rected 



Chronicle, 1905, vol. ii., bv Mr. Watson; a fuller note on th 

 synonymy and on the characters of the two plants has sine 

 appeared in the Kew Bulletin (1907. pp. 10-16)- Regarding this 



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species. Professor Sargent, Arnold Arboretum, writes, with 

 enceto the account given in the Magazine : "Justice is h trdly 

 to Tricmpidaria dependens, which is one of the largest of CI 



trees. At a place called Hospital, 30 or 40 miles south of Santiago. 

 I saw a group of these trees that must have been <0 or SO feet 

 high. The largest of them, at any rate, had a trunk diameter ot 

 five feet and ten inches." The greatest heights previously recorded 

 for T. dependens have been "30 feet." by Miers : "20-25 feet or 

 even more," by Gay ; and u 6-S metres," by Reiche. \be Jve* 

 Plant, raised from seeds brought home by Mr. Elwes in IJ0-. nas 

 alreadv reached a height of 10 feet. Renanthera unnamensis is 



