107 



to " ^™% ilu ^-~ uc,uaiia >seeasnaving been received from the 



Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, in 1888. It is an ornamental species 



resembling O. dentata, Moench, differing in having ol .long-elliptic 



leaves, fewer ray-florets, and almost glabrous achei.es. At Kew it 



is cultivated in the Temperate House. The handsome Meconojysis, 



from Tibet and Western China, is one of the recent introductions 



ol Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, who presented seeds to Kew. It is a 



stemless plant, and the large crimson pendulous flowers are borne 



on slender scapes 16-20 in. long. It is the only species at present 



known in which the flowers remain pendulous after expansion, 



and, like M. mtegrifolia, Maxim., and M.OUveriana, Franch. and 



Frain, it has a sessile stigma. Kibes mogollonicvm, Greene, a native 



of the South- Western United States, is noteworthy in having erect 



dense racemes of greenish flowers, followed by bluish purple 



berries. The material figured was obtained from a plant raised from 



seed received from Mr. H. Henkel, of Darmstadt, in 1900. The 



baccolabtum has been introduced from Annam bv Messrs. F. San- 



v« & S ? ns ' and waB described J ast year in the Kew Bulletin. It 

 ditlers from S. ampullaceum, Lindl., in having a taller stem 

 broader subrecurved leaves, a pedunculate raceme, and much 

 smaller sepals and petals. The Kew plant, which was received 

 from Messrs. Sander, flowered in March, 1905. 



Rubber in the East— In the brief account of the Rubber Exhibi- 

 tion held in Ceylon in September, 1906, contributed by Dr. J. C. 

 Willis to the present volume of the Bulletin (No. 1, p. 34), refer- 

 ence is made to the projected publication of a Hand-book as an 

 official record of the exhibition. A copy of this work* has now 

 been presented to the Library of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and the 

 study of its contents shows that it is a valuable and reliable 

 addition to the general literature of rubber, alike from the stand- 

 point of the planter and of the dealer. The following extract 

 from the preface indicates the purpose of the work : — *• The dura- 



Congr 



lectures oemg given upon the various branches of the subject, 

 " from cultivation to vulcanisation. These lectures, with the dis- 

 " cussions following them, proved to be one of the most valuable 

 " and most appreciated features of the exhibition. In the follow- 

 " ing pages these lectures and discussions are given in a fully 

 " revised form. All lectures have been fully revised by lecturers, 

 " and have then been arranged in a logical order with the hope of 

 " making this account a standard treatise upon the rubber industn 

 " as it at present exists. In the same way, the lists of entries, the 

 prize winners, the reports of the judges, reports of the visitors, 

 and other matter have been incorporated, each i 



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that 



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* Peradeniya Manuals, I. Rubber in the East ; being the official account of 

 the Ceylon Rubber Exhibition, held in the Royal Botanic Gardens. Peradeniya, in 

 September, 1906. Edited by J. C. Willis, M. Kelway Bamber, and E. B. Denham. 

 8 vo. 269 pp., with illustrations, maps, and plans. Colombo. 1906. 



