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probably South African. It is a stemless plant, with a dense 

 rosette of linear-lanceolate leaves, dull green above, and marbled 

 with long whitish marks. The branched inaorescence of pale 

 flesh-coloured flowers is 2£-4 ft. high. The material figured was 

 trom a plant which flowered in the garden of the late Sir Thomas 

 iianbury, K.C.V.O., at La Mortola. Blepharocaly x spiraeoides, 

 trom Brazil is a new species with small lanceolate-linear leaves 



many 



It was 



anema 



m 188d. The genus is closely allied to Myrtus. Primula deorum is 

 a pretty alpine species belonging to the section Auricula, and is a 

 native of Bulgaria. It has been in cultivation at Kew since 1892. 

 Ine specimen figured was received from Mr. Max Leichtlin, of 

 Baden-Baden, m 1904. Gaiophora coronata is a Loasaceous plant 

 furnished with stinging bristle-like hairs. It has bipinnatifid 

 leaves, and rather large white flowers borne singly on long 

 peduncles. The specimen figured was grown in the garden of 



from 



Argent 



rtepuDiic to rem, at elevations of 9,300-14,600 ft. The Paphio- 

 pedilum has been introduced from Annam by Messrs. Sander & 



j? n h2 ° P resented » flowering plant to Kew about a year ago. 

 It differs from the type, a native of Burma, in having longer, 



more 

 sepal. 



Diospy 



Botanical Magazine for April— The plants figured are 

 Kaki, Linn, f., Arctostaphylos Manmnita, Parry, CWfcc*w*/c* F ur- 

 tortcensis, Benth. var. major, Sprague, Meconopsisis bella, Prain, 

 and Cymbxdium erythrostylum, Kolfe. The Diospuros is a native 

 of Eastern India, China, and Japan, where it is also very much 



numerous 



popularly known as the Date Plum. Its introduction into cultiva- 



from 



become common. The Kew nl 



material 



ngured was purchased from a nurseryman at Montpellier in 1800, 

 and first produced fruit, while still in a young state, in 1893. It 

 has since fruited annually, and is now a standard about 7 feet 

 high. The Californian Arctostaphylos Manzanita is a shrub or 

 small tree, with broad leathery leaves and terminal many-flowered 

 panicles of white or pinkish flowers. As in other arborescent 

 species of the genus, the bark peels off annually. The specimen 

 figured was obtained from a plant raised from seeds purchased 

 from an American nurseryman in 1897. This plant is now about 

 a yard in height and width, and has proved to be quite hardy 

 here. Calliandra portoricensis, a native of Mexico and Central 

 America, has, under various names, long been an inhabitant of 

 our gardens. The variety, which was purchased in 1906 from a 

 nurseryman in Hyeres as " Inga alba" differs from the type in 

 having deltoid calyx-lobes and longer stamens. Its flower-heads 

 are globose, about 2 inches in diameter, and pure white, their 

 ornamental character bein^ due to the very numerous long-exserted 

 stamens. Meconopsisis bella is known only from two localities on 

 the eastern frontier of Nepal, where it was first discovered in 188$ 



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