200 



for the Colonial Products Exhibition held at Liverpool between 

 March 12th and 24th, 1907. At the close of the exhibition the 

 collection was transferred to Kew. 



Herbarium. A suite of specimens representing four species 

 of Fraxinus and one of Styrax, from Japan, has been presented 

 to Kew by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs. The specimens which form 

 this valuable gift were obtained for Mr. Gibbs by Mr. R. Walter 

 from Dr. Fukuba, of the Imperial Gardens, and Dr. Hirosawa, 

 of the Forestry Department, Tokio. 



Library. A copy of Food for the Tropics, a work containing 

 short descriptions of the cereals, vegetables, root crops and fruits 

 usually cultivated in the Tropics for domestic use, compiled 

 by the late Mr. T. M. MacKnight, has been presented by 

 Mrs. McKnight to the Library at Kew. Mrs. MacKnight has also 

 generously supplied twenty additional copies of the same work 

 for presentation to " those men who go out trained from Kew 

 Botanic Gardens to the Tropics." 



Benthamiana— The library is indebted to Sir J. D. Hooker, 

 G.C.S.I., C.B., for the gift of a further series of valuable manu- 

 scripts, remains of the late Mr. Bentham. These include 

 Mr. Bentham's journals, diaries and autobiography. 



Botanical Magazine for April —The plants figured are : Caes- 

 alpinia vernalis, Champ., x Odontioda heatonensis, Aloe 

 campylosiphon, A. Berger, Primula orbicularis, Hemsl., and 

 Hoodia Currori, Decne. The Caesalpinia is a climbing shrub 

 with elegant bipinnate leaves and rather long racemes of lemon- 

 yellow flowers, bearing on the upper petal a scarlet blotch. It is 

 known only from Hongkong, and seeds were sent to Kew in 1883 

 from the Botanic Gardens there. Odontioda heatonensis is a 

 garden hybrid between Odontoglossum cirrhosrtm and Cochlioda 

 sanguinea, Benth., having been raised by Messrs. Charlesworth 

 & Co , Heaton, Bradford, who presented the plant figured to the 

 Kew collection. There are now four hybrids between Odonto- 

 glossum and Cochlioda, the first to appear, Odontioda Vuylstekeae, 

 is depicted at t. 7,990 of this work. Aloe campylosiphon has 

 recently been introduced from German East Africa by Dr. Engler, 

 Director of the Berlin Botanic Garden, who sent a plant to the 

 late Sir Thomas Hanbury, in whose gardens at La Mortola it 

 flowered in 1905, and again in 1906. ' The plate was prepared 

 from material furnished by the La Mortola plant. Mr. Berger 

 regards it as a very distinct species somewhat resembling 

 A. sajoonaria, Haw. Primula orbicularis is a new introduction 

 trom Western China, where seeds were collected for Messrs. 

 James Veitch & Sons by Mr. E. H. Wilson. The flowers are pale 

 yellow and fragrant, and are arranged in a terminal umbel borne 

 on a stout scape 15 inches high. The corolla-limb, and its lobes 

 too, are orbicular in shape, whence the name. Hoodia Currori 

 is an Angolan plant belonging to the Asclepiadaceae. The 



