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Abyssinia. Mr. Mann also made large collections in the tropical 

 region, including many remarkable new genera. The Palms of 



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Society. Mr 



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Indian Forest Department, from which he retired a few years ago. 

 and now lives near Munich. 



W. B. H. 



Botanical Magazine for June —The plants figured are : Rltodo- 

 dendron Delavat/i, Franch. ; Tamarix pentandra, Pall.; Eupa- 

 topum glandulosum, H. B. K. ; Gentiana ornata, Wall. \ and 

 Dendrobmm Ashworthiae, O'Brien ; all, excluding the Deiidro- 

 bium, being in cultivation at Kew. The Rhododendron is a native 

 of South-western China, and is very closely allied to the well- 

 known R. arboreum, Smith, but may be distinguished by the 

 intense red of its flowers with black blotches on the inside. The 

 drawing was prepared from a specimen obtained from the garden 

 ot Mr. Thomas Acton, of Kilmacurragh, Wicklow, and sent to 

 Kew by Mr. F. W. Moore, of Glasnevin. Tamarix pentandra is 

 tound in a wild state from the Balkan Peninsula, through Southern 

 Kussia, to Turkestan, and from Asia Minor to Persia. It is a very 

 ornamental plant allied to T. gallica, L., with which it has been 

 contused. The Kew plants were purchased from a Belgian 

 nurseryman. Eupatorium glandukmm, a line white-flowered 



• ia£? n S r^ CieS ' is an old garden plant, having been introduced 

 m i&4b. J he drawing was made from a plant which flowered at 

 £ew 111 March, 1906. Gentiana ornata is a native of Alpine 

 Umtral and Eastern Himalaya. It is a small herb about 6 inches 

 nign, with usually narrow leaves and solitary terminal blue flowers 



? <ri/* m i Ch l0Dg * It is Ported out that the plant figured at 

 D » 14 under the same name is evidently a different species, 

 resembling G. nipponica, Maxim. The plant of G, ornata was 

 presented to Kew in 1905 by Mr. Max Leichtlin, of Baden-Baden, 

 ine JJendrobium belongs to the section Dmdrocoryne, which 

 includes amongst others, D. atroviolaeeum, Rolfe, and D. Ma- 

 donnas, Rolfe, figured at tt. 7371 and 7900 of the Magazine. It 

 was introduced from New Guinea by Messrs. F. Sander & Sons 

 about seven years ago. The plant figured, probably the only one 

 now in Europe, was kindly lent to Kew by Sir Trevor Lawrence, 

 Bart. J 



Notes from Northern Nigeria.-The following information, con- 

 tained in a letter to Kew, dated May 11, 1907, from Mr. W. K. 

 Elliott, Conservator of Forests, Northern Nigeria, in reply to 



enquiries regarding the experimental station established at 

 •Lokoja in that province, seems so interesting as to deserve 

 publication :— 



"With regard to your question referring to the Botanic Station 

 formed at Lokoja, I would point out that it can hardly be termed 

 a Botanic Station. A piece of forest situated near Lokoja was 



