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Botanical Magazine for August.— Aloe nitens, Baker, Bruckm- 

 thalia spicu li 'folia , Reichb., Calathea angastifolia, Koern., Strepto- 

 carpus ffolstii, Engler, and Delphinium macrocentron, Oliver, are 

 figured and described. The Aloe is a South African species which 

 has been in cultivation at Kew since the year 1877, when it was 

 received from the late Sir Henry Barkly, at that time Governor at 

 the Cape. It is a handsome plant, the stem reaching a height of 

 12 ft., and bearing a panicle of about six branches, each terminated 

 by a dense spike of rich crimson flowers. These are produced in 

 midwinter. Bruckenfhalia is a monotypic genus of Ericaceae 

 closely resembling a small-flowered Erica, but ditt'ers in having 

 a campanulate calyx, and in the almost complete absence of a disc. 

 It is a native of Transylvania, the Balkan Peninsula, and Northern 



Asia Minor. 



g list i folia 



been in cultivation at Kew for many years. Like many of its 

 congeners this species has ornamental foliage. Its leaves \ reach a 

 height of about 4 ft. ; the blade is about 2 ft. long, green above 

 and purple beneath, borne on a petiole 2 ft. long. The scape is 

 much shorter than the petiole, and bears a dense spike of pale 

 yellow flowers. Streptocarpus Holstii, from East Tropical Africa, 

 is an elegant branching herb about 18 in. high, with small stalked 

 leaves and small mauve-purple flowers, having a white throat. 

 The Kew plants were raised from seeds received from the Berlin 

 Botanic Garden in 1905. The Delphinium is a native of the 

 mountains of East Tropical Africa, and was introduced into 

 cultivation by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, who received it from 

 Mount Elgon in the Uganda Protectorate. The specimen figured 



is grown in a pot in the garden of Mr. James O'Brien at Harrow- 

 on-the-Hill. It is a hairy perennial herb, growing 5 ft. high or 

 more, with large blue and green or yellow and green flowers, 

 whitish at the apex. Mr. O'Brien thinks it may prove hardy in 

 this country. 



West 



•In the last number of 



seedling Sugar-Canes m tne west maies — m m» *«^ V , + iT 

 this Bulletin (No. 7, 1907, p. 306), reference was made to lie 

 question of the identity of the Barbados seedling, B. M% culti- 

 vated on the well-known Diamond Plantation in Demerara, an. 

 the result of a critical examination of samples by the imP eri <" 

 Department of Agriculture was given. We now learn that tne 

 subject has been also submitted for investigation and report ; to a 

 Departmental Committee appointed by the Governor ot British 

 Guiana. 



The report of this Committee, which is dated June 6, 19<»7, is as 

 follows : — 



"With reference to your letter No. U2S of the 3rd instant 

 " appointing a Committee to inquire into the identity of the cane 



" grown at Plantation ' Diamond ' as B. 208, ^^Jf^ZZn 

 " to report that after an examination of the seedling in cultivation 



" ~i. ™ r_ , ,. , ^. , , „j„_ 4-ua namp of B. M\ ^e are oi 



"at Plantation « Diamond ' under tne™ «-. -. ~- '., tk 

 H opinion that there has been no mistake as to its identity a. 



" such." 



