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handling of wattle bark. The extract, according to an Imperial 

 Institute Report, is besides not in favour with tanners, owing to 



the undesirable colour it gives to leather. 



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Botanical Magazine for September.-The plants figured are • 

 Acomtum Napcllus Linn., var. eminens, Wirtgen ; Angraecum 

 infundibular 'e, Lindl. ; Podophyllum versipelle, Hance ; Biqelovia 

 graveolens, A. Gray ; and Prunus Besseyi, L. H. Bailey The 

 Acomtum is remarkable on account of the height to which it 



grows 



The 



very large panicle of purplish-blue flowers is much larger than in 



Napell 



longer Tubers of this handsome variety were collected in 1904 



Sr mfnT T T e ° f the ? iM Moun *^^ Rhenish Prussia, by 

 Dr. Otto Stapf, who supplied the specimen figured from his own 



IL^'r ng Tf ?' n A in f fibular e is a Tropical African species, 

 resembh ng in habit A Eichlerianum , Kraenzl, but very distinc 

 in the larger lip and the longer spur. The figure was prepared 



ortinaU v nnS ° r p Stry ^^^^t, Uganda. The species was 

 originally found in Prince's Island, West Tropical Africa, by 



19o1 ;-hfn f w Je ^ 1858 ' Its next appearance was in 



ssfid SHrom p^to^ * by r re f hL a 



riLjffS ^T"* f as intr °4uced into cultivation 

 Wilson ^i S»nJt\t S ° nS t > r0Ugh their collector > Mr. E. H. 

 Its flowed ar dl " ^ T° 0ds , and ravines of Western China - 

 is a shmbbv NoHh A T n ' ab n Ut X in ' lon ^ ****** ^twlxu 

 high me and beS? 11 ° 0I f P ° Site ' ^wing fr01 * 1 to 6 ft - 

 heads ^he' Kpw „T F large clusters of bri S ht y eli ™ flower- 

 El acombe of BiuJr^ ™T ° b £ ined from the *^ Canon 



end of the Herbacem- C °* T J™^ ° n a wal1 at the north 

 8 78^1^?^™^?*^ t n ° W C0Vers a s P ace of about 



wit^ou^'protectn 1 ^ Trunmlt' ^ ^ ** f0Ur WinterS 

 Cherries of North A™?- besseyi is one of the three dwarf 



others are P pumila^fZ^ *?°y n as " Sand Cherries." The 

 closely m^^lJf^l^ R C \ meata > Raf - They are very 

 P. Besseyi has fruit« I in ? i ably .° nly varieties of one ^del 

 are veryCiable m IZ'itTi' ^^ T black whe * ri P e - Th ^ 

 of the Morello Che^rv T& fi. g a flaV ° Ur com P a ™ble to that 

 to Kew in 1900 by Prof P « £? Was P r fP a ^d from a plant sent 



" »y rrot. O. b. Sargent, of the Arnold Arboretum. 



accoun/oftmrnew^ 6 ^P 16 *? an <* beautifully illustrated 

 been published fn th. T 0rd ?> by Mr - W ' B ' Hemsley, has just 

 genera, Jutania and £T*f tl0m ° f the R °y al Socfc*. Two 

 species respective! J J2 r ^f ^.^-containing four and one 



is somewharremarklbl! ?,? f^ m the 0rder ' Their distribution 

 Mexico, whilst wSpI' p h ^ ge . nus •''wfonta occurs only in 



The paper dealsTuTlvwHK 6 ^ ?• the home of Orthapterygiim. 



v V aeals fully with the history, distribution, and general 



