409 



Sterculia rhinopetala is a large forest tree and is said to attain 

 a height of more than 100 feet. Schumann gives the height as 

 25-35 metres, Foster says " up to 100 feet," and Punch describe 

 it as a large tree. In Lagos it is known by the names Ororlu 

 and Oro (Punch). Its distribution as at present known is as 

 follows : — 



Lagos. Ibadan Forest Reserve, Punch, 106. 



S. Nigeria. Ilara, Foster, 172. 



Cameroons. Yaunde, Zenker, 606. 



S. rhinopetala is interesting botanically, inasmuch as tha 

 androecium consists of two irregular rows; in Sterculia the 

 anthers are usually crowded together without order into a head, 

 and in Cola they are arranged in one or two very regular rows, 

 so that in this respect S. rhinopetala exhibits intermediate 



characters. 



The sessile ovaries and sessile stigmas are, according to 

 Schumann, characteristic of 8. rhinopetala. 



T. A. S. 



Botanical Magazine for October -The plants figured are : Ferida 

 communis, Linn. var. brevifolia, Mariz, Rosa Soulieana, Crepin, 

 Iris verna, Linn., Bulbophyllum dichromum, Rolfe, m&neonta 

 Cambessedesii, Willk. The Ferula is an interesting plant. A 

 rootstock, which produced the plant figured, was sent to Rew m 

 1886 by Vice-Consul G. P. Hunot, from Saffi, Morocco, and, owing 



±~ :x„ * _ pi *,. i. _ .x i i ~ ,^o.;k]^. tn ^Wprmine that 



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communis: A full account of the history of gum ammoniac is in- 

 cluded in this number of the Kew Bulletin. Rosa Sotfteana w 

 a vigorous-growing species with rather small, iYory-white flowere 

 and attractive ovoid or almost globose, orange-vermilion mm.. 

 It has been introduced into cultivation from Western China oy 

 Messrs. de Vilmorin, from whom Kew received it in uw .. 

 discoverer of this pretty rose was the Abbe Soulie v, ho v a* 

 attached to the Catholic Mission at Yerkalo, on ^? Ti^tan-Chmeje 

 frontier ; he was murdered by Tibetan fanatics a Bata- 

 Szechuen, in the latter part of June, 1905 see %»^%£* 

 1905, p. 368). Iris verm is an old inhabitant of ^g^W^ 

 having been in cultivation as long ago as 1U&. h / Botanic 



figured was received from Mr. R. L Lynch , Cmator ot 

 Garden, Cambridge. It is a native of the Eastern ^ un 

 The Bulbophyllum is a particularly attractive ^?*™ oi 

 nam, whence it was introduced by Messrs. F^an der & ^ 

 St. Albans. The specimen figured came from m.. 

 of the Royal Botanic Garden Glasnevx* t where a v** 

 m February last. The dark purple ot , l ^l l % Paeonia 



strikingly with the deep yellow of the res tof he flo* ar.^ ^ 

 Cambessedesii is a native of the Balearic isianas , ^ M . ljorca 



introduced plants having been collected in me drawing 



by Miss Frances Geoghegan, of Glasnevin, Dublin. 



