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figured was obtained was raised at Kew from seeds received from 
Mr. J. Medley Wood, Director of the Botanic Gardens at 
Durban. 
Corokia Cotoneaster is a familiar New Zealand shrub, and is 
recorded as being in cultivation at Kew in 1876. It thrives out-of- 
doors on a south wall, but is killed or injured by severe frost in the 
open ground. In Canon Elacombe’s garden at Bitton, near Bristol, 
there is a fine specimen growing in a sheltered corner, and from this 
the figure has been prepared. 
Cereus Silvestrii comes from the Argentine Republic. It is an 
elegant species, having slender prostrate or ascending stems, and 
bright orange-scarlet flowers which are freely produced. The 
specimen figured was obtained from a plant purchased early last 
year from Messrs, Haage & Schmidt of Erfurt. 
Abor ExpeditionIn a letter to the Director written from Kobo 
on 8th December, 1911, during the course of the Abor Expedition 
under Major-General Bower, Mr. I. H. Burkill speaks of the climate 
experienced as cold at nights with the Mishmi Hills which are in 
sight already carrying a lot of snow. Looking eastwards from 
Kobo, Daphabum seems to end the mountains, but away behind, 
towards China, are more snows. Looking south-east no hills can be 
3) The air-space ; 
(4) Occupied by the ground vegetation of Piperaceae, 
Rubiaceae, &c., small leaved and bird-distributed. _ 
ver all is a tangle of lianes, those which reach highest wind- 
distributed like the trees ; the less lofty bird-distributed. ; 
Measuring the light in the depth of this forest Mr. Burkill finds 
- it to be gdo to gh of what it is on the river bank. 
Funtumia Rubber.*—It is not often that a plant within little more 
than a decade from its discovery is made the subject of an exhaus- 
tive monograph running over 252 pages, and covering nearly all 
aspects under which it presents itself to the botamist and the 
practical man. But such is the case with Funtumia elastica which, 
in Mr. Cuthbert Christy, has found an excellent interpreter. 
* The African Rubber Industry and Funtumia elastica (“Kickxia”). By 
Cuthbert Christy, M.B., C.M. 
