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flowers from C. Forgetii?. This is a free-flowering plant for the 
greenhouse or a sunny border. At Kewit has not proved hardy. 
Botanical Magazine for June-—The plants figured are Brachychiton 
acerifolius, F. Muell (t. 8437); Rupicola sprengelioides, Maiden 
grain. The flowers, which are produced in large lax axillary 
panicles, are pendulous, bright pink, and very attractive. The 
species was first introduced into England in 1824, and a plant 
obtained from a plant, now about 40 feet high, which was presented 
to the collection by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons in 1862. This 
flowered for the first time in June, 1910. 
Rupicola sprengelioides, an Epacrid, was discovered in the Blue 
Mountains of New South Wales, by Messrs. J. H. Maiden and 
W. Forsyth, in 1898, and the specimen figured was procured from a 
plant raised from seeds sent to Kew by Mr. Maiden in 1906. It is 
a small shrub with densely leafy branches, linear-lanceolate leaves, 
and axillary solitary milky-white flowers about } inch long. 
Izora lutea is supposed to be of garden origin. Under the name 
of Irora coccinea var. lutea it originally reached Kew about twenty 
years ago from the Royal Botanic Garden, Peradeniya, Ceylon. 
From the well-known Jzora coccinea it is easily distinguished by its 
laxer inflorescence, pale yellow flowers, and by its larger ovate- 
rhomboid corolla-lobes. Like several others of the genus, J. lutea 
is a valuable warm-house flowering plant. 
The Lycium is described as the most effective species in cultiva- 
tion. It is a native of the Southern United States and Northern 
Mexico, the form figured, which has been grown in the open at 
of Labiatae comprising four species, natives of Central Asia, 
North-western India and Western Tibet. P. atriplicifolia is found 
in the mountains of Afghanistan and extends through the Western 
Himalaya to Western Tibet. It is a shrub, 3 to 6 feet high, with a 
paniculate inflorescence of rather small blue flowers. e plant 
which furnished the material figured was obtained from Messrs. 
Bees, Ltd., in 1906. 
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