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there seem to be five forms of it: single white (in two forms, large 
and small), single yellow, double white and double yellow. Of these 
the double yellow would appear to be the most popular. One sees 
it grown in various ways, such as on and over walls, on arches, on 
pergolas, and on trees, but its beauty never palls, for associated with 
the colour beauty of its blossoms are the rich verdancy of its leaves 
and the unsurpassed grace of its long slender branches. At Isola 
Madre it has reached the top of a common bay tree and now drapes 
it almost to the base, at the time I saw it a slender pyramid of 
glorious yellow 40 ft. high. 
Deodar succeeds admirably wherever I saw it in Italy, and 
at Isola Madre it was magnificent. Of other trees hardy in 
Britain I noted Libocedrus decurrens with a trunk over 3 ft. through 
and, as I noticed elsewhere, not columnar in shape as it usually is 
with us, but pyramidal and more spreading, Tazxodium distichum, 
_ Liquidambar styraciflua 70 ft. high, Aegle sepiaria a tree 15 ft. high, 
Abies Pinsapo and Lawson cypress. n the other hand the 
difference between this and the average climate of Great Britain is 
shown by the existence of such plants luxuriating out-of-doors as 
_ the following: Acacia dealbata A. Baileyana, A. melanorylon, A. 
_ longifolia, A. pravissima, Hakea saligna (in bloom), Podocarpus 
_ Lotara, Rhododendron arboreum 30 ft. high with a trunk 18 inches 
in diameter, Fatsia papyrifera, Casuarina equisitifolia, Agaves, Dasy- 
lirions and Opuntias. Erica arborea here fully justifies its specific 
name. . 
Amorphophallus Titanum, which first flowered at Kew in 1889 (see Bot. 
_ an interesting selection of palms in the open air, two of which by 
his kindness we were enabled to illustrate. ‘The more remarkable 
one, Nannorhops Ritchieana, Wendland,* a very rare palm from 
a 
ought to be hardy in the mild south-west counties of Britain. The 
___* Nannorhops Ritchieana, H. Wendland in Bot. Zeitung 1879, p. 148; 
_ Aitchison in J ourn. Linn. Soc. xix., 140, t. 26. A gregarious tufted low-growing 
glabrous palm, with prostrate branching robust rhizomes or stems. Leaves 
cuneately flabellate, rigid, plicate, split into curved 2-fid segments : petiole short. 
Spadix interfoliar much branch 
t vary trigonou sh ilar. 
Drupe small, globose or oblong, 1-seeded, style basilar. ee, erect, ven- . 
 trally hollowed ; hilum small, albumen equable ; embryo dorsal or sub-basilar. 
eceari and Hook. f, in Flora of British India, Vol. vi., p. 429. 
A native of Sindh, the Western Punjab, Afghanistan. 
