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illustration. C. glaucifolia has a slender stem with a graceful head 
of foliage. Its exact habitat is somewhat uncertain but it is 
probably in Guatemala. it was first described by Wendland im 
1854 from a solitary plant in the Brussels Botanic Garden. 
Ceropegia Thorncroftii was discovered near Barberton in the 
Transvaal by Mr. G. Thorncroft, by whom also it was introduced 
to Kuropean collections. From plants sent by him to the Cam- 
bridge Botanic Garden the material for the illustration was 
furmshed in August, 1911, Its nearest ally is C. crispata, from 
which it differs in the much smaller flowers and the gibbous projection 
at the middle of the keel on the inner side of the lobes. 
The late Abbé Delavay discovered the Osmanthus, which forms 
the subject of the next plate, in the mountains of Lankong in 
‘uman, at about 9500 feet. The seed was originally sent to Mr. 
M, L. de Vilmorin. The plant figured, which was purchased from 
Messrs. Lemoine and flowered in March of this year, is one of 
the most pleasing of new evergreen shrubs. It resembles O. swavis, 
King, from Sikkim and Manipur, which, however, may be dis- 
tinguished by its larger, more acute leaves, and its somewhat 
smaller lateral as well as terminal flowers. 
Elsholtzia Stauntoni is probably the most useful of the 36 known 
species from the horticultural point of view. This species appears 
to be limited to the Province of Chihli, North China, and was 
introduced to cultivation by Mr. J. G. Jack, of the Arnold 
Hanbury’s garden at La Mortola, Ventimiglia, we are 
again indebted for material of the fine Furcraca, which, though long 
cultivated at Kew, has not yet flowered in the Succulent House. 
e plant is a native of Mexico and is allied both to F. 
flavoviridis, Hook., figured at t. 5163 of the Botanical Magazine 
an 
tinguished from all the other more or less stemless forms by the 
leaves which are nearly eight feet long. 
Protium australasicum.—This tree was described in 1892 by Mr. 
F. M. Bailey, Colonial Botanist, Queensland, under the name 
Bursera australasica (Queensl. Dept. Agric., Bull. No. 18, p. 8 
and the description was reproduced in-his Queensland Flora, p. 223 
(1899). Additional particulars regarding the flowers were given by 
ailey in Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., vol. xi., p. 14 (1895). 
According to the classification of the Genera Plantarum, which 
was followed in the Queensland Flora, B. australasica comes under 
the genus Bursera, 
In Engler’s monograph of the Burseraceae (DC. Monogr, Phan. 
vol. iv., 1883, pp. 1-169), however, this genus was divided into 
Bursera (proper) and Protium, Burm. ; and the segregation of these 
two genera has been accepted by botanists generally. is 
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