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Botanical Magazine for December.—The plants figured are Pinus 
Jlexilis, James (t. 8467); Primula Juliae, Kusnezow (t. 8468) ; 
Akania Hillii, Hook. f. (t. 8469) ; Lissochilus Andersoni, Rolfe 
(t. 8470) ; and Rosa omeiensis, Rolfe (t. 8470 
e volume for the year, with which this number of the 
Botanical Magazine concludes, is dedicated to Mr. John Medley 
Wood, A.L.S., Director of the Botanic Gardens, Durban, Natal. 
Pinus flexilis is a very rare tree in British collections. Beyond 
the trees at Kew, one of which furnished material for the plate, the 
only other good specimens are the two trees at Terling Place, Essex. 
The species is a native of Colorado, where it was discovered near 
the base of Pike’s Peak in 1820. It was introduced to,cultivation in 
1861 by Dr. Parry. It isa five-needle pine and may be distinguished 
from all such in cultivation by the entire margins of the leaves, the 
deciduous leaf sheaths, and the glabrous young shoots. P. albicaulis 
is its nearest ally, but in this species the young shoots are reddish 
and pubescent. 
The pretty little Transcaucasian Primula, when seen in leaf only 
is more like a Je t than a Primula. e flowers are borne 
singly as in P. acaulis. The plant was introduced by Prof. 
Kusnezow, Dizccior: of the Botanic Gardens, Dorpat, and it was 
from a plant sent by him to Kew that the material for the plate was 
obtained. 
Akania Hillii is a striking plant from Australia, and is of more 
particular interest since it is a representive of a monotypic genus of 
a very isolated character. It has been referred to a Natural Order 
of its own in A.B. 1912, pp. 378-9. The plant from which the 
illustration was prepared was received at Kew in 1872 from 
Mr en, at Ghent, under the name of Lomatia Bidwillii. 
During the 40 years it ‘has been at Kew it has shown no signs of 
flowering, but in February last it developed its beautiful white 
inflorescences from the hard woody stem. It is planted out in the 
open border of the Mexican end of the Temperate House, where 
it is now a graceful tree some twenty feet high. 
About one hundred species of Lissochilus have been described 
from Africa, ZL. Andersoni the subject of the plate is a native of 
the swamps of the Gold Coast, and has been collected at Aburi, by 
Mr. J. Anderson, and on the Afram plain, by Mr. W. H. Johnson. 
The plate was prepared from a plant per ig from Mr. Anderson 
in 1908, which flowered at Kew in April, 1911. It is most nearly 
allied to L. Millsoni, Rolfe, and to L. purpuratus, Lindl., figured at 
t. 7921 of the Magazine. The petals and sepals are pale —— 
green, and the lip 1 is white with 5-7 pale purple warted r 
Rosa omeiensis from Western China may be aeer i as oe 
Eastern representative of the pnignetis R. sericea. It diffe 
from that species, however, by its more numerous and selativel) 
narrower leaflets, its usually much  aaullee flowers, and in the 
thickened yellow fruiting pedicels. 
It was first found by the Rev. E. Faber on Mount Omei, 
Szechuan, at about 8000 feet, and later Mr. A. Henry Seog it 
as forming thickets 6-10 feet nigh, both on Mount Omei and on 
the Fang Mountains in Hupeh. For its ilfediuctean: we are 
indebted to Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons through their collector 
