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squamae 3-lobae, 2-5 mm. lougae, lobo ceiitrali ovato-oblongo 

 la,teralibiis rotimdatis duplo vel plus quam duplo longiore 

 ciliato. 



China. >Szecliuan; Wusban; 2100—2700 m., Wilson 1140. 



A very distinct dwarf birch, introduced to cultivation in 1909. 

 In bis field-note Wilson describes the plant as " 6 ft. to 10 ft. 

 high, hanging down ove^ cliffs : June and October, 1908." 



VIL— MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



F 



Mr. Hahry Barhoiv Shakpe, formerly a member of the 

 gardening staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens, has, we learn, 

 been appointed Plant Import Inspector in the Agricultural 

 Department, British East Africa. 



Additions and alterations to Gardens, 1913. — Additions to 



the collections of 2)lants cultivated at the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Kew, have been made during the year by exchanges with other 

 gardens, private as well as public, and by purchase from nursery- 

 men and others. Contributions of plants and seeds received from 

 Botanic Gardens and other institutions include the following : — 



Brisbane — Orchids, 



British East Africa — Native seeds. 



Brussels Botanic Garden — Stove plants and Orchids. 



Brussels Colonial Garden — Wardian case of Congo plants, 



Buenos Aires — Collection of seeds. 



Calcutta — Rhizomes of Hedychium coronarium for distiibu- 



tion ; bulbs of Lilium nepalense. 

 Canadian Department of Agriculture — Seeds of Zizania, &c. 

 Ceylon — Rhizomes of Hedychium coronarium and //. 

 - flavescens for distribution* 

 Dominica — Various seeds. 

 Nigeria, Northern — Seeds of Kerstingiella geocarpa and 



Voandzeia suhterranea 

 St. Petersburg — Large plar 

 Bull., 1913, p. 359). 



Saharanpur — Various seeds. 



see 



Saigon — Various seeds. 



Singapore — Three AVardian eases of plants; i)alm and other 



d 



s. 



Sydney^ — Collection of native seeds. 



Trinidad — Wardian case of plants; seeds. 



United States Department of Agriculture — Collection of 



seedling Crotons; seeds. 

 Virgin Islands — Plants of Mamillaria nivosa. 

 Exchanges were made with the Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh, 

 Glasnevin, Cambridge and Oxford, and with most of the 



European gardens upon which Kew is largely dependent for seeds 

 of those annual herbaceous plants which fail to produce seeds at 

 Kew. 



