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Presentation of a portrait of Linnaeus. — A framed portrait 



of Liniiaeus lias teen j^resented to the Herbarium by Sir Arthur 

 Cliurcli, K.C.V.O, It is a very good impression of an 



old Frencli colour-print by P. M. Alix after A. Roslin, and bears 

 the imprint ^^ A Paris chez Drouliin, Editeur & proprietarie 

 des Antiquities Rationales, Rue Christine !N'o. 2, et imprimes 

 chez lui par Bechet.'" The portrait is a half-length one and 

 represents Linnaeus clad in wig and dark fawn-coloured coat 

 and vest, through the opening of the latter protrudes a delicate 

 white frill, while on the left-hand side of the coat hangs the 

 Order of the Polar Star, with a sprig of Ltnnaea horealis above 

 it. The figure is turned slightly to the left, and its face is 

 directed towards the spectator; the whole is enclosed in an oval 

 9f in. by 8\ in. The picture bears some resemblance to that 

 by A- Hoslin in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at 

 Stockholm (but laterally inverted), a print of which has been 

 published in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 

 1905-6, plate 8. 



Botanical Magazine for March. — The plants figured are 



Aristolochia gigantea, Mart. (t. 8542) ; Ribes laurifolium^ 



Janczewski (t. 8543) ; Salvia uliginosa^ Benth. (t. 8544) ; 

 Kniphofia carinata, C. H. Wright (t. 8545) and Cotoneaster 

 turbinata, Craib (t. 8546). 



Aristolochia* gig antea is a Brazilian species, a plant of which 

 has been presented to the Kew collection by Sir Frank Crisp. 

 From this has been obtained the material for the illustration. 

 The flowers are mainly brownish-purple, with pale yellow reticu- 

 lations, and are noteworthy on account of their fragrance, thus 

 being markedly different from the* other species in cultivation. 

 The perianth-limb is deeply cordate, has no tail, and is 9 in. 

 long by about 6 in. wide. In the Palm House at Kew the 

 plant is trained against the roof and forms annual shoots 15 ft. 

 or more in length. 



Ribes laurifolium has been introduced as a result of Mr. E. H. 

 Wilson's mission to China on behalf of the Arnold Arboretum. 

 Seeds were collected in Western Szechuan, and some were pre- 

 sented by Professor Sargent to Kew, to the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Glasnevin, -and to Mr. Vicary Gibbs. The material for 

 the figure was obtained from all of the three sources named. It 

 is an unarmed shrub, with ovate or ovate-oblong serrate-crenate 

 coriaceous leaves, 2|-4 in. long, \-2 in. wide, pendulous racemes, 

 1-lf in. long, of greenish flowers, and reddish tomentose broadly 

 elliptic fruits about § in. long. The plant is quite hardy in the 

 British Islands, but so far has proved of slow growth. 



The Salvia is an attractive species, native of Brazil, Uruguay 

 and Argentina, and hardy at Kew, to which a plant was pre- 

 sented in 1912 by Mr, P. L. de Yilmorin, of Verrieres, Seine and 

 Oise. The stem of S. uliginosa is conspicuously sulcate quad- 

 ranguhir— a characteristic feature, as well as that of the deep 

 serration of the leaves. Its flowers are bright blue, with some 

 white marks on the base of the lip, and are borne in compact 

 terminal spiciform racemes. 



