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Wargrave Plant Farm^ Limited, wlio presented to Kew the plant 

 from which the figure was prepared. It is a small perennial herb 

 with prostrate stems, opposite more or less lanceolate toothed 

 leaves^ and few-flowered racemes. The unequally 2-lipped corolla 

 is purplish-blue, the lower lip blotched with white, j-ellow, and 

 red-purple. It has some resemblance to the smaller Lobelias. 



Lonicera Ledehourii is a Californian species w^hich has been in 

 cultivation in the British Islands since 1838, and being an easily 

 grown attractive plant it is now wadely spread in gardens. It 

 resembles, especially in the involucres, the well-known L. involn- 

 crata, Banks, which, however, may be easily distinguished from 



it by its thinner glabrous or nearly glabrous leaves and longer 

 stamens. 



The genus. PitJiecoctenium is one of the best characterised 

 members of the Bicpioniaceae, easily recognised by the capsule, 

 which is variously muricate or tuberculate outside, and is 

 terminated by a capitate appendage of the septum. P. 

 cynanclioides is an attractive climbing shrub having a rather wide 

 distribution in Eastern South America, where it is known from 

 the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, from Paraguay, 

 Uruguay, and the north-west of the Argentiae Republic. It has 

 been grown at Kew since 1884, when seeds were presented by Dr. 

 Dormer, but flowers were not produced till 1895, The corolla is 

 tubular funnel-shaped, lf-2 inches long, white, with the inside of 



the tube yellow. 



Asiatic species of Sageretia. — A useful revision of the Asiatic 



species of Sageretia is contributed by C. K. Schneider to Sargent's 

 Plantae Wilsonianae, part 4, pp. 226-231, published March 24, 

 1914, Schneider has inadvertentlj^ re-described under new names 

 two Chinese species published in Kew Bulletin^ 1908, pp. 14-15. 

 Sageretia apiculata, C. K. Schneider, I.e. 231, is a synonym of 

 S, gracilis^ J. R, Drumm. et Sprague (founded on the same 

 numbers of Henry); and S. Cavaleriei, C* K, Schneider, Lc. 228, 

 is synonymous with S, Henryi, J. R. Drumm. et Sprague, accord- 

 ing to specimens (Henry, 7118 and 11240) referred by Schneider to 



his S, Cavaleriei. 



J. E. B. and T. A. s. 



Hedychium coronarium in British Guiana. — The following 



extract is taken from a letter received from the Director, Science 

 and Agriculture Department, Georgetown, British Guiana, to 

 Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, dated March 13th, 1914, 

 and is of interest in showing the successful results which have been 

 obtained from the experimental planting of Hedychium 



coronarium in British Guiana : 



" Tl^fi first i:.lantinff of H 



months 



On irrigated land (rice) the first trials have failed. On the tidal 

 parts of the rivers above the brackish water sections the Hedy- 

 chium grows on swampy land submerged twice in eA^ery twenty- 

 four hours with great vigour, the stems attaining a length of 



feet 



drv soil. 



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