fioianical Magazine for July.— Tlie j^lants figured are 



Gongora grossa, Eeichb. f . (t, 8562) ; Kollacitzia amahilis, 

 Graebn, (t. 8563); Primula vincifioxa, rrancli. (t. 8564); Trollius 

 chinensisy Buiige (t. 8565), and Rosa corymhidosa, Eolfe (t. 8566). 

 The Gongora is a remarkable species from Ecuador. First 

 described in 1877 from a plant wliich flowered in the garden of 

 tlie late Sir Charles Strickland at Hildenley, Malton, Yorkshire, 

 it appears to have been lost to cultivation till recently, when a 

 plant was presented to the Kew collection by Mr, Walter Fox, 

 who met with it at Tenqual in Ecuador, growing on a Cocoa tree. 

 Flowers were produced in May, 1913, and afforded facilities fur 

 preparing the figure. The species is extraordinary in the large 

 size of its leaves and pseudobulbs, and strikingly attractive in its 



long elegant racemes. 



Kolhwitzia is a monotypic genus of Caprif 



allied to Ahelia, differing in having the flowers in pairs and 

 usually united, so that one receptacle appears to arise from the 

 base of the other. It is probably more interesting botanically 

 than liorticulturally. Its flowers are obliquely tubular- 

 campanula te, about \ inch long, and are white, flushed with rose- 

 ]^ink, and the strongly ribbed nut-like fruits sometimes have the 

 ribs produced above as short horns, which are densely clothed 

 with bristly hairs. The plant is a native of Central China, and 

 luks been introduced by Messrs. James Yeitch and Sons, in whose 

 nurseries at Coombe Wood it first flowered in June, 1910, and 

 again in June, 1913, when Messrs. Yeitcli supplied tl\e material 

 for the figure. 



Among the many species of Primvla which, during recent 3'ears, 

 have been introduced into our gardens from China and Northern 

 India is the one now figured under the name of P, Tincifloray seeds 

 of which M'ere collected in South- Western China by Mr. G. 

 Forrest, and sent to Messrs, Bees, Limited. It belongs to a small 

 group characterised by having large solitary .flowers borne on 

 robust scapes, which rise from a sheath of later enveloping leaves ; 

 by having the calyx divided to the base into 5-8 segments, and hj 

 liaving flat seeds with a winged aril. The last-named character 

 induced Mr. Franchet to separate the species from Primula, and 

 to form with them his genus Omphalogramwa. Professor Bayley 

 Balfour, to whom Kew is indebted for the plant figured, has drawn 

 attention to a peculiarity in the stamens of P. vincAfj^ra. Those 

 on the posterior side oi the corolla are erect, but tliose on the 

 anterior side are bent across the tube, so that all the anthers are 

 brought together in a cone at the back of the flenver. xVt Kew llie 

 .species ihrives in a cool frame, 



Trollius chinensis has often been regarded as merely a form of 

 T. asiaticuSj Linn., while Mr. Komarov reduces it to T. 

 Ledehouriiy Keichb. From the latter, to which it appears to be 

 most closely allied, it may be distinguished by having more 

 numerous sepals. It thrives under the same conditions as those 

 found suitable for the common Globe Flower, T. europaeuSy Linn. 



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