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rose; Tlie drawing was prepared from a fine specimen wliicli 

 flowered in tlie Nepenthes House at Kew in August, 1913. 



MecoiiopHs rudisj a native of Szecliuan and Yunnan, Western 

 China, lias been introduced into European gardens through Mr. 

 E. Hv Wilson and Mr. G. Forrest, The Kew plants which pro- 

 vided material for the figure were raised from seeds collected by 

 the former and presented to the establishment by Professor C. S. 

 Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum. It is a monocarpic herb with a 

 prickly stem, which reaches a height of 3 feet, aiid raceme-like 

 cymes ^of sky-blue flowers, sometimes flushed with purple, occa- 

 sionally entirely pale purple. From its near ally, M. aculeata, 

 Royle, it may be easily distinguished by its entire or nearly entire 

 leaves and by its flowers always having more than four petals. 





The rose is a native of Hupeh, Central China, and has been 

 introduced into cultivation by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, in 

 whose nursery at Coombe Wood it flowered last year. It has a 

 general resemblance to R. macrophyllay LindL, and its large 

 corymbs of rose and white flowers are distinctive owang to the 

 numerous foliaceous bracts and the spreading gland-tipped bristles 

 which clothe the long pedicels. 



Zingiher Mioga is a Japanese plant which, under the name of 

 '^ Mioga,'' is valued in its native country for its aromatic proper- 

 ties. The young infloi^escences and leafy shoots are used for, 

 flavouring soups and pickles, and as a spice. The drawing was 

 made from material obtained from a plant imported from Japan 

 and presented to Kew by Mr. H. J. Elwes. Its flowers are very 

 pale yellow\ 



The Cotoneoster is an attractive species first introduced by Mr* 

 M- li. de Vilmorin, who received seeds collected in Western 

 China from the Abbe Soulie. Plants were raised at Les Barres, 

 and in 1901 that from which the figure was prepared was pre- 

 sented to Kew by Mr. Yilmorin. It has a graceful habit, with 

 archilig elegant branches, and in the autumn, when its rather 

 large orange-red fruits are ripe, it forms a strikingly handsome. 

 shrub. It is very hardy and grows freely at Kew. 



Fortune's Double Yellow Pose. — A fine flowering specimen of 



an old historic Rose has been sent by the late Director, Sir William 

 T. Thiselton-Dyer, K.C.M.G., Witcombe, Gloucestershire, with 

 an enquiry as to its botanical origin. A search revealed the fact 

 that although it was figured in the Botaiucal Magazine in 1852 

 (t. 4679) there was no specimen in the Herbarium, and that it 

 has been more or less confused with Rosa Fortuneanaj Lindl. 

 (Paxt, Fl. Gard. ii. p. 71, fig. 171), a hybrid between R. Banksiae 

 and R^ laevigata (for example R. Fortuneana, Lem, Jard. Fleur. 

 iv. t. 361 is simply a copy of the Botanical Magazine plate). 

 Hemsley remarks (Journ. Linn, Soc. xxiii. p. 249) that R. 

 Fortuneana, Lindl., is probably a hybrid between R. BanJcsiae and 

 72. indica. Baker refers Fortune's Double Yellow to R. chinensis 

 var. pseud-indica, which is regarded as identical with R. pseud- 

 indica, Lindl. (Monogr, Eos. p. 132), which was based on a paint- 

 ing of a double yellow Chinese Eose in Lambert*s Herbarium, but 



