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Echinopanax liorridus is one of several names for a striking 

 Araliaceous plant which is a native of the coast and islands of 



.IS'orth 



Mount 



of Japan, where Professor Sargent has observed it growing freely 

 in the dense shade of the hemlock spruce forests- In Japan it 

 is known as Ari Bouki- It is a shruo, growing from 3 to 10 feet 

 high, with a prickly stem, creeping below and leafy at the top, 

 furnished with palmately 5-94obed leai^es, 6-10 inches across. 

 The plate was prepared from a plant purchased in 1909 from 

 Messrs. Lemoine of Nancy. At Kew it is necessary in the 'spring 

 to protect the young growths from frost. 



The Hamamelis is a native of the South-Eastern United States, 

 and though closely allied to H. virginiana, Linn., the time of 

 flowering, from midwinter to spring, is the same as that of H. 

 japonica, Sieb. and Zucc. It may also be distinguished from //. 

 virginiana^ which flowers during the autumn, while still in full 

 leaf, by the habit of spreading by stolons, by having the calyx- 

 Icbes red on the inner face and a more abundant and persistent 

 pubescence on the twigs and leaves, the latter of which are dull 

 and rather glaucous beneath. As a garden plant it has not so 

 far proved w attractive as the Chinese and Japanese species. 

 It was first received at Kew in 1909 from the Arnold Arboretum. 



The Pimeleay a AYest Australian plant, was first introduced in 

 1824, and figures of it are met with in various works under the 

 names of P. decussata, R. Br* and P, diosmifoUa, Lodd. Its 

 flowers vary in colour from pale pink to a rather deep red, and 

 are arranged in terminal globose heads, each of which has four 

 subtending greenish-pink bracts about ^ inch long. A dis- 

 tinctive appearance is imparted to the inflorescence by the 

 presenice of spreading white hairs on the lower part of the 

 perianth-tube. 



Aconitum rotundifolium is one of the most characteristic 

 species from Western Central Asia, where it is sometimes found 

 growing at an altitude of 17,000 feet above sea4evel. It has 

 unusually small tubers which, on tasting, do not produce the 

 tingling sensation caused by poisonous aconites. The in- 

 florescence is a raceme or narrow panicle and is pubescent or 

 villous. The flowers are about f inch long, and are greenish- 

 white with violet veins, somewhat flushed with purple or violet. 

 A plant from which the figure was prepared was purchased in 

 1912 from Messrs. R< ' " - ^ — - 



the name of 4. alho-violaceuTn^ which is a species of a different 

 section* 



The Tillandsia has been figured from a plant sent to Kew in 



1012 by Mr. C. H. Lankestex, Cachi, Costa Rica. It was first 



discovered at Chalco in Mexico by Mr. G. Andrieux. It occurred 



as an epiphyte on a Quercus and is distinguishable from the 



typical form by the smaller flowers, purple petals, shortly acute 



sheath of the scape, and by the upper bracts being rounded at 

 the apex. 



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