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flowered form of the Japanese A. flabellata, which - sent to Kew 
by Canon Ellacombe, Bitton, Bristol, in May, 1909. Finet et 
agnepain suggest that A. flabellata may be only a Pes of A. 
sibirica, Lam. but from the gardening point of view the plants are 
sufficiently distinct. Aster Falconeri, a native of sf mountains 
surrounding the valley of Kashmir is a remarkably handsome 
species. It was originally considered identical with A. diplostephoides, 
Benth., from Sikkim and E. Nepal. Messrs. Barr introduced A, 
Falconeri to cultivation in 1906, and kindly presented seeds to Kew. 
The plants flowered in May, 1910, but the material for the 
illustration was provided by Mr. W. Marshall, Auchinraith, Bexley. 
The genus Phaedranassa which furnishes the subject for the last 
illustration, P. Carmioli from Costa Rica, ae four other 
species from the Andes of Ecuador or Colom e flowers are 
striking with their long red perianth tubes i _yolletestiigeod, green 
lobes. P. Carmioli was introduced by Mr. Jules Carmiol, and was 
first flowered in 1867. The plant figured was received ‘from 
W. E. Gumbleton, Belgrove, Queenstown, to whom the bulb bad 
been sent two years previously by Mr. W. E. Ledger, Wimbledon. 
Pseuderanthemum malaccense, Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 
Pflanzenf. iv. 38, p. 330.—This combination rests on Eranthemum 
malaccense, C. B. Cl.; but as Clarke himself at different times had 
different conceptions of that species, and as EL. malaccense has, more- 
over, recently been referred to as a synonym of L. graciliflorum, Nees, 
it seems desirable to define the species. The name Hr anthemum 
malaccense appears for the first time in C. B. Clarke’s elaboration of 
the Acanthaceae for the Flora of British India, iv, p. 498 (1885). 
The specimens especially referred to it are “ Griffith (Kew Distr. 
6175), Cuming 2357, 2389, etc.” They are all at Kew, and their 
comparison shows that one sheet of Griffith, namely, 6175, and 
Cuming, 2389, are conspecific whilst Cuming, 2357, represents 
another species. As to the synonyms quoted by Clarke, they 
are :—“ Eranthemum crenulatum, Nees in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iu, 
107 and in DC. Prodr. xi, 453, chicfly ; T. Anderson in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ix. 523, partly (not ef Lindl dl.); E. palatiferum Bot. Mag. 
t. 5957, left-hand fig. only ; Justicia orbiculata, Wall. Cat. 2489, 
letter bs and from a note, possibly F. punctatum, Nees in 
Prodr. xi. 455.” When Clarke worked out the Acanthaceae for 
King and Gamble’s Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula 
(Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Ixxiv, part ii, 1907) he considerably 
revised his determinations and quotations. He retained only 
Cuming’s 2389 and a part of Griffith’s 6175 in £. malac- 
cense, referring Cuming 2357, to his E. po anthos, and the 
remaining part of Griffith’s 6175, to £. OF Sait At the same 
time he cnt out all the synonyms quoted above with the exception 
of FE. crenulatum, Nees “(in large part),” op Lindley. 
other hand, he added a considerable number 0 f specimens, of which 
the following are at Kew :—Wellesley, Ridley y, 2231; Malacca, 
Harvey ; Goodenough, 1713; Mt. Ophir, Lobb. They are all con- 
sea with Cuming, 2389, and one - the Kew Distribution sheets 
f Griffith's collection numbered-6175,-He further introduced 
