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Mes ssrs. Vilmorin, Andrieux & Co., and with geet raised from 
seed collected by Mr. A. Henry, which the late Prof. Crépin 
thought might be a small-leaved form of R. ma wesiatin Lindl. 
lt is larger in all its parts than R. op men figured at t. 8186. 
The Kew plant of A. sertata flowered in Jun 0. 
Clerodendron Bakeri is a handsome chivas fis a height of 
about four feet, with large lee sex or r oblong-elliptic leaves, and 
showy heads of white fragrant flow t is a native of West 
Tropical Africa, occurring in the cepion of the lehes Congo and 
in Sierra Leone. The figure has been prepared from material 
obtained from « plant presented to Kew in 1910 by Captain 
Munro, R.N., of Woodlands, Binfield. 
Amor phophallus corrugatus has recently been described for the 
first time from tiene collected by Dr. A. F. G. Kerr in the 
evergreen forest on the Doi Scotep vibanifiain, in the district of 
pitt ame Siam. In addition to sending herbarium material to 
Kew, err forwarded living tubers to the Botanic Garden of 
Trinity College, Dublin, where one flowered in April, 1912, and 
supplied the specimen figured. The species is easily distinguished 
from its nearer allies by the spathe being open in front almost to 
the — by the curiously corrugated appendix, and by the purple 
ovarie 
ae Purdomii is a new species which Monts Veitch have 
introduced, through their collector Mr. W. om, from the 
province of Shensi, Northern China, and which Sekared ‘at Coombe 
Wood in May, 1912. In habit it resembles A. alpinus, Linn., but 
it may be distinguished from this and all the other Asiatic species 
by the distinctly stalked ovate or ovate-elliptic radical leaves, with 
two or three small teeth, associated with almost leafless stems and 
solitary flower heads. It promises to be a useful plant for the rock 
den. 
garden 
Echinocactus ornatus.—We are indebted to Mr. F. de Laet of 
Contich for drawing our attention to the fact that the plant figured 
as H. ornatus on the plate in K.B., 1912, facing p, 300, is really 
E. Se. In the true E, ornatus the spines with which the 
plant is armed are 3in. long, and such spines are entirely absent in 
E. ida hadebapiney the plant 
The plant had been obtained under the name E. ornatus, and the 
identification had not been verified at the time of the publication 
of the figure 
we N.E.B. 
Entandrophragma.—The timber of several species of [ntandro- 
phragma is shipped from West Africa under the trade name of 
d ; 
sented in the Kew Herbarium. £. excelsum has been omitted on 
account of the inadequate nature of the material. The synonymy 
and geographical distribution of the species have been given in Kew 
Bull., 1910, pp. 179-181. Since that account was established 
th slupaetie have been described: E£. Rederi, Harms in 
Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, vol. v. p- 184 (Cameroons ; E spe- 
ciosum, Harms in Wiss . Ergebn. Deutsch. Zentral-Afr.-Exped. 
