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Its flowers resemble those of M, stellata, Maxim. in which, however, 
all the segments of the perianth are petaloid, while in M. salicifolia 
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The plate was prepared from a plant which was received from 
h. 
gardens. A small tree presented to Kew by the Arnold Arboretum 
in 1910 has flowered very freely, and it is suggested that the species 
would be worth a place in thin woodland where P. avium and 
Bay in the north to North Carolina and Tennessee in the south, 
and westward to the inland slopes of the Rocky Mountains. 
Botanical Magazine for April.—The plants figured are Sansevierta 
aethiopica, Thunb. (t. 8487); Pyrus ionensis, L, H. Bailey (t. 8488) ; 
Cocculus trilobus, DC. (t. 8489); Cistus Loreti, Rouy. & Fouc. 
(t. 8490) ; and Hypericum Kalmianum, Linn. (t. 8491). : 
The Sansevieria, a species widely distributed in South Africa, 
has been known in European gardens for upwards of a century, but, 
owing to its having been mistaken for S. zeylanica, W illd., it has not 
previously been figured under its correct name. e plant from 
which the material for the figure was obtained was sent to Kew in 
1895 by Mr. C. Howlett, Curator of the Botanic Garden at Graaf 
Reinet. With regard to S. zeylanica it is of considerable interest 
that wild specimens have recently been received at Kew from 
Ceylon and prove that the species is quite distinct from that usually 
own by the name. aaa 
Pyrus ionensis is the Common Crab of the Mississippi basin a 
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