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and North Australia, and extends westward to Madagascar, whence 
seeds were sent to Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. ., of Haywards Heath. 
Dendrobium Schuetzei is a handsome = ai from the Philippines 
and is allied to D, Dearei Reichb. f., from which it differs in its 
shorter gies and much larger dewees with a Piece obtuse 
mentum —. material eg the “figure was provided by a_ plant 
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the species, and by photographs supplied by them, A plant 
flowered for the first time at St. Albans in September 1912. 
Savifraga Stribrnyi, a native of Bulgaria, is a small-growing 
species most nearly allied to S, media, Gouan, from which, how wever, 
it may be easily distinguished by its more branched inflorescence and 
nodding flowers. The e plant figured was purchased from Mr. Sunder- 
mann, of Lindau, Bavaria. 
Botanical Magazine for June.—The plants figured are Rhododendron 
Augustinii, Hemsl, (t. 8497) ; Hypericum aureum, Bartram ; 
Amelanchier oligocar pa, Roem. (t. 8499) ; “Batis Beisces. D. Don 
(t. 8500) ; and Agave Warelliana, Baker (t. 8 
Bhbdoedrond Augustinii is one of the agate species which, 
during the last few years, have been introduced into cultivation 
from China, where, it is now known, the genus has its head-quarters. 
R. Augustinii, first discovered by Prof. Augustine Henry, is 
recorded as having flowered in the garden of Mr. M. L. d o Vile 
at Les Barres in 1904. The Kew plant from which ae material 
for the figure was obtained was procured from Messrs. James Veitch 
& Sons in 1908, the stock in the Coombe Wood nurseries having been 
raised from seed collected by Mr. E. tL ‘Wilson. The species has been 
found in Hupeh and Szechuen, and in cultivation proves to be one 
of the blah hardy and free-flowering of the new Chinese 
Rhododendrons. 
“Hypericum aureum is an old garden plant, a native of the South- 
K astern United States, and remarkable in forming a distinctly woody 
It is valuable from the fact that its rather large yellow 
by its dwarfness and its few-flowered inflorescences is easily 
distinguished from A. canadensis under which name it is often found 
in collections. Being a native of cold swamps and mountain bogs 
from Labrador southward to the shores of ‘Lake Superior and the 
northern portion of New York State it is extremely hardy in this 
country. The material for the figure was obtained from a plant 
received at Kew from the Arnold Arboretum in 1 
Osbeckia stellata was in cultivation in England nearly a century 
ago, and was figured in the a Register in 1822 under this 
name, while it appeared in some gardens as O. speciosa. It is 
distributed from the WorthcWeatern Himalaya to China, and the 
plants now in cultivation at Kew were raised from Sikkim seeds 
communicated by — Gage, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic 
Garden, Calcutta 
The Agave is an attractive Mexican species. belonging to the 
section Littaea, and to that group in which the flowers are tubular, 
with recurved segments. It has been known in gardens for many 
