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Solenostemon Giodefroyae is a new species from the Congo and 
Angola, and is the same plant as that included in the late Mr. 
Godefroy-Lebeuf’s Catalogue for 1903 under the name of Coleus 
Godefroyae. Material of the same species, collected in Angola in 
1873 by Mr. and Mrs. Monteiro, had been referred to Solenostemon 
ocymoides, Schum. & Thonn, A flowering plant was sent to Kew 
in November, 1903, by Messrs. Sander & Sons of St. Albans, and 
another plant, which supplied the material for the plate, was received 
in 1911 from the Jardin Colonial, Laeken, near Brussels. e 
genus Solenostemon is very closely allied to Coleus and Plectranthus, 
but may be distinguished by the subequally 2-lipped calyx. 
Botanical Magazine for September.—The plants figured are Agathis 
vitiensis, Benth. & Hook. f. (t. 8512) ; Rosa foliolosa, Nutt. (t. 8513) ; 
Catasetum microglossum, Rolfe (t. 8514); Lris mellita, Janka (t. 
8515); and Utricularia longifolia, Gardn, (t. 8516). ; 
Agathis vitiensis is a Dammar indigenous in the Fiji Archipelago, 
where it is known as the Dakua. The wood serves much the same 
uses as deal and is employed by the Fijians for house-floors and for 
masts, booms and spars. The resin which the trees exude has not 
been, so far, made an article of commerce but in the interior of the 
larger islands has been used for burning. The material for the 
figure was obtained from a plant raised at Kew from seeds presented 
by Sir J. B. Thurston, then Governor of Fiji, in 1881. This plant 
is now a tree twenty-five feet in height, and is under cultivation in 
the Mexican House. 
Rosa foliolosa is the South-western Prairie Rose of North 
America which as a wild species is apparently restricted to the - 
prairie region of Arkansas, northern and central Texas and the 
Indian territory. It is well characterised by its dwarf habit, its 
running rootstocks and its fragrant carmine blossoms. It was first 
discovered by Nuttall in Arkansas about 1820 and later was met 
with in Texas by Berlandier, Drummond and others. It is rather a 
rare species in collections of roses. The material for the plate came 
from the garden of the Rev. Canon Ellacombe, Bitton. : 
pared. 
The Jris figured at t. 8515 was presented to the Kew collection 
by the Hon, Mr. N. C. Rothschild who had obtained it from 
ersina in Cilicia. In identifying it with I. mellita, Janka, a~ 
it has since been met with frequently throughout Southern Bulgaria. | 
The original I, rubro-~marginata was described from specimens 
