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LXI—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
GroRGE STEPHEN Crovcn, until recently a member of 
the gardening staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens, has been 
appointed, on the recommendation of Kew, an Assistant Director of 
Horticulture in the Egyptian Department of Agriculture. 
Mr. THomas Henry Parsons, a member of the gardening 
staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens, has been appointed by the 
Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of 
ew, Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon, 
in succession to Mr. H. F. Macmillan (K.B., 1895, p. 155) who 
has been appointed Superintendent of Horticulture in the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Ceylon. 
Mr. C. E. F. ALLEN, formerly a member of the gardening 
staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens (K.B., 1904, p. 13) has been 
appointed Curator of the Botanic Garden, Port Darwin, Northern 
Territory, South Australia, in succession to Mr. N. Holtze, 
deceased (K.B., 1913, p. 233). 
Botanical Magazine for December.—The plants figured are Morenia 
corallina, Karst. (t. 8527); Genista hispanica, Linn. (t. 8528) ; 
Rhododendron nigropunctatum, Bur. et Franch. (t. 8529); Derris 
oligosperma, K. Schum. et Lauterb. (t. 8530) and Cirrhopetalum 
graceful Andine Palms. The genus is closely allied to Chamaedorea, 
Willd., but is easily distinguished in having a three-toothed in the 
place of an annular or patelliform calyx in the male flower. The 
Kew plant which supplied the material for the illustration has been 
Southern England. Its native habitat extends from Portugal to 
Liguria in North-Western Italy and it is most nearly allied to 
G. gibraltarica, DC. and @. decipiens, Spach. From the former it 
is distinguished by the shorter and denser infloresence, from the 
latter by the subequal petals. The plant figured was grown in the 
open at Kew. : : 
The tiny Rhododendron nigropunctatum is one of the small species 
found on grass lands on the mountains of Szechuan in Western 
China at elevations of from 10,000-15,000 feet. It was collected 
in this region by Mr. E. H. Wilson, though it had previously been 
found by French travellers and describ from their specimens, 
The plant which furnished material for the figure was presented to 
