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Osgood H. Mackenzie at Inverewe, in the county of Ross. Here it 

 flowers freely in July, and is then very pretty, but its greatest beauty comes 

 in October and November, when the fruits acquire their charming colour. 

 The fruit contains abundant seed, which germinates readily. There is 

 said to be a white-fruited form in cultivation. The generic name com- 

 memorates Labillardiere, a French botanist who travelled in Australia, 

 and published a work on its flora in Paris in 1804. 



BOWKERIA GERRARDIANA, Harvey. SCROPHULARIACE^E. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 8021 ; B. triphylla, of gardens.) 



An evergreen shrub, 8, 10, or more ft. high; stems covered with fine 

 grey hairs. Leaves stalkless, arranged in threes at each joint, 4 to 7 ins. 

 long, i|- to 2.\ ins. wide; ovate-lanceolate, toothed, long-pointed; dull 

 green, somewhat downy on both surfaces. Flowers produced in August 

 in lax, three- to ten-flowered cymes ; the shaggy flower-stalks springing from 

 the leaf-axils. Corolla pure white, f in. across, similar to a calceolaria, 

 two-lipped, flattened at the mouth of the tube to a broad slit ; upper lip 

 broadly two-lobed, lower one three-lobed. The inflorescence is very 

 viscid. 



Native of Natal, and rare in cultivation. It has long been grown 

 under glass at Kew, but my first knowledge of its existence in the open 

 air was obtained in August 1903, when flowering shoots were sent to 

 Kew from Mrs Gwytherne Williams' garden at Belvedere, St Lawrence, 

 Isle of Wight. The shrub was then 7 ft. high, and flowered freely without 

 protection. It is not only a beautiful shrub, but interesting as one of 

 the comparatively few South African ones that can be grown outside in the 

 south of England. Near London it is not possible to grow it out-of- 

 doors. The name under which it is usually grown "B. triphylla" 

 belongs to a plant not apparently in cultivation at present. 



BROUSSONETIA. URTICACE^E. 



The Broussonetias are closely allied to the mulberries, but are less 

 woody, and the plants are unisexual. Two species are in cultivation, both 

 from N.E. Asia. They have alternate leaves, and are rather rank-growing 

 shrubs or small trees, deciduous, and with abundant pith in the young 

 shoots. They grow well in any soil of moderate quality, and are easily 

 increased by summer cuttings. These should be made in July or August, 

 of short shoots with a heel of older wood attached. Female trees some- 

 times produce fruit under cultivation. 



B. KAZINOKI, Siebold. 



(B. Kaempferi, Siebold; B. Sieboldii, Blume.') 



A deciduous shrub, 10 to 15 ft. high, of open, spreading habit, with very 

 pithy, purplish red young shoots, whose bark is slightly downy at first, soon 

 quite smooth. Leaves ovate, occasionally two- or three-lobed, rounded or 



