THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE lv 
Aucuba japonica in fruit (pl. 5512) is the first subject 
that specially attracts our attention in the ninety-first 
volume. The female plant is figured on pl. 1197 (1809), 
and had already then been in Europe about twenty-five 
years; but, as the male plant was wanting until Fortune 
introduced it a little before 1865, the berries with which 
we are familiar were unknown to our forefathers. Hepatica 
angulosa (pl. 5518) was a pretty addition to spring-flower- 
ing plants. Fourcroya longeva, represented on the next 
plate, is one of the most remarkable in the rich and varied 
flora of Mexico. It was figured from a plant 15 ft, high, 
that flowered under Mr. W. Robinson’s care in the Botanic 
Garden, Regent's Park; but Karwinski, the original dis- 
coverer of this species, has put it on record that it forms 
a stem 50 ft. high, and the fully-developed inflorescence 
another 40 ft., and that its habitat is at an altitude of 
10,000 ft. in the State of Oaxaca. All these figures | am 
inclined to regard as exaggerated. Dianella tasmanica 
(pl. 5551) is very handsome when laden with its indigo- 
blue berries; and Sparaxis pulcherrima (pl. 5555) is cer- 
tainly one of the most beautiful and graceful of Cape 
bulbous plants. Tacsonia Van Volxemi (pl. 5571), which 
is a synonym of T. antioquensis, created a sensation on its 
first appearance. Microcachrys tetragona (pl. 5576), a 
native of the higher mountains of Tasmania, is remarkable 
among Cypresses for the scales of the female cones being 
bright red and fleshy. Singular among many singular 
South African plants is Ceropegia sororia (pl. 5578), with 
hinged petals which are moved by the faintest breeze. 
Fremontia californica (pl. 5591), Sanchezia nobilis (pl. 5594), 
and Glyptostrobus pendulus (pi. 5605), are other notable 
plants in the ninety-second volume. The next opens with 
the truly gorgeous Cattleya Dowiana, named after Captain 
Dow, of the American Packet Service, who was always 
ready to assist botanical travellers in Central America. 
Grias cauliflora (pl. 5622) is one of the characteristic 
Tropical American Lecythidacex, bearing sessile flowers on 
the stem, which is unbranched and crowned with a tuft of 
ample leaves. ; 
Clavija fulgens (pl. 5626) is another Tropical American 
tree with the same habit of growth, but having small 
orange-red flowers in dense racemes proceeding from the 
axils of the leaves. Cordyline australis (pl. 5636) is a 
characteristic Australasian type; and the next plate repre- 
sents the singular Tinnea zthiopica, which commemorates 
the unfortunate African traveller, Miss Tinné. Delechampia 
