Janvary 12, 1895. 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
45 
THE ‘‘ BOTANICAL MAGAZINE.” —The January 
number opens with a fine plate of— 
TIulauma Hodgsoni, t. 7392.—One of the noblest 
flowering forest trees of the Himalaya, closely allied 
to the Magnolias. It was discovered by Sir JOSEPH 
Hooxer in 1848, forming forests in the at of 
Sikkim at an elevation of 2 6000 Sir 
flower-segments are 
purplish- violet 1 creamy-white within. 
t. 7395.— This is a bi-pinnately-leaved Acacia, with 
flowers in * — spikes, found wild in Central 
America and It is specially remarkable for 
its very large bene. like stipules. The history of the 
plant, which is complicated, is given by Sir Josxrn, 
who rightly says: —“ Far more interesting to the 
general reader than the synonymy of these horned 
Acacias is the fact that they play a — part 
in the economy of Nature by housing and feeding a 
tribe or tribes of ants, which find their habitation 
in the stipular thorns, and their food in the fleshy 
appendages on the tips of the leaves—a e 
Wet season ; 
many of the thorns e 8 
2 only few g season 
oot, 
the ants multiply again with Np rapidity,” 
Cyrtopodium virescens, Rehb. f., and Warming, 
t. 7396.—A South Brazilian cscs with flowers in 
racemes, each flower about an inch in diameter, pale 
primrose blotched with red. Ke 
MR. ER, the Director of the Royal Gardens, 
Kew, has — elected an honorary member of the 
Fie, 7,—RUELLIA MACRANTHA : COLOUR OF THE FLOWERS ROSY PURPLE, WITH VEINS 
Acidanthera cquinoctialis, Baker, t. 7393, is an 
Irid from er Leone. Botanic u Șt t is inter- 
iate between Iris and Gladiolus. The leaves 
in loose 
raceme i a tube and a six- 
parted limb, 2 inches e The segments 
ovate oblong acuminate, white with a cent 
purple streak the a ms 
blotch o 
produced flower in November in a warm greenho 
at Kew. 
dcera Alberti, Rege 
Honeysuckle, with linear 
the base, and clusters of pink, salver-shaped flowers. 
It is a native of Eastern eee where it was 
discovered by Dr. ALBERT 
Acaga spadicigera, reaS and Schlechtendal, 
„ t. 7394, is a shrubby 
leaves, finel hed 
— they pez = interest, by waging a suc- 
fal war against the armies of 8 ants 
wae would 5 soon extirpate the Acacias,” 
An extract from Batr’s Naturalist in Nica 
i 218 (1874), gives fuller details concerning this 
markable state of affairs; of this we can only cite 
the last paragraph: —“ These 
happiest of existences, Protected by their stings, 
re pro- 
ic await them every 
day. But there is a reverse to the picture. In the 
dry season on the plains i ow, 
honey. Then want and hunger over- 
take the anta that have reveled in luxury all the 
OF DARK PURPLE, 
(SEE P. 44.) 
New Zealand Institute, in recognition of services 
rendered to botanists in the British Colonies. 
ILLNESS OF MR. W. H. 
