ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 

BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 

No. 2.] FEBRUARY. [1887. 

III.—CAPE BOXWOOD. 
(Buxus Macowani.) 
The record of the discovery of a new species of Buxus in South 
Africa is a matter of some interest, not cred from a botanical point of 
view in ¢ nsequence of its being the first representative of the genus 
egal at in at Airica, but economically, because it is thought that 
wood may yet become an article of commerce in this country as a 
pions for tra Boxwood for wood en 
The history of the introduction of this cia to the notice of the 
London hardwood merchants has been given in the “Journal of the 
Society of Arts” for March 19th, 1886, p. 465. In April 1885 I 
eived a fete from Mr. W. M. E. Welby, of East London, Cape 
Colony, asking me to give him what information I seers on the subject 
Boxwood or i 
“ I have a considerable quantity of Cape Boxwood id other 
‘ growing on my farm that I am anxious to turn to some account, and 
“ if the wood in question is really valuable, possibly you could oblige 
“ me with the name of some respectable firm with whom I could 
“ communicate with a view to sending home samples.” 

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