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hour’s walk from Paramaribo. It is almost overgrown again 
with forest, and it lies so low that it gets mea during the rains. 
am at present occupied in clearing and draining, making roads 
of the felled trees, s opening ditches to carry off the water. 
Along the roads I am planting Cassia florida, Peltophorum 
arboreum, Albizzia PU wn and Eucalyptus alba." 
Botanical Magazine for February.—Gentiana Burseri is a robus 
allied to G. punctata. The specimen rd was sent to Kew 
by the Rev. Canon C. J. Parker, of Mol ses Cheyney, Bristol. 
Eleagnus macrophylla, native of Japan and Formosa, is note- 
wort. y chie y on acc ount of its bright rose-red fruits, which 
mature in May The drawing was made from a specimen 
received from re Veitch’s ee Wood Nurseries. The 
pretty Burmese Dendrobium capillipes was sent to Kew more 
than a quarter of a century ago by the late Rev. C. Parish. 
Ceanothus integerrimus, from California, is an ornamental shrub 
with small white or pale-blue flowers crowded together in a large 
terminal panicle. "The species has been in cultivation at Kew for 
many years. Epilobium obcordatum, also from California, is a 
beautiful plant for the rock-garden. it grows about 8 inches high 
and bears rather large, bright rose-coloured flowers, in the axils 
of the upper leaves. A living plant was sent to Kew by H. Selfe 
Leonard, Esq., of Hitherbury, Guildford, in 1894. 
Botanical Magazine for March.— Dryandra calophylla is a dwarf 
shrubby plant, resembling some of the species of Banksia, to 
which genus andra is closely related. All the species of 
Dryandra are endemic to Western Australia, the one figured 
being from King George's Sound, whence seeds were obtained by 
Messrs. Veitch, of Chelsea, who communicated them to Kew 
in 1893. Passiflora pruinosa is a handsome new species from 
British — The m en Tarnished the specimen drawn 
was raised from seed reċeived from Everard $ im Thurn, Esq., 
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Cape Colony, whence it was intr trodu ced fito cultivation by 
Mr. Max Leichtlin, of Baden-Baden. The Kew plant was dtes 
from the Cambridge Botanic Garden in 1897, and flowered for 
first time in the Bóndends House in April, 1898. Gynapleura 
humilis is an interesting annual belonging to the Passiflorace 
Seeds were sent to Kew from the Botanic Gardens of Gilde. 1 in 
Chili, of which country the species is a native. Rosa acicularis, 
var. nippone wie id solitary flowers with long narrow calyx 
lobes, which e ually converge and surmount the mature fruit, 
and deep m el petals. The variety differs from the 
type in having glandular nn on the young branches and 
pamaus Seeds were received from the Botanic Garden, 
Sophie in Sri from which the plant figured was raised. 
