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MR. MURDO MCNEILL, a member of the gardening staff of the 
Royal Botanie Gardens, has been appointed on the recommenda- 
tion of Kew, by the Secretary of eere for the Colonies, 
Agricultural Instructor i in St. Vincen 
MR. ALBERT JOHN JORDAN, a member of the gardening staff of 
the Royal Botanie Gardens, has been appointed on the recom- 
mendation of Kew, by the ar of State for the Colonies, 
Agricultural Instructor i in Montser 
Botanical Mask for June.—Begonia venosa is a distinct new 
Species discovered by Professor Lofgren, head of the Botanical 
Department of the State of Sao Paolo, in an island off the coast of 
North Brazil Seeds were sent to Mr. Th homas Christy, F.L.S., 
from whom Kew patient ear received the specimen figured, 
and a plant which is now hei in the Begonia house. The 
h in several respects resembles B. incana, is well 
characterised by its large near stipules. Morea vc Mec 
ecies from Cape Colony, whence corms were sent to 
Kew by Mr. J. Matthews, of Cape Town. In habit it Kishuiblos 
M. Baurii and M. lurida, having slender stems terminated by a 
single cluster of flowers. Kleinia pendula, native of Arabia, 
Abyssinia and Somaliland, is a singular plant with cylindric, 
fleshy branches and stout peduncles, each bearing a single head o 
bright vermilion coloured flowers. The specimen drawn was 
t by Mr. R. T. Lynch, ALS, Curator of the vr 
Botanie Garden. In the collection of living plants at Ke 
good specimens, which were received from Mrs. Lort Phillips Ad 
the late Mr. J. Theodore Bent. Chr VETE mum nipponicum is a 
compact, vigorous-growing undershrub, s flower-heads much 
like those of C. Leucanthemum. The Key v plant was procured 
from Messrs. Damman and Co., of Naples. /ris Delavayı, from 
Yunnan, is closely allied to J. sibirica. It was obtained at Kew 
from seeds communicated by M. Micheli, of the Cháteau du Crest, 
near Geneva, who described the species. 
Botanical Magazine for July.—The drawing of the handsome 
Yucca Whipplei, a native of the Rocky Mountains of California, 
omas 
spher ocephala, from Central er is an interestin my) 
cophilous plant. It is remarkable for its extrafloral nectaries, and 
for bearing, on the tips of the leaflets, small yellow bodies which 
are consumed by the ants, the latter inhabiting the large, horn-like 
stipules. Masdevallia ees though a somewhat insignificant 
plant, is noteworthy on accou t of its being the only known 
ies ing a sensitive lip. This springs u upwards when 
touched by an insect, which is entrapped fora time between the 
lip and the column. The flowers are yellow streaked with 
