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Perhaps his greatest per vice was the share he took in promoting 
the Flora Capensis of Harvey and Sonder. This is dor E 
by Professor Harvey in us nf to the third volum 
“Nor can the authors close this preface without a tribui of 
gratitude to Rawson W. Rawson, Esq., late Colonial Secretary and 
now Governor of the Bahamas. To the active interest which 
from the first Mr. Rawson took in their undertaking, and to his 
powerful advocacy in the Colonial Parliament, are greatly due the 
very existence of the Flora. Nor was his assistance limited to the 
greater acts of patronage which became his station, but ex e 
cs the smallest details, ens as the forwarding of parcels, &c. : 
every detail and on every occasion he was estere kind Mec 
considerate." 
Sir Rawson Rawson is commemorated in systematic botany by 
Rawsonia, a genus of Bixacee. 
Botanical Magazine for October. ae hildebrandiana is — 
a magnificent species from the Shan Hills and Munnepore, having 
been discovered in the latter locality by De George Watt in 1882. 
It has also been met with in Dr. A. Henry’s recent collections 
from Yunnan. It am flowered in the British Islands in the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, but the drawing was made 
fea a plant which De ed at Kew and which was raised from 
E sent 4 A. H. Hildebrand, Es 5q., C.I.E., in 1894. Kalanchoe 
are bright yellow, arrange a dense erect Han panicle. 
zn interesting Stylidium be BU was lag from seeds 
to Kew m South-western Australia by Quartermaster- 
Servain B. T. Goadby, of the West Au M. Engineers It is 
distinguished by long radical leaves and an inflorescence, some- 
times 2 ft. long, of rose-coloured flowers. Berlandiera tomentosa, 
a pretty Composite from the Southern United States, was also 
raised from seeds, these having been received from the Rev. L. H. 
wu of Jacksonville, Florid da. Its flower-heads are 14 to 
ins. in diameter; the ray florets broad, and deep yellow. 
Rhododendron dilatatum, a Japanese species, is very closely 
allied to R. rhombicum. The Kew plant was procured from the d 
Yokohama Gardeners’ Association. 
Botanical Magazine for November.—Cyphomandra betacea 
commonly called the Tree Tomato, is a native of New Grenada — — 
and Peru, while as a cultivated plant valued for its edible fruit it — 
is met with in various tropical and sub-tropical countries. P. 
been included in the Kew collection probably from the ker of its 
introduction into England in 1808, and a fine specim in the 
Temperate House now produces an abundant crop ‘of Ee 
—— fruits, Carludovica laucheana, also a native Ob 
