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but it must be long since it was in en at Kew. On vr 
Continent, and especially in the Mediterranean region, it ap 
to have held its own from Thouin's dine down to the dern 
day ; and specimens of the fruit brought by the Director from the 
garden of Commendatore Hanbury at La Mortola, near Mee e. 
Age the fact that the quince long cultivated at Kew under the 
me d ydonia sinensis is not the true plant, which is 
Tn sed by having darti age? leaves furnished with 
pari teeth and glandular hairs on the petioles, and a 
cylindric fruit, 5 > ‘ ee in length, Besides the original 
figure, cited abov re is one in Duhamel's Traité des 
Arbres et Ar Mite: vi. 3 n 75 (1808-1835) ; another in the Herbier 
Général de l' Amateur, ii., t. 99 (1817), and a third i = the sete 
aa hei (ues p. 228, In the last both flowers and fruit ar 
colou there stated that the climate of Paris is rarely 
Bein * bs the fruit to maturity ; it is not surprising, 
therefore, that it has disappeared from the neighbourhood of 
London. 
When compiling the Enumeration of Chinese Plants (Journal 
of the Linnean Society, xxiii., p. 256) in 1887, with very imperfect 
material before us, we took it for granted that the plant cultivated 
at Kew was a variety o of Cydonia sinensis, although, as there 
noted, it had much narrower, less hairy leaves than jm originally 
described and cultivated. Following Bentham 
Genera Plantarum, Cydonia was reduced o yrus, and 
C. sinensis was named Pi yrus ne Hemsl., because the 
names sinensis and chinensis had been applied to at least three or 
four species of Pyrus proper. On thé whole it seems better, in 
accordance with the views of many conte emporary botanists, to 
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restore Cydonia to generic rank, and the species under considera- 
tion is then correctly designated Cydonia sinensis, iwi (syn. 
rus sinensis, Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl., iv., p. 452, non 
Lindl. nec Auct. alior. Bike: ; and Pyrus ca cathayensis, Hone: loc. 
cit. pro parte). Thouin, ande his original description, cites the 
names Pyrus sinensis, Mus. Par. and P. Cydonia sinensis, 
Wiegers, as synonyms. 
The plant cultivated at Kew under the erroneous name of 
C. sinensis may be called C. cathayensis, Hemsl. Dr. A. Henry 
has sent den of the same species direct from China, and a 
figure and description of it will appear in Hooker’s Icones 
Plantarum, Re 2,657 and 2,658. 
W. B. H, 
Oxalis esculenta.—Under this name there appeared in JD». 
Neubert's wa te tede 1898, 196, a figure of the tubers of an 
Oxalis which was recommended for ‘cultivation in lands which 
had become no longer eer for potato-growing. A quantity 
was rebate: - grown in the open ground at Kew ; the species 
proved t old and well-known garden perg viz., O tetra- 
ras Deed (0. Deppei, Schlecht.), a native of Mex 
e tubers should be planted in spring, from 3 to 5 uaa 
pi kai nup in November and stored in dry sand in a cool 
