ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
APPENDIX II.—1899. 
NEW GARDEN PLANTS OF THE YEAR 1898. 
e number of garden plants annually described in botanical 
and horticultural er both English and foreign, is now 
so considerable that it has been thought desirable to m a 
complete list of Qiii in the Kew Bulletin each y The 
following list comprises all the new itkcilnetiods we er during 
1898. These s sís are indispensable to the maintenance 
ith 
a sosmily provided with horticultural ae, Such a 
buted from it in the Forth irem of hiene with other 
botanic gardens 
The present list includes not only plants brought into cultivation 
for the first time during 1898, but the most noteworthy of those 
which.have been re-introduced after being lost from cultivation. 
Other plants included in the list may have been in gardens for 
several years, but either were ad Catan or their names had 
` not been authenticated until rec 
In addition to species and odia varieties, all hybrids, 
Whether introduced or of garden origin, with botanical names, 
and described for the first time in 1898, are included. It has not 
been wo gap desirable, however, to give authorities E the 
names of garden hybrids in such genera as Cypripedium, &c. 
Mere garden varieties of such plants as Coleus, seed or 
Narcissus are omitted for obvious reasons. 
In every case the pent. is cited under its published name, 
although some of the names are doubtfully correct. Where, 
however, a correction has persil desirable, this is m 
The name of the e person in whose ess the plant was first 
noticed or described is given where kno 
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