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branches of the establishment. "Under Dr. Scott’s ihid admission 
will be granted, as in the ease of the Herbarium, to persons qualitied 
to eonduct original researches independently on material provided 
by the living collections. It will be no part of the eens duty e 
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laboratory will be, ho owever, always at the disposal of those who by 
previous training are capable of employing them to useful purpose. 
The collection of Harpy Hersacrous Prants at Kew, an exception» 
y rich one, is accommodated mainly in the for s in the 
kind is represented y a large bold mass, A few ornamental flowering 
shrubs such as Roses, Spirzas, Genistas, and em: a few evergreens for 
winter effect are mixed with the herbaceous plants. 
ARISTOLOCHIA GIGAS var. STURTEVANTII. Thi is pla ant has bloomed 
New Jersey, who procured it from Guatemala in 1888. Its flowers are 
about 18 inches wide, 22 inches long, with a tail 42 inches long, their 
colour being creamy Leid and deep maroon a e adoption of 
Lindley's name A. Gigas for the type was explained by Mr. W. B. 
Hemsley, F. R.S., in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1891, p. 552, where a 
figure of the variety is also given, and Garden and Forest, 1891, iv., 
p. 546. 
_ STEVENSONIA GRANDIFOLIA. À large imen, Mn) the Re 
in Europe of this rare Palm, and which * tae ong bee Fee à. Datin in the 
alm House at Kew, is now flowering for the first time. It ie a | nativo 
of the Seychelles, sheen it was discovered by Duncan, who sent three 
soon afterwards 
pe o mp of i t to Kew in 1855, one of which was 
