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stolen. Probably the specimen now flowering is one of the other two, 
although i in J. Smith’s Kew Records it is stated that “four months after 
“ my retirement, in May 1864, I learned that these two rare p were 
* dead.” The genus is monotypic and endemic in the Seychelles, where 
tem. v 
bifid, laciniated, 7 feet long and 5 feet wide, green, spotted with rusty 
red. The inflorescence is an erect branched panicle 3 feet long, clothed 
with yellow flowers. A figure of the LN has been prepared for 
publication in the Botanical Magazine 
BROMELIA FASTUOSA, Lindl. This species was described and well 
figured by Lindley in his Collectanea in 1821 from a plant flowered by 
Aylmer B. Lambert, Esq., at Boyton, Wilts. The same species was 
named B. antiacantha by Bertoloni, B. Sceptrum by Fenzl, and 
B. commeliana by De Vriese. It is now widely spread in cultivation, 
and may be recognised by its bright-red, sword-shaped inner leaves, lax 
nder - - 
(see Baker's Handbook of Br on page 140). This latter proves 
to be a form of this same specie 
The fine collection of AvsrRALIAN TIMBERS in Museum No. 3 has 
rat eng been enriched by the receipt from the Technological Museum, 
ydney, of a series of twenty-one specimens. These have all been 
authentically named in Australia from botanical specimens gathered 
from the actual sn a The care thus exercised in obtaining 
their correct names ma them extremely valuable. It is too well 
known that tes sibit miee Ve erat at International Eat 
have often been m correctly nanied, the sec ions being oft 
am or othe 
wise velle collections of woods hive "pentane uite worthless. It is 
with the view of making the Kew Collection absolutely trustworthy in 
regard to scientific nomenclature that Mr. J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., of 
the Sydney Technological Museum, has kindly undertaken to send from 
time to time samples of the woods of that colony whose identification 
can be relied upon. ‘These will take the place of other specimens in 
the Timber Museum whose determination from one cause or other is 
open to doubt 
Amongst e numerous OIL SEEDs that are constantly being received 
at Kew, for the purpose of naming, from Liverpool brokers and 
crushers were some that made their first appearance at Liverpool from 
the West Coast of Africa in February 1891. They appear to have 
