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CCLXXXI.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. Witt1am Nicnonrs Winn, lately the label writer in the Royal 
Gardens, has been appointed, on the result of a competitive examination 
before the Civil Service Commissioners, an Assistant in the Royal 
Gardens from the 1st October last. 
An account of an S dy as Orr or Ben, obtained from Moringa 
p terygosperma, the co n horse-radish tree of the tropics, was given 
n the Kew Bulletin fd. dau 1887. Oil of Ben was also supposed 
i be yielded by Moringa aptera, a —— ve of Upper Egypt and Arabia. 
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experimental purposes to Jamaica, Dominica, Calcutta, and Ceylon. 
further supply of seed was obtained in 1886 from Mr. E. A. eer 
nspector-General of Egyptian Mese hs. The plants raised fro 
‘hans have now been incr y the addition of two plants prosuli 
to Kew by Mrs. Harris, of a Rn “Manor, Hants. ‘The young seed- 
lings of Moringa aptera form a tuberous root which is eaten by the 
Bedouins. It is said to be similar in taste to the common radish. The 
plant has a singular broom-like habit and the very small entire leaves are 
caducous. 
STAPELIA GiGANTEA.—This, the ap flowered of all known stapelias, 
is now represented at Kew by a specimen bearing six flowers and buds. 
It is a native of Zululand, Where it was discovered by Mr. Plant 30 
Although in cultivation so long there is no record of the plant flowering 
until October 1888, when a specimen in the rich collection formed b 
the late Sir George Macleay at rn Court flowered sari was ae 
^g the Botanical Magazine, t. 7,068. The flowers vary i om 
8 inches in diameter to 14 inches in P ger r; they are cicir pale 
yellow mottled with pee brown, and are cov vered with fine whitish 
hairs. 
DiscurpiA RAFFLESIANA.-—After many unsuccessful attempts to in- 
troduce living examples of this interesting plant Kew has at last 
succeeded, thanks mainly to the generosity of Dr. Trenb, the distin- 
itin 
a Wardian case ss ears ago. This plant is now established ya 
growing freely, producing numerous large pitcher-like leaves as well a 
small normal esi A foliage. The morpho ponies, meaning of 
ed pitchers has not yet been thoroughly worked out. “The species 
* of Dischidia all wand a careful study. They meee be described 
moy o 
- British India’), The Gast at Kew is now + aloe the special observation 
. M = or as Hon. Keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory. D. bengalensis 
arden plant. It is cultivated at Kew in the Palm House. 
for the present kept in one of the i 
