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PALMS IN FLOWER AT Kxw.—Although palms have always been in 
favour with cultivators, and this popularity has largely increased in 
w eos. 1882, p. 10.) The houses at Kew afford exceptional 
facilities for the growth of most palms to a large size, and as these 
flower they are carefully examined, and, if of sufficient interest, a figure 
of them is prepared for publication in the Botanical Magazine. Since 
1875 no less than 19 species of palms have been figured and described 
Cunninghamii, Caryota Cummingii, C. furfuracea, Chamedorea 
polita, C. pulchella, C. wobbstiana, C. Wendlandit, C. scandens, 
Ch ops humilis, Didymosperma nanum, Howea forsteriana, 
Livistona chinensis, Pinanga Kuhlii, P. patula, P. Smithii, Sabal 
blackburniana, Stevensonia grandifolia, ORTE fibrosus, 
Trachycarpus excelsus, Wallichia densiflora 
From Dr. A. Glaziou, the Director of the Passeio Publico, Rio 
Janeiro, Kew has received a further consignment of dried plants of the 
almost inexhaustible FLoRA or Br AZIL, consisting of the pos cem a 835 
to 20,187. Dr. Glaziou has been working at the flora of Bra nw 
i to 
New Qvuerenstanp Prants —Mr. F. M. Bailey, rad etic at 
Brisbane, has sent to pda another parcel of specimens of his new speci 
ni isa ir gon advan sess authenticated specimens of these dis 
, both for he AGlópisté and for botanisis in Europe, bec 
porté questions may be imme awerni by their fispetion 
without reference to Australia. 
1AM Propucts.—Members of Her Majesty's Foreign Embassies and 
Her Majesty’s Consular Service have often special opportunities of be- 
E acquainted with little- known plants ; and plaut products. Many 
office ging to 
Kew ani the results hae often proved of great importauce. For instance, 
a very interesting report on the manufacture of paper from the bark of 
Streblus asper in Siam by Mr. . Beckett, Student Interpreter 
of Her vag pne Legation at Bangkok, wus printed in the Kew Bulletin, 
1888, pp. 81-84. Since then Mr. Beckett has made an exploring trip 
into the Mékong Valley and brought een numerous specimens whi ch 
at the epee of the Marquis of Salisbury have been worked out at 
Kis. Amongst Mr. Beckett's specimens were dye-woods, native cfe 
materials, gum and gum resins, woods, safflower, and fibre plants, 
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