ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 

BULLETIN 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 

APPENDIX 11.—1892. 

NEW GARDEN PLANTS OF THE YEAR 1891. 
The number of garden plants annually described in botanical and 
horticultural publications, both English and foreign, is now so consider- 
able that it has been thought desirable to publish a complete list of them 
i lletin ear. The followi i i 
in the Ki ach y ing list comprises all the 
new introductions reeorded duri Li ese lists are indis le 
to the maintenance of a correct. nomenclature, especially in the smaller 
tanical establishments in corresponden ew, whieh are, as a 
rule, mms scantily provided with horticultural periodicals. Such a list 
will also afford information respecting new plants under cultivation at 
this establishment, many of which will be "bapa from it in the 
regular course of exchange with other botanic 
he e present list includes not only plants Sought ito cultivation for 
the first time during 1891, but the most noteworthy of those which have 
n re-introduced after being lost from cultivation. Other plants 
included ir the list have been in gardens for several years, but either 
were not described or their names had not been authenticated until 
cen 
In addition to species and botanical varieties, iy hybrids, whether 
introduced or of garden origin, but described for the first time in 1891, 
: are included. ere garden varieties of such rda as Coleus, Codiæum, 
or Narcissus are omitted for obvious reasons 
In every case the plant is cited under its published name, although 
some of the names are doubtfully correct. Where, however, a correction 
has appeared desirable this is made. 
The name of the person in whose collection the plant was first noticed 
or described is given where kno 
An asterisk i 2 a to all those plants of which examples are in 
cultivation at 
The pablications from which this list is compiled, with the abbre- 
viations used to indicate them, are as follows: — B. M.— Botanical 
Magazine. B. T. O.—Bullettino della R. Società Toscana di Orticultura. 
Bull Cat.—Bull Catalogue of New, Beautiful, and Rare Plants. 
Gard.—The Garden. G. C.—Gardeners' Chronicle. G. and F.— 
Garden and Forest. G/.—Gartenflora. G. M.—Gardeners Magazine, 
Jil. H.—L'Ilustration Horiicole. Jard—Le Jardin, J. of 
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