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corolla calyce triplo longiori lobis orbicularibus, staminibus e tubo longe 
exsertis, 
Lake Chidia, Rovuma, Zambesia, Kirk; Wakefield. 
Loliola 3 poll. longa. Pedicelli 2-3 poll. longi. Corolla 3 poll. longa, 
lobis 10-12 lin. diam 
64. esiacum, Baker; ramulis virgatis glabris, foliis 
minutis 3—5-foliolatis rachi alato, foliolis obovatis, floribus Es: -nis, 
pedicellis brevibus glabris, calyce campanulato gla abro lobis tubo 
brevioribus, corolla calyce 3-plo longiori, fruetu oblongo haud rostrato. 
. Valley of the Zambesi, near Tette, Kirk. 
Calyx 2 lin. longus. Corolla 6-8 lin. longa. Fructus 14-2 poll. 
longus, 4 lin. diam. 
CCCLIX.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Visitors during the year 1893.—The number of persons who visited 
the Royal Gardens during the year 1893 shows an increase of 379,229 
on the attendance for the preceding year, and is the largest as yet 
orded, except for 1890, when it deese 1,839,966. The total 
Siaha er of visitors for the e past year was 1,733 3,386, as compare 
with : p. 157 in 1892. The detailed numbers for 1893 are given 
below 
Month. | Numbers. | | Month. Numbers. 
peera | 
January - - 16,405 Rronght formata - | 939,766 
February - - - 33,899 July E 197,944 
March '- ` -| 185,21 - || August ^ - - ~-| 329,410 
April - =| 284,811 September - - 145,593 
May - - - ,586 October - - - 73,650 
June - 2 2 184,244 November - - 27,595 
ecember - - - 19,4 
Carried forward - | 939,766 ai iie e is 
| Total - - | 1,733,386 
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The total attendance on Sundays was 676,894; on week days 
1,056,492. The two totals used formerly almost to ba imi ; the present 
disparity i is in part accounted for by bank holidays. The eius monthly 
attendance (August) was 329,410; the smallest monthly attendance 
(January) was 16,405. The greatest Sunday attendance (on June 18) 
was 29,891; the smallest (on December 10) was 318. The greatest 
week day attendance (on May 22) was 100,737; the smallest (on 
January 17) was 110. 
The death of the veteran botanist, collector, and traveller, RICHARD 
UCE, took place on December 29th, at the age of 76. In a notice 
» jin the Times it is stated that he was sent to South 
America on behalf of the Royal Gardens at Kew in 1849. This 
is an error; yet he did so much for Kew that some account of his 
