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At Kew, M. livingstoniana has barely survived under a variety of 
treatment, none of which proved successful, for a number of years. It 
made a fair growth during the summer, but invariably died down during 
the winter months, finally failing to start again in the spring. 
Sir John Kirk has been good enough to give the following further 
information respecting the two plants: — 
Wavertree, Sevenoaks, 
Dear THISELTON-DYE J 
Musa li ien idina J first discovered (but not in flower or fruit) 
in the Shiré Highlands, where { found the seeds were strung and worn 
by the women 
It was not heard of again until a RR collector brought me plants 
from the Southern Usagara Hills ind Bagameyo, in what is now 
native bazaars in Zanzibar, where they were used by the Nyassa slave 
women. It was in getting me these plants that he also brought me ripe 
nein of the Ensete Banana (Musa Ensete), and with them what proved 
o be the M. ee which I knew nothing of until it grew up and 
fruited i in my gar 
As to the M. Vicar ui you see although we have the plant and 
know far more of it than we do of the other, we know it only in cultiva- 
tion in my garden in Zanzibar where, after I had once grown it, it came 
up abundantly from self sown seed, but whetherit is still there I eannotsay. 
However I will have a photograph taken off the negative of the plant 
as grown, which I still possess, and send it out to the lady who now has 
old garden, and I will ascertain if the plant is still in existence, 
which is doubtful seeing that it forms no rootstock but comes up always 
from seed, The onl hope is that the natives (freed slaves) used it as 
a medicine and were delighted when they recognised it, and so some of 
the slave population may “have kept it going. 
Yours, &e. 
(Signed) Joun KIRK. 
Monstrous we of Pinus Pinea.---The Kew Museum is indebted to 
H.R.H. bie Comte de Paris for a specimen of a monstrous develop- 
ment of a cone in this species, which so far as can be judged from 
previous published notices is in some respects, un 
h e which is apparently full dn and normal has 
produced id its apex a stout leafy shoot, which at first caus six inches 
long, after severance from the parent tree lengthened to more than 
a foot and produeed ees branches. The shoot is in fact i in no way 
the nourishment derived from the cone from which it spra 
The circumstances are fully described in the Sy ‘letter .— 
Palacio de Villamanrique, 
Provincia de Sevilla (Espana) 
Sm, April 2 
Iu in my possession what I consider as a very ‘curious 
botanical pated and I would gladly present it to the Kew 
e upper end of 
It isa ; frondiferous cone of the Pinus Pinea, out of th 
à t of the 
which has grown a young tree just as a pine-apple grows ou! 
