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although suffering from a LM mouth, devotedly sucked the wound, un- 
happily without inn In 1873, with the co-operation of Comm odore 
Goodenough, he obtained a specimen of the only kind of tree that 
inhabits the remote erii Island in the South Indian Ocean. The 
existence of trees on the island had been eats eighty years pre- 
lene s but not until Mr. Perry sent a specimen to Kew, was it known 
same (Ph Bia arborea) as that inhabiting the 5,000 miles- 
distant Tristan d'Aeunha group. Subsequently, when stationed in the 
Red Sea, M 
specimens of the Myrrh and Olibanum trees of Somaliland. e wa 
also the first to bring to Europe living plants of the plant yielding 
Socotrine aloes, which proving new to science w as named in his honour 
Aloe Perryi. He further succeeded in procuring a specimen of the 
Dragon's Blood tree of Socotra, which yields the drug called — 
me o 
Gulf, in Seind, and in Madagascar and Johanna Island. ‘These collec- 
tions were all transmitted to Kew, and though Nee large, they invariably 
contained some interesting plants. His last collection, received in 
1883, was more extensive, a ising nc of 250 species from 
Mandshuria, Formosa, and. the coast of China, These have been 
worked up in Forbes and Hemsley’s eet eA sinensis | 
'The great Temperate House, or Winter Garden, was commenced 
in 1860 from desigus by Decimus Burton. In 1861 the octagons (50 feet’ 
diameter) were finished, In 1862 the centre block (212 by 137 feet 
and 60 feet high) was completed. The JUNK design. ineluded two 
wings (each 112 by 62 feet). These, however, were never erected, 
though the raised terrace was prepared for them. 
he Treasury has now sanctioned the erection of the meieoma wing, 
and the proposed works are being already taken in hand. I 
to maintain in this a warm greenhouse temperature soas 6. — the 
adequate iron sae of many economie and large succulent plants of 
which the existing accommodation —— uM at Kew does not 
permit the datiatactony development. - 
Lecanopteris carnosa, Blume.—The genus Lecanopteris is allied. to 
Dicksonia and Deparia, and contains four or five species, all Ju of 
Malaisia. It was formerly included in Polypodium, and L. carnosa, 
/38 al was supposed by Sir William Hooker to be an abnormal "Yor m of 
P. lom wee ie soc aeg desert ; p. 365). Itis remarkable in the 
form ad i manner of gro of its rhizome, which forms an irregular 
putty-like mer dedu the branches of trees, to which it clings by 
means of short brown fibrous roots, The rhizome is glaucous Breen, 
fleshy, and scaleless, bebdhifai brown and leathery i in texture with age. 
Its interior is fall of wel cavities or r galleri ies, similar to the myrmeco- 
pbilous region. The leaves 
are pinnate, from six arde to à foot long, and they spring from raised 
i crm. or mammz, which oceur about an inch apart all over the rhizome, 
a good picture of this species, with à note on its peculiarities, by 
