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Peruvian Odontoglossum retusum was sent to Kew by E. H. 
Woodall, Esq., of Scarborough. Kniphofia enorm flowered at 
Kew in October, 1896. It has small, pale-yellow flowers arranged in 
a dense raceme. Habenaria rhodocheila has flowers with green 
sc and petals, while the deeply lobed labellum is usually 
orange-red. Tubers of this plant were sent to Kew by C. Ford, 
sq., Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens, Hongkong. 
E Magazine for January.—Camoensia Veri is a 
climbing leguminous plant from Western Africa, discovered i 
the Congo region by Christian Smith i in 1816. It was utiodadet 
= the bop the Page in 1873, when some seeds were receive 
J. Monte Its magnificent flowers are very fugaci 
Paphiapeditan Victoria- Mariæ is the name adopted for an droit 
m S a, originally described as a Cypripedium. The plant 
ured das dede to Kew by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans. 
vobranties dyerianus, native of Burma, was received at Kew 
from the Botanical Gardens, Singapore, and the ird 
Curator of the Botanical Gardens, me dge. ` Tt first attracted 
attention as a garden plant on account of its brilliantly coloured 
foliage. The flowers are pale Violet blue; borne in erect spikes. 
Lathyrus splendens, seeds of which were sent to Kew di Prof. 
. L. Greene, of the Catholic University, Washington, is one of 
the most vir etes of the genus to which it belong It is 
a native of California, and not quite hardy at Kew.  S/evekingie 
Boro a rare orchid from Ecuador, is in cultivation in 
the gardens of Sir Trevor Lawrence. The genus Halal’ to the 
Stanhopiew, not to the Oncidiew, as inadvertently stated. 
Flora Capensis.—The completion of the sixth volume of this 
work, Miles. the orders H«modoracee to Liliacew was 
announced in the Kew Bulletin for last year (pp. 226, 229). It 
" resol ivedi to continue with the seventh volume for the reasons 
explained in the following prefatory note by the Director, which 
was prefixed to Part I., issued in December last :— 
“ The elaboration of the Monocotyledonous orders, to which the 
seventh and concluding volume of the Flora Capensis is devo 
is a task of no smali difficulty. They can only, indeed, be dealt 
with MüliafiotoRIy by those who have made them an object of 
special study. But as it has been my d x fortune to secure the 
co-operation of botznists who are acknowledged authorities on 
these orders, it has been determined to ‘eerie with them at once. 
And it see inier especially desirable to lose no time in publishing 
the enumeration of the grasses, which must necessarily be of 
jets pactis interest in a country so largely pastoral as South 
Africa," 
