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“The interesting plant recently figured and described is, I 
regret to say, not represented at Kew. It is true, 2 you mention, 
that I brought seed from St. Helena in 1883, but none of it 
germinated. The same récit attended the seed taken to Jamaica, 
and also some sent to Ceylon and Southern India. It is very 
probable, as suggeste ted by Professor Oliver, that some of these 
‘Cabbage trees’ are sub-dio oecious, and if this is true as regards 
the plant under notice there is little hope of perpetuating it by 
island, and also by an experiment which the late Governor Janisch 
carried out on the spot. The ground near and under the tree was 
enelosed by hurdles, and the soil broken upand carefully prepared 
in the hope that some few well ripened seeds would fall upon it 
and germinate. Nota single plant was thus raised. I ha ve only 
to add to your excellent description of this plant, that the flowers, 
which are plentifully produced in May or J une, are small (3 inc 
diameter) and white, with a yellow centre." 
The news of the death of the tree was announced in a letter 
from His Excellency the Governor, dated Feran 29th, 1897 :— 
“ You will be sorry to hear that the old Psiadia rotundifolia 
at Longwood, the last of its race, was blown down in some recent 
plan I 
grafting on gum wood stocks, and seeds, but all in vain. Would 
you like a specimen of the wood? though I think you have a 
piece at Kew. It is plain white without veins, and extremely 
hea 
The specimen of the wood kindly offered by Mr. Sterndale was 
received at Kew a few days ago, and this relie of the last living 
specimen of Psiadia pohuidsfilia is deposited in the Timber 
Museum (No. 3). 
Sararanga sinuosa.—The Rev B..Comins has sent another 
small collection of dried plants, Rid from the So on n eonia 
and joniocing.a a hort branch and mature female inflor ce of 
this singul mber of the Pandanacem. (See Kay Balletin, 
Bos pp. 159-161 and 273.) phere is also a. oes inflorescence, 
reviously unknown; but it is a very advance 
hien and almost destroyed; unfortunately, is insects. Still it is 
sufficient to give an idea of i appearance, and some perfect 
flowers have been Heer ‘amongst the remains Which will enable 
the diagnosis of the genus to be completed. Mr. Comins also 
claims to have dra that the leaves are quadrifariously 
arranged—not spirally, as in Pandanus ; and the branch he sends 
ms his statement, Further figures will be given in Hooker’s 
Icones PARIS 
Aluvilla—Rhus juglandifolia, Willd., as limited in the latest 
monographs, is usually a tree of moderate size, native of Western 
America, ranging from Mexico to Peru, and inhabiting moun- 
tainous districts up to at least 3,500 feet deve: tho level of the 
