State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of the Com- 
missioner of Agriculture for the West Indies, Resident Agri- 
eultural gore ci to be attached to the Botanic Station at 
pe 
Colonial id id Kew.—In the course of the debate in the 
House of Commons on August 2, the Secretary of State for the 
Colonies made the following pti to the services of Kew to 
the Colonies :— 
Let me express in passing, what I think is only due—my deep 
sense of obligation to the authorities at Kew for the assistance 
they have n me in regard to the West Indies and othe 
colonies. I believe my predecessors would heartily join me in 
this recognition of the services of Kew. Ido not think it is too 
much to say that at the present time there are several of our 
important colonies, which owe whatever prosperity they possess 
to the knowledge and experience of, and the arteria given by 
the authorities at Kew Gardens. Thousands of letters pass every 
year, between the authorities at Kew and the Dutenies and they 
are able to place at the service of those colonies, not only the best 
advice and experience, but seeds and samples of economie plants 
— of cultivation in the Colonies. (Cheers.) 
milar testimony to = value of this br anch of the work of 
the’ snablinbunetit was given by Mr. Chamberlain’s predecessor, 
the Marquess of Ripon (see on Bulletin, 1895, pp. 205-208). 
Botanical Magazine for August.—Cortaderia jubata, the subject 
of plate 7607, was originally described as Gynerium jubatum. 
This species and a few others, including the well known Pampas 
Grass, G. urgenteum, are found to be sufficiently distinct to be 
separated from Gynerium. The specimen — was furnished 
by 
. E. Gumbleton, Esq. ” in whose garden at Belgrove, County 
Co rk, it was grown. It is a native of the Ando of Ecuador, 
olivia, and Peru.  Tehihatchewia isatidea is a handsome 
ss 'rucifer from Armenia. Seeds were received at Kew from the 
rial Botanic Gardens, St. Petersburgh, in 1896. The 
beautiful Buddleia variabilis is a native of China, where it was 
1896, which flowered outside against a wall in Jnly, 1897. 
Ledum glandulosum, native of California «uc British Columbia, 
flowered in the Aboretum in May, 1897, the plant drawn having 
has been grown at Kew for many years; it has golden-yellow 
flowers borne in dense racemes. 
Flora of China.— It x basi ien bd be able to announce 
dat ts enumeration of ese plants (in the Journal of the 
Linnean Society) is near EERI in its original form ; but a 
