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Cormus magnus. Folia radicalia linearia, sc 2 poll. longa, 
9-12 lin. lata, glabra, chartacea, conspicue vata. | Caulis 
simplex, teres, bipedalis. Spatha cylindrica, "3-4 poll. longa, 
valvis rigidulis pallide viridibus, exteriore e interiore 
conspicue breviore. Ovarium clavatum, 6—9 lin. longum. | Peri- 
anthium saturate lilacinum, 21 poll.longum, 
obovatis 1 poll. latis e me dio reflexis, segmentis interioribus 
oblongo unguiculatis erectis 8-9 lin. la tis, Styli rami lilacini, 
12-14 lin. longi, cristis magnis deltoideis. y 
BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. North-west of Lake Nyasa, 
Whyte. ` 
The finest known species of the genus, with flowers resembling 
those of Tri ris lævigata, Fisch. (I. Kæmpferi, Siebold). 
697. Hæmanthus (Melicho) Nelsonii, Baker [Amaryllidaceæ] ; a 
speciebus reliquis subgeneris differt foliis magnis membranaceis, 
genitalibus longe exserti 
Bu oblongus, compressus, 2 poll. diam., tunicis crassis 
SPIN fabelis, Folia s synanthia, sessilia, oblong a, membranacea, 
alia, medio 4 poll. lata, facie pilis molbu conspersa, dorso 
at bra. Pedunculus pedalis, pilosus. Umbella multiflora, globosa, 
3 ae diam., pedicellis 5-6 lin. longis, bracteis parvis apg ipm 
reflexis. Perianthium coccineum, tubo cylindrico 3 lin. longo, 
segmentis linearibus tubo duplo tonciribus flore end me 
patentibus. Stamina longe exserta. 
TRANSVAAL, Johannesberg. A dried specimen and living 
bulbs sent to Kew, November, 1897, by Maa Leichtlin. 
DCXXX.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
By the death of Brigade-Surgeon J. E. T. AITCHISON, on 
September 30th, Kew has lost one of her most valuable co 
tributors and botany one of its most enthusiastic and einn 
followers. He was a son of the late Major James Aitchison, and 
was born at Nimach, Central India, in 1835. After graduating 
.D. and. L.R.C.P. at Edinburgh in 1856, he entered the service 
i n. 
and 
iini. British Commissioner to Ladak ; but he had already 
e known as a botanist, having publis hed an account of the 
Figs of the Jhelum District of the: Punjab, in 1863 ; a Catalogue 
of the Plants of the Punjab and Sindh, in 1869, and other 
o 
if a 
rue so seris selected and so well dried that de were 
valuable for that reason alone. From. the date mentioned 
