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Gardens. The following a, which has been obligingly 
furnished clears up the m 
Rev. S. GoLDNEY TO ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
DEAR SI IR, Kew, September 5, 1898 
There appears to be some mystery as to the origin of the 
pano Descanso Lodge. If a following information is of any 
use to you it is at your serv 
n E year 1889 the ene was tenanted ee Mr. Willison. 
Mr. Willison was a South American merchant, who had lived 
many years in Brazil. He found that it had no Tanav name, 
so he gave it the title of Descanso Lodge. 
Poriuguese dictionary oe me that Descanso, or rather 
Descanco, means “a resting plac 
I remain, &c., 
(Signed) S. GOLDNEY. 
Enquiry at Her Majesty’s Office of Works confirmed the 
explanation. 
“Mr. G. Willison rented Me rum from an dise till 
ord May, 1892. The name nso Hous e appears tina 
letter from him of 8th July, 18897 B. 4107/89." 
Cantor Lectures on India-rubber Plants.—The lectures delivered 
at the on of Arts in Pe last, by D. Morris, Esq., C.M.G., 
D.Sc. missioner of Agriculture for the West Indies, late 
Assisant-Direcior of the Royal Gardens, have teen issued in 
separate form as a pamphlet. They give a complete account with 
numerous figures of the known plants yielding commercial India- 
rubber, with special reference to the rubber industries connected 
with Her Majesty's Colonial and Indian possessions. 
Botanical Magazine for October.—Cyrtosperma senegalense is 
an interesting Aroid from Upper p The spathe is a 
foot to eighteen inches long, dull and red on the outside, 
and pale yellow-green with broad interrupted bands of maroon- 
wn on ond inside. Roots were sent to Kew in July, 1897, by 
Mr. H. W. L. Billington, the late Centar of the Old Calabar 
Botanic Garden. Cytisus purgans, native of Central and Southern 
banat and Northern Spain, is an ornamental species, which, 
cordi o Miller, was introduced into Regehr Veit 1768. 
Fito ce canadensis var. Oh irna the swamp sugar pear, 
was raised fron T received from Mr. H. P. Kelsey, Fighibiids 
Nursery, Kawana, N. Carolina, It dites from typical canadensis 
in its smaller size and usually shrubby habit, and slightly i in its 
mde racemes, and fruits. Feijoa sellowiana is a distinct 
member of the myrtaceous family, beautiful in foliage and flower, 
and producing a large edible fruit. Specimens of this plant, 
which is a native of South Brazil and Uruguay, were sent to Kew 
by Mr. Ed. André. Rhododendron rubiginosum is another of the 
