ROYAL GARDENS, KEW.' 
BULLETIN 
MISCELLANEOUS. INFORMATION, 
APPENDIX II.—1898. 
NEW GARDEN PLANTS OF THE YEAR 1897. 
The number of garden plants annually described in botanical 
and horticultural publications, both English and foreign, is now 
80 eonsiderable that it has re thought desirable to nob a 
complete list of them in the Kew Bulletin each year. The 
following list comprises all ihe new introductions recorded during 
1897. These lists are indispensable to the maintenance of a 
correct nomenclature, especially in the smaller hotairive! esta- 
blishments in correspondence with Kew, which are, as a rule, 
cultivation at this establishment, many of which will be distri- 
buted from in the hr course of exchange with other 
botanic garden 
The 4 mee ite includes not only plants brought into cultivation 
for the first time during 1897, but the most noteworthy of those 
which have been re-introduced after being lost from cultivation. 
Other plants included in the list may have been in gardens for 
Several years, but either were coh described or their names had 
not been authenticated until recently. 
addition to species sad botas varieties, all hybrids, 
wheta introduced or of garden origin, with botanical names, 
and described for the first time in 1897, are included. It has not 
been thought desirable, however, to give authorities after the 
names of garden hybrids in such genera as Cypripedium, &e. 
Mere garden varieties of such plants as Coleus, Codicum or 
in ‘cissus are omitted for obvious rea 
every case the plant is cited indies its ears TUUM 
TA some of the names are doubtfully correct. Where 
however, a correction has appeared desirable, this is made. 
The name of the person in whose collection the plant was first 
noticed or described is given where known 
asterisk is rtm to all those gluta of which examples 
are in cultivation at Kew 
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