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20 years in the establishment. Unfortunately the gorgeous flowers fall 
almost as soon as they expand. The showy Acidanthera equinoctialis 
ei was raised bed corms sent from Sierra Leone, in 1893, 
Captain Donovan. Lonicera Alberti is one of Dr. Albert Regel's 
numerous discoveries in Turkestan, and was rai t Kew from 
- young plant presented by his late father Dr. de Regel, “Director of the 
Imperial Gardens at St. Petersburg. It is one of the prettiest species 
America. The Kew plant was obtained from M. Li ida of Ghent, in 
1882. Cyrtopodium virescens is a Brazilian species, imported by 
Messrs, Sander, from whom the Kew plant was procured in 1893. 
Hooker's Icones Plantarum.— The second part of the current volume, 
plates 2426 to 2450, contains figures of several plants of unusual 
interest. Foremost among these is the Juan Fernandez sandalwood, San- 
talum d of which some ee are given in the Kew 
Bulletin, 1894, p. 110. JWoodrowia an alopyrum are new genera 
of grasses from India. Several of the novelties discovered by saw 
Li 
Lunt (the Kew collector who item seti Mr. Bent's expeditio 
M i iously described 
hirtum (Com site), the singular Zpom«a crinigera and the tre 
arp 
us of Aca nthaceæ from the neighbouring Somaliland. Cyclocheilon 
Sois Fonie (Kew tn iion 1895, p. 222) is an anomalous genus from 
the same country referred to the Scrophularinex, though further in- ` 
vestigation leads to ue conclusion that it would be better placed in the 
Acanthacee. 
Hand-list of Orchids.—This hand-list was issued in January. The 
following account is pieni in we Preface of the history and extent of 
the orchid collections at 
* ''he collection of Orchids cultivated at Kew is essentially different 
Orchidee in as cupri a way as possible. ‘Che scientific interest 
attaching to orchids is very great. But even as regards form they can 
only be studied from dried i s with great difficulty, and as 
regards their v aried and remarkable srüctürál arrangements and 
kin 
— they cannot be studied in the dried state at al. While the 
collection contains representatives of all the most beautiful and 
scl species, it is more especially rich in others which at first sight 
are not particularly attractive. Most of these, however, on careful 
examination wili be found to possess no small degree e of charm and 
interest. 
