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EP. cutem names current in gardens have been included which have not 
as yet ived a final botanical o these are indicated by the 
ibbterialion * Hort." appended to 
„Kater Supply — During the past year an important addition to the : 
ping mac has been made by the erection of a triple expansion. 
igh duty engine as an auxiliary to the compound beam engine which 
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home and abroad. It has two high-pressure, two intermediate, and two 
low-pressure cylinders, arranged in line, and driving the pumps direct by 
prolongations of the piston rods, the dimensions of the cylinders being 
ins., ins, and 19 ins. respecti ively. Ali cylinders are steam 
jacketed. 
The special features of this class of engine are the very small amount 
of fuel expended per indicated horse-power, and the smoothness and 
efficiency in working. The discharge frem the pumps being practically 
continuous there are no shocks upon the mains and they are conse- 
quently free from the fluctuations of pressure which attend the wor ing 
of engines of the old type. e new engine has been designed and 
manufactured by Messrs. James Simpson & Co. . of Grosvenor Road, 
Pimlico, and ihe general finish of the work is of the highest class, 
The British Honduras Pine.—There has long been an impression in 
‘the colony of British Honduras e: there are - species of pine on the 
find any botanical characters to s separate what were pointed out to 
him as the yellow and white kinds; and the specimens sent by him to 
Kew were identified as Pinus cubensis, Griseb, The present Governor, 
Sir Alfred Moloney, has sent further material which confirms the 
original identification. Grisebach (Catalogus i ias Cubensium 
p 217) piepie two varieties, which may pro godes distinet 
Wright, the collector, seems to bave tho aght. The 
possi raro geminis ; the other- foliis. geminis, raro ramen associated 
with differences in the cones. The latter is named var. ? terthrocarpa, 
Wright. The Honduras Pine is the same as the d and therefore 
the original P. cubensis, Griseb. It is true that the leaves sometimes 
vary in number, as indicated above, in both varieties, and on the same 
branch ; but thereis not sufficient material at Kew to settle the question 
and define the species. "The two other known West Indian species, P. 
occidentalis and P. bahamensis are easily distinguished; the former 
having the leaves in fives, and the latter very long leaves; but the 
