122 
Sir Augustus Franks kindly sent me some of the leaves, accompanied 
wih the following memorandum :— 
“Leaves from the tsandan karpo (‘white sandal-wood tree’) of 
Kümbüm, said to have sprung up on the spot where Toongkape’s mother 
threw his hair when, having shaved his head, she consecrated him to 
the house 
“ Used when ground as medicine—also carried in charm boxes. 
“ Collected by W. W. Rockhill at Kümbüm in 1891." 
They were carefully examined by Mr. W. B. Hemsley, vi R.S., 
Principal Assistant in the Kew Herbarium, who has long been e gaged 
on a critical study of the Chinese Flora. e arrived at the econ kasi 
that they belonged to Syringa oe a Chinese species. He published 
his determination in Journ. Linn. Soc., (vol. xxx., p. 133), and I am 
disposed to regard it as correct. It confirms the statement of Kreitner 
(Nature, xxvii. p. 
Rockhill’s identification with Philadelphus is a mistake easy of 
explanation. He has confused the popular and the scientific use of 
the name Syringa. Lilac is botanically Syringa ; Syringa is botanically 
Philadelphus 
Jt will be seen from the accounts given above that the phenomenon 
is not consistent with itself at different times. This confirms the opinion 
of M. Blanc that it is an e'aborate frau 
W. T. TursELTON-DYER. 
P.S.— I have omitted to add that Blane says (l.c. p. 323) :—* L'arbre 
rait appartenir à la famille des Phytalaooasées” ou à une famille 
analogue."—W. T. T. D. 
DXX.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
The Botanical Magazine for March.— The drawings of all the subjects 
figured were made from plants that flowered at Kew. Jncarvillea 
Pelavayi is a handsome new species from Western China, discovered by 
the Abbé Delavay. Kew is indebted to Mr. Max Leichtlin of Baden 
Baden for a plant of it. Comanthosphace UE parent is a singular labiate 
from c1 Asia. It was raised at Kew eed presen 
Prof. C. S. Sargent, Director of the Ar Ma "Aat Harvard. 
native of the Orange Free State, and a species of little ornamental value, 
was sent to Kew by the Rev. F. O. Miles, of Almonbury, Bristol. 
Utricularia janthina is a very fine Brazilian species, imported by Messrs. 
Sander and Co. Like some other Lx it grows epiphytically, in th 
axils of the leaves of a species of Vriesia 
Botanical — e for April—The plants figured nh Posoqueria 
iid se AEN ypocyrta pulchra, Olyra concinna, Catasetum Randi, 
d Phaleria ambigua ; a'l from plants cultivated at Kew 
D. a imei macropus, a native of Brazil, is remarkable fer its long, 
"tubular, fragrant flowers. Hypocyrta pulch ra was d Eo. 
„Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, who had imported it from New da 
‘It is the most brilliant-coloured species of the genus. Olyra andina 
