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an elegant Brass, native of Costa Rica, was received at Kew in 1891, in 
a box of filmy ferns, sent by Mr. C. ‘Winkler from 
7470 ninos a male plant, and one female flower of Catasetum 
Randii, which was described in the Bulletin, dew p.391. A living 
male plant was communicated to Kew by E. S. R and, Esq. of Para, 
from which, when it dlawered 1 in March 1895, the present drawing was 
made. 'The female flower was rec ceived from the same gentleman 
preserved in alcohol. Phaleria iw be a native of Java, is a climbing 
Botanical Magazine for May.— dii rowshia magnifica, a remarkably 
showy plant, allied to Campanu e drawing was made from an 
exceedingly vigorous specimen ~oleimrannicata by F. Ducane Godman, 
sq. F.R.S. “It is a native of Central Asia, where it 
elevation of 7000 me Pittosporum eriocarpum, a native of the 
Himalaya, is a handsome species, which may prove hardy in the south- 
me parts of the British Islands. The specimen figured was received 
Coffea stenophylla, aud Masdevallia corniculata, var. inflata were 
prepared from plants cultivated at Kew. Cochlioda noezliana, native 
ru, was discovered by Mr. John Noezli, who sent it to Messrs. 
Linden in 1891. The Kew plant was purchased. Coffea stenophylla 
is one of the two indigenous West African species which are becoming 
important commercially (Kew Bulletin, 1893, p. 167). It was raised 
from seeds sent from Kew in May 1894, by Sir W. H. Quayle Jones, 
late Chief Justice of the West African Settlements, and Acting 
Governor of Sierra Leone. The Masdevallia, a native of New 
Grenada, was received at Kew from the due colleetion at Glasnevin, 
under the superintendence of Mr. F. W. 
Hooker's Icones Plantarum.— The third part of the current volume, 
containing plates 2151 to 2475, illustrates a number of interesting 
plants from Borneo, China, Madagascar, Tibet, and other countries. 
Among the Bornean bum Creaghiella, an ortiamental new enus of 
Melastoniacex, and Baphia borneensis, are specially notewor 
latter is an outlying miembe of a remarkable genus of the uminosæ, 
otherwise only known from Tropical Africa and Madagascar laty- 
allied to Euphrasia. Plates 2467 to 2472 are devoted to novelties 
from Mr. Littledale’s Tibetan collection, made at an elevation of about 
16,500 feet. They include a new species of the rare and curious genus 
Oreosolen (Scrophularineæ), and Littledalea, an elegant new grass, allied 
to Glyceria. This is of a eee purple colour, at least when dry. 
Ischnochloa and Duthica two new genera of grasses irm ‘Nous 
West India. Pentadesma balya; the “ butter tree ” of West Tropical 
Africa, is for the first time adequately figured. And Homalopetalum is 
enus of orchids, of the tribe Epidendreæ, from the Blue 
Mountains of Jamaica, characterised by having all the parts of the 
perianth alike in size and shape. 
