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Botanical Magazine for July.—All the drawings were made from 
plants in cultivation at Kew. They are: Lourya —€— 
Pilocarpus Jaborandi, Aspidistra typica, Akebia lobaia, and Hem 
dawsoniana. "The Lour; ya is a curious plant, native of Cochin China, 
with the habit of Curculigo and Peliosanthes. The subject of the 
figure was obtained from a French nursery in 1892. tlocarpus 
Jaborandi, uative of Pernambuco, was received from the Cambridge 
Botanic Garden, and flowered at Kew in January of this year. The 
d 
The Aspidistra is a native of Tonkin. The plant from which tbe 
drawing has been made was obtained from the Jardin des Plantes, 
Paris, in 1895. Akebia lobata, native of China and Japan, mda in 
the greenhouse at Kew in January of the present year. The Hemaria, 
a native of Burma, was communicated to Kew from the Royal Bote 
Garden, Calcutta. 
. Hooker’s Icones Plantarum.— The concluding part of the fifth 
volume of the - fourth series appeared in July. It consists of plates 
2476 to 2500 of the entire work, and the first nine plates are devoted 
to the illustration of West Tropical African species of Amomum, chiefl 
collected by Mr. Gustav Mann, between 1859 and 1862. "^ "achymene 
cebecia is a handsome species of as essentially Australian genus fr om the 
Cel It is most nearly allied to T. saniculefolia, a native of Mount 
Kinabalu, North Borneo. Two tu iberous rote species of Plectranthus 
are figured. They are natives of Natal, where several other species of 
this section grow, and where their (bor are esteemed as food by 
the Kaffir inhabitants, ^ Stenolirion (Amaryllidex) ; Garnotiella 
(Graminex) ; and Batesanthus (Asclepiadez) are new genera: the 
cud and last tropieal Afriean, and the grass from the Philippine 
slands. 
ora of British India.—A note ^m the Kew Bulletin for 1894 
(p. 2 25) records the fact that the elaboration of the diffieult order of 
grasses only remained to complete zia enormous e beu by Sir 
Joseph Hooker in preparing the Flora of Brit This, the 
crown of the edifice, was perhaps of all the rr "ice of achieve. 
ment, The publication of a first part of Volume VII., which contains 
the whole of the Panicacee, will hd — therefore by all botanists 
with as aoa satisfaction as admira 
The following extract oe Sir em sh Hooker's brief introduction to 
the ate nae vam idea of the difficulties with which he had te - 
contend. are probably unique in any part of the ogetabi x 
kingdom, at y rate as far as SIS DEN are concerned ;— 
vidual species at eras asses range, eal fet ‘the imperfection of the 
rien of ‘the earlier and many later authors. i 
since Kunth published his “ Agrostographia Synoptica” (Tubingen, > 
eS which is an uncritical sweeping up of all previously known — 
ith imperfect descriptions and synonyms. —— 
(in 1 by a second Maec iy in w osreb few hun 
"ies of the first volume are very fully and bed, and . 
upon others are 
tely descri 
c In 1855 " Steudel's “ Synopsis 
