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Mr. Joan CHRISTOPHER WI Lis has been appointed on the recom- 
mendation of Kew to succeed to the post vacated by Dr. Trimen as 
Director of the Botanical Department, Ceylon, Mr. Willis is M.A. 
of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and held for three years from 
1890, the Frank Stuart Studentship for botanical research. At the time of 
his appointment he filled the posts of Senior Assistant to the Regius 
Professor of Botany in cud Unive ersity of Glasgow, and of Lecturer in 
Botany at Queen Margaret’s College in that ee Mr. Willis 
left England for Ceylon on the 21st August | ast 
Cem HERBERT Cave, a member of the gardening staff at 
ont : i 
He left London for Caleutta «^ the 18th EUR b Ls las 
Botanical Magazine for August.—4All the drawings were made from 
plants cultivated at Kew. Sansevieria roxburghiana, native of the 
East Indies, is interesting as a fibre-yielding plant. |t was presented 
to Kew by Messrs. James Veitch and Sons. Cyrtanthus Huttoni has 
been recently introduced from Cape Colony. The Kew plants were 
raised from seeds réceived from the Edinburgh Honc Garden in 
1892. Sarcochilus hainanensis, an orchidaceous plant from the Island 
of Hainan, was sent to Kew in 1894 by Mr. Ford, the Superintendent 
s is a native of 
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Manchuria and Japan. It is chiefly noteworthy for its handsome 
foliage. Solanum cernuum, a native of South Brazil, is about eight 
feet high, with large leaves and white flowers. 
Botanical Magazine for September.—The plants figured are: Chone- 
morpha macrophylla, Dendrobium Leonis, Bauhinia Galpini, Rhodo- 
dendron Smirnovi, and Cel; misia Munroi, all being cultivated at Kew. 
Islands. It was raised from seeds received from the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Calcutta, in 1884. The stem, when cut, yields a milky fluid, 
which Mr, Gamble considers “a good sort t of Caoutchouc.” T 
Dendrobium is a curious species from the Malay Peninsula, whence 
it was first introduced into this country sixty years ago. 
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intendent of the Garden and Forest Department, Penang. Bauhinia 
Galpini, flowered for the first time at Kew in 1895. e is a native of 
the Transvaal, where it was first discovered by . Nelson, at 
Dorn Spruit Spelunken, i in 1880. The Tod des dron is a handsome 
species fon Trina Cage and was obtained from seeds received at 
Kew from Dr gel in 18 Celmisia Munroi, native of New 
Zealand, was introduced b Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons. It is one of 
the finest species of the genus. 
Flora eo is.— The Shania e of the first part of Vol. VI. has 
y been noticed (p. 124). Part b has since been issued with the 
following prefatory note by the Director :— 
The second part of the sixth volume gi the Flora Capensis needs but 
a few words of introduction. Like the first, it is the work of Mr. J. G. 
