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` indispensable to the maintenance of a correct nomenclature in the — 
. botanical establishments in correspondence with Kew, and afford in 
- tion respecting new plants distributed from this establishment in regular 
course of exchange with other botanic gardens; (5) Lists of the staffs 
of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and of botanical establishments at home 
aud in India and the Colonies in correspondence with Kew. 
In Appendix III., 1890, will be found a complete index to the Reports 
| the Royal G rom 1862 
to 1882. This index is useful as a means of easy reference to the 
numerous notices respecting economic and other plants. 
CORRECTIONS. 
varied a range of subjects some amount of error, it is hoped no 
considerable, doubtless exists. few statements which brick 
research have shown to be probably erroneous must be ected. 
The case of poisoning from  Turnsole roii tinctoria) 
described in K.B., 1889, 279-280, was in all probability not due to that 
plant, but to Datura Stramonium. 
The source of the well-known Chinese preserved ginger, which in 
Lm B., 1891, 5, was attributed to Alpinia Galanga, ultimately appeared 
o be, as pointed o: out in K.B., 1892, 16, the ordinary commercial plant, 
Zing iber officinale. Some mistake had been made Td in the 
ant transmitled to Kew as ea the rimis pro 
The figure of a Alusa given in K.B., 189 247, ns Mia Fehi may 
be identical with that species. But all ^ei is certain about itis that 
it represents M. Secmanni of Baron von Mueller. 
DXL.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Botanical Magazine for November.— The following plants, all 
cultivated at Kew, are figured: Cycnoches Haagii, lihodo - p ron 
serpyllifolium Pentstemon azureus, Haw orthia xiphiophylla, and 
Acantholimon venustum. The ycnoches is the fifth species to “which 
a plate of the “ Botanical Magazine” has been given. It is a native of 
Brazil, and was communicat ted to Kew by E. S. Rand, Esq., of Para. 
The Rhododendron, native of Japan, is a very small- flowered species 
closely allied to R. indicum var. amenum. The plant from which 
wing was made was purchased in 1895. The Californian 
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University. The Haworthia, a new species from eu Colony, 
flowered for the first time at Kew in April of this 
received from Mr. C. Howlett, of Uitenhage. The ‘Acantholimon has 
been growing in the Rock Garden for several years. It is a UT 
of Asia Minor. The only other s ves od WA in Eng B 
glumaceum, is figured in "Moore and * Magazine of Botany,’ 
Vol. II., p. 161, a | fact overlooked in the 4 Botanical Magazine 
