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the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta. Tristania laurina, from 
Eastern camere has been. grown at Kew for a psi time, but 
the Wer drawn for the Magazine was furnished Thomas 
Hanbury, Esa of La Mortola. Gongora tricolor is a ia of Costa 
Rica, whence * (he Kew plant was sent by the late Mr. R. Pfau. The 
fine Senecio was first discovered by Banks and Solander in Tierra del 
Fuego during Cook’s first voyage. It has since been found 2 Aic 
Chili, and seeds, from which the plant figured was raised, 
sent to Kew from the Falkland Islands, where they had been "collected 
by Mr. A. Linney, of the Government Gardens 
Botanical Magazine for May.—All the plants pre are in culti- 
vation at Kew. Agave kewensis, from Mexico, flowered for the ls rst 
time in the Royal Gardens in 1895. Mazillaria houtteana is tiv 
of Guatemala and Venezuela. The plant figured was obtaine "hot 
the Brussels Botanical Garden. S? yringa amurensis is a privet-like 
plant from North China and Japan. Professor Sargent, who had 
introduced it from the Jnter country into America, sent plants to Kew. 
Dimorphotheca Eck was raised from seeds supplied by Mr. 
William Armstrong, Of ort Elizabeth, where it occurs wild. J). 
Eckionis differs from all the other species figured in the Botanical 
Magazine in having a shrubby stem. Gomphocarpus setosus, native of 
Southern Arabia, has but little merit as a garden plant. Seeds from 
which the plant figured was raised were collected by Mr. Lunt during 
the Hadramaut Expedition in 1893. 
Hooker’s Icones Plantarum.—Parts one and two of the sixth 
Mai of x n series (plates 2501-2550) have appeared. 
Tw w gen e figured, namely, Efulensia (Passifloraceæ) and 
Campylogyne " (Combretace ex). The former is a native of West 
ical Africa, where it was discovered by our correspondent, Mr. 
"E B and it is nearly allied to Crossostemma, differing in 
having compound leaves and free styles. Campylogyne, from the same 
country, had been erroneously referred to as Cacoucia. Dorstenia 
arabica, Hemsl., is a singular species having a fleshy stem and bullate, 
shining leaves. "It was one of the discoveries of the late Mr. Bent. 
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embedded with bones of the Dodo. Echinops bromeliefolius, Baker, is 
remarkable for its foliage and vay long cylindrical receptacle. Saco- 
glottis amazonica, Mart. ( ana iee Ran = ud source of a * drift-fruit " 
figured and described three centuri Tradescantia orchido- 
phylla, Rose and Hemsl., has large Piinia: leaves lying flat on the 
ground, and a few shortly stalked flowers clustered in the centre. 
Glossostemon Br uguieri, Desf., is a member of the Sterculiaceæ 
inhabiting Mesopotamia nA the neighbouring countries, having a large 
spiny fruit, until now imperfectly known. x y there is a series of 
about a dozen plates of figures of Mexi species of Eryngiu 
exhibiting a great range of variety in habit, foliage, involucre, and fruit, 
the last both in appendages and in cross-sectio 
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