236 
900 D: are known, of which 360 are cultivated at — They 
va n habit from terrestial herbs to tall climbers. A large 
proportion are tropical and these have since 1863 enc cultivated 
h ouse, the ainetta conservatory removed by 
Willi liam IV. in — et Buckingham Palace to serve the 
purpose of a Palm 
Aiton, in the first edition of the Hortus Kewenzis (1787) 
records 20 species ; the second (1813) gives 44 as grown at Kew. 
Smith (Records, p. 92) enumerates 148 as in cultivation in 1864. 
In Appendix I. io the Kew Report for 1877 a catalogue is given 
of 250 apecies and varieties. 
ne species, without doubt the most i cso of the order, 
Amorphophallus Titanum, is no longer in the Kew collection. 
A full description of it is given in the Bot. vem (tt. 7153-5 
Sir Joseph Hooker writes :—“ The plant, which flowered in 
June, 1889, was received by Sir Joseph Hooker from Dr. 0. Beccari, 
through the Ma rchese Corsi Salviati, of Sq near Florence 
discovered the plant in Sumatra in 1871.” The Kew plant did 
not mature seeds and died after flowering. A full-sized picture 
of the species may be seen on the ceiling of Museum No. III 
GRASSES. 
The number of grasses which it is worth while to grow under 
glass is not large. Two of the largest Bamboos are noteworthy 
features in the centre of the Palm House :— Bambusa vulgaris 
and Dendrocalamus giganteus. The former has been in culti- 
vation at Kew from the beginning of the century. The latter, 
which was one of Wallich’s discoveries in the Malay Peninsula, 
reached it later, probably from the Royal Botanic Garden, 
Calcutta. 
In the Victoria House there is growing in the gp a pi 
specimen of Gynerium saccharoides, the “ 
commerce. It was A nt to the Royal br in BIS by 
Dr. Capanema from Rio de s 1052) iA occasionally flowers. It 
is figured in the Bot. e (t. 735 
JUIEE —FIJI INORI NUTS. 
were sent out to Mr. D. Yeo ward, Sora tor of the Botanic Station 
at adn Fiji, with a request that he would endeavour to identify 
ihem 
In a letter, just received, Mr. Yeoward referred them to the 
«Niu Sawa” (Veitchia Joannis, Wendl.), a palm discov 
