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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
KING OF SIAM.—A private visit to the Royal Gardens was 
paid on the morning of Sunday, August Ist, by H.M. the King 
of Siam. 
Botanieal Magazine for July.—The number opens with a figur 
of Zamia obliqua, which has been in cultivation at Kew since 1880, 
when a plant was procured from Mr. Bull, of Chelsea. It is 
native of New Grenada. Cattle y elongata, the beautiful 
Polygonum baldschwanicum (the flowers of which are coloured 
too pink), Helianthus tuberosus, ind Lissochilus efi cag are 
also figured. The Cattleya is a handsomes species from Brazil 
with large flowers having orange-coloured sepals. ane petals and 
rose-coloured labellum. It flowered at Kew in October, 1893. 
from the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. The specimen of the wild form 
of Helianthus dg 08U8, Was € by the Rev. ds Mp Dod, 
who had grown it from indigenous tubers. The plat ccom- 
panied by many interesting facts relating to the ‘slants history. 
he Lissochilus is, as its specific name implies, native of 
wW 
r. P. F. Garnett, of South Bank, Liverpool, while the bulb and 
eii were drawn from a Kew plant which was received from the 
late Mr. John Buchanan. 
Botanical Magazine for August.—The following plants are 
figured :—Lycoris squamigera, Gasteria fusco -punctata, Dendro- 
bium denudans, Ficus erecta, var. Sieboldii an Cynorchis 
purpurascens—all from —— cultivated at Kew. Lycoris 
squamigera, a native of China and Japan, is interesting asa showy 
plant used by the people of the latter coun ntry to decorate their 
ini a Gasteria Juco Saat Sect is conspicuous for its much- 
bra robium denudans is a slender 
MDC of ihe Himalayas, ieri specimens collected off oak- 
trees were sent to K y F. Duthie, Esq., and flowered in 
1896. uice erecta, var. Sieboldii was sent to Kew by the late 
Dr. Schomburgk ; it is a native of Eastern Asia. The last figure 
is that of a Mascarene orchid with an extremely complicated 
flower: like the majority of the orchids of that region it is of 
terrestrial habit. 
New Edition of Key Plan.—A fourth edition of this skeleton 
guide to the Royal Gardens was put on sale during the month of 
gust. It has been carefully revised so as to include all recent 
improvements. The size has been somewhat reduced so as to 
make it more convenient for the pocket. Reg printing leaves 
something to desire in the matter of clearness, a uer paper 
having been Meere ined by the ceris Office 
